Okay, we have a quorum, so we're gonna go ahead and call the afternoon session to order.

And I don't know.

Um, in an accordance with BTCA government code, chapter five five one point zero seven one, zero seven, two, and zero eight seven.

And it is eleven forty eight AM on November fourth.

Okay, well, good good afternoon, everybody.

We're gonna go ahead and call the afternoon session of the city council back to order.

We're gonna move on down to three point one.

John up.

Mayor, City Council, John Chapman, Long Range Planning Manager.

We have a very exciting presentation for y'all today about innovate Arlington.

Y'all heard from MIG earlier this year after our phase one concluded.

We're here to give an update on where we stand on phase two.

We're gonna go through a quick welcome and some project updates, as well as the vision elements, which y'all have uh in front of y'all that pamphlet about the five pillars, our place types, alternative growth scenarios discussion with y'all, and next steps.

So today with y'all is myself as well as Jay Rankins, principal in charge with uh the MIG group.

He's overseeing uh the entire consultant suite on Innovate Arlington.

We're currently about halfway uh this month actually marks one month into the innovative Arlington planning process.

We have about a year to go.

Uh these are the deliverables that the city staff, uh, internal stakeholders, as well as committee members and um MIG have been working on.

And then just to quickly recap on all the community engagement we've had uh back in phase one with our questionnaires, workshops, pop-ups, um, and some other uh online uh impressions that we've been making.

And then in phase two, certainly with the growing a better Arlington board game.

A total of eighty-one board games were played with over six hundred and sixty participants across thirty-five events.

These included uh being at Inclusion Coffee, community gaming sessions at the downtown library, the Progressive Women of Arlington group, uh hosting active at the Active Fifty Plus Senior Center, the Southeast Democrats, the Impact Group board game night, our North Central Historic Neighborhoods Association meeting, walkable Arlington, hosting a game day at the Bob Duncan Center.

We were also present at a geek game, uh board game conference here in Arlington.

Uh we hosted uh games at Neighborhood Leadership Network, a week hand meeting, all of the council districts.

Uh Arbor had a game night, Veridian had a game night, First United Methodist Church had a game night, Kappa at UTA had a game day, uh Triumph Worship Center, as well as Tarrant County Community College.

So we went wide and far in the city of Arlington, engaging as many community members as we could.

We had a ton of fun.

Uh so many people have lived here in Arlington and have so many great stories.

And they believe that uh Arlington is a great place to live as we all do in this room, and they're excited about the future.

So our comprehensive plan steering committee, as y'all know that is a 19 member steering committee appointed by y'all uh last September, I believe.

We've had seven meetings to date.

Our next meeting is this Thursday uh with MIG and a lot of the materials that you'll see here in this presentation.

So with that, I will hand it over to Jay Rankins, principal in charge with MIG.

Thank you, John.

Uh hello, Mayor and Council.

Yeah, we're at a really important step in the process.

So we're, I would say probably about the midway mark.

And importantly, we're kind of transitioning from kind of bigger picture vision ideas, which we are going to touch on the vision elements, but what I'm going to highlight are how those are beginning to be operationalized, how they're going to start to translate into recommendations that are actually going to help shape the city and how it grows and evolves and continues to be competitive moving forward, both for existing residents as well as new residents, employers, employees.

And then also we're beginning to move towards sort of form piece of this.

There's the gameplay, which we got a lot of input on, and I'll highlight a few pieces of that input as well, based on all the different activities that John highlighted.

But we're actually then beginning to look at uh beginning tomorrow evening and a little preview for you all right after the meeting.

Uh the um the boards with the alternative growth scenarios.

So beginning with the vision framework, uh what this is looking out is that over the next 20 years plus, uh, what is Arlington want to be?

And this was informed by a lot of stakeholder interviews, focus groups, uh community meetings, as well as conversations with you all and uh other community leaders.

And so the vision framework uh is important both in terms of its ability to articulate what Arlington wants to be as a community, uh, but it's also gonna be how we organize the plan for the most part.

And so we have vision elements, uh, which are those kind of five pieces, which I'll step through the five petals of that flower.

Uh we have goals associated with each of the vision elements.

Uh we have metrics, uh, so how are we?

And you are all articulated that actually in our first meeting that we ever had together was we want to make sure that this plan is action-oriented, that it ensures or that we ensure that there are specific metrics and targets so we know if we're actually progressing towards that uh envisioned future.

And then really specific recommendations.

So that's in projects, programs, initiatives across the board.

So the five different vision elements.

The first is vibrant and safe.

Uh so this is about having a great place for people to live, uh, that they're proud of, uh, that it's vibrant, uh, that we have these gathering places.

The goals you can see there on the right.

Uh we've uh shared this with you previously in a uh different iterations.

So we've incorporated some of that feedback from you all and from the steering committee.

Uh so I'll highlight actually one or two of the emerging recommendations for each.

Um, so we're soliciting more input here, we're just kind of digging in on the recommendations.

So this is just a kind of a teaser, uh, but beginning to think about what do we do with vacant land that is a at a premium, right?