Planning Commission - January 22, 2025

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welcome to the Scottsdale Planning
Commission public hearing the city
encourages your interest and
participation in the public hearing
process the Planning Commission is an
Advisory Board to the city council on
land use and Zoning matters the meeting
agenda items are development
applications that require public
hearings the Planning Commission
considers the request and makes a
recommendation for approval or denial to
the city council the city council makes
the final decision for or against
approval of the application the agenda
consists of the Roll Call minutes appr
minutes approval of the prior meeting
continuances are for items that will not
be heard tonight withdrawals are for
items that have been withdrawn from any
further consideration consent agenda is
for items not likely to require a
presentation or discussion and all items
on the consent agenda may be voted on
together any commissioner may move any
item from the consent agenda to the
regular agenda the regular agenda is
where each item includes a presentation
and recommendation by staff a
presentation by the applicant and public
testimony after the applicant will have
the opportunity to respond to public
testimony the Planning Commission then
discusses the case and votes non-action
action is for items for discussion and
no vote will be made by the Planning
Commission
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when the red light appears thank you for
your time and interest and now begin the
meeting with a roll call chair higs
present Vice chair young here
commissioner Gonzalez present
commissioner Kaminsky here commissioner
ell here commissioner Joiner here
commissioner Scaro here all here thank
you thank
you moving on to public comment um I
don't believe we have any general public
comment for non-agenda items tonight
okay so then we'll move on to
administrative Report with Mr
Curtis thank you madam chair members of
the commission um happy New Year uh
excited for
2025 um regarding tonight's agenda we
don't have any updates for you uh and
just a reminder our next meeting is
planned for the regularly scheduled
February 12th meeting so we do plan on
meeting uh at the next meeting February
12th that's it thank you great thank
you okay moving on to the approval of
the regular meeting minutes from
December 11th can I get a motion chair
higs I move for approval of the December
11th 2024 regular meeting minutes as
written we have a motion from Vice chair
young in a second second and a second
from commissioner ell roll call vote
please chair higs yes Vice chair young
yes commissioner Gonzalez yes
commissioner Kaminsky yes commissioner
ell yes commissioner Joiner yes
commissioner Scaro yes motion passes
thank you very
good now we are on to action items
starting with consent agenda we don't
have any recusals for consent agenda
items and we actually only have um two
items and don't believe there was a
request to move either to the regular
agenda so so um with that can I get a
motion for the approval of consent
agenda item number two 4ab 2024 and
number three Planning Commission annual
report uh chair higs I'll go ahead and
make a motion for recommendation for
approval to city council for case 4ab
2024 for the staff recommended
stipulations after finding that the
conditional use permit criteria have
been met and the proposed abandonment is
consistent in conforms with the adopted
General plan and approval of the
Planning Commission annual report
okay we have a motion from commissioner
Scarboro and a second second and a
second from commissioner Joiner roll
call vote please chair higs yes Vice
chair young yes commissioner Gonzalez
yes commissioner Kaminsky yes
commissioner ell yes commissioner Joiner
yes commissioner Scaro yes motion passes
thank you very good okay so our one
regular agenda item this evening is for
the election of officers for this year
for the Planning Commission um this
election uh is held every January and
it's for the positions of chair and vice
chair so let's start with um do we have
any nominations for chair or vice
chair yep commissioner Gonzalez yes I uh
nominate as um chair Diana
kinsky and Joe Young as
Vice um let's do if we can do one at a
time okay so um let's start with the
chair so we have a motion for uh
commissioner Kaminsky for the chair role
um I guess we do a roll call
Vote or do I ask for if we have other
sorry other
nominations yes before we take the vote
what about if if I'm yes oh you yes
chair higs you can take other
nominations before okay are there other
nominations chair higs I'd like to
nominate uh commissioner Scaro for chair
okay do we do we have any seconds for
Kaminsky before do I do that or do I I
do them all now I'm all confused no
seconds no seconds he says uh yes CH you
do not need seconds for nominations uh
you just have a nomination and then once
all nominations are done then you have
your roll Cod votes for them okay very
good this about time I get out of this
position
huh okay so we have a motion um or we
have a nomination for commissioner
Kaminsky and a nomination for
commissioner
Scarboro for chair these are both for
chair roles yes commissioner Kaminsky am
I able to um decline
the nomination respectfully
decline uh yes commissioner Kaminsky you
can decline to be nominated if you so
choose thank you I'm honored but thank
you very good so we are back to um a
nomination for commissioner scarbro for
the chair role um can I please get votes
for that
please chair higs yes Vice chair young
yes commissioner Gonzalez no
commissioner Kaminsky yes commissioner
ell yes commissioner Joiner yes
commissioner Scaro yes motion passes
thank you very good we have a new chair
congratulations chair Scaro uh now do we
have any nominations for the vice chair
position uh chair Hicks I would like to
nominate Vice chair uh young to keep his
position as Vice chair okay do we have
any we have one nomination for vice
chair young to retain his position do we
have any other nominations for vice
chair
okay I would nominate uh commissioner
Kaminsky but this is an annual event
that she turns it down she gets
nominated and turns it down so I guess
we don't need to do that it it is an
honor though okay with that then if we
could get a roll call vote for um Vice
chair young to retain his position as
Vice
chair chair higs yes Vice chair
young yes Comm Gonzalez yes commissioner
Kaminsky yes commissioner utel yes
commissioner Joiner yes commissioner
Scaro yes motion passes thank you very
good well it's been a pleasure serving
you as your chair for the last few years
congrats to uh chair Scarboro and vice
chair young uh with that this concludes
our our brief meeting um is there uh a
motion for adjournment so moved we have
a motion all in favor I very good motion
passes thank you have a good evening for