First 2026 community development authority meeting it to order.

Jennifer, if you want to go ahead with roll call.

Scott Greenland.

Here.

Michael Cass.

Here.

Michael Mueller.

Here.

Max Ryan.

Here.

Lisa Hegins.

Here.

And Aaron Burdick is absent.

And Brian Bridges submitted his resignation to the CDA.

Thank you.

Items two minutes of the regular meeting scheduled or held on December 17th, 2025.

And item C, I'm sorry, three, the budget performance report will be approved and passed under consent unless anyone wants those polled.

All right, seeing none.

Item four requests and comments from the public regarding items on the agenda not requiring a public hearing, and on matters which can be affected by CDA action.

Thank you.

All right, item five, uh 5A, City of Janesville planning presentation on zoning and subdivision coder right.

I will have uh Dwayne Cherrick and Brian Swiegel from the planning division.

Okay, thank you.

Uh good evening, Dwayne Sherry Planning Director for the City, and I am joined here this evening with my my colleague and senior planner Brian Schweigel.

And I did not uh misspell his name on the first slide of our presentation, so my apologies to you, Brian.

Um tonight uh we're gonna try and walk you through as best we can the uh City of Janesville zoning and subdivision ordinance update focusing more specifically on the zoning code itself and uh housing uh in particular and I think our approach with the slides that you'll see in the discussion that we'll have will uh fall generally into three categories basically uh districts, zoning classifications in other words, and locations where those districts are mapped in the city that get at some of the changes that are being recommended and proposed to expand housing opportunities in the city.

We'll also talk about review processes and procedures that coincide with the new set of uh development regulations, and then uh Brian will talk a little bit more about uh development standards themselves.

So I guess first you know, as we set out uh 18 to 20 months ago here on this uh code update, it was driven by some guiding principles, and those were generally to make sure that our our code is brought up to uh up to date, meaning consistency with state uh statutes in particular and uh the city's fairly recently updated comprehensive plan.

Uh we want to simplify the code uh for variety of reasons.

We want to continue to maintain that high quality development and redevelopment that uh we've been experiencing, be responsive to the development community is as well, and then uh balance growth and reinvestment with those impacts to neighborhoods.

The uh one of the critical uh aspects of the code update is hearing from uh the community uh at large stakeholders.

We've had some fairly extensive uh uh I guess engagement in terms of community-wide survey approximately a year ago, multiple internal external stakeholder meetings.

I think we cast a wide net of um folks that were brought in to talk about their issues, concerns from the development community that is uh about uh the existing code and challenges and what they would like to see.

And all of that is uh of course available on the city's uh website, which is devoted to this code update.

All the materials, all the meetings, uh these items that I'm I'm referring to here on the slide can all be found on the city's website if there's anything that you uh you wanted to uh look at in more particular.

Uh but we we have eight articles that make up the code.

Coincidentally, we've had eight separate presentations over the course of the last 12-13 months before the plan commission to review draft iterations of each of those articles and the land division ordinance itself.

The the code um in basically consists of two parts.

There's a set of regulations which we refer to as the text, and then there are the mapped uh zoning classifications that encompass all property located within the city and generally range between the different colors, uh residential, commercial, industrial, and then special districts.

The um you know the four bullet points below the zoning map are the elements I think that we're gonna focus on now.

We'll we'll get into that right after this slide, but I think it's important to just note as you can see here that we're we're actually consolidating or compressing several of the zoning districts that currently exist into a reduced number of districts.

And by way of uh the columns on the left side, we've gone from six residential districts essentially down to three, and then adding two new districts.

Uh likewise commercial has gone from seven down to I I guess three primary districts and then uh two in the downtown area.

Industrial slight reduction from four to three, and then we're maintaining certain special purpose districts.

Um the the I guess this is a good indication of how our code is is changing, evolving.

Currently, we have a zoning ordinance that uh essentially separates land uses, meaning that residential land uses predominantly only are allowed or exist within residential zoning classifications.

Similar similarly, commercial uses and industrial uses don't cut across uh zoning designations.

This code changes that, I think, fairly drastically in the sense that residential uses are now allowed in all commercial districts, uh, commercial uses, some neighborhood-based commercial activities are allowed in residence districts.

We're expanding industrial uses to a certain extent into commercial, commercial into industrial, and I think the blue uh tab on the bottom is is essentially the only thing that's somewhat consistent with our current code.

And we'll talk a little bit more about what that includes.

Uh this slide uh characterizes a variety of housing types that will now be reflected in various zoning districts.

On the left side, you can see everything from uh low density single family, two family to uh town home, town home style development as well as multifamily, and they're broken into these categories because these categories correspond with uh uses by right within certain districts and and then what's referred to as a conditional use permit approval in other districts.

We uh we've also incorporated opportunities for accessory dwelling units that uh was certainly echoed by a number of folks in the community as we went through the public engagement process, and you can see the different forms of accessory dwelling units.

We'll talk a little bit more about that.

And then there are seven uh alternative development options that don't fall into the typical base set of districts that we have that provide opportunities for uh special projects such as uh cottage court housing, uh a tiny home development, and then some of your more uh traditional uh types of projects like a planned uh conventional planned development district, the conservation district, and so forth.

We'll focus I I think the rest of our discussion on the residential zone districts in particular.

And again, I talked about the consolidation of districts, and you can see those here.

We'll move, I think, into specific examples to talk through how uh the regulations will increase density, expand opportunities, better utilize uh land in terms of land use uh uh consumption by taking uh what uh I guess was a redevelopment site in the look west neighborhood on the corner of uh Laurel and North Walnut.

This site was previously developed with a I believe it was a single-family home, building was raised, and now there's a two-family structure that was reconstructed, rebuilt on the property.

But the property is owned R2, and as you can see under existing conditions in the code or requirements, the um the lot size requirement, the minimum lot size requirements five thousand square feet, eight thousand for a two-family structure.