Metropolitan Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

I would think it has to be industrial.

Yeah, it has to be industrial. That's what.

Thank you, that results. And mom was on the dental. Okay. It's two. It's the same case. Is it? Do I have to wait on that clock or?

Are we ready, Katie?

Good afternoon. Time is 2 o'clock.

I'd like to call the Monday, September 14, 2026, Bossier Parish, Bossier City Parish Metropolitan Planning Committee meeting to order.

I'll do the invocation, and then Mr. Dave Haddon will do the Pledge of Allegiance. If you would stand with me, please. Pray with me. Dear Lord, thank you for this city. We thank you for our first responders, especially this time of year when we think about the tragedy from 9-11 and those that sacrificed everything, Lord, and for those that even today move toward chaos to keep the rest of us safe. Lord, we thank you for those. We thank you for the administration of this city. We ask that you give us guidance and wisdom to make the right choices that would honor this city, but honor you, Lord, in the end. We thank you for all that you do in Jesus' precious name. Amen.

Ladies and gentlemen, please join me in the pledge.

Okay, we can do the roll call for us, please, Katie.

James Fine.

Here.

Dave Hadden.

Here, ma'am.

Donnie McDaniel is absent. Jeff Thigpen.

Here.

Art Schult.

Here.

Michelle McDowell is absent. Chris Turner.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Okay, for our agenda, entertain a motion.

I'd like to make a motion we approve the agenda as written. Second.

I've got a motion and a second to approve the agenda as written. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes.

Do we still need them?

Are we doing the decorum?

Dave, did you make the motion? I made the motion seconded by James.

Just so you know, we do have to electronically vote as well, along with verbal. So we were waiting on that electronic piece. Okay, this is a public hearing. Katie, would you read our first case before us, please? Oh, we need to do the decorum speech.

Yeah, we're going to skip the decorum speech today. For our first item is going to be CZON1332026, the application of Jordan Johnson requesting a zoning amendment to change the zoning classification of a certain tract of land being 2.009 acres, more or less, from RA Residence Agriculture to B3 General Business for the retail sales and display of portable buildings to be located at 5301 East Texas Street, Bossier City, Louisiana, City Council District 4, Police Jury District 10.

Okay, do we have a... The applicant? Is the applicant in the building? Yes. If you would come forward and please state your name, sign in, and then tell us a little bit about what you've got going on. And just while she's doing that, I think it's a good reminder, we are all citizens of Bossier City and Bossier Parish, and we are volunteers. None of us at this board are paid, and we're here to make the best decisions we can for the city.

My name is Jordan Johnson. I'm requesting the zoning change for the retail and display of the portable buildings We have sheds greenhouses carports garages garden sheds No manufacturing. It'll just be strictly display and retail. I

In your sales office, you're proposing a new building?

Yes. Yes, sir.

And I don't know, has our staff shared with you some of the unresolved issues? Yes.

Okay. Yeah. We're currently, we're working on the formal SOP plan.

Okay. Is it just curious, is there any reason why the existing building couldn't be reused or is that just too far gone?

I think it is pretty bad. I did ask about that. They have plans to renovate it and potentially use it for something else, maybe something down the road. OK, thank you.

Okay, this is a zoning change discussion. Any other comments from the board? No. No comments. This is a public hearing. If anyone would like to voice their opinion or share some information, now would be the time to come forward.

I'll move for approval, seeing none, of C Zone 133-2026. Second.

Okay, we've got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none. And that carries. Good. Thank you, ma'am. All right, Katie, next one, please. Pardon?

Oh, that's the plat. Here's the next one. I'm sorry.

All right. CPLAT 134-2026. Application of Jordan Johnson for an amended plat L&J Cereos Farm Subdivision Unit Number 2, being 2.009 acres more or less, located at 5107 East Texas Street, Bossier City, Louisiana, City Council District 4, Police Jury District 10.

Okay, just for record, if you would state your name again.

Jordan Johnson, and same concept, because right now it's residential agriculture and, you know, no retail.

Okay, I think there's still going to be some requirements for a site plan, is that correct?

Yes, sir.

And would need a hearing, I believe, eventually for a portable building, is that correct?

There would be some additional hearings because she's requesting gravel as well. So, yes, sir. Just depending on what comes out of her final site plan.

Okay. Okay. Any further questions? No.

No questions.

Okay. Again, this is a public hearing. If anybody would like to come forward.

I'll move for approval of C-134-2026. Second.

We've got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that carries. Thank you, ma'am.

Thank you.

Okay, if you'd read number four, please.

Let's see, PLAT 156, 2026, application of Charlie Coyle, Coal Engineering, for Forge Athletics, LLC, requesting a preliminary plat, Forge subdivision, being 14.347 acres, more or less, Bossier City, Louisiana, located at the dead end of Mini Max Drive, City Council District 5, Police Jury District 6.

Charlie Coyle with Coil Engineering. Answer any questions that you have?

Thank you, Mr. Coyle.

Hey, Charlie, are you aware that three unresolved issues about, I think it's lot 1,000, shall not be a built-in site. Are you aware of those?

No, I was not. But, yeah, lot 1,000 is not a, it's that little strip that's south of the bayou, and that is designated as not being a building site.

Okay.

And Charlie, this does not include, at this juncture, development of lots one and two. That's for the future. Is that what I'm seeing?

Yeah, well, that's what they're going to develop, lots one and two. Okay. Yeah. Those are the two building sites.

Okay.

Charlie, could you tell us a little bit about the intended development?

It's going to be an athletics complex. Indoor athletics complex.

Like baseball practice? Yeah. That type of thing.

Okay. With multiple buildings? There's one building on each lot.

Okay.

No questions.

Any further questions up here? Nothing. Again, this is a public hearing. If someone has concern or comment, if you would come forward now. Yes, sir. Come forward and write your name and state your name as well.

My name is Craig Johnson. I'm an executive pastor at North Point Community Church. We don't really have any objection with the athletic facility. Our primary concern is the current elevation of the land. As it sets, it is approximately four feet higher than our ground level. So as it butts to our south parking lot, where our biggest concern is going to be flooding when we have excessive rains. And it also is a concern of Ms. Gina Eubanks, who is an owner of the mini mall in front of the church.

So the way the current property sits now, it's four foot above yours. It's much higher. Are you experiencing flooding? We're here.

It's here.

Are you experiencing flooding now? Well, it hasn't rained like that yet over here. Well, I'm in.

When we get those three and four days in a row, and the section of our dumpster area contains three dumpsters for both the Minimo and our church, it currently is subject to some flooding as it exists right now, and this is going to exacerbate that.

The applicant would be required to submit drainage plans, drainage servitude plans, you know, to the city engineer. That's what we're hoping. I just want to go on the record. And there are state statutes that, you know, they can't drain onto your property, you know, with improvements. So I would think it would be okay there.

Okay. I just wanted to go state it for the record. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you. Any further public comment or concern? Seeing none, I would entertain a motion.

I'd like to make a motion we approve C-PLAT 156-2026. Second.

Got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. If you'd read number five, Katie, when you're able.

It's going to be PPUD 157-2026, application of Tristan Larson for Safe Harbor personal storage, requesting an amended planned unit development, being 8.136 acres, more or less, located at 443 Safe Harbor, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Police Jury District 6.

Good afternoon, I'm Tristan Larson, architect. We have had this through the process before and gotten it approved. What's happened as we've moved forward is We've made some practical changes to some building sizes and some spacing in between for building code reasons. And I guess we got to a point where we had enough of those where the staff felt like that we needed to spring this in and have it updated and reviewed and approved.

Yeah, he was just making a statement of the reason he's brought it back. They've made several changes to the original submission, and it was enough that the office deemed it probably needed to just come back and have it looked at again. And, yeah, one of the things you've done is you're going to have more units. You're just going to have some smaller ones, correct?

I mean... Well, we've actually taken... three buildings that were formerly two buildings side by side and joined them together. And in the process of doing that, they got larger because they're indoor storage. So we took square footage out of the buildings immediately to the south and immediately to the north so that we would have that room and deleted a driveway that had formerly gone between two large buildings because they don't need it anymore. We just have manway doors. And so it's still open for drainage. utilities, that sort of thing. Calculating the square footage for all of the buildings over the 8.1 acres, I think we're up by maybe 500 square feet for the whole site.

And Tristan, right now I think you have some of the screen fencing already installed.

We are building a length of it now. We're basically breaking this up into phases. So we've got some paving down and we have a large building that we're working on. And currently the fence goes from just a little bit west of where the cul-de-sac begins to make that circular shape and goes across the cul-de-sac and then goes across our property over to a point where we have some drainage structures that run north to south through there. And that's really our demarcation line between the western half of the project and the eastern half. The eastern half might be a while before we get over there, other than the required drainage and grading that was required in order to be able to make all of the site work storm detention-wise.

Separating the two, the western half from the eastern half, the western half, that's the priority right now to be constructed? Correct.

And that's because it's closer to the entrance drive.

Right. Is there a start date for the eastern half? How far down the road is the owner?

I don't believe there is at this point. We have enough work to do on the western half to keep us busy for a while.

Katie, could you go to page 35?

Was that a question?

No, it was a statement.

so would you say mr larson that the red area is what's what's currently constructed as far as fencing is concerned it's either constructed or it's under construction or soon to be i haven't been out there in a bit okay the uh the green line at the bottom of it represents our current thinking to basically blind that building that we're working on at this point and you can see that there's kind of a dirt patch that almost bisects the property right there well that's a lot of drainage and drainage structure that essentially catches water on our more northern i'm sorry southern side and drains that to the north where we're catching a creek, I guess you would call it. You can see a lot of dirt work for all that. And that seems to be the drainage point for the bulk of our site here. So all of that drainage has been Leveled and shaped with pipes and drainage culverts and things like that put in the ground as well as detention ponds one on the west side one in the north eastern corner and Actually all along the south side there It's it's shaped in order to bring water down to that central point and then take it up to that Creek there's that pathway at the north point up there So, and again, that's another reason why it makes sense for us to do our work on the western side, because that's where most of our earthwork and so forth has been, and it's right there at the road. That's where we're coming in and out.

I believe that, you might correct me if I'm wrong here, the police jury looked at this and they were wanting the full length of the southern border there fenced.

I think that was... Well, that's still on the plan.

I think maybe timing may be... I think they were kind of wanting it all soon. There's been some public concern, and I think that's what they wanted to see happen.

Well, I believe that question's been asked, and I've not been advised on that. Okay.

So typically, whenever commercial development abuts residential, there's a compatibility buffer fence required along the perimeter or wherever it's adjacent to residential. In this case, the applicant is requesting to phase the fence in with the development. However, we have been receiving complaints about the construction, and there are concerns about the lighting, and we're getting those calls consistently. So it is the recommendation that the fence be installed in its entirety before the first building can be CO'd. Just on the south side, I know there's intent to put a fence on the north and east side, but just we're talking primarily about the south side.

Okay. Any further comments up here or anything else you'd like to answer?

You're good? Only that I'm asking for amended PUD at this point. We have not changed the fence. If there's timing about that, it really doesn't, in my mind, relate to amending the shapes on the drawing.

Okay, any further up here? Okay, this is a public hearing. If you'd like to make comment or have concern, you can come forward. I will say that each one from the public that comes up, you'll have three minutes. We ask that you respect that time, and we'll try to keep things moving along. We've all got jobs outside of this, and we're trying to get back to those fairly short order, but you'll have three minutes to say what you need to say. Okay? If anyone from the public wants to come forward, now would be the time.

Okay.

Okay.

Nope. Well, just please note that the applicant has submitted that he would like to phase the fence. However, it is the recommendation that the fence be installed before the first building can be CO'd. Okay.

I'll make a motion that we approve PUD 157-2026. with a stipulation that the fence be completed to satisfy our residential concerns.

Second. Okay, we've got a motion and a second to approve with those stipulations. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none.

Thank you for your time this afternoon. Thank you, sir. Have a great day. Keep cool. Appreciate you.

Okay, let's go on to number six.

um okay item number six is cuse1612026 the application of kurt nixon for viking ranch llc requesting a conditional use approval for the use of alternative surface material for overnight gated parking located at 4401 viking drive bozer city louisiana city council district 5 police jury district 7.

Good afternoon, Curt Nixon, Nixon Engineering. The request before you is to build a vehicle storage yard. This is back behind the old Party Central. We're just gonna, we'd like to build a large gravel vehicle storage yard for the extra vehicles so that they can park back there. Okay.

Now, you say vehicle storage. These are vehicles that are not moved in and out on a daily basis?

There's times it will be. So in the peak, so really during Christmas, holidays, they will come in and out more regular. much of the year they will just be stored okay Kurt the access road that's asphalt that is asphalt so you have 430 feet roughly of asphalt that's existing that'll be new that'll be new so there is a there's the new will be on top of the old but we're going to improve it to meet a road standard

Good. So it'll go all the way from Viking back to the parking lot that you're at the gravel.

That's right. And then the gravel area will be inside the fence. And so it's gated. It won't be public access. You can only get into it through the gate. Okay.

That answered my questions. Okay. Any other questions up here? No questions. Again, this is a public hearing. Any comment or concern from the public that now would be a time to come forward?

I'll make a motion. We approve CUSC 161, 2026. Second.

We have a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that passes. Thank you, sir. Thank you. That's correct. Number seven.

We have PZON1632026, the application of Ryan Estes, Rayleigh & Associates for Forest Village LLC requesting a zoning amendment to seek relief of the condition prohibiting gas stations slash fuel cells for a C-Store on existing B3 General Business District tract of land being 1.126 acres more or less located at the southwest corner of Forest Hills Boulevard and Highway 80, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Police Street District 2.

Ryan Estes, Raylene Associates, 4913 Shedd Road, here on behalf of the developers to answer questions y'all may have. I wanted to start out with actually handing out exhibits. I don't know if I'm going to hand it to them.

Are these new exhibits?

These are the exhibits that were submitted last week that was adjusted to master plan per y'all's request. Is that enough?

Yeah, we have those.

Okay, you got them in the packet? Yeah, the ones that you sent on Friday. The stuff we, okay, perfect. Then I don't need to get that.

You can place it if you want.

Everyone, you can place it there if you need to look at it.

Oh, that's fine. Well, I mean, I guess I can place it here. So, why are we here today? We are here, like it says, I'll get the exact wordage, to seek relief of the condition prohibiting gas station fuel cells at a C-store location that's currently zoned. So the property, as you all know, is currently zoned B3. Back in 2024, I brought the meeting minutes from the police jury's acceptance of the B3 zoning or the voting to approve the B3 zoning. And I wanted just to read some excerpts. It says, Mr. Ryan S. Israel and Associates was present on behalf of the developer. He stated that the deed restrictions will be implemented by the develop developer stipulating uses allowed within the develop development advising that the developer believes b3 is an appropriate use for the l area due to the high traffic count along highway 80 and as you all know there's you know 15 20 000 cars that pass along highway 80 at this location so it's it's a highly trafficked area These self-imposed deed restrictions for the development, I want to emphasize that these deed restrictions are self-imposed. We are seeking relief from a self-imposed deed restriction. And the first one on that list is a gas station. So that's why we're here today. I know y'all may have concerns about the traffic. um in y'all's exhibit uh we um have several things we first off we do have approved traffic study um if y'all look at this exhibit that y'all received did they give you all the entire packet the letter the addendum okay so y'all have the entire packet i'll go over that real quick with you um first off is that original or the newly updated master plan showing the configuration of the C-Store at the hard corner. We did move the driveway location. It was originally on the original improved traffic study was 278 feet or something along that.

Zoom out just a little bit on that device.

Are we talking about on Highway 80, Ryan?

Yes, this distance right here is 231.5 feet. Originally, and I can show you the original, it was 270, 280. That distance was arbitrary. When we submit master plans to DOTD and when we master plan the development, well, we have a speculation about what's going to come. We don't have the actual end user. So the end user is requesting the driveway to be 231 and a half feet. This original master plan added at, I think it was 278, but it's arbitrary. The reason it was set was because most commercial developments are, most commercial developments, as you can see, generally 250 to 300 foot deep I chose 275 that's what set that driveway location first and foremost it's arbitrary so this second one with the the C Store location is 231 and a half feet yes we did move it closer some 30 odd feet we have a traffic study that's been approved by DOTD And as y'all can see in these exhibits, I also have exhibits that from Jim Mollier or emails from Jim Mollier saying, no, there is no, there's no difference between a C-Store and a fast food restaurant, which was originally on the master plan. They're negligible differences. They don't expect any traffic changes.

So why, clarify for me why the self-imposed non-fuel sales

stipulation is in there you said it was self-imposed it was self-imposed we also removed several things we've removed you know there's a about a list of things that we did not want at the time at that time C Store was on the list it was it was self-imposed the traffic study maybe i'm off on this it was it was ran the one that you had was ran off of this store without fuel correct no no it was it was ran off of this master plan there was not a c store that was analyzed it was ran off of um the previous mass fast uh master plan which showed match uh fast food and retail

Because I was under the impression that we were going to need a traffic study done. Isn't that right?

Well, there has been done.

Yeah, they completed it.

And it's been accepted. And if you look here on exhibit... First off, I'll go to Exhibit 3. Jim Ollier, who's since retired, this was his email to you that I highlighted. It says, I do not see a significant difference in trips when changing the land uses from the proposed corner lot from a drive-through restaurant to the specified C-store, and therefore do not expect any additional traffic-related issues, meaning you don't need to do anything different for this. Your study still is good. But just so you know, we are preparing a supplemental just to tidy it up even further for you. But DOTD is good with the locations in Exhibit 2. Exhibit 2, the current traffic engineer highlighted, seeing as we have an additional entrance on the west and being a right turn in, I do not see the issue with a 231 and a half foot location. So DOTD is good. The parish has requested us to tidy that traffic study up. And we will do such. But for this meeting...

Define tidy it up. Are you going to have another traffic study done?

An amendment to the traffic study. That amendment should be very basic. It should say, hey, we've reanalyzed this. We agree with DOTD. We agree that there's not going to be any issues.

This is regarding the distance.

Regarding, well, not only the distance, but the change in use. The distance is really the issue, but it's the change in use, too. But those things will be addressed, and there won't be any changes.

Who's performing that TIS?

Gresham Smith and Partners.

And when would you anticipate that?

Before the police jury meeting.

Which is?

Probably a month, month and a half, whatever it is. But again, they've already stated in emails that there's no problems.

We're just making sure that... That addresses traffic on Highway 80 and Forest Hills Boulevard.

Every intersection goes all the way up through Highway 80, the driveway locations, all of that has been analyzed.

Based on the study you have in place now, what traffic improvements are they requiring of you to develop this?

So if you look, I think it's Exhibit 4 in your package. I'm going to zoom out. So you can see this is kind of a broad overview of the amount of traffic improvements that's going to be required for this development. This exhibit also has been submitted to the parish, and it was submitted a while back. But what I did recently was change the location from the 278 foot to the 231 foot. So they're going to be doing several things. They're going to be, first off, adding a traffic signal at that location. That location, as you all know, has a safety concern. I want to point out in the traffic study, this is a big deal. In the traffic study, your current wait times at that intersection, intersection of US 80 and Highway 80 going north, currently you have in the morning a level of service F. It's 181 second delay. That means you wait, on average, three minutes to move through that intersection. In the PM peak hour, that goes up to 283 seconds, meaning the PM peak hours, that person waits 283 seconds, almost, I mean, six times five, almost five minutes to get through that intersection. After we put these improvements in, that time goes dramatically down. In the morning, it goes from three minutes to 30 seconds. In the evening, it goes from two minutes or it goes from 283 seconds to 20 seconds.

That's with the inclusion of the traffic light.

That's with the inclusion of the traffic light. So we are dramatically, the developer is dramatically increasing the level of service of this intersection. Not only increasing that, but increasing the safety. The safety is very important because that is one of the warrants.

I live in that neighborhood, so it's a major concern for me and The traffic light is a big deal. I think the neighborhood's been fighting for that for years. There's bad accidents there every year. And if you're leaving at peak times, it's longer than five minutes.

Well, if you work that out, I mean, it saves them, what, on average, three minutes a day in and out. So that's six minutes. Just do that times 20 work days. Six times 20 is what? What is that a month? Two hours? It saves the average, it saves the residents of Forest Hills that are leaving at the peak times in the morning and in the evenings two hours worth of their time. That's 100 hours a year plus. That's an incredible, that's incredible savings for those people just on their lives. It's going to dramatically increase the efficiency of that driveway.

Brian, so we have the traffic, known traffic count that comes out of Farrs Hill subdivision. Do we have the estimated traffic generated by the C-Store during those same peak hours?

Yes, that's all in the study. That's what Jim Ollier was saying. There is no measurable difference between a fast food restaurant and the C-Store. That's why he goes, I don't need to see an additional study. Of course he's retired, but same thing with Brandon Greco. We're doing that at the behest of the parish.

What about large trucks?

So we will urge all of our traffic that large trucks to try to access the site off of Highway 80. We understand that there is concerns for traffic coming down Forest Hills Boulevard, and we're going to help alleviate that by directing traffic to the best of our ability to come off of Highway 80 and then out, or back onto Highway 80, just depending on the direction of traffic. But we're going to do everything we can by developing those good traffic patterns for the truckers to get in and out. But again, I want to stress that this property is already zoned correctly. It is heavy commercial. We could come there tomorrow without any further approvals from any board uh and submit a site plan for a chick-fil-a or for a any other number of uses and they are approved and i can promise you a chick-fil-a is going to put out a tremendous amount of more traffic than or a walmart this this site you could come here and put a walmart neighborhood market if you wanted to without approvals so you know drainage has already been looked at we have an approved traffic study you know we're we have any other questions i'll be more than happy to answer them but uh you know i think it's going to be a great thing for the citizens of forest hills boulevard uh or sports still subdivision with the just the the traffic improvements shown that just the needed traffic improvement stays somebody 100 hours a year worth of traffic

Does TIS address the condition of that section of Forest Hills Boulevard? I know last year, whenever we first heard this, it was presented that the Forest Hills Boulevard was not built to parish standards at the time.

I don't know. That is a parish road. I'm sure the parish may discuss that in the future. But like I said, we are trying to keep those large trucks as much as possible off of Forest Hills Boulevard. So, but I personally do not know the cross-section of the road. I know it is a public road. I'm sure it has been overlaid. I don't know how many times, but, you know, it is what it is, so.

Okay, do we have any further questions up here?

Does the level of service increase in grade based on the improvements?

It goes from a level F to a level C. And we almost hit a B. So it's dramatically improving that intersection.

One more question, quick. Sure. Also, when we first heard this, there was discussions about a possible traffic light at Wafer Road. Is that gone? That's off the table now?

I'm not a part of that development and don't know. All I know is that we have a traffic, I'm losing the words, we have a letter of improvements from DOTD that I can't think of the word. It's the stipulations that say what's required for your development. And they know that I've been back in contact with Brandon Greco. He knows that this is coming. So whether or not they put a traffic signal on Wafer Road or here, that's DOTD's business because that's their jurisdiction. But the intent is when we start this project, they are putting in a traffic signal.

At the applicant's expense?

At the applicant's expense.

Very good.

Okay, this is a public hearing. If anyone would like to come forward and state your opinion or concern, now would be the time to do so. If you would, you please sign in, state your name. You'll have three minutes, each speaker.

Bradley Nelson.

What was the name again?

Bradley Nelson.

And I'll just make this one more comment. speakers that come up after the first if you've got something new that's good it's there's little need to repeat the same issues over and over but okay please print your name also don't don't sign makes it easier for us to have it for the minutes just please note that mr fine has exited the mr fine stepped out for just a moment he'll be right back i believe

Okay, so I recently moved into the neighborhood last year. I'm from Michigan originally. I used to be an armed service member. So the gentleman noted that there's a significant, there's a long wait, right, to leave the neighborhood. I don't think I've ever sat more than 60 seconds and 90 seconds. I go to work every morning. I got to drop my kids off at school. I get out at 5 o'clock. If I get out at 4, take the kids, you know, if I have to go pick them up. I don't think I've ever sat there for more than 90 seconds. Again, I live there. I've been there for a year now. So I guess the increase in traffic. In these surveys, is there any identifying factors about what kind of personnel will be brought into the area? The increased foot traffic, does it bring individuals from not in the area into the area? How does that affect the residents in there? Is this foot traffic going to increase crime rate? I understand that the safety concerns about the lights are going to improve stability in the area. Again, I think you could just put a light in there and just solve that problem as it is. However, if you wanted to put a convenience store, you want to put a gas station, you want to put restaurants, how does that affect the neighbors? You know, not necessarily for Forest Hills, but you have, was it Tall Timbers just down the road? You have the trailer park across the street. How does that affect that, right? If you are increasing this, you're going to increase foot traffic, you're going to increase crime rate. I don't necessarily think that's a good thing. I think a lot of people that live in Forest Hills like living there because it is secluded. I think a lot of the residents that we spoke to enjoy seclusion. So I mean, I guess for the developers, the planners, you got the boulevard there. That is our main interest in there. So if you've got heavy traffic, that's going to reduce the serviceability of the road. I work in a heavy equipment company for CAT. So I have a little bit of knowledge in this. Any large trucks, whether it's not necessarily like fuel trucks, but you've got servicing trucks. You've got Coca-Cola trucks, Pepsi trucks. They have to utilize this stuff. That's going to increase the wear and tear on those. Does the developer have any plans on fixing that? They say about the drainage area. Drainage in that neighborhood is absolutely amazing. How are they going to affect the draining for the neighborhoods? We don't want backwash to go in there. So I think I can speak for a lot of the other individuals. We're not super happy about this. I know he wants to go, so I'll let him take the floor. Thank you.

I think I could address the crime issue you brought up on the foot traffic. That's far enough away from the neighborhood where I don't think most of anything you put in there, that's going to be a factor. That's a big issue for me. I actually headed up the project for that neighborhood to get the license plate rear cameras installed at a time when we were having dozens of car burglaries. I just know that will

You have to come back up.

You need to come back up if you're going to speak. I'm sorry for hitting the mic there.

I just know that, like, in the last school year, we had quite a few residents had called the local police department because there was individuals from Parkway High School that were coming in, you know, through school events and whatnot, and they're, you know, driving up and down High Point at excessive speeds. So the concern for a lot of individuals is those are just one-off shoots because of schools and programs and whatnot. But now you're going to – now you have – Other forms, you know, you've got, you know, convenience stores, gas stations, whatever. Is that going to be a problem where somebody's like, oh, I've never been here. I want to go check the neighborhood out. Now they're driving excessively through the neighborhoods. You've got kids out there that are, you know, constantly on bikes and whatnot. What kind of impact is that going to have on that?

Thank you. I can reflect that Mr. Fine is back for voting purposes.

Just briefly. I agree with Mr. Turner 100% on that. I mean, we are a quarter mile away from Forest Hills. Was it High Point? I think it's called High Point. Anybody that wants to go into that neighborhood is not doing it because they're stopping at the C-Store. And this is not a foreign concept. Gas stations at location... You got one at Brownlee Road right next to however many houses on Airline Drive. You got one at Duckwater Landing. So, you know, there are plenty, plenty of C stores right next to residential developments. So, you know, I don't believe that argument one bit.

Greetings. How everyone doing? My name is Darren Glover. US Navy retired and resident of Forest Hills. I do have, I want to start off with a question. Do we know who will own that gas station? Will it be outside investors or will it be local patrons? That does play a factor when we talk about C-stores. Moving forward, I also ask, how many residents did you ask? piggyback on my neighbor there, seclusion. We pay a lot of money to stay there. We want to be secluded. If we wanted a gas station, we could bring it. I just always ask as we talk about Houghton being one of the very few small hometown still communities, why are we trying to shove a lot of stuff in a small area? We've already put a apartments next to an elementary school, and now we want to shove a gas station. We talk about the crime. We talk about the footprint and all the smoke and mirrors about the increase. Majority of us that live in Forest Hills already drive big trucks, got boats, trailers. So we do all that, but we don't want that. by having a C-store or any type of gas store, it will increase all those things to include the service trucks. And with the explosion of the economical building in our parishes, there will be an increase in foot traffic. So that data, that 30, 60 second stuff, when you do a real time analysis of that, all that will be debunked. But then we'll be sitting there with a high crime money pit and we don't want the backwash of fuel and other gas and all those other things so uh three minutes thank you very much for the council and i hope that we uh we do what's right because at the end of the day it's for the people and the people of forest hills don't want it i don't know if i need to rebuttal that maybe take all the comments at one time and then yeah if you could

Good afternoon, my name's Alicia Schmidt. I also live in Forest Hills at 1901 Sparrow Ridge Circle. I need more than three minutes, but I would like to read a letter from the HOA board real quick. Hopefully I won't go over three minutes. Dear members of the Metropolitan Planning Commission, on behalf of the Forest Hills Homeowners Association and residents of the Forest Hills subdivision, we wish to express concern regarding the proposed rezoning of the property near the intersection of US Highway 80 and Forest Hills Boulevard. Based on the location of property proposed for rezoning, the association believes that numerous Forest Hills property owners may fall within the notification area established under applicable provisions of the Bossier Parish Unified Development Code governing public notice for zoning amendments. The association has been contacted by multiple residents who indicated that they did not receive mailed notice of the proposed rezoning or the scheduled public hearing. While we recognize the commission may have complied with all applicable requirements, the apparent lack of notice to residents who may be directly affected raises significant concerns. Sorry. Accordingly, we respectfully request that the commission verify before taking any action on this application that all required notice provisions have been fully satisfied. Specifically request the following documentation showing the date mail notices were sent. Look, we don't have to do all this. I'm going to submit this by email. Specifically, I want to get down to... Beyond the notification of proposed zoning changes, we are also concerned with traffic issues at the intersection of Forest Hills Boulevard and Highway 80. Forest Hills is a neighborhood of over 500 homes. It's 540 specifically. And over 1,000 vehicles coming in and out daily with one road in and one road out. The Planning Commission are proposing to increase traffic on one road, making it more challenging for the tax base daily. Highway 80 is the off-ramp for traffic when accidents happen on I-20 West before the I-22 ramp, and on many occasions, traffic backs up, causing issues in and out of Forest Hills. The commission and the police jury have proposed no solution for traffic concerns or the numerous accidents that have happened at the intersection. The commission has already approved a gas station that is under construction as we speak on the north side of Highway 80, no more than 1,000 feet from Forest Hills Boulevard. What benefits does changing zoning of this property do for the tax base of Forest Hills? Hutton or Bossier Parish. Nothing contained in this correspondence should be construed as a waiver of any such rights or remedies. Finally, we respectfully request that this letter be included in its entirety. I would just like to make one more comment. I contacted DOTD and they said they could not put a traffic light there because we live in a depression or the Forest Hills Boulevard enters Highway 80 in a depression. They said that the line of sight was impossible to put a traffic light there due to the two hills on either side. So that's a huge concern for us.

So why are they telling us they're putting a traffic light in?

Who said that? Because I haven't seen anything. The developer.

We have it in writing, but the engineers. I don't know who you're getting your information from, but you're getting it from a bad source. That's the most.

Also a fast food restaurant has limited hours compared to a convenience store. But the biggest thing was the lack of notification to the residents.

Yeah, I'll defer. We'll have them look into that. Now, as far as the rezoning, this has been rezoned. It's a B3, a general business district. Now, the request today is to allow fuel cells at this location.

A gas station.

Selling of fuel. But it's not a rezoning. This is already zoned. And it could be any number of, I mean, it was that, you know, if you've seen a Chick-fil-A could just start work here now they'll bring more traffic than the mall um i mean so uh i hear your concerns but it is i just wanted to point out that this already has been zoned we're not rezoning this they are asking for uh as far as the npc notifications on the mail outs they're required to

submit letters to residents within 300 feet of that location. So they posted a sign. We'll allow you 30 more seconds.

Thank you so much. That's it. No one received within 300 feet. Also, if I can use this.

Well, it's more than 300 feet even to the neighborhood.

Well, across the street at the mobile home park, also on Juniper Lane, no one received notification there either, and that's a lot closer. There's 30 houses that we share that intersection with directly across.

That's not true.

It's not in the mobile home park?

No.

I'm looking at the list. Also, one last thing about the drainage. That detention pond is supposed to collect water. But it funnels it now onto the highway. On two incidences, in the last two heavy rainfalls that we've had, Bossier Parish police units have had to be stationed there to not allow traffic in or out of the neighborhood because it was flooded so badly. So every time they try to make improvements on that, it gets worse. I just don't want the increased traffic. Thank you.

Can we show the 300 property owners list that we mailed out to? It's in the case analysis.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say 300. I meant to say 30 for the trailer park across the street.

But they mailed it to 300. They mailed 300. Okay. Okay, if you've got some new information or something new to address. Yes, sir.

Are we going to show anything up here, or are we going to ?

The list is about to be shown up here to those that have been mailed to. There's 300, I believe, on that total list.

Yes, sir. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Michael Morris. I live at 2517 Bloomfield there in Forest Hills. A couple of quick questions, and I'll be out of your way. I guess, one, if we're going to change it from a convenience store to a gas station, have we done an environmental impact study? Geotechnical study, geotechnical research. As part of an improvement study, our environmental impact study includes drainage, retention, etc., Obviously, something was missed on the property across Highway 80 to Ms. Schmidt's point. The last two significant rainfalls we have, Highway 80 has flooded with muddy water obviously coming from someplace. wasn't happening until across the street. Now we're talking about developing something on a corner that's going to discharge out into the street. Secondly, as part of an environmental impact study, if you're going to have gasoline tanks, has there been an SPCC plan filed? A spill prevention countermeasures and control document filed to support the amendment requesting to install or emplace underground gas tanks. That's another whole situation. Finally, from a fire point perspective, the position of the gas tanks in relation to the underground gas pipeline, there are specific distances that are required. Will this meet those minimum required distances in the event of a rupture of a gas tank or that gas line? We could have a significant impact. And because Forest Hills Boulevard is the only access and egress that we have coming out of a basic 540-home cul-de-sac, how would we address that? I understand that it looks like we're going to have a road over by the church. That's good, coming into it. But we've still got to be able to get out. And the gas pipeline crosses long before you get to the driveway of the proposed new convenience store. So those are just a few of my questions, and mainly the impact study. That's a big key thing in the SPCC as well. So thank you very much. My name is Michael Morris.

Thank you. Thank you. Right, would you, sir, would you, do you have something additional?

Yeah, I just wanted to ask about drainage.

Please sign in and state your name, please.

My name's Anthony Robinson.

Thank you.

I live, I live real close to the gas station. I live just south of the gas station. I'm on High Point Place, so I'm right behind it. And I was wondering about noise i have a lot of noise off of highway 80 right now this is pretty bad because they cut all the trees and it just it's real loud by my house and i was just wondering if they were going to put any kind of hedgerows or fences or anything to kind of mediate some of that noise that's one of my concerns as well and that's something we need to get an answer from the developer on if you're done with your comments i can The other thing was the drainage. They had a retention pond right there in the middle, and I think the reason it is flooding Highway 80 is because the retention pond was never finished. It got dug out, and it's just a big drain to Highway 80. You know, I think... I'm not sure what they were going to do. I guess they were going to kind of dam it up and put a culvert in it and let the retention pond take some of it until it started dumping it. And I think that's why Highway 80 was doing that. And I'm just wondering if they're going to finish that, if that's the plan or you know what I'm talking about.

One hundred percent.

Okay. And that's what's going to happen?

I'll rebut it when you're finished, sir.

Okay.

pretty much all I got okay thank you sir all right Ryan I want to make sure everybody realizes like you said this property is zoned correctly it is b3 we are removing a self-imposed deed restriction at the request of y'all or at our request is to remove a self-imposed deed restriction you know Forest Hills is 1500 feet away it's walking distance maybe you know you would have to want to walk there um crime everybody keeps talking oh it's crime this crime that i mean nobody has presented any statistics no reports nothing it's all hearsay I'll end it on that. Notification. The easiest way for us to hit notification is to go on the assessor's map. They have a buffer button. I click that buffer and say, I wanted 300 foot, get me the list. I notified every single person on that, or actually I send the list to the MPC and they notify every single person on that list. It's comprehensive. How many is it? 50, 60? Forest Hills is not 300 foot. forest hills doesn't get alerted by by 300 foot ordinance or y'all's requirements to notify that is y'all can y'all can go beyond that but my request or my guidance is 300 foot and it's it's what i did um Traffic, again, we have an approved traffic study through all the authorities having jurisdiction, DOTD and the parish. US Highway 80 is DOTD. The parish is Forest Hills Boulevard. They work in conjunction with each other. That's as simple as it is. They were concerned about... you know, getting in and out. We're putting a means, the developer is putting a means of egress, a second means of egress, just in case there is a, just in case there is a accident or something else going on at the intersection. People will still be able to leave. That is a great thing for this area. The citizens are getting, hundreds of thousand dollars worth of improvements along with the secondary access that's the only thing we can do to help to help solve that issues keeping going again we're not changing zoning it's already zoned b3 that drainage detention pond he is he is correct it is not finished we have not we are not required to finish that until we're ready for development which is which is now Those things will be done. But right now, all we're doing is changing the grass field to a grass field. When it changes to a sea store, we'll put we'll put those culverts that help mitigate that storm water back to the pre-development levels. But as of right now, we have not increased any flow. And I'm pretty sure, and the parish engineer may know, but those pipes, DOTD has met out there and is talking about doing some drainage improvements in those pipes along Highway 80 to ensure that they're meeting the correct amount of flow, whether they remove siltation in those pipes or whatever. So I expect those issues to be solved. The environmental study, geotechnical study, those environmental studies, phase one site assessments, geotechnical, they're done during the design process by the individual purchasing the property. The gas pipeline, I know he was, I mean, the gas pipeline's 1,000 feet away from this this location 1,400 feet of whatever is and it's been there for how long did they all bought this property knowing they had a cross pipeline so I don't give any relevance to that you know it has nothing to do with this and it has nothing to do with the location we're even talking about it's a quarter mile away the noise and the landscaping 1,000 feet away, we're not going to have any noise that's discernible at Forest Hills. In landscaping, we're going to do everything we are required to do by ordinance in MPC applications and make sure that we provide every single bit, and I can promise you, they're going to check it down to the bush, that every single bush by ordinance that y'all at the Planning Commission have adopted in the UDC is implemented and installed. Lighting, I'm 1,000 feet away from them, 1,500 feet. It's not bleeding over. So any further questions y'all may have, I'll be more than happy to answer.

So the compatibility buffer for this project is not required. Is that correct?

Correct.

Because of the distance?

It's commercial, touching commercial.

As the future development occurs, the closer you get to forest. It will be.

When we abut Forest Hills subdivision on the far south side of the developer's property, he will be required to put up an eight-foot fence. Or does he just have a six-foot fence with the evergreen trees spaced at every 20 foot? That's required by code in y'all's ordinances, and they will provide that. But that's 1,000 feet away and not in the property we're talking about.

So when the back parts develop, that's where that compatibility buffer will be?

Correct. Whenever that back development is going forward, Whenever they're deciding they're gonna do something, they will be required to put in the landscaping buffer. But that's also one thing that we can talk about, but it's besides the point. There's a high line. There's a Swepco high line there. Utility easement. We may, if we do something, we may have to do it on the north side because I can't put something that's going to affect Swepco's ability to maintain their lines. so but yes if when we get there and we start talking about the development we'll ensure that we get with both carlotta and carolina to address any um concerns and making sure that we follow their udc but again we're not even talking about that piece of property and the pipeline remind me the exact location was it across the street or was it to the south of the front now if you look here How do I switch it back?

I'm working on it.

All right. The pipeline that they're speaking of, I'm going to zoom out a little bit, is here. Anybody who bought in Forest Hills 20 years ago crossed over the pipeline. Now it's some sort of environmental and emergency concern, but it wasn't a concern when they were buying it. You know, that's something that ought to be considered. And then the high line back here, which is this area, you can see there's nothing in there. That's essentially Swepco's transmission lines. That is a built-in buffer between Forest Hills and the commercial development. We can't do anything in that other than maybe some parking. We can't put a building there. We can't put any permanent above-ground structures that are going to do anything. So they are buffered.

Yeah. Do we have any more questions up on the board? No.

Ryan, just one question about the approval from the DOTD for the traffic light installation. Do you have a specific reference or copy of that letter or whatever?

Yes. We can send that. In fact, Brandon mentioned it the other day. We can absolutely send that. It's a letter of compliance. And DOTD is now requiring several other steps. We have to record all these documents prior to them issuing a permit. They're going to be well aware of what's going on out here. If you look at the traffic improvements, I'm touching their highway in several locations. It's a major project. There's major amount of infrastructure going in at this location. The traffic signal and multiple turn lanes and turn lane extensions. So believe me, DOTD will know.

And one last point. I know the traffic... impact study needs to be amended strictly because of the distance change from the 275 to the 231. that's the parachute's request right so that would be uh that once we get through here that's something that amendment's coming or that is amendment is is underway

Back to the environmental questions that Mr. Morris had. Is this going to be like a major brand fuel carrier or is this going to be just some- Exxon is what I've been told. So it's going to be an Exxon store?

Exxon.

Okay. That's good to know.

And as y'all know, Exxon is a high-end gas retailer. They're probably the A-plus brand in the United States of America from a retailer standpoint. I mean, and y'all have renderings of the buildings. So, I mean, it's a high-end, good-looking store.

Okay. Any more questions up here? Sorry, you had your time. What do you... They state your name, please.

My name is Cindy Maranto. I'm a resident of Forest Hills. I've been there since 2003. It was one of the first in the first subdivision. First part, very first part. I may just need a clarification. My concern is car safety. If you're coming from town and you're heading east on Highway 80, Is it my understanding that this red light is going to be at the entrance of Forest Hills?

Yes.

The traffic speed on Highway 80 is 55, 60-ish. You top that hill at Cook's Law Firm, and you're going to be at the top of this hill. And if there's a red light here, how are you gonna avoid wrecks I don't want to be in this line of traffic at that red light and people top the hill and I'm sitting there and I'm gonna get hit this is a safety hazard in my opinion as a driver

Are you saying a red light there would be a safe?

Isn't there going to be? Yes. Is it my understanding the red light is going to be right there at Forest Hills? You top the hill at Cook's Law Firm, and if that red light is red going on Highway 80, You're going to have accidents. You think there's accidents now?

So as a resident of Forest Hills, you don't want the red light there?

I don't want it.

OK.

I mean, do you see what I'm seeing? You talk that hill, and there's going to be people in line at this red light. And they can't stop. They top that hill, and there's going to be no way they can safely stop.

And it's not our, it's not our, we would be out of our lane saying we would be a red light there or not. That's the Department of Transportation.

Well, that's what this gentleman keeps harping at, that there's going to be a light, and it's going to be woo-hoo good, and I think it's going to be woo-hoo bad.

Okay.

All right. I don't want it.

Thank you.

Thank you. Yes, sir. Yeah, my name's Dwight Oldham. I just moved here about a year ago from South Carolina. And this gentleman here, he – we're talking about the gas pipeline and the gas station. Nobody was concerned about the gas line when we bought the homes there because we weren't going to put combustibles underground next to the – to a, you know, how much ever – How much of a PSI that gas line's under? We weren't playing on that. I bought there, paid a half a million dollars for my house, which I've lived in California, so the price doesn't matter, but I bought there to be away from knuckleheads. I don't want the gas station there. I know it's zoned business. We got that. We all know it's business. That's right. We don't want the gas station. We don't want the fuel tanks in the ground because it's bad. It's cancer-causing. It's been proven over and over again. stoplight, that lady's correct. If you're coming this way, I mean to help somebody get out of the neighborhood, I've never had a problem getting out of the neighborhood. Look, I grew up in southeast, southern Louisiana. I moved here because it's slow. So if you got to wait five minutes to get out of the neighborhood, leave a little bit earlier. You know what I mean? Don't, you know, oh yeah, whatever. I lived in Southern California. The traffic was awful. So y'all deal with a little bit of traffic here is, to me, it's just whatever. But, uh, Is the gas station going to be 24 hours? No, sir. No, okay. Yeah, I'm just telling you, I'm not for it. I don't know any resident. I mean, there's a few, I think, in the group that say that they're for it, but I got little grandkids that live with me right now. I don't want the knuckleheads. I've lived in many places, all over the United States and the world. The gas station's gonna bring riffraff in. I don't care what this gentleman says here. We can get a crime study. We can pull up the statistics. I'd like to see the traffic pattern from the Louisiana Department of Transportation. I'd like to see the traffic study. That's gotta be public information. I don't know, that's about all. I mean, if somebody else wants a little bit of my time, they're more than welcome to it. Like I say, I'm just, I'm really disappointed. I mean, I know it's already done resident or, Zone business, but like I say, we don't want the gas station. You know, bring in the Chick-fil-A. You know, most of them people are, you know, seem to be okay. And it's not open on Sundays, and they close at a normal hour.

I probably shouldn't have said that. I was using it as a traffic.

I was just saying. I was just saying. Those things will stack traffic up. But, no, it is a lot of traffic. I totally get it. It's a jammed-up nightmare up there. And whatever. That's all I got. Thank you.

Okay. We've got another lady. Okay. If you would sign in, state your name, please. If you've got something new to add.

Oh, yeah. I do. Just a little short question. Let me find this. Real easy question. Are they building a service station right across the street?

If they are... Ma'am, can you say your name for the record, please?

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Diane Bastow. Thank you. Anyhow, if they're building a service station and all that across the street from Forest Hill, basically, why don't we need another one over By Forest Hill.

Ma'am, that's not for us to decide. That's just economic development.

Is that what they're building over there, though?

I think it is.

Yeah, that, well, I can, my silent opinion is here about that.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, that's all I wanted to ask.

Yeah, I mean, the land was for sale. Someone bought it that felt like that this would be a good business decision, and it, you know. And our job is just to make sure that it is it abides by the code. And that's what we're looking at here.

Okay. It just seems kind of pointless, but that's my opinion.

Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Any other further questions up here? Okay. Would anyone have a suggestion on a motion or how to move forward here? I'd be happy. I'll make a motion. Okay.

I see we're on number seven. Yes. I'll make a motion we approve P Zone 163-2026 with a condition that the TIS comes back favorable.

That would be, I think, amend that to a suspense condition. It's the legal term, but that the traffic study came back. Okay. Move for approval under a suspensive condition.

Okay, move for approval under a suspensive condition for a favorable TIS.

Second. Okay, we've got a motion and a second to approve.

If I may just make one comment. Originally, when this application came before us, the scope was much different. It involved heavy truck traffic, no traffic light. And the reason for me to, nearly two years ago, to vote against it was for those reasons. And we heard from a lot of residents that they wanted a traffic light there. So I'm really dumbfounded why all of a sudden they don't want one there. But I'm for it.

OK, we've got a motion and a second with a suspense condition contingent on a favorable traffic study. When that comes back and the motion is to approve.

Quick question for Neil. The suspense condition does not delay any movement to the police jury. Correct. Correct. That's correct.

OK, I believe that motion is out. And we've got a second. All those in favor of that, say aye. Aye. All opposed? Hearing none opposed, that will, like I say, what that means is that our biggest concern has been about traffic, okay? And that's what we're going to let these people look at it. and it'll move forward if that comes back in a positive manner, okay?

Mr. Chairman, can I say something? Yes. That's my concern as well, because I live out there just like a lot of you do every day, and with my background, crime is a huge consideration for me. I don't think that's going to have an impact on us at all, but the traffic is a major concern, and I think the red light's going to be a huge benefit for the neighborhood as long as the traffic study comes back in support of it, I support it.

Okay. Okay, we're done on that one. Okay, if you could read number nine. No, excuse me, number eight.

All right, we have PALC 162-2026, application of Ryan Estes, Raylene Associates, for Forest Village LLC, requesting a conditional use approval for the retail sale of high and low content alcohol for off-premise consumption at a C-Store with fuel cells, located at the southwest corner of Forest Hills Boulevard and Highway 80, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Police Jury District 2.

Ryan Estis again, Raylene Associates 4913 Shedd Road here on behalf of Forge Village LLC for alcohol approval. I really don't have any on this one. Just let me know if you have any concerns.

Okay. Just as far as the hours of operation, I know what the B3 zoning requires. Not before 6 a.m. or after 12 a.m., but do you have different hours of operation?

Did I?

It just says from seven days a week, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.

There we go, because I was pretty sure I put that in the package, but I could not remember it. Okay, sounds good.

Okay, this is about, and again, if that one we just talked about does not, if the traffic study comes back in a manner that... that it doesn't make sense to do this, then these other two would be moot conditions. So, they would be dependent on that. So, again, at that location, this is for requesting a conditional use approval for the retail sale of high and low content alcohol for off-premise consumption. May I say something about that, though? Pardon me? Yes.

Alicia Schmidt, 1901 Sparrow Ridge Circle. There's a Southern Methodist church right there also within 300 feet. And then the daycare, all about kids across the street. So I think it was a Louisiana statute that you cannot sell liquor next to a church.

That's correct. I believe that's what we're beyond.

They check these measurements before before it comes even remotely to this meeting. So we've we've cleared all state statutes on requirements of distance.

Darren Glover, resident of Forest Hills. My question would be, that was never answered from the first time I was up here, who will own that store? It sounded good, Exxon, but the same examples the rep gave of those other places. Those are Exxon stores that are ran by people that aren't from here. Excuse me. If you go back, you look on airline, they're Exxon, but they're not selling Exxon gas. They're not local owners. They're foreign investors, not foreign to the country. They're foreign from our area. And again, we're not getting that question answered with the other questions with all those different things. With the alcohol, it's still the store.

Mr. Glover, respectfully, I don't know that we can discriminate based on that.

That's irrelevant in my opinion. It has no bearing on anything we're accomplishing here. I mean.

And I do understand that what you said about is not discriminate. It's more so about what I said at the beginning. We the people. We the residents of Forest Hills, if we took a vote, It will be no, but we have to come up here and get three minutes while a business developer that doesn't even live in our neighborhood or our city gets to come up here and give all that factual, it's factual and true, not saying it's not, all that information, and we just get to say the lesser part of those items. We have some real concerns to include with the geothermal still never answer was it done we gave a blanket answer of oh in the development stage cool what happens in development stage still answer he had a great point all those and as we know so everybody might not be vast knowledge in those geothermal or any of those type of inspections but those of us that are we do understand you could kick the can down the road but you still got to do it and you're still not answering those questions and then it goes back to that seal Us as residents, and especially me as a veteran, we the people, we have a voice. And our voices aren't being heard, and it's just being clouded by people with rich money. And that's that, and I yield.

Thank you.

I'm recovering alcoholic. I'm trying to make this real quick. Alcohol is a gateway drug. I don't care what you've all been told over the years. I'm 51 years old. I've been a Marine. I've done countless things. That's beside the point. I don't want booze sold that close to my neighborhood, period.

It's a bad news. Can you say your name for the record, sir?

Yeah, Dwight Oldham. Dwight Oldham, yep. Yeah, booze, I'm telling you. I started down in Louisiana when I first started drinking, 12 years old. My dad was in the beer business until he died. My dad died from cirrhosis. My uncle died from cirrhosis. Look, booze, we don't want it. They want the convenience store. It looks like they're going to win it. Whatever. Let's hope not. But no booze, period, bottom line. That's all I got.

Any further questions up here? No further questions. Somebody have a motion?

I'll move for approval of PALC 162-2026. Second.

We've got a motion and a second for approval. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Hearing none. All right, on to number nine.

PPLAT1602026, application of Ryan S. Disraeli and Associates for Forest Village LLC from Minor Platte Forest Hills Commercial Subdivision Unit 2 being 1.126 acres, more or less, located at the southwest corners of Forest Hills Boulevard and Highway 80, Bossier Parish, Louisiana, Police Jury District 2.

Brian Estes, again, Rayleigh & Associates, 4913 Shedd Road here. This is the plat for the C-Store. If you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer.

And again, this 7, 8, and 9 are all tied together. None move forward without the other. And this is for the plat. This is the layout of the property.

Any questions up here?

No questions. Does somebody have a motion on this one? Well, excuse me, I'll ask for public comment if we have any on the plat.

I'll make a motion we approve P plat 160-2026. Second. Got a motion and a second.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? Hearing none. And on to number 10. That carries.

Alright, we have CPD 1642026 application of Jacob Malone Rayleigh and Associates for folia LLC and amended plan unit development folia subdivision being 919.88 acres more or less located west of airline drive just north of Adrian medical medical resort for an eight foot fence throughout the development by your city Louisiana City Council District five, police jury district six.

Ryan Estes, Raylan Associates, 4913 Shedd Road. I don't know what the Adira Medical Resort is.

That's to the south of there. That's the owner of the south. It used to be a church, but it's not.

It's no longer a church there at the Hard Corner? Nope. That's a good piece of information to know, Carlotta. I appreciate that. That is a very good, interesting piece of information tonight.

So... You want to make your affirmation?

Yeah.

Well, that changes things a lot. So... Okay. Well, back to... I've lost strength. Okay. We are requesting a eight-foot fence. Now, this fence, if you looked at my letter of intent, the first place that they are going to move, can you give, let me zoom in.

Hang on just a second.

Ryan, is your fences on page 10? I don't know. Well, I got the fence that we're putting up.

Okay.

If you would like me to, but it's submitted to your office.

Okay.

It looks like the location we are requesting currently is right here. Okay. It's 408 feet. It separates the townhomes from that commercial property to the west. The fence will be a eight-foot-tall cedar fence with three-by-three stone columns. I think they're limestone columns, and we're placing...

I'm sorry, Ryan. For the record, Mr. Fine has stepped out.

for the record, okay. We are putting up an eight foot board fence cedar with three by three columns stone. There are also I've changed the style of it. They are going to be putting ivy on it. So it'll be an ivy fence. I'd be bored with ivy on top of it. So it's going to be extremely nice, extremely high-end fence to separate that location, the townhome, from the commercial. In my letter of request, I have – I'll read it because I don't – We have identified several additional locations on the master plan where this fence may be appropriate. While these locations are intended to be comprehensive, we understand that the master plan may change as development progresses. Because master plans are subject to change, we request that future locations for this fence be eligible for administrative review from y'all's board, from the executive director and the Carolina. during the permitting process, provided that they meet the spirit intent of the request, which is privacy and security. So I've identified several locations here along the apartment complex to the north surrounding this cutout lot here along Old Brownlee Road. I was potentially along the future east-west corridor. So I was as comprehensive as I possibly could have been seeing into the future. And all we're asking for today is the approval of the 408 foot that separates the townhomes from the commercial with Carlotta and Carolina being able to approve future locations as long as we're meeting the spirit of what we're trying to do, security and privacy.

For the record, Mr. Fine has returned.

Welcome back.

Carlisle, are you okay with that administratively?

I mean, I'm fine. He has provided, you know, site locations, so we have that for record, so that's fine.

I don't think they're going to have any here, and we're wanting that to be walkable, so that's why I didn't place any here along this future thoroughfare, but... Yeah.

Well, given that there's nothing there now, I would say that would give you all the flexibility you need on the fencing.

Yeah. I don't know what's...

I mean, you'll know what's appropriate for 8-foot. You'll know what's appropriate for something lower. Correct, yes.

And when y'all see this fence, I mean, I don't know if y'all have actually reviewed the letters, but it is... We have an architect out of... The landscape architect out of South Louisiana, Carbo and Associates, and they came up with... You know, you can see the columns, and you can see everything that's, in fact, we've signed off on those. They're going to be coming for permits pending this result.

And if you're talking about ivy, if for some reason some section of the ivy is not growing or dies or something, it's still have wood.

You still have a wood fence, yes. And, of course, ivy is going to take a little while to mature.

Okay, any further questions up here? Okay, this is a public hearing. Not sure anyone's left. Ready for a motion. Yeah, we're ready for a motion.

I recommend we approve CPUD 164-2026. Second.

We got a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, that carries. Okay. We don't have any preliminary hearings. We need to approve minutes. Approval of August 10th, 2026 workshop minutes.

So moved. Second.

We have a motion and a second to approve. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Approval of August 10th, 2026 regular meeting minutes.

So moved.

Thank you. It'll be the same? It'll be the same. Yeah. Okay. Well, we don't need the second one.

No, we have a workshop and regular.

Oh, the workshop. Okay.

Okay. We approved the workshop, so we'll have an approval of August 10, 2026, regular meeting minutes.

And Jim had a motion.

We have a second? I'll second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? None. Okay. Old and new business.

We have the comprehensive plan and unified development code community kickoff happening at the end of the month. We will have our first community meeting on Tuesday, September 29th from 6 to 8 p.m., and our second community meeting on Wednesday, September 30th from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Shady Grove Community Center. We invite everyone out to those. It's time to hear from the people about what they would like, you know, our community to look like in the next 10 or 20 years. So we're really excited about that. And then our next item, the update about the Barksdale Redevelopment District Committee Advisory Committee to the Boeser MPC. At the last meeting, we have a couple of additional mid improvements to make, and we are into long-term improvements. We've acquired or appropriated the last of the funding that we anticipate hoping to get done by 2027. That's all I have for you. Okay.

Anything else? I will adjourn this meeting. Thank you. I'm late.