Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

April 21st, 2026 meeting of the Temple Plan Commission to order. Go ahead and offer our invocation. Let us pray. Our most gracious, loving heavenly father, thank you for this day. Thank this opportunity to come together. Bless our meeting tonight. Bless those that are in attendance. Bless our city employees, dear God. Bless them each day as they serve. Watch over and care for their families. Be with us as we conduct our business tonight. Guide us in the direction that you have us go. bless the city of temple and care for us as we travel this evening. All these things I ask in your son's precious and holy name. Amen. Amen. Please stand and we offer the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge algiance 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.

Thank you very much. Please be seated. Before we do the roll call, we want to welcome our newest appointed planning commission major planning commission member forward two, uh, Mr. Ronald Woody. Appreciate your willingness to serve. We appreciate you for joining us tonight. All right, we'll go ahead and start with a roll call. Ward one, Gary Thomas is present. Ward two, Ronald Woody. Ward three, Troy Hollingsworth. Ward four, Calvin Waters, present. Ward five is vacant. At large, Taran Bippets,

present. We have a quorum. Uh before we move into our first items of business, I want to notify the planning commission that we will not be doing items 11, 12, or 13. They have been withdrawn for this meeting. 11, 12, and 13. Any questions or comments on that at all? Okay, moving on to item number four. Approve the minutes of the February 17, 2026 Temple Planning Commission meeting. Uh those minutes were emailed to you in your packet and you also have a copy. I'll entertain a motion whenever you're ready.

I'll make a motion we accept the minutes as they stand. I have a motion by Miss Bivvens for approval. Is there a second? I'll second. Have a second by Mr. Waters. Any discussion? All in favor of approval of the minutes as printed say I. I. Oppose like sign. The minutes are approved as printed. Item number four, status report on council action taken from the February 17, 2026 planning commission meeting.

Okay. So, you guys did a partial join for Ronnie Yertie at 326 Rome Street. Um, and you guys are the final on um partial joins and splits. The second item was removing the sunset clause. Um, what we actually did was the council decided after a brief discussion, there was a motion by city council member Russ Oh my gosh. Um, it was the exception to the

So, it's kind of hard to work through it. we were talking about possibly lifting it and what they're what the council actually decided to do was to extend it as long as the current property owner remains the property owner. However, if he sells the property off, then a special use permit would have to be applied for again by the next um property owner, which is the same motion that we made. Yeah, that was the planning commission's motion. We're talking about all we do is take the exception off of it.

Yeah. Yeah. Number 10, right above that, the mid the motion was by Teran to recommend removing the sunset clause with the stipulation that it would be in place as long as Alex V owns the property. Oh, okay. Yes. Yeah. So, okay. So, the council agreed. All right. And that was it. Okay. Thank you. It's been a rough day. Any any questions or comments on the report?

Nope. All right. Item number five, request by Glenn Harding with the Carol County Board of Education regarding a resoning request of 461 Sage Street, parcel T 040030017, land lot 172, District 6. Any comments by staff? Um both this item and item number eight are both properties that Carol County Board of Education has purchased and actually this week just demolished both of the houses. So we're changing the zoning from residential to government because it is Carol County Board of Education property now and it will be an extension of Temple High School.

So are we voting to do that or it's just an automatic change? that we have to update our map. Okay. So, Carol County has right we have to update our zoning map. Carol County has already bought the property. They've already demolished the houses. So, we actually just come back and change the zoning. So, it shows that it is government property now. Okay. So, then you're reszoning it residential to those two landlines. Is it government or OA? Government. Okay. And is that automatic?

No, you have to you're going to make a recommendation to the council and then they will council and then they will approve the resoning too. And did the planning commission not vote previously that we would not entertain any applications without somebody to speak on behalf of the applicant? And uh anyone here from the Carol County Board of Education? Okay. I don't think there was anybody here last time. We've always just we've always done it for with them. They've just kind of, you know, we've allowed them not as with our partnership

and and I'm not opposed, but as they continue to crawl up Sage Street, I'd kind of like to know the plan. Is it parking? Is it buildings? is it's a it's a covered um it's a covered practice field with a with a little bit of parking for the sports for the for the sports team.

Okay. Uh anything else from staff? Item number five, hold a public hearing on the request of the resoning request made by Glenn Harding. Anyone here to speak in favor of this application? Anyone here to speak in opposition to this application? Hearing none, we'll close the public hearing. Uh planning commission based on no applicant here. What's your desire? I guess the difference would be did we tell them that we were going to require them to be here since we've always done it to them?

We've never required them to be here any of the other properties that we've resoneed. But have they res any property since we voted that in is the question? I don't think so. That is my question. So we didn't we didn't inform them that we had changed how we were because we've never we've just never required them to be here. Is the school system in the city of Tempard that much? Yes. Oh, yes. Significantly, we had the Carol County superintendent at one point come in, go over master plans for all of

the temple clusters. I have those master plans if you'd like a copy. Which include, if I if I remember right, included some of the possible buildings on these two lots. So, they were part of their future build map. So, if I'm not mistaken, what they're tearing down is not much. No, they're they're actually already relatively small a little bit. So, it it is I'm speaking just hard here, guys. Maybe we just tell them, "Okay, next time let's try to have somebody here to speak to us at least and give them warning. Okay, we'll take care of this end of things." Um, and so I never money, not city, right? Correct.

That is that is Yeah. I mean, yeah. Does the Does the council do the same normally? Does the council normally approve them without having someone Okay. Okay. So, is this something that we're going to always continue to do because it's chosen. It just needs to be a vote with the with the exception of a government facility. We don't require anybody to come before us. That that's basically what I'm here. Have a government entity trying to do something in the city that we might not be in favor of and the council might not be in favor of. whether it's somebody from the school

or from the school system, whomever it may be. But okay, so