Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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It's red. It's red. Is it red or green? Okay. Are we ready to get started tonight? Can I see your light this candle? I like the red. Thank you. My stay in my car. Okay. Um, we're going to call this uh meeting to order. And Ethan, can you Lori Quinn? Here. Ethan Reed, I am present. Mark Ferguson, present. Alexander Batty, present. Jensen Tilkkey, present. Jay Winbber, present. Brooks Davis is absent. Cassidy Cook here. Kevin Gamrell here.

Okay. And as a reminder, the Conway Planning Commission makes recommendations to the city council on public hearing items. Items reviewed on this agenda will be considered by the city council as early as January 13, 2026. And with that, we are going to move into the public hearing section. Oh, sorry. I need a motion to approve the minutes. I make a motion to approve the minutes. Second. motion and a second. All in favor? I I Okay. And Lauren, you're on.

All right. We just have one public hearing item tonight. It's a reszone for two um landlocked portions of land located at addresses of I don't have the address on here. It's the termination of Penny Street, which is currently uh part of St. John's subdivision phase 5. and it's just to the north of two platted unplatted lots as well that are running on Tyler Street. Both parcels are just over an acre combined for just about two acres. It's currently zoned A1 and the requested zoning tonight is R2. Around the property, we have A1, MF2 to the west and then single family to the north and then to the east. There are currently a mobile home on each lot and there's no overlay district here. traffic impact. Um, as we've spoke with the the property owner, he's looking to develop single family lots. Um, typ typically, um, R1 lots are going to generate 10 traffic trips a day per lot. So, uh, just 75 trips per weekday. There are no current traffic counts at all. The nearest one's actually over by Westlake Apartments and it's 7,800. There is no FEMA flood zone in the area. Any extension of utilities will need to be coordinated with Comway Corporation. Penny Street is a local residential street that will have to be punched through over that kind of drainage ravine and it will terminate again like it currently does but at the southern or um portion of this southern lot right there. So basically just taking that street further to the south and then um having a fire approved turnaround there. It will not punch through to Tyler because those two parcels down there appear to be habitated. Um there's currently people living there. So the intent is for a single family subdivision. Based off of the math, the max density is going to be eight lots. That is not taking into consideration drainage, detention, right-of-way dedication. So those will be factors, but still I think with what's proposed, eight may be a stretch. They're probably going to get seven single family homes

across those lots. It appears everything around the area has redeveloped over the years. In the place of Charleston Place sub, St. John's further fifth edition and then those apartments, there is a daycare just to the southwest of this property as well. So, lots of different uh zoning uses and um boundaries around it. In the event that this does get passed tonight, it will have to go to plan or to city council and then later on y'all will see it as a major sub as a part of a preliminary plat just due to the number of lots and the requirement of street construction. Does anybody have any questions? Do I have questions? I do not. All right. Thank you.

Okay. Is the applicant here to speak in favor? Mr. Bobby, would you state your name and address, please? Bobby French, address 1021 Front Street. Um, representing Mr. or not. Uh, I was just trying to get it's R2. uh when they get a little narrower lots, try to, you know, get a few more lots they can build on in there, pay for the road and the the ditch crossing. But be glad to answer any questions if y'all have any. Anybody have questions? Okay, thank

you're welcome. Is there anybody here to speak in opposition? Okay, with that, let's bring it back into commission. And I do want to um thank Mr. Orur and for his cooperation the neighborhood association in the connecting neighborhood had lots of phone calls. I got I got the staff got and he was very helpful and um talked to the POA president and as we've all seen in here people are always have questions when new things are coming in and so we appreciate your cooperation um in that. So anybody else have questions? I will entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve. Second. Motion second. All in favor?

I. Okay. Thank you. And with that, we are going to move into our next section with our election of our officers. So, the uh city council have has approved Miss Lori for her own five-year term, but our bylaws do say that that chairman can't serve back to back. So, you guys are going to have to elect a new chairman. Y'all can't talk me into it. I have to take a break one year. [laughter]

And Miss Grace Reigns, whose term will expire on in 2030. God, that seems so long. [laughter] Okay. And Kina Hey, good is going to finish out Miss Tanishia's uh term and hers will expire in 28. So, I will leave that to you guys to do the rest of the elections. I would nominate Ethan as chair if he's interested. Second. [laughter] Okay, we have a a motion and a second. All in favor? I did. You vote in favor? [laughter] Okay. Well, that was great. Great. Great. Great. I'm vice chair.

I nominate Alexander. I'll second that. Here we go. Okay, we have a motion. We have a second. All in favor? I Okay, any oppose? Good deal. Secretary. Secretary. [laughter] Cassidy. Mark said he would do it. Volunteer. He's worked it out. He's worked down that he's worked out that system. Make a motion for Mark to be secretary. Second. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? There we go. There we go. Good deal.

Okay, with that, I have completed my year and I have enjoyed it and I've loved serving with all of you guys and I feel like we've done some great work for the city of Conway. So, appreciate your time and dedication. We all know we get paid the big dollars to come and do this on Monday night. So, um, thank you all and I've enjoyed it. So, and let me just say that from the planning staff, we appreciate everything that you guys do and how you consider everything and you make our jobs easier and we appreciate it. Typically, um before the first meeting in January, we do a quick Q&A in the back. I expect that we'll we haven't talked about that, but I imagine that we'll find a night that we can do that with the new appointees since they're coming in. Um,

will we have all the updates yet that they will be they will go into effect on January 1st. Okay. And then we will go to the next Hang on. I'm getting a let me see what else I'm supposed to be saying. Felt it. Oh, we're losing Jay. I forgot. Oh, Jay, we appreciate I I I was just thinking we were just going to have a bigger crowd. I didn't even think about that. Did a two-year stint and had a great time. Yes. Well, we we would love it if you would apply again at some point in time. Um, you never can tell.

Well, [laughter] we'd love to have you back. We'd love to have you can do your own fiveyear stint. Uh, I'm doing more than five years. Well, you have Yeah, the boss. You have to get it by her first. So, we appreciate you, Jay. I I didn't even think about somebody falling off. I just thought we were all going to party next year. [laughter] Fall off of one and go into another. That's right. Which one are you going into? Uh, tonight. Mike's. Oh, [laughter] well then. There you go.

There you go. Well, and one other thing I can't let tonight go without saying just appreciate the staff and the compliments we receive from the public. The time that you guys spend. I know I have texted y'all and called y'all and said, "Hey, this person called me. Can you help them?" And you guys have just I just think we are in the best position in the department that we've been in a really long time with our staff. So, I appreciate all you do and your and your efforts that you go above and beyond sometimes um to help people and answer questions. So, I've I've seen it from this side in a different way. So, I really appreciate it.

We are taking applications right now for Becca's old job, the planning tech. She's been promoted to planner one. Lauren's planner 2. Terra's assistant director. And so, I we've gotten I don't know 25 I think applicants. Okay. And there's probably Yeah, those those jobs are few and far between in the city. Um but I I think we've got about seven or so that we're going to interview. And so hopefully the next time we convene, you'll see a new face. And so with that, I will say merry Christmas, happy new year. I hope you all have a wonderful time with your families and loved ones.

Yep. Merry Christmas. See y'all in 2026. Motion to adjurnn. motion. [laughter] That's what I was waiting for. Somebody to say motion to adjourn.