Good and good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Tom Weir, and I serve as Vice Chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Arlington.

I hereby call this regularly a noticed meeting of the City of Arlington's Planning and Zoning Commission regular session to order for April 16th, 2025.

Before I ask the speaker for the speaker guidelines and general decorum, I want to note that we have a new member with us, Commissioner Tracy Winkles.

Wave to everybody.

She's uh she's uh taking the uh place of another uh commissioner who had to resign.

And at this time, I will ask the uh admin to read the speaker guidelines and general decorum.

We ask other citizens and other visitors in attendance, assist in persevering the order and decorum of this meeting and do provide for attendance at and participation in the meeting without fear of intimidation, threats, or hostility.

Any person making personal profane hostile, slanderous or threatening remarks uses vulgar or obscene language who engages in any other actions that disturb or calculated to disturb the meeting or who becomes disruptive while addressing the planning and zoning commissioners and while attending the planning and zoning meeting may be removed from the council chambers.

All speakers shall address the commissioners and all the audience or city staff and shall not call out individually named members or city staff or the public.

For speakers tonight, when your name is called, please come to the microphone at the podium and state your name and city of residence for the record.

The applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given 10 minutes to make a presentation.

Speakers in support or opposition of the item will be given five minutes each to make their statements.

If there are many speakers for an item, each speaker will be given three minutes to make their statements.

The applicant will then be given five minutes for any rebuttal.

If multiple speakers plan to provide the same or similar comments, those speakers may, if they so desire, doesn't need one or more individuals to provide public comment on behalf of the group.

A bell will signal at the end of each speaker's time in consideration of other speakers.

Please conclude your comments promptly when you hear the bell.

We ask that you address your comments to the planning and zoning commissioners.

Thank you.

A copy of the minutes of our April 2nd, 2025 regular session agenda meeting were sent to all commissioners in advance.

Were there any corrections needed to the uh minutes?

Seeing none, do I have a motion to approve and a second?

Commissioner Blake has uh made the motion and commissioner Greer has seconded.

Please cast your votes.

The motion passes 7 to 1.

One abstention.

I'm sorry.

Thank you.

Next on the agenda, we uh have to consider and adopt the amended schedule of planning and zoning commission meetings for the 2025 calendar year.

Um Ms.

Sudbury, will you note the changes?

Yes, we sent out a calendar, and there were three dates that will be amended in the fall.

That uh new meeting dates are October or September the 24th of 25, October the 8th of 25, and October the 29th of 25.

Those are the adjustments we're proposing.

Thank you.

You have a motion to approve the amended planning and zoning commission meetings calendar for 2025 year.

I have a motion and a second.

Please vote.

I'm sorry.

Winkles and Findling.

Next on the agenda.

We have a proposed you uh prepose the UDC 2024 annual update.

At this time, I'll call on staff present the report, the UDC amendments 2024 annual update.

Thank you, Mr.

Chairman, members of the commission.

Uh Richard Gertzon, Assistant Director of Planning and Development Services.

Um here to discuss the proposed annual updates.

Uh 2025.

We we started looking at these back in 2024, but we decided to start naming them after the year that they actually get adopted rather than when you're behind.

But certainly for you and particularly Ms.

Winkles, our new commissioner, if you have questions, just stop me along the way.

And there's probably a couple items that I want to specifically ask you a question about as we go through these.

Just as a reminder, we do this every year.

We do some updates that are meant to eliminate some unclear language, correct some errors and omissions or any conflicts that we find.

This is just a recap of changes to the UDC that we've had for the last few years, the last significant change being in just in February of this year when we updated our tree preservation and mitigation section.

As a stated, we have 26 items for consideration tonight.

Here's how it breaks down five clarifications, nine corrections, two definitions that are new or modified, nine substantive changes, and then we do have one change in a primary use.

This table that you see here recaps all 26 of those changes.

So it's a good way to reference the how we're uh categorizing these particular changes that are taking place that are proposed.