HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-15-2014 Planning Board MinutesPLANNING BOARD MINUTES
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2014
ITEM 1. CALL TO ORDER AND ATTENDANCE
President McSpadden called the regular meeting of the Planning Board to order at 6:02 p.m. in
the Commission Meeting Room, City Hall, 121 North Rouse Avenue, Bozeman, Montana and took attendance.
Members Present:
Trever McSpadden, President
George Thompson
Julien Morice
Paul
Neubauer
Erik Garberg
Laura Dornberger
Brett Potter – joined meeting at 7:00pm
City Commission Liaison:
Members Absent:
Jerry Pape
Guests Present:
Dave Crawford, TD&H Engineering
Ken
Smith, Process Architecture
Scott Hacker, Applicant
ITEM 2. PUBLIC COMMENT (Limited to any public matter within the jurisdiction of the Planning Board and not scheduled on this agenda.
Three-minute time limit per speaker.)
At :17 min - Chair McSpadden, opened for public comment. No public comment forthcoming.
Public Comment period was closed.
ITEM 3. MINUTES
OF MARCH 18, 2014
At :59 min – Mr. Thompson noted a correction to be made to the March 18th minutes regarding
Westbrook Subdivision. Strike “He finds very large homes that are being
built three or four feet apart in some neighborhoods.” Replace with “very large homes that are being built out-of-character with the adjacent homes.”
Mr. McSpadden also noted a correction
to be made saying it was Mr. Pape, not Mr. Thompson, who had the “milk” comment.
At 2:29 min Mr. Morice moved to approve the corrected minutes. Mr. Thompson seconded. The motion
was
approved unanimously.
ITEM 4. PROJECT REVIEW
1. Trout Meadows Ph. 3 Prel. Plat Application P14011
A Subdivision Preliminary Plat Application requested by the property owner and
Applicant by the property owner Remainder at Trout Meadows, LLC, 7403 Highline Ct., Missoula, MT 59808 and applicant: Montana Crestview, 4200 Expressway, Missoula, MT 59808, and
represented by: TD & H Engineering, 234 East Babcock Street, Bozeman, MT 59715. A Major Subdivision Preliminary Plat application to aggregate ten (10) lots into two (2) lots in Block
5 and to aggregate eleven (11) lots and relocate open space in Block 6 and to remove the existing Restricted Size Lot (RSL) designations from certain lots within these blocks in the
Cattail Lake Subdivision, Phases 1 and 2. The properties involved are described as Lots 1-10 in Block 5 and Lots 1-11 & OSPA 1 in Block 6 of the Plat of Cattail Lake Subdivision,
Phases 1 & 2, located in the SW ¼ of Sec. 26, T1S, R5E, P.M.M, City of Bozeman, Gallatin County, Montana. Block 5 is generally located north of Catamount Street, between Fen Way and
Blackbird Drive. Block 6 is generally located south of Trout Meadows Road, between Fen Way and Davis Lane. (Riley)
At 2:48 min – Chair McSpadden opened Item #4 Project Review.
At 2:57 min – Planner Riley provided an overview of the application, staff report and
recommendation. He stated that no public comment has been received regarding this application
and there are no unresolved issues. Planner Riley requested feedback from the Planning Board on the continued policy regarding having to complete a new preliminary plat and public hearing
to remove previous RSL designations. He concluded his presentation and stated he was available for questions.
At 13:44 min – Mr. Crawford of TD&H Engineering, representing the applicant,
thanked the Planning
Board for the opportunity to speak about this application and stated he is available to answer any
questions.
At 14:55 min – In response to a question from
Planning Board member Neubauer, Scott Hacker,
Applicant, explained the future plans for the development of the restricted lot area and their previous parkland dedication areas.
At
17:37 min – Mr. Crawford stated that regarding the RSL policy, that he believes using the
subdivision exemption process would be a better use of everyone’s time.
At 18:08 min –
Mr. Hacker stated that removing the RSL’s (new prel. plat) delayed the process two
months at a cost of few thousand dollars.
At 19:00 min – Ms. Dornberger asked about the frequency
of requests to remove RSL designations.
Planner Riley indicated that it is quite common, but many people never pursue due to the time and expense of a new preliminary plat.
At 20:05
min – Mr. Morice asked whether these blocks/apartments will be part of the existing Property
Owners’ Association? Mr. Hacker replied that, yes, they will be.
At 20:30 min – Chair
McSpadden opened for Public Comment. No public was forthcoming.
Public Comment was closed.
At 20: 52 min – Chair McSpadden opened for motion, discussion and vote. Mr. Thompson made
the
motion to approve. “Having reviewed and considered the application materials, public comment, and all the information presented, I hereby adopt the findings presented in the staff
report for application P14011 and move to recommend approval of the subdivision with conditions and subject to all applicable code provisions.”
Mr. Garberg seconded the motion.
At 21:45 min – Planning Board members discussed the RSL Policy. Mr. Thompson stated he
was initially concerned with losing RSLs, but with the existing apartments the RSLs don’t fit
and apartments work better here.
At 23:25 min – Mr. Morice stated the underlying zoning permits apartments as well so he doesn’t have a
problem with removing RSLs and still create
affordable housing.
At 24:17 min – Mr. Garberg stated he still likes the idea of some type of public noticing before RSL
designations are removed. Perhaps it can be incorporated into
an administrative exemption process and if there is a certain public comment trigger, it would then require a full preliminary plat and public hearing.
At 25:04 min – Mr. Morice stated
if the zoning allows the land use he is ok, but what should govern the
plat or zoning? He believes it should be the zoning.
At 27:13 min – Mr. Garberg stated that often compatibility
issues between housing types creates a
problem. For example, large homes next to small homes.
At 28:52 min – Mr. Neubauer stated the location of the RSLs are generally on the west
side of town.
Perhaps if they were in the core/downtown area of the city, he would not want to lose them in order to accommodate more affordable housing in the heart of the city.
At
30:48 min – Chair McSpadden stated this project is a good example of where an administrative
exemption review process would be ok, but he also likes the idea of some public noticing.
Perhaps there needs to be some staff discretion to determine when an exemption is ok.
At 34:03 min – Mr. Garberg stated the review process does have merit including the DRC review
of
traffic, parkland, subdivision issues, etc.
At 35:26 min – Chair McSpadden opened for a vote on the motion. Motion passed unanimously.
ITEM 5. NEW BUSINESS
At 35:45 min –
Chair McSpadden opened for new business. Discussion regarding RSLs continued. The
Planning Board also discussed addressing the following items:
Affordable Housing;
Parkland/open space;
and
Housing/subdivision design flexibility, including PUD’s
At 55:51 min – Chair McSpadden indicated that he would encourage the Planning Board to become
more involved and work on
key policy issues. However, due to staff workloads, this may mean that the Planning Board members would be doing much of the work.
At 1:28:09 min – Chair McSpadden stated that as Planning
Board members have ideas for future policy
discussions, to send him an email and he will review them with Planning & Policy Manager Saunders to see if it is an appropriate item to place
on a future agenda and how best for the Planning Board to provide policy feedback to the Commission, etc.
ITEM 5. ADJOURNMENT
At 1:39:16 min – Seeing there is no further business before Planning Board Mr. Garberg moved to
adjourn the meeting. Mr. Morice seconded. The meeting was adjourned
at 7:50 p.m.
Trever McSpadden, President Doug Riley, Senior Planner
Planning Board Department of Community Development
City of Bozeman City of Bozeman