District 5 Advisory Board

Page |1 District V Advisory Board Minutes February 3, 2020 www.wichita.gov The District V Advisory Board meeting was held at 6:30 p.m. at Fire Station #21, located at 2110 N. 135th St. W., Wichita, KS 67235. ATTENDANCE Members Present Staff Present Alissa Unruh Captain Vernon Rohlman, Wichita Fire Department Trevor Kurth James Wagoner, Public Works and Utilities Rachel Murphy-Thomas Officer Bradley Haught, Wichita Police Department Troy Palmer Reggie Davidson, Park and Recreation Department JV Johnston Tracie Partridge, Wichita Public Library Angela Breer Cory Buchta, Community Services Representative Jill Kerschen Nancy Duling Guests Trey Rios, Youth Member Joey Deneke Council Member Bryan Frye Marylin Sharp Jim Watson Members Absent Dan Doerflinger Roman Rodriguez Mary Taylor Ben Kittrell Brian Hemmen Jose Gutierrez Amber Hemmen Gordan Kirkbride Sam Biedron ORDER OF BUSINESS Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by Bryan Frye Approval of February 3, 2020 Agenda: 8-0-0 Approval of January 6, 2020 Agenda: 8-0-0 PUBLIC AGENDA This portion of the agenda provides an opportunity for citizens to present issues that are not part of the regular agenda for the meeting. There is a five minute time limit for each speaker. 1. Scheduled Items NONE 2. Off-agenda Items NONE Action Taken: Motion to receive and file. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. BOARD AGENDA 3. Updates, Issues and Reports Start of new year. Learning about new mayor. Had legislative agenda. Looking at plans for $355 – $400 million waste water treatment facility – built into all revenue projections. 1  Page |2 STAFF REPORTS 4. Fire Department Report Captain Rohlman reported:  257 alarms in fire district 8 fire 37 service 212 medical  Fewer car wrecks  Don’t drive in high water when spring comes. 5. Community Police Report Officer Haught reported:  16 beat 25 percent of crime compared to this time last year o Larceny to auto up o Burglary up o Not violent crimes  19 beat down 17 percent o Larceny to auto up  199 beat down 10 percent  Auto thefts down on all 3 beats – 12 vs 20 last year  Larceny from auto up on all beats o Spike near apartment complexes  Crime trend on 16 beat. 5 recovered stolen autos in that neighborhood.  8 larcenies in area  There was a burglary today  Homeless camping out at Simmons Bank.  Traffic enforcement from ridge to 135th 6. Park & Recreation Department Report Reggie Davidson reported:  Getting close on opening for Naftzger Park. Coincide with 150th anniversary of Wichita.  Event last weekend at Linwood Park – fire in one of our shelters. Over $200,000 in damages.  Clapp Park – working on activities in green space. Disc golf. Activate that park.  Joint guide with Park and Library. Online registration and greater flexibility. C (CM Frye): Got a presentation on the new software. Very sharp. Will make it a lot easier for citizens to engage with those programs. Should be very nice. Printed guides. Instead of three there will be just one. C (Davidson): Guide will be available after the 17th. 7. Wichita Public Library Report Tracie Partridge reported:  All Library locations will be closed on Presidents Day  Recently added downloadable audio books on OverDrive and Libby. Adding more every week. Over 200 that are simultaneous use books. Popular fiction and non-fiction. Need WPL card and app to use. Can have 5 checked out at a time.  34th annual academy award shorts at WPL. Animated and Live action tomorrow night.  Donut story time Feb 11 at 6:30 at Westlink.  Feb 23rd at 2:30 at Westlink. Alzheimer ’s disease note that 10 signs.  Feb 29 at 2:30 – children and teenagers between 7 and 17 – life size Clue. 8. Public Works & Utilities Report James Wagoner reported:  Maintenance work, Central, Tyler, Maize, Ridge Road and more will all have maintenance work this year.  Hoover Bike Path – signal materials getting ordered earlier. In the works. 2  Page |3  37th and Tyler signal. Trying to get signals ordered. Delayed almost half a year.  29th and Maize intersection – did incorporate plans to extend over to west side of intersection.  13th street going out to bid soon.  Moving forward with Socorro traffic plan. Trial process with delineators. C (CM Frye): 2 blocks east of Tyler between Maple and 2nd. Trying to put some delineators in center to slow traffic down a little. It’s been picking up a bit too much. With construction on Tyler, there has been a lot of cut through traffic.  WAMPO committee – got selected to be on the menu for federal funding. C (CM Frye): Pot holes are big issue right now. Action Taken: Motion to receive and file. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. NEW BUSINESS 9. Downtown Streets Conceptual Plan Jim Watson, Nelson\Nygaard Consulting, presented an update on the Downtown Streets Conceptual Plan. Will be posting this presentation on the project website. Go all the way up to Murdock to Washington to Kellogg. To McLean but not studying McLean. Went through previous plans. In loop between community desire and design. Looked at how downtown streets have functioned in the past. Tried to develop goals for streets. Came about from public meetings, city staff, and other sources. Public kickoff meeting Feb last year. Looked at Douglas in spring. Here in June and had open design sessions. September did pop-up event at Open Streets. Fill out comment sheets please. March 24 open house downtown. Still working out details so stay tuned. Will issue a draft report and talk to city council in spring. Showed draft conceptual designs. Looked at the following maps: Existing street typologies. Existing bicycle and transit networks. Daily traffic volumes. Roadway opportunities. Downtown streets built fairly large. Started thinking about benefits of 2-3 lanes vs 4+ lanes. With 4+ lanes we can get traffic through quicker. 2-3 lanes slows traffic down. Makes it a little safer. 1 way streets vs 2 way streets. 1-way gets traffic through quicker. Limited business visibility and bicycle connectivity. Looked at what has been done in similar cities. Chattanooga – went from 1-way to 2-way. Greenville, SC. Main Street was wide open in the 70s. 4-lane. Narrowed it up to kick start additional retail. Trying to strike a balance – gains in livability and changes in vehicular service. Developed a street typology map. City working on a plan to improve traffic signal synchronization. Also trying to figure out what might happen with Riverfront Area Master Plan location. Lots of planned developments going on now and in the future. Trying to establish a grid safe for all users: car, bike, transit, and scooters. Transit wants a system that uses the grid more. Looked corridors, mainly north/south. Emporia Street draft concept. Funding in place to do something there. Looking at what to do. Looked at St. Francis plan. Improve walkability and improve conditions for businesses. Market and Topeka carry 2500 to 6500 vehicles each day. Could carry 20,000 to 30,000. Trying to see how we can use that space. Looked block by block at bike lanes and parking and how to best use the space. 3  Page |4 Downtown Douglas Concept. Looked at what it might look like to reduce that to 3 lanes with parking and bike lanes on the outside. Douglas carrying a lot lower than what capacity might suggest. But would plan for how traffic moves at peaks. Hear people avoid Broadway. Confused by center lane that functions as a turn lane. Proposed moving that to a 3-lane concept. Widen to accommodate transit. Promote walkability and economic vitality. March 24 open house downtown. More information coming. Website is Wichita.gov/DowntownStreets Presentation will be on there later this week. Q (Public): How do you calculate capacity for roads? A: Federal highway has standards. Looked at from a planning level. When you get into, then you look more into peak numbers. SO we’re looking at high level numbers right now. Down the road it will get more details. A (CM Frye): We also look at density of neighborhood, businesses, and office workers. Who is in that area. Public: Does type of road factor into that? A: Mainly just urban, non-urban, freeway. Q (Public): In density map it showed Douglas one of most heavily used. Curious why you would consider reducing traffic capacity. A: Want to keep in mind traffic volume and volume relative to capacity. 5 lanes on Douglas today. Highest point carries 15,000 vehicles today. Just west of Main Street. For 3 lane cross section street, you don’t look at going to wider street until you get to 25,000 vehicles. Doesn’t mean you don’t have surges and peak time. Q (Public): Take into consideration that some of these streets act as major connections between parts of town. A: That’s one of the biggest challenges when deciding what to do for streets that are through streets. It’s one of the trade-offs we’ve been wrestling with. Douglas is particularly difficult. 10. CON2019-00057 Philip Zevenbergen, Metropolitan Area Planning Department, presented an application on behalf of David Odgen (Applicant/Owner). The applicant is requesting a Conditional Use to build an accessory apartment addition to an existing detached garage in SF-5 Single-Family Residential zoning, on the west side of North Cedar Crest Drive, which is north of the interse3ction of North Cedar Crest Drive and West 21st Street North (2221 N. Cedar Crest Drive). Staff recommending approval. Several conditions have to be met. Have to stay under same ownership as property owner. Have to have same or compatible appearance. Water and sewer need to be under same ownership as main dwelling. Because metal garage is an existing structure we waived the appearance standards for accessory dwelling. No standards for compatibility with existing structure. Not served by city water or sewer. Applicant has two private wells. One used for irrigation. Would be a major cost to add water for this, so they are requesting to waive that condition. Tapping into wells he already has. Because of this waivers, this will be going to City Council, probably about a month from now. Protest period ends on Thursday the 6th. Q (DAB): Have there been any protests? A: Neighbors have had questions, but I haven’t heard any protests. Generally don’t find out about them until the day after they are filed. Didn’t seem like there would be any. Q (DAB): Does the HOA have covenants? A: If they did it would be private covenants. Planning wouldn’t have anything to do with that. A (DAB): There is no HOA there. 4  Page |5 Action Taken: Motion to APPROVE the application as presented made by Troy Palmer. Seconded by Trevor Kurth. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. 11. PUD2019-00013 Philip Zevenbergen, Metropolitan Area Planning Department, presented an application on behalf of DOBA Holdings, LLC c/o Nathan Dooling (owner/applicant) MKEC Engineering c/o Brian Lindebak (agent). The applicant is seeking to establish the DOBA Development PUD (PUD #68) on the 3 acre tract generally located one-quarter mile south of West 21st Street North and 450 feet west of North Maize Road. PUDs look very different in each area. It allows to come up with a custom zoning classification. Each PUD has a base zone. We don’t cover all rules and regulations in the document. Go back to base zone as rule for uncovered things. Applicant for the agent is here. Questions for uses can go to them. Quite a bit of history. Been to planning commission once. Chose to defer it. Located south of 21st on west side of maize road. Share property line with pathway church. Past Wendy’s. West of a house. Looking to rezone to PUD, currently zoned SF5. Trying to bring in compliance with zoning code. Been operating outside of zoning code for some time. Pet waste disposal, vehicle maintenance, storage, etc. Some of the business uses. This site base zoning is office warehouse. All of the uses are not appropriate for this area. List of prohibited uses. Philip listed many of them. Added dry cleaning to list of services prohibited on this site. Listed several specific uses that are allowed, covered existing uses happening right now. One thing brought up with vehicle repair, would like to eventually add a paint booth to do painting on site. Concern with proximity to residential and church. Added revision saying paint booth would have to follow state, local, federal regulations. Screening, anytime you have non-residential up next to residential. Have to have 6 foot privacy fence. Doesn’t have that now. Applicant understands it would be their responsibility. In addition to screening, would be landscape buffering. Each property line would have different depth of screening. Standard lighting language. Building setbacks outlined. No outdoor speaker system. Building signage no taller than 10 feet off ground and no backlit illumination. Architecture of new buildings would have to fit character of existing building. Drainage plan would have to be submitted and approved by City. Heard by planning commission on November 21. Several members of public spoke out against this. Concerned by odors and sights. Mentioned issue with a gate. No revisions in PUD text dealing with gate. Agent with applicant said they have installed automatic gate to deal with that. Should minimize traffic backup with access drive. Potential error on zoning map identified in 2006. No bearing on this case. Brought up that this was once zoned limited commercial. 1999 report showed SF-9. Color looks similar to limited commercial, but has no bearing on this case. Zoning history. A couple of attempts to rezone property. Stipulation from City Council that it would get platted within a year, but it never got platted in time. Conditional Use from 1974 that allowed storage for ag equipment. Still applies to this property. Staff recommending approval. Everything directly abutting is SF5. Property could remain SF5. But landlocked property. Would be difficult to develop this residential. Request to have PUD isn’t unreasonable. Staff feels with requirements stipulated in PUD should minimize impact for surrounding properties. In line with long range plan with this area. Goes to planning commission this Thursday. 5  Page |6 C (Agent) Joey Deneke – Owners here as well. We agree with staff comments. Unique piece of property. Have a few different businesses on site. Golf Cart Guys, Scoop and Do, and others. Owner had attorney look at easement for requirements. No restrictions on types of vehicles. Maintenance responsibility question. Not owner’s obligation to repair or maintain that drive. Gave background of the properties in that area. Went over current uses of property. Custom golf carts and party bus alterations. Light traffic moving through there. Have a little bit of storage while they are waiting to restore golf carts and party buses. Store pickup trucks. Low traffic. Employees come in, go to office, get in trucks and drive away, pick up waste, dispose off-site, and come back. Limited RV and boat storage. Did a traffic count. On average 8.5 vehicles per day. Have been trying to work with neighbors and listen to their concerns. Owner has been doing an excellent job listening to their concerns. What is allowed onsite is construction excavation. They don’t want to do that. Single family is zoned, but they don’t want that. Not a good desired use for property due to access. Not ideal for residential. Not something owner is desiring. Want to continue use. Showed pictures of subject property and surrounding area. Made several updates and upgrades after hearing concerns from neighbors. Fixed some potholes as well. Installed a fence in one area. Not wanting to do anything different, just want to come into compliance. Been through Council twice, just want to get it finished. Small scale and low impact. Q (DAB): Curious why add residential duplex and vehicle equipment sales? A: Not sure what future will bring, just keeping that open to what might happen in the future. C (DAB): So when we decide zoning, we need to keep in mind those uses. Q (DAB): Confused about platting situation. A: You can plat anything for commercial uses. Just means it is officially drawn into the records. It gets a subdivision name, lot and block. Platting could break it into multiple lots. Something that goes along with residential and commercial. Even in unincorporated Sedgwick County. Q (DAB): So it doesn’t require infrastructure. A: Would review them as part of the process. C (DAB): So platting is just a legal document, Q (DAB): Traffic counts. 8.6 per day now. 8 per house? A: They took traffic count of 8.6 vehicles per day. C (DAB): I would guess it would be more than that. A: Less on weekends. More of a business operation. C (Public): Applicants – size of business is very small. Three employees. Waste removal company is only one that has employees. Two of them. They take a vehicle and leave. One lady that works in the office. Bus business – we’ve built one bus. Just there because there’s space. Very low use business. Jason Bayless. C (Public) Mary Taylor 1872 North Lark Circle – Backyard of my property faces property. Big difference from when excavating owned property. Fencing has been down since they took over. Several panels on our grass for months. Noxious weeds. Kirk excavating were good neighbors. Currently a pile poo and doo has been dumping there. I didn’t investigate. Golf cart business, kids racing golf carts in the back like it’s a race track. No response from owners. Haven’t been good neighbors. I think giving them open license, no one watching or supervising. No responsive neighbors. Will protest it. Husband has COPD. C (Applicant) – Not a pile of anything except grass clippings. Not golf carts racing. None being used. Maybe 4th of July. Not a race track. Provide phone numbers of who they called. Try to contact people. Not trying to be adversarial. 6  Page |7 C (Public) Amber Hemmen 1905 N Maize Road. Was going to ask, if not expanding, how will this create more jobs? Most is a gravel drive. 2 weeks prior to last meeting is when pothole was filled. Had been there forever. We do all the mowing. More vehicles than that. 4th of July every year over 100 vehicles. A lot of discrepancies between what is being presented and what there is. Lots of junk along chain link fence line. Multiple vehicles and people picking up boats and campers. Vehicles will park there and in our driveway. Blocks my sons and visitors from parking in my driveway. Frustrating. I haven’t tried speaking with MKEK because they lied in last meeting. Nothing is what it is. Dump truck has been there for over a year. This is a commercial property and has not been stopped. C (Public) Sam Biedron 1864 N Lark Court – Live along south property line – want to reiterate fencing issue. Part of fence is really leaning from north wind when Kirk put it up. Everyone tries to maintain nice lawn. Can even get mower in there. Mentioned fencing with screening. Is there a plan to redo that fence? Mentioned weeds. Why don’t put down weed killer and take of problem. Get 3 feet high. Guy comes with mower and sprays weed stuff toward our yard when he goes by. C (Public) Gordan Kirkbride 1824 Lark Court – Been operating business 3 years already, what guarantee do I have they won’t build anything more. What will that do to my property value? Why change now? Nobody checking anyway? C (Public) Brian Hemmen 1905 N Maize Rd – Don’t know why something hasn’t been done sooner. Buy property without knowing zoning. Has someone come out and fined them? Can’t count on city to do anything. Park in our driveway. I don’t know what to do. We can’t do this. More than 4 businesses out there now. Also a construction company. Who knows how many more in the future? Q (DAB): How is it they have run business? A: Zoning enforcement is done primarily on complaint basis. We have two. One on each side of city. They are responsive when they receive complaints. Don’t know if this attempt to rezone is based on complaint. Zoning enforcement office aware. When going through process of rezoning they back off until zoning process is complete. Landscaping and fencing – waiting to see if zoning to go through, then they would be required. Single family residential would not require screening buffers. All four property lines. Q (DAB): Would that mitigate some concerns from looking at their stuff? A (Public): 6 feet isn’t high enough. C (CM Frye): 6 feet minimum is the standard. A: There are also the screening requirements. C (Applicant) – We are here because of complaints. Inherited poorly designed fence. Try to spray for weeds but there was a lot of rain. Try to be good neighbors. No intent to build anything larger. Expensive process for us. 10 year down the road, we may want to sell property. Rezoning is expensive. Understand concerns. Would like to address those. Relied on recommendations from MKEC how to word this. Frustrating to be painted in such bad light. Didn’t have to fill pit holes in. Tried to reach out to property next to us. Everything brought up we addressed. Happy to take care of fence. Shared fence. More than happy to fix it. Repairable but would be easier to replace. Mostly 3 acres of open grass. Also important to know building has been used like this for 60 years. Houses grown up around it. We can still use Conditional Use for excavating. We don’t want to operate earth moving company or build residential. Q (DAB): Would neighbors be happy with 8 foot fence and trees? A (PUBLIC): Maybe with that. We would also like to see traffic diverted through pathway church because it’s all paved. C (Public): Tonight is the first time they’ve shown any concern. I don’t trust them to keep it maintained. A: It will be enforced. 7  Page |8 C (Public): You asked would the neighbors be satisfied. I think there are different concerns from the different neighbors. Talk about fencing. From my perspective it would surely help. I agree you inherited a fence kirk put up. It’s not a good fence. From only my perspective that would help. Q (DAB): Would applicant be willing to put up 8 foot fence. I believe now its 6 foot fence with 2 feet of lattice. Almost 8 foot now. 6 foot privacy and 2 feet of lattice. Long stretch of fence. To redo whole fence would take some time and money. Q (DAB): What happens if we deny this? A: It’s your recommendation to CM Frye. That report will go to planning commission. It will go to City Council regardless. City Council will know what happened in DAB and Planning Commission. If there is a protest petition, they would require super majority. Q (DAB): Who is responsible for maintenance of that access road? A: Hemmen’s property has sole responsibility. Back and forth among public. Q (DAB): When this is platted, current standard is 20 feet, but it is 17 feet. A: No intentions to plat right away. If they want to build another building, then we’ll look at that. Q (DAB): So current buildings they could cease operation and open vehicle and equipment sales, using existing buildings and not plat it. A: Correct. C (DAB): We have to look at future when you’re not around. Could be vehicle sales. A (Owners): We had to make it vehicle sales because of the golf carts. Didn’t fit into anything else. We have a broader easement. When they bought property in 2014 these easements were already around. Nothing states we’re supposed to maintain it. What they took when they purchased the property. Purposely done for the development of the property later. Back and forth among public. Motion to APPROVE based on changing 2B to omit duplex, outdoor equipment rentals, vehicle sales – change to be specific to current uses made by Trevor Kurth. C (Agent): Can’t omit 2B. We can reword it, but we can’t omit it. Will look at vehicles and reword to golf cart and party bus. C (DAB): Don’t like duplex or outdoor equipment rental and sales. C (DAB): Could do that anyway C (CM Frye): Would have to be platted for that. Q (Owner): What is the end goal? To make sure future owners don’t open car lot or duplexes? A (DAB): We want to deal with those issues. Motion made to amend the motion to add 8 foot fence to east and south side of property line made by Alissa Unruh. Seconded by JV Johnston. PASSED 7-0-0 Meeting was adjourned at 8:38 p.m. The next DAB V meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday, March 2, 2020, Fire Station #21, 2110 N. 135th St., Wichita, KS 67235. 8