Based on the context provided and the verbal cues within the transcript (such as the Chair identifying who made and seconded motions), here is the identified transcript for the May 1, 2024, Apple Valley Planning Commission meeting. **Note:** While the prompt provided City Council names, this is a Planning Commission meeting. The Commissioners (Schindler, Scanland, and Haas) are identified via dialogue, while the female presiding officer is referred to as **Madam Chair**. *** [0:00] [Music] [3:06] [Music] [3:22] [Music] [4:09] [Applause] [Music] [5:15] [Music] [6:00] [Music] [6:33] **Madam Chair:** Good evening. I call the May 1st, 2024, Apple Valley Planning Commission meeting to order. First item of business is the approval of the agenda. Any changes from staff? [6:44] **Tim Benetti:** Madam Chair, members of the Commission, we have no changes for you at this time. [6:50] **Madam Chair:** Thank you, Tim. Any changes from the Commissioners? [6:54] **Commissioner Schindler:** Move approval. [6:55] **Commissioner Scanland:** Second. [6:56] **Madam Chair:** Moved by Commissioner Schindler, seconded by Commissioner Scanland. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying "Aye." (Group: Aye). Oppose, "Nay." Motion carries. Next item of business is the approval of the consent agenda. Consent agenda items are considered routine and will be enacted with a single motion without discussion unless a commissioner or a citizen requests to have any item separately considered; it will then be moved to the land use action items for consideration. 3A, can I have an approval per minutes of April 17th, 2024, regular meeting? [7:32] **Commissioner Schindler:** So moved. [7:33] **Commissioner Scanland:** Second. [7:34] **Madam Chair:** Moved by Commissioner Schindler, seconded by Commissioner Scanland. Any discussion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying "Aye." (Group: Aye). Oppose, "Nay." Motion carries. Brings us to number four, public hearings, and on the agenda tonight we do not have any. So that brings us to 5A, land use action items, and we have Tim in for Alex I believe, and that is Applewood Point of Apple Valley Second Edition. [8:05] **Tim Benetti:** Thank you, Madam Chair, members of the Commission. Before you tonight is a request from United Properties on behalf of Robert Thomas Homes. They are looking for approval of Applewood Point of Apple Valley Second Edition. There are three applications before you tonight to consider: the first is to amend the planned development number 1080 (PD 1080) to allow for one-family detached dwellings and correct some typographical errors. Also, number two, subdivide Outlot A by preliminary plat into seven single-family lots, which we'll get into very quickly. And third, to approve a site plan and building permit authorization for seven new single-family homes in conjunction with the multi-family development. As Alex introduced at the last meeting, the site is located at Pilot Knob and McAndrews Road. The Apple—excuse me—Applewood Point First Edition is about 7 and a half acres. Outlot A, highlighted in the middle there, is 1.14 acres. The site is covered, as we indicated, under PD 1080. It's in two separate zones, one and two. Zone two is the one that is being considered for action tonight; nothing on Zone one at this point. In the picture on your screen here, you'll note the area in the front of the pond area or behind the pond—sort of that mounded area. This is where the seven new homes or seven new plat lots will be proposed. Back in 2020-21, Applewood Point was approved under the site plan and again, you're seeing up on the top half here—maybe the mouse comes up—the building stated here. This is the 98-unit Co-op building that is fully leased or fully occupied or owned at this point. Happy to hear and see that. And also the seven lots that were being proposed here: seven single-family what they refer to as townhomes or villas. Since our ordinance defines a townhome as a shared wall arrangement, these obviously weren't, so they were given the ubiquitous name of "townhome," but that is not the case; they will be single-family dwellings or single-family villas. Preliminary plat again just shows the layout of the seven lots here. Again, these are labeled in your packet between 6,000 and 5,000 square feet. So these are a little bit smaller than normal single-family lots because they're accepting a smaller villa-style home. Also, Alex brought this to your attention: we discovered when working with United Properties that there were a number of typographical errors where some of the numbers were transposed from Zone one to Zone two, so we're here to fix those. We're also adding "one family detached dwelling" as an allowed use under Zone 2 only. Utility plan: not much changing here. This site was already set up or provided for utilities stubbed to the areas here when they built the Co-op building, so there aren't really a lot of major changes being planned on the utility plan. Grading plan: this had to be remodified a little bit due to the need for these larger footprints but the walkout features that are going to be on these buildings. So these will be full basement walkouts now. Remember, every building that comes in goes through its separate review period, not only with our building department but also our engineers, so they want to make sure that these all are consistent with this approved master grading plan, and this is what they use to measure those when those individual units come in for permit. Landscape plan: again, these are very basic but they do meet our ordinance. These will be probably adjusted a little bit, but they still have to maintain the 2 and a half percent value of the home as we've always had on multi-family dwellings. Alex went through these very quickly: these are the different elevations of the homes proposed by Robert Thomas. Again, the Hamilton refers to a simple floor plan, varied for individual floor plans, but they have a choice of providing for different unique characteristics on the outside, both for the Mayfield and so on. So the choice will be up to the new homeowners of each site in Sterling. At the April 17th meeting, there was a public hearing as some of you are aware, and the question was: why is there no ability to turn right on Pilot Knob from the site? Can additional signage regarding U-turns be added? And why was the median on McAndrews Road not extended? Our response in your packet was that both McAndrews and Pilot Knob are managed by Dakota County, who controls that access spacing, and that was approved when the original Applewood Point was approved. The approved access points were established with safety as a primary design. The city will work with Dakota County to review any signage along McAndrews. The resident questions on limited access have been addressed by the engineer at the public hearing. After that lone comment from the public was heard, it was determined to make a recommendation or motion to close the hearing. So for tonight, we're asking for three recommended actions: recommend approval of Ordinance 155 amending chapter 155 article 839 regarding PD 1080; recommend approval of the subdivision of Apple Valley Point Second Edition subject to conditions outlined in Exhibit A; and also recommend approval of the site and building permit authorization for the seven new homes under the seven new lots for Block 1, Applewood Second Edition. If you have any questions, I'm here to answer any, and also Mr. Dave Young from United Properties is here to answer any questions if you have any too. Thank you. [14:19] **Madam Chair:** Thank you, Tim. Commissioners, any questions for Tim? Is that a quick question, Commissioner Scanland? [14:25] **Commissioner Scanland:** Madam Chair, Tim, reading—trying to read the fine print on the drawings just to confirm—it was kind of open last meeting that there'll be a setback of five feet between each one of the homes for a total of 10? [14:41] **Tim Benetti:** Correct. Each home has a minimum requirement of 5 feet from property line to property line, so by definition, they could build up to 10 feet between each other, or a 10-foot separation. [14:52] **Commissioner Scanland:** Okay. And then—this might be a question for the applicant—are these homeowners going to have access to amenities or things at the other facility or the main facility? [15:05] **Tim Benetti:** I'll defer that to the applicant here, Mr. Young. [15:10] **Dave Young (United Properties):** Commissioner, no. Other than the pedestrian trails around the south side of the property. But inside the building, otherwise, they're separate. [15:17] **Commissioner Scanland:** They're not. Okay. Correct. Yeah, and the reason I asked that question is if they did share some of the amenities, there might be some additional connection points that you might consider, but if that's not the case, then no. All right, thank you for the clarification. [15:25] **Madam Chair:** Thank you. Any other questions or for the applicant? Okay, do I hear— [15:29] **Commissioner Scanland:** Madam Chair, I recommend approval of an ordinance amending Chapter 155, Appendix F, Article A-39 of the city code regulating Planned Development Designation Number 1080. [16:03] **Commissioner Schindler:** Second. [16:04] **Madam Chair:** Motion made by Commissioner Scanland, seconded by Commissioner Schindler. Any questions? If not, all those in favor signify by saying "Aye." (Group: Aye). Oppose, "Nay." Motion carries. [16:16] **Commissioner Scanland:** Madam Chair, I recommend approval of the Applewood Point of Apple Valley Second Edition of the preliminary plat subject to conditions outlined in Exhibit A. [16:30] **Commissioner Schindler:** Second. [16:31] **Madam Chair:** Motion made by Commissioner Scanland and second by Commissioner Schindler. Any questions? If not, all those in favor signify by saying "Aye." (Group: Aye). Oppose, "Nay." Motion carries. [16:42] **Commissioner Scanland:** Madam Chair, I recommend approval of the site plan building permit authorization for Lots 1 through 7, Block 1, Applewood Point of Apple Valley Second Edition, subject to the conditions outlined in exhibit. [16:53] **Commissioner Schindler:** Second. [16:54] **Madam Chair:** Motion made by Commissioner Scanland and second by Commissioner Schindler. Any questions? Any discussions, I should say? All in favor signify by saying "Aye." (Group: Aye). Oppose, "Nay." Motion carries. [17:15] **Tim Benetti:** Thank you. This item will be on the next Council agenda for next week. We're sort of doing a special favor expediting it to the next meeting; they would like to expedite their building permit for the Parade of Homes. So we hope to see one of those units built or more by Parade of Homes time. [17:38] **Madam Chair:** Wow. Hopefully, we'll get to see something in the fall for you. [17:41] **Tim Benetti:** Sounds good, thank you. [17:42] **Madam Chair:** You're welcome. Ah, that brings us already to number six, other business, and I will let Tim... [17:48] **Tim Benetti:** Madam Chair, I felt like I'm just going to stand up here. I'm just going to let you know that our next meeting of Wednesday, May 15th—I believe we still have one item scheduled for that night. You'll receive a packet of information as well on that very soon. Followed by Wednesday, June 5th meeting. Council on May 9th and May 23rd respectively. And again, happy to answer any questions after the meeting if you have any. Also want to wish or welcome our newest member, Doug Haas. That's correct, Doug just was sworn in and was selected by our commission—or by our Council, excuse me. We had a pretty good slate of candidates, so you rose to the top. Congratulations. Looking forward to working with you. Spent a long time with Mr. Lawell the other day; we talked a lot about our families, yes, about scouting and about all kinds of—sort of we spent a few minutes just talking about what a Planning Commission member does. But yes, that's okay. We're here to help you and they are too. So absolutely, if I'm not available and my staff isn't available, please call these members. You've got their numbers, you've got their emails, please reach out. Doesn't matter who; they're veterans now. So, welcome aboard. [18:59] **Commissioner Doug Haas:** Thanks for the welcome. Look forward to working with you all. [19:03] **Madam Chair:** Thank you. Welcome, and just to warn you, our meetings are usually not this short. Do I have an adjournment? [19:11] **Commissioner Scanland:** So moved. [19:12] **Commissioner Schindler:** Second. [19:13] **Madam Chair:** Moved by Commissioner Scanland, seconded by Commissioner Schindler. All in favor signify by saying "Aye." (Group: Aye). This meeting is adjourned. Sorry. [19:38] [Music]