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From YouTube: Planning Commission Meeting Dec 10, 2019
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I. Approval of Minutes
Approval of the minutes of the November 12, 2019 Work Session and Regular Meeting.
II. Old Business
III. New Business
A. Application 20-20007 Annexation Request, TMP#121-16-13-001, 211 Stone Drive, by Eva Aaron.
B. Application 20-20009 Annexation Request, TMP#105-18-02-008, 1310 Evans Road
SW, by Susan H. White.
C. Request for text amendments to the Zoning Ordinance regarding uses in the Light
Industrial Zone District by Jane Page Thompson
D. Proposed amendment to the City of Aiken Traffic Management Ordinance
IV. Adjournment
A
B
A
Of
the
minutes,
second,
second,
can
you
discussion
I?
Suppose
not
all
in
favor
raise
your
hand.
Good
minutes
are
approved
as
read
no
all
business
on
the
agenda
new
business.
We
have
item
a
application:
number
20,
2,
0,
0,
0,
7,
annexation,
request
on
211,
stone,
drive;
I,
don't
see
anybody
here
to
speak
on
that
is
there
a
motion
on
that?
Mr.
C
A
There
a
second
second
discussion,
all
in
favor
Majin
posed
like
sign.
Okay,
ask
unanimous
Lee,
okay
item
B
is
application
number
20,
2,
0,
0,
0,
9
annexation
request
at
1310,
Evans
Road
by
Susan
white
I.
Don't
see
anybody
here
to
speak
on
behalf
or
against
this
proposal
or
application.
So
do
I
have
a
motion.
Yes,.
B
A
A
D
Jh
Thompson
240
Knox
Avenue
as
a
CCIM
member,
a
National
Association
of
Realtors
legislative
council
member
and
general
person,
who
represents
clients
that
want
to
do
better
things
and
Aiken
than
they
can
do
now.
This
light
industrial
zone
is
a
great
place
for
them
to
focus
on,
especially
with
the
opportunity
zone,
designated
tax
credit
opportunity
or
the
fun
opportunities
there
for
people
with
capital
gains
taxes,
so
even
the
city
and
their
own
opportunities.
Own
study
identified
one
of
the
properties
in
this
area
to
do
something
that
the
youth
table
doesn't
allow.
D
So
it
just
made
sense
to
take
the
youth
table
and
at
least
look
at
what's
already
in
the
light
industrial
zone
and
at
least
reflect
what's
there
so
that
as
realtors
sell
property
in
the
light
industrial
zone-
and
it's
got
one
use,
they
sell
it,
and
lo
and
behold
the
use
that
was
there
was
there
long
before
the
light
industrial
zoning
was
put
in
place
and
guess
what
it's
not
permitted
anymore.
You
now
can't
do
that
as
the
new
owner.
D
It
may
not
be
a
capital
gain
investment
in
the
opportunity
zone,
but
it
still
might
be
a
light
industrial
type,
investment
in
the
ache
and
expanded
downtown
footprint.
So,
as
we
look
at
what
this
light
industrial
zone
can
be,
we
wanted
to
look
at
how
it
can
serve
its
purpose
better.
Now,
in
the
examples
that
we've
had
of
what
mixed-use
possibilities
there
could
be.
You
have
somebody
this
great
group
of
girls
who
make
they
take
old
textiles.
They
they
create
clothing
out
of
them.
D
Sam
herb
is
a
big
proponent
of
these
pickle
they're
out
of
Asheville
North
Carolina
with
all
of
our
textile
industry
in
Granite
the
graniteville
area.
They
have
found
old,
sewing
machines,
old
commercial
reams
of
fabric.
They
would
love
to
have
a
place
in
Aiken
where
they
could
assemble
their
really
cool
industrial
handbags
and
aprons
and
accessories,
but
they
would
also
want
to
be
able
to
have
a
retail
store
in
the
same
footprint
as
where
they
create
their
products.
D
A
lot
like
Brae
friend,
apparel
out
on
whiskey
Road
he's
a
screen
printer,
but
he
also
sells
in
the
front
of
his
store,
but
he
creates
his
screen
printing
in
the
back
of
the
store
so
being
able
to
expand
our
abandoned
light
industrial
buildings
in
the
expanded
downtown
into
the
sort
of
multi-use
more
modern,
more
growth,
centered
types
of
development
just
make
sense
for
Aiken
to
look
at
expanding
the
opportunities
that
investors
have
with
properties
and
I
know.
In
your
work
session.
D
Ryan
you
hit
on
something
that
was
really
important,
that
you
haven't
limited
somebody's
option
by
saying.
Well,
it's
not
permitted
at
all
here's
another
option.
It
may
not
get
approved,
but
you
have
this
option
to
try
and
apply
and
I
think
that
so
often
people
who
want
to
invest
in
projects
and
Aiken
want
to
do
commercial
things
here.
They
get
excited,
they
have
the
money
and
they
have
the
idea,
but
they
get
down
the
road
only
so
far,
because
everything
is
no
not
permitted,
not
allowed,
not
possible.
D
So
I
think
the
suggestions
that
you
have
before
you
give
investors
options.
They
don't
necessarily
give
them
part
bla
approval,
like
you,
said
mr.
hunter,
there
isn't
carte
blanche
guarantee
on
any
of
this.
There
is
an
added
step
to
the
process,
but
it
isn't
just
a
flat-out
note
from
the
beginning.
So
again,
the
purpose
here
is
to
address
some
of
the
ideas
that
Realtors
and
citizens
and
investors
have.
The
other
thing
is
to
bring
the
zoning
use
tables
into
a
line
with
what
exists
in
the
zone
already
and
to
allow
opportunities
for
further
investment.
D
But,
most
importantly,
what
you're
about
to
do
tonight
will
increase
the
future
value
of
every
single
parcel
in
the
slight
industrial
zone,
because
it
gives
them
options
they
haven't
had
before,
which
means
you've,
expanded
their
marketability
and
you've
expanded
their
ability
for
use.
Thank
you
any
questions.
A
D
Look
at
my
original
notes:
I
had
a
piece
next
to
hotel
and
after
your
last
work
session,
I
actually
went
back
and
drove
through
the
entire
bit
light
industrial
again,
both
the
one
at
the
railroad
X
at
York,
and
then
the
one
along
Richland
going
east
towards
Beaufort
and
I
realized
that
maybe
hotels
shouldn't
be
just
permitted
by
Wright.
They
should
be
special
exception.
There
needs
to
be
a
parking
plan,
a
landscaping
plan.
D
They
need
to
have
an
aesthetic
that
represents
the
area
and
the
character
of
Aitkin,
but
I
definitely
feel
like
with
the
popularity
of
high
fields
with
the
apartment
complex,
that's
going
to
be
built
across
from
the
industrial
park,
with
all
of
those
things
that
are
happening
in
that
part
of
the
town.
I
feel
like
a
hotel.
A
convenience
store
a
bar.
D
Those
things
might
happen
either
on
the
corner
of
Beaufort
and
richland,
on
the
west
side
or
on
the
east
side,
but
but
I
think
the
potential
of
it
happening
on
the
west
side
is
great
as
well,
and
so
we
need
to
look
at
how
that
impacts
this
whole
area.
So
if
you
come
from,
you
see
the
that
light
industrial
behind
the
2
GB.
D
The
Aiken
aesthetic,
but
it
should
go
through
all
of
the
approval
processes
and
not
just
be
permitted
by
right,
plus
the
fact
I
see
Airbnb
is
becoming
a
popular
thing.
More
and
more.
We
want
to
do
something
now
in
our
zoning.
Ryan's
gonna
get
very
tired
of
me
in
the
next
year
to
ensure
that
Airbnb
and
rental
is
something
that's
allowed.
Wherever
we
have
housing
regardless
of
the
use
table,
it
falls
within
you.
D
E
E
E
E
A
E
A
A
F
So
there
so
under
retail
sales
and
service,
we
list
a
number
of
things
specifically
in
the
zoning
ordinance
and
we
list
some
things
and
then
anything
that
doesn't
get
listed
specifically,
but
it's
still
retail
sales
and
service
gets
thrown
into
this
category,
other
retail
sales
and
service,
so
the
ones
that
are
listed
now,
not
all
these
are
permitted,
but
those
those
are
Alyssa
include
banks,
drive-throughs
makes
about
drive-throughs,
demean
stores,
copy
copy
shops,
crematoriums,
discount
stores,
department
stores,
large
retail.
Those
are
all
in
one
category:
okay,
that's
what
fun.
F
All
in
a
single
category-
and
this
end,
the
proposal
is
for
them
go
to
go
from
not
permitted
to
permitted
correct.
So
not
it's
not
a
special
exception.
It
would
just
go
from
being
not
allowed
to
being
allowed
and
then
yeah
there's
a
number
of
other
things.
Furniture
store,
funeral
home
power
center,
grocery
store
hardware,
pane
glass,
health
club,
spa
indoor
firing
range
so
essentially
what
the
city
did
nightclub
shopping,
center,
manufacture,
ale
sales,
liquor
store
shopping.
Sorry
said
that
truck
stopped
vehicle
park
sales
veterinary
hospital.
F
So
it's
other
services
that
I
believe
that
they
felt
at
some
point
or
other
acted
differently
than
just
a
general
retail.
There
are
some
component
of
it
that
that
is
worth
special
consideration,
and
so
most
things
fall
into
that
other
retail
sales
and
service.
But
there
are
a
number
of
things
that
are
in
our
use.
Table
was
called
out
specifically
and
go
back
again:
department
discount
stores,
which
include
Dollar,
General,
Family
Dollar.
Those
sorts
of
folks
are
under
the
category
department
or
discount
store
a
large
retail
project
superstore.