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EDC Minutes 2003 04-17-03 Page 1 of 3 UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE APPROVED BY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE COMMITTEE/BOARD ON: THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2003 7 P.M. In Attendance: Committee members Richard Sticka and Joe Besco; City Administrator Tony Graff, City Attorney Kelly Kramer; Bill Powell; and Sandford Stein, Chris Lannert, and Mitch LaFave with Ocean Atlantic. MINUTES Minutes from the March 20, 2003 meeting were approved. Text Amendment for R -2 Zoning regarding Lot Area Coverage Code Official Bill Dettmer is requesting the city change the lot area coverage in residential zoning from 20 percent to 25 percent. Discussing the request, Committee Chairman Richard Sticka said 20 percent limits people from adding on such as putting up a covered garage. He said the current 20 percent seems to limit the size of homes that can be constructed and thus limits the equalized assessed valuations (EAVs). Sticka and committee member Joe Besco both agreed with Dettmer's request and forwarded the issue to the Committee of the Whole. PC 2002 -06 Westbury Village petition to annex and rezone Chris Lannert said the major changes in the plan include a 20 -acre school/park site to the north, which will be a 5 -acre park site and a 15 -acre school site. Also, the developers agreed to go to 12,000 square foot lots in all of the neighborhoods except when the lots back up to open space. In that case, they will be 10,000 square feet, which is allowed by the city. In accordance with city staff, Lannert said there are now 8 units per acre in each of the neighborhood pods. That will cause a reduction in the size of the pods and the number of units shown on the current plan. The developers agreed with city staff that the permitted attached product per the transition zone in the comprehensive plan is 25 percent. That figure comes out to 75.2 acres, Lannert said. Multiplied by 8, that figure comes to 602 multifamily units. During conversations with city staff, Lannert said he interpreted that the developers could have that 25 percent and pro -rate the storm water back into the table. However, he said he now understands and accepts City Planner Mike Schoppe's memo. That means the developers will be limited to 75 acres of attached family product, 602 multifamily units. He said those changes will be made and filed with the city by the following Wednesday so they can get back into the meeting schedule. Page 2 of 3 As for another change, a bridge across Rob Roy Creek will unify the community, Lannert said. He said the bridge coming across the creek services the school site and ties the community together. He said he thinks the developers are now in concert with the staff and almost with the Plan Commission. The Plan Commission voted against the concept plan at its meeting earlier in the months. i Sticka said the concept plan was too detailed and things were being questioned at the Plan Commission meeting that went well beyond the concept plan stage. At the same time, he said he does not expect the preliminary plan to be something utterly different from the concept plan. In response to a question from Sticka, LaFave said one section of 9.5 acres that were in multi- family will get moved to single family. They will be moved proportionately in the pods. Lannert said that change will represent the biggest redesign of the plan. LaFave also said each pod will decrease in density to comply with the comprehensive plan. Sticka also asked about the commercial development planned for the project. LaFave said the development will have about 260,000 square feet of commercial development — a typical strip or psuedo -power center type of development. When adding sales tax, utility taxes and others, LaFave said the city would see about $700,000 per year in revenues from the expected commercial development and the school district would receive about $290,000. i Sticka then asked how the composting business next to the property would impact development. He said he's worried that residents will complain about the odors. LaFave said the majority of the composting business is on the Undesser Farm. Lannert said the developers intend to put in berms and plantings to buffer the area. Sticka said the new homes will be almost on top of the composting business. He added that there was a previous problem with residents complaining of odors from a composting plant south of town. i LaFave said the newer facilities don't smell nearly as bad. Sticka, however, said he doesn't think future aldermen should have to deal with the issue as complaints may arise. LaFave said they'll do what they can to protect the city and residents such as stating the existence of the composting facility in the plats. Also, he said the developers hope to get rid of the composting plant on the Undesser property. Sticka said he'd like to see the developers address the issue the best that they can. Raising another concern, Sticka said the property for the proposed development is in a flood plain and he is concerned about storm water management. In talking to City Engineer Joe Wywrot, Sticka said storm water management is a lot harder to do on a I, Page 3 of 3 piece of property like this. He said the city will want to make sure its engineers carefully monitor what's being designed for storm water management. LaFave said their engineers have been in contact with the city's engineering firm of EEI. He said they're not working in a vacuum. Sticka said he doesn't want problems years from now. Lannert said if everyone pays attention, they can make sure the storm water management is done right. Sticka said he realizes the hardest thing to do is to manage storm water. In his mind, Sticka said he feels the proposed development conforms to the comprehensive plan. Besco asked if there is a backup SSA for snow removal in the multi - family housing units. LaFave said there will be an overall homeowners' association and that each pod will have a homeowners' association. Also, he said some of the streets in those pods will be private streets. Besco and Sticka both agreed that the zoning request complies with the comprehensive plan and decided to move the request forward to the Committee of the Whole meeting on May 6. LaFave said they'll try to have some more information about the composting facility at the meeting. 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