Planning and Zoning Meeting - Regular Meeting

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Oh, I need something. All right, guys. This is um it's not meet meeting. It's more of a workshop or a for the public. So, um tonight we have Mr. Bob Barber with Orion Planning. He is the one that Bay St. Louis procured um Orion planning three years ago to do the comp help us with the comprehensive plan um that was put together the Bay St. Louis 2024 after um and he'll go touch on this after you do a comprehensive plan which was the vision of residents like y'all stakeholders of the direction Bay St. Lewis needs to go. Um the next thing is to try to make a document which it's going to be he'll go explain it's what we've what they've come up with using um the character of the neighborhood. I said you know um the zoning I mean I guess the zoning code's basically the living breathing document to make the comprehensive plan work. It's going to be the one that allows smart growth through the city. Obviously, last comprehensive plan was done more than 15 years ago. Um, the zoning ordinance that we had was adopted in 20 17, but originally was pretty much adopted in two 2009, which was readopted, they've had some slight amendments, but obviously the immense growth in Bay St. Louis, um, you know, we've had different needs and obviously different what we thought we wanted in Bay St. Louis. We're hitting some of the check marks. Um we're hitting some of the check marks, but you know, um being in the building and zoning office, we see some of the hardships that it that it was. So,

updating the zoning ordinance. And when I say updating, this is a complete re rewrite of it. It's now going to be more easier to uh navigate. There's a table of contents. instead of everybody having to flip through what page and they hear, you know, three sections later it might be something that sounds completely different. Um Bob Barber and his team at Orion and Bay St. Louis got together and say, you know, our biggest thing is we need a living breathing uh document that's clear for everybody. Clear for everybody. And then also allow rules that you know it's not a continuous revolving door of some months where we had 10 applications for variances because obviously you know that's not we need rules that work for everybody if everybody was asking for the same variance and then grant it you know maybe that's something we need to look at just implementing. So um the updated zoning ordinance provides clear frameworks that's going to uh support B St. Louis's long-term growth. So, with that, I'm going to turn it over to Bob Barber. What he's going to do is, and this is being you um streamed on YouTube, and then obviously a lot of people are going to go and uh watch it after the fact. He's going to introduce the document and then um we're going to provide some frameworks of how you can review it and then what's going to need to be done because the timeline as of today that Bay St. Louis is looking at is we're introducing it today, giving everybody times to review it. Um, comment on it the same way that a comprehensive plan was, and then our planning and zoning meeting in February, which I think would be February 11th, we'll actually have the public hearing for it. Then it will be the public hearing um get it approved by the BA the Bay St. Louis zoning um commission and it then gets sent to the city council for adoption, but it allows everybody to

say, "Hey, we saw it. You know, we agree with it. We have other questions about it or you know, guys, it's time for us to update our zoning and let's go with this." to Bob

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Uh, it's good to see everyone tonight and Jeremy has provided an excellent introduction to what we're going to do. I'm going to take 20 30 minutes whatever we need uh to introduce the the topic the zoning code update uh rewrite as Jeremy has already mentioned and I'm going to do it with kind of three basic points I want to review with everyone some of y'all were involved in the planning process I just want you to know where all this is coming from. It came out of the planning process Bay St. 2045. Um, and then, uh, we want to look at some of the highlevel changes or or the kind of the strategy we use to rewrite the zoning code, and then introduce the code itself, show you where it is, how you can access it, and review it, and if you have comments on it, how how to comment on it. So, that's my plan. If you have questions along the way, we've got a nice intimate group here. we can you can stop me and and uh uh so forth and if it's a not a good time to stop me I'll let you know but we'll get all the the questions uh answered if you have any. So here's what we did. We started in 2022 early 2023 in uh the planning process which was called Bay St. Louis 2045. Now that's a long range look at the community and community development and uh planning for future growth and you know there's been tremendous changes in the community and likely to be other changes going forward how best should they be managed steered and guided along the way that was the planning effort Bay St. is 2045 and we observed this planning process. It's basically goes along in five steps and we went through it all. We're now we're down in step four which is u implementation that the when we get to

the end of a planning process we'll have all kind of vision all kind of goals. Uh but the question is how is it implemented? So, one of the key ways community development occurs is under the authority of a of a zoning code, which is local law. And so, that's what this second step has been to rewrite the zoning code. If you look back over time, you will know that the the last code was done in 2010. We're 15 years out from that. Now, we're looking at 2025. Codes need to be uh continually updated and upgraded. So, it was a a very opportune time on the heels of the plan when we did the plan. This is just one little data point out of the plan showing future growth prospects for Bay St. Louis. Um, and the growth that and population is going to occur over 20 years. How will that be handled? How will it be guided? How will it be governed and so forth? All of that the plan um speaks to. This is just a reminder that we had a ton of public input in this plan. So, this this first kickoff meeting was one of the largest uh public kickoff meetings we've ever had, but we had good inputs. It was driven by community survey, hands-on focus groups, um various interactions with the community that that uh we guided and and shaped. And we ultimately came up with or what we didn't come up with it, the community came up with it. These very uh important values or highlevel goals that Bay St. Louis was interested in uh seeing implemented going forward. And you can read them there. preserving downtown, protecting the environment, improving the suburban commercial areas such as

the corridor, how they look and function and feel, balancing community change, uh the touris, balancing the tourist component with the hometown living environment uh that's so treasured in the city on down through all the rest of uh of the items here. U Thank you for that. Um, and then you'll see the last one there, strengthening the development standards for Bay St. Louis, which is what the zoning code rewrite's all about. And again, this is the planning part of it. It's the vision, as Jeremy said, is setting the long range goal and vision of the community. And we do that in a couple of ways. We do it in a high level, uh, kind of a 30,000 foot view. And you'll see the various future kinds of places in and around the community that were designated based on all the inputs that we had. Natural areas, the riverfront, the beachfront area, the old town area, some suburban uh areas there. All that's in the plan, but it's more than just high level. It's also uh drills down into some very kinds of specific planning ideas uh what we call focus areas and we we did a number of focus areas. That one uh that's some um infield development in the Oldtown area. We also showed how development would ideally be clustered if the riverfront areas uh when they develop and then how to redo some of the aging shopping centers that will need if they don't need attention now, they're certainly going to need attention going forward. How could they be redeveloped and um uh made more of an asset uh to the community and perform better economically? Downtown, of course, we looked at All of these things

are just reminders to say that we went through a an extensive planning process to get to the end of uh to get a a a plan that expresses the vision of the community. Now when we come to the end of it, plans are implemented in three ways. Policies, projects, and the way the process is managed. So that's three implementation. The zoning component of it is a policy or a law of a local law established by the city and it has to be based on the contents of the plan. Apologize for the cough. Um so the plan contains projects which is not what we're here to talk about. It also contains certain kinds of management things which we're not here to talk about and it contains recommendations for policy uh and it's what we are here to talk about which is the zoning code. I had a little cold about a week ago. So I'm still I'm not contagious but uh I'm still dealing with a little cough going on. So when we get to the zoning code, the city engaged us to rewrite that 2010 code that needed updating in a serious kind of way. Updating is not strong. Needed rewriting in a serious kind of way. This is just to familiarize yourself with with what we've done, how we came up with the strategy of the rewrite. Uh and I'll spend a few minutes on this and then we'll move into the actual code. It's just very important to know the background and the steps and it takes time. It's a process and the the methodology that went into it.

These are just some very high level best practices that we use to rewrite a code. We dealing with formatting, the way it's formatted, the regulatory content itself, and then how it's the administrative process of a code uh is sort of the way we're looking at it. Now when we assess the current code, we take it and evaluate it and assess it against the plan and we have a number of charts and ways of doing the analyzing and examining it. This you don't don't let your eyes blur. just shows you that if if we had already a well organized and a well functioning code, you would see this uh diagram with a a the little red dots would make a kind of a straight line. As you see them, they're scattered all over the place, which gives you the nature of the code itself. When we examine it a little more, um, we go from table number two, which is the existing organization of the code, all that scatteredness, and then we propose a different kind of table of contents, and table number four, which is uh greatly simplified and falls into a much more logical order. We have to align the place types in the plan or the future land use plan with the zones that has to be lined up um and made a coherent. This is the way we ultimately did it. Uh down the left hand side are the new zoning districts. Down the middle column is the the uh place types that were in the corresponding place types in the plan. And down the right hand side are the existing zones. So we're kind of migrating this older code into this uh uh new wine skin so to speak.

This is u this is called a use matrix. This is the way it appears in the old code. We have to analyze that. There were antiquated uses in there. There were uses that are now prominent but are were uh not in the current code. So we have to add those in. uh and we do that through through a kind of analysis and then we come out on the right hand side will be the the new matrix that I'll speak to a little more in just a moment in terms of formatting uh we change all of that so that uh the articles are reorganized we hyperlink it's a digital uh uh when it when you go look at it digitally on a computer you can click the hyperlinks and jump around the code and jump to the different sections and so that it navigates easier. Uh and then the layout is a little more attractive as well, which by the way, nobody really sits down and reads a zoning code for fun. So, uh you're not really going to use it only when you really really need it, uh or you have an issue or you want to build something, then you're going to be looking at it. Try to make it as friendly as possible uh in that process. So, in the method way of doing that, we make it a little more visual. We add in diagrams, a little more explanation to rather than just the long lists of stuff and long pieces of text. And then this is an example of where one of the hyperlinking components will go. In this matrix to the left, your vehicle service or repair uh organizations have some conditions associated with them to make sure that they're, you know, kept neat and clean and so forth. So we can hyperlink the the uh the number there on the right column and we go to those uh use conditions in the code. That's another element. Also uh parking the parking was

uh antiquated in the sense that it too more parking is required in the current code than is necessary. It results in inefficient land use patterns. It results in a lot of concrete that doesn't need to be there. It could be utilized with buildings. could be producing tax revenue etc. So adjustments to the parking uh uh all design standards are included in the code for both sites and buildings mostly commercial buildings and then process um streamlining administrative processes in the code. Just a couple more. This was our scope of services. We're down here in phase four. We're at the end of the process. Uh we've produced the work. Now it's time for the work to be commented on uh and for us to make any final adjustments and and move forward with it. So we're in phase four. All right. All of that 10 minutes is just to set the stage that that was the plan. The uh plan revealed the need for a new and better code. We looked at the old code, analyze it. Now here we are. What what was u what was actually uh produced. So as I switch screens, you will see that the new code. All right. This is uh Bay St. Louis 2045 the zoning code. It's the planning and zoning commission review and public comment draft. Uh it will be made available for for your com for your review and comment. Let me get this in a full screen mode. Uh as I mentioned all of those things that I was just rattling through the

table of contents is is um reorganized and laid out. Uh we start off with all the legal ease. We move into the zoning districts. I'll show you a little snippet of each of these articles. Uh then there's the component, how property can be used and in what zone. Um the mobility and parking section. U major improvements to signs to the sign section. Article eight, we consider them major improvements. Um so that had a pretty extensive rewrite, but I missed one. Uh article seven is article seven over there environmental standards. So we got tree uh preservation low impact design uh trying to preserve hit that environmental preservation goal is in a feasible kind of way that is um uh included. And then after signs article 8, we get into you'll see administrative bodies and administrative processes and and um enforcement of the code and and that's the crux of it. I mean that's the those are the major articles those are the major components of a zoning code and that's what you have. Now, if you went to the code and you wanted to look at some topic in particular, again, as I mentioned, we can just hyperlink right to uh right from the table of contents uh right over to section four uses and use conditions. If we're looking for our uh the way property can be used in what zone when you look at the matrix the uses are down the left hand side the zones are across the top and then if it has extra conditions associated with it they will appear by this little uh there's a little number reference here and we can hyperlink to that section. That may be more than you want to know.

I don't know. I'm just trying to give you a sense of how it's organized and where the subject matter is and how important it is uh that it function well for the city. So we go to the use matrix. That's all the use conditions. When we get down to article five, this will be where where uh the um um design standards enter in. So, we will uh ensure that we get well landscaped parking lots when they're built. Uh that we get uh good quality facads on commercial buildings. That's a part of it. Um, you know, a real um active subject across our nation now is is lighting and the subject of of of ensuring that light is not intrusive into neighborhoods and it doesn't just blow up into the sky and so forth. So, there's some lighting standards to make sure lighting is is uh contained properly on a site. Um, all of there's the little lighting thing right there. uh how to how to generate the commercial redevelopment uh fencing all of those kinds of design standards to make the community to I should say reinforce and enhance the beauty of Bay St. Louis because a beautiful community that you have and that was a high planning goal. Um won't go through the parking and mobility but that's an important section as well. Well, I will say that it does now accommodate uh golf carts and parking places uh along with encouraging bicycle parking. So, those modes of transportation are accounted for in the code. Um the environmental standards I've already mentioned, by the way, back I'm going to back up. I'm go back to the zones. We did u uh there's now an airport zone that we created that's in

this code that wasn't really fully fleshed out in the prior code. We got two airports, Dennis and Diamond Head, that impact um the way Bay St. Louis can develop on the north side and it covered under Federal Aviation Administration. That was an added element in the code as well. Uh the signs I mentioned, I'll just scroll through. You can see there's examples of what type of a sign looks like, what it is, u where in what zones they should be located, how big they can be, all of that. So you can signs have a dramatic impact on a community. It's very important that you have an orderly sign framework for people to operate in so that it just community just doesn't explode with clutter. Uh so we've improved with u improved the sign code in that section. Finally, nine and 10 are the administrative sections. We've gone worked extensively with um uh Jeremy and Mike and the administration on making sure the pro making we believe we got our processes right that are a little more streamline, a little smoother, a little easier to navigate, less hassle. Uh that's the goal. Uh, and all of that spelled out in the um in the administrative section. Uh, the last the bringing up the the tail end of it here is a bunch of definitions that help you interpret the code and when there's a dispute or you need to know what something means, there's a section to help for that. So, so that's the zoning code. Uh, it has been thoroughly reviewed. uh you got the best reviewers of codes right here in Bay St. Louis and that that work has been done. Uh that's not to say when you

look at it you may not find something but um it has been uh it has been thoroughly reviewed. Let me close let me do number three of my three points with this. The purpose is now as Jeremy has already said to introduce the code to Bay St. Louis. this is what you have. Uh it's a public document. It's there for comment. Uh so uh there is a method of doing that. there will be a link posted on the uh city's website and that link will take you to by the way before I get into that I should also say there's a corresponding zoning map uh with all the zones which you'll be interested in looking that link will be up there as well this is the draft of the new zoning map you can pull that up and see you where is the suburban low density where is the highway commercial corridor etc etc and this map is based upon that that plan map that I showed earlier so there'll be two links there'll be a link to the code it's all that text and charts and a link to the map itself now if you want to comment uh for you who are at the workshop meeting or the YouTube views later on um the instructions are these you can Excuse me. You can click the link on the city website that should be posted in a prominent place. Comment on the zoning code here. Some such as that. Click the link and you will pull the code up itself. Uh it'll take you to that very screen. Um and it'll take you to the code. You can download it, you can print it off, or you can just comment directly uh in here electronically. And you do that by

clicking that little dot, the third the the first of the three in the top right hand corner. You click it. Click that and you can click right there and right over here in the comment section you can write the comment and it will register as your comment. So you can register it right in. Now, if you don't want to do that, if you think that's too much of a I think it's the easiest way, but some folks will think it's a hassle, u you can just write the comment in an email, send it directly to me or to Jeremy, or you can write it with pen and paper

and drop it off to us.

Yep. And drop it drop it off and we'll get it that way. So, we'll take the comments any way we get them. And we promise you every comment will be looked at um and uh factored into uh not necessarily every comment will be well. We'll look at the comments and resolve them some one way or another. Uh so you don't feel like you're you if you have a comment that is not being seen or heard. All right. So, you've uh been kind to pay attention to me that long about talking about a zoning code. Um any thoughts, questions, comments?

Can I just add one thing and I guess it has to do with the map that's going to be um and it has to do with conversations we've had from my office looking at panel development. And I'll tell you one of the bigger ones had to do with from the comprehensive plan of um I was 40 39 years old but lived in Hancock County my whole life and some of the conversations from the comprehensive plan of I'll just go tell you you know I'll use the neighborhood commercial district. Um on our current map we have it a robust one on man Avenue which used to be highway 90. Well since Katrina it has just become all residential like you. So obviously that's not um something that you know that's a residential zone now in case but the 500 block of Main Street which is right here the one we're on now um you see it more we're going up but it's always been neighborhood commercial but honestly we've been seeing more interest in neighborhood commercial than everything on Highway 90 it's high ground stuff like that but one spot that through the consequence of plan I think it had to do with u somebody who's lived in the neighborhood the whole life was they have a little bit but the um the commerce that used to happen on the corner of um Washington and old Spanish trail neighborhood where they used to have dentist office I didn't even know they had as many businesses that they had back there that's one of the things that comprehensive plan address but we're also you know doing the plan so a commercial aspect of that main thoroughfare where it's vacant of you know where would be a great spot that you know housing may be above but you know insurance agents you know just neighborhood businesses that's a fine so those are the kind of changes you'll see on the zoning map some of the stuff that is going to make it easier for I mean

for me but realtors is right now we have stuff that calls R1 R1A R2 R3 well that's it's kind of a big I mean it's kind of a hard term to realize because R1 is, you know, on the this neighborhood, that neighborhood and stuff like that. Well, if you live in Shoreline Park on the river, we now just call it riverfront. It tells you because that neighborhood is the riverfront. It's was R1A, but now we just refer to it now as riverfront. When you're talking about more of the neighborhood ones, you know, it's I can't remember all the terms, but you know, it's suburbia low, suburbia medium, whatever. Over by Bay High School, those are large lots. you know, it's suburbia low. They're, you know, it's low density. You have a suburbia neighborhood, um, Valentine Street and stuff, those lots are just notoriously a little bit smaller. So, that's how they're referred to. They're not R1A, R2 anymore. So, um, that's one of the important things. Whenever you see the charter uses, make sure you go see what kind of neighborhoods. And we kind of made the charter use by color. Yellow is residential. I forgot what the commercial one is, but you can

you you can just go kind of see a little bit um different like the map in the zoning ordinance just because they've all just because of how it used to be a lot of times how it used to be. I feel like Bay St. Louis I was not part I was not here during the time but when the zoning ordinance originally got post Katrina five years developing really hasn't happened yet. So they just started putting zones on map say hey we're going to develop like Bay St. Louis and you know it's developed but you know sometimes the rules didn't meet the neighborhood. I think this living live living green document and it has a lot to do with a lot of conversations that Bob had at and his team at community halls in a small group of this is what we want to see. You know we want to make sure you know I lived in this neighborhood my whole life. I want to see my kids and grandkids be able to afford it. You know, we've always had shotgun houses on small lots here and these people are coming in and buying two lots and building themselves a big home that's a second home. You know, we want to be able to have fortunately we need this is a 45 foot wide lot. I want to be have my kids take this over and build themselves a small house to stay in the neighborhood. You know, obviously trying to think about that middle class. Obviously, we have some high-end houses that are coming in town that, you know, our economy, job market doesn't support. It was always kept in mind here of that person that has a job at Stennis, at Kamura, the casino, will they have be able to afford or have a place to rent or live in Bay St. Louis? Those are the kind of things that were taken to account of this zoning ordinance. We know what our demographic is when it comes to um income wise and stuff like that. This plan is to made was made for

the masses, not you know just to go say hey we want to have you know you know a huge second home market with million-doll homes. You know it's it was thought of about the people who actually live here not um maybe the ones the economy that has shifted over here from the Northshore and stuff like that. So, um, when y'all look at it, each I know some are going to read it from front to back, some are just going to be more of your neighborhood, but you know, what y'all think is going to be at very important to us, but some of the stuff that and I think I told Mr. Cliff Ra before, you know, one of the things that I came here for and I from other city, this is one of the few places that have that long of a planning and zoning meeting of asking for variances. One of the things and it's one sentence that's in like section 10 and it says variance. Variances are for hardships, not because you know I have this I want this big house on this 70 foot lot. Well, that's not a hardship. That's that you have a 70 foot lot and you want to put yourself a 4,000 foot house. A variance is there's a tree in the way or there's a ditch over here. So, I need to shift it over and I instead of being, you know, 8 foot from the sideyard, I need to be four to get away from that tree. That's reasonable. But, um, those but that one line in there of just because you want a variance. I honestly think this document is going to be something that gives it's going to give Bay St. Louis residents clear directions, but most importantly, what's going to do is basically say, "Hey, we looked at wants, needs, and this is the direction of the city. If y'all adopt this, there's going to be few and far between. of you needing to go ask permission to do what you want to do because we've addressed it and if it's not addressed in there it means that the masses don't necessarily want it or as a whole when we developed this comprehensive plan.

Yep. Very good.

Yeah. Uh

it's we it's all over the country. I think we show in the plan we'll show the escalation of housing prices and they post pandemic they just I wouldn't need to tell y'all what's happening with housing prices and there is a component of the population that finds it more and more difficult to uh attain housing teachers firefighters public service people u you know middle professional level people um just priced out. And so the the plan um seeks to facilitate as has already been said a housing market that accommodates all segments high, middle, and low. So the uh so that u the rules are set up to not to inhibit the production of middle scale housing. Yeah. Are there other again pardon me for my cough. I'm going to do it again. Are there other comments or thoughts or questions? Yes sir. Yes. Yes. Even though

notate.

So, some of this some of the stuff we did in this zoning and it has to do let's I'm going to use Highway 603 as Highway 603 and Highway 90 are both highway corridors currently. One of the issues is the businesses that you'll see on Highway 90 are completely different businesses than you'll see on Highway 603. And it has nothing to do with traffic count. It has everything to do with flood elevation. So everything that you see on Highway 603 right now was built before 2010 when those flood maps were adopted. If wiped away, you wouldn't see um you wouldn't see half the businesses that are there because they're built below base flood elevation. They're they're you know when it floods they are in dire um dire they could be underwater. some of those businesses and I just happen to know they're paid off. They don't carry flood insurance. So, they're not trying to they're just trying to say, "Hey, we're gonna if it gets washed through, we're going to take the risk itself." But with that being said, one of the things that we did was north of um by Lacroy to just south of the interstate, we have two concrete plants. Those currently, if they wanted to come back and they shut down, they wouldn't be allowed. Well, that's a good spot for them. Plus, they don't need builder engine stuff like that. So, that's one of the things. And then also, if you look at our zoning map, some of the stuff that was uh there's some stuff that was marked um was marked so it would be housing or not housing on Highway 60. We went parcel to parcel along Highway 603 north of Kilk Cut off road just for lack of a better term and go and say you know there's some houses back there but you know if it makes sense why don't we go

have it so if you could build a house there the kind of house that's going to be there is going to be possibly a rental house it but allow people to build a duplex that there so you know you go build a house 20 15t up in the air relatively cheap land so that's probably where a duplex or multif family, a forplex could go if you can engineer it because be honest with you, a gas station can't go there. Anything that has to be built on customer base is not going to go there. Like those are some of the considerations for it. The other thing that we did for the um flood is when you're building on the water, it never addressed it said you need to have a 10-ft rear yard setback. Well, half the piece of property might be in the canal. So, we had to denote that. Hey, that's from the top of the bank. Those are just some of the considerations, you know, to make the rules clear because they're discussions that are happen to have every single day in our office of this is this was the intent. Well, it doesn't say that. Well, now it's going to

Yeah. And to for to participate in the FEMA flood insurance program, you you have to adopt what MIMA puts out, Mississippi Emergency Management, in terms of flood plane ordinance, and they have to out what the federal government tells them to put out. So there's not much we can do about the flood plane uh other than reflected on the map. It's at a higher level those issues. But the the other thing we did for drainage wise though currently in our zoning it has to do with lot coverage of 45% but we exempted swimming pools out of it and pretty much swimming pools and some other stuff. Right now how it that's counted in part of the uh lot coverage which will give you more peral surface. The other thing is we they don't have a they our current one you can build a swimming pool on the property line. Now we we added something that you know it gives you a little bit of a setback because you don't want a pool decking and stuff like that on there. So a lot of drainage actually was considered in this part.

Right. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. Thank you for the those comments questions. Yes sir. The short-term rental ordinance is in the use conditions, but it there's no change in whatever the current ordinance is. It remains the same. It's just embodied in the code. Uh certainly that it'd be a comment on the code. Yes, sir. That'd be a legitimate comment to to reflect.

Yeah. I said one of the things that we had for a lot is we have our tree ordinance on the outside. This is now going to be encompassed in it. Short-term renal is going to be encompassed in it. There's um a few other thing sign ordinance is kind of in it. It is in it now. So there's actually a few number ordinance that this is where it's going to be. They're not been added on after the fact. Cons we try to consolidate everything into one spot.

Yes, ma'am. No, no, no. You we you still have zones. They're just titled something different. But no, they have um minimum lot sizes and everything else in there. Everything got changed because there's no such thing as an R1 anymore. There's no such thing as a C3 anymore. So everything got looked at. So So this is not necessarily a re it's not an amendment to the current one. This is our new ordinance.

Yes.

So So this uh what Jeremy's speaking to is this sheet right here. So the first column on the left uh what we call the Bayfront District and then go to the farthest column on the right. it it consists of certain components of the old R1, R4, R5, and R5A. It so there's certain aspects of that that are all now in a Bayfront district. And come on down the line, the suburban neighborhood low is essentially R1 and R1A. So, uh, there's still the the dimensional rules like the lot sizes and the setbacks and so forth are very very similar to what exists now. The name of the district may have changed. However, they are better matched to the ground. For instance, in Oldtown, there's a lot of smaller lots and they have this big huge minimum lot size and so we match what's on the ground a little tighter to uh what the code says if that makes sense. That's kind of how we did it. But when you look at the code, you'll see it's all there and and lot size changes are I would call them minor in nature.

Yes, good point. Yes.

Right. That's right.

Any other questions or thoughts? Well, y'all have been very attentive. We spent about an hour talking about it. Yes, sir. Yes.

Um, so the code will be linked on the city's website in a prominent place. Um, and you can click on there and download it, print it out, look at it on your computer, however. And when you get to the code, uh, it will come up in a format that looks essentially like like this. And right up here in the top right corner, there's a little comment function. You can click the comment and you'll be able to write your comment. Put a little dot on the on the document and write out whatever comment you have. So, access it on the website.

It's not up there yet. and then email it to you. I'm going to email it to you.

Yes. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. Right. Yeah, right.

Yeah, we'll respond to it. The implications of Yes, sir. It'll be a clean version. I have an old version that can where we track the changes. Uh but it it's not up to date. It doesn't reflect this current. But if you really needed that resource, I could the current one on our map on a GIS one. That would probably be the easiest way to do it because when we try to do it so both of them were on there when we're reviewing it and It's nearly impossible to read when you try to put two over lapping.

It gets so complex and it's just really hard to deal.

All right, great questions. Any other comments? Final. We look forward to to any comments you may have. Yes, sir.

Uh the the law requires the planning and zoning commission to make a recommendation on it uh and send it to city council. City council's a final authority for adoption. So that's where That's right. Yeah, that is the public hearing. That's why Yeah. Right.

February 11th. February 11th. All right, happy new year. Thank you very much. Appreciate your attention. Very kind.