Photo by Toni GibbonsThe Snowflake Town Council recognized and thanked Barbara Bigler (center) with a gift of a poinsettia for all the time she has volunteered to repair and prepare the poinsettias displayed on the Main Street lamp posts each Christmas season for many years. Bigler is a longtime Snowflake resident and was an employee with the town where she served as the town clerk. Also pictured with Bigler are (left to right) Vice Mayor Kerry Ballard, councilmen Greg Brimhall, Cory Johnson, Byron Lewis, Hunter Lewis and Councilwoman Allison Perkins.
Photo by Toni GibbonsThe Snowflake Town Council recognized and thanked Barbara Bigler (center) with a gift of a poinsettia for all the time she has volunteered to repair and prepare the poinsettias displayed on the Main Street lamp posts each Christmas season for many years. Bigler is a longtime Snowflake resident and was an employee with the town where she served as the town clerk. Also pictured with Bigler are (left to right) Vice Mayor Kerry Ballard, councilmen Greg Brimhall, Cory Johnson, Byron Lewis, Hunter Lewis and Councilwoman Allison Perkins.

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Judge Fred Peterson (right) of the Snowflake Justice Court, swore in the newly elected officials at the Dec. 4 meeting of the Snowflake Town Council including (left to right) Councilmen Hunter Lewis, Greg Brimhall, Cory Johnson and Mayor Lynn Johnson.

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Joseph Holland, manager of Abacaxi, LLC, the company that requested the rezoning of 21 acres on the south side of Highway 277 between Frontier Drive and Putter’s Paradise, answered questions posed by the council at the meeting on Dec. 4.

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TheSnowflake Town Council approved the zoning request by Abacaxi, LLC, to changethe 21 acres located between Frontier Drive and Putter’s Paradise on the southside of Highway 277 across from the industrial park from residential zoning tocommercial zoning in the Dec. 4 meeting.

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The vote was six in favor and one recused. The six in favor were Mayor Lynn Johnson, Vice Mayor Kerry Ballard, Councilwoman Allison Perkins and councilmen Byron Lewis, Hunter Lewis and Greg Brimhall. Councilman Cory Johnson recused himself because of partnership in Abacaxi, LLC.

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Dale Call with the Snowflake Planning & Zoning Department said in his presentation, “This was presented at a public hearing at the Planning and Zoning commission on Nov. 20. All the property owners within 150 feet of the subject property were notified,” said Call. “Planning and Zoning heard the request and the commission voted five to zero for approval from the town council.”

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Byron Lewis asked of Joseph Holland, manager of Abacaxi, LLC, “Will you be doing the development yourself on these properties?”

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Holland said, “Yes, right now the prevailing sentiment is that we are going to have to develop the property for a tenant who will be signing a 30-year lease. I don’t want to give too much away in a public forum, but we have some great ideas of what can be used here.”

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Holland further said that the major heartache and angst toward the prior proposal submitted in October tended to be toward the proposed multi-family zoning. “No one had real issue with the commercial. So we came back with only commercial. We believe it really is a natural outgrowth of need, we are across the street from the industrial park and on a highway.”

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“Having you do the development instead of outsourcing it to a party no one knows, gives us a lot more confidence,” stated Byron Lewis.

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In other business, the council heard a presentation from the Navajo County Public Health Services Regarding Community Health Status Assessment and approved the November check register for a total of $283,627.

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