Meeting of July 8, 2025

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voting meeting. Let's begin and call this meeting to order. Roll call, please. Squire Clim here. Squire Hicks here. Squire Muse here. Square Pennington here. Square Saltzman here. Square Thompson here. Square Whitehead here. Square Yates here. Just Tall here. Uh next we'll have a invocation uh by Magistrate Thompson and pledge of allegiance. Magistrate Hicks. I invite you to pray with me. Father God, what a privilege it is to come before you. Lord, what a privilege it is to serve our community in the manner that you have set out for us. We pray your blessing today on this court meeting on all who are gathered here. Lord, uh let this be a time that uh when we go about doing the business of this county and let it be a time that you would be lifted up and that you'd be praised for who you are. Father, we thank you for your watch care, your devotion, your um protection, especially Lord God, for those who are out there in as first responders caring for us. We

pray your blessing on them, Lord, and all who are gathered here today in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Thanks again for joining today. It's great to see all of you here today. Uh special call out there to our mayor, West Point. Appreciate your presence. Uh let's review the agenda. Uh next we'll uh we will uh vote on the uh minutes from the last meeting. We have several presentations. After that, then uh we'll have a time of citizens concerns or comments. Uh we have three ordinances to vote on today and then uh we have a few items in the consent agenda to go over and I'll

review those and uh we'll vote on those also and then a comment section before we adjourn. All right. Um just a a quick note before we move on on the uh flood recovery status. Uh you're probably not hearing as much about it. Things are starting to wind down thankfully. Um there is a written uh report in the written report section that you can get some uh more details, but I did want to cover that um that we have 472 registrations at this point in Harden County. Uh we have 469 that were valid registrations and there's been a loss recovery for Harden County of approaching $3 million to those that uh needed help. And so um that's where we're at right now. The date, the last date, um to actually go and see somebody in Harden County is this month. I believe it's the 25th. So 25th is the last day that their office is going to be open is what I've been told.

All right. Um with that, we'll move on. So we'll approve uh Harden County Fiscal Court uh 6 uh June June 24th, 2025 minutes. Uh need a motion to approve. So moved. Second. It's been moved and seconded. And any discussion hearing? None. Roll call, please. Square Clim, yes. Square Hicks, yes. Square Muse, yes. Square Pennington, yes. Square Saltzman, yes. Square Thompson, abstain. Square Yates, yes. I'm sorry. Square Whitehead. Yes. Judge Tall. Yes. Motion passes. All right. Oh, there was uh before I move on was one note that I meant to mention about u the the flooding. Uh we're still waiting on the public assistance. I got um an update email just an hour ago says the president has not provided public assistance for this declaration. Public assistance has not been denied. We are told it is under review. there is no

indication as to when a determination will be made. So that's from U FEMA that came. Okay. Uh moving on then we'll um we'll go into our presentations. Our first one up is planning and Adam King. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. All right. All right, I've got May and June uh from Planning and Development. Uh first, an item that went before the planning commission. Uh this was a zone change request uh by PCH properties. Uh the zone change request was from the C0, that's a neighborhood commercial zone, not one that we deal with too often, to an urban residential and R1 zone. Um, this was for financing purposes on a 1.7 acre site out at 3563 Hajenville Road. Um, this would be right there near Wakefield subdivision uh before you get to Redm Mill Road in the Laroo County line. Um, so this property had been zoned C0 um back in the early 2000s because they were actually operating a beauty shop

out of that detached garage you see there on the screen. uh PCH properties bought the home uh remodeled it and just wanted to sell it and the C0 zone created an issue for their buyer with financing so we reszoned that to Urban Residential R1. A couple items that went before the Harden County Board of Adjustment. Um this was a variance request uh also out Hodgenville Road. Um Fourth Generation Properties is the owner. The applicant was Kerr Landscaping and essentially this was an old automotive shop there. You got a photo of it on the screen. Uh they were remodeling it. Um and they were adding a covered front porch. Unfortunately, this property was surrounded on all sides by residential property. So there were 40 foot setbacks all the way around that property. So on the platter, the development plan there, you'll notice that area in green. that is the only buildable area on this little halfacre site. Um so the covered porch was in the setbacks. Um so they requested a variance. Wasn't getting any closer to that home next door and that was approved. Uh another variance here,

this is Taylor's Lane. Um kind of in the Rinyville area out off St. John Church Road. Um, but they had some water in the basement as as many homes have had here with all the recent rains. And one of the issues to alleviate that problem was that existing covered porch you see there. Um, so they were tearing that down, going to widen the porch to cover the whole front of the home and they needed a variance. Taylor's Lane's a a deadend road, very narrow with I think only four homes on it um at the end of the road. So this variance was also approved. Looking at the various land use applications halfway through 2025, we've done 12 conditional use permits, 14 variances, um 12 development plans, five zone changes, and 43 plats for the year. Looking at our plats and our lots. Um so far on plats we would be 43 total plats recorded. Um how that compares to 2024 we were at 49. Um on the number of lots 55 new lots for