01/18/2023-PZ-Agenda Packet-RegularI
Minutes: Planning & Zoning Commission
February 12, 1980
Present: Chairman Jack Armstrong, Willard Bounds, Cecil Snellgrove,
Jimmy Frazier, Billye Hollings~:.1 0rth
Absent: Harold Easley, Virgil Ward
Others
Present: Lloyd Henderson, Mary Jo Stover, Vance Travelstead
1. Minutes of the January 25, 1980 meeting were approved as
printed.
2. Zqning Petition Z-47 for Vance Travelstead was discussed.
Chairman Armstrong stated he would hate to see this area zoned
fur a classification other than single family residential unless
all of 5th street was rezoned for business.
Vance Travelstead stated he felt the board w~s discriminating
against him since there were others in town in residential
areas with business classification. The com..~issioners attempted
to explain to Mr. Travelstead that his request would be spot
zoning and that he could continue under the non-conforming
use, since he came under the grand father clause, with regards
to his garage now on his property.
City Manager Henderson read aloud Section 18. ~on-Conforming
Uses From the Subdivision Ordinance. Discussion followed.
Chairman Armstrong polled the Commissioners. Jimmy Frazier
stated he didn't think it should be rezoned. ~illard Bounds
a~reed it should not be rezoned. Cecil Snellgrove stated
no one else in the area was zoned business. Billye Hollingsworth
w~s not for spot zoning.
Motion was made by Jirom.y Frazier that Petition Z-47 for Vance
Travelstead be denied. Willard Bounds second. Voted unan.
3. Alfred Ashcraft did not attend the weeting but has made an
informal request regarding a variance on a lot with a 50'
frontage on Peach Street located next to one of his rent houses.
Commissioners told Lloyd to tell Mr. Ashcraft when he was ready
for formal action that they would work with hi~ on the variance.
4. Commissioners discussed the applicability of the subdivision
ordinance with regards to the development of existing and
connecting streets. Special emphasis was given on the lot
recently purchased by Benny Parrent on 7th Street. It was agreed
by Commissioners that up dating needed to be done on the street
construction portion of the ordinance. They discussed base
and sand and agreed it would be better to put curbs and gutter
on base and not sand.
5. Other Matters:
(a) The follo,:.i .. r{ names were mentioned as ~-:>ossible future
cornmissione,: 3 to be considered.
Nelva Higgs
Sue Cook
Betty Kincaid
Meeting adjourned at 9:00 P.M.
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Carl Ray Higgs
Robert HOWi:3.rd