City Planning Commission - workshop

Okay. Well, with that, then, let's call our meeting to order. And Solange, if you could do our roll call, please. Commissioner Ciccio?

Here. Commissioner Didiano? Here. Chair Hensler? Here. Commissioner Robbins?

Here.

Commissioner Clements?

Here.

Commissioner Willoughby? Here. Commissioner Case.

Here.

Commissioner Engel.

Here.

Commissioner Egbert.

Here.

Thank you. We have nine members present.

And if the person with the phone number ending in 0073 could please identify themselves.

How about the other one?

That's great. Okay.

Well, we'll just get going.

Okay. All right. Looks like we have some changes and postponements to the agenda. Kevin, I don't know if that's you or if that's Allison and Johnny.

Well, it's just we'll hear these in October on the agenda. We decided to pull them off for for different reasons for both of them, but we'll be back to them quickly next month.

Okay. Sounds good. Sorry, I'm working on this tiny screen. Okay. So communications. I had a couple of things. One, I wanted to, well, maybe this is a question and maybe this comes later, but I think we've put in the agenda discussion of our quote unquote annual meeting, which is in our rules for June. We have punted that to the fall for a variety of reasons. So I'll save discussion around chair nominations and other nominations to the end. But we will talk about that in this meeting. And then I wanted to ask Trevor from the last meeting, Amanda Gugiano, Commissioner Gugiano joined a little bit late. Well, She joined earlier, but we didn't recognize her until a little bit late. Do you think that has any bearing on her voting on the minutes in their entirety, or would you prefer that she vote only on items that we pulled them out that she was quote-unquote present for? I just want to be clear on that before we move into minutes at the formal meeting, provided that we'll have minutes next week, and that might be a question for staff.

Yeah, so... If Commissioner Giano would like to familiarize herself with that first part of the meeting, the portion she missed, then she can vote on the entire set of minutes. If she's not, if she cannot do so for whatever reason, then she should abstain from voting on that section, just on the minutes as a whole, since she cannot speak to them as a whole.

Okay. Amanda, do you think, oh, go ahead. Staff does have minutes ready. Steph does have minutes ready. I love it. So Amanda, if you can read through the, and I think you might've been on the whole time. We just didn't realize you were on. So if you feel comfortable reading through the minutes and being able to vote on it in its entirety, that would be easier from a procedural standpoint. I just didn't want to get to next week and have some sort of snafu that we weren't prepared for. Yes, I can do that. Okay, great. And then my other question on minutes is when, And maybe I missed them in here because I'm, you know, kind of half paying attention being on the road. But did we have minutes from? So we'll have minutes from last month. Will we have minutes from the special meeting for Project Taurus?

Yes, they'll be on the agenda packet that's going to go out this afternoon. We do have to send that out today by end of business due to the furlough tomorrow and Monday. So you guys will receive all of the entire the packet in its entirety at end of business today.

Okay, and that'll be minutes from our regular July meeting, our special meeting.

i'm sorry our special meeting in our august meeting remind me what minutes we're getting that's correct august meeting special meeting and possibly on the work session too so you'll have two sets three sets of meetings or three sets of minutes to do work session i guess regular meeting from august in the special meeting we most likely won't be able to get the minutes done for today in time especially due to the technical error which we can always approve uh next month and our ask from staff is that when you all receive the minutes from the special meeting please give us any edits that you may have as soon as humanly possible because we, in order for us to, you know, we would like to have approved minutes for the city council meeting on the 17th. Yes. So if there's edits that need to be made, we will have very, very limited time. Like, I don't even know when we'll be able to do it, quite honestly, because of the holiday. So we have to have them by 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Okay. Okay. Okay. So I will just impress upon commissioners to really take some time to read through and look at, I mean, I like to try to look at like, what did I say? And does that sound right? And then I look at kind of the comments before and after so I can remember the context because it's hard to remember the whole meeting sometimes. But I know with the switch to some newer technology in making and creating those minutes, I think we had some earlier meetings that things felt a little wonky or things weren't captured correctly. So please try to read through those to the extent possible before next week so that we can get those approved for council. Um, because as commissioner angle said to me recently, it would be really cruel of us to ask city council to just watch 14 hours of our hearing, but, uh, hopefully they can surmise from our meeting minutes.

So just an additional ask is that if you do have edits to be made, please make sure you send them to Solange and me CC me. Um, cause I can be working on those, um, also.

Okay. Great. I think those were the only things that I had. I don't have anything else in my notes at least. So Kevin, I'll turn it over to you.

Just a couple of items to update you on. First, tomorrow is a furlough day for the city. So if you have questions and you call us, we will not be here to answer. And we have Monday off as a holiday. So just as you mentioned, work your way through all of this stuff. We'll have a little bit of delay in terms of comments or questions. The data center project Taurus is on scheduled for planning or a city council hearing on September 17th. And that's going to be held at the Pikes Peak Center and similar kind of set up in terms of stage and all those kinds of things that you guys endured. And to the extent that we can, like we, like we said, we're going to try to get these minutes to you so that city council will have an official record, um, so that we can have them approved and use them as an official record for next for that hearing. Um, do we do have another, uh, large load user that is not, uh, according to their definition, a data center, um, but it's down in the vineyards, um, two buildings, 200,000 square feet. It's basically a chip testing center that operates similarly to that, but a very large load. I don't know exactly what their load is, but it's significant above the 10 megawatt number, more approaching the 100 or 150 megawatt user. And we're in the midst of doing an approval for that, development plan approval, similar to the Taurus setting or it's similar to the tourist situation. It's a zoned piece of property. This is a development plan though for new buildings and so it's a little bit more significant and has a little bit more moving pieces to it. But we're hoping to have that approved here probably in the next week to two weeks or rules on. Now let's say we don't want to presuppose approval, but they're doing a sound study and all the other sorts of drills that we put the other large load users through. we have in front of you the city planning dashboard. This is the 2025 version. So Paige passed them out this morning. I don't know if she's still here. Yes, she is. She's done a lot of work on this. There's a lot of data in here. This will also accompany a monthly updated kind of dashboard, which will be not as significant as this, but easier, kind of more of a one-page brief that we will have uh basically in your packets we hope everyone is that something that can be emailed out to those of us that weren't able to be there in person yeah and they're on our there this one's already on our website so we'll email them to you um so that you have them okay perfect thanks questions or things like that uh it does give you a sense of the number of items that come through our office and how many how many are being reviewed at any one time PROVED AND ET CETERA. SO ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, WE'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER. WE HEARD SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THE MINUTES. I DON'T KNOW, HOW MANY PAGES ARE THOSE MINUTES, SOLANGE? A LOT OF PAGES. 50. YEAH, SO THAT'S A LOT. YEAH.

And again, my recommendation is, or what's been helpful for me at least is to find, go to the commissioner commentary and really look at, does that sound accurate for our discussion? Certainly the accuracy of the presentations that we hear is, is important, but I, I think I always look at, at our commissioner discussions as I try to make sense of like, is that what I remember we talked about or how it was, how it was stated. And I don't know if anyone else has recommendations, but. But good luck. You're having trouble sleeping.

Let's see. A couple of updates on our special projects. We've got the NXCOS, which you guys adopted in August, which was presented and given to City Council. I've had two sets of comments come back from City Council. We're working on updating that and look forward to a scheduled some sort of scheduling with city council at some point in the future but for now that's being held in advance and we will continue to work our way through some of those questions the housing action plan is also sort of not not our project but one that's of some interest i think to probably all of you um that is uh that we have planning commission representation on that committee They are working their way through lots and lots of information and data. Talked yesterday about what the schedule might be for them finalizing that, but they've got a lot of work to do, so I don't expect it until at least the end of the year, possibly into the first or second quarter of next year. We also are working on UDC updates. As you all know, some of you, we see some of those come through on a item by item basis. Those are kind of the phase two ones. Phase one is mostly completed and is, I know Trevor's works on trying to recodify that whole section and 400 pages of recodification is not something that's very easily done, but we will continue to work on that. And we had some comprehensive plan efforts that we are statutorily required to do some kind of effort on those are on growth and on water. So they're supposed to have two comprehensive plan sections be reviewed by the end of the year. We're not going to make that deadline. And so we'll probably be into about the time next year before we have some kind of effort to bring before you all to add to the comprehensive plan. But we're doing a lot of background work on that stuff. And as you know, utilities does extensive planning in the water version, and we're trying to figure out how to integrate that into the state legislature's efforts. And so we'll continue to operate on that. But those are the kinds of things that we're working on from that. And that's about all I've got.

Okay. Okay. And Kevin, I know that we've had conversation both at the hearing for Project Taurus and maybe a little bit continuing sense of future code, research around code and changes and updates around data centers specifically. I know we're kind of punting any of that conversation from this body at this point, but can you give just any general comments for Commissioner's sake on how you see that moving forward in the future?

Yeah, we've done a fair amount of research on what's going on in the country, and I don't, I mean, I think the issues are probably relatively understood at this point, at least the broad categories of those, and they would include some effort around creating a definition for data centers, which I think might help the code a little bit, and then maybe some, maybe consider some additional requirements and i think there's some uh sense that we maybe need to update our noise portion of the code which is not our section of some other section of the code so we have we have uh kind of completed the research um now we're waiting trying to figure out exactly what our political leadership wants to do with that question especially considering that we have an election coming up in april and trying to figure out kind of where that stands so More to come on that, but like I said, we think we've got a pretty good handle on what the issues are. And now it's a question of establishing a process of some sort that we can get some public input.

The mayor released some data center related standards that I don't believe are binding to this body, but

will we be able to discuss those prior to the next data center-ish hearing sure yeah we can maybe we put that we maybe can put those on our next informal or our next work session meeting depending on the status of these my expectation is that whatever we do on the development plan that's before us today whether we approve it or not approve it that we will be in a an appeal mode which will potentially create another special meeting for you all, or it might be at a regular meeting. I'm not sure. Just depends on the timing of appeals and those sorts of things.

Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate that update. Okay. If nothing else, let's move into consent calendar. Cherokee Metro District water tank. We love water tanks. Austin Cooper.

Is Austin there?

Austin is out today. I just received notice that he is out of the office today. I could be more than happy. This is Alex Painter, planning supervisor. Solange, could you possibly pull up the PowerPoint for Austin? Thanks, Alex. Yes, this is a zone 25-0017, the good old Cherokee Metro District water tank rezone. Go ahead and head over to the next slide, Solange.

This is located at 5325 off Mark Dabbling Boulevard.

The water tank that is next door is a 5 million gallon water tank.

Alex, hang on. This is up in the map you're looking at right there has Mark Sheffield. on the left and that's Tamlin. That's the angle, the angled road that comes off of there. So for orientation there was an annexation and a rezoning for a school site just a little bit off the map just to the east of. Actually, I think it is kind of on that map. Anyway, it's on that. It's in that area of Mark Sheffield. So I'm sorry, go ahead, Alex.

Thank you Sir. And so the site is currently zoned. Multifamily R5 CR with condition of records with the airport overlay. It's a multifamily high with a condition of records again with the airport overlay being offered to looks like it's being proposed to single family. Wait. No, no, that's not correct. No, it's being rezoned to public facilities with the airport overlay. The reason for this rezone is to, as I was initially trying to say, was to accompany the 5 million gallon water tank directly to the west. And they would be building a 3 million gallon water tank on the proposed site. Reason being is for when they have to do maintenance, they can properly remove certain water amounts to provide treatment to this facility. And then again, that would just be a long-term use for both facilities. But again, this is something they're looking for consent. From what I'm aware of, there is no public comment or concerns. And I think that's really all we really have on this one. I know there's much more in the staff report. And Austin, if we need to pull this from consent and you need some more information come Tuesday, we're more than happy to do that.

Okay. Does anyone have any questions for Alex that he may or may not be able to answer?

So, Lange, we appear to maybe have lost video of you all, or maybe it's just me?

No, we've been experiencing some major issues with this camera here in this room that we've reported to facilities and IT, so I think the camera is just not going to work any longer. But can you see the teams or the PowerPoint?

Yeah, I can see the PowerPoint. It just can't see you all, so that's okay. We can continue on. on audio only. Yeah, does anyone have any questions or any desire to hear this item separately next week? Okay, all right, then let's move on to our next item on consent, which is the Creek Bend Zone Amendment.

that is also austin so maybe that's also you alex that is correct chair yes ma'am okay uh oh there we go can yep you got it pulled up perfect so yes this is uh the creek bend uh zone map amendment that would be accompanied with a land use plan this is gonna they're asking for a rezone from business park with streamside airport overlay to a mixed-use neighbors neighborhood scale and streamside airport overlay The purpose of this is to work with Habitat for Humanity. We are in talks with them of working with a development plan, but they're trying to apply for true affordable housing for this site. Again, we have not had any comments or concerns related to this project. If anything, it's really well and favored. It does... Yeah, we do got some commercial and industrial kind of surrounding it. We got some residential to the east and the southeast, but we feel that this looks to be on par with code, our comprehensive plan, and does meet the criteria as of right now. So as far as the zone change and the land use plan, it is in compliance and we see it being on consent without any issues.

Okay.

Questions from commissioners?

Commissioner Robbins here. Is this a vacant lot that you guys are working on?

That is correct. Yes, Commissioner.

Great. Thank you. Yes, sir. Commissioner Engel, question. Where is the entrance to the property from?

Great question. The entrance will be along, if I'm looking at this correctly, we're going to have one along the east portion and as well as the west portion. So we're going to have one, I believe coming off of Southbury along the northwest portion of it, as long as the, and actually looking at this, it would just be a one access point as of right now. But again, we are in talks with the developers as far as working with access points and other portions with the development, but right now it's the northwest is the main access.

Commissioner Engel again, what is the number of dwelling units you're going to put into that area?

It's looking to be around 64. And these will be attached and detached single family or single units, single dwelling units. Okay, any other questions? Okay. All right, I think.

Oh, no. Oh, so then now we have the zone amendment, then we have the land use plan. Do you want to talk more about the land use plan, Alex, or do you feel like you covered?

I feel like I covered a pretty decent amount. We've worked with them through the land use plan with the developers. Austin put in quite a bit of work. Chris Sullivan was working on this before as well. Landscaping, we're not seeing much of an issue with. Right now, our... or our main target with the developers is just really kind of working on public access and public or pedestrian connectivity. But as far as landscaping, streamside overlay, we don't have any concerns around there. I think everything, for the most part, is looking pretty good. Again, if this is something that we would like to talk about more on Tuesday, I'd also be more than happy to. But we, again, did not run into any issues with the rezone itself or the land use plan. It's the development plan that we're just trying to work out a few nooks and crannies with.

Okay. Do any other commissioners have questions or have any interest in hearing this item? I mean, it seems pretty straightforward and a good potential use of that land as presented, but I just want to make sure we, if we know that we need more information from Austin, that we'd let him know now or soon as possible. Okay. Hearing none in the moment. Alex, thank you. Appreciate you jumping in and being the pinch hitter, whatever the term is, for Austin. And hopefully he's feeling better and back soon.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay. Moving into new business, Wagner Equipment. Allison, I'm pretty sure I saw you in the back of the room on the camera earlier.

In the front of the room on the camera.

Oh, okay. Well, now we can't see you all, so I have no idea where anyone is, but that's okay.

So this is the Wagner Equipment Zone Change and Land Use Plan Application Package. This is for approximately 23 acres southeast of Clatt and Woon intersection. Currently the property is split zoned. It contains a mixture of business park and light industrial. Solange, can we go to the next? of Business Park and Light Industrial. There's a number of overlays on the site, including the airport overlay, the accident prevention zone one and two, as well as a small sliver of stream site. I know everyone online can't see what I'm doing, but kind of that way. So there's a tiny bit of stream site on the property. The proposal for what is prompting the zone change is to allow for heavy vehicle sales rental and repair. So none of those uses are allowed in the business park. However, they are allowed in the LI, which is the zone that the applicants are requesting from commission and from city council. You can probably see on this map that, actually not, but this is a part of a larger parcel. So the park body line actually goes down all the way over here as well. So they're only looking to just do that northern portion at this time, because they are not sure what they'd like to use as southern portion of the property. So they're waiting to do any kind of adjustments to zoning or lead use till later times when that is more known. There was no public comments on the application. I didn't see any, most of the commentary from our review, different reviewers. was about kind of things that would come at time of development plan, more informational comments. And really there were not any broader concerns from planning as well because light industrial would be relatively consistent for this area. Are there any questions or we can talk more about it next week?

My only question is, what caused this one to be on our new business and not on consent, given kind of how straightforward it is and how we looked at some of the others this morning?

I think the rationale was that these were uses that were restricted previously. And it just gives everybody the opportunity to say, you know, that we did look at them with some diligence and decided that conditions have changed. And so I think it wasn't as, it's not really as straightforward as that because of the old conditions.

Yeah. And that makes sense. Thank you.

I should have mentioned there are some conditions of record that pertain to vehicle type uses. So that's kind of elaborated on more in this stuff.

Yeah. I'm looking at that. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Does anyone else have any questions? Okay. Oops. Where did my... Sorry, I have too many windows open. Lowell Zone Map Amendment. Bill Gray.

Bill Gray, City Planner for the Urban Division. So this application is Lowell Commons. It's a zone and also a land use plan. We're located at 202, 251, and 252 East Los Animas Street. So we're at the intersection of Nevada and Los Animas. And on the west side and on the east side, the intersection is Los Animas and Weber Street. The property is currently zoned The PDZ was approved by the city in 1999. It allowed for, I'll say a kind of a traditional designed neighborhood, the Lowell neighborhood. It set density at 15 dwelling units an acre. Originally building height was 55 feet. It was amended in 2001 to increase that to 60 feet. and it allowed residential, commercial, and civic uses on the building, and has been building out or redeveloping over the past quarter century. The site size is 1.20 acres. This rezoning is supported by a land use application. Okay, next slide, Sloan. In terms of adjacent and surrounding land uses and also other characteristics of this neighborhood from a land use standpoint, you can see it is a mix of uses from commercial, residential, civic. It's adjacent to the police operations center, the headquarters of city police. Across the street is a mixed use residential commercial uh, development, um, on the east west side of the street are, um, um, uh, let's see, I would just say re reutilized, uh, single family, um, residents that have been converted to office and are part of the form-based code. It's also on a primary arterial in the city, which is, um, Nevada is served by, uh, transit routes and bus stops. It's also, um, near bike routes and pedestrian pathways. So it is in a very kind of urban setting, which was the kind of intent of the Lowell neighborhood.

So next slide.

All right. And I guess a couple more photographs of context just to kind of show you the building, the variety of building sizes that exist in the Lowell neighborhood. So next slide. All right. So this new PV, which is on 1.20 acres, slots two, three, and four of the Poet's Loft, is intended to support affordable housing in the downtown. It's kind of the main impetus of the project. And the other aspect of it was kind of to continue the urban walkable mixed use vision of the original rural neighborhood. So in order to achieve the kind of affordable housing goals of this application, the applicant would need to exceed or the PZ would need to exceed the dwelling units per acre. And so they have the proposed PDV is for, I hate to say this sometimes, it's for a maximum density of 184 dwelling units per acre. So that sounds like a lot. A max number of residential units on this site would be approximately 250. They are also including commercial that would be at the ground floor. Maximum building height would be 65 feet. They're including off-street parking standards. And they're also subjecting themselves to continued review and compliance with the Lowell urban design standards. So when the Lowell neighborhood was approved in 1999 with the city, there was a set of urban design architectural standards that went along with that. And this project would continue to follow those guidelines. This application was submitted in 24. It was kind of held, I guess, maybe in abeyance while the owner and city's urban renewal developed the Lowell Bristol, yeah, the Bristol Lowell Urban Renewal Area Plan. There was a neighborhood meeting that was held last fall that was pretty well defended. And we've also had, I guess a good amount of public comment as it relates to these applicants, both from those that participated in the neighborhood meeting and also the written comments. We have had both support and opposition of this application. The support is mainly that for many that they feel that this project is a good example or will be a good example of continuing the original Lowell neighborhood vision and it's kind of mixed use ideas plus the project being put in place to benefit or provide affordable housing. So meet that housing need of the community Opposition, I will just not to water down, but it's very standard to what we would see with any housing development. The buildings are too tall. There's too many people that are going to live there. There's not enough parking and there's too much track.

Are those coming from the adjacent properties?

Let's say, yeah, here. And yeah, they're coming from the neighborhood. would say the majority of the opposition comments are coming from those that are, they own, they operate a business or they live in the Lowell neighborhood. So I think with all of the things going on with this application being kind of a significant change in terms of at least density, the density number, THE PUBLIC COMMENT RECEIVED, WE'RE REQUESTING THIS APPLICATION BE ON NEW BUSINESS NEXT WEEK.

NEW SPEAKER ROBBINS HERE. I SEE THAT AS QUITE AN UNDERTAKING. OF COURSE I REMEMBER I'VE SEEN THAT CHANGE OVER THE YEARS. BUT WHAT ABOUT PARKING SCENARIOS? I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN HIT WITH THAT A LOT. WITH THAT HUGE INCREASE OF RESIDENTIAL UNITS, WHAT DO YOU WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR PARKING? IS IT ALL GOING TO BE ON STREETS? STRUCTURED PARKING. WITH WEBER STREET BEING THE MAIN ENTRANCE AND EXIT FOR THAT?

IT WILL BE INTERNAL. LOS ANIMAS STREET WILL SERVE AS THE ACCESS POINT TO DIRECT ACCESS TO ANY FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.

I was just going to say, I think these are great questions probably for next week. Bill, do you have a robust presentation from the applicant that will go into some of that?

Yeah, John Wilson, representing the applicant, will have a robust application. And I'm sure that it will address all of those.

Yeah, I mean... And Commissioner Robbins, I appreciate the questions and I think those are great. I think maybe we just, what are the things we want to hear about and then make sure we get those from the applicant next week. So obviously parking and access is a big one that folks will want to hear about. Are there any other big topics we want to make sure that they're prepared for?

No, there's other stuff, but we'll wait till next week. That's not a problem.

Yeah.

A big topic, but just a piece of curiosity. It's a shame that whomever handed the large mural on the back of the building is going to lose that visibility. I hope that other murals have a look at that artist for the opportunity to feature their work.

I might point out that that's probably not in the criteria.

Good point, but good point on both sides. I agree. I think it's a cool mural. Anything else for Bill?

Oh, sorry, go ahead. Ms. Chair, Ryan Tiefertiller. I just thought I'd just add real quick two minor points that I'm not sure Bill mentioned. One is this is not a development plan. A future development plan would be necessary to develop the site. This is just a zone change in the land use statement. So it's very conceptual. And the other thing to note is you'll see in Bill Staff Report, there are a number of proposed conditions of approval on both applications that we're asking for some additional changes or restrictions to the proposed application in order to gain compliance with the review criteria. So I'd ask the commissioners look closely at those conditions of approval to fully understand how the submittal that's in the packet really should be modified a little bit in order to comply with criteria and standards.

Thanks, Ryan. That is a really good recommendation as I'm scrolling through this, right, that this is the land use plan and not development plan, so.

Land use statement.

Or land use statement, yes, sorry.

We allowed them to move forward with the land use statement because the property is under 10 acres, so the code does allow us to. And much of what they depict in their land use statement is something that would be illustrated on a land use plan. So there's some similarities.

Do commissioners have understanding on that or any questions kind of as you read through this for next week?

I am confused by the terminology to modify the submittal. Could you clarify that?

So the application, the land use statement includes an additional use and additional incentives for building height. And the recommendation that you'll see, the findings that you'll see, and sorry, that you'll see in your staff report will include conditions to address those two items. I see. Okay. Thank you. The purpose of those conditions, one is to ensure from staff's point of view that the zoning complies with the criteria that's applied and also that the original vision of the Lowell neighborhood is not negatively impacted as a result of this new project. At least from staff's point of view.

Okay. That's helpful.

Okay. Any other questions?

Thanks, Commissioner.

Thanks, Bill.

I still can't see you all, which is really sad. But maybe when you stop sharing, maybe we'll come back. I don't know. Okay, our next item on the agenda is the annual meeting and appointments. And I know we've talked about this a couple times, kind of moving the annual meeting from earlier in the year. And I do have a request in, I guess, kind of via Trevor and city legislative staff of making that change in our rules. Is that what they're called?

We changed that with the last iteration. So June is the default, but it gives us

leeway to make it whenever we need to make it so okay well and I think my recommendation is that we just move it to September every year or something because we don't get new commissioners usually until July starting in August and then I think it makes it challenging but all that being said doesn't really matter we're going to do it on September and so the discussion that I wanted to have today was around appointments for um chair vice chair and a couple of committee appointments um that are required by our body. So I am going to propose a slate and then open up any discussion around other recommendations or nominations. But I think through discussion with some commissioners and with Kevin and Dan, it's justified to be able to propose a slate. So in that sense, Proposing that I remain as chair for the coming, quote, year. Recommendation to nominate Ryan Case as vice chair. And then to, since I've currently been on the downtown review board as the liaison from planning commission, not as a citizen, to recommend Jennifer Cecil step into office. the DRB, the Downtown Review Board slot, and also keep her role continuing as the DRE, I'm sorry, Development Review Enterprise representative, of which Shiva also sits, but as an industry representative. And then we currently have, which I don't think, those all need council approval. Sorry, Downtown Review Board and Development Review Enterprise for Jen both need council approval. And then Rich Angle has been sitting on the UDC scrub committee, which does not need council recommendation or approval. But in the entirety, myself as chair, Ryan as vice chair, Jen as DRB and DRE. would be the slate that I would ask that we put forth for discussion today as well as next week, and then a vote in our formal meeting next week for those positions. That being said, if there are others who would like to make a nomination or open that up for discussion, please let's do that. Or just discussion in general.

I think this is Commissioner Robbins. I think what you have proposed is very appropriate and it'll work well with all of them. It fits the bill, so I'm happy with it.

Okay. Thank you, sir.

Any other discussions?

Thoughts?

No?

Okay.

So I think next week I will seek a Well, I'm sure this will show up in our agenda somehow. Solange and Melissa will figure that out and and we'll seek a motion probably from someone other than myself and Ryan or Jen in the roles that she would be taking on. So be prepared for that. And we can have discussion on the dais as well. But I don't know that it constitutes needs much, but by all means, we can do that. Trevor, do you have any other comments on the process that we need to be aware of?

No, not this time. You've laid it out well. We'll just have a vote and discussion on your selections, and that's about it.

Just save a moment for next week. Do any of the newer commissioners have questions about the two board appointments, what those boards do? Or is everybody familiar with Downtown Review Board Commission? the Design Review Enterprise Advisory Committee. All good? Good enough? Okay. Just wanted to make sure.

I'll just offer, if anyone has questions or wants more information about the Downtown Review Board in particular, I'm happy to chat. And also just make sure everyone understands that appointment to that board, as well as the other one, does require council action. And that'll go through. Right.

Which she has been bugging me to get done by October. So we are going to get in right under the wire. To that end, I did also ask Dan and Kevin if if there are other committees or commissions within the city that it would be appropriate or necessary to have a down city planning commission liaison too. And Kevin, I don't know if you have any information that you want to share about that or if there are any others, I think you and Dan were going to maybe talk about that.

Well, I talked about a couple of them that are not in the formation stage at the moment, but are working.

And remind me what those were. I didn't write it down. So.

Water and strategic growth in the comprehensive plan and data center updates to the code. Right. Yeah, as we get those closer to a point where we've got some sort of structure and process, I will make sure that you all have a role somewhere and we can talk about them at subsequent meetings.

Perfect.

Nothing pressing at the moment.

And I just, I wanted to bring that up for commissioners because I do think that while we have, or have Kevin bring that up, I guess, while we have specific boards that we need to have a liaison, like the DRB and the DRE, there are many other ways to engage in other committees or commissions or efforts that are underway. And I think that that only helps us one bridge information between different things that are going on. I know in the past, like Andrea served on the annex COS committee, which was not a, a council approved nomination or role, right. But with something that she and Colby, um, Foose when he was on were part of, I just think that it helps us, um, learn about those. And I think that it helps those committees have some connection with our body. So as they come available, I would just encourage you to think about it and think about other ways to maybe get involved in, um, in the city and in other commissions. So, um, I think that is it. Kevin, did you have anything else about our annual meeting or any of the appointments that we should be aware of?

No, we'll put them on the agenda first at your formal meeting so that we can get that stuff out of the way. But no, I don't have any other further comment.

Okay. Any other questions or comments from commissioners about anything before we adjourn?

Okay. Well, that seems... Oh, go ahead.

See you at the Balloon Glow.

Oh, right.

Maybe.

So happy Balloon Glow. Happy Labor Day. Happy furlough to our staff. Enjoy your long weekend.

And we'll see you all next week.