The Arlington Planning and Zoning Commission met on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, at 5:39 p.m. in City Hall Council Chamber. The meeting covered approval of minutes, two consent agenda plats, a public hearing for a setback variance, and a continuation of a banquet hall Specific Use Permit.
All right, well, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Dr. Ignacio Nunez. I serve as chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Arlington. It's on, just I need to point it down here a little bit. There you go. Uh and I hereby uh call this regularly noticed meeting of the City of Oregon's planning and zoning commissioner commission regular session to order for August 19th, 2026. Let's see. Uh Commissioner Blake, would you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, please? Please stand, ladies and gentlemen. Under God. Thank you very much. At this time, I will ask our administration to read the speaker guidelines in general decorum for tonight's meeting. We ask that the citizens and other visitors in attendance to assist in preserving the order and decorum of this meeting and to provide for attendance at and participation in the meeting without fear of intimidation, threats, or hostility. And in person making personal, profane, hostile, slanderous, or threatening remarks, who uses vulgar or obscene language, who engages in any other actions that are that disturb or are calculated to disturb the meeting, or who becomes disruptive while addressing the planning and zoning commissioners, or while attending the planning and zoning meeting may be removed from the council chambers. All speakers shall address the commissioners and not the audience or city staff and sh and shall not call out individually named members of 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 the city of residents for the record. The applicant will be asked to speak first and will be given ten 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. And multiple speakers plan to provide the same or similar comments. Those speakers may, if they so desire, designate one or more individuals to provide public comment on behalf of the group. A bell will signal 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 very much. Our first item of business is approval of the minutes of the July 29th, 2026 planning and zoning regular session agenda. All the commissioners receive these minutes in advance. Were there any changes or corrections that were needed to the minutes? Seeing no comments, do I have a motion to approve? I do by Commissioner Winkles. And I have a second by Commissioner Maddox. Please cast your vote. Somehow that that got erased. One moment, sorry, computer issues here. Okay. Okay, so right now what we do, we have a the minutes will show. Oh, there it is. Well, Commissioner Blake made the motion, and Commissioner Greer is a second. Motion passes, seven to nothing with one abstention. Oh, and let the let the minutes show that Dr. Commissioner Finley is a yay vote. So I'm so sorry. Uh I'm going to go ahead and ask for a brief pause just so we can include Commissioner Finley, if that's okay. Please do so. Thank you. But we're we can move forward though, right? Absolutely. Go ahead.