Metropolitan Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

2026 Bodger City Parish Metropolitan Planning Commission meeting to order. If you would stand with me, I'll do the invocation and Chris Turner will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. You bow with me. Dear Lord, thank you for this city. For our first responders, thank you for this board that serves you and serves this city. And I just ask that we make decisions that honor you and benefit this city and move us forward. Again, we thank you for all that you provide to us and guide us as we go through the decisions today. In Jesus' precious name, amen. Okay, Katie, would you do a roll call for us, please, and read the decorum statement?

James Fine?

Here.

Dave Hadden? Absent. Donnie McDaniel? Absent. Art Schult?

Here.

Jeff Thigpen?

Here.

Chris Turner?

Here.

Michelle McDowell?

Here.

All right, we have a quorum. In accordance with Louisiana Open Meeting Law, the Bossier City Parish MPC asks for order and decorum at our meetings. Please silence your cell phones. For anyone who wishes to address the commission on any item on the agenda, we ask that you come forward, identify yourself for the audio record, and sign in. Speakers must address the MPC Board at all times. For those that would like to make comments on the items, please limit your comments to three minutes on a particular item that's up for discussion. All other audience members are asked to observe the meeting quietly. If there's a need for an audience member to hold a conversation or take a phone call, you're asked to step out of the meeting.

Okay, as for our agenda, I was going to call for a motion to approve that, but we may have an addition.

Mr. Chairman, if I may, we need to add an item. It would be number 12 under old and new business, C-OFFSIG-000010-2026 to old and new business. Make motion we approve as amended. Second.

I've got a motion and a second to approve the agenda as amended. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that carries. Are we doing the vote on?

Yes, sir.

Oh, there it is. Okay, visitors, I believe we've got Stacey Brown, President and CEO of Visit Shreveport-Bossier.

good afternoon good afternoon what a beautiful day and i hope many of you were able to come out to the red river balloon rally last weekend we hosted it at louisiana downs friday and saturday nights and we were out at barksdale on thursday night for a special balloon glow awesome thank you Well, just to give you a little update, I've got our annual report on Visit Shreveport-Bossier and our divisions. So the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission and the Shreveport-Bossier Film Office are both divisions of Visit Shreveport-Bossier. If you flip over a couple of pages to the one that shows, let's see, the second page. Well, sorry, flip over a few pages to, well, This one I think is missing a page, actually. If you look at your book, I think mine is missing a page. Yeah, mine is missing a page. That page. I don't know how I've got one. So if you look at page, should be four and five. Somehow mine is missing that. Oh, no, it was just stuck together. You'll see up in the left-hand corner there our visitation. So when you combine both our domestic and international visitor spending, you'll see that we had nearly a billion dollars spent in our community by visitors last year. So that is a significant improvement. We're looking to drive that even higher this next year. In fact, last year we sold 75,000 more hotel room nights than we had the prior year. So far this year, we're up almost 90,000 room nights sold more than we sold last year. So up even more. We're the third largest employer in Caddo and Bossier Parishes, and we're looking to continue to grow that with the increase in our gaming. We're seeing our market on an upswing there, and we are excited to see that growth. We also have just received notification that we have been re-accredited for our Destinations International Destination Marketing Accreditation Program. So through that, it's a worldwide program. We have to qualify, meet or exceed over 97 standards. of operations the way we do business the way we work with others in our community and how we represent and that represents less than 200 destinations across the world that have met those standards we just finished up our second destination 318 tourism business challenge so with that business challenge we started last year it's a hundred thousand dollars in prize money We ask businesses that are either existing to expand their operations or new businesses to come online to meet some of the unmet needs in our destination master plan as far as visitation. So some of these may be overcoming challenges like blight or it's adding something to our market that's not existing or has limited opportunities for visitors in our community. So we finished up our second one and our first place prize winner this year is a company called EVANS. And so it's kind of like a really nice six-seater golf cart that's totally enclosed, only goes about 35 miles an hour. And its goal is to take visitors from downtown Shreveport on over into downtown Bossier and back again, kind of going back and forth across the bridge, keeping people in those key downtown areas, because as I said, it can only go 35 miles an hour. So we're not exceeding those speed limits. This is a great way to get visitors around in our communities because a lot of people like to park and then get out and about. So this will increase some of that visitation and movement. They are also looking to produce visitation tours. So they'll give nice narrated tours to visitors as well. So we're excited about this new opportunity coming to our community. Also, 11 years ago, we worked with our community to add a hotel occupancy tax of 1.5%. And that occupancy tax was voted on by the citizens of Caddo and Bossier parishes. In fact, we received a majority of the votes in every single precinct in Caddo and Bossier parishes. So it was a very strong mandate for these three organizations that split the occupancy tax. That's the Regional Air Service Alliance, the Independence Bowl, and the Shreveport-Bossier Sports Commission. The Independence Bowl has been successful in driving more visitation as well as increasing their television ratings and that visitation through people coming in the future. In fact, through an independent study a couple of years ago, the bowl week itself generated over $3.4 million in economic impact. they have additional events throughout the year as well the regional air service alliance their goal is to drive more air traffic into our community and that could be through building more people coming on the routes that are existing but also adding new routes i believe they've added six new routes since starting the regional air service alliance So if you're flying, for instance, to Charlotte or Denver, Nashville, Orlando, several of these have been started through the support of the Regional Air Service Alliance. And with that, they generate over $19 million in economic impact every year. through the Shreveport Bozer Sports Authority, they assist over 100 events per year to happen in our two parishes. With that, they've been able to drive anywhere from 80 to $110 million in economic impact each and every year. So we're excited to see that continuing to build. Their goal is to bring regional, national and international sporting events to our community and increase international, I'm sorry, amateur sporting events as well. In fact, that bill will be coming up for a vote for renewal on December the 13th. So we would encourage you to be a part of saying yes to that as well. And continuing to grow these opportunities in our community. We will also have a couple of announcements very shortly. I was hoping to be able to make one of those announcements today, but it's not till Thursday. This is a fantastic event that will be coming with television as well as visitation to the Berkshire Grocery Arena this fall. and then another one that will be a three-year contract for a major event that will take place the next three springs. So we're really excited about all of the opportunities for our community, and we appreciate all the work that you do to help grow tourism and businesses in Bossier Parish and Bossier City. Are there any questions?

Just one question. Do you know when they will start the direct flights to Chicago?

Those start up this fall in, I believe it's October. In addition to that, we already were in the works on a special event there, a culinary event. So we will actually be expanding that, taking one of our chefs here locally up to that area and doing special media visits and really work to bring the visitation not only from here to Chicago, but from Chicago into the local market as well.

Just one additional question. I know you work directly with Shreveport with their short-term rentals and collecting the tax for hotel, motel taxes. Can you tell us a little bit about how that works?

So there is a database called Rentalscape. Through that database, they ask that people who have short-term rentals, first of all, register them. They have a small registration fee, that they meet some basic safety criteria. And that they also obviously pay their taxes So this is a great way for us to kind of keep tabs on where those short-term rentals are That they are occurring where they need to be and that they are properly regulated you know a lot of these are happening in neighborhoods where we want to make sure that we retain the neighborhood feel and want to make sure that things that are occurring there are best for the community overall so it's a great way for us to get them registered know where they are make sure that they're paying their taxes appropriately and they're acting in a manner that is great for our community as well as for our visitors thank you thank you thank you thank you okay we'll move into uh public hearing katie would you read the first

First case.

It's going to be C. Is this on? No. Sorry about that. 107-2026, the application of Niall Whatley for Cactus Wilhead requesting a planned unit development being 10.010 acres, more or less, located at 4131 Meadow Lane, Bossier City, Louisiana for industrial use with office space. City Council District 4, Police Jury District 7.

Katie, could you, on the previous vote that we had for the amending the agenda, it's still showing on our screen, can you? Blocking part of it. Yeah, we can't get to our toolbox. Normally there's a place that'll allow us to exit.

To exit out, yeah.

There's nothing.

So it used to be an X over here.

And now that's gone.

You can move it, but it goes over there.

Let's bear with us one more moment. Thank you. There we go. OK, if you would.

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Oh, crap. Thought it went off. I'm going to send it again and see if it'll let y'all vote and make it go away, maybe. No?

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OK. Sorry, sir. Hi.

My name's Nile Wadley. here representing, I'm the architect, representing the owner, Cactus Wellhead, in commercial construction and development. And if you guys have any questions, I'm here to answer any of your questions. But the new facility in the existing site is an expansion of what they're already doing. And so it's about 11,000 square foot new building, including an office, uh, service center basically for their operations. And, um, we're here to speak on, uh, uh, the pod.

If, uh, if you guys have any questions, are you taking down any of the existing buildings or it'll just be, no, it's in an open area.

There's once was a yard there.

Okay. Can you tell me a little bit about the activity that y'all have there?

I have the owner's representative here that can answer those questions if you'd like.

That'd be good. Because we're not familiar with the company. So, yeah, just tell us a little bit about the company. Good afternoon, guys.

Yeah.

Please state your name.

Mikey Chapa. I'm the branch manager for Cactus Wellhead here in Bossier. Cactus Wellhead, we got 14 branches in the U.S. that support the oil and gas. The facility where we're at, we're sitting on 26 acres. That's U.S. manufacturing. My branch, you know, we're fixing to expand, so we're adding a building to support the branch operations in this area. So... You know, the machine shop is next door. My operations is just physically just to support this area, so I'll have my assembly guys and my service department that pretty much services the architects, so that's what we're doing.

Just curious, how many employees do you have?

I got 27 employees in that new building. It'll be 14 people that'll be working there.

Will that be 14 additional people?

No, they're existing people, yes.

Did you sign in, sir? Did you sign in?

There's a spot right there.

Oh, it's under his papers. Sorry.

Thank you.

Do we have any additional questions from the No. From the board? No. Okay, this is a public hearing. If we have any questions or concerns from any audience members, if you do want to come forward, you've got three minutes to state your position. It doesn't look like we have any.

Seeing none, I'll make a motion. We approve CPUD 107-2026.

Second. We've got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. That carries.

Okay, next one, Katie.

C-A-L-C-1-1-0-2-0-2-6, the application of Joanna Alexander, End Zone Sports Bar, requesting a conditional use approval for the sale of high and low content alcohol for on-premise consumption at a bar slash pub located at 1700 Old Mendon Road, Suite 130, Bossier City, Louisiana, City Council District 3, Police Street District 9.

Good afternoon. My name is Tom Wilson. We own Bossier Crossroads. I was asked by Ms. Alexander to represent her today in her absence, and she is, and we are planning to She's been in business since 2007, and she's been at her current location since 2010. And the city has asked that she move from her present location, and she's going to move down to Boeser Crossroads. Her hours of operation will be from 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., Monday through Saturday, and there will be a little patio attached. It'll be a four and a half foot deductive fence on all sides. It's only accessible through the entering and exiting through the main entrance or the front door of the business. the patio has two emergency exits with alarms for entering and exiting without emergencies and we have been able to get a building permit from the city and Mr. Rodney Taylor has been awful helpful so we're in the process of tearing up the concrete and doing a lot of plumbing work we're trying to get her out of her present location as soon as possible. And I hope the city gives her a little time to, excuse me, I hope the city gives us a little time to do the remodeling that we have to do.

And I'm here to ask, besides being a landlord, I'm also a licensed contractor, so I hopefully can answer anything that you want to ask.

Do you have any questions?

No. No.

No, I don't think we have any questions. Again, this is a public meeting. If anyone from the audience would like to come forward and have any comment, you can do that at this time.

I do have one question. There's no chance that Ponchos is coming back to that spot?

How I wish. How I wish. I had to doubt it. I think, you know, I think there's only two or three of them. I think there's one in the New Orleans and I think maybe one in to Dallas, but it's been obviously many a year since they were here. Yes. And I think anybody that's been in our town for a number of years always thinks about ponchos. I've had many, many people over the years and the flags and all that. And in fact, I think Ms. Alexander likes the old idea when we were tearing things up. She found some of the little flags and I think she's think she's going to incorporate in her tables so that people can raise a little fact for a cocktail so anyway we'll make that a requirement pardon me we'll make that a requirement it's a good idea but anything i can help you out with i just i don't think we have any questions up here that i do hope the city gives a little time and one time they were saying august the first and i i can't conceivably get through the construction that fast but i hope you allow us to do i'm trying to do that as fast as i can yes sir anybody else

No, I think we're good. I'll make a motion. We approve CALC110-2026. Second. Second.

Got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that carries. Thank you, sir.

Thank you all so much.

Thank you. Thank you.

I didn't sign that, did I?

Yeah.

Okay, next one, Katie. CUSE1242026, the application of David Seneath requesting conditional use approval to allow the expansion of an existing single-family residence through the addition of a second dwelling unit for extended family occupancy located at 2477 Churchill Drive, Bossier City, Louisiana, City Council District 4, Police Jury District 8.

Yes, sir, if you would state your name and sign in, please.

My name is David Seenoth. I've already signed in. I reside at 2477 Churchill Drive in the crossing subdivision. I'm here today to respectfully request approval for a conditional use permit to construct a residential addition and interior remodel to our home. To give some brief context on our family, I'm a retired US Air Force Senior Master Sergeant. After completing my military service, my family chose to permanently settle right here in Bossier City, where I now serve our community as an executive for the Louisiana Association for the Blind. At the heart of our family is my wife, Courtney, who works tirelessly as a professional homemaker, raising and educating our large family. We are seeking this conditional use permit to support a true multi-generational household and my aging parents. The project will allow us to fulfill a vital family duty. My father is a retired US Navy veteran who has served honorably for 20 years. Following a recent diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease, my parents relocated to Louisiana after living in Florida so that our family could personally manage his complex medical and daily needs alongside my mother's. To successfully manage their care while sustaining our large household, this addition expands our primary residence to support necessary daily homemaking functions. We have intentionally designed and include features within this layout to maximize their independence while simultaneously enhancing our ability to fully care for both my father and mother together as a family union. This provides the dedicated safe and accessible space required to keep them at home rather than placing a decorated veteran into a full time institutional care facility. I want to explicitly state for the record that this addition will remain fully integrated with our existing residents under a single ownership. It will share all utilities with the primary home and is strictly for private family use. It is not designated nor will it ever be used for short-term or long-term rental income. We want to be excellent neighbors and maintain the harmony of our community. To that end, the addition is designed to completely match the architectural style, materials and character of our existing family home and the surrounding neighborhood. We have already proactively shared our plans with our immediate neighbors and secured formal architectural approval from the Crossing Homeowners Association. This project simply allows us to provide essential domestic footprint required for our children while safely stepping up as caregivers for my aging parents. Thank you for your time, your consideration, and your service to Bossier City. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Sir, do you have written architectural approval from the HOA?

Yes, I do.

Can we see that? We didn't see it in the submitted plans.

I have it in my email. You can just email it to Carlotta.

Okay. That was one of our concerns. Yes.

yeah we just we had that you know just wanted to make sure that it sounds like you've already kind of visited with your neighbors i have is that correct yes they seem good with absolutely i really commend what you're trying to do the police and fire do have one comment um because it's in a single family subdivision they'd like to have a single entrance so if you can maybe

reconfigure rather than have two separate entrances you know one common entrance that then could split off that two parts of the house would be and then they're satisfied they're facing fire and in the revised vision of the plans that you guys should have we we took out the the entrance um to the second to the third garage unit okay so the

So there was a second front door entrance. Correct. Yes. So that has been removed? Yes. OK.

So in the revised plans, I believe there was a question of an extra laundry room and the second entrance. what we would like, if that was the only issue, is we're willing to take away that second entrance. If the second laundry room is not a problem, we would still like to have that, but we're willing to take it out if necessary. It would provide an extra help for my parents and allow them to be independent and be able to wash their own laundry, and especially as my dad progresses through his disease, to be able to have a separate place for that.

And I think we're in full agreement with what you're trying to do. We're just trying to make sure that we keep a single family neighborhood. Yes, sir. I understand. And, you know, so in 20 years, you know, maybe different tenants. Right. Right. So that was that's a big concern. And then the fire, they had a comment about, you know, if they roll up on a place that's got more than one front door, they're not really sure where to go.

They want a single address. That makes sense. Yes. You have two doors. They'd have to be two addresses. OK. this addition is actually connected to the main house so there's no any further discussion uh still be uh one utility connection one utility connection yes i'm good as long as we get that email yeah yeah yeah i'll get that right now you could provide that to carlotta uh someone be willing to

put together a motion here. Well, I'm sorry. I'm jumping ahead. This is a public meeting, and if any comments from anyone in the audience, now would be the time to come forward and voice those.

Can you perceive any conditions we need to put on this, just based on what's been presented, as long as we have our HOA approval in writing and we satisfy police and fire?

No, I think it's fine. I was impressed the applicant already said it was going to be just one family. And Mr. Chairman, you stressed that as well as you, Mr. Schultz. So I think the way to do this Depending on how long it's going to take the applicant to be able to send the HOA, you might defer this vote just a minute and save some wordage. Why don't you just do that? Get the next case. Good.

Pardon me?

I was just trying to see how long it takes. I think in the interest of time, just delay a vote on this until you get the email and Carlotta and Carolina have a chance to review it.

Okay, do we need a board vote?

No, just be at your ease for a moment and move to the next case.

Okay, we'll do that. We'll just pause on this for just a moment and we'll move to the next case and then come back and actually close this with a vote.

Okay, next we have C-ALC-125-2026, the application of Andrew Corbis for pull-up liquor number six, requesting a conditional use approval for the sale of high and low-content alcohol for off-premise consumption at a liquor store located at 4015 Industrial Drive, City Council District 4, Police Jury District 10.

How are y'all doing? I'm Andy Quervies, Vintage Realty Company, and I'm representing Trush Care Sling to open a liquor store next to Good Day Farms. And I think y'all got the plan. It's 3,000 square feet. The entrance will come off Industrial Drive in the rear.

not right okay not off swan lake right when they put the swan lake extension in right they blocked that off we couldn't get a right in or right out so everything's coming in same side as good day farm centers their property you come off of that same street exactly okay it's um you know

The Wendy's closed. I had somebody interested in buying that. Burger King shut down. It's a Checo fish. I'm glad they're in there wanting to do something. I know the Lowry's who've owned that for 50 plus years are glad to have something like that happening. And it's going to be 3,000 square feet, open from 9 to midnight, seven days a week.

And no drive-thru.

Yeah, they will have a drive-thru.

They will have it? No, they won't be able to. Right here.

You want to put this in here? How do you turn this on?

Yeah, Carlotta, I don't think we're... Yeah, that was in the plan. Yeah, the city won't allow a drive-through for liquor.

Okay. No drive-through window?

Correct.

With alcohol. Oh, it's not working at the... It's not working to display at this moment, but yes.

It's not?

No. So just to confirm, city ordinance prohibits a drive-through. Correct. With the sale of alcohol. With the sale of alcohol.

Okay.

Shreveport, you can, not Bosch.

Can you do it in the parish?

You can. You can do it in the parish.

Okay. Because my people up on Benton Road were going, maybe we need a drive-through window. I said, well, we might have a bigger driveway, but that's a different case, so...

Any additional questions here from the board? Again, this is a public meeting. Anyone in the audience that would like to come forward and make a statement, you can do that now. Seeing no one, we have an entertain a motion.

I'll make a motion. We approve CALC. 125-2026 with the clarification that there will not be a drive-through window.

Second.

We've got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Hearing none. And we're electronic voting here. We're waiting on it to come up. Just for your information, we're required to verbally vote and electronically vote.

And that does pass.

And that motion passes. So, that one's good. Okay, are we on the email from the previous?

So, I have received it. Did they state a certain site plan?

If you scroll to the top of the email chain, I sent the site plan to them.

Mine doesn't have any attachments.

Okay. I'll forward you to my first one.

We can keep working on it if we want to go to the next one.

Okay. That's good. All right. I guess we would be at 126. Katie?

So, CALC 126-2026, the application of Sabrina Washington, SES Events, requesting a conditional use approval for the sale of high and low content alcohol for on-premise consumption at an event center located at 2950 East Texas, Suite 42, City Council District 2, Police Jury District 9. Hello.

How y'all doing?

Good.

Good. My name's Sabrina Washington. I'm with SES Events Center. located at 2950 East Texas, which is located in the Pier of Bojama. We are an event center. We hold all type of events. We do conferences. We do weddings. We do receptions. We do meetings. We hold anniversary parties. We were asking to be able to do high-end and low-end alcohol.

How big a space do you occupy, just curious?

It's about 30,000 square feet. Wow.

Very good.

So we can use different sections depending on what event that we're having.

And it's all on premises? It's all on premises. Okay. I have no questions. Any other questions?

Which part of the mall is that in?

It's in what used to be the old Forever 21. Right between Surge and JCPenney's, the back side.

Just outside the food court?

It's the back side of the food court.

Is it accessed through the mall, or is it an outside entrance?

It has both. It has an inside entrance and an outside entrance. When we hold our events, they come in through the outside, just like they do at Surge. Good. And then when those events are going on, the

doors to the mall are not not open it's the ones from the out all the outside exits and everything we all have security we do and it'll be this law enforcement or private security we have both okay excellent sounds good i'm good okay any other any other questions no comments up here nothing again this is a public meeting anyone from the audience can come forward and uh

Do you have something to say? Seeing nothing there, I'll entertain a motion on 126.

I'll make a motion to approve ALC 126-2026. Second.

Got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that's perfect. Thank you very much. Good luck. Thank you. All right, are we still moving on? Are we going to move into preliminary?

We can go back to the item CU000124-2026. I did receive the site plan. It would just need to be with the stipulation that the exterior door for the addition be removed. Okay. That was HOA requirement. No, but that's on the site plan that was approved by the HOA.

I'll make a motion that we approve C use 000124-2026 with that stipulation that the exterior door be removed.

Second. We've got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Good. Thank you all. Thank you. Okay, I believe we are on the preliminary now, correct?

Yes. We have CZON1142026, application of Robert Rollins, Moore & Associates for Sow and Reap Therapy, LLC, requesting a zoning amendment to change the zoning classification of a certain tract of land being 9.92 acres, more or less, from RMD, residential medium density, to B1, business commercial office, located at Lot A, South Gates Estates Unit 1 for proposed physical therapy and childcare facility, City Council District 1, Police Jury District 12.

Okay, if you would just sign in and state your name, please.

Okay, my name is Dr. LaTanya Mister. And I am here to ask for rezoning of land that's in South Bossier City, so I know No one here, no one looks familiar to me either. So I'm from Mississippi, and we are here because my husband recently retired, as in last year, from the US Air Force at Barksdale. And since being here, I opened up my first location of sewer and physical therapy. We're located at 1743 Swan Lake Road in Bossier. We've been here for almost six years this fall. So we specialize in women's health, pelvic floor, That's the kind of therapy. So we have a niche practice that we do here. Just a little bit else about the business. So we, again, have that one location. I am very involved in the community on both sides, but heavily with the Shreveport Bossier. I do plan on joining the Bozer Chamber soon. I mean, the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce. I'm so sorry. And I plan on joining the Bozer City soon. I am on the board of the Independence Bowl Foundation. I am first vice president of the business development connection with the Shreveport Bozer, where I'm alongside Ellie Ward. And I've had national recognition through Goldman Sachs, the United States Chamber of Commerce. We've won awards through them. Shreveport Chamber of Commerce has recognized us. We've had a lot of business training through military training through Syracuse University. And we've won national grants. So all of that has happened within the six years of us opening our doors. And so it's just a pleasure to be here. And when we first moved here, about six years ago, there was a huge need for child care here. And we had a horrible time finding child care. The great daycares, they had two-year wait lists. And we needed a child then. My husband, with all of his military duties and me wanting to start a practice here, it was just difficult to find a child care. And once I found this land, I'm working with some individuals who encouraged me to just go ahead and do that with the daycare. And I will be bringing a national franchise here who will work right beside me, making sure nothing is missed. And also on the other end of that land, we will open up our second location of solar and physical therapy because we are at our max at Swan Lake Road. We don't have any more space. Our patients are like, you need a bigger space because they're all on each other. But it's all good. We are growing and just excited to be here and contribute to the community. Any questions?

I'm excited for you. The existing property, just a note, being RMD, you could have 100 to 150 apartments there. And I think I would much rather have a B1 business such as this, particularly one that's needed so badly.

Thank you.

I don't have any questions. There may be a question over, I think right now the site plan is showing three entrances, the one that's closest to Barksdale Boulevard. could very well end up maybe disappearing and just have one or two of the other entrances just so we don't have a lot of traffic congestion right there so close to that exit.

Gotcha.

Yeah. Yeah, just to comment, if you can make it look anything close to what you provided here, that would be wonderful. That's the plan. That is the plan.

Okay. Just one additional question, Mr. Chairman. Is the intent to build both facilities at the same time or one before the other?

Priority would be the daycare, and then shortly after that, within a year or two, would be the second location for SunReap.

Thank you. Good. Along those lines, you would probably build parking lot just to support the daycare initially and then expand the parking lot as the other building is needed or?

I would love to have it all just poured at the same time. But we'll see what the financing's in. Because they wanted me to break it down into two different plans.

So Carlotta and I were just approving, well, actually moving forward to the next month's agenda for zoning only. So this would be a putt approval eventually, correct? Yes, sir. So we'll deal with any of those particulars, garbage dumpsters and all that at that point in time.

Yes, sir.

Okay, any additional questions up here? Nope. Any comments? The public's just about gone, so maybe we don't have any comments there either.

I'll make a motion we move C Zone 114-2026 to a public hearing. Second.

Got a motion and a second to approve to move this to a public hearing. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes.

Good luck. See you next month.

Good luck. Okay, we're ready for the next one.

PZON1282026, application of Jacob Malone, Raley & Associates for Bossier Property Group, LLC, requesting a zoning amendment to change the zoning classification with certain tract of land being 0.512 acres, more or less, from B1, Business Commercial Office, to B2, Limited Business, located at 2240 Vanceville Road, for proposed firearms and ammunition shop, Police Jury District 6.

Do we have anyone here representing? We do not.

Of course, this is preliminary. I mean, can we act on it? If you choose. If you choose, you can.

I guess we open it up for discussion and then vote.

Yeah. mean given a location i think i prefer this location to the original location this one's closer to benton road i don't think i would have any problems just moving it to a public hearing they you had no contact from the applicant no i would request though at the public hearing that the applicant be present oh yes absolutely

I agree. Any other comments here? I don't think we have any opposition, so to speak, at this point. But we would require that the applicant be at the public hearing to move forward. But I would entertain a motion here to pass it to public hearing. I'll make a motion we move P Zone 0128-26 to public hearing. Second. Got a motion and second to move this to public hearing. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

I'm going to abstain.

You got one abstain. And that motion passes. All right. When do we bring in our? Do we go ahead and approve the minutes? Is that what we want to do?

That's the next item. Yes, sir.

All right, so for the June 8th, 2026 workshop minutes, need approval? So moved. Second. Got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? And the Metropolitan Planning Commission, minutes from June 8th, 2026. So moved. Second. Got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes also. I believe we did move an agenda item to, from... Add to old business.

Number 12, C-OFFSIG-000010-2026. The applicant and our resident attorney are out in the lobby at this time. I would call for a recess until they come back into chambers. So we would need a motion and a second to recess.

I make a move we recess temporarily. Second. Got a motion and a second to recess temporarily. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? We are recessed.

We're also putting some new equipment on some of our... Mr. Dick Payne, you'll need to call us back into order.

Okay, I'll call the MPC meeting back to order. So we're... We're moving again here.

Sorry to keep you waiting, but I think we've got this resolved.

Edward Bass, sorry, y'all. Did not mean to keep y'all waiting at all.

Before we get started, I'll go ahead and read the item out again. It is number 12 under old and new business, C-OFFSIG-000010-2026. Okay. We were about to ask for an injunction.

based on compliance with what had gone out in the last meeting. So y'all been out in the hall discussing it. Let us know what's transpired.

Yes, and I did inform him that y'all were getting ready to give me that authority. And this isn't any kind of threat. It's just Mr. Bass believes there's been some miscommunication. We got Mr. Davis, their attorney, on the phone. And he's fine with me meeting directly with Mr. Bass. So where we are, and I would have come out anyway to be able to see all of you. The compliance with the electronic upgrades has been, I think, misunderstood. and Mr. Bass has his electronic faces both up, he believed, and correct me if I'm wrong, that getting the electric permit for that was sufficient, but instead he needed to get a sign permit, and he acknowledges that he wants to make that right. how the three signs to be removed are still in place. He will speak here in a moment in terms of what he would like to propose in terms of his deadline for doing that. I said I thought the understanding would be that by the time we got to this meeting and could approve the restrictive covenant, that the signs would be down, but that's simply my understanding. We do know, however, that the total display area of the two faces is 600 square feet. From the minutes, Mr. Schultz said, let's say we start with an equal allocation on both faces under that total ability to have 600 square feet. The MPC needs to be notified if there's any change in that allocation, and that was not provided in the restrictive covenant, and that was a big point. And that is fine with Mr. Bass to be able to provide that notification and I suggested at least seven days in advance of any change in the allocation. That sound reasonable?

Yes, sir.

Okay. Then I think we can start going through here and I can say what I had said needed to be based upon the minutes that I received. what was required to get the restrictive covenant straight. The notice provision we just talked about, it was stated in the meeting minutes more than once that using the terminology of the draft restrictive covenants, the portions of the sign faces other than the advertising display area, that is the border area, would be blacked out. Mr. Bass has a comment on that.

So we spoke about that during the meeting and the border was was, from my understanding, said that the border could be of any color as long as there was a border. So in my interpretation, what we put in the covenant was that as long as the border is there and let's just hypothetically say there's an arm that goes all the way to the to the edge of the screen that arm would need to be reduced down inside of the border however if that however if the border is blue then the border would be blue going up but that that arm would not make it all the way up past the border. So instead of the border actually being black all the way around, because there's already a black border around the screen. Not only is there a black border, but I gave up an additional six inches on my sign. My sign was originally 10 foot 6 by 36. It is now 10 foot by 36. So my sign actually reduced in size versus what it originally was. So by square footage total, I am no longer 720 square feet per sign. Okay, so I'm 10 by 36. Well, yeah, I'm 720 but I was actually more than that to begin with on the static sign. All right, so but anyway from the conversation from the meeting that we had last time as long as the border could be any color as long as the display area that was actually there was within it was in the 600 square foot total between the two. That was my understanding.

I think that's correct. Okay, you tell me, because the minutes do not reflect anything about being any color.

And I assume you meant that it would be a different color. That could be a color. It just couldn't, yeah.

Did you want it to be and did you intend it to be a different color than the advertising display?

I don't think I thought about it during that meeting, but that,

that border would could be some color other than the advertising space okay i think for enforcement purposes it needs to be a contrast color against what the advertisement is if it changes with every advertisement i don't have a way to enforce the size okay that's what i thought was the intention yeah so if the advertisement is white but he has a white border If the advertisement is black and it has a black border, I don't know for certain if it is within that 300 square feet.

So that becomes the issue too. So like most of the backgrounds are white or black or a solid color background. So if I make it all black, then if I make my sign black, then you can't tell where the border's at. And the same thing with the white. If I do it white and then the border's white. So it basically comes down to the same thing. The way that it would look professional up there would be as long as we don't take whatever advertising image is there and scale that image from border to border being from to end that's really the only way that you can do this I work on graphics myself and I've been doing graphics and CAD programming and designing for 30 years and so I understand you know how these graphics actually work when they go on the board and what colors work and what color the the advertisers that are paying for for the ads that go up there what they actually do and And I'm not trying to circumvent anything that's going on with what y'all are saying by no means. I'm just trying to be practical and trying to be understanding and understanding to my clients when my clients ask for something as well. So even if I did a small contrast, let's just say the board's blue, and the board's a dark blue and I did a still did a blue background but maybe I did a lighter shade maybe I can kind of pull off those colors by doing a lighter shade versus doing a white with black or black with blue or so on and so forth other than that I don't know how to really make it look professional and look good for the city I mean ultimately everybody in the city sees this billboard The sign across the street from me doesn't have a border. They don't have anything restrictive, a restrictive covenant or anything either on theirs. So with that being said, it becomes a little bit more of a challenge. I'm not saying that I can't do it. I'm just trying to find something that y'all can monitor as well as something that looks professionally correct. That's why I was saying if we could use whatever color border that we needed to use versus a solid black or a solid white that we could actually make it work.

Well, I think if, Carlotta, I think you hit on it, as long as it's a contrasting color, and we'll leave that color scheme up to you. Okay. Perfect.

Would that work?

I'm good with that.

I agree. I think you're good with that, Carlotta. I'm skeptic. I think the overall image needs to be reduced to the size. I just do not have a way to enforce it. I don't have a way to keep up with it if it changes every time. That's the issue I have. That's why I recommended that the board size actually be what's regulated and what's permitted.

I don't know what to do there. I mean, to me, the whole point of the limit to the size as it relates back to the ordinance, I believe, is because it is electronic and a light is a light is a light, And, you know, if I take this image up here and I just put an image that's six inches smaller all the way around on that screen, I still have that much light from border to border. I mean, I don't know the physics of how physical steps would make this happen, but in my mind, I would almost if you had some type of permanent material that built a border around it.

Well, no, but I think that he's going to be able to allocate his 600 square feet between the two faces. And so he couldn't have a permanent border, but I do think Carlotta is exactly right. It needs to be a contrasting border. If you're looking at this, it would be, obviously in this one, it would be black. All the way around. All the way around. You're good with contrasting, right?

And 12 by 25, which was the approved advertising space.

Yeah, and we probably didn't stipulate it in the first meeting, but in my mind, I was thinking black was what I was thinking. Yeah, essentially that's consistent. Non-lit black was what I was thinking.

Mr. Thigpen, if you look at the image on the screen up there, this is what I was talking about, about, you know, see how you have the contrast at the very top. You have a light blue or you have a different color. This is why, this is what I'm talking about, is that I can contrast the color a little bit there, but what happens when I go to black? If it's black, then it's all black. So there's no way of contrasting that specific color. So I guess what I'm saying is that I can contrast colors, but I need to have the ability to be able to do that. And if you say, hey, my border can only be black, well, then it really... hamstrings me to be able to do that then you know every if every graphic I put up that's black and a background matches that then I'm gonna get called into the NPC or potentially get fined for having a black background so that's kind of the the situation where I'm at but I can do a like if I'm doing white I can do a softer color on that that kind of shows the border that's there

Well, it can't be just Canada shows the border. Well, of course, it'll show it.

But of course, it will show the border. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got you. If the entire board is a digital board, you're saying just shrink the digital image. To the resolution.

So there's no digital effect whatsoever on the border.

Correct. Even if his image has a black background, and you're not showing any digital image whatsoever for the border, you would be okay with that?

Yeah. It's just the display resolution that I think can be controlled by the digital board so that he's just reduced overall to that, was it 12 by 25?

Yes, 12 by 25, so it was 300.

I can change the resolution that it shows the entire picture at a certain resolution. It can be done the same way with the digital board. And the background would always be the same color. It would always be black. Because the resolution size is only going to display what he's requesting it to display.

So if I might add, I drove there the other night. And right now, as you have it, you changed the color of the background on the line. It feels and it still looks like you can see the whole screen, you know, the whole billboard. So there's no contrast between what it got approved to what you have. And that's our main issue.

Got you.

is still acting as a full sign. Why don't you try contrasting white or black and see how it works. Outside of that. See how it works for you and your sales and come back here and talk to them.

I'm willing to do whatever we need to do to try to make this thing work for y'all and for us. I'm not trying to circumvent anything or anything like that of that nature. I'm definitely trying to work with y'all to make this work.

My major concern was the permit, the sign permit, and then the removal of the other signs. So you're about to get into that?

yes i was i just got on um text over to shreveport neon they're the ones i've already paid to take down the boards i have paid i paid them forty five thousand dollars to remove the boards so i have paid for these to be removed they are coming down there are no advertising advertisements on there right now what's on there when i purchase them is still on there i'm not trying to sell advertisements on there whatsoever. So I'm just waiting on them to be able to take them down from when I talked to him the other day. He's saying hopefully by the end of August they'll have them down. I'm going to try to get an exact confirmation when that date will be and or before and try to hold him to that.

Carlotta, would you need a direct communication or something from?

Yes, we would need a date and we also need to know who installed the signs.

Creative graphics out of Monroe was the ones that installed the sign.

I thought there was a permit pulled on these signs So the the outstanding issue is still the deed restriction in Covenant and then the removal of those signs Though that has not been done in my opinion and of course the board can make whatever decision they would like is that there should be no advertising until that happens and And then somebody.

Yeah, absolutely. Right. And then doesn't he have to also obtain a signed permit for these new signs?

Mr. Brian McNew applied for the permit initially. It just was never fulfilled. How was it that he applied for the permit for the billboards? It's just they never completed it.

Oh, what's being what's missing on on that? So I can maybe request Brian to finish this out. I'm not I don't.

So he applied for the official billboard application permit for the installation of the actual boards. I think what you pulled was just a socket install. So the permit is for the billboards. It was never fulfilled or completed.

So does Brian need to get back in touch with you and back in touch with the MPC for this? Or what's our route to go right now?

So now that there's another company that has installed them, they would need to pull.

They need to fill out the permit. Correct. Okay, so I need to reach out to them and ask for them to pull the permit. Yes, sir. Okay.

I'll do that. So is there existing advertising that's on these signs? Yes, sir. Okay, you've got a problem then in terms of you're in non-compliance with your sign permit and those displays need to come down until you get your sign permit.

That's not good. Can we expedite that?

Can you call the sign company and see?

Talking about, you're saying get in touch with the sign company to put the sign up to fill out the paperwork. Correct.

They just have to apply online. Trifold here.

So yeah, so let me so let me just get this straight. So the the company in Monroe that put the sign there needs to File for their permit in at Bossier parish to get this stuff done And then once we do that, then we're back in compliance So you will be able to issue the permit after the covenants and deed restrictions have been recorded

in addition to the signs being removed. That was the stipulation for digital signs for anyone in Bossier City. So any sign company that wants to go with digital for off-premise has to take down to get the credit to install. So those have to come down. The deed restrictions and covenants have to be recorded in order for us to even issue the permit.

So we've ironed out the deed covenant and everything already. So we've went over this and pretty much ironed all this out. So we could potentially have that done in the next day or so. Perfect. And then I can get the company that installed the sign to tomorrow fill out the paperwork so I could get this stuff done. done relatively fast, but getting the company to remove the billboards, that might take a few days for them to get that done. Is there anything that we can do to maybe get a letter from them on the amount of time that it's going to take them to remove them and if they don't have them down that by that time that we could say hey look at that you don't have them down by this time then we will suspend all all advertisement on our board and shut the and shut the power off on the board if they don't have those billboards down that would be your decision that has not been something that we have done you have to have the boards down in order to get the credit to install

So with the boards being active... Which boards?

If they're able to remove the advertising, cover the advertising that's on the billboards?

I would stipulate because he had a static sign before that he could have one advertising on both sides. That would be as far as I could go. But to allow him to continue to advertise with those signs not being taken down, I don't know that I can justify that with another billboard company because we've always required them to take down in order to get credit to install.

I understand.

I understand. But because they were static before, I think it's fair to allow him to have a static sign on them on both sides.

I can agree with that. I agree with that. I think that's fair. Okay.

Okay.

That's fair.

So do we need any action or is this what conversation?

I think I think we've I think the conversation covers it, but I would like to get it on the record as to what has been agreed to.

Will I have to come back through the MPC to make all this work again? Or is this something that I, do I need to come back through the MPC again? Or do I, can I just work this out with the MPC office as we're working through this?

I would think it'd be administrative function.

I mean, it can be because this is just an item up for discussion, but I would want on record that you agree that the deed restrictions will be recorded within, what did you say?

I can get our stuff done tomorrow. I just need to get signatures from your office to be able to get the deeds recorded. I'll record this as soon as I get a signature on it from your office. I think Mr. Irwin and I have... ironed out everything in here that needs to be ironed out. And then I can get a signature on this from your office. I'll go record that immediately. And then I'll get an exact date. I'll start leaning on Shreveport Neon to get that, get those other boards down as soon as possible. So without waiting.

And what is the agreement in terms of allowing him to have the one static sign?

I mean, that would need to be... active immediately until such time that those other boards are taken down.

Okay. Do you understand?

I get the other boards down. So we have the covenant to iron out, which we just need signatures on recording. We need to take the other boards down. They need to come down as soon as possible. And then we need to get the other company to put in their permit information to make sure we have the permit correct. And then once those three are completed, then we're back up and running. And we're back up and running. Okay, perfect. Good.

And I think for the time being, you're going to have either a black or white border around any part of the advertising display that has to be a border so that you can out and let's make sure, Carlotta, let's make sure that you and Carolina are on board with what I heard at the last meeting. Because it's electronic, they have 600 square feet of display area. Correct. That can be allocated between the two faces, right?

That's what we said.

Right?

They would be the same, and then at such time that he wants to do something different or allocated differently, then we would be put on notice as per the covenants.

Correct. But it is okay with seven days advance notice.

Yes.

As long as the total display is not more than 600 square feet. Correct. that the border then would change potentially and all that and it's going to be a black or a white border until such time as he comes back and y'all may or may not agree that that ought to be changed. From an enforcement standpoint, I think you're exactly right, but let's see if there's some problem, genuine problem that arises and you come back and talk to this board. Everybody good?

So, at this time, he'll go down to a single face. He will get the sign company that installed the signs to apply for their permit, and then we'll get the deed restrictions and covenants recorded. Yeah, and once all those are done, then he can be back up and running, including the sign designs that will be taken.

So, do we know about, is there any question about the single face? That's the only one that I'm a little unclear.

To me, he can go full-on single face at this time, because that's what he had before. So if he wants to fully display a single advertisement that does not change, we can do that.

On one, but only on one face?

He can do it on both sides because he had a static face on both sides. I think that's fair. That's what he had before.

All right. Thank you. Yes, sir. All right. We'll get it. We'll get it all taken care of for you. Appreciate it. Good. Yeah.

We don't need to do anything here with a motion.

No. OK. So the only question is whether the staff has heard everything that has just been said so we can get that in writing if necessary. For sure. Very good. I know it's. Thank you for your patience with all this.

All right. We're going to take care of it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. Bye, y'all.

Any other comments from the board before we adjourn?

No.

Okay. I will call this one done.

We are adjourned.