Planning Commission Public Hearing & Regular Meeting on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, at 6:30 PM

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Okay, and it's 6:30, so we can Go ahead and call the Planning Commission public hearing Tuesday, May 12th at 6:30. Call to order, and we'll start with roll call. Tanya Harrison, here. Mark Hall, here. Chris Bolan is absent.

Sarah Trumbly, here. Chris Rainey, here. Gail Foody is absent, and Shonda Nadell is absent. That makes it Cora. Okay, and this is a public hearing for the conditional use permit for travel trailer request on Lot 2A, Block 4, Cordova Industrial Park.

We'll just give it a few minutes in case people come in a little later. All in?

Okay, hearing, um, there were no comments during public hearing, so we can go ahead and adjourn. And call the Planning Commission regular meeting to order at 6:36. Start roll call.

Tanya Harrison. Here. Mark Hall. Here. Chris Bolen is absent.

Sarah Trumbly. Here. Chris Rainey here. Gail Foody is absent, and Shonda Nadell is absent. That makes a quorum.

Okay, do we have approval of the agenda? Madam Chair, I move to approve the agenda as written. A second. All those in favor? Aye.

Hearing none opposed, agenda passes. Okay, disclosures, conflicts of interest, direct participating contingents.

Hearing none, uh, approval of the consent calendar. Record excused absence of Chris Boland and Chris Raines in the April 14th regular meeting. You're approving, uh, consent calendar? Second. All in favor?

Aye. Hearing none opposed, consent calendar is approved. Third The only correspondence is the letters from Dr. S. There were no other—. There's one in the packet as well. Yeah, I remember there was a, a letter at some point in that.

Um, we have no guest speakers and we have no audience, so the audience comments Um, planner's report, anything you would like to add?

Any questions for the planner? Big kudos on that first one, the 2nd Street. Thanks. So that's now moving forward? Yeah, yep, signed and to the title company, so Which takes a while, as I know.

Yeah, they had one closed down in Anchorage, so now that's flooded everyone else and it's been backlogged a lot and hard to get through. So, okay. What can you tell us about the Old Man Loft? I'm hearing mixed reports about it, so I don't know what's going on currently. Okay, yeah, just super busy over there.

So, or no, I meant— oh, oh, the, the new— the old net loft. Okay, I thought you meant not the new net loft. No, I'm not. Yeah, the old net loft spot is owned by the Baptist Church and they're going to be building a new church. Yeah, so the other day when they had left the job site, there was a huge open hole And so that was— I don't know if it's still there.

It was—. It's still there. Yeah, it was pretty big, and it just a little concerning to me being so close to the school. I don't know what they can do or if there's anything they can do. Yeah, I'll definitely bring that up and keep an eye on that.

It's just that they're excavating right now to try to dig in, I think, new utilities. And yeah, so this one was like right by the road, and it was just made me a little nervous. Okay, yeah, I'll keep an eye on that. I don't know, there's some barricade around it, but it's not like, I don't know, it's not substantial. Like, you know, think maybe a snow fence or something at night around, you know, those orange snow fences that they've got in the Midwest.

I don't know if they've got them here, but just something a little more visible.

I was wondering if you had a timeline on the Cantus project. So they're working on their deliverables right now, which is like engineering for the dock that they want to put in and getting a resurvey, like a survey to replat that area. So they're working on that right now. Just a couple other things in negotiations. So just going through like the process of what they, you know, that you give a concept idea and a proposal.

And so now they're getting their ideas nailed down and to me. So the negotiation process is going to last a little, a little while with them. But we do have the food truck going back out there this summer. Vic Alde is going to have this. Yeah, it's going to have Mexican food out there.

So there's still, we're still using it for other uses like that with the land use permit. So, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you.

Yeah.

Any other questions? How's the Second Street? Um, parking and all that coming along. Um, good. They had an open house and they laid out on all the tables upstairs in the education room, um, the whole— they printed out the whole street of 2nd Street from end to end, um, and all of the things that they were going to be doing and let the property owners come in and walk through and talk about anything that they were wondering about, or give them like suggestions on updates.

Certain people didn't make it, and so now they are seeing things and wanting changes and updates. And so those are trying to be accommodated where they can. But if you want a photo of that, I can certainly try and get one so you can see it. When does that start? Oh, when does it start?

I think it is possibly spring of next year or fall. I can't remember. I think it's next summer, spring or fall. So. Hopefully spring.

Okay. It's been pushed off a few times, a little bit for the timeline. So, okay.

Any other questions?

Okay, moving on. There's no unfinished business. New business, conditional use permit for travel trailers request on Lot 2A, Block 4, Cordova Endowment Park. Madam Chair, yes, I move the Planning Commission grant the conditional use permit for travel trailers request for Lot 2A, Block 4, Cordova Industrial Park, submitted by Alex— I don't think— I'll try— and adopt and incorporate the findings and conditions within the staff report.

Second. Okay, Commissioner Hall, would you like to speak to your motion? Pretty straightforward. Um, there, there are a couple comments here thinking that maybe going to the city, but there— it is one of the— it's in our, in our code what it's for. It says in this, uh, condition for used for permits for trailers right here, um, on page 4, and why we're doing this.

So unless somebody has a real good reasonable objection, um, the biggest thing is because that's— I see it is it also provides security for their construction site because that's a very busy area this time of year, or it should be very busy. And we're— they're only asking for 5 out of the 12 points. So that was my thoughts on it. Let's speak to your second. Yeah, no, I think it's fairly straightforward.

It—. This was in the code. They have a very clear timeline for when it's going to be there. They have a very clear reason for why they want it. Yeah, I don't see any reason to do it there.

Yeah, at first I was, um, a little concerned that, you know, we have an open trailer or, um, park that, you know, maybe they could put this trailer in. Um, and I wasn't sure that they'd be able to hook up to water and sewer with that unit down on the lot. So that was a concern. Um, and are we approving this just for the— what did they say, 4 or 5 months, or for a whole year?

Um, the motion says the findings and conditions in the staff, uh, report, and it does say, um, The temporary living— number 4 of the conditions of approval says the temporary living quarters must be removed from the lot or vacated at the end of the 12-month period. Okay.

However, they, they were requesting a shorter period of time, but the code does allow for 12 months. Under this. Okay. And then I just was concerned that, you know, the lot, if it was big enough to accommodate the RV and then getting all of their heavy equipment in and out of there. And, um, if there was just a number— it looks like they're on, on this drawing, and there would be Yeah, it's the diagram on page 10.

Yeah. And it said that they can connect to the city water and sewer there, so I'm assuming they've gone through that, whatever investigating, whatever that would take. Yeah.

Any other comments, concerns? Yeah, yeah, I also went through this and it seems perfectly reasonable, um, having a place to live near a building site definitely makes things significantly easier. Um, so I have no problem with it. Uh, any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Hearing none, motion passes.

Okay, no audience, no audience comments. Um, commission comments. We'll start with Commissioner Trumbly. Um, been a minute since I've been in person, so it's kind of nice to see everybody, and thank you for a very quick meeting.

Commissioner Hope. Thank you. Commissioner Ray. Yeah, no, uh, good to see everyone. Okay, likewise.

Thank you, Amanda. And besides, can we have a motion to adjourn? I moved to adjourn meeting. Okay, we are adjourned at 6:48. It took you longer to ride here than the meeting.

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