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HomeMy WebLinkAbout11/15/2017 - Planning Commission - Minutes - RegularPlanni ng Commission Meeting M INUTES Wednesday, November 15, 2017, 7:00 P M Council Chambers, C ity Hall, 114 North B road Street, Salem, Virginia 24153 1.C all to Order A regular meeting of the Planning C ommission of the C ity of Salem, Virginia, was called to order at 7:00 p.m., there being present the following members to wit: Vicki G . Daulton, Denise P. King, Reid A. Garst II, N. J ackson Beamer, Neil L. Conner; with Vicki G. Daulton, C hair, presiding; together with J ames E. Taliaferro, A ssistant C ity Manager and Executive Secretary; C harles E. Van Allman, J r., D irector of C ommunity Development; Benjamin W. Tripp, C ity Planner; J udy L. Hough, Deputy C ity Clerk; and William C . Maxwell, Assistant C ity Attorney. 2.C onsent Agenda A.Minutes C onsider approval of the minutes from the October 11, 2017, work session and regular meeting. A pproved as written T he Executive Secretary noted the C ommission had proclamations for four retired members of the C ommission. He further noted that former members and families of the members were in attendance. He then read into the record proclamations for Samuel R. C arter III, J immy W. Robertson, Bruce N. T homasson, and Terrance D. Murphy. C hair Daulton presented the proclamations to Lonna C arter, spouse of Samuel R. C arter III, and J immy W. Robertson. 3.New Business A.U se N ot P rov ided F or P ermit C onsider the request of Indiana Street, LLC, property owner, for the issuance of a Use Not Provided for Permit to allow an Adaptive Reuse Project on the properties located at 710 Eighth Street, 900 blk. Indiana Street, and 900 blk. Iowa Street (Tax Map #s 186-6-1, 186-10-6 & 186-10-10). An Adaptive Reuse Project repurposes a derelict building or site for multiple uses other than what it was originally designed. Such projects may include multi-family residential, retail, restaurants, breweries, clean non-hazardous industrial uses, and various other uses in a mixed-use format. T he Executive Secretary reported that notice of such hearing had been published in the N ovember 2 an 9, 2017, issues of the Salem Times Register and adjacent property owners were notified by letter mailed October 31, 2017. Staff noted the following regarding the Use Not Provided For Permit request: the subject property consists of a single parcel of approximately 10.62 acres, located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Indiana Street and Eighth Street; the property is occupied by the former Valleydale manufacturing plant; this request is for a Use Not Provided For Permit to allow an Adaptive Reuse Project for the site; an Adaptive Reuse Project repurposes a derelict building or site for multiple uses other than what it was originally designed; such projects may include multi-family residential, retail, restaurants, breweries, clean non-hazardous industrial uses, and various other uses in a mixed-use format; and this property is partially located within the 100 year and 500 year floodplains. C hair Daulton opened the public hearing and asked if there was anyone present who would like to speak regarding this matter. Brent C ochran of 2334 Mount Vernon Road, Roanoke, representing Indiana Street LLC , appeared before the C ommission to explain the request. Mr. C ochran noted that this is the old Valleydale Meat Packing plant, and they would like to redevelop the property. T here are a variety of opportunities right now for the redevelopment. O ne of those is hopefully landing a large commercial prospect which would be a light industrial user and would take over most of the existing building for their operation. T here would still be some space to utilize, and they have always intended to have a mixed use development which would include some residential and then a variety of commercial elements. T he building is very large and the only way to develop it is to turn it into a village, or a variety of different commercial and residential elements unless they find one large company who would like to use the entire building. Currently they have a very good prospect who would absorb about 80,000 square feet of the building for light industrial operation. T hey still intend to use the remainder of the building for some sort of apartments, possibly a brewery or brewpub space, crossfit gym, storage space, etc. T hey do not fully know what they will do with the building so they need kind of a broad zoning so that they have options for redeveloping it. C hair Daulton asked what is the approximate square footage of the building, and Mr. C ochran noted that it is listed at 160,000 square feet, but their estimate is that it is closer to 200,000 square feet. T hey currently have a survey being done and will know definitely by the end of the month. Mr. C ochran further discussed the development of the building. C ommissioner King noted that it was her understanding that they had made some proffered conditions for the request. She asked if this was correct, and Mr. C ochran noted that this was correct. Mr. C ochran further discussed the potential tenant, proposed uses, and the proffered conditions. C hair Daulton asked if there was anyone else to speak regarding this request. T here was no response, and the public hearing was closed. Reid G arst motioned to recommend to the Council of the C ity of Salem that the request of Indiana Street, LLC , property owner, for the issuance of a Use Not Provided for Permit to allow an Adaptive Reuse Project on the properties located at 710 Eighth Street, 900 blk. Indiana Street, and 900 blk. Iowa Street (Tax Map #s 186-6-1, 186-10-6 & 186-10-10) be approved subject to the following proffered conditions: the allowed uses within the Adaptive Resue Project shall be limited to the following, i.e., agriculture, agritourism, multi-family dwelling, general offices, commercial outdoor entertainment (amphitheatre), commercial indoor entertainment, athletic instruction services, fine arts studio, restaurant, microbrewery, microdistillery, brewery, distillery, industry type I, and mixed use. J ackson Beamer seconded the motion. Ayes: Beamer, C onner, Daulton, Garst, King 4.Adjournment C hair Daulton noted she would like to recognize a new member of the C ommission, N eil C onner, and she welcomed him to the Commission. Mr. C onner thanked the C hair. T he Executive Secretary noted that he would like to thank the four former C ommission members for their service. He stated that he has known Bruce and Terry for years they were tremendous to work with on the C ommission. Also, he worked with Sam when he was with Sawyer Paving and he was in the Engineering D epartment. So he knew Sam for years before he joined the C ommission and was glad to see him join the Commission. Further, all the C ommissioners were great to work with, and he respects and appreciates them for what they did for the City. Mr. Robertson noted that those 18 or 19 years was a great time for him. He had the pleasure of working with some wonderful people, staff and C ommission members, who became great friends over the years. Further, it was a joy for him to do this. and he learned a lot about the C ity. He appreciates the kind comments for he and the other former Commissioners. T he meeting was adjourned at 7:23 p.m.