The Hudson, Ohio Planning Commission held a special meeting on Monday, July 26, 2021, at 7:30 PM in Town Hall to consider two text amendment cases. Acting Chair David Lehman presided with a quorum of four members (Chuparkoff, Lehman, Nystrom, Vaughan); three members were absent (Anglewicz, Jones, Stolle). All testifying staff and public were sworn in. The meeting focused on a proposed text amendment to allow fireworks storage and retail as a conditional use in District 1 (case PC 2021-689) and a broader Land Development Code update (case PC 2021-726).
I'm calling to order a special meeting of the City of Hudson's Planning Commission. Mr. Sugar, could we have roll call, please? Yes. Mr. Nystrom. Here. Mr. Vaughn? Here. Mr. Chaparkov? Here. Mr. Lane. Here. Thank you, Mr. Sugar. I forgot to mention to Mr. Hannon that we summer dress code is in effect, but I see I never when I was in the zoning board, I never defined what summer dress code was, but it definitely you didn't need to have a tie-in jacket. So we're missing a few people from our uh commission tonight, but uh I can assure you that they did not fly to Washington, D.C. to avoid the meeting tonight. So we'll we'll get through it. We have a quorum. Um next we'll swear in our staff and anybody who's uh planning on speaking. And if you're not sure, but you think you might go ahead and stand, it doesn't cost anything, and you don't have to if you don't want to, but if we get everybody sworn in now, we don't have to worry about it later. So if you at all please rise, raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm under the penalty of perjury that the testimony you will give will be the truth? Thank you. Typically, in a stated meeting, we would have uh correspondence, public discussion of anything not related to uh the cases being heard for the evening and approval of minutes, uh, but those will all be passed on, and uh we will start uh with the business at hand. Also typically we might finish the old business first and then proceed to new business. And although it's great that we have so many people here tonight, I suspect that it's not the administrative rules text carry over from last meeting that you're here for. So we will uh hold that to the uh second item tonight and uh proceed with the uh actual case PC 2021 689. Um Mr. Sugar will give a uh brief outline and then uh he'll pass it to the applicant. Um we'll have some board questions and then we'll be opening it to the public. That's for everybody uh present to uh uh make any comments, ask any questions, uh, and you can you know direct it to the applicant or to uh city staff or to the uh uh commission members, and we'll try to uh answer what we can. If uh you want to try to keep it on point to uh you know the issues that are being raised, although there's uh unlike in zoning where it might be one simple thing, this is a little broader, so there might be a little bit larger amount of questions, I suppose. So, Mr. Sugar, would you like to start, please? Yes, thank you, Mr. Chair. The uh application before us this evening is a text amendment, and it would permit a fireworks storage and retail facility as a conditional use within the zoning district one uh with requirements for minimum lot size, setbacks, buffer yards, uh certificates from state and federal agencies, and uh color of structures. Um the applicant has asked to present and orient uh the board and the audience a bit to the uh to the request. So uh like to turn it over to them, and then I can give a little background on the staff report in front of you. Thank you, Mr. Sugar. Um so whoever is speaking uh throughout tonight, you want to make sure you get up to the uh lectern and uh give your name and address. Um be sure these are very directional microphones, and you know you want to show up good on uh on the web if people are watching it live or or later, so uh speak clearly. Um could I add sure one thing that I had thought of before you get get started, and that is uh while you go through your uh process, you might want to compare and contrast some of what was written to us earlier and then some of the comments that the city uh had included in their report to us where it might be so sure go ahead take the podium.