10/14/2013 Planning & Zoning Commission Minutes
GORDON COUNTY PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
PUBLIC HEARING MINUTES
October 14, 2013
The Gordon County Planning Commission held a Public Hearing on Monday, October 14, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Gordon County Administration Building for the purpose of hearing variance and zoning change requests.
Chairman Rains called the meeting to order and advised all present of the sign-up sheets available for those who wish to address the Planning Commission on any of the zoning or variance change applications.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
A motion was made by Randy Rule to approve the minutes of the previous meeting of September 9, 2013. Jerry Lovelace seconded the motion. All voted aye. The minutes were approved as written.
VARIANCE APPLICATION #V13-10 & REZONING APPLICATION #Z13-03, ROBERT WRIGHT
Chairman Rains read variance application #V13-10 and rezoning application #Z13-03, Robert Wright, requesting a variance to reduce required county road frontage and the rezoning from A-1 to RA-1 on 4.596 acres located at 968 Old Rome-Dalton Road, Calhoun. Mr. Wright represented the requests explaining that he would like to bring the property into compliance with the U.L.D.C. and secure the variance and zoning change needed so that he could acquire a building permit to build a garage. All adjoining property owners had been notified.
Ursula Desrosier, Zoning Administrator for Gordon County, recommended that the variance request identified as Application #V13-10 be approved as requested, with the condition that evidence of a permanent easement for access to the property from Old Rome-Dalton Road is submitted to the Gordon County Planning and Development Department and on the rezoning request identified as Application #Z13-03 to rezone from A-1 to RA-1 be approved.
Butch Layson made the motion to approve both the variance application identified as #V13-10 and rezoning application identified as #Z13-03 from A-1 to RA-1, as requested with the condition that evidence of a permanent easement for access to the property from Old Rome-Dalton Road is submitted to the Gordon County Planning and Development Department. Randy Rule seconded the motion. All voted aye. The variance application #V13-10 was granted. The thirty- (30) day appeal period was explained. The recommendation for approval of rezoning application #Z13-03 was sent to the Board of Commissioners.
VARIANCE APPLICATION #V13-11, JESSIE & ERIN DEROSIER
Chairman Rains read variance application #V13-11, Jessie and Erin Derosier, requesting a variance to increase size of accessory building on .46 acres located at 301 Rips Road, Calhoun. Mr. Derosier represented the request explaining that he would like to buy a pre-assembled metal carport to park his camper and boat under and request the variance to be an extra 100 square feet instead of the maximum 500 square feet. All adjoining property owners had been notified.
Ursula Desrosier, Zoning Administrator for Gordon County, recommended that the variance request identified as Application #V13-11 be approved as requested.
Butch Layson made the motion to approve the variance application identified as #V13-11 as requested to allow the pre-assembled metal accessory building to be up to 600 square feet. Randy Rule seconded the motion. All voted aye. The variance was granted. The thirty- (30) day appeal period was explained.
ADDITIONAL BUSINESS
There being no additional business, Jerry Lovelace made the motion to adjourn. Butch Layson seconded the motion. All voted aye. The meeting was adjourned at 6:13 p.m.
