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Votes at a glance: Fairhope Planning & Zoning Commission, Feb. 3, 2025
Summary
Summary of motions and formal actions taken by the Planning and Zoning Commission on Feb. 3, including site plan recommendations, waiver and subdivision approvals, a tabling, a zoning text amendment recommendation, and a meeting reschedule.
The Fairhope City Planning and Zoning Commission recorded the following formal actions on Feb. 3, 2025. All voting outcomes below are taken from the meeting record in the commission minutes.
• Motion to reschedule the March 3 meeting to March 6 at 5 p.m. — Passed unanimously.
• Motion to approve the consent agenda — Passed unanimously.
• SR 25.02 (Harvey & Thomas Orthodontics) — Motion to recommend approval to City Council subject to staff recommendations (correct highway setback to 100 feet, update photometric plan to 10‑foot poles, attend utility meeting Feb. 6, update landscaping to raise shrub heights to 40 inches and add an additional overstory tree) — Recommendation passed unanimously.
• SR 25.03 (Fusakley's and Just Chillin') — Motion to recommend approval to City Council subject to staff recommendations (update photometric plan to 10‑foot poles, correct plant schedule to 48 parking spaces, ensure vehicular screening begins 4 feet from curb) — Recommendation passed unanimously.
• Waiver (SD 25.02 Windrow) — Motion to approve a reduced 40‑foot right‑of‑way for Windrow Circle (from required 50 feet) — Passed unanimously.
• Waiver (SD 25.02 Windrow) — Motion to approve the interior sidewalk waiver (not requiring sidewalks on the north side from the entrance to Lot 20) but not to approve a waiver for sidewalks on Section Street south of the entrance — Motion to approve the interior waiver passed unanimously; the waiver for Option to eliminate sidewalks on Section Street south was not approved.
• SD 25.02 (Windrow) — Motion to approve the preliminary plat subject to staff recommendations (including an explicit note that subdivision drainage remains private and is subject to a cooperative maintenance agreement) — Passed unanimously.
• SD 25.04 (Battles Trace Phase 9) — After an extensive public hearing and technical discussion, commission voted to table the preliminary plat until the next meeting; the developer agreed to meet with the city horticulturalist and the city tree committee chair and provide updated pond O&M documentation and revised landscape/planting details before the next hearing — Motion to table passed unanimously.
• ZC 25.21 (zoning text amendment removing “boarding house” and “dormitory” uses from the use table) — Motion to recommend approval to City Council — Passed unanimously.
These actions were recorded in the meeting minutes. Several approvals were recommendations to the City Council (site plans and the zoning text amendment); the subdivision approvals and waivers were final commission actions at the preliminary stage subject to recording of plat notes and required maintenance agreements.
