The Baldwin County Planning and Zoning Commission convened on August 2, 2024, at 10:00 AM to consider rezoning requests, planned residential developments, a highway setback appeal, and a subdivision preliminary plat. The meeting opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call (quorum present), and approval of the July 11 work session and regular meeting minutes.
Next Meeting: September 5, 2024 (Thursday after Labor Day).
Good evening. I'm gonna call our August 1st Bowen County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting to order. And at this time, if you will stand with me, we'll have a prayer, and then we'll have a pledge of allegiance. Father, we're thankful to you for uh this day and the blessings that we've all enjoyed. And Father, we're thankful for this place that we live in, and for we're thankful for our elected officials, our first responders. We're thankful for our staff that put this meeting together, the hard work they've done to make that happen. Uh father, we're a blessed people to live here. We pray that you'll be with us in this meeting. Bless this meeting tonight. We pray this in the name of Jesus. Amen. For which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. This time I'll call roll. Brandon Bice here, Robert Davis, Jason Page, Michael Mullock. Here, Greg Seibert here. Jamie Stratiger here. Glenn Seal, Diane Burnett here, Michael Fletcher, here. Danny Bolton, George Waters, here. And Reed Key. Here. Okay, we have a quorum. So at this time, you've each received a copy of the minutes of our last meeting of the July 11th work session and the regular meeting. So if there are no corrections, I'll entertain a motion that those be approved. So moved. All right. Greg Seibert has made the motion to approve to have a second. I'll second it. Mr. Mullock, second the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. The minutes are approved. Mr. Dixon, you'd like to address the audience tonight. Good afternoon. There we go. So we'll quickly go through some of our public hearing guidelines. We have several public hearings before you this afternoon. First, uh public comments should only be made during the public court public hearing portion of the meeting. When you come to the podium, please state your name and address into the microphone for the record. Comments should be made should be directed to the planning commission chairman, and he can uh disseminate those comments, those questions and comments to the appropriate people. Comments should be focused on the application being presented and not something that's not currently being presented at the moment. Comments from individuals should be limited to three minutes. Uh if you're here to speak on behalf of a group, uh that can be expanded to five minutes for people speaking on on behalf of a larger group. Several of the cases are rezoning cases uh this uh this afternoon. You'll see this in all your uh presentations today for each case, but there's ten criteria or 11 technically that the zoning ordinance uh says that we have to review rezonings based upon uh number one is it compatible with the development pattern of the area. Number two, is it a change in conditions uh or has there been a change of conditions since it was originally zoned?