(gavel banging) We'll call to order the meeting of the Elstville Plan Commission for Thursday, April 3rd, 2025. Pam, would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance? (pledge of allegiance) Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (pledge of allegiance) Roll call, please. David Drake. - Here. James Walker. - Here. Steve Hale. Zack Michael. - Here. Pamela Samples. - Here. Ryan Skaggs. - Here. Pat Weskolowski. - Here. Okay, the first item on our agenda is approval of the minutes from the meeting on March 6th of 2025. So moved. - Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. - Opposed? Motion carries. Monthly conflict of interest statement. Does anyone have a conflict of interest on our items on the agenda tonight? Seeing none, move on to old business. There is no old business. New business, item number one is voluntary annexation of 5474 or 5475 North Union Valley Road, 4.74 acres. The petitioner is Michael Doering, case number PC25-11. Good evening, the petitioner could not be present because of a medical issue and gave me permission to go through the annexation with you on his behalf. This is a request by Michael Doering to voluntarily annex a parcel totaling approximately 4.7 acres of land, subject parcels located at 5474 or 5575 North Union Valley. North Union Valley Road. The reason I've listed two addresses is due to an error. The GIS shows the address is 5475 North Union Valley Road, while the petitioner's paperwork lists 5474 North Union Valley Road, and that's where his mail's delivered. So when the annexation's complete and he's officially in town, we'll take care of this issue for him and get the address corrected. The petitioner's requesting to annex one parcel as stated above. Proposed annexation area is 14% contiguous to the town of Ellesville, and 100% of the property owners are parties to the petition. Parcel's currently zoned AGR, agricultural residential by Monroe County, and is recommended to be designated as residential one, single-family residential upon annexation. Property is located in council ward four. Property's serviced by Ellesville Water. Annexation should not require any capital projects to extend any services. Town will provide police, fire, EMS, and other government services immediately upon annexation. Plan commission action shall be in the form of a favorable, unfavorable, or no recommendation to town council, which takes final action on the annexation petition. Staff recommends a favorable recommendation be forwarded to town council with the recommended zoning of R1, single-family residential upon annexation. And that's the map location, and this is the zoning surrounding him. The parcel to the west, we'll say, is in town and is zoned residential one. The GIS just hasn't caught up to it yet. (faintly speaking) Okay, anybody have any questions for Denise? So is it gonna be like a-- We're not to that point yet. That's for the commission members. Anybody? Okay, would the petitioner, oh, I'm sorry, the petitioner's not here, are they? Yeah. Okay, so no comments or questions. Okay, now we're open for public comment. If you'd like to make a comment, come up to the podium, sign your name, and tell us who you are. Sorry. (faintly speaking) I'm sorry? (faintly speaking) All things. (faintly speaking) Yeah, I'm just Kevin Halsell. I just, I live downstream, all this. I guess on the Arvin property, I didn't really, I failed to question this too, but I'm just curious with stormwater, if they know what they're doing with the stormwater, where they're taking that to. They have to present an approval or a plan to the town, which is reviewed by the town's engineer, and they're required to keep all of any excess water generated by the development on their property. So the engineer reviews that to make sure that that's the way it's designed. Okay, that's just my only question, 'cause I. I wanted to stress though, property being annexed this evening will not be a development. Right, and the point is, is that this is just an annexation. Into the town right now, there is no development proposed, and all of that would come into play at that point in time, when something is, if it ever is made a plan to develop, then we will address those issues. But this is just annexation into the town limits at this point. Okay, well, I guess that's all I need. Okay, any other comments from the public? (papers rustling) Okay, seeing none, do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to accept PC-2511. Second. Okay, we have a motion to forward PC-2511 to the town council, with a favorable recommendation, and a zoning of R1. (papers rustling) Roll call, please. David Drake? Yes. Dan Swofford? Yes. Steve Hale? Zach Michael? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Ryan Skaggs? Yes. Pat Weselowski? Yes. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item on our agenda is case number PC-25-12, the railroad corridor annexation. We're in the town of Ellitsville, is annexing 0.91 acres of land along West McNeely Street and West Main Street and Sale Street and Main Street. That was the previous railroad corridor. Yes. This petition is a request by the town of Ellitsville to voluntarily annex approximately 0.91 acres of land. Subject parcels and abandoned railroad corridor located between West McNeely Street and West Main Street and east of the North Sale Street and West Main Street intersection. Parcel number is 53-04-10-100-040.001-011. So when it is officially annexed into town, it will be addressed and become part of our address for emergency services as its trail corridor right now. So has stated trail corridor at Town's Heritage Trail has been constructed on it. Proposed annexation area is 52% contiguous to the town of Ellitsville. Parcel's currently zoned AGR, agricultural residential by Monroe County, and it's recommended to be designated as R1 single family residential upon annexation. Plan commission action shall be in the form of favorable, unfavorable, or no recommendation to town council, which takes final action on the annexation petition. Staff recommends favorable recommendation before to town council with the recommended zoning of R1 single family residential upon annexation. The reason I chose R1 zoning is because that's how the segment in the middle of the trail is already zoned, R1, so I wanted the zoning to match up. It'd be pretty hard to put houses in there, wouldn't it? Yeah. Some of those tiny houses. Yeah. And this is surrounding zoning. So this is Kelly Heights, and this goes up to McNeely's commercial. Okay, does anybody have any questions for Denise? Is there anyone from the public that would like to comment on this? Seeing none, we're ready for a motion. I'll make a motion that we recommend PC 25-12 to the town council with a favorable recommendation. Second. We have a motion and a second, roll call, please. David Drake? Yes. Dan Swofford? Yes. Zach Michael? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Ryan Skaggs? Yes. Pat Wesolowski? Yes. Thank you. Okay, so the next item on our agenda is preliminary. Is that supposed to be preliminary or primary? Primary. Primary plat approval for 143 lots on 118.71 acres in the Harmon Farms Development Phase One at 6333 West State Road 46. PC 25-03. Before you is a petition by Harmon Farms Development LLC. They're seeking approval of the primary plat for Harmon Farms Phase One. Subject property is located at 7633 West State Road 46 lot two. The applicant is requesting primary plat approval for a total of 143 single-family lots totaling 118.71 acres. Lots are zoned commercial one, neighborhood commercial with a special exception for single-family residential, which was granted by the Board of Zoning Appeals on December 11th, 2024. Tech Review Committee met on March 18th. The town hall and all items have been addressed as of the date of this meeting. With your packets is a timeline for the Plan Commission and Boarding of Zoning Appeals decisions. I wanna remind everyone that Harmon Farms will be a mixed use village center has allowed in our comp plan and designated as such on our land use map. Therefore, the developer requested variances from development standards for residential, which will support the standards of a mixed use village center. As you will notice on the plat, phase one consists of mixed use residential and it is residential only. Subdivision will be accessed by West State Road 46 pending approval from NDOT and the future Julia Drive and Lit in the States. Julia Drive is a road stub in Lit in the States which connects to the Harmon Farms. I will stress there will not be any construction traffic accessing the property from Julia Drive. Plan commission's action on the primary plat can be in the form of approval, approval with conditions, denial, or to continue the hearing. The plan commission has the final say in these matters. It is staff opinion that the proposed plat will meet all required zoning and subdivision regulations and the decisions of the Board of Zoning Appeals and Unified Development Ordinance. There are no significant concerns with the proposed primary plat which has been reviewed by all town supervisors. Section will be parallel to West State Road 46. It'll continue to spur development in that area. Therefore, staff recommends that plan commission approval of primary plat for Harmon Farms, phase one, be with the condition of approval from NDOT for the primary entrance off of State Road 46. And I will mention in my staff report, I made an error because I cut and paste and had the wrong subdivision name. So I apologize for that, but it is Harmon Farms. Petitioner is present. If you have any questions. Does anybody from the council have any questions for-- Yeah, I got one. What type of entrance are you looking at on 46? Can I, before he answers, sorry. Can I go through the plans real quick? Sure. So this is the prime from the primary plat. And then this is from the set of plans. So let me know if you need me to go back. And this is what phase one is going to look like. So let me know if you need me to go back to you. And I'm happy to see that the bigger lots are closer to Litton Estates. Mm-hmm. So it's more of a transition. Yes. Okay, so I just wanted to show you a plan. So are you ready for Chris? Smith? Yep, go ahead. 'Cause Pat had a question. I'll come up to this picture here 'cause you can see me. So we've worked with Smithville and NDOT and we've identified the location of the entrance. It was approximately about where our current construction entrance is, we're pulling trucks in and out today. Almost right across from Smithville, it's a thing of a little east, but we have an alignment worked out. Engineering's working on geometrics of that intersection right now. There'll be left turn lanes, passing blisters, all of that. We'll have that probably line work, hopefully the next two weeks. Of course, NDOT has to approve it and it will go in this summer. And then, I've been working with Denise, we'll bring from that entrance, for access to this without having to go through the neighborhood or come through the school, we'll bring a road down. I'm gonna call it temporary because we might not keep it as we develop the village center. We are gonna locate and grade it as though we're gonna keep it, but it's gonna be a 22-foot road just coming down to connect right here. So, client access off of 46. And that's gonna happen this summer, at some point. But we don't have the geometrics on it yet. And then, NDOT's gotta approve it, get us permits. You don't have no right, you don't have a right out on them? It won't be right or not, it'll be a full intersection. Okay. Yeah, it'll be a full intersection. It will not be signaled up front, either, because of warrants, you don't have the warrants for it. But it'll be a full-size commercial intersection. Turn lanes and everything, as far as I know. Thank you. So, I will add, sorry, I will add we did meet with NDOT, and NDOT is not requesting right turns or anything. Okay, did anybody else have any questions for Denise? I just have a question, I don't know if it's for you. So, this is gonna have an HOA? Oh, yeah. He's got, it's also, you know, mixed-use commercial. So, townhouses, single-family. So, it's my understanding different sections will have their own HOA. There'll be, like, an over-reaching one, and then subs. 'Cause, like, with the townhomes, they'll have to, like, maintain siding roofs, or law yards. The overall won't wanna have to deal with that. So, it'll be sub. But, it's all being structured right now. Okay. Denise will get to review it. He also is gonna have alley load homes. So, the town will not be maintaining the alley in any way. So, the HOA will be responsible for the alleys. That's good. Okay, thank you. Okay, anybody else? Chris, did there was anything else you wanted to say? Answer any questions? Any questions for Chris? Okay, seeing none, is there anyone from the public that wants to speak on this proposal? Seeing none, we're ready for a motion. I'll make a motion that we grant primary plat approval for PC 25-03. Second. Okay. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Roll call, please. David Drake? Yes. Dan Swofford? Yes. Steve Hale? Oh, Zach Michael? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Ryan Skaggs? Yes. Pat Wesolowski? Yes. Thank you. I put up my agenda. I'm lost. Planning department update. Next meeting's May 1st. At this time, I'm not aware of any new business. Okay, is there anyone in the public that wants to address us on something that wasn't on our agenda? Okay. Seeing none, does anyone from the Planning Commission have any comments they wanna make? Seeing none, we're adjourned. (gavel banging) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music) (orchestral music)