The Frederick Planning Commission held a workshop on January 17, 2023, at 2:00 PM at City Hall (101 North Court Street) to review six agenda items: four final site plans, one zoning map amendment, and one text amendment. The workshop was less formal than a public hearing, with applicants presenting modifications, commission questions, staff input, and public comment. No formal votes were taken; the items are expected to proceed to future public hearings.
Planning Commission workshop is now called to order. I would like to welcome. Oops, where did I put my glasses? This will not work if I don't have there they are. I'd like to welcome everybody to the January 17th, 2023 workshop for the Planning Commission. We are gonna do things a little bit differently. The workshop is a little less formal, so the order of go is a little differently than different than usual. Um today we will start by having each applicant come up and present their um their item, in particular focusing in on um the modifications that you're gonna be asking for and explaining explaining those to us. Um after the applicant presentation, we will the commission will take the opportunity to ask questions at the applicant, then we will turn it over to the city staff, hear their thoughts. Um the commission will ask questions at the city at that point. We will open it up for public comment. Um we have members of um city planning and engineering staff present today, and at this point, um, anybody who wishes to make a statement before the commission um should stand and take the oath of office. Oath, not oath of office, you know what I mean. One of those days already. Um do you solemnly swear or affirm that the responses given and the statements made um in this hearing before the planning commission will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? If so, answer I do. All right, very good. Um Gabrielle, do you have any announcements before we get started? Uh and only one. Um tonight is our um citywide community planning department outreach meeting um that is held at 6 p.m. in this room. Uh, it's also televised on channel 99 and streamed through the web, although there is no interactive um component for folks watching at home. So if you have questions or comments that you want to ask any of the applicants or staff about the projects on the agenda for tonight, you do have to be here in person, um, but that is at 6 p.m. All right, thank you very much. All right, our first item on the agenda today is PC 22 834 FSI final site plan for governor's place lot 4A. Good afternoon. Hello. Uh my name's Andrew Welker with Oshman Properties. Um, the revised site plan that we have in front of you today is revised because we had previously submitted and it approved a very similar looking site plan to this one. Um this particular site is part of a subdivision that was completed within the last few years. Um so we broke up what was once one parcel into now three parcels with an out lot. Um as we moved or progressed our design on lot 4B, which is not tied to this application or the site plan. Um we revisited stormwater management, we revisited some of the interface between that parcel and the improvements there and this parcel. So we're catching up and going back and revising this site plan to conform. Um the major difference is that the stormwater management pond at the very south end of the plan was enlarged to be more efficient and also handle some of the stormwater runoff for the future development sites, and as a result, we had to eliminate and relocate some trees on the site. So those are the the major issues. There were some major and some technical concerns that are pointed out. Um after reviewing those, I don't think there's anything that we find problematic or that we would need a modification for uh in between now and the resubmission deadline. We'll address those with staff if we have any questions, but I think we can generally conform to all of those comments. Great, thank you. Questions from the commission? No questions from the commission. Um just to confirm the five trees that are gonna be removed, they're not actually being removed from the site, they're not specimen trees, correct? They are not specimen trees, but they do exist. Oh, okay. Yeah, I believe they're hackberries, and I think there's a pine. Okay. So we had we had attempted to avoid eliminating those trees. Now there's still a very uh considerable buffer to the south of that. So what's not shown on the plan are all the existing trees in that buffer that we're not touching.