General — Gulfport, MS
Date: 2022-12-15
Time: 16:30

AGENDA

 GULFPORT CITY PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
 CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS

 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022 AT 4:30 PM

A. Prayer

B. Pledge of Allegiance

C. Call to Order

D. Determination of a Quorum

E. Confirmation of Agenda

F. Adoption of Minutes

 F1. Planning Commission Meeting - November 17, 2022

G. Hearing of Cases

 G1. Public Declaration of Appeal Process of Chairman

 Any person or any officer, department or agency of the City aggrieved by any decision of
 the Planning Commission may, within fifteen (15) days thereafter, appeal there from to the
 Mayor and City Council by filing with the Planning Commission a written notice of appeal
 specifying the decision from which the appeal is taken. In case of such appeal, the Planning
 Commission shall cause a transcript of the proceedings in the case to be certified to the
 Mayor and City Council, and the matter will be heard on said transcripts. The filing fee for
 an appeal is based on the actual cost of the required official transcript and any related
 miscellaneous charges. Any appeal shall be in writing and submitted to the Department of
 Urban Development-Planning Division stating what decision is being appealed and
 detailing how you are aggrieved.

 G2. Anyone speaking today is asked to complete a "Speaker's Card".

 Please provide the completed card at the time you speak to the Planning Commission. City
 staff personnel can assist in any questions you may have or in completing the card. This
 public meeting is open to all for comment.

H. Planning Commission Decisions

 1. Planning Commission Approval 2209PC170:
  Remanded Back By City Council

  Planning Commission Approval 2209PC170, by agent Randy Kirby, tax parcel 0809N-03-
  006.002, Requests a medical cannabis dispensary use, 9113 Hwy 49, Zoned B-4 (Highway
  business), Ward 3
  2. Planning Commission Approval 2211PC194:
 (Postponed from November 17th Meeting)

  Planning Commission Approval 2211PC194, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel
  1011D-03-008.000, Requests for outdoor entertainment venue, 942 1/2 Beach Blvd, Zoned
  T5 (Urban Center Zone), Ward 2
  3. Planning Commission Approval 2212PC215:

  Planning Commission Approval 2212PC215, by owner Thomas Lewis, tax parcel 0807J-
  01-021.003, Requests a home occupation for independent freight dispatch service, 13593
  Wind Rose Circle, Zoned R-1-15 (Single-family), Ward 7
  4. Planning Commission Approval 2212PC216:

  Planning Commission Approval 2212PC216, by owner William Caleb Boyles, tax parcel
  0908J-01-024.008, Requests a home occupation for engraving and cerakoting firearms, 22
  Jay Drive, Zoned R-1-10 (Single-family), Ward 6
  5. Appeal 2212PC222:

  Appeal 2212PC222, by agent Shaw Design Group, P.A, tax parcel 0809K-01-001.026, to
  Appeal City of Gulfport Design Standards, 9394 Three river Road, Zoned B-2 (General
  business), Ward 3
I. Planning Commission Recommendations

  1. Zoning Map Amendment 2208PC145:
  Remanded Back By City Council

  Zoning Map Amendment 2208PC145, by agent M & P Development, LLC., tax parcels
  1011C-01-010.000, 1010N-04-029.000, Request to rezone from T4L (General Urban Zone
  "Limited") and T4+ (General Urban Zone "Plus"), to T5 (Urban Center Zone), Ward 2
  2. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195:

  Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel 1011D-03-
  008.000, Requests rezone from T5 (Urban Center Zone) to T6 (Urban Core Zone), 942 1/2
  Beach Blvd, Ward 2
  3. Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC225:


  Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC225, by CRC Westside, amendments to the SmartCode Zoning
  Article 6, as amended, Section 5.3.3 a Table 10
 4. Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC224:


 Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC224, by CRC Westside, amendments to the SmartCode
 Zoning Ordinance, as amended, Section 5.3.3 h
 5. Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC226:

 Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC226, by City of Gulfport, Amendments to the
 Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended, District Regulations, (K) Chart of
 Permitted Uses (2) Schedule of uses - Residential Hotel
J. Planning Commission Subdivisions

 1. Resubdivision 2212PC218:
 (Postponed to January 26th Meeting)


 Resubdivision 2212PC218, by agent Joyce Unsworth, tax parcel 0710O-02-102.002, Divide
 into two new parcels, 4809 29th Street, Zoned B-1 (Neighborhood business), Ward 1
 2. Resubdivision 2212PC219:
 Withdrawn by Administration

 Resubdivision 2212PC219, by agent Jimmy Miles, tax parcel 0810N-05-023.000, Divide
 into three new parcels, 32nd St, Zoned B-2 (General business), Ward 3
 3. Resubdivison 2212PC220:
 Withdrawn by Administration

 Resubdivison 2212PC220, by agent Josh Fleming, tax parcels 0811G-02 -030.000 &
 0811G-02-016.000, divide into two new parcels, 1512 E Beach Blvd & Thornton Ave,
 Zoned R-B (Residence-Business) Ward 2
 4. General Plan 2212PC221:

 General Plan 2212PC221, by agent Freddie Fountain with Fountain & Associates, LLC, tax
 parcel 0907J-01-001.005, Approval of a General Plan for 17-Lot subdivision (Plantation
 Oaks Subdivision - Phase III), 0 Three Rivers Road, Zoned R-B (Residence-business),
 Ward 6
K. Other Business

 1. Zoning Text Amendment 2209PC171:
 Remanded Back By City Council

 Zoning Text Amendment 2209PC171, by Lauren Illing, City of Gulfport, Amendments to
 the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended, Section I Definitions (B) Words and
 Phrases Medical cannabis Establishment and Section III District Regulations, (K) Chart of
 Permitted Uses, (2) Schedule of Uses Medical Cannabis Dispensary
L. Adjournment

AGENDA

 GULFPORT CITY PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
 CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS

 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2022 AT 4:30 PM

A. Prayer

B. Pledge of Allegiance

C. Call to Order

D. Determination of a Quorum

E. Confirmation of Agenda

F. Adoption of Minutes

 F1. Planning Commission Meeting - November 17, 2022

G. Hearing of Cases

 G1. Public Declaration of Appeal Process of Chairman

 Any person or any officer, department or agency of the City aggrieved by any decision of
 the Planning Commission may, within fifteen (15) days thereafter, appeal there from to the
 Mayor and City Council by filing with the Planning Commission a written notice of appeal
 specifying the decision from which the appeal is taken. In case of such appeal, the Planning
 Commission shall cause a transcript of the proceedings in the case to be certified to the
 Mayor and City Council, and the matter will be heard on said transcripts. The filing fee for
 an appeal is based on the actual cost of the required official transcript and any related
 miscellaneous charges. Any appeal shall be in writing and submitted to the Department of
 Urban Development-Planning Division stating what decision is being appealed and
 detailing how you are aggrieved.

 G2. Anyone speaking today is asked to complete a "Speaker's Card".

 Please provide the completed card at the time you speak to the Planning Commission. City
 staff personnel can assist in any questions you may have or in completing the card. This
 public meeting is open to all for comment.

H. Planning Commission Decisions

 1. Planning Commission Approval 2209PC170:
  Remanded Back By City Council

  Planning Commission Approval 2209PC170, by agent Randy Kirby, tax parcel 0809N-03-
  006.002, Requests a medical cannabis dispensary use, 9113 Hwy 49, Zoned B-4 (Highway
  business), Ward 3
  2. Planning Commission Approval 2211PC194:
 (Postponed from November 17th Meeting)

  Planning Commission Approval 2211PC194, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel
  1011D-03-008.000, Requests for outdoor entertainment venue, 942 1/2 Beach Blvd, Zoned
  T5 (Urban Center Zone), Ward 2
  3. Planning Commission Approval 2212PC215:

  Planning Commission Approval 2212PC215, by owner Thomas Lewis, tax parcel 0807J-
  01-021.003, Requests a home occupation for independent freight dispatch service, 13593
  Wind Rose Circle, Zoned R-1-15 (Single-family), Ward 7
  4. Planning Commission Approval 2212PC216:

  Planning Commission Approval 2212PC216, by owner William Caleb Boyles, tax parcel
  0908J-01-024.008, Requests a home occupation for engraving and cerakoting firearms, 22
  Jay Drive, Zoned R-1-10 (Single-family), Ward 6
  5. Appeal 2212PC222:

  Appeal 2212PC222, by agent Shaw Design Group, P.A, tax parcel 0809K-01-001.026, to
  Appeal City of Gulfport Design Standards, 9394 Three river Road, Zoned B-2 (General
  business), Ward 3
I. Planning Commission Recommendations

  1. Zoning Map Amendment 2208PC145:
  Remanded Back By City Council

  Zoning Map Amendment 2208PC145, by agent M & P Development, LLC., tax parcels
  1011C-01-010.000, 1010N-04-029.000, Request to rezone from T4L (General Urban Zone
  "Limited") and T4+ (General Urban Zone "Plus"), to T5 (Urban Center Zone), Ward 2
  2. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195:

  Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel 1011D-03-
  008.000, Requests rezone from T5 (Urban Center Zone) to T6 (Urban Core Zone), 942 1/2
  Beach Blvd, Ward 2
  3. Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC225:


  Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC225, by CRC Westside, amendments to the SmartCode Zoning
  Article 6, as amended, Section 5.3.3 a Table 10
 4. Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC224:


 Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC224, by CRC Westside, amendments to the SmartCode
 Zoning Ordinance, as amended, Section 5.3.3 h
 5. Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC226:

 Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC226, by City of Gulfport, Amendments to the
 Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended, District Regulations, (K) Chart of
 Permitted Uses (2) Schedule of uses - Residential Hotel
J. Planning Commission Subdivisions

 1. Resubdivision 2212PC218:
 (Postponed to January 26th Meeting)


 Resubdivision 2212PC218, by agent Joyce Unsworth, tax parcel 0710O-02-102.002, Divide
 into two new parcels, 4809 29th Street, Zoned B-1 (Neighborhood business), Ward 1
 2. Resubdivision 2212PC219:
 Withdrawn by Administration

 Resubdivision 2212PC219, by agent Jimmy Miles, tax parcel 0810N-05-023.000, Divide
 into three new parcels, 32nd St, Zoned B-2 (General business), Ward 3
 3. Resubdivison 2212PC220:
 Withdrawn by Administration

 Resubdivison 2212PC220, by agent Josh Fleming, tax parcels 0811G-02 -030.000 &
 0811G-02-016.000, divide into two new parcels, 1512 E Beach Blvd & Thornton Ave,
 Zoned R-B (Residence-Business) Ward 2
 4. General Plan 2212PC221:

 General Plan 2212PC221, by agent Freddie Fountain with Fountain & Associates, LLC, tax
 parcel 0907J-01-001.005, Approval of a General Plan for 17-Lot subdivision (Plantation
 Oaks Subdivision - Phase III), 0 Three Rivers Road, Zoned R-B (Residence-business),
 Ward 6
K. Other Business

 1. Zoning Text Amendment 2209PC171:
 Remanded Back By City Council

 Zoning Text Amendment 2209PC171, by Lauren Illing, City of Gulfport, Amendments to
 the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended, Section I Definitions (B) Words and
 Phrases Medical cannabis Establishment and Section III District Regulations, (K) Chart of
 Permitted Uses, (2) Schedule of Uses Medical Cannabis Dispensary
L. Adjournment
 MINUTES
 GULFPORT CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
 Thursday, November 17, 2022, 4:30 P.M.
 CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBERS



A. Prayer: The Planning Commission led a prayer.

B. Pledge of Allegiance: The Pledge of Allegiance was recited.

C. Call to Order: The meeting of the Planning Commission was called to order at 4:30 p.m.

D. Determination of a Quorum: A roll call was performed and a quorum was determined.

BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT:
WM. PRINCE JONES
KEITH WILLIAMS
HAROLD SPANN
BJ SELLERS
TIM DAIGLE JR.
CHARLIE HEWES
DOUG HANCOCK

BOARD MEMBERS ABSENT:
VIRGINIA ADOLPH
GARLON PEMBERTON
BRANDON ELLIOTT

STAFF MEMBERS PRESENT:
CORY LONG
MATILDA WELCH
LORAINE HUGHES
KEVIN BROWN
LESLIE ERVIN

COURT REPORTER:
NORMA SOROE

E. Confirmation of Agenda:

F. Adoption of Minutes:

 A motion by  Mr. Spann to approve Minutes of the October 27, 2022, meeting was
 seconded by Mr. Daigle and carried.

G. Hearing of Cases:

 G1. The PUBLIC DECLARATION OF APPEAL PROCESS was read by the Chairperson:
 Any person or any officer, department or agency of the City aggrieved by any decision of the
 Planning Commission may within fifteen (15) days thereafter appeal there from to the mayor
 and City Council by filing with the Planning Commission a written notice of appeal
 specifying the decision from which the appeal is taken. In case of such appeal, the Planning
 Commission shall cause a transcript of the proceedings in the case to be certified to the
 mayor and City Council, and the matter will be heard on said transcripts. The filing fee for an
 appeal is based on the actual cost of the required official transcript and any related
 miscellaneous charges. Any appeal shall be in writing and submitted to the Department of
 Urban Development–Planning Division stating what decision is being appealed and detailing
 how you are aggrieved.
 G2. The Chairperson asked for anyone speaking at the meeting to complete a Speaker’s
 Card.

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 G3. Routine Agenda

H. Planning Commission Decisions
 1. Planning Commission Approval 2210PC178:
 (Corrections to advertisement)

Planning Commission Approval 2210PC178, by agent John Dixon, tax parcel 0808L-02-
017.000, Request approval to allow a medical cannabis dispensary use, 11370 HWY 49 Suite G,
Zoned B-4 (Highway business), Ward 7

Speaking for the Petition: John Dixon

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Jones – To approve applicant request.

Second: Mr. Sellers

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.



 2. Zoning Map Amendment 2210PC190:
 (Withdrawn By Applicant)

Planning Commission Approval 2210PC190, by agent John Ravenscroft, tax parcel 0811B-01-
037.000, Requests automotive sales of less than 50 vehicles & automotive laundry use, 2601
15th Ave, Zoned B-2 (General business), Ward 3

Speaking for the Petition:

Speaking against the Petition:

Motion:

Second:

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN –
VIRGINIA ADOLPH –
CHARLIE HEWES –
BJ SELLERS –
WM. PRINCE JONES –
DOUG HANCOCK –
BRANDON ELLIOTT –
TIM DAIGLE JR –
GARLON PEMBERTON –

Action:

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3. Planning Commission Approval 2209PC194:

Planning Commission Approval 2211PC194, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel 1011D-03-
008.000, Requests for outdoor entertainment venue, 942 1/2 Beach Blvd, Zoned T5 (Urban
Center Zone), Ward 2

Speaking for the Petition: None

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Daigle – to table/postpone the request to Dec. 15, 2022 due to applicant not
being present at the meeting

Second: Mr. Spann

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.

4. Planning Commission Approval 2211PC196:

Planning Commission Approval 2211PC196, by owner Jermille Johnson, tax parcel 0810B-03-
099.000, Requests mobile home use, W Virginia Ave, Zoned R-1-5 (Single-family), Ward 3

Speaking for the Petition: Jermille Johnson

Speaking against the Petition: Greg Thompson

Motion: Mr. Hewes – To approve applicant request with conditions.

Second: Mr. Hancock

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.




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5. Planning Commission Approval 2211PC199:

Planning Commission Approval 2211PC199, by agent Terrell Roddy, tax parcel 0808D-04-
004.000, Requests to allow a medical cannabis dispensary use, 12407 HWY 49 N, Zoned B-4
(Highway business), Ward 7

Speaking for the Petition: Terrell Roddy

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Sellers – To approve applicant request with conditions.

Second: Mr. Hancock

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.

6. Special Exception 2211SE200:
 (Withdrawn by Administration)

Special Exception 2211SE200, by agent Adeeb Botros, tax parcel 0810C-03-059.000, Requests
liquor store use, 8304 HWY 49 B, Zoned B-4 (Highway business), Ward 3

Speaking for the Petition:

Speaking against the Petition:

Motion:

Second:

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN –
VIRGINIA ADOLPH –
CHARLIE HEWES –
BJ SELLERS –
WM. PRINCE JONES –
DOUG HANCOCK –
BRANDON ELLIOTT –
TIM DAIGLE JR –
GARLON PEMBERTON –

Action:




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7. Special Exception 2211PC201:

Planning Commission Approval 2211PC201, by owners Barry & Theresa Weyland, tax parcel
1010E-03-007.015, Request home occupation for real estate office, 927 Old Towne St, Zoned T3
(Sub-Urban Zone ), Ward 4

Speaking for the Petition: Theresa Weyland

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Hewes – To approve applicant request with conditions.

Second: Mr. Jones

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.

8. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC203:

Planning Commission Approval 2211PC203, by agent Doug Hanson, tax parcel 0811G-03-
033.000, Request home occupation for mobile windshield repair business, 1632 2nd St, Zoned
T4L (General Urban Zone "Limited"), Ward 2

Speaking for the Petition: Doug Hanson

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Daigle – To approve applicant request with conditions.

Second: Mr. Hancock

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.




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9. Appeals 2211PC204:

Appeals 2211PC204, by owners 3112 Pass Rd LLC & Ronald Fremin II, tax parcel 0811D-04-
009.000, Requests metal exterior on facility, 3112 Pass Road, Zoned I-1 (Light Industry), Ward
1

Speaking for the Petition: Ronald Fremin

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Hewes – To approve applicant request.

Second: Mr. Spann

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.

10. Planning Commission Approval 2211PC205:

Planning Commission Approval 2211PC205, by owners Yolanda & Marcus Stubbs, tax parcel
0908J-01-036.000, Requests home occupation for mobile notary use, 20 Joanna Lane, R-1-10
(Single-family) Ward 6

Speaking for the Petition: Yolanda Stubbs

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Daigle – To approve applicant request.

Second: Mr. Spann

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.




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11. Planning Commission Approval 2211PC210:

Planning Commission Approval 2211PC210, by agent Addison Reimann, tax parcel 0809K-02-
002.001, Request approval to allow a medical cannabis dispensary use, Creosote Rd, B-4
(Highway business), Ward 3


Speaking for the Petition: Addison Reimann

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Prince – To approve applicant request.

Second: Mr. Hancock

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.


I. Planning Commission Recommendations

 1. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195:

Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel 1011D-03-
008.000, Requests rezone from T5 (Urban Center Zone) to T6 (Urban Core Zone), 942 1/2
Beach Blvd, Ward 2


Speaking for the Petition: None

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Hewes – to table/postpone the request to Dec. 15, 2022 due to applicant not
being present at the meeting

Second: Mr. Hancock

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
JOHN ANTHONY – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.

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 2. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC197:
 (Withdrawn By Applicant)

Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC197, by owner Ian Smith, tax parcel 0908L-02-015.032,
Requests to rezone from R-1-10 (Single-family) to R-B (Residence-business), 13530 Dedeaux
Rd, Zoned R-1-10 (Single-family), Ward 6

Speaking for the Petition:

Speaking against the Petition:

Motion:

Second:

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN –
VIRGINIA ADOLPH –
CHARLIE HEWES –
BJ SELLERS –
WM. PRINCE JONES –
DOUG HANCOCK –
BRANDON ELLIOTT –
TIM DAIGLE JR –
GARLON PEMBERTON –

Action:

 3. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC198:

Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC198, by agent Jorge Vargas, tax parcel 1007M-01-038.000,
Requests to rezone from R-B (Residence-business) to R-E (Residence estate), 13062 Sheldon St,
Zoned R-B (Residence-business), Ward 6

Speaking for the Petition: Jorge Vargas, Dennis Flores

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Hewes – To approve applicant request.

Second: Mr. Daigle

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.




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4. Planning Commission Approval 2211PC202:

Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC202, by agent Joyce Unsworth, tax parcel 0710O-02-102.002,
Requests to rezone from B-1 (Neighborhood business) to R-B (Residence-business), 4809 29th
St, Zoned B-1 (Neighborhood business), Ward 1

Speaking for the Petition: Joyce Unsworth

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Sellers – To approve applicant request with conditions.

Second: Mr. Hancock

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
JOHN ANTHONY – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.

  5. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC206:

Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC206, by owners Incia Hernandez & Wilson Martinez, tax
parcel 0910N-01-018.001, Request to rezone from B-2 (General Business) to R-B (Residence
Business), 3205 F Ave, Zoned B-2 (General Business), Ward 4

Speaking for the Petition: Incia Hernandez (Carlos her son is speaking as interpreter),
 Kenneth Simmons

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Sellers – To approve applicant request with conditions.

Second: Mr. Jones

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.




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6. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC207:

Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC207, by agent J. William Williams, tax parcels 0708P-01-
004.007 & 0708P-01-006.000, Requests to rezone from R-1-15 (Single-family) to B-2 (General
business), 11261 Old Highway 49, Zoned R-1-15 (Single-family), Ward 7

Speaking for the Petition: Bill Williams, Barbara Ward

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Spann – To approve applicant request with conditions.

Second: Mr. Sellers

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.


7. Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC209:

Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC209, by agent Robert Reimann, tax parcel 0809B-03-017.000,
Requests to rezone from I-2 (Heavy Industry) to R-3 (General residence), River Ten Rd & Klein
Rd, Zoned I-2 (Heavy Industry), Ward 7


Speaking for the Petition: Robert Reimann

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Hewes – To approve applicant request with conditions.

Second: Mr. Spann

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.




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J. Planning Commission Subdivisons
1. Resubdivison 2211PC208:


Resubdivision 2211PC208, by agent Heinrich & Associates, LLC, tax parcel 0807E-01-001.000,
Divide into two new parcels, 15361 S Swan Rd, Zoned R-1-15 (Single-family), Ward 7


Speaking for the Petition: Robert Heinrich

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Hewes – To approve applicant request.

Second: Mr. Hancock

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Recused
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.


 2. Final Plat 2211PC211:

Final Plat 2211PC211, by agent Robert Reimann, tax parcels 0808O-02-016.000, 0808O-02-
019.000, 0808O-02-015.000, Approval of Final Plat for 63-lot subdivision (Southern Breeze
Subdivision) with 3 outparcels, Dedeaux Rd & Tanner Rd, Zoned R-1-5 (Single-family) & B-2
(General business), Ward 5

Speaking for the Petition: Robert Reimann

Speaking against the Petition: None

Motion: Mr. Hewes – To approve applicant request with conditions.
 (Southern Breeze Estates Subdivision)

Second: Mr. Jones

KEITH WILLIAMS – Chairman
HAROLD SPANN – Yea
VIRGINIA ADOLPH – Absent
CHARLIE HEWES – Yea
BJ SELLERS – Yea
WM. PRINCE JONES – Yea
DOUG HANCOCK – Yea
BRANDON ELLIOTT – Absent
TIM DAIGLE JR – Yea
GARLON PEMBERTON – Absent

Action: Motion carried unanimously.

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K. Other Business

I. Adjournment

There being no further business, a Motion was made by Mr. Jones to adjourn,
seconded by Mr. Hewes and carried unanimously. The meeting adjourned at 6:18 p.m.




________________________________ Date: _______________________________
WILLIAM PRINCE JONES, Secretary




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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Public Declaration of Appeal Process of Chairman
MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Anyone speaking today is asked to complete a "Speaker's Card".
MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Planning Commission Approval 2209PC170:
Remanded Back By City Council

Planning Commission Approval 2209PC170, by agent Randy Kirby, tax parcel 0809N-03-
006.002, Requests a medical cannabis dispensary use, 9113 Hwy 49, Zoned B-4 (Highway
business), Ward 3
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Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 130016 0809N-03-006.002 OASIS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS INC (OWNER)
 2205 JOHN HILL BLVD GULFPORT MS 39501
 CLIFFORD FRISBY (OWNER) 2205 JOHN HILL BLVD GULFPORT MS 39501
 RANDY KIRBY (AGENT) 505 COBBLESTONE CT. MADISON MS 39110
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2209PC170)
 96251 0809N-01-041.001 4S ACRES LP 15143 GEIL RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 58275 0809N-01-046.000 4S ACRES LP 15143 GIL RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 49589 0809N-02-014.000 AGREE RT GULFPORT MS LLC P.O. BOX 2437 SMYRNA GA 30081
 49657 0809M-03-003.000 ALLEN TAFFA P ETAL P O BOX 1648 GULFPORT MS 39502
 116915 0809N-03-006.001 CHOUNG PE HANG & YU ZHU LIU 11503 MAGNOLIA ESTATES LANE GULFPORT MS 39503
 49636 0809M-03-005.000 DAISY PROPERTIES GULFPORT LLC 105 SYCAMORE ST BAY ST LOUIS MS 39520
 49662 0809M-03-001.000 DALEY ROBERT M & JEREMIA R P O BOX 4273 GULFPORT MS 39502
 87948 0809N-01-028.000 EBICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC 268 AIRPORT RD RESERVE LA 70084
 N 87947 0809N-01-026.000 EBICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC 268 AIRPORT RD RESERVE LA 70084
 N 49569 0809N-01-024.000 EBICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC 268 AIRPORT RD RESERVE LA 70084
 N 49585 0809N-01-035.000 EBICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC 268 AIRPORT RD RESERVE LA 70084
 N 49574 0809N-01-027.000 EBICS TECHNOLOGIES LLC 268 AIRPORT RD RESERVE LA 70084
 136380 0809N-01-033.001 GARRISON LYNN P O BOX 3356 GULFPORT MS 39505
 49570 0809N-01-025.000 GENEVAY EUGENE P 9204 TANGLEWILD PL RIVER RIDGE LA 70123
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 100063 0809N-01-036.001 LEVY DARLEEN J 823 ST LOUIS ST NEW ORLEANS LA 70112
 49595 0809M-03-008.000 LINDSEY JOSEPHINE 1113 COLLAGE ST GULFPORT MS 39507
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 49581 0809N-01-032.000 OAK PROPERTIES LLC 34550 W DUBUISSON RD SLIDELL LA 70460
 49584 0809N-01-034.000 PENELTON MALCOLM D 1622 EASTWARD DR GULFPORT MS 39501
 49583 0809N-01-033.000 POOLSON FRANCIS G JR & SHEILA K 1235 22ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 49656 0809M-03-002.000 SBA PROPERTIES INC ATTN: A/P DEPARTMENT 8051 CONGRESS AVE BOCA RATON FL 33487
 88057 0809N-02-012.000 SCG LH GULFPORT AIRPORT LP C/O SOF-IX SLEEP
 980 II LP
 HAMMOND DR STE 1400 ATLANTS GA 30328
 49648 0809M-03-004.000 TDR LLC 14230 CREEKWOOD COVE GULFPORT MS 39503
 87949 0809N-01-030.000 WARD STEVEN W & SONIA L 25429 PECAN RD PASS CHRISTIAN MS 39571
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 N 49579 0809N-01-031.000 WARD STEVEN W & SONIA L 25429 PECAN RD PASS CHRISTIAN MS 39571
 58274 0809N-01-039.000 WESTBROOK GULFPORT LLC -ETAL- 49 PAPWORTH AVE METAIRIE LA 70005
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 1 CITY OF GULFPORT PLANNING COMMISSION

 2

 3 2209PC170

 4

 5 TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING

 6 September 22, 2022

 7 *********************************************************

 8 TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING HELD BEFORE THE CITY OF GULFPORT

 9 PLANNING COMMISSION HELD IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS,

10 GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, ON THE 22ND DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2022

11 COMMENCING AT 4:30 P.M. AND REPORTED BY

12 NORMA JEAN LADNER SOROE, CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER.

13 ********************************************************

14
 COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT:
15
 KEITH WILLIAMS, President
16 VIRGINIA ADOLPH
 WILLIAM "PRINCE" JONES
17 VIRGINIA ADOLPH
 B.J. SELLERS
18 CHARLIE HEWES
 HAROLD SPANN
19 TIMOTHY DAIGLE, JR.
 DOUG HANCOCK
20

21 STAFF PRESENT:

22 GREG PIETRANGELO
 GREG HOLMES
23 SU-LIN FEATHERSTON
 LESLIE ERVIN
24 CORY LONG
 LORAINE HUGHES
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 1 8. Planning Commission Approval 2209PC170

 2 MR. LONG: Item Number 8, Planning Commission

 3 Approval 2209PC170, has been duly and timely noticed as

 4 required by law. The applicant requests a medical cannabis

 5 dispensary use at 9113 Highway 49, zoned B-4, Ward 3. A

 6 copy of the packet considered is hereby offered to the

 7 record.

 8 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you.

 9 Is someone here to speak for this request?

10 MR. KIRBY: Good afternoon. My name is Randy

11 Kirby, 505 Cobblestone Court, Madison, Mississippi 39110.

12 We're here to request to locate a medical

13 cannabis dispensary at 9113 Highway 49 in Gulfport. We've

14 already been issued a license by the State Department of

15 Revenue for that use. And we met all the requirements of

16 the city Planning & Zoning. We received the zoning

17 determination letter from them pending planning commission

18 approval due to a 500 foot setback for residential use, in

19 this case a hotel which is located behind our building but

20 within that 500 feet. And we would ask that the

21 commissioners please consider our request for that.

22 I passed around -- did y'all get a copy of

23 some additional bullet points that I would like to add to

24 the record which strengthens our application. You know,

25 we're already current business owners in the area. We own




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 1 the UPS store in Gulfport off Daniel Road. We're

 2 contributing to the tax base and the overall economy

 3 employing five people there.

 4 We're current members in good standing with

 5 the Mississippi Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce since 2017.

 6 We're current members in good standing and

 7 avid supporters of the Mississippi Medical Marijuana

 8 Association since 2022. And there's some additional points

 9 on that.

10 We're current members in good standing and

11 avid supporters of the Mississippi Cannabis Patients

12 Alliance since 2022 which is a statewide nonprofit

13 organization advocating for the rights of Mississippi

14 patients.

15 We've currently been approved, as I said

16 earlier, by the Mississippi Department of Revenue, Alcohol &

17 Beverage Control Bureau of Enforcement, for medical cannabis

18 dispensary license, not only in Gulfport, but Tupelo and

19 Starkville, as well.

20 The medical cannabis business is highly

21 regulated by two state agencies, the Mississippi Department

22 of Revenue, Alcohol & Beverage Control Bureau of

23 Enforcement, along with the Mississippi Department of

24 Health.

25 Dispensaries, there's a lot of requirements




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 1 placed on them. They're required to be on the Metric, which

 2 is the state seed to sale tracking system, and all the

 3 employees have to be trained and licensed on that.

 4 We also are, as a dispensary, we're the same

 5 as a pharmacy. We're required to report our medical

 6 cannabis dispensary information every 24 hours to the

 7 prescription monitoring program which is implemented and

 8 operated by the Mississippi Board of Pharmacy. And that

 9 also requires training and licensing, as well.

10 Additionally, as I mentioned earlier, with

11 the UPS stores, our dispensary will contribute to the tax

12 base and overall economy employing up to ten full-time

13 employees along with buildout and remodel costs to local

14 construction crews.

15 And just wanted to mention that, you know,

16 82.7 percent of Harrison County voters voted in favor of an

17 implementation of a medical cannabis program in the State of

18 Mississippi during the initiative process a couple of years

19 ago.

20 And currently there are 18 hotels along

21 Highway 49. You count four just north of I-10 over by

22 Sam's, all the way down to Pass Road. And, you know, with

23 the other state setbacks, a thousand feet from church,

24 school, or daycare, and 1500 feet from another medical

25 cannabis dispensary, this additional 500 foot setback, you




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 1 know, makes it impractical to really find a location to

 2 locate.

 3 And we would just ask with all due respect

 4 that you consider our application and waive that 500 foot

 5 setback.

 6 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you, sir.

 7 Any questions from the commissioners?

 8 MR. HANCOCK: So just a clarification

 9 question. The reason this is before us is because it's

10 technically the 500 feet of a residential which is -- and

11 what meets the residential requirements of hotels. Is that

12 what I'm reading?

13 MR. HOLMES: Correct.

14 MR. HANCOCK: Otherwise it wouldn't have to

15 come before us.

16 MR. HOLMES: Yes, sir, you're right.

17 MR. HANCOCK: Okay.

18 MR. SELLERS: So continuation of that same

19 question. Is the hotel considered residential in all

20 considerations, such as a liquor store, and, you know, the

21 other requirements or regulations in the codes, is a hotel

22 always considered a residential use?

23 MR. HOLMES: The way the ordinance is drafted

24 it says residential uses, and that falls under the

25 residential section of the Chart of Permitted Uses.




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 1 MR. SELLERS: A hotel.

 2 MR. HOLMES: Yes, sir.

 3 MR. SELLERS: In all cases, not just the

 4 dispensary, but in all other considerations.

 5 MR. HOLMES: COrrect.

 6 MR. KIRBY: If I could just add, if you don't

 7 mind.

 8 MR. WILLIAMS: Yes.

 9 MR. KIRBY: You know, we're a pharmacy, and

10 you know, we're right next door to a pharmacy. We're in a

11 good use area. Right next door to us is a pharmacy/clinic,

12 and on the other side of us is a medical equipment supply

13 place, and we fit right in with that.

14 And, you know, we have the 500 foot setback

15 placed against us, but it's my understanding that other

16 pharmacies, such as us, don't have that same requirement.

17 So that's one reason why we would ask you to consider it.

18 MR. WILLIAMS: All right.

19 MR. DAIGLE: You may have just answered it.

20 But you already have an establishment at this location,

21 correct? You're already operating and selling or

22 dispensing --

23 MR. KIRBY: No, sir. We have leased the

24 building and --

25 MR. DAIGLE: So there's nothing there right




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 1 now, no business, no operations.

 2 MR. KIRBY: Not right now, no, sir. We can't

 3 move forward without approval and licensing.

 4 MR. DAIGLE: Well, I just didn't know if you

 5 were there dispensing, it was another drug pharmacy

 6 dispensary already there.

 7 MR. KIRBY: No, sir.

 8 MR. DAIGLE: The Gulf Coast Medical Supply

 9 there to the south of it, they don't dispense any type of

10 drugs or medical supply.

11 MR. KIRBY: No, sir. No, sir.

12 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Any other

13 questions, comments?

14 MR. HANCOCK: Got one more for the staff, and

15 that is: So hotels meet the 500 foot buffer. Are there any

16 what I'll call primary residences within the 500 foot

17 buffer?

18 MR. HOLMES: No, sir.

19 MR. HANCOCK: Okay. I see a map, and it

20 looks like within a thousand feet, I'm not sure why the

21 thousand foot buffer is here. Looks like there's some

22 residences within the thousand foot buffer but not in the

23 500 foot buffer.

24 MR. HOLMES: That is correct.

25 MR. WILLIAMS: Other questions?




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 1 If something comes up, we'll bring you back

 2 up. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.

 3 MR. KIRBY: Thank you.

 4 MR. WILLIAMS: Anyone else here to speak for

 5 this request?

 6 Yes.

 7 MS. CALHOUN: I'm Angie Calhoun. I'm the

 8 founder and CEO of the Mississippi Cannabis Patients

 9 Alliance, and my address is 10 Canebreak Boulevard in

10 Flowood, Mississippi.

11 And I'm a born and raised Mississippi girl.

12 I founded my nonprofit association so that our patients

13 across our state would have a voice to be heard when things

14 like this come about.

15 I helped to pass and push forward the Medical

16 Cannabis Act, and our legislators did a phenomenal job at

17 passing a wonderful bill. And, you know, in that bill it

18 does state that no city or municipality should make it

19 impossible for, really for patient access.

20 And so, you know, if we're blocking

21 dispensaries from being accessible for the patients of our

22 state or for the City of Gulfport, then, you know, it's kind

23 of like you're blocking them from getting safe access to a

24 legal medical cannabis that's grown in Mississippi.

25 This Greenwise, they're doing everything that




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 1 they're supposed to do. They have gotten their license

 2 through the Mississippi Department of Revenue. They have to

 3 work with the Mississippi Department of Health. And, you

 4 know, they intend to be a really good neighbor to the City

 5 of Gulfport.

 6 And by providing really what is considered a

 7 pharmacy, because if there's a pharmacy that's within 500

 8 feet of that hotel, then why can't a medical cannabis

 9 dispensary, you know, fall within that same category.

10 So I would just humbly ask you on behalf of

11 the patients of this area, y'all had an incredible amount of

12 support within this county to have a medical cannabis

13 program. And, you know, and I've found over and over in

14 talking to patients across the state that they truly believe

15 that cannabis is medicine because it is.

16 And I know this because my own son at the age

17 of 17, that was nine years ago, he came down with a horrible

18 debilitating medical condition, Lyme disease. It ravaged

19 his autonomic nervous system. Within 18 months, he was on

20 17 pharmaceutical medications to take every single day

21 multiple times a day. We had seen 22 doctors. He was

22 having seizures, chronic pain, and he could not keep food

23 down. He lost like 40 pounds in an 18 month period, and he

24 didn't have it to lose. And I recall walking into his

25 bedroom one morning to give him his medicine, and he looked




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 1 like a little skeleton laying under that sheet.

 2 I don't want that for anybody else to have to

 3 suffer and to go through those horrible times like we've

 4 done. And eventually my 19-year-old son, after we had made

 5 a lot of prayer and careful consideration and research, I

 6 journeyed to Colorado where I could go into a dispensary

 7 because they do have recreational -- this is not

 8 recreational, this is medicine, and our bill clearly states

 9 that.

10 But I was able to get legal medication for my

11 son, and within no time I saw his quality of life return.

12 And he was able to keep food down within a matter of minutes

13 after using medical cannabis. But about another year later,

14 he made the choice to move to Colorado to regain his quality

15 of life.

16 And I don't want your citizens to have to

17 even travel to another county or another city when it is a

18 legal safe medicine, and they need safe access in your city

19 and their home city to be able to get their medication.

20 So I just ask you to please consider what

21 Greenwise is asking of you and to amend and -- because you

22 have the ability to make the changes necessary because that

23 is quite a unique little category there for a hotel to be

24 considered a home.

25 And so I just appreciate your time. And if I




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 1 can answer any questions, I'm happy to do so.

 2 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you.

 3 Any questions?

 4 MR. HEWES: I've got a quick question. I've

 5 heard the term pharmacy from both of y'all. Is there a

 6 pharmacist dispensing this there?

 7 MS. CALHOUN: That would be a Mr. Kirby

 8 question. There are some dispensaries who do use

 9 pharmacists.

10 MR. HEWES: Is this dispensary going to have

11 a pharmacist there?

12 MR. KIRBY: We wouldn't have a licensed

13 pharmacist, but we have to undergo training overseen by the

14 State to dispense the medication.

15 MR. HEWES: Thank you.

16 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you. Appreciate it.

17 MS. CALHOUN: You're welcome.

18 MR. WILLIAMS: Anyone else here to speak for

19 this request?

20 Do we have anybody here tonight to speak

21 against this request or have questions on this request?

22 All right. Commissioners, you've heard the

23 applicant and the citizens. So any questions of the staff,

24 or a motion?

25 MR. HANCOCK: I have one follow-up question




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 1 to the question that Mr. Hewes just asked about pharmacist.

 2 And I presume that there's not a legal requirement for a

 3 pharmacist to be present in order for the dispense --

 4 dispensation of that.

 5 MR. KIRBY: No.

 6 MR. DAIGLE: Just I personally feel like it's

 7 a new venture that we're going into, but there's a lot of

 8 good precautions I think with the legal documentation that's

 9 been passed and the bills and all, and I personally don't

10 see any issue with this in relation to some of the approvals

11 that we give for liquor stores and so forth, this would be

12 much more regulated.

13 I'm going to make a motion that we approve

14 Case Number 2209PC170.

15 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. We've got a motion

16 to approve the request. Do I have a second?

17 MR. JONES: Second.

18 MR. WILLIAMS: Have a motion and a second to

19 approve. Any further discussion, Commissioners?

20 MR. HEWES: I think as a commission, I think

21 that we need to think about our citizens, the ones that may

22 have a need of this and the ones that don't. And my only

23 concern with approving this is the fact that this is going

24 to set the tone for everybody that wants a zone or a code to

25 be broken. And I think we need to weigh that very heavily




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 1 because we're going to have a lot of these coming.

 2 And I do believe that in the proper manner

 3 that marijuana can be used as a medicine. But right now, I

 4 think y'all are unfortunately the first ones blazing this

 5 trail asking for any special acceptance or request. And I

 6 think if you were here a year from now, it would be a much

 7 easier decision for all of us to make.

 8 And so I'm just stating that because I can't

 9 support what you're saying right now, and I can't support

10 this motion because we just have a lot that's going on and a

11 lot that can go wrong and a lot that can go right.

12 MR. WILLIAMS: Mr. Hewes, I appreciate your

13 comments and do agree with you on that. I don't think this

14 is a medical marijuana dispensing issue tonight. It's about

15 the zoning and where it's required.

16 I understand that residential with it being a

17 hotel considered a residential property which, you know, is

18 so early in the infancy part of all of this, the citizens

19 overwhelmingly voted to have this approved, but it's just

20 going to be where it's going to be approved, and to make

21 changes this early I think is really we're walking a fine

22 line in approving it this early on and approving changes.

23 There are many properties that would meet the

24 requirement. I understand that they picked this one, and

25 there is an issue with the 500 foot of residential.




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 1 But I appreciate what you're saying and

 2 certainly agree with your comments.

 3 MR. HEWES: The only thing I would add to

 4 that is three or four months ago we approved the zoning

 5 blocks for this as a body, and we're going against what we

 6 voted for two or three months ago if we vote this in.

 7 MS. ADOLPH: Mr. Chairman?

 8 MR. WILLIAMS: Yes, ma'am.

 9 MS. ADOLPH: You know, I heard the CEO of the

10 new venture, and it is a time of change, and it is a time of

11 expansion and growth. Please understand that this

12 commission is not against the expansion of needed services

13 for our residents.

14 Being an old State Department of Health

15 employee, this is a new area that we want to walk the line

16 as closely as we can so that we can ensure that all our

17 citizenry are provided what they need and that those that

18 are not for it, that they have the equal right to verse.

19 But I can't support it because of where it is

20 at this point. I go along with what Mr. Hewes has said, it

21 is not in terms of going against Greenwise and the venture

22 itself, but in terms of upholding the residency requirement.

23 MR. SPANN: Keith, I also agree. I can't

24 support it mainly because of the location. I'm not against

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 1 just too close for me for what I'm looking at.

 2 Thank you.

 3 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you.

 4 Any other comments? Any other discussion?

 5 MR. SELLERS: I would just like to say I

 6 think the issue of a hotel is going to be hugely a problem,

 7 and to me a hotel is not a house. And, you know, I just

 8 think that's something the city needs to look at as part of

 9 the regulations going forward. Not saying hotel shouldn't

10 be considered in some form or fashion, but to give the it

11 same credence as a home, my opinion is that that (voice

12 trails off).

13 MR. WILLIAMS: Other comments?

14 So I have a motion on the floor to approve

15 the case and a second. So I'm going to ask all those in

16 favor of approving the motion to approve this case to raise

17 your right hand. Raise your right hand if you're in

18 approval of this.

19 Mr. Daigle, Mr. Sellers. Two. Two for it.

20 Those against raise your right hand.

21 (Adolph, Spann, Hewes, Hancock, Sellers,

22 Jones.)

23 MR. WILLIAMS: So it's been denied. It's

24 been denied. Okay? All right.

25 Greg, are you good there?




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 1 BEFORE THE CITY OF GULFPORT PLANNING COMMISSION

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 3 2209PC170

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 6 COURT REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE

 7

 8 I, Norma Jean Ladner Soroe, Certified Shorthand

 9 Reporter, do hereby certify that to the best of my skill and

10 ability I have reported the hearing held before the City of

11 Gulfport Planning Commission and that the foregoing 16 pages

12 constitute a true and correct transcription of said hearing

13 held on the 22nd day of September 2022.

14 I do further certify that my certificate annexed

15 hereto applies only to the original and certified

16 transcript. The undersigned assumes no responsibility for

17 the accuracy of any reproduced copies not made under my

18 control and direction.

19 Witness my signature this the 24th day of October

20 2022.

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24 NORMA JEAN LADNER SOROE, CSR #1297
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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Planning Commission Approval 2211PC194:
(Postponed from November 17th Meeting)

Planning Commission Approval 2211PC194, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel 1011D-03-
008.000, Requests for outdoor entertainment venue, 942 1/2 Beach Blvd, Zoned T5 (Urban
Center Zone), Ward 2
2211PC194 Planning Commission Approval
 Site
 US or State Highway
 AVE Street


 OAK MANOR DR
 TIN
 MAR
 Parcels
 Buildings
 T4+ Water Features
 Smart Code
 T6


 PARADISE AVE
 T5


 PHILLIPS DR
 MARKHAM DR
 T4+



  TEGARDEN RD
 T1
 T6
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 WF - Water Front




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Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 84111 1011D-03-008.000 DANIEL O. CONWILL, IV (OWNER) 942 BEACH DRIVE GULFPORT MS 39507
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2211PC194)
 142446 1011D-03-006.001 942 BEACH BLVD LLC 400 POYDRAS ST STE 3100 NEW ORLEANS LA 70130
 29870 1011D-03-012.000 BOURGEOUIS NANCY STONE ETAL 1710 E PASS RD GULFPORT MS 39507
 84128 1011D-03-030.000 DANIEL KAREN ANN & VISCUGLIA FELIX 2729 FAISS DR LAS VEGAS NV 89134
 29872 1011D-03-010.000 EASTERLING DAVID & OCTAVIA SUMRALL 140 MARKHAM DRIVE GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 84105 1011D-02-001.000 GULFPORT CITY OF 0
 32020 1011D-03-049.000 HARVER PROPERTIES LLC 691 LYNNRAY RD PETAL MS 39465
 84144 1011D-03-037.000 JSOCO LLC PO BOX 673 GULFPORT MS 39502
 N 80991 1011D-03-037.002 JSOCO LLC P O BOX 673 GULFPORT MS 39502
 N 84133 1011D-03-035.000 JSOCO LLC P O BOX 673 GULFPORT MS 39502
 N 84135 1011D-03-036.000 JSOCO LLC P O BOX 673 GULFPORT MS 39502
 29882 1011D-03-027.000 LANCE DAVID M JR 175 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 32021 1011D-03-050.000 LAYMAN STEPHEN GLENN 835 MARTIN AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 84131 1011D-03-034.000 MCGRAW FRANK ADAM 127 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 145823 1011D-03-034.004 MCGRAW FRANK ADAM 127 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39501
 29888 1011D-03-032.000 MCSHEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 45 HARDY COURT #260 GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 84130 1011D-03-033.000 MCSHEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 45 HARDY COURT #260 GULFPORT MS 39507
 143335 1011D-03-033.004 MCSHEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 45 HARDY CT #231 GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 143333 1011D-03-033.002 MCSHEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 45 HARDY CT #231 GULFPORT MS 39507
 143334 1011D-03-033.003 OMEN PROPERTIES LLC 2953 BIENVILLE BLVD #309 OCEAN SPRINGS MS 39564
 106810 1011D-03-034.002 ROGERS BRYAN KIRK & KELLY PATTERSON 121 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 144778 1011D-03-034.003 ROGERS BRYAN KIRK & KELLY PATTERSON 121 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 84119 1011D-03-014.000 SCHLOSSER BRIAN & MELINDA 155 CLOVER ST BILOXI MS 39530
 29884 1011D-03-029.000 SCHLOSSER BRIAN R & MELINDA HALL 466 ANNONDALE PARKWAY BILOXI MS 39530
 21353 1011D-03-006.000 SEA OAKS PROFESSIONAL PLAZA LLC 13142 W ECHO DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 29873 1011D-03-009.000 SPINNER REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC 440 GREEN TEAL CT BILOXI MS 39531
 N 84112 1011D-03-011.000 SPINNER REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC 440 GREEN TEAL CT BILOXI MS 39531
 N 146939 1011D-03-009.001 SPINNER REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC 440 GREEN TEAL CT BILOXI MS 39531
 143379 1011D-03-015.001 TIMS KENNETH & CATHERINE 164 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 84113 1011D-03-015.000 TIMS KENNETH R & CATHERINE B 164 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 29869 1011D-03-013.000 WALKER CORY LAMAR & MEGAN ELAINE 156 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 84146 1011D-03-048.000 WILKIN LOUIS J & CAROL N 825 MARTIN AVE GULFPORT MS 39507
 29883 1011D-03-028.000 WILKIN LOUIS J & CAROL N 825 MARTIN AVE 1357 GULFPORT MS 39507
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 29883 84113
 29884 84119
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 84144 84128 84112 21353
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 29888 29872
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RE: Planning Commission Approval 2211PC194, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax
parcel 1011D-03-008.000, Requests for outdoor entertainment venue, 942 1/2 Beach
Blvd, Zoned T5 (Urban Center Zone), Ward 2
To Applicants and Adjacent Property Owners:
The City of Gulfport Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider the above
application at 4:30 P.M. on Thursday, November 17, 2022, in the Council Chambers at
the Gulfport City Hall located at 2309 15th Street.
For more information, visit http://www.gulfport-ms.gov/agendas/ then click the City of
Gulfport Planning Commission for Thursday, November 17, 2022. A map showing the
location of the property involved is located at this website. If you have any questions or
comments, please contact this office at the phone number 228-868-5710 or email
planners@gulfport-ms.gov. The application is available for viewing in the Planning
Division office at 1410 24th Avenue.
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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Planning Commission Approval 2212PC215:

Planning Commission Approval 2212PC215, by owner Thomas Lewis, tax parcel 0807J-01-
021.003, Requests a home occupation for independent freight dispatch service, 13593 Wind
Rose Circle, Zoned R-1-15 (Single-family), Ward 7
2212PC215 Planning Commission Approval
 Site
 Street
 A-1




DUCKWORTH CV WOODLAND DR
 Parcels
 Buildings
 Water Features
 Zoning
 A-1 - Agricultural District
 DUCKWORTH RD
 R-1-15 - Single Family
 Residence District (Low
 Density)




 Site Information
 R-1-15
 0807J-01-021.003
 Zoning: R-1-15 ( Single Family)
 Size:14,870 Sqft.



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 represented on this map as a service to the community
 and makes every effort possible to provide quality
 information. However, no claims, promises, or
 guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or
 adequacy of the information contained on this map are
 expressed or implied.
Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 119494 0807J-01-021.003 LEWIS THOMAS & SANDRA -ESTATE-(OWNER)13596 WIND ROSE CIRCLE GULFPORT MS 39503
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2212PC215)
 91435 0807J-01-022.000 AUSTIN GREGORY A & LORI 13583 BRAYTON BLVD GULFPORT MS 39503
 56706 0807J-01-021.000 CARNES JEREMIAH LB & AMANDA 14379 DUCKWORTH RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 119526 0807J-01-021.035 GANZY ALLEN ROSS 13596 WINDROSE CIRCLE 5003 GULFPORT MS 39503
 128673 0807J-01-022.002 GOACHER JEREMY L & APRIL N 13576 BRAYTON BLVD GULFPORT MS 39503
 122268 0807J-01-023.002 GOBBLE TIMOTHY A & SHANNON E 14313 DUCKWORTH RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 119496 0807J-01-021.005 HARRIS RODERICK D & KRISTY M 13581 WIND ROSE CIRCLE GULFPORT MS 39503
 119524 0807J-01-021.033 HILTON RICHARD & VIRGINA 13588 WIND ROSE CIRCLE GULFPORT MS 39503
 128672 0807J-01-022.001 JOHNSON KIMBERLY LYNN & CRAIG O 13580 BRAYTON BLVD GULFPORT MS 39503
 119525 0807J-01-021.034 LOTT VERZEALOUS & PETERS CLINTON E 13592 WIND ROSE CIR GULFPORT MS 39503
 117325 0807J-01-021.001 MARCELLUS CRYSTAL D & JAMES HARRY J 9200 SW 30TH TER OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73179
 119493 0807J-01-021.002 REAVES ANDRE L & ASHLEY N 13597 WIND ROSE CR GULFPORT MS 39503
 119527 0807J-01-021.036 SMITH JAY & ANGELA CREAGHE 13600 WIND ROSE CIRCLE GULFPORT MS 39503
 119523 0807J-01-021.032 TAYLOR TIFFANI ELISABETH R& MATTHEW 13584 WINDROSE CIRCLE GULFPORT MS 39503
 119495 0807J-01-021.004 TRUSSELL DAVID MICHAEL & SHERRY 13589 WINDROSE CR GULFPORT MS 39503
MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Planning Commission Approval 2212PC216:

Planning Commission Approval 2212PC216, by owner William Caleb Boyles, tax parcel 0908J-
01-024.008, Requests a home occupation for engraving and cerakoting firearms, 22 Jay Drive,
Zoned R-1-10 (Single-family), Ward 6
2212PC216 Planning Commission Approval
 Site
 Street
 Parcels
 Buildings
 Zoning
 B-1 - Neighborhood Business
 District
 R-1-10 - Single Family
 Residence (Low Density)


 NA LN
 JOAN




 Site Information

 KATHERINE PL
 JAY DR R-1-10
 0908J-01-024.008
 Zoning: R-1-10
 Size: 11,300 Sqft
 Flood: X


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 1 inch = 150 feet




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 form of any of the materials published on this map. The
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B-1 represented on this map as a service to the community
 and makes every effort possible to provide quality
 information. However, no claims, promises, or
 guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or
 adequacy of the information contained on this map are
 expressed or implied.
Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 46240 0908J-01-024.008 WILLIAM CALEB BOYLES (OWNER) 22 JAY DRIVE GULFPORT MS 39503
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2212PC216)
 46235 0908J-01-028.000 BAMBA MICHAEL J & CHARLENE M 5 KATHERINE PL GULFPORT MS 39507
 46237 0908J-01-024.004 BLACKWELL ANNIE M 7 KATHERINE PL GULFPORT MS 39503
 46215 0908J-01-019.000 CARR SHELLEY A 11 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 46232 0908J-01-024.001 COLEMAN BOBBY J & CLARA 2 KATHERINE PLACE GULFPORT MS 39503
 46239 0908J-01-024.011 COOPER FRANK G 20 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 46220 0908J-01-020.003 DAVENPORT JASON L 23 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 46219 0908J-01-020.002 FRYER RICHARD RUSSELL II & LINDA M 19 JAY DRIVE GULFPORT MS 39503
 46242 0908J-01-026.000 HENNLEIN JUDITH ANN -ESTATE- 26 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 46230 0908J-01-030.002 HOETGER SHERREL M & SONNY C 10 JAY DRIVE GULFPORT MS 39503
 46234 0908J-01-024.005 JACKSON NEIDRA R 4 KATHERINE PLACE GULFPORT MS 39503
 46231 0908J-01-029.000 KEITH CLAUDIA A 1 KATHERINE PL GULFPORT MS 39503
 46216 0908J-01-019.001 KLUBERDANZ PHILIP E 13 JAY ST GULFPORT MS 39503
 46238 0908J-01-027.000 LHLE LLC 443 SANLENAY CT BILOXI MS 39531
 46236 0908J-01-024.015 MARTIN JOHN T & SHEILA 6 KATHERINE PL GULFPORT MS 39503
 81104 0908J-01-020.001 MCMINN GLYNNIS DEANN SCOGGINS 27 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 46217 0908J-01-019.003 PITTMAN BELINDA 15 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 46221 0908J-01-020.000 RECORD SAINT A & ELONZA K 25 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 20397 0908J-01-024.002 ROBERTS GLEN R & BRIDGET G 3 KATHERINE PL GULFPORT MS 39503
 46241 0908J-01-024.007 RUTLEDGE DENNIS P & ELEANOR M 24 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 124756 0908J-01-012.001 ST JOHN BAPTIST CHURCH 12502 DEDEAUX RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 46218 0908J-01-019.004 WILLIAMS JAMES A & ALLIE M 17 JAY DR GULFPORT MS 39503
MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Appeal 2212PC222:

Appeal 2212PC222, by agent Shaw Design Group, P.A, tax parcel 0809K-01-001.026, to Appeal
City of Gulfport Design Standards, 9394 Three river Road, Zoned B-2 (General business), Ward
3
2212PC222 Appeals
 Site
 Street
 Parcels
 Buildings
 Water Features
 Zoning
 B-2 - General Business
 MIDDLE DR
 District
 B-4 - Highway Business
 District
 R-1-10 - Single Family
 Residence (Low Density)




 R-1-10




 THREE RIVERS RD
 Site Information
 B-4
 B-2 0809K-01-001.026
 Zoning: B-2 (General Business
 district)
 Size: 1.729 acres
 Flood: X


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 1 inch = 170 feet




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 represented on this map as a service to the community
 RD and makes every effort possible to provide quality
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Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 112701 0809K-01-001.026 GH GULFPORT LLC (OWNER) 2055 WOOD ST #117 SARASOTA FL 34237
 SHAW DESIGN GROUP, P.A. (AGENT) 2404 24TH AVENUE GULFPORT MS 39501
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2212PC222)
 112704 0809K-01-001.029 FAIRLEY PROPERTIES 2 LLC 9364 THREE RIVERS RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 58423 0809J-01-080.000 GPT-BILOXI REGIONAL AIRPORT AUTH 14035-L AIRPORT RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 112700 0809K-01-001.025 GULFPORT LOT 6 LLC 2055 WOOD ST STE 16 SARASOTA FL 34237
 87550 0809J-01-076.000 GULFPORT PALACE LLC PO BOX 190429 DALLAS TX 75219
 112703 0809K-01-001.028 K M PROPERTIES LLC 602 COURTHOUSE ROAD GULFPORT MS 39507
 112699 0809K-01-001.024 MATTINA PROPERTIES LLC 1829 PASS RD BILOXI MS 39531
 104003 0809K-01-001.009 OAKLAND LAND & DEV LLC P O BOX 952 NATCHEZ MS 39121
 112698 0809K-01-001.023 REALTY INTERNATIONAL LLC ATTN: DR BASSAM BAROUDI GULFPORT MS 39502
 96234 0809K-01-001.001 WAL-MART REAL ESTATE BUSINESS TRUST P O BOX 8050 MS 0555 BENTONVILLE AR 72716
 2212PC222 Appeals
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 Buildings
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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Zoning Map Amendment 2208PC145:
Remanded Back By City Council

Zoning Map Amendment 2208PC145, by agent M & P Development, LLC., tax parcels 1011C-
01-010.000, 1010N-04-029.000, Request to rezone from T4L (General Urban Zone "Limited")
and T4+ (General Urban Zone "Plus"), to T5 (Urban Center Zone), Ward 2
  2208PC145 Zoning Map Amendment
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 R
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 Smart Code
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 T5
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 T5
 T3
 T1
 Zoning
 WF - Water Front

 T4L Site Information
 T3

COWAN RD
 1011C-01-010.000
 1010N-04-029.000
 Zoning: T4+ (General Urban Zone
 T4+ Plus)
 T4L (General Urban Zone Limited)
 Size: 6.8 acres

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Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 83983 1011C-01-010.000 POC HOLDINGS, INC. (OWNER) P.O. BOX 516 MAGEE MS 39111
 22523 1010N-04-029.000 POC HOLDINGS, INC. (OWNER) P.O. BOX 516 MAGEE MS 39111
 1011C-01-010.000 M & P DEVELOPMENT, LLC (AGENT) 1900 DESTREHAN AVENUE HARVEY LA 70058
 1010N-04-029.000 M & P DEVELOPMENT, LLC (AGENT) 1900 DESTREHAN AVENUE HARVEY LA 70058
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2208PC145)
 93886 1010N-04-011.013 BARAHONA OCTAVIO JOSE 1820 CURCOR DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 22518 1010N-04-023.000 BELL SYLVIA M -ESTATE- 1419 GEORGIA PL GULFPORT MS 39501
 93905 1010N-04-011.004 BLETHEN SHANNAN R & MICHELLE L 493 OAK LANE GULFPORT MS 39507
 22522 1010N-04-030.000 BRITT BEVERLY 1115 NEWELL RD NW BROOKHAVEN MS 39601
 105023 1010N-04-019.002 CALISCH LESA C/O 928 COURTHOUSE RD 1453 GEORGIA PL GULFPORT MS 39507
 105031 1010N-04-019.010 CARSEN SUSAN 10 BANEBURY COVE GULFPORT MS 39503
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 1 CITY OF GULFPORT PLANNING COMMISSION

 2

 3 2208PC145

 4

 5 TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING

 6 August 25, 2022

 7 *********************************************************

 8 TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING HELD BEFORE THE CITY OF GULFPORT

 9 PLANNING COMMISSION HELD IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS,

10 GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, ON THE 25TH DAY OF AUGUST 2022

11 COMMENCING AT 4:30 P.M. AND REPORTED BY

12 NORMA JEAN LADNER SOROE, CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER.

13 ********************************************************

14
 COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT:
15
 KEITH WILLIAMS, President
16 WILLIAM "PRINCE" JONES
 VIRGINIA ADOLPH
17 BRANDON ELLIOTT
 CHARLIE HEWES
18 TIMOTHY DAIGLE, JR.
 GARLON PEMBERTON
19 HAROLD SPANN

20 STAFF PRESENT:

21 GREG HOLMES
 SU-LIN FEATHERSTON
22 CHRISTINE HIGHSMITH
 LESLIE ERVIN
23 CORY LONG

24

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 1 6. Zoning Map Amendment 2208PC145

 2 MS. FEATHERSTON: Item 6, Zoning Map

 3 Amendment 145 has been duly and timely noticed as required

 4 by law. The applicant requests to rezone from T4L general

 5 urban zone limited and T4+ general urban zone plus to T5

 6 urban center zone, Ward 2. A copy of the packet considered

 7 is hereby offered to the record.

 8 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you.

 9 Someone here to speak for this request?

10 Hey, Mr. Gillespie.

11 MR. GILLESPIE: I've got the board here. I

12 hope I can set it up like that where everybody can see it.

13 And I want to have one copy of this for the record and then

14 Garlon, if you would hand that down to everybody just so

15 where y'all can see the concept here.

16 This is a case, this property here is on the

17 corner of Cowan-Lorraine and Highway 90 here. It's not

18 quite on the corner. If y'all will remember, right here is

19 where they had that Chateau-de-la-Mer and what I called that

20 was the house trailers stacked on top of each other. If

21 y'all know, Katrina got every one of them.

22 What we want to do is build a luxury RV park

23 here. And by luxury, I mean a lot of different things. To

24 be classified that type of an RV park, you've got to really

25 do the thing right. All paved pads, water, sewer, all kind




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 1 of the different types of amps, 30 amp, 60 amp, whatever it

 2 is hookups, the TV, all of that kind of stuff.

 3 In addition, back here we're putting in quite

 4 a few amenities. We're going to have a lazy river, a

 5 swimming pool, a splash pad. They're all listed over here

 6 on the side what all we're going to do.

 7 This thing is going to be very nice.

 8 We want to -- the zoning we're asking for is

 9 T5. Now, I don't know about y'all, but that's Smart Code.

10 And when it comes to Smart Code, I'm not very smart. I have

11 to admit I don't understand it real well. I understand the

12 old R-1, R-2 type stuff.

13 But right now, this is two parcels of

14 property. All this is one parcel, and right here is another

15 parcel. This property is zoned a whole bunch of different

16 ways. It's T4L, T4+, T5, and I thought this was zoned T6.

17 I may be wrong on that.

18 What we're asking, because, you know, it's

19 not favored by the law or planners to have one ownership

20 under three or four different zoning classifications.

21 We want to zone the whole thing T5 in order

22 to do this.

23 Now, my client, and that's a very important

24 part of this, my client is Pete Vaccaro and his son P.J.

25 You may not recognize the name, but he is the man that holds




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 1 the antique auction at Cruisin' the Coast every year.

 2 And I'm saying that to let you know that

 3 we've got a very substantial developer here. We got someone

 4 who is -- he has a residence in Biloxi. He's been with the

 5 Cruisin' all the way along. So this guy's already got a big

 6 investment in this community, and I just want to know we're

 7 going to have a first class developer here.

 8 And also, I've got a rather interesting

 9 letter here that I'd like to read to you. Let me get a copy

10 in the record.

11 This is a letter from Woody Bailey. And he's

12 writing this letter to y'all and says:

13 (Reading) I'm writing this letter in support

14 of this application to allow the operation of a luxury RV

15 park on the corner of Cowan-Lorraine Road and U.S. Highway

16 90. I am personally acquainted with Pete Vaccaro who, along

17 with his son P.J., will be principals in the building and

18 operation of this RV park. Pete is a long-time supporter of

19 the Mississippi Gulf Coast, having a residence here and

20 operating the antique car auction at Cruisin' the Coast.

21 Over the years I have come to value my association with the

22 Vaccaros, and my past association with them tells me that if

23 they're going to be involved in this project, you can be

24 assured it will be successful and will be a valuable asset

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 1 positive vote in this matter. (End Reading)

 2 One other thing I want to show, they're

 3 willing to go to any, you know, length that they need to

 4 make this compatible with the neighborhood. Up there, of

 5 course, is a residential neighborhood off of Georgia Place.

 6 And you can see from the thing over here, they're going to

 7 put a solid vinyl fence along here and also a vegetated

 8 buffer in there along this area right in here.

 9 MR. WILLIAMS: Virgil, that's what I was

10 going to confirm, and I'm sorry to interrupt you, but -- so

11 that's the only place that it actually borders a

12 residential?

13 MR. GILLESPIE: Yes. This is right in here,

14 this is the sewer plant -- I mean, excuse me -- not the

15 plant, that big lift station that's right there. And this

16 is the Georgia Place. It goes in here and circles around if

17 I'm not mistaken.

18 Now, Mr. Vaccaro, Pete and P.J. went around,

19 they went down here along the beach and talked to these

20 people. They went back and tried to canvas everybody in

21 here. And they didn't find anybody opposed to it. But I

22 don't know. I don't know who might be here in the audience,

23 so I can't speak to that. But they were doing their best to

24 go around, talk to the neighbors. If they did find somebody

25 that had some type of objection, you know, let us know how




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 1 we can cure that.

 2 And another thing, let me address traffic.

 3 This is how you're going to get in. There will be no

 4 entrance to this on Highway 90. That would cause a problem.

 5 We do have a curb cut right down here, but we're not going

 6 to use it. And as you know, at this particular point

 7 Cowan-Lorraine is five lanes. So you have that center lane.

 8 And you're not going to have a lot of traffic. Most of

 9 these will be the one piece, I guess you'd call them, you

10 know, the coaches that have the motors in them that pull

11 themselves rather than trailers.

12 And one other point. Anybody knows this

13 property knows there's a bunch of really gorgeous oak trees

14 down here. Our mission is to save every one of those oak

15 trees. If we have to tweak this to get around those oak

16 trees, if we have to miss a few spots for those oak trees,

17 we're going to do it because quite frankly that's one of the

18 big attractions to this.

19 So I just see this as a total win-win

20 situation for Gulfport. If you all will recall, the last

21 time somebody came in here on this piece of property, they

22 wanted to put a Playtime in there. And the neighbors

23 objected to it. I don't blame them. This is going to be

24 top of the line RV park.

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 1 here and speak in just a minute tells me that the motor

 2 coach people classify these as a one to ten. This is going

 3 to be a ten. And the only ten that's ever been on the coast

 4 is one that Marlin Torgusen built at Casino Magic about 20,

 5 25 years ago. I don't know if it's still there. The

 6 closest one other than that one is in Destin, Florida.

 7 So what we've got here, we're not building

 8 this back on Pass Road where you can't see the Gulf. This

 9 is going to be first class.

10 Do y'all have any questions of me?

11 MR. WILLIAMS: Any questions? Go ahead,

12 Coach.

13 MR. JONES: The one on Broad Avenue from a

14 one to ten, what would you grade that?

15 MR. GILLESPIE: I'm going to let Mr. Sawyer

16 answer that.

17 MR. SAWYER: (From audience) I wouldn't try

18 to do that.

19 MR. WILLIAMS: No, that's okay.

20 MR. GILLESPIE: I'm not rich enough to afford

21 one of these.

22 MR. JONES: Okay. The second thing, I know

23 you're going to have some complaints by building it right

24 there where you're building. I know that area. My

25 question: Have you kind of talked with the community?




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 1 Because I heard you say it, but did you all really get good

 2 response from the neighbors in that area?

 3 MR. GILLESPIE: That's what Mr. Pete and P.J.

 4 told me. I think -- didn't y'all go together? They went

 5 together. They tried to talk to everybody.

 6 MR. JONES: And if approved, will they join

 7 other -- what's the word I want to use? -- would they join

 8 other clubs across the Nation? I know that they're really

 9 popular. But my question: If this is approved, would you

10 all join other clubs across the Nation?

11 MR. GILLESPIE: I think that's how they get

12 their business is being in association with other clubs.

13 Otherwise, I don't think people would know about it the way

14 you can if you make that association.

15 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you, Coach.

16 MR. HEWES: Just a question on that future

17 commercial parcel. Is that something that they own, also?

18 Or is that just what is probably going to go there? That

19 little peach colored thing.

20 MR. GILLESPIE: This is for the future. Or

21 either if they have to they can probably put some more

22 trailers in there. But right now, that doesn't fit into the

23 pattern as good as the rest of it. But the bank owns it.

24 MR. HEWES: Okay. Thank you.

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 1 MR. WILLIAMS: Ms. Virginia.

 2 MS. ADOLPH: Mr. Virgil, how many pods are

 3 you talking about, how many area units are you talking about

 4 in there?

 5 MR. GILLESPIE: I thought they had the number

 6 of units on there.

 7 MR. WILLIAMS: Sixty total RV pads in the

 8 bottom right corner, that's correct, right here. Do you see

 9 it? Right above the north.

10 MR. GILLESPIE: You know I can't -- oh.

11 Right there, right looking at me in the face, yes, 60 pads.

12 MS. ADOLPH: You're right up on it. I'm glad

13 I'm way over here. With 63, and you're talking about doing

14 this on four parcels of the property, of the entire

15 property, right there, right? Right now we're talking about

16 strictly that right now.

17 MR. GILLESPIE: The number of parcels is sort

18 of deceptive if we're talking about parcels.

19 This was the property that this fellow up in

20 Hattiesburg put together, and you had the big lawsuit with

21 the city if you'll remember that. Joe Sam Owen was all

22 involved in it. And he bought these in little pieces.

23 MS. ADOLPH: I'm just reading from our

24 description that it would just occupy the four parcels right

25 now.




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 1 MR. GILLESPIE: I was calling those four

 2 this, this, this, and this.

 3 MS. ADOLPH: All of that. Okay.

 4 MR. GILLESPIE: I'm sorry if I was confusing

 5 about that.

 6 MS. ADOLPH: That's okay. Thank you.

 7 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Other questions?

 8 MR. DAIGLE: Yes. I love your plan. I think

 9 it's going to be great, pretty excited about it.

10 I have a question on the northern end you

11 have an H refers to the secondary amenity area.

12 MR. GILLESPIE: Yes.

13 MR. DAIGLE: Can you tell me what that means?

14 I'm also just curious. It doesn't really affect rezoning I

15 don't think.

16 MR. GILLESPIE: And it's this right here?

17 MR. DAIGLE: Yeah, because that's going to

18 abut to the residential area to the north. And so --

19 MR. GILLESPIE: I'm sorry. I have no idea.

20 MR. DAIGLE: You said that someone else is

21 coming up?

22 MR. GILLESPIE: Yes. I can have Mr. Vaccaro

23 come up and address that.

24 Why don't you come up?

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 1 Avenue, Harvey, Louisiana, and 2069 Baywood Drive in Biloxi;

 2 we have a house here, too.

 3 The secondary amenity is like bocce ball, a

 4 horseshoe game, or something small that they play, but

 5 nothing loud or crazy. We haven't decided exactly, but just

 6 something small. There's not much room there.

 7 MR. DAIGLE: That was my biggest concern

 8 obviously with it being so close to the residential area,

 9 you know, what exactly that meant.

10 MR. VACCARO: Right.

11 MR. DAIGLE: Sounds about right. Thank you.

12 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you, sir. Anything to

13 add or any other that you'd like to add to?

14 MR. VACCARO: Would love to do this project.

15 I love the Gulf Coast. So we're here a lot like Virgil said

16 with Cruisin' the Coast, and we've got a house up here every

17 weekend. And we just think that this would be a great

18 project to do on the coast.

19 We have an RV. We like RV'ing. It's

20 something we want to do if it's approved.

21 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you, sir. Appreciate

22 it.

23 MR. VACCARO: Thank you.

24 MR. WILLIAMS: Anyone else here to speak for

25 it? Mr. Sawyer?




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 1 MR. SAWYER: Lenny Sawyer, 1801 24th Avenue,

 2 Gulfport, Mississippi.

 3 I'm here to speak for the project, but I want

 4 Coach to know I'm not an expert on appraising the value of

 5 these numbers one to ten. But I can tell you I had Class A

 6 motor coach for ten years, and I loved it. My wife didn't

 7 care for it too much, but I loved it. And we traveled all

 8 over the United States. And when we were members of the

 9 Family Motor Coach Association, they used to rate these

10 parks one to ten, ten being the nicest. At that time,

11 Destin and Orange Beach had two parks that were number tens.

12 Then Marlin Torgusen with Casino Magic built one over to the

13 west of us.

14 This will be absolutely a great asset to the

15 Mississippi Gulf Coast to have that quality of a park there

16 with only sixty something spaces. And being on the beach

17 and being on Cowan as wide as it is with the turn lane when

18 you're towing a vehicle behind it you got to have a lot of

19 room. And they planned that. And being by the fire station

20 has worked well for the city to have a fire station there.

21 So I wanted to say this is a great time for

22 us to get a quality RV park here.

23 Than you very much.

24 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you, sir. Appreciate

25 it.




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 1 Anyone else here to speak for the request?

 2 Anyone here to speak against the request

 3 tonight?

 4 All right. Yes, ma'am or who.

 5 MR. BRUNELL: Good afternoon. Thank you for

 6 the opportunity to address the zoning application before the

 7 board.

 8 My name is Roger Brunell. I live at 1457

 9 Georgia Place in Gulfport.

10 The applicant in this matter it's come out in

11 some of what is being said now has been shown a lack of

12 candor in this application.

13 First off, in the change in need document, he

14 speaks of a jumble of different zoning at this particular

15 location.

16 This is not a jumble of zoning. This is an

17 orderly from T6 at the corner progressing to T5 north and

18 east progressing to T4 further north and further east.

19 There's no jumble there. That's an orderly progression of

20 zoning as zoning should be.

21 Georgia Place and further east, those are the

22 areas that are T4. Georgia Place, the lots that have been

23 developed were mainly developed after Katrina and have been

24 developed since Katrina, all consist of single family

25 dwellings.




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 1 Likewise as you head east on 90, most of that

 2 land is vacant. That's why he has the application. But

 3 what land is occupied is again single family dwellings.

 4 A drive along Highway 90 in Gulfport reveals

 5 several new dwellings being built or under construction all

 6 along the highway. There's no need to undo what

 7 historically has been the nature of Highway 90 and the

 8 dwellings.

 9 More specifically, there's a new dwelling has

10 been completed just east of this tract, and then there's

11 another dwelling under construction down by Anniston Avenue

12 and 90.

13 My biggest concern, though, is that the

14 application includes the rezoning of Lot 2253 as shown on

15 the zoning map amendment, also identified as 1432 Georgia

16 Place, Parcel Number 1010N-04-29.000 Lot 8 Jim Allen

17 subdivision on the agent authorization form.

18 Georgia Place is a quiet dead-end street. It

19 terminates at the end in a circle with single family

20 dwellings on it. Except for the fire house on the corner of

21 Cowan Road, all parcels on Georgia Place are either occupied

22 by single dwellings or vacant since Hurricane Katrina.

23 Rezoning a parcel at 1432 Georgia Place is

24 totally out of character for a quiet limited access

25 residential street and will, in fact, then contribute to the




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 1 so-called jumble of different zoning at this particular

 2 location. And it exemplifies spot zoning which is something

 3 that should always be discouraged.

 4 Most bizarre is the fact that the rezoning of

 5 that lot surrounded by single family dwellings to T5 result

 6 in the prohibition of building another single family

 7 dwelling on that lot because T5 does not allow for single

 8 family dwellings.

 9 That makes no sense in the middle of Georgia

10 Place.

11 Regardless of what specific use the applicant

12 states is planned for this entire parcel, the fact is that

13 any rezoning does not limit the use of that parcel to any

14 specific use now or in the future. The middle of the block

15 on Georgia Place is not a suitable location for business of

16 any type. Any suggestion that rezoning the parcel at 1432

17 Georgia Place should be approved shows utter disregard for

18 the residents of Georgia Place, some who have enjoyed this

19 quiet neighborhood for decades.

20 So in conclusion, I object to the granting of

21 any of this application, and in particular I am adamantly

22 opposed to any commercial zoning on Georgia Place.

23 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you, sir. Appreciate

24 it. Very well said.

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 1 MR. DAVIS: My name is Gene Davis. I live at

 2 1421 Georgia Place. I've owned that property for over 50

 3 years. Fact is, I'm the one that named it Georgia Place.

 4 The people from Louisiana want to build that

 5 park down there, and I think that's good. I'm not against

 6 them building it. I'm not against them changing the zoning

 7 on that property.

 8 I am very seriously against changing the

 9 zoning in Georgia Place for this reason. I live at the

10 corner, on the northeast corner, of Georgia Place and 605.

11 One of the nicest fire stations on the coast, probably top

12 ten in the United States, is on the southeast corner. They

13 are excellent neighbors.

14 However, they have a small problem like the

15 one I have. When you're on 605 there's a turning lane.

16 It's five lane now counting the turning lane. Sidewalks,

17 well lit, beautiful. When you get close to Georgia Place,

18 it looks like, and you can see it on that, if you look, it

19 looks like it's going to be another boulevard going east.

20 At least five cars a day just on a normal day

21 turn in there mistakenly. When Cruisin' the Coast or spring

22 break is here, there's as many as 25 to 30 cars -- and I can

23 back this up with my camera on my front door, and the fire

24 department has that.

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 1 They go to turn in on there, then they realize all of a

 2 sudden it's not, so they turn around in my driveway or the

 3 fire department.

 4 Now, changing the zoning in our subdivision

 5 is going to mess up that. It's just a little bitty small

 6 avenue. It's hard to turn a luxury vehicle -- and when you

 7 say luxury RV park, luxury means they're up to 45 feet long.

 8 And most of them going to be pulling a Jeep Cherokee.

 9 They're four wheels on the ground. You cannot back them up.

10 You cannot turn sharp. It's hard for me. I have a little

11 Jeep, and I have a little Jon boat, aluminum Jon boat. It's

12 hard for me to back in my driveway because it's so narrow on

13 Georgia Place. It takes me time. The fire department can

14 tell you. They laugh at me. But I get it in there.

15 If a motor home turns in there, they can't

16 even make that circle without running on somebody's property

17 at that circle at the end.

18 Now Jim Allen is a different subdivision than

19 Georgia Place. Georgia Place is the ( ) lot line at the

20 east end of -- at Jim Allen subdivision.

21 I don't see why anybody has any want or right

22 to change our zoning. Now, they're going to build something

23 nice. I'm not against that. I'm against what they're doing

24 to our place there.

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 1 like this coming up is making it a gated community. That

 2 might what we can do there, you know, if a majority of the

 3 people want it.

 4 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Thank you, sir.

 5 Appreciate it.

 6 Next speaker on this.

 7 MR. HEWES: While he's coming up, can I get a

 8 clarification. In looking at this, is any of the zoning

 9 going to change except for that one lot in the Georgia Place

10 subdivision, or is that going to remain I believe it's T4+,

11 is that correct?

12 MR. HOLMES: It's only that one lot in

13 Georgia Place that they're proposing to rezone. And then

14 that to the south you have that property which is T3, T4+,

15 they're going to change it.

16 MR. HEWES: The Georgia Place subdivision as

17 it stands is not going to be changed.

18 MR. HOLMES: No, sir.

19 MR. HEWES: Okay. Thank you.

20 MR. PEMBERTON: Just that one little parcel,

21 is that correct? Now, on his map that shows these

22 amenities, will T4+ allow those amenities? Because it's not

23 R-B.

24 MR. HOLMES: One thing I want to say, this is

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 1 planning commission approval for this use. So this will be

 2 back before this body.

 3 MR. PEMBERTON: Yes. But for clarification

 4 purposes, does -- T4+ will allow that park.

 5 MR. HOLMES: If it's part of the development,

 6 it needs to be all together, so that means it's going to

 7 have to get planning approval as part of the actual RV park.

 8 But, no, you can't have an RV park in T4+.

 9 MR. PEMBERTON: Not an RV park. But if they

10 have that separate. So to eliminate spot zoning and to

11 address the concern just that one little part, you can

12 change the zoning in the middle of the parcel.

13 MR. HOLMES: Yes, you can.

14 MR. PEMBERTON: And if it meets the intent on

15 what they want to do, and if it meets the intent of making

16 everyone else happy, then that's really what we want to do.

17 MR. HOLMES: I think that would be completely

18 up to the applicant.

19 MR. PEMBERTON: Yeah. But it's feasible. I

20 mean, because a lazy river would be allowed under T4+.

21 MR. HOLMES: But that (inaudible) would be

22 something (inaudible) would be an amenity for it.

23 MR. PEMBERTON: It's allowed. So the parking

24 is down here. It just seems like there's a huge compromise

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 1 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Yes, sir.

 2 MR. CYRUS: My name is Bernie Cyrus. I own

 3 the property at 1446 Georgia Place.

 4 I'm all for developers that are doing good

 5 things for the community and so forth. But I retired from

 6 government 25 years. I got five beautiful grandchildren. I

 7 bring them out here because I don't get to see them any more

 8 since their dad built a pool. But they love Gulfport. They

 9 love coming out here. They love the Discovery place, they

10 love the museums, and they love the Aquarium, and they

11 really like Georgia Place.

12 And the interesting thing here is if you look

13 at the map and see Georgia Place, it looks like a golf club,

14 the bottom of a golf club you can see. I'm on the corner.

15 But the gentleman who spoke before me was correct. If any

16 cars go down there, heck, we can barely get a bicycle around

17 there without going up on the sidewalk.

18 That's going to create a lot of problems.

19 And I don't know, have there been any traffic studies to

20 show the impact that this is going to have on our community?

21 I think it's rather ludicrous to take that lot that's facing

22 Georgia Place and make it have egress to this project

23 because you're going to have so many cars coming through,

24 what's the security risk there. Are there going to be more

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 1 I have never seen the rendering that the

 2 gentleman brought up here. As a matter of fact, I asked a

 3 few of my neighbors, and they have never been knocked on

 4 their door talked about this project. And I still haven't

 5 seen it because it's been facing you guys.

 6 But I think this is totally unfair. And I

 7 think this is too quick to make a change on something like

 8 this when you've got basically a dead-end street, that

 9 cul-de-sac. And people aren't coming down there now. You

10 do this, especially if you give them egress, no telling what

11 kind of vehicles are going to be coming down there.

12 I'd like to say I'm all for splash parks and

13 I've got grandchildren and all, but this might even compete

14 with some of the things out there that we're growing tax

15 monies right now like the aforementioned things like the

16 museums and the Aquarium and so forth with an attraction.

17 I don't believe that our valuable assets,

18 which is property and homes, should be thrown aside because

19 of the valuable assets of a substantial quote unquote

20 developer. I think our rights are important, too, and

21 especially the fact that we chose to live here to make our

22 lives here, not just for profit or anything else.

23 And I believe that there's just a rush here.

24 They say it's a great RV park. Again, this is all abstract.

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 1 ten years from now it's a gypsy circus group coming in. We

 2 don't know.

 3 We should adhere to the quality of life and

 4 standard that the people of Gulfport who have resided here

 5 and made investments that they can hold onto for their

 6 future generations.

 7 And again, we haven't seen enough to really

 8 make a logical educational study on what's going on here.

 9 But from the get go, from the emotional standpoint, as you

10 can see, I'm very concerned and I know my neighbors are.

11 And again, this is the first time we're getting a chance to

12 even look at this proposal, and we haven't really looked at

13 it yet.

14 So if y'all would just not rush into this,

15 I'd pray on the wisdom of this body to realize that there

16 are a lot of things valuable here, and our property rights

17 are the most important ones because we've been Gulfport

18 people. I came here, I fell in love with this town. It is

19 a beautiful city, and I'm involved in community, too, where

20 I come from. I've done a lot of things at my jobs in the

21 past to benefit tourism industry, recreational, I'm all for

22 that.

23 I just can't see at least right now that lot

24 on Georgia Place should be taken off the table in good

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 1 Now, as far as the properties behind me and

 2 everything where it's, you know, we haven't seen anything.

 3 This is a very profitable business, this RV

 4 trailer park business. They don't have to do much. Put the

 5 pads down. Set in electricity. Set in utilities. Rake it

 6 in. That's not wrong. This is America. You should be able

 7 to do that. But we should be able to do what we have

 8 constitutional rights to protect our property and our assets

 9 that we've invested in as citizens, not as developers.

10 So again, this is not personal, this is about

11 family and quality of life issues. And if you want Gulfport

12 to keep developing, bring in RV trailers on the beach,

13 hanging in here, I don't think that's the aesthetic quality

14 that people are going to come here for.

15 Thank you.

16 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Thank you, sir.

17 Appreciate it.

18 Next person.

19 MR. PERKINS: My name is Charlie Perkins. I

20 live at -- well, I own 1445 Georgia Place which is almost

21 right across the street from this -- the lot that they're

22 talking about.

23 I want to address the park to start off with

24 though. That piece of property is almost -- I don't know --

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 1 right there on 90. And it's like five or six acres that's

 2 overlooking the Gulf. And I just feel like that would be a

 3 bad misuse for that property as far as the City of Gulfport.

 4 And from what my understanding is, it's not

 5 going, as far as your tax base, it's not really going to

 6 bring up your tax base because there won't be any -- you'd

 7 basically be still taxed on the property. It won't be any

 8 amenities on it.

 9 There's a lot of things that could go there

10 that would really be a lot better use on that property. Not

11 that -- I know I can't tell anybody what they can do with

12 their property, but I just think that something like that

13 put down there, that could be there another 10 or 15 years,

14 and then somebody will end up buying it and do something

15 real nice on it, and then it's just going to kick the can

16 down the road as far as what develops the coast back.

17 That's just my thoughts on that.

18 But as far as Georgia Place, it's all zoned

19 single family residence, and just -- that's one of the

20 original -- Georgia Place was added onto twice, and that lot

21 is in the first addition. And it has the covenants where

22 you can only put a single family house on that property.

23 But if it's rezoned and it's, you know -- I know that --

24 But my main thing is the future use of it.

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 1 subdivision into that lot, whatever they do, but somebody is

 2 eventually else going to get that property and do something

 3 with it, and then they would have access to that property

 4 from our road so we'd have three accesses to it, which I'm

 5 sure that's why -- I feel like that's probably why they're

 6 adding that in there is for future use as far as access.

 7 But that's my main concern is not rezoning at

 8 least our residential. Thank you.

 9 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you. Appreciate it.

10 Next person to speak.

11 MS. DAVIS: My name is Rebecca Davis, and I

12 live with Mr. Davis at 1421 Georgia Place. And as you can

13 tell, we love our neighborhood. I came from eye surgery to

14 come and speak.

15 The way I understand it is that -- I called

16 the code office, the zoning office, and was told that once

17 it's changed to T5 whether they say it's not going to be

18 egress or ingress, whether they say it's only going to be a

19 dog park or green space, they can do whatever T5 allows.

20 Now, I've got the covenants here, and the

21 covenants say the restrictions claimed herein shall apply to

22 the entire subdivision consisting of the lots. Now this is

23 Jim Allen subdivision, which those two lots are included

24 through the 20 houses. And it says single family dwelling

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 1 Well, my concern is I heard one of the

 2 gentlemen say, well, we're not sure what we're going to do

 3 right there right now. Okay. But down the road what's

 4 going to happen?

 5 Like one of the gentlemen said, it's a nice

 6 quiet subdivision, mostly retired people with their

 7 grandkids visiting. But what happens if they do want to

 8 enter and exit through there?

 9 First of all, when you come out of Georgia

10 Place and you're sitting ready to go south on Cowan Road or

11 605, sometimes you have to sit there quite a while to wait

12 for the northbound or southbound traffic to go by. If

13 there's a 45 foot RV waiting to turn into Georgia Place, you

14 can't see the cars coming. They can't turn in because it's

15 a narrow road. I just think that Georgia Place needs to

16 remain a residential area.

17 I've got a couple of questions here.

18 Are they planning -- we couldn't see the

19 cardboard thing that he had. We couldn't see that. What is

20 the plan on those two lots? Is that a driveway to get in

21 the back?

22 I did understand they're not going to enter

23 the RV park from Highway 90. So where would the RVs be

24 entering and exiting --

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 1 after.

 2 MS. DAVIS: -- the trailer park.

 3 We want to keep our subdivision nice, quiet,

 4 that we can enjoy peacefully. And it's not real peaceful

 5 when, like he said, during Cruisin' and spring break. We

 6 sometimes have 20 cars coming down. I've had them sitting

 7 in my front yard right at the curb revving their engines.

 8 And I want to say, also, we're both retired,

 9 and since the pandemic we rarely leave the house. Nobody

10 has knocked on our door to ask us what we thought, and we're

11 the first house in the subdivision. So it's not like they

12 had to go hunt us up. We're right there on the corner, on

13 the northeast corner of Cowan and Georgia Place.

14 So nobody asked us. Very opposed to anything

15 but residential on those two lots.

16 Let me see. And I will say I know

17 developers. I'm with my husband, I agree with developing.

18 But I can pretty much be sure the developer is not vested in

19 our comfort. They're not interested like we are. Our house

20 has been there over 50 years.

21 So I'm very opposed, and I would like it to

22 say so. Thank you so much.

23 MR. WILLIAMS: Appreciate it.

24 Next person.

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 1 Place, and it's a great place to live.

 2 MR. WILLIAMS: Your name.

 3 MR. MAYER: Mark Mayer, M-A-Y-E-R.

 4 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Appreciate it.

 5 MR. MAYER: So on most days I'll go down to

 6 the beach and walk. But I have a little problem getting

 7 across that intersection. And the City of Gulfport has

 8 demonstrated quite clearly they don't have the ability, they

 9 don't have the wherewithal, they don't have the technology

10 to have a functioning crosswalk at Cowan-Lorraine.

11 Let me say that again. That's an intentional

12 disabled crosswalk. If you want to get across that

13 crosswalk, you play dodge car, you and everybody else.

14 If this proposal is passed, you're going to

15 increase the number of pedestrians getting across that

16 Highway 90. How many are going to get killed? How many

17 have gotten killed this year? I know of about four. How

18 many will get killed after another 100 people a day are

19 trying to get across that highway?

20 Why don't we solve that problem first. Why

21 don't we figure out how to get people across that highway

22 safely before we add more people.

23 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Thank you, sir.

24 Appreciate it.

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 1 MR. ROUSE: I'm going to try and make this

 2 brief. I'm Ronnie Rouse. I have a house at 1426 Georgia

 3 Place which is right next to the fire department.

 4 My biggest concern -- I'm not really against

 5 the development. My biggest concern is finding out what's

 6 going to be jutting up against my yard because their

 7 property will be on one side and the back of my house.

 8 So I'm really concerned, you know, what I'm

 9 going to have as a neighbor.

10 And that's really all I needed is

11 clarification on what will be put up there.

12 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Thank you.

13 Next person.

14 MR. BELLER: Good afternoon. My name is

15 Steve Beller. I represent all the property that you see up

16 there on the red side of it, on the east side. We have two

17 residential single family homes that have been there, were

18 blown away a couple of times. We rebuilt the first time

19 after Katrina. We have not rebuilt yet on the two after --

20 no. We rebuilt after Camille. Excuse me. We did not

21 rebuild after Katrina.

22 But that whole red section that runs to the

23 east side of this development is our residential property.

24 It's two properties. It's been owned by the family since

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 1 concept that we went from a single family lot, it was a

 2 single family residence, I pulled up the tax reports of it,

 3 and it shows they're single family residence. They're

 4 listed as single family. You look at the zoning, and all of

 5 a sudden now it's T3, 4, something that we don't know what

 6 it is. But it's not single family resident.

 7 And we're very concerned with having that

 8 butting up to next to our property. We go across that --

 9 you can't really see it here, but there's water, there's a

10 creek that runs through the property. We're on both sides

11 of that creek.

12 If you look back towards, when you're going

13 back towards Georgia Place, there's a creek that runs down.

14 You can't see it very clearly. But it's right there. And

15 it's about three, four feet deep. People have -- you know,

16 I even built a bridge from the subdivision up there, and

17 we've allowed them to come through so they would have access

18 to the beach so they would not have to go through the

19 highway and everything else to get down there.

20 We're very concerned with the fact that part

21 of this is changing us from a single family residence to a

22 commercial rating, commercial -- what do you call it?

23 Anyway, we're very concerned about that. Our

24 plans have been, we've been working with an architect to

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 1 We have families that are all over the

 2 country. We're from here. We live here. But we want to

 3 redevelop that property into private -- I mean, a single

 4 family residence maybe with a couple of little outhouses for

 5 the rest of the family so everybody can come at one time.

 6 There was one of those before. It's now gone past Georgia

 7 Place. Most of the stuff that was where our lot was was

 8 blown up into the railroad tracks in there after.

 9 But we are not -- I'm not against

10 development, but I'm very concerned with the fact that all

11 of a sudden we wake up and the zoning has been changed to

12 put a big commercial something right up to our door on our

13 property, and, you know, this is a residence. These are

14 residences that have been there since the '50s. That's over

15 70 years. And all of a sudden, our nextdoor neighbor, there

16 was a home on the other side of us, the one you see right to

17 the left was a home, used to be a home. It got blown away,

18 and it got changed over to a commercial lot.

19 But we've got the two in the red right there

20 are ours, and we really don't want to see that happen. We

21 don't want to watch it just start galloping down, and all of

22 a sudden you have another little storm, and somebody comes

23 back in and builds something else on there because it's

24 zoned something else, you know, we're now commercial.

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 1 changing the family neighborhood. And it was mentioned

 2 earlier that everybody was asked about it. Nobody that I

 3 know that owns property along the beach has been asked about

 4 it, not a soul. I've been on the phone talking to people

 5 today, and nobody has been asked. Maybe one person I wasn't

 6 able to get a hold of that's right next to us. But I

 7 guarantee you, he wouldn't want it, either.

 8 I just don't understand how, you know, what

 9 has been a neighborhood -- now, the blue down here, that was

10 a service station and what we called the Flying Trailers up

11 there, the stacked up trailers that was just brought in and

12 made a little motel out of it, apartments, and different

13 things. That was the blue. The purple was residences.

14 Now the purple is becoming part of this

15 trailer park. And I don't mean to say trailer park, but

16 luxury camper facility. You know, I understand how it would

17 fit for Cruisin' the Coast for what an important part of the

18 coast Cruisin' is, but it doesn't necessarily have to be --

19 there's enough vacant property on the beach all the way up

20 and down that's got service stations and stuff on it and all

21 this other stuff that was commercial and has been commercial

22 forever, why are we digging in -- I know it's a good road --

23 but why are we digging into the residences there that have

24 been there for 70 plus years.

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 1 character of our neighborhood -- people next door built a

 2 nice new house. Other people are in the process of doing

 3 the same thing. We're fixing to, we've got plans drawn up

 4 to build a home there, it's two lots. It was the family

 5 lot, and then it was the grandmother's house right next

 6 door. So those two lots are now being zoned commercial, and

 7 I can't understand how that can be done just because we

 8 don't have a house on it right now.

 9 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Thank you, sir.

10 Appreciate it.

11 Anyone else wish to speak?

12 MS. KERSHAW: Good evening. My name is

13 Rebecca Kershaw. I live at 1457 Georgia Place.

14 This home that I have now is my second home.

15 And my husband Roger Brunell spoke earlier.

16 My concern specifically is about the lot on

17 Georgia Place zoning being changed.

18 That is a horrible concept to think that I

19 could wake up and have that turn into another roadway. It's

20 hard enough as it is sometimes to get out of Georgia Place

21 when you want to go to Rouse's or anywhere else. But if

22 this passes and the lot on Georgia Place is changed in the

23 zoning so that it is considered commercial and cannot ever

24 become residential again, I tell you what, I will sell my

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 1 Georgia Place is a nice little place to live.

 2 I have grandchildren now. When I bought there in 1990, my

 3 son was attending Anniston Elementary. He's 43 now, and I

 4 have three grandchildren, and they love to come and they

 5 visit often when they're not busy.

 6 So I want it to be a safe street where

 7 there's no access to heavy traffic. And I would be appalled

 8 if a big motor home ever came down that street and tried to

 9 get under the tree that goes across from Georgia Place from

10 our friend Mark's house.

11 So thank you for letting me speak.

12 MR. WILLIAMS: Thank you so much. Appreciate

13 it.

14 Anyone else want to speak?

15 Go ahead.

16 MR. PEMBERTON: I've got a couple of

17 questions.

18 First and foremost, I never heard anyone

19 proposing using Georgia Place as a point of entry to get to

20 this when they just come off of Cowan Road.

21 But just in a usage standpoint, you have the

22 fire station already zoned T5, and then you have the

23 majority of the parcels that they have is T5. Then you've

24 got some T4 to the east.

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 1 that they want to make it to T5 on the east side but left

 2 the T4+ on the Georgia Place which is currently the way it's

 3 zoned, I feel like based on the colored rendering that it

 4 would meet what everybody wants but it would still give that

 5 a little bit of a ( ) going into it because there's not

 6 any proposed RV being there. But it's still going to have

 7 to come back through this board to get the final site plan

 8 approval.

 9 So I feel like we're kind of going down a

10 rapids river right now and we're not focused on the

11 immediate need right here. And this is, in essence, we

12 would have to approve them to have access coming off of

13 Georgia Place for whatever they want to do, correct?

14 MR. HOLMES: If this gets approved tonight,

15 they have to come back and get planning commission approval,

16 yes, you would have to approve that site plan.

17 MR. PEMBERTON: Yeah. So we're not focusing

18 -- I just want to tell you guys. We don't need to be

19 worried about a site plan right now because that's not the

20 purpose of this application. That would be the purpose of

21 the next application.

22 So I feel like that being said, I think it's

23 a good project.

24 MR. WILLIAMS: Again, and Garlon, we've

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 1 rezoning. And all of this discussion about what's going

 2 there is really a moot point because I've been on this

 3 commission 18, 20 years whatever it is, I can't tell you how

 4 many times we've rezoned property for a particular project,

 5 and what was built on that project was completely different

 6 when it actually got built.

 7 So this is about the rezoning. I agree with

 8 you.

 9 But I do think it was important since they do

10 have something they want to put on it that they did talk

11 about it. My biggest issue with this is rezoning that lot

12 in Georgia Place as T5. If we do that as a commission, I

13 think it's ridiculous.

14 I agree with what you're saying. I agree

15 with what you're saying.

16 MR. PEMBERTON: And we get rid of all the

17 spot zoning. We continue the T4+ right there on the Georgia

18 Place street as it currently is. That would address the

19 concerns for the people on Georgia Place. And then the T5

20 on the east side. And you still go from T5 to T4+ to T3.

21 So I feel like it meets the intent of

22 everyone.

23 MR. WILLIAMS: I agree.

24 So, Virgil, come back up and talk to us a

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 1 concerned. I'm not sure too many residents have been told

 2 what was going in here, and I'm not sure too much effort was

 3 made to talk to people because there are a lot of them that

 4 haven't heard anything, so -- which is fine.

 5 And so I guess what I'll do first of all is

 6 ask you to turn that around and let the audience see it for

 7 a second. And I'm not going to have you talk to the

 8 audience, but I do want to show where the ingress and egress

 9 off of Cowan-Lorraine Road is that you can see there because

10 the one lady had the question about where the ingress and

11 egress was. So it's certainly on Cowan-Lorraine Road.

12 If anybody cones up and looks at it, please

13 hold your conversations to none. You can certainly take a

14 look at it if you would.

15 So, Virgil, talk to me a little bit about --

16 while they're doing that and they can look at it while we're

17 talking. We've seen it, and we've got it here. So talk to

18 me a little bit about the importance of having that lot in

19 Georgia Place as a T5. And you don't have to point to it,

20 just talk to us about it.

21 MR. GILLESPIE: Okay. Let me emphasize that

22 the --

23 (Audience having conversations.)

24 MR. GILLESPIE: The lots on Georgia Place --

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 1 down if there's conversation. Okay? I'm going to make you

 2 sit down if there's conversation. Thank you.

 3 All right. Go ahead, Virgil.

 4 MR. GILLESPIE: I really need to turn this

 5 around.

 6 MR. WILLIAMS: Okay. Thank y'all. Turn it

 7 around. I disagree with you, but we'll do it. Turn it

 8 around, go ahead. Go ahead, turn it around. Turn it

 9 around, Virgil, please. Thank you.

10 MR. GILLESPIE: All right. I want to make a

11 point here that this right here, this is the Georgia Place

12 T4+. Everything from there, all of this is T5. We're not

13 asking to change any of this.

14 MR. WILLIAMS: And we know that.

15 MR. GILLESPIE: We're asking to change this

16 and a little bit of this over here that's T4+.

17 MR. WILLIAMS: I understand that.

18 MR. GILLESPIE: This is T5. This is T6.

19 MR. WILLIAMS: So why do you need T5 on a lot

20 in Georgia Place?

21 MR. GILLESPIE: Okay. For practical

22 purposes, number one. As part of the property, we have an

23 option. The bank, they want to sell it to us. What we're

24 going to do is put the end of the pool here.

25 Sure, we could cut it off right there. Cut




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 1 it off right there. But that's 107 feet. But everything

 2 they're complaining about is still going to be there.

 3 In other words,the pool is still going to be

 4 right in here.

 5 All we're asking is give us a little bit more

 6 room to do what -- I mean, I can't see how 107 feet --

 7 MR. WILLIAMS: Can your pool not go in T4L?

 8 MR. GILLESPIE: Sir?

 9 MR. WILLIAMS: Can your pool not go in T4L?

10 MR. PEMBERTON: It's T4+.

11 MR. WILLIAMS: T4+. Thank you for correcting

12 me.

13 MR. PEMBERTON: What you have proposed,

14 correct me if I'm wrong, on that north part, if we left it

15 T4+, it does not affect your development as proposed. It

16 also addresses the concerns of the neighbors.

17 So if that's really what you're going to want

18 built, I feel that there's a simple compromise.

19 MR. WILLIAMS: Everybody wins in that.

20 MR. GILLESPIE: Well, we don't want to

21 disturb the neighbors. What you all are saying is, hey, Mr.

22 Gillespie, you all might not build this, so do us a favor.

23 Take it out up on Georgia Place, you can still build it. So

24 if you don't build it, these people will still have their

25 T4+.




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 1 MR. PEMBERTON: That's correct.

 2 MR. WILLIAMS: Exactly.

 3 MR. GILLESPIE: I don't have a problem with

 4 that.

 5 MR. WILLIAMS: Good. Okay. I thought I was

 6 mis-explaining.

 7 MR. PEMBERTON: I want one more clarity if

 8 you don't mind.

 9 So the subdivision covenants, is that

10 recorded in the City of Gulfport and enforced by the City of

11 Gulfport? Or is it just recorded or enforced by the

12 association?

13 MR. HOLMES: It's recorded in Harrison

14 County, and the City of Gulfport recognizes covenants, but

15 we don't enforce them.

16 MR. PEMBERTON: So it doesn't have to be

17 built as it sits today a single family residence unless

18 legally the residents of Georgia Place want to not let it

19 happen, I guess is what I'm saying.

20 MR. GILLESPIE: We recognize we have to obey

21 covenants.

22 (Comments from audience.)

23 MR. WILLIAMS: That's okay. Shhh. Hang on.

24 I don't need you. I understand.

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 1 myself.

 2 If we left that T4+, by right the T4+ would

 3 allow the pool within those amenities. But the covenants

 4 say it has to be a single family residence. And we have no

 5 right to say anything about those covenants. So where does

 6 that even play a factor I guess is what I'm trying to

 7 understand.

 8 MR. DAIGLE: Aren't we getting a little ahead

 9 of ourselves? Because that's more with the site plan what

10 they plan to do. What we're talking about now is zoning.

11 MR. WILLIAMS: I agree with that. I think

12 this point is important. I totally agree with what you're

13 saying, but I think this point is important in regards to

14 the covenants because it was brought up and this whole

15 discussion has been about what's going there, not about just

16 rezoning. So I think we're okay, so keep going.

17 MR. PEMBERTON: I'm definitely not trying --

18 MR. WILLIAMS: No, certainly not.

19 MR. PEMBERTON: But I'm trying to get clarity

20 for them, for you guys and for us.

21 I think T4+, they can do what they propose, a

22 T5 do that. Then they're just going to have to figure out

23 the covenants on their own because that won't come back in

24 front of us in regards to the covenant matter, correct?

25 MR. HOLMES: That's correct.




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 1 MR. WILLIAMS: So what they'd have to do is

 2 take legal actin outside of this body.

 3 MR. PEMBERTON: Outside of us.

 4 MR. WILLIAMS: Correct. Okay.

 5 MR. PEMBERTON: I'm sorry.

 6 MR. WILLIAMS: No, I think that was

 7 important. So, okay.

 8 Go ahead, Charlie.

 9 MR. HEWES: Mr. Gillespie, I've got maybe

10 one, maybe two questions.

11 On that piece of property that is in Georgia

12 Place proper, other than the fact that the bank wants to

13 sell it, do you need that to complete this? Because like

14 what Mr. Williams stated, after 15, 18 years on this

15 commission we've seen a lot of things go wrong. And one of

16 the issues that the neighbors have is that turning into an

17 ingress/egress whether it be emergency, nonemergency, in

18 their narrow street.

19 And that's very much a concern for me, too,

20 because they don't need that.

21 So how do we know that down the road, it may

22 not be Mr. Vaccaro, but someone may purchase it and say,

23 hey, I've got property that abuts that street, and I'm going

24 to make that another entrance or exit.

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 1 protect the amount of traffic in their neighborhood. And so

 2 do you actually need that to develop this?

 3 I personally think it's a wonderful

 4 development, and it's a heck of a lot better than the

 5 trailers on stilts like they talked about. And it's not

 6 going to bring that much traffic on and off. If you have 62

 7 places, you're looking at 60 cars maybe max.

 8 So do you need that square, do you need that

 9 piece of property other than cutting the pool down a little

10 bit?

11 MR. GILLESPIE: I'm not the developer. But

12 I'm sure they could do the whole project without those

13 pieces of property. But the bank is going to make us buy

14 the piece of property whether we use it or not. I mean, you

15 know that.

16 MR. HEWES: No, I don't. The bank can't make

17 ( ) you want to spend your money on. They can suggest

18 it.

19 MR. GILLESPIE: Well, you know, I'm

20 negotiating with the bank. And if I tell the bank, well,

21 we're not going to buy that, they're going to say we're not

22 going to sell it to you because the contract says you got to

23 buy it all. And why would they want to hold onto that piece

24 of property?

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 1 MR. HEWES: Well, the bank is going to --

 2 (Speaking over one another.)

 3 MR. HEWES: I'm not talking about what you're

 4 going to buy or not. I'm just trying to address the concern

 5 for them that if this becomes a part of this development, it

 6 could easily turn into a street or an alley going into their

 7 neighborhood, and that's a concern for them.

 8 And that's part of our duty is to -- I know

 9 we're not talking about a site plan right now, but I think

10 this needs to be hashed out, and it needs to be answered.

11 MR. GILLESPIE: Okay.

12 We got to purchase the piece of property.

13 It's in the contract. The bank is going to make us purchase

14 the piece of property.

15 If we leave it out completely, we're going to

16 end up owning the piece of property. We'd try to sell it.

17 But it seems to me that it would be a bigger problem with us

18 owning it and no restrictions by y'all, seems to me that the

19 plan would be to say we give you the rezoning of all of it

20 but -- Charles, I don't know how to answer that.

21 I mean, we're going to end up with the piece

22 of property but we're not going to build on it, I mean,

23 unless it's allowed by the covenants in T4+.

24 MR. HEWES: So can I ask Mr. Holmes something

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 1 received in our packet, this piece of property is one square

 2 but it looks like they're developing or buying both of them.

 3 Is that the case, they're trying to zone both of these

 4 pieces?

 5 MR. GILLESPIE: One is coming up next month

 6 because we couldn't get the contract with that other lot in

 7 order to get it in to this meeting. So only one of those

 8 lots is on the application tonight.

 9 MR. DAIGLE: And then you're going to be

10 coming back to rezone one next month T5.

11 MR. GILLESPIE: Right. But if we work

12 something out here tonight about leaving it T4, that won't

13 come up.

14 MR. ELLIOTT: So this layout that's here,

15 this can be accomplished the way it's drawn in a T4, right?

16 MR. PEMBERTON: T4+.

17 MR. ELLIOTT: T4+. So the way that's zoned

18 currently, it doesn't need to be rezoned to T5. With that

19 zoning, this can happen. You don't have to take it out. We

20 just do't have to rezone it to accomplish this.

21 So what I think you were saying, Garlon, is

22 the bottom portion on the beach has to be rezoned to a T5.

23 MR. PEMBERTON: Just a sliver of it. But it

24 still has a stepdown from a T5 to a T4+ to a T3. So it

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 1 neighbors.

 2 MR. ELLIOTT: So that we need to look at

 3 rezoning. But the T4+ up on the top on Georgia Place --

 4 MR. PEMBERTON: It just needs to stay T4+.

 5 MR. ELLIOTT: If this is, in fact, what you

 6 want to do, nothing needs to change from a zoning

 7 standpoint.

 8 MR. GILLESPIE: I'd like to formally withdraw

 9 that part of my application that asks for -- and this one

10 only asks for T4 -- I mean for T5, and leave everything up

11 on Georgia Place as T4+ and only ask for this area in here

12 to be rezoned.

13 MR. PEMBERTON: I think that's a great

14 compromise.

15 MR. GILLESPIE: Now, we're not going to ever

16 bring any traffic off of Georgia Place. We don't want

17 traffic off of Georgia Place. We will probably still do the

18 buffer up here whether we put anything up there or not

19 because we want to be -- I know, look, I know how these

20 people feel, you know. I was here a couple of weeks ago,

21 and I thought everybody was going to kill me in a

22 neighborhood I lived in.

23 But I want to be friends with these people up

24 here. I want to have as good a relationship as possible

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 1 see, we've put a boulevard coming in here because we know,

 2 yeah, those are big machines. No machine is going to come

 3 down Georgia Place.

 4 MR. DAIGLE: Can I ask just have one more

 5 question?

 6 One of the concerns the gentleman I think who

 7 lives next to the fire department brought up, he was talking

 8 about people mistaking Georgia Place as a turn into this RV

 9 park. Do you have any signage or anything to go out there

10 on the main road?

11 MR. GILLESPIE: We'd be more than willing to

12 work with the fire and police in regard to doing that. I

13 mean, I could see the point there.

14 MR. DAIGLE: It's something to think about.

15 MR. GILLESPIE: We'd be happy to do that.

16 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Commissioners, any

17 other questions? And Greg has acknowledged that we can

18 obviously in our motion say that we're looking at doing this

19 rezoning except for the parcel that is on Georgia Place and

20 leave it as T4L -- T4+. Thanks, Garlon, for keeping me

21 straight.

22 MR. HEWES: And just a point, if we leave it

23 like that, they won't need to come in the future to a future

24 meeting about that other lot that they're looking at

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 1 MR. WILLIAMS: They can purchase it and leave

 2 it as it is, yeah.

 3 MR. GILLESPIE: We're going to withdraw that

 4 application, also.

 5 MR. WILLIAMS: Great. All right.

 6 (To audience) Y'all, I can't have anybody

 7 else come back up on conversation. But I appreciate if you

 8 had the opportunity to talk.

 9 So, Commissioners, any other questions?

10 All right. Can we get a motion?

11 MR. HEWES: Mr. Chair, I move that we approve

12 Case 2208PC145 with the exception of the lot that fronts on

13 Georgia Place and we leave that in the T4+ that it stands

14 right now and rezone everything else requested to the T5.

15 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. Do I have a

16 second?

17 MR. PEMBERTON: Second.

18 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. We've got a motion

19 and a second as stated to rezone everything else as

20 requested except for the Georgia Place lot that will remain

21 a T4+ as it stands.

22 So any discussion, Commissioners, on that?

23 If not, all those in favor signify by saying

24 aye. Any opposed?

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 1 MR. WILLIAMS: All right. It's been approved

 2 on that. Certainly appreciate it.

 3 And I understand from the residential part on

 4 the beach down there, you know, in the way that you're

 5 looking at it, and I know that's what you wanted to comment

 6 on, but while it's been zoned for residential, that hasn't

 7 been residential in 17 years. So that's one of the busiest

 8 corners along, you know, Highway 90 and Cowan Road in

 9 Gulfport. So there is going to be a difference in what is

10 there, and I think this is better than what could have been

11 there.

12 So, anyway, just my opinion, not that it

13 matters to anybody.

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 1 BEFORE THE CITY OF GULFPORT PLANNING COMMISSION

 2

 3 2208PC145

 4

 5

 6 COURT REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE

 7

 8 I, Norma Jean Ladner Soroe, Certified Shorthand

 9 Reporter, do hereby certify that to the best of my skill and

10 ability I have reported the hearing held before the City of

11 Gulfport Planning Commission and that the foregoing 49 pages

12 constitute a true and correct transcription of said hearing

13 held on the 25th day of August 2022.

14 I do further certify that my certificate annexed

15 hereto applies only to the original and certified

16 transcript. The undersigned assumes no responsibility for

17 the accuracy of any reproduced copies not made under my

18 control and direction.

19 Witness my signature this the 7th day of September

20 2022.

21

22

23 __________________________________

24 NORMA JEAN LADNER SOROE, CSR #1297
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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195:

Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel 1011D-03-
008.000, Requests rezone from T5 (Urban Center Zone) to T6 (Urban Core Zone), 942 1/2
Beach Blvd, Ward 2
2211PC195 Zoning Map Amendment
 Site
 US or State Highway
 AVE Street


 OAK MANOR DR
 TIN
 MAR
 Parcels
 Buildings
 T4+ Water Features
 Smart Code
 T6



 PARADISE AVE
 T5
 T4+

 PHILLIPS DR
 MARKHAM DR
 T1


  TEGARDEN RD
 T6 Zoning
 WF - Water Front




 Site Information
 T5 1011D-03-008.000
 Zoning: T5 (Urban center Zone)
 Size: 1.53 Acres
 Flood: VE
 90
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 assumed by the City of Gulfport for errors in substance or
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 GIS Division, City of Gulfport, provides the information
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 WF and makes every effort possible to provide quality
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Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 84111 1011D-03-008.000 DANIEL O. CONWILL IV 942 BEACH DRIVE GULFPORT MS 39507
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2211PC195)
 142446 1011D-03-006.001 942 BEACH BLVD LLC 400 POYDRAS ST STE 3100 NEW ORLEANS LA 70130
 29870 1011D-03-012.000 BOURGEOUIS NANCY STONE ETAL 1710 E PASS RD GULFPORT MS 39507
 84128 1011D-03-030.000 DANIEL KAREN ANN & VISCUGLIA FELIX 2729 FAISS DR LAS VEGAS NV 89134
 29872 1011D-03-010.000 EASTERLING DAVID & OCTAVIA SUMRALL 140 MARKHAM DRIVE GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 84105 1011D-02-001.000 GULFPORT CITY OF 0
 84144 1011D-03-037.000 JSOCO LLC PO BOX 673 GULFPORT MS 39502
 N 80991 1011D-03-037.002 JSOCO LLC P O BOX 673 GULFPORT MS 39502
 N 84133 1011D-03-035.000 JSOCO LLC P O BOX 673 GULFPORT MS 39502
 N 84135 1011D-03-036.000 JSOCO LLC P O BOX 673 GULFPORT MS 39502
 29882 1011D-03-027.000 LANCE DAVID M JR 175 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 84131 1011D-03-034.000 MCGRAW FRANK ADAM 127 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 145823 1011D-03-034.004 MCGRAW FRANK ADAM 127 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39501
 29888 1011D-03-032.000 MCSHEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 45 HARDY COURT #260 GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 84130 1011D-03-033.000 MCSHEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 45 HARDY COURT #260 GULFPORT MS 39507
 143335 1011D-03-033.004 MCSHEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 45 HARDY CT #231 GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 143333 1011D-03-033.002 MCSHEA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 45 HARDY CT #231 GULFPORT MS 39507
 143334 1011D-03-033.003 OMEN PROPERTIES LLC 2953 BIENVILLE BLVD #309 OCEAN SPRINGS MS 39564
 106810 1011D-03-034.002 ROGERS BRYAN KIRK & KELLY PATTERSON 121 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 144778 1011D-03-034.003 ROGERS BRYAN KIRK & KELLY PATTERSON 121 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 84119 1011D-03-014.000 SCHLOSSER BRIAN & MELINDA 155 CLOVER ST BILOXI MS 39530
 29884 1011D-03-029.000 SCHLOSSER BRIAN R & MELINDA HALL 466 ANNONDALE PARKWAY BILOXI MS 39530
 21353 1011D-03-006.000 SEA OAKS PROFESSIONAL PLAZA LLC 13142 W ECHO DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 29873 1011D-03-009.000 SPINNER REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC 440 GREEN TEAL CT BILOXI MS 39531
 N 84112 1011D-03-011.000 SPINNER REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC 440 GREEN TEAL CT BILOXI MS 39531
 N 146939 1011D-03-009.001 SPINNER REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS LLC 440 GREEN TEAL CT BILOXI MS 39531
 143379 1011D-03-015.001 TIMS KENNETH & CATHERINE 164 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 84113 1011D-03-015.000 TIMS KENNETH R & CATHERINE B 164 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 29869 1011D-03-013.000 WALKER CORY LAMAR & MEGAN ELAINE 156 MARKHAM DR GULFPORT MS 39507
 29883 1011D-03-028.000 WILKIN LOUIS J & CAROL N 825 MARTIN AVE 1357 GULFPORT MS 39507
2211PC195 Zoning Map Amendment
 Legend
 CENTURY OAKS
 Site
 MILRAY LN
 Adjacent Properties
 DR US or State Highway
 TOWNSHIP RD Street
 Railroad
 OCEAN VIEW Buildings
 DR
 Water Features


 29882 E CEDAR DR

 80991 MARTIN AVE
 PHILLIPS DR

 MARKHAM DR
 M CCUN E CT

 LAUREL DR
TEGARDEN RD W CEDAR DR
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 PARADISE AVE OLEANDER DR
 84113
 29883
 84119
 OAK
 29884 29869


 MANOR D R
 29870
 84128 21353
 90
 £
 84144 84112 ¤
 29888 29872
 143335
 143334 143333 146939
 84130 29873
 0 50 100 150
 84131
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 Yards
 84135 106810
 84111
 1447
 142446 1 inch = 340 feet
 78
 D R
 CH
 84133 BEA




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16TH 8410
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 £
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 of Gulfport, provides the information
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RE: Zoning Map Amendment 2211PC195, by owner Daniel Conwill IV, tax parcel
1011D-03-008.000, Requests rezone from T5 (Urban Center Zone) to T6 (Urban Core
Zone), 942 1/2 Beach Blvd, Ward 2
To Applicants and Adjacent Property Owners:
The City of Gulfport Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider the above
application at 4:30 P.M. on Thursday, November 17, 2022, in the Council Chambers at
the Gulfport City Hall located at 2309 15th Street.
For more information, visit http://www.gulfport-ms.gov/agendas/ then click the City of
Gulfport Planning Commission for Thursday, November 17, 2022. A map showing the
location of the property involved is located at this website. If you have any questions or
comments, please contact this office at the phone number 228-868-5710 or email
planners@gulfport-ms.gov. The application is available for viewing in the Planning
Division office at 1410 24th Avenue.
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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC225:


Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC225, by CRC Westside, amendments to the SmartCode Zoning
Article 6, as amended, Section 5.3.3 a Table 10
 Revision date 11/2/2020

 CITY OF GULFPORT
 For Staff Use Only
 Urban Development - Planning Division
 1410 24th Avenue
 2212PC225
 Case File #:___________________
 Gulfport, MS 39501
 (228) 868-5710 Date Received:________________
 APPLICATION FOR Receipt #:____________________
 ZONING TEXT AMENDMENT
 Received By:__________________

 Zoning: ______________________

 Ward: ________Flood:__________


GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF REQUEST: (If necessary, attach a separate sheet of paper detailing the purpose of the request.)
 Changes to the SmartCode Ordinance
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

 OWNERSHIP AND CERTIFICATION:

  I hereby certify that I have read and understand this application and that all information and attachments are true
  and correct. I also certify that I agree to comply with all applicable city codes, ordinances and state laws. Finally,
  I certify that I am the owner of the property involved in this request or have authorization to act as the owner’s agent
  for the herein described request.

 OWNER AGENT
 City of Gulfport
____________________________________ ____________________________________
Printed Name Of Owner Printed Name Of Agent
____________________________________
 P.O. Box 1780 ____________________________________
Mailing Address Mailing Address
Gulfport, MS 39501
____________________________________ ____________________________________
City State Zip code City State Zip code
____________________________________ ____________________________________
Home Phone Work/Cell Phone Home Phone Work/Cell Phone
____________________________________ ____________________________________
Email Email
____________________________________ __________________________________________________
 Signature Of Owner Signature Of Agent


If the property or properties listed above have more than one owner, please check this box. In the case
of multiple owners, reverse side must be completed. Each additional owner will need to complete
and sign the reverse side of this application. We can only accept applications with original signatures.

 SECTIONS A. THROUGH H. MUST BE SUBMITTED FOR A COMPLETE APPLICATION.

 Page 1 of 3
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This page must be completed if the property or properties involved have more than one owner. All
persons listed as owners to the property or properties listed on page one must complete and sign this part
of the application.

I hereby certify that I have read and understand this application and that all information and attachments
are true and correct. I also certify that I agree to comply with all applicable city codes, ordinances and
state laws. Finally, I certify that I am the owner of the property involved in this request or authorized to
act as the owner’s agent for herein described request.



NAME OF OWNER (PRINT)


ADDRESS (STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE


PHONE # (H) (W)


TAX PARCEL NUMBER(S) OWNED


SIGNATURE:


NAME OF OWNER (PRINT)


ADDRESS (STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE


PHONE # (H) (W)


TAX PARCEL NUMBER(S) OWNED


SIGNATURE:


NAME OF OWNER (PRINT)


ADDRESS (STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE


PHONE # (H) (W)


TAX PARCEL NUMBER(S) OWNED


SIGNATURE:


(Use additional forms as needed)


IN CASES OF MULTIPLE APPLICANTS, PLEASE IDENTIFY THE PERSON WHO WILL BE ACTING AS YOUR SPOKES

PERSON/AGENT FOR YOU:




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 IMPORTANT NOTICE 3. Increase in need for sites – increased or increasing
1. Please be advised that failure to submit a complete needs for business or industrial sites, in addition to sites
 proposed
application, with district.
 all supporting documents, could delay that are available, make it necessary and desirable to
your hearing date. The Planning Commission will not reclassify an area or to extend the boundaries of an
consider a request until all information is submitted and existing district.
accurate. 4. Annexation – it is necessary and desirable to classify
 territory hereafter annexed to the city to a district
2. Please be advised that the application deadline dates classification.
posted are designed to allow the staff time to review the 5. Ordinance changes – amendment of the ordinance
application and receive required comments from not involving a change in classification of land
coordinating agencies. The application is not considered necessary.
complete until all required information from the 6. Change in governmental property –it is necessary to
applicant is available for review by the staff and reclassify property as a result of acquisition or
coordinating agencies. disposition of such property by the United States of
 America, the state of Mississippi or Harrison County.
3. Please see reverse of this sheet to determine the
 G. The following items must be submitted when in a
deadline dates for filing your application.
 written statement you are requesting an amendment
 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance or
A. Page one of this application, completed and signed. SmartCode Ordinance:

B. Proof of ownership (Copy of deed or affidavit) 1. Interest: The applicant or applicants name(s),
 address(es) and interest of any individual(s), firm(s) or
C. If applicable, notarized proof of authority to act as agent
 corporation(s) represented by the applicant(s) in the
 for owner (board resolution, etc.)
 application.
D. The City of Gulfport Planning Division Staff will notify,
 by letter, property owners adjacent to the requested action 2. Condition for Change: State which one or more
 identified in this application using the Land Roll database condition(s) exists which warrants the change to the
 from the County Tax Office. If you would like to have zoning amendment. The six conditions defined in the
 additional persons or property owners notified, please ordinance are above.
 provide a list of additional persons to be notified.
 3. Development Schedule: A development schedule
E. Site Plan: Showing proposed development (Optional). must also be submitted. This should show the time
 schedule for the beginning and completion of mall
F. Provide a written statement addressing the following
 development planned by the applicant in the area. The
 reasons for your text amendment request:
 successive stages and the development for each stages
 The Comprehensive Zoning and SmartCode Ordinances, should be shown if applicable.
 including the zoning map, are based on comprehensive
 planning studies and are intended to carry out the object 4. Effects of Amendment: Provide a report giving the
 of sound, stable and desirable environment. It is nature, description, and effect of the proposed
 recognized that casual amendment of the ordinance would amendment.
 be detrimental to the achievement of that objective, and it
 is therefore declared to be the public policy to amend this 5. Error: The error in this ordinance that would be
 ordinance only when one or more of the following corrected by the proposed amendment; if the intent is to
 conditions prevail: correct an error.

 1. Error – there is manifest error in the ordinance. H. Cash or check payable to the City of Gulfport in the
 amount of $175.00.
 2. Change in Conditions: - changed or changing
 conditions in a particular area, or in the city or
 metropolitan area generally, make an amendment to the
 ordinance necessary and desirable.


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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC224:


Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC224, by CRC Westside, amendments to the SmartCode Zoning
Ordinance, as amended, Section 5.3.3 h
 Revision date 11/2/2020

 CITY OF GULFPORT
 For Staff Use Only
 Urban Development - Planning Division
 1410 24th Avenue
 2212PC224
 Case File #:___________________
 Gulfport, MS 39501
 (228) 868-5710 Date Received:________________
 APPLICATION FOR Receipt #:____________________
 ZONING TEXT AMENDMENT
 Received By:__________________

 Zoning: ______________________

 Ward: ________Flood:__________


GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF REQUEST: (If necessary, attach a separate sheet of paper detailing the purpose of the request.)
 Changes to the SmartCode Ordinance
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

 OWNERSHIP AND CERTIFICATION:

  I hereby certify that I have read and understand this application and that all information and attachments are true
  and correct. I also certify that I agree to comply with all applicable city codes, ordinances and state laws. Finally,
  I certify that I am the owner of the property involved in this request or have authorization to act as the owner’s agent
  for the herein described request.

 OWNER AGENT
 City of Gulfport
____________________________________ ____________________________________
Printed Name Of Owner Printed Name Of Agent
____________________________________
 P.O. Box 1780 ____________________________________
Mailing Address Mailing Address
Gulfport, MS 39501
____________________________________ ____________________________________
City State Zip code City State Zip code
____________________________________ ____________________________________
Home Phone Work/Cell Phone Home Phone Work/Cell Phone
____________________________________ ____________________________________
Email Email
____________________________________ __________________________________________________
 Signature Of Owner Signature Of Agent


If the property or properties listed above have more than one owner, please check this box. In the case
of multiple owners, reverse side must be completed. Each additional owner will need to complete
and sign the reverse side of this application. We can only accept applications with original signatures.

 SECTIONS A. THROUGH H. MUST BE SUBMITTED FOR A COMPLETE APPLICATION.

 Page 1 of 3
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This page must be completed if the property or properties involved have more than one owner. All
persons listed as owners to the property or properties listed on page one must complete and sign this part
of the application.

I hereby certify that I have read and understand this application and that all information and attachments
are true and correct. I also certify that I agree to comply with all applicable city codes, ordinances and
state laws. Finally, I certify that I am the owner of the property involved in this request or authorized to
act as the owner’s agent for herein described request.



NAME OF OWNER (PRINT)


ADDRESS (STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE


PHONE # (H) (W)


TAX PARCEL NUMBER(S) OWNED


SIGNATURE:


NAME OF OWNER (PRINT)


ADDRESS (STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE


PHONE # (H) (W)


TAX PARCEL NUMBER(S) OWNED


SIGNATURE:


NAME OF OWNER (PRINT)


ADDRESS (STREET, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE


PHONE # (H) (W)


TAX PARCEL NUMBER(S) OWNED


SIGNATURE:


(Use additional forms as needed)


IN CASES OF MULTIPLE APPLICANTS, PLEASE IDENTIFY THE PERSON WHO WILL BE ACTING AS YOUR SPOKES

PERSON/AGENT FOR YOU:




 Page 2 of 3
 Revision date 11/2/2020

 IMPORTANT NOTICE 3. Increase in need for sites – increased or increasing
1. Please be advised that failure to submit a complete needs for business or industrial sites, in addition to sites
 proposed
application, with district.
 all supporting documents, could delay that are available, make it necessary and desirable to
your hearing date. The Planning Commission will not reclassify an area or to extend the boundaries of an
consider a request until all information is submitted and existing district.
accurate. 4. Annexation – it is necessary and desirable to classify
 territory hereafter annexed to the city to a district
2. Please be advised that the application deadline dates classification.
posted are designed to allow the staff time to review the 5. Ordinance changes – amendment of the ordinance
application and receive required comments from not involving a change in classification of land
coordinating agencies. The application is not considered necessary.
complete until all required information from the 6. Change in governmental property –it is necessary to
applicant is available for review by the staff and reclassify property as a result of acquisition or
coordinating agencies. disposition of such property by the United States of
 America, the state of Mississippi or Harrison County.
3. Please see reverse of this sheet to determine the
 G. The following items must be submitted when in a
deadline dates for filing your application.
 written statement you are requesting an amendment
 SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance or
A. Page one of this application, completed and signed. SmartCode Ordinance:

B. Proof of ownership (Copy of deed or affidavit) 1. Interest: The applicant or applicants name(s),
 address(es) and interest of any individual(s), firm(s) or
C. If applicable, notarized proof of authority to act as agent
 corporation(s) represented by the applicant(s) in the
 for owner (board resolution, etc.)
 application.
D. The City of Gulfport Planning Division Staff will notify,
 by letter, property owners adjacent to the requested action 2. Condition for Change: State which one or more
 identified in this application using the Land Roll database condition(s) exists which warrants the change to the
 from the County Tax Office. If you would like to have zoning amendment. The six conditions defined in the
 additional persons or property owners notified, please ordinance are above.
 provide a list of additional persons to be notified.
 3. Development Schedule: A development schedule
E. Site Plan: Showing proposed development (Optional). must also be submitted. This should show the time
 schedule for the beginning and completion of mall
F. Provide a written statement addressing the following
 development planned by the applicant in the area. The
 reasons for your text amendment request:
 successive stages and the development for each stages
 The Comprehensive Zoning and SmartCode Ordinances, should be shown if applicable.
 including the zoning map, are based on comprehensive
 planning studies and are intended to carry out the object 4. Effects of Amendment: Provide a report giving the
 of sound, stable and desirable environment. It is nature, description, and effect of the proposed
 recognized that casual amendment of the ordinance would amendment.
 be detrimental to the achievement of that objective, and it
 is therefore declared to be the public policy to amend this 5. Error: The error in this ordinance that would be
 ordinance only when one or more of the following corrected by the proposed amendment; if the intent is to
 conditions prevail: correct an error.

 1. Error – there is manifest error in the ordinance. H. Cash or check payable to the City of Gulfport in the
 amount of $175.00.
 2. Change in Conditions: - changed or changing
 conditions in a particular area, or in the city or
 metropolitan area generally, make an amendment to the
 ordinance necessary and desirable.


 Page 3 of 3
MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC226:

Zoning Text Amendment 2212PC226, by City of Gulfport, Amendments to the Comprehensive
Zoning Ordinance, as amended, District Regulations, (K) Chart of Permitted Uses (2) Schedule
of uses - Residential Hotel
 There came on for consideration at a duly constituted meeting of the Mayor and Members of the

City Council of the City of Gulfport, Mississippi, held the ______ day of __________, 2022, the

following ordinance.

 ORDINANCE NO. ____________

AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPENDIX A – COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF
 THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, “CHART OF PERMITTED USES” IN SECTION III
(“DISTRICT REGULATIONS”)(K) (“CHART OF PERMITTED USES) IN APPENDIX A WITH
 RESPECT TO “HOTEL” AND “MOTEL” IN THE “RESIDENTIAL” SECTION,
 AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES

 WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Gulfport, Mississippi, find and do so

determine, based upon the recommendation of the Gulfport City Planning Commission, that the text of the

Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as codified at Appendix A to the City of Gulfport Code of Ordinances

should be amended to declare that, only for the purposes of location of a medical cannabis dispensary, a

motel or hotel shall not be considered a “Residential” use.

 WHEREAS, .the amendment to the motel/hotel provisions in the Chart of Permitted Uses (under

“Residential”) as contemplated herein will open additional areas in B-4 to medical cannabis dispensaries.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, AS FOLLOWS:

 SECTION 1: That SECTION III (“DISTRICT REGULATIONS”)(K) (“CHART OF

PERMITTED USES) IN APPENDIX A WITH RESPECT TO “HOTEL” AND “MOTEL” IN THE

“RESIDENTIAL” SECTION, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:

PRESENTLY READS:

 “Hotel, motel, including restaurant and lounge enclosed within the structure of the
 main building”

BE AMENDED TO READ (WITH CHANGES IN BOLD, ITALICIZED AND
UNDERLINED):

 “Hotel, motel, including restaurant and lounge enclosed within the structure of the
 main building (a “hotel” or “motel” shall not be considered a “residential use”
 for purposes of location of a medical cannabis dispensary only)”
AND

PRESENTLY READS:

 “Hotel, motel, including automobile filling station as an accessory use only”



BE AMENDED TO READ (WITH CHANGES IN BOLD, ITALICIZED AND
UNDERLINED):

 “Hotel, motel, including automobile filling station as an accessory use only (a
 “hotel” or “motel” shall not be considered a “residential use” for purposes of
 location of a medical cannabis dispensary only)”

 SECTION 4: Upon passage by a unanimous vote of all members of the governing body, this

ordinance shall be in full force and effect immediately upon passage in order to provide for the immediate

and temporary preservation of the public peace, health and safety by allowing greater areas in Zoning

District B-4 to allow medical cannabis dispensaries. For failure to be adopted unanimously, this Ordinance

shall otherwise be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after the date of passage. It shall be published

according to law and shall be spread upon the minutes of the Gulfport City Council.

 SECTION 5. The Governing Authority further finds that the following shall serve as an

explanatory statement of this Ordinance for purposes of publication: “This Ordinance amends Appendix A

to the City’s Code of Ordinances (the Zoning Ordinance) by providing that, only for the purposes of locating

a medical cannabis dispensary, a “hotel” or “motel” shall not be considered a “residential” use.” A copy of

the full text of this Ordinance is available to municipal residents upon request to the City Clerk.” For the

next thirty (30) days, a copy of the full text of this Ordinance shall be posted by the City Clerk: (a) in the

first floor lobby at City Hall (2309 15th Street, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501); (b) in the first floor lobby of

the City’s Hardy Building (1410 24th Avenue, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501); and (c) in the first floor lobby

of the County Courthouse in Gulfport (1801 23rd Avenue, Gulfport, Mississippi 39501). The City Clerk

shall further furnish any resident of the City a copy of the full text of this Ordinance upon request.
 The above and foregoing Ordinance, after having been first reduced to writing, was introduced by

____________________, seconded by ____________________ and was adopted by the following roll call

votes, to-wit:


YEAS: ABSTENTIONS: NAYS:




 WHEREUPON the President declared the motion carried and the Ordinance adopted this the _____

day of _______________________, 2022.



(SEAL:)

ATTEST: ADOPT:



___________________________ _____________________________
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT


 The above and foregoing Ordinance, having been submitted and approved by the Mayor, this the

______day of __________________, 2022.




 __________________________________________
 BILLY HEWES, Mayor
MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Resubdivision 2212PC218:
(Postponed to January 26th Meeting)


Resubdivision 2212PC218, by agent Joyce Unsworth, tax parcel 0710O-02-102.002, Divide into
two new parcels, 4809 29th Street, Zoned B-1 (Neighborhood business), Ward 1
2212PC118 Resubdivision
 Site
 Street
 Military Street
 Parcels
 Buildings
 30TH ST
 Zoning

 R-2 B-1 - Neighborhood Business
 District
 B-2 - General Business
 District
 48TH AVE I-1 - Light Industry District
 R-2 - Single Family
 Residence District (Medium
 Density)
 R-B - Residence-Business

 49TH AVE
 29TH ST District


 Site Information
 0710O-02-102.002
 Zoning: B-1 (Neighborhood
 Business district)
 B-2 B-1 Size: 24,993 sqft.
 Flood: X

 R-B
 0 25 50 75

 Yards
 28TH ST
 1 inch = 170 feet




 µ
 ELEVENTH ST




 I-1 DATA DISCLAIMER: All information that is provided on
 this map is believed to be correct. However, no liability is
 assumed by the City of Gulfport for errors in substance or
 form of any of the materials published on this map. The
 GIS Division, City of Gulfport, provides the information
 represented on this map as a service to the community
 and makes every effort possible to provide quality
 information. However, no claims, promises, or
 guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or
 adequacy of the information contained on this map are
 expressed or implied.
Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 29801 0710O-02-102.002 YOUNG HARVEY (OWNER) 4809 29TH STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
 JOYCE UNSWORTH (AGENT) 4628 28TH ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2212PC218)
 29779 0710O-02-048.000 BRIDGES SAMUEL HOLLAND 12107 GRAND OAKS DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 29780 0710O-02-049.000 BRIDGES STEFANIE & SAM 12107 GRAND OAKS DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 117804 0710O-02-095.001 FRYOU VINCENT L 2995 48TH AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 29778 0710O-02-047.000 FRYOU VIOLEY L & HELENE J & GRACE P 4627 30TH ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 29803 0710O-02-104.000 GORDON BOYD W & PAMELA R 6462 SIMMONS DR LONG BEACH MS 39560
 29810 0710O-02-039.000 HANSON KIRK 11195 WOODLEY CV GULFPORT MS 39503
 N 29775 0710O-02-098.000 JACKSON KIMBERLY HANKS 2408 BROADMOOR PLACE GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 134900 0710O-02-098.001 JACKSON KIMBERLY HANKS 2408 BROADMOOR PLACE GULFPORT MS 39501
 134901 0710O-02-098.002 JACKSON KIMBERLY HANKS 2408 BROADMOOR PLACE GULFPORT MS 39501
 29787 0710O-02-045.000 KNIGHT GEORGE K 4616 29TH ST GULFPORT MS 39507
 29788 0710O-02-046.000 LANIER STEPHEN LEE & PAMELA CULVER 4626 29TH STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
 29799 0710O-02-102.000 MAGNUSEN BETTY 3774 ROUTE 31 APT 602 LIVERPOOL NY 13090
 100027 0710O-02-105.001 NECAISE KEVIN D ETAL 7490 CAESAR-NECAISE RD PERKINSTON MS 39573
 29771 0710O-02-094.000 NICHOLS CAROLYN M ETAL 1502 MILL RD GULFPORT MS 39507
 29769 0710O-02-092.000 PAZ REINA 4817 30TH ST GULFPORT MS 39506
 N 90781 0710O-02-105.000 PETERSON KAREN K & MIRIAM GRAVES 7490 CAESAR-NECAISE RD PERKINSTON MS 39573
 29800 0710O-02-102.001 PETERSON KAREN K & MIRIAM GRAVES 7490 CAESAR-NECAISE RD PERKINSTON MS 39573
 29773 0710O-02-096.000 PHELPS MARGIE AUGESTINE -ESTATE- GULF MIST APTS 15E 26 PASS RD GULFPORT MS 39501
 29770 0710O-02-093.000 POWELL FRANCIS 4815 30TH ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 29798 0710O-02-101.000 RAWLINGS STEVE PO BOX 6633 D'IBERVILLE MS 39540
 29772 0710O-02-095.000 ROWELL IRA I 4807 30TH ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 29811 0710O-02-040.000 RUSSELL LINDA A & CHUTER RICKEY P 4627 29TH STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
 29807 0710O-02-106.000 TRAN TONY PHU 307 FERGUSON AVE LONG BEACH MS 39560
 N 29808 0710O-02-107.000 TRAN TONY PHU 307 FERGUSON AVE LONG BEACH MS 39560
 90764 0710O-02-038.000 UNSWORTH OWEN J 1001 WALLACE CT SLIDELL LA 70461
 29774 0710O-02-097.000 WEIS JOSEPH SCOTT 4810- 29TH STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Resubdivision 2212PC219:
Withdrawn by Administration

Resubdivision 2212PC219, by agent Jimmy Miles, tax parcel 0810N-05-023.000, Divide into
three new parcels, 32nd St, Zoned B-2 (General business), Ward 3
2212PC219 Resubdivision
 Site
 US or State Highway
 I-1
 Street
 Parcels
 I-1
 Buildings
 Zoning
 B-2 - General Business
 District
 49
 £
 ¤ I-1 - Light Industry District
 33RD ST
 R-2 - Single Family
 Residence District (Medium
 Density)



 R-2

 23RD AVE
I-1


 Site Information
 I-1 0810N-05-023.000
 Zoning: B-2 (General Buisness
 district)
 TH
 AV
 25  E Size: 1.36 acres
 32ND ST Flood: X


 0 25 50 75
 R-2
 Yards

 1 inch = 170 feet




 µ
 B-2
 B-2
 49
 £
 ¤
 DATA DISCLAIMER: All information that is provided on
 this map is believed to be correct. However, no liability is
I-1 assumed by the City of Gulfport for errors in substance or
 form of any of the materials published on this map. The
 31ST ST GIS Division, City of Gulfport, provides the information
 represented on this map as a service to the community
 and makes every effort possible to provide quality
 information. However, no claims, promises, or
 guarantees about the accuracy, completeness, or
 B-2 adequacy of the information contained on this map are
 expressed or implied.
Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 87842 0810N-05-023.000 MILES HOLDINGS LLC (OWNER) 1614 THORNTON AVE. GULFPORT MS 39501
 JIMMY O. MILES (AGENT) 1614 THORNTON AVE. GULFPORT MS 39501
 N Adjacent Property Owners (2212PC219)
 25759 0810N-05-015.000 ATWOOD MARK PETTIT JR 13727 CHASE MEADOW WAY GULFPORT MS 39503
 25758 0810N-05-014.000 BARNES HERMOLEE THOMAS 2401 33RD ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 87835 0810N-05-017.000 BLOSS GEORGE F JR -TRUSTEE 1702 CAHILL DR GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 108036 0810N-05-016.002 BLOSS GEORGE F JR -TRUSTEE 1702 CAHILL DR GULFPORT MS 39501
 25764 0810N-05-022.001 BLOSS GEORGE F JR -TRUSTEE- 3214 25TH AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 35292 0810N-01-068.000 BRADLEY ORENTHIAN J & ROLANDA A AKA 2247 33RD STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
 35291 0810N-01-069.000 BROWN LANDON 2241 33RD STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
 25799 0810N-05-046.000 DONOVAN JOHN D JR & DIANNA L 3105 25TH AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 25757 0810N-05-013.000 DUTTON JAMES & CLETA 14089 N WHITE SWAN DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 25777 0810N-05-031.000 ELECTRICAL WORKERS RECREATIONAL P O DRAWER L GULFPORT MS 39502
 25776 0810N-05-030.000 ELECTRICAL WORKERS RECREATIONAL 2417 32ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 35296 0810N-01-064.000 G & K W LLC 1811 FLINT CREEK CT SAN JOSE CA 95148
 35290 0810N-01-070.000 GROVES BETTY L -EST- -ETAL- 15575 PERIDO DR GULFPORT MS 39503
 87831 0810N-05-012.000 INGRAM DANI ETAL 2301 33RD ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 25774 0810N-05-027.000 JACKSON DEAN W 3115 23RD AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 25773 0810N-05-028.000 JACKSON DEAN W 3115 23RD AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 87839 0810N-05-021.000 M & R PROPERTIES LLC 1228 W 5TH ST LAUREL MS 39441
 25778 0810N-05-032.000 MARLIN LLC 3100 25TH AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 106895 0810N-01-027.002 MIHALOVICH GREG 1715 21ST AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 87204 0810N-01-027.000 MIHALOVICH GREG 1715 21ST AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 87203 0810N-01-026.000 MIHALOVICH GREG 1715 21ST AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 35294 0810N-01-066.000 MISSION INVESTMENT LLC 233 OAK LAKE RUN CRESCENT APT A CHESAPEAKE VA 23320
 35293 0810N-01-067.000 MONCRIEF BETTY J -L/E- 2246 32ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 25772 0810N-05-025.000 MONROE MICHAEL & LILLIE 503 MAGNOLIA LANE GULFPORT MS 39501
 87834 0810N-05-016.000 REDMOND HERTACINE 134-39 166TH PLACE JAMAICA NY 11434
 25771 0810N-05-026.000 REESE TAMMY I 3119 23RD AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 25800 0810N-05-045.000 RILEY VIOLET B REVOCABLE TRUST C/O 3125 25TH AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 108035 0810N-05-016.001 SEABRON PERCY-EST- & GINGER 2208 33RD ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 25787 0810N-05-033.000 VJ PROPERTIES GULFPORT LLC C/O 3125- 25TH AVENUE GULFPORT MS 39501
 87840 0810N-05-022.000 W A S PROPERTIES LLC 20023 MERINDA LANE LONG BEACH MS 39560
 25743 0810N-05-018.000 WILLIAMS EMMA GRACE -TRUSTEE- 127 BELLE TERRE COURT LONG BEACH MS 39560
 25770 0810N-05-024.000 WORTHEN ZELA 2400 32ND STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Resubdivison 2212PC220:
Withdrawn by Administration

Resubdivison 2212PC220, by agent Josh Fleming, tax parcels 0811G-02 -030.000 & 0811G-02-
016.000, divide into two new parcels, 1512 E Beach Blvd & Thornton Ave, Zoned R-B
(Residence-Business) Ward 2
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Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 34419 0811G-02-030.000 VICKERY G B & KAREN P (OWNER) 7 E 52ND ST GULFPORT MS 39507
 JOSH FLEMING (AGENT) 1402 PASS ROAD GULFPORT MS 39501
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 35588 0811H-04-052.000 BATCHELDER WILLIAM B & HOLLY M 1456 AVONDALE AVE JACKSONVILLE FL 32205
 34480 0811G-02-011.000 BOX ADAM C & KRISTEN MERRITT 4901 COURTHOUSE RD GULFPORT MS 39507
 35597 0811H-04-045.000 CALLECOD ANGELA CLARICE & MICHAEL T 1417 2ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 81007 0811G-02-020.000 CREWS WILLIAM R & KAREN M -TRUSTEES 1540 PRATT AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 34403 0811G-02-021.000 CREWS WILLIAM R & KAREN M -TRUSTEES 1540 PRATT AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 34418 0811G-02-016.000 ELLIOTT LAND DEVELOPMENTS LLC 1402 PASS RD GULFPORT MS 39501
 87964 0811G-02-009.000 FINLEY ROSEMARY B 20111 LOVERS LN LONG BEACH MS 39560
 34479 0811G-02-010.000 FITE GREGORY J & SHANDRA H 1524 2ND STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
 34493 0811G-02-034.000 GULF COAST DEVELOPMENT LLC 22 HONEY LOCUST COURT LAFAYETTE HILL PA 19444
 N 88736 0811H-03-001.000 GULFPORT CITY OF 1601 33RD AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 35586 0811G-02-031.000 HERCHENHAHN JERRY T & CHERIE 167 BALMORAL AVE BILOXI MS 39531
 34410 0811G-02-019.000 HERRINGTON KIMBERLY B 1535 2ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 N 87966 0811G-02-015.000 KITE JOHN & HARRINGTON PERIAN P O BOX 5382 VANCLEAVE MS 39565
 34485 0811G-02-015.001 KITE JOHN & HARRINGTON PERIAN P O BOX 5382 VANCLEAVE MS 39565
 34483 0811G-02-014.000 KRIMSON INVESTMENTS LLC 8218 RIDGEWOOD DR KILN MS 39556
 N 34412 0811G-02-018.000 LADNER RICHARD M & JENNY L TATE 1533 2ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 146224 0811G-02-018.001 LADNER RICHARD M & JENNY L TATE 1533 2ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 87968 0811G-02-017.000 MARSHALL HOLDING'S LLC 2350 TWIN BAY VIEW FT WALTON BEACHFL 32547
 N 104916 0811G-02-017.001 MARSHALL HOLDING'S LLC 2350 TWIN BAY VIEW FT WALTON BEACHFL 32547
 87979 0811G-02-028.000 MARSHALL WILLIAM R 2350 TWIN BAY DR FORT WALTON BCHFL 32547
 34482 0811G-02-013.000 MENARD ROBERT S & LYNN L TRUST 1512 2ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 35590 0811H-04-054.000 MORTON DAVID W & SUSAN C 15513 WHITE TAIL CT BATON ROUGE LA 70817
 35589 0811H-04-053.000 MORTON DAVID W & SUSAN C 15513 WHITETAIL COURT BATON ROUGE LA 70817
 N 88771 0811H-04-048.000 NATIONS KELLY M 1510 THORNTON AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 35591 0811H-04-049.000 NATIONS KELLY M 1510 THORNTON AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 35595 0811G-02-033.001 NEW SEAN J & CYNTHIA J 1532 THORNTON AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 34495 0811H-04-016.000 NUGENT DAVID R 1430 2ND ST GULFPORT MS 39501
 35587 0811G-02-032.000 PARKER DAVID E & JUDY E 1440 E BEACH BLVD GULFPORT MS 39501
 35596 0811H-04-046.000 PETTY CATHERINE C 1423- 2ND STREET GULFPORT MS 39501
 34404 0811G-02-022.000 RIEMANN CATHERINE 1530 PRATT AVE GULFPORT MS 39501
 34476 0811G-02-008.000 ROBERSON HELEN B P O BOX 6406 GULFPORT MS 39506
 35594 0811G-02-033.000 SMITH MICHAEL B & DEROSIER ROXAN 400 PRIVATE RD 31150 PARIS TX 75460
 34494 0811H-04-015.000 SPARKS JEREMY LEE & DAWN R 1442 2ND STREET GULFPORT MS 39507
Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 34419 0811G-02-030.000 VICKERY G B & KAREN P 7 E 52ND ST GULFPORT MS 39507
 N 34414 0811G-02-027.000 VICMAR PROPERTIES INC 2350 TWIN BAY VIEW FORT WALTON BCHFL 32547
 34411 0811G-02-026.000 VICMAR PROPERTIES INC 2350 TWIN BAY VIEW FORT WALTON BCHFL 32547
 34417 0811G-02-029.000 WATTS BARBARA F 9355 COUNTY FARM RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 34405 0811G-02-023.000 WILLIS RICHARD C 6610 HALE CT DIAMONDHEAD MS 39525
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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: General Plan 2212PC221:

General Plan 2212PC221, by agent Freddie Fountain with Fountain & Associates, LLC, tax
parcel 0907J-01-001.005, Approval of a General Plan for 17-Lot subdivision (Plantation Oaks
Subdivision - Phase III), 0 Three Rivers Road, Zoned R-B (Residence-business), Ward 6
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 represented on this map as a service to the community
 and makes every effort possible to provide quality
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Mail PPIN Parcel ID Name Address City State ZIP
 103927 0907J-01-001.005 PLANTATION OAKS LLC (OWNER) 1460 BEACH BLVD BILOXI MS 39530
 FREDDIE FOUNTAIN W/ FOUNTAIN & ASSOCIATES,
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 N 140905 0907J-01-001.068 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140906 0907J-01-001.069 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140907 0907J-01-001.070 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140908 0907J-01-001.071 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140910 0907J-01-001.073 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140911 0907J-01-001.074 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140913 0907J-01-001.076 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140914 0907J-01-001.077 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140915 0907J-01-001.078 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140923 0907J-01-001.086 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140917 0907J-01-001.080 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140918 0907J-01-001.081 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140909 0907J-01-001.072 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 N 140922 0907J-01-001.085 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 140921 0907J-01-001.084 ADAMS HOMES LLC 100 W GARDEN ST PENSACOLA FL 32502
 103926 0907J-01-001.004 BROWN VANESSA L 13481 JOHN RD GULFPORT MS 39503
 140378 0907G-01-001.012 ELLIOTT LAND DEVELOPMENTS LLC 1402 PASS RD GULFPORT MS 39501
 140912 0907J-01-001.075 FRATANTUONO GENENDAL PRICE & GERALD14058 OLD MOSSY TRAIL GULFPORT MS 39503
 140916 0907J-01-001.079 HARDER CLIFFORD J SR & MARY J 14038 OLD MOSSY TRAIL GULFPORT MS 39503
 140379 0907G-01-001.010 HARRISON CO SCHOOL DISTRICT 11072 HWY 49 GULFPORT MS 39503
 140919 0907J-01-001.082 HOLIFIELD MITCHELL RAY II -ETAL- 14057 OLD MOSSY TRAIL GULFPORT MS 39503
 N 143923 0907J-01-001.103 PLANTATION OAKS LLC PO BOX 268 BILOXI MS 39533
 N 116856 0907J-01-001.013 PLANTATION OAKS LLC P O BOX 268 BILOXI MS 39533
 140937 0907J-01-001.100 PLANTATION OAKS LLC 10600 DERRY LANE OCEAN SPRINGS MS 39564
 140938 0907J-01-001.101 PLANTATION OAKS LLC P O BOX 268 BILOXI MS 39533
 140920 0907J-01-001.083 ROBIN BRENT A & KIMBERLY K 14063 OLD MOSSY TRAIL GULFPORT MS 39503
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MEMORANDUM


To: City of Gulfport Planning Commission

From: Greg Holmes, Planning Administrator
 Urban Development Department


Date of Hearing: December 15, 2022


Re: Zoning Text Amendment 2209PC171:
Remanded Back By City Council

Zoning Text Amendment 2209PC171, by Lauren Illing, City of Gulfport, Amendments to the
Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, as amended, Section I Definitions (B) Words and Phrases
Medical cannabis Establishment and Section III District Regulations, (K) Chart of Permitted
Uses, (2) Schedule of Uses Medical Cannabis Dispensary
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 1 CITY OF GULFPORT PLANNING COMMISSION

 2

 3 2209PC171

 4 TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING

 5 September 22, 2022

 6 *********************************************************

 7 TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING HELD BEFORE THE CITY OF GULFPORT

 8 PLANNING COMMISSION HELD IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS,

 9 GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI, ON THE 22ND DAY OF SEPTEMBER 2022

10 COMMENCING AT 4:30 P.M. AND REPORTED BY

11 NORMA JEAN LADNER SOROE, CERTIFIED SHORTHAND REPORTER.

12 ********************************************************

13
 COMMISSION MEMBERS PRESENT:
14
 VIRGINIA ADOLPH, Acting President
15 WILLIAM "PRINCE" JONES
 VIRGINIA ADOLPH
16 B.J. SELLERS
 CHARLIE HEWES
17 HAROLD SPANN
 TIMOTHY DAIGLE, JR.
18 DOUG HANCOCK

19 NOT PRESENT:

20 KEITH WILLIAMS

21 STAFF PRESENT:

22 GREG PIETRANGELO
 GREG HOLMES
23 SU-LIN FEATHERSTON
 LESLIE ERVIN
24 CORY LONG
 LORAINE HUGHES
25




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 1 9. Zoning Text Amendment 2209PC171

 2 MR. LONG: Item Number 9, Zoning Text

 3 Amendment 2209PC171, has been duly and timely noticed as

 4 required by law. The applicant requests amendments to the

 5 comprehensive zoning ordinance, as amended, Section I

 6 Definitions (B) Words and Phrases Medical Cannabis

 7 Establishment, and Section III District Regulations (K)

 8 Chart of Permitted Uses (2) Schedule of Uses Medical

 9 Cannabis Dispensary. A copy of the packet considered is

10 hereby offered to the record.

11 MS. ADOLPH: Since this is a zoning text

12 amendment, who will be speaking for this?

13 MS. ILLING: Good evening. My name is Lauren

14 Lee Illing. My address is 2505 Greenview Drive in Gulfport.

15 And I'm here as the chief operating officer

16 of Southern Roots Therapeutics of Mississippi. We were also

17 awarded a dispensary license from the State Department of

18 Revenue pending local permitting. And I'm here to request

19 commission support in amending the ordinance as implemented

20 due to insufficient site availability.

21 And I am distributing supplemental research

22 that updates that information.

23 Our team spent a year and a half searching

24 for properties suitable for use as a cannabis dispensary.

25 We were eagerly anticipating the state's application start




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 1 date. And under competitive pressure because the state does

 2 not allow properties within 1500 feet, there can't be two

 3 dispensaries.

 4 So everyone was in a bit of a time crunch to

 5 find real estate. And after a year and a half on the real

 6 estate market in Gulfport searching for a property to

 7 purchase, we found three that met state requirements

 8 regarding a thousand feet from church or school.

 9 We put in offers on all three of those. And

10 only one of those offers was accepted. And the property is

11 zoned appropriately to operate a medical facility, a

12 pharmacy, and we purchased the property with the expectation

13 that dispensaries would be treated like medical facilities

14 given that we have a license with the state and report to

15 the Department of Health and we can only make transactions

16 with eligible patients that have received a recommendation

17 from their doctor.

18 So at this time, I'm asking that the

19 ordinance be amended. And I have confirmed the real estate

20 search this week that indeed out of 31 commercial properties

21 available for purchase in Gulfport right now, less than half

22 of them meet the local requirements of being located in the

23 zone B-2 or B-4, and it's only 29 percent meet the state

24 requirements. And so when those two requirements are

25 stacked on top of each other, we have a single commercial




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 1 property available that's eligible to operate a dispensary,

 2 and that particular property is not suitable for a

 3 dispensary because, to quote the listing, it is great for

 4 construction companies to house crew. It is a property with

 5 a couple of shacks on it next to the airport. It's not

 6 suitable for any retail purposes.

 7 So I do believe that the site shortage

 8 creates a real public need because patients are preparing to

 9 have this medicine that they've waited a long time for, and

10 the state legislation passed in 2020, and now patients are

11 still waiting, and we want to be sure that patients have

12 access to safe and convenient locations to purchase their

13 medicine.

14 So we, you know, we want to recognize the

15 city and all of their effort because this is new and it's

16 difficult to figure out and try to anticipate what the

17 city's needs will be and how we can best serve the

18 constituents and especially the patients. And we respect

19 that to the best of your ability the city created an

20 ordinance that was intended to ease into the program gently.

21 But the reality is that by restricting

22 cannabis facilities to operating in only 13 percent of the

23 city, it makes it impracticable to operate one of these

24 businesses.

25 And as a local business, as a small business,




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 1 family owned operation, you know, we really are committed to

 2 compliance. We are committed to navigating this process as

 3 best as we can so that we can have a good result that is a

 4 win-win for everyone. And we want to get to the point where

 5 dispensaries are bringing in $3 million of tax revenue to

 6 the municipality which is my estimate based on four

 7 dispensaries operating for five years.

 8 So we see dispensaries as an asset to the

 9 city. And as arduous as it is to receive a state license,

10 there is significant expense related, including a $40,000

11 upfront fee to the state, you know, the local small

12 businesses that are entering this industry are very highly

13 professional. They are -- I think you can expect them to be

14 good contributors to the business community and good

15 neighbors.

16 So as part of our business operations, we

17 expect to operate like any other medical facility serving

18 between 20 to 40 patients per day. We will have operating

19 hours during business, normal business hours. There's no

20 access allowed to the property outside of operating hours

21 per the state guidelines. We have a detailed security plan

22 with full coverage monitoring camera system, security

23 features, and we're absolutely committed to strict

24 compliance with our state and local regulatory bodies.

25 We will operate under the same kinds of




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 1 regulatory frameworks that a pharmacy does. And so, as

 2 such, I think it is appropriate that we be treated like a

 3 medical facility and zoned accordingly.

 4 So as part of this package, I am submitting a

 5 letter from our Board of Directors and also a letter from

 6 Gulfport residents that I'd like to read to you.

 7 (Reading) As Gulfport residents who live in

 8 the neighborhood near a proposed cannabis dispensary, we

 9 believe that dispensaries should be allowed to locate in the

10 same commercial areas where pharmacies, apothecaries, or

11 medical offices are allowed to operate. Given the state

12 laws in place, we do not anticipate dispensaries causing any

13 negative impact to neighborhoods. Rather, we see this type

14 of medical facility as an asset to our area and

15 wholeheartedly welcome the business investment. Please

16 support this amendment to insure that patients in Gulfport

17 have safe, convenient, and unimpeded access to their legal

18 medicine. (End reading)

19 MS ADOLPH: Thank you. If we have any other

20 questions, we will call you back.

21 MS. ILLING: Thank you.

22 MS. ADOLPH: Anyone else to speak on this

23 zoning request?

24 PERSON IN AUDIENCE: I didn't hear what you

25 said.




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 1 MS. ADOLPH: Anyone else to speak for this

 2 zoning text amendment request? For it.

 3 MS. WORSHAM: For it. My name is Melody

 4 Worsham. I live at 6474 Florence Road, Biloxi.

 5 And I'd like to read my comments if you don't

 6 mind.

 7 But I would like to start with Ms. Adolph and

 8 Mr. Spann, I heard you a minute ago about your concerns

 9 that, you know, walking that fine line and making sure that

10 you're doing this appropriately and safely in order to do

11 this.

12 You are the ones blazing the trail here, you

13 know. That's your job. And I think that's wonderful.

14 One of the things that I've done is I have

15 followed the legislation since it started. As a matter of

16 fact, I followed this legislation for five years. And one

17 thing that I'm sure about is that our legislature consulted

18 very successful programs in other states and said how do we

19 make this safe, how do we make this proper, and how do we

20 keep this with integrity so that we're thinking about the

21 patients that we're trying to take care of here, the people

22 who need the medicine that can't handle the chemicals and

23 the alternatives that are in the pharmaceutical companies.

24 They can't handle those things.

25 And they have come up with an extremely




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 1 careful wonderful way for dispensaries to open and operate

 2 so that I, as a patient, I can walk in with integrity.

 3 So I'm a Harrison County resident, but I'm

 4 also a mental health worker. And so I serve a lot of people

 5 that have chronic pain and also people who live with PTSD.

 6 I'm coming to you today to advocate for one

 7 in four Gulfport residents who live with a chronic

 8 debilitating condition. I'm asking you to adhere to the

 9 spirit of SB 2095 in not creating such restrictions that it

10 makes it impossible for a dispensary to set up and operate

11 in a manner that is practical for the sake of patients who

12 need medical cannabis.

13 One in eight Gulfport residents lives with a

14 disability. Hundreds of Gulfport residents are battling

15 cancer. And due to the number of veterans that we have in

16 this city and those who have endured hardships, 16 percent

17 of the population of Gulfport lives with PTSD. They suffer

18 and battle with it every day.

19 Fifty thousand seventy-eight Harrison County

20 people voted for the medical cannabis program. And as

21 someone had already mentioned, it's 82 percent. They voted

22 to have access to the alternative relief for their suffering

23 besides opiates, anti-psychotics, and other medications with

24 potentially lethal and debilitating side effects.

25 These are people who are suffering, and




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 1 Gulfport right now has the opportunity to provide safe

 2 secure access to medical cannabis for all of Harrison

 3 County, not just your city's residents.

 4 Right now, Gulfport zoning is limiting that

 5 access to the detriment of suffering patients. As Ms.

 6 Illing just mentioned, there's only one property that even

 7 qualifies for a dispensary according to the zoning that has

 8 been set forth.

 9 Imagine if you will a person in Saucier

10 requiring to drive every single week which is required by

11 law to the one and only dispensary that's miles away.

12 Imagine a veteran living with PTSD only given one choice in

13 this beautiful robust city to purchase their medicine.

14 Imagine an elderly husband having to drive to a blighted or

15 industrial area every week to get medicine for his wife with

16 breast cancer.

17 And then please imagine if you will a head of

18 household that's able to return to the workforce because his

19 seizures are no longer controlling his life.

20 That's the difference that we're asking here.

21 I strongly believe that the zoning decisions

22 -- and it's happening all over the state, there's that

23 stigma and that understanding and that thought that we've

24 had of cannabis for so many years that this is something

25 that hippies do and we just want them to have psychodelic




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 1 time.

 2 Well, I live with PTSD and chronic pain, and

 3 I can assure you, I'm not trying to do that. I'm a

 4 hard-working person, and I serve people every day in the

 5 city, and I am not looking for just a good time here. I'm

 6 looking to be relieved of my pain. I'm looking for relief

 7 in my mind so that I can sleep and I can work well and I can

 8 continue to serve our Gulf Coast residents.

 9 It seems illogical that I can purchase

10 oxycontin and Xanax from a pharmacy inside of a busy grocery

11 store right by that hotel, by the way, and people don't

12 think anything less of me. But then suddenly we're nervous

13 about someone walking into a dispensary that I have to go

14 into like a jewelry store. You go into one part, I have to

15 show and verify that I have my card, I qualify to get in and

16 then the door unlocks for me to go into the next section.

17 And so it's not even having access like a

18 grocery store pharmacy does. It doesn't even have that

19 access. It's much more stricter.

20 These are not places with black light

21 posters. Dispensaries are for veterans, they're for people

22 fighting cancer, they're for our senior citizens, they're

23 for people who have been injured on the job, and we have a

24 lot of industry here, we have a lot of people that have been

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 1 Gulfport should be proud to provide this

 2 service to its residents and neighbors and make every effort

 3 to zone dispensaries the same way that they zone any other

 4 medical or wellness providers in town.

 5 The City of Gulfport has the opportunity to

 6 provide dignity to the people who have asked for the medical

 7 cannabis program in the community. And it's just a perk

 8 that the city will benefit economically for doing the right

 9 thing by the 50,000 people who voted for it.

10 I respectfully ask this commission for the

11 sake of our chronically ill community members to adopt the

12 zoning ordinances in keeping with the spirit and the

13 guidelines that are prescribed in SB 2095 Section 20.

14 Thank you so much for giving me your time.

15 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you so much.

16 Anyone else to speak for this?

17 Your name and address.

18 MS. CALHOUN: I'm Angie Calhoun at 10

19 Canebreak Boulevard, Flowood, Mississippi.

20 I come before you again asking you to please

21 look into your heart and your mind and to think about what

22 if it were your child, your loved one, who like my son, like

23 many of your residents, pharmaceutical drugs were not

24 working. They were making him sicker. Imagine your child,

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 1 that have lifelong side effects. And you're desperate. You

 2 think that your child is going to die. You'll do anything.

 3 I would have stood in front of an 18-wheeler gladly and let

 4 it run over me to save my son's life.

 5 And like I said, I went to another state, and

 6 he eventually moved to gain that quality of life. He takes

 7 one medication, one real medication. The School of

 8 Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi soundly has the

 9 proof and the science to prove that it is a medicine that

10 helps sick people.

11 And it really, really is bothersome to hear

12 the naysayers or to think that -- because I did hear things

13 in the background. But I want you to realize that you're

14 blocking access of safe clean medicine to your residents, to

15 your people. And they're going to have to go somewhere else

16 to get that medication.

17 And it is like Ms. Worsham said, they don't

18 feel like driving. When my son was at his sickest, I had to

19 take him everywhere. He could not drive because he, too,

20 had a seizure disorder. I had to push him into a doctor's

21 office in a wheelchair.

22 These people need ease of access to get their

23 medicine. And I'm asking you to please, please -- the

24 research has been done. Other cities, Oxford, Mississippi,

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 1 cities that you can look at their ordinances and look at

 2 that.

 3 It's not -- it is new, but it's not rocket

 4 science. This is something that is -- you're delivering a

 5 safe clean legal medicine to your sick people.

 6 And I get calls every week from people in

 7 your area along the coastline. Y'all have so many disabled

 8 veterans. And, I mean, they're having to drive somewhere

 9 else. And they are suffering. They have seen the worst of

10 the worst. And if they have given their time and their

11 energy and their soul to saving our country so we can be

12 free, we should be giving them the medical freedom to treat

13 their PTSD and their pain with a safe legal medicine.

14 So I just please, I ask you to please

15 reconsider and think about the people that are suffering in

16 your area and to help make a way for dispensaries to be here

17 in Gulfport.

18 MR. HEWES: Just a couple of questions.

19 What's the closest dispensary to Gulfport

20 where people are dispensing medical marijuana?

21 MS. CALHOUN: You know, I work for patients,

22 and so I would assume that Biloxi potentially could have

23 one. You know, I don't keep track of all of them. But when

24 it's made aware to me that a city is blocking access, then,

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 1 patients.

 2 MR. HEWES: And then another question. Since

 3 y'all mentioned, a lot of people mentioned the veterans, has

 4 the V.A. adopted anything where they could have a medical

 5 dispensary for medical marijuana, or any of the DOD

 6 facilities?

 7 MS. CALHOUN: You know, they haven't, sadly.

 8 They refuse to acknowledge that it is true medicine for sick

 9 people. But the University of Mississippi does.

10 MR. HEWES: I think it helps people. But I

11 just have an issue with the zoning. And that's the concern.

12 Not whether it works for the right person.

13 I think everybody on this board would

14 consider the same thing. It's just a matter of zoning.

15 MS. ADOLPH: Anyone else to speak for this

16 request?

17 Can we get you to fill out a card, sir? Go

18 ahead and speak, and you can do it afterwards.

19 Can you give us your name and address.

20 MR. FLAGGS: Thank you for allowing me to

21 come up. I'm Elliot Flaggs. My address is 400 North Point

22 Parkway, Jackson, Mississippi 39211.

23 So in support of, I simply come with a

24 question. I understand that it was the City Council's

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 1 decision not to opt out when they had the opportunity before

 2 I think the May 3rd date which was in the legislation.

 3 So I know this isn't the City Council. I

 4 know this is the planning commission, but just out of

 5 curiosity, what was the intent or do you know what the

 6 intent was behind the City Council's decision not to opt

 7 out, but instead in theory opting in, but yet severely

 8 limiting the availability of locations for dispensaries to

 9 what research has shown as one parcel?

10 So as an attorney, I'm just curious if anyone

11 knows the intent.

12 Again, I know this is not the City Council,

13 but just a --

14 MS. ADOLPH: Mr. Flaggs, now, you know we're

15 private citizens that serve on this planning commission to

16 make the best decisions that we can. And we dare not, dare

17 not interpret or try to second guess the decisions of our

18 City fathers and our Mother because with Ella, I think I'd

19 be in trouble in terms of their decisions on the City

20 Council.

21 MR. FLAGGS: Yes, ma'am.

22 MS. ADOLPH: Our decisions are that of

23 citizenry that make the best decisions that we can in terms

24 of recommendations that will then go to the City Council.

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 1 did I say that right, Mr Keating?

 2 MR. KEATING: (Indicates yes.)

 3 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, sir.

 4 So we can't speak for them at all. We can

 5 only speak for the the minds, the hearts, the expertise of

 6 the citizens that have been appointed to this commission.

 7 MR. FLAGGS: Yes, ma'am. And I appreciate

 8 that answer.

 9 Again, it was just simple curiosity. Thank

10 you for your time.

11 MS. ADOLPH: Yes, sir.

12 MR. HANCOCK: Let me just make one quick

13 question, statement, while you're sitting here. This may

14 address your question.

15 I don't know, I wouldn't characterize it as

16 the City opting in and severely limiting locations. When I

17 look at the chart that the previous lady gave us and the

18 number of locations, I see that the local, the number of

19 locations out of 29 that meet the local requirements is 13

20 of 29, that only nine meet the state requirements.

21 So, to me, that doesn't look like something

22 that the City is trying to opt out of what the state

23 intended. Looks like the City of Gulfport is pretty open

24 and what we voted on is pretty open. So I don't really

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 1 MR. FLAGGS: I understand. Thank you.

 2 MS. ADOLPH: Anything else, Mr. Flaggs, that

 3 you want to share with us?

 4 MR. FLAGGS: That's it.

 5 MS. ADOLPH: Please fill that out.

 6 MR. FLAGG: Yes, ma'am.

 7 MS. ADOLPH: Anyone else to speak for this

 8 request? Yes, sir.

 9 MR. FARRIS: Hello. My name is Colton

10 Farris, and my residence is 1504 Wilhurst Street, Jackson,

11 Mississippi.

12 And I've become somewhat the cannabis

13 insurance specialist for, I'd say unofficially, the State of

14 Mississippi. My agency, we have cannabis clients from

15 California to Maine and sprinkled everywhere in between, and

16 I've worked directly with the two that have come before you

17 today, and I can say that both of them are by far two of the

18 most professional establishments I personally have the

19 pleasure of working with.

20 I have, like I said, coincidentally several

21 of them, of my clients, are all hoping to be in the downtown

22 area City of Gulfport, and each of them have the same goal

23 in mind which is to open up a professional run medical

24 establishment in Gulfport and help make Gulfport a medical

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 1 Now, every single one of my clients that has

 2 come into downtown Gulfport or south of I-10 for that matter

 3 is aware that they're going to have some increased costs

 4 such as property, wind and hail insurance, I'm sure all of

 5 you are familiar with.

 6 My client here today, Southern Roots, for

 7 example, has spent $36,000 here to date just on insuring

 8 their Hattiesburg, Jackson, and Gulfport locations. Thirty

 9 thousand of that $36,000 alone has gone to the Mississippi

10 Wind & Hail pool to their wind and hail insurance on their

11 property.

12 Now, I'm also sure that each of you are aware

13 that this same property was vacant for two years prior to

14 them purchasing it. No one had even really bat an eye at it

15 from my understanding.

16 Well, it's again my understanding that the

17 City of Gulfport, as well as all the other cities in the

18 Tier 1 counties, have been working directly with Mississippi

19 Power on the cultivation side of things where they have

20 identified six to 12 I think warehouse style facilities that

21 they have marked as vacant property locations, and a total

22 cultivations that if you move in and operate out of one of

23 these marked vacant locations that have been vacant for over

24 six months that they'll give them 50 percent rebates on

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 1 bills for 15 percent for the first two years.

 2 Now, neither of my clients here today are

 3 asking for any preferential treatment or any discount on

 4 their bills. They're just simply asking that they can use

 5 their property for the intended purpose of running

 6 professional medical facility and hopefully bringing a more

 7 medical hub to downtown Gulfport.

 8 I just think that if you deny this request, I

 9 think it's just going to send a message to all these

10 cannabis operators that they should go to the next city over

11 or more north to Hattiesburg or Jackson. There are a lot of

12 -- the Gulf Coast has been very favorable to cannabis

13 operators throughout this entire process until downtown

14 Gulfport in this whole incident.

15 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you. Anything else you

16 want to share with us, sir?

17 MR. FARRIS: Right now I think that's it.

18 MR. SELLERS: I must ask, you may know, the

19 same question that Mr. Hewes asked a while ago. Where is

20 the nearest current operating dispensary to where we're

21 sitting right now?

22 MR FARRIS: So I don't think -- there's none

23 open yet is the catch. None of the dispensaries are opening

24 yet because none of the cultivations have product yet. So

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 1 smart business practice to open up with no product. In

 2 fact, a lot of them can't even get a cannabis policy yet

 3 until they have product in the store or going to be

 4 operational within 30 days.

 5 Most product will be available come -- it

 6 will be scarce, let's say that -- November through the end

 7 of the year I would say. But November you'll start seeing

 8 probably some product.

 9 MR. SELLERS: Are there any that are ready to

10 open when the product is available?

11 MR. FARRIS: I've not heard of any -- like I

12 said the -- so the real kicker for most people in doing

13 business anywhere near I-10 or south of I-10 has really been

14 an insurance and property issue, again, property being

15 limited, hard to find, just based on all the rules and regs.

16 They said there's not a licensing cap. But there is a

17 licensing cap because the State of Mississippi is only so

18 big, and a thousand feet here, a thousand feet there will

19 start dwindling down those properties pretty quickly.

20 But the insurance costs alone operating down

21 here is astronomically more expensive. And because cannabis

22 is still federally illegal, you actually can't get insurance

23 for -- you can't get insurance from a Nationwide or State

24 Farm or anybody like that because they have exclusions in

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 1 activity. So you actually have to go to specific cannabis

 2 carriers or your options are very much dwindled compared to

 3 if this were a bar or a restaurant or an accounting firm,

 4 anything like that, I could write that policy all day every

 5 day. But things get a lot more complicated and a lot more

 6 expensive when cannabis comes involved.

 7 MS. ADOLPH: Mr. Farris, thank you so much.

 8 MR. FARRIS: Thank you very much for having

 9 me.

10 MS. ADOLPH: I mean, this is just

11 enlightening, I'm telling you. I appreciate you, sir.

12 MR. FARRIS: Well, thank you. I appreciate

13 your time.

14 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you.

15 MR. HANCOCK: I want to ask him more

16 questions before he leaves.

17 MS. ADOLPH: Before he leaves? Okay.

18 MR. HANCOCK: I heard you say something just

19 a minute ago that the State Farms and some of the other I

20 guess bigger outfits won't insure them because of the

21 illegal activity, but it's legal in the State of Mississippi

22 now.

23 MR. FARRIS: Yes. So they have the -- it's

24 pretty much just the fact that they're so big they view it

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 1 thousand other people get their turn before we even think

 2 about it.

 3 And so some of them just don't want to play

 4 ball with them really. I mean, we have more I'd say

 5 Progressive has been the most favorable in coming around.

 6 They're helping insure a lot of the transportation guys, or

 7 at least they're allowing them to get transportation for the

 8 auto and then we provide through a cannabis carrier the

 9 insurance for the cash or the cargo.

10 But they could insure it if they wanted to,

11 they're just choosing not to. So then you have to go to

12 cannabis carriers who pretty much have created their own

13 contractual policies, not traditional policies, their own

14 specialized policies with specialized wording to make sure

15 that this stuff is insurable so that they can meet the state

16 and city guidelines with the general liability and product

17 liability requirements because the last thing we want is any

18 operation here or any operation in the state operating

19 without product liability insurance. I mean, it would be a

20 nightmare.

21 MR. HANCOCK: So it's really more -- it's not

22 that they --

23 MR. FARRIS: It's not that they can't.

24 MR. HANCOCK: It's not that it's illegal,

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 1 MR. FARRIS: They're choosing to -- they have

 2 such a nationwide umbrella that they're choosing to look at

 3 federal law and not state law. Simplest way to put it.

 4 MR. HANCOCK: And in my mind, that's their

 5 mistake. It's better, more business for you.

 6 MR. FARRIS: Exactly. Actually it hurts the

 7 cannabis operators. They end up paying what I call a

 8 cannabis tax, and our hope is to get enough of these guys

 9 together that in the end when these guys do come around we

10 can bundle it and get them better deals whenever those guys

11 do come about because we do that all the time with, you

12 know, Liberty Mutual, not State Farm but Liberty Mutual,

13 Nationwide, those type people.

14 If this were a liquor store, I could do it --

15 I mean, it would be -- I could teach a monkey how to put it

16 in a system.

17 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, sir.

18 MR. FARRIS: Thank you all.

19 MS. ADOLPH: Anyone else to speak for this

20 request?

21 Yes, ma'am. We'd ask you to fill out a card

22 when you finish.

23 MS. BONNER: Good evening. Thank you for

24 your time this evening. My name is Natalie Bonner. I

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 1 I am the Director of Minorities for Medical

 2 Marijuana. And I'm also a social equity and inclusion

 3 activist.

 4 And I come before you in support of this

 5 amendment asking you to strongly give it your utmost

 6 consideration as a member of the most disenfranchised with

 7 the cannabis industry.

 8 One available property just doesn't support

 9 the free enterprise model of our state or our nation. And

10 it actually impedes and prevents free enterprise for small

11 business, women owned small businesses, minority business

12 enterprises to operate in the City of Gulfport, as well as

13 patients with medical marijuana cards.

14 Mr. Hancock consistently asked where will

15 citizens be able to get the medicine, their medicine, where

16 is the closest dispensary, and that question has not been

17 answered. No one knows. And that question will continue to

18 be posed because of the lack of available spaces in the City

19 of Gulfport.

20 The current zoning is restrictive and further

21 impedes access in my opinion to those most disenfranchised

22 communities. And when I say that for those who aren't

23 aware, a disenfranchised community member, such as myself,

24 are greatly impacted by the failed war on drugs.

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 1 for the State of Mississippi, and by adopting this amendment

 2 you will create an opportunity for jobs for those

 3 communities that have been harmed by the war on drugs.

 4 More dispensaries within the city is not only

 5 about patient access, as Ms. Melody and Ms. Angie Calhoun

 6 has mentioned, but it's also about access to jobs for people

 7 in our community, access to medicine for people in our

 8 community, and, for me, that access is very important for

 9 those people of color.

10 I would like to also help you to understand

11 that if this was something labeled an apothecary, this would

12 not be an issue. When you look at the raw definition of

13 apothecary, it's a place where medicine is made and

14 dispensed. A medical marijuana dispensary falls within that

15 same definition. It's a place where medicine is made and

16 dispensed. People can get jobs there which helps to benefit

17 the community.

18 By adopting the zoning text amendment, you

19 are allowing Southern Roots Therapy to open up a business

20 that will employ our local citizens. And those citizens,

21 because they have a very robust social equity plan as part

22 of their business operation, it's going to allow the

23 disenfranchised community to participate in the industry

24 that is heavily regulated and also heavily represented by

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 1 know that our incarceration system is heavily represented by

 2 the disenfranchised.

 3 So I really implore you to really give this

 4 your utmost consideration. It will not bring any additional

 5 crime to the city. It's actually going to help patients and

 6 make this medicine more accessible, as well as create

 7 employment. And as Ms. Illing's presentation to you showed,

 8 the revenue that it will bring to the city. And part of

 9 that revenue is because of employment opportunities, not

10 only by Southern Roots Therapies, but other dispensaries

11 that are going to come to the city.

12 So that is what I'd like to present to you as

13 part of your consideration is not the harm, and I know this

14 isn't about the plant itself, but it's about the opportunity

15 by adopting this amendment that will help people that look

16 like me with access and employment.

17 And that's all that I'd like to speak, to

18 say.

19 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, Ms. Bonner. Thank

20 you, ma'am.

21 Anyone else to speak for this zoning

22 amendment?

23 Yes, sir. You were gracious enough to let

24 the lady speak.

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 1 1225 31st Avenue, Gulfport, Mississippi.

 2 Just speaking strictly to, just two short

 3 comments to make about this.

 4 Number one, I am two doors down from the

 5 location where this is seeking to be located and wanted to

 6 express to the commission that speaking at least on behalf

 7 of myself that I have absolutely no objection whatsoever and

 8 welcome that to the neighborhood. Would be a great

 9 improvement to the neighborhood.

10 And secondly, as a property owner in the

11 neighborhood, to describe for those who may not be familiar

12 on exactly where this is located. It is cater-corner

13 directly across the street from physicians offices and an

14 outpatient surgical clinic. Therefore, at least in my

15 opinion, it would be a perfect fit for the neighborhood.

16 And for those reasons, I would just recommend

17 that it would be approved.

18 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, Mr. Pettey, for the

19 clarification.

20 MR. DAIGLE: Could I ask him one quick

21 question?

22 MS. ADOLPH: Yes.

23 MR. HANCOCK: So what we're doing here it

24 looks like changing what we approved a month or so ago to

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 1 specific locations, but more changing the zoning but you

 2 spoke about one in particular. What's the address of the

 3 one you're talking about?

 4 MR. PETTEY: The address, I think it's -- is

 5 it, what? -- 1301? 1301 31st Avenue which is two doors

 6 north of my property.

 7 MR. HANCOCK: 31st Avenue?

 8 MR. PETTEY: That's correct. It's what used

 9 to be the old St. Matthews Lutheran Church, that property.

10 Thank you.

11 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, Mr. Pettey.

12 Anyone else to speak for this request?

13 Anyone else to speak for this request? Anyone to speak for

14 this request?

15 Anyone to speak against this proposed text

16 zoning amendment?

17 MR. BRIGHT: Good evening. My name is Howard

18 Bright, 1213 31st Avenue, Gulfport.

19 We all know the old saying, location,

20 location, location. And I've heard a lot of these people

21 speak. None of them live in that neighborhood in that close

22 proximity.

23 Mr. Pettey owns a house there. That thing is

24 a piece of shit.

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 1 MR. PETTEY: It's falling down. It needs to

 2 be torn down. Excuse me, I'm sorry.

 3 MS. ADOLPH: Yes, sir.

 4 MR. BRIGHT: That house is a complete eyesore

 5 to our total neighborhood. People have complained about it

 6 constantly. And it hasn't achieved anything.

 7 There's also in that area eight to nine

 8 airbnbs. Most of those people aren't here. They only live

 9 there part-time.

10 How is this going to affect them and their

11 business and their livelihoods when somebody goes to a GPS

12 to rent this airbnb and they see, oh, my kids are going to

13 be staying next to a medical marijuana facility. They're

14 not going to come.

15 These people have worked on those houses,

16 bought them, rebuilt them, cleaned them up, cleaned the

17 yards up to make part of their livelihood off of that, and

18 they're going to be introduced to some situation like this.

19 Another point I'd like to make is there is no

20 way that I believe that there's no locations in the City of

21 Gulfport that can support this legally. There's plenty of

22 vacant lots in commercial areas, industrial areas. You can

23 go to some of these malls, there's empty storefronts. Now,

24 whether they would fit into the zoning, I'm not really sure.

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 1 checked every property for sale or available in Gulfport

 2 that could not support this business.

 3 To get back into, okay, so there's emotional

 4 speakers, and I feel sorry for these individuals. But,

 5 okay, we'd have nothing left, so maybe I'll put one in your

 6 subdivision. I'd run it out of my basement. Is that

 7 acceptable?

 8 You have zoning laws. We need to stick to

 9 them.

10 I think that's about all I have to say.

11 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, Mr. Bright.

12 MR. BRIGHT: Thank you.

13 MS. ADOLPH: Anyone else to express their

14 discontent?

15 MR. HENDERSON: How y'all doing? My name is

16 Ken Henderson. I live at 1212 32nd Avenue.

17 I also would like to ask Mr. Pettey, first of

18 all, you don't live there, and it would be great if you'd do

19 something with your house.

20 In the last two --

21 MS. ADOLPH: (Pounds gavel)

22 MR. HENDERSON: I'm sorry, ma'am.

23 MS. ADOLPH: Now, we will not have --

24 MR. HENDERSON: I'm sorry, ma'am.

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 1 MS. ADOLPH: -- inappropriateness. And we're

 2 not going to have this.

 3 MR. HENDERSON: I'm so sorry, Ms. Virginia.

 4 My bad. So sorry.

 5 I want to say that I'm not against medical

 6 marijuana. I was one of the 82 percent that actually voted

 7 for it.

 8 I don't want it in my back yard. I have four

 9 children. I just put a couple of hundred thousand dollars

10 into remodeling a house, and I'm directly behind it in the

11 alley. I own two properties, as a matter of fact. I bought

12 one about six months ago that is also there, an investment

13 property on 12th, 3116.

14 Owning multiple properties there, it's a very

15 big concern. It's a residential area. It's a lot different

16 than the motel or the hotel. But it's a big deal.

17 Would you want it in your back yard is all I

18 can say to you guys.

19 I don't think you would.

20 I hate that these folks -- this property was

21 -- it's been vacant for two years since the church moved.

22 It was actually purchased, and the gentleman wanted to make

23 it a wedding venue. And he came before you guys, and I

24 think it was shot down. He had to go jump through some

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 1 Vegas with -- a very good job with one of the casinos, and

 2 they moved. And they sold this property to these folks.

 3 So, yes, there's some half-truths there.

 4 Again, I'm not anti-cannabis. This isn't

 5 about pro or anti. This is about opening a cannabis

 6 dispensary in a 100-year-old residential neighborhood that

 7 was a church just two and a half years ago. Okay? And

 8 that's tongue in cheek. I don't know.

 9 I apologize so much for what I did. I

10 apologize. But when you care about your property and you

11 care about where you live, ma'am, and you see a house that

12 is blighted or you see someone coming in and you just want

13 to fight for it. And I apologize.

14 So, please, all of y'all, accept my apology.

15 MS. ADOLPH: We do, indeed.

16 MR. DAIGLE: Hold on a second.

17 MR. HENDERSON: I know that, sir.

18 MR. DAIGLE: I have a question. I'm --

19 because it was mentioned earlier, and I'm trying to figure

20 out. This is a zoning text amendment where they're trying

21 to -- the case being made is that they want to amend the

22 text for it to be legal to be able to sell in B-1 and R-B.

23 Am I correct on that?

24 Why do we keep hearing about a specific

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 1 been brought up.

 2 MR. HENDERSON: That's the property that

 3 they're in, sir.

 4 MR. DAIGLE: Who?

 5 MR. HEWES: I don't think he understands what

 6 was asked.

 7 This is not about the property. This is

 8 about city zoning.

 9 MR. DAIGLE: But we keep hearing about a

10 specific property. So I'm curious is there something else

11 going on, if there's already some sort of an agreement that

12 we're not aware of, or something going on where they're

13 trying to change this to suit a specific property that's

14 already been bought, being operated out of in some form or

15 fashion.

16 MR. HENDERSON: You're asking me --

17 MR. DAIGLE: I am asking you.

18 MR. HENDERSON: -- if they're operating out

19 of it?

20 MR. DAIGLE: No. I'm asking you is there

21 something else that you know of that -- because you're the

22 second person to mention this specific property.

23 MR. HENDERSON: Forgive me. I want to make

24 sure I'm clear. What you're asking, sir, is if I realize

25 that this is -- this is a zoning -- yeah, they're trying to




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 1 amend the 500 foot regulation so they can have it zoned as

 2 eligible to sell cannabis, that's correct.

 3 MR. DAIGLE: No.

 4 MR. HENDERSON: Okay.

 5 MR. DAIGLE: They're trying restate the text.

 6 So the text now does not allow them to operate in R-B and

 7 B-1.

 8 MR. HENDERSON: Okay. Yeah, the're trying to

 9 restate --

10 (Talking over each other.)

11 MR. HENDRSON: Yeah. They want to make it a

12 right of ownership versus a planning commission issue. Is

13 that correct?

14 MR. DAIGLE: That it's guaranteed by right

15 that they can operate in R-B or B-1. But you're referencing

16 a specific property, you said would you want them --

17 MR. SELLERS: I think I may possibly clarify

18 that.

19 MR. DAIGLE: Go ahead, please.

20 MR. SELLERS: And I recommend, I suggest that

21 we bring the lady from Southern Roots back to discuss this

22 because she's actually the one that brought this

23 application. The site he's talking talk about I think is

24 Southern Roots site is my understanding.

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 1 going to be hearing after this is also a Southern Roots

 2 issue where they're seeking to split the property so that --

 3 MS. ADOLPH: Mr. Henderson, we can only

 4 address this issue right now. Okay?

 5 MR. HENDERSON: Oh, I'm sorry. We'll wait

 6 for that one. I'm sorry. I'm excited. I like being up

 7 here.

 8 MS. ADOLPH: And we appreciate as a citizen

 9 your passion, believe me.

10 MR. HENDERSON: Well, it's my home.

11 MS. ADOLPH: Well, just hold it a little

12 back.

13 MR. HENDERSON: I can pull the reins back.

14 MS. ADOLPH: Pull it in.

15 MR. HENDERSON: Sorry, ma'am.

16 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, sir.

17 Anyone else to speak against this? And we

18 need your card.

19 MR. HANCOCK: Can I say something?

20 MS. ADOLPH: Yes.

21 MR. HANCOCK: So just to clarify on why we

22 had to gavel earlier I think is because you're not allowed

23 to address people in the audience. You have to address the

24 commission. That was the mistake he made. So just to

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 1 So my question, and this may clarify his

 2 comments, is to Greg, and that is: I think what we're

 3 getting at is if we add the additional zones by approving

 4 this measure, then they won't have to come back before the

 5 commission to open dispensaries in these additional zones,

 6 just like they wouldn't have to open or come back here and

 7 get our approval to open a dispensaries in the two that

 8 already exist. Is that right?

 9 MR. HOLMES: Correct. They would be allowed

10 by right.

11 MR. HANCOCK: Okay. And then another

12 question for you that was a little bit confusing --

13 THE COURT REPORTER: Can you talk into your

14 microphone? I'm having a problem hearing.

15 MR. HANCOCK: Sorry about that.

16 Another question that's a little bit

17 confusing for me is does this change the 500 foot

18 requirement? One of the zones is R-B, so you're going to be

19 right in the middle of residences if we were to approve this

20 measure that includes R-B. So would this add R-B and they'd

21 still have to be 500 feet from a residence, or does that

22 eliminate the 500 feet?

23 MR. HOLMES: It's my understanding that they

24 want to add the R-B, B-1, and the remove the 500 feet.

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 1 Mr. Holmes? We can't understand.

 2 MR. HOLMES: I'm sorry. I'm not a loud

 3 person, but I can try.

 4 MS. ADOLPH: I know.

 5 MR. HOLMES: It's my understanding that

 6 they're requesting to add this use in B-1 and R-B and remove

 7 the 500 foot distance requirement.

 8 MR. HANCOCK: Okay. Is that listed in this

 9 request somewhere? I didn't see the removal of the 500 foot

10 requirement.

11 MS. ILLING: (From audience) I'm sorry, that's

12 not the intent.

13 MS. ADOLPH: Wait, Ms. Illing. One moment.

14 MR. HANCOCK: We'll get you back.

15 MR. COLA: My name is Gordon Cola.

16 MS. ADOLPH: Wait one moment. Let us finish

17 this to the staff.

18 MR. COLA: Oh, y'all looked at me.

19 MR. HOLMES: According to the information you

20 guys submitted, that's the request. You'd have to clarify

21 from the applicant if they want to amend that. But based on

22 information that we got, that's what the request is.

23 MR. HANCOCK: So the request is to add the

24 zones but not to eliminate the 500 foot requirement? Or the

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 1 MR. HOLMES: The way it's written in there

 2 instead of it being planning commission approval for 500

 3 foot, it's an R to be by right. So that would make it that

 4 you don't need planning commission approval if you're within

 5 500 feet of residential use.

 6 PERSON IN AUDIENCE: Please speak up.

 7 MR. HANCOCK: So you would have to -- they

 8 would still have to get approval from the planning

 9 commission and --

10 MR. HOLMES: They would not.

11 MR. HANCOCK: Oh, they would not?

12 MR. HOLMES: Right.

13 MR. HANCOCK: Okay.

14 MS. ADOLPH: So at this point for clarity

15 purposes, would you stand up and say that again? Because I

16 know that everyone didn't hear what our expert said coming

17 from the city.

18 MR. HOLMES: Based on the information that

19 was submitted to us, they're removing that requirement for

20 it to be within -- to be planning commission approval within

21 500 feet. In the chart, it's listed as P which is planning

22 commission approval. What was submitted to us has an R for

23 right. So the request is for it to be by right.

24 MS. ADOLPH: By right. So they -- it would

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 1 ventures --

 2 MR. HOLMES: Correct.

 3 MS. ADOLPH: -- in our city.

 4 Thank you, sir, for the clarity.

 5 Anything else for our experts right now?

 6 MR. HANCOCK: No.

 7 MS. ADOLPH: Sorry, sir.

 8 MR. COLA: No problem.

 9 MS. ADOLPH: Could you state your name and

10 your address.

11 MR. COLA: Yeah. My name is Gordon Cola,

12 C-O-L-A. I've lived at 1123 32nd Avenue for 36 years. No,

13 I'm sorry. For 30 years, I'm sorry. Thirty years, after

14 Katrina and before Katrina.

15 This is a historical residential

16 neighborhood. My house is 112 years old with several other

17 houses that are 100 plus years old that people have sunk

18 hundreds of thousands of dollars in.

19 We are trying to hold this neighborhood

20 together, even though we have several vermin in our

21 neighborhood, and that's a nice way to say it.

22 We have our own problems. And we are

23 sticking together as a neighborhood to try to solve those

24 problems without the city's help. We have pleaded to the

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 1 I don't know if I'm speaking proper on the

 2 agenda here tonight, but as far as I know, they want to put

 3 this dispensary at that location of the old church.

 4 I don't have a problem with legal marijuana

 5 or medical marijuana. This is America. Do what you want if

 6 it makes you feel good as long as you don't hurt anybody.

 7 If it's your medicine, it's good.

 8 But in that location, I feel it's bad.

 9 There's plenty other locations in this city and the Gulf

10 Coast.

11 We already have a gas station, a Chevron

12 station, right there two blocks from me, one block from

13 where the supposed site is going to be, that causes major

14 chaos in that neighborhood.

15 We don't need anything to attract any other

16 type of element in that neighborhood because once me and

17 other people leave that neighborhood, that neighborhood is

18 gone. It's over with. It will be nothing but rentals. And

19 Gulfport don't need any more rentals. They need home

20 ownership. They need people to invest.

21 So please do not allow that business to go at

22 that location. There are other locations in this area for

23 that.

24 MS. ADOLPH: Is there anything else you want

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 1 MR. COLA: No. I'm just saying, you know, I

 2 mean, I'm proud of my house. Like I said, it's 112 years

 3 old.

 4 MS. ADOLPH: It's beautiful. I got one of

 5 those.

 6 MR. COLA: Please don't push me out of the

 7 neighborhood. My house was built before this dispensary,

 8 and this dispensary will be built close to my house.

 9 That's all I have to say.

10 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you for coming to talk to

11 us as a citizen. Thank you.

12 MR. COLA: All right. Thank you.

13 MS. ADOLPH: Anyone else to speak against

14 this request? Anyone else to speak against this request?

15 MR. FOSTER: Good evening. My name is Jim

16 Foster. I live at 816 Lewis Avenue in Gulfport. That's the

17 West Side.

18 So I'm here to speak against this text

19 amendment because, as I understand it, it will affect the

20 West Side in the Smart Code district by allowing what

21 currently is allowed through planning commission approval in

22 a T4+, a T5, and it appears to me also a T6 generally to be

23 allowed by right instead of planning commission approval.

24 And so I believe that the reason that these

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 1 intent is to get input back from the community so that you

 2 folks can make a deliberative decision as to whether that

 3 would be appropriate use in that particular area or not.

 4 And if these are changed by right, then

 5 that's exactly what's going to happen. They're going to go

 6 in in those areas without any consideration of what the

 7 neighborhood particularly thinks.

 8 And I know it wasn't intended, but there's

 9 been a lot of discussion about the next agenda item which is

10 currently a planning commission approval. If it was to be a

11 medical marijuana dispensary, it would be planning

12 commission approval and would have to come before this body

13 and you've already heard a number of people are opposed to

14 that.

15 If the proposed change were to be enacted,

16 they could withdraw that request right now because it would

17 be allowed there by right.

18 So I would just urge you, I think you've got

19 a good set of rules to go by right now, and I would urge

20 you to not approve this text change amendment.

21 And that kind of leads me to, you know, why,

22 why would you want to change that from planning commission

23 approval to a by right, especially something new like this

24 which we have no idea how it's going to impact the

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 1 It seems to me that the reason, the why, the

 2 answer is because they do want to take out that public

 3 feedback of whether it's right for this particular area,

 4 this particular location or not. And it would be a by

 5 location decision since these would be by right.

 6 So that pretty much sums it up. And I do

 7 appreciate you all. This is why they call it a thankless

 8 job, I guess.

 9 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, Mr. Foster.

10 Appreciate it.

11 MR. FOSTER: Thank you. Questions?

12 MS. ADOLPH: Anyone else to speak against

13 this?

14 MR. MCCOWN: Good evening.

15 MS. ADOLPH: Good evening.

16 MR. MCCOWN: First, let me try to clear up a

17 little bit --

18 MS. ADOLPH: Your name and address.

19 MR. MCCOWN: Jeff McCown, William J. McCown,

20 702 Camp Avenue, in the West Side.

21 Let me try to clear up a little bit of I

22 think some confusion because there's several speakers that

23 have spoke on Item Number 10 in your agenda when what we're

24 focused on is Item Number 9.

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 1 Well, Item Number 10 mentions a specific

 2 address, and apparently there's some community knowledge.

 3 How did I learn about Item Number 10? It's because that

 4 address was mentioned in the application for Item Number 9.

 5 This 1301 31st Avenue is the address that I believe Ms.

 6 Illing referred to as the only one that accepted their offer

 7 out of three possible offers that they made.

 8 So I'm not trying to speak on Item Number 10

 9 because we're focused on Item Number 9 which is a zoning

10 amendment.

11 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, sir.

12 MR. MCCOWN: Okay? But I believe that's

13 exactly how we got some input on Item Number 10 a little

14 early here.

15 With regard to Item Number 9, a zoning text

16 amendment, part of the application that I saw comes from

17 this Chart of Permitted Uses. I ran a copy of one specific

18 page here. And this is along the lines that Jim Foster, the

19 person just before me, mentioned. It appears that some

20 things in here that are currently listed as planning

21 commission approval with a P designation are hand modified

22 with an R for by right, including the question around

23 whether this 500 feet within a residential would be affected

24 by this. And if that was voted on and approved as a by

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 1 here anyway, was that that would essentially remove that 500

 2 feet within a residential situation from a requirement.

 3 Well, in doing so, that means that people

 4 would not be able to come and voice any kind of approval or

 5 disapproval should a specific address, like Number 10, in

 6 the agenda come up as for discussion. And by removing the

 7 input of the community, that's exactly the wrong way that

 8 this whole zoning situation with regard to the dispensary

 9 was set up.

10 So I've heard that this is a fairly new

11 section having to do with a new use, and I've heard how it

12 was set up. I've heard that there are more city locations

13 that would be permissible by the conditions than what the

14 Mississippi state conditions would allow. I believe I heard

15 that correctly.

16 MR. HANCOCK: Correct.

17 MR. MCCOWN: From that, it appears to me that

18 this is a zoning issue, number one, that the request is to

19 make things by right rather than planning commission

20 approval, number two, and that my personal opinion that that

21 would be the wrong direction, especially given that it's a

22 new use where public input should be on a location specific

23 situation be allowed.

24 That's the nature of my request tonight, to

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 1 there's other situations in here that I may have overlooked.

 2 I'm specifically referring to this one that I saw the pencil

 3 marks on that changed planning commission approval to by

 4 right.

 5 If there are others in the definitions or

 6 otherwise, I'm not sure about the cannabis dispensary use,

 7 but I'm really against anything having to do with removing

 8 public input to the planning commission.

 9 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, sir.

10 Anyone else to speak against this text

11 amendment? Anyone else to speak against this? Anyone else

12 to speak against this measure?

13 Yes, sir. Take your time.

14 MR. CAMERON: You have to forgive me. I'm

15 blind, so it's difficult to maneuver.

16 MS. ADOLPH: Take your time. Take your time.

17 MR. CAMERON: My name is Drew Cameron. My

18 family has owned the property at 1219 31st Avenue since

19 1947. My family has lived there, different members of my

20 family have lived there.

21 I hate to see a facility of this nature go

22 into this residential neighborhood. They're talking about a

23 500 foot boundary from the actual dispensary if that's what

24 that's going to be.

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 1 have four other residential homes in approximately that same

 2 distance, way less than 300 feet.

 3 I hate to see the scope of the neighborhood

 4 change like this. I, like so many others, don't have a

 5 problem with medical marijuana.

 6 What I have a problem with is locating this

 7 facility in a residential neighborhood. It's true, we do

 8 have Memorial's Outpatient Surgical Center, as well as

 9 medical offices, right there.

10 I have talked with a doctor who practices in

11 that medical clinic. He said, Drew, I am not against

12 medical marijuana. He said, I am for it but this in my

13 opinion is not a proper location to locate this facility.

14 Since CSX closed the railroad crossing there

15 at 31st Avenue, it's a dead-end, if you will. There is not

16 a lot of parking around this property except for the Gulf

17 South or Memorial Outpatient Surgical Center which is

18 directly across the street. I'm afraid if you have a lot of

19 people coming in here seeking medical assistance through

20 cannabis it's going to create a problem for them.

21 But it's also going to create a problem on

22 the street. There's very, very little parking. Our lot is

23 a 25 foot lot. It's part of Original Gulfport. They don't

24 build them like that any more I don't think. But that's an

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 1 The house immediately south of us stayed on

 2 the market for over 12 years because there was no parking.

 3 It had been a pediatric cardiologist's office. And I don't

 4 know what he was thinking when he bought that place but

 5 there are two parking spots out front and maybe four in

 6 back.

 7 Prior to that, it was a law office with 16

 8 attorneys, secretaries, receptionist. They had to move out

 9 because after they bought it they realized there's no

10 parking here.

11 So one of the issues for us is what happens

12 to the parking. We've got one space in front of our house.

13 That's it. Most people own two cars. We can't park in the

14 back because people when they come they choose to park in

15 front.

16 I just don't think our neighborhood can

17 survive the number of people that would be coming into a

18 proposed dispensary there.

19 The other thing is several years ago, we had

20 a hookah bar just on the other side of the doctors' offices

21 over there. About 3:00 a.m. one morning, we heard -- we

22 were woken up by three shots. People came out of the hookah

23 bar to rob a guy shooting three times, left him for dead.

24 As we understand it, they got $20 out of it.

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 1 more valuable than that. If they put that in there, I'm

 2 worried about security. Someone has spoken to the issue of

 3 security in there, and it would be properly supervised.

 4 But, you know, you're going to have to convince me of that

 5 if it goes in there.

 6 I'm really concerned about that there will

 7 probably be robberies, holdups, shootings. I don't know

 8 that. I can only suppose. But it does cross my mind. I

 9 have a very big concern about that.

10 I would appreciate it if you would not allow

11 this in a primarily residential neighborhood. We've got

12 five houses right there on 31st Avenue just immediately

13 south of this facility. You have other homes on 32nd Avenue

14 that people have talked about. It's residential. It's not

15 something that would be -- I can't imagine any pharmacy

16 locating in there. Just it doesn't make sense.

17 But at any rate, that's my opinion. I

18 appreciate your time. Thank you for hearing me.

19 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, Mr. Cameron. Thank

20 you.

21 Anyone else to speak against this? Anyone

22 else to speak against this zoning text amendment?

23 MR. DIX: My name is Brian Dix. My address

24 is 23920 Stablewood Drive, Pass Christian, Mississippi.

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 1 I'm a physician. I've practiced in Harrison

 2 County 29 years. I'm an anesthesiologist. I know a little

 3 bit about opioids. I also deal in chronic pain management.

 4 I deal in opioid interventional treatment. We do a lot of

 5 it right down the street. Gulf South Outpatient Surgery

 6 Center with Memorial Hospital is renting that property now.

 7 I am not opposed to medicinal marijuana. I

 8 have a lot of patients I see in my office who are on

 9 medicine marijuana, and they get it at other areas.

10 I am opposed to the zoning change because if

11 you all change this zone tonight, it's going to allow a lot

12 of other people to put these in a lot of places that you

13 might not otherwise want them.

14 I'll just leave it at that. I agree with the

15 last two people ahead of me who spoke very eloquently. If

16 it does pass, I'll be back to speak on the next issue.

17 Thank you for your time.

18 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, Dr. Dix.

19 Anyone else to speak against this zoning text

20 amendment?

21 I have recognized you to come back and give

22 some clarity as the author presenting this.

23 MS. ILLING: Thank you.

24 So just to clarify, yes, per the application,

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 1 dispensary and the property where the state has awarded a

 2 license is at 1301 31st Avenue. That is zoned T4+ which,

 3 you know, as illustrated by the clinics on the street is a

 4 zoning that is commercial. It is a zoning that allows for

 5 medical facilities to operate.

 6 So that zoning extends to 32nd, and then up

 7 north of the railroad tracks a couple of, one or two blocks

 8 north of the railroad tracks.

 9 That is a transect zone that from my research

10 through public record request was established to create

11 hybrid uses so that downtown Gulfport could be a vibrant

12 place to live and work, a place where someone could choose

13 to live downtown and be able to walk to go out to eat and

14 walk across the street to see their doctor or go to their

15 pharmacy.

16 So it is a commercial zone. And the -- that

17 is not especially relevant to this particular request which

18 is about the text amendment generally. And I think there

19 might have been -- well, a little misunderstanding, but I

20 certainly would -- I would support -- I would be happy if

21 the commission did support adding the zones by commission

22 approval.

23 These additional zones that are being

24 requested including T4+ and T5, they, you know -- if those

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 1 that is very warranted because, you know, I trust that

 2 you're the body that has the best interest of the city at

 3 heart and is able to make determinations on a case by case

 4 basis.

 5 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you for the clarity.

 6 Thank you.

 7 MR. DAIGLE: So, before you go. I'm sorry.

 8 I guess I'm not understanding what your --

 9 because now you're talking T4+ and T5, and, Greg, what I'm

10 understanding is that the application is to include B-1 and

11 R-B. Is that correct?

12 MR. HANCOCK: No. There's a list of about

13 eight of them. It's on Page 215 of your packet. Currently

14 in the existing regulations of B-2 and B-4, what they want

15 to add is in addition to B-2 and B-4, they want to add B-1,

16 R-B, T4+, T5, and T6. Is that correct?

17 MR. LONG: Do you want me to speak on this?

18 MR. DAIGLE: Please.

19 MS. ADOLPH: I think you have to trade now.

20 MS. ILLING: Thank you.

21 MS. ADOLPH: And who are you?

22 MR. LONG: I'm Cory. My name is Cory Long.

23 I work for the City of Gulfport, staff member, 1410 24th

24 Avenue, Gulfport, Mississippi.

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 1 the things in there is the ordinance that was actually

 2 passed by the planning commission and then by the City.

 3 One of the items that she wrote on there, one

 4 of the definitions was a strike-through on any use that is

 5 specific to the T zones. Okay? So that was allowed to

 6 stay, the T zones were allowed to stay. But there were some

 7 modifications to that under her request to open up the T

 8 zones.

 9 So right now you're only allowed in the B-2,

10 B-4 zones for medical cannabis dispensaries. So her request

11 is going to allow the zones to jump to a B-1 and an R-B. In

12 addition to that, the equivalents to those in Smart

13 Code/Hybrid Code, which would include T4+, T5, T6.

14 So if you look at the maps under the request

15 -- sorry, Mr. Spann, I'm sorry to have to pivot you around.

16 This map is actually in your packet. It's just we zoomed in

17 on the locations to help you see them a little better.

18 The green zones are the areas that are

19 currently allowed for medical cannabis dispensaries.

20 Now, that area right there in the southwest

21 corner is deceptive because a lot of that is city owned

22 property. But ultimately I believe that turned into about

23 13.8 percent of the city for just the B-2 and B-4 for

24 medical cannabis dispensaries.

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 1 the slides because this jumps from quadrant to quadrant of

 2 the city, assuming I-10 and Highway 49 create a quadrant.

 3 So the northeast quadrant of the city, you would

 4 see where these zones could potentially open up. And, yes,

 5 it includes some of the areas along eastern Dedeaux Road, a

 6 little bit further north along 605, Florence Gardens

 7 potentially, and Three Rivers Road.

 8 Greg, if you don't mind, please.

 9 And then you get to the southeastern quadrant

10 of the city, and then you see where the T zones scatter

11 along Pass Road, all the way down 605 to Highway 90. And

12 then back toward the downtown area, if you don't mind one

13 more time, Greg, please, you'll see that it opens up onto

14 downtown, 20th Street heading west, and then potentially

15 some areas of West Side.

16 That being said, her request was by right..

17 That was her request for that. But the planning commission

18 has the authority to modify that request to planning

19 commission approval, special exception, allowed in certain

20 zones and not allowed in certain zones. It is within your

21 latitude the way I understand it. Greg, is that correct?

22 That's the way I understand it's within your

23 latitude. I was just up to provide information for you guys

24 to help you make a better decision.

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 1 MS. ADOLPH: Any other questions of Mr. Long?

 2 Thank you.

 3 Commissioners, you've heard the discussion.

 4 MR. HANCOCK: Let me ask another question. I

 5 think I've already convinced myself of what the answer is.

 6 But typically when there's a zoning text

 7 amendment, in the years that I've been here, that's always

 8 been brought to us by the city. I don't recall a time when

 9 the zoning text amendment has been brought to us by someone

10 other than the city.

11 MR. SELLERS: I agree with that.

12 MS. ADOLPH: I agree.

13 MR. HANCOCK: And it even says it was -- this

14 is why I was confused because if I'm reading the agenda, it

15 says zoning text amendment PC 171 by Lauren Illing, City of

16 Gulfport.

17 She's not with the City of Gulfport. So I'm

18 not sure why it says that. This is somebody outside of the

19 city, outside of the administration, that's bringing this to

20 us. I don't think I've seen that before. Am I correct?

21 MR. SELLERS: I'd agree. I don't think in

22 all the time I've ever seen that either, to my recollection.

23 MR. LONG: Cory Long again, staff.

24 So during the records search that I was doing

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 1 instances of this historically. It has not happened in the

 2 relatively recent past. But when you get back historic and

 3 you fall back about eight, ten years, even before I started

 4 with the planning office, I found that there are some

 5 records of other people requesting zoning changes.

 6 And so it's well within the applicant's

 7 right. If I made a mistake on the legal description, it was

 8 mostly probably because it's a City of Gulfport ordinance,

 9 and there may have been some misreading on my part. But it

10 is our ordinance that the applicant is requesting to amend.

11 MS. ADOLPH: If that is the case, Mr. Long,

12 could it be designated as a citizen of the City of Gulfport

13 rather than saying just City of Gulfport which then presents

14 a lack of clarity for us as commissioners.

15 MR. LONG: I understand. That's all I can do

16 really is apologize on that. Just like everybody else,

17 we're hit with a lot of cases. So all we can do is our

18 best.

19 MS. ADOLPH: Okay. Not complaining. You do

20 a good job.

21 MR. HANCOCK: I'll also point out this real

22 quickly that this is -- we passed a plan in this body within

23 the last few months, and this, to me, this would be a major

24 overhaul to the plan that we passed a few months ago. It's

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 1 really, really close to some residents.

 2 If we had heartburn against about the last

 3 one, this is a lot -- this goes a lot farther in that

 4 direction.

 5 So I'm really kind of surprised that they

 6 even put that in this request. The last case, I was kind of

 7 on the fence about it because I really kind of disagree with

 8 the classification of a hotel as a house as a home. But

 9 nevertheless it is.

10 But in this case, we would basically be

11 approving by right because they've scratched through the

12 code and put an R instead of a P.

13 So to put these things in all the R-B

14 locations, that would be a gross, a really, really big

15 change to what we passed three or four months ago.

16 So just something that makes me

17 uncomfortable.

18 MS. ADOLPH: I hear you thinking out loud,

19 Mr. Hancock. Do you want to offer a motion then?

20 MR. HANCOCK: I will eventually, but I'll

21 give other people a chance to talk.

22 MS. ADOLPH: Still thinking out loud? Anyone

23 else?

24 MR. SELLERS: I would say I agree with Doug

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 1 remember a text amendment coming from the public.

 2 I am one of the ones who felt like a hotel

 3 was somewhat restrictive considering it a residence, but in

 4 this particular application, you are talking about by right

 5 allowing R-B zones and all that, and I just can't go that

 6 far and agree to that.

 7 My suggestion would be that the groups in

 8 favor of making changes get with the city planning

 9 department and discuss the possibilities and see if some

10 reasonable agreement can't be arrived at to maybe possibly

11 open up some other venues, areas, to dispensaries.

12 But I can't approve this as presented. And I

13 don't really see any way we can even modify it at this point

14 without more information and more discussion.

15 So I will go ahead and make a motion to deny

16 the request Case File 2209PC171 and again suggest that

17 continued discussion be carried on in this matter with the

18 planning department.

19 MR. HANCOCK: I'll second that.

20 MS. ADOLPH: We have a motion and a second to

21 deny Zoning Text Amendment request 2209PC171. Is there any

22 need for further discussion?

23 MR. DAIGLE: I just want to throw out I'm in

24 favor of figuring out a good avenue so this medical

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 1 lot of good compelling arguments where I think it's going to

 2 find a place. I think that my opinion is because I was also

 3 in favor of the previous case that we had with the hotel. I

 4 don't think -- I know hotel is considered in a residential

 5 zoning area, but I don't think it's a personal residence.

 6 But that's my opinion.

 7 I do think there's a place for this. There

 8 were other options I think that they could have gone down.

 9 I just want to state what is out there in the future.

10 There's B-3, there's B-1. If you're trying to do one zoning

11 area at a time, seeing if maybe we can grab a little bit

12 this, spread it out, I think though that my opinion is this

13 is just too much. I can't support it, especially without it

14 having planning commission approval.

15 So that's my thought. But I do think it has

16 a place, and I don't want to just throw out there that I'm

17 not in favor of medical marijuana because I think it has a

18 place in our community.

19 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, Mr. Daigle.

20 Any other comments coming from commissioners?

21 Reverend Spann?

22 MR. SPANN: I just feel strongly about what

23 we voted on last time. And this one here, yes, it has a

24 place in our community. And I would implore them to find,

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 1 voted on as a planning commission.

 2 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, sir.

 3 Coach Jones?

 4 MR. JONES: Basically, I'm in agreement with

 5 90 percent of this committee. And when you think about

 6 across the state, you may have 27 or 29, whatever. It's not

 7 a great number.

 8 Now, I do know marijuana works. My

 9 brother-in-law died taking it, but it gave him an appetite.

10 But at this time, I just can't support it as

11 for it being where they want it to be, and we don't know

12 enough about the background.

13 MS. ADOLPH: Thank you, sir.

14 Any other comments? We have a motion and a

15 second on the floor to deny Zoning Text Amendment 2209PC171.

16 Those all in favor of denial, please raise your hand.

17 (Unanimous vote.)

18 MS. ADOLPH: The motion is then denied.

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 1 BEFORE THE CITY OF GULFPORT PLANNING COMMISSION

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 3 2209PC171

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 6 COURT REPORTER'S CERTIFICATE

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 8 I, Norma Jean Ladner Soroe, Certified Shorthand

 9 Reporter, do hereby certify that to the best of my skill and

10 ability I have reported the hearing held before the City of

11 Gulfport Planning Commission and that the foregoing 60 pages

12 constitute a true and correct transcription of said hearing

13 held on the 22nd day of September 2022.

14 I do further certify that my certificate annexed

15 hereto applies only to the original and certified

16 transcript. The undersigned assumes no responsibility for

17 the accuracy of any reproduced copies not made under my

18 control and direction.

19 Witness my signature this the 26th day of October

20 2022.

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