City of Athens, Ohio Athens Planning Commission 2020, 16 Jan 2020

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Planning Commission January 16, 2020

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Like to call toreador a meeting of the Planning Commission, it's Thursday January 16th, it's 12 o'clock p.m. it's actually 12:08 p.m. and a disposition and established the quorum. We have four people here, one missing and, secondly, will approach the minutes, January 2nd meeting minutes. It was a wonderful meeting. I recover, but II have a motion, Corrections or additions. I.

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Move to accept them every second.

A

I'm sorry and then one abstention. Now we have no cases and we have one communication: title 21, a lot splits, 34 E's 4th Street 645 in 36 East 4th Street. What 646 complicated okay, sir, are you gonna speak in that ball?.

C

There's a memo attached dated January 7 2020 written by our code, director, David David Griggs, there's a lot in the planes, my understanding of the situation, I'm, not sure if it's mentioned on this, but the the property owners. Essentially, they are trying to correct an error. There's a D there's a driveway portion of a driveway on one parcel that they want to move to get it in line with it.

C

With the parcel where the house is it's an encroachment on those an adjoining property, and so they are looking to fix that driveway issue and then asking for an approval of that lot split.

C

So it's a minor issue, however, because as David notes here, there's no issues with the County Health Department has public sewer, they're clearing up an issue on the transfer sheet and what they're trying to do is address that driveway issue, but because of the driveway issue, what their create their there is a with the depth ratio issue, and so Dave is requesting that the planning, typically David, would be able to prove this without this coming before the Planning Commission, but because of the width, the depth ratio issue, which is consistent across all of the parcels, is on East 4th Street he's asking for the Planning Commission to a word of variance.

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Any questions no.

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Motion I make a motion to approve the lot split with the conditions that the surveyor correct. The the two errors noted that the staff identified the incorrect County, as well as the where the land hook is not correctly connecting lot. Six four six versus lot: six, four five, but otherwise I make a motion to accept the variances to accept I, suppose the variances in.

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It's been moved to the second at all, unshaven, all right, okay,.

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A few things this afternoon and I will keep it very brief, but the Planning Commission should be aware that an annexation request may be coming to them in the next sixty days. There's an annexation application moving through the county right now at the on 682 across the street, from University estates on real estate. That's typically called the hope farm. There's a applicant looking to develop a workforce housing group out of Columbus called woda, which has done projects in this area. In the past.

C

They are petitioning through the county right now and working through an agreement with Lea ax Water District, hoping to bring that forward to they to the ones that go through the county, bring it to the city later this year, the Planning Commission's responsibility would be to desert, recommend a zoning designation for that real estate. I believe the applicant will be asking for a portion of it to be zoned r3 and then the remaining portion to be zoned as general business. So it's just uh just for your awareness on that. More.

A

Tomorrow would a property at an estate street? Don't we do yes.

C

Correct yeah, yeah and.

A

That's been good, I would.

B

Agree, the voted did the Nelsonville school redesign near the development and on Fayette Street and Nelsonville, both the middle and high school former middle and high schools right, and that's that that was a that was a pretty great project for OS City, Nelson yeah. So.

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They come to us well recommend. Maybe okay, let's see no director of D F opportunity for citizens.

C

Just two other items: the first thing is that I do expect. If all goes as a plan, I will have draft copies of the comprehensive plan for the Planning Commission at our next regular meeting. I believe that will be the first meeting in February and, as so all are aware, we are having next Thursday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. January 23rd at the community center. There is going to be an open house with respect to discussing again a permanent location for the Farmers Market.

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As many of you know, we've been looking for several years now at the dog park area over the last nine months, or so we started looking through discussions and getting public feedback and looking at some other issues discussing an alternative location for a permanent home for the Farmers Market in the solar panels, area of the community center grounds, there's still a lot of work that you need need to be done.

C

Of course, we're aware of parking and traffic flow issues that would need to be addressed, but we are having an open house next Thursday to discuss that in more detail and get public feedback on both locations. The dog park area, as well as the solar panels area. It's an open house. You can come for five minutes. You can stick around for two hours, your choice, but pretty.

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Good! Yes, something else that.

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Is all thank you, okay,.

A

Thank you opportunity for citizens to speak about items not covered on the agenda. Okay, I. Don't have to swear a minute announcement of the business. We have a meeting scheduled the 6th of February I've been completed all the items on our agenda. We are adjourned.