The Frederick City Planning Commission met on September 8, 2025, at 6:00 PM at City Hall to consider multiple agenda items including continuances, a master plan for Frederick Health Village, a text amendment on mixed-use phasing, and several site plans and modifications. The meeting included public testimony and resulted in unanimous votes to approve routine items, continue the Frederick Health master plan to November 10, 2025, recommend denial of the text amendment, and approve all other applications.
All right, it is six o'clock. Then I will now call the meeting to order. And welcome everybody to the what's today, September 8th, 2025 meeting of the Frederick City Planning Commission. Um, before we start tonight's proceedings, I'm going to give us a background of the Planning Commission and the procedures that will follow this evening. Um members of the Planning Commission are all residents of the city and are volunteers appointed by the mayor and the city council. The commission is made up of five regular members and one alternate. 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, and we will take the cases in the following format tonight. We will first have an introduction of the case, followed by a presentation of the case and a rich initial recommendation by staff. We will then give the commission a chance to ask questions of staff. Following that, we will allow the applicant or the authorized agent to make their remarks regarding the case, followed by commission questions of the applicant. After that, we will have public comment and if appropriate, the commission questioning of public comments. Finally, we will give the applicant a chance to respond to public comment. We'll then bring it back up here, um, open it up for commission discussion and questions and commission action. So in support of the planning commission, staff members from cities planning, engineering, and legal departments are in attendance. Um we'll be taking public comments. Anyone who wants to um make comments tonight, please sign up with the sign-up sheet. I will take people who have signed up first. Just a reminder that members of the public will have three minutes to give their comments. If you're representing a group, you can have 10 minutes to give your your comments. The timing clock will show the amount of time that you have left, and in order to expedite our evening, I will definitely make everybody ask everybody to wrap their comments up to the end of three minutes. So at this point, everybody who is planning on making a presentation before the the commission tonight um needs to stand and be sworn in. Thank you very much. Um that do we have announcements? Yes, thank you. Good evening. Our next planning commission workshop will be held this coming Monday, September 15th at 2 p.m. in this room. Packet should be posted tomorrow on our website. That will be followed by the citywide community outreach meeting at 6 p.m. All right, that was fast, thank you. All right, the next item on the agenda is the minutes, and we have um three meeting minutes to consider tonight. We have the August 11th Planning Commission meeting minutes, the August 8th, 18th, 2025 Planning Commission workshop minutes, and the September 5th pre-planning commission meeting minutes. I'll take a motion. I move for approval of the August 11th, 2025 planning commission meeting minutes. Second. That is a motion by Commissioner Llewell and a second by Commissioner Valencia. All in favor? Aye. That is unanimous. I move for the approval of the August 18th, 2025 planning commission workshop minutes. Second. That is a motion by Commissioner Valencia, a second by Commissioner Llewellyn. All in favor? Aye. Aye. That's unanimous. Finally. I move for approval of the September 5th, 2025 pre-planning commission meeting minutes. Second.