The Planning and Zoning Commission met on August 6, 2026, at 7:00 PM in Columbia City Hall. The meeting covered six cases including subdivisions, a planned development, and two short-term rental conditional use permits. The Commission voted on each case with detailed discussion on infrastructure, traffic safety, and neighborhood density.
Good evening. I will now call the August sixth, twenty twenty-sixth meeting of the planning and zoning commission to order. Commissioner Brodsky, may we please have a roll call. We may. Thank you. We all are uh sorry, Rusty, you're I was gonna say Mr. Zinner, but you're not Mr. Zinner. Are there any changes to our agenda this evening? Uh nope, there are not. Thank you, Mr. Palmer. Uh is there a motion to approve the agenda? Move to approve the agenda. Second. Moved by Commissioner Gray, seconded by Commissioner Stanton. Approval on the agenda. Unanimous thank you. We all received a copy of the July twenty-third, twenty twenty-six regular meeting minutes. Are there any changes or adjustments to the minutes? Seeing none, is there a motion to approve? Move to approve the minutes. Moved by Commissioner Gray and seconded by Commissioner Darrell. Is there a thumbs up approval of the minutes? Um real quick on the public notice front here. Um directly south of like the parquet shopping center. So uh and then uh another uh point of reference would be Hickman High School just kind of halfway on and off the page on the top right. So it's uh sorry, I got multiple mouses, mice here to deal with, so not used to that. Uh so as you said, or as I said, the subject sites in the northeast corner of Sexton and Jefferson, it's currently zoned R2, and it is currently vacant. Uh the BOA approved optional cottage development standards on July 14th. Um so as we all know, the cottage standards uh reduce the R2 dimensional standards. Uh and the purpose would be to allow general density and infill development uh scenarios. Uh it would allow a minimum lot size or maximum let me back up minimum lot size, sorry, of uh 3,000 square feet and a minimum lot width of 30 feet. Uh we do often find that those are not uh uh where those lots are coming in. Uh they they typically are somewhere around the 40 foot mark. Uh and you see that echoed here in a minute. Um the front and rear setbacks uh minimums are then reduced to 10 feet, and again, um most of our cottage development uh is not coming in at the minimum. Uh and we'll see that again here too. Uh so I've already made uh proposed lots on this uh preliminary plat are between 55 and 70 feet wide. Um the 70-foot wide lot being the south lot, and a lot of that's taken up in corner truncation. So that full frontage is not uh uh usable for driveway access. So that's the reason for the extra width on that one. Um they are also uh somewhere between 65 and 68 feet deep. It kind of ranges from uh narrower on the south end and wider on the top end. The two lot lines, the front and rear lot lines are not exactly parallel to one another. So that's the reason for that. And uh because of the varied lot uh dimensions, you have lots here between 35 and 4500 square feet, so well above the 3,000 square foot minimum again. These uh on the preliminary plat are shown to have a 20-foot building line along uh both street frontages. Um again that's uh in excess of what is required in the cottage standards, and that's basically a developer imposed restriction on the plates so that the houses that would be built on these lots uh begin to mimic the setbacks that already exist on both of those frontages, um the existing homes to the north and to the east. Uh there's a uh 10 foot of additional right-of-way dedicated uh along with uh a corner truncation there for Jefferson Street.