City of Columbia, Missouri

Meeting Minutes

Planning and Zoning Commission

Conference Rooms

1A/1B

Thursday, August 18, 2022

5:30 PM

Work Session

Columbia City Hall

701 E. Broadway

I. CALL TO ORDER

8 -

Present:

Tootie Burns, Anthony Stanton, Michael MacMann, Valerie Carroll, Sharon Geuea

Jones, Robbin Kimbell, Peggy Placier and Shannon Wilson

1 - Sara Loe

Excused:

II. INTRODUCTIONS

III. APPROVAL OF AGENDA

Meeting agenda adopted unanimously.

Approve agenda as presented

IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES

August 4, 2022 Work Session

August 4, 2022 work session minutes adopted as presented.

Approved minutes as presented

V. OLD BUSINESS

A. Sidewalk Master Plan (SMP) - Follow up Discussion

Mr. Skov responded to ten questions prepared by the Commissioner Carroll. The

Commission asked what input the Public Transit Advisory Commission (PTAC) and

Disabilities Commission had regarding the Sidewalk Master Plan (SMP). He stated

that he had met with the Disabilities Commission and that the PTAC recommended

specific support for some projects that facilitated safe routes to bus stops.

Commissioners also asked if the involvement of a CID would accelerate projects or

score more points on the SMP to which Mr. Skov indicated that they may in terms of

funding for cost-shares but it didn’t necessarily mean a project scored higher.

The Commission discussed adding an additional sidewalk project to the master plan

specifically for Worley Street, between Clinkscales Road and Banks Avenue.

Commissioners and staff discussed the process for adding this project to the list

with Commissioners advocating for more input. Mr. Zenner suggested sending the

list back to the Bicycle and Pedestrian Commission (BPC) with the prompt to review

the proposed project and ultimately leave it up to the BPC to decide on the

project’s inclusion on the list before bringing it forward to the Planning

Commission for a public hearing. The Commission agreed with this procedure and

unanimously agreed to forward this recommendation back to the BPC.

B. UDC Text Amendments (Phase 4) - Final Draft Text Changes

Mr. Smith provided an overview of the proposed text changes, specifically dealing

with drive-thru businesses and utility easements within the M-DT zoning district.

He noted that the changes incorporated ideas provided by the Commission at the

July 21 meeting as well as revisions and suggestions following conversation with

the City Traffic Engineer.

Commissioner Stanton made a motion that the revisions prepared by the staff

relating to drive-thru businesses, as distributed with the work session packet, be

approved. Commissioner MacMann seconded the motion and it was unanimously

approved by the Commission.

Mr. Smith continued to overview the proposed changes to the requirement for

platting utility easements in the M-DT district with replats. The Commission sought

a clarification on under what condition such easements would be platted. Mr.

Smith confirmed it would be at the discretion of the Utility Director. Following

limited additional discussion, Commissioner Stanton moved to approve the text

change, as presented in the work session packet. Commissioner MacMann

seconded the motion and it was unanimously approved by the Commission.

Mr. Zenner noted that the approved text changes would be distributed to the

design professionals for review prior to the formal scheduling of a public hearing

on the matters. The public hearing was tentatively set for the September 22

Planning Commission meeting. He also noted several other text changes would be

packaged together with the items discussed this evening. These additional items

were general less complex and intended to address “technical” adjustments to the

UDC such as correctly identifying cross-references within the body of the UDC text,

grammatical corrections to definitions, and the elimination of the C-2 district

standards given no C-2 zoning remained on the City’s zoning maps.

Mr. Zenner also provided an overview of upcoming zoning topics that the

Commission could anticipate on reviewing. He noted that the next work session

would involve discussion of the STR draft regulations distributed with the August 4

work session agenda and those topics noted as “TBD”. He stated that there would

be several items within the draft standards that would need discussion, but for the

most part a voting “up or down” process similar to that used this evening could be

employed. Mr. Zenner noted that once the details of the regulations were agreed

upon, staff and the Commission would need to develop the transmission memo to

Council.

Mr. Zenner further provided an overview of several other topics that would be

considered such as amendments to the tree preservation and

landscaping/screening requirements, location of parking in yard areas as well as

other clarifications to certain practices and procedures that have been found

cumbersome. It was discussed that a more methodical approach may be necessary

to address UDC changes such as “article by article” or “thematic” to ensure that staff

and Commission efforts in discussing future amendments were being maximized.