September 10, 2026 PC Policy Plan Committee - Sep 10, 2026

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What agenda items and approvals are being addressed at the start of the meeting?

Unknown 0:05

Well, good evening. Welcome to the Policy Planning Committee meeting of September 10, 2026. We have a full agenda, and we have great staff here to give us insights and engage in conversation and dialogue. So I'm going to call this meeting to order. First, a matter of business is that we're going to act on minutes. Can I have a motion to approve? Moved by Commissioner of Spain, seconded by Commissioner Hancock. Is there any discussion in the minutes? Are the minutes to your satisfaction? All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Any abstention? One abstention. And that motion carries. Let me take this opportunity to thank our wonderful staff person who manages all of our committees, Samantha Lawrence.

Unknown 1:03

Sometimes it's Shaughnessy Lawrence, but I'll call Samantha Lawrence tonight. We can all imagine what it takes to produce minutes for all of the Planning Commission's meetings. And she does a wonderful job. Plus, she does all the logistics. So thank you, Samantha. We have two topics this evening. One is the public facilities. The public facilities element of the policy plan, as it will be described, we're in the phase two of the updating of the policy plan. Public facilities is first up for us to consider. Then we're going to have a conversation with staff about the implementation of the housing action plan. And my colleague Commissioner Landgraf is the chair of the Housing Committee. Housing issues generally would fall into the domain of that committee, but since this is a comp plan conversation, we thought we would bring it under this policy plan committee since it's a committee as a whole, and then future conversations about housing, we'll consider those in the context of the Housing Committee.

Unknown 2:17

So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Corrine Bebeck and ask you to introduce your staff and your subject.

Corrine Bebeck 2:27

Thank you, Chairman. Members of the Planning Commission, good evening. I'm Corrine Bebeck with the Department of Planning and Development. And as Chairman Jelski-Eichner mentioned, we're here to talk about the public facilities element and the great work that Mo and Salem have been doing. So I'm going to pass it off to Mo Ali and Salem Bush to take us through the work that they've been preparing to bring to you for public hearing later this month.

Unknown 2:47

Mr. Beckman, let me just take one interjection here. We have a new commissioner. I hope that you've had a chance to meet him, Paul Thomas, Hunter Middle District, stepping in the shoes of our friend John Carter. But he brings tremendous expertise and knowledge to this, and so I hope he'll be a great addition to the commission.

Muhammad Ali 3:08

Go ahead. All right. Good evening, members of the Planning Commission. Thank you all for having us tonight. My name is Muhammad Ali. And tonight, we'll be going over a project overview of the two public facilities plan amendment. We'll talk about both plan amendments in depth, the board authorization, the timeline, and lastly, Corey and Will provide some updates regarding phase two of the countywide policy plan towards the end. Excuse me, I did lose my voice earlier this week, so if you guys can't hear me, just let me know. I hope we find it. So if we look at where both plan amendments were authorized, the first one, the phase two public facilities plan amendment, excuse me, was authorized back in July of 2020 to update the public facilities element of the policy plan and the related area plans, including alignment with the capital improvement program.

Muhammad Ali 4:01

And it was divided into a two-phase effort. Phase one, which comprehensively updated the objectives and policies of public facilities element, was adopted back in May of 2024. But tonight's presentation will be focused on phase two. As you are aware, the countywide policy plan effort is also underway. And there were some updates made to elements in the public facilities policy plan that are being transferred to and being reflected in phase two of the public facilities plan amendment. So we'll be discussing that a little bit later on. And the second plan amendment is the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map Update, which is older and was authorized back in 2013 and is a narrower effort to update land use map designations for public facility, governmental, and institutional parcels.