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Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Planning Commission will review the Traffic Impact Study survey.<\/p>\nJamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Planning Commission will review the Traffic Impact Study survey.<\/p>\n
Commission Chairman David Hillerud says that some of the findings that SRF Consulting found in the survey were unexpected.<\/p>\n
SRF Consulting, has asked other cities including Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot and McKenzie County how traffic impact studies are conducted there, and along with the implementation of improvements by the studies.<\/p>\n
Questions arose concerning ordinances requiring studies, triggers for the requirement and if the developer is required to pay for the traffic impact study.<\/p>\n
Jamestown City Council member Ramone Gumke said the council supported what the initial ordinance before them, but questioned how it would be paid for.<\/p>\n
Hillreud suggested that the commission spend time reading the survey findings and have SRF Consulting present a new ordinance that had all the information provided.<\/p>\n
The commission will review the ordinance at their next monthly meeting.<\/p>\n
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DRAFT MINUTES- Planning Commission<\/p>\n
JULY 11, 2016 – 8:00 a.m.<\/p>\n
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Present: Rhinehart, Trautman, Frye, Hillerud, Rath, Bensch, Ritter<\/p>\n
Others present: Gumke, Phillips, Klundt, Fuchs, Reuther, Wollan, Harty<\/p>\n
Absent: Bayer, Paulson<\/p>\n
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MIDWAY TOWNSHIP, Part of Auditors Plat 2 of GL 7 part of 4.47 acres in the NW \u00bc of Section 26 & NE \u00bc, of the NE1\/4 of Section 27, Township 140, Range 64, within the One Mile Extraterritorial Area of the City of Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota from Agricultural to Industrial Land Use.<\/p>\n
Property address: 3420 82ND AVE SE<\/p>\n
Chris Clanahan, SRF Consulting Group, Inc. reviewed the staff report recommending approval of the land use amendment.<\/p>\n
Chairman Hillerud opened the public hearing. No one appeared. Chairman Hillerud closed the public hearing.<\/p>\n
Commission member Frye made a motion to accept the findings of staff and recommend approval of the land use plan amendment from Agriculture and Industrial to Industrial for a 4.47 acre parcel within Auditor\u2019s Lot 2 within the NW \u00bc of Section 26 and the NE \u00bc of Section 27, Township 140N, Range 64 W to the City Council. Commission member Bensch seconded. Roll Call. 6 ayes, 1 abstain. Motion Carried.<\/p>\n
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MIDWAY TOWNSHIP, Part of Auditors Plat 2 of GL 7 part of 4.47 acres in the NW \u00bc of Section 26 & NE \u00bc, of the NE \u00bc of Section 27, Township 140, Range 64, within the One Mile Extraterritorial Area of the City of Jamestown, Stutsman County, North Dakota from A-1 (Agricultural District) to M-1 (Limited Industrial and Manufacturing District).<\/p>\n
Property address: 3420 82ND AVE SE<\/p>\n
Chris Clanahan, SRF Consulting Group, Inc. reviewed the staff report by explaining the zone change, related that no protests have been received, and that all setbacks have been met; therefore, staff recommended approval of the zone change request.<\/p>\n
Chairman Hillerud opened the public hearing. No one appeared. Chairman Hillerud closed the public hearing.<\/p>\n
Commission member Frye made a motion to accept the findings of staff and recommend approval of the zone change from A-1, Agricultural District to M-1, Limited Industrial and Manufacturing District for a 4.47 acre parcel within Auditor\u2019s Lot 2 within the NW \u00bc of Section 26 and the NE \u00bc of Section 27, Township 140N, Range 64 W to the City Council. Commission member Ritter seconded. Roll Call. 6 ayes, 1 abstain. Motion Carried.<\/p>\n
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Chairman Hillerud and the Commission members had no changes to the list at this time.<\/p>\n
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Cindy Gray, SRF Consulting, Inc. addressed the summary questions and explained the requirements of five other jurisdictions in North Dakota relating to traffic impact studies. Included in the discussion was the nature of the requirement for traffic impact studies, the cost of the study, who hires the consultant, if cost sharing of the study has been done, financial responsibility for roadway improvements if needed and, if recommended, are the improvements required to be completed before the development is occupied.<\/p>\n
Chairman Hillerud stated he was surprised that traffic studies are not always required by an ordinance. Discussion among members included Commission member Ritter asking if trip generation could be used in place of a study. Commission member Frye commented that there should be some type of vehicle inventory in place to make sure these items are looked at.<\/p>\n
Chairman Hillerud asked if an ordinance should be in place; Commission member Frye agreed that an ordinance should be developed as policies can be overlooked while ordinances are not.<\/p>\n
Cindy Gray discussed the fact that larger developers are not opposed to providing the traffic impact study since they are common practice in other communities. Commission member Frye related that most developers prefer that studies are done ahead of time and that we should be consistent with other communities. Chairman Hillerud questioned how far out the traffic improvements go, and if special assessment districts are then utilized.<\/p>\n
Ramon Gumke, City Council member, stated the Council is not opposed to a traffic study ordinance but is concerned about how financing for studies and improvements transpire. He stated that developers do not always want to pay up front; however, special assessment districts could be a viable option.<\/p>\n
Chairman Hillerud asked about trip generation numbers; Cindy Gray stated most communities do look at those, but they are at the City Engineer\u2019s discretion.<\/p>\n
Council member Gumke discussed traffic impact study related provisions could also be put in place as a policy.<\/p>\n
Commission member Bensch related past development history and recognized that housing development is very low at this time; however, he feels the developer or development should be responsible for improvements required for the development.<\/p>\n
Pam Phillips, 507 1st<\/sup> Ave N, new member of the City Council, spoke of her appreciation of the Planning Commission and the work that is being done. She stated she agrees with the concept of addressing the impacts of development up front.<\/p>\n Commission member Ritter feels that we need an ordinance in place and Commission member Bensch feels we need to see how the cost provisions can be worked into the ordinance. He mentioned a development on the north side of Jamestown that generated special assessments to residents who already lived in the area, and was concerned about that.<\/p>\n Chairman Hillerud feels we need to review this item again, and asked SRF Consulting to email the Council the traffic impact study ordinance as it was most recently presented to the City Council and these recent findings regarding traffic impact studies.<\/p>\n Commission member Trautman asked how much a traffic study typically costs; Cindy Gray, SRF Consulting gave examples of simply calculating trip generation, which could be a very low cost effort of a few hundred dollars that could even be done at the staff level and is done by staff in some jurisdictions, to a study for a larger development which may cost around $10,000 to $15,000 while a smaller scale study may cost around $4,000 to $7,500. The cost also depends upon how far out the study needs to go. She also described how a larger subarea study could be completed with the City and property owner \/ applicant sharing the cost.<\/p>\n Council member Gumke stated studies that meet the threshold will not encompass a small area, but rather a larger area in order to prevent future problems.<\/p>\n Commission member Rhinehart agreed that requiring traffic studies and following the Land Use & Transportation plan will be beneficial to the community.<\/p>\n Chairman Hillerud asked SRF Consulting, Inc. to revise the ordinance language that was previously proposed and to re-visit this item at the next meeting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chris Clanahan, SRF Consulting, Inc. explained the purpose of the text amendment, the definitions, allowed zoning districts, and parking requirements. Chris suggested giving the city attorney more time to review the amendments to the ordinance since they are quite lengthy and involve several sections of the ordinance. Chairman Hillerud agreed and requested continuation of this item at the next month\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u3000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jamestown (CSi) The Jamestown City Planning Commission will review the Traffic Impact Study survey. Commission Chairman David Hillerud says that some of the findings that SRF Consulting found in the survey were unexpected. SRF Consulting, has asked other cities including Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot and McKenzie County how traffic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104155,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104145\/revisions\/104155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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