Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted version with speaker names identified. Note: While the provided list identifies Melanie Peters as the Chair, the transcript repeatedly uses the address **"Mr. Chairman,"** suggesting a male member (likely the Vice Chair or a senior member such as John Moes) was presiding over this specific meeting on September 12, 2022. [0:00] **Chair (Planning Commission):** September 12 2022 regular meeting. Any questions, comments, concerns, changes, additions, subtractions? Nothing? Okay. You got one's comments on the eyes; it only has myself, Commissioner Moes. Okay. I didn't know if that needed to be added for the public record. One, two, three... Commissioner... oh, thank you... had made the motion to approve. Okay, I will—I will make that change if everyone's agreeable. All in agreement? Any further discussion? Okay. Any other questions? Okay, if none, we'll consider those to be approved with that minor change on the voting. [0:47] **Chair (Planning Commission):** All right, next up, other actions: the In-Tech Plastic site plan 2022-52, building addition, 1000 Spiral Boulevard, and John Hinzman with our report. [0:53] **John Hinzman (Community Development Director):** Okay, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Looking at an expansion here on a site plan for In-Tech Plastics, which is located in the industrial park, 1000 Spiral Boulevard, on the northeast corner of Spiral Boulevard and Millard. They've been located there for quite some time, and they're planning on a 60,000 square foot expansion which would go off of the north end of the building. Along with the expansion, they're also working with HEDRA and the City Council pertaining to the acquisition of this parcel over here, which is owned by the city at present and would be used for their stormwater drainage and potentially a future road connection to the east here. And so that'll be something that will be under consideration by Council along with the recommendation of the site plan here. Looking at the site, this is what it looks like at presence: Spiral Boulevard, Millard Avenue. This is the view from Millard Avenue looking kind of eastward towards the site. You can see here, this is the area where the expansion would take place. Looking adjacent to the site near Vets Park, you have the Vets Park field and some—some landscaping that is established between the property lines here. And then the view here from Enterprise Avenue looking east down towards the area of acquisition towards the building site. So this is what it all looks like together here with the building site here and the rest of the property. You'll note that the property itself has a number of trees on here. One of the things we did review was the landscape plan and tree preservation plan. So they did go through and document significant trees that will be removed in this area and put together a replacement schedule on that. We went some iterations of that later on today, and we are recommending the full approval of the plans on that one with changes in species that were submitted today. So the site plan itself: 60,000 square feet. These are existing access ways that are coming in; that does not change other than just this little access to the proposed addition. The addition itself would be a warehouse space. It would allow them to move their warehousing into this space and it'll allow the other areas of the building to be used for manufacturing. It would lead to a good increase in jobs—about 40 plus jobs that would be created through this—so we are looking forward to that expansion and what it could result in job creation for the city. There's a small little parking lot extension that would also be off the existing parking lot here, about the 28 spaces or so. And then showing here is another future addition that may be constructed in the future—not part of our consideration today, but shown here for purposes of looking at the future. As mentioned before, we did take a look at tree preservation. All the purple areas here are trees of significance that were removed, and all the trees located here that are larger in scale are the trees that are replaced. So the trees that are replaced are going to be a three-inch caliper diameter; so these are—are pretty good-sized trees that would be going in there. Our minimum requirement for replacement is an inch and a half, so that's what this would look like. So you'd still have the establishment of—of greenery between this property here as well as Veterans Park directly to the north. This looks down a little bit further towards the east end of it here showing additional tree placement areas. The building itself looks pretty similar to what the existing building does; it's a tip-up precast concrete building. It'll match the similar materials of the building. Under our architectural standards, when we have an addition to an existing building, we look for compatibility of materials and colors. This is certainly compatible with the other buildings. So we are recommending approval of that, and that is what we have before us tonight. So there are some grading issues that are noted within your report too. We're working with our engineering department to make sure the pond sizing on the other property is correct on that and drainage patterns work for all parties on it. So we have that standard requirement on our site plan report. Also, our visitors here from In-Tech, if you have any questions for them at all, and I can stand for any questions if you have them. Thank you. [5:25] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Okay, thanks John. Welcome. Um, Commissioners, any questions, comments? [5:35] **Planning Commissioner:** Thank you, Mr. Chair. The—you said that a lot that they might get from HEDRA is where the stormwater treatment would be, correct? So without getting that, they can't build this building, right? [5:41] **John Hinzman:** They would have to... there's not room on the site here for stormwater treatment. So they would need this site here for the stormwater treatment as well as future road connection. And—and then when they're—if they have the future building site that goes forward, the addition stretches out something like this. So it is necessary for the—for now and for the future. [6:13] **Planning Commissioner:** So number five on the recommendations would be enough to stop it if they don't get that from HEDRA? [6:17] **John Hinzman:** With—we would have the—we have the land sale on first. We will—for City Council, so we'll have the land sale first and then we would have this. So it would—it would follow in that succession. Okay, so it wouldn't be selling them a property or giving approval on a property that they could not develop. [6:37] **Planning Commissioner:** Okay. Um, otherwise I think it's great, and I'm glad that you're expanding and bringing more jobs into our city. So thank you. [6:45] **John Hinzman:** Thank you. [6:52] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Thank you. Commissioners, any other questions, comments? These are—sometimes they go so quickly that we forget to thank you for coming, and we appreciate it. Um, I do remember when you first—I think it's either I read about it or I saw it in HEDRA where you had options of relocation or expansion, and I think this was your final decision. So it's always nice to see when two entities come together and collaborate creatively and thoughtfully and come up with a good solution for everybody. So I want to thank you for that. Thank you for taking the time to come tonight. I wish we had more questions for you, but we don't. I mean, I drive by there every day—I've been driving by there for the last 17 years—and I'm always, you know, always thankful that it always looks so nice when you go by the existing building. So I can't wait to see what you do with—with the expansion. [7:44] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Thank you. Any other comments, questions? If not, I'll accept a motion to approve. [7:50] **Commissioner Romans:** Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion that we recommend approval of the site plan for In-Tech addition 2022-52, 1000 Spiral Boulevard. [8:15] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Do I have a second? [8:16] **Planning Commissioner:** I’ll second. [8:18] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Commissioner Romans on a second. Any further discussion? If no further discussion, all in favor say aye. [8:21] **Commissioners (In Unison):** Aye. [8:23] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Opposed? All right, motion carries. Okay, thank you folks. And as a reminder, this site plan recommendation will go forward to City Council on October 17th along with the land sale. All right, thank you. Thank you for coming tonight, appreciate it. Thanks, have a good night. [8:31] **John Hinzman:** All right, next is other business. Well, just a recap of what happened on Planning Commission activities. We met about a month ago, had a meeting in which we took a look at the Sweet Living site plan plat combination. City Council looked at that as well as the Motor Coach commerce facility in previous meetings; they did approve both of those projects. I don't think there was any other changes to any of the conditions on there. So as far as progress goes with Sweet Living, I don't know when their construction schedule may be at this point—they're still going through some of their final documents. And then similar with the Motor Coach commerce facility on Vermillion Street with the interim use permit agreement, they have to be complete by October 1st of 2023. So we'll see what happens on that one. Other things going on in Planning Commission: we will have a meeting coming up in two weeks, I believe. We've got a site plan application that's been turned in. We're looking at it tomorrow morning internally, and this is for about a 2,300 square foot therapy office building which would be located right by Westview Drive and South Frontage Road, kind of adjacent to the—the auto parts store next door there where Wendy's used to be. So that vacant lot's been there for—for quite a long time and we've had a few proposals and actually a few approvals for things that were never built. So hoping that this would be a good use and that would be constructed on the site. So I think that would be before us in our meeting in two weeks here. Looking at who will not be at a meeting in two weeks here will be, unfortunately, Mr. Romans. Commissioner Romans, as we discussed a little earlier before the meeting, Kyle is moving out of the city—not very far, into Nininger Township. Unfortunately, we do have a residency requirement. We did discuss, and perhaps the City Council will recommend to the City Council an annexation of Kyle's house, but that might take some time to do so. But in all honesty, Kyle's been here for about three years or so, been a wonderful addition to the Planning Commission. He comes together well, comes to the meeting well-prepared, well-researched, great questions. Tough to lose a guy like this. So we're very appreciative of the work that you put in here and certainly wish you the best of luck in your endeavors. [11:03] **Commissioner Romans:** Well, thank you for the kind words, and—uh—this has been a great opportunity to work with you all on this and great to be involved with the community this way. And I advocate for other folks to come and be a part of this because this is how you help your community here on this moving forward. So again, thank you all. [11:21] **John Hinzman:** And along with that as well, it's a good time to put in a plug if anyone's watching this meeting and is very interested in being part of this fine facility here on the commission. We will have openings coming up, so there is an application—not an application, but more of an informational forum on our website, or you can give me a call if you have any questions on anything. We're looking for people to help serve not only on this commission but other commissions within the city. [11:47] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Guess what? He said yes. No, I just want to say thank you also for the last three years—that went fast. So appreciate all the knowledge and—and diverse knowledge that you brought to the commission over the last three years. And it was a tough three years in some respects; so we navigated it together, so that's pretty cool. So thank you very much. Commissioners, any other comments we'd like to have? Let's say, Kyle... any other business? [12:23] **John Hinzman:** Nothing in public. [12:26] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Okay. All right. All right. All right, if not, I'll accept a motion to adjourn. [12:28] **Commissioner Romans:** I'll—motion to adjourn. [12:30] **Chair (Planning Commission):** All right, motion to adjourn by Commissioner Romans. Second? [12:33] **Commissioner Hallberg:** I'll second. [12:35] **Chair (Planning Commission):** All right, Commissioner Hallberg second and... any further discussion? If not, all in favor say aye. [12:38] **Commissioners (In Unison):** Aye. [12:40] **Chair (Planning Commission):** Opposed? Motion carries. We are adjourned.