Planning & Zoning

January 6, 2015

Minutes

PLANNING & ZONING

JANUARY 6, 2015

MINUTES

Lewiston City held a regular Planning & Zoning meeting January 6, 2015 at 7:30 pm in the Lewiston City Club Room located at 29 South Main, Lewiston, Utah.

Those in attendance were: Doug Hammer, CeCille Hall, Rich Hall, Brent Whittier, Stacey Prescott and Recorder Julie Bergson. Dave Atkinson was excused. Others in attendance were: Jeff Hall, Dave Jensen, Mark Woodward, Jeff and Silas Nebeker

Agenda

Welcome & Roll Call

Doug welcomed everyone to the meeting and noted that Dave was excused.Doug noted that all of the scheduled single family dwellings cancelled until February.

Approval of Minutes

CeCille made a motion to approve the minutes. Rich seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

Ritewood Egg- Dave Jensen & Mark Woodward will present footprint of the facility and discuss the plant

Doug welcomed Mark Woodward and Dave Jensen from Ritewood Egg to the zoning meeting and noted that he hoped that they do not feel summoned and noted that we requested that they come in for an update to show us what they are doing at the plant and what they plan futuristically. Dave presented a map of the facility and noted that they have both caged and organic layers in the facility as well as brood houses for baby chickens. Dave noted that they have five brood houses and plan for 3 more to be completed by October this year. Dave noted that currently they are working on a warehouse expansion for cooler space and plan in the future to make a bigger waste water settling pond for the water from washed eggs. Dave noted thatfuturistically they would like to have storage and a facility to mix their own organic feed. Mark told the commission that when they originally started this they had no idea of the scope and now that they have the contract with Costco they just keep growing. Mark told the commission that they house just about a million chickens. Mark noted that that they could have remodeled existing buildings but due to the organic push they have extra requirements in order to maintain the status of ‘organic’ such as allow the chickens ‘free range’ and that includes much more space. Mark noted that they anticipate doing some more on the north end of the plant for storage due to the specialty eggs that at some point they will need more dry storage. Mark told the commission that it is not so much that they have that many more eggs it is the requirements to comply with the organic status and noted that they currently have about 50 employees. Mark noted that they are composting about ¼ of the waste west of Richmond and most of the raw poop goes for fertilizer on fields. CeCille asked if they treat it for bugs and Mark told her they did not and noted that they use fly sprays, etc. in the buildings and that the manure is stored in deep pits and that the next project they have is to work on is drying on the manure to help with the smell and the flies. Mark noted that water-wise they do not think that they will be using more water in the area of needing more lines or greater flow. Mark told the commission members that is what they have up til about 2016 and he cannot go any further as it is market driven. Mark noted that they were basically forced into organic egg production or face the loss of the Costco account. Mark and Dave thanked the planning commission for their time and the members of the commission thanked the Ritewood representatives for the update.

Building Permit Applications

Visionary Homes-Single Family Dwelling/A-10 zone, located approx. 230 East 200 South for Todd Hallock
Mike Smith for Joe McKee, Single Family Dwelling located approx. 110 North 400 East A-10 zone.
Kartchner Homes for Jeff Nebeker, Single Family Dwelling- R1-12 zone located approx. 185 East Center

All building permit applications were cancelled until February.

General Plan

Doug noted that the concern regarding the general plan is in the affordable housing section of the document where the math does not add up and gave the example that the stats indicate that since the year 2000 Lewiston has built 250 homes and that there are other errors are in appendix C. Dougrecommended that Julie get with the people from BRAG and get the repairs done then resubmit to the council. The members of the zoning commission requested that a copy of the amended plan be forwarded to them as well. Rich made a motion that Julie work on the corrections with Brian Carver from BRAG, send a cleaned up copy to the zoning commission members and then resubmit the general plan to council. Brent seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.

Adjournment

CeCille made a motion to adjourn. Brent seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously. Meeting adjourned at 8:15 p.m. Next regular meeting will be held February 3, 2015 at 7:30 p.m.