This transcript features the **Minneapolis City Planning Commission**. Based on the provided context and the dialogue within the recording, I have identified the speakers, including the Chair (**Chris Meyer**), Planning Staff (**Alex Kohhas** and **Kimberly Holien**), the Applicant representative (**Tyler**), and the various **Commissioners**. [0:17] **Chris Meyer**: Welcome everyone to the regular meeting of the Minneapolis Planning Commission for January 5th, 2026. My name is Chris Meyer and I'm chair of the commission. I want to welcome back all of our newly appointed commissioners who just got sworn in and our newest commissioner, uh, Jason Garcia from the park board. [0:32] **Jason Garcia**: Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Jason Garcia. I'm proud to be representing the park board here in with the city planning commission. Um, I represent park board district 4, which is the central and western um district in the city. My district extends from Brownie Lake and Cedar Lake in the west all the way over through um downtown and includes such wonderful parks as Lake of the Isles, Luring Park, um park properties like the Stone Arch Bridge, um and West River Road. So, I am very honored to be here and excited to see [1:19] how we can all work together to move the city forward. Thank you and welcome. [1:22] **Chris Meyer**: All right, with that I will ask the clerk to please call the role. [1:24] **Clerk**: Commissioner Chowdhury? [1:26] **Aurin Chowdhury**: Present. [1:27] **Clerk**: Garcia? [1:28] **Jason Garcia**: Present. [1:29] **Clerk**: Gordon? [1:30] **Commissioner Gordon**: Present. [1:31] **Clerk**: Jones? [1:32] **Commissioner Jones**: Here. [1:33] **Clerk**: Shepy is absent. Uh Shepard? [1:34] **Commissioner Shepard**: Here. [1:35] **Clerk**: Wagner? [1:36] **Commissioner Wagner**: Here. [1:37] **Clerk**: Vice President Baxley? [1:38] **Commissioner Baxley**: Here. [1:39] **Clerk**: And President Meyer? [1:40] **Chris Meyer**: Here. [1:41] **Clerk**: There are eight members present. That is a quorum. [1:44] **Chris Meyer**: Uh, first we'll go to the minutes to of December 8th, 2025. Is there a motion to adopt those minutes? [1:57] **Commissioner**: So moved. [1:58] **Chris Meyer**: All right. Any discussion? All in favor say I. [2:01] **Commissioners**: I. [2:02] **Chris Meyer**: Opposed. Abstentions. Those minutes are adopted. Uh, next we'll organize our agenda. We have just one item and I would like to discuss it. Um, so that's all we've got. Is there a motion to adopt that agenda? [2:13] **Commissioner**: So move. [2:14] **Chris Meyer**: Is there a second? [2:15] **Commissioner**: Second. [2:16] **Chris Meyer**: All right. Any discussion? All in favor say I. [2:19] **Commissioners**: I. [2:20] **Chris Meyer**: Opposed. That is adopted. All right. So, our first and only item is 4755 Longfellow Avenue and staff is Alex Kohhas. [2:50] **Alex Kohhas**: Okay. Thank you, Chair Meyer and commissioners. Before you today are land use applications for a proposed office building and parking lot within the existing Hiawatha service center which is near Lake Hiawatha, the Hiawatha Golf Course and Minnehaha Parkway. Uh the applicant is the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board. Uh and they're represented by HCM Architects as well. Uh this slide I'm showing a portion of the proposed site plan... [Explains project details and variances through 15:49]. [15:50] **Chris Meyer**: Thank you. I have quite a few questions, most for the applicant, but before we go to the public hearing, um just a few things to go over. So, um, so yeah, we we received the two emails in opposition and they mentioned um complaints about the bike parking that they said that uh the bicycle parking staff finds it compliant even though it's located much further away on the northeast side of the 185 acre zoning lot. So, I I wanted to ask, can you show where the bike parking would be would be on here for us? [16:25] **Alex Kohhas**: Yeah, I'm not sure if I can show like with my cursor or anything, but uh northeast side of Lake Hiawatha... [Explains zoning requirements through 18:19]. [18:20] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. So, there would be no bike parking in the red circle on there. Is that correct? [18:22] **Alex Kohhas**: That's my understanding. Correct. [18:23] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. And to help us out, is the clubhouse like you can see it kind of on there, but I don't know. Is the clubhouse halfway through on this image or is it on the bottom quarter? [18:23] **Alex Kohhas**: It's uh on the northeast corner of the lake that you see here. There's a little building. [18:25] **Chris Meyer**: Oh, that building. The rec center. [18:26] **Alex Kohhas**: There's a little building footprint there. Yeah. [18:28] **Chris Meyer**: Oh, sorry. Yeah, I was getting confused... Is there any bike parking at the clubhouse, which is the one I think it's midway on the left hand side? [18:41] **Alex Kohhas**: Uh not that I'm aware of, but I could be mistaken there. So, I would defer to the applicants if they have any information about that. [18:59] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. Um, can you go back to the site plan? Yeah. So, when when I first looked at this, I was I was struck because normally we require like that the the buildings be close to the sidewalk and that the parking be in back. Um, so what what are the existing policies that that require that building placement and what what exactly are the exemptions that they have here? [19:29] **Alex Kohhas**: Yeah. There are a few different zoning code requirements that might speak to this question broadly... [Explains alternative compliance and property size through 23:32]. [23:33] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. And one more from me. Um so this is within the shoreland overlay ordinance and Lake Hiawatha is one of the most polluted bodies of water in the city. Um so I just wanted to understand I mean you know that just means that there should be a higher level of scrutiny about any pollution coming from this. So what measures are we taking to address that? [24:06] **Alex Kohhas**: Um, I would say I'm trying to think if I have a slide just kind of showing... [Explains storm water design and Public Works review through 25:41]. [25:42] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. Commissioners, are there any other questions for staff before we open the public hearing? Not seeing any. Thank you. We'll open the public hearing and I see the applicant is here with us. Tyler, would you like to present your point of view on this? [26:02] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Uh, Chair Meyer, uh, commissioners, uh, thank you very much for, uh, allowing me to speak here today. Um for the last 140 years uh the park board has p been piecing together properties... [Explains facility needs and tree preservation through 35:01]. [35:02] **Chris Meyer**: Thank you. I do have several questions. Um, so first, can you give some context about how this interacts with the rest of the long-term adopted plan for Hiawatha Golf Course? Like, um, when when the the plan is fully adopted, how many parking spots will there be on the entire site? [35:23] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Um, Chair Meyer and Commissioners. Um, so we are um currently underway uh with developing a 30% schematic design for Hiawatha at the golf course... [Discusses master plan through 37:14]. [37:15] **Chris Meyer**: So, so there are 123 spots currently. Are those all at the clubhouse? [37:19] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: I believe so. The last time I quickly ran a number, it was about 121 at the clubhouse, but 123 is about the same. And in the adopted plan, it goes to how many at the clubhouse? [37:33] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Um, you know, I I'm not sure. We're still in design... [38:03] [38:04] **Chris Meyer**: Yeah. I'm I'm I'm trying to fully understand this because the application that you're making doesn't just apply to the part by the service center. It gives you a variance for the entire site to to go up to 171 parking spots. [38:27] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: We would likely be here again. Yes. Um but if the if the if you do approve this uh variance today um and say we only build half of the stalls uh you know at um at the maintenance facility um I I I would suppose that that would give us room to build them elsewhere. [39:44] **Chris Meyer**: So for the employees of the service center, where do they park now? [39:48] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Uh they mostly park on Longfellow. [40:24] [40:25] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. And you mentioned what the market would support. So I just want to be clear. Are are you charging for any of these spots or are all the spots at the clubhouse and the service center going to be free? [40:40] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Um Chair Meyer, um it's it's free parking. [40:51] [40:52] **Chris Meyer**: Okay... I wanted to understand this line from the letter. Um so the proposed location is advantageous to the retention and preservation of trees when compared to to a location that avoids the need for a variant. So what what was the alternative location that you would have in mind that wouldn't need a variant? [41:21] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: uh you know I I don't know because we at that time we weren't going through a variance application process... [41:46] [41:47] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. And Alex, I don't know if you can bring up the site plan map again, but I I just wanted to understand, you mentioned like a grove of spruce trees... [42:15] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: So, the um the spruce trees are uh kind of the darker um well, spruce colored evergreens kind of in the middle... [43:20] [43:21] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. Can you go to the site plan? Okay. So why why can't the building be like I—? [43:31] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: So there's um uh south of the building um by about 20 ft um there's a very large hackberry tree... [Explains tree constraints through 44:52]. [44:53] **Chris Meyer**: So, could the building be placed where the parking is like around on the map... and the reason I'm asking is is because like the way it's fig configured now like you if you wanted to walk um to it like you you walk through the parking lot... normally we we you try to get the building as close to the the sidewalk and put the parking behind it. [45:57] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: So um as I mentioned earlier, the building placement is very strategic... [46:39] [46:40] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. Um, and then I I wanted to bring up one other thing that I had asked staff because in the letter you said um that MPRB considers the golf course and the main maintenance facility spaces to be separate... is there a way for us to approve, um, just the 40some parking spots by the service center without having to also bring the 123 by the clubhouse into compliance? [47:40] **Alex Kohhas**: Chair Meyer, commissioners, the short answer is not that we can think of for for a design like this. Um, you you basically need all three of these variances to address different aspects of the zoning code that all are impacted by this proposal. [48:49] [48:50] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. Last one for me. Um, is the park board doing anything to encourage either its employees or its patrons to bus, walk, bike to this facility to to the golf course and the whole site? [49:05] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Um, uh, Chair Meyer, commissioners. Um, yes. Uh, we we generally, uh, want to, uh, position our parks as, uh, as accessible as possible... [Explains service center focus on safety/fleet through 50:58]. [50:59] **Chris Meyer**: All right. Any other questions from commissioners? Shepard. [51:02] **Commissioner Shepard**: Oh, go ahead. Thank you for your presentation. Can you walk me through again I think what gets us excited is the proximity of parking to the path on along Minnehaha Parkway... can you walk us through the 48 spot spots for a 1600 foot building? [51:21] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Yeah. Um uh uh Commissioner Shepard. Um yes. So uh certainly there aren't going to be 48 people working in a 1500 foot building... [Explains employee usage through 53:18]. [53:19] **Commissioner Shepard**: I think the essence of my question is am I looking at a row of chippers? [53:23] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: No. No, you're not. You're going to look at uh personal vehicles. [53:35] [53:36] **Commissioner Shepard**: Okay... that 1929 building, I think it was a church originally uh does what we like buildings like that to do, which is hide everything behind it... is there really no way to double load the north south parking and single load the east west parking to pull us a little farther away from the parking lot? [54:07] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Uh, Commissioner, sorry, west side there... [Explains foundation and root protection through 56:22]. [56:23] **Chris Meyer**: Commissioner Jones. [56:24] **Commissioner Jones**: Uh, again, thank you for the presentation... So the parking is primarily for your employees. It's not to, uh, store equipment that's stored in the existing buildings. Where's the equipment stored now? And what is the plan for the 1929 building? [56:41] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Uh, Commissioner Jones, um, thank you. Uh so um the plan for the 1929 building is to eventually be um uh renovated... [Describes phased construction through 58:01]. [58:02] **Commissioner Jones**: And going back to Commissioner Meyer's comments then, so you anticipate there'll be other parking um variances coming along...? [58:19] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Well, for the for the the service center here... [Explains fleet storage through 59:30]. [59:31] **Chris Meyer**: Anyone else? Yeah, Commissioner Baxley. [59:33] **Commissioner Baxley**: Yeah, thank you again for the presentation and um I guess for me I I have no problem with the additional parking. I think I just am struggling with this site plan... this seems to be a real invasion towards that uh park area. [1:01:27] [1:01:28] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Um, Chair Meyer, Commissioner Baxley, um, sounds like there's some designers, uh, on on on the, uh, commission here. Um, we're we're we're dealing with a public space, a taxpayer funded space. Um, we are not a a rich developer um, who's trying to squeeze every every penny. [1:02:15] [1:02:16] **Commissioner Baxley**: I actually think there's you can do this removing less trees, not taking more trees. [1:02:20] [1:02:21] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: I dis I respectfully— we're very sophisticated landscape architects... our tree preservation specialist um does a remarkable job. [1:03:21] [1:03:22] **Commissioner Baxley**: Yeah. Do you is there a place where we can see the site plan or when when will we understand kind of why that building and that location is exactly where it needs to be for the future? [1:03:32] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Uh Chair Meyer, Commissioner Baxley, I I I wish I could take you all out to the site and see it in real person... [1:04:25] [1:04:26] **Commissioner Baxley**: We're pretty sophisticated... and it's not about money. That's not about making it pretty. That's about rules that are put in place that we try really hard to make sure that all the constituents of the city park board or otherwise follow. [1:04:50] [1:04:51] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Um, I'm going to turn to other commissioners— oh, no. I can't remember where I was going with it. Sorry. [1:05:08] [1:05:09] **Chris Meyer**: Commissioner Jones. [1:05:10] **Commissioner Jones**: Uh, just why did you— what's that uh number? How did you land on the actual number of parking spots that you believe are uh needed for your facility? [1:05:19] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Um, Chair Meyer, Commissioner Jones... we looked at the physical constraints of the site and that was really the constraint is um how far east we could go uh with the parking lot. [1:06:18] [1:06:19] **Chris Meyer**: All right. Anyone else? I have I have a few more. So how many employees are using this site at the service center? [1:06:26] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Uh, Chair Meyer, I don't have that that number off hand right now. [1:06:30] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. Um, is it too long for them to walk from the clubhouse? [1:06:47] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Chair Meyer, yes... it would be unreasonable to ask our staff um um to walk uh over 1,000 ft um especially uh at 6:00 a.m. [1:07:20] [1:07:21] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. Um, and then you said you wouldn't have a problem with having a few bike spots adjacent to the service center. Um, like two or three. Would that be—? [1:07:42] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Uh, Chair Meyer, I'm happy to do a little change order for a thousand bucks and uh, throw in some some uh um, bicycle parking. [1:07:45] **Chris Meyer**: All right. Any other questions before we proceed with the rest of the public hearing? All right. Thank you, Tyler. Oh, sorry. I missed Commissioner Garcia. [1:07:49] **Jason Garcia**: I guess just to do my due diligence, if the planning commission votes to deny these variances that you've requested, um, what would that do to the nature of the project in terms of extending the timeline, incurring any extra costs or things like that? [1:08:11] **Tyler (MPRB Representative)**: Uh, Chair Meyer, Commissioner Garcia... if this body were to deny um one or any of these variances, uh we'd be set back several years. [1:09:30] [1:09:31] **Chris Meyer**: Any additional questions, Commissioner Garcia? All right. Thank you. All right. Um, for the rest of the public hearing, anyone who would like to speak can have up to two minutes... [Closes public hearing at 1:10:04]. [1:10:05] **Chris Meyer**: Commissioners, what are your thoughts? You have any motion? I'll share mine... I was involved in this project as a park commissioner when we were reviewing uh the Hiawatha plan... I don't feel I can vote for this. I I I don't um feel that it has a practical difficulty. I feel that it has harms... I would ask the staff how they could accomplish [a reconfiguration]. [1:12:47] **Kimberly Holien (Staff Planning Supervisor)**: Yeah, Chair Meyer, I think um you know generally we don't want to get into the business of redesigning projects on the fly as part of this commission. So the most appropriate action would be to deny whatever variances that you don't think are supportable... [1:13:12] [1:13:13] **Commissioner Jones**: Just a question. Chair Meyer and staff, would a continuence also be an appropriate way of pursuing? [1:13:48] **Kimberly Holien (Staff Planning Supervisor)**: Uh, that would be an option. Um, you know, the issue with a continuence, we would likely need two cycles... [1:14:12] [1:14:13] **Commissioner Wagner**: Uh, thank you, Chair Meyer. I have a question, a procedural question... we have a, it seems to me we have a quasi judicial vote on the variances. Is that a fair statement? [1:14:45] **Kimberly Holien (Staff Planning Supervisor)**: All of the items in front of you for this application are quasi judicial. [1:14:49] **Commissioner Wagner**: Is it fair to say that a no vote on the variance... is essentially us saying that we are not convinced by the findings in the report? [1:14:55] **Kimberly Holien (Staff Planning Supervisor)**: Correct. However, you are required to make findings that would support the action that you take... [1:15:58] [1:15:59] **Commissioner Wagner**: Okay. Thank you. I just wanted to have that in mind as we approach this discussion. Um, I'm I'll have a few more thoughts later, but I'm still kind of ruminating over here. [1:16:16] **Commissioner Jones**: Yeah. So, um, yeah, this is a really, you know, complex one... I appreciate staff safety, but there are many many city employees that don't have uh private parking... [1:17:23] [1:17:24] **Chris Meyer**: Kimberly, um would it be possible to deny aspects of alternative compliance or to make a condition to the site plan review that would accomplish the effect of changing...? [1:17:42] **Kimberly Holien (Staff Planning Supervisor)**: It would likely be a combination of those two things... [1:18:18] [1:18:19] **Alex Kohhas**: I'm available if there are any questions about the specific. [1:19:04] [1:19:11] **Chris Meyer**: If we um denied variance B, like what I want to see is the the parking be placed behind the building. Could that be a condition? [1:19:13] **Kimberly Holien (Staff Planning Supervisor)**: We could deny alternative compliance under the site plan review, which you would effectively do by adding a condition of approval that says that there should not be any surface parking between the building and the street. [1:19:33] [1:19:34] **Chris Meyer**: So, is that on starting on page seven, the the building placement, or is that somewhere else? [1:19:40] **Alex Kohhas**: Uh, Chair Meyer, commissioners... starting on page seven and continuing on to eight, there's discussion of the site plan review standards for building placement... [1:21:32] [1:21:33] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. So is it if if we deny alternative compliance for building placement in the site plan review, is it also necessary for us to deny variance B? [1:22:05] **Kimberly Holien (Staff Planning Supervisor)**: Yes... Under site plan review, the action would not be to deny alternative compliance. It would just be to add a condition of approval that they comply with that section of the ordinance. [1:22:12] [1:22:13] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. Um so that condition of approval would be that that comply with the building placement code... the area between the building and the front or corner side lot line shall not contain a surface parking lot. [1:22:48] [1:22:49] **Alex Kohhas**: And if I may, Chair Meyer, I I think we would specifically recommend because the discussion is around the Minnehaha Parkway side... the building shall be located within 15 ft of the corner side lot line. [1:23:22] [1:23:23] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. So can we repeat those two? [1:23:42] [1:23:43] **Kimberly Holien (Staff Planning Supervisor)**: If you are concerned with the location of the building and the parking, then that would likely be two conditions. one that requires the building to be within 15 ft... and one that states that there shall be no parking between the building and the corner side lot line. [1:24:14] [1:24:15] **Commissioner Jones**: I'll I'll move that. [1:24:34] **Commissioner Baxley**: Second. [1:24:35] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. So, there's a motion and a second... [Clarifies the motion]. And chair Meyer, we also need findings for uh the denial of variance B. [1:25:59] **Chris Meyer**: All right. Um, so I would I would say that there's not a practical difficulty relevant to that variance... [1:26:27] [1:26:28] **Chris Meyer**: Commissioner Baxley, do you want to read what you were going to say? [1:26:30] **Commissioner Baxley**: Yeah... the addition of 8,000 square feet of new impervious surface adjacent to the parkland and protected waters within the shoreland overlay district... the project shifts the character of this area away from park adjacent setting toward an autooriented service use. For those reasons, variance B should be denied. [1:27:14] [1:27:15] **Commissioner Wagner**: Uh thank you. I know there's been a motion in a second... I look at this site plan and I see we are proposing that the building must go between Minnehaha Parkway and the parking lot... I struggle to see a way to do that without knocking down more trees. [1:28:38] [1:28:39] **Commissioner Shepard**: Yeah, thank you... I don't know that we can accomplish both of those things. So I in my mind we're trying to get the parking away from any parkway. Um and if the building gets foregrounded as a result that's a that's that's a happy result... I would like to strike that [15 ft requirement] if that is a friendly amendment. [1:29:06] **Chris Meyer**: Okay... Commissioner Jones and Commissioner Baxley... do you want to accept Commissioner Shepard's amendment? [1:29:43] **Commissioner Jones**: I'm fine with that. I I also again... I'm not convinced that you need all 43 parking spots. [1:29:55] [1:30:10] **Commissioner Baxley**: Okay. I I agree with that. [1:31:13] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. So then we can take that as a friendly amendment... [1:32:38] [1:32:41] **Clerk**: Commissioner Chowdhury? [1:32:51] **Aurin Chowdhury**: No. [1:32:53] **Clerk**: Garcia? [1:32:54] **Jason Garcia**: No. [1:32:55] **Clerk**: Gordon? [1:32:56] **Commissioner Gordon**: Hi. [1:32:57] **Clerk**: Jones? [1:32:58] **Commissioner Jones**: Hi. [1:32:59] **Clerk**: Shepard? [1:33:00] **Commissioner Shepard**: No. [1:33:01] **Clerk**: Wagner? [1:33:02] **Commissioner Wagner**: No. [1:33:03] **Clerk**: Vice President Baxley? [1:33:04] **Commissioner Baxley**: I. [1:33:05] **Clerk**: And President Meyer? [1:33:06] **Chris Meyer**: No. [1:33:10] **Clerk**: There are three I's and five nays. [1:33:12] **Chris Meyer**: Okay so that does not carry. Would anyone like to propose an alternative motion? [1:33:23] **Aurin Chowdhury**: I don't have an alternative motion... I personally am in the same place as you, Chair Meyer, that I won't be able to support this tonight and I don't know if that warrants us going the continuence route... [1:34:28] [1:34:29] **Commissioner Wagner**: Um, I'm I'm happy to make a motion if if needed... there's a reason that staff writes up variances and needs to find findings in order to support a variance. And in my estimation, the findings are met here... I'm happy to make that motion [to approve staff findings] if if it helps us. [1:36:35] **Jason Garcia**: I would second that motion if you made it. [1:36:39] **Chris Meyer**: Before we consider the second, would you accept the condition for [bicycle spots]...? [1:36:50] **Commissioner Wagner**: I'd make five. [1:37:05] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. So, I'm I'm hearing Commissioner Wagner make a motion to approve staff findings with the condition of five bike bike parking spots... Do you want to second that? [1:37:16] **Jason Garcia**: I second that. [1:37:18] **Chris Meyer**: All right. Um, so I I'm going to speak against the motion... [1:38:38] [1:38:39] **Aurin Chowdhury**: Yeah, I'll just comment. Um, for me, uh, it's less about like the adjacency to Minnehaha Parkway. It is about the increased amount of parking spaces and pervious surface in this park specifically. [1:39:39] [1:39:40] **Commissioner Shepard**: This may this may be out of order... I did notice that your civil engineer published a storm water management report back in late November which indicated the addition of this new BMP which will improve storm water management on this site. [1:40:03] [1:40:04] **Chris Meyer**: All right. Clerk, please call the roll. [1:40:05] **Clerk**: Commissioner Chowdhury? [1:40:11] **Aurin Chowdhury**: No. [1:40:12] **Clerk**: Garcia? [1:40:13] **Jason Garcia**: Yes. [1:40:14] **Clerk**: Gordon? [1:40:15] **Commissioner Gordon**: No. [1:40:16] **Clerk**: Jones? [1:40:17] **Commissioner Jones**: I. [1:40:18] **Clerk**: Shepard? [1:40:19] **Commissioner Shepard**: No. [1:40:20] **Clerk**: Wagner? [1:40:21] **Commissioner Wagner**: Yes. [1:40:22] **Clerk**: Vice President Baxley? [1:40:23] **Commissioner Baxley**: Nay. [1:40:24] **Clerk**: And President Meyer? [1:40:25] **Chris Meyer**: No. [1:40:31] **Clerk**: There are three eyes's and five nays. [1:40:33] **Chris Meyer**: That does not carry. Um so with that I would propose to uh deny um the application with the same findings... [1:41:52] [1:41:53] **Commissioner Gordon**: I'll second it. [1:42:04] **Chris Meyer**: Okay. All right. There's a motion and a second to deny the application. Clerk, please call the role. [1:42:05] **Clerk**: Commissioner Chowdhury? [1:42:11] **Aurin Chowdhury**: I. [1:42:12] **Clerk**: Garcia? [1:42:13] **Jason Garcia**: Nay. [1:42:14] **Clerk**: Gordon? [1:42:15] **Commissioner Gordon**: I. [1:42:16] **Clerk**: Jones? [1:42:17] **Commissioner Jones**: Nay. [1:42:18] **Clerk**: Shepard? [1:42:19] **Commissioner Shepard**: Hi. [1:42:20] **Clerk**: Wagner? [1:42:21] **Commissioner Wagner**: No. [1:42:22] **Clerk**: Vice President Baxley? [1:42:23] **Commissioner Baxley**: Hi. [1:42:28] **Clerk**: And President Meyer? [1:42:29] **Chris Meyer**: I. [1:42:30] **Clerk**: There are five eyes and three nays. [1:42:31] **Chris Meyer**: All right, that is adopted. All right, so that concludes our business... Are there any updates from staff or commissioners? [1:42:56] **Alex Kohhas**: Uh the only update is the planning or the city council had their organization meeting earlier today and adopted a calendar... [1:43:16] [1:43:17] **Chris Meyer**: Excellent. Thank you. We are adjourned.