The Wilmington Planning Commission met on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, at approximately 6:00 p.m. in City Council Chambers, Skyline Center, 929 North Front Street, Wilmington, NC. The commission reviewed draft minutes, held one public hearing on a conditional district rezoning, and discussed process-improvement topics raised by a joint subcommittee with City Council. The meeting adjourned after the commission voted unanimously to recommend approval of the rezoning.
I thought that's what the goal was. I I can't see the big hand, so it's six o'clock. Good evening, and I'd like to call the City of Wilmington Planning Commission for Wednesday, February fourth meeting to order, and ask that we all please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Hearing that, do we have a quorum? Yes, Mr. Chair. Excellent. Thank you. To maintain an orderly meeting, all presentations shall proceed without interruption unless the commission desires to intervene with questions or comments. For the public hearing, the chair will open the public hearing for those physically present wishing to speak about an item. Those in favor of an item shall be heard first, followed by those opposed to an item. Ten minute time will be allowed for public comment in favor of an item, and a 10-minute time will be allowed for public comment in opposition to an item. A staff member will track the 10-minute time periods and will notify the speaker at the five-minute mark, one-minute mark, and verbally call time when time expires. The chair and their discretion may extend these time periods. All groups, organizations, neighborhoods, or similar associations desiring to comment, are asked to appoint one spokesperson to present their concerns or point of view to the commission on each agenda item. Public has been encouraged to submit their comments in writing via a web-based form located on the city of Wilmington's website. All comments received prior to 3 p.m. today were forwarded on edited to the planning commission. All comments received will be delivered to city council when the item advances, and all comments received will be made available to the public if requested. Ms. Bradshaw, I'm assuming we didn't have any. Thank you. All votes will be roll call votes after the appropriate after the proper motions are made and consistency statements read into the record. The chair will state the outcome of the vote and the action. Rezoning requests that receive an unfavorable recommendation from the planning commission may be appealed by the applicant to the Wilmington City Council. Appeal should be in the form of a letter submitted to the city clerk within 10 days of this hearing. Any item that is appealed will tentatively be heard by city council at the March 17th, 2026 meeting. Very good. Um moving on to the minutes. We did not have a meeting in January, so these meetings are from December 3, 2025. What is the will of commission? Do we have any comments, questions? Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. Um the only observation is it's going to be hard for me to vote for the minutes because I don't think we have minutes. This looks like this looks like a presentation outline. It doesn't, there's these aren't minutes. So from my perspective, it's kind of hard for me to cast a vote one way or the other. So that's that's my observation. Okay. Anybody's questions, comments. Um Ms. Painter. So as was noted, there is a change to how the minutes are being presented to you. Technically speaking, minutes are generally required to have who is present, what the action, what the action was, what the vote who voted which way. In terms of the the in-depth discussion, that is a style that's been used traditionally here. We have we are recommending and are opting to go with a more summarized format of the discussion. The more narrative we put in, the more potential there is for unconscious bias of the person preparing those that those minutes to slip into that record. Uh the minutes are one record that we keep of these meetings.