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[0:00] I'm uncomfortable. It is 559 and we're on record.
[0:32] Can you hear us, Philip? I can hear you now. Yes.
[0:39] Are other planning commissioners? Can you hear everything?
[0:44] Yeah, I'm here. I can hear everything. Okay, perfect.
[1:01] It is now 6 p.m. on September 15th, 2026. And I call this meeting to order. Could we stand in a pledge allegiance?
[1:12] I
[1:17] pledge allegiance of the one
[1:25] nation indivisible for Tia.
[1:32] Thank you.
[1:33] We'll have a roll call now.
[1:35] Chair Albert Singh.
[1:37] Here.
[1:38] Commissioner Ceeley?
[1:40] Here.
[1:41] Commissioner Kanan?
[1:44] Here.
[1:46] Commissioner Redmond?
[1:47] Here.
[1:52] All right.
[1:53] Next on our agenda is the consent agenda to approve the minutes of our last meeting which
[1:58] which was September 1st. I believe. Is that correct? Yes. September 1st.
[2:08] I will move to
[2:09] approve the minutes of our September 1st meeting. Second.
[2:18] Yes.
[2:22] We have a second by Commissioner
[2:25] Redmond.
[2:30] And being good. Yes. Okay. Great. Okay. We'll move on to the final order's final
[2:39] recommendation. I'm sorry, Chair. Do you have a consensus to approve the motion?
[2:43] Oh. Can I have a yay or a nay to accept the minutes?
[2:53] Yes. Yes. Sorry, you had me with that. Did you see the blank look?
[3:01] Thank you. Thank you.
[3:04] Okay. Now we can move on to the final orders and final
[3:07] recommendation of VAR 2026-02. Is there any questions about that?
[3:22] So normally, looks like our cover memo got left out of here but typically what we would
[3:32] put on there is three typical options would be to approve as written, approve with amendments
[3:37] or deny and approving the final order is accepting the final order at a packet.
[3:47] Thank you, Weston.
[3:52] So we would need to either approve, deny, or...
[4:00] Or you could approve with suggested changes.
[4:03] Approved with, okay.
[4:05] Do we have a motion for one of those options?
[4:08] I
[4:15] then move that we accept the results of September 1st and reject the variance 2026-02.
[4:30] Seconded undenying the variance.
[4:36] Can I get a vote on that?
[5:48] Okay, so we have moved and we have a second for the denial of variance 2026-02 all in favor.
[6:03] I those opposed me
[6:10] I call for a role call vote then I think we should call for a role call to yeah
[6:18] chair
[6:20] Albertson
[6:22] Yes, I I I vote that we accept the final order the final order. Thank you
[6:30] Commissioner Redmond yes commissioner Seely yes commissioner can end yes motion passes
[6:42] is unanimous. Thank you everyone.
[6:51] And I don't believe well I should ask do we have any public
[6:57] hearings that I didn't read about?
[7:04] We do not have any public hearings on the schedule. Okay.
[7:09] And I'm assuming that since I was not brought paper with anyone's names we do not have any public
[7:17] comment. Is that correct? Let me double check.
[7:48] There's nobody on the sign-up
[7:49] sheet for a public comment. Okay, well then we'll move on to the next which is
[7:55] Director's report. I don't know if our director has a report but let's check
[7:59] in.
[8:02] No real formal report for you today, Mr. Chairman. I just want to say that we
[8:07] are actively advertising for applicants for the other open planning commission
[8:13] positions. So if you know of anyone who would be interested, please send them to our website.
[8:20] And if there are any groups that you think might have members who'd be interested,
[8:25] let me know and I'll reach out to them to advertise to their members and we discussed.
[8:32] Excuse me. We discussed trainings last time. So also, there's any training specific types of training
[8:38] that anyone would like to receive in the future. Also, reach out to me. I'm going to work on putting
[8:43] Together, different types of trainings for us in the future, but I would like to get some more seats filled before we do some additional training.
[8:50] Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[8:52] Yeah, but I think that sounds like a great idea.
[8:59] Speaking of planning commission training, that's number seven, but I do not believe we have any tonight. Is that correct?
[9:07] That is correct.
[9:11] Next would be comments by commissioners.
[9:15] Does anyone have anything they'd like to bring up?
[9:22] I think from me.
[9:25] I would like to bring up that last night the City Council did approve the Resolution 2026-22,
[9:34] which annexed the Engage Lincoln City Plan.
[9:39] So, the year work that I participated in paid off, and it seems to have gotten some great reviews.
[9:50] So, I think everyone that was on the ad hoc committee for
[9:56] in Gage Lincoln City should feel very good about what transpired.
[10:01] I myself, as soon as I joined the commission years ago,
[10:07] was flabbergasted by the simplicity of the committee for citizen involvement and how it just really didn't ever have anything moving forward with.
[10:24] So I believe that this now allows for the city itself to really have a much better gauge in the engagement of its citizens.
[10:36] So, I hope that everybody will take advantage of what is on the website now, and learn more about how to talk to the city itself, and the city itself will know what to do in return.
[10:56] And thank you for all your work on that.
[10:57] Well, I think that most of the things should go to a past project manager here at the city
[11:07] Andrea Reiner and, as I said last night, Shannon Macias and who's here tonight was fantastic.
[11:17] She was part of the backbone and Kevin Mountias as well and the other people on the staff
[11:24] that just really said let's just make this happen.
[11:27] So I like a good team.
[11:36] Okay, Commissioner Canaan, would you like to bring anything up?
[11:39] I know you're not physically with us, but.
[11:45] No, I just want to say I totally agree,
[11:49] and we're going to miss Andrea very much,
[11:51] but I'm excited to get more involved
[11:53] in the engagement part too, so thank again.
[11:57] Thank you for everyone for all their hard work.
[11:58] So,
[12:03] is there anything that Mr. Fritz would like to bring up or?
[12:09] I have nothing just to reiterate in your comments.
[12:12] Thanks for all your work and Andrew, if she's watching, thank you.
[12:15] Much appreciated.
[12:19] Well, this was a short and sweet get-together.
[12:23] I believe we accomplished all this in a record 11 minutes.
[12:27] So without further ado, I will complete our meeting today with a gavel.