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Live Oak council approves first reading to rezone Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church property
Summary
City staff presented and the council approved the first reading of ordinance 1563 to rezone about 0.64 acres at Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church from single-family residential to office/institutional, allowing churches and other institutional uses by right.
The Live Oak City Council approved the first reading of ordinance 1563, a rezoning of roughly 0.64 acres at the Sweet Home Missionary Baptist Church from residential single-family to an office/institutional district.
George Curtis, who identified himself in the transcript as "George Curtis with alderman manager for the city of Live Oak," said the change would allow churches and other institutional uses by right and reduce the need for repeated special-exception requests for repairs or expansions. "This is a proposed zoning change on property from residential single family ... to office institutional," Curtis said as he introduced the item and described the parcel as 0.64 acres owned by the church.
The council treated the item as quasi-judicial, reminding participants that only evidence presented at the hearing may be considered and that public testimony would be time-limited. Those who intended to testify were sworn before the hearing proceeded.
After the public hearing was closed and a motion and second were recorded, the council voted to approve the first reading of ordinance 1563. The transcript records the presiding official asking, "All in favor? Any opposed?" and declaring the first reading approved; no detailed roll-call tally is included in the excerpt.
The ordinance will return for future readings and any further hearings required by the city's land-development regulations.
