The Planning Commission held a workshop on March 20, 2023, at 2:00 PM at City Hall (101 North Court Street) to discuss several land use applications. The agenda included a text amendment for the Carroll Creek Overlay, architectural reviews, site plans, preliminary plats, and two annexation cases. Due to the lengthy agenda, the two annexation items (PC22-1018ANX and PC22-1017ANX) were automatically moved to the April 17 workshop, and the meeting was adjourned at 5:45 PM after partially covering the Frederick Airport Park preliminary plat.
Good afternoon. It is two o'clock, so we're gonna get started with our March 2023 workshop for the Planning Commission for the City of Frederick. Um this is more casual than our hearings on Monday nights. And um I do notice that there are quite a few people here. Um you could all be applicants, but you might be coming from the public for testimony. We don't require that you sign in, but if you would like to sign in, do we have um a sign-in sheet? Great. Um so we will look at the sign-in sheet first and call the names of those who have signed in, and then we will ask if there's anyone else. The way that you do not have to, no. So um it's just it is there, it gives us a record, and as we said, we will call the ones who are signed in first. Um and after we get started, Jennifer will go over and pull the sign-in sheet. Um so the way we work this is we ask the applicants to come up to the table, and they will present their project. And the uh commissioners will ask them questions, we'll give comments, and we'll um in essence exhaust that conversation. We'll then look to staff, and staff will most often give some more uh comments, we'll have some questions and comments for staff, then we'll ask for public comment. Now the public comment, um, unless you're with a group, and if you are, when you introduce yourself, please say the name of the group. You are limited to three minutes. If you have anything in writing and you would like to leave that with us, that's great. If you would like to follow any of your comments up with writing, we do get all of those letters. In fact, we have already received a number on some of the projects. So um, and if and if it looks like you're getting, if your comments are going to be longer than three minutes, we will ask you to quickly sum it up. But please know that just because you you have more to say than three minutes, we certainly will read everything that you have to say. So we also have a large agenda, so we're gonna get to it and probably take a short five-minute break about halfway through because I have a feeling we're gonna go to our hard stop of 540. And if we do hit that, we don't get every item. We'll briefly talk about um what we will do with the rest of the items and when we will continue them to most likely the next workshop, but I'll confer with Gabrielle on that. I also note just before we get started, in case anyone is um attending intending for the last two items on the agenda, the two annexation cases, uh, one is for the Mercer property and the other is for the Tom's property, those projects have been automatically moved to the April process. Already moved to the April 17th workshop. Well, thank you for doing that. I think it helps the commissioners know that uh now we will probably and hopefully get through the agenda. So having said all that, um anyone here, and that includes the staff, applicants, and members of the public who wish to testify or plan on testifying today. You do need to be sworn in. So please stand up and raise your right hand. And even if you're not sure if you would do it, that would help. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the responses given in statements made in this hearing before the planning commission will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? If so, answer I do. Okay, well, thank you all. Um so with that, we will move on to our first agenda item. And um, this is the Carroll Creek Overlay. It's a text amendment PC 22 370, and we invite the applicants up to the table. Good afternoon, members of the commission, Lisa Lawler Vratator of the law firm of McCurdy Dean and Gradator. With me today are my partner, Bruce Dean, um, Andrew Walker of Oshman Properties, and we have Ken and Ed Warmald of the Warmore Companies here as well. We'd like to start out by thanking the staff and the commission for the opportunity to come back today for a third workshop. We understand you have a very long agenda. Ooh. Wow. Do you know it's really it's really hard because if you don't speak into it, we can't hear you. So let's see what happens. But go ahead and talk and we'll see how it works. Is that Lance back there? Okay, I think that's better. So in that regard, we are in a year of stock holding time.