Meeting to order, and I would like to welcome everybody to the February 10th, 2025 meeting of the Frederick's City of Frederick Planning Commission.

Before I begin tonight's proceedings, I would like to give a little bit of background on the planning commission and the procedures that we'll be following this evening.

Members of the Planning Commission are all residents of the city and are all volunteers appointed by the mayor and the board of Alderman.

The commission is made up of five regular members and one alternate.

Its powers and duties are assigned by the charter.

By the fix that one too.

By the charter of the city of Council and described in section 202 of the land management code.

All of tonight's cases have been appropriately advertised pursuant to section 301 of the land management code, and cases will be presented tonight to the planning commission in the following format.

We will start with an introduction of the case, followed by the presentation and initial initial recommendation by staff.

Then we will have the commission questioning of the staff, followed by the applicant or authorized agents' remarks regarding the case, followed by the commission's questioning of the applicant.

After that, we will have public comment, and if appropriate, we will allow the commission to ask questions of the public commenters.

Following that, we will give the applicant a chance to respond to public comment.

We will conclude with commission discussion and questions and finally commission action.

So in support of the planning commission, members, um staff members from the city's planning, engineering, and legal departments are in attendance, and everybody, anyone who wants to speak publicly tonight regarding any application tonight, including members of the public, um applicants and city staff must be sworn in.

So anybody who's gonna give a plan to speak tonight should stand and raise your right hand.

And do you solemnly swear or affirm that the responses given and the statements made in this hearing before the planning commission are the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Welcome and introduce everybody to our new planning commission member.

This is Elaine Llewellyn.

And this is her first meeting, so we all need to be gentle on her.

Sorry, I was looking for something totally distracted.

Thank you.

Next Tuesday, Monday is the city holiday.

Next Tuesday afternoon at 2 p.m.

Uh, and the workshop is where we discuss projects that have been through the administrative portions of the review process and are going to be moving forward to a hearing coming months.

Uh and that agenda will be posted online uh hopefully later tomorrow afternoon.

And then that same evening at 6 p.m.

We have our citywide planning department community outreach, which is just an informational meeting for the public and anyone who's interested to see kind of a preview of the most recent applications that have been submitted to our department.

Uh these are things that haven't even gotten through the administrative portion of the review process, kind of the latest and the greatest.

So encourage people to check that out on that is um streamed online on channel 99 as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right, so the first item on our agenda is approval of the minutes from past meetings.

And we have meetings from the January or minutes from the January 13th, 2025 Planning Commission meeting, minutes from the January 21st, 2025 Planning Commission workshop, and approval minutes from the February 7th pre-planning commission meeting.

So at this point, I will take a motion for the Commission hearing, January Commission hearing.

I move for the approval of the January 13, 2025 planning commission meeting minutes.

Second.

So that is a motion by Commissioner Manellas, a second by Commissioner Valencia.

All in favor.

That's unanimous.

Now a motion on the workshop minutes.

I move for the approval of the January 21st, 2025 Planning Commission workshop minutes.

So that is a motion by Commissioner Valencia, a second by Commissioner Minellis.

All in favor?

That is unanimous.

And finally, the meet um the minutes from the February 7th pre-planning meeting.

I move for the approval of the February 7th pre-planning commission meeting minutes.

Second.

That is a motion by Commissioner Lee, a second by Commissioner Valencia.

All in favor.

Aye.

That is unanimous.

All right.

All right, so we will move on to miscellaneous items.

And the thing, the first thing on the agenda under miscellaneous is our rules of procedure.

So we'll turn it back over to Gabrielle.

Thank you very much.

So this is our second meeting on the rules of procedure.

We discussed them a bit last month.

And since that discussion, we did make some updates primarily to the section uh four that deals with voting.

Uh and primarily as it relates to what does it mean when a commission member is eligible or ineligible to vote?