CITY
OF
The
Planning Commission of the City of Rainbow City, Alabama met in a regular session
at 4:00 P.M. and upon roll call the following members were present:
Present: Absent:
John
Watson, Chairman Jerry
Tolbert
Terry
John Calhoun, Mayor
Bryan
Stone, Council Member
Wes
Ellis
Thomas
Moon
Steve
Parrish
Wayne
Walden
Mona
Wallace
Also
Present:
Wiley
McLain, Building Official Laura
Lloyd, City Attorney
Mark
Stephens, City Engineer Eddie
Perman, City Engineer
Greg Payne, Street Supervisor
1. Upon
roll call, Chairman Watson declared a quorum was present and the following
business was transacted.
2. Thomas
Moon moved and Mona Wallace seconded the motion to suspend the reading of the
minutes from August
22, 2006 meeting. Motion carried
unanimously, the minutes will stand
approved as presented.
3. Mr.
Watson announced a public hearing for Ms. Jan Heaton and Mr. Robert Walls. Ms. Heaton
is wanting to
purchase a parcel of land from Mr. Walls and rezone the land from M-1
Manufacturing to R-3
Multi Family Residential District.
Ms. Heaton stated she wanted to either
build a duplex, triplex or larger. After
discussion, the request died for a lack of a motion to
rezone the
property from M-1 to R-3. Ms. Heaton
then stated that she would like to be able to
build a duplex
at this time for her daughter and herself to live in. Wiley told the board members
that the
property could be rezoned to Agricultural which would allow for the duplex to
be built
but nothing
larger than that. Mr. Watson, Chairman
of Planning, advised Ms. Heaton that if she
wanted to build
a duplex, she could revise her request for re-zoning from R-3 to Agricultural
and come back to
the Planning Commission in October. Ms.
Heaton stated that she would
revise her
application and seek the new zoning of Agricultural. No other action was taken at
this time. (Note:
Ms. Heaton has filed a new application on 09/27/06 for rezoning and will
appear at the
October meeting.)
4. Pastor
Larry Perkins and Mr. Howard Bryant were present, along with others from the
church,
representing
Gospel Truth Lighthouse Church. The
Church wishes to rezone property located at
580 West Grand that they have purchased
from M-1 Manufacturing to Highway Commercial.
They stated there would be a Christian
school, and a book store at this location.
There was no
one present in
opposition to this rezoning application.
After discussion, Thomas Moon moved
and Wes Ellis
seconded the motion to recommend to the Rainbow City Council to rezone this
property from
M-1 to Highway Commercial. Motion
carried unanimously.
5. Jim
Gentry, of Commercial Realty along with Betty Thornton and Michelle Boatwright
were
present seeking
rezoning of the building in
the Japanese
Steakhouse Restaurant). Mr. Gentry is
the agent representing the
Associates, LTD. Mr. Gentry is seeking the zoning to be
changed from HC to HC-L to allow
the ladies the
serve alcohol at the restaurant they wish to open. After discussion, Thomas Moon
moved and Bryan
Stone seconded the motion to recommend to the Rainbow City Council to
rezone the
building at
unanimously.
6. Ms. Peggy Johnson is seeking annexation of
her property at
as Parcel ID No.
1 of Section 34, Township 12 South, Range 5 East and contains 14.49 acres
instead of 16
acres as shown on the tax map. Mona
Wallace moved and Wes Ellis seconded the
motion to
recommend to the Rainbow City Council to annex Ms. Johnson’s property into the
city
limits under
Agricultural Zoning District. Motion
carried unanimously.
7.
Eddie Perman, Perman Engineering, was present representing Amanda
Blalock and Shady Pines
Subdivision. Mrs. Blalock is seeking final approval on the
five (5) lot subdivision located on
Grady Street. After discussion, Wes Ellis moved and Thomas
Moon seconded the motion to
accept the final
plat of Shady Pines Subdivision. Motion carried unanimously.
8. Mark
Stephens, J B W & T Engineering, was present
representing Guthrie’s Restaurant.
Guthrie’s is seeking approval to start
the site work for their new restaurant that will be located at
motion to give
Guthrie’s approval to start site work only.
Motion carried unanimously.
9. The
Building Department has asked for review of the two (2) existing streets in Wyngate
Subdivision. They are
has inspected
the streets and reported there were several bad spots in the streets that were
not
holding up and
in several places water would not flow off of the street. Mr. Payne said the
drainage
ditches needed cleaning out as well. After discussion and review of pictures that Mr.
Steve Parrish had made, the Planning
Commission asked the Building Department to write a
letter to Mike
Johnson Construction asking that the problems with the streets be addressed
before the
Planning Commission can recommend to the Rainbow City Council to accept these
two streets as
city streets. Steve Parris moved and
Bryan Stone seconded the motion the
recommend that
the City Council does not accept the streets in the condition they are in at
present
time. This needs to be noted for future
reference for the City. Motion carried
unanimously.
10. Planning Commission members suggested that
Laura Lloyd, City Attorney and Wiley McLain,
Building Official write an amendment to
the Zoning Ordinance that puts the responsibility on
the developers
to have the Planning Commission and City Council review and accept or turn
down their
streets that they are developing.
Planning Commission feels that it should be the
developers
responsibility to contact the City and request that the City Official(s)
inspect the
developers
street(s). Laura and Wiley will be
working on this and try to have something posted
and on the
agenda for the October meeting.
11. There being no more business to come before
The Planning Commission, Thomas Moon
moved and Wes Ellis seconded the motion to
adjourn.
Respectfully submitted,
Kathy Hill
Recording Secretary