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City of Centerville Planning and <br />Zoning Commission <br />June 4, 2024 <br />Discussion ensued about the building height. The City of Centerville Code height is based on the east <br />elevation. Some codes will take into consideration the entire perimeter of the building. Administrator <br />Statz noted that the developer has made efforts to soften the height. <br /> <br />Slide 5 Î Parking <br />Administrator Statz reviewed this slide, highlighting the number of parking spaces required per code, <br />and explaining that a conditional use permit may be granted to provide fewer parking spaces when it <br />is clearly demonstrated by the applicant that the use will not require the number of spaces indicated. <br />Administrator Statz also explained a condition for proof of parking, whereby the land being held in a <br />landscape reserve in the event the use or parking needs change could be used. He added that he thinks <br />proof of parking is a nice way of ensuring that there are no issues with parking overflowing into the <br />school and/or streets. Administrator Statz also mentioned that the conditional use permit has further <br />restrictions, which allow the city to restrict the number of units being rented if parking were to become <br />a problem. <br /> <br />Commission Kalina asked if the developer would be charging for parking and the developer <br />responded that they are. <br /> <br />Administrator Statz reviewed his slide on parking ratios, also showing ratios on similar projects in <br />Farmington and Delano. <br />Commissioner Seppala asked if the other communities had a land-locked issue like we do. Mr. Ebert <br />explained that Delano is more like Centerville and there have not been reports of problems there. <br />Commissioner Kalina asked if their code allows for on-street parking. Mr. Ebert and his colleague <br />confirmed there have not been any problems reported and that driving by every night on the way <br />home (for 2 years) the parking lot has not been full. Commissioner McCabe asked about parking <br />conditions to gain a better understanding of the similarities with the Delano project. <br />Commissioner Olson asked if anyone has looked at what the project would look like if the site had <br />parking requirements of 2:1. Mr. Ebert said they are looking at proof of parking. <br />Administrator Statz pointed out that there are several bills that were introduced at the legislature and <br />got hearings at committees. One bill was about parking. Another was termed the missing middle, <br />where restrictions were placed on planning commissionsÓ ability to regulate development in terms of <br />lot size, size of buildings, preempting local zoning authority. Administrator Statz noted that there is <br />a narrative out there that cities are overregulating things like parking, causing the price of housing to <br />skyrocket and if we could eliminate then we would have affordable housing. He added that the council <br />opposed those legislative actions by writing letters stating that we value this board and their discretion <br />on these issues and that we trust they will make discretionary choices. Further, Administrator Statz <br />said that if the bills had passed, this would have taken away local authority to decide on how much <br />parking is allowed and it would have disallowed public hearings. In addition, construction of <br />duplexes, triplexes (up to eight plexuses with no restriction on additional parking, utility connections, <br />etc. would have been allowed). <br /> <br />City Planner Phil Carlson added that he is seeing many projects in suburban locations being built to <br />a 1.6 standard, adding that parking minimums are way too high. <br />Page 5 of 16 <br /> <br />