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It is a public hearing. Zoning request Z26-002 allowing reszoning from LC to GC.26 26

acres land lot 450 3475 South Cop Drive Phyllis Ridgeway is the applicant. This is Mr. Lindley's Ward. Okay. This is reszoning case C26-002. The applicant is Phyllis Rididgeway. The planning and zoning commission heard this on April 11th. Recommended approval 7 to zero. The subject property is 3475 South Cobb Drive. It's about a quarter of an acre. Um it is currently zoned limited commercial, but as you can see, most of the the properties along South Cobb Drive are zoned general commercial. That's what she is requesting to allow a massage practitioner in her um hair salon. The Future Land uses comm community activity center. and so are the other um South Cobb Drive facing properties. To the back of it is zoned is future land use moderate density residential. This is the aerial of the subject property. They are not planning to um develop the property. They're using the the building as it currently is. Community Development recommends approval of the resoning from limited commercial to general commercial with the following uses um prohibited. Automobile broker office, automo auto parts and tire stores, automobile repair, automobile sales and service, uh car washes, drive-through restaurants, motorcycle sales, package stores, service stations, hookah bars, vape shops, parking or storage of commercial vehicles, impromptu weekend markets, and adult and novelty shops as defined by the city's code. I'll be happy to answer any questions. Any questions at all? All right, seeing none, this is a public hearing. Anybody who wish to be heard, please come on up and be sworn in by your city attorney. Okay, seeing none, we'll close this portion of the public hearing and turn over to Travis, Mr. Lley. Thank you. Um, is the applicant here? you mind stepping up and just telling us a little bit about the the proposed business? Oh, thank you for having me today.

Um, the business currently is a salon and um I wanted to lease a portion of the building for um massage services for another tenant. And are is it a new business or are you moving here? The massage business I've been there for nine years. The massage business will be new. Okay. Well, thank you for doing business in Smyrna. Thank you for having me. I'm excited. Hopefully, we'll be back for the small business recognition, right? Yes. Is it okay if I ask a quick question? So, you heard the list of prohibited uses? I did. Are you agree to those? I do. I do. Any other questions? We're good. I have a question. Thank you very much, ma'am. I have a question. Go ahead. That's okay. Uh, one of the uses that sometimes we exclude, I didn't see on there, was a tattoo parlor. I don't know if the council is would be interested in excluding that, but would you be open to that exclusion or? Um, I'm very open to that. I like the space and I work in it. I'm trying this out um for now, but I intend on staying there. So, I'm not looking to service another um entity. Are you okay? You're f you're fine with that list. That's correct. No, I think um so we'll make sure you're asking the applicant if she's willing to make amend the the application. Okay. And u do you have a response? Yeah, I just I don't and this is maybe speaking to Scott. I don't know if that's proper to do. We would have to let you guys unusual to do. Then I'll be honest, she's adding she said she didn't hear that was not a part of what my understanding is proposal for. Yeah. And I don't know if we can do that from it's up to you guys. I I am good to motion do pass is presented. Second. We have a motion uh motion for pass. Second by motion by Travis Lley, second by Latonia Behind. All in favor? Motion passes 5-0. Thanks for doing business here in Smyrna. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you.

All right, moving on. Item 7D Z26-00003 public hearing

zoner request Z26-003 allowing reszoning from R15 to RMC8 for the redevelopment of four single family homes at a density of 7.54 units per acre 53 acres land lot 809 2719 Bell Drive EIB properties LLC this is in Mr. W Mr. Welch's ward. Oh, Mr. Pickkins, I'm sorry. Thank you. He is traveling for work, but Cork is going to fill in for Thank you. Yes, sir. This is reasonzoning case Z26-003. Applicant is EIB Properties LLC. Planning and Zoning Commission heard this on April 11th and recommended approval 70. Subject property is 2719 Bell Drive. Um it's about half an acre. It's currently one lot and the proposed U is four single family detached homes. The current zoning is R15 and the proposed zoning would be RMC8 conditional. Um, if you see below the the subject property, there's two lots there that the applicant has already gotten approval for seven single family detached homes. This will be a second phase of that development. The re uh future land use map is regional activity center and this um zoning is compatible with that land use. This is the subject property. They're putting four homes. Two that face Bell Drive, two that face um Woodrift. Um it they will look exactly the same as the other seven that have been approved. They will be using the storm water detention from the the lower part of the development. And they'll be adding five foot sidewalk and two foot grass strip on both road frontages. There's six variances. Um, one to allow a reduction of the minimum lot area from 12,000 to 5,000 70 square ft. To allow a reduction of the minimum lot width from 100 ft to 49.6. Allow a reduction of the minimum front setback from 50 feet to 15 feet. Allow reduction of the minimum side setback from 10 feet to 5T.

Allow reduction of the minimum rear setback from 30 ft to 25 ft. and to allow an increase in the maximum lot coverage from 35% to 45%. Those are the same variances that we granted the the resoning from last year for the seven homes. This is just an example of showing the four lots and then the seven lots currently entitled to that property and the storm water management facility at the the lower part of the development. These are the proposed elevations subject property and adjacent properties. Staff's recommending approval of the reasonzoning from R15 to RMC8 conditional for four single family homes at a density of 7.54 units per acre. The following conditions, standard conditions regarding the architectural components of the building. um they'll have to meet our tree ordinance, landscape plans. Special conditions are the variances that I uh discussed, installation of sidewalk, rightway dedication where required and this would be condition to the site plan and elevation submitted with the application. Be happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Joey. Joey, what's the lot width? 49.6 49.6 49.6 Can you bring back up the elevations we were looking at? Okay. Um, one question I had, were we u requiring a sprinkler all these to be sprinkled? No, they have will have a minimum 10 foot separation. So I thought that was when we did Belmont Hills. That was one of the requirements. Those were like three feet of separation. Sorry, the detached units were like 3 ft apart. Belmont if they're less than 10 ft apart. They're required to have sprinkler if it's less than 10 ft. Um Okay. I don't have any other questions. It's developer in any other questions for anybody. We're good. Is you have a question? I'm sorry. So, is there the width to build these homes? Is that what you were asking, Corki?

Corki was asking about sprinklers in the house, and Joey's answer was if it's it's 10 feet, so they don't need to be sprinkled. Okay. Well, I guess mine would be uh the width is 49 and a half, you said, correct? And the is that enough room to build the the what's in the um the renderings of the elevations the width with the Yes. I mean that's 50 minus 10 is 40t wide to build a 40 foot wide house. And these are conceptual elevations. It's not exactly the lot, the the width or the the roof angles. It's just conceptual. It'll it'll be this type style of house when they get built. Are the um the variances that are being requested are they um the same variances that have been approved for other That's correct. developments on that same street. Okay. Thank you. is the applicant here. You'd like to come up and tell us a bit about the project, please. Good evening, Mayor Prom and council members. I'm David Woodbury for the applicant. Um almost exactly a year ago, this council approved the adjacent development that u that this property will be a phase two for. And as as Joey mentioned, the stipulations, the conditions, the lot sizes are basically all identical. Um, and we're going to tie into that same storm water system. We were able to get that to public works before construction started so that it could be enlarged to handle the additional water runoff here. Um, the lot widths are the same. All those lots along Bell Drive are 100 feet wide. And basically what these the plan last year and this one does is just divides it in half. Um and the homes that are on the elevations are the stylistic u the details the widths are all fit within those lots but the you know the exact detail and the exact architecture um finishes will uh you know are in design plan right now.

it. So, it looks like they'll have two uh each house would have two garages. Is that correct? Yes, ma'am. That's correct. Okay. Thank you. So, David, this will be a continuation of your existing project, just adding on, building on to it. That's correct. Okay, great. Great. You you answered my question. I think you do understand you're going to have to go back for for a detention revision on your existing lot. Correct. Yes, sir. Okay. Uh, thank you. Thanks. Project. Uh, this is a public hearing. If anybody like to be heard, please come on up and be sworn in by your city attorney. All right. Seeing none, we'll close this portion of the public hearing and turn it back over to Mr. Welch. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, I make a motion to approve item 7 Z26-003 as presented. Got a motion by Mr. Welch. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Mr. Lindley. All in favor? Excellent. Motion passes 5-0. Russ and Joey, thanks for your work on it. Thank you. Thank you, David. Uh, we have no privileges, license, and show cause hearings. Moving on to formal

business, the highlight of the meeting, Landon O'Neal Show. Um, 2026

182 public hearing fiscal year 2027 proposed budget. Can we start the clock? Landon is presently making a long presentation. Heather, do you know where this is? Down there. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. [clears throat] All righty. As a reminder, this is uh an overview of the FY27 budget, not a detailed explanation. I would refer everyone to the bottom right corner. Most of these slides have page numbers. if you want to know more detailed information, we'll try to get through this uh thoroughly but efficiently. So, just an overview of what we'll be going over tonight. The we'll kind of hit most of our funds, our general fund, E911, hotel, motel, water, sewer fund. That's where the majority of uh the operations of the city run out of those funds. and then go through our personnel, our new personnel recommendations, any fee changes we have, debt obligations, capital projects. So, just to look at our total FY27 proposed budget, we'll see this is actually showing as a decrease over the FY26 revised budget. Uh, going through these quickly, the general fund, we do have an increase. That's typical for what we see in our general fund. That's where the majority of city operations run from. Then our special revenues fund. We're seeing a decrease there. Uh two of the big reasons for that is we had a big grant, just a one-time grant for this year that we won't be having next year. And then our ARPA fund, that's the American Rescue Plan Act, uh from federal government. All that money had to be spent by the end of um last year. And then we do have increases in a few of these special revenue funds like Hotel Motel. Uh our donations and special fees are spending a little extra money from a few of those projects. our capital projects went down.

The the large number you see the 7.59 million for the FY26 revised uh represents what we spent or what we budgeted for our 2016 splast. So what we do is we budget a zero amount going into the into the year proposed and then we'll adopt through the year and we have a better idea what we'll spend. So that uh 3.55 million will likely increase. That's currently just our capital improvement plan. Uh the number for that our internal service fund that is our vehicle replacement funds. We see that number went down from 3.6 to 1.8. Uh we are spending uh less money on vehicles, cheaper vehicles. We bought a $ 1.7 million firet truck last year that we won't be buying this year and then we're buying fewer. We bought 24 last year. We're planning on 21 this year. Our enterprise funds, that's mostly our water, sewer, uh storm water, water, sewer, CIP, that went up the biggest amount for that is our transfer in from our water sewer fund to the general fund. We'll talk about that in a minute increased along with an additional water meter replacement project that you all approved a few months back. So just kind of an overview of some of the revenues and where we get those mostly as you'll see uh the vast majority of our general fund revenues are from property taxes about it's about 61% uh our real estate property taxes are make up the biggest portion of the property tax. We're projecting an increase of that from about 3.5% over what we've uh budgeted to or we're projecting to collect through the end of the year this year. And then as we move down to charges for services, the biggest thing we'll see there, that's uh our sanitation, what we collect for sanitation and any or the majority of parks and wreck fees.

Other taxes, uh by far the biggest for this would be our insurance premium tax collected from uh all insurance providers throughout the city. It's almost a little over $6 million. Inter fund transfers uh as I discussed before that would be our water sewer transfer and uh hotel motel transfers and some which we'll hit on that again as well license and permits business licenses things like that intergovernmental intergovernmental that's money that we would get from Cobb County for shared services between the city and the county that's based on an an agreement and then fines and forfeitures is most of that would be the municipal court fines for tickets police right and things like that and miscellaneous is kind of a catchall. You'll see our total general fund budget there, 73,584,427. And then we'll see the corresponding amount for expenditures. So, this just breaks it down by category. Public safety is our highest. That would be police and fire. General is kind of the catchall for administration, community development, uh human resources, things like that. Uh parks would be in there as well. Public works. Uh most people would know what public works is. It's our highways and streets department, our facilities, um sanitation, things like that. Insurance and other benefits. That's where we hold in one account, most of our insurance. We'll hit on a few of those notable expenditures on on the next slide here. So, what you would expect, health insurance, prescriptions, retirement, uh debt payments would uh come next after that, 6.2 2 million. We'll show you a debt slide as well along with CIP and vehicle replacement. Just a few notable expenditures that we pulled out here. So what we do is we budget the insurance and benefits on however many employees uh as a percentage um of all employees in the city are budgeted out of a specific fund.