Zoning Commission Minutes 2014 04-23-14ZONING COMMISSION MEETING
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
7:00 p.m.
Yorkville City Hall Conference Room
800 Game Farm Road, Yorkville, IL 60560
Meeting Called to Order
The meeting was called to order at 7:00p.m. by Mr. Crouchand hewelcomed everyone.
Roll Call
Roll call was taken; a quorum was established.
Committee Members in Attendance
Michael CrouchGreg Millen
Gary NeyerJeff Baker
City Officials in Attendance
Krysti Barksdale-Noble-Community Development Director
Chris Heinen –Planner
Citizen’sComments
There were no citizens in attendance.
Previous Minutes
Mr. Crouchasked fora motion to approvethe February 26, 2014minutes. Mr. Baker made a motion to
move. It was seconded by Mr.Neyer. Mr. Crouch asked if there was any discussion on the motions;
hearing none, he asked for approval by saying, “Yes.” It wasapproved unanimouslyand themotion was
carried.Mr. Crouchthen turned the meeting over to Ms.Noble.
Civic Art Works
Ms.Noble saidthey had the formal preliminary report from Civic Art Works and it has all of the
summaries of the hot-button items they had discussed during the Zoning Commission process. It is
presented in two phases, the first is the Idea Phase that was open to citizen approval or not. The second
phase is the Analysis Phase (page 49). This phase dealt with “yes/no” or “A/B” scenarios. The answers
were tabulated and the committee received some good feed-backand they reviewed some of the more
popular scenarios.Some of the questions were not presented as clear “Yes” or “No” answers. Mr.
Baker asked to discuss numbers 58 and 59, Vehicle loading manufacturing districts. Ms. Noble said she
believed they chose “side only”as opposed to “front loading.”Mr. Heinen suggested they might want
to promote a shared access drive on the interior.
In Phase I, Idea Phase, two ideas were presented that did not originate from committee discussions. One
was on the Quiet Zone, which, technically, at the Zoning level would not enforce. They could promote
more green space and higher set-backs through Zoning, but Ms. Noble did not think it was discussed at
the committee level.The second was bee keepingin residential areas (R-1, R-2, possibly R-3).It was
requested that it be allowed. It was voted down at the City Council level so it cannot return to Council
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within six (6) months.As it currently stands, bee keeping is prohibited in all districts except
Agriculture.
Ms. Noble said she had the draft, which Chris and she are going through, to check for conflicts with
anything. The City Attorney has a copy of it for her review, and her assistant has a copy of it for his
review. They will be adding more graphics to some of the areas, and then they will finish the
compilation from Civic Art Works (which may go to the end of May, 2014). Then she was hoping to
meet back here in June for the open house. The public would be invited to inspect the documents and
final draft and provide feedback. In July, she would like to take it to City Council for approval. Mr.
Crouch asked how long she anticipated the process would take from City Council. Ms. Noble
anticipated two (2) rounds of Public Hearings as a precaution. Shesees a possible vote at the end of
August, 2014. Mr. Crouch asked if the committee would then be done and Ms. Noble said they would
be done in June, 2014 (unless it gets kicked back).
When the final packet is complete, Ms. Noble will distribute it to each committee member with a cover
memo, following the open house.
Mr. Crouchasked fora motionto adjourn. A motion was madeby Mr.Neyer; it wassecondedby Mr.
Millen;all voted in favor; and the meeting adjourned at 7:45p.m.
Minutes respectfully submitted by:
Bonnie Olsem
Administrative Secretary