Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

At 6 o'clock, I'll call the meeting of the Olive Branch Planning Commission to order and we will start off with the roll call. Before we do the roll call, I do want to make an announcement just to give y'all a heads up for next month in November. The second Tuesday falls on November 11th, which is Veterans Day, which is going to be a holiday. So, the city will be closed. So, the planning commission meeting for November will be Wednesday the 12th. I just want to put it out there for y'all now and not y'all when I send you the packets in November. Pat here. Dion Jones here. Janice Lewis here. Mark here.

Diane Singer here. here. CR. Okay. Uh you've you've received in your packets the uh minutes of the September 9th, 2025 meeting. Are there any corrections or additions that need to be made to the minutes? If not, is there a motion to approve the minutes? I make a motion to approve the minutes. We have a motion by Mr. Jones to approve the minutes. Do we have a second to that? A second. Uh we'll have a second by by Miss Singer. Any other discussion? All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? And the minutes have have been been approved. Um under the old business, we have an application for a zoning map a minute submitted by Sam Gassi at Pan-American Engineers on behalf of Murphy Oil uh US a property owners. And it was a request to reszone the property from PUD plan unit development to C2 highway commercial district for the purpose of establishing a convenience store with fuel pumps at this location. The 1.20 20 plus or minus acre subject property is located at the northwest corner of Hackscross Road and Highway 302, Holiday Crossing section A, first revision lot one known as 7015 Hacks Crossroad and this has been withdrawn and we received a memo uh of explanation and it's been determined that the resoning is not needed for this application. However, a conditional use permit is required for the convenience store with with the fuel pumps and will be considered by the board of adjustment on Thursday, November the 13th at 6 pm. So, if any of you are here for this application, it goes before the board of adjustments on Thursday, November 13 at 6 PM. So, uh if you're interested in that, you need to be at that meeting on November the 13th. So if anyone is here for that application, this has been withdrawn from from the planning commission. Okay. Under the new business, we've got an application for a zoning map amendment submitted by Andy Richardson, RNH Engineering and Surveying LLC on behalf of property owner Betty Thunderberg. The request is reszone 1.75

plus or minus acres from AR agricultural residential district to C2 highway commercial district for the purpose of allowing firework sales. The subject property is located on the south side of Goodman Road approximately 960 ft west of Huey Road and we'll now have the staff presentation on that. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, I'll first here, uh, I've got some vicinity maps to identify, uh, the where the site is. Uh, it's on Goodman Road. You can see here's the regional area map between Davidson Road right here and Pleasant Hill Road. The site is uh on the souththeast corner of the intersection of Goodman Road and Wedgewood Drive right here. Um moving down to the left here, you can see the subject property with the adjacent property zoning. Uh presently it is AR. Here's the site. To the west there's plan development and to the east uh C4. And then there's commercial also more toward the east. Uh there is office across the street. Uh I also have an aerial here uh of the site right here on Goodman Road. It is a forested piece of property. So, in summary, uh the applicant, Andy Richardson with R&H Engineering and Surveying on behalf of property owner Betty Thunderberg has submitted for consideration a reszoning request to

reszone a plus or minus 1.7 acre portion of an unplatted 160 acre tract located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Wedgewood and Goodman Road. This request is to reszone from AR agricultural residential to C2 highway commercial district. Uh the bullet points here I'm going to go over them really quickly. Current zoning is AR as uh previously stated. The requesting zone is C2. The purpose of this request is to reszone for uh fireworks sales. The size of the proposed parcel is 1.75 acres. the existing land use is vacant and the future land use designation is commercial corridor. So moving along to the proposed use. Uh on October 3rd of 2023, the mayor and board of alderman amended the ordinance regulating and permitting the retail sales of fireworks within the city of Olive Branch. The ordinance requires that all fireworks operators must submit a site plan which indicates these seven criteria below. And you I've got a map here on the right side of the screen. The size of the lot which has been previously identified as 1.75 acres. The size of the tent or building. Here is the tent. It is 80 by 40. the side um the location of the tent building on said lot. You can see here it's at the northeast corner of the of the proposed lot. The location of a 200 amp panel box on a power bolt power pole which is right here. Trash dumpster location

here. Parking surface compacted limestone or asphalt with a minimum of 10 spaces. We have 14 spaces provided right here and a letter of permission from the property owner to use this the land for the sale of fire works which is in your packet as an exhibit. So we have the analysis for used to evaluate a reasonzoning and they're listed below. Uh the original zoning classification for the property was a mistake. The staff finding is that the existing AR agricultural residential zoning designation of the property is not a mistake. The property was annexed uh into the city of Olive Branch in 96 with an AR agricultural residential zoning classification and there has been no change to the zoning designation of the partial parcel since an annexation. The character of the neighborhood has changed to such an extent to justify the proposed reszoning. The staff finding is the subject property area has become increasingly commercial from 1996 to 2025 as more vacant parcels that were used for agricultural purposes have been developed for business purposes reflecting a commercial land use character over time. And as you can see, I've included the uh 1996 aerial imagery, and you can see that there's, you know, some vacant lots all along Goodman. And then as you look at the 2025 aerial imagery, you can see that we've got commercial uses have been developed along the north side and along the south side of Goodman Road in this vicinity.

The last criteria is that a public need exists for the reszoning. The future land use map in the comprehensive plan 2040 designates the property as commercial corridor. The CT zoning district generally aligns with the policies in Lanny's character of commercial corridor. So the next step would be for this application to move forward to the board of alderman for a final decision. And the recommended motion is based upon the finding that the reasonzoning request satisfies the criteria used to evaluate a reasonzoning namely that the character of the area has changed from agricultural to highway commercial uses in the last quarter of a century. Excuse me. and that the future land use plan designates the property as commercial corridor to recommend approval of the reszoning of the suggested lot one of the explosive incident commercial subdivision being a 1.75 acre portion of the 160.77 acre parent track from AR agricultural residential to C2 highway commercial district. That concludes staff presentation.

Thank you. Are there any questions of staff? All right, no questions. Do we have someone here that wishes to represent the application?

Andy Richardson with R&H Engineering, 231 West Center Street. And I'll be happy to answer any questions y'all have. I really don't have much more to add to the presentation. Any questions? No questions. Thank you so much. I will now open this for public hearing. Is there anyone here wishes to speak in favor or against this application? If not, then the public hearing is closed and I'll now uh entertain any comments, discussion, or motions from the commissioners. Make a motion to approve based on staff's recommendations.

Okay, we have a motion by Mr. Sing to approve the application uh to reszone from AR district to C2 highway commercial district. Do do we have a second on that? Second. We have a second by Miss Lewis. Any other discussion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any opposed? And the motion carries and application is approved. Item number two is application for the final plat for explosive incident commercial subdivisions submitted by Andy Richardson or an H Engineering and Surveying LLC on behalf of property owner Betty Frundleberg. a request to subdivide the 7 1.75 plus or minus acres into a single commercial lot. The subject property has an accompanying application request to reszone from AR agricultural residential district to C2 highway commercial district. The subject property is located on the south side of Goodman Road approximately 960 ft west of Huey Road. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, if this looks familiar, you've already seen this slide. Uh, this is the regional map. Also, here is Pleasant Hill Road, Davidson Road over here to the, uh, east side on the right of your screen. And then, of course, Wedgewood, and then in green here is the site. Um, I'm not going to go over the rest of these slides. Y'all have seen them already in the previous presentation. So, uh, the summary and background is that Andy Richardson with R&H Engineering and Surveying on behalf of property owner Betty Thunderberg request approval of a final plat application for lot one of the explosive incident commercial subdivision. This application consists of one plus or minus 1.75 acre commercial partial and the intended uses for fireworks sales. Um here is a copy of the proposed final plat right here on the right of the

screen. Uh as far as the analysis goes, staff analysis the zoning. The proposed final plat complies with the zoning provisions and bulk regulations of the C2 highway commercial zoning district. So it is compliant with the zoning uh with the um bulk regulations. Uh the lot the proposed lot is for commercial land use and meets the required minimum lot and yard requirements of the concurrent reasonzoning application for C2 highway commercial. As far as subdivision infrastructure, uh the utilities, fire hydrants, there's a fire hydrant right here on the northwest corner of the intersection of Goodman Road and Wedgewood Drive. And there's a 6-in main water line in the vicinity. And you can see it runs south right here along Wedgewood. There are no gas lines in the vicinity. There is uh gravity sewer. There's a 4 inch line and an 8 inch line. The 4 inch line is up here north of the site and then the 8 inch line is off the map here approximately 3 315 ft to the south of the lot. Uh the sewer for the seasonal sale of fireworks is proposed by the applicant to be handled by temporary portable toilets. And as stated previously, uh, a 200 amp panel box is proposed to provide electricity as per the fireworks ordinance. Uh, transportation access is proposed from a paved section of Wedgewood Drive right here. You can see it right here. Uh, that appears to be part of the Mississippi Department of

Transportation's right of way. uh the guarantee of public infrastructure completion. There are no new public infrastructure facilities required. However, engineering department does request dedication of a 20 at least a 20 foot easement centered about the existing 6-in water line on the east side of the Wedgewood Private Drive. So right here you can see this water line right here to the left of my cursor going up right here and then it attaches that 6 inch line attaches or uh runs into that 8 inch line tease off of it. So uh as I just said the engineering department does request dedication of an easement centered about that 6 in water line. Uh, as far as variance and waivers go, the developer has not requested a variance or waiver. However, there are no sidewalks in the vicinity of the property along Goodman Road. Therefore, sidewalk constructions may be waved. So, the next steps uh upon recommendation by the planning commission, the final plat will be presented to the board of alderman for approval. The final plat would need to be recorded before building permits would be issued for the construction of the permitted fireworks stand use on the proposed lot. So the staff recommendation the staff recommends the planning commission recommend approval of the final plat for lot one explosive incident subject uh subdivision subject to the following. Uh, all improvements shall be responsibility to the developer. Add a scale to the submitted plat. Revise the plat to include the dedication of at

least 20ft easement centered around about the existing 6-in water line on the east side of Wedgewood Private Drive. Uh, the requirement for sidewalk construction in the street frontage of the property is waved. A driveway connection to a road section under the permitting authority of the Mississippi Mississippi Department of Transportation would require a permit from this department which shall be presented to the city engineer before use of the site. The planning commission may recommend that the site be paved for sale fireworks sale purposes and minor edits are applicable to the plat as may be determined necessary by city staff. That concludes staff presentation. Any any questions of staff? Okay. No no questions then. We're not required to have a public hearing on the final plaid. But Mr. Rich, is there anything you wish to add to the application? Okay, I will now entertain any comments, discussions, or motions from the commissioners. Um, does the applicant have any problems with paving 50 foot of the entryway? Okay. And this is just a crazy one. Um Dave, what's what's the subdivision?

Mr. Richens is if you don't mind, just come forward. We'll we'll answer the questions. Um explosive incident commercial subdivision. Yes. That's that's not going to be an omen, is it? No, I hope not. Okay. I guess that's just a what the family wanted to use, you know, since it's firework sales. All right. U got no problems with the with the paving 50 foot and I got no no other questions. Anyone else have any

just wanted to ask on 50 feet what um I was going to recommend that the site be paved for fireworks and the whole site the whole the whole site uh as the planning commission may recommend that the site be paved. Yeah. If you look at the and you can I mean it is I think the site one of the recommend one of the recommendations is that from from city staff is that they pay for the first 50t. Oh okay. And so and then because this isn't going to be used all the time

and the frequency and I'll let you answer. Yeah. I mean, this is going to be used essentially two to three weeks out of the year. Um, right. And it's it's really not going to even really be that visible from Highway 302. Okay. Because there's a tree line and we're kind of going to be set back in the property a little bit inside kind of in the center of that 1.75 acre lot. So, yeah. And it's it's elevated above 302 as well. So,

yeah. My only concern was coming off of um 302 into into it's not it's not very small but into that wedgewood or I can't remember the name of it. Wedgewood. Wedgewood and then turning into that property. Right. If it was if it was gravel coming into that it just might create Yes. pave the driveway more or less. Yeah. Does that answer your question?

It does. I think it would be u more attractive for it to be paved, the whole site to be paved. I don't much like the idea of gravel on in that part of town. I think the other fireworks um locations may have uh paved sites more than just 50. I think most all that I've seen are all crushed limestone. Okay. I mean, there's one right here I think on 305 in Milla Branch. That's just crushed limestone. Okay. I was thinking of um Camp Creek and Germantown Road, but I'm I'm may be mistaken. I haven't looked at it lately.

The whole the whole Okay. So,

if I may help the board with that, the fireworks ordinance gives the option of using limestone or paving it entirely when the site for Cam Creek that you mentioned was being planted. not require that it be paved. Part of it because of that element of what you may call a an aesthetic corridor of the city. You know, as you're coming in from Memphis or you're driving across the main corridors of the city, that was required to be paid. The other side down here that was replanted at the time, it was never really disclosed that this was going to be for fireworks use. They were just platting it, cutting off to create that lot for the car wash. And then after they had been platted, everything was done, then they showed up to use zero fireworks. So, so you have you have that option if you want to require and the way the code the the zoning ordinance reads basically is areas that you're going to have cars drive on should be paved. So though we may say the entire site is not really the entire what 1

seven is not really the entire 1.75. You may, if you want to recommend there, you may modify to say areas that you know you're going to have cars driving on on the side should be paved. That then will go beyond just the driveway to any other areas that car may be parked on the property. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Song. Um, I think I would like to have you consider u that that all of the areas that cars will be driving on would be paved. Do you think that that would be something that could be considered or agreed on agreed on. I might let Mr. Thunderberg speak to that.

My name's Laney Thunderberg and 1805 Hawthorne Hernando. Yes, that's that's a terrible expense to to black top that much acreage, right?

And then it's going to be sales I think and Mr. say something like something is I think it's a day or two before and then three days it's five days of sales and the tent will be up now that's 10 days out of the year and then the tent's going to be up a little longer than that because they you can't tell when they going to come place it but that that's that's a tremendous financial burden and uh and my my my boys operate I I I And uh it's just a sideline business form and uh they've been doing it like six or seven years up on Pleasant Hill Road and u church and so this is just a they wanted to try another location too and that road that goes through there Wedgewood that's not a city street that was done when Wedgewood was developed and the original developer had no access except Pleasant Hill Road to get into Wedgewood Golf Course. And he approached us, would we object to providing or allow him to put a road through that property that that goes and then turns back west to go across that big Camp Creek drain. And we certainly didn't object. And uh so it's never been dedicated to the city. So it's kind of like a driveway. And uh and that's the reason and it's it's on that such a large portion of property back through there that right now they're there's no discussion that's what you know the next generation is going to do. And so I I wish you would consider letting us do the 50ft entrance. We'll do that and then crush limestone. And they've got this mix now.

Oh, what is it? actually you know it's got a combination that's a good surface it so it's not going to be used a lot during a period of year. Okay. Thank you for that. Yes ma'am for that clarification. Thank y'all. Any other questions? Okay.

I I I have one question on the 50 foot of the paving. Um uh maybe we should add that it's got to be done to the engineer city engineers specifications and whatnot. When a motion is made, you can add all of that into a motion. Any any any more questions? All right. I will now entertain any more comments or motion from the commissioners.

I make a motion to approve uh the final plat with subject to conditions one, two, three, four, five, and seven. And with number six would be requiring 50 foot paved driveway built to city engineers specifications. Okay, we've got a motion by Mr. Jones to approve the final plat subject to the staff conditions uh adding that there will be a 50 foot pave subject to the staff on at the interest subject staff conditions. Do we have a second to that?

I second. All right, we'll let Mr. Long make the second on that one. Any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? And the motion carries and application is approved. Thank you.

Item number three is an application for a zoning map amendment submitted by Dale Wilson, property owner. The request is to reszone the property from C4 plan commercial district to C1 neighborhood commercial district for the purpose of establishing a nail salon at this location. The 1.50 plus or minus acre subject property is located on the south side of Goodman Road, approximately 520 ft east of Automokes Drive, lot two of Roy Hill subdivision, known as 6339 Goodman Road East, and we'll now have staff presentation.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To um bring us up to where we are again, we are on this same line here with 302. This is actually the fireworks stand we were just talking about. This is where it would have started here. Uh they are moving it down the road for a new use of this piece of property. So we've got the mug shots, we've got Corkies, we've got the various restaurants, Malco, Hamilton Circle. Moving right on past Hamilton Circle here on the left. Uh we've got Big Muddy Golf Carts, Chick-fil-A corporates over here for the area. Uh this would be our subject property. So originally uh this property was under a PD a plan development which was approved in uh 2019 solely for the conditional use of permitting the seasonal sale of fireworks. The applicant the new applicant uh intends to develop this piece of property with a nail salon which requires reszoning. Uh the PD that was original uh was only for fireworks. That was all that it was written for. Uh so therefore we have to change um change the use uh here and that's going to require reszoning. The character of this area as you know we just got done talking about it has become increasingly more commercial over the years. The intended use and proposed zoning are consistent. They are not inconsistent with the commercial corridor designation of the property for the 2040 plan. staff does recommend approval. To just give you an idea, if you were driving down the road here, I compiled some photos to try to give you a panoramic view here. This is that as they were just discussing uh crushed limestone 610 mix is the wording he was looking for for his combination, but this is 610 mix throughout. Uh you can

see here some upgraded drainage. This is on MD dot rightway. There is a tree line in the old PD that you may uh think about here. Um this tree line here wraps around this piece property. So that would be essentially the uh the ends of the property. So this piece of property is what we're talking about. This is the uh ditch here along the front. So on May 21st, as we just talked about, the board of alderman approved a project text for this piece of uh property uh the planned commercial development with the stipulation for any future development of lot two beyond seasonal use of fireworks would require significantly expanded text in both scope and design. Notably, the original project text was minimal, again, as I noted, uh focused on permitting firework sales. So, with this piece of property, the new owner intends to open up a building such as you see going up and down Goodman Road. Intends to open up a uh a nail salon. As you can see here, we're going to start the analysis part. So, I've got some zoning information uh minimum lot size down to imperous surface ratio, but the uh new owner does intend on starting construction. uh the subject property does meet the requirement minimums and uh we will talk about more of the analysis here as we go through with the reszoning. So was the resoning a mistake and the character of the neighborhood has changed. So the PDU PUD zoning designation of the property was approved even before 19uh 2001 but the property has not been reszoned since then. Therefore, no zoning mistake is applicable to the current zoning classification of the lot. Number two, the character of the neighborhood has

changed. Kevin spoke on that earlier with a previous presentation, mostly agricultural in the early uh 1990s up to 2000s. The Roy Hill subdivision, the Roy Hill PUD was established in the early 2000s. Again, since that time, Goodman Road has significantly expanded into a five-lane arterial roadway with the capacity to support neighborhood scale commercial developments of the sort permitted in the C1 district. A public need for this resoning exist. The future land use map in our 2040 plan designates this property and the area in its entirety as a commercial corridor. commercial land uses predominate in this designation and it does align with the purpose of C1 zoning classification. I've just got some um just some renderings here of what the building will look like. Uh the um Miss Stout is here and she would be able to talk more about the building, but this is just what it would look like again aligning with other buildings up and down this commercial corridor. So, uh, before we get to the next steps, as you can see, this whole area here, as you all know, from, uh, the the acory property down to where we were just discussing, Davidson Road is, uh, expanding and growing. So, the next steps for this particular application would be to move forward to the board of alt for a final decision. Upon the approval of the reszoning, the developer uh would need to submit civil landscaping, irrigation, so on uh building plans for staff for administrative approval. So a recommended motion would be upon finding the reszoning criteria have been met, namely the character of the area has changed from agricultural over the past several decades to commercial and that a public need could be met by provided providing neighborhood scale commercial

services to nearby residential areas at midblock location along the Goodman Road corridor. Recommend to the board of alderman to approve the resoning approve the reszoning of the 2.03 03 acres from C4 to C1 neighborhood commercial. That is the extent of my presentation. Okay. Any any questions of staff? There's no questions there. Is there someone here that wishes to represent the application? Good evening. I'm Susan Stout, 6655 Autumn Oaks Drive, and I am Mr. Fam's architect for this project.

I'll be happy to answer any questions. All right. Any any questions? No questions. And thank you so much. Okay. I will now open public discussion. Anyone here that wishes to voice their opinion in favor or against this application? If not, then the public hearing is closed and I will now entertain any comments, discussion or motions from the commissioners. Make a motion to approve based on staff's recommendations. All right, we have a motion by Mr. Singh to approve the application subject to staff conditions. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Jones. Any other discussion? All in favor signify by saying I.

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Any opposed? Application has been approved and thank you. And item uh number five here is an application for the fifth revision of Mineral Wells commercial subdivision submitted by Tracy Blay, property owner that requests combine lots two and three into a single lot of 1.07 07 plus or minus acres. The subject property of zone C2 highway commercial district is located at the southwest corner of MWC road and highways 178 known as 7067 highway 178. We'll now have the staff presentation. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We are heading north from City Hall now up past Maywood along 78 um up near Stateline Road. All keep going up. We hit Yahweh in the Memphis line. This would be State Line. And here is our subject property. The subject property is zone C2 Highway commercial. As the chairman said, the site currently contains a vacant building that's approximately 2,000 square ft. During a pre-application meeting, the applicant said that they plan to renovate the building for use for an office for Red River Express Incorporated, which provides contract logistics for FedEx. So, as we see here, this is the final plat of the first edition Mineral Wells commercial subdivision. and it was approved by the board of alderman recorded in February 19th, 2004. The subdivision originally included 23 lots. The proposed lot 2A, which is going to be located here with two and

three, will uh be a combination of these two existing partials. We'll start our analysis here. Just a couple uh photos and copies here of the original plat. You can see two and three here. Again, lot 2.39, lot 3.68. When we combine them, we come up with lot 2A. You will see a uh a um condition to rename the plat before we go to the board of alderman. We'll be in contact with Mr. West to see that that gets done, but this should be labeled lot 2A 1.0. 07 acres. Both parent lots, as I said, are in the C2 Highway commercial district. Proposed lot 2A will comply with the district's bulk regulations. The setbacks in the C2 Highway commercial are 50 foot front. And you'll notice this has two front yards. We have Highway 78 along with MWC Road and a 20 foot rear, same as shown on the existing subdivision plat. The plat meets the requirements of the zoning ordinance. little bit of our analysis here. The transportation, there's no new streets as we just stated. It's along Highway 78 and MWC. Uh everything's there. There's an existing building though it is vacant. I do think that the applicant has started to move his office and trucks up there. Uh there's no bond variance or deviations and no waiverss applicable. So, our next steps would be to forward this to the mayor and board of alderman for consideration. If approved, the plat would need to be recorded. Uh staff recommends that the planning commission approved the final plat for the fifth resi fifth revision of the mineral wells commercial subdivision lot 2A recommend the same. The board of alderman subject to the following. You notice one through six. They're all pretty standard except

for number five. I did note we would ask that uh Mr. West change the numbering of the proposed lot from lot two to lot 2A before the plat is presented to the mayor and board of altman for consideration. That's the extent of my presentation. Thank you. Okay. Any questions to staff? Real quick, could you go back to the previous slide? That's pretty fancy. That's all. Modern technology. Thank you very much. Well noted. How about that? All right. Uh no no other questions of staff. Do we have someone here wish to represent this application? If you will please come forward.

Good evening. I'm Becky Spain, 616 Bar Road, Tate County. I'm representing Red River Express. Okay. Any questions? No questions then and thank you so much. It's okay. I'll now open for any public hearing or discussion. Anyone here wish to speak in favor against this application? If not, then the public hearing is closed. And now entertain any comments, discussions, or motions from the commissioners. I make a motion to approve.

All right. We have a motion by Miss Singer to approve subject to the staff conditions and we have a second by Mr. Long. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? So the motion is carried and application is approved. Thank you. And we have an application for the final plat for villages of South Branch phase 2 submitted by Henry Porter WH Porter Consultants PLLC on behalf of Michael Turhune South Branch Development LLC property owners. The request to subdivide 11.86 plus or minus acres into 43 lots and three common open spaces. the subject property zone R3 plan residential district and is located at the east end of Cypway and north of Bram Drive. So we'll now have staff presentation.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. Planning commissioners before you is a request to consider the final plat for phase two of the villages at South Branch subdivision to give you a general location of where we are in the city. This is Pleasant Hill Road, Pleasant Hill Elementary School at this location. This is Davidson Road to the east. Stone Crest subdivision to the north and line just south of Stone Crest is the villages are south branch subdivision. Uh this area encompass here in yellow that has phase 1 A, phase 1B and phase 1 C of the villages at South Branch subdivision. The proposal before you is to consider approval of the final plat for phase two which would consist of this lot superimposed here in blue. The property is zona arrow 3 planned residential district. The preliminary plot was approved last year 2024 and this final plot in its layout align with that preliminary plot. This is 11.86 86 acres piece of property proposed to be subdivided into 43 lots with three common open spaces. Those spaces essentially be in the roundabout in the middle right here. Uh these lots will be accessed through an alley that is another common space and then there is another common space to the north here that is intended for storm water management. So the three common open spaces, one here for storm water management, the alley at the back of this lot and then the roundabout at the center of the plat as proposed before you. There will be two main types of lots that will constitute this subdivision plat. There will be nine village lots. Those are smaller lots, minimum 6,250 square ft, which will all be accessed through the alley. And then there will be 34 cottage lots, minimum 8,750 square ft. The rest of these lots shown

here in yellow. All the lots are proposed to be used for detach single family residential and these align with what we had in the project text and preliminary development plan for the villages at South Branch subdivision. Terms of infrastructure completion, Bangad Drive has been extended northward. These are streets constructed. If you look at the streets, they do not yet have sidewalks. Those sidewalks will be constructed by the home builders to build the homes. So the applicant or the developer will have to post a provide an irrevocable letter of credit to the city for all these public infrastructure that might not be completed at the time the plat is to be recorded. Other street infrastructure has been completed including this roundabout. This is supposed to have landscape in the middle. So that work is still ongoing. If at the time of recordation of the plat the landscape is not in then that will also need uh they also need to provide letter of credit for that. Usually the city attorney doesn't like that because that is supposed to be private. So they're going to landscape all of that. Fire hydrants those are utilities waters sew all of those have been installed. In terms of electricity the boxes are there but street lights have not been put in place. That will be done by the electrical company. So the developer has to work with electrical company to get all of that uh put in. There's a private alley as I did mention behind those village lots. Uh this is the alley is been constructed. Gas lines are in place. No amenity was required in this particular phase two of the subdivision. No variances or waiverss regarding subdivision infrastructure are applicable to this plan. The plan is recommended for approval subject to these conditions one to five. Condition number three being that any public infrastructure that has not yet been completed the applicant will have

to provide a guarantee to the city financial guarantee to the city uh in the form of a letter of credit plus a 25% contingency to ensure the completion of those infrastructure. Secondly, uh we asking the designer of the plot to add the length and the area of all new street sections that are proposed to be dedicated to the city as part of this plot. That concludes staff's presentation. Thank you. Okay. Any any questions for staff?

Quick question for staff. We had um I can't remember how long ago started looking at alleys, the construction of alleys differently. Um was Does the builder have to comply with the the way we're looking at alley or the way the engineers are looking at the alleys now or was this something approved previously? We did require the board planning commission recommended and the board of adamant did require in the preliminary plan what was constructed in stone crest. What we're really trying to get away from was what you had in stone crest this V-shaped design that put all the water in the alley and then you get very thin asphford and later on or no time everything cracks up. So planning commission recommended and the board of adaman required in the project text and the approval of the preliminary plat that the alley cannot be V-shaped and its thickness basically the section has to be constructed basically as you would construct the public street itself. In that way, the alley lasts as much as the street and that really saves homeowners in terms of, you know, dues, money that is needed to repair those alleys. As shown here, it is not a V-shape. I've been out there. I've taken note. So, the water would drain is not a V-shape and the thickness of the asphford is basically to public street standard. So,

thank you. You're welcome, sir. Any other questions? If not, is there someone here that wishes to represent the application? if you'll come forward, please.

William Kell with WH Porter at 6055 Premacy Parkway. I'm just here to answer any questions that y'all may have. Any any questions? All right. Thank you. No questions. And thank you. Once again, the final plat does not require public hearing. So, I will now entertain any comments, discussion, or motions from the commissioners. I make a motion to approve based on the staff recommendations. All right, we got a motion by Mr. Jones to approve the application subject to the staff recommendations. Do we have a second?

Okay, we've got have a second by Miss Singer. Any other discussion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? And the motion carries. And it has been approved. Final plat approved. Any any other business we need to discuss tonight? Not that I know of, sir. Okay. I guess we'll need a motion to adjourn then. Make a motion to adjurnn. Mr. Mr. Jones made the motion to adjourn. We have a second. Second that. Second by Mr. Sing. All in favor say I. I. And we are ajourned. Thank you.