[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?