HomeMy WebLinkAbout1,195 - February 14, 2023 signedMINUTES OF THE 1,195th PUBLIC HEARINGS AND REGULAR MEETING
HELD BY THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
OF THE CITY OF LIVONIA
On Tuesday, February 14, 2023, the City Planning Commission of the City of
Livonia held its 1,195th Public Hearing and Regular Meetings in the Livonia City
Hall, 33000 Civic Center Drive, Livonia, Michigan.
Mr. Ian Wilshaw, Chairman, called the meeting to order at 7 p.m.
Members present: Wafa Dinaro David Bongero Sam Caramagno
Glen Long Peter Ventura Ian Wilshaw
Members absent: None
Mr. Mark Taormina, Planning Director, and Stephanie Reece, Program Supervisor,
were also present.
Chairman Wilshaw informed the audience that if a petition on tonight's agenda
involves a rezoning request, this Commission makes a recommendation to the City
Council who, in turn, will hold its own public hearing and make the final
determination as to whether a petition is approved or denied. The Planning
Commission holds the only public hearing on a request for preliminary plat and/or
vacating petition. The Commission's recommendation is forwarded to the City
Council for the final determination as to whether a plat is accepted or rejected. If a
petition requesting a waiver of use or site plan approval is denied tonight, the
petitioner has ten days in which to appeal the decision, in writing, to the City
Council. Resolutions adopted by the City Planning Commission become effective
seven (7) days after the date of adoption. The Planning Commission and the
professional staff have reviewed each of these petitions upon their filing. The staff
has furnished the Commission with both approving and denying resolutions, which
the Commission may, or may not, use depending on the outcome of the
proceedings tonight.
ITEM #1 PETITION 2022-12-01-02 St. Mary Basilica
Mr. Caramagno, Secretary, announced the first item on the agenda, Petition 2022-
12-01-02 submitted by Basilica of St. Mary under Sections 13.13
and 13.15 of the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning Ordinance, as
amended, requesting to rezone parts of the properties at 18100
Merriman Road and 30600 Brookview Drive, located on the east
side of Merriman Road between Mayville Drive and Seven Mile
Road in the Northwest % of Section 11, from P-L (Public Lands)
to N2 (Neighborhood) and NM3-I (Neighborhood Multifamily —
Maximum 4 Stories).
Mr. Wilshaw:
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This item was tabled that our previous meeting and was tabled to
this meeting. So, is there a motion to remove this item from the
table?
On a motion by Long, seconded by Ventura, and unanimously adopted, it was:
#02-08-2023
RESOLVED, That pursuant to a Public Hearing having been held
by the City Planning Commission on February 14, 2023, on
Petition 2022-12-01-02 submitted by Basilica of St. Mary under
Sections 13.13 and 13.15 of the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning
Ordinance, as amended, requesting to rezone parts of the
properties at 18100 Merriman Road and 30600 Brookview Drive,
located on the east side of Merriman Road between Mayville
Drive and Seven Mile Road in the Northwest' of Section 11,
from P-L (Public Lands) to N2 (Neighborhood) and NM3-I
(Neighborhood Multifamily — Maximum 4 Stories), the Planning
Commission does hereby remove the item from the table.
Mr. Wilshaw: So, this item has been removed from the table. So now we can
discuss this. Mr. Taormina. I believe there is an update some new
information on this item.
Mr. Taormina: Yes, Mr. Chairman, I believe you received correspondence from
the petitioner requesting that this item be tabled to the May 9,
2023, Regular Meeting of the Planning Commission.
Mr. Wilshaw: Okay, so our petitioner has requested that this item be put back
on the table until May 9, 2023, and anytime we receive these
requests, we honor the petitioner's request. It gives them
additional time to research and prepare for that meeting. If there
is no other discussion from any of our commissioners? If not a
motion to put this item back on the table to May 9 would be
appropriate at this time.
On a motion by Long, seconded by Bongero, and unanimously adopted, it was:
#02-09-2023
RESOLVED, That pursuant to a Public Hearing having been held
by the City Planning Commission on February 14, 2023, on
Petition 2022-12-01-02 submitted by Basilica of St. Mary under
Sections 13.13 and 13.15 of the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning
Ordinance, as amended, requesting to rezone parts of the
properties at 18100 Merriman Road and 30600 Brookview Drive,
located on the east side of Merriman Road between Mayville
Drive and Seven Mile Road in the Northwest '/4 of Section 11,
from P-L (Public Lands) to N2 (Neighborhood) and NM3-I
(Neighborhood Multifamily — Maximum 4 Stories),the Planning
Commission does hereby table the item to May 9, 2023.
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Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
ITEM #2 PETITION 2023-01-02-01 Alleviate Acupuncture
Mr. Caramagno, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda, Petition 2023-
01-02-01 submitted by Alleviate Acupuncture Wellness Clinic
requesting waiver use approval under Section 6.37 of the Livonia
Vision 21 Zoning Ordinance, as amended, to operate a massage
establishment at 33300 Five Mile Road, Suite 105, located on the
northeast corner of Five Mile and Farmington Roads in the
Southwest' of Section 15.
Mr. Taormina: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The location of this request is the Civic
Center Office Plaza, which is at the northeast corner of Five Mile
and Farmington Roads. This is an office building that is about
35,000 square feet in size and sits on land of roughly 3.13 acres
with frontage on both Five Mile and Farmington Roads. It is a two-
story structure. Most of the parking is located between the
building and Five Mile and Farmington Roads. Directly adjacent
to the site is the city owned Veterans Memorial Park. The site is
zoned C-1, which treats massage establishments as a waiver use
under Section 6.37 of the zoning ordinance. Alleviate
Acupuncture Wellness Clinic currently occupies one of the suites,
which is on the first floor of the building. The suite is roughly 2,350
square feet in size. The principal use of the business currently is
acupuncture. Expanding the use to include massage therapy
requires approval of a waiver. The plans submitted with the
application show the general layout of the space including a lobby
and reception area, several individual treatment rooms, as well
as offices and a restroom. No modifications to the building are
proposed. The zoning ordinance limits the hours of operation
from 8am to 10pm. There are two special separation
requirements that are part of the code. One is that massage
establishments not be located within 400 feet of an existing
massage establishment. There are no other massage
establishments within 400 feet of this proposed location.
Secondly, there is a 400-foot separation requirement from any
school, place of worship, daycare facility, public library,
playground, or park. As I indicated earlier, Veterans Memorial
Park is located immediately adjacent to this site, so that will
require that the required separation distance be waived by City
Council with the Planning Commission's recommendation.
Parking is adequate for the site. And Mr. Chairman, if you wish I
can read out the correspondence now.
Mr. Wilshaw:
Mr. Taormina:
Mr. Wilshaw:
Mr. Wilshaw:
Ruth Lehmann,
Mr. Wilshaw:
Ms. Lehmann:
Mr. Wilshaw:
Mr. Ventura:
Ms. Lehmann:
Mr. Ventura:
Ms. Lehmann:
Mr. Ventura:
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Yes, please.
I'II just summarize these quickly. We have actually six letters from
departments including Engineering, Fire, Police Traffic Bureau,
Department of Inspection, Accounting or Finance, as well as the
Treasurer and all are indicating that they have no objections with
the proposal as submitted. Thank you.
All right. Thank you. Mr. Taormina. Is there any questions for our
planning staff? If there's no questions for our planning staff, I
believe our petitioners in the audience, feel free to come forward
to our podium.
We'll ask that you start with your name and address for our
record.
owner operator of Alleviate Acupuncture. I have a doctorate in
acupuncture and Chinese medicine.
Thank you, Ms. Lehmann. What else would you like to tell us
about your business?
Well, most of my patients actually are used to an integrative
medicine perspective, utilizing chiropractic massage and
acupuncture, and so they're looking forward to having additional
options at my practice. Acupuncture and massage work
synergistically to increase the effect, effective result, alleviating
pain, decreasing stress and so it's just adding...it's kind of
flushing out or supplementing the overall experience for my
patients.
Okay, thank you. Is there any questions from any of our fellow
commissioners for Ms. Lehmann?
Thank you for coming here tonight. You are really an acupuncture
practice, and so this is going to supplement what you do. Is that
correct?
Yes.
So, you're not primarily going to be a massage.
Exactly.
And the kind of massage that you're doing here differs from what
you might think of as a massage parlor, if you will, in that it's
therapeutic and...
Ms. Lehmann: Of course.
Mr. Ventura:
Ms. Lehmann:
Mr. Ventura:
Ms. Lehmann:
Mr. Wilshaw:
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Mr. Taormina talked about the hours that the ordinance allows
you to operate. What hours do you plan on operating?
Definitely within those hours. We're actually open from 10am to
2pm, Mondays and Wednesdays. Tuesday evenings I'm open
from 4pmr to 8pm. On Thursdays we're open a little bit earlier.
We start at 8am and we go until 2pm, and then Saturdays, we're
open from 9am until 1pm.
Thank You
No problem.
Thank you, Mr. Ventura. Any other questions for our petitioner?
Mr. Caramagno: Pete took my question with the hours. My question would be, how
long you've been in business? And where have you been
located?
Ms. Lehmann:
Mr. Wilshaw:
Mr. Wilshaw:
Ms. Lehmann:
Mr. Wilshaw:
Sure. So, I actually moved to Michigan five years ago. I previously
worked as a nurse and then I worked as an acupuncturist at a
health care facility in Wisconsin. I've been an acupuncturist for
five years. When I moved to Michigan, I worked for Henry Ford
Health System as an acupuncturist within their Center for
Integrative wellness. I just opened my practice here in Livonia, in
August of this past year, 2022, and I'm very happy to be here.
However, my patients are missing the integrative approach and
wishing me to bring the complement of services to them. Thank
you.
Thank you, Mr. Caramagno, any other questions for our
petitioner?
I see no other questions from any of our commissioners. Is there
anyone in the audience wishing to speak for or against this
petition? I don't see anybody jumping up for that item. Is there
anything else that you would like to say before we make our
decision?
No, thank you. Just thank you very much for the opportunity. I'm
very happy to be here.
Thank you, and we'll get your item resolved here shortly. Thank
you. Thank you for coming. If there's no further questions of our
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petitioner, and I can see that our public hearing is being closed
and a motion would be in order.
On a motion by Ventura, seconded by Long, and unanimously adopted, it was:
#02-10-2023
RESOLVED, That pursuant to a Public Hearing having been held
by the City Planning Commission on February 14, 2023, on
Petition 2023-01-02-01 submitted by Alleviate Acupuncture
Wellness Clinic requesting waiver use approval under Section
6.37 of the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning Ordinance, as amended, to
operate a massage establishment at 33300 Five Mile Road, Suite
105, located on the northeast corner of Five Mile and Farmington
Roads in the Southwest '/4 of Section 15, the Planning
Commission does hereby recommend to the City Council that
Petition 2023-01-02-01 be approved subject to the following
conditions:
1. The use of a massage establishment at this location is
allowed, provided that City Council waives the requirement
under Section 6.37(3) that no massage establishment shall
be located within four hundred feet (400') of a park.
2. This waiver is limited to Alleviate Acupuncture Wellness
Clinic and shall only be transferred to another user after first
obtaining City Council approval.
3. The Petitioner shall comply with all other special waiver use
standards and requirements as outlined in Section 6.37 of
the Zoning Ordinance and Chapter 5.49 of the Livonia Code
of Ordinances, and
4. The Petitioner shall not engage in any form of solicitation for
business within the public right-of-way of Farmington and
Five Mile Roads.
FURTHER RESOLVED, That notice of the above hearing was
given in accordance with the provisions of Section 13.13 of
Livonia Vision 21 Zoning Ordinance, as amended.
Mr. Wilshaw: Is there any discussion?
Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted. It will go on to City Council with an approving resolution.
ITEM #3 PETITION 2023-01-06-01 LV 21 Zoning Amendments
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Mr. Caramagno, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda, Petition 2023-
01-06-01 submitted by the City of Livonia Planning Commission
on its motion under Section 13.15 of the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning
Ordinance, as amended, and under Public Act 110 of 2006
(Michigan Zoning Enabling Act), as amended, to consider
multiple revisions to the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning Ordinance to
correct certain defects, add and delete provisions, and provide
clarification to others.
Mr. Taormina: Thank you. This item involves changes to the Livonia Vision 21
Zoning Ordinance. The amendments would affect 39 sections of
the code, many of which are minor and will have little or no impact
other than to provide clarity and consistency. The more
substantive changes include the following. First is classifying
banquet facilities as a use similar to dance halls and ballrooms,
defining what constitutes a banquet facility based on building
occupancy, and establishing standards that will treat them as a
waiver use in the C-2 zoning district. Next, making a distinction
between steel fabricators and special trade contractors versus
truck terminals, truck and trailer rental or storage facilities, and
vehicle tow yards. Currently, these six industrial uses are lumped
together under a single category and treated strictly as waiver
uses in the M-1 and M-2 Manufacturing districts. The change
would split them into two groups, with steel fabricators and
special trade contractors as a separate group and treating them
as a use permitted by right in the M-2 district. Next, adding the
Open Space Preservation Option as a permitted use in RUF
districts. This special zoning provision previously existed in
Ordinance #543 and is something that the Michigan Zoning
Enabling Act requires local government units to have in their
zoning ordinances. The Open Space Preservation Option
regulations are being added to Section 5.03. Any project or
development proposed under this option would be subject to Site
Plan Review. Fourth, adding apartments as a waiver to the NMI
(Neighborhood Multifamily District). This change would correct an
oversight when the new ordinance was adopted. You'll recall that
the R-C (Residential Condominium), the R-6 (Two -Family) and
the R-7 (Multifamily) districts that were all a part of the old
ordinance were consolidated into the NMI district in the LV 21
Zoning Ordinance. Of the City's 17 non -age -restricted apartment
complexes, 15 were zoned R-7. Unfortunately, the NMI district
regulations do not include apartments, making them all non-
conforming. To fix this, apartments would be added to Section
3.07 as a waiver -use. Next, eliminating the exception to the
minimum residential lot depth standard. Footnote (b) in the
schedule of regulations currently allows the City to reduce the
depth of single-family lots where immovable physical boundary
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limitations exist. This language has existed for years and has not
been applied consistently. Recent litigation involving a lot split in
which the plaintiff successfully used Footnote (b) as leverage
against the City is why the Law Department is recommending that
it be removed from the ordinance. Number six, enacting a size
limit on stores that are allowed to sell packaged spirit products
under a Specially Designated Distributor license, or SDD. The
limit would be 15,000 square feet and would codify what has been
a long-standing practice of the City to restrict SDD licenses to
smaller retail stores instead of big box or large format businesses.
Number seven, preventing alcohol sales at gasoline service
stations. This is another long-standing practice of the City. Eight,
providing construction standards for masonry screen walls, which
are often required between residential and nonresidential zoning
districts. Number nine requiring City Council approval to waive
the hard surfacing requirements for parking areas. Ten, adopting
several changes to the sign regulations, including modifying the
definition of "mural" and stipulating that Council's approval is
required to paint or add a mural to any building or structure. Next,
adding and adjusting the standards for order and preorder menu
boards for restaurants with drive-thru facilities. Increasing the
area and number of awning, canopy or wall signs allowed in the
City's commercial and industrial zoning districts and specifying
that temporary signs must be placed outside of any easements.
public right of way or common area used for vehicular or
pedestrian traffic. I'll note that this was one of the changes
recommended by the Planning Commission at the study session.
The language which previously proposed maintaining a 10-foot
setback has been changed. Eleven, adding language that would
give the City Council the authority to limit the approval of a waiver
to a specific user. Currently, this language is added to resolutions
on a case -by -case basis but has yet to have a foundation in the
ordinance. This change would do just that. Ironically, the most
recent example was the case just prior to this when the
Commission approved Alleviate Acupuncture. And twelve,
clarifying the rights of the Building Official concerning enforcing
the ordinance and charging and seeking penalties against
violators. This evening. I'd like the Planning Commission to
consider one more change not previously discussed. it would add
drive -up window facilities for uses other than restaurants as a
waiver use in the C-land C-2 districts, and as a permitted use in
the C-3 district. The ordinance does not currently have rules that
apply in these situations. A good example would be a pharmacy
drive -up operation. This too existed in the previous ordinance, but
somehow escaped being put back in the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning
Ordinance when it was adopted. it is the staff's opinion that the
requested changes will result in a better zoning ordinance, One
Mr. Wilshaw:
Ms. Dinaro:
Mr. Taormina:
Ms. Dinaro:
Mr. Taormina:
Ms. Dinaro:
Mr. Wilshaw:
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that helps achieve the overall goals and objectives of the Livonia
Vision Master Plan. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Taormina, and I think it's important for anyone
who's watching this and wondering exactly what's going on,
because there's a lot of moving parts in this petition, which is
offered directly by the city and is the petitioner on this. In the past
couple of years, we completely rewrote the zoning ordinance
from scratch, basically, and came up with a whole new, much
easier to use and simplified, manageable zoning ordinance, but
in the process of doing that, there's going to be things that get
missed or typos or things that needed to be added along the way.
So, we went through this process some time ago and did a
revision of a number of items, and approve that, you're now going
back and you've collected more items that you found that needed
to be updated, and are now presenting that to us again. We
discussed this in length that our study meeting, each of these
items, because there's a lot of little details and walk through those
so that we understood what they were. Now we have an
opportunity here at this meeting to ask any additional questions,
get some input from any of our residents who may have any
questions and then make the second revision to the zoning
ordinance. This is going to continue to happen periodically. It's a
living document. So, it's a lot of work goes into these things. It
was very quickly summarized by Mr. Taormina, and I appreciate
that but the reality is a lot of work goes into to doing this. So, I do
appreciate all the all the effort that goes into this. With that, I will
see because we are the petitioner for this item, I'm going to
see...1111 go directly to the commissioners and see if there's any
questions or comments from any of our commissioners for Mr.
Taormina?
Mark, did we get any public comments or feedback on this?
We received one email which staff responded to. I believe the
Planning Commission was copied on it.
Nothing in addition to that?
Nothing that I know of.
Great.
Excellent, thank you. Any other questions for our planning staff
from any of our commissioners?
Mr: Ventura:
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Not a question, Mr. Taormina, but I want to compliment you and
the Planning Commission staff on really doing an outstanding job
of combing through this and having kept all the records of the
places that this thing needed to be adjusted to meet the needs of
the city and to make sense and to take out the conflicts and I think
you've done an outstanding job. Thank you and I compliment you.
Mr. Taormina: Thank you.
Mr. Wilshaw:
Thank you, Mr. Ventura. Any other questions or comments from
any of our commissioners? If not, is there anyone in our audience
wishing to speak for or against this item? If so, feel free to come
forward.
Mr. Wilshaw: Good evening, sir.
Mike Coliton, 31193 Bobrich Street, Livonia, Michigan. Good evening, gentlemen.
Good to see you guys. Thank you, guys, for what you do. Many
people are home with families right now, seeing their kids play
hockey or whatever. You guys are here. So, thank you, I mean
that greatly. I'm here to remind you guys of your great and
awesome duties that you have to serve the citizens of our city,
and I thank you very much for that. So, I look back at all the
meetings. I'll be traveling for some time, so this is going to be the
last meeting I'll be able to do for a while. I look at what you guys
talk about look, what you do. I look at the visions that you plan
and this Vision 21 is extremely important to our city. It's the basics
of what we're going to going forward. So, the obligations that you
have are great. As a matter of fact, in 1926 the landmark case,
the City of Euclid versus Ambler states that zoning boards not
only are critical, they have an obligation to the citizens to uphold
to protect the property values of the citizens. That 1926 Euclid
versus Ambler. It states that you have an obligation to protect the
property values of your citizens, so thank you for that, number
one. In that constitutional landmark case, it said the argument
favors zoning laws is that they help preserve the character of a
community. Without these laws, the rezoning goes, you'd have
brothels next to schools, and lumber mills or apartment buildings,
next to residential neighborhoods. Proponents also argued these
laws helped maintain property values and stabilize them, if not
grow them. The argument is that when a government enacts a
zoning ordinance, it has effect depriving property owner of a right
but it's protecting the citizens who are there. So, I'd like you to
remember this going forward. And please thank you again for
what you do. What you guys are going to do tonight, and in the
future, like May 9th In the future. It's going to make a big difference
to our city. Thank you very much.
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Mr. Wilshaw: Thank you. Mr. Collinson. For your comments. Is there anyone
else wishing to speak for or against this item? I don't see anyone
else coming forward. Is there any...again, I'll go back to my
commissioners? Is there anyone on the commission wishing to
make any comments or ask any additional questions? If not, I
think I can close the public hearing on this item and a motion
would be an order.
On a motion by Long, seconded by Bongero, and unanimously adopted, it was:
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Mr. Wilshaw:
RESOLVED, That pursuant to a Public Hearing having been held
by the City Planning Commission on February 14, 2023, on
Petition 2023-01-06-01 submitted by the City of Livonia Planning
Commission on its motion under Section 13.15 of the Livonia
Vision 21 Zoning Ordinance, as amended, and under Public Act
110 of 2006 (Michigan Zoning Enabling Act), as amended, to
consider multiple revisions to the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning
Ordinance to correct certain defects, add and delete provisions,
and provide clarification to others, the Planning Commission does
hereby recommend to the City Council that Petition 2023-
01/06/01 be approved for the following reasons:
1. That the proposed language amendments are needed to
correct certain errors and omissions that were overlooked
with the adoption of the original Livonia Vision 21 Zoning
Ordinance.
2. That the proposed amendments add and delete certain
provisions in a way that will serve to improve the
effectiveness of the City's land use regulations.
3. That the proposed amendments will serve to further the
implementation of the goals and objectives of the Livonia
Vision 21 Master Plan and are in the best interests of the
community as a whole.
4. That the proposed amendments to are in full compliance
with the requirements of the Livonia Vision 21 Zoning
Ordinance and the Michigan Zoning Enabling Act, P.A. 110
of 2006, as amended.
On that motion, I want to just ask a question of the maker of the
motion. I assume that you're also intending on including the
language about drive ups.
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Mr. Long: Inclusive of the language that was added today regarding drive in
Windows for non -restaurants.
Mr. Wilshaw: Okay, thank you. I just wanted to make sure that we... that it's
very clear. Okay, thank you and the maker or the supporter, I'm
sure it's okay with him. Okay, very good. And there is one person
in the audience who's standing there. I don't normally... this is not
time for public comment, but I will give you an opportunity if you
would like to just briefly ask a question.
Ellen Cusin,.31098 Bobrich Street, Livonia, MI. I know I was a little bit late. I'm
sorry. I understand I was late. I didn't expect this to come up quite
as quickly. But, um, I guess my concern and my question for you
is, and you may have already addressed this, but why are these
being addressed now? Actually, these actual things...some of
these, when I was looking at what's being proposed, it just seems
like we're opening ourselves up for maybe some non -regulation
going on and not really having control over what's going to be
happening in Livonia...on some of these, and I guess I'm just
curious, like, when did these decide to come up because this like,
appeared, and as far as I know, it appeared after the meeting two
weeks ago and so it kind of just makes me wonder, and as a
longtime resident of Livonia, I guess I would like a little more back
drop history about this.
Mr. Wilshaw:
Sure. Unfortunately, you did miss probably my opening speech,
which is...so hopefully...I'll sort of go through it again, quickly,
just hoping to answer some of your questions. Our zoning
ordinance was...we've had since the inception of the city. A year
or so ago though, we went through a process of...a couple of
years ago, probably now. a very lengthy process of completely
rewriting our rezoning ordinance, or our zoning ordinance, to a
whole new format and language. As part of that, when you're
doing a major rewrite of something, things are gonna get missed,
and so as that new zoning ordinance was implemented, and
things that were discovered that either were missed, needs to be
added, clarified, tweaked, typos, any of those types of things.
Those were collected, and they're brought to us in a large
package of revisions that we did. Some time ago, we did a
revision, quite a while back to correct a bunch of those things.
And then, again, we've now gone through a second iteration of...
of corrections and additions and changes that our planning staff
and our city attorney and other people within the city have noted,
need to be fixed. This is now a package a second revision that's
being brought to us that's been collected over a period of time to
make these edits. There's many, many, many edits in this
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proposal tonight. So, the timing is not specific to any other event
that's occurring in the city. It's just, this is the time that this was
bundled together and brought to us. Mr. Taormina, is there
anything else that I'm missing?
Mr. Taormina: I can assure this resident that these changes have been in the
works for the past year. It was shortly after the adoption of the
2022 changes when we began. It was this same time last year
that we were already finding items that needed modifications as
part of a second round of amendments, which is why we're here
today.
Mr. Wilshaw:
Ms. Cusin:
Mr. Wilshaw:
Ms. Cusin:
Mr. Wilshaw:
Ms. Cusin:
Mr. Wilshaw:
It's likely there's going to be a third and a fourth at some point in
the future. So, this is just sort of a housekeeping item, really. But
if there's anything specific about the any of these changes that
you have a question about or...
No, actually, I thought I was going to hear you go down the list
this evening, and then I could take it and understand it, because
I was trying to come here to understand all these changes a little
bit better. It is quite lengthy. And I was really hoping that I would
hear that. Okay, so obviously, that's not the case.
Yeah, that's...
I really thought we'd be going through this resolution, this one this
one.
Yeah, we don't line item. And it's more of a package approval that
we're making tonight. Now this is gonna go to City Council if it's
approved tonight, and they'll have to also have a public hearing,
and there'll be an opportunity for public comments as well there.
So, if in between now and then, you have an opportunity. We only
make recommendations at the Planning Commission. So, they
will ultimately make this language change if they if they choose
to. So, you have an opportunity to still do additional research and
formulate questions and ask at the City Council level as well. So,
all right.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
Thank you for coming. Again, we do have a motion on the floor
to approve by Mr. Long supported by Mr. Bongero. If there's no
comments on the motion, a roll would be an order.
Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted. It will go on to City Council with an approving resolution.
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ITEM #4 APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1,193rd Public Hearings and
Regular Meeting
Mr. Caramagno, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda, Approval of
the Minutes of the 1,193rd Public Hearing and Regular Meeting
held on November 15, 2022.
On a motion by Long, seconded by Caramagno, and unanimously adopted, it was:
#02-12-2023 RESOLVED, That the Minutes of 1,193rd Public Hearings and
Regular Meeting held by the Planning Commission on November
15, 2022, are hereby approved.
A roll call vote on the foregoing resolution resulted in the following:
AYES: Long, Caramagno, Wilshaw
NAYS: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: Dinaro, Bongero, Ventura
Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
ITEM #5 APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1,194th Public Hearings and
Regular Meeting
Mr. Caramagno, Secretary, announced the next item on the agenda, Approval of
the Minutes of the 1,194th Public Hearing and Regular Meeting
held on January 31, 2023.
On a motion by Bongero, seconded by Dinaro, and unanimously adopted, it was:
#02-13-2023 RESOLVED, That the Minutes of 1,194th Public Hearings and
Regular Meeting held by the Planning Commission on January
31, 2023, are hereby approved.
A roll call vote on the foregoing resolution resulted in the following:
AYES: Dinaro, Bongero, Long, Caramagno, Wilshaw
NAYS: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: Ventura
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Mr. Wilshaw, Chairman, declared the motion is carried and the foregoing resolution
adopted.
On a motion duly made, seconded and unanimously adopted, the 1,195th Public
Hearings and Regular Meeting held on February 14, 2023, was adjourned at 7:38
p.m.
ATTEST:
Ian Wilshaw, Chairman
CITY PLEA ING COMMISSION
ramagno, Secretary