CITY OF
The
Planning Commission of the City of Rainbow City, Alabama met in a regular session
at 3:00 P.M. and upon roll call the following members were present:
Present: Absent:
Thomas
Moon, Chairman Larry Keenum, Council Member
Terry
John Calhoun, Mayor
Wes
Ellis, Vice Chairman
Bettye
Ann Boyd
Larry
Harris
Bryan
Stone
Elbert
Tarvin
Mona
Wallace
Also
Present:
Wiley
McLain, Building Official Laura
Lloyd, City Attorney
Mark
Stephens, City Engineer Melvin
Potter, Fire Chief
1. Upon
roll call, Chairman Thomas Moon declared a quorum was present and the
following business was transacted.
2. The
minutes from the April 27, 2010 were presented.
Bryan Stone made
a motion to suspend the reading of the
minutes and approve the minutes as
presented. Wes Ellis seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously.
3. Public
hearing was announced for Harold Weaver, co-owner of MAYA
Landscaping. Mr. Weaver is seeking to re-zone the property
from Agricultural to
Highway Commercial. The business is a landscape and retail
business and is not
allowed in the Agricultural
District. Mr. Weaver had not had the
opportunity to
see the comments from the Staff Review
meeting. Bryan Stone moved and Wes
Ellis seconded the motion to table the
re-zoning request until next month, June
22, 2010 at 4:00 P.M. Motion carried unanimously.
4. A
public hearing was announced for Lisa Hawkins who is seeking to start a day
care home in her residence at
Conditional Use Permit to be allowed to
care for no more than six (6) children at
a time in her home. Mrs. Hawkins stated that she is licensed
through DHR to
care for children and can do so 24 hours
a day 7 days a week, but the children
are not in DHR custody that she
keeps. Mrs. Hawkins said that she kept
five (5)
children at her home and was also raising
two (2) grandchildren. Mrs. Hawkins
is renting the home from Warren &
Donna Martin. Mr. Martin spoke on behalf
of
Mrs. Hawkins and stated that he did not
mind the care day home being there as
long as Mrs. Hawkins had proper liability
insurance for this business. People
speaking against the Conditional Use
Permit were
Lane.
Each person present was concerned about the traffic and the speed of the
cars.
Planning Commission against this permit
from the neighborhood. After the
discussion, Bryan Stone moved to deny the
request for a Conditional Use Permit.
Larry Harris seconded the motion. Motion carried unanimously. Wiley McLain,
Building Official, told Mrs. Hawkins that
she had thirty (30) days from today to
appeal the decision with the Rainbow City
Council.
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Planning
Commission
May 25,
2010
5. Sam
Hood,
request permission to place pipe in a
ditch along his yard. Mr. Hood stated
that,
after the water tank was placed on the
mountain above his home, he has had
problems with the water washing the ditch
and his yard away. Last year Rain-
bow City paid for and placed weed control
cloth and rip-rap rocks in the ditch to
control the flow of water. Mr. Hood wants the rocks removed because of
weeds and grass growing in them. He stated he has asthma and can not spray
weed killer on the rocks and he is not
physically able to weed eat the entire
ditch.
Mr. Hood wants to place 120 feet of pipe in the ditch and cover it so he
can mow the area. Mr. Hood wants
replace them with the pipe. Mr. Hood will pay for the pipe. Thomas Moon,
Chairman, told Mr. Hood that he would
need to hire an engineer to have a design
prepared showing the flow of water and
size of pipe needed for the ditch. No
action was taken by Planning Commission
on this request.
6. There being no other business to come
before The Planning Commission, Bryan
Stone moved to adjourn.
Respectfully
submitted,
Kathy Hill
Recording Secretary