meeting to order and it's for the 21st July 2026 these conduct a well first of all I guess we should
recognize that our director has returned so Jackie welcome it's good to have you back thank you and
thank you for supporting maternity leave here so I appreciate it we need to acknowledge that Tammy did
an outstanding job she did
call okay david bush here margaret clements here frown and right randolph scott ferris yes here rudy
fields here david henry here jeff morris here julie thomas here jovan diventer and stephen bishop
So we still have seven members attending in person in a quorum. All right. That brings us to a introduction
of that evidence to have a motion and a second for approval. Okay. I will go ahead and call the room
for the introduction of evidence. Would you like me to read into the evidence and then also approve
them at the same time? That would be great. Okay.
I'll go ahead and read it. I'd like to introduce the following items into the evidence. The Monroe County
Development Ordinance as adopted and amended. The Monroe County Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Control
Ordinance as adopted and amended. The Monroe County Comprehensive Plan as adopted and amended. The Monroe
County Plan Commission Rules of Procedure as adopted and amended. And the cases that were legally advertised
and scheduled for a hearing on tonight's agenda. So it's been moved and seconded to introduce and approve
the introduction of evidence. A vote yes is a vote to approve the introduction of evidence.
Margaret Clements. Yes. John Enright. Oh, Scott Ferris. Yes. Rudy Fields. Yes. David Henry. Yes.
Jeff Morris. Yes. Julie Thomas. Yes. David Bush. Yes. Motion is approved, seven to zero. And that brings
us to the agenda. It looks like we have one item under new business. Are there any changes to the agenda?
to move approval of the agenda. Second. Moved and seconded to approve the agenda. A vote yes is to approve
the agenda as published. Scott Farris? Yes. Rudy Fields? Yes. David Henry? Yes. Jeff Morris? Yes. Billy
Thomas? Yes. David Bush? Yes. Margaret Clements? Yes. Motion is approved 7-0.
It looks like we don't have any minutes to approve. And it looks like we have no administrative business.
And it looks like we don't have any unfinished business. So let's go ahead and move on to new business.
And it looks like it's SPP 26.3, which is the Entry East Major Subdivision Primary Plan Amendment. It
looks like they're looking for a sidewalk waiver and also a waiver of the final hearing. And I guess...
Members, go ahead.
So this is for phase three of Gentry East major subdivision. It is a primary plot amendment and a sidewalk
waiver request. It's basically for one lot of record. It is 0.46 acres in Perry Township section one
at 1017 South Hillside Court. This is a PUD, a planned unit development called Gentry East. The petitioner
Is marcy tidwell on behalf of the gentry east homeowners association. So this is a homeowners association
that is attempting to Finish a subdivision and they would like some assistance and some relief with
not having to build a segment of sidewalk petitioners proposing to amend Phase three to waive
that requirement for the sidewalk. It is plotted on lot 105
and currently consists of the one parcel that we've already mentioned in Gentry East. Let's see what
else. There's no other deviations being proposed in the Gentry East subdivision. It is just to not build
this one segment of sidewalk on lot 105. I think it's 105, correct. They are at the same time across
the street from this
lots 103 and 104 they are going to be reconstructing existing sidewalk that is there that had some some
issues with it so that it would not be able to be adopted into the county inventory with the right of
way and so they're making some corrections to the sidewalk across the street
The developer of gentry subdivision phase three did not complete the subdivision and the county did
not have a financial guarantee large enough to make those required improvements before this developer
went bankrupt. And so the HOA has agreed to make final corrections and install missing components of
the required infrastructure in order for it to be accepted into the county inventory.
And this primary plat is one piece of the puzzle, and it would eliminate those sidewalks on this eastern
side of South Hill Court on lot five. So should have probably done this. I will note that there are
a lot of different plats that I'll probably flash up on the screen, and there is an interesting Scrivener's
error that has occurred through time. Lot 102, lot 105, basically the same. We'll be outlining that area.
And I wanted to point that out. There's a couple of paragraphs in the staff report that just explain
the history of how this lot changed. So this is the zoning map. The gray indicates a planned
unit development. That hashed mark is that this is in area two of the eco overlay. And the comprehensive
plan has it as rural transition. Area is on sewer. It is all built out.
and has existed as such for maybe 20 years, 20 years. And so this is just trying to finish this up,
get it established into the county inventory. And one of those is this yellow area here to not have
that sidewalk. And I will also then point out that sidewalk across the street does exist, but it will
be rebuilt. The area where you see Beardsley Drive, that is
a different phase that is phase six. And so the phase three was amended to kind of allow that continuance
of the subdivision. Here we have some staff photos. Well, these are aerial photos. You can see the area
here we're talking about where there is a missing sidewalk from a different angle. And then these are
some staff photos from out in the field of where the sidewalk
could be placed, but it does have some logistics and some burdens that would maybe be problematic that
we'll discuss in a moment. And then we do have a letter from the petitioner kind of establishing some
of the history of the site and the reasons why they're wanting to ask for this waiver for one of the
lots to not have sidewalks in their community.
This is the primary plat amendment as proposed and submitted. So the black segment of sidewalk, that
is what they would like to remove from the primary plat. And the red segment is the portion that they
are going to keep. They're going to reconstruct that and complete that part so that it can be accepted
into inventory. We did confirm using
our CDO and review the language and we did not have to have an engineered plan set to do this primary
platen amendment and so we are this is the drawing that we have come up with you will note that it is
not a certified plan by any means this has been drawn on and that is acceptable for this they will not
have to do a secondary platen amendment as a result of this primary platen amendment because we do not
include sidewalks
and also street trees in a secondary plot. So it's just showing usually lots and easements, things like
that. This is just a blown up portion of that. You'll note here that in this plot, it shows it as lot
102. We acknowledge it as lot 105. This is the original phases one through five shown here. And so you
get a glimpse of what this area looked like before the road came through.
before those sidewalk requirements were needed for the reconfiguration of these, I believe it was four
lots that went down and drilled down to three lots. And then a road segment went through here. This
is phase three's plat, kind of showing that continuation where the lots got reconfigured here. We're
labeling it as lot 105 now again. And then this is phase five
And phase six is where the sidewalks are clearly indicated on lot 102 on this one, even though we know
it's lot 105. And so this is it blown up here showing lot 102, which should be 105. And that's the sidewalk
that we're requesting. Those street trees I do believe are in place already now.
And so I think the department comments are really important when looking at this and basing staff's
findings of fact. So Ben Ayers with the highway department stated that due to existing manhole located
in this area, see sheet eight of the construction plan, the sidewalk is not able to be installed within
the right of way and meet ADA specifications. So he has no comments or issues with this petition.
Our new highway engineer Tim Lawson. He also reviewed this with Ben Ayers and he was fine with the proposal
and the waiver and Erica Pena with stormwater program Did have the drainage board review this they approved
those drainage plans for Gentry East phase two through five way back in 1998 and These changes would
not impact the drainage But they don't need to be heard at the drainage boards after this
So with that, we have a staff recommendation to approve the amendment to the subdivision to remove the
sidewalk requirement from lot 105, AKA 102, under a sidewalk waiver request based on the findings of
fact that the proposed primary plat amendment meets county development ordinance subject to the Highway
Engineer and Stormwater Program Manager reports. And again, there is a waiver of final hearing with
this as well for petition SPP-26-3.
All right, thank you. Any comments from the commissioners before we go to the petitioner? Go to the
left. Anybody? I guess I just want clarification that we're going to be referring to this as Lot 105.
Lot 105, correct. Okay, thank you. So this brings us to the petitioner or petitioner's rep, and you
have 15 minutes to talk to us about this. Okay, so.
Maybe the commissioners have questions for the petitioners. Anybody? I would like to ask, Rita, in my
experience with around the community, you went through a great deal of effort to form your homeowners
association and that was no small feat given the fact that the developer had kind of walked away from it.
And you finally succeeded in that. And I wonder if you would come to the microphone and at the podium
and just say how important this is to get the streets into the county inventory so they can be cared
for. Absolutely. In order to do that, first of all, you had to state your name and sign in. OK. Rita
Klingelhofer. I'm the president and the treasurer for the HOA for Gentry East.
my name real quick. We have been working diligently over the last probably four years to get everything
in order in the neighborhood because as Tammy mentioned we have six sections within the neighborhood,
four of them have been accepted into county inventory and we have these two that are just hanging out
here that the HOA is responsible for in terms of the infrastructure. We have a very small budget
where our dues are $240 a lot, which is about $50,000 annually. So we just don't have the finances to
maintain these roads the way that they need to be maintained. So we started working with Kelly Abel
as our construction consultant after presenting to the neighborhood. We did an assessment. We have collected
97% of those funds to date.
everybody is on board in the neighborhood to do the work. We've started the work, getting everything
ADA compliant so that we can be accepted.
and move forward as a community within the county. So if you guys have any questions, I mean, it has
been multiple meetings just as the board with the community itself, the homeowners with Kelly and we've
met with the commissioners, we've met with Jackie multiple times and Ben just to make sure we're doing
everything that we need to do the right way to get this work done.
So thank you for clarifying that I think it's very helpful for the commissioners to know you know that
it's been a work in progress for four years and that you've achieved a lot and you've worked with county
in order to try to meet the standards and this one waiver will help you get there. Yes and the homeowner
is definitely excited not to have to have the sidewalk come through their yard they've got
mature trees there. They've lived there for years and obviously would prefer not to have to have that
come through their yard at this point as well. So thank you. Any other comments from the commissioners
on my right, on my left? Thank you very much. So this moves to public hearing portion. Do you have anybody
on teams or in the room who'd like to come up and comment?
just comment, you have to sign in, give your name, and say in your favor or against. And you have three
minutes. Well, I'd like to see this approved. My name is Bennett Tate. I live at 1265 South Barnes in
Gentry East. I've been there 14 years. And I spend a lot of time walking the neighborhood. That's my
favorite exercise. And I just wanted to be on record saying I've never seen an issue with there not
being a sidewalk there. That's all I had to say. Thank you.
Anybody else for or against with respect to public comments? I don't see anybody on That's it. Thank
you very much. So now we come back up to the I said for and against Okay, so Now we come back up to
the the commissioners to see if you have any comments on the left on the right All right, do we have a motion?
with SPP-26-3 for an address at 1017 South Hill Court. The request is for a primary plat amendment to
waive sidewalk requirements with the waiver of final hearing requested. And I move that we approve this
request. Second. It's been moved and seconded to approve
SPP-26-3, which is a sidewalk waiver for Gentry East, as well as a waiver of final hearing. A vote yes
is a vote to approve the primary plot amendment sidewalk waiver and to approve the waiver of final hearing
requested. Rudy Fields? Yes. David Henry? Yes. Jeff? Yes. Julie Thomas? Yes. David Bush? Yes.
Scott Ferris. Yes, motion is approved seven to zero. I might add that I might add that we approved this
body approves it. It does not go to the county commissioner, so this is it. Thank you for working so
well. Our departments and for achieving this goal because it makes everything easier. You've done a
great job.
Yeah. All right, that moves us to items not on the agenda. Does anybody have any items not on the agenda?
Anybody? Right? I think Tron Enright-Randolph has his hand raised and the teams. I didn't even see him.
He was walking into the meeting. Has he been there all along? No. Okay, so Tron, go ahead. Yes.
It seems like we finished up another board meeting and we just.
It was a little difficult to hear you, but I know that you had another board meeting conflict before
this. So yes, this was the only item on the petition or on the agenda. So we're wrapping up.
Sounds good. Welcome. All right. That's drawn. So it looks like we have no other items on the agenda.
And so do I have a, can we go ahead and have a motion to adjourn? What about the comments?
not on the agenda but I implied that any public comment for items not on the agenda I see done motion
to adjourn so moved thank you