Okay.

Good evening, everybody.

I'm gonna call this uh meeting of the planning zoning commission into order.

Uh the time is uh 7 p.m.

Uh we have a quorum present, and uh if we could take uh roll call, please.

Kim Breadshaw here, Tom Collins.

Here, Lisa Hillman, Rick Kuhn, Andrew McCallum, here, Charlie Pager, Joel Pyle, David Rude, here, Justin Sather.

Here thank you.

I take it everybody's had a chance to review the minutes from last week's meeting.

Uh if there's any objections or additions that they'd like to add to uh the meeting, or can I get a uh uh motion to approve?

A motion seconded.

Roll call.

Kim Breadshaw, yes, Tom Collins, yes, Lisa Hillman, Raccoon, Andre McCallum, yes, Charlie Pager, Joe Pyle, David Rude, yes, Justin Sather.

Yes.

Uh one quick thing as a matter of housekeeping we wanted to uh bring up, and I I want to bring it up early.

Is uh we may be going out of order when we go to approve our um uh hearing items uh to eliminate any potential bias uh by going through alphabetically, so you know if somebody feels like something very strongly about so we're gonna uh put some randomization to the voting order, is that correct, Rod?

Um and that's just gonna eliminate some of the bias that uh may exist.

Uh you know, I'm a follow-the-leader kind of guy sometimes too.

So um just want to put that out there's a housekeeping item, and then uh I'd like to uh kick the meeting off with our first item, which is a text amendment.

Uh project one two nine two point two five.

And can we get a roll call to open up this uh item someone has to oh a motion to open up so motioned?

Second second roll call.

Kim Bradshaw, yes, Tom Collins, yes, Lisa Hillman, Rick Coon, Andrew McCallum, yes, Charlie Pager, Joel Pyle, David Rude, yes, Justin Sather.

Yes.

Thank you.

Uh staff thank you.

The first item before you for public hearing this evening is a text amendment to the subdivision and development control regulations.

Staff is proposing two changes.

First, in accordance with a change to state law, we are suggesting a section dictating that traceable wire must be installed on any underground utilities.

This is to assist with locating those utilities, and the second change is to the floodplain section, which currently in this regard is stricter than the female regulations, and it's regarding basements that are being constructed and buildings that were previously within the floodplain but were brought out uh using the addition of fill to the site.

Uh the amendment to this section provides certain circumstances under which a basement could be permitted, and the change is in line with the FEMA requirements.

Any questions can be directed to staff.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh is there anybody here from the public that wishes to speak on this topic?

With that said, uh well, uh with no one uh wanting to speak.

Is there any commissioners that have any questions on this uh topic at all and I just want to clarify these are two distinct changes, but they're uh you know, obviously supported by um uh the use of you know engineers and and you know for the floodplain thing.

Um so uh other than that, everything's kind of uh above board.

Obviously, we're being compliant with uh state.

Is it state law or federal that we're uh the floodplain would be federal?

That's the the theme of regulations that we are using as a a guideline there.

Um and yes, to your point, our engineers have uh vetted that language.

Um we actually have a a case that will potentially be coming in soon that they're kind of using as a test case for how this is gonna work, um, and they have you know made sure that everything is above board and that they have the checks and balances in place moving forward to make sure that it will be safe.

Very good.

Uh and the tracer wire with a state law, correct?

That's a state law, so we're just compliant with that.

Very good.

Um, so with that, uh yeah, go ahead, Tom.

Okay, so the floodplain issue, let just so I understand exactly what it is we're voting on, right?

So what the rules are now is that if you add fill to take a building out of the floodplain issues, you still cannot put in a basement.

Correct.

And what we're saying is we're amending that to say you can with certain requirements.

Correct.

The bait the the floor of the basement can't be more than a certain number of feet below the old floodplain and blah blah blah blah, that kind of stuff.

Correct.

And it also lays out certain engineering standards that whoever the developer is who's proposing that has to meet those standards and show you know that they're checking all the boxes and there's provisions for our engineers to double check that.

Okay, that makes sense.

All right, thank you.

I'm gonna jump in because I got here late and I apologize for that.

I'm going to jump in here, and I was late, and I apologize for that.