The Frederick Planning Commission held a regular meeting on February 9, 2026, to elect officers, approve minutes, and consider three development proposals: signage at Harry Grove Stadium, a Chase Bank final site plan, a Frederick Youth Center site plan, and a WIP Clean Car Wash site plan. All votes were 4-0 in favor of staff recommendations except where noted.
This evening because with our last month's um meeting, our chair had um that was her last official meeting with the with the planning commission. So we now have a vacancy of a chair. Previous uh vacancies, the prior month left our vice chair and secretary position also vacant. So currently we have no no officers, and the first thing we need to do tonight is an election of officers. I will ask the commission members uh to confirm in your discussion, as we discussed at our pre-planning commission meeting on Friday. Their intent just to elect a chairperson this evening and not the full panel of vice uh chair and secretary, and that is because we have several pending appointments and future appointments that will be made and um thought it best to have a full planning commission to select from our slate of officers. So if in your discussions that is the way you'd like to proceed this evening, I would just ask for you to have discussion on that and confirm that intent. With that said, I will call for a motion to elect a chairperson for the planning commission. So, as part of the discussion, I just want to confirm that um this evening we will be electing uh chairperson, but in future meetings we may have a full election once we have a full commission on board. Okay. Do I have a motion for a chair? I'd like to motion for uh Commissioner Lewen Llewellyn to for the chair position. All right, that is um motion for Commissioner Llewellyn. Do I have a second? I'll second that. That is a second by Commissioner Bueno. All those in favor. That is a vote of four to zero. Congratulations, Commissioner Lowellan, and I will hand the meeting over to you uh to give the official call to order. Thank you so much. Excellent. So I'd I would like to call this meeting to order. Uh welcome to the February 9th, 2026 meeting of the City of Fredericks Planning Commission. Before beginning tonight's proceedings, I'd like to give a little background of the planning commission and the procedures that will follow this evening. Members of the planning commission are all residents of the city and are volunteers appointed by the mayor and the city commission. The city council. The commission is made up of five regular members and one alternate. 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. Introduction of the case, presentation of the case, and initial recommendations by staff, commission questioning of staff, applicant or authorized agent remarks regarding the case, commission questioning of the applicant, public comment, applicant response to public comment, commission discussion and questions, and finally commission action. In support of the planning commission, staff members from the city's planning, engineering, and legal departments are here in attendance. Anyone wishing to speak publicly tonight regarding any application, including members of the public, must be sworn in prior to giving their comments. If so, answer I do. Thank you. Before we start the review of our cases this evening, we do have several administrative items to take care of. We'll start with any announcements from the planning department. Thank you, and good evening. This coming Tuesday, February 17th, will be the Planning Commission workshop. It's held at 2 p.m. in this room. It will be on Tuesday instead of Monday due to the President's Day holiday. Following that at 6 p.m. is our community is our citywide community outreach meeting in the same room. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have on the agenda approval of minutes. So I'm looking for a motion for the first set of minutes, which are the January 26, 2000, or I'm sorry, January 12th, 2026 Planning Commission hearing minutes. I move to approve uh the January 1226 Planning Commission meeting minutes. Seconded. Okay. That's a motion by Commissioner Buono, a second by Commissioner Temple.