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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC MARCH 27, 2018 i y MINUTES OF THE JEFFERSONVILLE PLAN COMMISSION March 27, 2018 Call to Order A meeting of the Jeffersonville Plan Commission was held on March 27, 2018 at 6:02 pm in the Council Chambers, First Floor, Jeffersonville City Hall, 500 Quartermaster Court, Jeffersonville, Indiana. Chairperson Mike McCutcheon called the meeting to order. Roll Call The roll was called and those members present were: Duard Avery,Rita Fleming, Lisa Gil and Mike McCutcheon. Those members not present: Kathy Bupp, Dustin White, and Ed Zastawny. Also present were Shawn Dade, Planning & Zoning Coordinator, Nathan Pruitt, Planning& Zoning Director, Les Merkley, Planning & Zoning Attorney. (Secretary's Note: All plat maps, photos, etc. presented before the Plan Commission on this date can be found in the office of Planning and Development.) Approval of Minutes No minutes available to approve. Approval of Docket Upon a motion made by Lisa Gill with tabling PC-18-10 and seconded by Ms. Fleming to approve the docket as presented. Motion passed on a vote of 4-0. Approval of Findings of Fact 1. PC-15-07 Approval of Findings of Fact(Speedway Development Plan) Ms. Gill made a motion to approve and adopt the findings of fact for PC-15-07, seconded by Dr. Fleming. Motion passed. Old Business Request to table PC-18-10 Ms. Gill stated that this item was tabled in approval of the Docket, but she will make the motion again, Ms. Fleming seconded. Motion passed. New Business 2. Tenth Street Master Plan - Presentation by MKSK Mr. Pruitt stated that MKSK will be presenting the draft plan of the investment plan for the next 25 years for Tenth Street. What the future could be since we are currently underway with the $16 million road investment, we want to leverage that investment and get the best uses out of it and bring life back to Tenth Street. Andrew Overbeck with MKSK Thank you for the great work here with the help of Nathan and Chad over the last several months. Working with a great steering committee members and experts here in Jeffersonville and Page 1 of 7 Jeffersonville Plan Commission Meeting—March 27, 2018 we have been assisted on our side of the work with Green Street that has done the market analysis to back stop the findings of the plan as well as BF&S Civil Engineering to look at some of the transportation elements that we are proposing. We've had great feedback and input. We began in November last year with a set of stake holder interviews and individuals with more than 150 people. We had a survey taken by 600 members of the community which is a great outcome and allowed us to come back in January with some initial ideas and thoughts and now we are here at step three today which is delivering draft plan documents to you all, our steering committee and soliciting input and review. The idea is to bring that energy from downtown up the corridor up to River Ridge. To take advantage of the investment taking place today and bring this corridor back as something that is seen by many as a liability, to something that is an asset to the community. So this 10, 15, 25 year framework sets the stage for future by both the public and private sectors. Joe Nickol, MKSK - To give you a brief snapshot of some of the things we uncovered through our analysis and process leading up to tonight trying to understand Jeffersonville as a City, it context in the region and doing a deeper dive into the Tenth Street corridor. The first is the physical analysis looking at land use,building vacancy, street networks, and open space and trails. To highlight a few of those key take-a-ways that came out of that survey: i. Tenth Street is a place to meet daily needs—that may sound fairly matter of fact, but in reality it is a distinct departure from a way that the corridor has functioned historically. We found out from reading the survey and talking to people that this used to be the corridor where people had a nice dinner or had the opportunity to go watch a movie. Now people get in get out as fast as possible, maybe grab groceries or other daily needs. ii. Tenth Street is not a place of choice —you have the option of staying on the interstate system and circumventing the whole area altogether. iii. Tenth Street was built for cars not people. We spent time over the last five months walking it. This is a fundamental limiter to investment in growth in the future and something that will need to change. Part of that change will be returning parts back to the place where activities and life experiences happen every day. We had a number of meetings throughout the process that allowed us to understand what was working well, and what was not working so well and then we were able to reconvene those meetings. We went along to test those ideas with people to ask questions about how we were doing and if we were on the right track. The first questions were very simple: what's working well, what's not working well and where should we prioritize? The first question about strength of what is working well and actually put dots on a map —we had several hundred people through a variety of meetings place dots on a map and give us on a digital readout after those meetings happened you could actually see an objective picture of objective responses. You have the strengths of downtown, River Ridge happening along 265 and the new interchange. In between it is pretty sparse, the new investments with the police and fire station, but pretty limited with in the corridor. The weaknesses/not working well: it's the speed zone. The gap between the two ends you lay on the gas and get to other end as fast as possible. A lot of those dots clump between Main Street and Allison Lane, the vacant land, vacant building and your shopping centers that exist in that span. Priorities — we were really glad to get the feedback we did on this because it is a long corridor,big study area, and it is always important to focus with limited resources and time in this Page 2 of 7 Jeffersonville Plan Commission Meeting—March 27, 2018 case, we got good feedback on which three parcels to focus on — Youngstown Plaza/ Gateway Plaza, Jeff Plaza and the Rural King plaza. Next component we looked at was the market, for the future we looked at retail, office and residential over a factor of ten and your biggest opportunity/potential is to bring back more residential single, multi-family; detached and attached, cottages, patio homes, townhouses, small apartment buildings and even larger elevator buildings, 2,500 units over the next 5-10 years and that is largely attest to the fact that there has not been enough supply historically. There is a little bit of demand for new retail and office space,but because it is old or over commercialized relative to your housing needs. First recommendation- Take some older shopping centers and making them a mix of uses with a walkable center complementing the core. Convert a lot of the unutilized commercial property to residential use as a way to get out some of that pent up demand for housing. The plazas really could be developed into what we call pocket neighborhoods. It is a great way to do what we call thickening the density. Second - You create mobility and investment. Third - Building an organizational structure with a crew Mr. Overbeck—connective tissues a. We will need to fill the gaps for pedestrian walking. b. Connect corridor neighborhoods to Tenth Street to make it more walkable. c. Go into neighborhoods that do not have sidewalks and complete the network. Tying together this network with neighborhoods around it while enabling new development to take place along Tenth Street. Completing the bicycle network. We looked at the bicycle network that the City has planned for the next 10, 15 years has opportunity. A second way we can fit some of that structure into the Tenth Street to pull some of the energy from downtown and the Big 4 Bridge and bring it out to River Ridge with a bicycle lane along Tenth Street which also helps the walkability. Transit access—the transit system that jogs in and out of the neighborhoods is relative slow and insufficient. Tarc is on our committee looking for ways to create a bus line that serves those neighborhoods, those employees and employers that are up at River Ridge with more efficiency. What does this look like recreating Tenth Street — We propose keeping the current lane configuration and curb to curb dimension and re-proportion the North side of the street which is now planned to be a drainage swale. You reconfigure the drainage and you would be able to fit in the current right-a-way and the curb to curb dimension a cycle track and a sidewalk from Quarter Master Court to Reeds Lane. Moving up the corridor you would have to keep a portion of the median in the middle of the street to enable the width to be added to the North side matching it up again with a cycle track in this piece would get you up toward the farther reaches and closer to River Ridge. Something that can be added in simply over time to enhance and development to occur and it is something we met with 25 builders this afternoon and they were very interested in seeing something happen to spur that revitalization. Mr. Nickol - five key areas that fall into two camps a. Redevelopment of existing shopping plazas that can happen incrementally over time to reformat from mono use to more vibrant mixed use center b. Pocket type neighborhoods concept Youngstown Plaza/Gateway— The location is excellent — walking distance to downtown Jeffersonville. The first step here is to make modest improvements to the Ohio River side of the Page 3 of 7 Jeffersonville Plan Commission Meeting—March 27, 2018 corridor in the empty garage building at Tenth and Main, reformate the existing retail of Gateway into a really funky workspace or retail space that could attract new firms, entrepreneurs with small infill with smart parcels. Over time that type of investment might intensify on the Gateway side, may jump the street to Youngstown side and provide a scaled redevelopment opportunity for multi- family over retail, townhouse development and single detached family units as you get closer to the neighborhoods, office and hospitality space may even make sense over time. In the next 5 to 10 year that garage may be activated as a great patio space with food and beverage destination. The pallet store could maintain its current use or something else—all along an amazing new street corridor, so imaging that $16 million you are investing in creating a really amazing front door for new development. Next the area that has a lot of the old hotels, motels and old auto auction sights which at the mid-section of this is the Jeff Boat rail road spur that connects down to the river. We are suggesting one of those sights for pocket neighborhoods could really improve and provide some of that much needed housing. Leverage the bike trail along Tenth Street, convert the rail spur into a rail plush trail altogether to a trail that connects to the river assets. Over time add pocket parks, garden spaces, driving spaces along with developments as each of these sights could development into pocket neighborhoods to create a new network of streets and public space. We are ramping up from single family scale up to multi-family, townhouse development. You can create a mix scale that compliments what is around it, streets that connect to the streets that end and get out to Tenth Street. Over time that pattern could repeat itself to the underutilized parcels and reshape the character of that area so that dramatically it is a place you want to spend time. Jeff Plaza - This is the current terminus of Reeds Lane of your project. Still within that sphere of that project with significant changes that occur not 5 or 10 years from now but by the end of this year. This is a shopping plaza that is currently under water,underperforming all which is motivating the majority owner of this sight to want to spend some significant time and resources in the next several months. Here you have three big frame work items that can help. The bike trail on Tenth, Reeds Lane that currently ends at the shopping plaza but there is desired line that you can reconnect Reeds Lane to change the dynamic to an intersection of two serving thorough fairs from retail and development stand point is an amazing thing. Lastly, we uncovered a creek near Davis' Nursery; the ditch gets basically back down to the Ohio River. We have the opportunity to daylight that stream and use it as a centerpiece of new development. Over time the connection of Reeds Lane and the new Tenth Street and leverage the Tenth Street project a new front door into the shopping center. Create a new retail precinct that could be a significant redevelopment of that sight and feather it back into the neighborhood with housing and residential development to connect it all together. Next up the street is another one of those pocket neighborhoods that we are suggesting is right across the street from the Fire and Police Departments at Renfro Way. A motivated property owner ready to sell, the property is on the market to bring on more cottages, single family development all the way up to senior housing, or multi-family housing to Tenth along with a club house and some amenities serving retail. Image having that right on that cycle trail; the ability to live right on the place; to live safely and quickly get to some of the other destinations that we just described to you. Rural King Plaza-what happens post Kroger. First recommendation is about access. How can we hit street intersections that align with streets across Tenth across the plaza and start to create a rational development block on the front door? Between the plaza and the high school take the drainage ditch that is there and formalize it into a shared address between the high school and the Page 4 of 7 Jeffersonville Plan Commission Meeting—March 27, 2018 commercial land that is actually a proper park and water conveyance for people to spend time and bring a bike trail through and travel to Allison Lane. To wrap up before questions—we have identified a number of next steps. Overview tonight that will go out to public comment; we will revise the packet and bring it back to you again in a subsequence meeting for adoption. Secondly enabling legislation and zoning for this type of development. Questions? Dr.Fleming—I would re-think calling this a corridor. It should become a destination where you want to live. We need protected bus stops. There is a need for these small units and we may have to look at our housing standards. Mr. Nickol -to your points—today it is a corridor and I do agree with you that the goal is to transition into more of a destination. It is really your mid-town, between Main and Allison Mr. Avery—I went to two of the three sessions and this is really impressive. This is a long term project with tremendous impact for the Jeffersonville area and it is so well crafted and designed. The volume and the depth of things that are going into it is exactly what Dr Fleming said with the housing is very impressive. Ms. Gill — keep in mind the existing businesses. We are talking about how to make it a destination,but we have a lot of businesses that are already there that are struggling. You mention Rural King and how to enhance the piece to that where we make contact and talk to business and say how we can help you grow, or develop along with this plan. Mr. Pruitt — We had David Strong with Eastside Animal Hospital, Mark Maxwell from Maxwell's House of Music and Max Drexler from Haweye. We are aware that we have some great businesses there we want to keep or move them into better space. We are sending this out for public comment for the next two weeks so no public comments are necessary now. This draft document will go live on our website — anybody can download it and anyone can find it on our facebook page. We will be taking comments over the next two weeks at our office we will consolidate those together and send off to the consultant and then at a later date we will come back and have a public open comment period in the adoption hearing to happen during a public advertised meeting. 3. PC-18-13 Brandon Denton filed a final plat application for the revised plat plan will create 4 lots in the Bridgepointe Commons; the property is zoned C2-PD commercial. Ms. Gill noted a correction on the agenda that this is District 6 (Hawkins— 5 not 4). Camile Hesen with Heritage Engineering seeking approval for the revisions on a previously submitted final plat Bridgepointe Commons Phase I. We are subdividing 2 lots. Questions: Dr Fleming- what about trees lost? The sight has already been cleared. Public Comment: none. Board Comments—none. Ms. Gill made the motion to approved the revised final plat. Seconded. Motion passed 4-0. 4. PC-18-14 Robert Farbro filed a final plat application for approximately 6 acres at 3511 East Tenth Street. The plat will create 3 lots with requested waivers in the Dunlevy Center Development, property is zoned C2 commercial. Page 5 of 7 Jeffersonville Plan Commission Meeting—March 27, 2018 Harold Hart with Hart Surveying and Engineering Charlestown with Kent Goodtee with Mindell Scott&Associates Louisville. Subdividing 3 lots and putting in a new roadway. Questions: Ms. Gill —this is not my District. Ms. Gill would like for Mr. Hart to address the waivers he is requesting. Mr. Pruitt—The docket that was tabled previously it was for a River City Bank. It would allow offices on the remaining C2 property. But this is what we need to build. Dr Fleming—everything here is one story? Public comment: Jeff White—3204 Gardner Blvd. Change 1 lot to 2? I have some concern at last meeting with regard to 20 feet? Not same area. Board comments/questions? None Ms. Gill made the motion to approve final plat waivers for lot dimensions. Second. Motion passed 4-0. 5. PC-18-15 Hamburg Pike Church of Christ filed a development plan application for property at 3108 Hamburg Pike with proposed development is an expansion of the existing property, the property is zoned IS which is institutional. Jennifer Caumisar-Kern with Engineering - this is a 1020 square foot addition to the front of the church with siding like the existing building. We were schedule for storm water meeting but that was postponed last week due to the weather. Public comment: none. Ms. Gill made a motion to approve development plan. Seconded Dr Fleming. Motion passes 4-0. 6. PC-18-16 Millennial Builders filed an application for setback waiver for a property at 3200 block of Utica Pike. The applicant is requesting a 5 foot reduction from the front setback of Rockingham Way, the property is zoned RI which is residential. Katlin Heins from the firm of Young Lind Endres Kraft, New Albany. The legal descriptions were off in the beginning that that is the reason for the need for the setback waiver. Mr. Avery — Essentially enhancing street scape — moving housing closer to the street enlarging back yards. Dr Fleming—I hope you plant some of those trees. Public comment: none. Board Comments—none. Ms. Gill moves to approve the waiver of the setback. Second. Motion passes 4-0. 7. PC-18-17 Millennival Builders applied for a setback at 838/840 Watt Street. The property is zoned M1 —residential. Kaitlin Heins, Young Lind Endres Kraft New Albany. Front setback in the surrounding properties have little to no setback. Mr. Avery commented that he believe this will change the neighborhood from declining. Public comments: none. Dr Fleming asked if the property would be for sale or lease? Lease at this time. Board Comments—none. Page 6 of 7 Jeffersonville Plan Commission Meeting—March 27, 2018 Ms. Gill made the motion to approve the development plan with the waiver zero front set back and 1.3 feet side set back. Seconded. Motion carries 4-0. 8. PC-18-18 Jason Sams with ARC - development of property at 301 West Maple Street, request is to allow signage in excess of the development standard. The property is zones DC which is commercial. This is Town Suites Properties. Jason Sams with ARC Jeffersonville. Sign waivers - asking for waiver to increase signs by 25% above standard. Ms. Gill — I like that they are promoting a business within the hotel so people realize it is there. I drove down to see the area and I think it will look fine. Dr. Fleming- agrees that people who drive over the bridge, walking down the street it will need to be this size to be noticed. Public comments: Doug Carden 409 West Maple Street Jeffersonville. I'm fine with the sign I just make sure that it does not get in the line of sight of the stop sign. Mr. Sams—the sign will not block the stop sign. Board Comments: none. Ms. Gill made the motion to approve the waivers of the 3 signs. Motion seconded. Motion carries 4-0. No meeting in April—the staff will be at a professional development conference. The staff would like to schedule a special meeting in early April to take the Tenth Street master plan to council for a public comment and a vote from the board—set tentatively April 10th Director Report—Nathan Pruitt: we purchased a new set of signs for posting at properties to be more specific as to what is being requested at that property. They are much more descriptive and have an area to write in. Adjournment There being no further business to come before the Plan Commission the meeting was adjourned by Ms. Gill. 1111A1 Mike Mc utcheon, Chair Submitted by j1-1 -(-----\-0,,,Q)eu".) e;,, Hardaway Page 7 of 7 Jeffersonville Plan Commission Meeting—March 27, 2018