Planning Commission/Board of Zoning Appeals - Regular Meeting

Monday, September 14, 2026

The Manchester Planning Commission and Board of Zoning Appeals met to review departmental operational updates, discuss potential energy storage and alarm system ordinances, and evaluate public safety programs.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission/Board of Zoning Appeals
Meeting Type
Planning Commission/Board Of Zoning Appeals
Location
Manchester, TN
Meeting Date
September 14, 2026

Transcript

195 sections

0:10 – 2:45Speaker 1

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

3:30 – 4:12Speaker 1

Tentative. Thank you. Yeah, what?

4:31Speaker 2

No regulations.

4:33 – 4:51Speaker 1

To what extent is this the case?

5:19 – 5:50Speaker 2

Mais avec des... Un avocat. Après... N'aurait... When we remove the binoculars, can it go directly to the unloading station?

5:54Speaker 2

But there would be a storage to prove, to be responsible.

6:10Speaker 3

Who would be part of the costs?

6:19 – 10:12Speaker 2

Personally, I would bring it directly because they had 60 days to manage the situation. Restore. Pray it in. I was going to ask you if there was a particular type of incident that you see increased. It's mainly there. This is where you see the inspiration. You can't fix it if there is no signal. No, I think you're doing what you have to do. We really have a very small one. Avons-nous eu des situations liées à la chaleur ? Tous vos employés sont dehors sous la chaleur. Les employés de la ville sont dehors. Avons-nous eu beaucoup ou des râles ?

10:14Speaker 3

Par contre, c'est une bonne chose.

10:28Speaker 2

I mean, your employees are exposed to the extreme because of the equipment.

11:51Speaker 2

On the parking lot, you wouldn't have a chance

13:21 – 13:41Speaker 2

D'accord avec toi. Je comprends le raisonnement.

13:41Speaker 3

Je comprends le raisonnement.

13:43 – 14:25Speaker 2

Je préférerais, pour ma part, laisser mariner à moi. J'y réfléchis parce que ma première... My first answer is that I think that it will actually be the one who is taken. I don't think so. I know it. But if we have six dogs and that three are given at Walmart, that three finish there instead of six, feed them. But it's a first idea.

14:26 – 15:31Speaker 3

It's a good material. Let's start with the answers we received last month.

15:31Speaker 2

We had two minor fires.

15:32 – 15:45Speaker 3

We had a fire in Harvey's and we had a fire in the hangar at 601 Murfreesboro Highway. We had three illegal fires for which the police addressed a contravention to one of the residents.

15:45Speaker 2

He was there burning copper wire.

15:49 – 16:33Speaker 3

So we have cited to compare for this. We have had 20 calls to the emergency medical service, 2 rescue by elevator, 11 emergency interventions in the city, 5 in the county. We have had 2 non-incarcerations. We have responded to 14 false alarms, an alarm of CO, 3 investigations on the woman and a leak of gas. We installed 42 alarms in 8 houses and 3 COO detectors, 3 auto seats, 4 people in 45 public services, delivered 20 permits and we had 121 interventions for the month, which is 18 more than in August. We have produced here at the hotel, we have made it go out and the other one was produced in the streets.

16:38Speaker 2

The Kenta. There were two incidents.

16:45Speaker 3

Jeremy inspected 11 facilities. He performed a final inspection. The new fire alarm system at the high school. He performed a test.

16:51Speaker 2

He modernized the irrigation system there.

16:58 – 17:13Speaker 3

He did a fire alarm survey at Cardone Estate. He did a field-affair survey at Little Leaf. He examined the floors of a new service station. He went through RCR and the First Methodist Church. Once we installed 42 smoke detectors. Minor fires.

17:13Speaker 2

Disincarceration services on Rockdale Road, McMainville Highway. There was a waste of fuel on the race track on the 41 South.

17:22Speaker 3

A guy was filling up and put the bin in a bin and a guy passed by.

17:31Speaker 2

So they went to investigate and discovered that it was a pill of fuel in the bin.

17:36Speaker 3

We are therefore concerned with this illegal on Madison Street. There they are dressed the opposite way.

17:42Speaker 1

We have 12 hours.

17:50Speaker 3

I think everything was repaired the next day or the day after.

18:17Speaker 2

We have organized a defecation challenge.

18:20 – 18:40Speaker 3

We have taken care of children in Rotary Park. As part of the ALS challenge, the Procurator's Office has asked a few people to perform an advanced training in decarceration. Firefighters and police officers have participated. Captain Price, the North Vietnamese lieutenant, has pursued the fire inspectors 1 and 2.

18:40Speaker 2

Engineer Spray has gone to the service of the streets of...

18:45Speaker 3

No one followed a technical training, I know, I know.

18:51Speaker 2

The back is about the same.

18:54Speaker 3

They installed the repeater part of the repeater in the center of communication. There is an ostrich at the top of the...

19:04Speaker 2

When they will move the ostrich, they told me it was... They told me there was an ostrich bird at the top of the...

19:14Speaker 3

It's not a missing bird, but I'm sure of it.

19:16Speaker 2

They decided to leave.

19:20Speaker 3

But that's to make it work a little better. We started working on it on Friday and we're not done.

19:28Speaker 2

We have to check tomorrow.

19:29Speaker 3

Why is the situation like this? Because we have...

19:37Speaker 2

It's not the case for now. We're going to work with them to solve this.

19:46Speaker 2

I have three orders here. Let me show them to you. Look at them.

19:55 – 20:08Speaker 3

They are almost identical. They concern energy storage systems. One is intended for commercial use, the other for residential use. Many cities do this. There really aren't any in the city of Manchester.

20:09Speaker 2

Let's just take the front.

20:11Speaker 3

We are in place now so that when they arrive, because they will end up arriving, we will be able to take care of them.

20:16Speaker 2

We do not think that we will have a presidential party.

20:19 – 20:35Speaker 3

In this way, we simply decide to take advantage of this point, to repeat the costs and inspect them, and to simply come and put them on the ground. We do not have a request on this subject at the moment, apart from what the national protection standards say.

20:40Speaker 2

How much for the residential or commercial over there, darling?

20:49 – 21:13Speaker 3

How much for the commercial? Calculate in square feet. I think it's $100 for the 10,000 first feet, then $100 more for each thousand feet afterwards.

21:15Speaker 2

So it's just taking the lead.

21:16 – 21:45Speaker 3

We don't have anything in the system for the moment. Statue on it or do anything with it. What kind of risk rate are you talking about? From a residential point of view, you're talking about Tesla charging lines, this kind of thing that could be installed. From a commercial point of view, it could be anything. We could install a center there.

21:45Speaker 2

But we could install a big center to make a sausage. And have an energy system there. Oh, it's volatile.

21:54 – 22:15Speaker 3

So if you know, if you respond to a fire there and you're not aware, you know, and you don't have all the connections in place to protect the energy system. Ce n'est pas nécessairement un générateur. C'est un système de stockage.

22:15Speaker 2

Vous stockez donc de l'énergie dans la maison ou dans l'installation commerciale. Vous stockez donc de l'énergie. Vous ne produisez pas d'énergie.

22:24Speaker 3

Vous stockez de l'énergie dans cette maison pour l'utiliser dans le bâtiment.

22:27Speaker 2

Nous n'en avons pas pour le moment. Non, monsieur. Nous n'en avons pas pour le moment pour ces personnes. Nous n'en avons pas. Il s'agit juste de prendre de l'avance pour pouvoir prendre de l'avance. Mais nous avons du stockage. Nous avons des gens qui ont...

22:38Speaker 3

A type of storage system in their house, but I think it's more like a plug in the car and it doesn't store, it just loads the car, doesn't it?

22:46Speaker 2

They don't have any storage in their house. And they have. They have.

22:50Speaker 3

So we're just trying to get their order adopted and take advantage of it. Do we have any factories?

22:58Speaker 2

Not my knowledge. I don't see it.

23:09Speaker 3

That's it. It's just about taking the lead on what will eventually happen.

23:17Speaker 2

The industry will introduce it.

23:20 – 23:33Speaker 3

The residential sector, I don't think it will be as much as the residential sector. It will be more commercial. But the companies will end up introducing it. It's just about adopting an ordinance, something that we can follow. We can talk to them and we can fix everything with us. We have something to rely on.

23:41Speaker 3

I think it's a good idea to assign these things to the fire department. Exactly.

23:46Speaker 2

I suppose we need two separate motions because we have two separate orders.

23:55Speaker 3

I have one more too.

23:55Speaker 2

So I'm going to make a motion to move the residence permit order to Bulma.

24:11 – 24:23Speaker 3

Okay. The second, the third here is a redevelopment system for jiggler systems and alarm systems.

24:24Speaker 2

We pay this one, it's not.

24:26Speaker 3

This is a permit fee for jiggler systems. You know, in Galata, we have a lot of people around us who have to pay fees.

24:33Speaker 2

We often ask for money without you. Okay, that's a good idea.

24:42 – 25:06Speaker 3

Jeremy proposed a system of rebounds, a system of jigglers. It's 150 dollars for the 12,000 first feet. And beyond 12,000 feet, it's 50 dollars of 50 for each 5,000 more feet that they put in. The additional 50 dollars will be applied for each basic supplementary system.

25:12Speaker 2

So what are we looking for?

25:14Speaker 3

We're just looking for fees for the installation of the gicleur system and the hand system. Everyone around us is...

25:24Speaker 2

I don't know if I agree with any measure by ISUASIL to install a gicleur system. Oh, it's not, it's not, it's not a lawyer. It's a lawyer.

25:31Speaker 3

Are you going to pay someone to do it? Oh, they're all for it. What if you don't make us pay like Mr. McKinney? What if you don't make us pay like Mr. McKinney?

25:42Speaker 2

We know. We don't have this kind of structure.

25:44 – 26:00Speaker 3

Just because Murfreesboro... And then the NOX program, we put NOX boxes in all the new installations in the city of Manchester. They buy them at the service.

26:00Speaker 2

They buy them at the service of the codes. It's nowhere here.

26:03Speaker 3

It's nowhere in the codes.

26:07Speaker 2

We put that in the codes somewhere. It's a metal box that is fixed on the outside of a building. We have one.

26:16Speaker 3

We are the only ones who can access it. So we have one.

26:21Speaker 1

We have one.

26:22Speaker 2

We have one, like... You know, Panera Bread, we have one.

26:33Speaker 1

For any new construction installation, we put the keys in the watering rooms, the electrical rooms and others, so that we can get there at 2 a.m. You know, boss, I thought we had finished.

26:43Speaker 3

Me too. But we searched and we found nothing on this subject. Jérémie Berguen, it was... I know we have resumed it. We even approved it. Yes, sir. But we find nothing written anywhere that mentions the word knockbox, it's just...

26:55Speaker 2

Yes, Jeremy told me the same thing.

26:57 – 27:09Speaker 3

When I arrived here, Alain said it was approved. Okay, we can go there. But we examined the codes and we found nothing in the codes. I think it's an excellent idea because you have to come in when you need it.

27:09Speaker 2

All this is part of a single order.

27:11Speaker 3

I can take that, I can remove the part of the code.

27:27 – 27:55Speaker 2

I don't agree with you. Understood? Anything else? Hi, I agree with you. As far as the Ziklers are concerned, what needs do we have? What do we have?

27:57 – 28:23Speaker 3

Let's see. They put BNS. They put a gicleur system in this building. They put a Wawa. They put one in Syvers. What happens? They're going to put one there. There were a few others. They put gicleur systems. Once again, I understand your point.

28:23 – 28:40Speaker 2

It's true, it's true. I think we should encourage it. You know, they put costs, even if that's not what you mean. It's a statement, it's true.

28:43Speaker 3

We capitalise.

28:43Speaker 2

From there, I come.

28:49Speaker 3

I appreciate it. Have a good night.

29:06 – 31:12Speaker 2

I mean, that's where we're going. I think it's important. I think of the young woman who held the baby against her. We are going to make the meeting as painful as it can be. Le chef adjoint est à la réunion du conseil scolaire. Nos appels ont encore diminué. Don't get it wrong, it's only a matter of time before it increases, and we are quite proud of it. We have removed 204 calls.

31:12Speaker 3

In August, we had a total of 1747 calls.

31:15Speaker 2

This also represents the generated calls. It can therefore be a little scary and a big mess.

31:20Speaker 1

We don't understand the calls.

31:21Speaker 3

Usually, the calls are generated.

31:27Speaker 2

We are still waiting for the final code. All the budget to be put in place.

31:32Speaker 3

To give a percentage.

31:33Speaker 2

But our information on the subsidies. We, the THSO, the road safety office.

31:38Speaker 3

It's basically their version.

31:42 – 32:11Speaker 2

The chief of staff. We had excellent reports from them on the way we monitor and control them. Just today, which will be at the end of next month, but good news. Today we received the CA deposited by the state for our SRO grant. Excuse me, what does that tell you?

32:12Speaker 3

Three or four.

32:15 – 33:02Speaker 2

Three, the salaries and social benefits of SROs. I knew it, I'm not sure. It's three. And then we have two positions of brigadier currently vacant. C'est un travail très, très difficile à pourvoir. Le salaire, ça n'a pas vraiment changé, comme pour d'autres emplois. Donc, on a parlé au directeur Vaughan et on a parlé au directeur Argro, aujourd'hui, avec le comté. Donc, l'école du comté, le système scolaire de la ville, nous rembourse pour ses gardes barrières. It's not our money, but they work for us. They are on our pay list.

33:02Speaker 3

At the end of the year, we submit an invoice for this reimbursement and they reimburse 100% of this cost.

33:11 – 33:27Speaker 2

So we recommended to both of them to increase this rate of 17 and a few dollars to 25 dollars per hour. That's 50 dollars per hour. So how many hours do they have again in the month? Is it two hours a day?

33:27Speaker 3

Two hours a day.

33:37 – 33:53Speaker 2

Je pense que cela va dans la bonne direction. C'est probablement une conversation que quelqu'un devrait avoir. Donc le chef adjoint Robertson est à la réunion du conseil scolaire ce soir pour avoir cette même discussion. Le directeur Vaughan nous a beaucoup soutenus.

33:56Speaker 3

You know, if you saw what happened at home a few weeks ago, you will never find us in this situation.

34:02Speaker 2

And when one of these brigadiers is absent or absent, we will never leave them without surveillance.

34:07Speaker 3

And either a patrol agent takes care of it, or we call the SRO to take care of it if the patrol is busy.

34:15 – 34:30Speaker 2

It's a combination of the two, but we will not let it go without surveillance. And another important aspect of what works for us We know why they are there and why they are sick for us, not for the school. So we still have these covered positions. The difference could simply change.

34:33Speaker 3

And I have some details if you want to see these costs.

34:35 – 35:11Speaker 2

Basically, we are recommended for two school systems for 25 dollars. We have a employee at the high school. He usually places one of the employees of the school or one of the traffic agents at the exit of the students. Then we have an agent. The main entrance of the high school is the only school in the county where we have a guardrail. The others are our elementary schools. As I said, the county is paying us back for the high school. The schools of the city are paying us back.

35:11Speaker 3

We do not cover the Arrêt d'Araquette.

35:21 – 35:57Speaker 2

They hire this cost and they do it. For years, we have been comfortable with the way they manage this traffic. So that's kind of where we are. We don't think it's necessarily something they deserve. We don't pay for it. We ask them for a loan. At the end of the day, we are employees of the MPD and we pay for school services. We hope that this increase will encourage someone else to replace him.

35:57Speaker 3

You know I agree

36:22Speaker 2

You know, I think we have to move forward. Do you know how much $50 per month represents? You know, as far as this is concerned.

36:29Speaker 3

I'm not saying that you, the agents, are not doing your job.

36:33 – 37:00Speaker 2

But I know that you know that it's... So basically, it comes back to an agreement between the MPD and the school systems. I think so. And if we don't get the reaction we hoped for, let us know. You have mentioned the tragedy at home. 25 dollars an hour, 30 dollars an hour, 35 dollars an hour. Nothing. Hello. I don't understand. Do you understand?

37:00Speaker 3

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37:02Speaker 2

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37:03Speaker 3

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37:04Speaker 1

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37:10Speaker 2

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37:15Speaker 1

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37:16Speaker 2

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37:17Speaker 1

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37:20Speaker 3

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37:22 – 37:46Speaker 2

Do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand? Do you understand? It's for your information at this stage. I think it's just about sharing information with you, that's what we want to do. I don't think it requires a vote or a motion. I have the impression that... We have to unite as a team to move things forward.

37:47Speaker 3

We will do it absolutely.

37:49 – 38:08Speaker 2

We will know tonight how the school of the city, I think I have a good feeling, how it will support us. Something like that. Something like that and they would talk about it. So we'll have to wait a little. It's just a point.

38:08Speaker 3

The city has several.

38:11 – 38:27Speaker 2

Just a few points to say. I'm not going to all the passers-by. We cooked hot dogs for the party of the elementary school entrance. Westwood. We had a very good time. We have approved and ordered the vehicles. One of the Durango has arrived. It is equipped and in service.

38:28Speaker 3

We are still waiting for it.

38:29Speaker 2

Storage in the cloud is converting everything into the cloud.

38:31Speaker 3

Everything has been approved and we are working on it.

38:34 – 38:48Speaker 2

We have received an external complaint. We have received an external complaint. We have received an external complaint. We have received an external complaint. We have received an external complaint.

38:48Speaker 3

We have received an external complaint. We have received an external complaint.

38:52 – 39:13Speaker 2

Everyone was satisfied with the way we handled the situation. We talked about it. A knife attack on the Royal Inn? A little later. Our investigation unit reacted favorably, and several command staff members presented themselves. I'm going to call the SOS.

39:21Speaker 2

We have finished our week of firearms.

39:24Speaker 3

It was a full week where Michel is our expert in firearms.

39:28Speaker 2

We have a few instructors in firearms. We don't really have a shooting range that we can use.

39:33Speaker 3

The correctional service department of Tahoe will use his.

39:41 – 40:46Speaker 2

Thus, each team has different working and resting days. So it took us all week, but we had a very good training. We had a patrol post to see and we provided it. We will make the oath to agent Chris O'Connell tomorrow. He has been an intern with us since then. It is a really unique program to which people around us did not want to participate. He's not from here. He loves Manchester. We talked about Sergeant McGinn, the case of the baby, where his maternal instinct was triggered. And what she did during this call really shows the job of a police officer. And we really emphasize compassion. I don't see a better example than that.

40:50Speaker 3

They had a very good time.

40:52 – 41:06Speaker 2

We also talked about Ulma, the patrol officer Léa, who had overdosed in the back of his car and who he quickly recognized. We stopped him and we quickly gave him medical care.

41:06Speaker 3

The gentleman recalled the cure for detoxification and really praised Agent Leu and the way he probably saved everyone.

41:19Speaker 2

We had an armed suspect barricaded in the duplexes behind the trucker.

41:22Speaker 3

We had an excellent response.

41:27 – 41:38Speaker 2

We also had to use negotiation tactics with him to get him out. We got him out without resorting to force or injury. It turned out that he had a pistol in his hand.

41:39Speaker 3

It wasn't even a pistol.

41:41 – 42:26Speaker 2

Whatever it is... We set up a very good case of stupefying, which led to a search warrant. We are not going to give the address, but in the district of Ingram Street and Dockdale Street, we have recovered some methamphetamine that we could have found in our streets. We had problems with a football team from the college and we exchanged nonsense. So the agent, our chief deputy Robertson, Captain Sneed, they boarded and traveled with the West Indies team. We have participated in an awareness operation across the border for the road safety office. We have celebrated several anniversaries last month.

42:26Speaker 3

You have joined other copies that I give you, it is a large part of the information that we have dispensed during the month.

42:44 – 43:16Speaker 2

We are very proud of some projects. We are very proud. We have set up a storage in the cloud. We have just sent it to the nearby service for the elderly. where any elderly or disabled person in the city can be registered on a list.

43:18Speaker 3

One of the two women present at the reception, Emily or Hannah, will call to check if everything is fine once a week.

43:23 – 43:36Speaker 2

If she does not respond or if something does not go in the application, there is an emergency contact. We will contact her. and we will warn them first.

43:37Speaker 3

If we do not contact them, if they ask for it, we will send an agent to do a verification.

43:43Speaker 2

This was very popular. Many people signed up right now. We are quite proud of it.

43:50Speaker 3

We are also about to launch a civil police academy.

43:53Speaker 2

We will launch it in October. We will probably limit the number of students to 10, 10, 12 or 13.

44:04Speaker 3

It will be a program of eight weeks, one evening per week, two to three hours.

44:10 – 44:59Speaker 2

Many members of the department's staff will teach different sections of these courses. It will be a very educated police academy. But it is actually about attracting the attention of the community and the public who are interested. In a way, to give them an overview of the training, the crime scenes, a lot of different things that you wouldn't have the opportunity to participate in person. So we have Adziet, our test technician. So we are impatient to start. For the Tazers, I brought Mitchell.

45:00 – 45:11Speaker 3

Because he's our weapon expert, and he's a lethal weapon. I think everyone knows what he's good at.

45:11 – 45:36Speaker 2

They're very expensive. And it's a way to give agents an option to put an end to a less lethal weapon. Or less lethal. Or less lethal, and it's an excellent... He has undoubtedly saved lives. He has saved lives of agents and civilians. We are now at a point where many of ours are obsolete.

45:36Speaker 3

They are probably about 10 years old now. They are electronic.

45:40 – 46:05Speaker 2

I have this in the budget, and when we prepared the budget at the beginning, it was planned to buy... But the best offer for us is that it is very similar to the camera forfeit that we made.

46:05Speaker 3

It's a five-year plan and it's actually cheaper per year.

46:11 – 47:06Speaker 2

But in total, On a period of 5 years, the replacement of all our Tethers costs $100. The appearance represents $21,228. Half of what we had planned. We only bought 10. There is a way to buy them. It maintains them under guarantee for the 5 years they are damaged. There is a legal representation if you want to use a gift. They also provide a legal representation. The recommendation is therefore to sign this grant on a period of 5 months.

47:06Speaker 3

And just like the cameras, we have included it in the budget.

47:12Speaker 2

And I don't think we need to approve it. But it will be a commitment on a quinquennial level.

47:20Speaker 3

And I think it's the best way to replace all our current Taser guns.

47:31Speaker 2

propose. We have to move on. Mitchell is our expert. He knows everything you have.

47:41Speaker 3

If you have the only question you ask me, how long is it?

47:48Speaker 2

How long does a cell phone last? You know, they are just exposed to the elements.

47:54Speaker 3

In comparison, you know, if you had money in the budget to buy, how much would a cell phone cost?

48:03Speaker 2

And that's what Mitchell said.

48:06Speaker 3

The handle, which is basically the handle.

48:16Speaker 2

I'll take your hand.

48:18Speaker 3

Maybe when I take your hand.

48:20Speaker 2

But there are batteries that go with it. There are charging ports. And all that is covered.

48:32Speaker 3

A constant rotation on this subject, if it fails.

48:41 – 49:23Speaker 2

You will buy the training cartridges, and it's a strategy to earn money. But it's the best company where to buy them, and the most reputed company here... Mr. Elie. We have new things. Old things.

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