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PC Minutes 06-19-2012Chanhassen Planning Commission – June 19, 2012 Aller: And that appeal should be done in 4 days for those who are listening. So with that, would anybody like to make a motion? Colopoulos: In that case I will make a motion that the Planning Commission approve the hard cover variance subject to the following conditions and adoption of the attached Findings of Fact and Decision. 1. The owner shall remove the existing patio surface and stairs at the rear of the home and re-grade the site to maintain or improve existing drainage patterns. 2. Building permits are required for the construction of the porch and deck. 3. The structure must comply with Minnesota State Building Code. And I’ll also reference in the motion the attachments listed 1 through 11 on page 3 of section 3. Aller: Having a motion, do we have a second? Hokkanen: Second. Thomas: Second. Let Lisa have it. Aller: Any discussion? Colopoulos moved, Hokkanen seconded that the Planning Commission, as the Board of Appeals and Adjustments, approves Planning Case #2012-07 for a 6.9 percent variance to permit hard cover of 31.9 percent on property zoned Single Family Residential (RSF) subject to the following conditions and adoption of the attached Findings of Fact and Decision: 1. The owner shall remove the existing patio surface and stairs at the rear of the home and re-grade the site to maintain or improve existing drainage patterns. 2. Building permits are required for the construction of the porch and deck. 3. The structure must comply with Minnesota State Building Code. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. PUBLIC HEARING: RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD-R) AMENDMENTS: REQUEST TO AMEND THE FOLLOWING RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS: A. MEADOWS/WOODS AT LONGACRES. B. MINNEWASHTA CREEK. C. RED CEDAR COVE. Aller: Is it set 4? Generous: It’s group 4, yes it is. We’re on the downhill slope on these things. We actually have the research done for 6 groups so we’re moving forward and this Thursday we’re having a neighborhood meeting. 5 Chanhassen Planning Commission – June 19, 2012 Hokkanen: Can I vote on these? Okay. Generous: Yeah, it’s quick. Planned Unit Development Residential amendments, the public hearing’s thrd tonight June 19. It goes to City Council July 23. Little background. We had a neighborhood meeting st for these 4 developments on May 31 at the Chanhassen library. Approximately 10 people showed up. We also have the information on our website and then the meeting notices we directed people to that so I think that answered a lot of people’s questions. Plus we gave them contact information for city staff so they could ask us directly if they had any questions. Again some of the houses may not meet the standard because over time we’ve changed our review processes. Our intent is not to make anyone do anything right now. To tear anything out. To build anything. It’s for from this point forward we will have the standards in an ordinance format and everyone will be aware of it rather than staff having to run down and look up the individual peculiarities for the development that were approved. Nor is this an attempt for the City to up zone anything. We just want to maintain what’s there so that’s been our goal right now. As I stated there are 4 planned unit developments that we are reviewing in the western, northwest part of the city. You have the Woods at Longacres, the Meadows at Longacres, Red Cedar Cove and Minnewashta Creek. We’ll start with the Meadows at Longacres. This is PUD #92-04. It was approved in 1992. The underlying zoning for this property which will be cited in the zoning ordinance is the RSF district. Single family residential. It consists of 4 Additions at the Meadows at Longacres. This property is located off of Highway 41 and Longacres Drive is an east/west collector road that goes through this. It actually connects it to the Woods at Longacres which is the development immediately to the east of it. It consists entirely of single family detached housing. There are significant features on there with topography and lots of wetlands on site so as you look at the standards that’s probably the biggest part of the ordinances that they have different setbacks because of wetlands and because of different wetland buffers and wetland setbacks than our normal, in any other district or any single family residential district. There are 95 homes in the development. The minimum lot size is 10,000 square feet. Our standard in the RSF district is 15,000. Minimum lot width is 90 feet and the minimum lot depth is 100 feet. Our standard in the RSF district is 125. Again we, these standards are for developing the building envelope on the property and it’s pretty standard 30 foot front, 10 on the sides and 25% hard cover. However it’s the notes at the bottom that are really unique to this development. We have some 20 foot front yard setbacks and some 25 foot front yard setbacks. We also have a long compliance table for the wetland setbacks and so we’re trying to put this all in one ordinance rather than, and we found them in 3 or 4 different files and it took us almost a year to get through that. We are recommending approval of the PUD-R amendment for the Meadows at Longacres, and if you will, as we’ve done before, we’ve gone through each of them. Had the public hearing and then at the end if you can make one motion. Aanenson: …Mr. Chairman, since I don’t see any audience tonight, maybe we could just have one public hearing. Aller: One public hearing. Aanenson: I think we could do that tonight because, since there’s nobody here and then we can, if you need to go back for the motion pages we can do that but we’ll just kind of go through them all. It might speed it up a little bit. Aller: Sounds fine. Generous: Okay, so if you have any questions on this one? Aller: No. And seeing no one present let’s move forward to item 1(a)(2) which is Woods at Longacres. 6 Chanhassen Planning Commission – June 19, 2012 Generous: This is the Woods at Longacres. It’s Planned Unit Development #92-04. It was also approved in 1992. The underlying zoning for the development is RSF, which is single family residential. There are actually 6 Additions to this development. This is located east of the Woods at Longacres on, it’s primary access is off of Galpin Boulevard. Longacres Drive is east/west collector and Hunter Drive is just a local street that provides a secondary access into the development. This project also is detached single family homes. Again the significant features were the wetlands on site and Lake Harrison was actually a natural environmental lake so I think there’s only like 2 or 3 in the community so setback requirements. Again the 127 homes were approved as part of this development. The minimum lot size is 11,000 square feet. Minimum lot width is 90 feet and the lot depth is 100 feet. Setbacks were pretty standard at 30, 10 and 30. However again like the Meadows at Longacres there’s a 9 and a 6 foot setback, a 20 foot separation that the developer put in so those standards are all still here but again we’re just putting it into ordinance format. And then the wetland setbacks and buffers were the big issue on that and there’s again a long table based on the legal description of the property what their requirements are. Hard cover is 25%. Again the interesting part is the footnotes in that. We have 20 and 25 foot front yard setbacks as well as the standard 30 feet, and houses accessory structures have to be a 10 foot side setback and you have a 6 and a 9 foot setback between, for the garage and the house to the property line but a 20 foot separation between buildings and so staff is recommending approval of that amendment to the PUD to incorporate those standards. Aller: Does anyone have any questions regarding Woods at Longacres? Hearing none, Minnewashta Creek. Generous: Minnewashta Creek. PUD #78-03 was approved in 1978. The underlying zoning is residential low and medium density, and that’s because of some twin home development within the project so that was the most consistent zoning that we could follow for a standard, other than what’s in the standards for Minnewashta Creek. This is located off of Minnewashta Parkway between that and the State Highway 7. Again it’s a mix of single family detached housing and some twin homes which are located in this area and this area, at the end of the cul-de-sac. They do have a beachlot as part of the association. This ordinance does not address any of the association requirements. We don’t expand their association. That’s a whole separate item. It’s just these properties are all zoned planned unit development residential so we want to have the zoning standards in the zoning ordinance for that. Again as you can see there’s quite a variation between each addition. Minimum lot size for the first addition, 20,000 square feet. For the second addition, 12,665 square feet. For the third addition, 8,226 square feet and for the Minnewashta Creek Hills, which was the final phase of this, it’s a 50,000 square foot lots. Minimum lot width go from 90 to 45 feet, or 100 to 45 feet. And lot depths are all the same so it’s 125 feet. Setbacks for single family homes are 30 feet. The third addition doesn’t have any and the fourth, or Minnewashta Creek Hills has a 50 foot front setback but that was to keep it off of Minnewashta Parkway, and they also are accessed via a private street so that encompasses both of those areas and allows sufficient driveway off of the private street. Lakeshore setbacks, the first addition is the only one with lake front property so that’s where the 75 feet come in. Front yard setbacks, 25 feet and 20 in the second and third addition. Side setbacks are 10 feet which is standard and the rears are 30 feet. It’s 25% site coverage for all of the developments except for the third addition which is outside of the shoreland area. Then that is all of it. We want to get it all in one location and as you can see they are very unique and individualized. Staff is recommending approval of the amendment for Minnewashta Creek PUD. Aanenson: I think in researching this one we actually found uses that were inconsistent with the zoning ordinance. Commercial was listed as a permitted use wasn’t it? Generous: Yeah. Aanenson: So another reason why to clean it up. 7 Chanhassen Planning Commission – June 19, 2012 Aller: Based on the presentation any questions? Having none we’ll move on to Red Cedar Cove. Generous: Red Cedar Cove, PUD #95-05 approved in 1995. The underlying zoning for this development was residential low and medium density district. It consists entirely of townhomes. Two unit and townhouses. It’s located on Minnewashta Parkway and Red Cedar Point Road. There is a beachlot associated with this and we did incorporate that as part of the ordinance for it, and you can see there’s a common dock for the association. This is the beachlot area for the development and they did go through quite a process to get that approved for this project. It was very interesting reading through some of these old reports and minutes. So it is a townhouse development. One duplex and 4 fourplex townhomes. Common areas covered under CUP #85-9 and 10. The minimum lot requirements for each of the units was 2,625 square feet. Minimum lot width is 35 feet and minimum lot depth is 75 feet. There’s a 30 foot setback from Minnewashta Parkway and 75 foot setback from the lake and internally there are no required setbacks. Hard surface coverage is 25% but that’s over the entire site including the beachlot. Staff is recommending approval of the amendment to the PUD for Red Cedar Cove. Be happy to answer any questions. Aanenson: I was just going to add Mr. Chairman that on all the ones that had beachlots we did note those in those so if someone’s calling to find out does this association have a beachlot, we can answer yes and then we know where to go to find that information. That’s also important in a listing or if a buyer wants to know, then we can find out, they have to work with the association. That’s a private thing but at least we can get the information on whether or not there is one or not. Aller: Great. So this is basically a continuation, phase 4 of what we’ve been doing all along was trying to make it easier on individuals to be able to see the actual uses which are available to them for their properties. Generous: Correct. And codify what was approved as a part of the development contract. We put it into a zoning ordinance. Aller: And consistently we have not up zoned any properties? Generous: Correct. Aller: Great. Any questions? Generous: And we are recommending approval of the ordinances amending the planned unit developments for Meadows at Longacres, Woods at Longacres, Minnewashta Creek and Red Cedar Cove and adoption of the attached Findings of Fact and Recommendation. Thomas: Are we going to do them all together? Aller: What I’m going to do is I’m going to open a public hearing and we’re going to have anyone that wishes to comment on the presentations for Meadows at Longacres, Woods at Longacres, Minnewashta Creek or Red Cedar Cove, please step forward. State your name and address for the record and you can choose to speak on any or all of the items. Seeing no one coming forward, I’m going to close the public hearing and open the matter for discussion. Any further discussion? Aanenson: You can make the motion… Thomas: I was going to, yeah. I’ll make a motion. 8 Chanhassen Planning Commission – June 19, 2012 Aller: Thank you. Thomas: The Planning Commission recommends the City Council approve the attached ordinances rezoning the planned unit development residential to incorporate the development standards for Meadows at Longacres, Woods at Longacres, Minnewashta Creek and Red Cedar Cove and the adoption of the attached Findings of Facts and Recommendations. Hokkanen: Second. Aller: We have a motion and a second. Any comments? Questions? Thomas moved, Hokkanen seconded that the Planning Commission recommends the City Council approve the attached ordinance rezoning the Planned Unit Development – Residential to incorporate the development standards for Meadows at Longacres, Woods at Longacres, Minnewashta Creek and Red Cedar Cove, and adopt the attached Findings of Fact and Recommendations. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. Aanenson: And Mr. Chair, if you could just do the Minutes then we can adjourn. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Commissioner Thomas noted the verbatim and summary minutes of the Planning Commission meeting dated June 5, 2012 as presented. Thomas moved, Hokkanen seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. The Planning Commission meeting was adjourned at 8:10 p.m. Submitted by Kate Aanenson Community Development Director Prepared by Nann Opheim 9