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Land Use and Development Commission
Minutes
June 7, 2011
7:00 PM
Minutes of the Land Use and Development Commission regular meeting held at Chubbuck City Hall,
5160 Yellowstone, June7, 2011.
Chairman Peter Anderson: Commission Members: Rodney Burch, George Merrill, Morris Kinghorn,
James Eborn, Ron Horner, Jason Mendenhall, City Staff: Steven Smart, Paul Andrus. Attorney: Tom
Holmes.
Chairman Anderson called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM.
Horner led the commission in the Pledge of Allegiance.
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES: for March 1, 2011
Mendenhall moved the minutes of March 1, 2011, be approved as mailed; Burch seconded.
All voted to approve.
GENERAL BUSINESS:
Morey Byington Planning Director from Bannock Transportation Planning Organization is here
to discuss BTPO model update project.
BTPO does projections for population, employment and traffic. The travel demand model is
being updated and BTPO is looking twenty (20) to thirty (30) years into the future where housing
and traffic will be giving us an idea of where road improvements will need to be. As BTPO starts
this new process the 2010 census is being used to give a base.
What BTPO is showing you tonight is a first look at how the 2040 projection will be allocated.
Projections for Bannock County will be made by using Traffic Analysis Zones on a map. TAZ
allows BTPO to take all employment and homes in that area and put them into one (1) point. All
of the traffic goes to and away from the same point. This helps BTPO decide if a zone needs to
be divided because it has gotten too big.
Once the projections are made for 2040 BTPO will take that from a county level down to blocks
and project how the growth will be in each of the Traffic Analysis Zones for the next twenty five
(25) years.
Byington had the commissioners refer to the last page on the hand out. The criteria is for
allocating demographic changes in population, housing and employment from the county level.
BTPO is asking for the Land Use and Development commissioners input on which criteria will
better represent Chubbuck and give those recommendations to Andrus or Smart.
Clarify zoning for 140 Evans Lane. Zoning line divides the property in C -2 and R -2 zoning.
Andrus informed the commission that the City of Chubbuck has received a letter from Bill
McKee requesting that the zoning be clarified. The lot was split in 1979 and 1983 zoning
ordinances. McKee has been under a nonconforming use in his home for the last few years. He
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wants to change to a business and would like the zoning clarified to a C -2 zoning for the entire
lot. The business he will have is an elderly daycare and physical therapy for the elderly.
Burch asked if this issue has been discussed before.
Smart stated that this issue will come up from time to time as more commercial development
moves north from the interstate. In 1979 when the basic framework for zoning in this ordinance
was adopted, it was automatically zoned commercial three hundred (300) feet off of
Yellowstone. If you measure three hundred (300) feet off of Yellowstone it goes through this lot
on Evans Lane. City staff and Land Use Development Commission discussed this issue a couple
of months ago. It was determined that if the Land Use Commission would take an official action
to clarifying that the zoning line would be moved to a property line on either side of a lot then
the entire lot would have one zoning classification. That would be a satisfactory authorization to
adjust the zoning.
Holmes stated an ordinance to the City Council should be drafted, but felt that this did not
warrant a Public Hearing.
Anderson mentioned this was going to be on a case by case basis.
Andrus stated we are not changing the zoning, we are just making the entire lot the same zoning
and McKee is requesting the entire lot be C -2.
Kinghorn made the motion that on the lot in question at 140 Evans Lane that the entire
property be classified C -2 as proposed and make recommendation to the City Council. Horner
Seconded. Motion carries.
Anderson entertained a motion to adjourn; Kinghorn made the motion. Mendenhall seconded.
All voted to adjourn.
Meeting adjourned at 7:23 PM.
Rar)/elle Simmons, Secretary
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