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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11.13.24 PC Minutes 1 PRIOR LAKE PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES Wednesday, November 13, 2024 1. Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance: Chair Tschetter called the Wednesday, November 13, 2024 Prior Lake Planning Commission meeting to order at 6:00 p.m. Those presents were Commissioners Jason Tschetter, Dan Ringstad, Michael Tennison, Michael Pasquarette, and Kate Yurko. Absent Doug Johnson and Christian Fenstermacher. Also present were City Council Liaison Victor Lake, Community Development Director Casey McCabe, Planner Paul Moretto, and Deputy Clerk / Administrative Assistant Megan Kooiman. 2. Approval of Wednesday, November 13, 2024 Agenda: MOTION BY RINGSTAD SECONDED BY TENNISON TO APPROVE THE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2024 PRIOR LAKE PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Yurko, and Tennison. Motion carried 5-0. 3. Approval of Monday, October 28, 2024, Meeting Minutes: MOTION BY PASQUARETTE SECONDED BY TENNISON TO APPROVE THE MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2024, PRIOR LAKE PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Yurko, and Tennison. Motion carried 5-0. 4. Public Hearings: A. PDEV24-000032 – 3575 N Berens RD NW – Planned Unit Development Amendment - Carol Lansing on behalf of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) is requesting a Major Planned Unit Development (PUD) Amendment to the Shepherd’s Path PUD Plan Related to an interior remodeling and expansion of childcare facilities (PID 254520021) Community Development Director McCabe: Introduced the public hearing to consider a request for a Planned Unit Development Amendment. McCabe explained the current circumstances, physical site characteristics, and is recommending approval of the PUD Amendment. Commissioner Comments: Tschetter: Asked if the city’s role in guiding the development of the property changes in the future with the transfer of the property to the SMSC. McCabe: Stated not at this point. The city will guide the land use until such time as the SMSC places the property into Federal Trust. Tschetter: Asked about the building crossing a lot boundary and a municipality boundary in the future and if that complicates future land use guidance. McCabe: stated staff has had conversations with SMSC staff. The property line does run through the existing building. There is a common exit point at the property line that is shared between the two buildings and both buildings are required to maintain that exit to meet building code requirements. If the breezeway exiting is removed, one or both properties would need to install alternative exiting to meet code requirements. Ringstad: Asked if staff had any concerns with the timing of the administrative lot split request. McCabe: No issues with the timing of the lot split. Staff will be requesting council approval to finalize the lot split. Tennison: Asked if the commercial daycare would be open to community or just the Members of SMSC and asked about future tax revenue. 2 McCabe: The applicant can speak to the question about commercial daycare being open to the community. McCabe explained the property is currently exempt from property taxes and the city anticipates property taxes would be payable for a few years until the property is placed into trust. Pasquarette: Asked if the public trails will stay open to the public. McCabe: Trails will be open to the public. Yurko: Asked if staff had concerns about the larger programmatic functions of the lot as a commercial daycare; parking, traffic circulation, child drop-offs, etc. McCabe: Discussed overall parking requirements being met, three access points exist to the property. Acknowledged traffic will increase during peak drop-off times and a signal exists at McKenna and CH42 to handle the traffic. Applicant: Steve Albrecht, SMSC 2333 Sioux Trail: Introduced others in attendance representing SMSC. Thanked the Planning commissioners for their time. Addressed the topic of traffic circulation noting this site will provide better circulation that their current Playworks facility which has a similar number of children. More than ample parking will be provided. Stated the daycare would be available for children of the SMSC community members and employees of the SMSC. Tschetter: asked if it was the SMSC’s intention to place this property into land trust. Albrecht: stated yes, they would plan to place the property into trust and that process usually takes two to three years to finalize. Tschetter: asked how the SMSC approaches development on Outlot B. Albrecht: stated the SMSC has several properties adjacent to Prior Lake and Shakopee. No plans for the outlot currently, but future plans would be consistent with what the city planned. Will work well with the city as they have in the past. MOTION BY RINGSTAD, SECONDED BY TENNISON TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4A AT 6:21 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Public Comment: Jack Haugen 4824 Adrian Circle: Representing President of Church Council of Shepherd of the Lake Lutheran Church. Expressed the excitement that Shepherd of the Lake has about the partnership with the SMSC. Commented on the congregation vote and 100% support of the sale/project. Thanked the city staff for assisting in the process. MOTION BY PASQUARETTE, SECONDED BY RINGSTAD TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4A AT 6:24 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Commissioner Questions and Comments Ringstad: commented on the use being a great fit for the building and a similar use to how the YMCA used the building. Will be supporting this amendment. Tennison: Commented on the great use for the space and happy to see the building getting used. Pasquarette: A great use for the space. Yurko: Agreed that this is a good space for the children and will be nice to get some improvements being made to allow for this use. Tschetter: Appreciates the partnership between the City and SMSC. MOTION BY TENNISON, SECONDED BY RINGSTAD RECOMMENDING THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THE MAJOR AMENDMENT TO THE SHEPHERDS PATH PUD SUBJECT TO THE LISTED CONDITIONS. 3 VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. B. PDEV24-000037 – 6025 170th ST E – Combined Preliminary and Final Plat - M P Holdings LLC is proposing a combined preliminary and final plat to be known as Revere Addition to consist of one commercial parcel of approximately 1.42 acres and one Outlet of approximately 7.16 acres reserved for future development (PID 259070010) Community Development Director: Introduced the public hearing to consider a request for a Combined Preliminary and Final Plat. McCabe explained the History, current circumstances, physical site characteristics, and is recommending approval of the Combined Preliminary and Final Plat. Commissioner Comments: Tschetter: Asked if there were any conditions of approval in the memo that the property owner does not agree with. McCabe: there is not. Tschetter: asked about the rezoning of the property from R-1 to C-2 and if the next agenda item is a use that is permitted in C-2. McCabe: stated the next use is a C-2 use and a future agenda report will be brought to the planning commission to consider rezoning of the property from R-1 to C-2. MOTION BY PASQUARETTE, SECONDED BY TENNISON TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4B AT 6:31 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Public Comment: None. MOTION BY RINGSTAD, SECONDED BY PASQUARETTE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4B AT 6:31 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Commissioner Questions and Comments Ringstad: Agreed with staff report will be supporting the application. Tennison: No additional comments Pasquarette: No additional comments Yurko: No additional comments Tschetter: Seems like a wonderful use of this property. Glad to see this move forward and glad the city is formalizing the easements that have been in place. MOTION BY TENNISON, SECONDED BY RINGSTAD TO RECOMMEND THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THE COMBINED PRELIMAINARY AND FINAL PLAT FOR REVERE ADDITION SUBJECT TO THE COMMENTS LISTED IN THE NOVEMBER 6, 2024, COMMUNITY DEVELEOPMENT/ PUBLIC WORKS MEMORANDUM VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Fenstermacher. Motion carried 5-0. C. PDEV24-000035 – 6025 170th ST E – Conditional Use Permit - Spot’s Last Stop Canine Rescue is requesting a Conditional Use Permit to operate an Animal Handling business (PID 259070010) 4 Community Development Director: Introduced the public hearing to consider a request for a Conditional Use Permit. McCabe also gave a detailed explanation of the current city codes that relate to animal handling. McCabe explained the current circumstances, physical site characteristics, and is recommending approval of the variance. Commissioner Comments: Tschetter: asked if there were any discussions other than temporary housing of animals, such as grooming or boarding. McCabe: referred that question to the applicant. Ringstad: Asked about the logic behind the city accepting 20 parking spaces, rather than 25, because staff does not anticipate a large amount of traffic. McCabe: Staff does not anticipate significant parking use. Commented that on-street parking is not permitted in the area so the applicants would need to identify a parking solution during larger events in the future. Applicant: Casey Adams, 15084 Appaloosa Trail NE: Discussed the operations of the business and their intensions for the property. Responded to a question about any additional use of the building stating they will be opening the building as a community resource center for people who need assistance with pets, lost dogs, another arm as animal control, adoption events, K-9 training classes, etc. MOTION BY TENNISON, SECONDED BY RINGSTAD TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4C AT 6:42 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Public Comment: None. MOTION BY PASQUARETTE, SECONDED BY YURKO TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4C AT 6:43 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Commissioner Questions and Comments Yurko: No additional comments. Pasquarette: No additional comments. Tennison: Excited to see a new business coming to the city. Will be supporting this tonight. Ringstad: Concurs with the excitement for a new business in the community. Believes the project meets the goals of the comprehensive plan and meets the CUP criteria. Will be supporting this tonight. Tschetter: Great use of space with such a unique lot. Bringing a new business opportunity in the community and addressing a need. MOTION BY RINGSTAD, SECONDED BY YURKO TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION TO APPROVE A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT TO ALLOW AN ANIMAL HANDLING BUSINESS AT 6025 170TH STREET E SUBJECT TO THE LISTED CONDITIONS. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. D. PDEV24-000036 – 2523 Spring Lake RD SW – Variance - On behalf of the property owner, Taylor Tschida from Land & Resource Consulting, Inc. is requesting variances from the front yard setback, rear yard setback from the Ordinary High-Water level, and the maximum impervious surface coverage (PID 251310020) 5 Planner Moretto: Introduced the public hearing to consider a request for a variance from the zoning code for the construction of a single-family home. Moretto also gave a detailed explanation of the current neighborhood and where the average setbacks are for the neighborhood. Moretto explained the current circumstances, physical site characteristics, and is recommending approval of the variance. Commissioner Comments: None. Applicant: Jim Pierce 1795 Spring Lake Road: Thanked commissioners for the time and staff for putting together the report. Stated they spoke with the neighbors who were supportive of the project to improve the site. Tschetter: asked a question about the size of the house compared to the size of the lot. Appears to be a lot of house on a small lot. Pierce: Commented on the cost to purchase a property on the lake and desire to construct a house that would maintain value. MOTION BY YURKO SECONDED BY PASQUARETTE TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4D AT 6:54 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Johnson, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Public Comment: Jim Wenninger, 2591 Spring Lake Rd.: Discussed how long he has lived in the area, supports the project, feels it is reasonable and in keeping with the rest of the neighborhood. Josh Risberg, 12375 Danbury Way, Rosemount: Expressed support for the project. Commented on site design and applicant pushing the home toward the street to avoid lake impacts. Stated there is not an ability for a lower level due to the water table. Commented on current issues at the property and this project would be an improvement. MOTION BY TENNISON, SECONDED BY PASQUARETTE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON ITEM 4D AT 6:59 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Commissioner Questions and Comments Yurko: Commented on this being a great use for the property on a tricky site. Pasquarette: Great balance and moving in the right direction. Tennison: Appreciates the applicant taking neighbor feedback on the design on the house. This is an improvement in impervious surface. Intents to approve. Ringstad: Intend to vote yes on this new structure and reduction of impervious surface. Commented on the economic condition comment from earlier in the meeting, noting economic conditions are not a reason to approve a variance. House looks reasonable for a small lot and reduction of impervious surface is good. Tschetter: Commented on precedents and whether approvals follow existing precedent or create new precedent. He feels this is honoring the criteria requirements that must be met but also follows precedent of previous variance request on similar lakeshore lots. Setting the home back from the lake and reducing the impervious surface are positives. MOTION BY RINGSTAD, SECONDED BY TENNISON TO APPROVE THE REQUESTED VARIANCES FROM THE FRONT YARD AND SHORELAND SETBACK AND IMPEVIOUS SURFACE MAXIMUM TO 6 ALLOW A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME ON A PROPERTY IN THE R-1 SD (LOW DENSITY RESIDENTIAL SHORELAND) ZONING DISTRICT AT 2523 SPRING LAKE ROAD SW VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. 5. Old Business: A. PDEV24-000031 – 14535 Pine RD NE – REQUEST TO CONTINUE A PREVIOUSLY TABLED VARIANCE REQUEST – On October 28, 2024, the Board of Adjustment held a public hearing to consider a variance application from Warren Israelson for an encroachment in the side yard setback, rear yard setback, front yard setback, adjacent structure setback, and an increase in impervious surface above the maximum 30% allowance (PID 250400060). The applicant is requesting the item be continued to a future meeting. No Planning Commission / Board of Adjustment action related to the variance request anticipated on November 13, 2024. Moretto: provided a history of the variance application and requested this item be continued to a future meeting to allow the applicant to address comments received from the planning commission and public. MOTION BY TENNISON, SECONDED BY PASQUARETTE TO CONTINUE TO TABLE VARIANCE REQUEST UNTIL FUTURE MEETING. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. 6. New Business: None. 7. Announcements & Adjournment: McCabe: Reminded the commissioners about the joint City Council and Planning Commission work session on Tuesday November 26th and shared a reminder that the Commission is now on the winter meeting schedule so there will only be one meeting per month until March. The next meeting will be December 9th. MOTION BY RINGSTAD, SECONDED BY YURKO TO ADJOURN THE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2024, PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING AT 7:05 P.M. VOTE: Ayes by Ringstad, Pasquarette, Tschetter, Tennison and Yurko. Motion carried 5-0. Respectfully submitted, Megan Kooiman, Deputy Clerk / Administrative Assistant