“I hereby call this meeting to order.”

“Um I would note that all commissioners are present as well as Director Sharp and City Attorney Schzel.”

“Hearing none. May I have a motion to approve the agenda as presented?”

“So moved.”

“I'll second.”

“The eyes have it. The motion passes and the approval is the agenda is approved.”

“Tonight's consent agenda consists of three items. Uh, the meeting minutes from May 18th. Uh, a planning commission report and recommendation of approval for a zoning text amendment to chapter 950 and another one for to chapter 936 which is the tree preservation and general zoning district provisions.”

“So moved.”

“Second.”

“The eyes have it. The motion passes and the content consent agenda is approved as presented.”

“Thank you, Chair Cameron. As the memo for this item states, uh, traditionally in the past, the planning commission had seen a yearly report going through the significant work that the commission puts in each year, reviewing the projects, the deliberations you have, and giving a high level outline.”

“Um, yes, that was a pun. I am trying to uh bring forward some of this because I do want to celebrate what and recognize what the planning commission has done over the year, what uh how that compares to past years and recognize the amount of work and deliberations and how city council takes those deliberations and uses them when they make their final decisions on these projects because I think it's a really important thing for the planning commission to see.”

“Um, so the first piece is that I really want to highlight this was our first crack at this in six, seven, eight years kind of thing. And so, some of the terminology we want to refine a little bit closer to better reflect. Um, for example, development applications may be uh uh refined into what the individual actions within an application might be. So when I'm when we say that we received 12 total applications, there might be 29 different actions, a variance, a PUD amendment, a PUD uh general plan, a etc. within that.”

“In 2025, the planning commission saw 29 development applications or development uh uh review is what I think I'm going to uh start trying to refer to it for the remainder of this presentation. Uh, you reviewed 29 individual actions that needed to be uh under the planning commission's perview and had different criteria for each of them. Those were contained within 12 different full applications or 12 different sites.”

“Uh, the number of recommendations for denial was uh total five. So we are uh at a a pretty good level of we're certainly approving more of the individual application requests than we are uh moving forward with recommendations of denial.”

“Uh, the nomenclature where uh we wanted to make special uh make the commission specifically aware of is that city council uh supported the recommendation of denial for the massing breaks, even if they did so in a slightly different manner than the planning commission did.”

“Uh, this was the second variance applied for on this property for the same use, wanting to go down from 50% retail or commercial uh service commercial uses and uh the planning commission um unanimously actually recommended denial on this one and city council also followed suit.”

“Um, and what uh the design deviations were specifically for is where HVAC could be located. So, they were very cognizant of what the requirements were. However, older buildings, new design, tighter sites, not wanting to take out trees led to some design deviations to allow for some rooftop mechanical, but they were fully screened.”

“Um, and the other reason is I wanted to be able to explain the denial approval piece of this one. Once uh planning commission had brought forward their recommendation of approval that was under the current code standards and where city council had expressed concern was, do our current code standards meet what we're wanting to see? And so we brought back some of those text amendments you saw and uh revised the code.”

“Um, ultimately this was what the withdrawn application, one of the reasons why I wanted to highlight it. They brought this forward more than once to the planning commission and ultimately withdrew on both occasions uh due to your recommendation. So you were able to uh through your guidance say we don't feel like this use fits and by the time city council was at review uh that did not proceed forward uh based upon your recommendation.”

“I knew they needed to find a different home.”

“In 2025, they were spread out uh largely evenly throughout the year.”

“Um, that trend is going to continue with plats actually coming forward. You're going to see residential plat applications more and more right now and they are going to be some of the more difficult ones in some cases that you've already seen in 2026. They are infill developments and they are spurred by the property values that you're seeing in Weisetta.”

“Chair, excellent point. Those are the types of cases that I love to bring forward when we have a track record of variances that are regularly granted when an application comes forward.”

“Uh, the meeting schedule. We've got city council tomorrow night, June 2nd. Next planning commission June 15th. Right now, I don't have something set up for the agenda. So, we may be cancelling that meeting. We have had four applications declared incomplete.”

“Uh, Haley was doing her best from my notes. My handwriting is poor. Uh essentially she uh had reported that the harbors of Weisetta or Cantisimo, that property on the northeast side right up against the border uh was uh had extensions out to late July.”

“However, that property has gone into receiverhip. I don't anticipate that we're going to be seeing anything on it. It would be another one that since we don't have a code enforcement case currently, I can speak to the fact that we will have code enforcement on that property.”

“I would like to note that while people are moving into Wells Fargo, they're also at 90% leased already. So, that's a pretty significant feat for that site.”

“Is anything um more going on with the Wisetta Barn Grill with the MUN? I know that you know they did a study and it seemed to me there was more stuff that was more imminent that was coming up.”

“So, next item.”

“In front of you are brand spanking new bylaws. I can we will be emailing these out to you as well, but I know some of you still love physical copy. Uh, so these are your new bylaws. Uh, city council did approve them with the amendments recommended by planning commission.”

“May I have a motion to adjurnn, please?”

“So moved.”

“Second.”

“The eyes have it. The motion is approved and tonight's meeting, the sorry, the June 1st, 2026 meeting of the West Planning Commission is hereby adjourned.”