Good evening, everyone.

Welcome to Chapel Hills, the town council's May 28th work session.

We are pleased to have you join us.

This evening we have three topics on the agenda for discussion.

Up first is an update on the town's rewriting our rules project, which is a rewrite of our land use management ordinance.

That will be followed by a discussion of our national features model and new tools we're created to support the town's complete community strategy.

And our final item is an opportunity for council members to identify topics for our June 4th budget work session.

Before we get underway, I want to remind our vast audience that the format of a work session is different than that of our business meetings.

Work sessions are an opportunity for the council to dive more deeply into topics and have conversation.

It's less formal.

We don't vote during work sessions.

Finally, we value public input and we want to hear from you on all these topics, so please feel free to email Mayor and Council at Town of Chapel Hill.org.

Our next regular meeting is scheduled for Wednesday June 4th.

Did I make that up?

Okay.

At 6 p.m.

in council chambers.

No, it's a work session, so it should be here, right?

June 4th, here.

And with all that said, we're ready to move on to our first agenda item, which is rewriting our rules, a land use management ordinance update.

We have Taz Lago here, and of course, for EWADL and Taz, you've gotten a haircut since the last time we saw you.

It's been a while, you look great.

Well, thanks very much.

It has been a while, it's been um several months now, but yeah, we're back.

Um I think this evening, yeah, I'll start off by just giving everybody a quick update on kind of where we are with the LUMO rewrite project.

Um I'll take it over then to Brittany to talk through some opportunities for potential um updates to the LUMO before we kind of move forward with our finalize the full LUMO rewrite, um, and then we'll finish off the series of uh more related discussions we've been having for well over the last year or now.

Um so as all know um you know we are um kind of behind set with the luminal rewrite.

Um just kind of give folks an understanding of where we are with the project and where we're kind of headed in the next several months.

Um we received a um a draft set of work products from our consultant team at kind of the end of the last year that just didn't meet our standards.

Um it didn't meet the standards that um that I think we know the community would expect it of us that staff and our own professional judgment um knew um would not meet our own standards.

Um decision and full pivot.

Um so at our direction, um the re contractor project um brought on new talent, and we're really excited about the new talent that we've got to kind of hear with the conish line of this project with work products that we know is gonna meet staff's kind of exacting standards and ultimately give us something that we're gonna feel proud of bringing in front of the community.

Um that does meet with the project behind schedule.

You know, um we don't know for certain uh what that timeline is going to look like.

Um we'll know more once we're kind of deeper into the work with our new um new kind of teammates.

Um we do know is it's not gonna be um by the end of this year, um, but the new remote is going to be in front of the council for consideration.

Um it wasn't an easy decision to make when we know it's the right decision because it means the work product that we ultimately will work for the town uh is going to be standards of all excited too.

Um with that, again, I'll just reiterate that we're really excited and confident in the team that we're working on and excited to kind of get back to work.

Um so with that, I'll um hand those over to Brittany to kind of talk about um a couple of other topics that might um some gaps um as we're getting back to work.

So Ted's and I will tag to you if you have questions, um, feel free to ask those.

But I wanted to talk a little bit um before we jump back into the discussion that Tadro Disaster standards.

Before we jump back into the lumon discussion that TAS will be about the side standards, I wanted to talk to about two very closely related topics.

One being how we instill a cultural continuous improvement for our limo document going forward once we have the new one in place, and the other items to talk about tonight is whether council is interested in making improvements to the existing lummo this fall before the full rewrite is completed.

And I know that might raise questions for you, but I will get to all of that in just a moment.

So the town has historic historically taken a piecemeal approach to our document and to thinking LUMO amendments, which generally over time can create a document that's unclear and possibly inconsistent, especially if you have a document like ours that has reached the drinking age.

It makes it that much harder to keep things clear as we're as we're putting putting things together without it being a comprehensive approach.

So going forward, it's our hope that in the long term we can fix this by adopting a more systematic approach to continuous improvement for the LUMO.

In the short term, we've heard from some council members that there's an interest in considering some LUMO amendments this fall, as early as this fall, specifically given what Sasha shared about the timeline for the voter rewrite coming through.

So because of that delay, um, there could be an opportunity to test recently approach that I'm referring to.

We'll devote sometime this evening to get feedback from you guys about potential amendments, but first I want to talk a little bit more about the continuous improvement approach that I've um that I mentioned, and then we'll get your feedback.

So we want to avoid going long periods of time that we know the LUMO needs updates or changes and having us being reluctant in some cases to make those necessary changes.

Proactive updates allow us time to fully vet the impacts of these text amendments, it minimizes piecemeal changes to the ordinance and it increases our administrative times that we um that are required to implement process changes.

Omnibus text amendments are planning best practice that can help us keep the more up to date, and that's what I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about tonight.

So an omnibus text amendment allows for various text changes to be reviewed and approved in batches.

Um, this is very similar in context, it's kind of similar to a consent agenda where you have a lot of things, everybody's happy with it, you're vetted it and you vote once and all of it gets approved.

But one thing to note about that is it does not take less scrutiny on the subject matter, so it still would require two public hearings as any changes to the lummo would require.

And um text amendments can address a variety of needs, and it can be as major as a policy initiative or changes you'd like to see, but it often also can be as minor as a technical correction, correction, spelling error, grammar.

It could be something that simple or something that complex.

Um, I was involved in multiple um omnibus text amendments when I was working as specific time director for the City of Rawley.

Um, it was something that was proven to be a great tool.