Okay, we're gonna uh get started.

Good afternoon, everybody.

Thank you for coming to today's city planning commission meeting.

Uh it's now one thirty-nine, and I will start first uh by calling role, uh following uh by reading the formal public hearing rules, and then moving on to our order of business.

So we will call role, Commissioner Johnson.

Commissioner Brown here, Commissioner Jordan here, Commissioner Steve here.

Commissioner Stewart.

Present.

Okay.

No material, including written matter, photographs, maps, or other items will be accepted by the commission or its staff at any time during this public hearing.

And now we will begin with the adoption of June tenth.

Oh more of the working for you.

There you go.

Okay.

And meeting minutes are adopted.

The first official item of business is zoning docket item 03125.

Zoning docket 03125 is a request for a conditional use permit to permit a neighborhood commercial establishment at 9000 Hickory.

The particular property had a historic use as a place of worship since at least 1937 and presents its suts and its reading.

Neutral ground operated for four decorate decades at 5110 to Neil Street, but ceased the use of that location in April 2023 after the building changed ownership.

Part of the intended use involves open mic nights according to Article 26 second 26.6 um the CZO musical accompaniment at a standard or specialty restaurant does not qualify as live entertainment as a secondary use.

The staff analysis determines that the proposal complies with the use standards for a specialty restaurant uh contained in Article 20, section 3.

The staff recommends approval subject to three provisos, notable among them a requirement to add bicycle parking with a minimum of two spaces as required by Article 22 section for a table 22-1.

Thank you.

We have uh two common cards in support, one from the applicant James Naylor.

Good afternoon.

I'm James Naylor.

I'm one of the uh owners of the Neutron Coffee House LLC.

We were in front of y'all about a year ago for a different location, but that fell through.

So I recently purchased this building here for the purposes of putting the Neutron coffee house in.

And I did just last week put in bicycle parking.

So um so our intent is just a open run as the neutron coffee house.

It's a community space where anyone and everyone is welcome to join us.

We're no alcohol, it's just a meeting meeting place for all of anyone to enjoy.

Uh asked y'all to approve it.

Thank you.

Uh Mr.

Naylor, could just quick question.

Do you have uh are you in agreement with the three provisos?

What were the were they exactly?

I'm sorry, it's just staff restate the provisos.

Yeah.

Um so the first one is the standard one, um, which is to provide drawings before final approval.

The second one uh is that the applicant comply with the applicable standards, um that a the existing structure is non-residential, b the existing structure and the proposed use shall be pedestrian-oriented in design.

Um the third one being that it provide bicycle parking.

So provide drawings and yes, I'm agree with all this.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, we have uh one more common card in support.

Uh Miss Ashley Beach.

Hi folks, I'm Ashley Beach.

Um newly minted president of the 501c3 um of the neutral ground coffee house.

We've spent the last two years trying to figure out what we're doing next, and one of those things is actually getting official as a 501c3 nonprofit.

Um yeah, this place, I mean, you know, James said it.

This place is a uh it's a coffee house, but it's not like a coffee shop, it's a community center.

Um so it will be available in the evenings for general musical programming.

We have a little library that we're building and all of that sort of thing, but um during the day it's available to other community events um for donation-based sort of things.

We've had AA in hand in there, we've had uh folks who want to host drawing classes and that sort of thing, and um I really don't have much else to say um because it seems like you guys know who we are and what we do.

Um but uh but yeah, yeah, it's been really it's been really nice getting in there and fixing things up.

So just a curious question.