Welcome.

Welcome to this regular meeting of the Broxburg Planning Commission.

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And with that, I'll call this meeting to order and could we have a roll call, please.

Mr.

Jones?

Mr.

Lane Grayer.

Mrs.

Jones.

Ms.

Munning.

Here.

Mr.

Cassoff present.

I'm Mr.

Ford.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Moving on, we'll address our consent agenda, and that would be the approval of the Planning Commission units from December 5th, 2017.

And then also a request to resone 5.98 acres at 801, 803 airport road, which will be heard the action to be scheduled public hearing on February 6th, and then also rezoning RZM 17009, a request to rezone approximately 6.69 acres at 712 Church Street from R5 Transitional Residential Zoning District to a planned residential zoning district for seven income restricted townhomes by habitat for humanity.

And the action there would be to schedule a public hearing for February 6, 2018.

Do we have a motion?

I move.

All those in favor?

Second.

Aye.

Aye.

Passed unanimously.

With that, we'll move on to our public hearing.

Today we'll be listening to rezoning requests 17008 ordinance 1854 Hearthstone Apartments.

Request to resone 3.729 acres at 116 and 120 Hearthstone Drive from RM48 medium density multi-unit residential to planned residential zoning by district.

Do we have a staff presentation?

Yes, thank you.

Great.

This is a request to rezone approximately 3.729 acres total in two parcels by Hearthstone LLC at 116 and 120 Hearthstone Drive.

The current zoning is RM48, which is our medium density multi-unit residential zoning district.

Some background on this particular piece of property.

It is an existing apartment development.

This parcel will be incorporated into the larger hearthstone development.

The parcel or the entire project site is outlined in yellow, and you can see in green in the center of the picture here that single parcel that will be incorporated into the larger Hearthstone parcel.

Zooming in a bit, we can see the phase one and phase two development in red with potential future redevelopment areas shown in blue.

Rather, the existing zoning would allow for up to 180 bedrooms at a maximum density of 48 bedrooms per acre.

Phase one and two request is for a total of 154 bedrooms per acre, which is approximately 41 bedrooms per acre.

As we discussed the need and the justification for the change for the planning for the planned residential district intent.

The existing RM48 zoning does not accommodate the allowable density with one to two bedroom units as a product of the floor to area ratio, which I will discuss later in this presentation.

The planned residential district is sought for flexibility with the floor to area ratio in order to develop these types of units which are scarce in town.

The Hearthstone community does have a very demographic and is largely comprised of non-undergraduate students.

The applicant is utilizing rainwater harvesting for a net reduction in stormwater runoff.

The phase one redevelopment does feature structured parking.

And the development does have an existing 0.77 parking spaces per bedroom ratio, which is appropriate given the location, access to transit, and the demographic of the population.

The chart on the screen shows the kind of the parameters and the existing conditions at 116 Hearthstone Drive and 120 Hearthstone Drive, showing the number of existing bedrooms, allowable bedrooms, and then the demolition and construction requests that is that is for phase one and phase two.