We're gonna start in just a couple moments.

If anyone is here to speak on a particular item, there are sign up sheets um on the table here in the hallway.

So if you do wish to speak, please sign up to do

so.

Okay, well, good morning.

The Colorado Springs City Planning Commission public hearing for October 14th, 2026 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 areas.

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

For items presented on today's agenda, our procedure is as follows.

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 comments brief and focused on the issue at hand and respect others other attendees' rights to both listen and to be heard.

Once public comment is complete, the applicant will have a rebuttal period of 10 minutes to respond to respond and address any comments.

Throughout the hearing, we will ask that each member of the public conduct themselves respectfully and 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 the use of profanity will not be tolerated, and those in violation may be asked to leave the hearing.

Commissioner Didiano.

Here.

Thank you.

We have eight members present.

Great.

Are there any changes or postponements to items uh to items on today's agenda by city staff or by other commissioners?

Okay.

Um next on our agenda is communications.

I really don't have any communications.

I wish you all a happy fall.

Halloween is coming.

And uh that is it.

Mr.

Walker.

I just wanted to know what you did with fall.

I wore orange and brought on fall.

I don't know.

I I used up most of my uh my uh announcements uh last week.

Uh but I'll have to learn to save some for our formal meeting.

Do have a couple of things.

We are working on next month's agenda, uh, where we will have a fairly substantive uh appeal scheduled.

Um, and that's another data center like issue.

Um, and so we will be working on trying to figure out how to make all of those things work together at your regular meeting next month.

Um, so we'll keep you abreast of any changes or any special requirements then.

Uh we are also working closely with the uh attorney's office to get uh some additional assistance um for our UDC code changes.

So you'll be seeing some of those things start to roll through Planning Commission a little bit quicker.

Um, and uh we're hoping to get through that through a lot of the phase one things and into phase two uh by first and second quarter of next year.

So hopefully we'll be moving forward with a lot of that.

Uh

we are also proposing to go work through a process to do some data center um changes to our code as you requested, as you directed.

Also, council did the same thing.

Um, and so we are starting a process by which we can start to actually define what a data center

is

uh first and then start to work through some of the uh code changes or some code additions that reflect some of the new things that are going on in that particular industry.

So you will be seeing some of that come forward.

What we are going to use is the uh UDC code uh committee that's work that's already been established.

Uh Commissioner Engel is on that committee.

Uh and so you will start to see some additional tasks and workload from that particular uh committee.

So

uh

budget uh city council is working on the budget, so if you have a call into city council, sometimes they don't call back in this that in the month of October.

So they are having a hearing, I think to today and tomorrow uh on on uh their budget on the budget items.

Luckily, so far we have not been uh called to talk about any of our budget, so that's in my part of lands.

That's probably a good that's a good thing.

So um hopefully the budget will go through without a whole lot of changes to our specific asks.