 Go ahead and get started. Thank you all for being patient, giving us a few minutes to get started here. But just wanna welcome everyone to the March 7th City of Columbia Board of Zoning Appeals meeting. My name is John Gregory and I'm chair for the board and will be serving as chair for today's meeting. At this time, I'm gonna introduce other members of the board. To my left, Jonathan, new to the, huh? Bang, yeah, that's all right. Very new to the board, first meeting, so welcome. Celia McIntosh, Catherine Finner, myself, Davis Whittle, and also want to introduce staff. So Hope Hasty, the zoning administrator, and Erica Hyen, the deputy zoning administrator, and Sky Robinson Barnes, land use board coordinator. The board is charged with hearing applications for special exceptions, variances, and administrative appeals. All testimony is recorded for the record, and anyone wishing to speak will need to be sworn in and come to the podium to speak. No testimony can be taken from the floor. When you come to the podium, state your name, and please speak clearly into the microphone because this meeting is being recorded. Applicants with cases before the board are allotted a presentation time of 10 minutes. This time also includes all persons presenting information on behalf of the applicant. The time limit does not include any questions asked by the board or staff regarding the case. Any member of the public may address the board at intervals of three minutes or five minutes if by a spokesperson for an established body of, or a group of three or more. The applicant then would have five minutes for a rebuttal, and the board reserves the right to amend these limits on a case-by-case basis. So we're gonna go ahead and swear anyone in that wishes to speak, y'all being on the consent agenda. You know, I don't know that you'll actually come up here and speak, but we'll still swear you in. Those of you who plan to speak must be sworn. If you are here as an applicant or here to speak in any case, please stand at this time and raise your right hand. Okay, thank you. Do you affirm or attest that the testimony you will give today is the truth and nothing but the truth? Awesome, thank you, I'm gonna be seated. At this time, I'll turn the meeting over to Ms. Hastie. All right, thank you. Good afternoon and welcome to our newest member, Mr. Vang. We'll start with the consent agenda. We just have one item today, it is on consent, and well, sorry, we do have approval of minutes. So this is actually the December 7th, 2023 meeting minutes. And then we have one case on consent, and it's 2023-0031 SE, it's next to 2511 Chestnut Street, and it's a special exception request to permit crop production on a residential lot. And at this time, would any members of the board like to remove a case from consent? Would any members of the public like to remove a case from consent? All right, saying that no one wishes to remove any of the items from the consent agenda, I'm gonna ask that we, yeah, ask for a motion to approve the minutes and for the item on the consent agenda. I move that we approve the minutes and the item on the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, the motion is approved. Thank y'all very much. Thank you. Y'all can stick around if you want, but yeah. Elections. All right, in other business, we just have the election of chair and vice chair today. So I guess I will, I can take nominations for chair and then we just have slips of paper and you can vote and should be pretty simple. Ready? But you go up again. Sure, if you want to. I nominate John Gregory for chair. And I'll nominate Catherine for vice chair. Okay. And did you have something? Yep. All right, give us one minute. Thank you. I'll move by a claim. He seems pretty cool to me. They do a lot of consensual things where they do the pre-catering. Right in the back. Hmm. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Do we really, can we? Oh yeah. I move that we, since we only have one nomination in each thing that we approve the slate by a claim. All right, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor to vote by claim, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, the motion is approved. I move to adjourn. So I'm not a lawyer. It is moved by claim basically that, yeah, okay. All right, I'm good with that. So we have a motion to adjourn. We'll have a second. Second. All right. Motion and second. All those in favor to say aye. Aye. Aye. All right. Any opposed? Motion approved. Thank you. Thank you.