The request, which the city’s planning commission recommended for approval on Feb. 22, would allow owner Stephen Larson to reconfigure what are currently 11 apartments into 15. A CUP is required in an R-B residential-business transitional zoning district for any multi-family residential building with more than 12 units.
Council members challenged the adequacy of the parking area proposed in the application’s site plan. City Administrator Angel Weasner said city code would require 23 parking spaces for the building’s residents.
According to a site plan presented in the council’s agenda packet, after trees are cleared off the building’s side yard, the area will be paved and striped to provide parallel and angled parking spaces, together with three garage stalls and room for three cars to park at the curb in front of the building, totaling 23 spaces.
Council member Erika Randall was skeptical that there will be room for all the required parking spots. She also voiced concern about the aesthetics of a parking lot on a residential street.
Randall said she would like to see a presentation giving more information about the request, but City Planner Andrew Mack was unable to attend and Larson did not attend either this meeting or the Feb. 22 planning commission meeting.
“I don’t know what the decision was based on to allow it,” said Randall. “I don’t see the need. I think it adds – to me, it just seems like congestion to that spot. It just seems like a lot of stuff packed into a very small spot.”
Mayor Ryan Leckner asked council member Liz Stone, who sits on the planning commission, what she thought about the request.
Stone recalled that her biggest concern, during the commission’s discussion, was about the parking. “I felt like we had left that meeting needing some more information about the parking and how it was going to be addressed,” she said.
It was Stone who made the motion on Feb. 22 to recommend the CUP request for council approval, with an amended condition to require adequate on-site parking.
Stone moved to refer the CUP request back to the planning commission for further discussion.
Weasner advised the council that this would trigger a need to request a 60-day extension of the city’s deadline to approve or deny the request.
Stone’s motion passed unanimously.
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