The Property Owners Appeal Board of Fort Smith, Arkansas, held a regular meeting on September 14, 2026, at 11:00 AM at the Blue Lion facility, 101 North 2nd Street, Room B. The board considered one variance request and unanimously approved it.
Alright, I'll call this meeting to order. This is the uh September 14th, 2026 meeting of the property owner's appeal board. Um this is a regular meeting. And um I remind everyone to uh use your microphones if you have uh anything to say since we are recording the meeting. Uh we'll go ahead and get started. Um can we get uh roll call, please? Justin Sparrow. Here, Megan Rayner. Here Karen Lewis here, Pete Hammond, here Randy Hall. Here all right, we have a quorum. Um has everyone been uh provided a copy of the minutes for the July 13th, 2026 meeting. And has everyone had a uh chance to read those minutes? I know they be accepted as presented. I second okay. We have a motion and a second to approve the minutes from July 13th, 2026 meeting. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, those minutes are approved. Okay. Item of business today. We have one item to discuss, uh, that being variance number 26-000 two. Uh the property location is 6916 and lane away. Uh applicant is Mr. Uh Nicholas Griffin. And uh request is for a variance of section 14-52 C of parking screening vehicles, which uh requires um for residentially zoned property uh 50% of the improved surface area in the cold stack. Um Mr. Griffin, are you here? Would you like to come tell us about your variance request? I was just gonna cover real quick. Uh uh on the city side of it on August 28th. Uh the city for center received a variance packet from Mr. Garvet. Uh requesting approval on the property located 6916 along the way. The variance will be an exception to section 14-52, section C5, and uh sections E1 and 2, which reads as follows. Uh one residential uh line is supplied on the COVID stack for the line of state reduced as we reduce the funding of the radius of the street, the maximum approved area for the vehicle with 50% of the post funding is here, side yard, and area. Variances and instances for strict enforcement of the requirements of subsections B through B through D of this section would cause undue hardship, due circumstances unique to the individual property consideration and granting of such variants demonstrated to be within the spirit and tenant provisions of this article. The property owner field board may grant request for variances in the requirements of the subjections according to the following guidelines. Uh we should be up to Mr. Drift to revive uh section one upon showing required by subsection E2 of the section. The property owner board may modify such requirements to be extended D just and property so as to relieve such partnership provided at such relief may be granted without detriment to the public interest. By reason of the exceptional narrowness, shallowness, size, and shape, the specific piece of property, or by reason of exceptional topographical conditions, or situations and exactly what Mr. Riff is here for today on September 3rd. Uh letters went out to the uh contiguous property, property owners within the 300 areas, and notification was also sent to Mr. Griffin. We have uh the director of the building services, uh Jesse Banner with us today, also building official who will speak to the uh uh the property itself and the office request. Well, you all have diagram in front of you as you can tell the uh the phone of this lot is really narrow. The multi-use trail also some of this uh some of the property back towards the structure itself. Uh back with this um uh illustration. There are easements back there, you can all use bad neighborhoods structure back to uh to gain more square footage of three space in the front as an option here.