Board of Zoning Appeals - Regular Meeting

like to call to order the November 10th meeting of the board of zoning appeals for Charles Town. I'd like to go ahead and start the meeting with pledge of allegiance. All right. I pledge allegiance to the flag United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This meeting is being live streamed by under productions multimedia. Start by having our royio

here. Aaron Wilson here. Jonath Wayne Burby here. All right. I'm Tony Jackson, the building commissioner. I'm I'm a non- voting member of the uh heading of the meeting. See, we do have an agenda tonight. We need a approval of approval of the agenda. Need a motion to that? I make a motion. Second. A second. Motion by Mr. Burley, second by Mrs. Wilson. All in favor say I. I. We got approval of the prior meeting meetings. Anybody had a chance to look at those? We need a motion to approve those. I'll make that motion.

Second. I'll second it. Have a motion by Miss Lucio, second by Mr. Bergen. All in favor say I. I.

We don't have any public comment. On the new business. I'll give you a little brief about that. The the council and all the boards are starting to use iPads. So cut down on the paper. We've had so much paper. I forgot how much that we spend in paper every year. So, but trying to budget because uh what's happened in Indiana. So, they're trying to cut areas. So, that's one. So, normally we have the iPads out, but with all this stuff going on with the portrait's office, they she forgot to put them out today. So, that's we'll go over that next next week. Anyway, um that's what we're using now. It's everything. Well, it is everything will be loaded on there and we'll show you how to put it and you can just pull it off of there. That way we don't have to have paper, big paper. Uh the other thing we have is I distributed out this bordon pills basics. This is something that was hand I handed out a while back and it's really good. It goes over the different things has questions and answers. It goes over the whole process. It even talks about the judicial review. uh sort of decision decision making process. There hasn't really anything changed in this this packet and over the years not a whole lot changes at the board of only appeals over the years because it's all set aside. So it's good reading for Mr. Oliver here because that I knew he I think you'd asked that question. He'd like to find something and I went digging and I found them out. I found the one for the plan commission. I can give you one of those if you want to just figure that out too. Just for the plane. I got them set over there. But other than that, we really don't have a lot. We just

get the minutes approved and it got anything going on. No, not really. We had a lady that was going to uh come in front of us, but she just kind of backed out. She would want the chickens. So, Wayne's favorite. More chickens. Wayne's favorite. And you know, there's, you know, people are getting chickens and ain't coming before. Yeah. Well, we got Hannah. Hannah was doing our code enforcement. I'll give a little brief. Hannah Hannah was doing our code enforcement. So, sorry.

Falls under the building department and she's moving over to park. So now we're trying to find somebody that can do code enforcement. Code enforcement. Yeah. It's kind of a special niche, I guess you could say. You have to have kind of you got to be understanding, but you got to have a little firmness to you. Yeah. Animals. Good to have. And you got to work with Tubby. Well, Tubby's fun to work with. I know it's a lot. Tubby knows. There's that. No, just kidding. Just kidding. Tommy

Tommy moved over to the uh he's he's now the head building inspector eventually taking some of my jobs anyway because I'm going to retire. Uh he's moved over there and he does an excellent job. He really does. He's he's studied. He goes to all the classes. He's on some of the boards for Ibo which is where we get a lot of this stuff from. So he's pretty good to have. He's he's really working hard. Just got to find somebody to code for him because if not then him and I will have to go back to doing it again. What does that consist of as far as uh times that during the day?

Yeah, during the day we like to have to got different like the mayor says he just sets his own hours as far but he always works good 70 80 hours a week. Uh like to have somebody here between 7:30, 3:30 or 7 and 3 or 8 and 4.

Yeah. Driving for 8 and 4 because that's about what everybody's catching when come home. It consists mostly of uh you know riding around. Most your day is spent coming in getting whatever jobs tell you wants to put out there for you and then riding around and looking for different things. You know, helping people if you find yards that aren't that good. You want to try to talk to them, you know, walk up, knock on the door, put a sticker, just try to make communications and see if there's an issue that we can help with or there are there are some people that just don't want to do anything. We we know who those people are most of the time anyway, but for the most part, people just didn't realize what it was or there's an issue, an older person. So, they do that. Plus, we also the person's also going to start learning how to do building inspection. We start them out, you know, slow him up to classes. They go to class for everything and start that way because it's a good it's a good starting point for somebody. So, can't blame Hannah though cuz she she took that job, too. She's good at whatever she does.

Yeah. So, it's really good deal. You know what? Find somebody for that. Um, MS4, I do MS4 now. That's our new thing, the what they call a unfunded mandate from the state. We had our first audit last about a week ago and we did very well. We had all the paperwork was really great. So, which is unusual because it just takes so much. But, you know, I had the ability to go to other places to say, "What are you guys doing? What did you not pass? How did you have? So, we did really good with that. Uh, she did go out do two inspections. One over the building down here for the maintenance crew. They did good. There's a couple little things that I turned in and fixed it. Uh, we did take some big hits out there at our uh our main big building, but they were they were stuff that could be fixed, but it was stuff that's been piled up over there for 40, 50 years that we had to fix. So, we'll fix all that in good shape. So, Uh Wednesday I go up and I'll be uh the lady that did the inspection. I'm going up there and uh she's giving a class. So I'm going to go up talk about since I'm the last guy that she did it did the audit on. So the audit is kind of the big thing. But they only do the the audit every five years. You got to have all your paperwork right. So

it's like I said it's nonfunded mandate. Yeah. We still got a lot of stuff to do. Does uh the code enforcement have to be a zoning member? No. Okay. A code enforcement officer can't be on the board. Okay. Does to be on the board. You can't be Well, there's certain, you know, plan commission people, non-plann. Yeah. You wouldn't want that. Uh it's like I can sit on I can sit here and do this, but I can't vote. Yeah.

Because you can't can't really have any input that much except for what I already do. But uh because you can't be the judge, jury, and executioner. I've seen that interest there. And that's why I thought about the code for court. You can't do be the judge, jury, and execution. I've had people when I was doing it by myself. I had people and we had properties that were just so bad and didn't want to give them to me. And I said, "No, I can't do that. I can't tell you. You got to clean it or give it away and I'll give it to me by the way." And I can't do that either. I have a lot of Charles Town propert. I don't want it. I just grass cutting. got my own 10 acres, but uh yep, that's all I got. So, will we have a followup on the uh iPad? Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. I'm looking for a couple of variances. Uh we got a couple of subdivisions that uh like the one we just annexed. They're going to need a couple of variances out there. Nothing big. It's actually been their varian has been approved by the county and uh they want to talk to them a couple days ago. They would just like to for their own records to come back in front of this board. They stuff that was approved. It's not a big deal, but they'd rather come back in front of this board to get the variances with their names on them. Okay.

Just a paperwork thing. But we'll do the iPad then I'll have Lacy do a little demonstration. Motion to return. Motion second. How do you say Holly Bar? Mr. Holly Bar second by Mr. Burger. All in favor say I. I. We stand a journ.