Ladies and gentlemen, it is January 27th, 2026, 7 p.m., and it is time to convene the uh Cornelius Planning Commission to order.

We are in the council chambers of the city of Cornelius.

We have one major item on the agenda tonight.

Um, and uh we will be going getting to that in a few moments.

Um glad to have everybody here.

If uh staff could call roll, I would appreciate that commissioner Baker.

Present.

Commissioner Hinze?

Present.

Vice Chair Owens.

Present.

Chair Waffle.

Present.

All present.

All right, then so we uh we have um uh no new uh city council minutes to sign.

I just uh signed off on five sets that we approved at the last meeting.

So we are uh uh we are uh moved uh right along and gotten caught up.

Um our uh piece of new business is we have a uh person that wants to uh uh uh be a member of the planning commission and the budget committee, I would know.

Two good choices.

Um the uh and so uh uh Sam, if you want to come up, um the uh we uh we will ask a few gentle questions about your interest.

We uh we do appreciate it.

Uh uh it's uh it's a fun group.

We we enjoy the work that we do, and uh um so um why don't you start out introducing yourself, a little description and just a general why are you interested?

Yeah, and then we'll get in some specifics.

Uh so Sam Dowrole, I've actually lived in Cornelius for 30 years now at the same house.

So I'm over on uh South 28th, and uh you know for a long period of time there wasn't that much development going on, but recently there's more development.

So I thought, you know, I I need I should get involved since I've been here and you know put down some pretty good roots in uh Cornelius here.

And so uh that's that's what piqued my interest.

Plus, you know, the new development there at the Laurel Woods, and then um in the Hillsborough school parcel that now is going to be development, and then inside town too.

And so really wanted to join and be a part and making you know Cornelius better and stuff.

And so as far as my history goes, when I was in uh my early 20s, my dad and my brother and I we actually built a house, an 1800 square foot two-story house from the ground up.

So I I did the uh you know work uh with my brother and my dad doing the electrical, the plumbing, the framing, the roofing, the finish carpentry, and we passed the inspections all the way all through and and also got the final inspection.

So, you know, familiar with reading blueprints and and aspects of construction.

We also did the the foundation.

The only thing we subbed out was digging and placing the septic tank and the leech lines and roughing in the foundation.

The rest was all done by us.

So that was a neat experience.

And so I thought, yeah, and I've been, you know, life goes on, you get get a job, get busy, and so uh haven't had time to be a part of the government, you know, Cornelius.

But uh I thought now's a good time to start joining.

That's great.

Commissioners, do you have some questions for Sam?

Sure.

Sam, uh, what would you like to see differently in Cornelius?

And what would you like to see stay the same?

Well, differently, you know, um we just recently had the open house for the changes in uh the streets, you know, the the uh bump in or bump outs or whatever for uh like 26 uh 26th Avenue and at uh 20th.

And when I saw those plans, I was a little concerned because over on 12th in Dogwood, you know, we narrowed down those streets and we put the con uh steel poles around there.

So if you actually had a pulling a trailer and you tried to turn right or left, you'd be really challenged to make those turns.

And for me, I have a 36-foot RV.

If I go south down 26th Avenue and turn left on Dogwood with those bump outs, it would cause a major concern of making that turn.

And so I thought, you know, I should I'd be able to help out and you know guide them in the right way.

Now the mayor said, oh, these are just engineering proposals, and they you know that's why they had the open house, but I thought, you know, I should probably be a part and and help out early on.

So what is your professional background?

So I'm uh I've been an engineering manager for uh over 25 years now.

So software basically is uh where I started software development and then moved into management, and I have several engineers that report to me.

Also manage engineers worldwide.

So I had some people reporting to me in Malaysia and then down in Chandler, and uh so I work for a large company here in Hillsborough, so they're global.

Uh so I've been worldwide visiting all the sites.

Uh actually been around the world three times and one trip.

So one trip, going completely around and uh three separate trips.

So went completely west one trip and going east two trips.

So thanks.

Edgar, anything.

So are you going to go back around the westward?

Well, they've they've cut down on travel due to uh you know the economy and whatnot.

So I haven't traveled since 2019, but I did travel internationally every year uh for about 15, 16 years.

So I've been to a lot of different countries.

And would you build a house with your family again?

Yeah, actually it was a fun experience.

You know, we had a my parents had 20 acres, and we uh they also had a D6 cat, so we leveled the uh building, you know, the building pad, and our brother and I did that, and you know, we didn't have lasers and everything, so we just eyeballed it, and we were only off by like six inches uh you know by about 120 feet by 240.

So it wasn't bad eyeballing it.

That's all um the uh well my question's been been asked, so uh I would just uh uh say uh uh thank you for your for your interest in and being uh wanting to be uh an active member of the community government of the uh and uh the we we really appreciate uh appreciate your interest and uh um and and you're very close to where most of our development uh has been and will be occurring because there's not much else left to uh to build on.

Exactly.

Um and uh planning commission will give you an opportunity to uh uh stay abreast of of what development activity there is and uh and then also here are complaints about how we're our development opportunities that we can't get because of uh politics.

But yeah.

Well, it was nice getting the windies in the Chipotle there.

And uh and now they're breaking ground on uh getting ready to take on Chick-fil-A.

Yeah, I saw that in the minutes of the team meeting or the council meeting last year.

So that's great.

We we only waited since uh uh since about 2011 for that that that Chick-fil-A site to get developed.

Yeah, I know sometimes it takes time.

It sure does.

All right, anything else, commissioners?

All right, thank you very much.

All right, thank you guys.

Um so we uh we get to make a vote uh take action on his application.

Would anybody like to make a motion to uh uh recommend uh Sam Dalrymple for uh the membership on the planning commission?

A motion to recommend Sam's appointment to the planning commission to the city council.

Do we have a second of the motion?

I second.

Right.

Any discussion?

All those in favor of uh recommending uh Sam uh for membership on the planning commission, please say aye.

All right.

And opposed.

Very good.

That'll uh come to the plan to the city council in February.

Um, unfortunately, there isn't enough time because the notice needed to be added to the agenda for and published yesterday.

Uh so it'll be on the March 2nd agenda.

That's right.

Well, you'll still you'll still be in time for the budget to the for the budget committee meeting in May, then all right, thank you.

You please stay for the meeting because you're gonna get to see this group in action and uh um get acquainted with uh a uh development team uh for with which we are for which we are very familiar, and uh um uh see how they uh how they present things.

It is a legislative action, a type four action.

Uh and uh um Barbara, can I just go ahead and start reading?

All right.

Um bear with me, please.

This is uh uh the uh procedure that we will follow.

This is the time and place for a public hearing on a minor transportation system plan map amendment, CPMA 2025-1.

The planning commission's recommendation of the city council and this amendment will be based upon the record, staff report and testimony and evidence presented this hearing.

I will now open the hearing at 71.

The order of business on this application will be as follows city staff report, applicants testimony, uh members of audience in person or virtually who wish to speak on the proposal, opportunity for the re for the applicant to re uh provide a rebuttal, uh staff closing remarks, and then I will close the hearing and the planning commission will begin deliberations.

The applicable criteria for this application are as follows.

The Cornelius Municipal Code, Chapter 18.130 comprehensive plan, and specifically the amend uh uh the comprehensive plan amendment procedures, uh state planning goals or OAR 66015-triple uh quadruple zero, uh Metropolitan uh Metro Urban Growth Management Functional Plan, which is Metro Code 3.07, the Metro Regional Transportation Functional Plan, Metro Code 4, Section 3.08, and the comprehensive plan amendment criteria in the various chapters of the city's comprehensive plan.

Uh testimony, arguments and evidence must be directed toward the listed criteria or other criteria in the comprehensive plan or currentness municipal code, which the person believes to apply to the decision.

Evidence means facts, documents, data, or other information offered to demonstrate compliance or non-compliance with the standards believed by the per believed by the proponent to be relevant to the decision.

Now is the time for commissioners to declare any actual or potential conflicts of interest, ex parte contact or personal bias.

Please indicate the nature and extent of the expartheid contact bias or conflict of interest.

Do any members of the commission have any conflict of interest with the application?

Hearing none?

I actually do.

Um I am an educational assistant for Yorchards Elementary, which is right along 26th Avenue, I believe.

What is it?

26th, I believe.

Um 26 and beats, which is the current closest collector street in the cards.

Um I've just been hearing a lot from my boss, our principal lately, about how much traffic there is on 26, and it's been something of a safety hazard for the students in the morning.

Um so I kind of have that ex parte contact with this application.

Um I don't think I'm personally biased, but I did want to um declare that and see if anyone in the audience thinks I should recuse myself.

Okay.

Any other commissioners?

Um I attend um the city council meetings.

Um I attended in the previous old um previous plan in this one.

Um I feel I do not have um bias.

Okay.

I do live in the Laurel Woods community, um, so I'm close, relatively close, but I don't believe I have any conflicts of interest.

And uh I believe I I I've had no ex parte contact and don't feel I have any bias or conflicts of interest.

All right, does any member of the audience wish to object to uh uh vice chair Owens uh particular continue to participate in the meeting tonight?

All right, please continue uh with that.

Um I guess I should ask.

Do we have anybody online?

We have one of the members of the applicant team.

Okay, but no public testimony.

All right.

Uh so uh it is time for the staff to uh present uh the uh the report and uh let's proceed with that.

Great.

So as you mentioned, um this is a minor transportation system plan.

Representative, oops, the applicant's representative is Melissa Slotamaker from AKS Engineering, and the location of this amendment is south of TV Highway or Twalton Valley Highway and west of 345th Avenue.

The zoning on the underlying property is R7, low density residential and A2 multi-unit residential, and basically the proposal is to remove the collector designation from South 29th Boulevard north of South Dogwood Street, and to place that designation of collector on Southwest 345th Avenue from Dogwood Street north to TV Highway.

So the reason that the designation was there in the first place is that there was a grand bargain made at the legislature under House Bill 4068 in 2014, and it designated two areas for the city to expand into.

So the north-south is South 29th Boulevard, and then the east-west is uh Dogwood, and that would be a continuation of the existing collector of Dogwood.

And then you can see the underlying zoning, the kind of greenish color underneath the map is the uh greenish-yellow is the R the A2 zoning, and the light orangish yellow on the outskirts, kind of outlined in blue, is the R7 zoning.

And to give you a little history about annexation of this area, I pulled up the Cornelius Annexation history map, and this yellow outline is the area that was the subject of that Southeast UGB.

So the darkest purple is the area of Laurel Woods, and it annexed in 2017 or 2016, rather.

Then the light purple, the lilac color, which is the Hillsborough School District property, it annexed in um September of 2018, and then the area at the far south end is um the Laurel Crown subdivision that you folks reviewed previously and is finished with the rough the um the uh infrastructure, so they're getting ready to build houses, which is really exciting.

Um it is um shown in the white color with the kind of blue squiggles.

The three areas on this map within that yellow boundary that are white are still unincorporated Washington County.

They're donuts within the city.

This particular um amendment came about because the South 29th Boulevard design became infeasible in 2019.

There was an analysis to look at that north connection to connect to South or North 29th at TV Highway.

There's a substantial grade differential between the rail line and TV Highway that is significant.

Also, the railroad had a number of requirements.

One was to lower the tracks at South 29th Boulevard.

They wanted the city to close two or three rail crossings to open up the new South 29th Boulevard rail crossing.

We would have to construct a new rail crossing, which included pavement and rail arms, and then also to remove the Southwest 345th Avenue rail crossing.

So close that completely so people couldn't use it.

So that was identified, and it would come up the same from the south, but then it would try it would travel eastward to um 345th, and there would not be a new crossing at South 29th Boulevard across the railroad and across to 29th.

It would swing over to 345th and use the existing crossing at 345th.

Then kind of morphed into this alignment, and it in uh 2023, I believe, became 7.1 million dollars to build this development.

This are not development, this this alignment.

Um the city was looking at placing a water tank at that location where the little red dot is as a redundancy to our existing water tank, and it was explored with before we did our um our um ASR wells.

So the the exchange of water, we put it into the ground in the fall, and we pull it out in the summer when we need it.

But um, that is working, so we don't need this particular um reservoir.

And then with COVID and um just the cost of construction and the negotiations with the school district, it became a 14 million dollar project, and we collected about six million dollars in transportation development funds to build this project.

So we're significantly shy of being able to construct this, and we know that there are needs in this area, so we're looking for other options.

The engineering team from the city partnered with um an engineering firm of AKS engineering, and they tried to engage the community in looking at um solutions to the perception that that there are many more cars, they're going faster, and that there are safety issues.

So the consultants and staff presented some treatments that would reduce the traffic seed speeds and increase safety.

There was less than favorable support for those treatments, however, there was overwhelming support for opening Southwest 345th Avenue as an out additional outlet for South Cornelius.

Staff are proceeding with addressing the intersection of South 26th Avenue and Beach Street at Free Orchard School, and that will be the only intersection that they're looking at in the short term.

Because regardless of what happens with this amendment, we believe that road needs to be opened up.

And staff will hold another open house in March.

And additionally, staff is really working hard on providing education to the public on the different types of current um transportation theories.

And so there's a series of Gazette articles that are going out.

This one happened to be in the January Gazette, and it has to do with roundabouts, how to use them that kind of thing.

So back to the amendment.

This amendment again is to move that right of not the right of way, but the collector designation from the map on the left north of Dogwood to the map on the right, so it would be a straight shot and then north.

This will reduce conflicts with the rail line intersection.

Um it functioning functions equally well or better than the South 29th Boulevard North South connection.

It continues the spacing of the South Collectors.

And this is a measurement using just GIS of the spacing from 4th to 10th Avenue, 10th to 14th, 14th Avenue to 19th 20th, 19th 20th to 26th, and 26th to 345th.

And you can see they're about 1200 plus feet to about 2,000 feet.

And this is right in line with those other ones.

Staff believes and have that we have demonstrated that the application meets the applicable criteria found within the comprehensive plan, the municipal code, the statewide planning goals, and the growth management functional plan.

So based on the facts, findings, and conclusions with this within the staff report, staff recommends that the planning commission recommend the city council hold a public hearing and consider approving the proposed comprehensive plan amendment by ordinance.

And I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Staff, any uh any questions for uh for our community development director before we turn it over to the applicant.

Was this from a state agency?

Yes, it's from the Oregon Division of State Lands.

Yes.

We did a new agency I never heard of.

Um maybe you'd like to answer perhaps the the applicant's representative will uh about the lane width on 345th.

I believe it was either in this staff report or all the other notes that were sent along from the pre-application meetings about the the width.

And my question is 345th still serves a farm or a farming community, and our 10-foot lanes going to be uh appropriate.

So that will be our city engineer who will make that decision about what the actual design is.

This is just moving the collector designation from one place to another.

Understand.

Does keeping it with a collector designation limit us to only a 10-foot travel lane?

That's what I want to avoid.

So we can have that determination.

I don't believe it does because the current um design that is typical for a collector, but that doesn't mean that it's limited only to that design.

Okay.

Very good.

Yeah, I'd I'd I'd like it to be non-limiting.

Because I think this is a unique situation, will become a unique situation.

Got it.

Okay.

Any other questions for staff?

I mean there's no construction criteria for this designation.

It's just a something, a name in the transportation system plan.

So there are three classifications in the transportation system plan.

There's arterials that are intended to travel to take people from point A to point B throughout the city.

So 10th is an example of a c of an arterial.

TV Highway is an arterial.

So it's to take traffic through the city.

A collector is to collect local street traffic and ferry it to the arterials.

However, our city engineer makes the final decision on what that design looks like based on the needs of the users of that facility.

Anything else?

Then uh let's go to the applicant uh representative.

Um Melissa, if you'd like to come forward.

And please state your name and address for the record.

Again.

Oh, there we go.

Perfect.

Um my name is Melissa Slotomaker.

I'm with AKS Engineering.

Our address is 12965 Southwest Herman Road in Tualeton.

Um thanks for having us here.

Um I am here with Holt Homes.

Can I just use this?

Where do I point?

Anywhere?

Okay.

Perfect.

Um, so I have with me here um Joe Sheavy, who's with Hold Homes, as well as a couple team members from uh AKS uh our engineering um lead, Paul Selkie, as well as Todd Mobley, he's our traffic engineer, and he is joining remotely.

Um and then we also have Olivier Jamine from Davis Wright Tremaine.

Um we're here to answer questions, and I'm just gonna uh go through some materials pretty similar since um staff did such a thorough job as always.

Um we're highlighting a few of the same things, but um just really wanting to emphasize just the just kind of common sense improvement of this um collector um moving the collector.

So um again, this is the area of the the city we're talking about.

Um we're moving really moving a line.

I'm calling it shifting of the collector because even though we're removing it and placing it, you know, we're basically just shifting the traffic from one future developable area to the to the uh east.

Um so what this proposed alignment provides, um in the orange you can see how it's currently um is designed to bring traffic from that southwest point to the northeast across the railroad tracks into TV TV Highway.

This connection would simply move the collector traffic straight to the east and north.

And this you can see by the highlighted area that um as um Barbara had mentioned, you know, this is a more efficient improvement, so it will not cost as much to build two legs of the of a collector roadway versus basically three.

Um and it's a better use of land, and that's um you know we didn't go into the background of of how we got to this this point in this application, but that's um ultimately a big part of it.

This is this will allow for more developable land within the city.

Um this also um removes the connection to Alpine.

That's not something that um has been talked about a bunch, but right now the actual right-of-way connects to Alpine Road, which is a local street, it's not a collector street.

So the way it um currently is mapped, um there's a connection from a collector to a local, which is not ideal, as well as um the current um intersection um kind of that extension of Alpine to 345th is fairly close to the railroad tracks.

So that those intersections are just um not ideal, and um by moving it south to Dogwood to 345th, that will make a safer collector connection, and then just a couple more.

Um, and I think maybe your new commissioner might actually live in some of these areas that I'm um highlighting.

But right now um there's some in orange there, you could see some lots that have basically double frontage.

So they um yeah, so they have front on 28th, and then they currently have a collector um designation at their back property, so um, which is not efficient.

Um, and so this would move again the the collector designation where it it could make more sense, and then finally, as as Barbara had mentioned, just the general spacing that's um just better for collecting traffic, um, having them too close together isn't really helpful.

So that's that's really it.

Very high level.

Um again, the application we believe meets the uh comprehensive plan map amendment criteria, and we um encourage you to recommend approval to city council so um they can approve it at their next meeting or in March.

And with that, um happy to answer any questions or the rest of our teams here too.

Commissioners, any questions for Melissa?

Will there be just one round about or two?

Because I already um I can see um with the bands provide here.

I see the one, but I'm curious on the third 30 345th avenue.

Yeah, and I will let Barbara answer that, but roundabouts really aren't part of the application.

Um, and those designs um are not being uh determined.

Yeah, I'm just curious.

Yeah.

Well, and they're as Melissa noted, they're not part of the application.

And um at some future date, we'll have a more exact design of the um alignment and the um north-south alignment.

So that will be worked on with the transportation engineer and trying to make sure that traffic flows well, that um as Chair Waffle noted, that farm equipment can travel over the alignment in a safe manner, and then also so that people can get out onto TV Highway in a safe manner.

Um that is coordinated with the railroad.

And as we as I noted, we've started the discussions with the railroad so that um that it takes about two years to get through the railroad.

So that piece needs to be decided first, and then the rest of it will come as part of that.

Okay.

Thank you.

Correct.

Anything what would removing the collector designation like effectively entail for um the existing 29th Boulevard.

Just by name.

Well, so the where it is right now, and I can go back to the map.

Maybe that might be helpful.

Um let's see.

So currently, if you look at the intersection of Dogwood and 29th that's shown on the map here, um I don't believe there's anything built north of Dogwood.

Is that accurate?

That is accurate.

I know there's been some connections made, but 29th, so there's nothing built there, but there is right-of-way.

So there is city, you know, future street dedicated area that will be separately removed if this is approved.

But yeah.

So in order to do what's called a right-of-way vacation, the right-of-way cannot be on the transportation system.

So if we were to proceed with vacating that right-away, this amendment would have to go forward, and both you and city council would need to approve that.

And then the city council could take an additional action by ordinance of vacating that right away.

Thank you.

But it's a multi-step process.

So you've determined that changing the classification is the first step and then vacation.

Correct.

The vacation cannot occur without the removal of the collector designation.

It cannot be on the TSP map as a collector or arterial to vacate that right away.

Okay.

Thank you.

There's going to be a lot of different steps here.

Yes.

You're not thinking of building a 29th at all anymore.

Collector or not?

Um north of Dogwood, we think that as demonstrated by the traffic information, that a collector would be more appropriate going up 345th.

That's not to say there won't be a local street network in this area in the future, but for a collector and for the collector right-of-way size, we don't believe it is still appropriate at that location.

Yeah, Joe Shevy, Holt Homes, uh 1301 South Tech Drive in Vancouver.

And south of Dogwood 29th will be extended up to Dogwood.

So but we're not proposing that that collector street, 29th Collector Street would go north of Dogwood.

So yes, there is a section of 29th that needs to be extended from the Laurel Woods project up to Dogwood.

Thank you.

All right.

Any other questions for the applicant?

Um one more question.

Are is there any bike lane planned for 345th?

Um the standard collector street does have bike lanes.

Thank you.

So again, as Barbara mentioned, that is at the discretion of the city engineer.

But as far as I know that I've heard, there is I haven't heard that it would not have bike lanes.

And there'll be a process, obviously, to go through in order to establish what is actually going to be built there.

Thank you.

Okay.

Anything else?

Thank you for joining.

Oh just say I'm sorry, Sam, we can't have you have you'll you're gonna have to hold that.

You'll have an opportunity.

Well listen, Joe, thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

All right.

Um so we still have no citizens online.

All right.

Then uh are there members of the audience that would like to ask questions or provide commentary and uh please address your comments to the chair, and uh either staff or applicant will respond uh at the appropriate time please and identify your name and address for the record.

We'll also need you to fill out one of the yellow cards because when you testify at a planning commission meeting, you're entitled to receive the notice of decision.

So that's how we document that you testified and we get the information correct.

Okay.

Sounds good.

So Sam Dowrumpole, I'm at uh so give the address to 40 448 South 28th Avenue in Cornelis.

So my question is is the original collector today, the 29th Street, on the east side of the collector, it had a 12 foot wide sidewalk that was going to tie in to the walking path up by the railroad tracks up there.

And so now that we're removing that over to or moving that over to 345, would we still have that 12-foot sidewalk that connects Laurel Woods up to, and I forgot the name of that walking path that they're using for the railroad tracks north of TV Highway?

Okay.

Thank you.

So right now the plan is that any pedestrian and bicycle connection would still be located on 345th if it was going to be located on South 29th Boulevard north of Dogwood.

So the details will be decided when the exact engineering happens to make sure that it fits within the right-of-way, that it meets the needs of all the users, the pedestrians, the bicyclists, the farm equipment, cars, trucks, et cetera.

And that will be decided in a different venue.

But yes, pedestrian and bike traffic will be accommodated.

Okay, great.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Any other members of the audience uh who wish to uh uh testify?

Um hearing none, then uh oh, I should read this part into the record.

Uh I've got a piece I I missed from my script.

Uh now is the time uh for public testimony.

Uh the uh uh failure to raise an issue in the hearing in person or by letter, or failure to be specific enough to afford the planning commission and all participants an opportunity to respond to an issue will preclude any right of appeal to the city council or land use board of appeals.

And if you brought any uh materials that you wish to present to the planning commission, they will be held until the record is closed.

So we have none, but we've we've we've explained our uh our liability waiver.

All right, so then we will uh provide uh any opportunity for applicant rebuttal.

Umelyssa, anything?

All right, uh any staff comments?

Um I would just note again that this is a map amendment moving the collector designation from the current alignment of South 29th Boulevard north of Dogwood, eastward, so that it is straight from Dogwood north to 340 or north to TV Highway on 345th, that it does not include the design elements of the final um road to be constructed, and it would not preclude future um local streets within the area to serve local traffic.

Um this is just looking at the collector network.

Okay, thank you.

Um are there any questions for uh commissioners before we uh begin deliberations?

All right, we will close the public hearing portion at 749.

And uh the commission has three options.

We can continue to a date certain, we can close the hearing and leave the record open to a date certain, or we can close the hearing and commence deliberations leading to the commission's finding and conclusion, specific motion and vote.

Uh the motion will be to recommend to the city council approval or denial of the application by a majority of uh those of us who are present.

Commissioners, which choice would you like to do?

Or do you have a motion?

We don't need to close the meeting before we move.

We've closed the we've closed the public hearing, so in that case.

And add the collector designation to Southwest 345th Avenue from Dogwood Street north to TV Highway be recommended for city council approval based on the facts, findings and conclusions presented in the staff report and public testimony and evidence in this hearing.

Thank you, Vice Chair Owens.

Is there a second to the motion?

Second.

Thank you.

Any discussion.

This is the this is a simple uh movement of a line on a piece of a digital marker on a in a in a record.

It's it's a line on a map.

Um and uh as we've seen just a inkling tonight, there are many more questions about what will happen with uh the land in this area, the streets.

Um the uh and I would I would offer in support of my uh affirmative vote is when we had the initial discussion of this area.

We we we had aspirations of 345th being the the logical intersection, probably the cheapest uh, because it really sets up then a collector to serve the area also to the east as it may someday develop in our fever dreams.

Um the um but it is it is a uh it is a logical place for a collector.

It's an issue we would probably have to face at some future date, and by moving it to 345th at this point, even for the area just north of South Dogwood, uh kind of sets the sets the tone uh and describes the the future functionality of the road system in that area.

And so that's why I will be speaking.

I will vote in favor of this.

Any other comments?

All right.

All members of the commission that wish to support the motion to recommend this comprehensive plan map amendment uh for the uh minor amendment to the TSP to the city council, please say aye.

Aye and opposed, nay, and our city recorder will record our votes individually in accordance with the public records law and open meetings laws.

Uh thank you.

Um so this will come to the city council.

You have a you have our recommendation to ride on, and we we thank you for coming.

And uh Chair Waffle, just for the record, when you said nay, that was not that you were voting nay, that was just asking for any of the commissioners who wanted to vote for nay in the affirmative.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you.

So your next meeting will be January or um February 27th, and you will hear an application at that time.

Um and you will again get the staff report at least a week in advance, and um be prepared, please read your staff report and um we look forward to seeing you then, and then hopefully in March we'll work on some um amendments to the municipal code.

Um, and we're gonna batch a number of amendments together.

All right.

All right, anything else from commissioners?

Um did you mean February 24th?

Yes, I'm sorry.

February, well, is that the Tuesday?

February 24th, yes, thank you.

Thank you.

Sorry.

February 24th.

We'll be your next meeting Tuesday, 7 p.m.

This room, no work session ahead of time.

And uh so you get the month of January off or the month of February off until then.

Till February 24th, yes.

All right.

Uh thank you very much.

Um and just before uh you you leave, uh have you uh inspected the uh uh the sports field and the lighting at the uh Cornelis Elementary?

It's been fun to watch it go up and lights on.

Uh probably I don't know, I haven't seen them on.

Uh there's no activity out there.

I believe they've been energized, but they haven't been no.

Um I think they're still having some um work on the field itself because they're applying that AstroTurf.

And I think they had some difficulty with the weather, and so they had to kind of shift their schedule a little.

It's a real noticeable feature.

Uh that that's what struck me is that that field just jumps out as wow, this is there's something special here, you know, because the building is is uh is so far to the to the rear of the site.

That's cool.

All right.

Um then uh let's go home at 7 57.

Thank you.