- Order. And we'll start off with the Pledge of Allegiance, named luckily. I pledge 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. All right.
- sitting in for David Drake, so you have to bear with me a little bit. I've tried to watch and pay a
- little attention, but do we need to do the roll call first? Is that? David Drake. Dan Swofford.
- Steve Hale. Here. Zach Michael. Here. Pamela Samples. Here. Ryan Skaggs. And Pat Weslowski. Here. OK.
- Need a motion for the approval of minutes from March 5th. So moved. Second. And do we have any conflict
- of interest that needs to be brought up reference in today's agenda? Seeing none. Is there any old business
- that we need to touch on or discuss? Nothing at all. And you want to go over the new business we're
- here for tonight?
- We're here for development plan approval of a modular home business. 10.7 acres located at 8650 West
- Flatwoods Road. Petitioners Brett Oding case number PC 26-13. Are you ready for me to start with the
- petition? As stated, petition is from Brett Oding. Parcel reference in the agenda is zone industrial
- one, which is light industrial.
- and the use is permitted by special exception. Industrial one is the only zoning that allows business
- offices, general retail, warehousing and distribution. The business will be accessed from West Flatwoods
- Road. The technical advisory committee met on March 24th and reviewed the plans to submit it. All items
- have been addressed. Development plan meets the minimum requirements of the Ellisville town code.
- There will be one accessible parking space at the office. 10 spaces for parking for employees and visitors
- will also be located at the office and there'll be one parking space at the warehouse. The warehouse
- will be used for cold material storage such as windows, siding and equipment. Hazardous materials will
- not be stored on site. There will be approximately 10 modular homes on site that will serve as model homes.
- The model homes will not leave the site until they are no longer selling, which takes approximately
- three years. When the model homes are ready to be removed from the property, they will be dismantled
- and removed. Therefore there will not be a constant traffic of modular homes being moved and removed
- from the property. The plan commission is tasked with either approving or proving with conditions denying
- or continuing this development plan.
- based on the 11 criteria has follows. One, compatibility of development plan with surrounding land uses.
- The components essential to modular home business, e.g. business offices, general retail, warehousing
- and distribution are permitted in the I-1 zoning district, therefore is considered compatible with the
- surrounding land uses, which are commercial and also light industrial.
- In addition, the use will have little direct impact on adjacent properties. Two, compatibility of the
- development plan with the recommendations of the comprehensive plan. Industrial one with commercial
- uses encouraged along West State Road 46 in the comprehensive plan. Three, adequate provisions for internal
- management of traffic. Traffic will enter and exit from West Flatwoods Road.
- Inadequate traffic flow has been accommodated in the development plan. The fire department has approved
- the radius of turns and curves on the parcel. One accessible parking space is required. Four, analysis
- of the capacity of adjacent streets to ensure that adjacent streets can safely and efficiently accommodate
- the additional traffic generated by the development. All traffic should come from West Flatwoods Road
- There is no reason for concern has the modular home sales will not generate a substantial increase in
- traffic. Five adequate provisions for public facilities and infrastructures and provision for extension
- of infrastructure to adjacent develop, develop old properties. Infrastructure will be included on site
- has required by fire utility and building codes.
- Six, provisions for the allocation of land for streets, park schools, public and semi-public buildings,
- homes, businesses, and industry as appropriate. West Flatwoods Road is maintained by the town of Ellisville,
- so it will be maintained accordingly to the town's standards. Seven, adequate on-site management of
- stormwater and erosion control.
- Stormwater and erosion control will be managed in accordance with town and state regulations. Eight,
- adequate provision for green space or landscaping. The petitioner has included landscaping in accordance
- with the unified development ordinance. Nine, adequate provision for buffering to significantly reduce
- the visual impact of dissimilar developments. Petitioner will provide buffering pursuant to the unified
- development ordinance.
- 10 adequate protection of existing limestone structures. There are no limestone structures indicated
- on the site. And 11 provision of pathways, trails, or sidewalks for all non-industrial developments.
- The business will be located in an industrial zoning district. At this time, there's been no written
- concerns submitted to the planning department about the development plans.
- Plan Commission action 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. Staff recommendation, development
- plan approval shall be predicated on the criteria I outlined earlier. If the Plan Commission does find
- that the development plan is in agreement with those items, the Plan Commission shall approve the development plan.
- Additionally, the plan commission may include any conditions they feel are necessary and relevant to
- develop the property in an appropriate manner. It is staff opinion that the requirements of the development
- plan section from the town of Ellsville code of ordinances have been reasonably achieved. Staff recommends
- plan commission approved the development plan for 8650 West Flatwoods Road and petitioners representative
- is present
- This is where the site's located. It's part of the 90 property, former 90 property. And this is an outline
- of the parcel. And then this is a close up of where the model homes will be located, the office and
- the warehouse and the lane into it. Is that residential next to it? So on
- we'll call it the east side of it, is County AGRR. And about where my mouse is, there's two residential
- lots next to it. It's AGRR, and then there's a field, and then on the other side of that is part of
- the 90 property, and then Hoosier Energy's solar farm. And then across the road,
- is about the same zoning. There's commercial in there and in the residential catty corner. Do we need
- to hear from the petitioner's representative? Sure. Do you have any questions for him or he can give
- you a little overview. Hey, Jay Willis. Thanks for being here. I don't have a whole bunch to add. Denise
- did a pretty good job of explaining it.
- The model homes are just models, obviously nobody will be living in them. The office that's between
- the warehouse and the models will be one of their models, but they'll utilize it as their office. For
- the single family to the east of the property, we were proposing a 100 foot buffer yard that is gonna
- be heavily landscaped. I think we're adding, it's a significant amount of trees that we're adding.
- There'll be a 60 foot buffer on the north and west side A lot of that's going to be addressed with it
- preserving the existing vegetation. There's some mature trees already out there Drainage for meeting
- all the drainage requirements will be reducing the the runoff from this site it all goes to the southwest
- corner and this northwest corner of the property are our developments only in the
- Drainage area for the southwest corner And we're gonna we're gonna be constructing new roadside swale
- all along Flatwoods to help with some of the existing standing water If you have any questions When
- we had tech review we had two representatives from Beanbloss and Patrick's Berg water there because
- they service the site and They assured us and I don't remember what they said the flow rate was but
- they assured us that
- there was no problem getting water to the site. And I just talked with the director before I came here
- today and he has no concerns. Is 10.7 acres? Yes. How much of that are going to be used? Only about
- two acres. How far will this development be for them homes, home sites per se? I don't know off the
- top of my head.
- Probably about 300 feet, 400 feet maybe. Okay, and the second thing is how many parking spaces? I only
- see one that's designated here by the office. So there's an ADA parking spot on the east side of the
- office, and then we have three striped spaces on the west side of the office, and then we have six in
- the back in the warehouse scenario. That will be them.
- employee parking. No one else. There's no one from the public here. Does anyone else want to speak?
- Seeing none. Do we have a motion?
- I'll make a motion that we approve. Where are we at here? The modular home. Case number PC 2613. Second.
- Motion and second. It's approved and passed on PC 26-13. So she needs to take a roll call vote.
- Steve Hale, yes.
- Sack Michael? Yes. Pamela Samples? Yes. Pat Weslowski? Yes. Thank you. And since there's no more new
- business, do we need, can we get a planning update? So next meeting is May 7th, and at this time, I
- have no new business before me. So if David decides to cancel me, they'll let you know there's nothing
- that happens.
- Privilege of the floor, or any non-agenda items? Seeing none, do we have any comments from the Planning
- Commission? Oh yeah, I have. At my turn this morning, I was going by Arby's area, and lo and behold,
- a car coming down from the development above, where the apartments are at, made a left-hand turn
- coming out, and I'm here to tell you right now, I will not ever again vote yes for a development that
- isn't done something about. And I went up through Mooresville this morning on 67, and they have, and
- I don't know how to explain it, looks like four foot little pipes, plastic ones, yellow and orange,
- to get off of the highway. And if they can do that on 67, the state of Indiana should make us do something
- here on 46. I mean, they come through and they reduced our speed limit from 45 to 35, now 25, okay?
- I would think that they would have some type of procedure
- or somebody that's in the safety division of the state of Indiana to show us how we can eliminate what's
- happening over there. I heard the end out was supposed to do something there, put in some type of barrier.
- Have you heard that at all or? I can't speak to it. Somebody's gonna get hurt. And we're gonna be the
- blame because we're gonna say it's okay to do it.
- And I'm just here to say, and I hope it's, whoever's gonna develop whatever in that corner understands
- that it can't be right in, right out anymore. Yeah, that was the only way NDOT would allow them to have
- an entrance because they did try to get one that could go both ways and then NDOT said no, everybody
- would have to go right.
- and then make a turn and go back left. But I know nobody does it. My question is, I don't know if you
- know, does the state of Indiana have a number of feet that the ride in and ride out, the concrete program
- there? See, if they would put them yellow things in that concrete where you turn to go right,
- then people wouldn't cross that. But we just sit here and say, okay, the state's gonna let it happen.
- And I think we should start buckling down on it. That's my thought, so. That's it. I'm done talking.
- No problem. Do we have any other comments, questions, concerns? Seeing none, we will be adjourned.