MEETING OF THE EATON PLANNING BOARD
ON JANUARY 8, 2008
AT 7:00 P.M., IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS
The Eaton Planning Board met in regular session in Council Chambers on Tuesday, January 8, 2008, at 7:00 p.m.
The roll was called and the following were found to be:
Present : Stanley Spencer
Tim Lane
Harold Geeting
Steve Deffner
Gary Wagner
Tom Jordan
Also in attendance were Projects Manager Joe Ferriell, Mayor Bob Stonecash, Council Member Dave Kirsch, Building Inspector Jim Ankrum and Law Director Jill Richards.
MINUTES:
The minutes of the December 11, 2007 meeting were read. A motion to approve the minutes was made by Harold Geeting and seconded by Tim Lane. The motion passed as follows:
Ayes: Spencer, Lane, Geeting, Wagner, Jordan (5)
Nays: None
Abstain: Deffner (1)
REORGANIZATION OF PLANNING BOARD:
Chairman Tom Jordan informed the Board that it was again time to do the house cleaning of reorganization of the Planning Board for a new year. The Board needs to elect the Chairman and Vice Chairman for this next year.
Gary Wagner nominated Tom Jordan for Chairman of the Planning Board for a period ending January 13, 2009 and it was seconded by Harold Geeting. There were no other nominations brought before the Board and the nominations were closed.
The roll was called for Mr. Jordan’s nomination and it passed as follows:
Ayes: Spencer, Lane, Geeting, Deffner, Wagner, Jordan (6)
Nays: None
Stanley Spencer then nominated Harold Geeting for the seat of Vice Chairman and it was seconded by Gary Wagner. There were no other nominations for this seat and the nominations were closed.
The roll was called for Mr. Geeting’s nomination and it passed as follows:
Ayes: Spencer, Lane, Geeting, Deffner, Wagner, Jordan (6)
Nays: None
SWEARING IN:
All members of the audience anticipating to testify before the Board were asked to raise their right hand and be sworn in. The secretary administered the oath or affirmation to the audience.
CA-07-07 - Electronic Readerboard - PASI, Inc./Walgreens - 1213 North Barron Street - Previouosly Tabled Application:
The applicant has applied for a Sign Permit and approval of an Electronic Readerboard message sign type to be installed at the 1213 North Barron Street location.
This application was previously tabled in November, 2007 and is back for further review. Gary Wagner made a motion to untable this application and it was seconded by Harold Geeting. The motion passed.
Barry Weaver of PASI, Inc. addressed the Board on behalf of the applicant. The had tried previously to locate the sign so not to impact the visibility. The Board asked at the last meeting to go back and see if the applicant could move it back to some degree. The applicant has moved it about 5 ½ feet to the South and 6-7 inches to the West. Also, the access walk from Barron Street was changed to a 3 foot walk and it still meets all the ADA standards, and then installed a second walk, running north to south, that connects to Lexington Road. The sign was then slid as far south as could be. It is now 7 feet from the property line.
Bricks were removed from the base to make the sign shorter. The sign is still a little higher than they intended, 8ft. 10 inches. In order to use the whole 50 sq. ft. allowed, it is a little tall.
No Board members had any problems with the sign, once Mr. Weaver took it back to the table and re-designed the location.
Mr. Ferriell pointed out to the Board that if everything on this lot was square, they would have a 15 ft. setback.
Gary Wagner made a motion for favorable approval of this application, as amended by the applicant above, with the condition of the frequency of the message change to be at a minimum of 30 seconds. The motion was seconded by Steve Deffner and passed as follows:
Ayes: Spencer, Lane, Geeting, Deffner, Wagner, Jordan (6)
Nays: None
OLD BUSINESS:
Chairman Jordan informed the Board that the application for the sign on South Barron Street for Brad Oyler, went to the Appeals Board and was approved.
NEW BUSINESS:
Gary Wagner said that City Council was concerned with the amount of interest of membership for the Historic Review Board. This Board doesn’t meet on a regular basis and when there is a meeting, it is difficult to get a quorum. Council wants to know if the Planning Board would consider eliminating the Historic Review Board entirely and place the responsibility of review with the Planning Board. They asked Vice Chairman Harold Geeting, who is Chairman of the Historic Review Board, for his consideration. He said that it sounded okay with him and after some discussion it was decided that Mr. Geeting would take it back to the Historic Review and gather their thoughts on it.
Mayor Stonecash, in attendance this meeting, made the comment that we want to make sure that we keep the public involved whenever we can and we would not want this change to be viewed in any other way. He also stated, we want to make sure we are going in the right direction. After working with this new UDO it appears that the Planning Board is where these applications should be heard.
ADJOURN:
A motion to adjourn was made by Steve Deffner and seconded by Tim Lane. Motion passed and meeting was adjourned.
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Secretary Chairman