The pre-council meeting was called to order at approximately 6:30 PM on October 7, 2025, with Councilor Tiner absent. The meeting included a rezoning presentation, a special retail license application, announcements, a briefing on upcoming agenda items, discussion on a job specification, and an executive session.
Seated uh counselor councillor Tiner is out today, so we are still wishing him a speedy recovery. But um we will now call the pre-council meeting to order. Can I get an approval of the minutes? Okay, uh in favor. Minutes have been approved. So uh first up on our agenda today, we have Mr. Pines. Good afternoon. I have a rezoning request for you guys. So this is called Ivory Bluff. Um this is Mr. Crawford Nixon, Jimmy Duncan, and Chandler Overcash's project. Uh but this is to rezone approximately 1.3 acres in this area. I'll show you where it is. It's a lot easier than just saying all that. Uh from R to RPD for a riverfront planned development for 20 townhouse lots and one open space lot. And this is in council district five. So this is the location of the property. This is kind of where you get off uh Jack Warner to get on uh McFarland going northbound or getting off there. Um I think Watercrest is that larger um evolve or watercrest. They change names so often, but that's that apartment complex there on that corner. So it's currently zoned riverfront. Um they want to rezone to RPD, so it's essentially this process. This is kind of the new process of riverfront development district, so it's almost like a planned unit development, but in the riverfront area. Um and they want to construct 20 townhomes. So it's a townhome development, it's currently uh comprised of seven single family residential properties that were built in the 30s and 40s. Um the intent is to build these townhomes for young professionals, retired households, and game day residences. They will be three bedrooms each, three stories in height. You can see the units um being priced at around 579 to 79 and about 1700 square feet. Uh the development's approximately gonna increase the area of 50 people uh maximum, or there's gonna be about 50 people within this development, which is 2.5 people per unit. Uh it has common areas which will be owned and managed by the owners associate homeowners association. Um the townhomes will be brick, cementitious siding, uh, heavy timber framing, Florida floor heights include nine foot ceilings at the ground level and ten on the main living floor, um, and nine on the upper floor. And then they're gonna have this nice courtyard area. And so I'll get through this. It's got 44 parking spaces. They are overparking a little bit, or sorry, it's required 44, they're providing 48. Um, and then they'll have a sidewalk around the whole area. So let me get into the what you really want to see. So this is ex this is what uh exists today. Um just some you know, kind of smaller homes in this area. This is a hard to see site plan. I'm gonna go in a little bit closer for you guys, but this is the overall development. North is pointing up, that's why it's like that. Um but we'll go in a little bit closer. So this is that northern side, so you can see these units on the left-hand side here are gonna have garage garages, two car garages. Um you also see the other units 14 through 17, they're gonna have um one car garages and one car um stacking space. So and then moving more towards the middle section, you have some additional parking, you've got um a sidewalk around the whole property, and then you've got this common area uh which I'll show you the renderings of looks really nice, and then on the southern side you have kind of mimicking the the northern portion. So this is the rendering showing what those will look like. Looks good. Yeah, and the um elevations, so you can see in your bottom right corner what they pertain to, which buildings they pertain to.