Good evening. The city of Preston City Planning and Zoning Commission meeting June 25 at 6 p.m. will now come to order. At this time, we will have a roll call. Brad Green here. Cana Hardy here. Dan
Dodge here. Robert Sher here. City manager Derek Martin here. City planners Mark Caret here. And chair Veronica Glover here. Next item on our agenda is approval of
minutes. Have everybody. Madam Chair, if I may add, the minutes were not ready to give to you prior to this evening. So you have them for review whether you have time this evening or next meeting to
approve. Okay. All right. Thank you. [Music] Okay, we will move to our new business, Crescent City Fish Camp LLC. Would you like me to begin? Yes, please.
Okay. I uh for the record, I'm mark correct. uh planner. Uh we're going to do this the as a reminder, we're going to do this the way we've done other uh presentations of these types. You have two items here
before you. One is a comprehensive plan amendment and the other one is a resoning. They're both uh for the development of the same property. So, we're going to talk about them, describe them together. You can hold one hearing
for both these items, but you will have to take individual votes on each item separately as we've done before in the past. As a reminder, the uh the
reasonzoning is a quasi judicial matter. So uh the process associated with that is first of all uh disclosing if you've had any outside contact you're supposed to make your decision based on the testimony that's presented here or the
written testimony presented here to you in the meeting. So if you had any outside contacts, you should disclose them uh early in the meeting and we you'll have a presentation from staff which uh Rebecca will be giving. Uh you
will then have an opportunity to hear from the applicant and then you open up to members of the public. The applicant uh needs to be given an opportunity to uh rebut anything that might be said in the public. So the applicant, you know,
get gets the last word before you guys close all that off and uh you know make your own deliberations. Obviously you can you can ask questions for everybody but you know once you close the public
hearing you know in theory you guys make the decision. Good evening. This is a request from Crescent City Fish Camp LLC. Can you um please give us your name? Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Rebecca Codles at Associates.
Address, please. 300 Interchange Boulevard. Thank you. Tonight we're reviewing a request from Presley City Fish Camp LLC for a smallcale amendment to the future land use map and associated reasoning for a 15 acre property consisting of four
parcels located at 100 Grove Avenue. A portion of the site is currently designated commercial with the remaining area designated residential medium density. and their court request is to change the future land use designation for the entirety of the property to
commercial to allow an expansion of the existing Crescent City Fish Camp RV resort that's currently located on the north side of Grove Avenue. In addition, the reszoning request is to reszone the property from commercial and
MR1 multif family residential to planned unit development to allow for the short-term rental and RV use. And I do want to clarify that the development agreement for this PD, the final version that you're reviewing tonight is at the
very end of your packet. So there were some changes between the development agreement that's at the beginning of the packet that was submitted with the application and the one at the end. The main change being the marina was
removed from the development agreement. So the applicant is no longer requesting a marina with the expansion. I also want you to note that in the development agreement, the applicant is requesting for 74 accommodations,
but currently the site plan shows 58. So if the application were to be reviewed and approved tonight um and with council and they came back with the site plan and wanted to do more than 58, they have to modify their site plan.
A large portion of the site will also be dedicated to conservation and the applicant has indicated that there is a path that will remain usable to residents and I'm available for any questions. So, you're changing from the original 58
to the 74 sites. In their development agreement document, there's a maximum of 74 accommodations. Their site plan currently only shows 58. So, in the future, if they were to actually propose 74, they would have to
come back and revise the plan. Thank you for the clarification. So this this page on the very back of the this is the final site plan for the development. Yes. Obviously they'll come back with more detail.
there. It shows a I understand the zoning to the south side of this is SR1A. Is that correct? That's correct. That is uh little residential. Yes. I also see on here it looks like a 10ft
vegetative buffer and a 6 foot minimum fence on that side. Yes. For a for a waste buffer, if you will or Okay. And that meets our plan development code
for buffer. Yes. Are you done do a presentation? I am. Let's see how many questions. Thank you. Is there a recommendation? Staff recommends approval of both both the conflict amendment and the resentment.
Thank you. So, correct me if I'm wrong. This piece of property before was commercial and multifamily or Yes. Density. It's four different parcels. So a portion of it was already commercial and then the remaining future land use was um multif
family. Okay. I'm sorry. It was residential medium density and the zoning was multi family. I remember there was a condo project or something that was supposed to go a and you said no marina. So there's no there's not going to be any uh impact on
the white lines at all. Correct. The review was completely removed from both the plan and adult agreement. And define, would you please define short-term rentals? Less than 30 days. So nightly up to 30
days. Yes. Thank you. It talks about either doing it in phases or in a one one phase if you will. Um what what are we looking at here? Are we looking at multi-phases? Are we looking
at doing it all at once or the development agreement has language to allow for phasing? But at this point, the applicant is proposing to just construct So, so just you understand, so they could come in for a site plan. That
would be a smaller portion of this. The agreement does allow them to do that. [Music] And I may be getting ahead of of this item, but uh I assume that the site is
serviced by city waste and and water. Yes, they will be connecting to central utilities and natural gas. Yes. And city gas, I mean. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. I thought it was very thorough and had
all [Music] I have one small detail and again it's it's small but um on the uh
considering uh concerning bald eagles nest there's one on just opposite to the southern shore of Lake. Um, and
on the on the map, uh, it's it's listed, but it it doesn't state that it's active. I believe you're looking at the environmental report. Is that correct? It's the Bald Eagle and Wenbery map. So that information is is part of the
environmental assessment that was prepared and submitted. That information comes from a uh federal from the federal government. So so we don't have specific knowledge as to that next. Well, that's that's why I
want to volunteer that knowledge that it is active and has been productive and it was productive this year. Yeah, it's a small detail, but yeah. Well, well, I do want to point out though that that the way
bald eagle's nests are regulated, it has to do with how active they are. And then there's sort of bands outside of that where you're allowed to do construction. This property is way way outside any of those bands. Exactly. I understand that.
But as a member of the Ottabon, I'm sure that it's We all understand it's an active that it is a distance. So, thank you. Okay. Thank you. Questions?
[Music] Thank you. At this time we will um open you hear from the applicant um from the applicant. Okay. Okay.
Good evening everyone Garcia the owner of Crescent Fish Camp. Um lovely to see you all. Thank you for being here. Um, just one quick clarification. Excuse me. Can you for the record, can you
state my name? Your name and your address, please. Name and address. Yes. Address of property where I reside. Where you reside? So, it's Andrew Garcia, 4630 Jeff Drive, Atlanta,
Georgia. Um so you know I just wanted to to just give a little bit of background um and some detail on the property was already stated that this is an expansion of an existing um fish camp RV resort
campground fish camp. Um, we took ownership of Quest Fish Camp in 2022 and we spent the past several years working to revamp and and rebuild the area. um in and around the campground. Um and
we've enjoyed our time in Crescent City and we believe in the area and everything that's that's going on and we're we're super excited to be here and um you know we're we're looking forward to hopefully taking the next step um in the city and county because we've had an excellent
experience. Um quick clarification because the the number of sites was mentioned. I think the purpose there was to have a max potential density for future site plan approval but the site plan that's in your packet. This is what
we anticipate barring any specific feedback from the committee um to be the final site plan. Now there will be future permitting meetings. Yeah, there'll be a more detailed I mean we're referring to it as a site plan. Really what this is is a concept plan correct
and there'll be a more detailed site plan and construction drawings that'll get reviewed by the the town's development review committee and then brought for you guys brought forward here for you guys to approve. Thank you. And then we did have a detailed
environmental report um from a third party and there were you know bald eagles were mentioned there was no sight or sign of bald eagles nest in the vicinity of the property and no other environmental concerns were highlighted at that point and we do marinas were
also mentioned just a couple clarifications I was really taking notes um there was never any official plan as as part of the proposal for a marina it was included again there was certain flexib ibility for future use. Uh but that's not something we we anticipate uh
pursuing at this time. Thank you. Any questions I can answer from anybody on the committee? I think everything I mean I already had an opportunity to read through it and any questions that I had was in the
report was very thorough. question, Mr. Um, probably not, but give me a moment. I'm trying to read this. Um, no, I'm fine. Thank you.
Okay, questions. Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you. Now we will have um public comments. Please, if anyone would like comments, come to the podium and please state your
name and your address. At this time we have no public comments. So we will um proceed to make a motion. Make a motion. I move that we approve the small scale
comprehensive plan amendment. I second. Okay. It has been properly motioned and second that we approve the smallcale comprehension plan amendment. We will now take a vote. Mr. Green,
I Mr. Baj I Mr. Chair I miss I thank you. Okay. All right.
So our next item on the agenda will be the resomi. So if you could there we don't have an additional presentation the presentation combined and
depend upon how you wish to do it. As I said, you could combine the public hearing and then vote on each of these separately. If you do want to open it back up specifically on this side, certainly you can do that as well. You don't have to. Okay.
And that changes the zoning to the PD. It changes the PD. Okay. Okay. I'll make a motion that we change the uh zoning from it current zoning to the PE classification as presented. Second. It has been properly moved
properly motioned and second that we change the reszone into PD. Mr. Green I miss I Mr. Mr. Dodge I Mr. Chair I Miss Glover I
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