The Baldwin County Planning and Zoning Commission held a regular meeting on May 3, 2024, at 10:00 AM. The meeting included approval of consent agenda items, a highway construction setback appeal, two rezoning cases, several subdivision and planned unit development requests, and a variance request. The commission denied one rezoning request (Glass property), recommended approval of another (Craig property), denied a setback appeal, approved multiple subdivisions, tabled an RV park request, and denied a wetland buffer variance.
Good evening. At this time on call to order our our May 2nd meeting of the Balma County Planning and Zoning Commission. And if you will, if you'll stand with me at this time, we'll have a prayer and a pledge of allegiance to the flag. Our father, we're thankful to you for the day and for the blessings you give us. One of those blessings, Father, is living in a great county. We're thankful for this place, and Father, we're thankful for all that uh make it a great place to live. We appreciative of our elected officials, our first responders, so many that uh work hard to make it that way. We thank you for our staff that has worked hard for this meeting tonight to put it together. And uh now, Father, we just ask that what we do here is show respect to each other, and Father, we honor you and how we conduct ourselves. Thank you so much for all that you do for us, and we pray all 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. This time I'll call our role, Brandon Bias here, Robert Davis, uh Plummer Tonsmeyer, Jason Pagett, Michael Mullock here, Greg Seibert, Bill Boyer here, Jamie Stratiger, Mike McKenzie, Glenn Seal, Diane Vernett, Michael Fletcher, Danny Bolton, and George Waters. And that is exactly what we need for a quorum. So we're good to go on that end. At this time, we'll uh have the approval of our minutes of our uh April 4th work session and the regular meeting. Hopefully, everybody's had a chance to look at that. Made any comments to staff. If no corrections, I'll entertain a motion to approve those. Oh no, Mr. Davis? Thought I heard all right. Mr. Davis made a motion to approve those. Do I have a second? Second. All right, Mr. Booser, second the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Our minutes are approved. All right. Mr. Dixon, you want to say anything at this point? You want me to afternoon, Commission. Uh, just real quickly, uh, we'll go through our public hearing guidelines uh, like we did um last month. One second. So uh we have several items on public hearing tonight, just a quick guidelines of how we operate our public hearings. Um the public comments should be made uh only during the public hearing portion of the meeting. Uh when you approach the the podium uh to the microphone, please state your name and address, uh address all your comments to the chairman of the planning commission. Um comments should be focused towards whatever application is being presented at the time. Um, and then the comments from individuals should be limited to three minutes. And if there's a someone speaking on behalf of a group, that it can be extended to five minutes. Um we do have a couple rezoning cases tonight. Uh so just quickly remind everyone that the when that when considering a rezoning case, the commission has 10 criteria from the zoning ordinance that they must uh review the the rezoning request by. I won't read all 10 of them again because you'll see this through a lot of the staff reports and presentations tonight, but um no future development plans or anything can be considered during the rezoning case, only the the 10 criteria that are spelled out in the the uh sub zoning ordinance. Uh when when it comes time for subdivision uh cases, you know, those are a lot more cut and dry. They are either meet the regulations or they don't, and that's what the the commission can consider. Uh and that'll be covered in during the the planning the staff reports.