plan in the fall.

Um and you might have heard me say draft a lot in that um in that series of steps we're taking.

Nothing is final until this gets approved by council.

But what we want to emphasize is we're we're constantly seeking your feedback, making this a better and better plan.

And we want to encourage you to feel that that the door is not closed on on what we're working on.

We want to encourage you to participate.

And so next up I'm going to introduce Tamara Yovic.

She's with our Office of Housing.

She's going to help us launch into the um one of the um topics that we'll be focusing on tonight.

Thank you, Carrie.

Good evening to everyone my name is Tamara Yovovich and I'm in the Office of Housing.

Christian, if you could just advance the slide.

So housing is one of those complicated topics right it impacts us personally, it impacts our wellbeing, our access to jobs, our services right um it impacts whether or not we can stay in a community as our life changes right as we age or maybe our family grows or if we want to move from um being a renter to being a homeowner right.

It also impacts a neighborhood and our city right it impacts our roads our open space our schools right and it's also a regional issue right it's it's important to the region's resilience its economic competitiveness.

So as we kind of think about housing holistically it also means we can't look at it in a vacuum right we can't look at it through one narrow lens.

So there's a lot of intersection between housing planing the work that our health department does obviously the work that our colleagues in planning and zoning do and um the department of transportation and the department of community human services.

The plan in particular though that I wanted to highlight today is our housing 2040 plan.

Christian if you wouldn't mind advancing to the next slide just a quick show of hands for those of you who have heard about the housing 2040 plan process.

Okay, wonderful okay so for those of you who hadn't had a chance to follow us no worries I'm going to bring you bring you up to speed.

So housing 2040 is the city's update to its current housing master plan.

So the current housing master plan has been in place for just about a little bit under a dozen years and it looks to address housing needs in the community we've now taken a fresh look over the last roughly 18 months and we've developed a vision guiding principles and 10 goals to help guide city council decision making as we move through the next 15 years.

So what do I mean by decision making these types of decisions can impact the development of new housing programs refining new housing or refining existing housing policies and potentially guiding new investments in housing projects over the course of the lifespan of this plan.

So I won't necessarily touch upon each one of these goals but as you kind of look at them up on the screen and you hear from Carrie and her colleagues in neighborhood planning start to think about how some of these goals are going to manifest themselves in the Duke Street land use plan, right?

So how are we advancing housing supply?

How are we helping to expand committed affordable rental housing?

And by committed affordable rental housing I mean housing that has income and rent restrictions.

How are we helping to support um aging Alexandrians?

What type of housing choices and services might be available to them what types of partnerships can we continue to strengthen to support um Alexandrian uh Alexandrians with different needs how can we also help to improve housing quality so the Office of housing works really closely with the health department and um our office or department of code administration to work proactively with landlords to help address situations in which housing qualities are not what what we'd like them to be we also as part of housing 2040 have taken a really fresh look at supporting our condominium communities.

The plan refers to them kind of with with a more legal term common interest communities but these are really our condominium communities and condominium communities in the city constitute almost a half of all of our home ownership stocks.

So what are some ways in which we can continue to support governance building up the capacity of existing boards and then starting to figure out what types of partnerships at the state level might help to expand the financial resources and tools that those condominium communities can tap into to address deferred maintenance.

So there are really a range of different issues that the housing 2040 plan addresses um I could probably talk for an hour about this but I'm not because I know we need to get to some other slides but I did want to note that housing 2040 is in the final stages um it is going to plan hearing next Tuesday in the Malakatal meeting you're also welcome to provide um feedback to planning commission June 13th and I think I'm passing the microphone on to Andrah.

So the slide behind me, um if we keep in mind Duke Street, um data uh out along the corridor today.

The data on the right represents citywide.

So essentially looking at different your neighbors, residents, people that live in and around the corridor.

Uh a diverse community out here today.

Um neighbours and doing things locally in the area, and so given the diversity that's out there alone this is the driving asset of the plan.

But I mean me taka want to preserve and making sure that we're meeting the needs of the community out there today as a mahabastial laguamala in the future.

Um one thing to know uh about here today.

Um essentially with everyone knows we've all been feeling and seeing the the rising the housing costs in the area, but I'm shakasalamata and more steeply this area because of um the amount of disadvantages that are also out here than that um looking into dew street housing, the context and why it matters.

Um there's over 11,000 housing units out there today and uh renters versus occupied crayochina on affordability out there today comparatively to the city as a whole.

So, apartments in the area are affordable up to sixty percent of the apartment which affordable natural machet is for about uh a family of one that's about seventy thousand um and then a family of four, it's upwards to about a hundred thousand.

So just to um give people some context.

Um out of these eleven thousand pounds.

Yes, and she uh be too affordable in the plan area, meaning they're not legally committed, they just occur naturally that the more context and things that are happening in and around there, and an interesting thing to note is that's about the city's market affordable housing stock as a whole.

So we have a lotam on the Mashimekalonia.

Um want to touch really quickly about rent escalation.

So while there are other parts of the city, I see huge rising rent spice.

But given that it's outpacing growth and household incomes and of course inflation um betamakata book watching heightened costs.

So that's something we um put into consideration as we go forward with uh my colleague Melissa and she'll get a little bit into the case.

Um kind of taking into account all of the data that on Business slides, we developed these guiding principles for the Duke Street land use plan.

No, he could one preservation strategies.

So this is just a quick profile of the existing housing stock.

So there are about sixty-five hundred total residential units that currently committed affordable units in the units at uh below sixty percent of the area median income.

And then there's two income.

So Fox Chase has about twenty one hundred uh units, and then Mace Nat Van Dorn has twelve hundred units.

Um these are just really large communities that we want to make sure that we have a Mahavara Savannah Katatlan or Yesarani affordability and growth areas.

These are all the areas that you can see in blue in this map.

And sites that are currently sitting vacant that we think on to the next slide.

Um by focusing new development in these opportunity areas maybe.

So I think that is all I have.

I just wanted to introduce Nataline Talas with our sound and initiative that her um group is working on.

Yes, uh wouldn't name me Saron Kasakasi Giles Atadam Shachulatum.

Yeah, Beto Chilomata's hida to Navata Malakata, but I'm Safional looks like an outsandra cabila and then the Grochinagin.

And then Yala Kamato uh Alexandra Kavi, Yam Romano.

There were higher rates of diseases higher rates of people going to the emergency room for three.

Literally hottest neighborhood.

Yeah, Vandor Mibala Kabimokakavino.

At the same time, do you live in a place that makes it easy for you to be healthy?

And then say, Yam Samata, we are working to facilitate the development of a five-year plan specifically to make the landmark Vandor neighborhood healthier.

Um, Dhon, Yamata, and they were mad.

Yeah, you folks.

Anyone drive through this area on Vandor?

Yeah, a lot more people.

Okay.

So you might add a serious.

So that's what we are doing.

So decide on future projects.

Um, one another um tree canopy expansion, uh building out these.

Um in a quick in a quick manner.

Uh question into the uh got me katalusa which the platforms we will um read off your questions.

Okay.

We have um a good question online which will just get used to the musa which makes and what is D S L U P.

So um we did uh some D S L U P.

I'm division chief in neighborhood planning and community one uh I'm Melissa Sims, I'm an urban planner in Melissa Sims Community Development.

I'm on Rashmish Planner with neighborhood planning.

Um heard already from Natalie Tallis and Tamra.

We did do so.

Um and then the second question was what does D S L U P mean and D S L U P mean and we are now we tend to street way too many acronyms, so through Malatana.

Um kind of tell me what you're talking about, please don't hesitate to ask.

We're happy to answer.

Anyone have a question ready?

Uh, anything else online, Christian?

Question written, just raise your game.

Yeah, so um Jeff, I'm gonna answer uh ask the first question, which is online.

Are there tools the city can use other than zoning to sustain small businesses in the D street quarter?

For example, uh zoning but I chamari uh yeah, uh business but the land available for housing.

Uh Zule Batachamari Kama's foreigner uh planning and zoning department.

So the the question really was what can we do to help small businesses and talking about we've heard from many of you, we've heard from our council is the importance of a of the small businesses sort of.

Uh one of the things uh like someone is affordable affordability of the space.

So the question was hey, can we add more density to subsidize some of the existing users who are in there?

Um theoretically, yes.

Uh for rent, because it's no construction.

But the challenge is that you would probably tear down some of that existing space to do that.

So Massat, Nalvat Shali Honal.

And so what we're proposing is to really keep what's out there today.

Uh which are the existing spaces only, so there's some building to spam since we have to feel redaptive or small manner as the center side.

Um some of the business.

And the universal thing we've heard is make sure it's important so we can say that you are continuing to work with owners of least and then add the end or then cost chase some housing development.

Are there any updates you can share on that?

Um progress.

I think we heard from many of you very early on, bring stuff to state.

So one of the things we're very much trying to do is share with you where we are before.

Um so I don't believe that that would be one of the recommendations of our looking.

Why does the draft plan not propose building high density housing, either fully affordable or mixed income on the city-owned land south of Duke Street, which is proposed to be a 150 height limit?

Um now this one is related to the height framework, which is not necessarily a part of this plan.

So, folks don't have the ability to see it per se, but Jeff, do you want to take us out of nowhere?

Yeah, that's a really good question.

So that's a sort of a nuanced question.

So in the Christian, if you can point it out, that's okay.

In the middle of this plan area, but we call it the very creative name, we call it the city campus.

Um selective area from Witterfield to Wheeler essentially.

And um and so the question was can we do up more housing there?

Um, combination of yes and no.

So we assume no how might we as a city, this is really our functional area.

So in all recently where we store dump trucks where we have salt domes, where we have sort of functional things we need to operate as a city.

So sort of a combination of keeping functional uses near the rail corridor and then adding some housing as well.

Potential housing.

I have been following these meetings for a while.

Okay, I'm not sure.

Whatever plan gets adopted.

And we have enough tools in the toolkit to do that.

It is um the guarita band of say for the use plan looking at the tree canopy along Duke Street and along any um areas that redevelop.

The cities, parks, and open spaces.

Next question What is being done to connect Duke Street with Vandor Metro?

Do you know the answer?

Duke Street to Vandor Metro.

So one uh one of the things that we've talked about in the past a lot of departments, you see some of them here tonight.

The other one that is not here tonight is our transportation.

So as we're thinking about transit on Duke Street, that's gonna facilitate folks being able to get to the Vandor Metro station in a better way.

Um I will just since I have in mind, I will mention one of these that was given to me over.

And I I can tell you one of the things we're considering for.

I think one of the things you heard.

One of the tools we're really going to need for some of these affordability and growth areas is density.

Is density um and so yes, it will be on the table, and if there's uh yeah, uh do that.

In new D S UP D S V Duke Street development.

The city would be a good idea.

Uh yeah, look at Mani Massal, uh Jeffaro Gara in uh get more units with more bonus in this corridor, which can bring up that.

So that's one of the tools that we would be considering.

All right.

Um, it is less effective for extreme heat mitigation than surface level open space.

Can setbacks for large buildings be increased to pre-2016 levels.

So a couple of things I would say is um on our website and access point is called social pinpoint.

You can zoom in to all the open space that's come to public accessible parks.

Again, it's open to everyone in the city.

I think that's really really important.

The other piece that's important is private open space.

So it is different.

Um, but having a combination of public and project, less a weeknell.

We have been talking a lot about any of you, you heard this from Natalie is we need to do a better job with shade.

A bus shelter.

It can be things like tree trees.

And one of the things that we're gonna do is transport.

So that's a really big thing for us as we think about shade.

Are there any incentives to add neighborhood serving retail and already identity residential areas?

So great question.

So we are if you look at the land as planning.

Does the plan take this into account?

Is that number of units?

Yeah.

So discussions is housing supply.

And so that's what we're dealing with with our housing market right now.

We don't have enough units for people who are living here.

So we're going to be embarking on that journey likely during the second half of this calendar year.

So we'll see.

So not small tails here.

This is that long way.

Um chuck that how to do that.

Um July 15th, we're planning for July community meeting is planning.