Minutes-01/02/2002

Tiffin Planning and Zoning Commission January 2, 2002 Tiffm City Council JOINT SESSION Tiffin Planning and Zoning Commission Members present: Chair Steve Berner, Melvin Reeve and Terry Richardson. Absent: None. Tiffm City Council present: Dave Shaffer, Karin Dils and Jim Bartels. Absent: Rodney Walls, and Mike Gericke. Also present: Mayor Glenn R. Potter, Attorney Stephen Greenleaf. Rick Dvorsky and R. J. Moore arrived at 6: 13 p.m. Meeting called to order by Chair Steve Berner at the Tiffm Fire Station. Board of Supervisors Terrence Neuzil and Mike Lehman arrived at 6: 30 p.m. Fringe area agreements are in place for Coralville, North Liberty and Iowa City. County staff are working on Lone Tree, Oxford, West Branch and Swisher. Hills is still working on zoning ordinances. Rick suggests what supervisors have review prior to this meeting to suggest that both the county and Tiffin select a committee consisting oftwo PZ members, two council members and city staff, two county PZ members, two board of supervisors members and county staff to formulate a plan that can be returned to each government entity for review and approval or nonapproval. This suggestion from Rick sounded good to all present. R. J. Moore explained that the county' s first concern is to protect agricultural land in the county, to avoid increasing taxes in the county and to reduce the cost of services when ground is annexed into cities. The county is encouraging joint planning to help cities. Moore explained that the county has adopted a building code in the past year, and is the same code used by Tiffm. Moore explained that the current county plan took about five years to complete and is mainly aimed at protecting agricultural ground and increase density population rates inside cities, reducing sprawl in other parts ofthe county. Moore explained that the various 28 E agreements that the county has extended in the past makes some confusion about what government entity is to receive notification in planning affairs. He explained that the state code could not be violated unless a superseding 28 E agreement were in place. If the county found itself in conflict with a plan for Tiffin and a previous plan with another governmental plan, either Tiffm would have to alter their plan or a Tiffm/ Johnson County agreement would have to be left incomplete. State code does regulate this question in absence of a 28 E agreement. The code says that whichever governmental entity is geographically closer is the entity that receives notice.