Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

I hereby call this meeting um this this February 17th, 2026 meeting of the Lancaster County Planning Commission to order. Clerk, would you Mara, would you please call roll? Jason Cavalier. Here. Yokim Kuritan here. Lynette Henson here. Judiana Tinkllinberg here. Michelle Richards here. Sheila Henson here. Francis Lou.

Thank you. Um will the clerk please make note on the record that a quorum of the planning commission is present. Public notice of the meeting including the meeting agenda has been posted the required length of time in the lobby of the county administration building and on the county website. and the news media was notified of the meeting place and time. Please welcome everyone to the Lancaster County Planning Commission meeting. Please make sure that all of your electronic devices are silenced and please abide by the posted rules at this meeting. Um, a signup sheet was provided at the entrance of the room. If you haven't already, please add your name to the list for the relevant agenda item and and you will be called to speak at the appropriate time. Please rise and join us in the pledge of allegiance and opening prayer by Commissioner Henson. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Gracious heavenly father, I thank you so much for this opportunity for us to be together today. Lord, I thank you for this beautiful day. I thank you for everything that you give us, Lord. Lord, I just pray that you be with us tonight. Uh be with us with us as members, as one, and also as unified. Um that we make the right decisions. I just pray for discernment. I pray for our eyes to see and our ears to hear, Lord. And it's in Jesus precious holy name I pray these things. Amen. Thank you, ma'am. Commissioners, you have before you the agenda for tonight's meeting. Do I hear a motion? Motion to approve.

Second. Um, we have a motion and a second to approve the agenda. Show of hands in favor of approving the agenda as prevent presented. Passes six to zero. Um, the next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from the January 20th, 2026 regular meeting. Um, do I hear a motion? I have an amendment for that. Okay. Do we need to have the motion in the second before we do the discussion? Probably. Yes. So, I can have a motion. I make a motion to approve. Second.

Second. All right. Any discussion? Yes. I have an amendment. Yes. to the election of the officers for 2026 uh for the chair and the vice chair. I abstained. I did not oppose. I did not vote for or against. Thank you for that clarification. And on top of that amendment, there's another section here where we had a very long-winded discussion regarding um my complaint about accuracy on the record and that is not reflected in the minutes at all. Okay. Do you remember when we had that conversation?

Some somewhere about 13:30ish in the in the video. I that was in regards to the November 18th, 2025 minutes. Yeah. But it was part of that meeting. I'm not trying to amend the minutes from November 18th. But it was we had that discussion while we I think while we were approving these minutes. So you said about what time stamp?

13:30ish somewhere in there. Some before 14 on up through 16. And I just like the record to reflect the the conversation accurately. Doesn't have to have substance. Just All right. So, you're asking to have um do you want to submit something to be just a discussion about my complaint to the county

and the uh county attorney, myself, and most of the planning commission. All right. So, any other discussions or questions, Mr. Chair? Yes. So, to clarify, are you making a motion to amend the minutes for January 20th, 2026? Yes. Okay. So, Mr. Chair, you have a motion on the floor to amend Excuse me. Make a motion to amend.

No, Mr. Cavaler made the motion. So, you have a motion on the floor to amend. Correct. So, go forth. Yes.

I was waiting to see if anybody else had any other comments. So, um, we have a motion to amend, uh, the minutes for the January 20th, 2026, uh, regular board meeting in section 2 2.0 election of officers to change Jason Cavalier from opposed to abstain for voting for the chair and for the vice chair. And then under item 4.0, 0 approval of minutes for the November 18th, 2025 regular meetings. He would like to have um additional language included in this summarizing the discussion held between Commissioner Cavalier and the county attorney between approximately 1330 minutes and 16 minutes. Is that exact enough? Okay, very good. So, we have to vote on the amendment. Okay. Um, do I have a motion to accept the minutes as amended?

You have a motion. You need a second. Second it. So, all in favor of approving the minutes as amended, just discussed. Show of hands. Sorry, I didn't give the verb. Passes six to zero. Next item on the agenda is approval of the minutes from the February 5th, 2026 workshop minutes. Motion to approve. Second. Any discussion? Show of hands to approve the minutes as presented. Show of hands. Miss Sheila. I wasn't here.

Okay. Well, then you're you can you're abstaining then. Okay. So, um four five votes four and one abstaining. though you do know we did change our procedures that you can vote on things even if you weren't here. Oh, no. I didn't know that. Yes. Okay. Well, thank you. I I'll remember that. All right. So, um we will now consider ourselves into citizens comments. You didn't hand me anything, so I'm assuming no citizens comments. Oops. didn't have any emails, did we? I didn't see any.

No, ma'am. There's no one signed up for public comment and we had no emails over these subjects.

Thank you, ma'am. So yes, um, no one has signed up to speak, so we will now consider ourselves out of citizens comments and move on to the next item on the agenda. Um, uh, public hearing items for recommendation to council. Item number CU 2025 2644. Um, yes, this person on Fort Mill Highway Thank you. Do you want me to keep trying or you want to click it? Okay. Okay. Good evening, commissioners. So, I'll be presenting this conditional use to you. Uh this is for a a tenant ship for a facility on Highway 160. Uh listed there. That's an aerial map. So you can see in the teal outline where it's located. This is for a minor automotive repair shop. It's currently zone general business and your future land use designation is growth area which you'll see on the next slide. Um here is an aerial view of your zoning map. So you can see where it's highlighted in that general business. Um and your you've got a couple of transitional districts and neighborhood districts surrounding it. And then you've got your use chart, your use chart summary or your summary of uses, excuse me, and your abbreviated zoning districts in that chart below. And then because this is a conditional use, there are some additional conditional use application provisions that have to be met as well as applicable use provisions that have to be met. Those are attached in the staff report. uh they are titled let's see applicable UDO provisions and conditional use procedure requirements and that's attached to your report so that you can see you know whether those

things were met at the presubmitt or via the application but the the responses to those requirements are are listed in that report if you wanted to review those and then there's an aerial of your future land use map from the comp plan and I know the neighborhood is a little big so it kind of looks like that's neighborhood up there It's actually just that little tan sliver to the left hand side. The rest of it is growth area and then just a smidge of PDD on the right side and a little bit of neighborhood kind of on the other side there. That's a picture of the entrance to the facility on 160. Um the application was reviewed by the TRC. I will note um and it is in the staff report that zoning provided a conditional use because uh only because an upfit permit will be needed to put in the lift into their unit uh to pick the cars up to do like oil changes and stuff and they'll need an upfit permit to do that. Nothing to do with any sort of compliance issues. Everything else was fine. And I do want to make note that this review was routed to SC DOT and the district, the water district, water district, and they their notations uh were that no review was done because this was a pre-existing structure that was not making any physical modifications. And staff recommends approval. And I'm here for any questions.

Anyone have any questions? It's warm up here. I'm never going to disagree with you. I'm always warm in here. Look, I'm bundled up and I'm shedding. Do we have any questions or any concerns? Um All right. Um so, thank you.

All right. Um so um this is the citizens opportunity to address the planning commission. No one has signed up lost my pen. No one has signed up to speak. So we will consider ourselves out of public hearing. So, um, we have any questions or concerns? We make a motion to do the been so long since we haven't had public speaker.

Yes, ma'am. You would need to make the motion. Yes. I said I had to catch up with myself. So, um I was behind. Um so, um so commissioners, we have before us item number CU 2025 2644 um conditional use permit for a facility on Fort Mill Highway. Uh do I hear a motion? I'll make a motion to approve. Second.

So, any comments or concerns? All right. Um, so, um, as I said, we have before us CU 2025 2644, um, for a facility on Fort Mill Highway. Um, can I have a roll call vote, please?

Jason Cavalier, four. Yokim Kuritan, four. Lynette Henson, four. Juniana Tinkllinberg Michelle Richards or

Sheila Henson R. Um by a vote of 6 to zero. This motion passes. Um this item will be referred up to county council for final decision and the applicant will be informed of the date and the time. Um, we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is a non-hering item. NRN 20260011 new road names for February.

Good evening, commissioners. This application is for road names for the Asbury development. they have are at this point moving ahead with their civil construction plans and so they submitted names along with those plans. Uh Sandra has reviewed those. I have attached to the packet the road name standards and um also the road name the meanings of the different um suffixes as you had asked to have that in front of you. So I have both of those attached along with the application. The application has met all requirements. Sandra has reviewed and finds no conflict with existing names. Staff recommends approval. Here for questions.

Any questions? Thank you, ma'am. Uh, so, um, commissioners, you have before you item number NRN 20260011, new road names for the February group. U, do I hear a motion? Make a motion. Second. Um, show of hands for approval. Motion passes 6 to zero. So, next item on the agenda is status of tabled items, recommended, deferred, held. Miss April.

Um, thank you, M. Mr. Chair. Um, these items have not been requested by the applicant to come back at this time. Um, we will notify you when they do, when they are ready.

Thank you. All right. Um so um other discussion of the planning commission CIP projects. That's me too. Um so as you guys discussed at your last workshop um we had two submissions for the CIP projects. There were some minor changes through that discussion. Um the items that you have at your desk, the highlighted areas are what we had changed in the discussions to input. We have discussed with budget the proper way to get these formally in the system and we will be taking these items and inputting them into the system with the changes. Um tonight, if you see any issues or other language that you want added, we can add that now because we'll be inputting these in the next few days. Um, also it will be up to the commission here to prioritize these as your number one and number two. Once again, we'd like to thank Miss Kurigan for her time and effort to prepare these and to get them into the system.

Thank you. I have a question. May I ask? Yes. So, in prioritizing them, is that something we do tonight or are we waiting tonight? Okay. Thanks. The the goal was to have prioritize your top five. So, since you don't have five, we could we're sending them both regardless. So, if you don't want to pri prioritize them, you don't have to because we're under the limit. But if you wanted to to put a priority over one or the other to when we submit them over to the full body, um no matter what you do, they will be added into that group that you will see back in April.

Yeah, like I said, this is this is a new process. We're just this is our first time going through this. So really there there is no real need to prioritize them now that I I think about it because you're only sending two. They're going to be put in the list and then you come back with the whole group to prioritize the whole group. So um the biggest thing tonight would be if you guys glance over the changes that staff has made to make sure that that articulated what you wanted in there. And then Jennifer will be um she's been kind of volunttoled to work on this project of inputting them into the system to get them finalized for budget. So I appreciate her help on getting those done too.

Thank you all for the revisions and thank you Jennifer for inputting the information. So, if everybody's good with what's in there, we can just move on and we'll give those in there and you'll see them again in April for your formal prioritization list. Anybody have any questions or concerns? I do. Um, this is tangential so part just so I'll just in case I really do want to put a priority on it, but did the council by chance vote on the subcommittee for workforce housing last night? We didn't have a meeting last night.

Oh, it was last week and no, I think I told you guys at the workshop we had to pull it because it wasn't in a a form ready to be presented. They did have pre-aggenda today and it should be on the next meeting for first reading. Okay. So, next week. Thank you.

All right. It's a miracle. It's 6:20. Do I unless there's anything else. Do I hear a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Second motion. Oh, I'm sorry. We have to vote. Yes. All right. Six to zero.