Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Thank you.

Are we going to call to order the October 2025 meeting of the Homewood Planning Commission? If we can start with a roll call, please. All right. Mr. Hinger, here. Miss Wilcott, here. Mr. Harwell, here. Mr. Spento here, Mr. Armstead, Mr. Broadhead, Miss Andress here, Mr. Gulas here, and Mr. Roberts here. Thank you, Fred. Um, all right. So, moving on. Um, we had the August meeting minutes circulated, I think, last week. Uh, I took a look at them. They look good to me. Uh, if they look good to everyone else, I'd entertain a motion to approve.

So, moved. Second. All in favor? I

All right, the minutes are approved. All right, moving on. Uh, communications. Uh, Mr. Armstead's not here. I have no further communications. Um, no old business, so we will move on to new business. Uh, the first two cases are related. Uh, they both relate to, um, 198 Green Springs Highway. Uh the applicant is Kelsey Kraer of HFA. Um whoever's here to present on this case if you come forward now. I would point out Mr. Park Grimmer uh is the owner of the property. He's also available to speak to the reservey which deals but the final development plan is

great. Thank you. That's item number one. Yeah. And and if you wouldn't mind please writing your name down on the pad and your address and then stating them for the record, please. Okay.

All right.

So if it's plan commission's wish, we'll discuss both cases together and then vote separately. Correct. Correct. If you heard if heard that, we're just going to go two cases are related. We'll discuss them at the same time and then we'll vote separately.

Evening. My name is Park Grimmer. I'm the owner of the Green Spring Shopping Center. It's known as Green Springs Center LLC. And what we're trying to do is take the former uh if you remember the Central Bank, Compass Bank, BB VA Compass, PNC. Well, PNC is not there anymore. We now have a lease with Valvaline. And what we're trying to do on this reervey is basically take the parking that the bank was using at the rear that's closest to the Mi PBLO supermarket and just encompass that as part of this parcel. I think I sent it to Mr. Goodwin. So you should have it, right? I sent you several of these.

Planning Commissioners have complete drawings. So All right. Right. And that's all we're trying to do is just enlarge it. We're taking a little bit out of parcel AB is where floor and decor pblo are and putting it into this to to give that extra they can have a stacking lane coming into the valvalene express hole. Correct. Okay. Okay. And and if you Mr. G um also discuss the final development plan uh that's attached to that case FD25102. That's for the actual development itself. He has the development plan. Okay.

I uh I just have a rendering of it and I've sent it to Mr. Good, too. Understood.

Thank you. Uh my name is Russell Gartner. I represent HFA. I'm the civil engineer on uh staff for Valvoline here. I did the u the final development plan. Um I've got a couple copies here if you guys don't have it up there. um elevations. That's what I'm looking at. Um yeah, so it's a a 1600 square foot building that we're going on. We're reducing the impervious area that the bank had as he was saying there. We've got a landscaping here. Uh we're kind of tying out uh on all our utilities pretty much the same way the bank did cleaning that up. The development is a uh a redesign of the site. We're pretty much going to saw cut where that new property line is and repave that whole area, put in our building, utilities, uh storm water, um and uh and landscaping. Do you guys have any questions or

We We might in just a moment, but if that's that's it, we'll open up the public portion. Um, perfect. Okay, we have a plan to reservey is at the top of the screen where we're adding extra land.

Thank you. That's helpful. Okay, this is a public hearing. If anyone from the public is here to speak on this case, this is your opportunity to come forward. And seeing no one, we'll close the public portion. Sorry. just as you're walking away, if you come back up and answer our questions. And my understanding from looking at the the drawings, uh, is that the the access eress from Green Springs Highway is the same place that same curb cut, same entrance that the bank had before. We're not changing any of that. Yes, sir. Well, we are eliminating one on the right hand side

where the used to be the title place, the C We're closing that will be landscaping now. Okay. Your primary entrance will be coming from the top which is on the me pblo side coming into the two bays two service right to access that property or the the oil change service you from Green Springs you would enter I guess to the to the south the traffic light. Oh traffic. Okay. Come in the entrance and loop around those cars. into the building from top to the bottom. Then they'll come out and circle around. Go back out into our service.

Oh, thanks. And so during operation, the bays would be open, I would assume, correct? Yes, sir. And it be visible from Green Springs. Uh, yes, sir. picture before showing the val.

And this obviously this is a single use kind of building. There's really nothing else that it could be after y'all build this. It's all change. Yes, sir. For a long time. Well, and that that's a I'm interested in that because of uh obviously the world's changing, you know, electric cars, things like that. Is there any thought? I don't know. I mean, y'all maybe aren't the the marketing team for Valene, but I'm curious if any thoughts been put into that with future use of this site. I think you're still going to have service of some type. You know, I don't know what all electric besides just does this do more than just oil change. Is this full service?

I don't know. I'm thinking it's going to evolve as things like that probably take care of that. We have a representative from that as well. It's all right. If you could if you if you would uh if you're going to speak if you would please write your name down and your address on the pad stated for the record. Whoops. This site was originally 1968 central bank then it became compass BBDA and PNC. So it's it's been there a while

and M PBLO was originally a Kroger and part of that building was also a super X drug and down where floor is was a WT grand so long like I said I was in grade school my dad's developed the son so I' I've been raised with it so

so to answer your question yeah about 95% of our business is oil change only quick service oil change 15 minutes you're in you're out the customers stay in the car the entire time pull in the back like uh uh Mr. Grimmer said and sit in their car. We meet them at the door. Uh they drive in sit over the pit. We do all of our work from underneath. Uh we have a full basement under that building so that the noise is maintained in that building and particularly in the basement. Uh the doors are open during the summer months, but it's a clean site. I would I would liken it to any to many restaurants. you know, it's a it's a we don't do mechanics work. We just change oil. That's what we do. So, it's good looking building and uh we think it uh works well for us and and we're able to go into a lot of markets that might not typically have an oil change business in their center, but uh but uh we seem to be welcome in most of them and we anticipate changing oil for a long time. I know that electric cars are going to be a part of the part of the overall process, but floods changed and we'll adapt as required. Any other questions?

I'm sorry. Would you repeat your name? I did not get it. Your name? My name is Jame. Yeah, I put it down. But James Det O T Hi T. Okay. Oh, you couldn't read my writing, could you? Sorry. He's with Valval. Yeah, I'm with Valve. Gotcha. Um, and the hours of operation and what do you anticipate? Uh, during the week, uh, Monday through Friday, it's typically 8 to 7. Saturday is, uh, 9 to 6. Sunday typically, we don't operate, but if we do, it's minimal depending on the on the market.

And then I know you have a garbage dumpster at the rear of the building. We have a dumpster wrap that's at the back of the building away from the screen from from the main street. And the finishes on the wrap are the same as a building. Raises a good question. What do you all do with the oil?

Everything is kept in the basement. Everything is uh delivered and removed in bulk. So, we have a truck that comes in once a week and they go through a port uh in our in the side of our building. The the hose is taken down into the basement. All the tanks for all the various oils that we use as new oil and then the used oil sit in that basement. Double wall tank. The basement itself is wrapped in a waterproof membrane so that we don't have to worry about water coming in. We don't have to worry about any water going out. And uh it's it's pumped out under pressure once a week under low pressure to suck the oil out or or move the pressure move the new oil into the tanks.

Brand new building brick and ephus on the exterior and we'll adapt to any require any code requirements we need as far as percentages and so forth. I did want to say that the signage that they are showing is not a part of this approval and that they will have to comply with the sign ordinance. Um yeah, under separate permit. Yeah, under separate permit. We're willing to do that.

Yes, the bank buildings there now will be torn down and we'll give them a clean site to build their building. any any time. Well, I know I don't have in front of me. I know there's a construction schedule attached. What when do you anticipate beginning and ending construction?

Obvious obviously, we've got site work that needs to be done and we'll do diligence on the property itself to make sure we can put a basement in and it meets all our other standards and we understand the way we have to build the building. Uh we would hope to be open by late next year. What are the possibilities of not having the bays face the main road?

It won't fit on this particular lot because the depth of the lot with with proper stacking and getting out of the front is that's the only way we can sit on that on that lot. I think it's important to note that this district, the GIRD, was originated to move away from kind of automotive related businesses and try to make it more neighborhood facing friendly

uh businesses. And I I think uh that has been amended over over time to allow for some uh pet boys being the example. Um but I think that is still the spirit of the bure. Right now there's three drivethrus there where the bank was drivethroughs. Drivethroughs. Yeah. Almost the same thing as but they're open to cover. What I mean is catering to auto service basically that was Green Springs kind of mo as you know

for years. I think you know mobile banking or not mobile but the drive-through banking. I really do think it's it's important to think of us not as a not as a garage, but we are a service and it's 15 minutes per car. Typically, it's quiet operation. The most the noise you hear out of our from a noise perspective is check your lights, come on, ready to go. You may leave the bay. I mean, that's it. It's it's it's the verbal commands to be a safe and efficient uh operation. Uh there's no no equipment other than a compressor that runs the oil through the pressure system that delivers that into the motor and that is uh in a soundproof room. We take extra care to we understand we're sitting in someone's neighborhood and we feel like that's the place to be to service our customers correctly. So, you know, they drop in 15 minutes they can be on their way. But we take special care to make the building look nice to uh make sure that we are not a noisy uh situation. We're I will tell you that we're quieter than most drive-through restaurants that have a squat box on the outside of the building. And if it came down to it and we and the need was to have a a condition that we close those front doors, they're on automatic buttons and we can do that, but we feel like it's a more efficient operation for us not to do that to do it when it's when it's required for weather conditions and so forth. But but if it if it can be left open, it works better for us.

Approximately how many employees would be operating two bay which what this is we would have typically six uh full-time and one part time all at the same time that's correct maybe four times

the landscaping will be whatever is required to meet soft. Yeah.

And in instances where we need to add a little bit of screening on the front side, we can certainly look at that, too. With the extension of the lot to the to the left, if we're looking at this picture right here, do we anticipate any changes into the entrance or exit to the the whole development? No. We're using the same right to the left of that we have Bank of America will be on that parcel and and they just announced in the Birmingham business journal this week that they're starting to open up their start construction doing the one on 280 where the uh what was it the grill is out there on 280 superior grill

that's going to be the first one I hope ours and we're in the process of redoing parking lot. Now, uh we're making the patching. We're getting ready to do the overlay and then we're going to repaint the whole center, the main part of the center, black holes, pylon side, all the metal, handrails, everything. Center will look really good. You know, in the spring, we're going to do some reandscaping. I've had some trucks run over some of my crate myrtles. He stop signs have been hit, you know, things like that.

One other comment I'd like to make. You know that we talked about the entrances and the exits a while ago, the egress and ingress. You guys know there was a egress off the old bank that came right down into that where the approach is into the center bottom left hand side.

That's going away. Obviously, the one on the other side is going away, which was almost straight across to the right side. That's going away. So, it's a much better situation for traffic and for safety to have everything coming off the back of our site into the parking lot. The other thing is we'll do our average uh oil change per day is about 45 to 50. So, that's 45 to 50 cars traffic that we add to the traffic pattern in a day's time. It's a nice uh a nice tax cut for not a lot of imp on your infrastructure.

You mentioned some screening. Would you want to proper maybe some additional screening? I'm sorry. You mentioned some screening. Would you want to proper maybe some additional screening? Landscape screening of trees or bushes and kind of isolate the building a little bit, you know, so you couldn't see inside the building quite as easily. to make that official as part of the you know approvement for approval. Okay. Well, with that proper then I would move to approve beginning with case number RS25101. I'll second it. Mr. Spin.

All right. This is on the reservey. The first case the reservey. All right. Miss Wilcott, yes. Mr. Harwell, yes. Mr. RPento, yes. Mr. Henninger, yes. Miss Andress, yes. Mr. Gulas, yes. And Mr. Roberts, yes. So, your reservey case passes. And I would entertain a motion on FD25102, the final development plan again with the same property we talked about a moment ago. And the signage You're right. Right. Also conditioned on approval and permitting of signs.

And I just wanted to clarify the screening was more um softening the image of the building from Green Springs. So Kale, is that something they can work with you on to accomplish that task? Yeah, when the when the development plan goes to um goes to city council, we might work with you guys and sort of land on what additional screening means. a certain number of trees or shrubs or capacity.

Yeah, they weren't required to do the perimeter landscaping because they only have eight permanent onsite parking spaces and 10 is required before that part of the landscape ordinance kicks in. So perhaps it's just going to be as easy as requesting that they put that in like it would be required. We like easy. We don't find it very often. So with that, I would make a motion then to approve case FD25102. Second.

Okay. Mr. Gulas, yes. Miss Andress, yes. Mr. Henninger, yes. Mr. Ruspinto, yes. Mr. Harwell, yes. Miss Wilcott, yes. And Mr. Roberts, yes. And so your case will go to city council uh with the 70 positive approval funding commission. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Okay, our next two cases again are related. They are um a reszone case RZ2510-03 and a reservey RS25-10-04. Uh both cases relate to uh Our Lady of Sorrow's Church at 1730 Oxmore Road. If the applicant would come forward, you're already here. um if you could just state your name orally for the record as well and then tell us about your cases.

Sure. My name is Chris Ecro. I'm with Caprine Engineering and I'm representing Our Lady of Sorrows Parish uh for this um hearing. So, let me write finish writing down my address here. Okay. Um, on the screen above is a U plat that we're going to be presenting in the fourth uh item on the agenda, but it's tied to the resoning that we're requesting and and about to discuss right now. Um there um a couple of months ago um the pastor of Our Lady Desaros asked me to help him consolidate the property um for the campus into a single lot. It looks like uh in in long story short, through all of that discovery and research, we found out uh in the early 2000s that this property was actually um somebody had started the process of vacating right away and and you can see some of the properties up there that are grayed out are actually uh vacated rightways and currently recorded with instrument numbers down at probate. Just for whatever reason, they never pushed it over the finish line to do a reservey. We had no explanation why. I even reached out to the uh original engineer that uh it would have we I presume started it as part of the family life c center's uh design and construction and the parking deck was there uh that was there. Also in that research uh we discovered that one of the lots that the church owns is zoned C1 for whatever reason and the existing parking deck that's been there since the early 2000s is built right over top of it. Uh I called him about that. I asked him how you did that and he said, "I have no idea. Didn't know it was like that." So, long story short, we're just trying to do a little bit of housekeeping and get everything cleaned

up. We have one lot. Um, I believe it's 1691 is the address for it. It's the top left lot. There's actually another exhibit I provided that shows that lot outlined on the plat, but it's the very top very northernmost corner up there is that lot. and uh it's currently under park and deck. Um and we're just requesting that it be reszoned uh to I2, which would make it uh match everything else that's on that campus. And then uh should our resoning request be uh uh should we get a favorable outcome of that, we would just request that um for approval of a reservey to reservey the entire campus into a single lot. Um other than the one lot up there that's landlocked by the Park Ridge rightway and that one alley rideway. We can't do that one, but that's okay. The rest of the contiguous lots we went into a single lot. Yeah, outlined by the darker line. That's right. If you can see that on the screen, it was meant to be red, but it looks black on that screen right there. But yes, everything within the darker line is what we want uh ultimately reserveyed into a single lot. And with that, um, I defer to any questions you may have or anything that the public might want to

Thank you. Thank you. We'll have to open up for the public first, but, uh, you might not want to step too far away. Uh, this is a public meeting. If anyone wants to speak to this case, this is your opportunity to come forward. Are we are we making a distinction between the two cases, uh, you know, reserve the reszoning for purposes of the public portion or Yeah. All right. I'm just saying you've opened a public Is this for discussion on both cases at the same time? Yeah, that was my intention is I just want to clarifi. Right. Okay.

And seeing no one will close the public portion. Um and I guess I'm am I correct um that obviously we'll vote on the reszone, but we're not the final decision maker with respect to that and we can't reservey lots with different zoning into one lot. So I guess this if we recommend resoning and recommend the reservey would be contingent on the plan commission could approve reservey but it would not be recorded until that reszoning took effect.

So so right it reszone it recommendation but the action of the plan commission could approve the reservey but it would not be reported until it's resone. I mean, I know that there's a parking deck on the lot. What was Do we know what was on there previously? Parking deck? I don't remember. That was over 20 years ago. I I I only remember it as a parking deck at this point, although I remember it getting designed and constructed. I just I don't remember. And it's the parking deck that you don't want reserveyed. You said there's a corner that's not going to be reserveyed into one lot along with the other parcels.

Well, most of the parking deck you you can see on that map that's up on the screen. You can see the red lines depict the one lot that is zoned C1 and everything else is I2 within that green line. So portions of the parking deck are reszoned I2 is it they just have to live on a separate lot for whatever reason. Okay. I thought you said when you were asking about the reservey that there was a part of the partially Oh, no. parking lot. You see the the surface parking lot to the left that that was from years ago and it's just it's landlocked by the two public rideaways that were not crossing. It was just you know guess it's part of the they own the lot but it's not part of our consolidation. I got you.

My only comment about that. Which one you want first? Zoning. Uh we we start out with the reszone since that's the first one out numerically. Motion to approve reasoning Z12.

Second.

Okay. Miss Wilcott. Yes. Mr. Harwell, yes. Mr. Ruspento, yes. Mr. Heninger, yes. Miss Andress, yes. Mr. Gulas, yes. And Mr. Roberts, yes. So, the reason will go to city council with a 70 positive approval. And I would entertain a motion on the reservey 25104. So, move. Second. All right. Mr. Gulas, yes. Miss Andress, yes. Mr. Henninger, yes.

Mr. Ruspento, yes. Mr. Harwell, yes. Miss Wilcott, yes. And Mr. Roberts, yes. So, your reservey is approved. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Okay. Um, we're going to call up our next two cases, RS25105 and AD25106. Both relating to 8 well one the reservey relating to 880 Brookwood Village. The amended development plan relating to 868 Brookwood Village. Um, and whoever's here to speak on this case, if you come come forward, please. My name is Alex Patillo with SH Engineering representing this case. Um and of course I guess talking about the reserve plot first. This is to uh reservey the existing lot 1 FA at Brookwood Village into two lots 1 FC and 1 FD. Um really the purpose of this plat is to facilitate the transfer of ownership of lot 1 FC which is immediately next to the recently recorded lot 1K. And then um the final development plan has been amended to reflect this reservey plan and um It also shows on lot 1FC the proposed future work that is to take place. Um it would be a renovation of the mall um to reserve 30,000 or so square feet of cord shell space for PCD2 approved uses and the remainder of what was a mall in this

lot would then be converted to parking. Um the lot is really from two expansion joints but the split in the levels does not align. That's why you got some overlap in parking on various levels. It leads to the confusing breakdown, but really those those levels that overlap um kind of staggered in between that connect to lot 1k would be dedicated back over to lot 1k via. Okay. If you have nothing further at least at this point um we'll open up the public portion again. This is opening it up with respect to both cases um the reservey and the amended development plan. This is your opportunity to come forward if you want to speak. And seeing no one, we will close the public portion and open it up for questions. Um, in the project narrative for the development plan, the last sentence reads that the purchaser of lot F1C, the one that would be created, um, will grant a parking easement in favor of the Andrews facility for the exclusive use of the 156 spaces. So, is that is that the plan for the Andrews to have exclusive access to the parking? Is that I I at least understood that there was going to be some sort of shared parking there.

Hi, I'm Nancy Faren. I represent um Andrew Sports Medicine as well as the um company that will be uh looking to purchase the expansion one to expansion two joint. So, we're calling it your question is about parking. um parking would be shared there. The ex the um additional purchase from EJ1 to EJ2 is to ensure that Andrews does have substantial parking as well as enough room for a 30,000 square foot um cord and shell of future office medical um whatever that may be and more than enough um per code of parking for that 30,000 square feet. So it is to kind of make both of those um that whole that whole set uh exceed code on parking.

Mathematically we've done it so that it is parking that there's enough parking for the corn shell and the parking and easement could go straight to Andrews. I don't know if the agreement lets them share it or not, but mathematically they both have their own parking. Under the agreement of Andrews of their uh lease, they do have um parking that is dedicated directly for them. So, so in answer to the chairman's question, the 156 spaces will be dedicated and reserved for Andrew's Yes, sir. clients. Yes, sir. Patients. Okay. Yes, sir.

It'll be so marked in some way, I guess. Okay, Mr. Chairman, the Alex and I that's what the math looks like. It's confusing. Um but but the parking is there for the for the square footage and the use that they want to provide. I think how they split it up is right now with the lawyers trying to figure out how to understand and read the the cross parking agreements. Is that fair to say? To my understanding they are talking now. Yes, that is fair. There will be some cross um parking that are done between

is the plan to have those ready by the time this is approved before city council for for approval or is that

I'm not I'm not able to say that. Hey, Mel Maroy. I'm working with Fairway and uh I can kind of answer that question. Um the the parking the easements that provide cross parking for Andrews are um in connection with the prior development plan approval. I believe that was conditioned on the uh city attorney reviewing and approving cross parking easements to ensure that the adequate parking is there to serve Andrew's use. Those drafts are with the city attorney and um so before a co can be issued for any work, those agreements will have to be approved. But we're pretty far along uh with with that review and don't expect

Thank you. Has Andrews purchased building they were purchasing or not? Uh we are in the process of closing at this time. paperwork. Is there an estimated closing date within the next two weeks?

Can y'all go through some potential uses for this this new lot? Can we talk at least some generalities about what could go in there? uh generalities of a 30,000 square foot. Um it would be ideal for another medical type use. Um there's also enough of the 30,000 for retail on the bottom. Um if you'll notice that we're you would be pulling into that area will have its own access. Um and so there could be some retail at the bottom. Um office space. Um there have been some discussions with a couple of people that have wanted to do more of their office building there. So it's kind of open for anything. It is not going to be um mixed use. I mean as far as um multif family will not be that

but hotels. No. Is there a more of a master plan for the whole development? Not at this time. I mean the fairway continues to work on a master plan. I mean this is always been sort of the first step of the process but that that they continue to work on pulling that plan together.

Did I hear you mentioned additional parking and there is parking under the building as I understand or as I recall. Is any of this building set to be demolished at this point for parking or any of the shell of the mall set to change?

Yes. So right now within that red hat shape which is what one see there's two levels of mall above one level parking. The lower level of mall will be completely converted to parking and the upper level will be uh part parking and part of it is at 30,000 corn. I'm confused. I thought you had 30,000 square feet for the potential use and then you had parking down below 60 something,000 square feet below two levels. Did tell me again what did you say one of those levels would be this. very low level which we've called level zero uh will remain parking uh will not change the the intermediate level 10 uh is being converted from mall space to parking and then the top level which is called level 25 is going from mall to corn shell and parking

and then as a reminder there's another level on the Andrew side that is also parking yeah the the Yeah, the lot lines align with the expansion joints for structural reasons. The split levels in the mall did not align with that. And so you got some overlap from uh the garage levels next to Andrews and the the mall is how they converted parking. So those levels are staggered. There's a little bit of overlap and that's the confusion on the levels and the parking breakdown.

And and then again I'm trying to visualize it. the new shell space will it be separated I'm sure it will from the remainder of the eastern part of the mall that still exists you're not yes tearing down anything at this point it'll just be sealed off and this will be the new use and you'll future date that'll still remain the mall until something else happens with the rest of okay okay so is the facade changing at all or is it

we're we're adding to where the development plan shows adding two entrances to uh lot 1 FC. One would be from the front which enters the lower level 10 and another one will be from the back which enters the top level.

But to your question of the facade it would be it will go with what we facade. I will just comment for our neighborhood. We're very excited. The development plan we've got does show all that tearing down

right right now. What they're getting approval for is because we're carving out the lot. So, so it's like a reservey development. So this is just basically if they wanted to come up and extend through the roof and go to five stories with something that would have to come back. There's more to be surveyed, right? But but a part of the reason from what I understand of carving out this lot is so they can support Andrew's parking requirements because currently Andrews doesn't have enough parking on their lot to support. Is that right?

Yeah. And it's kind of piggybacking on that uh condition from the previous plan. If we were to get the appropriate parking for Andrews, we would have to cut between EJ1 and EJ2. And structurally you can't really do that. That's that's kind of the the big issue there. But to be to be clear, so a development plan wouldn't come back to you if if they want to stay within the corn shell space and provide a use that's allowed inside the building existing structure. Correct. Structure changes.

Right. That's right. Well, I'll make a motion to approve the reservey 25105. I'll second that. Okay. Okay, this is on the reservey. Miss Wilcott, yes. Mr. Harwell, yes. Mr. RPento, yes. Mr. Henninger, yes. Miss Andress, yes. Mr. Gulas, yes. And Mr. Roberts, I'm going to recuse. Um, so the reservey is approved by a six to zero vote. 61.

61. Yes. Um, all right. And then entertain a motion on the amended development plan. I'll move to approve the amended development plan 25106. Second. So, who second? Okay. Okay. All right. Mr. Gulas. Yes. Miss Andress? Yes. Mr. Hener? Yes. Mr. RPento? Yes. Mr. Harwell, yes. Miss Wilcott, yes. And Mr. Roberts,

uh, recuse again. So that the amended development plan will go forward to city council with the 61 affirmative or approval. Um, and I guess that's it. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you. All right. So, next and last case uh is AD25-10-07 U Piggly Wiggly Redevelopment at 3000 Independence Drive. If the applicant uh whoever or whoever is presenting the case would come forward, please.

My name is Robert Thompson with Thompson Architecture and I'm the architect for the project. Josh Donnell with SH engineering civil engineering project.

So the I will let Josh probably do most of the talking on the site planning itself. But in general, the project encompasses adding 7,500 square feet to the existing Piggly Wiggly uh building, renovating the uh existing Piggly Wiggly building as well, and creating new uh frontage on Highway 31 and on Oxmore Road. Um improving the parking um that is between the CVS and the um and the Piggly Wiggly. Um, a lot of this was precipitated by ALDOT um, closing the entrance off of 31 or their um, impending closing of the entrance off of Highway 31 right by the intersection which is where the front parking of Piggly Wiggley is now having faced with losing that entrance, we decided just to do a total kind of rearrangement of the store to where the entry to the store would now be from the parking lot between the CVS and the Piggly Wiggly and turning and adding uh retail space toward Highway 31 and a little bit of retail space toward Oxmore Road. And also um losing that entrance and that parking also means a kind of a hindrance to utilizing the existing parking on the Oxmore roadside. Therefore, the owner of this property has agreed to allow City of Homewood to use that area as additional landscape space that would um work with the underpass improvement project that the city of Homewood has.

So, as you can see on the site plan, we are keeping um all of the the main as main access points right now to the site except for that one that is being taken away at the northern part of the site off of Highway 31. Um we are adding an additional um parking area down in the southwest corner of the site. As you can see, um we about 114 parking spots proposed for this uh as as new parking spots. Um I believe we're looking at around 153 total for the site. I believe there's a maybe 110 now existing. Um u we're going to be picking up storm water on the site through a series of inlets round it into a proposed um storm water management area. This is for the added additional impervious areas from the for the expanded parking lot. Uh we'll be picking up that storm water in the southwest corner of the site as well. And then we'll be tying that and back into the um the municipal storm system landscaping. Uh the landscape architect couldn't be here tonight, but our landscaping plan um has met um the city requirements. Um,

I believe that's it. Okay. Thank you. Um, this is a public hearing. If anyone is here to speak on this case, this is your opportunity to come forward. And, uh, seeing no one, we'll close the public portion and open up for questions. I know truck routes to your loading dock has been a point of concern. Correct. Would you like to speak to how that will work under this plan?

What time they'll be going? the uh yes, the the loading docks will actually will not change from its current location and the routing in uh for the trucks would not change from its current um method of of bringing trucks into the site. So, it stays the same as opposed to I think the previous iteration of this had uh trucks closer to the Courtney Drive which I think was somewhat potentially I guess objectionable at the time. So, this leaves the truck where it currently is now. Your Courtney Drive neighbors are very appreciative.

Thank you. I think it's an excellent plan. We've seen it at the city council when we were discussing the um incentive package that we had redo and it is the very best version of the plan that you guys have brought forward. The green space looks great. Building looks great. You worked out the situation with your neighbors on Courtney Drive. Um we're really excited to have you there. So, thank you Okay, there aren't any other questions.

I would entertain a motion to approve. I'll second it. I missed the initial motion. You seconded. Who Who made I don't make a motion. I didn't make Yeah. I'd also love to approve it, too. I mean, How about you? How about you set the motion and and I'll second it. How about that? All right, Mr. Spinto makes the motion. M will second it. Is that correct? Great. Okay. All right. Okay. Very good. All right. Miss Wilcott. Yes. Mr. Harwell. Yes. Mr. Rpenta. Yes. Mr. Hener. Yes.

Miss Andress. Yes. Mr. Gul. Yes. And Mr. Roberts. Yes. So, go forward to city council. Your case will go forward to city council with a 70 positive vote. Thank you so much. Give your new architect a raise. I want to know where this was two years ago. I'll second that.

Okay. Moving on. Uh the next item of the agenda is recommendations of the nominating committee uh for the positions of chairman and vice chairman. Uh Mr. Harwell, you are the chair of the nominating uh committee. Um what nominations do you wish to put forth? We recommend that uh you Mr. Roberts remain as chairman and Eric Hener will be the vice chairman. Okay. Um, so Fred, just to remind me, we just vote on the slate at once or vote. Well, uh, or is there different ways we can do that? If if the commission uh, if there are no other nominations from the floor, if there are, this would be the opportunity to entertain those. If

I say I put it to a vote, then if it's the consensus of the commissioners that that slate be the ones that they would uh vote on, then that's and with a caveat that the vice chair nominee cannot nominate anyone else for vice chair. Correct. Do I get a vote? You're stuck. But for the for the record, does anyone else have any other nominations for either of these positions? Mr. Espinto, would you like to volunteer to what? to nominate someone else. I nominate Mr. Eric. So if not, then you would accept a uh motion to accept the recommendations of the nominating committee.

Okay. Well, that said, well, I'll accept a motion to accept the recommendations of the nominating committ. So move second. Second. All right. All right. All in favor? Opposed? Okay. All right. Well, yum, if you step down at any point. This is Milan. Nice volunteering. Good job. All right. Yeah, I think with all that we'll uh we'll adjourn. Thank you. Good job. Talk about getting railroad.