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CLOSED CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY BUFORT COUNTY.
I'D LIKE TO CALL THIS PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING TO ORDER THIS WEDNESDAY, JULY THE 24TH AT SIX O'CLOCK.
MAY I HAVE A ROLL CALL PLEASE? CHAIRWOMAN AMANDA DENMARK.
HERE, VICE CHAIRMAN CHARLIE WETMORE.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE AND WELCOME OUR NEW COMMISSIONER, DAN ROW, MR. COURT.
ALRIGHT, UM, NOTICE REGARDING ADJOURNMENT.
THE PLANNING COMMISSION WILL NOT HEAR NEW ITEMS AFTER 9:30 PM UNLESS AUTHORIZED BY A MAJORITY VOTE OF THE COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT ITEMS WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN HEARD BEFORE NINE 30 MAY BE CONTINUED TO THE NEXT REGULAR MEETING OR A SPECIAL MEETING DATE AS DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSION.
MEMBERS MAY HAVE AN ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES FROM JUNE THE 26TH.
SECOND, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR, PUBLIC COMMENT.
DO WE HAVE ANY MA'AM? ARE THERE ANY THAT WANTS TO SPEAK NOW OR WAIT, WOULD YOU LIKE SPEAK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING OR WHEN THAT AGENDA ITEM COMES UP? YEAH, COMES ITEM.
UM, OLD BUSINESS COMPASS SELF STORAGE, THREE 15 GIT ROAD, CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS, HIGHWAY FOUR NORTH EVENING COMMISSIONERS.
UM, AS IT WAS INDICATED, THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE ITEM FROM LAST MONTH, WHICH IS A CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A TWO OF TWO, TWO STORY BUILDINGS TOTALING APPROXIMATELY 109,398 SQUARE FEET OF CLIMATE CONTROLLED SELF-STORAGE SPACE, ALONG WITH THE ASSOCIATED LANDSCAPING, LIGHTING AND OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE PARCELS.
IT IS SITS ON ABOUT 3.21 ACRES LOCATED WITHIN THE JONES ESTATE AT THE PARCEL NUMBERS, WHICH ARE LISTED IN THE AGENDA AND PRESENTATION AND YOUR STYLE REPORT.
UM, AND THE PACKET FOUND ONLINE FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE ONE IN FRONT OF THEM.
IT IS LOCATED IN THE HIGHWAY CORRIDOR OVERLAY DISTRICT, WHICH IS WHY IT IS BEFORE YOU TONIGHT.
AND IT IS AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF CAM DRIVE AND IT VIA STATE DRIVE INTERSECTION WEST OF GIBB ROAD.
IT DOES HAVE FRONTAGE ON HIGHWAY ONE 70.
I AM HAPPY TO GO BACKWARDS, STOP, REWIND, DO ALL OF THE THINGS.
UM, SO WHAT I HAVE PUT IN OUR PRESENTATION FOR TONIGHT IS JUST THE REVISED DOCUMENTS.
I KNOW THE PACKET WAS RATHER LENGTHY FOR THIS ITEM BECAUSE I INCLUDED ALL OF THEIR ORIGINAL SUBMITTAL DOCUMENTS.
UM, DAN, HOPEFULLY THAT HELPED YOU GET, UH, CAUGHT UP WITH THE AGENDA ITEM.
UM, THE ITEMS THAT WERE OF CONCERN PRIMARILY WERE THAT THE BIO, UM, BIORETENTION AREAS HAD GROUND COVER IN THEM THAT WAS NOT SUITABLE FOR A BIORETENTION AREA.
THOSE ARE, UM, NOT HELPFUL WHEN IT COMES TO RETAINING THE WATER AS IT GOES TO THOSE, UM, BMPS.
THEY'VE CHANGED IT TO A GOLDEN CANNA, WHICH IS A BASICALLY SWAMP FLOWER.
UM, I CALL THEM DIGITAL LEAVES, BUT PEOPLE FROWN AT ME WHEN I DO THAT.
SO, UH, IT IS A NATIVE SPECIES TO SOUTH CAROLINA, SO IT IS A SPECIES THAT WILL WORK.
THE OTHER ITEM THAT THEY HAD FOR THE LANDSCAPING WAS THERE WAS TREES THAT WERE PLANTED IN FRONT OF THESE PEDESTRIAN EXITS.
SO IN ORDER FOR THE FIRE MARSHAL TO BE HAPPY, THOSE TREES NEEDED TO BE REMOVED AND, UM, IN ORDER FOR THOSE DOORS TO OPERATE.
SO THEY HAVE MOVED THE TREES AWAY FROM THOSE PEDESTRIAN EXITS AND THEY HAVE FIXED THE LANDSCAPING PLANT.
THE OTHER ITEM THAT WE HAD CONCERN WITH WAS THE HEIGHT OF THE HVAC UNITS ON THE ROOF.
THEY HAVE PROVIDED UPDATED DETAILS FOR THOSE.
SO THE CARRIERS ARE THE UNITS THAT YOU'RE SEEING AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN.
THIS IS FOR BUILDING A AND THEN THEY'VE INCLUDED THEM ON A CUT THROUGH SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE THEY FALL IN RELATION TO THE BUILDING PARAPET.
AND THE SAME WITH BUILDING B HERE.
SO THE CARRIER TYPES, THE LOCATION OF THOSE AND THE HEIGHT COMPARED TO THE PARAPET.
THEY ALSO PROVIDED US A LINE OF SIGHT EXHIBIT AND WHILE THE LINE OF SIGHT IS NOT, UM, THEY'RE ALL BELOW PARAPET HEIGHT, BUT IT ALSO SHOWS THAT LINE OF SIGHT AS AN ADDITIONAL SUPPLEMENT TO THIS.
UM, I ZOOMED IN ON THIS NEXT SCREEN SO THAT YOU CAN SEE CLOSER THE ACTUAL DISTANCE FROM
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THE TOP OF THAT PARAPET.SO AS YOU RUN ACROSS HERE, YOU'VE GOT ONE FOOT THREE AND THREE EIGHTHS INCHES.
UM, IT LOOKS LIKE FIVE INCHES, THREE EIGHTHS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
THIS IS ONE AND ONE FOOT EIGHT AND FIVE EIGHTHS, AND THEN ONE AND FIVE EIGHTHS INCH OVER AT THE, UM, CLOSEST SIDE THERE.
AND THE ONES FOR BUILDING B ARE VERY SIMILAR IN THOSE DISTANCES.
UM, SO WE'VE GOT LIKE A VARIATION BETWEEN, UH, 10 INCHES AND A FOOT NINE INCHES IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE WITH THE LARGEST BEING AT TWO FIVE OVER HERE.
SO, UM, THESE ARE THE UPDATED, UM, EXHIBITS THAT THEY HAVE PROVIDED FOR US.
THE REVIEW CRITERIA THAT WE USE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPING AND LIGHTING ARE FOUND IN, UM, SECTION 3 7 3 OF OUR UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE BECAUSE THIS IS IN THE JONES ESTATE.
ARTICLE FIVE IS NOT APPLICABLE EXCEPT FOR WITH THE TREE STANDARDS, WHICH, UM, HAVE BEEN MET.
THE JONES ESTATE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND CONCEPT PLAN, MASTER PLAN, THE SUBDIVISION PLAN, AND THEN THE UM, DEVELOPMENT PLAN, WHICH IS CURRENTLY STILL BEING REVIEWED.
HOWEVER, IT IS WAITING FOR THE APPROVAL OF THIS SO THAT IT CAN BECOME ALIGNED WITH IT.
UM, SO IT JUST HAS A COUPLE OUTSTANDING ITEMS. THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAS THE AUTHORITY TO APPROVE, APPROVE WITH CONDITIONS OR DENY THE APPLICATION IF IT DOES NOT MEET THOSE CRITERIA.
AND TOWN STAFF HAS FOUND WITH THE FOLLOWING THREE ITEMS, UM, BEING LISTED AS CONDITIONS.
THOSE WOULD, THE CONDITIONS OF, OR THE, I'M SORRY, REVIEW CRITERIA OF SECTION 3 17 3 WOULD BE MET AND RECOMMENDS APPROVAL WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS.
THE FIRST IS THAT A DETERMINATION ON THE APPROPRIATENESS OF LED LIGHTS BE MADE.
UM, DAN, FOR YOUR INFORMATION, THIS IS AN ITEM THAT YOU WILL SEE AT EVERY SINGLE CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS HIGHWAY CORRIDOR IF THEY'RE USING LED LIGHTS.
MOST OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR LED LIGHTS AND INSTEAD OF OPENING UP THE FULL DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND HAVING TO MAKE THAT AMENDMENT, WHICH COULD CAUSE A CHAIN REACTION OF PROBLEMS, UM, IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION TAKES A LOOK AT JUST ABOUT EVERY SINGLE TIME.
THEN THE SECOND COMMENT IS THAT ALL PLANNING COMMISSION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE COMMENTS BE ADDRESSED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN THAT TECHNICALLY NEEDS TO BE APPROVED PRIOR TO THE CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS.
UM, SO WE'RE JUST WAITING ON THOSE COUPLE LITTLE TWEAKS FOR THAT THAT WILL BECOME ALIGNED WITH THE CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS.
AND THEN BECAUSE IT IS COMMERCIAL PROPERTY, A TOWN OF LIFT AND SIGN PERMIT WOULD NEED TO BE REVIEWED AND APPROVED SEPARATELY FROM THIS.
SO WE JUST PUT THAT IN THERE SO THAT LATER THEY HAVE THE INFORMATION AND WILL NOT COME BACK WITH A WHILE IT WAS SHOWN ON THE ARCHITECTURAL ELEVATIONS.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? HAVE ANY FOR STAFF? THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE PROJECT IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THAT.
THE APPLICANT LIKE TO SPEAK JONATHAN STEELE WITH COMPASS SELF STORAGE AND ON SALE COMPANIES.
UH, I REALLY WANNA ADD ANYTHING TO WHAT KATIE HAS, UH, OUTLINED.
I'LL JUST, UH, BASICALLY MAKE MYSELF AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS.
I THINK WE'VE PRETTY MUCH ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS THAT THE BOARD MIGHT HAVE IN THE PACKET, SO THANK YOU.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THEM? JUST HAVE A COMMENT ON THE AIR CONDITIONING.
I'M NOT GONNA HOLD IT UP BECAUSE YOU'LL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE TO THE HEIGHT.
UM, YOU PREVENTED, YOU'VE PRESENTED SPECS UP TO FOUR TONS AND IF YOU DO THE MATH ON THE SQUARE FOOTAGE AND YOU DO THE MATH ON THE DRAWINGS WHERE YOU SHOW SIX FOUR TON UNITS ON EACH BUILDING, YOU HAVE ABOUT 30% OF THE AIR CONDITIONING THAT YOU WILL NEED TO CONDITION THOSE BUILDINGS.
I DON'T CARE IF YOU END UP BUILDING AND PUTTING 18 OR 24 OF 'EM ON THERE.
WHERE WE DO CARE IS IF ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU'RE PUTTING 10 OR 20 TON PACKAGE UNITS ON THERE THAT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER AND YOU WILL, KATIE BACK ME UP ON THIS, YOU WILL BE STOPPED BY STAFF IF WE CAN SEE THOSE UNITS.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT'S VERY CLEAR.
WE DON'T WANT YOU TO ACT LIKE IT'S A SURPRISE WHEN YOU BUILD THE BUILDING AND THE BUILDING GETS STOPPED.
SO JUST, AND AGAIN, BECAUSE THIS IS SELF STORAGE, IT'S CONDITIONED TO A DIFFERENT STANDARD.
I THINK OUR, UH, ENGINEER PROVIDED A COMPLETE PACKAGE ON ALL OF THE LOAD CALCULATIONS AND YOU USED THAT.
HE DID PER UNIT, BUT WHEN YOU EXTRAPOLATE IT TO PER BUILDING THAT YOU'VE SUBMITTED, SIX UNITS ARE NOT GONNA DO THOSE BUILDINGS AND, AND WE DON'T NEED TO GET INTO THAT BECAUSE THAT'S NOT CORRECT.
JUST AS LONG AS YOU UNDERSTAND.
WELL, ANYONE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I DO NOT.
WELL THEN DOES ANYONE WANNA MAKE A MOTION? I'LL MAKE A MOTION.
UH, ACCORDING TO THE TOWN STAFF'S CONDITIONS, PROVIDED THAT THE, UH, FOLLOWING CONDITIONS AND DETERMINATION FOR THE APPROPRIATENESS OF THE USE OF LED LIGHTING AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE, THOSE LISTED IN SECTION FIVE POINT 15 POINT 11 OF THE PZD, SO MUST
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BE MADE.UH, ALL COMMENTS PROVIDED BY DRC AND PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN MUST BE ADDRESSED TO BE COMPLIANT WITH THE C-O-A-H-C-O-B APPROVAL.
IT SHOULD BE, SHOULD THIS PLAN CHANGE BASED ON THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEW, A NEW CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS MUST BE REQUIRED.
AND THIRD, PER THE APPLICATION MANUAL, A TOWN OF BLUFFTON SIGN PERMIT MUST BE SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? I HAVE ONE.
UM, WE, WHEN YOU MADE THAT MOTION FOR NUMBER ONE, I JUST WANT CLARIFICATION THAT WE ARE DETERMINING THAT IT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THE USE OF LED LIGHTS.
SO MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE MOTION IS THAT IT HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT THE APP USE OF LED LIGHTS IS APPROPRIATE.
STAFF CONDITION AS WRITTEN? TWO AND THREE.
ANY OPPOSED? NOPE, WE'RE GOOD.
UM, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND RECOMMENDATION TO TOWN COUNCIL FOR CERTAIN PROPERTY OWNED BY BRYANT HOLDING, CONSISTING OF 2 1 4 ACRES LOCATED AT 30 DAVIS ROAD, LOCATED TO THE EAST OF INTERSECTION OF DAVIS ROAD AND OKEE HIGHWAY.
SINCE THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, I WILL HAVE TO CALL ONCE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING TWICE.
THIRD TIME FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
THIS IS A CONSIDERATION RECOMMENDATION.
TOWN COUNCIL RELATED TO PROPERTY OWNED BY BRYANT FAMILY LLC CONSISTING OF 2.14 ACRES AND IT'S LOCATED AT 30 DAVIS ROAD.
THIS IS AN INTRODUCTION, UM, MARCH 14TH, 2024 IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 5 3 1 50 OF THE CODE OF LAWS FROM, AND THE PROCEDURE IS MANUAL.
BRYANT HOLDEN, L-L-E-L-L-C SUBMITTED A 100% ANNEXATION PETITION APPLICATION FOR ONE PARCEL TOTALING 2.14 ACRES.
PURSUANT TO THE MANUAL, THE APPLICANT HAS REQUESTED TO REZONE THE PROPERTY PROPERTY TO THE TOWN'S RESIDENTIAL GENERAL ZONING.
THE APPLICANT INTENDS TO ALLOW THEIR FAMILY TO PLACE MANUFACTURED HOMES ON THE PROPERTY IN AN EFFORT TO PROVIDE AN OPTION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
ON MAY 14, TOWN COUNCIL VOTED TO ACCEPT THE ANNEXATION PETITION AND FOREGO REFERRING THE APPLICATION TO THE NEW NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE.
SO THEY DIDN'T REFER TO THE NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE.
NEXT STEP BEING, COMING TO PLANNING COMMISSION AS A WORKSHOP.
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED ON MAY 22ND LAST MONTH'S WORKSHOP.
UH, TWO, TWO QUESTIONS CAME OUT OF THAT WORKSHOP.
ONE WAS TWO QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSIONERS.
ONE WAS, HAVE ANY OTHERS IN THE AREA BEEN APPROACHED BY ANNEXATION OR HAVE THERE BEEN REQUESTS FOR SIGNIFICANT RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT? STAFF RESPONDED THAT THE APPLICANT ONLY OWNS THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND OTHER OWNERS IN THE AREA AWARE OF THE OPPORTUNITY BUT HAVE NOT SUBMITTED APPLICATIONS.
THE ONLY OTHER INQUIRY IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA WAS INTERESTED IN MULTI-FAMILY VIA PHONE CALL.
THIS DEVELOPMENT WOULD REQUIRE CONNECTION TO SEWER FOR ANY NEW RESIDENCES.
UM, NUMBER TWO WAS CAN THE ALLOWED RDUS RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHER PROPERTY AND STAFF'S RESPONSE WAS NO.
SINCE THE RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS WILL BE A RESULT OF BUY RIGHTS ZONING FOR THE UDO AND NOT LIKE IT IS WITHIN A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, PROPERTY CONTAINS 2.14 ACRES.
PROPERTY CONTAINS ONE MANUFACTURED HOME.
DAVIS ROAD TRAVERSES THE SITE FROM WEST TO EAST AND ALSO PROVIDES ACCESS TO ABOUT 32 OTHER PROPERTIES.
HERE IS THE LOCATION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, HOFF DAVIS ROAD.
IT IS JUST EAST OF OAKLEY HIGHWAY AND JUST WEST OF RIVER RIDGE ACADEMY.
THIS IS A ZONING MAP SHOWING THAT IT'S CURRENTLY ZONED T TWO R IN THE COUNTY.
THE CURRENT ZONING T TWO R PROVIDES THESE PERMITTED USES.
T TWO R ZONE IS INTENDED TO PRESERVE THE RURAL CHARACTER OF BUFORT COUNTY.
IT IMPLEMENTS THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN GOALS OF PRESERVING THE RURAL CHARACTER OF PORTIONS OF BUFORT COUNTY.
THE PROPOSED ZONING WOULD BE GOING TO RESIDENTIAL GENERAL.
DENSITY WOULD BE FOUR DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE FOR ATTACHED OR DETACHED.
RESIDENTIAL AND RESIDENTIAL ZONE IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE FOR MODERATE DENSITY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
THIS DISTRICT INCLUDES A RANGE OF DWELLING TYPES IN AN INTEGRATED NEIGHBORHOOD SETTING
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WITH OTHER CIVIC AND RECREATIONAL USES.SO COMPARING TO THE TWO ZONINGS, THE CURRENT ZONING IN BUFORT COUNTY, UH, DENSITY WOULD BE ONE UNIT FOR THREE ACRES.
SO ONLY ONE RESIDENTIAL UNIT WOULD BE ALLOWED ON THE PROPERTY AS IT, AND THAT'S WHAT'S ON THERE NOW.
UH, MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT OF TWO STORIES REQUIRED.
PARKING WOULD BE THREE SPACES AND IT'D BE SUBJECT TO THE, SO LOCAL STORM WATER.
UH, PROPOSED ZONING WOULD BE RESIDENTIAL GENERAL, WHICH ALLOWS FOUR RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE AT UH, UH, WHICH WOULD ALLOW FOR EIGHT RESIDENTIAL UNITS ON THE PROPERTY.
UH, MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT OF THREE STORIES AND TWO SPACES PER RDU.
UH, TREATMENT WOULD BE PER, PER.
SO LOCO, THIS IS THE FUTURE LAND USE MAP.
LOOK, UH, I THOUGHT THIS IS ACTUALLY THE PROPERTY RIGHT HERE.
A REVIEW PROCESS AND NEXT STEPS, UH, TOWN ON MAY 14, TOWN.
AS I MENTIONED, TOWN COUNCIL, UH, ACCEPTED THE POSITION AND, UH, DID NOT REFER TO NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE.
SO NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE IS NA PLANNING COMMISSION.
WORKSHOP WAS LAST MONTH, MAY 22ND.
PLANNING COMMISSION, PUBLIC HEARING.
RECOMMENDATION TO TOWN COUNCIL IS TONIGHT YOU'RE MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL, YOU'RE NOT APPROVING THE REQUEST.
AND THEN IT WOULD GO FORWARD TO, THIS IS TENTATIVE, IT'D BE AUGUST 13TH, TOWN COUNCIL FOR FIRST READING AND THEN, UH, PUBLIC HEARING SECOND READ, SECOND FINAL READING WOULD BE ON OCTOBER 8TH.
AND, UH, PLEASE LEMME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS PROJECT AND I THINK WE HAVE THE APPLICANT HERE.
ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DAN BEFORE WE MOVE ON? YES SIR.
HE HAD TO GO TO A EMERGENCY MEETING, SO THAT'S WHY I'M STEPPING IN.
ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I JUST, I WANNA MAKE A, I KNOW WE'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN HERE LAST TIME.
MR. BRIAN, HOW LONG HAVE YOU LIVED IN THE AREA? UH, ACTUALLY I LIVED IN THIS AREA JUST ABOUT ALL MY LIFE FROM HILTON HEAD, BLUFFTON.
HOW MANY GENERATIONS?
AND THIS, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THIS PROPERTY WAS TIED UP AS A'S PROPERTY AND YOU JUST CLEARED THAT.
SO SAME AS YOU'VE BEEN HERE MANY MORE GENERATIONS THAN PROBABLY ANYBODY ELSE IN THIS ROOM.
I'M, I'M INCLINED TO, UH, LET HIM HAVE THE RIGHTS HE WANTS ON HIS LAND.
THAT'S, THAT'S THE ONLY POINT I WAS GONNA, OKAY.
ALRIGHT, WELL THEN DO YOU WANNA MAKE A MOTION? YEAH, YOU WANNA MAKE A MOTION? I I, I APPARENTLY I NEED TO MAKE THREE MOTIONS, SO YEAH, YOU NEED TO WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS? OKAY.
UH, I MOVE TO FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, BLUE BLUEPRINT BLUFFTON, TO CHANGE BUFORT COUNTY TAP MAP AS PRESENTED IN THIS FORM FOR FUTURE USE LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM SUBURBAN LIVING TO LIFESTYLE HOUSING.
DO I NEED NO, WE HAVE TO DO 'EM ONE AT A TIME, RIGHT? I CAN DO ALL THREE.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
OKAY, NUMBER TWO, I MOVE FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF THE BRYANT HOLDINGS.
LLC CONSISTING OF 2.14 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.
LOCATED AT 30 DAVIS ROAD LOCATED TO THE EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF DAVIS ROAD AND OAK T HIGHWAY, SC HIGHWAY ONE 70.
AND IDENTIFIED BY BUFORT COUNTY TAX MAP AS PRESENTED IN THIS FORM INTO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON CORPORATE LIMITS.
WHO'S, WHO'S FIRST? I WAS, I MEAN, YOUR FIRST THERE WAS ME.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
AND FINALLY, I MOVE TO FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED ZONING MAP AMENDMENT FOR APPROXIMATELY CONSISTING OF 2.14 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.
LOCATED AT 30 DAVIS ROAD LOCATED TO THE EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF DAVIS ROAD OKEE HIGHWAY, SC HIGHWAY ONE 70 AND IDENTIFIED BY BUFORT COUNTY TAX MAP IS PRESENTED HERE TO REZONE SAID PROPERTY TO THE RESIDENTIAL GENERAL DISTRICT PURSUANT TO THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR, AYE.
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STEP, SIR.ITEM NEW ITEM NUMBER TWO, BLUFFTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND REQUEST BY SOUTH OF THE BROAD HEALTHCARE FOR APPROVAL OF PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
MS. CRAZIER RICHARDSON IS RE FOR THE RECORD, HE'S AWAY THE RECORD.
UM, THIS IS A PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR BLUFFTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.
IT IS A REQUEST BY RUSSELL BAXLEY OF SOUTH OF BROAD HEALTHCARE FOR APPROVAL OF A PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
AND THE APPLICATION THE APPLICANT PROPOSES A THREE STORY 91,000 SQUARE FOOT MEDIC, UH, MICRO HOSPITAL WITH ASSOCIATED PARKING AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
THE 12.52 ACRE PROPERTY ZONE, BUCKWALTER, PUD, AND IS LOCATED WITHIN THE SOUTH ABROAD HEALTHCARE MASTER PLAN AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF BLUFFTON PARKWAY AND BUCKWALTER PARKWAY INTERSECTION EAST OF INNOVATION DRIVE.
HERE IS THE LOCATION OF THE SUBJECT PROPERTY.
IT'S RIGHT AT THE, THE, UH, IT IS THE NORTHEAST, NORTHWEST CORNER OF BUCK WALTER PARKWAY AND BLUFFTON PARKWAY.
IT'S JUST SOUTH OF, UH, BUCKWALTER PLACE.
THE APPLICATION IS FOR PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND THE SUBJECT TO THE STANDARD SET FORTH IN THE BUCKWALTER PUD AND CONCEPT PLAN AND THE SOUTH ABROAD HEALTHCARE MASTER PLAN.
YOU MAY RECALL, UH, MINOR AMENDMENT TO THE MASTER PLAN CAME THROUGH EARLIER THIS YEAR.
THE APPLICANT PROPOSES ACCESS TO THE SITE OF TWO LOCATIONS FROM BLUFFTON PARKWAY AND FROM INNOVATION DRIVE TOTAL OF 230 ONSITE PARKING SPACES ARE REQUIRED AND 231 ARE PROVIDED.
STAFF COMMENTS ON THE PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN WERE REVIEWED ON AT THE JUNE ONE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING.
THE APPLICANT PROVIDED THE RESUBMITTAL INCLUDING RESPONSE TO COMMENTS ON JUNE 26TH.
THAT WAS RECENTLY, UH, AMENDED JUST FOR MINOR.
I I THINK IT, UH, THE SERVICE YARD WAS WIDENED AND A COUPLE OTHER SMALL ITEMS, BUT, BUT NOT A HUGE CHANGE FROM, FROM WHAT WAS ALREADY APPROVED.
THIS IS THE SITE PLAN AND I CAN COME UP A LITTLE BIT CLOSER.
THIS IS THE RIGHT IN, RIGHT OUT OFF OF BLUFFTON PARKWAY.
THIS IS THE AC THIS WOULD BE THE ACCESS OFF OF INNOVATION DRIVE.
THIS IS A PROPOSED HELICOPTER PAD.
THE BUILDING IS HERE WITH PARKING ON BOTH SIDES.
AMBULANCE PARKING WOULD BE IN THE BACK, BUT THIS IS THE ACCESS TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM WOULD BE COMING AROUND HERE.
UH, I SHOULD GO BACK REAL QUICK.
UM, THE TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS THAT WAS SUBMITTED WITH IT HAD A SIGNAL WARRANT ANALYSIS.
UH, THIS, THIS DEVELOPMENT WOODWARD A SIGNAL AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT A, UH, SIGNALIZE INTERSECTION IS CURRENTLY BEING DESIGNED AND COORDINATED WITH BEAUFORT COUNTY AT THIS INTERSECTION.
AND THAT'S BEEN IN THE ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN ALL ALONG TO PUT A SIGNAL THERE.
AND THE, AND WHAT THEY'RE, WHAT THEY ARE RECOMMENDING IS GONNA BE IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN.
PLANNING COMMISSION SHALL CONSIDER THE CRITERIA SET FORTH IN SECTION THREE TEN THREE A OF THE UDO.
UH, PLANNING COMMISSION HAS THE AUTHORITY TO APPROVE THE APPLICATION AS SUBMITTED BY THE APPLICANT, APPROVE THE APPLICATION WITH CONDITIONS, TABLE THE APPLICATION, OR DENY THE APPLICATION AS SUBMITTED BY THE APPLICANT.
STAFF FINDS THAT THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF REVIEW CRITERIA FOUR.
AND THEREFORE TOWN STAFF DOES NOT RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPLICATION AS SUBMITTED.
HOWEVER, SHOULD THE PLANNING COMMISSION CHOOSE TO APPROVE THE APPLICATION WITH CONDITION WITH CONDITIONS, TOWN STAFF FINDS THAT THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS SHOULD BE MET PRIOR TO FINAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPROVAL.
UH, NUMBER ONE IS PRIOR TO DEVELOPMENT PLAN APPROVAL, COORDINATE WITH BEFOR COUNTY ON THE TIMING OF THE INSTALLATION OF THE TRAFFIC LIGHT.
UM, AND NUMBER TWO WOULD BE, UH, PER SECTION THREE TEN THREE A FOUR OF THE UDO AND THE NDRC COMMENTS FROM JUNE 12TH, 2024.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CONNECTION MUST BE RE RELOCATED.
THE LANDSCAPING, THE OBSTRUCTING ACCESS REMOVED, OR A REMOTE FIRE DEPARTMENT CONNECTION PROVIDED, UH, WE PUT THAT IN THERE.
IT'LL HAPPEN THAT TIME OF FINAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN OUT.
CAN YOU SHOW US WHERE THAT IS ON THE MAP REAL QUICK? I CAN, I BELIEVE WE,
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I DON'T HAVE THE LANDSCAPE PLAN, BUT THE FIRE DEPARTMENTAND, AND WHEN THEY DID THE RESUBMITTAL, THE NARRATIVE ACTUALLY SAID THAT IT HAD BEEN RELOCATED, BUT IT WASN'T REFLECTED IN RESUBMITTAL PLANS.
BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S A PROBLEM THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO ANSWER.
UH, IS THAT WHERE I'M AT WITH THIS? LEMME SEE.
UH, WE HAVE A SUGGESTED MOTION THAT I CAN COME BACK TO AND I'LL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS.
THE APPLICANT IS HERE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT.
UM, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DAN OR THE A I YOU ALL IF THE APPLICANT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK? GOOD AFTERNOON.
UH, RUSSELL BAXLEY, PRESIDENT, CEO OF SOUTH ABROAD HEALTHCARE, AS WELL AS BETE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
UM, THANK YOU GUYS AND, UH, APPRECIATE THE STAFF FOR CONTINUING TO WORK WITH US ON THIS AND PUSHING THIS THROUGH.
I AM HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE OF THE BLUFFTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL.
AND I HAVE A WHOLE TEAM SITTING BEHIND ME AS WELL THAT CAN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT I CAN'T.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS OR ONES THAT DAN WAS ASKING, UH, OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO YOUR ATTENTION TAKEN CARE OF AS FAR AS ALLEVIATING, I KNOW DAN MENTIONED THAT THEY WEREN'T IN THE UPDATED PLAN, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN TAKEN CARE OF AS FAR YES.
IN REFERENCE TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT CONNECTION YES.
FIRE DEPARTMENT CONNECTION AND THAT OTHER ONE, THE SIGNALIZATION, THE LIGHT IS IN PROCESS.
WE'RE, WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING WITH THAT WOULD BE FOR COUNTY.
WE CAN MAKE, IF WE CHOOSE TO FORWARD IT, WE CAN MAKE THAT A CONDITION JUST TO MAKE MM-HMM,
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S WHAT, YEAH.
RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE IN THE, I'M JUST, I'M JUST CURIOUS IF I REMEMBER THE, THE HISTORY OF THIS, RIGHT? THIS WAS ORIGINALLY A TWO STORY BUILDING AND WE'RE CHANGING IT TO A THREE STORY NOW BECAUSE OF THE BEDS.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT YOU HOPED TO HAVE AT SOME POINT BEDS THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE, UH, EXPANDED SERVICES? I MEAN, WE SUBMITTED FOR THIS IN 2019, IF YOU GUYS RECALL.
AND, UM, I DON'T HAVE TO TELL YOU, BLUFFTON HAS GROWN EXPONENTIALLY SINCE THEN AND CONTINUES TO DO SO.
SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO MAXIMIZE THE CAPABILITY OF THIS FACILITY.
YEAH, WE, WE HAVE THE SAME NUMBER OF HOSPITAL BEDS THAT WE HAD WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE IN 94.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY APPEAL? I'LL MAKE A MOTION.
I MOVE TO THE CONDITION OF APPROVED THE BLUFFTON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL PRELIMINARY DEVELOPMENT PLAN, SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING CONDITION.
THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL INSTALLATION WILL BE INCLUDED WITH THE FINAL DEVELOPMENT PLANS SUBMITTAL AND THE FDC WILL BE RELOCATED.
THE LANDSCAPING OF OBSTRUCTING ACCESS REMOVED OR A REMOTE FDC PROVIDED.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
ITEM NUMBER THREE, AMENDMENTS TO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON MUNICIPAL CODE OF ORDINANCES, CHAPTER 23, UDO, ARTICLE FOUR ZONING DISTRICTS AND ARTICLE FIVE DESIGN STANDARDS TO ESTABLISH A PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOR BLUFFTON VILLAGE AND ITS RELATED STANDARDS.
AND TO ADD APPENDIX A TO INCLUDE THE BLUFFTON VILLAGE MASTER PLAN BUILDING AND SIGNED STANDARDS.
UH, THIS, UM, AS YOU STATED, IS, UH, A TRANSITION FROM, UH, A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, UH, FOR BLUFFTON VILLAGE, WHICH, UM, EXPIRES LATER THIS YEAR IN OCTOBER.
AND WHAT, UH, THE REQUEST IS TODAY IS TO, UM, TRANSITION THE ZONING REGULATIONS THAT ARE WITHIN THE, UH, DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT INTO THE UDO.
SO AGAIN, THIS, UM, HAS BEEN AROUND SINCE 2000, UM, AND AS OF OCTOBER 17TH, IT WILL EXPIRE.
AND IF THE ITEM IS APPROVED, UH, BY TOWN COUNCIL, THE EFFECTIVE DATE WOULD BE OCTOBER 18TH.
AND I DO WANNA ADD THAT WE DID MEET WITH THE BLUFFTON VILLAGE PROPERTY OWNERS.
WE HAD A DROP IN SESSION AT THE LIBRARY ON JULY 11TH.
WE HAD FIVE PROPERTY OWNERS ATTEND THAT MEETING SO THEY COULD ASK QUESTIONS.
UM, AND, UH, THERE SEEMED TO BE NO ISSUES.
WE'VE ALSO WORKED WITH THE PROPERTY ASSOCIATION MANAGER, UM, SO SHE COULD COMMUNICATE TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND THERE SEEMED TO BE NO CONCERNS WITH WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED.
UM, SO LET ME JUST GO THROUGH THIS QUICKLY.
UH, THE TRANSITION TO THE UDO WILL KIND OF COME IN TWO PARTS.
WE HAVE SOME LANGUAGE THAT WE ARE PROPOSING WITHIN THE, THE BODY OF THE UDO.
SO THERE ARE SOME SECTIONS OF, UH, ARTICLE FOUR AND ARTICLE FIVE THAT WOULD BE, UH, PROPOSED TO CHANGE.
AND THEN WE'RE ALSO RECOMMENDING AN APPENDIX A, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT IN JUST A MOMENT.
SO FOR THE, UH, ITEMS THAT WOULD APPEAR IN ARTICLE FOUR, WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY ESTABLISH THE, THE, THE PUD
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FOR BLUFFTON VILLAGE.IT IS CALLED THAT RIGHT NOW WE'RE NOT DOING A REZONING OF THE PROPERTY THAT IS NOT REQUIRED ON THE OFFICIAL ZONING MAP.
IT'S IDENTIFIED AS A PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT, UM, BUT NOT WITHIN THE BODY OF OUR UDO.
SO WE DO HAVE TO ESTABLISH THAT PARTICULAR DISTRICT FOR THINGS LIKE, UH, USES DENSITY SQUARE FOOTAGE.
WE ARE CROSS-REFERENCING BACK TO APPENDIX A AGAIN, I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
UM, AND I CAN BRING UP THE ENTIRE TEXT IF WE NEED TO, NEED TO.
I JUST WANTED TO PULL IN SOME GRAPHICS TO MAKE THIS A LITTLE BIT QUICKER.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, TO ESTABLISH THE USES WE HAVE TO ADD TO OUR USE TABLE, UH, CREATE A COLUMN FOR THE BLUFFTON VILLAGE, PUD.
AND WE'RE PULLING IN, UH, THE USES THAT THEY PRESENTLY ARE PERMITTED TO HAVE.
WE ARE NOT PROPOSING ANY NEW ONES.
UH, WE ARE, UH, ALSO RECOMMENDING ONE CONDITION FOR RESTAURANTS AND THAT THERE BE NO DRIVE-INS OR DRIVE-THROUGHS.
SO THAT'S THE ONLY CONDITION THAT WOULD BE PROPOSED IN THE APPENDIX A.
WE WOULD HAVE THE ACTUAL MASTER PLAN SHOWN THAT YOU SEE HERE.
UH, WITH THAT, SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE BUILDING TYPES, A LOT STANDARDS, MAXIMUM HEIGHT, WHERE TO FIND THAT INFORMATION INCLUDED IN THIS WOULD BE A CHART IDENTIFYING ALL THE VARIOUS LOTS, INCLUDING THEIR ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT.
UM, THERE ARE CURRENT REQUIREMENTS.
THEY DO HAVE CERTAIN BILLING TYPOLOGIES FOR CERTAIN LOTS.
SO WE'RE PULLING IN THAT ARCHITECTURAL INFORMATION INTO APPENDIX A.
AND, UM, SO THAT WOULD BE PART OF OUR UDO.
UH, THERE ARE SOME BUILDING MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS AS WELL THAT WOULD BE IN APPENDIX A AND SOME SIGN REQUIREMENTS AS WELL.
WHEREVER THE UDO SIGNAGE REQUIREMENTS AND THE BLUFFTON VILLAGE SIGN REQUIREMENTS WOULD BE, UH, IN CONFLICT, THE MORE RESTRICTIVE STANDARD WOULD APPLY.
IS THAT IN WRITING, LIKE IN THE TEXT? IT, IT DOES STATE THAT WITHIN THE UDO, THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE, THE TEXT AMENDMENT REVIEW CRITERIA FOR THE MOST PART, UH, DO NOT APPLY.
UM, THAT THE FIFTH ONE, IT DOES COMPLY WITH THE APPLICATIONS MANUAL.
UH, AGAIN, THE PLANNING COMMISSION CAN ACT TONIGHT TO APPROVE AS SUBMITTED BY, UM, BY STAFF.
YOU CAN MAKE CHANGES IF YOU DESIRE, OR YOU CAN DENY THIS PARTICULAR APPLICATION.
IF IT MOVES FORWARD THIS EVENING, IT WOULD GO TO COUNSEL ON SEPTEMBER 10TH AND THEN HAVE A FINAL, FINAL HEARING, UH, SECOND READING IN A PUBLIC HEARING ON OCTOBER 8TH.
IT WOULD THEN BECOME EFFECTIVE, UH, OCTOBER 18TH IF APPROVED.
I'D BE GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY.
I HAVE LIKE A REALLY SIMPLE QUICK QUESTION.
YOU TALKING ABOUT NO DRIVE THROUGHS OR WHATEVER, ARE THERE, UM, FOR RESTAURANTS, CAN THEY DO LIKE THOSE WALK UP WINDOWS? THEY CAN, I BELIEVE THEY HAVE ONE NOW.
KATIE, DO YOU KNOW IF THEY'VE, I FEEL LIKE THEY'VE GOT ONE NOW, NOT A WALK UP FOR A RESTAURANT.
I JUST DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT WAS LIMITED OR IF IT WAS JUST PARTICULARLY ON MOBILE.
THE, THE PROPOSED LANGUAGE IS TO GET AT THE VEHICULAR DRIVE IN OR DRIVE UP.
RICHARDSON, I HAD MEANT TO CALL YOU BEFORE THIS TO ASK YOU THESE QUESTIONS, SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME.
GET ASKED IF TOWN COUNCIL DOES NOTHING AND THIS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT EXPIRES, THE PROPERTY OWNERS STILL HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS.
THEY JUST DON'T HAVE TO ABIDE BY NECESSARILY THESE DESIGN GUIDELINES AND SO ON.
SO WE COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE A WILD WEST DEVELOPED THERE IF WE DON'T HAVE ANY GUIDELINES.
CORRECT? I I, IT'S A LEADING QUESTION.
I MEAN, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL BREAK.
THIS IS THE FIRST ONE WE'VE RUN INTO WHERE IT'S EXPIRING.
THANK YOU COMMISSIONER LAMORE.
AND AS ALWAYS, FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME'S RICHARDSON LA BRUCE, UH, FINGER MOUNTING BROOKSON LAMB BRUCE ON HILTON HEAD.
AND WE'RE HERE TO SERVE AS LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE PLANNING COMMISSION TONIGHT.
UM, THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON HAS NOT HAD TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE YET.
THERE HAS BEEN ONE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT HAS BEEN TERMINATED PREVIOUSLY.
THAT WAS THE KIN ESTATES DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT OUT OFF OF ONE 70.
I AM LOOKING THROUGH OTHER JURISDICTIONS.
I BELIEVE THERE WAS A KEYA DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT THAT HAD EXPIRED A FEW YEARS BACK AND HAS BEEN KIND OF A BASIS FOR THE TOWN TO FOLLOW THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS THE PROCESS, WHAT DID THEY DO AND HOW DID THEY HANDLE IT.
UM, SO IF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT EXPIRES, THERE IS NOT REALLY A SUFFICIENT UNDERLYING ZONING CODE TO BASE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT ON, UH, PART OF THE REASON THAT, THAT YOU WANT TO DO IT IN THIS CASE AND CREATE THIS POD IS BECAUSE OF THE COMPLEXITIES WITH THE SQUARE FOOTAGE AND THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, HOW THAT SQUARE FOOTAGE COULD HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED BY PARCEL TO PARCEL.
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AND, UM, MAKING SURE THAT ALL OF THOSE BUILDINGS AREN'T NON-CONFORMING AND, YOU KNOW, UH, A COUPLE OF MONTHS.SO PART OF THIS AND WHY YOU'RE MOVING FORWARD AND WHY WE'RE GOING IN THIS PARTICULAR DIRECTION, WHICH MAY SEEM A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLEX, IS TO ENSURE THAT THE INDIVIDUALS WHO BUILT AND DEVELOPED IN THAT AREA, AND THOSE WHO MAY OWN PROPERTY THAT HAS NOT BEEN DEVELOPED YET, HAVE A REASONABLE BASIS AND A REASONABLE DEGREE OF CERTAINTY AS TO WHAT THEY CAN DO IN THE FUTURE AND WHAT THEIR, WHAT THE IMPACT ON THEIR PROPERTY VALUES MAY BE.
IF, IF THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A MASSIVE SHIFT IN THE ZONING.
SO THEY TRY TO KEEP IT AS CONSISTENT AS THEY CAN WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, BUT THERE'S NO LONGER GONNA BE A LOT OF THE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS THAT WE SEE IN THOSE.
AND ON, ON THE FLIP SIDE, IT'S TO KEEP THEM, TO BUILD IT WITHIN THE CHARACTER OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, I WOULD THINK.
AND IF THIS EXPIRES THEN, AND I BELIEVE THAT WAS WHAT, UM, AND JUST LOOKING AT IT AND TALKING TO STAFF VERY BRIEFLY ABOUT IT, I BELIEVE THAT WAS STAFF'S INTENT WAS TO TRY TO MODEL IT AS MUCH AFTER THE EXISTING DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
UH, BUT YOU'RE REMOVING A LOT OF THE FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS AND THE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
AND IT'S GONNA BE TREATED JUST LIKE ANYTHING ELSE UNDER THE UDO THAT HAS A, YOU KNOW, A POD WITH IT.
ALRIGHT, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE QUESTIONS? I'LL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION.
I MOVE TO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THE AMENDMENTS TO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON CODE ORDINANCE CHAPTER 23 UDO AS SUBMITTED BY TOWN STAFF.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
NUMBER FOUR, PUBLIC HEARING AND RECOMMENDATION RELATED TO PROPERTY COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS.
THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, SO I'M GOING TO DO A CALL FOR ALL SIX.
CAN I DO THAT? 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT THERE LIKE A FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
OKAY, SO CALLING ONCE FOR PUBLIC HEARING FOR ALL SIX.
YOU DO HAVE A, OH, I'M SO SORRY.
SO YOUR FIRST CALL FOR MY FIRST CALL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IS YES, FRANK.
PARDON? HEARING WE WEREN'T GONNA FORGIVE YOU.
HI, I'M FRANK BARB URI 71 40 COURT AND I APPRECIATE YOUR LETTING ME HAVE A MOWING.
I WAS HERE AT THE FIRST, HE HEARING THIS, APPLICANT BROUGHT THIS UP AND IT WAS TURNED DOWN BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND AFTER OF COURSE, A COMMENT BY THE PEOPLE PROPOSING IT SAYING, WE'LL GET IT TAKEN CARE OF WITH BUFORT COUNTY.
OBVIOUSLY THAT WENT UNDER AND THEY'RE BACK HERE NOW.
AND I AGREE WITH THE MAYOR, IF YOU OWN THE LAND, YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO DEVELOP IT.
BUT THE TOWN HAS A RIGHT TO SAY HOW AND WHEN.
AND UH, TO THIS EXTENT, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IF WE'RE GOING TO ACCEPT THEM INTO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON, WE SHOULDN'T CHANGE THE, UM, THE LAND USE IF WE'RE CHANGING IT FROM ONE TYPE TO ANOTHER.
OBVIOUSLY TO ME FROM HOME LOTS TO SOME SORT OF APARTMENT TYPE OF THING.
THE BIGGEST THING WITH APARTMENTS IS THERE'S IMMEDIATE IMPACT ON THE POLICE FORCE AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT BECAUSE YOU GET TWO, 300 PEOPLE, BOOM, YOU HAVE BUILDING HOMES.
IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO GET TO THAT LEVEL OF PEOPLE.
THEREFORE, THE IMPACT ON THE TOWN AS FAR AS POLICE AND FIRE GO, ARE MUCH LESS, CAN BE BETTER PLANNED FOR THAN AN IMMEDIATE BOOM.
HERE'S 300 PEOPLE AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY THE RATIO I I'VE HEARD IT'S 1.5 TO A THOUSAND.
AND WHEN I HEAR ABOUT ALL THE APARTMENTS GOING UP ALREADY, HOW WE GONNA HANDLE ALL THESE CHANGES QUICKLY? AND I AGREE WITH THE MAYOR, IF YOU GOT, YOU OWN THE LAND, YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO DEVELOPMENT, THE TOWN HAS A RIGHT TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE AND SAY, WELL, WE'LL TELL YOU HOW AND MAYBE WHEN.
CALLING TWICE FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
THIRD AND FINAL CALL FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON ALL SIX ITEMS, PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED.
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OKAY, THANK YOU.UH, I WILL A BIT OF A COMPLICATED PRESENTATION, BUT I GOT TWO FOLKS TO MY LEFT THAT'LL, THAT'LL HELP.
THEY'LL PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR ME,
CONSIDERATION AND RECOMMENDATION TO COUNSEL FOR CONCURRENT APPLICATIONS RELATED TO PROPERTY.
COMMONLY REFERRED TO UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS, LLC, UH, A TOTAL OF 65.592 ACRES, MORE OR LESS LOCATED AT SOUTHWEST CORNER, BUCK WALTER PARKWAY AND LAKE POINT DRIVE INTERSECTION AND TO THE WEST OF THE RETREAT AT GRANDY OAKS.
THIS IS ACTUALLY SIX APPLICATIONS COMING BEFORE YOU.
THERE'S AN AMENDMENT TO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, ALSO KNOWN AS THE BLUEPRINT BLUFFTON TO AMEND SAID PROPERTIES.
FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM SUBURBAN LIVING TO NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER.
SECOND APPLICATION IS X AMENDMENT TO THE BUCKWALTER PUD TO CREATE A NEW LAND USE TRACK TO BE KNOWN AS THE GRANDI OAKS COMMON LAND USE TRACK.
THIRD APPLICATION IS A 100% ANNEXATION REQUEST TO ANNEX THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES INTO THE TOWN LIMITS.
FOURTH APPLICATION AND ZONING MAP AMENDMENT TO REZONE THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES TO THE BUCK WALTER PUD DISTRICT AND DESIGNATE AS A GRANDIOSE COMMON LAND USE TRACK.
FIFTH APPLICATION IS TO AMEND THE BUCKWALTER PUD CONCEPT PLAN FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES TO ADD PROVISIONS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THEIR INCORPORATION INTO THE BUCKWALTER PUD DISTRICT DESIGNATION AS THE GRANDI OAKS COMMON LAND USE TRACK AND ADDING 32 ACRES OF GENERAL COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS.
THE FINAL APPLICATION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE BUCKWALTER PD DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES TO ADD PROVISIONS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THEIR INCORPORATION INTO THE BUCKWALTER PD DESIGNATION AS THE GRAND OAKS COMMON LAND USE TRACK AND ADD 32 ACRES OF GENERAL COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS.
AND IF I UNDERSTAND IT, THIS IS THE ORDER IN WHICH IT WILL NEED TO BE APPROVED IF, UH, OR MOTIONS MADE.
UH, NOVEMBER, UH, THE, LEMME JUMP RIGHT DOWN.
THE PROPERTY OWNERS UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS, LLC AND GRANDI OAKS TWO LLC SUBMITTED A HUNDRED PERCENT ANNEXATION PETITION APPLICATION FOR TWO PARCELS TOTALING 65.92 ACRES.
TOWN COUNCIL VOTED TO ACCEPT THE ANNEXATION PETITION AND FOREGO REFERRING THE APPLICATION TO THE NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE SIMILAR TO THE BRYANT ANNEXATION.
WE JUST HEARD, UH, THE ADDITIONAL CONCURRENT APPLICATIONS THAT GO WITH IT.
I HAVE JUST LISTED, SO LAST MONTH, MAY 22ND, 2024 PLANNING COMMISSION HELD A WORKSHOP ON, ON THESE SIX APPLICATIONS.
WELL, IT'S ACTUALLY THE WORKSHOP, THE REQUIRED WORKSHOP HAD TO DO WITH THE ANNEXATION, THE ZONING MAP AMENDMENT, AND THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT.
BUT WE ALSO DISCUSSED THE THREE ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS, WHICH ARE ZONING MAP, TAX AMENDMENT, PUD, CONCEPT PLAN, AMENDMENT, AND THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
AND AS A RESULT OF THE WORKSHOP, STAFF FORWARDED A LIST OF ITEMS DISCUSSED AT THE WORKSHOP TO THE APPLICANT AND THE APPLICANT REPLIED VIA LETTER AND RESUBMITTAL, OOPS, THAT'S EASY TO TOUCH.
AND RESUBMITTAL FOR THE APPLICATION MATERIALS AND THE RESPONSES ARE PROVIDED IN THE FOLLOWING SLIDES.
THERE WERE MAP EDITS TO THE CONCEPT PLAN.
IT WAS JUST THE CONCEPT PLAN WAS, WAS EDITED BASED UPON COMMENTS RECEIVED.
HAVE I, LEMME MAKE SURE 'CAUSE THESE LOOK THE SAME, IT'S MOVING ON ITS OWN, SO BEAR WITH ME.
ALRIGHT, AND I'LL GO THROUGH EACH OF THESE BRIEFLY AND UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS TO ELABORATE ON IT.
UH, SO THIS HAS TO DO WITH DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND CONCEPT PLAN LANGUAGE REVISIONS.
THERE'S ABOUT FIVE SLIDES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS.
THE NEW GENERAL COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS ALLOCATED TO GRANDI OAKS LAND USE TRACK MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED, BUT TO ANY OTHER PIECE, PARCEL OR TRACK OF LAND WITHIN BUCKWALTER TRACK OR OTHERWISE.
THESE ARE COMMENTS THAT WERE COMPILED AND FORWARDED TO THE APPLICANT.
THEIR RESPONSE WAS THAT THEY AGREED.
AND SO STAFF'S RESPONSE TO THAT IS THAT LANGUAGE NEEDS TO BE INCORPORATED INTO SECTION THREE I I I OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT DOCUMENT REGARDING THE 32 ACRES OF GENERAL COMMERCIAL NEEDS TO BE EXPANDED TO IDENTIFY THESE ACRES AS AN
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INCREASE OF 32 ACRES.UM, GENERAL COMMERCIAL TO VOTE RIGHTS.
SO THAT INCREASES THE OVERALL TOTAL OF UPON.
OKAY, AND WE CAN RETURN TO EACH ONE OF THESE IF WE NEED TO.
OF THE REEDS WHICH ARE TRANSFERRED INTO THE GRANDI OAKS LANDUS TRACK, A MINIMUM OF 20% WILL BE RESTRICTED TO USE AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING PURSUANT TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE UDO ARTICLE SIX, UH, RESPONSE WAS BUCK WALTER PD AND ITS EXISTING DENSITY ARE NOT SUBJECT TO ANY AFFORDABLE HOUSING MANDATES.
IF OUR CURRENT DA AND PUD DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT AMENDMENT SUBMITTAL WERE ASKING THAT ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL DENSITY BE ADDED TO EXISTING PUD DENSITY, THEN WE COULD BE SUBJECT TO THE TOWN'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING RULES FOR ANY ADDED DENSITY.
WE PROPOSE NO NEW DENSITY AND NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPONENT.
OUR CURRENT SUBMITTAL SIMPLY ALLOWS THIS POTENTIAL MIXED USE TO BE CONSIDERED IN FUTURE BY ALL PARTIES.
AND STAFF'S NOTE IS THE INCLUSION OF THIS REQUIREMENT WAS DISCUSSED AT THE WORKSHOP AND WAS NOTED TO THE APPLICANT.
THE APPLICATION DOES NOT INCLUDE A REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS TO BE ADDED TO THE OVERALL ALLOWED, AND THE APPLICANT WOULD INSTEAD UTILIZE ITS EXISTING HOLDINGS WITHIN BUCKWALTER, WHICH ARE 96 RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNITS.
THE ADDITION OF THIS REQUIREMENT IS SOMETHING THAT COMMISSION MAY RECOMMEND IF SO DESIRED.
AND I BELIEVE WE HAVE A HANDOUT THAT EACH OF YOU HAVE THAT, THAT HAS THESE ITEMS. UH, COMMITMENT TO PROVIDE AND CONSTRUCT A FRONTAGE ROAD WITH INTERCONNECTIVITY TO ADJACENT PROPERTIES.
PLEASE SEE THE BUCK WALTER PD AMENDMENT APPLICATION.
UH, SHALL I READ THROUGH THIS VERBATIM OR DO YOU WANT TO PARAPHRASE IT? I I MEAN, I THINK IT IS THAT FOR THE RESPONSES THAT IT'S IN THE, THE RESPONDED THAT IT'S IN THE NARRATIVE, UM, THE STAFF NOTE IS THAT LANGUAGE NEEDS TO BE BUILT IN TO THAT 13TH AMENDMENT DOCUMENT, UM, REGARDING COMMITMENTS AND OBLIGATIONS TO THAT FRONTAGE ROAD, UH, SUCH AS LAND RESERVATION INTERCONNECTIVITY THE PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY TO THE WEST, WHICH ARE, UM, IN FOR DEVELOPMENT PERMIT AND BUILDING PERMITS FOR, UM, AN APARTMENT COMPLEX.
UM, UH, THE WITS, THE PLACEMENT OF THE FRONT OF THE ROAD IN FRONT OF THE BUILDINGS LOT LEFT IN PARKWAY.
UM, WHO THE CONSTRUCTION RESPONSIBILITY, UM, A TRIGGER FOR PHASED CONSTRUCTION, WHICH COULD BE AT THE TIME OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE APPLICABLE PARCELS AS THEY'RE SUBDIVIDED.
UM, AND ITS DEDICATION IF NECESSARY.
SO THAT LANGUAGE NEEDS TO BE BUILT INTO THAT 13TH AMENDMENT AND ORDER TO, UM, ACTUALLY HAVE SOME TEAM.
UH, NEXT IS COMMITMENT TO PROVIDE AND CONSTRUCT A ROAD CONNECTION TO LAKE POINT DRIVE.
C IMMEDIATELY ABOVE STAFF'S NOTE IS THAT THE LANGUAGE DETAILING THE ROAD CONNECTION TO LAKE POINT DRIVE COMMITMENTS AND OBLIGATIONS SUCH AS LAND RESERVATION LOCATION WIDTH, CONSTRUCTION TRIGGER FOR CONSTRUCTION AND DEDICATION NEED TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE 13TH AMENDMENT DOCUMENT.
THE FINAL OF WHICH WILL BE RECORDED AS THE APPLICATION NARRATIVES ONLY DESCRIBE WHAT THEY INTEND AND DOES NOT OBLIGATE THE APPLICANT.
NEXT IS A COMMITMENT TO THE BUCKWALTER ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN AS AMENDMENT AS AMENDED AND THE BLUFF BLUFFTON PARKWAY ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN AS AMENDED.
THE RESPONSIBLE WAS AGREED, SEE COMMITMENT IMMEDIATELY ABOVE.
STAFF WANTS TO NOTE THAT THE LANGUAGE COMMITTING TO THE A APPLICABLE BLUFFTON PARKWAY ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN AND BUCK WALTER PARKWAY ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN AS AMENDMENT NEED TO BE INCORPORATED INTO THE 13TH AMENDMENT DOCUMENT.
THE FINAL OF WHICH WILL BE RECORDED AS THE APP APPLICATION NARRATIVES ONLY DESCRIBE WHAT THEY INTEND AND DOES NOT OBLIGATE THE APPLICANT RIGHTS OF WAY FOR THE THREE ACCESS POINTS FROM BUCKWALTER PARKWAY THROUGH THE APPLICANT'S PROPERTY WITHIN BUCKWALTER HAS IDENTIFIED THE BL BLUFFTON PARKWAY PHASE FOUR ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN ARE DETAILED IN THE AGREEMENT.
UH, IT IT'S AN AGREEMENT FROM, I BELIEVE IT'S 2011, BETWEEN THE ROBERTSONS WHO OR THE DEVELOPERS HAD ESTABLISHED THE GRAND NEW YORK PUD AND UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS REGARDING THOSE SOME ACCESS POINTS, UM, THROUGH UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS PROPERTY TO THE BELOVED PARKWAY.
SO GRAND OAKS HAS, HAS SOME ADDITIONAL, UM, ROADS THAT THEY CAN UTILIZE AND I THINK JUST TO PARAPHRASE, SO, UM, WE JUST NEED TO HAVE THOSE ROADS EXTENDED THROUGH TO THE AN THROUGH THE ANNEX
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PROPERTY.UM, SO WE HAVE THOSE IN PLACE.
AND AGAIN, BUILDING THAT LANGUAGE IN TO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
THE CHALLENGE I SEE WITH THAT THOUGH, JUST TO STOP HERE FOR A SECOND, THE THREE ACCESS ROADS DUE TO THE COUNTY'S APPROVAL OF VARIOUS DEVELOPMENTS THERE, THE LANDINGS IS THAT, NO, NOT THE LANDINGS.
WHAT'S IT CALLED? THE RETREAT? SANDY POINT.
THERE ISN'T ROOM FOR THREE ACCESS ROADS ANYMORE.
THERE'S ROOM FOR ONE GOING SMACK THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE LANDINGS, WHICH ISN'T FAIR TO THEM.
IF IT'S NOT GATED, CAN YOU PULL UP A MAP AND THERE'S ROOM FOR ONE UP ON LAKE POINT DRIVE CLOSER TO THE END.
IF YOU SEE ALL THE HOUSES ON THE BOTTOM WHERE THAT RED DOTTED LINE IS GOING UP AND DOWN IS WHERE THE, UM, RETREAT IS NOW.
AND SO THE ONLY REAL PLACE FOR AN UN GATED YES, SEE, THERE'S NO ROOM ON THAT SIDE WHERE YOU'RE POINTING THE ARROW DOWN.
IT'S ALL BEEN, UM, WITH THE WILLOWS.
THE COUNTY DIDN'T LOOK OUT FOR THAT ROAD AND ALLOWED THAT DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE COUNTY, NOT WITHIN THE TOWN.
AND LIKE I SAID, EVERY OTHER ONE UP TO ARBOR WOOD ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF THERE HAS DONE THE SAME THING.
SO WE NEED, AND I KNOW WE'LL GET TO THIS POINT IN THE CONVERSATION, BUT WE NEED TO AT LEAST PROTECT THE ONE UNGATED ROAD THAT CAN BE BUILT TOWARDS THE END OF LAKE POINT AND BUCKWALTER TO GO UP TO BLUFFTON PARKWAY.
BUT IF WE PUT LANGUAGE IN ABOUT THREE CONNECTOR ROADS, WHEN WE CAN'T PHYSICALLY REQUIRE THREE CONNECTOR ROADS, THAT'S NOT FAIR TO US OR THE THE DEVELOPER.
I KNOW IT WAS IN THE LANGUAGE BRIEF, IT'S JUST, AND THOSE, THOSE, UM, ADJUSTMENTS CAN BE MADE AND WE COULD BE PART OF THE PART OF THE MOTION.
IF, HOWEVER, EUGENE, I THINK WE CAN REQUIRE TWO AND ONE, I I WOULD MAKE THE CASE SHOULD BE GATED FOR THE SANITY OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE SO THEY DON'T HAVE HUNDREDS OF CARS CUTTING THROUGH ON A PRIVATE ROAD.
UM, BUT WE STILL NEED TO HAVE THAT, THAT OTHER ONE AS A REQUIREMENT OF THIS.
I JUST DON'T KNOW WHERE THE THIRD WOULD GO THAT WAS ORIGINALLY REFERENCED TO.
ADDITIONAL ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION.
UH, STAFF PROPOSES THE FOLLOWING REVISIONS FOR PLANNING COMMISSION'S CONSIDERATION.
UH, WHAT, I'M SORRY, I SHOULD, THE DRAFT 13TH AMENDMENT DOCUMENT INCLUDES A LIST OF THE FOLLOWING, LIST OF THE FOLLOWING PROHIBITED LAND USES WITHIN NEW GRANDI OAKS COMMON LAND USE TRACT STAFF PROPOSES THE FOLLOWING REVISIONS FOR PLANNING COMMISSION'S CONSIDERATION.
ONE WOULD BE REMOVE TREE FARM TIMBER AREA OR FOREST MANAGEMENT AREA AS A SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS PERMITS FORESTRY AND S CULTURE THROUGHOUT THE STATE WITHOUT RESTRICTIONS.
THIS IS PUTTING PERMITTED USES BACK INTO, INTO THE LIST OF USES, CORRECT? UM, THE, THE FIRST ONE IS, UH, SECOND IS ADD OUTDOOR TO GO-KART RACING FACILITIES.
SO, SO THAT THEY WOULD BE RESTRICTED BUT, UH, INDOOR GO-KART RACING FACILITIES WOULD NOT, UH, THREE WOULD BE REMOVE WASTEWATER SEWAGE FACILITIES AS PUMP STATIONS WOULD FALL WITHIN THIS LAND USE, WHICH ARE REGULARLY REQUIRED FOR NEW DEVELOPMENT.
ADDITIONAL, ADDITIONAL ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION LEFT IN PARKWAY PHASE FIVE B RIGHT OF WAY DONATION.
THE BUCKWALTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND CONCEPT PLAN EXECUTED FEBRUARY 25TH, 2008 PROVIDES FOR THE FOLLOWING UPON FINAL DETERMINATION OF THE ROUTE OF FIVE B OF THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS WILL ENTER INTO A GOOD FAITH OF NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON AND BEAUFORT COUNTY REGARDING COMP COMPENSATION FOR THE FIVE B RIGHT OF WAY.
IT IS UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED THAT IF THE FINAL ROUTING OF FIVE B OF THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY IS ACCEPTABLE TO THE TOWN, COUNTY AND AFFECTED PROPERTY OWNERS, THE RIGHT OF WAY WILL BE DONATED.
UH, REALIGNMENT OF BLUFFTON PARKWAY FIVE B BUCKWALTER PARKWAY INTERSECTION WAS APPROVED BY THE TOWN AND COUNTY IN THE FALL OF 2013 AND SUPPORTED BY ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS, DOUGLAS AND LUELLE AND ROBERTSON INITIAL DEVELOPER OF THE GRANDI OAKS PUD AFTER LENGTHY NEGOTIATIONS RESULTING IN A FORMAL AGREEMENT PHASE FIVE B RIGHT OF WAY DONATION WITH THE ALIGNMENT APPROVED A PLAT OF THE BLUFF AND PARKWAY FIVE B RIGHT OF WAY WAS PREPARED WITH INPUT OF UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS LLC.
SO DO YOU WANT TO DO A NUTSHELL OF THIS SLIDE REAL QUICK OR WE'RE BASICALLY, WELL, I THINK THERE'S STILL MORE ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
DESPITE THE INTENDED LOCATION OF BLUFFTON PARKWAY FIVE B RIGHT OF WAY HAVING BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY ALL THE REQUIRED DONATIONS OF THE UNDERLYING LAND HAVE NOT BEEN COMPLETED AS REQUIRED
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BY THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT SINCE THEN.SINCE THEN, CERTAIN PROPERTIES SUBJECT TO THE NINTH AMENDMENT, WHICH ARE AFFECTED BY BLUFFTON PARKWAY, PHASE FIVE B RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION AREA HAVE BEEN CONVEYED TO THIRD PARTIES.
HOWEVER, THE PROVISION OF THE NINTH AMENDMENT ARE STILL APPLICABLE TO THESE SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNMENTS.
AND GIVEN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS EXPLICIT REQUIREMENT OF LAND DONATION IN THE NINTH AMENDMENT AND CONCERNS OVER SUCH OBLIGATIONS, REMAINING UNMET AND THE NEED TO CONFIRM THE FINALITY WITH FINALITY THE LOCATION OF THE REALIGNMENT FOR APPROPRIATE LAND PLANNING, THE PLANNING COMMISSION MAY CONSIDER RECOMMENDING THAT THE 13TH AMENDMENT ADDITIONALLY CONFIRM THE LOCATION OF THE REALIGNMENT AS SHOWN ON THE ABOVE REFERENCED PLAT AND REAFFIRM THE REQUIREMENT FOR DONATION OF THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY PHASE FIVE B RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH THE PROPERTIES OWNED BY UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS, LLC AND THIRD PARTY OWNED PROPERTIES IN WHICH JOHN REED HOLDS AN AN INTEREST TWO PAGES TO THE PLAT.
TH THIS IS, UM, GOING, WE'RE GOING FROM WEST TO EAST.
THIS, THIS IS, UH, TWO PARCELS OWNED BY UNIVERSITY INVESTMENT, ONE TO THE WEST OF BUCK WALTER PARKWAY, THEN TO THE EAST OF BUCK WALTER PARKWAY AND THEN IT CONTINUES FURTHER EAST.
BACKGROUND PROPERTY CONTAINS APPROXIMATELY 65.5 ACRES CONSISTING OF 27 PETLAND ACRES AND 38 WETLAND ACRES LOCATED WITH UNINCORPORATED BEAUFORT COUNTY PROPERTY CONTAINS A CELL TOWER AND IS OTHERWISE VACANT.
UH, THE INGRATIATED AREAS OR THE SUBJECT PARCELS REQUESTING ANNEXATION.
CAN YOU GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE REAL QUICK? CAN YOU SHOW ME VISUALLY ON THIS SLIDE, THOSE ACCESS POINTS WHERE THOSE WOULD COME IN THAT YOU WERE SAYING THAT WE UH, WE, UH, THE, THIS, THIS IS THE L ENTRANCE, THE L APARTMENTS THAT ARE BEING CONSTRUCTED, THIS ACCESS POINT HERE, WE, WE HAVE APARTMENTS BEING BUILT RIGHT HERE, MULTI-FAMILY PARK, PARKWAY APARTMENTS.
SO WE HAVE THIS, WE HAVE, UH, INNOVATION DRIVE.
THIS IS PROPERTY THAT IS OWNED BY THE TOWN.
AND THEN, UH, WHAT ELSE ARE WE SHOWN WHERE TO THE, IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THERE SOMEWHERE.
ARE YOU, I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HIS COMMENT ABOUT, UH, BUFORT COUNTY AND WELL, YOU WANT ME TO GO BACK TO THE NO, GO AHEAD.
I WAS JUST GOING TO POINT OUT THAT THE OTHER, UM, RIGHT AWAY LOCATE THE OTHER ACCESS POINT WOULD BE IN THIS GENERAL VIC CITY.
WANT ME TO GO BACK TO THE, UH, ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN? I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND CHARLIE, WHAT YOU YEAH, CHARLIE, YEAH.
LEARNED ABOUT WHAT, I'M SORRY.
I WAS LOOKING AT SOMETHING I THOSE THREE ACCESS POINTS WHEN YOU WERE SAYING YEAH, NO, IT'S, IT'S NOT ACCESS POINTS FROM BLUFFTON PARKWAY.
IT'S ACCESS POINTS TO FRONTAGE TO UM, UM, LAKE POINT DRIVE, WHICH IS THE SOUTHERN END.
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AT CONNECT THROUGH FROM LAKE POINT DRIVE UP TO BLUFFTON PARKWAY OF THREE ACCESS POINTS.
NOW IF THOSE THREE ACCESS POINTS, WHICH ONES LAKE, IF I MISUNDERSTOOD AND THOSE ARE THREE ACCESS POINTS ON BLUFFTON PARKWAY, THEN THAT'S, THAT'S MY BAD.
THIS IS LAKE POINT DRIVE, THAT'S LAKE POINT DOWN BY SANDY POINT IN ARBOR DOWN ON THE BOTTOM OF IT.
WHAT WHAT HAS HAPPENED IS GOOD, BAD OR INDIFFERENT, THE COUNTY HAS APPROVED OVER 1200 HOMES BY MY NUMBERS WITH A TWO LANE ROAD IN AND OUT TO THAT AREA.
IF WE DON'T TAKE THE RESPONSIBLE HIGH ROAD AND GIVE THEM ANOTHER WAY OUT OF THERE, OLD MILLER ROAD CONNECT THROUGH MAY NEVER HAPPEN.
AND YOU'VE GOT 1200 HOMES THAT HAVE TO GO OUT BY ONE STOPLIGHT AND THAT'S NOT SAFE.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT AS ROADS FROM DOWN, DOWN BELOW AND HERE FROM HERE UP.
AND IT WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE HERE AND HERE IT WAS DRAWN AS THREE ALL THE WAY UP TO BLUFFTON PARKWAY.
AND AREN'T THEY SAYING THERE IS ONE LIKE NEAR THAT ARBOR ROT? THERE IS SANDY POINT, NO.
LIKE FUTURE WE COULD, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE IS IN THE VERBIAGE IS TO HAVE AT LEAST THAT ONE, AT LEAST TO HAVE THAT ONE.
YEAH, ORIGINALLY IT WAS THREE FROM LOUGHTON PARKWAY TO LAKE POINT, YOU SAY IN THE ACCESS PLAN AND NOW BECAUSE OF WHAT'S LAKE, WHICH WHICH ONE LAKE POINT? THIS ONE.
THERE'S THE PARKERS ON BUCK WALTER AND COMES IN.
SO AS LONG AS WE HAVE THE ONE ACCESS FROM LAKE POINT TO THAT GIVES 'EM SOMETHING THAT DOUBLES THEIR ACCESS.
NO, I KNOW THEY'RE ONLY GOING OUT THERE.
I WAS JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE THREE
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AND HOPEFULLY AT SOME POINT THE COUNTY WILL CONDEMN THE REST OF GRANDI OAKS SLASH LAKE POINT, SO IT CONNECTS THROUGH AND GOES TO OLD MILLER ROAD.BUT WE CAN'T, WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY HERE IF WE ANNEX THIS INTO THE TOWN AND THIS IS ULTIMATELY TOWN COUNCIL'S DECISION TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S SOME CONNECTIVITY THERE THAT REALLY OUGHT TO BE THERE.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT WAS YOUR POINT.
JUST MAKING SURE I UNDERSTOOD.
THIS IS ARIEL SHOWING THE THREE PROPERTIES.
THE TOWER SITS RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE.
THE BOUNDARY MAP AT THE SAME LOCATION BACKGROUND, UH, THE PROPERTY IS ZONED AS CURRENTLY ZONED AS GRANDI OAKS, PUD AND DESIGNATED AS PART OF THE VILLAGE COMMERCIAL V ONE LAND USE TRACK IS SHOWN ON THE GRANDI OAKS MASTER PLAN, WHICH ALLOWS A MIX OF RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL USES, SUCH AS THIS LIST YOU SEE HERE.
THIS IS A GRANDI OAKS PUD MASTER PLAN THAT THE PROPERTIES ARE CURRENTLY IN.
WITHIN THE COUNTY ZONING IS BUCKWALTER, PPUD AMENDMENTS TO THE BUCKWALTER PUD TO CREATE A NEW GRANDI OAKS LAND USE TRACK.
SIMILAR TO THE EXISTING BUCKWALTER COMMONS LAND USE TRACK AMENDMENT TO THE BUCKWALTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND CONCEPT PLAN TO ADD 32 ACRES.
NO ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS ARE PROPOSED.
SO THE PROPOSED CONCEPT PLAN WOULD BE BRINGING IN THIS IS THE OVERALL CONCEPT PLAN FOR BUCK WALTER PUD.
IT WOULD BE BRINGING IN THESE PARCELS, DESIGNATING THEM AS A GRANDIOSE LAND USE TRACK.
AND THE DEVELOPMENT SUMMARY HERE WOULD ADD THE GRANDIOSE LANDUS TRACK WITH THE 32 ADDITIONAL GENERAL COMMERCIAL ACRES, THE CLOSEUP OF THE LOCATION OF THE PROPERTIES.
THIS SHOWS THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF A ROAD ACCESS TO LAKE POINT DRIVE THAT WE WERE JUST DISCUSSING.
AND IT'S THE CLOSEUP OF THE, UH, THE LAND USE TRACKS DENSITY SUMMARY TABLE.
THIS WOULD, THIS IS THE LANDISH TRACK THAT WOULD BE ADDED WITH THIS APPROVAL.
IT'S THE GRAND OAKS COMMONS, UH, 65 TOTAL ACRES, ZERO DWELLING UNITS BEING ADDED WITH THIS.
UM, AND UH, BUT YOU DO HAVE 27 ACRES OF UPLAND AND 38 ACRES OF WETLAND ACRES REVIEW PROCESS AND NEXT STEPS TOWN COUNCIL.
IT WAS TAKEN ON DECEMBER 12TH OF LAST YEAR.
UH, THEY ACCEPTED THE ANNEXATION FOR THIS PETITION.
DIDN'T, UH, REFER TO THE NEGOTIATING COMMITTEE LAST MONTH WAS THE PLANNING COMMISSION WORKSHOP.
UH, TONIGHT IS THE PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING AND RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL.
UH, GOING FORWARD TENTATIVELY WOULD BE THE AUGUST 13TH TOWN COUNCIL MEETING FOR FIRST READINGS OF THE ORDINANCE.
AND THEN, UM, OCTOBER 8TH WOULD BE THE PUBLIC HEARING ORDINANCE SECOND READING, SECOND AND FINAL READING.
SO A SUMMARY OF THE ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION FOLLOWING IS A LIST OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION ITEMS MAY WANT TO LIST OF ITEMS PLANNING COMMISSION MAY WANT TO ADDRESS AND OR INCLUDE IN THE RECOMMENDATION OF TOWN COUNCIL ADDING LANGUAGE TO THE 13TH AMENDMENT DOCUMENT FOR THE FOLLOWING.
THAT IS A, THAT WE JUST WENT OVER AND WE CAN RETURN TO.
UH, ARE WE MISSING? RIGHT? AND THESE, THE, AND THE LAST TWO ARE, UM, IT'S JUST A, A MATTER OF FORMALITY TO ADD.
THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED VARIANCES ARE ON THE VOID AND FOR REFERENCE, ADDING THAT LAND USE COMPARISON CHART AS OF EXHIBIT.
SO, SO, UM, PRIOR TO THOSE, EACH OF THESE HAVE A SLIDE, THE, THAT WE CAN RETURN TO IF WE NEED TO.
UM, AND I'LL STOP IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MYSELF OR FOLKS NEXT TO ME OR THE APPLICANT WHO'S HERE TONIGHT.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY FURTHER FOR DAN OR ASK APPLICANT TO SPEAK IF, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIRMAN.
ANYTHING THAT WE'VE SAID OR QUESTIONED AND YOU WANT TO GIVE CLARIFICATION, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
YES, I'M, SO, I'M NATHAN LONG FOR, WITH THOMAS AND HUTTON.
I'M HERE WITH THE APPLICANT, UH, JAKE REED WITH THE UNIVERSITY
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INVESTMENTS.THERE WAS A LOT UNPACKED THERE.
SO I, I WOULD LIKE TO KIND OF GO BACK AND KIND OF GO THROUGH EACH OF THOSE SLOWLY IF WE CAN.
LET ME GET BACK TO THE FIRST THING I WANTED TO CLARIFY IS ON, YES, THIS MAP, YOU CAN SEE IT HERE, BUT THAT, UH, VILLAGE PARK DEVELOPMENT, WHEN, WHEN THEY DEVELOPED THAT THE, THAT ROAD WAS STUBBED OUT AND PLANNED THERE, LIKE NONE OF THESE AERIALS ARE RECENT.
I MEAN, IF YOU RIDE OUT THERE, THERE'S ACTUALLY A ROAD STUBBED OUT AND IT DIRECTLY ALIGNS WITH INNOVATION DRIVE.
UM, BUT THAT PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN THE COUNTY.
OBVIOUSLY THIS LINE, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY IS ANNEXING SOME OF THAT PROPERTY SOUTH OF THAT LINE INTO THE TOWN.
UM, SO WITH THAT BEING IN THE COUNTY, UM, I DO THINK AT ONE POINT IT WAS ON LAST YEAR'S CIP PLAN WITH THE COUNTY, UH, THAT POTENTIAL CONNECTION, BUT IT WAS NOT ENFORCED BY THE COUNTY TO BE DONE BY VILLAGE PARK WHEN THEY GOT THAT DEVELOPMENT APPROVED IN THE COUNTY.
UH, UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS IS MORE THAN WILLING TO ALLOW THAT INNOVATION DRIVE TO BE CONSTRUCTED TO THAT LOCATION OF THE ACCESS POINT THAT'S THERE.
I, WE AGREE THAT CONNECTIVITY NEEDS TO BE MADE THERE.
UM, NICK TOWN PROPERTY SERVICE, THE CHALLENGE THERE.
THE TOWN OWNS INNOVATION DRIVE.
THE CHALLENGE THERE, IF YOU DROP INNOVATION STRAIGHT DOWN, YOU'RE DROPPING IT INTO THE RETREAT.
THE RETREAT IS A DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSES THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE COUNTY THAT HAS PRIVATE ROADS.
THAT CREATES ANOTHER CHALLENGE.
WHAT MAKES MORE SENSE AT THIS POINT IN TIME BASED ON WHAT IS DONE IN THE COUNTY, IS TO TAKE THAT ROAD AND CURVE IT AROUND AND BRING IT DOWN TO LAKE POINT SO THAT THERE IS A NON-RESTRICTED ACCESS.
SO WE, WE ALSO HAD PLANS TO MAKE ANOTHER CONNECTION THROUGH TO LAKE POINT.
UM, WELL, AND THAT, THAT MAY JUST BE END UP BEING A ONE WAY GATED ONE WHERE INNOVATION GOES THROUGH.
AND I FEEL FOR THE 60 OR 70 HOMES THAT PEOPLE BOUGHT ON, WHAT THEY DIDN'T REALIZE WAS GONNA BE A, THEORETICALLY A POP THROUGH ROAD.
AND I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT IF I LIVED ON THAT ROAD AND I'M PAYING FOR THAT ROAD MAINTENANCE AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN EVERYBODY FROM THOSE OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS IS CUTTING THROUGH IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, I'M NOT HAPPY.
WE HAVE SHOWN THAT CONNECTION THROUGH TO OH, IT'S BEEN THERE SINCE I WAS ON COUNCIL BACK IN NO, I MEAN THE NEW ONE THAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO.
IT'S KIND OF OVER ON THE EAST SIDE THERE THROUGH, THROUGH THIS PIECE.
'CAUSE YOU CAN SEE ALL THESE ARE WETLANDS AND THERE'S ARBOR WOOD, LIKE YOU MENTIONED BEFORE.
THAT'S, THAT'S OUR LAST HOPE IN MY OPINION.
AND OTHER ENTITIES DIDN'T MAKE IT HAPPEN.
SO BETWEEN US, IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IF THIS MOVES FORWARD.
SO THIS ONE WAS OBVIOUSLY, WE AGREED TO THAT IN THE, IN THE COMMENT RESPONSE THAT THE 32 ACRES WOULD NOT MOVE, UH, FRONTAGE ROAD.
THERE SHOULD BE CONNECTIVITY THROUGH THERE.
UM, ANDRE, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT YOU WERE REFERRING TO THERE WHEN YOU, YOU MENTIONED THE AGREEMENT.
IS THAT THE AGREEMENT THAT WAS ON THE WEST SIDE, LIKE OVER IN HAMPTON LAKE THAT TALKED ABOUT THE FRONTAGE ROAD INTERCONNECTIVITY THROUGH LIKE THE NINTH AMENDMENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT? WELL, FOR A FRONTAGE ROAD, I MEAN THE DEVELOP
UM, AND I THINK ONE OF THE ITEMS THAT WAS IDENTIFIED WAS A COMMITMENT TO THAT INTERCONNECTIVITY AND TO THE FRONTAGE ROAD.
AND AGAIN, WE CAN TALK THROUGH WHAT THAT LANGUAGE LOOKS LIKE.
UM, BUT THERE, THERE'S PREVIOUS AGREEMENTS, I THINK IT WAS THE NINTH AMENDMENT OVER JUST WEST OF HERE THAT DISCUSSED THE FRONT, THE SAME FRONTAGE ROAD THAT'S BEEN SHOWN ON THE ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN SINCE 2007.
SO WE, WE WOULD AGREE TO THAT.
WE JUST NEED TO CRAFT THE LANGUAGE THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH SOME OF THE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED AMENDMENTS TO THE BUCK.
WALTER, WE'RE, WE'RE FINE TO ADD THAT.
UM, WE JUST TALKED ABOUT LAKE POINT DRIVE, BUT WE'RE FINE WITH THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN EXTENSIONS OF RIGHT, OF WAYS THAT, I THINK THAT'S THE SAME THING WE JUST TALKED ABOUT AS WELL, RIGHT.
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ITEM E, IT'S FOR THE, UM, AGREEMENT WITH ROBERTSON, IT CAME TO RIGHT, THE FIVE FEE RIGHT OF WAY.UM, AND FROM THAT AGREEMENT THERE WERE THREE, UM, ROAD RIGHT OF WAY SHOWN.
SO, UH, WE HAVE THE INNOVATION DRIVE THERE IS ONE TO THE FURTHEST WEST.
SO IS IT THE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS PLAN, WHAT IF YOU SCROLL UP, UP, UP, UP THERE, AND THAT'S FROM THAT AGREEMENT.
NOW WAS THIS, THIS AGREEMENT WAS BETWEEN THE TOWN UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS AND THE ROBERTS.
AND IT'S WHAT, IT'S WHERE WE WE'RE.
IF THERE'S AN EXISTING AGREEMENT, WE'RE HAPPY TO, BUT WE, WE MET WITH THE TOWN STAFF AND DISCUSSED THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY RIGHT AWAY.
IS FIVE B GONNA HAPPEN? IS IT NOT GONNA HAPPEN? BECAUSE AS A DEVELOPER THEY HAVE TO DEVELOP THEIR PROPERTY AND CURRENTLY THERE'S NO FUNDING.
I THINK EVERYONE'S HEARD THAT CONVERSATION AND UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS HAS ALWAYS SAID IF THAT RIGHT OF WAY IS GONNA HAPPEN AND THEY WANT THAT TO HAPPEN, THEY WILL DEDICATE THE RIGHT OF WAY.
SO IF THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYING, WE'RE IN TOTAL AGREEMENT.
BUT THAT SPECIFIC COMMENT WAS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THESE TWO.
AND WHEN YOU ANNEX IN THE PROPERTY FURTHERING THOSE RIGHT OF WAYS DOWN AS NECESSARY.
AND SO THAT ONE, THERE'S NO NO PROPERTY BEING ANNEXED INTO THE FOR WE TOOK THAT OUT OF OUR ANNEXATION.
SO THAT, THAT ONE CAN PROBABLY, IT WAYSIDE.
WE HAVE INNOVATION DRIVE AND IF, AND THEN IF THERE'S NO FIVE BB THE WEST, THEN MAYBE THAT'S THE LAKESIDE CONNECTION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UM, THE OBVIOUSLY INNOVATION DRIVE IS NOT SHOWN THERE.
IF THE TOWN OWNS THAT PROPERTY, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE HAPPY AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT BUILT AS WELL.
AS MUCH AS, AS MUCH AS THE TOWN, THE ACCESS ALL THE WAY TO THE WEST, WE ARE, WE'RE, WE'RE CURRENTLY PERMITTING THAT THAT'S WHAT THE HALL ROAD IS AND, AND WHAT IS ACTUALLY PROVIDING ACCESS.
THE, CAN YOU REPEAT THAT IN THE MIC? SORRY.
THE, THE WESTERN ACCESS POINT IS ACTUALLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION TO CREATE THAT ACCESS CURRENTLY.
AND IT WOULD ALLOW ACCESS INTO THE PROPERTY THAT'S STILL IN THE COUNTY, UH, THE CONNECTION POINT ALL THE WAY TO THE EAST.
UM, BECAUSE THAT, THAT, THAT FIVE B RELOCATION HA HAS NOT OCCURRED AS, UH, COMMISSIONER WHITMORE SAID, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THE LAST HOPE WOULD BE IS TO TAKE IT THROUGH, UM, DOWN TO LAKE POINT.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE COMMITTED TO DOING IN THE WRITEUP, IS ACTUALLY BRINGING IT DOWN THROUGH, UM, WHETHER IT BE ON A CONNECTOR ROAD THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THROUGH 12 A ALL THE WAY THROUGH DOWN TO LAKE POINT OR EVEN OFF OF INNOVATION DRIVE, BUT BRING A CONNECTOR ROAD THROUGH TO SO THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN AND, AND COMMIT TO THAT, THAT, UM, CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN THE PARCELS.
AND I DON'T KNOW, THIS IS QUESTION FOUR, BUT IS THERE, LIKE, LANGUAGE SAYS IT HAS TO BE AT A SPECIFIC DISTANCE OR POINT FROM SOMETHING LIKE, I MEAN LIKE THAT THAT ROAD RIGHT NOW IS JUST ARBITRARILY IN THE MIDDLE.
IS, IS THAT WHERE IT HAS TO BE OR CAN IT SHIFT DEPENDING ON SOME CIRCUMSTANCES? WHICH, WHICH ROAD ARE YOU REFERRING TO? LIKE THE PROPOSED 80 FOOT ONE THAT'S RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE, UM, TO THE EAST OF INNOVATION DRIVE, THE ONE THAT'S SHOWING ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW.
THESE ARE GONNA BE CONCEPTUAL AT THIS POINT.
WE'RE I KNOW THAT, BUT I'M JUST SAYING 'CAUSE THAT AFFECTS THINGS AS LONG AS THE LANGUISH DOESN'T SAY IT SPECIFICALLY HAS TO BE.
AND WAS THIS AGREEMENT AT ALL RELATED TO THE DEDICATION OF INNOVATION DRIVE TO THE TOWN? YES, THAT WAS INCLUDED IN OKAY.
'CAUSE THAT'S NOT SHOWN ON THIS EXHIBIT, BUT NO, AN ADDITIONAL EXHIBIT THAT SHOWN RIGHT SEPARATELY BECAUSE RIGHT AFTER THE AGREEMENT WE HAD, THERE WAS A, UM, SUBDIVISION.
I THINK WE JUST NEED TO DUST OFF THIS AGREEMENT, LOOK AT IT AND WE'RE HAPPY TO COMPLY WITH WHATEVER'S POSSIBLE FOR ACCESS AND CONNECTIVITY.
I MAY, AND TO KIND OF ECHO THE COMMENTS OF THE APPLICANT, THE LOCATION OF THAT EASTERN PROPOSED 80 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY AND WHERE THE APPLICANT HAS PROPOSED IN THE CONCEPT PLAN TO DO THEIR LAKE POINT CONNECTION, UH, I ASSUME THIS IS THE ONE WHERE THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF ROAD ACCESS AND I THINK THEY ARE TO CONFIRM THAT THAT IS CORRECT.
THAT'S THE WHERE YOU'RE LOOKING AT TYING INTO THAT LAKE POINT.
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THE BLUFF AND PARTWAY GONNA GO THROUGH THERE OR NOT? THAT THAT'S THE ONLY BIG UNKNOWN.I THINK WITH THE, AND WE DID UPDATE THE CONCEPT PLAN MAP WITH THOSE ACCESS POINTS SHOWN, CORRECT? YES.
SO WHAT WE'VE DONE, I DON'T KNOW IF THIS MOUSE WILL WORK, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE HERE WHAT WE'VE DONE IS CREATE THAT, THAT ACCESS THAT SHOWS HOW THESE COME THROUGH HERE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO LAKE POINT.
AND INTO THESE DIFFERENT PARCELS TO CREATE THAT CONNECTIVITY AND THAT WETLAND FILL FOR THAT CROSSING IS, IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY AS WELL.
SO WE, YOU KNOW, YOU SEE WHERE THESE ARROWS ARE, THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE SHOWN IF, IF THESE THINGS GET BUILT AND, AND WE'VE SAID, HEY, WE'LL WE'LL MAINTAIN AND COME TO THAT CONNECTIVITY AS WELL.
SO THIS IS JUST A QUESTION FOR THE TOWN.
WHAT HAPPENS IF THE PARKWAY DOESN'T GET BUILT AND THEY NEED TO HAVE CONNECTIVITY? HOW DO THEY, THEY JUST HAVE THE ONE ACCESS OFF OF INNOVATION, CONNECT IT FURTHER UP AND THIS ROAD WOULD CONNECT BACK TO INNOVATION THROUGH HERE FOR A FRONTAGE OR TO GO UP TO THE FRONT FRONT.
I THINK IT'S TOO CLOSE TO HAVE ANOTHER FULL ACCESS ON THE PARKWAY HERE BEFORE THIS ONE.
'CAUSE AGAIN, THE ACCESS MANAGEMENT PLAN SET THOSE SPACINGS AT YEAH.
2000 FEET AS IT PERTAINS TO INNOVATION DRIVE, SPECIFICALLY THAT COMMUNITY, THE RETREAT, YOU KNOW, THAT COMMUNITY SPECIFICALLY, WHETHER THEY CHOOSE TO ALLOW IT TO BE OPEN OR NOT, OBVIOUSLY 'CAUSE IT'S A PRIVATE ROAD WILL BE UP TO THEM.
BUT EVEN IF THEY WANT TO GATE IT, THEY COULD STILL GET ACCESS OUT TO LEFT AND PARKWAY.
SO THAT COMMUNITY SPECIFICALLY WILL HAVE ACCESS.
AND AGAIN, THAT'S A TOWN OWNED PROPERTY.
LET'S JUST SEE IF, AS FAR AS THE WEST ROAD ACCESS, UM, I THINK WE'RE BEING A LITTLE REDUNDANT, BUT IT DOESN'T, IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER 'CAUSE WE HAVE APPROVED THAT CONNECTOR AND WE HAVE APPROVED THE HALL ROAD.
Y'ALL, FORGIVE ME IF I'M WRONG PLEASE.
BUT THESE ARE ALSO THINGS THAT, THAT CAN BE DONE AT AN INITIAL MASTER PLAN LEVEL.
THE ROADS AND THE CONNECTIVITY THROUGH.
AND WE'VE ALREADY, IN THE ANNEXATION DOCUMENTS COMMITTED TO THAT CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN PARCELS AND AS IT RELATES TO THE IMP, IT DRILLS DOWN EVEN FURTHER TO TO HOW THAT WILL BE DONE.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT CAN BE HAMMERED OUT ALL THE WAY WITH TOWN COUNCIL TOO BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE REFERRING AT THIS POINT FOR THINGS FOR THEM TO RECOMMENDING.
ONE OF THE, UM, AND CAN WE JUST ADDRESS REAL QUICK THE PUBLIC COMMENT? UM, I KNOW THAT HE'S WORRIED ABOUT APARTMENTS AND THINGS, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A USE PROPOSED.
WE'RE JUST PROPOSING ANNEXATION.
AND THEN THE, THEN THE GRANDI OAKS LAND USE TRACK, WHICH WAS SIMILAR TO THE EXISTING RIGHTS THAT WERE IN GRANDY OAKS.
UM, ONE THING I WOULD POINT OUT IS, UH, THE REED GROUP, IT, I THINK THIS HAD MENTIONED THEY HAVE 96 UNITS.
IT'S REALLY 94 'CAUSE THEY GAVE FOUR TO THE, THAT TOWN HOME DEVELOPMENT ON HAMPTON LAKE BOULEVARD, UM, OR THE HAMPTON PARKWAY.
SO IT'S, IT'S 92 UNITS IS WHAT THEY HAVE REMAINING TO BE USED ANYWHERE IN BUCKWALTER.
BUT TONIGHT'S PURPOSES IS FOR ANNEXATION.
SO THEN WE WOULD SEE ANY OF THAT.
TO THAT POINT, NO ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL WOULD BE NO.
'CAUSE WE INITIALLY WERE ASKING FOR THE 53 UNITS THAT WERE ALLOWED IN GRANDI OAKS WITH THE ANNEXATION INTO THE TOWN.
AND PER COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION, WE REMOVED THAT AND RESUBMITTED WITHOUT THAT ADDITIONAL CHAIRMAN.
MAY I, AND I APOLOGIZE TO THIS, A LOT OF THE APPLICANT IS DOING THEIR PRESENTATION, BUT I, I HOPE MAYBE THAT I CAN KIND OF, UH, DIRECT SOME FOCUS AND ALSO ADDRESS SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT SEEM TO BE OUTSTANDING AND JUST FROM A, A HIGH LEVEL TO KIND OF EXPLAIN WHAT'S GOING ON.
'CAUSE I DO KNOW WE HAVE A NEW, WE HAVE A NEW MEMBER OF THE COMMISSION AND THIS IS NOW TOUGH OF AN APPLICATION STATE.
SO FOR YOUR, UH, MAIDEN VOYAGE OUT HERE, IT'S A TOUGH ONE.
DO Y'ALL, DO YOU MIND? YES, PLEASE.
SO AS, UM, AND THIS IS, THIS IS SIX DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS.
I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH FROM A HIGH LEVEL WHAT EACH ONE OF THOSE IS AND WHY THIS HAS TO HAPPEN.
SO THE FIRST ONE IS THE CONCEPT PLAN AND AMENDMENT TO THE CONCEPT PLAN IS THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
Y'ALL, Y'ALL CONTROL THE CONCEPT, THE, THE CONCEPT PLAN FOR, EXCUSE ME, NOT CONCEPT PLAN, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON.
AND THAT'S TO GIVE A GENERAL FRAMEWORK OF HOW THE ENTIRETY OF THE TOWN SHOULD DEVELOP FROM WHERE YOUR DEN YOU KNOW, YOUR DENSITY, UH, SHOULD BE FOCUSED AND WHERE YOUR COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR SHOULD BE.
AND A GENERAL IDEA OF WHERE YOUR, UH, DEVELOPMENT NEEDS TO BE HEADED.
AND IT IS RENEW, IT IS REVIEWED BY Y'ALL EVERY 10, EVERY 10 YEARS, AND EVERY FIVE YEARS, UH, AS PART OF A PROCESS AND HAS ALL THESE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS FROM AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO TRANSPORTATION.
AND IT'S JUST GET, AGAIN, HELPS GUIDE YOU WITH YOUR DECISION MAKING ON MORE PARTICULAR,
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UM, ZONING MATTERS.THE SECOND ONE IS THE ANNEXATION REQUEST.
SO THESE PROPERTIES, UH, ARE IN UNINCORPORATED BEAUFORT COUNTY RIGHT NOW.
THEY WANT TO BRING THEM INTO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON UNDER SOUTH CAROLINA LAW.
IF THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY APPROACHES THE TOWN ABOUT ANNEXING IN, IN HIM, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH A LOT OF THE COMPLICATED PROCEDURES WHERE YOU SEE WITH, YOU KNOW, UH, CONTESTED ANNEXATION OR, YOU KNOW, 25% OWNERS.
SO THIS IS A HUNDRED PERCENT OWNER ANNEXATION THEY'VE REQUESTED.
AND Y'ALL HAVE TO REVIEW THAT APPLICATION AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO TOWN COUNCIL AS TO WHETHER YOU BELIEVE THIS PROPERTY SHOULD BE ANNEXED INTO THE TOWN.
SO, UH, THE NEXT THING WOULD BE A TEXT AMENDMENT TO US CALLED THE BUCK WALTER PLANS UNIT DEVELOPMENT TO CREATE A NEW LAND USE TRACK THROUGHOUT THE BUCK.
WALTER, UH, PUD, THERE ARE VARIOUS LAND USE TRACKS FROM BUCK WALTER COMMONS TO, UM, A HANDFUL, A HANDFUL OF OTHERS.
BUT INSTEAD OF CREATING, YOU KNOW, A, A NEW P WHAT THEY'RE WANTING TO DO AND WHAT THEY'VE REQUESTED IS TO CREATE A NEW LAND USE TRACK THAT ALLOWS, UH, A SERIES OF DIFFERENT POTENTIAL USES FOR THE PROPERTY.
THOSE INCLUDE RESIDENTIAL, THEY INCLUDE COMMERCIAL, THEY INCLUDE SOME, UM, MINIMAL INDUSTRIAL, I THINK FROM, FROM WHAT I SAW.
BUT, UH, VERY, VERY MINIMAL FROM AN INDUSTRIAL STANDPOINT.
UH, BUT IT'S MOSTLY COMMERCIAL MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL.
AS PART OF THAT, THEY ARE NOT REQUESTING ANY ADDITIONAL UNITS BE BROUGHT INTO THE TOWN.
THEY'RE USING THE EXISTING DENSITY THAT'S ALREADY PROVIDED IN THE BUCK WATER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND NOT ASKING FOR ANY ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL.
THEY ARE ASKING FOR 32 ACRES OF GENERAL COMMERCIAL, WHICH CORRELATES WITH THE 32 ACRES OF HIGH GROUND THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE BRINGING IN.
THE NEXT ONE IS THE ZONING MAP AMENDMENT.
SO IF THEY, IF YOU DO DECIDE TO ANNEX THIS IN, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, YOU NEED A BASE ZONING DISTRICT.
YOU NEED SOMETHING TO, UM, YOU KNOW, TO REGULATE THE DEVELOPMENT.
THIS, UH, WHAT YOU'RE GONNA CONSIDER OVER THE FOURTH, FOURTH ITEM IS THAT LEARNING MAP.
AND THAT'S GOING TO SHOW AS PART OF THE, THE BUCK WALKER P AND THE GRAND GRANDIOSE GONNA
'CAUSE THERE'S AN OVERALL CONCEPT PLAN.
THAT'S ONE OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT AND A LOT HAVE HAVING TO DO WITH THE ACCESS POINTS.
THAT CONCEPT PLAN AND WHAT THE DETAIL THAT'S SHOWN ON IT, UH, IS, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT OF A SUBJECT IS SUBJECT TO A LITTLE BIT OF NEGOTIATION AND DEBATE BECAUSE THE CONCEPT PLAN FRAMES WHAT HAPPENS AT THE MASTER PLAN LEVEL AND WHAT HAPPENS AT THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN LEVEL.
AS YOU KIND OF GO DOWN, YOU, ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN YOU'RE REVIEWING DEVELOPMENT PLANS IS YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE INCON CONFORMITY WITH ANY MASTER PLANS OR CONCEPT PLANS.
SO IF YOUR CONCEPT PLAN DOESN'T REQUIRE OR STATED AS A, YOU KNOW, UH, WITH SUFFICIENT SPECIFICITY, THERE IS POTENTIALLY SOME WIGGLE ROOM THERE.
AND THE BIG ONE IS, THE ONE THAT WE'VE REALLY BEEN DISCUSSING THE MOST TONIGHT IS THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT ITSELF.
SO ALL OF BUCK WALTER IS UNDER A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
THERE'S THE BUCK WALTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
THERE'VE BEEN 15, 16 AMENDMENTS TO IT, 13TH AMENDMENT TO IT.
AND IT HAS REGULATED THINGS FROM THE WILLOW RUN AREA ALL THE WAY UP TO THE INTERSECTION OF ONE 70 AND THE PARKWAYS.
UH, SO YOU HAVE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF PROPERTY THAT'S ENCOMPASSED IN THERE.
SOME OF WHAT'S BEING DISCUSSED ARE PRIOR AMENDMENTS THAT THE, UM, PROPERTY OWNER DID.
AND REALLY WHY STAFF IS GIVING YOU SO MUCH INFORMATION IS BECAUSE THIS IS COMING THROUGH AS PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AMENDMENT.
YOU HAVE MORE FLEXIBILITY IN MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO TOWN COUNCIL AS TO WHAT YOU WANT TO HAVE IN THIS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, UH, THIS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT.
'CAUSE IN REALITY, THEY'RE OPENING IT BACK UP FOR NEGOTIATION.
IF THEY WANT TO ANNEX IN AND THEY WANT TO BRING IN THE, THIS PROPERTY UNDER THE GRAND OAKS BUD, THEY HAVE TO HAVE THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AMENDED WITH THE WAY THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE APPROACHING THIS.
SO THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT DON'T PERTAIN EXACTLY TO THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY, BUT RATHER THE OVERALL REGULATION OF THE BUCK WALTER AREA.
THAT'S, UM, WHERE YOU'RE SEEING A LOT ABOUT PHASE FIVE DAYS AND PARTICULARLY THE DONATION REQUIREMENTS.
SO, UM, AS YOU GO THROUGH THIS, IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT THIS IS A, YOU KNOW, THE APPLICANT HAS APPROACHED, THEY WANT TO ANNEXED INTO THE TOWN.
THEY HAD AN IDEA FOR WHAT THEY WANTED TO DO WITH THE PROPERTY TOWN STAFF PROVIDES A RESPONSE AS TO, WELL, THESE ARE SOME AREAS THAT WE REALLY NEED TO ADDRESS IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH SOME OF THESE DEVELOPMENTS, UH, BY UNIVERSITY INVESTMENTS OR OUTSTANDING OBLIGATIONS THAT REMAIN UNMET UNDER PRIOR AMENDMENTS THAT WERE MADE.
SO A LOT OF THE, A LOT OF WHAT IS PUT INTO THAT DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT LOCKS IN NOT JUST THIS OWNER BUT FUTURE OWNERS COMMITMENTS MADE TONIGHT VERBALLY, UH, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, ARGUABLY OR BINDING ON THE CURRENT OWNER, BUT IF IT'S TRANSFERRED TO A NEW LLC OR A THIRD PARTY, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE BOUND BY VERBAL COMMITMENTS.
IT NEEDS TO BE IN WRITING, IT NEEDS TO BE OF
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RECORD.AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS THAT STAFF HAS BEEN PUSHING FOR MORE SPECIFICITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS AND THE AMENDMENTS AS THEY'RE GOING FORWARD.
UM, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE, BUT YOU'RE, I MEAN, WHAT Y'ALL ARE DOING TONIGHT IS LOOKING AT THIS, MAKING SURE IT'S, IT'S CONSISTENT WITH WHAT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE FOR THE TOWN.
TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT ADEQUATELY PROTECTS AND CONTROLS THE TOWN, EVEN THOUGH YOU DO NOT, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FINAL PRODUCT IS GONNA BE.
UM, AND THEN MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO TOWN COUNCIL AS TO WHETHER THIS IS, YOU KNOW, A GOOD PLAN OR BAD PLAN TO HAVE THIS ANNEXED IN OR DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, AMENDMENT AMENDED, WHATEVER Y'ALL, WHATEVER Y'ALL DEEM AS APPROPRIATE.
IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HERE.
UM, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO TURN IT BACK OVER TO THE APPLICANT TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THEIR RESPONSES.
UM, AND, AND I DID WANT TO JUST POINT OUT ONE OF THE, LIKE THE PROPERTY THAT'S ALREADY IN BUCKWALTER IS THE BUCK WALTER COMMONS LAND USE TRACT.
SO THE PROPERTY BEING ANNEXED IS THE GRANDI OAKS LAND USE TRACT.
AND THE ONLY REASON WE CREATED A NEW LAND USE TRACT, WE INITIALLY WERE GONNA JUST BRING IT IN AS BUCKWALTER COMMONS SO THAT IT'S CONSISTENT.
IT WAS BASED ON OUR INTENT TO ANNEX APPLICATION AT TOWN COUNCIL WHERE THEY WANTED TO RESTRICT SOME OF THE USES THAT WERE ALLOWED IN BUCK WALTER COMMONS.
LIKE FOR INSTANCE, IT WAS LIKE BIG BOX WAREHOUSES, JUNKYARDS, RV PARK, AMUSEMENT PARK.
SO TO, TO HER POINT, THEIR POINT HERE ON G UM, THE WASTEWATER, SEWAGE FACILITIES, THAT'S, WE'RE, WE'RE OKAY WITH THAT.
THE OUTDOOR GO-KART RACING FOR THE TREE FARM FOREST MANAGEMENT AREA.
WE WOULD LIKE TO MAINTAIN THE CIVIC CULTURE RIGHTS THAT ARE IN THE BUCKWALTER PUD.
UM, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT MEANS.
IS, IS THAT, IS THAT PROHIBIT THAT USE? I THINK THEY'RE REMOVING, THEY'RE RECOMMENDING TO REMOVE THAT PROHIBITION SO THAT YOU'LL HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO IT.
THE 13TH AMENDMENT, THERE'S A LIST OF PROHIBITED USE.
AND THEN I GUESS ITEM FI DID WANT TO REVISIT, UM, AND BRIE IF YOU COULD DISTRIBUTE A COPY OF THAT RECORDED AGREEMENT, THAT WOULD BE GREAT THAT WE CAN LOOK THROUGH THAT, THAT ACTUALLY PART ON THE STAFF, THE STAFF REPORT.
I DID TRY TO PRINT SOME OF IT, BUT IT WAS LIKE 490 PAGES.
UM, NOW I, I WOULD SAY THAT WE'RE, WE'VE STATED IT BEFORE, BUT THE APPLICANT IS WILLING TO DONATE THE RIGHT OF WAY OF THE BUCK WALTER PARKWAY IF IT OR THE BLUFFTON PARKWAY IF IT OCCURS.
BUT THE COUNTY HAS SAID THEY'RE NOT BUILDING IT.
IT'S NOT IN THEIR CIP PROGRAM.
I KNOW THE TOWN IS LOOKING AT TUESDAY OR THE TUESDAY AFTER, OR THE TUESDAY AFTER.
AND IT'S BEEN 19 YEARS SINCE THIS WAS, HAS BEEN DISCUSSED.
SO THAT IF I, IF IT IS ALLOWABLE, WE WILL DO THAT.
IF I COULD, I WOULDN'T FIGHT THAT BATTLE RIGHT HERE.
UH, WE'RE MORE THAN LIKELY GONNA RECOMMEND THAT THAT GOES ON TO COUNCIL SO THEY CAN WRESTLE WITH THAT WITH YOU.
I MEAN, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.
AND THAT GIVES YOU TIME TO PREPARE AN ARGUMENT AS TO WHY YOU THINK IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO DO IT YOUR WAY THAN THAN WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE IN WRITING.
ANYTHING ELSE FROM ANYONE? I, I'LL, I'LL WAIT TILL THE END.
THAT'S, THAT'S ALL THAT WE HAVE.
ALRIGHT, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? EVERYBODY'S CLEAR? CLEAR? UM, DO YOU WANNA BRING SOMETHING OUT? I, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
MY PHILOSOPHY IS, IS WE FEEL THAT WE CAN, IF WE FEEL THAT WE CAN HAVE INPUT AND CONTROL ON HAVING A RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT INCREASING RESIDENTIAL DENSITY AND WITH DECREASING DENSITY, WHETHER IT'S RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL, I ALWAYS FEEL THAT THAT'S A BETTER CHOICE.
AND I LOOK AT, I LOOK AT GRANDI OAKS AND I'M GONNA, I MEAN, THERE'S NO WAY AROUND IT.
I'M GONNA PICK ON THE COUNTY FOR THIS BECAUSE THIS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND IS WHY I WAS DISTRACTED FOR A MINUTE.
THAT GRANDI OAKS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WAS IN 1998.
IT SPEAKS TO TAKING LAKE POINT DRIVE THROUGH TO OLD MILLER ROAD.
IT SPEAKS TO PROPERLY BUILDING ACCESS ROADS.
IT SPEAKS TO A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT NEVER HAPPENED.
MY ENCOURAGEMENT IS, IS IF WE CAN PROPERLY ANNEX THIS
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INTO THE TOWN, WE CAN WORK WITH THE DEVELOPER TO MAKE SURE PROPER THINGS HAPPEN.LIKE THE ACCESS ROAD WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, LIKE NOT PUTTING ANY ADDITIONAL RESIDENTIAL IN THAT.
GRANNY OAKS STILL HAS SOME RESIDENTIAL TIED INTO IT.
AND JUST, JUST SO WE AS PLANNING COMMISSION HEAR THIS, THE ORIGINAL GRANDI OAKS DEVELOPMENT ALLOWED FOR 122 ACRES OF COMMERCIAL.
NOW GRANTED, IT'S THE HIGH GROUND OF WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT PUTTING IN, BUT AT ONE POINT IN TIME IT COULD ADD 122, WE'RE REDUCING THAT TO 32 IN THIS AGREEMENT.
SO TO ME IT'S REDUCED DENSITY, WE CAN INCREASE CONNECTIVITY.
WE'RE NOT, 96 UNITS IS NOT ENOUGH TO BUILD ANOTHER APARTMENT COMPLEX.
UM, IT COULD BE ENOUGH TO DO MIXED USE, UM, TOWN HOMES ABOVE COMMERCIAL.
IT COULD BE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT IT WON'T BE ANOTHER, UH, IT COULD BE SMALLER SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AT SOME PART I'M COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
I DON'T KNOW HOW THE REST OF COMMISSION FEELS.
UM, WHAT I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH IS THE TRACK RECORD OF THIS PROPERTY THAT WAS OUTSIDE OF THE TOWN.
SO THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY ON THAT.
I HAVE A QUESTION JUST TO SUPPOSE THE, UM, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMPONENT, UM, KNOWING THAT THIS WASN'T A REQUIREMENT PRIOR TO, BUT THIS IS NOW UNDER OUR, ARE I WANNA SAY CONTROL TO, TO ADD THAT TO IT ON THE RECOMMENDATION OR RECOMMEND THAT.
I MEAN, 20% OF 92 IS 18 UNITS.
IS THAT SOMETHING RECOMMEND THAT TO TOWN COUNCIL THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION WOULD SUPPORT AND LEAN TOWARD? I WOULD SUPPORT THAT.
WELL, SUCCINCTLY IT WAS A DIRECTIVE FROM COUNCIL THAT THEY WANT TO SEE 20% AS MUCH AS THEY CAN.
AND IF WE THROW IT BACK TO THEM, THAT'S A CONVERSATION THEY CAN TAKE UP AND DECIDE IF THEY WANT TO DO DIFFERENTLY.
SOMEONE WANTS TO TRY A RECOMMENDATION.
THE LAST THING, SO YOU'VE GOT THE, UM, THE HANDOUT THAT YOU WERE GIVEN HAS PROPOSED MOTIONS ON IT.
I'M NOT SURE HOW YOU WANNA APPROACH IT, BUT I HAVE, WELL NEED TO BE.
I WAS GONNA ASK READ COMPLETELY OR MODIFIED OR, UM, OR DO YOU WANNA READ THEM AND WE JUST SAY WHAT RICHARDSON SAID? YEAH, ANYBODY? WHAT I WOULD, WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IF POSSIBLE, MAD CHAIR IS JUST BRIEFLY.
UM, THERE ARE THE, THE, THE LENGTHY ONES ARE THE LAST TWO, I THINK MOTIONS, THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND PLAN.
UH, I THINK FROM LISTENING TO THE APPLICANT TODAY AND FROM STAFF, THERE ARE REALLY ONLY FOUR OF THEM THAT EVEN THE APPLICANT EXPRESSED ANY SORT OF CONCERN OR HESITATION ABOUT, UH, THE OTHER ONES THEY AGREED TO IN WRITING AND OR, UM, PROVIDED ASSURANCES.
UH, THOSE WERE THE ONES DETAILING THE FRONTAGE ROAD AND INTERCONNECTIVITY COMMITMENTS, UH, FOR LAND RESERVATION AND FRONTAGE ROAD ALONG THE BL BLUFFTON PARKWAY.
UH, THAT'S GIVEN, THAT'S SUBSECTION D ON YOUR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AMENDMENT MOTION.
SO WE GET SUBSECTION D, SUBSECTION E, UH, INCORPORATION OF LANGUAGE DETAILING THE ROADWAY CONNECTION TO LAKE POINT DRIVE COMMITMENTS AND OBLIGATIONS.
I THINK THAT'S ONE WHERE THE APPLICANT HAS JUST EXPRESSED A, THEY NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO UN UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT IT IS THAT NOW'S LOOKING FOR.
LOOK AT THE OLD, THE OLD DOCUMENTS AND BE ABLE TO REVIEW THAT.
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE, UH, PLANNING COMMISSION IS INCLINED TO LI INCLUDE THAT AS A CONDITION, UH, INCORPORATION OF THE LANGUAGE COMMITTEE, THE EXTENSION OF RIDES FOR THE THREE ACCESS POINTS FROM THE B PARKWAY TO THE NORTH, THE NEW NORTHERN BOUNDARY OF GRAND OAKS.
THAT'S ANOTHER ONE WHERE IT SOUNDS LIKE, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IT SOUNDS LIKE THE COMMISSION WAS SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.
UH, BUT ANOTHER ONE WHERE THE APPLICANT HAS JUST EXPRESSED A, THEY NEED TO A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO ENSURE THAT THAT'S, THAT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THEM.
AND THEN FINALLY, THE INCORPORATION OF THE LANGUAGE REGARDING THE THE FIVE D DONATIONS.
UM, AND THAT, THAT SOUNDS TO ME, BASED OFF OF WHAT THE APPLICANT HAS SAID,
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THAT IT'S REALLY JUST GONNA BE A MATTER OF WORDSMITHING THAT IN THE 13TH AMENDMENT.SO THAT MAYBE IS NOT A IMMEDIATE DONATION, BUT RATHER AN UNCONDITIONAL COMMITMENT TO DONATE ONCE THE, ONCE THE FUNDING IS SECURED FOR THAT.
AND IT'S RECORDED IN LAST, LAST FOR IN PERPETUITY.
UH, AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING, I DON'T THINK IN SUGGESTED MOTION ABOUT THE 20%.
SO THAT WILL NEED TO BE ADDED.
UM, MY RECOMMENDATION IS SINCE THERE AREN'T GONNA BE VERY MANY MODIFICATIONS TO THIS, UM, IF Y'ALL COULD START WITH, UH, MOTIONS ONE AND TWO AND THREE SINCE THOSE ARE VERY SHORT AND THEN I'LL SEE IF WE CAN'T JUST ADOPT AS WRITTEN AND PROPOSE BY STAFF AND HAVE THIS INCORPORATED IN THE PACKAGE FOR FIVE AND SIX IN ADDITION TO WITH THE ADDITION OF THE 20%.
SO DO YOU WANT TO TAKE A STAB? TAKE A STAB DEEP BREATH.
UM, I MOVE TO FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BLUEPRINT BLUFFTON TO CHANGE BEAUFORT COUNTY TAX MAPS AND FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FROM CIVIC TO INSTITUTIONAL TO MEDIUM DENSITY COMMERCIAL.
FOR THESE SECOND, THESE ARE ALL INDEPENDENT.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
NUMBER TWO, I MOVE FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL A RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT OF THE BUCK WALTER PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT TEXT TO INCORPORATE PROVISIONS FOR A NEW LAND USE TRACK TO BE KNOWN AS THE GRANDI OAKS COMMON LAND USE TRACK.
I'LL SECOND ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
NUMBER THREE, I MOVE FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED ANNEXATION OF GRANDI OAKS PROPERTY CONSISTING OF 65.592 ACRES, MORE OR LESS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BUCKWALTER PARKWAY AND LAKE POINT DRIVE INTERSECTION TO THE WEST OF THE RETREAT AT GRANDY OAKS AND BARING BUFORD TAX MAPS PORTION AND TO THE TOWN OF BLUFFS CORPORATE LIMITS.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
NO OPPOSED? NUMBER FOUR, I MOVE FORWARD TO TOWN COUNCIL A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED ZONING MAP AMENDMENT OF APPROXIMATELY 65.592 ACRES, MORE OR LESS LOCATED AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF BUCK WALTER PARKWAY LAKE POINT DRIVE INTERSECTION INTO THE WEST OF RETREAT GRANDY OAKS.
THERE IN BEAUFORT TAX MAPS, UH, AS PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT BUCKWALTER PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
UM, UH, FOR THIS FIFTH ONE, AS Y'ALL CAN SEE IT, IT IS LENGTHY.
AND JUST FOR FOUR PAGES FOR FIVE CONVENIENCE, UM, WHAT THE, MY RECOMMENDATION, UH, MY RECOMMENDED MOTION WOULD BE, UH, I MOVE TO FORWARD TOWN COUNCIL A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL WITH CONDITIONS OF THE PROPOSED AND AN AMENDMENT OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE BUCK WALTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH, WITH THE CONDITIONS AS SET FORTH IN THE, UH, STAFF.
THE STAFF DOCUMENT ENTITLED GRANDY OAKS APPLICATIONS PROPOSED MOTIONS WITH THE ADDITION OF SUBSECTION L, WHICH WILL STATE INCORPORATION OF LANGUAGE REQUIRING THAT ANY RESIDENTIAL UNITS BUILT ON THE PROPERTY CONSIST OF NO LESS THAN 20% DEDICATED AFFORDABLE HOUSING MOVED.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.
AND THEN GOT ONE MORE? THAT WAS FINE.
THIS IS GONNA BE THE, THIS IS GONNA BE THE EXACT, THE EXACT SAME MOTION FOR THE MOST PART.
UH, I MOVE TO FOR TOWN COUNCIL AND RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF CONDITIONS PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE BUCK LODGE PLAN UNIT DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT PLAN ASSET FORTH IN THE STAFF REPORT ENTITLED GRAND EGGS APPLICATIONS PROPOSED MOTIONS, THOSE CONDITIONS WITH THE ADDITION OF A SUBSECTION L STATED INCORPORATION OF LANGUAGE REQUIRING THAT ANY RESIDENTIAL UNITS BUILT ON THE PROPERTY CONSISTS OF NO LESS THAN 20% DEDICATED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
SECOND, SOMEBODY HAS TO MOVE IT.
OH YEAH, SOMEBODY'S GOTTA MOVE.
WHO'S MOTION? I'M MOTION TO MOVE.
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ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR? AYE.BUCKEYE, BUCK ISLAND ROAD REZONING REQUEST PLANNING WORKSHOP.
UM, A REQUEST BY THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON ON BEHALF OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS, ROSE KITTY AND FERRELL GAS FOR APPROVAL AND AMENDMENT TO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON OFFICIAL ZONING MAP TO REZONE TWO PARCELS FROM THE RESIDENTIAL GENERAL LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM STAFF THAT AND THEN, UM, WOULD LIKE TO ALSO, IF THERE'S ANY PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK SINCE IT IS A WORKSHOP, IF THAT'S ALRIGHT WITH EVERYONE.
THIS IS A WORKSHOP, EXCUSE ME, BUCK ISLAND ROAD, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AMENDMENT AND ZONING MAP AMENDMENT.
UH, THIS IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM THAT THIS IS, THIS IS REFERENCING THE REQUIREMENT IN OUR UDO FOR A PLANNING COMMISSION WORKSHOP FOR CERTAIN APPLICATIONS, INCLUDING THIS ONE ON JUNE 17TH, 2024.
THE APPLICANT, THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON, ON BEHALF OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS, ROSE CITY AND FARRELL GAS INCORPORATED SUBMITTED APPLICATIONS REQUESTING APPROVAL OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON ZONING MAP.
I SHOULD POINT OUT IT'S GOING FORWARD RIGHT NOW WITH THE, THERE'S TWO PARCELS INVOLVED.
UH, THE PARCEL THAT IS OWNED BY FERAL GAS INCORPORATED, WE'RE TRYING, STILL TRYING TO TRACK DOWN THE OWNER OF IT.
I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD HAVE A PROBLEM WITH, WITH WHAT THE TOWN IS TRYING TO BRING THROUGH.
BUT, UM, WE DO NOT HAVE THEIR, THEIR, UM, THEIR SUBMITTAL ON THE APPLICATION AS OF YET.
WE'RE TRYING TO REACH OUT AND GET TO THE RESPONSIBLE PARTY FOR THAT.
UH, THE TWO PAR TWO SUBJECT PARCELS TOTALED 1.38 ACRES.
THE PARCELS ARE CONTIGUOUS AND LOCATED ON BUCK ISLAND ROAD, APPROXIMATELY 370 FEET NORTH OF THE BUCK ISLAND ROAD, SIMMONS ROAD INTERSECTION.
THE APPLICANT IS REQUESTING TO AMEND THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION FOR THE SUBJECT PROPERTIES FROM SUBURBAN LIVING DESIGNATION TO NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER.
THE APPLICANT'S ALSO REQUESTING AN AMENDMENT TO THE OFFICIAL ZONING ORDINANCE FOR THE TOWN OF BLUFFTON TO REZONE THE TWO PARCELS.
FROM RESIDENTIAL GENERAL ZONING DISTRICT TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE DISTRICT.
HERE IS THE LOCATION OF THE TWO PARCELS.
THE ONE TO THE WEST IS THE FERAL GAS PROPERTY.
UM, THE, WE HAD THE BUCK ISLAND SIMMONS V NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN, UH, ALONG THIS AREA THAT THIS WAS IN THE SCOPE OF THE PLAN.
UH, WHAT CAME OUTTA THE PLAN, AND I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, LEMME BRING IT BACK UP, WAS, UH, WAS A, WAS AN ACTION PLAN, WAS WITHIN THE OVERALL NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN.
THE ACTION PLAN WERE IDENTIFIED ACTION ITEMS THAT, THAT, UH, THAT, THAT WE SHOULD TAKE PER, PER THE, PER THE PLAN.
UM, NUMBER TWO, UNDER THE LAND USE AND ZONING CATEGORY WAS EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF REZONING TWO RESIDENTIAL ZONED PROPERTIES WITH LONGTIME COMMERCIAL NON-CONFORMING USES ON BUCK ISLAND ROAD TO AN APPROPRIATE COMMERCIAL ZONING DISTRICT.
AND THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S THESE TWO PARCELS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UM, THEY HAVE BEEN, THEY HAVE BEEN USED AS COMMERCIAL NON-CONFORMING, UH, FOR DECADES.
UH, RIGHT HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT.
IT KIND OF, KIND OF, LEMME SEE IF I GOT HIS WORD EFFECT.
THIS IS THE PROPERTY AT NIGHTTIME.
UM, THIS IS IDENTIFIED AS YOU CAN, AS YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S SURROUNDED TO, TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE EAST WITH, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER AS THE FUTURE LAND USE DESIGNATION.
BUT THEY ARE IDENTIFIED AS SUBURBAN LIVING LAND USE DESIGNATION.
SO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT IS REQUESTING THAT THEY BE RE-DESIGNATED FROM SUB SUBURBAN LIVING FUTURE LAND USE TO NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER.
SEE? GOOD, WE DIDN'T GET BLACK OUT THERE.
UH, THE ZONING MAP AMENDMENT, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE ZONING TO THE SOUTH AND TO THE WEST IS, UH, LIGHT INDUSTRIAL.
THE RECOMMENDATION HERE IS TO GO FROM RESIDENTIAL GENERAL, UH, TO, TO THE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE.
DISTRICT RESIDENTIAL GENERAL IS INTENDED TO PROVIDE FOR MODERATE DENSITY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS.
IT ASSIST ACCRUAL INCLUDE A RANGE OF DWELLINGS TYPES IN AN INTEGRATED NEIGHBORHOOD SETTING WITH OTHER CIVIL AND RECREATIONAL CIVIC AND RECREATIONAL USES.
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ON THE PROPERTY AS WE SPEAK, NOR THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES TO THE SOUTH AND UH, EAST.THE PROPOSAL IS TO GO TO LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONE DISTRICT AND THAT'S INTENDED TO PROVIDE LOCATIONS FOR LIGHT INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, ASSEMBLY, HIGH TECHNOLOGY, ET CETERA.
UH, PLANNING COMMISSION AND TOWN COUNCIL SHALL CONSIDER THE CRITERIA SET FORTH IN SECTION 3, 3, 3 AND ASSESSING THE APPLICATION FOR A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT.
AND SIMILARLY, UH, SECTION 3, 4 3 OF THE UDO AND ASSESSING AN APPLICATION FOR ZONING MAP AMENDMENT SECTION 3, 4, 3.
UH, NEXT STEPS HAD A PRE-APPLICATION MEETING ON JUNE 6TH.
PLANNING COMMISSION WORKSHOP IS TONIGHT.
WE WOULD BE COMING BACK IN AUGUST FOR OUR PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING AND RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL, UM, TO, WE, I DIDN'T EVEN PUT DOWN THE DATES, BUT UH, TO BE DETERMINED, THEY WOULD GO TO TOWN COUNCIL FOR A FIRST READING FOLLOWED UP BY A SECOND TOWN COUNCIL MEETING, WHICH WOULD BE A PUBLIC HEARING AND SECOND FINAL READING.
AND I CAN GO BACK TO ANYTHING YOU MAY HAVE QUESTIONS ON OR IF THERE'S ANYONE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK, ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC LIKE TO SPEAK, LIKE TO SPEAK, COME FORWARD.
STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
I FEEL AND WELCOME BY THE WAY, IS YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
37 STOCK FARM ROAD, BLUFFTON, SOUTH CAROLINA.
AND LET, IT'S REALLY JUST MORE CONVERSATIONAL AND I'VE DECIDED, I THINK I'M THE HISTORIAN NOW.
UM, CHARLIE, YOU AND I PROBABLY WRONG COUNSEL, WHEN THIS GOT ANNEXED IN AND WHEN IT WAS ANNEXED IN, IN 2004, WHAT YOU SAW A FEW MINUTES AGO WAS A 10TH OF WHAT WE SAW EVERY COUNCIL MEETING.
SO TO OVERLOOK, AND WE SHOULD HAVE RIDDEN, RIDDEN THROUGH A LOT OF THESE AREAS, BUT TO OVERLOOK TWO AREAS THAT GOT ZONE RESIDENTIAL BUT HAD A SUB, HAD A PROPANE COMPANY ON IT WITH BIG TANKS, A WAREHOUSE, AND I THINK A DAYCARE BAD BATTLE MEAT.
SO I THINK IT'S RIGHTING OR WRONG, THIS HAS BEEN REALLY A PASSION OF MINE FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS TO LOOK AT THE 10 TO 12 NON-CONFORMING PROPERTIES TO GIVE THESE RESIDENT, THESE OWNERS THE ABILITY TO AT LEAST RENT TO OTHER USES.
SO WHEN YOU GET A ZONING, UM, VERIFICATION LETTER ON THIS, THIS SITE, IT CAN ONLY BE USED BY THE PEOPLE WHO WERE IN IT AT THE TIME.
SO CAR REPAIR AND I THINK THERE'S A DAYCARE AND A TOWING COMPANY, BUT WE HAVE SO MANY MORE USES TODAY.
LANDSCAPE LAY DOWN YARDS, YOU KNOW, JUST SO MUCH MORE.
AND THESE HOMEOWNERS AREN'T ALLOWED TO RENT THEIR PROPERTY IN THAT WAY.
SO WE DID JCS, KIT, KITTY'S COOK SHOP WITH Y'ALL.
UM, THIS HAS BEEN ON STEVENS BOARD FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS TO BRING, AND I THINK WE JUST NEEDED TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS WITH BUCK ISLAND SIMMONS.
SO, UM, I'M HERE FOR ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS AND REALLY SUPPORTING MORE ROWS.
UM, AND I THINK FERAL GAS, LIKE YOU SAY, WOULD BE THRILLED TO KNOW THEY'RE LEGALLY CONFORMING.
I DO HAVE A MAP ON THE RETREAT AT GRANDY OAKS AND I'M GONNA FIND IT TOMORROW.
THOSE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT THEIR, SAW THE ROAD THAT WE CONNECT TO BLUFFTON PARKWAY.
SO IT WAS ON THAT MASTER PLAN, BUT Y'ALL PASSED IT, BUT IT'S STILL A PRIVATE ROAD.
I KNOW, BUT I'M JUST, I'M JUST TELLING YOU WHAT.
ANYWAY, THANK Y'ALL AND THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS WORKSHOP ITEM.
AND IF I COULD JUST AS IT WAS ACTUALLY RIGHT BEFORE I WAS ON COUNCIL THAT SIMMONS VILLE AND BUCK ISLAND GOT, UH, ANNEXED IN.
BUT THIS IS, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOOK FOR GUYS IS ARE WE SETTING A PRECEDENT IN THE WRONG WAY? AND I DON'T THINK WE'RE SETTING A PRECEDENT BY MAKING TWO COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES THAT WERE ALWAYS COMMERCIAL THAT MISTAKENLY APPARENTLY GOT ANNEXED IN AS RESIDENTIAL TO WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE.
BECAUSE THE QUESTION WE HAVE TO ASK IS, UP THE ROAD, IS THERE ANOTHER ISSUE WHERE SOMEBODY'S GONNA COME TO US AND DO THAT? AND PER STAFF, THERE REALLY ISN'T ANYTHING.
AND THIS, THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN WHAT IT, WHAT IT SHOULD BE.
OKAY, SO THIS WILL BE COMING BACK TO YOU NEXT MONTH FOR A RECOMMENDATION.
SO THIS IS JUST A WORKSHOP AND IF I PUT EVERYTHING RIGHT, IT MIGHT BE ALL THE COMMISSIONERS ARE IN AGREEMENT.
UM, LET'S SEE, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE, UH, AGENDA TONIGHT THAT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT? YOU NEED TO DRAG THIS OUT FOR ANOTHER HOUR.
NO, I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
YOU WANNA DISCUSS THAT? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
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THANKS FOR WATCHING BEAUFORT COUNTY TV.CHRISTINA PORTO HAD AN ARGUMENT WITH HER PARENTS.
UH, THE NIGHT SHE DISAPPEARED, HER MOTHER REPORTED HER HER MISSING.
UH, CHRISTINA WENT TO THE PAYPHONE AT THE BYLAW, WHICH IS A SUPERMARKET ACROSS THE STREET FROM WOODLAKE VILLAGES WHERE CHRISTINA LIVED CALLED A FRIEND TO COME PICK HER UP AND TOLD HER TO MEET HER AT THE POOL AREA OF WOODLAKE VILLAS.
WHEN THE FRIEND ARRIVED TO PICK CHRISTINA UP, SHE FOUND A RED SWEATER.
UH, WE KNOW FROM THE INVESTIGATION THAT CHRISTINA HAD A STRAINED RELATIONSHIP AT HOME.
UH, SHE DID NOT TAKE ANY BELONGINGS WITH HER.
SO THE CIRCUMSTANCES SURROUNDING HER DISAPPEARANCE ARE EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS.
THREE-YEAR-OLD PAUL BAKKER WAS REPORTED MISSING BY HIS STEPMOTHER FROM THEIR SHELL POINT HOME IN 1987.
THE STEPMOTHER BECAME A PERSON OF INTEREST IN HIS DISAPPEARANCE.
EARLY ON THERE WAS EVIDENCE THAT, UH, SHE BEAT PAUL'S OLDER SISTER.
SHE WAS LATER CHARGED AND CONVICTED OF THAT, AND THEN MOVED TO FLORIDA WHERE SHE WAS ALSO CONVICTED OF ABDUCTING ANOTHER CHILD AND IS CURRENTLY SERVING TIME IN FLORIDA.
PAUL'S NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE 37-YEAR-OLD.
APRIL V WAS REPORTED MISSING FROM HILTON ISLAND IN 1991.
SHE HAD A FIGHT WITH HER BOYFRIEND.
SHE WAS LAST SEEN AT A CHURCH WHERE SHE RECEIVED MONEY FOR A BUS TICKET.
SHE HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES.
KAY HAMILTON WAS REPORTED MISSING IN YEE BY HER GRANDMOTHER IN NOVEMBER OF 1995.
THE GRANDMOTHER REPORTED THAT SHE HADN'T SEEN KAY IN A COUPLE WEEKS AND BECAME CONCERNED.
KAY HAD SOME MEDICAL CONDITIONS THAT NEEDED ATTENTION.
AN EXAMINATION OF KAY'S HOUSE REVEALED THAT A CRIME SCENE HAD BEEN CLEANED UP.
IT IS BELIEVED THAT HER DISAPPEARANCE IS EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS.
SEAN JONES AND TOBY BING WERE REPORTED MISSING BY FAMILY MEMBERS IN 1999 FROM HILTON ISLAND.
IN THE INVESTIGATION, IT WAS LEARNED THAT THEY WERE TO MEET WITH SOME SUSPICIOUS CHARACTERS IN BLUFFTON.
THAT WAS THE LAST TIME ANYBODY SAW SEAN AND TOBY.
ALSO IN THE INVESTIGATION, A CRIME SCENE WAS LOCATED AT A HIGH ON ROAD RESIDENCE IN BLUFFTON.
BULLET HOLES WERE FOUND IN THE SIDE OF THE TRAILER IN A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF BLOOD THAT MATCHED TOBY BING WAS FOUND BENEATH THE PORCH.
ATM FOOTAGE FROM DOWNTOWN SAVANNAH, GEORGIA REVEALED THAT SEAN JONES TRUCK HAD BEEN DROPPED OFF BY UNKNOWN SUSPECTS THAT THE NIGHT OF THE DISAPPEARANCE, A SUBJECT WAS CHARGED IN THE MURDER OF TOBY BANE.
BASED ON THAT INFORMATION, THOSE CHARGES ULTIMATELY WERE DROPPED AND THAT SUBJECT WAS CONVICTED INTO FEDERAL COURT AND ACTUALLY IS STILL SERVING TIME TODAY.
OTHER PERSONS OF INTEREST WERE ALSO CONVICTED IN A FEDERAL CONSPIRACY CASE.
BASED ON THE INFORMATION THAT WE OBTAINED DURING THE INVESTIGATION, IT'S CLEAR THAT, UH, SEAN AND TOBY, UH, MET A VERY VIOLENT END.
AS OF THIS POINT, WE HAVE NOT FOUND SEAN AND TOBY.
ON MARCH 4TH, 2008, JOHN ELIZABETH CALBERT, WHO OWNED THE HARBORTOWN YACHT BASIN, WERE REPORTED MISSING BY ELIZABETH'S BROTHER IN ATLANTA.
IN INVESTIGATING THE CASE, UH, WE DISCOVERED THAT THEY HAD IN FACT HAD A MEETING WITH DENNIS GERWIN, WHO WAS THE ACCOUNTANT AT THE CLUB GROUP IN PONS.
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DENNIS GERWIN HANDLED THE FINANCES FOR THE CALVERTS AND THEY HAD DISCOVERED THAT HE HAD BEEN EMBEZZLING MONEY FROM THEIR ACCOUNTS.ELIZABETH HAD A MEETING ON SUNDAY, WHICH WOULD'VE BEEN MARCH 2ND, 2008, AND THEY WERE SCHEDULED TO HAVE A MEETING, UH, JOHN AND ELIZABETH WITH DENNIS GERING AT HIS OFFICE AT THE CLUB GROUP IN INE CENTER ON MARCH 3RD.
AT ABOUT FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON, IT WAS LEARNED THAT DENNIS GERING HAD RUN OFF HIS EMPLOYEES FROM THE OFFICE.
SO HE WAS ALONE WHEN JOHN CALVERT, UH, APPEARED SOMETIME AFTER 5:00 PM ELIZABETH WAS RUNNING LATE, BUT WE DO BELIEVE THAT SHE ALSO JOINED JOHN AT THAT OFFICE.
AND DENNIS IN THAT MEETING, IN INTERVIEWING DENNIS GERING, HE ADVISED THAT THEY HAD WENT TO DINNER WITHOUT HIM AFTER THE MEETING AND THEY WERE FINE WHEN THEY LEFT.
IT WAS LEARNED THAT PRIOR TO THE MEETING ON MONDAY, MARCH 3RD, 2008, DENNIS GERING HAD WENT TO GRAY CO HARDWARE ON HILTON HEAD ISLAND AND PURCHASED COMMERCIAL GRADE DROP CLOTHS.
IT WAS ALSO LEARNED THAT AFTER THE MEETING WITH THE CALVERTS, THAT DENNIS APPEARED AT THE CBS PHARMACY ON THE SOUTH END OF
WHEN CONFRONTED WITH THAT INFORMATION, DENNIS GERWIN SAID THAT HE HAD CUT HIS HAND ON A WINE BOTTLE, BUT THERE WAS NO BROKEN WINE BOTTLE AT HIS HOUSE.
DENNIS HAD AN INTERESTING CUT ON HIS HAND FOLLOWING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE CALIBERS, HE HAD WHAT'S CALLED SLIDE BITE.
IT'S A LACERATION THAT GOES ALONG THE WEB OF THE HAND, WHICH IS COMMONLY CAUSED BY AN SEMI-AUTOMATIC PISTOL.
A HOLSTER WAS RECOVERED IN DENNIS GROWING'S HOUSE, WHICH WE LATER FOUND OUT BELONGED TO A 22 CALIBER SEMI-AUTOMATIC BERETTA HANDGUN.
THAT HANDGUN HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND, NOR HAVE THE CALVERTS FAMILY MEMBERS OF MARGUERITE AMAZON REPORTER ARE MISSING.
IN 2013, UH, FAMILY MEMBERS INDICATED THAT, UH, SHE HAD BEEN AT A PARTY THE NIGHT BEFORE, UH, HER DISAPPEARANCE, UH, WITH HER LIVE-IN BOYFRIEND WHO HAD ALSO DISAPPEARED SUSPICIOUSLY.
THERE WERE SIGNS OF A STRUGGLE IN THE HOUSE WHERE THERE MAY HAVE BEEN SOME DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
THERE WAS ALSO JEWELRY FOUND OF MARGARITE AL AMAZON OUTSIDE OF THE RESIDENCE.
IN THE DAYS FOLLOWING HER DISAPPEARANCE, WE WERE ABLE TO TRACK HER BOYFRIEND TO SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
HE HAD BOUGHT A PLANE TICKET BUT FAILED TO RETURN.
TO GET ON THAT PLANE, WE FOUND A RESIDENCE HE STAYED AT IN THE GREATER SAVANNAH AREA AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE THERE ADVISED THAT HE HAD A SCRATCH ON HIS FACE THAT WAS CONSISTENT WITH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
MARGUERITE'S VEHICLE WAS ALSO FOUND IN SAVANNAH IN THAT SAME AREA ABANDONED NEAR THE KELLER FLEA MARKET.
MARGUERITE'S MOBILE TELEPHONE WAS FOUND ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD ON HIGHWAY ONE 70 COMING OUT OF BLUFFTON INTO BEAUFORT.
WE BELIEVE THAT HER BOYFRIEND FLED THE COUNTRY AND WENT BACK TO GUATEMALA WHERE HE IS FROM.
WE ENLISTED THE HELP OF THE FBI'S LEGAL ATTACHE, ALSO KNOWN AS A LEAGUE AT WHO ATTEMPTED TO GET ASSISTANCE FROM THE GUATEMALA AND AUTHORITIES WHO ADVISED THAT THERE'S CERTAIN PARTS OF GUATEMALA THE POLICE JUST WON'T GO TO.
AND IT JUST SO HAPPENS HER BOYFRIEND WAS FROM THAT AREA.
WE HAVE NOT SEEN OR HEARD FROM MARGUERITE SINCE IN 2017 KENNETH JENKINS WAS REPORTED MISSING BY HIS MOM FROM ST.
KENNETH WAS IN THE UNITED STATES ARMY, HAD JUST GOT AN OUT, WAS WORKING.
AND WE BELIEVE BASED ON OUR INVESTIGATION, WHICH WE CAN'T DISCLOSE A LOT OF DETAILS THAT, UH, FOUL PLAY'S INVOLVED IN HIS DISAPPEARANCE.
ANYONE WHO HAS INFORMATION ON ANY OF THE MISSING PERSONS WE'VE DISCUSSED IS ENCOURAGED TO CONTACT THE BEAUFORT COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE OR CRIME STOPPERS OF THE LOW COUNTRY.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR PARTNERSHIP IN THE SAFETY OF OUR COMMUNITY.