Planning Commission Minutes 08-31-1982
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SPECIAL MEETING - MONTICELLO PLANNING COMMISSION
Tuesday, August 31, 1982 - 7:30 P.M.
Members Present: Jim Ridgeway, Ed Schaffer, Joyce Dowling, John Bondhus.
Members Absent: Bill Burke.
1. Approval of the Minutes of the Regular Meeting Held on July 13, 1982.
A motion was made by Bondhus, seconded by Dowling to approve the
minutes of the regular meeting of the Monticello Planning Commission
on July 13th, 1982. All voted in favor.
2. Public Hearing - Variance - Joel Erickson.
Joel Erickson was present and made a request for a variance to enable
him to enlarge the deck on the east side of his home at 406 West 4th
st. (Lot 7 - Block 20, Original Plat) in order that he could build
a screened in deck to within 3 feet of his easterly property line at
their residence. Their property is zoned I-I.
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A variance was necessary in order to build within 3 feet of a side-
yard set back in an I-I zone, where 30 feet is normally required and
also a variance was necessary in order that he might be able to ex-
pand his residential use within an I-I zone. A motion was made
by Bondhus and seconded by Dowling to grant the variance with all
voting in favor.
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Public Hearing - Variance Request - James Fuller.
During May of 1979, James Fuller, a resident at 800 West Broadway
(Lot 6 - Block 42, Original Plat) made an application to build an
addition onto the side of his home. Because his lot is a corner
lot, it requires a set back of 20 feet, however, Mr. Fuller is
desiring to build an addition unto his home leaving only 16 feet,
9 inches rather than 20 feet required.
If no action is taken on a variance or conditional use in Monticello
within one year of the time of its granting, it is necessary for re-
consideration of that variance or conditional use. Therefore, before
Mr. Fuller can go ahead and start the building of his addition, it
would be necessary that he receive a renewed variance from the
Planning Commission. A motion was made by Schaffer and seconded by
Bondhus with all voting in favor of granting the variance.
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4. Public Hearing - Variance Request - Doug Stokes.
Doug Stokes, owner of Lot I - Block 1 of Manhattan Lots on East County
Road 39, made a request to enable him to build a garage on the front
side of his house that would come within 10 feet of the front yard
property line. A 30 foot set back is normally required in that R-l
zoning district.
Mr. Stokes felt that he would like to be able to build his garage
approximately 20 feet away from the house and in order to do so a
variance of 20 feet from the front yard property line would be
necessary and that it would be necessary that his garage be within
10 feet of the front yard property line. A motion was made by Dowling
and seconded by Schaffer to approve this variance request with all
voting in favor.
5.
Public Hearing - Ordinance Amendment - Architectural Controls in a
Residential District.
Because of a recent State law which required that all communities
allow manufactured homes within a residential zoning districts in
which they can meet the architectural control requirements, it was
necessary to hold a public hearing in order for Monticello to develop
an ordinance of architectural controls within a residential zoning
district.
Because of this need for architectural controls, a motion was made
by Bondhus and seconded by Dowling with all voting in favor to
recommend an ordinance amendment which would add a definition of a
mobile home and of a manufactured house, both herein stated, to
ordinance Section 10-2-2. Also included in that motion was a
recommendation to add the following architectural controls to the
ordinance sections dealing with the zoning districts R-l, R-2 and
R-3 as herein stated.
Architectural Controls:
l. Minimum building width of 24 feet.
2. Minimum 3: 12 roof pitch
soffits.
with a minimum of 12 inch
3. Building anchored to a permanent concrete or treated
wood foundation.
4. No metal siding permitted under 12 inches in width or
without a ~ inch or more overlap and relief.
unless elsewhere
5. Minimum floor area of 960 square feet
exempted by Monticello Ordinance.
6. Meet all regulations of the Minnesota Uniform Building
Code.
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6.
Public Hearing - Ordinance Amendment - Establishment of an R-5 Zone.
A proposal and guideline was laid out to the Planning Commission by
the staff for consideration forthe establishment of an R-5 zone.
However, the Planning Commission determined that rather than recommend
anordinance amendment to establish an R-5 zone, possibly it would be
better to consider those regulations which were proposed for the R-5
zone be considered as design standards rather than create a new zoning
district.
It was the concensus of the Planning Commission to table this item at
this time and no date was set for further consideration.
7.
Public Hearing - Variance Request - Wrightco.
Because of increased sales, it is necessary for Wrightco Products to
develop another truck loading/unloading dock on the east side of the
old Creamery Building at the Wrightco Complex. In order to have that
second loading door, it was necessary that a driveway wider than 24
feet be allowed along that easterly property line to accommodate
movement of trucks. Also, it was necessary to consider allowing
trucks to back off the street into the loading dock, rather than from
on site as is required by Monticello Ordinance.
Because of the tightness of room in the area in which the loading
dock was to be built, it would be somewhat difficult and rather
expensive to develop a loading dock which would meet all the ordinance
criteria.
Mr. Ridgeway of Wrightco Products was at the meeting of the Planning
Commission to discuss this item for consideration.
(Mr. Ridgeway relinquished the chair of the meeting at this time to
Mr. Bondhus for the consideration of Item #7 only).
Some concern was made by members of the City Staff as to whether or
not this loading dock should be accommodated by backing off from the
street with trucks because of the amount of traffic which flows down
Walnut street off which the trucks would be backing to the loading
dock. A request of the staff was made for consideration that this
variance be granted contingent upon the traffic count in that area
not increasing more than 10 percent, and if such an increase would
take place that the Planning Commission would have to review any
variance granted.
A motion was made by Schaffer and seconded by Bondhus to grant a
variance for the wider driveway and to allow backing off from
Walnut Street into the loading area. All voted in favor.
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8. Public Hearing - Concept Approval Request - Jim Boyle.
Mr. Jim Boyle is an owner of a large tract of land in the southeasterly
portion of Monticello. This tract contains approximately 600 acres
of which Mr. Boyle is proposing a planned unit development for 177
acres.
At the meeting of the Planning Commission, Mr. Jim Boyle and his
associate Mr. Dick Knutson as well as other representatives of Mr.
Boyle and Mr. Knutson were present to present a concept plan of the
proposed development of the 177 acres of land. This proposal would
contain approximately 95 executive home sites, 186 single family
attached home sites and 255 single family detached home sites for a
total of approximately 536 home sites.
other minimum allowances requested were for the following: Lot area,
7,000 square feet. Lot width, 60 feet. Lot depth, 110 feet. Front
yard setback, 25 feet. Sideyard setback,S feet. Distance between
structures, IS feet. Minimum building area, 900 square feet. At
building permit time, a detailed landscape plan would be provided.
Sodding would be done within one year of the occupancy permit. Hard
surfaced off street parking for two vehicles would be provided.
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During the petitioner's presentation, the following comments were
addressed as concerns by the developer and are as follows:
As few trees as possible would be removed and no ponds would be
filled in, trails would be added to the proposed subdivision to
give better access to the park areas. There would be a variety
of different styles of homes used in the project. Wood basements
would be used set on gravel bases with water collection sump
pumps in the basements. Exterior finishing to include land-
scaping and paving, etc. would be done before the occupants moved
in. Attempts would be made to have garages on all homes within
5 years and 50% of the homes would have garages to start with.
Would request a file plat for 30 unit development segments.
The developer agreed at the meeting after much discussion between
himself and the Planning commission that this proposed new project
adhere as closely as possible to Monticello's subdivision ordinances
with the possible exception of lot sizes and setback requirements.
A motion was made by Schaffer and seconded by Bondhus to recommend
of this concept development to include a recommendation for con-
sideration for trees for screening along County Road lIS and other
abutting areas around the project where there is no screening. All
voted in favor.
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9. Concept Development stage for a planned Unit Development - Mike Rehrer.
Mr. Mike Rehrer who owns a parcel of land in the vicinity of the
intersection of Cedar Street and Dundas Road was present to propose
the concept plan for a planned unit development on that property for
the development of office condos and townhouses. This project,
titled Victoria Square, would include three parcels, Parcel A, Parcel
B, and Parcel C. Parcel A would include 29 townhouses on 2.24 acres
Parcel B would contain office condos of 52 units on 4.46 acres and
Parcel C would contain a retail space of 11,065 square feet on the
1.7 acres of land. The best part of this development for this planned
unit development would be dedicated by Mr. Rehrer as a new parcel of
land upon which Cedar Street could be rerouted through the project
to dead end on the south end of his project until such time as Cedar
Street could be extended across properties further to the south to
create a frontage road. This project was recommended by the City
planner for consideration and a motion was made by Dowling and
seconded by Bondhus to accept the concept plan as proposed and allow
the developer to further his planning for development at future
public hearings. All voted in favor.
10.
Meeting Reminder.
There will be a special meeting of the Planning Commission at 7:00 P.M.
on September l3th to consider an appointment to the Planning Commission
and also a reminder of the regular meeting of the Planning Commission
to be held on September 14th, 1982 at 8:00 P.M. in the Public Library.
(This meeting is being held in the public library because the 14th
is election day and the Council Chambers at City Hall will be in use
for voting.
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Loren Klein
Zoning Administrator
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MONTICEllO. MINN. 55362 - PHONE 295-5801
8/31/82
Ladies and Gentlemen of Monticello City Council:
This letter is intended to give my viewpoint reguarding Boyles Addition:
(1) First of all I think we have enough proposed developed lots
in the city to service before taking on another project.
(2) This project proposes cutting costs by narrowing streets
(no curbs or gutters at the citizens expense). There
will be a day when they have to go in; and we'll have to
put them in at our expense.
(3) Havinglots so narrow that you can not get a garage on with-
out putting it in the back should be out of the question.
(4) Having lots where people can park their cars; and walk to
their home is an unrealistic proposal, without a doubt,
home owners will be parking in the narrow street, making
it impossible for emergency vehicles to get through.
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(5) Selling manufactured homes in the $50,000 range: again
several builders are already having difficulty selling
homes in the $43,000 to $49,000 range; with larger lots
and custOlll homes. Is this.project offering something
the community needs?
(6) I also think the city should look into up-grading what
they have; before taking on additional responsibility.
Up-grading downtown curbs, etc... Encouraging some type
of bond at low interest rate, so people can improve there
business.
(7) How many builders do we have in Monticello (5,6,7,8)?
Compare this number with the number of building permits
in 1982.
(8) By bringing in manufactured homes; you are reducing the
employment of our own citizens. Everyone of my subs is
from this area; as are most other builders.
Please consider these points previously listed in making your decision.
Thank You,
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Melvine C. Wolters