Light Agenda For City Council Meeting Monday
Two recommendations from the Commerce Planning Commission will highlight what should be a short meeting of the Commerce City Council Monday night.
The council meets at 6:30 p.m. in the Commerce Room of the Commerce Civic Center.
The council gave all indication at its work session this past Monday night that it intends to accept the recommendations of the Commerce Planning Commission on two land-use related matters.
The first is a request by Michael Scott for a variance so he can bring in three mobile homes older than five years to his Ashworth Mobile Home Park on Homer Road. A city ordinance prohibits bringing in mobile homes older than five years, hence the request for a variance.
The planning commission recommended that the city deny the request. If any of the city council members support the move, they made no indication Monday night.
“I don’t see a reason to change (the policy),” said City Manager Clarence Bryant.
Councilman Bob Sosebee agreed: “What we’re all trying to do is upgrade the housing in the city,” he said.
Scott said he needed the variance because his mobile home park is set up for single-wide mobile homes, and he cannot find newer single-wides on which owners can get financing.
The other planning issue is a request from Dr. Ali Kahn to rezone 7.76 acres on Beck Road from R-1 in Jackson County to C-2 in the city for the purpose of annexing it for development as an office and retail development.
Other items on the agenda for Monday include:
•acceptance of a revised resolution for Rob and Candice Jordan’s Downtown Development Authority revolving loan. The document will reflect minor language changes.
•a decision to use almost $300,000 of “flexible account” reserve funds held for the city by the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia to pay off outstanding telecommunications bonds.
•approval of an agreement with Jackson County to spend $9,600 for eight “control point monuments” in or around Commerce crucial to the county’s global information system (GIS) mapping.
•approval of a request from the Downtown Development Authority to close sections of Little, Pine and Oak streets for Friday night events in April and May at Spencer Park.
