The Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) met on August 11, 2026, at 7:30 PM to consider a single agenda item: variance request BR 26-23. Members present were Gilmore, Miles, Miller, Bailey, and Caples. The meeting began with approval of the previous month's minutes.
Welcome, we're gonna have a cult order and roll call. Gilmore? Here. Miles. Here. Miller? Bailey? Here. Caples. All right. So we're gonna have uh motion to approve uh the minutes from last month. So move. All right, second. Second. Thank you. All right. The one and only case today, William Walker. Welcome back. What's changed besides the letter? Not a lot. Um that was staff after the last minute. In a hard place where uh neither party want it. Um both parties thinks it it hurts their property, both parties think it's creating a big safety issue. Well uh we at the last meeting we tried to make a point. If you just show a turnout, just show it. You can park in front of it. You can't we can't as a city, the city cannot force your traffic to go on to the neighbor. You gotta have an agreement between you if that's gonna happen. All you gotta show is a turnout. Just show it on the plan. You can don't have to finish it, you just show it, and we would have be doing something else today besides coming here. Sure. Yeah, so yes, that's that's the issue. We we've I thought we had made that pretty clear in the last meeting. Maybe we didn't beat it enough, but it's just one of them deals. If you just show it, yeah, and when when we spoke, we're speaking with the city attorney and staff. Um we were or are under the impression that if we show it, it could at some point have to be built if if Cooper does redevelop. Um that was what we were told. Um, even if we show it on the plan and we don't build it now, tractor doesn't really leave locations, they've been where they're at since the 60s. Um and you know, they're looking at this in 10 or 15 years if he does redevelop in a you know a high high traffic QSR goes in right there, they're gonna have to build it, and it's gonna, I mean, it's a it's a major safety issue. I I think they uh was talking to the adjoining landowner said somebody almost got hit um and that they've had to put up signs. Again, I'm not saying send tractor supplies traffic on to Cooper. I didn't that's not what I'm saying at all. Okay, it's just just uh to get through the ordinance, it just has to show it on your plan. Sure. No, understood. And I just I and at some point if Cooper wants it, then you have to agree back. You can they just can't force you either. So we could show it in there and we would never have to agree to building it. No, forever.