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From YouTube: Planning Commission Work Session February 9, 2021
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Planning Commission Work Session
February 9, 2021
5:00 PM
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C
D
Mr
chairman
yeah,
I
didn't
know
if
you
wanted
to
kind
of
bump
this
toward
the
end
with
some
of
the
other
items,
but
I
can
go
ahead
and
I
guess
kind
of
talk
where
we
are
at.
We
do
have
john
poole
on
here.
You
can't
see
him
on
your
screen,
but
the
city
engineer
who
may
be
able
to
help
me
with
or
help
you
and
I,
with
some
some
of
the
some
of
the
questions.
C
D
D
One
of
the
things
that
was
asked
of
staff
is
to
maybe
come
up
with
a
better
idea
of,
I
guess
the
statistical
numbers
and
things
like
that
associated
with
you
know
what
is
kind
of
what
is
you
know
who
how
many
water
customers
we
have,
how
many,
how
many
donut
hole
parcels
we
have
and
that
sort
of
thing.
So
I
think
I
can
at
least
speak
to
that
a
little
bit.
I
didn't
get
you
any
information
in
advance,
because
I
was
fighting
my
gis
today,
but
in
the
last
couple
weeks,
but.
D
Here
we
go
so
we
tried
to
so
again.
The
the
water
district
for
the
city
of
aitkin
extends
well
beyond
the
the
corporate
limits,
mostly
to
the
north.
It
goes
all
the
way
to
I-20
and
we
do
have
water
and
sewer
that
run
all
the
way
to
and
now
past
the
freeway
there
are
about
24
000
properties
in
total
that
are
in
that
water
district.
That's
inside
the
city
limits
and
outside
the
city
limits.
We
have
about
15
000
of
those
partials
that
are
inside
the
city
limits.
D
And
this
says
donut
hole
properties.
The
way
we
kind
of
figured
that
is,
we
essentially
drew
a
boundary
around
the
circle
that
the
bypass
encompasses
so
to
speak
and
then
kind
of
the
the
appendage
down.
I
guess
banks
mill
down
through
woodside
and
back
up
anywhere,
where
we
kind
of
had,
I
guess
what
you
would
consider
contiguity.
D
So
when
it
kind
of
comes
down
to
it,
those
are
the
only
those
are
kind
of
the
the
current
targets
of
our
annexation
policy.
Is
those
400
was
400
parcels,
and
so
again,
with
the
current
annexation
policy,
we
rely
on
those
to
sell
and
then,
when
they
sell
and
a
new
owner
purchases,
the
property
they
are
required
to
annex
per
city
council
policy
if
they
have
water
and
sewer
the
total
number
now
this
is,
I
guess,
out
of
that.
D
D
If
you
are
below
350
thousand
dollars
in
valuation,
you
have
city,
water
and
sewer
it's
to
your
benefit
to
to
annex
in
the
city,
financially
at
least
on
an
annual
basis.
Again,
we
you
know,
and
we'll
kind
of
get
to
that
right
hand
side
of
the
screen,
we're
actually
talking
connection
fees
here
in
just
a
second.
D
So
really,
if
we're
going
out
and
trying
to
target
properties
for
annexation,
we're
going
to
be
primarily
as
staff
looking
at
the
properties
that
have
water
and
sewer,
so
that's
kind
of
that
400
to
somewhere
between
400
and
13
100
properties
that
are
sometimes
kind
of
in
the
same
neighborhood,
sometimes
not,
and
so
now
we
are
as
staff
here
in
the
planning
department.
Looking
at
hiring
some
additional
staff
to
be
able
to
assist
in
in
some
more
more
aggressive,
I
guess
outreach.
D
D
What
this
board
asked
me
to
also
come
back
with
is
on
the
right
hand.
Side
here
is
is
what
are
you,
what
are
you
out
as
a
typical
residential
property
owner
at
the
onset
now
this
doesn't
include
any
plumbing
inside
your
house
or
or
to
get
to
to
get
to
our
our
system,
but
we
have
a
roll
cart
fee.
One
time
roll
cart
fee
of
75
dollars.
We
have
a
typical
residential
sewer
impact
fee,
initially
of
of
a
400
for
the
connection,
water
impact
fee,
connection
of
750
and
then
a
first
first-time
water
meter.
D
These
are
the
new
smart
meters
at
three
everybody
says
so
at
the
onset
there.
It's
you
know
about
sixteen
hundred
dollars
to
to
connect
with
our
with
our
typical
fees.
Now
we
do
have
some
lines
out
there.
Some
water
or
sewer
lines
that
do
have
do
still
have
some
extra
recovery
fees
attached
to
them
from
when
they
went
in,
but
they're
and
again,
john
poole
on
here
may
be
able
to
help
me
out
a
little
bit
better
about
that.
D
E
D
D
D
You
know
the
egg
might
say
it
can
be
a
few.
You
know
several
hundred
feet
away,
but
generally,
when
I've
done
this
analysis,
it
it's
it's
with
the
sewer
immediately
available
to
the
property.
So
this
is,
this
is
prob.
These
are
properties
with
sewer
like
within.
You
know,
30
50
feet,
something
like
that
and
yeah.
I
say
I
see
I
see
john
has
turned
on
his
is
his
monitor.
Do
you
have
anything
that
would
help
in
my
explanation,
john.
F
D
You
know
a
lot
of
these,
that's
why
again
we're
targeting
properties
that
are
either
already
connected
and
again
you're,
probably
not
going
to
find
too
many
of
those
properties
that
at
least
don't
already
have
a
water
connection.
You
know
they
may
have.
They
may
eventually
run
into
a
sewer
connection.
In
fact,
as
I
let
me
see
here,
I'll
go
back
and
see
if
I
can
show
you
some
examples
here.
Some
things
we've
been
kind
of
chipping
away
at
with
our
with
our
policies.
So
far
we
have.
D
I'll
try
to
flip
through
here
and
make
you
dizzy,
but
here
we
go
here's,
I
guess
a
good
example
to
orient
you
on
the
map.
If
you
can
see
my
cursor,
my
cursor
here
kind
of
at
the
bottom
of
the
screen,
this
is
whiskey
and
pine,
lock
road,
the
neighborhood
back
behind
phil
dale
week's
community
center
virginia
acres
park
has
sewer,
but
you
can
kind
of
see
the
little
dots
scattered
in
here.
D
So
we
do
have
a
number
of
cases
like
that
around,
but
again
on
this
map.
Just
to
kind
of-
and
I
distributed
this-
I
think
hard
job
between
the
last
meeting.
The
blue
lines
are
water.
I
tried
to
make
a
little
bit
fatter,
yellow
line
there
for
sewer,
but
one
of
the
things
you
can
kind
of
see
as
I
move.
So
here
we
go.
C
D
You
know
it.
If
you
have
water
and
sewer
immediately
available,
you
start
saving
money
by
coming
into
the
city
immediately.
Otherwise,
if
you
have
to
connect,
that's
gonna,
that's
generally
gonna
take
a
few
years
to
pay
back
to
get
your
you
know
to
for,
for
the
savings
to
accumulate
enough,
that
you're
gonna
start
actually
realizing
those
savings.
A
I
know
that
we've
talked
about
this
before
in
passing,
but
ryan,
can
you
speak
a
little
bit
more
to
whether
or
not
we
could
actually
either
waive
those
connection
fees
or
maybe,
like
pro
rate
them
out
over
the
course
of
a
few
years?
So
that
way
they
start
saving
money
immediately,
because
I
know
before
we've
mentioned
how
that
upfront
cost
has
been
a
big
barrier
to
get
people
to
actually
move
into
this.
D
So
yeah
that
would
be
mostly
for
the
new
connections
again,
but
I
think
you
know
it's
ultimately
a
council
decision.
Those
are
generally
designed
for
a
couple
things.
One
is
to
recoup
cost
of
putting
that
infrastructure,
but
it's
also
the
staff
time
to
to
go
out
and
actually
connect
to
somebody.
I
think
I
think,
john
and
and
and
the
the
folks
over
in
engineering
utilities
and
director
mike
bilowitz
I've
tried
to
work
to
get
that
number
down.
F
D
So
I
mean
ultimately,
I
guess
that
comes
down
to
a
city
council
budget
decision
if
they
wanted
to
move
forward
with
a
policy
like
that,
I
mean
the
the
you
know
the
things
coming
out
of
this
board.
You
could
make
recommendations
to
council
to
look
at
things
like
that
and
ultimately
be
up
to
their
decision
where
they
wanted
to
follow
through,
but
I
think
they
wanted
at
least
to
involve
the
planning
commission
to
have
them,
spend
some
more
time
on
it
than
I
guess
councils,
and
you
know
I
I.
F
Yeah
thanks
ryan
and
and
just
for
the
the
members
of
the
board.
Just
one
thing
to
think
of
I
mean
I
agree.
It
would
be
great
to
get
rid
of
these
upfront
fees
and
kind
of
do
a
pro
rating
over
the
service
life,
but
then
you're
kind
of
financing
it
for
them
and
we
got
to
know
you
know
eventually
you're
going
to
have
to
pay
for
that
work.
One
way
or
another
I
mean
there
is
you
know
physical
cost,
for
the
equipment
that's
going
into
the
to
the
ground
and
for
the
labor.
F
So
you
know
that's
that's
going
to
have
to
be
looked
at
pretty
carefully.
I
think
if
we
go
to
make
a
recommendation
to
prorate
it
over,
to
you
know
the
life
of
the
service
line
and
and
on
the
flip
side
of
that,
if
you
prorate
it
over
to
life
at
the
service
line,
how
long
do
you
do
so
before
you
kind
of
start
over
collecting
on
fees?
F
You
got
to
make
sure
that
at
one
point
almost
like
it's
like
when
you're
financing
a
phone
that
you
cut
it
off
or
otherwise,
people
are
just
going
to
pay
more
than
what
they
need
to
and
then
you
got
changes
of
services
too.
So
I
just
you
know
if
we
do
start
making
recommendations,
I
just
I
would
recommend
that
we
kind
of
look
at
all
those
avenues,
and
I
think
I'm
saying
too
much
already.
C
Well,
I
I
I
agree
if
you're,
if
you're,
really
serious
about
trying
to
annex
and
wanting
people
to
come
in,
I
think
I
think
you
have
to
put
on
the
table
the
the
the
waiver
waiving
or
fees
or
allowing
people
to
pay
them
out
over
three
years
or
five
years.
I
think
you
have
to
put
that
on
the
table.
You
know
if
you
really
want
to
encourage
annexation.
D
Well,
so
we
I
mean
we
are,
you
know
it's
not
necessarily
going
out.
You
know,
I
don't
think
we're
hiring
new
employees
just
for
the
sake
of
doing
that.
We're
kind
of
getting
up
to
a
a
situation
where
we've
kind
of
hit
10-year
highs
in
in
applications,
and
things
like
that
that
the
department
did
have
some.
So
we
have.
D
We
have
work
for
that
person,
no
matter
what,
but
we
it's
kind
of
question
about
how
much
staff
time
we
we
probably
have
about
a
20-hour
position
right
now,
a
week
that
is
just
filled
by
creating
the
annexation
agreements
and
petitions
to
annex
and
dealing
with
the
customers
who
just
purchased
properties
that
are
subject
to
to
the
current
council
policy.
So
we
we
already
pay
a
half-time
consultant
with
the
city
to
help
us
enforce
this
policy
and
a
lot
of
it
is
yeah.
D
It's
creating
creating
the
agreements
and
things
like
that
that
counts
that
you
have
to
get
you
have
to
enter
into
as
part
of
the
policy
and
so
yeah,
that's
it.
So
it's
kind
of
just
a
matter
of
you
know
again.
You
know
that
this
board
went
through
the
they
say
it
was
part
of
our
city
council
playing
commission
workstation.
D
We
still
have
plenty
of
policy
things
and-
and
things
like
that
to
to
look
at
beyond
this,
so
we
can
definitely
find
you
know
we
could
definitely
either
way
it
kind
of
it's
a
trade-off.
You
know
the
more
time
we
spend
doing
that
the
annexation
policy
then
there's
kind
of
other
things
that
that
we
don't
do,
but
they
actually
suppose
right.
Now,
it's
about
a
20-hour
job.
D
C
Yeah,
well
I
mean
I
don't
know
what
what
else
the
city
exactly
what
the
city
council
wants
us
to
to
recommend
or
wants
us
to
do,
but
I
I
think,
in
a
recommendation
like
to
me,
you're
moving
you're
already
targeting
areas
these
these
properties
that
have
water
and
sewer
this,
this
1300
properties
that
you're
already
targeting
them
so
anything
additional.
We
could.
We
could
recommend
you
target
them
harder.
We
could
say
you
need
a
full-time
person
to
target
them.
C
D
C
Yeah,
I
think
I
I
think
that'd
be,
I
think,
that'd
be
the
way
to
go,
put
together
a
list
of
specific
recommendations
and
we
can
consider
them
and
and
and
we
can
make
a
recommendation
we'll
do
this
or
don't
do
this
or
do
this.
Maybe
we
want
to
recommend
you
hire
a
full-time
person.
I
I
don't
know
that,
but
put
that
in
there
you
know.
D
Yeah
we'll
try
to
do
kind
of
an
analysis
of
some
some
more
specific
actions
that
seem
to
make
some
common
sense
to
us
to
to
move
forward
on
that.
We
think
we
might
be
able
to
leverage
a
few
more
properties
out
of
and
and
we'll
try
to
get
that
to
the
board
at
an
upcoming
meeting.
I
think
next
meeting
may
be
pretty
full,
but
if
we
can
get
that
ready
for
you
for
at
least
discussion
at
the
work
session,
we
will.
C
A
Ryan,
this
is
more
of
a
just
real
quick.
This
is
more
of
a
long-term
question.
You
know
we
have
several
thousand
of
those
donut
holes
that
don't
have
water
or
sewage,
which
basically
means
it
makes
no
financial
sense
for
them
to
join
the
city.
Is
there
any
long-term
infrastructure
planned
to
try
and
lay
more
water,
lay
more
sewage,
so
people
within
our
city?
It
actually
makes
sense
for
them
to
join
our
city.
D
D
Be
in
here
right
so
right
now,
one
of
those
areas
is
kind
of
the
east
pine
log
road
corridor
out
to
the
charleston
highway,
the
east
end
of
town.
I
would,
I
would
say,
that's
one
area
where
some
funds
are
being
focused
to
expand
sewer
also
to
to
the
north
to
add
additional
customers
outside
of
the
city,
though
those
have
both
kind
of
been
council
direction
that
we
received.
D
I
think
that
that's
another
thing
it
could
be
looked
at
in
some
of
these
neighborhoods
a
lot
of
times.
I
think
the
reason
that
sewers
never
run
to
some
of
the
neighborhoods
is
because
some
of
them
are
small
enough
donut
holes
in
themselves
without
sewer
that
you
would
need,
say
a
lift
station.
They
may
you
know
or
something
that
would
that
would
maybe
not
make
financial
sense
to
pay
for
itself,
but
it's
kind
of
a
trade-off.
If
you
want
it
in,
you
would
need
to
put
in
some
bigger
piece
of
of
infrastructure.
D
Yeah,
mr
chairman,
so
let
me
give
a
brief
kind
of
introduction
to
the
next
two
items.
We
received
two
petitions.
I
have
them
on
the
agenda
in
the
order
that
we
received
them,
but
they
are
not
far
apart
and
when
I
receive
them
the
first
one.
Let
me
go
back.
Our
zoning
ordinance
says
that
anybody
may
petition
the
planning
commission,
a
citizen,
may
petition
the
planning
commission
to
consider
putting
on
a
future
agenda
for
public
hearing
a
zoning
text.
D
Amendment
zoning
text-
amendment
just
means
we're
changing
the
zoning
ordinance
to
to
do
one
thing
or
another.
So
the
first
one
you
have
is
has
come
from
george
funeral
home,
which
is
located
in
the
downtown
business
zone
district,
the
they
they
cite
that
they've
had
a
one
and
an
increase
in
requests
for
cremation,
which
they
are
having
to
do
at
other
facilities.
D
As
part
of
the
last
zoning
ordinance
and
to
be
able
to
kind
of
speak
to
you
know
what
is
kind
of
being
done
to
be
able
to
negate
maybe
some
of
those
or
how
those
some
of
those
impacts
that
people
generally
associate
with
with
such
a
use
to
be
addressed
right
now
in
our
zoning
ordinance,
crematoriums
are
only
allowed
in
industrial
districts,
so
we
don't
allow
them
as
part
of
a
funeral
home
in
in
any
of
our
standard
districts.
I
think
the
last
time
a
similar
case
was
was
requested
was
back
in
2002.
D
But
before
you
yeah,
you
have
a
request
from,
and
we
do
have
cody
anderson
on
this.
This
call,
who
is
our
petitioner
in
this
case
and
owner
proprietor
of
the
george
funeral
home,
and
so
the
kind
of
direction
we
need
from
you
is
whether
it
warrants
merit
to
at
least
put
on
a
future
planning
commission
agenda
for
consideration,
and
I
guess
for
myself
any
additional
information
that
may
be
useful
as
part
of
that
consideration.
D
If
you
were
to
move
forward
from
from
staff
or
from
the
applicant,
I
will
say
we
did
receive
a
couple
of
emails
in
support
of
this.
This
is
not
a
public
hearing,
I'll
kind
of
get
that
out
of
the
way
that
you
know,
we
did
not
advertise
this
as
a
public
hearing,
but
but
some
comments
have
come
in.
We
received
two
positive
comments
and
those
have
been
forwarded
to
you
and
then
just
less
than
an
hour.
D
B
C
B
Good
evening,
mr
chairman,
mr
planning,
director
members
of
the
committee
and
members
of
the
public
that
are
listening,
thank
you
for
holding
this
meeting
to
discuss
db
zone,
ordinance,
3.1.6
and
the
restrictions
on
funeral
homes
having
on-site
cremation
services.
My
name
is
cody
anderson.
I'm
a
funeral
director
and
the
owner
of
george
funeral
home
and
cremation
center
george
funeral
home
has
been
in
business
for
101
years.
George
was
the
first
funeral
home
in
aitkin
county
to
provide
cremation
services.
B
B
B
B
It
will
be
more
comforting
to
the
families
we
serve
to
know
that
their
loved
ones
will
be
handled
at
our
facility
instead
of
having
their
loved
ones
transported
to
an
industrial
zone.
Can
you
imagine
being
a
member
of
a
family
and
having
a
viewing
or
service
and
then
wishing
to
participate
in
a
cremation
and
have
to
go
and
do
that
in
an
industrial
zone?
B
Substantial
changes
to
cremation
equipment,
since
the
1999
amendment
to
the
zoning
ordinance
now
significantly
limit
the
emissions
odor
and
noise
produced
by
the
process
to
undiscernable
levels,
the
proposed
cremation
unit
would
not
have
a
large
smoke
stack
for
an
outwardly
noticeable
equipment.
It
will
have
little
to
no
effect
on
the
residences
and
businesses
in
aitkins
downtown
community.
B
B
Funeral
homes
are
permitted
by
right
in
the
db
district
and
we
are
requesting
that
the
zoning
ordinance
be
amended
to
prevent
a
crematorium
conditionally
as
a
part
of
a
funeral
home's
use.
We
have
selected
matthews
environmental
solutions
is
our
supplier
partner.
Matthews
is
the
leading
expert
in
advanced
cremation
systems
and
the
oldest
and
largest
manufacturer
in
the
world.
Nearly
four
thousand
500
of
their
units
are
operational,
including
many
in
south
carolina
most
in
sensitive
areas
like
ours.
B
Cremations
are
smokeless
and
odorless,
and
emissions
monitoring
system
alerts
the
operator
immediately
of
any
potential
issues.
The
machines
also
operate
with
minimal
noise
level
activities
in
the
funeral
home
and
our
neighborhood
would
continue
without
any
awareness
that
cremations
were
taking
place.
Downtown
property
values
will
not
be
affected
by
the
addition
of
this
equipment.
We
have
operated
from
our
historic
park,
avenue
location
since
1948,
and
we
worked
very
hard
to
maintain
this
historic
structure
and
grounds.
We
received
many
compliments
about
the
appearance
of
our
facility
grounds
and
operation.
B
We
know
how
important
it
is
for
aikens
downtown
to
stay
beautiful.
We
ask
that
you
consider
amending
the
db
zone
to
allow
for
the
placement
of
crematory
equipment
on
george
funeral
homes
property
so
that
we
can
continue
to
provide
these
types
of
services
and
the
level
of
care
that
our
families
expect
and
deserve.
Thank
you
very
much.
C
C
C
And
you
you,
you
understand
that
this
would
be
it
would
not.
It
would
be
condition.
It
was
a
conditional.
What
would
call
conditional,
which
means
it
would
go
through
the
pla.
I
assume
that
means
ryan,
your
your
department
would
look
at
it
and-
and
you
could
you
could
okay
it
without
coming
to
any
further
than
you
correct.
D
D
So
I
guess
yeah
that'd
probably
be
good
for
me
to
just
kind
of
summarize
that
process.
If
you
were
to
move
forward
with
this,
we
would
post
it
for
public
hearing.
The
planning
commission
would
make
a
recommendation
and
that
recommendation
would
go
to
city
council.
It
takes
two
readings
of
city
council
to
create
an
ordinance
change
in
this
case.
If
it
were
a
conditional
use,
we
would
be
changing
two
different
sections
of
the
code.
D
One
is
the
non-residential
district
use
table
and
then
it
would
reference
something
that
would
be
the
condition
that
potentially
that's
just
they
could
be
a
number
of
things.
Sometimes
it's
a
buffering
requirement.
Sometimes
it's
you
know
compliance
with
dhec
regulations,
sometimes
it's
just
that
it
could
operate
only
with
if
it's
associated
with
an
existing
funeral
home
business.
So
as
part
of
that
staff
would
create
a,
I
guess,
a
more
robust
version
of
what
the
actual
zone
change
recommendation
would
be.
D
A
A
D
A
Would
since
so,
if
we
basically
do
this,
we
would
allow
crematoriums
to
happen
in
the
db
district,
the
other
ones
that
aren't
in
db
districts.
Would
they
if
they
want
to
get
their
own
crematorium,
would
they
be
allowed
to
maybe
change
their
zoning
to
db
or
basically,
I
I
no
offense
to
cody,
but
I
I
don't
want
to
give
him
almost
like
an
unfair
advantage
for
crematoriums
compared
to
the
other
funeral
homes,
so.
D
C
D
We
could
I
mean,
that's,
you
know
it
kind
of
goes
across
yeah
the
board
like
whether
it's
it
goes
back
to
the
nature
of
the
zone
district
as
well,
whether
it
be
you
know,
for
instance,
the
general
business
or
doesn't
allow
it
either,
which
is
arguably
a
more
a
more
standard.
Commercialized
district,
so
kind
of
the
question
is
what
yeah,
whether
it
would
be
applicable
to
other
districts
if
you're
doing
it
for
one,
if
you're
kind
of
making
the
same
findings.
C
D
C
C
D
A
C
D
Similar
concept
I
will
but-
but
I
guess
this
is
kind
of
a
more
broad
approach
than
kind
of
trying
to
focus
on
a
specific
issue
as
jane
paige
thompson
has
a
petition
for
changes
essentially
to
the
the
limited
professional
lp
zone
district
to
broaden,
more
uses.
That
would
be
permissible
by
special
exceptions.
Special
exceptions
have
to
go
through
primarily
by
special
exception.
There
were
a
few
in
there
they're
different.
D
I
won't
steal
her
necessary
presentation,
but
I
think
that
the
point
is
that
she
was
trying
to
make
it
there's
a
number
of
existing
uses
in
the
lp
district,
limited
professional
district
that
are
in
existence
today,
but
are
essentially
not
permitted,
and
so
those
are
this
kind
of
designed
to
be
phased
out
over
time
if
there
aren't
changes
to
the
ordinance
and-
and
so
this
is.
This
is
a
position
to
to
review
those.
D
Looking
and
things
like
that,
but
also
they're
supposed
to
be
low
impact
business,
such
as
small
offices
and
I
have
miss
thompson's
materials
here,
at
least
that
the
the
main
one,
I
believe
is
you.
You
received
a
kind
of
the
bullet
points
and
and
the
zoning
table
where
those
changes
were
itemized,
but
she
also
presented
a
map
which
I'll
put
up
here
in
just
a
second
to
to
kind
of
better
explain
or
allow
her
to
better
explain
what
the
request
is.
H
So,
thank
you
all
very
much
for
your
time
tonight.
So
this
is
probably,
I
think
that
maybe
the
third
or
fourth
time
I
in
in
about
10
years,
that
I've
come
to
the
planning
commission
as
a
realtor
who
has
experienced
different
anomalies
within
finding
places.
For
my
clients,
one
of
the
things
that
ryan
mentioned
was
this
idea
that
that
these
uses
are
meant
to
phase
out
over
time.
H
So
you
can
imagine
when
a
business
person
is
trying
to
buy
an
existing
business,
but
the
use
of
that
business
is
not
permitted
in
the
zoning
area
where
the
business
is
so
that
being
said,
looking
at
this
particular
limited
professional
area,
a
big
shout
out
to
tony
detroit
in
the
mapping
office,
he
changed
the
color
for
you
all
to
be
able
to
see
this
a
lot
better
on
the
city
zoning
map.
So
I
appreciate
his
ability
to
to
do
that.
H
There
are
a
lot
of
different
uses
in
the
limited
professional
areas
which
do
exist
mostly
sort
of
out
hayne
avenue,
probably
from
pendleton
west,
between
hane
and
barnwell
and
greenville,
and
then
there
are
several
places
on
the
south
side.
It's
very
sparingly
used
on
the
south
side
just
because
of
the
requirement
of
the
residential
character,
but
we
do
have
a
few
places
on
the
south
side,
even
where
the
use
currently
is
not
permitted
by
the
limited
professional
use
table.
H
So
that
is
was
a
a
big
part
of
it,
and
you
can
see
on
this
map
multi-family
apartments,
the
tri
development
track
as
a
hotel.
That's
that
potential
old
hospital.
We
call
it.
There's
a
funeral
home
funeral
homes
aren't
permitted
and
we've
heard
enough
about
funeral
homes
tonight,
but
you
know
it
does
all
tie
in
these
uses.
Ambulance
service
isn't
a
permitted
use.
Yet
the
city
has
an
ambulance
service.
There
assisted
living
car
washes
open
air
sales,
nursing
homes.
It's
just
amazing.
H
Just
as
an
example,
you
know,
I
know
that
the
planning
department
deals
a
lot
with
annexations
and
y'all
are
hearing
a
lot
about
annexations
when
somebody
buys
a
house
that
they
think
they're
getting
low
taxes
and
it's
not
in
the
city
and
then
they
find
out.
Oh,
I
have
a
three
foot
property
line
that
touches
a
city
of
aiken
property.
I
have
to
annex
that's
a
whole
set
of
expenses
and
costs
that
they
didn't
anticipate
because
of
a
regulation
that
exists.
H
C
Yeah,
I
mean,
I
think,
your
your
your
points
to
me.
Make
a
lot
of
sense.
I
mean
the
exceptions
have,
to
a
certain
extent
eating
up
the
rule
in
some
of
these
places,
and
I
think
it's
a
good
idea
to
revisit
these
things
and
and
make
the
because
we're
not
nobody
wants
to
put
anybody
out
of
business.
Nobody
wants
to
want
a
commercial
real
estate
is
slow
enough
around
the
city
of
aitkin.
C
Now
residential
real
estate
is
very,
very
good
doing
very
well,
but
commercial
real
estate
is
struggling,
so
we
shouldn't
want
to
put
any
barriers
in
the
pathway
of
anybody
selling
worrying
about
a
zoning
change.
So
I
think
it's,
I
think
it's
a
good
idea.
Anybody
want
to
make
some
comments
or
ask
any
questions
of
miss
thompson.
E
E
E
I
know
over
time
things
do
you
know,
build
up
and
get
approved
in
residential
areas,
and
now
they're,
I
guess
they're
they're
called
pre-existing
non-conforming
uses
and
normally
those
types
of
uses
need
to
has
special
con
eyes
on
them
to
when
they
want
to
expand,
to
protect
the
adjacent
residential
uses
or
adjacent
other
other
properties.
So
just
just
a
caution
that
certain
areas
may
not
be
best
for
a
re,
a
liquor,
store
or
other
highly
intense
retail
area
where
a
low,
intense
retail
may
be
fine.
Just
thoughts.
Yeah.
D
Right
that's
correct.
Most
of
these
are
would
be
by
special
exception,
the
vast
majority
of
what's
being
proposed,
so
those
go
with
the
board
of
zoning
appeals
and
and
not
to
go
through
all
the
criteria
that
the
bca
looks
at.
But
it's
it
a
special
exception
is
a
use
that
is
generally
this
determined
to
be
okay.
If
it
can
meet
a
certain
number
of
conditions
and
what
those
are
typically
does
it
impact
adjacent
properties
negatively?
Is
it
suitable
for
the
type
the
for
the
site
on
which
it's
being
proposed?
D
Is
it?
Does
it
go?
There's
a
fly,
contrary
to
comprehensive
plan,
those
sorts
of
things.
So
it's
it
tries
to
look
at
the
negative
externalities
of
a
use
and
try
to
determine
whether
those
are
reasonable
for
the
neighborhood
that
it's
in
so
special
exception,
is
a
case-by-case
basis,
essentially
looked
at
by
the
bz.
E
D
G
G
My
thought
and
concern
here,
and
I
think
it's
kind
of
clayton
mentioned-
is
the
fact
that
we
have
additional
feeder
homes
in
our
downtown
district.
So
this
is
just
going
to
open
up
the
potential
of
having,
I
would
say
three
or
four
on
top
of
my
head,
that
could
allow
a
crematory
to
be
on
site.
So
I
think,
there's.
I
have
a
huge
concern
with
this
piece
in
particular
knowing.
D
And
so
I
guess
that's
one
good
thing
I
guess
process
wise,
or
at
least
something
worth
mentioning,
is
that
if
go,
this
goes
to
public
hearing.
Is
that,
following
that
public
hearing,
your
recommendation
can
strike
or
change
what's
being
proposed?
You
don't
necessarily
have
to
take
it
as
a
whole.
You
can,
or
we
can
come
up
with.
I
guess,
similar
to
what
we
did
a
couple
years
ago
with
a
limited
business
district.
With
this
group
we
we
kind
of
put
up
some
conditions.
D
C
H
D
D
And
so
yeah
I
mean
we
could
we
can
do
that?
I'm
going
back
on
my
emails
because
I
know
we
had
gone
through
a
couple:
different
changes
back
and
forth.
So
that's
something
we
can
verify
along
with
the
request
before
we
yeah
we'll
we'll
double
check
with
you
before
sending
this
to
public
hearing
on
making
sure
we
have
all
those
notations
correct.