City of Columbia, Missouri

Meeting Minutes

Planning and Zoning Commission

Columbia City Hall

Council Chambers

701 E Broadway

Thursday, February 20, 2025

7:00 PM

REGULAR MEETING

I. CALL TO ORDER

MR. STANTON: I'm calling to order the regular meeting of the Planning and Zoning

Commission of the City of Columbia. Are there any changes to the agenda, Mr. Zenner?

MR. ZENNER: No, there are not, sir. Would you like to do introductions --

MS. LOE: Roll call?

MR. ZENNER: -- attendance?

MR. STANTON: I guess so. Sorry.

II. INTRODUCTIONS

MR. STANTON: Mr. Secretary, can we have a roll call, please?

MR. WILLIAMS: Yes, you may. Commissioner Loe?

MS. LOE: Here.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Wilson.

MS. WILSON: Here.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Walters? Commissioner Brodsky?

MR. BRODSKY: Here.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Ortiz?

MS. ORTIZ: Here.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Placier?

MS. PLACIER: Here.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Stanton?

MR. STANTON: Present.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Geuea Jones? We have seven, and have a quorum.

MR. STANTON: Thank you, Mr. Secretary.

7 -

Present:

Sara Loe, Anthony Stanton, Peggy Placier, Shannon Wilson, Thomas Williams,

McKenzie Ortiz and David Brodsky

2 - Sharon Geuea Jones and Robert Walters

Excused:

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

MR. STANTON: Mr. Zenner, once again, is there any changes to the agenda?

MR. ZENNER: No, there are not, sir.

MR. STANTON: The fact there is no changes to the agenda, I would entertain a

motion to approve the agenda.

MS. LOE: I move to approve the agenda.

MS. ORTIZ: Second.

MR. STANTON: So moved and properly seconded by Ms. Peggy.

MS. PLACIER: No.

MR. STANTON: Wrong person? Oh, I’m sorry. Oops. I'll get it together here in

a minute. Everybody should have had an opportunity to review the minutes from February

6 -- sorry, guys. I'm trying to move a little faster than necessary. All those in favor of the

agenda, thumbs up? All those opposed, thumbs down?

(Unanimous vote for approval.)

MR. STANTON: The agenda has been approved.

Approve the agenda

IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

February 6, 2025 Regular Meeting

MR. STANTON: Everybody has had an opportunity to read the minutes from the

previous meeting of February 6. Are there any changes to the minutes? Yes, sir?

MR. BRODSKY: I have one very small change. At the bottom of page 10, it's -- I'm

speaking, and it says the fact that we will not see development along the east side of this

read was compelling to me, and that should be road.

MR. STANTON: Okay.

MR. BRODSKY: That's all.

MR. STANTON: Okay. Mr. Zenner, I've never come across this. How do we -- do

we amend the -- the minutes with this?

MR. ZENNER: You'll ask for a motion as amended, and then the amendment will be

reflected in our -- the hard copy that we will post to our website via the video minutes, and

it will be recorded in the minutes for tonight's meeting, which will be approved at your

following meeting.

MR. STANTON: Okay. So I would entertain a motion to amend the minutes from

February 6.

MR. BRODSKY: So moved.

MR. STANTON: So moved. And --

MS. LOE: Second.

MR. STANTON: -- properly seconded by Ms. Loe. All of those in favor of the

amendment to the minutes, thumbs up? All those opposed, thumbs down?

(Unanimous vote for approval.)

MR. STANTON: It's unanimous, Mr. Secretary.

MR. WILLIAMS: That's correct.

MR. STANTON: Moving on to our first case, a subdivision.

MR. ZENNER: I will apologize. I completely forgot that we did have an amendment

to the agenda for this evening.

MR. STANTON: Mr. Zenner.

MR. ZENNER: The first case -- I know. I know. I know. I got so entrenched by your

-- and entranced by your leadership skills, sir, I'm just replicating them at this point.

Motion to approve February 6, minutes as amended

V. SUBDIVISIONS

Case # 77-2025

A request by Brush and Associates (agent), on behalf of Osarone Inc

(owner), for approval of a 1-lot final plat, M-C (Mixed-use Corridor) zoned

property, to be known as Fellows Place # 8. The request will create a legal

lot. The approximately 0.54-acre subject site is located at 1300 Fellows

Place.

MR. STANTON: May we have a staff report, please?

Staff report was given by Mr. Ross Halligan of the Planning and Development

Department. Staff recommends approval of the final plat of Fellows Addition #8, subject

to minor technical corrections.

MR. STANTON: Any questions for staff?

MS. LOE: (Inaudible).

MR. STANTON: I sure would. I don't have that document in front of me, but

thank you, Ms. Loe. If there's anybody on the Commission that has had ex parte

conversations about this case beforehand, and would like to share what they have learned

with the rest of the Commission, they can do so at this time. Nobody? All right. Any

questions for staff? Now, it is customary for us to open this up, isn't it, to public hearing?

I thought so.

PUBLIC HEARING OPENED

MR. STANTON: Open for public hearing if anybody wants to discuss this case?

Going once, going twice. Closing public hearing.

PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED

MR. STANTON: Are you guys laughing at me? Okay. Discussion on this case?

Ms. Loe?

MS. LOE: This seems pretty clear-cut and straight forward, and if there are no

questions, I'm willing to make a motion.

MR. STANTON: Outstanding.

MS. LOE: In the case of 77-2025, I move to approve Fellows Addition Number 8, final

plat, subject to technical corrections.

MS. ORTIZ: Second.

MR. STANTON: It's been moved and properly seconded.

MR. CRAIG: Who seconded that motion? Was that Ortiz? Oh, thank you.

MR. STANTON: Whenever you're ready -- oh. Any discussion on the motion? Mr.

Secretary, whenever you're ready, sir.

Roll Call Vote (Voting "yes" is to recommend approval.) Voting Yes: Ms. Loe,

Ms. Wilson, Mr. Brodsky, Ms. Ortiz, Ms. Placier, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Williams, Motion

carries 7-0.

MR. WILLIAMS: That's seven yeses, zero nos, the motion carries.

MR. STANTON: Okay. This will be forwarded to City Council. Gosh. I survived.

Move to approve Fellows Addition Number 8, final plat, subject to technical

corrections.

7 - Loe, Stanton, Placier, Wilson, Williams, Ortiz and Brodsky

2 - Geuea Jones and Walters

Yes:

Excused:

VI. PUBLIC HEARINGS

Case # 74-2025

A request by Allstate Consultants (agent), on behalf of Bethel Baptist

Church, Inc. (owner), seeking approval of R-1 (One-family Dwelling) district

zoning as permanent city zoning pursuant to annexation. The subject

7.85-acre property is presently zoned Boone County R-S (Single-family

Residential) and is addressed as 201 Old Plank Road.

MR. ZENNER: The first item on our agenda for tonight is a tabling request of the

second item that is on this hearing public hearing agenda, under public hearings, which is

dealing with a rezoning request for -- or a permanent zoning request for 201 East Old

Plank Road. This request was to be heard this evening, seeking R-1 as permanent City

zoning. We were informed late this afternoon that the applicant would like to table this

request to allow for its re-submission and consideration for R-2 zoning. Given that this

will require re-advertising, the March 20th deadline that they have sought the request to

be tabled to will not be able to be honored. It would need to be the March or the March,

February. No. I apologize. March 20th will be acceptable. That's a month from now that

will allow us our opportunity to advertise properly and re-notice adjoining property owners

for this request. So they are seeking, instead of the R-1 zoning, they would like to seek

permanent zoning for the entire 7.85 acres to R-2. That is what's been stated in the

request for tabling and the tabling request is to date certain March 20th, which does allow

us to properly advertise with 15 days of notice before that hearing.

MR. STANTON: So under your advice, Mr. Zenner, I'll be sure to address that first

before we get into --

MR. ZENNER: Yes, we should. Given that -- even though there's -- there may not be

anybody here to speak to that this evening, it will not be discussed on the agenda.

MR. STANTON: Okay. Was that your staff report, Mr. Zenner, on this?

MR. ZENNER: It was.

MR. STANTON: Okay.

MR. STANTON: As it relates to Case 74-2025, 201 East Old Plank Road,

permanent zoning.

PUBLIC HEARING OPENED

MR. STANTON: Is there anybody here that is here to speak on this -- on this

case, particularly, just the tabling? Calling once, calling twice? Okay. I think I skipped.

I should have asked you guys if you guys have something to say.

MS. LOE: No. You're going to close public --

MR. STANTON: Okay. Closing public hearing now.

PUBLIC HEARING CLOSED

MR. STANTON: And any comments from Commission? Ms. Loe?

MS. LOE: The request seems reasonable, and I would be willing to pose a motion to

approve the tabling of Case 74-2025 to March 20, 2025.

MS. ORTIZ: Second.

MR. STANTON: It's been moved and properly seconded by Ms. Ortiz, Ms. Loe. It's

been moved and properly seconded. All those in favor of tabling to date certain March 20

for Case 74-2025. Yeah. I'm so sorry. I'm so used to thumbs up, thumbs down. Mr.

Secretary, would you like to take the vote, please?

MR. WILLIAMS: Yes.

Roll Call Vote (Voting "yes" is to recommend approval.) Voting yes: Ms. Loe,

Ms. Wilson, Mr. Brodsky, Ms. Ortiz, Ms. Placier, Mr. Stanton. Motion carries 6-0.

MR. WILLIAMS: Motion carries seven [sic] to two -- or seven [sic] to nothing. Two

abstained.

MR. STANTON: This will be moved to City Council? Is that right? No? No? Okay.

MR. ZENNER: We will bring it back to you on March 20th for consideration.

MR. STANTON: Outstanding. Okay.

MR. STANTON: All right. We’re going to move on to Subdivisions.

Motion to approve the tabling of Case 74-2025 to March 20, 2025.

7 - Loe, Stanton, Placier, Wilson, Williams, Ortiz and Brodsky

Yes:

2 - Geuea Jones and Walters

Excused:

VII. PUBLIC COMMENTS

MR. STANTON: Is there any public comment?

MR. WILLIAMS: It appears the secretary forgot to ask for his own vote in the tabling

motion that we had earlier, which I guess would make it six and zero and three.

MR. CRAIG: Yeah. We can reopen that vote. It's the same -- within the same

meeting, I think we can -- we can do it.

MR. WILLIAMS: If it's not a problem, it's not a problem. I just realized that I didn't

ask for my own vote.

MR. CRAIG: Well, let's go ahead and reopen that, and redo that, and get everyone

included on that.

MR. STANTON: Do we need to rewrite -- re-read the motion and then re-vote?

MR. CRAIG: Yeah. The secretary would read -- you know, if we get a -- let's see.

Let me look at the rules here. I think if the -- If the Mr. Vice Chair, if you consent to that,

I think we can reopen that and redo the vote.

MR. WILLIAMS: Well, in Case Number --

MR. STANTON: We have a constitutional crisis, Mr. Secretary.

MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Case Number 74-2025, reopening the vote, starting to --

on the motion to table this agenda item to the March 20th meeting on the request of the

applicant to City Staff, starting with Commissioner Loe?

MS. LOE: Yes.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Wilson?

MS. WILSON: Yes.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Walters? Commissioner Brodsky?

MR. BRODSKY: Yes.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Ortiz?

MS. ORTIZ: Yes.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Placier?

MS. PLACIER: Yes.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Stanton?

MR. STANTON: Yes.

MR. WILLIAMS: Commissioner Geuea Jones? And Commissioner Williams, yes.

That is seven to zero, and the motion carries.

MR. STANTON: Good eye, Mr. Secretary. I'm glad you caught that. All right. Now

that we have averted a constitutional crisis in the meeting, we'll move to Public Comment,

which I've seen none. Do you have comments from staff this evening, Mr. Zenner?

VIII. STAFF COMMENTS

MR. ZENNER: When would there ever be a complete meeting, even with your debut

that I would not have such comments. But before I get to those comments, as we have

been asked by our City Manager and our Public Communications Office, we would like to

just alert the public to our upcoming Community Summit on Saturday, March 15th from

9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. You can drop in any time here at City Hall at 701 East

Broadway. And as it states, this isn't your typical governmental meeting. The summit is

going to feature some interactive activities for our residents to share feedback with City

staff on strategic plan priorities, and you can learn more by going to

como.gov/communitysummit. With that, that is the PSA for tonight, and I will get into my

comments. So your next meeting will be March 6th. And as we have been preparing you

with a drumbeat of excited anticipation, it is going to be a doozie of an agenda. But it's

not just the only doozie of an agenda in March, your second one will be just as

challenging. This is a screen shot that you don't see frequently and haven't probably in

about two years for our Planning Commissioners that have been here that long. That is a

chuck-full agenda, seven total items. We were able to shave two off because it wasn't

ready for prime time, but it will be on the 20th, so on the 20th, you'll have nine. But we've

got a couple of different things here, a little bit of a mismatch and a mix-up. On the

March 6th agenda, you'll have a single subdivision action, and this is on the corner of

Grindstone Parkway and at the corner of Grindstone Parkway, Nifong Boulevard, and Old

Nifong, and State Farm Parkway. This is the property, if you are looking towards

Walmart, this is the property that is in the southeast corner of that intersection. It is

currently a vacant pastureland that has been used by horses, is on the north side of Old

Nifong. This is a proposed four or five lot subdivision, if my recollection serves me

correctly, with some internal public street that is going to be looping through the property.

Mr. Orendorff will be presenting this during our upcoming meeting. The next items are in

the category of public hearing and subdivision, and so these are items that require both a

public hearing and then a -- they have a subdivision action associated with them. The

first two cases are individually listed even though they are joined, so that's what we refer

to as two-fer. The first piece of this is a permanent zoning request. This is currently a

County property at 4100 North Wyatt Lane. It is seeking to be rezoned City R-2, and the

purpose for the R-2 zoning is to accommodate a future cottage subdivision that would

require optional development standards to be approved by the Board of Adjustment before

the corresponding preliminary plat, which is in Case 87-25, would be able to be

processed to City Council. However, as has been standard practice of the Planning

Commissioner with R-2 rezoning requests, given the variability of potential development

and to assuage occasionally the fears of surrounding property owners that it is going to

be duplexes, the applicant is presenting the preliminary plat showing compliance with the

cottage lot standards, and so that is what this preliminary plat will illustrate. It does have

a couple of unique features to it in the way of the road network, so don't be startled when

you see it in your Planning Commission packet. It has been reviewed for compliance

with both our fire service and our roadway standards. It is considered potentially a viable

request, and the second or the third item in this category is a more traditional final plat

with a design adjustment, and this is at the intersection of Rangeline and Vandiver. If you

are facing north on Rangeline, this is the northwest corner as indicated. It's a vacant site

that used to be a gas station -- a Break Time gas station immediately to the north of the

Waffle House on the -- what would be the west side of Rangeline. They are seeking a

design adjustment to allow driveway approaches or driveway accesses to the site that do

not meet the 300-foot minimum standard for both the collector and the collector roadway

standards of both roads, Vandiver and Rangeline. And then the plat is not -- the parcel is

not legal, and therefore, does require Planning and Zoning Commission approval to

establish legal lot status subject to the approval of the design adjustment. Mr. Kunz will

be presenting the first two cases on Wyatt Lane, and then Mr. Orendorff will be

presenting the last case in this section. And then you will notice the ramp-up in our

short-term rental applications. These particular applications will all be being presented by

Mr. Halligan. The first one is at 3411 Goldenwood Drive, the second one is at 100 Gipson

Street, and then the third one is 1510 Mary Lee Drive. These are all in different locations

throughout the City, so we are not concentrating in a single neighborhood, but we are

scattering them around. These are all single-family residential dwelling units, as well. So

you can familiarize yourself with where we are, our Nifong Boulevard property, as I said,

at the corner of Grindstone, State Farm Parkway, and Nifong -- Old Nifong, our two

properties off of North Wyatt at 4100, our property at the northwest corner of Vandiver and

Rangeline -- that is the former gas station site with the design adjustment for access

along collector and arterials less than 300 feet, and then our three short-term rentals.

The first graphic in the middle, that is the Goldenwood application, and that is up on the

northwest side of town up across from Alpha Hart Lewis Elementary, and then our one off

of Gipson is more centrally located in the City, and then our third and lone one is off of

Mary Lee, which is down on the south end of town just to the west of Forum Boulevard.

As I indicated, we do have nine Planning Commission items for the upcoming March 20th

agenda. It'll be ten, actually, now that we're adding in the Bethel Church request for

permanent zoning. So we will have coffee, a light dinner, because we want to keep you

all awake, at both the March 6th and March 20th meetings. We look forward to seeing

you. We've got a lot to prepare for.

MR. CRAIG: And I'd like to apologize preemptively to my colleague, Earl Kraus, who

will be sitting in for me on the March 6th agenda meeting as I will be in Hawaii visiting my

brother, and he'll be here doing nine cases, so --

MR. ZENNER: Do not send me a warm picture, Mr. Craig. I will be jealous. I can't

go out in my RV, as many of you know. It's frigid, and I don't want to come back as an

ice cube, so -- but I will be gone in the summer sometime, so you won't see me then.

With that, that is all we have to offer you tonight as a -- as a preview of upcoming

attractions. I do appreciate your -- your input this evening. Hopefully, it was meaningful

for you as Commissioners, as well. I will continue to work with the staff to incorporate

comments and we will work with applicants to ensure that we're getting these questions

more fully and thoroughly filled out so we can reduce our meeting time with each of those

requests as they come up. We will process a total of eight short-term rentals over the

next two meetings, so the volume is coming up. If I come to you and I say we have ten

for the first meeting in April, you probably will not see all ten on that agenda. I will ask for

them to be separated, but we will keep you informed as the volumes do increase. For the

public, March 3rd is the last available application deadline in order to ensure that any

short-term rental application is processed through the conditional-use procedure, if

necessary, through Council before our June 1st full enforcement deadline. So anyone

that is interested in applying for a short-term rental that would require a conditional use

are strongly encouraged to do so by March 3rd, 12:00 noon. If they have questions, they

can contact our offices, planning@como.gov <mailto:planning@como.gov> or they can

call us at 573-874-7239. Thank you very much.

IX. COMMISSIONER COMMENTS

MR. STANTON: Commissioner ccmments? As a tradition, because it is Black

History Month, I wanted to bring a nice little tidbit that is very pertinent to our -- to our

community, and that is in 1959, Miles Manor Subdivision was established. That's -- what

is Miles Manor, may you ask? Well, it was a subdivision created by an African American

woman and her husband, Clara Miles, who were direct victims of the urban renewal that

happened in the inner City of Columbia. So I do believe, like, nine families got together,

and they looked for some land to buy, and no one would sell them any land. But this

deal ended probably being one of the best real estate deals in Columbia. So off of

Stadium, if you know where the Martin Luther King Trail is, this is actually the Miles

Manor is off of White Oak Lane, which is off of Stadium and it's nestled up in the woods

there, and is a subdivision that a group of African American families got together and

were fortunate to buy this land. I heard it was, like, a pig farm and it was over by -- it was

like a land fill used to be over there, too. It wasn't choice land at the time, but due to the

fact that they made -- they made it happen, it is definitely designated as one of the big

achievement subdivisions created by African Americans in this community, and it still

exists. A couple of years ago, I was honored to put a plaque there, and there was an

African American Heritage Trail plaque there at the intersection of White Oak, and I forgot

the other street's name that goes into the subdivision, but it still exists. And I think it's --

it's like the perfect environment because it is nestled back in the woods. You wouldn't

really know it's there. It's a nice quiet neighborhood. So I encourage you guys to go

check it out. You know, it's by the Martin Luther King Memorial. You just take the left

and voila. So I would like to honor Ms. Miles and her achievements at Miles Manor in the

first subdivision bought and created by an African American in Columbia. Thank you.

Any other comments from Commissioners?

MS. LOE: If there are no other -- thank you for that, Mr. Stanton.

X. NEXT MEETING DATE - March 6, 2025 @ 7 pm (tentative)