City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome to our last meeting of September. Our invocation tonight will be given by Councilman Marshall Pickens, and respects and flags will be given by Councilman Jeff Roberts. Please rise.

Our September 14th meeting minutes were distributed earlier in the month by email and also in our packets for tonight. Are there any questions, corrections on the minutes?

I'll make the motion to approve the minutes.

First by Mr. Newton. Second. Second by Mr. Horvath. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Those minutes pass unanimously. We don't have any old business, and so we'll move directly to our new business. We have four items of new business, and the first item is request consideration of referral to the Planning Commission, a petition to rezone U.S. 29 bypass from G.C. General Commercial to L.I. Light Industrial. And our first two items are petitions to the Planning Commission, but we'll hear the Overlay of the both projects and before we pass them on this peculiar

A second item is to request consideration of a referral to the Planning Commission, a petition to annex and zone to SR, which is a suburban residential, approximately 31 1⁄2 acres, located at T16 Vandiver Road. Mr. McEwen?

Thank you. Questions, comments? One quick question. Mr. Stewart and then Mr. Jeff Roberts.

As we get ready to, I guess, plan for a work session at some point on this, if it does get annexed, I would like to... come back, have us come back with some alternatives or some type of traffic plan, talking with DOT because that intersection of Crestview and Vandiver right there behind T.L. Hanna, I think was the construction company at that four-way stop sign, it's almost like down there that Midway Presbyterian, it gets backed up a long ways in all four directions and just putting more houses closer to that intersection is just going to you know, traffic matters even worse there. And again

You mentioned this came maybe as an idea before we adopted our new UDO as a standard type subdivision. And then upon adoption of our new UDO, they moved to the conservation design. Speak to that a little bit. What prompted them to maybe change their mind or accept the conservation design as their preferred method?

Well they apparently saw an advantage or maybe a path that fit more in our way of thinking and it seems like there's I believe that borders a creek as well.

But they obviously saw an advantage to go this route.

Good. Any other questions, comments? Ms. Harvey?

Real quick, I was looking at the subdivision when I got my packet over the weekend. Looking at the map, Mr. McKenzie or Mr. McEwen, to the left there's a subdivision that is in the county, correct? Yes. Correct. And then, you know, as best I could tell, I counted the roof lines, and I think there's 120 houses in there. give or take yeah yeah and because i may have messed up on my county and there's gonna the proposal to me it looks like the piece of land that's wanting to get annexed in the cities bigger than what the one there's 120 houses on right

And sort of to shift on what Mr. Roberts said, to me, from what I've read, it says 40%. it's gonna be 40% less houses, so 40% more open space for our new, I can't remember the exact word, robust building codes that we have. I mean, I think it's certainly, I look forward to seeing if they do get passed the board that we're going to refer to tonight and what comes back out and how it looks different than the cookie cutter neighborhoods that we have. Very good point. So with that, Mr. Mayor, I make a motion we refer it.

First by Mr. Harvin. Second. Second by Mr. Newt. Further discussion? All those in favor sign. Aye. Opposed? That passes unanimously. A third item of new business is request consideration of an ordinance to amend Chapter 82-124 of the Anderson City Code to regulate the parking of boats, trailers, campers, and other recreational vehicles. Mr. McEwen.

Thank you. I'll open it up to questions, comments.

In these, I guess the description of trucks, trailers, motorhomes and all that, can we also add in there food trucks? Because I've got a couple in my district that They had a way, I guess they pull a food truck or ice cream, I guess, food thing and it's parked right on the front. And so it just didn't, see if we could add that into this description, because it doesn't really, it talks about, I don't see, vending recreational, that's something a little bit different.

I'll leave that up to the city attorney, whatever he suggests.

But a lot of the, not the truck itself, like they drive, you know, the food, I'm talking about, it's just like they pull behind the truck, you know, it's probably like a landscape trailer size, you know, food truck, and maybe six feet tall, but it's just parked right there on the edge of the street, and... you know and i think they use it on the weekends or you know whatever and you know so i just again and then do we limit the number because some of the lots in my district you know you got a big side yard where they'll pull three or four old boats and campers on that side yard now you got a c

Go to Mr. Pickens and then Mayor Pro Temp.

Well, wait, wait, wait. Are you finished?

Good. And you do get into rights, property rights.

Mr. McKenzie, I was like trying to get the boots on the ground perspective. From my understanding, typically code enforcement is only responding when there's been a sustained issue for quite some time. I mean, I know the few instances I've had somebody reach out to me. It's just been because, you know, it's not, Hey, somebody, you know, the only one I can really think of that you've helped me with a couple of times is, you know, someone had a giant box truck they parked out and it wasn't just one time. It was sustained for, you know, several days, several weeks. And, you know, is that the typi

Okay. You good? What about the rest of you guys? And again, I think we're good with it. I think maybe between first and second reading, we tweak it a little bit more and talk about it again in second reading. Everybody good with that?

No, we talked about that at UDO, I think. We just pictured that maybe it would be further down the line. But good input, I think. Good direction for management. Anything else?

Are you looking for a motion tonight, Mr. Mayor, to pass this and then amend it and bring it back next meeting?

Yeah, I mean, we can clear it up between now and the first reading, second reading.

Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve this one.

We have a first by Mr. Harvin. Second. Second by Mr. Newton.

Any further discussion? I just want to make sure of what it is that we're going back trying to amend between the first and second. It would be about the gravel area and... What else?

And I think also, I mean, anything else that we can think of before then that you might have some input with the management in regards to tweets to this ordinance.

I think the main thing is we want to make sure that their basis, if there is a complaint for our officers to issue something, I think that's the whole gist because we have something, but they don't really have nothing to work off of. Yes, sir.

Good. Are the first and second? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? I pass this financial on the first reading. Our last item of new business is request consideration of an ordinance authorizing an equipment lease purchase agreement not exceeding $2.5 million. Mr. Kuhn.

Real quick, Mr. Margo, are there any other, because we've sent out proposals, do we have any other alternatives? Or are we going to just, what's out there?

Okay. So, like, isn't there some state funds and some other?

This is the only financing mechanism that we're going to have is the open market.

I think the other ones are more infrastructure-related in regards to the water and sewer lines.

I make a motion, Mr. Mayor, to approve this.

First, I'm Mr. Horgan. Seconded by the Mayor Pro Tem. Any additional comments, questions?

All those in favor sign. Aye. Opposed? That passes unanimously. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. So moved. First by the Mayor for 10. Second. Second by Mr. Horgan. All those in favor sign. Aye. Opposed? We stand adjourned.