Minutes - 2017 - Planning & Zoning - 12/18/2017 - RegularTHE CITY OF EAGLE
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
December 18, 2017
Minutes
CALL TO ORDER: Meeting called to order at 6:01 P.M.
2. ROLL CALL: Present: WRIGHT, KOELLISCH, GUERBER, JOHNSON, and SMITH. A quorum
is present.
CONSENT AGENDA:
♦ Consent Agenda items are considered to be routine and are acted on with one motion. There will
be no separate discussion on these items unless the Chairman, a Commissioner, member of City
Staff, or a citizen requests an item to be removed from the Consent Agenda for discussion. Items
removed from the Consent Agenda will be placed on the Regular Agenda in a sequence
determined by the Rules of Order.
♦ Any item on the Consent Agenda that contains written recommendations from the City of Eagle
shall be adopted as part of the Planning & Zoning Commission's Consent Agenda approval
motion unless specifically stated otherwise.
A. Minutes of December 4, 2017.
Koellisch makes a motion to approve the consent agenda as written. Seconded by Smith. ALL
AYES... MOTION CARRIES.
4. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: NONE
PUBLIC HEARINGS:
A. CU -10-17 — Hotel Use and Height Exception — Eagle River Hotel H. LLC: Eagle River Hotel
II, LLC, represented by Tamara Thompson with The Land Group, Inc., is requesting conditional
use permit approval for a four (4) story hotel including a height exception to 59 -feet. The 2.86 -
acre site is located on Lots 14-16, Block 3, Mixed Use Subdivision No. 5, on the north side of
East Riverside Drive on the northwest corner of East Riverside Drive and South Palmetto Drive.
This item was continued from the November 6, 2017, Planning & Zoning Commission meeting.
JoAnn Butler, 251 East Front Street, Boise, Idaho. The applicant's representative provides a brief
overview of the application and requests clarification regarding site specific condition #2.
Butler responds to questions from the Commission.
Tamara Thompson, The Land Group, 462 East Shore Drive. Thompson provides a brief overview of
the application.
Thompson responds to questions from the Commission.
David Johnson, Managing Partner at Eagle River Hotel, LLC. Johnson provides a brief history of
hotel trends and explains why the proposed hotel is needed.
Johnson responds to questions from the Commission.
Tom Bobo, Eagle River, LLC, 1808 North 15`h Street, Boise, Idaho. Bobo states Eagle River LLC's
support for the project.
Bobo responds to questions from the Commission.
Thompson responds to questions from the Commission.
City Planner, Mike Williams, provides a detailed overview of the application.
Williams responds to questions from the Commission.
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Chairman Wright opens the public hearing.
There were no members of the public present to testify.
Thompson, Butler, and Johnson respond to questions from the Commission.
Chairman Wright closes the public hearing.
General discussion amongst the Commission.
Smith moves to recommend for approval item 5A CU -10-17 — Hotel Use and Height Exception
— Eagle River Hotel LLC, with the provision that we make the addition to site specific
condition #2, as recommended by the applicant and agreed upon by the City Planners.
Seconded by Koellisch. FOUR AYES, ONE NAY (Johnson)... MOTION CARRIES.
B. CU -11-17 — Saint Alphonsus Hospital — Saint Alphonsus Health System: Saint Alphonsus
Health System, represented by Brandon McDougald with Kimley Horn, is requesting
conditional use permit approval to convert the existing Saint Alphonsus emergency medical
facility to a full-service hospital with eight (8) exam rooms, an imaging department with X -Ray
services, and eight (8) inpatient beds. The 5.64 -acre site is located on the northeast corner of
East Shore Drive and East Riverside Drive at 323 East Riverside Drive.
City Planner, Mike Williams, informs the Commission that the applicant has requested the
application be continued to the January 161h Planning & Zoning Commission meeting.
Guerber moves to continue item CU -11-17 to January 16, 2018. Seconded by Johnson. ALL
AYES... MOTION CARRIES.
NEW BUSINESS: NONE
7. REPORTS:
A. Commission: None.
B. City Attorney: City Attorney, Cherese McLain, informs the Commission that training for new
City Officials will be offered on January 11, 2018 at 5:00 P.M., and invites any Commissioners
interested in participating in such training; McLain informs the Commission that a draft
ordinance regarding regulation of fracking will be presented sometime in the new year.
C. Staff: City Planner, Mike Williams, informs the Commission that the City Council requested
revisions to the Enfield Commons application to remove the parking spaces adjacent to the
easement and continued the item to the next meeting.
ADJOURNMENT:
Guerber moves to adjourn. Seconded by Wright. ALL AYES... MOTION CARRIES.
Hearing no further business, the Commission meeting adjourned at 7:32 P.M.
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RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED:
CITY OF THE MEETING
APPROVED:
TRENT WRIGHT,
CHAIRMAN
AN AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS MEETING IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD AT
WWW .CITYOFEAGLE.ORG.
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