Village of Los Lunas Planning & Zoning Agendas

MINUTES PLANNING & ZONING MEETING September 5, 2012 The Village of Los Lunas Planning & Zoning Commission met in their regular session on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 at 6:00 pm in the Village Council Chambers. Members present were as follows: Commissioners Phillip Jaramillo, Terry Ulibarri, Stephanie Williams, & Frank Vigil. Commissioner W. Baca was absent. Staff members present were Christina Ainsworth & Diana Crowson Planning Technician, absent was Marie Marquez, Recording Secretary. Members of the public present were as follows: Kim Owens, & Karen Bernauer. The Meeting was called to order by: Chairman Stephanie Williams APPROVAL OF AGENDA Chairman S. Williams called for a motion to approve the agenda. Commissioner P. Jaramillo made a motion to approve the agenda as presented, Commissioner F. Vigil seconded the motion. Everyone voted yes, motion carried. SWEARING IN OF PARTICIPANTS AGENDA ITEMS: ZONE CHANGE & DESIGNATED USE - BERNAUER ITEM 1- ZONE CHANGE & DESIGNATED USE - Bernauer Chairman S. Williams introduced Item I Zone Change and Designated Use by Bernauer. The action , requested of this commission is to have a public hearing and send recommendation to Council. Diana Crowson presented Item I, and made an apology for the improper publication prior to the previous meeting scheduled for this item. Diana said, Kim Owens and Karen Bernauer are applying for a zone atlas amendment and designated use for Tract 39, MRGCD Map 72 from C-i to R-l in order to convert the property back to residential. The property is located at 651 Los Lentes Rd., NE. Notice of the public l and no correspondence has been 2 hearing was mailed to all property owners within 300 ft. on August received only from the individual who is interested in purchasing the property. She called Diana today requesting the date of the hearings. This is the only communication that has been received. The applicants were called to come up and give a brief summary of their request. Kim Owens came up and told the Commission that the whole section was a pocket was zoned commercial when they purchased it. Now they have it on the market for sale and the buyers want it as a residence and they cannot get financing with a C-I zoning for a residence. Commissioner T. Ulibarri said, he remembered when it came in the first time and the applicants had it changed to commercial, but there was a problem. The applicant said, it was commercial when they purchased it, but without the detached building. Commissioner P. Jaramillo did state there needed to be two separate actions to be taken. One for the zone change, and the other for the designated use. Chairman S. Williams called for a motion for the zone change. Commissioner P. Jaramillo made a motion to approve the zone change as requested. Commissioner T. Ulibarri seconded the motion. Everyone voted yes, motion carried. The applicant was asked to give a brief statement on the designated use. Karen Bernauer replied that it was a separate accessory living quarters This accessory use will be used as a residence and is a one unit. . Commissioner F. Vigil asked Christina Ainsworth if the setbacks were ok? She said, yes there was plenty of room in the back. Commissioner P. Jaramillo added that there needed to be findings. Christina Ainsworth said, they could both be included but needed to specify the findings for each one. Commissioner T. Ulibarri made motion to submit the 3 findings for the zone change as requested: (I) The surrounding properties are residential even though there is a commercial one, but as per Christina Ainsworth this pocket has not yet transitioned into a commercial corridor. Therefore, there are still predominately residential uses in the area,(2) it preserves a rural character and based on the comprehensive plan it doesn’t look like it is turning into commercial use, (3) it is turning more into residential use and may see more residential applicants in the future. Commissioner P. Jaramillo seconded that motion. Everyone voted yes, motion carried. Chairman S. Williams went on to introduce the designated use at 651 Los Lentes Rd. Commissioner T. Ulibarri made a motion to allow the designated use using the same findings as the zone change. Commissioner F. Vigil seconded the motion with added findings 1.13 of the Comprehensive Plan of the Village of Los Lunas, which states that we want to preserve the rural character and since it’s not really developed as fast as commercial that we maintain that area as per staff recommendation. Everyone voted yes, motion carried. APPROVAL OF MINUTES — August 15, 2012 Chairman S. Williams made a motion called for a motion to approve the minutes for August 15, 2012. Commissioner T. Ulibarri made a motion to approve the minutes for August 15, 2012. Commissioner P. Jaramillo seconded the motion. Everyone voted yes, motion carried. ITEM 4- DISCUSSION a. Community Development Activity Report Christina Ainsworth said, there was an article in the — newspaper regarding the hospital. There is a workshop on Wednesday and it will take place here in the Council Chambers. The developer will be giving details on their findings. They have spent about 3-4 months investigating what the names are for the community and they will be telling us the scope of the hospital and possibly the potential location. They hoping to break ground next spring. b. Comprehensive Plan they have done the transportation portion of it and now are working with the consultant to try to tie everything together. c. Transportation Phase II finally signed the contract with the design firm. Project is already in the — design phase and should be completed by the end of the year and will be looking for a contractor for the landscaping. d. Corridor Study finally doing some land acquisition. An appraiser was just hired to look at the — number of parcels need to purchase for the corridor and with the remaining funds we will purchase those parcels. Process should be completed by next June. e. There is also money that is being used for the preliminary design for the interchange beautification and is an economic development initiative by Ralph Mims. Estimated to be about two million dollars. Looking for a local artist. This will be at the Los Lunas Exit, and still searching for other grants. Code Enforcement Christina Ainsworth reported that we used to two code enforcement officers and an - animal control officer and now there are three in addition to the Code Enforcement supervisor, who is Adolph Lopez and are all sharing the duties with assigned areas. Now they are sending out lots more notices. They are all out there strongly pursuing enforcement ITEMS- ADJOURNMENT Chairman S. Williams called for a motion to adjourn. Commissioner T. Ulibari made a motion to adjourn. -ommis ioner P. Jar millo seconded the motion. All voted yes, motion sed. * Chairman Terry 5 Ulilj Commissioner Phillip Jara -llo,Commis ioner Walter Baca, Commissioner Li