HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity/County Planning Board Minutes 12.04.2008DRAFT
MINUTES
Laurel-Yellowstone City-County Planning Board
December 4, 2008 7:00 pm
Council Chambers
Members present: Dan Koch, City Rep.
Dick Fritzler, County Rep.
Hazel Klein, City Rep.
John VanAken, County Rep.
Kathy Siegrist, County Rep.
Others present: James Caniglia, City Planner
Cheryll Lund, City Secretary
There was not a quorum present for this meeting.
Even though there was no quorum for this meeting the Board held lengthy discussions on
several items on the agenda.
The board waited until 7:30 pm to start their discussions.
Parma
The board discussed different parking requirements in various cities around the United
States. The requirements varied from city to city but the downtown parking requirements
were pretty obviously the same with little or no requirements.
The discussion involved issues such as diagonal parking in the downtown area and other
parking issues.
This discussion will continue at the January meeting.
Allowin Breweries in the Central Business District
At this time L.M.C. allows breweries only in Light and Heavy Industrial zoned areas.
The discussion was regarding allowing breweries in Central Business District, with
restrictions.
After discussion and review of the Billings codes for Breweries it was decided that a
public hearing will be set for the January meeting to discuss adopting codes for breweries
that are similar to Billings.
Miscellaneous
James told the board about a piece of property that has an empty meat processing plant on
Thiel Road that has a zoning of Highway Commercial on half of the property and un-
zoned on the other half. Meat processing plants are not allowed in Highway Commercial
zones. James has done research on this and it appears that the Planning Board Chairman
can make a decision on property that is zoned this way.
After discussion the board decided to recommend to the Chairman that this business be
allowed because it does add needed jobs.
Next month the board will meet on Thursday, January 8, 2009. There will be public
hearings on parking, breweries and an annexation request. There was discussion
regarding setting the meeting for 6:00 pm but this is not possible because of the monthly
Park Board meeting held at 5:30 in the council chambers.
The meeting was over at 8:45 pm.
Respectfully submitted,
Cheryll Lund
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