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All right, Chair Thomas.

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Vice Chair Phillips.

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Commissioner Wilson.

Commissioner Watson.

Yes.

Commissioner Hierjee.

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Commissioner Ortiz.

Commissioner.

Commissioner Mettler.

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Thank you.

All right.

Are there any items from the public?

Not on tonight's agenda.

It doesn't appear so.

We'll move on to meeting minutes from February 26th, 2025.

Approval of the meeting minutes for February 26th.

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Move to approve.

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All right.

We are moving and approved on minutes.

Moving on to um regularly scheduled items area planning framework.

I do want to give a heads up.

I've got to um excuse myself about 10 quarter till eight.

Um in case we run that long.

Um pick up someone from the airport, so I'll be stepping.

This this shouldn't take that long, is that we say that means I don't think so.

We have to listen to you too.

Um hopefully it'd be a little bit less of me talking.

Uh I would like to you know provide this opportunity.

We've been developing a staff a document that we included in the packet called an area planning framework.

And we were doing that kind of as we were talking about um implementing one of the comprehensive plan items around small area planning.

And so what we're hoping to do today is um just go over uh from a staff presentation some of the high points of that.

Um kind of uh what we know right now for that um first plan, and then just hear from you all if you want to have discussion and input around that as we're thinking about um drafting what's called a request for proposal that we would develop we would uh hire a consultant team for.

So this is kind of the the front end before we know a whole lot about that first effort.

Uh but before diving into that, we wanted to just kind of go into like what is the framework itself.

And so the comprehensive plan identifies a number of different areas that may benefit from some smaller scale focused planning.

Um and we developed the framework in an attempt to just aid decision making and help us as the city identify what are those areas, what's the process we might want to go through at a high level, what are the issues we want to look at it with each of those plans, uh and then identifying those those potential areas.

And so the hope with something like this is to just have a more consistent approach, and so we could focus on the work and not have to reinvent the process every time we do a plan, uh, and to try to have some sort of weighing so at least qualitatively we can um have an equitable and fair process in terms of the areas that we focus on throughout the years.

The uh what is an area plan?

So this is really a hyper local planning effort.

Uh it includes a lot of on-the-ground analysis and engagement with a lot of different parties, um, area residents, businesses, uh, and others.

Uh, and once adopted, it does drive a lot of decisions around zoning and development.

Um, we were looking at these at the framework and these plans is potentially having kind of what we're saying always topics.

So things that we always want to address, and so those would be things like public investments, so like gaps and opportunities in parks, uh, transportation connections, open space, uh, so on, uh, housing and employment, so um areas that might be suitable for uh additional housing, what types of housing and configuration that might that might occur, uh, as well as different ways to support our businesses and uh future businesses.

Uh these plans would generally include some more guidance, detailed guidance around urban design and zoning.

So a lot of plans you would um one of the early implementation aspects would be changing the zoning code to actually implement the contents of the plan.

Sometimes other plans would kind of wait on a project by project basis, so it really just depends on how those conversations go throughout the process.

With mobility and connections, it's really if you thought about this group looked at the multimodal transportation plan quite a bit, and so it's taking that but zooming in and having a much finer grain thing where you're looking at missing sidewalk links and different street connections and so on.

And then there'd be a fifth bucket that we could probably just say like TBD, so whatever happens throughout the process, um, we would um uh be open to exploring.

Uh so the framework includes different um plan types along with the scale scope and and planning horizon.