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1 PLAINFIELD PLAN COMMISSION January 5, :00 PM CALL TO ORDER I would like to call to order the Plainfield Planning Commission meeting for Monday January 5, Please remain standing after the pledge of allegiance so that we can have a moment of silence for one of colleagues, Mr. Ralph Dunkin, who passed away this morning. Mr. Dunkin will be missed. ROLL CALL/DETERMINATION OF QUORUM quorum. Mr. Carlucci: Mr. Carlucci would you poll the board to determine a Mr. Brouillard- here Mr. McPhail- here Ms. Lafata- here Mr. Brandgard- here Mr. Duncan- absent Mr. Kirchoff- here Mr. Gibbs- here Six members present, we have a quorum for conducting business. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE If you would please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. APPROVAL OF MINUTES- November 3, Ok, now we need to approve the November 3, 2014 Plan Commission minutes. I assume everyone has had the opportunity to review them I will entertain a motion to approve the November 3, 2014 Plan Commission minutes. Ms. Lafata: So moved. Mr. Brandgard: Second. I have a motion and a second, all those in favor signify by saying aye, opposed, motion carries. ELECTION OF 2015 OFFICERS Mr. James: Our next order of business is we need to elect Plan Commission officers for 2015 and reappoint Design Review Committee members for Mr. Gibbs you can make a motion to reappoint yourself as the Plan Commission President. Mr. Dunkin was the Vice- President so we can do that one at another meeting. For DRC, need to reappoint John Lee, Elaine Taylor and Mike Isaacs. Mr. Brandgard: I say we go ahead and appoint a Vice-President too. Mr. Brouillard are you willing to be Vice-President? Mr. Brouillard: Yes, I d be honored to do so. Mr. Brandgard: I make a motion that we reappoint Dennis Gibbs as the Plan Commission President for 2015, appoint Mike Brouillard as Vice- President and for DRC reappoint John Lee, Elaine Taylor and Mike Isaacs. Mr. McPhail: Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. The ayes have it so motion carries. Plainfield Plan Commission

2 OATH OF TESTIMONY Mr. Daniel conducted the Oath of Testimony. PUBLIC HEARINGS Mr. Gibbs reviewed the guidelines governing the conduct of public hearings. PETITIONS CONTINUED TO THE FEBRUARY 2, 2015 MEETING Mr. James, we need to continue petition DP for the Canyon Club development plan to the February meeting? Mr. James: Yes, that s correct. At the last minute they decided to add another building and we have not had a chance to review it so we request a continuance to the February 2, 2015 meeting. We have a motion to continue petition DP to the February meeting? Mr. McPhail: So moved. Mr. Kirchoff: Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. The ayes have it so motion carries and petition is continued. We are now ready for our first petition for public hearing; Mr. James. PETITIONS FOR PUBLIC HEARING Mr. James: Good evening. This is petition DP for review of a development plan for a proposed 6,541 square foot multi-use building at 2425 E. Main St. This on the former Jiffy Lube site on the south side Main St. in front of the Value City plaza. The site is zoned GC as is all of the surrounding property. It s flanked by banks on the left and right. The site plan complies with all of the GC standards, setbacks, parking spaces, parking lot design and drive-thru and bail-out lanes. They are proposing drive-thru window for a restaurant on the east end of the building. No variances, development incentives or waivers are needed and all plans comply with Gateway standards. DRC reviewed the project in December and supported plans with conditions that the landscaping is revised and they try and move the utility pedestal to the south. While not required, all elevations comply with the building material requirement and the smallest amount of brick and stone used for an elevation is 32%. The rooftop HVAC units will be screened from all elevations by a parapet. Here is the site on Main St. The bank to the west has given them the right to use their access drive. Here is the site plan that complies with all standards. Access will be from the interior access drives here and here. Here is the colored rendering as I said all elevations comply. Here is the roofline and you can see that the parapet will be the same height of the top of the parapet. They have more landscaping than required. They need an additional parking lot tree, but the extra landscaping more than makes up for it so the landscaping can be approved as an alternative plan. Lighting plan complies and the proposed sign plan complies. The only issue is do you want the utility pedestal to be moved as requested by DRC. It is screened by landscaping. Mr. Dennis Cabala is here representing Interplan. He beat the snow driving down from Chicago and he can answer any questions you might have. Mr. Kirchoff: Joe, do we know for sure that the parapet will screen the rooftop mechanical units from Main St.? Mr. James: The requirement in the GC district is from an elevation view and they have complied with that unlike in the industrial district where a line-of-sight analysis is required so it is screened from a street view. Perhaps Mr. Cabala can explain further. Mr. Cabala: Good evening, my name is Dennis Cabala with Interplan. Yes we made sure the parapet height was equal to the height of the HVAC units. If you are standing on the sidewalk you will not see the units. Mr. Brouillard: Is the utility pedestal a transformer? Plainfield Plan Commission

3 Mr. James: Yes a ground mounted unit. They did screen it with landscaping. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to speak on behalf or against this petition? Seeing none I close the floor for public input. Mr. Kirchoff: I m prepared to make a motion. I move that the Plan Commission approve DP , as filed by Professional Resource Development, Inc., requesting architectural and site design review approval of a 6,541 square foot multi-use building at 2425 E. Main St. finding that: 1. The Development Plan complies with all applicable Development Standards of the District in which the site is located. 2. The Development Plan complies with all applicable provisions of the Subdivision Control Ordinance for which a waiver has not been granted. 3. The Development Plan complies with all applicable provisions for Architectural and Site Design Review for which a waiver has not been granted. 4. The proposed development is appropriate to the site and its surroundings. 5. The proposed development is consistent with the intent and purpose of the Plainfield Zoning Ordinance. And that such approval be subject to the following conditions: McPhail: Motion passes. 1. Substantial compliance with the Site Plan, Building Elevations, Colored Rendering, Lighting Plan, Light Fixtures, Trash Enclosure details and Sign Plan file dated December 19, 2014 and Landscaping Plan file dated December 23, I have a motion by Mr. Kirchoff and a second by Mr. Mr. Brouillard- yes Mr. McPhail- yes Ms. Lafata- yes Mr. Brandgard- yes Mr. Kirchoff- yes Mr. Gibbs- yes Crossing. We now move on to petition DP , the Shops at Perry Mr. James: Yes this is review of a new Preliminary Plan and Final Detailed Plans to rebrand and rename the Metropolis mall and PUD. Poag Shopping Centers out of Memphis, Tennessee bought the mall last year and so they would like make some cosmetic and architectural changes to the mall to soften up the look of the mall. This includes changing the name of the mall to The Shops at Perry Crossing. They also would like to change the name of the private streets and the Plan Commission has the authority to do that. I just received this today so I don t know if you want to take action on this now or continue it so you have more time to review it. As required by the original PUD commitment, a special committee had to review plans and make a recommendation to DRC. The committee and DRC supported all of the proposed changes and this includes the new sign plan. Some of the changes they d like to make are making changes to the central park area, adding angled parking, changing the color scheme some and with the name change, they will have to change out all of the signs. Here is central park where they would add a fountain in the middle, add a gazebo, a multi-use activity area where they could have outdoor concerts or movies, outdoor seating, more landscaping and possibly a small retail with a drive-thru on the east end. They will leave it as a grassed, open space for now. Adding the angled parking will add 72 more parking spaces. They will add the angled parking around central park and along the private streets. Here s an example of some of the architectural changes they would like to make and the color schemes. Here s some of the furniture they would Plainfield Plan Commission

4 add. They will remove the arch over the fire pit in front of the Dick s Sporting Goods west entrance and add furniture so shoppers can warm up around the fire. New street lights will be added with decorative banners for different seasons. They want to do all these things to get away from the hard, industrial look of the mall. Here is an example of what the news signs would look like. For tenant signs, they want to adopt their own standards they ve used in other centers which are more restrictive than the current PUD and Town standards. The big sign change is adding the pole sign on Main St. with an LED message board. Their new sign package would actually be less total square footage than what is there now. The big waterfall sign will be removed. The special committee and DRC supported the new sign on Main St. Here is their plan to rename the private streets which I just received today. We can go ahead and approve it tonight or you can continue it in order to think about it. I did ask them to name the drive/entrance in front of the new Staples to Target Dr because it is not named and emergency services has always wanted it named since it is a signalized intersection. I thought Target Dr would be appropriate since that is what it has always been called. So that sums up most of the changes Poag would like to do to the mall and Paul Reinke with Poag is here to answer your questions. Mr. Reinke: Good evening, my name is Paul Reinke with Poag Shopping Centers and I d like to express my condolences to you on the passing of Mr. Dunkin. Joe did a good job of summarizing what we want to do. Mr. McPhail: How much are the sidewalks around the central park and central park be narrowed to add the angled parking? Mr. Kirchoff: The report says sidewalks will be narrowed a range of Mr. Reinke: That s correct there would still be at least ten feet or more of sidewalk and the central park area will be narrowed some on each side. Mr. Brandgard: I m glad they are considering renaming the streets which I think is appropriate and I agree that signalized entrance needs to be named. While we are on the subject of street names, I wonder if they would be interested in getting Metropolis Pkwy renamed. We have someone who has donated land to the Town we d like to rename it in his honor. Mr. Kirchoff: I m guessing this was not included in the public notice since you just received this today. I recommend we continue changing the street names to next month so this can have public notice. We d like to change it Stout Drive or something with Stout in it. Mr. Reinke: Yes we would support changing Metropolis Pkwy to Stout Pkwy or whatever. Would you change the name on the red wayfinding signs too? Mr. James: Yes all we have to do is change out the panels on the wayfinding signs. Mr. Brouillard: Where is the drive-thru going? Mr. Reinke: That is an option we d like to have in case we do have some interest from something like a Starbucks. It would be on the east end of central park which we have designated as a passive grass area for now. Is there anyone in the audience who wishes to speak for or against this proposal? Seeing none I ll close the floor for public comment. Mr. Daniel: I have something I d like to comment on. In the text amendments titled PUD Ordinance Template on page 3 in Section 10 under Approval Process, I think we need to change that from PUD Committee to special committee to keep it consistent with the wording of the PUD zoning commitments. Mike: I have one more question. Do we have standards that regulate the content of the LED message board or brightness? Mr. James: Based on the first amendment, we can t regulate content, Plainfield Plan Commission

5 but we do have standards for these message boards regarding how fast the message can change and how the message changes. A message cannot change faster than once every ten seconds and it has to be a static message with no flashing or movement. We don t have standards for brightness. If next to a residential district, signs can t illuminate between the hours of midnight and 6:00 am. I m sure they would be willing to cooperate with our standards and make sure the sign is not too bright. Mr. Reinke: Yes we would not do anything obnoxious. We would only advertise for businesses in the center. Mr. Kirchoff: I m prepared to make a motion. I move that the Plan Commission approve DP as filed by Metropolis Lifestyle Center, LLC requesting approval of a new Preliminary Plan and Final Detailed Plan with text amendments to the Metropolis PUD for rebranding plans to change the name to The Shops at Perry Crossing finding that: 1. The Final Detailed Plan satisfies the Development Requirements and Development Standards specified in the PUD District ordinance establishing such District; 2. The Final Detailed Plan accomplishes the intent set forth in this Article VI; and, 3. The Final Detailed Plan provides for the protection or provision of the site features and amenities outlined in Article 6., C., 2., above. and that such approval be subject to the following conditions: 1. Substantial compliance with site plans, landscaping plans, colored renderings, lighting plan and sign plan submitted file date December 19, Text amendments file dated December 19, 2014 shall replace Metropolis Phase III development standards subject to recording in Hendricks County. 3. The second and third sentences of Section 10 of the text amendments shall be revised to read as follows: McPhail: In addition, this PUD shall be reviewed by the Special Committee formed by the Town of Plainfield in accordance with Exhibit A and Exhibit 1, Premier PUD Commitments, PUD attached to Plainfield Town Council Ordinance No adopted on the 27 th day of January, Both the Special Committee and the Design Review Committee will give their recommendations for consideration by the Plan Commission. Motion passes. NEW BUSINESS I have a motion by Mr. Kirchoff and a second by Mr. Mr. Brouillard- yes Mr. McPhail- yes Ms. Lafata- yes Mr. Brandgard- yes Mr. Kirchoff- yes Mr. Gibbs- yes That concludes our public hearing portion of the agenda. Mr. James do you have any new business for us? Mr. James: Yes I d like to take minute to discuss the proposed text amendment TA This would be an amendment to the sign ordinance regarding integrated center signs. We have approved a few integrated center signs recently which have raised some concerns. If you look at the first page of the report, you will see the definition of an integrated center. It says any building with more than one use is considered an integrated center regardless of the size of the building. That s why the pole sign was allowed for the Phillips 66 out west. Plainfield Plan Commission

6 Mr. Brandgard: I don t recall approving that building as an integrated center. I think the Plan Commission thought it was going to be just the convenience store. Mr. James: I apologize if we did not make it clear at the hearing that they were proposing multiple uses. Mr. Daniel: Does the sign comply with all standards? Mr. James: No it does not. Ten percent of the sign does not contain the name of the integrated center as required. There also might be a setback issue. Mr. Daniel: I think since the ILP was issued with some errors, we can revoke the permit and get the sign down. Mr. Kirchoff: I think we should pursue getting the sign down and make sure they install a sign that complies. Mr. James: Ok I ll get with Mel and we ll see what we can do to get the sign down. The next public meeting for the Comprehensive Plan Update will be January 20 th at the Rec Center starting at 7:00 pm. This will be the Visioning Workshop where we ll put the public to work by letting them draw ideas on maps. So I want to encourage everyone to attend. That s all I have. ADJOURNMENT Mr. McPhail: I move we adjourn. All in favor. Ayes have it, we adjourn. Plainfield Plan Commission

RULES OF PROCEDURE: DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR THE TOWN OF PLAINFIELD

RULES OF PROCEDURE: DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE FOR THE TOWN OF PLAINFIELD I. Purpose Design Review Committee Rules of Procedure The Design Review Committee (DRC) has been duly established by the Plan Commission