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Commission holds first readings on annexations and rezones for Airport Drive, Stanford Road and East Nineteenth Street
Summary
The commission conducted first readings on several land‑use items — voluntary annexation and rezoning for parcels on Airport Drive, a future land use change and rezoning for property on Stanford Road, and a zoning change for a parcel on East 19th Street — all were set for subsequent final readings.
The Panama City Commission on April 8 held the first of two public hearings on several annexation and rezoning requests. No final votes were taken; second readings and final decisions are scheduled for the commission's April 24 meeting.
Items taken for first reading included: - Ordinance 3261.1: voluntary annexation of approximately 2.14 acres at 3716 and 3712 Airport Drive into the city (first reading only). The applicant requested annexation, a future land use change and a rezoning to General Commercial 2 (GC‑2). - Ordinance 3261.2: amendment to the city's future land use map to designate the Airport Drive parcel as General Commercial (first reading). - Ordinance 3261.3: rezoning of the Airport Drive parcel to General Commercial 2 (first reading).
The planning board reviewed the Airport Drive requests on March 10 and recommended unanimous approval.
Separately, the commission held first readings on zoning and future land use items for: - A parcel at 3010 Stanford Road (Ordinances 3262.1 and 3262.2) to change future land use to General Commercial 1 and rezone to GC‑1. The planning board recommended approval on a 3‑1 vote. - A rezoning request for a parcel at 425 East Nineteenth Street (Ordinance 3263) to Urban Residential 2 (UR‑2); the planning board recommended approval unanimously.
Applicants and their representatives addressed the commission at the hearings. Kaylin Campbell, who said she represents an applicant under contract for the Airport Drive property, told the commission the parcel is already commercial in Bay County and the request simply moves the property from county to city jurisdiction to allow future use of Panama City utilities. "It is already commercial in Bay County. We just need it transferred or annexed, sorry, from Bay County to Panama City," Campbell said.
Sean McNeil of McNeil Carroll Engineering spoke for the applicant on Stanford Road, clarifying the parcel is approximately 0.387 acres and has functioned as commercial since the early 1990s, though county mapping had shown residential zoning in error. "This place has been a working business close to 30 years," McNeil said, and asked the commission to formalize the commercial designation.
Each ordinance title was read for the record as a first reading; staff and the planning board materials were entered into the record. Second readings and final votes will be held at the April 24 commission meeting.
