Results - September 16 North Myrtle Beach City Council Meeting

Left to Right: City Manager Mike Mahaney, Michael Thrower, Bryan Floyd,
Nathan Marker, John Stanley.

Prior to the September 16 North Myrtle Beach City Council meeting, Council members met in executive session to:

-- Discuss and receive attorney advice on proposed amendments to the Parkway Planned Development District Development Agreement

-- To discuss and receive attorney advice on documents identified as Separate and Independent Amendment to the Master Development Agreement.

-- To discuss the appointment of a City resident to the Board of Zoning Appeals.

Council took no action.

During the Council meeting, Employee Longevity Awards went to Firefighter EMT John Stanley (10 years of service), Public Safety Officer Bryan Floyd (5), Health & Safety Officer Nathan Marker (5), and Public Safety Officer/Rotating Detective Michael Thrower (5). The awards occur in five-year increments for employees who consistently provide excellent customer service.

City Council approved a motion to appoint three new members to the Board of Construction Appeals. The new board members are Ed Danes, Edward Hughes, and Callie Wise.

City Council held a Public Hearing on an ordinance to amend the Parkway Planned Development District (PDD) Development Agreement.

The ordinance would amend the method of reimbursement to the City from the various landowners within the PDD for construction and paving costs associated with the PDD interchange. The City paid $3.2 million for the interchange and paving of a section of Water Tower Road, with the development agreement requirement that the property owners reimburse the City via a fee per residential unit and a per-square-foot fee for commercial space, paid at the issuance of building permits. However, since the original development agreement a small portion of the PDD is now in conservation easement. The amended development agreement would require each landowner, with the exception of Chubby Chicken, to pay the City a fixed reimbursement amount in five equal payments based on an eight-year amortization schedule, beginning December 31, 2020, with a balloon payment of all amounts still due and owing by December 31, 2024. Chubby Chicken would pay the City three equal payments of $100,000 beginning December 31, 2020.

The amounts the landowners would pay to the City under the amended development agreement are:

-- Henry Road West: $869,000

-- Coterra: $864,000

-- NDG II: $532,000

-- NDG I: $150.000

-- Apache: $443,000

-- Chubby Chicken: $300,000 (Conservation Easement)

-- Myrtle Holding: $42,000

-- TOTAL: $3,200,000

City Council passed first reading of an ordinance to amend the Parkway Planned Development District Development Agreement. The ordinance would amend the method of reimbursement to the City from the various landowners within the PDD for construction and paving costs associated with the PDD interchange.

City Council tabled a Public Hearing on an ordinance to approve documents identified as the Separate and Independent Amendment to the Master Development Agreement regarding the portions of the Parkway Planned Development District (PDD) owned by Coterra Chestnut, LLC and NDG Property II, LLC, respectively. Council will schedule a workshop on the proposed ordinance.

City Council tabled first reading of an ordinance to approve documents identified as the Separate and Independent Amendment to the Master Development Agreement regarding the portions of the Parkway Planned Development District (PDD) owned by Coterra Chestnut, LLC and NDG Property, LLC, respectively. Council will schedule a workshop on the proposed ordinance.

City Council passed first reading of an ordinance to amend Chapter 5, Beaches & Waterways, Section 5-5, Surfboards to expand surfing zones.

Currently, five surf zones allow for surfing May 15-September 15, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. There are additional areas where beach usage is sufficiently low to allow for expansion of surfing areas.

The proposed additional surfing zones:

-- Begin at Hog Inlet and end at 5th Avenue North with the exception of 300 feet on the north side and south side of the Cherry Grove Pier.

-- Begin at 6th Avenue South and end at 27th Avenue South.

-- Begin at the Town of Atlantic Beach southern limit and end at 46th Avenue South.

The director of public safety or his designee may temporarily prohibit surfboarding and/or skimboarding in these areas for public safety purposes.

City Council passed first reading of an ordinance offering a major amendment to the Robber’s Roost Planned Development District (PDD), revising standards for the Neighborhood Overlay Zone pertaining to porches and recessed garages. The amendment would affect the residential portion of the PDD. Chris Manning of Robbers Roost @ NMB, LLC requested the amendment.

As presented for first reading, the architectural standards would:

-- Delete the requirement for garage doors to be recessed from the front facade, allowing garage doors to protrude forward from the front facade no more than four feet. Council members indicated that during second reading of this ordinance, they might amend the ordinance to limit the protrusion of garage doors to no more than two feet.

-- Require a minimum of 20 feet of driveway between any garage door and the front property line. Council members indicated that during second reading of this ordinance they might amend the ordinance to require 24 feet of driveway.

-- Revise the minimum width of porches to require 25 percent of the frontage of the facade facing the street or a six-foot minimum when a third garage bay is part of the home design.

City Council passed first reading of an ordinance offering a major amendment to the Barefoot Landing Planned Development District (PDD), adding rooftop signage to the Joe’s Crab Shack building and revising the approved master site plan. Seth McCoy of Barefoot Landing Commercial, LLC requested the amendment.

The proposed changes to the master site plan would:

-- Add two bar areas located over the water near the new Crooked Hammock Brewery site and at the former Joe's Crab Shack site.

-- Reconfigure one of the currently approved floating bridges to provide more exposure for the former Joe's Crab Shack site.