The Sitka Planning Commission met on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, at Harrigan Centennial Hall to consider several conditional use permits and hear updates on pending appeals. The commission approved a marijuana retail facility and an on-site consumption area at 4509 Halibut Point Road, a short-term rental at 410 Spruce Street Apt B, and a food truck at 328 Lincoln Street. All votes were unanimous.
I'd like to call this June 4th, 2025 Planning Commission to order. Can I get a roll call, please? Chair Windsor. Present. Vice Chair Riley. Here. Commissioner Modery. Here. Commissioner Alzerson. Here. Commissioner Sherman. Here. Similarly, John Tor Christensen. Here. Steps. Amy Ainsley, Kim Davis, and Ariadnewell. Thank you. And uh can I get a consideration of the last meeting's minutes? I move to approve the May 21st, 2025 meeting minutes. I second. Move to second. All in favor. Aye. Aye. Are there any persons tonight to be heard that's not on tonight's agenda? See none. Do we have anyone on Zoom? Okay, so we'll go right to Planet Director's Report, please. Yes, Mr. Chair. Um, so for two items um that have previously been before uh the planning commission that are um right now actively in appeal, just wanted to give a bit of an update. Um the height variants related to the cell tower on Nancy Court was scheduled to be heard by the assembly at their meeting last Thursday. Um unfortunately, um, four members of the assembly had conflicts of interest, and therefore the board of adjustment didn't have a quorum to rule on the issue, and so we will be um having the state office of administrative hearings serve as the hearing officer for that um for that item that we're anticipating um probably early to mid-July for that for that hearing to take place. So we're currently working um with our legal department to to contract with the state and to schedule and and set up the um the hearing and the procedures. Um we did also um want to note as well that we will um when we have more information about the date, what the procedure will look like, what options there are for um public testimony or public comment, we will be sending another notification to all of the neighbors in the area to update with them with that information. Um while the assembly didn't um hear the matter, um, and so there wasn't public comment on the item specifically, there was public comment during the meeting. Um, and several of the comments spoke to the need for um a revisit on our existing zoning codes as it relates to telecommunications towers, and this is something that we've talked about as a commission and is um high on our our priority list. And so um I reached out to a couple of the the um property owners in the area, of course, kind of made clear I can't talk about this specific case but wanted to just kind of extend an invitation for for those folks to help um participate or to to help kind of inform um that code that code rewrite process. So um we'll continue working on that as well on kind of in line with our our other code change priorities that we had discussed at our last meeting. Uh the other appeal item um is for the Harris Island subdivision at the on Islander Drive at the bottom of Shotgun Alley. Um that is scheduled to go uh in front of the assembly next week at their at their Tuesday meeting. That's everything I have. Okay, any question any questions for staff um were we gonna do these um code items at the end of the meetings if we have time, or was that going to be hit and miss when we have when we have a lighter agenda? We'll we'll plan to put them on the um the end of our um agendas. We did not have the bandwidth to do that for tonight's meeting. Oh sorry, pardon the pun. All right, so we'll go to the first bit of business. I just want to touch base on the appeal process the last meeting, besides being one of the stranger meetings I've ever been on in. Um it was it was interesting. Uh and the fact is that both JJ and I also could have been re there.