Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

I have six o'clock. So, I'll call the meeting of the Holly Branch Planning Commission to order. If we'll have the roll call, please. Pat here. Dion Jones here. Lewis here. Mark. Diane Singer here. Donnie Sing. Steve Stratton here. Okay, you've you've received the minutes of the December 9th, 2025 meeting. Are there any corrections or additions needed to the minutes? If not, do we have a motion to approve the minutes? I make a motion to approve the minutes. All right, we have a we have a motion by Mr. Jones to approve the minutes. Do we have a second?

Second. Uh we have a second by Miss Lewis. Any other discussion? All in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposed? And then the minutes have been approved. Our first item of business tonight is consideration of a ma application for a preliminary plat for Hamilton Place subdivision phase three submitted by Andy Richardson R&H Engineering and Surveying LLC on behalf of property owner Lloyd Miller Jr. The request is to create 19 residential lots and two common open spaces on 6.73 plus or minus acres. The subject property is on R3 Plan Residential District and is located at the northwest corner of Terry Chase Drive and Craft Road North known as 7295 Craft Road North. And we'll now have the staff presentation. Thank you, Mr. chairman. Um I'll endeavor to be brief. Uh I'll first give you the uh site vicinity map here. Uh here is Goodman Road to the south. Uh New Craft Road runs north south here as you can see from my pointer. Uh Terry Chase Drive is right here east west with St. Michael east west to the north of the site. The site is located at the northwest corner of Newcraft Road North and Terry Chase Drive. So, a little background on this project. Uh, as you stated, the applicant is Andy Richardson and he is presenting this application or submitted this application for Lloyd Miller Jr. The request is the approval of a preliminary plat for 19 detached single family lots and two common open spaces. The zoning is R3 planned residential district and

the location as I stated is the northwest corner of Terry Chase Drive and Craft Road North. Uh you can see in this lefthand map uh this aerial this is the proposed preliminary plat uh located on the aerial and to the right here is a layout of the lots. Uh as you can see the uh street comes in te's into two culde-sacs on either side. Okay, so a little bit of background. Um, this is a plus or minus 6.73 acre parent track. The land use is vacant. Uh, I've hit the highlights here. Uh, I've u highlighted them in purple or surrounded them in purple, boxed them in purple. Everything around is single family residential. Uh, with the surrounding land use uh surrounding zonings are R1, R2, and R3. And the future land use designation is medium density residential. Uh that's generally housing units with shared walls such as town homes or duplexes. And in the medium density residential land use designation density should not exceed eight developed units per acre. So, uh, as I've stated, R3 planned residential district, it does require lots of at least 9,000 square ft for onestory homes and 12,000 square ft for twostory homes. So, I've uh boxed the lots that are proposed for that are above 12,000 square ft uh in purple

here. As you can see, lots five, six, seven, and eight. And lots 14, 15, and 16 uh are proposed to be larger than 12,000 square ft. And uh right here, you can see here the lots. I put purple numerals on them. Those are the lots that will exceed 12,000 square ft. Uh minimum setbacks are shown below right here. 25 feet for the front yard, sideyard, five feet. uh on corner lots 25 ft also and then the rear yard 20 ft. Uh all the the width at the building setback lines are 77 70 ft. The proposed gross density is 2.82 developed units per acre which is below the maximum allowed density in R3 planned residential district which is 4.8 developed units per acre. Moving along, uh, utilities that are in the area. As far as sewer, there's an 8 inch gravity line within the proposed rideway of streets one and two right here. You can see in green. Uh, there is a water line also in blue. That's a 2-in line. And there's a gas line. You can see right here a little bit to the east of Street One. and it's to the north to the east street proposed street one and to the north of Terry Chase drive. Uh also of mention will be storm water. This will be detained on common open space 47 right here as planned uh in the overall plan. uh post construction storm water discharge from the site should not exceed the preconstruction state and will be approved by engineering. Uh moving along, we'll talk about

transportation right here. All streets uh are to service the proposed lots and they will be curb and gutter with sidewalks on both sides within a 50-foot public rideway. There are no proposed amenities for the subdivision. So the staff recommendation is that staff recommends that the planning commission approve the preliminary plat for Hamilton Place subdivision phase three and recommend same to the board of alderman subject to the following. Uh we have five uh conditions here. I'll emphasize uh condition number two and condition number three. Condition number two is that the developer shall submit civil construction plans for grading storm water management is which is of particular interest uh utilities, street lights, road construction and all other subdivision infrastructure to the city engineer and the director of planning and development or designate for approval. and also that the developer shall construct sidewalks along Cherry Ch Terry Chase Drive and connect to the existing sidewalks along Terry Chase Drive and Craft Road North. Um that concludes staff presentation. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Any any questions of staff? If there are no questions of staff, do we have someone here that wishes to represent the application? If you please come forward.

How are you? [clears throat] Andy couldn't be here today. Uh it was my engineer, but uh I guess if y'all have any questions. Okay, just state your name and address. I'm sorry. Uh Lloyd Miller Jr. Um do they know where I live or Okay, I'm sorry. So, um, anyways, I live at 2015, uh, Gracie Drive in Hernando, Mississippi. Anybody have any questions? No questions, then. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much.

Since this is a uh a plat, we do not have to have a public hearing. So, I'm going to uh ask the commissioners for any comments, discussion, or motions on this item. I make a motion to approve the preliminary plat for Hamilton Place subdivision phase three and recommend uh the same to the board of alderman subject to conditions 1 through six. Okay, we have a motion by Mr. Jones to approve the preliminary plan for Hamilton Place subdivision phase three. Do we have a second on that? A second.

We have a second by Mr. Long. Any other discussion on this? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? And no opposed. So the motion uh is carried and the application is approved. And thank you. The second item is consideration of application for a final plat for Harvest Church of Dodto submitted by Caleb Gil Civil Link LLC on behalf of Steven Roberts, Harvest Dotto Church property owner. The request is to create a single lot of 5.46 plus or minus acres. The subject property is on AR agricultural residential district and is located um located the northeast corner of Old P Lane and Old Goodman Road known as 1250 Old Goodman Road and we'll have the staff presentation.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, we'll draw to your attention here a a misprint as we start off, but uh where this property is located west of here on 302, we come to Pole Clane. We could take a left and go north on P Lane. We take a immediate right onto Old Goodman Road. As you did note, uh that's where the church is located, 1205 Goodman Road. lot zoned AR in which you alluded to permits a church church by use by right. Applicant intends to make the building and parking lot improvements in the future. Uh again, as we mentioned, the public adjoins Old Goodman Road. It's public rightway. Public water, sewer, electricity, gas are readily available and currently on the property. We did find the plat meets both zoning requirements, subdivision regulations, and staff recommends approval subject to various conditions. As you'll note here, I put um a civil link on the task of plotting out uh where the um actual building sits. So, as you review the plat in front of you as part of your exhibits, [clears throat] you can see there where the church and parking lot, the uh accessory building and playground does exist on the property. As I mentioned, the church intends to make renovations to the building and parking lot in the future. This is to enable a larger assembly use of the building that conforms with city regulations, including but not limited to meeting ADA requirements. And the issuance of a building permit for such improvements requires that the partial be platted. As I noted, the uh utilities are in the area. Public utilities such as sewer, gas, and water are available on the property. Future improvements would be

the uh responsibility of the property owner. Uh transportation, the lots accessible from Old Goodman. It's a public rightway. No street improvements are required at this time. There's no bond for public improvement. So no financial guarantee for public infrastructure is required. The applicant does not request any variance or waiverss from the subdivision or zoning ordinances. Our staff recommendation is the staff recommends recommends approval and uh offers that the planning commission recommended the board of alderman approval of the final plat for the harvest church of Dodto one lot subdivision subject to the following conditions. You've got one through five there. Uh pretty self-explanatory. Number four, as I did talk to the applicant, the final plat must be recorded before a building permit may be issued for any renovations of the building and or other development on the proposed lot. That is the conclusion of my presentation. Happy to take any questions.

Okay. Any questions of staff? Then no questions staff. Do we have someone wish to represent the application? Good evening everyone. My name is Greg Smith. I'm with Civil Link Engineering and u I really have nothing to add. The staff done a good job explaining it all, but if you need need me answer any questions, I'd be glad to do that. Both I and the applicant are here. Okay. Any any questions? No questions tonight. So, thank you. Thank you, sir.

All right. Since this is a U final plaid does not require public hearing. So once again I will uh entertain any comments, discussions or motions from the commissioners. Motion to approve. All right, we have a motion by Mr. Stratton to approve the final plat for Harvest Church of Dodto subject to staff conditions. Do we have a second? I'll second. Uh guess we'll have a we'll have a second by Mr. Long on on this one. Any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposed? And then the motion carries and application is approved will be submitted to the mayor and board of alderman. So is there any other business we wish to discuss tonight? Any other business?

No other business. I'd let the comm planning commissioners. We're going to have a very busy year. uh we will have a lot of uh zoning code update and zoning map itself the code update work between now and June will get done and between June and December we should get the map done. So we will be having especially when we get to doing the map the neighborhood meetings all those maps we have to discuss them the drafts here at the planning commission meetings uh to make sure that by the time we go to the man in December we have one document that the planning commission has looked at very thoughtfully. This should be really is the role of the planning commission to make recommendations on these things to the board. So we don't want this to just be a staff effort. Thank you and happy new year.

Um, two things. One, did you get some rest last year for this? And number two, will it all be done during our regular meetings or will there be any um the any discussions with neighborhood of course will be outside of the regular meetings for the code update. Everything will be doing the regular meetings under other business except on the day when you are actually recommending it to the board of ad then will be under new business and then with regard to the map then maybe if it is necessary we may have a discussion outside of our regular meeting if it is necessary but that will have to be advertised we go through all the public notice process if it is necessary but I think if we start in June then June June, July, August, September, October and November. We'll be able to get it done during our regular meetings. So, just kind of be prepared for a bit of longer meetings from June. I can put it that way.

Do do we know if there's any uh dates of fallen holidays this year? Um any of our just I'm only worried about us. So, yeah. Veterans Day. Yeah. No. Okay. The only thing is Thanksgiving and Christmas. So, all right. Thank you. No problem. Okay. And next meeting, I will bring you a calendar kind of a GAN chart for those specific meetings. So, okay. All right. Thank you. I guess we're open for a motion to adjurnn. I make a motion to adjurnn. All right. We have a motion by Mr. Jones to adjurnn. Do we have a second?

Second. We have a second uh by Miss Singer. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. All right. We are now ajourned.