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