 it's four o'clock I'd like to call the meeting to the city planning mission to order with a planning director police call the roll mayor van der steen here Alderperson Boren here Ryan sasma Jerry Jones Marilyn Montemire Dave Hoffman Don's feet on seven present please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Next item is the introduction of committee members and staff I'm Mike van der steen the mayor of city of Sheboygan and the chairman of the city planning commission Chad Peleshek director of planning and development Steve Sloklowski from the planning department Marilyn Montemay our city representative welcome everyone Alderman Alderman Jim Boren of the 10th district and I'm the Alderperson on the plan commission thank you Jim next item is to identify if there's any conflicts of interest with the items on the agenda does anyone have a conflict seeing none the next item on the agenda is the approval of minutes from our planning commission meeting of August 25th that entertain a motion to approve thank you for that motion and support is there any discussion on those minutes seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying aye opposed aye opposed motion passes next we have items for discussion and possible action item 3.1 is a conditional use application by reach forward LLC to operate an adult daycare program at 1901 south a street Steve thank you mayor thank you mayor Victoria and Bernard Blankenship are here and I believe there's some neighbors here as well for this matter we're taking a look at 1901 south a street which is the former Dalmas decor retail store the Blankenships had come to the plan commission in March of 2017 when they started reach forward at 3611 South Business Drive since that time they've operated and they're outgrowing their site so they're in the process of looking at a new property which has led them to consider purchasing Dalmas decor at 1901 south a street reach forward is adult date day services and they provide services for adults who are developmentally delayed and have special needs the adult services are provided to those 18 years of age and older and the activities include reading stories craft projects movies puzzles games home skills community outings community volume volunteering they would be opening with approximately eight clients and four full-time staff one part-time and at capacity they believe they would have maybe 20 clients and possibly up to eight employees hours of operation are Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for their clients and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. for their staff the applicant indicated that they selected the location because it's a large building that has green space it's located in a convenient location with a quiet setting there's a private entrance there's ample parking for their purposes and it's close to amenities like Parks Lake Library the only kind of comments that staff had is right now the property is made up of two parcels one that has the building on it and then one that has the green space and the parking lot on it so prior to any type of occupancy permit we'd be working with the applicants to have that property consolidated into one parcel plan Commission may want to have the applicant address some of their services and what they might do from the standpoint of outdoor activities there is a second floor apartment on this building and whether you know what their intended future uses of that could be and then staff was recommending approval of that conditional use permit subject to the conditions the applicants are here and then like I said mayor there are some neighbors here as well thank you for that report Steve Victoria would you like to make any statement hi I just wanted to say you know we're really excited for the opportunity to move into the space and if anybody had any questions it's I mean we're a pretty quiet environment I anticipated to be less traffic and everything else but we're hoping to kind of have a nice comfortable environment for our guys to hang out it thank you commissioners do you have any discussion or questions go ahead Chad so I don't know what your plans are for the second floor but haven't been in Mr. Domus's building it's a fairly large homestead I understand that that's where Mr. Domus grew up and so there's some value there but we are we would be interested in talking with you we have an upper floor residential rehab program grant funded program to try to convert these types of units into apartments so if that's a disc decision you decide to you know want to embark on in the future let Steve or I know and we'd be happy to see if we can provide some funding to do so sure sure yeah right now we have no concrete plans for the upstairs okay any other discussion go ahead Jerry thank you mayor could you walk us through a typical day of operation at the daycare you know what patients are sure they come in what what goes on during an eight to five day sure well each day kind of has a little bit of a difference of the schedule but primarily the staff start arriving anywhere between eight and nine o'clock it's kind of a sliding scale and then when the clients get there it's a matter of just kind of getting them into the space hang up their supplies and then if I'll give Monday well Monday pre-COVID as an example so on Monday is generally what we do is we kind of do like a weekend update for everybody kind of talk about the different activities they did over the weekend and then it's a trip to the library and at that point we check out different books and kind of hang out we have a gentleman who likes to walk around the library versus going into the library and then when we come back after kind of putting everything away it's lunch and then on Mondays we tended to have a craft activity in the afternoon and then followed by story time from the books that we got from the library and then at different points during the afternoon as early as 220 to as late as 3 30 the clients are picked up Don you had a question I do I have a question Ryan Ryan Steve mentioned you might have some outdoor activities could you give some examples of that please honestly there's not a lot of outdoor activities primarily we have like we have two picnic cables at our current location where if the weather is nice we'll go out we have a small little garden at our current location which we'd like to incorporate there where they plant different seeds you know we did a theme week on being giant you know jack and the beanstalk and so they planted you know beans then and watched them grow but it's pretty minimal and then you know the occasional walk you know maybe down to the park down the road it just nothing really we're not playing kickball or anything extreme like that thank you any other comments from anyone else in the audience okay commissioners that entertain a motion is there a second and I'll second very good we have a motion on the floor to approve as presented is there any further discussion with the director please call the roll mayor van der steen aye alderman boran hi Ryan sasma hi Jerry Jones Marilyn Montemire hi Dave Hoffman hi and Don Seaton hi seven eyes motion passes good luck with your project yep item 3.2 is a conditional use and variance application by the shabuigan housing authority to construct a parking lot addition at the Wasserman apartments located at 611 Northwater Street Steve all right Joe Repnick is here from the housing authority and we're taking a look at the Wasserman apartments you can see there's a lot of construction that's taking place over there right now the Wasserman apartments is in need of some additional parking so they had the ability to talk to the owner at 919 New York Avenue and acquire that property it's kind of an older kind of dilapidated the yard's not well maintained so based on the fact that they needed some parking and that this was available and adjacent to their property they acquired it with the intention of coming to the plan commission to construct an additional 10 parking spaces right now there's a total of 34 on site with the tenant gets up to 44 so one of the things that you well notice as part of the parking is at this property is on a hill so there's gonna be some significant grading that'll be involved in this project there will be a large retaining wall and you'll see that there I think there may be some pictures at the back of what the retaining wall material that's there's a section view that gives you can see where the car is and how high the house to the east will be and where the wall is and where the existing home is when you take a look at that and so based on the need it was an opportunity that presented itself they needed the parking and so they're looking to construct that parking there and the 10 spaces in addition as part of it there will be a certified survey map that's done to incorporate the two lots together and so and there was one variance that they were requesting which was a buffer yard requirements but they're still adding some landscaping on the bottom of the wall as well as at the top putting a rail protective rail on that retaining wall because of the significant grade but staff was recommending approval of the proposed parking lot addition thank you very much for that report Steve Mr. Ruppnick would you like to make any comments okay very good commissioners any questions I've got a question Mayor go ahead Jim thank you Mayor Joe I was just looking at some of the photos that were provided and I'm wondering with with your new parking lot addition it looks like on the one photo I'm looking at here with the dumpster there seems to be a door there is that the door for the residents off the parking lot and with the new parking lot and the remodeling the remodeling project are you making any additional entrances to the building for the residents we're not making any additional entrances to the building we are making the north entrance off of the parking lot into a handicapped accessible entrance currently it is not we only have one which is the front of the building I'm not sure which door you're referring that door there I think I think it is the north door I'm looking at here on the photo no okay what's pulled up right here that's we use that basically for maintenance and for when people are moving in and out of the building but this would be the east door right that would be on the east of the building correct that's one the east okay yes okay are there any other questions the handicapped the handicapped accessible one will be on the north side of the building the new the new accessible one is on the north side we the front of the building currently is accessible as well all right thanks Joe sure if there's no other questions I entertain a motion second thank for that motion and support motions before us one last call for any discussion seeing none would the development director please call the roll mayor van der steen I older person born hi Ryan sasma Jerry Jones Marilyn Montemire Dave Hoffman Don speed time seven eyes motion passes next we'll go on to item 3.3 which is a conditional use and variance application by Sheboygan Christian School to construct a new building addition and parking lot addition at 929 Greenfield Avenue Steve thanks mayor John warmest is here from Sheboygan Christian and then we have Joel van s Paul Mentink and Matthew Weiss from Abacus Architects what we're taking a look at is as the plan Commission probably remembers we just looked at the annexation of several properties on the southeast corner of the property at our last meeting and so those properties were recently annexed and now that Sheboygan Christian has the opportunity to submit the conditional use permit because you can see where the proposed addition is is going on the east side and it kind of incorporates some green space now where those homes were that they just annexed into the city so those homes would be in that area just in this area right here so this was recently the area that we brought in for the annexation and now that allows them to meet the setbacks building setbacks and things like that for the addition so what we're taking a look at is Sheboygan Christian is located at 929 Greenfield Avenue and is presently a high school as probably most of you are aware the grade school and middle school are located off of Geely Avenue and the thought process behind Christian was that there were a number of different issues that resulted of that and I'll go through that but what they wanted to do was bring all of the kindergarten through 12th grade on this particular campus and we'll go through a couple of reasons why they were going you know why they're proposing this Christian serves more than 300 students from over 35 different churches in the area and basically what was happening Christian recognized that the importance of adequate facilities and infrastructure to effectively carry out their mission and when they were assessing their current reality the following needs were determined they determined that there was a lack of workspace for group projects and individual instruction at the elementary campus that they did not have enough dedicated space for art or music at their elementary campus they lacked the access to the current technology and infrastructure they lacked green space at the elementary campus operating the two campuses resulted in certain inefficiencies and outdated and limited facilities put Christian at a competitive disadvantage relative to student recruitment and retention so based on that needs assessment they found that if they did the addition there would be several things that would be improved that they could resolve as with that addition and that was by adding the pre k through five wing on to the existing high school adding and renovating classrooms for the middle school creating common and green spaces for students adding additional space to accommodate the extracurricular activities and upgrading technology shaboy and christian will ensure students teachers and staff have a first rate facility so that's one of the big things that they were after obviously a unified campus allows them to enhance the school's appeals for families to enroll the first time and promote higher retention rates between middle school and high school since everything's taken place at the one campus and increased stewardship in school unity a unified campus will allow for efficiencies for staff members commute between the two campuses the current high school has been located at the site since 1971 there's been several additions over that 49 year period the present school is about 40 000 square feet and the new addition it will be i'm sorry the present school is about 48 000 square feet the new addition will be approximately 40 000 square feet so the new facility will be about 88 000 square feet the existing parking lot areas consist of about 53 000 square feet of paved surface with 141 stalls the addition will increase the amount of hard surface by 12 000 square feet and 43 parking spaces so there will now be 184 parking spaces so a lot of the stuff on the existing west side of the school in terms of parking will remain there'll be a new parking lot that's created in front of the new addition on the east side towards greenfield avenue um other than that uh school hours are typically 745 to 320 with extracurricular activities throughout the year they're hoping to start construction in october of 2020 and like to open the school on august 25th the 21 and then future phases could potentially be updating some of the insides of the existing facilities um couple just general comments like i said there there was the annexation that we did and and so we're they've included that portion on their site plan in addition there's a property located at 1009 greenfield avenue which is um directly to the west and they're working with that property owner to acquire some property um and they'll probably give us maybe a status report on that but what they're doing is they're locating their stormwater pond on that piece so it's a critical piece along with the annexation that all needs to be combined into the one parcel so if they're for example there wasn't the the property that wasn't acquired that was on the site plan and if there were any changes they would have to come back but the assumption is and and these guys can give us uh some input on that is that the site plan is going to reflect what they're obtaining and and we'll hear a little bit more about that other than that there was a variance one of the variances is to have a six foot high fence in the street yard and the reason for that is there will be the new parking lot and that new parking area yeah that's a good one um uh in in the front yard um the maximum height of fences is four feet high and 50 percent open a portion of that new parking lot area that's kind of just in front of that addition in this area will also be used as a playground during school hours for the younger kids right the and so so the idea is they want to make sure that that's fenced and they can keep the students inside the campus balls things like that so it's really kind of a safety measure that they would like to have in that area and then there's another variance that's uh for some locational landscaping so i can answer any questions and staff was recommending approval of the project subject to the conditions you have before you thank you very much for that recommendation right would the applicants like to make any other comments go ahead thank you for your time today um we would just like to mention obviously that uh scs has been a partner and a member of this community for over 122 years uh so we're um you know very much appreciative to the city and as a very long-standing organization in the city we're looking forward to this next chapter in our organizations history as steve mentioned obviously this is there's a lot of factors that go into it but our ultimate goal is to affect the hearts and minds of our students and to do that we felt it best to have a unified campus with the best technology that we can provide to our staff in order to meet our mission which steve again thank you for laying out perfectly i think a couple of things too that just to kind of mention with the moving into one building it does update in an odd way both campuses right because we're moving to a new campus which will have better safety for our students from just general protocol to additional upgrades that we're making to the existing building such as sprinkler systems a you know more enhanced lockdown systems that we also want to provide for our students so across the board obviously this is very exciting for us our growth continues to amaze even our committee in our school we've seen a 10 growth the last two years and seen you know before that an 8 growth and projected another 10 even in the upcoming year with with the pandemic going on so we're very excited and appreciate the support in the time but i'm i'm happy to take if there's any questions as well commissioners any questions or motions go ahead mayor you go ahead jim i just wanted to mention i've looked over the application and i think it's going to be in an excellent addition to that neighborhood with that said then i would like to make a motion to approve subject to conditions thank you for that motion is there a second we have a second maryland did you have a comment yes any further development on the geely avenue building what's going to happen with that we have one perspective buyer that i'll keep in in confidence right now that they're meeting with their committees and such actually this this next week to see if they'll go forward additionally part of our issue in selling it has been we need it to perform our our education this year and you know without the new building so i do think as this progresses and if this particular buyer doesn't decide to go forward we'd be able to market it more more aggressively over the next couple months i'm sure that location will have no trouble but i'm just interested sure sure we we we depth and as as you and other community members in that area um as well and and we would like to find something that aligns with our mission and community involvement because again as i've mentioned we've been in that building for not 122 years but you know well over 60 to 70 years so we we have a heart for that community and always will thank you any other discussion we have a motion on the floor we have a motion in a second already we're good so with that i'd ask the development director to call the role mayor van der steen i elder person borne hi ryan sasma hi jerry jones hi maryland montmeyer hi dav hoffman hi don's feet on seven eyes motion passes good luck with your project thank you guys have a great day item 3.4 is ro number 63 of 2021 and geo number 19 of 2021 from acuity filing a petition for direct annexation by the unant by unanimous consent for the land currently located in the town of shabuigan part of parcel 59024-353310 steve all right i don't see any representative here but i'll go through this anyways um basically what we're taking a look here is this is one of the few remaining properties along uh union avenue that acuity uh is in part of acuity's campus as most of you are aware aurora is building on the north side of union avenue you can see on the photo that's before you oh i'm sorry there are some there are some representatives on the phone that are here i'm sorry go ahead with your report yep okay and so so um what we're taking a look at is you can see the existing acuity driveway is a little bit to the east and that doesn't quite line up with the driveway on the north side with aurora so working with acuity working with the aurora we've been acuity acquired the property and now are looking to annex that little portion of orange that you can see it's about 0.73 acres and the reason that we're bringing that is is so that we can create a intersection that works efficiently and effectively instead of having them offset from one another there's going to be a significant amount of traffic that's going to happen now and into the future with the use of both of the facilities and this annexation will allow for the construction of a four-way signalized intersection correct not not not uh not signalized at this point in time would allow for that to happen but at least the two driveways are lined up so that they're directly across from one another instead of being offset over there so we just felt that this uh is an important annexation so that that can happen and that that uh intersection and that the access to and from those facilities can run in a an effective and efficient matter and safe matter so staff is recommending approval of the annexation and the applicants are on the line and on the computer thank you very much steve i see sherry murphy is with us sherry did you want to make any other comments on behalf of acuity um i don't really have anything to add you know we're just we're happy that it could all work out that we were able to acquire that property and get those two driveways to align as was desired by um department of public work so thank you very much sherry uh is there any questions or motions from the commissioners okay we have a motion in a second under discussion maryland uh thank you i think everything is going forward very nicely acuity and uh the new hospital any future plans for a little area adjacent to this little sliver being annexed to the city also um well not not at this time you know we do own other property to the west um and that is in the town at this time so um we're we're going to leave that land there you know you probably know that one of the homes that we purchased the original resident is still living there so you know one of the things we've been trying to be respectful and thoughtful about is not changing her world too much um and that's one of the reasons for we're leaving some of those parcels in the town thank you thank you any other discussion seen none there mayor go ahead jim mr mayor this is mike bower okay mike acuity more of a technical question for steve uh do you have a recommendation on what the zoning should be on the upon annexation yeah the the zoning on that parcel will be suburban office so it's uh um when the property is brought into the city and it eventually gets consolidated into the main acuity piece so that there's not a split zone so that it all be consistent and the same so that will be the suburban office very good that's our understanding as well thank you steve very good any other discussion seeing none with the development development director please call the roll mayor van der steen aye older person born ryan sasma hi jerry joans army i froze up here jim how do you vote i vote i my my thing just froze up here okay jerry joans maryland montemire hi david hoffman don's feet on seven eyes motion passes good luck with that project next uh yep next would be our next meeting is scheduled for september 29th and jerry i need a motion thank you for that motion and support all in favor of adjournment please signify by seeing aye aye chair both sides opposed we stand adjourned thank you for your time today