The Columbia Board of Adjustment met on Tuesday, August 12, 2025, at 7:00 PM in Council Chambers at City Hall. The board considered two applications for “cottage” optional development standards under Section 29-6.4(j) of the Unified Development Code: one for a single lot redevelopment at 600 Woodlawn Avenue and one for a 23-lot cottage subdivision at 3310 Oakland Gravel Road (Totolmajac Village). Both applications were approved unanimously after staff presentations and public hearings. The meeting also addressed corrections to the June 10, 2025 minutes and a procedural correction removing an erroneously listed closed session item.
Yes. Mr. Norgard. Present. Ms. Hammond? Here. Mr. Menshu. Here. Ms. Rogers. And Mr. Sharp. Here. You have a quorum, sir. We can conduct business. All right. Thank you. Is there a motion and a second to approve the agenda? I make a motion. Approve the agenda. Second. Before you do so, we will have an amendment to the agenda. The item unfortunately they got placed on the agenda as item number seven, and that is to go into closed session. There is no closed session discussion, so that was a uh unfortunate staff uh error uh in the agenda, so we will go directly from general comments uh of the public staff and uh the com uh the board uh directly to adjournment. All right, thank you. Is there any discussion on this agenda? I'll take a voice vote. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Against passes. Uh the June 10, 2025 minutes were distributed to the board. Are there any corrections or additions to the minutes? So I uh uh it it does say in the uh staff report that the P and Z commission minutes are attached and they were not attached. Could we attach those please to the minutes that are in the record? We can like that to be added, I guess, to the minutes. Are they have to ask legal, but I think we introduced those as uh evidence part of the record. Sorry, could you state that again? I I couldn't hear the question. So the minutes uh the the minutes from planning and zoning that were supposed to be attached. Uh would those not have been attached to the case as part of the evidentiary record. Uh uh Mr. Zenner, I think that that's part of the package. You I'd have to go back. We don't enumerate the attachments to we don't enumerate the attachments in Board of Adjustment Reports the same way we do planning commission. Um I think the uh to error on the side of greatest caution, we will add the planning and zoning commission minutes. Uh if they were not added to the actual staff report, we will add them to the staff report uh that was published uh before and they wouldn't be added specifically to the minutes themselves because they would have been a piece of the actual staff report. They may not have I may have added them, but if I had you would have seen them, which I have a feeling they did not get added to the agenda. So we will add them to the published agenda, so then they will become part of the record, which is what was intended because of the way the staff report was written.