Planning & Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

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I will now call to order the December 8th, 2025 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The time is 5:45 p.m. Hillary, would you call the role, please? Samson here. Forest Eaton here. Hinders that right? He's here. You're muted, Brent. Oh, sorry. I walked out of the room to uh uh get something to drink. I am here. [laughter] Thompson here. Stiger

here. Reganator here. Item number three is the approval of tonight's agenda. Any changes uh to the agenda for this evening? Hearing nothing, I would entertain a motion and a second to approve tonight's agenda. Motions. Is that your second? All in favor say I. I. I. I.

Item number four is the approval of the November 24th, 2025 Planning and Zoning Commission minutes. Any changes to those minutes? Hearing nothing, I would entertain a motion and a second to approve the November 24th, 2025 minutes. Start your motion. Second. All in favor say I. I. I.

Uh, thank you to the folks who have joined us uh in person tonight and anyone who is on the Zoom. Would any members of the public who are uh with us tonight in person like to speak on an item that is not on tonight's agenda and same question to anyone who's on the Zoom hearing? Nothing. We'll move on uh to our first substantive item, a public hearing and recommendation on an amendment to the Brody's Landing planned unit development regarding bulk regulations for decks and land use parcels CD and E. We'll open the public hearing at 5:47 p.m. Luke, would you brief us on this item, please?

Sure thing. So, um, this [clears throat] development, uh, the the Brody's Landing PUD amendment is for all of the single family and duplex lots in the Brody's Landing development. Um, that kind of whole neighborhood is shown uh, highlighted on the screen. Um, it uh, is not fully built out, but a lot of homes are built there. And what we've been seeing um as those homes have been built um they do have a smaller lot size per the PUD um and that has been restricting the ability to do uh decks and patios and and steps and such that encroach out into the uh rear yard and uh so we've had to deny some because they would go into the rear yard setback. Um what this does essentially is um amend the rear setback language um to state that the minimum setback for uh principal structures is still 20 ft um but that it would be 10 ft for uh decks and patios and steps associated with them. Um, I think a pretty good example of that, let's see if I can zoom in on one of these homes here. Um, you can see we've got pretty short backyards there. Again, we did this development with a bit smaller lots trying to help control some of the prices of um, property and homes. And you can kind of see there that that h that porch um, or deck that's coming off the second story. Um, I believe it was these folks. uh they went to the BOA to ask for variance and were denied because there wasn't really unique to that. So we suggested that a PUD amendment would be the appropriate approach. Um but in this scenario, you can't see there's but there's a a second or a ground level patio there. So they couldn't send their steps out um kind of

per or parallel to the house. They needed to send them out perpendicular uh towards the backyard. Um but we had to deny that because it didn't meet setbacks. Um, so there's lots of issues like that around the Brody's Landing area. You can see that deck. Many of these decks are um pretty close to uh the house and then not a lot of space in the backyard. So uh we suggested again that they come to PNZ and council and ask for this amendment. Um I believe uh the HOA is technically the applicant and uh John Larson's here as their representative. he was uh one of the developers of the uh development. So um still active with that. So uh he can add any other questions, answer any other questions that you might have, but uh that's the gist of it.

Did you have any comment for us tonight? Sure. John Larson, one of the developers here representing builders also. Uh we sold all these lots to another builder that was doing a take down process and I think it's basically just a little bit of an oversight on their behalf, too. all the houses fit on the lots, but they didn't realize they could only go five foot into the rear yard setback. So, we're just asking for, I think you call it a variance, to go 10 feet into the rear yard setback instead of the five. And if you go out there and look, some of the houses have been built with small decks. It just looks out of place. It just doesn't look that good. So, I'd appreciate your support on this. I'm open for any questions you have. Thank you, John.

Um, I don't think there are any members of the public here in person to comment tonight. Um, and I don't think we have anyone on Zoom either. Um, we do not. So, okay. Um, do does the commission have any questions before we close the public hearing and begin our deliberation? Would this be retroactive to the others that had to do something smaller? Yeah. Um the the folks that did the the BOA we they just haven't done anything because they were denied for the variance and then this would be just a change to the rules for everybody in Brody's Landing. Okay.

So they would retroactively be able to come in and file for that permit and get it and do what they needed to do. Is there any um utilities or anything? So I I think probably the the thought behind the setbacks in general is many times property lines have utilities or something running in the backyard and so those utility companies can get in there. Is there any utilities buried in in between those, you know, either either around the outside edges or in between those backyards that would become an issue that you couldn't get in there from a utility perspective?

I don't believe it was. So, uh, to answer that twofold, I don't know definitively. I can pull up the plaque and look. Um, typically when we have an easement in a backyard, it's, uh, 10 I've never seen bigger than a 10ft easement, right? Um, so this would set the setback to 10 foot. So it we would still be staying out of that easement if it did exist. Um, and then and on top of that, all the easement language says like no structures and stuff in it. Um, so that tends to cover that side of it as well.

There are no city uh utilities in the rear yards, but there are franchise utilities. Mid America Electric is in the back. Kind of kind of did that for a reason. So tight in the front to get the transformers in the back looks a lot better and a lot to that place but snow. So but those are in the back. I think there's only a five yard. Yeah, it might be five on each side. So the 10 foot wide total. Yep.

Any other questions from the commission? We'll go ahead and close the public hearing at 5:53 p.m. And commission, we can now deliberate on this item. [snorts]

I think it makes sense um given the realities of what um the homeowners have run into. um with the current setbacks where they are um I'd hate for folks to not be able to have a deck or you know small steps going out their backyard um to make it more usable if we can grant this areas for the last three partial the last three parcels

I guess uh from my perspective the uh you know long the state of Iowa is to grant free use of property so long as it there isn't any constraints on it. Um this seems to uh permit that free use of their property in a fashion in which uh it will remain safe for all the other property owners, neighboring property owners and not impinge on anybody else's uh property rights. Um I it it makes sense to me uh for all those reasons and I think we should grant it.

Any other comments from the commission? Luke, is this something we should keep in mind moving forward when we have other developers show up with um more economical lot sizes?

I mean, it's definitely something that we'll kind of put on our list if we get another development that's wanting to try to shorten up some of those. Um I think it's definitely a learning experience that, you know, we set it just to what our standard rear yard was, not really thinking what that impact would be. So, um I think this is a good solution and definitely something we'll keep in mind if we get another situation where I think these are 100 foot lots. We usually have 120. So, yeah. Can you can you zoom in on Brody's landing? That map we're looking at the how Yeah. Now go. Oh jeez. A little bit more. Oh, come on.

Almost kind of right there. Okay. Where you want to go? Keep going. And that first that first uh east west road. Yep. To the north. That house on the very right. This one or this one here? That right. Yeah. Corner one. Okay. That house's backyard backs up to the house's sideyard. So, I know this is one specific unique situation, but we should probably just make sure we're not leading to a a dispute. [clears throat] Sure. So, for all of the houses, every other house that I could see looks like it makes sense to increase the backyard.

Um, but now we increase the backyard there and they are right next to the side house. Like, is that does does what we're proposing still work even though we know we have one unique situation that involves somebody's backyard now going into someone's sideyard? I think it does because you still have that 10 foot of minimum separation and you know it's already their backyard. So they like these folks are treating this as their backyard already. So there's already a I don't know I don't think that one actually has a deck on it but there's already the ability to put a deck in that space.

It's mainly just giving it some bit more dimensions to work with. Um, that's not very as uncharacteristic as you would find in other developments where you have a corner lot that backs up to a side. Um, and you just have somebody's sideyard is also somebody's backyard. And I will point out, I think that's what's called a flat lot. I think they just have a concrete slab there on a deck. So, Gotcha. And that is the case on quite a few of the homes in the center part of the Broies Landing. That makes sense. And also, is there any windows on that on that on that block to the north, John? there any windows facing south as well. So you should in theory be opposing line of sight.

Sure. Again that if you have a deck out there it's like you're an imposed line of sight. I can't see at least from my perspective but that's yeah it's hard to tell. That's it. Any other deliberation from the commission? Hearing nothing, I would entertain a motion to approve the amendment to the Brody's Landing planned unit development regarding bulk regulations for decks in land use partial C, D, and some motions. Second. Hillary, would you call the role, please? Hinders, I

Thompson. Hi. Stiger, hi. Samson, hi. Eaton. I Reanator I thank you everyone. Item number seven is the consideration of a resolution approving a parking waiver agreement for Dun Industrial Condominium. L would you brief on this item please?

Sure thing. So this is a parking waiver request um for 1060 Madison. It is uh one of the done industrial uh condominium buildings um that was recently built south of the Titan storage on Madison Street which is our new kind of industrial area. Um just jumped in. I believe we put a uh can Okay, so the site plan here um was the initial site plan the city approved um which resulted in the northern building being built along with the drive and the parking um and then the bays behind for loading. Um, the original site plan identified the proposed use of the building as warehouse and office and the building owner now has a tenant interested in leasing the entire building and doing a basketball practice facility. Um, that's shown on the page right above that. You can see the proposed layout. Um, it is uh two full courts and one half court and then a training room on the other end. Um, that would trigger us to take a look at uh some of the site requirements again. primarily parking. Um wanting to make sure that enough parking is uh proposed for that area. Um currently there are 27 stalls which are highlighted in red. That's what's been built now. Um the code for a 19,500 ft uh recreation athletic club would require 101. Um, and so we've talked about that with the the the user um that is proposing this uh as well as as well as the the um building owner. And one of the things we've done in some other areas is had uh uh self-limited occupancy where essentially a user has said um yes there can be like I think

this could have 400 people in it is what the max occupancy for um the uh the 19,500 ft would be at as a recreation facility. Um so around 400 people that gets you 101 parking stalls required per code. um if they self-limited to something, well, maybe that's a reason why we would be willing to consider a parking waiver. So, in this scenario, they've suggested they would self-limit the occupancy of it to 120 um occupants. Um I did some math ratios I included in the uh staff report there. Um if anybody wants to double check my math, by all means, uh go ahead. Um but essentially, the parking stall to occupant ratio is about 26. If you apply that to the 120 uh limited occupancy, that would get you 32 parking stalls. Um so the applicants requested this time to go ahead and proceed with requesting uh the waiver for just 27 stalls since it's uh relatively close. Um there may be, we've not looked at it closely enough, but there may be some options to get some other parking on the existing pavement that could provide those extra five stalls if if that was a sticking point. Um, so that's what's before you today. Um, the way the waiverss work is, uh, council ultimately makes that decision, but they need a recommendation from the planning and zoning commission. Um, so that's what we're looking for you all to do today.

Hey Luke. Yeah. Do you know if the primary use for this space will be for like practice? Are they planning on hosting tournaments and different things like that? We have any idea?

We've had some discussions about that. Um because one of our big staff concerns was uh if they were going to host tournaments that um you know that would frankly I'd be a little worried that 100 was enough if they were holding tournaments. Um they indicated that uh MVP Sports the user um was not planning to do that that they were offering it as more of a training and practice facility um and they did not seek to hold tournaments um there. There is I included in the staff report um just kind of a summary of how they're planning to run things um titling it the Norwok Norwalk Athletic Club. Um so uh they have represented right now that uh it is not their intent to do tournaments.

Do you know what their hours of operation are going to be? I I would I got us way out of order. It was so uh Jerusalem the building development owner.

Um so first of kind give a little background kind of what happened. So we built these units two years ago year and a half ago. We opened up uh in the spring meant to be doing for industrial condominiums. Very hot, very popular right now. Market's a little slow, so it just slowed down. We never had really any sales, any leases, and so we opened it up, just seeing what we could have. And in this use, we obviously had um Norwok or MVP Sports come down very similar to like HD Sports. What I want to point out, Luke, is if you can go down for me here to the next one beneath this where we maybe it's above it, I believe. Oh, the actual

Yep. the court size. So what I want you to look at here and think of is we have no room at all for any bleachers or sitting. Like these courts take up all the space. So I want what I want you to think about when you look at this is think of like an anytime fitness that only has courts. Okay? This is for respectfully men and women both usually probably guys to go beep in and go play pickup basketball on the weekends nights during the day kind of thing as well. Maybe during the day during 9 to5 but most predominantly during nights and weekends kind of thing too. But again, it's going to be when there's very little traffic because it's nights and weekends. We only have two and a half courts available. So even if you were to field a full team, you're going to have maybe 20 people per court. So that's 40 people total at any given time, which is why we're asking for the occupancy to come to come down as well. But we don't have any space to have concessions, food, drink, sitting area as well. Um and so that's the reason we're asking for this variance as well. you know, we want to make sure that we are, and I'm the owner, not the owner of the business, the owner of the building, but we want to make sure we're giving them ample parking as well. I mean, these are our clients. Obviously, if you have a use of a building that's not being conducive to your clientele, that's probably not a good measure of business. And so, we're pretty confident that we are having enough parking spaces as well. Um, what I do want to point out to Luke as well, can you go down for me, Luke, and show the building as well? So, if you look at it, we built this building in two phases. We currently have concrete already built out. It's about that blue line to the south there has already been put in. One thing we've already talked about, me and the tenant as well, which could be conducive or worth talking about to any of you here, is adding similar parking to the south of the building. We have all that kind of bay space. You can kind of see where Luke has his arrow, but even more tight to the building there. We have all overhead doors there as well and access points. So, we could actually add parking right there along the south port of the building if we need to in the future to make it more conducive for use

if you could. You could pull around and still pull on the south side of the building. Um, right now we hope not to need that. It just is going to mean more parking, more painting of lines. Um, but um whether council approves or not, we may need to do that ourselves just to make sure we're conducive of the uh the tenant and the clientele we're utilizing. But we've got plenty of space here. We actually when we built this building um getting a little bit in the weeds, but we actually built was it 39,000 square ft of building? Well, once we build second phase, excuse me, second phase is unbuilt. Once we build it, it'll be 39,000 ft of parking or of building. Um per the site regulations, we could have actually built 45,000 square ft and we chose not to. We specifically wanted to have extra parking space in here with the idea the actual flow space with the idea of having potentially trucks, you know, that kind of use as well with the with the industrial space. So, we purposely added a lot of concrete anyway to make sure it was going to be good for the traffic flows. So, I think this is going to be really a nice still use. It wasn't quite the intent, but as we all know, Norwok's being full of used sports right now, which is a good thing. Um, and so we're really excited about it here because we have plenty of parking. It's bringing more youth sports, more people to Norwok. Uh, it's very similar to the HD sports up the street, kind of a training facility, not really being used for tournaments, that kind of thing as well. And then this is me being a little bit selfish here, I guess, but I'm glad that we were able to pull the business away from De Moine to Norwok. That was the whole purpose of this building was to start pulling some businesses into Norwalk, getting more people here. Um, and obviously we're getting a good following of youth sports. So, I think this kind of lends itself to that same um, conversation point. And then happy to answer any questions you guys may have for me in the meantime.

But that's kind of a quick summary. We've been to the old MVP sports. Um, when my oldest played baseball and they did I know in the back they had like soccer and so they did host some events, but obviously this is just a basketball thing. Correct. I appreciate that you are in talking about if there is a time to add more that there is space.

Yep. And what I want to point out uh Miss Thompson as well, Mr. Thompson is that the MV Sports if you've been there previously that building was actually 46,000 square feet. So it was twice the size of this and you saw the parking at that old building and so it was kind of working for that building but it wasn't conducive. I think this is a much [clears throat] better space and use for parking. um when we're comparing this to what they used to have.

Luke, do we have any uh city regulations around using uh I'm going to say the bay area on the south side of that building for more parking because like it makes sense that you'd have those bays there if it was going to be industrial. Yep.

Um for for loading docks, but this isn't going to need a loading bay and could we just turn those? So, I'm just thinking about in the future when building two is built, um, then you're not encroaching on their space that you still you're basically in the same spot where loading trucks would be, but instead you just have cars all along the south side of that building. So, you would get another easily 20 spots, probably even more, and and be way ahead. Yeah. Yeah. There there's not an issue with turning that into parking. It's just, you know, it's a paved area. That's part of that. It's just a matter of on their side restriping it. We don't have any rules that said that you couldn't do that. Um

and and Mr. Stagger to answer your question as well, one thing I've thought about as well is I want to make sure we're keeping access points here between both buildings for any firet truck or any other usage of that ambulance, whatever it may be, because we still want to keep our flow. And so to your point, exactly like we could very easily get 20 in the future if we needed 25 parks space, some not 30 maybe more on that south um south portion there where we have the garage doors. You can kind of see we have them kind of shaded in as as use in front of the garage doors, but we could use almost that entire same space for more parking on the south side. And it'd be very easy to cut and we already have garage doors there. We could still cut a another door in as well or multiple doors in for access points.

Well, while you're cutting, just an idea. So, is there any regulations against putting a third driveway that would feed that center between those two buildings? Uh, we cannot do that. Uh, there's actually So, it's hard to tell from here, but right in the center of there, this this actually it slopes way down. So, we'd have to like build a literal like elevator ramp to go up. Okay.

Um, there's like a 15 foot drop from where that current space is to that road. That's also where all of our Transformers utilities are at as well. So, we actually built on purpose again where as we build phase 2 again, it kind of looks like a backwards E maybe kind of thing where you have access points as well. One thing I have already discussed, and this is getting a little ahead of ourselves, so I apologize, but uh we may actually widen the southern entry point. You can see they're both similar entry points. We may actually widen a little bit more just to create a little more of a flow of traffic if anybody does have bigger trucks. They want they can pull into the south as well there. Um but but the way this lot actually works, there's actually quite a bit of a buffer hill space there. And yeah, you'd have to basically pull your pull your car in and elevator it up to get through that center space.

No, I'm just trying to be creative because I love that you're bringing this. I think this is a great great use and I agree like more sports just it gets more exposure which is great. Um, but I also know I've been to many places like this and there's never enough artic. So, if I could help you be creative or or if we could help you with some variances in in the as far as like it's good to know from Luke that there's nothing prohibiting you from putting parking on the south side of that first building. Like load it up.

A few points that I want to make too as well is that like we could very easily look at this still and say, "Hey, let's look at this in a year." Like this is like let's give it a shot. Let's see what it looks like in a year as well. But also from the point of this is also down to the south in our walk. So, we're not infringing upon other neighbors. There's no one to our south. There's no one to our east and there's no one to our west right now as well. And so we very much have the option to it's kind of back to even the house we just talked about. We're not going to be infringing on anybody here. We're not having a lot there's no one traffic flow even wise working against us. Um I know um I believe WB is working on potentially proposal building to the north right now, but there is still a lot of opportunity down this whole area um for businesses and industrial usage. And again, we're not infringing upon any neighboring rights. One thing that we've had softball practice at that HD Sports and unless they've changed it since last I've been there like there was only like you pulled in and then when you got to HD Sports there was no way to get out other than like if all the parking spots were full you had to back out. Is that the same type of a

uh situation? Yeah. So I mean at the end of the day I'm going to make an assumption there are 10 doors facing that north side um and all them will have access points. So, I'm going to assume at some point you're going to pull in and you're going to take the first one that's available because you can walk in any of those doors. Um, so I got to assume at some point you're going to be able to pull into any one of those. And I do know there's 100% ability to back out of any of those park spaces very easily just because again, we built this to be literally box trucks and trucks as well. I mean, this was it was built with the intention of having a a truck and a trailer behind you potentially. Um, it's just when you when you go to HD Yep. and all those spots are full. You're like, "Well, I gotta drop my kid off and then Right." back it all up. Yeah. Carefully. Exactly.

Yeah. I do understand that. That's where we have That's another point we have that's really nice is we do have because we have the uh access point to the east there. And again, very easily whether we have parking or not um on the south side, we can still very easily pull you can still pull through the east and pull a U-turn. We got plenty of parking ratio there and just pull back out. I've done it hundreds of times. I check this building once if not twice a week when it's been for the last nine months give or take. So 18 times I guess um or whatever it's been. And I all the time drive through. I drive to the south that building. I do a U-turn on that parking that's all been concrete been built and I come back around. Um I do it all the time. And so there's still plenty of access points from that. Um, even if we did add parking to the future to the southside, there's still going to be plenty of access points because I think again, and I can't see it from here, Luke, but I we've got a quite a distance between building one and building two. I think we did 120 ft depth. Now, that's not all built yet, but I want to say we have 90 feet

from the in in between this spot. Yeah. So, I think we have 120 ft 120 feet between each building. Well, you've got 36 18 and 18. Okay. So more than that, but 72 ft. Okay. Yep. So yeah. So even if we were to use 18 feet of parking, we'd still have 36 feet. Yeah. As drive-through, the parking stalls aren't parking is normally about 20 uh feet deep. Yeah. So basically, if you drew a line at the back of all these areas they've identifi that's essentially what it take up. And then you'd have basically 34 foot wide of drive, which our standards for our parking lot is a 24 foot wide aisle so that you can have people back out everything. So there's plenty of space back there.

That's Yeah. So again, we built that, but thank you to the 34. I couldn't see those. But that's again, even with the 34 and the 18, there's still plenty of space to add parking in the back. And we're still going to have anybody a standard 20 foot one. We're going to have 20 or 32 feet of roundabout where we can even get two-way traffic again too. And again, I want to be as I'm the developer here. I'm being again selfish. I apologize. But I'm not thinking about this building. We still have phase two. Like I want to make sure this is working for phase two as well. So there's already been discussions. Again, not getting too far ahead of ourselves, but in talking to the tenant, they've already discussed we may have an opportunity to land a volleyball user to have volleyball and they would need essentially the second building for volleyball use, which at that point we'll actually need to build it a little higher because right now we currently have 18 foot clearance with 22 at the P peak. Um, but then at that point we may want to have volleyball use as well as basketball, which again I would love. Um, but we need to make sure we're cognizant of future as well. And I want to make sure we're keeping that flow for both buildings, not just a single use now. Again, and happy to answer any more questions. I'm just talking what's what we're doing in the background and tell me to shut if you want sit down.

Um, any other questions or deliberation from the commission? I don't know what you need from us, Luke, since it's worded as consideration of a resolution. Yep. So, um, we need a motion for you guys to recommend the waiver to council. Okay.

And then there's technically three findings for the code that you you need to have as part of that um recommendation. So, I'll read those and then if you want to just say I motion to recommend with those findings. Um but the first finding is that the waiver or modification does not adversely affect the intent of the zoning regulations to adequately safeguard the general public and surrounding property. Uh the second one is that there special circumstances that warrant a change and thirdly that the waiver is determined to be in the best interest of the general public. So motion to recommend to the council with the three findings as articulated by uh Mr. Paris um that's my motion.

Perfect.

Second. Are we ready for a motion? like we've closed our hearing and all that. Well, I mean, yeah, no public hearing, but if there's more deliberation, we can certainly do that. Just wanted to make sure we didn't go out of order. I was like, we deliver more deliberation, but I feel like we had a lot of discussion. Yeah. There's anything else you guys want to talk on? Otherwise, I would accept a second to Brent's motion. I'll second of it. Hillary, would you call the role, please? Thompson. Hi. Stiger. Hi. Samuelson still here. I think he might have left.

Uh, Eden. Hi, Henders. Hi, Reganator. Hi. Thanks everyone. All right. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Come visit us and use the space. George, any update for us tonight? Uh, no. You guys are doing a great job. So, I've been I haven't really never had much input here. So, but that's good. That's a good thing, actually. Usually Luke has the all the stuff I forget about council, but uh but my time is near. Uh I think I got one more and I I get I get booted to uh to parks and wreck, I think, is what the deal is. And you'll have I believe Andrew,

I believe that's right. Andrew. Okay. uh one of our new council members. One of the new council members. Yeah, that'll be good to get him. We have one more meeting. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. But, uh we're not going to get Councilman Brown back. [laughter] Oh, you have. I bet he's more entertaining than I am. [laughter] So, well, um if um for whatever reason you're we either don't have or you're not at the next meeting, George, it's been a pleasure having us. Thank you for Well, it's been a pleasure here. It's really It's like homework for council because most of our council is this. Yeah. So, I just sit here and listen. So, uh we go from there. So, it's it's prep for council. It's great.

Yeah. So, I I And uh but no, you guys do a great job. So, and yeah. Um I I'll be here though. I don't think Holly has joined us on this. He is on the Zoom. Perfect. Um, yeah. Holly, what update do you have for us tonight?

Hi, sure. I won't bore you guys with a super long update tonight, but just a couple things to point out. The True by Hilton Hotel is planning to open on Wednesday. I think they have a few kind of minor things are finishing up, but they plan to do their soft opening and then um would really love to have everybody go out there, take a tour after they're open, check things out, and then just please remember, you know, all of our new businesses. We've had so many new businesses in this last year, especially restaurants and two hotels, um several service businesses and retailers. So, please remember to um you know, go buy things from them, eat there, stay at their hotel. Even if it's just to check them out. If you have family coming in town for the holidays, what a great you know, excuse you could just be like, "Hey, we want you to try this new hotel out to support us." Um, so just remember them especially during the winter months in the Norwok Central area as the tournaments and all that really heavy traffic kind of slows down um to give them a little bit of extra love through those months. And then um our data center project, the big the big monster we've been working on for a long time. That's still going really well just pending the uh annexation delays, but hopefully in the next couple of weeks we'll have some better um deadlines and information for you guys on that where it's going. And then we're just finishing up our annual report that we'll get out to you guys as soon as we can here in the next two weeks that will give a really good overview and highlight of everything that's happened in 2025 and then the current projects that are underway and where what the status is of of all of those. But please at any time feel free to reach out um if you have questions about anything we're working on or things you've heard of. Always happy to meet and talk and yeah and thank you all for everything that you've done this year. You've all done a wonderful job. Great. Thank you, Holly. And same to you for all the amazing things that you have brought to this community. It's hard to imagine all the things that got added this year.

It's been busy. Yes. Thank you very much. Um Luke, uh what update do you have for us tonight?

Um just, uh permit-wise, uh community growth wise, we're at 22 permits in November. So that puts us right on track uh to have an average year of kind of our average year. So that's good. Especially we had a little bit slow start of the year and through the summer months. So it's picked up a little bit more um this fall, especially with town home development. Um so getting those projects through was good for our residential growth. Um councilwise, uh council did, uh approve, um the first reading of the gates and barriers. Had a good discussion on that. Um and uh not as uh relevant for you guys as far as things that uh co code stuff that you approve, but we are currently working on subdivision regulations that are related to street design. So you all obviously approve every prelim plat that comes through. Um the next step after a prelim plat is the construction documents that show how things are actually designed. And so that's where our street design standards come in. And so we're having uh discussions at council that I think they approved the second reading of where we're going to land on some street design standards. Want to make sure that we have good quality streets. Um and obviously that costs more. So then who covers that cost? And that's a pretty big discussion going on at council. Um, but you know, doesn't impact you guys a whole lot other than uh maybe it'll impact at some point the amount of prelims we see. I don't think it will, but um yeah.

Um our next meeting is scheduled for December 22nd at 5:45 p.m. And at this time, I would entertain a motion and a second to adjurnn. your motion. All in favor say I. I. I. We are adjourned at 6:25 p.m. Thank you everyone. Thank you.