Board of Zoning Appeals - Regular Meeting

right you ready okay if i can have everyone's attention we'll call the meeting of the board of zoning appeals september 17th 2026 call it in order next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes and i found that one discrepancy in the minutes uh the second item She needs to put a five down where the motion is on the second item down there past five to zero. Is there any other discrepancies in the amendment?

I'll make a motion we approve them with your amendment.

Okay.

I'll second.

Motion to be made and seconded with approval of the amendment. all in favor say aye aye opposed minutes been approved next we'll start on the approval of the agenda anything to be added Approval of the agenda. Motion's been made. Do I hear a second?

I'll second.

Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. The agenda's been approved. First item on the agenda, special question. Five acre minimum A1 zone, Stevenson Road. Is there anyone here to present that? Yes, sir. Okay. For the public, we allow public comments on each agenda item after the presenter has made it. And we would like you to be respectful and keep your comments to under two minutes, if you can.

OK. State your name. My name is Larry McKelvey. I'm representing my brother, John McKelvey, dividing a part of our family farm so that his son Samuel here can, um, build a house out there. My brother's, uh, couldn't be here. He's, uh, deployed with the Naval reserves. And, uh, so he's out of town pocket for still another month or so.

What relation is this? Any relation?

This is my nephew. This is my, my, my brother's son. And so what this comes from is our family farm out there. I'm happy to say August the 19th last month was 99 years it's been in our family. And we intend to next year in August to make that a century farm. We are currently in the process of, if you'll look up there, 1401, 1402 is my part of the farm. We both share halves of it. but we still look at it as the family farm. That's my part and the other part's my brother's part. We are currently working on agricultural conservation easement for this farm. So this portion of development or cutting up will be, we're doing this in sort of conjunction with that. Basically, this is the only development that's gonna be done on either of those two pieces. And we're hoping to have that finished up by November of this year. it's a agriculture conservation easement basically can never be subdivided after and no developments no cutting up or anything so we intend for it to stay a family farm with that being said our nephew here or my nephew this is Samuel McKelvey he lives in our community works out at the Air Force Base he's for years dreamed of building a house out there in the farm so my brother I mean, was all about it. Biggest thing, we had to get the approval of our daddy, and he finally approved. If you'll notice on this portion, what you're looking at, we're cutting off the southwest corner down here, and why we ended up going to two and a half acres is because that dark spot is a pond, so it's really not useful for much of anything, but to give him enough space to put a house and septic lines proper, matched with this survey it ended up being about two and a half acres i will take that bottom little corner out he's going to build a single family residence there he and his kids are going to move there um we're just uh keeping it in the family and then just you know doing it proper so he can you know, proceed with going to the bank and doing whatever he needs to do, and it'll be set aside. Any questions?

What generation will this be on the farm?

Samuel is the fifth generation that will be there. I'm the fourth. My brother's the fourth. And our father still lives there, James Hugh McKelvey. We still farm the whole thing. James Hugh McKelvey. Okay, you know, dad, most people do. But anyway, he getting his approval. I mean, the board is very important. And we got the rules to follow. But his approval was number one. And it I mean, us putting this thing into a conservation easement. We never wanted to see our place get cut up. It was given to us all as as a farmland. We intend for it to stay farmland not as a not as an asset. I mean, per se, but it will stay active farming.

Does it front on Stevenson Road?

It does have a frontage on Stevenson Road, yes, sir. So it meets all the requirements for a subdivided lot. There's water access there. There's power access.

I think it's a six-inch water line down through there, correct?

Yes.

I think that when they put that last partition in, that was a six-inch.

That was something I... Well, Hillsville, I hadn't been out there, and when my mother-in-law built the house about 10 years ago, we went asking them, and I went through the community and talked to everybody, and they said, you've got 20 people. Yeah, we'll bring some water out there.

Yeah, I think the county, that mandate, that would be a six-inch water line.

The fire hydrant is less than half a mile up just at the very, at Stevenson Road and Highway 41.

You know that the property will purge.

yes i mean it's that the portion there that goes all the way back to that fence line is is is on a hill and uh has a nice slope to it so anything i can answer anybody else like that any questions anybody got anything for anybody else have any comments any other comments to the community or community

Anyone else?

Well, being that it's going to stay in the family and they're putting it all, I mean, the rest of it's going to be taken care of for, you know, forever. I make a motion that we do that, that it's causing no, for number three, access and infrastructure. All the lots have direct access to that. And number four, there's no adverse impact to the community because just about every bit of it that surrounds that belongs to the family farm. Yes, sir. And it doesn't negatively affect the neighboring property values. In fact, it would probably raise the property values.

Tim, your motion is to approve this.

Yes, sir. Forum special questions number three and four. And you could put two because it would be compatible because up above there, there's a house that

barn that's my dad's house okay so grandfather lived right down the road his grandfather yeah we got the motion to approve on the floor do I have a second I will make a second motion to be made and properly seconded any other discussion Kendall second Kendall seconded is there any other discussion All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed?

It passes. Thank you very much. Thank you. So is there anything more in this meeting? No, sir. No. I've got something calling. He's got a softball game.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you very much.

They may need them next door for them, but those have approval stamped. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to the second item on the agenda, special question, five acre minimum in A1 zone, Baines Road.

Is that for Brian Dean?

I have Baines Road.

Jeff Dean? Yeah. Yes.

Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. Glad you caught that because I was looking at the agenda.

So my name is Jeff Dean, but that is my brother Brian Dean's piece of property. So he requests a variance. Oh, yeah.

Okay.

In dividing that property it's nine acres, and he wants his son to get part of that property Nine acres a little bit more than nine acres so it's so you're cutting off for your son to have nine acres not my son Yes, yes, yes, that's correct. Yeah No, no, he's not. It's a nine-acre property. Okay. He's wanting to cut off three acres of that property.

And he retains six. Six, okay. Yeah. I got you now.

They have not previously owned the land. I've been here for 30 years in Tennessee, but he's wanting to retire and he's wanting to come here. So he doesn't have the legacy that the previous one does.

I understand. So who owns the land now?

Brian, my brother Brian.

Your brother, and he's wanting to give it to his son.

No, he wants to give part of it to us. Part of it.

He wants to divide it. The section we're talking about. Yes, yes, that's right. Give that section to his son. Yeah. And that will leave him.

Probably this three acre.

It will just be.

Well, no, I don't know about give.

It's either allow him to type. It says in here to either gift or sell. Or sell. Or any little hybrid variation of that where he. Or inherited. If he inherits it, yeah.

Whatever you want to say.

So your nephew is proposing to build a house on this land. That's right. If we grant this. That's exactly right. Okay, special question.

And he on the other side.

Yeah, do you own land around there? I own. Close to there.

We're in Tullahoma.

Okay.

Yeah.

Okay.

I feel like this was, didn't these plots come up in another VCA we had?

This one? This one in particular, no.

Well, not this one in particular, but the others that were.

I can't remember if they did that.

I can't say yes or no.

It's the straight road, Kendall 127.

I believe it is, yeah.

And that kicks off, is that right there where your hand's at? Is that 127? This is Baines Road.

Baines Road.

Right there, okay.

We had one on Baines Road, and they were wanting to cut them up and make flag lots and all kinds of stuff with them at one time.

So what's left over would have access, road access from Newt Veneta. Is that Newt Veneta down there?

Well, what he really wanted to do is divide it down that little crevice, the little ditch, the natural ditch. But just to make it easy, he just made a little rectangle.

Yeah, because it's, yeah.

To me, that's the natural divide anyway, but I think you just want to make it.

So the three-acre lot would get access, road access, to Baines Orchard off Baines Road. Baines Road, yes. And what's remaining would get road access from Newt Veneta. Got it. Okay.

Is your brother planning on building out there? Did he just buy the farm or buy the nine acres?

No, he just retired, and then he went back to do another tour. He did the – he investigated the learning centers in Michigan, and now he's in New York doing some stuff with the Secret Service.

Okay, cool.

But anyway, he retired. They called him back in, so I think he's got maybe three years left.

before we see any action on this his son his son was up here and this is bane yes this is baines right here and this is new yeah yeah so i'm sorry that's banger so he has ample ample footage yes And there's water down in the Canadian, correct, in front of the property?

I don't know. I really don't know. I do know, however, that on both properties he has access to a septic area.

A septic, yeah, but what I'm talking about is a water tap, Hillsville water tap. And I'm almost 90% sure there is.

Okay, there's a, what's the last page? It says preliminary soil map.

Are you familiar with the property? Somewhat, yes. Sufficient. Okay. What would you propose or what is being proposed to do with the remaining six acres?

He's going to build a house on it. My brother Brian.

On the three acres?

No.

The father is.

Oh, okay. The father is at a later date, probably. Correct. Yeah.

I mean, no one can see the future, but that's the intent.

So he works for the U.S. Secret Service?

He does not. He worked for ICE. Okay. And then he retired, and then he got called back to do the Michigan thing. And then part of his detail is now in.

Wow.

in New York, Washington, Pakistan. He's at the UN or something.

Sammy, is there anybody here? Has anybody got any more questions for him? Is there anyone here that would like to, if you would like to come up?

My name's Tamara West, and I just bought Lot 12, which abuts the rear end of that property on Newt Menasha. And we are trying to understand there won't be access for them there because I'm going to have a gate there, and that property does not touch Newt Bonaccia. Is it that lot there in blue? Yes, ma'am. Okay. We wrote out right there at the border there. I just wanted to make sure of that, that we were not going to have – there's no easement there anymore.

We had that written out. um in order to buy the property no the one to your right this one right there where the hand is yep so i just wanted to be sure i wasn't sure if it was that because if i pull it up online it says it's a lot above the blue one so i wanted to be sure about that no ma'am we're talking about this lot right here um and and actually we are talking about the lot basically right here so that's how it will be laid out that that's the where the three acres is okay all right there's a I wouldn't mind having an ex-ICE agent as a neighbor, so. Okay, that was my concern. Good protection. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, I really appreciate it.

Yes, ma'am. Anything else? Thank you. There was somebody in the back. Was there anybody else like to come up? Ma'am, I forget, did you state your name? I did, it was Tamara West. Tamara West. Okay, what is your name, sir?

Todd Ray. Todd Ray, okay. I currently live on Newt Bonata Road. the and that right there that was whenever my house was under construction okay i wrote out something i'm todd ray i reside on new veneta road just adjacent to the parcel of land that is in question this evening i understand the desire to gift and or provide land to a child or family member however i feel that due to the county restrictions the current owner of the property should have to build and reside on the property before being able to gift a portion of the land to be able to split it up into two tracks. Having plans to build and a gift to part of the land actually are two different things. I feel like plans can change once the two pieces are separated, what oversight is there to be to enforce the child and the father being able to build on that piece of property other than just being sold for a profit. It's kind of counterintuitive to the five acre minimum restriction currently in place if that's not what ends up happening. I just feel like maybe it should be addressed later on down the road. Let the person that actually owns the property build their residence first. After that, and it becomes their primary residence, then I would completely understand gifting or whatever arrangements they make amongst the family for the three acre minimum. But once the land is split, there's no oversight after that. Well, I understand. If approved, then what would prevent anybody from purchasing land in A1 Agriculture Zone and saying they want to split the land in less than five acre tracts for a family member and or child, whomever it may be, and not do what they're actually intended or said they were going to do? I also say that there's not water or electricity on any of those lots in the middle there. I fought with Hillsville Utility District for over six months just to get water to my house.

Down Newt Venati or down?

Correct, and Baines Road.

Is there water now?

There is to mine, but I had to run it from Miller's Crossroads. And then the next person that's going to speak, he lives on the corner lot there of Newt Venati and Baines Road. and then he had to tie off of my line coming from Miller's Crossroads to get water to his residence. And I can tell you that the three tracks that was previously discussed on Baines Road, there's no electricity and or water that whole area, or these five-acre tracks that are on Newt Van Addy, none of them have water and or electric on those properties either. Okay. I don't know the size per se. I think it was, I can't remember if it was four or six, to be honest with you.

To my house, yes, on Newt Venata.

And then it stops right past my house on that end, but from Baines Road. The house on the corner, which the owner of that is here with me tonight as well. This one? No, the corner. Yes, that one right there. He had to tee off of that to go under the road to tee off because he was unable to get water from Baines either.

But is that a Healesville water line or is that a personal water line?

It's Healesville. Okay. And then Mr. Campbell that resides across the road, he owns the water line on his side. He had to actually pay to have it put in himself from Miller's Crossroads. Like I said, I completely understand wanting to leave property and or, you know, split for a child. I completely understand that. But I just feel like, you know, The primary owner of the property should build or do some construction there and or before allowing to cut a piece of property off.

Well, with that piece of land being nine acres, there's no way to divide it. They would have to come here anyways, whether the father would or whether the son. I completely understand that. Because there's no way to get ten acres or two or five acres. I completely understand that.

I was just saying the fact that, you know, like I'm not against splitting pieces of parcels and giving it to a child. You know, I have children. So I completely understand that. It's just that I feel like, you know, What oversight is there after the fact if their plans fall through? Then now you have two pieces of property, one that doesn't go by A1 zoning currently in Coffey County. And smaller tracts sell for more per acre, so there's a profit margin there as well. I agree.

Well, if I could say that he bought this before this five-acre minimum went into effect. I understand that. Yeah, I'm aware of that. Oh, yeah. I'd already started construction before that.

You're absolutely right.

Things do change. And that's why I'm saying

I feel like he should start construction before he should be allowed to split off three acres of his property.

But he could have bought that.

I'm not going to. We don't need to get in this. Okay. I apologize, but we don't. Thank you. And if there's anyone else who would like to speak. Thank you. Anyone else like to speak?

He covered everything I was going on. There's only one issue.

Well, if you can, come to the mic so you're on record. And state your name.

Jason Fincham.

Nathan Fincham.

Jason. Jason. Fincham. So if you'll pull that picture back up of the property, please. So my concern is, can I walk around here?

Sure.

Yes. That ditch trench that runs right through there?

Yes, sir.

There's a river when it rains. Okay. So. so I can come down here and go down to Baines and out to.

So on this map right here, it runs to right in here?

Yes, sir. Okay. And that's other than what Mr. Ray said, that's my only other issue with it.

Okay.

Thank you. Yes, sir.

How far does that draw go up through there? So if they built a house there, built a house there, every time.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

but the various standards are, they can't create any kind of floating nerve issues Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Under 4B. Are you looking at 4B? So just a question.

Are you saying that the slant is towards...

It funnels. It funnels. Both sides.

So you agree that all the rain comes into that middle, right?

This was it.

Yeah. So building a house wouldn't matter because that's where the water's going anyway.

So building a house and moving everything will disturb the rain?

Well, I'm saying if it's already slanted and the water's coming already, it's going to be there, right? Yeah. Yeah. sir sir we don't need to get into discussion and I apologize let me just say one more thing okay if if that were a problem I do I do septic systems and I do current drains and all interceptor drains all that sort of thing if that was a problem we could just cut an interceptor drain and actually rewrite it back to the goalie on this side

And that would be in the soil science, and they would have to do all that, and that's out of our scope.

Has it already been surveyed? No. Okay. We wanted to save that. Okay, I understand. Because we're on the second page where you've got it drawn out at. It's above that low land.

It's above that drain, correct?

Most of it is.

Looks like it.

We've got a soil map on the last page, too.

But as each person builds there, they're going to add more and more water to that.

Mm-hmm.

But do we take that as a question? How much does it cost to do a study on that water? That's a good question. A lot. Of course, it goes to the back of the – how big is the culvert that goes through the road on Newt Van Etta?

It's small. It's like two or three small ones together. They're probably 16-inch maybe. Just guessing.

In diameter? Yes, sir. Can you say that?

Those are very wet soils. If it's 75-minute soil, they're going to require a interceptor. I didn't see that.

You do realize that on your last, on your soil map that you provided us, the lot that you cut out is Guthrie and Lawrence soils? Guthrie, Guthrie, and Lawrence. And it says not suitable for building?

All except for that little corner.

There's a corner on the bottom left that is available to build. And then towards the back side, the soils area on

Okay, but that's not on the lot that you're proposing to cut off, correct?

Yeah, it is.

Right here's the lot, right? And this is this. And this, we're not even, this is the bigger lot.

Yeah. But this is the one that they're after here.

You got to make the setbacks. Side and front setbacks. I want to make a motion to postpone this with no cost that they bring a suitable map back that shows if a house can fit because just drawing a corner there it's 50 foot setbacks right? Offside and road. I mean I don't That's why I'm saying I don't know the dimensions of the lot. Okay, because 50-foot setbacks off the sideline and the road is going to push that. No. No, and then on this last drawing, he's just got like an eight showing me in a corner down here that you can build.

We're talking about deferring.

The motion's been made to defer this. Yes, with no cost to them.

No cost to them to come back at future time. And that motion was made by Tim.

And it does say with an interceptor drain on here.

Who's having it? No one has yet. Do we have a second for this motion to defer it to future?

I'll second it.

It's been seconded by Lowell.

We can have more discussion, yes, sir. So we need to come up with the things that they need to provide now.

Okay. A water study? Yeah. a water study, and if this is the only good ground down here where that spot's at, how big is that? And where are you going to sit your house? Because if that's perkable land, that's telling me where the field lines go, right? Up in there. Okay. So the house could go further up and run the field lines down that way. You would still have, okay. Okay.

It's doable, but we need documentation. We need more information from you, sir.

Okay. The soil science has already been done on that. Yes. But I can find out what that setback would be. You're going to need 50 plus 25 on the back plus whatever width that house is going to be.

Can the septic lines run all the way up, or do they have to be in the 50?

I think they're 10 foot.

10 foot?

I think 10 foot. You have 10 foot from the property line, correct? Yes, that's right.

Okay. Yeah. just like to see where they're gonna sit in there because that's sort of just and then the notes say on here that it says with an interceptor drain what does that mean

Yes, from water. Like a curtain drain. Like a curtain drain.

Yeah. I see why they've got that line drawn there. There's a swell right here, a bit of water.

There's a swell where? See right in here?

Uh-huh. See right there?

Okay. All right. We're not going to get into that.

We're not going to get into that. All right. We've got a motion and a second. I call the question.

questions been called on the motion to defer we need to vote all in favor to defer this to future for more information say aye so the things that we need is the water runoff right and setbacks yes yes and water runoff is due to number four on special question yes contributing to environmental degradation, including erosion and flooding.

I think it's also number three.

And number three. Drainage. And we just need clarification on those items.

Correct. This is not denying. No, it's asking for more information. More information. The request for more information where we make hopefully the right decision. This motion passed.

No, not yet. All in favor to defer this, say aye. Aye. Opposed? No, it passed. If you can give us that information in a future meeting.

Yeah.

Yes, sir. And then how big a height? Because his septic tank system is going to be based off bedrooms, correct?

Well, it's based off 75 bedrooms. It's also the soil. If it's 60-minute soil, you don't have to have as big a bed.

Okay. It's saying it's 75. Yeah, that's the worst soil. Okay. So he's going to have to have a pretty big field line system.

If it's a three bedroom, it's going to be 375, 375 foot. Okay.

Because it's saying 75 back here. I'd just like to see where it goes so it won't affect the neighbors and stuff.

Yeah.

Okay. Yes, sir.

We're moving on. Next item on the agenda, a special question. Variance, five acre minimum. 514, 516 Schaefer Road. Are those people here?

Okay.

They're going to sell the house at the front. My name's William Golston, and I'm speaking for my wife, Nancy Golston. We came in last month and asked some questions about this variance. You gave us some direction to get a survey. We had Mr. Norcutt come out and do a survey for us. These are two pre-existing houses, been here, one of them since the early 60s and the other one from the mid-70s. Septic system, everything's established. He conducted a survey here. We split these two acres into one acre lots and have an easement that goes along the existing driveway. And you can see on there where the septic tanks are and the easement. And it meets all setbacks as far as I understand.

Okay.

Your son's going to live in the back? He currently lives in the back, yes, sir. We've had both our sons live back there.

We talked about this one last month.

Yeah, this was my wife's old home site.

She grew up there and lived in both houses. Yes. This is the one that we deferred to this month.

And there are houses on that side of the lot that's on Shepherd Road? Correct, yes, sir.

And you were able to keep the easement basically with driveway, that looks like, right?

Yes, correct, yes.

Now, this is his copy. Did you, by any slim chance, bring the official copy?

I've got these copies. I haven't got signatures yet because I just got this this afternoon.

Do they have the stamp? Just do they have the stamp on them is what I was looking to make sure. There's one thing we need to make sure of. Hi, Paul.

Yep, right there. That's it.

Yes. Okay, that's good enough. Thank you. if they don't have that stamp it's worthless it's a piece of paper yes sir that's the only thing we need i think so uh does anybody have any questions about the easements or anything anyone else here like to speak on this i'll make a motion to approve motion's been made to approve this by kendall second Tim seconded any further discussion seeing none all in favor say aye opposed thank you do you need these sheets back no I don't okay thank you thank you Next item on the agenda, special question variance, five acre minimum, 3690 Fountain Grove Road. Is that person here? Okay.

I'm Donald Roach.

Okay.

I didn't make enough copies for money, so I apologize.

Oh, there you are. I understand. Your name again?

Donald Roach.

Roach.

Yes. All right. The packet has them. And I'm going to pass this along, too, because I don't mind. This is the sole site that was done. Okay.

Y'all can take a look at it. Okay.

Don't doubt. Just hit the button there.

I apologize for not having everything with me. You're fine.

Is this your children going to build there? We have family that wants to build on that lower end, and they're looking at doing a barn dominium. And the reason they want to do it is their target city life. Can't blame them for that. And what they're looking for is to start a little homestead. They want to start raising their own food. Currently the property has just been used for hay recently. I'm continuing to do hay on the rest of the property and the other property that I own there.

Uh-oh. We done lost it.

Have you lost it? They touched it.

So they're relatives of yours? Yes. Okay.

Here's your guys' name.

Yeah.

How big is the total parcel? It's three years.

know what you're cutting it off of 12.78 so yeah just a corner is what I'm asking for Tim Baxter and I talked to him after he got it done he said there's no problem anywhere in that area and it's all a flat area City water? We have no city water. Long story short, when I first moved there, Hillsville said, yeah, we got you some water and bought me a little flag, and I was happy to know that I had a well there. Well, he come out the next day and told me, get my money back because we don't have water out there.

How are they going to get water in this?

Well, if I don't dig in a well. Is there an existing well there? I have a well on mine now, and it has no problems. Never has even hinted at going dry. And it's only 47 feet deep, I think it is, for the water table.

So they're going to share your well or are they going to bore a well?

They're going to drill around. Okay.

The question I have about that is your safety clients, can they be far enough away from the well?

Yes. The well is located. From the well they dig. From the new well. Oh, from the one they dig? Yeah. Yeah, they've got plenty of room to dig that. We haven't mounted that out yet. But they have plenty of room away from where the septic can go. Because they plan on building towards the lower part so the well can be back this way with no problem. I don't know. That is a question I do not know.

So what would happen if they didn't hit water?

If they didn't hit water? Mm-hmm. I can imagine if we had to, we could go off my will.

Is there still a standard for the minimum lot size for a will and septic?

I don't think. I'm texting Kurt right now, so he would possibly know.

You know how big a house they're wanting to build? They're just going to build like a, it'll be about 1,000 square foot. It's just going to be like a barn of medium. It's just two bedrooms. Two bedrooms at the most because it's just two of them.

250 feet of field lines and septic tank. Yeah, 250, 275. And they're building off of that corner kind of so they'll be off the road.

Well, I'm sitting on a well and I've got one too, but I've got city water also.

Well, the thing about that area there, city water comes just over the side of the creek over there. And so did Ben Lohman. I believe it.

I'm not laughing at you. No, we just got Ben Lohman, so I'm happy about that. You would not believe how many places in Coffey County it comes to the creek and then it doesn't cross.

Oh, yeah. Well, Ben Lohman came over there, too, and they said, okay, I got the answer. It's a two-acre minimum.

Okay.

So it's going to stay in the family. Yes. They're going to build. Yes. The ground perks. You can't get water, but you're going to dig a well.

and they and to Ackerman yeah anybody here would like to speak okay okay anybody else like to speak on this the only one that worries me is about the infrastructure

But if they don't hit water, they're probably not going to, if you tie to yours, I mean, they still can get water. There is no adverse effect to the traffic or the community because he just said he doesn't object. It's keeping the character.

That could become a problem for him, but not really for us.

And if they're going to build a barn dominium, that keeps it in the rural characteristics of the community. So I make a motion that we approve it by four and five and two because it's compatible with the surrounding if you do a barn dominium. And it does meet the minimum lot size and dimensions for a septic tank and a well.

Okay. Motion has been made to approve. If nobody else wants to talk. I've done this. Nobody else wants to talk? No, I'm in as far as the second. Do we have a second? Second. Seconded by Summer. Any further discussion? Hearing none, we'll go proceed to vote. All in favor for this approval, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Hope y'all hit water. I think you will in Coffee County. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Here, you can keep it. We've got plenty to keep up with.

Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you.

We need to move on. We have a special question, variance, five acre minimum, 1067 Taylor Road. Any, or is that person, okay.

My name is Julia Davis and this was my parents' property, the 6.97 acres. And The land will remain in the family. The intention is to split just beyond the barns and leave that open field. Here? Right. Straight all the way to that second line there. I have it drawn here, but they put the wrong acreage.

Okay.

Northcutt did it, but it's 6.97 acres, and he has it as that. I don't know how he got it.

We understand.

Yeah, but that's where we want to leave it. We are not putting any buildings, or we have no construction going to happen. We may end up selling the house eventually. We still have a lot of work to do.

It's the house down here in the corner?

Yes. Okay. The one with the green. Yeah, okay. And the barns are right. But you would keep the barns in the farmland?

Yes.

Okay. What relation were you to William Reed?

I'm the daughter.

Daughter. He retired from baseball? He did. You and I, we stored together.

Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. He passed away in January.

I did not know that. Good man. I thought a lot of Bill.

Yeah.

And you're wanting to divide this...

When? Really? They're busy. Yeah, they are.

But this land, this lot right here, we want to keep that open.

Because my daughter's here. You don't know how you're going to divide this?

We're not going to divide it, except we're going to separate the house and the field. The lot that the house is on will be a little bit over three acres, and this will be a little bit over two. We just want to split it in case we do.

The house. The house.

But we're keeping the lot.

Okay. The land. The land. The open land. The field. Okay.

All right. Thank you. Is there anyone else who would like to speak on this? Our crowd is dwindling. Anybody else? Got any questions for them?

And you're not going to build in the future? I mean, near future? Okay. And Taylor? Yeah.

We understand. And Taylor Road has several houses like that.

We also live on Taylor Road. We all live on Taylor Road.

I'll make the motion that we approve it it's gonna stay in the family five it's agriculture rural characteristics are gonna be kept even if you sell your mom and dad's home off the land will stay the same it also where there's no adverse effects for the community so that would be four and then two if you're gonna keep the barns and stuff that to me is compatible with the surrounding area keeping it farmland

Motion's been made to approve by Tim. I'll second. And seconded by Lowell.

Any further discussion?

Seeing none, we'll proceed to vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? It passes. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you all. Last item on the agenda, special question variance, five acre minimum, A1C Anderson Road. Is anyone, I guess you're, are you here for C Anderson Road? Okay, and is there anyone here to? Anthony or Matthew Neal?

I don't see anybody here, though. And they're basically wanting to split that in half.

Is there somebody here to present it?

Nope.

You may have hopped up.

Would you like to speak right quick? Two minutes, if you could keep it under two minutes. Yes, sir. Thank you.

Thank you, sir.

We are Mike and Karen Morial. We own the neighboring property, which is lot seven. When we purchased it in 2022, the deed was subject to the restrictive covenants of record, which Mike just handed out to you, which were established for Marvin's garden. These restrictions specify one home per tract and describe expectations for buildings, fencing, et cetera. After reviewing the application for variance, it appears incomplete. The required document showing a sketch plan of the site to include drives, parking spaces, et cetera, were not submitted. We don't know if access is coming from C. Anderson or Fredonia. No mention was made of the pond or infrastructure for the second lot. We think that affordable housing is not a valid reason to grant this particular variance. Thank you.

Thank you very much. And I will agree. Since this is on the agenda, I know we've postponed them in the past, but I kind of got scolded on it that we need to make some kind of judgment on it one way or the other.

I make the motion that we deny it because there's nobody here to ask questions about. I'll make a second on that. I mean, there are people here to defend their spot.

That they're time to come here.

So when this was developed, this is the covenants that were put on that land as it was sold.

That's correct.

Were they sold in five acre and larger parcels? Yes. So they were five or larger.

Correct.

Okay, so.

I think we're at 5.02. Yes, ma'am.

Yes. But none were smaller than five. Okay, so that was the bottom end. You get a five-acre tract, and this is what you have to do with it. You have to build a 2,300-square-foot living space, and step-by-step tells you what you've got to do.

Do you know what the date on this was, or roughly date? Let me see.

I made a copy of our deed. And the Rodden's had it. Well, that was when we bought it. But it had been developed by Ty Rodden prior to that. I would say within five years prior to our purchase.

So maybe 2017.

that's just a a wag on my part in 2022 was before five acre but but that appears to have been purchased in in june which one the current purchases property of that property purchased at this june by matthew neal It doesn't tell who here. It just shows the property exchange.

So it was purchased June of 2026.

It was sold at auction.

Tim, your motion was to table or defer? To deny. To deny.

Because nobody's here. And I didn't second that, too.

Any further discussion? Motion has been made to deny this special question variance. seeing no further discussion we'll proceed to vote on the deny all in favor to deny say aye aye any opposed who seconded that kendall kendall okay it motion fails for denial yes thank you thank y'all very much

And if it comes up, they will send you a, they'll have to rip.

Motion passes to deny.

Yes.

I misstated that. That's confusing.

And if he brings it back, they will have to send them another letter. Yes.

And they will have to make a new motion.

Okay.

Or they will have to put a new. So if it comes back, it won't. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Absolutely.

Yes, ma'am.

Thank you. Anything else need to be brought before the board? If not, do I hear a motion to adjourn?

I'll make a motion to adjourn.

Second. All right, summer. Meeting's adjourned.