05-14-85 Planning Board and Zoning CommissionKALISPELL CITY -COUNTY PLANNING BOARD AND ZONING COMMISSION
MAY 14, 1985
CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by the vice-president of the Kalispell
AND ROLL CALL City -County Planning Board, James Stephens at 7:35 p. m. Those present
were Reynolds, Stephens, Manning, Hall, Crick, Santa. Absentees were
Sloan, Trippett, and LeDuc. Others present were David Greer, Senior
Planner, Tom Jentz, Senior Planner, and three members of the audience.
APPROVAL OF Manning moved to approve the minutes of the Kalispell City Zoning Com-
MINUTES APRIL mission meeting held on April 9, 1985. The motion was seconded by Hall
9, 1985 and it passed unanimously.
APPROVAL OF Manning moved to approve as submitted the minutes of the Kalispell
MINUTES APRIL City -County Planning Board meeting on April 9, 1985. The motion was
9, 1985 seconded by Hall and passed unanimously.
ELECTION OF Stephens opened the meeting to nominations for president and vice pre -
PRESIDENT AND sident for the newly combined board. Hall moved that Stephens be nomi-
VICE PRESIDENT nated president and Manning vice president. The motion was seconded by
Santa and passed unanimously.
SCHWARTZ ANNEX- Stephens called on David Greer to give the Planning Staff report and
ATION AND ZONE recommendation concerning a request for annexation into the City of
REQUEST Kalispell with a R-4 zone by Lorna .Schwartz for 0.837 acres of land.
O The property is located at the intersection of Northridge Drive and
Crestview Road, near the Northridge and Crestview additions of Kalis-
pell.
The staff recommended approval of the annexation agreeing with the
suggested zone of R-4 with the following condition:
"That all city utility extensions and other improvements, -includ-
ing curbs and gutters, be designed and built at the owner's
expense to conform to the City of Kalispell's 'Standards and
General Provisions for Design and. Construction' and meet the
approval of the City Public Works Director."
Motion Following a brief discussion, Manning moved to accept the planning
staff recommendation as submitted. The motion was seconded by Santa
and passed unanimously.
THOMPSON'S Stephens asked Greer to give the Planning Staff report and recommend -
SUMMIT RIDGE ation concerning a request for annexation into the City of Kalispell
ANNEXATION with a R-4 zone by Gregory D. Barkus for 0.569 acres of land. The land
AND ZONE, proposed for annexation aligns with Block 6 of Summit Ridge on the
REQUEST east and borders Summit Ridge Drive on the south.
Greer gave the staff report stating that the recommendation was. for
approval of the request with R-4 zoning with the following condition:
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"That all city utility extensions be designed and built to
conform to the City of Kalispell's 'Standards and General Provi-
sions for Design and Construction' at the owner's expense and
meet the approval of the City Public Works Director."
Motion
After a brief discussion
by the .Board, Hall moved to recommend to the
City Council
approval of
the request with the R-4 zoning. The motion
was seconded
by Manning and passed unanimously.
OLSON ADDITION
Stephens had
Greer give
the 'Planning Staff Report for a request for
ANNEXATION AND
annexation into the City
of Kalispell with a R-4 zone by Oscar Olson
ZONE REQUEST
for property
described
as Lot 2, Block 2 of the Sunset Addition,
excepting the
south 35 feet of said lot.
Greer gave the Staff Report stating that Oscar Olson is proposing to
build a single family residence on a lot that already has a garage
that appears to be used for storing materials used in the applicant's
roofing business. He further stated that the size of the lot and the
presence of other buildings may not allow Olson to build a sizable
home on the lot. He stated that the lot width was 65 foot which was 5
feet less than the 70 foot required by an R-4 zone but it could be
grandfathered in since it had pre-existed the annexation request. The
staff recommendation was for approval with R-4 zoning with the follow-
ing condition:
"That all city utility extensions be designed and built at the
owner's expense to conform to the City of Kalispell's "Standards
and General Provisions for Design and Construction" and meet the
approval of the City Public Works Director."
OMotion After Board discussion, Reynolds moved to recommend the approval of
the annexation and zone request to the city council. Crick seconded
the motion and it passed unanimously.
REVIEW SECTION Stephens asked Manning to give some background on the request from the
6.13 KALISPELL City Council to review Section 6.13 of the Kalispell City Zoning Ordi-
CITY ZONING nance.
ORDINANCE
Manning stated that it was brought to the City Council several months
ago because in many cases it seemed like an extra step that many appli-
cants had to go through. First, they applied for zone change, then it
would go to the City Council to be referred back to the Zoning Commis-
sion to make a recommendation back to the City Council.
The recommendation by the Planning Staff is to change the wording of
subsection (b) from "submitted to the City Council who shall refer
said proposed amendments, supplementations to the zoning commission"
to "reviewed by the zoning commission prior to any action by the city
council."
Board Discussion The discussion of the Board steered toward discussion of zone changes
that are not in substantial conformance to the comprehensive plan and
what viable solution could be arrived at in these situations.
Motion Manning moved to recommend to the City Council that they send a policy
statement to the Flathead Regional Development .Office that would
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require the Director of the Flathead Regional Development Office to
determine, during the pre -application meeting, whether a requested
zone change is in substantial compliance with the Comprehensive Plan
and, if not, so advise the applicant that both a zone change and plan
=� amendment must be pursued as simultaneous applications.
Reynolds seconded the motion and it passed unanimously.
Motion Manning moved that the City Council review the possible inequity of
the application fee schedule so as to allow zone change requests which
also require a plan amendment application to be reviewed as a joint
application with a single fee, similar to the process now followed for
joint annexation/zoning requests.
Motion was seconded by Santa and passed unanimously.
Motion Manning moved to accept the recommendation of the Planning Staff on
Section 6.13 and recommend to the city council that the wording of
Section 6.13 (b) be changed as suggested. Hall seconded the motion and
it passed unanimously.
REVIEW OF PUB- Stephens called on Tom Jentz to make his presentation on the comments
LIC COMMENTS
received pertaining to the proposed up -date of the, Kalispell Area Mas-
PROPOSED KAL-
ter Plan.
ISPELL MASTER
PLAN
Jentz stated that there
were 10 major areas of
concerns addressed by
the public comments
and those comments have
led to some proposed
changes in the text
as well as the map of the
proposed Master Plan.
After reviewing each
of the changes suggested
and getting the Board
O input, all of the suggested text changes were accepted except the
following:
Page 1 the wording of the first paragraph under Master Plan Components
the following would be inserted after line 1:
"Before land use regulations such as zoning can be adopted they
must be substantially in compliance with the Master Plan. Sub-
stantial compliance does not mean rigid interpretation of only
one component such as. the Master Plan Map. All three of these
component s are equally important and must be equally weighed."
On page 8 the last objective under Public Facilities is to be replace
the first word "Relocate" to "Cooperate with the."
On page 76, recommendation #1 at the top of the page will be rewritten
as suggested except .that #2 dine 3 will read "which are administered
in the rural areas within the planning jurisdiction boundaries of the
City."
On page 77, the new recommendation #2 will leave out the word
"ultimately."
Discussion followed on when the comprehensive plan should be amended
and what procedures are followed to amend the comprehensive plan.
Jentz stated that, ideally, the Board will review a portion of the
Plan each year in order to cause the whole plan to be totally up -dated
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at least once every five years. Manning stated that he would also like
to see the plan reviewed at the time of a zone change request that
does not substantially comply with the comprehensive plan.
—� Motion It was a general concensus of the Board that a resolution accepting
the revisions to the text and whatever the revisions to the map will
be at the following month's meeting be prepared for the president to
sign and presented at the next meeting.
OLD BUSINESS Manning brought up the topic of PUD's relative to the situation now
being faced on "Buffalo Hill" where interest has been shown for having
a commercial PUD in a residential district. Discussion followed on
possible options for allowing some type of mixed or commercial PUD's
in residential districts. After further Board discussion, it was
decided to have the planning staff review the situation and report
back to the Board at the next meeting.
NEW BUSINESS None.
ADJOURNMENT Santa moved to adjourn the meeting and it was adjourned at 10:15 p.m.
Pr ding Officer - Jame Stephens Recording Secretary - Ava Walters
Approved: � e / f/ / 9/j,
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