Planning - Regular Meeting

Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the City of Jonesboro Metropolitan Area Planning Commission meeting for Tuesday, June 9th, 2026. I'll open up for you to register your roll call, please.

Ready?

Okay. Now I'll open up for the discussion of the minutes from the, this will be from the May 26th meeting. Are there any changes to be made? I'll entertain a motion for approval.

Styling motion to approve.

Mr. Terry second.

Little second.

Everybody cast your ballot. Minutes are approved. First item we have tonight on the agenda is a preliminary subdivision. This is Woodridge Place, subdivision phase four. We have the proponent for this item here tonight. If you would come up. State your name for the record and tell us what you want to do there.

My name's Darren Williams. I'm with McAllister Engineering here in Jonesboro. It's been an ongoing subdivision and this is just another phase of it. It's a total of 27 lots. We're not looking to have anything rezoned. It pretty much fits with the surrounding areas. There are some areas around it that haven't been developed, but what has is of similar development.

City planner, do you have staff comments?

Yes sir we do. We reviewed it. It does meet the requirements of the subdivision code. So we would recommend approval with one stipulations. So all new lots will be required to have a residential sprinkler system since there's only one way in or out of this proposed subdivision. You're talking about a fire sprinkler system? Yes.

Okay. Commissioners have any questions about this development? Anyone ready with a motion?

I move for approval with stipulations noted.

Mayor second?

Johnson second.

Everyone cast your vote. Okay preliminary subdivision has been approved.

Thank you.

Thank you. Next item we have on the agenda this is a sky point sub landing phase one. Preliminary subdivision had the proponent here for this item. If you would come up and state your name for the record.

Good afternoon. I'm Isaac Hamrick representing Mark Morris Construction and we're looking to begin a new subdivision right off of Kathleen.

Here.

There will be 20 lots and It was commented yesterday that we will be adding a traffic control measure, and we're still gonna work out what that is, but that'll be along that main road.

Sounds great.

City planner, staff comments? Yes, sir. Again, we have reviewed it, and it does meet all the requirements of the subdivision code, so we would recommend approval.

Okay. That being said, commissioners, you have any questions or comments?

So the only question I have, this is Monroe, with that comment that he made that there would be some traffic things done there. So when did that get entered or when would that be noted to where that's going to get done or would it be?

You'll see that on the final plan. It'll come in during the review process. We're still in the review process on it. Sorry, I forgot this is a preliminary. I forgot to say that. Sorry. And you will see it when they do the final plan on this.

Okay. Any other questions? Motion to approve. You ready?

Second.

I have a motion and a second. Everyone cast your vote, please. Okay. Preliminary subdivision is approved. Next item we have on the agenda, this is the final subdivision. This is White Trail Crossing Subdivision Phase Two. final proponent for this item. State your name for the record.

I'm Isaac Hamrick with Mark Morris. And this is, should be White Tail Crossing Phase 2. And we are seeing the final on 85 lines.

OK. City planner, you have comments on this?

Yes, sir. This is the final. Everything was designed and built according to subdivision code. So we would recommend approval.

OK. Commissioners, have any questions or comments on this one of the staff or applicant? Or I'll entertain a motion.

I would recommend approval.

Have a motion to approve. Do I hear a second?

No. Second.

OK. Commissioners, you ready?

If you would, cast your vote. OK. Your final subdivision has been approved. Thank you. Thank you. Now we'll move on to some rezonings. First rezoning we have for the evening is RZ 2608. The applicant, David Tapp, is requesting a rezoning of the property from R1 to PD at 1004 North Carraway Road. Do we have the proponent for this item here, please? Sir, state your name for the record.

Sure, David Tapp. I'm with Pediatrics Plus. We're looking at doing a PUD development with this lot. It's 17 acres. Our company, Pediatrics Plus, is starting to do what's called farmhouses for kids with autism. This will be our ninth one to do. We started out of our house in Conway, Arkansas, so we're not like a national chain that comes in here and, you know, is a one-stop shop and then leaves, right? What we do is we build about a 12,000-square-foot farmhouse. And I don't know, do you all have any pictures of the farmhouse that I sent, or can I show them what that's going to look like? Yeah, sure. If y'all want to pass this down the line. So we have about a 12,000 square foot farmhouse. It's for kids Monday through Friday with autism. They have to have a diagnostics of autism. We have a barn that we get two donkeys and two sheep. We get a chicken coop with about 30 chickens, a greenhouse and some raised flower beds and some gardens for the kids to participate in. growing vegetables. They use the eggs to make cupcakes if it's somebody's birthday. They're here Monday through Friday from about 8 o'clock to 4.30 to 6.30 during the day, not weekends, not Sundays, not at night, so it doesn't interfere with any of the neighbors. The reason why we are going through a PUD is we need this zoned commercial and agriculture. and so we if we get the commercial piece then we can't have the donkeys and the sheep for the kids or the chickens sometimes cities have ordinances on chickens so i get that but we have 17 acres in order not to interfere with with the neighbors with what we're doing we do a little bit of a low lighting we get with the city on what that requirement is but we try to do some lights for our staff in the winter time And when they go out to their cars, it gets a little bit dark. So we try to have one or two, three pole lights out there that shuts off about eight o'clock at night. So not to illuminate around the neighborhood. We have this as a farmhouse, as you can see. So it's designed like a house. So we try to do as least as possible to make it commercial looking. Drainage, curbs, gutters, stuff like that. We try not to do that. The city requires us to do it. We do it. but we try to think of other ways to do detention ponds, things like that to do the water flow and the watershed outside away from the parking lots and things like that. But we're excited to be in Jonesboro. We started in 2002. Jonesboro has been on our list to start a Pediatrics Plus here for probably 15 years. And we work with Arkansas State already with recruiting and getting therapists. So we're excited to hopefully be in Jonesboro pretty soon.

Do you have any staff comments on this one?

Yes, sir, we do. We have reviewed it. It does meet all six of the approval criteria. So we would recommend approval with the following stipulations that the proposed site shall satisfy all requirements of the city engineer, all requirements of the current stormwater drainage design manual and floodplain regulations regarding any new construction. A final site plan subject to all ordinance requirements shall be submitted, reviewed and approved by the planning department prior to any redevelopment of the property, and any change of view shall be subject to planning department approval in the future.

OK. And with this being a rezoning request, I must open up. Is there anyone here to give public input? And if none, then I'll open up for commissioners' questions, comments, motions. Little, I'll move to approve with stipulations. OK.

I have a motion. Tyler Styling, second.

OK. Cast your ballot, please. Okay, so you've been given a favorable recommendation by the Planning Commission, but you need to get on the City Council agenda before Thursday at 10 o'clock. Okay, that's good. Thank you. Okay, next item we have on the agenda. It's another rezoning request, RZ 2609. The applicant N.K. and Sons Investments is requesting a rezoning for the property from C3 to RM16 at 2038 North Carraway Street. Any other proponent for this item here?

Yes, Jim Grambling, Grambling Law Firm for the applicant. So after the pre-meeting yesterday, there were some concerns raised about density. And I've talked to my client a little bit about this, but I would like to request that we pull this for... until the next meeting and perhaps my client and I can confer and maybe come back with a compromise.

Commissioner? I need a motion to table and a second.

I'll make that motion to table it to the next meeting.

The next meeting, okay.

Do I hear a second?

No, second.

Is that enough time to do re-notification? Point of clarity, Jim. We're seeing if we need to re-notify.

I think we've done this in the past, and we hadn't.

I don't think we have had done it in the past. Well, I'm going to leave that up to you.

That's OK. I just was trying to. I didn't have the rule open in front of me, so I .

We did this in, oh, what was it? It was.

I mean, obviously, publication will go out about the agenda and things like that. Right, right, right.

I can't remember. We did this a couple of years ago, and we didn't.

I think I remember in the past not doing re-notification. You're correct. And I think it's normal for us to say it's to the next meeting. So I have a motion and a second on the floor. If you would, cast your ballot, cast your vote. Are you ready? Yes. OK. You have been tabled until the next meeting.

Thank you.

Thank you. City planner, staff, have anything else for the evening? Commissioners, any questions? Okay, adjourned.