The Valdez Planning and Zoning Commission met on August 13, 2025, at 7:00 PM in Council Chambers. All commissioners were present except Commissioner Metroca (excused), with Commissioners Vetis and Wade participating by phone. The commission approved minutes from prior meetings, held a public hearing on a proposed rezone for 1800 Richardson Highway, and voted unanimously to recommend the rezone to the City Council. Commission business included a code enforcement referral and scheduling updates.
All right. We'd like to call this meeting of the Valdez Planning and Zoning Commission for Wednesday, August 13th to order. Let the record show that everyone is present with the exception of Commissioner Metroca, who is excused, and Commissioners Vetis and Wade are on the phone. We move right on to approval of the minutes. Does anybody have any additions or comments on the July 9th meeting? I might throw it in look good. All right. I think I was at that one, so it really looked good. Looked great. How about July 23rd? That one looked good also. With no objections, the minutes are approved. Public business from the floor is for anyone in the audience to address us on a non-agenda item. Seeing none, we move right on to our public hearing. The first public hearing is for a proposed rezone number 25-02 for 1800 Richardson Highway Lot 2 ASLS 78139, plat 98-2 General Commercial. We're on a hearing right now first. So we only have one audience member who is the applicant. If you'd like to say something now, you may or stand by if somebody did show up. It's up to you. All right, then we'll we'll close the public hearing and move on to the action item, which is the approval of rezone 25-02. A recommendation to the city council to authorize the rezone of lot two ASLS 78-139 plat 98-2, 1800 Richardson Highway to general commercial. Now I'll entertain a motion. You only say it once. Moved by Commissioner Goodrow. And second by Commissioner Moulton. All right. Any comments on this? I do have a question. I noticed it said a construction of building materials for storage and a retail building. I'm just wondering if there's a like what retail. What does that mean? Is that a question I can add? You may. If you if you want to address us on that, you can. You don't have to if it's you know it's not if you're not ready to go public with it. You gotta press the button so the red light goes on, and then you're okay. Um state your name. Brad Barnett. Um I can't really go into it in real detail, but possible retail is uh I think the word's kind of gotten out around town at this point, but um Bill Harris is uh you know in the process of selling hair sand and gravel, and there's different things happening out there, and me and him are working on the ace store uh doing something with that. So it's it's not in ink, but that's yeah, what's the potential goal there? The hardware store. Yeah, okay, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, any other questions or comments? And then just to be clear for the record, so you know this is just a rezone action, so the allowable uses within the general commercial district um would all be allowed in the future. So if that plan doesn't take shape, you know, there's there's a variety of retail uses that are allowed in that district. Yeah, sorry. Okay, that's all right. Yeah, the only comment that I have is Brad, thank you. If we lose that Ace Hardware store out there, it's gonna bust us.