The Frederick City Planning Commission held its regular meeting on Monday, March 10, 2025, at 6:00 PM in City Hall. The meeting covered multiple items including recommendations on the Capital Improvements Program, annexation and zoning for High Glen and Faith Reformed Presbyterian Church, a final plat for the O'Rear property, and final site plans for Cabana Air hangar at the Frederick Municipal Airport. The commission approved all items on the agenda, with some votes including a 4-1 split on a landscaping modification.
The meeting adjourned after completing all agenda items.
It is six o'clock. Are we ready to get going? Then I will call the meeting to order. And I would like to welcome everybody to the March 10th, 2025 meeting of the Frederick City Planning Commission. Before we do tonight's proceedings, um, I would like to give a little background on the planning commission and the procedures that were following this evening. Members of the Planning Commission and are all residents of the city and are volunteers appointed by the mayor and uh the city council. The commission is made up of five regular members and one alternate, and its powers and duties are assigned by the Charter of the City of Frederick 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. Cases will be presented to the planning commission tonight in the following format. We will first have the introduction of the case, then we will have the presentation of the case and initial recommendation by staff. We will do a commission questioning of the staff, then we will have the applicant or authorized agent make their presentation, followed by commission questioning of the applicant. Following that, we will have public comment, and if appropriate, give the commission um the opportunity to question the public comments. Um following the public comment, we'll give the applicant um the opportunity to respond to public comments, then we will bring it back up here for any discussion or questions that we might have up here, and then we will conclude with an action on each item. Um in support of the planning commission, um, we have staff members from the city's planning department. Do we have engineering department here today? No, no engineering department, um, and legal departments. Um, anybody who wants to wishes to speak tonight before the the board, um, including members of the public, the applicant, and staff all need to um be sworn in prior to giving their comments. And at this point, I will ask everybody who wants to make comments to stand, and I will do a group swearing in. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the responses given in the statements made in the hearing before the planning commission are the whole truth and nothing but the truth? If so, answer I do. All right, thank you very much. Um, I did forget to say that if you would like to make public comments, we have a sign-up sheet over on the table on um the side of the room. I will take commenters from there first and then give anybody else who wants to comment um the opportunity. But at this point, we will turn it over to Gabrielle for any announcements that she has. Thank you very much. Um we have our standard two announcements. Our workshop is next Monday, starts at 2 p.m. and it is in this room. Uh the backup should be available online tomorrow morning. We'll we'll notify the commission when it's ready. Uh and those are items that will be coming before the planning commission at subsequent hearings. That same evening at 6 p.m. We have our citywide planning department community outreach meeting. That's also held in this room and is streamed online uh as well as through channel 99 if you have cable in the city. And that is an introduction of all the newest applications that have just been submitted uh that were kind of in the infancy of reviewing, and that um some of them will be scheduled for future workshops and hearings, so great opportunity to learn more. And then lastly, I'm gonna welcome Christina Roderick, our new division manager of current planning. Uh, this is her first day of work, and she had uh decided that she wanted to come see planning commission already. Uh so we're excited to have her, and she will be working with the commission uh moving forward as she gets familiar with her role. So welcome. Well, thank you. Welcome. We're excited to have you. Okay. Um the next item on the agenda is the minutes, and we have um three minutes to approve. February 10th, 2025 planning commission hearing minutes, February 18th, 2025 planning commission workshop minutes, and the March 7th, 2025 pre-planning commission meeting minutes. Uh I move for the approval of the February 10th, 2025 planning commission meeting minutes. Second. So that is a motion by Commissioner Beanie, a second by Commissioner Valencia. All in favor. Aye.