Whoa, that's loud.

Good evening.

I'm Arthur Holtz and I'd like to call the what is today?

June 2nd, 2026 meeting of the City of Johns Creek Planning Commission order.

At this time, I'd like to ask everyone to please silence or turn off your cell phones if you'd be so kind.

The Planning Commission is a recommending body to the mayor and the City Council, and we follow guidelines in conjunction with a public hearing to assist in formulating a recommendation.

Copies of the Planning Commission procedures and staff reports are available at the entrance to this chamber in the back of the room.

The presiding officer will call cases on the agenda for public hearing.

First, the presiding officers shall recognize the planning staff to make a presentation of the case with their recommendations, and then we will open to a public hearing.

The applicant shall receive a time period of 10 minutes to present their case.

If there is any concurrent variance, each shall grant the applicant an additional 10 minutes.

Any opposition, if there is, is granted an equal time per period to present data, evidence, and their opinions.

If a large number of people wish to speak in opposition, is it is advisable request to speak to appoint spokespersons to make that presentation.

The city is not obligated to provide the full time period to opponents if they elect not to use their time, and the opposition is not granted a rebuttal period.

Any member of the hearing body upon recognition by the presiding officer should may ask questions of any person giving public comment.

After completing this process, the presiding officer will indicate that the public hearing is closed.

Upon closing the public hearing, the planning commission can no longer be addressed by the applicant or by the opposition.

The planning commission may still ask questions of city staff at this time.

Once all questions have been asked and addressed, the presiding officer will call for a motion, and if properly seconded will call for a vote on the matter.

The presiding officer will then state the vote and recommendation for the record.

I would ask all present to please act courteously and refrain from any outbursts or comments, etc.

I would like to recommend recognize my colleagues on the dais tonight.

Um Vicky Horton, Commissioner Horton, Commissioner, Commissioner Cal Couch, Commissioner Carnwall, Commissioner Katzen, Commissioner Anon, and Commissioner Ross, who are all up here with me, and again I'm Arthur Holst.

The first item of business on the agenda is we did not have a meeting in May.

Um we had a meeting on April 14th, so I hope everybody had a chance to review the meeting minutes.

I think they were pretty straightforward.

Um I don't know if there's any questions or comments on those.

I'd like to make a motion to accept them as written.

Okay.

Okay.

Motion made.

All those in in accept in accepting.

Aye.

Okay.

Great.

So actually the vote is six with one abstention, right?

Because you unfortunately couldn't be with us, so that's technically how the vote would work.

But thank you.

Obviously, that passed.

The next item of business on the agenda is zoning ordinance text amendment A-26-004.

I'm going to ask Ms.

Argerwald to come up and do this, please.

Thank you.

Good evening, Planning Commissioners.

Good to see you all.

Tonight we have one agenda item, which is a text amendment.

Um, and I'll um brief that presentation to you.

Text amendment A-26-004.

This text amendment is a council initiative to determine feasibility of advanced air mobility, which is called AAM, and what reports within John Screen.

This amendment uh will call will lead to amending the zoning ordinance to establish specific zoning districts, allowing for the proposed use through the special use permit process.

It would require um the special use permit to be reviewed and approved by Planning Commission and then by City Council once any application is submitted.

Um this amendment would establish standards to regulate advanced air mobility and what reports ahead of the Federal Aviation Administration's FAA final approval for AAM passenger carrying operations in the United States.

Advanced air mobility is an umbrella term that includes aircraft that are highly automated, electrically powered, and have vertical takeoff and landing capabilities.

Vertiports are areas that are specifically designated to serve AAM aircraft, including electrical, vertical takeoff and landing, for example, evital aircrafts, and may be located at airports, on building rooftops, on parking structures, as well as at grade.

These vertiports may be subject to additional regulations to accommodate AAM as compared to conventional helicopters and airplanes.

Because AAM can operate as both a rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft.

Now, for most of you may have had the chance to look at uh and search for what these are, but here is an example, a picture just to kind of tell you.

The first picture on your left uh upper corner is uh example of an evitol, which is actually the aircraft electronic aircraft that can take the cargo or passengers.

And the second picture on the lower right corner is an example of a vertiport.

Now that's just one example, which may be there for one aircraft.