GORDON COUNTY PLANNING and ZONING COMMISSION MINUTES FEBRUARY 12, 2018 The Gordon County Planning Commission held a Public Hearing on Monday, February 12, 2018 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. Members present were: Randy Rule, Butch Layson, Jerry Lovelace, Nathan Serritt, and Eddie Smith Randy Rule 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 Jerry Lovelace to approve the minutes of the previous meeting of January 8, 2018. Butch Layson seconded the motion. All voted aye. The minutes were approved as written. REZONING APPLICATION #Z17-23, SONYA G. IRMSCHER (Tabled from January 8, 2018) Chairman Rule read rezoning application #Z17-23, Sonya G. Irmscher, requesting to rezone a .81 acre tract located at 301 Switch Road, Calhoun from A-1 to R-1. Sonya Irmscher represented the request explaining that this .81 acre tract is to be subdivided off from the original 6.80 acres to build a small house and the existing old house on this tract will be torn down. All adjoining property owners had been notified. Ursula Richardson, Zoning Administrator for Gordon County, recommended that the rezoning request identified as Application #Z17-23 be approved. Jerry Lovelace made the motion to approve the rezoning application identified as #Z17-23 from A-1 to R-1. Nathan Serritt seconded the motion. All voted aye. The recommendation for approval was sent to the Board of Commissioners. VARIANCE APPLICATION #V17-16, ROGER & TERESA RACE Chairman Rule read variance application #V17-16, Roger and Teresa Race, requesting a variance on a 71.22 acre tract located at 436 Liberty Church Road, Ranger. Mr. Race represented the request explaining that they would like to build a metal building approximately 2400-2800 square feet to house worm farming equipment and increase the maximum requirement of 500 square feet for metal structures. All adjoining property owners had been notified. Ursula Richardson, Zoning Administrator for Gordon County, recommended that the variance request identified as Application #V17-16 be approved. Eddie Smith made the motion to approve the variance application identified as #V17-16 as requested. Jerry Lovelace seconded the motion. All voted aye. The variance was granted. The thirty-(30)...