Just say it up here.

Okay, perfect.

Welcome to business session because Councilman Barnes is now here.

Our first item is approval of minutes for business session, July 14, 2022.

Is there a motion?

So moved.

I'll second.

So moved and seconded all in favor, indicate by saying aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Motion passes.

We have the comprehensive plan update.

Gentlemen, and we have folks who are watching online, so it's not just us.

We promise.

Good afternoon, everybody.

My name is Kyle Elliott.

I am the division manager of the long-range planning and preservation division.

To my left is Morgan Pemberton, our fifth and sixth district planner, I guess just sixth district planner currently.

I'm quite the softball player, I might add.

That's correct.

And to her left is uh Gerald Williams, our fourth district planner.

Uh with us uh with today, we're gonna give an update and status report on the city's comprehensive plan update process.

Uh next slide, Gerald.

We uh have taken about a two and a half year process, it'll probably end up being three total, and we're trying to boil it down to about a 20-minute presentation.

So it'll there's some details we're leaving out.

Uh, if there's individual questions you have after that, please feel free to either grab us and we'll give you individual meetings or we'll try to address them here as well.

Um this is the plan that we do that that helps uh provide guidance for about 20 year time frame.

Uh the presentation we're going to give today talks more about how you guys can potentially use this plan, how we've structured it, uh, and when it comes to the individual recommendations, we'll explain how to how to locate them and how to use them.

But those are things that, like I said, we can either get with you to what discuss what are in there or provide you access to those.

Next slide.

Uh we started this process considering it back in 2019.

Uh we do think that we will be able to get done with it by the end of this year, and this is part of the process.

So, with that, I will hand it over to Gerald Williams to take you through.

All right, thank you, Kyle.

Um, so this is a slide just basically describing what the plan is and how it's used, and maybe maybe more specifically how it's used by you all.

Um, you know, first off, the plan really tries to document what the community's values are.

Uh we spend a lot of time public engagement-wise, uh talking to the community about what's important to them, and we've we've uh uh written that out in a vision statement and a series of goal statements in the plan that we think really encapsulates what's important for we're hearing, uh, not just through this process but through you know numerous area planning and other citywide planning processes that we've been doing over the last couple of decades.

Um so the other things that it does the play ways that the city council might use it specifically include guiding your capital improvement planning and budgeting, uh evaluating changes to zoning and development plan applications or any investments or initiatives that you have going on in the city or changes of city ordinances and policies.

Um, some other things you might use the plan for would be to support a funding request from a state or federal uh source, or to try to better align city departments and our partner agencies as well.

And uh and maybe other useful component is that it will provide some metrics and KPIs.

So if there are things in here that we want to track progress on over time, this plan will provide identify what those are and and how to track them.

So the plan is structured uh in these kind of four big pieces.

The vision talks about where we want to be at this it defines a future city and and uh what we want to be when 20 years when the plan has been implemented.

The goals begin to talk about a little more strategically how we achieve that vision over the next two decades, and we'll talk about what those are in a moment.

And then we have a series of 25 objectives, which is where all the recommendations live.

Uh that's where we get into the details about specific strategies and actions that we need to achieve to implement the goals and the vision and the plan.

And then we'll have an implementation strategy that'll talk about who does it, how much does it cost, what's the time frame, and those sorts of things to help, and the KPIs I mentioned earlier to help uh to help achieve these things over time.

So this is our vision statement.

Uh we we developed this partially from actually from the previous focus Kansas City plan, which is our our current and our old, if you will, comprehensive plan from 1997.

Uh we blended that with public engagement over the last two and a half years.

We worked with our empowerment committee uh to help refine it as well.

So this is supported by a series of statements as well, but that they give a lot more specificity about what we want our city to be like in 20 years.

And that's supported by these 10 citywide goals.

These are the 10 things that through our empowerment committee through our public engagement that the community decided were the most important things to achieve over the next uh two decades or so.

And those include sustainable and equitable growth, a well-designed city, strong and accessible neighborhoods, a healthy environment, diversity and opportunity, and again, these are abbreviations, if you will, for much much uh longer statements with a lot more detail.

Uh creating an environment for our young people, creating a connected city, uh building our parks and open space systems, uh preserving our history, arts, and culture, and developing a smart city.

So those are our the 10 goals that will kind of serve as an organizing framework for the plan as we write it.

So then these objectives, these are these are the 25 things listed here that we'll have specific recommendations for.

And you can see I won't read them off here, but there's a range, a wide range of issues at the comprehensive plan.