City of Aurora Planning and Zoning Commission met Aug. 17.
Here are the minutes provided by the commission:
CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Pilmer called the meeting to order at 7:15 p.m.
ROLL CALL
The following Commission members were present: Chairman Pilmer, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Choudhury, Mr. Gonzales, Mr. Kuehl, Mrs. Martinez, and Mrs. Owusu-Safo. Mr. Khan was excused.
OTHERS PRESENT
The following staff members were present: Mr. Sieben, Mrs. Morgan, Mrs. Vacek, Mr. Curley, and Ms. Burden.
Others Present: John Philipchuck, Tim Kellogg, Rich Olson
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
22-0592 Approval of meeting minutes from July 20, 2022
MOTION OF APPROVAL WAS MADE BY: Mr. Chambers
MOTION SECONDED BY: Mrs. Anderson
AYES: Chairman Pilmer, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Choudhury, Mr. Gonzales, Mr. Kuehl, Mrs. Martinez, and Mrs. Owusu-Safo
NAYS: None
PUBLIC COMMENT
Chairman Pilmer said if you are here for an item that does not appear on the agenda as a public hearing and you wish to speak to the Commission, we can give you 3 minutes to do so.
No one came forward.
AGENDA
22-0508 A Resolution Approving a Revision to the Final Plat for Lot 2 of Liberty Street Business Park Subdivision, on vacant land located at the southern end of Wolverine Drive, and establishing Lots 1-21 of Liberty Meadows Subdivision
Mrs. Morgan says the subject property is currently vacant land. If you recall, this came before the Commission a couple of months ago for a rezoning. It was rezoned from ORI (C), Office, Research, and Light Industrial to R-4A (C) Two- Family Dwelling District and OS-1 (C) Conservation, Open Space, and Drainage District with a Conditional Use on May 10, 2022. The petitioner is bringing forward the Final Plat and Plan. The Final Plat Revision for Lot 2 of Liberty Street Business Park Subdivision and establish new Lots 1-21 of Liberty Meadows Subdivision. The details of the request include a plat of subdivision. The details of the request include a plat of subdividing the property into 18 building lots, 2 common open space lots surrounding the buildings, and the stormwater detention and drainage and conservation easement lot. They’re also proposing the final plan. The details of that request include developing 91 townhomes and associated detention. Wolverine Drive will be extended from its current dead-end south and onto the site and ends with a circular turnaround. The project includes the development of 18 buildings with rear-loaded garages containing a total of 91 units on 15.66 acres. The units range in size from 1,760 square feet to 2,200 square feet and contain three bedrooms. Each unit has a two-car garage, a two-car driveway with visitor parking available on the street. The Landscape Plan provides streets, trees lining the new road, shrubs and understory trees all around the building foundations, and landscape beds scattered along the road, at the sign, and at the detention facility to provide some visual focal points. The façades of all the buildings are varied through a slight height change in the main roof, cross-gables clad in a variety of material with brackets in the gable center, and porches of varying roofs supported by columns on stone piers. The Petitioner is also requesting a Vacation of the Drainage and Conservation Easement to allow a new boundary of the easement that is being granted on the new Final Plat. The Plat of Vacation is already making its way to City Council. The Petitioner does have a presentation so unless there are questions for staff, I can hand it over to the Petitioner.
Chairman Pilmer says any questions of staff? Hearing none, we would ask the Petitioner to come forward.
Mr. Philipchuck says good evening, my name is John Philipchuck. I’m the attorney representing the Liberty Meadows Development. If you’ll recall that we were here, as said by staff, a couple of months ago with our Preliminary and Rezoning and we may or may not have…. oh, we do. So, just so you’re all familiar with the site, but again, so the site is out south of Liberty, between Liberty and New York St. and it’s east of County Line Rd. so we’re adjacent to several existing townhome developments out in that particular area. With me this evening is Tim Kellogg who is the manager of PT Land, LLC and they are selling the property to the Lennar Company so they will be the developers and the builders of the townhome development. And also with me tonight is Rich Olson from Gary Weber and Associates. They developed the Landscaping Plan for the townhome development. The Final Plan for the property, well covered by Jill as far as the size, the fact that we got it rezoned the last time we came through by City Council. 91 homes, 18 buildings, extension of Wolverine Drive, sidewalks available, and then a sidewalk will be going all the way out to Liberty Street, so it’ll have good continuities as far as that’s concerned. The Final Plat takes the parcel and then divides it into the various lots, some of which are for our wetland area and our stormwater management for the property. Wolverine Drive gets extended as a cul-de-sac which, as a side note, Mr. Kurt Becker…I don’t know if any of you remember Kurt…but he did the original development out there along Liberty Street and he was a Michigan grad and thus, the Wolverine and he was an ’85 Bears Super Bowl team member so, good guy and so we’re excited to see the extension of Wolverine Drive. The Traffic Plan was approved by City Council and Planning Commission last time. Bottom line, for the traffic movements out there, there will be some striping on Liberty Street such that there will be a left-turn lane into Wolverine Drive for those traveling west. Similar to what we have to up at to get into the Legacy Fields townhome development there at County Line Road and Liberty, which has functioned very well over the past number of years. As far as the architecture for the units, it hasn’t changed since the Preliminary. Two and a half story buildings, as Jill mentioned, two-car garage. They’re all 3 bedroom, 2 and a half baths. They range anywhere from around 1,700 square feet to 2,200 square foot units. They’ll be in the, probably, mid-400s as far a price when it gets out there. Obviously, they want to get started soon to be able to get product delivered next year, that’s the goal, that they’ll have sales for next year. Now what you hadn’t seen before is the Final Landscape Plan and I think you can see that Rich and his crew have put together a very nice entrance as far as coming down into the actual residential area and at the end of each court, they’ve screened them so that any car lights or anything coming, cars going into the courts for their driveway access to their garages, that they’ve got board on board fences, and they’ve got shrubs on the outside to screen it from the neighbors. We’ve got the Legacy Fields and Abington Trace on the two sides of us and we’ve got big open space to the north and then you’ve got the Oakhurst North to the west, but you’ve got a big open space area there so we’re not really butting up against any of those homes there. Unless you have any questions about the Landscape Plan, I think that covers our presentation pretty much for this evening.
Chairman Pilmer says thanks John. Any questions for the Petitioner? Thank you.
Mr. Philipchuck says okay, thank you.
Mrs. Morgan says staff would recommend Conditional Approval of the Final Plat for Lot 2 of Liberty Street Business Park Subdivision, on vacant land located at the southern end of Wolverine Drive, and establishing Lots 1-21 of Liberty Meadows Subdivision, with the following conditions:
1.) That all the comments of the Engineering Division be addressed prior to approval of Final Engineering.
2.) That the Plat of Vacation for the Drainage and Conservation Easement be approved by City Council and be recorded with the Final Plat.
Chairman Pilmer says you’ve heard staff’s recommendation. Is there a motion to approve?
MOTION OF APPROVAL WAS MADE BY: Mr. Chambers
MOTION SECONDED BY: Mrs. Anderson
AYES: Chairman Pilmer, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Choudhury, Mr. Gonzales, Mr. Kuehl, Mrs. Martinez, and Mrs. Owusu-Safo
NAYS: None
Chairman Pilmer says motion carries. And then if staff has a recommendation for the Final Plan.
A motion was made by Mr. Chambers, seconded by Ms. Anderson, that this agenda item be Forwarded to the Building, Zoning, and Economic Development Committee, on the agenda for 8/24/2022. The motion carried.
22-0509 A Resolution Approving a Final Plan on Lots 1-21 of Liberty Meadows Subdivision, located at the southern end of Wolverine Drive for a Row Dwelling (Party Wall) (1130) Use
Mrs. Morgan says staff would recommend Conditional Approval of A Resolution Approving a Final Plan on Lots 1-21 of Liberty Meadows Subdivision, located at the southern end of Wolverine Drive for a Row Dwelling (Party Wall) (1130) Use, with the following condition:
1.) That all the comments of the Engineering Division be addressed prior to approval of Final Engineering.
Chairman Pilmer says you’ve heard Staff’s recommendation, is there a motion?
MOTION OF APPROVAL WAS MADE BY: Mrs. Martinez
MOTION SECONDED BY: Mrs. Anderson
AYES: Chairman Pilmer, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Choudhury, Mr. Gonzales, Mr. Kuehl, Mrs. Martinez, and Mrs. Owusu-Safo
NAYS: None
Chairman Pilmer says motion carries. And then if Staff will state where this will next be heard?
Mrs. Morgan says this will next be heard at the Building, Zoning, Economic Development Committee next Wednesday, August 24th at 4:00 pm in this room.
Chairman Pilmer says good luck. I believe that’s it. Do you want to do the training after the meeting?
Mr. Sieben says yeah, we can do it after, right? I think we can close the meeting, right?
Yeah, we can close the meeting.
A motion was made by Ms. Martinez, seconded by Ms. Anderson, that this agenda item be Forwarded to the Building, Zoning, and Economic Development Committee, on the agenda for 8/24/2022. The motion carried.
PENDING
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADJOURNMENT
Chairman Pilmer says so no other business for the Commission. Is there a motion to adjourn?
MOTION OF ADJOURNMENT WAS MADE BY: Mrs. Anderson
MOTION SECONDED BY: Mr. Chambers
AYES: Chairman Pilmer, Mrs. Anderson, Mr. Chambers, Mr. Choudhury, Mr. Gonzales, Mr. Kuehl, Mrs. Martinez, and Mrs. Owusu-Safo
NAYS: None
Chairman Pilmer adjourned the meeting at 7:28 pm.
A motion was made by Mrs. Anderson, seconded by Mr. Chambers, that this meeting be adjourned. The motion carried by voice vote.
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