Board Of Adjustment - Regular Meeting

with two columns with a I mean it's going to have a wood ceiling and a metal roof. It's going to be nice. And then on the utility easement, it says the easement from dedication is a 15 foot wide utility easement. Yes, ma'am. So, and I know Swook gave you guys the letter, but if anything happens, they need to come through for whatever reason. He understands he's in that easement. They could tear it. I I am going to notify him for sure. Okay.

And right now all the U swept code mark, you know, marked the red line and I think it's right at 12t from where through the power line is to where my addition is going to be. Okay. So his power line's not within that 15 foot. Then is that beyond it? No, it's like at the fence line. Okay. You think behind the property line, not in the not in the No, it's in the ement right at the edge of the easement, but I have like 15 foot on this side. I I I submitted a picture of showing where where it was. And Sweepco, I think in their letter they stated it also. I think Sweepco said 12

12T. There was still 12 feet. So there's still plenty of room to put any kind of utilities that they just had to.

Any other questions? Any questions from the audience, sir? Okay. Any further discussion? We call for a a motion. I move to approve C BO A 000059 2026. Thank you. All All in favor? I'll second. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Thank you. Okay. Everything's approved then. All in favor say I. I. I. Any oppose?

Motion carries. Thank you very much. Thank you. I didn't show up. You did? I lost everything just now.

I'll have to cheat on you. I'm just asking. Okay. Oh, there it is. Is it under it again? Okay. I lost it. I lost it, too.

Thank you. Thank you. Okay. We're good on that. Uh the second item is the application of Zachary McDaniel requesting special exemption use for a 12 by 24 foot carport cover at 1211 Jane Lane, Boer City, Louisiana, City Council, District 3, Police Jury District 11. Can the applicant come forward? Mr. Tim, can you read the case number, please? Sure. Case number CBOA 792026. Thank you.

Thank you. and I am Zachary McDaniel. This carport replacing an existing structure that was torn down uh in December of 2025. Uh it was rotten and it was attached to the fascia of the house. Uh whatever contractor originally built the carport onto this house, he didn't attach legs at both ends. He attached directly to the fascia of the house and then had two legs at the distal end closest to the road and it was 19 It was a 12 by9. Well, the front of the house had rotten wood on it and it was starting to sag. So, it was taken down. We had all that wood replaced and a new roof put on the house and then a new carport that was 5t longer at 24 feet in length uh put on and apparently the permit was not uh completed by the roofing company that did the job. And so that's why I'm here today. Okay. Any any questions from the board?

So the roof on the structure, sir, is it metal or is it as felt single? It's it's it's metal and then it has a run up the roof of the house which is shingle and then it's tied into the shingle there. They didn't do shingle because there's a large oak tree that shares the property line between my neighbor and I. And he said he didn't think it would hold up underneath that tree like that. And what color is the metal roof, sir? What's that? What color is the metal roof? It is a charcoal gray. It matches the roof of the house. Okay. So, it's actually detached. You have a runner that runs between the garage and to the house then?

Yes. They they were doing the attachment the day that the adjuster came out from the zoning commission. And so we stopped that day and the roofing company's just waiting on me to call him and tell him to come back and finish the job because they were working on it when he came out. So on your your checklist with the UDC section, it shows that the carpet materials and colors must match the existing home and currently yours is not in compliance. Um

it's a charcoal tin and a we had a new charcoal roof put on it. The roof that was on the house before had the reddish tint to it, but now it matches and the shutters are charcoal. The front door is charcoal. It's uh we remodeled the house at the end of last year, so it's all fresh remodel. I believe the picture we had showed up showed a tan room. Sure did.

It's supposed to be not just the color. It's supposed to be the same. The asphalt continues on. If it was a metal roof on the and you did that, it wouldn't be as big a an issue. But because it is an asphalt roof on the house now and you have metal continuing on Yes, sir. is the issue. It's a different material. Okay. So, it is it I guess as well and and if there's any are there sides to the the new structure? Um and they're supposed they're not supposed to be met also. They're supposed to meet Right. The sides wood or or

Right. The sides are going to get covered in siding that matches the house. Like it's Yeah. When I proposed it, that's what I That's what I told them that it would still be metal. It would be The colors would be Well, siding. The house has vinyl siding. It'd be vinyl siding on the sides. Yes, sir. That matches the home. It's only one side's enclosed. The other The other sides are open. It's open. Okay. Yes, sir. It's open. Do you have a picture of anything the way it is now? No, sir. I I didn't bring any pictures. I mean, and and I'm I'm not trying to be rude at all. My neighbor across the street has a tarp carport.

The guy next to me has a lawn full. I mean, I was just surprised that anybody complained about a new structure on this road. It was my wife's grandmother's house. We're remodeling it. I mean, it's probably the best looking house on the street at this moment. And so, I couldn't believe somebody complained on it of all the homes, but u I didn't bring pictures. I'm sorry. I do not. There is a picture of the existing structure on page 16, but that was the that was the one that was the first one. The first one, the original torn down and replaced it with that metal. You don't have it on your phone, do you? No. Picture of your house. No, sir. I don't Yeah, I think that picture is prior to the remod. Prior to the new roof, right?

Yeah, it has a new roof on it. Uh shutters have been painted, new carports been added, and then on the inside, the house was more or less gutted and redone.

And the side that's going to be enclosed, is that the side that's next to your neighbor or is that going to be the side that's the next to the neighbor? Next to the neighbor. We've done a lot of these over the years and but the ordinance read it have to be a similar structure should tie in architecturally to the roof line. Yes sir.

Uh cannot be enclosed. can only park your vehicle. In other words, some people want to make storage building out of it slashcarport, but it has to be only for park vehicles under nothing else. Has to be over the existing driveway, you know, concrete or or whatever it might be. But unless you're willing to make the changes to come in compliance with the ordinance, I mean, I think at this point, the only thing I'd have to add is shingles to the roof of it like You know, I mean,

if if it could be the the asphalt shingles on there as opposed to the metal, it would match the roof. Yeah. When I went down the street, and I I really love the area. So, it's kind of it's the old fashioned boer. And when you went down, they had on that next street that runs perpendicular to they had a couple of homes that had built the structure that came up that it matched the veneer, matched the match, the roof, everything matched. The which is part of the codes that we need to follow. Okay.

So, um to to if the roof was the same material and the same color and the siding is the same if on that one side, if it's the same color and type of siding that you have on the house, that would be in compliance. Okay. Is that what you guys see? Well, well, really what we're doing is for these special exceptions right now, you would still have to come back in to the permit department and get your plans approved to before you could proceed with the construction of it. So, okay. It's kind of going to be a two-step process.

Question for the committee now would be because I just don't want to have more money tied up in this and have any problems with, okay, this structure needs to be taken down. And so if there's any risk of the structure having to be taken down in the future, I don't want to spend another two or $3,000 on this structure having the roofing materials changed, you know, going to a different contractor or doing anything different and then have to come back again for a future date with y'all and find out that okay, now it's that's kind of where I'm at. I mean, sure.

So if the issue is the carport material not the existing home. If there's an agreement today that that would be changed, especially the roof from the metal to the shingle roof is does that mean he has to come back again? No, he would then be in compliance. There's no issue. So, we could we could vote to allow it pending the agreed upon changes as long as he makes those changes to be in compant. Is that correct? I would think so. And do we have to set a time frame for that to be in compiance in order for this to stand?

Yeah, the permit is still on hold. So that won't move forward until this hearing is concluded. So it would be the decision of the the property owner. If he agrees to abide by the code completely, then he can move forward with permitting, but you would just have to agree that you would have to change it to asphalt shingles and be in compliance with architectural standards with regards to carports. Okay, so that's one option. The other option, if you want to keep it exactly like you want it, you would need to take it back to 19 ft because then you wouldn't encroach into the front yard at all.

One option is to completely comply, add the asphalt shingles, but if you want to keep it with the metal and how you have it now, reduce it from 24 to 19. That way, you're not encroaching into the front yard at all. Okay? So I can just reduce it to 19 ft like the previous structure was and leave it the materials it is. What triggered the hearing was the extra footage which then you now encroach into the front yard whereas before you did not. Okay. I'll reduce it to 19 ft then. That'll be the most cost effective way so I can get that rental on the market. Any other questions or comments? So, can I get a a motion?

So, can you give us can you give us the wording of the motion so it could be correct? So, what you're talking about is correct. It would be a denial. That's right. As it stands. Okay. Okay. but uh an acknowledgement that he is agreeing to reduce the length of the of the structure to 19 ft. Okay. Yes, it's 19 19. Yes. So it h it would be a it would be a denial but with a acknowledgement that he's going to to accept it to to keep the existing materials and reduce the the length so that there's no

so it fits into the Okay. I move to deny C BO8 00000079 2026 with the understanding that Mr. McDaniel is going to change the dimension from 12 to 25 to 12 to 19. Okay, we have a vote first a second. Can we get a vote on this? All in favor? Hi. Hi. Okay. Any opposed?

We're good. Thank you. Third item is uh PBOA 52-2026 application of Sarah Long and Daniel Lynch uh requesting a variance for Lynch lawn and fence LLC to allow a 6oot cedar fence within the required um 25 foot front yard setback located at 101 Crown Court Boer Paris, Louisiana. Please jury district one. Go ahead and state your name. Make sure you sign in there and stuff and just kind of explain to us what you're trying to do.

Good deal. Thank you for what y'all do. Um Daniel Lynch, um Lynch's lawn fence, 101 Crown Court Place, Boer Seed, Louisiana 7-Eleven 122. So, hey, we uh we have a fence company that 101 Crown Court Place there. It's the first place on the left. That's when you turn on the Crown Court going into the South Boer Park there. Um right now we're in the process. Business is growing. Business is great. Um, we just we're busting at the seams. We currently have a um about a about a 4,000 square foot building. We're in the process of getting some plans drawn up to expand out of that building another probably 56,000 ft square feet. With that being said, we got to have some more parking. Um, we we're asking to move the fence 25 ft out to the ed closer to the roadway which would match every other fence that is actually on Crown Court Place. um going to do a privacy fence. Obviously, it's going to be a six foot seed or privacy fence. Um but what it's going to help do is give parking for employees because we're like I said, we're just running out of space. Um like I said, it's going to match I mean, everybody else's fence on the street is out other than ours. So, um just asking for a variance on that and just get the fence moved out and uh just give us a little bit more room so we can grow and grow our business. And main thing is is we're the first like we are the first building you see when you pull up. Um when all everybody goes out there to the park. I mean it's the first it's the first building you see. We're trying to spruce it up, make it look a little better. And like I said, we're adding on. So we're just we're we're asking for a barrier to try to get it done.

I guess that's part of your PR. You want to make the fence look good if you're a fencing company. There you go. They Well, not only that, but like I said, man, they have so many events down there. you know, the fourth July, there's so many people that come there, you know, and that's the that's the first one they see. So, we're just trying to make it look good. Is there a lot of traffic up and down your road? Yes. A lot a lot of traffic down Cape Sliggo, but is it a lot coming down that crown?

Right. Well, there's so many people that I mean, they have so many events that down at the park all the time and then of course they built more buildings down there and it's just traffic in and out all day long. It's it's a lot more than what you think. It's just and like I said, we're just I know it's it's moving it out, but we're just like I said, we got to have some more parking. We're growing the business. Um going to build a bigger building. So that's just need a little bit more room there. Do you know what your distance would be from the edge of your driveway to the edge of your new fence line for people to see to the left so that they don't have, you know, you don't want to have anyone coming out and then someone comes around that corner.

So we would be, we're approximately about 25 ft from the edge of the asphalt to where the fence would actually be. Our driveway is about 65 feet wide. So it's not like it's a narrow 12 foot driveway. It's about driveway is about 60 feet five feet wide. So when you're pulling out, I mean, you can see way way down the road. It's not there's not any there's not anything that would block you from seeing if you're pulling out of our driveway and somebody was coming. Okay. Okay. Mr. l fences from the other businesses that are all the way up to the property line. What are they privacy fences or are they chain link fences or

so there are variance of both. So across the street architect construction he has half and half. He has wood fence and he has um chain link fence. Um you go down to Dell's paving, he has chain link and some wood. Um then you keep going on down the road. the the the property that's behind us, which is um for lack of better terms, it's way way under par. What I was trying to explain is is they said that we could put up a chain link fence, but I explained that I have so much stuff that's behind that fence that's hidden that I as a even if I didn't if I was just coming to that area to visit, I would not want to see that going into that park. And so, like I said, the next piece of property, you could see the next piece of property has multiple multiple cars with hoods up, motors laying everywhere. I can just foresee if you said, "Hey, you could do a chain link fence." This is what you're going to see because I own a fence company. You look at it from Google Earth. We have stuff behind the fence. That's what we do. It's just we can keep our stuff a little more hidden with it like that. And like I said, it just gives me more room to grow. So, like I said, we're going to build we're fixing to build a big building there. Um, and and spend a ton of money. And we just we're trying to grow and grow business. God's good to us and we're blessed and we want to keep going.

Any other concerns or comments? Any questions from I have one. Okay. If we did not allow this, what hardship would it be on you to keep your fence in the same of today.

Well, it's just going to make it harder for where we're at. Like, it's going to make it the hardship's going to be is I don't have a place for my employees to park. And so, what I probably was end up having to do is I can't build where I'm going to build. I wouldn't be able to build this building. I'd probably have to do something different. Um, like I said, our team's growing, our business is growing. We're trying to build another fab shop in there so we can manufacture more gates coming out of there. And so we really really need that extra space to move the cars because now the cars park on the south side of the building in the back of the lot. And so I need to move that space over there for them to be able to park. A lot of times our guys work it off out in other locations. And so we try to keep the cars behind the fence because they I mean it's not a there's not after, you know, 7 8 o'clock at night's not a whole lot of people that go down there. We haven't had any trouble in the area, but I would like to let my employees have their uh or team members have their vehicles parked behind a secure fence.

Are you saying you're going to build more structures inside that your property? Is that what you're saying? Yes. So, we have an architect right now working on drawing us up a anywhere from a 6 to 8,000 square foot shop. Um that's going to be back there. It's going to have showers. Um it's going to have showers, kind of somewhat of a living quarters in it in case, you know, people the guys want to stay, get in late or whatever. Um, so yes, we're working on that right now with Lindsay Allen. She's uh she's drawing it up for us trying to get it taken care of. So it's expanding. We're going to grow it. You know, part of the concern when you bring it out, a wooden fence, if you have a chain link fence and you bring it out, you you can still see through that if there's cars coming down the crown point.

If you come out of your drive and you look left and then you put your that with the wooden fence out there, it's going to impede. You're not going to be able to the vision's not going to be able to you have to go further out to be able to see if there's traffic. Hey, and I totally understand and totally agree with you on that. But the way what the way the driveway is set up is like I said, it's 65 ft wide.

So it's not like if you're pulling out a 12 or 14 foot driveway, they literally the trucks can turn completely sideways and see down the road. 18 wheel. I mean, we've had three 18-wheers that parked in that driveway at one time. So, it's like it's it's our driveway is way bigger than anybody else's on there just for the fact it's where it's at. But with that being said, even if that driveway wasn't that wide, you can still pull out and see all the way down past Dell Dell's paving. Okay?

I mean, I like I said, I trust you, I looked into it because we have team members that drive trucks every day. The last thing I want to do is put them in harm's way or create a problem. So, I actually, you know, we looked at it when um I can't remember the little guy's name that came out. um the young man that came out and uh actually took all the pictures, but me and him looked at it and he's like, "Man, you got plenty of room. They can see way they can see way down the road." You can, like I said, you can probably see three 400 feet past that fence.

Any further questions, comments? I get a motion. The call for public comment. call for public comment. Oh, I I did already, but that was second, but that's there. Any further comments? Yes, sir. Thank you. Well, then I make a motion for U PBOA 52-2026 to be approved. Second. Second. All in favor? I.

All opposed? access.

So, I'm sorry we can't vote. I'm just kidding. Yours isn't coming up again. We got good Okay. Again, thank y'all for what y'all do. Thank you. God bless. God bless. Thank you. I think it's on mine. It's user error. I told you I like an abacus or my fingers. Okay. So, this is getting a little complex. Pops up and then it stays away and I can't see. Yeah, I can't see that. Maybe I just don't know what I'm doing.

Okay. Now, um let's move on to the approval of minutes. Approval of the February 26, 2027 uh six meeting minutes. Request a motion. I approve minutes from February 26, 2026. Second. Okay. All in favor? I. All opposed.

Good. I don't have Why is not coming up. Ma'am, you good? No, ma'am. I hadn't been good for years, though. I can do it for you. It's not showing up. I don't know why. But you're okay with it? Yes, ma'am. I'm good. And Mr. Will you as well? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Next would be approval of the February 26 20 26 2026 workshop minutes. Request a motion for the approval. a second. I'll second.

All All in favor? I All oppose. Thank you. I got to stop. Any old new business? Right.

We haven't So, uh, old and new business, we need to discuss, uh, moving back to our home, which is the Bojer City Council chamber and relieve the court system of of their space. So, um, the renovations to the city uh, council room are uh, actually u coming to a close and so we would need to move our meetings back to the Mondays um, and then back to the city council chambers. Okay. So, the the date, okay, the May meeting was will be the 28th, but in June it's going to go to Monday, June 29th. Is that correct?

Yes, sir. Okay. In July as well. Say it again. Noted. And as will I. We're going to the beach together. Actually, I am going to the beach. So, this is in May, right? So, you you're not going to be here uh I won't be here May the 28th. So, that means I have to leave the meeting. I'm not I'm not going to be here that day. He is full of online. You said you weren't going to say anything for the next six months.

Well, and that means I can't I can't be here. We would have to take a vote on that to approve the the calendar. Oh, do we? Yes. Yes. Oh, so um can I get Can we get a motion to approve the adjustments to the act the meetings? I move that we approve the 2026 uh application and meeting dates. Okay. Second. I'll second. All in favor? I Any oppose? All opposed? No, they're good. Charles,

and then did you call for a special meeting? Is that Yes, there will be uh one on the 18th of this month and it will take place uh in the city council chambers. So, 18th of May. May 18th.

In the city council chambers. Yes, sir. Is that confirmed now? Say it again. Is it now confirmed? Sure. We're going to have a meeting. Yes, it has been confirmed. The applicant confirmed that he wants to move forward. So, it's a special meeting. Yes. She called you yesterday to tell you that, but you weren't listening, were you? I wasn't. Well, at least. And that's all the new and old business that I have. Okay. Anything else? Okay. Make a motion to adjourn, please. You just say meeting a journ. Oh, meet We have to make a motion, don't we? No, just meeting a journ.

Okay. Thank you.