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Planning Commission denies Floral Haven preliminary plat pending council action
Summary
The commission voted to deny the preliminary plat PT16O9-2024 for Floral Haven after staff said the proposed lot would increase an existing frontage nonconformity; the applicant asked the commission to forward the plat subject to city-council conditions, but commissioners followed staff’s recommendation to deny.
The Planning Commission voted Aug. 8 to deny PT16O9-2024, the preliminary plat for the Floral Haven expansion, following a staff recommendation that the proposed plat would make an already nonconforming lot worse.
Staff told the commission the existing parcel lacks required A-1 frontage (330 feet required; the site currently has about 75 feet on Kenosha Street and about 50 feet on Queen Street) and that the proposed nine-acre preliminary plat would increase that nonconformity. “Staff is recommending that PT16O9-2024 of the preliminary plat for Floral Haven be denied,” staff said during the meeting.
The applicant, Lou Reynolds, asked the commission to allow the plat to move forward subject to any conditions the city council might impose on a pending specific-use-permit (SUP) and rezoning. Reynolds said the applicant and staff were “in between a rock and a hard place” procedurally and that the council likely intended a fee waiver rather than a plat waiver; he urged the commission to approve the preliminary plat “subject to any conditions imposed upon the applicant by the city council on the SUP approval.”
Commissioners pressed staff on alternatives. Staff answered that the only straightforward way to make the lot conforming would be to consolidate it with the adjacent Floral Haven parcel and that, because the plat as proposed would create a 21-acre remainder parcel with insufficient frontage, approval now would perpetuate a nonconforming status.
A motion to deny the preliminary plat per staff recommendation was made and seconded and carried on a roll-call vote recorded in the meeting minutes: Commissioner Mindy Payne — Yes; Commissioner Jonathan Townsend — Yes; Commissioner Jaylee Clumpa — Yes; Commissioner Jason Cohen — Yes; Commissioner Robert Goranson — Yes.
What happens next: staff told the commission that denying the preliminary plat would allow the applicant to pursue lot consolidation and keep rezoning/SUP timelines aligned with the council process. The denial was recorded as the commission’s recommendation; any subsequent lot-consolidation or waiver request would return to the council and possibly the commission depending on the applicant’s path forward.
