The Colorado Springs Planning Commission convened on May 14, 2025, with 7 members present and 2 absent. Key actions included a 6-1 vote recommending approval of a zone change and land use plan for the Tava Mountain Battery Energy Storage Facility, a unanimous vote to recommend updates to the Public Art Ordinance, and a postponement of a self-storage conditional use item. Public comment was heard only on the Tava Mountain project. The meeting also included communications about a joint training delay and new City Council liaisons.
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Collar Springs City Planning Commission public hearing for May 14th, 2025. The planning commission is comprised of nine members appointed by city council to review various development applications and proposals. Planning commission members are community volunteers with expertise across a wide variety of disciplines. Each member acts independently, carefully assessing all the evidence presented to make their decision. The city planning staff facilitates a process for applications where this body reviews a variety of those applications governed by city code. Some applications require planning commission to be the final decision maker, and for others, planning commission is a recommendation body to city council. Ground rules and procedures. Throughout this hearing, we will require that everyone shows respect for each individual here. Understanding that others may have differing opinions from yours. Unkind actions speaking out of turn or profanity will not be tolerated. For items presented on today's agenda, staff will give a short presentation on the application, followed by the applicant who will have 30 minutes to present the details of the project. Any public comment will be taken after these presentations, and each citizen will have three minutes to speak. Keep comments brief to the point and prepare arguments appropriately. Please respect other attendees' right to both listen and be heard. Melissa, could we go to roll call, please? Vice Chair Foos. Here. Commissioner Hinsler. Here. Commissioner Cecil. Here. Commissioner Rickett. Chair Slattery. Commissioner Robbins. Here. Commissioner Sapilovich. Here. Commissioner Casey. Here. Commissioner Jigiano. Here. Thank you. We have seven present. Thank you. With that, I'll ask if there's any changes to agenda agenda or postponements. None that we're aware of. Communications, Mr. Walker. Yeah, just a couple short things. We talked last week about the possibility of a May 20th training jointly with City Council. I've requested that that be delayed since we don't have the resources particularly to do a good job for that yet. And so for those of you who had it on your agenda, uh you can keep it there for now, and we will make an official uh statement about that uh here shortly. So that's one. The other is that yesterday uh city council did um uh appoint their two new liaisons to the planning commission, and those are Dave Donaldson and Tom Bailey. So those are my communications for now. Thank you. Um approval of the minutes for April. Um the April minutes are not complete. We will review those at our June Planning Commission meeting.