The City Planning Commission met on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, at 1:34 PM in Council Chambers. The meeting began with roll call (Commissioners Lund, Gupta, Whitry, Jordan, Flick, Steve, and Brown present) and the reading of formal public hearing rules. The agenda included adoption of prior meeting minutes, four zoning dockets, a presentation on the Municipal Auditorium remediation plan, and subdivision ratifications. All decisions are recorded below.
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming to today's city planning commission meeting. It is now one thirty-four, July eighth. Um, and we're gonna get started first with uh roll call followed by the the reading of the formal public hearing rules and then our regular business. So uh first we will call roll commissioner lund, commissioner Josh Gupta, Commissioner Whitry, Commissioner Jordan here, Commissioner Flick, Commissioner Steve here, Commissioner Brown. I'm here. Okay, so uh the formal public hearing rules reads as follows. The City Planning Commission has established certain rules governing the procedures to be followed at public hearing before speaking. Each person shall give their name, address, and state whom he or she is representing. Proponents for the pro for the proposal will speak first for a period of ten minutes total. Each speaker shall be allowed a maximum of two minutes. Opponents or other interested parties will speak second for a period of fifty minutes total. Each speaker shall be shall be allowed a maximum of two minutes. Proponents will be allowed a period of six minutes for a rebuttal. Each speaker shall be allowed a maximum of two minutes. Opponents will not be allowed to rebut. This procedure shall be followed at except except at such a time when the presiding officer shall, with the approval of the commission members present, extend such time. And now we'll begin uh today's business by the adoption of meeting minutes from the June twenty-fourth meeting. Commissioner Flip will make a motion for approval of a June twenty-fourth meeting. Commissioner Whitray will second. Okay, so we have a motion for approval from Commissioner Flick, seconded by Commissioner Whitry. If there's no further discussion, uh we will vote our machines. Commissioner Flick made the motion. And the meeting minutes have been adopted. Uh next up is zoning docket item 03325. Good afternoon, zoning docket 3325 is a request for a conditional use to permit a bar at 325 Andrew Higgins Drive in a C B D six urban core neighborhood intensity mixed use district. The site is currently developed as a vacant one-story commercial building, and this is a proposal to renovate the structure to create an owner-operated wine and a parative bo bar. Applicants propose to renovate the entirety of the building, including the roof, equaling two thousand three hundred and fifty-four square feet of floor area. The first floor of the building would will include one thousand one hundred and seventy-seven square feet of usable space, while the roof will create six hundred and forty square feet of usable space and two hundred and fifty-seven square feet of utility space. Subject to three provisos, finding that the proposal meets the standards for approval in Article 4 of the CCO and is consistent with the master plan. Thank you. Uh we have a few common cards in support. First from the applicant, Laura Barth. Laura Barth, 1000 South Norman C Francis, Zach Smith Consulting. The owners and the architect put in um cards just in case there are any specific questions. Um, but we just want to thank the city planning staff for their report and uh looking forward to bringing this vacant commercial building back into commerce and the CBD. Thank you. Um, and there's another from a cole. Is that the uh the owner? So the two owners and the architect put in cards just in case they needed to speak if there were any specific questions. Okay, thank you. Okay, that concludes the cards. We have uh in support. Uh, there are no cards in opposition. Are there any questions for the applicant or staff? Notam looking for a motion. I'd like to make a motion approval of zoning docket 033-25 with provisions. There's second speech second. Okay, we have a motion uh for approval subject three provisos from Commissioner Gupta, uh seconded by Commissioner Steag. Is there any further discussion?