Call the order of the planning commission. It's 6:00 p.m. We'll stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Okay. Yes. Uh up on the agenda, we have our consent agenda for the approval of tonight's agenda and also approval of the March 25th planning commission meeting minutes. This is Kim. I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Number A, approval of the 4126 agenda and B, approval of the March 25th planning commission meeting minutes. >> Andy, this is Mike. Take a vote. Kim I >> Mike I Andy I >> Robin I >> Okay next we are going to have the public open forum this is where we'll allow anybody online or in here who wishes to come up and speak freely. You have 5 minutes if you wish to. And hearing no one we'll continue on. We're next going to have our public hearing. Uh number five on the agenda, conditional use permit cup for Asphalt Specialties Company P3-32-22-24-0016. Erin, would you please read the notice? >> Yeah. >> As published. >> Yep. Um sure. I have it with me here. was an attachment. Correct. I got it right here. I thought I included it in the packet, but maybe I didn't include it in my own packet. Thank you. All right. A notice is hereby given that a public hearing will be held by the city of Columbus planning commission on Wednesday, April 1st, 6 p.m. or soon thereafter as parties may be heard. Uh the hearing will be conducted in person and by interactive video technology. Um, at the Columbus City Hall located at 16319 Kettle River Boulevard, do you consider the request for a conditional use permit to allow for a contractor shop with limited contractor yard and the commercial industrial light uh zoning district? Members of the public interested in attending the meeting, monitoring the meeting, or wanting more information should contact city offices or visit the city website. The hearing shall continue until all evidence and testimony has been received. Uh, Mr. Chair, members of the planning commission, the city has received an application from Asphalt Specialties for a conditional use permit to operate a contractor shop with an accessory contractor yard limited at an address to be determined on 137th Avenue Northeast, uh, Columbus, Minnesota. The subject property is part of the Wallach addition and does not currently have a structure on it. The request uh proposes to construct a 32x40 professional commercial office with a 50x 64 shop combination and the operation of a property as a contractor shop with a accessory contractor yard limited on a vacant parcel. For the applicant's uh narrative, the business operates seasonally with employees arriving early in the morning, dispatching vehicles to job sites, and returning at the end of the day. No asphalt or concrete production occurs on site. Operations are limited to vehicle storage, staging, and equipment maintenance. This property, as I said, is is zoned commercial light industrial, and a contractor shop with an accessory limited yard is allowed via conditional use permit. The property is proposed to have access onto city- owned 137th Avenue Northeast with a second yard access also located on 137th Avenue Northeast. The proposed accesses configure configuration appear to adequately be intended for um ade adequate for its intended use. Final driveway locations and design are subject to city engineer review and approval. The site must maintain safe ingress and egress to accommodate anticipated truck movement associated with the contractor operations. The property will be served by a private well and on-site subsurface sewage treatment system. The proposed development will be uh reviewed by the fire marshall fire chief for adequate access fire suppression and emergency response consideration. Um any fire protection measures shall be imp implemented prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. Project is currently under review by the Rice Creek Wershed District. The applicant will be required to obtain all necessary permits prior to construction. Uh the subject property contains an existing 60 ft pipeline easement along the north property line. Any structures, fencing, or improvements placed within this easement are subject to the rights of the easement holder, and the property owner shall assume full responsibility for any required removal, relocation, or damage resulting from maintenance of the easement in the future. The proposed building materials and architectural design must comply with the requirements of the commercial light industrial district. Building elevations must incorporate materials uh and limit metal paneling usage to no more than 50% of the applicable facads facing public streets. Uh the street facing facade of the building consists of a combination of brick LPV siding and metal materials primarily limited to the shop portion of the structure. As proposed, the building appears to comply with the requirements. The applicant is proposing 23 parking spaces which uh meets or exceeds the minimum parking uh requirements based on the submitted building square footage. The landscaping plan indicates a perimeter planting of trees installed along the site uh frontage and property boundaries. Tree plantings are distributed along 137th Avenue and adjacent property lines contributing to a visual buffer effect of the site with a minimum of four trees per 6,000 square ft whichever is greater or four trees or one for every 6,000 square ft. Uh for the zoning requirements of the commercial light industrial district, the applicant has proposed planting 24 trees which exceeds the city code. Um screening. The uh outdoor contractor yard is enclosed by a fence and supplemented by landscaping to achieve a required screening. Screening elements include a fence and vegetation intended to meet the required 95% opacity standard to limit visibility from the public rightway and or adjacent properties. The applicant has submitted a dust management plan uh which includes uh application of water to gravel surfaces, sweeping of concrete and paved access points to the adjacent road, tarping of trucks that are hauling materials and maintaining clean and graded yard surfaces. Uh these measure these measures are u intended to minimize off-site impacts and must be implemented and maintained according to the plan. Um the approved approval of this conditional use or a conditional use permit does not eliminate the requirement to obtain all necessary building permits and approvals from the city, the wershed district, the county, and other state agencies. As you know, the public hearing notice was submitted to the uh Forest Lake Times. Pages six contain the findings of fact. Page seven also contains another half page of findings of FAP uh along with the uh recommended conditions from city staff. And it is recommendation uh of city staff planning commission uh consider approving the findings of fact and make making a recommendation of a conditional approval to the city council after you hold a public hearing. >> Thank you, Aaron. >> Yes. At this point, I would like uh let's see. I have Eric. Is Eric Peterson online? >> He's not online, but uh Calvin, who >> if I could have you step up to the table here and please speak into the microphone so everybody can hear you. >> Okay. Uh for the record, you received a copy of all of this that Aaron just read. >> I did. >> Okay. And um do you have any questions or comments or anything that you want to address at this point on those? >> Um I do not uh no not that I can think of. >> Okay. Um at this point then I will allow my commissioners to have any questions that they would like to have answered at this point. >> I have no questions. I have one question and that is I and maybe Aaron actually can answer this for me. Uh along 137th around 137th there that's where we're going to be doing uh opaque fencing and stuff like that. Is that correct? >> Yeah, there'll be a 4ft tall fence uh concrete wall and then a 4ft tall wood wall on top of that. So it be 8 ft in total. >> Okay. Okay. And is and is that along Lake Drive as well? Uh that would be the building side. So we would have maybe like 8 to 10 feet of that same fence on the very south end of that lake drive. >> Okay. Okay. >> Actually, uh sheet C2 of your packet, page 16, uh you can see the proposed fencing. >> Yeah. And then I did include in the packet as well a picture of what the proposed fence um concept is. Um should have like uh Calvin said a 4ft concrete wall with additional >> page 26 >> additional material on top. Um, and then, uh, don't forget the applicant has agreed or is going to plant 24, uh, trees a lot there as well. So, that's going to help in future years with additional screening as well. >> Yep. >> Okay. Excellent. Um, any other questions, commissioners? >> No, sir. Okay. At this time, I would uh you can you can have a seat again, Calvin. >> All right. Thank you, >> Mr. Chair. Don't forget you need to open a public hearing and close one. >> He has to sit down first. >> No, not there. >> You're done. You're good. You're good to go. >> You'll just have to formally call for any public comment. >> Yep. Uh at this point, I'd like to open the floor to uh any public comment uh who has interest in this application or discussion and wants to present testimony as evidence on this issue. Please acknowledge themselves by stating their full name and address. And that looks like nobody then. Okay. We will now close the public hearing and open the floor to the planning commission to discuss the application. You see any issues? >> No. >> Seems pretty straightforward from what I read. >> Yeah, pretty much from what we just did the other day. >> Did this last week, so essentially the same thing. >> Okay. Um then let's make a motion. >> This is Kim. I would like to make a motion to approve the findings of facts as presented and recommend conditional approval to the city council for a conditional use permit for contractor shop and limited contractor yard at the address on 137th Avenue Northeast Columbus, Minnesota 55025 P3-32-22-24-0016 Six. >> This is Andy. I second that motion. >> And we'll take a vote. >> Kim I. >> Mike. I. >> Andy. I. >> Anything from you. >> Gary, you'll have to unmute if you're going to vote. >> Like he's frozen. >> Okay. Robin. I Okay, so that passes. Uh, let's see. Last thing, the next thing on here is the planning commissioner's report. Anybody have anything to report? Aaron, anybody anything that anything anything with you? >> Nope. Okay. No. Then we'll go to the city council liaison's report. >> Yeah. Commissioner, uh, chairman and commissioners, thank you. Scott Wendell, city council. Uh, first thing I want to do is uh acknowledge and thank um, Council Member Latin for serving for the past three months. I thought she did a great job and I look forward to being with you for the next 3 months. Uh, hopefully uh, with everything that Aeron's got going on, I can be an additional source resource for you if needed. So, feel free to to call on me. Um, couple things that happened at the last council meeting that you might be interested in. This this doesn't necessarily directly affect the commission. Um, but the council did vote to approve uh three license renewals for uh liquor licenses. Uh, two 32 permits for the holiday store and the Love's Travel Stop and an on sale permit for running aces were all approved at the last council meeting. Um, as you know, the Urban Companies LLC uh conditional use permit be uh came became came before the council uh the council approved that unanimously. I thought uh it was interesting that the uh council did ask several questions uh during that process. I found that a lot of those questions had been addressed by the planning commission and they were just minor clarification questions. So that should be affirming to uh you commissioners uh that you're doing the right thing and and not leaving a lot of guesswork to the city council. So we appreciate that as well. Um I also thought that it was interesting that uh when uh a council member asked Mr. Urban uh about uh some of the concerns that the neighbor had brought up during the public uh hearing for that that he responded that he had had conversations with the neighbor and uh that they were getting along well and that he in fact had been invited to partake in the neighbors social uh uh parties uh once a week. So, they're getting along famously now and and have uh addressed their concerns and uh looks like uh uh they're doing good and we welcome to uh welcome to the city. So, >> excellent. >> Yeah, that's all I have for you. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. And let's see. That looks to be all of our stuff on our agenda tonight. >> This is Kim. I would like to make a motion to adjourn the meeting. This is Mike second. >> We'll take a vote. >> Kim I. >> Mike I. >> Andy I. >> Gary. >> Robin I. >> Motion passes. This meeting is adjourned. It is 6:17.