I guess that clears that up

The Planning and Zoning Commission is conducting a workshop Tuesday in lieu of a regularly scheduled action meeting. And I found the one actual item on the agenda for this workshop to be, shall we say, somewhat nebulous. That agenda item was "Discussion regarding text revisions and amendments to the Code of Ordinance." But, instead of heading directly to the liquor cabinet I decided a better first course of action would be to ask city spokesperson Kim Hilsenbeck to translate that for me.

And she did.

"The agenda item is a workshop meant to generate discussion on several items," Hilsenbeck replied. "It's a way to take the pulse of the commission to see if they want Planning Director Howard Koontz to pursue changes to the city code.

"Over the past year or so of Mr. Koontz's employment, he found several items in the code that he wants to get feedback about, such as a dark sky lighting ordinance," she continued. "Other examples include complete streets, stream buffers, parking circulation and impervious surface ratios. This will be a workshop only; no action will be taken."

Then she added "This discussion during the workshop will not focus on the landscape ordinance and is not related to annexation."

And, apparently, it will not focus on that other past due Planning & Zoning Commission responsibility besides revisions to the landscape ordinance: its report to the city council on the Comprehensive Plan.

So now I’m heading to the liquor cabinet.