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• Discussion and action to approve the Planning Commission 2025 meeting schedule.

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• Having a quorum present within council chambers and online. I now call this meeting of the planning commission to order at 6:07 PM First
• . Um, also, I was part of a special, um, planning commission meeting, and I was one of the few there where it
• opposition. Jay, you'll have three minutes. Good evening, respected members of the Planning Commission. My name is Jay Long
• in action to approve the planning Commission 2025 meeting schedule. Let's just get that taken care of first, um
• match their site plans. It is not the duty of the city of Austin, the planning commission or the
• daily lives to come to a planning commission meeting. And we, I I just wanna be a little bit more
• Planning Commission included in your recommendation in amending the DB two 40 ordinance of several weeks ago. Next slide
• council or would it be required to come back to commission Planning commission? It could move forward to
• trigger it coming back to planning commission or again, that would just be staff's recommendation to counsel might
• , council can consider that and it would not necessarily need to come back to planning commission. That is true
• time, if this makes it slightly easier reminder, whatever planning commission passes it is up to counsel
• been approved by the Planning Commission. We would change the word fee to payment. Okay. Yes. Commissioner
• All amendments approved by planning commission, um, to the base motion. Change the word fee to payment
• part of this hopefully would be that it's something that they can consider. I know at the planning
• commission, we've heard a lot of concern from folks around, um, storm water infrastructure and we've, we, we

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• , I know that the Planning commission shows that they, uh, in favor of the Sony, but I just wanted
• not downtown. And, uh, that's something that, I mean, another member for the planning commission we're calling really
• city of Austin Planning Commission. I've been very involved in development issues during those four decades. Um, in
• staff recommendation was C-S-V-M-U. The planning commission recommended DB 90 and as you've already heard, a compromise
• features, uh, that contribute to a pedestrian oriented walkable environment. It took from February until after the planning
• commission hearing in July for the applicant to ship to the DB 90 requirement of 75% pedestrian oriented uses

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• 12 until we can figure that out. And maybe by the time this goes to planning commission, we've got a
• , basically the next stop is the planning commission. And I, I, my concern is, is that we don't know
• sending it up. Uh, the question is, is as it's on its way to the planning commission, can we continue to
• , this will proceed and can go through planning commission and city comes a lot faster because we have your
• , as the case proceeds to planning commission and city council staff always continues to work with an applicant, um
• boundaries that are acceptable. Yes. I, I would appreciate you all to support this at planning commission so
• planning commission, if you all could pro provide that. I, I know a lot of that is private, like you're
• whatever you can provide to planning commission, um, again, don't, we don't want to go and, and, and dig this
• stuff up, but just if you can provide more information planning commission and if you could support this, that
• recommendation to planning Commission ? Because right now the, the recommendation is no historic zoning because of the
• property's age. So as this moves to Planning commission staff is comfortable with, um, moving it forward in
• I have a question for the owner. If we do that, will you support this historic zoning at the planning
• commission? Um, I can't say at this point because I haven't talked to my client here, but what I can

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• to the Planning Commission. Well, that's gonna be postponed it. Um, I didn't have a time to do this
• the next step, step is to talk to you guys to talk to planning commission, and go to council. Okay
• know, things going on. They, they generally try to get, you know, get it by planning commission. That's kind
• would you have to give to the planning commission and council moving forward? Would be the, So yeah, we're, we're
• . And this is a recommendation going forward, you know, law will see it. Um, planning commission will see it

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• we will go through the process with planning commission and, uh, city council to achieve that greater FAR. Um

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• or by the Planning Commission or the city council. It's very difficult. Yes. Thank you for, for those questions

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• planning commission. Next slide. And regulated trees are include all species invasives hack berries. Um, we are required to
• , another thing, um, I sit on the planning commission and there was a development that came to us, um, in
• tree permit is, do they get it before they come to the planning commission? Or do they get it at
• seeing it at the Planning Commission, and they said they had a waiver, Well, something that allowed them to
• of a site plan that, that you're familiar with on the planning commission, um, the site plan is the
• through the public process, which is the land, uh, use commission comprised of the environmental commission and the

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• We have a quorum present, um, within council chambers and in virtually. So I'm now calling this meeting of the planning commission to
• planning commission to meet with us, um, GIA, SBCA, the Austin Sierra Club, um, about this item before bringing an SOS
• stake here is what you as the planning commission, as the city of Austin will set as the baseline for water
• we are here today at Planning Commission. Uh, we are hosting a virtual public meeting on Zoom on October 28th
• deliberations and actions earlier today. Um, and that, uh, satisfied for planning commission. In terms of counsel, we actually
• maybe more rules and procedures, uh, of, of, of the planning commission than actual, uh, what was done. The
• nice to be as a planning commission and making these recommendations to council, uh, be able to understand how
• . Uh, but again, we're the planning commission and we can tell, tell council it is our recommendation that
• complex, and I think we also tried to consider that carefully as a planning commission. But I just
• if you're, if you're amending, imagine Austin, if have to come through, um, the Combined Joint Planning Commission, um
• did postpone to a date and time certain, um, at this body last time. And there was action by planning
• commission, um, explicitly to postpone to this evening. I actually went and, um, watched through all of y'all's
• a brief update on the general timeline of these code amendments, um, which obviously is postponement to planning
• commission tonight. We are hosting a virtual, uh, public meeting on the 28th on Monday at 6:00 PM Uh, we are

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• of posted meeting time, we will call this meeting to order special called Meeting of the Planning Commission to order at 5:03 PM
• is extremely, um, interesting and well done and relevant to the planning commission here are, are some kind of a subset
• , um, talk about next steps and then give you a slide with the, what we're hoping the the Planning Commission will
• organs, and that's a really priority for us moving forward. So tonight the recommended planning commission action would
• thought would be particularly interesting to the planning commission was number 81 relating to the transfer development rights
• the planning commission, um, emphasizes recommended recommendation, um, 81 in the plan and urges city council to move
• . Seven of those requests have already been to planning commission. Of the seven staff recommended granting the modification
• city council or planning commission. Zoning should promote clearly identified community goals such as creating employment opportunities
• was, um, uh, did the planning commission, uh, override y'all? Yes. Planning commission did, uh, recommend DB 90