Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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All right. Uh, call to order the town of Weddington regular planning board meeting Monday, December the 15th, 2025 for 700 p.m. All right. Do we have a determination of a quorum? I think we do. So move from there to conflict of interest statement. In accordance with the state government ethics act, it is the duty of every board member to avoid conflicts of interest. Does any board member have any known conflict of interest with respect to any matters on the agenda? If so, please identify the conflict and refrain from any participation in the matter involved. No. No.

All right. No. Move to the approval of minutes for November 6, the 2025 special planning board meeting. I move to approve the November 6, 2025 special planning board meeting minutes as presented. Get a second. I'll second. All in favor. Beautiful. Unanimous. Now, November the 17th, 2025 regular planning board meeting. Get a motion to approve that one. I move to approve the November 17, 2025 regular planning board meeting minutes as presented. Second. I'll second that one, too.

All in favor? Unanimous. All right. We do not need to address public comments as today we do not have any. I'll say we don't. We do. Oh, well, we got public comments. All right. For the sake of that, individuals are going to be allowed three minutes to speak and must only comment on current agenda items. A maximum of 30 minutes is allocated to the public comment period. The time limit may be extended at the discretion of the chairman. With that said, Mr. Christopher Neve um just wanted to highlight for discussion is the meeting schedules being discussed. I don't recall ever hearing the time of the evening ever being discussed. I'm not saying it hasn't for council meetings or plan board meetings. Um and I'm not advocating that it does change. Um but as you're discussing uh when the schedule will be um if you all have the ability to also potentially do it at 600 6:30 um each evening that you all do meet um if that could just I'm just highlighting it as something to be discussed between you all uh as you talk about that coming up here.

Awesome. Thank you, sir. All right. So, we'll move to old business. That's a quick move. Nothing at old business. Now, we'll move to new business. Approval of our 2026 regular meeting schedule. I will let staff take that away for a minute or and you received the draft schedule in your packets. I believe the um the only meeting well there's the holiday season where we usually bump up the week before and the Memorial Day week uh week that we bumped it to the Tuesday. So it's up to you if you want to keep it like that.

Does uh anybody have any issues with keeping it as present? For me, I've already got it on my calendar. the correct just the 7 o'clock start is because we have potentially when we do the one of our boards we do beforehand is that are we um generally correct yeah generally when there's a board of adjustment meeting we think we got historic and then board of adjustment technically that would come it gives people working time to they run home then come to the meeting I just generally we'd like to mirror what the the town council does. They know that the towns are identical.

Cool. Let me just I just opened up the schedule. I point out that the year is actually the week after Christmas. The 28th is the 14th. So yeah, that's what I was thinking. We I'm in this chair in 2026. I'd like to move that meeting. It may make sense with the November meeting moved up so it's not as far apart as like two weeks though, right? Or is it just No, we'd probably need to move it two.

I don't see that being a problem when we come to the November meeting to discuss December at that time because that'll be better hands to know I know it'll work better for me as well to move than that. I don't see issues with staying it stay in the course. But again, if something falls up during some holidays, we can make a game time decision as you want them as a group. Was the 21st of December the viable date instead of the 28th? Y'all turn it. That feels crazy. Christmas to the 28th now.

Let's leave it the 28th and we'll just discuss it in November when it comes back. That's fine. Because if all we're going to do is have 15-minute meeting on the 2027 schedule that we could probably squeeze that in on the 28th 26. Okay. Other change was it Tuesday, right? Uh Memorial Day. Is that the Tuesday after Memorial Day? Yes. Yes. Memorial Day be the 25th. Uh so it' become the 26th. Yes. 26th Tuesday. So that's the only out outlier that's not on a Monday. Correct. Yes. Yeah. Do we need a motion?

Yep. We need a motion. I make a motion to approve the uh 2026 regular meeting schedule as presented. A second. I'll second. All in favor? Unanimous. 2026 is locked in. Moving to the next update from town planner and report from the November town council meeting.

Yes. Uh thank you, chairman, members of the planning board who are here tonight. Uh the town of Wington Town Council meeting in December uh was the change in administration uh with our newly elected members. Um so we have two new council members and then our mayor uh was reelected and that was the primary business of that meeting. We do have um several pending subdivisions that will come before you in the new year. Um so we should have actionable items up for discussion January, February and March uh with our current calendar. And then uh just note that uh with new administrations come new text amendments and proposed changes um to our policies and procedures. So we should have quite a few text amendments coming as well. Uh I know we've talked through some uh recent kind of clerical things and text amendments that were discussed in workshop and regularly scheduled meetings in November. We paused that for the purposes of the holidays um here in December, but we'll also reintroduce those in January. Uh it's just that, you know, we know that there's going to be some more tax amendments coming. We're going to try to bundle those all together and not deal with those uh with everybody's busy holiday schedule uh tonight. So, and again, I just like as staff to thank you for your service and thank you for being here tonight in these times.

Awesome. Thank you, Greg. All right, we go to board member comments. You got anything, Bill? Merry Christmas. Obviously, we want to thank the staff as we do every I want to wish everybody and the board people here a merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year. I look forward to us to uh continuing progress we've made this last year going into 2027

20 I was going to say Bill you already skipped us a year. I did I 2020 time flies when you're having fun and I'm having fun. 2026. It's okay. Every year's gonna be better. I want to put that in there so I could make an amendment to the minutes next time. Be okay. Don't just put their got the wind knocked up. You're fine. Uh yeah. Thank Thank you to staff. It's been great working with you all this year. My pleasure. And wish everybody a a merry Christmas and a very safe holiday. Linda.

Yep. Same staff is awesome always. and thank you for all you do. And Chris and Rusty, you guys have done awesome this year leading this board and it's appreciated and happy holidays to everybody. Stay warm. Merry Christmas to all to all. Good night. I agree with that, but I'm going to leave it at that. Thanks, staff. Uh, can we get a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Second. All in favor? I 10 minutes. new record. This will take