This transcript is from a meeting of the **Planning Commission**. Based on the provided context of the municipality (Cannon Falls) and the names mentioned during the roll call and public hearing, the speakers have been identified as follows: * **Brian Douglas**: Planning Commission Member (acting as Chair). * **Bob Dietz**: The applicant (owner of BFD of Cannon Falls LLC). * **Mike Duncan**: Planning Commission Member. * **Christensen**: Planning Commission Member. * **Other Commission Members**: Emma, David Lundell (Lundell D), and Greg Lundell (Lundell G). *** [0:00] **Brian Douglas**: e [0:52] **Brian Douglas**: No, I actually just uh emailed back to the uh engineer. Call the meeting to order. Good evening everybody in attendance. Um, November 9th, 2020 Planning Commission agenda. Uh, roll call. I'm here. [1:05] **Mike Duncan**: Duncan here. [1:06] **Emma**: Emma here. [1:07] **Christensen**: Christensen here. [1:08] **David Lundell**: Londel D here. [1:09] **Greg Lundell**: Londel G here. [1:10] **Brian Douglas**: All right, uh, move on to approval of the agenda from last month—uh, actually from September, excuse me, September 14th, I think. [1:25] **Mike Duncan**: Mike, we got to approve the agenda for tonight first. Let's approve agenda first then. [1:33] **Christensen**: Okay, I'll make a motion to approve. [1:36] **Mike Duncan**: I'll second. Second. [1:40] **Brian Douglas**: Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor, aye. Opposed? That will carry on to the approval of the minutes, September 14th. Any additions or corrections to the minutes of that evening? [2:05] **Christensen**: No, I make a motion to approve them. [2:10] **Brian Douglas**: Motion's been made. Is there a second? [2:12] **Mike Duncan**: Second. [2:14] **Brian Douglas**: Motion been made and seconded. All in favor? Opposed? Pass. Okay, let's go down to the public hearing. Open the floor—oh, excuse me, public input. Anybody with the public input this evening? Yes, and not pass through that public hearing, variance encroachment request and rezone to allow BFD of Cannon Falls LLC to construct a 30,000 ft steel frame building at 31633 64th Avenue. City code states that the front yard setbacks in the B2 Highway business district are 35 ft. Uh, Bob, I see you're here. [3:00] **Bob Dietz**: Yeah. [3:01] **Brian Douglas**: Haven't seen you for a while. Um, anything you'd like to add to uh what we have before us this evening? You're a long-time resident of Cannon Falls. You remember—you can step up to the microphone if you'd like. [3:13] **Bob Dietz**: You remember the Jim's Home Center? [3:15] **Brian Douglas**: Yes. [3:16] **Bob Dietz**: He owned all the lots. Yeah, and he put his home center on both lots right down the middle. So we're in the process of tearing all those floors out now. And then CVW bought it and they—they went all over the place with all additions. So we want to build—we want to get it in order to fit that 100-foot wide building. We got to be as close as I—as uh, like 20 ft from my other building to make it fit because right now we're keeping the old CVW um, it's a brown building that's L-shaped. [3:50] **Brian Douglas**: Yep. [3:51] **Bob Dietz**: Yeah, to meet far enough from that so make it work anyway. [3:55] **Brian Douglas**: Any questions for Bob and the committee? Is that—is that a tunnel? Am I seeing a tunnel here? [3:59] **Bob Dietz**: Yeah, you are. We are going to attach it. [4:02] **Brian Douglas**: I mean, is that above ground? [4:04] **Bob Dietz**: Yeah, yep. You have to. The building is going to be—that one I had to match my other building. As you go farther south, the elevation kind of stays, so I had to bring a tremendous amount of fill. Okay, and so this one's going to be about a foot and a half lower. [4:20] **Brian Douglas**: Yeah, lower level. [4:22] **Bob Dietz**: So it'll be kind of a ramp going up into the other building. [4:24] **Christensen**: Do you have to have special doors or anything separate the buildings in case of fire or anything? [4:29] **Bob Dietz**: Not that I'm aware—it'll all be sprinkled. [4:32] **Christensen**: Yeah, yeah. I was just wondering if if you had to uh do that. I don't know if that's required or not. [4:38] **Bob Dietz**: Not that I'm aware of. The plans show a garage door. [4:42] **Christensen**: You're going to have a garage door that'll shut down or... [4:44] **Bob Dietz**: But I don't believe I need that. I don't know, I don't—I don't know. I was just curious. The contractors, the engineers didn't say anything. [4:55] **Brian Douglas**: Yeah, and and that's uh—so you can between buildings run the forklifts connect without going outside? [5:02] **Bob Dietz**: Yeah. [5:03] **Brian Douglas**: So, nothing I know about there. I don't know. Any other questions from the commission? Well, uh, and I see in here that we do have to change the zoning on that—that parcel, correct? To I1? [5:21] **Bob Dietz**: That's why, yeah. That's part of the uh resolution. [5:26] **Brian Douglas**: Okay. [5:27] **Bob Dietz**: And that—we originally talked about going down to one lot and combining them all, but that is really more work and it doesn't really matter—so I write out two checks to Cannon Falls or one for taxes. So, yeah, but it did go into the TIF District. That's must be what you're referring to, right? [5:45] **Brian Douglas**: Yeah, there's—there's still a TIF on that particular parcel for—on the old parcel, but not on the new? [5:54] **Bob Dietz**: Right, right. [5:55] **Brian Douglas**: That's why we couldn't combine them. Correct. Okay. I see staff's approving of this application, correct? Any other questions? [6:15] **Christensen**: No, you just might want to check with the fire department and see if they want some way to separate that in case something goes on. [6:22] **Bob Dietz**: Well, there will be—there'll be 20 ft and—I mean, yeah. [6:26] **Christensen**: Is it—is it what you going to manufacture in there or is it just storage or...? [6:29] **Bob Dietz**: There will be some manufacturing in there, yes. Both sides. [6:34] **Brian Douglas**: Anything else you'd like to add, Bob? [6:37] **Bob Dietz**: Um, not really. Okay, we'll eventually probably be—not right now, but I plan on tearing down at least part of that old CVW building. We demolitioned 3/4 of it or half of it and there was so much black mold. And the wing that goes east and north and south, still some of the ceilings come down. We're going to just use this as cold storage. There's no electricity in it right now. It's going to remain. [7:01] **Brian Douglas**: Okay. Any further questions or we're going to close the public hearing? Let's close the public hearing then. [7:20] **Bob Dietz**: Okay. Does that mean I have to leave? [7:22] **Brian Douglas**: No, you can sit down. This—this will be done in a minute. Yeah. Let's uh move down to uh 7A then, Resolution 2020-13. Staff recommends approval of this application. Any further discussion by the commission? I'll otherwise I'll accept the motion. [7:47] **Christensen**: I'll make a motion to uh accept Resolution 2020-13. [7:55] **Mike Duncan**: I'll second it. [7:57] **Brian Douglas**: Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. Anything else you gentlemen would like to discuss this evening? [8:08] **Mike Duncan**: No hot topics in town that I'm aware of. [8:15] **Christensen**: Motion to adjourn. [8:17] **Mike Duncan**: Second. [8:18] **Brian Douglas**: I'll make a motion to adjourn—second. Motion's been made and seconded to adjourn November 9th, 2020 meeting of the Planning Commission. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Good evening, gentlemen.