03-05-09 Site Review MinutesSITE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE SUMMARY
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Lower Level Main Conference Room
201 First Avenue East
ATTENDING:
Charlie Johnson, Construction Manager
Tom Jentz, Planning Director
Chad Fincher, Parks Superintendant
Sean Conrad, Senior Planner
Guests: James Freyholtz, MDT
Hear the Public: No one wished to speak.
Performance Bond Reminders: None.
OLD BUSINESS:
Paul Burnham, Assistant City Engineer
Frank Castles, Deputy Public Works Director
Jeff Clawson, Building Official
P.J. Sorensen, Chairman
WalMart: Status quo — need to hear back on traffic study
NEW BUSINESS:
911 Building: Resolved most stormwater issues. Chad is waiting for landscape questions to be
answered. Revised grading plans around well head are needed. They have submitted a request for a
PUD amendment related to both building setbacks and communication towers. Specifically, in the
commercial and professional pods, the setbacks would be reduced from 20 ft on all sides to the
setbacks provided for in the underlying zones (20 front, 5 side, 10 rear, and 15 side corner in the
commercial; 15/5/10/15 in the professional). The second amendment would allow a 100 ft tall
emergency communication tower for emergency operation centers. Site Review determines if it is
major or minor, with major amendments being forwarded to the council. Cell towers were a big
concern when the PUD was adopted, and still are. While there are certainly good arguments for the
need for the tower, the committee believes that it is a major amendment, and both the setbacks and
tower requests will be forwarded.
PLANNING OFFICE ITEMS:
Welf Lane — if the area near Cemetery Rd is annexed, maintenance of Welf Lane will likely
become an issue, with the county likely to try to shift ownership/maintenance responsibilities to
the City. In a somewhat related matter, the proposed land swap on the 40 acre injection site
along Cemetery Rd doesn't work as proposed, but there may be some other configurations to the
east that would function.
Maw — the access to the site is tricky, with a transformer in the middle of their driveway and
driveways on either side effectively creating a 40 to 50 ft wide shared driveway right on the curve
of the road
OTHER REPORTS:
Habitat ReStore — relocating to 215 W Idaho. Not a change of use, so will not be in front of site
review. Public Works met with them, and still think it would be a good idea to deal with sidewalk,
alley storm drain, and access issues separately from site review.
Selders — Public Works is putting together an easement and SID waiver for a project on 6th which did
not go through subdivision. They will let P7 know when it is ready to sign.
Conrad Dr/Woodland intersection — Public Works mentioned that bike path work at the
intersection should be addressed
Valley Bank — the downtown main bank is planning to do some work on the outside of the building
Stimulus Funding — projects are moving forward
The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 a.m.