City Council - Regular Meeting

Prior to gabbling the meeting into order, we usually have a prayer to open the meeting. You're welcome to join us if you like. Tonight, council member Brent Falconberry is gonna lead us.

Let us pray. Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for granting us all one more day on your earth, Lord. Thank you for all that you do for our city and for us as individuals and families. Lord, please continue to bless us and the city and our nation.

Lord, please keep us all safe especially you know, those of us that are in harm's way, you know, whether, you know, in in The United States or abroad, please keep all the service members safe, Lord. Lord, please bring us wisdom tonight to make decisions that are in the best interest of all of citizens. Lord, we we wanna make sure that we we do things that uplift uplift us all, not just certain pockets of people or or our interest. Lord, please keep us please allow us to all have a great week. Keep us safe, and we will ask all these things in your name.

Thanks. Amen. I call this meeting of Monday, 03/09/2026 to order. Please join me rise and please join me with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Okay. We'll move on to item three a on the agenda recognition of the Rock Hill Bearcat women's wrestling team for winning the women's division of the South Carolina High School League wrestling state championship. So we should cancel.

Some move. Is that a proclamation?

It is.

Okay. So move.

Second. We have a motion second. Any discussion? Questions? Hearing and seeing none. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Approved. Alright. Coaches play wrestlers, y'all come on up. So Rock Hill High School Lady Bearcat wrestling team. Coaches here, ladies and gentlemen, just walk right around here and you can line up in front of the lectern.

Good job, ladies

and gentlemen. How are you doing? Good. How are Good Yes, to see sir. Okay.

The proclamation. Whereas the Rock Hill High School Lady Bearcat Wrestling Team was declared were declared the South Carolina women's dual team champions by defeating the Greenwood High School Lady Eagles sixty six fifteen at the South Carolina High School League Invitational on Saturday, 02/07/2026. Whereas the Lady Bearcat wrestling team finished the season with the 17 o record and ranked first in the state by South Carolina Wrestling Coaches Association, whereas seniors Maddie Beck and Alicia Thomas and team members Camila Torres, Riley Ferris, Alec Alexis Atkinson Frank, Ginger Rhodes, Reagan Beard, Audrey Norton, Tatiana Thomas, Juliana Haas, and Bella Williams, all played key roles during the championship success of the Lady Bearcats. And whereas, Yale Batista, Amy Bacanegra, Donna Tracy, Kalin Vondadora, Alyssa McKinney, Maggie Koger, and Eva Manning were instrumental in the Lady Bearcats wrestling team's overall success. Whereas the Lady Bearcats continue to enjoy success under ledge leadership of coach Timothy Kane Beard, assistant coaches Eddie Cook, Scooter Weathers, Kim Manning, Anthony Thomas, Cody Childers, and Ruben Velasquez, and team managers Elizabeth Lamboy and Journey Davis, and whereas the Lady Bearcats won their fourth state tournament in a row.

Now therefore, I, John Geddes, mayor of the city of Rock Hill, along with your city council, do hereby take this opportunity to congratulate the Rock Hill High School Lady Bearcat wrestling team and coach Timothy Cain Beard for their outstanding athletic accomplishments.

Thank you

so Appreciate it. Yes, sir.

Just thank you guys for having us again. We feel very blessed that, you know, this is a fourth four years in a row and and six out of the last seven, and it it it's due to all of you guys and, know, the hard work the girls put in, and we just thank you guys for having us. Thank you.

Thank you, guys.

Good job.

Stay right here. I'm gonna read through all these while we're here, then we'll send pictures.

Alright.

Alright. Let me get up here. Alicia Thomas. Thank you, Alicia. Alright. Recognition of Alicia Thomas is South Carolina State Wrestling Champion in the girls one five five division, one fifty five division. It's a proclamation. What's the wish from council?

So moved. Second.

We have a motion, second. Any discussion, questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. Whereas, Alicia Thomas is a senior student athlete at Rock Hill High School. She has a season record of fifty and two and a state record breaking career record of a hundred and twenty six and eleven. She was a four time state qualifier, three time state finalist, and two time state runner-up. She successfully qualified and competed in the South Carolina High School League state individual wrestling tournament in Florence, South Carolina on 02/21/2026 and Thomas' two thousand twenty six South Carolina State individual wrestling championship in the 155 pound division.

I, John Guest, mayor of the city of Rock Hill and your city council, do hereby take this opportunity to congratulate Alicia Thomas for her outstanding athletic accomplishments. Did I get it right or wrong? You got it.

Alright. Good.

You. Thank you.

I just wanted to thank you guys. You know, I love being with this team my last year, and I love all the coaches. Y'all have become family for me, and I will 100% come back and help out. But thank you, guys.

Thank you. Audrey and all. Please come on up. Audrey, come right up here at the hot seat. Alright. This is item three c, recognition of Audrey Naughton as the South Carolina State Wrestling Championship champion in the girls a 125 division.

Is there a motion? Approval. Second.

We have a motion, second. Any discussion, questions, hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. Whereas, Audrey Naughton is a freshman student athlete at Rock Hill High School. First year as a member of the Bearcats women's wrestling team, and she finished her first season with a record of forty four and four. Nalt successfully qualified and competed in the South Carolina High School League State individual wrestling tournament in Florence, South Carolina on 02/21/2026 and is the 2026 South Carolina State individual wrestling champion in the 125 pound division. Now, therefore, I, John Geddes, mayor of the city of Rock Hill and your city council, do we hereby take this opportunity to congratulate Audrey Naughton for her outstanding athletic accomplishments. Congratulations.

Thank you.

Just that, like, I love all of y'all, and, like, I would not have won if it wasn't for my awesome partners.

Okay. KJ Berg. Good job. Miss KJ. KJ, come on up. There you are. Sorry. Stand right there for me real quick. This is item four d on our agenda, recognition of KJ Berg as South Conover State Wrestling Champion in the boys 190 division.

So move for approval. Second.

We have a motion to second. Any discussion, questions here? Seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. Whereas, KJ Berg is a junior student athlete at South Point High School. He has been a member of the stallion men's wrestling team for three years, and he has a season record of twenty one and one. Berg successfully qualified and competed the South Carolina High School League State individual wrestling tournament in Florence, South Carolina on 02/21/2026 and became the South Carolina four a individual wrestling champion in the 190 pound division. Now, therefore, I, John Guest, mayor of the city of Rock Hill along with the Rock Hill City Council, to hereby take this opportunity to congratulate KJ Berg for his outstanding athletic accomplishment.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank

you, Mark.

I give all glory to my lord and savior Jesus Christ, and I thank him for putting people in my life like my dad and coach Pike. That's

it. Yeah. Here you go. Last is item three e, recognition of Tristan Mobley as South Carolina State Wrestling Championship, the boys 165 pound division.

So vote for approval.

Second. We have a motion and a second. Yeah. Any discussion, questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. Tristan could not make it tonight, so I'm a give this to you folks. You can give it to them. We wanna just take a second and congratulate all our athletes for your competition. It will be state team champions as well as individual champions and representing Rock Hill like you do. So thank you all so much. We're gonna take some pictures. Coach, you bring me that back.

Yes,

sir. We'll take the team and individuals, and we'll get KJ will get you up there too. Okay? So just hold on. Alright.

Congratulations, team. Yep. We're gonna do individuals. Alicia, you stay right here with us. State champions,

you stay hold hold up. You stay right here. Yeah.

We'll do your vote together, then we'll let you separate if you like. So you can get one each.

I know you're gonna take this this picture home and frame it.

Alright. Good job. One will step over. We'll take Alicia Alicia. Want me to do that? You don't have to, of course. There you go.

She put them all by herself. Alright.

Good. That good. Alright. Thank you all. KJ?

Yes. Thank

you all, coach. Thanks. Oh, here we go. There you go. Where are going, school?

Where are you going? You're to the office there?

Ready? 1.

Where? Oh, okay. Okay. 123.

Alright.

Congratulations. Good luck to you.

Been secret.

Come on, KJ. Right up here. It's right here in the good. And me.

I'm trying to send his dad those pictures.

Okay. Thank you all. Coaches, thank you all. Yes, sir. Congratulations. Congratulations. Great job. Congratulations. Good good young man. Okay.

We'll move on to item six a, consider ordinances oh, excuse me. Move on to four a. Consider approving the consent agenda item four a minutes of regular session of 02/09/2026, and four b, second reading and adoption of an ordinance for six supplemental ordinance providing for the issuance and sale of the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina limited obligation bonds with a hospitality fee pledge, the principal amount of not exceeding $32,000,000 authorizing the mayor, the city manager to determine certain matters with respect to the bonds prescribing the form and details of such bonds and other matters relating thereto.

So move or approve.

Second. We have a motion to second. Any discussion? Questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. We'll move on to item five a, consider ordinance for second reading. Ordinance to amend the second zoning ordinance to the city of Rock Hill code chapter five land use, accessory and temporary uses concerning mobile food vendors and special event permits.

This was voted on last time. No real changes since the last time. Is there a motion?

Motion to approve.

Second. Second. Yeah. Motions. Any discussion? This is this wasn't on the consent agenda because it wasn't a unanimous vote.

Oh, was. Okay. I can't remember what

Any discussion? Questions? Hearing you say none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No. Approved. We'll move on to item six. Consider ordinance for first reading ordinance to provide for the disposition by sale of property at 201 East Main Street, Rock Hill, South Carolina by the city of Rock Hill. Mister Dillingham.

Yes, mayor, members of of city council. If approved, this ordinance will enable to sell the gas building on Main Street. City manager and city attorney recommend approval. Ordinance for second reading, I I plan to attach the actual contract, but not for first reading. We're still working on that.

Okay. Thank you, Paul. Any questions for Paul? So, Paul, before you

go, just as I read this, as soon as he signs, he goes into a ninety day review period of the property. But the agreement between the city and the the buyer has sixty days for us to agree to the date of start and completion of the project. Is that the is that correct?

Yes. So every That sick that first sixty day period is is for that reason. Among other things, the the scope of the work, the the maintenance, the all the issues that would would be related without maybe getting hard estimates and hard bids just just so the so there's a complete understanding and and so the developer has a complete understanding what will be needed to complete the project.

And so then either party if if we don't have an agreement in sixty days, then it terminates or we Yes, sir. So even though the ninety days is not up, it would terminate because we don't have a sixty day

That's exactly right.

And and he would get his earnest money back.

Yes. If the contract would be void at that point.

Okay. Thanks. Just a little more certainty for everyone. Okay. Let's wish council.

So move to approve first reading.

Second. Alright. We have a motion, second, any discussion? Any questions? Please.

Council mayor, my name is

Rob

Settle. I live in Berkshire Heights, Fort Mill, South Carolina. My question would be, I've been trying to submit a contract for a client on this property for about a month, and I've been turned away at every every effort. We've got light due diligence, quick close, great buyer, great use. So I guess that would be my question. How do I get how do I get a reaction from the city?

Have you sent in a contract?

Yeah. Emailed it to you. I've got one right here if you would like to

have it. You just you'll send it to the city attorney, and they'll look

at it.

That's what we received Friday. Right?

Right. Yeah. That wasn't a month ago.

You what now?

So this was we received this Friday from you by email unsolicited. Correct?

That's correct.

And you didn't send

it to the city attorney? Hand it to him right there.

Yeah. Mhmm.

Thank you very much.

Yeah. We were working on negotiating with people

for Yeah.

Months. So months. Yeah.

Thank you very much. Thanks, John. Yes. Any other any other questions? Alright. We have a motion, second, no further discussion, questions. Hearing none. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Approved. We'll move on to item seven a. Consider planning commission recommendation on petition M dash 2026DashO1 by Bowen Horger to annex and rezone point eight six acres located at 1397 Celanese Road in the portion of 1196 Riverview Road from Urban Development UD in York County and General Commercial GC to Community Commercial CC tax parcels 662 Dash 003 and 662 Dash 05 Dash 01 and a portion of Point Dash 255. Properties properties are located in York County are proposed to be annexed into the city limits. Mhmm. Shana.

Good evening, council. So the subject site consists of two parcels located on the northern side of the city along the Selmonese Road corridor just west of the I 77 interchange. The parcel directly at the corners developed with a Shell gas station and the parcel to the south serves as both parking and an access for the urgent care user to the East. Surrounding user surrounding uses includes gas stations at additional three corners. So the property directly at the corner is located in York County and is on urban development while the the property to the south is partially located in York County in the city.

The county portion is on urban development while the city portion is on general commercial. Surrounding zoning consist of additional GC, CC, LC, PUD, and others. So the annexation and rezoning is being proposed in order to demolish the current gas station building and develop it with a drive thru car for user. The site has frontage along both Celanese And Riverview Roads, both of those are SCDOT owned and maintained. The existing gas station currently has three access points, two along Celanese Road and one along Riverview Road.

With the redevelopment, all three of those accesses would be closed and the site access from a single existing access point across from AME Lane. This access will be shared with urgent care user to the East and the developer is still in the process of securing a shared access agreement access agreement with that user. Although development is expected to generate at least 100 peak hour trips, which would normally warrant a traffic impact analysis, in addition to closing the three access points, the SCDOT, the developer, and the city have agreed that the only other traffic improvement will be to require a southbound left turn lane with a raised median up highlighted all those items on this plan. So the access is to be closed, the location of the median, the shared access, and then also, course, that's across from Amy Lane. So staff did its normal public outreach, did not receive any feedback regarding this request, little to no discussion at the planning commission.

And with that, staff and planning commission recommends approval of the community commercial zoning district.

Alright. Any questions for Shana?

So move to the accept the planning commission recommendation. Second.

We have a motion to second any discussion. Sean, before second reading, there are plans to to work on the road. I think Chris may still be in here. Yeah. And we'll just make sure if we can grab any right of way we need to grab in this for the purposes of enlarging selling these for the purposes of Exit 82. We don't do this, then I have to go pay for it.

Right.

If we're helping everything.

Of course.

There's anything to share on that.

The only thing I'd add, mayor, is that we have been coordinating with DOT and the proposed property developer and getting those two parties to communicate and know that that interchange work is coming with potential changes to the Celanese Corridor. So they're aware and they've been talking with us and DOT about it.

Perfect. Thank you. Yes, sir. Yep. Any other discussion? Questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. We'll move on to item seven b. Consider petition for annexation to the city of Rock Hill, Poseloneys Riverview Road Area 2, lying adjacent to the city limits. City The of Rock Hill, South Carolina shown on map dated 02/12/2026.

So moved to accept the petition.

Second. I have a motion, second. Any discussion? Questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approve seven c, ordinance to amend chapter seven annexation of the code of the city of Rock Hill so as to provide for the annexation zoning and award designation of Celanese Riverview Road Area 2 lying adjacent to the city limits of the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina. So moved for first reading. I have a motion and second. Any discussion? Questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Approved. Seven d. Ordinance to amend the zoning orders of the city of Rock Hill code by making certain changes in the official zoning map affecting approximately point eight six acres located on Sonny's Road and Riverview Road from urban development, UD, and general commercial GC to community commercial CC. So move for first reading. I have a motion and second. Any discussion? Questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Approved. Move on to item 70. Consider planning commission recommendation on petition MDash2026DashO2 by Benjamin Harris. Dannex and rezoned 71 acres including right of way at 661 Albright Road in an unaddressed parcel along Blackman Street from Urban Development UD in York County, industry heavy IH and general commercial GC to industry general IG and commercial industrial CI. Property located in York County is proposed to be annexed into the city limits. Tax parcel 626Dash7Dash1Dash001 and 623Dash002. Shauna?

Alright.

So I'll just wait for

the slide presentation to come up.

I have to wink after the

window. Sorry.

MasTec must have hit the line. Alright.

Alright. So the subject site consists of two parcels located in southeastern part of the city along the Albright Road corridor. It's also within the South Side Tip District. It is bordered to the North by commercial uses along Albright Road, to the West by undeveloped property and a commercial shopping center, to the East by the city electrical substation and additional undeveloped city owned property and to the South by single family detached homes and also the Blackjack Heritage Reserve property. The subject area consists of one parcel that is in the city and a split zone, industry heavy in general commercial, and a property in the county that is on urban development.

Annexation would include a 12 acre portion, annexation rezoning would include rezoning 12 acre portion along Albright Road to commercial industrial and the remaining 59 acres to Industry General. And just to provide a little background on how the IH property got to be that way or zone that way, The property was originally rezoned from r s three to Manufacturing Heavy back in 1978. Of course, Manufacturing Heavy is now referred to as Industry Heavy, and so that's how it got to be zoned this way, and it's been undeveloped since that time. So the pro proposed annexation and rezoning is two part. The portion of the property that is proposed to be rezoned to CI along Albright Road is being done so to allow for commercial outparcels in the future, while the remaining 59 acres to the rear would be rezoned to IG to support industrial buildings that total 610,650 square feet, and those would house speculative industrial uses that are allowed within the IG zone industry.

Because the buildings would meet the 20,000 square foot trust threshold for a major site plan review that would be required by the planning commission in the future. The zoning ordinance does have larger land use buffer and separation requirements in place where industrial users are approximate to residential uses, the developer intends to meet those buffers, which are further outlined on the site plan. So outline on the site plan is pointing out both 100 foot buffers and that's a 100 foot wide, and then also 75 foot buffers with that larger buffer, obviously, being required because of the single family attached uses to the south. And while we're on the topic of buffers and vegetation, it segues into the next slide. So this site was actually cleared without approvals around 2018, which the developer will be required to install additional landscaping in those land use buffer areas to mitigate that tree loss.

The developer is fully aware of this requirement and intends to meet it. So the site has frontage along two existing streets, so Albright Road Albright Road is s e d o t on and maintain, Blackman Street also. Blackman Street actually wraps around this site to rejoin Albright Road on the western side. Blackman Street has split ownership and maintenance, whereas the portion is owned and maintained by the city, and then the portion owned and maintained by York County. The portion of Blackman Street, is outlined in green, is owned and maintained by the city. Wait. That's the wrong spot.

I'm sorry.

So the portion in the Blackman Street that is outlined in green is paid in asphalt that is owned and maintained by the city, while the county portion outlined in blue and red has a small portion that is both asphalt and gravel with a lengthier section that is all gravel. So as part of the development developer would be required to dedicate additional right away along Blackman Street, which is indicated by the Black Hatch area on the site plan to increase the road with in order to bring the road up to city standards. The industrial portion of the development will be served by two private driveway accesses along Blackman Street. The zoning ordinance requires non residential uses that generate at least 2,500 estimated trips per day to provide two access points plus one for every additional 5,000 trips over 5,000. Due to the poor condition of Blackman Street from the southernmost access when traveling west along Blackman, during the time of civil site plan review, city staff will coordinate with both the developer and York County transportation staff to come up with a solution to physically restrict traffic at the southernmost access to prevent right turn lanes, turn lane movements toward Albright Road.

Access locations for the commercial outparcels along Albright Road would be determined along with that future development. And then because the development is expected to generate at least 100 peak hour trips, a traffic impact analysis would be required during the major site plan review stage due to the project, again, meeting that 20,000 square foot threshold. If additional traffic improvements are required, those will be added as conditions to that major site plan approval. So, the following map shows the subject properties. The purple highlighted area represents the 300 foot radius to which staff mills postcards, a loading prop property owners, and tenants of an upcoming public hearing.

The properties highlighted in yellow are the ones that fall within the radius and therefore receive a postcard. The postcards are, of course, in addition to staff putting out public hearing signs and placing the ad in the newspaper. So after doing so, staff received two phone calls from nearby property owners. Those are miss Sherry Shirley Cottle, who owns property at 1025 Archer Drive, and miss Bridget Wilson, who also owns an unaddressed parcel along Archer Drive. Miss Cottle, who's represented by the star that is inside the purple area, share the following concerns.

Miss Carter wanted to know the nature of the request, the impact on property values, and then also mentioned a possible property line discretion at the corner of the property. Miss Wilson, who is represented by that star that's just outside of that purple area, had questions about also had questions about the nature of the request. Also had questions about why she didn't receive a postcard, and that's just because she's outside of that notification area, and that was explained to her as well. So the public hearing on the request was heard last Tuesday, March 3 at the Planning Commission. There were four members of the public who spoke regarding the request, two of which who own property in the Archer Heights community.

So one of those was miss Shirley Caudle. Again, her property is that northernmost star, then and the second person was mister Corey Goldstein. He he owns property along Joe Louis Boulevard, representative of that southernmost star. There were a number of concerns or a number of discussion at the planning commission meeting, but the overall message from those that were that spoke was just that while while the neighbors and residents see the benefit in the proposed development and proposed economic impact that it could have on Rock Hill in this area in general, that the residents would like for the applicant to attempt to help bring utilities to the site. The morning after the planning commission meeting, the applicant email staff indicating that he had met with the those who spoke shortly after the meeting after the agenda item was over and expressed willingness to extend the sewer.

But again, it would be up to city council's discretion as to whether that could happen or not, and that involves annexation and those types of things. And then also indicated a willingness to have a survey perform, and that's in direct response to miss Shirley Cottles comment regarding the property line dispute at the corner. Other than that, there was no other public feedback. And with that, staff and planning commission recommends approval of the industry general and commercial industrial zone industries.

I have any questions for Shauna.

Shauna, I do. I was if you can go back a couple of slides. No doubt. Go back to the

go forward. Yep. Keep going back. Yeah. Where is the sewer line? What's the sewer line beyond that?

So I've got an extra one back here. So, of course, the green is the sewer, the blue represents water, and I've shown on there just because all the lots couldn't fit on here. It's about 2,300 linear feet to the end of Archer Drive, and then also Joe Lewis, they ended about the same juncture on Where

right now is the place of hope? Right. That's Where where the sewer line and the water line is Stop.

Right. So where it stops, so where that green where that green line is

Mhmm.

So the green is sewer, the green line is sewer, and then the blue line is water. The blue is kind of in the background Mhmm. Of but they're they're both kind of at the same area.

So if there's an extension, where would an extension be made at?

It would it would have to come from that juncture. So where the water and sewer ends. So it stops right there at the place for Hope. That's the community building there for the neighborhood, so that's where it currently stops.

So it would go on down to down, I guess, Archer and possibly over to Joe Lewis or just

So in order in order to rent it all the way down, Archer, that would be about 2,300 feet and the same along Joe Lewis Boulevard, they they end at a similar junction on juncture on each side. So in order to serve all of the properties in the neighborhood. Essentially would have to be ran all the way down.

4,600 feet 5,000 feet. Yeah.

So the developer willing to do that.

No. No. So, well, the the developer expressed the in the email expressed the willingness to help assist or, you know, at least willing to look at it, but, you know, ultimately, let the neighbors know that it would also be at city council's discretion also. You know, they they don't necessarily or they don't control the water and sewer. I think that's the message that they were trying to give to the residents.

And I don't know some of the there are more parcels at the end that do have, you know, residences on them, but as you can see, many of the parcels are undeveloped.

Quick question. So, you know, warehouse distribution is part of that IG zoning. Mhmm. They've got three buildings there that obviously smaller building would kinda limit what could go in there and how much distribution, whatever. What's to say that they couldn't build one big building and have some massive distribution center? But but is this site plan we're approving the three buildings? Is that what gives him that flexibility?

Unless unless you all lock the site plan in with the annexation ordinance, it would have that IG zoning and there wouldn't be anything to restrict them from building one larger building unless we were to do that at this point to lock it in that way. Similar to how we've done other annexations and rezoning.

So from planning standpoint, from the traffic standpoint and all that, one building versus three, would that cause a significant traffic impact potentially based on a user that could handle one larger site versus three smaller sites or what it would that matter?

I think I think that it depends on the the user. So the message at the Planning Commission meeting were that these are expected to be for manufacturing users, that's why the smaller buildings. But I would think that if it go to the larger building, then that would probably indicate possibly a distribution user.

Sharman? In terms of the traffic and trips generated is by square footage. So if if the square footage doesn't change and the number of buildings changes It's essentially the same. Yes, sir. From warehouse and and distribution compared to manufacturing, usually when we do a traffic impact analysis based on the market, we've been using about a eighty twenty split, warehouse distribution being 80, manufacturing being 20. Based on that, you could see anywhere between 300 up to 2,200 trips a day and and anywhere from between a 100 to maybe three fifty in the peak hour during the afternoons and evenings.

And can we get that updated to us, like, regarding this square footage and all that, what they're proposing before the reading?

Okay.

You know, just I wanna kinda get a sense of what all that.

Sure. We're likely required in traffic impact analysis and we just haven't gotten it yet.

Yep. I

mean, these are still pretty large buildings that can be distribution. Yeah.

I can go back to the site plan also.

And I attended the planning commission meeting and that was one of the concerns from two of the ladies that spoke. They want to make sure that those buildings would not be large enough to house something that was not desirable for the city of Rock Hill and for that side of town. And so I do hope we take that into consideration as well. Right. Because I too was thinking about what if they did not build the three buildings, like, could is there some way that we can, like, you said, lock them in to say, and if you don't build the three buildings, then, you know or even if they sail, you know, what are the likelihood someone else could come in and develop it to something else other than what we would like to have. Mhmm.

That was some of this discussion at the planning commission meeting, particularly the down zoning. So, of course, today, the property is on IH and they're down technically down zoning it to the IG. The IH allows for more intensive industrial uses but would would still be difficult to place here just because of the residential in the area. A lot of the uses require much larger separation requirements than the uses in IG. Some of em up to a thousand feet away from resident.

Still could do by right distribution in IH? Yes. So they have it now. They could actually

Yes.

Without the annexation or whatever of the front part of what I mean, they could actually do distribution now as a stand.

Yes. On on the portion on the city portion. That's correct.

What's wish council

of the other concern that I have is that miss Shirley Carter she was very concerned about her property and I would very well like to see us put a little bit more effort into giving her the answers that she need Mhmm. To support this annexation or approval of the rezoning going through Mhmm. That is her property and I think we need to do our due diligence to help her out. I know there were a lot of unanswered questions, and there were conversations that were had that said we we looked, but we couldn't find. Mhmm. But we I think we could put forth a little bit more effort to try to at least get her to where she's gonna be okay with this moving forward.

Certainly. Yes. I've I've spoken to miss Cottle on numerous occasions, and I did provide her with a lot of the plots. She actually did reach out to me today with a property card that show the corner of the property in question. So this is miss Cottles property here and that's that corner impression in in question. The property card had like a sketch of the area on it, and it noted that there is a conflict with the property boundaries. And I, you know, usually something like that is a, you know, civil dispute, but when we can, we'll look into it as much as we can and try to help someone as much as we can kinda figure out what happened.

The developer agreed to do like a survey. Right?

Because Yes.

That

out. The developer agreed to have a survey of of the property and obviously do a title search. So

And she also expressed concerns that because the her property is in that triangle area, that would her property be blocked from the role, so is that

No. So her property so, again, this is her property, this area is supposed to be hatch red like the rest of it, so all of this technically today goes with this property, this is one property, this is another. So the the idea would be to widen the road, You know, we toss around a staff that, you know, if the if the developer can, you know, make the turn radius, you know, without necessarily using that on the property that miss Cottle had believed was hers, that there may be, you know, some option where they offer it to miss Cottle or they sell it to her for some amount or or what have you, but the the road would be widen on their side. They would they would dedicate right of way sort of on this side in order to widen the road. So, it may be that they don't even need this or don't even use it.

How I'm sorry. How soon would how how long will it take for someone to get back with miss Cottle in regards to giving her the answers that she needs?

I reached back out to her today. She emailed me over the weekend. I reached back out to her today. She expressed gratitude for the information that I provided her, and I basically said this is good information. I know that she's working with attorney, and I say you may wanna give this to your attorney. You know, it may be that if if this turns out to be an error and it is your property, you know, I'm not a lawyer, obviously, maybe the the applicant can sort of like quit claiming many interest in the property to her if they're not using it or if they do find that it is theirs and they're not gonna use it so that's what I got back with it with but I can I can definitely follow-up?

Would that be enough time between now and second reading to get that information found out?

I don't know the I can find out the applicant's timeline for getting the surveys done.

So a couple things. I understand the traffic or access to the front parcel would be decided in the future and that could be one year from now. It could be ten years from now, but I would hope that we would just only have one curb cut service. You know, I I would rather not see that parceled off multiple parcels than everybody get a curb cut on that road.

That's not likely to happen. Along Albright, that's not likely to happen.

So I think the other thing, I would probably be fine with voting for this for first reading, but clearly, he's getting an extra building on the county portion because we would be willing to take that into the city. Mhmm. I would like staff to have some more discussions. David, you know, you and I had some discussions with the with the property near Locke Lane and Dave Lyle and the type of building, the way it's constructed can kind of determine whether it's going to be a large distribution center or whether it's going to be subdivided for smaller manufacturing operations. I would like to see us get a little tighter on some of these.

I know it's not a PD, but it seems like the applicant could give a little bit and us get a little more information versus just giving blanket zoning for three big buildings down there. So I'd like to see maybe working with the applicant a little bit to understand more of what those buildings are gonna look like, how the truck bays are gonna be, you know, how many truck bays there would be so we know what truck traffic looks like, whether there's trailers that are gonna be left, 50 trailers overnight backed up and be loaded all hours of the night with noise near residential area. I think we need some more of those details before second reading. Just my thoughts.

Because really on the city portion is he's already by right got distribution. He can only get one, maybe two buildings in there.

So it

would significantly change his, you know Correct. Site plan if we did not resolve that for him. So that will give and take there. Mhmm.

So with that, I would make a motion to accept the Planning Commission recommendation.

That's the second in that site plan.

Well, that's approving it for first reading.

For first reading.

Yeah. With with with staff trying to work and get us a little more detail and and try to lock the developer into what that development looks like.

The risk would be if it comes back looking exactly like this with no communication for second rate, it may not Correct. Not go through.

We have

a motion in second.

Yeah. Including the information for miss Cottle as well.

Yes. I'll I'll definitely assist miss Cottle.

So, yes, I'll second.

Yes. Thank you. Any other discussion? Questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Proves seven f, consider petition for annexation to the city of Rock Hill of Albright Road, Blackman Street Area 1, lying adjacent to the city limits of the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina, as shown on map dated 02/12/2026.

Question for Paul on this. Is it okay if we accept the petition if we potentially didn't approve for second reading, or should we hold that for second reading?

We still have to have

To read.

Completion of the annexation ordinance. So I would I would suggest that you accept the petition and if and and maybe with the proviso that you would allow the the owner withdraw it if if this development doesn't go through.

Because we only do one reading on Oh, no. On that. Right. But the

annexation ordinance, we still have to annex it through an ordinance process. So the the petition, I think, is is okay to

move Okay.

So move to accept the plan the petition.

Second.

I have

a motion to second. Any discussions? Questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved seven g ordinance to amend chapter seven annexations of code of the city of Rock Hill so as to provide for the annexation zoning and ward designation of Albright Road, Blackman Street Area 1, lying adjacent to the city limits of the city of Rock Hill, South Carolina.

So move for first reading.

Second.

Second move. Motion and second. Any discussion, questions, hearing, and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. Seven h, ordinance to amend the zoning ordinance to the city of Rock Hill code by making certain changes in the official zoning map affecting approximately 71 acres located on Albright Road and Blackman Street from Urban Development UD, General Commercial GC, and industry heavy IH to industry general IG and commercial industrial CI.

So move for first reading.

Second.

The motion is second. Any discussion, questions, hearing and seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. We'll move on to seven. I consider planning commission recommendation on petition T dash 2025DashO3 by the Rock Hill Planning Commission to amend the zoning ordinance standards related to the rural R U zoning district. Leah Youngblood.

Thank you. Good evening. So the proposed amendments tonight are really because of things that have occurred since we zone different properties rural over the past couple years since we created the zoning district. One is that we're seeing more people do this for different reasons. So we have this sort of blanket overall district, but we wanna break it into two, one that's more designed for residential uses and one more for commercial.

We would retain current language. It looks like it's stricken in the red line version you have, but it's not. It's just moved. But regarding things like the right to farm easements, water and sewer utility connections, and the number of residents is allowed per parcel. This is a simplified chart.

You guys have the full chart, but of more the agriculture type uses in which would be allowed in each of the two new zoning districts if this moves forward. You can see that a lot more of those types of uses would be allowed as a permitted or a conditional youth use which are staff level approvals in the rural commercial zoning district than in rural residential. Otherwise, a few of them are both special exception uses in both districts, the ones that need a little bit more input from someone like the zoning board of appeals after a public hearing process. Other changes we proposed when I first created this district, used tax code, and I couldn't find anything that really worked better in terms of picking it up from state law and defined it defined farms with rural and with urban based on that tax code. What I found is it's a little bit clunky to administer, and so we're proposing a more simplified definition and adding tree farms.

So instead of rural farm and urban farm, we would have the livestock farm, which is ones with animals, crops, which would be just crops, and then tree farms, which would obviously be trees. A couple of those have accessories where you could do a little bit of the other thing, but not everything at once unless you're zoned as a livestock farm, which is one of those special exception uses. It's my favorite slide ever. In terms of animals, this is one of the things that's come up. When we originally wrote this, you know, we were thinking people would stick to horses and then immediately we started having people ask for goats and donkeys, and I had to go to David and say, can we have goats and donkeys?

So it's more enumerated now. I tried to again look at state law and pick up definitions they use in defining livestock. Unfortunately, it didn't get me all the way there. So those are the types of animals that would be allowed and then others you'll see at the bottom would be still potentially going to David if someone wants to do something that's not listed but seems reasonable and non impactful to adjacent property.

And emus? No emus?

No emus.

I thought that was a city council feature.

Other changes have to do with accessory uses. One would be allowing some accessory structures that we consider accessory typically and are only allowed if you already have an existing primary use. Well, the first thing that happened when he's on property rule was everybody wanted to put up buildings without having a real primary use for all kinds of different legitimate reasons and so we interpreted it to be allowed but we need to clean that up. And so some examples would be gardening structures, storage structures, kennels, fences, etcetera to be able to use the property before the property owners are ready to move to it or in some cases they may live nearby but here's their pasture land and so needed to have a little bit more flexibility there than we've had in the past in the city. We also would allow some deviations from the typical standards such as fencing materials.

Obviously, for livestock fencing you may need a different kind of fencing than we have allowed in the past in neighborhoods and noncommercial properties. In terms of the building codes, the state law is really specific and it says that we are not allowed to enforce building codes on farm structures. Farms are defined. I can read it. I brought it up if you wanna see, but basically any use that's for a farm that's not a residence or attached to a residence, we cannot enforce the building code.

I want you all to understand that because it has some implications. We can still issue building permits, but then after that, I'm not sure they just get to be built. We can also review for flood standards, I just wanted to point this out to you. What I wrote into the red line version is to say, if this ever changes under state law, we want to exercise our full typical rights and be able to enforce all typical measures of life, safety, the fire, building codes, etcetera. In terms of public input, we did a lot of public input this fall.

I heard very little response back, but we sent this to a group of local developers and design professionals who've asked to be sent red lines before they go to the planning commission. No one from that group, including someone who owns foreign property, responded with any input. We also sent it to all property owners of land that's owned rural already. All members who are of the public who originally gave input into the creation of the district, and then because in both cases, these people were interested along the way, the county planning director and the county council chairwoman. Didn't hear any input from any of those.

I did hear from one resident who's I think it's a mapping error, but a small sliver of her land shows up as rural. So when we did the postcards, the rural property owners, it was picked up. But she was mostly interested in learning about the types of animals, the number of animals that might be visible, you know, from her property. No one spoke at the planning commission meeting, but I would ask tonight that if you're inclined to give this first reading, we defer second reading. Something that Shauna pointed out that I didn't think about is that if we're creating two districts, right now we have rural, right, and if we're moving to two, then we need to select either rural residential or rural commercial for each of those properties that's on that way.

And so I want to go back to these property owners and say, hey, all you Mount Gallant people, rural residential, cool, and then the one that's on Mount Holly probably rural commercial, and just do that input before we bring it forward for final reading. There's no real business reason to try to rush this and no customer reason, we don't have anyone currently asking for an application that not doing this more quickly is impacting. So I just ask for that consideration. Happy to take questions.

Any questions for Leah? Yeah.

Sure. So at, you know, at one point this was kind of a hot button about the East Side development and we're gonna take everybody's farmland away, we're gonna run water and sewer, and it's gonna be a major problem, and I think the county county person was very involved in Mhmm. Fighting against that, and and we sent them with no comment Right. From

I sent both. The the people who are most involved in crafting this originally, I sent it back in I think it was November or maybe December, but months ago. That's part of the reason why it's taken so long to bring forward at this point because I thought, well, maybe it was the holidays and I just never got a lot of input. So I think, hopefully, they looked at it and they were comfortable. But,

you know,

gave them the opportunity.

Look, before I drill down into some of the details, big picture. So if somebody wants to come into the city, it's one of those encouragements, hey, if we if we kinda need them for whatever reason, they say I wanna leave it the way it is. And it's been a farm. It's been a working farm and it's got the fixing and it's got all this stuff. I mean, how do you handle that? They come in as grandfathered in. Mhmm. What happens? They pass it down to a family member. Now they're out of out of zoning requirement. We're make them go back and fix. I mean, you know, I don't wanna get into something where No. They change use.

Yeah. That's right. So the grandfathering rules Yeah. Really stay in effect unless there's a break in that use and so it would be grandfathered unless it is not used that way for six months and then it would need to meet any regulations. But if it's just passed down, the ownership change itself doesn't matter. Okay.

There was a section on there about the water utility connection requirement. I don't if you wanna explain that, but I know we had an issue like Mount Gallant where they're, you know

Right.

Work through that. Right. Does does this paragraph, the way I read it, it it doesn't really address what that guy's issue was and we'd be right back

It does.

Negotiating.

It does. I added one little clause in there and I don't know exactly what it says without looking it up, but basically unless needed for to meet state building code requirements or state life safety requirements, something along those lines, then all of the water and sewer rule is in effect. So basically, that would say, and in that case the residence was not required to have a hydrant Right. That was the issue there under the state building codes and so it would it would address that issue. So that's a change from the current language that would fix it.

I did notice that, you know, there wouldn't have been two or three items that were permitted outright. I mean, we're we've created this in these two districts or this one district first. Now they're split them so to speak And nothing's really permitted.

It's not

to y'all.

It's all conditional or special exception.

Well, the conditional Like

tree farm is is special exception. I mean I mean

That's mostly because of the timbering regulations. Okay. So there's two things. One is that all conditional means it's still staff level approval. It just means that there's conditions they have to follow and so that's as long as they can meet whatever the conditions are which are in your packet, all those use specific standards then it's it's allowed, right, without having to go through any process with the zoning board.

And then I lost my train of thought on the A other tree farm. The tree farm. So the reason that's like that and y'all can of course change it, has to do with the buffering requirements. So right now, you know, the property that we had earlier tonight is a good example of this. We require certain regulations if someone is going to timber, right, and just clear their property and one's leaving a buffer and so they would need to do that and we just you know a little bit more scrutiny perhaps but again if y'all are if you're comfortable with doing that in one or both districts without going through a public process, then I'm I'm fine with that. But that's why it was set up that way.

I I I just wanna think through that because, you know, obviously, what we wanna do is is be less disruptive to the people who are farming and doing things to encourage, make sure they keep this rule, right, like we want.

Sure.

And I think the more things we put special exception, they have to come and get special permits to do normal activity, I think is not necessarily best thing. There might be reasons and I might agree with you a thousand percent, but you know tree farm, I get it. I don't know if it's more conditional where you can say, you know, it's conditional, the condition is as long as you provide a buffer.

We do it that

way. Right. I mean can we make, I just I just think we need to make this with only two or three permitted things in a normal farming activity which makes it more burdensome for a what what we're trying to accomplish is we're making it even harder. So we're being counterproductive in a way. So I think we need to look at that and if it's a farm and we're trying to encourage them to stay a farm And we may need their property rights, we give them the option that we've never done this before, that we need to make sure I think it's a little bit more conducive to farming activities.

So just to clarify for me, if it's a conditional requirement, that means staff's gonna have a conversation and check a box. If it's a special exception, it means you gotta go to the ZBA.

That's right.

So what I'm hearing, council member Black says, let's go back and refine that to get as many conditionals Right. And less specials

That's fine.

And see what we can come up with before second reading.

Yeah. Yeah. Especially on some of your normal practice activities. Now there might be great reasons why, and I and maybe I don't know that. So maybe we can get some information.

But To me it's just the impacts like the benefit there's two benefits of the ZBA process. One is that they're allowed to place other conditions on it. We're not. As staff, if we thought of it and wrote it and said that we're not great, otherwise we can't just add conditions.

Right.

The second one is that in the public hearing process.

Right. So if it's but let's let's step back on that. So if these farms were farms in the county, you can temper straight up at the property line. Right? So they would have no regulations, but They they would have no they they would have no drawback. They couldn't go to the county and say, oh, so and so can't cut his timber. You know what I'm saying? So they would need just to make sure that we don't wanna put an extra layer in there. So

On the other other side of that coin, what if the property owner adjacent property owner is worried about the kinds of animals that would be next door. Right. And they're in the city.

And then they're they're already dealing with that.

They're yeah.

Well, not necessarily if they're I mean, if it's not if it's not known what's allowed and what's not allowed, something could could come into that after the fact without some kind of conversation.

But we could I mean, I think animals are the largest concern in terms of impact. Right. So I could look back at it and say, okay. Let's you know, the animal stuff probably leave that as special exceptions, but any non animal stuff, peel that back to more conditional use process.

That seems fair. I mean, because, you know, like timber timber farm, whatever, timber less than 10 acres, I don't know who's gonna do that.

Is Price gonna go up.

Good luck finding good luck finding somebody who's gonna timber less than 50 to a 100 acres. I mean, so some I don't know. I just think we're we're I I just wanna make sure we're not counterproductive in what the goal of this is.

Sure.

I guess

it might have arrived.

I guess that yeah. And to your example, like, for me, when we did this, 901 Porter Road, that area we were starting, people were wanting to bring areas into the city, and you may have property in between that the property owner didn't wanna come into the city limits because they wouldn't be able to have a horse or

Right.

Whatever. But to your tree farm example, I mean, if that person can clear cut all of that, I'm not coming into the city limits if you tell me I've gotta have a 50 foot buffer or a 100 foot buffer and leave that. So I don't That can be To me, this was not about the city putting more restrictions on that property. It was it was facilitating a zoning district that would make that person more comfortable allowing us to annex their property Do the same thing they've been that they were doing that would allow us to get contiguous to another property where

Right.

Maybe there was an industrial building or something else. So I'm I'm a little leery like with just that example of of somebody cutting the timber on their property and you requiring them to keep a buffer when they don't have to they wouldn't have that in the county today. Mhmm.

We can I can do a comparison?

Good discussion.

I was and I was more comfortable with that too, and then we zoned all the lane off Mount Gallant Rural. And so that's we're back. If we hadn't done that, which was for a completely different reason, then I think that there it's almost like the original purpose of this changed a little bit and so now we need to think of it through both lenses and there you have, you know, people who are not farm owners who might may not want chickens or whatever.

Sometimes a clear cut is not a bad thing. It might look ugly for a couple years but normal forestry practicing can help with forest fires.

Right.

I mean, so it's a it's a you know, normal forestry practice can be a huge benefit even if it's beside another city piece of property but anyway I just don't wanna be counterproductive and slap all these regulations on something that we were trying to offer a benefit for them Right. And keep it the same as much as possible to some degree.

So but

there but like I said, there might be Yeah. There's another context. There's another context to it and I get it. So you just need to give us that feedback where then we could say, oh, yeah. Okay. That might make sense here.

Alright. I've got just a few questions too, Leah. Sorry.

Hank, that's okay.

No big deal. The right to farm easement, the property owner is signing basically an affidavit of some kind that says, I know that cows move and chickens do what chickens do and roosters do what roosters do.

Right.

That is just a recognition

Right.

That you're gonna be rural zoned, and you may not want all that stuff on your property, but you were in the county, so you're gonna hear all that stuff.

That's right.

Is that really what that is?

That that's all it is, and I don't that's part of the original language. I don't remember where I picked it up from, but someone else in The States using that kind of language.

Think the county does.

They may maybe it was them.

Yeah. Which I understand

because you don't wanna say like, you know, the fences to have signs saying that kind of information.

Welcome to the country. Get ready for the country. Right.

Yeah.

Fine. No worries. On talking about the number of residents per parcel and talking about how once you've got this property and it's deeded out that you cannot subdivide it within five years from that point in time. Reason why we pick five years versus seven or ten, because I'd like to push that personally, push that out a little bit rather than five years to keep that character of the community for a little bit long.

There was there was just our veterinarian.

You picked the number.

And that was that's been in here all along too.

Right.

But we can change it.

And then the one unit per every two acres, again, that's just sort of a standard you picked up somewhere? Okay.

Yeah. It's just may I pick numbers for some of the stuff originally?

You gotta start somewhere. Yeah.

But it wasn't based on any specific conversation.

Okay. So I I guess for you and Paul, is it better just to, based upon this conversation, consider this planning commission recommendation and amendment to the zoning ordinance as they are, but with this feedback, you just come back rather than us trying to legislate. Yeah.

I would much prefer

that. Yeah. Because she she said that you'd put off already reading anyway. So give her plenty of time.

I would already ask for that.

Adjust to make corrections. I'm I'm good

with that.

I'm comfortable.

The motion.

Yeah. Make a motion to accept plant accept plant and commission's recommendation.

Second. I have a motion and second. Any discussion? Any more discussion? Questions? Hearing and seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. We'll move on to item seven j. That was seven I. Seven j, ordinance to amend the zoning orders of the city of Rock Hill codes. Chapter three zoning district. Chapter four land use primary uses. Chapter five land use temporary and accessory uses. And chapter six community design standards concerning rural zoning district commitments.

Again, it takes two readings here. Right? So I make a recommendation to accept the zoning ordinance to cities of Rockville.

Second. We have a

motion to second. Any discussion, questions, hearing, seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approve. Move on to item eight a resolution to approve mutual aid and law enforcement support agreement with captain Grayson. Welcome, Kevin.

In the mayor council, thank you for your time. The MOU that you've been presented will allow if approved, will allow our officers to go assist North Myrtle Beach PD during bike week, which is May 22 through the twenty fifth, is essentially the same besides the dates, essentially the same agreement that we've had in the past with North Myrtle Beach, and it has also been reviewed and approved by the city attorney. Any expenses that are list out in the that occurred during this time frame through our officers will be reimbursed to the city. So there's no concern with that. Otherwise, the task and enroll will not be anything out there. We're never sides patrol services, crowd, and traffic control of our upper down there.

Thank you, Kevin. Any questions for Kevin Grayson?

So moved to approve the resolution.

Second. Second.

A motion is second. Any discussion? Second. Question. I'm sorry. Paying vacation. Uh-huh.

Same as

last year.

No, sir.

We have a motion to discuss motion to second. Any discussion, questions, hearing, and seeing none. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any any opposed? Approved. Thank you, Kathy. Thank you, sir. Item nine a, considered condemnation property located at 1002 Flint Hill Street. Dina Kiever. Dina's first time appearing before assistant city manager.

As assistant city manager.

Yes. Congratulations on the promotion. Thank you. Very proud of what you're doing. Please go ahead.

We would like for council to consider to proceed with condemnation for 2,100 square feet for a permanent storm easement for 1002 Flint Hill Street. And the reason for that is we've had some failure in the culvert, and we need to make a move on this. And this happened recently on February 27 that week. And normally, we've been working with the property owner since July 2025 to try to negotiate this property. Unfortunately, we haven't come to an agreement and now we've had this failure, so we need to move forward to get that easement in order to conduct the work.

It's a safety issue.

Yes, sir.

Alright. So if that culvert fails, that roads

We are concerned about the heavy traffic that would and we'll need to move contractors as quickly as possible, but there will have to be some diversion, so it might take a couple weeks.

So I have a question. So you stated that you have you reached out to the property owner back in July 2025. Is that correct?

Yes, ma'am. We've been working with the owner, and there's been some confusion over who actually owns that property. So we've been working with two individuals who had claimed to own that property, and we have not come to an agreement.

We were not able to decide or to understand who actually owns the property? We

do now. No. Yes. Yes, ma'am.

How much conversation have we had with that individual?

Arthur Miller, we've been having conversations as late as last week trying to come to an agreement.

Okay. And we didn't foresee that we didn't foresee this covert possibly collapse in prior to. It's just after the work had started that we realized that we needed to to take it to access this property prior to. Do we know that?

Well, this is a project that has been in play, and it started officially in November, and it's projected to run through October. So it was all scheduled to be replaced, and we would have gotten to this property eventually.

Mhmm.

Unfortunately, we've seen this failure, and so we wanted to go ahead and try to remediate this situation.

We have reached out and had conversations with him.

We have. Yes, ma'am. I can confirm that.

And I will say I did look at this property, and I have spoken with people who do live down in on that lower end of Flint Hill Street. I mean concerns that they have had is that it is becoming unsafe as well and the fact that. People are now moving the barriers that are put up for protecting people from going down certain areas that they've noticed that those barriers have been removed so that is has that has been a concern to some of the residents that do live down on that area.

Yes ma'am.

So move to move forward with condemnation at 1002 Flint Hill Street.

I'll second.

I have a motion to second. Any discussion?

Yes. Since that's been an issue, can we remove the plastic ones and put the concrete barriers there so they can't

move them?

We can look into that. Yes, sir.

We'll take

care of that.

Liability issue for the Essentially, as we're moving forward with the whole. Right. But Okay. Plastic is there now. What we need concrete since that's a problem. Since that's an issue, we need the concrete now so they won't move it and or go around it.

I do.

We can look at a more permanent solution. Yes,

sir. Any other discussion, questions? Hearing and seeing none, all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Approved. Alright. We'll announce our smart switch and customer connect winners. Congratulations, James Davis. You're our smart switch winner, and our customer connect winner is Claudina Morgan. You'll each receive a $50 credit on your next utility bill. Any city council committee reports? Any miscellaneous business?

For miscellaneous business, I would like to say thank you to you. Oh. Miss Bining, councilwoman Bining had been on city council long, but she was able to instrumental in getting the voice cast. It was. Was

it? It was

a AP history class AP history class. At Rock Hill High helped clean Lincoln Cemetery. Lincoln Cemetery that you showed me.

Yeah. Not only are they did they go over and clean it up, but they were committed to continue to clean it up. So it kinda helps the city out because we were getting calls to clean it up, but it's not a city property. But we were able to enter into a collaboration with them, and they agreed to maintain it going forward.

Yeah. And special thank you to Parks and Rec because they were amazing in helping us out with that. So thanks.

Well, thank you to both of you.

And we had a men on a mission along with with the city. Cleaning Green had a a cleanup on in February. We hadn't had a city council meeting, but the I think I'm loud enough. I got a big mouth. But the American Legion on no. The VFW on on East Main. I'm sorry. Was instrumental in helping us with that cleanup as well. Mhmm. And I just wanna give them a shout out and let them know we appreciate partnering with them for the polar bear cleanup, men on the mission as well as Glenn Green.

Thank you. Mhmm.

Any other miscellaneous business?

I just wanna take the time to say thank you to city management and staff, and my fellow colleagues, for your expression of love and support during the passing of my mom, and to all of those who have extended their support, their kind words, and prayers to my family and I during this time. I will say, allow us a little bit more grace. We're still trying to get through. And the hugs, I'm gonna ask that we hold off on the hugs. I'm just not ready for hugs at the moment, but I do want to say thank you to each and every one of you, those who are listening out, who extended their support and prayers to our family during this time.

So, again, thank you. I greatly appreciate it. And and to residents of War 5, if you felt like I wasn't listening to you or hearing from you, I was. I just wasn't responding to you directly. So, hopefully, your your needs were met during that time period where I was absent in the physical, but was always there with you in the forefront during that time. So, again, thank you to city management staff for your support and to the City of Rock Hill residents who extended your prayers to my family as well. So, again, thank you.

Okay. Alright. We have any other city council committee reports. Alright. We're an executive session or at miscellaneous business, I should say. We're an executive session. We'll see you in a few weeks. Thank you.