Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

All right. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the town of Lexen Planning Commission meeting. This board is comprised of town residents who are appointed by the town council and serve without pay. This is a regular monthly meeting held on July 23rd, 2025. The meeting is being broadcast live on the town of Lexon YouTube channel. Speakers must sign in before 8 a.m. on the sign-in sheet posted by the door. Speakers will be called to the podium for the last for the list collected. Please state your name and your address for the record. Speakers are limited to three minutes. I am Jared Harelson, the vice chairman of the planning of the town of Lexon Planning Commission. Other planning commission members are Sammy Hendricks, Oscar. Good morning. I'm Brian Aik. Good morning, JT Stevenson.

Good morning, Betsy McCall. Thank you. Uh, Commissioner McCall, will you release the invitation, please? Thank you, Lord, for bringing us here today. We can talk about the future of Lexington. Uh, pray, Lord, that you will guide all of our discussions, all our words, all our thoughts, and our actions. They bring glory and honor to you in your precious name. Amen. Amen. If you'll stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic it stands nation indivisibley and justice for all.

Meet will now come to order. Uh any deletions? No deletions. Can I get approval for the minutes from move? That's me. Thank you. And moving to new business. We need excuse. I'm sorry. Have a second. Second. All right. Um now we're going All in favor? All in favor? Apologize. Unanimous. Thank you. Sorry I'm stepping in today. Um uh for new business, we have a reszoning for Lexon County Tax Map 004322-06-003 located at 411 North Lake Drive. Jessica,

good morning. I'm sorry. Hold on, chairman. Uh I would like to recuse myself due to some personal conflicts with All right. Thank you,

Jessica. 5J LLC is requesting to reszone the rear portion of Lexon of 411 North Lake Drive from protected residential to general commercial. The intent of this request is to align the zoning of the rear portion of the property with the front, which is currently used as an office. Reszoning will allow the entire parcel to be uniformally zoned for commercial use. Properties in the immediate vicinity are zoned protected residential, limited commercial, and general commercial. Great. I think last time we spoke, this is currently a split zoning. Correct. And I believe the applicant is here today.

Great. Would like to speak? Just a reminder, if you'll state your name and address for the record. Good morning, Dennis Johns. I say I recently purchased this property, I guess, a year and a half ago and didn't realize it was split zoning at the time. So, it just um makes common sense for the whole parcel to be zoned uh uniformly on that. Uh other than that, no other um immediate improvements to be made to the property at all. Okay. Any questions? Uh just make sure if you're aware if you do any kind of change of use business it's going to have to comply to the standard the current ordinance for buffering requirements.

Yes sir. Yes I'm probably aware that thank you. Yeah. Okay. Anyone signed up to speak? Um yeah first we have Mr. Corley. I was going to give them a minute.

Okay. Good morning. Uh, I'm Edie Harmon and have lived at 220 Mets Avenue in Lexington's historic Village District neighborhood for 60 years. The neighbors and I are here this morning to ask you not to approve the change of zoning for the vacant property next door to 306 Mets Avenue in our neighborhood from residential to commercial. 306 Mets is the home of Miss Carol Robertson, a retired school teacher. This would greatly impact Miss Robertson's home. Village District Neighborhood is Lexington's oldest residential neighborhood where the homes range in age from the 1800s to the 2000s. Our neighborhood is very desirable being in the downtown area of Lexington close to schools, churches, shopping, and restaurants. When a com home comes up for sale, it is sold in a matter of days. We want to preserve this neighborhood and feel it is in the town's best interest to do so by keeping commercial creep from invading our environs. Therefore, we are asking you to vote no on changing this property from residential to commercial. Thank you.

You want to speak as well?

Thank you, Mr. the vice chair and committee. Um I'm Chuck Corley. I live at 121 Berley Street and I'm surrounded by commercial properties on three sides. The museum directly in front of me and the old lighthouse to the north and then we had Sonic and all like that. And um the eye doctor is to my south and to my west. Um, while the comm the the museum is not a terrible bad neighbor, none of them are too much. Um, last Friday at 7:15, my neighbor Caroline Bryson called me and said, "There's a fellow outside in the parking lot at the lighthouse urinating." You know, you have that. Then you go down the street to where Sonic is. And I'm I like Sonic, but I'm glad that they've moved over across Columbia Avenue because when we live in a two-story house, and I was getting ready for work one morning and looked out and I thought that it was some cats out there playing in the backyard and it was rats. And I mean rats, like their body was that big. And one of the old feral cats that's in the neighborhood came and attacked it. And it had a time getting him. But anyway, you don't realize all the little things that you have when you disturb that property through there. Um if it's woods, you know, that's where they all go. Um any kind of vermin because there's no place else for them to go. Sunday night whenever I got out of the truck, um I went to walk around and go in our in the back door and a deer, a dough ran right in front of me and we're in town. I mean, you know, not even three or four blocks from right here. And um, of course, you have the

traffic issue and that that sort of thing. Um, the whenever you say you can't do this, you can't do that. A lot of times people whenever it turns into commercial property, they don't really know all of that, I guess. Um, like the doctor's office is not supposed to have an egress on Burley Street is my understanding. And that's good, but people come out of their parking lot onto our street every day. And you know, we have a lot of cut through traffic in our neighborhood anyway. We're getting some newer, younger people around that have children. And I hate, you know, to think what people could do, the accidents that could happen with children there. um especially at the museum because they get bus loads literally bus school bus loads full of children every at least once or twice a week. Um, so I just don't think that, you know, we've we've come a long ways and this board has helped us a whole lot keep our neighborhood as a a viable neighborhood and whenever we have lots of people that come through and they always are so happy to see some part of Lexington preserved and I hate to see, you know, if the split zoning has been working this long, you know, and and if it goes to commercial, then who knows If if he decides tomorrow, the next owner to sell to McDonald's or to somebody like that, if they meet the criterion that the town has up, they can go in there if this is reszone to commercial. If it's not, then it still gives us a buffer up at the end of Mets Avenue. It's a lot of commercialization up there. If you've ever stopped or driven down,

I'm going have to wrap I give you like just a few seconds wrap it up. I have to cut you off though. If you ever been up and down Mets Avenue, you know what traffic is there. And I think if you reszone this and it was commercial at any time in the future when this gentleman leaves, um I think it'll be a detriment to our neighborhood. Thank you. Is there anyone else?

Good morning. I'm Carol Robertson. and I live at 306 right next door to the property and I understand why Mr. John's is requesting for that whole track. However, I do have some concerns. I'm concerned about what type of business it might be. depending on what the business is would certainly um add more noise, traffic, um less privacy for me. Can I understand it can be an office, it can be retail, or it can be even fast food. Um I'm wondering will it add more traffic to Met since there's already a driveway that cuts all the way through. Um, we already like like both have already said, we already have a lot of traffic um on Mets Avenue. It's a cut through. I understand that as well, but it's not safe to walk on our street. When I was taking my grandchildren down to St. Stevens for um for their morning program, I was scared to walk with them down Mets Avenue. There's not a sidewalk there. and our street is falling apart down there at the creek. It's it's in constant need of repair. So, more traffic would would just mean more tearing up of our road, more speeders, more drivers talking on their phones, not looking where they're driving, etc., etc. Um, I'm concerned. Will it truly provide 100% opaque screening over to my property, which I understand it was supposed to require. I'm on one side of K. Bueno's parking lot, so I hear cars. I hear talking, I hear horns beeping, I hear the garbage

trucks, uh, I hear the delivery trucks. So, I'm not totally 100% screened from them. And then in my backyard, there's the restaurant. So, this would add another something that would have a lot of maybe it would have a lot of traffic. With the property on the other side of it already commercial, um my concern is will both of these properties be combined for one larger commercial track to put something else in there? Um with garbage trucks coming for the dumpster early mornings, is it going to wake me up? I'm retired. I taught at Lexington Elementary for 35 years and then five more at White Null Elementary. So, I'm enjoying my retirement and would like that to continue. I plan on staying in my home until my dying day. I love this area. I love Lexington. Um, yes. Um, will any said garbage create order odors like the dumpster in the Cable Winnow parking lot? Can I have just few more seconds? 30 seconds.

Few more seconds. I'll just read it real fast. If it stays residential, is it going to be zoned for only is it currently zoned for one residence or is it a multi-resident zoning? And will large delivery trucks be in a constant parade? Uh because I understand Mets is limited to large to large trucks, which that doesn't keep them out. Um it's our neighborhood. I'm going to ask our neighbors who are here to support keeping it residential to just raise their hand or stand up or the all of us are not going to speak but we we appreciate your consideration for keeping it as is. Thank you.

If we could just keep it to three minutes we have some more projects as well. So appreciate it.

I'll be quicker than that. I just wanted to reiterate what my neighbors have said. I live in the neighborhood. It's our neighborhood. It's where we live. It's where we play. It's where we walk. We have older people in our neighborhood. Um, we have Mr. BS, Joe Bolts, who rides his scooter through the neighborhood. We have a young lady at the end of the street who has a motorized wheelchair. She rides through the neighborhood. Mint Avenue is not safe. There's nowhere to walk. there. Um, ditches on both sides of the road coming down already. More traffic will make it unsafe. And it's where we live and where we play. And I think that we should expect that our neighborhoods would be a safe place for us to live. And more traffic, I think, will make it worse. And our roads, as they've mentioned, are already in bad shape. And more traffic would add to that. So, I'd like for you to vote next. Thank you.

Thank you. Great. Uh, yeah. seen a lot of discussion. So I just want to make sure some clarification. So I mentioned to the applicant earlier uh what the if he does a change of use about buffers but Jessica you also can explain what also it's not just the buffer requirements that are current ordinance if they were to do a change of use. I think somebody mentioned about egress and stuff.

Correct. So correct. So with any um change of use we evaluate the property and look at access points and make sure that they're up to standards. If not, um, you know, transportation improvements or access improvements could be required. They have to meet all parking standards, setback standards, architectural appearance standards, uh, land development standards. So, there's a lot of review that takes place should they change the use, um, from an office or even to expand the commercial to the rear portion of the property. Right. Thank you. All right. Not yet. They have to vote.

Hang on. Uh, do I have a recommendation? Mr. Chairman, I'd like to, if if it's okay, ask the applicant a question if I could. Mr. John's, uh, appreciate you being here this morning. Based on the neighbors, uh, concerns they've expressed this morning. And and if since there's no specific plan of of change of use for this parcel, would you consider withdrawing until there's a specific plan for the property? And let me put you on the spot. I guess I have, but yeah. Uh they definitely have concerns. They've lived here a long time and I think that has some value.

Yeah. One thing I'd like to bring up, it is besides the one residential portion that the owner u spoke of, the entire block is zoned, you know, the commercial zoning except one small corner over um behind the old Mitchell house. So the entire block, so it almost appeared to be almost like an oversight possibly when they did the zoning years ago. I'm not sure, but like I said, the restaurant, parking lot, everything's around it. No, no intended change at all right now. Um the parking is sufficient on any everything else. Um I I guess it's hard to reconsider. We've um you know dealt with this a number of months now and we just kind of like to move forward with it. I feel like at this point and if there's any use change I guess we'll go through this again also or any definite uh change in use

if there's a change in use that'll be handled at staff staff level. Mhm.

Okay. Okay. Thank you. Do I have a recommendation? Okay. I have a recommendation to move forward. Mr. Chairman, I would agree with Mr. Damik uh at this point in time. If there's no plan use for the property at this time, then I would uh recommend not to approve. If if and when he wants to come back and and sell it to or establish a a business there, it has to go through the process again. So, I would recommend no reasonzoning.

Okay. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor? All oppose. All right. Yep.

Welcome back. Moving on to um item number two. uh annexation of Lexon County tax map 004200-01-00001-121 located at 631 Old Chapen Road. Jessica, just give me a second. I'm gonna wait a minute as I clear the room.

You ready?

Okay. Lexon County Recreation and Aging Commission owns approximately 16.21 21 acres on the corner of Old Chapen Road and Old Cherokee Road and has petitioned to annex the property. A public park is being constructed on the site. Properties in town near this one are zone limited commercial and protected residential 2, Old Chapen Road and Old Cherokee Road are classified as a collector road. The property is shown on the future land use map as suburban residential area. The comprehensive land use plan describes the general character of suburban residential areas as low density single family detached housing that provides sidewalks and streets that connects to parks, nearby commercial, schools, and other civic uses. For the proposed project to be compliant with the zoning ordinance, the property should be zoned with limited commercial zoning.

Okay. Anyone here to speak on the park? Okay. Anyone like to speak for or against the park to sign up? Nope. Okay. Uh do I have a recommendation? I'll move approve approval. Do I have a second? Second.

Any discussion? All in favor of right hand. Unanimous. Thank you. [Applause] Moving on to item three, annexation of Lexon County tax map 005300-01- 014-006- 064- 026 and 013 located at 300 block road. Jessica

Benjamin Satcher Jr. and Satcher Properties LLC own 191.08 08 acres on five separate parcels and have petitioned to annex the property. A 308 unit subdivision is being on the properties in town near this winter zone limited commercial. Bar road is classified as a collector road. West Main Street is classified as an arterial road. The property is shown on the future land use map as a suburban residential area. The comprehensive land use plan describes the general character of suburban residential areas as lowdensity single family detached housing on large lots. For the proposed project to be compliant with the zoning ordinance, the property should be zoned protected residential. The recommended classification of bar road should be a collector road and West Main Street should be an arterial road.

All right. Applicant here to speak. Do you uh actually won't we wait till applicants speak on the site plan? This is just the annexation. Correct. So is there anyone here to speak uh on behalf of the annexation? Specific on annexation though. Okay. Well, I'm mostly speaking about site. Okay. Uh, do I have a recommendation?

Any recommendation for the annexation of Lexon County tax map 0053000-1- 00014? So move. Have a second. Second. All those in favor, raise your right hand. All right. All right. Um, item number four, sketch plan approval for a new subdivision located in the 300 block of Bar Road. Jessica.

All right. Heritage Homes is requesting sketch plan approval for a new subdivision on 191.08 acres located in the 300 block of Bar Road. The proposal consists of 308 larger lot single family detached homes with an average lot size of 7,946 square ft. The allowable density of residential development is determined by the zoning classification of the property. Properties with protected residential zoning are permitted up to units per acre. This development will have an overall density of 1.61 units per acre. Protected residential zoning requires a minimum lot size of 7,260 square ft. This proposal meets that requirement. The proposed lot size range from a minimum of 7,260 ft to a maximum of 9,000 square ft. The submitted plan does not provide the proposed setbacks for the project. However, protected residential zoning requires a 30-foot setback from the front property line and a 10-ft setback from the rear and side property lines. The town's land development ordinance requires that at least 17% of the area be dedicated as open space. Based on this standard, a minimum of 32.5 acres of open space is required. The proposed plan includes 72.99 acres of open space excluding any pond areas. The plan includes a 50-foot landscape buffer along Bar Road as required by the landscape and tree ordinance. An amenity area is proposed featuring a pool, clubhouse, pickleball courts, and several fire fire pit seating areas. The plan also includes a trail system that traverses the length of the property and aligns with a master trail plan being developed for the area. The code requires a multi-use trail to be at least 8 ft wide with an additional 8ft clearance on both sides and constructed with asphalt or concrete. I'd like to mention that last night they also confirmed that the ponds would um have docks and be able to be used for fishing

as well as an amenity. Access to the development will be provided by entrances from Bar Road and West Main Street. There will also be an emergency access drive from the amenity area to Wingh Hill Drive. A traffic impact analysis was not submitted with the proposal, but an analysis will be provided prior to issuance of a grading permit. The town will obtain an independent engineering review of the traffic impact analysis upon receipt. Preliminary discussions with the developer indicate that improvements will be required at the entrance on Bar Road, at the intersection of Bar Road and Wildlife Road, and at the intersection of West Main Street and Bar Road. The project is located on the site that is identified on the town's future land use map as suburban residential. The general characteristics of suburban residential areas are described in the comprehensive plan as lowdensity single family detached housing on large lots. Suburban residential development should include sidewalks and streets that connect to parks, nearby commercial, schools, and other civic uses. This area strives to integrate with the larger streets and corridor networks, particularly the expanding local and regional sidewalk and trail system. This subdivision will include public maintained local roads. The proposed plan includes sidewalks interior to the subdivision. Additionally, this project will include roads constructed over pond dams which will not be accepted by the county for maintenance.

Great. And I think um last time we discussed there's also going to be a public work session. Is that correct? Or hearing. Yes. I believe that the applicant plans to go before town council at their next work session to have discussion and that they were also hoping to hold a community community um workshop or meeting prior to first reading. Great. Thank you. Um yes, our work session I invite everyone that was not in attendance to go back and review it as well. They pretty had a fairly 30-minute in-depth um discussion, answered a lot of questions during our work session as well and that's available on our YouTube.

Yep. Thank you to be to revisit uh is applicant here like to speak and kind of high level what was discussed last night for the public I guess. Yeah, absolutely. So, um I won't try to rehash everything we we discussed last night, but uh thank you again. Can you state your name again? Yeah, Chip Morrison, vice president of acquisition for Meritage Homes, 701 Brookfield Parkway.

Um thank you Jessica for highlighting two of the points. I just want to rehash. Yes, we absolutely do plan on attending the council workshop. Uh we're targeting the August 18th workshop. Uh in addition to that, we are trying to get letters out here in the next week and a half to the local residents to see if we can get a community meeting on the books before that workshop. Of course, if that doesn't quite work out, it'll be immediately after. Um but yes, we absolutely do intend on holding a a community meeting to to discuss things with the local residents. Um, the only other item that I wanted to to talk about or at least rehighlight uh was maybe some confusion that we saw from the public uh via social media last night just about schools. Again, just to clarify my point last night, it'll be 36 students added over the six-year lifespan of this deal starting 2028 through 2033 be students per grade K through 12. So, I just wanted to clarify that um in case I misspoke last night. Outside of that, um, of course we are here to answer any additional questions that weren't answered from last night or just to review things uh that you guys might want to look

further. I think um there's some questions that came up to staff about the dams. I don't if you can address as far as Yeah, as far as dam crossings will um I you know I'll actually defer to our engineer name. Good morning. Good to see you all again. Kayla Joiner with Seaman Whitide 701 Easley Bridge Road, Greenville. Um, regarding the dams, was the question specifically about maintenance and ownership is what we wanted to address there? And I think to bringing them up to spec.

Yes. Yeah, that's correct. So, Meritage is actually already underway with some geotech testing to just evaluate the existing condition of those dams and we absolutely assume that those are going to need to be improved. The intent going in is that those are going to be reinforced. They're going to be up to code. will have to go through all inspections, you know, prior to paving roadway to ensure that those are fully stabilized and those will be held by the HOA rather than passed off to the county for adoption. Okay,

speakers, we have anyone Thank you. We have here to uh sign up to speak on Yes. Good morning. Good morning.

Uh Steve McMullen. uh live at 157 Cottagewoods Trail. Um our we have 6 acres that butts up to this after property. So um just a lot of concerns. Um we were here last time this, you know, there was proposal and uh one of the major concerns, you know, there's a lot of wildlife in the area. The ponds, the pond dams, um are a huge concern for us. So my neighbor with me, she has a pond, but crammed in. I know they're coming in with this proposal. They're from Greenville and they're not local. I'm not trying to be any way, but we live here. This is our town and uh I I just feel like that that we really need to take into consideration um the amount of homes that are trying to go in there.

Thank you. Thank you for your time.

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. Um before we go to the next person, Randy, can you touch on uh when the traffic um is Randy? I thought I saw Randy when the traffic studies or the times and I think also mentioned about um he had a question about just just in general when we do traffic studies peak times kind of broad um view of it and I think he also mentioned a lip. I know a study hadn't been done on this particular property but in general I think part of the question was just when do traffic studies what they evaluate peak times and stuff trips. So Randy Edwards, transportation director for town Lexon. Um, generally speaking, say generally like it's generally accepted, all traffic studies are done during peak hours, during school times. So we don't allow, you know, collections on Sundays and on non-school operations. So it is just generally accepted that we look for a normal case. We don't also look for the worst case, you know, we look for what's normal so that we can in fact evaluate what normal conditions are and have a developer or ourselves, you know, build towards those um you know, mitigate those trips. For clarity, um this project is subject to the local transportation improvement plan which was adopted in 2018. Um which in fact identified wildlife at bar road as a intersection that would be impacted by additional trips. So they are looking at that specifically um due to the change in access um because of the previous you know plan that didn't go through. Uh this plan provides access to US1. So there are in fact um having to look at um the movements out there at Bar Road and um West Main Street. So um again the LTI is is our guiding document um but

it's not restricted to those locations. So the traffic impact study that they are currently in process of finishing up has in fact incorporated numerous intersections that were reviewed by myself as well as SC DOT. Um and then we will um as I clarified last night uh the town has agreed to um we will hire our own third party engineer to do an evaluation or review of that study when it's complete. Great. Thank you.

Yep. One more question before you speak. Sorry. And back to the dam question. Uh DHCK will also be involved with with most dams as well. Is correct. Correct. Thank you.

Good morning. Theresa Ellisor 138 Hilly Rock Road. I do want to mention traffic studs are important during school hours. our tool set was in session. Lex new one has not gone back yet. So, I just wanted to mention that they go back in about two weeks. Um, thank you for opportunity to speak this morning. I appreciate the improvements made to this proposed site plan, especially relocating the second entrance to Highway 1 rather than connecting it to a wellestablished older neighborhood street which would have made it frequently used as a cutthrough. It's clear that the developer has considered previous concerns and that is effort is appreciated. This is a special piece of property and careful planning is needed to preserve this unique character, especially with homes overlooking ponds and beautiful green space near town. However, there was no mention of housing styles or building materials. I encouraged the planning commission to address this as quality and variation in home design will help the development blend better with the with the landscape. I reviewed the packet and listened to the work session. I heard this area falls within the suburban residential designation which aims for larger lots and lower density. The developer expressed a desire to collaborate and acknowledge concerns about density. However, the plan increases the number of homes by 41, excuse me, compared to the previous plan me presented last year largely by reducing lot sizes which increases density in keeping with the town's comprehensive plan and as mentioned by director of planning and building Jessica Library in the news 19 article. dated just yesterday. This particular development is in the suburban residential area which aims for larger lots, lower density neighborhoods. The proposed range of lot sizes is 7,260 to 9,000 ft. The proposed average lot size is 7,946 ft, which is only 686 square ft or 9% more than the minimum required. So,

there would not be many 9,000t lots. Therefore, it does not appear to keep with the intent of the town's residential suburban area of larger lot sizes and is substantially less than the 10,890 ft required by Lexington County residential zoning should it not be annexed. This property is currently in the county but is petitioning for annexation into the town. The county and the town are working together on residential zoning alignment and a central overlay residential district currently. I would urge planning commissioners to recommend the developer increase lot sizes keeping with the intent of the comprehensive plan as adopted by town council and to stay consistent with this collaborative effort between town and county. Keep in mind if the average lot size were to increase to 9,000 square ft, the total home count would be around 271 instead of 308, reducing the burdens on infrastructure while still providing an exceptional development with wonderful amenities. Lastly, I understand that developments over 300 homes require three entrances per town zoning due to safety concerns. This plan includes two entrances and one emergency access. I recommend verifying whether that emergency access will be usable by residents and whether it will be usable by residents and counted as a required third entrance. I recommend that county that planning commission take the necessary time to seek clarity on the concerns I have mentioned prior to making a recommendation to council. Thank you again for your time and consideration.

Thank you. Randy, would you like to address if I just heard some discrepancies with the school in session? We that's not would be considered normal. Just a quick clarification that we actually, you know, work on traffic year round and so but we do in fact collect the data during normal school uh hours to make sure that we but the study's being done over the summer but the study work is being done. So, just want to make that clarification that the I don't remember the specific week, but the the traffic counts were collected back in April during a normal school day. So, thank you.

Um, I would like to point out that we do not have architectural appearance standards for residential homes. So, that is not included in our evaluation. Um, I would also like to point out that while I understand that the county has certain regulations regarding minimum lot size, our regulations are 7,260 square ft and the plan beats that. It is also my understanding that while it's noted that Winghill um drive is an emergency access, it's not going to be gated. Um, I think it's going to be open. Is that correct? It is going to be open. So, it does count as it's not blocked off.

Okay. And uh also uh there was additional um property added to this from last time. So the size of the property is different. I believe the um last submitt was around 160 so acres and we're at 191 now. Correct. Great. And uh just for clarification on the planning commission doesn't do architecture review or with we just based on the site plan. So just from clarification. All right. You have anybody else? Mr. Hudson. Good morning. Morning. You look under the dictionary on the definition of chicken legs, you get to see it this morning.

First of all, I want to appreciate and tell you how much I appreciate your service. Daryl Hudson, 156 colors, Pond Lane, Lexon County Council, District 3. This is in my district.

You have a tough job and I understand that and I appreciate your time. I really do. Um, I have a few concerns that I would like to discuss. I don't know if I can do it in three minutes, but I'll try. First of all, last night the presentation was very excellent. I watched it on YouTube. Hope Jim is sincere about his his feeling to get away from the national builder he worked at that I had so much problems with that built box and left us with the problems. We get the phone calls on the weekends and you know what I'm talking about. Number one, we have 4 ines of rain last night at my house, which is right there where they live. I asked the planning commission asked for more than BMPs around the ponds have advanced BMPPS because uh 4 in of water in that period of time on those ponds will have a direct effect. I'm very familiar with Mr. Satcher and his family forever. Mr. Satch would roll over in his grave today to know that he was doing this with these many houses. But Mr. Satcher Jr. is a friend of mine also and he has the right to sell the property and do what he wants to do with it. So with that said, it's your job hopefully to I I made a oath to serve and protect. I hope you preserve and protect the same way. The roads were mentioned last night from 22 or 24 feet. The National Fire Safety says they have to have a minimum of 20 ft. So I would suggest you go to 24 ft. I would also suggest that you would encourage no street parking at all because the houses that they were built now right now are the old ordinances as y'all know. I came in in 1997 or two 20 whatever 17 preaching 4 houses an acre. We're now seeing the building of the old ordinance. the new ordinances will just start. And I do believe that we can preserve

the quality of Lexon County and not give our souls to the national builders who will drop their product on us and leave the county council and city council with the problems they leave us with. Lastly, I would really and I've told after the things I'm telling you now, Junior, you know, I think the walking is great. The parks are great, and that's what we need. Sidewalks. I'm a proponent of sidewalks, even though the county council is not big proponents of sidewalks, but when they plant trees, we'll make sure the trees are away from the sidewalk because the trees create a major financial burden on the county because the trees grow into the sidewalks which go into the road. With that said, uh we can't stop you. I just ask you to protect our community like it was your backyard. Thank you, sir. Thank you. I will say we are residents as well, so it is our backyards, but thank you. Uh, a couple things you you mentioned. I this just comments. I don't know if you said you watch YouTube channel last night. Uh, Commissioner Hendricks did bring up um the street parking. We're hoping the the HOA does take that under consideration. We actually mentioned that. Uh, and I think with our new tree and landscape ordinance, we've addressed a sidewalk issue with with trees just recently because we we have the problem. I actually have the problem in my neighborhood. I know exactly what you're talking about. So they this would fall under that new ordinance. We have particular setbacks for the sidewalks and trees.

That is requ correct. And we also have some um root barrier control type things that are required as well. Um so we will be starting landscape review of any new subdivision. So this would fall under that. Y and y'all did an excellent job last night. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I do have a question about the ponds. The ponds keep getting brought up. Is there a concern about flooding the neighborhood? Um, so I would ask the developer, I know a lot of these ponds are existing. Is there a hydraulic study to to show what the ponds, you know, how they're going to perform during different storm events?

Morning,

Jerry Livingston with Seaman Whitide. Um yes, like you're saying, lots of concerns about the ponds and it's our full intention to be in compliance with every storm water design regulation um with every project we do this and of course it won't get approved and even go through permitting if we cannot meet flow requirements and volume requirements. So in this case certainly our greatest intention is to preserve the natural condition. We won't be treating any quality or quantity in any sense with those existing ponds. We leave those untouched. We introduce our full scale uh detention pond BMPs with a working outlet structure and everything that would mitigate all kinds of flows, reduce flooding from the condition that is that is existing. So really what we're looking at in the end is a improved overall condition, less flooding than what we're seeing right now untouched. So our general scope is we want to leave it better than than what we what we found it as in terms of flooding.

Thank you. Yeah, there are very strict going to what he said, there are very strict storm water quality requirements in the town and the county of Lexington. No one else. Great. All right. Would I have a recommendation?

So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor raise your hand. unanimous. All right, with that, Mr. Chairman, I have a a brief comment if I could related to this project and and I appreciate Mr. Hudson's

expressing his concerns and I know they're accurate. Um, these folks have done a lot of work and spent a lot of money uh trying to uh come up with a plan that's acceptable to the community. uh they have indicated they will have a public hearing or forum, whatever you would call it, uh before it goes to town council. Our vote this morning is a recommendation. Um so I think there's a chance that uh and I can't speak to this. It's not my project, but um I think it leaves the door open for further dialogue about what happens. And we appreciate the concerns of the community. Uh and we also appreciate the the professionalism that you all have shown you know through the process and and last night in your presentation.

Great. Thank you. Uh do I have a motion to adjourn? So move. Great. Thank you for watching the town of Lexon Planning Commission. Please note we cannot partake in any outside communications about agenda items. If you have any additional questions after the meeting, please contact the municipal clerk. On behalf of the town of planning, Lexing planning commission and staff, I wish you a good day. Thank you.