HomeMy WebLinkAbout1969-03-04 MinutesMINUTES OF A PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
The Planning Commission met at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, 1969, in the Board
of Directors Room of the City Administration Building, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Members Present: Clark McClinton, Ernest Jacks, Allan Gilbert, Roy Clinton, James
Mashburn, Byron Boyd, Morton Gitelman, Walter Brown,
Members Absent: Wade Fincher.
Others Present: Jim Vizzier, Harold Lieberenz, Sturman Mackey.
The meeting was called to order by the Acting Chairman, Allan Gilbert.
This meeting was called for a study of the proposed ordinance. (An ordinance to
control develo nt of land abutting controlled access highway and providing for
access thereto
Mr. Clark McClinton, Chairman, arrived.
Morton Gitelman, who wrote the ordinance, discussed it.
Mr. Gitelman said that the best thing to do is not to aim this ordinance at the
By -Pass alone but to make it a general ordinance. The heart of the ordinance is
to make people build service roads, and after the service roads are complete to
close certain access roads.
• Mr. Jacks stated that no where in the ordinance is there a provision for the
location that the service road is to be built. How is that property going to be
controlled? Would this property be dedicated to the City?
Mr. Gitelman said that any property between the service road and highway belongs
to the City. The only way to control the property is to have the people building
the service road provide a plat.
Mr. McClinton stated that this ordinance needs to be flexible.
Mr. Gitelman said that the ordinance does not say the person has to put the service
road on his own property.
Mr. Jacks said if we have the possibility of some service roads being built on the
right-of-way and some being built off of the right-of=way, connecting these roads
will be a problem.
Mr. Clinton said the service roads will have to be developed between the inter-
section relatively straight.
Mr. Vizzier stated that the most mediate problem will be at the intersections.
Mr. Gitelman said that perhaps service roads could be built on the Highway Departments
land if it was built to meet the Department's standards.
• Walter Brown stated that these service roads, if built on Highway Department land,
are turned over to the Department for maintenance.
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Mr. McClinton said that if the roads are turned over to the Highway Department for
maintenance, they should be 50 feet wide. If the service roads are built on the
Highway Department's right-of-way, they should be built according to the specifications
of the Highway Department.
Mr. Jacks asked.if the Planning Commission could specify that the service road be built on
the Highway Department right-of-way whenever possible.
Mr. Gilbert asked if the Highway Department would want utilities on the road.
Mr. Vizzier said that Tommy Haseloff, owner of Hillbilly Holler on Highway 71 North,
wants to exchange land with the City Ao made a different road entering and going out
of Hillbilly Holler. Mr. Vizzier stated that if this exchange were made, two very
bad intersections would be eliminated.
Doctor Mashburn arrived at the meeting at 4:55 P.m.
Mr. Clinton asked if the Planning Commission members can make ammendments to the ordinance
at the public hearing for it.
It was decided to set up a public hearing on the ordinance for Tuesday, April 8, 1969s
Mr. Jacks asked Mr. Gitelman if there wasn't some way that would guarantee that the
service road would be built in the correct place.
Mr. Gitelman told him that a plan has to be drawn up and brought in and the location can
• be checked at that time.
Chairman McClinton then read a resolution from the City Board of Directors to the Planning
Commission. The resolution charged Mr. Vizzier, City Planning Consultant, and the
Planning Commission to develop a plan for the Highway 71 By -Pass in March.
It was stated that if a person wants to rezone a pi6ce of property, he must build a
service road before he gets it rezoned.
Mr. Gitelman stated that there will be gaps in the service roads until sometime in the
future.
A motion was made by Roy Clinton and seconded by Walter Brown to have a public hearing
on the ordinance the first Tuesday in April. The motion carried by a vote of 6 ayes
and no nays.
It was decided that two or three members of the Planning Commission should call the
State Highway Department in Little Rock, Arkansas to see if the Highway Department would
take care of the services roads if they are built on the Highway Department right-of-
way.
There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:20 p.m.
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