I, Madeline Summers, do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States, and of the state of Minnesota, and faithfully discharge the duties of the off- and faithfully discharge the duties of the office of the Planning Commission, of the city of Bloomington in the county of Hennepin and the state of Minnesota to the best of my judgement and ability.

Our capital with the public is trust, right? And so, in order to, uh, make them feel, uh, maybe that they're listened to or that they're actually getting a true audience and that, um, its representatives are representing them effectively and working on their behalf...

The range that they all and I I talked to them independently... uh the range that uh they consistently reported on is that it cost somewhere between two and three hundred thousand dollars um to get to the stage of a formal development application for a large-scale development...

I was wondering about after a after something is say approved by the City Council, how long in general do they have to like for example begin construction uh before they would have to come back and reapply?

Yes, I have. We have. And um it's more common in the written narratives or written documents that we see, although we have seen some architectural plans um that are kind of stock or uh AI-generated plans. And the way that we would catch it is that it's not like the scale, um the dimensions of the buildings are not matching up with what we're seeing on our civil plans, right?

just come to us early if you think you have an issue with any financial or other conflict of interest. Um, it's always easy to talk them out on the front end, just have a short quick discussion.

I would propose to put in a no less than 3 minute. Uh and that sense with no less than 3 minutes, just so that folks that are preparing at home to testify publicly have a guardrail of how long the chair will give them to speak.

I have mixed feelings about it. I I appreciate the intent behind both suggestions from Commissioner Monstern and from yourself about offering clarity for the um the audience. I do have just concerns about the unknown and needing to manage our time efficiently and make sure that the maximum number of voices are heard.

I'm fine being chair. Uh I it's not something I need to do or strive to be. Um as you guys can see I had do it a little differently than Chair Cook did or Chair Albrecht who was before him. Uh I also travel for work. So, I am I do meet make the requirements to be here as much as possible. I I I try to be at every meeting. Um but I I can't have a perfect attendance like Phil did even when he was in Detroit. I mean, he he called in.

Uh yeah, thank you Chair Cunningham. Uh yeah, I am interested in uh be becoming vice chair, so. Thank you.

Planning Manager Johnson, could you, uh, share what, uh, the uh, the City Council action on the, uh, townhomes that we, uh, recommended approval at the last meeting of the Planning Commission?

So, there was a fair amount of, uh, discussion at the Council level about that case. And there were some discussion around making some, uh, some design changes to that project. So, the applicant has taken that direction. They did formally postpone, uh, consideration of that application until the August 31st, um, uh, City Council meeting. They did hold the public hearing and close the hearing.

I mean, I do want to mention that in our rules of procedure, it says that we can that the chair can make a written or in-person statement to the council attached to that. Um I wonder if this if the commission would be interested in doing that if we cuz I think that I I felt pretty strongly at the last meeting about R3 being an appropriate use of that site.