All right, we ready? Welcome planet commission members staff and guests Multiple multiple staff members are here today to ensure that the meeting runs smoothly and all applicants and members of the public are able to Participate in the meeting at the appropriate times If you're here today, I would like to speak about a case Please provide your name clearly into the microphone and please be sure to sign in either at the back of the room Or at the podium for documentation purposes If you're here today to speak about a case you must speak up when the chairperson calls for public comment I'll go ahead and call the roll Mr. Causie here mr. Cook here is Davis here mr. Hart Here mr. Tupper here and mr. Frost here. We have a quorum I'll give a brief meeting overview of the format applicants with requests before the planning commission are allotted a Presentation time of ten minutes this time should include but is not limited to an overview of the project the case history and any pertinent meetings Held regarding the request this time also includes all persons presenting information on behalf of the applicant such as attorneys engineers and architects This time limit does not include any questions asked by the planning commission or staff regarding the requests during the public comment period Members of the general public are given the opportunity to address their concerns and intervals of two minutes After the public comment period applicants have five minutes to respond Once planning commission begins to liberation. No additional comments will be permitted by the applicant or the public Administrator does have a timer and will make presenters aware of when their time has expired The planning commission reserves the right to amend these procedures on a case-by-case basis Are there any changes to the agenda? We do have one change to the agenda case number six under the regular agenda, which is The major site plan review for S plan dash 2023-0005 for 3800 over brick drive has been deferred Other than that the agenda still stands Thank you that deferral is noted The planning commission uses the consent agenda to approve nine controversial or routine matters by a single motion and vote Examples of such items include approvals of site plans annexations and street names If a member of the planning commission or the general public wants to discuss an item on the consent agenda You must speak up after the consent agenda is read Then that item is removed from the consent agenda and considered during the regular meeting The planning commission then approves the remaining consent agenda items So I'll read through the consent agenda first is the approval of the February 9th meeting minutes Second under future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for appending annexation. We have annex dash 2023 dash 506 Riverview Court Request recommendation on the assignment of the land use classification of urban core Residential small lot and the assignment of zoning of residential single-family small lot for appending annexation The property is currently classified as mixed residential high density and zoned RMHD by Richland County Case three is a street name SN dash 2023 dash 0 0 0 2 Name a street within the stream side subdivision stream side court the property is zoned office and institutional district. Oh, I Case four is also a street name SN dash 2023 dash 0 0 0 3 name a street within the 2400 block of shop road to shop line drive The properties are zoned heavy industrial district in the city of Columbia and heavy industrial district within Richland County Case five is a major site plan review s-plan dash 2023 dash 0 0 0 4 1.4 acres at 567 Spears Creek Church Road request site plan approval for the construction of a Approximately 8500 square foot commercial building in Spears Creek Plaza The property is zoned PD plan development in Wood Creek farms and that concludes the consent agenda great. Thank you So we've heard the the consent agenda. Is there anyone from planning commission that would like to remove an item from the consent agenda Hearing none. Is there anybody from the public that would like to have an item removed from the consent agenda? Hearing none that being the case. I'll accept the motion on the consent agenda Mr.. Chair I move that we accept the consent agenda items as presented Got a motion to accept the consent agenda. Can I get a second second got a motion and a second all in favor student five by saying I Any opposed say no the eyes have it and the motion is approved Yes, she has she's okay, got you all right We will use the following outline for the regular agenda items Administrator will introduce the case The applicant will have 10 minutes to make a presentation Planning Commission may ask questions The public comment period will be open to those present The public comment period will be closed The applicant will have five minutes to respond to public comments Planning Commission may ask additional questions of the applicant And deliberation and action by the Planning Commission will occur once the Planning Commission begins deliberations No additional comments will be permitted by the applicant or the public So the first case on the regular agenda. This is the zoning map amendment At it's about a point four seven acre property on the south side of Sunset Drive This is a request for a recommendation to rezone the property from residential single-family medium lot district RSF to in the Earlwood Protection Area B overlay district to mixed-use district MU one Also within the Earlwood Protection Area B overlay district The land use classification is actually split on these two parcels One of which is UCAC one or urban core neighborhood activity center and the other one to the east is UCR two which is urban core residential large lot district The two parcels requesting rezoning as I mentioned have a future different future land use classifications and the split between UCAC one Parcel four will call it and you see ours you see our two parcel five Reflects the position of the parcels Relative to adjacent land use and zoning classifications and the recommendations of the adopted area plan Staff typically does not recommend zoning residential properties to mixed-use or commercial zoning due to the encroachment of commercial development into residential neighborhoods therefore staff finds that the proposed zoning of MU one or Parcel four is consistent with the future land use classification in the Columbia Compass Envision 2036 and with the master plan for the villages of North Columbia and recopens approval of the request But for the other parcel which we'll call oh five that the MU one zoning is inconsistent with the future land use classification in the land use plan and the area plan and recommends denial of the request and I believe the applicant is here Turned over to them if they want to make a presentation. Yes. Good afternoon. How are you doing? Good afternoon everybody? I've prepared a handout of just what we're going to go over today if I can If you can state your name, my name is Philippe Herndon from River Drive creative. This is Kenny McWilliams Never and thank you all for your time and your consideration We are developing we have purchased and developed and planning on redeveloping the properties immediately to the south of those two plots Good you put up a photo a couple earlier. That was there we go. That's excellent Maybe explain and then if we need to look at them All right, so we purchased the properties at 3,502 and 3,504 with the intent of Redeveloping and changing or housing or future businesses which are creative driven business one of us one of it Which is a recording studio and the other one it produces consumer electronics and then musical instruments fear at doing assembly design and production retailers the plans for their building is is converting what was Previously the Resurrection Church, which is the 3,502 building or 3,504 building and refurbishing that to fit both of our needs. We are spending about Two to three times the purchase price of the property on refurbishing that property for our development Our current situation right now is that we are Right next to Bucks Market, which is the property right on the store and the Bucks Market Customer bases has shared that parking area with what had previously been the church for 15 to 20 years as a result There's sort of an informal they park there we park here We don't think it's sustainable for our businesses when we We want to be able to have privacy for our clients and also have our clients people to show up Move in and operate without interrupting the custom the parking for the convenience store and vice versa So our plan is to try to fence that area to be able to have parking for our clients that we will have to Re-establish a parking area and right now if you look at the UCR for which is the one to the left the exhibit you can see that it'd be pretty difficult to grade Severely slopes down. There's almost like a drop and it doesn't really accommodate setting up parking Right now if you look at Bucks, they're using theirs just as a driveway And then their parking is on the south side We're hoping to create a similar kind of setup we're using mix of stuff on four and five for ours where we would build parking You consider parking along the side of our property But then feed those parking areas Now we looked at the recommendations from the staff and I think I respectfully I Think there's deep reasoning as to why you would want to prevent commercial encroachment in the residential area an important consideration We are not looking to develop commercially that zone directly buttressing the Residential areas except just to be able to have our driveway to our parking and be able to service our Area for the operation Southside the Also, notice that it's zoned for residential use, but if you look at it right now, you can see it's basically forest area It's wouldn't be able to be zoned for a single family We would like to maintain that tree line That it serves as a buffer between what we're doing sort of as a natural fence that's our Respectfully We have no plans to do residential use of this and For the purposes of us being Thank you Have you spoken to the neighbors adjacent to you at all? They don't know your plans at this stage as to what you would like to see here Any questions from planning commission to the applicant at this stage? Any questions? I guess you guys own this business right now. Is it a visit is it open and operating somewhere else? Yes, so we both are operating it within city limits. He's based out of I am currently operating In the tech incubator at Sumter Street, but we've both been in operation for business. I've been in 12 years And our plan is to move our joint businesses into a Central operation facility right there and renovate and change that area. Any other questions for the opposite? Can you maybe? Can you share a little bit about the recording studio operations and a noise level that might be affected by people in the community? And what would be your hours of operation for the recording studio? Currently I work nine to five would be potentially open for evening sessions at least available sometimes Any other questions? Just a question for staff. Maybe is there Is there a way to develop the the parcel 04 as Intended and still be able to use parcel 05 for Parking or driveway accessibility without having to rezone that No, they couldn't use it for any part of the commercial business or including parking Zone residentially, right? Is there anybody else? Thank you, sir. I think we're good for right now. Is there anybody else? Here today that would like to speak for or against the project Open it up for public hearing public discussion See a nun Are there any other discussion any other questions from planning commission?  I'll accept the motion. Mr. Chair. I'll make a motion to approve ZMA 2023 001 both TMS not 04 and TMS 05 for Next use district Got a motion to approve both parcels Resound to M. U1 Any discussion? Motion can I get a second second all in favor signify by saying I Any opposed say no The odds have it Motion is approved. All right next case On regular agenda is 2534 Forest Drive This is also a zoning map amendment Request for a recommendation to rezone the property from residential single-family medium lot district RSF 2 To mixed-use district M. U2 the land use classification on this property is urban core residential large lot or UCR to The future land use classification of UCR to and the current zoning of RSF to are consistent with the properties on the block And throughout the neighborhood Staff typically does not recommend rezoning residential properties to mixed-use or commercial zoning due to the encroachment of commercial development into residential neighborhoods Staff finds that the proposed zoning is inconsistent with the future land use classification in Columbia Compass and vision 2036 and recommends denial of the request And I'd also just like to acknowledge for the record There was a number of emails that came through yesterday which have been provided to the Commission and then one additional Was sent last night that has been provided to you as a hard copy email Is the applicant here good afternoon? Good afternoon Thank you all for your service Okay, thank you. My name is Diasca Spencer Swetman I am a Long-term resident of richland county. I love this county and I love the city of columbia I recognize that there is some desire to protect the forest hills neighborhood I intend to also protect the forest hills neighborhood I do believe that as a daughter of richland county I believe that the city is growing and the property that I've acquired which is before you all today We could go to the other slide It is a property that's front facing on forestry It's a property that rests on a very busy corridor lots of traffic backward and forward A property not really consistent with residential use. I believe that the nature and character of the land Suggest that perhaps be a much better Use of the land if it were a commercial space for a law office such as How I hope to use it There is if you're facing the property from the road There is one residential home to the right. Justin and linda young live there I've spoken with them. I've explained to them that I hope to At beautiful olive trees along the fence line at the back of the property I did recently Because the property is without a driveway removed and removed some some trees that were Terribly run down with vines all over them Tree had been stricken by lightning. It was a hazard to all of the houses around it And I think that might have prompted some of those email that you guys have gotten They're not aware of the plans for the future landscaping which would replace those trees with beautiful crape myrtles and tree olives to continue to Allow those adjoining landowners to have Privacy in a in a homey feel As you can see from the photo in front of you To the right of the property if you're facing it There's that residential home owned by Justin and linda to the left of it It's the backyard of a home that's in the forest hills community in that backyard. It is lots of debris There's a pool that's no longer in use. It's just nothing. It's a whole lot of nothing going on there Um, and if you could go to the next slide hope If you're standing on the porch This is what you would see you would see the ed robinson dry cleaners, which is now michael's cleaners It just feels like a commercial space So I do want to distinguish this house from the other houses that are in the forest hills neighborhood I do want to just suggest to this panel that the aesthetic In the layout of the home didn't lend it to an easy sale as I understand that after it was renovated Lots of residential folks Didn't choose to put offers on it because of the It didn't it didn't have a driveway Didn't have proper parking and getting on and out in and out of the property was very difficult Which I hope to put in a driveway And that's that's the substance of my concern. I do also want to say I am familiar with some of the historic nature of the forest hills community and I'm aware of how Manning street specifically sort of Has always has long separated Um, the the neighborhoods and there's always been this desire to protect forest hills, but I don't believe Um, this mixed use classification whether you all approve it as mu one or mu two. I don't think Uh, a law office or professional use is the type of business that you would want to protect The neighborhood from if anything we're adding to the value as a commercial space if if approved And the aesthetic obviously will be upkept Much like the property I own Across from meos on sunny side driving four stakers about two to three minutes from this property So that's all I have Thank you Any questions from the planning commission to the applicant? So it sounds like you've done some work to the property in that year That you're proposing to do Well, we're waiting to do work on the property pending this board's decision What I have done is taken out some bad trees some trees that Um, some of them obstructed what will be the driveway There needed to be a driveway on the property whether I resell it Which I would prefer not to as as a residential house There needs to be a driveway and there needs to be an easy way to Access the property and come off right now. There's just a A parking pad and my poor mom hit the wall when she came to take a look at it. It's just not um It just wasn't renovated properly the parking aspect of it And there's that pad And you said you spoke to the property owners adjacent to the right Yeah, that's the only property owner Um Very nice guys spoke with him on the phone again today Just to kind of let him know yes the character the backyard has changed some with the removal of those trees And I invited him to talk with the landscaper Uh so that we could come up with a design that makes sense and text message over The olive trees that we hope to line his fence and it'll it's going to be gorgeous Um when it's done You haven't talked to any of the folks in the forest hills Subdivision or have you the rest of the folks to the left? The folks so so if you're facing the property It's a massive lot Hope where's your You have a color coding of the mix use This is what you have Well, you can see uh the highlight at parcel is the parcel that I've purchased next to it There's this massive parcel. It's just massive the home is very far away from where The building is on my property and and and so it leaves just this area That is adjacent to my property and it has some frontage on forest drive But that owner has built some massive wall On the forest drive side and then on the side that touches my property that you can see there's just A pool area that is filled with leaves and it's not Usable it's just it's not the The landscaper is going to make that pretty too. I hope Just to be clear you you you have purchased this property. You own this, correct? I own it. I own it. Mm-hmm And the renovations were complete when you bought it you bought it and I bought it the renovations were already done Which is what's awesome because we've been looking at properties um In other areas and you guys know property the renovation costs get crazy post covet And here is this property that looks like a business Front facing on forest drive. It was almost like a gym and I'll tell you my friend brian hunt who Builds walgreens for a living. He's one of my neighbors. He said this to me. He said de asca I know you've been looking for a while This is this is an awesome place And I saw it and I thought so too Put it in an offer. They didn't accept it. They wanted to sell to a residential tenant they got no offers and My realtor who's also with the real estate agent for the selling company. They work for the same brokerage, I suppose came to me with the property again and Everyone seems to think it looks commercial with the two doors on the front And like I said, it's front facing on forest drive A busy thoroughfare. No one's kids can play in that front yard Uh, that's just not conducive to single family living and that's why they didn't get any offers And the the folks on both sides you can see they have these massive walls Which would be an incredible undertaking an expense to to build Walls and I suppose residential owners weren't willing to bear that expense Thank you Any other questions for the applicant before we open it up to the public? Any questions for staff? I have one so staff recommended disapproval of this correct and and that's based on Um, it's based on the land use classification And then just and generally just uh, our recommendations tend to be based on what's adjacent as well and just not Wanting to set a precedent of rezoning for commercial or mixed use And something that's surrounded by residential Any other questions for the applicant? I have a comment for staff If I recall correctly this home was used by a doctor as a doctor's office at one time Is that the same place? And I think her name is dr. Matt and she was like her our a child's I mean it was her home, but she also offered it that for that second front door was as an office space Probably been a non conforming Yes What do you do with it now? I mean is somebody living do you live in there's no one's doing anything with it? it's I've been waiting for you all Uh, I don't know what we're gonna do. I'd like to put my law office there I own sunny side with your butts richland fashion mall And so richland fashion mall was recently acquired by a developer And so I have to move there's going to be lots of construction that would I think interrupt Business, I don't know if they're going to be road closures. I just in anticipation of that and with Us just needing to spread out a little bit more. I have a small staff. I have a small Solo practice and I work as an injury lawyer But I I have a small office small office staff where it's very homey. It's important to me that we have that feel Yeah, we've got a we've got a sort of transition out of that space With an eye toward just something a little bit bigger And this is just the the perfect place And it keeps me I'm a graduated from Drear. It keeps me in my zone So I went to Drear high school. I was student body president in 2001 I would say 50 of my clients are people that either Were at Drear when I was there or no people Um that know me from my time at Drear So I've got to kind of stay in this area and when I opened my practice in 2015 I was across from turnham plaza in a building. I bought sunny side in 2019 You know, I have this thing where we finally come into like a real practice and this is my first Opportunity as a woman business owner Minority business owner to actually have a really proper space for a lot Thank you I'll open it up to the public. Is there anybody else here that would like to speak for or against project Yes, sure. Yep. Come on up one at a time after Again, you'll have a two minute time limit. Thank you. My name is ty Barnes I'm a resident and board representative of the forest hills neighborhood association And I want to thank you the commissioners for giving me the opportunity to speak on this matter In reference to the property at 2534 forest drive and the rest to be rezoned Residential single family to mixed use be the residents and neighborhood association members stand in opposition To this nearly 100 year old historic neighbor Sorry, opposition to this request. We feel that the this compromises the integrity and uniqueness of this nearly 100 year old historic neighbor Since the purchase of the property trees have been cut down As she stated in the backyard which infringes on the privacy of the homes that are adjacent to it It's currently slated to serve as a law office But if this property is allowed to be rezoned It begs the question of what's next How will that decision impact our neighborhood law office today strip mall tomorrow a tattoo Week what happens when the home when homes go up sell and it's purchased with the intent to develop as a business We are certainly not opposed to free enterprise For entrepreneurs flourishing and thriving, but it should not be where families are properly zoned to flourish and thrive as well I'm potentially heading down a slippery slope that could cause long-lasting irreparable harm to our neighborhood Stand before you today To ask you to deny this zoning request and preserve forest hills My name is Cynthia Clark mrs. Sam Clark um, my husband would have been here, but he had to take his uncle to get a haircut and um He sent a letter yesterday Objecting the first of all supporting the commission's decision to deny the rezoning And we both object to the rezoning Because it encroaches on an historic neighborhood. You should have a copy of his letter I sent it to um Yes, ma'am. Lucinda. We do Statler, I think her name is yes, ma'am. We have and she acknowledged her seat. So I'm just here As a person Okay, thank you to confirm what's in writing Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Thank you Good afternoon understood. Thank you Just say a few things. Um, like I think the s is going to do a wonderful job of payday lender or I don't know what it would become and so I've got commercial Wrote on another Sure Got it cheaper because it was on the corner and that comes but it did have a wall as you mentioned I think that there was no residential interest I'd say that's probably because the price we got sold to the person who flipped it And I think you know interest has a lot to do with the price. I'm sure if the floor the price there would have been More interest Okay, thank y'all Is there anybody else from the public that would like to speak for or against the project or the rezoning request? First of all, it's very hard to hear What anybody's saying Can you hear me now? Uh, because I couldn't hear them. I think people aren't talking into it I don't think it's my understanding that this is requests for a law office. Is that right? I think the I'm very concerned at least from my review point And I used to work for a historical society in california a long time ago. I'm a native of columbia But I lived in los angeles for a while It's not necessarily the use of the property as a law office But it's the long term effect of encroaching and once you and I'm not sufficiently familiar with the Zoning ordinances to know what they all mean, but once you Pass a zoning a rezoning and make it commercial. It can be anything. I think a gas station Or a convenience store. And so I don't know that Someone operating a law office is the is the objection. I think it is the long term Potential of eroding the perimeter for the neighborhood So I just wanted to say that and also if people can speak into the mic other people can hear Understood. Thank you All right as the applicant if you want to Have a few minutes to I think the first gentleman who spoke Said that the commission made the decision It's my understanding that the commission made the decision as a formality Not as a as a what they really believe The commission has not made a decision yet staff The staff recommended. Yeah, I'm sorry. Thank you for correcting that But I do I do think that was a recommendation. That was a formality The second lady who spoke Her concern was more about the historic preservation I actually had My paralegal call just to make sure This wasn't a historic property before we purchased it and I had her give me some notes on it We call it historic columbia. This is not a historic home So we're not changing the character of the home I have notes here that say that she did that and she confirmed that Ashley, uh, I think To justin and linda's concerns Again, they've been invited to meet with the landscaper I share it with them the photos of the tea olives that will Be installed along their fence line that will preserve their privacy Crate myrtles that will be installed along the back to preserve privacy Um, and as far as parking in the back um Justin and linda have two access points to access their property, which is at the corner There's parking on the front that front faces for his drive And there's side parking and a covered porch garage The property before you today has nowhere to put cars and I think that's why it did not sell The driveway the only way to install it was to remove a tree Which I went ahead and did you could see the tree in the diagram in front of you And then you just have to run the you had to remove the trees that would Upstruck the driveway and what could be a covered porch if you want it for parking and or A patio Or just a place to park cars that that that I think was necessary The parking pad is very hard to get on and off of without more being there The last last comment I'll make is that I know force hills I knew that there would be some comment or concern because I know the history um I do just want to share with the The zoning commission, uh, do I have permission to approach? How does this work? Can I show a photo? Sure? So you all have it I just think it was very important to publish that photo to you all This desire of the force hills neighborhood this desire to protect the land proceeds my ownership The remnants of the desire to protect it are obvious and apparent if you guys can see You cannot even make a turn into the neighborhood from Manning street Even today The street at one time served as a line of demarcation between the affluent Folks who lived in force hills And the underrepresented who lived on the other side of the street It was sort of a a line separating the haves and have less and This this push To to stop a front facing building on forest drive, which has become a very busy thoroughfare feels like A remnant of the past. I think our mayor. I think the city is very supportive of business of Moving forward and I think given all of the businesses around this property I don't see how Having a law office will change the character Of the land or anyone's property. I'm committed To protecting the aesthetic as evidenced in my application and installing trees To replace the ones that were diseased and rotten and had vines growing over them And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you All right. Now this time we will close the public comment period Are there any Questions for staff I've got a question. I know we got some emails Earlier this week and nothing there was some follow-up. Is there We know how many emails we ended up receiving and I believe there's 12 total emails Um 11 that were sent to you guys yesterday as a packet and then one came in last night And that's the hard copy that we provided to you today. Yeah I've got copies of those if y'all need to look at one that we got today that need to be read into the record or anything Um, no, I mean we can acknowledge the um the sender. She's like, yeah So gail morrison sent an email last night that was not in the packet, but you've been provided with that Okay, any other questions This is an appropriate time for discussion No, we're we're in deliberation. Yes, so we can discuss So I this doesn't happen often up here, but I am this is the first time I'm conflicted So I think in in the face of being conflicted The gut reaction is to go with staff approval and how that relates to future land use comprehensive plan To the applicant's point. I think if you operated that based on Where it is and how it looks Will it have a negative impact on the neighborhood? I think the answer to that is is no But as the residents have stated The what's next Is a concern if that bleeds In and over Yes in would be terrible. You don't ever want it going in Um So I guess that's a long-winded way to say It is a tough one, but I think the thought of you know, what it could be Tomorrow or a year from now If the law office, you know, god forbid didn't work out Right, you know, what happens down the road? It does it turn into a tattoo parlor? Does it turn into something else that? meets the zoning Of the requested rezoning. So my thought on that was their richland county had as an oi zoning Which was very limited in which you could office medical office ball firms, but it would would not allow Things that you'd be concerned about not to my knowledge. I don't think in the city We have a zoning that limiting We're we do have that classification But um, she was not able to request that because of the size of the parcel It's less than two acres. Okay, and so if the parcel is less than two acres You can only request a contiguous district Okay, so the mu2 district was across the street, which we consider contiguous Would she be able to go to board of zoning appeals to appeal that if she went to a different zoning To appeal to appeal the two acre size limit Yeah, that wouldn't be you wouldn't be able to get a variance on that. That may be us Administrator appeal Like appeal of the zoning administrator's interpretation, maybe but you couldn't go to the board for a variance on that. Okay And to make sure i'm clear. I thought maybe i misheard ryan Mr. Causie Staff did not approve. They denied this application. Is that correct? The recommendation was a recommended denial. Yes another question, so The request is to make it a mixed use Zoning designation. Is that correct? if That was to happen what would the parking requirements for that property be Sounds like there's already a concern for parking If we changed it to a mixed use designation That's a 7500 feet. There's no parking environment. M. U. Two doesn't have a Parking requirement. Okay. There would be no requirement from the city for parking. Okay And just to clarify too On the uses anything under M. U. Two would be allowed so not necessarily all uses all commercial uses But just anything that would be allowed under M. U. Two If it were to be rezoned at M. U. Two The other questions or discussion Here none. I will accept a motion Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion to deny the zoning request item number eight Got a motion to deny the zoning request Let me get a second second Got a motion and a second all in favor signify by saying I Any opposed no The eyes have it the motion is denied Other request is denied the next item on the regular agenda is Some amendments to the UDO Okay, so as you know the unified development ordinance was adopted by city council on august 20th 2019 And took effect august 30th 2021 And as the code's been implemented in practice staff has found some areas that need to be amended and certain things that need to be clarified And so staff is proposing some amendments to correct just some inconsistencies and to streamline the development process So i'm not going to go into detail on these but So they are listed on the screen And again, I won't go into a lot of detail. I'll just kind of read through these unless you have any questions So beginning with article two of the UDO We propose to amend the language for administrative adjustments Remove one of the criteria from the special exception design standards. It has to do with property values In article three We are proposing to adjust the density in the rd district And adjust the front yard setback in mu2 And in article four We're proposing to permit two family dwellings or duplexes in the nac district Permit a place of worship as a conditional use instead of special exception and in mu2 Remove carwash and auto detailing use from the personal vehicle repair and maintenance conditions And add to the permitted use table as a separate use Um make bed and breakfast a permitted use in applicable districts and remove the conditions for those Permit manufacturing assembly or fabrication Medium in the mc district and remove the conditions Remove outdoor seating as an accessory to an eating and drinking establishment use On table 17 4.3 v 5 and remove the associated conditions and definition Remove there's a distance threshold for personal vehicle repair and maintenance Uses so we propose to remove that and specify compliance with buffer requirements instead We propose to remove several conditions from gasoline and service station uses And then in article five We propose to amend maximum the maximum number of off-street parking spaces section to remove some inconsistencies Since the parking ordinance was changed earlier in the year And then you'd like to clarify alternative parking surface language amend fence height for side and rear yards and secondary front yards increase the size for temporary signs in non-residential districts Taking it back to what it was in the in the old ordinance And then finally in article nine We're gonna we need to add a reference to maximum setbacks in reduction of setbacks to blog face average And amend the definition of personal vehicle repair and maintenance to remove Reference to car washes and add definition of car wash as a separate definition under personal service uses That's just to match with what we are proposing in the permitted use table for car washes And that completes the list of text amendments Thank you. Um, so you've heard the amendments. Are there any questions? For staff regarding the proposed zoning text amendments If there are no questions, no discussion, I'll entertain a motion Mr. Chair, I move that ta 223-001 be approved got a motion to approve. Can I get a second second? Got a motion and a second all in favor signify by saying I Any opposed? No Yeah, I just have it The motion is approved. Are there any other business? No other business hearing none I will Take a motion to adjourn Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion we adjourn got a motion. Can I get a second? Second all in favor signify by saying I Any opposed? No, the ayes have it Meeting is adjourned. Thank you


clinical psychologist by profession. From as far back as I can remember in primary school, I went to Anglican school when they were talking about litter and king for environment. I took that very much to heart because the same wish I saw as an adult was not the same wish I saw as a child, plastic everywhere. And I said I'm going to go to Massey and tell them we need to do something about it and I made my case. This is one of our customers who as a matter of habit, as a matter of course, shopped with reusable bags who took it upon herself prior to us introducing this to do a video in one of our stores on her own and put this out on Facebook just encouraging customers. I wanted reusable bags in the supermarket. There's absolutely no good reason that we should be getting a new plastic bag every time we go shopping. In 2018, we took a bold decision as Massey stores across the region to transition our customers to the use of reusable bags. We instituted what we refer to as a Massey plastic bag charge of 25 cents. We did indicate that part of the charge would go into an environmental fund. So when the RePlas project came on stream, this was one of the projects that was naturally aligned. I was really, really excited to see that. Every time I see Massey taking on a new initiative, I feel good that we're building on something because big changes don't happen overnight. So she is really a big champion. We see her as an environmental hero. I also want to encourage other corporate entities to take a page from Massey's book. Reuse and recycle plastics. Be a hero.


Hey guys Spencer here township Chevrolet today We're gonna teach you how to use our free a trade app called the guaranteed trade appraisal So what you got to do is just go to that prompt there under shop use hit free trade appraisal and hit get started under What's my trades worth? So go ahead and click that? So then let's just put some simple information in so we're gonna say we have a 2018 Chevrolet. I don't know let's go with the Silverado And then you're gonna put your sub model, so let's say we got an LTZ your trim whether it's crew cab double cab box length Mileage, let's call it 20,000 for today Put your first and last name in so he can be Joe Let's go Bob and Then your email simple email entry Joe B at Gmail will go with that and We'll put this mobile number in which is someone who works here, but I'll blur that out for now But all you got to do is put your mobile number and hit continue You'll see this pop up. We're gonna hit the text me Confirm your number and then that should just transfer over to your cell phone Which looks something like this so they'll receive a text message It'll prompt you to download this guaranteed trade app. It'll pop up You put your phone number in and then it'll associate you with the dealership So then what you gotta do is gotta go outside and basically some simple commands you can see on the screen here that It just basically follows the process of taking photos of your vehicle. So There's about eight photos of your vehicle pops up on the screen Ask for a couple interior photos again Just follow the prompts on the right-hand side and then it'll ask you for damages your vin Which can scan if you will have any scratches or dents on your vehicle You want to put that in there to get a more approximate trade-in value So you just enter your vins. So we'll enter the vins in this case. You can actually have a scanning option Which is nice if you can scan it and ask you a couple more questions about your vehicle Options condition comments color if it's been in an accident I'll ask you that and then it'll come up with all this information And all you got to do is hit send to dealership. So that will That'll make sure that that information gets sent to us All right, so when you send that a trade appraisal in what we'll see on our end We'll see several vehicles as you can see here who have sent pictures in there. So here's Joe Bob, which is what we were enacting today. So we got our 2018 Chevrolet Silverado as you can see here We can see several pictures of it.  So on this particular vehicle We're gonna give it a number say what's worth 45,000 We'll give that sip that submit button and that will get sent right back to your email and you'll get that any time All right. Thanks a lot again


Last night, I escaped the light pollution by driving to the countryside to see thousands of stars. Looking to the northeast, here's what I could see naked eye. The constellation Cassiopeia stood out with its distinctive W of bright stars. These patterns of bright stars like the Big Dipper and Ursa Major, or the W in Cassiopeia, are called asterisms. Let's zoom in on the asterism. Here I took a long exposure with my camera in an 85mm lens. You can now see a number of star clusters and nebulae around the Big W. Let's zoom in further right into the heart of the heart nebula. This is now a photo I took through a telescope and this special narrow band filters. This is definitely one of the most spectacular deep sky objects for amateur astrophotographers in the Northern Hemisphere. We call it Malat 15, or the heart of the heart nebula, and now you know how to find it in the night sky.


In this presentation, we're going to think about our loan payments. We have a loan outstanding. We're going to make payments on that loan. We're going to have a principal and interest portion that we're going to have to break out for those payments. And therefore, we're going to be constructing and looking into an amortization table. Time to engage with SAGE 50, Cloud Accounting. Here we are in our Get Great Guitars file. We're going to be opening up our financial statements to consider our objectives. So we'll go to the reports drop down. We're going to go down to the financial statements. We want to be opening up our favorite, that being the balance sheet. So we'll open up that balance sheet, changing the dates this time for February. So it's actually in the correct range that time. So that's good. It's going to keep it where it's at, month of February. Going to say, okay, now we're going to be going down to the loan payment information. You'll recall last time we consolidated our loan into the 72,001 loan amount. We want to think now about the payments on the loans. When you consider the payments on the loans, you have kind of a couple different options that you may want to set up for making the payments. And oftentimes you think about the accounting department as separate from basically the adjusting department or possibly the accounting department from the CPA firm that might help with tax preparation and financial statement preparation. So you might do some different methods between those two departments. For example, if we have a loan such as this, typically we're going to have a short term and long term portion. That's going to be an adjusting type of entry. In other words, part of this is going to be due within 12 months. And we would typically want to break that out between short term and long term. I wouldn't do that each payment, however, because that would be quite tedious. And therefore we would do that periodically at the end of the time period. And then we have the payments. The payments are typically going to have an interest in principal portion related to it. So to break out the interest in principal portion, we would need an amortization table, which sometime is provided to us by the loan when we take out the loan. But sometimes it's not. Sometimes all we know is the payment amount. And we need to basically create the amortization table if we need it. Also, it could be a little bit more confusing even if we have the amortization table to break out between interest and principal. So another method you could use is to simply say, hey, look, at the end of the time period, I'm going to have the accountant or the adjusting department adjust, make the amortization table, and then make the adjustments to the amortization table recording the interest portion of the loan periodically at that point in time. So those are just a couple methods you can think about. To further understand this, let's take a look at and actually create an amortization table just to think about how it would go through. So we're going to do that here. We're going to be spending some more time in Excel. This is going to be kind of an Excel intensive area. We won't get into too much detail on Excel. In other words, I'll go fairly fast in it because it's not an Excel course. But we wanted to show just the amortization and what type of typical problem that would have and then use the amortization table to record the actual transactions and then show a couple payments and see why the loan payments can be a little bit tricky to track. So here we have our 72,000. We're going to say it's going to be 60 months, which is going to be five years, right? Five years is 60 months. In other words, if you took obviously the five years times 12, you would get the 60. We're going to say the rate is going to be 5%. Now, normally in a loan, you're typically going to be given the payment amount and you'll know the loan balance typically and the rate. So you'll typically have those, but then you won't know the interest and principal portion that you're going to have to be breaking out per payment. But it's possible that they don't even give you something like the interest rate or something like that on the loan. They give you just the payment amount and you'd have to basically impute the interest rate to make the amortization table. Let's just show how that would be first. And first I want to think about the payment calculation. So if I knew, in other words, the loan, the number of periods and the rate, then let's use Excel to just give us the payment amount. Then I'm going to use that format, that formula to then back into the rate if we didn't know what the rate was. All right, so let's think about that. We're going to say the loan payment is going to be a typical kind of formula here. So I'm going to go to the formulas. We're going to go to Insert and this is going to be a present value. Present or I'm sorry, this is going to be payment. Let's say loan payment. So this is going to be a payment calculation. So this is the one we want payment calculation. So I'm going to say, okay, it'll give us a dialogue box. I'm going to select the rate. This is the trickiest component because the rate is 5%, but that's per year. I'm going to take that and divide it by 12. That would give us the monthly rate. Then the number of periods, the number of periods is going to be this item, 60. And then the present value, the present value is going to be the loan amount, which is the 72,000. These two, I don't need these two items down below. That's going to give us our amount of the 13 5872. Notice it is rounded. So we're going to round this item. So we're going to say, okay, there's our payment rounded to the dollar. Now, if I want it to be a positive number, I could double click on this.  And that basically takes the entire thing and multiplies it times negative one or flips the sign, however you want to think of it. So there we have it. Now there's our normal formula. Now the normal thing that people don't know, however, is usually this number. In other words, they know this number, but we don't know possibly the interest rate. So what if I have this entire thing here if I said, if I copied this and I didn't know the interest rate? The reason I want to look at this this way is I don't need another formula necessarily to calculate the interest rate. I just, I'm going to use the same formula, which is this formula. And I'm just going to say, I don't know what this number is. I'm at a zero interest rate. I know this number, this number needs to be that, right? But I'm going to use this formula that's currently in there to figure out this rate. So the yellow one is the one I'm going to figure out. So this is one way you can do this really useful technique for a lot of different areas. So the way you would do this is you'd say, OK, I got this information. I put this formula in. It's not giving me the right number because I don't know this number, but I know what the formula there should be. Let's ask Excel to then figure out the zero balance through just basically trial and error. To do that, we're going to go to the data section. We're going to go to the forecasts. We're going to use the what if analysis and then the goal seek, the goal seek. So notice I'm not on the sale here. I'm just going to, I'm basically going to not be on the sale that we're adjusting. That's kind of weird for Excel, but that's the way it is. And then I'm going to say, Hey, Excel, this is, this is me asking Excel. We're going to say, Hey, Excel, would you please set this number to be? I'm going to hard code it to what I think it should be one, three, five, nine. That's rounded, but hard coded to what it should be. That's the payment amount. And then I would like you to do that by changing this number. So once again, Excel, would you please make this number be 1359 by changing the yellow number and say, OK, and it just does trial and error and can basically figure that out. So that's that's one thing you can figure out. You can say, OK, now if I need to figure out the interest rate, I can kind of impute the interest rate or any other unknown. If we didn't know the number of payments for whatever reason, you could do that. All right, I'm going to, I'm going to delete this. And then I'm going to create the amortization table. So amortization table, I'm going to say one, two, I'm just going to say the number of payments. I have two payments. I'm going to drag this down to get to 60. And this is going to be auto fill. I'm using auto fill to just fill down the, the series of numbers here. And we're going down to 60. And actually, I would like it to start at zero. Let me start that over again. I would like it to start at zero, then one, two, then I'm going to highlight those two. And I'm going to bring that down to 60 payments. So it's going to go down. There it is. And I'm going to say, all right, down to 60. All right. And then the payment amount is always going to be the same amount. I'm going to pick this one up again. Remember, it's rounded. I'm going to pick that up the, the interest actually, let me delete that. For zero, time period zero, we're going to prick the principal, which is 72,000. That's it. And then I'm going to go down to payment one. And then we have the payment amount, one, three, five, nine. Now the interest is going to be calculated as the 72,000 times the 5%. But that would be interest for a year. So I need to take that and divide it by 12 because we need the interest per month. In other words, if we take out the trusty calculator, and let's do that with the trusty calculator. So I'll pull the trusty calculator up and up here, we'll say, let's take a look at this. I'm going to make it a little bit smaller. Can we make that a little bit smaller? And then we're going to say that if we have the 72,000 times the 0.05, that would be for a year, interest for a year divided by 12. That would be for a month. Okay. And then I'm going to say then that if this is the amounts equals the amount of payment minus the amount allocated to interest, this is the principal. So in other words, this is like the rent. This is like the loan, the rent on the money. We have to pay back the rent. And then the deduction of the principal is only the 1,059. So then we're going to say the 72,000 minus the 1,059 is what is left on the loan. So note, if I do this for payment two, it's going to change things. Notice the payment's the same. But of course the interest is different now. Why? Because it's got to be equal to the new balance times the 0.05%, so the new balance is different, obviously, divided by 12. So now interest portion is only going to be 9 or 296 equals the payment minus that interest portion. This is the reduction in the principal then, which is going down. So you can see there's not a big difference because we're talking about because of the loan. But in any case, you can see this is going to be changing every time. That means we can't really memorize the transaction as easily if we're going to record the payment. So let's do that one more time. This is going to be equal now to the 69, 878 times the 5%. Actually I'm sorry, the payment is simply going to be the same. Then the interest is going to be equal to the new principal times the 5% divided by 12. So there's the new principal. The principal reduction is the 1359 minus the interest. So there's that. And now we have a different number there again. And then if I take the principal minus the amount of reduction in principal, there we have it. Now you might ask, can we copy this down? Could I copy this formula down? We'll try it. We'll use the autofill to copy it down. But it's going to have a problem. So I'm going to say, okay, let's try to copy this down. I'm going to put highlight these and then we'll use the autofill handle if it'll let me grab that, there it is. And there we have it. Now there's a problem. This number looks right. This number looks wrong. Why? It brought down the 5%. And I want it to keep that 5%. So what I'm going to use is an absolute reference. I'm going to close this back out or zero that back out. I'm going to go back to this one and I'm going to say this cell, that 5%, I don't want it moving anywhere when I copy it down. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to that cell, which is in B3. And I'm going to say F4 and the keyboard to put a dollar sign before the B and the 3. That's just going to be a code for Excel saying don't move that cell down. And then let's try this again. I'm going to highlight these and then I'm going to bring it down one time first just to test it out. And then we'll go all the way down. So that looks good. This looks good. This looks good. And that looks right. So now I'm going to copy it all the way down. Once I get to 60 payments, this amount should be at zero. And that's how we can verify that our amortization table is doing what we would expect it to. So I'm going to highlight these. I'm going to put my cursor here. I'm going to autofill all the way down. It's not autofill. This is autofill. It's an autofill all the way down. So auto is driving it down. And then once I get down there, Dr. Phil does the calculations autofill. And then we have the zero at the bottom. So the zero at the bottom represents the fact that it's going to be fully paid off at the end of the loan. Notice the difference here. This amount is the interest. I mean, this is the payment. This is going to be the interest amount, which is very low now. And most of it is a principal reduction. Why? Because there's not much interest being paid on that principal balance. So you can see this change between interest and principal. Very big change over the life of the loan, even though the payment is the same. So now when we record the payments, as we'll do next time, we'll use this amortization table to record the payments. Just realize that you could do this a couple different ways now. Every time you make a payment, you could properly break out the interest and principal portion, which will take three accounts each time. Before you could say, hey, a accounting department or adjusting department, I would like you to make the amortization table and I'm just going to reduce the loan by the full amount. And I want you in the adjusting department to then adjust out or break out the interest periodically at the end of the month or the year. And that could just be part of the loan kind of adjusting entry process. So those are the options that we have. We're going to take this amortization table next time and we're going to record the first two payments so we can see how those first two payments can be recorded and how they will differ given the fact that there's a different amount of interest and principal portion for them both. That's it for now. Let's get out of here.


The presidential candidate of the People's Democratic Party, PDP Atiku Abu Bakar, has assured that the nightmare of a Jakuta steel company will be addressed if he measures president in the forthcoming February 25 election. He also assured that the inland port in the state will be developed to help the inland water transportation system in the north and Nigeria as a whole. Atiku stated this during the PDP presidential campaign in Lokoja Kogi state capitol on Saturday. And that if you give us the support that you elect a PDP government, the nightmare of a Jakuta will be a thing of the past. I assure you this and it is a promise I have made on behalf of PDP. I also want to promise you that the issue of your inland port is not only a Kogi issue, it is the issue of all northern Nigeria. Because through the development of the port in Kogi, we also will have access to the maritime transportation in this country. So it is not Kogi matter, it is our matter for the entire north of this country. And I promise you that we will make sure we implement that program. Let me also assure you that if you vote for PDP, there will be no more salary areas in Kogi state. Lai Lai