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You know, there's so many things going on with Smyrna. So, I just wanted to let you guys know just of another voice and you know, care for our neighbors. Thank you. Um, hey, for contact information, Mr. Trailer. Um, Pearson, do we have your contact information? You could do that, please. Yeah. Mayor, can Jennifer, you're gonna you're going to reach out to to Glenn, right? And Okay, I think we have everybody. Miss Blelock, do we have your contact information? Mayor, is that then? I think some council members like to couple comments and just questions as as well. Have you have you guys experienced this recently again? Is this the first time? This is the first time that you've experienced this. Okay. Okay. Um, and I can speak as being a prosecutor, right? So, I deal with cases that come up um and how this goes and just balancing, right, between what's going on with you. I would be absolutely mortified if I have shots coming through. The first thing you're going to do is call 911. That's that's what you do. And I I I am concerned that you had that response from 911. I don't know what that is, but there's a way to be able to get a a copy of 911 reports and see, you know, the response times, right? Sometimes it may seem like a longer time than what it really is when you look at it, but you never know. But 20 minutes seems like a long time. But I also balance the same time with our PD knowing that they have to be multiple places. You've got Lieutenant Hansen who's here who himself has put his life on the line and has last year was shot in the process of responding to a situation. I I look at also there are times when they're responding and you may not understand.

And so, you can always reach out to him. And then there are people within like the DA's office or the solicitor's office and we can make sure you have those numbers that if you want to be able to call and say, "Hey, I I'm one of the neighbors who was out there and I'm just wondering what's happening with this case." They should be able to tell you to a certain degree. Or you can even go on the clerk's office site to see what's happening with the case. Yes. And I let me make sure I clarify for our city clerk. That would be the Cobb County clerk's office. And if it's Yeah. And and and a major defense will be able to tell you whether or not if it's a misdemeanor, then it's going to be the state court clerk's office. If it's a felony, then it's going to be the um uh superior court. And it sounds like from what we're hearing, this probably would be something that would go to the DA's office, the district attorney's office that deals with felonies. Thank you, Miss Hines. Appreciate that. Um, next on the agenda. All right, last public comment. Go ahead, sir. Sorry to share my experience. Sorry again, I didn't know how to register and talk about that. So, I'm the neighbor from the Woodbury Town House. Could you say name and name and address, please? Um, yeah, Vin. My name is Vine Dharawat and I'm at 2732 Bell Drive. Um so as many of them told is the same incident. So but how like so I'm non-immigrant worker. I came from India to I have never experienced this kind of issue. My family is totally terrified now. So we have a 4month old baby and uh so I woke up and it's like 2:30. I mean I've never I didn't sleep.

addition to uh those access points a new deceleration Lane on a Windy Hill will be added as well as a a full access uh traffic signal Davis Road RightWay um will be dedicated in and Road Improvement will be done in a in accordance with City standards for a new public rideway and Hillside Drive right away will be improved to meet uh minimum standards and that is that that RightWay is located in cob County uh so that that'll go through their review process and and through their approval processes there's an underground storm water Detention Facility um in the parking area for the Civic use building and then also underneath the the parking deck at the northeast corner of the property with this request there's uh four uh variances associated with it uh the first is to allow the the setback reduction to 10 feet for all the sides on the property um second is to allow reduction in the minimum parking requirement from 1.75 spaces per unit to 1.5 uh spaces per unit and then to allow an increase in density from 25 units up to 29 units per acre and then finally uh allow parking between the building and rideway here uh are the proposed elevations for the property um for the multi uh family development and then you have pictures of the subject property as it stands today and then uh pictures of the adjoining Area Community Development is in is recommending approval of the requested annexation and resoning um with following conditions um standard conditions uh from section 121 apply except for number two three 4 six and 16 and 17 uh the first standard condition it deals with composition of the building make sure it has the mixture of elements uh related to Stone uh brick uh Hardy Shake uh uh stucco those type of elements uh number two uh deals with the placement and screening of the detention Pond number three requires the utilities to be Underground number four requires the de developer to be responsible for any traffic improvements number five requires the installation of the deceleration Lane number six uh requires any streets that are constructed to meet City standards um number seven uh prohibits debris from being buried on site and number eight requires installation of decorative street lights 9 10 and 11 I'll deal with the city's tree ordinance and um making sure that we meet the requirements of the tree ordinance and that the plan is designed by a registered landscape architect in addition to the standard conditions we have 12 we have uh special conditions 12 is the minimum uh building setbacks 13 uh requires

Um, if you take the time to drive north on Atlanta Road from here, about 1.5 miles north of this gas station property, there are three of these same things. Um, they're awful. There's people hanging out outside of them. and they're filled with like drug paraphernalia selections, um, gambling machines. A lot of the food marts on the side sit empty. Um, it's just I really hate to see something like the fourth one coming in this little bit of stretch of road here. Um, in addition, there's uh on the site plan there is an entrance for this gas station that comes onto my street on Daniel Drive. U, there's not a lot of room right here. Um, so we're concerned for the safety of this of this access point. Um, I did speak with Rusty and Mark and he they said that someone is making an exception for this for this access point on our neighborhood. Um, from what I understand, it doesn't meet the the distance requirements per DOT. Um, and we learned that because a gas station was proposed on the adjacent corner, which is the county side. Um, and that access has been denied there for any proposed developments. Um, so you just try to imagine like coming off Atlanta Road and no one's going to use it just as a right exit. They're going to come in and out right there. The entrance for Daniel Drive is on an incline. It's not great the way it is. Um, so I just wanted to come and advocate for my neighborhood and for the city and, you know, hopefully it might make a difference. I don't know. Um, but thank you so much for your time. I don't get to see you guys all in one place all the time. Thank you for your Thank you for your time. I appreciate it. Waiting tonight.

Uh it used to be a restaurant before in the past. And then uh we take it and renovate and uh try to provide for the community a little bit. I mean fun and good. Well, we appreciate you doing business in Smyrna. You've taken the requisite courses and understand everything surrounding the license that responsibility. Yes. Very good. Thank you. That is in ward three. Uh I am satisfied with it, but I will open a open it up for a motion in a second. Miss Hines. All in favor, please vote. Motion passes unanimous. Thank you all. Congratulations. When are you opening? Uh in about four weeks. Weeks. Yes. Good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Right. Uh, next up, formal business 9A LIC2025-035, temporary sales certificate. Background, Mrs. Robinson. Yes, this is a temporary sale certificate for fruit, produce, and vegetable stand. It's going to be the business is MBH LLC doing business as October Optics. It's at 810 Pbook Road. The applicant is Jane Bledsoe and it's going to be a temporary tent that's going to have pumpkins and fall seasonal produce for sale through um the end of the year. Yeah. Hey, thank you. Thank you. Uh is Jane Ble here today? How you doing? Great. Would you like to come up and tell us a little bit about what you have planned? Thank you. Hi there. Um so uh it's uh the idea is just to have a um a local uh place to come buy pumpkins um for children and um essentially a a small scale pumpkin patch. So just through kind of like the end of October. Um it's a the space where it is is a nice big wide open um you know it's a an open area in front of a um 1800's home.

Thank you very much. Go on now to item C, zoning request Z25- Z009 at Benson Pool Road. Mr. Jones, any background before we turn it over to Joey? No, sir. Defer comments to our city planner, Mr. Sts. Good evening. I'm Joey Stabs, planner 2 with community development. This applicant is Alejandra Sanchez. It went to the PNZ board on August 11th and they recommended approval 70. The subject property is 2351 Benson Pool Road. It's about an acre. Um there's an existing 1,800 square foot building on the property. They're not planning to redevelop the property. They just want to change the zoning from office distribution to general commercial. As you can see, all the red around it is general commercial. Um the property below it is office distribution. There's nothing that's happening with that property with this resoning. And the other big property is a Georgia Power Substation. The future land use is mixed juice. That will remain mixed juice. Here's a picture of the subject property overhead. Uh, and then the building that's on the property and some adjacent properties. Staff is recommending approval of the reszoning from OD to GC with the following conditions. One, the following uses will be prohibited. Automobile broker office, auto parts attire stores, automobile repair, major and minor. Automobile and truck sales and service, automobile wash services, drive-thru restaurants, motorcycle sales and service, package stores, service stations, hookah bars, vape shops, parking of commercial vehicles, impromptu weekend markets and adult uses. Number two, um these are conditional. So, event facilities shall only operate between the hours of 8 am and 10 p.m. Restaurants shall only operate between the hours of 8:00 p.m. and 10 p.m. And laundry and dry cleaning will be pickup and drop off only. Three, they will all have to comply with section 46.1 of the noise regulation and city smartest code of ordinances.

I yield back. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Gold. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just want to highlight uh one event that happened this past Friday. I serve on the Campbell High School Educational Foundation and uh we support the college and career office. The foundation supports the college and career office and our former council member Kathy Young leads that office and organized a really fantastic college and career day at the high school. The biggest one we've had yet. 80 different vendors so to speak, colleges, local businesses, uh other organizations, city was there, of course, uh talking to about 700 juniors. So, it's really it's an impressive impressive day and uh Kathy pulled off it and pulled off a wonderful event and really appreciate all that she does, but really more importantly just a great number of students and teachers and staff that we have at Campbell High School. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Miss Wilkinson. Um, I want to reiterate the importance of the meeting on Thursday night, the South Cobb Drive improvements, the public in information open house with Georgia Department of um, transportation. Um, this uh, corridor is a I think it's about a onem corridor from um, from Campbell I mean I'm sorry uh, Concord Road to Windy Hill Road. It'll help with the connection of the multi-use trails that are already exist on Concord Road, Windy Hill Road, and and then they'll connect with Atlanta Road for the big a big square. Uh this has been something that's uh been important to me the entire time I've been on the council. Uh I've heard I heard my predecessors talk about the developing the four corners and that would be at those intersections like Junqual Plaza, Belmont Hills, um the the shopping center where Kroger is and also that corner when they invested in buying the property at Smyrna Grove.