Welcome everybody to our uh September 28th, 2026 City Council study session.

We have three topics on our agenda tonight or this afternoon.

Housing access update with Taryn Eadens and Irene Woodward.

We have uh from plans to practical choice mode shift and transportation demand management overview with Matt Lynch, and then we'll wrap it up with a storm stormwater water quality treatment credit transfer policy update with Mr.

Aaron Luxteen.

So with that, we'll turn it over to Irene and Taran.

Good afternoon, folks.

I'll just get started here this afternoon.

Thanks for your time and providing a large overview on housing access, and you'll see that very much aligned to the council adopted action plan and strategic plan and priorities.

I do have a lot of content before you this afternoon, about 45 minutes.

So I ask if at all possible, I'll have some transition slides to hold your question until that time.

However, we will be discussing some policy options, so please that's a great time to hear your feedback and questions as well.

Um, thanks to the many staff who helped bring this presentation to you.

With that, we'll get started.

So as a reminder, this very much uh connects and is related to the city council adopted uh vision principles and priorities with housing access being a specific strategic priority.

Uh so with that, we want to ensure that all of the policy options you'll be considering align with the council adopted uh priority.

This is sort of a plan of what we'll be discussed.

I will be providing an overview of housing context, which will uh then transition to an overview of our housing needs assessment for our community, provide you an overview of data, particularly it relates to the two action plan items uh before you around rental and short-term rental housing,

as

well as accessory dwelling units.

And at the end, I will share some additional future action plan items related to housing access that should get back, should come back to city council.

So specifically within the action plan, housing access is its own priority as mentioned, and you do have four goals listed there.

They include promotion, promoting construction of owner-occupied homes, ensuring vital neighborhoods that support infill adaptive reuse and accessible housing, supporting county and nonprofit efforts to effectively provide resources to persons experiencing housing instability, and optimize city services and assets to support housing access.

Uh long-term plan alignment once again, kind of setting the the space and reminding you how all of this uh discussion and context relates to long-term plans adopted by this council and councils before you.

The table to the right is an analysis.

We showed you this last year when we did our comprehensive plan update, but it shows you that essentially we have sufficient vacant land both inside and around city limits to meet some of that housing growth need.

Lastly, the table on the bottom left does indicate comprehensive plan distribution goals and where housing should be developed.

You'll see that we're under target within areas closer to our core and above target in urban expansion.

I'll make the case that growth still follows our growth management plan.

We'll touch on that briefly with the increased pressure to meet some of our housing needs.

An example of perhaps why we're over in this distribution goal of urban growth is our urban edge growth.

When you think about the national builders that have come to our town have pushed some of that edge growth forward just as well, some of our own uh contributions to try to spur housing growth at scale through the homeownership creation program also has led to this.

Ms.

Eidens, uh council

member uh downtown neighborhoods, I think I'm gonna understand that well enough.

Existing urban areas mean within the city boundaries, and then urban expansion means the uh uh urban the outside the city boundaries right now uh up to 2050 or 2060?

I believe we looked at the urban service area for that category.

Okay.

So outside city limits, places we can service.

Okay, so I'm trying to existing urban areas.

We're saying there's not enough empty lots or to be able to

no,

that's not what we're saying.

We're we're saying that we have distribution goals of where housing should go, and as far as where the housing has been produced, we're not meeting that percentage as much, but it's not to say that there isn't available land.

Does that make sense?

Okay, so we we're it's not end up happening.

Do you and there's no like assessment that says that is because those are the lots that were skipped because they're harder to build on, or there's no there's no judgment in this?

No judgment, really just looking at where has development occurred the past 20 years or recently essentially since the adoption of the comprehensive plan, where has a development been located, and that's the geographic makeup that you see here.

Does that make sense?

It does.

Help me with one scenario then.

Then, if something were annexed within the last 15 years and then built, would that be built in existing urban area, or would that be considered urban expansion?

Urban expansion.

Okay, thank you.

Councilmember Miller.

My question was going to be about annexation as well.

Would it imply that urban expansion followed an annexation?

Say that one more time.

Would the category urban expansion have required an annexation for it to be in that category?

Okay.