Alright. We are going to, kick off this regular meeting of the city plan commission. It is 04:45. Today is Tuesday, 09/17/2024. I guess it's 04:40 forty six now.
Let's go around with a roll call starting with Will. Sherry?
Dave Coldwell. Charlotte Lipchitz.
Shayan, manager for our deputy staff. Bob Azar, staff. Sharon Garner, legal counsel.
And I'm Michael Gazdako, chair. Everyone received the minutes from the 08/20/2024 meeting. Hopefully, you've had a chance to review, mark them up if any edits are needed. If not, I accept a motion to approve at this time.
I'll make a motion to approve.
Second. Alright. All in favor, aye.
All opposed? Any abstentions? The minutes pass. Mister Azar, director's report.
K. Thank you, mister chair and members of the commission. Just a little update on the comprehensive plan. City council opened up the public hearing last night, and we had a couple hours of lively debate. Close to 50 people testified.
And what I would say is that, the testimony we heard was very similar to to, what you had been hearing for the several months that you were considering the comprehensive plan. I don't think we heard anything, really, novel, but it was a good opportunity, obviously, for the committee on ordinances and other members of the council who were in attendance. The hearing was continued until October 2, to give us time to sort of consolidate all the comments that we heard, and to, confirm internally about, whether we wanna make some, or recommend some amendments to the plan. And so far, things seem to be going, very well, I will say. And we'll talk a little bit later today about, zoning changes that we've been working on to implement the comprehensive plan.
Your chair was in attendance and and made a brief statement at the end. I don't know, Michael, if you have any. No.
I mean, it it my statement to the council pretty much echoes what you said. I felt it felt very good hearing the that there were that there were no red flags or no, like, nothing out of left field that that came from the public comment. I told the the the city council members present that, you know, everything that you've heard tonight, it's it's great that you've heard. We've we've heard that and much, much more. And we've so so the the plan you have in front of you has heard all of these these comments, these concerns, these ideas, these these in support of it.
And we've weighed that and made our decision to forward this this comprehensive plan to you. So it's already taken into consideration. There are obviously tweaks that can still happen. There's evolution of of thought. But I thought overall, I was very pleased that nothing came out of left field.
I was pretty much expecting exactly what came out of everyone's mouth last night, and you guys have heard all of them, all of the comments. So I'm I think I think it's in a good position right now, and and the the city council members seem receptive to to the plan. That's it. Then with that, we will roll right into
the first agenda item. Well, do you wanna take
Yeah. Let's let's, let's start off. We're gonna call an item out of order. We'll we'll start with, case number five. Agenda item number five.
Excuse me. It's a major land development project, unified development review, public hearing. Case number 24Dash050MAFor400ElmwoodAve.
Mister chairman, members of the commission, John Garahi on behalf of the applicant. Is this Sasan? Yeah. We can hear you. Yes.
let me, address this. I think that there there was some comments that were received, relatively recently with respect to this project. And, and and and rather than than, we'd to be able to have a a meeting with them, a community meeting, in order to talk about the project with those that had some concerns with it. So as a result, we would request a a continuance of this matter to the to the date certain of the next council council commission meeting. That would
be October 15. K. So you're requesting a continuance, to the 10/15/2024 meeting? Yes, mister chairman. Anyone care to make a a motion on that?
I'll make a motion to grant the continuance as requested.
Commission meeting. Second. Alright. We'll go around and
take a vote. Will? Aye. Dave? Aye.
very much. We will we will make sure that we continue this to date certain October 15 so that your advertising does.
I did. I was watching on YouTube last night, and I did see you up there. I just wish that they had drilled you with some questions. They didn't drill me at all.
They called me up at the end, and they gave me a softball. It was I did I did give them the the ability to do so because I said, I'm on the other side this time. And, usually, I'm used to seeing you come before us. Exactly. Alright.
Thank you, attorney Gary. John, you may wanna or
you oh, no. Never mind. I I apologize.
We'll go we'll go back in order now that we've heard, agenda item number five, which we've continued. We'll go back to, agenda item number one, which is, case number 19Dash015MI311MA, excuse me, 311 9th Street. It's a request for extension.
Hello. Good evening. Tanesa Azar from Moses Ryan on behalf of the property owner, which is Swap.
Good evening. So we're asking for a one year extension of this preliminary plan. Swap purchased this property back in the December 2023. The executive director of Swap is here, Carla, in case you have any questions for her. But, essentially, this is a 41 unit, mixed use building.
CBC actually did review this for final plan even though it wasn't actually issued the final plan. There are a couple of conditions that still need to be met for this one, and, we need a little bit more time to effectuate that. So we're asking for this extension of the preliminary plan to kinda cover it. The you know, part of it is getting state approvals and things like that. And then if there's any changes, all the conditions were made the same.
If there's any change, you come back to CPC. But it's just to give some time to finish up those approvals. They're working with Rhydod and Historic and and things of that nature. So we'd kindly ask that you grant the extension for the good call shown.
This, commissioners is for the property at the corner of Knight And Westminster in the West End. You may remember it. Okay. Any It doesn't expire.
So I believe we had it for an expiration of October. I don't have the exact one in front of me. It's the beginning of October is when it expires. It's what the record shows up. It's October 11, I believe.
Any questions of the applicant? With that, I don't think we have to take public comment, but I always like to just out of an abundance of caution. Is there anyone here from the member of the public who wishes to speak on this matter? If you're joining us virtually, please raise your virtual hand or press 9. And I don't see anyone, so we'll close public comment.
Pretty public comment. Is is there someone to speak on
03:11 night. Yes. '3 eleven night. Good.
Nope. We're good? Okay. Alright. Then we still have public comment closed.
this was it was a different applicant who came before us, so there was a property transfer. They're trying to fulfill their their terms of of the of the preliminary plan. I see no reason why not to continue this. I wanna see the project move, though. I look at that vacant lot frequently.
