The Bend City Council held a hybrid work session from 3:00 p.m. and a regular meeting from 7:00 p.m. on July 19, 2023, at City Hall. The work session included quarterly updates, growth management planning, Juniper Ridge development, transportation fee engagement, Midtown Crossing funding updates, and a middle-income housing pilot program. The regular meeting featured public comment, consent agenda approvals, grant acceptances, and a design contract for the Bear Creek Road and 27th Street project.
Okay. Let's go ahead and get started with our Fenn City Council work session. I'm gonna kick us off for this is our quarterly update. We are just three weeks into our biennial council goal work plan and budget. So of course, we don't have a big long list of accomplishments to talk about for the first three weeks of this biennium, but we do have a lot of activity that's occurred over the past uh couple of months, um, really since we last met we took the break. So I'm gonna recap a little bit uh broadly with the 2123 council goals because a lot of those projects are carrying forward. Want to spend some specific time and I'll call Colin Stevens up to talk about the permitting process improvements that I know council has been watching very closely. It's part of this uh this biennium as well. Uh and then our focus today is really going to be around uh our growth plans. So there's many different items in our uh council goals and work plan that are related to how BEN's gonna grow in the future. A lot of that's gonna be driven by state policy, um, as well as you know, kind of some of the initial work that we've started with things like opportunity zones and other tools that we've put into place. Housing is a big focus. You're gonna hear kind of that all put together in a presentation just to give you a lay of the land and get some general high-level direction at this point. I think there's gonna be many opportunities for you to provide direction over the next few months. And then Juniper Ridge is another uh area of focus, and there's two different uh prongs here. One is a focus around our own facility needs with a public work facility that we've been talking about, but bigger picture it's about how does the city leverage its land and really follow through with the land disposition strategy that we've talked about for quite some time and getting more of that land out in the market. Uh so we'll give you kind of updates on both fronts. We'll allow for time for our for our board's committees, commissions to share what they're working on, or if there's any reflection on the material that we talk about today, and then we'll actually end and get outside and view our block party trailer. Um you can get a hands-on experience of that and demonstration, and there's some we've invited some community folks as well for that. So that's the agenda for today. Um I'm just gonna recap from the last biennial process. 45 actions, 60% of those actions are complete. They were very discrete actions that are done. 40% of those, the remaining 40% are on track. There's nothing that is needing attention or way behind schedule. But as we talked about in the development of this biennial goal period, most of those projects are continuing forward. Two thirds of them, 72% are just continuing on to this next biennium. All of this information is a lot more detail in the uh that that will be incorporated into our progress report since we're just so early on. Our next progress report in October will be will be much more robust. But the other remaining 28% of the items are really just incorporated into how we operate as a city. So there weren't any that was more of there was a policy action, some high-level goal, and we just incorporated that to how we're doing our work. So here are some of the exciting highlights that I wanted to share with council. Um, and some of this information you can find on our dashboard that we track, and we'll be continuing to update refine our dashboard based on the our uh the projects in this biennium. The one that I really want to highlight is our shelter beds. So we had a goal of 500 uh shelter beds. Uh we exceeded that goal in the biennium with 529. Uh so what has come online over the last couple months includes the Rainbow Hotel or the Franklin shelter is it's also called, um, the Central Oregon villages, the outdoor shelter, as well as a number of safe parking sites. We've been very uh aggressive at promoting safe parking as an option and receiving uh more um hosts for for those sites. 886 units of rent and price restricted or deed restricted affordable housing as we often call it has been funded, permitted, complete, or is um just is is in the pipeline meeting close to meeting our goal of a thousand units. Um projects that were start, it's just a timing issue. So I'm I'm assuming that we'll pick some of those up in this new biennium. 150 new child care slots, so that was funded in it as a direct result of our American Rescue Plan Act allocation. Um big exciting news that was in the press, um, and we'll talk more about this tonight is the Hawthorne crossing overcrossing. We'll talk about that in our in the work session. Uh 31.2 million uh in funding is anticipated from outside sources, which is really exciting. Also on that list is the airport. Uh we're anticipating that the air traffic control tower will be fully funded. Um, in with uh again some earmarking from federal and state funds. And then, of course, public works campus. We'll talk about that some more tonight when we talk about Juniper Ridge.