HomeMy WebLinkAboutHE Minutes 12.23.25HEARING EXAMINER
MEETING MINUTES
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2025 @ 1:32 pm
Caldwell City Council Chambers Room, 205 S. 6th Avenue, Caldwell, Idaho
CALL TO ORDER – Hearing Examiner, Ms. Sabrina Durtschi opened the meeting for the public hearing at 1:32
p.m.
REVIEW OF PROCEEDINGS (OPENING STATEMENT) – Ms. Sabrina Durtschi outlined the procedures for
the public hearing.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Sarah Fultz (Planning Technician); Joe Dodson (Principal Planner);
CONSENT CALENDAR: The Hearing Examiner approved the October 28, 2025, Hearing Examiner Meeting
Minutes as drafted.
OLD BUSINESS: None
NEW BUSINESS:
1. ACTION ITEM: Public Hearing Quasi-Judicial: Case Number: SUP25-0000018: The applicant, the City
of Caldwell, is requesting a special use permit for the installation of a new 21 sq. ft. monument sign with a 6 sq.
ft. electronic reader board for the City’s Event Center parking lot located at 124 N 21st Ave (parcel #
R3536900000). The site is located on the southeast side of N. 21st Ave., approximately 500 feet south of the
intersection with East Chicago St.
Joe Dodson (Principal Planner) 205 S. 6th Avenue, provided the staff report by outlining its contents by use
of a PowerPoint presentation.
In response to the Hearing Examiner’s question, Mr. Dodson stated there was no landscape plan submitted
with the building application. There are trees and grass in the buffer but just no shrubs. Specific conditions
state there will need to be a landscape plan submitted with the sign permit.
There was no public testimony
There was no rebuttal
Ms. Durtschi closed the public hearing testimony at 1:45 pm.
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSSIONS OF LAW FOR Case Numbers SUP25-000018: The
Caldwell Hearing Examiner accepts the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law outlined in the staff
report, public testimony, and the evidence list. All adopted ordinances, standards and codes were used in
evaluating the application. The proposed use was conditionally permitted by the terms of the ordinance and
such conditions of approval.
ORDER OF DECISION FOR CASE NUMBERS SUP25-000018: Based on the Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law, the Caldwell Hearing Examiner hereby orders that Case Numbers SUP25-000018 for
Event Center Sign is approved, subject to the conditions of approval listed in the staff report.
2. ACTION ITEM: Public Hearing Quasi-Judicial: Case Number: SUP25-000017, ZON25-000006: The
applicant, TMOD Homes LLC., on behalf of David Nelson, is requesting rezoning of parcel R3249700000,
from C-3 (General Commercial) to R-3 (Urban Residential) as well as a special use permit for Freedom 50
Development. The proposed development is a multi-family residential duplex community with fifty (50)
dwelling units (twenty-five buildings), where the current City comprehensive plan future land use map