WOODS CROSS CITY PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING The minutes of the Woods Cross City Planning Commission meeting held March 27, 2018 at 6:30 P.M. in the Woods Cross City Hall located at 1555 South 800 West, Woods Cross, Utah. CONDUCTING: PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT: Jennifer Bassarear Dan Bradford Eric Jones Ryan Larsen Curtis Poole STAFF PRESENT: Tim Stephens, Community Development Director Bonnie Craig, Secretary VISITORS: Lois Schrader Don Schrader LeGrande Blackley Ryan Kirkham Alicia Gardner Tyler Bodrero Jerry Stevenson PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: Leo Beecher MINUTE APPROVAL Chairman Beecher called for approval of the minutes for the Planning Commission meeting held February 27, 2018. Following the review of the minutes by the Commission, Commissioner Poole made a motion to approve the minutes as written with Commissioner Bassarear seconding the motion and the motion carried. OPEN SESSION Chairman Beecher then opened the meeting to items from those present that they would like to bring before the Commission that were not on the agenda. There were no items for the open session and Chairman Beecher closed the open session.
PAGE 2 SWENSON APIARY CONDITIONAL USE 926 WEST 900 SOUTH CLIFF & ZAK SWENSON Mr. Stephens, the Community Development Director, reviewed this item with the Commission. He noted that the applicants are proposing to keep bees at their residence in the R-1-8 Single Family Residential Zone. He noted that apiaries are a conditional use within this zone. The zoning ordinance allows 2 colonies of bees on a parcel of ¼ acre or less. Chairman Beecher called for the applicant for this item to come forward. There was no one present at the meeting and Chairman Beecher asked the Commission how they felt about moving forward with approving this item without anyone here representing the item. The Commission discussed it and said they felt like it was fine to move ahead with the approval as this agenda item, as this type of item would be an administrative item in the near future. Commissioner Poole then made a motion to approve the Swenson Apiary conditional use permit for up to 2 colonies of bees. Commissioner Jones seconded the motion and all voted for the motion through a roll call vote. ALL ABOUT BEAUTY HOME OCCUPATION 1409 WEST 2200 SOUTH ALICIA GARDNER Mr. Stephens then noted for the Commission that this applicant is proposing a business in which she will provide haircuts, hair color, nail polishing, and waxing. She will be using a room approximately 200 square feet in an area in her basement where she has installed a hair sink. Ms. Alicia Gardner then came before the Commission to answer any questions they might have for her. The Commission asked her if she would have any other employees and she said no she would not. The Commission asked her if she was okay with the conditions as outlined and she said she was good with all of them. The Commission also noted that if there were to be any complaints regarding her business operations from her neighbors, she would have to come back and address the Commission. Ms. Gardner said she understood that she would have to report back to the Commission if there were any problems with the adjacent neighbors. After the discussion, Commissioner Bassarear made a motion to approve the home occupation for All About Beauty and Ms. Alicia Gardner with the following conditions: 1. Business operation shall not negatively impact the neighborhood. 2. Applicant s business operation shall be in conformance at all times with any government agency having jurisdiction over the subject property or the business operation.
PAGE 3 Commissioner Larsen seconded the motion and the motion carried. PUBLIC HEARING SHAMROCK VILLAGE PHASE I FINAL PLAT 1950 SOUTH REDWOOD ROAD NATE SHIPP Mr. Stephens then noted for the Commission that a few weeks ago the Commission had approved a preliminary plat for the Shamrock Subdivision with four conditions. He noted that now Shamrock is seeking final plat approval for phase I of their subdivision which consists of six lots. He also noted there are three parcels. Parcel A, with the recordation of the plat, shall be dedicated to Woods Cross City and maintained by Woods Cross City. Parcel B is also a portion of the A-1 Drain fronting Redwood Road but also in the required 40-foot landscape setback for the subdivision. Parcel B will be dedicated to the city but maintained by the HOA as part of the Redwood Road open space setback requirement. Parcel C is exclusively part of the Redwood Road setback open space area which will be owned and maintained by Shamrock HOA. The open space portion of the place will be landscaped and will include a six-foot, solid vinyl fence installed along the north boundary of the six lots in addition to the east boundary of lot 106. Mr. Stephens went on to note that Development Associates is completing a school/construction traffic plan for this first phase. It appears that construction work on the first phase will have a smaller, limited impact to pedestrian or vehicular traffic to and from the school twice a day. This phase is all located east of the school. The plan will more likely involve prohibiting construction traffic west of the subdivision phase and require all construction traffic to enter and leave via the 1950 South/Redwood Road intersection, thus avoiding any conflicts with students crossing the street. Mr. Stephens said that the applicant has requested to come before the Planning Commission for recommendation of the Shamrock Village Subdivision understanding there are several items, many of them minor that need to be resolved with staff, such as: Review and approval of the pedestrian school/construction traffic plan. Minor corrections to the plat and construction drawings for the city engineer. Removal or modification of a Bureau of Reclamation (Federal Easement) that impacts the backyards or north sides of lots 102 through 106. (This appears to be an easement associated with the A-1 Drain that, many decades ago, may have been located slightly in error from the drain. It does not impact the ability of these lots to be developed or houses placed on them but is somewhat a burden to future homeowners that would like to locate a shed or accessory building in the backyard. The rear yards will be encumbered by the standard 10-foot public utility easement; however, this larger 36-foot drainage easement to the United States increases the impact. As such, it may take an act of congress to adjust or eliminate this easement but this should be pursued.)
PAGE 4 Following the review by the Community Development Director, Mr. Nate Shipp appeared before the Commission. He said he was happy to answer any questions the Commission may have regarding phase I of this project. The Commission asked Nate if the lots could be sold if the easement could not be vacated. Mr. Shipp said the lots could be sold and that the restrictions because of the easement would just affect those home owners who would possibly like to put some sort of accessory building such as a shed, in the easement. At this point in the meeting Chairman Beecher opened the meeting for a public hearing. There were no public comments for the public hearing regarding this issue and Chairman Beecher closed the public hearing. Commissioner Curtis then made a motion to forward the Planning Commission s recommendation to the City Council for approval of this item with the following conditions: 1. That final engineering issues be resolved. 2. The school/construction traffic plan be reviewed and approved by the staff with review and comment from Odyssey Elementary School staff. 3. The 36-foot drainage easement to the Bureau of Reclamation and United States Government be removed, vacated, or modified, if possible, to limit impact to lots 102 through 106. Commissioner Larsen seconded the motion and the motion carried. OUTSIDE STORAGE REGULATIONS DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION TIM STEPHENS Mr. Stephens then noted that since the work session that the Planning Commission held with the City Council regarding outside storage, the staff and city attorney had held discussions and reviewed possible options or modifications to the outside storage amendment proposal. He said they had discussed concepts of specific distance separation requirements from residential zone boundaries, solid block screening walls around the entire perimeter of outside storage, and landscape screening perimeters. He went on to say that the city attorney is condensing this information into a modified amendment for the Commission to consider. The Commission looked at the changes made to the document by the city attorney and discussed some of the things they would still like changed or modified. They said they would like to have staff look at the document again with the changes that had been recommended and discussed by the Planning Commission and then look at a final draft when those changes were made. Mr. Jerry Stevenson, a business owner who has an interest in the outside storage issues because of some property he owns that has some land use restrictions, was also at the meeting. He also
PAGE 5 noted some of his concerns about the language in the draft of the outside storage regulations. He said he has lost customers again because of the restrictions to his property and he hopes that some sort of resolution can be reached in the near future for the outside storage regulations so he can move forward with the development of his property. Mr. Stephens said he would send the document back to the city attorney with the suggested changes and get a final draft back to the Commission for their review. Commissioner Poole left the meeting at this point. CITY COUNCIL REPORT Council Member Terry was at another meeting tonight so he was unable to report on the City Council meeting held February 20, 2018. Please see the minutes of that meeting for the details of that meeting. GENERAL AND PENDING There were no items for general and pending. ADJOURNMENT There being no further business before the Planning Commission, Commissioner Jones made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 7:50 P.M. Bonnie S. Craig, Secretary