City of Faribault Live Stream - Faribault Planning Commission - 2025-04-21

City of Faribault Live Stream - Faribault Planning Commission - 2025-04-21

Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted version with speaker names identified. Note: While several Planning Commissioners (Steve, Tina, Mike) are not explicitly named in your provided list of officials, their names are identified through the Chairman's cues in the dialogue. "Harry" refers to the planning staff member presenting the item (Harry Reed), and the senior staff member discussing the City Council retreat is the City Administrator, Jessica Kinser. *** [1:39] **Harry [Planning Staff]**: to build their own house. Uh, but that happens to be within Shorland. Um, and looking at what the model DNR ordinance has, it's actually a lot more lenient than what we have in our code. So, this is a really great opportunity for a number of different reasons to uh remove a lot of the shoreline references that we have in our existing land use tables which don't exactly align with the model DNR or the DNR's model ordinance, then add those tables from the model ordinance to the special districts chapter. And so what we're doing is essentially taking all of what we would have to do searching across the code to figure out, you know, is one land use allowed in this particular zoning district and then look at it in [2:24] **Harry [Planning Staff]**: Shorland. And then we'd still have to look at it in the special district's land use table to make sure that that matched what was in the land use table for the regular zoning districts. Sometimes it actually did, sometimes it didn't, which uh pro, you know, sort of result in a lot of determinations at the staff level in order to try to figure out how to navigate it. Um, what we're trying to do here is to clean that up, the administration side of it, make it clear for applicants what is and what isn't allowed. So, this is the first land use table that we'll add, and this is specific to lake classifications. [3:02] **Harry [Planning Staff]**: And then the second table that we have is for river classifications. And you I could go back and we could take a look at them, but really the land uses that are in either one are the same. Um it's really just changing in terms of what's permitted, what's conditional, and what's just not allowed. um you know and different lakes and different streams or uh uh different rivers require different levels of of touch when it comes to built environment and development. Uh so that's that's why that they change based off the different classifications in terms of our comprehensive plan. Um, our goals and policies talk a lot about making um, uh, sort of removing barriers to [3:49] **Harry [Planning Staff]**: development that are unneeded or unwarranted. Uh talks a lot about a balance between government interests and individual property owners. And so what this does is that it's actually pushing us a lot closer to okay, we're matching the state and at the same time we're matching our own comprehensive plan and we're potentially resulting in a lot more projects being able to be developed within Shoreland without going through an additional conditional use permit or in some cases just not being allowed at all. Sometimes the case terms of zoning um it does meet a lot of our criteria to grant this zoning amendment. It's for not just one property, but many properties. Uh the DNR has already issued a conditional approval letter uh based off of the changes that are in [4:35] **Harry [Planning Staff]**: your packet. And so staff is recommending that the plan commission forward the proposal to city council recommending in favor of the ordinance. [4:35] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Got it. Thank you, Harry. Do we have questions for Harry on this? [4:51] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: It is a public hearing and there is one member of the public. So, I'll explain what this is and how it works for us tonight. Um, everything that comes before the planning commission, we follow the same format. There's presentation from staff. Then we'll ask any clarifying questions. When we're done with the questions, then we open up public hearing. People come up one time, name, address, public hearing's done, then it comes back up here to us. We'll talk about it. Somebody's going to make a motion to do something. Then we eventually vote on said motion. That moves forward to the city council. We're recommending this to the city council. [5:23] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Then they had the final decision usually Tuesday. That said, is there public input on this one at all? No public input. Then we are closing the public hearing. Now we're back up here to the planning commission for discussion and ultimately... [5:23] **Steve [Planning Commissioner]**: Chairman. Yes. I just want to commend staff. I think the tables and the presentation of the with the the uses and the way it's set up to me made a lot of sense. Good job. [5:54] **Planning Commissioner**: Anything else? I just want to jump in real fast too and support Steve that in the last 10 years it just seems like every, you know, once or twice a year there was some conflict with our shoreline ordinance and the DNR and this this was a good job to just kind of take the holistic approach and fix the whole thing. So this was I I too applaud staff for recognizing the need, helping to make it easier. [6:25] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Other thoughts? [6:25] **Steve [Planning Commissioner]**: I'll move to approve. [6:25] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Steve's got the motion. Tina's got the second to approve the ordinance change language as presented by staff. Motion second. Anything else? We'll vote. All those in favor say I. All those opposed, no. Done with that. That is the only item on our agenda for public hearings. [6:51] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Uh is there a request to be heard, Harry? Is there any of this shared? [6:51] **Harry [Planning Staff]**: No. No, we don't have any requests to be heard. Um or really any larger items to discuss unless the plan commission wanted to talk about something in in... [6:51] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Nobody. Uh so then that's going to wipe out routine business, I'm assuming. [7:11] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: I know we talked about it last time at board and commission update because none of us are on any boards or commissions anymore except charter which meets once a year. No, I am I was just kind of did but I'm just remembering it right. If anybody was on any other board and commission I looked this way. That's all of us. Um okay Tina... [7:47] **Tina [Planning Commissioner]**: I think staff was going to use this opportunity to let us know if there were any city council actions based on what we were. I don't know if you could add the word city council, board and commission updates. [7:47] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Then Chuck wouldn't forget it every meeting is what you're saying. [7:47] **Jessica Kinser (City Administrator)**: Mr. Chair, we can we can look into it. Um but in terms of any updates from city council, um the city council retreat is uh April 29th, I believe. Trying to remember when it starts exactly. Um they do want to talk about housing as a part of their retreat. So that is something that we as staff are are trying to put together something uh you know sort of relatively accessible something that's going to be engaging for city council so that we could talk through some of these potential issues commission that staff maybe even developers are are seeing in terms of constructing housing and just housing in general for so [8:35] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: okay thank you Um before I call for adjournment, uh this I was having trouble downloading my packet. Is there a work session tonight or is this it? [8:35] **Harry [Planning Staff]**: Mr. Chair, no, there's no planned work session. [8:35] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Is that a motion to adjourn? [8:51] **Mike [Planning Commissioner]**: Motion. [8:51] **Tina [Planning Commissioner]**: Second. [8:51] **Chairman [Planning Commission]**: Mike's got the motion. Tina's got the second. I heard that first. On the motion to adjourn, all those in favor say I. I.