Randall Knight and Anita Weston, Reporters
Rich Civic Times
GARDEN
CITY, Utah. April 7, 2014. It looked like it was going to be another long-drawn-out
Planning and Zoning Commission meeting by the number of agenda topics. The 4:00
PM public hearing meeting consisting of a road trip to potential areas
conducive to hotels and motels was canceled due to less than half of the board
showing up.
The
regular P&Z meeting started at 5:00 PM with Lance Bourne chairing. Only three other board members were
attendance to make a quorum and they were: Susan House, Jim Stone, and Mike
Schiess. Pat Argyle and Dewayne Gifford
were absent. Gary Cox was also seated at
the table and Jim Hanzelka was on the phone.
Don
Webb discussed his future plans for Western Skies Lodging Hotel, which was
formally Pickleville Commons and located at 2085 S. Bear Lake Blvd. He asked for clarification on what he needs
to do to get approval from UDOT for egress/ingress. It turns out that after thinking he had all
of the required permits and authorizations UDOT is not going to allow new
businesses to have parking along Hwy 30.
So he needs to provide more parking spaces than originally planned and
also enlarge the entrance and exit lanes onto Hwy 30 or get access from
surrounding property. He also asked for
clarification on when the one year time clock began; plan accepted/recorded or
permit received. His original plan
proposed 16 log cabins consisting of a bedroom and bathroom, but since the
cabins are smaller than planned some of the cabins will be a little large and
may have two bedrooms. That would reduce
the number from 16 to 13 units. Phase 1
of the original plan allowed 4 units so he can still build one more and then he
needs to submit plans for the subsequent phases for 3-4 units each. He still
needs to design and submit the sign design to the city for acceptance.
Scott
Huskinson discussed the sign requirement for his business located at 32 W. 75
N. that is located next to the Texaco.
The name of his business will be Zips and the menu will consist of hot
dogs, premade salads, soft drinks, and shakes.
The sign would be a 1962 Hydro-swift boat mounted to two poles and
suspended several feet above the ground.
The current boats located at the site will have seats in them for the
patrons in addition to other bench seating areas. The drive thru window will be
for those who don’t have time or desire to walk-in and use the seating
facilities. Since the boat sign doesn’t
meet the current ordinance requirements the design will need to be submitted to
the P&Z.
This
completed the easy part of the meeting before they started to recheck several
ordinances discussed for the last several months. Some were accepted during last month’s
meeting but sent back for clarification by the Town Counsel. 14-01, an ordinance updating the bonding of
infrastructure in11E-505 was first.
Recommendation was made to include egress/ingress in the
definition. Other wording changes and
additions were also recommended. Motion was made and approved to table the
ordinance until the next version is released for review.
14-03
Parking Ordinance update to 11C-303-E was discussed. Request was made to change restaurant to food
establishment was made to make it more generic.
A long discussion focused on how to determine parking spaces for fast
food businesses since the current requirement, as written, wouldn’t require any
spaces. There was a concern about the
original design having only inside seating but would eventually evolve into
outside seating areas, so the parking space requirement increases. Darin
Pugmire had submitted wording to separate the requirements for the different
types of businesses, but it had been removed by Schiess. Pugmires’ version separated the food
businesses into different categories and required fast food businesses to have
a minimum of 10 spaces for buildings with less than 1000 sq ft with an
additional space for every 200 sq ft. The restaurants spaces would be based on
occupancy divided by 3. It was pointed
out the city is planning on providing approximately 277 parking spaces between
the park and 75 North. Motion was made
and accepted to table the ordinance and to reword the ordinance to cover fast
food versus restaurant requirement.
Ordinance
14-04 updating height and phasing in PUD/PRUD 11F-100 was discussed. This was tabled by the Town Counsel and sent
back to the P&Z commission. This was
tabled until the hotel height recommendation is drafted, reviewed and accepted.
Ordinance 14-05 updating the height and phasing in
subdivisions in 11E-303-A and 11E526-F was discussed. The Town Counsel sent this back for
clarification on infrastructure for each phase so each phase will stand
alone. The Commission agreed to add
subdivision to the definition and each phase has to be operational throughout
the development of subsequent phases. Motion was made and approved for
11E526-F. Motion to accept 14-05 with
wording change was made and approved.
Ordinance 14-06 making changes to all zones in 11C
was discussed. It was pointed out that
the city needs to have zones to accommodate virtually all types of business,
otherwise they can go anywhere within the city except near schools, or churches
if they are an adult oriented business. Motion
was made to table the ordinance.
Ordinance 14-07 an ordinance adding definitions for
infrastructure, phasing and stand alone to 11A-200 was discussed. Motion was made and approved to table until
wording is updated.
Ordinance 14-10 an ordinance discussing sign
requirements was discussed. Motion was
made and approved to table the ordinance until the commission has reviewed the
updated version.
The Zoning Map was reviewed. Motion was made to review the map at home on
their computers so they could see the boundaries better than what was available
on the 8X10 print provided.
Commercial setback was discussed. Recommendation was made to leave them as they
are because a person can go to the Variance Board.
Hotel and Motel Zone was discussed. Recommendation was made to keep these
businesses off the beach. Because it was
getting late, members said they were "brain dead" and one of the board members had
to leave, the discussion was tabled and the meeting was finally adjourned at 8:45 PM.
