This is for July 2nd, 2025.

We have a few items to discuss tonight.

We'll have the land use code update as a part of a series of updates.

Then the 2025 private activity bonds allocation discussion, followed by the Rocky Mounting Metropolitan Airport Noise Impact Discussion, and then conclude with any new ideas that council would like to bring forward at a later meeting.

So just want to welcome everybody.

Thank you for being with us this evening.

Good evening, Phil Feisler, City's Planning Building Department.

We're excited to have this conversation with council this evening.

So we have our partners who are helping us on this project.

Elizabeth with Claire and Associates.

And so we presented module one to council in February, module two in May, and now we're going to present module three.

Just a fair warning, module three has more words and there's a bit more detail because it's just like the nuances with the process.

And so just gonna mention that up front.

After that, we'd like to dive into our plan for public engagement this fall, as well as some of the preliminary strategies that we'd like to strategies, um, topics that we'd like to bring out to the community for their feedback, uh, and then we'll talk through some of the affordable housing components that this project is seeking to um at least explore or address.

So with that, I can hand it over to the good evening, everyone.

Okay, so we'll pick up the um land use code part, that's me, affordable housing part, that's Molly.

We will be separate for a while, but we always end up running into each other somewhere along the way.

Um so just remind everybody, and dude, you are not selling it when you tell people it has more words to do that.

Um, what do we have to do?

We're implementing the comprehensive plan.

Um, so you're taking the policies in legacy lafayette and turning them into regulations.

Um, we are working to make the land use code more user-friendly, and actually um, this is a section, this module is a place where we're working on doing that, where we're taking people from uh lots of dense text, moving them to less dense text and more summaries and more information about how to use the regulations.

Um we're working to create more predictable development outcomes as across the regulations, um, and then um we're looking at what we say, right-sizing the development review process, and we're gonna dig into that just a little bit this evening, so and we'll wait for the slides to get to that.

Um, so here we are drafting.

Um, so we're in the the last big chunk of drafting the third module.

Um, when we um have comments on this um and edits, we'll pull the whole thing together and we'll have a full draft code.

Um and this is what we're going to start talking with the community about.

So until now, um, we've been working with a really great and sometimes feisty working group.

Um we appreciate their input along the way.

Um, and we are going to keep talking to them, but we're going to broaden out this conversation.

Um, so you can see um we're we're finishing up drafting, kind of got that August deadline in there, and then we have a long period of time where we're talking to the public and we're getting feedback, and we have a couple slides on this later in the presentation, so we'll come back to it.

So the overview of module three.

What are we looking to do here?

So we want to streamline approvals.

Um that means matching the review level.

So is it review by staff?

Is it review by planning commission or is it review by city council with the project type?

Um, and reserving public hearings for complex cases.

Um, we are looking at focusing public input, and one of the things that um we see in code after code, update after update, is we've all set up our processes so we get critical public input at the very last minute.

Um, and that's fine, but there's an and we could look at getting that input earlier in the project and allowing the applicant the opportunity to think about it and work with it rather than kind of dealing with it as a problem at the end of the process.

Then finally, we have some adjustments that we've made to the regulations that add flexibility.

We can write a great code, and but we just simply can't anticipate every project that's going to come through to the city.

So we put flexibility in the procedures, and that supports practical solutions.

Okay, so our organization in this module.

So first section is general provisions, that's kind of our boilerplate.

Uh, first uh first chapter of the code that absolutely nobody reads except city attorney's office, um, but we like them, so we give them words too.

Um, the rest of it, further down in the regulations is administration and procedures.

So we do a summary of the review and decision-making bodies, what does the zoning board of adjustment do?

What does city council do?

What is planning director do?

Um, we've created a summary table of review procedures.

We'll look at that in a minute.

Then we have a grouping of common review procedures, it's really high-level stuff like how do you do a neighborhood meeting, how does staff review an application?

So these are things that happen time and again, and we want to just write them down once and put them in one location.

Um, then we have the specific review procedures.

So if I want to come in for a variance or a rezoning, what steps am I going through to do that?

Um, and then we have the regulations related to non-conformities.

So we'll talk about that in detail in a little bit.

Okay, so we're about to look at the summary table of review procedures.

So this is where we take a lot of text information and we summarize it for staff and for applicants to try to help people navigate this part of the code.