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08-17-17 Site Development Review Committee MinutesSITE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE SUMMARY Thursday, August 17, 2017 Lower Level Conference Room 201 First Avenue East ATTENDING: Jeff Clawson, Building Official Patrick Jentz, Engineer I Jarod Nygren, Senior Planner Tom Tabler, Senior Civil Engineer Kathy Nelson, Recording Secretary Dave Dedman, Fire Chief Tom Jentz, Planning & Building Director Del Phipps, Industrial Pre -Treatment Coor. P.J. Sorensen, Chairman GUESTS: Kim Larsen (APEC Engineering); and Mark Johnson (Mark Johnson, Architect) HEAR THE PUBLIC: None. PERFORMANCE BOND REMINDERS: None. OLD BUSINESS: 45 — 6tb Ave W —just off of Center St called Distillery Square; convert existing space to retail. No new development on this project. Clawson is going to have a status request letter sent to them. This will be on the agenda for next week. Lofts at Ashley — 2050 Airport Road near Teal; new 55-unit apartment complex. This did pass through ARC. Fire and Public Works are fine with this project. Parks gave them a long list of comments, including landscaping and the berm. There are some Building Code items that need to be resolved. They also need to figure out their handicapped parking spaces. 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. Chris from Porch is looking for status from Parks and Public Works. They will need an 8' concrete sidewalk. This will be on the agenda for next week. Along those same lines, T. Jentz stated that Green Nissan/Hyundai will need an 8' concrete sidewalk but we need to follow-up with Freyholtz first. T. Jentz will call him. Fresh Life — 31 — 2nd St E; addition to church. Fincher is waiting for a couple of landscape details. Sorensen stated their spaces that backed out into the alley have been changed. T. Tabler spoke with them about their stormwater options. For stormwater treatment, they proposed to put in some tree - filled taros out on First Avenue East to do a swap with treatment areas. Tabler recommended they explore just putting on a CVS unit in line with the existing catch basin that they are currently dumping into. It will probably be much more cost effective for them. This will be on the agenda for next week. Sunrift Brewery — 55 — I" Ave WN; remodel to brewery. Fincher has signed off on this. Phipps is in the process of creating an MOU regarding the affluent flows. Public Works hasn't seen a plan, but the two main issues, per Tabler, is the bonding for public improvements and if it is below our 10,000 sq. ft. threshold, they will need to provide something regarding their deferred stormwater plan for Phase 2 of how this whole site will work together. Public Works will approve this with conditions that they meet Public Works' requirements. This is passed through Site Review. Fairgrounds — 265 N Meridian; ADA and bathroom improvements. Their project start date is September 1st. Phipps will look at this regarding a grease interceptor. This will be on the agenda for next week. Harbor Freight — Spring Prairie Phase 4; new retail. They came in with civil drawings and a TI package. Tabler stated Public Works will probably have some comments on their driveway approaches and sidewalks. This will be on the agenda for next week. Great Northern Dental — 85 Village Loop; new office. They are sorting through some site issues per M. Johnson, including placement on the lot. Tabler met with their engineer a couple weeks ago and went through comments with him. Their Zoning issue is dealing with the lot line. They will deal with it, but it could be affected by the change of site. Tabler stated that the engineer will need to get a Geo-Tech involved or certify it themselves. Johnson stated they may flip the lot so the building is in the front and the parking is in the rear. This will be on the agenda for next week. Sterling West School —135 Glenwood; new private school. Johnson stated they have done some more investigation on stormwater with rerouting or dealing with the drainage issue relative to the ditch. They are still sorting out some issues. The elevations due to the storm sewer revisions may actually be difficult to incorporate any future development. There was some concern about having to redo everything in the future. They are still discussing this. Sorensen added there will still be issues with access into the front of the building, temporary landscaping, etc. This will be on the agenda for next week. PTA (Professional Therapy Associates) — 105 Village Loop and Whitefish Stage Rd; new office. Application showing future development came in. There is the large parcel showing the three buildings that would be in there. They have narrowed back the proposal to be just one of the corners. If we review this as one building going in the corner and then they decide they want to subdivide, this design could prevent them from doing the subdivision. There is the possible 10 ft. road reserve on Whitefish Stage, which is pretty typical for this area. They would need to take the property line on the west and move it over 10 ft. This 10 ft. ROW reserve on the west side would be for a Federal Aid project. It would be your land, you would landscape it and take care of it. If the Federal Aid project goes forward, the State would buy it from you. Their engineer told Tabler they will be doing the utilities for the full build -out. They are switching over to two lots rather than three. The sanitary 2 sewer will still need to take place. There was also a water main that was going into the site to serve the three properties. But with two properties now, he was planning to just run two services off of Village Loop for water. Johnson thinks the power line will be the bigger issue. This will be on the agenda for next week. Sassy Nails — No update. Johnson will try to get a response back from them this week regarding their number of employees and their parking. Husky Street Apartments —1110 Husky St; new apartments. They need to draw in additional trees for ARC. They are presently working on budget issues. We may need to look at their handicapped parking locations. This will be on the agenda for next week. NEW BUSINESS: Casa Mexico —1600 Hwy 93 S; addition to existing restaurant. We looked at this in the spring with a CUP. They will be adding paving in the back. The addition to the existing structure is to the west. They will have the existing restaurant, a bar, and a casino on the furthest west side. P. Jentz noted they will need a stormwater plan. This will be on the agenda for next week. PLANNING OFFICE ITEMS: Bloomstone, Phase 5 — A Preliminary Plat application came in for Bloomstone, as their old Plat had expired. Nygren will route this to everyone. OTHER REPORTS: Glacier Bank ATM Change — This will be a parking lot and ATM lane change in the bank near the Blue Cow. There are actually three properties. They will be relocating the ATM screen for better visual use, and adding more parking. Separate entrances were discussed. There was concern about stacking into the street with three approaches. Nygren suggested they make the first aisle approach a one-way and angle the parking. Sorensen suggested they have only two approaches with the northern one going into the ATM lane. The bank is concerned about congestion in the lot. We are concerned about congestion in our street. T. Jentz asked if we have access distance spacing. How many approaches can you have on a lot? What is the separation between the approaches? Sorensen stated the Zoning Ordinance states you cannot have more than two approaches every 100 feet. A stacking space is 9' x 20'. You would need 60 ft. on site for stacking, and then at least 100 ft. from that third access. Tabler will check the Public Works Standards. The 100 ft. would be measured from the two closest edges of what the driveways are. Armory — Combine utility easement. Nygren is trying to facility how to get this easement. We never got the easement when the Armory was annexed. We have to go to the State Land Board. They just forwarded a full application that Nygren will forward to Public Works. It will need to be completed along with a $50 fee by September 5 h for the mid -September Land Board meeting. The whole 3 engineering plan for Kalispell North Town Center relies on this easement that we don't have. Haskins put a detailed e-mail together as to why we are requiring this, and the State Land Board responded with this application. Transportation Advisory Committee — T. Jentz attended the TAC Meeting on Tuesday. They are working on the Transportation Plan Update process. We need to talk about budgets and expectations with the State, but we will be updating our 206 Grant. We discussed our next priority for road construction from our Urban Funds, which accrues about $718,000 a year. TAC decided that West Reserve and Willow Glen are the two priorities. The State said they could use Bridge Funds to rebuild the bridge by Home Depot over Stillwater to be a four -lane intersection concept. Then they would work Whitefish Stage and West Reserve, creating a four -lane intersection with stop lanes. West Reserve would stretch from that stop light in either direction, and Whitefish Stage would go back and forth each way. The State wants to be able to take the Whitefish Stage Road all the way up to the end of our urban limits, which is about a half mile. The State would like to nominate Whitefish Stage going north, up past Rose Crossing as a secondary project towards Highway 40. They will do a Corridor Study for those two lots. It will take a while to get going. The meeting was adjourned at 11:15 a.m. cc: Police City Manager Fairgrounds Bldg. 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