Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Right. Call to order. Planning Commission regular meeting for Tuesday, January 6th, 2026. Uh approval of agenda. Seeking a motion for approval. Motion second. Motion and second. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. Passes. Uh item three, election of the planning commission chairperson and v vice p v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v v vice chair for 2026. Any nominees? You you [laughter] I nominate Michael.

Okay. [laughter] I second. All right. Motion and second. All in favor? I oppose. one abstaining. Um for the vice chair, I'll nominate Tom Stifter. Second. [laughter] Whip them right under the bus. Mhm. [clears throat] Motion and a second. All in favor? I oppose. Hearing none. Passes. So the chair will be myself and Tom Stifter [snorts] will be the vice both remaining in our seats. Uh number four, approval of the minutes from December 2nd, 2025 planning commission meeting. [clears throat]

Make a motion. Motion to approve. Second. Second. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Hearing none. Motion passes. Number [clears throat] five. We have a public hearing for a text amendment to amend title. Is that 15? Land usage chapter 152 zoning and chapter 153 flood plan. flood plane management of the municipal code for the city of mayor. [snorts] Do you want to open first or kick it off with the summary first?

Um, I guess I can do a quick summary quick. Uh, so basically, as you know, we've been working on the zoning ordinance for quite a while here and uh, last month we kind of went through the final document and um, basically took any last requests or changes. We've gone through each section over the last 10, 8, 12 months, whatever. And so we've actually called the public hearing to adopt the new zoning ordinance and this public hearing will to adopt the ordinance. The reason why the flood plane management management section is included is that was incorporated into the actual zoning ordinance rather than a standalone chapter within the city code. So that chapter kind of goes away and the new chapter will include that language. We didn't really adjust the language other than update, you know, numbers and a few, you know, things to make it consistent with the new zoning ordinance. But basically what we have here is the same draft we uh looked at last month. The only change we really had is there was a a minor change with the uh fee schedule. I think we said it was adopted by or ordinance. It needs to be adopted by resolution or vice versa or whatever. So we think there was like eight of those that we had to adjust and we made that change and it's in your draft that you should have before here tonight. But if you have any specific questions I can take them. Otherwise, we have a public hearing and um nobody in the audience. And just so everyone knows, this is Holly Craft. She's with Municipal Development Group, works with me. She will be taking over my spot. So, I want to introduce her real quick. I'm here to get through the zoning ordinance and she'll be kind of the new um planning consultant uh for the city of mayor moving forward. So, great.

So, yeah. Welcome. Should have introduced her right away, but [clears throat] yeah. So then they don't have to be nervous that there's anyone here to Yeah. So yeah, so she won't have any comments, I don't think, on the zoning arms, but um yeah, so that's where we're at and I guess we're here for the public hearing and you know, your recommendation goes city council for final approval. So all right, well why don't we uh close the regular meeting, open up the public hearing. Public hearing is open. No one in the audience. Any comments? hearing. None, we'll close the public hearing. Um, and any comments from the planning commission, comments or discussion?

Good job. A lot of work. It was It was a lot of work. I know just in the time I've been on here, usually the only issues that come up are met with, well, the ordinances are kind of old. You know, this has changed and hopefully now that it's clean and consistent, a lot of those should just be answered by the code itself. That is the plan. Yes. And I will say this, um, you know, it seems like when you do update large sections of the code or the zoning ordinance like this, it's always almost a given something's going to come up in the first year that's not truly addressed and then you got to look at, we ain't really what we wanted to do. And, you know, little amendments happen, but that's part of the process. Hopefully, you don't have that, but

seems like always one or two things pop up somewhere down the road. So, but, uh, for now, this is where we're at and go from there. Holly, you'll fix it. Yeah. [laughter] It's always problem. Yeah. You need a motion to move it to Yeah. Did we close the public hearing already? We closed the public hearing, but there's no motion to like move it to C. I mean, we've had the public hearing. We already [clears throat] We already voted on it last time. You No, you didn't vote on it last time. We need to make a motion tonight to recommend approval to the city council. Okay. I I motion we recommend approval. I'll second.

All right. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Dent. [clears throat] All right, hearing none. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed? Hearing none. Motion passes. Um, last on our agenda is just uh next meeting Tuesday, February 3rd. And commissioners reports. Any anything else coming up? Anything on anyone's radar? any more traction with Fieldstone or interested [clears throat] parties?

Yeah, I mean the the Fieldstone, I don't know, East or whatever you want to call it, the Sever Peterson property, that's still ongoing. We just had some emails back and forth just today with the uh developer uh builder about plary plat timing um annexations and things like that. So, they are still actively moving forward. Um there was a email response by the city engineer about the um I guess call it north south corridor and it's kind of becoming now a future county road more than a state road and getting some feedback from the county on that and obviously they'll have more feedback on the design standpoint than from a planning standpoint but that's really the biggest I want to say issue probably right now. Everything else seems pretty straightforward. obviously need to go through a plan of development with pulmonary plat and there is one parcel that needs to be annexed and they haven't applied for the annexation yet either but uh you know it's it's actively still in process so

just glad to hear there's still interest yep yeah I would expect something I would think over the next couple months you know that'll probably take a little while to get the plary plat submitted then you'll be some review and stuff like that so okay all right last item number eight motion to adjurnn Motion. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? I I. None opposed. The motion passes. We're journed. Nice quick one. Perfect. [clears throat] And this could be my last