Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

members are present from the commission absentees and the agenda. If everyone had a chance to review the agenda. Yes. Had a motion to approve. Move to approve. Affirmative. Okay. Agenda is approved. Minutes of the previous meeting. If you review the minutes from the previous meeting. Yes. No corrections or changes? We do have a correction. Okay.

The person indicated as making motions is a person named Carter. I'm not real sure who that is. If it's supposed to be part, it does say Carter. It's me. Carter. I have no idea. Um, member. Yeah. Yeah, I'll make that change. Does anyone have any questions about the change to the minutes? All right. If none, I'll ask motion to begin to call to approve the minutes.

Motion to approve. Approve. I say I. I. Thank you. report from code officer. Uh I don't have anything to report other than uh joining me here on the the front row tonight, Stephen uh the senior planner. Y'all met him all I believe in December. We obviously didn't have our meeting last month, but that's that's all I have tonight, Mr. Chairman. All right. Then, uh new business, new business on the agenda. Special exception variance number 4390 100 Cherry Hill Road to increase the maximum amount of allowed parking. you have somebody here to speak on behalf of that?

Yes, sir. I'll give you a quick presentation on that, Mr. Chairman. So, this is a special exception variance. This is the property at 100 Cherry Hill Road. It's a 12 acre property. It's two properties now. It has been combined on the uh on the tax map, you can see it looks like it's two parcels, but it has been combined by the property owner, and they are asking a special exception variance from uh the city to increase the maximum amount of parking on the site. And just to give you an idea of what it's proposed, it's not developed at this time, but they are proposing a development for a lot of industrial use. And then if you can see on the screen behind you, they're proposing to build an entrance here off Cherry Hill Road. This is the Cherry Hill Road intersection with Highway 78. And it curves around and goes towards uh towards the north and to the east to the west here, excuse me. They're going to build an entrance here into the site. They'll cross this stream to a proposed light industrial building here. and they're asking to basically increase the amount of parking here that'll be on the south side of their proposed building. Just to give you a little bit more of a deeper snapshot of that, uh the increased parking requirement in your ordinance outside of table three, they're in section 520. Whenever someone was going to go past the 120% mark, it needs a special exception variance. So, the building they're proposing is 26,750 ft. is going to, like I said, going to be a light industrial building. I believe it's for cold steel manufacturing for hand trucks. So, they're proposing a total of 32 parking spaces. Right now in your ordinance, it's pretty low. We require a pretty limited amount of parking. It's pretty cap cap kind of low. They're only going to be allowed to have nine total spaces based on our current requirements. And if they go to the 120% max, there only 11 spaces they could have. So, they obviously have to ask for parking variance to do the allowed uh 32 spaces that they want to accommodate their employees. So they're asking to increase that to 355% to have a total of 32 spaces. They need this in order to accommodate the number of uh employees they're going to have on a maximum shift. They anticipate a total of 20 employees at this time. They

anticipate possibly in the future they will expand their operation. So they need a little bit more parking and obviously to accommodate any guests or anything like that they would have on the property. It's a pretty straightforward request and obviously in our parking ordinance, you know, we have this narrow gap between maximum parking and our and our minimums that we have, this 100 and 120%. So, you're starting to see more of these special exception variances to increase the amount of parking someone can have on a site for a use like this. So, the recommendation from staff is approval uh as submitted without any conditions. And that's all that staff has, Mr. Chairman. Okay. anyone here to speak in on behalf of this request?

Vanderpoo. Um, I'm kind of the one that that tries to organize and help build this whole project. Um, I honestly the way that Brad Calendarer explained everything that I couldn't say it any better. Um we need some more parking mainly for the employees and a training that we will perform at the the at the manufacturing facility. It's yeah otherwise we'll have very low parking. There'll be parking in the dirt. The issue is Thank you. very well. Is anyone here in opposition to the proposal? I see not questions from the members of the commission.

Do we have a motion? Motion to approve. Favor say I. I. Approved. Thank you. That appears to be it. Motion to Motion to adjurnn. I move to adjourn. All in favor say I. I. Thank you. I didn't catch the second on the motion. Pardon me. Motion for the approval. No. To adjurnn. To adjourn. I can't hear. I did the motion. And who seconded? To adjourn.

And to adjurnn. Second the motion to adjurnn. Second to adjurnn.

Behave children. I get it wrong. It's okay. I'll do it. I don't even know who made the motion in the second.