Call tonight's meeting to order.

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As we begin our meeting this evening, I'll take a moment to acknowledge that we have a quorum of planning commissioners present with six of nine in attendance.

Commissioners Corcoran, Land and Bergida are unable to attend this evening.

Planning Commission meetings are an important part of the process for interpreting and applying the city's comprehensive plan and unified development ordinance.

It's important that our meetings are conducted with dignity and respect.

That applies to every person in attendance.

We strive to provide an atmosphere where the ideas and opinions of all participants are held in the highest regard.

And finally, the actions on the issues we discuss are ultimately under the responsibility of the city council.

As a planning commission, we're here to help the council as our elected representatives to be fully informed to make the best choices for our city.

By statute, the planning commission strives not to engage with any party on the issues on our agenda prior to our meeting.

Should that interaction take place as a result of a business relationship or any other interaction referred to as ex parte communication?

Commissioners will report that interaction when we reach that item on the agenda.

We'll now move on to the consent agenda.

And this evening we do have three items on our consent agenda.

The consent items that are listed are considered routine by the planning commission and may be approved in one motion.

There's no public hearing held for any of these items.

There will be no discussion unless the commissioner requests that a specific item be removed from the consent agenda and considered separately.

Commissioner, do you have any uh issues on the consent agenda that fall under the category that you'd like to pull for additional information or questions from staff?

Well, seeing none, I will call for a motion on the remaining on these items.

Do I have a motion for the consent agenda?

Mr.

Chairman, make a motion that we adopt the consent agenda as submitted by staff.

Thank you, Commissioner Tronis.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Thank you, Commissioner Chapman.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, nay.

That motion passes six to zero.

Move on now to our regular business, and this evening we do have one scheduled public hearing.

The first public public hearing is a request for the approval of rezoning for the row at Uptown, southeast of 133rd and Black Brob Road.

Mr.

Jury is here to present the case.

Welcome, Nathan.

Thank you, Chair.

No.

Okay.

All right.

Thank you, Chair.

Welcome again.

Good evening.

Nathan Jerry, Senior Planner.

Before you tonight is a request to rezone a property from the AG or the agricultural district to the PD or Plan District.

And also to approve a preliminary development plan for the proposed 133rd and Black Bob mixed use project, also being named as the row at Uptown.

The subject property is generally located at uh 133rd and Black Bob Road, highlighted in yellow on your screen, uh located at the southeast corner of that uh intersection.

Um it is five acres and does include an existing single family home on the property as well as some trees.

Um applicant is proposing um and requesting to rezone the site from the AG district uh to the PD district uh to allow them to pursue a mixed use development.

Uh the property is between commercial zoning and uses to the south uh and west as well, and residential zoning and uses to the north.

Um it's also adjacent to an AG zone property to the east that houses Evergy's substation.

Uh the plan district or PD zoning is not one that we use too often, so I do want to provide a little bit of uh explanation on this use or on this zoning district for the record.

Um the UDO does provide the PD district as an option to encourage innovative land planning and design that is not possible under conventional zoning districts.

Applicant is pursuing this PD district because conventional zoning does not allow for their requested townhome and commercial uses on the same zoned property.

Um so every plan district is unique.

The UDO does require, and this is because the UDO does require each PD to establish their own zoning standards applicable to just their lot.

So the applicant did submit their proposed zoning standards for your review in the document entitled the zoning design standards for the row at Uptown.

It's in your agenda packet.

The proposed standards do establish land uses, setbacks, site and building design, and other requirements as outlined in the PD district for or requirements for the UDO.

To go over some of that, I'll provide a high level overview of the proposed standards.

But the easiest way to walk you through that is really just to give you an overview of the site development plan as well at the same time.

So first and foremost, the applicant does want to create a walkable mixed use development that allows both commercial and residential uses.

The applicant is proposing to limit land uses on this property to those in the R3 district as well as those in the C1, except for a couple uses that don't necessarily make the most sense next to residential, being animal care with outdoor kennels, as well as drive-thru uses with the traffic and how tight the site is with all the drives being accounted for.

So that's their proposed uses.

In terms of their site development, they are proposing to provide two access drives off 133rd Street.

The development will install 133rd from Black Bob all the way to the east property line.

Full access will be requested on the far eastern drive with limited write-in, write out only access on the western drive closest to Black Bob.

Two commercial buildings are proposed on this project with a little over 5,000 square feet in commercial building area.

There are five three and four story townhome buildings with a total of 44 dwelling units.

And the development also includes three active open space areas as well.

For the proposed standards for the PD district, the applicant is proposing to provide a minimum amount of commercial area.

There's a maximum density of 12 units per acre as well.

They're also setting some building height, open space, and setback requirements that are typical in zoning districts as well.

And those generally just meet the, or those are all similar to existing zoning districts nearby, like commercial zoning districts typically allow that taller building and then the R4 district to the north as well, also allows like up for up to a four-story building.

The developer is also proposing some uh architecture standards just for their PD zoning, and these standards proposed do exceed our typical building design standards for commercial and residential buildings.

The developer does intend to require the French Renaissance architectural style to be used throughout the development.

In addition, they are committing to using 100% class one materials exceeding our UDO requirements, and also uh committing to a minimum amount of glass and other facade treatments that also exceed UDO.

Overall, these are great looking buildings that will be finished very nicely by the developer.

As for placemaking, the developer did provide some conceptual images of how they intend to finish the proposed active open space areas.

These areas will be finished in a way that exceeds our typical UDO requirements.

These images show everything from paving materials, lighting, uh street frig or outdoor furniture to be used throughout.

In addition, uh the the development will comply with landscape standards for typical UDO as well.

So overall, um, that's the PD as proposed with uh just a high level overview of their proposed standards.

Um, how does this really relate to the rezoning request before you tonight?

So in Elevate Aletha, the future land use map, uh the site is designated as community commercial um as a future land use.

Uh the proposed PD regulations uh do require that a minimum amount of commercial area is provided with this development, aligning with that future land use designation.

Um in addition, uh the proposal meets several elevate Aletha policies and goals, um, including two that I do want to highlight specifically.

Um 2.5 encourages uh mixed use development and commercial centers, and also HN 4.2 promotes the construction of missing middle housing and transitional areas.

Um so throughout the Elevate Olatha um update for the comprehensive plan, uh staff did receive a lot of feedback about housing and affordability.

And that was a common theme that was implemented throughout the comprehensive plan.

Um so this proposal does provide that missing middle housing uh in a transition area that is really between the community or the existing commercial to the south as well as future residential to the north.

And so staff staff does um see this fitting the comprehensive plan and its policies.

Overall, uh the the neighborhood and public notice requirements were met.

Um staff has not received any correspondence um from the public regarding this case.

And uh the request does meet the golden criteria as outlined in the staff report.

And staff recommends approval of the rezoning request with just one stipulation to comply with the proposed PD standards as far as the preliminary site development plan.

Um I will mention that in the published staff report um there was a uh stipulation regarding phasing.

Um and after discussion with applicant, we did want to clarify what a single phase of construction meant.

And so to in working with applicant, we worked on the wording for this, and we do want uh to revise that step to say a building permit must be issued for at least one commercial building prior to certificate of occupancy for the last residential building.

And that's agreeable with staff and the applicant as well.

Um so this item will be considered at the August 4th City Council, and I'll stand for any questions, and the uh applicant is also here to answer any questions if needed.

Thank you, Mr.

Jury.

Does the applicant plan on making a presentation at all?

No.

Okay.

All right, thank you very much.

Um Commissioners, do you have any questions for staff?

Commissioner Tronis.

I it's really a clarification uh for me.

I I think well, first of all, thank you for your presentation.

It was uh appreciated very much.

So tonight we're approving the rezoning and the preliminary development plan.

Correct?

It's a recommendation to city council who has the the final decision.

Okay, so we're not approving the preliminary site plan, just a rezoning request.

Correct.

Because yeah, the PDP is contingent on the zoning.

Okay.

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay.

Any additional questions for staff?

Sure.

Yeah.

Commissioner Chapman, go ahead.

Thank you.

Nathan, could you go back to the site plan?

Yeah.

Just a couple of questions.

Um the limited access out of the development onto 133rd Street, you show them uh uh a right-hand turn out.

Um to assume they will, if they want to get back onto Black Bob, they're going to do a U-turn there.

So that'll be right in right out.

If they want to get back on to Black Bob, they'll they'll be using, I'll take this maybe.

You mentioned a temporary roundabout, and I was just wondering, I didn't see that anywhere on the diagrams.

Uh, if they would be able to use a temporary round out, roundabout, in other words, head east on 133rd, do the roundabout to get back out onto Blackbob.

I'm just trying to get it clear in my mind a right turn out of the development there.

Okay.

It just seems like if I'm going out of that development, my initial thought is I'm just going to do a U-turn as quickly as I can to get back out onto Black Bob.

Yeah.

There will be a uh cul de sac at the very end of the street for future extensions.

So they could, if if they were eastbound on 133rd, they could use that cul-de-sac to be able to do that.

Okay, so the CODSAC will allow them to do these.

Yes.

Or if they wanted to, if they're internal to the site already, um they could use their full access to turn on to uh 133rd going west.

Okay.

All right.

And then one of just one other question, uh, on street parking within the development itself.

I see looks like there's five or six stalls there just to the right of the commercial development.

Um people visiting uh are these streets able to handle that because these these driveways look like they're fairly close together.

I don't know how much space is actually in between the driveways, and I'm just looking at a situation uh is the assumption that visitors will be parking on the driveways, will they park it in the streets?

Um it doesn't seem like there's a lot of um on-street parking that's uh set up for this development.

So typically um the townhomes are providing the required at least uh one and a half stalls or two stalls per um they're providing two-car garage and then enough space in front of that garage to park another two cars.

So there's enough space to park four cars, um, whereas only two are required for every townhome unit.

In addition, that commercial area is providing more parking than the is required for uh a general commercial use.

Um I'll let the developer speak to how they want to to uh um uh handle parking requirements and restrictions within their own private development, um, but there is enough parking uh between the commercial and uh the uh town home units themselves to provide parking for this whole mixed-use development.

Okay.

And then just one final question.

This is probably a a broader question.

Um Nathan, maybe not for you, but for uh for really traffic control.

This 133rd has been sitting there forever to be developed, and we're beginning to develop it now.

And eventually I assume it's gonna connect to 133rd on the east.

Um and everyone there is going to be able at some point uh uh to get out onto Black Bob from 133rd Street.

You can go straight across, you can go, you know, go right, go left uh out coming out of this uh 133rd Street onto Black Bob.

Is there um are there plans for traffic control at this location at some point in the future?

I mean, where where are we on that?

In terms of 130 right on black bob.

Yeah, 133rd and black bob.

I believe there's stop light plans.

Yeah, I was gonna ask that same question.

I believe there was the stoplight included with the development to the north, which is much larger that was part of that um when it was voted on and approved.

But I I was kind of going to question whether the timing of that um would change or if it would be dependent on the larger pre-development that goes to the north.

Yeah, Chad Belcher, Chief Community Development Engineer or Officer.

Uh we do not have anything in the CIP for that light, and this with only 44 units, it doesn't uh meet the threshold to warrant a um and you're exactly right, Wayne.

Uh Chair Janner that the units to the north were around 600 units that are approved.

So those would be a current event for that traffic signal.

Okay.

All right.

Okay, good.

That's all I have.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Good question.

Uh any other questions for staff.

Well, seeing none, um I will move on uh now and open up the public hearing.

Uh we do have one person signed up for the public hearing.

Um Mr.

Morris, if you want to make your way up to the podium, um you'll be here.

You'll have a uh five-minute timer across that you can see uh uh opposing you uh for your time to speak.

Uh if you'll state your name and address for the record.

Um then the floor will be yours.

Charles Morris 15122 132nd place.

Olafha.

We live in the Yorkshire subdivision, which is at the top of that uh map there.

And uh we I we've I've lived there for 38 years.

And we've always had problems getting out on Black Bob.

We have no other way of getting out except for on Black Bob.

And it is really tough.

And when Marge vote was in the council, she promised that we would have a light at 133rd Street when that development starts going in.

And I noticed on the plans that 133rd Street does not go straight through.

There's a jog around the townhomes in order to get to extended on.

And uh I don't know how they're gonna get a st uh uh light there now.

If uh with a jog in there and the roundabout, that would I don't know how that would ever work.

But um that's and also I noticed on the on the plans, this development is on actually four different plots.

Um mostly the AG farm.

And also part of it is on the fourth ridge partners plots.

And I don't know if that is the same person that owns both of those LLCs or not.

And uh about a year ago, this lot there was some um warehouses proposed there.

We had we talked about this at the Oletha Public Library about a year ago, and so I don't know what happened to that plan.

And that's really all I could say.

Thank you.

All right, thanks for your time.

With no one else uh scheduled to speak, I will entertain a motion to close the public hearing.

Mr.

Chair, I move to close the public hearing.

Thank you, Commissioner Sealing.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Thank you, Commissioner Breen.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, nay.

Uh moving on then.

Uh public hearing is now closed.

Uh is there any additional discussion needed for this item?

Seeing none, I will call for a motion on the item RZ 26-0005.

Mr.

Chair, I move to approve this item RZ26005 as presented by staff.

Thank you, Commissioner Sealing.

Do I have a second?

A second with the clarification of the revised stipulation.

Uh that was as presented.

Okay.

No objections from staff.

That's um perfectly okay.

All right, Ms.

Will, will you take a roll call vote, please?

Commissioner Breen.

Yes.

Commissioner Brown?

Yes.

Commissioner Toronto.

Yes.

Commissioner Chapman?

Yes.

Commissioner Sealing?

Yes.

Chair Janner.

Um I'll just take a moment to say that, you know, once this area continues to be development, obviously it's going to be impacted more by the large uh development to the north.

I encourage council to uh take a very close look at the traffic patterns there and uh create make sure that we are addressing the needs there that uh are s need to be laid out for uh the increased density in the area.

That being said, um, you know, to Mr.

Felter, I love this plan.

You know, based on what we went through before, I know that wasn't quite what the city was looking for.

Um and we had rejected a prior plan for this law, but uh I think this is great for this area, and I'm um I'm looking forward to it, and I'm glad to vote uh yes as well.

That motion passes six to zero.

All right, thank you.

City, uh do you have any amounts for us this evening?

Uh just one.

So just a reminder, if we talked about it last meeting, there will be a uh work session tomorrow night for the budget starts at 5.30.

We'll be talking about uh general fund um the vertical and horizontal projects the line in the library fund.

So everyone's welcome to attend starts at 5.30 and it'll be at the police headquarters.

All right.

Thank you.

Would you would you say that again, please?

Yeah, tomorrow night we have the budget workshop for the first budget workshop.

It's general funds, so anything that's not uh franchise fees or location, uh police headquarters over 56.

Yep.

Thank you.

Yeah, glad you brought that up because over the next uh several weeks there will be uh many budget workshops that are of course open to the public and encourage you to be engaged in the process.

It's uh there's a lot to it, a lot to think about, and uh uh input is welcome as well.

So thank you very much.

If there's nothing else, uh this meeting is here by adjourn.