The Planning Commission and Board of Adjustment of Brookings, South Dakota, met on April 2, 2024, at 5:30 PM in the City & County Government Center. The meeting addressed four variance requests, a rezoning petition, two preliminary plat proposals, and amendments to the Major Street Plan. All variances were approved; the rezoning, plats, and street plan amendments received positive recommendations to the City Council, with one commissioner voting against the Prairie Sunset Addition plat.
I will now call this meeting to order, and I would like to welcome all those in attendance at tonight's meeting. The City Planning Commission is a nine-member commission whose function is to make recommendations to the city council regarding requests for land use classification changes, subdivision plats, conditional use permits, zoning ordinance amendments, and other matters. The commission makes a recommendation based upon the adopted comprehensive plan for the physical development of the city of Brookings and the surrounding area. As a matter of policy, all motions are made in the positive. After a motion is moved and seconded, it is open for debate. Those supporting the motion shall, in turn, give their reasons. Those opposing the motion shall then offer their reasons. After everyone has been given a chance to be heard, the commission shall review the testimony and information presented, make findings of fact, and forward the recommendations to the city council. So on to tonight's agenda. Ryan, could you note the role for us? Roll as noted. Excellent. Item number two, approval of tonight's agenda. Um I'll entertain a motion for approval. So moved. Mills. Second. Motion and a second. Anything to add on the agenda? Questions, comments? Would all in favor please signify by saying aye? Aye. Aye. All opposed. Okay, move on to item three. This is the approval of uh last meeting's minutes. I'll entertain a motion for approval. So move solo. Second. A motion and a second. Any comments on the minutes. Seeing none, um signify by saying I. Thank you, Chair. The first item on the agenda is a variance for an accessory structure and a fence at 1007 Circle Drive. The applicant for the variance is the property owner Brad Schmidt. Zoning is a residence R1C single family district. There is a single family dwelling on the lot. And as you mentioned, the requests are for a zero-foot setback for an accessory structure and a zero foot setback for a six-foot fence. Section 94, 125.5 F. States at the minimum front yard and the R1C district is 25 feet. So in this case, they would have a 25-foot setback on both frontages to Circle Drive and Main Avenue. Section 94394A, an accessory building located upon a residential lot shall not be within five feet of any side or rear lot line. That does not apply in this case since we are discussing a front yard setback of 25 feet. Section 94 398 B two fences and walls up to six feet in height, maybe placed in a front yard opposite the street address of a lot abutting a local street where the lot is a double frontage lot, which in this case it is, and B, the fence or wall meets the minimum required setback of the district, the lot is located. And so that's where we would enforce the 25-foot setback. The lot in question is uh the yellow area 1007 circle drive, circle drive, uh the frontage on the east to the right, and then main avenue to the west in the rear. The applicant has submitted this uh following site plan. So the blue shaded box is the current uh single family dwelling. The uh yellowish colored uh just to the just down from that is where the garage and fence would need to be set back following the 25-foot setback ordinances. The red box would be the location of the garage and fence with a zero foot setback, and then the gray shaded area down from there would be where the driveway would be proposed.