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The Bentonville Planning Commission held its regular meeting on October 6, 2026, starting with a tech review at 4:30 PM and the public hearing at 5:00 PM. The meeting included the approval of minutes, consent agenda items, two public hearings on rezoning requests, a discussion on the STEM University Master Development Agreement (MDA), and a continued conversation on code amendments. Several large-scale development items were moved from the new business to the consent agenda during the tech review.
All right. So let me again call to order the tech review portion of the planning commission meeting for October the 6th. And the first item for consideration is the minutes from the September the 15th meeting. Any changes or modifications there? No. All right, let's see none. All right. Um several items on the consent agenda. Chair would like to remove to the removed to the regular agenda at the beginning of new business items number eight, nine, ten, and twelve. Eight, nine, ten, and twelve, I request be removed from the consent agenda. Any other items that commissioners would like to have removed from consent. Right, seeing none, we'll move on to new business. So again, we have um four large scale developments under new business, plus the ones that I just moved there. So four, five, six, seven large scale developments, um, and a preliminary plot. Uh, since we have limited time, are there any of those items that a commissioner would like to take up first during tech review? Right, if you want, let's just start looking now on the list, Mr. Adva. Okay, item number one, large scale development of the park flex project building one. This is at uh regional airport near mill. The first uh office slash warehouse building coming out of the gate as succo as its material as approved by the PUE. Okay, so that was on the mind of the question we did it that was approved in the PUD itself. Any of the questions on park flex. Is that one we'd like to move to the consent agenda? Um clearly. All right, let's go ahead and move that. Any objections? All right, seeing none, we'll move park flex building one to the consent agenda. Item number two. Number two, Benton Woods subdivision, a phasing plan amendment. So this is on uh Winsong, just west of Vaughn Road. Uh, we have the applicant here. Uh there is a pricey bridge crossing winsong, and the applicant wishes to push that off to a later phase. So basically the last 86 lots would uh have that as a requirement. So that would be come with phase four. Hi, Braden Wines debates and associates. Uh quick rundown. Um, there's a about a three million dollar bridge that's attached to phase one right now. And there's only 51 lots to help support pay that bridge. Um, our developers requesting to move that to a later phase, uh, which we spoke with staff and we agreed upon phase four. Um that would allow us to have phase one, two, and three to help pay for that that large sum of money. Um another thing is that bridge only serves honestly phase five, but after speaking with staff, we're willing to put it phase four, kind of not just throw it towards the end. I know staff had a little bit of concern that you know they could finish the first three phases and then have eight to six lots, sell it off to another developer, and we don't get the bridge.