HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-05-1976 Joint MeetingI
STATE 0; ALAB.4-viA
COUNTY OF BALDWIN
The City Council of the City of FAirhope met in joint ;
session with the Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday,
January 5, 1976 at 7:00 P.M. with the following members present:
Mayor James P. Nix, Councilmen: David E. Bishop, H. G. Bishop,
Sas: E. Box and Barney L. Shull. Councilman 011ie E. Deese being ,
absent. Members of the Planning Commission Present: Chairman
John S. Parker, Harford Field, Chester Billie, Dr. Pierce Frederick,
Cecil Pitman, Jack Kirk and Mrs. Neuman.
Mayor Nix opened the meeting stating that it was a joint
meeting with the Planning Co��mission to hear the rezoning -request
of Mr. and Mrs. Dyas and turned the meeting over to John Parker,
Chairman of the Planning Commission.
Mr. Carlton Niemeyer, representing Mr. and Mrs. Dyas,
Presented the four applications for -rezoning of property fronting
Highway 98, four -lane Highway 98 and Alabama State Highway 104
and land on the Northwest side of Highway 98.
The first Application presented was for rezoning from R-1
to B-4, Business and Professional, property on the North side of
Highway 104.
The second application was for -rezoning from R-1 to B-1 in
order to construct a shopping center on property on the West
side of four lane Highway 98.
The third application was for rezoning from R-1 to R-3, a
portion already,zoned R-3, for multi -family dwellings on High-
way 104 and Highway 98.
The fourth application was for rezoning from R-3 to R-1
B-4, Business and Professional, property on the northwest side off
Highway 98. i
After a lengthy discussion and question and answer period by
members of the City Council, Planning Commission,•Mr. Niemeyer
and property ow-ners present, Mr. Field moved, seconded by Mrs.
Newman that the four application presented be recommended to the �
City Council for denial for the following reasons:
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1. The commercial development such as another shopping i
center would jeopardize the economic health of our now progress-
ive downtown shopping district.
2. The commercial development such as another shopping
center would require that this extremely high and rolling and
wooded property would have to be denuded and bulldozed down to
near 'Level with the Highway, and thus at the primary entrance to
our City create a varitable eyesore and detriment to the quiet
residential character of the cor,aiuni.ty.
3. Any development other than low density residential
would hurt the property value of the high grade -residential
community, Coloriial Acres, immediately across Highway 104.
4. The property, with its wooded and rolling topography
lends itself admirable to the very kind of residential develop-
ment with access to.lots by way of interior drives, that the
applicant has laid out for her property on U. S. 98, just north
Of the City Limits.
5. The rezoning application is a drastic departure from
the recently developed comprehensive plan for Fairhope's land
use and would nullify several of the -major tenets of this Plan.
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6. This commercial development would create strip commer-
cial zoning on the two major through traffic ways serving Fairhope;
thus jeopardizing the function of the roadways.
!; Upon being put to vote of the members of the Planning
Commission, the motion was carried.
The meeting was turned over to Mayor Nix for Council 1
action on the applications.
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Motion by Councilman Sar-ii Box seconded by Councilman H. G. I
Bishop that the four applications for rezoning Dyas property be
denied as reco,m ended by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Motion carried. r
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There being no further business the meeting adjourned on E
motion duly made, seconded and carried. I
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Approved !
Mayor
Attest 1
City Clerk