LAVERKIN CITY PLANNING COMMISSION AGENDA
Regular Meeting
Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 6:00 P.M.
City Council Chambers, 111 South Main Street
LaVerkin, Utah 84745

Call To Order:  Chair Stephen Sanders, Invocation by Invitation; Pledge of Allegiance

Approval of Minutes:  Commission may approve the minutes of the July 8, 2009 regular meeting.

Approval of Agenda:

Reports:  Beautification Committee, Economic Development Committee, Trails Committee, Director of Operations - will present updates on meetings and activities.

Public Hearings and Possible Action:

New Business:

Unfinished Business:
Retail Commercial Zone Discussion: Planning Commission may discuss possible changes to the Retail Commercial Zone Code.

General Plan Update: Planning Commission may review and update the General Plan.

Adjourn:  

In compliance with the American with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) during this meeting should notify June Jeffery,  City Recorder, (435) 635-2581, at least 48 hours in advance.

Present: Chair Stephen Sanders, Commissioners Anna Andregg, Dan Howard, Allen Bice; Staff: Derek Imlay, Kevin Bennett, Troylinn Benson, June Jeffery, Kyle Gubler; Public: Ray Justice, Bart Penrod

Commissioner Michael Hinckley and Commissioner Joe Webb were not in attendance.

Call To Order:  Chair Stephen Sanders at 6:00 p.m. Invocation by Stephen Sanders and Pledge of Allegiance by Anna Andregg.

Approval of Minutes: Motion by Commissioner Andregg to approve the minutes of the July 8, 2009 regular meeting with the correction to include Allen Bice in the list of Commissioners present, second by Commissioner Bice. Motion carried 4-0 with Sanders, Bice, Andregg, and Howard voting yes.

Approval of Agenda: Motion by Commissioner Andregg to approve the agenda, second by Commissioner Bice. Motion carried 4-0 with Sanders, Bice, Andregg, and Howard voting yes. 

Reports: 
Beautification Committee: Kyle Gubler reported that the committee is gearing up for the October 17th clean up day. They are looking to make it a community event by coordinating with the 7 LDS church wards, and the Bible Church – dividing State Street into quadrants and assigning each entity a section. The clean up will take place from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. with cinnamon rolls and drinks served at Wanlass Park afterward. The event is in preparation for the Eastern Washington County beautification contest. As a second project for the contest, the committee is working to plant the trees donated by the Rotary Club. They expect to plant Arizona ash along the maintenance building and the parking lot as yard separation. The committee requested support from the planning commissioners to help with the clean up.

Stephen complimented the Beautification Committee for the great work they have done in the city.

Director of Operations:
Arby’s is open and busy. There was concern that the business would hurt JP’s Barbeque next door, but it appears to have boosted his business.
John and Chief Kuhlmann are in the midst of sending a letter to LV Swiss, the business that is located in the old RM Precision building. They were supposed to be in total compliance by now.
There have been several building permits this month.
Three CIB grants have been received for secondary water, 100 E., and drainage.
Have been granted a sidewalk grant for 300 S. for 320+ feet of sidewalk. Our cost is 25% and will include labor etc.

Unfinished Business:
Retail Commercial Zone Discussion: Kevin Bennett discussed that when Bart Penrod’s building was reviewed recently, there were questions about the conditional/grandfathered use of the building. Direction was given at that time to possibly amend the zoning ordinance to allow general commercial type uses within parameters to meet the building needs. Since that review, word has come back from city councilmembers and the mayor with a change of heart. They are more interested in rezoning that parcel to General Commercial and leaving the Retail Commercial Zone as it is written. The article that Kevin included in the packet shows a comparison of General Commercial and Retail Commercial. He would like the commissioners to still review the uses and possibly discuss some uses that may be included in the retail zone.

General Plan Update: Commissioners looked at the Law Enforcement update that was written by Chief Watkins; and the Fire Department update that was written by Allen Bice. Discussion that a COPS grant was just received by the city that will pay for an officer for three years – the city is responsible to keep the officer for a fourth year. Discussion to insert the two items into the Law Enforcement  and the Fire and Ambulance sections. Question as to whether any rewrite was to be done to the emergency preparedness section. June will check with Lloyd.

Allen Bice began reading at 9.5:
Page 74 – paragraph 1: delete Health Department
Page 74 Schools: June will call the school for updated information.  Need to delete “junior high and high school” and replace with “secondary schools”.
Page 74 Library: First sentence “four” needs to change to “five” and the list of cities where libraries are located should include Washington City.
Page 75: The chart title should be “Public Service” Goals
Page 75: Item 1.A.iii should be deleted as it has been completed.
Page 75: There are two item “2’s” in the chart.
Page 75: The second item “2”.B.ii should be deleted as the city doesn’t wish to require this.
Page 76: All acknowledgements should be deleted and make a general statement that the General Plan was written in 2005 with a citizen’s advisory committee and updated in 2008 by the Planning Commission, and City Staff, under the direction of the LaVerkin City Council.

Chapter 1 review:
Page 4 paragraph 1: refer to this article as the “General Plan” not just the “Plan”. Fix all the verbiage to reflect that.
Page 5 Plan Update: First paragraph in this section should indicate that this revision was begun in 2008 to become effective in 2010.
Page 5 Plan Update: Second paragraph should begin “In 2005” to set up the history of the General Plan updates.
Page 5 Plan Update: Third paragraph should delete “In the scope of several meetings” and just begin “The”
Page 6 delete all of the first paragraph. State that the surveys reflected the bulleted items.
State “Pursuant to State Code requirements, what follows hereafter is a 2010 update that is a revision to the 2005 plan adopted by the LaVerkin City Council on December 21, 2005.”
Page 7 - 1.3: Check Code reference.
Page 7 – 1.4 paragraph after bullets: Second line delete “of the plan”.
Page 8: Delete second and third paragraphs.

Adjourn:  Motion to adjourn by Commissioner Howard, second by Commissioner Andregg. Motion carried 4-0 at 7:00 p.m.

Minutes taken by June Jeffery

 

 

Planning Commission Chair Pro Tem, Anna Andregg

 

 

September 9, 2009, Date Approved