Good evening.

It is six oh one and we will go ahead and um begin our workshop.

Um so I'm calling this to order, but I'm not getting any.

And um it's I know, but we're going to so maybe we'll get order when we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Doug Lloyd.

Councilman Lloyd.

Five members present, Vice Mayor.

Uh late after uh an event that ends at six, and so she should be here in a little while.

Um, as you recall, when we did our priorities of what kind of workshops and things we wanted to talk about and learn about when it was about the city owned properties, what were the thoughts that the city was thinking about with those properties, which will lead to some discussion about redevelopment and how we do redevelopment plan with these kind of projects.

I'm thinking that we have several projects to share with you about 12.

And I think if we talk about each project, and then if there's questions about that project, we have those, and then we move to the next.

We'll kind of cue you in.

That's fine.

But then at the end, if we want to talk back to anything, is that does that sound like that?

That's fine.

I just think if you're in the middle of talking about something we're very interested in you.

Some lights are going to come on.

So I just was well, so maybe maybe at the end of each project.

If we see your light come on, we won't stop, but we'll wait till the end of the content about that slide, and then we'll say your lights on again.

Well, someone cut or do you have a say?

So what I think, you know, the way we do this is they'll turn on their lights, and then when I think there's a a pause, or when you're kind of get to that end, then we know the order in which they've turned on their lights, and it helps me sure call better.

So all right.

Well, we're happy to be flexible along the way.

Oh, well, Councilman Lloyd can't ask any questions tonight because he said his light is not working.

Well, there's always the good old hand raised.

Yes, yes.

We'll make it work.

Yes, we will.

Yes.

Okay.

All right.

Well, great.

So well, thank you for inviting us back.

Uh as some of you joined us, were able to join us at our last workshop that we were presenting in when was that, May?

Where we talked about uh public-private partnership and discussed what are the redevelopment and public finance tools, and we provided an overview of why those are important, how incentives really catalyze development, what tools are available, where we focus those incentives.

We shared our mapping tool and all of our resources and process with you all.

So we're hopeful that this is sequential and that it follows and to remind you have a reminder of that process as we go through each of these projects.

Although each project is very specific in its context and kind of has its own life, and they're all unique, and that I think that thread will really resonate throughout.

But we'd like to share with you how development happens in so many ways in our community, as you all have seen over just our the history.

And we have these flexible but very strategic tools that we outlined with you last time, and how we align those tools with community engagement and with design and master planning to create truly quality projects that are reflective of Knoxville, and that importantly leverage the private development community.

So all of that to be said, here we are in our beautiful city.

Um this map we've just created really to help us tell the story today of where opportunity sites are and how public investment is really setting this stage for opportunity for partnership.

And I'll let Ben dive into a little bit more about how this map reads.

Yeah, so uh any good city has a a context for number one, why are we making certain public investments, particularly on this map connectivity is highlighted.

And then also what private development opportunities flow from that.

So this is a map that we're gonna in the future.

We just kind of created a final draft, but we're gonna start sharing with folks.

It's the story of connectivity, walkability, bikeability in Knoxville.

So the bright orange lines represent the solid orange lines represent existing major greenway connections.

The dotted orange lines represent something that is in planning and has not been completed yet, but will be.

So sort of telling that story, how can someone in a you know not that long into the future go have a meal on the Southwaterfront at the you know new Pedbridge site, walk across to the kneeling greenway, go through an improved Maplehurst area, um, onto World's Fair Park in McClung.

That's a silly way to put it, but you know, it's it's practical to people and how they will live.

The light orange sites on this map really are highlighting private development opportunities.

Some of these are city-owned properties, so area around Pedbridge, Hill Avenue, the old KPD site that we'll talk about in a minute, McClung, but some of these are strategically important sites that I know council has you know asked about for an update on.

So, like standard knitting mill is a really good example of that one.

But really, honing in on how do we continue to make public investments along with the private development community that benefit both parties and the public generally.

Yeah.

So I want to point out too, we're gonna link this map on our website and eventually digitize it in our KGIS tools.

So it's truly meant to be a living map.

So these lines will change as we make progress.

The parcels will change as we have different opportunities arise from that public investment in connectivity.