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Meeting: City Council Special Work Session

Meeting Time: July 31, 2025 at 3:30pm EDT

Agenda Item

1. Continued discussion of a request to rezone 24.33+/- acres on the east side of the City, north of Route 144 and south of I-70, being a portion of the “Gateway Property,” from General Commercial (GC) to Institutional (IST) to establish a Special Events Center to host cricket matches and other community events. Continued from July 24, 2025 Work Session

1.1_Executive Summary_7_24_2025 City Council Work Session_Zoning Map Amendment_Gateway Property 1.2_Proposed Zoning Map 1.3_Existing Comprehensive Plan Land Use and Zoning Information 1.4 Applicants Justification Statement 1.5_Exhibit A_Plat Showing Boundary of Rezoning 1.6_Exhibit B_Traffic Statements from the Traffic Group 1.7 Applicants Proposed Conditions 1.8_Applicants Presentation 1.9 Planning Commission Recommendation 1.10_Planning Commission Staff Report and Attachments July 14 2025 1.10_Planning Commission Staff Report and Attachments July 14 2025 1.11_Public Comments 1.12 Additional Public Comment 1.13 Additional Public Comment 1.14 Additional Public Comment3_7_28_2025 1.15 Additional Public Comment
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    Allen Schaeffer about 1 month ago

    Allen Schaeffer, Frederick MD.
    Comment: Why is the City Council considering rezoning of a parcel that has not yet been approved via annexation?
    It seems that the Annexation of the parcel is the foundation on which any matters related to rezoning would be considered.

    You can't rezone something that is not properly annexed.

    The planning commission's original agenda had Annexation first then rezoning. City Planning Commission chair Joan Strawson asked the applicant at the initial June hearing "what happens if the annexation is not approved?" the response was that "the project could not go forward due to the flood plain issue".

    Suddenly the order of the cases was switched at all subsequent planning commission hearings and now before the City Council itself.

    The fact that the City Council is continuing to entertain these related but separate cases in this way is highly concerning and raises legitimate procedural and legal questions.