The Baldwin County Planning and Zoning Commission met on April 5, 2024, at 10:00 AM. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Pumphrey, followed by a prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. Roll was called, and a quorum was present. The commission approved the minutes from the March 7, 2024 work session and regular meeting. New Planning Director Jay Dixon provided an overview of public hearing procedures and the 11 criteria for rezoning cases.
Good evening. At this time on call to order, our April 4th, Balling County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting to order. So at this time, if you will stand with me, we'll have a prayer and a pledge of allegiance. Father, we're thankful to you to this for this day for the blessings you've given us. We're thankful to you for this county we're here representing tonight. Thank you for a great place to live for all that make it that way. Father, we're thankful for our staff that has put this meeting together. We're thankful, Father, for all the good that we see, and and Father, we pray that in this meeting we see that good and the way we respect each other. Give us insight and wisdom as we conduct the business before us. And we pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all of them. At this time, I'll call the roll. Brandon Bias here. Robert Davis Palmer Tonsmeyer, Jason Pageant, Michael Mullock. Here, Greg Seibert. Here. Bill Booyer? Here. Jamie Stratiger. Here. Mike McKenzie. Glenn Seal. Diane Burnett. Michael Fletcher. Danny Bolton. George Waters. Okay, we have a quorum. Each of you received a copy of the minutes for our work session and regular meeting on March 7th. Had a chance to review it. If there are not any revisions or changes, I'll entertain a motion that both of those be approved. So we approve. Second. Greg. Greg's made a motion to be approved to have a second. Second. All right, Bill second the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed. All right, the minutes are approved. All right, at this time uh for his first meeting, we have a new director, and I'm going to introduce Jay Dixon at this time, our new planning director, and he's going to uh have some comments before we get into our agenda. Good afternoon, Christian. Uh thank you. I just want to take a second to um to go over. I know we have some several public hearings uh tonight. A little bit of the um some of our uh kind of our rules of how we conduct our public hearings uh in planning commission. So anyone that's here to speak, I know a lot of people have signed up, but uh when you come up to the um to the uh podium, you know the one that the uh public comments should only be uh made during the public hearing portion of the applications. So uh so please hold your comments until your your your application uh is up that you want to speak on.