Without further ado, given the time, we're going to roll right into the March 30th 2026 meeting of the Housing Planning and Development Committee.

First order of business is approval of the minutes of the March 9th, 2026 meeting of the housing planning and bellotomy.

I'll make a motion to approve.

All is in favor.

Aye.

Motion carries.

First order of business and uh order of business today.

Um communication from Assistant Planning Director Boss regarding the zoning refresh standard update uh development standards.

So whenever whenever you're ready, assistant director, boss can hit it.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I was just pulling it up.

So let me shift here.

All right, Mr.

Chair, members of the council.

So this is a uh these are the slides from our uh zoning policy advisory committee meeting number four uh that we held that was held back in January, mid-January.

Um so um as you all aware, just uh in terms of a quick recap.

So as we've been working through the zoning refresh effort, uh, which is supported by House El Lavine as the primary consultant uh on that.

It is it is a long-term project.

I think everyone recognizes that.

We have been working on it for a long time.

Um, but we are working towards uh finishing it up by the end of this year.

That was that was kind of the general intention.

Going into this, we knew that it was an 18-plus month um project.

Um it's it's an awful lot of work.

So this is the uh this is the fourth meeting of this committee that includes both uh council members uh Baker and Keppel uh as kind of our two primary council advisors.

There's two members of the planning commission, and then there's uh kind of a uh a variety of stakeholders across resident, developer, real estate, chamber of commerce, like you kind of we get a smattering of a lot of different folks from different walks of life that are generally familiar with zoning, design review, the different kind of functions that zoning drives.

Um so because it is so process heavy in terms of the advisory committee.

Um there has been, it's it's been a while, but there has been community engagement involvement up front to kind of identify the issues and the recommendations that we move forward on.

Um so, but now uh for this, we are we are well in the the weeds and and and doing the work of of actually revising of drafting and revising the new chapters of code.

Um so this one uh this meeting and these four chapters uh that I'll advance here so you can see.

Um so it's chapter four, five, and six, and seven.

So these are your basically what the architectural border review, as well as the planning commission a little bit kind of delve into uh that's fun.

The uh the your development standards.

Not something that I will say right now is a strong point of our current code.

Um the pieces of this are very smattered across a million different places and have been developed over the last 15 to 20 years through different uh commercial design guidelines, uh front porch guidelines, uh, a portion of our local building code in 132508 that talks about parking lot design, and then like the individual lines of code that are in supplemental regulations, district regulations, and everything that talk about parking, um, screening, landscaping, like all these things, sign standards, another section under local building code.

Um, pulling these all into the zoning chapter and putting and and and organizing them in a in a much more user-friendly, um, and I when I say user-friendly, it's not only businesses and developers, but also our own department of knowing where to find everything, and it's it's it's logically organized.

Um this is probably one of the hardest efforts in the in this um in this larger effort of this refresh effort.

You know, looking at use requirements and commercial districts and stuff like that, like we have that chapter now, it's just revising that chapter, and and but this was pulling a million puzzle pieces from different rooms of your house and trying to put it into some form.

And then those puzzle pieces often are the most difficult to nail down.

When you're talking about uh building design and design guidelines, it's hard to get 12 people to agree on the right approach and you know what is because largely this drives what will basically be allowed by right in terms of building development and design versus what has to go to a board for review.

That's that is one of the overarching kind of intentions of this effort is clarifying and streamlining design development review processes that right now pretty much everything uh if you read the code uh on face value would have to go to architectural border review to go through.

It is a frustrating point for lots of residents, architects, and everything that everything from a garage to the downtown development goes through the same process, um, and yet there are just not very objective standards in terms of what they're asked to meet versus you know the subjective review of five architects that are like, I don't like that, I like that.

And then you go to the next guy, and he's got three other things that he doesn't like or likes.

And so it's very hard.

We did work over the last two years to come up with new residential design guidelines.

So there has been some work recently that's that's really informed a lot of these things, and we'll continue to inform this process.

Um I'm gonna try to, in interest of time, I'm gonna try to step through these things pretty quickly, kind of highlight the main points of each of them, just and then we can so we can get to some questions.

This is where we are, seven uh in terms of the broader refresh effort, step uh five.

Um, and so or this is where we were with the ZPAC.

Now we're I'm talking to you about five.

We're we are working right now concurrently step six, and we'll hopefully come back and see you on that, like in the June time frame.

Um, and then we will very quickly in July before the the projected recess of council, we will provide you an introduction into seven and then work on seven once you come back in kind of September, October, November, and hopefully get through.

Because that is going to be the review of all those other chapters.

We're gonna the intention is to do that if we can concurly with committee of the whole and planning commission at the same time.

So that everybody's kind of in the same room working through the same stuff.

Um general development standards on this, this is this is kind of the the junk drawer um, if you will, of development stuff.

So right now we have like a section and a chapter on fences.

We have a chapter on landscaping and screening.

So this kind of brings it all into one chapter of all of those kind of miscellaneous and broad development things.