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HomeMy Public PortalAbout1985-10-15 minutes.Td Mfij VILLAGE OF.PLAINFIELD PLAN COMMISSION Tuesday, October 15, 1985 7:30 P.M. CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL: APPROVE MINUTES OF SEPTEMBER 17, 1985 MEETING. FANCATS/Route 59 Guidelines - Revision to Naperville Draft. Zonina Ordinance Revision - Districts. OLD BUSINESS: Board Action on Case 137 Baish Townhouses Board Action on Case 138 Sign Ordinance NE 1. BUSINESS: cc: A. Simmons H. Bayer D. Pearson J. Anderson R. Neely P. Bonnelli W. Schempf D. Gullicksen R. Russ J. Wilson !J. Myers G Cline A Arbo S. Hj emvick M Latta J West J. Harvey The Enterprise File Bulletin Board V. Krnac PLAN COMMISSION Minutes of the October 15, 1985 meeting. PRESENT: Arlo Simmons, Chairman Rich Neely Jim Anderson Walt Schempf Don Pearson ABSENT: Herb Bayer John Myer, Ex-Officio Gene Cline, Ex-Officio Avon Arbo, Ex-Officio S. Hjemvick, Ex-Officio Bob Russ, Ex-Officio APPROVAL OF MINUTES CORRECTED Dale Gullicksen, Trustee Mary Latta, Mayor Steve Manning, Planner Minutes of September 17 were approved as presented. FANCATS/ROUTE 59 Manning - Naperville, as coordinator of the FANCATS study group, has prepared and distributed to all member communities, a draft of what they think should be adopted as guidelines for the future improvements to Route 59. What I have done is prepare a chart dated 10/7/85 that shows my recommendations for Plainfield's response to Naperville's draft. On the whole, Naperville's draft incorporated most of what this Plan Commission approved July 26. My recommendations are for additional statements to cover the remainder of our adopted guidelines. Each recommendation was read and explained which came under the section headings of Purpose, Existing Land Use, Lane Configuration, Important Intersections, Access and Land Use Control Policies. Gullicksen - How does the State rate road widening projects? Manning - They do use a formula that considers the structural condition of the pavement and the volume of traffic. However, sometimes the priority is changed for political reasons. Anderson - Will the State have to purchase more land if they widen Route 59? Manning - I believe Route 59 now has a 100' wide right -of-way.which is usually enough to take 4 lanes of pavement. If a divided highway or a 5th lane, or extra turn lanes are planned, then more land would need to be purchased as is being for the viaduct improvement. Simmons - It seems that Naperville's main concern is to set standards that prevent Route 59 by Fox Valley shopping area from becoming another strip commercial problem area like Ogden Avenue. Neely - If a frontage road is required, can it fit in the 1001 right�of-way? PLAN COMMISSION October 15, 1985 Page Two Simmons - No. The private developer would be required to dedicate enough land for a frontage road and pay for part of the construction costs. The State will not fund frontage roads. Manning - The cost of construction and maintanance is cost.prohibitive for all but the larger developments. Also, some businesses claim that locating on a frontage road will lose customers. Anderson moved that the Plan Commission recommend approval of the responses to the FANCATS Guidelines as presented. Pearson seconded. All voted aye. ZONING ORDINANCE REVISION Manning - The memo I sent.to the Plan Commission and the Board on June 24 described my ideas on the appropriate process to follow to revise the zoning code. One of the 10 steps I listed was identifying those sites where the zoning does not agree with the Comprehensive Plan. This map of the Village tacked up here, shows in red the nonconforming sites. It looks as if about 1/3 of the Village is red. Part of a complete revision to zoning is amending the Zoning Map is get rid of all the red. Consistancy between the Zoning Map and Comprehensive Plan is very important, especially when in a court case. At a latter date, you should get recommendations on map amendments and About every 5 years thereafter. Simmons - I see a non-conforming use, the nursing home on Main Street is on the plan as industrial. There also seems to be quite a bit of existing single family zoned for multi-family. Manning - I anticipate that some new zoning districts willbe needed and some existing districts should be dropped. The list of uses for each district will need to be modified to make sense for compatibility within the districts as well as for protection of the assets of Plainfield. I will come to you at the next meeting with some ideas for redistricting. Pearson - I think it is important to have some continuity to the zoning districts instead of having spots of B-1 here and B-3 there and I-1 there and so on. Simmons - B-3 is for downtown because it allows building out to the lot lines. B-3 should not go anywhere else. Also, we need parking standards in the zoning ordinance. OLD BUSINESS Case 137 - Baish Townhouse Gullicksen " Baish asked us tb'.riot bring it -up at the last Board meeting. I do not know why. Case 138 - Sign Ordinance Gullicksen - There was not enough time to get everything ready to review the sign ordinance so the Board has scheduled it for -next meeting. PLAN COMMISSION October 15, 1985 Page Three NEW BUSINESS Manning - I got a call from Dennis Dolton, representing the owner of property at the Northwest corner of Route 30 and Pilcher Road across from Lehigh Cement. It is about 65 acres owned by Freider. He wanted to know what the Village plan showed for this property. I read the Plan to show industrial for this bite. Schempf - The site is very wet. I've seen it flooded over. Simmons - The large lot to the rear of Pheasant Chase may be coming back to us for rezoning. Meeting Adjourned.