Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the town election and planning commission meeting. This board is comprised of town residents who are appointed by the town council and serve without pay. This is our regular monthly meeting and the meeting is being broadcast live on the town of Lexon's YouTube channels. Speakers must sign up before 8:00 a.m. on the sign-in sheets posted at the door. Speakers will be called to the podium off the list collected. Please state your name, address, and speak into the microphone. Speakers are limited to three minutes and a timer will be set. I am Frank Barry, the chairman of the town election and planning commission. Other planning commission present members are Sammy Hendricks. Rosco Kaufman.

Good morning. I'm Brian Amy. Good morning. I'm Jamie Fe. Good morning. I'm Joe Robertson. Good morning. JT Stevenson. That it. All right. At this time, I would ask uh Jamie fight if she would lead us in the invocation. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we ask your wisdom and guidance as we gather for this town plan planning meeting. Grant us open minds and respectful hearts to listen to one another and help us make decisions that will be a blessing to our community. Give us clear thinking and creative ideas to work together. All for the betterment of our town. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

Amen. Thank you very much. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. The meeting will now come to order. Do we have anyone signed up to speak on any items? Okay. All right. First order of business, no deletion of agenda items. We only have two. Um, do I have a approval of the minutes? So move. Second.

Got a motion. We have one addition there. Left Joe's name off on the Thank you, Rosco. I was going to make the same comment in the uh attendance. my uh my name wasn't in there. So, but I was here. So, you sure about We need to go back and look at the tape and make sure. Well, there's a a quote in here later that I made. So, all right. So, motion and a second. All in favor raise your right hand. It is unanimous. Thank you very much. Next order of business is election of officers. We need a a chair and a vice chair.

Don't everybody speak at once. Nominate Frank for chairman. I second. We did not consult that. Okay. Got a motion and a second. All right. All in favor, please raise your right hand. Okay. All right. Nominate Jared for vice chair. Second. Wow. All right. Motion and second. All in favor, please raise your right hand. There you go. We'll discuss my contract after the meeting.

All right. First new business item, annexation of Lexon County tax map 0043004 and 046 located at 604 Reed Avenue. Jessica.

All right. Charles F. Thompson Jr. and Mary Ellen Thompson owns approximately 14.24 acres on Reed Avenue and is petition to annex the property. A single family dwelling is currently located on the site. Properties in town near this one are zone protected residential and protected residential 2. Reed Avenue is classified as a local road. The property is shown on the future land use map as suburban residential area. The comprehensive land use plan describes this area as lowdensity single family detached housing on large lots. For the for the proposed annexation to be compliant with the zoning ordinance, the property should be zoned with protected residential zoning and Reed Avenue should be classified as a local road.

All righty. And this is going to stay a single family residence. Yeah, it was recently built. They built it in the county and they would like to annex in um that's what I saw on the GIS, but I just wanted to confirm it. Yes. All right. Do we have a motion? A motion to approve. We have a second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor, please raise your right hand. It is unanimous. Item number two, uh, annexation of Royal Creek subdivision. Jessica,

the town recently received an annexation petition signed by 83% of property owners of the Royal Creek subdivision. Royal Creek is an 83 lot single family dwelling subdivision located in the 300 block of Hope Ferry Road. Properties in town near this one zone protected residential. Hopefy Road is classified as an arterial road. The property is shown on the future land use map as suburban residential area. The comprehensive land use plan describes this area as a lowdensity single family detached housing on large lots. Due to the surrounding conditions and the use of the property, the recommended zoning for these parcels is protected residential. The recommended classification of Hopeberry Road is an arterial road and the recommended classification of Stately Way, Royal Creek Drive, Majestic Court are residential local four roads.

All righty. Mr. Chairman, if I may add to that, um just for the record, I just want to make sure that the uh commission understands this is done under the um 75% rule of of annexation on where 75% of the assessed value of the property of the area to be annexed. Um that is represented by the number of petitioners that you have. So, all the properties that that have signed the petition, uh, the total of that is at least 75% of the total assessed value of that area to be annexed. I just want to make sure that was, um, noted on the record.

I'm glad you said that cuz I was going to speak it out myself, but thank you very much. And the petition um, that was signed by the property owners is in your packet for reference, right? And that will be public record. That is it's it's on our website. Okay. It has to be um made available to anybody who wants to see it uh per statute. Okay. And no, for the record, there is no one here to speak opposition or in favor of this annexation. All right. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve. I have a second. Second. You got a motion and second. Any discussion

on the annexation? Uh I'm not against it. the annexation of this property, what's the impact on the town as far as fire, police, and so forth? Um, they would they would come into our service area. The tax base will take care of that. Yes, sir. Anyone else? All right. All in favor, please raise your right hand. That is unanimous. Thank you very much. That includes all of our agenda items for today. Um Jessica, do you have anything?

No. Um I will tell you that all of our board members are fully trained before December this year. So thank you all for getting that done. When will the next one be next year 2026? Gotcha. And I want to thank Frank and Jared for stepping up and doing another year because it's it's a tough job. It is. That's right. And I appreciate you all. All right. Anyone else? Motion to adjurnn. So move. Second.

All right. All in favor, please raise your right hand. Unanimous. Thank you for watching the town election and planning commission. Please note that we cannot partake in any outside communications about agenda items. If you have additional questions, concerns after the meeting, please contact the municipal clerk. On behalf of the town electioning planning commission and staff, I wish you a good day.