The Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee convened on Thursday, November 20, 2025, to conclude the term by approving major housing and infrastructure projects in the DCFC Stadium district, addressing parking and community concerns, and handling routine zoning extensions. The committee approved a data software contract, a comprehensive Community Benefits Agreement (CBA) for the DCFC stadium, and multiple commercial rehabilitation and brownfield plans following extensive public commentary and NAC testimony.
Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome back. We are now going to reconvene the planning and economic development standing committee for today, Thursday, November 20th, 2025. Madam Clerk, hope you had an opportunity to grab some lunch and get a little recess. We are back. Okay. Council President Pro Tim James Tate. Here. Councilmember Fred Dernhall. Present. Councilmember Letitia Johnson. Present. We have quorum, Mr. Chair. Thank you, man. We have quorum, which means we're now in session. We pretty much cleared the agenda minus uh all of the DCFC items as well as line item 8.1, which we brought back at the end of the agenda. We're going to ask uh for motion to discuss, please. Line item 8.1. So move. Thank you, sir. All right. I see Mr. Mahoney there. Uh, thank you for being here. You can please introduce yourself for the record. Good afternoon. Keegan Mahoney, housing and revitalization. Thank you, sir. Um, this item, line item 8.1. I kind of brought back a couple of times and may have been some lost uh translation. I'll take responsibility for that. My apologies. But was trying to find out um, you know, proof of performance. Like, what does this show us how the uh this this service actually has provided us uh a benefit in the city of Detroit? And that's where I'm I'm trying to draw a conclusion. I I don't see it just yet. Not saying that it doesn't, but I'm I'm looking for that response, please. Sure, absolutely. Thanks for the opportunity to discuss. Um, so it's uh within the the DNA of the housing and revitalization department to make sure that we are data driven in our recommendations and decisions around housing investments. A lot of funding uh is invested through HRD into various housing programs and services, and it's important that that's done so in a data-driven way. Uh, in addition, our team often is called upon to provide housing data to other city departments, uh, to uh city council and to community partners. Uh and uh in order to do that, we often need to draw on a wide variety of data sets uh that are uh some of them are spread across city government on our open data portal in our VSA system and through a number of other city data platforms. We also pull a lot of federal data from the census, uh, from the Postal Service uh and from um uh data regarding uh mortgage lending and mortgage denials uh and other uh public data sets. And importantly, we have a lot of data around uh program performance within HRD. Uh how much and where are home repair investments happening, uh, how much and where are dollars being invested into multifamily uh rental housing? And so a lot of evaluation and analysis is always uh required of our departments. Um, as you can imagine, knowing how to access and manage data from all of those different sources is quite difficult and and time consuming. And it takes a lot of technical expertise uh to incorporate that data into GIS software and other other complex software platforms. So, what this service does is it taps into all of those data sources and has a very uh easy user-friendly uh sets of layers that can be turned on and turned off so we can answer key questions about how our neighborhood uh housing values changing as a result of persistent investment in home repair, or you know, how are we seeing uh neighborhoods change as the result of a concentration of new multifamily housing developments and uh a wide variety of other types of analysis that can be done.