The Frederick City Planning Commission held a regular meeting on April 13, 2026, at 6:00 PM. The commission considered several agenda items including a site plan extension, architectural elevations, a lot consolidation, a major mixed-use development revision, a Walmart expansion, and two zoning text amendments. All votes were unanimous except for the Pemberton plat, which passed 4–1. No public testimony was offered on any item.
Okay, it is six o'clock. I'd like to welcome everybody to the April 13th, 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 we will follow this evening. Members of the Planning Commission are all residents of the city and are volunteers appointed by the mayor and the town city council. The commission is made up of five regular members. 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 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 following this format. Introduction of the case, presentation of the case, and initial recommendation 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. All speakers must begin their comments by providing their name and general address for the record, and members of the public will have three minutes to give comments. Anyone who is representing a group will have 10 minutes to give comments, and the timer clock will show you your remaining time. At this time, everyone planning to give testimony tonight, please stand and raise your right hand to be sworn in. Do you solemnly swear or affirm that the responses given and the statements made in this hearing before the planning commission will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? If so, answer I do. Thank you. And with that, I'll turn it over to the planning department for announcements. Good evening, everyone. There are four announcements this evening. The first is that the Planning Commission workshop will be held one week from today, Monday, April the 20th at 2 p.m. in this room. Later that evening at 6 p.m., we will have the citywide community outreach meeting. Again, that is in that in this room. And the last two. Thank you, Lewis, for your service. And then lastly, um, we are going to be saying goodbye to Zach Buono, uh Commissioner that has given his time, and we have very much appreciated it. He is going on to bigger things. Um, but maybe one day we'll see him back. So thank you for your service, and I will present you with a court. And I'd like to add a comment. I think um, you know, through Zach's tenure, which although it's been short, he certainly has questioned the status quo and added to our conversations and helped us along with the city planning. So thank you. All right. Uh next we're moving on to minutes, and I would ask for a motion uh for approval of the April 10th pre-planning commission meeting minutes. I motion that uh I motion that we approve the planning commission minutes of March 9th, 2026. Seconded. Yeah. Okay. And I'll be looking for a motion. I'm sorry, so we'll all uh looking for a vote for approval for those minutes. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay, that's five zero for approval of the March 9th Planning Commission minutes. Also looking for approval of the April 10th pre-planning commission meeting minutes. I motion to approve the April 10th, 2026 pre-planning commission meeting minutes. And I second. All those in favor? Aye. That's 5-0 for approval of the April 10th pre-planning commission meeting minutes.