Okay, great.

Thanks.

Okay, we're live.

So catch you, Alan.

Here.

Scott Reiser.

Angela Rosman here.

Ronnie Retroford.

Here.

Sandeep single?

Here.

John Tim Chizen.

Here.

Thanks.

All right.

So tonight we've got the next part of the study session for stationary phase two.

I don't see anyone in the audience.

I can't actually see participants as far as if somebody in the audience virtually wants to speak.

This would be the time for comments from the audience.

Allie, I can't actually see that.

There's no one raising their hand.

Okay, great.

With that, then let's uh kick it off with the study session.

All right.

Thank you, Chair Rosman, and good evening, uh, commissioners.

Tonight we're gonna be talking about the station area plan.

This is our third study session on phase two of the station area plan.

And uh with us again, we have Sandra and Brad from Mathune.

Uh Scott's here with us tonight, and Adam will be joining us shortly.

He's uh talking to the parks funding exploratory committee right now about growth.

So he'll be coming in shortly.

Uh we can go ahead and go to the next slide.

So tonight we wanted to sort of forego the review that we've done the last couple of times we've been together and jump right into the substance of it.

We're gonna be focusing on the same uh topics that we laid out in your staff memo.

So focusing on those, I think eight or ten, eight to ten topics, um, so we can dig into those and hopefully uh reach uh some resolution so that we can compile a final draft for you to take to public hearing.

So we've organized those around kind of general topic areas, and then we're going to go through a little bit, uh, probably pause for some planning commission discussion and then move on to the next um grouping.

So that's how we'll be walking through the evening tonight.

We can go ahead and go to that next slide.

And then if we can also note that Vice Chair Ricer is now present.

Yeah, thank you.

So this is the only piece of review that we're we're walking through.

Um so just again to remind the commission and members of the public that might be joining that several pieces of the station area have already been adopted with phase one that included the final station area plan document with vision and goals, a comprehensive plan chapter that included policies for the whole area, the form-based code and parcel rezones for phase one, that was the commercial mixed use district, design guidelines for the entire station area, um, and then also some items that were uh completed previously were the issuance of a final supplemental environmental impact statement at the end of 2021, and then also um a development agreement and planned action ordinance for the future Google campus at the Lee Johnson site.

So tonight we're focused on the form-based code for phase two.

And with that, I'm gonna hand it over to Brad to talk through the first group of topics tonight.

Great.

Thanks, Alison.

Um, good evening.

It's good to be with you all again.

So as Alison said, tonight we're gonna focus on really um responding to some of the feedback we've gathered over the last two study sessions um on some of the key topics that were in your staff memo.

Um so the first one um focuses on uh encouraging active street level uses, particularly in the neighborhood mixed use district.

Um so previously we heard from from planning commission the importance of ensuring that there were active street level uses um with low vacancy, um, that we limit street level lobby areas and other street level uses that don't encourage active pedestrian environments, um, and that we edit the draft active street level use requirements to clarify what is included as active and also clarify intent on some of the elements like blank walls.

And on the right, you can see some of the language that staff was exploring um with us about um these active street level use requirements, um, which was focused primarily on identifying this uh target percentage of street level facades and then qualifying what active uses should fall within that 80% of the street level facade.

Uh next slide.

And part of the logic of that, and the reason that we're making some of the recommendations tonight around some of these elements is in keeping with that goal to focus on form and the desired outcomes of development.

So as much as possible, we're trying to be prescriptive and clear about the form that we want to see and moving away from language that's abstract and less clear about what the intent is that often happens in a traditional Euclidean zoning code.

So with that context, if you go to the next slide, Sandra.

So we're talking currently about the areas that are highlighted in black on the map on the left.

These are the neighborhood mixed use districts.

This district's intended to support a variety of uses, including commercial and residential upper floor development, and then really focus on creating that active street use that we were just talking about a second ago.

You can see it covers a range of areas within the study area from the portions just east of the commercial mixed use that was in phase one to a few areas on the west side of I-405 as well, just south of Northeast 85th.