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We need more elbow room all the way around the table here.

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Of course, if you are sewing, all right.

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Okay, we're so thin.

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We'll get wild.

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It's a statement.

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I think some are for it though, believe it or not.

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Some are for it.

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Oh, yeah, that's true.

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And I want to say,

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we'll sit down.

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We'll sit down.

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We'll sit down.

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We'll sit down. We'll sit down.

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We'll sit down. We'll sit down.

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Good evening everyone, could I have your attention please?

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We're ready to get started.

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Thank you for joining us as always.

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Would you please stand if you're able to join us in the pledge of allegiance and

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remain standing for the invocation?

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Please bow your heads.

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Father, we thank you for today.

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Thank you for life. God, we thank you for the community.

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God, I say a special prayer for our country, our men and women in uniform and all about public

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servants. Follows we go forward with the business of Canton and the community tonight. I just

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pray that we do it with the heart of understanding and doing what's right for the people.

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And Jesus name, amen.

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So I will call it a order. I said,

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September 3rd, 2026 meeting of the mayor and council.

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We'll begin with consideration to approve tonight's agenda.

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Do we have any revisions, changes or motions?

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If there are no changes on my commotion to approve the agenda as presented.

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We have a motion and a second.

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All in favor say aye.

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Opposed nay.

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All members voted for the motion.

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We have no guests and visitors.

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Although we have a lot of visitors and a lot of guests welcome.

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Thank you for your engagement, thank you for being here as we conduct the business of the city and on behalf of our constituents.

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We've got a lot of work to do tonight, a lot to talk about, so we appreciate your patience, your civility and especially during our public hearings.

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We have three public hearings not even before we begin our regular business meeting, and I know a lot of you are probably here for those.

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So as usual I'm going to ask our city manager to read the policies and procedures for public hearings.

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Please pay attention and please try to adhere to these so we can be efficient tonight.

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Get everyone home hopefully for a midnight supper.

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So thank you so much Mr. Reppers.

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Thank you for attending our city council meeting this evening.

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Tonight we will have public hearings related to zoning cases.

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Property owners in the state of Georgia have a constitutional right to seek the rezoning of their property, including potential annexations of said property into the city of Canton.

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The City Council is required by law to provide an opportunity for the property owner or their designated need to apply for such annexations and rezoning as meet legal requirements.

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zoning cases such as those that will be heard tonight require an accurate accounting of the proceedings and commentary.

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The hearings were recorded verbatim and will become part of the legal record of each case.

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To speak during a public hearing, state of Georgia requires that you sign an affidavit prior to speaking.

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This public hearing was advertised in the Cherokee Tribune, which is the legal organ of Cherokee County.

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Science reposts you can speak with us on the applicant property or properties and under

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our development code the applicant provided the U.S. Postual Service, a notice of zoning

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requests all properties within a thousand feet of the applicant property properties.

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The procedure for the public hearing is as follows.

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The mayor will ask staff to give a brief description of the case in question. The mayor will then open the public hearing.

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There is a lot of 10 minutes for those wishing to speak in favor of the application, including the applicant, as well as 10 minutes for those wishing to speak in opposition of the application.

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That's 10 minutes in total four and 10 minutes in total against, not 10 minutes per speaker, but 10 minutes in total per side.

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I will serve as the timekeeper and I will notify any speaker at the podium when the time

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Comments must cease when the time is expired.

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The applicant may reserve a portion of the initial 10 minutes to rebut or comment on any

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Once all parties that have signed up to speak have spoken, or the total time for each side

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has expired, the mayor will close the public hearing.

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Following the closure of the public hearing, the City Council will address staff with any specific

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questions or discussion related to the case.

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Speakers will be taken in the order in which they signed up to speak.

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address for the record.

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The time will start after your address is given.

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As there may be several speakers, we ask that you keep your comments concise and try not

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You will address your comments to the mayor and council, not the audience or the applicant.

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Your comments are in the form of a monologue, the City Council will not address comments

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And all times the audience will be civil, clapping, cheering, talking is not appropriate.

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and escorted from the meeting.

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Once the public hearing has concluded, and the council have finished with any discussion

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of the case, please feel free to quietly exit the auditorium.

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You may always email your comments related to the case to comments at cantongay.gov.

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These comments will be distributed to all elected officials.

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Thank you, Mr. Reppers.

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So thanks everyone for your attention to that and again we have a lot of business to conduct

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Please be respectful of our policies that we are required by law to follow in these cases.

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But more importantly, be respectful for each other and your neighbors so that everyone has a chance to speak.

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We are going to adhere to the ten-minute total timelines tonight just to be efficient.

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So just please keep that in mind.

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And we will begin with our first public hearing.

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And that is public hearing for case MPA-2606-003.

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request to amend master plan to eliminate required landscape buffer for portion of

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Riverstone Pod G, Mr. Allen.

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Thank you.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of the Council.

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The applicant, Mr. Scott Wade with Norseye Hospital's is seeking to amend the Riverstone

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Master Plan for two parcels located within Riverstone Pod G. Specifically, the applicant

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is looking to amend MP0606-001 for parcels 14-0192-0302.

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and zero, three, zero, three.

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Both are located within Riverside and Potgee,

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and the particular request is to eliminate

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condition three of that aforementioned master plan,

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which states that the applicant

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and their technique shall provide an enhanced landscape

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buffer between any residential lots and a commercial

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and office building equal to that height

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of set office building on their property

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when they are adjacent to residential.

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The subject property is located within

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or two, it is just south of the new chair of the high school and it is located as mentioned

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within the Riverstone master plan development. It is currently zoned plan development mixed

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use with a community level mixed use and retail center character area. This is the proposed

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site plan. Please note that the Riverstone Retreat residential development is to the plan

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on this side, which is technically cardinal east, that is where that required buffer would

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have to be installed, per the aforementioned zoning condition.

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The only department comments that

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we garnered were from planning and zoning, and we just wanted the applicant to hold their required

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community information and input meeting on August 11, 2026 at 7pm, and the applicant did note that

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there were no citizens in attendance at that meeting, but staff has not received their required

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recommendation relating to that.

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The next step for this particular case is going to be a possible

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action on October 1st, 2021. Thank you very much. This concludes my report.

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Thank you, Mr. Fallen. At this point, we will open the public hearing and invite the applicants

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is represented to speak.

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Good evening. For the record, my name is Park Suffolk. I'm a Sam's Lock and Huff and I represent Northside Hospital in regards to this zoning amendment request before you this evening. I think this aerial shows the property shows it highlights the really issue is you've got two commercial parcels that are going to be combined for the construction of a multi-story medical office building.

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And this is all part of Pajji, and when Pajji was approved back in 2007, it was approved as all commercial.

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And then there was, in the whole master plan approval, there was a section three that said, when you have residential adjacent to commercial, you shall have a buffer of the height of the building.

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And so what that does here is when the county or the city rather amended that pod G

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and put in the multi-family slash town homes adjacent to us that actually then very much

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limited the utility of this parcel by requiring a buffer and especially limiting multi-story

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buildings, which is the perfect use for this site.

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so that what the proposal's multi-story multi-tinent

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or multi-story medical office building,

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which is a great neighbor to the residential that's next door.

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Actually, the hope is you have people that live there

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that might work in this location

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so you actually have live work and play close together.

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And also, it's a business that closes at night

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as opposed to fast food restaurant or something like that.

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has a lot more activity.

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This is actually a very quiet neighbor.

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So we did have the public input meeting

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and obviously no one appeared at it

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because I don't think this totally makes sense

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in terms of the context of the area.

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One of the things I do want to point out here

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is you have the same exact situation across the street

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from us with the commercial buildings

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backing directly up to residential behind it

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in no separation.

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when you have an environment like this that you're creating,

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you're creating a mixed use development,

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that's what you're backing into residential commercial.

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You don't separate those uses.

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You keep them where you can walk between them

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and you have continuity between them.

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And if I can get to my presentation,

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I think I've got one slide that I'd just like to show.

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This is the site plan and you can see plan

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to the right is the multifamily, the medical office buildings, all the way on the north

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part of the property residential, or parking to the south.

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And then this is the site plan that was with podge, showing all commercial, and you can see

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we were actually part of a couple of the pad sites that are kind of to the left hand side

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there.

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So this is anticipated to be developed similar to this all along, and if you look at the

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here, you already have a self-storage facility that's developed to our North.

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And so this is just recognizing the reality that when the residential got put in next to us,

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that triggered a condition that no one had recognized before when it came through zoning.

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And in fact, no one recognized this until we were going through the final architectural review

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that someone say, wait a second, we got this section buried in here that we didn't think whatever applied

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POTG because it was all supposed to be commercial and so all we're doing is asking to that.

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Had that one condition cleaned up and not apply in this situation so a good local business

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can build a nice building that will not only provide great tax base employment and services

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around the area, they're good neighbors as you all know.

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So appreciate your time and I'll reserve whatever time I had left if there's comments from the

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We had no one sign up to speak of this public hearing so we will close the public hearing and open up to Council for any questions or comments any questions from Mr. Allen for staff.

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Mr. John.

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I just had one question. I don't know you say in the multi story do we have the idea how many stories we're talking.

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So the building actually came before the can design with the team and at the time the proposed

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type of building was 45 feet, which would essentially translate to a 45 foot wide buffer that this condition would require.

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Okay, that was what I wanted to clear.

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Good sir.

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Anything else?

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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We'll move a lot.

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Long. Let's continue to be as efficient. That's great. Item B, public hearing on cases MPA-2607-005, and VAR-2607-002, request for master plan amendment to

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J. of Riverstone to include card dealerships as an allowed use with concurrent

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appearances.

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Mr. Peoples.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Members of Council.

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As you stated, this is a master plan amendment request with concurrent

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variances to pod J of the Riverstone development.

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This is located within Council Ward 2.

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The applicant is seeking amendment to the development standards adopted in 2007 for

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Riverstone pod J to include card dealership as an allowed use within the pod.

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There are three concurrent bearings that are being sought.

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One is to waive the parking standards for vehicle and marine craft

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stales by apologies for the type of graphical error on the slide.

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And table 103-3 of the Unified Development Code, and redefine the minimum

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spaces at one space for 500 square feet in maximum space of 1% of every 5 square feet.

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Two is to eliminate the required 50 foot landscape buffers,

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but especially use general commercial and unincorporated jerky county.

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And the third is to allow disturbance within the 50-foot undisturbed stream buffer into

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allow impervious surface within the 75-foot impervious setback for the purpose of piping

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a drainage swell.

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This is the original approval for Pad J in 2007.

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This approval came with a new list of nearly 80 individually named uses, office and commercial

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uses that were in this on this track, namely Cardiola ship is not one of those, so that

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as why the applicant is here this evening to amend the map.

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This parcel is located on the along Bluffs Parkway

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that is situated east of Bluffs Parkway south

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of the Cherokee County Administrative Office buildings.

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Do note that there is a tiny portion

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of the tax parcel included close towards the interstate exit

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that is not part of this request.

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This is the parcel in its city zoning map surrounded

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mostly by special use parcels that are owned by the city of Canton and Cher County.

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The property is located within the community level mixed use retail center character area.

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And this is the site plan that the applicant submitted with this quest is a conceptual

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in nature.

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There is a entrance that is proposed to the car dealership which is located at the existing

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median break at the north of the property that is between two service entrances to the dam.

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There are two 35,000 square foot buildings proposed and one 5,000 square foot building proposed.

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This site is 18.17 acres of the larger Pod J tract.

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Speaking to some of the concurrent variances that the applicant is requesting one is to redefine

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the parking standards for this tract.

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And preliminary conversations with the city, it was determined that the current city regulations,

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the minimum parking spaces would be in excess of what they actually need. We have a calculation

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that calculates minimum and maximum parking spaces for car dealerships based on square footage

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of sales floor area, number of employees, number of service base, and that preliminary

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calculation came up to over a thousand parking spaces and the app can indicate it at that time

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that that was in excess of what they needed. So they have applied for concurrent variants to

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to find those parkestanders based on the square footage of the combined buildings.

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At this time, on this site plan, the applicant proposes 620 spaces.

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The applicant is also seeking a concurrent variance to pipe and existing drainage swell that

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is located at the north of this site, a pilot at a here in red.

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This is actually a part of our storm water drainage system that is currently piped under

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The ecological consultant for this applicant and their delineation report delineated this as a stream.

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So in order for them to pipe this drainage swell in order to provide access to the property they are seeking

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variances to the undisturbed stream buffer and 75 foot pervious setback.

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Final approval to be able to disturb within that stream would be contingent upon the state of Georgia,

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EPD and their granting of the 25-foot stream buffer variance.

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And the last variance that is requested is regarding landscape buffers for the property.

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Highlighted in yellow is the property lines, where the applicant would be required to install landscape buffer screening.

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That includes for the property across the road.

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I want to highlight in the purple area that is shown in the southeast.

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this portion of the property is where the property line shares a property line with a jurisdictional

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In order for the applicant to be able to provide additional plantings within that area, it would require a stream of a variant staff would note that the zoning buffer variants in the purple area would be preferable to a stream of a variant.

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It would meet the same intent and outcome as a zoning buffer in this area.

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Some department comments include from the engineering department that a traffic study will be required prior to the issuance of a land disturbance permit.

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The city in general also indicated that a photometric lighting study will be required for any lighting in the parking lot and on the property.

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The city engineer additionally noted that additional information, including exact extensive impact, will be required in order to recommend approval for a stream buffer variance.

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Planning and zoning notes that these original developments standards were approved in 2007,

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and there are several uses that are within those permitted uses that would generate higher

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trip generation than this useful, that is proposed that includes gas stations, drive through restaurants,

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sit-down restaurants, banks, medical office buildings. The community input meeting was held on August

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20, a couple weeks ago, and the concerns for citizens were primarily about increased

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traffic along Bluff's Parkway, test drives, site lighting, construction noise, construction

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blasting, and other land disturbance activities.

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And just some brief history on this pod, in 2022, the Council to consider a request to allow

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residential on this pod.

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That was for a 181 unit town home development.

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That was denied by the Council in 2022.

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These are some concept renderings of what the dealership would look like, again, these

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conceptual and they

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this evening is the public hearing for this case and the action will be heard

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October 1st excuse me, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have after the public hearing. Thank you.

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Thank you Mr. Beatles.

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This point we will open the public hearing on cases MPA 2607-005 and BAR2607-002 request for master plan amendment to

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Jay of Riverstone to include car dealerships as an allowed use with concurrent

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and barances.

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At this point, we'll invite the applicant or their representative to come and speak

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in support of the project.

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We'll just state your name and address for the wreck now, Georgia time.

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My name is Dell Cornet, we're WPC, you're consulting.

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My address is 185, Purple Court, coming Georgia, represent the landowner and the potential

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purchaser for the property and his bright sasser and beaver auto group.

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My intent today is people's authority addressed what we submitted for in the Master Plan

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of Midnight and the variance is so I wanted to address the items that came from our presentation

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and community meeting on August 20th and try to address the commitments and some of the

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that Mr. People's actually hadn't noted with some research that was done.

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This is a list of the atoms. The main out of, we did talk about a few other smaller

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atoms, but these were the main out of discuss in the meeting, plan to address those in

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the rest of the presentation.

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So the master plan is in about whether the property can be developed.

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That was details are there, and they have about 77 different potential uses. As I noted earlier,

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Many of these uses do line up with dealership and similarity of use.

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The purpose of statistics, this is showing what Mr. People's was noting, that a number

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of the uses noted the major ones have significant more traffic than what a dealership

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would almost 10 times more traffic.

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And most of these uses would be more than one tenant on the property related to the 40 acres.

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So some of the items that we noted were truck deliveries.

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We had discussed truck deliveries being on site, not on bus parkway that was a concern.

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It's a blocker.

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And you have it traffic.

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Those will all be done on site within the design of the building and the layout of this there.

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You turn and you sub the roundabout for having to turn around deliveries or even the so

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Rouse if they may take that is something that we not use or use normal traffic patterns, typically we'll be calling south on bus parkway or north coming up to the under the dealership area for deliveries.

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And as noted already, a traffic study is being required, we're willing to commit to do the traffic study to make sure that is within the needs of what the city of Canton requires.

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Lighting was another concern.

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We, as noted before, we would do a study,

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as pretty typical for a design,

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make sure that the deflectors are put on there,

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so it focuses on the site.

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We will also ensure that there are motion sensors

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on the site exterior lights,

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so that they're not on all the time.

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They will go off at the other dealerships

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that beaver has, that is the way they have designed

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their properties.

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noise was a concern. So the current dealerships that they have operate within the

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ordinances of the local community, and typically the neighbors in their

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current facilities have not complained about the uses and the noise that they

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had there. Blessing will likely be required for the site. Those are

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We will all the guidelines above and beyond even notifying those residences around that those

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blasting occurrences will happen and when they will happen.

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And then run-off was another concern.

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The design process will define what run-off and control it run-off is.

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We will meet those standards of what the city and the county requires for that.

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And we will take that to the highest standards through construction and monitoring that.

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When those are about the trees, we agree the trees define the bus parkway and we will do

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make a commitment to keep as many trees as possible that are mature and use for developing

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the property.

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So, these next slides, I will let Patrick introduce himself and cover those.

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Good evening, everyone.

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My name is Patrick Aval.

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I'm a general manager and a managing partner for the BVR Automotive Group and I'm here

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represent them as we walk through this. Thank you for having me. So as we want to come to this

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community, the estimated annual sales revenue that we would bring is about 150 million a year.

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That's why that's forecasted out. It would bring a hundred jobs in the community, 85% of the people

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who work for Beaver Automotive, work in the communities that we serve. And I think it's an important

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part of who we are.

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I met with the, I met with the, I was part of the meeting where the

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Hickory Bluffs people came in and they had some real concerns and here tonight to let

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continue to let everybody know. We are a great partner in the town. We will be a great

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neighbor. They are concerns are real, I'm a father, I'm a business person, I'm also in a

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community, all their concerns are legit, and we'll take those into consideration. When you

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Look at what's already zoned for that property, we do feel like a car dealership, would

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stress their concerns the least.

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So we talk about the home values in the schools, and with me today, and we didn't get

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them signed up to speak, we are on, our current dealership is 145,000 square foot dealership

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that we're in on our Toyota store.

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It is on Highway 20 in Acles Road.

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I brought with me today, Gerald Eccles, he missed the sign up to speak, Gerald Eccles, and

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his family have lived on those on Eccles roads since 1939.

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They had the same concerns the Hickory Bluffs families have nine years ago when we were

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opening up Beaver Toyota and he came here today to testify on RBHF not only the relationship

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that we have with the community but how we handled the construction and how we compromise

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on things that were important to them for example, test drives.

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They were very concerned about test drives going through neighborhoods and we have a policy within our company that we follow

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We are test drives can and cannot go my point behind that is we will be great neighbors to the history

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Bless Mr. Eccles house is not 1.3 miles away. Mr. Eccles is house and his family homes some of them with in hundreds of feeds away

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so

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That's where I'm here to talk about

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The school, there's a school right behind our dealership in coming Georgia.

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We work very well with the school system, and the traffic that a car dealership generates,

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when people hear car dealership, they freak out to a lot of cars.

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There's actually not a lot of moving pieces in the car dealership, most of the car stands still.

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Home values, Mr. Akkels, was going to testify to home values and how their home value...

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In their community, flow with the rest of the home values and the community. So there was no impact from the home values from the card dealership.

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So, and this is where I was going to end and just say, I don't ask people to blind trust me. I brought evidence in what we are and who we are.

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And if he was able to speak tonight, I would love it. I think that might be too late. That's totally up to you guys.

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But this is who we are to be brought in mode of group is a family-owned operation.

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We want to come to Canton. We love this community.

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We've already met at this point. We've already met with the sheriff's office.

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We've met with the school system.

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We are very embedded in the community.

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Probably more than any other card dealership you'll know.

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It's who we are at our core.

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We support our first responders. We support our teachers.

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And they won't be a better community partner than us.

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So with that, we are asking to be the neighbor that shows up.

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we'll tell you the truth, we'll put it in writing, we'll keep anybody who needs to be informed

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communicated with, over communicated with, they will know where we're at every step of

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the project, and we'll represent this community very well.

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Thank you for allowing me to speak.

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Thank you.

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Just a time check, Mr. Bepers.

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Right at two minutes.

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Right at ten minutes.

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Okay.

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Two minutes for me.

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Two minutes for me.

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Two minutes for me.

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We did have one citizen sign up to speak, and we have two minutes for me, and if you're

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to speak in favor, if you're not to speak in opposition, but we have Mr. Daniel Clay, again

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if you would comment and state your preference there, name address, and share your comments,

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Thank you.

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My name is Dan Clay.

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I live in Angry Bluffs, 948 Summit Drive in Canton.

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Our neighborhood is resident owned three other communities on the Parkway are currently owned

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all in part by private equity and I'll get back to that in a bit.

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We really as the owners of our property and we have an HOA that manages who are also owners.

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We have a huge interest in protecting our legacies.

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Some of our 55 plus neighbors were actually alive when Bell's Mary was a fairy over a little river that ended in 1949, so you can do the math, but the namesake road is concerning and the widening and flattening it of it to the south to accommodate the growth is troublesome.

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There are a couple of things that are clear to us right now, the uses, and the use change

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and the variants that the variants are precedent setting from what I understand for PodJ,

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and we think they'll have generational impact. PodJ, we agree. PodJ is going to be developed.

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We understand that, and at our local meeting, we certainly discuss the double we know and

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double we don't know, so that is out there and we already talked about it as a group.

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We don't fear progress.

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We are afraid of the consequences of some poorly managed development so close by a half

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mile from our neighborhood.

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There is some unmistakable generational changes I just mentioned.

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We had a community meeting after the first public information session.

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I had feelings and concerns so numerous I don't have time to name them.

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Please read with care the many submissions from our residents.

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I think there's this probably good stack of them.

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We feel development in Podge that allows a new use,

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and the many variances represents some broken promises,

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some real, some implied, and some assumed.

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We were invited to this party and this conversation when our development was approved and we are aware of that.

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And progress follows. We also are aware of that.

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But we have that our own money on Hickory Bluffs.

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And many of us will spend the rest of our lives there.

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It is just a nature of the kind of community that it is.

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Please also recognize that at this point we may only have this group's best intentions to rely on when you make the decision.

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Steve Young's who could not be here tonight because of prior obligation is a geologist with decades of experience as a leader of engineering and development teams.

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and he frankly had me at parking lot, oil separator.

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I'd never heard of one, the fact that he even brought it up and included it.

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I mean, he has a terrific report.

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We have copies if you all haven't seen it and I think it isn't.

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He's already melded and it's in the record.

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The staff report itself states more information is needed to approve the stream buffer. We ask the council to confirm which buffer standards govern.

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We ask that both traffic and light studies be done as they're critical to evaluate in the applications, and we ask that any final staff report with recommendations and enforceable terms and conditions be made available for response

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before the vote on October 1st.

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A couple of findings from the city staff,

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the city cannot yet recommend the buffer variance.

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The no harm finding here depends on the buffers,

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the variant wants it zero.

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We saw a picture, but I don't know what those measurements are,

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and I think we need to do some more work on that.

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The traffic study in my understanding comes after the vote.

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So, that's out there also.

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The Blust at Technology Park has a large list of approved uses.

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The city and county are still building the tech corridor right now.

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The Technology Ridge Opportunity Zone offers job creation incentives for eligible businesses

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and the new Technology Ridge Parkway connects us and the Parkway to the airport.

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The extended runway could be certainly going to be able to accommodate larger business jets and it will at some point reach into the range where some small regional airports around the company, which we don't have.

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We only have one day airport. Some of the smaller airports used are used for narrow body passenger service and again, these may be generational issues and they may never be issues.

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One thing that caught our eye, a sign on Bluffs Parkway after the MLK intersection reads,

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no-through traffic, no trucks except deliveries. The sign seems to imply that the exception

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was written for the occasional delivery trucks serving the area, which we certainly take good

448
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:18,140
advantage of in our little neighborhood. I don't think it addresses or I guess we want

449
00:37:18,140 --> 00:37:24,620
city to confirm whether to address is non-routine recurring car carrier traffic.

450
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,740
So we would like to confirm the volume and frequency of this traffic.

451
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:41,380
And we don't know if this, well I guess we don't know if the sign was meant exactly to restrict

452
00:37:41,380 --> 00:37:48,080
the kind of sustained heavy truck burden that I guess it was intended to keep off the street.

453
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:52,100
We're not sure we'd like some clarification on that issue.

454
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:59,560
What we heard from the city also would be, there would be no residential properties impacted.

455
00:38:00,780 --> 00:38:05,440
This feels like classic developments speak and does not address the real issue.

456
00:38:05,580 --> 00:38:11,140
We're talking about people, the people who live closest to Podge, we will certainly the impacted

457
00:38:11,140 --> 00:38:20,300
and specifically a change in use than many variances granted will have both the immediate and lasting impacts to us.

458
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:26,180
Tech occupations are among the fastest growing, young categories in the country,

459
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:31,720
and that's exactly the cord or can zone plus parkway for.

460
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,040
I do want to make some comments about the first public meeting that we attended,

461
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:43,880
And these are in direct response to the notes that I've read, not all the attendees, and there were about 25.

462
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,200
We're from Hickory Bluffs.

463
00:38:47,280 --> 00:39:00,140
The 15 that raised their hands as against this development, kind of less than 3% of our residents, and so are absolutely not representative sample of what we think.

464
00:39:00,140 --> 00:39:07,140
By the way, a resident asked that for that show of hands, not the presenter.

465
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,380
These attendees self-selected.

466
00:39:12,380 --> 00:39:16,600
They made the choice based on their own interest on their own passions.

467
00:39:17,940 --> 00:39:22,120
And they attended, I certainly attended, on our own time.

468
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:28,040
The presumption that some attendees seem to, and I'm going to quote here,

469
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:34,560
turn later in the meeting, make other comments and conclusions from that meeting a bit more

470
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:41,160
spurious. I guess if they really wanted more of our resident feedback, they could have come

471
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:46,180
and visited us, we would have been happy to have them at our clubhouse, and we could have

472
00:39:46,180 --> 00:39:53,780
given a great deal of feedback and some interesting things for them to take away. They also

473
00:39:53,780 --> 00:39:59,980
data regarding traffic issues that, quote, a plan could be made with the school with

474
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:10,940
Which we think is a very, very good idea. And the students, high school students, we strongly suggest

475
00:40:10,940 --> 00:40:19,820
structural change would be much more effective. Responding to a comment from a resident that

476
00:40:19,820 --> 00:40:25,060
an approval would quote, give freedom for other development, plus Parkway.

477
00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:32,920
They wrote that, quote, most of them, meaning the other approved uses will bring more

478
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,160
traffic and noise.

479
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:37,760
We don't understand how they came up with that.

480
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:42,960
And we don't know which of the allowed uses they were referring to.

481
00:40:43,500 --> 00:40:45,840
And there's so many other factors at play.

482
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:51,940
The statement does not address the issue of major use change and the variances.

483
00:40:56,380 --> 00:41:02,060
Tennessee automotive is a family-owned group of auto dealerships based in Atlanta.

484
00:41:02,720 --> 00:41:04,920
They own Tennessee Honda in Woodstock.

485
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:10,640
In the last part of July of this year, they announced a sale for $1.3 billion

486
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:16,940
to group one automotive, a publicly traded Fortune 250 company based in Houston.

487
00:41:16,940 --> 00:41:21,580
They are one of the largest owners of Cardiolors in the country, their footprint at

488
00:41:21,580 --> 00:41:27,940
Atlanta, in Atlanta with this purchase, will increase from 3 to 15 locations and become

489
00:41:27,940 --> 00:41:30,340
its second market by revenue.

490
00:41:31,180 --> 00:41:39,040
Last report, Group One had sales of 22.6 billion and gross profit of 3.6 billion.

491
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:46,920
I'm adding this because at least from our perspective, this development decision, Mr.

492
00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,300
Thank you, Mr. Clay.

493
00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:49,020
I'm sorry.

494
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:49,720
That's your time.

495
00:41:50,620 --> 00:41:55,000
If you would want to forward the rest of your comments to staff and council will

496
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:55,140
happen.

497
00:41:55,420 --> 00:41:56,720
Thank you.

498
00:41:56,780 --> 00:41:58,200
Thank you.

499
00:41:58,220 --> 00:42:02,280
And I believe that leaves two minutes for the applicant to

500
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:03,140
rebut to comments.

501
00:42:03,380 --> 00:42:05,600
If you want to use those, don't don't feel obligated.

502
00:42:13,290 --> 00:42:14,210
Don't come out again.

503
00:42:15,050 --> 00:42:17,970
The only comment I would make the study was from San

504
00:42:17,970 --> 00:42:20,890
Dag, standard trips, generation rates.

505
00:42:21,010 --> 00:42:21,990
That's where the study was from.

506
00:42:21,990 --> 00:42:23,090
that's all in the presentation.

507
00:42:24,010 --> 00:42:26,650
I assume you like that public so that the residents can see that.

508
00:42:26,790 --> 00:42:27,830
Can we do you want?

509
00:42:28,030 --> 00:42:28,490
They're buying.

510
00:42:28,810 --> 00:42:30,450
You can come a good partner with them

511
00:42:30,450 --> 00:42:31,310
through the development.

512
00:42:32,330 --> 00:42:32,810
Thank you.

513
00:42:33,070 --> 00:42:33,770
Thanks, sir.

514
00:42:34,870 --> 00:42:37,150
At this point, we will close the public hearing

515
00:42:38,350 --> 00:42:44,940
and open Council's comments and questions to our staff

516
00:42:44,940 --> 00:42:45,980
and Mr. Peoples.

517
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:49,720
Mr. Roach?

518
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,740
How many vehicles did they plan on

519
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,640
What's their goal, I guess, a monthly goal that they'll have, how many, how many, how many?

520
00:42:58,640 --> 00:43:00,500
There's monthly goal for sell of vehicles.

521
00:43:00,980 --> 00:43:02,040
I don't have that information.

522
00:43:02,240 --> 00:43:07,880
I mean, just if they have an idea, obviously, they've done, you know, they know the demographics in the area.

523
00:43:08,180 --> 00:43:13,740
And then there's two buildings, and I'm assuming one is for the, for the cars and the other is the auto body.

524
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:14,340
That's great.

525
00:43:14,540 --> 00:43:14,880
Is that correct?

526
00:43:14,900 --> 00:43:16,760
What's the 5,000 square foot building?

527
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,500
I will get the clarification on that.

528
00:43:19,540 --> 00:43:21,660
The building layout has changed.

529
00:43:21,660 --> 00:43:25,860
The applicants indicated to me they're not even certain that it's going to be three buildings at this time

530
00:43:25,860 --> 00:43:30,440
That's a conceptual layout that they put it's basically going to be one

531
00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:36,840
dealership correct selling one brand of automobiles that that is what has been indicated to staff

532
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,020
Yes, thank you

533
00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:42,640
I think that indicate six hundred and twenty-tools spaces

534
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,140
Mr people so if we could just

535
00:43:45,140 --> 00:43:50,240
And I don't assume the majority of those will be for autos for sale to be part of those

536
00:43:50,240 --> 00:43:50,540
spaces.

537
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:55,260
But if we just confirm the breakdown of how many of those are dedicated to autos for sale

538
00:43:55,260 --> 00:43:58,820
and how many for staff and visitors may be helpful?

539
00:43:59,620 --> 00:44:00,280
Yes, sir.

540
00:44:00,660 --> 00:44:01,280
Mr. Tellman.

541
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:01,860
Mr. John?

542
00:44:03,380 --> 00:44:04,280
Two two questions.

543
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:05,320
Mr. People.

544
00:44:06,140 --> 00:44:14,840
The as the mayor just mentioned 620 and that's from the current 1000 that they could put out there.

545
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:21,840
I'm curious as to the rationale behind why they would want to reduce that number, is that due to

546
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,160
them making way for other variants considerations?

547
00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,460
I'd love to get an answer on that if we could.

548
00:44:30,020 --> 00:44:35,840
And then just a small one, the lighting, the motion sensors for the lighting, I'm assuming wildlife

549
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:40,060
would set those off and if they do, can you get an answer in terms of how long they

550
00:44:40,060 --> 00:44:49,480
remain on there once they're tripped. That's all I had. Michigan? I just had a question. I wanted to

551
00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:56,980
I'm testing my memory here. Back when the Riverstone development was first approved,

552
00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,960
did it not include several dealers?

553
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,760
Memberships in the master plan to begin with, and I realize all that in different pods, of course.

554
00:45:08,860 --> 00:45:23,220
But I think that plan has changed and eliminated those, but it was originally designed to handle, if I remember correctly, and I want to make sure I do, that it was designed to handle several other ships.

555
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,140
I'll research the zoning history and confirm for the council.

556
00:45:28,520 --> 00:45:28,520
Yes,

557
00:45:31,920 --> 00:45:31,920
sir.

558
00:45:32,020 --> 00:45:32,780
Anyone else?

559
00:45:34,670 --> 00:45:35,250
Okay. Thank you, sir.

560
00:45:35,410 --> 00:45:36,770
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council.

561
00:45:38,930 --> 00:45:43,770
We go from medical buildings to car dealerships and all in everyone's favorite residential.

562
00:45:44,530 --> 00:45:45,730
So one final public hearing.

563
00:45:45,790 --> 00:45:48,610
Thanks, everyone, for for for your decorum.

564
00:45:49,350 --> 00:45:53,590
And I also just I want to know if we have a couple of Boy Scouts in the back and when to welcome you guys.

565
00:45:53,690 --> 00:45:54,450
Thank you for being here.

566
00:45:54,450 --> 00:45:58,050
So it won't be a good behavior for our Boy Scouts here.

567
00:45:58,050 --> 00:45:59,350
We want to make good impressions, right?

568
00:46:00,430 --> 00:46:03,650
So we'll proceed with our third on final public hearing for the

569
00:46:03,650 --> 00:46:08,330
evening that it's public hearing for cases A and N X 2 6 0 6

570
00:46:08,330 --> 00:46:18,270
dash 0 0 4 R Z 0 in 2 6 0 7 dash 0 0 1 in P 2 6 0 7 dash 0 0 3

571
00:46:18,270 --> 00:46:27,250
CUP-2607-002 and they are 2607-001.

572
00:46:27,270 --> 00:46:41,390
Request to annex and resolve in plus or minus 62.17 acres from R40 County to planned development mixed use city for a mixed use development on plus or minus 68.5 acres.

573
00:46:41,390 --> 00:46:49,530
located at 680 and 700 P. Ridge Road and associated master plan request for the proposed mixed use development.

574
00:46:49,910 --> 00:47:00,330
Conditional use permit request to allow for multi story building and multi family residential condominiums and town hall units and three concurrent variance requests.

575
00:47:00,390 --> 00:47:01,590
Mr. Trayway.

576
00:47:03,090 --> 00:47:04,610
Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of Council.

577
00:47:04,610 --> 00:47:11,310
So, this is a kind of a multi-part request for annexation, rezoning master plan.

578
00:47:11,670 --> 00:47:13,490
Conditionally used Carmen as well as variances.

579
00:47:13,710 --> 00:47:18,050
This applicant is Lee Lusk for peerage land investments LLC.

580
00:47:19,330 --> 00:47:26,950
The intent here is to rezone and annex the 62.17 acres in the unincorporated Cherokee County

581
00:47:27,610 --> 00:47:32,930
into the city limits from an R-40 to an PD mixed use district.

582
00:47:33,850 --> 00:47:42,870
The request is also for a combined 68.5 acres for a master plan for that new PD mixed use should it be improved.

583
00:47:43,530 --> 00:47:55,010
Conditional use permit to allow for kind of a mixed multi-story building that contains some multi-family uses condominiums and potentially town homes on the side of it.

584
00:47:55,010 --> 00:48:14,150
And then lastly, the concurrent variances are to reduce a perimeter buffer next to county property from 50 feet to 20, to eliminate a 50 foot buffer adjacent to the road on period road and to allow a single boulevard entrance in lieu of two separate entrances.

585
00:48:14,150 --> 00:48:21,210
this is a virus too, and so this applicant is requesting two entrances be eliminated to have

586
00:48:21,210 --> 00:48:26,550
a single boulevard entrance. And for that entrance to be located on a street that is

587
00:48:26,550 --> 00:48:29,370
not classified as a collector or a grader.

588
00:48:30,250 --> 00:48:35,870
Just for reference, the subject property, as you mentioned, is at 680 and 700-perage

589
00:48:35,870 --> 00:48:41,590
road. It consists of five properties. It has front-age on two roads. On the right side is

590
00:48:41,590 --> 00:48:43,930
Reservoir Drive and on the left side is P-Rode.

591
00:48:45,150 --> 00:48:47,450
This is located within the P-Rode community.

592
00:48:49,710 --> 00:48:51,790
There's just some topography of the property.

593
00:48:52,230 --> 00:48:54,170
Basically what it's showing is there's a little bit

594
00:48:54,170 --> 00:48:57,170
of topography change on the site itself with a stream.

595
00:48:57,690 --> 00:48:59,770
That's located on it and on the right side

596
00:48:59,770 --> 00:49:02,310
closest to Reservoir Drive, the 6.3 acres.

597
00:49:02,530 --> 00:49:03,670
It's already in the city limits.

598
00:49:04,310 --> 00:49:06,290
That is kind of the high point, the flat point

599
00:49:06,290 --> 00:49:07,090
on that property.

600
00:49:08,690 --> 00:49:17,930
The feature land use designation of this site is suburban development, the little bit of the mixed commercial retail section as well.

601
00:49:20,490 --> 00:49:30,070
We provided the city zoning of this property surrounding it is mostly PD mixed use, but on the county side is mostly our 40, which is about one unit per acre.

602
00:49:31,470 --> 00:49:36,010
And this is the site plan that was prepared and presented by the applicant.

603
00:49:36,970 --> 00:49:42,170
A little history in November 2024 City Council voted down a request by a peer-region

604
00:49:42,170 --> 00:49:47,230
investments LLC to annex a proposed residential development on subject property,

605
00:49:47,970 --> 00:49:53,930
which was initially proposing 228 homes, just about 3.4 units per acre.

606
00:49:53,930 --> 00:49:59,970
The applicant is requesting the property annexation and rezoning to develop the site into 2.

607
00:50:00,460 --> 00:50:07,620
On the site plan, you'll see pod 1 is shown, kind of to the right, and then pod 2 is the one that's highlighted in pink.

608
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:14,700
So, for pod 1, they're proposing a development of 204 single-family detachable units.

609
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:23,680
176 of those would have a minimum lot size of 50 by 150, and then 28 lots, those are the ones that are already in the city 1.

610
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:28,340
That's as PD mixed use, would have a minimum lot size of about 4,000 square feet.

611
00:50:28,340 --> 00:50:35,340
This pod 1 would have its primary access by way of a bullet-of-art entrance to Reservoir Drive,

612
00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:37,580
which is that road on the north east side.

613
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:45,300
Pod 1 acreage total is roughly 61.5 acres, which would be about 3.3 units per acre.

614
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,340
Pod 2 is the one highlighted in red.

615
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:55,720
That would be around 7 acres in size, and the applicant is proposing to donate this

616
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:56,900
are incorporated.

617
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,020
In this particular pod, as they're showing on the site plan, they are showing 11 single

618
00:51:03,020 --> 00:51:10,660
family deep patch lots with 29, roughly 29,000 square feet of mixed use commercial office,

619
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:16,980
and then where the conditioning used comes in is multi-family condos with two-story multi-story

620
00:51:16,980 --> 00:51:18,000
building, so essentially.

621
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:25,700
The maximum total units that may be allotted on this particular lot, person-propercondition

622
00:51:25,700 --> 00:51:30,940
from the applicant would be a total of 39 total residential units on the seven acres.

623
00:51:32,160 --> 00:51:35,920
The applicant has purposely limited some of the development standards and those

624
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:40,060
development standards proposed are part of the master plan in the staff report for your

625
00:51:40,060 --> 00:51:40,520
reference.

626
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:45,000
And they're purposely limiting the development standards and permitted uses for their

627
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:50,100
seven acres to allow the Charlie Ferguson Community Center the ability to be flexible in

628
00:51:50,100 --> 00:51:50,640
their development.

629
00:51:51,340 --> 00:51:55,400
As you may recall, a lot of the small area plan that came out talked about affordable housing,

630
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,800
it talked about some neighborhood commercial uses. So the applicant is proposing to leave that a

631
00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:04,560
little bit open ended for them to be able to propose. Additionally, the applicant has shown

632
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:12,140
two proposed access easement areas on the site plans. So one would be a data access point on the south

633
00:52:12,140 --> 00:52:18,160
part of this site. There's a parcel to the south that's owned by the school district. It's a

634
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:24,440
Ralph Bunch Center. So they're proposing a data access to the city of Canton on that south side for

635
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,400
potential future access, which will connect to the letter drive,

636
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:28,640
and eventually out to 140.

637
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,640
The second access would be for the Charlie Ferguson Community

638
00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:34,040
Center.

639
00:52:34,380 --> 00:52:38,400
That's that strip that you can see running through the pod too.

640
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,740
So that would be dated over to the Charlie Ferguson Community

641
00:52:41,740 --> 00:52:42,860
Center for their use.

642
00:52:43,500 --> 00:52:47,200
This site plan shows roughly 33 percentage of green

643
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:47,540
space.

644
00:52:47,840 --> 00:52:50,560
The PD mixed use district requires minimum 25.

645
00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:51,920
So they're exceeding that.

646
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:58,200
And the applicant has also offered several conditions before I get to those.

647
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:00,900
There were some elevations that were provided by the applicant.

648
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:06,340
And then some applicant-proford conditions.

649
00:53:06,780 --> 00:53:08,000
So I'll go over these briefly.

650
00:53:09,260 --> 00:53:11,450
Number one, seven acres to be donated, as mentioned,

651
00:53:12,620 --> 00:53:14,020
to the Charlie Ferguson Community Center.

652
00:53:14,780 --> 00:53:19,460
Number two, the donated lots would be fully entitled and pre-developed for the master plan.

653
00:53:19,540 --> 00:53:22,860
That would include a detention pond on the southwest corner of the property,

654
00:53:22,860 --> 00:53:24,800
as well as providing all utility ions.

655
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,500
So that's what they're talking about as far as entitled.

656
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:32,800
Number three, all residential units and pod two shall be restricted to limits.

657
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:35,640
The asset value appreciation to percent annually.

658
00:53:36,060 --> 00:53:38,160
And the way you can do that is by de-distriction.

659
00:53:38,220 --> 00:53:41,020
And the applicant has provided some examples of how they may be able to

660
00:53:41,020 --> 00:53:42,940
allow that to happen on those seven acres.

661
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:45,960
Obviously, that would be the decision of the Charlie Ferguson Center

662
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:48,820
and how they wish to restrict those as well.

663
00:53:48,820 --> 00:53:56,000
Number four, finally, unit mix to be determined by the Charlie Ferguson Community Center and approved by the City of Canton.

664
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:02,280
Five, a permanent community, memorial space, honoring peer-rich community's history.

665
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:08,800
Shelby established and Shelby subject to approvals by the executive director of the Center as well as the City of Canton.

666
00:54:10,040 --> 00:54:13,220
Six, a sewer easement shall be provided to the Community Center.

667
00:54:13,540 --> 00:54:18,360
The easement would be reported by the developer, pod 1 to pod 2, shown on the master plan.

668
00:54:19,860 --> 00:54:22,980
7 internal streets in recognition of legacy

669
00:54:22,980 --> 00:54:30,600
P-Rage families would be subject to approval by the city of Canton as well as the executive director of the Charlie Ferguson Community Center.

670
00:54:31,540 --> 00:54:37,640
8 Grant and accesses meant for future connection from P-Rage to P-Rage and Ralph Bunch Center,

671
00:54:37,640 --> 00:54:43,640
among some other language and number 9 developer to provide 1,000 per lot for school board impacts,

672
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:59,560
Prior to final plan approval, 10 construction entrance shall be only on reservoir drive and then 11 would be the governing HOA for the subdivision would restrict Reynolds to a minimum of 5% for pod 1.

673
00:55:01,550 --> 00:55:08,910
We did receive several comments, including comments from chair, key county, concerning the annexations.

674
00:55:09,310 --> 00:55:14,510
So for engineering, an updated traffic study would be required prior to the land disturbance permit.

675
00:55:14,890 --> 00:55:24,950
As you saw in your staff report, the prior 2024 traffic study. So there would be required an updated traffic study prior to the LDP issuance.

676
00:55:24,950 --> 00:55:28,310
A full hydrology report would be required prior to LD.

677
00:55:29,050 --> 00:55:32,970
Water and sewer are available to the property according to engineering.

678
00:55:33,670 --> 00:55:38,890
A 404 permit would be required in wetland and stream buffer delineation would be required.

679
00:55:40,030 --> 00:55:43,130
From building and safety services the applicant may designable of our entrance

680
00:55:43,130 --> 00:55:45,710
and will use two separate neighborhood entrances.

681
00:55:46,630 --> 00:55:50,530
Planning and zoning states that this is within the growth boundary for city of Cantonese

682
00:55:50,530 --> 00:55:58,330
So, Cherokee County, and we do mention the adoption of the small area plan that was done in July 2026.

683
00:55:59,730 --> 00:56:12,050
For Cherokee County comments, we did those were in total 13, as those are the ones that are shown on the screen.

684
00:56:12,770 --> 00:56:19,090
And some of the points made for those are concerning the

685
00:56:24,660 --> 00:56:30,420
density is a concern as they had it listed as suburban living, which supports up to three units per acre.

686
00:56:31,460 --> 00:56:38,020
They have concerns about the development having concerns on the local roads that cannot support significant increase in traffic.

687
00:56:39,420 --> 00:56:45,900
They're concerned about this request in terms of another request in the Peeridge community area.

688
00:56:46,060 --> 00:56:48,520
That's the one R piece that they're referring to.

689
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:53,520
They stay if there's any access to Peeridge and one 40 is requested that there be collaboration.

690
00:56:55,340 --> 00:56:57,120
Ferguson, Charlie Ferguson Center.

691
00:56:58,020 --> 00:57:03,020
City of Canton, they discuss the city of Canton's requirements for two access points.

692
00:57:04,100 --> 00:57:12,900
They make mention of the T-spelostin intersection road improvements that's Project T--0242 through Cherokee County.

693
00:57:13,720 --> 00:57:25,060
They state that is recommended that the extension of the proposed internal street beyond the western boundary of a lot 65 and 66 to the proposed property being installed by the developers part of one.

694
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:30,680
So that's the one that kind of goes through the Charlie Ferguson Center proposed donation.

695
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,320
The proposed high-density development may require the construction of a south envelope

696
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,560
turn line, off of 140 onto P-Rage Road.

697
00:57:41,400 --> 00:57:45,340
As P-Rage Road is a county road, new access point will be permitted and approved through

698
00:57:45,340 --> 00:57:46,120
Cherokee County.

699
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:53,440
They have a concern about the third entrance connecting to the Ralph Bunch Center Fire and Emergency

700
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:54,180
Services.

701
00:57:54,180 --> 00:58:00,600
This more details are required for the Bolvard entrance and then they provide more information

702
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:04,560
about should the Bolvard entrance be denied what they were required in general.

703
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:13,940
The applicant did hold a community input meeting which was attended by about 23 members of

704
00:58:13,940 --> 00:58:15,540
the community and the applicant

705
00:58:18,070 --> 00:58:19,810
in total.

706
00:58:19,810 --> 00:58:24,770
the density maximum for the site would be around three points.

707
00:58:24,770 --> 00:58:26,330
Let's break or if approved.

708
00:58:27,790 --> 00:58:29,050
We, that's all I have.

709
00:58:29,490 --> 00:58:29,510
Okay.

710
00:58:29,790 --> 00:58:30,170
Thank you.

711
00:58:30,250 --> 00:58:31,350
Thank you.

712
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,140
So at this point, we will open up the public hearing.

713
00:58:37,160 --> 00:58:40,660
For cases A, N, N, X, 2, 6, 0, 6,

714
00:58:40,660 --> 00:58:46,880
dash, 0, 0, 4, R, Z, O, N, 2, 6, 0, 7, dash, 0, 0, 1.

715
00:58:49,260 --> 00:58:59,540
MP2607-003, CUP2607-002, and be our 2607-001.

716
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,660
I will just state up front.

717
00:59:02,900 --> 00:59:08,800
We do have nine residences signed up to speak for this hearing.

718
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:14,780
Again, we have 10 minutes time for public input for those in support of the project.

719
00:59:14,780 --> 00:59:21,120
those opposed. We intend to hold to those time limits. I don't know how these nine

720
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:25,880
who wants to speak in favor or support. But once the applicant is finished,

721
00:59:26,180 --> 00:59:30,440
we will see how much time we have left, and I'll ask those to speak in support

722
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:35,240
at their time and then we'll move in opposition. So we'll try to be as efficient as possible.

723
00:59:35,640 --> 00:59:39,520
And we appreciate, again, everyone's cooperation here. So this time we'll open the

724
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:43,060
public hearing. Again, when you come to speak, stay your name and address,

725
00:59:43,060 --> 00:59:48,300
And we'll begin with the applicant who's here obviously to speak in support.

726
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:50,340
Thank you Mr. Mayor Simon Bloom.

727
00:59:50,700 --> 00:59:53,060
I'm the attorney to represent the Peeridge.

728
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:55,220
Best minutes, my address is 977,

729
00:59:55,220 --> 00:59:57,000
possibly on Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.

730
00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,900
It's my honor and privilege to represent the developer in this...

731
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,980
No matter, we'd like to reserve the majority of our time to the extent any is left. Mr. Tray, we could have fine job of setting out the basics and don't need me to be inefficient and revisit them with Mayor and Council. I'm sure that you all have had an opportunity to review this case. If there are questions, obviously, we're here in willing and able to field them. There has been a great deal of effort put in between the developer and staff to try to arrive at what a PUD is designed to arrive at, which is a collaborative effort to arrive at a site plan that has been

732
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:32,020
makes sense to everybody and for everybody.

733
01:00:32,860 --> 01:00:37,900
With that being said, there was robust public participation, largely in favor, Mr. Luskin

734
01:00:37,900 --> 01:00:38,820
speak to that.

735
01:00:39,460 --> 01:00:44,440
And also, I would just say, having done this for a little bit of time now, I very rarely

736
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:49,160
see a developer who is willing to take the pin corner of a development and donate it to a

737
01:00:49,160 --> 01:00:51,880
community for the true benefit of that community.

738
01:00:52,100 --> 01:00:56,720
And that is exactly what he's doing in this instance, taking that prime seven acres, donating

739
01:00:56,720 --> 01:01:03,860
it to a community for their development to address all the types of things that plan study reported

740
01:01:03,860 --> 01:01:09,460
on as well as to provide affordable housing and a true community feel for our historical community.

741
01:01:09,940 --> 01:01:13,780
With that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Lusk, that's not to retread any of the ground only.

742
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:20,200
Hey, Lee Lusk addresses 190 Highlands Chase, Barbara Andorrajo, appreciate Chalph's time

743
01:01:20,200 --> 01:01:20,840
consideration.

744
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:23,460
And I also want to be brief on the public test patient meeting.

745
01:01:23,560 --> 01:01:24,940
We did have 23 come.

746
01:01:25,140 --> 01:01:28,900
We had a six come that were, I'm sorry, we had four come from

747
01:01:28,900 --> 01:01:33,320
Lord Canyon, we had one that signed up that came from great sky.

748
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:38,140
12 from the immediate community of P. Reds and we had six that I had embodied

749
01:01:38,140 --> 01:01:42,600
that were coming in support of it and they arranged from living in Woodstock to Canton.

750
01:01:43,220 --> 01:01:44,940
So it was a good meeting, it was a good robust meeting.

751
01:01:45,060 --> 01:01:46,800
We had a lot of good questions, a lot of good answers.

752
01:01:48,480 --> 01:01:50,860
And I'll, well, like you said, we'll leave more time for a vote.

753
01:01:51,000 --> 01:01:52,440
I didn't want to ask any of this okay.

754
01:01:52,580 --> 01:01:54,480
We have a, some other want to speak in favor.

755
01:01:54,600 --> 01:01:56,300
He was running late from Rome.

756
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:57,660
He wasn't able to sign up prior.

757
01:01:57,900 --> 01:02:00,800
And during our rebuttal, would he be able to speak on our behalf?

758
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:02,140
I love the rest of it.

759
01:02:02,520 --> 01:02:02,540
I don't know.

760
01:02:02,540 --> 01:02:04,000
I don't know if that's the thing.

761
01:02:08,270 --> 01:02:08,630
So,

762
01:02:11,550 --> 01:02:17,450
again, we have nine resists signed up to speak.

763
01:02:18,610 --> 01:02:21,150
We would have, how much time do we have in support?

764
01:02:26,150 --> 01:02:44,930
So I guess the easiest way for me I will read the people as I sign up the order if you if you if you did sign up to speak and support you can come ahead and forward and and say say your comments if you didn't then we'll save you and when the opposition has their time to speak that works for everyone and again

765
01:02:44,930 --> 01:02:51,130
Please keep in mind we want everyone to speak, but if we run out of time, we will be out of time

766
01:02:51,910 --> 01:02:55,490
So run siphon in support or opposition.

767
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:11,280
That's up here. You want to speak in support or opposition?

768
01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:15,460
You got a pick one side.

769
01:03:15,460 --> 01:03:16,440
Got a pick one side.

770
01:03:16,600 --> 01:03:16,660
Sorry.

771
01:03:20,980 --> 01:03:21,380
Okay.

772
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,280
Just give us your name and address please.

773
01:03:25,320 --> 01:03:25,980
Good evening.

774
01:03:26,300 --> 01:03:27,520
I'm Ron Siphon.

775
01:03:27,700 --> 01:03:31,560
100 big matters drive. I live in so in the so late neighborhood.

776
01:03:32,580 --> 01:03:40,380
I do think that the use that the applicant is proposing is a reasonable use.

777
01:03:41,380 --> 01:03:48,010
I happen to think that City of Canton has approved way too many apartments.

778
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:50,000
They're adjacent to apartments.

779
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:55,720
The applicant is proposing single family detached homes.

780
01:03:55,820 --> 01:03:57,380
It'll be a family neighborhood.

781
01:03:57,380 --> 01:04:04,180
And I think that under the circumstances he's proposing a reasonable use of the property.

782
01:04:05,100 --> 01:04:10,880
Looking at the little triangle piece of property and the northeast part that's already in the city.

783
01:04:12,100 --> 01:04:14,760
Those are small lots anyway.

784
01:04:16,040 --> 01:04:26,060
And if there's any way that those houses could be, I'll leave this between you and the applicant over the next 30 days.

785
01:04:26,060 --> 01:04:36,680
But if there were two bedroom houses with a maximum of 1,400 square feet, 3 bedroom houses

786
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:43,760
with a maximum of 1,600 square feet, and the houses could be priced accordingly, I think

787
01:04:43,760 --> 01:04:51,020
a need that Kenton has, whether this would specifically qualify as workforce housing, maybe

788
01:04:51,020 --> 01:04:57,680
you could come up with a way that it would come close, and it would address a need that

789
01:04:57,680 --> 01:04:58,780
City of Canton has.

790
01:04:58,960 --> 01:04:59,900
You've got a little block.

791
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:09,600
A few lots, it's not a huge number of lots, but it's a few lots, that it could be beneficial to the city if can.

792
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:16,900
It's going to be a single family member of family homes, kids.

793
01:05:18,160 --> 01:05:27,920
The main access point is going to be very close to direct access to the schools, rather than have traffic

794
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:35,980
room around to get to the schools to write to access. I think it's well planned from that standpoint.

795
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:43,960
And I think that overall this will be a benefit to the city of Kent. Thank you.

796
01:05:44,220 --> 01:05:49,560
Thanks, sir. Robert Stelik, are you here to speak in favor or opposition?

797
01:05:54,270 --> 01:05:56,370
Okay, we'll come back to you then, sir.

798
01:06:00,370 --> 01:06:04,530
Joe Manz, Manz, Manz, Opposition, okay?

799
01:06:04,870 --> 01:06:05,870
You come back to you?

800
01:06:06,150 --> 01:06:06,970
Tennis Wilch,

801
01:06:17,240 --> 01:06:18,340
I'm a real mayor and council.

802
01:06:18,580 --> 01:06:21,420
I want to read a prepare statement so that I will not take up

803
01:06:21,420 --> 01:06:21,960
too much time.

804
01:06:22,180 --> 01:06:23,140
Yes, your name and address.

805
01:06:23,300 --> 01:06:25,380
My name is Tennis Wilch, and I'm the executive director

806
01:06:25,380 --> 01:06:26,960
of the Charlie Ferguson Community Center,

807
01:06:26,960 --> 01:06:30,060
located at 1398 Ron Hart College Parkway,

808
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:32,460
and I'm also a period's land owner.

809
01:06:33,520 --> 01:06:35,300
I am in favor of the annexation and zoning

810
01:06:35,300 --> 01:06:36,560
for numerous reasons.

811
01:06:37,020 --> 01:06:39,600
Peeridge is one of the oldest historically African-American

812
01:06:39,600 --> 01:06:41,240
communities in Cherokee County.

813
01:06:41,720 --> 01:06:44,180
Today, Peeridge continues to sit on an island

814
01:06:44,180 --> 01:06:47,220
while bordering properties have already been annexed.

815
01:06:47,500 --> 01:06:49,160
Preservation and sensible development

816
01:06:49,160 --> 01:06:52,140
will take a combined county and city effort.

817
01:06:52,900 --> 01:06:54,820
An exasciation of this property and subsequently

818
01:06:54,820 --> 01:06:57,760
all of Peeridge would afford the community,

819
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:00,520
the opportunity to partner with both the city

820
01:07:00,520 --> 01:07:02,760
and county to move the recent small area

821
01:07:02,760 --> 01:07:31,660
planned agenda forward, work with the city and county to be part of a solution to relieve traffic congestion in the area, including grant opportunities, pursue additional grant opportunities to ensure the preservation of peerage, current housing renovations, and the memorialization of this historic contribution to this area, make use of the proposed seven acre donation of land by the way chances that any other developer would have given our community seven acres of land.

822
01:07:32,760 --> 01:07:39,140
we appreciate that. The land donation will be used for the following purpose. Ensure attainable

823
01:07:39,140 --> 01:07:45,220
housing is an option for our community seniors and previous legacy residents. Build the first

824
01:07:45,220 --> 01:07:50,700
North Canton corridor park and finally make use of the proposed small commercial space for

825
01:07:50,700 --> 01:07:56,540
wraparound services and enhance the programs offered by the Charlie Ferguson Community Center. Thank you.

826
01:07:56,540 --> 01:07:58,220
Thank you.

827
01:08:00,470 --> 01:08:02,690
Deacon Sean Gordon, in favor?

828
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:14,840
My name is Sean Gordon, and I represent Hickory Law, Missionary Baptist Church, 179,

829
01:08:14,980 --> 01:08:25,000
but I come to offer my support to Mr. Lusk, realizing as church, we're right there on the right

830
01:08:25,000 --> 01:08:28,180
there at P Ridge, and we see a lot of activity.

831
01:08:28,540 --> 01:08:32,100
We have a lot of our members right from that area.

832
01:08:33,300 --> 01:08:41,300
After the four years or so of meeting with Mr. Lus, and his team, the calls, the discussions

833
01:08:41,300 --> 01:08:47,620
we've had, looking at the plans, we believe as a church that this will be a benefit

834
01:08:47,620 --> 01:08:50,680
to the area and to our church members.

835
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:57,700
We definitely trust and believe in Mr. Lus, and is actually what he's planning on doing.

836
01:08:57,700 --> 01:09:04,560
He does, he does have the community in his thoughts when he's putting this together.

837
01:09:05,620 --> 01:09:15,620
We definitely want to make sure that we keep the church in mind as a pillar of the community.

838
01:09:16,920 --> 01:09:23,340
The church is in the middle of the area and we want everybody to feel safe and warm when

839
01:09:23,340 --> 01:09:24,400
they come to that area.

840
01:09:24,400 --> 01:09:30,400
We have various events that we have during the year of the church and on the outside on the inside,

841
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:32,620
which all are welcome to come.

842
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:40,700
And we believe that this development will help people come in, be able to praise and worship as they choose,

843
01:09:41,300 --> 01:09:44,320
to some of the things that take my seat in the second.

844
01:09:44,520 --> 01:09:48,820
Some of the things we feel that are beneficial will be the streetlights,

845
01:09:48,820 --> 01:09:53,940
uh... upgraded uh... or including sidewalks that will be added

846
01:09:53,940 --> 01:09:55,980
uh... upgraded streets

847
01:09:55,980 --> 01:09:58,920
uh... the actual memorial

848
01:09:58,960 --> 01:09:59,960
for those

849
01:10:00,000 --> 01:10:08,640
That's a 10 hour church, and then the actual park that is in the plans. So we offer our full support to this Mr.

850
01:10:08,720 --> 01:10:12,360
Loss and this development. Thank you. Thanks, sir.

851
01:10:14,720 --> 01:10:16,680
Fill us Hunter, are you here to speak in support?

852
01:10:19,940 --> 01:10:22,860
Mr. Rebels, can we just get a quick time check remaining

853
01:10:22,860 --> 01:10:26,620
for support? Two minutes and 22 seconds. Okay. Thank you.

854
01:10:26,620 --> 01:10:36,500
get out to know. My name is Phyllis Gregory Hunter. I've lived on P.B. for over 76 years.

855
01:10:37,500 --> 01:10:46,120
And I fully support this and us. We need some change and I've thought 100% thank you.

856
01:10:46,180 --> 01:10:53,470
Thank you. Katherine McCrowey in support or opposition. Okay, we'll come back to you.

857
01:10:53,770 --> 01:10:57,050
Thomas Weaver's supporter opposition. Come back.

858
01:10:58,110 --> 01:11:00,190
Chris Everett support our opposition?

859
01:11:04,360 --> 01:11:05,200
Okay, you have a few lines.

860
01:11:14,010 --> 01:11:16,570
One, two, three in trail court.

861
01:11:17,190 --> 01:11:22,750
In the reason I'm not sure, is that property is going to be developed someday?

862
01:11:23,770 --> 01:11:29,110
You either take this developer in Charlie Ferguson, gets that slice there,

863
01:11:29,170 --> 01:11:34,790
in the pureage community of which you've had several people come forward and support

864
01:11:34,790 --> 01:11:42,610
are going to get what they want, or you can deny it in some other developers going to

865
01:11:42,610 --> 01:11:45,190
come along and not do that.

866
01:11:45,690 --> 01:11:47,910
So I would jump on this one.

867
01:11:48,190 --> 01:11:57,010
Having said that, this again, that whole connection to one forwarding is really touching, and

868
01:11:57,010 --> 01:12:01,210
you've got to get some traffic engineers to figure all that out.

869
01:12:01,210 --> 01:12:07,370
the belated drive and P-Rage, you know, somewhere along the line, back when

870
01:12:08,110 --> 01:12:13,670
Laurel Canyon and Great Sky were being developed, somewhere along the line, council made,

871
01:12:14,870 --> 01:12:21,550
then get those two major intersections on each side of each other and then put a red light in

872
01:12:21,550 --> 01:12:27,950
to regulate the traffic on 140. Somewhere along the line, you can do something similar, I think.

873
01:12:27,950 --> 01:12:30,430
That's all I got. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

874
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:35,880
You're now your own record, sir.

875
01:12:40,770 --> 01:12:42,990
You guys are so well behaved. I really appreciate that.

876
01:12:43,970 --> 01:12:48,710
So we will come back now and just a time check on time remaining for support.

877
01:12:48,830 --> 01:12:49,370
One minute.

878
01:12:49,370 --> 01:12:50,350
One minute total.

879
01:12:51,290 --> 01:12:56,310
So we'll begin those time ten minute total for those speaking opposition.

880
01:12:56,870 --> 01:13:00,270
Again, please adhere to our procedures here.

881
01:13:00,270 --> 01:13:07,150
And we'll begin, again, come up the state of name and address clearly and begin your remarks, Mr. Robert Stellick.

882
01:13:17,270 --> 01:13:20,590
Thank you, Robert Stellick. I'll let it 310 to below drive up in great sky.

883
01:13:23,390 --> 01:13:29,550
We've been working on this for what? 4, 5 years now, 6 years and it's been going back and forth between the county and the city.

884
01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:37,120
These poor people that live in P-Ridge are desperate and they need some sort of development in there.

885
01:13:37,120 --> 01:13:41,040
But I think what has to happen first is that you need to grow a pair.

886
01:13:41,560 --> 01:13:43,760
You need to take, accept this property.

887
01:13:44,200 --> 01:13:51,640
And you need to have everything that they need, the right streets, and sewage, and the infrastructure

888
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:52,440
that it needs.

889
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:57,880
Why it was boxed out, I think, is just because you didn't have the guts to take on this task

890
01:13:57,880 --> 01:13:59,240
and pay for it.

891
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:02,980
And that's the main contention that I have.

892
01:14:03,460 --> 01:14:05,580
The biggest problem is with the developer.

893
01:14:05,580 --> 01:14:11,400
Like I said, we've been working on this for years and the county has come in and said, okay, it's our 40.

894
01:14:12,000 --> 01:14:21,120
You know, it's their land and I've had Mr. Peppers tell me this a couple times that, hey, the owner could do whatever he wants with the property would be asked to me because it was owned our 40.

895
01:14:21,700 --> 01:14:31,960
All right, the county has said, let's give them three houses per acre, not 215 homes, and then there's a key word in this, in this zoning request, multi-family.

896
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:38,740
It could be like the building that's going on just south of there where it was multi-family town homes

897
01:14:38,740 --> 01:14:44,500
It's going to be homes can be great. They're all apartments that multi-family is a key word. He can back off of this and say,

898
01:14:44,940 --> 01:14:50,400
I just can't afford it. I'm just going to have to build apartments. And then the biggest problem here is

899
01:14:52,160 --> 01:14:54,980
They throw in that this is going to be beautiful. It's going to be wonderful.

900
01:14:55,820 --> 01:14:59,960
But is it really? Is it going to be what we want? Is it going to be that low?

901
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:09,640
Cost housing, I mean, I heard 15, 1600 square feet, $300 a square foot. That's a $400,000 home. The only low cost that

902
01:15:09,640 --> 01:15:16,360
you have, look at the teachers in the county, making $50,000, $60,000 a year. What can they afford? $4,000 a month,

903
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:22,920
that's $1,200. What can you buy for $1,200? Well, unless you guys want to get on the developers

904
01:15:22,920 --> 01:15:28,100
case, in the builders case, and the lower that $300 and the interest rates, the banks are making

905
01:15:28,100 --> 01:15:34,340
six and a half, seven, no, but there is no low-cost housing in this county, nor in this city,

906
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:36,480
where you can get a three-bed room, two-bed room.

907
01:15:36,700 --> 01:15:39,100
I mean, even these apartments, which is the lowest cost of apartment.

908
01:15:39,220 --> 01:15:47,440
One bedroom, $700 square feet, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, that's what a $50,000 person earnings

909
01:15:47,440 --> 01:15:48,280
can make.

910
01:15:50,260 --> 01:15:54,080
I missed Andy McGrew, because she was the only one on the council that had a pair.

911
01:15:54,080 --> 01:15:59,960
You guys need to get a pair, take the land in and start developing it properly.

912
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:02,160
You know, okay, hey, this is great.

913
01:16:02,300 --> 01:16:04,260
This guy's been promoting this now for years.

914
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:06,520
And you guys just like the dog in the back of the truck.

915
01:16:06,640 --> 01:16:07,580
You're just not in your head.

916
01:16:07,780 --> 01:16:08,640
We're afraid to lawsuit.

917
01:16:08,720 --> 01:16:09,960
To whom I got you to lawsuit.

918
01:16:10,100 --> 01:16:11,520
They're going to sue us if we don't do this.

919
01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:12,300
That's what they threatened.

920
01:16:12,620 --> 01:16:14,560
I don't know how many times did they threaten you to do that.

921
01:16:14,820 --> 01:16:16,140
Don't worry about it.

922
01:16:16,180 --> 01:16:16,780
Grow a pair.

923
01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:17,540
Thanks.

924
01:16:17,860 --> 01:16:18,580
That's right.

925
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:23,560
Joe Manz, or many Manz, you can correct yours.

926
01:16:24,500 --> 01:16:24,700
Manz.

927
01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:24,960
Okay.

928
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:26,260
Thank you.

929
01:16:30,620 --> 01:16:31,240
Manz, through your way.

930
01:16:31,380 --> 01:16:32,000
Two below trail.

931
01:16:32,220 --> 01:16:32,660
Liv next.

932
01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:33,500
Next door to him.

933
01:16:33,500 --> 01:16:35,660
I won't use the go up here.

934
01:16:35,780 --> 01:16:36,840
Pro up here.

935
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:42,900
In the words of the great yogi barra, this is digital.

936
01:16:43,180 --> 01:16:43,720
We all over again.

937
01:16:43,800 --> 01:16:45,900
We attended a meeting with the county.

938
01:16:46,520 --> 01:16:50,300
There was significant opposition to the population density issue.

939
01:16:50,300 --> 01:16:55,400
And then the county commission is voted, and they voted it down.

940
01:16:55,720 --> 01:16:58,300
Lost by one vote granted, but they voted it down.

941
01:16:58,820 --> 01:17:01,800
Now we've got this huge department complex going up right now.

942
01:17:02,220 --> 01:17:03,260
And I don't know where that came from.

943
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:04,500
I guess that one's slip by me.

944
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,320
But we've got it going down right now on Reservoir Road.

945
01:17:07,940 --> 01:17:11,780
And that's going to cause a significant issues with traffic and density.

946
01:17:12,340 --> 01:17:16,160
And then right behind it we're going to put this this p-rigged in,

947
01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:18,340
you know, with that number of units.

948
01:17:18,340 --> 01:17:32,100
I would say why would ask is, why don't we see what these apartments are going to do, why don't we see what that density is going to cause us, and then maybe table this and look at it in the future after we see what all this other development is going to do.

949
01:17:32,420 --> 01:17:43,660
Because this is a significant amount of development going to dump an awful lot of traffic onto that road, and I mean, you know, they got the first bite at the apple, they tried to get you all to take it and you didn't.

950
01:17:43,660 --> 01:17:50,600
Then they got the second bite at the apple, went to the county, county voted it down with significant opposition from people who were sitting in that room.

951
01:17:51,560 --> 01:17:53,380
And so now here's the third bite at the apple.

952
01:17:53,900 --> 01:18:01,140
And I talked to some of the council members afterwards and there was significant concern there might be litigation because they said it's going to be R40.

953
01:18:02,120 --> 01:18:04,980
Well, I mean, R40, I support R40.

954
01:18:05,420 --> 01:18:12,780
You know, because at least that keeps the density down, who knows how many units are going to happen if I look at the definition of what's on that sheet.

955
01:18:12,780 --> 01:18:15,500
I'm not sure what that means as far as population density goes.

956
01:18:16,360 --> 01:18:18,480
There's no definition next to it that says,

957
01:18:18,480 --> 01:18:20,960
this many people, or this amount of density.

958
01:18:21,860 --> 01:18:24,000
So it looks like it's some wiggle room in there

959
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:26,420
where they can make that maybe even more dense

960
01:18:26,900 --> 01:18:31,380
than what the county had originally had to

961
01:18:31,380 --> 01:18:32,640
contend with in that meeting.

962
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:35,720
So why don't we just take a step back

963
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:38,060
and see what the development we're doing now

964
01:18:38,060 --> 01:18:40,320
is going to cause and then maybe revisit this.

965
01:18:40,460 --> 01:18:42,100
That would be my request to the council.

966
01:18:42,100 --> 01:18:44,900
Thank you. Thanks, Catherine McCrowy.

967
01:18:45,540 --> 01:18:45,560
Corey?

968
01:18:49,020 --> 01:18:50,820
My name is Catherine McCrowy.

969
01:18:50,840 --> 01:18:53,940
I live on 3-11 boundless lane.

970
01:18:54,980 --> 01:19:00,380
We are in Sunrise Cove, which is a very close to

971
01:19:00,380 --> 01:19:01,600
Reservoir Road.

972
01:19:02,360 --> 01:19:05,180
So, my opposition is to specifically

973
01:19:05,180 --> 01:19:08,300
the reduction of perimeter buffers

974
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:12,980
against county property from 50 feet to 20 foot

975
01:19:12,980 --> 01:19:19,320
landscape bus buffers and to eliminate the 50 foot buffer along the frontage of

976
01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:27,380
parages state along with having an entrance off of reservoir road. My husband and I

977
01:19:27,380 --> 01:19:32,060
we moved to the state of Georgia just two and a half years ago. So we knew the

978
01:19:32,060 --> 01:19:35,760
high school was coming when we looked at our development and we loved our

979
01:19:35,760 --> 01:19:39,880
development because it reminded us a lot of where we lived before our community

980
01:19:39,880 --> 01:19:47,120
that we loved in another state very much but we also loved the fact that the city of Canton is

981
01:19:47,120 --> 01:19:55,860
historical it's a beautiful town again reminded us of family of gatherings that you could have with

982
01:19:55,860 --> 01:19:59,200
family and a small town. And since then,

983
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:08,220
On Reservoir Road, you've heard mention of the apartments, and the apartments are horrific in my mind.

984
01:20:09,080 --> 01:20:18,460
They're such an eye sore. They don't go, the ones on Reservoir Road. They don't go with the character of our community leading into great sky.

985
01:20:18,460 --> 01:20:22,600
It's strictly looked like it was just crammed in there.

986
01:20:23,040 --> 01:20:26,720
The layout is just doesn't make any sense so close to the road.

987
01:20:27,900 --> 01:20:31,260
I don't know what the vision is for Canton,

988
01:20:31,900 --> 01:20:37,720
but my I am poor city council to think about that vision

989
01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:41,810
before we just make it a commercial town filled with

990
01:20:42,280 --> 01:20:46,620
just because the zoning says we can do certain things.

991
01:20:46,620 --> 01:20:54,160
doesn't mean we should go ahead and just do them and put car dealerships and put another, you know,

992
01:20:55,920 --> 01:21:04,320
pup eyes and chain stores and we have originality and uniqueness in this town and it means a lot

993
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:11,220
to me being a new resident. This is where we've retired that we maintain the beauty and the green space

994
01:21:11,220 --> 01:21:18,100
that we have here. And what is going to be proposed? I've heard a lot of technical jargon today,

995
01:21:18,740 --> 01:21:25,600
but in my mind it comes down to common sense. There is going to be an impact to traffic. It doesn't

996
01:21:25,600 --> 01:21:33,140
matter if we have the best engineers and everybody out there telling us the statistics that we can handle it.

997
01:21:33,380 --> 01:21:40,360
The reality is it's going to impact our neighborhood in a negative way. We had we also have a

998
01:21:40,360 --> 01:21:48,200
that was just put on is being built on the corner of of a reservoir road and

999
01:21:48,200 --> 01:21:53,400
Rine Heart College Parkway just because we can put things in certain places we

1000
01:21:53,400 --> 01:21:59,820
have gas stations with in blocks plenty. There's no that's not adding character

1001
01:21:59,820 --> 01:22:09,600
that's not having love of your city in mind and so I implore everyone here on

1002
01:22:09,600 --> 01:22:17,580
council, just because we can go ahead and do this doesn't mean it's right. And that is

1003
01:22:17,580 --> 01:22:25,160
my concern as we go forward with building in Canton. I just think we're cramming things

1004
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:31,620
in spaces and we're not thinking about the residents, we're just thinking about, okay, they

1005
01:22:31,620 --> 01:22:37,800
can do it and the statistics and all the engineers and everybody who hands in a report says

1006
01:22:37,800 --> 01:22:45,140
they can do it. But I know, common sense, it's impacting my life negatively, and it's

1007
01:22:45,140 --> 01:22:49,760
not, it's taking away my green space and the beauty of our town. And I don't want

1008
01:22:49,760 --> 01:22:56,160
things built so close to the end of the road just so we can add in some more buildings that

1009
01:22:56,160 --> 01:23:03,360
have no character and are not even planned to beautify our neighborhood. So I thank you. I just

1010
01:23:03,360 --> 01:23:10,280
floor this council to take these things into consideration going forward just because we are

1011
01:23:10,280 --> 01:23:15,640
zoned for things doesn't mean they're right for the city of Canton and our vision going

1012
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:24,500
forward. Thank you. We have one more speaker again no reaction audience please one more speaker

1013
01:23:24,500 --> 01:23:30,360
in opposition we have a time check please yeah 33 seconds 33 seconds for Mr Thomas we where we know

1014
01:23:30,360 --> 01:23:31,400
you can do it, sir.

1015
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:35,580
No pressure, but.

1016
01:23:42,650 --> 01:23:44,850
Mr. Mayor, members of Council, my name is Thomas Weaver,

1017
01:23:44,930 --> 01:23:50,470
I reside at 131 Old Mary at a RIP. Thomas, I had been submitted in the most respectful

1018
01:23:50,470 --> 01:23:55,490
opposition to the proposed development as presented by your staff, I would ask that you

1019
01:23:55,490 --> 01:24:00,710
consider your roadmap for success tenets for creating great neighborhoods by providing the

1020
01:24:00,710 --> 01:24:05,150
infrastructure first as our publicly displayed in the back of the auditorium. Thank you.

1021
01:24:05,150 --> 01:24:06,030
Thank you, sir.

1022
01:24:08,220 --> 01:24:14,560
There's all and speakers assigned up against his time check remaining for the applicant

1023
01:24:14,560 --> 01:24:17,560
if they want to rebut applicant has one minute.

1024
01:24:17,820 --> 01:24:19,080
One minute total, sir.

1025
01:24:24,140 --> 01:24:24,700
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1026
01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:27,120
Just very quickly on the issue with the variance.

1027
01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:30,040
Just so that there's a very clear picture of what's going on.

1028
01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:35,660
The variance request for a reduction in the buffer from 50 to 20 is a long property that

1029
01:24:35,660 --> 01:24:37,880
is adjoining the county property.

1030
01:24:37,880 --> 01:24:45,580
We've had more than one property owner that actually is in that boundary that have come to us and said the current

1031
01:24:45,580 --> 01:24:49,160
Vegetative buffer that's there the underster buffer is all

1032
01:24:49,640 --> 01:24:59,880
It's it's composed or comprised of falling in dead trees. It's thin. It scrubbines and the proposed reduction of that buffer to 20 feet would require to be planted pursuant to the city

1033
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:06,220
So, you're actually going to get an improved buffer with better screening and better buffering effects than what's currently there.

1034
01:25:06,760 --> 01:25:09,880
We stand again ready to answer any questions that council has.

1035
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:10,660
Thank you, sir.

1036
01:25:12,360 --> 01:25:21,960
We will close the public hearing, and we will open up two council for questions for Mr. Treweek, our staff, and comments.

1037
01:25:31,650 --> 01:25:31,650
Anyone?

1038
01:25:33,570 --> 01:25:40,830
Mr. Rice, let's try the 2%

1039
01:25:44,100 --> 01:25:52,500
increase in annually for pod 2. Could you get some clarification

1040
01:25:53,100 --> 01:26:01,840
on how that would be managed and just exactly how that might move forward annually year

1041
01:26:01,840 --> 01:26:07,400
year that managed by the Charlie Ferguson Center, I know it's

1042
01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:10,960
did restricted, I get that, but at some point it has to be

1043
01:26:10,960 --> 01:26:14,660
enforceable, and I'd like to know how that gets enforced.

1044
01:26:16,280 --> 01:26:17,320
That's a great question.

1045
01:26:17,560 --> 01:26:21,560
I think it depends on the entity that's actually going to administer

1046
01:26:21,560 --> 01:26:24,380
that, because there's many different ways to do that.

1047
01:26:24,620 --> 01:26:26,780
The common way to do it is through did restriction.

1048
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:30,200
I can certainly double check with the applicant between this meeting

1049
01:26:30,200 --> 01:26:32,360
in the next one for more clarity on that.

1050
01:26:33,060 --> 01:26:33,680
Yes, sir.

1051
01:26:34,060 --> 01:26:43,940
And I would also like to get some feedback in the next few weeks, I guess, before the

1052
01:26:43,940 --> 01:26:51,860
October 1st need on how, and then we have the report from the county, I read all of those

1053
01:26:51,860 --> 01:26:52,600
suggestions.

1054
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:55,100
I don't know if those are requirements or suggestions.

1055
01:26:55,100 --> 01:27:04,480
or a couple of them said that the applicant may have to do this that or the other, how does

1056
01:27:04,480 --> 01:27:11,720
that work? I'm new to this myself. So how does that work with the county and the city and the

1057
01:27:11,720 --> 01:27:19,120
developer and the nonprofit, how all of those play in together to make a final decision?

1058
01:27:20,060 --> 01:27:31,520
So for any annexation, we solicit a comment from the county, there's supposed to provide us some comments if they have any, as well as an official objection if they have one.

1059
01:27:31,820 --> 01:27:35,940
In this case, the county did not have an objection, but they did provide 13 comments.

1060
01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:46,520
The comments are, for the most part, I would say, are concerned about traffic in the area and access to peerage road as well as some of the density concerns.

1061
01:27:47,140 --> 01:27:55,920
A lot of those comments should you choose to do so, you could look at some of those as being actual conditions of approval if you recommend it approval.

1062
01:27:57,160 --> 01:28:02,500
So it's, you know, taking a look at those and seeing which ones you align with, which ones make sense.

1063
01:28:03,180 --> 01:28:06,880
And if you have any questions, we can certainly relate those to the applicant as well.

1064
01:28:07,340 --> 01:28:09,560
Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you.

1065
01:28:11,140 --> 01:28:18,900
What if you don't mind, and I don't know if you know the self-taught of your head, but if you get this, what's the density for this is a little over three units an acre correct?

1066
01:28:20,220 --> 01:28:22,240
How does that compare to Grace God?

1067
01:28:22,380 --> 01:28:26,300
So I'll lay a moral canyon far as the size of the lot you're concerned.

1068
01:28:27,780 --> 01:28:30,380
I don't know the density for a great scar or a moral canyon.

1069
01:28:31,360 --> 01:28:34,320
I want to say it's a little bit higher for those two developments.

1070
01:28:34,320 --> 01:28:42,680
They did. Some folks did mention the two apartment complexes to the east. Those are up to about 15 units per acre with those apartments.

1071
01:28:43,440 --> 01:28:45,140
So this would be a step down in that.

1072
01:28:46,040 --> 01:28:50,060
I don't know the exact answer to your question, but I can look at that.

1073
01:28:50,080 --> 01:28:51,880
But the apartments part of Greg's guy.

1074
01:28:52,640 --> 01:28:55,020
Yes, sir. So the new ones under construction.

1075
01:28:55,680 --> 01:28:58,460
Those are part of there's a, I believe, a zoning condition.

1076
01:28:58,780 --> 01:29:04,100
A few years ago that combined that property as well as the one across from the reservoir.

1077
01:29:04,100 --> 01:29:09,600
for a total maximum number of, I can't remember the number of multi-family units and

1078
01:29:09,600 --> 01:29:14,020
town-owned units. And that apartment complex is kind of an after-factive of that

1079
01:29:14,020 --> 01:29:24,080
decision. So that is not part of this particular PD. The piece that's in the 6.3

1080
01:29:24,080 --> 01:29:28,820
acres that's already PDMU that's in the city. That is also not part of the

1081
01:29:28,820 --> 01:29:38,600
guys, master plan. That is part of the camp first Baptist property. And lastly, when those

1082
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:43,900
the apartments there being built, when were they entitled, when were they, do you know when they were

1083
01:29:43,900 --> 01:29:50,100
approved? And you can get back, that's just a question. Staff has told me 2019, 2019.

1084
01:29:50,420 --> 01:29:55,700
Yes, so six years ago. Yeah. That would have been when the zoning condition changed occurred.

1085
01:29:55,700 --> 01:29:58,880
I'm sorry. Okay, appreciate it. It was part of a lawsuit.

1086
01:30:01,960 --> 01:30:10,460
Let's try a quick, just for clarification and this may be a thing that come from me a couple of times tonight.

1087
01:30:11,680 --> 01:30:23,000
But this developer is requesting a variance on the city code to go from two entrances at that density to one

1088
01:30:28,540 --> 01:30:35,140
If you clarify, if I'm right on this, the city ordinance, we changed our ordinance several

1089
01:30:35,140 --> 01:30:44,000
years ago, I believe in 2018 around that time, to require over 124 units to have to

1090
01:30:44,000 --> 01:30:50,400
separate distinct interests and that was a CD code because we had experienced

1091
01:30:51,880 --> 01:30:58,640
developments who only had one entrance, such as Great Sky and Soleil, and we

1092
01:30:58,640 --> 01:31:03,980
required that developer to put in the second entrance safety, sits concerns and

1093
01:31:03,980 --> 01:31:04,720
those things.

1094
01:31:05,840 --> 01:31:23,100
My understanding from the fire code divided Boulevard meets the fire code, but that's the city has a distinct ordinance that over 124 units in any development requires two entrances correct.

1095
01:31:23,480 --> 01:31:27,800
Yes, sir. That's how we hold developers to a little higher standard inside the city limit.

1096
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:30,880
So I know there's always some confusion of that.

1097
01:31:31,000 --> 01:31:34,300
So let me see the fire code, yes, the Boulevard does,

1098
01:31:34,720 --> 01:31:37,300
but it doesn't meet the city code for two inches,

1099
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:38,940
over a hundred and twenty-four units, correct?

1100
01:31:39,340 --> 01:31:39,600
Yes, sir.

1101
01:31:40,060 --> 01:31:41,260
Thank you for that clarification.

1102
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:51,740
On one question I had, Ms. Tanish spoke,

1103
01:31:51,840 --> 01:31:56,020
and if you could just get clarification from her,

1104
01:31:56,020 --> 01:31:57,460
I believe she's speaking as herself,

1105
01:31:57,460 --> 01:31:58,780
and as introduced herself,

1106
01:31:58,820 --> 01:32:00,900
speaking for the Charlie Ferguson Center,

1107
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:03,820
which we love and support and appreciate all the work,

1108
01:32:03,860 --> 01:32:06,080
the great work, the first the center does.

1109
01:32:07,880 --> 01:32:12,300
And my understanding and I believe her comments

1110
01:32:13,180 --> 01:32:16,760
that my notes correctly is that she was advocating

1111
01:32:17,500 --> 01:32:23,420
for not only annexation of the land and periods

1112
01:32:23,420 --> 01:32:25,660
for this development, but I believe she said

1113
01:32:25,660 --> 01:32:32,640
entirety of P-rich. If you could just clarify with her, is that her personal position is

1114
01:32:32,640 --> 01:32:38,280
at the position of the Ferguson Center, is at the position of the P-rich community presence

1115
01:32:38,280 --> 01:32:43,700
in P-rich community. So I know we've talked about that before, like it's up to them

1116
01:32:43,700 --> 01:32:47,280
to they want to come to the city or not, but I would just like to be clarification on that.

1117
01:32:49,620 --> 01:32:50,900
And one,

1118
01:32:57,980 --> 01:33:03,460
and then I'm slightly confused about, I really appreciate the offer to donate

1119
01:33:03,460 --> 01:33:06,540
the seven acres to the Perkins Center for Community Use.

1120
01:33:06,720 --> 01:33:09,060
I think that's a wonderful thing.

1121
01:33:10,340 --> 01:33:17,940
It's my understanding that that seven acres would be the portion where the commercial

1122
01:33:17,940 --> 01:33:23,740
or would that make the project plan to build that mixed use.

1123
01:33:24,160 --> 01:33:26,820
The residential portion to me just seems to be like up here,

1124
01:33:27,400 --> 01:33:29,140
our 40 project.

1125
01:33:31,840 --> 01:33:34,080
But in real looking at the packet is like,

1126
01:33:34,280 --> 01:33:37,340
well, those would be commercial and I know this Welsh mentioned,

1127
01:33:38,420 --> 01:33:41,600
housing wraparound services retail to support the center,

1128
01:33:41,740 --> 01:33:43,220
which makes sense.

1129
01:33:44,120 --> 01:33:46,180
But it seems, in looking at the packet,

1130
01:33:46,180 --> 01:33:53,480
that it's just, those uses would go there, but there's no really no site plan, there's

1131
01:33:53,480 --> 01:33:56,500
no plan to save, because that could what would be there.

1132
01:33:57,080 --> 01:34:02,380
Some little confused about, you know, we do let the plan develop mixed use projects, but

1133
01:34:02,380 --> 01:34:09,940
it seems like, well, this would be the commercial portion of it, but we're not sure, where's

1134
01:34:09,940 --> 01:34:10,540
that development?

1135
01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:15,000
Again, we love the Ferguson Center, it's mind-saving, they have not developed property

1136
01:34:15,000 --> 01:34:15,400
before.

1137
01:34:15,400 --> 01:34:25,380
So, I just have some concerns, I have some clarification on that point, if staff could enlighten us at some point on their thoughts on that.

1138
01:34:26,180 --> 01:34:30,180
So, it seems different than other when we have planned to be developing.

1139
01:34:30,360 --> 01:34:39,380
Mixed projects there, it's the entirety of the project, and it's very clear where commercial is going, what commercial is going there, what services are going there.

1140
01:34:39,380 --> 01:34:47,060
And as part of the master plan, they will require to list out the different types of uses.

1141
01:34:47,320 --> 01:34:50,300
The maximum number of residential that will go there.

1142
01:34:50,480 --> 01:34:52,940
The maximum number of commercial or mixed use area.

1143
01:34:53,760 --> 01:34:58,860
Which they propose to be approved to be the master plan.

1144
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:24,740
So what you said, the single family residential on the kind of the north side, that seems to be a little bit more set and stone. The seven acres, the applicant explained that they wanted to put some parameters around it, but still allow the Charlie Ferguson service flexibility to be able to propose something within the confines of what's in the master plan, but maybe a little bit different than what's on the concept.

1145
01:35:26,260 --> 01:35:38,260
So, you know, that in the future could come back before this board, if that's a concern, you know, the commercial piece or mixed use piece, but yes, the intent was to leave it a little bit more open.

1146
01:35:38,260 --> 01:35:48,120
And correct me, I'm wrong, but if we did consider this, it's possible to consider that seven

1147
01:35:48,120 --> 01:35:55,120
acres, if we support that concept of saying, hey, it's not PDMU, but it's like special use.

1148
01:35:56,780 --> 01:36:00,800
And my concern is just kind of given a blank check, and like, well, you can build anything

1149
01:36:00,800 --> 01:36:07,080
commercial there, but if it was special use, it would require, I guess we can condition it even

1150
01:36:07,080 --> 01:36:11,940
that would have to come back to council to approve the site plan for that commercial.

1151
01:36:13,020 --> 01:36:15,760
You could certainly, you could do that.

1152
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:21,900
There is a concern about some of the requirements adjacent to, let's say, the rest of it was PDMU.

1153
01:36:22,260 --> 01:36:25,920
Now you have a buffer, and that buffer would have to come back for variants.

1154
01:36:26,500 --> 01:36:33,740
The other thing, too, is the conditional use permit would not necessarily apply to the SU section.

1155
01:36:33,740 --> 01:36:40,020
So, I think there are ways that you could potentially look at, conditioning, a slight plan

1156
01:36:40,560 --> 01:36:44,040
or uses or something for the seven acres to come back.

1157
01:36:44,100 --> 01:36:49,180
I think that's possible without rezoning it from what's being proposed.

1158
01:36:49,900 --> 01:36:50,980
So, I think you have a few options.

1159
01:36:51,080 --> 01:36:55,980
I just want to staff insights there because it seems to me like there's a lot of gray area there,

1160
01:36:56,020 --> 01:37:02,520
and there's mentioned a multifamily, and as someone mentioned, that could be a part of

1161
01:37:02,520 --> 01:37:08,440
or could it be, you know, count on those or doplexes, but not knowing and just approving something

1162
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:14,180
with not clarity there of what we're approving concerns made, sir.

1163
01:37:15,580 --> 01:37:22,060
And then if you could just clarify me on the primary part of the residential that is the

1164
01:37:22,060 --> 01:37:28,380
request to do a zone from R-40 County to plan development, mixed use, R-40 allows, I believe,

1165
01:37:28,380 --> 01:37:36,780
three houses per acre or those one house per acre for us. Okay, so in that, that development

1166
01:37:36,780 --> 01:37:45,680
which is 62.17, there'd be a maximum of 62 houses could be developed as now. And in plan,

1167
01:37:45,760 --> 01:37:51,320
development issues, I believe you said we would be going from one per acre to,

1168
01:37:56,440 --> 01:37:56,440
I think you

1169
01:37:56,440 --> 01:38:00,220
for roughly 3.4 units per acre for the total development.

1170
01:38:00,760 --> 01:38:05,880
So that's the difference in density we'd be considering a one house per acre to 3.4.

1171
01:38:06,140 --> 01:38:12,260
Yes sir, and that includes the maximum that the applicant is proposing for the seven acres of 39 total units.

1172
01:38:13,340 --> 01:38:13,500
Yes sir.

1173
01:38:14,920 --> 01:38:16,080
Thank you.

1174
01:38:16,580 --> 01:38:17,340
Other questions coming?

1175
01:38:20,600 --> 01:38:21,300
Thank you very much.

1176
01:38:21,440 --> 01:38:22,160
We appreciate it.

1177
01:38:23,340 --> 01:38:24,520
Again, thanks everyone.

1178
01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:31,060
and per request for Council, and I was going to do this in you for my own personal

1179
01:38:31,060 --> 01:38:31,420
pleasure.

1180
01:38:31,860 --> 01:38:35,680
We are going to take a five minute recess before we begin our business meeting.

1181
01:38:36,940 --> 01:38:43,280
So those who want to exit, please take this time to do so quietly, we'll be recombining

1182
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:46,020
in five minutes to start our business meeting.

1183
01:38:46,240 --> 01:38:47,300
Thank you so much.

1184
01:38:51,290 --> 01:38:51,930
That will be it.

1185
01:38:55,710 --> 01:38:55,770
So.

1186
01:38:55,770 --> 01:38:59,430
Okay, we're going to recombine now and then proceed with our business meeting.

1187
01:39:03,100 --> 01:39:04,420
Again, everyone, thank you for your attention.

1188
01:39:04,420 --> 01:39:13,580
and good behavior. I'm impressed. So, so you have in your packet two draft sets a

1189
01:39:13,580 --> 01:39:18,580
minutes once for our council work session on August 20th and once for council meeting

1190
01:39:18,580 --> 01:39:22,720
draft minutes on maybe changes revisions or motions.

1191
01:39:26,490 --> 01:39:30,910
For no changes that will make a motion to approve the minutes as presented.

1192
01:39:32,230 --> 01:39:35,330
Second, motion in a second. All in favor say aye.

1193
01:39:35,330 --> 01:39:35,950
All right.

1194
01:39:36,230 --> 01:39:36,910
Opposed, nay?

1195
01:39:37,370 --> 01:39:38,510
All members voted for the motion.

1196
01:39:40,110 --> 01:39:44,850
We have one informational item this evening, and that is a review of July monthly financial

1197
01:39:44,850 --> 01:39:45,290
report.

1198
01:39:45,390 --> 01:39:46,510
Mr. Luckett.

1199
01:39:46,830 --> 01:39:47,950
Good evening, everyone.

1200
01:39:49,630 --> 01:39:51,650
I have our July financial report.

1201
01:39:52,210 --> 01:39:56,890
It's in your packet, if you take a look at page two, we'll get started with our cash and

1202
01:39:56,890 --> 01:39:59,570
investments as of July 31st.

1203
01:40:00,000 --> 01:40:07,060
Local cash investments is $53.3 million. That's about $835,000 less than the prior month.

1204
01:40:07,960 --> 01:40:15,240
If you remember from our last presentation, we did talk about monitoring our cash levels in the general fund.

1205
01:40:15,540 --> 01:40:21,500
As of the end of July, we're at $4.3 million. That's down about a million from the prior month,

1206
01:40:21,660 --> 01:40:26,300
and just to kind of illustrate the point that I made the last meeting, that's about $3.2 million less than.

1207
01:40:27,180 --> 01:40:31,660
So, everything is still on track, but we're still closely marked.

1208
01:40:32,820 --> 01:40:40,100
Going on to page 3 as our general fund, revenues year to date are $26.2 million, that's

1209
01:40:40,100 --> 01:40:42,180
about 96% of our budget.

1210
01:40:43,120 --> 01:40:49,200
Looking at our expenditures, the target at this point in the fiscal year is around 83%.

1211
01:40:49,740 --> 01:40:55,000
Most departments are within that target, and if you see on page 4 overall, expenditures

1212
01:40:55,000 --> 01:41:01,520
in the general fund, our 82.3% so if we look at the general fund as a whole, we budgeted

1213
01:41:01,520 --> 01:41:09,240
to use $3.7 million in fund balance and here today we have used $196,000 and we expect

1214
01:41:09,240 --> 01:41:14,120
that number to increase here over the next couple of months as we wrap up the fiscal year.

1215
01:41:14,860 --> 01:41:20,140
Page 5 is our water and sewer fund, year to date revenues are 16.8 million,

1216
01:41:23,860 --> 01:41:24,000
that's

1217
01:41:24,000 --> 01:41:33,360
for $13.9 million, it's about 47%, just the reason that's so low is because of capital projects

1218
01:41:33,360 --> 01:41:35,220
that are less than anticipated.

1219
01:41:36,540 --> 01:41:42,700
Overall for the water and sewer fund, you can see that we budgeted to use 11.1 balance

1220
01:41:42,700 --> 01:41:47,540
and year to date, we have used about $388,000 in fund balance.

1221
01:41:47,540 --> 01:41:51,720
given ahead a few other items I wanted to highlight.

1222
01:41:54,170 --> 01:41:57,050
Page 10 is our hotel motel tax fund.

1223
01:41:57,670 --> 01:42:05,130
Here today we have collected almost $1.1 million. That's about 1% higher than this time last year.

1224
01:42:05,690 --> 01:42:12,810
We also made our third installment payment to can tours and board of $120,000 during the month of July.

1225
01:42:12,810 --> 01:42:16,510
So that'd be one of those left before the end of the fiscal year.

1226
01:42:17,010 --> 01:42:21,370
Year to date, we have added about $64,000 to $1.

1227
01:42:22,470 --> 01:42:24,970
On page 11, our rental car tax fund.

1228
01:42:25,710 --> 01:42:28,830
We have year to date revenues of 169,000.

1229
01:42:29,010 --> 01:42:31,930
That's about 2.7% higher than the previous year.

1230
01:42:32,830 --> 01:42:36,350
In year to date, we have added about $25,000 to fund balance.

1231
01:42:36,350 --> 01:42:41,770
that fund. Skipping ahead to page 15, our

1232
01:42:41,770 --> 01:42:46,170
Splost 8 fund. We have year to date revenues from our

1233
01:42:46,170 --> 01:42:52,110
Splost taxes of $5.6 million. That is 4.6% higher than

1234
01:42:52,110 --> 01:42:56,830
at this point in the prior year. Year to date we have $5.5 million

1235
01:42:56,830 --> 01:43:00,570
of expenses and you can see in the month of July those

1236
01:43:00,570 --> 01:43:04,810
continue with our South Can Park project as well as

1237
01:43:04,810 --> 01:43:09,330
of transportation improvements. And here today in this fund we have added to fund balanced

1238
01:43:09,330 --> 01:43:15,810
by about $713,000. And then finally our T-spos funds, not a lot of expenditures to report

1239
01:43:15,810 --> 01:43:21,810
here, but we have collected $2.3 million a year today. That's our original report, and I'll

1240
01:43:21,810 --> 01:43:28,170
be glad to answer any questions. Thank you. Any questions from Mr. Blocker? Thanks, sir. Thank you.

1241
01:43:30,350 --> 01:43:37,290
In the announcement this evening, we'll move on to our 10 minute public input, we do have one

1242
01:43:37,750 --> 01:43:42,850
assistance on that speak, please come forward, please state your name address, Mr. Chris Everett.

1243
01:43:51,860 --> 01:44:02,140
My name is Chris Everett, I live at 133 Hidden Trail Court, and the input that I'm giving is you're going to vote on the

1244
01:44:02,140 --> 01:44:05,080
lack of a better term than a linar.

1245
01:44:05,760 --> 01:44:08,320
So you can't speak on pulp-caired clothes

1246
01:44:08,320 --> 01:44:10,620
or that, so you can't address that.

1247
01:44:11,020 --> 01:44:12,900
Okay, I just didn't want to say I'm in favor.

1248
01:44:13,600 --> 01:44:17,140
But if you count around Laurel Canyon,

1249
01:44:18,640 --> 01:44:20,440
the development you guys,

1250
01:44:20,820 --> 01:44:22,820
or that city has in play,

1251
01:44:24,020 --> 01:44:25,380
when I count that up,

1252
01:44:25,660 --> 01:44:28,820
there's that's a minimum of 1,200 cars.

1253
01:44:29,200 --> 01:44:30,190
You're going to dump on,

1254
01:44:30,190 --> 01:44:32,130
We're going to dump on to 140.

1255
01:44:33,070 --> 01:44:36,330
Now, Friday morning, I had a breakfast meeting.

1256
01:44:36,570 --> 01:44:40,010
It took me 30 minutes to get from Sole,

1257
01:44:40,170 --> 01:44:43,650
down to J. Christopher, that's 10 miles an hour.

1258
01:44:44,390 --> 01:44:46,530
You don't know whether that's acceptable or not.

1259
01:44:47,630 --> 01:44:49,070
It's not acceptable to me.

1260
01:44:49,390 --> 01:44:52,850
To get here tonight, I wouldn't have made it on time.

1261
01:44:53,070 --> 01:44:58,150
Had I stayed on 140 because the backup from CVS

1262
01:44:58,150 --> 01:44:59,970
up to pass.

1263
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:07,780
That's the page redevelopment or page relocation.

1264
01:45:09,920 --> 01:45:15,480
I was looking at that and so I turned around and went back and came down through

1265
01:45:15,480 --> 01:45:23,180
postponed it all that and and got here on time. And what I'm saying is that the congestion

1266
01:45:23,180 --> 01:45:32,620
on 140 granted only peak hours, the congestion on 140 is real. And somebody's got to take

1267
01:45:32,620 --> 01:45:41,180
that into account. And I read the minutes of your working meeting where you talked about

1268
01:45:41,180 --> 01:45:43,480
bringing the planning commission back.

1269
01:45:43,880 --> 01:45:49,380
If you had a planning commission, a lot of this stuff would have been sorted out at the planning

1270
01:45:49,380 --> 01:45:54,380
commission level prior to the application coming before Council.

1271
01:45:54,540 --> 01:46:00,840
So I would strongly encourage you to implement the planning council as soon as you can.

1272
01:46:01,240 --> 01:46:01,960
That's all I got.

1273
01:46:02,380 --> 01:46:02,880
Thanks, sir.

1274
01:46:05,040 --> 01:46:06,400
We will begin with old business.

1275
01:46:06,680 --> 01:46:12,300
We have quite a few items here for discussion and possible action.

1276
01:46:12,300 --> 01:46:15,820
the beginning of the case of old business item A.

1277
01:46:16,260 --> 01:46:18,980
Discussion and possible action on cases RZ,

1278
01:46:19,360 --> 01:46:22,540
0N, 2605, that's 009,

1279
01:46:23,080 --> 01:46:28,420
CUP, 2605, that's 008, and VAR2607,

1280
01:46:28,420 --> 01:46:31,400
that's 003, request a resone,

1281
01:46:31,680 --> 01:46:33,600
plus or minus 0.741 acres,

1282
01:46:33,800 --> 01:46:35,540
located at 109, railroad street,

1283
01:46:35,720 --> 01:46:38,320
from lot industrial to central business district.

1284
01:46:38,960 --> 01:46:40,600
Conditional use permit request to operate

1285
01:46:40,600 --> 01:46:51,660
religious facility and concurrent variance requests to unify development code 104.03-18.8 and 104.03.18.

1286
01:46:52,160 --> 01:46:57,900
C. The Strahlen. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council. This applicant is

1287
01:46:57,900 --> 01:47:02,880
Ms. Dana Coxmouth with Medostations property. They are seeking to rezone the property located

1288
01:47:02,880 --> 01:47:07,480
at 109. Railroad Street. They are also seeking additional use permit and concurrent bearings

1289
01:47:07,480 --> 01:47:12,680
requests. Specifically, they are looking to reason the property at one or not in a road street

1290
01:47:12,680 --> 01:47:16,980
from the light industrial to central business district and they are seeking a conditional

1291
01:47:16,980 --> 01:47:21,980
use permit in order to operate a religious facility at the existing building at that property.

1292
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:26,840
They are also seeking to concurrent variants as related to the religious facilities. The first

1293
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:32,920
relates to setbacks from streets and property lines for religious facilities. The second

1294
01:47:32,920 --> 01:47:39,420
relates to any accessory or outdoor use related to a religious facility being set back 75 feet from

1295
01:47:39,420 --> 01:47:45,080
any property that is used for residential purposes, as well as relating to any lighting that

1296
01:47:45,080 --> 01:47:49,620
has to be directed or shielded away from those residential properties and cut off no later than

1297
01:47:49,620 --> 01:48:02,900
9 p.m. The subject property is located in Ward 2, which is also encompassing the city of

1298
01:48:02,900 --> 01:48:08,760
it as plain development makes use. This is not correct. It has a downtown urban center,

1299
01:48:09,680 --> 01:48:15,260
character area, and future land use. The proposed scope of work currently is interior only,

1300
01:48:15,420 --> 01:48:20,300
however, if there's ever any proposed exterior material change in appearance, that would require

1301
01:48:20,300 --> 01:48:26,780
a certificate of appropriateness from the city of Canton, but like I said, at the time, no external

1302
01:48:26,780 --> 01:48:32,460
changes are proposed to the building, just interior work. There are no new department comments

1303
01:48:32,460 --> 01:48:38,180
between the public hearing and the possible action tonight, so I just left the comments that

1304
01:48:38,180 --> 01:48:41,060
fire made and the ones that we made.

1305
01:48:42,300 --> 01:48:46,000
With all of that taken into consideration, staff does recommend approval of the rezoning

1306
01:48:46,000 --> 01:48:51,120
in the conditional use permit request for the proposed religious facility at 109 Railroad

1307
01:48:51,120 --> 01:48:55,400
Street, but there is no staff recommendation regarding the concurrent requested bearing.

1308
01:48:57,580 --> 01:48:59,000
This concludes my report.

1309
01:48:59,220 --> 01:48:59,640
Thank you very much.

1310
01:48:59,780 --> 01:49:01,040
I'd be happy to answer any questions.

1311
01:49:01,040 --> 01:49:07,520
Thank you, Michelle. I appreciate that. Just again for clarification. We do require

1312
01:49:07,520 --> 01:49:12,520
religious philosophies, church, they're all, conditional use permit throughout the city

1313
01:49:12,520 --> 01:49:18,700
correct. Correct. Yes. And I do believe that on past when we have grounded, granted,

1314
01:49:18,920 --> 01:49:23,620
the conditional use permits for our church, I knew religious facility that can correct me

1315
01:49:23,620 --> 01:49:30,460
but I wrong. We have limited that conditional use permit approval to that particular religious

1316
01:49:30,460 --> 01:49:34,600
facility and I believe in this case it's local church for the facility.

1317
01:49:35,500 --> 01:49:46,400
So my question there is to clarify that if Council did offer to approve the

1318
01:49:46,400 --> 01:49:52,240
conditional use permit that it could be limited in condition to local church only and if

1319
01:49:52,240 --> 01:49:57,900
that probably changes hands in the future, they want to open other religious facility a different

1320
01:49:57,900 --> 01:49:59,820
religious facility to come back for additional.

1321
01:50:01,530 --> 01:50:05,850
That is correct. That is correct. That is correct. Yeah. That is correct. Yeah. I'll give you a few things that have been issued to religious facilities.

1322
01:50:06,290 --> 01:50:09,810
Happened on. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

1323
01:50:09,910 --> 01:50:11,070
The questions are comments.

1324
01:50:15,690 --> 01:50:18,870
There's no more questions or comments. I'd like to make a motion. Mr. Mayor.

1325
01:50:19,050 --> 01:50:27,790
Mr. Roch? I'd like to make a motion to approve the request to resume the 0.741 acres located at 109 railroad street from light industrial to central business.

1326
01:50:27,790 --> 01:50:35,090
is conditional use permit request to operate, approve the conditional use permit request operator

1327
01:50:35,090 --> 01:50:48,630
religious facility, and concurrent variants is requested to the Unified Development Code 104-03-18A and 104-03-18C.

1328
01:50:48,630 --> 01:50:58,970
And with the condition that this conditional use permit sticks with the current or the future, I guess, local church.

1329
01:51:01,270 --> 01:51:03,710
Good there. Good job.

1330
01:51:04,670 --> 01:51:04,830
Second.

1331
01:51:05,070 --> 01:51:07,010
We do have a motion and we have a second.

1332
01:51:07,670 --> 01:51:09,710
Any other, any discussion on the motion?

1333
01:51:12,400 --> 01:51:14,420
Hearing none, all in favor of the motion say aye.

1334
01:51:15,400 --> 01:51:15,440
Aye.

1335
01:51:15,520 --> 01:51:16,380
Opposed name?

1336
01:51:16,840 --> 01:51:18,600
All members of the vote for the motion.

1337
01:51:18,860 --> 01:51:19,480
Thank you, Mr. Aller.

1338
01:51:19,560 --> 01:51:20,020
Thank you.

1339
01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:28,360
Item B, discussion and possible action on case CUP2605-007.

1340
01:51:28,760 --> 01:51:33,240
Press for Conditional Use Permit, approval to allow multi-family units in lieu of approved

1341
01:51:33,240 --> 01:51:36,880
town hominets and one-five-one violet-way river stone retreat.

1342
01:51:37,200 --> 01:51:37,660
Mr. Peoples?

1343
01:51:38,260 --> 01:51:40,180
Thank you again, Mr. Mayor and members of Council.

1344
01:51:40,340 --> 01:51:40,920
I'll be brief.

1345
01:51:41,060 --> 01:51:46,520
This is a traditional use permit request for the river stone retreat located within the

1346
01:51:46,520 --> 01:51:47,200
river stone development.

1347
01:51:47,200 --> 01:51:54,420
this is in ward 2. The request is to allow multi-family stacked living units in lieu of approved

1348
01:51:54,420 --> 01:52:01,220
town hominets that were entitled to this property in March of 2021. There's currently a

1349
01:52:01,220 --> 01:52:07,320
development that is under construction at the Riverstone Retreat which consists of a total of

1350
01:52:07,320 --> 01:52:16,640
and 70 housing units, 144 which are nearing substantial completion, and the remaining 1,120

1351
01:52:17,840 --> 01:52:19,120
on that background.

1352
01:52:19,800 --> 01:52:29,420
Now around 124, which with the applicant is seeking to switch to multi-family, which was previously

1353
01:52:29,420 --> 01:52:30,240
a proof of townout.

1354
01:52:30,240 --> 01:52:36,400
So this is a location map in the Riverstone development south of the New Cherokee High School.

1355
01:52:36,420 --> 01:52:40,720
It is on playing development mixed use as is the rest of the Riverstone development

1356
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:45,760
located within the community level mixed use retail center character area.

1357
01:52:46,940 --> 01:52:55,940
And again, be reminded that these are the areas in which the applicant is seeking to convert the approved town homes to a multi-family stacked living arrangement.

1358
01:52:57,120 --> 01:53:02,920
So, comments from the departments included fire protection to the buildings and for

1359
01:53:02,920 --> 01:53:07,300
planning and zoning, they noted some history of the property as well as noting that there

1360
01:53:07,300 --> 01:53:12,960
is no increase in unit count or overall density that is proposed in this application and

1361
01:53:12,960 --> 01:53:17,920
that this is supported by the comprehensive plan and has such staff recommend approval to

1362
01:53:17,920 --> 01:53:20,520
conditionally use permit application as presented.

1363
01:53:21,580 --> 01:53:22,220
Thank you, Mr. Peoples.

1364
01:53:22,220 --> 01:53:26,020
Any questions from his previous comments?

1365
01:53:26,720 --> 01:53:27,560
A couple of questions, please.

1366
01:53:28,100 --> 01:53:33,520
To be clear from the original proposal, the elevations have not changed.

1367
01:53:34,240 --> 01:53:35,340
That is correct, yes sir.

1368
01:53:35,800 --> 01:53:37,520
And the number of units has not changed.

1369
01:53:37,680 --> 01:53:38,420
That is correct.

1370
01:53:39,400 --> 01:53:42,660
So essentially what we're doing is we're just changing the designation.

1371
01:53:43,800 --> 01:53:44,080
Correct?

1372
01:53:44,220 --> 01:53:44,820
Yes sir.

1373
01:53:45,180 --> 01:53:45,480
Thank you.

1374
01:53:45,640 --> 01:53:47,500
I think that's based on construction methodology,

1375
01:53:47,500 --> 01:53:51,640
but you're right, Mr. Rice, nothing else has changed.

1376
01:53:54,850 --> 01:53:55,650
Anyone else?

1377
01:53:57,370 --> 01:54:00,990
Mr. Matherer, are there other questions or comments? I would like to make a motion.

1378
01:54:01,270 --> 01:54:01,910
It's Mr. Stone.

1379
01:54:02,330 --> 01:54:09,050
I would move that as it relates to case CUP-2605-007,

1380
01:54:10,170 --> 01:54:18,670
request for conditional use permit approval to allow multi-family units in lieu of approved townhouse townhomes.

1381
01:54:19,350 --> 01:54:23,690
Can I help you and excuse me at 151 by the way?

1382
01:54:24,230 --> 01:54:24,510
Second.

1383
01:54:25,310 --> 01:54:26,890
Well, a motion and a second.

1384
01:54:27,310 --> 01:54:28,770
Any discussion on the motion?

1385
01:54:31,240 --> 01:54:31,600
Hearing none.

1386
01:54:31,700 --> 01:54:32,740
All of they were say aye.

1387
01:54:33,980 --> 01:54:34,540
All posed?

1388
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:35,100
Aye.

1389
01:54:36,200 --> 01:54:37,320
All members voted for the motion.

1390
01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:38,480
Thank you, Mr. People's.

1391
01:54:38,480 --> 01:54:40,350
Thank you.

1392
01:54:40,530 --> 01:54:41,090
I am C.

1393
01:54:41,410 --> 01:54:46,710
Discussion and possible action on cases A in an X2605-0001

1394
01:54:50,310 --> 01:54:51,230
RZON2605-010.

1395
01:54:51,230 --> 01:54:59,970
So, in P2605-013, see you P2605-012 in the ART.

1396
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:10,320
1, 2, 6, 05, dash 0, 03, request to annex and resume, plus or minus 48.192 acres located along ballground highway and

1397
01:55:10,320 --> 01:55:16,980
fake con road for the purpose of constructing a 167-units subdivision and commercial lot industrial areas

1398
01:55:16,980 --> 01:55:18,740
with concurrent appearances.

1399
01:55:19,160 --> 01:55:19,600
Mr. Peoples.

1400
01:55:20,320 --> 01:55:22,820
Thank you, sir. This is the point before we start.

1401
01:55:23,400 --> 01:55:27,360
I need to reduce myself from voting and I will have no discussion on this case.

1402
01:55:27,540 --> 01:55:28,300
Thank you, Mr. Retch.

1403
01:55:28,980 --> 01:55:34,480
Thank you Mr. Mayer again. This is the pending annexation of rezoning quest that is for

1404
01:55:34,480 --> 01:55:42,320
action this evening. This is for 48.192 acres located in the case bird community. The

1405
01:55:42,320 --> 01:55:47,640
applicant is requesting annexation of rezoning of this property into the city of Canton rezoning

1406
01:55:47,640 --> 01:55:53,900
from R80 RM10 in general commercial in Cherokee County to plan development mixed use in the city

1407
01:55:53,900 --> 01:56:02,360
can for constructing a 167-unit feasible neighborhood, a comprised of 15 cottages, 40 townhomes,

1408
01:56:02,540 --> 01:56:03,960
at 112 detached homes.

1409
01:56:04,860 --> 01:56:09,900
There is a proposed commercial tract along the entrance at Paul Graham Highway in a proposed

1410
01:56:09,900 --> 01:56:13,780
future commercial light industrial tract along FACCON Road.

1411
01:56:14,480 --> 01:56:16,580
There are three concurrent variances there being sought.

1412
01:56:16,860 --> 01:56:21,380
One is to allow only one development entrance when the number of units is between 125

1413
01:56:21,380 --> 01:56:27,260
and three hundred and four that is a proposed Boulevard entrance off of Fake Kong, a

1414
01:56:27,260 --> 01:56:33,560
ballground highway excuse me, and two are elimination of civil require landscape buffer

1415
01:56:33,560 --> 01:56:36,900
supporting Cherokee County and various places on the property.

1416
01:56:37,080 --> 01:56:43,460
Be reminded this is located off of ballground highway south of Interstate 575 between

1417
01:56:43,460 --> 01:56:45,220
Fake Kong Road and Old Banda Road.

1418
01:56:47,330 --> 01:56:51,450
This is the zoning of the property in relation to city property

1419
01:56:51,450 --> 01:56:54,870
the opposite 575 or some plane development makes you some properties.

1420
01:56:55,830 --> 01:57:00,150
The property is looking within the employment center,

1421
01:57:01,090 --> 01:57:04,890
character area, the residential portion of this development

1422
01:57:04,890 --> 01:57:08,170
does not meet the comprehensive plan or future land use map.

1423
01:57:09,390 --> 01:57:11,230
And this is the site plan again,

1424
01:57:11,590 --> 01:57:15,730
proposed a single Boulevard entrance off of Bologna Highway,

1425
01:57:16,550 --> 01:57:21,270
accessing the 167 residential units to project east

1426
01:57:21,270 --> 01:57:25,490
along fake con road is the closed future commercial and light industrial track.

1427
01:57:26,230 --> 01:57:31,650
The total residential density for the residential pod is 4.29 dwelling units per acre.

1428
01:57:34,350 --> 01:57:37,550
Now, formal objection was made to this case by chair accounting.

1429
01:57:38,010 --> 01:57:41,050
There were several comments made by their transportation department for required

1430
01:57:41,050 --> 01:57:46,290
road improvements and consideration for future transportation improvements in the area,

1431
01:57:46,290 --> 01:57:54,710
as well as noting that the firm county fire that two entrances are preferred from county fire.

1432
01:57:54,970 --> 01:58:01,610
City fire marshal indicated that the boulevard entrance does meet the requirements of the international fire code.

1433
01:58:01,810 --> 01:58:16,250
Engineering states that a traffic study hydrology study in Georgia, Paralyen.

1434
01:58:16,250 --> 01:58:24,250
And planning and zoning notes that this is within the adopted growth boundary agreement within city can and Cherokee canning.

1435
01:58:25,110 --> 01:58:30,490
Due to non-conformance with the comprehensive plan staff does recommend denial of the applications as present.

1436
01:58:30,810 --> 01:58:44,910
However, if we do note that there is a changing land use pattern in that area, which may warrant some future consideration for changes to the comprehensive plan, given the changing conditions along that corridor.

1437
01:58:46,410 --> 01:58:57,190
There are several staff proposed conditions that if the Council considers a proven request that we would suggest or suggest the Council consider.

1438
01:58:58,510 --> 01:59:07,050
One, the applicant's revised letter of intent dated June 22, 2026 to the site analysis table on the applicant's zoning site plans for

1439
01:59:07,050 --> 01:59:09,770
Keith Spurg-Track dated June 23, 2026,

1440
01:59:10,390 --> 01:59:12,750
shall serve as the development standards for the property,

1441
01:59:13,290 --> 01:59:15,250
where they are not fully addressed in the applicant's

1442
01:59:15,250 --> 01:59:17,930
master plan, the property shall follow all development standards

1443
01:59:17,930 --> 01:59:21,110
of the unified development for the closest comparable zoning district.

1444
01:59:21,850 --> 01:59:24,830
Three, with the exception of landscape and zoning buffers,

1445
01:59:25,190 --> 01:59:28,550
variances from the development standards in the applicant's master plan,

1446
01:59:28,770 --> 01:59:31,410
may be heard enacted upon by the city of Kent and Board of Appeals,

1447
01:59:31,890 --> 01:59:34,350
or other quasi-judicial body hearing zoning variants

1448
01:59:34,350 --> 01:59:38,770
is at a particular time, rather than requiring a mass plan amendment for the Mayor and City Council.

1449
01:59:40,030 --> 01:59:46,490
For the property shall be limited to a total of 160 set of homes, total number of town

1450
02:00:00,050 --> 02:00:10,350
Six, a six foot privacy fence shall be constructed along the rear property line of residential lots, abutting the 75 foot landscape buffer adjacent to the right of way of interstate 575.

1451
02:00:11,490 --> 02:00:24,930
Seven, the engineering and design of the Boulevard entrance on Bollground Highway shall be reviewed and approved by the city of Kent and farm marshal prior to the issues of the land disturbance permit, slight revision was made to that condition that's in your packets, we have struck Cherokee County from that condition.

1452
02:00:24,930 --> 02:00:31,490
Number eight, the developer shall enter into a mitigation agreement with the Chicky County School District,

1453
02:00:31,850 --> 02:00:36,110
accordance with the rezoning impact report dated July 20, 20, 26,

1454
02:00:36,530 --> 02:00:40,390
terms of sub-medigation agreement shall be fulfilled prior to issuance of final black.

1455
02:00:41,270 --> 02:00:46,150
Nine, a homeowners association shall be established for the residential component of this development,

1456
02:00:46,670 --> 02:00:50,710
set association shall be responsible for the perpetual maintenance and upkeep of all

1457
02:00:50,710 --> 02:00:55,750
areas in open space, including with not limited to landscaping, hard-scaping, signage, and all

1458
02:00:55,750 --> 02:00:56,450
common amenities.

1459
02:00:57,910 --> 02:01:01,070
All residential units in the development shall be four sale units.

1460
02:01:01,610 --> 02:01:04,190
The Declaration of Restrictive Covenant shall limit it.

1461
02:01:04,370 --> 02:01:07,970
Total number of units with end-to-development being leased at any time to no greater than

1462
02:01:07,970 --> 02:01:09,150
10 percent.

1463
02:01:09,410 --> 02:01:09,790
Number 11.

1464
02:01:10,290 --> 02:01:13,870
The Georgia Native Plant Society shall be allowed to enter the property prior to any

1465
02:01:13,870 --> 02:01:15,050
late disturbance activity.

1466
02:01:19,490 --> 02:01:23,950
In addition to these staff, suggesting conditions, there is one applicant,

1467
02:01:23,950 --> 02:01:32,490
offered condition to that the Council did receive and is in your packet, it is a proposal

1468
02:01:32,490 --> 02:01:38,150
for the donation of land to the Canton Housing Authority or the entity of City Council's

1469
02:01:38,150 --> 02:01:43,390
choosing to ensure maximum affordability of the 15 cottages proposed in their annexation

1470
02:01:43,390 --> 02:01:52,710
rezoning request letter, as stated in their letter dated August 17, 2026, upon completion

1471
02:01:52,710 --> 02:01:57,370
of the site development and issuance of the final-plat target partners LLC with then donate

1472
02:01:57,370 --> 02:02:02,870
the developed cottage pod to the CHA. The pod would be graded with all utilities inside the

1473
02:02:02,870 --> 02:02:08,970
curb to ensure continuity with the neighborhood the cottages will be included in the HOA and any

1474
02:02:08,970 --> 02:02:13,710
designs other than the city's pre-approved cottage plans would be subject to the HOA architectural

1475
02:02:13,710 --> 02:02:20,290
review committee. The applicant was amenable to the conditions presented by staff with the exception

1476
02:02:20,290 --> 02:02:24,510
of the six-foot privacy fence about an interstate 575.

1477
02:02:27,780 --> 02:02:29,160
That is that concludes staff report.

1478
02:02:29,340 --> 02:02:30,440
I'd be happy to answer any questions.

1479
02:02:31,420 --> 02:02:34,840
Thank you, Mr. Peoples, I appreciate that.

1480
02:02:34,940 --> 02:02:37,460
Just a couple of quick comments here.

1481
02:02:38,140 --> 02:02:43,020
Again, this case would require decision on annexation.

1482
02:02:43,300 --> 02:02:48,880
And then as we discuss in the past that we always ask the first question,

1483
02:02:48,880 --> 02:02:56,980
annexing this property into the city, benefit our existing residents and citizens, again, I think that's always the place to start on annexation.

1484
02:02:57,720 --> 02:03:18,840
I think also just acknowledging that this annexation is a little, little unconventional in the fact that we should have a council member who said, you know,

1485
02:03:18,840 --> 02:03:29,640
not an island, but a peninsula inside the city, and I believe as staff's recommendation for

1486
02:03:29,640 --> 02:03:38,160
denial because it does not adhere to current land use and comp plans for that area,

1487
02:03:38,540 --> 02:03:43,520
which is changing in transition. As you've noted, there has been some residential development,

1488
02:03:43,520 --> 02:03:49,600
but it is located between the city of Kant and the city of Ballground in this county

1489
02:03:49,600 --> 02:03:57,600
in between and to my knowledge is not a long-term plan of character that air and how it should be developed.

1490
02:03:57,880 --> 02:04:05,080
We have the airport, we have a lot of things going on there, but those are things going through my mind at this time.

1491
02:04:05,080 --> 02:04:14,380
And again, as I mentioned earlier, the request for one entrance versus two, in this case,

1492
02:04:14,560 --> 02:04:18,400
I have concerns about that as our fire marshal said it does.

1493
02:04:18,480 --> 02:04:33,000
The boldvard interest does comply with the fire in a national fire code, but the city ordinance, which is separate, requires two separate entrances for any units above 1204.

1494
02:04:33,700 --> 02:04:41,080
And again, I believe that's a fundamental ordinance that the city established several years ago,

1495
02:04:41,200 --> 02:04:48,460
because we do expect developers to go above and beyond where they would in the county or other places to

1496
02:04:48,460 --> 02:04:52,240
to make sure that we're developing, you know, quality over quantity.

1497
02:04:53,140 --> 02:04:55,860
So, again, I'm a component of sticking to that.

1498
02:04:55,860 --> 02:04:59,860
that we are already seeing we have another public hearing request.

1499
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:12,780
To do this, the same. And so that's just a concern of mine that we should adhere to the city ordinance on the two interests of this, but that's all I'm going to say. And all of that for discussion is questions.

1500
02:05:14,080 --> 02:05:15,280
If

1501
02:05:18,930 --> 02:05:45,550
there are one questions, Mr. Mayor, as it relates to case number 8 in X2605-011, RZO-N2805-010MP2605-013CUP2605-012, and variants 003.

1502
02:05:45,550 --> 02:05:57,930
I'm sorry, V-A-R 2605-003 request annex Reson 28.192 acres located along

1503
02:05:57,930 --> 02:06:04,470
Bau-Ground Highway and Fake Con Road for the purpose of construction of 167 units

1504
02:06:04,470 --> 02:06:10,010
subdivision and commercial light industrial acres. I'm sorry, areas with concurrent

1505
02:06:10,010 --> 02:06:13,570
experiences. I moved that we approve this application.

1506
02:06:15,950 --> 02:06:18,610
Okay, the motion for approval.

1507
02:06:20,430 --> 02:06:21,190
Do we have a second?

1508
02:06:22,990 --> 02:06:23,310
Second.

1509
02:06:23,630 --> 02:06:25,230
We have a second.

1510
02:06:25,230 --> 02:06:25,870
Mr. Mayor.

1511
02:06:26,310 --> 02:06:26,810
Mr. Mayor.

1512
02:06:26,830 --> 02:06:33,250
Are we clarifying that is with the 11 conditions made by the city?

1513
02:06:33,250 --> 02:06:34,270
Yes, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1514
02:06:34,750 --> 02:06:34,910
Yes.

1515
02:06:34,910 --> 02:06:39,350
with the 11 conditions that Mr. Peoples noted.

1516
02:06:40,770 --> 02:06:50,110
Okay, so the motion for approval with the 11 conditions stayed by staff and we have a second.

1517
02:06:51,090 --> 02:06:54,270
There's further discussion on this.

1518
02:06:54,350 --> 02:06:55,270
Just for clarification,

1519
02:06:57,350 --> 02:07:04,890
we are the motion would grant the developer to go to one interest versus the city code versus the city code.

1520
02:07:07,950 --> 02:07:11,730
Mr. Mayor, just one additional point of clarification, the 11 conditions

1521
02:07:11,730 --> 02:07:16,370
profit by staff did not include the applicants' profit condition of the donation of the

1522
02:07:16,370 --> 02:07:17,210
college track.

1523
02:07:17,610 --> 02:07:21,290
We just wanted to make that clear before our motion is voted on.

1524
02:07:22,370 --> 02:07:22,570
Good.

1525
02:07:23,590 --> 02:07:28,590
Councilman Telling, would you like to amend your motion to include the donation?

1526
02:07:29,150 --> 02:07:32,510
I'm not going to go through the whole thing again, but I will amend the motion that I just

1527
02:07:32,510 --> 02:07:39,490
to include the 15 cottage donation to the Kent Housing Authority, and I'll agree with a second, as well.

1528
02:07:40,470 --> 02:07:50,750
Okay, so we have a motion, amended motion, and a second. Other comments, discussion on the motion, or the case.

1529
02:07:54,940 --> 02:08:02,840
I made my clarification at the beginning, but with, and thank you, Mr. Roach, for your refusal there.

1530
02:08:02,840 --> 02:08:08,460
Obviously, I want to get a vote on this one, but anyway, so we have a motion and a second.

1531
02:08:09,940 --> 02:08:11,800
All in favor of the motion say aye.

1532
02:08:13,060 --> 02:08:13,380
Opposed?

1533
02:08:13,980 --> 02:08:14,360
Aye.

1534
02:08:14,800 --> 02:08:14,880
Aye.

1535
02:08:16,700 --> 02:08:19,940
So, I, again, let's just for clarification.

1536
02:08:20,460 --> 02:08:22,820
I believe it's three to two, but let's do roll call.

1537
02:08:23,060 --> 02:08:23,800
Mr. Tolin.

1538
02:08:26,940 --> 02:08:27,320
Mr. Johnson.

1539
02:08:28,200 --> 02:08:28,300
Aye.

1540
02:08:29,820 --> 02:08:30,320
Mr. Yon.

1541
02:08:32,500 --> 02:08:33,500
Mr. Waterman.

1542
02:08:35,100 --> 02:08:44,720
Okay, so the motion carries with three yeas and two nays, so thank you, Mr. Mayor, members

1543
02:08:44,720 --> 02:08:45,340
accounts.

1544
02:08:47,670 --> 02:08:55,830
Item D, discussion and possible action on case ZCA2605, that's 014, River Green Pods J1 and

1545
02:08:55,830 --> 02:09:00,950
J2, zoning condition amendment request to amend originally through town homes to allow for

1546
02:09:00,950 --> 02:09:03,350
single-family detached homes, Mr. Traywick.

1547
02:09:04,630 --> 02:09:06,630
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of Council.

1548
02:09:06,910 --> 02:09:18,130
So this request is seeking a zoning condition amendment from ZCA 2411-3 and Z0012-41 to allow for a single

1549
02:09:18,130 --> 02:09:19,030
family to attend.

1550
02:09:19,490 --> 02:09:27,830
With revised conditions, this subject property is located within the River Green community,

1551
02:09:27,830 --> 02:09:34,490
off of River Green Avenue at the corner of Mamosa Drive Avenue. This is part of Pods J1 and J2,

1552
02:09:34,570 --> 02:09:42,230
as a lakeside at River Green. This would be phase 3. Here's an aerial photograph of the subject site.

1553
02:09:43,770 --> 02:09:47,970
This does fall with in suburban development of the future land you snap. The zoning is already

1554
02:09:49,610 --> 02:09:57,810
PDMU. Existing site resource map that just kind of highlights some of the topography and the

1555
02:09:57,810 --> 02:09:59,190
and those prepared by the applicant.

1556
02:10:00,000 --> 02:10:29,680
The original approval for these pods was for 110 single family detached lots. Eight of those have since been plated. In 2024's uninconditioned amendment was approved by city council, which allowed for townhomes on 50.8 acres to allow for a total of 102 new homes. This is on inconditioned amendment for the 50.818 acres to again, is to again allow the development of the property with single-family detached residential unit from the townhomes that were approved.

1557
02:10:29,680 --> 02:10:36,620
few years ago. This is not proposing an increase in density and the applicant is also proposing

1558
02:10:36,620 --> 02:10:42,340
revised conditions in terms of Bell metstandards for these sections to align with other phases

1559
02:10:42,340 --> 02:10:43,860
of the river green community.

1560
02:10:47,080 --> 02:10:49,580
Here's some elevations of the homes themselves and what they

1561
02:10:49,580 --> 02:10:57,740
could look like. As part of the application, there are some district standards that are part

1562
02:10:57,740 --> 02:11:03,300
of your staff report, which would highlight the proposed changes as well to some of the

1563
02:11:03,300 --> 02:11:07,560
development standards, including a lot size, building setbacks, and a buffer increase,

1564
02:11:07,840 --> 02:11:11,860
again, adjacent to the fieldstone overhead from 40 feet to 50 feet.

1565
02:11:17,180 --> 02:11:21,180
So, for this particular case, staff is recommending approval of the applicants request with

1566
02:11:21,180 --> 02:11:21,860
four conditions.

1567
02:11:22,820 --> 02:11:26,640
Number one, the applicant's submittal title proposed zoning condition amendment shall be

1568
02:11:26,640 --> 02:11:30,260
adopted at submitted, that is included with your packet, the highlights all the developments

1569
02:11:30,260 --> 02:11:35,000
standards for that section. Number two, the total number of residential units shall not exceed

1570
02:11:35,000 --> 02:11:42,300
102 on the 50.818 acres. Now or now known or formally known as tax ID number 14N,

1571
02:11:42,620 --> 02:11:49,740
12, O, 17, L. Number three, the blocking of sidewalks, five vehicles is strictly prohibited.

1572
02:11:49,980 --> 02:11:55,340
That number three actually comes through these conditions for the site. And then number four,

1573
02:11:55,340 --> 02:12:03,400
This is an ability to revise a zoning condition, condition number, letter Q, per case number

1574
02:12:04,580 --> 02:12:10,020
z0012-41 revise the state, all wall-mouthed signs shall be raised channel letter type

1575
02:12:10,020 --> 02:12:14,940
and shall be eliminated, adding the next sentence, one projecting sign, per parcel shall be

1576
02:12:14,940 --> 02:12:19,320
allowed not to exceed eight square feet in size. The area of these signs shall conform to the

1577
02:12:19,320 --> 02:12:23,640
city of Canton sign ordinance. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

1578
02:12:23,640 --> 02:12:29,660
Thank you, Mr. Troy, you want to have any questions for Mr. Stratwick or any comments?

1579
02:12:32,810 --> 02:12:33,130
Mr. Young?

1580
02:12:33,330 --> 02:12:34,350
I just have one question.

1581
02:12:34,910 --> 02:12:38,850
The revision to the zoning condition queue.

1582
02:12:39,450 --> 02:12:46,210
That would allow the signs that are already required for the tenants that have been installed.

1583
02:12:47,630 --> 02:12:52,590
So that clears up basically a problem with that as correct.

1584
02:12:53,030 --> 02:12:55,490
The required signs that are having to put up.

1585
02:12:55,490 --> 02:12:58,150
Yes. Okay, this one clarify that. Thank you.

1586
02:13:01,380 --> 02:13:01,900
Ms. Water?

1587
02:13:02,120 --> 02:13:04,260
There are no other comments I would like to make a motion.

1588
02:13:04,680 --> 02:13:05,320
Yes, sir.

1589
02:13:05,880 --> 02:13:08,780
I would like to make a motion to approve.

1590
02:13:10,260 --> 02:13:13,820
Case is ECA 2605-014.

1591
02:13:14,220 --> 02:13:16,280
The zoning condition amendment request to amend.

1592
02:13:16,840 --> 02:13:21,220
Originally approved town homes to allow for single-family detached homes.

1593
02:13:22,120 --> 02:13:27,500
With along with the previously mentioned conditions, the four conditions.

1594
02:13:27,500 --> 02:13:36,480
and I will add a fifth condition that the age restriction for the homes be removed.

1595
02:13:41,910 --> 02:13:42,690
So we have a motion.

1596
02:13:44,090 --> 02:13:45,650
The five conditions?

1597
02:13:47,490 --> 02:13:48,530
Any questions or comments?

1598
02:13:49,130 --> 02:13:49,630
Further discussion?

1599
02:13:52,950 --> 02:13:53,430
You're hearing none.

1600
02:13:53,490 --> 02:13:54,570
All of them they were say aye.

1601
02:13:55,610 --> 02:13:55,890
Opposite?

1602
02:13:56,890 --> 02:13:58,330
All members voted for the motion.

1603
02:13:58,590 --> 02:13:58,770
Thank you.

1604
02:13:59,330 --> 02:14:00,250
Thank you.

1605
02:14:02,080 --> 02:14:08,780
Item E, discussion and possible action on cases A and N X 2 6 0 5, that's 015.

1606
02:14:09,520 --> 02:14:19,080
RZ O N 2 6 0 5, that's 016, request an X plus or minus 176 acres along Old Shull Creek Road and

1607
02:14:19,080 --> 02:14:27,920
Reson from R-40, A-G, and G-C County to R-10, R-40, a forpaposed single family, a subdivision of

1608
02:14:27,920 --> 02:14:29,480
100 and 99 lots.

1609
02:14:29,900 --> 02:14:30,360
Mr. Tayway.

1610
02:14:32,140 --> 02:14:32,700
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1611
02:14:32,720 --> 02:14:33,480
Members of Council.

1612
02:14:35,140 --> 02:14:42,080
This request is filed by Parks Huff for one R Georgia LLC, annexation and rezoning of 15 parcels

1613
02:14:42,080 --> 02:14:47,800
roughly 176 acres in size, the request rezoning from R-40,

1614
02:14:48,260 --> 02:14:51,580
A-G-N-G-C in Cherokee County to R-10 and R-40 for

1615
02:14:51,580 --> 02:14:54,480
proposing a family subdivision of 199 watts.

1616
02:14:56,840 --> 02:14:59,880
The 3.5 acres property.

1617
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:06,240
What you'll see on the site plan to the south west is the one that would be going to the R40, the remainder of the site would be R10.

1618
02:15:06,900 --> 02:15:13,240
Just for clarification, this is located behind Cherokee, fire station number nine on Ryan Hart College Parkway.

1619
02:15:14,660 --> 02:15:24,740
It is south of the grand apartments in the Royal Canyon, as well as the Crystal Royal Canyon, and some residential to the south.

1620
02:15:24,740 --> 02:15:30,860
The city zoning shows majority of the surrounding properties being PDMUs, part of that

1621
02:15:30,860 --> 02:15:35,900
World Canyon subdivision, and then to the south you can see several properties zoned the

1622
02:15:35,900 --> 02:15:41,140
R40, which is the one unit per acre, as well as some GC or general commercial zoning along

1623
02:15:41,140 --> 02:15:42,760
Renhark College Parkway.

1624
02:15:43,340 --> 02:15:54,320
The GC property to the very north portion of the screen of the photo on the bottom is

1625
02:15:54,320 --> 02:16:00,760
suburban development, existing site resources map highlights some of the streams and existing

1626
02:16:00,760 --> 02:16:05,320
topography on the property, Pucket Creek does run through this property, and here's the

1627
02:16:05,320 --> 02:16:10,860
site plan that was prepared by the applicant and presented at your public hearing the last meeting.

1628
02:16:11,840 --> 02:16:15,920
So this applicant is requesting to annexation to the city limits and the rezoning to develop

1629
02:16:15,920 --> 02:16:19,140
as a single family subdivision with the 199 pots.

1630
02:16:20,020 --> 02:16:26,360
170 roughly acres would be R10, and then there'd be a remaining parcel about three acres

1631
02:16:26,360 --> 02:16:31,420
in size of the very southwest corner that's highlighted in orange to be R40.

1632
02:16:32,540 --> 02:16:37,060
The density for this total site would be 1.13 units per acre.

1633
02:16:38,580 --> 02:16:40,660
The internal reds of this site would be public.

1634
02:16:41,000 --> 02:16:47,540
This plan also shows a proposed amenity, and the applicant is showing 54.8% of the site

1635
02:16:47,540 --> 02:16:52,120
remain as open space. Here are some elevations that were prepared by the applicant presented

1636
02:16:52,120 --> 02:16:58,900
as part of the application. In this particular case, we did receive comments from Cherokee

1637
02:16:58,900 --> 02:17:04,240
County, which are included in your packet, by the objection that they did provide several

1638
02:17:04,240 --> 02:17:10,500
comments. And then we also received several department comments as well. In this case, staff

1639
02:17:10,500 --> 02:17:17,520
is recommending approval of the annexation request. Staff is also recommending approval of the

1640
02:17:17,520 --> 02:17:19,640
with the following conditions.

1641
02:17:20,640 --> 02:17:22,260
So one through five on the screen.

1642
02:17:22,640 --> 02:17:25,700
Number one, providing a 25 foot minimum landscape buffer

1643
02:17:25,700 --> 02:17:27,900
exterior property line of the development.

1644
02:17:28,760 --> 02:17:32,180
Number two, open space is described by the small area plan.

1645
02:17:32,480 --> 02:17:34,840
She'll be provided for the community, including

1646
02:17:34,840 --> 02:17:37,860
but not limited to areas for active and passive recreation.

1647
02:17:38,620 --> 02:17:40,280
The playground amenities are a community garden.

1648
02:17:41,080 --> 02:17:43,180
Any lighting proposed for the open space in the

1649
02:17:43,180 --> 02:17:46,820
the area shall be down with full cut-off fixtures.

1650
02:17:47,020 --> 02:17:52,400
Number three, a maximum of 199 new residential loft shall be permitted for the development located

1651
02:17:52,400 --> 02:17:59,700
with an R-10. Number four, sidewalk shall be provided along both entrance road frontages and

1652
02:17:59,700 --> 02:18:03,740
shall connect to interior street sidewalks where intersections are proposed,

1653
02:18:03,980 --> 02:18:09,620
a dedicated pedestrian crosswalk shall be provided. Five all-road road and street names

1654
02:18:09,620 --> 02:18:10,900
of the development of the properties,

1655
02:18:10,940 --> 02:18:12,700
shall be reserved for original,

1656
02:18:13,200 --> 02:18:14,420
Peeridge Community, Land Owners,

1657
02:18:14,540 --> 02:18:16,080
and or Community Members identified

1658
02:18:16,080 --> 02:18:17,640
by the Executive Director

1659
02:18:17,640 --> 02:18:19,200
of the Charlie Ferguson Community Center,

1660
02:18:19,360 --> 02:18:21,500
or their design name,

1661
02:18:24,040 --> 02:18:24,760
excuse me.

1662
02:18:25,420 --> 02:18:27,300
On the screen is actually revised condition

1663
02:18:27,300 --> 02:18:29,460
for that number five name in internal streets

1664
02:18:29,460 --> 02:18:31,680
in recognition of legacy Peeridge families subject

1665
02:18:31,680 --> 02:18:33,680
to approval of the city of Canton

1666
02:18:33,680 --> 02:18:35,180
and the Executive Director

1667
02:18:35,180 --> 02:18:37,100
of the Charlie Ferguson Community Center.

1668
02:18:37,460 --> 02:18:38,920
So there is a slight difference

1669
02:18:38,920 --> 02:18:42,120
from the staff report in the actual presentation.

1670
02:18:44,780 --> 02:18:47,440
The applicant also profits 16 conditions.

1671
02:18:47,940 --> 02:18:50,260
So I'm going to go through those quickly.

1672
02:18:51,140 --> 02:18:54,560
So number one, the residential community should be developed in substantial

1673
02:18:54,560 --> 02:18:58,300
conformity with the site plan as exhibits A.

1674
02:18:58,780 --> 02:19:01,860
Such modifications is needed required and approved by the

1675
02:19:01,860 --> 02:19:04,100
applicable governmental authority.

1676
02:19:04,780 --> 02:19:07,220
Number two, the development shall contain no more than

1677
02:19:09,740 --> 02:19:19,980
The reason why that's in red is because staff does not believe that is necessary due to the condition that was proposed in our recommendation, kind of double dips.

1678
02:19:20,540 --> 02:19:21,880
So that's why that's in red.

1679
02:19:21,880 --> 02:19:28,720
Three, the homes shall be offered and marketed for sale, no more than five percent of the homes within the community.

1680
02:19:28,880 --> 02:19:37,140
Maybe least are rented at one time and such rental restrictions shall be included in recording and covenants to the community.

1681
02:19:37,420 --> 02:19:38,860
Short-term rentals shall be prohibited.

1682
02:19:39,640 --> 02:19:44,840
Number four, the community shall be governed by the Homeowners Association, which shall be responsible for entrepreneurship,

1683
02:19:47,320 --> 02:19:47,620
etc.

1684
02:19:48,520 --> 02:19:52,880
The recorded covenant shall include architectural controls to the homes within the community.

1685
02:19:52,880 --> 02:19:53,640
5.

1686
02:19:54,000 --> 02:19:58,080
The open space depicted on the site plan shall remain as open space and should not be clear

1687
02:19:58,080 --> 02:19:59,960
cut, trigger a mobile with inside.

1688
02:20:00,000 --> 02:20:07,520
Much open space shall be limited to that reasonably necessary for the installation of trails, amenities, required utility connections and other improvements.

1689
02:20:08,660 --> 02:20:13,580
Six, the trails shall constitute a community amenity and shall not connect to Soleil or World Canyon.

1690
02:20:14,100 --> 02:20:24,900
The trail depicted on the north side of Puckets Creek shall not extend towards Soleil and shall connect only to cul-de-sex serving watts, fifty-cent, eight, with no connection extending to the west.

1691
02:20:24,900 --> 02:20:30,860
In the site plan the applicant showed some trails that connected a lot of those lots in the north side of Pucket Creek.

1692
02:20:31,380 --> 02:20:32,900
So that's what that's referring to.

1693
02:20:35,000 --> 02:20:35,200
7.

1694
02:20:35,720 --> 02:20:37,840
No trail should be extended south of Pucket Creek.

1695
02:20:38,460 --> 02:20:43,060
8. The green space should be designated on a final plat as green space to be protected from development.

1696
02:20:43,540 --> 02:20:48,740
And the recorded covenants shall include provisions for the protection and preservation of such green space.

1697
02:20:48,740 --> 02:21:01,060
Number nine, the developer shall coordinate with the city regarding the potential donation of a portion of green space to the city for purposes of perpetual protection subject to mutual agreement and any required governmental approvals.

1698
02:21:01,480 --> 02:21:07,220
You'll see that the section which states for purposes of perpetual protection is also highlighted in red.

1699
02:21:07,780 --> 02:21:16,120
This would give the city flexibility if for some case they wanted to extend a public service and it's not a park that would give them the ability to do so.

1700
02:21:16,120 --> 02:21:21,180
So that would still have to be in a agreement between the city, as well as whoever's developing the property.

1701
02:21:22,180 --> 02:21:29,520
Number 10, all homes will be no taller than two-story home with potential of an additional daylight basement.

1702
02:21:30,220 --> 02:21:44,800
11 the applicant shall install and environmentally responsible lighting fixtures and residential, residential style lighting that comply with the city's lighting ordinance, all street lighting and exterior illumination shall be designed and directed to minimize light spill over and glare.

1703
02:21:45,600 --> 02:21:49,640
12 is concerning construction activities and limiting those hours.

1704
02:21:50,120 --> 02:21:54,960
13, the development shall be responsible for the installation completion of all project

1705
02:21:54,960 --> 02:21:57,620
related to the growth rate improvements required by the city.

1706
02:21:58,240 --> 02:22:01,960
Final location of the primary entrance shall be determined through engineering and

1707
02:22:02,420 --> 02:22:06,800
plan review process to ensure adequate site distance is being met on the north and south.

1708
02:22:08,680 --> 02:22:11,580
Continuing on a 14 and in conjunction with the land disturbance permit.

1709
02:22:11,580 --> 02:22:16,880
The applicant will have its traffic engineer prepare a speed study to determine whether the

1710
02:22:16,880 --> 02:22:18,020
speed limit can be lowered.

1711
02:22:18,660 --> 02:22:22,700
The study would be conducted with input from the city, Georgia Department of Transportation

1712
02:22:22,700 --> 02:22:26,300
with the goal of lowering the speed limit in this section of roadway.

1713
02:22:27,040 --> 02:22:31,620
I do want to make a point that staff has reached out to G. District 6 and they are currently

1714
02:22:31,620 --> 02:22:37,540
looking at Councilman's Rice's question from the public hearing about possibly lowering

1715
02:22:37,540 --> 02:22:39,560
that speed limit from 55 to 45.

1716
02:22:40,380 --> 02:22:47,180
15, the applicant will pay to the school district to $900 per home prior to the issuance of a final

1717
02:22:47,180 --> 02:22:54,460
plat to mitigate the impact on schools. And then lastly, number 16, the applicant will pay $400 per unit

1718
02:22:54,460 --> 02:23:01,880
towards the city's housing fund prior to the issuance of a final plat. So with the Mr. Mayor and Council,

1719
02:23:02,080 --> 02:23:08,080
that is staff's recommendation, where those five conditions and with the profit conditions,

1720
02:23:08,080 --> 02:23:13,420
those are from the, from the Apple kits with those high-light and in red, or

1721
02:23:13,420 --> 02:23:15,260
staff did not necessarily agree with fully.

1722
02:23:17,220 --> 02:23:18,200
Thank you, Mr. Traywick.

1723
02:23:20,370 --> 02:23:24,790
It's a little bit up to council. Any questions for Mr. Traywick or staff or comments?

1724
02:23:29,980 --> 02:23:31,300
Mr. Mayor, there's no discussion.

1725
02:23:34,340 --> 02:23:37,600
If there's no discussion, I would like to move, we approve.

1726
02:23:37,600 --> 02:23:49,680
cases A-N-N-X, and X-2605-105, and RZO-N-2605-016,

1727
02:23:52,060 --> 02:23:55,280
and N-X, the, and approve the annexation

1728
02:23:55,280 --> 02:24:03,700
of the plus or minus 166 acres along over so pre-road and

1729
02:24:03,700 --> 02:24:10,760
rezoned from R40 AG and GC County to R10 and R40 City for

1730
02:24:10,760 --> 02:24:20,620
proposing a family subdivision of 199 lots with the conditions offered by

1731
02:24:20,620 --> 02:24:25,920
staff, and also the 16 offered by the applicant.

1732
02:24:28,460 --> 02:24:33,200
Did that include the items in red on the applicant's conditions?

1733
02:24:35,200 --> 02:24:37,220
I would exclude that item.

1734
02:24:39,220 --> 02:24:45,320
With staff's recommendation, I would exclude those items in red,

1735
02:24:46,120 --> 02:24:47,900
agreeing with all of staff's recommendations.

1736
02:24:47,900 --> 02:24:49,140
We

1737
02:24:51,800 --> 02:24:54,200
have a motion is there a second.

1738
02:24:55,760 --> 02:24:56,120
Second.

1739
02:24:57,420 --> 02:24:59,140
A motion in a second.

1740
02:25:00,000 --> 02:25:06,380
And for this discussion on the motion, I would like to just make a comment that our

1741
02:25:06,380 --> 02:25:13,440
few comments that I believe is a quality development. And again, it's an unincorporated island.

1742
02:25:14,280 --> 02:25:23,600
In the city, we are trying to address those, which I think is important. I believe the developer here

1743
02:25:23,600 --> 02:25:25,780
as all for, you know, a quality product.

1744
02:25:25,980 --> 02:25:30,800
I really appreciate the 1.13 units break or density.

1745
02:25:31,040 --> 02:25:33,300
Compared to some of others we have discussed,

1746
02:25:34,220 --> 02:25:37,040
and recently approved as latest this evening.

1747
02:25:38,320 --> 02:25:39,760
I really appreciate the applicants'

1748
02:25:41,780 --> 02:25:41,800
commitment

1749
02:25:41,800 --> 02:25:47,740
to our two entrances on this and complying with our city code.

1750
02:25:48,000 --> 02:25:50,540
I think it's a good product all the way around.

1751
02:25:50,540 --> 02:25:55,320
I do think the concern in that corridor of traffic,

1752
02:25:55,400 --> 02:25:57,440
additional traffic is very real,

1753
02:25:58,120 --> 02:25:58,740
very tangible.

1754
02:25:59,100 --> 02:26:02,500
We've been working for the past few years on 140,

1755
02:26:02,700 --> 02:26:06,420
which is a state road, but the city is taken into its,

1756
02:26:08,340 --> 02:26:12,120
our own responsibility to work with the state

1757
02:26:12,120 --> 02:26:16,780
to get grants to make improvements to that,

1758
02:26:16,780 --> 02:26:23,340
especially at the two intersections where we're actively working to make those improvements

1759
02:26:23,340 --> 02:26:34,060
around about and adding the laying and lining wall grains and ribstone and you know

1760
02:26:34,060 --> 02:26:38,380
better think we're still even a year out at least to start in construction on those projects.

1761
02:26:39,300 --> 02:26:43,500
So we're trying to alleviate some of the traffic concerns there and some that were mentioned

1762
02:26:43,500 --> 02:26:45,920
this evening by residents in the area,

1763
02:26:48,160 --> 02:26:51,760
and, you know, we are with all the qualities of

1764
02:26:51,760 --> 02:26:56,960
this project, you know, transportation in that corridor, we know as an issue we're addressing

1765
02:26:56,960 --> 02:27:04,760
it and trying to get in front of it, and I think it's just kind of a, it's an unending need

1766
02:27:04,760 --> 02:27:05,300
to there.

1767
02:27:06,660 --> 02:27:12,720
So we would look at putting more traffic on to that area, which we know we have really,

1768
02:27:13,600 --> 02:27:19,700
issues there to deal with. I'm hoping that this and in the other case it was discussed tonight

1769
02:27:19,700 --> 02:27:28,840
the public hearing, we're looking at additional development in the area and in those

1770
02:27:28,840 --> 02:27:36,620
uncorporated islands that we have property in that area that's, that's, you know, CD if we

1771
02:27:36,620 --> 02:27:44,620
next to the problems issues along with it, but is the state road, which they have ultimate authority

1772
02:27:44,620 --> 02:27:52,660
on approval, we know that GDOT has no immediate plans to widen that road or make improvements,

1773
02:27:53,940 --> 02:28:00,940
but we have shown that we can take the lead there and I'm confident that the city can address

1774
02:28:00,940 --> 02:28:07,460
issues when we do annex these properties, but it's also going to require cooperation, collaboration

1775
02:28:07,460 --> 02:28:12,520
with the county, which I think has been acknowledged. In a real world, if we had luxury

1776
02:28:12,520 --> 02:28:17,160
of having the plan in place and had all those parties agreed to, this is what's going to happen

1777
02:28:17,160 --> 02:28:23,640
to address the traffic issues and this is when it's going to happen and equally important,

1778
02:28:23,640 --> 02:28:31,040
This is who's going to pay for it, you know, so that we're not adoring all those, those improvements

1779
02:28:31,040 --> 02:28:36,500
basically from our taxpayers across the city. So those are real concerns that I have.

1780
02:28:36,600 --> 02:28:40,080
I know that we all discuss and we all share them, but I just wanted to make this comment.

1781
02:28:40,700 --> 02:28:44,380
So I'm not going to sleep a little bit better tonight, so it's important to me.

1782
02:28:45,880 --> 02:28:49,360
So we do have a motion in the second. Do we have any further discussion?

1783
02:28:51,660 --> 02:28:58,600
Comments? Hearing none, I'm just going to ask for a roll call on this vote. We have a motion

1784
02:28:58,600 --> 02:29:04,660
in a second to approve these cases as presented with the conditions recommended by staff

1785
02:29:04,660 --> 02:29:08,360
and offered by the developer. Mr. Tolin?

1786
02:29:09,960 --> 02:29:14,820
Mr. Johnson, Mr. John, Mr.

1787
02:29:14,920 --> 02:29:19,520
Mr. Oneman, Mr. Roach, Mr. Rice.

1788
02:29:20,860 --> 02:29:23,120
So, the motion carries forward to today.

1789
02:29:24,910 --> 02:29:25,550
Thank you, Mr. Trayway.

1790
02:29:26,010 --> 02:29:26,630
Thank you.

1791
02:29:26,890 --> 02:29:31,810
Item F, discussion and possible action on the Canton Housing Fund, Mr. Patton.

1792
02:29:40,440 --> 02:29:42,180
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Council members.

1793
02:29:43,520 --> 02:29:46,420
If you all allow me, I'd like to make an announcement

1794
02:29:46,420 --> 02:29:51,820
for all of the council members before getting into the discussion about the housing fund.

1795
02:29:52,120 --> 02:29:59,540
Georgia Department of Community Affairs released their list of 9% LaTeC applications.

1796
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:09,620
As earlier this afternoon, I also had a telephone conversation with TBG Residential. The TBG Residential Project

1797
02:30:09,620 --> 02:30:22,060
summit at Hickory Creek has been selected and awarded for 9% lottack. That is phase 192 units. It

1798
02:30:22,060 --> 02:30:29,500
is 55 plus senior units, and I wanted all of the council members to be aware that that project

1799
02:30:29,500 --> 02:30:38,680
has received the approval for funding through a lot of tax, so those will be coming on board

1800
02:30:38,680 --> 02:30:44,900
over the next couple of years. Thank you, Mr. Spanford, and positive updates. Yes, sir.

1801
02:30:47,580 --> 02:30:54,900
As we discussed two weeks ago, I came before the council requesting consideration, you some of the

1802
02:30:54,900 --> 02:31:03,160
can't housing fund money for some of the preliminary development engineering work associated with the

1803
02:31:03,160 --> 02:31:14,880
get senior program and the two projects that we're talked about as of priorities, which is a

1804
02:31:14,880 --> 02:31:23,460
staff would recommend City Council approve expenditure or use of those funds not to exceed

1805
02:31:23,460 --> 02:31:32,360
$10,000 for the purpose of moving forward with the GEC senior program in development

1806
02:31:32,360 --> 02:31:35,580
pre-engineering for those priority projects.

1807
02:31:36,160 --> 02:31:37,400
I'm here to answer any questions.

1808
02:31:38,080 --> 02:31:38,840
Thank you, Mr. Bannon.

1809
02:31:40,040 --> 02:31:42,280
Any questions for Mr. Bannon or comments?

1810
02:31:46,410 --> 02:31:50,650
If there are no questions, Mr. Stone, I would like to make a motion to.

1811
02:31:50,670 --> 02:31:51,270
Yes, sir?

1812
02:31:51,410 --> 02:31:58,690
Council approve the not to exceed $10,000 funding that Mr. Pat just laid out.

1813
02:32:00,270 --> 02:32:02,930
We have a motion and we have a second, any further discussion?

1814
02:32:04,570 --> 02:32:06,110
Hearing none, all in favor say aye.

1815
02:32:06,910 --> 02:32:06,930
Aye.

1816
02:32:06,930 --> 02:32:07,210
Opposed?

1817
02:32:07,630 --> 02:32:07,930
Aye.

1818
02:32:08,310 --> 02:32:08,710
All in favor?

1819
02:32:08,890 --> 02:32:11,390
Thank you, Mr. Pat, and thank you for the good news.

1820
02:32:12,590 --> 02:32:14,110
Now moving to new business here.

1821
02:32:14,110 --> 02:32:20,290
Item A, discussion and possible action on the Bowling Park Road resurposing Parks and Recreation

1822
02:32:20,290 --> 02:32:21,170
Manager, Mr. Dots.

1823
02:32:26,390 --> 02:32:27,930
Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council.

1824
02:32:28,630 --> 02:32:32,510
Really need to start vetting my appearances better than I did tonight.

1825
02:32:34,150 --> 02:32:41,050
Staff is here tonight to seek action to amend and already approve, pay the contract,

1826
02:32:41,050 --> 02:32:53,830
to add the entrance of Boeing Park, which will be from the entrance to an already paved portion

1827
02:32:53,830 --> 02:33:03,970
of the park, which we did a few years back. The amendment would be for $214,161. The repaying

1828
02:33:03,970 --> 02:33:10,950
the entrance of Bowling Park was originally within the scope of the water pollution upgrade

1829
02:33:11,490 --> 02:33:16,970
to the plant upgrade, but we feel like we're going to be saving a pretty good bit of money

1830
02:33:16,970 --> 02:33:19,230
by adding it to the already approved contract.

1831
02:33:22,510 --> 02:33:25,310
Thank Mr. Dawson, any questions from Mr. Dawson come to the side?

1832
02:33:27,050 --> 02:33:28,010
We like saving money.

1833
02:33:29,010 --> 02:33:33,510
Mr. Mayor, if there are no questions, I would make a motion to approve.

1834
02:33:35,490 --> 02:33:40,350
the amendment to the Bowling Park Road resurfacing. What was the amount?

1835
02:33:43,470 --> 02:33:45,850
$214,161 per that amount.

1836
02:33:47,790 --> 02:33:54,070
We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye.

1837
02:33:54,590 --> 02:33:58,350
Aye. Aye. I was name? All in favor of the motion. Thank you, Mr. Doug.

1838
02:33:58,510 --> 02:33:59,270
Thank you.

1839
02:33:59,270 --> 02:34:09,110
We have two more on us, bear with us, a new business, these are for discussion only, no ask you for any more decisions tonight unless Bethany surprises me here, but.

1840
02:34:09,370 --> 02:34:16,190
Item B, discussion of amendment six for the professional engineering services agreement with AQ Innovation Operations and Maintenance.

1841
02:34:16,190 --> 02:34:16,850
Ms. Watson.

1842
02:34:21,390 --> 02:34:26,070
So, two innovation has come to us for the proposal to have a same, I'm sorry.

1843
02:34:26,070 --> 02:34:35,130
sewer camera system for the city here. This proposal would include the addition of one

1844
02:34:35,130 --> 02:34:39,790
camera truck with associated inspection equipment along with staffing necessary

1845
02:34:39,790 --> 02:34:44,270
to operate and support the service. The added personnel would include one

1846
02:34:44,270 --> 02:34:50,730
supervisor, one operator, and then one administrator. I did want to give a little

1847
02:34:50,730 --> 02:34:54,610
of information about potential cost savings,

1848
02:34:57,410 --> 02:34:59,970
this will be a...

1849
02:35:00,000 --> 02:35:10,760
A yearly addition of $439,000, $91. But it will look at the entire sewer system over three years.

1850
02:35:12,880 --> 02:35:22,790
And we have approximately 140 miles of sewer system, which equates to, I can't remember.

1851
02:35:23,190 --> 02:35:28,570
I didn't write it down what it was over feet because I have a perfect cost of what it typically would cost.

1852
02:35:28,570 --> 02:35:33,750
So a typical contractor can come in and do it anywhere from three to five dollars a foot,

1853
02:35:33,790 --> 02:35:41,970
which is approximately 2.1 to 3.6 million dollars just to do the camera work, not including

1854
02:35:41,970 --> 02:35:45,070
traffic control or any heavy cleaning that may need to be done.

1855
02:35:46,430 --> 02:35:53,210
This project will also include an AI system which will allow them to immediately see what's

1856
02:35:53,210 --> 02:36:01,310
on with a pop and not have to take the camera or the film back to the office, watch it, and

1857
02:36:01,310 --> 02:36:07,030
then tell us what's wrong with the sewer system. It will allow us to have a more accurate GIS

1858
02:36:07,910 --> 02:36:13,430
additional system capacity because we'll be able to fix some of these leaks or we'll find

1859
02:36:13,430 --> 02:36:20,230
where we have clogs and issues with the pops. Cut down on emergency repairs, it will help us

1860
02:36:20,230 --> 02:36:27,130
planning and financial projections, then the ASOS where we'll also be able to develop scopes

1861
02:36:27,130 --> 02:36:33,190
and engineering models that will help lower some of our engineering costs. We have also

1862
02:36:33,190 --> 02:36:39,230
talked to Chair County Water Authority who has sewer camera crews. They currently have 12

1863
02:36:39,230 --> 02:36:46,110
crews that do this constantly and they've been doing it for over 20 years. So we're definitely

1864
02:36:46,110 --> 02:36:50,450
behind the eight ball on getting a system like this in place.

1865
02:36:51,990 --> 02:37:00,470
The contract also currently includes a CPR, which is already part of what H2A's contract

1866
02:37:00,470 --> 02:37:01,490
includes.

1867
02:37:02,230 --> 02:37:09,370
This contract would start October 1 and it was included in the budget for fiscal year 27.

1868
02:37:10,450 --> 02:37:11,750
I'd be happy to answer any questions.

1869
02:37:11,750 --> 02:37:15,230
Okay, thank you Ms. Watson. Any questions from Ms. Watson?

1870
02:37:16,910 --> 02:37:22,670
Did they phase out after 20 years or three years or does it just continue on?

1871
02:37:22,690 --> 02:37:29,930
It would be a continuous, a continuous system. Every three years they just go back to what they looked

1872
02:37:29,930 --> 02:37:36,810
out a few years ago. I mean, unfortunately with sewer systems trees like to get in there,

1873
02:37:36,810 --> 02:37:38,990
We don't always, um,

1874
02:37:41,840 --> 02:37:45,420
what you may see one year, three years down the road could be

1875
02:37:45,420 --> 02:37:52,140
in disrepair, um, just based on the nature of Sue or his very corrosive, so it could

1876
02:37:52,140 --> 02:37:59,920
very quickly turn, um, bad. Um, I will say that, um, it could be something where we saw that

1877
02:37:59,920 --> 02:38:07,020
three years ago, it looked like it was starting to go bad, but we don't want to do anything at that

1878
02:38:07,020 --> 02:38:12,200
because we can't fix everything, we just don't have the money to do it.

1879
02:38:12,620 --> 02:38:21,680
So it may be something that we go back and look at every few years to make sure that we're keeping up with those areas that are in disrepair.

1880
02:38:22,500 --> 02:38:27,100
And then it also will allow us to map the new areas.

1881
02:38:27,680 --> 02:38:35,180
We will have the opportunity to, it wouldn't be a large recruitment of funds,

1882
02:38:35,180 --> 02:38:44,240
But currently, we require that new developments, camera there, lines before we accept them,

1883
02:38:44,380 --> 02:38:50,820
and we will watch those videos, our inspection staff does to make sure that everything's put in place.

1884
02:38:51,280 --> 02:38:55,320
We are in inspection staff with no longer have to do that, a Shuo would take on that responsibility,

1885
02:38:55,940 --> 02:39:01,520
and then we could actually charge the developer for those systems.

1886
02:39:01,520 --> 02:39:04,220
Then we would charge around the $3 to $5 of the food.

1887
02:39:04,220 --> 02:39:11,300
It wouldn't be a huge amount, but it would allow us to recruit that, but also help us

1888
02:39:11,300 --> 02:39:12,880
understand our system better.

1889
02:39:13,980 --> 02:39:19,280
This system will also have the ability to go into laterals, which is a pretty significant

1890
02:39:22,960 --> 02:39:26,060
improvement to what we have now with our camera system.

1891
02:39:26,060 --> 02:39:29,500
We have a camera now, but it doesn't do this type of thing.

1892
02:39:29,500 --> 02:39:35,700
we actually able to go up into the laterals of the home or a business that may be having issues

1893
02:39:35,700 --> 02:39:42,380
and we would be able to help the resident or the business with understanding what's going on with

1894
02:39:42,380 --> 02:39:48,840
their sewer system. Okay, and a question that I've asked, but just for the public record,

1895
02:39:49,400 --> 02:39:55,700
how do they calculate the savings? Is this an annual savings of 554,000?

1896
02:39:57,060 --> 02:39:59,620
Yes, that is what we project.

1897
02:40:00,000 --> 02:40:10,000
Eventually we would get to. We wouldn't save that the first year, but that is taking base off of past year's

1898
02:40:10,760 --> 02:40:18,440
sewer repairs that we've had to do in an emergency situation, along with planning projections,

1899
02:40:18,700 --> 02:40:26,180
engineering projections on what we expect to spend each year on issues in the sewer system that we would

1900
02:40:26,180 --> 02:40:31,560
have found head-on instead of being reactive to it.

1901
02:40:31,660 --> 02:40:32,700
Thank you.

1902
02:40:32,800 --> 02:40:37,980
Yeah, so I just see this, you know, being proactive in upfront investment to save money in

1903
02:40:37,980 --> 02:40:38,380
future.

1904
02:40:39,160 --> 02:40:42,720
I mean, we'll still have emergencies and breaks and things we have to address, but hopefully

1905
02:40:42,720 --> 02:40:50,040
less of them I mean, many years ago when we were paving without an assessment or system of

1906
02:40:50,040 --> 02:40:55,540
roadways, citywide, roads that got paved were really the people and neighborhoods, the screens

1907
02:40:55,540 --> 02:41:01,760
allowed us, we did assessment, CD-wide of all the roads and and and seeing which ones need to be addressed

1908
02:41:01,760 --> 02:41:06,900
first and we begin a maintenance schedule and I think that's we've seen significant savings

1909
02:41:06,900 --> 02:41:11,640
and and that was just a statistical approach based on the data and also I kind of quite this

1910
02:41:11,640 --> 02:41:18,580
did this but it's just the the sewer system versus that so it's just what's mentioned we're kind

1911
02:41:18,580 --> 02:41:24,280
of behind the the gun there but hopefully this would catch us up and get us in a more proactive

1912
02:41:24,280 --> 02:41:31,220
stands versus reactive and emergency breaks, anything else? Thank you.

1913
02:41:31,420 --> 02:41:37,400
Thank you. And I don't see a discussion of court software agreement renewal with I-3

1914
02:41:37,400 --> 02:41:38,800
verticals, Mr. Ingram?

1915
02:41:39,160 --> 02:41:44,400
Yeah, good evening, Mayor Council. You have in front of you a contract from I-3 verticals.

1916
02:41:45,660 --> 02:41:49,940
Just some information in case you didn't know. I-3 verticals is a local downtown

1917
02:41:51,560 --> 02:41:58,220
If you don't know, they have handled our municipal courts easy court pay for many years.

1918
02:41:59,160 --> 02:42:04,920
Back in 2020, it was the last time that we visited this agreement and adopted agreement.

1919
02:42:05,540 --> 02:42:12,340
So they've come to us now, proposed with a new agreement that would like for us to engage.

1920
02:42:12,340 --> 02:42:16,840
Next Q, we shared a copy of this with the city attorney.

1921
02:42:16,840 --> 02:42:20,360
We had a few questions, few corrections for them.

1922
02:42:20,400 --> 02:42:25,600
They have since corrected that and what you have in front of you is that corrected contract.

1923
02:42:25,820 --> 02:42:29,940
We're not asking for actions not, but we will in a couple of weeks.

1924
02:42:30,580 --> 02:42:36,320
I'm glad to say this is a requires no funding from the city of Ken.

1925
02:42:36,320 --> 02:42:44,440
All of the fees they collect are from the easy court pay system where individuals can go

1926
02:42:44,440 --> 02:42:46,460
and pay their court funds online.

1927
02:42:47,140 --> 02:42:50,660
So they collect that just like almost a merchant service fee.

1928
02:42:51,120 --> 02:42:55,200
So if you have any questions, I'll be more happy to get a response for you.

1929
02:42:56,300 --> 02:43:00,620
But aside from that, you will see this request for action in two weeks.

1930
02:43:00,620 --> 02:43:03,120
next to council meeting.

1931
02:43:03,300 --> 02:43:05,700
Thank you, Mr. Mr. England. Any questions from Mr. England on this item?

1932
02:43:07,300 --> 02:43:08,300
Okay. Thanks, sir.

1933
02:43:09,240 --> 02:43:10,720
You've been a lot of long, Mr. Bepers.

1934
02:43:21,660 --> 02:43:22,760
Good evening, Mayor and Council.

1935
02:43:23,460 --> 02:43:25,220
Just a few items for tonight,

1936
02:43:25,400 --> 02:43:26,740
that I wanted to go over.

1937
02:43:26,740 --> 02:43:28,400
We'll go over some project updates,

1938
02:43:28,620 --> 02:43:29,880
and also some staff recognition.

1939
02:43:30,800 --> 02:43:34,880
The fire station project downtown is moving along

1940
02:43:34,880 --> 02:43:36,640
as you can notice. They've pulled down

1941
02:43:37,320 --> 02:43:40,100
all the scaffolding around the historic part of the building.

1942
02:43:40,100 --> 02:43:47,620
the reboying of the brick is completed. The roof project is pretty much completed and we're

1943
02:43:47,620 --> 02:43:53,060
working on the remainder of the site and the interior. A little bit of the interior work that's

1944
02:43:53,060 --> 02:44:01,080
being done. One decision that was made over the last couple of days relates to the drive and side

1945
02:44:01,080 --> 02:44:08,360
street that exist between fire station and Cherokee County Water and Sewer. That green area which

1946
02:44:08,360 --> 02:44:13,240
the section that's closest to West Main Street will go back as asphalt and the blue area

1947
02:44:13,240 --> 02:44:18,600
in the back, which includes the apron and drive into the Bayes, will go back as concrete.

1948
02:44:20,960 --> 02:44:25,940
The county has started on their surface parking expansion project. If you've been by the area

1949
02:44:27,060 --> 02:44:34,260
next to pink seagrers and up against the Roosterville community, you'll know that they have

1950
02:44:34,260 --> 02:44:38,300
started taking down trees and working on the land disturbance in that particular area.

1951
02:44:38,360 --> 02:44:41,540
So, that project is already under construction.

1952
02:44:42,920 --> 02:44:47,760
We are continuing to do site work out at the Park and South Canton.

1953
02:44:48,040 --> 02:44:55,360
They're working on walls in the area and pears for the treetop walking area.

1954
02:44:56,660 --> 02:44:59,320
We are still working on a water master plan.

1955
02:44:59,600 --> 02:44:59,900
I have a little...

1956
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:09,940
The latest update we have on that is we have been going through the process of looking at potential sites for a future water plant and we'll have more information on that.

1957
02:45:10,680 --> 02:45:17,560
You've noticed at the Cherokee North Apartments that the fencing is up, the remediation on that particular project is underway.

1958
02:45:18,520 --> 02:45:24,940
We have just completed our risk and resilience assessment that's required by EPD and that's been submitted.

1959
02:45:26,660 --> 02:45:35,140
staff is reviewing RFPs and conducted interviews this week on our broker, broker services that

1960
02:45:35,140 --> 02:45:41,720
relates to the firm that represents the city and our healthcare health insurance on an annual

1961
02:45:41,720 --> 02:45:47,820
basis. And so we are at the end of our three-year contract with Mark III on that and we've been

1962
02:45:47,820 --> 02:45:53,900
going through the review process. So that we are currently reviewing for completeness.

1963
02:45:53,900 --> 02:46:01,740
The RFPs that were received back on information technology and our geographic assistance GIS.

1964
02:46:02,680 --> 02:46:09,940
We had probably more responses to those RFPs than I've ever seen on any RFPs that cities issue before.

1965
02:46:10,560 --> 02:46:12,020
So we are going through that.

1966
02:46:12,400 --> 02:46:20,160
We have also received our roofing schematic for the police department building and currently reviewing that at this time.

1967
02:46:20,800 --> 02:46:28,680
I will make note on the project, the North Kent and Cottage site that is that former fire

1968
02:46:28,680 --> 02:46:35,760
site up at Laurel Canyon in the past Councils had a desire to consider residential development

1969
02:46:35,760 --> 02:46:36,660
on that site.

1970
02:46:36,900 --> 02:46:45,000
We actually had a firm do some site review up there and some cleaning based on discussion

1971
02:46:45,000 --> 02:46:50,120
the council over numerous meetings. The council would prefer to have a partner and do that

1972
02:46:50,120 --> 02:46:55,760
development as opposed to the city, handle that development. And then there was discussion

1973
02:46:55,760 --> 02:47:02,400
about making that attainable housing component. I have personally met with Habitat for Humanity

1974
02:47:02,400 --> 02:47:07,660
to see if they have an interest in partnering on that particular site, knowing that they could

1975
02:47:07,660 --> 02:47:13,700
develop and they could also bring an attainable component there. They are currently working with

1976
02:47:13,700 --> 02:47:23,020
kick-and-wood on site cost and options for the site and are specifically looking at single

1977
02:47:23,020 --> 02:47:29,640
family option versus town-home option and they will likely be bringing a proposal back

1978
02:47:29,640 --> 02:47:36,040
to the council later this fall for you to consider for that particular site so that once

1979
02:47:36,040 --> 02:47:40,340
they have that cost information in hand so I did want to get that on your radar.

1980
02:47:41,460 --> 02:47:46,860
As it relates to staff recognition, I did want to note we have made some hires, Nicholas

1981
02:47:46,860 --> 02:47:52,680
Slopeitz is our public safety ambassador, and our captionant he was hired over the summer.

1982
02:47:53,640 --> 02:48:01,120
Lance Weaver came in to fill a vacancy and customer service in our utility department.

1983
02:48:01,120 --> 02:48:08,040
This is the group that actually goes out and handles meter reads, cut-offs, and turn-ons

1984
02:48:08,040 --> 02:48:15,500
for Utility Accounts. Calvary MacVay is also a public safety ambassador that was recently hired

1985
02:48:15,500 --> 02:48:21,060
for that captioning of the Police Department. John Warwick, Sue, has been over our Utility

1986
02:48:21,060 --> 02:48:26,220
Billing for the City, as our coordinator for that, is moving up to the finance department.

1987
02:48:26,240 --> 02:48:31,080
He will continue to be in charge of Utility Billing, but he will also be handling budget

1988
02:48:31,080 --> 02:48:39,200
as well for the city, Brittany Chambers who has been over a customer service for our utility department.

1989
02:48:40,040 --> 02:48:46,320
Now, we'll also be in charge of those filled reps who handle the cut-ons and cut-offs for utility billing.

1990
02:48:47,600 --> 02:48:55,360
And then I also went into mention in Sergeant Courtney Rogers, who received her master's degree recently from Georgia State.

1991
02:48:55,360 --> 02:49:06,540
And she had a baby this morning, so two good things going for courting, that is all I have on my report, but I'm happy to answer any questions you might have this evening.

1992
02:49:06,900 --> 02:49:09,000
Thank you, Mr. Revers. Any questions from Mr. Revers?

1993
02:49:09,760 --> 02:49:10,180
Mr. Johnson?

1994
02:49:10,480 --> 02:49:17,840
Mr. Peppers, any update on the gentleman that fell off of doing better?

1995
02:49:18,240 --> 02:49:26,380
Okay, and the second question, if appropriate, if there's any sort of, I don't know, go from there or donation, I would like participate in that.

1996
02:49:26,380 --> 02:49:28,020
if deemed appropriate.

1997
02:49:28,840 --> 02:49:30,120
We can certainly ask.

1998
02:49:30,220 --> 02:49:31,220
I'm not aware of one.

1999
02:49:32,460 --> 02:49:32,780
Thank you.

2000
02:49:32,980 --> 02:49:33,960
Anything else?

2001
02:49:34,400 --> 02:49:34,880
Excuse me.

2002
02:49:35,520 --> 02:49:36,480
Thank you.

2003
02:49:37,420 --> 02:49:39,900
We do have one council introduced item this evening.

2004
02:49:40,100 --> 02:49:42,140
And that is from Councilor Shaw and Tollin.

2005
02:49:42,320 --> 02:49:44,100
Discussion a community land trust.

2006
02:49:44,520 --> 02:49:45,180
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

2007
02:49:45,300 --> 02:49:49,240
I'm from a city council that I will be forish minutes.

2008
02:49:50,680 --> 02:49:54,560
Tonight I'd like to ask council and staff to focus on moving the community land.

2009
02:49:54,560 --> 02:49:59,960
from here I'll refer to it as a CLT from approval to

2010
02:50:00,760 --> 02:50:29,040
Operating. Council approved the CLT more than a year ago on July 3, 2025. We took the action because we recognized it, housing it, attainability of affordability is not, excuse me, a short-term issue, and that a real estate focused community land trust can be one of the tools can't use is to preserve attainability and home ownership for generations. That said, approval alone does not create a CLT.

2011
02:50:29,040 --> 02:50:34,140
we now need to complete the organizational work necessary to bring it to life.

2012
02:50:34,800 --> 02:50:41,180
I would ask Council to give staff clear direction tonight to develop an implementation plan for the

2013
02:50:41,180 --> 02:50:45,740
CLT and bring it back to us within a defined period of time.

2014
02:50:46,580 --> 02:50:51,480
At a minimum that plan should address the legal structure of the organization,

2015
02:50:51,480 --> 02:50:54,260
proposed by laws and governance.

2016
02:50:55,600 --> 02:50:59,260
The composition of the board, how the city will participate,

2017
02:51:00,180 --> 02:51:01,680
initial funding and staffing needs,

2018
02:51:02,440 --> 02:51:07,140
potential priorities for funding sources that could see the

2019
02:51:07,140 --> 02:51:10,940
CLT and a timeline for formally launching the organization.

2020
02:51:11,920 --> 02:51:15,260
I would ask the city manager, Mr. Peppers, to identify a

2021
02:51:15,260 --> 02:51:17,580
staff member or department that is responsible for

2022
02:51:17,580 --> 02:51:23,600
coordinating this work so that there's a clear set of accountability standards.

2023
02:51:24,700 --> 02:51:28,220
We've already made the policy decision that community land trust belongs to Kenton's

2024
02:51:28,220 --> 02:51:28,980
housing strategy.

2025
02:51:30,080 --> 02:51:34,460
Now we need to take the administrative steps necessary to turn that policy into something that

2026
02:51:34,460 --> 02:51:35,780
actually helps families.

2027
02:51:36,740 --> 02:51:42,900
My hope is that by our September 17 meeting, we accomplish three basic goals.

2028
02:51:42,900 --> 02:51:50,020
One, identify the responsible party to manage a CLT, two, a list of required organizational

2029
02:51:50,020 --> 02:51:55,680
steps, and three, a firm date for beginning the implementation plan back to council.

2030
02:51:56,680 --> 02:52:01,960
If we do that, we can finally move the CLT from an idea on paper to a permanent community

2031
02:52:01,960 --> 02:52:07,460
asset that helps keep home ownership within the reach of Kent and families for decades

2032
02:52:07,460 --> 02:52:08,160
to come.

2033
02:52:08,160 --> 02:52:17,200
Mr. Mayor, I would ask that I have asked, I should say, Mr. Rustbridge, and he noted that

2034
02:52:17,200 --> 02:52:18,680
what I need to do now is make a motion.

2035
02:52:18,960 --> 02:52:23,460
So what I would like to do is make a motion that Council direct staff to prepare a community

2036
02:52:23,460 --> 02:52:31,900
land trust implementation plan, addressing governance, legal formation, funding, staffing,

2037
02:52:32,960 --> 02:52:38,060
property acquisition, and a launch timeline to return that plan back to Council within

2038
02:52:38,060 --> 02:52:41,360
90 days or at our December 3rd meeting.

2039
02:52:43,920 --> 02:52:45,020
That's my motion.

2040
02:52:45,440 --> 02:52:46,200
Thank you, Mr. Stellington.

2041
02:52:46,240 --> 02:52:49,240
This is a point of order for a motion or action.

2042
02:52:50,000 --> 02:52:54,020
We need to amend the agenda to have that for a week.

2043
02:52:54,080 --> 02:52:54,640
I don't want to motion.

2044
02:52:55,720 --> 02:52:57,380
Because the item is on the agenda,

2045
02:52:57,520 --> 02:52:58,120
I think it's appropriate.

2046
02:52:58,260 --> 02:52:58,580
Okay.

2047
02:52:58,980 --> 02:52:59,060
Okay.

2048
02:52:59,120 --> 02:53:00,020
I don't want something if you choose.

2049
02:53:00,020 --> 02:53:01,580
So make sure we're doing it correctly there.

2050
02:53:02,440 --> 02:53:04,540
So we have a motion from Mr. Tollin.

2051
02:53:04,700 --> 02:53:05,740
Is there a second?

2052
02:53:06,460 --> 02:53:06,980
Second.

2053
02:53:07,140 --> 02:53:07,560
Second.

2054
02:53:08,940 --> 02:53:09,780
Any further discussion?

2055
02:53:10,340 --> 02:53:10,480
Comments.

2056
02:53:10,700 --> 02:53:11,260
Mr. Rice.

2057
02:53:11,640 --> 02:53:17,860
So just to be clear, we set in motion a plan to be brought back to us.

2058
02:53:17,920 --> 02:53:21,280
It doesn't necessarily mean that we adopt that plan.

2059
02:53:22,060 --> 02:53:23,580
We can amend it.

2060
02:53:23,580 --> 02:53:23,800
Yes.

2061
02:53:24,380 --> 02:53:25,560
As such.

2062
02:53:25,720 --> 02:53:26,260
That's the goal.

2063
02:53:26,480 --> 02:53:26,660
Yes, sir.

2064
02:53:27,020 --> 02:53:28,460
Thank you.

2065
02:53:29,120 --> 02:53:29,460
Mr. Water?

2066
02:53:30,400 --> 02:53:35,360
This is your, we are asking staff to do this.

2067
02:53:35,360 --> 02:53:41,440
of this is done by staff, we're not outsourcing or asking, again, that's the goal.

2068
02:53:41,580 --> 02:53:46,760
I guess it would be up to Mr. Pepper's based on bandwidth of staff if this is something

2069
02:53:46,760 --> 02:53:52,380
that could be done internally, or if it's a task that would need to be farmed out.

2070
02:53:52,720 --> 02:53:59,220
But we can have that follow-up discussion at the September 17th meeting if that's appropriate.

2071
02:54:00,620 --> 02:54:09,940
I would just, I would just, I would just make sure Mr. Peppers are clear with the motion

2072
02:54:09,940 --> 02:54:10,440
of the quest.

2073
02:54:10,860 --> 02:54:17,020
And do you think that is adequate time to be able to prepare that response?

2074
02:54:18,960 --> 02:54:22,140
So, I'm sure Mr. Tolerary will give me his notes.

2075
02:54:22,340 --> 02:54:23,140
I try to write that out there.

2076
02:54:23,420 --> 02:54:23,580
Yeah.

2077
02:54:24,280 --> 02:54:24,520
Yeah.

2078
02:54:24,860 --> 02:54:26,120
Do you deny it?

2079
02:54:26,120 --> 02:54:31,500
The only thing I'm confused about out to do won't clarification on, the motion says to bring

2080
02:54:31,500 --> 02:54:37,260
everything back by December 3rd, what exactly are you wanting back by the 17th set?

2081
02:54:37,280 --> 02:54:44,260
That would be the three action items between now and then, which are identified, responsible

2082
02:54:44,260 --> 02:54:51,620
party or manager of the community land trust internally within staff, a list of the required

2083
02:54:51,620 --> 02:54:57,840
organizational steps and a firm date for bring in the implementation plan back to Council,

2084
02:54:58,720 --> 02:54:59,960
EG, FB-7.

2085
02:55:00,000 --> 02:55:02,180
Number the third. Okay.

2086
02:55:05,940 --> 02:55:25,460
I got all of those three. And I'll get you these notes tonight, Mr. Pepper. Thank you. I'll be honest, it's been so long. I'd have to just, I'm not very comfortable moving forward with personally anymore. I just, I think we've got other things on our plate that we need to take care of. So I'll humble both may, against this one. Sure.

2087
02:55:25,460 --> 02:55:25,460
Any

2088
02:55:27,580 --> 02:55:29,380
other comments?

2089
02:55:30,560 --> 02:55:30,660
Questions?

2090
02:55:34,030 --> 02:55:34,050
Okay.

2091
02:55:34,350 --> 02:55:36,070
We have a motion and a second.

2092
02:55:36,650 --> 02:55:37,850
All of our neighbors say aye.

2093
02:55:38,150 --> 02:55:38,350
Aye.

2094
02:55:38,970 --> 02:55:39,650
Opposed name?

2095
02:55:40,730 --> 02:55:41,830
Motion carries.

2096
02:55:43,830 --> 02:55:45,230
I have nothing tonight.

2097
02:55:45,410 --> 02:55:51,370
I didn't want to remiss in guests and visitors of not recognizing chief linear with chairkey fire.

2098
02:55:51,530 --> 02:55:52,930
Chief is great to have you here.

2099
02:55:53,370 --> 02:55:55,590
You picked a doozy for your first meeting.

2100
02:55:56,230 --> 02:55:57,710
So they're not always this long.

2101
02:55:57,710 --> 02:56:00,550
but it can't promise that going forward.

2102
02:56:01,050 --> 02:56:02,130
But thank you for being with us.

2103
02:56:02,530 --> 02:56:03,930
We appreciate having you here

2104
02:56:03,930 --> 02:56:06,630
and appreciate the collaboration with you

2105
02:56:06,630 --> 02:56:07,530
and your team always.

2106
02:56:08,430 --> 02:56:11,130
So with that, I will entertain a motion to adjourn

2107
02:56:11,130 --> 02:56:14,850
to executive session, to discuss real estate and litigation.

2108
02:56:16,290 --> 02:56:17,570
So, my second.

2109
02:56:18,030 --> 02:56:19,690
Motion and second, I'll favor say aye.

2110
02:56:20,450 --> 02:56:20,470
Aye.

2111
02:56:20,470 --> 02:56:20,990
I was nay.

2112
02:56:22,330 --> 02:56:23,830
We are adjourned.

2113
02:56:24,030 --> 02:56:24,550
For this portion.