Planning & Zoning Board - Regular Meeting

26. My name is Lauren Shackleford. I'm the chair of the board. And I'll start with roll call, please. Sam Anthony McNut here. Jay Piery here. Uh Micah Thompson here. Robert Dree out. Shantel Pereier here. Marla Pearson, she's not here. And Lauren Shackleford here. Thank you. All right. We have a quorum. So we'll call the meeting to order. The first item on the agenda is the approval from our previous meeting which was January 8th of 2026. Uh those minutes have been provided for your review. Any additions, modifications, changes that you see need to be made to those minutes. Seeing none, I'll entertain a motion for approval of the minutes. Make a motion to approve.

Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Next is the approval of tonight's agenda. Uh we have one item under conditional use permits, the Gan George School Communications Cell Tower CUP. And then we have land development hearings for CSDC minor subdivision, Kurrick minor subdivision, Woolsey Wood preliminary large scale development phase one and Sonora oversized storage final stage, I'm sorry, final large scale development. Is there anything else that needs to be added to the agenda today? As presented, sir. Okay. Take a motion for approval of the agenda. Motion to approve. Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I.

Any oppose. All right, let's move on. First item is the conditional use permit. The Jean George school communication. We'll start with staff report, please.

Vicinity map, site map, neighbor map. The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to build a new communication cell tower. The lease area will be approximately 75 ft x 75 ft on the 32 acre property. The actual facility will be 60 ft x 60 ft fenced in area. Access to the facility will be provided through a locked 12t gate 12t wide gate from deer road. The entrance will be a 12t wide gravel access drive within a 15t wide utility easement. The facility will include a 30 foot x 62 ft gravel parking and turnaround area. The proposed wireless communications facility will consist of a 99 foot unmanned monopole tower mounted on a concrete foundation and topped with a 5-ft lightning rod. The applicant has certified that they intend to allow shared use of its tower to include Verizon wireless antennas at a 94 ft center line and spaces for two additional future providers. There are no other communication towers within a onem radius. Thus, a collocation on existing towers is not fe not not feasible due to the absence of towers in the area that meet Verizon's technical criteria and operational specifications. The site will operate 24/7 to provide a critical communication and data service to the community. The facility compound will not be open to the public and will be secured with a six-foot chain link fence topped with three strands of barb barbed wire to ensure security and privacy. This facility will remain unmanned with recurring traffic limited to light trucks for equipment maintenance technicians. Due to the facility's automated operation, there will be no water service, plumbing, or sewer or septic system.

All right. Thank you. I'm sorry. Go ahead. I apologize.

The proposed tower will enable Verizon customers in Goan and surrounding areas to access the latest and fastest wireless technology, helping to eliminate existing coverage gaps within the service area. The proposed facility has received or is in the process of receiving all necessary approvals to comply with the NEPA, FAA, and FCC requirements. The applicant submitted the site plans and structural analysis for the tower which have been signed and stamped by a certified professional engineer. A comprehensive administrative communication tower review was completed by the planning staff on 1926 concluding that the submitted proposal meets planning and zoning codes. Planning staff has not received any complaints regarding this project.

Thank you ma'am. Sorry I interrupted you. Any questions of staff from board members? Okay. Is the applicant or applicant's representative here? Yes, if you'll hit the button, make the red light. Come on. There you go. Thank you. There we go. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, my name is Patton Han, 19016 Avenue North, Birmingham, Alabama. I'm here on behalf of Vertical Bridge, which is proposing to build this tower on behalf of Verizon. I think your sta I don't really have much to add beyond your very comprehensive report, but I'm happy to answer any questions that the board might have. Okay. Have you seen the conditions of approval? Reviewed those. You're good with those as proposed?

I have reviewed them and my client is they're acceptable to my client. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions of the applicant from board members? Okay. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Is there anybody in the public that would like to make public comment on this request? Okay, seeing none, I'll close it and bring it back to the board. Make a motion to approve the Jean George School Communication Tower Cup as presented. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. I.

Any opposed? Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, moving on. We'll start the county land development part of the of the meeting. We'll start with CSDC minor subdivision. Start with staff report, please. Vicinity map, site map. The applicant is requesting a minor subdivision to split the parent tract into three lots. Currently, the parent tract is 4.728 acres. After the proposed split, lot 3A would be 1.036 acres. Lot 3B would be 1.608 acres and lot 3C would be 2.084 acres. Planning conditions Okay. Any questions of staff from board is applicant or applicants representative here.

I'm Alan Rley. I'm the uh program director for uh CSCDC's uh home ownership uh center. Okay. Okay. We're planning on the We are an agency that builds helps people build houses. We're a lot like a habitat only this is through USDA rural development. Okay. And they participate in building their own house. Okay. There's no there's no structures on the property now. Correct.

No. No structures at all. And the the high the on the survey the highlighted blue area that's a utility and easement access. Is that correct? Yes. Yes sir. That was requested by Ozarks. Okay. Just to be shown there. Yes, sir. Okay. So that keeps that gets us access back to 3C. Yes, sir. 3A and 3B both have road access. Yes, sir. Okay. And the reason this is here because like they're creating two lots at less than five.

I I quit asking. I don't ask anymore. I've learned. So, all right. Any questions of board members for the applicant? Okay. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Anybody in the public like to make public comment on this request? Okay. Seeing none, I'll close public comment and bring it back to the board. I make a motion that we approve as written. Got a motion for approval. Is there a second? I'll second it. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? All right. Thank you. All right. We'll move on. Kurick, I hope I'm saying that right. Kurick, minor subdivision. Start with a staff report, please. Vicinity map, site map. The applicant is requesting a minor subdivision to split the parent tract into two lots. Currently, the parent tract is two acres. After the split, new the new tracks will be one acre each. planning conditions. The surveyor is double booked in a different city, so he won't be able to be here. Okay. So, we don't have a representative for the Okay.

Uh we've never received any complaints. Uh like we don't notify for like splits like this. And uh yeah, there is that home. If you look at the aerial imagery, it's no longer there. It's been removed like three three weeks ago. Okay. And doesn't have a septic. So, it's already been cleared by the health department. So both both lots are vacant basically. That that was going to be my only question because typically if there's an existing structure we want septic lines and and secondary fields marked, but that's been removed and it wasn't on septic.

Okay. And then they both have access off of Prairie Grove Lake Road, so there's no issue for ingress and egress. Okay. All right. Um is there anybody that would like to make public comment on this request? Okay. Seeing none, I'll close it and bring it back to the board.

I'll move for approval as presented. Lord second. We got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. On to item D. Wooseywood preliminary large-scale development phase one. Start with staff report, please.

Vicinity map, site map, neighbor map. The applicant is requesting a preliminary large-scale development approval to construct phase 1 of the custom lumber manufacturing facility. The subject property is 6.74 acres with the project occupying approximately 4.7 acres. Phase one construction includes a 40x 100 sawmill building, a 20 by 80 air drying shed, a 50x120 mill workshop, kiln, lumber storage office with a bathroom, eight parking spaces which one will be ADA compliant, a 4x6 non-illuminated sign, a septic system, various wood staging areas, overhead sawdust chip bins, and a fire reservoir pond to meet the fireflow standards. The facility will use existing concrete pads from former poultry houses for the new construction. Additionally, gravel will be placed for the interior road and utilities will be installed to serve the entire project site. Production hours will vary to due to weather and market conditions while customer hours are expected to be 8 to 5 Monday through Friday and 9 to 2 on Saturdays with four to five employees each operating day. This up for this project was approve approved by the planning board on 71025 and ratified on 22025. A final large scale development approval must be obtained before the project is fully operational. Planning staff has not received any complaints about this project. Planning conditions. Sorry, I'm just reading through the conditions real quick. Okay. Is the applicant applicants representative here?

Here. If you would please state your name and address for the record and give us a little update on the project. My name is Roy Pilgrim and um my address is 15187 Trace Branch Road, West Fork, Arkansas. And so basically what our project is is it's a um kind of a vertically integrated manufacturing facility where we're looking to take uh and add value to sustainably harvested local wood products and then market those wood products locally and regionally. Okay. Have you seen the conditions of approval? Are you okay? Are you in agreement with all the conditions as stated? Yes, sir. Okay. All right. Any questions of the applicant from board? Micah,

will you be using uh any chemicals for a treating process? No, sir. Just drying and drying and machining. Yeah, there will be no chemical treatment at all. On the uh on the retention pond, did did that say that that was approved by fire by fire code and it was going to be adhered to? Yeah. And my engineer can speak a little bit more about that. Okay. It's the same condition we approved during the CB. We have not changed anything. Yeah. And it's a it's just a a fire volume pool. It it doesn't actually do retention for the site. That was handled separately. Okay. Gavin Smith.

All right. Any other questions of the applicant from board members? We've seen this once and it was ratified. So, I think we've got a new member that may not have been or two possibly that weren't here for that. But Yes, sir. All right. Appreciate it. We may have other questions. We'll let you know if we do. Thank you. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Is there anybody in the public that would like to make public comment on this? Okay, seeing none, I'll close it and bring it back to the board. Make a motion that we approve as as planned. Got a motion for approval subject to conditions as written. Is there a second? Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I.

I. Any opposed? All right. Um we are now to Sonora oversized storage final large scale development. Start with the staff report please.

Vicinity map site map. The applicant is requesting a final large scale development approval to operate an oversized storage facility on 4.12 acres of the 6.21 acre project parcel. The facility will primarily serve as storage space for boats and recreational vehicles. There are four buildings in total. Building one is 10,500 ft. Building 2 is 11,819 square ft. Building 3 is 13,500 ft². And building 4 is 14,000 ft. A 2ft deep wet detention pond with a capacity of 15,048 cubic feet is located on the southern portion of the property. It is controlled by a 12-in outlet pipe to control releases. The facility will be unmanned and available for customers to access 247 using a security keypad. A security fence surrounds the perimeter of the property. The buildings are equipped with outdoor lighting and the signage on the building does not exceed 6x6. The cup for this project was approved by the planning board on 2224 and ratified on 3212024. The preliminary LSD for this project was approved by the planning board on 222 20224. Additionally, two conse consecutive 90-day extensions were requested by the applicant before the preliminary LSD 8225 deadline extending the final LSD project expiration to 218 2022. A comprehensive walkthrough was conducted on 723 2025 in the presence of the county planning staff, the property owner, the project's engineer, and the county contracted engineer. It was concluded that all grading, drainage and development inter of it in total internal roads match the submittal final

reports plans and all engineering planning and zoning requirements are fulfilled planning conditions. Okay. Thank you. Any questions of staff from board members? Okay. Is the applicant or applicant's representative here?

Hello, Clint. Civil engineering. Um, okay. Any significant changes? Anything that we need to be aware of that's on this project? No, we've made all the updates to the final plat. There's some changes during construction, but we made those updates and they're included. Okay. And your your client seen the list of of conditions good with the conditions? Yes. Okay. Any questions of the applicant's representative from board members?

Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you. Is there anybody in the public that would like to make public comment on this final large scale development? Okay. Seeing none, I'll close it and bring it back to the board. Make a motion to approve the Senora oversized storage final LSD as presented. Got a motion. Is there a second? Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Anybody opposed? Okay, that's it for tonight's agenda. Uh other business, Sam, anything we need to talk about?

March 26 is the next meeting and the following one is April 30th and we're going to have um a quote court meeting for an appeal. So, if you just give us a like few minutes until like we're ready and you can always leave. You don't have any you have to do any action or any of that. Okay. Thank you very much. Absolutely. Thank you very I appreciate it. I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. I move. Second. Got a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Thank you.