The Brookings Planning Commission met on July 2, 2024, at 5:30 PM in the Chambers Room of the Brookings City & County Government Center. The commission approved two variance requests, endorsed a revised preliminary plat, a rezone, and a conditional use permit for a townhome development, and tabled a final development plan for a commercial project pending further consideration of a drive-through lane.
We're gonna go ahead and resume the meeting. Okay, item 4K. This is the RAM variance. Notice this here by given that Chancel RAM has made a request for a variance on lot three and block 16 continuous line edition, also known as 15 scheme trail. The request is for a 10-foot driveway expansion for a total of 32 feet in width. And request is to expand the driveway within the front yard. This is a corner lot, like we've seen similar variance requests this year. It's corner lots, and the request is to expand driveway towards the secondary front yard in this case right road. Section 94 343 B4 describes um driveway allowances expansion possibilities. So the driveway, subsection A, the driveway expanded portion of the matching garage that has a width of 246 feet. Subsection B stand with the driveway to the minimum front yard setback area driveway inside block by basically high wall and hashtag all three garages that have door space in the street. Here is a proposed site plan for driveway expansion. So the bottom would be steamboat trail to the left would be right mode. The garage is located on kind of a corner portion of the lot trail and right road east side of the property. Maximum for driver was 32. Option recommendation for doesn't have the following options approved as presented, amend denied, paper. Having heard that, I'll contain a motion for approval of this item and you can specify whether or not that includes the staff recommendations. Sure. Move to approve including the stack or second meeting. Okay, we've got a motion and a second. And so we will uh go ahead and open this up to public testimony. Um anybody's here to speak in favor of this motion, or if the applicant is available and wants to say any words uh concerned forward. I don't know if it's I don't know. I've um basically we just want to do it. We want to get a vehicle off the road right now. We have a truck that we have to periodically move just because it's we can't leave it sit there for more than 72 hours. So and then we also want to build something to hide our trash cans and have it easily be able to move to the end of the road. So any questions for the asking one of the uh table for the chocolate part, what's they are now is it grass? Isn't it? Yeah, it's just grass and then a little bit of landscaping rock next to it. Concrete, just like the rest of the driveway. Yep. Have you thought about if it's going to produce any comments in the drainage? It shouldn't because it should help bring the water to the road instead of only concern that's the three training. I don't believe it should, but when we're concrete guys there, we'll make sure that it doesn't. Because yeah, we don't want it to pull next to the house, and we don't want it, yeah. Because actually, right now we have a lot of standing water there after it rains anyways. So we need to kind of get it graded right anyways. So thank you. Are there others present tonight that like speaking support? Okay, seeing none, are there uh any folks available that like speaking opposition? Okay, again, seeing none. Uh we'll close public testimony. Uh just to clarify we're dealing with both various requests. Mr. Chair, yes. Uh can you go to the drive? Yeah. I just want to clear something clarify okay. That three B.