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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ,, 22 23 24 25 can get a good recording and state your full name and address or your business relationship to the application. We have also requested that any 7 neighborhood that speaks, select one representative, so that we can move forward in a timely fashion and avoid repetition. The other thing is, we have several items on the agenda, as you have seen. We will discuss only the pertinent information for each one of those items. We will stop anyone who attempts to drag in any other item at that time. The public speaking will be limited to three minutes each and that's so we can move forward and after about ninety minutes, we may elect to take a ten minute break. Also, the commission or the applicant can request a continuance of any of the items to a future meeting. That would also allow the applicant and everyone else to further consider it. The final thing is, we would like to close the evening by 9:00. That's being respectful to everyone. Hopefully, we can be earlier but it does not always happen. So with those comments, we can move onto the agenda. MS. ISTENES: Good evening, Susan Istenes, Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 In Re: Maryland Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit E X H I B I T S The Matter of 7501 Maryland Avenue and 7500 - 7520 Westmoreland Avenue School Townhomes Exhibits: Identified Received 1 56 56 2 56 56 3 56 56 4 56 56 5 99 99 6 99 99 Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000 4
5 1 THE CHAIRMAN: Good evening, everyone and 2 welcome to the Planning Commission AR Review meeting of 3 May 11th. 4. the roll. 5- 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Before we -- well, we will get started with MS. SCOTT: Chairman Steve Lichtenfeld? THE CHAIRMAN: Here. MS. SCOTT: Craig Owens? MR. OWENS: Here. MS. SCOTT: Mark Winings? MR. WININGS: Here. MS. SCOTT: Jim Liberman? MR. LIBERMAN: Here. MS. SCOTT: Ron Reim? MR. REIM: Here. MS. SCOTT: Sally Cohn? MS. COHN: Here. MS. SCOTT: Josh Corson? MR. CORSON: Here. THE CHAIRMAN: Okay. Welcome to everyone. 20 We have a full house tonight and due to the complexity 21 of the applications tonight and the number of people 22 here that may be speaking, there's some comments that 23 24 we have to make at the beginning. Number one, if you have any electronic devices, please silence.them. If 25 you need to use them or have a side conversation, Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000
If 25 you need to use them or have a side conversation, Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000
6 ' 1 1 please leave the chambers. We, we will go through the 2 summary staff reports tonight. You will hear our 3 professional staff giv~ a summary in lieu of reading 4 the volumes that have been written and hopefully been 5 accessible and read by everyone in the room. 6 The way we are going to structure the 7 several public hearings is that we will have the staff 8 report, then we will open the public hearing. The 9 applicant will do their presentation. 10 We will allow for public comments. We 11 will then allow the applicant to respond, if necessary. 12 Then we will close the public hearing and the 13 commission will be able to discuss it. 14 During that discussion, we may have 15 questions of the applicant but not of the citizens. 16 Finally, what we will be aiming for is a recommendation 17 on each one of these items to the Board of Aldermen. 18 We can approve, approve with conditions or 19 deny or there could be a continuance to a future 20 meeting. Now, as far as public comments go, we always 21 feel that they are very important. 22 That we need to hear them all, both the 23 commission, the staff and the applicants. However, we 24 are going to request that anyone that approaches the 25 podium make sure that the green light is on, so that we Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000
ISTENES: Good evening, Susan Istenes, Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000
\ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 8 Planning Director. The first item on your agenda is Item A, a text amendment to Chapter 405 Zoning Regulations and this is a public hearing to consider a request by Bruce Korn, Maryland School Town Homes, LLC for a text amendment to the City's Zoning Regulations to grant the Board of Aldermen the authority to waive and/or modify development standards contained in the Subdivision Regulations through the Planned Unit Development process. This is a public hearing to solicit input regarding proposed text amendments to Chapter 405 Zoning Regulations Article X Planned Unit Development District. The PUD regulations do not explicitly state that subdivision design standards may be modified through the PUD process and staff's interpretation of the current PUD Regulations is that subdivision design standards, with the exception of block geometry, cannot be waived through the PUD process. The proposed text amendments explicitly excuse me. The proposed text explicitly states that the Plan Commission may recommend and the Board of Aldermen may adopt modifications to requirements contained in the Zoning and Subdivision Regulations as part of its consideration and approval of a PUD. Staff Concannon & Jaeger . St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 i~' 24 25 is of the opinion that allowing modifications to certain subdivision standards through the PUD process is a common practice in other municipalities and in general, good planning practice. 9 By providing flexibility, the City can encourage creative uses of land that otherwise would be prohibited by the strict application of the Subdivision Regulations. Conversely, because of the relatively small size of the City and the lack of large tracts of developable land, it is unlikely that there will be numerous future subdivisions that would benefit from the proposed text amendments and the additional flexibility from the minimum design standards. The applicant's proposed text amendments are overly general and would expose the entire Subdivision Regulations to modification requests. The City's Department of Public Works has the final decision regarding all public improvements and infrastructure location on individual projects and has concerns with the wide breadth of the proposed text amendments and implications particularly for new streets. Therefore, Public Works would only be willing to consider modifications through the PUD process for the following street design standards found in Article Concannon & Jaeger St. Louis, Missouri (314) 421-1000