Cordova: Planning Commission Regular Meeting on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 6:30 PM
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Two Cordova planning commissioners finish their service, leaving two seats open
Sarah Trumblee and Sean Den Adel sat their last Cordova Planning Commission meeting Tuesday. The city is seeking applicants to fill their seats.

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Okay, you follow Planning Commission regular meeting. You order at 6:30, 7:00 local.
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Okay, uh, are there any disclosures of conflicts of interest or expropriation provisions?
Hearing none, doesn't look like we have any correspondence. Doesn't look like we have any guest speakers or any audience.
Suppose if there's anybody online. Probably not.
Okay, um, letters to court.
There's, there's not one. I don't really have anything from the last one, but if you guys have questions, I can answer that. Are there any questions from the planner?
Okay, um, it looks like there's no unfinished business, so moving this, um, a final plat review of proposed Harville subdivision south Southfield addition. Okay, I'm going to recommend City Council approve the final plat submitted creating a Harville subdivision in Southfield.
Sorry. Okay, Commissioner Rainey, would you like to speak to your motion? Uh, yes. Um, yeah, this, uh, the impetus for this replat came through here a couple months ago and sold the piece of city land.
We discussed all of the pros and cons of them. I see no reason to move on. The fireworks on NASA, you saw, I didn't know I haven't seen anything, you know, comes professional.
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Any other comments concerning this discussion? Not Hearing none, all those in favor of recommending City Council approve the final plat submitted, being Harborside Division South Fill Edition, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed?
Hearing none, motion passes. Next in this final part of review of Panoramic view subdivision.
Madam Chair, I move recommend the City Council approve file 5 submitted, creating panoramic view subdivision. Second. Okay, would you like to speak to your motion? Any comments? Works.
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Hey Sean, did you vote yes on that? Yes.
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Is your seat open? Yeah. I just wanna just say that I enjoyed my time on Planning and Zoning, and maybe someday I'll be back. Right now is my time to be done. So thanks.
Or I've learned a lot, and I just appreciate Um, the time that staff has always taken to ensure that we know that we come into these meetings prepared. So thank you. You'll be best.
I do want to get to subdivision code eventually, change a few things up.
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Ready? Um, yeah, no, again, uh, to Gatorade, that was really good having you on the commission.
Commissioner Thomas.
Are you asking me?
Uh, uh, I'll just thank, uh staff for organizing another agenda packet and getting everything in front of all of us to review. And yeah, it's been, it's been great working with all of you the past 3 years, and I've also learned a lot. And I would consider doing this again in the future, but right now I just got a lot of other things on my plate, so Yeah, I'm going to be passing the baton on to someone else, and hopefully there's some interested community members that are willing to step up.
Okay, well, thank you, Sarah and Sean, for being on the commission, and hopefully we'll get some other bright, fun folks to fill your seats in the meantime. Thank you, Amanda. And with that, do we have a motushkeeganim to say something? Oh yeah. Sarah, Sean, and Gail, we've really appreciated your time and your volunteer time for this commission.
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Your opinions have been valued, and I'm going to miss you guys and hope to see you back when you can. And I, you know, it's— we really do value the time and the effort that you put in here. And I know that when I put something in front of you, you guys are really going to read and research and give your honest opinion on it. And I really want you to know that your time is valued and I appreciate it. So We'll miss you guys.
And, you know, don't be strangers, show up and give audience comments when you have them. There's— and so there's going to be 3 seats available, but Gail's going to put back in for one. So if anybody has friends or anyone, send them our way because there's— this is the last meeting and there's going to be 2 seats open on the commission. So Thank you. Thank you.
We'll be linking it. Pardon me, Cordova, if we've got a few new faces. Yeah. Endless representation for community. Oh yeah, and I really like it.
Everybody's living in their own world. A diverse commission. Yeah.
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