Metropolitan Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Okay. Um, I have the time as 203. So, I'd like to call the Monday, October 13th, 2025 Boer City Parish Metropolitan Planning Commission to order. Um, our invocation will be done by Chris Turner and pledge of allegiance by Jim Fine. Please bow your head. Dear Lord, thank you for allowing us all to be here today. Thank you for those that have business in our great city and parish and the willingness to develop our area. Uh, please be with each of us on this commission and help us make the best decisions that are good for our community. In your holy name I pray, Lord. Amen. Amen.

Please join me in the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you.

All right. If we can have uh our roll call and Madison, if you'll um read the decorum statement, please. James Fine here. Dave Haden, absent. Donnie McDaniel here. Art Schult here. Jeff Thigpin here. Chris Turner here. Michelle Wallace here. We have a quorum.

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Thank you, Madison. Um, I need an a motion to approve our agenda as presented. So moved. Second. You want to do a verbal? No, we can do a verbal. Verbal.

All in favor?

I I Okay. All right. Madison, do you mind reading u the first item on our uh agenda for the public hearing? C T L E T121 2025 the application of John Jacobs Bradley Merchesen Kelly and Shay from Munible Communications LLC AT&T requesting approval of 1440 foot telecommunications tower with two foot lighting rods to be located at 1315 Northgate Road VFW Post 5951 Bojer City Louisiana City Council District 2, Police Jury 10.

Good afternoon. John Jacobs here on behalf of MUN on the applica applicant, Municipal Communications LLC for the reference telecommunications tower application. I also have uh Mr. John Throck Morton here from municipal to answer any questions that y'all may have. Um, nothing has really changed since we were here last month. We've sent the staff a updated collocation letter to reflect the revised height of the tower and we are also currently working with the staff on the landscaping plan in regards of which plants the staff would like us to use. Um the normal plant type that municipal uses is Leland Cyprus, but municipal is also open to using whichever plant type that the city prefers. I think we're going to get some feedback on that today. So, as always, we appreciate the commission's and staff's time and review and just ask that y'all allow us to move to the city council. If you have any other questions, just let me know.

Does anybody have any questions? I have no question for me. Any questions? Um, this is a public hearing, so I'll open it up to public comment if there is any. Okay. All right. Seeing as there no public comment, I'll make I'll make a motion to approve uh C tell Telus T121-2025. Second. It's going to be all verbal. All verbal today. Okay. So all in favor I Oh. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed?

Motion carries. Motion carries. Sorry, the old fashioned. I ask one quick question. So, um, when will this be put on the agenda for the city council? I mean, I know if if y'all can't tell me now, that's fine. I was just wondering if you know, Katie, let me see when the next meeting is. 7 8 9 10. So, it will be I believe the city council is having a meeting on the 28th. So, possibly the 28th. Yeah, it should be the 28th. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Madison, if you don't mind reading the next agenda item.

E Z 67205 remanded the application of Michael Kelch Railing Associates for AJ Real Estate Holdings LLC requesting a zoning amendment to change the zoning classification of a certain tract of land being 1.837 837 acres more or less from R-LDD residential low density to B-2 limited business located at 4208 Benton Road, Boer City, Louisiana for commercial strip center, city council district 5, police jury district 6.

Good afternoon. James Arda representing AJ Real Estate. Um, I actually gave Carlotta last week some uh preliminary plans for what I want to develop and I don't know if anybody has any questions or anything. So, as B2, correct? Is that what the city kicked it back? Yeah. Yeah. So, you you guys approved it B3 last time. So, uh I think I went to the city council. They wanted it to be B2. They were just unsure. So, if I can, you know, B2 is what I'm asking for. So, Okay. Do we have any questions from anybody? No, not for me. Okay. All right. Uh, all of I'll open it up to public comment.

Okay. I'll make a motion. We accept CN 067-2025. Second. All in favor? I. Thank you all. Thank you. Oh, you got it. Okay. Look at that. Oh, it's working now. Okay. Double voted. There we go. Just when I had learned how to do the verbal. All right,

Irwin, your attorney. I think we talked about last time given the problems in Baton Rouge about the the U voice vote versus machine. Uh I think I can go ahead and say it. Uh let the minutes reflect that while there is machine voting uh anyone who would like to have it confirmed by voice vote has that right. Okay with y'all. Thank you. Okay. All right. Hey Madison, our next item

P Z 11182025 the application of Michael Kelch Railing Associates for East Highland requesting a zoning amendment to change the zoning classification of a certain tract of land being 7.129 acres more or less from R- A residential agriculture to R-HP residential manufactured housing park Located in section 16, Township 18 North, range 12 West, Bojer Parish, Louisiana for in addition to East Highland Mobile Home Park, Police Jury District 2.

Good afternoon, Jeffy. Michael was in a bad car wreck this weekend. So, y'all got me instead of him, but he's okay. So, uh, I told him I'd be glad to come stand in for him. So, have y'all seen this one before already? Okay. Okay. So, this is I think a 32 lot expansion of East Highland uh mobile home park and it will have city water and sewer. Well, I mean we'll have municipal water and sewer. The parish owns it actually. Uh take care of it. Drainage all by the parish ordinance. We have a large detention pond on the south side and be glad to answer any questions y'all might have. Jeff, did y'all do a flood study on that uh retention pond or anything like that? I just know there's a lot of water that comes down that hill. Once we get zoning, we'll we'll go that far with the parish with area. Yeah, there's a lot of water. Just dealing with zoning. You just hadn't got to that spot yet.

That's correct. Yeah, because it all flows pretty much everything around us flows through us and so we're going to have to take care of that. Yeah, we've been aware with that. Been talking to Eric, Michael has been talking to Eric about how to take care of all that. Jeff, there would be no access from Espanita into this property. No. No. Matter of fact, uh, our owner plans on I think a lot of the houses around us already have wood privacy fences, but he'll replace whatever is bad and and go as high as a six or eight foot fence, whatever y'all require. So So you would put a at least a 7 foot fence? Yes, if y'all require that. That's what he would between the subdivision and the Yes, between the subdivision and this expansion. Yeah. Everything will exit out through the existing mobile home park.

Uh, I'm new to this application. I was out last month, but is there a parish access required um to service a lift station or am I Well, we um since I think the last meeting, Michael said they've met met with the parish that we'll either uh gravity into the Espanita lift station area and upgrade it with a control panel and new all new pumps or we'll set a a lift station in this unit and pump back out toward the mobile home park. Okay. So, we're dealing with the parish as to which way they want us to go, whether they want us to upgrade the Espanito lift station or put a new one in for the this unit and then go to the old old section. Whatever they require, we're going to do

Are there any other questions from No, the two I had were would there be access from that uh houses from the north and about the fence? That's the two things that I was going to ask about. Yeah. Okay, I'll open it up to public comment. If you'll just uh state your name and your address and sign in for me, please. I've already signed in. My name is Angela Chandler, 301 Hosianda Circle. I will be affected the most for me and my husband because where our house is. We have flooding issues. I have pictures if y'all would like to see where like I said, we were already kind of aware

it floods. the neighbor house across the street where he just purchased will flood inside the housing. We are concerned deeply about the flooding. Sure. I'm worried about our property value going down because now we don't have woods looking out at the back of our house. Go to take my dogs out. All I'm going to see is trailers.

Who wants to see that when they wake up? Do y'all want to wake up and look out your backyard and look at trailers? Probably not. Cameron that lives next door to me is in the process of selling his house. How's he going to sell his house? He It's pending right now. These people are thinking they're buying with woods behind their house. Now they're going to have trailers. So, that's a concern. Mr. Larry passed away, so there's no one to defend his house. Our property value is going to decrease. I know people say it's not, but it's going to. Um, the flooding issues that our schools are overpacked as it is. Our buses are overcrowded. I mean, my poor child gets on the bus and half the time they're literally sending four to a seat. Now, we're adding more kids to these buses. How is that going to, you know, safely take care of our children and our flooding? I mean, I cannot stress the flooding. I get pictures from my daughter going, "Mom, you might want to stay at work for another two hours because you can't get down the road." So, that's my biggest concern. And I know there's more.

Angela, you said your house floods. It fl if my it comes out my driveway. Okay. Like I cannot come down Espanita and then once I get to Espanita Hosianda half the time I can't get to my house because there's water. Is that because there's no place to go or um Yeah. Well, when the parish don't clean out the drainage ditch. Mhm. Regularly I call complain. Oh, we'll get somebody out there. Call complain. Call the police. Well, and then the red mud from up above from the guy that bought that property is built in from the north to the south. Yes. Coming off the highway, that property next to E has been um the trailer park that the guy

shop right by the car repair shop kind of kind of up in that area. Yeah. So, it used to be a house, a little old couple lived there. Yes. Then the guy from the East Park trailer park bought it. Brought in all this red clay, realized that was stupid. It drains. It drains. It looks like the Red River every time it rains. I mean, it could be a small rain and it looks like the Red River. So, how my if you're coming down Espanita, my house is considered a hosianda because the front door, but the driveway is on Espanita. You can't get to it. What was your address again? 301 Hosianda. Okay, I see.

So, there's about seven or eight houses now that back up to the existing mobile home park. Have Do you know if any of those have sold? Are they having any problem selling? Um he's he's bought one and he can't sell it. Yeah, he's having to rent it out now. Um one person at a time.

Yeah, I mean he's sold it. I mean, he's having trouble selling it. So, now he's having to rent it out. Mickey that lives next door to Mr. Ken back there. He calls and complains because the people behind the trailer behind them tear up his fence all the time because kids just Well, we're kids. We're going to kick the ball. So, we have issues. I mean, I bought this house to be our forever home because we had woods behind us. We had neighbors to the left of us if you're looking and the two neighbors here and one across the street from us. We wanted the quiet neighborhood, majority retired. Now, we're going to have screaming kids everywhere.

So, if this was developed as regular single family housing, you would be okay with that. Yeah, they could. Normal housing. Yeah. because it wouldn't degrade my property value. So, if they could put, you know, 10, 15 houses back there, but they have to fix the flooding issue before they can do that. And what I mean by that, dig out the ditches from all the red clay, put concrete drainage dishes all the way down because our side of the neighborhood floods and the other side neighborhood floods. So, we get all of Highway 80 water. Thank you. Thank you.

And if you'll just state your name and address. Yes.

Um, Gina McFarlane. I'm president of our homeowners association. That's kind of not active, but I have been representing it for 30 years, so I'll continue to represent it. Um, I know it sounds great about a fence, but I also know that one of the people that are not here right now, he actually reached out to me about a year and a half ago and said, "Look, my fence is destroyed. I'm I went to the um the there's a place there that what am I trying to say? Um, the person that oversees it at the front and I spoke to her and I said he would like to be, you know, go in half. he'll do the labor and put it up. And they absolutely refused because they went and took pictures. They said, "Well, it looks fine to us." You know, so that's an issue. But our streets, our neighborhood, our whole entire neighborhood, our streets are used as the drainage. It always has been since it was developed. We don't have sidewalks. We don't have drainage ditches. When they did come in and do our roads and relayered them, they didn't leave curbs. They they they did it all the way to the the top of the curbs. So, we don't have the drainage. Our streets are the drainage. And I really really will you please show them your picture of the water. I mean, she's not she's not downplaying the drainage system. And as a matter of fact, on the there's another side of our neighborhood.

The street is used as a drainage and all of that goes down there. But there are huge drainage ditches down there to help alleviate that. But it still doesn't it doesn't take care of the problem 100%. And that's on Aanita. When you go and that's the red clay coming down the hill. Yes. Clay that comes down the hill from this property. It comes up from No, it's coming from the north. Highway 80 all the way down north. Yes. But it clogs up our and it will end up flooding probably the house that's being remodeled. There's somebody that has just bought a house at the very end of the side street from her.

Right here's my driveway and you up my driveway. It's almost in the back of my husband. And you can fit another car behind you. We also have our oxidation pond is back there also. I understand they have an oxidation pond that is theirs, but we also have an oxidation pond back there. I don't know how much since we've just been incorporated into the city limits and stuff. I don't know how much it's really going to be able to handle. We had a horrible water issue. Uh when was that Mark?

The beginning of the year or was that last year? I mean, we had brown water the whole time. So, that had to be addressed. So, we're dealing with an older neighborhood that great neighborhood. We're quiet. No issues. We got great pieces of property, but it is older. But we have continuously come and asked for help about this drainage or getting our streets redone. When they did come and do it, like I said, they they covered the street, but they took away our curbs. Um, we don't have sidewalks. We don't have um fire hydrants on half of our street or half our neighborhood. Espanita Forest does not have it. Espanita Village does. So, there's a lot of issues that adding more and more things to us like mobile home parks. They already have their mobile home parks and it's all set up. But we also have that entrance that does go back there and I can't imagine that not being utilized at some point or being asked to re or asked later on for that to be open because they tried to do it when they were selling the property last year. And we came and opposed that. And we said we wouldn't mind if houses went back there. If there was and not 30 like the mobile home park, you know, if there was enough houses that would go back there to keep the power ruby values up, address the drainage and all that. But we really kind of thought the ideal thing would be for some one person to buy and do a homestead there or whatever because of just the agricultural part of it because it is wooded because it is got the hills. Anybody else? Next. I'm going to make a statement. If if we're when we start getting redundant, then we'll we're going to cut off discussion. But as long as you have new things to add, we're we're good.

Okay. And please, whenever the timer goes off, that's the end of y'all's time if y'all can respect that. Yes, ma'am. That's what that thing. That's okay. We didn't say it off really fast. That's okay.

My name is Kathy Morgan. Kathy with K. I live at 211 Espanita. I am actually at the corner of Espanita and Hosienda. The front of my house faces Espanita and we have to turn on Hosienda to turn up into our driveway. So I'm directly across the street on the hosienda side from her and I also I can show you some Hang on. This is out my front door which is the Espanita side of what she was showing you. And that was like a sprinkle See the red clay coming down there

and my house, the backyard, which I also have a picture of. I'll show it if you want it. But my backyard, because we're at the bottom of the hill, our backyard is the drainage for all of the backyards all the way up Espanita to the top subdivision. We have a little uh we call it the Red River running through our backyard. when it rains, we had we put a little bridge over it in the backyard because and and it runs out into the street as long as I'm good to go out there in my jammies or whatever. My husband's 75 and not in good health, so and rake the debris coming from the other yards away from our fence, it doesn't back up into our house. But if we're not there or it pours down rain in the middle of the night while we're asleep, many a time our back patio and back porch is flooded. One time the house has because it's a step up.

But the other thing with the flooding is as was mentioned earlier is we come down Espanita or Hosianda down Espanita we have to turn on Hosienda to get there. We can't make that turn because that street is full of water. My husband and I had a company come in and put brick work all along the Espanita side of our yard because the water would come in and it had washed a ditch this deep in the side of my yard right outside that front door picture. We had to have we paid somebody about $1,500 to come in and fill all that in and layer rocks and all that. And then they put bricks all along the edge of our street to direct the water into the street and out of the yard. And I can't see where adding things to the back out there where it's already flooding. I mean, I understand this gentleman had said they were going to take care of all of that. We've lived there 38 years and I've been hearing that for 38 years. So, forgive me for being a skeptic, but

I think we're fully in agreement. I mean, there's flooding issues in that neighborhood that exist now. But you you asked earlier, and I just want to verify. I heard what I thought I heard. You you asked about the roadway. So, there is because we've been told there was plans to bring a roadway out through there and up through our park. No, there is no plan for that. I was going to stop right there, but just I believe this is correct, and this is just for my clarification, but the the normal water flow is from the north to the south. I I don't know directions. I know it comes from the top of the hill all the way down. It comes down through your neighborhood and that red clay's coming from somewhere up there. And that's an obvious issue that you know the parish needs to

Oh, they know exactly where is coming from. But the we got to have one person at a time, but that is not you could build a huge parking lot with just pavement below that still have the same thing is going to happen, right? So now anything water comes there has to be addressed at anything built down there. But that should not impact the flooding up north. Right. Right. That and and I agree with that and that clay is very very dangerous because I cannot tell you how many times I have come really close to busting my butt getting my mail. No, I'm not rains like that. But I'm just saying if something built south of that, it's not going to affect that water flow.

Except it it if it doesn't have anywhere to go, it's going to back right up into our houses again. couple of years or they ago they came out and and dug out and backhoed and all that that area on the other side of the fences. So this property south turns into a lake after Yeah, pretty much every time it rains. Yeah. Every time it rains. No, I'm not talking about y'all's propert. I'm talking about the properties on the other side. That's going to have to be addressed. That's going to have to be addressed in a study, right? And Yeah. And that's what the one of the pictures I show. Um please, one person at a time. I showed you earlier. Ma'am, you can come back. Speaking from the audience, please. Yeah, she's already I showed you earlier.

That is the woods going into Okay. So, it's just nothing but a lake and then that's all downhill from the top coming east draining down. Okay.

So, you have all that water coming down every day. So, my yard floods into the woods. might interject something here for all of you that this will come up in front of the police jury, which would be a good time for you to all get back together again and revisit with them the problems that you've been trying to bring to them for 30 years and maybe what they're doing here will help get that addressed and maybe solve a problem for it. So, this uh drainage or the water problem, which is a big problem, I think the what they're getting ready to do up there may in fact help you all down below on the water if it's done correctly and brought to the police jury's attention.

And and with that, I'm going to ask Jeff to address the flooding and explain to you guys what all has to take place before a spade of dirt is turned over on that property. If you don't mind, Jeff, you want to go through the Yeah. the uh program because he can't do anything till he reaches a lot of levels,

right? As Mr. Fine said, we'll have to go back to the we'll go through the parish next and we'll have to do a drain what they call a drainage impact study like I address y'all and uh it will and we're by the way, we are downstream from you guys. So, all y'all's water is going to come on to us. So, we have to take care of the offsite water as well as what I guess sounds like to me the parish had their own set of problems out there. created overlaying their gutters and not letting the water get into the gutter where it's supposed to go. So, we'll have to address that with Eric. Uh he's the parish engineer and uh and I'm sure he's aware of the flooding. Whether they've done anything about it or not, I don't know. Uh these for these poor uh residents back there, but we'll have to address the water that comes onto us, let it pass through, get it through us, and then we'll have to detain whatever we you know, encourage to flow on our property. So, yeah.

You don't have that study yet? No. No, because we were going through the zoning process and so that's probably going to cost the owner another 8 $10,000 probably something like that. So if our concerns are the flooding that's happening now in Espanita that we've heard from and that water is coming from north to south into this property. You don't know the size of the retention pond at this point in time, what it's going to take to hold all that water. And is there a way to get solve their flooding problem with this development?

Hope so. Yeah, we'll have to get with the parish and say obviously the parish has created their own problems with the overlaying of the gutters and all, but yeah, we'll have to get with Eric and see what we can do to help eliminate some of their problems. Surely because I think you're going to have to solve their problem before you can solve your problem. Probably. So, sounds like it. Yeah, I'm That's what I'm saying. Yeah, it's obviously a concern because I I don't know about the red dirt coming off the hill up there. That guy should have his erosion stuff in place, which obviously sounds like he doesn't have it. Jeeoff, I kind of feel like that drainage impact study needs to be part of this approval process. It will feel like getting a cart before the horse. Well, I mean, it will be through the parish. They won't allow us to move forward without Well, I'm talking about here. What the FCC? Um,

and I understand, yeah, you strictly, this is just strictly zoning, but I would, speaking for myself, I would really like to see what the impact study would say, not just for this neighborhood, but what it could do to improve the neighborhood above. Well, what what we could do, I guess, is delay, defer. Yeah, let us get some money anyway. Yeah, he'll have to spend to go to the parish.

Yeah. To to finish out his development. Yes, he'll have to spend it. Yes. But just to address a few things that you guys addressed that we have no authority over as or the the fire hydrants, the brown water that you have and really even the flooding that you have now existing we have that's out of our circle but maybe this will improve your flooding circumstances by

I was about to say the same thing that you know I know you said you don't want to look at trailers behind when you get up in the morning, but maybe the development at some point will alleviate the flooding in the neighborhood at least. So, it could be a partial wind and also possibly do a a wood fence along the Oh, yeah. That property. So, you have a privacy fence that would be a problem. Yeah. Uh going on that property also. Can I address that? Yes, sure. So, I know you're saying it it don't matter, but it does matter to me. No, I didn't say it didn't matter.

I know. But a seven foot fence. I have a sixoot fence. And guess what? I can see the trailers already over there. I look out this way and what do I see? The trailers behind the houses that are already there. They've been cutting down trees, trimming up, which I do appreciate that, but now all we do is see is their trailers. So, it's an eyesore. Put normal housing there. I know y'all try to cram more, get more for your bud. That's fine. But you're diminishing my property value. So if I ever go to sell, oh, I should get 250,000. Now I get 110 because trailer park and it does happen. Don't say it don't because it does.

I I mean I definitely appreciate your concerns and I think what I'd like to look at between in the next meeting if you agree to delay it. I mean I'd like to you know get some more specifics on sure property values it would be how they're impacted now ex you know what is this existing development how they're impacting the housing and espanita now I wouldn't know how to do that but yeah no I'm not asking you to do that part though yeah we've got other folks that can help us with that okay did you have something I do have a question for you at the end of espan Sir, if you could go ahead James R. Daisy 212 Espanita 214 Espanita and 814 Princessa.

Uh, is that up here somewhere? It's at the very end. Uh, this is you right here. Yeah. So, so what are you going to do at the end of Espanita Boulevard where where you're going to be building? What are you going to do with that road that we're not going to access? We're just going to build a fence straight across. Yeah, probably a fence across it. Okay. Yeah. Whatever it takes to it's it's in a big green space for I think there's a lot of drainage comes down that road I've been here.

Okay. You know, and another concern I do have is, you know, they've been kicking the pickets out of the back. The kids have that live over there in that trailer park. And they've they've actually robbed you know 212 Espanito. They broke in and robbed them, you know. So, uh and stole a lot of equipment out of that house. So, you know, my concerns are they they don't keep up with that fence at all. You know, the pre-existing fence. I mean, there's a lot of holes in that fence all the way down that. So, I mean, if they if while you're building that, you know, if they can address that, you know, kind of plug those holes up, that'd be great. I'll meet,

you know, and and kind of just keeping people from knocking it out and coming into the neighborhood. So, I I I've seen that myself. So, I Okay. I certainly address owners. Yeah. Yeah, that'd be great. That was my only concern. Send send the sheriff by to see him. I appreciate that. Yeah. Okay. I mean, if y'all want to defer, that's we we'll take it up with the owner and get with the parish about that issues. Yeah. So, your agreement to table this, delay this until we can get our hands back on the study and see what those recommendations don't have a problem with that and tableabling is the appropriate delay. Delay. Delay. Yeah, it's a delay. Yes, delay.

That's the question. Uh, if you think it's going to come up pretty soon, then you delay it. If it's indefinite, I would table it. Table it till they're ready, right? Delay would be to the next meeting. Exactly. That's your call, Jeff. There table or delay? I mean, we if we table, we don't have to go back through the application process. We can just let you know when we got things worked out with Eric. Yeah. Either way. Either way, we wouldn't make you start over on a table or Yeah. You have more time with a table. Yeah. I said mine would table it because Eric's busy. We're busy. So, it may not happen in 30 days. The entire state. Okay. So, we want to table it for you. Yeah. We may have to go do some field work. Jeeoff, I would, you know, the message back to your client would be the fencing is a big concern. Yes.

And securing that the, you know, the the visibility between the subdivision and the travel. I would even say maybe some natural buffers between them and, you know, some as many trees as they can. Yeah. Some landscaping and what have you. Just kind of where they can see a total picture. Okay. No, I don't have a problem with that. I'm sure the owner won't have a problem with that. Did you want to say something else? Sorry.

When the original owners last year came to divide it and they have now sold it to them. Um, we did express that we did want this to be established as like a residential like one or two houses or something like that. Um, we were told to watch for signs that if the zoning changed, so we saw the sign that went up probably a week and a half ago and then you're only required to give 300 ft of notice. So, a handful of people actually got the letter to notify. So, I guess the main thing is to go for zoning. The people have showed up because we do not want the trailer park to go behind our homes there. So as far as the zoning go HOA if the HOA have letterhead or something they could put on a letterhead and just state that

your what your position is and reasons why um we do not have a an you don't have a an active HOA exactly we used to I've been on it 30 years but the more signatures the better. I mean if and bring more people to the next meeting when this comes back up on the agenda. Okay. Well, that's why you see the meeting people here because really you're the ones that got the letters. Five people, you know, found out about it to spread it around and and then that came up. So, I'm just going to say we're opposed to the zoning because that's what you're addressing. And then um I guess can we be notified if there is the next meeting?

Hey, just for the record, there were over aundred letters sent out to your neighborhood. So, the NPC did make a conscious effort to to make those notifications. So, y'all just reach out to your neighbors and make sure you get a good show in for the next one. Yes. Yes. This is these are the applicants that got that letter. All custom to notify all property owners are 300 ft. Yes, ma'am. Those are the only ones that got notified. This is all the letters that we sent out in it's in the package. Um there's two page no three three pages of uh households that received notification.

Yeah, it's quite extensive. That's interesting because nobody said a word about it. What is it? So it wasn't just 300 ft. It was the whole neighborhood. Oh, I'm not saying it was the whole neighborhood. I'm saying there's three pages worth of There's a lot of names. There's a lot of names. 100 letters out at the end of the package. There's three pages worth of addresses.

Most of them. Yeah. It's not a bad thing, but just reach out to your neighbors and get them to the next meeting. The more of y'all that speak against Oh, she'll do that. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. It can absolutely. And it does. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. And it would include it. It's a It's a radius. trailer. Yeah, those are all those,

but it doesn't really

Yeah, they're at the top. Okay. Three, four, five, six, seven, eight, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. the 16 houses out of 100 174 total for total neighborhood. But obviously I think the the more um whether you do it through a petition or whatever from from all of your neighbors um that would carry that would carry some weight. Okay, we can do that.

I mean and it's not that we're not hearing your concerns. We are and you know we've talked to him about um you know postponing this for a bit so we can get more information. So we're hearing you. So we need to make come to the mic. Please come to the microphone if you wish to speak. Please state your name for the record.

Gina McFarland. So we need to get with the police jury get on the agenda for them for the water and drainage. Yes, if you want to cover that, the police jury is who you're going to contact on the water and drainage and your fire hydrants and wa brown water all that. That's that's not in our circle. Our circle is his property and the development of his property at this at this point in time which involves the drainage because he's got to do something to contain that water. So, that could spill over into you guys. But as of as of now, we're dealing with him and his property only. So we have no jurisdiction to say we're going to put you in a fire hydrant or we're going to stop the flooding. That's that's not what we do

outside of our area. We're zoning and ordinances and and and that's that's our little package. I wanted you to understand that going to the police jury is not going to get this in line for a for a study of the water flow. That's going to happen. You could you could express your concerns at the police jury, but this process is going to take place. So the so the flow of water is But Carlott, it won't go to the police jury until they come back to the NPC. That's correct. If we table it, then it'll come back here before it goes to the police jury. But I would still reach out to the parish engineers about your concerns about existing drainage. We have We've had them out there many times walking through both sides of our neighborhood. Yeah. And we'll do the same after this. I'm sorry. I've seen the water so I know. Okay. No, it's not.

Thank you for your time. Thank you. Um, does do we need to make a motion to table or public comment?

I just real quick, um, I've lived out in Espanita for 36 years. My name is George Fber, 313 Hosianda. Uh, bought a starter home, still in it. Love it. Great neighborhood, quiet, uh, no crime. I guess 10 12 years ago behind my house, the woods we as my kids played in, you know, when they're they were young. But anyway, uh whoever I don't know what the gentleman's name is bought the property and of course I didn't get a letter for the meeting. The day I got my letter, I called about it and the meeting had already happened. So, don't know if anybody came up here or not to voice their opinion, but um I'm the guy that when I walk and look out my backyard, I've got a manufactured home 25 foot from the easement and I think it had to be 25 foot. It's 25 foot.0 in. So, it's not far much further than the thing the backdrop behind you. So anyway, um I guess I don't have the flooding issue because I live up the street a little bit, thank goodness, but I do see the remnants, the brown roads. Whoops, excuse me. But u I guess property values big concern. And then security, that's the other thing. Uh, I've got my privacy fence, but I know somebody living 50 yards or 50 feet from my back fence, you know, that that fence is going to get tore up. And that's always been a concern by the residents who face the the current mobile home park is that fence back there. It's crepe paper. So anyway, but that's it. I just wanted to air that. I just really hate to see our property values decline. So, at my age, no house note. Don't plan on moving, but I'd like to be able to

get the value of my house back out. Sure. So, did you sign in? Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you. Is there something new? If there's not something new, we're going to kind of move on. Well, I think it's important.

Okay. Thank you. I'm Denise Chambers. I live at 206 Espanita Boulevard, right there in the middle of it. You know, the draining that's been said it and the security and I'm worried. I've been there 20 years. The trailer park has never replaced their fence. It got old. Well, I have replaced the p fence at my expense. I've had people who live behind me shoot arrows into my yard. Could have killed my dog one day. I have garbage. I have had literal garbage just thrown into my yard like it was a garbage dump. Endless amount of things have come across the fence in my yard. Security uh including kids climbing the fence, including people's children. I've gone around and spoken to them, the people. And it's like it doesn't matter. I love my home. I've been there 20 years. It's quiet. It's peaceful. I love my neighbors. I'm 75. I'm retired. I don't plan on going anywhere. I don't want my property value to go down. And yes, I have two neighbors who are going who are trying to sell their homes and I want great people to move in and I don't mind great people moving in, but we do have issues and problems. And I especially I know you said you're not using Espanita any access in I mean entrance or exit anywhere. I mean we have you know

Barkdale traffic too. We do have problems getting in and out of our neighborhood sometime because of because of that and more traffic would be an issue and security would be an issue but we already have what may be small problems to some. I just don't want it to grow. Thank you.

Mot motion to table. I'll make a motion. I'd make a motion that we uh let me get the right number on P uh Z182025. I make a motion that we table this. Second. I do have another question about the table. Ma'am, one second. Once you cast your vote, please also do verbal. Okay. Okay. You want to do a verbal also, you? Yes, sir. Okay. Uh, y'all want just doing remake the motion and everything? No, just all those in favor,

just do a verbal vote. Is it all? Uh, I'm in uh four tableabling. Four tableing. Four. Four. Four. Four. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. I do have a question about the tableling real quick. What does that mean? Like how long do they have when they table it? Are we talking three months, six months, two years? We recommended that they go back and do a flood study, right? I think it's indefinite. So, it's indefinitely until they come back and represent. So, and we're going to have adequate time because literally we got the notice last week. I had to rework my whole way time. Yes. Yeah. Because like I literally got it last Monday. I was out of town. Yeah. Yeah. No, you should.

I I had to leave work early today to come to this thing. Carla, I don't know if there's a contact person of one of the folks that spoke today that we just reach out to and let them know when it's coming back up on the Yeah. If they want to leave their contact information, we can let them know when, but we don't know. He'll have to conduct the study. They'll let us know because like a week notice. Yeah. Right. With work, it's kind of hard to take off. You know, I'm not lucky like these other ones that are retired. I still have to work for a living, pay for my house. So, or my husband would have been here too because he had to work. You'll be notified. We'll let you know. Thank you. Thank you.

Madison, if you'll read the next agenda item. PLA T146 2025 the application of Michael Kelch Railing Associates for Charlie Yokum requesting a preliminary plat Kane's Landon unit number six being 26.568 acres more or less located in sections 33 and 34 township 19 north range 13 West Boja Parish Louisiana police jury district 6 and Associates this is uh believe it or not this is our last unit of Cage Landing really 448 lots done since 2019 so that feel

for one boer that's our plan so uh if y'all have any questions it's following the master plan city water and sewers repair streets and how many years was this I think we started right in 2019 wow that's pretty fast or that many units yeah it's it's been great u but yeah this is our last one so that developer's happy yep he's happy he's getting real So if y'all have any questions, I'll be glad to ask them. But like I say, it's just the last unit. There are no questions. We have any questions? Nobody. Okay. I'll open it up to public comment. There is any.

I'll make a motion we approve PLA 146-2025. Second. Thank you everyone. Either one. Jeff Michael owes you one. He does. Thanks, Jeff. Motion carries. All those in favor? I I I. Any oppose? Motion carries.

If I if I can just interject, Neil Irwin, your attorney, I just want to let you know, I'll let the neighborhood spokesperson know the next step would be for them to call Dr. Ken Ward, the Boer Parish administrator, and say you're that group wanted to speak at and present their problems about the flooding, but they'll want to know that this has been tabled before y'all. So, I I thought that might uh help uh uh reduce the number of calls that might be confused about that, right? So, they know now to call Dr. Ken Ward and asked to be on the agenda to present at an upcoming police jury meeting about the flooding issue primarily.

Thank you. Thank you. Good. Thanks, Ne. Okay. All right. Looks like we'll be moving into our preliminary hearings. Madison, if you don't mind reading that.

C Z127 2025. The application of Rebecca Gray requesting a zoning amendment to change the zoning classification of a certain tract of land being 0.25 acres more or less from R-LDD residential low density to B-1 business commercial office located at 2804 Oldman and Road Boer City Louisiana for commercial marketing purposes city council district 3 police district 9. Miss Gray, if you'll just state your name, address, and and tell us um what you're wanting to do.

Okay. My name is Rebecca Gray. Um I inherited my childhood home from my parents who are now both deceased at 2804 Old Minden Road. As you all know, there's lots of commercial building going on out there. It's it's hard to recognize the the things that are going on there. We are asking for a zoning change for a B1 so that we may have the opportunity to sell it as commercial. Whether or not we will be able to, we don't know. But we would just like that option. We have any just a little bit of history. I know there we we tried to do an overlay district 10 years ago where everything on your side of the street would be B1 and then B2 B3 across the street. So I'm in favor of it. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Well, it looks like a war zone at the other end of the street.

It does. I didn't notice how much was going on. I just drove through there this today and it's a lot moving. Yeah. Yeah. You know that one owner there's one owner that bought several of those houses and he's not keeping them up. In fact, I tried to buy one of them for for an office years ago and he wasn't interested in selling. I didn't understand that. Well, another one is for sale a couple of houses down now, but they are in very very poor shape. Yeah, they are. It's just time. Yes. But I do appreciate your consideration. No questions. I have no questions. Okay. No motion. I'd make a motion that we accept CZ zone 00127 2025. Second voice. Well, this comes to move it forward.

Move it forward. Moving it forward to a public meeting. So, you got to come back again. Come back here again. Yes, ma'am. You will. So, this was a preliminary a preliminary to just if there was any problems we talked to you about today, that would give you a month to take care of any problems. Okay. You don't have any problems. So, you just have to come back from the next meeting. The NPC, not the city council. Correct. Correct. Okay. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you. You want to voice vote on that, too? You guys already voted? We Yes, please do approval. Um, okay. All in favor? I I. Any opposed? Okay. Motion carries. Motion carries. All right. Carla. Yes, sir.

Will y'all get in touch with Miss Gray and tell her when that meeting is? Is that how that works? Yes, she'll receive another notice and there will also be a sign placed on the property. Okay. Are you related to Barbara Gray? Yes. Oh, wow. I knew her a long time ago. Grandfather. Yeah. Yes. That was your grandfather. A lot of history. Yeah. I've lived here my whole life, so I know the the Waller. Yeah. Also, if Colonel Haden was here, he would probably say this, but I will. She basically maybe not entitled, but she ran Parkway High School for a lot a lot of years. Thank you so much. Sure.

Thank you, Miss Gray. All right, Madison. Looks like we have a miscellaneous item. C MISC 171205 amend the approved 2026 Boer City Parish Metropolitan Planning Commission budget board. We have a a minor change. I would say minor, but it's a big deal. Um the city has approved a 2% quality of life raise for our staff and so that's also included in this budget amendment. So we ask for approval at this time. So ready to approve that. Yes. Okay. I'll make a motion we approve C MISC 171-2025.

Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Looks like we also need to get approval for the September 8th uh 2025 minutes. I move we approve the September 8th minutes. I have a second. Second. Okay. All in favor? I I

Any opposed? Um do we have any new or old business? Um, no old or new business at this time. Um, I did showcase that we are live on social media. So, uh, please take park and look at that and provide comments. So, YouTube, um, Instagram, LinkedIn, Tik Tok. Um, we want to get the information out there to the public as soon as possible and make sure that it's accurate. So, we are working on that. Thank you. All right. We'll be ajourned then.

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