Good evening.

Today is uh Tuesday, October 7th, 6 30 p.m.

And this is the uh development committee meeting of the Powell City Council.

Would you please call the rule?

Present.

Carlson here, Ross Irvine is absent.

David Lester?

Yep.

And Sean Simpson is absent.

Thank you.

Please rise and join me in the Committee of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the United States of America.

One nation and justice for all the questions.

Thank you very much, everyone, and welcome.

And uh I guess without Sean and Ross, it's what do we call this?

So is it three amigos, three studios, three the three remaining okay?

And the first item on the agenda is the approval of minutes from the last meeting, which was held on August 5th of 2025.

We have uh seen the minutes.

May I have a motion to adopt the minutes to adopt second?

Any questions, comments?

Hearing none, all the infirmity.

All right, today's business, and uh we are going to get an update from the historic property survey, and I believe that's gonna be Mr.

Taylor, right?

I'll start that it really is going to be more Mr.

Stan's uh chair of the work actually was done in the planning department.

As you recall, this this discussion really started a couple years ago and really uh wanting to take a look at um what we're historic district and what does that mean?

Um Logan has taken it to the next step.

Um he's hired a hired a consultant to take a look at surveying downtown, and he and his team have put together, I think a really good presentation for you to understand what the findings were and then potentially moving forward what that means for the city.

So with that, over to Logan.

Um that I just wanted to address also in terms of timeliness.

Um City Council's endorsed a lot of activities, a lot of plans this last year.

We're in the middle of a lot of them.

What we're gonna talk about tonight has an importance of effectiveness and timeliness.

So I just wanted to be mindful of that.

Um Logan's laid it out in such a way that we can begin to endorse actions now that would take effect in the early part of the new year and line up really well for what we anticipate for the adoption of the full code rewrite, and really give ourselves and the council by extension uh some teeth in the formality of uh the historic district.

So just wanted to thank you for that.

Thank you.

No, thank you all for the introduction because a lot of this, a lot of this discussion and what I'm gonna cover tonight kind of relates to other ongoing efforts that we have the zoning code rewrite, the new permitting software.

There's a lot of alignment of just kind of whole-scale reviewing our development process, finding ways to improve upon it, uh providing the background and the information necessary to ensure that for the next 20 years we can really ensure the type of growth and revitalization that Powell wants to see.

Um, and so within this, I'll be focusing a little bit on some of the results of the historic survey.

Uh but what I think is important is to discuss how that relates to the downtown district as a whole, and then how that's going to relate to the zoning code, the regulations, policies, and then the design guidelines that we're going to be updating to reflect a lot of that.

So this survey was an important piece of the conversation to really determine which areas are in the downtown district are historic, what is the significance of those areas, you know, how can we support and establish the proper regulations to preserve those and then tailor the guidelines and other regulations to support and complement that character that uh the community wants to see, retained in downtown and improved upon in the future.

So I think an important part of this is not just to talk about the historic survey, but to also talk about how the downtown district has evolved over time.

And so one of the first things that I want to go into is just a little bit of background of the downtown boundary and kind of how we got here today.

And not unexpectedly, as PAL grew as a community, kind of the the understanding of what is the downtown district has also evolved over time.

And there's really two different ways that you can look at this.

There's the policy side, which are what are city plans, studies, efforts that have defined the boundary in a certain way.

And then there's also the public perception.

So every resident, every community member, they may look at downtown and they may see certain parts as being part of the downtown, other parts are not.

So that all of that is important information for us to understand and really make sure that we're going to reflect the downtown district in the way that the community wants to see it.

And there's a couple important considerations for why we need to define not just the overall boundary, but any local historic district that would be in there.

You have the unique zoning requirements and the guidelines that are going to align with the type of preservation and development that you would see there.

But you also have within the downtown district itself unique streetscape features.

So paver sidewalks, street lighting, elements like that that have to hit a point where they would transition to what you see in the rest of the community, but that really help define what the downtown looks like.

And then you also have that the city offers community grants within the downtown district, commercial facade grants, residential renovation that again align with that you know 30-plus year vision of revitalizing the downtown and really maintaining that as the heart of the community.

So that's one of the reasons why we wanted to go through this historic survey, properly define that, ensure that we can roll that up, and then we can have some of these larger discussions on how we can tailor this to really define what the next five, ten, twenty years look like for the community.

So when I go into this, I want to start by providing the policy direction.

And there's a number of documents that have been prepared, issued by the city that have defined the boundary in different ways.

So you had an initial area outlined that was the downtown boundary before some of what we understand it today.

So this was when POW was a relatively small community as a village.