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GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, AND THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR TONIGHT'S PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MEETING. AT THIS TIME, WE'LL HAVE THE ROLL CALL. MR. HOLCOMB? CHAIRMAN WASHINGTON? VICE CHAIRMAN GROUT? HERE. COMMISSIONER ADDISON? COMMISSIONER BATTS? COMMISSIONER BOYD? COMMISSIONER COLEMAN? PRESENT. COMMISSIONER ELLENDER? COMMISSIONER FOWLER? HERE. AND COMMISSIONER MAXEY HERE. WE HAVE A QUORUM.
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
2026. IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE FEBRUARY 2ND MEETING? SORRY. THE MOTION HAS BEEN MOTIONED BY A COMMISSIONER BOYD AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER MAXEY. IS THERE ANY OBJECTION? HEARING NONE.THAT MOTION PASSES. THIS TIME, I WILL NOW READ THE RULES FOR CONDUCTING PUBLIC HEARINGS.
[RULES FOR CONDUCTING PUBLIC HEARINGS]
THIS IS A PUBLIC MEETING. ANY INTERESTED MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO COMMENT ON AN ITEM FROM THIS AGENDA MAY COMMENT IN PERSON AT CITY HALL, 222 ST. LOUIS STREET, 3RD FLOOR, ROOM 348, DURING THE MEETING.MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC DESIRING TO SPEAK ON A PARTICULAR ITEM SHOULD REFER TO THE MEETING AGENDA AND COMPLETE THE NECESSARY INFORMATION PRIOR TO THE MEETING BY FILLING OUT A REQUEST TO SPEAK CARD INDICATING WHICH ITEM YOU WISH TO SPEAK, AND PLACE IT IN THE DESIGNATED LOCATION PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
PROPONENTS WILL SPEAK AND THEN THE OPPONENTS.
EACH SPEAKER WILL BE ALLOWED NOT MORE THAN THREE MINUTES.
SPEAKERS ARE REQUESTED TO LIMIT THEIR REMARKS BY AVOIDING DUPLICATION IN THEIR PRESENTATIONS.
APPLICANT WILL BE ALLOWED A TOTAL OF FIVE MINUTES FOR REBUTTAL.
OPPONENTS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO REBUT. ITEMS PLACED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF WILL NOT HAVE TIME ALLOCATED FOR SPEAKING, UNLESS THERE IS A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC AT THE MEETING WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THAT ITEM.
IN SUCH CASES, THE PROPOSAL WILL FOLLOW THE STANDARD PROCEDURE.
MR. DIRECTOR. WE CAN NOW MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
[CONSENT AGENDA]
CONSENT ITEMS FOR APPROVAL. ITEM 6, CASE 8-26, 536 WEST IRENE ROAD.TO REZONE FROM RURAL TO HEAVY INDUSTRIAL (M2) ON PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF WEST IRENE ROAD, WEST OF SANDHILLS ROAD. ITEM 7, CASE 9-26, 9933 HYACINTH AVENUE.
TO REZONE FROM SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (A1), OFF STREET PARKING (B) AND LIGHT COMMERCIAL (C1) TO LIGHT COMMERCIAL TWO (LC2) ON PROPERTY LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF HYACINTH AVENUE, WEST OF BLUEBONNET BOULEVARD.
ITEM 9, RV-4-25, ST. JAMES, FRANCE, AND EUROPE STREET (MULTIPLE RIGHT-OF-WAY).
PROPOSED REVOCATION OF PORTIONS OF ST. JAMES, FRANCE, AND EUROPE STREET RIGHTS-OF-WAY LOCATED SOUTH OF GOVERNMENT STREET, WEST OF ST. PHILIP STREET. PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF CERTIFIES THAT ALL OF THESE ITEMS ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE.
YOU'VE HEARD ALL THE ITEMS PLACED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA WILL BE TAKEN WITH ONE VOTE.
ARE THERE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION WHO HAVE AN ITEM THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE PULLED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND HEARD AS PART OF THE REGULAR AGENDA? IS THERE ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC PRESENT WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON AN ITEM FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA? SEEING NONE, IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA? MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER MAXEY, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER BOYD.
IS THERE ARE THERE ANY OBJECTIONS? SEEING NONE.
THAT MOTION HAS BEEN APPROVED. WE CAN NOW MOVE ON TO THE REGULAR AGENDA.
[Items 2 & 3]
MR. CHAIRMAN, THE NEXT TWO ITEMS MAY BE TAKEN TOGETHER.ITEMS 2, PA-7-25, AND ITEMS 3, CASE 53-25. THESE TWO ITEMS MAY BE TAKEN TOGETHER.
PA-7-25, 17501 FLORIDA BOULEVARD. RELATED TO CASE 53-25 PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF FLORIDA BOULEVARD, SOUTH OF RIVERSIDE PARK DRIVE.
COUNCIL DISTRICT 4 - MOAK. THE APPLICANT IS LAUREN JUNOT.
THE CURRENT FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS AGRICULTURE RURAL.
THE REQUESTED FUTURE BE. OUR LAND USE DESIGNATION IS INDUSTRIAL.
PA-7-25, 17501 FLORIDA BOULEVARD. RELATED TO CASE 53-25.
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STAFF RECOMMENDS DENIAL BASED UPON THE LAND USE DESIGNATION OF AGRICULTURAL RURAL APPEARING APPROPRIATE.PLANNING COMMISSION OFFICE HAS RECEIVED SIX MESSAGES IN OPPOSITION TO THESE TWO ITEMS. IN ADDITION, COUNCIL MEMBER MOAK IS IN OPPOSITION AND WE RECEIVED A COMMENT FROM BREC IN OPPOSITION AS WELL.
GOOD. GIVE US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, PLEASE, MA'AM.
ALL RIGHT. MY NAME IS LAUREN JUNOT, AND I AM REPRESENTING INNOVATIVE DEWATERING SOLUTIONS.
I DO HAVE A SLIDE SHOW. I BELIEVE THAT I HAD EMAILED EARLIER IF YOU WANTED TO VIEW THAT UP. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH.
ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONERS. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO RETURN AGAIN TONIGHT. SINCE THE LAST MEETING, WE DID LISTEN CAREFULLY TO THE CONCERNS THAT WERE RAISED, PARTICULARLY ABOUT THE LONG TERM RISK AND FUTURE USES OF THE PROPERTY.
AND WE RESHAPED OUR REQUEST TO DIRECTLY ADDRESS THOSE CONCERNS.
TONIGHT'S REALLY ABOUT PLACING CLEAR LIMITS ON WHAT THE PROPERTY CAN BECOME.
WHAT I HEARD IN DECEMBER WASN'T NECESSARILY COMPLETE OPPOSITION TO THIS SPECIFIC FACILITY, IT WAS CONCERN ABOUT WHAT THE ZONING MIGHT ALLOW IN THE FUTURE.
NEXT SLIDE. ALL RIGHT, BEFORE TALKING ABOUT THE PROPOSAL ITSELF I REALLY WANT TO SHOW YOU WHAT HAS MORE OR LESS CHANGED SINCE DECEMBER. BASICALLY, IT'S JUST ENFORCEABLE LIMITS BY ORDINANCE AND IT WILL RUN WITH THE LAND IF POSSIBLE.
AND NEXT SLIDE. SORRY ABOUT THAT. ALL RIGHT, BEFORE TALKING ABOUT THE PROPOSAL ITSELF, I JUST WANT TO SHOW YOU THE WHAT THE SITE ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE TODAY. THESE PICTURES WERE ACTUALLY TAKEN THIS MORNING.
I'M NOT SHOWING THIS TO CRITICIZE THE AREA AT ALL, ONLY TO ESTABLISH A CLEAR STARTING POINT.
WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING ACTUALLY ADDS STRUCTURE CONTROLLED ACCESS FENCING, ENGINEERED LEVEES, AND DEFINED OPERATIONAL LIMITS. IN OTHER WORDS, MORE REGULATION, NOT LESS.
NEXT. THERE'S ALSO AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF CONTEXT THAT EXISTS REGARDLESS OF OUR REQUEST.
OUR PORTION OF THIS PROPERTY IS ALREADY ZONED COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSING, AND THAT'S 77.5 ACRES ALREADY.
AND THAT ZONING EXISTS TODAY, WHETHER OR NOT OUR PROJECT MOVES FORWARD OR NOT.
NEXT SLIDE. AND A FEW MORE PICTURES OF THE SITE.
NEXT SLIDE. THIS IS, IT'S A, THIS IS IMAGE SHOWS ONE EXAMPLE OF WHAT COULD ACTUALLY BE BUILT BY RIGHT UNDER THE EXISTING ZONING.
AND I'M NOT SHOWING YOU AS A THREAT ONLY TO PROVIDE A FAIR COMPARISON OF POTENTIAL INTENSITY.
THIS WAREHOUSING ALLOWS CONTINUOUS FLEET TRAFFIC, DAILY LOADING OPERATIONS, AND MULTIPLE FUTURE INDUSTRIAL USERS, ALL WITHOUT RETURNING FOR ADDITIONAL APPROVALS.
SO THE REAL QUESTION TONIGHT ISN'T WHETHER DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS HERE.
IT'S WHETHER A MORE LIMITED, DEFINED AND CONTROLLED USE IS THE BETTER PATH FORWARD.
NEXT SLIDE. SO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS ACTUALLY NARROWER THAN WHAT THE ZONING ALREADY ALLOWS.
ARRIVALS ARE CONTROLLED AND SCHEDULED. THE OPERATIONAL PROFILE IS LIMITED.
THERE ARE NO DISTRIBUTION CYCLES, NO CONTINUOUS LOADING DOCKS, NO OPEN ENDED INDUSTRIAL FLEXIBILITY.
AND THE PROCESS ITSELF IS ALREADY PERMITTED AND OVERSEEN BY LDEQ.
NEXT SLIDE. I ALSO WANT TO CLARIFY THE MEASURED DISTANCES FROM THE PROCESSING AREA ITSELF, NOT THE PROPERTY LINE, TO THE SURROUNDING RESIDENCES.
THESE ARE COORDINATE BASED MEASUREMENTS. THE FIRST THE CLOSEST FACILITY, I MEAN CLOSEST HOME IS APPROXIMATELY 500FT AWAY. IT'S ACROSS THE STREET. THAT'S ABOUT ONE AND A HALF FOOTBALL FIELDS.
THE NEXT ONE, 654FT. NEARLY TWO FOOTBALL FIELDS.
NEXT ONE IS APPROXIMATELY 785FT, WHICH IS JUST OVER TWO FOOTBALL FIELDS AND APPROXIMATELY 1665FT, WHICH IS NEARLY FIVE FOOTBALL FIELDS AWAY. AND THESE ARE NOT ESTIMATES.
THIS THIS WAS MEASURED ON GOOGLE EARTH. IN ADDITION TO THAT SEPARATION, THERE'S DENSE EXISTING TREE COVER, ENGINEERED LEVEES, OPAQUE FENCING, AND CONTROLLED ACCESS POINTS.
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NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. FLOODING CONCERNS WERE ALSO RAISED PREVIOUSLY AND I WANT TO ADDRESS THAT RESPECTFULLY.ENGINEERING, STORMWATER AND CONTAINMENT ARE ALL REVIEWED THROUGH THE LDEQ PERMITTING PROCESS.
TONIGHT'S DECISION IS ABOUT COMPATIBILITY AND LAND USE LIMITS, NOT REDESIGNING ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING THAT'S ALREADY BEEN REGULATED AT THE STATE LEVEL. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. WHEN WE COMPARE LOGISTICS WAREHOUSING, WHICH IS ALREADY ALLOWED TO WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING, THE DIFFERENCE IS CLEAR TRAFFIC COMES SCHEDULED INSTEAD OF CONTINUOUS NOISE IS LOWER, ENVIRONMENTAL OVERSIGHT INCREASES AND THE FUTURE UNCERTAINTY IS REDUCED BECAUSE THE USE IS CLEARLY DEFINED AND THIS IS THE KEY POINT.
AND NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. ULTIMATELY THIS ISN'T ABOUT EXPANDING INDUSTRIAL USE.
AND WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, I'LL CALL FOR THE, THOSE IN SUPPORT MR. DOUG BOZEMAN. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES.
THANK YOU. SIR. MY NAME IS DOUG BOZEMAN. I'M THE GUY THAT'S FINANCING ALL THIS.
I OWN SEVERAL BUSINESSES, AND THIS IS THE NEXT ONE I'D LIKE TO TRY TO DO.
I UNDERSTAND THEY'RE ORGANIZED, UNDERSTAND THEY'RE TRYING TO OBJECT TO IT, BUT THIS IS GOING TO ALLOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE BATON ROUGE AREA, FOR PLACES WHERE PEOPLE CAN TAKE THEIR SEWER TRUCKS AND HAVE A PLACE TO DEWATER THEM, GET RID OF SEWER IN THEM. I HAVE TO DRIVE OVER AN HOUR.
EVERYBODY ELSE IS DUMPING THEIR TRUCKS ILLEGALLY.
OKAY. I'D LIKE TO TRY TO START A PROCESS THAT WILL STOP THAT.
THIS IS GOING TO SUPPORT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
I MEAN, THOUSANDS OF BUSINESSES IN THE BATON ROUGE AREA THAT WANT TO DO THINGS THE RIGHT WAY.
OKAY. IT'S EASY TO FIND PEOPLE THAT WANT TO DO THINGS THE WRONG WAY.
I UNDERSTAND THEIR CONCERNS. I MEAN, THEY'RE THERE ON LAND THAT'S BEEN THERE FOR A LONG TIME, AND THEY'VE OBJECTED TO EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN TRIED TO BE PUT ON THIS LOT ON FLORIDA BOULEVARD.
THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME THEY'VE OBJECTED TO ANYTHING, AND I DON'T BLAME THEM. I MEAN, THE PRIMARY ARGUMENT THAT THEY HAD WAS THAT THEY LIKE THE NATURE LOOK OF THE PLACE AND THE DEER AND HE AND THE WILDLIFE.
OKAY, THIS IS A MINIMAL USE OF THAT LAND AND WILL ALLOW THAT TO CONTINUE TO HAPPEN FOR THEM.
I UNDERSTAND THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND IT VERY WELL BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT IN THE SEWER BUSINESS, I AM. AND IN THE WORDS OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE SCIENCE FICTION SHOWS, THIS IS GOING TO SUPPORT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE BEING OBJECTED TO BY A FEW.
DO NOT THE MANY NEEDS OF THE MANY OUTWEIGH THE NEEDS OF THE FEW? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR FEENEY JOHANNA.
I HOPE I GOT THAT RIGHT. IT IS JOANNA FEENEY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH. OKAY, I'LL BE BRIEF. I JUST WANTED TO COME UP HERE AND SAY I UNDERSTAND ALL THE CONCERNS, AND ESPECIALLY FROM THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS LAND.
BUT I THINK THAT THEY'VE PUT A LOT OF TIME AND EFFORT TO SHOW THAT THEY'D BE WILLING TO COMPROMISE AND LIMIT THE SCOPE OF THE LAND, AND I THINK THAT IT'D BE A GREAT PROJECT FOR THEM TO MOVE FORWARD WITH.
ALL RIGHT. OKAY. THANK YOU. NOW, OPPOSITION. NOW I ASK FOR THE OPPOSITION TO COME FORWARD. FIRST CARD FOR SETH ROY.
YOU HAVE THE FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES. THANK YOU, SIR. GOOD EVENING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. THANK YOU, GUYS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO SPEAK WITH AND HEAR OUT THE OPPOSITION. I, FOR ONE, UNDERSTAND AND RESPECT THE WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE IT'S ESSENTIAL.
OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS RESPONSIBLE WASTE MANAGEMENT, AS WAS TOUCHED ON, BUT I'M NOT NAIVE TO THE FACT THAT THIS LAND HAS BEEN IN MY FAMILY FOR FIVE DECADES. AND HE'S RIGHT. THEY ARE RIGHT.
WE ARE PROUD OF THAT. BUT WITH ALL OF THOSE THINGS BEING SAID, I ALSO HAVE A FOUR MONTH OLD DAUGHTER THAT WOULD LIKE TO BE RAISED ON THAT SAME FRONT YARD IN THAT SAME AREA AS HER WIFE, AS HER MOTHER WAS.
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2005, AUGUST 29TH LEVIES WERE SET IN PLACE TO KEEP WATER OUT OF NEW ORLEANS.DIDN'T GO THAT WELL. 2016 ONCE IN A HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD, IT TRACKED MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED FOOTBALL FIELDS OR A COUPLE HUNDRED YARDS IN SPEAKING ON THAT BEHALF. MORE THAN THAT, IT'S GOING TO LOWER THE PROPERTY VALUES, REDUCE BUYER INTEREST, AND IT'S JUST GOING TO BE DIFFICULT TO REFINANCE AND SELL HOMES FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
WHENEVER THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 50 YEARS ARE NO LONGER WITH US.
AGAIN, I'M NOT NEGATING OR NEGLECTING THE FACT THAT HE IS RIGHT.
WE DO NEED SAFE AND APPROPRIATE PLACES TO DUMP SEWER AND WASTE.
THIS IS NOT ONE OF THEM. FLOODS. RUNOFFS. WE UNDERSTAND ALL OF THAT THAT'S BEEN HIT ON.
THE COMMISSION AND INDEPENDENT FLOOD RISK AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDY.
GO AHEAD AND DO SOME RESEARCH ON THAT. CONSIDER ALTERNATIVE SITES OUTSIDE OF DESIGNATED FLOOD ZONES, WHICH YOU WILL BE IN. ENSURE MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY INPUT LIKE WE'RE DOING HERE TONIGHT BEFORE APPROVAL AND SIMPLY STAND IN OUR SHOES.
WOULD YOU WANT ONE DOWN THE STREET? WOULD YOU WANT ONE IN YOUR FRONT YARD? I DON'T THINK YOU WOULD. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
GOD BLESS. THANK YOU, SIR. OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR CHAD COOPER.
GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. MY NAME IS CHAD COOPER.
I LIVE DIRECTLY BEHIND THIS PROPOSED SITE. MY DRIVEWAY IS RIGHT THERE.
THEY WANT TO MAKE IT M1. A BRIEF CASE HISTORY, BACK IN 99 THEY REQUESTED REZONING. THE LAND OWNER REQUESTED REZONING OF THE FIVE ACRES, AND WE COMPROMISED TO COMMERCIAL WAREHOUSING WITH THE GUIDANCE OF MIKE FUTRELL AND MIKE WALKER. WITH CONDITIONS OF NO INGRESS AND EGRESS ON RIVERSIDE PARK DRIVE.
25-FOOT BUFFER WITH OPAQUE FENCE, WAREHOUSE NEVER CONSTRUCTED.
AND THEN TWO YEARS LATER, CASE WAS DENIED AGAIN TO GO FROM C1 TO M1.
I'M SORRY, CW TO M1. AND THEN TWO YEARS LATER SAME THING HAPPENED AGAIN.
THEY COME BACK, REQUESTED GO TO M1. ONCE IT'S ZONED M1, THAT'S IT.
IT CAN NEVER, YOU CAN DO UNLIMITED THINGS THERE.
PROPERTIES TO THE NORTH DESIGNATED AGRICULTURE RURAL ON THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
LAND USE DESIGNATION OF INDUSTRIAL IS TOO INTENSE FOR THE AREA.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSERVATION, SANITARY SEWER OVERFLOWS AND LEAKS, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.
100% OF THE LAND IS LOCATED IN THE FLOOD ZONE AE, WHICH IS THE MOST INTENSE.
FLOODING OCCURS FREQUENTLY 1977, 1979, 1983, 1990, 1993 AND OF COURSE, THE BIG ONE OF 2016. I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I'VE LIVED IT. I'VE BEEN THERE ALL MY LIFE.
MY FAMILY HAS MADE OUR HOME BEHIND THIS PROPERTY FOR OVER 50 YEARS.
SMELLS OF SEWAGE. ABOUT 30S. DUST, NOISE, UNSIGHTLY PUMP TRUCKS, DEWATERING WASTE CONTAINERS AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES ARE CONCERNS TO OUR FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS. BRETT CONSERVATION PARK IS LOCATED JUST NORTH EAST OF THIS REQUESTED AREA.
THAT'S WHAT SHE, WHAT SHE MENTIONED IS THAT DOESN'T HOLD WATER.
ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NEXT SPEAKER IS SHARON KING.
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GOOD EVENING. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONERS. SO I AM THE NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HEAD OF BREC. SO AS MENTIONED, FRENCHTOWN ROAD CONSERVATION AREA IS DIRECTLY ACROSS THE AMIT FROM THIS PROPOSED SITE. THIS IS OUR IF YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH FRENCHTOWN ROAD, IT IS OUR LARGEST CONSERVATION AREA, CLOSE TO 500 ACRES. IT CONTAINS BOTTOMLAND HARDWOOD FORESTS, SMALL STREAM FOREST, SPRUCE, PINE, HARDWOOD FLATWOOD, ALL CRITICAL HABITAT TYPES, AND ALL WETLAND HABITAT TYPES.THIS SITE, WHEN THE RIVER COMES UP, FLOODS IT WILL CONTINUE TO FLOOD.
EVEN ON THE WEB PAGE FOR VISITORS TO FRENCHTOWN ROAD, IT ACTUALLY STATES THAT IN HIGH RAIN EVENTS, IT WILL RESULT IN FLOODING AND IMPASSABLE TRAILS.
IF THIS FACILITY IS BUILT ALONG THE RIVER, IT ALSO WILL BE FLOODING AND THE WHOLE AREA, AS MENTIONED, THE WHOLE AREA IS INUNDATED, SO THIS WILL BRING WHATEVER OPEN SEWAGE PONDS, WHATEVER THEY CONTAIN, WILL BE SPREAD ACROSS THIS WHOLE PROPERTY. A NATURE STATION JUST OPENED IN APRIL OF 2025 ON THIS SITE, AND WE HAD OUR FIRST CONSERVATION SUMMER CAMP HOSTED AT FRENCHTOWN.
AGAIN, CONCERNS ABOUT HAVING KIDS ON THE PROPERTY, IF WE HAVE THESE FLOOD EVENTS THAT BRING MATERIALS AND UNHEALTHY CONDITIONS TO OUR SITE. THIS PARK IS ALSO A HOT SPOT FOR PEOPLE WHO JUST ENJOY AND ARE INTERESTED IN SPECIES DIVERSITY.
WE HAVE HAD OVER 11,795 OBSERVATIONS MADE ON FRENCHTOWN CONSERVATION AREA LAND BY THE PUBLIC WHO GOES OUT, IDENTIFIES SPECIES AND PUTS THEM ON INATURALIST WEBSITE.
OVER 1856 LIVING SPECIES IDS ARE LISTED ON THAT WEBSITE FOR JUST FOR CONSERVATION, FRENCHTOWN CONSERVATION. OKAY, SO IN SUMMARY, THE THREAT TO THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON THIS SITE AND TO THE USE BY THE PUBLIC OF THE SITE I WANT TO SUGGEST THAT YOU VOTE NO ON THIS PROJECT.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. OUR NEXT CARD IS FOR JOHN HILLMAN.
GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. YOU HAVE THE FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES. YEP.
HERE IN THE TIME THAT I HAVE. SOME OF THESE WE'VE ALREADY TOUCHED ON AROUND PUBLIC HEALTH CONCERNS, ODOR, NOISE, ALSO PROXIMITY AND RESIDENTS AND PROPERTY VALUE, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT.
BUT THE ONE AREA THAT REALLY WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON REALLY FEEL LIKE THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS A RESPONSIBILITY FOR IS REALLY THE THE OVERALL LONG TERM STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THAT AREA. SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH AND YOU THINK ABOUT FLORIDA BOULEVARD AS A RESIDENT, I THINK ABOUT, HEY, DO I WANT TO STAY IN THAT AREA? AND IF YOU LOOK AT FLORIDA BOULEVARD, IT'S NOT ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE REALLY WANT TO HIGHLIGHT TO OUR OUTSIDE OF OUR AREA.
SO WHAT I LOOK FOR, THE PLANNING COMMISSION IS REALLY THINKING ABOUT HOW DO WE CHANGE THAT AREA, HOW DO WE MAKE THAT AREA AN AREA THAT WE REALLY WANT TO BE PROUD OF? AS BREC HAS ALREADY MENTIONED, THEIR CONCERNS ABOUT THEIR AREA CONSERVATION AREA ACROSS THE STREET.
I'D LOVE TO SEE A BREC PARK RIGHT THERE AGAINST THE BRIDGE.
THAT, THERE'S ALREADY PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO USE THAT PARTICULAR AREA FOR FISHING, FOR SWIMMING AND OTHER ACTIVITIES, BUT EVEN BRINGING IN LOCAL BUSINESSES TO THAT AREA.
YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S, YOU KNOW, DENTAL OFFICES OR OTHER YOU KNOW, BUSINESSES THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, RELY UPON FOR LONG TERM CARE. SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT I CHALLENGE THIS GROUP TO THINK ABOUT IS IN THREE YEARS, FIVE YEARS, TEN YEARS, WHAT DO WE WANT FLORIDA BOULEVARD TO LOOK LIKE AT THE BRIDGE? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR DUANE ROUBIQUE.
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ROUBIQUE. ROUBIQUE. HEY, HOW YOU DOING TODAY? MY ANCESTORS WOULD SHOOT ME OVER THIS. SO I LIVE NEXT DOOR TO CHAD, UPSTREAM FROM WHAT THE PROPOSED SITE.AND MY CONCERNS ARE JUST THAT WHAT EVERYBODY'S ALREADY SPOKE ON.
WHEN THE RIVER COMES UP, IT'S COMING IN MY YARD OR IN MY HOUSE.
THE SMELLS, THE JUST. IT'S A TERRIBLE IDEA. THE EYESORE.
IF IT CAN HAPPEN, IT WILL HAPPEN. JUST PLEASE DO NOT APPROVE THIS.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR CHRISTOPHER CARROLL.
AND YOU CAN'T HELP BUT THINK ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF WHENEVER SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN, LIKE A FLOOD. YOU KNOW, IN 2016, ALL OF OUR HOUSES WERE UNDER AT LEAST 4 TO 5FT OF WATER AND ALL THAT STUFF THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING IS GOING TO BE IN OUR HOUSES WHENEVER SOMETHING LIKE THAT HAPPENS.
JUST THINK ABOUT THE ROSELAND FACILITY OVER IN ROSELAND AND HOW HUGE THAT AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT THAT, THAT HAD THAT SAME TYPE OF THING COULD HAPPEN HERE.
AND THE LAST THING WE NEED IS FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN HERE.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR MICHAEL STEWART.
I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT A COUPLE OF THINGS. BASICALLY, WHAT IS DEWATERING? DEWATERING IS TAKING A SOLID SUBSTANCE, SQUEEZING ALL THE WATER OUT OF IT.
WHERE DOES THAT WATER GO? THE WATER GOES RIGHT INTO OUR RIVER.
IF THE OXIDATION PONDS FLOOD, OF COURSE, THAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
JUST A MATTER OF HOW OFTEN IS IT GOING TO HAPPEN? BUT THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT THAT ARE GOING TO BE PROCESSED AT THIS PLACE, I UNDERSTAND, ARE NOT JUST SEWAGE PRODUCTS, THEY'RE GOING TO BE OTHER WASTE PRODUCTS. NO TELLING WHAT THAT MEANS, BUT THEY ARE ALSO GOING TO BE SQUEEZED AND WHATEVER LIQUID IS IN THEM IS GOING TO BE REMOVED.
AND AGAIN, WHERE IS THAT LIQUID GOING TO GO? I DON'T THINK THEY'RE GOING TO HAUL IT AWAY.
PLEASE VOTE NO ON THIS CHANGE. THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR BRETT WALLACE.
GOOD AFTERNOON I'M BRETT WALLACE REPRESENTING BRECK AS WELL.
I'M ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND ENGINEERING.
AS SHARON MENTIONED I'LL ECHO OFF HER COMMENTS AND TRY NOT TO REPEAT, BUT THIS SITE IS LOCATED DIRECTLY ACROSS THE STREET FROM OUR FRENCHTOWN CONSERVATION AREA, WHICH IS THE CROWN JEWEL OF OUR NATURAL AREAS AND OUR WHOLE SYSTEM.
IT'S VERY ECOLOGICALLY SENSITIVE AREA. IT'S VERY BIODIVERSE.
IT'S VERY KEY TO OUR MISSION AND WHAT WE DO AND PROVIDE PARKS FOR THE PARISH.
AND WE'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE ECOLOGICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC IMPACTS THAT THIS DEVELOPMENT AND ZONE USE WOULD HAVE ON OUR PARK, AND WE'RE STRONGLY OPPOSED TO APPROVING THIS.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR PAGE FAULX.
I'M PAGE FAULX. I'M NOT IN THIS. I'M JUST A NURSE, SO BEAR WITH ME.
I'VE LIVED IN THIS AREA MY WHOLE LIFE. AGAIN, LIKE I SAID, I WAS A NURSE.
OR I AM A NURSE. AS WE KNOW, LIKE IN SOUTH LOUISIANA, CARCINOGENS AND OUR AIR POLLUTION ARE VERY HIGH DUE TO EXXON, THE OTHER PLANTS THAT WE HAVE HERE. THESE OPEN PONDS STILL HAVE VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS THAT ARE RELEASED INTO THE AIR, NOT HELPING OUR AIR POLLUTION. AND JUST BEING RIGHT DOWN THE STREET FROM THAT, I DON'T REALLY WANT MY SON WHO RUNS AROUND BAREFOOT IN THE YARD WITH OUR DOGS,
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HAVING THAT IN THE AIR. AS WELL AS WHAT HAPPENS WHENEVER RAINWATER HAPPENS? OVERFILLING HAPPENS. DOES THE PONDS RUN OFF INTO THE GROUNDWATER INTO THE RIVER? HAVING, THE IDEA OF HAVING OPEN PONDS THAT HAVE SEWAGE AND HAZARDOUS WASTE IN THEM CLOSE TO MY HOME IS NOT CONDUCIVE TO HEALTHY LIVING FOR OUR FAMILY AND OR THE OTHER CITIZENS IN THE AREA, AS OTHER PEOPLE HAD STATED. THIS AREA IS ALSO PRONE TO FLOODING, AS OTHER PEOPLE HAVE STATED IN 2016, MY HOUSE THAT I CURRENTLY LIVE IN HAD FIVE FEET OF WATER.WE HAD TO CLEAN THE ENTIRE THING AND REDO THE ENTIRE THING.
MOST PEOPLE HAVE THAT. SO IF YOU HAD HAZARDOUS WASTE, I GOT INTO OUR HOUSE.
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO THEN? SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THESE PONDS FLOOD? IS THERE A PLAN IN PLACE? I STRONGLY URGE NOT TO GO FORWARD WITH THIS APPLICATION.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR AMY FILES.
GOOD EVENING. FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES. THANK YOU.
HI, MY NAME IS AMY FILES AND I LIVE ON RIVERVIEW DRIVE, WHICH IS OPPOSITE OF FLORIDA FROM RIVERSIDE.
RIVERSIDE, THEY HAVE FAMILIES THAT HAVE GROWN UP THERE.
I HAVE LIVED ON THAT STREET FOR 95% OF MY LIFE.
MY SON IS IN HIS GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE SINCE REDONE AFTER THE FLOOD.
MY BROTHER IS IN HERE AS WELL. SO WE ARE A FAMILY STREET.
MR. CARROLL'S PARENTS LIVE ON THE STREET. WE ARE FAMILY ORIENTED, AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE THE SMELL OF A SEWER TREATMENT PLANT THAT CLOSE TO YOUR HOME. WE HAVE APPROXIMATELY 50 HOUSES ON RIVERVIEW DRIVE, RIVERVIEW PLACE AND TRAILS END.
AND IT'S NOT JUST THE THREE HOUSES THAT THEY SHOWED.
WE ARE JUST OPPOSITE FLORIDA FROM WHERE THEY ARE.
WE'RE JUST ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE, AND WE WOULD BE DOWNWIND, DOWN RIVER, AND IF THERE'S FLOODING, IT WOULD BE COMING TO US. AND WE HAD ENOUGH OF THAT IN 2016 WITH THE GREAT FLOOD HERE.
SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR CRAIG MOATES.
I'VE GOT TO GIVE CREDIT TO THE PEOPLE THAT CAME BEFORE ME.
GOING THROUGH THE DETAILS AND BUILDING UP TO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS A COLLECTIVELY STRONG OPPOSITION TO THIS PROJECT, NOT JUST THE PEOPLE IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA, BUT PEOPLE THROUGHOUT ANYONE THAT'S CONCEIVED OF WHY THIS SHOULD BE HERE.
THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE FOR THIS PROJECT. WELL, I THINK ANYONE CAN AGREE THAT A NICE, CLOSE BY, SAFE PLACE TO DISPOSE OF A LOT OF THESE WASTES, WHETHER HAZARDOUS OR NOT, IS SOMETHING THAT WE ALL NEED.
WE CAN ALSO AGREE THAT THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE TO HAVE IT.
I THINK WE'VE HEARD MANY POINTS IN SUPPORT OF THIS FACT, AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE WE NEED TO HEAR TONIGHT IN ORDER TO STOP THIS WHERE IT'S AT, AND REDIRECT THE PROSPECT TO ANOTHER LOCATION THAT WOULD BE MORE SUITABLE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. NEXT CARD IS FOR RACHEL LAMBERT.
I KNOW I DON'T NORMALLY SPEAK ON ZONING ITEMS, BUT I HAVE SEVERAL LARGE CONCERNS.
THE MAJORITY OF THIS PROPERTY IS AT LEAST FOUR FEET BELOW BASE FLOOD.
SO ALLOWING A SITE LIKE THIS IN A LOCATION LIKE THIS WOULD REQUIRE SIGNIFICANT ELEVATION OF THIS PROPERTY, DAMMING OFF OR LEVYING OFF THE THE CONSOLIDATION PONDS TO AT A MINIMUM ABOVE BASE FLOOD.
THERE WOULD NEED TO BE SIGNIFICANT MITIGATION EFFORTS ON THIS SITE.
I DON'T THINK THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO FIT NEARLY AS BIG OF A POND AS THEY ARE THINKING.
YOU KNOW, THERE EXISTS A FLOODWAY ON THIS SITE, AND THIS ENTIRE SITE IS ENCOMPASSED BY WHAT SOME OF THE NEW CHAPTER 15 TERMINOLOGY IS A CONVEYANCE ZONE. SO THE ENTIRE SITE WOULD NEED TO BE MODELED.
JUST BECAUSE OF THE SHEER VOLUME OF DIRT THAT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE BROUGHT INTO THIS SITE.
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I AM IN THE SEWER BUSINESS. AND SO YOU KNOW, THIS IS NOT A GREAT LOCATION FOR SOME SORT OF A WE'LL CALL IT A LAGOON OF SORTS. THIS IS GOING TO BE A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT TO AN EXTENT.THEY HAVE SOME PLANS DRAWN, SO HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE IN CONSTRUCTION HERE IN THE NEXT YEAR OR SO.
SO I THINK THAT THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY, YOU KNOW, CHALLENGES HERE AT THIS SITE AND THAT IT'S JUST FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL AND A CONSTRUCTION AND A FLOOD ASPECT. THIS IS NOT THE LOCATION FOR SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER CARD.
BENJAMIN FILES, WHO IS IN OPPOSITION, DOES NOT WANT TO SPEAK.
YEAH, IF YOU DON'T HAVE TO, IF YOU DON'T WANT TO.
OKAY. I LIVE ON RIVERVIEW DRIVE. Y'ALL JUST HEARD FROM.
FROM MY MOM AND FROM MY UNCLE AND SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS.
I CAN TELL Y'ALL THAT NO ONE THAT LIVES ON THAT STREET WANTS THIS PROJECT TO GO FORWARD.
AND IT'S IT'S COMMON SENSE. Y'ALL HEARD FROM EVERYONE FOR US.
WE LIVE IN THAT AREA. WE DRIVE ACROSS THAT BRIDGE, MOST OF US PROBABLY MULTIPLE TIMES A WEEK.
THE RIVER IS UNPREDICTABLE. WE'VE ALL LIVED THERE OUR WHOLE LIVES, AND I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF IT GETS ABOVE THE BASE FLOOD LEVEL THAT'S BEEN ESTABLISHED BASED ON THE 2016 FLOOD, JUST BASED ON ITS HISTORY, AND IT DOES IT QUICKLY.
SO THE QUESTIONS I WOULD HAVE IS, YOU KNOW, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN ADDRESSED AND WHAT ARE THE ANSWERS? AND AGAIN, I WOULD URGE YOU ALL NOT TO GO FORWARD WITH THIS.
THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. NOW I ASK THE APPLICANT TO RETURN FOR FIVE MINUTES FOR REBUTTAL.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YOU KNOW, WE'VE HEARD TERMS LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE A SEWER POND.
IT'S GOING TO BE HAZARDOUS WASTE. BREC HAS COME IN AND WEIGHED IN ON THIS.
EXPERTS HAVE COME UP HERE AND TALKED ABOUT IT.
THE PROBLEM IS, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE BUILDING. WE'RE BUILDING A DEWATERING FACILITY THAT'S BEEN THROUGH TWO YEARS OF THE EXPERTS OF THE STATE AT LDEQ LOOKING AT THIS AND SAID, THIS WILL WORK AND IT WILL WORK IN THIS LOCATION.
I'VE SPENT SIGNIFICANT FUNDS TESTING THE LAND TO MAKE SURE THIS WILL WORK.
THE POND ITSELF THAT WE'RE GOING TO USE IS PROBABLY BEST DESCRIBED AS A CLARIFIER, BECAUSE AFTER WE REMOVE THE SOLIDS FROM THE WATER AND TAKE THEM TO AN AUTHORIZED DUMP SITE, NOT THIS SITE SOMEWHERE ELSE, THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANY SEWER HERE.
IT'S BEEN TESTED. THAT WILL ABSORB THREE TIMES THE WATER THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE PUTTING ON IT.
AND IF IT'S ALREADY ABSORBED INTO THE GROUND, IF IT SPENDS FIVE DAYS IN THE GROUND, IT'S DRINKABLE.
I KNOW THIS BECAUSE I PAID TO HAVE IT TESTED.
IT'S NOT A RAW SEWER RIVER RUNNING INTO A RIVER.
YEAH, IT'S ALSO GOING TO GET TO THE AQUIFER IN ABOUT 2500 YEARS IT'LL GET THERE.
GUESS WHAT? IT'LL BE CLEAN WHEN IT GETS THERE.
AND DEQ IS EXTENSIVELY LOOKED AT THIS AND MADE SURE THAT THIS SYSTEM IS GOING TO WORK.
AND I APPRECIATE BREC'S CONCERN AND OTHER EXPERTS CONCERNED.
BUT NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ASKED TO MEET TO ME, MEET US, AND HAVE US EXPLAIN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
THEY'VE GOT SOME EXPERIENCE AND THEY'RE WILLING TO COME UP WITH THAT.
SO IT'S NOT GOING TO WASH INTO THIS AND WASH WHATEVER IS THERE INTO THE RIVER.
AND WHAT LITTLE BIT OF SEWER WOULD BE IN THERE WOULD BE MAYBE A DAY OR TWO THAT'S BEEN STORED.
IT'S NOT GOING TO BE YEARS OF SEWER BEING STORED HERE BECAUSE IT'S NOT A DUMP SITE.
IT'S GOING TO BE HAULED TO THE DUMP WHERE IT'S SUPPOSED TO GO.
SO I'D LIKE YOU ALL TO TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION. YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THEIR CONCERNS, BUT THEY JUST HADN'T MET WITH US TO LEARN WHAT WE'RE DOING AND DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
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AND THEY THINK THIS IS GOING TO WORK. WOULD ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS BEFORE I STEP DOWN? WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THAT IN A FEW MOMENTS. THANK YOU SIR.COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS. COMMISSIONER ADDISON.
THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN. YOU CAN COME BACK UP FOR A SECOND.
YES, SIR. YOU TALKED ABOUT A MINUTE AGO TO THE BARNS BEING BUILT ABOVE FLOOD STAGE.
WHAT ARE YOU WHAT DO YOU SAY TO THAT? I SAY YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT YOUR BARNS AND WHAT YOU'RE DOING THAT THAT WOULD PREVENT THE WATER FROM GOING INTO THE ARMY. IF I WERE BUILDING AN OXIDATION POND, WHICH WE MAINTAIN ABOUT 50 OF THEM.
OKAY. THEY'D BE ABOUT THREE, FOUR FEET DEEP AND DESIGNED TO TREAT SEWER.
THIS IS A CLARIFICATION TYPE POND. IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT EIGHT, NINE FEET DEEP.
IN 40 OR 50 YEARS IT MIGHT NEED TO BE DUG OUT, BUT I DON'T FORESEE THAT HAPPENING ANYTIME SOON.
THE LEVEE AROUND IT WILL BE ABOVE THE FLOOD PLAIN LEVEL, SO THERE'S NO WAY, WHEN THE RIVER FLOODS, FOR IT TO GET TO THE POND. THE ONLY PLACE THE RIVER IS GOING TO GET TO IS THE EIGHT ACRES OF ABSORPTION FIELD WE'RE GOING TO USE.
AND IF THE GROUND'S ABSORBED, IT WILL ADD MORE WATER ON TOP OF IT AND MAKE IT GO ANYWHERE.
AND I DON'T SEE ANY CONCERNS AT ALL ABOUT THIS AFFECTING THE REC PARK ACROSS THE RIVER.
IN FACT, ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE LEARNED WITH MY 20 YEARS IN THE SEWER EXPERIENCE IS ADDITIONAL WATER ON LAND IN LOUISIANA MAKES FOR WILDLIFE. YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE MORE WETLANDS WITH THIS.
AND OF COURSE, THE OTHER I THINK YOU ADDRESSED IT A SECOND AGO THAT YOUR, YOUR SOLIDS WOULD NO LONGER WOULD NOT BE STORED AT THAT FACILITY, THAT THEY WOULD BE HAULED OFF TO THE FACILITY.
THAT'S CORRECT SIR. I JUST WANTED TO BE SURE.
ALSO, THE SCALE ON THIS ISN'T VERY BIG. IF IT WERE FULL CAPACITY, IT WOULD ONLY BE 12 TRUCKS.
WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HUNDRED TRUCKS HERE.
OH, I'M SORRY, THE DIRT NEEDED FOR THE LEVEES THAT WERE GOING TO MAKE.
WE'VE DONE THE MATH THAT COME FROM THE POND. WON'T BRING ANY ADDITIONAL DIRT IN AT ALL.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO DIG OUT OF THAT POND AND ACTUALLY DO YOUR BARNS? THAT'S CORRECT. WE'RE GOING TO BULLDOZE AND DIG OUT OF THE POND TO MAKE THE LEVEES THAT ARE GOING TO GO AROUND IT. OKAY. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. MISS LAMBERT.
OF COURSE, ONE OF OUR ESTEEMED CITY PARISH ENGINEERS HERE.
SO I WANT TO GET YOUR FOLLOW UP OPINION ON ON THAT, THOSE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE.
SO THE ENTIRETY OF THE POND WILL EFFECTIVELY, IF HE'S BUILDING LEVEES UP TO BASE FLOOD ELEVATION, BE REMOVED FROM THE FLOODPLAIN. SO HE WILL HAVE TO MITIGATE THE ENTIRE VOLUME OF THE POND.
WE ARE IN NO NET FILL SITE. SO IF THE IF THE POND IS UNAVAILABLE FOR FLOOD WATER TO ENTER, IT IS EFFECTIVELY VIEWED AS FILL, RIGHT. AND SO WHEN YOU BUILD A POOL, WHEN YOU BUILD A POND, ANYTHING WHERE THE WATER ACTUALLY ALREADY IS.
SO FROM WATER LEVEL DOWN IS NOT, IS NOT CONSIDERED, YOU KNOW, MITIGATION AREA.
RIGHT. AND SINCE HE'S GOING TO BASICALLY WALL UP.
THINK ABOUT BASICALLY BUILDING A BUILDING. BECAUSE THE WATER'S NOT SUPPOSED TO COME OVER AND OVER TOP THOSE LEVEES, ALL OF THAT AREA WOULD NO LONGER BE AVAILABLE FOR THE FLOOD WATER TO ENTER.
NOW, HE SAYS HE'S NOT BUILDING UP. HE SAYS HE'S NOT BUILDING A SEWER PLANT.
BUT IF HE'S ACCEPTING WASTEWATER, HE IS BUILDING A SEWER PLANT.
AND THEN HIS POND IS GOING TO BE HIS SECONDARY TREATMENT. I AM, I DO SEWER AS WELL.
SO YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE CONCERNS WITH THE AMOUNT WITH WHATEVER HIS RUNOFF IS GOING TO BE, RIGHT. AND HIS DISCHARGE FROM THIS SEWER PLANT BECAUSE THAT IS HIGHLY REGULATED FROM DEQ.
ALL RIGHT. THERE'S ABOUT 5000FT² THAT ARE PROBABLY AT OR ABOVE THE BASE FLOOD ELEVATION, WHICH IS ABOUT 44.5 IT, YOU KNOW, BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE SITE IS AT LEAST FOUR FEET BELOW BASE FLOOD.
I MEAN, THAT'S MY COMMENT ON THAT. AND YOUR OPINION REGARDING SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT THE RESIDENTS ARE MAKING, THAT WHEN A FLOOD DOES TAKE PLACE, THAT THIS RUNOFF CAN END UP IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.
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I LIVE IN SAINT FRANCISVILLE AND WE JUST, THE TOWN OF SAINT FRANCIS JUST REBUILT ITS SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THEIR PONDS WHETHER OXIDATION PONDS OR, YOU KNOW, JUST THEIR FINISHING POND WAS IN THE FLOODPLAIN OF THE LEVEE.AND IN THE PAST TEN YEARS, EVERY TIME THE RIVER CAME UP REALLY, REALLY HIGH.
YOU REMEMBER THE ENTIRE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT POND FLOODED, JUST RELEASING STRAIGHT UP WATER.
SO THE SAME THING COULD POTENTIALLY HAPPEN IN THIS LOCATION.
THEY MOVED THE ENTIRE TREATMENT PLANT MILE INTO TOWN CLOSER.
I MEAN, THEY WENT WITH A PACKAGE PLANT AND SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT AS FAR AS A CONSTRUCTION METHOD, BUT IT'S STILL THE SAME, YOU KNOW, VULNERABILITY HERE IN THIS LOCATION, ESPECIALLY WITH THE WELL KNOWN CONVERGENCE OF THE COMET AND THE A MEET IN THIS AREA.
AND WE KNOW HOW BAD THIS AREA FLOODED IN IN YOU KNOW, IN 2016.
OKAY, THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING YOU. IF YOU'RE SAYING THAT BASE ELEVATION IS MUCH HIGHER THAN AGAINST, I GUESS, ACTION. YOUR PROBABILITY OF WHAT, THAT WHAT THAT POSSIBILITY OF A FLOOD OCCURRENCE WOULD BE.
I WOULD HAVE TO DO. YOU KNOW, THAT IS A LOT OF MATH AND MODELING INVOLVED IN THAT.
WE ARE UNDER EXTENSIVE SCRUTINY FOR OUR MS4, OUR STORMWATER SYSTEM AND THE QUALITY OF WATER.
AND WE ALREADY KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT ISSUES WITH THAT. SO.
OKAY, THANK YOU. CAN YOU COME BACK FOR ONE MORE SECOND? HAVE YOU DONE ANY MODELING FOR WHAT THAT COULD POSSIBLY LOOK LIKE? YES, IN FACT. THAT PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING I WOULD HAVE HAD TO DO, PROBABLY ACTUALLY DO THAT ANYWAY, BECAUSE. I THINK I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT TERM, BUT THERE'S A FLOOD ZONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE AMITE RIVER THAT YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO BUILD ANYTHING IN LEVEES AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND WE'RE OUTSIDE OF THAT AREA. OKAY. SO WHAT ARE YOU MODELING SAY WOULD BE POSSIBILITY OF A FLOOD OCCURRENCE AND HOW MUCH WATER, STORMWATER WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO ATTAIN IN YOUR ELEVATION OF YOUR BARNS? THE ONE ACRE POND WILL HAVE A BERM AROUND IT ABOVE THE 2016 FLOODPLAIN, THE ONE THEY RESET AFTER THE 2016 FLOOD WILL BE ABOVE THAT AROUND THE POND, AND THE REST OF IT WILL BE BELOW THAT.
AND THAT POND IS OUTSIDE OF THE FLOODPLAIN AREA OF THE AMITE RIVER.
I GUESS I'M ASKING HOW MUCH ABOVE THAT YOU SAID.
IT'S ABOVE THAT. I UNDERSTAND THAT POINT. YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF HOW MUCH? TWO FEET, FEET AND A HALF.
I THINK IT'S ABOUT A FOOT. IT WASN'T. IT WASN'T A LOT. WE COULD CHANGE IT, BUT WE DIDN'T FIGURE ONCE WE GOT ABOVE FLOODPLAIN, WE FIGURED THAT WAS HIGH ENOUGH. I UNDERSTAND, I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT YOU'RE MODELING SAID. YOU KNOW, IT'S A FOOT. FOOT AND A HALF, TWO FEET.
I'M SORRY FOR YOUR INJURY, BUT SORRY ABOUT THAT.
YEAH. SO THE CONTAINMENT AREA, THE ABSORPTION AREA IS ALSO GOING TO BE LEVIED OFF AS WELL.
IT'S NOT GOING TO BE AS TALL AS THE OTHER LEVIES, BUT IT WILL BE, WILL BE CONTAINED AS WELL.
SO YOU ANTICIPATE A FOOT TO TWO FEET ABOVE BASE ELEVATION.
FLOOD ELEVATION? YES. FOR THE. HOLD ON. I'M GETTING.
YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. LET ME TAKE THAT ONE. OKAY.
THE PART THAT'S GOING TO HAVE SEWER IN IT OR WILL WE, WILL WE BE TRANSFERRING THE, SEPARATING THE LIQUIDS FROM THE SOLIDS IS ABOUT A ONE ACRE AREA WITH A POND IN IT. AND THAT'S GOING TO HAVE A LEVEE AROUND IT ABOVE THE BASE FLOOD LEVEL, ABOUT TWO FEET ABOVE IT. TWO FEET ABOVE. THE ABSORPTION AREA, EIGHT ACRES IS GOING TO HAVE A SHORT, MAYBE TWO FOOT, THREE FOOT HIGH BERM AROUND IT JUST FOR THE NORMAL RISES AND FALLS OF THE RIVER WITH MODERATE RAIN.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO KEEP IT OUT OF OUR ABSORPTION AREA. GETS ANY SIGNIFICANT RAIN, OF COURSE IT'LL GO OVER THE TOP OF THAT, BUT EVERYTHING'S BEEN ABSORBED, SO IT SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. I'M ENJOYING MY TIME, MR. CHAIRMAN. MISS LAMBERT, COULD YOU COME BACK UP FOR A SECOND? I HAVE A QUESTION. KNOWING A BIT ABOUT FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT, AS I DO BECAUSE OF WHAT I DO, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS BROUGHT UP THAT YOU BROUGHT UP WAS THE FACT THAT THE POND, THE DEWATERING POND, BECAUSE IT'S NOW BEING KEPT OUT OF THE FLOODPLAIN HAS TO BE MITIGATED SOMEWHERE ON THIS PROPERTY, OR THEY HAVE TO BUY CREDITS. BUT THEN I ALSO HEARD THERE'S AN EIGHT ACRE AREA THAT IS GOING TO BE WITH A LEVEE THAT'S GOING TO ALSO
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PREVENT THE RIVER FROM COMING INTO THAT. THAT WOULD ALSO HAVE TO BE MITIGATED, TOO, CORRECT? SO JUST ROUGH CALCULATIONS. HE'D PROBABLY HAVE TO MITIGATE SOME 9000, 10,000YD³ OF FILL JUST TO BE ABLE TO ACCOUNT FOR HIS ONE-ACRE POND.AND HE SEEMED, FROM WHAT I GATHERED HIM SAYING AT ABOUT A TWO-FOOT LEVEE.
YOU KNOW, HE'S GOING TO, HE'LL HAVE TO MITIGATE THE FILL FOR THE BERM ITSELF.
BUT BECAUSE IT WOULDN'T, I MEAN, FROM WHAT, FROM WHAT I GATHER FROM WHAT HE WAS SAYING, IT WOULDN'T BE TOTALLY REMOVED FROM THE FLOODPLAIN SO THAT, YOU KNOW, BUT HE WOULD HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL YOU KNOW, DIRT AND VOLUME THAT HE WOULD HAVE TO MITIGATE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU'RE WELCOME. ANY OTHER COMMISSIONER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? ANY MOTIONS? ANY MOTIONS AT ALL? THIS IS. GO AHEAD. WELL, COMMISSIONER COLEMAN.
YES. THE, I'VE HEARD MUCH, BUT THE COUNCILMAN HIMSELF SAID THAT THIS WAS NOT ACCEPTABLE FOR HIM. AND THEN WHEN WE HEAR OUR OWN RACHEL LAMBERT SAYING THAT THIS IS NOT GOOD AND WHERE WE ARE WITH ALL THAT WE ARE UNDER NOW, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO DENY.
THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO DENY. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. A SECOND FROM, COMMISSIONER FOWLER BEAT YOU TO IT.
SO, COMMISSIONER FOWLER, WHO SECONDED THE MOTION.
ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS? ANY OBJECTIONS? HEARING NONE.
THIS IS DENIED. MR. CHAIRMAN, WE CAN NOW MOVE
[Items 4 & 5]
ON TO THE NEXT TWO ITEMS, WHICH CAN ALSO BE TAKEN TOGETHER.THOSE ARE ITEMS 4, PA-1-26, AND ITEM 5, ZONING CASE 10-26.
PA-1-26 T 11830 GREENWELL SPRINGS ROAD (RELATED TO CASE 10-26).
PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTH OF GREENWELL SPRINGS ROAD, WEST OF MONTICELLO BOULEVARD (COUNCIL DISTRICT 5, HURTS). THE APPLICANT IS TREY SAVOIE. THE FUTURE BE OUR LAND USE DESIGNATION IS COMMERCIAL.
THE REQUESTED FUTURE BE OUR LAND USE DESIGNATION IS RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
THE EXISTING ZONING IS LIGHT COMMERCIAL (C1) AND HEAVY COMMERCIAL (C2) WITH A REQUESTED ZONING OF SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL (A1) AND (A2.7). PA-1-26 T 11830 GREENWELL SPRINGS ROAD (RELATED TO CASE 10-26). STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL BASED UPON EXAMINATION OF THE AREA AT A FURTHER LEVEL OF DETAIL AND COMPATIBILITY WITH SURROUNDING USES. STAFF ALSO CERTIFIES THAT THE PROPOSED REQUEST MEETS THE CRITERIA FOR A CHANGE OF ZONING, BEING CONSISTENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, COMPATIBLE WITH SURROUNDING USES, AND CONFORMING TO UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE REQUIREMENTS.
COUNCILMAN HURST HELD A COMMUNITY MEETING WITH THE APPLICANT ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19TH.
OUR OFFICE HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY OPPOSITION TO THESE ITEMS. THANK YOU. EXCUSE ME. THANK YOU. I'LL OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE THE APPLICANT TO SPEAK FOR, NOT FOR A PERIOD, NOT TO EXCEED 15 MINUTES. IS THE APPLICANT HERE? DO YOU WISH TO SPEAK? OKAY. THE APPLICANT DOESN'T WISH TO SPEAK.
THERE IS ONE OPPOSITION CARD FOR EDWARD PRATT.
YOU HAVE THE FLOOR FOR THREE MINUTES, SIR. GOOD AFTERNOON.
SAID MY NAME IS EDWARD PRATT. I LIVE ON MONTICELLO BOULEVARD.
I'VE LIVED THERE FOR 40 YEARS, AND THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT, BUT IT'S NOT.
PEOPLE ALL AROUND THERE HAVE LIVED 45, 50 YEARS IN THAT SUBDIVISION.
WE LOVE IT. AND MY NEIGHBORS TO THE RIGHT. 36 YEARS, ONE OF THEM 37 YEARS ACROSS THE STREET, 52 YEARS. SO THAT'S HOW MUCH WE LOVE OUR SUBDIVISION.
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WE HAD THE CHANCE TO MEET WITH MR. HURST AND WITH THEM WITH THE DEVELOPERS ON THURSDAY OF LAST WEEK.THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE HAD ANY INFORMATION ON THIS PROJECT COMING BEFORE, COMING TO MONTICELLO.
ONCE A COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR SOMETHING, IT'S ALMOST NEVER THE OTHER FOLK ALMOST NEVER WINS.
HERE'S THE PROBLEM. WHEN THEY, WHERE THEY'RE BUILDING, WHERE THEY WANT TO BUILD THESE HOUSES, IT WILL CREATE A TRAFFIC ISSUE THAT IS UNTHINKABLE.
THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM IS PEOPLE WILL TRY TO GET OUT OF THE SUBDIVISION.
YOU HAVE A TRAFFIC LIGHT; THEY'RE GOING ON THE GREEN SPRINGS ROAD. IT LASTS ABOUT EIGHT SECONDS.
WHEN PEOPLE TRY TO GET OUT OF THAT SUBDIVISION RIGHT NOW IN THE MORNING BETWEEN 630 AND 08:00, LINES BUILD UP BECAUSE THE LIGHT THAT GOES OUT INTO THE STREET ONLY LASTS LIKE 8 OR 9 SECONDS.
BUT NOW YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING A MINIMUM OF 40 TO 50 MORE CARS RIGHT THERE AT THAT AREA.
ALSO, YOU GOT A FIRE DEPARTMENT RIGHT THERE ACROSS THE STREET FROM IT.
THEY JUST WON'T BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC WILL BE SO BIG.
THERE'S A SCHOOL NEARBY. PARENTS ARE BRINGING THEIR SCHOOL, THEIR KIDS THERE IN THE MORNING.
THERE'S HEAVY TRAFFIC IN THERE. THERE'S SCHOOL BUSSES COMING IN THERE FROM EVERYWHERE.
THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO GET, THE TRAFFIC JUST WILL BE SO ENORMOUS IN THE EVENING.
GOING GREEN SPRINGS ROAD AND TRY TO COME UP THERE NEAR MONTICELLO IN THE EVENING.
TRAFFIC IS ALREADY BAD. ABOUT 30S. OKAY. TRAFFIC'S ALREADY BACKED UP.
AND WE SHOULD HAVE LEARNED ABOUT THIS EARLIER.
ANYWAY, PLEASE HELP MONTICELLO, BECAUSE THIS WILL BE DEVASTATING TO THIS AREA.
THE TRAFFIC, THE THE THE POSSIBLE FLOODING, WHICH I HAVE NO DOUBT IT WILL, THAT IT WILL JUST BE DEVASTATING TO THIS SUBDIVISION AND TO PUT 37 HOUSES UP THERE AND HARDLY ANY, ONLY SOME OF THEM WILL BE THE SIZE OF THE HOUSES IN MONTICELLO.
NOW THE REST OF THEM ARE GOING TO BE SMALLER HOUSES.
IT'S INSANITY. THE PROBLEMS IT WILL CAUSE US.
YOU KNOW, I WISH I HAD FIVE MINUTES BECAUSE IT'S JUST SO BAD, BUT I'M REPRESENTING.
I'M THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION. SO THAT'S WHY I'M HERE TALKING.
THANK YOU. WE HAVE NO OTHER OPPOSITION CARDS.
THE APPLICANT. IF THE APPLICANT HAS FIVE MINUTES FOR REBUTTAL, WOULD YOU LIKE TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS? GOOD EVENING. TRACE SAVOIE WITH THE, WHO MADE THE APPLICATION.
UNFORTUNATELY, I DID NOT MAKE THE MEETING ON THURSDAY.
THAT HE'S REFERENCING. HOWEVER, THE FEEDBACK THAT I GOT FROM THAT MEETING IS EVERYONE WAS YOU KNOW, IN FAVOR OF, LIKE YOU SAID, THE DOWN DEVELOPING OF IT FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL.
ONE OF THE THINGS HE DID MENTION THE, IT'S 37 LOTS PROPOSED AT THIS POINT.
WE HAVEN'T YET GONE THROUGH THE DRAINAGE IMPACT STUDIES.
THE TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY. SO I MEAN, THIS WOULDN'T MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT THE APPROVAL AND THE PASSING OF THE THINGS THAT HE'S CONCERNED ABOUT. SO IT'S NOT THAT THOSE HAVE BEEN IGNORED.
THEY'RE JUST, WE HAVE NOT REACHED THE POINT OF DOING THOSE STUDIES AT THIS POINT.
SO AT THIS POINT, WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR THE REZONING FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL.
AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF THE COMMERCIAL WOULD CHANGE THE IMPACT STUDY OR THE DRAINAGE IMPACTS ON IT ANYWAY. SO THE ZONING ISN'T WHAT'S GOING TO AFFECT THE CONCERNS.
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SO AT THIS POINT, I DON'T. I STILL THINK IT'S A GOOD PROJECT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH.SO OKAY. THANK YOU. AT THIS POINT, I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE ANY COMMENTS, CONCERNS OR MOTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS. COMMISSIONER COLEMAN. WOW. LOOKS LIKE I'M THE ONLY ONE SPEAKING TONIGHT.
Y'ALL COME ON NOW. AND SO TROY, COME BACK, PLEASE.
THAT WAS CONVERSATION. I CONCERNS AND CONVERSATION 20 VERSUS 37 SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED EARLIER.
AND SO. AND THEN YOU DID NOT ATTEND THE MEETING? I DID NOT KNOW. AND SO TALK TO ME ABOUT ALL OF THAT.
AND THE, WHY NOT 20 VERSUS 37 Y 37 VERSUS 20? WHY NOT, WHATEVER WHATEVER. TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT.
IT'S PRELIMINARY AT THIS POINT. THIS IS, YOU KNOW, THE DEVELOPER, THE LANDOWNERS CAME TO US AND SAID, HERE'S, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN DOING IN THIS AREA.
AND, YOU KNOW, JUST LOOKING AT THE REQUIREMENTS FOR FRONTAGE BASED ON THOSE ZONINGS TO A1 AND A2.7, JUST LOOKING AT WHAT COULD BE PUT IN IN THAT AREA, AGAIN, DOING SOME PRELIMINARY NUMBERS, LOOKING AT IT. THIS ISN'T, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHAT HAS BEEN, IT HAS BEEN PROPOSED, BUT.
THIS IS WHAT WE'VE PUT TOGETHER TO BRING TO THE TABLE.
AS FAR AS THE TIMING OF THE NOTIFICATION, I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT.
I WAS NOT INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS. SO MY INVOLVEMENT IS JUST, YOU KNOW, KIND OF WORKING WITH THE LAYOUT, WORKING WITH THE PRELIMINARY BOUNDARIES THAT WE HAVE AND SEEING WHAT CAN FIT IN THERE AT THIS POINT.
SO AS FAR AS DOING A DEEP DIVE IN A STUDY OF WHAT OTHER POSSIBILITIES COULD BE, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, HAVEN'T, JUST PLAIN TRUTH OF IT IS HASN'T HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IT FROM ANY OTHER VIEW OTHER THAN WHAT'S BEEN PRESENTED AT THIS POINT.
WHO FROM YOUR COMPANY OR WHATEVER WAS THERE AT THE MEETING? ANYBODY HERE? NO. NOT HERE. I MEAN, OKAY. YEAH, I WAS HERE.
WAS AT THE MEETING. OKAY. AND SO. OKAY. AND. AND I ALL I HEARD WAS FAVORABLE COMMENTS FROM THAT MEETING, NO OPPOSITION. SO YOU HEARD THAT FROM? FROM, I ASKED, I TALKED TO MATT, WHO DID ATTEND IT.
OKAY. BECAUSE I SAID ANYTHING I NEED TO KNOW BEFORE GOING TONIGHT.
SAID NO MEETING WENT WELL. ABOUT 30 PEOPLE SHOWED UP.
EVERYONE SEEMED TO BE IN FAVOR OF IT BEING DOWNSIZED FROM COMMERCIAL TO RESIDENTIAL.
THAT WAS MATT. THAT WAS MATT. AND MATT'S NOT HERE TONIGHT? MATT IS NOT HERE TONIGHT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. WELL, OKAY.
THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME. DON'T GO AWAY. OKAY.
I HAVE A COUPLE OF COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. FANTASTIC.
AS OF RIGHT NOW THAT THE NUMBER WHICH SEEMS TO BE THE THING THAT PEOPLE ARE FIXED ON.
THAT IS RIGHT NOW A WORKING NUMBER. IT'S NOT A FINAL NUMBER.
YOU HAVE A FINAL PLAT THAT YOU AND MATT HAVE PUT TOGETHER.
CORRECT? OKAY. SO IT'S A WORKING NUMBER BECAUSE I KNOW AT THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T NEED A FINAL PLAT, WE'RE SIMPLY DOING A REZONING. RIGHT. SO YOU SO THAT THAT NUMBER CAN MOVE AS YOU ALL LOOK AT IT, PARTICULARLY IF YOU'RE DEALING WITH DETENTION AND OTHER THINGS YOU NEED TO DEAL WITH. CORRECT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT.
THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. AND SO, BECAUSE THAT NUMBER CAN MOVE YOU WOULDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM YOU SHOWING UP AND HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH THOSE FOLKS IN THAT COMMUNITY IN THAT RIGHT.
GOING TO HAVE A MEETING THIS BE DEFERRED. YOU GOING TO HAVE A MEETING WITH THE CONSTITUENTS THERE LETTING THEM KNOW THAT 37 WAS PUT OUT THERE, BUT THAT YOU ARE WILLING TO DO LESS, IS THAT CORRECT? I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK ON THE OWNER'S BEHALF TO SAY THAT WHAT THEY WANT OR NOT.
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AT THIS POINT, WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR REZONING AND THAT DOESN'T, A REZONING DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE NUMBER OF LOTS IN THERE.BUT IT'S THE BEGINNING OF ALL OF THIS. SURE. YEAH, SURE.
THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO DEFER THIS.
FOR HOW MANY DAYS? 30 DAYS. 30 DAYS? THAT SOUNDS GOOD.
ALL RIGHT. THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO DEFER THIS FOR 30 DAYS TO THE NEXT MONTH'S MEETING. DO I HAVE A SECOND MOTION? A SECOND. SECOND BY COMMISSIONER MAXEY. ANY OBJECTIONS? I DO TOO. JUST BASED ON THE FACT THAT THIS IS A REZONING, IT'S NOT A PLAT APPROVAL.
IT'S SO THAT'S, THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE PUBLIC INPUT BETWEEN NOW AND THAT POINT.
SO THAT'S CORRECT. THAT'S MY THERE'S ALREADY HAS BEEN AN INITIAL MEETING, ALTHOUGH IT WAS I UNDERSTAND IT WAS JUST LAST WEEK, BUT I THINK RIGHT NOW JUST FOR THE REZONING. I'M FINE WITH GETTING IT REZONED AND THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT NUMBERS.
SO THAT'S WHY MY OBJECTION. WELL, THE REASON I PROPOSED IS BECAUSE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CONSTITUENTS AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU ALL. YOU DID NOT, AND YOU ALL DID NOT HAVE A GREAT CONSTITUENT MEETING.
THAT'S THE REASON THAT I'M PROPOSING THAT. AND THEN AND THIS DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO BECAUSE THE COUNCILMAN DIDN'T MAKE A DECISION ON THIS, SO LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT. BUT THAT'S THE CONCERN OF THE CONSTITUENTS.
AND THAT IS YOU HAD A MEETING ON THE 18TH, 19TH, WHATEVER DAY.
AND THIS HERE WE ARE TODAY ON THURSDAY AND WE'RE HERE MONDAY.
OKAY. THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR. THERE HAVE BEEN TWO OBJECTIONS.
DO WE WANT TO DO ROLL CALL OR ARE WE SUFFICIENT WITH WHAT.
MR. CHAIRMAN, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION. AT THIS POINT, AS IT STANDS, WITH ONLY SIX MEMBERS, THERE WAS A MOTION TO DENY THAT RECEIVED A SECOND.
BUT I HAVE TWO COMMISSIONERS OBJECTING TO THAT MAP, THAT MOTION.
SO RIGHT NOW THAT THAT MOTION THAT THAT VOTE WOULD FAIL FOR LACK OF AFFIRMATIVE VOTES.
OKAY. THE MOTION TO DEFER. BUT THE MOTION TO DEFER WAS DENIED.
THE MOTION TO DEFER DID NOT DID NOT PASS. IS THERE A IS THERE A SECOND MOTION? AND CAN YOU CLARIFY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? THE REZONING. THERE WAS A MOTION TO DEFER THE REZONING.
WELL, I'M SAYING WE HAVE TWO CASES HERE. THE CORRECT THE COMPREHENSIVE.
WE'RE TAKING THEM BOTH TOGETHER. I'M SORRY. WE ARE TAKING THEM BOTH TOGETHER.
AND THERE WAS A MOTION TO DEFER FOR 30 DAYS TO HAVE FOR YOU ALL TO HAVE ANOTHER MEETING WITH THE OWNERS OR WITH THE WITH THE WITH THE NEIGHBORS. THAT MOTION WAS PUT. AND ACCORDING TO WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THERE WERE TWO VOTES IN OPPOSITION.
SO THEREFORE THAT DOES NOT CARRY. SO THE MOTION TO DEFER DOES NOT CARRY.
HOWEVER ARE THERE ANY FURTHER MOTIONS? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
IS THERE A SECOND TO THAT? THERE'S A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER FOWLER.
HOW MANY ACRES IS THE PROPOSED A2.7? BY ITSELF? YEAH, WITHOUT THE TWO. YOU GOT TWO SEPARATE SECTIONS HERE? YEAH. THE TOP OF MY HEAD. I GOT A.1. COULDN'T TELL YOU THE EXACT NUMBER OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT PROBABLY IN THE 8 TO 9 ACRES. 8 TO 9. JUST LOOKING AT.
I'M JUST SPITBALLING IT BY LOOKING AT THE DIVISION OF IT, BECAUSE THE TOTAL IS ABOUT 11 ACRES.
AND SO THE AREA ALONG MONTICELLO BOULEVARD WOULD BE THE A1, THE REST WOULD BE THE A2.7, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THE AREA FOR DETENTION AS WELL. SO NOT, IT WOULDN'T ALL BE.
YES. IT WOULD ALL BE ZONED THAT BUT NOT DEVELOPED AS.
DIRECTOR HOLCOMB IS, AM I CORRECT IN SAYING THAT THE A2.7 IS 7.3 UNITS PER ACRE? AND IF THERE'S NINE ACRES, I MULTIPLY THAT AND I COME UP WITH 65 POTENTIAL UNITS FOR THAT PARTICULAR PROPERTY WITHOUT MITIGATING,
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WITHOUT ROADS, WITHOUT ALL THAT STUFF, JUST BASED ON HIS MATH.THAT'S CORRECT. THERE'S INFRASTRUCTURE. THERE'S 150 FOOT UTILITY SERVITUDE ALONG THE WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, TAKE THAT OUT OF IT. SO THAT'S, WHAT I CAN YOU HELP ME WITH THAT. LIKE, GIVE ME AN ACRE.
YOU SEE WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO HERE? I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUT IN A TUBE. I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO PUT IT A1, AND I KNOW KIND OF WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE BASED ON YOUR MAP HERE.
WITH THE SETBACKS AND IT'S GOING TO LOOK MORE LIKE MONTICELLO THAN IT IS.
YEAH. WITH BIGGER, BIGGER LOTS AT A1 THAN A2.7.
I MEAN, IT'S PRETTY, LIKE WITH THE ROADS, WITH THAT, WITH THE DETENTION AREA, WITH THE 150 FOOT UTILITY SERVITUDE, THERE WASN'T. WE DIDN'T LEAVE A WHOLE LOT TO BE.
SO THAT'S IS, THAT WHERE THE 30 SOMETHING. YEAH.
WHAT YOU HAD LEFT IS WHAT WE DIVIDED BASED ON THE A2.7 REQUIREMENTS FOR FRONTAGE AND DEPTH.
AND 37 IS, YOU KNOW AND ABOUT THE BEST WE COULD DO.
NOTHING COMING OUT ON GREENVILLE SPRINGS. ALL COMING OUT ON MONTICELLO. YEAH.
THE AREA ALONG GREENVILLE SPRINGS WOULD THE PROPOSED AT THIS POINT WOULD BE LIKE BACK OF THE LOT.
SO THAT WOULD BE FENCED OFF AND CANTERBURY WOULD BE EXTENDED INTO THE INTO THE SUBDIVISION.
SO THE ENTRANCE INTO THIS SECTION WOULD BE FRONTAGE ALONG MONTICELLO BOULEVARD FOR THE A1.
AND THEN THE CANTERBURY BOULEVARD OR ROAD OR WHATEVER WOULD GO INTO THE DEVELOPMENT AND BE BASICALLY ONE ROAD WITH LIKE A T TURNAROUND AT THE BACK END.
FOR THE RECORD, LET ME GO AHEAD. AND SINCE WE'RE KIND OF AT A STALEMATE RIGHT NOW, THE NEXT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, MARCH 16TH. THIS BODY CAN ONLY MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ONTO COUNCIL.
THE COUNCIL ZONING MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18TH.
THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT DOWN ZONING. C1 AND C2 ARE COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICTS LIGHT AND HEAVY.
THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONED LIGHT COMMERCIAL AND HEAVY COMMERCIAL, WHICH ALLOWS, AS DESCRIBED, HEAVY COMMERCIAL USES, LIGHT COMMERCIAL USES, AND ALSO MULTIFAMILY BY RIGHT AT A DENSITY OF 29.3 UNITS AN ACRE, AND THIS IS APPROXIMATELY 11 ACRES IN TOTAL. POINT OF ORDER, MR. CHAIR. IS THERE A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE FLOOR? DO WE HAVE A MOTION? YES. THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO APPROVE.
OKAY. CAN WE GO AND CALL FOR ROLL CALL? CAN WE CALL? ROLL CALL. WE HAVE A ROLL CALL. VOTE ON ITEMS 4 AND 5 TAKEN TOGETHER.
PA-1-26 AND ZONING CASE 10-26. MOTION. THE ROLL CALL VOTE IS TO APPROVE THESE ITEMS. IT NEEDS FIVE AFFIRMATIVE VOTES. CHAIRMAN GROUT? YES. COMMISSIONER ADDISON? NO. COMMISSIONER BOYD? NO. COMMISSIONER COLEMAN? YES. COMMISSIONER FOWLER? YES. COMMISSIONER MAXEY? YES. THAT ACTION FAILS FOR LACK OF AFFIRMATIVE VOTES.
THESE ITEMS WILL BE TAKEN UP AT COUNCIL ON THE 18TH.
THAT MOTION. SO AS A DENIAL, A DENIAL. YEAH. YOU RATHER DENY THAN A DEFERRAL? THAT'S WHERE WE ARE NOW. THAT'S WHERE WE ARE NOW. THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. AS OF NOW, THE ITEM WOULD REQUIRE EIGHT VOTES AT COUNCIL. IT ACTUALLY REQUIRES EIGHT VOTES REGARDLESS.
DO WE CAN, WE RECONSIDER THAT? DO YOU DO YOU WISH TO RECONSIDER THAT? OKAY. COUNCILMAN COLEMAN, DO YOU WISH TO RECONSIDER? TO GO FOR A DEFERRAL? OKAY. OKAY. VERY WELL. ALL RIGHT.
IT'S BEEN DENIED. MR. CHAIRMAN, WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM.
[8. CASE 11-26 3176 Ozark Street and 3165 Winbourne Avenue]
ITEM 8, CASE 11-26, OZARK STREET AND WOODWARD AVENUE.[01:15:07]
CASE 11-26. PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTH OF OZARK STREET, WEST OF NORTH ACADIAN THRUWAY (COUNCIL DISTRICT 7 - HARRIS). THE APPLICANT IS SHIRLEY MCCANT. FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS COMPACT NEIGHBORHOOD.CASE 11-26. THE REQUESTED ZONING CONFORMS TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE REQUIREMENTS AND ALIGNS WITH FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION.
HOWEVER, STAFF IS UNABLE TO CERTIFY THE REQUESTED ZONING DUE TO INCONSISTENCY WITH LAND USE ACTION ITEMS 4.1.2 AND 4.1.5 REGARDING RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, CHARACTER, AND LOCATION OF NONRESIDENTIAL USES.
OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS SHIRLEY MCCANT, AND I'VE LIVED IN BATON ROUGE ALL MY LIFE, AND I'M 67 YEARS OLD, AND I HAVE BEEN DOING CATERING FOR APPROXIMATELY, LIKE, 24 YEARS OR SO.
I WORKED AT SOUTHERN BELL SANDWICH COMPANY FOR 24 YEARS, AND I'VE STARTED DOING MY OWN CATERING THING ON THE SIDE.
I STARTED, LIKE, IN 2005, AND I HAVE GROWN IN BATON ROUGE.
I AM WELL KNOWN WITH THE BUSINESS NAME OF SIMPLY SANDWICHES AND MORE.
FINGER FOODS. AND WE HAVE BEEN, WE PURCHASED THE BUILDING.
AND WE HAVE PURCHASED A BUILDING ON OZARK STREET.
DREW MR. ISAAC PATTERSON, WE DID A DEED FOR BOND DEAL, AND HE IS HERE FOR OUR SUPPORT, TOO.
SO WE, IS IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA, AND WE ARE REQUESTING A REZONING.
THAT'S THE CHURCH OF GOD. WE'VE TALKED TO THE MINISTERS OVER THERE, AND THEY, HIM AND HIS WIFE, THEY DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH US BEING THERE.
THE NEIGHBORS, THEY DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH US BEING THERE.
WE GOT VERBAL, VERBAL APPROVAL FROM THOSE. SO NOW WE STAND BEFORE YOU ASKING YOU TO GIVE US A CHANCE TO CONTINUE TO GROW IN THE BATON ROUGE AREA AND SERVE BATON ROUGE WITH GOOD FOOD.
GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL COMMISSIONERS. GOOD EVENING. I OWN THE FACILITY.
STARTED IN 20, 2004, ALL THE WAY UP TO 2024. I RENOVATED THAT FACILITY.
IT WAS ORIGINALLY OZARK CHIROPRACTOR OFFICE. AND I RENOVATED THAT BUILDING IN 2018.
AND IT WAS USED AS A RENTAL VENUE OR EVENT VENUE FROM 2018 TO 2024, SUCCESSFULLY, I MUST SAY WITHOUT ANY INTERRUPTIONS OR WITHOUT ANY OBJECTIONS FROM THE NEIGHBORS.
MATTER OF FACT, THE NEIGHBORS REALLY APPRECIATED THE BUILDING BEING OPERATED THERE.
WE NEVER HAD ANY PROBLEMS THERE WITH THE NEIGHBORS.
SEVERAL OF THE NEIGHBORS HAS USED THE BUILDING AS OTHER EVENTS THAT WERE HELD THERE.
IF THE CONCERN FOR REZONING THIS BUILDING IS IF IT'S SOLD IN THE FUTURE THAT THE FUTURE USAGE COULD BE, COULD IMPACT THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN TERMS OF SOMETHING THAT WOULD NOT BE ACCEPTABLE, SUCH AS SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO SELL ALCOHOL, FOR INSTANCE. TWO THINGS. NUMBER ONE, I THINK THAT SCENARIO WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE COMMISSIONERS TO GET APPROVAL.
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AND THEN NUMBER TWO IS DIRECTLY CATERCORNER FROM A CHURCH.NOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ORDINANCE IS THAT ALLOWS ALCOHOL TO BE SOLD IN THE AREA OF A CHURCH, BUT WHATEVER IT IS, TRUST ME, THE FOOTAGE WOULD RESTRICT THAT FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE.
I DO BELIEVE THAT THE CURRENT BUSINESS AS MRS. SHIRLEY RUN IS AN ASSET TO THE COMMUNITY. AGAIN, THAT WAS THERE WAS NEVER ANY OPPOSITION FROM THE CHURCH, FROM THE COMMUNITY ON THE BACK STREET, WINBURN OR ANYWHERE PLANK ROAD, ANY OF THAT SORT.
I REALLY THINK SHE DESERVES AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE HER GROWTH IN THIS AREA.
I THINK IT'S IT'S GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY TO HAVE SOMEONE THERE THAT THEY CAN FEEL COMFORTABLE.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I TOOK VERY SERIOUSLY ABOUT, HOW WOULD IT IMPACT THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND SO THE DECISION TO SELL THE PROPERTY WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME BECAUSE, AGAIN, I HAD OPERATED THERE FOR SEVERAL YEARS WITH NO IMPACT ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD. AND I WAS PRETTY SURE AND FELT COMFORTABLE WITH HER BEING THERE AND NOT HAVING THE SAME IMPACT.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE DON'T HAVE ANY OPPOSITION CARDS, SO AT THIS TIME I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND INVITE COMMISSIONER COMMENTS AND MOTIONS OR QUESTIONS. CAN I HAVE THE APPLICANT COME BACK UP REAL QUICK? OR THE OWNER? SO THIS IS AN ACTUAL COMMERCIAL BUILDING ALREADY? YES. IT'S JUST A COMMERCIAL BUILDING THAT HAPPENS TO BE BUILT IN RESIDENTIAL A LONG TIME AGO.
YES. AND YOU'RE CURRENTLY RUNNING A BUSINESS OUT OF THAT? YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS.
ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? HARRIS IS AWARE OF THIS APPLICATION. SHE SHARED SOME CONCERNS INITIALLY.
SHE'S TALKED TO ME AND ASKED SOME QUESTIONS AND SHE'S JUST FOLLOWING IT AS IT PROCEEDS.
THE REQUEST TO NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL IS OUR MOST RESTRICTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD, SMALL SCALE COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICT TO DO WITH THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING, BASED ON OUR PREVIOUS RECORDS. IT LOOKS LIKE AT SOME TIME THERE WAS A DAYCARE THAT WAS OPERATED OUT OF THIS BUILDING.
A DAYCARE IS A PERMITTED USE IN A3.1, WHICH IS A PRIMARILY A RESIDENTIAL ZONING DISTRICT THAT DOES ALLOW BOTH SINGLE FAMILY AND MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. AND LIKE I SAID, A DAYCARE THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY HOUSED HERE.
MR. DIRECTOR, CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME OTHER SOME OTHER COMMERCIAL USES THAT COULD BE USED IN A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL? I MEAN, COULD THIS BE A GAS STATION OR A VAPE SHOP OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? IT COULD BE A SMALL SCALE NEIGHBORHOOD CONVENIENCE STORE.
IT'S LIMITED BY RIGHT TO 2500FT². THEY CAN'T GO BEYOND THAT WITHOUT A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT.
AGAIN, THIS BODY JUST MAKES A RECOMMENDATION ON A COUNCIL.
MR. CHAIR. COMMISSIONER ADDISON. CAN I GET THE APPLICANT BACK UP FOR A SECOND, PLEASE? APPLICANT OR THE OWNER. WHAT'S THE CURRENT SIZE OF THE BUILDING THAT YOU CURRENTLY OPERATE OUT OF? WELL, NOT YOU OF COURSE. THE OWNER TALKED TO ME BEFORE.
WHAT'S THE CURRENT SIZE OF THE BUILDING? MAYBE, PATTERSON.
SO, WE'RE NOT TALKING A REAL LARGE BUILDING. AND YOU'RE DOING A CATERING FACILITY OUT OF IT? YEAH, LIKE FINGER FOOD CATERING. AND IT'S NOT WHERE SOME PEOPLE WOULD COME IN AND SIT DOWN AND EAT OR ANYTHING.
IT'S JUST THAT WE PREPARE THE FOOD AND THEY CAN COME PICK IT UP OR WE DELIVER.
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AGAIN, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE REZONING ASPECT OF IT, WE ALSO GOT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THE SQUARE FOOTAGE IS.WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A PRETTY LARGE BUILDING. WE'RE GOING TO TURN IT INTO GAS STATIONS AND WHATEVER, 25 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW? SO LET'S LET'S BE REALISTIC ON WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE FROM SQUARE FOOTAGE.
SIZE OF THE FACILITY. AND WE TALK ABOUT USE IN THE COMMUNITY.
BECAUSE IN SOME PARTS OF BATON ROUGE IT IS VERY HARD TO GET STUFF DONE.
IT'S HARD TO ATTRACT COMPANIES THERE. SO WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT IT LIKE THAT, I MEAN, WE GOT THE OWNER OF THE BUILDING, WE GOT A PERSON WHO WANTS TO USE THE BUILDING, AND WE COULD TALK ABOUT WHAT THE FUTURE USES CAN BE ALL DAY LONG.
BUT THE REALITY IS WHAT'S PERMITTED IN THE UDC OR WHAT'S PERMITTED IN THIS ZONING CATEGORY IS LIMITED BY YOUR SQUARE FOOTAGE AND LIMITED BY THE USE OF THE FACILITY ITSELF. IT'S LIKE A NICE BUILDING. I MEAN, WE'VE GOT RENOVATED.
I SECOND, THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FOR APPROVAL AND A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER BOYD.
IS THERE ANY OPPOSITION OR ANY COMMENTS? HEARING NONE.
MOTION CARRIES. WE'LL NEXT MOVE ON TO COMMUNICATIONS.
[DIRECTOR'S COMMENTS]
DEVELOPMENT CODE REGARDING MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHTS IN PLANNED DEVELOPMENTS.THIS WILL BE POTENTIALLY UP FOR CONSIDERATION ON A FUTURE AGENDA.
THE NEXT PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR MARCH 16TH, 2026.
THANK YOU, MR. DIRECTOR. MOVE ON TO COMMISSIONERS COMMENTS.
[COMMISSIONERS' COMMENTS]
FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE ABLENELL.I'M GOING TO MISPRONOUNCE. BUT ABLENELL SMITH, ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST IN CURRENT PLANNING, ON BEING SELECTED AS THE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH.
SHE ALSO DOES NOT HESITATE TO PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE WHEN NEEDED.
IN ALL OF HER ASSIGNMENTS SHE ALWAYS, ALWAYS DISPLAYS A POSITIVE PROFESSIONAL IMAGE AND WORKS TO ENSURE THAT THE TASKS ARE COMPLETED AND ACCURATELY, COMPLETED ACCURATELY AND EFFECTIVELY. SHE HAS MADE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION THAT DESERVES RECOGNITION.
CONGRATULATIONS ABLENELL. ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMISSIONER COMMENTS? IS THERE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? MOTION TO ADJOURN FROM COMMISSIONER FOWLER.
IS THERE A SECOND? MOTION TO ADJOURN FROM COMMISSIONER COLEMAN.
WE ARE ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.