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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPL MINUTES 04171962 Meeting Sheet IIIIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIIIIIIIII ioozao Box: 15 Folder: PL MINUTES 1962-1966 Document: PL MINUTES 04171962 PLANNING BOARD k4INUTES APRIL 17, 1962 CONTINUATION OF REGULAR MEETING OF APRIL 16, 1962 PRESENT! W.R. DOUGHERTY, JOE ROSINEK, ANDREW SKOVRAN, NORMAN CAVANAGH, ERIK ROCKS THE RECESSED MEETING OF APRIL 160 1962 WAS RECONVENED AT 8110 P.ki. BY THE CHAIRMAN. TME COMMISSION PROCEEDED TO DISCUSS THE MANY PROPOSALS AND IDEAS WHICH HAD SEEN ADVANCED FOR THE REZONING OF PORTIONS OF THE AREA IN QUESTION. IN FORMULATING ITS RECOMMENDATION TO THE VILLAGE COUNCIL' THE COMMISSION WAS GUIDED BY THE FOLLOWING PRINCIPLESI 1. ST. ANTHONY VILLAGE IS PRIMARILY A RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY OF SINGLE FAMILY, OWNER OCCUPIED HOMES AND THIS CHARACTERISTIC Of THE VILLAGE SHOULD BE P"SERVED WHEREVER POSSIBLE CONSISTENT WITH GOOD PLANNING PRACTICE. 2. THE VILLAGE HAS AN OBLIGATION TO THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE BUILT THEIR HOMES HERE BASED UPON THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE ADJOINING LANG USES HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED BY THE VILLAGE ZONING ORDINANCE TO PROTECT THE VALUE AND THE FULL ENJOYMENT Of THEIR HOMES. THEREFORE, A REZONING WHICH WOULD TEND TO DEPRECIATE THE VALUE OR TO INHIBIT THE FULL ENJOYMENT OF THESE PROPERTIES SHOULD NOT BE GRANTED WITHOUT STRONGLY COMPELLING REASONS FOR SUCH ACTION. 3. "'MILE THE PLANNING COMMISSION GIVES DUE CONSIDERATION TO THE ARGUMENTS OF PROPERTY OWNERS REQUESTING A REZONING FOR THEIR PROPERTYO AND TO THE DESIRES OF SURROUNOING RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS, IT MUST BE GUIDED IN ITS RECOMMEND- ATIONS BY CONSIDERATIONS OF THE FUTURE WELFARE AND BEST INTERESTS OF THE ENTIRE VILLAGE. Z-62-24 REVISION Of ZONING ORDINANCE TEXT IN ITS CONSIDERATIONS OF THE ZONING IN THIS AREA, THE PLANNING COMMISSION NOTED THAT THE VILLAGE ZONING ORDINANCE PERMITS SO-CALLED "HIGHER USES" IN INDUSTRIAL, COMMERCIAL AND MULTIPLE DWELLING ZONES. IT WAS THE FEELING OF THE COMMISSION THAT THIS IS A BAD PRACTICE INASMVCM AS THE CONSTRUCTION Of A HOUSE IN AN INDUSTRIAL ZONE CAN HAVE A DETRIMENTAL EFFECT UPON INDUSTRIAL USES IN THAT AREA JUST AS SERIOUS AS WOULD THE LOCATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL USE WITHIN A RESIDEN- TIAL ZONE, ROSINEK MOVED THAT THE PLANNING CDI,+IAISSION RECOMMEND THAT THE COUNCIL SHOULD AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE SO AS TO PERMIT ONLY INDUSTRIAL USES IN AN INDUSTRIAL ZONE, ONLY COMMERCIAL USES IN A COMMERCIAL ZONE, AND ONLY MULTIPLE DWELLINGS IN A MULTIPLE DWELLING ZONE. THE MOTION WAS SECONDED BY DOUGHERTY AND UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. THE COMMISSION NOTED THAT THIS WOULD BE ACCOMPLISHED BY DELETING PAR. 1, SUBSECTION At SECTION IV AND PAR. 1, SUBSECTION At SECTION V FROM VILLAGE ORD. N0. 10 AND BY ADDING A MULTIPLE DWELLING ZONE SECTION, WHICH PERMITS ONLY MULTIPLE DWELLINGS, TO OROINANOE N0. 10. -2- Z-62-3 REZONING ON SOUTH SIDE OF 37TH AVENUE N.E. FROM STINSON BLVD. TO SILVER LAKE ROAD. :OME PROPERTY OWNERS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF 37TH AVE. HAVE PROPOSED THAT BECAUSE OF THE INDUSTRIAL AND COMMEPCIAL DEVELOPMENTS NORTH OF 37TH AVENUE THE SOUTH SIDE BETWEEN STINSON BOULEVARD AND SILVER LAKE SHOULD BE REZONED FROM SINGLE FAMILY TO MULTIPLE DWELLINGS. HOWEVER, IN THE OPINION OF THE COMMISSION SUCH A REZONING WOULD HAVE SERIOUS ADVERSE E,:FECTS UPON THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREA IMMEDIATELY TO THE SOUTH AND THEREFORE WOULD NOT BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF EITHER THE VILLAGE OR THE SURROUNDING PROPERTY OWNERS. THE PLANNING COMMISSI %N DOES FEEL, HOWEVER, THAT SOME BUFFER SHOULD BE PROVIDED AND TWAT FOR THIS PURPOSE THE CONSTRUCTION OF TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGS, IN COMPLIANCE WITH VILLAGE ZONING AND BUILDING CODES, SHOULD BE PERMITTED ON BUILDING LOTS CONTIGUOUS TO 37TH AVENUE N.E. IT IS THE FURTHER RECOMMENDATION OF THE COMMISSION THAT TWO-FAMILY DWELLINGS IN THIS AREA BE PERMITTED BY SPECIAL USE PERMIT OR REZONING AT THE TIME OF THE BUILDING PERMIT APPLICATION INSTEAD OF BY .A BLANKET REZONING AT THIS TIME, IT WAS MOVED BY ROCKS, SECONDED BY CAVANAGH, AND APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY. Z-62-5 REZONING NORTH OF 37TH AVE. IN THE VICINITY OF FOSS ROAD SOME Of THE PROPERTY OWNERS ALONG FOSS ROAD HAVE REQUESTED BY PETITION AND IN APPEARANCES BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION THAT THE PROPERTY ALONG FOSS ROAD, NORTH OF 37TH AVENUE BE REZONED FROM SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL TO MULTIPLE DWELLING. IN CONSIDERING THESE REQUESTS, THE COMMISSION NOTED THAT AT THE PRESENT TIME THE ZONING ORDINANCE DOES NOT CONTAIN A MULTIPLE DWELLING ZONE AS SUCH BUT THAT SUCH USES ARE HOWEVER PERMITTED IN COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL ZONES. THE COMMISSION HAS HOWEVER PROPOSED THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MULTIPLE DWELLING SECTION IN THE ZONING ORDINANCE. SEE ITEM Z-62-4 ABOVE) IN THE OPINION OF THE COMMISSION, REZONING THE PROPERTY ADJACENT TO FOSS ROAD TO MULTIPLE DWELLING WOULD CREATE A NARROW STRIP OF UNPROTECTED SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONING BETWEEN THE PROPOSED REZONING AND THE VILLAGE BOUNDARY AT HIGHCREST. SINCE THIS WOULD SE HIGHLY UNDESIRABLE THE ACTUAL CHOICE APPEARED TO THE COMMISSION TO BE BETWEEN REZONING TO MULTIPLE DWELLING ALL OF THE AREA NORTH OF 37TH AND BETWEEN THE EXISTING INDUSTRIAL ZONING AND HIGHCREST ROAD OR DENYING THE REQUEST. IT WAS SHE FURTHER OPINION OF THE COMMISSION THAT SUCH REZONING WOULD ADVERSELY AFFECT THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREA TO THE SOUTH OF 37TH AVENUE AND ALSO THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREA EAST OF HIGHCREST WITHIN THE VILLAGE OF NEW BRIGHTON. IT WAS MOVED BY SKOVRAN THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMEND THE FOLLOWINGS 1 . THE EXISTING SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONING EAgr OF FOSS ROAD SHOULD BE RETAINED. • 2. THE EXISTING SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONING WEST OF FOSS ROAD AND NORTH OF 37TH AVENUE SHOULD BE REZONED TO TWO FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. 3. THE EXISTING INDUSTRIAL ZONING EAST OF FORDWAM, NORTH OF 37TH AVE. AND BOOTH OF THE VILLAGE MAINTENANCE SHOP (LOT 15) SHOULD BE REZONED TO MULTIPLE DWELLING, 4. ALL OF BLOCK 9, WIOUNDSVIEW 2ND ADDITION EXCEPT LOT 1 SHOULD BE REZONED FROM INDUSTRIAL TO MULTIPLE DWELLING. THE MOTION WAS SECONDED BY CAVANAGH AND GIVEN UNANIMOUS APPROVAL. IN ADOPTING THE ABOVE MOTION THE COMMISSION NOTED THAT SUCH REZONING SWOULD HAVE THE EFFECT OF ESTABLISHING AN ORDERLY GRADATION OF RISES IN THE NORTH SIDE OF 37TH AVENUE FROM THE INDUSTRIAL USE BY THE BERGER BROS. TRUCKING TERMINAL TO THE MULTIPLE DWELLING USE, TO THE TWO FAMILY DWELLING USE ON THE WEST SIDE OF FOSS ROAD AND THEN TO SINGLE FAMILY USE. Z-62-6 REZONING OF SOUTH SIDE OF SILVER LANE FROM STINSON BLVD. TO SILVER LAKE R0. THE PLANNING COMMISSION CONSIDERED THE REQUEST OF THE OWNERS OF THE PROPERTY IN QUESTION TO RS=ONE THE ABOVE DESCRIBED AREA FROM SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL TO MULTIPLE DWELLING. IT 13 THE OPINION OF THE COMMISSION THAT ANY REZONING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SILVER LANE WOULD HAVE SERIOUS ADVERSE EFFECTS UPON THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT NORTH OF SILVER LANE. SKOVRAN MOVED THAT THE COMMISSION SHOULD RECOMMEND THAT THE EXISTING SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONING ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF SILVER LANE SHOULD BE RETAINED. THE MOTION WAS SECONDED BY CAVANAGH AND GIVEN UNANIMOUS APPROVAL. Z-62-7 REZONING IN AREA NORTH OF THE S00 LINE TRACKS AND EAST OF SILVER LAKE ROAD. THE COMMISSION CONSIDERED THE MANY REQUESTS AND SUGGESTIONS WHICH HAD BEEN MADE FOR REZONING THIS AREA. IN REGARD TO A REQUEST FOR REZONING THE EASTERLY MCST PORTION OF THIS AREA FOR INOUSTRAIL USES, IT WAS THE OPINION THAT SUCH RE- ZONING WOULD HAVE A DISRUPTIVE EFFECT U►ON THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE IT WOULD GENERATE HEAVY TRAFFIC THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT IT WOULD ALSO ADVERSLY AFFECT THE ADJACENT SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREAS. IN REGARD REQUESTS THAT THE PROPERTIES FRONTING ON SILVER LAKE ROAD SHOULD BE REZONED FOR COMMERCIAL LIMITED BUSINESS, OR MULTIPLE DWELLING USE, IT WAS THE OPINION OF THE COMMISSION THAT SUCH REZONING WOULD FURTHER UNDERMINE THE EXISTING AND POTENTIAL SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREAS TO THE EAST, CAVANAGH MOVED THAT THE COMMISSION RECOMMEND THAT$ 1. THE HALF-•LOOK WIDE EXISTING SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL AREA LYING SOUTH OF SILVER LANE AND ADJACENT TO SILVER LAKE ROAD SHOULD k REZONED TO TWO FAMILY RESIDENTIAL USE. Z. THE REMAINING SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONING IN THIS AREA SHOULD BE RETAINED. THE INDUSTRIAL ZONING NORTH OF THE Soo LINE TRACKS AND EAST OF SILVER LAKE ROAD SHOULD BE REZONED TO MULTIPLE DWELLING USE. THE MOTION WAS SECONDED BY DOUGHERTY AND GIVEN UNANIMOUS APPROVAL. P-62-1 FRANK FUDALI , MULTIPLE DWELLINGS THE COMMISSION THEN PROCEEDED TO AGAIN CONSIDER THE ABOVE REQUEST SEE MINUTES OF APRIL 160 1962) THE COMMISSION NOTED THAT THE AREA PROPOSED FOR DEVELOPMENT LIES WITHIN THE AREA WHICH THE COMMISSION HAS RECOMMENDED SE REZONED FROM INDUSTRIAL TO MULTIPLE DWELLING USE. ROSINEK MOVED THAT THE COMMISSION RECOMMEND CONDITIONAL APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSAL TO BUILD SEVEN 18-UNIT MULTIPLE DWELLINGS NORTH OF 37TH AVENUE BETWEEN MACALESTER AND FORDHAM, SUCH APPROVAL TO BECOME FINAL AT SUCH TIME AS THE DEVELOO- . ER HAS SATISFIED THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: a ' —4- 1 , APPROVAL BY THE VILLAGE ENGINEER OF THE SOILS AND DRAINAGE IN THE AREA AND OF THE DEVELOPERS PROPOSED GRADING AND DRAINAGE PLAN, Z. APPROVAL BY TME VILLAGE ENGINEER AND THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF ARRANGEMENTS FOR TME PAVING Of MACALESTER AND FOROHAM ADJACENT• TO TME PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT. 3. APPROVAL BY THE VILLAGE OF REVISED BUILD'NA PLANS WHICH MEET THE VILLAGE MINIMUM FLOOR AREA REQUIREMENTS AND THE ARCHETECTURAL REQUIREMENTS. 4. CERTIFICATION BY THE VILLAGE ENGINEER THAT THE PROPOSAL MEETS THE MINIMUM PARKING SPACE REQUIREMENT AND THE MINIMUM SET BACK REQUIREMENTS OF THE VILLAGE.A110 AT SUCH TIME AS THE VILLAGE HAS COMPLETED BOTH THE REVISIONS OF THE ZONING OROINANCE TEXT RECOMMENDED IN ITEM Z-62-4 ABOVE AND THE REZONING RECOMMENDED IN TEM Z-62-5 ABOVE. THE MOTION WAS SECONDED BY CAVANAGH AND RECEIVED THE UNANIMOUS APPROVAL OF THE FOUR MEMBERS PRESENT. (SKOYRAN HAD LEFT THE MEETING PRIOR TO THE MOTION.) THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 11130 P.M.