By Martin Couch
Monday's Bryant Planning Commission meeting at City Hall was open to public hearings for four ordinances up for passage on to the City Council.
No public opinion was stated publicly in the meeting, but there were some phone messages and calls made beforehand in opposition.[more]
"I've got a customer who wants to put in an engineering business," said Robert Jones of JOCON, Inc. who requested to rezone property from R-2 and C-2 to C-2 highway commercial at 507 Boone Road, south of Tanglewood Street.
The property itself has been used for an industrial business for many years.
"We are submitting an application for the zoning of the property we have owned for 12 years," Jones said in a letter to the Commission. "Half of it was re-zoned at the time of purchase and we would like to rezone the balance of the area to C-2, the same as the south half."
Upon a unanimous passage by the Commission to amend and reflect the change of zoning classification for Jones' property, the Ordinance will be put to the City Council.
Rick Taylor of Harris Taylor Co., LLC requested to rezone property from residential mixed use to highway commercial was met with some opposition from last month's meeting. The request was tabled from the September meeting of the Commission to Monday night.
"We request to table it again until next month so maybe we can come up with a plan to present," Taylor said to the board. However, the Commission decided to proceed and denied the request.
"There were several people that were here at that last public meeting about this so we decided to extend it to this month," Commission chairman Lance Penfield said. "Some of them were just curious of what was happening and there were three who called in that were opposed to it."
Mike Bolin of Central Arkansas Developers heard his request for rezoning property from R2 to R1S (single family) in the southeast portion of Springhill Village.
"The property we are looking at is just east of Springhill Village subdivision, which is between Hilldale and Hilltop Roads on the east side of Springhill Road," Bolin said. "Phase one was developed prior to the property being brought into the city. It was R1S and what we are asking is that the additional property of developer Daniel Bartlett and Paula Smith be rezoned, which will give us access to Miller Road and will match the R1S which currently exists in Springhill Village."
Publicly, no one spoke, but Penfield did say that one individual called to oppose it, adding however it is already being constructed. Therefore, the Ordinance was passed to change the rezoning of the property and sent on to the City Council for approval.
It was also said to be imperative that Paxton Singleton's request to rezone property from R1 to C2 at 9415 Highway 5 North had to be passed by the Commission and read three times at this Thursday's City Council meeting.
"My client is requesting all of lot 109 at the Midland Farms addition, as well as a small sliver of land that was final platted for rezoning to C2."
The property is located north of Shobe Road and Highway 5 on the north side of the highway and west of the Owen Creek subdivision.
"We propose to develop a single story, one box retail commercial building on that lot," Singleton said.
There were no public comments and the Commission approved the rezoning and recommended that the City Council read the Ordinance three times in its next meeting.
After the public hearing portion of the meeting was closed, the North Bryant Baptist Church's construction plans were approved. Ken Young's King's Crossing subdivision phase three request for replat of lots 92 and 93 off of Highway 5 and Midland Road was also approved.
Singleton's request for a replat of lot 109 into a Dollar General store on 9415 Highway 5 North was passed, as was the preliminary plat approval for Hickory Hill subdivision and Stonehill Phase 4, which is seven lots in the Stonehill Estates.
And passed on to the City Council was the revision of Springhill Village zoning district map.
