HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-22-07 Design Review Board Minutes.docDESIGN REVIEW BOARD
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 2007
MINUTES
ITEM 1. CALL TO ORDER AND ATTENDANCE
Chairperson Livingston called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. and directed the secretary to record the attendance.
Members Present Staff Present
Christopher Livingston Martin Knight, Planner I
Michael Pentecost Lanette Windemaker, Contract Planner
Bill Rea Tara Hastie, Recording Secretary
Visitors Present
Kasey Arrington
Bob Tubbs
Crystal Kirchhoff
Keith Radford
Paul Yakawich
ITEM 2. MINUTES OF AUGUST 8, 2007.
MOTION: Vice Chairperson Pentecost informally moved, Mr. Rea informally seconded, to approve the minutes of August 8, 2007 as presented. The informal recommendation carried 3-0.
ITEM 3. CONSENT ITEM
1. West Winds Phases 4-8 Mods to PUD #Z-07141 (Windemaker)
Northeast of the intersection of Oak Street and Davis Lane
* A request for modifications to an approved Planned Unit Development to eliminate townhouse lots, to allow a church lot, and to change the allowable height.
Mr. Rea informally moved, Chairperson Livingston informally seconded, to remove Item 3 from the Consent agenda for discussion. The informal motion carried 3-0.
Paul Yakawich joined the DRB. Contract Planner Lanette Windemaker presented the Staff memo noting the DRB had reviewed the proposal previously and the number of proposed design options
had been decreased to two.
Mr. Rea asked for clarification on which design options had been deleted from the proposal and which the DRB were reviewing. Planner Windemaker explained. Mr. Rea asked if the DRB
would be setting a precedent if they approved a handful of proposed options. Planner Windemaker responded that the original Final PUD Plan had included two options. Mr. Rea asked if
the proposal would loose RSL lots due to the church parcel being added to the proposal. Planner Windemaker responded there would be mostly single-family and townhouse lots removed.
Mr. Rea asked if there would be workforce housing requirements. Planner Windemaker responded there would not be workforce housing requirements due to the proposal being submitted before
the ordinance took affect, and that each phase would have to meet the
RSL requirements.
Chairperson Livingston asked if the park complied with the frontage requirement. Planner Windemaker responded that the applicant had to be close as they had 50% of their requirement
in one location. Chairperson Livingston asked what a “combination there-of” from the proposal actually meant. Planner Windemaker responded the applicant could do any combination of
the options they were proposing and explained what might be changed.
Mr. Rea stated he had watched the growth policy discussion at the City Commission and design of the streets, not just facades, had been included in their discussion. He stated that
he thought streets should follow a grid if there were no geographic obstacles. He stated he was less excited about the new proposal then he was about the previous one. He added that
options 1 & 2 street layouts lacked clarity; adding that he did not consider a church a geographic impediment.
Chairperson Livingston stated he appreciated the alignment of Vaquero Avenue and Winter Park Street and the connectivity of the proposed trail. He stated original condition #29 (diversity
in housing) and new condition #7 (mixed housing types) of the original 39 Staff recommendations were specific and proposed options 1 & 2 did not address those recommendations sufficiently.
He stated he found the proposal minimally covering what the recommendations had intended. He added that if there is no proposed diversity and the project is built out, there will never
be diversity. He stated he did not support any of the proposed options.
Mr. Rea suggested that the DRB forward an informal recommendation for the City Commission to consider the minutes of the DRB in their non-quorum state. The informal recommendation carried
3-0.
ITEM 4. PROJECT REVIEW
1. Boshaw Condos SP/COA #Z-07131 (Knight)
907 & 915 North 17th Avenue
* A Site Plan Application with a Certificate of Appropriateness to permit substantial modifications to the previously approved eight four-plexes (aka Lerner SP/COA#Z-05299).
Kasey Arrington, Bob Tubbs, Crystal Kirchhoff, and Keith Radford joined the DRB. Assistant Planner Martin Knight presented the Staff Report noting that Staff’s initial concerns were
the setback and the proposed height; adding that Staff was supportive of the proposal with the recent revisions.
Mr. Radford noted the location of the four units the DRB would be addressing. He stated the applicant had tried to make the site compatible by using the same shapes, footprints, and
materials as the existing buildings.
Mr. Rea stated there was still a hole proposed in the first floor. Mr. Tubbs stated that the feature would be removed; they had just not done so yet. Mr. Rea stated that the four units
would be in that location and could be there for decades, and asked would there be any guarantee that the site would be finished instead of left as a line of construction debris. Planner
Knight responded there would be another phase of development in the future. Mr. Rea stated the applicant may have developed a new roof form (shi-gable) and he liked it.
Vice Chairperson Pentecost asked if the applicant had chosen colors for the project. Planner Knight presented the color and materials palette. Vice Chairperson Pentecost asked if the
applicant was firm on the proposed tan/beige color. Mr. Arrington and Mr. Radford responded that they were open to suggestions on the proposed color.
Vice Chairperson Pentecost stated that when he first opened the packet, he saw that the applicant had done what the DRB had been looking for at the previous meeting. He stated he was
supportive of the proposal as presented. He stated that if he could make a formal motion to disallow the use of beige or tan and suggest more use of color he would.
Mr. Rea stated he stood corrected and the new roof design was not a shi-gable, but a ship roof. He encouraged a uniform darker color be used for the proposed metal. He stated he liked
the design very much and it was everything he had hoped for. He stated the UDO could be aggressively interpreted for the accent colors that would be used on the proposal.
Chairperson Livingston stated he agreed with previous DRB comments and cited examples where super bright colors had been added to projects and looked fine. He noted beige was not generally
supported by the DRB. He stated he appreciated the sections and line of site the applicant had provided as it contained so much information. He stated he thought it would be a good
project.
Mr. Rea informally moved, Vice Chairperson Pentecost informally seconded, to forward an informal recommendation of approval to the Planning Director for Boshaw Condos SP/COA #Z-07131.
The informal recommendation carried 3-0.
ITEM 5. PUBLIC COMMENT – (15 – 20 minutes)
{Limited to any public matter, within the jurisdiction of the Design Review Board, not on this agenda. Three-minute time limit per speaker.}
There was no public available for comment at this time.
ITEM 6. ADJOURNMENT
There being no further comments from the DRB, the meeting was adjourned at 6:13 p.m.
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Christopher Livingston, Chairperson
City of Bozeman Design Review Board