and we might need to -- it's not -- these folks are fine. They're doing what they're required
to do. Look before you're really using all that. I won't take any more time on this. Thank
you, Madam Chair.
MS. GEUEA JONES: Thank you. Any other questions for staff? Seeing none.
We'll now open public hearing.
PUBLIC HEARING OPENED
MS. GEUEA JONES: Please come forward. Six minutes for groups and the
applicant, three minutes for everyone else. Please state your name and address for the
record. And you may have to move the microphone up a little bit for us to be able to hear
you properly. Thank you.
MR. KRIETE: My name is Matthew Kriete; I'm with Engineering Surveys and
Services, offices at 1113 Fay Street here in Columbia, and civil engineer for the project.
Not to rehash too many things, but again, I want to talk a little about the history of the
site. There's been multiple revisions along the way. The reason -- specifically, what
we're asking for in the rezoning, again, just make sure this is all clear, and then, you
know, what the revisions are in the PD plan. So first off, you know, it was 2004 when this
was originally approved, and since then there's been a few minor revisions. But tonight,
you know, we're not asking for a change in use, we're not asking for anything to be
different in what we're doing. We're asking, you know, ultimately, for something that's
going to be an expansion. But we're modernizing the standards, so I just want to make
sure that's -- that's clear in all of this. So the minor revisions that occurred was a small
outdoor building, the addition, and I'll show you that on the plan here in a moment, that
actually is going to be demolished for this new one, a trail, and some other little minor
changes. So from a rezoning standpoint, we have this existing lot -- I guess, unplatted
lot that's there along Texas Avenue that's highlighted in red again, that is all that's being
rezoned. Currently, it's, you know, office, so going into a planned district to get all this
unified into one district, one zoning category. And again, as I mentioned, the -- the
Statement of Intent back in 2004 doesn't resemble anything of the current UDC, so
they're really bringing us into the current standards, and bringing the site up in much of
the same way to those current standards, which it includes parking, by the way, too,
because it does actually reduce the amount of parking needed. So again, the addition
you can see highlighted in red there, 7,500 square foot addition that does remove one of
an addition that's, I think, about 1,500, 1,800 square feet. The blue highlighted, there is
some additional parking. There's actually a separate entrance to this part of the facility,
so it kind of needs its own little standalone parking, but most off, this is fire department
access. That -- that part of the building really was removed from any access previously,
and so getting that drive in there and that pavement in there is really to get in there and
circulate the fire trucks. That's the -- that's the main thing, you know, and any other
