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We have a presentation.

Yes, we do.

Thank you, Vice Chair Gopel Hayes, and members of the Planning Commission.

My

name's Jason Hayde.

I'm here this evening to present the industrial guidelines update.

So

with that, I'll get uh started.

So just a bit of background as far as this effort goes.

Uh, this is part of a much larger effort known as the Port of Benicia Facilities and Infrastructure Modernization Plan.

The city was awarded a grant, uh, almost a million dollars uh back in um 2024 by uh the Metropolitan Transportation Commission and ABAG or the Association of Area governments.

Work started on this uh November of 2024, and the modernization plan includes eight specific tasks.

This task happens to be task five of that larger effort, and that is to update the uh modernize industrial design guidelines.

Just a bit of background on the the port plan itself.

It's intended to evaluate existing conditions and identify opportunities to address uh the aging peer infrastructure.

It's looking at things like um enhancing long-term resiliency, improving circulation, and transportation constraints, and lastly supporting a sustainable economic growth.

A

key part of it is also to establish a prioritized implementation strategy and funding approach to ensure that the recommended improvements are feasible and actionable.

And later on in this presentation, there's a link to the city's website with a lot of this background information and documents, um, all the work completed to date.

So I would really encourage you if you're interested to take a look at that and check it out.

Um, it's

got

a good accounting of the work that's been done thus far.

So, in terms of the industrial design guidelines, they were uh the current guidelines were adopted in 1989.

Um, you can see the cover sheet here looks like it was prepared on a typewriter, so they are quite dated and definitely in need of a refresh and update, so we're happy to be having the grant funding to do that as part of the project.

The guidelines now uh look at addressing things like site design, uh circulation, parking, loading, landscape design, fencing, screening, uh, exterior lighting, architectural design, and project approval.

I'm

gonna spend a little bit of time here just walking you through the update as it's envisioned at the moment.

So

the purpose of the improved and updated guidelines is to give uh professionals, designers a clear practical design direction for new development proposed on lands zoned for industrial use.

It's gonna look at a lot of the similar issues that are addressed now, but there's also some newer ones, such as uh building form materials, sustainability and resilient design as well, historic structures and neighborhoods, and a key part of this as you can probably guess by the project title and the whole part of this effort is looking at how these relate to the port and future industrial uses uh within that port area.

So the goal of the guidelines is to improve design, but still allow flexibility enough to allow professionals to make the appropriate design decisions for a specific site.