All right, everyone, welcome to this evening city council meeting.

It is our fourth workshop in our housing workshop series.

And our city attorney Lynn Pace has been moderating and will continue to uh moderate MC these meetings.

So I'll go ahead and turn it over to you.

That's it.

That's all the ceremony you want to work then.

Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you.

It is good to be with you this evening, and uh we appreciate you making the join us in these housing workshops we call, but tonight will be the most exciting.

Yeah, uh, it is certainly going to be the most interactive as we move this process style.

Um, just by way of introduction, as was mentioned, this is the fourth uh housing workshop.

Um and so I'm gonna turn some time over to Jake Warner, uh, who has sorry before we get there.

You may remember at the end of workshop number three.

We ended up with a sort of a draft vision statement.

So we took that draft vision statement from session three, went back and with mostly with Jake's help, okay.

99% of Jake's help.

Um, we compared that vision statement to the general plan that you adopt back to January.

Right?

And so Jake is gonna do it, take us through a presentation to show how the the elements of your vision statement dovetail with the plan, and then take us into our discussion for tonight.

So Jake and Penn will require.

And please stop him or us anywhere along the way if you have questions.

I'm gonna hide behind the quote in the uh thank you for the opportunity.

Uh, as Lynn said, um the workshops have been great.

Um, just to recap the first two workshops, we had speakers and presenters come in and explain the existing conditions, some of the needs and issues around housing in our communities.

Um workshop number three, you prior to prioritize some of those issues, um, some of your concerns, and uh as Lynn mentioned, the uh outcome of workshop number three was a draft vision statement on housing.

Um that gave us some direction moving forward.

And uh as we met as a committee to prepare for this workshop tonight, several meetings, and they each meeting at first seemed to quickly devolve into a little bit of chaos.

There's a lot to do with housing, right?

Um everybody was going different directions, and um you know who should we help, how do we do it, uh, what are the mechanisms, where and uh we realized just from our own conversations that in order to be effective tonight, having and setting up a conversation for you.

We needed to come up with a framework, we need this a structure.

So as I mentioned, we've we've talked about the why in our first couple of workshops.

We started to move it to priorities priorities.

We would like to focus tonight on the what and the where broadly, and uh keep in the back of your mind the who and the how it's all tied together, right?

It's hard to talk about what and where without maybe thinking of conditions.

Well, I might be okay with this and this location if this was in place or if we did it this way.

So the who and the how are important.

Um we may get to those later tonight.

Um we added a workshop to what we originally thought would be four workshops.

We now added a fifth workshop largely to come back to those two issues, those those two components, the who and the how, but we know it's all tied together both to simplify to organize um a conversation today.

We are gonna set up a framework that talks about the what relative to where and so to start preparing to do that.

We went back to your vision statement.

And we saw the what as being a larger variety of variety of housing and more of it.

That's that's broadly our what the where in the right locations.

That's very simple.

So obviously, we want to delve more deeply into both of those.

So I'm gonna set up a framework to do that, and then Dustin's office has prepared an engagement activity for us to do that a survey, and then uh we'll have the results that we then want to discuss, have a conversation about.

So that's the outline for tonight.

Any questions before we as Lynn said, we we look to the general plan for some direction to do this again.

The what being a larger variety of housing and more of it.

This is consistent with the general plan.

Um the graphics on your left uh indicate housing stock for Sandy City for Salt Lake County, and then for the three county region.

So we kind of compared Sandy's housing stock to the county and the three county region, and they're divided up by single family detached housing, the yellow, missing middle or kind of medium density housing types is the orange, and then apartments or larger condo buildings would be the blue, so that you can see that Sandy City has a greater share of single family detached housing compared to the county and the region, and using the county and the region is as an example of what the market might be demanding overall.

You know, Sandy City is a part of a larger region, a larger market housing market.

So looking at uh the county and the region as a whole and just kind of comparing.

We don't have to see them, we don't have to match those numbers, but what is it that we're lacking?

So we have more single family detached, we have about the same amount of apartments and condos, but the area that we're lacking is in that missing middle, that medium density stuff.

And so that's the variety of housing that we're talking about is that missing middle.

In our general plan, it identified that residents also recognize that primarily having single family housing has has created affordability issues for new families.

Um homeowners in the city that would like to downsize, they would like to stay in their community, but are there options to do that?