Good evening.

Like to start our city council study session Tuesday, April 14, 2026.

And I'm gonna ask Councilmember Snyder to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

All right, thank you for leading us in the pledge.

First item is, oh, that's really low.

First item is the uh executed contract listing for February and March 26.

City Manager Martinez.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good evening, Mayor Mayor Pro Tem, members of council.

Before you this evening is our finance director to answer any questions you may have based on the information in your packet.

Does anybody have any questions?

If anybody looked at the spreadsheet.

Mayor Pro Tem.

Thank you.

I always appreciate getting this.

It's great to see where are we spending money and what's shifting from what we originally thought.

Just one question on the water treatment plant owners' rep that seems like a relatively significant percentage.

Did we have some additional scope that came in late late in the game?

There were scope changes, and this is one that did come to council for review.

Um so I'd have to defer, I think, to our utilities director, who unfortunately is not here if you want more information on what was included in that scope, but that was because of the size of the conversation now.

I just didn't remember it when I was looking at it originally.

Right.

Okay, thanks.

Any other questions?

Cool.

Thank you.

Next is the comprehensive plan update.

We also have our planning commission joining us.

So kick this off to City Manager Martinez.

Thank you Mayor.

As you mentioned, we have our fine planning commission members here tonight, as well as our consultants working on this.

So I will turn it over to the group to begin the discussion.

Thank you.

There we go.

Mic's on now.

Thank you.

Uh, we're really glad to be here.

Uh Jessica Garrow and Emily Burroughs with Design Workshop.

Um we have a um brief presentation that we'd like to run through with you all and then reserve most of our time for conversation.

Uh there were a number of questions in your packet, and we've pulled out some of those key questions into the presentation, and we'd really like to focus on some of your feedback related to those pieces so we can continue to move through the comprehensive plan process.

Um, so we will be giving a high-level overview of the engagement uh findings from engagement window two, which was completed in March, um, including some community workshops, uh, open houses, uh, community open questionnaire and advisory group meeting.

Um, the key piece in engagement window two was really about scenario planning.

And scenario planning is a way to think about how development might happen in the future within the community of Brighton.

And the purpose of this engagement window was to explore a couple of different potential alternatives, gain community feedback so that we can come back to the community and to staff and to you all in our next engagement window, which is in June, to really refine a future land use map.

And so we're in the exploration phase uh at this point.

Um so in terms of the growth context that we are uh looking at, um, it's based off of uh information from uh from DOLA, the state demographer.

In the next 20 years, Brighton is anticipated to add 16,512 new residents and about 6,500 new jobs.

And so scenario planning is one way to think about how might we accommodate that anticipated growth.

What do we want to see in terms of business types, land uses, housing typologies, and are there opportunities to maybe expand on that?

If there was to be a boom in development, what would we want to see?

How would we want that to be managed?

Um so those are some of the things that we explore through scenario planning.

So we provided the community with three scenarios to provide feedback on.

Again, the intention was not necessarily to pick one winner, it was to understand what are some of the positive aspects of different of these different scenarios and what are things that folks do not support.

And so it's important to think about none of these scenarios will move forward into the future land use map as they were presented.

It will be an amalgamation, it will be a combination of different pieces of these based off of the community feedback.

So really briefly, scenario A was focused on sort of a business as usual type of scenario, trying to maybe even slow growth, but having consistent development patterns in terms of single family homes, maybe fewer housing choices than some of the other scenario options.

Scenario B is really focused on different corridors and what we called an intensification in the center.

So really thinking about development along key corridors and within the downtown, some different housing typologies beyond a single family home, thinking about townhouses, apartments, things like that.

And really importantly, maintaining existing neighborhoods.