05 - APPROVE MINUTES FROM CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS ON JANUARY 23, 2015 AND FEBRUARY 16, 2015

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Regular Council Meeting February 9, 2015 Page 3 Council. Mr. Ressler said in his mind, the City had made a very big mistake in issuing this permit. John Godwin, City Manager — he said he was a citizen too and the bottom line is the City made a mistake. He said City staff reviewed this when the applicants came in and decided that it went in a specific category. Mr. Godwin said staff did not have the authority to do that and what Mr. Ressler said was correct. He also said the Ordinance required that it to go to Planning & Zoning Commission, not to the staff to make that determination. Mr. Godwin reiterated the City staff made a mistake and apologized to the citizens, the developers and the City Council. He said under item 12, that he would be recommending the City Council send this to Planning and Zoning like staff should have done back in August. Mr. Godwin said staff had spoken to the Planning and Zoning Commission, and that they could have a special meeting as soon as next week and then it could be back to the City Council in as soon as two weeks from tonight for final action. He said this should not have happened. Council Member Hashmi said there were a lot of people from his District who wanted to speak and some of them were elderly people who may or may not be able to come again, so he would like them to be able to speak. Mayor Frierson said they could move item 12 up on the agenda. Mr. Godwin said people could provide their testimony tonight and it could be played at the meeting if those people were not able to come back. Carolyn Patterson said she was a Morningside resident and owned the property at 4225 Primrose, which was immediately behind this facility. She reported that the garage door to this home was about 30 feet from the fence line, had a small patio in the back, and that she could not imagine waking up in the morning, wanting to go out for a cup of coffee, the sights, the smells, the noise of thousands of tons of metal being dumped into big, probably metal containers. She said having a $150,000- $160,000 investment, and then having a junk yard placed in the back was totally unacceptable. Ms. Patterson also said she was glad to hear what Mr. Godwin said and hopefully this would be rectified and something could be done. Ms. Patterson said she thought all of Morningside was concerned. Sarah Eatherly, 4134 Primrose — she said she had one question and that was while the City Council and everyone was in the process of making this decision, on correcting it, would the work be stopped on this facility? Mayor Frierson inquired of Mr. Godwin an answer for Ms. Eatherly. Mr. Godwin said his initial thought was that work should be stopped but that he would need to defer to the City Attorney. Mr. Godwin said there was an executive session to talk about that with the City Council at the end of this meeting and he would have an answer before they went home that night. Marcus Roden, 3930 Holbrook — he said he lived in Morningside, and said to Mr. Godwin that it appeared that construction had started, that he had issued a permit, and that he had made a mistake. Mr. Roden said his father taught him that when you make mistakes you get a spanking so that you do not forget the mistake that you made and you don't make the same