Planning and Zoning - Regular Meeting

I said just let me know. Okay.

Yeah. We all sitting out there waiting kids. We're not going with the chairman. Do we have somebody to peer for this? Uh, Mr. Fowler, we're waiting on Miss Sue Weaver. Okay. All right. Well, let's uh let's get rolling. I've got 5:00. 5:00 somewhere.

Call to order the city of of Nagnes Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. I'm going to dispense with some of the normal comments since it doesn't appear we have anybody, but one applicant here and hopefully another applicant will show shortly. Um there's one zoning change which would go before the uh city council for final voting on September 22nd with the next council meeting for introduction on September the 8th. The reubdivision that's on here will be final in 11 days. Um we'll go over that that if anybody's agrieved by that decision, they must file an appeal within writing within 10 days. I'd ask that everybody that comes forward to identify themselves, the procedure we'll follow is that we'll hear from the um I'll read the application, the director will uh have any comments she has, and then we'll hear from the applicant or his designated uh comments uh for the application, then comments against the application, and then a rebuttal uh limited solely to uh the negative comments. Um, our next comm our next meeting is Tuesday, October the 7th, 2025 at this location. I don't believe I have anything else. Is there any comments I missed?

No, sir. All right. Moving on to uh let's go. Let's call the roll. Alexa, Anita Dubois here. Bobby Claybornne. Charles Whitehead III here. Isaac Lewis here. Michael Lewis, Ricky Mallister, Sadie Sawyer here. Walter Johnson here. We have a That's a quorum of my

uh subsection 1.2 commissioners have been given uh copies of the minutes from uh our prior meeting. If there are no uh additions, deletions, or corrections, I'll entertain a motion to wave their formal reading and accept them as proposed. I'll make a motion. I'll second. Motion by uh Dub Boy, second by Lewis. All in favor say I. I'll oppose like sign.

All right. I'll sign those at the conclusion of tonight's meeting. Uh subsection 2 old business review uh uh 2.1 the application by roads property and development LLC 301 Martin drive the application by the roads properties and development LLC to subdivide the pilot following location the subdivision of lot one unit number one of Chenapin sub park subdivision located in the city of Nackish uh in sections 58 59 and 60 township 9 north range 7 west nagish Louisiana principal Meridian in Northwestern District, Nagnes Parish. The reason is for commercial development being uh municipal address 301 Martin Drive. Uh it's kind of a misnomer in that it actually includes part of abandoned uh Carolyn Street. U is there anything uh it appears to me, Madame Director, is there anything you need to add to my summary?

Um I think you said this was for commercial development. This is for resial. for residential development. Uh both of these are compliant. Is that correct? That's correct. And they're showing at least uh a 25 foot almost 25 ft side setback even though it's only required of what 10. Yes. And so this is a compliant lot that uh meets the minimum square footage. Any comments from from the public? All right. Mr. Rose, would you come forward and tell us uh please identify yourself and then correct anything that I said wrong or the director said wrong and anything you want to add to this.

So, James Rhodess with Roads Properties and Development and No, you really kind of summarized it. It's that lot took in the abandoned or half of an abandoned city right away there creating it to be abnormally wide. This just subdivides it into two lots that are I think the smaller of the two is 21,000 square ft almost half an acre. are more than big enough and our intention is to build single family residents on it. All right. Is anybody here uh to support the application of roads? Anyone in opposition to the application of roads? Any question for roads by members of the DAS? Yeah. Uh how many homes you planning on putting on here? Ju just the one. Just just the one.

There there's an existing house there now. It will it'll remain on you know we're divided into two lots. The existing house will remain on one of those lots and then we'll build a new house on the other lot. Any further questions for roads? Any discussion by commission members? What's the commission's pleasure? I make a motion. Motion by Lewis to approve. Second by Johnson. All in favor say I. I. I'll oppose like sign. Get out of that. I'm abstaining.

Show show Miss Dubo. uh abstain. Um, all right. So, James, you know the drill. I'll sign this today. She'll uh the director will take it to the next uh staff meeting, get the other signatures. So, on the 11th day, presuming she's gotten those, assuming nobody's still on vacation. Uh you'll need to bring this to D State and get it recorded and bring her a copy showing the mapline, instrument number, and filing date. Thank you, sir. Thanks, everybody. Uh any other old business madam director? No sir.

Uh new business subsection 3 uh subsection 3.1 Mr. John Marston Fowler 434 Williams Avenue the application by Mr. John Marston Valor who resone the following location. Lot 69 ft from the west side of Williams Avenue north by Phillip south by Le Moine west by Kane River Lake Bry Municipal address 434 Williams Avenue from R1 to R1 special exception. The reason is for to operate a short-term rental council person district number three in commissioner's packet. Uh would the applicant or his designate come forward? Uh the director summarize the application to the extent I left anything out.

No sir, nothing has been left out and this is just a simple reason for the operation of an Airbnb. I haven't had anyone to question the application, make any suggestions about the application or anything. All right, Miss Weaver, you here to uh represent Mr. Fowler? I am. Would you please come up and identify? Thank you, sir. Thank you. appreciate it. Please identify yourself and let us know if there's anything we left out.

Okay. And my name is Sue Weaver. Sue Fowler Weaver. My son John Marston Fowler purchased this home in July of last year. And due to some family circumstances that got us very busy, we're kind of late. I think several others got theirs approved, oh gosh, back in the fall maybe of last year. So, uh, as far as I know, things have gone very well for those and with the help of Miss Rock here and her staff, I think ours will, too. We're hoping to you'll approve and we'll be able to get going with it as a short-term rental for the high season coming up.

All right. Any questions for Miss Uaver from the D? Seeing that there's no one else in the in the audience, I'm not going to ask for other comments. Does have discussion by commission members? Yeah. Madam Chairman, uh what about the parking? Do we have enough parking? Well, this is a full residential home, so they have more than enough parking. Okay. Uh Madame Director, maybe I skipped over that. This is fully compliant. Is that correct? It is fully compliant. They need no waiverss whatsoever. that just need a reszone for that special exception. Yeah, just to complete the Airbnb application.

All right. Does that bring up any questions for anybody else? I move we approve the application. Motion by Duboce to approve. Second by Lewis. All in favor say I. All oppose like sign. Thank you.

Uh Miss Williams, you weren't here earlier since you're the only person that needs to know this. This will be introduced on September the 8th, 2025 at this location in front of the city council. It will not be voted on until September the 22nd, 2025. Next week, next Monday, they're not supposed to have discussion about it. It is supposed to be introduced uh only. However, if someone shows up and says they have a family meeting on the 22nd, sometimes the city council allows them to speak because they can't be here. My suggestion is you or somebody on your son's behalf, show up and be quiet unless the uh city council breaks with

and then on September the 22nd, that's when you get to have your say and they'll probably want to know more than we do because we do this all the time and they don't. All right. Uh I don't have a second page for my docket, so I'm going to go from last month's. We have any any other new business? No other new business. The only other office activities.

Office activities. So, we are actually doing an introduction uh to city council for our tiny home subdivision. Um what I would recommend that you do is to research tiny homes based upon the ICC rules and regulations. It gives you the compliance of what ICC recommends for what a tiny home would be, the construction of a tiny home. It gives compliance, it gives regulation, it provides everything. So if you Google or do uh AI tiny homes, it'll pull up everything for the IRC, the International Residential Building Code, which is 2021 for a tiny home, and you'll see what we're actually proposing. We're going to adopt it as is. If any changes are recommend, or if any changes uh need to be recommended, I'll definitely let you know before we move forward with that.

Okay? But I do want you guys Huh. They have a location at this time what they where they plan on No, what this does is just states that if anyone wants to do a tiny home or if they want to do a tiny home subdivision, these are the rules that will apply. I have been googling it. This is like the thing of the of for the future. Yeah, for the future. Yeah, I saw a lot of them.

So, I just want you guys to read that ordinance, ask questions, make sure you're understanding what we're proposing and how we're going to move forward with it. And if you have any suggestions or have any ideas or have any questions or think there may be something that we as a we as a municipality can take that ordinance and we can tighten it up. We can't make it less but we can make it tighter to make it fit negative if you feel so. So read that ordinance and give me your thoughts please. I really need some feedback from you guys. I need some input from your perspective as a commission. And so when's that going to be introduced? It's going to be introduced for the September 8th city council.

So it be final voting on September 22nd unless they choose to defer past that comment. So it's Monday, right? It's next Monday. Yep. That's for introduction only. This once again there's not supposed to be discussion about it. But that doesn't mean you can't pick up the phone and call the call the council persons, right, and talk with them about it. Uh any other office activity? Not at this time. Mr. Mr. Duboce, you're in the spot. I move we adjourn. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose like sign. Stand until October the 7th. Mr. When did you say that