I will call the Powell City Council meeting of March 17th to order.

Happy St.

Patrick's Day all.

Elaine, would you please call the role?

Carlson?

Here.

Tyler Harmony.

I've got a car here, David Wester.

Kurt Ramsey.

Here.

Please stand for pledge of emergence.

Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands under God individual with liberty and justice for all.

If there's any anyone that wants to speak on anything on the agenda tonight, audio.

Seeing none, I will close citizen participation.

The next item on our agenda is the Village Green Master Plan update with Posigi Solutions.

Alright, come on.

Hi, how's everyone doing tonight?

It's great to see you.

Is there a five chance?

Yes, Lane has it.

Thank you.

So it's been a while since our last update to council, so we wanted to come and just provide you an update on where we are with phase two so far.

So just as a quick reminder, phase two was focused on project visioning.

So we took resident and focus group feedback and started to really compile this information into something that was complementary to the size and scale of the site, the market analysis that we took from phase one, and then also any of the uh infrastructure assessments that we had completed.

So we're working with our team to create some concept plans to help visualize these options and better understand some um proximity and configuration on the actual site itself with these concepts.

Um these plans are going to include findings from the traffic, utility, and the market assessment.

So making sure that these are all encompassing of the information that we took from phase one.

Some specifics, this was a 12-month engagement.

We should be wrapping up in September or October of this year.

It's focused on land planning and infrastructure assessment along with uh really the infrastructure modeling, along with a focus on community engagement as always to discuss some specific community engagement that we've done so far.

Um in October, we had a public workshop where we requested uh participant feedback.

We broke uh participants up into small groups and requested that they go to whatever table or topic that concerned them the most.

So we had um topics like parking, traffic, um development, and green space that and we allowed the public to share their concerns and provide we provided some potential solutions that our team had been considering throughout the process and allowed them to give us feedback on what their thoughts were with this.

So uh really trying to get a full well-rounded idea and letting them kind of begin to see some of the solutions that we're working through so that they know we're not just including six-story high rises.

We're still planning on including some green space, but really trying to get them to warm up some to some of the potential solutions that we might consider.

Um we also hosted a staff focus group session where we started going through some of these visualization efforts with the team and requested their subject matter expertise in all of these.

So uh working with um public utilities, we worked with the police, we worked with Parks and Rec to request their feedback and continuing to take that information into planning through these concepts.

We have a series of open house sessions that are planned for April into May.

And so with this, we heard from city staff that there was concern about participation in in-person events, and so to kind of combat this, we are planning on doing three different workshop sessions uh through various times of the day.

So we'll do something in the morning, something in the afternoon, something in the evening, and these will be in various locations throughout the city to try to really maximize participation with the public.

Um, and you know, once we have these, we'll reevaluate if there is a need for any online engagement as well.

But we're starting off with this.

And with these sessions, we're starting to show some concept plans and very um just brief information on where we are today.

So the goal is to show two options that our team has been working on really diligently with city staff in the hopes of creating a final plan, taking this information and feedback that we receive during these sessions to something that's more final that we can present and work through with the city.

As far as next steps, we're working through the open house sessions.

We will have the specific dates soon.

We are working through internally with our team, but then also with the various locations on when these will be held.

So once we have some more information on these, we should be finalized within the next week or two.

We'll have uh flyers and advertisements online for um people to check out and schedule in their calendar.

Uh so we will have these coming up soon, but really the and for the rest of the engagement, at least for right now, we're focused on refining these various plans, making sure that um the utility information is included, traffic modeling is updated, we'll be focusing on finalizing the ingress and egress points onto the site, um, and really working on collaboration with the surrounding property owners in particular as well.

So here to just really provide you an update on where we are so far, but I'm happy to answer any questions.

I know it's been a while since we've talked to everybody, so I'm happy to so I had attended the October open house, and uh the attendance was light and uh may I say that some of the they were certain people that sort of came with an agenda, you know.

Um that's probably true of a lot of that, but it just seemed like I I was concerned because it was so light, and then you know, that maybe it wouldn't be representative.

That isn't really my question, that was more of a comment.

My question to you is based on your experience does it take plans, visual pictures for people to get engaged, or you know, how do you feel about the amount of engagement that we've had in this particular situation compared to what you've seen elsewhere?

I think with uh where we are right now in some of the next steps, I think that people will become really engaged once they know that they're going to be seeing something visual that they can kind of picture themselves in.

Um up until now, it's really been requesting feedback, and they're at this point now, they're getting something or getting an opportunity to react to something.

So we think that that will increase the interest um and increase participation.

But like I mentioned, if we find that these are not well attended sessions, we still have time within phase two to really pivot to receive more feedback.

Obviously, what staff needs to present to you is something that has been vetted and worked on with the public.