The Colorado Springs City Planning Commission met on May 13, 2026, from 9:00 AM to approximately 3:15 PM. The meeting included the election of a Vice Chair, approval of minutes, a consent calendar item, and two major public hearings: a conditional use for a retail marijuana cultivation facility and a rezoning and land use plan for a multifamily development at Briargate/Voyager. The commission heard extensive public testimony, deliberated on traffic, safety, and compatibility concerns, and ultimately approved both items with conditions.
The item will now proceed to City Council for final action.
Hi, folks. If anybody else is going to be seeding time to allow to have that person speak longer, please go ahead and indicate that now on the sign-up sheet before we get started with our meeting so that we can be as organized as possible. If you have any questions, please come see me. Thank you. Okay, good morning. I'd like to call the Colorado Springs City Planning Commission public hearing for May 13th, 2026 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 areas. Each commissioner acts independently and carefully assesses all the information and evidence presented to make their decision. The city planning staff facilitate the process for applications. This commission reviews those applications and proposals governed by city code. Some applications require the planning commission to be the final decision authority, and for others, the planning commission is a recommended recommendation body to the city council. Just a bit about ground rules and procedures. Throughout each hearing, we will require that everyone conduct themselves respectfully, understanding that others may have different views from your own, disrespectful words or actions, speaking out of order when not recognized by the chair, and use of profanity will not be tolerated. I will also say we have a very full room today, and we have quite a bit to get through, so just um being as quiet as possible and respectful of others that are speaking. For items presented on today's agenda, 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. For any items that are being heard on appeal today, the appellant and the applicant will be given equal time. Public comment will be taken after these presentations, starting with public comments in support of the application, followed by public comments in opposition of the application. Each citizen will have three minutes to speak, and please keep your comments brief and focused on the issues at hand, and again, respect other attendees' rights to both listen and be heard. We will allow, as we just mentioned, the seeding of time for items. Those seeding time must be present and must state their name and who they are seeding time to. No more than four individuals may cede their time to any one party for a total of 15 minutes. And again, if you haven't signed up to seed time and you wish to do that, which in general is giving up your time for someone else to speak, if that isn't clear, please go sign up or uh be sure that you want to speak individually. Once public comment is complete, the applicant will have a rebuttal period of 10 minutes to respond and address to any comments. And at the conclusion of the applicant's rebuttal, the discussion will move back to the dais for commissioner consideration. So we'll now move to uh call to order and roll call salonge. Chair Hansler, here. Commissioner Sisu. Here. Commissioner Slattery. Here. Commissioner Robbins. Here. Commissioner Clements. Commissioner Jidiana? Here. Commissioner Willoughby. Here. Commissioner Case. Here. Commissioner Ingle. Here. Thank you. We have nine members present. Great. Thank you. Are there any um changes or postponements to the agenda? Seeing none. Shiva. Ah.