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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPC Minutes 2019-02-211 Town of Ithaca Planning Committee Thursday, February 21, 2019 Committee Members: Rich DePaolo, Chair; Rod Howe and Pat Leary Board/Staff Members Present: Bill Goodman; Susan Ritter, Bruce Bates, Dan Tasman. Guests: Jamie Gensel (Fagan Engineers), C.J. Randall (Randall + West) and Ithaca High School student (1) 1. Persons to be heard: None 2. Committee announcements and concerns: None 3. Consider January meeting minutes: Rod moved, Pat seconded; approved as drafted. 4. Review draft agricultural conservation easement language and related documents for the Mallon property (471 Bostwick Rd.) and consider recommendation to the Town Board. Mike Smith provided an update and described each of the documents provided to the committee related to the conservation easement (CE) for 471 Bostwick Road. Included was the CE language and preliminary site plan map. The site plan map delineated three use area designations: the farmstead, the farm area, and the resource protection area. The CE language further defines and provides requirements for each use area. Aerial survey maps, topographic data, and field visits were used to identify these areas. A more final/official map will be developed by T.G. Miller, P.C. Engineers and Surveyors, who are conducting a survey of the property. The committee discussed the CE language, the use areas, and the other associated documents. Members voted unanimously in favor of recommending the CE and related document for approval by the Town Board. 5. Consider revisions to Chain Works District (CWD) Planned Development Zone (PDZ) language: The committee reviewed two version of the 1-30-19 PDZ draft. One copy contained Susan Brock’s (attorney for the town) redline changes and the other contained staff redline changes incorporating Planning Committee edits from the January meeting. The committee agreed to all proposed grammatical changes. The following additional modifications were approved by the committee following discussion on the more substantive questions/suggestions posed by Susan Brock. Pg. 2 – insert a new map that better differentiates CW2A, CW2B, CW3A. Pg. 3 – CW3B description: last sentence change to “Open spaces include greens, squares, and neighborhood parks.” Pg. 3 – Private residence: change “arder” to “up to one boarder”. Pg. 3 – Collective living description: remove the word “unrelated”. Pg. 5 – Industrial-low impact: change the words “hazardous materials” to “hazardous conditions”. Pg. 5 – Self-storage facility: remove word “short term.” 2 Pg. 7 – (2) Civic and open space section: remove (a), and make (b) the new (a) titled “Required civic and open space areas”, change next two sentenc for parks, open space and sites devoted for civic uses. Civic and open space types, settings and requirements include the following:” Add to the table “civic use site” with the following description: “An area dedicated to arts, culture, education, recreation, government, or public transportation. Pg. 9-15 – For each Assembly type table: change “Right-of-way-width” to “Thoroughfare assembly width”. This width extends from building face to building face and includes everything in between (sidewalk, tree lawn, etc.). It is more than just the s . No changes to curb radius, it is the AASHTO standard. Pg. 11 – Description of Assembly type B, second to last sentence: change “spread supports” to “outriggers”. Rich raised a question of having 4ft. sidewalks immediately next to travel lanes in some of the thoroughfare assembly types. Jamie Gensel said this was limited to where existing buildings and infrastructure precluded sufficient space for both roads and sidewalks. While more common in the City of Ithaca CWD portion, a few isolated situations in the town will require narrower sidewalks where buildings currently exist and a 5 foot sidewalk will not fit. All the green field development will have minimum sidewalk widths of 5 feet. Thoroughfare section: add a note that sidewalks less than 5 ft. wide are allowed in limited situations where existing buildings/constraints exist (see Maplewood PDZ for language). Pg. 12 – Assembly type B: change the dimensions on the right-side of the graphic from an 8-foot wide stoop to 7-foot and increase the sidewalk width to 5 feet. Pg. 13 – Assembly type C: change (on left side of graphic) the stoop width from 5 to 4 feet and the sidewalk width from 4 to 5 feet. – Pg. 17 – Site envelope configuration: add introductory statement to the beginning of the site envelope description to better explain purpose, similar to the following: “To regulate buildings that do not have their own parcel, site requirements are applied to a site envelope delineated around a primary building.” Also add language explaining that “for the purposes of this code requirements that apply to a lot also apply to a site envelope.” Pg. 19 – Small house: remove the row for 1st story height, consolidate, given that it is redundant with the subsequent row for story height. Pg. 21 – Large house: remove “ranging in height from 1 to 3 stories.” Pg. 23 – 3-4 unit house: remove “ranging in height from 1 to 4 stories.” For lot area, next to min, add max (i.e. Lot area min/max); change lot area dimension for CW2A t- 18,000 and CW2B to 4000-18,000. Pg. 24 –3-4 unit house lot graphic: revise to show the lot line behind the sidewalk. Pg. 25 – 2 2. Pg. 27 – Mansion apartment: remove “ranging in height from 1 to 4 stories”. Pg. 31 – Apartment building: add to description “six or more dwelling units” delete “with a maximum height of 4- Pg. 32 – Apartment building lot graphic: change “axon” to “isometric view”. Change this for all other building types with multi-stories (pgs.34,38,40) Pg. 33 – Courtyard apartment building: remove “with a maximum height of 4”; add “storefront” to required frontage element; add to the table under building height “1st story height if commercial” and add “12’” for each subarea. 3 Pg. 35/Pg. 41 – Single story shopfront/Service station: keep the front pages to clearly indicate that building types are not allowed, but remove the lot dimension graphics and place both together at the end of the building type section. Pg. 37 – Main Street mixed use building: change “light manufacturing” to “industrial low impact”. Pg. 39 – General building: delete sentence “Required frontage element storefront…” Pg. 43 – Large footprint building: delete sentence “Large footprint buildings are allowed by special permit only”. – for subsection (d) follow format for Maplewood PDZ format. Pg. 47 – (9) Outdoor Lighting: (a) change “Photometric” to “Lighting”. Pg. 48 - (2)(a) change “…should share a similar style and quality….as viewed from the public realm”. Pg. 59 – Design speed: add word “Selected vehicle speed…” and move the definition/requirements to the thoroughfare assemblies. – Thoroughfare: change the word “dedicated” to “defined”. – add a definition for “half story” and “stepback (a recess in the upper stories of a building designed to reduce the buildings mass and allow for more light and air.”) Next steps for the CWD PDZ are for the Planning Board to provide a recommendation to the Town Board. 5. Staff Updates: None reported. 6. Discuss next meeting date and upcoming agenda items: Next meeting is Thursday, February 21st at 4:00 pm.