MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION,
WHICH TOOK PLACE ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006, 7:00 P.M.,
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY HALL,
1. Roll Call
PRESENT: Eyre,
Jocks, Kozakiewicz, Mead, Rapanos, Senesac and Svenson
ABSENT: Gaynor
OTHERS PRESENT: Jon Lynch, Assistant City Manager;
Cheri Standfest, Community Development Specialist and 9 others.
2. Approval of Minutes
Regular Meeting of
It was moved by Eyre and supported by Kozakiewicz to approve the minutes
of January 10th. The minutes were unanimously approved.
3.
Public
Hearing
None
4. Public Comments (not
related to agenda items)
None
5. Old Business
A. Zoning Petition No. 527 – Consideration
of a petition initiated by the County of Midland
to rezone
approximately 30 acres at 4600 Bay City Road, west of Rockwell Drive, from
Agricultural
zoning to Community zoning.
Mr. Lynch showed a site location
map indicating the subject property is south of Bay City Road. The subject site on the aerial photograph
shows the subject site is currently undeveloped. There is an existing mobile home park to the
east. To the south, west and north, the property
is currently undeveloped. To the
northwest, there is the new ice arena that has recently been built. The zoning map shows the subject
property. The master plan calls for the
area to be commercial and heavier industrial uses. The public hearing was held on January 10th. A number of public comments were received,
including one comment in favor of this rezoning and five comments in opposition
to this rezoning. Staff recommends the
property be recommended for rezoning to the City Council.
Bay City Road is a major roadway
in our collection network. Bay City Road
interchange has been recently changed to a full interchange. It is certainly in a position to accommodate
increased volumes of traffic. Rockwell
Drive may need to be improved to accept the additional traffic demands.
Cindy Winland, from Midland
County, spoke on behalf of the petitioner and offered to answer any
questions. No one else spoke in favor of
or in opposition to the request.
Carol Svenson stated there were
several uses she would not like to see on this property, however, most of them
were allowed under conditional uses.
Steve Rapanos stated it is fairly straight forward. Dan Kozakiewicz stated he could support
it. Bill Eyre agreed. Roger Mead stated it is well located and it
will serve the community well. He is in
support. Ray Senesac stated it is in the
industrial area on the master plan.
However, he believes that when we go through the next master plan
update, this area has changed enough that it will be changed on the next master
plan.
It was moved by Mead, and
supported by Eyre, to recommend approving Zoning Petition No. 527 to rezone
approximately 30 acres at 4600 Bay City Road, west of Rockwell Drive, from
Agricultural zoning to Community zoning.
The vote
proceeded as follows:
YEA: Eyre, Jocks, Kozakiewicz, Mead,
Rapanos, Senesac & Svenson
NAY: None
ABSENT: Gaynor
6. New Business
Review and approve projected
socio-economic data related to transportation demand
model being developed by the Michigan
Department of Transportation.
Cheri Standfest presented the
socio-economic data projections for 2015, 2025, and
2035 that have been prepared for the
Michigan Department of Transportation for
the Tri-City traffic model that is under
development. Projections were made for
population, occupied households, retail
employment, service employment, and
“other” employment based upon anticipated
annexations, population growth and
expansion of the city according to current
projections.
As soon as this model is available, we can
begin requesting runs on this model to see
how traffic patterns will be affected by
various developments.
A motion was made by Svenson, seconded by
Jocks, to recommend approval to
City Council of the socio-economic data as
presented, realizing that this data
could be amended over time.
This was unanimously approved.
7. Communications
None
8. Report
of the Chairman
Meeting scheduled with LSL for Thursday,
February 2, 2006. The telephone survey
showed that the first Thursday of the month
was the most convenient for everyone to
get together. The agenda will be sent out in the mail in
advance of the meeting.
Mr. Lynch was named the Leader of the Year
by the Leadership Midland Alumni
Association. Congratulations!
9. Report of the Planning Director
January
23rd
PUBLIC
HEARINGS
None
ACTION
ITEMS
§ Zoning Text Amendment – Set public hearing for consideration of a petition initiated by the City of Midland to amend various articles of the Zoning Ordinance as outlined in a memorandum to the Planning Commission dated December 6, 2005. (hearing 2/13)
§ Zoning Petition No. 525 – Set public hearing for consideration of a petition initiated by Ron Lapham to rezone property at 1314 West Wheeler Street from Office Service zoning to Regional Commercial zoning. (hearing 2/13)
§ Zoning Petition No. 526 – Set public hearing for consideration of a petition initiated by the Dow Chemical Company – Michigan Operations to rezone property at East Ellsworth Street and East Buttles Street, east of State Street, from Regional Commercial zoning to Community zoning. (hearing 2/13)
February 13th
PUBLIC
HEARINGS
§ Street Vacation – Public hearing to consider a petition initiated by Dow Chemical Co; Michigan Operations, to vacate East Ellsworth Street between State Street and Haley Street; vacation of Mill Street between East Ellsworth Street and Buttles Street; vacation of Haley Street between East Ellsworth Street and Buttles Street (February 13)
§ Zoning Text Amendment
§ Zoning Petition No. 525
§ Zoning Petition No. 526
ACTION
ITEMS
§ Rezoning, Zoning Petition No. 527 – Set public hearing for consideration of a petition initiated by Midland County to rezone approximately 30 acres located at 4600 Bay City Road from Agriculture to Community zoning. (public hearing 3-6)
§ Approve projected socio-economic data related to transportation demand model being developed by the Michigan Department of Transportation.
§ Master Plan – Adopt a resolution expressing City Council’s intent to adopt the master plan.
February 20th
PUBLIC
HEARINGS
None
ACTION ITEMS
Receive proposals for reuse and / or redevelopment of the Midland Civic Arena.
February 14th
PUBLIC
HEARINGS
Site Plan No. 250 – Public hearing to consider a petition initiated by the Michigan Baseball Foundation to review a site plan for a minor league baseball stadium located on 21 acres bounded by State Street, Buttles Street, Lyon Road, and Dow Chemical Michigan Operations property.
ACTION
ITEMS
None
February 28th
PUBLIC
HEARINGS
None
ACTION
ITEMS
Site Plan No. 250
January 17th
§ No. 06-01 – Keith Wirth on behalf of Amish Reflections for an area/dimension variance to build into existing setback for first floor entrance and build up with second floor addition at 503 South Saginaw Road. (withdrawn)
§ No. 06-02 – Lawrence Hale for an area/dimension variance for a parking lot expansion into side yard setback at 3106 Swede Avenue. (approved)
Administrative Site Plan No. 21 – Firehouse
Soft Wash: A carwash located on 1.80
acres, south of Joe Mann Boulevard and east of McDonald Nursery.
Please take notice that on January 13th Mayor Johnson received a telephone call from Mr. Richard Roberson Jr. regarding the location of the proposed baseball stadium. He suggested that the stadium be built on Dow property near Bushey’s Bar. He also thought that a good place for it would be behind the new ice arena. Mr. Roberson wished to express his views to the City Council since Council must approve a zoning change. Mayor Johnson requested that these comments be forwarded to the Planning Commission.
Meetings dedicated to work on the Master Plan
are tentatively scheduled for the first Thursday of each month. The beginning time of the meetings needs to
be established. Identified meeting dates
include February 2nd, April 15th(?), May 4th,
June 1st, August 3rd, September 7th, October 5th,
November 2nd, and December 7th.
10. Adjourn
Adjournment at approximately 7:46 PM and unanimously approved.
Respectfully submitted,
Jon Lynch
Assistant City
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