The Baldwin County Planning and Zoning Commission held a regular meeting on February 11, 2025, at 3:30 PM. The meeting included approval of consent agenda items, public hearings on subdivision and rezoning requests, and discussion of a planned unit development. Key actions included approval of multiple subdivisions, rezonings, and a PRD, along with a vote to extend an RV park permit.
Good evening. I'm gonna welcome you to our February 6th Bowman County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. And at this time, if you will stand, we'll have a prayer and a pledge of allegiance. Father, we're thankful to you for this day for the blessings we've each enjoyed. Father, we're thankful to you for this place, great place we live in. We pray, Father, for guidance tonight. Pray that we do things that show respect to each other and honor to you. We pray that uh you'll just continue to bless uh the growth in this county. We know for some it may seem a lot, but Father, we just pray that you'll help us all to be good stewards of what you blessed us with. Thank you for our staff and for all those county workers that make this a great place to live and make this meeting possible tonight. 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. At this time I'll do the roll call. Brandon Bias here, Robert Davis, Scott Schamburger, Michael Mullock, Greg Seibert here, Jamie Stratiger, Glenn Seal, Diane Burnett, Michael Fletcher, George Waters here, and Reed Key. All right, we just barely have a quorum, but we do have a quorum, which is good. So with that, um you all have received a copy of the minutes from the work session of our January 9th meeting along with our regular uh meeting minutes of the January 9th meeting. If there are no changes to those, I would uh entertain a motion that both of those be approved. So moved. Mr. Seibert has made the motion to approve to have a second. Mr. Davis' second the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, the minutes are approved. All right, this time our planning director, Mr. Jay Dixon will come up and give some guidance on our meeting tonight. All righty, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh good evening. So we'll quickly go through our public hearing guidelines. We have several public hearings uh on the agenda tonight. Um so the public, there's a pretty full crowd here today, and and so when you come up, the uh public comment should uh only be made during the public hearing portion of the meeting when the chairman uh opens up the public hearing. Uh when you come up to the podium, stake your name and address into the microphone for the record. Uh this meeting will be recording, and the video may be streaming on the internet, so please speak clearly and uh uh loud enough to be heard and into the microphone. Uh comments should be directed to the planning commission chairman, and he can disseminate those comments as as needed. Comments should be focused on the applicant being presented uh at the time and uh comments should from individuals are limited to three minutes. If you're speaking on behalf of the group, uh the chairman can give you five minutes, just to state what group you are uh speaking on behalf of. Uh on the rezoning pieces, we have uh 11 criteria that rezonings must be uh reviewed by. You'll see these in all of the staff reports today. But the first is uh compatible uh with the development pattern in the area. Have there been any changes uh since the original zoning of the area? Uh does the proposal conform to the master plan? Uh does it conflict with public improvements? Uh is there any adverse effects to traffic? And like I say every month when we're talking about rezonings, that's that's different than traffic at the subdivision or site plan phase uh traffic and rezoning cases really about proximity to the transportation network and access, you know, any kind of localized improvements would be addressed during uh whatever next phase of development when the traffic studies is performed. Um, is it consistent with the development pattern of the area? It number seven is a logical expansion of the adjacent zoning.