Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Thank you for your patience. We don't want to let it start, buddy. We've had some challenges here. So, as soon as Larry gets up, we'll get done. There we go. I was late, too. I'm going to give you a few tries for indication of what's going on. Okay?

Okay. May we bow our heads? Dear Heavenly Father, We come asking for your wisdom as we begin this meeting. We acknowledge that we need your wisdom and insight. We welcome your presence among us today, and we would like to thank you for this day. In your name I pray, amen.

Amen. I pledge allegiance. Thank you. Next order of business is reading and approval of the previous minutes.

Motion to accept the minutes as presented.

I congratulate those reading. Do we have a second? Second. Second. Further discussion? All in favor, please raise your right hand. All right, we're on to next item, old business. We don't have any old business, so we'll start with new business. We have three rezones tonight.

Is this right?

We have three rezones tonight. We'll start with RZ191163. Charles?

Yes, good evening. I hereby incorporate the entirety of my office's file and the video recording of the planning commission hearing, including but not limited to all witness testimony. for the Board of Commissioners to review. All future developments shall comply with all the political codes to ensure that all residential structures of the property meet safety regulations to protect the health and welfare of surrounding residents. The first case that we have before us is referenced as RZ. 163, the applicant is VNJ Keeter. The property is located at 86 Highway and 136 Connector in Talking Rock. The proposed request is to rezone from agricultural to highway business. The site is a total of approximately 13.32 acres, and this property is also referenced as parcel 018-019. The intent of this proposal is to create a commercial use, the commercial lot. You see there the location map. The property is along the southwest corner, the 136 connector. You got the aerial there. And the character area as represented in the comprehensive plan for this area is Crossroads Community, Blaine Community character area. And you'll find here the following staff analysis I'm about to read is per section six, seven, of the code of ordinances. The subject property is located at the southwest corner of the highway 136 intersection by a newly constructed roundabout. The property is surrounded by a mix of commercial, industrial, agricultural, and residential uses, indicating a shift toward a more integrated development pattern. Given its strategic location and anticipated ongoing development in the area, we propose Highway business zoning is compatible and presents a higher and better use than traditional agricultural use. The site's visibility and accessibility make it well-suited for commercial development, particularly as the existing residential structure does not align with the surrounding commercial activities. The increasing traffic volumes along Highway 136 underscore the need for potential future commercial zoning. This rezoning aligns with the comprehensive plan goals of fostering economic development while preserving community character. The combination of traffic improvements and surrounding commercial uses positions the property as an emerging activity center, making agricultural use increasingly impractical. In summary, the staff recommends approval of the rezoning request to enhance the property's economic potential and support regional growth. Those are the staff comments.

Is there water available? Yes. County water. Pardon? County water. County water.

Is there any traffic studies on either of the two routes? Can I hear that? Not to my knowledge. I'm sure there was a traffic study before the construction of that route.

All right, Mr. Bray, are you the primary speaker on this? I am, Mr. Chair. I'm forward.

We're glad to see you again.

Peace.

More my pleasure than yours, I'm sure, sir. Name and address for the record. Yes, sir. Good afternoon. I'm Mike Gray. I'm here on behalf of the attorney for Ms. Dina Keeter. Ms. Keeter is not available. She recently had surgery. So much at my displeasure, I have her husband here, Don Keeter. So that's my burden I must have, so I won't share that burden with nobody but myself. I want to ask Don to hold up what y'all have seen pretty much, because it does have some application. You can turn it to the audience. Here's that roundabout recently built. Across the street from the other commercial property, turn to Mr. Peoples and the board can see it. That's the subject property. The property lays well. It's generally a flat piece of property. It suffers both the advantage and disadvantage of the ram about having gone on. I'll be a little more clarity to you why I say that in a moment. This, of course, these show, this is Blaine, this is the hatchery, and then these others show some other commercial zone and along 136 going back toward Hinton. I know all of you folks are pretty familiar with that area, but it's incumbent upon me to address the nearby and adjacent commercial zone and classification in place. Thank you, Don. I tell you, you did a decent job. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, I... About one time, particularly when the staff does recommendations, I shouldn't say much, just say common sense applies. But a few zonings back, you told me how that beauty's in the eye of the beholder. So with that guidance in mind, I want to address several things with this board. I did take a look at the criteria to consider a zoning amendment. Most zoning orders incorporate some criteria to guide an applicant when they seek to try to get the true value for their property. When I view that, number one talks about is it compatible with adjacent uses? Well, it's compatible with the multiple zoning classification that's commercial already in that area. If you look at the hatchery where Swanbridge Road comes in, you look at the property which houses the old Blaine store, which is obviously a beautiful structure, and the other commercial zone on 136, we submit that it's compatible with the adjacent uses. Of course, it's adjoining the parcel that's still zoned AG. And on that parcel, we have buffers to address it. One line of this property does not have much vegetation. And I'm not familiar with your development standards. Some of those I am familiar with require when you have adjacent different zoning classification to plant better vegetation to create a buffer. And in this case, before this property is developed, if you were to suggest to plant that kind of vegetation, I don't think that would be inappropriate whatsoever. to help shield whatever goes in there as a highway business district that may happen. Property bank. That's where common sense, I guess, really mandates. If you've ever noticed that property, it's an old dairy barn. I visited a couple years ago. Even then, it was nearing its life, I guess you might call it. It was barely staying up. So a long time ago, there was some agricultural use in that area. But that's no longer the case. I mean, there's a little horse rescue place just down the road in the barn. But real agricultural use in this area no longer exists. And on this property, with the intersection of the roundabout and roads, agriculture uses are no longer an appropriate classification. And obviously the highest and best use is highway business district given its location. We all know that location, location, location is the three main factors in trying to figure out the value of property. So the value of the property zone we submit to Highway and Business District, its value would then be recognized, which would be many times over trying to market it for any kind of agricultural use. The only increase on this property has been toward commercial, not agricultural, not residential. It would be difficult to even do residential. You know, a lot of times residential, if you've got road frontage, you slice it up into lots. Can't do that. The access here is going to be severely limited and dictated by GDOT, and you're not going to come immediately off of the roundabout. So the property has got a benefit from the roundabout because it now controls much better movement of traffic. And going back to 515, the road has been dramatically improved to address traffic issues. It addresses, in your paragraph four, the suitability. Well, it's flat, and that makes it suitable. GDOT has put in stormwater retention piping under the road.

So is it suitable for agriculture if somebody wanted to plant it?

Ordinarily, yes. But it's highly more suitable for a... Highway and Business District, it's not going to be this massive grading that you have noticed in and out of other sites. It's generally a nice flat piece of property. So I submit to you, Mr. Chairman and Board, that it is highly suitable for the proposed use we're asking for you to consider. You know, you can't recognize the true value of property at reasonable highest best use unless it has the proper zoning class protection. That might be part of the common sense. I'm not very sure about that. Vacancy in marketing, as I indicated to you, there has been all the entries have been to commercial, not for residential. Not for, certainly not for, any kind of agriculture. Under your criteria number five, evidence of need. You know, it seems to me, by observation, quite the abominable, a lot of the commercial changes that's happened in, particularly in the city of Jasper, quite the abominable. They moved their city limits way down to 515. I was submitted. that the need for good commercial property out in this district is a benefit to Pickens County. You're going to get your residential growth, whether we like it or whether we don't like it. Because you're going to have people who want to live in Pickens County, and you're going to have the family of people already here that want to live here in Pickens County. So you're going to get your residential growth. The question is, what should we try to do to get our commercial roads. One of the first steps in order to try to get a residential commercial road is to have commercial property. And one of the criteria usually that applies is what road is it on. We're not on Bunch Court. You know, we're not out near a subdivision. We are on 136 and 136 Connect. I was out there just double checking things this morning and the traffic commercial traffic and other traffic was pretty prominent. I don't know when they took the property from the Peter family, when they did their condemnation, whether they produced or showed any kind of study on traffic study. They didn't share it if they did it. So I will submit to you that the anecdotal evidence that we have of traffic and the fact that we are experience an increase for commercial use, not non-commercial use. One of the things that comes up is that, well, what have you done to recommend the county approves of commercial zoning? Is it going to bring harm to the county? Is it within the realm of good public policy? I submit that it is. You know, with the ability to put a vegetative upland but join the next door. And they've already got commercial down the road. And we're not a destination project here, it's a general road. It's more people there already around our company going to travel in public. And I do adopt, of course, the staff's report. They submit an analysis far better than me, though I've been doing this 50 plus years. I appreciate that. While we talk about traffic on six, year six, or basically three. When GDOT decided, and they love these roundabouts. I drove up here today, and I went to another roundabout. I guess it might be there at the plant where they put a new roundabout right down on Oh, Highway 5, I call it?

There is a way.

Okay, well, they put in another one. And I'll have to confess, I think it moves traffic better, you know, than stopping it every time regardless. So anyway, GDOT's got the engineers and the policy, but we've got the traffic. So that's what takes away the ability to do something with this property unless it goes to Highway Fitness District. And we believe it is an improvement, and we think it's appropriate to consider that in your analysis and decision-making here this evening. I could beat a dead horse talking about two-state highways, so I've said that enough, and I won't say more on it. I believe that the last thing to mention is two-pronged, one-pronged sentence. The second thing is, I believe it's consistent with your plan, your property plan. I believe it's consistent. Now I know that the county is going to be undertaking within the very near future revisiting that like it's getting close to its 10 year birthday. So we are sort of the tail end of the old and a little too early for the new. but I believe we're consistent with the current planning plan. So for the reasons I have spoke to you about and the reasons that the statute reported in this analysis, I do request that y'all give consideration to what we've said, and I do respectfully request that this board do a recommendation of approval.

That's it, Mr. Chairman of the board. Thank you. Well, we have some questions. Yes, sir, I got it. Smart to hear women in the So you've got a couple of folks there from Pinnacle. Are they with you? The Pinnacle group? No. Y'all just interested people?

No. We're number two. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay.

Landmark. All right.

This is just my day job.

With respect to...

Thank you for that thorough analysis. But aren't we going to exacerbate the traffic problems by putting a commercial place there? You've already told us how rough it is, and it is unsuitable for cows to roam and plants to grow, and we're talking about a commercial application here. Won't that just make traffic worse? It's not opposites.

It's not a Longhorns, which I'm finally glad we got a Longhorns. My point being, it's not a destination property. It's more what's already happening out there than it would be destination. Well, there'd be some people that might go there that wouldn't be traveling, but people on 515 are 515 people. So I don't think that I'm being inappropriate to say I piece of property in its future development, Mr. Chairman. That would be my response to that. Is there anyone waiting in the wings to buy the property if this needs approved? Well, that somebody many years ago was me. But I missed my opportunity. That's no longer me. But there have been lots of inquiries. But we can't really have a good engaging conversation until we get our zone. So what would be the ideal situation?

commercial application that you would envision.

Might ask Mr. Key to address ideal. I think it's always possible that since the lake is down the road, people might store boats there or something on the back part of it, you know, while they, you know, journey on down to the, so they can pick up a boat and go to the lake, if they're going to the lake anyway. You know, there might be a possibility, I don't really know, of Possibly a convenience store operation. It's a little bit hard to say. We just feel that it's reasonable to request highway business districts so we can enjoy the same opportunity that other property owners have with a highway business district. Mr. Keeter, would you add to that?

Well, the inquiries, we've got very much so convenience stores, boat dealer, storage and mechanical work, He even had one, and I said, gee, you know, we've already got a, what is it, the bill that never worked? Dollar General, we already got a Dollar General pretty close, but I've seen them go up. But I've had all sorts of inquiries. I probably get two a month of never-ending migrants, and because I haven't been in no interest, I've had the property probably 14 years now.

Don't tell the generals that somebody wrote you about that. They're like...

They were one-dollar generals.

One-dollar generals are like roundabouts.

Yeah, the person that called on it, I didn't know that much thought into it because all he was trying to do was fill the building with red. But a convenience store, I mean, Buddy, I see Buddy back there. I stop in all the time. You're looking probably a few years away, but yes, I would think a convenience store would be your best bet because you've got a lot of truck traffic coming through and just a lot of traffic that I live now in Chatsworth, so I travel the road every day. There's a lot of boat traffic going.

It would be a challenge for truck makers to turn in and out of that property if they're going a certain direction on 136 because they would have to position themselves. They would have to have a heck of a parking lot.

Yeah, but DOT, and I don't know that you'd have as much truck traffic as you would boat traffic. You have a lot of boat traffic.

There is considerable truck traffic.

Yeah, but I mean, stopping. I mean, they may stop for biscuits. If they come in east, they can pull in pretty easy. They can go out the other side and go around. The other thing, we've probably got two inks. Both on 136 and 136.

GDOT's criteria for access to traffic is pretty dead-end, isn't it?

Yeah. Yeah, and that's going to be tight because that's, that's, uh, yeah, if you clean it and torque back the thing and watch one through six and you exit the dock, you've got to loop back around.

You're going to have to have your exit way down.

But most of the truck traffic comes from the Chatsworth side or the Reagan side.

By the way.

Yeah, both ways.

And there's considerable across the connector as well. Yeah.

But bone storage, that's one of the larger things, dry storage for bones.

So we can go back to...

But I say it's a combination of things that would deal with storage and convenience.

So to go back to Clayton's original question, that was what is going to be your positioning to market? Yes.

And again, like I said, I've had it for 14 years. about no big hurt. I tell everybody that I have some zone and I tell them it's ag. When you get it zoned, I'll try.

All right. Thank you. Thank you. So I'm going to share with you Mary Bell, 552 Swanbridge Road. Very nice email. She couldn't be here. She's in church doing the Lord's work. She said this request is to know what the land will be used for. i'd like to see the land state ag and not commercial certainly not a dollar general gas station there's little very little farm a planned left in all the commercial property and concerned that without a farm land there'll be no room for farmers to grow yes so that's that's mary mary bell's concern. So, Mr. Bray, you put forward, you shared with us, and you didn't go into detail, which you don't need to, but you provide us some constitutional law on this issue. That is correct. So my question to you is, how should we balance the interests of the other people that surround us? There's residential I think on that corner, the Barks is the only commercial place on the four corners of that roundabout, based on my review. So how should we balance the interest of the people who have lived there all their lives and would like for it to stay that way on a commercial track? How should we do that?

Well, I have been to this county for a long time. And multiple of those homes on 136 are not lifetime residents. They're new places. They're not lifetime residents in that immediate area. Well, Mary Bell is. Well, Mary Bell might be. That's the reason I told you to start off with. Ain't no dollar general made any inquiry with us about putting a store. We got one right down there. But somehow that property owner was allowed to have it. Highway Business District and a dollar general. And it didn't have any commercial next to it. Now, let me mention one thing, Mr. Chairman. Yes, I filed a constitutional challenge. You know why? Because the court tells me if I don't, I've not done my job. It's not that I feel like I ought to come in here and threaten somebody. You couldn't threaten us. I appreciate that. You know that. I know that. But the point is, if I don't do it, I've committed malpractice. It's as simple as that. So I do it as a matter of course to say, what is a good educational piece? Thank you. Well, you'll get lots of them as we grow. That's just part of it. Thanks.

Those questions. Is there anyone that wanted to speak on this? I don't have anybody listed for this particular item.

We don't. We just had the email.

Do I have a motion?

I would move that the application be approved as presented, Mr. Chairman.

We have a motion to approve. The application is submitted. Is there a second? Mr. Chairman, I'll second your motion. And a motion and a second. No further discussion. So I'd like to ensure that there's going to be an adequate buffer. Obviously, you're going to be subject to whatever the DOT is going to allow. Thank you. It would be nice to honor Ms. Bell's request that there be no Dollar General scope. Would you agree to that?

That would be Mr. Keeter. Mrs. Keeter would follow his direction. I don't know how to respond to that, Mr. Chairman.

I don't see the need for a Dollar General there, but again, you go back to somebody, for me, it's opening yourself up for, and when you start specifically saying, no, you can't have one particular item there, I think we both might open ourselves up for suit. When you start picking and choosing. It was a Dollar General two miles from here.

I just barely two miles down. That's the reason I spoke to the... I just don't see that happening. I know those things are like weeds in a garden. The way they pop up. I saw one pop up down there. Nothing within two miles of it. Down there at 108 and Highway 5 up on the hill. And I thought...

What the devil is that thing?

It's not a dollar general. You know, they got family dollar and dollar general. But we would like to be unrestricted, Mr. Chairman. That's all I can say.

But I understand the statement there. I don't think that's... Both ways.

You're interested in the highest price that you can get for that piece?

Correct. Wouldn't you?

Yeah.

Have you ever lived there?

No. So you always bought the land for investment purposes?

Well, I had to come to Pickett's County 55 years in the day. I've got a couple of farms here in Pickett's County, so I very much related with it. But yeah, I just got it for investment.

All right, we have a motion. You spoke about a buffer. Pickett's County requires a buffer. There should be no objection. that before anything goes in commercial, that that's a vegetated buck. Did you want to put that in there?

Well, Charles, I think that's in the recommendation. Is it in there?

Yeah, it's in there. Okay. Thanks, Charles.

But, no, I mean, if that's – I'm willing to take a chance on saying no to Dollar Generals if you guys are – I mean, that's –

I think the law would say if once we approve this as highway business, then it is highway business.

Okay.

Fellows?

Final recommendations by the Board of Commissioners.

Final approvals by the Board of Commissioners. We have a motion and a second. Further discussion? All those in favor? I vote against the motion. Nothing in favor? I'm going to respect it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Mr. Bray, good to see you.

Thank you, sir.

I told Mr. Reese I'd behave myself. You did? All right, we will close that hearing. And we'll open a hearing on RZ191179.

Charles?

Yes, sir. This next case is referenced as RZ191179, the applicant's landmark property services, LLC. The property is located at Highway 53 East. The request is to be zoned from agricultural to rural residential. The total acreage of the site is 8.1 acres. The site is also referenced as parcel 049-040-002. And the intent of this request is to create four buildable lots. And you'll see this next slide is just showing the location of the map and also the And the character area is Crossroads Community, Marble Hill. And the following is the rezoning staff analysis and recommendation per Section 685 of Code of Ordinances for Pickens County. The rezoning request for parcel 04904002 involves an 8.1 acre property located along Highway 53 The advocate is requesting to rezone the property from agricultural to rural residential to allow the property to be divided into four residential lots of approximately two acres each for manufactured homes. Each proposed lot would exceed the the minimum lot size requirements to the rural residential zoning district, helping to maintain the low density development pattern already present in the surrounding area. The property is surrounded by a mix of agricultural, rural residential, and highway business zoning districts, but the overall area remains predominantly rural in character. The proposed rezoning is compatible with nearby land uses and supports a reasonable transition from agricultural use to low density residential development. The proposal is not expected to negatively affect surrounding property values or create significant impacts on roads, public facilities. Therefore, staff finds that the request is consistent with the East Dickens conservative area and the Crossroads Community Marble Hill character area, both of which emphasize rural preservation, low density residential development, and development patterns that respect the surrounding landscape. Because the proposal provides additional housing opportunities while maintaining the rural character and quality of life of the envisioned Division for East Eastern Pekin County staff recommends approval of the rezoning request from agricultural to rural residential.

Thank you. All right. The pinnacle group. Come forward, please. Give us your name and address.

My name is Jeff Barrett. I live at 201 Little River Farms Trail in Canton, Georgia. Thank you for your funding, Mr. Bray. I just hope I can be as eloquent as you. We, Landmark is a company that I started to buy land and develop it for not just manufactured homes, but for stick belt homes as well. We may sell these lots as stick belt lots or as manufactured homes. We also own Pinnacle quality homes down by the racetrack, which is in the C1C desert. sell manufactured homes as well. I own both businesses. And so we actually also own a real estate company and just recognize the need for affordable housing in the area. That's why we started the manufactured home business. I have bought and sold real estate for 35 years in this county. We just, with the number of lots that are available, we are always looking for lots like this that we can divide and find affordable housing opportunities, either to sell the lot or to sell it as a spec home, as a spec lot. with a whole market ready to move into. So we're just looking for those type of opportunities. I think it fits in. Last year we sold the property to the east of this with a 4.2 acre property that we sold a manufactured home on. for, I think, around $400,000 for an 1,800 square foot house on four acres next door to this property. I think it fits in. Right across the street is a trailer park where the guy would go for us, I believe it is. They rent the lots. They have all types of homes there. This is not the greatest part of the county. That particular little strip of land... It wouldn't be allowed today. We all agree on that, right? It wouldn't be allowed to happen today with septic tanks and all that on 10th of an acre lots and all that wouldn't be allowed to happen anymore. But we don't think that it negatively impacts us that much. We think it works out. There's county water there. We've already spoken to the DOT about driveways and all that. We do this all over North Georgia. But I'm from here, and this is where we own businesses here.

So the average price of a home that you would envision?

We don't sell disposable manufactured homes. We don't sell bottom-end manufactured homes.

So you said $400,000.

That was an 1,800-square-foot house on four acres. And that's what the market is at this time. It's an 8.5-foot eight and a half foot ceiling, tile shower, stack stone fireplace. It's not what you think of as grandma's mobile home. These are really high-end manufactured homes. A lot of them are two by six inch two-year walls. They have trusses. They're not like the old seven foot side walls that had two by twos holding up a piece of metal on top. They're not that type of home. They have trusses. They're basically built just like stick-belt houses. all of that so that's normally what we do but if i put these lots out and someone wants to buy them to do a stick note on then i'm open to that i'm just looking for opportunities both real estate and manufacturing questions all right thank you of course we have uh kyle johnson he's coming to speak

I had originally come to speak to just make sure that the property wasn't going down. Name and address. Kyle Johnson. And it's 12,003 Highway 53 East. If you look at the property, I bought it to the left, I guess. I originally came up here to talk about making sure it wasn't an development with bright lights and all that stuff in that area.

But we had a lovely discussion with him. finding out that it's a $4 million lawsuit. I don't know what just happened. He didn't want a dollar, General. He didn't want a dollar.

That's really what it came down to. He didn't want a dollar.

Yeah. I'm alone. That's all I got. Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

Why should I? Why should I? I didn't want a dollar.

I didn't want a dollar. Okay. Life's too short not to have a little bit of fun. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve is recommended by staff. We have a motion. Is there a second? I'm second. Motion is second. Further discussion? All those in favor, raise your right hand. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. All right. Moving on to the last item. We'll close that hearing and start a hearing on Case number RZ191180.

Yes, as you just stated, this application is referenced as RZ191180. The applicants are Ricky and Tammy Jarrett. The location of the property is at 1057 Velasco Highway 108. The zoning request is from agricultural to rural residential. Approximate size of the tract is 10 acres. It's identified also as 065V as in boys, 004. And the intent of this rezoning request is to create a buildable lot. And you'll find the next two slides, the location match on the location, also an aerial view of the property. character area as per comprehensive plan is suburban residential. The following staff analysis is from sections 685 of the Code of Ordinances. This zoning request for case RZ191180 concerns parcel 065B004, a 10-acre tract located on the south side of Waleska Highway 108. The applicant is requesting a zoning change from agricultural to rural residential to allow for the construction of a single-family residence for a family member. The surrounding area is primarily characterized by rural residential uses, scattered agricultural tracts, large lots and low density development, making the proposed RR zoning generally compatible with existing land use patterns. The subject property is appropriate to low density residential use and would permit the establishment of a proposed 1.5 acre home site. which meets the minimum lot size requirements of the RR or Rural Residential Zoning District. Staff believes that this request is not speculative, but rather supports a genuine need for family housing while preserving most of the larger track for ongoing rural uses. The rezoning is not anticipated to negatively impact nearby property values or create conflicts with neighboring properties. Overall, the proposed amendment is consistent with the low-density character of the area and is expected to have minimal impact for public facilities, roads, utilities, schools, and emergency services. While the property lies within the suburban infill character area, the request maintains the existing rural residential pattern currently present along that portion or corridor of Highway 108. For these reasons, staff recommends approval of rezoning requests from AG to RR of the teenager tract to allow the separation or subdivision of one tract that would total 1.5 years.

Thank you, Charles. Mr. Jarrett, come forward. You're the last one. Name and address. 1057 Waluska Highway, 108.

We have to go for it because of the COVID. We can go to the start here. A lot of things changed in our community. First of all, our daughters had work had changed. She was offered a better job to come back home. And there was plenty of them living in the house, finding an apartment, whatever. But when the COVID hit... Things changed, prices went up, a lot of things changed for us. So she was stuck at our house living with us until she could make other arrangements. Along the same time, our son, the people that were renting the house from him decided to sell the house, come here in June. I told them I had to be out by July, but because the house prices went up. So we have all of our kids and grandkids living with us. We have 10 acres, which we bought from family. A lot of you may remember Joe Jarrett, surveyor in the county. He was our cousin. The property, once they passed away, come up for sale. So me and my wife bought the property in hopes that with 10 acres, we might be able at some point or another allow our kids to have part of it. It was on agriculture, as you know, because of county regulations and all. To be able for her to put, she's got a very nice mobile home. most of my life and a lot of your local homes now is built just as good as what a lot of your single story homes are. So I actually looked at it before we made the decision and their decision was to allow her to put this We have to rezone it and then survey, and we've done a survey to get the acre and a half, which would be at the corner of the property, set the mobile home for her and her son to have a good, decent place to live, hopefully for most of life. We're not planning on selling it. The property's not being used as part of the finance of the mobile home. She's doing all this on her own. The property will remain in my and Tammy's name. And she'll take care of whatever taxes or whatever might come up at that agreement and take care of the apartment. Once we're gone, her and I are saying we'll do whatever they want to with it. I won't be here anyway. But it's just she wants to stay close to us, but she wants her own space. And most of you can understand that, you know, when you got it. 11 of them living in the house. You want them to spread outside. And that gives them more room, hopefully, years down the road when they're soon as able. She saved up her own money to do all this work and all that. I'm very proud of her. She's done a very fine job. Got her down payment, everything set. We just need y'all's approval. Did you see that movie, Failure to Lunch?

I know where you're at, brother, because you are, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck. Thank you. All right. Do I have a motion? Move to accept the recommendation of the statute approving the rezoning. The motion is second. Second. Second. Further discussion? All in favor, please raise your right hand. Motion carries. Very good. Public comments. Not much of the public left. Other than you folks over here. Board comments. Director comments. Next month, Charles.

We don't have the total yet, correct, Jerry? Three cases right now. We still have the deadline. So far, three cases for all of us. Also, I just want to inform you all that we'll be letting you know when There will be further training for you for planning and zoning related issues. And then we'll get back with you real soon. That's all I have.

Thank you.

We have a motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn. All in favor? Thank you.