Remarks by Robert Harrington
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Is there a second? Second. Any discussion? All in favor, please raise your hand. Any opposed? All right. We are going into closed session. Thank you so much.
We'll call to meeting the June 19th, 2026 meeting of Charlotte City Council. And we will start with welcome to all of you. Welcome to folks who are here in chambers and folks who are joining us online. And then we'll move to introductions. And we'll start over here to my left, audience's right, with Councilmember Masuera-Arias.
Thank you all, and we will begin our meeting with an invocation, expressions of inspiration, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. The invocation by Councilmember is intended to solemnize our proceedings. We celebrate the religious diversity of our community, including those without a religious faith. Tonight, Councilmember Graham will give our invocation. Councilmember Graham.
Please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Before we get started, I wanted to... note an unfortunate incident involving one of our sister cities, just for tonight, just to have them in our hearts. Our French sister city, Limoges, suffered a fire over the weekend, destroying its historic city hall completely. We acknowledge this loss and share best wishes for the strength and perseverance of the leaders and people of Limoges in this time of recovery and restoration. Thank you, and now we will continue with the zoning process. The rezoning process begins with applications submitted to planning staff for review. There are two types of…
Thank you, Chair Wilton. That takes us to deferrals and withdrawals. Looking at the agenda, are there any deferrals or withdrawings on the agenda? And I'll turn it over to planning staff, Holly Kramer, who will read through the list of requested deferrals and withdrawals, if any.
Thank you. So we have three items with requests to defer and one item, item 9. The request to withdraw, is there a motion to defer or withdraw those petitions?
Is there any discussion? All in favor of permitting withdrawal and deferral of those petitions, please raise your hand. Any opposed, please raise your hand. That passes and those are withdrawn in one case and deferred in the other cases. All right, that takes us to the consent agenda, to decisions and the consent agenda. Rezoning petition rezoning petitions items number three through number eight of the consent agenda may be considered in one motion except for those items pulled by a council member please note that these petitions meet the following criteria number one they had no public…
Are there any other consent items that council members would like to pull? May I have a motion to approve the following petitions which are. Items number three, four, five, six, and eight that are in the consent agenda will exclude item seven and to adopt the zoning committee statement of consistency for each of these petitions as they appear in our agendas and as the council's own.
Are there any discussion? All right, all in favor, please raise your hand. Any opposed? All right, the motion passes and the consent items except for number seven passed. And now may I have a motion to approve the item that is number seven and to adopt the zoning committee statement of consistency for this petition as it appears in our agenda and on the screen as the council's own. Is there a motion?
Okay, discussion and I'll turn it over to Council Member Mayo.
Thank you, Council Member Mayo. Council Member Esmir.
Thank you, Council Member Owens. Is there any other council member who would like to be heard on this or have questions? All right, hearing no further discussion, there has been a motion and a second in discussion to adopt the zoning committee's statement of consistency for item number seven, which is petition 2026-041 by Owl Services, and adopt the zoning committee's statement of consistency for this petition as it appears in our agendas and on the screen as the council's own. All in favor, please raise your hand. Any opposed? It passes unanimously. That takes us to public hearings. And from…
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Thank you. Council member Mayo council member Mayfield and Owens.
Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Mayfield. Council Member Owens.
Thank you, Council Member Owens. Council Member Esmeralda.
Thank you, Council Member Jamiro. Council Member Drakes.
Thank you, Council Member Driggs. Are there any other council members who'd like to be heard or have questions on item number 13? Okay, do I have a motion to close the public hearing on item number 13? So moved. Is there a second? Any further discussion? All in favor, please raise your hand. Any opposed? All right, public hearing on item 13 is closed.
All right, that takes us to item number 14, petition 2026-034 by Sam's Mart LLC is approximately 7.6 acres located west of I-485, north of Windtree Lane and south of Robinwood Drive, outside of city limits, but closest to Council Member Masuera Arias' district. The site is currently zoned neighborhood 1-A, and the proposed zoning is manufacturing and logistics 1, conditional. Staff does not recommend approval of this petition. The petitioner team will have 10 minutes to speak following collectively, to speak following the staff's presentation. Any opposition will have collectively 10 minutes…
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