Staff proposed amendments to Article 3 (base district standards) to ease infill burdens and to Article 7 (sign standards) to add sports facility sponsorship signs, align billboard rules with ODOT, and incentivize landscaped monument signs near Highway 75. The commission continued both items for further refinement and public notice.

City‑initiated rezoning would reclassify roughly 43.7 acres in southern downtown to the mixed‑use downtown (MD) district to encourage infill, mixed‑use housing and commercial development after removal of a floodplain barrier. Planning and Zoning and staff recommended approval; council approved the ordinance.

Mayor introduces ordinance to amend zoning for property at Beach and Syme Streets.

City planning staff told the EDA that the comprehensive plan update emphasizes mobility, missing-middle housing, infill, and quality-of-life investments; staff also described a property 'toolkit' (code compliance, derelict program with enrollment fee, demolition funding and tax-auction options) and said a more detailed retreat discussion is planned.