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Zoning Commission Minutes 2011 06-22-11 ZONING COMMISSION MEETING Wednesday, June 22, 2011 7:00 p.m. Yorkville City Hall Conference Room 800 Game Farm Road, Yorkville, IL 60560 Committee Members in Attendance: Jeff Baker Gary Neyer Greg Millen Pete Huinker Mike Crouch City Officials in Attendance: Krysti Barksdale-Noble, Community Development Director Meeting Called to Order The meeting was called to order at 7:03 p.m. and Mr. Crouch welcomed everyone. Roll Call Roll call was taken. A quorum was established. Citizen’s Comments There were no guests in attendance. Previous Minutes Mr. Crouch moved to accept the May 25, 2011 minutes and it was seconded by Mr. Millen. There was no discussion, corrections or additions so a vote to accept was made, unanimously accepted and the motion was carried. Mr. Crouch then turned the meeting over to Ms. Noble to cover Old Business. Old Business : Chapter 6: Permitted and Special Uses: Ms. Noble said there was a minor change to the table on Page 6: Permitted and Special Uses. Mr. Baker brought up a good point that roof mounted solar panels should be permitted as a use in an OS-1 District and that was a good call. It is highlighted in yellow on the chart. Chapter 10A: OS-1 Open Space District (Passive): This is one of the new districts Ms. Noble said she was asked to create. The only change she made so far (and the committee may have to revisit this chapter to flush out some changes that may need to occur and the Parks Department will be looking at it as well) are on pages 96 and 97. The Parks Department will be looking at it as well and providing their input. Also, the term “overall building height” was removed because building height has been defined, making the term ‘overall’ redundant. Chapter 10B-4: OS-2 Open Space District (Recreational) : Accessory Uses, Buildings and Structures - 8. Stormwater detention facilities were removed because it, too, was redundant. Following that, the rest of the items reflected the number change. Ms Noble did some research (included in packet) on different communities and how they do their PUD reviews and their reviews of engineering, as suggested by Mr. Neyer. Her research included looking at the City of Naperville and the City of Joliet to find out how they do their PUD process. They both referred her to their websites. The main difference is the turn-around time is not spelled out in our ordinance; the flow was not clear. Now that there is language to that effect, it should speed up the process. Also, they did not tie the PUD process to an ordinance because if it’s tied to an ordinance, that can slow things down considerably. It would leave it open to constant amendments. Ms. Noble’s recommendation would be to not include a timeline in the ordinance. Flow charts can be included; but not timelines. She then discussed various incentive programs various communities are doing for residential development. For example, Plainfield permits preliminary engineering, with final engineering only at time of building permit, which ties in with our discussions on how to streamline the PUD process. This lowers the developer’s up-front costs. This would allow PUD approval with a preliminary and not even have to go for final until they’re ready to pull a permit. This would allow developers to spread out the costs over a longer time frame. Mr. Millen then asked if this would put an end to SSAs. Ms. Noble stated that it was more of a developer tool. Mr. Millen then brought up his observation that SSAs came into play with the larger developers. He wondered if there couldn’t be some incentive for local, home town builders. There then followed a lot of discussion on possible builder incentives, etc. Mr. Crouch approached the subject of bringing possible new members up to speed on what has already been covered. It was the consensus that the committee agreed to wait until September for the next meeting. Mr. Crouch made a motion to adjourn; it was moved and seconded and agreed by all. The meeting was adjourned at 7:55pm. Minutes respectfully submitted by: Bonnie Olsem