The meeting was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Acting Chair Hoekzema. New commissioners were sworn in by Mayor Chris Roberts, and the commission elected officers for the year. The agenda and minutes from March 7, 2024 were approved without amendments. The primary study items were the introduction of the 2024 Comprehensive Plan Update elements (Land Use, Housing, and Economic Development) and a discussion of the Transportation Element, including public comments and docket requests. No general public comments were made, but written comments were submitted.
I've been muted now, Kendra, it should be good. Okay, sorry about that. We're going to now elect the chair and vice chair. And um, yes, the off the offices are for one year, and a commissioner may serve as chair or vice chair for no more than two consecutive years, and all commissioners are eligible to be nominated for chair or vice chair at this time. I'll just go through a couple of the rules. The commission shall elect a chair and a vice chair at the first meeting of April each year, and as soon as they're elected, they assume their duties. So when it and then when it appears all nominations have been made, I will um declare the nominations closed, and a motion is not needed to close them. So after that, they will take a vote, and the first person who gets a majority of the votes will be declared the chair. Okay. Thank you. Share my own voice again. All right. Now we will take nominations for the Planning Commission vice chair. Are there any nominations for the vice chair? Who would like to nominate Leslie? Brinson. Sorry, I see your last name. Thank you. Any other nominations? No. All right. So I guess a vote by raising of hands then. Congratulations, Commissioner Brinson. You're now the vice chair of the planning commission. All right. So next on our list is the approval of the agenda. Anyone have any amendments to our agenda for this evening? Cool. Okay. Approval next is approval of our meeting minutes from our last meeting on March 7th, 2024. Any amendments to the minutes. Nope. Super. All right. Next, mix Upsma is public comment. Do we have anybody signed up for public comment? We do not have anyone signed up for in-person public comment. We did receive some for the agenda item, which you will see on the agenda. But that's it for tonight. Thank you. Now on to our study items. It's time. Thanks. I try. Yes. Good evening, Commissioners. Thank you for bearing with me. So tonight on our agenda, we will be uh discussing some elements of the comprehensive plan. Uh with me tonight is uh David Fisk of Leland Consultants, and he will uh and joining virtually is Kara Donovan, I can see on the screen of of OTEC. They are um helping us with uh technical consulting work as some of our elements have some uh some pretty highly technical uh background uh data.