10-07-10 Site Review MinutesSITE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE SUMMARY
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Lower Level Main Conference Room
201 First Avenue East
ATTENDING:
Frank Castles, Deputy Public Works Dir
Sean Conrad, Senior Planner
Dwain Elkins, Plans Examiner
Charlie Johnson, Construction Manager
Fred Zavodny, Project Manager
Kathy Kuhlin, Recording Secretary
Jeff Clawson, Building Official
Dan Diehl, Fire Chief
Tom Jentz, Planning & Building Director
Rebekah Wargo, Asst. Civil Engineer
P. J. Sorensen, Chairman
GUESTS: James Freyholtz from MDOT; Jeff Walla, Stelling Engineers; Mark Casalegno
and John Casalegno, Hammerquist & Casalegno.
HEAR THE PUBLIC: None.
PERFORMANCE BOND REMINDERS: Montana Club —Johnson will check with Mark
Crowley to be sure that all Public Works issues have been completed. All other issues have been
completed.
OLD BUSINESS: Syke's — 202-2" d Avenue West — They will presumably be coming back in
the next couple of weeks to talk about their parking lot revision.
Immanuel Lutheran Home/Buffalo Hill Terrace — expansion of existing nursing home and
senior living apartments — Comments have been received, but no specific updates from Public
Works or Fire. Jeff Walla stated that the biggest issue they saw in the letter was dealing with the
15 foot setback issue on the Skilled Nursing Facility, where the architect applied the 15 foot
setback to the wall and we applied it to the eaves, which is what the standard is. On the
northwest corner of that building, you project it into the setback area. The owner wants to begin
site work to get the building pad and utilities in this fall. They will be having a conference call
tomorrow to discuss some of the things in Sorensen's letter and how to resolve them. Diehl is
okay with this. Nothing on the Parks side. Issues need to be wrapped up before they can begin.
Casalegno stated they will have five to six weeks of clearing and grubbing on the Immanuel
Lutheran site only this year, put in fill, and getting the building pad in. The memory garden will
not be taken down at all until spring. Flathead Electric will be doing some electrical work down
Crestline to Hwy 93 as part of this project. They will need to bore across the road for power and
telephone. They will have some work on storm sewer for the new catch basin, and they will be
putting in a storm sewer line and develop retention ponds. Will need to tap in for fire and
domestic water across Claremont. There is a new sewer tap also and relocating the existing tap
into a new manhole. They will put together a traffic plan. They would like to close Claremont
Street to do the taps and do a detour. They will need advanced notices of the closing, send out a
PSA, and have appropriate signage. They plan on fencing off the project.
291 — 3"d Avenue E.N. — convert office to retail business — north of Zip Trip on Idaho and
immediately south of Prudential and across the street from Three Rivers Bank. Change of Use and
new purchaser. Public Works is okay with this project, and it is passed through Site Review.
NEW BUSINESS: Bus Shelter — Application for bus shelter at the hospital was presented by
Zavodny. This will be located at the red dot as shown on the map. The second sheet shows where
the shelter will go. The view is looking south toward the hospital and the hand drawing exhibit shows
the shelter where the bus will be. The bus will straddle the crosswalk. It also stops at the beginning
of a curve. They could possible stop near the Medical Arts and not interfere with traffic or visibility
or a crosswalk. Zavodny would like the Site Review Committee to review this and have comments
by next week. This will have electrical lights and advertising on it.
PLANNING OFFICE ITEMS: Violence Free Crisis Center — subdivision on Denver — will be
coming in for Final Plat.
Kalispell Regional Medical Center — six phase expansion plan - this will be coming in as a PUD.
This will be a significant expansion, surgical wing will be going up a couple of stories, a parking
garage near where the Alert Helicopter lands, and possibly another garage where there are presently
some older apartment buildings. Ultimately a five -story building above the emergency room. They
still need to address a pedestrian access plan throughout the campus.
Possible Zone Change application coming in for a business at the corner of West Center Street and
North Meridian — presently zoned Light Industrial but they are looking at changing it to commercial
zoning to do a takeout restaurant.
OTHER REPORTS: Outlaw Inn — 1701 Hwy 93 S — Someone is looking at purchasing the
northern end of the Outlaw Inn. The current owner would like the new buyer to put up a fence along
the boundary. The buyer would prefer not to because of fire safety issues, loss of parking, and access
issues. The sky walk would be taken down. The agent and buyer will be at next week's meeting.
Buffalo Hills Golf Course proposed improvements — passed through City Council.
Castles asked if the City can require a grease trap be put in at an existing restaurant that is causing
problems for our sewer? Discussion was held. If it was a requirement when the restaurant went in
and it wasn't done, we could require them to do it now. There may be a City regulation. There may
be a grease interceptor that hasn't been cleaned/maintained. Public Works will do more research.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:40 a.m.
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