Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the July 9th, 2026 meeting of the Dixon County Planning Commission. Brother Rimey, could you lead us in a brief word?

Yes. Let us pray. Lord, we thank you for this day. We thank you for the opportunity to be in this day. We thank you for the opportunity to serve you and the people of Nixon County. May we ask that you lead us in God's name and make the best decisions that we can make. In Jesus' name we pray.

Amen. Amen. Mr. Hayes, if you'd call the roll.

Todd Berry. Here. Tina Ferris. Here. Darren Green. Todd Lindsey, Robert Qualls, Tommy Brown, Jeff Chase, Randy Ramey, Paul Organ, Amanda Berry, Patrick Reagan, Mitchell Harden.

Mr. Chairman, we have a quorum. Thank you there, Mr. Hayes. Has everyone received a copy of the minutes of the meeting from last month? all right does anyone have emendations or questions about those minutes hearing none the chair would entertain a motion that last minute last minute last month's minutes will be approved as uh submitted is it mr brown moves approvals request is there a second second from uh miss berry It's been moved and seconded the minutes of last month's meeting be approved. Those in favor, state aye.

Aye.

Those opposed, nay. The opinion of the chair. The ayes have it and the minutes are approved. Okay. Have all of our visitors, and we're glad to see several of you this evening, have you all signed in to be visitors? We want a record of your visit. We appreciate your visit. i believe very rare circumstances that we have executive meetings where we're talking about money matters then all of our meetings are always open to the public whether they're regular scheduled meetings called beach or anything like that you're always welcome to come and observe and at this time We're gonna have those of you who signed up to comment to come forward and make your comments. Please come down here to the rostrum. Please restrict your comments to three minutes in time or less. At the end of this public comment time, you're all, like I said, very welcome to stay here and observe, but all my questions and all the answers need to come from the members of the commission. Thank you for understanding. Mr. Danny Tucker? i'm really here just to answer any fire suppression questions that they have that might come up okay well i i don't know if we everyone we all got you we all got did we not the litter certifying the fire coverage being existent based on the existence of the pond and all okay if there's any questions we'll certainly give you the floor back or let any of the commissioners that have questions We're glad you are here, and I appreciate that letter. All right, well, the next person I have is Mr. Scott Beller.

My name's Scott Beller. I'm operations manager for Tennessee Steel. We're located on Nubbin Ridge in Dixon County. We've had a long process. It's been a long one. We've met every need. We've been told to meet. We followed the rules. We pay our taxes. We pay commercial taxes. We offer competitive employment to our employees. We have a customer base that has a 250-mile golden circle that we operate in. And we're here tonight seeking our site approval so that we can continue to operate and continue to offer those jobs and continue to pay those taxes. I would ask that you work with us, help us, so we can put this to bed and get back to doing what we're good at doing, and that's building steel buildings. Thank you. Thank you.

There's a couple of people here that signed up that I cannot discern who wrote what. One of them looks like Ted and one of them looks like Mrs., but I don't think that's what they are. Who remembers signing in third and fourth? I can't believe a lady made a mark like this for their name. Maybe so, but it'd be the first time I ever saw it. Well, we'll let you speak, ma'am.

My name is Lisa Salas. I live on Nubbin Ridge Road. I'm neighbors to Tennessee Steel Buildings. We were here Tuesday looking for a variance and I really thought that was going to happen and it didn't. It was very disappointing. I know that they have worked very hard to get their buildings up and their business going. Am I allowed to ask questions? Oh, okay. Well, I know that they have followed what they were supposed to do. I'm under the understanding that there were some times where they asked that things needed to be done and they were told it wasn't necessary. You know, to put a business through what they've been going through, like they weren't even zoned commercial until just last year. They've been in business for six years. I don't know what took so long. I don't know why all of a sudden, you know, they had to start abiding by rules and regulations. I mean, we all should do that. I'm also a business owner in Dixon County, but it just seems like It hasn't been enough, like they can't do enough. They employ 40-something people. And if they have to tear this building down, this one big building, that's going to be a huge amount of money they're going to have to spend. It's costing them money to try and do business. And as a business owner also, I hate to see this happen to businesses. current environment you know we're losing businesses people are becoming unemployed and it's hard it's hard to maintain you know your employment your payroll gas insurance property taxes you know they've paid their property taxes they paid for their licensing they pay all their insurance and then all of a sudden six years after they've started things you know, you got to do this and you got to do that and you got to do this and you got to do that. I don't know why it didn't happen in the very beginning, but I really wish that you all would take some of the burden off of this business so that they could continue to prosper, pay their employees, not have so much difficulty in their business. Thank you.

Thank you, ma'am. Okay, I have John Salas as the next person to talk.

Hello, thank you for letting me speak. I'm John Salas. I live on Nubbin Ridge. That's my wife. We have a lot of good neighbors in our little road. And Tennessee Steel Buildings has been one of our best neighbors. They don't cause any trouble. They don't hunt on our property illegally, like the neighbors behind us or next to us do. And we don't have to chase their dogs off our property. We don't have to chase them off our property. And one thing they said one night was, my dogs can't read. But I said, well, you can. Stay off our property. And I noticed that y'all prayed this morning before this meeting. i hope you all stick to that and i hope this isn't already been voted on and settled for you don't do that sir i i will defend the commission on that we do not do that we abide by the team well the meeting tuesday night was already set in stone before we even got in there this is not that meeting and this is not that i just hope you're not like that meeting but i hope you do this proper and ethical because these people are good people They don't cause any trouble, not whatsoever. Thank you. Thank you.

The next person I have down is Mr. Larry Street. Go ahead, sir. And welcome.

My name's Larry Street. I've lived in Dixie County all my life. I've been through all the process of these guys, all the stuff that's been going on over here. I was here when the commissioners passed the ruling. I was here the other night with whatever the other party was. We had 29 people to sign up. I think about nine of us got to speak. And they said they wasn't gonna let nobody else speak. because everybody was saying the same thing about these people, that they were really good people. And I have never in my life lived in Dixon and seen anybody as mistreated as these people have been treated. I mean, it's unreal. The county commissioners knew that all this process was wrong from the very start. They were told to do stuff. They could do anything they wanted to. They were told to build what they wanted to. They were told a lot of stuff. And now it's come back to where they're trying to shut them plumb down. These people are good, good people. I do business with them. I would sit down with either one of them and eat dinner, do whatever I wanted to with them. But they are fine people and they do a lot of stuff for Dixon County. And I just asked you to consider passing this thing. It's going on too long. They've been treated bad. And I don't care if it's right or wrong, but they've been treated wrong. And that's all I got to say. Thank you for your comments, sir.

C.W. Wardle. Wade, okay. I'm sorry about that. I do not read that well at this time in my life through these bifocals. Please come down and address us, sir.

I'm C.W. Wade. Wade. Mr. Wade, thank you. I lived out on Oving Ridge ever since 1973. They're the best neighbors I've ever had. The sawmill, I couldn't even sit out on the front porch of my house without the sawdust and smoke burning your eyes up there. These boys right here has never bothered me, no way in shape or form. And I sure do have them as a neighbor, is that sawmill down there. And I see fit that the boards can see to let them stay and operate like they've been doing. They do a good job. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. All right. Does anybody own up to making these scratches? Is it her name? I'm not trying to keep somebody from speaking, but there's nothing I can pronounce that's written here. I think we, I mean, not to cut people off, but I think we've gotten the gist of the public comments from what we've heard already. now amanda would you go ahead if you would and and take it from here all right thank you wait a minute how many more people do we have left on there there's two people and if you can read their names off this please come down and read them out well the two that haven't spoken yet can they raise their hand they signed up all right all we can do is all we can do okay Can you interpret that as being someone, Amanda? My doctor writes better than that, and he's a doctor. Commissioner Fair... Uh-oh, uh-oh. This is a paper for you to... Commissioner Brown, this is your paper for the grade, then. Uh... I don't think he wrote that and realized someone was going to have to read it to read them out and speak. We're going to move on. This is saved as part of the record anyway. And if somebody's going to do something based on I wrote that down and I never got called on to speak, I kind of like to be there when they do that. But anyway. All right. Amanda, if you would, please.

Yes, sir. Thank you. The submitted site plan features four building additions to the existing structure on site at the Tennessee Steel Buildings Incorporated site. Three of the four proposed buildings are respectively 11,611 square feet, 4,250 square feet, and 13,288 square feet in size and are in immediate proximity of the existing on-site building. The fourth building is 26,190 square feet in size and is a proposed fabrication warehousing shipping structure. The site plan shows perimeter landscaping improvements that comply with the county's landscaping requirements. The plan also includes new parking that meets the requirement of one space per five employees with a total of 21 standard spaces and two ADA compliant spaces proposed. Overall, the parking layout satisfies the county's parking standards. A traffic impact study was submitted with the site plan. While the content of the traffic impact study is outside the scope of this planner's review, the submission satisfied the county's access management policy requirement for providing a traffic impact study. This statement does not reflect any evaluation of the study's findings or recommendations. It's important for me to note that this report was written prior to the Board of Zoning Appeals meeting the other night. So this report does not incorporate any of the BZA findings or conclusions that were reached. I'm going to defer to legal counsel and Mr. Hayes to discuss that portion of the site plan with you all tonight. But for everything except for what the BZA decided on, the site plan does appear to meet the minimum requirements of the Dixon County zoning resolution.

Thank you very much. I appreciate your input. And, counselor, would you like to provide your input into where we are?

Sure. I'll kind of give a... And I'll have a few more comments prior to any vote, because I think there's some conditions this body needs to consider with this submission. So as you recall, this property was zoned A1 Agricultural. The Planning and Zoning Office sent a notice of violation letter uh and that they began the process of coming into compliance so this is one of the many steps of them coming into compliance they've cooperated throughout the process last year they went through the rezoning process to see one that was recommended by this body approved by the county commission and since then we've been in discussions with them on developing the site plan and developing this traffic impact study that is what's before you tonight Tuesday, two days ago, they saw a variance to the Dixon County Board of Zoning Appeals because one of the buildings you can see there in the northeast corner was partially inside of the setback. They asked for a variance to let that building stay where it was. The Board of Zoning Appeals unanimously denied that request. So you have an updated site plan in front of you that should be hashed. What they are requesting and we are comfortable with in terms of the procedure is they are requesting approval of the site plan and we'll get into a discussion I'm sure and I want to talk about some conditions. removing that area. They know they'll have to come back with a plan towards that. We'll talk about that more, but you would effectively be approving everything in the site plan outside of the hashed area. And as Ms. Harrington pointed out, the rest of the site plan meets our minimum standards for landscaping, et cetera. So that's kind of the history, Mr. Chairman, of where we are. Again, I'll have a few more comments after we get into it, but I would ask Mr. Chairman to let the applicant present.

Without objection, the applicant will come present.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Jim Murphy. I'm an attorney with the Bradley Law Firm in Nashville and I represent Tennessee Steel Buildings. As Mr. Mills described, this client has been working for A year and a half or so to deal with the notice of violation that was issued after they discovered that they were not in compliance with the zoning they had. didn't have an approved site plan hadn't gotten a building permit they had actually tried to get a building permit when they built the office building and were told they didn't need one which is part of the reason why that building got built in the wrong location now we're now we recognize after tuesday night that the building's got there's got to be an adjustment to that and we're going to need some time to do that we just found out tuesday that we have a problem with the building and so That's why we submitted the site plan that crosshatch that area out so that you're not, we all are acknowledging you're not gonna approve that building location and we're gonna have to come back and bring in a site plan that will deal with that. And we've been in discussion with your attorney, Mr. Mills, about conditions that we can meet to vacate the building, submit a new site plan for that building area, and allow this process to go forward. And so that's what we'd request, is that we go ahead and get the site plan for the compliant buildings approved. with the understanding that we would be coming back and bringing a compliance site plan for that building in a later date. And also that we would be vacating that building. The problem for them is they've got to find a place to put the people that are working in the office. And so it's going to take a little time to do that too. That's not something we can do just right away. So we're asking for a little time to do that. bring in a new plan we're not we haven't decided yet whether we can shave part of the building off and keep it compliant or just have to totally demolish it and start over and so those are part those are parts of the reason and as long as they can continue to operate their their business while we're working through those issues we're fine with you know a delay of you know having a period of smut smiting site plan and our period of of vacating the office building. We proposed a 90-day period to Mr. Mills and we think we can get the site plan to you in 90 days and we can get the building vacated in 90 days and then we'll get the site plan approved and depending on what that entails, whether that's shaving or moving or building a new building, those would start after we get the new site plan approved and we get all the various permits. We also recognize that we've got to get permits for the existing buildings and that that would be a condition of your approval that we get the building permits because that didn't happen previously so that's what our thought process would be is let's go ahead and approve the site plan that meet the portions of the site plan to meet the requirement that's shown on the plan with the cross hatched area removed and then we'll come back so

Appreciate your presentation, Counselor. Do any of the commissioners have questions about what he just told us? All right. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome.

Mr. Chairman, if I may. Please, sir. If there is a motion on the floor, I would ask that these conditions be included. At your discretion, I would ask, before I get there, Mr. Hayes, did they submit a two-lot plan earlier? Do we have that yet, these two? There's two lots on here. Would that be handled by Mr. Hayes? No. If you recall, they only asked for a rezoning of part of their parcel. That's why you see two lots on here. They're going to have to go through that process administratively, so that would be my first condition. I think it's already been satisfied, but we'll double check on that in case of it. One of the ones being this C1 zone site, the other two being the remainder, as I'll call it, the A1 zone, kind of left over down there in the southwest corner of the map you see. So that's the first condition I would ask The second condition, speaking with Mr. Murphy, and what would be appropriate here is that they discontinue use of the office building, the hashed building that you see there, within 90 days and submit, it wouldn't necessarily come to you, but submit to Planning and Zoning for review and it would come to your next meeting. a plan for that area within 90 days. So I give them that window to figure out what they're doing with that area, and give them a reasonable amount of time to give them a chance to find out where their employees need to work, and bring that area. Again, this is all about coming into compliance. And then finally, as was previously mentioned, the last step for coming into compliance, they have to apply for building permits for all unpermitted buildings on site. and pay the applicable fees for that. So those are the three conditions. You do not have to recite that. If there's a motion to approve, I would ask you to say approve with conditions. I have those written. I've set them for the record. We'll make them part of the minutes.

Thank you, their counselor. Having understood that you don't have to word all of the verbiage that was just given into the form of a motion, do i hear a motion for us to approve the tennessee steel steel building submission with the condition cited okay jeff are you are you making that motion so you got it's it's been moved that any of the commissioners choose to second this motion it's been second but todd so been moved and seconded that the uh submission of Tennessee Steel Buildings Incorporated be approved with the conditions previously stipulated and in the record?

I have further discussion.

Please do, Commissioner Berry.

Was the traffic assessment submitted to TDOT?

Okay.

I just didn't know about the turn onto Edgewood. I mean, TDOT's constantly fixing the guardrail.

Mr. James, I would certainly favor you speaking, and I think the commission would as well.

I'll try it. I'm Darrell James. We're the consulting engineers for Tennessee Steel Buildings. And what was the question again now?

I just didn't know if TDOT needed to look at the turn from, is it old 46 onto Edgewood or Delacrete onto Edgewood?

Well, of course, that's a county road, so TDOT wouldn't be involved in that at all. Now, of course, you're talking about Edgewood and... Yellow Creek Road. Right. Okay, so Yellow Creek Road is what we're talking about. Yellow Creek Road, as we know, is Highway 46. Edgewood Road is a Dixon County highway. And, of course, you can... If you looked at, we did a lot of turning movements in that set of documents right there. I looked at them all. And basically we took virtually every vehicle we could figure out that might use that. And right now, to be able to make that right-hand turn, you have to pull over to the left-hand side in a gravel area to be able to make it. for anything that's bigger than a pickup truck. We did school buses. We did the trailers, of course, that Tennessee still uses. And all of them have to use that. Now then, when I talked with the TDOT guys about it, they said, okay, well, that's a county road, so you need to talk to the county if you want to do something. Now then, In the traffic impact study, the traffic engineer suggested going and at least paving that little turnoff right there. And so as far as we're concerned, we believe we take care of that in the traffic study and that be done.

No. Not really, no. The intersection of two county roads or a county road and a driveway isn't a Tennessee Department of Transportation issue. It's for our people. That's why we have a road department here at the county as well.

Right, but I think TDOT replaces the guardrail, right?

Probably so because the guardrail is on the bridge. That's right.

So, Mr. Chairman, if I may, we involve TDOT in their alarm, and a traffic study requires certain improvements on a state highway because it's theirs. They have to do it. But otherwise, if there's no improvements required on a state highway, TDOT's involved with it. They don't have to consent to it. Provide input typically, but even if it's connecting to it, there's no improvements in the state highway. If the improvement Mr. James is talking about, because I understand they're going to make this improvement, paving on a county road, I think that's what, again, the traffic study findings are required as part of the site.

I have a question. This same area, the Yellow Creek and Edgewood Road and that tight turn. In this traffic study, it talks about bringing in an intermediate semi tractor. Can you define what the intermediate semi tractors semi tractor intermediate? It says intermediate semi tractor we looking at? That's what I was trying to determine.

Are we in the bound book of maps or the charts?

Ms. Ferris, are you referring to a page in the bound book of maps? Yes. All right. Which page?

I'm looking. I didn't write it down. Sorry.

We'll bear with you then. It's what? I found it, but let me, I'm going to have to count.

The page in the printed material that we did, the plans, it's called Exhibit B4-4, I believe, is the one you're talking about.

I've got A4-4, and that's Nubbin Ridge. So, okay, D4-4.

Yeah, the one that has the semi is a 55-foot trailer is what we modeled. Okay.

Okay.

And so that's, you know, so we know that something with a 55-foot trailer to make that right-hand turn has to get in that gravel area. Okay. All right. Just like a school bus does. Yeah. Okay.

All right. Thank you.

All right.

Mr. Chairman, I've got a question for Chief Tucker. Thank you for the letter here. It seems like there have been some concerns regarding fire suppression for the area. Okay. And in the agreement you have, it looks like you're using, you're utilizing the, is it a retention pond that is on site? What is the source of the water for that pond?

There's a pond that's on site that was there when they bought the property. It's been there for years. They're going to put us a draft spot in that we can draft out of. There is Sylvia, Tennessee City pond water supply out there, but there's no hydrants. All it is is a piece of two and a half inch pipe sticking up out of the ground that we can fill our trucks up with. This would be a better site to fill up our trucks faster than what it would be off the public water supply that's out there.

Understood. My concern would be, and not living there in that area, has that pond ever gone dry? Do we know what the volume of that pond is?

As far as I know, it's never went dry. I'm also fire chief at Tennessee City. I don't know if any of you are familiar with Bethany Retreat. It's a non-retreat for people that live there year-round, and they have groups come in. They have a similar situation up there. City water supply cannot support fire protection, so there's a lake on-site pond. They have a draft site there. They also have a fire pump. that supplies hydrants that belong to them. They're private hydrants. And it's the same type of deal.

Okay. And is the pump truck or the engine that Sylvia has strong enough to pull that?

Yes. So we have two engines and a tanker. Both engines carry 1,000 gallons of water. One pumps 1,500 gallons a minute. The other pumps 1,250. We have mutual aid agreements with Dixon County EMA, Dixon County Fire and Rescue. And Tennessee City, if we had a fire out there, we'd also be calling in Houston County or Humphreys like we do on a residential structure fire. All right.

Okay.

Thank you.

Okay. Anybody else got anything?

Okay. No, it is not sprinkled. So that's been a hot topic. County does not have a county fire marshal as far as I know. So county does not have a county fire marshal. So anything that was would go through the state, state of Tennessee, state fire marshal's office. And so I called them in and they come out there. They made one recommendation to the office building. that the stairwells that come down come in to the first floor of the building. They recommended that they put a set of exterior stairs coming out of the second floor to the outside, which they've already done to meet the fire marshals recommendation. Y'all had it done like within a week. All the other buildings there are like metalworking facilities, no storage of cardboard, plastics, or anything like that. So nothing would have to be sprinkled per the state fire marshal. I've been out there with them about four times on concerns with things.

Is the access point you're talking about, this is where you're going to stick your hose in to pump water out of the water? Yes. Is it marked? Is there a concrete or gravel pad? Just what's the format of that real briefly?

So once they get all the site plan approved, the way I take it, they're going to put us a drive down to it. It's going to be... you know big enough to where we can get two engines down there lay hose up from it there's already going to be a pipe that's run off into this pond with a big intake that's to where we can flow flow our hook into it and flow from it chief that's what i wanted here and i feel a lot better um and they they've opened it up that if we have any fire in the area we're going to be able to get in there and supply tankers and whatever off their water supply Thank you, sir.

Does anyone else have any questions for the chief? And does anyone else failing that have further discussion before we put this to a vote?

Just one quick question on the intake. So who would ultimately be responsible for any upkeep of that with it?

So they're ultimately going to be responsible for upkeep on it.

Okay.

We have an agreement with them that, like I said, we'll be able to use it anywhere in the area if we need to. Our agreement with them, we'll go flush it twice a year, and we'll probably do training down there too, pump training, to make sure that it's getting used and everything's working right on it also. That's good. But they will be responsible for all the upkeep and all that on it. Just like Bethany Retreat is, they take care of all the upkeep on it. We go out there twice a year, pump off of it, flow test it, and all that.

Well, we know they have to answer to a higher standard. Oh, yeah, yeah. So we appreciate it, Chief. All right. Thank you all. Thank you.

Anybody else?

Yeah. Who else has got what else before we go on?

I have another question.

But for the chief or for us? No, no, no. Thank you, chief.

Just septic. Like, what is the septic situation here?

Okay. I think that's relevant. So, yeah, if you would, counselor.

The septic situation. Mr. James. Especially with the additions of all the buildings.

I don't. Well, we didn't have it in your packet, I don't think. But when they. built the building the office building that we're talking about a while ago they had to add some septic so it it was approved you know rick robinson came out permitted it and rob's got a copy of it right here if you want to look at i just wanted to make sure it was okay it is on septic yes pro septic

have we got further questions i have a question for council actually go ahead there commissioner berry please ask me this additional lot which kind of halves the retention pond can that be noted as not buildable so that it doesn't interfere with that pond

Obviously, with this site plan in place, what you see on there is the document. It's what is there unless they come back to you to amend it. If you were ever to build anything on that site, you would have to take into account everything on this site plan. Does that, in effect, make it hard to build on that?

Sure.

But there's nothing that would make this legally unbuildable. It's not a condition that would be appropriate for this lot. But I can't tell you that what is here has to remain there unless they come back and ask for an amendment.

Okay.

This may be for council as well. So with... The change that occurred since Tuesday's meeting regarding this building and essentially removing it from this plan and asking for the approval here, are we not being asked to just approve the same plan twice at this point? Or should we just wait until we get the next plan that reconciles the issue with this building and then seek approval there?

It's the discretion of this body on how you want to treat this. There is a timeline. We have to act on a site plan. They've taken the non-conforming issue out. And to be clear, when they come back with a plan in 90 days, it will only be as to the hatched area. Unless they want to seek an entirely amended cycle plan, there is the possibility, I imagine they would take this route and not speak for them, that they're only going to bring you what's happening in that area. The rest of the cycle will remain as you see it. So you're not going to see a repeat. It's just going to be you've taken a piece of the pie away. You're approving the balance of the pie.

Yeah. Well, ladies and gentlemen, again, the chair will certainly entertain a motion to approve the site plan for Tennessee Steel Buildings Incorporated with the stipulations that have been previously stated.

Well, Mr. Chairman, we have a motion and a second.

Okay, all right, okay. It's time to vote. And this will be, because of the nature of the issue, this will be a roll call vote.

Mr. Chairman, I would recuse myself from voting due to a conflict of interest.

I understand and appreciate that, Mr. Berry.

Also, Mr. Chair, I'm not sure if the motion included the conditions that... Mr. Mills.

I'm pretty sure it did.

I just want to make sure that those were there. Okay.

All right. Thank you, Krishna. All right. Please go ahead, Mr. Curves.

Tina Ferris.

Approve.

Darren Green's not here. Todd Lindsey. Yes. Robert Qualls. Yes. Tommy Brown. Yes. Jeff Chase. Yes. Randy Ramey. Yes.

paul organ yes amanda berry yes patrick reagan yes mitchell harden yes it's unanimous mr chairman mr hayes i appreciate that i appreciate your kind and close attention to this matter and i appreciate those of you in the audience and your input and participation and watching this uh i hope it was satisfactory to all of you and if it wasn't there's not much i can do about it now uh if you all want to see the rest of the bill of the business before the planning commission absolutely all of you are welcome to stay all right counselor have a great evening okay the next item is a late addition to the agenda but it's the approval of the road into Montgomery Bell Estates. I think everyone on the commission is familiar with Montgomery Bell Estates, familiar that it's been there over two decades. Well, these folks need to take this outside or somewhere else. Okay, let's just go back and start over again. Everybody is familiar with Montgomery Bell Point, right? I had no idea until it was brought up that that road into it has never become a county road because it was built before I was overhearing anything to do with this. I think it's certainly the case of the rest of you all. But, and I haven't been down that road since one of my friends moved down there like 18 or 20 years ago, and I drove by to see their house, so I can't say anything about the current condition of it or anything, but the highway department's willing to accept this road as it is now, is that right? Well, please address it, sir. If you would.

We went out, inspected it, and what happened with the subdivision is part of it is actually a county road where you turn to go in on Coraloo Drive. A portion of it is county. When the subdivision was first started, the developer, he dedicated three parts of the subdivision. The remainder of it, it never got dedicated. Some years back, I can't say when, way before me and Mr. Curtis, and as you heard, this subdivision's been there a long time. This is simply one that's fell through the cracks.

Okay.

The bond was let go on it. Nobody knows when, but the subdivision was brought up. It was ready to be turned in. He just didn't take the final steps to dedicate it, and that's where we are today. There's several roads that's inside that subdivision, all of them in pretty good shape. There's one that's getting some age on it. Other than that, the rest of it is decent shape. If we wait years down the road and it gets pushed through then, there'll just be a lot more work involved in getting it back up to where it needs to be.

Mr. Chairman, this was, you know, this is a subdivision, right? All of the roads in the subdivision were intended to be public roads. It just appears to be something that's and this goes back decades, so bringing the entire subdivision into county maintenance is going to go a lot better, and I agree with that.

Yes, yes. And to my knowledge, this is the last subdivision in Dixon County that is like this. I think this will actually get everything cleaned up. Moving forward, we'll be where we need to be.

And as I've said several times over the years in this instance, these people are Dixon County taxpayers. They've paid their share of the county taxes that go to street maintenance, just like I have and you have. We're helping them get a little bit of their money's worth, and it's the right thing to do. Now, having said that, this is a recommendation, yeah, thank you, Councillor. We don't make the final decision on this becoming a county road. We can either recommend to the Dixon County Commission that we believe it should be a county road, or we can recommend with reasons why this really should not be a county road. In fact, if somebody has one of those reasons, I'd love for you to state it, because if not, I'm going to ask for a motion to approve this now.

I'll make a motion to approve. Second.

Commissioner Berry approves. Mr. Brown, okay. We got seconds. So, all right. I don't even see the reason to call a roll on this. Let's just say it's been moved and properly seconded that the roads in Montgomery-Bell Point subdivision such may not have been formally accepted as county roads. be accepted by the county commission as dixon county roads dixon county highway department maintenance those in favor of that motion state aye aye those opposed that motion state no the opinion of the chair the eyes have carried it and the recommendation for the road to be accepted as a dixon county highway department road is approved does anyone else have business that properly needs to come before the dixon county planning commission at this time Well, the chair doesn't hear any, and the chair certainly doesn't have any. So we will meet again in August.

Can I make a suggestion for our agenda for the next meeting? Am I able to do that? For what? For an item to have?

I don't know if it's exactly an order, but it's not. Is that not the definition of our order? Counselor, should I just speak to you individually? Go ahead and think out loud there, Commissioner.

I'll talk to Counselor.

Okay. All right. Well, Chair would entertain a motion that the meeting be adjourned. Mr. Brown moves for adjournment.

We're adjourned.

I want to stick around and eavesdrop on that.