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The February 2, 2026 voting meeting of the Dormont Borough Council began at 7:00 PM with a public hearing on Ordinance 1657, a comprehensive zoning amendment. Following the hearing, the regular voting session proceeded with committee reports, approvals of consent agenda and action items, and public comment. All votes were unanimous, and council moved to executive session before adjourning.
Recording in progress. Public hearing? Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. So today's today's meeting is going to be divided into two segments. First off, we're going to start off with a public hearing. And then after the public hearing, council will start their normal voting meeting. So at 7 o'clock, you know, we can start the public hearing. Just a little bit of background of why we're having a public hearing. But the municipality's planning code, which regulates the adoption of a zoning ordinance, requires that any changes to the zoning ordinance needs to be advertised and a public hearing held before the changes can go into effect. So just to give a little bit of a procedural history to where we're going to today, the planning commission started this review process back in September of 25, and they voted to be able to recommend these changes to the zoning ordinance back in 25. And then on September 29th of last year, council accepted that recommendation by the Planning Commission to make these amendments to the zoning ordinance. We're outside of that 45-day review period. And now Borough Council voted in its last meeting to advertise this public hearing. So this would be the opportunity. First of all, if you're going to speak in favor of the ordinance, if you can come up, the same rules apply, the same rules that apply to a general council meeting also apply to the public hearing. So if you can please state your name, your address, limit your comments. And first people who want to speak in favor of the ordinance, we'd invite them to come up. Secondly, people want to speak, you know, against the ordinance or have some kind of um recommendation about changes to the draft legislation if you can come up as well. And then after we've heard from public comment, there can be an opportunity from council to ask any questions, if any, of either myself or the fire chief who have been involved in the drafting of this legislation. So at this time, if there's anybody from the public that wishes to speak in favor of the proposed ordinance, this would be your time to come forward. Okay, so in the Redford 1545 grand. Just um not see obviously in favor of it, but thank you to Chief Sackage who ran with us, who started this a long time ago, had a lot of hearings about this, got as much feedback as possible. So very well done, process. I'm in favor. Anybody else that would like to speak in favor of the ordinance? So anybody would like to come up and speak in opposition to the ordinance or make any suggested changes to the ordinance. Is that why you're getting rid of speaking? That's what these public hearings are for, Chief. Um okay, so being being no comments in opposition to the ordinance. Are there any questions from council for either myself or or um Chief Stakich regarding the the ordinance? Chief, do you want to say any any words or any any commentary? I'm sorry, Amy, Amy, she had a comment. Okay. Just a comment. I wanted to actually commend the businesses who came out well over a year and a half ago to the business district relations committee and met with us to talk about the things that were most pressing to them to be able to be more competitive in our community. And so really want to thank all of them for taking those measures and those steps, and then Chief Stackage and others from for uh running with that feedback that they provided to us. That was really the impetus for this, and I really want to thank them for being willing to talk with us and trusting us with their concerns. Chief, any and you want to offer any further comments for the record. Oh thank you. Okay. Mr. President.