 We will call to order the March 2019 City of Columbia Planning Commission meeting. I'd like to welcome all planning commissioners, staff, and guests. At this time, I'd like to ask that everyone turn their cell phones and PDAs to the silent or vibrate mode. The administrator will now proceed with the roll call. Here, here, here, here, here, here, Mr. Wates here and his heart here. Thank you. A brief review of the meeting format. Applicants with requests before the Planning Commission are allowed at 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 request. 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 the 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 their time has expired. The Planning Commission reserves the right to amend these procedures on a case by case basis. The consent agenda Planning Commission uses the consent agenda to approve non controversial or routine matters by a single motion and vote. Examples of such items include approval of site plans, annexations and street names. If a member of the Planning Commission or general public would like to discuss an item on the consent agenda, 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. The consent agenda this evening consists of the approval of the best record for 2019 minutes, as well as a number of other items. Two comprehensive plan map amendments, a zoning map amendment for any annexations. Those are the items number two, which is annexation of 160 acres near 300 Clemson Road and the annexation of 120 sparkler there, crossing. As well as a couple site plan reviews. I am number 4, 1800 and 1802 Superior Street, 1809-821 Wiley and 1901-1917 Wiley for a 17 unit residential development, as well as item number 5, 1801 Wiley, which is also a request for site plan approval for 8 units. And a item number 6, which is a site plan review for the 100 o'clock of South Williams Street, 105, 108 and a half, 111 South Williams Street for site plan review for 82 units, as well as the east side 100 o'clock of South Williams Street for an additional 32 units in that particular area. There's also a text amendment for item number 8, which is a request to amend the zoning ordinance for way finding signage and item number nine, which is a zoning map amendment for 1517, Greg Street. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Yes, I would like to I will need to recuse myself my number two in the concerns, please. Okay. Mr. Weitz is going to recuse himself from item number two. So we'll have two motions for approval on the consent agenda one for all items except number two, and then one for number two. Do any commission members or guests today wish to have items on the consent agenda removed and placed on the regular agenda? Okay, I'd like to ask for a motion. First of all, to approve all items, but number two on the consent agenda. So moved. Second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone oppose? First motion is approved. Now the second one on the consent agenda will be to have item number two, a motion for item number two without Mr. Weitz. So moved. Second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone oppose? The second motion is approved as well. We will now proceed with the regular agenda. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion that we move item 11 2508 Chestnut Street as the next item reviewed prior to item number 10. Second. We'll have a second. Okay. All in favor. And you want to pose? We will be moving item number 11 in front of item number 10 for regular agenda. Item number 11 on your agenda is 2508 Chestnut Street. It is a request reason the parcel from General Residential RT1, the general commercial district, which is C3. And this particular parcel is located us off of two-notch road. So it's in the middle of residential. It is in the language plan. You can see here, here's two-notch road. It's actually in what was classified from the plan that was done about 15, 20 years ago for a commercial area going all the way back to the secondary street. The zoning for this particular area was never updated to actually coordinate with the land use plan. And so the residential zoning district actually cuts through the middle of this block. So you have a policy document that recommends mixed-use commercial residential back to the parallel street to two-notch. And then you have the zoning district that actually runs down the middle of the block. So typically, if you saw the zoning map, staff would kind of consider this commercial encroachment into the residential area. But the land use plan is actually talking about creating more of a mixed-use type area within that particular block. So any questions for staff? Yes, can you talk to me about if this zoning was approved, what the buffer would be that is required based on the zoning designation between this C3 and the residential that is next to it? So it's typically 30 feet. It's typically 30 feet. They can read that and build a wall. So if they just do vegetation and they use that buffer of just space and vegetation that's 30 feet, but there is, as they want to get that buffer a little bit smaller, then they have to make more of a permanent fence or wall. Okay, is the applicant aware of that? Because I mean, how wide is that lot? It's a fairly narrow lot. But I believe the applicant has talked to the staff and is aware of the requirements that they choose to develop a parcel after it's been Okay. Any other questions for staff? The applicant's not here, correct? Did the applicant have any? For you? You don't have to. I have specific questions for him that I can't answer. I mean, my question was, is the applicant aware of the buffer and the requirements between residential and commercial? And so staff kind of nodded, but maybe the applicant could just address that so that I'm She wants to make sure that you understand. She wants to make sure you're aware. Hi. So my question and I just would like to be assured that you understand that because you are looking at developing property next to a residential that is going to be commercial commercially zoned, that there's a buffer that's required and that you have to either put plants or a fence or I mean, a wall or something there. I mean, he's supposed to meet me out there. Okay, that's how wide is your lot, you know, how wide the width of the lot? But how wide? 30 foot buffer? Did you think? They can be reduced to 15. Okay, is it 65 by what? What's the other length? 65. Okay. Okay. So 30 feet would seem problematic as a buffer. But it sounds like you have a plan in place to meet with somebody who will help you clarify what you need to do. Thank you. Thank you. There's no other questions. Can we get a motion? Mr Chairman, I'll make a motion that we recommend approval to rezone item number 11 on the agenda moved item number 10 from General Residential District RG1 to General Commercial District C3. Do we have a second? So I get any further discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Motions approve. Item number 10 on your agenda this evening was 1616 and 1620 Dervais Street. This is a request to rezone a parcel from General Commercial District Design Development C3 and DD to the General Commercial District C3 and DD. And I'll explain this why it's a little confusing. So the request for that you saw last month was a rezoning for three parcels. There's four parcels along this particular block. There's this parcel of these two in the middle and one on the end. Yes, the pointer's not. Doesn't like to do. Anyway, I'll try to describe it. The two parcels that are highlighted here are the parcels in question. There are the requests to add the design development overlay district to these parcels. All three parcels currently have the same base zoning district. So all that is being requested tonight is to add the design development overlay to these three parcels. The reason for it is the applicant intends to combine all three parcels into one parcel that would then leave a zoning line running through the middle of a parcel. And we do not have allowed buildings that building to cross zoning lines. And so the question really had to be whether the DD was extended or the DD was removed from that corner parcel. So essentially, that's that's the request this evening. The applicant is here and they do have a PowerPoint presentation for you. So I will pull that up and then turn that over to them to present unless you have any questions for staff while I'm doing that at the moment. Any any questions for staff before this presentation? I mean, is this presentation going to make clear you're talking about three parcels versus four versus two? I just want to be very clear about which parcels we're talking about. And it sounds like this going to let me see if I can clarify it through a couple more maps here. That would be great. I I want to be real clear what we're talking about. So on this particular map of a streets on the north side of the of the map. Henderson's over here and this particular parcel is C three and has the DD. They're interested in developing all these three parcel number one, two and three parcel two and three do not have the design development overlay on them. So the request to have those two parcels have the design development overlay added to those two parcels. No change would happen to the parcel on the corner. Right. And just for my clarity, parcel four, four. Yes. What? What is that currently a automotive business and complete auto care. And it's done. See, great. Okay. All right, that's helpful. So that's the face only map. So C three extends. And then C one to the okay. Thanks. Yeah. Anybody else have any questions? Thank you, Commission. Can you can you please? Oh, you did. Okay. I was gonna ask you to state your name, please. Travis Prince, Executive Vice President with my colleagues, Mark Pernick, honey, as Brett as well on gravel street as well over tonight. Thank you for your time and your consideration tonight. What we're asking for is as staff stated very well, a change in the zoning design overlay district to extend to all three parcels has stated it does not extend to the parcels at this point in time. And for us to design a building and stay within the zoning, we think it's appropriate to have the consistent zoning over the entire parcel and design overlay to extend across the parcel as well. A little more specific, this is the site as it sets here. And you can see that eastern part of the site is not included. So we're requesting the city allow the zoning change and provide a recommendation to counsel affecting the overlay to extend across this parcel. I'd like Brad to speak a little bit more about what we plan for the parcel. It's early in our design stage because we don't know if we got the overlay or not. But I'd like Brad to explain a little bit about what we intend for the parcel. Hi, Brad Bennett, I'm trying to toss. So we heard a lot of clear last time we were here that you wanted to have an idea of what we envision for the site. So we have a couple slides just like Travis mentioned, they're very high level at this point time. But should give you an idea of how we're going for here. This is obviously just the air belt that's existing in the site. This is a preliminary blocking mass massing plan. This is the corner of Jervay and Perkins. It's a 1.3 acre site. We envision a multifamily residential building that would be consistent with 75 foot height max that the C3 zone has. We envision 225 and 250 apartment units with a mix of studio one, two and three bedroom units. To give you an idea of what a building of about 75 feet in height would look like within the context of the neighborhood we put together this area here that shows the building just that block just brought up to 75 feet in yellow. And then the dual branded hotel that's going up across the street I guess in our forefront here in the area is about 66ish feet. The law school is about 60 feet to the right there, or Senate Plaza is a little under 200 feet behind the law school. And then just you know, wrapping the contacts, the heritage condos are about 200 feet to the east of the site. This is another view from Jervay and Perkins looking east. You can see the law school on the right, the proposed building massed up to about 75 feet and then the hotel on the left. We also have another view with the north from Senate on Perkins Street. You can see the McMaster building in the forefront, the proposed building in gray behind it in the law school on the left. So as Travis mentioned at the beginning, we respectfully request my commission recommend approval for the zone 1616 and 16 Holder Bay Street from C3 to C3DD. And we're here to answer any questions you have and we appreciate your consideration. Is 75 feet allowed in the C3DD zoning? Is it allowed right? So how it works is it's a step back. So it goes at the zero lot line, they can go up to 50 feet, then they have to step back one foot for every three feet back to 75. So the best example is the Hyatt under Bay Street in the Vista that actually literally is the perfect scribe of what the ordinance dictates. So probably the best example. Some people actually just literally step the building back a little bit and then go straight up, but they'll still be within that step back step back. So the facade if it was at whatever the step backline would be would be 50 feet. And then how far back would it? The way it reads it's one for every every three feet height that goes back one foot. So it comes out to be about eight plus feet of that step back. So it would go up and back about eight and then straight up or they could literally try to figure out how to design the building to use that triangular space. If you think of Paris and Mansard Roof would fit into that that diagram. What other requirements are within that designation that zoning designation of the DD? I mean, in terms of can you just talk about that a little bit like the setbacks or the design development overlay district is a design overlay district, which it comes out of the 1998 master plan for downtown. And so we've had the the district for about, I guess, probably close to 19 years now, getting in close to 20. And it talks a lot about the building articulation. So it will talk about the placement of the building on the site. Typically it calls for a zero lot line, but it does also talk about the other context on the block. And so the other buildings are farther back, it would actually recommend that the building be back. So it's a little bit context sensitive from the from the placement of the building on the actual property. It also will talk about ground floor articulation. It requires a certain amount of glazing on the first floor, a little less glazing on the second, third, fourth floors. It goes through building materials that are permitted and not permitted. It will also talk a lot about site development for parking lots and those types of things. So my understanding is if they did get this zoning change that they would have to come back for approval for the actual building, is that correct? They would. So under the design development overlay district site plan review occurs with the DDRC. So typically site plan resides with Planning Commission. But when the design development district was created, that planning commission was merged with the DRC so an applicant would not have to come to two boards to make it a little bit more streamlined. So they would go through their site plan review and their design review at the time that they applied. So our role would be to approve or not approve of this zoning change and then it would go to DDRC for the actual correct. So your recommendation this evening goes to City Council. They would have a public hearing. They take final action and then from a building design perspective, it would be turned over to the DDRC. And at this point, my understanding is that the neighborhood does not oppose the zoning change. That's what they're they told me that last week as well as what their email from today states. Okay. And I would just like to ask the applicant what their understanding of the neighborhood. I mean, you've met with them again. My yes, Travis, so we know what the neighborhood representatives today. Okay, well, they are concerned about parking and they're concerned about pedestrian traffic in your neighborhood. That's their main two concerns. The bulk and density of this building is allowed by right today. So we're not building asking for a bigger building. They actually like the fact that we're going through the design review process because that's much more public process than just building it today. So I can't say that we're in agreement with everything. We have work to do with the neighborhood, but we understand their concerns. How are you going to handle the parking? So we would handle the parking by by code, which would be so on site and then the ability to use some of the offsite street meter spaces as well to meet our parking requirement. We're very comfortable with part requirement as it is in the code. We believe that this property and project in proximity to the university and the downtown business district will not require that every single person have a car or that every every apartment have multiple cars. So we're very happy to meet the is the concept of this for young professionals and not another student housing. We will be designing it to 20 to 30 year old. So we'll have some students and it's a located right across the street from the law school. So we will have students, but it's not all four bedroom units geared towards underclass. We really think of the variety of university and business centric people that want to live in an urban environment, but also want to be close to the university. Can we recognize that? Any other questions for the applicant or staff? Does the university I mean, we haven't heard from them what they were at their meeting today as well. I wouldn't expect that they will make a statement for against the project. We're having conversations with them about some of the same concerns they have. I'd like to ask for a motion please. Thank you, Mr Chairman. I'd like to make a motion that we recommend approval to rezone the property from C three to C three D. So any further discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Anyone oppose? Motions approved. Is there any other business? And I'd like to ask a motion to adjourn. So move. All in favor? Anyone oppose? Meeting is adjourned.