Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting – September 18, 2025
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Planning and Zoning Commission Regular Meeting – September 18, 2025
Note: The transcript indicates the meeting was called to order on September 17, 2025; however, the official meeting date is recorded as September 18, 2025.
The meeting included a single action item (PDP Step #8 for the Morrison Building) followed by a lengthy acknowledgment of staff efforts on multiple ongoing planning initiatives.
Discussion Items
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Item No. 3 – PDP Step #8 (Morrison Building, 1875 West Fry Road): Staff read a revised stipulation into the record: The Morrison building must be vacated within 18 months of the certificate of occupancy for the new medical office building, and demolished within 24 months of that certificate unless an alternative parking solution is submitted and approved by the city. The commission voted unanimously to approve the item with the revised stipulation.
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Staff Recognition: The Chair provided extensive remarks thanking staff for their extraordinary workload, specifically highlighting:
- The General Plan 2026 update (managed by Lauren)
- The Downtown Region Area Plan update (nearing council consideration)
- Objective Design Standards for metal housing (a 60‑page draft code document, managed by David, a 3‑year city planner)
- The zoning case for the hospital (noted as relatively minor compared to other efforts)
- The efforts of Planning Division staff, including David, Lauren, and consultant Terry, with particular thanks to David for his three decades of service and his reading of every page of the draft code.
Key Outcomes
- Approved Item No. 3 (PDP Step #8 – Morrison Building) with the revised stipulation by unanimous voice vote.
- Next regular meeting scheduled for October 15, 2025, in the same location.
Meeting Transcript
Call the planning zone and commission regular meeting to order for September seventeenth. Have a roll call, please. Chair Human. Here. Vice Chair Kosel. Here. Commissioner Quinn? Here. Commissioner Barricello. Commissioner Golem. Commissioner Schwarzer. Here. And Commissioner Bilstein. All right, we have Corm. Commissioner Gola has an excuse absence. Um, okay. Um next item is the Pledge of Allegiance. Commissioner. Vice Chair. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We do have a stipulation on number three that was changed. If staff wants to read that into the record, please. Okay, so item number three, PDP step number eight. The Morrison building located at eighteen seventy-five West Fry Road shall be vacated within eighteen months of the date of certificate of occupancy for the new medical office building. The Morrison building shall be demolished within twenty-four months of certificate of occupancy, unless a new parking solution is developed and submitted to the city for approval to accommodate the required parking for the Morrison building. So to the audience, we had this, we had the study session. Sorry. Anyway, all those in favor of the motion say aye. I have to pose motion. Um, these quick meetings that we have, these like record-breaking short meetings, uh, don't even begin to describe the effort that's going on behind the scenes. So uh we are deep into our general plan 2026 update. We are right at the finish line of getting to council our downtown region area plan update. Uh we you just had a work session with our objective design standards, metal housing, uh, and then all the zoning cases that are still going through, like the hospital case tonight. Um, our team is they're all if anybody's a Star Trek. My dad was a crazy Star Trek fan, and so um they're all running it at 110% on the reactor. Um, and it's uh it is clearly not sustainable, but they have been killing it. Uh, and to get to a point where something like the hospital case, uh not to diminish it, but it it doesn't feel very big compared to objective design standards. But to get that type of a case to the point that we're really just tweaking a number on a step is a pretty crazy feat. Uh, and then having objective design standards, and we have a city planner who's been with us for only three years that is managing that entire objective design standards zoning case. Um, I can't even begin to describe how much time David has spent. Um, and he has been our long-range planning uh guru for two and a half, coming up on three decades, and the amount of time that he has spent reading every page of that 60-page draft code document and all of our uh the general plan update drafts. Um, it's been this team is is cranking. Lauren has been just running our general plan update. Uh, and that seems like it's uh you got a project manager. It's it's like a one one woman show. Uh her and Terry are just running this. Terry from our consultant side. So our team is is just it's amazing the amount of uh stuff that is being lifted and moved by this little team, and very few people actually see it. Uh so been watching it for months.
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