right i don't uh Okay i call the April 7th Planning Commission meeting to order roll call please here here here are there any agenda amendments
there are no amendments this evening okay is there a motion to approve the April agenda so moved second all in favor i I All against okay um is there a motion to amend or
approve the minutes for the March 3rd meeting no you all have your mics on okay oh no okay yeah move to approve we had a second yes yep okay all right
all in favor i I I all against okay all right um are there any citizens to be heard on items not on the agenda okay apparently not so we'll move to public hearings the first is a request
of Trantina Properties LLC for a conditional excuse me conditional use permit to operate towing impound lot at 2857 22nd Avenue South is there a motion to open the public hearing so moved
second all in favor i uh city planner Houston can you please provide the commission an overview of the item chair Beam Assistant City Planner Ethan Yon Jon will present this item tonight thank you Chair Beam and
commissioners uh the applicant is requesting a conditional use permit for a towing impound lot in the light industrial zoning district in the Morehead Industrial Park uh the proposed impound lot is adjacent and across the street from existing impound lots we have received no public comments to the
state um so staff is suggesting the planning commission re recommend approval to the city council the conditional use permit to allow operation of a towing impound lot uh and the related findings of fact contingent on the three conditions listed in your packet please let me know if you have any
questions are there any commission questions or comments okay are there any public comments since there is no public here I'll take that as a no um is there a motion to close the public hearing so moved
second all in favor i i okay um is there any more discussion or a motion for the item approve move to approve seconded okay
[Music] um so the um motion is for recommended approval to the city council for the conditional use permit to allow operation of a towing impound lot in the light industrial district at
2857 22nd Avenue South and related findings of fact contingent on the following uh one a drainage and dust control plan must be submitted and approved by city engineer prior to storing impound vehicles on the lot
opaque screening is required around the vehicle storage area to a height of no less than 6 ft an applicant shall receive all required federal state and local permits all in favor i I
Okay uh second is a request to the city of Morehead for citywide zoning map amendments related to commercial parcels is there a motion to open the public hearing so moved second all in favor i I
city Planner Houston please provide the commission an overview of this item chair Beam along with the recent text amendments as part of the onward Morehead comprehensive plan update implementation process the city is now
requesting complimentary zoning map amendments focused on commercial parcels and parcels with a commercial future land use designation uh please note that since Friday I made a few updates to the staff report correcting
um that there is only one non-conforming use created for these reszones which is in a zoning world that is remarkable out of 500 and some parcels there's only one non-conforming parcel created um so I think in my original report I had mentioned I thought there was two and it
was a typo i really um so the only um new one was uh it was a house on 11th Street up by American Crystal Sugar and it was built kind of in an industrial commercial area so it was a lot of that area is already non-conforming um but
they can continue um to be a single family residence without any without any impact to the property and then I also realized as I was driving around this weekend um up on 15th Avenue North there's a former bus garage next to the
new public works um department and I knew I reszoned that in 2022 and I was thinking I don't remember writing this or putting that one in the table so sure enough it was wrong in our GIS when we pulled the data from the GIS so it was still listed as an institutional
property so I I did add that to the table it's at the bottom of the um commercial property table so that is um we reszoned it in 2022 to community commercial and now we'll be reszoning it to mixed use too which is neighborhood mixeduse which is more appropriate
because it's in a residential area was that the bus barn used by the school district yes okay yes um the things you find when you're driving around Morehead um much of this grouper reszones were for the regional commercial parcels um
which as you recall we we um repealed that district because it's it's an outdated zoning district so we essentially um created MU4 which is the gateway mixed use um for these parcels that used to be zoned RC that are mostly
in the gateway district um and then many of the community commercial parcels remained as is along Main Avenue Southeast which is um on the I think on the west side of Maine that's all that's our original industrial park
so all of the parcels along Main Avenue are commercial and then everything behind is light industrial those won't change um we have a lot of community commercial parcels along uh 30th Avenue south and then also Highway 70 north from Highway 10 east north those will
those will remain commercial and then lastly as you see in the table I've got some highlighted future land uses we did find some errors that were not caught um when we did the future land use changes and then I also
found a few parcels that I re-evaluated that were um like for example there was one area that I was going to reszone a mixeduse but it's more appropriate to remain community commercial so we will address those future land use um errors
when we get the all the reszonings done because there'll probably be some other ones and then we'll just do all that um that that map update um all at one time i have not received any comments to date on the proposed changes and staff is
suggesting that the planning commission commission recommend approval um of the zoning map amendments um to the city council for the related commercial parcels and just let me know if you have any questions are there any questions or
comments um guess I have one um could you just explain the difference between the new MU4 and the prior regional commercial right so the old regional commercial had
um pretty hefty setbacks there was you know 20 I think it was 20 ft in the front 20 ft in the rear there was a 50ft setback depending on if it was adjacent to residential and then it was also intended for like these big box stores
like Targets Super Walmarts um we just don't get those types of development you know if we if you have a Target if you have a Walmart you're probably not going to get another one in in this size of a city right now so we went through that um code and we decided that it's it was
outdated so the new um MU4 district which is called the Gateway Mixed Use is for those properties that are primarily along our gateways um along Highway 10 East um Highway 75 South
um trying to remember where else those are those are the primary areas the I 94 um corridor there's a bunch of um new mixeduse fours there and those have like minimal 10-ft setbacks and they also have design guidelines that correspond
with our gateway design guidelines so that means additional landscaping um you can't just put a metal building up in the gateway it has to look you know nice um and then it also um requires
um I think we limited outdoor storage in the gateway just because just for you know aesthetics purposes but it basically the uses between regional commercial and mixu4 mixed use 4 are the same there wasn't much of a difference between those
um I guess pardon my ignorance but what is mixed use about them then so so during the comprehensive plan process part of the way we modernized the code and and wanted to simplified our zoning is that we have all these commercial
corridors um through town you know Highway 75 South Highway 10 34 Street well before you could only do commercial developments along those corridors now you can do residential so it really does open up the residential market to developers they can do just commercial
they could do just housing or they could do a mixeduse building so it it it's kind of amazing when you think about like just look at the East 10 development if there was room in that development somebody could stick an apartment building in that parking lot and that's why we wanted to leave it
because we do have quite a bit of vacant property um along those corridors and just to give it up give it flexibility for the developers hey developer what do you want to do there so when you put a mixeduse zone on it it gives them a lot of op um options and then it also the
reduced setbacks help as well okay thank you any other questions or comments okay um any public comments no is there a motion to close
the public hearing so moved second all in favor i I uh Is there any more discussion or a motion for the item i'll move that we accept the planning commission approval to the city council
for the amendments second all in favor i I Okay there is um no other business robin no other business okay no other information uh seeing that there is no
other business is there a motion to adjurnn so moved second we are adjourned thank you