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PCM19651005PLANNING COMMISSION CITY OF MUSKEG0 MINUTES OF MEETING HELD OCTOBER 5, 1965 <a CITY HALL MAYOR GOTTFRIED CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER AT 0:00 P. M. PRESENT: MAYOR JEROME GOTTFRIED, CHAIRMAN; WILLIAM CHASE, SEC'Y; WILLARD BERTRAM, EDMUND BUDISH AND CLARENCE WALRATH. RUSSELL KNETZGER, CONSULTANT, AND GERALD LEE, BUILDING IN- SPECTOR, WERE ALSO PRESENT. ABSENT: CHARLES BUEHLER AND JOHN MEINHARDT MINUTES: THE MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1965, WERE CORRECTED ON THE FOURTH PAGE, FIRST PARAGRAPH, UNDER RICHARD MAURICE, TO READ ... BUT THE LANGUAGE USED IN THE ZONING ORDINANCE 8:10 (7) COULD BE INTERPRETED TO It INCLUDT, PARKING FOR BUSINESS AS A CONDITIONAL USE BUT NOT A GARAGE . MR. BERTRAM MOVED TO APPROVE THE MINUTES AS CORRECTED. MR. WALRATH SECONDED THE MOTION AND IT CARRIED, ONALD O'LEARY - MR. DONALD O'LEARY, VI90 S9415 RACINE AvE., IN SECTION 20 NEAR HENNEBERRY DR. AND RACINE AYE. THE COM- MISSION REVIEWED THE SKETCH SUBMITTED. MR. O'LEARY ADVISED THE COMMISSION THAT HE DESIRED TO BUILD A NEW DWELLING FOR HIMSELF, THAT THE ACCESS TO HIS PRESENT HOME WOULD BE USED FOR THE NEW DWELLING AND THAT HE HAD NO INTENTION OF SELLING AT THE PRESENT TIME. HE PLANS PROBABLY RENT HIS PRESENT HOME. THE PROPOSED DWELLING WOULD TO TEAR DOWN THE SMALL TENANT HOUSE ON THE PROPERTY AI:D WILL BE IN FRONT AND TO THE NORTH OF THE PRESENT DWELLING AND THE NEWLY CREATED LOT WOULD BE IN FRONT OF THE EXISTING HOME. IN ANSWER TO QUESTION FROM MR. CHASE AS TO THE VALUE OF THE EXISTING HOME, MR. O'LEARY ADVISED THAT IT PROBABLY COULD NOT BE BUILT TODAY FOR UNDER $20,000 BUT IT WOULD HAVE TO BE TORN DOWN IF THE AREA WERE SUBDIVIDED AS IT WOULD BE ARCHI- TECTURALLY OUT OF PLACE AMONG NEW HOMES. BUILDING INSPECTOR LEE READ SEC. 4.07 (2) OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE AND SECTION 11 C. OF THE SUBDIVISION CONTROL ORDINANCE. THERE FOLLOWED DISCUSSION OF CONTROLS GOVERNING DIVISIONS OF LAND. THERE WAS CONCERN OF THE ACCESS TO THE BACK HOME SINCE THE NEWLY CREATED LOT WOULD BE DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF THE PRESENT DWELLING. MAYOR GOTTFRIED MOVED THAT MR. O'LEARY BE ADVISED THAT SUBJECT TO THE CONDITION THAT A 60' EASEMENT BE PROVIDED FOR THE BACK HOME. MR. BUDISH SECONDED THE MOTION AND IT CARRIED. CALVARY EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH - REV. DONALD ROTR APPEARED AND PRESENTED PLANS FOR AN ADDITION TO THE CHURCH LOCATED ON JANESVILLE ROAD IN SEC. 17. THE COMMISSION REVIEWED THE PROPOSED PLANS. REV. ROTH ADVISED THE COMMISSION THAT ADDITIONAL CLASS- ROOMS, STUDY AND NURSERY WERE NECESSARY BECAUSE OF PRESENT CROWDED CONDITIONS. MAYOR GOTTFRIED SUGGESTED THAT BECAUSE THE CHURCH WAS PRESENTLY OPERATING UNDER A CONDITIONAL USE GRANT, THE COM- MISSION SHOULD DETERMINE IF THE EXPANSION OF THE CONDITIONAL USE WERE OF SUCH A NATURE THAT IT WOULD NOT REQUIRE A PUBLIC HEARING. MR. CHASE MOVED TO ACCEPT THE EXPANSION OF THE CONDITIONAL USE IF ACCEPTABLE IN THE ORDINANCE. MR. WALRATH SECONDED THE PLANNER KNETZGER ADVISED THAT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MOTI ON. ORDINANCE, A PUBLIC HEARING WOULD HAVE TO BE HELD AND PLANS FOR THE ADDITION SUBMITTED TO CITY HALL so THEY COULD BE REVIEWED BY THE PUBLIC IF SO DESIRED. MR. CHASE WITHDREW HIS MOTION WITH THE CONSENT OF HIS MR. CHASE MOVED TO SET THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR CALVARY SECOND, MR. WALRATH. EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH FOR EXPANSION OF CONDITIONAL USE ADVISE REV. ROTH THAT THE PLANS FOR THE ADDITION BE COMPLETED AND IN THE CITY HALL TWO WEEKS PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HEARING. MR. BUDISH SECONDED THE MOTION AND IT CARRIED. JACK GLOCKNER - MR. JACK GLOCKNER APPEARED AND PRESENTED THE SITE AND OPERATIONAL PLANS RELATIVE TO HIS JUNKING AND EX- TRACTIVE OPERATIONS IN SECTION 12. THE COMMISSION REVIEWED THE PLANS AND MR. GLOCKNER POINTED OUT THE AREAS WHERE JUNKED HE ADVISED THE COMMISSION THAT THERE WAS NO GRAVELING OPERA- a FOR NOVEMBER 16, 1965, AT 7:45 P. M. AND THAT THE COMMISSION CARS WERE STORED AND WHERE TOPSOIL AND SAND HAD BEEN REMOVED. TION AND VERY LITTLE SAND - ONLY FOR SAND BOXES AND PATIOS - WHICH CONSISTED OF 10 TO 20 LOADS A YEAR; THAT HE HAD THE LARGEST EXTRACTIVE OPERATION WHILE MACLEN HEADOWS WAS BEING BUILT. HE ALSO ADVISED THAT HE HAD VERY LITTLE SALVAGE BUSI- NESS, BUT THAT HE DID SCRAP OUT SOME OF THE AUTOS. THERE WAS DISCUSSION AND CONCERN OF THE COMMISSION AS TO THE EXTENT OF THE EXTRACTIVE OPERATION AND IF IT WAS ENOUGH TO WARRANT A GRAVELING PERMIT, AND ALSO IF THERE WERE OTHER TRUCKERS HAULING SAND FROM THE AREA. PLANNER KNETZGER SUGGESTED THAT A FIELD TRIP BE SCHEDULED AND THE COMMISSION DECIDED TO MEET AT THE SITE ON SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER ?~TH, AT 1O:OO A. M. AND TO INVITE THE COMMON COUNCIL AND THE LICENSING COMMITTEE. e c ASPHALT PLANT - C. T. H. "F" - THE COMMISSION DISCUSSED THE REQUEST OF MR. BECHTHOLD OF PAYNE & DOLAN OF WIS., INC., TO INSTALL A TEMPORARY ASPHALT PLANT NEAR CROWBAR AND VAUER ROADS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF C. T. H. F FROM RACINE COUNTY II II TO s. T. H. 15 PER THEIR COMMUNICATION OF SEPTEMBER 2, 1965. PLANNER KNETZGER ADVISED THE COMMISSION TO BE VERY CAU- TIOUS IN ALLOWING THE INSTALLATION OF THIS ASPHALT PLANT. THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION AS TO THE KIND OF PLANT AND HOW LONG IT WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR THE PLANT TO OPERATE, IT WAS THE COMMISSION'S DECISION TO ADVISE MR. BECHTHOLD TO APPEAR BEFORE THEM AT THEIR NEXT MEETING TO PRESENT FURTHER INFORMATION RELATIVE TO.' THE PLANT. GRAVEL. INC. - THE RECOMMENDATIONS WHICH HAD BEEN SUBMITTED BY PLANNER KNETZGER AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING WERE REVIEWED AND MR. CHASE MOVED THAT RECOMMENDATION BE MADE TO THE DISCUSSED. COMMON COUNCIL TO RENEW GRAVEL, INC., PERMIT FOR THE OPERATION OF A GRAVEL PIT FOR THE 1965-66 PERIOD CONTINGENT UPON THE CONFORMANCE WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS: I. THE OVERBURDEN STOCK PILE AT THE SE CORNER OF RACINE PROVIDES A VERY GOOD VISUAL SCREEN. THIS MOUND OF EARTH SHOULD BE EXTENDED UP RACINE AYE. TO THE TREES LOCATED NEAR THE PRESENT ENTRANCE. 2. CLOSE THE ENTRANCE ON RACINE AVE. (PULL THE CULVERT OUT TANS DRIVE AND ASK FOR IMMEDIATE RESTORATION OF THIS WHOLE CORNER; ADD 6" OF TOP SOIL AND BEGIN PLANTING GRASS. 3. ACCORDING TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE, ANYTHING KEPT FOR SPARE PARTS CONSTITUTES A JUNK YARD. CHASSIS SHOULD BE DISPOSED AND GRADE THE CHANNEL) AND USE ONLY THE PRESENT ACCESS ON OF AND SPARE PARTS SAVED ELSEWHERE. 4. MOUNDS SHOULD BE MOVED TO THE WEST SIDE OF THE ENTRANCE FOR STORING, THIS AREA FILLED IN AND THEN MOVE TO ANOTHER AREA. 5. RE-PHRASE RESTORATION REQUIREMENTS so THERE WILL BE ACTION BY NEXT SPRING AND HAVE THEM IMMEDIATELY SUBMIT FOR APPROVAL A SYSTEM OF SPECIFIC WORK AND RESTORATION AREAS SIMILAR TO THAT USED BY STATE SAND & GRAVEL. 6. INCREASE THE BOND FROM $5000 TO $20,000 AS WAS ORIGINALLY SUGGESTED BY THE ENGINEER. MR. BERTRAM SECONDED THE MOTION AND IT CARRIED. e NORTHLAND DEVELOPERS - THE RECORDING SECRETARY READ THE MINUTES OF AUGUST 3, 1965, RELATIVE TO THE ENTRANCE AND EXIT SIGNS FOR THE A&P GROCERY STORE. THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION OF THE TRAFFIC HAZARDS IN- MOBIL STATION DRIVEWAY. PLANNER KNETZGER POINTED OUT THE PROB- LEMS OF CROSS TRAFFIC AND LEFT HAND TURNS OFF OF HIWAY 24 AND ADVISED THAT WESTWOOD DRIVE SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE THE MR. BUDISH MOVED TO DEFER ACTION ON THE SIGNS UNTIL THE VOLVED IF AN EXIT OR ENTRANCE SIGN WERE ESTABLISHED IN THE TRAFFIC. NEXT MEETING. MR. WALRATH SECONDED THE MOTION AND IT CARRIED. CONSULTANT'S REPORTS - PLANNER KNETZGER ADVISED THE COMMISSION THAT PURSUANT TO ORDINANCE #I6 AND ORDINANCE #19 OF THE COMMON COUNCIL, NELSON & Assoc. HAD MADE THE NECESSARY ZONING MAP CORRECTIONS FOR THE BOLDT BUTTER 8: EGG PROPERTY AND THE KAPKE PROPERTY AND THAT THE MAPS HAD BEEN RETURNED TO THE CITY. As CONCERNS THE NEWSLETTER, PLANNER KNETZGER ADVISED THAT HE WOULD HAVE THE INFORMATION THE FOLLOWING DAY. BUDGET - MR. CHASE PRESENTED COPIES OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 1966 FOR THE COMMISSION'S REVIEW. ADJOURNMENT - MR. WALRATH MOVED FOR ADJOURNMENT, MR. CHASE SECONDED THE MOTION AND THE MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:5a P. M. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, BARBARA J. SANDS RECORDING SECRETARY 10-6-65 A .. . A