The list here.

So we'll go ahead and get going.

We'll start with a welcome and thank you everyone for spending a Tuesday evening with us.

Appreciate everyone's interest in what's going on in and around the community.

And obviously happy to share information with you all and also take your questions at the end of the meeting.

Just by way of introduction, my name is Paul Stotter.

I'm the director with the Department of Planning and Zoning here in the City of Alexandria.

And very happy that we've been running this series now.

I think we're coming up on the one year mark, and I think it's been a great success in terms of getting information out and making more information available as we go through this.

If we could jump to the next slide.

So this is part of our bi-monthly meeting series.

And the target is that we run this every other month.

Sometimes conflicts with other meeting dates mean that means that shifts a little bit.

But in general, what we're aiming for is about six meetings a year spaced out every other month so that we can give people a heads up about what's what's happening in the city.

In these in these meetings, we do try to cover a pretty uh wide span of things that are happening.

We talk about uh long range planning efforts uh that are underway or getting started.

We talk about some of the larger development applications that are scheduled for formal consideration, public hearing uh at upcoming planning commission and city council meetings.

Uh, we talk about uh proposed changes that are under consideration to development regulations, the zoning laws within the city, uh, and then of course, throughout, we provide links to additional information.

And I'll make a plug for the first link here on this page.

In the lower left corner, you'll see Alexandria VA.gov slash planning.

That's the main landing page for the planning and zoning department.

And from there, you can actually find a link to a lot of information we have, including a page just for this meeting series.

Uh, you can catch uh recordings of of this meeting as well as past meetings.

We also post all the slides from these meetings uh as well as the QA.

Uh so that's one of the great things we like about this series is that people can catch it live or they can catch it uh at a different time if that works well.

In terms of materials where we cover, we do try to be sort of sensitive to everybody's time and we try to get you out of here by seven o'clock.

Uh and uh so between now and seven, uh we'll try to cover uh uh long range planning.

We'll talk about uh what's happening uh with the Duke Street uh land use plan.

Uh we'll talk about a community viewer where you can look up easily uh look up and reference information from uh small area planes across the city.

Uh we'll also talk a little bit about uh the city's approach to transportation planning uh and that uh sort of look at transportation planning is as part of something we're embedding in this meeting series.

We know there are topics of interest to the community, things like how is stormwater managed, how is transportation reviewed, uh, how do we review for open space and tree canopy?

And so in this meeting series, we're adding uh information about each of those topics of interest as we'll go throughout the year.

Uh we'll then talk about uh we'll then pivot uh from long-range planning to active applications.

We'll we'll highlight uh applications that are coming out for planning commission and council consideration in the next two months.

Uh and then we'll talk about a few uh uh zoning ordinance uh updates that are being considered uh and will be coming up for formal consideration.

Uh and then at the end of the night, we'll have time for QA.

Uh it's Zoom, so you may have to hover your mouse near the bottom of the screen.

Uh, but if you do that, you should be able to find uh a box that looks like that.

It's a question mark with the letters QA under it.

Uh as we go throughout the presentation, please do type your your questions in and we'll answer those all at the end of the night.

And then before I turn it over to the first speaker, this is a graphic we use in all these uh presentations, and it's designed to show the connection of the different things we're going to be talking about.

So they're all different kinds of things, but they're all related and they're all pointed at the same goal, uh, which is delivering on the community's vision for the future of the city.

Uh it starts uh as arrows do, right?

They're they're flowing in one direction from left to right.

So it starts with the box on the left.

Uh, and that's where staff in the community and the council work together to establish a vision for what they want the future of the city to look like.

Uh and that's written down in formal planning documents, our small area plans, our other uh master planning components.

Uh those components are then used as the basis for developing um uh regulations um uh for real estate development for development projects.

So uh those zoning regulations set the rules for uh how tall can a building be, what are the allowable land uses?

And if we housing can be retail, be a hotel.

Uh it sets the requirements um uh for the developments of each of the the sites across the city.

Once the rules are in place, uh applicants, developers can apply uh to construct buildings under those rules.

The most common application type we have is the development special use permit, the DSUP.

That's really our first opportunity to get a detailed look at what someone's proposing for a site.

That's where we see the proposed mix of land uses, building heights, uh architectural styling of the building.

Uh that all gets formally considered by council.

And then only if it's approved, uh, can an applicant proceed to the building permit stage, and that's where they come up with the technical drawings that get reviewed for total requirements.

Uh and so again, this is showing that how all these different pieces are connected and all delivering on the community's adapted vision for the future.

Uh, with that, I'll turn it over to our first speakers.

Good evening, everyone.