[0:00] The regular meeting of the Texa County,
Arkansas Planning Commission is called
[0:04] to order. Agendas are available on the
rails, so make so help yourself. We will
[0:09] take the items as they are listed on the
agenda. I will read each item and ask
[0:13] the person representing the request to
come forward to the podium. Please state
[0:19] your name and address for the recording
secretary.
[0:22] Present any information you and make any
comments you have about your request. be
[0:28] prepared to respond to any questions
that members of the planning commission
[0:32] may have of you. Thank you. Item number
one, roll call.
[0:38] » Anita Picket,
>> present.
[0:42] » Jason Depri is absent.
Uh Boots Thomas is absent. Dr. Hickerson
[0:47] » here.
>> Chris Owens
[0:49] » here.
>> Cory Mobs
[0:51] » here.
>> And Chairman Neil
[0:53] » here. We have a quorum and we can
conduct business.
[0:57] Second item, adoption of the summarized
minutes.
[1:02] Have each commissioner had an
opportunity to review the the minutes.
[1:07] If you need any more time,
if all are satisfied, the chair would
[1:13] entertain a motion.
>> I move we approve the minutes as
[1:16] presented.
>> Have a motion and a second to approve
[1:20] the minutes. All in favor? I.
>> Any oppose? Minutes are passed.
[1:27] Item number three,
[1:32] ordinance revision, request by Texas
County, Arkansas Police Department to
[1:37] revise the draft truck stop ordinance to
include a requirement for security
[1:42] cameras.
>> Um, well, first of all, we're at a bit
[1:45] of a disadvantage tonight because our
internet has been out all day, so we
[1:49] don't have our PowerPoint. So, I'm going
to need you to rely on your packets.
[1:54] [laughter]
Um,
[1:57] TAP, as you remember, we passed, we
passed the truck stop ordinance. It has
[2:01] not gone to the board of directors yet.
Um, we're trying to push as much as we
[2:06] can into next year because of the budget
that they're fighting with right now.
[2:11] Um, but TAPD has asked us to add a
requirement for security cameras.
[2:17] So, in the ordinance
that we drafted, there is a
[2:25] section entitled administrative
requirements
[2:28] and that says all requests for a truck
stop shall be accompanied by the
[2:32] following items. A site plan, a traffic
impact study, a water runoff and
[2:39] drainage study, a lighting plan, and I
have added in there a security camera
[2:44] plan.
That make sense?
[2:47] Yeah. And I think they'll have security
cameras anyway, but tap this is
[2:51] » better safe than sorry.
>> Cover all the bases.
[2:54] » Yeah.
>> All right.
[2:58] » Is that all that's necessary to appeal
that requirement?
[3:02] » Mhm.
>> Okay. All right. Any questions from
[3:05] commissioners?
[3:08] The chair would entertain a motion.
>> I move that we approve the item number
[3:15] three.
Second.
[3:18] » We chair has a a motion and second to
approve the ordinance revision for truck
[3:24] stops.
>> Roll call.
[3:27] » Anita Picket.
>> Yes.
[3:29] » Dr. Hickerson,
>> yes.
[3:31] » Chris Owens,
>> yes.
[3:32] » Cory Mobs,
>> yes.
[3:33] » And Chairman Neil,
>> yes.
[3:36] » Item number three passes.
[3:41] Okay.
Item number four, reszoning request.
[3:45] Request by coart that investments to
reszone the property located at 3411
[3:52] east
from C3 open display commercial to a
[3:57] planned unit development for the purpose
of building duplexes. property is
[4:02] legally described as park southeast
southwest section 4 township 16 south
[4:09] range 28 west of Miller County Arkansas
containing 5 acres more or less water
[4:16] » okay this property on this map in your
packet this property is located on East
[4:22] Street located east of old Blackman
Ferry Road if you've ever driven down
[4:27] there's an old abandoned building that
says Bucks and ducks on it. That's the
[4:33] property that we're talking about. Um
there is
[4:45] find on my maps.
>> Looks like there's two buildings on it
[4:49] already.
>> Those two buildings are going to be
[4:51] demolished.
>> So they'll be demolishing those
[4:54] buildings. On your zoning map, the
property is currently zoned C3.
[5:00] It does butt up to R1 residential
property, but they would be reszoning it
[5:05] to a PUD, which means that that's all
they can build on there. Um, are the
[5:11] duplexes that they're requesting.
There is a 6-in water line on the north
[5:17] side of 71. They're pulling a permit
from the Arkansas Department of
[5:22] Transportation to bore under 71 to
connect to that water line. They have
[5:27] had perk tests done by the Department of
Health. And you should have in your
[5:32] packet a site plan that has the U septic
fields on it. It's the one that has the
[5:39] red squares on it.
[5:43] Now, they are required to submit a
preliminary plat. They don't have that
[5:47] plat tonight. So tonight we're just
approving the site plan. They'll have to
[5:52] come back in January with the
preliminary plat and they're looking at
[5:56] doing five duplexes.
Um
[6:00] I have had a phone call about inquiries
about what they were going to put there,
[6:04] but I've not had anyone formally
complain about it.
[6:14] » Do we know the square footage on each
duplex? Um,
[6:17] » I'm trying to spin it and see.
>> It's I don't know if I gave
[6:22] » Okay.
>> And yes, calling the developer is here.
[6:26] » Oh,
[6:37] and the culde-sac is okay.
>> The culde-sac they are the site plan you
[6:42] have has been revised. They sent it to
me today. Of course, I could not print
[6:45] it because I have no internet. Um, they
had to increase the culde-sac by 8 feet
[6:51] because you have to have 98 feet width
for the fire department
[6:55] » fire trucks.
>> I'm sorry, not 98, 96. So, that has been
[6:59] um revised on the new site plan.
We had a meeting with all the uh utility
[7:06] companies, uh the fire department,
um
[7:12] building official, and everybody went
over the site plan there.
[7:22] » Any uh
how many notices went out to
[7:27] » 16?
>> 16. And I ended up calling Terry today
[7:31] just to get his opinion since it's his
board and he said this would be an asset
[7:35] to the area.
[7:39] » Good deal. All right. Anything else? Sh.
>> I don't have anything else. Like I said,
[7:44] the developers here. If you have any
questions.
[7:47] » All right. Is there if there's someone
here that wants to speak for the
[7:50] project,
>> just come forward. State your name.
[7:58] step up here.
>> Yes,
[7:59] » that's great.
>> Um, my name is Tracy Harris. Uh, I'm
[8:03] actually the my wife actually is now
co-owner with the heirs of the property
[8:08] immediately to the south. Uh, was
formerly JW Lingo 3417 East Street. I
[8:14] don't think the family, the whole family
is not opposed to certainly increasing
[8:18] the area, proper development in the
area, all of those things. We've just
[8:23] been through estate planning, just had
an estate sale. I do know that the roads
[8:27] across the street are present here and I
have not conversed with them. I don't
[8:31] know about their feelings and certainly
want to let the developers know we're
[8:35] not here to like oppose or say hey
absolutely not. We can't reszone it. The
[8:40] only the only thing I would request
because I don't feel like that the
[8:43] family feels we have sufficient
information to say yes we're fully in
[8:49] favor. Yes, we oppose it because we
don't really have the ramifications. We
[8:54] had the house up for sale and we
actually had a contract on the house uh
[8:59] that the individuals I think were
concerned about. Uhoh, you know, now
[9:03] we're reszoning this. We don't know
whether we need to go forward or not. It
[9:07] certainly that aspect of the delay
negatively affected the family. Of
[9:11] course, in that regard of what our
potential future was, it has nothing to
[9:16] do with being for or against the
property. In fact, anything will look
[9:20] better than a burned out hole of a house
and what's developed there there. So,
[9:24] we're not at all opposed to that the
improvement of the property. I think
[9:27] it's just important to know what the
future does hold for the residential
[9:31] homes in the area. I'm very familiar
with the PUD. I know that that is
[9:36] restrictive to exactly what they are
saying they're going to build. They have
[9:40] to build whatever the PU So, that's not
a problem. I don't I'm not concerned
[9:43] about it being wide open on development
and all that. I think my biggest concern
[9:47] would be we don't have the internet up.
I don't have a printed plat in front of
[9:51] me as far as what actually that's going
to look like or
[9:54] » I don't have a plat. I have
>> But that's what I heard you say. And so
[9:58] I'm wondering about the plat if I'm just
wondering about that. I know if I'm
[10:03] them, I want to get this approved right
now for the first of the year. So I'm in
[10:06] no way trying to be antagonistic and
saying, "Hey, you guys got to wait
[10:10] another month." But the thing that does
concern me is don't have the platform.
[10:14] And would love to have a conversation
with you guys about kind of what that
[10:17] looks like. be thrilled to do that. Um,
but really I'm respectfully going to ask
[10:23] that you consider
a yay or nay vote on it to approve it as
[10:28] far as the reasoning until we have the
plaid in front of us and can properly
[10:32] respond to what that actually looks like
on access and egress and since the
[10:37] borderland absolutely specifically
borders to the south the 4 acres that
[10:43] you know is now in the estate. It would
it would def defin definitely
[10:49] impact I guess the access egress of a a
person that's buying a single family
[10:54] dwelling and what does all that look
like? So I just respectfully ask not
[10:57] that you deny or you know approve it
either way. I mean I don't know that
[11:01] we're even opposed to it. It's just that
I don't think without the plat we have
[11:05] the information to say we can properly
speak to
[11:10] whether or not we would be opposed at
the impact on the personal residence. So
[11:14] anyway,
>> thank you for your
[11:17] back.
[11:20] » They'll have to come back in January
preliminary class and then [snorts] once
[11:26] the board of directors approves the
resim,
[11:31] they have to bring back a final. Now if
the final does not have any significant
[11:37] changes to it, then we can just approve
it in house.
[11:41] » But if it changes significantly [snorts]
It has to come back,
[11:46] » right?
>> But they do they will have to come back
[11:48] in January.
>> Yeah.
[11:51] » Either way,
>> right?
[11:56] » Let me ask you this just maybe I just
want to make sure I'm tracking with that
[12:00] information. So if if it's reszoned
tonight though, that's set in motion.
[12:04] Whereas that reszoning
could wait until January for the plat.
[12:10] It's not significantly going to hinder
it. Exactly.
[12:12] » In other words, if we tabled it and
didn't vote on the reasonzoning until
[12:16] January, it wouldn't significantly
hinder them from submitting the plat. I
[12:19] I don't want to delay them. That's not
my purpose to oppose them. It's just
[12:22] that it would be really helpful to us to
get past the first of the year and see
[12:26] the plat and see exactly how it impacts
the property in the area. You know,
[12:30] we're for anything that's going to
improve the area for sure. But
[12:35] that's just our our
>> problem
[12:42] in January.
>> Thank you. That's that was all my
[12:45] request. Okay.
[12:54] » All right. Is there anyone else here to
speak for the project?
[12:59] If there was if there were some things
that were to be said, would they would
[13:03] they be
>> Will you step to the microphone
[13:06] » and state your name and address?
>> My name is Doug Roads. Um lot kind of on
[13:11] the other side of the highway there.
What's your address?
[13:13] » If there were some things
>> state your address and state your
[13:17] address.
>> Oh, well I'm actually here with my
[13:19] mother who is there at 3500 East Street.
>> Okay. Um would it be better to state any
[13:25] things that when you sit since these
decisions will be being made at the next
[13:28] meeting would that be more appropriate
to come and say it then?
[13:31] » Well, you feel free to share whatever
you want to right now and
[13:34] » Okay. Um the concerns that I have is is
just the inconsistency with the the
[13:40] disharmony of the the two zonings. The
the R1 being single family uh budded
[13:46] right up next to the PED um you know
effectively multif family. I just I
[13:50] don't want to make this a those people
these people kind of thing, but um just
[13:56] in essence, you know, the people that
live there now or are interested in
[14:00] their property values selling in the
future, just as just as Mr. Harris said,
[14:04] the sale being held up because of this
possibility. Um the people in the area
[14:08] there do have some concerns. I've spoken
with several of them about the way that
[14:12] may affect things. Um, now I'm a
landlord and I have single family home
[14:19] and multif family as well, both. And so,
like I say, there's nothing to say that
[14:25] inherently this is worse than that. But
there, you know, if you're the homeowner
[14:31] and the resident, you're going to you're
going to take care of a property better.
[14:35] If you're a landlord and not living
there, you're you have a financial
[14:39] vested interest in taking care of the
property, but you're still not going to
[14:42] take care of it as good as you do your
house. And if you are not the owner and
[14:46] you live there, you have a very
temporary uh connection to that
[14:51] property. Um I have a great relationship
with many of my tenants. Um it's not
[14:56] about the it's not about the situation
uh that but it just in general that has
[15:01] been my experience for 20 years as I've
been doing it for 20 years. So I kind of
[15:06] have onhand experience about this. I got
a call just on the way here tonight. As
[15:09] a matter of fact, one one of the tenants
and one of my f multifamilies was
[15:15] yelling at a tenant from two doors down
and they were having a big fight about
[15:21] whatever it was going on. got a third
tenant involved and those kind of
[15:25] things, you know, they don't happen
because it's multif family, but when you
[15:29] have people close together, they can
have it. And so when people have been
[15:33] living in a single family or one for
years and years, you can see how this
[15:38] would concern the neighborhood. I mean,
I I hope you could at least see that
[15:43] possibility. Um, it's not about what it
looks like now. Probably be beautiful
[15:47] once they build it. I don't know what
their plans are. Like I say, I'd like to
[15:51] see it as well. Uh but you know if it
changes hands, how will the next
[15:55] landlord take care of it? What's it
going to look like in 20 years? Those
[15:58] things will affect the neighborhood. If
the wrong landlord comes in and doesn't
[16:02] take care of the property, it will
definitely affect those homes. And so
[16:06] there is a concern there. A resident
owner will always take care of a
[16:10] property better than any any of the
either two situations. So that's kind of
[16:16] what I have to say. There may be some
others as well, but thank you very much.
[16:19] » Thanks, sir.
[16:24] Do we have anyone else that'd like to
come forward and express their opinion
[16:29] for the property, for the project,
the ANA, the developers? Anything you
[16:36] want to share that might address
anything that you've heard thus far?
[16:45] Nope. Not this. All right.
[16:50] I think concern also I think we should
table it consider both January meeting
[16:58] you know resigning then make our
decision
[17:04] » all right
motion have a motion to table it do we
[17:09] have a second
>> second
[17:11] » have a motion and second to table the
the reszoning request to the January
[17:16] meeting roll call
>> I need Pick it.
[17:20] » Yes.
>> Dr. Hickerson.
[17:23] » Chris Owens.
>> Yes.
[17:24] » Cory Mobs.
>> Yes.
[17:26] » And Chairman Neil.
>> Yes.
[17:31] » Re the resulting request is Ben Table.
>> Item number five.
[17:40] » Ordinance revision. request by planning
and zoning to approve an accessory
[17:44] dwelling ordinance to reflect rules and
regulations recently adopted by the
[17:48] state of Arkansas.
>> So
[17:52] in an attempt to solve the
affordable housing issue, the state
[17:59] senate or state legislature has passed a
law that basically says we have to allow
[18:06] it only it's only addressing accessory
dwelling units. We're not talking about
[18:10] garages. We're not talking about shops.
We're not talking about workshops. We're
[18:14] talking about what we've always called
mother-in-law's quarters or um guest
[18:20] houses. And so the new law basically
says that we have to allow at least one
[18:27] by right on every piece of property that
has a single family home. Now, we have
[18:33] always required a conditional use
permit.
[18:37] Um,
so this ordinance is simply to bring us
[18:41] into compliance with Arkansas's new law.
Um,
[18:47] and I've given you a copy of the actual
law.
[18:52] There's several things we cannot do.
Um,
[18:58] we cannot require that a member of their
family live there. We cannot require any
[19:04] kind of family relationship with the
person that lives in the main house. We
[19:08] cannot require that the accessory
dwelling unit match the house in design
[19:15] if it's an unattached. So the accessory
dwelling unit can be either external
[19:21] attached to it like an attached
apartment or it can be internal.
[19:26] » Internal.
>> That's what it says.
[19:30] So if it is external or attached, it
can't be more than 75% of the foot space
[19:37] or the space of the primary home. We
cannot require that it have its own
[19:42] utility meters.
[19:46] » We cannot regulate it as a um
rental unit. They can rent it out if
[19:53] they want to,
>> but it can be only up to a,000 square
[19:57] feet. It has to be the lesser amount. So
the This is a thousand, right? The way I
[20:01] read it because I was mathing at my
house before I came up here.
[20:05] » Probably it says that somewhere.
>> Design number three. A
[20:12] » not more than 75% or a,000 square feet.
Whichever is less.
[20:16] » Yes. Whichever is less.
>> So you got a 2,000 square foot house.
[20:32] That's 1500 square feet. So it still
would be smaller. It would still only be
[20:36] a thousand.
>> We cannot require that it has additional
[20:40] parking.
[20:44] We cannot require that the single family
dwelling or the accessory dwelling unit
[20:48] is occupied by the owner. So, somebody
could have a single family home and
[20:53] they're renting it out and that's and
they can still put an accessory dwelling
[20:58] unit in their backyard
>> and rent that one out too.
[21:00] » And rent that one out too.
>> Um,
[21:04] » what's the rule for parking on the
street?
[21:07] » Do we have an ordinance for that? They
are not required to have additional
[21:10] parking.
[21:18] » What about a single family home with an
accessory?
[21:26] » Make no mistake, we're not happy about
this law. And another another hiccup
[21:32] that we've run into with this law is
this applies to historic districts, too.
[21:39] So where we have typically been able to
regulate
[21:44] structures in historic districts, we now
cannot do that.
[21:55] » Okay. What's an A1 zone?
>> A1 is the mixed use zone. It's the only
[22:01] zone. So several years ago, we realized
that we had people with large pieces of
[22:06] land that wanted to like build an
additional home on it or build a shop on
[22:12] it. And there was really no reason that
they couldn't except it was our
[22:16] ordinance. So we created the A1 zone.
It's the only or zone where you can
[22:21] build a shop before you build your
primary home.
[22:23] » That's right. Okay.
>> Yeah. And you can have two houses on
[22:26] there.
So the
[22:30] » now we have
>> so that's excluding A1 zone. So that's
[22:34] the only caveat is that you can do this.
>> Yeah. But if you build an accessory
[22:40] dwelling unit in A1 and you have no
primary house there then basically your
[22:44] accessory dwelling unit is your primary
house.
[22:47] » Now we have confirmed that you cannot
use an RV or a single
[22:52] » trailer
>> single single wide trailer as an
[22:54] accessory dwelling unit. We have
confirmed that. We have put it in here
[22:58] that it cannot be in the side yard or
the front yard. So, it has to be behind
[23:03] the rear build line, which is how far
back?
[23:06] » Depends on the zone.
>> Okay.
[23:09] [snorts]
[23:12] And I mean, I'm happy if y'all want to
read over this and table it and read
[23:17] over it if you haven't had a chance to
read over it. We're supposed to have it
[23:21] enacted by January the 1st. We're not
going to have that done anyway because
[23:25] it won't go to the board until the first
meeting in January. So, if you want to
[23:29] table it till you have chance to look
over it, that's up to you.
[23:35] [snorts] I mean, it's not it's not
something anyone's overly happy about.
[23:40] But it is the state law.
[23:45] » No, there's not anything we can do about
it.
[23:47] » What does it mean by the covenants? The
ordinance does not prohibit restrictive
[23:52] covenants.
>> So if you have a homeowners association
[23:55] and they have a covenant that says you
cannot have
[23:58] » guest houses, this doesn't preclude
that.
[24:02] » Okay?
>> So you can if if two private parties
[24:07] » if your homeowners association and the
homeowner if they have a covenant that
[24:11] says you cannot have an accessory
dwelling unit in your backyard, then
[24:16] then you can't. This doesn't preclude a
covenant. HOA stand.
[24:19] » We can't require a covenant. We can't we
can't say you have to have a covenant.
[24:25] But if the homeowners association on
their own goes in with their homeowners
[24:30] and they agree to that, this doesn't
preclude that.
[24:40] » This law been challenged by anybody. I
have not seen that and I read all my
[24:47] municipal league notices.
[24:52] » This came in in effect for the last
legislative session.
[24:55] » Yes,
>> several challenged. Yeah,
[24:59] [clears throat]
[25:02] there are there are several that I'm
working on that we need to come into
[25:07] compliance with, but I'm trying not to
bombard everybody with 600 ordinance
[25:12] changes at once.
>> But at the present time, we have to go
[25:16] by the state law.
>> We have to go by the state law. I mean,
[25:20] the rule is if ours is in conflict with
the state law, we have to go by the
[25:24] state law.
But in the ordinance it says we have
[25:28] till January the 1.
Um somewhere in here
[25:32] » it looks like they introduced it in
February.
[25:53] » That's the Anyone else? just have a
question. If we say,
[25:59] » you know, go ahead and act on it. We
don't I don't see a choice if it's a
[26:05] state law.
>> We don't have a choice.
[26:08] » But I want y'all to feel comfortable
that you've read it. I want y'all to
[26:12] feel comfortable that you've read both
of them. And if you haven't read it, I
[26:16] mean, like I said, it's not going to be
enacted by January the 1st anyway
[26:19] because it's not going to The soonest I
can get it to the board is the 5th. And
[26:22] it will probably actually be the
[26:27] 19th
because I think they're slammed on the
[26:31] fifth already.
>> This was off [clears throat] northern
[26:34] Arkansas.
>> Now, you do we do know that if they
[26:38] build something, it does still have it
has to meet all the codes. So, they
[26:43] can't just throw something back there.
They can't throw small building back
[26:46] there or something like that. It's got
to meet all the codes.
[26:49] » So, if they build if they build an
accessory dwelling unit, it still has to
[26:53] meet all of our current codes. And it
looked like it had to say like it had to
[26:56] have cooking, it had to have restroom,
it had to have like all the things. It
[27:00] had to be completely independent.
>> But the
[27:03] » but they're not required to have their
own utility meters,
[27:07] » right? So you would you could
potentially share utilities with the
[27:10] main homeowner's house.
>> Yes.
[27:13] » But that's in the state law, right?
That's specifically called out the state
[27:17] law.
>> My thoughts are I don't know how to word
[27:20] it, but I think we need to adopt
whatever it is.
[27:28] goes into effect.
It'll be honestly with these things it's
[27:33] going to be a work in progress as
everybody works out the kinks and
[27:36] figures out exactly what I mean Roger
called one of our state representatives
[27:41] and he provided no input into
so um you know it's gonna it's going to
[27:49] be a work in progress as everybody
figures out what they really intended to
[27:52] do but we do need to enact it
[27:58] » yeah I was googling and reading all the
things at the house and mapping and unit
[28:04] motion.
>> Have a chair. Chair has a motion to
[28:08] approve the planning and zoning
accessory dwelling ordinance. Do I have
[28:14] a second?
>> Have a second. Roll call.
[28:18] » Anita Picket.
>> Yes.
[28:19] » Dr. Hickerson,
>> yes.
[28:21] » Chris Owens,
>> yes.
[28:22] » Cory Mobs,
>> yes.
[28:24] » Chairman Neil,
>> yes.
[28:26] » Ordinance revision passes.
[28:32] Item [clears throat] number six,
entertainment district revisions.
[28:35] Request by city manager and Tex County,
Arkansas Police Department to enact
[28:40] revisions to the entertainment district
for the sake of public safety or two.
[28:47] » Okay. [clears throat] So,
[28:51] we um had a workshop, a joint workshop
with the board of directors on November
[28:55] the 12th. I think most of y'all were
there. Um, it was heavily attended by
[29:00] the downtown business owners.
And while there was much discussion back
[29:05] and forth, in the end, we did agree on
three things that we felt needed to be
[29:10] changed in the entertainment um,
district ordinance. Um, and those are
[29:16] the only three things that I have added
to this ordinance. Actually, I've added
[29:20] four. The other one is administrative.
But um the three things were banning the
[29:27] consumption of alcohol purchased outside
the entertainment district because
[29:33] beforehand we had people bringing in
their own alcohol. Businesses were
[29:36] losing money. Um so banning the
consumption of alcohol purchased outside
[29:43] the entertainment district. So, if
Bobby has been fishing and he has a
[29:49] cooler full of beer in the back of his
truck and he's not drinking it, that's
[29:53] fine. But you can't bring in alcohol
from outside and drink it. The second
[29:59] thing was to remove the block containing
the Rock liquor store. remove that block
[30:05] from the entertainment district because
it was in the entertainment district
[30:08] which meant you could buy alcohol there
and still be buying it in the
[30:13] entertainment district and walk out the
door and drink it. So to remove that
[30:17] block from the entertainment district
>> the third thing was to restrict the
[30:24] hours for open drinking from 11:00 a.m.
to 12:00 a.m. 11:00 a.m. to midnight. It
[30:30] was previously two o'clock in the
morning.
[30:34] And the only other thing we added um
which Boots brought up is we're supposed
[30:38] to review the entertainment district
every year as needed, but no one had the
[30:44] responsibility of doing that. So we have
put that responsibility on my position
[30:49] to make sure that it gets reviewed every
six months.
[30:53] » Every six months instead of every year.
>> Well, every year. Right now we're
[30:57] reviewing it in January again. So um
those are the only three changes that I
[31:04] have put in there. Those are the three
that we agreed on at that workshop.
[31:09] Okay.
>> Um
[31:13] this is in my opinion a starting place.
Um we will review that again in January
[31:18] and see where we are.
[31:26] » Okay. Any other questions?
[31:32] Yes. Do we have anybody that wants to
make a comment? Come forward.
[31:39] » Oh, yeah.
>> Colin 6211 Tennessee Road. Um, we
[31:44] are a property owner. Um, within that
block of the Rock House, I think is
[31:51] where that is. Uh, we have we own a
corner lot across from Commercial Bank.
[31:56] Um, We we have that currently for sale
right now. Um if we take that out of the
[32:02] entertainment district, that may hurt
the sale possibly of that. So I don't
[32:08] know if there's a way to restrict that
to just that lo that lot or if there's a
[32:13] different way to divide that up.
[32:19] » And we have no internet
>> and we have no internet to look at the
[32:22] flat. No.
[32:26] » Do you have somebody trying to buy it
right now that wants to add something?
[32:30] » We're in We're in negotiations, but I
don't know how how much further that's
[32:33] going to go um with their um with their
plans. They would like to be able to
[32:38] utilize that. Um
>> they want to do entertainment district
[32:41] things.
>> Correct. So, that's just something to
[32:46] consider.
[32:52] Well, our problem I mean our problem
with that block is liquor house liquor
[32:57] is in that block. And
[33:02] » even if you ban
>> even if you ban
[33:08] consumption of alcohol outside
[33:15] you can buy it there.
[33:20] not solving the problem. It's just a
matter of where you're buying the
[33:23] liquor.
>> Did they see an uptick? I don't remember
[33:27] them talking at that workshop.
>> Oh, okay. That's why I didn't hear
[33:31] something.
>> Okay.
[33:33] » The problem is being able to buy at
liquor and walk out the door and drink
[33:38] it rather than buying it.
>> Okay.
[33:43] » And those businesses are saying that it
is impacting
[33:45] » it is impacting people in their own.
>> Okay. because they're buying it or
[33:49] bringing it in.
[34:07] » It is.
>> It's on the corner of Wood Street and
[34:10] East Fourth Street.
>> East Fourth.
[34:13] » Okay. Velvet pulled it up on her phone
and that is a platted subdivision. So,
[34:18] it's possible we can just take out the
lot that Rock
[34:23] » Okay,
>> we can take it out by legal description.
[34:25] Maybe a fraction of a lot, but
>> it may be a fraction of a lot. I know
[34:30] the one that he's talking about is like
the south 1.9 ft of a lot and some other
[34:35] lots, but it should be fairly easy to
revise the ordinance to
[34:41] account for just the rock house liquor.
>> Yeah,
[34:48] if you want to do that or or you can
pass it,
[34:56] » we can verbally say that.
>> Yeah. Okay.
[34:59] » That's more restrictive than what
>> then less restrictive. We can do more.
[35:02] We can't do less.
>> Okay.
[35:05] » Thank you.
>> That be that'd be satisfactory.
[35:07] » Yes.
>> Chair would entertain a motion.
[35:13] » I move we approve the revisions to the
entertainment district for the sake of
[35:17] public safety editing
and only removing Rockhouse liquor from
[35:23] the entertainment district.
We have a second
[35:30] » roll call.
>> Anita Picket.
[35:34] » Yes.
>> Uh Dr. Hickerson,
[35:37] » Chris Owens,
>> yes.
[35:39] » Cory Mobs,
>> yes.
[35:40] » And Chairman Ne.
>> Yes. The entertainment uh district
[35:45] revisions with the edit is approved.
>> All right.
[35:53] Last comments. Anything?
[35:57] You have children or grandchildren?
[36:01] » Children
parks department's breakfast with Santa
[36:06] from 9 to noon.
Santa
[36:24] All right.
[36:28] » All right. Chair would entertain a
motion to adjurnn.
[36:31] » I move we adjourn.
>> All right. All in favor?
[36:35] » I