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Agenda
for March 16th, 2010 Meeting
I. Call to order
II. Recusals
III. Swearing in of anyone giving testimony
IV.Visitor's forum
V. Approval of outstanding minutes, October 20, 2009
VI. Review of Permit Applications
A. Metcalf: 503 Wiggin Street, Building of shed.
B. Kenyon College: Sidewalk from old Ernst property up the hill to College Park.
VII. Old Business
1. Other topics, questions?
A. Discussion re: rezoning requests at Council meeting.
B. Report re: status of zoning code redraft.
VIII. New Business
IX. Adjournment
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Gambier Planning and Zoning Commission Minutes
for May 18, 2010
This regular meeting was called to order at approximately 7:35 p.m. with Kachen Kimmell, Kirk Emmert, Tom Stamp, Michael Schlemmer, Jim Bartee and Harold Ballard all present, along with Ms. Suzanne Hopkins, Village Administrator, Mark Kohlman, CBO for Kenyon College, and Miriam Gorsuch.
No members felt the need for recusal at this meeting. Mr. Kohlman and Ms. Gorsuch were each sworn in. During the Public Forum portion of the meeting Mr. Kohlman advised that the big steel, previously delayed by rain, would be coming into the Village for the Art History Building, which will form the deck for the second floor. Pending this development work proceeded on wiring in the basement and similar work, with the project still on track to finish as previously indicated. The plans for the North Campus development are due this week, and the project will be bid on the Monday following this meeting, with site work to commence within a week and a half, including relocation of utilities as needed. However none of the existing houses will be removed until next summer after the end of the school year. Any trees that need to be removed to accommodate the new development will be replaced on a two for one basis. The minutes of the March 16, 2010 Commission meeting were approved as amended by a vote of 6-0, pursuant to motion by Mr. Stamp, seconded by Mr. Schlemmer.
The application of Ms. Gorsuch to take out an existing window at the frong of her residence at 413 Chase Avenue, and replace it with a bay window as per a photo-shopped picture provided of the proposed window in place, was approved with minimal discussion by a vote of 6-0 upon motion by Mr. Stamp, seconded by Mr. Emmert.
The Commission next considered the two applications by Kenyon for new sidewalks on campus for the Bolton Dance Studio and the Hill Theater, both to be composed of exposed aggregate concrete consistent with existing sidewalks in the area. After discussion the Hill Theater walk was approved by a vote of 6-0 upon a motion by Mr. Schlemmer, seconded by Mr. Ballard, and the Bolton sidewalk was approved by a similar vote upon motion of Ms. Kimmell, seconded by Mr. Bartee.
Most of the rest of this meeting was taken up by discussion of the application of Kenyon College for an additional parking lot south of the KAC and the Bike Path in the area where the old Kenyon College buildings since removed were located, along with a smaller parking lot near the tennis courts. The main parking lot will include 220 spaces with the smaller one including 59 spaces. The plan includes use of a permeable material to collect run off along with a rain garden on the Duff Street end, as well as green strips of plantings in the lot along with additional plantings of trees and shrubs along the north edge of the lot to screen the lot from the bike path. Entrance to the lot will be from the existing access road running from Duff Street to the athletic fields (tentatively referred to as South Park Road, as it forms the northern edge of the property owned by Gambier being used as parkland, and including the Gunderson sculpture). Of the new spaces included in this parking lot 50 to 55 are intended as additional parking space for the KAC while the rest of the spaces are to accommodate student parking as part of a three year plan to eliminate student parking on several sites on the north end of campus as well as two temporary parking lots on the south campus that have been in use due to recent construction. When major events are scheduled at the KAC on weekends it is anticipated that some students who are assigned to this lot will be urged/permitted to park in faculty lots on campus to accommodate extra parking for the scheduled KAC event. The spaces by the tennis courts will also be for student parking. During discussion of the project it was suggested that perhaps the anticipated rain garden could be removed or reduced to accommodate a sidewalk on the east side of Duff Street, from the end of Meadow Lane down to "South Park Road". Consideration of the application was deferred pending amendment of the application to request approval as a conditional use as all parking lots are considered conditional uses under the Zoning Code and require public notice and a hearing. A hearing was scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on June 7, prior to the Village Council meeting and arrangements were made for appropriate public notice and notice to adjoining property owners (in this case the Kokosing Gap Trail) with such hearing to include a further meeting of the Commission, in order to expedite the work required if the application is approved.
When Mr. Ballard inquired how this project fits with the overall plan of the College for parking in the future, Mr. Kohlman produced drawings reflecting a phased in three year plan to eliminate student parking in a variety of areas currently used on campus, particularly on the north end of the campus.
Ms. Kimmell advised that work on the redrafting of the Zoning Code is continuing, with the updated definition section almost done. Mr. Kohlman advised that a solar panel array was being contemplated atop Farr Hall, and inquired whether this would require a permit. It was the consensus of Commission members that it would not.
Thereafter this meeting was adjourned at approximately 8:38 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Michael D. Schlemmer, Recording Secretary
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