Ballton Development Commission meeting of September 22nd, 2025.

It's still the 22nd.

Yes, it is.

All right.

I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order.

First item on our agenda is public comment.

This is an opportunity for anyone to address the commission on something that is not on tonight's agenda.

Please keep your comments to limit to three minutes.

Anyone in the chamber wanting to uh comment to the TDC?

All right.

I'm assuming there's no one in Zoom.

Everyone's in bed.

All right.

Okay, moving on to consent to the consent agenda.

The consent agenda, our items are considered routine.

Uh they'll be passed, but with one vote.

Is anyone on the city council uh have an issue with item number one on the consent agenda and want it removed?

I make a motion to approve the consent agenda.

Second.

Well, I gotta read it, I guess.

So the consent tonight.

The consent tonight, uh tonight consists of only one item consideration for approval of the TDC meeting minutes of June 23rd, 2025.

No, cancellor suck, okay.

I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as read.

Second.

I have a motion second to approve the uh consent agenda as read.

Any discussion on this motions?

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed, abstentions.

Uh it's um consent agenda is adopted.

Uh general business item number one, downtown revitalization project update.

Sid and Michelle still awake.

Welcome, Michelle.

Uh good evening, Chair Bubenik and uh members of the commission.

Uh Sids and Urban Renewal Economic Development Manager.

As you see, we have uh Michelle Reeves, our consultant, uh Seville's consultants joining us uh from the Midwest.

So thank you, uh Michelle, for for sticking with us.

Uh this is an update on downtown revitalization project.

This is uh update is provided pursuant to the council goal to uh be updated on uh urban renewal uh projects, and so uh we're excited to to have this uh presentation and I'm going to uh suggest uh out of respect for the commission's time that I was gonna defer some of my time and really give Michelle uh all the time.

She's had a great presentation.

And before I do that, I just wanted to uh uh point out three quick things.

One again the goal of this project is to uh how do we create some vitality and uh redevelopment, reinvestment in the downtown.

It's been 10, 15 years since we've had that type of investment in the downtown, and this is a great opportunity to do that, uh, and at the same time create a community identity, mixed use projects, placemaking, uh you know, pedestrian-friendly, multimodal economic development in our downtown area.

Those are the things that we try to focus on it through this project.

Uh secondly, where are we in this process?

This is a 24-month process.

Uh we are close to finishing up with Michelle, our phase one, which is our community identity phase.

Next step we're going to be jumping into is a partnership with the University of Oregon program, which includes uh designets for some uh parcels in our downtown area and some studies that will help complement uh the uh design shred.

And then lastly, is how do we how do we go from uh taking a community identity, visualizing what that downtown can look like and translate that into code?

That code component of it is is somewhat of an important component because one it provides a little uh context for the community as to what what the community's expectations are for the downtown.

It reduces risks for developers and it provides them some certainty.

Right now we don't have codes down there, and I think that's a challenge and an obstacle for down there.

So all of those three things combined, uh 24 month process.

And uh lastly, before I turn it over to Michelle, uh this is uh I I consider this almost like a movie trailer.

Uh, because we're gonna be back uh on December 27th.

Michelle will be here in person.

She's gonna talk about what the final report looks like right now.

She's gonna do a high-level overview of uh some of the findings and recommendations, and so hopefully this is a uh a teaser to the final movie that will be coming up, and um we uh hope to get you guys excited about the project.

And it will be October 27th.