Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted version with speaker names assigned. **Note on Speakers:** While the provided list identifies Melanie Peters as the Planning Commission Chair, the transcript clearly identifies **Gino Messina** as the one acting as Chair for this specific meeting, conducting the roll calls and directing the floor. **Justin Courtney** is identified as city staff presenting the reports. *** [0:00] Chair Messina: commissioner hallberg second second okay do a roll call volunteer commissioner tykan [0:04] Commissioner Tykan: hi [0:06] Commissioner Hallberg: hi [0:07] Commissioner Peters: hi [0:08] Commissioner Messina: aye [0:09] Commissioner Romans: hi [0:12] Chair Messina: i'll note that that uh is approved on a 5-0 vote all right thank you um next item up on the agenda is a public hearing and this is the crossroads mall incorporated special use permit 2021-25 uh climate-controlled storage for 275 33rd street west staff report by justin courtney justin are you jim cena [Chair Messina] um the planning commission is asked to hold a public [0:45] Justin Courtney: hearing and review the proposed special use permit for making a recommendation to the city council the applicant sought an ordinance amendment to allow storage in this commercial district i think in 2019 um due to having some chronic vacancies at their strip center they were wanting to have some climate controlled storage in a portion of that uh building the proposed um amendment uh was passed and it required uh half of the bill no more than half the building can be used for storage and earlier this year it was amended to have no maximum requirement of building square foot it could be a percentage that could be used for [1:33] Justin Courtney: storage uh but it still requires does not allow more than uh 20 000 square feet total of storage in a building and all the storage activity must be conducted within the building that doesn't allow any outdoor storage the applicants are proposing to convert the center portion of the strip mall to climate-controlled storage um which would be about 10 600 square feet or 65 of the building and i'll share my screen here so this is the location of the strip mall it's just west of coburn's and crossroads church it's going to be [2:20] Justin Courtney: the the center portion of the building graph of the front of the building as you can see there's a fire lane that's cross-hatched in the front of the building along with a couple of signs along the front that say no parking looking at it from the east side there are quite a few vacancies in the building notice that in years past and this is a photograph of the back of the building there's a floor plan showing the building layout as proposed um you're proposing to about 65 of the center of the building i believe this uh the most westerly uh location will be where the vfw is going to be located and then snap fitness will be on the east side here there's going to be storage pods [3:36] Justin Courtney: developed within the building they'll be held back a couple of feet from the front windows which would allow you know maintenance and cleaning of the windows uh won't really change the appearance of the building itself other than what you see in those windows there these doors i believe would all be bolted shut the ones in the back except for the ones that are to remain open which would be these main doors in the front here this location here i think is a over a small overhead door or loading and so i'll just kind of go through the special use permit review procedure special use uses that are allowed in a zoning district are typically presumed to be compatible with the district at large but where individual review should be done for each specific site to determine if there's any special conditions that should be imposed to make sure it functions well with the surrounding area the floor plan includes front and rear access the front of the structure should be utilized not for maybe loading and unloading vehicles but just [5:08] Justin Courtney: for access of customers going to their units this would help continue the appearance of the shopping center district and maintaining the open drive access without blocking traffic uh impeding the fire lane the um front is currently striped and there are some signs uh staff is recommending that signs be added to the main doors the building from the front just saying that uh and parking is prohibited from the building um property owners within 350 feet were notified of the special use permit request and we didn't have any any comments or against whistle i was recommending approval of the proposal with the only conditions being the third uh that you know if it's not started within a year it's it's a sunset uh approval and if it use these for a period of three years it also [6:25] Justin Courtney: null and void and then that no loading and parking is takes place in the building signs added the main entrance with that staff can stand for any questions um or you can hold the public hearing at this time [6:36] Chair Messina: okay thanks justin um commissioners you have any questions before i go to our attendees let me take a look at my attendee list here real quick all right yep we do have some attendees here if anybody is in our audience if you would go down to the raised hand feature on your screen and use the raised hand feature if you wish to speak on this matter i'll go ahead and open the public hearing now and we have seven attendees i'm sure they're for okay i do have a raised hand for i can't say it's shea home john can you bring uh them into the meeting [7:34] John Hinzman: all right okay mr chairman uh that individual has been brought into the meeting the uh your mute button is on right now if you unmute you are set to address the commission and then if you would just go ahead and give us your name and your address go ahead nope shea you're still on mute [7:58] John Hinzman: let me give you a second here [8:10] John Hinzman: i'm still on mute [8:28] Chair Messina: okay still on mute so we're not there we go now we're off here hi hi thank you oh thank you oh no no problem can you go ahead and give us your name and your address [8:40] Shea Holms: yes shea home 378 cary park lane hastings minnesota [8:45] Chair Messina: okay all right thank you go ahead [8:48] Shea Holms: um i live directly behind the building um in the twin homes that are behind there so i guess my concerns are just noise level safety and lighting and it's especially it sounds like you're going to have people loading and unloading in the back of the building which is right basically behind a bunch of people's houses back here so those are just my biggest concerns just like how the noise level is going to be safety of the area you know with a lot more people now there lighting oh and then also just make since there's a pond there um and it's home to lots of wildlife and just making sure like that people are not going to be dumping garbage or furniture and off in that area [9:36] Chair Messina: okay nope those are um those are good um good items thank you yeah thank you okay john is the applicant with us tonight [9:51] John Hinzman: mr chairman i don't see the applicant here if the applicant is here under a different name or someone represented the applicant if they could raise their hand at this time that would be helpful but looking at the audience i do not see the applicant in the audience [10:14] Chair Messina: all right thank you all right i do not see any other raised hands i'll give it one final shot here there is anyone else in the audience who wishes to speak on this go ahead and use the raise hand feature for me uh seeing no additional raised hands i'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing and then open it up to commissioners for any comments or questions i guess i have a question you know after if that's okay go right ahead commissioner go ahead [10:51] Commissioner Peters: um so just you know in follow-up to what shea just asked us about um is this a 24-hour access facility or will it have hours where it is locked and inaccessible [11:04] Justin Courtney: um i don't exactly know the answer to that question i'm imagining it it probably likely would be 24-hour access which isn't terribly out of the ordinary for this type of use um i mean i think even you know snap fitness probably is 24 hour access and just share my screen just real quick again um this is the plan of the of the storage area you know it's it's fairly uh small units you know these aren't going to be units where people are going to be storing you know their health household items when they're moving it's going to be items that have to make be maintained you know a certain temperature um and you know more secure it's not going to be a lot of stuff that they're probably going to be trying to to throw out on site and we do have nuisance ordinances and code enforcement if that does become a problem but these are likely not gonna be filled up by people bringing you know u-hauls in there it's probably gonna be um business or personal vehicles and um maybe a cart or something um otherwise possibly even just by hand you know bringing bring items in you see the majority of those uh storage areas are not much large walk-in closet [12:17] Commissioner Peters: okay yeah thanks justin and just to clarify you mean they wouldn't bring anything much bigger than a personal vehicle to unload their stuff and they wouldn't be storing vehicles in there just i'm sorry [12:35] Justin Courtney: that is correct yep just want to make sure we got that [12:44] Chair Messina: all right sounds good um commissioners any other questions or comments uh kyle go ahead thanks [13:04] Commissioner Romans: um justin a couple quick questions do you know why the applicant has chosen to bolt the doors shut instead of just doing any sort of facade replacement or anything of that um you know is there is there going to be are we just going to see basically an empty mall situation here yet kind of indefinitely is that the kind of look that's going to stay there um and then with just bolting doors shut and things like that if this is supposed to be a secure facility does that provide a certain level of security that people are uh expecting i'll put it that way [13:38] Justin Courtney: um well i think the purpose for bolting the door shut would be oh it could you know return to a commercial use possibly in the future um the the doors i believe would be very secure bolted shut it it would be you know even more secure than the locks that that are on the doors and i believe the building official told me that there are already doors that are are voltage shut on there um and they they do that rather than removing the doors um for flexibility in the future as ten different tenants come and go and the sizes increase and decrease you know with the storefront being you know just kind of all aluminum and glass it doesn't really appear that you've got all these series of doors they kind of just melt into the storefront itself [14:31] Commissioner Romans: all right um i guess follow up on there is there anything that they can do to um you know based on these pictures and things like that is make sure that it it presents nicely i should say that there's nothing in the glass nothing um you know one way or another that it looks more than just an abandoned mall situation um just basic cosmetically anything like that any sort of screening anything in the windows either to close them off as far as you know some sort of artwork or some sort of something in there to just not make it um a glass into uh storage units or it would be obviously the back of the storage units there [15:10] Justin Courtney: right um you know we can we can pass on that idea to them um you know we wouldn't be anticipating any kind of items to be stored in there like you said you know it's just going to be the back of those units so there's not going to be any kind of miscellaneous items there other than you know currently it's all a bunch of vacant uh space that's visible now it's going to be you know back to the storage units a couple feet from the windows [15:39] Commissioner Romans: thanks yeah i would just encourage the applicant that they can make it look presentable and nice in that way i think it would just be uh nice for the community nice for the people kind of going to be by there in some way for them otherwise you know it's a good use of space ultimately it's unfortunate that they can't fill up the space with something different but um such as the times so thanks [16:16] Chair Messina: all right thanks commissioner romans uh commissioners any other comments all right commissioner tykan [16:25] Commissioner Tykan: thank you mr chair um you know same i miss uh commissioner romans uh just seems odd that we're gonna have like a three foot space between the window and then this wall you know sean what that's going to look like is are we just going to look at a white wall um or are the windows going to be blacked out somehow so we are not looking at it just to me it looks weird i agree with uh is that this is a great use for the building that's been empty for a long time and i'm not against it it just seems like a lot to allow the applicant to uh you know make good use of this building it seems like we could just freshen it up a little bit so it's not looking at a white wall or black wall or whatever he paints it to me it looks odd but otherwise i'm in full support of it i just i wish they would do something and it's unfortunate uh that the applicant's not here tonight to respond to our questions thank you mr true [17:34] Chair Messina: all right thanks mr tykan commissioners anyone else comments [17:40] Commissioner Hallberg: one more question um thinking about especially in the back side of that building where the most you know where everyone's gonna be accessing the storage area um i just wonder like the other you know businesses there um or coburn's if there's dumpsters or anything back there um you know i think it would be good if there was a sign on the building or in the back of the building that just prohibited dumping of anything or disposing of items there unless they're going to provide some type of dumpster for um you know throwing things out because i can just imagine people going to the storage cleaning out their storage and just finding you know potentially just leaving it there or putting in a different dumpster for a different business or something so i don't know if that would be something that we want to recommend or include [18:27] Chair Messina: yeah that's a good information i mean you could actually you know once we uh take a vote you could also put that in as a recommendation if you wanted as part of the recommendations added to the end if that's something that you're that you're interested in um we've taken on these projects before and aesthetics always comes up and the city is really limited as to what we can tell somebody to do with their storefront per se that's indoors versus the outdoors so i know we'd all like to see something a little different you know not look at the back of steel doors or steel walls but kind of limited as to what what they allow us to see in and and so forth but um there is a reaper there are several repurposed storage facilities up in um other cities there's one there's there's a few that i've been by and and you're right when you go buy it that's exactly what you do see through the windows as you see the back of the storage unit but there's always a couple feet there has to be a gap in there because you have to be able to do maintenance you have to be able to wash the windows get behind there and so forth so but um yeah that's what you do see so it's not uncommon uh commissioners any other questions justin i think that's a really good um thing to pass on to them as far as providing make sure they have enough receptacles back there [19:59] Chair Messina: again these are the type of storage unit these are climate controlled storage units so unlike the storage units that are over in the industrial park you know you're not going to see u-haul trucks pulling up with people you know putting their whole entire house in storage you know these are going to be documents valuables or whatever they might be that they need to be in climate-controlled storage you know they they're not going to be u-haul trucks full of furniture and discardable items and so forth so there is that anybody else with any questions or comments nope all right if there are no other uh questions or comments go ahead and entertain a motion to approve [21:10] Commissioner Tykan: mr chairman i'm sorry who is this fisher tykan yeah thank you i recommend approval of the special use permit 2021-25 for climate-controlled storage at 275 33rd street west crossmoor crossroads mall inc [21:38] Chair Messina: okay and um just to clarify and that's subject to those five conditions [21:44] Commissioner Tykan: sorry yes subject to the five conditions subjugation conditions on the approval [21:47] Chair Messina: okay all right sorry okay great do you have a second [21:51] Commissioner Hallberg: chair i'll suck it [second it] [21:53] Chair Messina: okay any or further discussion if not john call the roll please [21:56] John Hinzman: thanks we'll we'll do commissioner tykan [21:59] Commissioner Tykan: hi [22:00] Commissioner Hallberg: hi [22:01] Commissioner Peters: hi [22:02] Commissioner Romans: hi [22:03] Commissioner Messina: aye [22:04] John Hinzman: and i will note that that is approved on a 5-0 vote this recommendation for approval will be passed forward to the city council for final action on june 21st [22:18] Chair Messina: okay thank you john and i want to thank shea for for coming in tonight i appreciate it she's still in the room so thank you thank you thank you thank you all right under other actions um number four leon michelle schmitz variance number 2021-26 to be garage side yard setback 809 east 6th street staff report by justin justin [22:50] Justin Courtney: thank you this home was built in 1948 and the detached garage was built sometime thereafter but not exactly sure when based on a 2003 site plan from the from an architect who submitted plans for an addition to the home the garage is was constructed about two and a half feet from the side of the property line in august of uh 2020 the garage was damaged by a vehicle as a result the applicants planned to demolish it and rebuild it but they held off at that time due to the availability of building materials it would have by the time they would have arrived it would have been in the middle of the winter um so they held off and then this spring they demolished the garage and then they submitted plans to rebuild it unfortunately all new structures must meet current setback requirements the only exception is for a legally non-conforming structure that's damaged by more than 50 percent of its value may be rebuilt um if building a permit is obtained within 180 days but the applicants because of their timeline didn't apply for that building permit within that timeline leading to it having to meet all the setback requirements which would not allow it to be built in the current location which would from the applicant's point of view cause some hardships including misaligning of the driveway not allowing the use of the existing foundation there would also not be enough room for the required six foot separation between the garage and the house if they moved it over also it would diminish the the size uh location of their existing video and i'll share my screen here and go through some of the right layout and uh aerial picture uh this is showing the the site as existed prior to the garage being demolished um like i said it's about two and a half feet from this west property line it's uh the garage how it existed in the [25:06] Justin Courtney: previously was was the main garage which is a standard two-car garage and then it's got two shed roofs on it one and one in the back for more storage uh type uses and then um one over the patio for just patio covering and they're proposing to rebuild it as it existed at that time with those two roofs this is a photograph of what the site looked like prior to the damage the garage and demolition the shed roof coming off the side of the garage there and this is a photograph of what it looks like today after the garage was was removed this is uh the site plan that was done in 2003 showing the back of the garage um currently if it it has eight feet separation from the house here and with the shed roof over the porch is already at the minimum of six feet so moving it over wood only in the driveway not allow the using of the existing foundation of the garage but they would have to either remove this or or size significantly and then there's eight feet separation currently between the garage and the house not enough to full set back on the side there the drawings of the proposed garage which as you can tell pretty much look like the existing garage this is the floor plan of the garage showing about 576 square feet for the garage and then six for the patio cover and 168 for the rear storage area so staff did send out a notice to property owners in the area 350 feet from the subject property [27:31] Justin Courtney: and we received two comments from property owners in the area home was from kent carlson 814 6th street west who was in favor of the variants and said that the garage location hasn't caused any issues in the past and thomas milburn of 600 riverwood street um lives on the corner i go to 814 6th street the first one kent is across the street and the 600 river street which is one property to the east in the corner river so called offer support so variances in hastings would be a deviation from a strict compliance of city code provisions the board of adjustment and appeals may issue a variance requirement of the zoning ordinance based on findings of fact and conclusions that support that variance and the city council and hastings acts as the board of adjustment with uh review by the planning commission for variances report goes through the findings of the different aspects to consider during a variance uh request but it generally kind of comes down to the to quest is a unique situation with conditions of the surrounding um in this in this situation it includes [29:04] Justin Courtney: pre-existing uh site locations um that were built prior to the current requirements and it includes a substandard setback for the garage and also typically in this area from the aerial photograph you can see that all the other properties with detached garages were constructed behind the house rather than on the side of the house the variance is not to increase the value of the property it's just to rebuild what was an existing garage that was lawfully constructed at one point in time and it certainly puts the property to use in a reasonable manner and the owners would suffer practical difficulties if they were having to comply with the strict um with current setbacks due to rebuilding that existing garage recommends approval of the variants based on those the findings of fact in the staff report along with the conditions in the staff report just conformance with the staff report and the information provided and the one-year sunset clause that progress has not made on build rebuilding the garage in a year the approval will be null and void along with uh building permit approval and including any necessary uh fireproofing on that uh that wall if it is so required based on very close setbacks that staff can answer any questions there may be some attendees wishing to to speak um it's not a public hearing but they're allowed that opportunity thank you sir [30:53] Chair Messina: thanks justin um commissioner do we have any questions i could start off real quick with just mine you know when i look at variances i look at three things i've been doing um i always look at the hardship for the applicant you know is this this is creating uh is it solving a problem for which there are limited or no other solutions obviously it does um does it create a hardship for any other property owners or the city if this were to be approved and we're just replacing the existing structure that was already there so no it doesn't and then does it create a precedent or is it based on a past precedent and i have been um i've had re other set variances for houses in this neighborhood and they're just land locked so they're very limited options when when it comes to having to rebuild and so forth is very hard sometimes for them to comply with some of the new um setbacks and so forth because of the way those lots are so past precedent um not unheard of and you know would it be a future precedent that would be a negative thing and no it doesn't so for me it checks all the boxes and it has my support commissioners any other comments questions we do have we do have attendees in the audience there's uh i don't see the applicants listed in there unless they're the phone-in call listener but um if we have any questions we can bring somebody in or ask [32:34] Commissioner Tykan: [Muted] justin i just had a question how close is the garage to the neighboring garage that's not on earth [32:41] Justin Courtney: um i believe the neighboring garage was like uh 14 feet maybe from the property [32:48] Commissioner Tykan: okay so we're good and then i just had a question about the picture do they have some type of storage unit is that on their property [32:55] Justin Courtney: i believe they have a storage unit on their property um okay so that's containing the garage items the garage stuff [33:04] Commissioner Tykan: okay so i was just trying to get a visual for the no um mr chair ma'am i yeah i think this is a good use and uh it's unfortunate that winter impeded their building of it last year absolutely [33:23] Chair Messina: commissioners any other questions comments fishing or romance [Commissioner Romans] [33:30] Commissioner Romans: um well i guess if uh any if anybody else has any comments otherwise i'll make a motion if uh so i'm ready [33:41] Chair Messina: okay hold on one second commissioner hallberg raised his hand i just want to make sure i didn't know if he was gonna make a motion or any question [33:45] Commissioner Hallberg: i was gonna make the motion yeah [33:48] Chair Messina: all right it's it's kind of a you know i had learned from you about same thing it's it hits all the boxes so exactly yep okay um rockstar's paper who would like to make the uh motion [34:06] Chair Messina: the vice chair always takes precedence all right go ahead [34:10] Commissioner Romans: all right i'll uh make a motion to recommend the uh variance number uh 2021-26 the accessory structure side setback at 809 6th street west with the uh about the three conditions listed in the report here [34:28] Chair Messina: all right thanks and second by commissioner halberd [34:31] Commissioner Hallberg: yes yes [34:33] Chair Messina: all right and commissioners any other comments or questions prior to the roll call if there are none john [34:40] John Hinzman: commissioner romans [34:41] Commissioner Romans: aye [34:42] Commissioner Hallberg: aye [34:43] Commissioner Peters: [Aye] [34:44] Commissioner Tykan: aye [34:45] Commissioner Messina: hi [34:46] John Hinzman: i will note that the recommendation is for approval for this variance request this will go before the city council for final action on june 21st [35:05] Chair Messina: thank you thank you john all right next item number five advanced engineering concepts site plan 2021-24 quality one woodwork expansion 3005 millard avenue and staff report by john kinsman [Hinzman] i think [35:28] John Hinzman: thank you mr chairman planning commissioners we got an exciting project before us tonight an expansion within our industrial park for quality one woodwork they're proposing a 50 000 square foot addition to their existing facility this will provide additional capacity for the production of kitchen cabinets and vanities i'm going to share my screen here to show a little bit more as to what we're looking at here this is the site itself 31st street millard avenue existing facility is about 100 000 square feet primarily manufacturing and warehousing with a small office component here you may note on the site that there is truck storage on an aggregate parking lot to the east what would be different on the site is going to the next street here which would be in addition to the east of the facility here 52 000 square feet and the area over here that was truck storage that was unpaved will be paved to city standards with curb and gutter the other addition would be a truck access point north out to enter so this is on a property that would be that would be [36:26] John Hinzman: purchased from the uh the city by quality one as well as another property down here as the planning commission may be aware land within the industrial park that is vacant mostly is owned by the city of hastings we do have a land for a dollar program that hedra and the city council has reviewed they've offered their uh their thumbs up towards the transfer of this property meeting the goals of the program for additional job growth and for additional evaluation so what we're looking at here is the site plan approval tonight when we take a look at uh what we have under the zoning code this is own industrial part of the industrial park the use is consistent are consistent with it our term permitted within that district when you take a look at some of the surrounding properties here it's an industrial park area you've got industrial properties to the north west and east on 31st street you do have a residential area to the south with three rivers mobile home park back when the building was constructed the second edition back in 2002 a large berm was placed in front of the residential area here to help protect it against some of the uses towards the residential area that burma area was planted and provides a pretty good screening right at present so it's about five to six feet in height with the screening on top of it at the site itself this is what that view would be from 31st street looking towards the existing building if you look at the existing building here the new addition would be roughly [37:56] John Hinzman: towards this direction this is another view looking southwest from enterprise avenue so this is the residential area down here this is vacant property to the south the addition would go roughly here with some of the truck areas and storm water ponding areas in this vicinity so we take a look at our zoning requirements here access and circulation is fine on the site not too many changes there is an additional entrance here in here as well we've reviewed that among city staff and we're comfortable that those accesses should work out fine zoning setbacks within our industrial park district are not uh are not implied what they they are determined at the time of site plan when we look at this uh building here and the additions and setbacks we are we are fine recommending approval on that from a zoning standpoint i will note there's a little an unusual item related to the building code and there is a 60-foot clear zone requirement from this new addition to the properties to the north currently there is about a 52 and a half foot setback from the building to the north property line there is a drainage and utility easement for additional 10 feet across most of the property that's owned by tcci and then there will need to be another 10-foot drainage utility easement roughly in this location heading east this is a property that's owned by the city so as a condition of approval we would be encumbering that property with a 10-foot drainage and utility easement as a as a condition of approval here looking [39:29] John Hinzman: at parking on the site here we look at parking between the industrial warehouse use and the office use there needs to be 158 space spaces all together this property provides 147 vehicle parking spaces as you can see throughout the site some of it here is not showing and there are a number of trailer parking spaces these are dock doors over here and general general trailer parking more towards the east for semi-trailers we did add a condition that uh 11 of these vehicle of these semi-truck parking stalls may be converted to vehicle parking stalls in the future if our need arises from taking a look at shift patterns and talking to the owners of the property we feel that the existing parking lot should suffice along with the additional parking but in case it doesn't we have that extra provision here as i mentioned before all the parking lot areas will be paved with curb and gutter which would be great from a landscaping standpoint there will need to be some additional trees and shrubs added to the site what we did is took a look at the additional property since the original property came in prior to a landscape code and they would need to provide another 55 trees and 23 shrubs what we're asking is that those be over towards the east end here by the the truck parking areas to provide some screening and some buffering in that location lighting plan has been has been submitted that's acceptable as well we have had our city engineer take a [41:02] John Hinzman: look at the erosion and grading control plan they're working through comments as we speak on that one there's some remaining questions related to some drainage and rate control figures uh but we're confident that the site plan as proposed will be able to accommodate those changes that the city engineer may come up with so we are recommending approval of the site planner project coming forward tonight that's subject to the 12 conditions within your staff report we do have representatives here from the quality one team as well i should motion i should mention it it's what it's going to look like i didn't skip right over that part this is the existing building as shown here this is the 97 edition the 2003 edition this view would be looking north on 31st street you can see the proposed edition would be located somewhat like this and would match the materials and colors as what was built in 2002. the architectural standards are similar to the landscape standards and that the building itself was constructed prior to the adoption of material standards so the material standards on an addition we take a look to find conformity and make sure that the materials that are going on are consistent with the materials of the existing building which they are in this circumstance and we're recommending approval of that aspect to it with that i can stand for any questions and again we do have representatives from the applicants applicants engineer in the audience if you have any questions for them thank you [42:41] John Hinzman: mr chair i had uh they're communicating with me on the chat feature because he was unable to uh come in on zoom so i'm just responding back to them real quick here in one second here um it's in your chat feature if you wish to follow along down below okay sounds good he wasn't able to make it on zoom scott rasmussen from duran builders he called in uh he's not able to log in using zoom but he may like to make a few comments if we allow him so if he wants to i just sent a message back asking them to let me know so i'm just kind of doing that in the background just so you know [43:23] Chair Messina: thanks john um john did uh i was gonna ask one quick question uh what shifts do they run did they mention that to you say that again mr chair what shifts do they run at the business right now currently are they over are they 24 hours or they in the past [43:40] John Hinzman: mr chair i believe they have run 24 i think at present they're running first and second shifts uh they may think mr alvarado and uh randy hartl from the uh from quality one could confirm that but i believe that's the case [44:03] Chair Messina: okay thank you yeah and they are in the audience too if we do have any questions i see that they're logged in as well okay thanks john appreciate it commissioners any questions or comments well first of all i'll start off with just saying i want to thank um the businesses for reinvesting in hastings i mean you can't um the industrial park is filling in like i've never seen before it's great to see so when you're reinvesting in the community it does mean something so it's nice to see very nice to see so i appreciate that okay commissioners and questions move the chat screen down here so if you're raising your hand and you're and i have you covered by chance i apologize just let me know verbally oh miss cheryl mr tykan [44:57] Commissioner Tykan: i have one question and i think i know the answer the the kind of the light lines are those uh concrete in the parking lot for the truck uh supports so they don't sink in the asphalt is that what those are except there we go [45:09] John Hinzman: yes uh mr tyke and i believe that's the case [45:14] Commissioner Tykan: okay and uh i agree with you mr chair it's great to see uh businesses reinvesting in our city and uh you know improving a grave a lot into a building in a paved lot is a definite improvement for uh to catch everything so i think it's a great use of the space and i'm glad to see it coming into our great city thanks mr tekken [45:39] Chair Messina: is any other questions comments okay um i did send a message back to andy johansen giving uh scott a chance to address us if he wanted to but he hasn't responded back to me yet if there's anybody in the audience who wishes to make a comment or two feel free to raise your hand as well no oh he says he didn't receive the message back to him but i think he can hear me right so if you can hear me let me know if he wants to come in yeah with the chat feature too i'm uncertain as to whether audience members can chat feature it may be internal for the for the panel right okay all right um send me a message if he wants to come in if he wants is he on the 715 number i'm assuming that that may be it i i know that's uh that's where he's from okay um john you okay with bringing him in i think he wanted to address us just real quick [46:58] John Hinzman: yep that's it okay all right bring him in for me okay you're uh you're in if you could just unmute yourself on your phone let's see uh mr chair i'm trying to see having some difficulty here it says talking permitted yeah it's for some reason his there's an i'm having problems bringing him in at least uh i think he's [47:13] John Hinzman: he doesn't give me the eye doesn't give me the option i think he's here he's here where oh my goodness okay is this uh yes it is okay scott we can barely hear you okay so if you just speak up just a little bit [47:25] Scott Rasmussen: i'll i will do that i i apologize for the confusion for the confusion i've caused tonight i didn't want to take a lot of time but i just wanted to thank your plan commission for taking the time and considering this project this is always a pretty exciting time you do all the planning and budgeting and alan randy have looked forward to this expansion for a long time i just sort of wanted to give you just a real quick time frame we would expect the building to be delivered sometime in september we'll start site work well before that so that when the building is delivered we will be able to go directly into standing up steel so that's our time frame to get it closed in before snow flies this coming winter and we're excited we've done a lot of projects in in hastings over the years and look forward to this one lastly i just wanted to take a second and comment we we do a lot of construction in a lot of different communities and i've got to complement your whole process we go to communities that you don't feel very welcome and under john's direction it seemed everybody had the attitude to do what they needed to do to make this project work and it was very nice to be able to visit with and spend so much time our group with all of the staff so not a lot of time but did want to say we we appreciate your willingness to work with projects and look forward to this project in your city [48:58] Chair Messina: all right thanks scott we appreciate those comments thank you very much thanks for calling in by the way all righty thanks all right thank you very much okay commissioners you have any questions for scott while he's still on this would be a good time to okay commissioner hallberg [49:22] Commissioner Hallberg: mr chair thank you i'd make the motion to approve the advanced engineering concept site plan uh number 20 2124 quality one woodwork expansion at 3005 millard avenue based on the 12 conditions set forth by staff [49:45] Chair Messina: all right commissioner you have a second [49:47] Commissioner Tykan: chair all seconded [49:50] Chair Messina: richard tyken on second any further discussion if not john can you call the roll please thanks [49:56] John Hinzman: commissioner peters [Hi] commissioner tykan [Hi] commissioner hallberg aye chairmasina aye and commissioner romans [Aye] note that the recommendation for approval is adopted in a 5-0 vote this will go to the city council on june 21st for final action thank you [50:14] Chair Messina: all right thanks john um next one is other business and i assume part of that is to introduce our our guests tonight [50:18] John Hinzman: yes yeah thank you very much mr chair you may have noticed uh another panel in the brady bunch uh arrangement here of mr grady timmerman grady has started as our community development intern for the summer so he's learning all about planning economic development and then and all the things that community development department does so grady is has finished his classroom work towards his master's degree in urban planning for mankato state and finishing up his internship requirements we can gainfully earn employment coming up after this we want to make sure that he enters the job market with all the with all the education that school did not give him so and plus we welcome his assistants on a variety of projects this summer so grady will grady will be here from time to time and uh he's gonna be doing the minutes for us so wanted to welcome grady to the city [51:17] Chair Messina: thanks john we'll talk faster next time then since he's doing it in a minute so next time we'll speed it up a little bit for him there you go welcome grady [51:34] John Hinzman: thanks but there's other things going on uh city council at their last meeting did approve the home occupation permit for the port of hastings cycle there really was no comments on that that was a unanimous vote so they'll be moving forward with that project uh you may have heard of that meeting too that the chickens are coming back and that is the case so coming on the june 28th planning commission meeting we will be holding a public hearing to review an ordinance amendment to allow chickens in residential area this has been something that the planning commission last looked at i believe in 2019 uh council reviewed it at that time and did not have a majority vote to approve it so it was denied spoke with the council committees on a few different occasions and uh request was made to the council at the last meeting to consider the adoption again and so we will be doing that so the next meeting we have here will we have chickens on the agenda imagine that we'll be receiving a few public comments from that so you may see periodic emails coming forward between now and the 20th relating to that meeting that meeting will be our last meeting via zoom i hope the council has directed us as is moving to in-person meetings coming up on july 6 and then all other commission meetings after that date would be in person so hopefully that june 28th meeting will be our last meeting and so our meeting after that in july would be held back in the city council chambers which uh i'm reminded that two of our planning commissioners have never been in a meeting at our planning commission chamber so that'll be good so we'll have that coming up on the 28th other than that i have no other updates [53:23] Chair Messina: all right thanks john any other business commissioners otherwise i'll entertain a motion to adjourn [53:33] Commissioner Romans: i'll make a motion to adjourn [53:36] Chair Messina: all right do i have a second i'll take the role commissioner hallberg mr tykan hi commissioner peters hi chairmasina hi and commissioner romans hi oh that's a 5-0