Germantown Planning Commission Meeting – June 3, 2025
Germantown Planning Commission Meeting – June 3, 2025
The Germantown Planning Commission met on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, at 6:00 p.m. in City Hall Council Chambers, following a 5:30 p.m. executive session. The meeting addressed routine approvals, a consent agenda item, and a new bank site plan. All decisions were unanimous.
Consent Calendar
- Minutes Approval (May 6, 2025): Approved with Commissioner Bacon abstaining.
- Case (15-560) Harvest Church – Revised Final Site Plan (Church Expansion): Moved to consent agenda at the board's request during executive session. Approved unanimously.
Discussion Items
- Case (25-004) West TN Bank – Preliminary and Final Site Plan (New Bank Building): The applicant, Mike Edwards (1902 Clarington Drive, Germantown), proposed a 4,400-square-foot bank on a vacant 1.144‑acre lot at 7707 Wolf River Circle within the Wolf River Professional Center (Office zoning district). Staff confirmed the building meets all bulk regulations: 35‑foot height limit, 9% building coverage, 65% impervious coverage, 19 parking spaces (including a bicycle rack). The circulation plan uses existing platted cross‑access easements on the north side. Commissioners inquired about potential overflow parking with the adjacent light clinic; the applicant noted that most transactions are digital, parking demand is expected to be low, and they would consider a shared‑parking agreement with neighbors. No public comments were made during the hearing.
Key Outcomes
- West TN Bank Site Plan Approved: Motion by Vice Chair Bacon, seconded by Mayor Palazzolo. Roll call vote: 8‑0 in favor. Approval is subject to subsequent Design Review Commission review of landscape and elevation plans.
- Adjournment: Meeting concluded after brief commission liaison reports: Commissioner Jacobs noted the Board of Zoning Appeals is “speeding along”; Commissioner Sisson reported the Tree Board is working on noxious weed control as a city project.
Meeting Transcript
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the June 3rd meeting of the City of Germantown's Planning Commission. My name is John McCreary, and I'll be your chairman for today's proceedings. We'll begin this evening's meeting with a roll call to establish a quorum. Uh Ms. Tillman, would you proceed, please? Ms. Sisson. Mr. Bacon? Here. Mr. Sloan? Mr. Clark? Here. Mr. Jacobs? Here. Alderman Savaggio? Here. Chairman McCreary. Here. Mayor Pow Lazzalo. All right. We have a quorum. I'd like to remind everybody we've got copies of today's agenda available here. And if you want to have one, you can come down to the front of the uh chamber and get a copy. As a matter of courtesy for those watching or present here tonight, I'll explain our normal procedures. The item number and case from today's agenda will be read by the chairperson. Staff will then give their report. After the staff report, commission members will be able to ask questions of staff. Following the commission questions and clarifications by staff, we'll have an app presentation by the applicant. And after the presentation by the applicant, commissioners will be able to ask questions of the applicant. Once the commission questions of the applicant are complete, we'll break to a public hearing for the agenda item is required by state law, and the public will be given a chance to make comments for or against the regular agenda. Once the public comments are complete, we'll go back to the regular agenda, and our vice chair will make a motion and we'll get a second. And at that time, members of the commission will be able to discuss the case and make comments. Once those commission discussions and comments are complete, we'll ask for a roll call final vote. If you wish to make comments on any item on today's agenda, if you would please fill out a citizen to be heard sheet and bring it to the front of the chamber and hand it to one of our staff members. And when that item is called, when we move to the public hearing portion of the agenda item, you'll be given an opportunity to make your comments. Each side being for or against, we'll be given a total of 15 minutes with no more than three minutes per person. If there's multiple speakers on an agenda item, I'd ask that you please divide your time up accordingly. We are absolutely a community involved uh supporter of community involvement and we welcome citizen neighborhood comments, but we ask that uh you be respectful of the fact that we want to be respectful of the fact you've taken time away from your family and you're just and adjusted your schedules to be here today, but we ask that your comments be made within the time frame allowed. At this point, I'd like to read our conflict of interest statement. The agreed procedure of the Germantown Planning Commission asks that any member of the board recuse himself or herself from any participation in the discussion or voting on any matter on the meeting's agenda in which he or she may have a direct or indirect personal interest, personal financial interest. The members will vacate his or her seat during deliberations on any matter from which they have recused themselves. An abstention may substitute for a recusal for the purposes of us maintaining a quorum. Lastly, I like to ask everybody to silence your cell phones to not interrupt today's proceedings. So with our procedures explained, we'll move to the approval of our minutes. Can I get a motion for the approval of our minutes from the last meeting, please? We have a motion from Commissioner Clark.
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