Soldotna: 10-07-2026 Planning & Zoning Commission Meeting

I would like to call the October 7th, 2026 Planning and Zoning Commission regular meeting to order. Would everybody please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance?

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Would staff please call the roll? Spindler. Here. Vadler. Here.

Ruffridge. Here. Dwyer. Here. Murray.

Strasbaugh. Here. Burton. Here. You have a quorum.

Thank you. All right, we are going to take a look at the first item here on the agenda, which is the approval of the agenda. May I have a motion to approve the agenda? So moved. Thank you.

A second? Second. Thank you. Are there any changes to the agenda?

All right, hearing none, are there any objections to approving the agenda?

All right, hearing none, the agenda is approved. On to the next item, approval of the minutes. September 2nd, 2026 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting minutes. May I have a motion to approve the minutes? So moved.

Thank you. A second? Second. Thank you. Are there any changes to the minutes?

Hearing none, are there any objections to approving the minutes? All right, hearing none, the minutes for the September 2nd, 2026 Planning and Zoning Regular Meeting are approved. All right, now we will move on to presentation with prior notice, and there are no presentations, so we will move on to the next agenda item, which is public hearings. There are also no items here, so we will move on to the next agenda item. Which is unfinished business.

Resolution PZ-2026-012, granting a conditional use permit for a storage yard at 42360 Sterling Highway in the commercial district. As a reminder to the Commission, the motion to approve Resolution PZ-2026-012 was placed on the floor at our September 2nd, 2026 meeting before being postponed to tonight. Because the motion is already on the floor, no new motion or second is required. May we have the staff report?

Thank you, Chair Burton and Commissioners. And look at that, Justin's on top of it. Um, I apologize for my voice, so I'm gonna do my best to be loud and clear here. So this is a conditional use for storage yard at 420 42-360 Sterling Highway in the commercial corridor. Um, specifically what's being asked is to rent and store heavy equipment on this property.

As you see on this map here, everything in yellow is your commercial district, and then you have surrounding within proximity as the rural residential further in the northwest corner there. And across the Sterling Highway, you have the North Star Metals, um, an abandoned car wash, um, and next door is a contracting, um, office and storage yard as well to the west of the subject property, and it's pretty much vacant along this corridor to the north. So, particularly, you know, this conditional use is very specific in the space of the storage yard. The reason for this is when it comes to the zoning district Zoning code for storage yard, principal use or accessory, actually requires conditional use. So, to ensure that the storage yard doesn't expand beyond what we're reviewing to, um, analyze the— or mitigate the conditions, staff is being clear that the storage yard, what's being proposed is 0.59 acre on this 5.5-acre lot, so that if they were to expand further, they would have to come back to your commission to reevaluate, you know, the buffering, the screening, the impact, the traffic.

Um, This also ensures that staff can enforce, um, we'll see if they expand further than this. So, for this purpose, this conditional use for the storage yard is limited to 0.56 acre of the 5.5-acre lot. And a little bit of history on this lot itself, you know, they have a drive apron that was approved by DOT. Um, you can see it when you drive by. Part of that You can see in the far right is their as-built when they provided to DOT showing that driveway.

They had a different plan at the time, but what's being proposed is what is being asked as a storage yard is renting and storing heavy equipment with a temporary office as well as a conex on the premise. With the temporary structure of the— or the temporary office, realistically the size of it only requires one required parking on the premise. And with any storage yard, there is that site obscuring requirement, and what that site obscuring means is either with dense evergreen where it's not visible from any public right-of-way, and it either can be obscured with a decorative fence. And in your staff report, I made sure to include what the definition of a decorative fence is. So, with the way it's been cleared, and to ensure a site obscured, staff is proposing a condition that, that driveway approach is quite wide where it's cleared, so that we're requiring obscured dense landscaping or fencing 36 feet to the right or to the east of that driveway approach.

Um, and furthermore, can't remember exactly, I believe 10 feet to the west, if I remember correctly. Am I a little off? Yep. Approximately 10 feet to the right of that driveway to be planted with columnar evergreen. So I was very specific in these conditions because, as we know, with the storage yard on K Hill, it was a very generic of, hey, it should be cleared and vegetated.

That's really hard for staff to come in. It's like, well, what's heavy vegetation? So with this, if you read in your condition, it says to be planted with evergreen trees in 2 staggered rows, at least 1 row containing 3 trees, and on the west side of the driveway planted with columnar evergreen. Green because it's so narrow. We're asking them to build— to plant taller, narrow evergreens.

And again, very specific. That way, down the road, if it's not there, we can come back and enforce that. Um, otherwise, um, trying to think of anything I'm missing. I kind of am breezing right through it. Um, And part of the CUP here is we're asking that your commission do a partial paving waiver.

Typically when it comes to paving is if the property is accessing anything, a street that's paved, then the lot itself where the required parking and the access to the parking is paved. Here you can see the driveway length is very long. Um, I do want to point out that in the staff report, it does call it out as 250 feet. When I was drafting this presentation, I was like, this doesn't add up. So I measured it, and I've included in the slide, it's actually 121 approximately.

So I'm hoping that one of your commission can amend condition number 1 to reduce that length to approximately 125 rather than the 250, because I don't want to hold them to paving 250 when that's not really the true length of the driveway. And I really confirmed it with the as-built of looking how far the width of the lot is, and then the driveway didn't add up. So, um, my apologies for not catching that before the staff report, but I wanted to point that out to you at least now. So part of the waiver is to not have to ask them to pave the lot itself, considering they only need one parking space for the temporary office use. So, um, there's already— that's a long length of driveway to be paved.

So therefore, staff is requesting your commission consider waiving the paving on the property itself, because typically we ask for paving is that they don't draw out the dust and dust control onto the— on this— to the right-of-way, in this case the state right-of-way. Driving 121 miles or 21 feet, I think that would address that. So that is what staff is recommending your commission to consider. Otherwise, with all the conditions added here for the CUP, just to go over it again, this CUP is strictly for heavy equipment storage and rental yard on the southern portion of that 0.59-acre portion of this lot, including the paving waiver on the lot itself. And of course, with the first condition, the driveway paving extending a minimum of 125 feet into the clear and graded area.

And this is consistent with the code itself, that typically if there's no structure being built with the use, paving is allowed up to 3 years. And so we're just being explicit and consistent with the code itself and saying that the paving must be completed within 3 years. And of course, your commission can change that. Um, prior to installing the screening, again, this is applying that site obscuring to the left and right side of the driveway to ensure that it's obscuring the heavy storage yard. And again, if you look at the definition of decorative fence, if they were to provide a fence, it also says that you then need to provide a gate to provide that screening.

So, and it says that the gate itself is also to be consistent with the height of the fence. So even though it's not here, The definition covers it. That's enough for staff to enforce it down the road. So the applicant has the option to do the dense landscaping or the fence. And I further elaborated that they at least provide a 15-foot wide landscape bed.

This is a little bit more than the standard requirement, which is an average of 10, minimum 6, up to a max of 15. I think in this case it's just better just to ask if a straightforward 15 to ensure that dense landscaping bed to provide that site obscuring. As you— 10 feet is not a lot of wide, mostly for 2 staggering. And so the staff is specifically asking for that, for your commission to include that 15-foot-wide landscape if they don't provide the fence. And then continuing with the conditions, all the structures, including the proposed office structure and shipping container, shall maintain a minimum front yard setback of 15 feet.

Again, the last second condition is implied, but I like to be explicit when it comes to code enforcement. Usually, you know, you can't encroach into a required landscape with structures. So, but I want to be very clear that any structure also is maintaining a minimum 15 feet from the front property line. That's really all Condition 3 is saying. Number 4 was added.

Because we have another conditional use that we've run into issues where the stacking of shipping containers, it's 3 tall, and it kind of defeats the purpose of site obscuring, you know. At that point, I think they would have to come back if they were to, you know, want to do any kind of vertical stacking. So to prohibit any stacking above the obscuring and defeating the purpose of site obscuring, I'm including this provision to to protect that visibility. Um, also because it requires building permit too, and we're dealing with another site with this issue. So otherwise, staff finds that with these conditions, it mitigates, um, all the standards, and staff finds that it meets all the 8 standards of the CUP and recommend your commission to approve the CUP with the paving waiver.

Thank you. Thank you. The public comment period is now open. Is there a member of the public who wishes to speak on this item? If so, please state your name and address for the record, please.

Okay. Anybody?

All right.

Okay. With no one else wishing to speak, the public comment period is now closed. Are there any commission comments or questions for staff?

Um, last month, I don't remember that.

Thank you, Commissioner Murray, through the chair. So the staff report has remained untouched, so it's the same staff report from September.

Base property looks like heavy equipment, has little trees on page 3 of 8. Not at all.

So that's a very good question, Commissioner Murray. So that one is not compliant with the zoning code. So for that particular site plan, even though they didn't need a CUP, they actually were required to install 13 trees along the street frontage, as long as also required to be paved as well, their driveway.

Correct.

Correct. Question, question from, from Commissioner Spindler. On that condition 1, changing it from 250 feet to 125 feet, do we need to amend that? Okay. Yes, when it's time to do that, I'm, I'm ready to make that amendment.

Perfect. Chair Burton, um, I have a question for staff.

In the general project description submitted by the applicant, uh, the long-term plan stated was to build residential cabins with a 5-year target to do so. This is in a commercial district, and I just want to clarify and confirm that that goal is in compliance with the current zoning.

That's a great question, Chair Burton. So in a commercial district, any dwelling requires a conditional use. So if they were in 5 years, unless the zoning— as long as the zoning remains the same, that they would need to come back for a conditional use permit. To build residential in a commercial district. Mhm.

Okay, thank you.

I have a question. Um, how long— how tall was the fence required? I might have missed it. Um, the fence required is a minimum 8 feet tall, so they would That would be their option, or Dansevergreen.

Mhm.

Um, I noticed The property has— is quite a bit tree now. Wouldn't— would the existing trees have to be some removed and still meet the requirements of the additional permit?

It says fencing over trees, um, and it seems like there's lots of trees there. Yeah, so we're mainly talking about the portion 36 feet east of the driveway. Well, if they do the fence, they have to do that portion that's been cleared at the front. Um, so right now the landscaping, if they were to do landscaping in condition number 2, is very specific that 36 feet east or west or east to the right of the driveway would need to be dense evergreen, and also the 10 feet because they cleared a little wider than the driveway. So if you drive by, it's kind of very visible of the storage equipment.

So we're not asking them the whole frontage to the point where it's obscuring. Existing vegetation always counts towards the obscuring factor, and that's why one of the conditions as well is before they do anything that they're required to submit a landscape plan and fencing. We're not going to ask them more than they need to do in this case, and we work with them on it.

Welcome. Through the chair, as a similar question as to what I had, is there a way to make it clear that before any additional vegetation or trees is removed, that they know that keeping existing trees is always— can always be part of their landscaping plan, then they don't have to pay for trees. But because I see right now it's a pretty minimal clearing, But, you know, they could choose to clear-cut everything and then just plant trees. But I think it would be— somehow I'd like to communicate to the applicant that leaving existing trees is almost preferable to removing them if they want to expand this, or if they want to place their storage area in a different location on the I, I know, sorry, I wasn't clear whether or not they had to place it exactly where they're talking about placing it now, or if they could move it around.

Um, are we talking about the storage yard area, right? Yeah, the storage yard area. I, the, the— sorry, and that was kind of all over the place, but the— my question is really, um, is there a way to keep as many trees as possible in that front area that, that abuts the road right now. Um, understood. I would recommend making a condition if you don't want to have the applicant clear any more additional vegetation along the front, because there's nothing in the code that prevents them.

Sure, we can say we prefer, but That just means, you know, it's a suggestion, take it or leave it. So, it— if you feel it is up to your commission to add that condition to say, hey, existing vegetation as is along the frontage there is to remain as is, and any future expansion or any clearing should be further north of the storage, existing storage area. Okay, thank you. This is— that's really helpful. I think what I'd like to avoid is the, the storage yard that's on the top of the hill by Mackey Lake, where we thought that we had put in place an adequate buffer, and it turns out that when you actually are driving by and looking at it, it really isn't much of a buffer.

Um, so, and I, you know, I don't want to limit what people can can do is just that is the, the entryway corridor to town. It's almost as though it should be a kind of a different, um, a different zone in some ways. You know, we don't require people right in the middle of town to keep, uh, an existing buffer, but their lots are a lot smaller. In this case, all these lot, all these commercial lots are long and skinny, and so it does, it would allow us if we wanted to, to have more of a buffer of dense evergreens to prevent us from looking like Wasilla.

Just, just, you know, but I want to do that in a way that still allows them to do like whatever they need to do on their property.

Can we go back to the slide that has the tree plan? Is there a, or There isn't one. Okay, there isn't one. Um, but sorry, just for visuals, um, you were gonna have them plant the trees just to the right of that, the driveway coming in, right? Yeah, laser beam.

It doesn't work. Oh, shit. But where the measurement of 124.1 feet. So it's to the right. Okay.

To the east of it would be. The edge of that driveway. Yeah, we're requiring them 36 feet to the east, to the right, to be planted 2 staggered rows of, you know, dense evergreen to provide sight obscuring there. And then pretty much to the left edge of the driveway, to the left or to the west, is a minimum 10 linear feet of dense evergreen. In this case, because this 10 is very short, We're asking them to put columnar evergreens there.

Okay. And—. Sorry, thank you for going over the specifics with me and sorry for—. No, you're good. Digging into the details.

So it's going to be 10 feet deep on that left-hand west site. It's all going to be a minimum of 15 feet deep north. Okay. Okay. And then we're just talking about how— what the length left and right.

Okay, got it. Sorry, so 15 feet deep. So maybe what would be reasonable would be to say, and then beyond those 2 beds or of planted trees, we'd like you to maintain the 15 feet of existing vegetation as a buffer along that highway-facing frontage of your property. Yeah. Okay, it's to keep the existing vegetations to the East and to the west and east of the proposed landscape requirement.

Because otherwise, you know, if they wanted to clear it, we would come back in and we would require them to plant rows of trees to maintain the site obscuring. So I mean, you'd think it'd be— I don't know, it seems to me that that would be Save them money and save, save drivers a sore eye, eyesore. Absolutely. And it's within your commission's purview as well to not even give the applicant an option. You can say you need to provide obscured screening with vegetation only, you know.

Again, code allows the option, but again, this is a conditional use. It is up to your commission's discretion. To detail the, the approval. Okay.

Are there any other comments, Commission comments for staff?

Yeah, I think to move on, we have some— a little housekeeping to do with this resolution. So, I'd encourage the Commission to sweep. I'd like to propose just one amendment, and that is in agreement with what staff has recommended, that we change on Condition 1 the 250 feet to 125 feet.

Second the amendment. Thank you.

I'm gonna call for the vote on this amendment. Voting on the motion to amend, changing Condition 1 from 250 feet to 125 feet. Murray. Yes. Dwyer.

Ruffridge? Yes. Strasbaugh? Yes. Vadler?

Yes. Spindler? Yes. Burton? Yes.

The motion passes unanimously.

Thank you for putting that forth, that motion forth. Um, we also have another housekeeping item suggested by staff. I could have the commission director attention to page 1, which is the memorandum, which essentially speaks to amending the resolution to reflect additional notice, which we pushed this forward, and adding a 5th whereas clause.

Do you need someone to move to amend, adding a 5th additional whereas clause? Mm-hmm. All right, so moved.

Okay, go for it. So a motion to amend the resolution PC 2026-012.

And I move to amend Resolution PZ-26012 by inserting a 5th whereas clause. I don't know if I need to repeat what you just said, but clause to document the Commission's postponement action from September 2nd, 2026, and updating the recitals to reflect that renoticing was completed in compliance with SMC 17.10.425.

Thank you. Can I have a second? I'll second. Thank you. Right, so I've called the vote.

Vote on motion to amend as read into the record by the previous speaker. Dwyer? Ruffridge? Yes. Strasbaugh?

Yes. Wadler? Yes. Spindler? Yes.

Burton? Yes. Murray? Yes. The motion passes unanimously.

All right, thank you. So I I think we are good to vote on this resolution at this point, unless we have any other comments. I'd like to move to amend an existing requirement to retain that 15-foot bed of existing vegetation to the east and west of the required landscaping beds. But that would be— I would need a second, and we'd have to vote on it. I second.

Okay, okay. Staff, call for that vote. Vote on motion to amend as the previous speaker read into the record. Vadler?

Yes. Spindler? Yes. Burton? Yes.

Murray? No.

Dwyer? Yes. Ruffridge? No. Strasbaugh?

Yes. Motion passes with 4 yes votes.

Okay, thank you.

All right, would staff please call for the vote on the resolution? Vote on Resolution PZ 2026-012 as amended. Dwyer? Yes. Ruffridge?

Yes. Strosbaugh? Yes. Vadler? Yes.

Spindler? Yes. Burton? Yes. Murray?

Yes. The motion passes unanimously.

Okay, thank you. Uh, we are now going to move to the next item, which is new business, which there is no new business, so we'll move on to the next agenda item, public comments without prior notice. Is there anyone from the public who wishes to comment?

Thank you.

Okay, hearing none, we're going to move on to the next item, which is informational items. We have the Planning and Zoning Commission Student Representative Application and Policy. We will now move to the next item on the agenda, which is reports.

Okay, so we're going to move on to reports. We're going to move to the mayor and council reports. Councilmember Carey, thank you for joining us. You're most welcome. Glad to be here.

Good work.

Thank you. Are there any questions or comments for Councilmember Carey?

All right, thank you. Thank you, Councilman. Through the chair, this is Commissioner Rutherford. I just wanted to, um, I'm excited about the application, the student application, and that was an exciting thing that was, is being brought forward. So just want to thank you for that.

I just— and you may already be aware of it. Excuse me, I'm sorry.

I first got involved in government as being the student rep on the City Council in '69. And so again, I strongly support getting more students involved in all aspects of government. I think it's very beneficial. So again, thank you.

Great. All right, next up is City Manager report, which the City Manager is not present, so we'll move on to the Director's report. Director Mitchell. Thank you. So, um, you know, in your packet is a monthly report as promised moving forward, so, um, I won't go into anything in depth, but I'll talk about the pending items of zoning permit because they're exciting.

There are new things coming through. Um, they're the bottom last 3 items. The site plan review for triplex at 150 North Soldotna Ave. This is part of the, um, Soldotna Junction 24, that large subdivision at the Y. Um, while it's still pending final recording of the final plat, this individual who who owns one of the lots is looking to start at least the process of building a triplex. So it was— there's actually been a lot of inquiries and prospective buyers of vacant land in the last couple weeks, really, of buying property to build.

I just talked to someone today who is looking to build another triplex, a different owner, and someone looking at a 7-acre lot to— looking to subdivide. So it seems very exciting times for the city of Sedona because Everyone wants to build here and keeping the building official and I very busy. So that's exciting. And we have another, um, ADU going through for review. This ADU is a little bit unique.

Um, it's adding to an existing detached garage and they're building on the backside of it. And this is off of 336 West Riverview Avenue, but there's again a need for additional housing for families to come move in. So another one that's looking to start this fall, crazy enough. Um, and then of course we know that with the school renovation of the Pershing-Dautner Prep, um, so that's a large set of plans that I'm still going through. These reviews are pretty much keeping me busy, and there's more to come.

Otherwise, if there's specific questions about any items on this, I'm, I'm happy to answer. Originally, the major subdivision that's listed on here was supposed to go before your commission here, but staff noticed a lot of discrepancy within that preliminary plat, and we've already gained a lot of traction with concerns from the residents. So I'm glad it's being postponed, and hopefully it will be taken at the next agenda. But, um, it's a 6-lot subdivision with a track for potentially Phase 2. There's a lot of unknowns with the plat and how they plan to go about it, but Excited again to see another large 13-acre track, a potential subdivision in the city.

Um, and then we have tomorrow, the city is closed down for professional development, and I believe you've all been invited for later part of the evening. So hopefully I'll see everyone there, and I appreciate those of you who have reached out to me for the conference, for the APA conference partnership with AML in December. So I do have the 4 who've reserve the hotels, but if you're still interested in attending but can provide your own housing, I'm happy to register you. So just please reach out to me because I know they have a limited number of seats, so it's not— so if they sell off of tickets, then registration will be closed. Other than that, happy to answer any questions your commission may have for me.

Thank you. Are there any commissioner comments or questions for Director Mitchell? Um, just, just a question. This is not a criticism in any way, shape, or form. It's just my naïveté as a relatively new member of this commission.

Um, I read in a recap of the city council that they had voted to approve— it was over by Beluga— some mixed-use housing, and I thought normally something like that would come to this commission first and then be bumped up. And I thought, well, maybe it came to this— was an action was taken and then it took a while before the council, the city council, acted on it. Or maybe it was one of those issues that we had talked about. If it's a very straightforward thing, it can just go straight through and not have to come past. Do you know why, um, why that happened?

Is that something that we should have been involved in? Before the, the full council voted on it. I just want to make sure I'm not shirking in my duties. Not at all. I am actually not familiar with what project you're talking about.

I'll have to look it up, and outside of this meeting, I'll go ahead and, uh, and chat with you about it. But yeah, it was just last week. I, uh, I get a lot of news feeds, uh, and that was a news feed on what had happened at a council meeting, and it seemed like it was a planning and zoning, uh, thing because it, it had something to do with zoning of some property. It involved Beluga Avenue, you know, or Beluga Street, whatever it is, just right here in town. And it was mixed use.

There was some commercial usage of the property. There's also some residential. And they approved, which made perfect sense, they approved converting more of it to residential usage. And it was in the news. That's where I got it.

And so That's where I thought, oh, okay, let's just find out, you know, what, uh, what's going on. But if, um, I'll get more details so that you can hone in more on what the issue was. I just want to make sure that I'm living up to my responsibilities if I'm supposed to be involved in those things. And if not, then that's fine too, because I really don't— on the surface wouldn't have had an objection to it. Absolutely.

Thank you for that. Um, Any chance you remember what news source it was? Oh goodness, uh, I, I want to say it was our local radio, uh, folks, you know, Nick Terrell and, and the other folks like that. Okay, perfect. I'll look into it as well.

Thank you for bringing that to my attention. Certainly.

Are there any more commissioner comments or questions for Director Mitchell?

Issued a change of use to residential commercial 1.9 East. I don't know where that is in orientation. It is kind of behind or north of Sultana L.

Yep, it's—.

It is a duplex. It was built in 2020. So it's a fairly recent build, and now it's being converted from a duplex to— correct, now it's going to be 2 offices.

Mm-hmm. You're welcome.

Are there any other questions or comments, Director Mitchell? All right, thank you. I think we will go ahead and proceed to commissioner comments, and I think we'll start on this side with Commissioner Spindler. And go down the row. Certainly.

I wanted to thank everyone involved with the city of Soldotna and everything else for celebrating my birthday tomorrow by giving everybody a day off. Let them know, thank you. You may celebrate my birthday in any way, shape, or form you wish. Our family will be holding a, a modest celebration. I say a modest celebration.

We have a lot of family, so it's going to be big. I don't think there'll be fireworks because there's too much light, but Anyway, that's my only— yeah, I think you're probably right. Not that that would stop— yeah, not that that would stop folks, but you're probably right. Anyhow, that's my only comment. Happy birthday.

Thanks. Pre-birthday, early birthday. Yeah, um, I just wanted to say that, yeah, I think one of the reasons I sit here now is that I was a student rep when Councilmember Carey was mayor. Yeah, so life gets you for life. Yeah, service is good.

I don't have any comments tonight. Thank you. I, I first want to thank the staff for putting this all together and, uh, help directing the flow of this effective meeting. And I want to thank staff and the city for providing these types of opportunities for the commissioners, all staff, to attend APA conference and, you know, network with staff members. Um, and I want to thank our fellow commissioners.

It's great to be a part of something like this, seeing, you know, we have housing issues and it's exciting to be a part of something where we're making progress. I look at the structure that's built across from the study, you know, where will soon be available and we can, you know, be proud of these successes and then reflect on some of the things where we thought we did an efficient job with, say, the buffering of, you know, certain things. And we can look on that and apply that as we move forward. So I'm proud to be a part of this with you guys and excited with what we're doing here.

Um, thank you. I—. Thanks for every—. All the work to our director and, um, just for the service to fellow commissioners.

Happy early birthday for me as well. Um, I did want to say that, uh, every time I come to these meetings, it's so evident to me how much our staff puts into all the work that we look at for minutes or hours, they've looked at for days, and, um, it's appreciated. Thank you.

So did, did you refer to the new 12-plex? Is that what you were referring to? Yes. Okay, okay. That is a beautiful addition to the community, and he did a good job, and I think there's even trees planted.

Also, it must have been a slow day at the Clarion that we got so much press over over just not doing something. Did you put that in, Glenda?

Yeah, the article. It seemed like— I mean, we went through the whole core thing and the new development and nary a word, and we, you know, we didn't take an action. So it gets, you know, several words. I don't know if anyone else saw it. Yeah, I thought we upstaged the city, which I thought was helpful.