Saucier Improvement Association - One Community, One Voice

SIA Minutes January 25, 2007

Present
Steve Howard, Vice President, Lori Sauls, Treasurer, Wanda Pate, Ron Dougherty, Amy Blankenship, Pascal Gill
Meeting Notes
Steve Howard called the meeting to order at 6:35 and resumed discussion on the plan for relations with the Code Office and Planning Commission submitted January 18 by Amy Blankenship.
Amy Blankenship recommended that we e.mail Jennifer Cowley and request her input on the presentation of the Saucier Plan from Ohio State at the next Board of Supervisors meeting. Discussion followed on whether the plan was complete and what, if anything, needed to be done to complete it. We also discussed that the Code Office and Jennifer Cowley had volunteered to present the Plan to the Board of Supervisors and that they had not done so. Our understanding of why this had not been done is that Jennifer and the Code office are too busy with other issues.
Lori Sauls moved that we e.mail Jennifer and request her input for presenting the plan to the Board of Supervisors.
Amy suggested that we seek a meeting with the Planning Commission. Last time Steve attended a Planning Commission zoning hearing, Dan Henserlingon the Planning Commission had requested that we meet with them, so this would be following through on that request.
Amy recommended that a SIA representative attend all Zoning hearings and PC meetings to comment on relevant applications.

Amy reminded the Board that we have had difficulty getting notice of upcoming zoning changes far enough in advance of zoning hearings to be able to debate any action on them. She suggested that we enlist the help of SIA volunteers to collect information on any applications they might know of. Discussion followed about the timeline of application notices from the Code Office and why we think they should be able to send us information in a more timely manner.

Wanda volunteered to talk to realtors about potential zoning application. No consensus was reached about whether we should solicit volunteers to collect zoning application information.
Amy proposed that we determine the date and subject of the next public meeting so that we could have flyers to hand out at the January 29th meeting. Steve said the topic of the meeting should be “Where do we go from here?” and that it should be held February 26th.
Steve asked for committee updates.
Ron informed us that Grand Bear had won an award - great for local tourism. Maybe we should try to get their vocal support for smart development in Saucier. He also mentioned an Eminent Domain bill that would protect citizens from eminent domain actions that would put their property in the hands of private developers.

posted by Steve Howard @ 11:21 PM