Planning Commission Minutes 2021 06 10

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes June 10, 2021 Page 8 of 15 Brauneis asked if LEED was limited to office buildings or if it was still required for all buildings of a certain size. Zuccaro replied that he believed the current proposal was just office buildings, and Brauneis asked Mr. Baukol to address that in his final comment. Moline asked staff to comment on public notice and certification and the concern that people might not have known about the public comment tonight. Zuccaro stated that when a hearing was continued, the formal notice only took place for the original hearing. After that, an item was continued to a date certain and additional notice was not required because it was assumed that people knew the date of the continuance. It was the Commissions' discretion to reopen public comment at a continuance. Brauneis stated that they reopened comment more than they wanted to, as they generally liked to keep things clean and separate. Zuccaro stated that they had followed proper procedure and if the Commission wanted to request additional public notice they could because of the circumstances. He added that the City wanted the process to be the same for applicants and he thought this process was consistent with what had been done in the past. Brauneis asked for commissioner input on the public comment process. General agreement that the process had been followed and hopes that the public had had the opportunity to voice their opinions. Baukol summarized that their consultants had stated that core and shell industrial was very hard to meet with LEED Silver because the majority of points came from MEP systems. He reiterated that the sustainability commitments applied to all of the buildings on the site and LEED was one way to measure and brand those sustainability commitments. He stated that the GDP aligned with the Small Area Plan and the Comp Plan, that the development would be at the leading edge of sustainability for developments, staff was supporting it, and staff's interests were aligned with the City. Diehl asked about electrification for industrial buildings. Jordan Swisher with the development team said that the process nature and the varying range of the types of uses made electrification difficult. Josh Radoff added that industrial buildings had process uses such as commercial ovens and to ban gas entirely would be a community -wide decision based on uses versus building design. They wanted to maintain some openness of the types of employers that they wanted to see that was why it was left open. Brauneis asked about LEED and industrial buildings. Radoff responded that core and shell was a difficult rating system because even if the tenants were known it was difficult to take credit for anything they do. It was somewhat