MEETINGMINUTES
PLANNING&ZONINGMEETING
Tuesday,April26,2016
7:00PM
CALLTOORDER
TheRegularMeetingofthePlanningandZoningCommission,VillageofElwood,April26,2016at7:00
PM,wascalledtoorderbyChairmanWesWinkler.
ROLLCALL
Present:ChairmanWesWinkler,ZoningCommissioners:LennyPulaski,PatrickCotter,DarrylLab,Greg
HickeyandStellaWeisfus
AlsoPresent:InterimVillageAdministratorMaxBosso,DirectorofCommunity&Organizational
DevelopmentAshleighSpachtandOttosen-BritzAttorneyJohnMotylinski
PLEDGETOFLAG
1. PresentationofMinutes–March22,2016
AmotionwasmadebyCommissionerStellaWeisfustoapprovetheminutes,asamendedby
CommissionerGregHickey,fromMarch22,2016.ThemotionwassecondedbyCommissioner
PatrickCotter.AllZoningCommissionersvotedinfavorofthemotion;motioncarried. 2. ZoningVariancefortheProposedDollarGeneralintheElwoodTownCenter
a. OpenPublicHearing
AmotionwasmadebyCommissionerPatrickCottertoopenthepublichearing.The
motionwassecondedbyCommissionerGregHickey.AllZoningCommissionersvotedin
favorofthemotion;motioncarried. b. ClosePublicHearing
AmotionwasmadebyCommissionerLennyPulaskitoclosethepublichearing.The
motionwassecondedbyCommissionerPatrickCotter.AllZoningCommissionersvoted
infavorofthemotion;motioncarried. c. Section162.150(D)
Whilediscussingtheproposedvariance,CommissionerPatrickCotternotedthathe
wouldliketorevisit§162.150(D)inthefuturetoaddclarificationtotheexisting
language.ItisthePlanningandZoningBoard’srecommendationthat§162.150(D)
shouldonlyapplytoresidentialzoningdistricts.
1|P a g e AmotionwasmadebyCommissionerDarrylLabtoapprovetheZoningVarianceforthe
ProposedDollarGeneralintheElwoodTownCenter,§162.150(D).Themotionwas
secondedbyCommissionerLennyPulaski.
Arollcallvotewascalled:ChairmanWinkler–Yes,CommissionerPulaski–Yes,
CommissionerCotter–Yes,CommissionerLab–Yes,CommissionerHickey–Yesand
CommissionerWeisfus–Yes.AllZoningCommissionersvotedinfavorofthemotion;
motioncarried. d. Section162.151(B)(2)
AmotionwasmadebyCommissionerStellaWeisfustoapprovetheZoningVariancefor
theProposedDollarGeneralintheElwoodTownCenter,§162.151(B)(2),withthe
recommendationtoaddwheelstopstoallparkingspacesabuttingacurb.Themotion
wassecondedbyCommissionerLennyPulaski.
Arollcallvotewascalled:ChairmanWinkler–Yes,CommissionerPulaski–Yes,
CommissionerCotter–Yes,CommissionerLab–Yes,CommissionerHickey–Yesand
CommissionerWeisfus–Yes.AllZoningCommissionersvotedinfavorofthemotion;
motioncarried. 3. ZoningCodeReview
a. Section162.059toSection162.059(H)(2)
ThefollowingchangeswererecommendedbytheChairmanandCommissioners.The
changesarenotenactedandnoactionhasbeentakentoadoptthesechangesintothe
officialCodesandOrdinances:
• Continueallformattingandeditingcommentsasoutlinedinpreviousdiscussions
heldbythisboard,inanofficialmeeting,asrecognizedbytheVillageofElwood.
• Makeuniformthelanguagedescribingthetypesofdistrictsinallterminology
throughoutChapter162.Example:
o ExistingLanguage:singleunit,oneunit,onefamily,etc.
o AmendedLanguage:single-family,two-family,multi-family,etc.
• Change‘R-2ASingle-FamilyResidenceDistrict’toreadasfollows:
o Single-FamilyResidentialDistrict(R-2A)
• Inthe‘Descriptionofdistrict,’foralldistricts,replacetheword‘composed’with
theword‘comprised.’Inthissection,thesentenceshouldread:
o Thisdistrictiscomposedcomprisedoflow-densityresidentialareasplus
certainareaswheresimilarresidentialdevelopmentappearslikelyto
occur.
• Thezoningsectionsfollowdifferentformattingforsomeofthedistricts;reference
§§162.057and162.059.TheBoardwouldliketorecommendthestructurein
162.059beadoptedthroughoutChapter162tomakethecodeuniform.Thiswould
onlyapplytothe‘Descriptionofdistrict’atthebeginningofeachsection.The
descriptionwillbelimitedtothesingleparagraphstructureversusthenumbering
andlettersformatusedinothersections.Forexample:
o RecommendedFormatting:(A)Descriptionofdistrict.Thisdistrictis
comprisedoflow-densityresidentialareaspluscertainareaswheresimilar
residentialdevelopmentappearslikelytooccur.Itistheintentofthis
districttoprovideforanenvironmentofpredominantlylow-densitysingle
unitdwellingspluscertainadditionalusessuchasschools,parksand
certainpublicfacilitieswhichservetheresidentslivinginthedistrict.
2|P a g e See§§162.057(A)(1)and162.057(A)(2)foranexampleofformattingthat
willbemodifiedtoreflecttheabovestructure.
Inthe‘Descriptionofdistrict,’replacethephrase‘singleunitdwellings’with
‘single-familydetacheddwellings.’Thesentenceshouldread:
o Itistheintentofthisdistricttoprovideforanenvironmentof
predominantlylow-densitysingleunitdwellingssingle-familydetached
dwellingspluscertainadditionalusessuchasschools,parksandcertain
publicfacilitieswhichservetheresidentslivinginthedistrict.
In§162.059(C)SpecialUsesPermitted,thesentenceshallreadasamended:
o SpecialusespermittedintheGRGeneralResidentialDistrict.
In§162.059(D)Temporarypermitusespermitted,thesentenceshallreadas
amended:
o TemporaryusespermittedintheGRGeneralResidentialDistrict.
In§162.059(E)Accessoryusespermitted,thesentenceshallreadasamended:
o AccessoryusespermittedintheGRGeneralResidentialDistrict.
In§162.059(F)ProhibitedUses,thesentenceshallreadasamended:
o ProhibitedusesintheGRGeneralResidentialDistrict.
In§§§162.059(G)(3)(a),(b),(c)Yards,andinallotherareasofChapter162,the
phrase‘set-in’shallbereplacedwith‘setback.’Thebeginningofeachsentenceof
thesub-sectionsreferencedaboveshallread:
o Allprincipalstructuresshallbesetinback…
In§162.059(G)(4)thefollowingchangesneedtobemade:
MaximumHeight.Noprincipalstructureshallexceedtwoandone-halfstories
or35feetinheight,andnoaccessorystructureshallexceedonestoryof15feet
inheight.
In§162.059(G)(7)RequiredConstruction,definethephrase‘twocars,’in
referencetogaragespace,withasquarefootagecalculationorminimum.
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b. TheChairmanandCommissionerscompletedafullreviewof§§162.059to162.059
(H)(2).TheZoningCodeReviewwillberesumedatthenextregularlyscheduled
PlanningandZoningmeeting,beginningat§162.060.
PUBLICCOMMENTS(limitedtotwo(2)minutesperperson)
Noattendeesvolunteeredpubliccomment.
OTHERBUSINESS
Nootherbusinesswasdiscussed. ADJOURNMENT
AmotionwasmadebyCommissionerStellaWeisfustoadjournthemeeting.Themotionwasseconded
byCommissionerGregHickey.AllZoningCommissionersvotedinfavorofthemotion;motioncarried.
Adjournmentat7:40PM.
AshleighSpacht,DirectorofCommunity&OrganizationalDevelopment
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