Good afternoon and welcome to the mayor and board of Alderman Workshop for the 16th of October.

We begin with the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And to the Republic for which it stands.

One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

With 10 years of service, Charles Osherman, Sanitation, Susie Boisclair, Police Department, Andrew Brown, Engineering, Lisa Dilda, Parking, Ben Hose, Housing and Human Services, Richard Toms, Parking, Jenny Henneberry, police.

With 15 years of service, Paul Alexander Jr.

in the building department, and with 20 years of service.

Dennis Ryder of the Parks Department, Dana Kelly in the police department, and Jeff Stupp, sewer maintenance.

Thank you all for what you do every day for our residents and for our community.

We have minutes to approve October 2nd, 2024.

So move.

Second.

Motion by Alderman Shackerbert, second by Alderwoman Nash.

All those in favor.

That is 30.

Thank you very much.

We were notified prior to the meeting that Alderman McShane and Alderwoman Kazemchuk would be unable to attend today.

Item number one on our workshop today is discussion of a request to rezone 19.54 acres west of Route 15 and North of Himes Avenue, specifically 585 Himes Avenue, from professional business to institutional floating zone to establish Frederick County's Prospect Center, a multi-functional government services complex.

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We have an introduction of the case by the mayor, a presentation from our staff.

Let's see if that comes up now.

Apologize.

The county has the applicant is requesting to rezone 9.5 acres along US 15, and the exact address of this property is 585 Times Avenue.

The property, as you see, as we're all familiar with many different uses have been there as the state farm in the past and the health uh offices and stuff was purchased by the county in 2021.

With the understanding the zoning as professional business would allow them to have administrative offices in the existing building that is there at this time.

Since then, they have looked at this site for expanding on other services and functions of the county where they are proposing to construct a 3,500 square foot building for communications.

They're 911 services that also would uh have associated communications tower on site and a 14,300 and uh square foot vehicle and storage maintenance building.

With that, um those staff had looked at what these uses are and where they absolutely could be permitted, and they were not actually uh permitted in the PB zone, so they are here requesting for an overlay of institutional floating zone on part of this property.

The uh I guess you want to say it's the western part of the property.

Um here I'm really not good at this.

Uh as you see here, this is what they're proposing.

The blue is the institutional floating zone, and then the purple would remain as PB, and that is approximately six acres, six and a half acres.

Um as with institutional, they were to um have findings of fact uh as we look at for population change, availability public facilities, future transportation patterns, and compatibility with the neighborhood and support from the city comprehensive plan.

As we know in this area is a um it is adjacent to some institutional cemetery zone property, some residential uses, and of course the PB as it would remain.

Um this is uh we've looked at um also too, they've uh analyzed uh alternative sites for their functions and um have selected this site as more appropriate for access and um central for city and county services uh alike.

And what else would I want to say for you and no financial impact to the city as we view it and compatibility with uh the urban and design standards in the future under a uh site plan.

Um with that I believe I would turn it over to any questions that you might have on this.

Thank you.

Are there questions for staff?

Hi.

So let's start with the implementing the policies of the comprehensive plan.

Can you talk to me about how this implements the policies of the comprehensive plan?

So and the reason I'm bringing that up is that we are to evaluate using section 306 of the land management code.

So that's just that's the citation.

So can you help me understand that?

Well, one of the criteria is if the rezoning is in harmony with the comprehensive plan as one of part of their criteria in 306 e8, I believe.

Um we find that it is in working with the county and the city together collaboratively to provide services to the residents, and uh that is one of the main goals for um this project.

So in staff position, just to make sure I understand what you're saying, it is staff's position position that rezoning this previously PB major employment site that fronts 15 and is specifically called out in the comprehensive planning documents.

Right.

And we've we've kind of cited the municipal growth policy six that the city will continue to collaborate and coordinate with Frederick County about future development projects.

The collaboration for future development.

Okay.

Thank you.