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Eric Newberry nominated Jona Garrett for Chairperson; it seconded by Janice Hardaway.
There were no other nominations for Chairperson. Mrs. Garrett accepted the nomination.
It was put to a vote; all were in favor. Jona Garrett remains Chairperson.

John Proffitt nominated Sam Stephens for Vice Chairperson: it was seconded by Janice
Hardaway. There were no other nominations for Vice Chairperson. Mr. Stephens
accepted the nomination. It was put to a vote; all were in favor. Sam Stephens remains

Vice Chairperson.

Sam _ Stephens nominated Janice Hardaway for Secretary; was seconded by Eric
Newberry. There were no other nominations for Secretary. Mrs. Hardaway accepted the
nomination. It was put to a vote: all were in favor. Janice Hardaway remains Secretary.

. Public Comments and Patio Home Preliminary Plat approval for Hector Jaramillo
on property shown as part of Tax Map 065 Parcels 094.00 on the Tennessee Real
Estate Property Assessment Data Website. The property is located on Cedar
Springs Road and Keith Lane and contains 22.56 acres and a possible 93 lots. The
property is zoned R-2 Medium Density Residential.

Chairperson Garrett opened the floor for public comments. She advised that they would
not hear what has already been discussed. Only new comments.

Kiamuddin Jatoi, he said he lives on Matlock Avenue and has lived there for 19 years
now. He said he met with Seth Sumner, the previous police chief, the now police chief,
and has had numerous officers to house about the speed violations on Matlock Avenue.
No_ one does nothing, what is going to be done about the speeders? At 7:30 in the
morning the traffic is blocked up, who is going to take care of that. Seth Sumner said they
could not have a stop sign on Crestway Drive or Matlock because that is a liability. If
they don’t have a sidewalk ou Matlock, how does his wife expect to get the mail.

Mr. Curtis said the city council is currently specifically looking at_a safety study on
Matlock. It is an item on the study session in January even including a stop sign on

Matlock.

Mr. Jatoi said he had heard the same thing for years. He said it sounds like bureaucratic
BS to him. A stop sign is not going to stop the additional amount of traffic. He talked

about the school system and traffic lights.

Chairperson Garrett had to cut Mr. Jatoi’s comments due to time for others.

Joel Riley talked about being employed by the city of Athens previously. He talked about
the increase in the traffic om Cedar Springs Road and Keith Lane because of the new
homes and school. They have to do a traffic study and have some traffic lights. This area
was zoned R-2 and if you look there’s 14 or 15 houses that totally envelop the area, he
spoke but all would classify R-E due to land space. What should be done is it should be
classified R-E because all the houses around there and everything east on Cedar Springs
Road could be classified R-E. What happened was when they were classified, he looked

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