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Home My WebLink About10/09/72MINUTES OF HASTINGS PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HELD A~'OINDAY OCTOBER 9 1972 Memb¢;rs Present: Mr. Petersen,~ Mrs. Linde,, Mrs, Hallberg, Mr. Soleim~ Mr~ Trautmann. ~ir. Jen*~en~ Mr. Ta~er~ l~/iayor Hotly and City Engineer Davidson~ Minutes ~f September 25 approved on motion by Mr. Trautrn.a~n~ seconded by Mr¢ Sensen. All ayes~ Letter si resignation from Sr. Member Steve Willeke who is now out si high school, Letter of resignation from Aria.nd Siebrecht. Letter from Hastings Womens Club asking that a woman be considered for membership on Planning Commission, ,~' '~.' /~ . .* - ~ , Letter from Chamber of Commerce transportation contmittee to Mr, Dick D~rsow of area planning committee concerning a new hard surface local airport for the Hastings area. Mr, Jim Hoffman request to build a 40~ x &0} alee! garage to store tree service equipment at 809 W. 10th Street. Mr, Trautm~o% committee had previously studied this and reports that there is no provision for a special oee permit in R-Z zone, A variance would be required. Motion by Mr. Trautm~n~ seconded by Mr. Hallberg to deny a variance. AIl ayes. planning Commission suggests Mr. Hoffmax: try to locate in an A, C~2 or I zone. Motion by Mr, $oleim~ seconded by Mr° Tra~.t:nann to accept TKDA Capital Improvement program report as presented September Z5 and approve /or distribution to Cotmcil and all Commissionso AIl ayes, Sidewalk Ordinance revision. Motion by Mr, Soleim0 seconded by Mr, Trautmann that draf~ ordinance previously informally referred to Council be referred and recommended with addition of a provision that every new plat contain on "overall pedestrian plan" as a mandatory requirement~ Also, suggest that Mayor appoint a committee of councilmen and at lc&st two l~[annlng Commission members to refine the draft ordinance. All ayes, David Tanner I~stings planning Commission CITY OF HASTINGS 100 SIBLEY STREET, HASTINGS, MINNESOTA 55033 Phone 437-6921 OFFICE OF CITY ENGINEER MINUTES OF HASTINGS PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING HELD MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 197Z Those present: Mr. Soleim, Mr. Trautmann, Mr. Hallberg, Mr. Tanner, Mr. Petersen, Mrs. Linde, Mr. Jensen. Also present: John Davidson, City Engineer, Mr. Jim Hoffman, Mr. Dennis Pellant and members of the radio and news media. The first item was a motion by Mr. Trautmann, seconded by Mr. Sensen to approve the minute of the meeting of September ZS, 1972 as submitted. Mr. Petersen read a letter of resignation from Mr. Steve Willeke who in- dicated he would be required to be in school in the cities and could not make the Plarming Commission meetings. Mr. Petersen stated that he has already asked the School Board to staff the Planning Commission with junior members this year as they did last year. Mr. Petersen read a letter of resignation from Mr. Arland Siebrecht who indicated his work on the School Board would prevent him from serving another term on the Planning Commission. His unexpired term will be filled upon recommendation by the Planning Commission. The radio and press was asked to make it known that the vacancy does exist. There was a letter on behalf of Mrs. Lou Stoffel from the Hastings Womens Club to fill the vacancy on the Planning Commission, however, no letter of request has been received from Mrs. Stoffel. Mr. Petersen read a letter from the Transportation Committee of the Chamber of Commerce in regard to airport proposals for satellite airports in the Metro area, a copy of the letter and map was furnished to the secretary. (See copy attached to Mr. Tanner's minutes). The letter stated that 38 to 50 million dollars would be needed for the airport site construction and location, however that figure was developed for 1Z sites in the metro area and the upgrading of a Hastings site or Marshan site south of Hastings would require much less than that. Mr. Pellant was asked to give his definition of a satellite airport. He stated that it was a hard-surface landing strip, 4, 000 to 5, 000 feet in length which had full control, including a control tower, lighting and radio contact for landing small craft, basically propeller craft, however, it may be suitable for small jet aircraft. The next item on the agenda was review of the Jim Hoffman request for a building permit for a garage facility at his address at 809 W. 10th Street. The engineer rew[ewed the structural drawing, showing the garage was a pole type steel Minutes of Hastings Planning Commission Meeting Pag 2. building similar to the one being installed by Dennis Held on his property approximately one block north and west from this proposed site. We went into the fact that there were several multiple dwelling units in the area, including a greenhouse one block to the south, small residential grocery store one block to the east and Mr. Hoffman owned a duplex, which is the old Hoffman house from llth and T.H. 61 and was moved back several years ago onto the corner of Oak and 10th. Mr. Hoffman was in and asked to give testimony. He stated he had not discussed the proposal with any neighbors until he had pre- sented it to the Council and Planning Commission for their first review. Mr. Trautmann subcommittee report was given by Mr. Trautmann indicating that the ordinance does not adequately cover this type of facility and would not be permitted a special use in an R-Z or does a variance allow this type of structure to be constructed, therefore Mr. Trautmann moved that the request be denied, seconded by Mr. Hallberg and unanimously passed. It was then offered as suggested locations, the following sites: Northeast corner of Znd and Lea which would require a rezoning because this is an R-3 zone. The zoning required for this type of facility would be C-Z. East end of 18th Street presently owned by Hastings Central Natural Gas Co., south of 18th Street, east of their present gas facility. This is an industrial site and could be used for that type of facility. The engineer suggested that the Jim Haas property in E. Hastings is already zoned C-Z. This is south and east of the present East Side Garage Facility. Mr. Hoffman indicated he was asking $6000 for these two lots. Also Mr. Hoffman stated that he could lease a building from the Julia Conzemius' on the west end of gnd Street as a temporary measure. It was indicated that since he could find temporary housing for his facility that it would give us sometime to look into some of these other sites. It was referred then back to Mr. Tanner's committee for discussion following the regular meeting this evening. It was moved by Mr. Soleim, seconded by Mr. Trautmann to recommend to accept the T.K.D.A. 1973 - 1977 Capital Improvements Report and make distribution to the City Council and other commissions. The next discussion was in regard to the proposed change in the Sidewalk Section of the Subdivision Ordinance. The Council at their last meeting advised the Planning Commission to delete that section of the Subdivision Regulations dealing with sidewalks~ however, there was a clause that the planner would be required to furnish sidewalks within the plat in accordance with the Sidewalk Ordinance in affect at the time of platting. It was then their intent to have a Subdivision Ordinance ready for passage at the time that the 3rd reading of the amendment to the Subdivision Ordinance passes. The Ordinance proposed was one which the subcommittee of the Planning Commission had furnished the Planning Commission for review at the last meeting to be discussed at the meeting tonight. It was indicated that this could be a guide for financing basically and an overall pedestrian plan would have Minutes of Hastings Planning Commission Meeting held Monday, OctoBer 9, 1972 Image to be approved at the time of platting as part of this ordinance. It was indicated that the amendment to replace Article IV, Subdivision Ordinance, with a Sidewalk Ordinance would necessitate more than the Sidewalk Ordinance proposed, or as furnished to the Planning Commission at this time. It was then recommended · . comm.[tt-~e of 2 since the Mayor was also present at the meeting, that he appoint affriembers of the Council, and two members of the Planning Commission to work a model ordinance up for the next meeting of the Planning Commission for review. After a long discussion it was determined that the proposal to the Council would be as follows: Moved by Mr. Soleim, seconded by Mr. Tanner the proposed ordinance is a concept ordinance and recommended to the Gouncil as a concept and a committee of the Planning Commission is available to meet with City Council committees and the Subdivision Regulation should be amended to require a pedestrian plan at the time of platting. The motion was unanimously passed. We completed our meeting at approximately lO:lS P. M. John L. Davidson, City Engineer