The Zoning & Planning Committee met on Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at 4:00 PM in City Council Chambers to discuss seven agenda items, including zone changes, special use permits, text amendments, and a neighborhood study. The meeting began without a quorum (5 present out of 9 members), but a quorum was later established, allowing formal recommendations. Chairperson Vanice Williams presided.
So the way I run our meetings is uh we'll come up. Um you'll present your case, get sworn in if necessary, present your case. We'll have uh commentary from the Diaz here, and then anyone that has uh the speak for or against will have the opportunity, you'll have three minutes to discuss the project at hand, and it has to be focused to discuss specifically the project at hand and zoning issues, nothing outside of that, otherwise uh we can have a conversation outside of the um the time to discuss anything uh ancillary to the zoning request. So that being said, Clerk, please call the rule. Morris Martinez present Driscoll Gaddis Hobbes Colomives here, Meldon here, Sarantu Williams here for present. Okay, so we do not have a quorum. We need a quorum uh for five, and as soon as we have that, we'll be able to take an official vote, but that does not mean we're not going to go through with the presentations. Clerk, please call the first uh case. Case number one is a request for vacation of the 15 foot alley running east and west adjacent to lot 17 and 18 in the southern 55 feet of lot 17 in Clifton Park Platte. Case number V 435-25. The plan commission recommends disapproval. Thank you. Is the applicant here? I'm guessing no, but I'll ask again. Is the applicant here? No. Okay. Um director. So the request here was to vacate this portion of the alley to facilitate the development of a parking lot for this gentleman. Um we don't have parking minimums anymore, so that concern kind of went away. Um but this this area of right-away was a result of an earlier vacation, and it was the turnaround added from that vacation. So vacating this leaves us with a stub alley with no way for people to turn around driving down that alley. So we recommended disapproval as did transportation. We've been working pretty closely with this applicant um to facilitate a zone change and getting his building plans through for a mixed use development there along the front, and he's aware of the reasons for the disapproval of the vacation. That's why he's not here. Okay. Any questions from the Diaz? President Williams. I'll recommend it to go to the Board of Revisions as uh disapproved. I guess we technically we can't make a recommendation since we don't have a quorum. Oh, okay. So we can come back to it. Yep. All right, thank you. Clerk, next, please. Case number two is a request for a zone change from CO office commercial to RD6 duplex residential for the property located at 1839 Tremainesville Road, case number Z25-0037. The plan commission recommends approval. Is the uh applicant here? Oh uh this person did call in letting us know that she will be she's ill and not able to make it. Um in the past, we have two options. Uh we can hold this until the next zoning uh meeting, but uh councilman Hobbes is not here to make that recommendation. This is a simple um down zoning. Downzoning. Um it's up to the body in which they would like to proceed. Um Madam Director, anyway. So the applicant is requesting the down zoning to refinance the property. Uh the CO office commercial district is not permit the single the existing single family home. Um President Williams? Uh just a question. Is it actually um so it's actually just the regular duplex and it's just one of them situations that we had?