Planning Commission

Copy of the City of Ivins record for Planning Commission, preserved by OwnUtah.com Ivins Meetings. Official source: City of Ivins Granicus archive.

IVINS CITY
PLANNING COMMISSION
MINUTES
August 3, 2010
435-628-0606

CHAIRMAN AND COMMISSIONERS: The meeting was called to order at 05:30 p.m. All present included Chairman Dennis Mehr, Commissioner Todd Benson, Commissioner Adel Murphy, and Commissioner Michael Scott.

Staff: City Manager Judy Gubler, Building & Zoning Administrator Kevin Rudd, City Engineer Chuck Gillette and Deputy City Recorder Martha Wilson.
Audience: Marc Deshowitz, Angelo DiSante, Mayor Chris Hart, Lance Anderson and others that who did not sign in.

A.	Acknowledgement of Quorum

Chairman Mehr acknowledged there was a quorum and Commissioner John Reed was excused.

B.	Flag Salute

Commissioner Murphy led the Flag Salute.

C.	Invocation

Chairman Mehr gave the Invocation.

D.	Disclosures

The Planning Commission members that were present had no disclosures or conflicts of interest with this meeting’s agenda.

2)	REPORTS AND PRESENTATIONS (None)

3)	BUSINESS LICENSES (None)

Kevin Rudd reported that Taviawk Phase IX consists of multiple small phases. Phase Y consist of four (4) lots. There is a development agreement on Phase IX that sets a completion date for each phase. However, the development is ahead of schedule. The Technical Review Committee (TRC) recommends approval.

MOTION: Commissioner Michael Scott moved to approve a Final Plat for Taviawk Phase IX-Y located approximately 900 N 500 W. Kayenta Development, Inc., owner and Lance Anderson, applicant.
SECOND: Commissioner Todd Benson

VOTE: The motion carried unanimously.

Chuck Gillette introduced and distributed the proposed updates to Ivins City Transportation Master Plan, Figure 9 Function Classification and Cross Sections and Table 5 (report and map copies available at Ivins City office). The updates are proposed in order to proceed with the design of the Historic Township Improvements Project. Kayenta also made some recommendations to change some cross sections. The changes in the Historic Township are:
1. 200 East from 200 North to 400 North: Extend Residential Collector to Trailhead at 400 North. A 32 foot road would extend to the top of the street.
2. 350 North: Reclassify as Residential
3. Main (from 200 North to 350 North) Reclassify as residential instead of collector streets.
The changes in Kayenta area are:
1. Paiute Drive & 600 West - The analysis shows that these roads could be dropped as collector streets. If this street becomes private, Staff recommends that Paiute Drive remain as an accessible street to the public and not gated since there is a public trail adjacent to the street.
2. Change legend from "Future Residential Standard (with a 50 ROW)" to "Future Residential."
3. Table 5 lists all the cross sections such as "Residential Private Rural." The ordinance currently states that traffic on this road allows 10-500 ADT. The recommendation is 0-1250 ADT.
Also, an issue that needs to be addressed is how to manage providing driveway access in the Historic Township area. The city doesn’t want to provide curb cuts for those lots but realize that some of the accesses are seldom used. This would not impact current collector streets but maybe impact streets several years later. An option could be to amend the access management plan to be more inclusive of the existing lots. The current ordinance discourages more than one access per lot and no more than two.
Another issue to consider is that collector streets require highback curbs. Modified curbs in the old township may solve some access problems.
Chairman Mehr asked about funding implications when changing from a minor collector to residential collector.
Chuck Gillette felt that there were no funding issues at this time, but there have been some discussions that in the future impact fees may help fund collector and arterial streets.
Commissioner Scott asked if there were any other recommendations from Kayenta that were brought to the table.
Chuck Gillette explained that Kayenta did request that 450 North be removed, and some other streets be removed to have the flexibility in developing the streets. The change in the legend is inclusive of some of the private rural streets so that Kayenta still has the option to go with private streets. Staff was reluctant to make those recommendations.
Rosenberg and Associates are working on the design changes for the Historic Township area. The city would like to get the changes approved and start a bidding process in September.
The Commissioners felt they might need to digest the changes but were okay with the public hearing if Chuck Gillette was ready for the public hearing.

MOTION: Commissioner Adel Murphy moved to amend agenda to move Item 5 (C) Continue discussion of the Subdivision and Zoning Ordinances on grading and elevation of lots to Item 5 (B) and move Item (B) down to Item 5 (C).
SECOND: Commissioner Michael Scott

VOTE: The motion carried unanimously.

Kevin Rudd explained that the Commissioners' comments had been combined into one document and had been forwarded to Form Tomorrow.
The Commissioners were pleased with the formatting and comments in the document and had no additional comments to add. The document will be discussed with Form Tomorrow on August 31, 2010 to get their reaction to the Commissioners' comments.

Kevin Rudd distributed the proposed amendments and four (4) illustrations on the four major changes (copies available at Ivins City office). He explained that Item #4 prohibited any fills except to provide adequate site drainage. Item #4 (a) included a maximum fill chart on fills adjacent to interior boundaries/property lines. The chart increased from 2.0 feet to 4.6 feet of fill based on the distance from the property line. Item #4 (b) included a maximum fill chart adjacent to arterial or collector right-of-ways. This chart increased from .5 feet to 2.5 feet of fill based on distance from the curb.
Line Item #5 (a-c) referenced fill added to an existing legal subdivision lot or legal lot of record with no approved predetermined building pad elevations. Illustrations were presented for each of these amendments.
The Commissioners had a lengthy discussion on the proposed amendments. They were not sure that the maximum fill charts were the direction to go and were concerned that it would not solve the grading and elevations issues to achieve privacy to neighbors, protecting views or future elevations/drainage issues such as Sun Crest West. Another concern was it could limit the amount of grading in subdivisions and cause developers to loose lots. The commissioners asked about retention ponds as an option for drainage within subdivisions. The City Engineer, Chuck Gillette, explained that detention ponds were discouraged, except in unique situations, because the soil responds poorly in this area. After reviewing several illustrations on how the charts would affect the stepping of lots, the consensus was that the Commissioners did not feel comfortable recommending the proposed amendments as stated and felt that more research needed to be done on how the maximum fills would affect the properties.
Kevin Rudd advised that he would discuss these issues further with the Technical Review Committee (TRC) and bring it back to the Commission.

Delete the numbers from 7-9.

MOTION: Commissioner Todd Benson moved to approve the Ivins City Planning Commission minutes for June 29, 2010 as amended.
SECOND: Commissioner Michael Scott

VOTE: The motion carried.

Chairman Mehr did not have a reported but mentioned that he would not be attending the August 17th meeting.

1. Continue discussion on the Zoning Ordinance
2. Public Hearing on the Ivins City Transportation Plan updates.

MOTION: Commissioner Adel Murphy moved to adjourn
SECOND: Commissioner Todd Benson

VOTE: The motion carried unanimously.

The meeting adjourned at 7:02 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Martha S. Wilson CMC
Deputy City Recorder

Chairman Dennis Mehr	AYE
Commissioner Todd Benson	AYE
Commissioner Adel Murphy	AYE
Commissioner Michael Scott	AYE
Commissioner John Reed	ABSENT