[0:16] Usually you can talk and he listens in and he comes.

[0:54] I don't know where I'll be. Hello. Welcome to the planning

[0:58] commission meeting. Today is February 26th, 2026, 6:30 p.m. We are going to

[1:05] get started tonight with a prayer by member Taylor and then when we have

[1:10] finished, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you.

[1:19] » Turn on my microphone. Father in heaven, we're grateful to be here. We're

[1:22] grateful to participate in the governing of this county as part

[1:28] of this great nation. We're grateful for that blessing in our lives to be a part

[1:34] of it to be able to raise our families and to live here. We ask the spirit to

[1:40] be with us that we might be civil and respectful

[1:49] and conscientious about our decisions and discussions. We ask this in the name

[1:54] of Jesus Christ. Amen.

[2:01] I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic

[2:08] for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and

[2:14] justice for all.

[2:26] Do I have a motion for the approval of the agenda?

[2:29] » So moved. >> Motion by member Sessions.

[2:31] » Second. >> Second by member King. All in favor?

[2:35] » Any opposed? >> Motion carries unanimous. Any conflicts

[2:39] of interest with anything on the agenda this evening?

[2:48] Seeing none, we will move into public comment. Um, our legislative item has a

[2:55] public hearing tonight. So, if you're here to speak about that, please refrain

[2:59] from doing so. We will have a public hearing at that time.

[3:02] Um, if there's anything else you'd like to speak to us about, please come

[3:06] forward and state your name for the record. Thank you.

[3:25] Seeing no public comment, move into our first agenda item tonight,

[3:30] the Bowman Rezone.

[3:35] Uh the Bowman Rezone is application number 25.047.

[3:40] Uh it's located approximately 3690 North Morgan Valley Drive. Um the property is

[3:47] currently zoned uh split residential RR1 1acre zoning and A20 and the general

[3:54] plan designation currently shows a majority village low density residential

[3:58] uh with a portion rural residential. Village low density residential is half

[4:03] acre which is um what they're requesting tonight. Uh the total acreage of the

[4:08] property is 1.39 acres. Uh staff has reviewed this application according to

[4:14] our zoning map as well as um the future land use map. As you can see on the

[4:20] future land use map um the bright yellow is uh village low density residential.

[4:26] It takes up a majority of the property. Um and then the remaining portion is

[4:31] rural residential which is typically one acre. And then if you go to the zoning

[4:36] map, uh something's wrong with the zoning map. I'll have to get that fixed.

[4:40] It looks like when it was being edited, it got the property got dragged.

[4:46] » Yeah. >> So, I'll just have to get that um push

[4:49] back up. But property uh currently has split zone R1 uh and um A20.

[4:58] Um what they're proposing is to go to R120 completely, which is halfacre lot.

[5:04] Uh staff believes that because a majority of the lot on the future land

[5:09] use map shows um village low density which is halfacre zoning. Uh we believe

[5:14] it makes uh makes good planning sense. Uh staff is not making a recommendation

[5:19] but uh would like to turn the time over to the applicant and they can kind of

[5:23] speak their case if if that works for you.

[5:26] » That's great. Thanks. >> Thank you.

[5:30] Hi,

[5:36] I'm Brad Bowman. Um, just really was told I didn't really

[5:42] have to be here, but was here to answer any questions if anyone had any. Seemed

[5:47] pretty straightforward. This was property that was previously owned by

[5:50] our family. Uh, it's adjacent to our ranch down below, which is why I bought

[5:55] it. And uh the home on that property was moved to that location from my father

[6:04] and my uncle's uh cousin. Uh it was his home, Alfred Bowman. Home

[6:10] had to be moved because they were putting in the canal and that's where

[6:14] the home was. And so like family uh made an arrangement for them to have access

[6:19] to this land because they own some property down below that we now own. and

[6:25] uh ran a dairy there. So, they moved the house from the canal down to there and

[6:30] the barn. And uh basically, as you can see, all the adjacent property is

[6:36] property that's already R120. Uh the property to the east is also

[6:41] already been reszoned R120. And uh it's just part of the straight

[6:47] line that would go down. Otherwise, there'd be a little jagged area there

[6:51] that was carved out that isn't R120, which not make any sense in my opinion.

[6:58] » Are there any questions at all?

[7:06] » All right. Thank you. >> Thank you.

[7:12] » Any questions for staff before we move into a public hearing?

[7:16] Do you have a motion for a public hearing?

[7:20] » So moved. >> Motion by member McMillan.

[7:23] » Second. Second by member W. All in favor?

[7:26] » I I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimous.

[7:29] We are now in public hearing. If you would like to speak to us about this

[7:31] item, please come forward and state your name for the record.

[7:46] My name's Russ Braithweight. Um, we live just adjacent to this

[7:52] property and it's more of not so much a comment, just a question. How many

[7:59] totals acres are there combined with these two lots that are proposed to

[8:05] be the same uh zoning?

[8:11] » Yes. So, this isn't a Q&A, but I will answer. It is 1.39 acres is the

[8:16] requested resone. >> Total acreage is 1.39 acres and you can

[8:20] see that on the map as well. >> I I thought that was just the one little

[8:24] piece on there, but >> that's the total there.

[8:28] » That was my only question I had.

[8:42] Seeing no additional public comment, do we have a motion to go out of public

[8:45] hearing? >> Motion.

[8:46] » Motion >> by member King, second by member Watt.

[8:51] All in favor? >> I.

[8:53] » Any opposed? >> Motion carries unanimous.

[9:01] » Any questions for staff?

[9:10] In the sake of Robert's rules, are you ready for any motion?

[9:13] » Do we have a motion? >> I I have a motion.

[9:16] » Motion by member sessions. >> I move we forward a positive

[9:19] recommendation to the county commission for the Bowman Rezone application number

[9:24] 25.047 047 changing 1.39 acres from RR1/ A20 to R120

[9:33] with an accompany amendment to the future land use map from village low

[9:38] density residential and rural residential to village low density

[9:44] residential completely based on the findings listed in the staff report

[9:48] dated February 26, 2026.

[9:52] Second >> motion by member Sessions, second by

[9:55] member Taylor. Any discussion?

[10:06] » No, seems simple. >> Cool.

[10:10] » All in favor? >> I

[10:12] » I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimous.

[10:18] Thank you.

[10:26] So, the second legislative item that was supposed to be on uh the agenda tonight,

[10:31] I take full responsibility. The wrong staff report was attached to the packet.

[10:35] It does not contain the actual language that's being changed. So, I would like

[10:40] to request a continuence to a date certain so I don't have to renotice it

[10:44] um either the 12th of March or the first meeting in April.

[10:50] Um, whichever one you want to pick, it's fine. 26. Please don't. That has the uh

[10:57] gun range. >> I would imagine that will be

[11:04] » I'll move to continue this item number seven to the 12th of March. Second.

[11:11] » Motion by member Taylor, second by member King. All in favor?

[11:16] » I >> I.

[11:17] » Any opposed? Motion carries unanimous. March 12th. It is.

[11:20] » Thank you. >> Thanks.

[11:22] » Also, uh Mike Newton had a uh conflict. Uh so he wasn't going to be able to be

[11:27] here tonight. Uh he had a meeting out of town. Uh so we're going to push the

[11:32] training off to either the 20 the 12th or the 26th, whatever works for Matt and

[11:39] uh Mike. Awesome. And then we may push more training off to a different meeting

[11:45] for the open meeting law uh to try to kind of get you some more training and

[11:50] » meet your yearly requirement. >> Great.

[11:52] » Thank you. >> Yep. Thank you. Appreciate everything

[11:55] you guys do. >> Any questions?

[11:56] » I do have question. I can't seem to find the current zoning maps on the new

[12:03] layers. >> Okay.

[12:05] » Yeah, I' I've actually gotten that. I apologize. I probably should send you

[12:10] the link to where the map is located now.

[12:12] » Um, if you go to our web page, you go to maps, instead of there being nine or 10

[12:17] different maps, there's only three, >> right?

[12:20] » If you click the middle one, uh, which I think it's called the ownership map on

[12:25] the left side, there's a box and, um, like a little it has different buttons

[12:31] to different tabs. One of them is the legend. If you click the legend, it

[12:35] brings up another box and you can turn and it's really slick. You can turn

[12:40] different uh layers on and off and it includes

[12:44] » all the zoning layers uh flood map zoning. It includes all the hazard

[12:49] mitigation maps. It's all contained in a single map now. And you can turn the

[12:54] layers on and off. >> I I tried but I can't see zoning. So,

[13:00] » um I can I can walk you through right now.

[13:02] » Yeah. Do we want to make this part of our training really quick? Like just

[13:06] show us >> how like how you use it?

[13:08] » I can click on the planning and zoning. >> Make it for 15 minutes.

[13:15] » Okay. >> I appreciate it.

[13:20] » No, I I saw all the different layers and the soils. I I get that, but I couldn't

[13:26] » find the current zoning. Uh the other issue uh is um when the

[13:33] recorders put the map together, they didn't keep the same colors.

[13:38] They changed the colors. So I need to have a conversation with them about

[13:42] reverting >> back to

[13:43] » Yeah. It would make it a lot easier for everybody

[13:46] » old people. >> Uh not just old people.

[13:51] Um

[13:55] let's see. Oh, that's Morgan City. That's weird.

[13:59] » It does that sometimes though. >> Yeah.

[14:03] » Uh if you come to departments, planning and development, P&D maps, you got the

[14:08] three. You have geohhazard. You don't really need to use that anymore because

[14:12] it's all incorporated into this middle map. Click on the middle map.

[14:17] This comes up every time. Yep. Uh there's three tabs on the left

[14:23] side here. The top one is the map layers. It looks like there's sheets of

[14:28] paper that are stacked. If you click on that one, um, it has all the Morgan City

[14:35] boundary. It's got the recorder layers, surveyor layers, uh, planning and

[14:39] development layers. You have the election. On the right side, you have

[14:43] this eyeball that's got a line through it. Um, if you drop down the planning

[14:49] and development layers, you can turn that on, but then you can

[14:53] go through and you can turn on or off individual layers.

[14:57] » That's awesome. >> So, if I if I zoom in, let's just zoom

[15:00] in here. Um, the closer you zoom in, a lot of the

[15:06] layers will populate at a certain uh scale. If you're outside of the allotted

[15:12] scale, it won't populate. So, you kind of have to zoom in, but you can turn the

[15:18] flood plane on and off, the faults, land, uh, the landslide scarps. There's

[15:23] a slope. This one, I'm glad default is always off

[15:29] because it really Here, I'll turn it on and show you.

[15:33] » That one bogs down the system pretty good.

[15:35] » Yeah. Well, you can't tell what anything else is. So, um, that one, unless you're

[15:41] actually looking for slope data or whatever, I would keep that one off. it

[15:44] just kind of confuses everything. I'd keep the soil data off as well cuz

[15:48] that's another yellow layer on top and it kind of messes with the colors. Uh we

[15:54] do have uh a layer with development agreements,

[15:58] zoning info. Uh so you can turn on the zoning info.

[16:03] If you're going to do the zoning though, I would make sure that all the other

[16:06] layers are turned off. >> Where is the key on this? Like if you

[16:11] let's say you did soils or >> um it's the third tab down.

[16:16] » Okay. >> So once you turn on zoning info.

[16:19] » Yeah. >> And let's just pretend that that's the

[16:21] only one that I have selected. >> If you come down to the legend, you can

[16:26] scroll through and the colors kind of tell you what each thing is.

[16:30] » Mobile is a little bit different than desktop. I'm finding on the iPad.

[16:34] » Yeah, I haven't used the mobile. I' I've only used the desktop. So I apologize. I

[16:39] can spend some time troubleshooting the mobile over the next couple weeks.

[16:44] » Mine one I only have two. >> I feel like that's the case with

[16:48] » kind of reverse. >> They don't work well on that.

[16:52] » So if you see um shapes with like this horizontal yellow line,

[16:58] » those are properties that have that have a record of survey

[17:02] » on those properties from the past. um they're not official plats or

[17:08] subdivisions, but they have a record of survey. So, at some point, we have a

[17:12] recorded record of survey for those properties. The ones that are the blue

[17:17] lines that are up and down, this is the really cool thing. So, if you click on a

[17:21] property that's got that up and down, the blue that shows there's a

[17:25] subdivision there, and you come up to the arrows,

[17:30] » you can actually click it and bring up the plat.

[17:35] » Nice. >> That's really cool.

[17:37] » That is a game changer for this county. >> Yes.

[17:43] Um, just a huge shout out to the recorders

[17:47] office, Sean and, uh, you know, Charles and Jamie. They've done a lot of work.

[17:53] » That's awesome. >> So, uh, that's the current map.

[17:57] Obviously, uh, colors probably need to go back to what the zoning colors used

[18:01] to be. It would help a lot of people. Um,

[18:05] but that's great. Yeah. So, you just scroll

[18:09] down and then it's on there. Shows the key,

[18:12] » right? Yeah, mobile is

[18:17] » Oh, yeah. So, uh, when I clicked on this parcel right here, it there's four

[18:22] sheets that that are affected by that where I clicked, and you can actually

[18:28] arrow through them. So, not only is there the subdivision, but there's an

[18:34] ownership trail. Um and then

[18:40] this actually verifies the zoning. >> Awesome.

[18:43] » So if I like the colors are confusing. >> You just can very much Yeah.

[18:47] » Yeah. If if you just click and you can kind of see when a parcel is split zone,

[18:53] like if you see down here and I click in the middle, it highlights the entire

[18:58] parcel, but you see different colors in it. That means there's multiple zones.

[19:04] And you can click in the area of each one

[19:08] and it'll tell you the zoning in that area and it'll highlight the whole every

[19:13] property that's affected by that zone. >> It's really cool.

[19:19] » Yeah, we like it. >> Yeah, I was pretty impressed because I

[19:24] I've been asking for this stuff for a long time.

[19:28] Yeah. Uh any other questions?

[19:33] I'm getting a lot of pink. It almost looks like a

[19:38] a layer that >> Yeah, that's probably probably the flood

[19:42] plane. >> Yeah. Can

[19:44] » I It should be >> How do you get rid of it?

[19:47] » Oh, uh flood plane is actually one of the things you can turn off. It's one of

[19:52] the layers. So,

[19:57] » I thought it was off. That's why I'm >> Oh, weird.

[20:03] Um, >> so go to

[20:06] right this one. >> Yeah.

[20:08] » Drop it down. Now turn them off individually.

[20:23] So, what it showed is she had she had one of the four items in that dropdown

[20:30] selected as off, but in the when it collapsed, it had it showing as off.

[20:36] » Okay. >> But three of them were still on. You had

[20:38] to even though it showed it off. >> Oh, weird. Okay.

[20:42] Um, I can talk to Sean and Charles about maybe we kind of troubleshoot the iPad

[20:48] or something. Yeah. >> Look at it a little bit more.

[20:53] » Any other questions?

[20:58] » Thank you. >> Thanks for showing us that.

[21:05] » Um, motion to approve our minutes. They were

[21:11] Motion. Do we have a motion to approve February 12th, 2026 planning commission

[21:15] meeting minutes? >> So moved.

[21:17] » Motion by member Sessions. >> Second.

[21:21] » Second by member King. All in favor? >> Oh.

[21:25] » Oh. Do you have any comments? >> Oh, yes.

[21:27] » We just need to change the Telford to Taylor and all of those. It's kind of

[21:32] » intermingling.

[21:37] » I changed the website.

[21:45] I'm just looking at the packet that I got

[21:53] » minutes at the end of the packet >> from this week's packet.

[22:02] » And there's one other >> in uh since I received an email from

[22:07] him. It was Banell, but I think in the minutes it's spelled B A N instead of B

[22:12] U. >> Okay.

[22:27] » Yeah,

[22:34] » there's a few

[22:44] I'm sure if you do a search it'll find the wall.

[22:59] » All in favor of >> with adjustments

[23:02] » adjustments. I

[23:04] » I >> I

[23:05] » I >> Any opposed?

[23:08] Motion carries unanimous. Motion to adjurnn.

[23:12] » So moved. >> Motion by member Taylor.

[23:15] » Second. >> Second.

[23:17] » Any discussion

[23:20] » to end the meeting?

Planning Commission Meeting February 26, 2026

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