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01-25-77Communications. )Public Hearings. 7Jensen's Mobile Home Park.'. Expansion The.regular meeting of the. Kalispell City -County Planning Board was,held on Tuesday., January.25, •1977 at 7;30 p.m. in the Flathead County Health .Service .Center .Meeting Room, 723 5th..Avenue E., Kalispell: .Members present: i Dale Williams Jay Shropshire Charles L. Hash Ray Lybeck James J. Thompson Dale W. Haarr Harvey L. Knebe'l - Dorothy -Garvin Garmen Meadows. William J. Lupton- L, O11 ndike others present;. 2 APO Staff Representatives 5 Guests.. The .meeting was called -to order by; President Jim Thompson at 7:30 p.m. President Jim Thompson asked if .there .were any communications. Steve.Petrini reported.that the Planning Board had .received a copy of a.lettex addrbssed.to..the Flathead County Commissioners dated January 24,.1977 from Richard.L. Jukich and Kathleen B. Jukich. Steve -then read the. letter. .(copy.attached,hereto) The communication was then discussed and several points were brought.up; The.JukichIs property. is within the Kalispell City - County Planning Board's jurisdictional area; The.Eastside Planning Unit boundry is.a citizen established -advisory boundry and not one established by°local government and theletter was addressed to the Board of County: Commissioners, : therefore: action regarding the letter .should come'from.the Board of County Commissioners. If the Board -'of County.Commissioners'should desire a recommendation from the.kaiispell City -County Planning_Board then at that time the Board will':consider the matter -further. The' Planning, Board then .held a Public Hearing on the proposed Jensen Is .Mobile Home Park Expansion project. Jim Mohn presented the revised plan'for the'.Jensen's Mobile Home Park' Expansion proposal and reviewed and -.read the Staff Report.and Staff Recommendations. Jim further istated'that he had contacted the Evergreen Volunteer -.,.:Fire'. -Department hand that they -had stated that if a fire hydrant was. located within `500-feet of the.furthest mobile home -that their criteria would be met. The Board asked Mr. -Jensen if.he agreed with Staff Recommendation No. 3. He stated.he.was agreeable with it. Several Board Members stated that they .felt that condition No. 3 could be considered discrimation. Mr Lybeck. questioned the granting of the.variances as possibly establishing a precedent for future mobile home park developments. Mr. Hash then.read the variance criteria and stated that he felt the.variances.requested by Mr. Jensen met the criteria for granting variances. Dale Williams moved, that the Kalispell City - County Planning Board recommend to the :Board of County Co mnissioners that the.Preliminary Plat of Jensen's Mobile Home Park Expansion be given approval -subject to -the following conditions; 1. That the 'Board of County -Commissioners. grant a variance from the.following.Sections of the Mobile Home Park Design Standards: Sections 5 A.4 Minimum Size.; 5 A.8,10 Street desi:gn::s.tandardsF 5A.11.2 Storm Drainage Plan; 4nd..5A.15..Landscaping Greenbeltt Subdivision & Annexation Policy 2.` that all State` Department of Health 'requirements be met', -and approval be obtained by the County Sanitarian, 3. that Mr. Jensen be encouraged to rent to families with no children and, 4. that all roadways'be blacktopped. The motion was seconded by Garmen Meadows and carried 10 Votes for the motion, 1 Vote against the motion.;' The Board then discussed the drafting_of a Subdivision and Annexation Policy for the City of Kalispell. Steve Petrini presented and explained to the Board an Annexation and Subdivision Flow Chart. The Chart listed major steps in each of the procesaes._ He further explained that it would be possible to coordinate certain steps.in-the subdivision process with . those. of the annexation process. The Board requested that Steve redraw the -flow charts so that_both.processes were on the.same time scale and present the flow chart.to the Annexation Committee for it's review. The.Board then discussed the drafting of a.preapplicati.on.check list which.would consist of a step.by step_process and procedure to be followed for subdivisions to..be annexed.to,the City_of-Kalispell. President Jim Thompson stated that he would appoint: a three member committee to work on the.preapplicati.on check list. He then. appointed Harvey Knebel, Garmen Meadows and.william-Lupton to_se;rve on the committee, President_ Thompson, requested - that the committee report back to the Board at it's next meeting.. _ The Board then discussed:the-current status _of adoption of Zoning 0 Regulations by: the.. City. of.Kalispe;ll . Steve .Petrini.reported that a meeting had been. held with:. the. Kalispell. City, Council and that several Amendments to the Regulations had.been requested by the'.City Council. Steve reported further. -that the Amendmen-ts_•requested had been drafted and would be .submitted to:members_of the;.City Council prior to.it's next council meeting. Steve. then -reviewed. with. znembers_of the Board, the. Amendments which the City Council had requested. The Board discussed it.at some .lengths the proposed Amendment requested by__the City .Council.that.dealth with Off -Street, Parking in the Central. Business District . Steve explained that.'the.Council had irequested an Amendment which would allow for either the. providing of .Off -Street: Parking. spaces in the.. Central Busines,s-District or. Cash-in-lieu.of.Off .Street; Parking._ .Several Boardmemb,e.rs-expressed concern regarding the.;.Amendment stating that there. was Off-Street'Parking .provided downtown that was ,.not_being utilized therefore the..need may not . exist to."create additional,, Off -Street Parking.at the present time and that rather than trying to create parking on a businessby business basis through the. Parking Ordinance that, downtown might;better.solve ,parking problems in the'..future as. an area,with all.businesses joining together or possibly through private enterprise; Several other=members.. statedthat since.the. Parking -ordinance., in:effect at the'present time exempts the. downtown area .from 'providing: any ,of f -Street Parking spaces that .several .developers have constructed.in new buildings, provided no Off -Street Parking Space{ and therefore -.have created._haxdships for th.emsel�7es, for their tenants and prospective.customers. There being no further business to come before the.Board, President Jim Thompson.adjourned the.,meeting at 9;30 p,q,x .- ee/2-3-77 PRESIDENT SECRETARY 2. We the undersigned, members of the Kalispell City -County Planning Board, do herebywaive notice of meeting and consent that a meeting of the Board be held Tuesday, January 25., 1977, at 7:30'.p.m. in the Flathead County Health Service Center Meeting Room. I!Z44 k�