Remarks by Ricky Lightfoot
43 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Jocelyn due to the aerial map and the notification map don't just create a supermajority situation Before last September the answer would have been yes but now because it creates an additional”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“On the outside storage, it says up to 14 foot high. What are they planning on storing there? Let's see, I believe there were... Because that's five foot above the nine foot requirement.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Because we're normally one foot under the fence.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Depending upon the size of it and stuff like that.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“My thing is, is that if you stack it up that tall, I mean, you get a shingle company in there, for instance, says, oh, we can go 14 feet. You got six feet of shingles you're seeing everywhere, all the way across.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's on the backside, right? Yes. All the way around it.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I can understand what she's saying as far as if you've got a big chiller unit. I mean, some of them things are eight, nine foot tall. You're bringing them on a four foot tall, four and a half foot tall trailer, you'd be 12 or 13 feet. But I think it should be more site-specific as far as the business goes and not just a blanket where... Because we had the issue with the pallet company behind Cost Plus, the same issue. I mean, they were in an industrial area, and they had the same issue as far as the height of the pallets.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I just think leaving it open. I'm glad to see something's being done with it. The thing's been vacant for a long time. So I just think the height and you see all the trees now. Everybody sees the growth. That's fine. But if you go down Maltby in the wintertime, them are all sticks. So you're going to see everything that's above that fence in the winter months because all them leaves fall and that's just pretty much all branches at that point.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, looking at it from a standpoint, I can understand it. Like if you had like a crane company or something like that, they're going to be, your equipment is going to be taller. Definitely. I just don't know about, I can understand equipment because equipment moves. but I can't really understand just outside just laid storage, you know, that height at all times. If something's there and it moves and it's in and out, I could agree to something like that. I just don't know about laid down storage.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And going back to what Debbie said, that last one we did up there by the railroad tracks for the Irving countertop, I mean, they were having trusses and they were just going to stack trusses up and we still made them drop down below the fence level. far as I saw material, and they're moving it in and out consistently.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And to clear up what you're talking about, Jim, you're talking about the car wash next door, correct?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. As the chair said, that's what we were told. It should not have any effect on the property. That's correct. Thank you.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“If there's no further discussion amongst the commissioners, I'd like to move zoning case 2026-220-ZC to City Council for approval. Second.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Commissioner Terry because at the end of the day your neighborhood is good it's not consistent with the neighborhood the lot is really too small to put in adequate parking and everything else for it and you know I look at things and it's conflicting because I believe people should be able to build what they want on their property to a certain degree but it also should be built responsibly, and it should fit the area, and it should not, you know, I look at it from 10 years from now. What could it be 10 years from now in your neighborhood? And potentially, like you said, it was a rental…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I can understand the height on equipment. You know, if you've got air conditioners like we talked about in the work session, big chiller unit, yeah, it's going to stick up. I really don't have any issues with the movement of height, and I don't think that even if it's movable, does that even create an issue with the height of the fence.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I understand that, but I'm talking about like a piece of equipment. It doesn't follow like a crane does not follow the one foot below the fence line.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. I can support what you're doing. I mean, I'm glad the building's finally got, you know, interest in it. It's been sitting there for a long time. And I know it got tore up during the tornado and everything else.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Let me ask staff a question. Jocelyn, how would we word this? I could support the truck or the heavy equipment or the item on a truck, but I don't want us to be in a situation where we're allowing lay-down products to set long periods of time six feet over an existing fence. I can't do that. So how would that be worried?”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, our certain heights, correct me if I'm wrong, is one feet under the fence. So if you've got an eight-foot fence, it would be seven foot. That's what we do across the board. But you're asking for an additional six feet, and if we don't word it correctly, then we could potentially be allowing... stacks of shingles for instance to be six feet above the ground and you're legal and the people in malby would have to be looking at that or that's a fair point so so that that's what i'm trying to figure out the wording are you okay with that yeah no now that i know that i better understand yeah…”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Any loose materials will stay one foot under the fence and heavy equipment or equipment on trucks. Cause you can't control a chiller or whatever. I mean, any equipment on trucks for as that goes, you know, it's, it's, you know, movable and move back around. Right.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“We could say any piece of equipment on a trailer.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I have one question for you. Would you be willing to, based upon this, go back in the back where Maulby is, clean it up, and then plant new trees to fill in the voids that are there? Evergreens, I think that's what they're wanting, is the evergreens.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, a lot of it is just – some of it's just shrubs and just – vines and everything else that grows up in between them i'm talking about fill it in a little bit more i'm not asking you to take it all out i'm just saying are you willing to go in and fill it in be a good neighbor and just sort of that way people don't have to necessarily look at it put something in there it's going to grow up and sort of mature out like an evergreen i mean our and we plan on doing that if the if the tree line dies you know our budget's pretty tight on this with some additional some additional um”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“There's no further questions amongst the commissioners. I'm going to try to see if we can get this right here. Zoning case 2026-245-ZC. Move it to city council for approval with two conditions. One condition is they can have heavy equipment and trailers. with no ground storage of any sort that goes over the required one foot under the height of the fence line. And for them to second consideration is to plant evergreens to fill in the voids for the neighbors on Maltby as needed along the rear fence line.”
Planning & Zoning Commission · Sep 8, 2026