06-21-18 Site Development Review Committee MinutesSITE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE SUMMARY
Thursday, June 21, 2018
Lower Level Conference Room
201 First Avenue East
ATTENDING:
Jeff Clawson, Building Official Dave Dedman, Fire Chief
Jarod Nygren, Senior Planner Rick Parker, Building Plans Examiner
Tom Tabler, Senior Civil Engineer P.J. Sorensen, Chairman
Kathy Nelson, Recording Secretary
GUESTS: James Freyholtz, Montana Department of Transportation; and Mark Johnson, Architect
HEAR THE PUBLIC: None.
PERFORMANCE BOND REMINDERS:
Distillery Square — The present owner came in last week with their check. Johnson stated the new
owner wants to do a face lift to the building. They want to take the the shop on the north end, the
one bay on the side that is part of their display area, and turn it into another tenant space. The ramp
by the back door still needs to go in. The City would inspect the handrails and the slope. They are
likely to run the sidewalk all the way to the north, which will require a ROW Permit. Fincher may
need to know about this regarding landscaping. Johnson noted they will need another door on the
front.
OLD BUSINESS:
Vision Clinic — 580 N Meridian; new medical office. The committee is fine with this project. This is
passed through Site Review.
Glacier Bank —180 Commons Loop; drive-thru lane. Public Works sent out their approval letter.
The owners are revisiting what they want to do on this project. This will be on the agenda for next
week.
Glacier High School — 375 Wolfpack Way. Public Works has this currently under review and hopes
to have it completed today to get comments out. This project will begin their parking lot
improvements on Monday, June 25 h, and it will take about four weeks. This is approved through
Site Review with the condition there will be no Building Permit issued without Public Works
approval.
My Place — 755 Treeline; new hotel with 4 floors/85 units. An approval was sent out by Public
Works with a couple of contingencies. Nygren noted they did a reduced SIA on this. Public Works
will still need to go through the pre-treatment process with them. Zoning is waiting for a reply to
Sorensen's comments. Building is also waiting for them to resubmit their project to the current
plumbing code standards. This will be on the agenda for next week.
Treeline Retail Center — 635 Treeline; new retail. There will be two restaurants and an office. They
will have two drive-thru lanes that go around the building. Sorensen sent them our comments
regarding circulation, the three parallel parking spaces along the one-way drive-thru, and the property
line through the drive-thru with no cross easements. He discussed these issues with Johnson.
Johnson agreed that the three parking spaces should be taken out and he will look into the property
line. Public Works has had no reply to their comments. Sorensen noted that we will have to wait to
see what ARC says about screening. This will be on the agenda for next week.
Universal Mechanical — HVAC - old Merganthaler building — Center St. They are looking at doing
a rehab on the big gravel parking area. They will be filling in one of the garage doors, and then
modifying the other one to half the size. They will be putting in sidewalk, a landscape boulevard,
landscaping between the sidewalk and the building, and then some paved parking. There will be a
chain link fence with vinyl slats. This did go through ARC. They have the handicapped ramp shown.
Nygren suggested they have only one entrance/exit onto Center Street, and Tabler agreed. Nygren
will discuss this with them. This will be on the agenda for next week.
NEW BUSINESS:
Sterling School — This was held up previously because of drainage in the ROW. A2Z has completed
a new design, and Johnson has reviewed it. They have designed stormwater to basically deal with the
building, the future parking lot, and incorporating the required stormwater issues related to the ditch
line. There will be discussions on how everything will work, but they sized everything based upon the
future parking lot going in. The owners want to wait to put in the parking lot. Sorensen and Parker
covered some of the issues raised by not putting the parking in now with Johnson. This will be going
to ARC for preliminary discussion. Tabler suggested they plan for the sidewalk now. Impact fees
will be less now without the parking lot, but then may be higher when they decide to pave it. This
will be on the agenda for next week.
PLANNING OFFICE ITEMS:
Montana Base Camp - RV Park — S of alternate bypass - 330 RV spaces. The first phase will have
62 or 63 spaces. Dedman agreed that Ashley Meadows would be the secondary way out. Not just a
fire department access, but a secondary access for residents. Nygren asked Freyholtz to look at
Ashley Meadows to be used as a second access. Does it need to be improved with this project? This
must remain open once they get 40 lots. Freyholtz stated there is a part of it that is still owned by the
Ashley Meadows Homeowner's Association. Most of it is MDT's. Nygren noted that as the street
comes north and south off of the bypass and it connects down to Ashley Meadows, the trail would
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cross where the road is so maybe think about realigning that trail and reduce the crossings. He asked
for any comments committee members may have to be sent to him.
OTHER REPORTS:
Big Sky Manor — 2nd Ave & I" St W — they are doing some remodeling, including a 4' rock area
along the sidewalk which probably won't work for Parks. They are changing some of their grass area
to concrete. Public Works will need to do an impact fee calculation, but it won't trigger any permits.
Devonshire Building — They are giving their commercial tenants notice and converting their west
side units into residential apartments. They have already done this on the east side. This would be a
Change of Use. This will most likely trigger the building needing to be sprinklered.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:45 a.m.
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