Planning & Zoning Committee Minutes

PLANNING & ZONING COMMITTEE MINUTES OCTOBER 20, 2015

SIGN IN DAN MCDOWELL PAUL JACKSTADT RON SIMPSON NIKKI PETRILLO TIM ELLIOTT BRIAN KONZEN ED HAGNAUER JUDY WHITAKER DON THOMPSON BILL DAVIS

ALDERMAN MCDOWELL CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER.

MCDOWELL TURNED THE MEETING OVER WILLIAM HENKE, TO DISCUSS 2355 PONTOON RD.

HENKE STATED THAT THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE STAND WOULD BE RUN BY STUDENT AND COLLEGE STUDENTS; THEY WOULD CLEAN UP AFTER THEM SELVES, DUMP NOTHING ON THE PROPERTY AND IT WOULD BE DURING THE GROWING SEASON ONLY.

WILLAREDT STATED THAT THE PROPERTY IS ZONED C-1—C-2 RESIDENTIAL; SOME DENTIST AND CHIROPRACTORS OFFICES.

DISCUSSION BY THE COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR ABOUT THE ZONING FOR THE PROPERTY AND THE LOCATION OF THE VEGETABLE STAND AT 2355 PONTOON RD.

MCDOWELL VOICED HIS CONCERNS AND STATED THAT THE VOTE WAS 6 TO 1 IN FAVOR OF.

MCDOWELL TURNED THE MEETING OVER TO STEVE WILLAREDT TO DISCUSS STORAGE BUILDINGS.

WILLAREDT STATED THAT MR. LEWIS SIMPSON WAS SUPPOSED TO SHOW UP TO DISCUSS STORAGE BUILDING REGULATIONS BUT HE DID NOT SHOW. CURRENTLY NEW STORAGE BUILDINGS OR TEMPORARY STRUCTURES NEED TO BE ON CONCRETE FOUNDATION, WE FOLLOW THE INTERNATIONAL CODE COUNCIL.

MAYOR STATED THAT HE HAS HAD HIS NEIGHBORS SHED IN SHOW UP IN HIS YARD BECAUSE IT WASN’T ATTACHED TO A FOUNDATION.

MCDOWELL STATED THAT NEXT WILLAREDT WILL DISCUSS THE MUNICIPAL CODE KNOB & TUBE WIRING.

WILLAREDT STATED THAT WE HAVE HAD IT (KNOB & TUBE WIRING) COME BEFORE THE COMMITTEE LAST COUNCIL MEETING. WILLAREDT GAVE EVERY ONE A HAND AND HAD ELECTRICIAN MIKE SLATON EXPLAIN TO THE COUNCIL ABOUT KNOB & TUBE WIRING. SLATON EXPLAINED HOW DANGEROUS THE OLD WIRING IS AND THE FIRE HAZARD IT CREATES. MOTION BY MCDOWELL, SECOND BY WILLIAMS TO APPROVE TONIGHT THE REVISION OF THE KNOB AND WIRING TO THE MUNICIPAL CODE. EVERYONE APPROVED EXCEPT FOR PETRILLO. MOTION CARRIED.

MOTION BY MCDOWELL, SECOND BY WILLIAMS TO ADJOURN. MOTION CARRIED.

MEETING ADJOURNED.