Good evening.

It's 6 30 p.m.

May 13th, 2026, and the meeting of the Urban Design Commission will now come to order.

May we please have a roll call?

Yes.

Here.

Allison Lenning.

Here.

Julia Foland.

Here.

Alexander Danalo.

Here.

Trevor Strait.

Here.

James Collis.

Here.

Monica Sullivan is excused.

You have a quorum.

Thank you.

Thank you.

May we get a motion to approve the minutes from April 29th, 2026.

It's been moved by Commissioner Foland.

It's been seconded by Commissioner Strait.

Are there any corrections to the minutes?

Are there any objections to the minutes being approved?

Hearing none, the minutes are approved.

We'll now move on to the special order of business.

Are there any disclosures this evening?

This is uh Commissioner Collis.

I was not present at the last meeting, so I won't be able to vote for the minutes.

Okay, thank you.

Um may we have a motion to approve the consent agenda.

It's been moved by Commissioner Strait and seconded by Commissioner Nanalo.

Um would anyone like to pull an item from the consent agenda for discussion or corrections.

Hearing none, the consent agenda is approved.

We don't have any unfinished business or items on the regular agenda this evening.

Therefore, we will move on to the public hearings and I will read the public process.

The Urban Design Commission meets the second and fourth Wednesday of each month except holidays at regular meetings.

If the Urban Design Commission fails to complete its agenda for its regular meetings, the commission carries over the remainder of the agenda to the following meeting date.

The procedure by which the public may speak to the Urban Design Commission at a meeting is one after the staff presentation is completed on public hearing items, the chair will ask for public testimony on the issue.

Two persons who wish to testify will follow the time limits established in the Urban Design Commission rules of procedure.

Petitioners, including all his, her representatives, will have 10 minutes.

Rebuttal by the petitioner may be allowed when time has been reserved.

Representatives of groups, community councils, PTAs, etc.

will have five minutes, and individuals will have three minutes.03.050.4a commission recommendations to the Anchorage Assembly are not appealable.

Following approval of the written findings of fact and decision, any party of interest may within 20 days file an appeal by filing a notice of appeal and paying the appeal fee and deposit in accordance with section 2103050.

The notice of appeal must be filed with the planning director on a form prescribed by the municipality.

If the appellant is not the applicant, the appellant's notice of appeal shall include proof of service on the applicant.

With respect to case 2026 0052, the petitioner is requesting for design variants from AMC 2107 080E for relief from landscaping standards on the west and south property boundaries.

May we please have staff's presentation.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Just for some context information that's not contained in the staff report, I wanted to provide the commissioners with some information.

If this property owner was not seeking or needing this variance, they are permitted by right to build the proposed 36 additional units.

So there would not have been there would be no entitlement if they were not seeking this variance.

So just so you can separate those two parts, knowing some of the comments that were submitted late and late on the table.

With that, the petitioner is requesting a variance for relief from Anchorage Municipal Code 2107080E, required landscaping standards on the west and south property boundaries.

The applicant is requesting modifications to the required L2 buffer landscaping standards, lack of the L2 buffer along the north half of the West property line, and a reduction in the required width of the L2 buffer along the south half of the West property line and the south property line less than 10 feet with a six-foot screening fence.

These adjustments are necessary to maintain existing access along the north half of the west property line to accommodate the layout of the proposed new buildings, resident parking areas, and required fire fire apparatus turnarounds.

Despite the reduced buffer width along the south half of the West property line and south property line, the applicant will still provide the full number of required trees and shrubs along both the south half of the West property line and the south property line.

In order for the Urban Design Commission to approve the variants, the application must state with particularity the relief sought and must specify the facts or circumstances that are alleged to show that the application substantially meets the following eight standards.