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From YouTube: Planning Commission Meeting December 15, 2020
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Planning Commission Meeting
December 15, 2020
6 PM
Call to Order
Minutes
Old Business:
none
New Business:
A) Application 21-20007 Annexation Request, TMP 119-19-01-001 & 004, Generations Park, by City of Aiken.
B) Application 21-20008 Annexation Request, TMP 089-08-18-001, 1929 Huntsman Drive, by Esteban N. Rodriguez Alicia & Midgy M. Rodriguez Gomez.
C) Application 21-50004 Utility Request, TMP 119-17-01-019, Highway 19 and Williams Lane, by Blue Sky Properties & Investments.
D) Application 21-91003 Public Project Review Request for Hitchcock Woods Stormwater Improvements, NW corner of Laurens Street and South Boundary, by the City of Aiken.
Adiournment
A
A
From
november
10,
2020
work
session
and
regular
meeting
have
a
motion.
Second,
thank
you.
Any
discussion
additions,
corrections
everybody
in
the
in
agreement
with
the
minutes,
raise
your
right
hand.
Okay.
Events
are
approved,
no
old
business
tonight,
new
business
application
number
21-2007,
that's
an
annexation
request
of
by
the
city
of
aitkin
for
generations,.
A
C
Other
thing,
I
would
say,
is
so
this
kind
of
came
about
previously,
since
the
city
had
purchased
a
generations
park.
Property
city
council
has
been
looking
for
a
way
to
get
that
under
within
the
aitkin
city
limits
at
one
point,
pursuing
a
right-of-way
annexation
along
the
highway,
which
they
then
retracted,
council
level.
In
this
case,
a
a
small
sliver
of
land
was
purchased
from
the
adjacent
property
owner
to
the
south.
C
To
be
able
to
make
this
contiguous
part
of
this
council
policy
you
if
a
property
is
over
a
certain
size,
three
or
four
acres
you're
supposed
to
annex
it
as
a
planned
district
staff
would
recommend
you
doing
that
as
a
planned
residential
district,
and
we
have
a
basic
concept
plan
for
essentially
a
park
on
that
site
and
the
I
guess
that
would
be
the
staff
comments
at
this
point.
Okay,.
D
E
A
F
A
Okay,
is
there
a
second
second?
Okay,
any
discussion,
all
right,
everybody
in
favor
raise
your
right
hand
pose
like
sign.
Okay,
so
approve
okay,
see
that's
the
application
number
21-5004,
that's
a
request
for
city
services,
not
not
annexation,
just
city
services,
it's
a
65,
acre
parcel
current
zoning
is
in
the
county.
Is
urban
development
230
lot
subdivision
on
highway
19.
C
And
while,
as
he's
coming
up,
I
will
go
ahead
and
point
out
that
there
was
a
a
comment
received
via
email
letter
that
has
been
given
to
you
at
each
of
your
positions
there.
That
was
not
received
prior
to
submittal
of
the
agenda
packet
to
you,
so
that
that
has
been
since
received.
Additionally,
staff
has
a
memo
that
would
include
a
recommendation
of
a
more
specific
condition
regarding
the
traffic
impact
analysis
being
conducted
for
the
project.
A
G
We
we,
we
won't
put
a
a
subdivision
over
there
and
speaking
of
the
traffic
we
we
are
in
process
of
having
a
traffic
study
done.
We
should
have
those
results
within
the
next
couple
weeks
and
naturally,
if
there's
things
that
we're
going
to
have
to
do
to
improve
the
traffic
in
the
area,
we'll
just
do
those
I
mean
we'll
follow.
G
What's
required,
sure
we
we
have
our
entrance,
I
don't
know
if
y'all
have
a
design,
but
our
entrance
is
that
actually
coming
off
williams
lane
it's
not
coming
off
edgefield
highway,
we
do
own
land
to
the
highway
and
you
can
see
we
have
a
50-foot
barrier
between
the
right-of-way
of
the
highway
and
the
lots.
The
back
of
the
lots.
G
G
We
also
we're
gonna
have
to
move
the
the
city
of
aitkin
has
a
a
water
line
that
cuts
across
this
property
and
we're
going
to
move
it,
and
we've
already
talked
to
your
engineers
at
your
utilities
department
and
we're
gonna
tag
into
the
sewer
up
on
edgefield
road.
We
do
not
have
to
go
under
edgefield
road
to
do
that,
so.
G
So
we're
aware
of
that,
and
then
we
also
you've
been
approved
by
the
county.
Yet
no
we're
going.
We've
we've
got
preliminary
approval,
but
we're
going
thursday,
okay
and
and
we
have
to
be
approved
by
y'all,
to
get
approved
by
the
county.
I
think
that's
the
order.
The
other
thing
is
that
we're
aware
that
we're
gonna
have
to
put
in
the
deeds
and
the
language
that
when
when,
if
any
time
the
city
can
annex
it
in
that
it's
an
automatic
annex
and
that's
written
in
y'all's,
bylaws
or.
A
G
D
G
G
A
C
It's
not
eligible
to
be
annexed
into
the
city
at
this
time.
So
that's
right,
the
only
with
the
city,
public
services
policy.
We
would
look
at
city,
landscaping,
signage
and
access
management
requirements.
Again,
that's
where
the
traffic
study
comes
in.
We
really
don't
have
significant
landscape
requirements
other
than
at
the
entryway
whenever
they
put
their
entryway
and
entryway
monument
in
city
regulations
would
would
apply.
C
C
Otherwise
you
would
generally
probably
I
don't
really
see
that
happening,
so
it
will
probably
happen
if
it
does
become
continuous
will
become
contiguous,
essentially
kind
of
one
lot
at
a
time
as
it
goes
through
through
the
development,
in
which
case
you
could
zone
them.
A
standard
zone
district
like
an
rs
10
rs15,
something
like
that,
and
it
would
be
fairly
consistent
with
the
city's
subdivision
regulations
and
for
the
for
for
a
standard,
rs
district.
A
E
G
A
C
So
you
already
have
a
number
six
that
addresses
the
traffic
say.
This
is
just
kind
of
more
specific
language
that
I
wanted
to
make
sure
that
include
the
dot
and
the
city
on
call
traffic
engineer
are
reviewing
those
and
that
you
know
it,
wouldn't
we
would
incorporate
any
mitigation.
That's
recommended
from
that
study.
B
A
H
A
H
To
create
another
hole
across
the
street
on
south
boundary,
instead
of
putting
tanks
all
along
where
the
sand
river
outflow
currently
goes.
It
just
strikes
me
that
that
there
would
be
a
lot
less
excavation
that
that
ravine
there
is
about.
I
I
don't
know
exactly.
I
think
it's
about
30
feet,
deep
it.
It
provides
an
opportunity
to
put
much
deeper,
much
larger
tanks,
all
in
a
single
location
instead
of
having
the
disruption
of
two
locations,
and
I
and
I
mention
it
because
I
see
a
couple
of
advantages
of
it.
H
One
is,
I
think,
the
potential
for
lower
cost
for
the
project.
The
other
is
lower
impact
to
the
residences
that
are
around
it.
The
turn
quests
on
one
side
me
on
the
other
side,
the
other
is,
is
the
opportunity
to
address
an
erosion
problem
that
is
occurring
all
along
the
banks
of
the
of
the
sand
river
ravine.
H
Although
the
there's
an
underwater
underwater
underground
tunnel
there,
which
helped
mitigate
the
erosion,
mostly
there's
still
the
problem
that
there's
a
30
foot
deep
ravine
that
surface
water
runs
off
of
on
both
sides
causing
it
to
erode
so
people
along
bmp
6a.
Well,
the
woods
are
on
one
side:
there's
a
new
buyer
that
just
bought
some
land
from
the
boss,
wix
right
right
next
to
where
that
tank
location,
six
eight
look
location
is
and
then
there's
the
boss
wicks,
which
are
a
little
bit
further
down.
H
H
This
is
the
first
I've
seen
this
proposal
this
evening,
but
I
would
guess
he
would
tell
you
that
he
is
concerned
about
the
viability
of
the
original
hitchcock
stables
which
are
on
his
property
they're
only
about
30
feet
from
the
ravine
and
in
a
couple
more
years,
they're
going
to
go
into
the
ravine,
or
at
least
part
of
it
is
going
to-
and
I
just
see
an
opportunity
to
solve
multiple
problems
here,
reduce
cost
provide
less.
You
know
through
less
excavation,
put
bigger
deeper
tanks
in
that
area.
H
That's
in
the
ravine
and
fill
it
to
surface
level
so
that
we
solve
the
erosion
problem
all
at
the
same
time,
and
I
just
I
would
also
add
that
I
think
the
use
that
bmp-6
is
being
put
to
that
land
is
not
in
the
spirit
of
what
it
was
originally
intended
for
the
voswicks
and
the
goodyears.
It's
my
understanding.
H
At
least
I
don't
have
documentation
to
prove
this,
but
it's
my
understanding
that
they
donated
to
the
hitchcock
woods
to
acquire
that
land
many
years
ago
in
the
interest
of
creating
a
buffer
between
downtown
and
the
resident,
the
residential
area.
And
now
what
we're
doing
is
bringing
the
downtown
area
into
the
residential
area,
putting
an
amphitheater.
H
You
know
inviting
people
to
be
there
as
a
public
park.
I
think
that
is
not
the
spirit
of
the
original
donation
that
was
made
to
the
hitchcock
woods.
That's
probably
a
lesser
reason.
I
think
the
the
biggest
reason
I
see
in
using
the
whole
sand
river
area
is
that
I
think
it's
going
to
be
more
effective.
It's
going
to
be
less
costly.
H
H
J
But
just
briefly
appreciate
the
resident's
concern
and
questions.
In
fact,
we
did
actually
look
at
maximizing
the
mp6a
with
the
most
storage
possible
and
right
now,
15
foot
vaults
is
the
largest
vault
commercially
produced
in
the
country.
In
fact,
it's
the
largest
vault
that
we
can
actually
procure.
J
15
foot
tall
vaults
yeah,
we
talked
to
the
manufacturer
about
going
double
stacking
them
to
get
30
feet
of
vaults
and
they
said
that
wasn't
structurally
sound.
You
cannot
put
two
volts
on
top
of
each
other
yeah.
If
we
go
above
anything
above
15
feet,
it's
not.
They
cannot
transport
it
from
the
precasters.
Everything
would
have
to
be
cast
in
place,
which
means
much
more
longer.
Duration
of
construction,
much
more
expensive
cost,
much
more
risk.
J
So
in
maximizing
the
storage
we
maximize
6a,
while
maintaining
the
existing
drain
pipe
through
that
area,
because
the
cost
of
relocating
that
would
have
been
substantial.
We
sandwich
two
tanks
on
either
side
using
as
much
space
as
we
can
and
we're
actually
putting
the
tanks
almost
on
the
existing
grade
and
filling
on
top
of
them.
So
we're
going
to
be
filling
up
that
existing
bowl
15
to
20
feet
up,
so
that
there's
only
going
to
be
about
a
10
to
20
10
about
a
10
foot
depression.
C
A
J
C
A
Maybe
there
could
be
a
time
frame
when
they
could
discuss
that
a
little
bit
more
with
the
local
residents,
because
I
I
see
the
point
there,
you
know
it's
supposed
to
be
natural
and
it
was
that
was
part
of
the
theory
of
it
and
all,
and
I
I
also
like
I
like
the
idea
of
having
a
little
park
and
having
people
use
it
and
all
that.
But
I
understand
you
know
people
live
there
and
you
know
I
can
understand
their
position
on
that
on
that.
Maybe.