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Planning Commission Regular Board Meeting City Council Chambers, 2660 Civic Center Drive Minutes - Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1. Call to Order 1 Chair Dan Boerigter called to order the Planning Commission meeting at approximately 6:30 p.m. 2 and reviewed the role and purpose of the Planning Commission. 3 2. Roll Call & Introductions 4 City Planner Thomas Paschke called the Roll. 5 Members Present: Chair Daniel Boerigter; and Commissioners Tom Gottfried; Joe Wozniak; 6 John Gisselquist; and Andre Best 7 Members Excused: Commissioner Glenn Cook 8 Staff present: City Planner Thomas Paschke; Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd; City 9 Engineer Debra Bloom 10 3. Review of Minutes 11 MOTION 12 Member Wozniak moved, seconded by Member Gottfried to approve the meeting minutes 13 of February 2, 2011 as presented. 14 Ayes: 5 15 Nays: 0 16 Motion carried. 17 4. Communications and Recognitions: 18 a. From the Public (Public Comment on items not on the agenda) 19 No one from the public appeared to speak at this time. 20 b. From the Commission or Staff 21 Member Wozniak requested that Mr. Paschke check into and report back to the 22 Commission if the Grass Lakes Water Management Organization (GLWMO) was still 23 looking for participation from the Planning Commission at their Third Generation Ten 24 Year Plan stakeholder meetings. 25 5. Public Hearings 26 Chair Boerigter reviewed the purpose and process for public hearings before the Planning 27 Commission. 28 a. PLANNING FILE 11-004 29 Request by James Carr for approval of an accessory dwelling unit as a 30 CONDITIONAL USE at 2478 Hamline Avenue 31 Chair Boerigter opened the Public Hearing at 6:34 p.m. 32 Associate Planner Bryan Lloyd reviewed the request of Mr. James Carr to modify living 33 area above the garage and ground-level entrance, requiring that the accessory dwelling 34 unit (ADU) gain formal approval as a CONDITIONAL USE, as detailed in the Request for 35 Planning Commission Action dated March 2, 2011. 36 Mr. Lloyd highlighted staff’s analysis of the request for ADU above the attached garage, 37 with living space physically separated from the remainder of the principal residence, and 38 already existing as legally nonconforming under State Statute and City Code. Mr. Lloyd 39 advised that the applicant’s intent was to improve and reconfigure the entrance to the 40 unit, through shifting of the stairways, and to make it more accessible as an extension of 41 the principal residents, plans would still preserve the option for the space as a separate 42 dwelling unit. 43