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Land use pre-meeting: amendment proposed to add 'personal property and medical uses' to PUD; many items deferred
Summary
At a brief Land Use and Zoning agenda pre-meeting, the chair set item sequencing and noted numerous deferrals while a staff member said the applicant wants 'personal property and medical uses' explicitly added to a planned-unit-development ordinance; staff said the change is already reflected in the PUD.
The chair opened a Land Use and Zoning agenda pre-meeting at 04:30 on January 6 and reviewed the order and status of items ahead of the formal session, saying several docket items would be deferred or continued.
Unidentified Speaker 2, a staff member, told the chair an additional amendment is proposed for agenda item 2025-757 to "include uses in the title and section, to include, personal property and medical uses." The speaker said the uses "are already in the PUD" and that "staff is okay with it," but added the applicant prefers the language be explicit in the legislation.
The chair confirmed that a committee member would need to formally offer the amendment and that the amendment would be added to the bill for a vote. The pre-meeting included procedural discussion about item sequencing: item 2025-675 will be taken after the first action item even though it is first on the printed agenda, and item 2025-845 (agenda item 16) will be taken up as the first action item.
During review of 2025-845, Unidentified Speaker 2 flagged a drafting problem: the bill was not written to make clear whether the body should 'approve' or 'deny' and that the text mistakenly used the word 'appeal.' The staff member said the text "should say approve, not appeal," prompting the chair to note the body will likely need separate votes on sequential amendments and that the bill's motion language must be corrected before action.
No formal votes were recorded during the pre-meeting; the chair listed several items as deferred (including 2025-487 and 2025-488), several as "open, continue," and multiple others with procedural flags (open/close/move or ex parte). The chair also noted a block of items (885–889) are scheduled as second readings at the public meeting.
The pre-meeting closed with acknowledgments to meeting pages Leah Schafer and Adeline Campbell. The chair adjourned the pre-meeting.
