I'd like to call to order this planning and zoning commission meeting on this Thursday, July second, two thousand twenty-six.

And could uh Sarah could we please have roll call?

Yes.

Commissioner Perry.

Here.

Commissioner Holland.

He has an excused absence.

Commissioner Leonard.

And he has an excused absence.

Chair Chapman.

Here.

Vice Chair Spada.

Here.

Commissioner Everett.

Here.

Commissioner Bash.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Okay, thank you.

Could you please join me in the stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the recall, which is one nation.

Okay, thank you.

Then we'll go with our first uh consent agenda item is a number one, sir.

Consideration and action to approve or disapprove the June eighteenth, twenty twenty-six planning and zoning commission meeting minutes.

I move to approve the June eighteenth, twenty twenty-six planning and zoning second regular meeting minutes.

And we have Leslie, our presenter way over here.

Okay.

Good evening, Chair.

Commissioners.

The item before you is the um 163rd Avenue and Happy Valley Rezone.

Case number FS25001.

The site is generally located on the southeast corner of 163rd Avenue and Happy Valley Road.

The current zoning is rural residential.

The parcels to the west and south are also zoned rural residential.

Zoning to the north is high density residential, and to the west of 163rd Avenue is a Sante PAD.

The request is to rezone to community commercial, which is C2.

The site lies in the neighborhood character area, which supports the development of local orientated commercial uses.

This proposed development will provide neighborhood scale commercial uses that are strategically located at the intersection of two arterial roadways.

This table represents the development standards.

Um project will adhere to from the LDO.

A site plan will be reviewed for conformance with all applicable city codes.

This is the most uh recent uh site plan that has been submitted.

Um you'll see they take access, they have one driveway on Happy Valley, one driveway on 163rd.

Both of those driveways are um existing and they are right in right out.

Uh the proposal is for a terribles gas station uh with two additional pads for either a restaurant or retail use.

A neighborhood meeting was held on April 1st.

There were four residents in attendance.

Um they expressed concerns over traffic and just overall cons uh circulation in that area.

If the commission wishes to recommend approval of the rezone, the um staff is also uh recommending approval subject to stipulations A and B.

Concludes my presentation.

Uh the applicant and the owner of the project are both in attendance to answer questions as well.

Okay, thank you.

Um this does call for a public hearing, so I'd like to open that public hearing, sir.

Do we have anyone that would like to speak?

No, Chair.

Okay, we'll close the public hearing and any questions from the commission.

Yes, Commissioner Perry.

Uh thank you, Chair Chapman.

Uh I've had a couple of uh residents ask me questions, and hopefully they're tuning in.

And uh and it and the the two issues, uh they aren't issues.

Uh the two questions were first of all looking at 163rd and what has been uh spoken about in terms of planning for service or for gas stations starting at Joe Max and going down to Grand of announcements coming up.

Uh their question was um how how do you determine that there's a gas station needed in that area?

And you may not have an answer to that, but uh when they asked me, I explained to the citizens that uh it's that the the city doesn't regulate what type of business goes in where we're much more interested in that it uh conforms with ordinances for the zoning there.

Uh and I didn't know how to answer that question.

So I don't know if any of the folks in the audience uh that are here uh could answer that.

If you want to answer, could you please uh come to the microphone then I'd just like to help to could you please say your name and who you represent?

Yeah, I'm Matt Stevenson.

I'm one of the owners of the property.

Uh so I am not the developer for the ultimate uh project of Terribles gas station, but we work really closely with them.

Um and so I can uh give you a little bit of information about what their thoughts are on that competitive nature of gas stations in the area.

And the way that they've explained it to us is that they they don't uh they don't take into account really the saturation of of gas stations in an area because their product is so different from most of the other products out there.

So they're kind of uh I mean I I I won't I won't say that they're on Bucky's level, but they're they're uh they're kind of like a step above a QT.

So you know it's it's a really really premier high-end uh gas station where people can actually go and have other services other than filling up their car.

So they don't uh mind if there's a chevron up the street or a circle K down the street.

Um it's a different product, plus there's a car wash attached to it.

So uh when I've asked them about that same question, that was the response that they gave me.

Is that helpful to what you were asking?

It's it's fine again.

Uh it's more informational of that a resident had asked me, and I promised them that I'd bring the question forward.

Yeah, thank you.

You're welcome.

And then uh the uh a second question, which may be for someone else, and I think this also came up at the neighborhood meeting.

Uh there's a lot of the community uh in that area uh is rural residential, and they have uh trailers, uh horse trailers and other vehicles, uh some uh some of that type of equipment.

Um has there been any planning in terms of this service station in terms of being able to service that population in terms of turning radiance and widths and things of that nature.

This is Matt Stevenson again.

Um so I believe that comment was raised at the neighborhood meeting, if I'm not mistaken, and and when we were there, I think we uh we explained to that gentleman that that for that type of service, it doesn't fit on that on that parcel um for something that's particular to long trailers and horse trailers, semi-trailers, that type of thing.

Now there is still access for semis to pull through and have proper access to the site, so it can still be done, but in terms of like a dedicated, you know, when you have a a service station that has dedicated trailer lanes, um, it doesn't fit on a small parcel like that.

So there's nothing dedicated for it, but of course, all of the access is still maintained that you can still pull through if somebody really wanted to, they could service uh a vehicle that had a long trailer on it.

It could be done.

It's just not directly set up for that.

Thank you, sir, and thank you, Chair.

Okay.

Commissioner.

Thank you so much, Chair.

Um, there were four residents in attendance at the meeting, and I think Kevin and I were two of those.

Um, I I just want to say that I think this project is needed very much so.

You're going to get a lot of folks off of Happy Valley to that location, as well as people from the north come down 163rd and take Happy Valley, avoiding the oh so exciting 163rd and grand.

So I think this is needed.

I see myself using this service station rather than going further uh south.

So I just appreciate it.

I I didn't hear any negative comments at all at the meeting.

It sounds like a lot of community support, and I know I strongly support it.

I just wanted to make that comment.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other commissioners?

No other uh questions than uh call for a uh a motion.

I move uh to recommend approval of the rezone over approximately 3.11 acres, generally located at 163rd Avenue and Happy Valley Road case FS 25-0001, subject to SIP stipulations A and B as outlined in the staff report.

Second.

So move and second, any further discussion seeing none, then let's uh please vote.

Motion passes with five votes in favor.

Thank you, uh Sarah.

Um move down to uh anyone that would like to speak an on-agenda item.

Is there anyone, Sarah?

That uh no, Chair.

There's no one that would like to speak from an agenda item.

Then we'll move down to item number H.

Is there any further business uh or future agenda items from the commission?

Seeing none, then uh we would uh entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting.

Motion to adjourn.

Second.

Okay, we're moved and seconded.

We have a voice vote.

All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Those opposed.

Hearing none.

Thank you.

We are adjourned.

See you typically aren't going to see somebody want to delete frog because you'd have to build a lot of infrastructure to get there.

So um this is kind of a natural piece to fill in, as I mentioned, and uh they'll be taking care of all the infrastructure needs.

They, you know, we have a traffic impact analysis that we have to submit, and and then it the city proves that before we can even get to this stage.

So we're doing everything that we're supposed to do, and we're consistent with what uh you know the city's long range.