Planning & Zoning Board - Regular Meeting

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right. Good evening. I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. Uh my name is Lauren Shackleford. I'm the chair of the Washington County Planning Board. This is the December 4th, 2025 regularly scheduled Washington County Zoning Board of Adjustments meeting as well as the Washington County Planning Board meeting. Um zoning board of adjustment is to hear a variance that requires six member approval votes. So, we're going to do the planning commission meeting first. See if we can get another member here for that one. So, let's go ahead and do the Washington County Planning Board meeting. Start with roll call, please. Absolutely. Uh Anthony McNut, Jay Piery here, Michael Thompson here, Robert Dudrey

here, Shantel Pereier, Maria Pearson here, Mara Pearson, I'm sorry, Lauren Shackleford here. Okay, so we have a quorum. I'm going to call the meeting to order. Um first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes for our October 30, 2025 minute meeting. And those minutes have been circulated. Any additions, revisions, or corrections need to be made? No, sir. As submitted. Not. I'll entertain a motion for approval of the minutes. I make a motion to approve the minutes. Second. Got a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? All right, let's move on. Addend the approval of the agenda for tonight's meeting. Um, and we have conditional use permits for the Harriet CUP, Wellsprings Retreat CUP. Move on to county land development hearing. Melinda minor subdivision replat of track 4 wilderness run subdivision phase one. Replat of trackct one wilderness phase subdivision phase one. Uh DY minor subdivision has been tabled. So we need to remove that one from Yes. Okay. And then the last item is the Sonora minor subdivision. Other than the Dhy minor subdivision removal, any other changes to the agenda? No, sir. Can I get a motion for approval? Agenda is stated.

Motion to approve the agenda. Second that motion. We got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? All right, let's move on. The first item on the agenda is the Harriet conditional use permit. We'll start with staff report, please.

Vicinity map, site map, neighbor map. The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to operate an event center. The property previously held a conditional use permit under 2014048 Saddlebach Brewery expansion cup. However, following a change in ownership, the new owner proposes to modify the use of the property. The project will utilize 3.5 acres of the total combined 9.77 acre property. The applicant plans to host events by reservation only Monday through Thursday 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Friday through Sunday 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. The proposed maximum number of occupants for events is 100 people. They plan on having 3 to five employees on staff per event. The project site includes a 1200 foot building equipped with gas, electricity, water and a septic system. A six-foot privacy fence encloses the west and south boundaries of the property. The primary entrance entrance consists of a 15 foot wide concrete driveway secured by a gate. A secondary gravel access road is located along the south boundary which also has a gated entrance. 4x6 illuminated signs are proposed at the gated main entrance and on the event center building. On-site parking includes 20 asphalt spaces near the building with two spaces designated for ADA accessibility as well as an additional 10 gravel parking spaces and up to 100 overflow parking spaces on grass. A storage container is located near near the gravel parking area. Today, planning staff has received three complaints regarding this project, citing incompatibility with the surrounding area and concerns of amplified music. and one person requesting more information on the project. These are the planning conditions.

Okay. Thank you. Questions of staff from board members. Okay. Is the applicant applicants representatives here? If you would please come up, turn on the mic. Start with your name and address. Tell us a little bit about your project, sir.

My name is Tom Sarna. Um, my address is 1548 Elmbridge Drive in Elm Springs, Arkansas. Uh, the project is a event center. Um, basically repurposing of the space that was formerly the Saddlebach Brewery to be used for uh, private events to be hosted on a reservation basis. the uh brewery was not a successful operation because of the remote location and lack of uh regular clientele customers coming in. Uh so the repurposing would be to to use it for private events which would create a reason to to come that far out of town and and be there for something. Um it's a beautiful piece of property. It's got lake views in the wintertime. A lot of natural beauty in the area. Uh the barn that was formerly the brewery is repurposed for rental space to uh have tables and chairs and set up for events.

Okay. Have you seen the proposed conditions of approval from planning staff? Yes. Are you in agreement with those? Yes. Okay. All right. Any question of the applicant from board members at this time? Okay. Thank you, sir. We may call you back. Anybody in the public like to make public comment on this? If you would please Kate, come state your name and address for the record and tell us what's on your mind. Now,

I'm Laura Wland. I'm at 18481 Hton Drive, probably a half a mile down from the brewery. Um, we purchased our property back in 2019 and built a resident on there. Um, and when we built there, we saw we knew that saddle pop was there as well as the winery, but both places there there was no interruption of anything um to our property. I became aware. I think maybe that this v that there was a change or something was going on one evening probably about October. I think I came home after 10:00 and all of a sudden on my property I could feel and hear loud music from this venue and I think there was they it might have been their first event and maybe it was um a wedding or something. I think I heard all that to say. I didn't do anything because I kind of felt like, well, maybe this was a once, you know, one-time event and then I got a letter in the mail to say that we were having this hearing that they were proposing this. And I've never done anything like this, but I just want it down that I am against this. It will has great impact on the peace and quiet that we have there. And I don't know if I have other neighbors here. I'm fairly new to it. But I know that the neighbors I've talked around me do not want this. So I don't know if you know what my purpose really is here other than didn't say we do not want this approved at all.

Okay. Thank you ma'am. I appreciate it. Anybody else like to make public comment on this item? Okay. Yes, sir. So, my name is Ben Boyd. I'm the president of the Bridalwood uh PA and my or our major concern is loud music, specifically amplified music. So I was wondering if the um approval conditions prohibited amplified music or if that is

So the condition of approval is amplified music to be limited to interior facilities only with the exception of outdoor ceremonial music. So, so just on record, the our POA, which is off Guy Terry in Hton, is 100% against any music um being loud enough that we it would disturb us. And the reason is we can like if you don't like what's going on there, you can look away, but you can't unhehere. You know what I'm saying? And if it's loud, it it can be very annoying.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Anybody else like to make public comment on this? Yes, ma'am. Hi, my name is Emily Arnold and my husband Tom Sauna owns the venue and I just wanted to clarify a few things. We did in fact get married on the property October 11th. I did hire a band. It was over a $200,000 wedding, but we got to save the cost of the venue. Got tons of compliments on it. We knew that the, you know, music being amplified was a problem. So, we're fine just doing indoor events, but my vision is to have an event center where people can come have birthday parties, bridal shower, birthday parties, you know, at affordable price because every all the venues that are around here, they're all booked. They're all booked for over a year. I have tons of friends that are in cosmetology doing hair and makeup and whatnot. One of my best friends is a wedding planner. She said, "This is a great great great investment. There's a great demand for it, especially if I can do it at an affordable price where a lot of people can go and just do birthday parties or do family reunions and what and whatnot. So, I can understand the concern from the neighbors and and the music and whatnot, but this facility is not supposed to be for weddings and amplified music. I mean, I did that for my personal wedding, which is why I'm standing up here admitting to that. Um, but majority of people are not going to have the money to do that and pay for everything to be outside. I wanted an outdoor wedding, all the flowers, all the band, and whatnot. So, I just wanted to clarify that and say in the future, that's not really our goal. And to buy that property, you know, it is down the road from Sassifrass, which is the biggest venue in Northwest Arkansas. So, you know, to our, you know, we're thinking when we bought the property, um, you know, hey, we're it's out in the middle of nowhere, which is one reason it didn't work as a brewery and he lost

a lot of money doing that. So, I mean, I'm not sure where we would go to do another venue when we're thinking, hey, we we bought something out in the middle of nowhere and there is a venue five miles away that that is booked every single weekend. Okay. Thank you, ma'am. Appreciate it. All right. Anybody else like to make public comment on this? Okay, I'll close public comment and bring it back to the board. Questions? Go ahead, Micah. In regards to the use of or the conditional use permit that that Sassifrass has, do they have amplified music? The uh I don't believe so. I was not. Yeah, I don't believe so. It's like it's the same. We use like most of the uh

I can speak. Yeah. Mo Yes. Uh mo most of the uh mo most of the conditions like we use like it's like basically the same one we approved and it went through the court so we don't make it like complicated on anyone else to be fair. You would please state your name and address for the My name is Jean Long. I live in Fville Arkansas. I own SAS press winery. So uh there was a question about what s do you have amplified music outdoor and situation?

We don't we don't we don't have amplified music outdoor and we don't want amplified music outdoors. Uh we think it we think that we're just fine without it and uh we're happy to keep it just like it is. I also live in Broadlewood subdivision so you know we've been there 10 years and uh we've we've uh operated just fine without amplified music outdoors and we think that's that's a great way to go. Okay. Thank you sir. Appreciate that. Just just to be clear this this is also not allowing amplified music other than bridal. That is correct. is proposed. The only amplified music would be indoors. The only outdoor would be ceremonial music to go with the bridal, that sort of thing.

The the brewery that was there, was it operating under similar capacity requirements? It was operating under condition and similar hours and things. Okay. Okay. Any other questions of board members? And I'm pretty sure like the applicant is aware and like he is trying to be like a good neighbor and that's what he told us at the beginning. So,

okay, we got set hours of 9 uh noon to 9 Monday through Friday, noon to 10 p.m. or Monday through Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Okay. Any other questions or concerns from board members? one. Um there's a note in about the uh septic system needing an upgrade. Can we get a

Yes, we we we spoke to the um health department and that took like a while to figure out. So basically they are limited to 32 people a day times like seven that's going to be 224 a week. So basically they're limited to that amount of like um events numbers. So like if they can't have like five of them a week, they the overall like uh visitors and should not exceed like more than 224. So 32 a day times seven and do the math. Okay.

Is that common procedure for us to allow the conditional use permit for for a facility like this before the upgrade is done? Uh it's been it's been approved by the health department like the septic and everything and but that's the capacity and they we talked to the applicant and he's aware if like this is going to expand more or they're going to have like more people they have to go back and re like reconfigure like the septic system they either like had to add something to it or like rebuild the whole thing from scratch. So as is right now that's the capacity and the staff report uh Tom correct me if I'm wrong I guess like they do have like a contract also like to m for maintenance. Yeah. So

other questions aboard the property itself does have the ability to be upgraded though. Oh yeah absolutely like he he owns like if you go back it's over nine acres. Yeah it's over nine nine point something acre. Most of it's flood plane though. Uh yes, but like he h he has like the capacity to go like south as well.

All right, other questions. And for the record, Miss Shantel and Anthony joined us. So we have uh seven members. Anybody want to make a motion? I'll make a motion that uh we approve as presented here, especially considering that this was, you know, already used as a business with similar stipulations and regulations too. Subject to all planning condition requirements of approval. Correct.

We got a motion for approval. subject to the conditions. Is there a second? Second. We got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. Let's move on. Wellspring Retreat conditional use permit. We'll start with the staff report, please.

Vicinity map, site map, neighbor map. The applicant is requesting a conditional use permit to operate a nonprofit religious retreat center and a nature-based hybrid school. The proposed project would utilize 8 acres of the 40.12 acre subject property. Retreats are proposed to occur on any day between Friday and Monday. Small weekend retreats accommodating up to 20 participants would begin at 8 a.m. on Friday and conclude by 10:00 a.m. the following Monday. Larger day only retreats with a maximum of 50 participants are proposed to occur between 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The retreat would have two full-time employees. The school would operate at the project site on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 8:00 a.m. to 400 p.m. accommodating up to 45 elementary age students with three to four teachers on site during school days. The school is approved and will receive funds from the Arkansas Department of Education. The existing property includes a 2,800 foot cabin with three restrooms on a septic system, a 35x40 foot gathering building, approximately 20 gravel parking spaces located next to the cabin, and grass overflow parking. The proposed improvements include extending the existing driveway to create a circular loop through the property for easier entry and exit. Additionally, two to four canvas tents in one yurt would be installed on raised wooden decks. A non-eluminated sign meeting county standards is proposed near the entrance. An additional restroom on septic to accommodate students and retreat attendees would go near the gathering building. To date, planning staff has received two complaints regarding this project, citing concerns of trespassing, road blockages, disturbances from vi from visitors, and unsafe road conditions. These are the planning conditions.

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I'm just reading the one that's highlighted there. So, the applicant should stay within the proposed hours. The operation is listed on the conditional use permit application letter of intent. Okay. Larger day retreats. Okay. Other set hours of operation may be imposed by plan board. Okay. Any questions of board from planning on staff or board? Okay. Is the applicant or applicants representative here? Hello sir. If you would please give us your name and address. Tell us a little bit about your project, sir.

Yeah. My name is Andrew Lynch. Um, address 12133 Volcano Road, West Fork, Arkansas 72774. We uh my wife and I purchased the property back in 2020 and um really with the intent to to create a space for um families and and our community to come and and retreat into the wilderness. We've seen a need for that in our culture uh the more that everyone's on their phones all the time and um a lot of people don't know how to to get out in the woods. And so with both both weekend retreats of up to 40 to 50, um we would like to host day retreats and some overnight uh really to give people access mainly around um silence, prayer and solitude. Um to have a curated space for people to enjoy and get out and learn how to be in the woods. Um and we facilitate some of that. Sometimes people will just use the property would use the property for their own um intent and purposes within the stated desires of silent solitude and prayer. We don't we're not trying to be loud or have loud music or do large events. We really just want to create a space for people to encounter that. As far as the school goes, that would be Tuesday, Thursday. Um it's a hybrid school partnered with homeschool families to create another option for for kids to get out in the woods. We've seen a lot of research around um a need for kids to be in the woods. Um a lot of even uh modern therapy approaches around um uh sensory needs that a lot of is accomplished if kids run around in a creek and climb a tree. Um and so we're we're we have a heart to do that. We um have done public school and uh homeschool and a lot of in between. And we have a desire to service families that have a desire for that and and partner with the community in ways to teach kids how to be in the woods, college students how to be in the woods, adults how to be in the woods. Um we don't uh yeah we and we want to work

with our neighbors too. Um we have uh letters or stated approved letters from almost all of our neighbors that um that we've told about the project and that we want to be good neighbors. We want to partner with our neighbors on. It is a private road in and there are three or four residents that use that private road. U we really have put an effort into to making large improvements to the road for everyone. We've invested probably 5 to$10,000 in the road for everyone in the last year and haven't asked for anything back from that. We know that we use it in some ways more than everyone else. But um also our our neighbors have big dump trucks too that that drive through all the time and we're okay with that. We want to work with everybody. But um that's that's the project. We know there's some concerns about it. Would love to answer any questions we need to.

As far as transportation for the students, it's private. There's no school buses, anything like that on this. No, there's there's no school buses. Uh it is all private. Um we have uh we have talked about if we offered an option for if we had a van or something to I mean we're 25 minutes out of town to to serve families if they could do a drop off and we bring them out. Um, we haven't done anything like that. I think that would actually reduce traffic more than anything. Um, but yeah, that's in regards to traffic. Okay. All right. Uh, questions of the applicant from board members with the dump truck traffic you've mentioned. I'm sure you guys have taken in that into consideration with the safety of the potential children that would be there during school hours.

Yeah. So, the the road that comes into the property, the actual if if you see the map, the actual drive to where the cabin is and the barn um is is pretty far off of where the driveway where the dump trucks go up. Um and we're only operating on probably like 8 to nine acres of the 40 acre property. And so we're we're a pretty good distance away from that from the driveway. Um yeah. And then the proposed septic that's have you have you started working with the state health department on that. Do you have approval on that?

Yeah, we did. We I mean our initial thought was I mean we're not we don't are not independently wealthy and and and can afford to just build massive bathrooms right away. But so our initial plan was to do some sort of like restroom trailer or event trailer. Um and the health department wasn't comfortable with that. So we we are taking steps towards so our school launch would be um would be this coming fall 2026 I guess. Um and they were the health department was okay with with for like our events using an event trailer but for the school they wanted another septic system put in.

So we we went pretty hard to get a design and health department approval. So we have a design system for up to 50 people I believe. Okay. in addition to the cabin which has its own numbers and the health department has came out and did a site visit and approved everything on site. Okay. The staff report should have the approval like permanent. All right. Thank you. All right. Any other questions of the applicant at this time? Okay. Thank you, sir. We may call you back. Anybody in the public like to make public comment on this item? Okay. Seeing none, I'll close public comment and bring it back to the board. questions, comments, concerns.

There aren't any questions. I'd move for approval as presented. Second. We got a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. I.

Any oppose? Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. All right, let's move on. We'll dive into county land development hearings. We'll start with Medina Minor Subdivision staff report, please. Vicinity map, site map. The applicant is requesting a minor subdivision to split the parent tract into three tracks. Currently, the parent tract is 8.81 acres. After the proposed split, new tract one would be 1.77 acres. New track 2 would be 3.72 acres and new track 3 would be 2.85 acres. Planning conditions.

Okay. Any questions of planning staff from board members? Okay, seeing none is the applicant or applicants representative here. My name is Kyle Rogers with Swope Consulting. I live in Farmington, Arkansas 72730. Uh we are splitting this property into three separate tracks. Uh I'm available for any questions. Okay. So the track one tract has an existing house on it. Correct. Yes, sir. And it looks like there's a structure. Is there a structure on the second one? Uh, just a concrete pad. Concrete pad. Okay.

All right. And then I'm sorry, it's kind of a little difficult for me to read this. Walk me through ingress and egress to the new tracks being created. So, for the ingress, we have a 30-foot access easement going along the east side of the property up to the south line of new tract one. Okay. And as far as utilities go, we have a 15oot utility easement proposed along the west end up to the south line of new tract one. Okay.

All right. All right. Any other questions of the applicant from board members? Okay. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Anybody in the public like to make public comment on this item? Okay. Seeing none, I'll close public comment and bring it back to the board. Mr. Chairman, I move that we approve the M amending a minor subdivision sub to staff conditions. Second. Got a motion in three seconds. Any other questions or comments? All those in favor say I.

Any opposed? All right, let's move on. Replat track 4, Wilderness Run subdivision, phase one, vicinity map, site map. The applicant is requesting a relad of tract 4 within wilderness run subdivision phase 1. The parent tract is currently 52.95 acres. After the proposed split, tract 4A would be 9.99 acres and tract 4B would be 42.46 acres. Conditions. Okay. Questions of staff from board members. Okay. Okay. The applicant applicants representative here.

Hey, um my name is Alan Treadwell. I live in Slickman, Missouri. Um 65745. Uh real estate agent on this deal. The the owner is absentee. Um they bought a couple hundred acres down there almost two years ago. Um very uh property kind of in shambles. has been logged really hard um and and had done uh you know kind of been left not being kept up. Um we marketed it for a little over a year as an entire tract and during that time we had several folks um interested in smaller portions of it. Um the the owners have agreed to you know if if it makes sense where access ingress and egress makes sense. And there's obviously on this tract right here, there's a road coming in there that has um has a um ingress uh easement. So um that's basically it I guess.

Is there any utilities on the property? There's there's not. No, not on this particular tract. Okay. Any utilities in on adjoining track? Yes. Yes. Just to the north of this tract right here, there is a uh there is a home that has um that has power and electric. Okay. Would it be beneficial to have utility easement as part of the ingress and access?

Um yeah, I mean I and it may be there on that road and I don't know that for sure. I don't I don't have that in front of me and I don't know if you know that or not as well. It was when it was done with the surveyor, they added that on there. I haven't seen the survey because it had to come here first. Okay. All right. All right. Any other questions of the applicant from board members? Just for record like all our access easement that's given to any like lot being split, it should be access utility. Okay. So, they can legally if somebody bought this and wanted to bring utility, they can in case if like they need to have Yeah, it should be. All right. Yep.

I should have known that. All right. I appreciate it. Um, any other questions of the applicant? Okay. Thank you, sir. Uh, anybody in the public 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 that we approve as written. Second. Got a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? All right, let's move on. It looks like we're doing the same thing. Replat of track one, Wilderness Run subdivision staff report. Next door,

vicinity map, site map. The applicant is requesting a replat of tract one within Wilderness Run subdivision phase 1. The parent tract is currently 84.69 acres. After the proposed split, tract 1A would be 39.58 acres and tract 4B would be 45.11 acres. Conditions. Okay. Any questions of staff from board members? Okay. Applicant, sorry, should have kept you up here. No need to say anything. Same song, second verse. Yep.

Uh same same thing other on this one. The adjoining neighbor that owns the 40 acres right next to it is purchasing this track. So his his place will become basically 80 acres. Okay. With the purchase of this. Okay. All right. Um, any question of the applicant from board members? Okay. Anybody in public like to make public comment on this one? Okay. Seeing none, I'll close it and bring it back to the board. Make a motion that we approve the replat of track one wilderness wilderness run subdivision as presented. Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Item F has been tabled, so we'll move to item G, Sonora minor subdivision. Start with 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 5.08 acres. After the proposed split, track A would be 2.54 acres and track B would also be 2.54 acres. conditions.

Okay. Questions of staff on this one. Okay. Applicant applicants representative here. Hello, Mr. Reed. Uh Alan Reed, 118 South College Avenue, Fagville, Arkansas. I'm here tonight representing Null Custom Homes. Mr. Null is also in the audience here. if you have any questions specifically for him. But uh basically he's got a five little over five acres he wants to divide into two pieces. Uh he has plenty of road furniture on a nice pave road and uh he has agreed to meet all the conditions of approval that were set forth by the planning staff.

Okay. Questions of applicant from board members? Okay. Anybody in the public like to make public comment on this request? All right. Bring it back to the board for action. We'll make a motion that we approve the Sonora minor subdivision. Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. Sam, you want to Thank you. Appreciate it. Yes. You want to update us on

Yes. So last month like we went through like the uh process of like um updating and upgrading the um schedule fees uh the fee schedule of the planning department reviews and we I made like a typo I take responsibility for this for the large scale it's always been 500 and so we're not going to change it the last month I it was typed like 200 to 300 we're just going to keep it as 500 no increases nothing and that's just to clarify from the previous so the only changes is just going to keep it as is. Yeah. And do you need action on this again? Yes, please. And it's a recommendation to I mean it's it's an action like today. If it's done today, that's it. It's done today.

Okay. So, everybody understand this. We approved this last meeting. There was an error in the large scale development fee. It's always been 500. It's staying 500. There was an error on the form that we approved. So, the request is to reapprove it with that correction. That being said, I'll make a motion for approval as presented. Second. We got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. And for those that joined us late, we did the planning commission meeting first because we had a couple of folks that were a little late getting here. So, we'll adjourn this meeting shortly and then we'll take on the zoning board of adjustments meeting. Um reminder following next meetings January 8th and February 12th. Any other business we need to consider as planning commission? And

so far so good. Look, we'll see you we'll see you next month. Okay. All right. So, I will entertain a motion to adjourn the planning commission meeting. Planning board meeting. Make a motion we adjourn the planning. Second. Got a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? All right. Now, I'll call to order the Washington County Zoning Board of Adjustments meeting. We'll start again with roll call, please. Anthony McNut here. Jay Piery here. Micah Thompson here. Robert Dry here. Shantel Pereier here. Marla Pearson here. boarding checker for here. All right. So, we have a full quorum. So, I will call the meeting to order. Uh approval of the agenda. We have one item on the agenda, the Young Cunningham variance request. Anything else on the agenda?

That's it, sir. Okay. So, I'll entertain a motion for approval of the agenda as stated. Make a motion we approve the agenda. Second. Got a motion in a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? All right. We'll start with staff report, please. Vicinity map, site map, neighbor map. The applicant is requesting a variance to allow the creation of two lots, each less than one acre in size due to medical hardship. If approved, a minor subdivision permit will be submitted to divide the 1.92 acre parent tract into track 2A and track 2B, each containing 0.96 acres. No complaints or comments were received about this project.

Okay. questions of staff. All right. Applicant or applicants representative here.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Steve Za. I'm an attorney. My business address is 111 Hulcom in Springdale. My residence address is 2377 Waterway Drive here in Fagetville. I represent uh Darlene Young and Linda Cunningham. They are here in the audience. They are sisters. They are, as I said, on the application of somewhat advanced age. they would like to spend uh their time uh that they have together on earth together. And so uh they are asking the board to approve this split of a 1.92 acre lot that currently is in Linda's name to two uh.96 acre lots basically split right down the middle with a north south dividing line. Uh so that they will be able to live next door to each other and that Darlene will have an interest in the property to the west. That is the plan. Uh with your approval, there will be uh if you approve this variance, there will be a ingress for the second lot uh placed on Stonewall Road. Uh uh that is uh based on my conver not my conversation but an email I got from Dr. Atta. I uh I we have a plan to make that compliant with uh county sighteline requirements. Uh I have nothing else to present to you unless you want some anecdotal reasons why uh we'd like this variance to be granted and I'm happy to uh tell those to you but at this time I'd ask the chair if you have any questions or board members have any questions.

Any questions of the applicant from board members. Okay, seeing none, just to clarify also, the hardship letter is like attached to that staff report and the explanation that was given. And u and just for clarification, if each were one acre, it wouldn't require it. Yeah. It wouldn't be here like and basically they're like also like going to apply for like a minor subdivision because they're creating like two at less than five acres. So we're going to see it next time. Okay. All right. Okay. But the variance is because they're 0.9. Yes, sir. It's like less than one acre each. That's exactly right. M. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions or comments from board? Is anybody in public want to make public comment on this? Seeing none, I'll close it and bring it back to the board for action.

Mr. Chairman, I move we approve the Young Cunningham variance as presented. Second. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Thank you. All right. Anything else for the ZBA group? I guess that's all. Okay. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. Got a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Thank you.