- Good evening. Let me call to order this meeting of the city of Bloomington planning commission
- for June 9th
- 2025
- Start with just a quick overview of the agenda this evening
- we will do a couple of
- internal housekeeping items
- and
- Then we'll get on to our agenda. We've got four petitions that remain tabled
- That will not get a hearing tonight. That's SP 24 - 22 cutters Kirkwood 1 2 3 LLC
- Zio 34 - 23 City of Bloomington
- planning and transportation
- those are the
- text amendment related to sign standards
- Zio 1 - 25
- which is
- some text amendments to the UDO and then Zio 3 - 25 additional
- text amendments related to
- single-room occupancy
- All four of those remain tabled. We have two petitions that we will hear tonight
- Those are Zio 0 7 - 25 and Zio 0 8 - 25. Both of these are
- amendments to the UDO
- that
- Have been returned from Common Council. So fairly light agenda in terms of
- petitions
- Before we move on, let's let's go ahead and call the roll
- And right Randolph
- Here Ballard here seaboard
- Here
- Korachy here Kinsey here Smith here Stossberg here Whistler here
- So just to note we've got six
- Six
- Voting members present tonight. One of which is joining us
- online and
- Six one, two, three, four five six in the room and one online. Yes. Thank you because we have an
- online
- Commissioner we will have to do a roll call vote on on everything here tonight just to
- Make sure we're keeping the record straight
- And just as a reminder
- We need a majority of the entire Commission not just a majority of those present
- So we will need five five out of seven to take formal action on anything here tonight
- The first thing will be
- Minutes, so I do think we have some minutes to be approved the packet shows that we have many
- minutes from the May 12th meeting
- But there was I think a question about March have we taken action on the March
- minutes
- No, do we have those?
- tonight
- We have already
- Did you send them? Yeah, we can you can vote on those we sent them. You got them with the May
- minute. Okay, so we'll do
- We'll do a separate vote one for March one for May. Are there any
- questions or
- Corrections from commissioners for either of those Commissioner Kinsey
- I have one correction for the main minutes and it's on a motion. So I would like to ask that it be
- corrected on
- The last motion it indicates the phasing
- Plane for the construction was approved and I know we didn't approve any planes. I believe it was
- plan
- so I
- Think if we could just make that one correction, so it doesn't look like we're approving a plane
- I
- That's the only error I found all right any other questions corrections
- All right, well, can we have a motion for approval of the March meeting minutes
- Second all right, let's call the roll on approval of the March meeting minutes
- Yes
- see poor
- Yes, go rocky. Yes Kinsey. Yes Smith
- Stossberg yes Whistler. Yes
- All right, can we have a motion for approval?
- For the May minutes as corrected with the the typo that was just mentioned
- I
- Move to approve May minutes as corrected
- All right, we have motion in a second let's call the roll on approval of the May minutes seaboard
- Yes, go rocky. Yes Kinsey. Yes Smith. Yes
- Stossberg. Yes Whistler. Yes
- Ballard, yes
- All right. The minutes are approved. We'll move on to reports resolutions and communications. Do we
- have any reports from commissioners tonight?
- Mr. Stossberg, I'm not sure if it's a report so much as a question
- But I think this is about the only place to put it
- I would be interested in a public update regarding Zio 1 to 5 the text amendments regarding
- affordable housing incentives
- Because that has been on there for far too long and last time we talked about it. There was
- Some potential thought to separate two of those things. One of them needed more thought
- there is maybe going to be some small group work done and
- as the author of the resolution that
- Prompted this petition. I would really like an update for council
- All right, Jackie Scanlon assistant director
- So as you saw last week director Hiddle presented to the Common Council
- That we will be working on a robust public outreach process
- to address some of the issues that were
- present in councilperson Rosenberger's
- Resolution that was not
- That did not start at council. It was not voted to be heard
- and so this is kind of in tandem with that but to
- Commissioner Stossberg's point. Yes. I do think that there is one piece that can come out
- So when I'll be talking about this briefly in a moment, but when we bring you do amendments next
- month
- We if it's determined that it is okay to take that to bring that forward by staff
- Then you will see that portion next month
- Yeah
- Okay, because I mean I would at least like the one part that deals with the affordability
- percentages
- Which we had a whole presentation from hand about and I really would like to get that
- Moving through the process
- Okay. Thank you
- Thank you any other reports from commissioners
- Okay, we will move on to I
- Know we have one item of business. We need to take care of here with regard to an appointment
- if you all recall we when we made a
- Appointments at the start of the year
- one of the things that we
- did not do at that meeting is point someone to
- the
- Traffic Commission
- Transportation Commission. Thank you. We have
- There's a seat on that Transportation Commission reserved for an appointee from the plane
- Commission
- No, no, no one on the Commission volunteered for that. So we do have now I think
- a candidate that
- staff feels would be a good appointment for us and
- I'd like to take action on that
- Tonight Jackie anything you want to add on that
- Okay, so we are recommending the appointment of Mark Stossburg he is a community member
- He applied online to be a member of the Commission. He used to be the president of the bicycle and
- pedestrian safety Commission
- I think which is great, but I think more notably he has done a number of reports and analysis on
- Some of our transportation issues in the city on his own
- And I think think that could be helpful. So we're recommending that you appoint him
- He does only want to serve for a year currently so you would be appointing him
- I think you could probably make the motion to have it be a year or we'll just
- you know, he can resign at the end of this year and we could
- Hopefully appoint someone else next year
- Because sorry because the positions that are filled by members that are not playing commissioners
- are two years
- If one of you chose to do it, it would be it would run concurrently with your plan Commission
- appointment
- So the recommendation is that we point Mark Stossberg is there any
- Are there any questions from commissioners?
- None
- Commissioner Stossberg, do you wanna I was waiting for a motion not a motion on the table yet
- This would someone like to move for the appointment of Mark Stossberg to the Transportation
- Commission
- to approve Mark Stossberg as our appointment to the
- Transportation Commission
- second second
- All right, Commissioner Stossberg and now I'll go ahead and recuse myself from this vote
- If you don't know I am married to Mark Stossberg. So I think that's a conflict of interest. Thanks
- Thank you any final discussion before we call the roll
- All right, let's call the roll on the motion
- Rocky. Yes, Kinsey. Yes Smith. Yes
- Whistler. Yes
- Ballard. Yes
- Seaborg
- Yes
- All right motion carries
- we are now on to well, I guess sticking with the
- Resolutions and communications anything from staff. Yeah, we just wanted to briefly go over
- Again Jackie Scanlon assistant director
- Some mailers went out last week. You may or may not have received one
- if you're a property owner, you should have received one here in the city and they are related to
- our
- Udo update that we are undertaking
- That will come here to Plan Commission next month. It's a handful of
- Use updates so you may recall that when we do our annual update, we don't update uses anything
- related
- Anything in table 0 3 - 1 because that requires notice to all property owners affected
- And so we have kind of been like gathering those over the last four years
- so that they could all be done at once because we have to the noticing is expensive and so
- We have had a couple kind of instigating things to have us do this this year
- One is the resolution 2024 - 25 that we received from the Common Council related to updating
- One of our uses to a single-room occupancy and some changes to how that use works
- Additionally, we have been in discussion with through an enforcement case with a local property
- owner who was doing urban agriculture on their property and working
- Through with them and their representatives
- About that use so both of those things need to be addressed this year
- So the other items are items that we've kind of been keeping on the list since that time
- so they will be first discussed at the July 14th Plain Commission hearing and if you all choose and
- There are a number of ordinances like we normally do where we split them by type
- So some you may choose to send on and waive the second hearing others
- You may not or you may choose to you know, hear them all twice or longer
- But so they are in an ordinance related to single-room occupancy again in response to that
- resolution from Common Council
- And
- Actually, that's probably too busy and then one related to urban agriculture commercial
- one related to
- Requiring self-store self-service storage areas to be on our larger
- Arterials as opposed to some of the districts that are in smaller areas
- The same for vehicle fuel station and vehicle wash limiting those to our busiest districts
- district mixed-use
- Corridor and then the ones under the that we're calling general use table changes. They're
- They're smaller. So the fraternity and sorority correction is
- That you may review you've been on the Commission for a while
- You may remember we had some litigation with a fraternity and sorority and we had a number of use
- specific
- Standards in the code and then we took those out. So there are no use specific standards for that
- use but removing the asterisk
- Asterisk in the table would have required notice to everyone to all the districts. So we are just
- removing that asterisk to nowhere
- Allowing for artists studio and workshop to be
- Artist to your workshop in office to be potential uses in the MS in the mixed-use student housing
- district
- So what we've seen and some of our mixed-use buildings built in student housing is vacant ground
- floor
- what we would typically be commercial and office and
- Artist studio or not uses that are allowed there now. So allowing those to be an option
- We have been getting calls from realtors for some time about making that change
- So it's been on the list the two changes to vehicle fleet operations. You already
- Approved and council approved as well the use specific standards related to autonomous vehicles and
- and this use
- This is just adding the asterisk and reference into the table so that it'll be clear
- That those are connected and then the tattoo or piercing parlor was just one that came up
- As kind of like why is this use its own thing? It's a personal service. Just like others or
- Or just general commercial
- So taking that out as its own use
- So I think some of them are kind of more in line with how we do the cleanup
- Smaller scale and then others will probably warrant more discussion
- So we will be doing that again here on July 14th in this room at 530
- 401 North Morton Street City Hall and
- Discussing those and starting the conversation on those and then that will go on as long as you all
- need it to and then
- You will make a decision about forwarding those to council with a recommendation and then that will
- go through council late summer in the fall
- So we just wanted people got those mailers there
- It's very legal ease which we have been advised to send send them that way. It makes it kind of
- complicated
- So there will be some more I think outreach in that during this week to neighborhood associations
- and other groups kind of describing
- What's going on and you can go on our website?
- Bloomington dot ion dot gov slash planning slash ud o
- Slash update and then slash 20 25 and you can see the proposed changes listed here
- And also with a link to how they appear in the red line
- so so just for a general public's knowledge some of these things might change before the July
- packet comes out tweaks or
- Things that we might want to add or take out but these are the general topics that will be
- discussed
- And I'm happy to answer any questions on that
- We just wanted to give a little report because we we've been getting some calls and just so people
- can know what's going on there
- Thank you. Thank you. Are there any questions from commissioners?
- Mr. Sosberg
- But I just want to let the public know that I have a constituent meeting on June
- 21st 11 and weather allowing I'll be out at the farmers market in the mayor's tent
- so if anybody has any questions about any of that, I would be happy to
- to
- To tell them anything I know about those. So thanks
- All right, anything else from staff
- No, that's all. Thank you. All right, we will move on then to our petitions for the evening
- the first petition is zeo 07 - 25 and
- Jackie Scanlon is the case manager
- Great. Thank you. So these are the final step in our
- public hearings for our annual maintenance UDO updates
- so
- the council passed two of them
- zeo 06 - 25 and zeo 09 - 25 without amendment
- zeo 7 - zeo 07 - 25 which was ordinance number 20 25 - 12 had four amendments
- so three were
- Scrivener's amendments a missing footnote and two
- Spelling corrections and one was that the way that I notated to them the change that you all made
- they didn't
- They wanted it to be different
- So they voted on it to clarify with their body that they agreed with what you had said
- Which was basically that we were not giving the responsibility
- Related to design of tree grates to the urban forester and as we discussed here
- We'll keep having that conversation with parks over the next year and engineering but leaving it as
- is which
- Has that responsibility with the engineering department? So those were the four amendments that
- came back
- For that ordinance, so you will be voting to accept or not those amendments
- Any questions from commissioners
- Process so the way this works then is we
- review what the Common Council has brought back to us and then that and then provided that we
- Accept it then it would that would fly or did they have to then approve our
- Accepted amendments again, they it will not go back to them. Okay, so we're the final we will
- So I will send them a recertification saying that you voted to accept those
- Okay, yeah, but it will not be heard at a public hearing again
- and so then the ordinance will the clerk will have the ordinance then go on to the
- President of Common Council and to the mayor to sign as normal and then we'll make the changes once
- that's done
- Okay, if we were to deny
- These a good question. I think that there's like a clock and they just run you out
- So the 90 days anyway, okay. All right. Okay, but I'm not positive but I'm pretty sure that's okay.
- All right. Thank you
- Any other questions from commissioners?
- All right seeing none, let's go to public comment on zeo 0 7 - 25 is there anyone who would like to
- comment?
- If you are on zoom, you can raise your virtual hand or send a message to Jacqueline Scanlon the
- host
- There are no messages on zoom
- All right final call for public comment on zeo 0 7 - 25
- All right, then we are back to the Commission for a motion or any final discussion
- Is
- There a motion
- to approve
- zeo 0 7 - 25 as
- Amended by the council. Yes
- Approve zeo 0 7 - 5 as amended by council. Is there a second?
- All right any final discussion?
- All right, let's please call the roll
- Yes, Smith
- Stossburg, yes Whistler. Yes Ballard. Yes seaboard
- Yes
- Korodki. Yes
- All right motion carries we are then on to our final petitions zeo 0 8 - 25
- and again
- Jackie Scanlon is the case manager
- so this was
- This was related to the use specific standards for fleet vehicle fleet operations
- the amendment that went
- Sorry, the language that went forward from Plan Commission was that in the mixed-use medium and
- mixed-use neighborhood zoning districts
- Only vehicle fleet operations that do not include the exclusive use of autonomous vehicle services
- are permitted
- we had some discussion with council with a council member and
- they
- Recommended to remove the word exclusive
- Because that was maybe going to be hard to
- Track and where was that line going to be drawn?
- so
- That's what they voted on. So they voted to remove
- The word exclusive in a of these you specific standards
- Any questions for for the staff from commissioners
- Okay, let's move on to public comment then any public comment on zeo 08 - 25
- If you're joining us online just hit that react button and hit the raise hand button or send a chat
- message to miss Scanlon
- No comments online
- I
- Asked call for public comment on zeo 08 - 25
- All right seeing them we're back to the Commission for a motion
- oh a - 25 as amended by Common Council
- Do we have a second?
- second
- any final discussion
- All right, let's call the roll on motion to approve zeo 08 - 25
- Stossberg
- Yes
- Whistler. Yes
- Ballard. Yes
- Seaborg
- Yes
- Korodke. Yes
- Kinsey. Yes
- All right motion carries
- that's our final petition for the evening and
- We didn't even make it half an hour tonight. That's that's pretty good
- We are adjourned
- ("Pomp and Circumstance")