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Commission hears East Brainerd rezoning and PUD plan; planning commission recommends approval with conditions, action deferred to next week
Summary
An East Brainerd Road rezoning and associated planned unit development for about 49 acres and 36 lots received a planning commission recommendation for approval with conditions; the county commission deferred final action to the following week to allow staff to split conditions between the zoning and PUD documents.
Commissioners heard a substantive zoning package for several properties on East Brainerd Road that would rezone about 49 acres from A‑1 to R‑1 single family and authorize a planned unit development (PUD) with a proposed 36‑lot subdivision.
Brian Schultz, planning staff, said the application proposes 36 units on roughly 49 acres — a density the staff calculated at about 2.78 dwelling units per acre — and that the area is consistent with the White Oak Mountain plan’s suburban residential place type. Staff recommended approval with conditions tied to road widening, buffers, stormwater management, pedestrian pathways, lot widths and restoration of a stream buffer, and noted the planning commission modified and ultimately recommended approval with seven conditions (one fencing restriction was removed by planning commission as overly restrictive).
Schultz read the seven conditions and explained the planning commission preferred those be split so three conditions would be placed on the zoning resolution and four would be applied via the PUD special‑permit process. Ian Blackmore of Pratt and Associates said the applicant met with the community and with Commissioner Helton and narrowed the requested conditions, adding that some conditions are most relevant to the PUD site plan rather than the zoning case.
Commissioners said they had no opposition present at the meeting and directed staff to prepare alternate language so the case could return the following week with the conditions split between the zoning and PUD documents. The transcript records the planning commission’s favorable recommendation with conditions, community outreach by the applicant, and the commission’s decision to take the matter up next week with an alternate resolution; no final commission vote is recorded in the provided excerpt.
