 Good afternoon We will call to order the April 2018 City of Columbia Planning Commission meeting We'd like to welcome Planning Commission members staff and guests. I Would ask that everyone turn their cell phones and PDAs to the silent or vibrate mode The administrator will now proceed with a roll call Mr. Tupper Ms. Hart's Mr. Taylor mr. Cone here mr. Stigamir here and mr. Frost We have formed thank you I'd like to do a brief review of the meeting format applicants With requests before the Planning Commission are allotted a presentation time of 10 minutes This time should include but is not limited to an overview of the project case history and any pertinent meetings held regarding the requests This time also includes all persons presenting information on behalf of the applicant Such as attorneys engineers and architects This time limit does not include any questions asked by Planning Commission or staff regarding requests Members of the general public are given the opportunity to address their concerns in intervals of two minutes The administrator has a timer and will make presenters aware of when that time has expired the Planning Commission Reserves the right to amend these procedures on a case-by-case basis and There's a little timer to your left. It'll have a green yellow and red light when the red lights off time to stop the consent agenda The Planning Commission uses the consent agenda to approve non-controversial or routine matters by a single motion or vote Examples of such items include approval of site plans annexations and street names If a member of the Planning Commission of the general public would like to discuss an item on the consent agenda Then that item is removed from the consent agenda and considered during the meeting The Planning Commission then approves the remaining consent agenda items The administrator will now read the consent agenda Your consent agenda this evening consists of the approval of the March 5th, 2018 minutes as well as Two annexation comprehensive plan map amendments and zoning map amendments, which would be items number two which is 2716 shop road As well as item number 3 1321 Piney Grove Road The consent agenda continues with a zoning map amendment On item number 4 for 42.31 acres on pageant road This is to rezone from Pudr to an RS 3 zoning classification The next item on the consent agenda is a minor amendment to a plan unit development It is item number 5 is 5.76 acres Bounded by corner the corner of wind lane and cliff kinder road and hay meadow lane and That is a large-scale UD and then we also have two three site plans this evening Those consists of item number six, which is 5.76 acres bounded by the corner wind lane The kinder road and hay meadow lane, which is a request for approval to construct a 39 lot Single-family residential subdivision item number seven, which is about 52 acres at 3600 block of pageant road and this request is to construct a subdivision of a hundred and fifty five single-family lots and then item number eight will wrap up our consent agenda this evening, which is for 334 harborson boulevard and it is a request for a site plan approval to reconstruct a convenience store and gasoline service Sales facility on that current on that property. Thank you. Are there any? Commission members or guests today who wish to have any items on the consent agenda moved to the regular agenda tonight If not, I'd like to ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented I have a second second All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone oppose Consent agenda is approved. We will now proceed with the regular agenda I would also like to ask everyone who comes forward to please state their name clearly before speaking So the first item we have this evening on the regular agenda is a major Amendment to a planned unit development district. This major amendment is to this POD and The applicant is here this evening to answer any questions, but I do want to point out. We have one Correction for you this evening that is referencing one of the POD documents in your packet it's actually the last almost the last page of text right before you see the the two drawings for this particular item and It states that the second element of the development will include a plus or minus 6,600 square foot church and the applicant has indicated it should be about a 9,600 square foot church So I wanted to make that correction for you for that that numerical value and The reason for this amendment is basically the POD was very specific of what could go on this particular lot and The church has acquired it and it's this parcel highlighted on your screen and Without amendments, they wouldn't be able to What was staff's recommendation the recommendation for this one is to recommend that you Grant rent the approval for the modification Is the applicant here they are okay Would you like to come forward please? Mary make me know our desire is to as stated to build a building on Kauffman and our original Drawings and not include a space for us to do a food bank within our building as well as Being able to do some additional class space And so that's over requesting the additional 3000 square foot up to 9,000 Okay, do any commission members have questions for the applicant? Any questions for staff? Thank you. Thank you Is there anyone else who would like to come forward and talk on this? If not, I'd like to call for a motion Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to approve the major amendment We have a second Yeah, I'll revise them the motion to include up to 9,600 square foot any further discussion All in favor signify by saying aye Anyone oppose? Motions approved so item number 10 on your Agenda this evening is a zoning and map and text amendment. This is for the Seminary Ridge Historic District it is a request to modify the historic district from a Architectural Conservation District to a Protection area district more with our offices here if you want more detail about that I also know there's a number of residents here also Okay, is the applicant here as well The applicant was properly mr. Davis from the city council. Okay. Do we have any questions? Right me if I'm reading this correctly is this to change the heights Right and recently the neighborhood Conversations and meetings with them they expressed interest in simplifying the district down to a protection area Which removes both review some review and more protection from the neighborhood so it's It's a slightly less regulated Born of a historic district in the architectural conservation district All right, but it was driven by the community members that asked this to be reviewed Would anyone like to speak on this? Lance Folsom When we Considered this few years ago. We didn't know what we were getting into it sounded good Our meetings had about 10 people or less if we were lucky as we've seen this implemented We like the idea of the historic part But some of the requirements were pretty strange it a lot of our moderate income neighbors couldn't improve their properties Like they wanted to like energy efficient windows. So when this came up a few months ago our meetings Swell to 20 or 30 people and We voted 27 to 3 in our last meeting to go ahead and proceed to try and change it to a protection area to allow our Residents to improve their properties a little easier and we'd appreciate your help in Helping us do that Okay, thank you Yes, sir proper property owner in Seminole Ridge and I'd like to enhance what? Lance the other day that this is about Hopefully people improving the property become a little more energy efficient making the neighborhood more attractive So that younger people will move in in the future also, but we are interested in retaining the Historic significance of the neighborhood by making this change to this. So I Appreciate you Giving it a good close look and I'll thank you for your time. Thank you Is there anyone else who would like to come forward? District the home belongs to my mother-in-law of Mary Taylor and she passed it over to my wife Jacqueline and me and We would like to oppose the objection because there's never been a homeowners association in the district This is a neighborhood association There's over 200 homeowners that live in this area that are impacted by changing of this If this thing from a historic district or to protection district it's like having an antique car and All of a sudden you say, okay, we're gonna put anything we want on it and that's gonna change the value What's gonna change the value of our homes? And on information and belief the applicant doesn't have the right to submit an application unless they have All the homeowners sign off on it in a letter giving them the right to vote for them as a thing They're not a homeowner's association. They are a neighborhood association So they do not really have the right to speak for 200 homeowners with only 30 people in Present it's also voluntary. There's nothing that's passed to the government. There's nothing that's passed D And there's nothing that's passed through You know when you sell the property so membership is not a requirement So like my mother-in-law, she's 93 years old, you know for the last four years She's had a bad hip so she hasn't been able to attend meetings There's other elderly people that doesn't attend meetings and there's also other people that have houses that are In the other you know that don't live there now the at this meeting He said there was 27 people that voted part of those people were spouses of homeowners So that divides it part of those people were daughter and mother and part of them were renters So how many people present were willing homeowners and that's my question The homeowners are not being represented properly by changing this by a few people Deciding that they're going to vote for homeowners that are not there Thank you for your time. Thank you Before I ask if anyone else wants to speak Amy, can you clarify the difference between? architectural conservation district to ridge protection area An area that has a wealth of original start structures and original material and features So that is why there are more regulations around that because there are more resources there that are important to say Protection area is one where you have more infill more demolitions have happened over time And so it's lost some of that integrity although there is still recognizable patterns of building forms Maybe not quite so much detail and architectural features still extend and so protection areas typically have less Fewer regulations attached because there's not as much there to protect any longer Okay. Thank you. Any one else want to come forward Yes, sir My name is Brian Berg and I've lived in the neighborhood for 16 years. I'd encourage you to Go with the change The median income in the neighborhood is only $25,000 Which makes it virtually impossible to maintain the homes at the level required under the current guidelines Would also like to clarify that this was an effort on behalf of the neighborhood Association we don't have a home association So everyone who lives in the neighborhood is allowed to vote Thank you Anyone else want to come forward? Any questions from the Commission to staff? Okay, if not, I'd like to call for a motion, please I'd like to make a motion that we recommend for approval the amendment of the text of the city of Columbia's code and ordinance to delete 17.681 and modify 17681 To add Seminary Ridge architectural conservation district to Seminary Ridge protection area Do I have a second? Any further discussion? I'll in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone oppose? Motion passes. Your next item this evening is also a zoning map and text amendment. It is item number 11? Yeah, hold on a minute though. I have a different one also My intention was to actually have number 11 at number 12 and number 12 item number 11 because there's a sequence in a relationship between the two and Item 12 were you should really address 12 before you address 11 So if you would give somebody would be interested in making a motion to take item number 12 first Followed by item number 11. That would be great. I think the two will make more logical sense together that way And we have a motion to move number 12 first before number 11 I make a motion that we move number 12 To number 11 second I'm favor signify by saying aye. Hi. You want to pose? Ocean is approved to move number 12 to number 11. I mean in front of number 11 so item number 12 the item before you at the moment, which is item number 12 on the agenda is a zoning map amendment to Rezone parcels from light industrial district M1 having industrial M2 the design development area DD Innovista ID overlay the Design preservation area, which is a DP zoning district and the mixed-use urban district MX to To an MX, I'm sorry to the mixed-use urban District MX to the innovative design overlay and the design preservation area DP the So the reason for this is as you noticed in the agenda there these two particular parcels have a lot of zoning classifications on them and The request is to actually rezone them so that the parcels that are all in one ownership So there are a number of parcels Particularly you'll see the one that's highlighted on the screen as well as the one just to the south That's a kind of an empty lot with trees that has a different zoning. It's the intent of the owner to Have all both of these properties in the same zoning district so that you don't have all these different lines chopping them all up and Basically clean up the zoning from that perspective And so that's the the the proposal before you the applicant is here And we'd be glad to dive deeper if you have any questions Okay With the applicant right to come forward Mr. Chairman, my name is Bob Fuller. I'm a lawyer in Columbia, and I'm here this afternoon with Ben Arnold who is the Chairman or president of Southern Realty Development Corporation who is the applicant and as Mr. Fellows has already suggested to you. This is more a procedural matter to Consolidate and make consistent zoning On a parcel that is now more than a single parcel By virtue of its size and use The company has the ability to acquire an additional three acres to adjoin this 8.7 acres the Property that is under consideration for purchase is Zone Mx2 and has the overlay district for the investor and the design district The property that is presently under your consideration is a larger piece. It's 8.7 2 acres It has a portion of M1 zoning. It has a portion of M2 zoning It has presence in three of the additional overlay districts it will make going forward and Developing a cohesive parcel difficult to have the prospect of having to cross Zoning district lines within the development parcel when it is being planned out. It's really Property that is being asked to have a Little facelift in order to make it More realistic to work with as future plans develop. There is not a proposed Development plan to be considered today. There's not a use imminent to require it to be Resowned this minute, but it will certainly facilitate the ability to to realistically and Cohesively deal with the entirety of the 11 acres over time as it is appropriate to do as you know, Mr. Arnold's companies have been in the Vista for a good many years of its as long as it's been the district and are Very conversant with the requirements that are At present both presently and to be Consolidated if it goes to all mx2 We're not asking for variances or special exceptions or any particular treatment on any portion of the property it's simply to To have what has already been a parcel of several Identifiable lots becoming yet additionally Consolidated with Consistent zoning throughout the 11 acres That's what the proposition here today, and we ask your help to do that Any any questions for the applicant any questions for staff Anyone else like to come forward on this if not, I'd like to call for a motion I'd like to make a motion chairman that we Recommends for approval the request to rezone the parcel from M1 M2 DD ID and DP to Mx2 ID and DP We have a second Any further discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye. I anyone opposed Motions approved now. We're going to item number 11 Correct item number 11 on your agenda is a map and text amendment and its modifications of the Innovista design district and the guidelines as well as the rezoning of 11 1100 Wayne Street the Probably the easiest to describe this. Let me get to the right slides So there in your staff report there are four essentially four amendments summarized which I'm going to go over The first proposal within this application is to rezone a portion of 1100 Wayne Street from the MXD mixed-use urban district Mx2 DD and ID and DP to a mixed-use Mx2 ID Item number the second sub part of this Application is to amend the Innovista design guidelines to reflect proposed changes To the boundaries and the height requirements in the buffer areas and for clarification purposes Item number three or sub point of three of this particular application is to amend the city of Columbia's official zoning map to extend the boundaries of the ID zoning district and remove the DD zoning district from the same area and the final sub point of this particular Map and text amendment is to amend the city of Columbia's code of ordinances in the Vista design district To reflect proposed changes to the inner Vista design district guidelines With the item that came before the way the inner Vista design district I think if I can summarize this in just a few words is that it was very specific on a boundary by Expanding the boundary. There's a number of items that in the documents that Become More difficult to enforce and they create some awkward Situations so for instance in the inner Vista design district it states, you know, which streets should Parking garages have access to and which streets should parking garages not have access to So there's a lot of things like that and so for instance dervay Street was not listed So we needed to add dervay Street under one of those claffets Classifications, so that's just one example. They're all detailed within the staff report but essentially That's the sort of the gist of a lot of these changes. The other change is there is a buffer boundary that needed to be modified and With that, I don't know how many of you were on the commission when we did the West survey plan But there was a recommendation to do a a stepped buffer type height Recommendation from within the historic district and so we're including that within this particular proposal So I think there's a map in here Yeah, so for instance on the map that's on your screen, which should be on your tablets There is a 55 foot zone. That's approximately So many feet back from dervay then an 80 foot zone and then when you get to that, you know, Vista district The original boundary there then it goes up to 150 feet and in a vista itself is an unlimited height district So this creates that stepping Situation envisioned from the West survey plan on this particular parcel not district-wide but just for this area And so that's sort of a quick summary of all the pieces within this document before you We have any anybody have questions for staff I've got some concerns about these height limitations this purple area You're really saying that has a height limitation of 150 feet that sounds terribly high That is that location or any location that close to dervay Street, that's about It's approximately one block away. So It is it is a block you can see Senate Street just off to the side there. So it's very long It's probably 400 deep and I don't know if that's probably a little bit more So it's probably six to seven feet long that orange area So it's not unlike Other areas of the historic district in fact, there's some other boundaries to the north where you can actually go from the Height limits that are in the historic district all the way to unlimited particularly when you get towards, you know assembly Street, so 150 is tall, but if you look at the perimeter of that district This does keep that height down the context of what is surrounding this area. I think it's too tall. I think it 150 foot tall building would be out of place here Not much The hotel Just east I mean it's it's a hundred or so and I can't see another building 50% higher than that The Hilton or the Hyatt which hotel I'm sure the one where Ruth Chris is I forgot the name of the hotel Okay Hey John, can you go ahead a couple of slides? I want to ask you a question about a slide that we're not on one more That slide It won't back Am I understanding this previous slide that if you go back to where we were just were To show all of the area that's currently purple in that slide has unlimited height currently correct Okay, it's currently anything that's purple on this map has an unlimited height anything that's green as a height of 75 feet and The area that I'm going to call teal, which is that area behind the subject parcel that we're talking about that currently also is So I think this is a telling slide here because if you can go right across the railroad tracks and basically build unlimited This is actually in some respects if we were to go to an innovative design district is a little bit more restrictive This is it is More restrictive than the purple correct. It is a little bit more Progressive than the other side it allows for a little bit more than it currently does I've got some real concerns about particularly the unlimited heights in this old Well, this unlimited height has been on the books for not close to a decade Still got concerns about it Had concerns about it. Is there anyone that wants to speak on this? Tonight I don't know. I'll just follow up a little bit on the try to address the concerns of the unlimited height What we have found with from a zoning perspective on limited height is it is in essence is self-regulating so for instance Main Street a lot of the areas along assembly Street. Those are also unlimited They've been unlimited for decades You say along Main Street Main Street assembly Street in the downtown core. That's not this that's Main Street Correct in this area is in a vista and in a vistas had a unlimited height for for quite a while here and what we have Found is that it is in essence a little bit of a self regulatory thing because as they have to provide parking And they have to provide other things. There is a balance in terms of economics of how tall you can go So we have seen some proposals come in that are fairly tall But they usually to go a little bit shorter. So Right now, you know, we kind of see buildings that are you know Trying to think of the one apartment building that's being built But it's probably think it's about seven stories or something like that. So we haven't seen a tremendous Height in a lot of our unlimited areas because they have to balance a parking garage and you know all the spaces in that with the height and all that Economics, so it's that one small section Any further questions for staff? I'd like to call for a motion then please Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion the motion is to recommend approval to rezone a portion of 1,100 Wayne Street from mixed-use urban district design development area and a VISTA design district and design preservation to mixed-use urban district in a Vista design district and design and preservation area to to amend in a Vista design District guidelines to reflect proposed changes to the boundaries and height requirements in the buffer areas Three on then the city of Columbia's official zoning map to extend the boundaries of the ID zoning district and remove the DD zoning district from the same area for a men's city of Columbia's code of ordinances 17-291 and 17-325 to reflect proposed changes to the Univista design district guidelines in the official zoning map Do we have a second? second Is there any further discussion or questions for staff all in favor signify by saying aye aye? Anyone opposed? Motion is approved Only other businesses is we do have a work session coming up later in the month. We did send a Meeting invite to you, so if you haven't seen it if you were out of town last week or something like that We set a date yet Have we set the date yet? We did. I believe it's Thursday at lunchtime. We'll have sandwiches That was this was it the 16th? No, no 20 Thursday, I think I think it's next Thursday, which is the 19 No, yes next Thursday night I'd like to get a motion to adjourn, please second so all in favor meetings adjourned