Multiple phases.

So we're in phase one.

You can see on the right side, Tyler Avenue Complete Community is one of two things we're focusing on right now through the summer.

We have an election coming up in November, so there's only so much we can do before then.

But following that, we're going to be doing other phases of zoning work across the city.

And I won't get into the details of it, but if you're interested in this, please stay involved, stay engaged.

We want more people to be active in helping us make decisions on these topics.

I would say Tyler Avenue Complete Community is the one neighborhood specific project right now that we're focusing on.

Each of those phases has an analysis component where we're sort of we're doing our homework, our due diligence, trying to understand the context of place that we're working on.

We're reaching out to community members.

That's why we're here tonight.

This is only one of three ways that we're talking about engaging the community.

One is the survey.

If you haven't taken the survey, please do.

It takes about five minutes.

It's on the website for a project.

There's QR codes when you first enter.

I think we have some printed copies as well.

It's very easy to do on your phone.

It needs a lot.

It's probably the easiest way to participate.

Stakeholder meetings.

We're actually inviting anybody who lives in the neighborhood to reach out to us and do a one-on-one meeting.

It can be very informal.

We want to hear your thoughts on what could be done better in the neighborhood.

Any specific roles you have, your property owner or renter or a business owner.

We want to hear your opinion.

And then we're going to formulate some recommendations.

And ultimately, our goal is to try to put something into a form that legislation that city council can pass.

We can't do anything without the city council approving legislation in terms of land use, our land use regulation.

So this is all about giving the city council advice on what they should do and the decisions they should make.

But this is really why we're here tonight.

Give you a lot of background on the process, but we're here to talk about Tyler Avenue corridor, communities that really depend on this roadway.

I've heard lots of comments about Tyler Avenue.

She's the one who tends to get the complaints first from folks.

This image is just kind of indicative of the challenge of the problem here.

So this is part of the big part of the reason why we wanted to do a project specifically about this neighborhood.

Land use and the streetscape are intimately linked.

If you think about why are fast food restaurants and gas stations on the largest roads in the city that move the most cars, because the design of the roadway, right?

We can design a roadway that's safer that serves the residents a lot better.

The other reason why we're here is because you have a very unusual lot configuration in this neighborhood.

No surprise to most of you.

But you have long deep lots that are found really nowhere else in the city.

And you have some vacant ones.

This is uh in a green, this is probably not the best use of this land, but um I don't need to offend if anybody owns this property here today.

But um, we want these properties to be productive and serve the community, and we have real needs in the city.

So that's the other reason why we're here today.

Um we've done some work to kind of understand how the neighborhoods develop.

I know this is hard to see, but I'm gonna go through some images quickly.

They're all on these boards so you can take a closer look after the presentation.

Um looking at the the neighborhood from 1931 to today, evolving from a farm landscape to a neighborhood.

This is really interesting to see what the school comes in, and um how the homes start to get expanded around the school.

We did a timeline to kind of put that in different perspective to understand the major events that have shaped the neighborhood over time.

We've done some analysis of census data to understand who you are and your neighbors.

There's a 16% vacancy rate in the neighborhood compared to 9% citywide.

That's comparable to the city wide, but I would say it's higher than what we would typically find in a predominantly single family home here.

42% of households are made up of four or more people.

That's much higher than the city average of 17%.

You know, that's a very diverse neighborhood.

We want to appreciate that, and everything we talked about should keep that in mind.

That's the path chart right there.

You know, looking at the land use today, it's very low density.

2.2 units per acre on average.

The zoning today allows up to eight units per acre, and that's already a pretty low density zoning.

So we're even just a quarter of what's allowed to land.

So it's kind of made us think, well, why have things change, right?

Um this neighborhood is so well located to a whole range of destinations, schools, uh, shopping, parks.

This map is hard to hard to make sense of, but what we what you're looking at is a walk radius.

Three-minute walk, five-minute walk, ten minute walk, the darker purple is the 10-minute.

You can see how many places you can get to from the neighborhoods to most of you all.

But it's important to understand that this is a neighborhood where a lot of people, but in theory, um walk places or bike places, safer, take transit.

Um you are kind of you know, compared to the rest of Annapolis, you're sort of in a transportation um hot spot, uh, you know, in terms of bus service, I know better, but um you do have a lot of lines coming through here.

We have bikeways that are planned, um the only one existing is a hilltop with the green lines.

Um you have a lot of sidewalks, but they're not necessarily the best sidewalks.

We know that.

Um that's the transportation infrastructure on that side.

And then when it comes to tree canopy, there's a lot of green here, but in the map on the right, which shows every street tree that we have in the immediate area.

There's almost no street trees on the major portion of Tyler Avenue, which is um is not something we we want to brag about.

Um that's a that's a huge problem in my opinion.

There's document, there's a lot of document uh documentation today, the health outcomes are based on having a healthy pre-camping in your neighborhood, life respectancy and so forth.

So we came up with this um this overlay tip.

So based on that analysis, we came up with a zone.

Well, we felt if we look at the land use regulations in this area within the black uh outline that we could potentially have a positive impact on the neighborhood in terms of land use and the street scene.

It's intentionally picking up all of the deep lots that I mentioned, as well as some of the duplexes that are already here, they're a good precedent for uh low density family housing, uh, additionally single family.

Um it's kind of a wonky cranny term, but we have two of them in the city already.

They're Eastport.

The basic idea is we can put additional standards in place to get different outcomes from future development.

So in ESport, the whole idea was if you want to protect the character of the businesses, like think of Davis' pub or the business on 4th Street.

They have a character that people in East for one can protect, and so there's an overlays there on those.

There's also one for the area when you come into Eastport and Spaw Creek Bridge.

We can do the same for the Tyler Avenue Corridor, we have a whole different set of standards.

Um that's the basic idea.

Okay.

So we came up with some draft polls.

There's copies of these at all the tables from the breakout stations.

I'm just gonna talk briefly about three of them.

Streetscape, obviously, we can do better here.

Um there's a term called complete streets that has become a national phenomenon where cities large and small are redesigning their streets to make them safer for all road users, not just people driving.

Um this is just a diagram of what that might look like in a more urban neighborhood.

But um this is a concept that can be applied to just about any stream.

Um talking about housing, we really harped on this in the comprehensive plan.

Um the city today doesn't allow most of the small moderate density of housing types that are in this missing middle rack.

It's um surprising to me.

Because if you look at the city historically, we have an incredible amount of duplexes and triplexes and small town homes, and um a lot of those are not allowed today by our zone.

So a large portion of the Tower Avenue corridor, this is R2 zone.

It only allows for single family detached houses on very large lots.

And I would say that's a problem why not much can change.

Um determine when a property owner is going to choose to redevelop their property, but we can make it um uh we can set the rules, incentivized them to do that, and when they do so, we can have rules that ensure a high quality.

Um this missing middle housing it's uh it's something we're trying to do all over the city and it's very challenging with the zoning we have, but that's the focus today.

We're really there's really nowhere in the city that we're identifying with that um mid that the higher density stuff is at the far end.

That's not really an annapolis type building.

I think we can all say so.

Um there's opportunity for community amenities when we rezone.

A lot of properties are gonna you know properties are consolidated, they're gonna be required to do open space that has some community serving benefits.

Um there's a whole range of community spaces that could be in this neighborhood, um development comes.

We want to aware of what those options are and hear from you and um community farm to only use shared use path, um nature play area, park, trailhead, even the school to be more of a community schoolyard.

This is the last slide uh before we get into QA.

This is just a full I grabbed this illustration from a different place.

It just speaks to kind of what's possible here.

If we allow for some flexibility, it allows for different types of housing units in combination with community spaces, green space, additional tree canopy.

We could have uh a more complete community.

Um this is just one idea.

So um I want to remind folks if you haven't checked out the website.

We're gonna be tracking everything we're doing on the website.

You can go to this Google uh Thai Avenue Complete Community, and this will come up when it's on the planning website.

Um then while we we've gotten some survey responses so far, uh more than I expected.

Um these are some of the words that we're hearing um from those surveys.

So some not surprising, but uh just wanted to share that your input is very important to the survey tonight.

You meet with us uh directly, we're really interested in your thoughts on the neighborhood.

Um so uh I probably talked more than I should have, but um I'm sure there's some general questions.

You know, we want to try to keep it to like maybe 15-20 minutes, and then we can break into the quick yeah, yeah, sure.

Muchas gracias, gracias a todos for la patiencia, and you have to la meet on the plan comprehensive 20 años.

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So we complicated, no stand distribuidas.

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Thank you, Lucille.

Are there any immediate questions I can mention?

Number one is on the other side of the day with Tyler Avenue.

Because they are very questionable.

Yes.

The question is whether we're considering the focus of this project in the portion of Tyler Avenue.

And the answer is of now.

We wanted to focus on the most heavily traveled portion of Tower Avenue.

Robinwood is already going through a redevelopment process.

And that's the street scheme improvements have to come first.

That's really important.

I know there are people in this room who have probably been chiming in and voicing their concerns for quite a while.

Zoning changes do not have immediate impact.

So um you know, we we want to basically set up the rules for improved infrastructure within the zoning as well as doing capital project type work to the street speak in the short term.

So it's kind of a two-phase type of two assistants.

So Rob signed over to seven.

Just explain a little bit, because I think it's important to point out you're absolutely right as far as transportation.

So that is we actually have already approved funding last year's budget for road reconstruction and just uh a new design for Tyler Adding from uh Bay Ridge all the way up to Spa Road.

So that's first on the list.

That RFP was put out the request for proposal was put out I believe a few months ago.

That's moving along, so I hope we can get to work on that.

There may be another meeting just on that aspect of it.

Absolutely right.

Where can we find the book?

And I'll let him answer that part, but as far as the roadway, the road of way and space.

The design is not set yet for the road, but we have a lot of room within this roadway to actually put in trees to make a more boulevard, we have room to put in actual full bike lanes.

And what extra climb measures I know we've run a lot of complaints about people speeding on Tyler Avenue, and you have to change the road, because right now it looks like a runway, so people are gonna drive like this runway.

I see you've got to strike it down and put trees, uh, maybe curves, bump outs, raised crosswalkers.

That all leads up to the effort of trying to encourage redevelopment and representation.

Yeah, and a part of that is also building out transit, right?

We have to build out transportation alternatives.

All kinds of things we need to look at more seriously in the city to give people alternatives, because as I like to always say, Forest drive is the most dangerous road in the entire county.

Tyler I would have had a number of deaths, so I was like, Well, that's sure absolutely have to tell them, right?

I think it all works together in hand.

Yeah, I think also this is the last thing I'll say, and then I think we have to break to go to these groups, but I do want to reiterate uh one thing we heard a lot when we're working on the comprehensive plan is just a general fear of walking around Forest Drive and other major quarters of the city, and it's amazing.

You can look at charts of how many kids get driven to school today versus like 30 years ago, and you think about uncomprehensive planners.

We sort of look at the big picture the number of people who are driving trips that they could be walking in the street was actually really nice.

We had people come to us um, you know, really on Forest Drive, we're like apologizing for getting in a car to drive two blocks to the CBS because they were free to cost forest.

That's my thing that's kind of unacceptable.

Um certainly makes traffic worse, that's congestion.

We can make it really alleviate congestion, give people one options to get around.

That's that's a big part of it.

So asking a whole way of we need to break um to tell folks again that we have a station that Alexis for staff in here that's specifically focused on the street.

We have a station in the middle that I'm staffing that's focused on housing questions, and then Casey is focusing on community humanities with last two tables.

So you can spend all your time at one, but we encourage you to move around the 20 minutes, and then we're gonna come back to that.

But if you put it by taking our surveys while you're here, please give it more food.

We have a lot of food, please make sure you keep the food.

We don't want to take it home.

Also, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us and our emails are on every day.

And emails are all separate.

Then we're starting a little bit where we have the cases with Eric.

Ya que estamos, aprovechamos and miraculous recyclers.

Every Thursday, you see, we come to CSR, we do the tour.

Every Thursday try to get back to me.

What we do is we bring out different vendors to come out and share resources with the community with the residents.

Every week we're coming out to different communities.

We're a part of the Your Life Matters team.

What we're doing is hands-only CPR and Narcan training.

We're just trying to now just go around to the different communities, spread awareness about what we're doing.

As an Apple's fire department, it's important for us to get out into the community and meet all of the people so they can get comfortable with us when we come into their homes as well.

What we bring is we like to bring uh content and just the resources that L Church provide, such as mental health, free food, and just making sure that the communities are all well with everything that they need.

When we go to these different neighborhoods during our pop-up tours, we do surveys, a lot of service that we've been giving out, a lot of feedbacks that we've been getting back from the surveys.

A lot of these communities need a lot of youth programs just to keep the kids out of trouble.

You know, have something for them to do at the school.

We try to help with the youth from kids all the way up to adults.

We try to do that.

I think this is a wonderful place so that the children can come and be able to do um projects and take it home and talk to different people.

Another feedback that we got was people need a housing assistance and stuff like that.

Needs health insurance, people need food pantries.

So what we provide here is uh a variety of resources.

We try to provide all the services that the health department offers.

I believe no harm is important because it shows a representative from the city to go into these neighborhoods and let them know that we are with them.

We hear them, we are here to help them.

Uh people XCS doing community work and they put they want to do it too.

Hear them geese.

They're flying high through this crystal shimmer of that October sky.

Just like them, I'm flying away down the muddy waters of the Chesapeake Bay.

So come on, Captain, raise that main.

Can't wait to get back again to Annapolis on the bay.

I can see the domes and spires of my little town rise from the horizon like the jewels on a crown in Annapolis on the bay.

So meet me at the city dock and give us a hug, and we'll shuffle off the Middletons and have some fun.

Crab pot steaming, we can pick us a few.

I'll shuck the oysters if you make the stew.

So come on, Captain Dope Baby Wait.

It's no ill wind that blows us away to Annapolis on the bay.

Thank you for being here.

I'm the principal here at Tyler Heights.

Um Julia Walsh Directory Tyler Heights.

So um again, thank you for coming.

Please enjoy the facility.

This this meeting is really um organized by the city.

And again, thank you for being here to support Tyler Heights and our community.

So thank you.

I'll turn it over to Eric.

Thank you so much.

We really appreciate being here.

Um as the principal said, I'm Aaron Lucianski with C Anaples and the Planning Town Department.

Uh some other people don't want us in there.

Um is this a convenient location for people to have a meeting in uh workswell generally?

Okay.

We thought so.

That was our intent.

Doing a meeting here, it's right in the middle of the neighborhood.

That's our first time.

Uh our department is on a meeting here.

It's mine hour.

So really grateful for this school.

Uh we'll give my quick welcome.

Hi, I'm sorry, how are you?

My name is Lucius.

I work for the City of Annapolis and the Hispanic Liaison, so I'm gonna do some quick translation.

We're not gonna do the translating uh throughout.

I just want to give a welcome to everyone that is here and just make it a little easier in Spanish if you don't mind.

Um, uh Eric on planning and zoning in la ciudad de Annapolis.

So Kerriamos uh recover su information, darles algunas datos de los andos.

Uh decidles luego todo lo que estamos hablando, lo que está diciendo después de la presentation, forgunta que tengan estoy yo aca, or Casey También canol.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, thank you.

Uh we have more of our Spanish speakers here.

Anybody invites uh family or friends, uh upcoming meetings, please let them know this is our policy and try to make it uh names as accessible as possible.

I want to acknowledge we have a couple other persons here, Alderman Savage, um uh net, and Alman Gay is on his way, um stuck in traffic, but he should be here.

Um so grateful to have them.

We have a lot of staff in the city of different backgrounds.

I want to acknowledge our team in planning and zoning, uh Alexis Robinson, senior comprehensive planner, KCRTs, comprehensive planner, so current planner, what are you talking about?

Um folks from our public works department, Mike Rosper, and Roterer, Alison Mateo, Jeff Wentz, all of the life um Brian Callian from the mayor's office is here.

So we we almost have a number of other people here, but yeah, um we're really grateful.

I think I got everybody.

Um I call them this point.

Uh really grateful you came out tonight to hear what this project is all about.

I'm sure there are some concerns, excitement, interest, um, confusion, you know, to hear about a project like this that has a brand that has a logo.

Um probably have not heard about anything leading up to tonight.

Um, how many people heard about this meeting from the mailer that we put in mailboxes?

Okay.

Uh how many people heard about through social media, online?

Um we really um we enjoy getting out in the neighborhood and meeting people, and we're gonna do more mailers for future events, uh postcard type stuff, when it's broaden the reach, I think it's for the future.

Um to try to reach more people who might be interested in this project or impact by it.

Um but this is what we're doing tonight um in brief.

I'm gonna give an overview presentation.

We have some time for QA.

Not a ton of time, but we're gonna be breaking up after that into uh workstations, and you'll have a chance to ask questions in those stations.

Um we have workstations based on three topics streetscape, housing, community amenities.

The idea is for you to rotate through those, spending 20 minutes of each, and then we're gonna come back together when we want to hear what people thought.

Uh when are we here?

We could give you a chance to say um your thoughts as well at that time, and then we'll talk about next steps.

Um that's the that's the overview for tonight.

Um so how do we get here?

Well, the reason why we're doing this project now, a big reason you know, is because the city council in MS passed uh a comprehensive plan this summer in July.

This was a four-year effort.

Um yeah, COVID threw us for a loop, and it probably could have gotten done in half that time without COVID, but um comprehensive plan sets a vision for the city for the next 20 years.

It has a whole range of goals that we want to try to achieve as a city, and our neighborhoods are part of that.

Here's some of the goals from the plan.

I think all apply to this neighborhood.

Um after we adopt a comprehensive plan, we try to implement things from that plan.

And there's a lot in the it's a 400-page plan.

We actually have a action plan that's a lot easier to read, that's only about a hundred pages.

How many people participated in that comprehensive planning process?

Anyone go?

It's in some ways what we're doing here in your neighborhood is a lot easier to wrap your heads around because it's a small neighborhood area plan.

The comprehensive plan is citywide.

We found this in our planning process for the comprehensive plan.

It's hard for people to wrap their heads around the citywide goals.

So what we're trying to do now is what's called the comprehensive rezoning.

And it basically means how can the land use of the city be better in line with the goals of the city.

So drive around town, I'm sure you've seen properties.

You're like, I wish that could be something else.

I wish you know that vacant lot or that parking lot that's never used could be something else.

Well, that's what we're supposed to be doing now that we've passed a comprehensive plan.

We're supposed to be thinking about how can the goals of comprehensive plan filter through our land use decisions.

And a big part of that is our zoning map, which determines development regulations, and the zoning code just behind the zoning map that sort of has all of the requirements.

When you want to build something, what can you do?

What does the city hold you accountable for?

What are your responsibilities?

So we want those to be all aligned.

And when you look at our zoning map today, I'm not sure how many of you had a reason to look at our zoning map.

It's confusing.

It's 31 different districts for an eight square mile city that a lot of frankly, a lot of people don't even know how to read.

And you can see the red circle is where we are.

There's three different zoning districts in this area.

So we really want to simplify our zoning, make it easier for just the average uh resident to understand, well of staff.

Um zoning is the primary means that we can control development and get better outcomes.

And that's the primary reason why we're doing it to help improve the city and your neighborhood.

Um we're starting with the first phase of like what is essentially a three-year process, multiple phases.

We're in phase one.

You can see on the right side, Tyler Avenue Complete Community is one of two things we're focusing on right now previous summer.

Um we have an election coming up in November, so there's only so much we can do before then.

But following that, we're going to be doing other phases of zoning work across the city.

And we won't get into the details of it, but if you're interested in this, please stay involved, stay engaged.

We want more people to be active in helping us make decisions on these topics.

Umplete community is the one neighborhood specific project right now that we're focusing on.

Um each of those phases has an analysis component where we're sort of doing.