City Council Zoning Meeting on 2024-03-18 5:00 PM

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What introductions and opening procedures are covered at the beginning of the meeting?

Dimple Ajmera 0:01

Mm-hmm. No

Susan Rodriguez-McDowell 1:26

Yeah.

Dante Anderson 3:23

Good evening everyone. We are going to begin our meeting in just a Few minutes. Welcome. Welcome to the government center. Welcome welcome to the government center. We're gonna begin our meeting in just a minute or two. Um I'm I'm happy to see so many faces here in the chamber. I will say if you do not have a seat in the chamber, and there's some seats here and there, but if you do not have a seat in the chamber. Uh you're gonna have to move out into the foyer and there are televisions there where you can watch and see everything that's going on. Okay? So just make your way out to the foyer if you can, if you do not, if you have not secured a seat. So welcome to Charlotte City Council meeting on March eighteenth.

Dante Anderson 4:17

My name is Dante Anderson. I am the mayor pro tem and um I will begin the meeting by introductions and we will start with our city clerk. Stephanie Kelly, City Clerk.

Dimple Ajmera 4:31

Gempal Ashmira and welcome everyone.

Dante Anderson 4:35

Good evening, I am Marjorie Molina. I represent East Charlotte District Five. Good evening, Renee Johnson, and I'm honored to represent district four. Good evening, Liz Babson, Assistant City Manager for the City of Charlotte. Good evening, Dante Anderson, Mayor Pro Tem and District One Rep.

Dan Paulson 4:51

Malcolm Graham Shaw City Council District Two. Ed

Dante Anderson 4:54

Driggs, is anybody here from District Seven tonight?

Jar Pakari 5:05

Jar Pakari District Six.

Dante Anderson 5:11

Good evening. I'm Victoria Watlington and I have the pleasure of serving you at large. Terry Hagler Gray, Senior Assistant City Attorney. Excellent. So we begin our meeting with an invocation, an expression and inspiration, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. The invocation by a Charlotte City Council member is intended to solemnize our proceedings. We celebrate the religious diversity of our entire community, including those without religious faith. And tonight council member Johnson will uh provide us with the invocation. Thank you, Mayor Pro Kim. We can bow our heads. Ір Лор, пліз грант астирені. То актенс ви канат чан. The courage to walk boldly. And lead boldly to change the things we can.

Dante Anderson 6:06

And the wisdom to know the difference. Amen. Amen. Amen. Please rise if you can for our pledge of allegiance. Pledge allegiance. The Republic.

Unknown 6:28

Yeah, but you can touch this call.

Dante Anderson 6:35

So tonight is our zoning meeting and I will go through the explanation of the zoning process. The zoning process begins with applications submitted to our planning staff for review. There are two types of cases here on the agenda this evening. We have our decisions and then we have our hearings. Decisions on cases for which a public hearing has already occurred, so there's no further public comment on the decisions this evening. for our hearings. If anyone wishing to speak is we ask that you come and see the city clerk uh before the beginning of that particular hearing. And we will have staff presentations of course for all of our hearings. They do not have a time limit. Uh the petitioner will have three minutes um combined to present on the case unless there are two different exceptions.

Dante Anderson 7:32

The first one is if there is opposition that signed up to speak against that petition. And then the the second one is if staff is in opposition of the petition, then in both those cases the petitioner will get 10 minutes. And the opposition will get 10 minutes in aggregate, and then the petitioner will get two minutes for a rebuttal. If there is no one that's supposed to speak up to speak against it, then staff will just provide a a brief presentation. And the public hearing will be closed and we'll move on. The petition goes to the zoning committee and planning commission for review and recommendation. And that particular committee is chaired by mister Welton and I will pass it over to him so he can introduce that committee.

Dante Anderson 8:26

Douglas A. Welton 8:26

Wilton. Thank you, Madam Mayor Proten, and thank you, Council. My name is Douglas A. Welton, and I serve as the chairman of the zoning committee of the Planning Commission. Allow me to introduce the my fellow members of the committee, uh Will Russell, Shauna Neely, Rick Winnaker, Terry Lansdale, Rebecca Wilden, and Clayton Seeley.