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Home My WebLink About102882 Min PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON 9133613 • Port Towneena. PlaxiLnin� COMrnission s CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND `r MINU 6 of OCTOBER 28, 1g82 I. Opening B usiness Members present were Jean Camf3'.eld, 3i.r.� Campbell, Julie McCu]Llochjanda Blacks Larry Dennison and John Floyd. A lso present i47as Roger French, City Engineer. Julie McCulloch moved that theminutes be approved as written. Jean Camf I*c'Id seconded the motion and it passed unanimously. Minutes of September 30, 1982. Chairman Floyd i nfomed the commission that because of the quant:*Lty of appli- cations it would be necessary to have an extra meeting in 1.].'ovember. Chairman Floyd set up -with the comma.ssa.oners Lezone 9611182-0l� far ITovember 18'' , 1982, and Rezone 10$2-05 for December lb, I9$2. Rezone applicat0 ion 1082-01 had been lfia*thdraim. II. Application Number 882moOl Kadelyon D. Givens Street Vacation (Ebony 5treet South of U .fit. to dead end) 04 Lopez Ave. •- Port Townsend, :Ta. 9836$ 11air. Iolajham, represent ing =•iadelyon D. Givens, stated I��. T:cedham talked frith the Street Superintendent and he told him if all property oerstmifere inn agreement 1-pa- th the vacation that he sate no Droblem frith it. Julie i:cCu33.och, 'after a brief discussion, recommended approval of street Vacata",on Appli"cati"on Rio. $82-01. as it meets the requirements in Ordinance 1802 section 5 subsection 152 .3.4.5. and 6. :panda Black seconded the motion and 3*.t gassed unanamously. III. Appli*cat:*Lon Yod, 982-01 H. Donald Bliss Street Vacati'on (1-,P'cK* ey Street between Quincy street. ].?;29 Quincy Street and Adorns Street) Port Totmsend Wao 98368 Chai-.--- an Floyd explained that the County Commissioners concurred with the vacation request and stated that lots 1, and 2, and lots 3 and 4trauld be joined and then would h ave access t o either :dams o r Quincy Str..e.e t s should the city vacate McKi ey Street bet,,-,,reen ui*ncy and Adams Streets. Since this pr-0 blem was solved, Jiro Campbell moved that Street `location ilio, 982-01 ba recummended for approval thv.t I*t meets 1',"#he criteria sed JPorth in Ordi*nancc 1802, Section X20, subsection 2,3, and !�, there eras no adverse testl'MOJAY, county Go:��niUsion, and Cau�ty Ellannir� t'].=Irlg �ommissian rccommm,en*�.ed appr avalo Larzy Daeruzison seconded the motion and the vote �*as unanimous. IV. Application No. 882-02 Joel ��. and Ruth A. Burns • Short Subdivasion 2 305 ivy Street Port Toqr�.mscnd... :Ia . 9$36$ Joel Burns stated that his intention was to divide his appro=anately 5 acres accessing Ivy Street into tWo'10'ts. He added lot 2 =could be located midway between neighbors north and south. His Prospective barer eras worka",ng out a joint landscaping plan. Alan Carman explai*ned that the property full east to *.:*est sharply. Since :'Lt i5 forested the impact-would be minor 3*,f at a11. Chairman Floyd expla'ned that for preluunary plat approval, the Conprehensi*ve Plan required that the soil logs/setm- ge plan be shown on the plat sketch. Mr. Carman said that it was obv-igously approved or the Health Department would not have approved it. I�r. French advised them that they should put their seinmge plan 0 on their sketch as required. Chairman Floyd stated that except for the soil logs, everything else Baas in order and that pre liminary approval could be given frith the ad tion of the soil logs. of The commission was in agreement. :fanda Black recommended prelaminary approval to Short Subdivision No. 882-02 as it meets th", requirements of Ordinance 1$06, Section 1.2Q7 Ifalth the inclusion of the soil logs. Larry Dennison seconded the motion and the vote was unana*,mouso V. Amending Ordinance No. 1625 • Chairman Floyd stated that this ordinance change would not impact any e st i6ng bus:*Lness, but would only apply to new businesses, J.J. XI*rshe; property owner near the Hastings House, stated he dn It FTant, anymore Victorian Inns in hi's'residential neighborhood. He stated that the streets are narrow and it generates too much transient traffic. He said R-II should be removed from the ordinance change and that conditional. us was foo weak., but at least something, Parona Kircher said she supports her husbands statements fully--no more inns Richard Thompson, owner of the Starrett House, stated his property would be impacted unde' r'Grandfether clause. He said he bought Starrett House because it eras zoned R.-IT., It is one of the most difficult houses to ma'ntain and the grandfather clause inhibits his ability to gain financing. If business ceases t 0 0 St dor six months then he i S out of business even if it was because of illness. It world be great persona. expense to have parking provided. The value of his property would decrease. :Iould seek compensation from the city tie thr'heatened. Tourism is S the leading income a.n toT.,am if rn*11 closes down. Chairman Floyd as e if he had any suggestions f or neighborhood impact? The other side of the story is the pr ice the neighbarhaods had to ,pay. The impact • on residential property value s. I=r, Thompson said that the e *sting lags weire not being used. Off-street parking should be required. Laws recd to be equally applied. He stated he had a right 3.n zoned area to do his business and the neighborhood had a right t o peace and quiet. It irould come t o i,,iall t o tiall a anhalt for houses n one • parking space per guest room. It would make a17. bus�.nesses under conditional use f ac�.ng down their neighbors every year. Sue Thompson said that iihen the previous oismer otmed the Starett '4ouse here was X11,000 in revenue from tours a'.y��x at '1.50 a'h6,ad, ►;,75_going,to guide. They noir have tours for only 2 hours daily, }� days a Vreek and except for some�h�,rag special 1i'ke a 1-mddiong or private di nn�r the park a.ng f a.l�.s up, but they have reduced the traffic. Willard Gari' ss, Jr. stated that the town was becoming more dependent on tourism and you can see this by the number of people who came for the homes tours. Ori ginally, he added, these homes iTere not a commercial asset to the toi-km. This ordinance change c ou�.d b e damaga.ng t o the t otm. Ike s aid iir Thomoson S 'd that the letter of the Saw wo d be fulfilled by parking req ren.ents met. City should decide which home is an asset and zona accordingly. Yir, Thompson stated that liri"th a condi*t1*onal use permit, you are guaranteed just one year and how much sense does that make with the enormous capita]. investment involved. Chairman Floyd said that with a con ti"onal use permit, businesses woi.fld go to great lengths to be a good neighbor. Some of the homes do not have much �npact. This 11TOUld make the oipmers at least responsive to the neighborhood. something has to be done to protect the residential neighborhoods. "e added that he has a "bed and breakfast" home one block away and the city has a responsibill*ty to rye and frith the conditional use permit I can go to the • city and grips i,f I am beim unfairly impacted. 16:r. G ara.ss stated that iyhat eras being told is that :ihe n an individual comes up for an extention, he bets either a yea. or nay and he doesn't have an opportunity to clean up his act :*Lf he is not being a good neighbor. Chaierman Floyd stated this was not so. .•ir. Thompson sai.d his S P�.acE eras z oned t o b e us ed as a hot el, was made t o revamp bu:L1dLng for patrons, ordinance chat0e would be taking a7giay c e rtain rights of people that iiould ext,^nd to eommcrcial zones. He stated he didn't thii�c this Fran appropriate. He added =.rhy shou�.d he be subjected to this teen he was already fuller lrithin the laza. Ke said the grand-father clause would expire in 130 days if for some reason could not operate his business and under conditional use permit an unfairly complaining neighbor may get the City Council ear and the business operator does not. This a.s a political arena. Another level of governmentr�vialeil. enforce e -Psting lass and the problems :ri11 be gone. -ir. Dennison stated that under I-II i*t is primarily single family and low dens:*L+.y multiply housi'ng. Burden should be on the secondary use. A lot of conditional use permits issued. I haven't seen any turned dorm in review and it's an effective deterent to un-neigphborli*ness, virs. McCulloch s 'd that the ordinance was a-lot of ambiguous terms and to 0 superimpose more on already ambiguous language concerning inns and hotels . when bed and breakfast establi'shraents are not even properly described did not mace sense. I-vir, Dennison stated that idtatever recamendation the commission makes should try to get inns and hotels clarified. Chairman Floyd said there needed to be a way to compromse, Mr. Campbel.l asked i4yhat legal handles did lfx. Thompson suggest? IvLr. Thompson said a proper business license to address all problems. Chairman Floyd sa�.d there was a di'f f i*cu]Lty in definition of terms. YEr. Dennison said that commission should make a recommendation deleting R-TII and M-I zoning from ordinance change and also reco�runend alternate comprehensive hotel/motel, Bed and Breadfast ordinance change. Chai* an Floyd stated that it was food to gel this problem out i*n the open. We need to find a Bray to solve the problem's. Mr. Thompson said he was inL112.nq to compromise as long as his business was guaranteed. He added that the Lit,$arrett House was the only one in c amp3e�e COMP1 i*ance with the law. Chaian F1Oyd stated that the leg3.slative and envoironmental committee needed to meet and get help from the City engineer and Citi Attorrfey and tzy to find an answer. CulluillsSioners Dennison,, Black, Campbell and Floyd to be the committee,to develop some proposals, Jean Gamfl'eld moved to continue this hearing at the next regular meeting (Yovember ].8, 1982). Wanda Black seconded the motion and the vote was unanimous. • VI. 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