The Kearney City Council met on October 8, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. in City Council Chambers. The council conducted public hearings on two rezoning and development plan applications, unanimously approved a consent agenda including multiple routine items and a salary ordinance, and received an informational presentation from Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) on a 115 kV transmission line project.
Thank you. Now join us in a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. In accordance with section 841412, the Nebraska revised statutes the current copy of the open meetings act is available for review and is posted on the wall of the council chambers. Will you take roll, please? Mayor Klaus. Bush Cutter. Present. Nicola Absent Moore. Yeah. Okay, we have no oral communication, no unfinished business. So we'll move right in public hearings one and two, and they can be discussed together but voted on separately. And they pertain to the application submitted by Leafly and Powers Brown Architecture, the applicant for GSE Carney for property located at 1122 Avenue B, Planning Commission recommended approval. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. Thanks for letting me come tonight and present. So I represent Leafly as the applicant and Joe, our landlord is uh as the owner of the building. Um Tom Murphy with Center Point Integrated Solutions, and that's why I'm representing Lee Fly, who's powers Brown architects and Kimley as well. We're seeking rezoning from the M1 limited industrial to M1 plan development and a deviation from the code for the setback along Avenue A, which we would take from 25 feet to 12 and a half feet. If we look at the existing properties since uh here so since 1983, we at least this 6500 square foot uh pre-engineered metal building, and sometime we added this modular unit on there, and then uh we came in uh 19. I'm sorry, in 2017, and we said, hey, can we put this temporary little uh portable distribution center on there for peak season in October and take it off in January? And as they pointed out to me at the planning commission, that's been sitting there ever since then. So apologize for that on behalf of UPS. Um we uh had a discussion with the DRT. Thanks, Melissa, and they had some suggestions for things that would enhance our ability to do the rezone and to get the uh the deviation in the setback. So our planned improvements then would be that so we're gonna add this permanent uh addition to that modular unit. It will be 12 and a half feet off of this the the uh right of way there, the setback. So we will add, well, first of all, we'll fix all the curbs and sidewalks that uh all our trucks have busted up over the years. We'll put in three 35 foot wide concrete driveways, permanent driveways, landscape, everything in between, grass and irrigation, and we're gonna add seven nice trees and then a bunch of bushes. We are going to put in a hundred and thirty linear feet of PVC fence to help uh screen that from our residential neighbors to the north and take our uh trash bin that's out there and put a nice uh closed enclosure down at that end of the property. That's what any questions have any any questions on that. Well, the one comment from a neighbor was um Mr. Babel and he had a little discussion about sight lines with the landscaping. Has that been addressed? Have we kind of figured out how to handle that? It's something that I know during the building permit process that they will look at because of the trees are at access points and um I suppose not too close to an intersection to access points onto the site. So something that tree type, all of that will be taken into consideration. Yes, okay, yep. And that'll be addressed at that time then. Yeah, so that's that's what's in questions, not the buildings, it's uh landscaping. That was Mr. Babel's thought, yes. Okay, and we agreed with him that when we get our driveways in here, we're gonna quit uh in using an encroaching on his personal driveway over there. Okay, uh any other questions from council. Okay, this is a public hearing. Does anyone uh in the audience wish to address public hearings one and two okay? Do we have a motion then? I move to close public hearing one and move for the adoption of ordinance number eighty-six ninety-seven rezoning property located at 1122 Avenue B from District M1 Limited Industrial District to District M1 PD, limited industrial district, plan development overlay district, and that's a statutory law requiring reading of ordinances on three successive days be suspended that ordinance number 8697 be read by number only and then placed on final passage.