So this is Councilmember Jen and I would like to call to order the Edmund City Council Public Safety Planning Human Services and Personnel Committee on June 16th, 2026 at 4 30 p.m.

We have in attendance committee member Susan Payne and also our ex officio member, Council President Michelle Dash, and then exficyo Vivian Olson.

And we will be starting with item 2.1, which is the minor code amendments related to middle housing.

And I will let Brad Shipley take it away.

All right.

Well, well, thank you.

I know this is uh something that's been anticipated for a while.

It was almost a year ago when we first adopted low density residential uh to replace our traditionally single family zones.

Uh if you guys guys recall it was a uh kind of a scramble to comply with state regulations and part of that process envisioned uh multi phases to kind of come back and review code and and figure out where uh some of the references may not align or whether there's other code sections that do not align.

So this uh is a second phase of that project.

Um right now we're just looking at minor code amendments.

So uh minor code amendments is you know, that these were uh really non-substantive code issues.

Uh they're you know, maybe outdated references, formatting issues, internal consistencies, um, those types of things.

Uh those are all outlined in ECDC uh 20.80.015.

So this process was envisioned to allow us to you know refine the code uh over time and be a little bit more proactive uh in that process.

Um the minor code amendments, the these are not required to go to uh planning board for recommendation, they just go straight to council, um, often you know through a committee meeting and then uh could be brought to full council for um either consideration or on a consent agenda.

That's really up to council.

Um at the at that time, you know, council could look over the proposed amendments and they could pull some out to be included in a in a future change that's more substantive if that's what they choose, or they could you know adopt part or whole of uh the recommended changes.

So uh today, you know, we we're going over some of those recommended changes.

Um I did include that in the packet.

Um most of these are going to just be updated references to LDR where it used to be RS.

So they're pretty simple.

Uh a couple of them are um references that had changed with the new code, uh, but just weren't updated or missed uh as part of that code update process.

Um I guess you know, I think with that I I could kind of open it up to conversation here.

Um if there's any questions or uh discussion about any of these proposed changes.

Okay, um, are there any questions?

Please go ahead, Susan.

Yeah, thank you.

Um I thank you, Janet, and and thank you, Brad.

I just want to say I appreciate that these are really very simple um kind of alignment changes.

The only thing I had to look up was the one for domestic animal and um and that was um uh definitions, you know, part of the the coding.

So it wasn't anything that we needed to make bigger changes with or anything like that.

So I'm I'm pleased to see that these are coming through.

I you know, looking at the agenda memo, I I think that we can probably um take um option one, um, just proceed with the minor code amendments and um make sure that we build in consistency whenever we can through our codes.

I think that this is a nice nice start for a code update.

Are there any other comments?

Um yeah, I just wanted to note that this being uh kind of the the first touch on a long process, it's come back.

It is on the agenda planner for um next Tuesday for full council.

So just that way it's kind of the touch, and then after that, that can be more of a consistent update being done.

That'll be our recommendation.

Vivian, are there do you have any comments or questions?

Okay.

Um I'm looked over everything and I'm in complete agreement that these are minor code amendments.

And I don't think um that we have to go through any additional process.

So I'd like to follow the staff recommendation that we direct the staff to proceed with preparation of targeted minor code amendments related to middle house housing implementation, and that the amendment should be limited to code cleanup consistency, clarification, and administration of the adopted middle housing regulations.

Do we have consensus from the committee?

Just to quite be full counsel.

So I was going to come back next week for that.

I I'm comfortable if it's on consent.

I mean, these are really just the the most minor uh code changes.

If this through to consent, Michelle, do you anticipate that you would pull it off consent?

I wasn't anticipating.

I just thought with the process being so public and this being the first touch, that was just a clean way to bring it up and move it forward and then a sort of consistent way that it comes forward and everybody's understanding how it works, including the public.

This is this is the first touch.

Correct.

The next time would be the second touch, right?

Correct.

Yeah.

So if it were if it were likely to be pulled off of consent, I'd like the staff to have notice.

Um that they need to be there prepared to present it to full council.