Oh, that's all right.

Good morning.

Colorado Springs Planning Commission public hearing for October 8th, 2025 is now called to order.

The planning commission is comprised of nine members appointed by City Council to review various development applications and proposals.

Planning commissioners are community volunteers with expertise across a wide variety of disciplines.

Each commissioner acts independently and carefully assesses all the information and evidence presented to make their decision.

Some applications require the planning commission to be the final decision authority, and for others, the planning commission is a recommendation body to city council.

Throughout the hearing, we will require that everyone conduct themselves respectfully.

Understand that others may have different views from your own.

Disrespectful words or actions speaking out of order were not recognized by the chair, and the use of profanity will not be tolerated.

For items presented on today's calendar, the city planning staff will give a presentation on the application, followed by the applicant who will have 30 minutes to present the details of the application.

Public comment will be taken after these presentations, starting with public comment in support of the application, followed by public comment in opposition to the application.

Each citizen will have three minutes to speak.

Um second we do have at the next city council meeting there will be um a recommendation to city council to fill uh two positions one on the planning commission right now that's vacant and one as an alternate um the actual um proposal won't be published until either late today or early tomorrow so I'm gonna leave the names off for now just to make sure I've got that correct um but you should have a full compliment next month uh according to an appointment next next week and the rules and uh procedures uh have been or getting very close to the finish line uh it seems like every time somebody reads it there's another sort of tweak to it so I'm not exactly sure who tweaked it last but uh uh we will get that in your hands as soon as we think it's in final form get your final comments and then we'll get that to planning or to city council for their approval and uh I will let you know that in September uh uh in our uh uh develop in our uh submittal cycle we had one of the lowest uh numbers ever submitted in the last five years and yesterday uh we had one of the highest we've ever had so if anybody can figure out the trend for uh planning commission and our planning numbers for next year please let me know thank you mr walker does that take into account both the development reviews and the formal items that come before us yes that's it that's all items uh anything that uh that we have to write up uh some kind of position on so it would be all the other boards the development review board and historic preservation um and those kinds of things all of our district matters etc so all right thank you uh moving on to the approval of the minutes for September 10th 2025 any discussion no I'll make a motion to accept the minutes I'll second I'll abstain I wasn't present I also will abstain for not being present I was not present I abstain we need the motion passes with four members in favor that thought so Sarah Brown City Attorney's Office a quorum for your body as five and so since we have two members that are absent that were here last month should we postpone should we table the minutes until next month and review I recommend tabling it if you don't have a quorum to approve them today.

Okay then do we need a motion to table them I'm looking to staff Sarah Brown City Attorney's Office yes you will need a motion motion to November it would be November so if a commissioner would like to make a motion to table the minutes to date certain of next month um and then we will fix that on the back end after the meeting if it's okay with city attorney's office sure so I'll change my motion I'll make a motion to table our approval of minute minutes until the November meeting November 12th meeting 20 I'm gonna do that cleanly I'd like to make a motion to table approval of the September minutes to the November 12th 2025 meeting I'll second that commissioner Robbins how do you vote?

I'm in favor thank you.

All right the motion passes unanimously okay now we'll move on to the consent calendar items on the consent calendar will be acted on upon as a whole without further public comment unless a specific item is called up for discussion any items called up the consent calendar will be heard immediately after the rest of the consent calendar is decided upon please read the items into the record item 5A Z O N E das 25 dash 0012 35 East Ramona rezoning item 5B C U D P 25 dash 0015 conditional use for a retail marijuana products manufacturer item 5 C Z O N E dash 25 dash 0019 BLR 50A part rezone.

Item 5C Z O N E 25-0019 BLR 50A park rezone.

Item 5D Z O N E dash 25-0016-excuse me 980 doubling rezone.

Are there any members of staff that want to call an item off the consent calendar?

Or there any members of the public that would like to call an item off the consent calendar?

And if you could check online too, please.

If there's anybody online that would like to pull any of these items off the consent calendar, please press star six to unmute yourselves now.

There's nobody online.

Do we have a motion?

Motion to approve the consent calendar as written read into the record.

All second.

Commissioner Cecil, how do you vote?

Thank you.

Commissioner Robins, how do you vote?

Aye.

Thank you.

The motion passes unanimously.

All right, thank you.

Now moving on to new business.

Um Woodman East commercial filing number one.

Could you read that into the record, please?

Oh, I'm sorry.

Okay.

Okay, for the consent um appeal instructions for the anything on the consent calendar.

In accordance with the requirements of section 7.5.415 of the unified city unified development code.

An affected party may appeal this to city council.

Any action of the city planning commission in relation to the zoning code where the action was adverse to that party.

Within day 10 days from the final action of the item being appealed, which is Monday, October 20th, 2025.

The appellant may file notice of appeal and the 176 dollar fee with the city clerk.

The appeal letter should address specific zoning code requirements that were not adequately addressed by city planning commission.

City council may elect to limit discussion at the appeal hearing to the specific matters set forth in the appeal letter.

Now we'll move on to new business with Woodman East commercial filing.

Item 8A, C U D P 22-0008, a conditional use development plan to allow a 362 unit residential multifamily dwelling development and anciliary side improvements in the mixed use medium scale with airport overlay stone district consisting of 14.11 acres located at the southeast corner of East Woodman Road and Mohawk Road.

Your percenter is Tamara Baxter.

Good morning, commissioners.

Tamara Baxter, uh Planning Supervisor for the record.

Um before you is an application for Woodman East commercial multifamily.

So as you can see on the vicinity map, the property is located southeast of Mohawk Road and uh east of Wood East Woodman Road intersection.

Um the current zoning on the property is MXM with airport overlay.

Um the prior zoning of this property was PBC with airport overlay as well.

Uh the site consists of 16.09 acres, and what is being proposed is a multifamily residential.

Um just so you were aware, this project was reviewed under the previous chapter seven.

It's not working.

Um the site plan that this is the um from the concept plan.