Warsaw Plan Commission Approves Final Plat, Replat
May 11, 2021 at 6:53 p.m.
By David [email protected]
The final plat was for applicant Groninger-Groninger Group LLC to subdivide a 3.93-acre lot into 25 lots containing detached single-family residential units at 201 N. Union St. The property is the former Gateway Education Center/Madison Elementary School and is being developed into Gateway Grove subdivision. It is a planned unit development.
City Planner Justin Taylor said the preliminary plat for Gateway Grove was submitted and approved earlier this year. The final plat for phase 1 of the subdivision was now submitted for final approval. Taylor recommended the Plan Commission approve it.
Tim Saylor, with Innovative Communities, representing Cary Groninger and the Groninger-Groninger Group, the developer, said the entire project was approved in January and the developer was requesting final plat approval for phase 1.
Saylor said there were two minor modifications to the preliminary plan that was approved in January. The first was that the alleyway proposed on the north side of the project has been upgraded to become a city street. The second was that there is some additional right-of-way being dedicated on the existing alleyway on the south side to help facilitate the reconstruction of the alley by the city.
Commission Vice President Rick Keeven asked what the typical price point for the units was. Groninger said, starting out, there will be single-family homes in the $300,000 to $325,000 range and town homes in the $260,000 range.
The final plat was unanimously approved.
The final replat was for applicant Chandler and Erin Williams to reconfigure lots 5 and 6 of the Morgan Addition into three lots that are an average size of 11,907 square feet.
The final plat was approved for lot A at a Plan Commission meeting in late 2020, but because of a need to relocate a drainage easement, lots B and C could not be approved at the same meeting. That easement has since been relocated and completed, according to city engineer James Emans.
The Commission unanimously approved the final replat.
Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer gave an oath of office to the Commission’s newest member, Bob Coffelt, to start off the meeting. He replaces Jack Brunetto.
Thallemer explained that Brunetto took Dave Baumgartner’s place in 2019 and served the Plan Commission “well.”
“Unfortunately, he moved out of the city and one of the statutory requirements to be on the board – the mayor has five appointments and two requirements are that you have to live in the jurisdiction you’re serving and I can appoint no more than three from the same political party. So there is some political balance that is required on the board for the five members the mayor appoints,” Thallemer explained.
Brunetto and Coffelt are Democrats.
Thallemer thanked Brunetto for his service, and noted Coffelt has six years of experience as a councilman from Norwalk, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines.
Coffelt said he was “very pleased” to be involved with the Commission. He’s lived in Warsaw since 2004 and since that time spent most of his time dealing with Boy Scouts. He said he’s trying to get back involved in public service.
After Coffelt’s oath, the Commission approved a resolution approving the Redevelopment Commission’s resolution amending the Northern Economic Development Area and the economic development plan for the area.
The Redevelopment Commission’s amending resolution does not expand the district, but amends the plan to include Cross PVD UV Coating and Finishing Corporation as a taxpayer, according to Warsaw Community Development Coordinator Jeremy Skinner. The corporation will be locating in the original Winona PVD facility, behind Medtronic. Winona PVD is no longer in existence, and Cross PVD bought Winona PVD’s equipment.
The City Council will be asked to approve the Plan Commission’s resolution before it goes back to the Redevelopment Commission in June.
The final plat was for applicant Groninger-Groninger Group LLC to subdivide a 3.93-acre lot into 25 lots containing detached single-family residential units at 201 N. Union St. The property is the former Gateway Education Center/Madison Elementary School and is being developed into Gateway Grove subdivision. It is a planned unit development.
City Planner Justin Taylor said the preliminary plat for Gateway Grove was submitted and approved earlier this year. The final plat for phase 1 of the subdivision was now submitted for final approval. Taylor recommended the Plan Commission approve it.
Tim Saylor, with Innovative Communities, representing Cary Groninger and the Groninger-Groninger Group, the developer, said the entire project was approved in January and the developer was requesting final plat approval for phase 1.
Saylor said there were two minor modifications to the preliminary plan that was approved in January. The first was that the alleyway proposed on the north side of the project has been upgraded to become a city street. The second was that there is some additional right-of-way being dedicated on the existing alleyway on the south side to help facilitate the reconstruction of the alley by the city.
Commission Vice President Rick Keeven asked what the typical price point for the units was. Groninger said, starting out, there will be single-family homes in the $300,000 to $325,000 range and town homes in the $260,000 range.
The final plat was unanimously approved.
The final replat was for applicant Chandler and Erin Williams to reconfigure lots 5 and 6 of the Morgan Addition into three lots that are an average size of 11,907 square feet.
The final plat was approved for lot A at a Plan Commission meeting in late 2020, but because of a need to relocate a drainage easement, lots B and C could not be approved at the same meeting. That easement has since been relocated and completed, according to city engineer James Emans.
The Commission unanimously approved the final replat.
Warsaw Mayor Joe Thallemer gave an oath of office to the Commission’s newest member, Bob Coffelt, to start off the meeting. He replaces Jack Brunetto.
Thallemer explained that Brunetto took Dave Baumgartner’s place in 2019 and served the Plan Commission “well.”
“Unfortunately, he moved out of the city and one of the statutory requirements to be on the board – the mayor has five appointments and two requirements are that you have to live in the jurisdiction you’re serving and I can appoint no more than three from the same political party. So there is some political balance that is required on the board for the five members the mayor appoints,” Thallemer explained.
Brunetto and Coffelt are Democrats.
Thallemer thanked Brunetto for his service, and noted Coffelt has six years of experience as a councilman from Norwalk, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines.
Coffelt said he was “very pleased” to be involved with the Commission. He’s lived in Warsaw since 2004 and since that time spent most of his time dealing with Boy Scouts. He said he’s trying to get back involved in public service.
After Coffelt’s oath, the Commission approved a resolution approving the Redevelopment Commission’s resolution amending the Northern Economic Development Area and the economic development plan for the area.
The Redevelopment Commission’s amending resolution does not expand the district, but amends the plan to include Cross PVD UV Coating and Finishing Corporation as a taxpayer, according to Warsaw Community Development Coordinator Jeremy Skinner. The corporation will be locating in the original Winona PVD facility, behind Medtronic. Winona PVD is no longer in existence, and Cross PVD bought Winona PVD’s equipment.
The City Council will be asked to approve the Plan Commission’s resolution before it goes back to the Redevelopment Commission in June.
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