Commission - Regular Meeting

This is met being maintaining the minimum lot frontage. They are maintaining that frontage on W Edwards Road. A raised curve of 6 in constructed along the perimeter of all paved and landscape surfaces. Uh the size of the building on the UNO's parking ratio only requires six parking spaces which is less than what we would require someone to pave the parking lot other than a 188 space. So they wouldn't be required to do a curb because we wouldn't require paving on site. Um, no overhead doors face any surrounding zoning district. Um, the vehicle queuing space is provided. All the maintenance and work from what we gathered is held inside the building. There's no outdoor display of vehicle parts or anything. Uh, recctor storage vehicles shall be kept out of public, which fits into the that staff condition to have the opaque fencing. And there's no vehicle painting on the site. So, that last one would not be applicable here. Uh and with that I can answer any questions on item one and two.

Can you go back to the proposed plan please? Sure. Okay. So the building you said no no no uh doors that face a road.

They don't face any of the abuing zoning districts or a public road. So those doors face um this way which faces Thank you. the the doors don't face a rural residential or a residential district. They face towards Bill Fut Road. If you're on Bill Fut Road, there's pretty thick vegetation between Bill Futch Road and where you would see those doors. Where you see a lack of vegetation is on the Wilma Edwards side, which is the proposed condition for doing uh the streetard buffering. And where we're going to put the fence at?

Uh the fence is proposed to go in front of those stored vehicles, in front of that door. So, you shouldn't be able to see the door or the vehicles. And you can see the location that they have kind of squared in there.

Any other questions? There's a church somewhere close by. Where's that related exactly? I've been by there 100 times. The church is the light green square on his own map. Across the street? Oh, yeah. Across the street. Okay, any other questions? Are there any lighting requirements for B2? None that I know off the top of my head. Since they would be required to do a full site development plan, we typically only look at lighting when there's a fullsight development plan, but with the idea to keep lighting away from surrounding properties. Thank you. Any other questions?

Go back to the map one more time. Sorry. No, you're fine. You want the zoning map? No, the plan. I'm sorry. Show me Show me exactly where the fence is going to go cuz I I had some calls from folks at the church complaining or concerned about what they were going to have to look at. You're right. Just might be easier this way. I'm sorry. At this point, yeah, that's good. That'll work. So, this is the existing building. The fence is proposed to be here with the vehicles moved behind the fence. So you wouldn't be able to see the vehicles from the road. Okay. And the garage doors have to be on the other side of building too. So they couldn't Yeah. Right.

All right. Any other questions? We are in public comment. Would anybody uh is anybody here to speak for against this project? Okay. Well, let let's do the uh against first. if you want to just come up and and state your name and we'll give you three uh three minutes if you need that much time. Yeah. Thank you, Lauren. Hi, good evening. Good evening.

My name is Arlene Hobbs and I'm a resident of the Black Creek Golf Course which is located near the parcel under consideration tonight. I'm here to respectfully but firmly oppose this resoning request and subsequent conditional use request. Our neighborhood is made up of residential communities, families, children, retirees, and people who chose this area particularly because of its character and its quiet. Reszoning this parcel to B2 to accommodate heavy automotive and equipment maintenance is fundamentally incompatible with everything that surrounds it, and I urge this board to reject it. My concerns are three-fold. First, noise and quality of life. Heavy equipment maintenance operations generate sustained significant noises, diesel engines, hydraulic systems, metal on metal work, often beginning at early morning hours. Our residents deserve to live without industrial-grade disturbance next door. Second, safety and traffic. B2 operations can bring heavy commercial trucks, oversized equipment, and increased vehicle traffic onto roads that were designed for residential use. This creates genuine safety hazards. Our infrastructure simply was not built for this volume or class of vehicle. Third, property values and community integrity. Studies consistently show this type of reszoning adjacent to residential areas depresses surrounding property values. The residents of this community have invested their savings into their homes in good faith. Trusting that the zoning protections in place would be honored. Approving this request signals that those protections can be eroded whenever

commercial interest finds it convenient. I want to be clear. This is not opposition to business or economic development. This is about placing the right business in the right location. Heavy automotive and equipment maintenance belongs in an industrial corridor not bordered by homes, playgrounds, and families. I would ask this board, would you want this operation next to your home? The comprehensive plan exists to prevent exactly these kinds of incompatible land uses. On behalf of my neighbors, I ask you to vote no on this request to reserve preserve our residential character of our community. Thank you for your time and for your service to our community.

Thank you. All right. Thank you.

All right. Next up, just come up and state your name, sir. Give you three minutes. My name is Ray Butler and uh I don't live in the area, but uh I do go to church at Christ Baptist Church. I'm a deacon there and uh since it has been open, I don't know if the business license have been issued, but they have been doing business at that location. But uh and it's 7 days a week. They've been there on Sunday mornings down there with the doors open racket. You can hear the air guns and it just don't look good in the neighborhood. Uh that's we got I know several years back I come in front of the county trying to get a variance on some acreage down the road there. I was going to build some houses and they turned me down for that because I didn't have the amount of road frontage for each lot that I was wanting. And they told me why I couldn't get have the lots resone was because it was a connector road between two state highways. And that's 119 and 280 at that time. But that's been probably about 10 or 12 years ago. So they turned me down on that. So I had to go back and and play a different game. I had to lose 10 lots in there and and then get a five. So at this point, where what are we going to do down there? Are we going to attract more business with that

reszoning of B2 in our in our church neighborhood? Would y'all like to be standing outside Sunday mornings and hear this traffic going in there with a with an automotive shop? Yeah, I do own an automotive shop and I'm not against that, but it's just not in the right location. Thank you'all. Thank you, sir.

All right. Next up,

you state your name for the record, sir.

My name is Tim Treywick. Uh, first of all, I'm the pastor at Christ Baptist Church. Um, been there for almost 11 years. Uh, once again, I'm here to pose that type of business in that location. Uh we have the church right there adjacent. You have the entrance to Hendricks Park. You have all those subdivisions down there. And then this is already an eyesore already. Um it's just not like I said it the location is what I'm against. Not against the business that type of business or anybody making a living doing that, but it's just the location I think is way out of uh the realm of where that type of business should be. I'm also a homeowner in Black Creek Golf Course. Uh we have the golf course there. Like I said, we're already known as the trash end of the county and so we're just going to add some more trash to it in my opinion. That's not going to do anything to add any appeal or value to it. So I'm totally opposed to this as a pastor of a church and as a homeowner. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. All right. Next up, anybody else wish to speak against it?

Good evening. I'm Janice Myself, Christ Baptist Church. Um I um take care of the children in the church among other positions that I have. But I am concerned about this. When the building first started, when um the doctor had moved out and dashers had come in, I was concerned because it was a lot of extra traffic and we have a lot of children that play in that area that are at our church area and it's right down the road. My concern is now they're going to bring some kind of heavy equipment which I'm confused about what that is. I'm confused about what exactly is coming. Um and that's a big concern especially with the children, you know, because they do play in the area. We have a playground area and all it is is concerning and it it is an eyesore and you know it's a beautiful area. We have a lot of residential people there and I'm really concerned and I hope that you vote no. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else wish to speak against? Just come up state your name. How you guys doing? Good.

I'm uh Jay Wall. I'm a resident at uh Black Creek Golf Course as well. Um I think Arlene Hobbs had a lot to say and I would have to agree with everything that she did say with every matter. Um looking into uh that zoning into residential neighborhood. It does uh depreciate home values over a certain amount of time depending on what business is actually in there. And this business, I will say, has already kind of gotten off on the wrong foot by the way it looks. I understand there may be a fence involved hiding it with that buffer that's already in existence and them not being able to do anything other than that. I think that at least 150 foot buffer would be needed around that entire property, which is probably probably a mo the amount that would be needed to hide most of that. Um, at this point I I would totally be against this. So, thank you.

Thank you. All right. Anybody else wish to speak against? All right. Who wants would like to speak in favor of it? Yes, sir. Or favor? Okay. You You can come on up, ma'am. I'm in favor.

Yeah, you come on up in favor. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'm Crystal. This is Jason. We're the Dashers. We currently rent the property from the Price. Um, as the owner of Dashers Auto and the founder of Dashers Helping Hands Foundation, we are we also have a nonprofit that we run out of that building. Um, I wanted to just explain a little bit about what it is that our business does. There is no heavy equipment involved. Um, we are there sometimes on Sundays, but it's not always to work on cars. Um, the heavy automotive would be like engine repairs and transmission repairs. It's not using heavy equipment. Um, as far as Sundays go, a lot of times we're there on Sundays because we are a nonprofit. We do help families in need. Um, and the two kind of go hand in hand. Sometimes um some of the funds that we raise for our nonprofit help the elderly, the disabled um and even some lower income families with transportation needs. We will fix cars for people and use funds from the nonprofit to help them so that they have a way to get back and forth to work or to doctor's appointments. Um since we've been there, um we have done a lot for the community already. We had an elderly lady when in the very beginning before we were really even open that came to us with four tires with wires hanging out. This lady could not afford to pay the for the four tires. She could only afford to pay for two of them. We took money from our pockets because our nonprofit didn't

have the money either. And we purchased those tires to help that lady. That is our mission. Our mission is to help people. We are not there to cause a problem for the community. We are there to help the community. and we would like to help the community grow and whatever that looks like. We are uh we are family. The the business is run by family. Our son and daughter also are mechanics and work for us. Um and that's who we are and we ask for this to be passed so that we can operate the right way. Um, we have done everything that was asked of us for the inspection and uh so that we can get our business license. So, we just ask for this to pass.

Right. Thank you. Thank you. Rick, um, can you tell me the difference between what's allowed in B1 and B2? Because I mean and and there's a business there now, but am I correct? They don't have a business license.

No, sir. They do not currently hold a Brian County business license. So, in the B1, we allow light automotive repair, which is strictly it's you're stuck to just doing like oil changes, very basic things like that. Heavy automotive repair in the UDO is defined as like once you start opening the engine to change like gaskets or transmission work or things like that. And we and we have the ability to enforce those rules. I think that's that's I mean I used to work at a gas station. I kind of know one time sometimes one segus to the other. Uh so I mean do we I'm just asking because I don't know.

Yeah. I I I would probably say a light automotive repair business would probably be just like a like a fiveminute oil change place like you think of in Pooler. And then we're complaint driven on code enforcement. So if there was a code complaint that came in, it could be enforced that way. Okay. But right now there's no business license for the businesses operating there. No, they're currently a non-complying business. The reasonzoning and related conditional use was to try to get them to where they need to go, which is the and this where we got the condition, you know, with the fence and the streetard buffer to to screen some of that. You have any other questions? Thank you.

Okay. All right. Next, anybody for Yes, sir. State your name, please. For just for the record, good evening. Scott Allison Coleman Company representing the property owner. I'm not here to to retort or rebut any of the public comments. I just wanted to uh touch on a few things that were brought up during the the questions on the specific site plan. So on that site plan, um if if you've been out there, there's it's not 150 ft wide or anything like that, but there's some um some larger trees on the Bill Futch side and and adjacent to the um residential zoning. Um as well as the B2 zoning um in the rear, there's some decent sized trees along Bloom Edwards, but to Brett's point, that needs to be supplemented uh to meet the screening and buffering requirements for the UDO. Um so what you see in this it'll be a combination of existing and proposed that'll have to go through full staff review uh to meet the UDO requirements for the buffering along Wilma Edwards. Um obviously the the property owner agrees to any of the recommended conditions uh from staff. Um you know as far as the screening and that buffering uh the the yard um to be is to be opaque screen from the from the main roadway. Um it could take a little bit of a larger shape depending on the the um amount that the actual user needs to store vehicles. So that yard may be larger than based on, you know, what we anticipate from a a design standpoint, but the general location as shown would would be the best was the best intent we could find to to get its distance off of Wilm Edwards um and also provide the room that you see for queuing into those bays and kind of handling um customer parking. Uh primarily, you know, with that type of work, there may be some overnight needs um have the car has to stay there for, you know, a couple days, maybe a week waiting on parked. So, some

of that has to do with security concerns as well. Um, really the only other thing is just related to the comprehensive plan. You know, B2 does fit within the comprehensive plan as as Mr. Brett mentioned um with a B2 directly adjacent to the property from a previous zoning. Um, and just to touch base a little bit on traffic, albeit it's um it's more traffic than you would find as than a residential house that comes in there um on that property. Uh but we did go through um did some some traffic counts as far as uh this type of use. So you also have at play now you know it's in existence um right wrong or indifferent you can kind of see how it operates right so the UDO can kind of drive the aesthetics from a a site arrangement standpoint but it gives you a clear hint of kind of the the traffic um you know it falls within the thresholds u within the county's code uh to be a waiver from the TDA um therefore you know le less parking than kind of your standard you know, heavy use commercial type zoning and I can answer any questions additional that you may have.

Anybody have any questions? Nope. Okay. Thank you, Scott. Some No, I said thank you, Scott. Okay. All right. Uh, what we'll do, we'll hear these. Are you I'm sorry, sir. Come on out. Sorry about that.

That's okay. Apologize for being 50. I just got off of work, but I was one of them businesses that I've got the property that's that butts up to this property and I was one of them businesses five years ago that had to come in front of y'all and was sort of opposed the church and what not was opposed. Now, first and foremost, I'm a Christian, so I support the church, but I think this is wrong terminology. I'm B2 and I've my property is adjoining it, but this is not heavy. We have again I've I've went through the processes and aesthetics and whatnot and you know who wanted a paint and body shop that that went on, you know, and it escalated. But as an existence, it's a need. We went from having three employees to 27 employees. We went from just a small shop to a shop as large as my shop is in Statesboro. It's all how you treat a business. It's all how you treat aesthetics. We've won yard of the month, a body shop of all things, yard of the month. But it's how we keep it. You know, talking about property tax and my property taxes went from $2,000 a year to $13,000 a year. So, I brought property taxes or or values up. Now again, I'm anal on making sure my business looks good and I support I gave these three the devil because I thought it was overkill whenever the county made me have curbing, nice plants, additional parking. Um, but the county was right with everything that they said. I went from two parking places to 10 parking places, from 10 parking places to 20 park. Now, we don't have 20 customers at a time, but periodically we will. You know, the B2

fit the realm of something that was needed in our county, whether population or or traffic, you know, enterprise rental car is coming on site with us. A lot of people may not like it, but the cars won't be shown, they'll be rented. It's a service provided. And you know, I just I think heavy is not the right terminology by we're B2, but we're by no means are we heavy heavy. I mean, that's just not even in our nature of realm of things. But, you know, I feel it's I'm sending $100,000 a month of business away because collision centers don't do wheel alignments, tires. Now, we spread some business out to a local business as well, too, but can't handle the volume. But, you know, growth is here. It's it's here. and sorry, you know, I've got to maintain, you know, a relationship with those who I service. Um, we're working seven days a week right now. Do I want to? No, I'm trying to retire, but we provide a service. And, you know, reality is is where do you go? We can't go to the industrial park. Industrial, we talked about that at Planzone before. You know, a collision center is not there's not a collision center or a automotive, a shop in an industrial park. There's no place to put us. I mean, there is there's we're there's no place to put us on 280, you know. Um, then you got XL diesel lanes. But I went through all of this, but again, I think I've shown myself in the last five years that, you know, you can be depending what restrictions the county puts on B2. Um, I had to spend a couple hundred,000 to look pretty, but it worked and it I mean it brought appearance. Uh, I mean it it just it works if if the county makes us do what we're supposed to do. So, again, I'm in favor of it. I just, you know, supportwise, uh, you know, traffic, I mean, the concrete, but we got we got

commercial property all the way down or B1 or B2 all the way down. Well, am I right by saying that? Think so. you know, right from the golf course entrance where the concrete plan is, that's an eyesore, you know, but they're cleaning it up. So, I mean, where do you where do you put people like me or our businesses? So, anyway, you know, uh I I I support the church. I support everything. But I think no matter what, you can still look professional. You you can look pretty and you can still fit the needs of our county. So, thank y'all. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? So that's a collision center in the B2 that's behind it. Is that right? That's right. That's behind this valley right there behind. Yeah.

On Bill Fletch. And I think the next one is V2, too. Yeah. And I think we resigned a couple of partials along there in the last few years. Okay. That's right. Okay. All right. Again, we'll hear these items and we'll close our public hearing and come back and vote. Uh next up, we are going to skip item number three. No, no, no. We we I'm sorry. Yes. We're going to explain it and then we're gonna if anybody wants to speak for us. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's right. That's right. And then we'll table that. Okay. Do we need to wait on Commissioner Price?

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. Item number three, it's a request to abandon 3.67 acres of county maintained rideway known as Gerard Road. Uh this request was filed by the Westervelt company uh requesting for the road to be abandoned due to um illegal trespassing and issues that they've had on the property with people accessing it. Uh now there are two other property owners who own property off of J Gerard Road which would be impacted by this request. And while they are generally in favor of the request and they support the application as filed, um we've just heard recently as of Thursday that they are still in conversations with the Westervelt Company about how the private ownership and maintenance of Gerard Road would be maintained between the three parties. Um and so at this time they are requesting that the item be tabled. Um which with the tableabling we are not tableabling or asking for it to be deferred to a specific date. rather whenever all the parties are um ready to move forward, staff can revive the application, get it scheduled and bring it back to your um your board for action. Um so with that, staff is recommending a tableabling of this item.

Anybody uh wish to speak for against this item? Anybody want to speak for Okay. Nobody gentlemen, yes sir. Are you okay? And this is Gerard Road. You want to talk about this is my name is Steve Raminsky. I live on beautiful Okay. We we'll do the public comments at the end. This is just for Gerard Road. I believe Mr. Zaminsky is impacted by Gerard Road. You want to speak on Gerard Road abandonment? No, ma'am. Okay.

Okay. So, yeah, we Yeah. Okay. Anybody else? Okay. No. Okay. All right. Next up is the uh continued second reading of ordinance to amend section 114-511 authorized use for residential district districts and section 114-512 residential district use conditions of the unified development ordinance.

Yes. So, this amendment proposes uh amendments to the R15 zoning district that would allow the keeping of chickens in the residential district. Um, and if you'll recall, we first brought this to you um, at your meeting in February earlier this year. Um, as originally presented, it would have allowed no more than four chickens per property within the R15 zoning district. Um, through public hearings and discussions, this body asked us to consider incremental increases to allow for an increase in the number of chickens that could be maintained on properties that have perhaps one acre or more. Um so we took that back to the planning and zoning commission to cons continue those conversations with them and make considerations for incremental increases. Um they had two additional meetings, one in March and one in April. And at their April meeting, they did make a recommendation to move forward um where they are proposing um to allow a maximum of four chickens on properties that are less than one acre in size. And then for properties that are a minimum of 1 acre or greater um an additional five chickens be permitted per each half acre up to a maximum of 20. Um along with their recommendation, they have also uh recommended that the ordinance be delayed in its effective date for 60 days in order to allow individual HOAs um to review their um homeowners um covenants to see if they need to take any kind of action if they choose to be more restrictive than what the ordinance would allow. Um and so I do just want to share this table. It just kind of shows some reference to what's currently allowed in some of our other districts. um such as the the rural residential districts, you can see currently in the rural residential districts that are um usually much larger in size, they can get up to a maximum of 50, but the R15, keeping with that suburban residential

context, um this ordinance amendment would cap it at 20. Um so with that, I'm available for any questions. Anybody have any questions here? No, none here. Thank y'all. Thank y'all for doing this too. Yep. Anybody here wish to speak for against that? No. Okay. And then the next one is item number five is Chief I don't I'll say the name. She uh two 2026 LLC off license for 1089 819 Highway 280 East parcel 030-00001.

Yes. So, this is an application for a new alcohol license. This would allow the package sale of beer and wine for off-remise consumption. Um, the applicant in this request is taking over the ownership of an existing convenience store. Um, which prompted him to have to file this application. Uh, staff is recommending approval of the alcohol beverage license. And they sell alcohol there now, right? They do. Yeah. So, it's just a transfer of ownership. Transfer ownership. Okay. All right. Anybody wish to speak for against this item? No. Okay. All right. What we'll do now, we'll go back. We'll take a motion to close our public hearing and open up our regular meeting.

Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion to close the public hearing and reopen a regular meeting. Second. Second. All right. All in favor say I. We're now back in a regular meeting. Uh we'll vote on these items one at a time. I'm going um Yes. Excuse yourself. Excuse yourself. Yeah.

Uh item one, Coleman Engineering representing Price 3689 William Road LLC. Second reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning map 7.686 acres, parcel 025-005. Mr. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the resoning of parcel 025-00005 from B1 neighborhood commercial to the B2 general commercial zoning district as presented with the conditions. You want to read those conditions in I don't think they have that's on item two. Yes, that's on item two. That's on item one. Oh, my bad. Okay,

so we have a motion on that. Do we have second it? Second. second. Okay. Yeah. All right. So, we have a motion to second. Any any discussion on that? Um, can we put, you know, some of the concerns the folks raised Sunday morning church trying to happen, impact wrenches running across the street. Yeah. I mean, what kind of are there? If we decide to go along with this on item two, we can on the condition,

can we make conditions that say You can so staff has recommended conditions for item two. If you want to add or change or remove those conditions, you can make a motion in accordance with that to change those conditions. And there's some motion I mean there's some Yeah, I mean I just didn't know cuz because it's really I mean I I guess I understand why they're separate, but they really if you deny the first one, the second one who so I don't Okay. Yeah, but they do have to decide. Okay. Okay. So, we had a motion and a second. Any more discussion on that? All in favor say I. I.

All opposed. Okay. That motion carries. Thank you. All right. Next uh item number two, Coleman Engineering representing Price 3689 William Edward Road. Wilmet Edwards Road LLC. Conditional use permit for heavy automotive plus 7 plus 7.86 86 acres partial 025005. Sorry, we need a motion on that one.

Mr. Chairman, I make a motion to approve the conditional use with the following conditions. Continued compliance with the specific supplemental use regulations governing heavy auto repair facilities as set forth in section 114-722 of the Brian County Unified Development Ordinance. Installation of a streetyard buffer and opaque fencing to screen store vehicles from Wilma Edwards Road and Bill Futch Road must be completed prior to the issuance of a business license and that no um that the facil No. Yeah. The facility not be open before noon on Sunday. It's an added It's an added condition. So I was starting to say that no

Yeah. Yeah. He added that no no business uh before noon on Sunday. Before noon on Sunday. As condition number three. As condition number three. Okay, we have a motion on that. Do we have a second? A second. Second. Any discussion on that? No discussion. Discussion. Okay. All in favor say uh say I. I. All opposed.

Okay. One opposed. Okay. That motion carries. Thank you. All right. Item number three. Uh, we get weighing back in. And item number three is on top of the second bottom for top of the second page. Uh, Mr. Chairman, I move to table the item to a date to be determined by staff for further discussion and consideration by the property owners. Second. Second. Okay. Any discussion on that? All in favor say I. All opposed. That motion carries. Thank you.

Item number four, the continue uh continue second read of an ordinance to amend section 114-511 authorized uses and residential districts and section 114-512 residential district use conditions of the unified development ordinance.

Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the amendment of section 114-511, authorized uses in residential districts and section 114-512, residential district use conditions of the unified development ordinance to be modified as follows. Properties that are less than one acre be permitted a maximum of four chickens. Properties that are a minimum of one acre be permitted five additional chickens per 1/2 acre up to a maximum of 20 chickens. I further move to delay enforcement date 60 days from approval date allowing HOAs adequate time to notify homeowners and make further restrictions to their private covenants if desired.

Second. Second. Any discussion on that? All in favor say I. All opposed. That motion carries. Thank you. All right. Chief Shiakei 2 2026 LLC alcohol license for 10819 Highway 280 East parcel 030-005. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the alcoholic beverage license from Mr. Patel for package sales of beer and wine for off-remise consumption as presented. Second. Second. Second. Any discussion on that? All in favor say I. I. All

oppose. Okay, that motion carries. Thank you. All right, we go down to our nonpublic hearing items. Uh, community development. First up is John D. Northup representing Cape Group LLC. First reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning map, uh, plus or minus 38.86 acres, parcel 062-114. And we won't take any, uh, vote on this. Okay. Go ahead. Yeah, this is the first reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning map for approximately 38.86 acres from the A5 agricultural district to the B2 general commercial district located at the corner of uh Georgia Highway 144 and Belfast River Road. Again, this is just a first reading only with no action tonight. This will go to the planning and zoning commission next week on May 19th and we'll be back before you for a second reading and public hearing on your June 9th meeting which will be in Richmond Hill. And this shows you the location map here at that corner as well as the current zoning map showing you u that the current zoning and the PD across the highway as well as their proposed concept plan here and I can answer any questions you may have.

Anybody have any questions on that? No. Uh just for verifi clear for clarification. I know we've had this property discussed a couple times. Uh the buffer, that's a 50-foot undisturbed buffer around the cemetery. Yes, sir. Access to this parcel, anything off of 144? Uh they are proposing two access points further south of the cemetery, but nothing between the cemetery and the roundabout. And then an access point off of Belfast River. Yes, sir.

Is the buffer a vegetative buffer or a burm? Uh, so it's proposed to be undisturbed vegetation. So just what's there now. So how do you access that gas station on the corner if there's no nothing between the cemetery and the roundabout? Oh, you turn and then turn. Okay. All right. I get it. Kind of like the Parkers, I guess, on 204. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Any other discussion? This item doesn't need to be voted on. So, any other comments? Okay. Just go to PNZ when this will go to PNC next Tuesday on May 19th. Yep.

And that'll be here, but the but the next obviously the next time when we vote will be in Richmond Hill. So, anybody that wants an opportunity to speak can speak up here and then again in Richmond Hill. Yes, that's correct. It'll come back before you next month in June on June 9th. That'll be in Richmond Hill. Okay. All right. Great. All right. Thank you. All right. Next item up is a resolution approving the recreational trails grant uh program grant.

Yeah, this is a non-public hearing item, but it is an action item. So, we do need a vote for y'all to authorize the submittal of a of a resolution to submit the full recreation trails grant application. Uh so Brian County, we staff a we applied for a pre-application uh to extend the Green Creek Trail in South Bryan County and we were invited uh to complete a non-competitive second level application and in order to fulfill a requirement of that grant application uh an a resolution authorizing that submitt is required um with the required funds and accepting all term agreements. So, the county applied for $189,000 grant towards the total project cost of $258,000. Uh just a quick overview of the grant project. These are funds allocated to the state of Georgia from the federal highway trust. These uh grants support only on ground trail projects. They look to improve outdoor recreation access in local communities. They cannot be used for transportation, general park improvements, or planning and design. And this is a reimbursement grant. So, just as a reminder, this shows you the proposed uh trail and the connection that it'll have back to Henderson Park Boulevard along with the uh parking area there. Currently, the trail just dumps onto Fort Mallister Road, which can create a pretty dangerous situation. And just uh giving a cost breakdown here with the grant cost, the grant request, and then the county's 30% match, which will be all in kind. So, that's work the county is performing in kind with no extra cost. um to the county and I can answer any questions you may have on.

Are they going to block that trail off the dumps on them or do you know I don't think the desire is because it's used by bicyclists. So I guess the thought is if you were riding a bicycle you could still continue to use that access to go to like Fort Mallister or something. All right. And this is an action action item. So we will need a motion. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve a resolution authorizing the submittal of the full recreational trail program grant application for the Green Creek Trail Extension Project, committing all necessary and required funds and accepting agreement terms as presented. Second.

Any discussion on that? I I would like to say thank you for uh our folks that write these grants and uh they do a good job of getting money where they can to help kind of do some projects around our community that that doesn't cost the taxpayers um as much money. So, thank you to them for uh stepping up and finding these types of grants. We got a motion in a second. Uh all in favor say I. All opposed. Okay, that motion carries. Thank you.

All right, Ben, you're up. First up is 2025 road striping project lame L contract award. Item one is the local maintenance and improvement grant safety action plan program uh bid award consideration. This is uh we received money from G DOT regarding safety programs for our roads and streets and uh decided to spend it on road striping. Uh this is a project uh we received two bids on. Our recommendation is to authorize staff to execute contract with Peak Paving Marketing LLC. the low bidder and qualified bidder in the amount of $170,000 $2929 uh for the 2025 road striping project and of course authorize the associated uh 2026 budget amendment included in their in your packets there to accommodate for this expenditure.

Okay, we'll need a motion on that one. Mr. Mr. Chairman, I move to authorize staff to negotiate and execute a contract with Peak Pavement Marking LLC in the amount of $170,292 for the 2025 roading project. Uh, and authorize the associated 2026 budget amendments as presented. Second. Second. Any discussion on that? All in favor, raise your right hand. All oppose. Okay, that motion carries. Thank you. Next, Dravinsky Capital Management LLC transportation improvement agreement.

Yeah, item two is part of our growth pace for growth uh initiative that we've had for about a decade now. This is a transportation improvement contribution agreement with Stravinsky Capital Management. Uh project's been long in the making. Um they own three properties along Warell Farm Road per and per the ex existing zoning conditions associated with those properties. uh they're required to enter into a transportation agreement to help uh address mitigation to their impacts as far as transportation network. Uh the transportation improvement contribution agreement that identifies the obligations that they have and of course our obligations including potential impact fee credits for work they do put in and for their of course improvements to Warell Farm Road.

Hey Laura, you want to roll that to the next item? Is it's not Oh, I'm sorry. There you go. All right. Thank you. Need a motion. Yes, we need a motion on that. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the transportation improvement contribution agreement with Stravinsky Capital Management as presented. Second. Second. Any discussion on that? All in favor say I. All opposed. Okay, that motion carries. Thank you. Item three, Stravinsky Capital Management LLC, a water and sewer service agreement.

Yeah. Item three, uh same properties. Uh this is the water and sewer service agreement for those properties located along Warner Farm Road. Uh the this is uh Stravinsky of course due to zoning conditions and uh our past practice is required to enter into a water and sewer service agreement to address the terms and conditions for the expanding water and sewer infrastructure to provide service to proposed development. Uh the water and sewer service agreement addresses the payment of capital recovery fees for connecting to the water system and also some uh obligations that uh they have as well. Okay, get a motion on that.

Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the water and sewer service agreement with Stravinsky Capital Management LLC as presented. Second. Second. Any discussion on that? Hearing none. All in favor say I. All oppose. Thank you. Thank you, Ben. Uh, that item number four was removed. We're down to county attorney items. The number one item was removed. Uh, now we have county attorney item number two. So, from the from the attorney, how y'all doing? Yeah. Thursday. All right. This one is a uh consideration or consider approval of a

No, that was that one was removed. There we go. That's correct. Make sure you're

getting off the ground now. Consideration of a resolution to authorize acquisition of rightway interest from parcel 054E-66. And this is parcel 3 of the Harris Trail Timber Trail Road Signal Rideway project. And this property is owned by Zia Investments 102 LLC. Um, this item authorizes the county to acquire from Zia Investments 102 LLC certain right-of-way rights upon the property lying in Brian County parcel number 054E-66. The county will pay $14,283.20 in exchange for those rightway rights um from the property and the rightway deed that we've prepared grants the county fe simple rightway rights in the property located at 1355 Harris Trail Road.

Okay, we need a motion on that. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the acquisition of road rights away needed from parcel 1054E- 066 for the Harris Trail Timber Road Harris Trail Timber Road signal project. Okay, second. Second. Any discussion on that? Hearing none. And that's that piece that's across timber trail. Where are we on? This is the gas station. This is the gas station. Okay. At the gas station. All right. Thank you.

All right. We had a motion and a second. No more discussion. All in favor raise your right hand. All oppose. Okay. That motion carries. Thank you. We're down to our public comment section now. We have to add a executive session in after we finish our public comments. All right. First up is Arlene Hobbs. She's already spoken.

Gone. Okay. Um Kate, I believe Larsy. Lararscy. Okay. Ma'am, you come up. Just state your name for the record. We'll give you three minutes.

Uh my name is Kate Lucy. Lucy, I'm sorry. last the closing on my home sale last Thursday, May 7th. I resided in the Daniel Sidings neighborhood for 4 years. This is the last place I want to be tonight. Apart from the three-hour round trip I made, my presence here indicates that the young female goat living in aborant conditions in my neighborhood remains in captivity nearly 2 months after reaching out to local government agencies and officials. Gene Wallace is very aware of the situation despite the fact that the owners are in violation of residential zoning laws. I'll make a point here to say that livestock goats are still treated as property, not animals. So, they do not enjoy the legal protections at this point that domestic animals like dogs do. Therefore, this case is being handled very ineptly by the planning and zoning commission. Uh despite the fact that the owners are in violation of residential zoning laws notwithstanding uh animal welfare rights, the officials in charge of this case have still not taken constructive action after the April 24th deadline. Uh and the day on which the officer handling the code the code violation indicated to me that she would be uh moving forward. Again the terminology was slippery terms like citation, summons, magistrate, due process. Uh bear with me.

How many How much time do I have?

You go ahead, ma'am. I'll let I'll let you I'll let you finish. I'm not We won't cut you off. So, um, as I say, livestock don't enjoy the rights that living creatures do. And so, I have tried to rescue this goat despite all of the uh, laws that um, exist. And I've been in contact with many people. I've learned very much about husbandry. I've seen many instances of neglect on this property and I am here simply because I've exhausted every other avenue while living here and I want to raise awareness to the community at large that livestock. Let me put it to you this way that the code enforcement officer told me that they are at the ceiling quote unquote with such cases. Uh and

you can go ahead. You go ahead. Ma'am,

understood that the planning and zoning this has defaulted to them since these living loving creatures are called property. Uh they want to send it to animal services. That's where I too started. It kind of makes sense. Animal services sent me over to PNZ because they don't handle livestock. Uh somewhere along the lines I was told about the Department of Agriculture. I've talked to people there, too. The Department of Agriculture uh sent me down the rabbit hole to the Brian County officials. Uh but again, it's kind of the same blackbox one-way communications I'm getting everywhere. Um, according to Brian County, according to Brian County Department of Agriculture, excuse me, according to the Bryan County Department of Agriculture, uh, the sheriff's office is in charge of this issue And I have reached out to the sheriff's office in the past when I first moved to that community because the same owners were leaving their dog out in the cold. Animal services cited Georgia law Georgia laws are abysmal for dogs. You can imagine that uh if dogs are treated that way. Um livestock instead of calling them property, you might as well call them refues or trash. I will be I've haveve given up hope on getting custody of that beautiful goat.

As of last Thursday when I closed on the house, a billy goat has now been shoved into that same small pen. the fragile sanctuary that the little goat and her adopted feathered family had created has now been completely disrupted. While the agencies who are relegated with getting this case moved along are passing the buck. are passing laws behind the scenes about adding more chickens to the properties. I'm surprised, Dr. Wallace, that you did not let me know that was coming down the pike after I sent you a picture of the beheaded hen that had come out of the property and that I buried. So again, I'm It's a black box, folks. We need to change the laws. I'm reaching out to Atlanta rights lawyers who are at least digging into what laws exist to keep dogs from being exploited in dog fighting rings. Um

All right. Thank you, ma'am. We we we get the gist of getting off of dog fighting. We don't have dog fighting here. Are we sure about that? Yeah, we don't that we know of, ma'am. But we you were talking about the goat. Thank you for your comments. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next up, Ray Butler. Ray Butler here. He spoke already. Gone. Okay. Tim Treywick. He spoke already. Gone. Okay. Uh Amy Mitchell.

Hi. Hello.

Amy Mitchell. Happy Historic Preservation Month. Um May is Historic Preservation Month and um I really wanted to bring you guys something to show you a visual this time of all the historic resources in Brian County. Um I wanted to have it printed, but it was $150, so I made it myself, so I apologize if it's not very formal. This is a map of Brian County with all of the historic resources that are documented on Nargis um which we've talked about before available through the state. It's a database. I didn't include Fort Stewart or Pinbrook or City of Richmond Hill. This is just county. So sites and locations that we've been talking about the last several months. Um it's colorcoded. So there are buildings, homes, cemeteries, landscapes and sites. There are some things missing. So for example, I added the co-op which I feel is a historic site. It's not included on Naris. Um also the Strathy Hall uh Avenue of Oaks I added as a landscape. Anyway, there are so many and I just beg you that before you consider any more resonings, any more um there's just so much growth and I have asked in every which way that I know how to please go ahead and direct staff to draft a historic preservation ordinance to protect what exists currently, protect the culture, protect the history. So much change is happening. It would be so simple. It can be written however you would like for it to be written. It doesn't have to follow the state's recommendation. I'm going to put this down. It's kind of heavy.

Uh the Brian County News reached out to me with some questions. Um and they did an article. I encourage you to read it. If you haven't read anything else, please read that. Um, they had a question that I continue to get asked. For whatever reason, it keeps coming up. Um, the question if Piercefield forest would be included as part of a historic preservation ordinance. Piercefield is in the city of Richmond Hill. So, I don't know why that keeps getting asked. Um, this would be for Brian County only. And I don't think that anyone's intent is for this to cover residential neighborhoods that, in my opinion, aren't necessarily historic. You can write this how you want to, not include neighborhoods like that in the county. You could put um, as Commissioner Floyd recommended, a a year if you would like. It can be however you want it to be, but please do something. Um, I've been asking for a long time. The community has expressed that this is what they want. From the survey that you put out, it had an overwhelmingly positive response that people want this.

Please. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Impressive. All right. Next up, Janice Mazelle. I think she might be gone. Okay. Larry and Betty Martin. I think they're probably gone, too. Okay. That's the end of the list. Uh, does anybody else wish to speak in public comment? Yes, sir. You can come up. Do you need to come up or you want us to bring the mic to you? Nope. I'll come up. Okay. I'm trying to figure out how I missed out on getting my name on the list. Well, that's okay. I'll call on you anyway. How about that? Well, that's good. I already I want everybody to have an opportunity to speak. Good evening. You just state your name. I'm gonna write it down here.

State your name. Steve Raminski. Okay. Beautiful Zion Church Road. Uhhuh. I thought that ah Mr. Floyd. Yes. Yes, sir. Fifth district. First,

I'm here about my concerns for how all the assets that y'all get are distributed throughout the Brian County. I told you that on the phone, my opinion is that basically s the southern end of Brian County gets all the goodies. The northern end is sort of like written off. We don't get jacked. I've been a citizen here for 60 years, paying taxes and doing what I'm supposed to do. And I've yet to see anything positive happen on district five. That's district one. That's my district. Positive stuff has evidence. They told me five. I'm sorry. I apologize to you, Mr. Wall.

It's okay. Nothing. And I don't understand why. And one of the things I think about basically all of the people up here or from Brian, not from Brian County, but from Hill, Richmond Hill. How many people do we have here? Is split by district, sir. There's about 6,000 plus or minus a few percent. It might be a in every district. It's by law. You can't have a bal an unbalanced district. I understand that. But all of them from the same area, sir. There's two districts in the north and three districts in the south. Yeah. Because that's the way the population was split. Go ahead, sir. I didn't mean to interrupt you.

Well, that's okay. I'm I want to get an understanding. What started this was was I found out that basically somebody some agency had decided they were going to reimprove 280 and I look down the road and I see a these turnarounds and all this stuff they're improving on and then I find out well that was only for up to Sim I think it's Sims Road or not Sims but uh Well,

what y'all are going to is Brent told me that they were stopping it that Fort Le got up here to Brian County proper, the northern end. And I don't understand why that is. They didn't even come all the way to to Pimbroke and nobody said anything about district five. Nobody I mean district one. District one, sir. District one. There you go. Well, okay. We got it though. District one. I think I got it. And I hadn't seen any maybe last time I was here. I think you were here, but you were a member and it was district five then. It's now district one. Okay.

So, nothing has been done for my 60 plus years here for an asset for basically district one. I even talked to my representative who didn't want to talk to me at all. hung up on me trying to find out what the heck's going on. And that's totally that tends to give you a case of the the hips. You know what I mean? That's right. And I just don't understand why all the assets seem to be going to Richmond Hill. Richmond Hill. Richmond Hill. What about the northern end of Brian County? We We got it, sir. I think your time is up.

I don't know what I want. My question is this. What have y'all done in preparation for this all these people, vehicles, assets moving in here? What has been done? Has anything been done in District One? Uh, yes, sir. There's been a lot done. There's road improvements at Hyundai plants, all those road improvements out there. Yes, sir. Thank you. Your time is up. You're welcome to call me anytime. You got my number. You call me anytime. I won't be calling you because I don't think anything will be done about All right. District one and and somebody look you think that somebody would give some kind of effort to improving the basically residential end of the county. Nobody does. Jack

All right. Thank you, sir. You're most welcome. You call me anytime again. I won't be calling you. Okay. Well, you have a great day. All right. All right. Any comments from any other comments? Commissioner comments? None. We'll take a motion to go into executive session to discuss litigation. I think that Yep. Make a motion to go into exec discuss litigation. All right. Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Okay. We are in executive session. Thank you.