And they will be reviewing the goals, objections, and policies for those elements.

And at this time, I'll turn it over to Kathy and Jason from Access and JB Pro.

Thank you.

Thank

you, JR.

Thank you, Jordan.

And Vice Mayor.

As mentioned tonight, we are in workshop six.

We're going to do a quick recap of the feature land use, address some of the comments that we heard after the meeting, go through the economic development element, the parks and recreation element, the infrastructure element, and then talk about what is coming next.

We would ask if you have it with you, if you could review keep the goals, objectives, and policies for these three elements open.

That way, if you have any questions, we can address them at the time that you're asking.

But just like last month, if we if you have additional comments after the meeting, we will address those at next month's meeting.

So here we are in workshop six.

The last workshop, you may recall, was the first time we started going through goals, objectives, and policies.

And for the next three months, we will continue to do that before we transmit at the end of the

year.

So recap on the mixed use.

These were some of the comments we received after the meeting.

The first one dealt with density in rural possible parcels.

The um and just to remind everyone that all the density we're talking about in these mixed use areas are in urban areas.

That's the point of a mixed use area.

We will get into the general standards for all of the other future land use elements and components and areas at next month's meeting, future land use outside of the mixed use areas is one of the primary focuses for next month, along with transportation and housing.

So in these areas, we're really focusing on increasing the density to these mixed use areas.

We know that mixed use areas work best when they are have a greater amount of density.

That's what makes a mixed use area really thrive, is that you're focusing your density into these larger areas into these specific core areas.

It does two things for a community.

One, it targets that development and targets the that vibrant sense of place that you expect to see in a mixed-use area, say uh mixed use, like a downtown uh Deland, which is another community we're working with.

Um I actually went this morning this afternoon just to walk around and get that sense of that vibrancy and compare and think about how that translates to tonight's meeting.

So you want to see the density in these focused areas that will allow for lesser density in suburbanized residential neighborhoods and gives the families that live in those single family neighborhoods that quality of life that they really want in the rural areas, the quality of life they want.

By focusing the development into these central mixed-use areas, we're able to maximize the development that happens in there.

We're also able to increase the economic activity of these areas.

Um another community I visited today was in a more rural community, and they have a lot of vacancies.

And one of the major things that I was talking about with the community there was where's the workforce?

Where's the where are the jobs?

And that's a that's a challenge you have in mixed use.

If you don't have the if you don't have the vibrancy, if you don't have the activity, if you're not pulling in those economic activities into those areas, you have a lot of vacant storefronts and they just don't work as well.

So, and as we think about what could happen with amendment three, um, while we're don't know whether or not amendment three will pass, having these economic areas and having these areas that really strive for economic development, which we're going to talk about more in detail in just a little bit, is really important.

The next one was about building heights and the nine stories for uptown.

Um again, we this is specifically for your downtown community, and nine stories was based on similar types of communities that we worked with that we looked at and similar types of places that we looked at in the Central Florida region.

Um so when we looked at the nine stories, this is specifically for your your uptown, downtown, town center, whatever you want to call that major area of your community.

These aren't the smaller mixed-use centers, these aren't your community mixed center use centers or your neighborhood mixed use centers.

This is the one that is meant to be the most economically diverse and vibrant place.

Um and then developer developer impact and excessive density.

But once again, again, these areas are meant to be as dense as we possibly can make them and appropriate for that mixed use category.

So that's why we have three different mixed use categories.

We have the neighborhood, we have the community, and we have the uptown, and each one of them has different density standards for each type because each one is meant to be different.

So your neighborhood mixed use center has the least amount of density, and it's meant to be one-story, two-story buildings, very much of a main street type area, a community main street area that you would go to.

The community mixed use centers, those have a little more density, have a little more height, up to five, five and six stories, depending on if it's on the corridor or if it's in the downtown area.

But and these areas are meant to serve the greater a larger community area, but they're again not meant to be your focus downtown.

And then your focus downtown, your uptown, your sit your town center has the greatest amount of density, great amount of greatest amount of intensity, but it's in a very strategic location, located near the uh interchange with IS with I-4, and designated as the future commercial center near your industrial area, near where your warehousing is, where the high school is, where your hospital is.

This is an area that really is meant to drive your economic your economic development for that.

You would expect a downtown, uptown town center to do

so.

And the um I want to one more comment about the developer impact and excessive density is that it is so mixed use development is a little bit more challenging for developers to do, and it is that density intensity that incentivizes them to do it.

Um there are a lot of development, it's much easier for a developer to do a suburban strip policy plaza.

It's much easier for them to do the traditional types of economic development that that we see in suburban communities.

So, in order to incentivize the mixed use development, which is a little more challenging, that's where the density comes in play.

So, in fact, the comment dealt with we were giving away too much density for developers, and in fact, that is what incentivized them to want to develop these kind of areas.

The

next one dealt with um modifying and reducing the densities in the eco centers and conservation lands, and what we're going to do is work with staff to create an overlay area, specifically targeting where residential is allowed in these areas and applying the density only to those areas so that any other anything outside of those areas would not have the density attached to