City of Lincoln
Planning
Planning Commission Agenda
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City of Lincoln Planning Planning Commission Agenda | |
*** ACTION BY PLANNING COMMISSION ***
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item with a notation of "FINAL ACTION". Any aggrieved person may appeal
Final Action of the Planning Commission to the City Council by filing a
Notice of Appeal with the City Clerk within 14 days following the action
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(187 K) , to review the creation of two proposed
Downtown Management Districts as to conformance with the 2025 City of Lincoln-Lancaster
County Comprehensive Plan, pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. ..19-4015 to 19-4038, otherwise
known as the "Business Improvement District (BID) Act."
Planning staff recommendation: Conformance with the Comprehensive Plan
Staff Planner: Kent Morgan, 441-7491, kmorgan@lincoln.ne.gov
Planning Commission recommendation: A FINDING OF CONFORMANCE WITH THE
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, 7-0 (Krieser and Pearson absent). Public hearing before City
Council tentatively scheduled for Monday, January 23, 2006, 1:30 p.m.
3. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING AND ACTION:
CHANGE OF ZONE:
3.1 Special Permit No. 05050(512 K) , Hunters Pointe Townhomes Community Unit Plan, for
approximately 116 townhome dwelling units, with requests to waive lot width, minimum lot
area, sideyard setbacks, maximum block length, sanitary sewer running against street
grade, and 3% intersection approach grade, on property generally located at N. 20th Street and
Benton Street. *** FINAL ACTION ***
Planning staff recommendation: Conditional Approval
Staff Planner: Tom Cajka, 441-5662, tcajka@lincoln.ne.gov
Had continued public hearing.
Planning Commission ‘final action': CONDITIONAL APPROVAL, as set forth in the staff report
dated October 13, 2005, with amendments, 6-0 (Carroll declaring a conflict of interest;
Krieser and Pearson absent). Resolution No. PC-00973.
(See 12-7-05 agenda for staff reports on the following items.)
CHANGE OF ZONE WITH RELATED ITEMS:
3.2a Change of Zone No. 04066(857 K) , amending Title 27 of the Lincoln Municipal Code relating to the
Zoning Ordinance by amending Sections 27.26.080, 27.31.090, 27.37.060, 27.39.070, 27.41.080,
27.43.080, 27.45.070, 27.47.070, 27.49.080, and 27.51.090 to reduce the required front yard in the
B-2, B-5, H-1, H-2, H-3, H-4, I-2, and I-3 zoning districts to 20 feet, and to provide in the O-2, B-2, B-5,
H-4, I-1, I-2, and I-3 districts that any driveways which intersect the front yard shall be perpendicular
to the street; by amending Section 27.67.030 to eliminate parking in the front yard in the I-2 zoning
district; and by amending Sections 27.29.080, 27.30.070, 27.33.080, 27.41.080, and 27.43.080 to
require a six foot landscape strip on each side of a lot abutting a public street or private roadway in
the B-1, B-3, H-1, H-2, and H-3 zoning districts; by amending Section 27.71.030 to eliminate driveways
in the front and side yards when used to provide access to gasoline pump islands, to eliminate
driveways in front and side yards in the B-1, H-1, H-2, or H-3 zoning districts, and to eliminate vehicle
stacking for drive-in facilities within the required side yard; by repealing Section 27.71.035 to eliminate
gasoline pumps in the front yard; by adding new Sections numbered 27.26.065, 27.27.055, 27.28.065,
27.29.065, 27.31.075, 27.33.065, 27.37.045, 27.39.055, 27.41.065, 27.43.065, 27.45.055, 27.47.055,
27.49.065, and 27.51.075 to add pedestrian circulation regulations in the O-2, O-3, R-T, B-1, B-2, B-3,
B-5, H-1, H-2, H-3, H-4, I-1, I-2, and I-3 zoning districts, respectively; by amending Sections 27.63.080
and 27.63.200 to require health care facilities and clubs to construct on-site pedestrian circulation
sidewalk systems; amending Section 27.81.010 to govern pedestrian circulation; and repealing Sections
27.26.080, 27.29.080, 27.30.070, 27.31.090,27.37.060, 27.39.070, 27.41.080, 27.43.080, 27.45.070,
27.47.070, 27.49.080, 27.51.090, 27.63.080, 27.63.200, 27.67.030, 27.71.030 and 27.81.010 of the
Lincoln Municipal Code as hitherto existing.
Planning staff recommendation: Approval
Staff Planner: Tom Cajka, 441-5662, tcajka@lincoln.ne.gov
Had continued public hearing.
Planning Commission recommendation: APPROVAL, 7-0 (Krieser and Pearson absent).
Scheduling of public hearing before City Council pending.
3.2b Miscellaneous No. 04015(857 K) , amending the City of Lincoln Design Standards by amending
Chapter 1.00 - Request for Waiver Procedure, to revise Section 1 to only require that improvements
substantially conform to Design Standards, to revise Section 2 to allow the Planning Director to
approve requests for waivers from the Design Standards, by adding a new Section 2.1.1 to provide
for an appeal to the Planning Commission from action of the Planning Director approving or denying
a request for waiver from Design Standards, to revise Section 2.1.2 to provide for an appeal to the
City Council from action of the Planning Commission approving or denying a request for waiver of the
Design Standards, by repealing Section 2.2 in its entirety, and by re-numbering the remaining Section;
by amending Chapter 3.45 - Design Standards for Parking Lots, to revise Section 3.6 to provide that
parking lots shall be screened in accordance with Section 7.1 of Chapter 3.50 of the City of Lincoln
Design Standards; by amending Chapter 3.50 - Design Standards for Screening and Landscaping, to
revise Section 3 to require the landscape plan to include the mature height and spread of plant
material and its size at planting, to delete the provision regarding the opacity of the screen and to
delete the provision that no screening is required if the distance between the lot line and the building
is less than five feet; to revise Section 4 to modify the screening of salvage yards and scrap processing
operations and to require the installation of plant materials to be by a certified landscape contractor; to
revise Section 7.1 to amend the title to include driving aisles, to delete the provision allowing reduction
of screening requirements for parking lots which are set back from the lot line to exclude driveway throats
and driveway curb cuts from the required screen, to eliminate the provision allowing the design spread of
deciduous trees to be used for a portion of the required screen, to require the parking lot adjacent to a
public street to be screened at least 90% rather than 60%, and to eliminate provisions requiring the
planting of a deciduous tree when there is less than five feet between the parking lot and the street; to
add landscape requirements for parking lots which exceed 6,000 square feet of paved area; to revise
Section 7.3 to amend the title to make it not applicable to community unit plans and to make it applicable
to use permits; to revise Section 7.4 to make it applicable only to major arterial streets rather than all
public streets, to increase the screen from 50% to 60% and to require the screen to go to 10 feet above
the surface elevation rather than 6 feet, and to provide that fences used for a screen, they must be used
in conjunction with plants; to revise Section 7.5 to also make it provision applied to the H-1 and I-1
Zoning District; to revise Section 7.6 to reduce the number of required trees; to add a new Section 7.11
to require screening for refuse areas, recycling bins, open storage, loading areas, and ground-level
mechanical equipment and to provide a screening standard; to revise Section 8 to require a guarantee
for the installation of landscaping if not installed by the time of the final building inspection; and by
amending Title 4, Miscellaneous Design Standards, to add a new Chapter 4.20 entitled "Design
Standards for Landscaping, Streetscapes, Medians, Boulevards, Roundabout, and Arterial Streets" to
provide standards relating to such landscaping including general provisions, landscaping plan
requirements, site preparation, plant selection and placement, planting, approved street tree list for
non-paved planting strips, medians, cul-de-sac circles, roundabouts, boulevards, and major streets,
tree characteristics, and shrub characteristics.
Planning staff recommendation: Approval
Staff Planner: Tom Cajka, 441-5662, tcajka@lincoln.ne.gov
Had continued public hearing.
Planning Commission recommendation: APPROVAL, as amended, 5-2 (Carroll, Esseks, Sunderman,
Taylor and Carlson voting ‘yes'; Larson and Strand voting ‘no'; Krieser and Pearson absent).
Scheduling of public hearing before City Council pending.
3.2c Miscellaneous No. 05007(857 K) , amending Title 26 of the Lincoln Municipal Code relating to the
Land Subdivision Ordinance by amending Section 26.23.040 to modify the minimum right-of-way
width for major streets and to provide typical cross-section figures for streets having a width 120
feet and 130 feet; by amending Section 26.27.090 to provide that trees shall be planted in the public
right-of-way along major streets which have a minimum of 120 feet of right-of-way; and repealing
Sections 26.23.040 and 26.27.090 as hitherto existing.
Planning staff recommendation: Approval
Staff Planner: Tom Cajka, 441-5662, tcajka@lincoln.ne.gov
Had continued public hearing.
Planning Commission recommendation: APPROVAL, 7-0 (Krieser and Pearson absent).
Scheduling of public hearing before City Council pending.
| Ray Hill, Development Review Manager | 441-6371 | rhill@lincoln.ne.gov |
| Steve Henrichsen, Special Projects Manager | 441-6374 | shenrichsen@lincoln.ne.gov |
| Tom Cajka, Planner | 441-5662 | tcajka@lincoln.ne.gov |
| David Cary, Transportation Planner | 441-6364 | dcary@lincoln.ne.gov |
| Greg Czaplewski, Planner | 441-7620 | gczaplewski@lincoln.ne.gov |
| Mike DeKalb, Planner | 441-6370 | mdekalb@lincoln.ne.gov |
| Joe Rexwinkle, Planner | 441-6373 | jrexwinkle@lincoln.ne.gov |
| Brian Will, Planner | 441-6362 | bwill@lincoln.ne.gov |
| Ed Zimmer, Historic Preservation Planner | 441-6360 | ezimmer@lincoln.ne.gov |
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