Good afternoon and welcome to the September 18th, 2025 Mobile Planning Commission meeting.

I would like to take a moment to review our general operating procedures.

This meeting is divided into two sessions, public hearing and deliberation.

In public hearing, the agenda item is called.

The applicant makes their presentation.

Commission members ask questions and then the members of the public can make their comments to the commission.

Only four people speak for an agenda item, four people against.

Each speaker is limited to five minutes with questions subject to questions by the commissioners.

At one minute remaining, you will have a warning bell or a beep prompting you to summarize your comments.

After opposition speakers speak on an agenda item, the applicant is allowed a two-minute rebuttal.

If you do intend to speak, please come down to the bottom of the stairs at the podium.

Speak clearly into the microphone and give your name and address for the record.

Please direct all your comments to the commission only and not to the applicant, the staff or the audience.

After hearing all the applications, we will then go into deliberation where we will discuss each application with input from the staff as necessary, but with no input from the audience.

Commissioners then vote on each application, and the results of that can be learned from the planning department.

If some issues arise during deliberation that were not addressed in the public hearing, we have the discretion to allow additional comments to resolve the issues or call for the application to be held over for discussion at a future meeting.

Occasionally we will have commissioners recuse themselves from discussing and voting on a given application.

That doesn't mean that they are directly involved with the application or the applicant, but depending on circumstances, ethical rules may require the recusal.

If they do recuse, we will have a supernumerary vote in their stead.

Reminded that the planning commission makes final decisions on subdivisions with appeals of these decisions to the circuit court.

The planning commission is strictly a recommending body for rezonings, conditional use permits, and planned developments.

The city council makes the final decision on these applications and all appeals of the city council decisions are to the circuit court.

This time, please do me a favor and turn your cell phones or uh other devices to vibrate or silence.

Commissioners and staff, a reminder to please move towards the microphone and speak clearly when you do speak.

I'll call the role of myself, Jay Stubbs President, Mr.

Kirk Mate, Miss Jennifer Denson, Mr.

Harry Brislin, Mr.

Larry Dorsey, Mr.

Chad Anderson, Mr.

Matt Anderson, Mr.

Nick Amberger, Mr.

Josh Woods, Mr.

Kenny Nichols, Miss Ellie Edwards.

We do have a quorum for the agenda items today.

I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda.

Second.

Properly moved and seconded.

All in favor.

The agenda passes for today.

Holdover is number one on the agenda.

This is a holdover from 600, 700, and 800.

We do have a West I-65 service road south.

We do have a recusal in Mr.

Kenny Nichols.

We still maintain a quorum for this agenda item.

This is a major modification of a previously approved PUD, allowing shared access and parking between three building sites to allow construction of a multifamily development with 240 units in multiple buildings across the three building sites with shared access and parking.

The applicant, go ahead, Mr.

Watkins.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman.

Good afternoon.

Jay Watkins with Maynard Nexon, 11 Northwater Street, suite 24290, 36602.

Um this application was held over from the last meeting.

The site plan and the staff comments were pretty extensive.

And so we went back and you'll note that there's a fairly wholesale change to the site plan.

They've reduced the number of units from 240 down to 217.

What this is, uh, it's three separate lots of record.

The uh properties located in northwest quadrant of Airport Boulevard and I-65.

Uh currently has a best western plus hotel on the northernmost lot, and then the uh middle lot and the southern lot have a um uh days in super eight.

The uh hotel on the back portion of the lot has been boarded up and vacant for a number of years.