The Athens-Clark County Mayor and Commission convened on December 2, 2025, to conduct their monthly voting meeting, addressing a wide range of planning and zoning items, ordinances, and public concerns. The meeting featured significant public testimony regarding a proposed church rezone that was ultimately denied by the commissioners, and a complex multi-phase redevelopment project at Homewood Village which was tabled pending further review of infrastructure and community input. The body also approved a temporary moratorium on new data centers and made appointments to various boards.
All right, all right, all right. Welcome everyone. It is Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025. Uh, if you are here joining us in City Hall or via digital media across the globe, we're glad to have you with us. We're here for the monthly voting meeting of the Athens Clark County Mayor and Commission. We're gonna begin by having the clerk do a roll call. Here, here, Taylor, why president Fisher? Here Johnson. Here, Carl Pepper. Here. My yours here, Thornton. Here. Handy. Here. We have a call. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right. Uh begin by noting our civility pledge provided to us by the Georgia Municipal Association. And we have embraced that the way we govern ourselves is often as important as the positions we take, that our collective decisions will be better when differing views have had the opportunity to be fully vetted and considered, that all people have the right to be treated with respect, courtesy, and openness, that we value all input and commit to conduct ourselves at all times with civility and courtesy to each other in this room. So uh first formal item of business tonight is approval of the minutes of meetings of Tuesday, November 4th, Tuesday November of November 18th, of which there were two meetings, and non-voting meetings of Tuesday, November 12th and Tuesday, November 18th. Can I hear a motion for approval of those minutes? Second. All right. Have a motion from Commissioner Taylor and a second from Commissioner Myers. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Same sign. Hearing none, motion carries. Uh Madam Clerk, do we have any written communications this evening? All right, thank you. All right. Uh we are going to have many, many, many, many opportunities for public input tonight. Um we're gonna have an opportunity on the consent agenda. We're gonna have an opportunity on each of the several planning and zoning items. We're gonna have an opportunity on old and new business, and then we'll have an opportunity for public comment on any item that was not on tonight's agenda at the conclusion of the meeting tonight. Uh terms of public input with the exception of uh two pieces of input on planning and zoning, call for three-minute opportunity on each occasion. Uh you see a light in front of the clerk, it will turn green when you begin speaking and give us your name and place of residence. It will turn yellow when you have 30 seconds left, and then it will turn red when that three minutes is ended, and we'll thank you for your time with us tonight. Um if there's an opportunity when there are many folks wishing to speak on the same item, uh you can go ahead and line up at the podium that way we can kind of move expeditiously through public comment. So uh first opportunity for public comment tonight is on our consent agenda. And these were items that at the prior meeting were determined to be handled with a single vote. And currently the consent agenda items are one through eleven. Is there any member of the public tonight who would like to speak to any of those items? One through eleven. Again, just provide your name and place of residence, and then your three minutes will begin. Yes. Uh my name's Jamie Hillmeyer. I live at 250 Pendleton Drive.