Council reviews airport-parking study, staff recommends conditional, permanent allowance with performance standards

The council heard a staff briefing and public comment on the city’s airport-parking study and the moratorium that currently suspends new land-use actions in the South Loop District. Planning staff said the moratorium on land‑use actions will expire in October and asked council for direction to draft code changes ahead of that deadline.

“...the moratorium that is in place on land use actions ends this October,” planning staff told the council, and staff said they would draft possible ordinance changes to implement council guidance with hearings in July and an adoption date in August if council requests.

Public commenters described sharply different priorities. Kristen Muir of Rosa Development and a Park And Fly representative urged that long-standing off‑airport parking operators be treated as permanent, preexisting uses or grandfathered, saying Park And Fly has operated since 1988 and “this use has permanent rights. It’s time to acknowledge that fact and move on.” Dan…