We don't need another Gas Station in our neighborhood!

Help Please! Our property values are going to fall drastically! For your sake and all of your neighbors, please help stop the rezoning of the corner property at Holmes and Hacks Cross Road.

This property has gone before the Planning and Land Use Boards and Rejected both times. This will be our last chance to make sure it will not pass!

This final meeting Monday, March 23rd at 3:00 PM can override both prior rejections!

We all must come together to see that they will be rejected at this hearing! Let them know our collective thoughts:

"We don't need another Gas Station in our neighborhood!"

Why we don't support this development:

The Shelby County Office of Planning & Development report on this proposal made the following statements by the Staff during their Analysis. These are their professional opinions, not our own.

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"Staff disagrees the applicability standards as set out in the Unified Development Code Section 4.10.2 are or will be met." (Page 19. – Staff Report – Applicability)

"Staff disagrees the general provisions as set out in the Unified Development Code Section 4.10.3 are or will be met." (Page 19. – Staff Report – General provisions)

"Staff disagrees the approval criteria as set out in the Unified Development Code Section 9.6.9 are being met." (Page 20. – Staff Report – Approval Criteria)

"The convenience store would rely on a septic system. As a policy, the City of Memphis no longer extends sewer to this area in order to encourage centralized development. (Page 22. – Staff Report - Conclusions)

"Permitting a convenience store in this location would lead to the potential commercialization of the remainder of this street corner – without the guidance of a long-range plan. The resultant sprawl would break down a desirable agricultural buffer between Olive Branch, MS, and urban development in Shelby County." (Page 22. – Staff Report - Conclusions)

"The planned widening of Hacks Cross Road, however, is not in itself justification for the commercial rezoning of this land. In fact, the street's expansion and the area's proximity to Mississippi industrial uses indicate the need for heightened zoning protection of this neighborhood's agricultural and natural character." (Page 22. – Staff Report - Conclusions)

"Permitting a convenience store in This proposal would have an undue adverse impact on the character of the neighborhood, and does not meet the criteria for a planned development." (Page 22. – Staff Report - Conclusions)

"RECOMMENDATION:  Staff recommends rejection" (Page 23. – Recommendation)

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The staff of professionals at the OPD who work to analyze, understand and review countless cases like this do not believe this is in the best interest of the property, its location (as an intersection), and the impact on the neighborhood and its citizens. We encourage you to read the full report and make your own conclusions but need your involvement!

https://shelbycountytn.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/7717

SHELBY COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
SUITE 619 160 N. MAIN STREET MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE 38103
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE THE SHELBY COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

TO ALL INTERESTED OWNERS OF PROPERTY:
You will take notice that a public hearing will be held by the Board of County Commissioners of Shelby 􀀵ounty, Tennessee, meeting in session in the Commission Chambers at Vasco A Smith Adminisfration Building, 160 N. Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, 38103, on Monday, February 24, 2020, at 3:00 p.m .. pursuant to Chapter 9.6 of the Memphis and Shelby County Unified Developm􀁆nt code adopted by the Board of Commissioners of Shelby County on August 9, 2010, applying to all unincorporated Shelby County, Tennessee, by which it is sought to approve the following Planned Development:

CASE NO. PD 19-16 CO
LOCATION: Southeast comer of the intersection of East Holmes Road and Hacks Cross Road
OWNER/APPLICANT: Michael Lightman, Jr./Arman Devji
REPRESENTATIVE: Brenda Solomito of Solomito Land Planning
REQUEST: Convenience Store with Gas Sales
AREA: 9.4 acres
EXISTING ZONING: Conservation Agriculture

RECOMMENDATIONS:
Memphis and Shelby County Office of Planning and Development: REJECTION
Memphis and Shelby County Land Use Control Board: REJECTION

NOW, THEREFORE, you will take notice that on Monday, February 24, 2020, at 3:00 p.m., the Board of County Commissioners will be in session at 160 North Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee, to hear remonstrances or protests against the making of such changes; such remonstrances or protests must be by personal appearance or by attorneys, or by petition, and then and there you will be present if you wish to remonstrate orwotest against the same.