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Well, thank you all for uh for the meeting this morning and taking the time to go through this.

Uh before we get started, um, I really wanted to kind of uh thank everyone for uh providing a lot of great comments on the draft uh regulations uh that we presented a month or so ago.

Um the development community did a good job, you know, coming together and with a real organized and unified uh list of comments that that were really good and and help um will definitely make this a much better document than uh then uh with the with the changes that we're we'll go over today.

But the uh you know we had a lot of good comments from the development community from the citizens uh and from the planning commission.

So it was really good process to go through and uh have a lot of um points brought up that uh were good points that we didn't realize uh with our previous wrap, but we'll we'll go through those today.

Um one of the things too, just to cover real quick is um the there's been a lot of questions about just you know the timing, what why it's important to address this now.

And you know, with the current regulations, what what we face every month and and through um through our development review process, there's a lot of unclarity in the uh existing regulations, and it's kind of causing a lot of confusion about what's required, what's not required, the review process doesn't get consistent reviews and it delays the development reviews and and kind of puts the the uh planning staff, the planning commission, the county commission, and and the developers kind of in a little bit of a gray area.

So one of the main things that we're trying to accomplish with this um is to make sure we have a very clear document of exactly what's what's required and what's not required and the exact time frames that things must be processed in.

Um and we'll cover a lot of that today, but just wanted to say that's you know there is some urgency to get this done because I think the the longer we go with this, the the more confusion and unclear it continues on through our design and development review process.

So getting uh getting started now.

So what we're gonna do today, we're gonna talk about kind of the common topics that we are received in the comments.

Um we'll discuss each one of those and and offer potential resolutions for each.

And I think you know, we'll see today that there's you know, 85 to 90 percent of the comments are are good clarity things that will have an easy resolution that I think will will meet everybody's needs.

There are a couple topics we'll have to discuss in a little more detail, but the vast majority um will be incorporated with with no issues.

Um after we go through the whole presentation to discuss all the comments.

Um we'll have a period where the public can come up with the three-minute time period to provide any additional feedback.

Uh and after that's done, we'll discuss time frame uh to complete and adopt the subdivision regulations after today.

So the com so going through the comp the topics we were received.

The first one, we had a few comments that were really related to old regulations that really aren't even in the current regulations or the proposed amendments.

So you know, we're not we're not considering anything that was in old regulations.

Like we've moved on beyond that some time ago, and we're not gonna bring any of those back.

So the second topic was uh, which is the the vast majority of it is just really clarifying a lot of items in there that would reduce the inconsistent interpretation that's kind of occurring right now.

The um third is to establish review uh time frames that that uh each step of the permitting process must be completed within.

Uh the fourth would be open space requirements.

There was a lot of great comments about open space, um, mainly just about some of the design requirements and how to calculate required open space.

Stormwater and uh low impact development requirements, um, there was some comments on that, mainly about clarity of how we are gonna judge those those things, uh the utility requirements, and then finally enforcement.

So getting into some of the clarification items, and I'm gonna try to go through these pretty fast because I said pretty much every one of these are just we agree and we'll we'll fix it, you know.

So I I don't uh anticipate a lot of discussion on these, um, but if anyone has any any comments, we'll we'll get to that later.

But the definition uh one of the comments received was the definition of development should remain as currently defined.

And as we did more um research on it, we agree that the existing definition and the current regulation is consistent with the state definition.

So we're gonna leave that as is and not not change that part.

Umdate definition of flag lot to clarify that the narrow corridor flagpole may not have any obstructions such as wetland dirt pits, etc.

This was mainly about making sure that when a flag lot is developed that they can actually use the access corridor to access the main part of the lot.

And we agree that's a very good comment.

Um the updated definition of setback lines to clarify that parking pads are not allowed within the highway setback.

Uh, we agree with this.

Obviously, this would be for um uh required parking doesn't count that because there's a lot of required parking that has to happen in those front yard setbacks, but any kind of overflow uh parking pads or areas uh would not be allowed because that's something we we uh have to deal with periodically and if just to clarify the highway construction setback is a state mandated uh thing we have to deal on some of the major roadways and enforce.