The City Council of Courtelane convened for its regular meeting on December 2, 2025, to address a diverse agenda including public comments on traffic congestion, updates on city programs, and two quasi-judicial hearings regarding land annexation and zoning amendments. The meeting featured significant community engagement regarding the proposed "Corterra" and "Corteir" developments, concerns about infrastructure strain on Atlas Road and Nez Pierce, and the city's role in supporting first responders and inclusive communities. The council concluded by approving two major quasi-judicial requests and amending the city's invocation policy to extend eligibility to county-wide faith-based organizations.
Like to call this meeting to order. Welcome everyone. It is December second, and this is a regular meeting for the city of Courtelane. Roll call, please. Uh English? Here. Wood here. Guggen. Miller. Here. Gabriel? Here. Evans. Okay, could you rise for the pledge, please? Kenny, would you lead us, please? Would you pledge allegiance to the United States of America? And to the Republic for which it stands under God. Also, there's two quasi judicial meetings. One is on the Stanley Hill annexation. Again, we'd like to have you guys sign up for that. You want to speak to it. And then the core Terra modification of zoning is also back there. And I do have a list of people that are planning on speaking. I would like to invite each and every one of you to come to Atlas Road and Kathleen at 3 o'clock to 5 o'clock on a on a on a business day and observe the gridlock that is there currently before we even think about this cord Corte thing. I have been told by my uncle that this traffic can back up for to clear it from this stoplight at Kathleen two Nez Pierce. That's three blocks. And to add more traffic to that is beyond beyond me. I I hope you understand that this is going to be take more infrastructure. In order to utilize or to uh handle this traffic that's supposedly there's 400 and some units of coming into that place. And they're basically on a postage stamp lot, and until we all get Jetson automobiles or whatever, this is it's unreasonable. And I hope something needs to be some things need to be changed. I hope the city can figure out that are we going to be proactive or are we going to be reactive? And this thing about more traffic coming on there, it's looking like it's going to be reactive more than proactive. And I think it needs to be it needs to be addressed before this thing can be can ever be approved. Thank you. Thank you, Rod. Folks, this isn't a rally. We're here to kind of exchange ideas here, so we're listening, please. L'Oreal Rodick, Cordelaine. Aurel, welcome. I don't have a whole lot to say other than we're Indian Meadows, we're not going away. Um as far as just a few people not wanting the traffic to go through, that's not true. It's pretty much all of us and the surrounding neighborhoods. And as a quick rebuttal to the um tirade, I guess, whatever, about punching through all seven that we should have known that that was what was going to happen. Yeah, we thought maybe it would happen, but we also thought it would be a continuation of the neighborhoods we already have. So if you look at it, it starts at you know, smaller lots. Then as you go in, it gets bigger, like half acres. Now we're at acres, so we thought perhaps, you know, if you're gonna punch it through, it'd be acre lots, two-acre lots, perhaps five acres, not at an entire city. One of my neighbors grew up in a in a town in Montana that's about the size or population density of what you want to put there. And uh that's not what we want coming through.