[0:46] We need more elbow room all the way around the table here.

[0:51] Of course, if you are sewing, all right.

[0:53] Okay, we're so thin.

[0:56] We'll get wild.

[1:00] It's a statement.

[1:03] I think some are for it though, believe it or not.

[1:06] Some are for it.

[1:07] Oh, yeah, that's true.

[1:10] And I want to say,

[1:12] we'll sit down.

[1:16] We'll sit down.

[1:18] We'll sit down. We'll sit down.

[1:20] We'll sit down. We'll sit down.

[1:29] Good evening everyone, could I have your attention please?

[1:34] We're ready to get started.

[1:35] Thank you for joining us as always.

[1:38] Would you please stand if you're able to join us in the pledge of allegiance and

[1:42] remain standing for the invocation?

[2:04] Please bow your heads.

[2:06] Father, we thank you for today.

[2:08] Thank you for life. God, we thank you for the community.

[2:12] God, I say a special prayer for our country, our men and women in uniform and all about public

[2:17] servants. Follows we go forward with the business of Canton and the community tonight. I just

[2:24] pray that we do it with the heart of understanding and doing what's right for the people.

[2:29] And Jesus name, amen.

[2:37] So I will call it a order. I said,

[2:39] September 3rd, 2026 meeting of the mayor and council.

[2:45] We'll begin with consideration to approve tonight's agenda.

[2:48] Do we have any revisions, changes or motions?

[2:53] If there are no changes on my commotion to approve the agenda as presented.

[2:58] We have a motion and a second.

[3:00] All in favor say aye.

[3:01] Opposed nay.

[3:03] All members voted for the motion.

[3:05] We have no guests and visitors.

[3:07] Although we have a lot of visitors and a lot of guests welcome.

[3:10] Thank you for your engagement, thank you for being here as we conduct the business of the city and on behalf of our constituents.

[3:20] 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.

[3:29] 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.

[3:35] So as usual I'm going to ask our city manager to read the policies and procedures for public hearings.

[3:43] Please pay attention and please try to adhere to these so we can be efficient tonight.

[3:48] Get everyone home hopefully for a midnight supper.

[3:52] So thank you so much Mr. Reppers.

[3:54] Thank you for attending our city council meeting this evening.

[3:57] Tonight we will have public hearings related to zoning cases.

[4:00] 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.

[4:10] 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.

[4:19] zoning cases such as those that will be heard tonight require an accurate accounting of the proceedings and commentary.

[4:26] The hearings were recorded verbatim and will become part of the legal record of each case.

[4:32] To speak during a public hearing, state of Georgia requires that you sign an affidavit prior to speaking.

[4:37] This public hearing was advertised in the Cherokee Tribune, which is the legal organ of Cherokee County.

[4:42] Science reposts you can speak with us on the applicant property or properties and under

[4:47] our development code the applicant provided the U.S. Postual Service, a notice of zoning

[4:51] requests all properties within a thousand feet of the applicant property properties.

[4:57] The procedure for the public hearing is as follows.

[5:00] The mayor will ask staff to give a brief description of the case in question. The mayor will then open the public hearing.

[5:07] 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.

[5:17] 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.

[5:26] I will serve as the timekeeper and I will notify any speaker at the podium when the time

[5:31] has expired.

[5:33] Comments must cease when the time is expired.

[5:36] The applicant may reserve a portion of the initial 10 minutes to rebut or comment on any

[5:41] opposition.

[5:43] Once all parties that have signed up to speak have spoken, or the total time for each side

[5:48] has expired, the mayor will close the public hearing.

[5:51] Following the closure of the public hearing, the City Council will address staff with any specific

[5:55] questions or discussion related to the case.

[5:59] Speakers will be taken in the order in which they signed up to speak.

[6:02] As you are called to speak by the mayor, please come to the podium and state your name and

[6:07] address for the record.

[6:08] The time will start after your address is given.

[6:12] As there may be several speakers, we ask that you keep your comments concise and try not

[6:16] to duplicate the comments of other speakers.

[6:19] You will address your comments to the mayor and council, not the audience or the applicant.

[6:24] Your comments are in the form of a monologue, the City Council will not address comments

[6:29] during the public hearing portion of the meeting.

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[7:04] Thank you, Mr. Reppers.

[7:06] So thanks everyone for your attention to that and again we have a lot of business to conduct

[7:11] tonight.

[7:12] Please be respectful of our policies that we are required by law to follow in these cases.

[7:18] But more importantly, be respectful for each other and your neighbors so that everyone has a chance to speak.

[7:23] We are going to adhere to the ten-minute total timelines tonight just to be efficient.

[7:29] So just please keep that in mind.

[7:31] And we will begin with our first public hearing.

[7:34] And that is public hearing for case MPA-2606-003.

[7:40] request to amend master plan to eliminate required landscape buffer for portion of

[7:45] Riverstone Pod G, Mr. Allen.

[7:47] Thank you.

[7:48] Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of the Council.

[7:50] The applicant, Mr. Scott Wade with Norseye Hospital's is seeking to amend the Riverstone

[7:55] Master Plan for two parcels located within Riverstone Pod G. Specifically, the applicant

[8:00] is looking to amend MP0606-001 for parcels 14-0192-0302.

[8:09] and zero, three, zero, three.

[8:12] Both are located within Riverside and Potgee,

[8:14] and the particular request is to eliminate

[8:16] condition three of that aforementioned master plan,

[8:19] which states that the applicant

[8:21] and their technique shall provide an enhanced landscape

[8:25] buffer between any residential lots and a commercial

[8:27] and office building equal to that height

[8:30] of set office building on their property

[8:32] when they are adjacent to residential.

[8:36] The subject property is located within

[8:38] or two, it is just south of the new chair of the high school and it is located as mentioned

[8:44] within the Riverstone master plan development. It is currently zoned plan development mixed

[8:50] use with a community level mixed use and retail center character area. This is the proposed

[8:57] site plan. Please note that the Riverstone Retreat residential development is to the plan

[9:03] on this side, which is technically cardinal east, that is where that required buffer would

[9:08] have to be installed, per the aforementioned zoning condition.

[9:15] The only department comments that

[9:17] we garnered were from planning and zoning, and we just wanted the applicant to hold their required

[9:22] community information and input meeting on August 11, 2026 at 7pm, and the applicant did note that

[9:28] there were no citizens in attendance at that meeting, but staff has not received their required

[9:33] recommendation relating to that.

[9:37] The next step for this particular case is going to be a possible

[9:40] action on October 1st, 2021. Thank you very much. This concludes my report.

[9:45] Thank you, Mr. Fallen. At this point, we will open the public hearing and invite the applicants

[9:55] is represented to speak.

[10:03] 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.

[10:29] And this is all part of Pajji, and when Pajji was approved back in 2007, it was approved as all commercial.

[10:40] 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.

[10:52] And so what that does here is when the county or the city rather amended that pod G

[11:01] and put in the multi-family slash town homes adjacent to us that actually then very much

[11:07] limited the utility of this parcel by requiring a buffer and especially limiting multi-story

[11:15] buildings, which is the perfect use for this site.

[11:18] so that what the proposal's multi-story multi-tinent

[11:22] or multi-story medical office building,

[11:27] which is a great neighbor to the residential that's next door.

[11:32] Actually, the hope is you have people that live there

[11:35] that might work in this location

[11:37] so you actually have live work and play close together.

[11:41] And also, it's a business that closes at night

[11:44] as opposed to fast food restaurant or something like that.

[11:48] has a lot more activity.

[11:49] This is actually a very quiet neighbor.

[11:52] So we did have the public input meeting

[11:54] and obviously no one appeared at it

[11:57] because I don't think this totally makes sense

[12:01] in terms of the context of the area.

[12:03] One of the things I do want to point out here

[12:05] is you have the same exact situation across the street

[12:09] from us with the commercial buildings

[12:12] backing directly up to residential behind it

[12:15] in no separation.

[12:16] when you have an environment like this that you're creating,

[12:20] you're creating a mixed use development,

[12:22] that's what you're backing into residential commercial.

[12:25] You don't separate those uses.

[12:27] You keep them where you can walk between them

[12:30] and you have continuity between them.

[12:33] And if I can get to my presentation,

[12:35] I think I've got one slide that I'd just like to show.

[12:43] This is the site plan and you can see plan

[12:46] to the right is the multifamily, the medical office buildings, all the way on the north

[12:53] part of the property residential, or parking to the south.

[12:57] And then this is the site plan that was with podge, showing all commercial, and you can see

[13:03] we were actually part of a couple of the pad sites that are kind of to the left hand side

[13:10] there.

[13:11] So this is anticipated to be developed similar to this all along, and if you look at the

[13:16] here, you already have a self-storage facility that's developed to our North.

[13:22] And so this is just recognizing the reality that when the residential got put in next to us,

[13:30] that triggered a condition that no one had recognized before when it came through zoning.

[13:34] And in fact, no one recognized this until we were going through the final architectural review

[13:39] that someone say, wait a second, we got this section buried in here that we didn't think whatever applied

[13:44] POTG because it was all supposed to be commercial and so all we're doing is asking to that.

[13:50] Had that one condition cleaned up and not apply in this situation so a good local business

[13:58] can build a nice building that will not only provide great tax base employment and services

[14:05] around the area, they're good neighbors as you all know.

[14:08] So appreciate your time and I'll reserve whatever time I had left if there's comments from the

[14:16] 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.

[14:29] Mr. John.

[14:30] 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.

[14:35] So the building actually came before the can design with the team and at the time the proposed

[14:41] type of building was 45 feet, which would essentially translate to a 45 foot wide buffer that this condition would require.

[14:49] Okay, that was what I wanted to clear.

[14:52] Good sir.

[14:53] Anything else?

[14:56] Okay.

[14:57] Thank you.

[14:59] We'll move a lot.

[15:00] 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

[15:17] J. of Riverstone to include card dealerships as an allowed use with concurrent

[15:22] appearances.

[15:23] Mr. Peoples.

[15:24] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[15:25] Members of Council.

[15:26] As you stated, this is a master plan amendment request with concurrent

[15:29] variances to pod J of the Riverstone development.

[15:32] This is located within Council Ward 2.

[15:36] The applicant is seeking amendment to the development standards adopted in 2007 for

[15:42] Riverstone pod J to include card dealership as an allowed use within the pod.

[15:46] There are three concurrent bearings that are being sought.

[15:49] One is to waive the parking standards for vehicle and marine craft

[15:52] stales by apologies for the type of graphical error on the slide.

[15:56] And table 103-3 of the Unified Development Code, and redefine the minimum

[16:01] spaces at one space for 500 square feet in maximum space of 1% of every 5 square feet.

[16:06] Two is to eliminate the required 50 foot landscape buffers,

[16:10] but especially use general commercial and unincorporated jerky county.

[16:14] And the third is to allow disturbance within the 50-foot undisturbed stream buffer into

[16:18] allow impervious surface within the 75-foot impervious setback for the purpose of piping

[16:23] a drainage swell.

[16:26] This is the original approval for Pad J in 2007.

[16:30] This approval came with a new list of nearly 80 individually named uses, office and commercial

[16:36] uses that were in this on this track, namely Cardiola ship is not one of those, so that

[16:43] as why the applicant is here this evening to amend the map.

[16:47] This parcel is located on the along Bluffs Parkway

[16:51] that is situated east of Bluffs Parkway south

[16:54] of the Cherokee County Administrative Office buildings.

[16:57] Do note that there is a tiny portion

[16:58] of the tax parcel included close towards the interstate exit

[17:02] that is not part of this request.

[17:05] This is the parcel in its city zoning map surrounded

[17:10] mostly by special use parcels that are owned by the city of Canton and Cher County.

[17:18] The property is located within the community level mixed use retail center character area.

[17:25] And this is the site plan that the applicant submitted with this quest is a conceptual

[17:29] in nature.

[17:31] There is a entrance that is proposed to the car dealership which is located at the existing

[17:36] median break at the north of the property that is between two service entrances to the dam.

[17:41] There are two 35,000 square foot buildings proposed and one 5,000 square foot building proposed.

[17:48] This site is 18.17 acres of the larger Pod J tract.

[17:54] Speaking to some of the concurrent variances that the applicant is requesting one is to redefine

[18:00] the parking standards for this tract.

[18:03] And preliminary conversations with the city, it was determined that the current city regulations,

[18:09] the minimum parking spaces would be in excess of what they actually need. We have a calculation

[18:14] that calculates minimum and maximum parking spaces for car dealerships based on square footage

[18:19] of sales floor area, number of employees, number of service base, and that preliminary

[18:24] calculation came up to over a thousand parking spaces and the app can indicate it at that time

[18:29] that that was in excess of what they needed. So they have applied for concurrent variants to

[18:34] to find those parkestanders based on the square footage of the combined buildings.

[18:39] At this time, on this site plan, the applicant proposes 620 spaces.

[18:44] The applicant is also seeking a concurrent variance to pipe and existing drainage swell that

[18:49] is located at the north of this site, a pilot at a here in red.

[18:53] This is actually a part of our storm water drainage system that is currently piped under

[19:00] The ecological consultant for this applicant and their delineation report delineated this as a stream.

[19:07] So in order for them to pipe this drainage swell in order to provide access to the property they are seeking

[19:14] variances to the undisturbed stream buffer and 75 foot pervious setback.

[19:19] Final approval to be able to disturb within that stream would be contingent upon the state of Georgia,

[19:24] EPD and their granting of the 25-foot stream buffer variance.

[19:32] And the last variance that is requested is regarding landscape buffers for the property.

[19:37] Highlighted in yellow is the property lines, where the applicant would be required to install landscape buffer screening.

[19:45] That includes for the property across the road.

[19:47] I want to highlight in the purple area that is shown in the southeast.

[19:52] this portion of the property is where the property line shares a property line with a jurisdictional

[20:00] 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.

[20:15] It would meet the same intent and outcome as a zoning buffer in this area.

[20:22] Some department comments include from the engineering department that a traffic study will be required prior to the issuance of a land disturbance permit.

[20:29] 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.

[20:38] 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.

[20:47] Planning and zoning notes that these original developments standards were approved in 2007,

[20:53] and there are several uses that are within those permitted uses that would generate higher

[20:57] trip generation than this useful, that is proposed that includes gas stations, drive through restaurants,

[21:03] sit-down restaurants, banks, medical office buildings. The community input meeting was held on August

[21:09] 20, a couple weeks ago, and the concerns for citizens were primarily about increased

[21:16] traffic along Bluff's Parkway, test drives, site lighting, construction noise, construction

[21:22] blasting, and other land disturbance activities.

[21:26] And just some brief history on this pod, in 2022, the Council to consider a request to allow

[21:32] residential on this pod.

[21:33] That was for a 181 unit town home development.

[21:37] That was denied by the Council in 2022.

[21:43] These are some concept renderings of what the dealership would look like, again, these

[21:47] conceptual and they

[21:57] this evening is the public hearing for this case and the action will be heard

[22:03] October 1st excuse me, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have after the public hearing. Thank you.

[22:07] Thank you Mr. Beatles.

[22:09] This point we will open the public hearing on cases MPA 2607-005 and BAR2607-002 request for master plan amendment to

[22:20] Jay of Riverstone to include car dealerships as an allowed use with concurrent

[22:25] and barances.

[22:26] At this point, we'll invite the applicant or their representative to come and speak

[22:30] in support of the project.

[22:38] We'll just state your name and address for the wreck now, Georgia time.

[22:43] My name is Dell Cornet, we're WPC, you're consulting.

[22:46] My address is 185, Purple Court, coming Georgia, represent the landowner and the potential

[22:56] purchaser for the property and his bright sasser and beaver auto group.

[23:05] My intent today is people's authority addressed what we submitted for in the Master Plan

[23:12] of Midnight and the variance is so I wanted to address the items that came from our presentation

[23:19] and community meeting on August 20th and try to address the commitments and some of the

[23:27] that Mr. People's actually hadn't noted with some research that was done.

[23:32] This is a list of the atoms. The main out of, we did talk about a few other smaller

[23:37] atoms, but these were the main out of discuss in the meeting, plan to address those in

[23:42] the rest of the presentation.

[23:48] So the master plan is in about whether the property can be developed.

[23:51] That was details are there, and they have about 77 different potential uses. As I noted earlier,

[23:58] Many of these uses do line up with dealership and similarity of use.

[24:07] The purpose of statistics, this is showing what Mr. People's was noting, that a number

[24:13] of the uses noted the major ones have significant more traffic than what a dealership

[24:19] would almost 10 times more traffic.

[24:24] And most of these uses would be more than one tenant on the property related to the 40 acres.

[24:34] So some of the items that we noted were truck deliveries.

[24:38] We had discussed truck deliveries being on site, not on bus parkway that was a concern.

[24:43] It's a blocker.

[24:44] And you have it traffic.

[24:46] Those will all be done on site within the design of the building and the layout of this there.

[24:52] You turn and you sub the roundabout for having to turn around deliveries or even the so

[25:00] 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.

[25:14] 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.

[25:25] Lighting was another concern.

[25:28] We, as noted before, we would do a study,

[25:30] as pretty typical for a design,

[25:33] make sure that the deflectors are put on there,

[25:35] so it focuses on the site.

[25:37] We will also ensure that there are motion sensors

[25:41] on the site exterior lights,

[25:43] so that they're not on all the time.

[25:45] They will go off at the other dealerships

[25:48] that beaver has, that is the way they have designed

[25:50] their properties.

[25:52] noise was a concern. So the current dealerships that they have operate within the

[25:59] ordinances of the local community, and typically the neighbors in their

[26:05] current facilities have not complained about the uses and the noise that they

[26:10] had there. Blessing will likely be required for the site. Those are

[26:16] We will all the guidelines above and beyond even notifying those residences around that those

[26:24] blasting occurrences will happen and when they will happen.

[26:29] And then run-off was another concern.

[26:32] The design process will define what run-off and control it run-off is.

[26:38] We will meet those standards of what the city and the county requires for that.

[26:43] And we will take that to the highest standards through construction and monitoring that.

[26:50] When those are about the trees, we agree the trees define the bus parkway and we will do

[26:56] make a commitment to keep as many trees as possible that are mature and use for developing

[27:03] the property.

[27:07] So, these next slides, I will let Patrick introduce himself and cover those.

[27:12] Good evening, everyone.

[27:14] My name is Patrick Aval.

[27:15] I'm a general manager and a managing partner for the BVR Automotive Group and I'm here

[27:18] represent them as we walk through this. Thank you for having me. So as we want to come to this

[27:26] community, the estimated annual sales revenue that we would bring is about 150 million a year.

[27:32] That's why that's forecasted out. It would bring a hundred jobs in the community, 85% of the people

[27:39] who work for Beaver Automotive, work in the communities that we serve. And I think it's an important

[27:45] part of who we are.

[27:48] I met with the, I met with the, I was part of the meeting where the

[27:52] Hickory Bluffs people came in and they had some real concerns and here tonight to let

[27:56] continue to let everybody know. We are a great partner in the town. We will be a great

[28:00] neighbor. They are concerns are real, I'm a father, I'm a business person, I'm also in a

[28:08] community, all their concerns are legit, and we'll take those into consideration. When you

[28:14] Look at what's already zoned for that property, we do feel like a car dealership, would

[28:20] stress their concerns the least.

[28:23] So we talk about the home values in the schools, and with me today, and we didn't get

[28:27] them signed up to speak, we are on, our current dealership is 145,000 square foot dealership

[28:33] that we're in on our Toyota store.

[28:35] It is on Highway 20 in Acles Road.

[28:37] I brought with me today, Gerald Eccles, he missed the sign up to speak, Gerald Eccles, and

[28:43] his family have lived on those on Eccles roads since 1939.

[28:48] They had the same concerns the Hickory Bluffs families have nine years ago when we were

[28:53] opening up Beaver Toyota and he came here today to testify on RBHF not only the relationship

[28:59] that we have with the community but how we handled the construction and how we compromise

[29:05] on things that were important to them for example, test drives.

[29:09] They were very concerned about test drives going through neighborhoods and we have a policy within our company that we follow

[29:15] We are test drives can and cannot go my point behind that is we will be great neighbors to the history

[29:21] 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

[29:31] so

[29:31] That's where I'm here to talk about

[29:33] The school, there's a school right behind our dealership in coming Georgia.

[29:38] We work very well with the school system, and the traffic that a car dealership generates,

[29:44] when people hear car dealership, they freak out to a lot of cars.

[29:48] There's actually not a lot of moving pieces in the car dealership, most of the car stands still.

[29:53] Home values, Mr. Akkels, was going to testify to home values and how their home value...

[30:00] 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.

[30:08] 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.

[30:16] 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.

[30:21] But this is who we are to be brought in mode of group is a family-owned operation.

[30:26] We want to come to Canton. We love this community.

[30:28] We've already met at this point. We've already met with the sheriff's office.

[30:31] We've met with the school system.

[30:33] We are very embedded in the community.

[30:35] Probably more than any other card dealership you'll know.

[30:39] It's who we are at our core.

[30:40] We support our first responders. We support our teachers.

[30:43] And they won't be a better community partner than us.

[30:46] So with that, we are asking to be the neighbor that shows up.

[30:49] we'll tell you the truth, we'll put it in writing, we'll keep anybody who needs to be informed

[30:54] communicated with, over communicated with, they will know where we're at every step of

[30:58] the project, and we'll represent this community very well.

[31:01] Thank you for allowing me to speak.

[31:03] Thank you.

[31:06] Just a time check, Mr. Bepers.

[31:08] Right at two minutes.

[31:09] Right at ten minutes.

[31:10] Okay.

[31:11] Two minutes for me.

[31:12] Two minutes for me.

[31:14] We did have one citizen sign up to speak, and we have two minutes for me, and if you're

[31:20] to speak in favor, if you're not to speak in opposition, but we have Mr. Daniel Clay, again

[31:29] if you would comment and state your preference there, name address, and share your comments,

[31:36] Thank you.

[31:36] My name is Dan Clay.

[31:38] I live in Angry Bluffs, 948 Summit Drive in Canton.

[31:44] Our neighborhood is resident owned three other communities on the Parkway are currently owned

[31:52] all in part by private equity and I'll get back to that in a bit.

[31:58] We really as the owners of our property and we have an HOA that manages who are also owners.

[32:06] We have a huge interest in protecting our legacies.

[32:09] 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.

[32:30] There are a couple of things that are clear to us right now, the uses, and the use change

[32:36] and the variants that the variants are precedent setting from what I understand for PodJ,

[32:43] and we think they'll have generational impact. PodJ, we agree. PodJ is going to be developed.

[32:51] We understand that, and at our local meeting, we certainly discuss the double we know and

[32:59] double we don't know, so that is out there and we already talked about it as a group.

[33:05] We don't fear progress.

[33:06] We are afraid of the consequences of some poorly managed development so close by a half

[33:12] mile from our neighborhood.

[33:17] There is some unmistakable generational changes I just mentioned.

[33:23] We had a community meeting after the first public information session.

[33:27] I had feelings and concerns so numerous I don't have time to name them.

[33:34] Please read with care the many submissions from our residents.

[33:37] I think there's this probably good stack of them.

[33:41] We feel development in Podge that allows a new use,

[33:45] and the many variances represents some broken promises,

[33:49] some real, some implied, and some assumed.

[33:55] We were invited to this party and this conversation when our development was approved and we are aware of that.

[34:04] And progress follows. We also are aware of that.

[34:08] But we have that our own money on Hickory Bluffs.

[34:12] And many of us will spend the rest of our lives there.

[34:14] It is just a nature of the kind of community that it is.

[34:19] Please also recognize that at this point we may only have this group's best intentions to rely on when you make the decision.

[34:31] 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.

[34:42] and he frankly had me at parking lot, oil separator.

[34:46] I'd never heard of one, the fact that he even brought it up and included it.

[34:50] I mean, he has a terrific report.

[34:53] We have copies if you all haven't seen it and I think it isn't.

[34:56] He's already melded and it's in the record.

[35:00] The staff report itself states more information is needed to approve the stream buffer. We ask the council to confirm which buffer standards govern.

[35:14] 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

[35:28] before the vote on October 1st.

[35:33] A couple of findings from the city staff,

[35:36] the city cannot yet recommend the buffer variance.

[35:40] The no harm finding here depends on the buffers,

[35:43] the variant wants it zero.

[35:45] We saw a picture, but I don't know what those measurements are,

[35:49] and I think we need to do some more work on that.

[35:52] The traffic study in my understanding comes after the vote.

[35:56] So, that's out there also.

[35:59] The Blust at Technology Park has a large list of approved uses.

[36:04] The city and county are still building the tech corridor right now.

[36:08] The Technology Ridge Opportunity Zone offers job creation incentives for eligible businesses

[36:14] and the new Technology Ridge Parkway connects us and the Parkway to the airport.

[36:21] 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.

[36:36] 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.

[36:50] One thing that caught our eye, a sign on Bluffs Parkway after the MLK intersection reads,

[36:56] no-through traffic, no trucks except deliveries. The sign seems to imply that the exception

[37:04] was written for the occasional delivery trucks serving the area, which we certainly take good

[37:10] advantage of in our little neighborhood. I don't think it addresses or I guess we want

[37:18] city to confirm whether to address is non-routine recurring car carrier traffic.

[37:26] So we would like to confirm the volume and frequency of this traffic.

[37:33] And we don't know if this, well I guess we don't know if the sign was meant exactly to restrict

[37:41] the kind of sustained heavy truck burden that I guess it was intended to keep off the street.

[37:48] We're not sure we'd like some clarification on that issue.

[37:54] What we heard from the city also would be, there would be no residential properties impacted.

[38:00] This feels like classic developments speak and does not address the real issue.

[38:05] We're talking about people, the people who live closest to Podge, we will certainly the impacted

[38:11] and specifically a change in use than many variances granted will have both the immediate and lasting impacts to us.

[38:20] Tech occupations are among the fastest growing, young categories in the country,

[38:26] and that's exactly the cord or can zone plus parkway for.

[38:33] I do want to make some comments about the first public meeting that we attended,

[38:37] And these are in direct response to the notes that I've read, not all the attendees, and there were about 25.

[38:44] We're from Hickory Bluffs.

[38:47] 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.

[39:00] By the way, a resident asked that for that show of hands, not the presenter.

[39:08] These attendees self-selected.

[39:12] They made the choice based on their own interest on their own passions.

[39:17] And they attended, I certainly attended, on our own time.

[39:22] The presumption that some attendees seem to, and I'm going to quote here,

[39:28] turn later in the meeting, make other comments and conclusions from that meeting a bit more

[39:34] spurious. I guess if they really wanted more of our resident feedback, they could have come

[39:41] and visited us, we would have been happy to have them at our clubhouse, and we could have

[39:46] given a great deal of feedback and some interesting things for them to take away. They also

[39:53] data regarding traffic issues that, quote, a plan could be made with the school with

[40:00] Which we think is a very, very good idea. And the students, high school students, we strongly suggest

[40:10] structural change would be much more effective. Responding to a comment from a resident that

[40:19] an approval would quote, give freedom for other development, plus Parkway.

[40:26] They wrote that, quote, most of them, meaning the other approved uses will bring more

[40:32] traffic and noise.

[40:35] We don't understand how they came up with that.

[40:38] And we don't know which of the allowed uses they were referring to.

[40:43] And there's so many other factors at play.

[40:45] The statement does not address the issue of major use change and the variances.

[40:56] Tennessee automotive is a family-owned group of auto dealerships based in Atlanta.

[41:02] They own Tennessee Honda in Woodstock.

[41:05] In the last part of July of this year, they announced a sale for $1.3 billion

[41:10] to group one automotive, a publicly traded Fortune 250 company based in Houston.

[41:16] They are one of the largest owners of Cardiolors in the country, their footprint at

[41:21] Atlanta, in Atlanta with this purchase, will increase from 3 to 15 locations and become

[41:27] its second market by revenue.

[41:31] Last report, Group One had sales of 22.6 billion and gross profit of 3.6 billion.

[41:41] I'm adding this because at least from our perspective, this development decision, Mr.

[41:46] Thank you, Mr. Clay.

[41:48] I'm sorry.

[41:49] That's your time.

[41:50] If you would want to forward the rest of your comments to staff and council will

[41:55] happen.

[41:55] Thank you.

[41:56] Thank you.

[41:58] And I believe that leaves two minutes for the applicant to

[42:02] rebut to comments.

[42:03] If you want to use those, don't don't feel obligated.

[42:13] Don't come out again.

[42:15] The only comment I would make the study was from San

[42:17] Dag, standard trips, generation rates.

[42:21] That's where the study was from.

[42:21] that's all in the presentation.

[42:24] I assume you like that public so that the residents can see that.

[42:26] Can we do you want?

[42:28] They're buying.

[42:28] You can come a good partner with them

[42:30] through the development.

[42:32] Thank you.

[42:33] Thanks, sir.

[42:34] At this point, we will close the public hearing

[42:38] and open Council's comments and questions to our staff

[42:44] and Mr. Peoples.

[42:49] Mr. Roach?

[42:51] How many vehicles did they plan on

[42:55] What's their goal, I guess, a monthly goal that they'll have, how many, how many, how many?

[42:58] There's monthly goal for sell of vehicles.

[43:00] I don't have that information.

[43:02] I mean, just if they have an idea, obviously, they've done, you know, they know the demographics in the area.

[43:08] And then there's two buildings, and I'm assuming one is for the, for the cars and the other is the auto body.

[43:13] That's great.

[43:14] Is that correct?

[43:14] What's the 5,000 square foot building?

[43:16] I will get the clarification on that.

[43:19] The building layout has changed.

[43:21] The applicants indicated to me they're not even certain that it's going to be three buildings at this time

[43:25] That's a conceptual layout that they put it's basically going to be one

[43:31] dealership correct selling one brand of automobiles that that is what has been indicated to staff

[43:36] Yes, thank you

[43:39] I think that indicate six hundred and twenty-tools spaces

[43:42] Mr people so if we could just

[43:45] And I don't assume the majority of those will be for autos for sale to be part of those

[43:50] spaces.

[43:50] But if we just confirm the breakdown of how many of those are dedicated to autos for sale

[43:55] and how many for staff and visitors may be helpful?

[43:59] Yes, sir.

[44:00] Mr. Tellman.

[44:01] Mr. John?

[44:03] Two two questions.

[44:05] Mr. People.

[44:06] The as the mayor just mentioned 620 and that's from the current 1000 that they could put out there.

[44:15] I'm curious as to the rationale behind why they would want to reduce that number, is that due to

[44:22] them making way for other variants considerations?

[44:26] I'd love to get an answer on that if we could.

[44:30] And then just a small one, the lighting, the motion sensors for the lighting, I'm assuming wildlife

[44:35] would set those off and if they do, can you get an answer in terms of how long they

[44:40] remain on there once they're tripped. That's all I had. Michigan? I just had a question. I wanted to

[44:49] I'm testing my memory here. Back when the Riverstone development was first approved,

[44:57] did it not include several dealers?

[45:00] Memberships in the master plan to begin with, and I realize all that in different pods, of course.

[45:08] 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.

[45:25] I'll research the zoning history and confirm for the council.

[45:28] Yes,

[45:31] sir.

[45:32] Anyone else?

[45:34] Okay. Thank you, sir.

[45:35] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council.

[45:38] We go from medical buildings to car dealerships and all in everyone's favorite residential.

[45:44] So one final public hearing.

[45:45] Thanks, everyone, for for for your decorum.

[45:49] 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.

[45:53] Thank you for being here.

[45:54] So it won't be a good behavior for our Boy Scouts here.

[45:58] We want to make good impressions, right?

[46:00] So we'll proceed with our third on final public hearing for the

[46:03] evening that it's public hearing for cases A and N X 2 6 0 6

[46:08] 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

[46:18] CUP-2607-002 and they are 2607-001.

[46:27] 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.

[46:41] located at 680 and 700 P. Ridge Road and associated master plan request for the proposed mixed use development.

[46:49] Conditional use permit request to allow for multi story building and multi family residential condominiums and town hall units and three concurrent variance requests.

[47:00] Mr. Trayway.

[47:03] Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of Council.

[47:04] So, this is a kind of a multi-part request for annexation, rezoning master plan.

[47:11] Conditionally used Carmen as well as variances.

[47:13] This applicant is Lee Lusk for peerage land investments LLC.

[47:19] The intent here is to rezone and annex the 62.17 acres in the unincorporated Cherokee County

[47:27] into the city limits from an R-40 to an PD mixed use district.

[47:33] The request is also for a combined 68.5 acres for a master plan for that new PD mixed use should it be improved.

[47:43] 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.

[47:55] 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.

[48:14] this is a virus too, and so this applicant is requesting two entrances be eliminated to have

[48:21] a single boulevard entrance. And for that entrance to be located on a street that is

[48:26] not classified as a collector or a grader.

[48:30] Just for reference, the subject property, as you mentioned, is at 680 and 700-perage

[48:35] road. It consists of five properties. It has front-age on two roads. On the right side is

[48:41] Reservoir Drive and on the left side is P-Rode.

[48:45] This is located within the P-Rode community.

[48:49] There's just some topography of the property.

[48:52] Basically what it's showing is there's a little bit

[48:54] of topography change on the site itself with a stream.

[48:57] That's located on it and on the right side

[48:59] closest to Reservoir Drive, the 6.3 acres.

[49:02] It's already in the city limits.

[49:04] That is kind of the high point, the flat point

[49:06] on that property.

[49:08] The feature land use designation of this site is suburban development, the little bit of the mixed commercial retail section as well.

[49:20] 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.

[49:31] And this is the site plan that was prepared and presented by the applicant.

[49:36] A little history in November 2024 City Council voted down a request by a peer-region

[49:42] investments LLC to annex a proposed residential development on subject property,

[49:47] which was initially proposing 228 homes, just about 3.4 units per acre.

[49:53] The applicant is requesting the property annexation and rezoning to develop the site into 2.

[50:00] 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.

[50:08] So, for pod 1, they're proposing a development of 204 single-family detachable units.

[50:15] 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.

[50:23] That's as PD mixed use, would have a minimum lot size of about 4,000 square feet.

[50:28] This pod 1 would have its primary access by way of a bullet-of-art entrance to Reservoir Drive,

[50:35] which is that road on the north east side.

[50:38] Pod 1 acreage total is roughly 61.5 acres, which would be about 3.3 units per acre.

[50:46] Pod 2 is the one highlighted in red.

[50:50] That would be around 7 acres in size, and the applicant is proposing to donate this

[50:55] are incorporated.

[50:59] In this particular pod, as they're showing on the site plan, they are showing 11 single

[51:03] family deep patch lots with 29, roughly 29,000 square feet of mixed use commercial office,

[51:11] and then where the conditioning used comes in is multi-family condos with two-story multi-story

[51:16] building, so essentially.

[51:20] The maximum total units that may be allotted on this particular lot, person-propercondition

[51:25] from the applicant would be a total of 39 total residential units on the seven acres.

[51:32] The applicant has purposely limited some of the development standards and those

[51:35] development standards proposed are part of the master plan in the staff report for your

[51:40] reference.

[51:41] And they're purposely limiting the development standards and permitted uses for their

[51:45] seven acres to allow the Charlie Ferguson Community Center the ability to be flexible in

[51:50] their development.

[51:51] As you may recall, a lot of the small area plan that came out talked about affordable housing,

[51:55] it talked about some neighborhood commercial uses. So the applicant is proposing to leave that a

[51:59] little bit open ended for them to be able to propose. Additionally, the applicant has shown

[52:04] two proposed access easement areas on the site plans. So one would be a data access point on the south

[52:12] part of this site. There's a parcel to the south that's owned by the school district. It's a

[52:18] Ralph Bunch Center. So they're proposing a data access to the city of Canton on that south side for

[52:24] potential future access, which will connect to the letter drive,

[52:27] and eventually out to 140.

[52:29] The second access would be for the Charlie Ferguson Community

[52:33] Center.

[52:34] That's that strip that you can see running through the pod too.

[52:38] So that would be dated over to the Charlie Ferguson Community

[52:41] Center for their use.

[52:43] This site plan shows roughly 33 percentage of green

[52:47] space.

[52:47] The PD mixed use district requires minimum 25.

[52:50] So they're exceeding that.

[52:51] And the applicant has also offered several conditions before I get to those.

[52:58] There were some elevations that were provided by the applicant.

[53:04] And then some applicant-proford conditions.

[53:06] So I'll go over these briefly.

[53:09] Number one, seven acres to be donated, as mentioned,

[53:12] to the Charlie Ferguson Community Center.

[53:14] Number two, the donated lots would be fully entitled and pre-developed for the master plan.

[53:19] That would include a detention pond on the southwest corner of the property,

[53:22] as well as providing all utility ions.

[53:24] So that's what they're talking about as far as entitled.

[53:29] Number three, all residential units and pod two shall be restricted to limits.

[53:33] The asset value appreciation to percent annually.

[53:36] And the way you can do that is by de-distriction.

[53:38] And the applicant has provided some examples of how they may be able to

[53:41] allow that to happen on those seven acres.

[53:43] Obviously, that would be the decision of the Charlie Ferguson Center

[53:45] and how they wish to restrict those as well.

[53:48] Number four, finally, unit mix to be determined by the Charlie Ferguson Community Center and approved by the City of Canton.

[53:57] Five, a permanent community, memorial space, honoring peer-rich community's history.

[54:02] Shelby established and Shelby subject to approvals by the executive director of the Center as well as the City of Canton.

[54:10] Six, a sewer easement shall be provided to the Community Center.

[54:13] The easement would be reported by the developer, pod 1 to pod 2, shown on the master plan.

[54:19] 7 internal streets in recognition of legacy

[54:22] 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.

[54:31] 8 Grant and accesses meant for future connection from P-Rage to P-Rage and Ralph Bunch Center,

[54:37] among some other language and number 9 developer to provide 1,000 per lot for school board impacts,

[54:43] 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.

[55:01] We did receive several comments, including comments from chair, key county, concerning the annexations.

[55:09] So for engineering, an updated traffic study would be required prior to the land disturbance permit.

[55:14] 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.

[55:24] A full hydrology report would be required prior to LD.

[55:29] Water and sewer are available to the property according to engineering.

[55:33] A 404 permit would be required in wetland and stream buffer delineation would be required.

[55:40] From building and safety services the applicant may designable of our entrance

[55:43] and will use two separate neighborhood entrances.

[55:46] Planning and zoning states that this is within the growth boundary for city of Cantonese

[55:50] So, Cherokee County, and we do mention the adoption of the small area plan that was done in July 2026.

[55:59] For Cherokee County comments, we did those were in total 13, as those are the ones that are shown on the screen.

[56:12] And some of the points made for those are concerning the

[56:24] density is a concern as they had it listed as suburban living, which supports up to three units per acre.

[56:31] They have concerns about the development having concerns on the local roads that cannot support significant increase in traffic.

[56:39] They're concerned about this request in terms of another request in the Peeridge community area.

[56:46] That's the one R piece that they're referring to.

[56:49] They stay if there's any access to Peeridge and one 40 is requested that there be collaboration.

[56:55] Ferguson, Charlie Ferguson Center.

[56:58] City of Canton, they discuss the city of Canton's requirements for two access points.

[57:04] They make mention of the T-spelostin intersection road improvements that's Project T--0242 through Cherokee County.

[57:13] 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.

[57:25] So that's the one that kind of goes through the Charlie Ferguson Center proposed donation.

[57:33] The proposed high-density development may require the construction of a south envelope

[57:37] turn line, off of 140 onto P-Rage Road.

[57:41] As P-Rage Road is a county road, new access point will be permitted and approved through

[57:45] Cherokee County.

[57:47] They have a concern about the third entrance connecting to the Ralph Bunch Center Fire and Emergency

[57:53] Services.

[57:54] This more details are required for the Bolvard entrance and then they provide more information

[58:00] about should the Bolvard entrance be denied what they were required in general.

[58:08] The applicant did hold a community input meeting which was attended by about 23 members of

[58:13] the community and the applicant

[58:18] in total.

[58:19] the density maximum for the site would be around three points.

[58:24] Let's break or if approved.

[58:27] We, that's all I have.

[58:29] Okay.

[58:29] Thank you.

[58:30] Thank you.

[58:34] So at this point, we will open up the public hearing.

[58:37] For cases A, N, N, X, 2, 6, 0, 6,

[58:40] dash, 0, 0, 4, R, Z, O, N, 2, 6, 0, 7, dash, 0, 0, 1.

[58:49] MP2607-003, CUP2607-002, and be our 2607-001.

[59:00] I will just state up front.

[59:02] We do have nine residences signed up to speak for this hearing.

[59:09] Again, we have 10 minutes time for public input for those in support of the project.

[59:14] those opposed. We intend to hold to those time limits. I don't know how these nine

[59:21] who wants to speak in favor or support. But once the applicant is finished,

[59:26] we will see how much time we have left, and I'll ask those to speak in support

[59:30] at their time and then we'll move in opposition. So we'll try to be as efficient as possible.

[59:35] And we appreciate, again, everyone's cooperation here. So this time we'll open the

[59:39] public hearing. Again, when you come to speak, stay your name and address,

[59:43] And we'll begin with the applicant who's here obviously to speak in support.

[59:48] Thank you Mr. Mayor Simon Bloom.

[59:50] I'm the attorney to represent the Peeridge.

[59:53] Best minutes, my address is 977,

[59:55] possibly on Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.

[59:57] It's my honor and privilege to represent the developer in this...

[1:00:00] 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

[1:00:29] makes sense to everybody and for everybody.

[1:00:32] With that being said, there was robust public participation, largely in favor, Mr. Luskin

[1:00:37] speak to that.

[1:00:39] And also, I would just say, having done this for a little bit of time now, I very rarely

[1:00:44] see a developer who is willing to take the pin corner of a development and donate it to a

[1:00:49] community for the true benefit of that community.

[1:00:52] And that is exactly what he's doing in this instance, taking that prime seven acres, donating

[1:00:56] it to a community for their development to address all the types of things that plan study reported

[1:01:03] on as well as to provide affordable housing and a true community feel for our historical community.

[1:01:09] With that, I'll turn it over to Mr. Lusk, that's not to retread any of the ground only.

[1:01:14] Hey, Lee Lusk addresses 190 Highlands Chase, Barbara Andorrajo, appreciate Chalph's time

[1:01:20] consideration.

[1:01:20] And I also want to be brief on the public test patient meeting.

[1:01:23] We did have 23 come.

[1:01:25] We had a six come that were, I'm sorry, we had four come from

[1:01:28] Lord Canyon, we had one that signed up that came from great sky.

[1:01:33] 12 from the immediate community of P. Reds and we had six that I had embodied

[1:01:38] that were coming in support of it and they arranged from living in Woodstock to Canton.

[1:01:43] So it was a good meeting, it was a good robust meeting.

[1:01:45] We had a lot of good questions, a lot of good answers.

[1:01:48] And I'll, well, like you said, we'll leave more time for a vote.

[1:01:51] I didn't want to ask any of this okay.

[1:01:52] We have a, some other want to speak in favor.

[1:01:54] He was running late from Rome.

[1:01:56] He wasn't able to sign up prior.

[1:01:57] And during our rebuttal, would he be able to speak on our behalf?

[1:02:01] I love the rest of it.

[1:02:02] I don't know.

[1:02:02] I don't know if that's the thing.

[1:02:08] So,

[1:02:11] again, we have nine resists signed up to speak.

[1:02:18] We would have, how much time do we have in support?

[1:02:26] 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

[1:02:44] Please keep in mind we want everyone to speak, but if we run out of time, we will be out of time

[1:02:51] So run siphon in support or opposition.

[1:03:09] That's up here. You want to speak in support or opposition?

[1:03:14] You got a pick one side.

[1:03:15] Got a pick one side.

[1:03:16] Sorry.

[1:03:20] Okay.

[1:03:23] Just give us your name and address please.

[1:03:25] Good evening.

[1:03:26] I'm Ron Siphon.

[1:03:27] 100 big matters drive. I live in so in the so late neighborhood.

[1:03:32] I do think that the use that the applicant is proposing is a reasonable use.

[1:03:41] I happen to think that City of Canton has approved way too many apartments.

[1:03:48] They're adjacent to apartments.

[1:03:51] The applicant is proposing single family detached homes.

[1:03:55] It'll be a family neighborhood.

[1:03:57] And I think that under the circumstances he's proposing a reasonable use of the property.

[1:04:05] Looking at the little triangle piece of property and the northeast part that's already in the city.

[1:04:12] Those are small lots anyway.

[1:04:16] 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.

[1:04:26] But if there were two bedroom houses with a maximum of 1,400 square feet, 3 bedroom houses

[1:04:36] with a maximum of 1,600 square feet, and the houses could be priced accordingly, I think

[1:04:43] a need that Kenton has, whether this would specifically qualify as workforce housing, maybe

[1:04:51] you could come up with a way that it would come close, and it would address a need that

[1:04:57] City of Canton has.

[1:04:58] You've got a little block.

[1:05:01] 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.

[1:05:10] It's going to be a single family member of family homes, kids.

[1:05:18] The main access point is going to be very close to direct access to the schools, rather than have traffic

[1:05:27] room around to get to the schools to write to access. I think it's well planned from that standpoint.

[1:05:36] And I think that overall this will be a benefit to the city of Kent. Thank you.

[1:05:44] Thanks, sir. Robert Stelik, are you here to speak in favor or opposition?

[1:05:54] Okay, we'll come back to you then, sir.

[1:06:00] Joe Manz, Manz, Manz, Opposition, okay?

[1:06:04] You come back to you?

[1:06:06] Tennis Wilch,

[1:06:17] I'm a real mayor and council.

[1:06:18] I want to read a prepare statement so that I will not take up

[1:06:21] too much time.

[1:06:22] Yes, your name and address.

[1:06:23] My name is Tennis Wilch, and I'm the executive director

[1:06:25] of the Charlie Ferguson Community Center,

[1:06:26] located at 1398 Ron Hart College Parkway,

[1:06:30] and I'm also a period's land owner.

[1:06:33] I am in favor of the annexation and zoning

[1:06:35] for numerous reasons.

[1:06:37] Peeridge is one of the oldest historically African-American

[1:06:39] communities in Cherokee County.

[1:06:41] Today, Peeridge continues to sit on an island

[1:06:44] while bordering properties have already been annexed.

[1:06:47] Preservation and sensible development

[1:06:49] will take a combined county and city effort.

[1:06:52] An exasciation of this property and subsequently

[1:06:54] all of Peeridge would afford the community,

[1:06:58] the opportunity to partner with both the city

[1:07:00] and county to move the recent small area

[1:07:02] 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.

[1:07:32] we appreciate that. The land donation will be used for the following purpose. Ensure attainable

[1:07:39] housing is an option for our community seniors and previous legacy residents. Build the first

[1:07:45] North Canton corridor park and finally make use of the proposed small commercial space for

[1:07:50] wraparound services and enhance the programs offered by the Charlie Ferguson Community Center. Thank you.

[1:07:56] Thank you.

[1:08:00] Deacon Sean Gordon, in favor?

[1:08:09] My name is Sean Gordon, and I represent Hickory Law, Missionary Baptist Church, 179,

[1:08:14] but I come to offer my support to Mr. Lusk, realizing as church, we're right there on the right

[1:08:25] there at P Ridge, and we see a lot of activity.

[1:08:28] We have a lot of our members right from that area.

[1:08:33] After the four years or so of meeting with Mr. Lus, and his team, the calls, the discussions

[1:08:41] we've had, looking at the plans, we believe as a church that this will be a benefit

[1:08:47] to the area and to our church members.

[1:08:51] We definitely trust and believe in Mr. Lus, and is actually what he's planning on doing.

[1:08:57] He does, he does have the community in his thoughts when he's putting this together.

[1:09:05] We definitely want to make sure that we keep the church in mind as a pillar of the community.

[1:09:16] The church is in the middle of the area and we want everybody to feel safe and warm when

[1:09:23] they come to that area.

[1:09:24] We have various events that we have during the year of the church and on the outside on the inside,

[1:09:30] which all are welcome to come.

[1:09:33] And we believe that this development will help people come in, be able to praise and worship as they choose,

[1:09:41] to some of the things that take my seat in the second.

[1:09:44] Some of the things we feel that are beneficial will be the streetlights,

[1:09:48] uh... upgraded uh... or including sidewalks that will be added

[1:09:53] uh... upgraded streets

[1:09:55] uh... the actual memorial

[1:09:58] for those

[1:10:00] 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.

[1:10:08] Loss and this development. Thank you. Thanks, sir.

[1:10:14] Fill us Hunter, are you here to speak in support?

[1:10:19] Mr. Rebels, can we just get a quick time check remaining

[1:10:22] for support? Two minutes and 22 seconds. Okay. Thank you.

[1:10:26] get out to know. My name is Phyllis Gregory Hunter. I've lived on P.B. for over 76 years.

[1:10:37] And I fully support this and us. We need some change and I've thought 100% thank you.

[1:10:46] Thank you. Katherine McCrowey in support or opposition. Okay, we'll come back to you.

[1:10:53] Thomas Weaver's supporter opposition. Come back.

[1:10:58] Chris Everett support our opposition?

[1:11:04] Okay, you have a few lines.

[1:11:14] One, two, three in trail court.

[1:11:17] In the reason I'm not sure, is that property is going to be developed someday?

[1:11:23] You either take this developer in Charlie Ferguson, gets that slice there,

[1:11:29] in the pureage community of which you've had several people come forward and support

[1:11:34] are going to get what they want, or you can deny it in some other developers going to

[1:11:42] come along and not do that.

[1:11:45] So I would jump on this one.

[1:11:48] Having said that, this again, that whole connection to one forwarding is really touching, and

[1:11:57] you've got to get some traffic engineers to figure all that out.

[1:12:01] the belated drive and P-Rage, you know, somewhere along the line, back when

[1:12:08] Laurel Canyon and Great Sky were being developed, somewhere along the line, council made,

[1:12:14] then get those two major intersections on each side of each other and then put a red light in

[1:12:21] to regulate the traffic on 140. Somewhere along the line, you can do something similar, I think.

[1:12:27] That's all I got. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

[1:12:34] You're now your own record, sir.

[1:12:40] You guys are so well behaved. I really appreciate that.

[1:12:43] So we will come back now and just a time check on time remaining for support.

[1:12:48] One minute.

[1:12:49] One minute total.

[1:12:51] So we'll begin those time ten minute total for those speaking opposition.

[1:12:56] Again, please adhere to our procedures here.

[1:13:00] And we'll begin, again, come up the state of name and address clearly and begin your remarks, Mr. Robert Stellick.

[1:13:17] Thank you, Robert Stellick. I'll let it 310 to below drive up in great sky.

[1:13:23] 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.

[1:13:31] These poor people that live in P-Ridge are desperate and they need some sort of development in there.

[1:13:37] But I think what has to happen first is that you need to grow a pair.

[1:13:41] You need to take, accept this property.

[1:13:44] And you need to have everything that they need, the right streets, and sewage, and the infrastructure

[1:13:51] that it needs.

[1:13:52] Why it was boxed out, I think, is just because you didn't have the guts to take on this task

[1:13:57] and pay for it.

[1:13:59] And that's the main contention that I have.

[1:14:03] The biggest problem is with the developer.

[1:14:05] Like I said, we've been working on this for years and the county has come in and said, okay, it's our 40.

[1:14:12] 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.

[1:14:21] 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.

[1:14:31] It could be like the building that's going on just south of there where it was multi-family town homes

[1:14:38] 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,

[1:14:44] I just can't afford it. I'm just going to have to build apartments. And then the biggest problem here is

[1:14:52] They throw in that this is going to be beautiful. It's going to be wonderful.

[1:14:55] But is it really? Is it going to be what we want? Is it going to be that low?

[1:15:00] 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

[1:15:09] you have, look at the teachers in the county, making $50,000, $60,000 a year. What can they afford? $4,000 a month,

[1:15:16] that's $1,200. What can you buy for $1,200? Well, unless you guys want to get on the developers

[1:15:22] case, in the builders case, and the lower that $300 and the interest rates, the banks are making

[1:15:28] six and a half, seven, no, but there is no low-cost housing in this county, nor in this city,

[1:15:34] where you can get a three-bed room, two-bed room.

[1:15:36] I mean, even these apartments, which is the lowest cost of apartment.

[1:15:39] One bedroom, $700 square feet, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, $1, that's what a $50,000 person earnings

[1:15:47] can make.

[1:15:50] I missed Andy McGrew, because she was the only one on the council that had a pair.

[1:15:54] You guys need to get a pair, take the land in and start developing it properly.

[1:16:00] You know, okay, hey, this is great.

[1:16:02] This guy's been promoting this now for years.

[1:16:04] And you guys just like the dog in the back of the truck.

[1:16:06] You're just not in your head.

[1:16:07] We're afraid to lawsuit.

[1:16:08] To whom I got you to lawsuit.

[1:16:10] They're going to sue us if we don't do this.

[1:16:11] That's what they threatened.

[1:16:12] I don't know how many times did they threaten you to do that.

[1:16:14] Don't worry about it.

[1:16:16] Grow a pair.

[1:16:17] Thanks.

[1:16:17] That's right.

[1:16:19] Joe Manz, or many Manz, you can correct yours.

[1:16:24] Manz.

[1:16:24] Okay.

[1:16:25] Thank you.

[1:16:30] Manz, through your way.

[1:16:31] Two below trail.

[1:16:32] Liv next.

[1:16:32] Next door to him.

[1:16:33] I won't use the go up here.

[1:16:35] Pro up here.

[1:16:39] In the words of the great yogi barra, this is digital.

[1:16:43] We all over again.

[1:16:43] We attended a meeting with the county.

[1:16:46] There was significant opposition to the population density issue.

[1:16:50] And then the county commission is voted, and they voted it down.

[1:16:55] Lost by one vote granted, but they voted it down.

[1:16:58] Now we've got this huge department complex going up right now.

[1:17:02] And I don't know where that came from.

[1:17:03] I guess that one's slip by me.

[1:17:04] But we've got it going down right now on Reservoir Road.

[1:17:07] And that's going to cause a significant issues with traffic and density.

[1:17:12] And then right behind it we're going to put this this p-rigged in,

[1:17:16] you know, with that number of units.

[1:17:18] 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.

[1:17:32] 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.

[1:17:43] 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.

[1:17:51] And so now here's the third bite at the apple.

[1:17:53] 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.

[1:18:02] Well, I mean, R40, I support R40.

[1:18:05] 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.

[1:18:12] I'm not sure what that means as far as population density goes.

[1:18:16] There's no definition next to it that says,

[1:18:18] this many people, or this amount of density.

[1:18:21] So it looks like it's some wiggle room in there

[1:18:24] where they can make that maybe even more dense

[1:18:26] than what the county had originally had to

[1:18:31] contend with in that meeting.

[1:18:33] So why don't we just take a step back

[1:18:35] and see what the development we're doing now

[1:18:38] is going to cause and then maybe revisit this.

[1:18:40] That would be my request to the council.

[1:18:42] Thank you. Thanks, Catherine McCrowy.

[1:18:45] Corey?

[1:18:49] My name is Catherine McCrowy.

[1:18:50] I live on 3-11 boundless lane.

[1:18:54] We are in Sunrise Cove, which is a very close to

[1:19:00] Reservoir Road.

[1:19:02] So, my opposition is to specifically

[1:19:05] the reduction of perimeter buffers

[1:19:08] against county property from 50 feet to 20 foot

[1:19:12] landscape bus buffers and to eliminate the 50 foot buffer along the frontage of

[1:19:19] parages state along with having an entrance off of reservoir road. My husband and I

[1:19:27] we moved to the state of Georgia just two and a half years ago. So we knew the

[1:19:32] high school was coming when we looked at our development and we loved our

[1:19:35] development because it reminded us a lot of where we lived before our community

[1:19:39] that we loved in another state very much but we also loved the fact that the city of Canton is

[1:19:47] historical it's a beautiful town again reminded us of family of gatherings that you could have with

[1:19:55] family and a small town. And since then,

[1:20:00] On Reservoir Road, you've heard mention of the apartments, and the apartments are horrific in my mind.

[1:20:09] 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.

[1:20:18] It's strictly looked like it was just crammed in there.

[1:20:23] The layout is just doesn't make any sense so close to the road.

[1:20:27] I don't know what the vision is for Canton,

[1:20:31] but my I am poor city council to think about that vision

[1:20:37] before we just make it a commercial town filled with

[1:20:42] just because the zoning says we can do certain things.

[1:20:46] doesn't mean we should go ahead and just do them and put car dealerships and put another, you know,

[1:20:55] pup eyes and chain stores and we have originality and uniqueness in this town and it means a lot

[1:21:04] to me being a new resident. This is where we've retired that we maintain the beauty and the green space

[1:21:11] that we have here. And what is going to be proposed? I've heard a lot of technical jargon today,

[1:21:18] but in my mind it comes down to common sense. There is going to be an impact to traffic. It doesn't

[1:21:25] matter if we have the best engineers and everybody out there telling us the statistics that we can handle it.

[1:21:33] The reality is it's going to impact our neighborhood in a negative way. We had we also have a

[1:21:40] that was just put on is being built on the corner of of a reservoir road and

[1:21:48] Rine Heart College Parkway just because we can put things in certain places we

[1:21:53] have gas stations with in blocks plenty. There's no that's not adding character

[1:21:59] that's not having love of your city in mind and so I implore everyone here on

[1:22:09] council, just because we can go ahead and do this doesn't mean it's right. And that is

[1:22:17] my concern as we go forward with building in Canton. I just think we're cramming things

[1:22:25] in spaces and we're not thinking about the residents, we're just thinking about, okay, they

[1:22:31] can do it and the statistics and all the engineers and everybody who hands in a report says

[1:22:37] they can do it. But I know, common sense, it's impacting my life negatively, and it's

[1:22:45] not, it's taking away my green space and the beauty of our town. And I don't want

[1:22:49] things built so close to the end of the road just so we can add in some more buildings that

[1:22:56] have no character and are not even planned to beautify our neighborhood. So I thank you. I just

[1:23:03] floor this council to take these things into consideration going forward just because we are

[1:23:10] zoned for things doesn't mean they're right for the city of Canton and our vision going

[1:23:15] forward. Thank you. We have one more speaker again no reaction audience please one more speaker

[1:23:24] in opposition we have a time check please yeah 33 seconds 33 seconds for Mr Thomas we where we know

[1:23:30] you can do it, sir.

[1:23:34] No pressure, but.

[1:23:42] Mr. Mayor, members of Council, my name is Thomas Weaver,

[1:23:44] I reside at 131 Old Mary at a RIP. Thomas, I had been submitted in the most respectful

[1:23:50] opposition to the proposed development as presented by your staff, I would ask that you

[1:23:55] consider your roadmap for success tenets for creating great neighborhoods by providing the

[1:24:00] infrastructure first as our publicly displayed in the back of the auditorium. Thank you.

[1:24:05] Thank you, sir.

[1:24:08] There's all and speakers assigned up against his time check remaining for the applicant

[1:24:14] if they want to rebut applicant has one minute.

[1:24:17] One minute total, sir.

[1:24:24] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[1:24:25] Just very quickly on the issue with the variance.

[1:24:27] Just so that there's a very clear picture of what's going on.

[1:24:30] The variance request for a reduction in the buffer from 50 to 20 is a long property that

[1:24:35] is adjoining the county property.

[1:24:37] We've had more than one property owner that actually is in that boundary that have come to us and said the current

[1:24:45] Vegetative buffer that's there the underster buffer is all

[1:24:49] 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

[1:25:00] So, you're actually going to get an improved buffer with better screening and better buffering effects than what's currently there.

[1:25:06] We stand again ready to answer any questions that council has.

[1:25:10] Thank you, sir.

[1:25:12] We will close the public hearing, and we will open up two council for questions for Mr. Treweek, our staff, and comments.

[1:25:31] Anyone?

[1:25:33] Mr. Rice, let's try the 2%

[1:25:44] increase in annually for pod 2. Could you get some clarification

[1:25:53] on how that would be managed and just exactly how that might move forward annually year

[1:26:01] year that managed by the Charlie Ferguson Center, I know it's

[1:26:07] did restricted, I get that, but at some point it has to be

[1:26:10] enforceable, and I'd like to know how that gets enforced.

[1:26:16] That's a great question.

[1:26:17] I think it depends on the entity that's actually going to administer

[1:26:21] that, because there's many different ways to do that.

[1:26:24] The common way to do it is through did restriction.

[1:26:27] I can certainly double check with the applicant between this meeting

[1:26:30] in the next one for more clarity on that.

[1:26:33] Yes, sir.

[1:26:34] And I would also like to get some feedback in the next few weeks, I guess, before the

[1:26:43] October 1st need on how, and then we have the report from the county, I read all of those

[1:26:51] suggestions.

[1:26:52] I don't know if those are requirements or suggestions.

[1:26:55] or a couple of them said that the applicant may have to do this that or the other, how does

[1:27:04] that work? I'm new to this myself. So how does that work with the county and the city and the

[1:27:11] developer and the nonprofit, how all of those play in together to make a final decision?

[1:27:20] 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.

[1:27:31] In this case, the county did not have an objection, but they did provide 13 comments.

[1:27:36] 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.

[1:27:47] 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.

[1:27:57] So it's, you know, taking a look at those and seeing which ones you align with, which ones make sense.

[1:28:03] And if you have any questions, we can certainly relate those to the applicant as well.

[1:28:07] Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you.

[1:28:11] 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?

[1:28:20] How does that compare to Grace God?

[1:28:22] So I'll lay a moral canyon far as the size of the lot you're concerned.

[1:28:27] I don't know the density for a great scar or a moral canyon.

[1:28:31] I want to say it's a little bit higher for those two developments.

[1:28:34] 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.

[1:28:43] So this would be a step down in that.

[1:28:46] I don't know the exact answer to your question, but I can look at that.

[1:28:50] But the apartments part of Greg's guy.

[1:28:52] Yes, sir. So the new ones under construction.

[1:28:55] Those are part of there's a, I believe, a zoning condition.

[1:28:58] A few years ago that combined that property as well as the one across from the reservoir.

[1:29:04] for a total maximum number of, I can't remember the number of multi-family units and

[1:29:09] town-owned units. And that apartment complex is kind of an after-factive of that

[1:29:14] decision. So that is not part of this particular PD. The piece that's in the 6.3

[1:29:24] acres that's already PDMU that's in the city. That is also not part of the

[1:29:28] guys, master plan. That is part of the camp first Baptist property. And lastly, when those

[1:29:38] the apartments there being built, when were they entitled, when were they, do you know when they were

[1:29:43] approved? And you can get back, that's just a question. Staff has told me 2019, 2019.

[1:29:50] Yes, so six years ago. Yeah. That would have been when the zoning condition changed occurred.

[1:29:55] I'm sorry. Okay, appreciate it. It was part of a lawsuit.

[1:30:01] Let's try a quick, just for clarification and this may be a thing that come from me a couple of times tonight.

[1:30:11] But this developer is requesting a variance on the city code to go from two entrances at that density to one

[1:30:28] If you clarify, if I'm right on this, the city ordinance, we changed our ordinance several

[1:30:35] years ago, I believe in 2018 around that time, to require over 124 units to have to

[1:30:44] separate distinct interests and that was a CD code because we had experienced

[1:30:51] developments who only had one entrance, such as Great Sky and Soleil, and we

[1:30:58] required that developer to put in the second entrance safety, sits concerns and

[1:31:03] those things.

[1:31:05] 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.

[1:31:23] Yes, sir. That's how we hold developers to a little higher standard inside the city limit.

[1:31:27] So I know there's always some confusion of that.

[1:31:31] So let me see the fire code, yes, the Boulevard does,

[1:31:34] but it doesn't meet the city code for two inches,

[1:31:37] over a hundred and twenty-four units, correct?

[1:31:39] Yes, sir.

[1:31:40] Thank you for that clarification.

[1:31:45] On one question I had, Ms. Tanish spoke,

[1:31:51] and if you could just get clarification from her,

[1:31:56] I believe she's speaking as herself,

[1:31:57] and as introduced herself,

[1:31:58] speaking for the Charlie Ferguson Center,

[1:32:01] which we love and support and appreciate all the work,

[1:32:03] the great work, the first the center does.

[1:32:07] And my understanding and I believe her comments

[1:32:13] that my notes correctly is that she was advocating

[1:32:17] for not only annexation of the land and periods

[1:32:23] for this development, but I believe she said

[1:32:25] entirety of P-rich. If you could just clarify with her, is that her personal position is

[1:32:32] at the position of the Ferguson Center, is at the position of the P-rich community presence

[1:32:38] in P-rich community. So I know we've talked about that before, like it's up to them

[1:32:43] to they want to come to the city or not, but I would just like to be clarification on that.

[1:32:49] And one,

[1:32:57] and then I'm slightly confused about, I really appreciate the offer to donate

[1:33:03] the seven acres to the Perkins Center for Community Use.

[1:33:06] I think that's a wonderful thing.

[1:33:10] It's my understanding that that seven acres would be the portion where the commercial

[1:33:17] or would that make the project plan to build that mixed use.

[1:33:24] The residential portion to me just seems to be like up here,

[1:33:27] our 40 project.

[1:33:31] But in real looking at the packet is like,

[1:33:34] well, those would be commercial and I know this Welsh mentioned,

[1:33:38] housing wraparound services retail to support the center,

[1:33:41] which makes sense.

[1:33:44] But it seems, in looking at the packet,

[1:33:46] that it's just, those uses would go there, but there's no really no site plan, there's

[1:33:53] no plan to save, because that could what would be there.

[1:33:57] Some little confused about, you know, we do let the plan develop mixed use projects, but

[1:34:02] it seems like, well, this would be the commercial portion of it, but we're not sure, where's

[1:34:09] that development?

[1:34:10] Again, we love the Ferguson Center, it's mind-saving, they have not developed property

[1:34:15] before.

[1:34:15] 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.

[1:34:26] So, it seems different than other when we have planned to be developing.

[1:34:30] 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.

[1:34:39] And as part of the master plan, they will require to list out the different types of uses.

[1:34:47] The maximum number of residential that will go there.

[1:34:50] The maximum number of commercial or mixed use area.

[1:34:53] Which they propose to be approved to be the master plan.

[1:35:00] 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.

[1:35:26] 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.

[1:35:38] And correct me, I'm wrong, but if we did consider this, it's possible to consider that seven

[1:35:48] acres, if we support that concept of saying, hey, it's not PDMU, but it's like special use.

[1:35:56] And my concern is just kind of given a blank check, and like, well, you can build anything

[1:36:00] commercial there, but if it was special use, it would require, I guess we can condition it even

[1:36:07] that would have to come back to council to approve the site plan for that commercial.

[1:36:13] You could certainly, you could do that.

[1:36:16] There is a concern about some of the requirements adjacent to, let's say, the rest of it was PDMU.

[1:36:22] Now you have a buffer, and that buffer would have to come back for variants.

[1:36:26] The other thing, too, is the conditional use permit would not necessarily apply to the SU section.

[1:36:33] So, I think there are ways that you could potentially look at, conditioning, a slight plan

[1:36:40] or uses or something for the seven acres to come back.

[1:36:44] I think that's possible without rezoning it from what's being proposed.

[1:36:49] So, I think you have a few options.

[1:36:51] I just want to staff insights there because it seems to me like there's a lot of gray area there,

[1:36:56] and there's mentioned a multifamily, and as someone mentioned, that could be a part of

[1:37:02] or could it be, you know, count on those or doplexes, but not knowing and just approving something

[1:37:09] with not clarity there of what we're approving concerns made, sir.

[1:37:15] And then if you could just clarify me on the primary part of the residential that is the

[1:37:22] request to do a zone from R-40 County to plan development, mixed use, R-40 allows, I believe,

[1:37:28] three houses per acre or those one house per acre for us. Okay, so in that, that development

[1:37:36] which is 62.17, there'd be a maximum of 62 houses could be developed as now. And in plan,

[1:37:45] development issues, I believe you said we would be going from one per acre to,

[1:37:56] I think you

[1:37:56] for roughly 3.4 units per acre for the total development.

[1:38:00] So that's the difference in density we'd be considering a one house per acre to 3.4.

[1:38:06] Yes sir, and that includes the maximum that the applicant is proposing for the seven acres of 39 total units.

[1:38:13] Yes sir.

[1:38:14] Thank you.

[1:38:16] Other questions coming?

[1:38:20] Thank you very much.

[1:38:21] We appreciate it.

[1:38:23] Again, thanks everyone.

[1:38:24] and per request for Council, and I was going to do this in you for my own personal

[1:38:31] pleasure.

[1:38:31] We are going to take a five minute recess before we begin our business meeting.

[1:38:36] So those who want to exit, please take this time to do so quietly, we'll be recombining

[1:38:43] in five minutes to start our business meeting.

[1:38:46] Thank you so much.

[1:38:51] That will be it.

[1:38:55] So.

[1:38:55] Okay, we're going to recombine now and then proceed with our business meeting.

[1:39:03] Again, everyone, thank you for your attention.

[1:39:04] and good behavior. I'm impressed. So, so you have in your packet two draft sets a

[1:39:13] minutes once for our council work session on August 20th and once for council meeting

[1:39:18] draft minutes on maybe changes revisions or motions.

[1:39:26] For no changes that will make a motion to approve the minutes as presented.

[1:39:32] Second, motion in a second. All in favor say aye.

[1:39:35] All right.

[1:39:36] Opposed, nay?

[1:39:37] All members voted for the motion.

[1:39:40] We have one informational item this evening, and that is a review of July monthly financial

[1:39:44] report.

[1:39:45] Mr. Luckett.

[1:39:46] Good evening, everyone.

[1:39:49] I have our July financial report.

[1:39:52] It's in your packet, if you take a look at page two, we'll get started with our cash and

[1:39:56] investments as of July 31st.

[1:40:00] Local cash investments is $53.3 million. That's about $835,000 less than the prior month.

[1:40:07] If you remember from our last presentation, we did talk about monitoring our cash levels in the general fund.

[1:40:15] As of the end of July, we're at $4.3 million. That's down about a million from the prior month,

[1:40:21] and just to kind of illustrate the point that I made the last meeting, that's about $3.2 million less than.

[1:40:27] So, everything is still on track, but we're still closely marked.

[1:40:32] Going on to page 3 as our general fund, revenues year to date are $26.2 million, that's

[1:40:40] about 96% of our budget.

[1:40:43] Looking at our expenditures, the target at this point in the fiscal year is around 83%.

[1:40:49] Most departments are within that target, and if you see on page 4 overall, expenditures

[1:40:55] in the general fund, our 82.3% so if we look at the general fund as a whole, we budgeted

[1:41:01] to use $3.7 million in fund balance and here today we have used $196,000 and we expect

[1:41:09] that number to increase here over the next couple of months as we wrap up the fiscal year.

[1:41:14] Page 5 is our water and sewer fund, year to date revenues are 16.8 million,

[1:41:23] that's

[1:41:24] for $13.9 million, it's about 47%, just the reason that's so low is because of capital projects

[1:41:33] that are less than anticipated.

[1:41:36] Overall for the water and sewer fund, you can see that we budgeted to use 11.1 balance

[1:41:42] and year to date, we have used about $388,000 in fund balance.

[1:41:47] given ahead a few other items I wanted to highlight.

[1:41:54] Page 10 is our hotel motel tax fund.

[1:41:57] Here today we have collected almost $1.1 million. That's about 1% higher than this time last year.

[1:42:05] We also made our third installment payment to can tours and board of $120,000 during the month of July.

[1:42:12] So that'd be one of those left before the end of the fiscal year.

[1:42:17] Year to date, we have added about $64,000 to $1.

[1:42:22] On page 11, our rental car tax fund.

[1:42:25] We have year to date revenues of 169,000.

[1:42:29] That's about 2.7% higher than the previous year.

[1:42:32] In year to date, we have added about $25,000 to fund balance.

[1:42:36] that fund. Skipping ahead to page 15, our

[1:42:41] Splost 8 fund. We have year to date revenues from our

[1:42:46] Splost taxes of $5.6 million. That is 4.6% higher than

[1:42:52] at this point in the prior year. Year to date we have $5.5 million

[1:42:56] of expenses and you can see in the month of July those

[1:43:00] continue with our South Can Park project as well as

[1:43:04] of transportation improvements. And here today in this fund we have added to fund balanced

[1:43:09] by about $713,000. And then finally our T-spos funds, not a lot of expenditures to report

[1:43:15] here, but we have collected $2.3 million a year today. That's our original report, and I'll

[1:43:21] be glad to answer any questions. Thank you. Any questions from Mr. Blocker? Thanks, sir. Thank you.

[1:43:30] In the announcement this evening, we'll move on to our 10 minute public input, we do have one

[1:43:37] assistance on that speak, please come forward, please state your name address, Mr. Chris Everett.

[1:43:51] 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

[1:44:02] lack of a better term than a linar.

[1:44:05] So you can't speak on pulp-caired clothes

[1:44:08] or that, so you can't address that.

[1:44:11] Okay, I just didn't want to say I'm in favor.

[1:44:13] But if you count around Laurel Canyon,

[1:44:18] the development you guys,

[1:44:20] or that city has in play,

[1:44:24] when I count that up,

[1:44:25] there's that's a minimum of 1,200 cars.

[1:44:29] You're going to dump on,

[1:44:30] We're going to dump on to 140.

[1:44:33] Now, Friday morning, I had a breakfast meeting.

[1:44:36] It took me 30 minutes to get from Sole,

[1:44:40] down to J. Christopher, that's 10 miles an hour.

[1:44:44] You don't know whether that's acceptable or not.

[1:44:47] It's not acceptable to me.

[1:44:49] To get here tonight, I wouldn't have made it on time.

[1:44:53] Had I stayed on 140 because the backup from CVS

[1:44:58] up to pass.

[1:45:00] That's the page redevelopment or page relocation.

[1:45:09] I was looking at that and so I turned around and went back and came down through

[1:45:15] postponed it all that and and got here on time. And what I'm saying is that the congestion

[1:45:23] on 140 granted only peak hours, the congestion on 140 is real. And somebody's got to take

[1:45:32] that into account. And I read the minutes of your working meeting where you talked about

[1:45:41] bringing the planning commission back.

[1:45:43] If you had a planning commission, a lot of this stuff would have been sorted out at the planning

[1:45:49] commission level prior to the application coming before Council.

[1:45:54] So I would strongly encourage you to implement the planning council as soon as you can.

[1:46:01] That's all I got.

[1:46:02] Thanks, sir.

[1:46:05] We will begin with old business.

[1:46:06] We have quite a few items here for discussion and possible action.

[1:46:12] the beginning of the case of old business item A.

[1:46:16] Discussion and possible action on cases RZ,

[1:46:19] 0N, 2605, that's 009,

[1:46:23] CUP, 2605, that's 008, and VAR2607,

[1:46:28] that's 003, request a resone,

[1:46:31] plus or minus 0.741 acres,

[1:46:33] located at 109, railroad street,

[1:46:35] from lot industrial to central business district.

[1:46:38] Conditional use permit request to operate

[1:46:40] religious facility and concurrent variance requests to unify development code 104.03-18.8 and 104.03.18.

[1:46:52] C. The Strahlen. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. Members of the Council. This applicant is

[1:46:57] Ms. Dana Coxmouth with Medostations property. They are seeking to rezone the property located

[1:47:02] at 109. Railroad Street. They are also seeking additional use permit and concurrent bearings

[1:47:07] requests. Specifically, they are looking to reason the property at one or not in a road street

[1:47:12] from the light industrial to central business district and they are seeking a conditional

[1:47:16] use permit in order to operate a religious facility at the existing building at that property.

[1:47:22] They are also seeking to concurrent variants as related to the religious facilities. The first

[1:47:26] relates to setbacks from streets and property lines for religious facilities. The second

[1:47:32] relates to any accessory or outdoor use related to a religious facility being set back 75 feet from

[1:47:39] any property that is used for residential purposes, as well as relating to any lighting that

[1:47:45] has to be directed or shielded away from those residential properties and cut off no later than

[1:47:49] 9 p.m. The subject property is located in Ward 2, which is also encompassing the city of

[1:48:02] it as plain development makes use. This is not correct. It has a downtown urban center,

[1:48:09] character area, and future land use. The proposed scope of work currently is interior only,

[1:48:15] however, if there's ever any proposed exterior material change in appearance, that would require

[1:48:20] a certificate of appropriateness from the city of Canton, but like I said, at the time, no external

[1:48:26] changes are proposed to the building, just interior work. There are no new department comments

[1:48:32] between the public hearing and the possible action tonight, so I just left the comments that

[1:48:38] fire made and the ones that we made.

[1:48:42] With all of that taken into consideration, staff does recommend approval of the rezoning

[1:48:46] in the conditional use permit request for the proposed religious facility at 109 Railroad

[1:48:51] Street, but there is no staff recommendation regarding the concurrent requested bearing.

[1:48:57] This concludes my report.

[1:48:59] Thank you very much.

[1:48:59] I'd be happy to answer any questions.

[1:49:01] Thank you, Michelle. I appreciate that. Just again for clarification. We do require

[1:49:07] religious philosophies, church, they're all, conditional use permit throughout the city

[1:49:12] correct. Correct. Yes. And I do believe that on past when we have grounded, granted,

[1:49:18] the conditional use permits for our church, I knew religious facility that can correct me

[1:49:23] but I wrong. We have limited that conditional use permit approval to that particular religious

[1:49:30] facility and I believe in this case it's local church for the facility.

[1:49:35] So my question there is to clarify that if Council did offer to approve the

[1:49:46] conditional use permit that it could be limited in condition to local church only and if

[1:49:52] that probably changes hands in the future, they want to open other religious facility a different

[1:49:57] religious facility to come back for additional.

[1:50:01] 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.

[1:50:06] Happened on. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[1:50:09] The questions are comments.

[1:50:15] There's no more questions or comments. I'd like to make a motion. Mr. Mayor.

[1:50:19] 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.

[1:50:27] is conditional use permit request to operate, approve the conditional use permit request operator

[1:50:35] religious facility, and concurrent variants is requested to the Unified Development Code 104-03-18A and 104-03-18C.

[1:50:48] And with the condition that this conditional use permit sticks with the current or the future, I guess, local church.

[1:51:01] Good there. Good job.

[1:51:04] Second.

[1:51:05] We do have a motion and we have a second.

[1:51:07] Any other, any discussion on the motion?

[1:51:12] Hearing none, all in favor of the motion say aye.

[1:51:15] Aye.

[1:51:15] Opposed name?

[1:51:16] All members of the vote for the motion.

[1:51:18] Thank you, Mr. Aller.

[1:51:19] Thank you.

[1:51:21] Item B, discussion and possible action on case CUP2605-007.

[1:51:28] Press for Conditional Use Permit, approval to allow multi-family units in lieu of approved

[1:51:33] town hominets and one-five-one violet-way river stone retreat.

[1:51:37] Mr. Peoples?

[1:51:38] Thank you again, Mr. Mayor and members of Council.

[1:51:40] I'll be brief.

[1:51:41] This is a traditional use permit request for the river stone retreat located within the

[1:51:46] river stone development.

[1:51:47] this is in ward 2. The request is to allow multi-family stacked living units in lieu of approved

[1:51:54] town hominets that were entitled to this property in March of 2021. There's currently a

[1:52:01] development that is under construction at the Riverstone Retreat which consists of a total of

[1:52:07] and 70 housing units, 144 which are nearing substantial completion, and the remaining 1,120

[1:52:17] on that background.

[1:52:19] Now around 124, which with the applicant is seeking to switch to multi-family, which was previously

[1:52:29] a proof of townout.

[1:52:30] So this is a location map in the Riverstone development south of the New Cherokee High School.

[1:52:36] It is on playing development mixed use as is the rest of the Riverstone development

[1:52:41] located within the community level mixed use retail center character area.

[1:52:46] 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.

[1:52:57] So, comments from the departments included fire protection to the buildings and for

[1:53:02] planning and zoning, they noted some history of the property as well as noting that there

[1:53:07] is no increase in unit count or overall density that is proposed in this application and

[1:53:12] that this is supported by the comprehensive plan and has such staff recommend approval to

[1:53:17] conditionally use permit application as presented.

[1:53:21] Thank you, Mr. Peoples.

[1:53:22] Any questions from his previous comments?

[1:53:26] A couple of questions, please.

[1:53:28] To be clear from the original proposal, the elevations have not changed.

[1:53:34] That is correct, yes sir.

[1:53:35] And the number of units has not changed.

[1:53:37] That is correct.

[1:53:39] So essentially what we're doing is we're just changing the designation.

[1:53:43] Correct?

[1:53:44] Yes sir.

[1:53:45] Thank you.

[1:53:45] I think that's based on construction methodology,

[1:53:47] but you're right, Mr. Rice, nothing else has changed.

[1:53:54] Anyone else?

[1:53:57] Mr. Matherer, are there other questions or comments? I would like to make a motion.

[1:54:01] It's Mr. Stone.

[1:54:02] I would move that as it relates to case CUP-2605-007,

[1:54:10] request for conditional use permit approval to allow multi-family units in lieu of approved townhouse townhomes.

[1:54:19] Can I help you and excuse me at 151 by the way?

[1:54:24] Second.

[1:54:25] Well, a motion and a second.

[1:54:27] Any discussion on the motion?

[1:54:31] Hearing none.

[1:54:31] All of they were say aye.

[1:54:33] All posed?

[1:54:35] Aye.

[1:54:36] All members voted for the motion.

[1:54:37] Thank you, Mr. People's.

[1:54:38] Thank you.

[1:54:40] I am C.

[1:54:41] Discussion and possible action on cases A in an X2605-0001

[1:54:50] RZON2605-010.

[1:54:51] So, in P2605-013, see you P2605-012 in the ART.

[1:55:00] 1, 2, 6, 05, dash 0, 03, request to annex and resume, plus or minus 48.192 acres located along ballground highway and

[1:55:10] fake con road for the purpose of constructing a 167-units subdivision and commercial lot industrial areas

[1:55:16] with concurrent appearances.

[1:55:19] Mr. Peoples.

[1:55:20] Thank you, sir. This is the point before we start.

[1:55:23] I need to reduce myself from voting and I will have no discussion on this case.

[1:55:27] Thank you, Mr. Retch.

[1:55:28] Thank you Mr. Mayer again. This is the pending annexation of rezoning quest that is for

[1:55:34] action this evening. This is for 48.192 acres located in the case bird community. The

[1:55:42] applicant is requesting annexation of rezoning of this property into the city of Canton rezoning

[1:55:47] from R80 RM10 in general commercial in Cherokee County to plan development mixed use in the city

[1:55:53] can for constructing a 167-unit feasible neighborhood, a comprised of 15 cottages, 40 townhomes,

[1:56:02] at 112 detached homes.

[1:56:04] There is a proposed commercial tract along the entrance at Paul Graham Highway in a proposed

[1:56:09] future commercial light industrial tract along FACCON Road.

[1:56:14] There are three concurrent variances there being sought.

[1:56:16] One is to allow only one development entrance when the number of units is between 125

[1:56:21] and three hundred and four that is a proposed Boulevard entrance off of Fake Kong, a

[1:56:27] ballground highway excuse me, and two are elimination of civil require landscape buffer

[1:56:33] supporting Cherokee County and various places on the property.

[1:56:37] Be reminded this is located off of ballground highway south of Interstate 575 between

[1:56:43] Fake Kong Road and Old Banda Road.

[1:56:47] This is the zoning of the property in relation to city property

[1:56:51] the opposite 575 or some plane development makes you some properties.

[1:56:55] The property is looking within the employment center,

[1:57:01] character area, the residential portion of this development

[1:57:04] does not meet the comprehensive plan or future land use map.

[1:57:09] And this is the site plan again,

[1:57:11] proposed a single Boulevard entrance off of Bologna Highway,

[1:57:16] accessing the 167 residential units to project east

[1:57:21] along fake con road is the closed future commercial and light industrial track.

[1:57:26] The total residential density for the residential pod is 4.29 dwelling units per acre.

[1:57:34] Now, formal objection was made to this case by chair accounting.

[1:57:38] There were several comments made by their transportation department for required

[1:57:41] road improvements and consideration for future transportation improvements in the area,

[1:57:46] as well as noting that the firm county fire that two entrances are preferred from county fire.

[1:57:54] City fire marshal indicated that the boulevard entrance does meet the requirements of the international fire code.

[1:58:01] Engineering states that a traffic study hydrology study in Georgia, Paralyen.

[1:58:16] And planning and zoning notes that this is within the adopted growth boundary agreement within city can and Cherokee canning.

[1:58:25] Due to non-conformance with the comprehensive plan staff does recommend denial of the applications as present.

[1:58:30] 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.

[1:58:46] There are several staff proposed conditions that if the Council considers a proven request that we would suggest or suggest the Council consider.

[1:58:58] 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

[1:59:07] Keith Spurg-Track dated June 23, 2026,

[1:59:10] shall serve as the development standards for the property,

[1:59:13] where they are not fully addressed in the applicant's

[1:59:15] master plan, the property shall follow all development standards

[1:59:17] of the unified development for the closest comparable zoning district.

[1:59:21] Three, with the exception of landscape and zoning buffers,

[1:59:25] variances from the development standards in the applicant's master plan,

[1:59:28] may be heard enacted upon by the city of Kent and Board of Appeals,

[1:59:31] or other quasi-judicial body hearing zoning variants

[1:59:34] is at a particular time, rather than requiring a mass plan amendment for the Mayor and City Council.

[1:59:40] For the property shall be limited to a total of 160 set of homes, total number of town

[2:00:00] 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.

[2:00:11] 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.

[2:00:24] Number eight, the developer shall enter into a mitigation agreement with the Chicky County School District,

[2:00:31] accordance with the rezoning impact report dated July 20, 20, 26,

[2:00:36] terms of sub-medigation agreement shall be fulfilled prior to issuance of final black.

[2:00:41] Nine, a homeowners association shall be established for the residential component of this development,

[2:00:46] set association shall be responsible for the perpetual maintenance and upkeep of all

[2:00:50] areas in open space, including with not limited to landscaping, hard-scaping, signage, and all

[2:00:55] common amenities.

[2:00:57] All residential units in the development shall be four sale units.

[2:01:01] The Declaration of Restrictive Covenant shall limit it.

[2:01:04] Total number of units with end-to-development being leased at any time to no greater than

[2:01:07] 10 percent.

[2:01:09] Number 11.

[2:01:10] The Georgia Native Plant Society shall be allowed to enter the property prior to any

[2:01:13] late disturbance activity.

[2:01:19] In addition to these staff, suggesting conditions, there is one applicant,

[2:01:23] offered condition to that the Council did receive and is in your packet, it is a proposal

[2:01:32] for the donation of land to the Canton Housing Authority or the entity of City Council's

[2:01:38] choosing to ensure maximum affordability of the 15 cottages proposed in their annexation

[2:01:43] rezoning request letter, as stated in their letter dated August 17, 2026, upon completion

[2:01:52] of the site development and issuance of the final-plat target partners LLC with then donate

[2:01:57] the developed cottage pod to the CHA. The pod would be graded with all utilities inside the

[2:02:02] curb to ensure continuity with the neighborhood the cottages will be included in the HOA and any

[2:02:08] designs other than the city's pre-approved cottage plans would be subject to the HOA architectural

[2:02:13] review committee. The applicant was amenable to the conditions presented by staff with the exception

[2:02:20] of the six-foot privacy fence about an interstate 575.

[2:02:27] That is that concludes staff report.

[2:02:29] I'd be happy to answer any questions.

[2:02:31] Thank you, Mr. Peoples, I appreciate that.

[2:02:34] Just a couple of quick comments here.

[2:02:38] Again, this case would require decision on annexation.

[2:02:43] And then as we discuss in the past that we always ask the first question,

[2:02:48] annexing this property into the city, benefit our existing residents and citizens, again, I think that's always the place to start on annexation.

[2:02:57] 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,

[2:03:18] not an island, but a peninsula inside the city, and I believe as staff's recommendation for

[2:03:29] denial because it does not adhere to current land use and comp plans for that area,

[2:03:38] which is changing in transition. As you've noted, there has been some residential development,

[2:03:43] but it is located between the city of Kant and the city of Ballground in this county

[2:03:49] in between and to my knowledge is not a long-term plan of character that air and how it should be developed.

[2:03:57] We have the airport, we have a lot of things going on there, but those are things going through my mind at this time.

[2:04:05] And again, as I mentioned earlier, the request for one entrance versus two, in this case,

[2:04:14] I have concerns about that as our fire marshal said it does.

[2:04:18] 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.

[2:04:33] And again, I believe that's a fundamental ordinance that the city established several years ago,

[2:04:41] because we do expect developers to go above and beyond where they would in the county or other places to

[2:04:48] to make sure that we're developing, you know, quality over quantity.

[2:04:53] So, again, I'm a component of sticking to that.

[2:04:55] that we are already seeing we have another public hearing request.

[2:05:00] 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.

[2:05:14] If

[2:05:18] there are one questions, Mr. Mayor, as it relates to case number 8 in X2605-011, RZO-N2805-010MP2605-013CUP2605-012, and variants 003.

[2:05:45] I'm sorry, V-A-R 2605-003 request annex Reson 28.192 acres located along

[2:05:57] Bau-Ground Highway and Fake Con Road for the purpose of construction of 167 units

[2:06:04] subdivision and commercial light industrial acres. I'm sorry, areas with concurrent

[2:06:10] experiences. I moved that we approve this application.

[2:06:15] Okay, the motion for approval.

[2:06:20] Do we have a second?

[2:06:22] Second.

[2:06:23] We have a second.

[2:06:25] Mr. Mayor.

[2:06:26] Mr. Mayor.

[2:06:26] Are we clarifying that is with the 11 conditions made by the city?

[2:06:33] Yes, thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[2:06:34] Yes.

[2:06:34] with the 11 conditions that Mr. Peoples noted.

[2:06:40] Okay, so the motion for approval with the 11 conditions stayed by staff and we have a second.

[2:06:51] There's further discussion on this.

[2:06:54] Just for clarification,

[2:06:57] we are the motion would grant the developer to go to one interest versus the city code versus the city code.

[2:07:07] Mr. Mayor, just one additional point of clarification, the 11 conditions

[2:07:11] profit by staff did not include the applicants' profit condition of the donation of the

[2:07:16] college track.

[2:07:17] We just wanted to make that clear before our motion is voted on.

[2:07:22] Good.

[2:07:23] Councilman Telling, would you like to amend your motion to include the donation?

[2:07:29] I'm not going to go through the whole thing again, but I will amend the motion that I just

[2:07:32] to include the 15 cottage donation to the Kent Housing Authority, and I'll agree with a second, as well.

[2:07:40] Okay, so we have a motion, amended motion, and a second. Other comments, discussion on the motion, or the case.

[2:07:54] I made my clarification at the beginning, but with, and thank you, Mr. Roach, for your refusal there.

[2:08:02] Obviously, I want to get a vote on this one, but anyway, so we have a motion and a second.

[2:08:09] All in favor of the motion say aye.

[2:08:13] Opposed?

[2:08:13] Aye.

[2:08:14] Aye.

[2:08:16] So, I, again, let's just for clarification.

[2:08:20] I believe it's three to two, but let's do roll call.

[2:08:23] Mr. Tolin.

[2:08:26] Mr. Johnson.

[2:08:28] Aye.

[2:08:29] Mr. Yon.

[2:08:32] Mr. Waterman.

[2:08:35] Okay, so the motion carries with three yeas and two nays, so thank you, Mr. Mayor, members

[2:08:44] accounts.

[2:08:47] Item D, discussion and possible action on case ZCA2605, that's 014, River Green Pods J1 and

[2:08:55] J2, zoning condition amendment request to amend originally through town homes to allow for

[2:09:00] single-family detached homes, Mr. Traywick.

[2:09:04] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of Council.

[2:09:06] So this request is seeking a zoning condition amendment from ZCA 2411-3 and Z0012-41 to allow for a single

[2:09:18] family to attend.

[2:09:19] With revised conditions, this subject property is located within the River Green community,

[2:09:27] off of River Green Avenue at the corner of Mamosa Drive Avenue. This is part of Pods J1 and J2,

[2:09:34] as a lakeside at River Green. This would be phase 3. Here's an aerial photograph of the subject site.

[2:09:43] This does fall with in suburban development of the future land you snap. The zoning is already

[2:09:49] PDMU. Existing site resource map that just kind of highlights some of the topography and the

[2:09:57] and those prepared by the applicant.

[2:10:00] 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.

[2:10:29] few years ago. This is not proposing an increase in density and the applicant is also proposing

[2:10:36] revised conditions in terms of Bell metstandards for these sections to align with other phases

[2:10:42] of the river green community.

[2:10:47] Here's some elevations of the homes themselves and what they

[2:10:49] could look like. As part of the application, there are some district standards that are part

[2:10:57] of your staff report, which would highlight the proposed changes as well to some of the

[2:11:03] development standards, including a lot size, building setbacks, and a buffer increase,

[2:11:07] again, adjacent to the fieldstone overhead from 40 feet to 50 feet.

[2:11:17] So, for this particular case, staff is recommending approval of the applicants request with

[2:11:21] four conditions.

[2:11:22] Number one, the applicant's submittal title proposed zoning condition amendment shall be

[2:11:26] adopted at submitted, that is included with your packet, the highlights all the developments

[2:11:30] standards for that section. Number two, the total number of residential units shall not exceed

[2:11:35] 102 on the 50.818 acres. Now or now known or formally known as tax ID number 14N,

[2:11:42] 12, O, 17, L. Number three, the blocking of sidewalks, five vehicles is strictly prohibited.

[2:11:49] That number three actually comes through these conditions for the site. And then number four,

[2:11:55] This is an ability to revise a zoning condition, condition number, letter Q, per case number

[2:12:04] z0012-41 revise the state, all wall-mouthed signs shall be raised channel letter type

[2:12:10] and shall be eliminated, adding the next sentence, one projecting sign, per parcel shall be

[2:12:14] allowed not to exceed eight square feet in size. The area of these signs shall conform to the

[2:12:19] city of Canton sign ordinance. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

[2:12:23] Thank you, Mr. Troy, you want to have any questions for Mr. Stratwick or any comments?

[2:12:32] Mr. Young?

[2:12:33] I just have one question.

[2:12:34] The revision to the zoning condition queue.

[2:12:39] That would allow the signs that are already required for the tenants that have been installed.

[2:12:47] So that clears up basically a problem with that as correct.

[2:12:53] The required signs that are having to put up.

[2:12:55] Yes. Okay, this one clarify that. Thank you.

[2:13:01] Ms. Water?

[2:13:02] There are no other comments I would like to make a motion.

[2:13:04] Yes, sir.

[2:13:05] I would like to make a motion to approve.

[2:13:10] Case is ECA 2605-014.

[2:13:14] The zoning condition amendment request to amend.

[2:13:16] Originally approved town homes to allow for single-family detached homes.

[2:13:22] With along with the previously mentioned conditions, the four conditions.

[2:13:27] and I will add a fifth condition that the age restriction for the homes be removed.

[2:13:41] So we have a motion.

[2:13:44] The five conditions?

[2:13:47] Any questions or comments?

[2:13:49] Further discussion?

[2:13:52] You're hearing none.

[2:13:53] All of them they were say aye.

[2:13:55] Opposite?

[2:13:56] All members voted for the motion.

[2:13:58] Thank you.

[2:13:59] Thank you.

[2:14:02] Item E, discussion and possible action on cases A and N X 2 6 0 5, that's 015.

[2:14:09] RZ O N 2 6 0 5, that's 016, request an X plus or minus 176 acres along Old Shull Creek Road and

[2:14:19] Reson from R-40, A-G, and G-C County to R-10, R-40, a forpaposed single family, a subdivision of

[2:14:27] 100 and 99 lots.

[2:14:29] Mr. Tayway.

[2:14:32] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[2:14:32] Members of Council.

[2:14:35] This request is filed by Parks Huff for one R Georgia LLC, annexation and rezoning of 15 parcels

[2:14:42] roughly 176 acres in size, the request rezoning from R-40,

[2:14:48] A-G-N-G-C in Cherokee County to R-10 and R-40 for

[2:14:51] proposing a family subdivision of 199 watts.

[2:14:56] The 3.5 acres property.

[2:15:00] 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.

[2:15:06] Just for clarification, this is located behind Cherokee, fire station number nine on Ryan Hart College Parkway.

[2:15:14] It is south of the grand apartments in the Royal Canyon, as well as the Crystal Royal Canyon, and some residential to the south.

[2:15:24] The city zoning shows majority of the surrounding properties being PDMUs, part of that

[2:15:30] World Canyon subdivision, and then to the south you can see several properties zoned the

[2:15:35] R40, which is the one unit per acre, as well as some GC or general commercial zoning along

[2:15:41] Renhark College Parkway.

[2:15:43] The GC property to the very north portion of the screen of the photo on the bottom is

[2:15:54] suburban development, existing site resources map highlights some of the streams and existing

[2:16:00] topography on the property, Pucket Creek does run through this property, and here's the

[2:16:05] site plan that was prepared by the applicant and presented at your public hearing the last meeting.

[2:16:11] So this applicant is requesting to annexation to the city limits and the rezoning to develop

[2:16:15] as a single family subdivision with the 199 pots.

[2:16:20] 170 roughly acres would be R10, and then there'd be a remaining parcel about three acres

[2:16:26] in size of the very southwest corner that's highlighted in orange to be R40.

[2:16:32] The density for this total site would be 1.13 units per acre.

[2:16:38] The internal reds of this site would be public.

[2:16:41] This plan also shows a proposed amenity, and the applicant is showing 54.8% of the site

[2:16:47] remain as open space. Here are some elevations that were prepared by the applicant presented

[2:16:52] as part of the application. In this particular case, we did receive comments from Cherokee

[2:16:58] County, which are included in your packet, by the objection that they did provide several

[2:17:04] comments. And then we also received several department comments as well. In this case, staff

[2:17:10] is recommending approval of the annexation request. Staff is also recommending approval of the

[2:17:17] with the following conditions.

[2:17:20] So one through five on the screen.

[2:17:22] Number one, providing a 25 foot minimum landscape buffer

[2:17:25] exterior property line of the development.

[2:17:28] Number two, open space is described by the small area plan.

[2:17:32] She'll be provided for the community, including

[2:17:34] but not limited to areas for active and passive recreation.

[2:17:38] The playground amenities are a community garden.

[2:17:41] Any lighting proposed for the open space in the

[2:17:43] the area shall be down with full cut-off fixtures.

[2:17:47] Number three, a maximum of 199 new residential loft shall be permitted for the development located

[2:17:52] with an R-10. Number four, sidewalk shall be provided along both entrance road frontages and

[2:17:59] shall connect to interior street sidewalks where intersections are proposed,

[2:18:03] a dedicated pedestrian crosswalk shall be provided. Five all-road road and street names

[2:18:09] of the development of the properties,

[2:18:10] shall be reserved for original,

[2:18:13] Peeridge Community, Land Owners,

[2:18:14] and or Community Members identified

[2:18:16] by the Executive Director

[2:18:17] of the Charlie Ferguson Community Center,

[2:18:19] or their design name,

[2:18:24] excuse me.

[2:18:25] On the screen is actually revised condition

[2:18:27] for that number five name in internal streets

[2:18:29] in recognition of legacy Peeridge families subject

[2:18:31] to approval of the city of Canton

[2:18:33] and the Executive Director

[2:18:35] of the Charlie Ferguson Community Center.

[2:18:37] So there is a slight difference

[2:18:38] from the staff report in the actual presentation.

[2:18:44] The applicant also profits 16 conditions.

[2:18:47] So I'm going to go through those quickly.

[2:18:51] So number one, the residential community should be developed in substantial

[2:18:54] conformity with the site plan as exhibits A.

[2:18:58] Such modifications is needed required and approved by the

[2:19:01] applicable governmental authority.

[2:19:04] Number two, the development shall contain no more than

[2:19:09] 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.

[2:19:20] So that's why that's in red.

[2:19:21] Three, the homes shall be offered and marketed for sale, no more than five percent of the homes within the community.

[2:19:28] Maybe least are rented at one time and such rental restrictions shall be included in recording and covenants to the community.

[2:19:37] Short-term rentals shall be prohibited.

[2:19:39] Number four, the community shall be governed by the Homeowners Association, which shall be responsible for entrepreneurship,

[2:19:47] etc.

[2:19:48] The recorded covenant shall include architectural controls to the homes within the community.

[2:19:52] 5.

[2:19:54] The open space depicted on the site plan shall remain as open space and should not be clear

[2:19:58] cut, trigger a mobile with inside.

[2:20:00] Much open space shall be limited to that reasonably necessary for the installation of trails, amenities, required utility connections and other improvements.

[2:20:08] Six, the trails shall constitute a community amenity and shall not connect to Soleil or World Canyon.

[2:20:14] 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.

[2:20:24] In the site plan the applicant showed some trails that connected a lot of those lots in the north side of Pucket Creek.

[2:20:31] So that's what that's referring to.

[2:20:35] 7.

[2:20:35] No trail should be extended south of Pucket Creek.

[2:20:38] 8. The green space should be designated on a final plat as green space to be protected from development.

[2:20:43] And the recorded covenants shall include provisions for the protection and preservation of such green space.

[2:20:48] 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.

[2:21:01] You'll see that the section which states for purposes of perpetual protection is also highlighted in red.

[2:21:07] 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.

[2:21:16] So that would still have to be in a agreement between the city, as well as whoever's developing the property.

[2:21:22] Number 10, all homes will be no taller than two-story home with potential of an additional daylight basement.

[2:21:30] 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.

[2:21:45] 12 is concerning construction activities and limiting those hours.

[2:21:50] 13, the development shall be responsible for the installation completion of all project

[2:21:54] related to the growth rate improvements required by the city.

[2:21:58] Final location of the primary entrance shall be determined through engineering and

[2:22:02] plan review process to ensure adequate site distance is being met on the north and south.

[2:22:08] Continuing on a 14 and in conjunction with the land disturbance permit.

[2:22:11] The applicant will have its traffic engineer prepare a speed study to determine whether the

[2:22:16] speed limit can be lowered.

[2:22:18] The study would be conducted with input from the city, Georgia Department of Transportation

[2:22:22] with the goal of lowering the speed limit in this section of roadway.

[2:22:27] I do want to make a point that staff has reached out to G. District 6 and they are currently

[2:22:31] looking at Councilman's Rice's question from the public hearing about possibly lowering

[2:22:37] that speed limit from 55 to 45.

[2:22:40] 15, the applicant will pay to the school district to $900 per home prior to the issuance of a final

[2:22:47] plat to mitigate the impact on schools. And then lastly, number 16, the applicant will pay $400 per unit

[2:22:54] towards the city's housing fund prior to the issuance of a final plat. So with the Mr. Mayor and Council,

[2:23:02] that is staff's recommendation, where those five conditions and with the profit conditions,

[2:23:08] those are from the, from the Apple kits with those high-light and in red, or

[2:23:13] staff did not necessarily agree with fully.

[2:23:17] Thank you, Mr. Traywick.

[2:23:20] It's a little bit up to council. Any questions for Mr. Traywick or staff or comments?

[2:23:29] Mr. Mayor, there's no discussion.

[2:23:34] If there's no discussion, I would like to move, we approve.

[2:23:37] cases A-N-N-X, and X-2605-105, and RZO-N-2605-016,

[2:23:52] and N-X, the, and approve the annexation

[2:23:55] of the plus or minus 166 acres along over so pre-road and

[2:24:03] rezoned from R40 AG and GC County to R10 and R40 City for

[2:24:10] proposing a family subdivision of 199 lots with the conditions offered by

[2:24:20] staff, and also the 16 offered by the applicant.

[2:24:28] Did that include the items in red on the applicant's conditions?

[2:24:35] I would exclude that item.

[2:24:39] With staff's recommendation, I would exclude those items in red,

[2:24:46] agreeing with all of staff's recommendations.

[2:24:47] We

[2:24:51] have a motion is there a second.

[2:24:55] Second.

[2:24:57] A motion in a second.

[2:25:00] And for this discussion on the motion, I would like to just make a comment that our

[2:25:06] few comments that I believe is a quality development. And again, it's an unincorporated island.

[2:25:14] In the city, we are trying to address those, which I think is important. I believe the developer here

[2:25:23] as all for, you know, a quality product.

[2:25:25] I really appreciate the 1.13 units break or density.

[2:25:31] Compared to some of others we have discussed,

[2:25:34] and recently approved as latest this evening.

[2:25:38] I really appreciate the applicants'

[2:25:41] commitment

[2:25:41] to our two entrances on this and complying with our city code.

[2:25:48] I think it's a good product all the way around.

[2:25:50] I do think the concern in that corridor of traffic,

[2:25:55] additional traffic is very real,

[2:25:58] very tangible.

[2:25:59] We've been working for the past few years on 140,

[2:26:02] which is a state road, but the city is taken into its,

[2:26:08] our own responsibility to work with the state

[2:26:12] to get grants to make improvements to that,

[2:26:16] especially at the two intersections where we're actively working to make those improvements

[2:26:23] around about and adding the laying and lining wall grains and ribstone and you know

[2:26:34] better think we're still even a year out at least to start in construction on those projects.

[2:26:39] So we're trying to alleviate some of the traffic concerns there and some that were mentioned

[2:26:43] this evening by residents in the area,

[2:26:48] and, you know, we are with all the qualities of

[2:26:51] this project, you know, transportation in that corridor, we know as an issue we're addressing

[2:26:56] it and trying to get in front of it, and I think it's just kind of a, it's an unending need

[2:27:04] to there.

[2:27:06] So we would look at putting more traffic on to that area, which we know we have really,

[2:27:13] issues there to deal with. I'm hoping that this and in the other case it was discussed tonight

[2:27:19] the public hearing, we're looking at additional development in the area and in those

[2:27:28] uncorporated islands that we have property in that area that's, that's, you know, CD if we

[2:27:36] next to the problems issues along with it, but is the state road, which they have ultimate authority

[2:27:44] on approval, we know that GDOT has no immediate plans to widen that road or make improvements,

[2:27:53] but we have shown that we can take the lead there and I'm confident that the city can address

[2:28:00] issues when we do annex these properties, but it's also going to require cooperation, collaboration

[2:28:07] with the county, which I think has been acknowledged. In a real world, if we had luxury

[2:28:12] of having the plan in place and had all those parties agreed to, this is what's going to happen

[2:28:17] to address the traffic issues and this is when it's going to happen and equally important,

[2:28:23] This is who's going to pay for it, you know, so that we're not adoring all those, those improvements

[2:28:31] basically from our taxpayers across the city. So those are real concerns that I have.

[2:28:36] I know that we all discuss and we all share them, but I just wanted to make this comment.

[2:28:40] So I'm not going to sleep a little bit better tonight, so it's important to me.

[2:28:45] So we do have a motion in the second. Do we have any further discussion?

[2:28:51] Comments? Hearing none, I'm just going to ask for a roll call on this vote. We have a motion

[2:28:58] in a second to approve these cases as presented with the conditions recommended by staff

[2:29:04] and offered by the developer. Mr. Tolin?

[2:29:09] Mr. Johnson, Mr. John, Mr.

[2:29:14] Mr. Oneman, Mr. Roach, Mr. Rice.

[2:29:20] So, the motion carries forward to today.

[2:29:24] Thank you, Mr. Trayway.

[2:29:26] Thank you.

[2:29:26] Item F, discussion and possible action on the Canton Housing Fund, Mr. Patton.

[2:29:40] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Council members.

[2:29:43] If you all allow me, I'd like to make an announcement

[2:29:46] for all of the council members before getting into the discussion about the housing fund.

[2:29:52] Georgia Department of Community Affairs released their list of 9% LaTeC applications.

[2:30:00] As earlier this afternoon, I also had a telephone conversation with TBG Residential. The TBG Residential Project

[2:30:09] summit at Hickory Creek has been selected and awarded for 9% lottack. That is phase 192 units. It

[2:30:22] is 55 plus senior units, and I wanted all of the council members to be aware that that project

[2:30:29] has received the approval for funding through a lot of tax, so those will be coming on board

[2:30:38] over the next couple of years. Thank you, Mr. Spanford, and positive updates. Yes, sir.

[2:30:47] As we discussed two weeks ago, I came before the council requesting consideration, you some of the

[2:30:54] can't housing fund money for some of the preliminary development engineering work associated with the

[2:31:03] get senior program and the two projects that we're talked about as of priorities, which is a

[2:31:14] staff would recommend City Council approve expenditure or use of those funds not to exceed

[2:31:23] $10,000 for the purpose of moving forward with the GEC senior program in development

[2:31:32] pre-engineering for those priority projects.

[2:31:36] I'm here to answer any questions.

[2:31:38] Thank you, Mr. Bannon.

[2:31:40] Any questions for Mr. Bannon or comments?

[2:31:46] If there are no questions, Mr. Stone, I would like to make a motion to.

[2:31:50] Yes, sir?

[2:31:51] Council approve the not to exceed $10,000 funding that Mr. Pat just laid out.

[2:32:00] We have a motion and we have a second, any further discussion?

[2:32:04] Hearing none, all in favor say aye.

[2:32:06] Aye.

[2:32:06] Opposed?

[2:32:07] Aye.

[2:32:08] All in favor?

[2:32:08] Thank you, Mr. Pat, and thank you for the good news.

[2:32:12] Now moving to new business here.

[2:32:14] Item A, discussion and possible action on the Bowling Park Road resurposing Parks and Recreation

[2:32:20] Manager, Mr. Dots.

[2:32:26] Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council.

[2:32:28] Really need to start vetting my appearances better than I did tonight.

[2:32:34] Staff is here tonight to seek action to amend and already approve, pay the contract,

[2:32:41] to add the entrance of Boeing Park, which will be from the entrance to an already paved portion

[2:32:53] of the park, which we did a few years back. The amendment would be for $214,161. The repaying

[2:33:03] the entrance of Bowling Park was originally within the scope of the water pollution upgrade

[2:33:11] to the plant upgrade, but we feel like we're going to be saving a pretty good bit of money

[2:33:16] by adding it to the already approved contract.

[2:33:22] Thank Mr. Dawson, any questions from Mr. Dawson come to the side?

[2:33:27] We like saving money.

[2:33:29] Mr. Mayor, if there are no questions, I would make a motion to approve.

[2:33:35] the amendment to the Bowling Park Road resurfacing. What was the amount?

[2:33:43] $214,161 per that amount.

[2:33:47] We have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye.

[2:33:54] Aye. Aye. I was name? All in favor of the motion. Thank you, Mr. Doug.

[2:33:58] Thank you.

[2:33:59] 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.

[2:34:09] Item B, discussion of amendment six for the professional engineering services agreement with AQ Innovation Operations and Maintenance.

[2:34:16] Ms. Watson.

[2:34:21] So, two innovation has come to us for the proposal to have a same, I'm sorry.

[2:34:26] sewer camera system for the city here. This proposal would include the addition of one

[2:34:35] camera truck with associated inspection equipment along with staffing necessary

[2:34:39] to operate and support the service. The added personnel would include one

[2:34:44] supervisor, one operator, and then one administrator. I did want to give a little

[2:34:50] of information about potential cost savings,

[2:34:57] this will be a...

[2:35:00] A yearly addition of $439,000, $91. But it will look at the entire sewer system over three years.

[2:35:12] And we have approximately 140 miles of sewer system, which equates to, I can't remember.

[2:35:23] I didn't write it down what it was over feet because I have a perfect cost of what it typically would cost.

[2:35:28] So a typical contractor can come in and do it anywhere from three to five dollars a foot,

[2:35:33] which is approximately 2.1 to 3.6 million dollars just to do the camera work, not including

[2:35:41] traffic control or any heavy cleaning that may need to be done.

[2:35:46] This project will also include an AI system which will allow them to immediately see what's

[2:35:53] on with a pop and not have to take the camera or the film back to the office, watch it, and

[2:36:01] then tell us what's wrong with the sewer system. It will allow us to have a more accurate GIS

[2:36:07] additional system capacity because we'll be able to fix some of these leaks or we'll find

[2:36:13] where we have clogs and issues with the pops. Cut down on emergency repairs, it will help us

[2:36:20] planning and financial projections, then the ASOS where we'll also be able to develop scopes

[2:36:27] and engineering models that will help lower some of our engineering costs. We have also

[2:36:33] talked to Chair County Water Authority who has sewer camera crews. They currently have 12

[2:36:39] crews that do this constantly and they've been doing it for over 20 years. So we're definitely

[2:36:46] behind the eight ball on getting a system like this in place.

[2:36:51] The contract also currently includes a CPR, which is already part of what H2A's contract

[2:37:00] includes.

[2:37:02] This contract would start October 1 and it was included in the budget for fiscal year 27.

[2:37:10] I'd be happy to answer any questions.

[2:37:11] Okay, thank you Ms. Watson. Any questions from Ms. Watson?

[2:37:16] Did they phase out after 20 years or three years or does it just continue on?

[2:37:22] It would be a continuous, a continuous system. Every three years they just go back to what they looked

[2:37:29] out a few years ago. I mean, unfortunately with sewer systems trees like to get in there,

[2:37:36] We don't always, um,

[2:37:41] what you may see one year, three years down the road could be

[2:37:45] in disrepair, um, just based on the nature of Sue or his very corrosive, so it could

[2:37:52] very quickly turn, um, bad. Um, I will say that, um, it could be something where we saw that

[2:37:59] three years ago, it looked like it was starting to go bad, but we don't want to do anything at that

[2:38:07] because we can't fix everything, we just don't have the money to do it.

[2:38:12] 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.

[2:38:22] And then it also will allow us to map the new areas.

[2:38:27] We will have the opportunity to, it wouldn't be a large recruitment of funds,

[2:38:35] But currently, we require that new developments, camera there, lines before we accept them,

[2:38:44] and we will watch those videos, our inspection staff does to make sure that everything's put in place.

[2:38:51] We are in inspection staff with no longer have to do that, a Shuo would take on that responsibility,

[2:38:55] and then we could actually charge the developer for those systems.

[2:39:01] Then we would charge around the $3 to $5 of the food.

[2:39:04] It wouldn't be a huge amount, but it would allow us to recruit that, but also help us

[2:39:11] understand our system better.

[2:39:13] This system will also have the ability to go into laterals, which is a pretty significant

[2:39:22] improvement to what we have now with our camera system.

[2:39:26] We have a camera now, but it doesn't do this type of thing.

[2:39:29] we actually able to go up into the laterals of the home or a business that may be having issues

[2:39:35] and we would be able to help the resident or the business with understanding what's going on with

[2:39:42] their sewer system. Okay, and a question that I've asked, but just for the public record,

[2:39:49] how do they calculate the savings? Is this an annual savings of 554,000?

[2:39:57] Yes, that is what we project.

[2:40:00] Eventually we would get to. We wouldn't save that the first year, but that is taking base off of past year's

[2:40:10] sewer repairs that we've had to do in an emergency situation, along with planning projections,

[2:40:18] engineering projections on what we expect to spend each year on issues in the sewer system that we would

[2:40:26] have found head-on instead of being reactive to it.

[2:40:31] Thank you.

[2:40:32] Yeah, so I just see this, you know, being proactive in upfront investment to save money in

[2:40:37] future.

[2:40:39] I mean, we'll still have emergencies and breaks and things we have to address, but hopefully

[2:40:42] less of them I mean, many years ago when we were paving without an assessment or system of

[2:40:50] roadways, citywide, roads that got paved were really the people and neighborhoods, the screens

[2:40:55] allowed us, we did assessment, CD-wide of all the roads and and and seeing which ones need to be addressed

[2:41:01] first and we begin a maintenance schedule and I think that's we've seen significant savings

[2:41:06] and and that was just a statistical approach based on the data and also I kind of quite this

[2:41:11] did this but it's just the the sewer system versus that so it's just what's mentioned we're kind

[2:41:18] of behind the the gun there but hopefully this would catch us up and get us in a more proactive

[2:41:24] stands versus reactive and emergency breaks, anything else? Thank you.

[2:41:31] Thank you. And I don't see a discussion of court software agreement renewal with I-3

[2:41:37] verticals, Mr. Ingram?

[2:41:39] Yeah, good evening, Mayor Council. You have in front of you a contract from I-3 verticals.

[2:41:45] Just some information in case you didn't know. I-3 verticals is a local downtown

[2:41:51] If you don't know, they have handled our municipal courts easy court pay for many years.

[2:41:59] Back in 2020, it was the last time that we visited this agreement and adopted agreement.

[2:42:05] So they've come to us now, proposed with a new agreement that would like for us to engage.

[2:42:12] Next Q, we shared a copy of this with the city attorney.

[2:42:16] We had a few questions, few corrections for them.

[2:42:20] They have since corrected that and what you have in front of you is that corrected contract.

[2:42:25] We're not asking for actions not, but we will in a couple of weeks.

[2:42:30] I'm glad to say this is a requires no funding from the city of Ken.

[2:42:36] All of the fees they collect are from the easy court pay system where individuals can go

[2:42:44] and pay their court funds online.

[2:42:47] So they collect that just like almost a merchant service fee.

[2:42:51] So if you have any questions, I'll be more happy to get a response for you.

[2:42:56] But aside from that, you will see this request for action in two weeks.

[2:43:00] next to council meeting.

[2:43:03] Thank you, Mr. Mr. England. Any questions from Mr. England on this item?

[2:43:07] Okay. Thanks, sir.

[2:43:09] You've been a lot of long, Mr. Bepers.

[2:43:21] Good evening, Mayor and Council.

[2:43:23] Just a few items for tonight,

[2:43:25] that I wanted to go over.

[2:43:26] We'll go over some project updates,

[2:43:28] and also some staff recognition.

[2:43:30] The fire station project downtown is moving along

[2:43:34] as you can notice. They've pulled down

[2:43:37] all the scaffolding around the historic part of the building.

[2:43:40] the reboying of the brick is completed. The roof project is pretty much completed and we're

[2:43:47] working on the remainder of the site and the interior. A little bit of the interior work that's

[2:43:53] being done. One decision that was made over the last couple of days relates to the drive and side

[2:44:01] street that exist between fire station and Cherokee County Water and Sewer. That green area which

[2:44:08] the section that's closest to West Main Street will go back as asphalt and the blue area

[2:44:13] in the back, which includes the apron and drive into the Bayes, will go back as concrete.

[2:44:20] The county has started on their surface parking expansion project. If you've been by the area

[2:44:27] next to pink seagrers and up against the Roosterville community, you'll know that they have

[2:44:34] started taking down trees and working on the land disturbance in that particular area.

[2:44:38] So, that project is already under construction.

[2:44:42] We are continuing to do site work out at the Park and South Canton.

[2:44:48] They're working on walls in the area and pears for the treetop walking area.

[2:44:56] We are still working on a water master plan.

[2:44:59] I have a little...

[2:45:00] 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.

[2:45:10] You've noticed at the Cherokee North Apartments that the fencing is up, the remediation on that particular project is underway.

[2:45:18] We have just completed our risk and resilience assessment that's required by EPD and that's been submitted.

[2:45:26] staff is reviewing RFPs and conducted interviews this week on our broker, broker services that

[2:45:35] relates to the firm that represents the city and our healthcare health insurance on an annual

[2:45:41] basis. And so we are at the end of our three-year contract with Mark III on that and we've been

[2:45:47] going through the review process. So that we are currently reviewing for completeness.

[2:45:53] The RFPs that were received back on information technology and our geographic assistance GIS.

[2:46:02] We had probably more responses to those RFPs than I've ever seen on any RFPs that cities issue before.

[2:46:10] So we are going through that.

[2:46:12] We have also received our roofing schematic for the police department building and currently reviewing that at this time.

[2:46:20] I will make note on the project, the North Kent and Cottage site that is that former fire

[2:46:28] site up at Laurel Canyon in the past Councils had a desire to consider residential development

[2:46:35] on that site.

[2:46:36] We actually had a firm do some site review up there and some cleaning based on discussion

[2:46:45] the council over numerous meetings. The council would prefer to have a partner and do that

[2:46:50] development as opposed to the city, handle that development. And then there was discussion

[2:46:55] about making that attainable housing component. I have personally met with Habitat for Humanity

[2:47:02] to see if they have an interest in partnering on that particular site, knowing that they could

[2:47:07] develop and they could also bring an attainable component there. They are currently working with

[2:47:13] kick-and-wood on site cost and options for the site and are specifically looking at single

[2:47:23] family option versus town-home option and they will likely be bringing a proposal back

[2:47:29] to the council later this fall for you to consider for that particular site so that once

[2:47:36] they have that cost information in hand so I did want to get that on your radar.

[2:47:41] As it relates to staff recognition, I did want to note we have made some hires, Nicholas

[2:47:46] Slopeitz is our public safety ambassador, and our captionant he was hired over the summer.

[2:47:53] Lance Weaver came in to fill a vacancy and customer service in our utility department.

[2:48:01] This is the group that actually goes out and handles meter reads, cut-offs, and turn-ons

[2:48:08] for Utility Accounts. Calvary MacVay is also a public safety ambassador that was recently hired

[2:48:15] for that captioning of the Police Department. John Warwick, Sue, has been over our Utility

[2:48:21] Billing for the City, as our coordinator for that, is moving up to the finance department.

[2:48:26] He will continue to be in charge of Utility Billing, but he will also be handling budget

[2:48:31] as well for the city, Brittany Chambers who has been over a customer service for our utility department.

[2:48:40] Now, we'll also be in charge of those filled reps who handle the cut-ons and cut-offs for utility billing.

[2:48:47] And then I also went into mention in Sergeant Courtney Rogers, who received her master's degree recently from Georgia State.

[2:48:55] 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.

[2:49:06] Thank you, Mr. Revers. Any questions from Mr. Revers?

[2:49:09] Mr. Johnson?

[2:49:10] Mr. Peppers, any update on the gentleman that fell off of doing better?

[2:49:18] 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.

[2:49:26] if deemed appropriate.

[2:49:28] We can certainly ask.

[2:49:30] I'm not aware of one.

[2:49:32] Thank you.

[2:49:32] Anything else?

[2:49:34] Excuse me.

[2:49:35] Thank you.

[2:49:37] We do have one council introduced item this evening.

[2:49:40] And that is from Councilor Shaw and Tollin.

[2:49:42] Discussion a community land trust.

[2:49:44] Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

[2:49:45] I'm from a city council that I will be forish minutes.

[2:49:50] Tonight I'd like to ask council and staff to focus on moving the community land.

[2:49:54] from here I'll refer to it as a CLT from approval to

[2:50:00] 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.

[2:50:29] we now need to complete the organizational work necessary to bring it to life.

[2:50:34] I would ask Council to give staff clear direction tonight to develop an implementation plan for the

[2:50:41] CLT and bring it back to us within a defined period of time.

[2:50:46] At a minimum that plan should address the legal structure of the organization,

[2:50:51] proposed by laws and governance.

[2:50:55] The composition of the board, how the city will participate,

[2:51:00] initial funding and staffing needs,

[2:51:02] potential priorities for funding sources that could see the

[2:51:07] CLT and a timeline for formally launching the organization.

[2:51:11] I would ask the city manager, Mr. Peppers, to identify a

[2:51:15] staff member or department that is responsible for

[2:51:17] coordinating this work so that there's a clear set of accountability standards.

[2:51:24] We've already made the policy decision that community land trust belongs to Kenton's

[2:51:28] housing strategy.

[2:51:30] Now we need to take the administrative steps necessary to turn that policy into something that

[2:51:34] actually helps families.

[2:51:36] My hope is that by our September 17 meeting, we accomplish three basic goals.

[2:51:42] One, identify the responsible party to manage a CLT, two, a list of required organizational

[2:51:50] steps, and three, a firm date for beginning the implementation plan back to council.

[2:51:56] If we do that, we can finally move the CLT from an idea on paper to a permanent community

[2:52:01] asset that helps keep home ownership within the reach of Kent and families for decades

[2:52:07] to come.

[2:52:08] Mr. Mayor, I would ask that I have asked, I should say, Mr. Rustbridge, and he noted that

[2:52:17] what I need to do now is make a motion.

[2:52:18] So what I would like to do is make a motion that Council direct staff to prepare a community

[2:52:23] land trust implementation plan, addressing governance, legal formation, funding, staffing,

[2:52:32] property acquisition, and a launch timeline to return that plan back to Council within

[2:52:38] 90 days or at our December 3rd meeting.

[2:52:43] That's my motion.

[2:52:45] Thank you, Mr. Stellington.

[2:52:46] This is a point of order for a motion or action.

[2:52:50] We need to amend the agenda to have that for a week.

[2:52:54] I don't want to motion.

[2:52:55] Because the item is on the agenda,

[2:52:57] I think it's appropriate.

[2:52:58] Okay.

[2:52:59] I don't want something if you choose.

[2:53:00] So make sure we're doing it correctly there.

[2:53:02] So we have a motion from Mr. Tollin.

[2:53:04] Is there a second?

[2:53:06] Second.

[2:53:07] Second.

[2:53:08] Any further discussion?

[2:53:10] Comments.

[2:53:10] Mr. Rice.

[2:53:11] So just to be clear, we set in motion a plan to be brought back to us.

[2:53:17] It doesn't necessarily mean that we adopt that plan.

[2:53:22] We can amend it.

[2:53:23] Yes.

[2:53:24] As such.

[2:53:25] That's the goal.

[2:53:26] Yes, sir.

[2:53:27] Thank you.

[2:53:29] Mr. Water?

[2:53:30] This is your, we are asking staff to do this.

[2:53:35] of this is done by staff, we're not outsourcing or asking, again, that's the goal.

[2:53:41] I guess it would be up to Mr. Pepper's based on bandwidth of staff if this is something

[2:53:46] that could be done internally, or if it's a task that would need to be farmed out.

[2:53:52] But we can have that follow-up discussion at the September 17th meeting if that's appropriate.

[2:54:00] I would just, I would just, I would just make sure Mr. Peppers are clear with the motion

[2:54:09] of the quest.

[2:54:10] And do you think that is adequate time to be able to prepare that response?

[2:54:18] So, I'm sure Mr. Tolerary will give me his notes.

[2:54:22] I try to write that out there.

[2:54:23] Yeah.

[2:54:24] Yeah.

[2:54:24] Do you deny it?

[2:54:26] The only thing I'm confused about out to do won't clarification on, the motion says to bring

[2:54:31] everything back by December 3rd, what exactly are you wanting back by the 17th set?

[2:54:37] That would be the three action items between now and then, which are identified, responsible

[2:54:44] party or manager of the community land trust internally within staff, a list of the required

[2:54:51] organizational steps and a firm date for bring in the implementation plan back to Council,

[2:54:58] EG, FB-7.

[2:55:00] Number the third. Okay.

[2:55:05] 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.

[2:55:25] Any

[2:55:27] other comments?

[2:55:30] Questions?

[2:55:34] Okay.

[2:55:34] We have a motion and a second.

[2:55:36] All of our neighbors say aye.

[2:55:38] Aye.

[2:55:38] Opposed name?

[2:55:40] Motion carries.

[2:55:43] I have nothing tonight.

[2:55:45] I didn't want to remiss in guests and visitors of not recognizing chief linear with chairkey fire.

[2:55:51] Chief is great to have you here.

[2:55:53] You picked a doozy for your first meeting.

[2:55:56] So they're not always this long.

[2:55:57] but it can't promise that going forward.

[2:56:01] But thank you for being with us.

[2:56:02] We appreciate having you here

[2:56:03] and appreciate the collaboration with you

[2:56:06] and your team always.

[2:56:08] So with that, I will entertain a motion to adjourn

[2:56:11] to executive session, to discuss real estate and litigation.

[2:56:16] So, my second.

[2:56:18] Motion and second, I'll favor say aye.

[2:56:20] Aye.

[2:56:20] I was nay.

[2:56:22] We are adjourned.

[2:56:24] For this portion.

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