12-09-02 PC Minutes
Regular Meeting of the
Golden Valley Planning Commission
December 9,2002
A regular meeting of the Planning Commission was held at the Golden Valley City Hall
Council Chambers, 7800 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley, Minnesota, on Monday
December 9,2002. Vice Chair Shaffer called the meeting to order at 7 pm.
Those present were Chair Pentel (arrived at 7:05) and Commissioners Eck, Groger,
Keysser, McAleese, Rasmussen and Shaffer. Also present were Director of Planning and
Development, Mark Grimes, City Planner, Dan Olson and Recording Secretary, Lisa
Wittman.
I. Approval of Minutes - November 11, 2002 Planning Commission Meeting
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MOVED by Keysser, seconded by McAleese and motion carried unanimously to
approve the November 11, 2002 minutes as submitted.
II. Reports on Meetings of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, City
Council, Board of Zoning Appeals and other Meetings
Grimes told the Commission that the HRA would be discussing the Sheriff Site and the
White House site at their next meeting. Rasmussen asked how the Sheriff Site plans
were progressing. Grimes talked about the possibility of the City buying the property
from the County and using it for affordable housing.
Grimes reported that the National APA Conference had been cut from the Planning
Commission's budget.
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III.
Other Business
A. Discuss possible revisions to the Residential zoning district.
The Commissioners discussed a rough draft of proposed revisions to the Zoning Code
. that Commissioner Shaffer volunteered to put together.
Pentel referred to Subdivision 3 B & D should be deleted. She said that G & Hseem to
say the same thing. Grimes explained that G refers to group homes and H refers to
day care.
Eck questioned how C interfaces with G. Olson explained that point C refers to the
owner living in the house with the renters. He said he would like to add that when the
owner does not live in the house there could be up to 5 unrelated people living in the
house.
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December 9,2002
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Grimes stated that he also thinks a renter should be able to rent to another person also.
Groger asked why there is a discrepancy between Subdivision 4 and 5. McAleese
stated that Subdivision 4 refers to metes and bounds property and Subdivision 5 refers
to platted property.
Shaffer stated that he added Subdivision 5 A, Band C regarding Requirements for Lot
Areas and Dimensions. Grimes referred to the Requirements for Lot Areas and
Dimensions and stated that there are already platted lots in Golden Valley that aren't
120 feet in depth. He said that the City's policy on minimum lot size has been 10,000
square feet in area because it is a little more flexible.
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Shaffer discussed his proposed requirements for Building Coverage, Setbacks and
Height. Grimes stated he thinks something about attached and detached garages
should be in an ordinance. Shaffer said that he would like see no more than 25%
building coverage and no more than 900 square feet for the combined total area
occupied by all accessory buildings and structures, excluding attached garages.
Groger stated he liked the idea of having something in the Code regarding building
coverage and asked if there any benefit to having something about too many accessory
buildings. Shaffer said when it comes to smaller lots it doesn't work. He stated that
what he has written in this rough draft is in response to the requests he has seen from
the Board of Zoning Appeals.
Grimes suggested drafting an impervious surface ordinance including setbacks for
driveways and defining decks and porches.
Shaffer referred to drawings he included in the agenda packet and showed examples of
. the Zoning Code changes being proposed.
The Commission discussed building height and width requirements. Olson stated that
currently a home could be built less than 22 feet wide with a conditional use permit.
Pentel stated that she liked the paragraph in Shaffer's rough draft about corner visibility.
Olson stated that the City has new corner visibility language that could be used in
updating the Zoning Code.
IV. Adjournment
The meeting was adjourned at 8:25