Planning Commission - public_hearing

Good afternoon. Thank you all for attending our special administrative permit meeting on today, July the 21st, 2026 at 3.30 PM. We are your planning and zoning staff here at the City of Stonecrest. I'm Ramona Eversley, your senior planner. Up here with me, I have our planner, Ms. Felicia Blair. And across from me, I have my deputy director, Mr. Ellis Steele. We have two items on our agenda. I'm sorry, let me read the purpose and intent. This meeting was initiated by the state of Georgia. As of July the 1st, 2023, a public hearing is required for a special administrative permit for type one home occupation, a home occupation where no customer contact occurs. And this meeting occurs every third Tuesday of each month. The medium decorum please be respectful to applicants citizens and staff keep your questions comments and or concerns relevant to the agenda items 10 minutes will be allocated for each side in opposition or in support to make comments. Type 1 home occupation rules of operation. It comes from our section 4.2.31, home occupations and private educational uses. I'll move down to letter C. All home occupations shall meet the following standards. There shall be no exterior evidence 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 feet, whichever is less, may be used for operation of the home occupation. No more than one business vehicle per home occupation is allowed. No home occupation shall be operated so as to create a cause or 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 three, I'm sorry, section 6.1.3 and is limited to one business vehicle per occupation. So on today's agenda, we have two items, the first one is s a 26 dash 052. The address is 6312 sunflower flower place the applicant is gina Nolan of divine D and a consultants. The petitioner is seeking a special administrative permit to operate as a type one home occupation for administrative office use for an online consulting business. On this next slide, I have our future land use maps. The future land use is suburban neighborhood. On the next slide, I have the zoning map. This property is on R75 residential medium lot. I've also included an area map of the property and a location map as well. On this next slide is a submitted floor plan that was sent in to us by the applicant. And we'll have to pause real quick. Yeah, we have a technical difficulty. Sorry.

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You need And again, as I was going to put in Asia, I didn't say Asia. No, we don't know. Not the problem. It wasn't he said. The PowerPoint I don't think we put it in Okay, so if I put it in the extra what photo do I need to put it in. On. Okay i'm sort of. ready to go. Okay. Okay, good afternoon. Thank you all for attending our special administrative permit meeting hearing for July the 21st, 2026. Okay, time is now 3.41. Our first applicant is SA26-052. The address is 6312 Sunflower Place. The applicant is Gina Nolan of Divine DNA Consultants. The petitioner is seeking a special administrative permit to operate as a type 1 home occupation for administrative use and office use for an online consulting business. On this next slide, we have the future land use map, which is suburban neighborhood. The star represents the subject property. The next map is a zoning map. This property is zoned R75 residential median lot. The star represents the subject property. This map is the area map. The star again represents the subject property. I've also included the location map. and the submitted floor plan that was sent in to us. Now at this time, I would ask the applicant, Ms. Gina Nolan, to please step to the podium.

Good afternoon. Good afternoon.

Good afternoon, Ms. Gina. Is there anything that I did not mention in the slideshow that you would like to say to us?

Now you pretty much covered everything. As far as customer contact, there will be no customer contact outside of it being online. All the files will be online as well.

I have a question for you, Ms. Chena. What type of consultant will this business be?

Okay. So this is an online consultant for people who are interested in getting their DNA matches analyzed. So I would help analyze their matches and help them to become educated on what those matches mean and kind of navigate their family lines, paternal and maternal side.

Thank you for that. Staff, does anyone have any other questions?

Yes ma'am.

Do you, hello? Can you hear me? Do you also refer the applicants? How is the testing done? How's the DNA testing done?

The DNA testing is done through Ancestry DNA. So they already have the DNA testing done or I let them know of the different ones that are available, but we don't do anything.

Okay. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you miss Gina one other question, are you willing and able to abide by the rules and regulations of section 4.2.31 in our code. Absolutely, thank you okay you will receive your decision letter with within 24 to 48 hours, thank you so much okay, thank you. Our next agenda item is SA 26-062 with the address of 3208 Rockport Drive. The applicant is Veronica Ojo of Ojo Bookkeeping Services. The petitioner is seeking a special administrator permit to operate as a type one home occupation for administrative office use for a bookkeeping and accounting support service business. This slide is showing the future land use map, which is suburban neighborhood. The star represents the subject property. The next slide is the zoning map. The property is zoned R100, residential medium lot. On this slide is our aerial map. The star represents the subject property. I've also included a location map. This slide is a submitted floor plan that was sent in to us by the applicant. And at this time, I would like Miss Veronica Ojo to step to the podium. Hi, Miss Veronica. How are you? Is there anything that I may have missed in this presentation that you would like to say? No, you did good. Thank you. Thank you. Is there any questions from staff? Are we good? Okay. Veronica, are you willing and able to abide by the rules and regulations of our section 4.2.31 in the code? I am. Thank you so much. Okay. Well, you will have your decision letter within 24 to 48 hours.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

This will conclude our 3.30 SAP hearing. Thank you all for attending.