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January 2015
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ARLINGTON NEWS
December Mayor and
Board of Aldermen
Meeting
amend the current budget.
reported that crime was down
(19 incidents) and one patrol
car is in Arlington at all
times.
Sam T. Wilson Public
Library's new librarian will
start on December 8th (see
related article, page 4). The
library has also been awarded
a $15,000 technology grant
for new computers.
A contract for Arlington
Community Schools to lease
350 new apple laptops for
teachers was approved. Also
approved was a $122,000
baseball fieldhouse at Arlington High School, funded with
$60,000 from baseball boosters and $62,000 from county
Capital Improvement Plan
(CIP) funds.
Angela Reeder was appointed to fill remainder of
Steve McCarver's term on
Planning Commission.
Reeder previously served on
Loosahatchie Greenway
Steering Committee. Appointment to Finance Committee was not made.
Wastewater treatment
operator Andy Weihl received a state Award of
Excellence in Waste Water
Management.
After concerns about
making an amendment to
current budget were raised,
alderman Jeff McKee withdrew his motion to spend
$18,000 planting trees in
Milton Wilson medians
between White Oak Subdivision and Chester St. Instead
McKee made a request to
add to next year's budget, not
Much of the December 15
Planning Commission meeting focused on a future development south of Milton
Wilson and east of Airlie
Road, including the consideration of an amendment to
the Airline Road Planned
Development located on the
south side of Milton Wilson
Blvd., east of Airline Rd.
Amendment consisted of an
extraction of property from
the original plan that would
then be presented as
“Arlington Commons”
Planned Development. Public hearing was opened to at
least four citizens of surrounding area speaking, two
of which clearly expressed
opposition to the plan. Motion to approve the extraction
carried.
The final item of the night
was a request for the approval of a general development plan for “Arlington
Commons" Planned Development. This plan is desired
for a 45.03 acre parcel located on the southeast quadrant for Milton Wilson Blvd/
Airline Rd.
The developer presented
the plan which includes small
out parcel-type services and
retailers, multi-tenant building within green areas, and a
small pond. The planned
development was described
as a 60 million dollar project
that is anticipated to bring
approximately $1 million
dollars in yearly tax revenues
to the town.
After the presentation, the
December Planning
Commission Meeting
Shelby County Sheriff
public hearing process begun
with about five residents
(Harrell’s Ridge, Chapel
Ridge) presenting comments
opposing the item. Impact on
traffic, security, Police and
Fire Department impact were
some of the expressed concerns. The floor closed, discussion by the board commenced. After a lengthy
discussion and questions to
the developer, the motion
carried with several amendments.
Amendments included
restrictions on the types of
businesses the project could
contain and the exclusion of
businesses such as convenience stores, gas stations,
funeral homes, churches or
auto repair shops. Other
amendments made by the
board included increasing the
ratio of common space from
14% to a 24% to give pedestrians more areas to use. Also
requested was a four-side
design plan with a mixed use
of buildings as not to keep
them strictly commercial or
light industrial. One last
request was made to consider
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