06-15-17 Site Development Review Committee MinutesSITE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE SUMMARY
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Lower Level Conference Room
201 First Avenue East
ATTENDING:
Jeff Clawson, Building Official Dave Dedman, Fire Chief
Chad Fincher, Parks & Rec. Director Patrick Jentz, Engineer I
Tom Jentz, Planning & Building Director Jarod Nygren, Senior Planner
Tom Tabler, Senior Civil Engineer P.J. Sorensen, Chairman
Kathy Nelson, Recording Secretary
GUESTS: Rob Smith, A2Z Engineering; and Rory Young, Jackola Engineering.
HEAR THE PUBLIC: None.
PERFORMANCE BOND REMINDERS: None.
OLD BUSINESS:
First American Title — 219 E. Center; new office building. Public Works and Parks are both waiting
on a second submittal. This will be on the agenda for next week.
45 — 61h Ave W —just off of Center St called Distillery Square; convert existing space to retail. No
new development on this project. This will be on the agenda for next week.
Pinnacle Chiropractic —105 Westview Park Place; new office building. Fincher received an updated
Landscape Plan that he still needs to review. Public Works will get together on this. The sidewalk
will also be discussed. The services will need to be in compliance with the Public Works' Standards.
Young spoke with Haskins yesterday. They need to submit their stormwater information. They will
submit revised plans. This will be on the agenda for next week.
Lofts at Ashley — 2050 Airport Road near Teal; new 55-unit apartment complex. They will have
underground detention underneath the berm. Public Works is waiting for a second submittal for civil.
They want to keep a lot of the trees. Nygren stated we will need a plan for the berm. This will be on
the agenda for next week.
RDO Phase 2 (Phase 1 was only interior work) — They want to remodel the existing store. They are
enclosing two areas. This went through ARC. Smith spoke with Freyholtz about their area along
Hwy 93 S. He suggested we follow the way that Fred's pathway was done in MDT's ROW. Smith
noted they did have a survey done and there are quite a few dry utilities that they would be paving
over the top of, although no one seems to be concerned about that. There is a traffic signal in front
where the bypass takes off with crosswalks on three legs so he thought that they would bring the
pathway down and then curve it to hit the crosswalk. Tabler concurred with what was shown. The
City's preference is to have it on the property line, just inside the ROW. They will still need to
continue the path south to the property line for future tie-in. Regarding connecting the building to the
water line, Smith stated they will need to provide a connection for their fire sprinkler and for building
usage. They both align in United Drive, and there is a line out on the highway. Rather than digging
up and connecting at United, they would rather connect to the water line on the highway. Tabler had
no preference. Dedman stated they would get more flow out of the United Drive line because it is
looped. He is also pretty sure they could get 15 g.p.m. out of the highway. They are providing a 4"
fire sprinkler line. This will be on the agenda for next week.
Torrent Technologies — 1935 — 3rd Ave E; loading dock (and interior remodel). This is the old
Forest Service Building. The dock will be about 340 sq. ft. Discussion was held. This was passed
through Site Review.
CHS — 801 Whitefish Stage; new Cenex facility. They are going in at the Rail Park. There will be no
sidewalk on the north or south sides. There will be 10 to 11 acres that will be mostly gravel. The
parking will be paved. The two aprons will also be paved. The grain elevators are scheduled to start
on August 15th. This will be on the agenda for next week.
Great Northern Dental — 85 Village Loop; new office. This will be going to ARC on the 27th. It is
zoned RA-2 with two sublots. They will need to vacate the utilities and the lot line. This will be on
the agenda for next week.
NEW BUSINESS:
Fresh Life — 31 — 2nd St E; addition to church. This is early in the process. It went through ARC.
CTA is working on this. No building plans have been submitted yet. There will be some landscaping.
This will be on the agenda for next week.
Sunrift Brewery — 55 — 1st Ave WN; remodel to brewery. This is a two-phase project. Phase one
will have the micro -brewery and the testing room. The second phase will be a restaurant. This is
located behind the old Godfather's Pizza building. No building plans have been submitted yet. Tabler
stated they may need to improve the street. The railroad made it a dead-end street. The mall will be
doing lots of improvements near there in the future, so we could require a 5-year bond. They hope to
have phase one opened by Christmas. This will be on the agenda for next week.
PLANNING OFFICE ITEMS:
Rail Park — The PUD went through Planning Board. It will be going to City Council. Nygren will
get the referrals out today for next month's Planning Board.
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OTHER REPORTS:
Big Sky Pediatrics — 795 Sunset Blvd; preliminary comments. Young stated they are doing an
extension on the west side of the building which will be a two-story extension, attached and
somewhat overlapping the existing building. They are planning not to touch the parking lot, but to
clean up the entry by putting in some curb and gutter and sidewalk along the ROW. They are
planning to put in 18' stalls on the end, but they don't meet the setbacks. They will offer bike racks.
They are replacing some impervious surface with the building, so they weren't planning on addressing
stormwater other than what's coming off the roof There will be 1,500 additional impervious surface,
as they are removing a parking lot and putting a building on top of it. Young will need to get the
overall footprint for the new construction to Public Works. They will need to provide a Landscaping
Plan for Fincher. They will check with MDT on this project to see what they will allow and Parks
will see where the path will tie in. This will be on the agenda for next week.
Kalispell North Town Center — They are proposing a grade change with Lots 1 thru 4 with a
stormwater pond in the front. Discussion was held. The committee agreed that this is not what we
had approved previously.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:00 a.m.
cc: Police City Manager Fairgrounds
Bldg. Fire City Clerk
Planning Parks Comm. Dev.
Public Works
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