Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. Thanks for attending our special administrative permit hearing on today, March the 17th at 3:30 p.m. I would like to first start off with giving you the purpose and intent of this meeting. Uh it was initiated by the state of Georgia as of July the 1st, 2023. A public hearing is required for all special administrative permits for type one home occupation. A home occupation where no customer contact occur occurs. Sorry. This meeting occurs every third Tuesday of each month. So meeting decorum. Please be respectful to applicants, citizens, and staff. keep questions, comments, and our concerns relevant to the agenda items. Uh 10 minutes will be allocated for each side in opposition or in support to make uh comments. On this slide is our type one home occupation rules of operations. Um I'll skip down to C. All home occupation shall meet the following standards. There shall be no exterior evidence or of the home occupation. No use shall create noise, dust, vibration, odor, smoke, glare, or electrical interference that would be detectable beyond the dwelling unit. The use shall be conducted entirely within the dwelling unit, and only persons living in the dwelling unit shall be employed at the location of the home occupation. No more than 25% of the dwelling unit and or 500 square f feet, whichever is less, may be used for the operation of the home occupation. No more than one business vehicle per occupation is allowed. No home occupation shall be operated as to create a cause or a nuisance. Home occupations shall not include the use of a dwelling unit for the purpose of operating any automobile repair

establishment or car wash. Occupations that are mobile or dispatch only may be allowed provided that any business vehicles used for the home occupation complies with the section 6.1.3 and is limited to one business vehicle per occupation. On today's agenda, um, first is SA26-010 69, I mean sorry, 6293 Cathedral Lane, Tyrone Major of Major Perspective Photography LLC. The petitioner is seeking a special administrative administrative permit to operate as a type one home occupation for the administrative office use of an onsite photography business. On this slide, it shows our future land use map which is suburban neighborhood. The star represents the subject property. On the next slide is our zoning map. Uh it it is zoned R85 residential medium lot. The star represents the subject property. And on this side is our overlay zoning map. It is currently in the Arabian Mountain Overlay district. Again, the star represents the subject property. On this next side is our area map. The star represents the subject property. And we've also included the location map. On this next slide is the submitted floor plan that was sent in to us. At this time, could Tyrone Major please come to the podium?

Hello, Mrs. Tyrone. How are you? Good. Is there anything that you that I missed in the presentation that you would like to state or would you just give us a brief of what you're proposing? Nice. Mhm. Is it going on green? All right. Can you hear me now? Check. I think Yeah, you're good. You're good. You're good.

All right. I'm a photographer. Um, wherever I may go shoot a wedding or anything else or whatever it may be, maybe maybe at a park or something. Um, only thing I'll be doing at the house is editing, which is what I do for my church right now anyway for free.

Gotcha. Thank you. Okay, now we have to ask, is there anyone here in opposition of this proposal? Is there anyone for or in support of this proposal? Okay. Do you agree with the rules and regulations of section 4.2.31? Okay. Thank you. Okay. You will have your decision letter within 24 to 48 hours. Thank you for attending this hearing. Our next item on the agenda is SA26-011. The address is 6686 Old Coington Road. Adam Stumbbo of Rare Plant Incorporated. Um, the petitioner is seeking a special administrative permit to operate as a type one home occupation for administrative use office use, sorry, for an off-site agricultural consult consult business. On this side, it shows our future land use map, which is urban neighborhood. Um the star represents the subject property. On this next map is a zoning map. It is currently zone R75 residential medium lot. The star represents the subject property. On this next slide is our aerial map. Uh again the star represents the subject property and we've also included a location map. On this side is a submitted floor plan that was sent in to us. At this time with Mr. Adam Stumbo, please come to the podium.

Make sure the mic is on. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Hello. Is there anything that you would like to state that I missed in a presentation or would you just like to give us a brief about what you're proposing? Just a brief uh proposal. Uh my wife and I are agricultural consultants. Uh we go to nurseries and check out their uh strategies for uh running their operation to the best of their abilities. Um we take some samples but we don't even take them to our house. We send them out uh day day of to get those taken care of. So nobody will be coming to our house for any purposes. We just uh we just will be using the office space there.

Okay. Okay. Is there anyone have any questions? Staff, do you have any questions? Sorry, I didn't ask. Okay. And now at this time I would like to ask that anyone in for or in opposition that would like to speak on this petition. Come to the mic please and state your name. I'm Joyce P. I'm neighborh.

Um really we're just here for information. We're here for information because we weren't really sure as to what will be taking place. Our first concern was for safety. You know, we we weren't sure if there will be like activity going in and out cuz we're right next door to, you know, um we've never had any problems, you know, as as neighbors. So that's really not a concern, but we weren't aware as to what the business entails if we'll have like constant activities going back and forth. You know, as I said, safety is of concern to us. Okay. Well, thank you. Well, you do know,

I'm just letting you know that a type one home occupation is there's no customer contact. So, there should be no signage, no customers coming to this home at all. Okay. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. We will absolutely uphold that. And Mr. Adam, I have to ask, do you agree with the rules and regulations of section 4.2.31? Yes, ma'am.

Thank you. Okay. Well, you should have your decision letter within 24 to 48 hours. Okay. Thank you. And this concludes our uh Yes. Okay. So, this concludes our meeting uh public hearing meeting for today. Um, we would like to let you all know that we're having a zoning rewrite that, uh, is currently taking place within the planning and zoning department. Um, our next meeting will be tomorrow at Lou Walker Center at 6:30 p.m. We ask that you all could come out. Is it sorry, six o'clock? We ask that you all could come out and voice your opinion on what you want to see, how you want the city to grow, you know, just to give your your intake or input for us to help us get this zoning rewrite on board. Okay. Thank you all. Uh we