I'll call this meeting to order of the planning commission.

We'll start with a roll call.

Margaret Bunyall here.

Aaron Jacobson.

Here.

Gina Medea.

Here.

Julia Nolan.

Scott Ricer.

Angela Rosman.

Here.

Rodney Rutherford.

Here.

All right.

Thank you.

And I believe now is the time in our meeting for uh comments from the audience.

Uh if you would like to give comments, uh, either approach the podium or raise your hand on Zoom to indicate that you'd like to give comments.

We'll have one more time to give comments at the end of the meeting, but this is the first one.

Would anyone like to give public comment?

Nope.

All right.

Next, we have no special presentations, and we have a study session on the Totem Lake Southern Industrial Sub-area Plan Phase One visioning process.

All right, thank you, Chair Jacobson.

Um, I'm gonna ask our admin team to help me share the screen here.

Um we're bringing this item um back to planning commission tonight for a continued discussion that was started at your last meeting.

At the last meeting, um, we had the group from Blocks Hub here to talk um more about the visioning process.

Um, but at that meeting, I think based on a lot of the planning commissioners' questions and then follow-up conversations that staff has had with the chair and the vice chair.

Um, what we're trying to do tonight is bring you a little bit more background information about how we got here and what are some options and requirements moving forward.

So tonight I'm gonna do a high-level review of some of the background of what's been studied in this area so far, especially in the context of the comprehensive plan, and then what the currently adopt adopted policies and the comprehensive plan would kind of have us doing next.

Um, and then we'll also put that in context with the adopted planning work program.

Um, so we're gonna tag team it here tonight.

Um, I'm gonna ask Martha and Adam to weigh in or jump in where I've maybe missed something, and um hopefully we can answer a lot of planning commission questions that come up as we go through it.

So I'll jump in um and wanted to really start with the evolution of how we got from the community initiated amendment request for the Parmac parcels to the um concept of a sub-area plan for the whole southern industrial sub-area.

So um as I mentioned, doing a sub-area plan for the southern industrial sub-area or the cis as we've been calling it, and yes, we do need a better name.

Um that is an adopted task on the 2026-2028 planning work program.

Um, because of budget constraints, we did on this adopted work program split the work up into two phases, one taking place this year for the visioning work that you heard about at your last meeting, and then another task um to be started in 2027 for a sub-area plan.

It all started back in 2022 when we received a community initiated amendment request for five parcels in the sub area um known as the Parmac um property.

So there's one property owner that owns all five of those parcels.

They're highlighted on the screen or outlined.

Um, this was submitted in 2022, and all of the community initiated amendment requests that we received in 2022, we decided we're gonna be studied in context with the comprehensive plan update because that is the time that we also started working on that that full periodic update of the comp plan.

During our review of this community initiated amendment request, it's always a two-phase review.

We bring it to planning commission for a recommendation of should this move forward?

Is there enough here to justify further study?

We call that phase one of the car review.

Um then council makes the decision on whether or not to move it on to phase two upon planning commission's recommendation.

Planning commission did recommend to move forward the study of this car, but also recommended that we expand the study area from just the five Parmac parcels to the full southern industrial sub area, and council accepted that recommendation from the planning commission and staff was directed to continue study but of the full sub-area.

The outcome of that was that we didn't end up making a final decision on rezoning uh the sub area, anything in the sub-area yet, but the comp plan did include a policy that directs a sub-area plan, and the policy is pretty specific about that plan needing to proceed rezones.

So that's a little bit more detail about how we got to where we are.

Um this is just another couple other different maps of the sub area and the Parmac request.

Um, the specific Parmac request, I just thought it might be helpful to remind you.

Um, what we got was kind of a very, very rough draft development proposal.

Um, the request was this is what we want to do.

We want to construct six mixed-use buildings to accommodate approximately 1,200 residential units and 30,000 square feet of amenity and commercial space.

So we want the zoning that would do that.

The request did make specific um asks for height in the area, and um the request for height was to um increase the height allowance for to up to what 150 feet for certain portions of the Parmac property, and then to sort of transition down to 75 feet as you approach the lower density residential zoning to the west.

So that was the request as it originally came in.

We thought it might be helpful to review what the southern industrial sub-area, the CIS allows in terms of housing today under existing zoning.

So there's a few different zones that are included within the southern industrial subarea, the totem like 10 C, 10D, and 10E zones.

The map um SNP that you see on the right hand side is from our capacity analysis, and um, there's a few different colors that I can explain.

Um, so the and sorry that their colors, so I hope that if you can't see colors well, that I can describe it a little bit.