Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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All right.

I think the time is here. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. The regular meeting of the Texarkana Arkansas Planning Commission is called to order. Agendas are available on the rails, so please help yourself. We will take the items as they are listed on the agenda. I will read each item and ask the person representing the request to come forward to the podium. Please state your name and address for the recording, Secretary. Present any information and make any comments you have about your request. Be prepared to respond to any questions that members of the Planning Commission may have of you. Thank you. Ropa.

Stephen Cross.

Here.

Anita Pickett. Here. Jason Dupree.

Here.

Chairman Neal.

Here.

Dr. Hickerson. Here. Chris Owens is absent. Okay. And Corey Mott. Here.

We have six out of seven, and that represents a quorum that we can conduct business. Item number two, adoption of the summarized minutes. Have you had an opportunity to review the minutes? And if so, the chair would entertain a motion to accept the minutes.

I move we accept the minutes.

I second. Moved and second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Minutes are adopted. Item number three, conditional use permit. Request by Mike Thackers for a conditional use permit at 1021 East Broad for the purpose of operating a record service. Property is legally described as all of Block 1 of K211 Subdivision, Section 20, Township 15, Range 28, Miller County, Arkansas, containing 1.5 acres, more or less, Ward 3.

Okay. So this property, this property, this is broad. Jefferson Dog Park is right here. Arkansas High is back here. Tri-State has their land over here. So the property is actually accessible off 12th Street back here. Now, this is a unique situation because our city ordinance says that you can't have a record service within 500 feet of a residential district because of the type of vermin and rodents it attracts. So this property does back up to residential, however, that residential is not actually residential. It's the dog park, it's Arkansas High, and it is, there's a swept coast substation over here. The only residence over there is right here, and it's actually in a commercial zone. And I'll show you that in a minute. The property is actually zone C3 right now, which is why they need a conditional use permit for it. There's water and electric there. This is the property. This is the property across 12th Street. This is the only residence right down there, and then that's Broad Street down there. This is the property going the other way on 12th Street. This right here is Nix Creek. So it's separated from the dog park in Arkansas High by Nix Creek. That's the dog park and that's Arkansas High way off in the distance. To make it even less desirable for residential, all of that area is in a floodplain. So it's probably never going to be developed residential. This is the 500 feet circle around this property. As you can see, there is no residential anywhere in what is zoned residential. The only residential is this one right here in commercial. This is Sterling Crest Apartments, which right now are mostly vacant, I think. They had some flooding. Now, in the comprehensive plan, none of that within 500 feet is zoned residential. It's zoned civic. It's zoned recreational. It's zoned multi-use highway. This right here, for reasons I don't know, is zoned neighborhood node, which is residential, but this is the property tri-state owns. So it's probably never going to be developed residential. So that's the situation with this property. Mr. Thatcher is here. We sent out notices to everybody. We got no opposition to it. Okay.

Any more questions, Jamie? Okay. Thank you, Jamie.

All right.

We good? Okay. Mr. Thacker, would you like to come forward and share any information you'd like?

My name is Mike Thacker. I live at 5307 Boykin Lane, out of town a little bit. But we had inquired this land and tried to fix up everything around there. Then when I went to rent it out, I found out I couldn't. So that's why I'm here tonight, to talk to y'all and see what we can try to do to get this rezoned or whatever we got to do to get this to where we can use it. new to me so i'm pretty much here to i went through a few things on zoning on texas side but this first time on arkansas and just make sure that we're not resigning so with the conditional use permit with it being a business would there need to be a fence a solid fence well

They actually have stricter laws to put in a tow yard. They have to put a

privacy fence all the way around the whole place to even open it.

I'll let the tow guy explain that if y'all don't mind. Glenn Roberts, 1415 Cleveland Street. I'm the one planning on opening this, but yes, on the fence, I will have to fence off where the office is that's already fenced off. From what I read, if it's a city, I have to put up a seven-foot privacy fence around that area. Wherever the damaged vehicle is going to be sitting at, it's going to have to be enclosed from city view. Because we weren't rich, fatalities and all that, they didn't want people looking in. Plus, it looks like a salvage yard if you don't. So I will have to fence all that in per city code.

Will your access be from 67 and won't be from 12, will it?

Is that going to be an issue? Will that be an issue? I can go both ways, I believe. No, this was one which got land. Yes, sir. Yeah, I'll come in probably on 67.

They actually own this land right here, too.

Oh, God.

Okay.

Yeah, so I can come up a broad straight into the light, and then I'm going to do the backside for the heavier trucks a little later down the road.

And this right here is the old cedar shake. Okay. It's all pretty much abandoned. That part's the wrong street.

How many trucks and what size trucks do you plan on having?

Right now, I've got four. I've got two medium-duty rollbacks, a winch truck with a wheel lift, and I just bought a heavy. So I'll have four total. Sounds like good use of the property, doesn't it?

I think it's good for our community.

For that side, I'm sure.

Anybody have any other questions? Okay. Unless you have anything else, we're good. Thank you. All right. All right. Seeing no opposition, the chair would entertain a motion.

I move we approve the conditional use permit. I second.

We've got a motion and a second.

Stephen Cross?

Yes.

Anita Pickett? Yes. Jason Dupree? Yes. Chairman Neal? Yes. Dr. Hickerson? Yes. And Corey Mops?

Yes. Item is approved.

And this doesn't go before the board? No. Okay.

All right. Item number seven, staff comments, anything else?

The only thing I want to say is next month our meeting is on Wednesday the 9th because the 8th is a holiday.

It is?

It's probably Labor Day, Memorial Day, whichever one that is in September. The end of the summer holiday.

Yeah, the end of the summer holiday. Oh, so we're moving it. Oh, okay. So Monday and Tuesday are a holiday.

Well, Monday is probably a board meeting.

Monday's Labor Day.

Monday's Labor Day. So then Tuesday becomes the board meeting.

Then Tuesday becomes the board meeting. Oh.

Yeah.

Okay. So we're moving to Wednesday. Okay. All right. I don't have anything else.

Chair, we'd entertain a motion.

I'll move to adjourn.

Move to adjourn. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye.