Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

The Planning Commission approved a preliminary and final plat for Macomb's Corners First Edition, conditional uses for a clothing store serving alcohol and an after-school care facility, and extensions for two conditional use approvals: 256 apartment units and 16 duplex units.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Opelika, AL
Meeting Date
August 25, 2026

Transcript

52 sections

0:02Speaker 2

We are without our vice president today, so the first item will be a vote for... And with that... Is there any other nomination?

0:10 – 0:28Speaker 3

Very well. All in favor of the president...

0:36Speaker 4

Tô um pouco preocupado com aquele trem lá fora. Eu disse que tô um pouco preocupado com aquele trem lá fora. Ah.

0:46Speaker 2

Então passaremos o restante da reunião para o senhor.

0:50 – 1:01Speaker 3

Obrigado, Médici. O próximo item da pauta é a aprovação da ata da reunião anterior. Há alguma correção, adição, exclusão ou emenda na ata?

1:03 – 1:44Speaker 2

Se não há moção para aprovar... . . . . . . . . Good afternoon, mayor and commission. I hope everyone is well today. Thank you. This is a preliminary and final plant request for Macomb's Corners First Edition.

2:03 – 4:01Speaker 3

It is a loting proposal that is outside of our corporate limits and our planning jurisdiction in the county. The property is usually located on the east side of Lee Road 268, just south of where 278 meets 266. The applicant is requesting seven lots in this division. The property in question is approximately 12.64 acres. And the lots exceed our minimum lot standards. We normally follow the minimum lot standards for our R2 zoning in the city and these will exceed this standard. They have lots in flag format proposed in this loting or specific division. There are three batches with masters, so to speak. The batches in flag format vary from 1.47 to 2.38 acres and the additional batches vary from 1.82 to 1.82 acres. The proposed batches will be residential according to the requirements. Departamento de Planejamento recomenda aprovação da... Não havendo declaro aberto a audiência pública, quem quiser falar a favor ou contra este assunto, venha ao pódio à frente. Por favor, diga seu nome e endereço para registro e limite seus comentários a cinco minutos.

4:06 – 4:40Speaker 2

Yes, Mr. President, because the access to the loting is a road from Condado de Lí and is in the Condado. The Department of Engineering of Condado de Lí will direct the spacing of access and the requisites of shared entrance of the loting. The engineering of Opelika has no other comments or concerns about this approval of preliminary and final plant. Opelika Water and Opelika Silver, neither of them meets this property.

4:45 – 5:02Speaker 3

Any comments? Is there a motion to approve the preliminary and final plant?

5:02Speaker 1

A motion to approve the preliminary plant.

5:04 – 5:41Speaker 3

Just a second. Ah, yes. Okay, the second thing is a public hearing for the use of conditonal. Colby Mcconnell is the authorized representative.

5:41 – 7:24Speaker 5

Thank you, Mayor Smith, and thank you to the committee. This item of conditonal use is a clothing store that is totally allowed in Zonamento C1, but they also want to serve alcohol in the store, so that's why... This type of use can be described as a boutique experience of drinking and shopping. They are offering selected clothes, personal style services, style workshops and sales shows as part of their services along with... They will have a small area below. There will be limited coquetéis, coquetéis without alcohol, beer and wine as an accessory use to this store. And if you are not familiar with this place, this is where... This is the place of the old Lavender. So, also on this lower floor, you can see one above the balconies. They will have about ten people. I will open the public hearing. Does anyone want to speak in favor or against this subject? Please come to the podium in the center of the room.

7:24 – 7:43Speaker 3

Say your name and address for registration. And please limit your comments to five minutes. Good afternoon, everyone.

7:43 – 7:54Speaker 2

My name is Colby McConnell, from the Barclay Crest Lane, Auburn, Alabama. My wife, Charly, and I are the owners of Soco House, which is the proposed location. We are excited to be part of it.

7:54 – 8:05Speaker 3

Is there a motion to approve?

8:05Speaker 2

The hearing is closed.

8:11Speaker 3

That's what I was checking to see if this was clear.

8:13Speaker 2

Public hearing closed.

8:16Speaker 3

Now there is a motion for. Next motion for approval of the use of.

8:22 – 8:33Speaker 2

All in favor of. And the next item is also a request for use.

8:33 – 8:56Speaker 3

This is the three in Salesforce. Mr. Obermann will present this case. And this is a boarding school in the school building. In the 3 and 4... What is a C2 zone?

8:56 – 9:57Speaker 2

This proposed place replaces the previous one of the requirement that is on the fifth street. That property was sold. They had to move. The time of the crèche is from Monday to Friday, from 15h to 18h, after school. And the installation will not offer any kind of nursery or care for small children during the day. Only from 15h to 18h. The crèche must be completed. They must have at least three employees for the 30 students, a ratio of 1 to 10. Another requirement is that the DHR inspect the bathrooms and any kind of mess around.

9:57Speaker 3

And they also require an external area around.

10:09 – 12:13Speaker 2

Our fire department will inspect the building in search of any alteration or something of the kind and then one or two extinguishers will probably be acquired. The property is about 1,250 square meters. There is a building of 150 square meters. It used to be a hairdresser's salon at the time it closed. Eight or nine years, I think, since it closed. The property needs a lot of repairs. We talked to the applicant about this and the owner is willing to make some improvements. Eight parking spaces are necessary and the presented plan meets this. Regarding landscaping, they have some existing trees and bushes, which meets the requirements of points, but they will also plant some bushes nearby. The planning considered that this will be a good asset for the area. It is a C2 zone. And on the other side of the street, it is a residential zone, which is about 5.6 kilometers from four public schools. So it's very close to the children's transportation. So, we recommend the approval subject to the installation of a new layer of asphalt at the entrance of the vehicle. If the base is solid enough to support a new layer, mark the eight slots, being a mandatory accessible for the disabled. This subject requires a public hearing.

12:13Speaker 3

I declare the public hearing open.

12:16Speaker 2

If you wish to speak in favor, you can come to the pulpit now.

12:23 – 12:39Speaker 3

Inform your name and address and limit your comments. As there is no one, I declare the hearing closed. Commissioners, any motion in relation to this item?

12:42Speaker 1

Motion to approve the conditional light and recommendation of the team.

12:46Speaker 3

Any discussion? All in favor, manifest in saying yes.

12:50 – 13:02Speaker 2

Yes, the next two items are solicitations and extensions of the conditional light. First, the suicide report.

13:04Speaker 3

Tênis will represent the Planning Department in this case.

13:12 – 14:00Speaker 5

For the use of Conditional C4, it is a request of submission. The original approval was granted in November of last year. The report of the Planning Department remains unchanged in relation to the submission of 2025, since the project has not undergone changes. The requirents requested the extension because it took several months to conclude the agreement with Alabama Power for the parking area, which is in the service of... But the apartments that were approved for conditional use and that are requesting the extension in the same are 256 units along the Society Hill Road.

14:02Speaker 4

...2040 shows this area as residential...

14:08 – 15:33Speaker 5

The property connects its commercial land to the development network. Some observations on different platforms. I will just see the team recommendations, which are specific to the project, which are exactly the same as those of approval. Add residential heating zones to the north, east and south sides, according to the requirements. If an amortization zone is used, it will be necessary to add extra plants to ensure that the protection... We recommend that all four sides... Similar in terms of finishing materials, windows and other design features provided in the elevations. Temos outras observações. Qualquer portão que precisa ser coordenado com os departamentos de segurança pública. Aprovados para entrada de emergência. Caso adicione. Requisitos. Ambas as entradas.

15:36Speaker 4

Planejamento recomenda aprovação deste projeto com essas condições.

15:59Speaker 2

Brett Baskerville from Foresight Group representing the requierent VG301 Oglethorpe Village Lane. Yes, this has already been approved previously.

16:08Speaker 3

There is a Lamama Power transmission service that cuts this property.

16:12 – 17:03Speaker 2

We have worked with them and finally negotiated a service contract that allows us to put part of our parking inside their area. The first scratch of this service allowed us to park in it, but they would have permission to remove any part of the pavement or parking at any time, being that part of our parking required by the enterprise was within this service. It took a little over a year, but we got an agreement signed with them that gives us flexibility to build with the proper notification and everything else so that we can build and work within their service as we please. I'm ready to answer the question. It took much longer than we thought, but we got there. Therefore, I will have pleasure in any question.

17:03Speaker 3

Are these ready for the market?

17:07 – 17:20Speaker 2

Yes, I want to say yes. They would be, yes. After this approval, we need to finalize the architecture. Part of the land is ready. We have plans approved by the prefecture. We are finalizing the definitive architecture.

17:23 – 17:35Speaker 3

How close are we to the public hearing? Commissars, any motion on this site? I make a motion for approval according to the recommendations of the committee. Any second?

17:35 – 17:46Speaker 2

I ask that everyone please say yes. The next item is also a request from... It is a construction of a house...

17:46Speaker 1

I believe that Mr. Bryan is taking care of this house.

17:56 – 19:58Speaker 2

Yes, this is an extension request for an approval of conditional use for 9 months or until May 25, 2027 for 16 units of geminated houses. Conditional use was approved at the meeting of the Planning Commission in September 2027. So the one-year deadline comes next month. Let's say the approval is for 16 units, but this development began in 1994 with 28 units and the first 12 Gemini houses were built in 1994. Since then, this plan, the director of the PUD, remained the same until September 2025, when they got approval to build the other 16. . . . . . And of course, they will add a garage entrance, some landscaping and a residential amortization area along the southern property line. The conditions listed in your report are the same as that of the September 2025 meeting. And this will also be applied with the approval of this extension.

20:03Speaker 3

Well, this item requires a public audience, so I declare it open to anyone who wishes to speak in favor or against this subject.

20:12Speaker 2

Please say your name.

20:22 – 21:35Speaker 4

Hello, Led Nettles, Baseline Surveying and Design, 2004, Yarborough Drive, Auburn, Alabama. Well, this project has been going on for a while. What they did was finish the whole construction. It's all paved. They've already removed all the material. It's all in place. They want to remove this construction loan and start to divide and sell as individual loans. So we'll be back next month for the final plant for that. But we're very close to this happening. So I decided to go ahead and extend the conditional use just for guarantee. You know, because they were ready to start immediately. And I said to him, well, you told me three days after the deadline, so there's not much I can do. So that's where we are. And as I said, it's almost ready, it's just missing the grammar and they are anxious to prepare the foundations, that's basically it. We are very close to finishing this. Any questions? I would be happy to answer them.

21:35Speaker 3

This also requires a public hearing, so I declare this public hearing open.

21:43Speaker 2

Whoever wishes to speak in favor or against this subject, please come to the pulpit, say your name and address and limit your comments to five minutes.

21:59 – 22:41Speaker 3

So, the last item here is the renaming of the city as a requirement. We feel that we need to better analyze the issue before presenting any action.

22:41Speaker 4

We are removing.

22:42 – 23:37Speaker 3

Another thing before we close today, I wanted to let you know that I left a booklet about So, if you are interested in participating, we would be happy to pay the required registration fee. Therefore, just let me know if you are interested and we will take care of your registration.

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