Planning - Regular Meeting

Thank you for your patience for two minutes. We are ready to get started. Can we have a roll call?

Gilmore. Here. Myles Miller. Here. Bailey. Here. Caples. Here. We

have a motion to approve previous minutes from 03:17. So moved. Second. Thank you very much. All right. The first one is the city of Jonesboro. Why don't y'all get first on the list? What's that about? Kind of, do you not know we're serving the tax paying people of Jonesboro, not the city itself? So I'm gonna skip that and go on to the second one. Alright. So that so that mister Bailey is gonna recuse himself, he can step down in a minute. So, John, come on up and we'll put the city second.

John Ealy with Associated Engineering. On behalf of Black Equipment, we are asking for a variance on the parking requirements of asphalt and curb and gutter for storage area. Black is looking to construct the storage area for some heavy equipment for the store on Kruger Drive, much like Burke Reynolds did and other people like that and we're asking for a variance.

That'll be a fence that you can't see through?

Fence, chain link, class seven.

Yeah. Okay.

It's standard storage area.

Gotcha. Well, members, y'all know we've approved these before, especially in the industrial park. And do y'all have any questions for John?

John, you're not asking for any kind of variance on the landscaping plan to do landscaping outside of it?

Say it by now.

You're not asking for any variances on the landscaping. You're going to put No, the landscaping it's

a storage area.

And he also asked about screening. Are you planning on screening the fence with the

Being all industrial, I'm not sure if it's required. Commercial to residential, you would.

Yeah, industrial all around it, the screen is not required.

Other questions I have? Isn't that something we've done though? They ask

for a variance, not to do asphalt. It's usually commercial that we've done that in. Yeah, did that and on Okay.

That building spot plate.

I thought like Great Dane. I thought we had asked him to do a screen on the fence. Maybe we didn't.

We asked him, we did one on next to the Social Security office behind the credit union. We asked them to screen that one. Okay. That's commercial, okay.

So non industrial. That's correct.

Now Casey, if you wanna put that implication in there.

Yeah, I just want to stay kind of what we've been doing in the past. That's it. Just told one person I just can't remember

industrial that's surrounded by industrial, the screening's not required.

Mr. Chair, I move that we grant the variance as requested.

Second.

And there is a second. Can I have a roll call vote, please?

Ayes. Millard. Yes. Bailey. Yes. John. Thank you.

Okay. On up, City of Jonesboro. Bailey had to recuse himself because I think he has something to do with

this. I understand.

Yep. So tell us what you wanna do.

I'm Kyle Cook. I'm with Brackett Kronerich here representing the city of Jonesboro. We're seeking a variance. We are in the Industrial Arts District on the corner of Monroe and Madison. We're seeking a variance for the requirement of 24 foot deep depth at that front facade of the building that's required there in that district.

So well you can see the two areas that face Monroe, Madison, the two elevations there. You can kinda see these skinny kinda galleries. When you look at the perspectives, you'll kinda see what we're trying to do. We feel like we're meeting intent from which the downtown development code was written. But because of the use of the building, it's a hardened shell, it's a nine one one center.

So it's really, it's not meant to have a lot of depth to it. And so we've created sort of a gallery space there out front, which meets all other requirements of the development code except for that depth. So we've got about five feet of depth there behind that frame in the wall. And we anticipate using it for things like art exhibits, murals, things that would serve downtown.

When you say hardened, it's built to be protected from

It's not quite a FEMA shelter, shelter, but it's built to those standards. It doesn't have that designation, but it's built as a FEMA storm shelter. Nine one one and real time crime centers what's housed in there and so it needs to be a hardened shell with no windows and so therefore it's hard to get depth out of that facade. So we've kind of created a sort of full facade at the face of it to create character, which I think would serve the neighborhood very well and meets the intent of that code.

This is we actually came up with it. The

top of those glass frames, the top lid there is 12 feet which is part of the code. So it kind of sets that datum line that you guys are looking for downtown area. We meet the 70% glass requirement for the facade, glazing requirement.

Mr. Chair, I'd like to make a motion. We approve the variance.

Okay, there a second?

Second. Okay, roll call. Miles, Miller. Yes. Caples. Yes. Yes. I have to vote. Gilmore. Yes. Okay.

All right.

Thank you.

Proceed. You don't go home. Go home. Can we have a motion to adjourn? Thank you.