The Mobile Board of Adjustment met on July 13, 2026, at 7:00 PM. The meeting was called to order by Chairman Adam Metcalfe, with a quorum present (Commissioners Golden, Milling, Petway, Morris, Farrell, and Metcalfe; Atchison Williams and Guess were absent). The board reviewed four agenda items, including a denial for failure to appear, approvals for a variance and a special exception, and a fence variance. The board also received an update on litigation regarding a car lot on Highway 90.
Call the meeting to order. This is the uh meeting for the Board of Adjustment for July 13th, 2026. I'd like to take the moment to uh um review some of our operating procedures. Our meeting is divided into two sessions the public hearing session and the deliberation session. In the public session, excuse me, in the public hearing session, I uh agenda items will be called. The applicant will be asked to make their presentations, board members will ask questions, members of the public may make their comments. Only four people may speak for an agenda item, and four people against. Each speaker is limited to five minutes, subject to questions by the board. At one minute remaining, you'll hear a warning bill or be prompting you to summarize your comments after the opposition speakers have finished the application. Uh the applicant is allowed two-minute rebuttal. If you intend to speak, come to the podium, speak into the microphone, and provide your name and address for the record. Direct all comments to the board only and not to the applicant, staff, or the audience. After the session, all applicants' applications, the board will go into deliberation session. In that session, the board members discuss each application with input from staff as necessary, but no input from the audience. The board then votes on each item. Results of the meeting can be learned from the planning department at 251-208-5895. If some issues arise during the deliberation session that were not addressed in the public hearing, the chairman has discretion to allow additional comments pertaining to those issues in order to resolve them, or call for the application to be held over for discussion at a future meeting. Occasionally a board, uh a board member may recuse themselves from discussing and voting on a given application. A recusal does not mean that the member is directly involved with the application or applicant. However, depending on the circumstances, ethical rules may require a recusal, even if there's only the slightest appearance of conflict of interest. We have one today. Everybody please turn off their cell phones or electronic devices at this time. Uh commissioners and staff, please. We'll have a roll call. Um, Mr. Golden. Yeah. Mr. Milling? Here. Ms. Petway? Here. Mr. Morris? Here. Ms. Farrell? Here. Mr. Atchison? Mr. Williams. Absent. And William Guess is absent, and I'm Adam Metcalfe. So we have one. We do have a quorum. All right. We will move on to our first agenda item, which is case number 6722. 122 Michael Donald Avenue.