Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2020 08 13

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes June 25, 2020 Page 9 of 24 Geoff Baukol: President of Brue Baukol Capital Partners Baukol discusses the seven staff conditions and their response to those. They are accepting four of the conditions as is and asking for modifications on three of them. One modification is related to how future PUD's will have to have traffic study submittals. They are asking for this modification for the Northwest Parkway and Highway 36 interchange because it is a regional intersection and it draws traffic for multiple jurisdictions. The other two consistent of the concurrency restrictions with Parcel A. They have agreed to restrict the senior living residential units until building permits are pulled for all three of the Medtronic campuses and the foundation inspection is completed for their first building. In addition to other residential, they have agreed to limit the 450 units until 1 million square feet of commercial is built. He then discusses the criteria for the comprehensive and general development plan. He mentions how the amendment they are proposing meets all the criteria's. He then reads each criteria and discusses in detail how they meet each one. Commissioner Questions of Applicant: None is heard. Public Comment: None is heard. Discussion by Commissioners: Diehl states that this special district is zoned rural and feels like the comprehensive plan was chosen as rural for a reason. We want that land to be unique from other cities in wanting to keep it rural. He does not believe this application is geared towards what the citizens want, which is to keep the land more rural. Citizens provided a lot of feedback but the proposal was not changed enough to support that feedback. He is in favor of keeping the comprehensive plan as is in order to adhere to the property's rural zone district. Moline says that if the community wants more of the proposed development benefits and improvements, we ought to approve this application. In order to do that though, the community as a whole needs to be excited about that approval. The public has provided both positive and negative traits for this proposal. To approve this development, he believes it will take more than just an amendment to the comprehensive plan. He says that they will need complete revisions of the entire comprehensive plan. He does not believe this proposal meets the criteria. When this property was zoned rural and it had the approval from the community, it showed to him that the residents felt that the city had reached its limits. They were not ready for suburban development and that they did not want more. Another concern for him for this proposal is the housing jobs imbalance. Staff's report showed it would be an imbalance of 6,000 units. This will make a greater challenge for housing within the city, giving even less affordability for residential properties. The proposal is too much and have too much of a dependency on fossil fuels. He was surprised that sustainability was not discussed enough and brought up in