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Design Review Board forwards 2024 annual report to City Commission; sidewalk-dining renewals moved to staff review
Summary
The Downtown Design Review Board accepted its 2024 annual report and attendance record and will send it to the City Commission. Staff noted that annual sidewalk-dining renewals are now handled administratively rather than by the board, and members requested attendance-report clarifications.
On Jan. 9, 2025, the Downtown Design Review Board voted 4-0 to accept its 2024 annual report on activities and attendance and to forward the report to the Salina City Commission.
Planning staff summarized the board’s 2024 caseload and attendance, noting 26 design-review cases in 2024, including 14 sign cases. Staff said the record high is 28 cases in 2018–19; "The record is 28 design review cases, and you only had 26," staff told the board during the presentation.
The staff report described administrative changes adopted by the City Commission late in the year. At the board’s suggestion, annual renewals for sidewalk-dining permits are now processed administratively by staff when no issues are reported; only new sidewalk-dining applications or substantial modifications will come before the board. Staff also reported that a 2016 set of ordinance amendments had inadvertently been repealed when the board’s 2017 name-change action was recorded; the City Commission reinstated the 2016 language in December.
Board members asked that the attendance exhibit distinguish meetings canceled for lack of a quorum from meetings canceled for lack of agenda items. Staff agreed to split those categories before sending the report to the commission. A motion to accept the report and send it to the City Commission passed unanimously.
Staff also previewed a preliminary project: Salina Regional Health Center plans to present a proposal to enclose a courtyard along Santa Fe Street for an MRI imaging addition at the board’s Jan. 23 meeting. No formal action on that project occurred on Jan. 9.
