All right, it is now 306 p.m.

Uh, let's call this meeting to order.

This is a meeting, uh noticed meeting about the TGA target growth areas workshop uh concerning Bill 2026 311 uh and updates to the comp plan to identify target growth areas.

Uh first of all, I want to thank um the team that worked together.

This was a big group effort over months and months and months of working.

Thank you all for from planning and permitting and and the outside attorneys in the mayor's office, everyone.

This uh is really a comprehensive look, and let me again say something that I've talked to.

I know I got a call from one of uh someone from the media this morning about this particular legislation.

This is not the end.

This is the beginning framework of what it looks like to ensure um that this works for for our community and and what growth does.

So with that, uh, we will start this meeting and we'll have introductions to my rights.

And Rockman Johnson, district 14, and we'll make sure that this is uh being streamed so it will be shared with all the other members that aren't able to make it today.

Uh with that, I would like to have an overview of the uh, Ms.

Parola, if you could come up and give us an overview of what it is, and I know there's a presentation, so uh for those it should be on the screen so you just see thank you.

Um thank you.

Um what we have in front of you today is the target growth area map boundaries that we are proposing to be part of the conference of plan.

That's the actual legislation that's in front of you today.

But what I'm gonna give you is an overview of the entire project because there will be comp plan changes and later on zoning changes.

So I want to make sure you're aware of how this whole process worked.

Um, first of all, it starts with a committee that was formed in about 2023, and the committee was formed to look at um different issues that the city was facing, and those were our increased vulnerability to flood risk, um, the increase in population that was coming to the state, and the lack of um uh sufficient affordable housing.

So the committee was formed together.

That committee was um appointed by the mayor, and consisted of developers, attorneys, affordable housing advocates, a CPAC member, they were engineers, um, it was open to the public so the public could attend and offer comments, any of that, and it also had most of city staff able to answer any questions that they had, not only from the planning department but from development services and public works.

Um, the chair of that committee was Emily Pierce, and she is in the audience today, and um I'm sure she'd be happy to answer any questions as we go through this process.

So those are the three areas that the committee worked on for about a year and a half, and um we were looking to for a way to increase resilience to flood risk, increase housing opportunities, and while doing that, protect neighborhood character while accommodating growth.

Um, what the committee decided to do, they came up with recommendations that they knew could work for the goals of reducing flood risk, increasing housing.

Oh, I forgot.

Thank you.

And does it all okay and protecting neighborhood character?

I think we can go to the next one.

So the committee looked at an incentive-based approach to encourage residential growth.

This is all about residential growth and the appropriate areas, and they we identified this target growth area, which is the boundary you have on that map, where it's most suited to accommodate growth.

It's in the low flood risk areas, and that comes from the Office of Resilience with their compound flood model.

So it is least likely to flood, it's along transit corridors.

We high ridership transit corridors.

We worked with the KTA to make sure we were in appropriate areas, and also on the Emerald Trail within a half mile of those areas.

So we came up with this boundary, which would be most appropriate for increased residential growth because it has a walkability component, it can get to transit.

It's low flood risk, so it's a low risk of um developing in that area.

Um what that and at the same time we would be protecting neighborhood character because this area also removes a couple of things.

It does not include any zoning overlays.

Those zoning overlays, um, you've been through them at council.

They have their own set of guidelines, they have their own set of standards.

So it does not include zoning overlays, it does not include anything in the low density residential districts.

So anything that is in low density residential LDR land use that is not included in this boundary.

It also does not include anything that's in an accident potential zone for an airport.

So that's how we developed the boundary for the target growth.

And you can see that on the screen right there: the pink and the yellow.

The pink and the yellow, what that identifies is if it's in the urban priority area or the urban area.

That was another factor we used.

The urban and urban priority areas are already formulated in the comprehensive plan, and they are areas that the city policy-wise would look forward to revitalizing an infill, just like we're trying to do here today.

So that's the overall map.

We presented to all the CPACs.

So what you're going to see here are the different CPACs districts, the planning districts, and how much of this target growth area is in those areas.

But remember, it does not include low density residential.

So in any of those areas, your single-family neighborhoods are protected.

The incentives.

More permeable surfaces, more landscaping that manages stormwater, capturing rainfall on site, on site renewable energy.

What this doesn't do, it does not apply to all neighborhoods, it only applies to that boundary identified on your map.

And right now it does not infringe on single-family neighborhoods.

Right now we're in the comprehensive plan amendment portion of this overall plan.

So the only thing that is part of ordinance 2026 311 that's in front of council today is the actual target growth map, the boundaries of that map, and establishing the target growth area within the comp plan and the allowance for an increase in density if you were to take advantage of those incentives.