2025-04-17 April 17, 2025 Committee of the Whole Meeting Minutes - FINAL
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April 17, 2025 6:00 PM City of Smyrna Mayor and Council Meeting 2800 King Street SE Human Resources Training Room Page 8 of 10 30. The shared sidewalk and road connections with the church property will be installed and constructed by the developer as shown on the 10/19/2021 site plan. 31. The development shall provide appropriate turning radius for non-emergency commercial vehicles. 32. The developer shall be responsible for any water and sanitary sewer improvements deemed necessary by the Public Works Director during construction plan review. 33. The developer shall be responsible for any fire access improvements deemed necessary by the Fire Marshal during construction plan review. 34. All trees within the limits of disturbance and not located within a tree protection area must be removed during the land clearing and grading phase of the development. 35. Approval of the subject property for the RDA zoning district shall be conditioned upon the development of the property in substantial compliance with the site plan submitted 10/19/2021 3/14/2025 created by Planners and Engineers DGM Land Planning Consultants and all zoning stipulations above. 36. The applicant shall be bound to the elevations submitted and dated 6/2/2021 3/14/2025 and the exterior side wall elevations on 4/2/2025. Approval of any change to the elevations must be obtained from the Director of Community Development. 37. Additional evergeen trees shall be planted in the landscape buffer with a minimum of 3-inch caliper. 38. The minimum driveway length shall be 20 feet from the garage face to back of curb for Lots 1-3, and 22' for Lots 4-12. 39. The maximum building height shall be 38 feet measured from the average elevation of the ground on all four sides to the midpoint between the eaves of the ridge on a sloped roof. 40. Each home shall have a covered rear deck and the supporting posts shall be made of brick. 41. The external side elevation for Lot 6 shall be all brick, and the external side elevations for Lots 1, 7, and 12 shall be a minimum one story of brick. 42. The HOA shall maintain the landscape buffer adjacent to Argyle Estates to be free of bamboo. Councilmember Glenn Pickens returned to the HR Training Room after discussion ended at 6:40 PM. RES2025-008: Mayor Norton introduced the resolution for approving the Intergovernmental Economic Development Agreement with the Downtown Development Authority. The bod will allow the city to proceed with the purchase and future development plans for the site. There was discussion about potential uses for the site, including a pickleball facility and a hotel. The city plans to lease existing buildings on the site to current tenants while determining future use. ATH2025-067: Paul Osburn, Deputy Public Works Director, stated that this addresses the road resurfacing project funded by SPLOST and potential LRA funds (application in process). The project will resurface 10.94 miles of roadway focusing on roads in mid- to poor condition. The total cost of the project is $1.4M with significant savings compared to previous estimates. The project includes full-width mill and overlay, soil cement, and reclamation for structural failures. Curb repair is not included in this. ATH2025-069: Joe Bennett, City Administrator, stated that the City has completed several projects and needs to reallocate funding to other ARPA projects. We also need to establish project length budgets for several obligations that did not have an established budget.