The Planning & Zoning Commission convened on March 6, 2025, at 7:00 PM at Village Hall to hold a public hearing on a variance request for a parking lot at Farmington Lakes Park and to approve the minutes from the previous meeting.
Uh in fact you want to start with appliance appear even if you've got a guess uh we can add the connection with flexible supplies are okay like to call order this meeting of the uh Swegel Planning and Zoning Commission Roll call please and Bradshaw here Tom Collins here Lisa Hillman Rick Coon here Andre McCallum Charlie Pager Joel Pyle Justin Sather Brian Thomas Um First Item on our agenda is review and approval of the minutes from our January 9th meeting if anyone can remember back two months um if no one has any adjustments changes or corrections and motion to approve would be in order. Motion second roll call please Tom Collins Lisa Hillman Rick Coon Yes Andrew McCallum, yes, Charlie Pager, yes, Joel Pyle, Justin Sather, Brian Thomas. And it's approved. Only item on our agenda is a public hearing for Farmington Lakes parking lot variants, project 1242.25. A motion to open the public hearing would be in order. Motion seconded. Roll call, please. Tom Collins, Lisa Hillman, Rick Coon, Andrew McCallum, Charlie Pager, Joel Pyle, Justin Sather, Brian Thomas. Public hearing is now open. Thank you. As Chairman Pager noted, the only item before you this evening is a public hearing for a variance request made by the S. Wegaland Park District. As part of a number of site improvements at the Farmington Lakes Park, they are proposing a parking lot with 23 spaces, and they are requesting to vary from section 8.605 of the subdivision and development regulations, which requires curb and gutter around all parking lots. The village engineer has reviewed this proposal and has determined that stormwater will naturally flow into the rain garden surrounding the parking area and will not negatively affect any neighboring properties. Staff recommends approval of the request for variance to allow a parking lot without curb and gutter. Please also note that we have provided the full site plan showing the improvements planned at Farmington Lakes Park. The remainder of these improvements have been reviewed by staff and consultants through the site plan review process, which only requires staff review and approval. The applicants are here this evening to answer any questions, as is staff. Thank you. Does anyone have any questions for the park district? Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to speak on this topic? Seeing no one, I would entertain a motion to close the public hearing. Roll call, please. Tom Collins, yes, Lisa Hillman, Rick Coon. Yes. And McCallum. Yes. Charlie Pager. Yes. Joel Pyle. Justin Sather, Brian Thomas. Public hearing is now closed. Do members have any questions? Um I have a question. So the fact that we're removing curbs, right, and you're putting um parking blocks, right, at each of all the parking spots. What is to stop cars driving off that portion of the parking lot at the bottom left out into the lawn? Is there an idea maybe parking blocks will be put there to stop cars from backing out and driving in? What's usually done in that scenario? If you would please identify yourself for the record. Yeah, so the end of the parking lot there, um, that is where the water is going to she drain into the rain garden. So there it will be kind of a planted area as well as the turf. So it it won't be very um easily accessed for a vehicle to drive through there. So you're saying there's a bullshit. Correct. Right. And we've also talked about even increasing the amount of trees, put those on the as as a visual barrier to the end of the parking lot. Correct. Yeah, we've just did this at uh asked for a variance at Bluegrass and as well as at Andover recently as well. Questions. My only question is uh when will all this be done?