Our break was slightly slightly uh less than than I thought it would be, but let's go ahead and get started because I guess it's dark out, so there's not much we can do outside, but we I'm sure we've got better things at home.

Um I'll I'll go ahead at 720 and call the housing plan and development committee to order.

Uh the first agenda item is the uh review and approval of the September 8th 2025 housing plan development committee meeting minutes.

Um I will go ahead and move to approve those.

Is there a second?

Second.

Um any discussion?

No, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Uh then it's passed.

Uh and now we'll move on to uh docket item, the next one, which is uh communication from assistant planning director boss regarding the zoning refresh uh project.

Uh and I believe there's a presentation that I am excited to see for a second time, uh but some of my colleagues will see for the first time.

So thank you.

All right, Mr.

Chair, I appreciate the time.

Um this obviously we could do we could spend two, three hours on this, uh, which I don't really have the time.

I'm sure uh my colleagues here would not like that, but uh I'm gonna try to move through this quickly so that we can just get to questions and discussion on things, and I'll try to answer it to the best of my ability.

Um so this is a lot.

This is kind of what we this step of the process, and I'll forward it to that kind of the overview here of where we are in this seven-step project.

We are dead center.

Um the district and use standards.

There's a lot of meat and a lot of detail in these, and I will tell you that we're probably about 50 percent done in terms of the drafts.

They're very draft, and we're still figuring out a lot of things in here, and I think that was pretty evident on the the last zoning policy advisory committee that we had in August.

Um I got uh a couple responses from the ZPAC members that provided kind of additional questions, additional comments.

We've sent those back to House L Levine.

I'm and then based on this communication, I'm anticipating comments, questions uh potentially from any of the council members that care to submit those, and we'll integrate those as well as we work through some issues and and kind of the the pertinent uh topics with each of these.

I will highlight kind of the three things that I'll move through uh their slides.

These are how sell Levine slides that we use for the ZPAC meeting back in August.

Um the three kind of three main things that we're still kind of wrestling with at a at a macro level is the the multi-dwelling districts and how you handle kind of what density where in the city.

Um was kind of one of the objectives of the process was to try to find kind of room to squeeze more density, and I hesitate to say more density in Lakewood, but it's really kind of the hundred year character of Lakewood of how to reflect the existing fabric of the community in our zoning code, which in that the 90s 96 and subsequent revisions kind of went towards that time, what was kind of the general direction that time frame, which was very heavy single family zoning, and try to bring it back our zoning code back to reflect kind of that hundred-year-old fabric of the community.

Um and we'll talk a little bit about that in terms of the multi-dwelling uh structures and districts.

Um the second piece is the municipal district.

Um it's a new district, uh really kind of born of the C4 schools district that's in our zoning code, but trying to reflect schools, parks, potentially libraries, some of those other municipal-based structures and uses that you could treat as its own district.

Um and then the last one uh that we're currently wrestling with is the plan development process and try to see if there is uh some efficiency that can be squeezed out of that in terms of potentially delineating between major and minor projects.

How do you treat it as an overlay or as a total rezoning?

Um are there some efficiencies that we can get for the plan development process out of that.

And so I will.

So this just does a couple of slides that kind of provide a summary of a lot of the districts.

You can see on this one on the left is kind of our current districts.

On the right is our proposed districts right now.

Um as it was back in August.

We went through this.

As we've gone through this the RS1, it's really the single dwelling residential one, two, and three that reflect the old low, medium, and high density districts.

The lagoon is the lagoon.

RM1 is kind of the would be the first stage of this mixed or multi-dwelling level that it really is pulled from the R2, but looking to insert some additional density in there.

And then the I'll talk about the RM2 district here in a little bit because we're moving in a different direction, at least after the ZPAC meeting.

Talking about bigger apartment buildings, trying to blend that into one because there really isn't a whole lot of difference in our current code between medium and high density multifamily dwellings, and it does not reflect the actual kind of fabric and the structures that are out there in those districts.

The overlays, I will say these are a work in progress.

One is the adaptive reuse overlay, which is specifically obviously targeted towards reusing structures and allowing a little bit more flexibility to incentivize reusing structures rather than a demo and new construction.

And then looking at potentially having that minor PD designation or delineation there into an overlay visa total rezoning, which could offer some efficiencies in the process for those smaller projects.

That the majority of those mixed-use overlay applications have all been for projects that just wanted ground floor residential, which our code doesn't allow for ground floor residential in the commercial districts, which is where most of these happen.

And so we've we've worked to try to replace that with either updated use regulations and actually having a use that is ground floor residential in a commercial district or a minor PD process or an adaptive reuse overlay.

So that's why these things are kind of getting flushed out, but we are still working in that direction.

The zoning map, um, and I will note the zoning map has a couple issues, just if you don't get hung up on the colors and stuff, they're still working through that.

Um, like I know I understand the main branch of the library is not a PD.

Um that was pointed out by almost every ZPAC member in their notes.

But some of the simple changes that we've made have called out the top.

Um we're proposing like the existing C1 zone that's on Madison West that was put there at some point in time and has been uh a I will say a hurdle uh for a lot of business, just typical retail business zoning.

We're proposing for that to be uh redesignated just and to join the rest of the C2 district on Madison.

Um we had a question do we need to change the name of the central business district towards something more contemporary?