City Council - Regular Meeting

Second. The motion is second. All in favor say aye. Aye. We will move into executive session. Okay, so council met in executive session and no votes were taken. We're adjourned out of there, but we will go back into executive session because we didn't finish our conversation after we go through the regular meeting.

All in favor say aye. Aye. All against? Ayes have it. So we will move into item 1C. continuation of called order and we have the invocation i believe our pastor mitchell livingston is here are you here it's actually my pastor are you here mitchell i don't see him okay so ryan could you lead us in the invocation please okay or i'm gonna pass it to allison okay good

Amen. So we'll move into the Pledge of Allegiance, but I would like to recognize that we have Scout Troop 899 from Carolina Forest here at our council meeting tonight. And the troop leader is Adam Redale. 20 scouts and five leaders, his troop. We'd like to ask you all to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, if you all don't mind. If everybody would please stand.

okay we'll move into item two is minutes we have uh item a on our minutes city council meeting monday june 15 2026 and item b city council special called meeting thursday june 25th 2026 is there a motion to approve so i move second motion a second all in favor say aye aye against I just have it, we'll move into communications, and we have a presentation by Alan Lee. Are you here, Alan Lee?

Okay, we'll move into item B, Department Monthly Reports for June 2026 are available online. And now we'll move into announcements by Mayor and Council. Are there any announcements by Mayor and Council?

I just have a couple things. Just wanted to kind of open it up to discuss with you guys some of the things that I've heard around town, talked to some of the residents about that maybe we can just discuss amongst each other. The Main Street issues that are coming up right now, I think that's a big deal with the residents. What happened this weekend, college week that happened that we were unaware of. I think those are two main issues that a lot of residents have contacted me about that I don't know how we can handle that as council people.

i mean it's it's definitely an issue i don't know if dana's dana's not here right now our chief is not here i've not seen her she is yeah please so i did talk to her yesterday um we were on the phone for a long time because we had another incident there over the last i don't know night before last but uh yeah we did talk about some of the details and it's all different it's just a different like a different time we're living in with things that we didn't used to see happen that are happening in different ways and our police department's incredible and they're doing with them in every way that

you're referring to the fights that were the fight that was online well i think several things like we had college week that came up that i think kind of took us a little bit by surprise um and then the incidences that are happening on main street not just this past weekend but we've had several um you know instances that have happened that i don't know if we just got blown up on social media or we weren't aware of or a combination um that are concerning no that's

Thank you so much, Chief. Are there any other comments by council? I would like to bring up that, you know, and I know Alan Lee was just here and presented us with these flags, and we had the celebration of 250 years of independence at the Horseshoe on Main Street on the 4th of July, and we had volunteers that carried flags from one end of our beach, starting in Windy Hill all the way to Main Street, and then all the way from Cherry Grove all the way to main street and and uh it's quite incredible i've not carried the flag yet but i heard stories of people just you know it was it was pretty im

Okay. Is there any comments by council? Are there any comments by the public regarding these issues? Hearing none, we will take our vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. All against? Ayes have it. We'll move into unfinished business. Item A is an ordinance second reading amendments to chapter 23 zoning of the code of ordinances of North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, removing the maximum area account for bedrooms, sleeping areas, and residential districts. Is there a motion to approve?

The motion is second. Is there any comment by council?

I just want to clarify this is for new builds. This has anything to do with existing buildings, existing houses?

But we're removing because we had an ordinance in place that where we were trying, because we were having parking issues where we had people build rental houses and they basically had, they would have 10 cars and they could only park four or five. And then it created a problem with the neighbors. So we came up with something that would eliminate that, but it didn't really work because then people would say, It wasn't a bedroom, it was an office, and they found ways to circumvent the ordinance. So now we've changed that to regulate that by parking the number of cars that can park. So this is ju

There's a motion and a second. Is there any comment by council?

Absolutely, but we are not changing the ordinance that regulates boats and trailers or RVs. They're already existing in the ordinance that already exists where they can park in their side yard or their backyard. A lot of that is being misinterpreted online.

then there was one thing um that came up uh that i wanted to bring up was i think we had a 24-hour thing where you could park a trailer or a boat um in your yard and one thing uh was thinking about it's like we have a lot of people that come down here that rent a home for a week and they put their boat in the water and then they park their trailer at their home and they may be renting a house where you don't have a side or a backyard and there is nowhere else that they can park that trailer. So maybe amending that to be seven days or something like that was just an idea.

The only other thing, though, with that, Jim, is I did think about Cherry Grove, which is mostly where this happens. Most all of those houses are on stilts, so a lot of those people, when I see it happen, they push that trailer under the house, which is legal. You're biding by the ordinance if you put it under the house.

Are there any other comments by council?

All right. Are there any other comments by council? Are there any comments by the public? Please come forward and give your name and address.

tony can you talk in that microphone though we'll pass that around that might be let me look at that but that's the question what is it this part here the trailer behind the storage we're not changing that part of in this ordinance okay nothing to do with trailers boats any of that we're not making a change with that and you know i play the drums and

It's in my driveway. In this ordinance, we're making no changes to the existing ordinance that allows you to have a boat or trailer or RV in your side or rear yard. I get, but we're not making a change. So whatever's happening there is still falling under the same rules we're governed by right now.

You're gonna put it on the screen, that would be good, so everybody can see what we're talking about.

Thank you. Thank you. Are there any other comments by the public? Hearing none, we'll take our vote. All in favor say aye. Aye. All against? I just have it. We'll move into item C, which is an ordinance second reading amendment chapter 22, vehicles for hire regarding towing from private property. And I am going to recuse myself, and I will give the same reason that I gave first reading when I recused myself, is I have someone interested that is in this business that would like potentially lease a piece of property that I own to do this type of business. So I'll recuse myself and come back afte

thank you i forgot to say i was going to turn it over to our mayor pro tim hank but he got it councilman thomas okay so um there is no new business so we'll move into public comment if anybody would like to address council and make a comment please come to the microphone give your name and address good evening harriola park point pitches place

Are there any other comments by the public?

Yeah. Well, there's a microphone here too, right? Is that working? Or no? Come over here. Okay. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. And we have staff looking into this, and we'll be back in touch with you. Have you sent an email? I know several people have been out there. Have you sent an email in about this? Okay, please send us an email.

Okay, we're going to give that back to you. You can keep it for a while. Okay, that's great. Thank you.

I glanced through it, so I'd like to look through it more thoroughly. But thank you so much. We'll be back in touch with you. Thank you. Are there any other comments from the public?

Hearing none, I will need a motion to adjourn the meeting. Oh, yeah. That's right. I'm sorry. We're going to go. We'll need a motion to go back into executive session. Then we'll come back out after that.

There's a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you all for being here. So council met in executive session and no votes were taken. I'll need a motion to adjourn.

Is there a second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye.