The Frederick Planning Commission met on July 13, 2026, to consider administrative items, continuances, and several development applications. The commission approved minutes from prior meetings, granted continuances for four projects, and voted on four major agenda items, including a site plan revision, a preliminary plat and final site plan, a zoning map amendment (first hearing), an annexation recommendation, and a zoning text amendment recommendation. All motions passed unanimously (4-0) unless noted.
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 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 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, there are staff members from the city's planning engineering and legal department in attendance. And 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's representing a group will have 10 minutes to give comments. 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 the this hearing before the planning commission will be the whole truth and nothing but the truth? 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. And with that, we'll start with any announcements from the planning department. Thank you. And good evening. Next Monday, that is July 20th. We will have our planning commission workshop inside of this room at 2 p.m. The agenda was posted earlier online if you'd like to look at it. And later in the evening at 6 p.m., our citywide community outreach meeting will be held in this room as well. Thank you. All right. So at first, we're going to approve some prior minutes. So with that, I'll be looking for a motion for the approval of the June 8th, 2026 Planning Commission minutes. I move to approve the June 8th, 2026 Planning Commission minutes. Seconded. Okay, that is a motion by Commissioner Montes. A second by Commissioner Temple. All those in favor? Aye. That's 4-0 for approval of the June 8th Planning Commission minutes. Next, I'm looking for a motion for approval of the June 15th Planning Commission workshop minutes. I motion to approve the June 15th, 2026 Planning Commission workshop minutes. I second. Okay, that is a motion by Commissioner Temple. A second by Commissioner Roby. All those in favor? Aye. That's 4-0 for approval of the June 15th Planning Commission workshop minutes. And last but not least, I'm looking for a motion for approval of the July 10th pre-planning commission meeting minutes. I second. That is a motion by Commissioner Temple, a second by Commissioner Roby. All those in favor? Aye. That's 4-0 for approval of the pre-planning commission meeting minutes. Next, we do not have any public hearing consent items. So we will move on to continuances. And shall I read each of those? One at a time.