 city engineer and says Jerry Jones Marilyn Montemure and assuming Dave Hoffman and John Matyska are excused all right for those in attendance please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance 2.1 approve the plan commission minutes from May 25th 2021 is there motion there's been there's been a motion second any discussion on the minutes seeing none all those in favor please state aye anyone opposed cheer votes aye the minutes are approved all right 3.1 for conditional use permits with the exception to the John Michael Polar Art Preserve to construct a new storage building at 36 36 lower Falls Road Steve watches construction and I believe from the Polar Art Center as well what we're taking a look at today is the Polar Art Center is looking to construct an accessory storage building to serve as an essential part of the maintenance and grounds keeping needed at the Art Preserve the proposed structure is 3,600 square feet 60 by 60 the building side was was determined based on the equipment that would be housed on the site to perform maintenance and upkeep of the facility and property the location was selected so as not to impede on the architectural design of the main building so the structure itself is approximately about 700 feet to the north of the Indiana or PP lower Falls Road let's see the applicant is requesting a couple of exceptions and one is just to have a 20 foot ridge and to have variants from the locational landscaping requirements so the structure itself was approved by the architecture review board last night fairly basic pre-engineered metal building and staff was recommending approval of the conditional use permit subject to the conditions you have before you any questions from commissioners at all is there any representative here from the art preserve that would like to speak oh okay there was a neighbor here as well I don't know if she had anything would you mind coming up to the public election please because otherwise people can't hear you if they're on the phone or TV thank you so I'm Abby Visaca I represent Glacier Lakes Conservancy which is a neighbor to the John Michael Clark Art Center and we don't have any issues with them building a shed on that near our property so just wanted to come and check all this out all right no worries thank you any anyone else here for that any motions I make a motion that we approve subject to staff recommendations second it's been a motion second any further discussion see none all those in favor please state aye aye anyone opposed to chair votes aye that's approved all right 3.2 application for conditional use with the exception to organo ink to construct a new warehouse facility on parcel number 5928 1479 085 located at the briars parkway in the Shipwagon business park Steve all right thanks mayor Tom Testweed is here from Torgan all as well as Chris Hergisogg and I'm forgot your name sir from ACA so what we're taking a look at is Torgan all has been here a couple of times with a couple of their different structures at 4617 Taylor Drive did a little office and decadition recently and then they also had purchased 4350 Tower Drive which was a warehouse facility they had approached the city to work with us on the Shipwagon business park on an acre parcel of land that they wanted to purchase which they did to construct a 67500 square foot warehouse and that's what we're taking a look at today the building was submitted to the city of Shipwagon architecture review board last night and was approved the expansion is necessary to increase the material storage capacity which in turn will bolster the overall business operations and better respond to domestic and international client demand demand is steadily increasing and the new warehouse is required to accommodate the inventory necessary to meet this demand and it's their intent to commence construction as soon as feasible and hopefully by August 20 August of this summer Torgan all manufacturers and markets decorative materials that contribute to the design and performance qualities of high performance floor coating systems Torgan all is a locally owned and operated company with 300 employees so some of the site improvements includes the 67 000 square foot warehouse nine parking spaces are proposed the applicant is proposing two driveway connections to Barron's Parkway one that's more for trucking and the other that's a little bit more for employee parking applicant is proposing a new driveway that will connect the new warehouse facility property to the Torgan all property to the east at 43 50 tower drive and it's likely in the near future there may be an addition to this facility as well a couple just general comments the applicant is proposing to construct a driveway that'll connect the new warehouse to their facility to the east and this proposed driveway crosses a 50 foot stormwater easement that accepts water from many of the properties upstream and takes that stormwater and posits it into the retention pond located at the southwest intersection of Barron's Parkway and Tower Drive the applicant will need to create an access easement between the two properties allowing each property to utilize and share this proposed drive and applicant is requesting a variance to the paving setback and the access easement helps justify that request the applicant would also be working with the city engineering department on the required easement and the specifications that the driveway will be required to meet in order to ensure that the stormwater easement continues to appropriately function city staff has no issues with that connection with the driveway connection as long as the required easement documentation is completed and as long as the driveway is constructed properly and does not impact that stormwater facility so they'd be working with the attorney's office and the engineering department the attorney's office on the easement and the engineering department with the specs required to make the driveway cross the actual stormwater easement and that stormwater easement will require city council approval the business park covenants do not permit loading on the front side of the building but the applicant is showing a loading dock on that northwest side and is planning to construct a berm in that area to minimize the view of the loading dock there's some conceptual signage that's proposed but they would come back with regards to their formal sign package plan commission may want to add the applicant address the exact use of the building the timing of the construction timing of any future construction and there were a couple of variances one was to have the zero foot paving step back and again that's to allow for the driveway to connect the two properties and with that easement we didn't see an issue with that and requesting a variance from some of the locational landscaping requirements so I can answer any questions the applicants are here and staff has recommended approval of the project as proposed anyone here on the side of what you were speaking sorry top Steve did a great job explaining the project and no we're just real excited to be back here and in front of the group and and yesterday um you know we love doing business in shabuagan and our employee group we love the shabuagan community so hopefully this will you know fit in nicely in the business park um we did look at existing space and it's it's pretty tight out there there's not much in terms of leasing space so we uh you can talk with our customers the feeling is it's pretty strong pretty bullish about the future so you know we're trying to get ahead of things so we can build up our inventories and service our our customers any questions on the project any gentlemen from ac are here as well okay any jerry yeah I think yesterday at architectural review you you talked about the timeline for construction you were trying to get in by january if you can just fill out everyone else in on that that would be great our business is somewhat seasonal and we we have heavy demand from the months of april uh through october and and really uh november december january february march we build up inventory so that's where this year we we built up the inventory and it wasn't it wasn't quite enough so we produced a real heavy year round but we want to build it up for that spring pop some of our largest customers our large customers are sure when williams bear rostoleum and you know they're they're selling product through big home building centers and and offer promos in the spring so they want to get the product into their distribution centers but that that's our concern is is come about the end of january we're going to run out of space right now any additional comments or Maryland sounds wonderful keep going keep going i move to approve thank you thank you there's been a motion to approve is there a second second any further discussion or comments seeing none all those in favor of approval please state aye aye anyone opposed chair votes aye it's approved thank you okay thank you all right moving right along 3.3 our number 22 21 22 in general ordinance number four dash 21 dash 22 by elder persons decker amending the city shabuigan official zoning map of the shabuigan shabuigan zoning ordinance to change the use district classification of vacant land on north 15th street part of the parcel number 59 28 15 50 000 from class urban residential ur 12 the class urban commercial you see uh steve all right thanks mayor um paul weaver is here and uh previously he had been here to change the property from urban commercial to urban residential for the waters edge condominium project as the applicant had done some additional construction with waters edge um the they didn't believe that the market um existed to continue in the opinion of the applicant to continue with that development so now what they are looking at is to rezone the remainder of the portion of the property from the urban residential to the urban commercial and the purpose is is that they would like to potentially develop a boutique hotel which would consist of a 25 hotel room and small event space and it's anticipated the whole total development would produce an investment value of approximately three million dollars um the city of shabuigan comprehensive plan identifies several key initiatives including promoting infill development and redevelopment to grow efficiently and strengthening existing businesses and neighborhoods and enhancing the lakefront and riverfront to attract new development and appeal to residents and facility to health community the proposed hotel development will accomplish uh these key initiatives allowing the redevelopment of vacant underlight underutilized site into a boutique hotel which will be complimentary to the adjoining riverfront provide infill development and be complimentary to the adjoining uses some of the adjoining uses would be the obviously the waters edge condominium project the dullness decor building and the gloss and cellcom building so there is quite a bit of urban commercial in that area and the design of the proposed hotel is fitting with that development as well as the condominium project the same architect is involved in the hotel project that was on the condominium so they're tying that in nicely together and so what needs to happen is the property needs to be rezoned back to urban commercial in order to allow the proposed hotel development to be brought to the plan commission for review and consideration and I would be expecting that we would be seeing that shortly after the rezoned hearing went to council so staff was recommending approval of the change in land use designation from the urban residential to the urban commercial in the applicants here general and any additional comments or thoughts that you'd like to add on this topic commissioners any comments or discussion or motions make a motion to approve second there's been a motion and second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor of approval please state aye aye anyone opposed chair votes aye that's approved all right two for one next meeting is June 29th we've exhausted the agenda is there a motion to adjourn motion by Jerry second by trey all those in favor of adjourning please state aye aye anyone opposed chair votes aye we're adjourned at 415 thanks everybody