Chair Zach Decker

The unanimity-era chair

Decker's chair tenure operates under the institutional frame Mayor Keogh laid down at the February 6, 2025 PZB meeting: no item should go to council unless votes are unanimous. The voting record under Decker's chair reads as the directive holding — Galassi, Palisades, Cherry Lake denial, Eco-Agrarian Code, Gadson Street, MBSI, Brighthill Phase 2, Langley Industrial Park all advanced unanimously. The pattern is procedural: dissents resolve before the vote, conditions absorb the substantive concerns, the bench moves as one. The corpus distinguishes a unanimity record from a frictionless record; Decker's chair processes substantive cases through a discipline that prefers consensus to expression.

The build-out reader

Decker's chair-discipline shows in the conditions, not the votes. Across hearings he asks project-phase clarity (civil plans vs. site plans), timeline and grace-period for completion citing permit and contractor delays, recommended staff-and-owner condition negotiation before items move to City Council. The pattern reads as a chair reading beyond the legal request into the lived experience of the project. The April 2026 Langley Industrial Park annexation triple — 6.24 acres of Lake County industrial moving to City Light Industrial — is the second confirmed industrial-conversion exhibit in six months (Gadson Street November 2025 was the first). Decker chairs the corridor's industrial-annexation playbook as it stabilizes.

The Anita transition meeting

April 2, 2026 is the cardinal Decker chair-discipline moment in the corpus. Decker chaired Anita Geraci-Carver's final Groveland PZB meeting — the meeting where Geraci-Carver delivered the parting line "All bills failed. SB 180 expires June 2026." The meeting processed the Langley Industrial Park triple unanimously, welcomed new member Brandan Dixion, approved combined November and December 2025 minutes. Decker handled the institutional handoff: Anita's departure mid-EAR-amendment cycle and mid-CDC-V5 drafting under the SB 180 clock the next attorney inherits. The chair holds the discipline through the transition.