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• Discussion and possible action appointing members to Planning Commission Working Groups.

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• We'll go ahead and get started. All right, I now call this meeting and the planning commission to order at, oh gosh, 6:04 PM Um, first
• the agenda, which was fine. Um, we were supposed to be able to go to the February 14th planning commission agenda
• , compatibility amendments you, the planning commission recommended for the city council and council amended, they added a bonus provision
• just clarify. The, the planning commission does not get involved with a private restrictive covenant. Correct. And that's really
• , while we're seeing a lot of high-rise growth through planning commission in the central portion, uh, zap is seeing the wild
• it's happening. It's just not happening in planning Commission. You might get some of that feedback from Zap when y'all
• spend a lot of time on this, but it's discussion impossible action of appointing members to planning commission working
• moving on still wanna participate, as, you know, outside of the planning commission, they won't affect our quorum
• , um, stress to the current members, O C O JC on Planning Commission, if you can make it your, um
• in perspective. This is the end of my term, um, on Planning Commission. It was actually the end of 10
• Life Commission, um, for several years before coming onto the Planning Commission. And, um, I've learned a lot in
• the commission. Uh, over the years that I've been on the Planning Commission, it's, it's really, um, really excellent
• , um, the decisions that the planning commission makes are best when the neighborhoods come to the planning commission with
• and expands, uh, in the planning commission in the future. Um, so I'd like to thank the, my fellow commissioners
• the planning commission really loves our city as I do. So, thank you all. All right. Um, commissioner Shay, I
• divide between, uh, you know, certain, the planning commission on the first, uh, the land code the first time
• , and you really brought a sense of unification to the, to the, uh, planning commission at that time. We
• , can you hear me? Kathleen Fox? Yes, we can hear you. Okay. Good evening. I'm Kathleen Fox with the housing and Planning
• Department Chair Commission I on, if we could pause for a minute. Ms. Fox, if you could display your camera please
• . , Uh, chair. Could I just point out that you don't have to be a member of the planning
• commission to serve on a working group Mm-hmm. . So, I'm, I'm confused on if we're There is a motion

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• council. April Planning Commission made a council. Um, and so if, if folks want more information about that, you can
• back to you right now, um, at the request of planning and, and in conjunction with work that's happening at Planning
• Commission later on in spring of 2023, I wanna say in April, may Palm District, April, the District commission made a

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• to, uh, seek planning commission approval of the site plan in March. So prior to that, I'm here to ask for

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• the ZK plan since it officially kicked off in February of 2021. I also serve on the planning commission, but I
• about this when you are the vice chair of the planning commission. I don't think that counts as a clarifying question
• to what I Just presented. You brought up at the beginning of your talk that you were on the planning commission. Well
• , this is not routed to go to planning commission, but even if it were just like any other item, I

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• dependent writers. Many of us were at the planning commission meeting back in November, urging them to postpone going to council. The
• Jobs Act of 2017. None of that information is in the backup material, and it wasn't discussed at the Planning
• Commission meeting on January 23rd, 2023. So if they could, staff could send that information to you or provided when it comes again

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• Is 6:00 PM Tuesday, February 21st, 2023. I'd like to call this meeting of the zoning and planning commission to order. The first thing I'm going
• going into planning commission and council in the April and May timeframe. Uh, next slide, please. And lastly, um, just to

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• usual process of review by multiple city departments, review a review by, at a minimum, the Environmental commission, the Planning Commission, and

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• All right, uh, let's go ahead and bring this meeting at the Planning Commission on Valentine's Day, February 14th, 2023, uh, to order. We've got, uh
• , um, the very first vote that I believe Planning Commission took on the new Land Development Code going back six, maybe about
• on what the timeline was going to be for new appointees to the planning commission. It, it, it just seems to me that
• tell us when the existing a u ordinance changes from council are headed to, um, planning commission codes and ordinances. Chair
• spring or summer, we are going to be getting those ordinances for review as planning commission as Well. Okay. So
• another working group or at least an item for discussion at a future, uh, council meeting or, or future planning commission meeting
• , it's an enforcement issue. Um, and obviously the planning commission is not really involved in enforcement, but I'm, I'm
• housing. What are the ones, and the exercise on this was finding a way for planning commission to help clean up
• the planning commission, we can bring it up action as an action item for us to initiate the code or send a
• , compatibility stuff. Um, and you know, as I'd mentioned before, planning commission has, in the past approved detention ponds
• . So in instances like this, the idea is rather than setting a project to have to go through the planning commission council
• be found on the, uh, planning commission webpage, uh, for this date. Um, the other thing to just keep in mind
• planning commission. So currently there are currently no adopted recommendations from the working group. Um, okay. But we can still
• and use our opportunity because planning commission can initiate code on some of these small pieces like that. Um, on the
• fork or makes a decision to forego a recommendation from the planning commission. That's, um, because it is Incorrect, uh
• , because it's an amendment to the Imagine Austin comprehensive plan, it has to go through planning commission first. So because
• the planning commission at the end to consider his amendments as we go through the approval process? Yes, that is
• else before we adjourn this evening? All right, seeing no objections, uh, I'm gonna adjourn this meeting of the planning Commission at 6 58. Thank you. Thank y'all. Happy Valentine's Day.
• folks. I think Commissioner Mosh Toler and Commissioner Anderson, you guys are gonna be hopefully continuing on with the planning
• commission. But, um, so who would be interested in serving, um, on this team? Uh, we just don't, I would love to have our

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• we have have to get you on here full time. But I mean, I could always take that information to planning
• commission. You Know, that's, that's actually close to code Chain. Part of the, part of the having conversation about something

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• to make any revisions before going to planning commission, and then ultimately counsel in the April May timeframe. Next slide