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Today we're going to be having a presentation about the Laughlin Ranch community, correct?

Okay.

Do we do the Pledge of Allegiance still, or we just kind of get into it?

All right, come on up.

State your name.

Good evening, Commissioners.

I am Shelby DuPlisse.

I'm representing the Laughlin Ranch Redevelopment Team.

And here to just give you an overview similar to what we did at Council back on May 5th.

And to be able to answer any questions for you that you might have before we get into public workshops.

So probably if we can maybe just start off with the presentation and then get into questions after, unless you have questions you want to start with first.

Okay.

I think we can get into the presentation right away.

Okay, perfect.

So I I know a lot of you are here May 5th.

There's been a few changes to the presentation, so I'll point those out, especially since you saw the first one and now the second one, as we've been working closely with staff and just the project as you can imagine is evolving.

So we'll go through what those changes are.

I think all great positive changes.

Oh, is this the clicker right here, maybe?

Um so basically we're working on 4,400 acres of the original uh Laughlin Ranch development.

The overall Laughlin Ranch development came to you for um amendment back in 2005, so a little over 20 years ago.

That overall site, as you can see on the map here, consists of 11,934 acres.

This is the current plan as it is today.

What we've had uh reality like everywhere in the country, markets change, especially over 20 years.

And so with that reality, there's been a lot of shift in need and diversity of what each city needs, including Bullhead City.

There was a heavy amount of residential, um, and we've actually proposed to reduce about 1,500 acres from residential to light industrial commercial use to help with that development of that economic stimulus.

Um, with that, you'll see a lot of shift towards employment use, uh, where you actually bring in will be bringing in with end users a lot of employment opportunities, um, high-paying jobs, and we'll talk about that later in the presentation.

Um, with that increase, it allows for support of the remnant amount of residential that still um exists on the property as well as everything outside of the 4400 acres that still hasn't been built or absorbed as well.

One of the things that we're really excited about is in section 17, um, creating a mixed-use downtown vision.

Um, this would be very much like a desert rich marketplace or something that you would see down in the valley where you'd have outdoor shopping, um, park on the street front.

Um, there could be some units above the commercial space or some commercial mixed with residential nearby where we would work through that with staff on what that would look like for transition.

Usually you'd have your commercial use, a higher density apartment use, and maybe some townhomes and then some residential single family.

When you're talking that many acres, you have a lot of room for those transitions.

This would allow for that second downtown environment, including the shopping, dining, entertainment, and residential uses, as I mentioned.

It would be a true mixed-use destination.

It would allow for a better sense of live work play and also again creating places for people to live that will be working right there, or other people that want to move into that area.

It also would create gathering spaces for residents and visitors.

So it would become a destination, if you will.

The proposed downtown area would allow the reduction, as I said, of 1,503 acres.

We would add 2,666 light industrial use areas that I'll show you on a map here in just a section or in a second.

We would be doing that not only by reducing the residential area, but also eliminating the portions of golf course that was planned on our portion of the 4400 acres.

The Laughlin Ranch existing golf course can sustain and handle the demand right now for what's wanted, as well as just being cognizant of challenges with water that we're all facing in Arizona.

With that, then as a trade-off, we would actually be enhancing a lot of the existing trails and creating new trail system enhancements as well along the washes and open corridor trails.

This would be the new 4,400 acres that we're proposing and what that would look like.

As you can see, the light purple is the industrial, the light industrial.

And at the end, I'll show you how this all fits into what would be left outside of the 4,400 acres, that remnant 7,500 acres of Laughlin Ranch.

The red would be commercial.

One change that we've made since the last time I was here in May.

We eliminated one of the blue squares, that was for a future high school site.

There's already a future high school site on the Laughlin Ranch community just to the north, and that that seemed like a better location, closer to the residents planned there.

And we also shifted the commercial.