PC APPROVED Minutes 02-16-12.pdf Spokane Valley Planning Commission
APPROVED Minutes
Council Chambers — City Hall, 11707 E. Sprague Ave.
February 16, 2012
L CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Bates called the meeting to order at 6:00 p.m.
IL PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
Commissioners, staff and audience stood for the pledge of allegiance
IIL ROLL CALL
Commissioners Bates, Carroll, Hall, Higgins, Sands, and Stoy were present. Commissioner
Neill was absent.
Commissioner Stoy made a motion to excuse Commissianer Neill'�from the meeting.
Staff attending the meeting:, Scott Kuhta, Planning Manager; Mike Basinger, Senior Planner;
Christina Janssen, Assistant Planner; Kelly Kc�nkright, Deputy City Attorney; Deanna Griffith,
Administrative Assistant
IV. APPROVAL OF AGENDA
Commissioner Stoy made a mc�tian to approve the agenda as presented. This motion was
passed unanimously.
V. COMMISSION BUSINESS
A. New Business:' Study Session 2012 Annual Comprehensive Plan amendments Study
Session
Senior Planner'�.Mike Basinger made a��''presentation to the Commissioners regarding the
Comprehensive Plan, why it is needed, the purpose of the annual amendments, and how
the amendments are processed.
Mr. Basinger ''�� stated that there were seven privately initiated site specific map
amendments, and four chapter text amendments. Mr. Basinger reminded the
Commissioners����� that the determination for them would be if the request is appropriate in
this area,����� not what could be proposed to be built there. Mr. Basinger shared that Asst.
Planner Christina Janssen would be presenting four of the seven site specific map
amendments, Mr. Basinger will be presenting the other three site specific map
amendments'����and the four text amendments.
Ms Janssen started with the site specific map amendments which are have been assigned
to her:
CPA-01-12 — Located at 12510/12512 E Olive. Request to change from Low Density
Residential to Medium Density Residential. Commissioners asked about setbacks, other
dwelling units in the area.
CPA-02-12 — Located at 16913 E Mission. Request to change from Low Density
Residential to Mixed Use Center. This parcel is located just north of Indiana extension.
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The parcel has a single family residence and a greenhouse operation on it currently.
Commissioners asked as to what was on the east, which is a single family residence.
CPA-04-12 — Located at 805 N Park Rd. Request to change from low Density
Residential to Neighborhood Commercial. This is located off of Park and Broadway.
The north and south east corners are both already zoned neighborhood commercial.
CPA-06-12 — Located at 1114 N Vercler. Request to change from Low Density
Residential to Office. This is located near the hospital and against another parcel which
is also zoned Office.
After Ms. Janssen completed her presentation and Mr. Basinger began his presentation of
the amendments assigned to him.
CPA-03-12 — Located at 15922/16002 E Broadway. ����� Request to change frc�m Office to
Community Commercial. The applicant is asking for this change,_in order �for it to be
more marketable. Sr. Planner Basinger said the area is changing and has been for years.
Planning manager Kuhta added small parcels are difficult tc� develop along the edge of
large commercial developments. Commissioners asked for the difference between
community commercial and regional commercial. It was explained that it would be size
and draw of the stores. Regional would be big parcels big box stores, like Walmart and
Kohls, but it is not necessarily a zone'that one wc�uld want to�����have creep it into the
residential areas, some of the uses allowed in���the regional����commercial that would be a
concern to allow right next to residential zones.'��
CPA-05-12 — Located at 601 N Cc�nklin. Request to change from medium Density
Residential to High Density Residential. This is ��'a large parcel located farther down
Broadway. Utilities are a�ailable����� to the site. '��� Multi-family-2 is common in large open
spaces. Commissioners asked about families along Moore. The property is surrounded
on sides by low family residential�����. It is� an'�'�established neighborhood, however the area
around it has been changing for years. It is difficult to find large parcels like this near
services, however the'neighborhood will probably stay.
CPA-07-12 — Located at �����15712 E Broadway. Request to change from Office to
Garnmunity Cc�mmercial. Several owners came together to submit a request to change all
of these parcels' to match the surrounding transitional area. Mr. Basinger stated there is a
ch�rch on one parcel� and they plan to continue with the property just the way that it is,
however they want to'change the designation to make the property more marketable.
CPA-08-12 — Text amendment to Chapter 2, Land Use, and Staff have updated
population �� estimates, updated figure 2.1 by land use designation, revised potential
annexation area language, updated Map 2.1 to reflect the site-specific map requests if
approved. Commissioners asked if parks level of service was behind, Mr. Basinger stated
yes, however the population figures had been adjusted based on the 2010 census. There
was a discussion regarding marketable land.
CPA-09-12 — Text amendments to Chapter 3, Transportation. Staff have deleted all
references to non-motorized transportation and referenced back to the newly adopted
Chapter 11 Bike and Pedestrian Element of the Comprehensive Plan and have removed
the non-motorized goals and policies as well and referenced them to Chapter 11 as well.
Map 3.1 Arterial Street Plan has been updated. Map 3.2 the Pedestrian Map has been
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deleted and all the bike and pedestrian maps are now located in Chapter 11, and the rest
of the maps have been renumbered.
CPA-10-12 — Text amendments to Chapter 4, Capital Facilities updated the 6-year TIP,
updated the population projections, facility and service data. Map 4.5 has been update to
reflect the 6-year sewer proj ects.
CPA-11-12 — Text amendments to Chapter 7, Economic Development, updated the entire
chapter with employment status, wages, most of the statistics have been updated to reflect
more current information. Map 7.1 has been updated to reflect current development
activity, updated the goals and policies to reflect the current times. Commissioner
Carroll stated he noticed the reference made on page 19 of 24 on the 9th line should say
Spokane region or Spokane Valley, he felt that as it was currently written it only reflected
a reference to the City of Spokane.
VL ADJOURNMENT
The being no other business the meeting was adjourned at 7:17 p'�,m��.
SUBMITTED: APPROVED: '
Deanna Griffith, Secretary Bill Bates, Chairperson
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