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Minutes for the Stormwater Management Board appeal hearing for Candlewood Suites on July 16, 2008.
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STORMWATER MANAGEMENT BOARD APPEAL HEARING MINUTES
Date: July 16, 2008
Location: Huntington Building
Conference Room #105
900 West Monroe
Jonesboro, AR 72401
Time: 8:30 a.m.
Opening: Vice-Chair Vance called the hearing to order at 8:34 a.m.
In Attendance marked in bold
Members:
Dewaine Beisner
Todd Wilcox
Michael Daniels
Alec Farmer, Chair
Jerry Farris
Betty Shaw
John Street
Gene Vance, Vice-Chair
Jon Wilbanks
Dennis Zolper
John Easley
Officials & Staff:
Doug Formon - Mayor
Tony Thomas - Project Administrator
Erick Woodruff - Public Works Director
Otis Spriggs - Director of Planning & Zoning
Craig Light - Chief City Engineer
Michael Morris - Civil Engineer
Tracey Cooper - Secretary
Others in Attendance:
George Hamman
Travis House
Thomas White
Phillip Crego
Chairman Farmer recused and turned the appeal hearing over to Vice-Chair Vance. Wilbanks and Easley are the alternates. Crego clarified that both alternate votes will count because Farris was not present and Farmer recused. Vance questioned which rules would apply for the appeal -old rules or new rules. Crego stated that the existing rules under which the project began would apply.
Spriggs stated that the request was brought to the Planning Commission because of the old rules and was recommended to this Board.
The person appealing is allowed to speak first. Hamman stated that the reason for the appeal was that John Kazi Construction wants to construct a hotel on the SE corner at the intersection of Phillips Drive and Kazi Drive. He stated that the latest revisions to the map were done in 1999 and show the floodplain is limited to the north side of Phillips Drive. Hamman noted that there is a pipe network the runs from the crossing of Whiteman’s Creek at Stadium Drive. Pipe runs south on the west side of Stadium to the south side of Phillips Drive and extends to the west to and be...
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