The Alexander City Council will have a busy night at its next council
meeting. Three action items and one item for discussion are scheduled
for the Monday, November 19 meeting.
In the action
category council members will be asked to approve a resolution
amending the 2018 budget, approve the “Purchase of property next to
Alexander Central Fire Station” and a rezoning ordinance. The only
item labeled for discussion is, “Hourly to salary wages.”
One item on the
agenda, that won’t be needed, concerns a proposed ordinance that
was expected to be recommended by the city’s planning commission
for council approval. At a special meeting held last Thursday
(November 15) the planning commission discussed how to handle a
building permit request by Hale Steel.
The company, known
for its metal buildings, is ready to construct its permanent
corporate offices at the southeast corner of E. Azalea and South
Alexander Road. The question is whether the property was ever legally
zoned commercial.
In 2013 the city
council, at that time, was presented with a request by the company to
zone the back half “Industrial” and the front half “Commercial.”
Planning commission member Juanita Wilson, who was on the council at
the time and who is a member of the current city council, remembers
voting to approve the request. However, as best as can be determined,
that approval was never followed up with a zoning hearing or
ordinance. And, as yet, the minutes of that meeting have yet to
uncovered.
In order to
temporarily solve zoning issues in south Alexander, until a new
zoning map can be drawn and approved, planning commission members, at
the Thursday night special meeting, considered recommending the
council approve an all-inclusive ordinance that would have zoned all
of what was Woodland Hills based on the designs of its developer
Charley Martin. That idea was scrapped in lieu of recognition of the
2013 vote as legitimate. Council members now will only be asked to
approve the building plans and give the mayor permission to sign-off
on the building permit.
The main purpose of
the planning commission’s special meeting was as a follow-up to a
rezoning hearing held that night. Commission members agreed to
recommend the city council approve a one-acre lot, surrounded by E.
1st Street, A.C. Wallace Street and E. 2nd
Street be rezoned from R-1 Single-Family to R-2 Multi-Family.
Construction on the 14, two-bedroom apartments is expected to begin
in January. The rezoning ordinance is listed above. (See article
below for further information.)
The monthly meeting
of the Alexander City Council will be held Monday, November 15, 6 PM,
in the courtroom in city hall. The public is encouraged to attend.
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