Planning Commission Minutes 09-04-2018 (Special Meeting)MINUTES
SPECIAL MEETING - MONTICELLO CITY COUNCIL &
PLANNING COMMISSION
Tuesday, September 4th, 2018 - 4:30 p.m.
Mississippi Room, Monticello Community Center
City Council Present: Brian Stumpf, Jim Davidson, Bill Fair, Charlotte Gabler, Lloyd
Hilgart
Commissioners Present: Brad Fyle, Sam Murdoff, Marc Simpson, John Alstad, Katie
Peterson
Staff Present: Angela Schumann, Steve Grittman (NAC), Jeff O'Neill, Ron
Hackenmueller
1. Regular Agenda
A. Consideration of a report on the CCD Ordinance Amendment and Revision
Steve Grittman explained that a workshop meeting was held the previous month
to discuss possible CCD ordinance amendments. Staff were directed to bring
forward a draft amendment per the comments from that meeting. Some of the
concerns that were noted were flexibility versus certainty, performance standards
as code and/or guidelines, and parking.
Grittman noted that the Small Area Study breaks the downtown into "character
areas". It was recommended to adopt the sub -districts with specific use and
performance standards for each area. A process for dealing with cross boundary
projects and the standards in place with the use of public funds was also proposed.
When a project abuts a single family neighborhood, a transitional set of standards
was proposed.
Performance standards were discussed and whether they should serve as a
policy/guidelines or code. It was agreed that there should be specific code
requirements for development in the downtown.
Next, the process for developing in the downtown was discussed. Grittman
provided a draft that required a concept plan review for every project in the CCD.
Board members discussed that if it was a permitted use to not require a site plan
review.
Discussion regarding properties that crossed character area boundaries was had.
It was asked that the code allow flexibility when dealing with development
proposals that were between two areas. An example was provided that if a use
was allowed in one area and not the other and the development proposal included
both parcels, the use would be allowable, but the standards would be followed for
both character areas.
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Grittman noted that the draft ordinance for parking would implement the current
parking requirements of the CCD. Grittman proposed that a developer could pay
into the parking fund to conduct a parking study to ensure that adequate parking is
available. Mayor Stumpf suggested that a parking inventory be completed to
understand what is available currently. It was mentioned that one major developer
could change the entire scene for parking.
Next steps would include revising the draft ordinance per the comments of the
meeting. The Planning Commission would review the ordinance with a public
hearing in October or November.
2. Adjournment
MARC SIMPSON MOVED TO ADJOURN THE MEETING AT 5:39 P.M. SAM
MURDOFF SECONDED THE MOTION. MOTION CARRIED, 10-0.
Recorder: Jacob Thunander
Approved: October 2, 2018
Attest:
Angela Schumann, Community Development Director
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