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• Discussion of Planning Commission appointments. (Mayor Adler).

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• you. And then mayor, you had the planning commission appointments as well on this, right? That's right. Thank you for that. Um
• complaints, as you will recall, um, on the planning commission, uh, item, uh, there was some question about whether or not there were
• broader, uh, in terms of, uh, how, how we employed, uh, planning commission members and how we give everyone equal access to
• planning commission, uh, appointments, um, uh, to make sure that we were all reconciled. We have people that have started to make
• planning commission appointments. We had a cast member pool last week. And as we talked about last week, uh, her appointment was
• to do a tiny introduction, which you've kind of handled, um, which really has to do with the, um, the planning commission requirements
• . The planning commission requirements are set up in the charter, and those are the ones that, uh, indicate that there are
• , um, we, this was kind of highlighted in 2018 because the city was sued or are individual members of the planning commission were
• planning commission alleging that they were, um, they shouldn't be on there because of this conflict with the charter on the number
• requirements of the charter. And, um, the people in the lawsuit changed over time because the members of the planning commission changed
• , there were a couple of changes that impacted the planning commission. One is, um, they said a term start date of July 1st
• , um, for planning commission members, but a March 1st for the other commission members. This was to give everyone a time to get
• that time, their membership was, uh, two years set term. Um, and so that left, um, going forward, the planning commission members
• members for the planning commission still have a two year term, you will need to reappoint or appoint a new member at
• of people who were related directly or indirectly to, to real estate. Um, we, we represented the individuals on the planning
• commission. Those members, uh, made arguments among, among them, uh, was that the council has deference to decide who meets the
• had a July 1st start date. Um, we corrected that, um, since then through a charter amendment, um, to set the planning
• commission, um, terms to up to two years, um, and eliminated the July 1st, um, start date for the terms. Um, so this will allow

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• , zoning and planning commission meeting. And I'll call the role first and commissioner Kosta presented. Great. Uh, vice chair. Berrera Ramirez
• it's one vacancy. Cause it's, uh, it's a joint committee with the planning commission. Okay. Do we have any other thinking CS

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• commission, planning, commission, urban transportation commission, the arts commission, um, parks court, and Jonathan have, you can kick me

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• minutes to 2:00 and I'll see you all then. Bye. Through some of the planning commission stuff and call the speakers. We have gavelled the meeting back again. Colleagues, something that I forgot to mention earlier, is I asked the clerk to put
• planning commission appointments on our next work session agenda so we can talk to each other about it. You will recall with respect to planning commission in the past we wanted to get together as a group before we made appointments because there
• was a limited number of spots for people that were available for real estate or other kinds of background, I don't remember what the standard was. Um ... There were two planning commission actions we took this morning. Leslie renominated her person
• applicant cv was intended to give people time to see that stuff. In any event, leslie's person on there was a reappointment and was not one of those more limited spots. And then mackenzie kelly removed a planning commission member, which is consistent
• someone that had been appointed by her predecessor in that office. That said I wanted to get the others of the group to talk about planning commission members collectively in the past. So I asked to put that on the work session agenda for us to talk
• about for additional appointments to the planning commission. Ok? It is 2:00. You want to call -- do we have the zoning speakers here already? >> yes, mayor. >> mayor adler: Ok. Let's call the five zoning speakers and then have jerry

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• and the council, the planning commission has 13 members appointed by council. Now that would change to 11 being appointed by council

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• use. Um, only nonprofits can get that use. Um, there is a process to go to planning commission and get approved

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• , it's Rob. Uh, so, uh, planning commission continues its regular bread and butter work of approval of zoning changes and

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• long-term resident at district two. I also currently serve on the zoning and planning commission and I'm not speaking or
• mixed use. It was recommended by the planning commission, but not by the staff. So when we post it for
• to go to the planning commission for approval. There would be a notice, uh, mailed out at a public hearing
• , held at the planning commission. Um, if the planning commission could decide to approve or disapprove the site
• of the planning commission, in which case the, um, the issue would be tossed to the city council for
• approved, whether it was approved by the council or by the planning commission, um, they would have to comply
• commission, the decision to approve or disapprove it's the planning commission, but that decision is appealable to the
• handled by the, uh, the code department and they'd be issued citations. Um, my point earlier was that the planning

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• with. Um, so I'd like, uh, the planning commission to just take seriously and stop paying lip service to anti
• have a super majority either at the landmark commission or the planning commission or the case never makes it to the
• for historic Preservation, Austin urges the planning commission to follow HLC, and staff's recommendation to add historic zoning
• , which didn't happen or the planning commission for it to even reach the council. So without a super majority
• the planning commission just seems like, you know, we are in a great opportunity to think more about what might
• to address the planning commission. Uh, I've got a little prepared thing I'm going to read, but I gotta