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