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• Updates from the Planning Commission.

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• and Planning Commission is up first There. Can you all hear Me? Yeah, Alice can hear you. Um, so we
• agenda. But that's coming up for Planning Commission. And then we'll have another planning commission meeting related to
• are my only updates from Planning Commission at the moment. Thank you. And I realize planning is listed as
• that is in progress. And the, uh, electric utility commission, uh, resource planning working group has continued meeting
• , this will come before planning commission and then it will go before City Council on December 7th. But I totally
• will be taken. The first vote will be taken by planning commission in November, and then city council will
• vote on this in December. And until those votes are taken, planning commission and city council still have the
• previously in response to my first question. Um, has the planning commission considered potentially pausing on pushing this
• , I represent district two on the planning commission. I know Councilwoman Fuentes has spent a lot of time in
• sure Planning Commission will have several updates. All right. Planning Commission as Electric Utility Commission. I'll

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• dash 0 2 7 Parkland, dedication, repeal, and replace. This is postponed to November 14th by the Planning Commission number, uh, on
• meeting. So our next, um, planning commission meeting will also be the second public hearing for the home zoning amendments
• reform and that we need to be thinking proactively as a planning commission and as a council about all of
• Planning Commission snide remarks, smiles, jokes. Just because you don't agree with someone doesn't mean you don't
• plan goals. And as the planning commission, we are tasked to be the stewards of the city's comprehensive plan
• informed by staff that we, as the planning commission, do not have the authority to initiate changes. Um, so
• there's a letter that essentially will be forwarded as a, um, memo or an recommendation from the Planning Commission to
• as the planning commission. So we are not at this moment, um, um, sort of working on the city's telework
• , a little bit beyond our purview as planning commission. Thank you for clarifying and setting kind of the
• legal is that the, the Planning Commission, um, does not initiate changes to the comprehensive plan. Um, and so
• . And if you go to section four, the planning commission powers and duties, it describes, um, this body's powers
• plan as maybe desired or required? It's pretty on point. So the action that, um, the planning commission appears
• fulfilling of our duty as planning commission? Sure. Um, I don't have a policy answer for that, but I
• planning commission is taken and if there was a different, um, interpretation years ago and somehow got processed, however
• Austin Comprehensive plan initiated by the Planning commission itself? Imagine os I don't know the specific answer to
• it was initiated by the planning commission itself, then that would be a precedent that I think we would
• as, as planning commission, we just need to make sure that we can fight for the comprehensive plan. And, and
• actually the planning commission that had initiated the comprehensive plan to begin with. And if that is the case
• November 14th, um, planning commission meeting. Okay. Uh, question number two, . Hold on. Let me get one . Well
• itself, uhhuh to write in ordinance, because planning commission is responsible for ordinances, right? So we make
• an ordinance saying the planning commission can amend the comprehensive plan. Would that work? I'm not sure. So
• , that both the council and Planning Commission touch the chart or touch the, um, comprehensive plan. You're Talking
• ordinances, then planning commission, and then back to council. I guess I'm confused then, because it says that
• that the planning commission has attempted to amend, um, or initiate amendments to the comprehensive plan. Um
• . Um, of course, this coming Thursday we have the joint, uh, council and Planning Commission, uh, public hearing
• will be our November 14th planning commission meeting. Um, so as stated earlier, the any zoning cases, um
• those will be moved on to the November 28th, um, uh, planning commission date. So, um, if we have a
• lot of speakers on November 14th for a planning commission, uh, meeting at the public hearing for the home
• amendments, it could be possible that we have to, um, call a planning commission meeting on November 15th
• council. Um, and we had talked about a December 5th possible meeting date, um, for planning commission. Um, and
• close. Correct. Thank you. Um, so let's go back to the Wednesday planning commission potential meeting date
• , that we ought to be all about fixing. Somebody said we're the planning commission earlier, and indeed we
• planning commission. I'd much prefer that. I just feel bad us requiring a big postponement for every discussion
• as with possible action, uh, around the role the planning commission plays in amending, uh, the comprehensive
• to people across the board. Again, if we're the planning commission, we need to be about planning for
• , uh, redraft. Um, the COJC forwarded to the planning commission. Uh, but we asked that the draft ordinance
• be shared with the planning commission along with some examples of what the fee calculation might look like
• Committee, no updates since our last planning commission meeting, but we have a meeting tomorrow evening, so I'll
• say that we are not allowed to, right. It doesn't, there's nothing in the charter that says the planning
• commission cannot initiate changes. Is that correct? Well, the, as far the planning correct, I don't see anything specific

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• . Uh, they're now anticipating it going to planning commission at some point, uh, in early 2024, um, with council

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• does the city staff. So does a hundred percent of the planning commission, who after reviewing all the documents, uh
• List. To our knowledge, none of the people who visited with us that night came to the planning commission meet
• of time and, and, and the, the planning commission denied or allowed for the extension of time and that's
• Planning Commission's decision to approve a three year site plan. If you want to go with what the planning
• commission did, which is to approve a three year site plan extension, then we would deny the appeal. The motion

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• is the allowing three units per lot will be at the City Council, joint City Council Planning Commission meeting on
• the City Council and Planning Commission hearings. What is the timeline for council to actually take action? Do we know

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• Six oh six. I'm gonna call to the order the Zoning and Planning Commission. Today is Tuesday, October 17th. We are in City Hall Austin Chambers. Austin

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• has received strong direction from Council and Planning Commission to prioritize zoning, overlays and a number of cultural

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• Discussion and possible action to establish a working group tasked with providing amendments to the PlanningCommission regarding regulations that apply to single-family zoning districts and the number of unrelated

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• little quarter mile there. I want to encourage the planning commission to actually do some planning. Um, it's been a long
• to the planning commission and I didn't want to come to one. But here we are. Um, I, you know, I, I'm
• , uh, for the Planning commission and City Council, but again, didn't wanna muddy the waters with the specific direction the
• , I just, or should I start? First of all, I'm extremely happy to see this coming before planning commission and
• planning commission for action. And then, uh, I would say if you can look at your calendars, we're not sure
• need somebody on from the planning commission Yeah. To make the motion. Commissioner Scholer, you wanna be the motion
• City Legal around what we as a work group, what we as planning commission, um, are, are allowed to do
• A little late, just trying to get organized here. Uh, but I'm gonna go ahead and bring this, uh, meeting of the October 10th, 2023 Planning
• commission to order. Um, let's go ahead and do a roll call, and I'll start as I usually do with the folks on my left
• slaves, Buffalo soldiers, um, where they lie and where they rest. Um, I don't know all the lingo and all the planning
• commission, all the zoning talk, the WTF and the BFDs. Um, but, but I'm, I'm here as a person, um, that if

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• 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, and national origin to the Planning Commission. And my request is for my
• being forwarded like other individuals from the community when they submit their written testimony to the Planning Commission and even zoning
• before staff and the Planning Commission both recommend the applicant's request. Moving on, item number 38 is C 14 20 23 0 6 6
• 37, all three readings 38, all three readings, 39, all three readings and 40 of the Planning commission recommendation on

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• a, you know, a lot more community support. Um, even at our next meeting and even at the planning and zoning
• commission. I will say, uh, if you guys, you know, read in the news planning and zoning wants to see equity in