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City of Danville Planning & Zoning Commission met July 3

Here are the minutes provided by the commission:

Members in Attendance: Absent:

Pete Goodwin – Chair Adam Brown -Vice Chair

Aaron Troglia Tory Savalick

Ashton Greer Tammy Wilson

Michael Hall

City Representatives:

Logan Cronk

Mumuchhu Gurung

I. Call to Order, Roll Call & Declaration of Quorum

a. Chair Goodwin called the meeting to order at 5:28pm with declaration of a quorum.

II. Announcement that the P&Z Commission is Advisory to the City Council

a. Announcement made.

III.Approval of Agenda: 7/3/2025

a. Motion: Troglia Second: Hall ALL: Aye

IV.Approval of Minutes: 5/1/2025

a. Motion: Hall Second: Troglia ALL: Aye

V. General Oath of Audience:

a. Goodwin: Oath to Swear Witness: (Attorneys need not be sworn) Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in the matter now pending before this commission?

VI.Items of Information:

a. None

VII. Public Hearings

a. Zoning Petition #305 – The City of Danville is requesting for a Zoning Text Amendment to Chapter 150.189 (Zoning Fee Schedule) to add a fee to Zoning Compliance/Verification Letter.

i. Logan Cronk: So essentially, I'll tell you where this text amendment derives from. At the beginning of my career at the City of Danville, zoning verification letters were very simple. Typically, they came from business or homeowners or even the title company asking for a zoning verification letter. It's typically required upon a commercial business transaction, stating that the use is okay to be at that location. The climate has changed to where there's automated companies and consultants across the country just spamming zoning verification letters to the city of Danville. There are some months that Mumuchhu and I do dozens of multi-page property inquiries. Yes, it's their right to have that information, we understand that, but it's exhausting us administratively. And the intent of this fee, which is $125 per request, is not for the property owners asking for simple use.

Is this use okay at this location? We will not be charging a fee for that. It's for the multipage zoning letters request that they're sending to us. They will be charged for time spent on the letter because the average time on a letter is probably about an hour or two per letter. So, the intent is to at least be compensated for work done instead of providing a free service for what we consider a spam request.

ii. Pete Goodwin: Will you send them this bill and say, hey, if you want us to look at this?

iii. Logan Cronk: Yeah, we'll notify them of the fee, and they will have to pay the fee prior to the city staff working on that request. This is not uncommon. We're right down the middle on the average on other communities that request a fee for this. It's $50 to $200. Peoria, Champaign, Urbana, the similar in our region communities.

iv. Pete Goodwin: Is it slowing down the spamming or are you still going to get spammed?

v. Logan Cronk: Yeah, we are going to be spammed, but at least we'll be compensated for it.

1. Motion: Troglia Second: Hall

2. Roll Call: Brown-Absent, Wilson-Absent, Savalick-Absent, Troglia-Yes, Hall- Yes, Greer- Yes, Goodwin-Yes.

b. Zoning Petition #306 – The City of Danville is requesting for a Rezoning of Properties with PIN 18-10-300-005, 18-09-400-004, and 18-16-200-014 from AG-Agriculture to I2 – General Industrial to allow for future Industrial Development at these locations.

Public Attendance (speaking):

Kent Rening – 23498 N 1800 East Road

Jim Wilson – 14 Lakeshore

Frank Butler – 515 Poland Road

i. Logan Cronk: So what you've got in front of you tonight has been worked on by the city staff, with cooperation with Vermilion Advantage, who's here, and even the Danville Sanitary District. What the city of Danville is attempting to do with this proposed rezone is make more readily available industrial development land. It's odd to say or hear me say that we're out of land in the city of Danville for mega sites like 50 acres plus, it's mega to the city of Danville. We did it for Carle. Why can't we tear down houses and build there an infill. It's very difficult for these types of projects, they need to be shovel ready and a decision needs to be made with a snap of fingers. This property being next to our airport, whom could benefit from industrial development at this intersection. I'll refer to it as the intersection and then instead of reading off the PINs. The idea is to get this as ready as we can for redevelopment of what is now agricultural land. If you look around the border of our jurisdiction you're saying yeah there is farm ground around there there's a couple of problems, there. As you heard, you've been on the commission for a while that land is not available for sale right now. A couple of landowners are not willing to sell their agricultural land for any use at all. I think Vermillion Advantage can vouch, they vet all the inquiries from the industries that come in. It's very difficult to locate some that are available or that have the infrastructure there and ready to go. This intersection has all the infrastructure that is required except for a sanitary line, which the City of Danville is more than willing to provide for a major project at this location. So, do I recommend growth outward? In all instances, no. But for large-scale projects that can employ hundreds and hundreds of people, yes, I would support that. So, with that, I'll leave it open. I'm sure there's some questions.

ii. Aaron Troglia: Did the airport ever use this land?

iii. Logan Cronk: No, so far as we can recall, this land has been bought and reserved for a major industrial project by the airport.

iv. Aaron Troglia: I was just curious.

v. Pete Goodwin: Does the same landowner own all three PINs.

vi. Logan Cronk: No, per our ordinance, we had to go in front of each landowner and request via letter that they were okay with this. And each landowner has confirmed that they're okay with the rezone from AG to a General Industrial. Three separate landowners.

vii. Pete Goodwin: So, no complaints or anything from the landowners.

viii. Logan Cronk: Nothing received from city staff.

ix. Ashton Greer: Anything received from like surrounding neighbors.

x. Logan Cronk: No and something to note is for our ordinance, notification was not required to the adjacent property owners. We went ahead and did it anyway. Okay.

xi. Kent Rening: Just out of curiosity, where's the city of Danville?

xii. Logan Cronk: Great question. It does end at Newell to the north, and it terminates right behind the Menards. So, if development did occur since the City of Danville would be proposing to provide the added infrastructure pre-annexation agreements would be a must for these properties. When annexation actually occurs to get all the way there is still a question.

xiii. Kent Rening: Will the ability to contest what goes in there come up when that occurs?

xiv. Logan Cronk: Yeah, there is a pretty heavy limitation on that. It would follow the City of Danville's zoning code on what is available in the I-2 or general industrial zoning district. So, you will have the option of warehousing and manufacturing. Those are the items that you're limited to in that general industrial zone industry. The big scale stuff is what we're going for here.

xv. Pete Goodwin: Can you state your name and address to the record force?

xvi. Kent Rening: My name is Kent Rening. I live on the property adjacent to the northwest corner, 23498 North 1800 East Road. My family owns the property. I live in the northwest corner of that field.

xvii. Pete Goodwin: Can you state your name and address as well?

xviii. Jim Wilson: Jim Wilson, 14 Lakeshore, Danville. The City of Danville is a mile and a half, does that include the property north of the airport?

xix. Logan Cronk: Yes, it includes this parcel as well, and that's why we're requiring the rezone in this instance.

xx. Jim Wilson: The West Newell is in the City of Danville.

xxi. Logan Cronk: Correct. So the City of Danville maintains West Newell Road all the way to Bowman and then south down Bowman. And so that goes along with the infrastructure that's already located there as well.

xxii. Pete Goodwin: So, it's these two properties that are on the north side that would have to be annexed in assuming something would come. Is that correct?

xxiii. Logan Cronk: All three, and annexation shouldn't technically scare anybody. I want to make that very clear. There are annexation strategies that are lesser invasive of what people think about. You don't have to take 100 acres of the farm ground to get into the city of Danville to receive those benefits. It doesn't have to be intrusive, and I know that's the main thought of sprawling, per se.

xxiv. Aaron Troglia: Oh, that one PIN that isn't 14. That's not in the city.

xxv. Logan Cronk: No, so the jurisdictional boundary ends at Menard's.

xxvi. Pete Goodwin: Do you have any additional questions? Can you please state your name and address for me, please.

xxvii. Frank Butler: Yes, I'm Frank Butler, and I live at 515 Fullen Road. I represent an owner that joins the property, and I'm just concerned about what's going to happen to the taxes.

Are they going to go up because they're close to an industrial zone property, or are they going to stay the way they are based?

xxviii. Logan Cronk: Yeah, it's also a valid question. I've confirmed that the zoning doesn't impact the subject parcels being rezoned. The county assesses property via use. So the change in zoning will do nothing on property taxes.

xxix. Pete Goodwin: Any other questions or comments?

xxx. Jim Wilson: So, with the, you can access those parcels

xxxi. Logan Cronk: Yeah, so I don't want to speak in too much detail not knowing the strategy because annexation would only occur in development. We don't want to sprawl without any benefit to it. But there are, like I said, strategies that you can take 300, 500, 1000 feet or the whole property, whatever the landowner is wanting to do to really make sure that they're paying into a different taxing body, therefore the taxes won't go up, right? So, you can subdivide off parcels to still be within the state statute of administrator. You can make it as least invasive as possible.

1. Motion: Greer Second: Hall

2. Roll Call: Wilson-Absent, Savalick-Absent, Troglia-Yes, Hall- Yes, Greer- Yes, Goodwin-Yes, Brown-Absent.

c. Zoning Petition #307 – The City of Danville is requesting for a Zoning Text Amendment to Chapter 150.073 (Development Along Bowman Ave and West Newell Road) to remove a clause limiting non-residential development along the corridor.

i. Logan Cronk: Yeah, this place hand in hand with the prior zoning request. This language needs to be revised in order for any construction to be built down the line. I think something that's very important to note for the property owners that live on Newell is "well now we've lost our protection, right, in the zoning ordinance of where it can be built anywhere." No, it still has an agricultural zoning district. It still would have to have a review and a zoning change to be built on the north side of the Newell. It's currently zoned AG. There can be no commercial built, so they would have to come back to planning and zoning and city council and do the same thing that we're doing here tonight to get approval for any business to go across the street. This is just preparing these sites that we are requesting a rezone for.

ii. Pete Goodwin: And when you say across the street, where are you referring to?

iii. Logan Cronk: Across the Newell, where it's typically more residentially dense.

iv. Pete Goodwin: Any questions? Pretty straightforward, it reads that any new nonresidential use shall be required to utilize both public sanitary sewers and public water.

1. Motion: Hall Second: Greer

2. Roll Call: Savalick-Absent, Troglia-Yes, Hall- Yes, Greer- Yes, Goodwin-Yes, Brown-Absent, Wilson-Absent.

VIII. Adjournment

a. Goodwin: Entertained a motion to adjourn.

1. Motion: Greer Second: Troglia All: AYE

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