Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

If can, time to get started. This is the Blount County Planning Commission. And before we start business, we have an emergency exit announcement. Okay. We'll take a row.

We do have quorum. Before we get into business, though, I'd like to take one second tonight to acknowledge the fact that we lost a, within the last thirty days, a member of this body that had been on the planning commission somewhere fifteen, sixteen years, Geneva Harrison. And I just like to take a second and have a moment of silence on on Gina's Geneva's behalf, if if that's okay. Thank you. We will proceed with the agenda.

Next is approval of minutes. Do we have a motion by Nick Bright, second by John Giles? Is there any other discussion on the minutes? Seeing seeing none, If you will, please vote. Okay.

Passes. Motion passes. We have no public hearings tonight. We will now take public input on items on the agenda. If you're here to discuss or speak to anything on the agenda, now it's time to come forward and talk about it.

Seeing none, we'll move on. Our first item on the agenda is site plan. Cameron, will you handle that, please?

Yes, sir. This site plan is for 5022 US Highway 411 South. You might remember it. It was previously Jake's place. It was a restaurant. This site plan is also for a restaurant with additional retail space. It'll be a slightly larger footprint than what was there. It meets all of our zoning requirements. I've listed those under section nine ten on the second page of my memo. The arch the architectural elevations are also compliant.

I'll need to ensure that their their zoning regulations require vegetative buffer as well on the west side of the property. I'll have to ensure installation of that prior to the issuance of certificate of occupancy. I'll also have to have a follow-up lighting plan that demonstrates compliance with the lighting plan that they've already submitted prior to the issuance of or certificate of occupancy. And they recently installed a new septic system as well. I noted that under environmental health. Staff recommends approval for this subject to issuance of applicable permits, and I can take any questions that you you may have. All the relevant attachments are included.

Okay. We have a motion to approve conditions made by commissioner Giles, a second made by commissioner Wells. Are there any discussion? Seeing none. If you're ready, let's vote.

The motion passes. That takes us back to back to preliminary and final plats on a major subdivision. Mister Hancock, can you help us with that?

Yes, sir. This is item d one, McCammon Ridge Subdivision, lots one through six lots one through six off Nails Creek Road and Alfred McCammon Road by Gusty Christenberry. There's six lots to be served off the county roads and a remainder greater than five acres. The outstanding items will be completed on page two. Number one, final review and approval of lots one through six by the Blount County Environmental Health Department, including any necessary lot line adjustments.

Number two, additional access restrictions added to the plat for lots one through six for the Blount County Highway Department as applicable. And number three, final plats with all certifications inclusive of any modifications as needed, planning fee, and environmental health department review fee. That's all, mister chairman.

Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the conditions? We have a motion by commissioner Bright. We have a second by commissioner Wells. Do we have any discussion?

Seeing none. No. Commissioner Giles. I'm sorry.

I'd like to address thank you, mister chairman. I'd like to address this question to Doug. I noticed in one of the letters, it just says that fire hydrant service is not available down through there. That doesn't have any impact as to whether or not they should be approved. They'll just have to get, I assume, contract with a a public or a private firefighting service if they choose to. Correct?

I I don't know what they'll do. I mean, the the utility simply can't support it. So we only require them when the utility can support it. When they can't, we ask for a letter.

Okay. Okay.

Yeah. They I mean, they would they they could since we're in the county, they could become a member of the fire district. And, you know, they typically operate off the local hydrants. And when they don't, they bring pumper trucks and go to the hydrant and come back.

Right. Yeah.

Okay. Thank you, sir.

You're welcome.

Okay. Any any other questions or comments? Seeing none. If you're ready, let's vote. Motion passes. Doug, I think you're still up.

Yes, sir. Item e one is Crooked Creek Subdivision, lots one through four off Davis Ford Road and Hilton Road By Source Southern LLC, there's four lots along the County Road. Outstanding items to be completed. Number one, signature plats with all certifications, including environmental health department, electric, and water. Number two, environmental health department review fee and a plotting fee. And that's all.

Do we have a motion to approve with conditions? We have a motion by commissioner Wells, a second by commissioner Bright. Any questions or comments? Seeing none. If you're ready, let's vote.

Motion passes. Okay, Dougie.

Yes, sir. Item e two is the replat of Lot 1 Helen Kerr property off Walker School Road by Helen Kerr Estate. There's three lots along the County Road. Outstanding items are number one, signature plats with all certifications, including environmental health department, electric, and water. Number two, environmental health department review fee and the planning fee, and that's all.

Do we have a motion to approve conditions? I have a motion by commissioner Bright. Second by commissioner Mars. Any comments or questions? Seeing none. If you're ready, let's vote. The motion passes. I guess that takes us down to miscellaneous items. Number one on that is the abandonment of a right of way for section of Blunt Avenue. That's up that's out Eagle In The Village right behind the new ballpark.

Doug, do you

Yeah. I'll I'll comment on it. So exactly. It's an abandonment of right of way section of a right of way from Blunt Avenue. There's some attachments.

It shows a portion of the property owner to the ballpark, a portion, that goes to the owner, and portion from the county right of way to the ballpark. So there's actually three transactions occurring. Since this isn't an Alcoa's planning region, the county attorney has suggested that, it'd be considered by both the Alcoa Regional Planning Commission and the Blount County Planning Commission. And any action that you would take towards this closure right away or abandonment right away would be in the form of a recommendation to the city of Alcoa Planning Commission and to the Blount County Commission. And the my understanding is the county engineer is in support of this.

Yeah. The county engineer, also the county attorney, support the position on it. So do we have a motion to, abandon the driveway? We have a motion by commissioner Hodge, second by commissioner Bright. Now do we have any questions or comments?

Yes, sir. I have one.

Commissioner Giles.

Thank you, chairman Tipton. Doug, again, my understanding is if we pass this this evening, then it has to go to the Alcoa Planning Commission and then back to County Commission before it's approved. Correct?

Yeah. And then if the if the County Commission approved it, then the documentation will be put in place to do the actual abandonment.

K. Thank you. I was looking for clarification.

Any other comments or questions? Seeing none, let's vote. The motion passes. Doug, you're you're still up.

Alright. Missed latest item number two is the replat of Lot 40 R, top of the world, Campers Paradise. By Jason and Sherry Barnett, there's a combination of lots. If you wanna look at the plat, you can see there's simply five small lots kind of in the shape of a backward letter c. It looks like that Lot Number 41 is actually part of different property, but they're pulling out the lot lines.

Reason this comes with the planning commission is because even with the combination of lots, it still doesn't meet the minimum lot size requirement. So the variance would be the lot size. And the environmental health department has indicated that the lot line adjustment is an improvement to the existing situation, and there are no zoning considerations. So the outstanding items to be completed are the consideration of the variance request by the planning commission to minimum lot size. And then number two is additional notes as needed by the environmental health department, signature plats with all required certifications, platting fee, environmental health department review fee, and the variance request fee. And that's all.

Do we have a motion? Looks like we have a motion by commissioner McClellan. We have a second by commissioner Bright. Do we have any questions or comments? Seeing none, let's vote.

Motion passes. Doug?

Yeah. The last item I have is miscellaneous item number three, which is a lot line adjustment for the Whitaker and Tipton properties off Wildwood Road. If if you'll look at the plat, there's several items that are occurring all at the same time or attempting to be occurring at the same time. Those are listed on here as items a through f. I'm not gonna read them all, but it's bits and pieces of one Tipton property to Whitaker or Whitaker to Tipton back and forth.

And these are different Whitaker's and Tipton's, there's they're all separate, interactions. The surveyor, Mike's here. He they actually decided to I asked him if they wanna do these as set individual plats, so they went to come to planning commission. They thought it'd be easier just to do it all at once and bring it to the planning commission for clarification. I I think the only thing that's really important is is the outstanding items to be completed is the review and approval by the Blount County Environmental Health Department and any changes as needed.

I have a note in here that the environmental health health department has stated that lot line adjustments or other plat modifications may be necessary pending review as all lots need to be stand alone for septic approval and that setbacks from field line and other septic areas will need to be met. And I don't know if they've met that standard just yet, but if not, they you know, they'll move lot lines around until this works or or they'll just modify the plat until it works till Bill can sign off on it. So I hope I explained that well enough, but that's outstanding item number one. And number two is signature plats with all required certifications, environmental health department review fee, and a platting fee. And that's it. I'll try to answer any questions, and and Michael will see if you have any questions for him.

Thank you. Do we have a motion to approve this with conditions? We have a motion by commissioner McClellan. We have a second by commissioner Hodge. Now any questions or comments?

I just wanna say I'm glad to see all these done in one map and not six different maps. Makes it a lot easier for

Well, that's a positive, Bruce. Any other comments, questions? Seeing none. Are you ready to vote? Please vote.

The motion passes. No long range plan than others, sir. Tom? Okay. No other reports? No unfinished business? Okay. Public input on anything that's not on the agenda. If you're here to talk about something that we haven't discussed tonight, now's the opportunity. Okay.

Apparently, they figured it out. Okay. Seeing no comments, we will entertain motions to adjourn. Looks like everybody's in agreement.

No one opposes adjournment.

Yeah. They're fucked in that. They appreciate it.