Cordova: Planning Commission Public Hearing & Regular Meeting on Monday, July 27, 2026, at 6:30 PM

You made it! I did, barely.

—Follow the Planning Commission public hearing Monday, July 27th, 2026. The order, uh, roll call.

Tanya Harrison is absent. Mark Hall here. Uh, Chris Bolan is, uh, no longer on the Planning Commission, so I'll take that off. Um, Sarah Grumbley here. Chris Rainey here.

Gail Foody here. Sean Denadel here. That is a quorum. This is a public hearing for the variance permit, uh, setback, uh, reduction request for Lot 17, Block 15, or the East 25-foot plot. Um, we're open to public comments if anybody has any.

So also, before we get to the regular, speak to it if you need this on hold.

We have no one online.

We're gonna—. We need to wait for 3 to 5 minutes, so, uh, recess us. So, 6:35, in case somebody put Okay, come back to order. Um, seems that we had no new people. Um, all right, so I'm going to move to adjourn, or call for adjournment.

Okay, all in favor? Aye. Aye. All right, we're adjourned. On to the next meeting.

Um, Planning Commission special meeting. For Monday, July 27th, 2026, um, call to order. Um, roll call. Tanya Harrison is absent. Mark Hall here.

Um, Sarah Trumbly here. Chris Rainey here. Gail Foody here. Sean Denadel here. That makes the quorum.

Uh, approval of agenda. I move to approve the agenda for the special session Monday, July 27th. All those in favor? Aye. Aye.

Aye. Uh, disclosure of conflict of interest, ex parte communications. Um, anybody have anything they wish to bring up before we move on?

Okay, moving on. Approval of consent calendar. I move to approve the consent calendar and report the excuse absence of Tanya, Sarah, and Chris from the July 16th, 2006 public hearing and special meeting. And then minutes of the Planning Commission regular meeting, September 9th, 2025. Minutes of the Planning Commission regular meeting, December 9th, 2025.

And minutes of the Planning Commission regular meeting, January 13th, 2006.

Second. All those in favor? All right, moving on. Correspondence. There are two letters— well, there's an additional letter that's been added.

There was one letter of support, and then we have Chris Bowen's resignation from the Planning Commission, which is sad.

Anything else? People have questions about those? And moving on, communications by and petitions from visitors. Any guest speakers or audience comments regarding agenda items? Uh, regarding 10A, I don't have any comments, but I'm here if you have any questions about Okay, um, moving on.

Planner's report.

There is a normal planner report.

Queries or comments?

Thank you.

Yeah, that was good.

No, I did go through that. You were again— I still can't find a better photo. There's only the one photo there. That was my own. Okay, um, and then I— and I can say, uh, thanks to Commissioner Chris Boland for his many years of service on the Planning Commission.

Um, we'll miss him, and we are looking for another Planning Commission member. If you want to apply online, anybody, uh, you can come into the City Hall and talk to either myself or Susan Bouchard, the the city clerk. Um, and then there's also the Safe Streets for All plan, um, that's ready for community review, so that's going to be posted online, um, shortly.

Uh, moving on. Uh, no unfinished business. New business. Letter of interest for a portion of Lot 11, Block 7, original townsite, approximately 101 square feet.

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I move to recommend to the City Council that redesignate the requested portion of land from not available to available on the land disposal maps, and to dispose of the requested portion of Lot 11, Block 7, original townsite, approximately 101 square feet in size, as outlined in Cordova Municipal Code, by, um, negotiating an agreement with the party Copper Brewing, who's made a letter of interest to lease or purchase property. Sorry, I did— okay, do your motion. Um, I know that the city staff and, uh, planner have met with Copper Brewing and reviewed with AML how this, um, additional tank and, um, infrastructure needed for the brewery to move into that space would, would not impact, um, the existing alleyway where freight is delivered to the grocery store. And based on their recommendations and the work that's been put in, I don't see that this would impact the city, but I'd love to hear other commissioners' thoughts.

Maybe second. Yeah, um, seeing as no parties have come forth, uh, stating what direction, I don't see any reason not to go, uh, go forward with it. Yeah, I think it's well thought out, and I walked around it, struggled with, uh, getting my car parked in the wrong place there. Then they don't deliver food for us. So I think it's a good idea that we structure, uh, what we have back there, what we need back there, and then put it on record so it's real clear.

I have no objections. I do have a question for the planner. Um, is this going to require a subdivision? It's a lease. Yeah, they're just requesting a lease of that portion, so it's not going to be a subdivision of anything.

So that, that will improve the timeline quite a bit. Yeah, won't need to be surveyed or anything. No. Okay. And any other comments?

It's not going to impact like snow removal or anything like that. No, they, uh, they had, uh, Public Works Director, the Streets Division Supervisor, and, um, refuse out there, and, um, also AML. So they all met with the applicant and they were able to come to the conclusion that it's not going to affect anything where the location is proposed. So, any more questions? We'll be— yeah, all those in favor?

Aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Moving forward, that would be, um, in the variance permit setback reduction request on the east 25-foot of Lot 17, Block 15, town site, original town site.

Mr. Chairman, sir. I moved the Planning Commission grant the variance request by Cecilia Stack to reduce the front yard setback for the single-family home to 3 feet, waive the off-street parking requirement, and allow the stairs to be built with a zero lot line setback from the front and side west lot lines on the property known as East 25 feet of the west 1/2 of Lot 17, Block 15, original townsite, and to adopt and incorporate findings and conditions within SAF report.

Say it again. Do your, your motion. Uh, yeah, no, uh, this seems like a good use case for, uh, variants. Um, it is broadly speaking, uh, meeting with the building that is currently on the, uh, site, um, putting the building that they want to build where the old building is. So it's not going to be impacting the, uh, neighborhood other than being a new structure, which is obviously an improvement.

So I don't— I don't see any reason why not to grant the variance.

Um, I agree. I just think it's a good use of the existing space with the new, new structures.

Yeah, yeah, sure. Yeah, it's, it's, you know, uh, not— it doesn't even meet the minimum building size for that residential zoning area, so like it's sound like somebody else is going to be doing something, they would also need a variance. So yeah, I think this makes a lot of sense. Um, a little bit of stor— history. We've done the one to the east and the one to the west since I've been on this commission, had to do variances for various reasons.

So, and it's— this is just one of those strange lots that's the substandard lot that is historic. So we're stuck with it. Well, this is the best use of it, so I'm fine. Okay, any other comments, concerns?

Okay, call for the vote. All those in favor? Aye. Aye.

Aye.

Okay.

Yeah, um, any audience comments this time?

None noted. Commissioner comments? Yeah, okay. Sarah, uh, thank you to Amanda for putting this meeting together, and I want to just, uh, publicly thank Chris Bolan for his years of service, and he will be missed. John, I did hear that.

And for me as well, uh, thanks for getting this all put together. And I'd like to thank you, and I want to thank you for the GIS thing. That's a huge improvement for us. Class 2 planners for that. So I'm glad that's fine.

And I'm greatly going to miss Chris. Still be here. So, uh, with that, I have a motion to adjourn. Mr. Chair, sir, I move to adjourn.

All those in favor? Aye. 5. Who's that? All right, thank you, thank you.

Oh, here goes.