Recording in progress.

All right.

Good evening and welcome to the March 23rd, 2026 Twalton Development Commission.

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

First item on our agenda is public comment.

Do we have anyone in the room or in Zoom who would like to provide public comment to the development commission?

No hands in the room.

Anyone in Zoom?

Right?

Councilor Shock.

That brings us to consent.

We have one items on one item on consent tonight.

Consideration of approval of the Tualton Development Commission meeting minutes of December 8th, 2025.

Any discussion on those consent agenda.

I move that we adopt the consent agenda as read.

Second.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

Abstentions.

It's unanimous.

That brings us to general business.

Item number one, consideration of resolution number 646-26 of the Tualton Development Commission approving the termination of the Leviton Tax Increment District and the Levanton Tax Increment District Plan.

Welcome, Quinn and Sid.

Awesome.

Good afternoon, uh Chair Bubinick and members of the Commission.

I'm a Sid Sinn, Urban Renewal Economic Development Manager.

And with me this evening is Quinn Brunner, Urban Renewal Economic Uh Development Policy Analyst.

And we have uh three items before the Commission's consideration for this evening.

The first is the Levington District Closure of the Urban Renewal District.

The second item is an update on the uh downtown uh revitalization process.

And then the last item is a uh request for a uh support letter for a Metro 2040 grant.

And uh with that, Quinn is going to be doing the presentations for all three items this evening.

Thank you, Sid and uh Chair Bubenick, a mayors of the commission.

Thank you for the opportunity to present this evening.

Um so um as Sid mentioned, my name is Quinn Bruner.

I'm a member of our urban renewal uh uh uh urban renewal team, um, and our first item of business tonight is the closure of the Leviton Tax Increment District.

So I have a uh five-minute presentation about eight slides for you, um, and then we'll be happy to answer any questions before consideration of resolution uh 646-26.

So the uh Levanton uh tax increment district uh shown here is uh it epitomizes the transformative power of urban renewal.

Um created in 1985, this district was composed largely of agricultural land, light industrial uses, and a gravel mine.

Uh there were a few utilities, roads, or public improvements, and the total assessed value was $3.7 million.

Now, through $36 million of strategic public investment, this district catalyzed decades of sustained private investment and transformed this area into a regional hub with an assessed value of 259 million dollars.

So I just really want to drive that home.

It went from $3.7 million to $259 million, a 74-fold increase over the 35-year life of this district.

Um this returned um about $3.5 million of annual benefit to taxing jurisdictions, including a significant portion to the city's general fund.

Um and it facilitated the creation of 35 new employers and uh 2200 permanent jobs.

So this is the this is the power of urban renewal investment.

So how did um the Twalton Development Commission do this?

Right.

Uh the TDC completed 14 projects during the life of the district, most notably um installing utilities in all of the streets in the district, um completing uh 118th Avenue as well as constructing 124th Avenue, and then most recently completing the Herman Road improvement project right outside.

Um the another particularly effective strategy was consolidating parcelized land through the purchase and resale of privately owned parcels throughout the district, which helped attract uh large new employers, including those in the advanced manufacturing semiconductor industry.

Um the district stopped collecting increment in 2012, and we've kept this district open um for these for the last 15 years 13 years so that we could complete the Herman Road improvement project in 2024.

Um there is no outstanding debt held by the TDC, there's no real property held by the TTC, and the account balances are zero.

So the Leviton district has been a resounding success by every metric.

And this resolution, along with the parallel resolution on council's consent agenda, um, are the final steps required to bring the district to a close.

The strategy, however, of using public investment to remove development barriers is exactly why you all created the SWERD at the Southwest Urban Renewal District and the core opportunity reinvestment area.

And in these next two districts, Sid and I are looking forward to implementing your vision and unlocking the next chapter of prosperity in To Walleton.

So this is largely a housekeeping item, but I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have regarding the closure of the Levitant Tax Increment District.

Thank you.

Questions for Quinn or Sid.

Council Pratt.

Commissioner Pratt.

So no more audits, right?

No more audits.

We'll save a couple bucks.

Other questions.

Motions.

I motion that do we just adopt it?

I motion that we adopt resolution number 646-26.

Second.

I have a motion and a second for adoption of resolution number 646-26.

Any discussions on those motions?

All in favor say aye.

Opposed.

Gotta do a roll call.

This is general business.

Not until you see it's general business.

No.

Okay.

Yep.

Nope.

I heard uh everyone said aye.

Uh abstentions?

Nays.

It's unanimous.

All right, let's move on to item number two.

Downtown revitalization project update.

I got it right here.

All right.

Item number two.

Um share bubenek members of the commission.

Uh Quinn Bruner, uh, Urban Renewal and Economic Development Policy Analyst for the record.

Um so for this item, uh, an update on the downtown revitalization project.

Um, I'm joined by two of our community advisory committee members, um, Janet Steager-Karr and Cosy Slider.

Um, I will turn it over to them to introduce themselves.

We've got about a 10 to 15 minute presentation here, um, and then we'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

So uh Cozy.

Hi, my name is Cosy Slider.

I'm uh member of the Youth Advisory Council, and I'm also a part of the community advisory committee.

I'm Janet Snyiger Carr.

I am the chair of the Towellaton Arts Advisory Committee, and um I wear the hat of the ambassadress at the uh giant pumpkin regatta.

I'm the pirate ambassadress, so I am out in the community listening as much as I can.

Before I speak to this particular piece of business, I wanted to give my own little bio, if I may.

This is a digression of about two minutes.

Please allow me to voice the fact that I am not in an imposter syndrome kind of a situation with this particular committee.

Um my father was a professional photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area in Silicon Valley.

Our major clients who I helped to service when I was tall enough to look over the counters were HP, HP Scientific Instruments Division, and IBM.

I was able to be involved in some of the biggest advertising campaigns that you could ever imagine in that area at that particular time.

Indeed, his best friend was an advertising executive who invented the pet rock.

My stepdad was a mechanical engineer who uh designed the Alameda tertiary water treatment facility.

He also designed the cooling facilities in missile silos for the missiles that had gone past their expiration date.

But his biggest achievement was designing the waterways, the non-chlorinated waterways under the rivers of America in Disneyland.

He also was instrumental in getting the funding for Walt's park at that time, and he did all the piping in and out of Walt's apartment.

Um I was privy to all of that wonderful stuff that he did and absorbed that area.

Um I lived and breathed theater in the San Francisco Bay Area, but when I moved to Eugene, it was because of the Mackenzie River.

My husband at that time wanted to be a fly fishing river guide, and I said, why not?

So we moved to Eugene, and I became as much of an expert in the fly fishing industry as I possibly could.

I'm a huge proponent in streamside biology and the health fitness of a river for a community.

I was instrumental in the early 80s in getting the catch and release designation by the ODFW for wild trout on the McKenzie.

Their population was dying out at that particular point in time.

And working with the Nature Conservancy and Trout Unlimited, I was a squeaky wheel with the OFW ODFW and got that designation for wild trout.

I'm incredibly proud of that piece of my history.

Also, in our off time, we ran a general contracting business.

I worked with subs, I worked with permits, I worked with big corporations that came in to do business with the U of O, building with the U of O.

I was there six years after the Fifth Street Public Market was built.

I was there the same year the Holt Center was built.

I watched those two entities grow over the next 30 years and have witnessed the Fifth Street Public Market, which was built by Brian Obi.

I had his kids in my acting classes, turn into the phenomenal place that it is today, the tourist designation.

I say that because, in a way, what he was able to do was some of the vision that I can see for our revitalization project.

Excuse me, allergy meds.

I worked for 27 years at the U of O teaching talented and gifted kids.

I was at the U of O when the project that we are benefiting from from the U of O was implemented.

I remember that because my students were there.

So enough about me because I wanted to say the people on this committee that I have the honor of serving with are phenomenal.

I am a small cog.

I am a tiny blip on the radar.

We have so much foundation, so much expertise, so much discussion that goes into this process that every meeting, even if I don't want to be there, I am so incredibly grateful at the end of it that I had attended.

I wanted to say that, and now we segue into the scripted portion of our presentation.

The downtown revitalization project began in May of 2025 with the formation of the CAC.

That's us.

And to development, develop, excuse me, the downtown identity study that was presented, if I believe to the council in December.

This presentation marked the end of that phase one.

I also have a nickname for a piece of this puzzle, and it's the downtown district, so forgive me if I sometimes throw that in instead of just downtown.

Phase two, they sort of overlapped, began last fall when we began the partnership with the University of Oregon Sustainable City Year Program.

Over the past six months, there have been eight courses and hundreds of hundreds of students working on the projects related to downtown.

I gotta add we had to give them a hook.

We had to give the students in these eight courses.

It might have been one course.

And if we'd had professors who didn't give them a hook, if we didn't present them with materials about our community that engaged them and wanted them to learn more about us.

Eight is a pretty amazing number of courses for them to have flown off.

Hundreds of students working on the projects related to the downtown, but there's more about that in a minute.

Phase three is slated to begin summer, fall, and the three deliverables, an official term.

Is slated deliverables in this phase will be an urban design plan, downtown design standards, and consolidated recommendations report.

We will tie all of the input and recommendations gathered in our first two phases into a coherent that's important vision and an action plan for downtown.

One of the things that I loved about the fact that the students were so engaged with the materials that they were given about our community, and it's just kind of funny to me, is they loved everything about the giant pumpkin regatta.

The one presentation that I went to, that's what they were talking about in certain instances.

I thought that was really kind of uh funny and um serendipitous.

Slides there.

Since December, five of the sustainable city year program courses have concluded their work, and the other three are still underway.

The CAC has begun reviewing the findings and recommendations, and will continue this work through mid-summer.

Graduate students from the urban design program analyzed how changes in the built environment could support walkability, economic development, and the creation of an age-friendly community.

While undergraduate students from in Eugene explored and ranked strategies to promote multimodal transportation in downtown.

Marketing study.

A very professional, that's the word that I have in front of me, but a very eager and professional and well thought out process was given to us in this marketing study by a group of students from the Oregon Consulting Group.

They made a visit to Towallaton and they presented many of the CAC members.

That was kind of cool, about how we could make Tualetin more of a regional draw.

They gave us a lot of insight into that.

Something dear to my heart, the River Riverfront Park Design.

A combined class of the U of O and OSU students worked with members of our parks team to analyze the riverfront park site and build an example of a modular park structure, which is what you see in that middle picture.

Design Charrettes.

A couple of weeks ago, students from U of O's architecture design studio presented renderings of their ideas for different sites downtown.

The CAC will be reviewing these at our April meeting, which will be our first opportunity to identify design elements that might work in downtown.

The final three courses are all in partnership with the Portland State University Engineering Program.

Students are working for two terms to analyze the floodplain analyze strategies for increasing the capacity of the Hedges Creek Stormwater Basin, which runs through the riverfront park as well, and to improve walkability across Booms Ferry Road.

We look forward to seeing this work completed in June.

In January, the CAC synthesized the identity study into five guiding attributes for our downtown.

Now, the downtown we aim to build is a vibrant and mixed-use area, distinct and magnetic, environmentally sustainable, navigable, navigable and safe, and an area supportive of businesses.

And in our February and March meetings, we use these five characteristics to score and comment on the recommendations we had received from Seville's and the U of O students.

I'm looking forward to continuing this intake work for the next few months.

Then we will begin tying it all together in phase three.

Well, I believe that the next staff presentation is about phase three.

So we're gonna stop there.

We have exciting work ahead.

We, I, they look forward to answering any questions that you may have.

Thank you.

Questions for Janet Cosy or Quinn.

Council Hillier.

Thank you.

It's exciting to see the enthusiasm pour through the community members as it does through this body.

So thank you for representing our energy, especially in this presentation and all the work that you're doing.

I'm curious for the uh committee members.

What is one thing that you most look forward to seeing implemented that you've seen so far?

Hello.

I would say that I'm super excited for I guess the Riverfront Park.

I've heard a lot about it through Tea Park and going to their meetings, but as well as I love that we're talking about it in the CAC as well.

That's something that I'm truly looking forward to.

I I think the thing that warms my heart more than anything is the constant inclusion and bringing up the fact that one of the things that makes our community so livable is the artwork that we have incorporated into it.

So I'm a broken record in the committee meeting, but it's it seems to be a record that people don't mind hearing.

But the Riverfront Park, I'm really really excited about that particular project.

Thank you.

Other questions?

Council President Pratt and Councillor Reyes.

Oh, well, I wanted to thank you both for being on the committee.

And um it I I feel like the committee is become what it we had hoped it would be with a large variety of perspectives, and um I think everybody on that committee has spoken up and is comfortable now, like um speaking up to their perspectives so we can consider everything when we're looking at this.

My question is to Quinn and Sid.

Um we went through and did some ratings of the Sevillus project and some of the other items, and so when will that be presented to the TDC for and will be after outreach to the community?

Because I'm pretty excited for them to see some of that.

Absolutely.

That's a great question.

So thank you, uh Council President Pratt.

Um so the um I guess I can answer this in two ways.

So I imagine for our um next quarterly update um in three months, um, we should be very close to having a um all of the rankings from phases one and two um scored and considered by the CAC.

Um and so rather than give you a fragmented list of about 30, 35 now, I think it'd be more impactful to say here's the 60 that we've reviewed, and here's the thoughts that we have on all of those.

So I imagine us being able to bring those back a um largely completed list for our next quarterly update for the um renderings that we saw at the architecture design studio last um uh last Friday um or two Fridays ago.

Um I uh definitely think those will be included in our next quarterly update, but I imagine there being an opportunity to share those with you all um earlier as we're planning to use those for our summer of community engagement, and so we want to be at every community event showcasing some of these visuals that folks came up with and using those as a reference point so community members can begin to identify design elements that resonate or might be possible uh might inform future work.

And so um we will absolutely distribute those directly to um to you all um on the front end of that outreach.

That's right.

Thank you very much for the presentation.

Um what do you think has been the most challenging thing that you have experienced during this time to the committee and um and what are you um I'm I'm glad that what that she asked what you're looking forward to, but I I I guess the on the other side, what has been the challenges and what voices you feel are needed, or do you feel like everyone has been heard?

I feel like um being in this committee for uh the amount of time that I've been in it, which have been several months now.

I think it's the challenge has been um what's it called, like addressed.

And it was how there were some voices that were being more heard than others, and so we sort of switched the rubric a little bit, and we were able to have discussions in small groups first and translate these ideas into the big group and um make the list like how we did with our um evaluation criteria um with our what we aim to build as in the downtown.

Um that was a challenge for me in the beginning because I felt like like I was a little bit scared to share my voice, and um but when we broke it down into smaller groups and we had those little discussions and then we were able to bring it back to the brig group, I think that was a challenge that was addressed and seen, and yeah.

The amount of information sometimes it's it's head exploding.

Um I am one of those individuals who likes to retain everything that is imparted in a particular meeting.

Sometimes that's just basically impossible to do.

I agree with the fact that sometimes at the very beginning there were voices that were louder and more insisted.

Um we found a way to sort of allow for more cohesive discourse um with the group that's that's just been wonderful.

It's also changed and morphed.

Am I correct?

We're we're a little bit different in our makeup.

I've been there since the beginning, and I seem to re like some are there and some come back, and it's like it's it's a um evolving, but the voices that need to be heard are being heard.

Um and I think that'll that's probably that's a challenge for these guys too.

So thank you.

Thank you for serving and being a volunteer in this committee.

Thank you.

Council Brooks, thank you for your work.

Um I first of all, thanks for your leaderships.

Um it's interesting since uh you've come aboard, Sid, I haven't really had a chance to get to know um you or Quinn that well yet, but the work that you're doing is something that we are like Council uh Counselor Hillier said, Um, very excited about and very invested in, and something that we also have to sign off on.

So I want to make sure that I understand things that are going on.

And so that's my biggest um request during this process.

I think every single one of these counselors would have liked to have been on the committee.

And um as we go forward, I'm curious if there are uh videotapes of the presentations that the students gave of the architectural presentations.

In uh for a number of the presentations we collected uh we had during the fall, we were able to get videotapes, but due to a technical difficulty, we did not have those videotapes of the architecture design studio presentations, but we do have a plan to distribute that information.

Um so I'm currently compiling like one pages on each of the students' renderings that includes their most compelling visuals as well as the like like site plans, um, and that should be a digestible way of engaging with these concepts.

I think that um it's not uh yeah, it's not uh the full eight hours of presentations that we were able to cover the a couple weeks ago, but it should be um a substantial way of engaging with this material still.

Great.

And also thanks for switching things around.

I heard through the grapevine there's challenges, so I appreciate that.

And still once in a while give some message to me from somebody from somebody else, and all these kind of things.

So people are very excited, and when people are very excited, then you know, everybody wants to be heard, so that's really important.

So, you know, I know it's one of those kind of sensitive projects in a certain way, especially as we first start off.

Um the other question I had was when you mentioned Portland State Universities project.

Can you tell me again what department that was?

Oh, absolutely.

So we've got three um partnerships with the uh the Portland State University Engineering uh department.

And so those students are looking uh there's three cohorts of students um doing I think they're engineered capstone projects, and so they one group is looking at the uh Hedges Creek stormwater basin um and exploring some potential strategies to better to improve both the quality as well as the qual uh capacity of like stormwater runoff.

Um that kind of that basin covers like the northern third of downtown.

Um we also were looking at a floodplain study more generally, and that group is analyzing floodplain regulations and conditions and exploring the possibility of uh fee-in-loo system that could allow for um denser development um downtown while that mitigates floodplain challenges.

And then a third group is looking at um walkability along Boons Ferry Road, um focused on that northern segment from the bridge by the library to where it um tees up with uh Towellton Road.

And so that um group is focused on um both permeability across the street as well as the pedestrian experience along the side.

Um so three really uh creative and compelling groups of students who are um exploring some of the challenges that we were dealing with downtown.

Great.

So it's OU, the sustainable cities program.

Yes, so it's through the University of Oregon's Sustainable City Year Program, but then they partner with other um institutions across the state, and so they partnered with um OSU for the um Riverfront Park site design work that we completed in the fall, and they also are partnering with PSU for these three engineering studies.

So it's a tremendously collaborative um partnership here.

Oh great.

Okay, so that makes me understand this better.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate that clarification.

Um then is there anyone, any of these groups that are gonna come on board that are environmentally focused at all?

Um that are going to be.

For students, yes.

Oh, for students.

Well, I'd say um I'd say the floodplain and the hedges creek stormwater do have significant environmental implications.

We aren't doing a partnership that's focused on sustainable building in that I think that's a relatively it's a relatively technical it might be kind of it might be kind of a challenge.

I also don't know what groups of students were available.

So I guess maybe the I might be speaking out of my depth a little bit but I'd say these eight are kind of the are the eight classes that we have that we have set so there's not one that's focused on sustainability more generally but I definitely see sustainability components woven through the projects we've done so far.

Okay.

Yeah that's something I would think about um not only for the building because we have such a problem with heat from buildings creating a really hot city um and also there's conversations about um problems with the river right now currently so the conservation people and I get a lot of emails for uh if I want to take classes or I have some connections with some environmental ones that I'll forward if you're interested in not pushing it but um but if it looks like it's a good fit or if there are people that you'd like to get to know for um the future.

That'd be great.

Okay great thanks.

Thanks for all your work I appreciate it.

It's nice to see everybody and I did not know that your father was part of the imagineering team.

Dad yeah myself hello so we I've done worked on models that did imagineering and they're based well the final funding yeah in the plumbers union he got them to voted on so thank you.

Counselor Gonzalez thank you very much for your involvement in this in this presentation.

The questions I have is what did you find were were challenges that were either over adulation on certain topics of good news or things that were not such good news that things need to be figured out would you like me to speak to that or from a staff perspective or would you like to hear from which everyone I think maybe the top three if you have any of those that were the most challenging where you saw a lot of excitement over this and then a lot of uh excitement over not so good things.

Sure, sure.

I suppose the um maybe the way I would uh approach that is that I'd say the I think the like the challenge has been just kind of understanding the work that we're doing in each phase right and so um the first phase was a lot of community engagement right so we were hearing from others what they wanted downtown to be and what they can imagine downtown to be and that I think was really energizing but it's also a ton of input right there's a ton of different ideas of what we can do and folks will get we got really excited right we got really excited about that I think rightfully so and then um but it's also a lot of it's a lot of listening and we brought a group together that was ready to synthesize right and so turning that corner now and as we're getting into phase two I think has been really energizing in that our committee members are um ready to take these ideas we've heard during phase one and say and respond to them and this is a group really well equipped to offer some thoroughly like well developed perspective on these ideas and say here's what's feasible or it would only work if right um and that's the process we're going through right now which has been for me as a staffer exceptionally energizing because um I'm getting a whole bunch of really useful input that I can see funneling directly into phase three um maybe this is taking your question a step further but looking into phase three I'm really excited to work with this group that is prepared to synthesize and as we we'll talk about here in a second the three deliverables for phase three are all about taking this input we have and saying now here's what we want to do with it right or here is our actual coherent plan for how we're gonna move downtown forward and I'd say um if I were to I I'd say that our committee members are chomping at the bit to get into phase three which is a great position to be as a staffer is that like we are like we're funneling the energy and making sure that folks get there in a uh way that's strategic and so um I hope that I hope that answer your question that that we do know that our constituents in students well then are looking forward to some town some downtown energy of some sort so this is very excited to be a part of this thank you very much thank you thank you counselor Sacco thank you um and thank you for your presentation um sorry I can't be there in person um and thank you to our CAC members um it's been a pleasure serving with um you all and I'm learning so much from you as as time goes on um I did just want to um comment um on counselor books comment um and I I hear you um from the event environmentally um sustainable standpoint and I did want to mention that that is one of our evaluation criteria as well so as um all of these um ideas from not only um the students but also from the civilist report as you heard earlier um they are being evaluated from an environmental lens as well and in the criteria specifically is called out um you know how it's um how we've outlined the climate action plan as well and making sure that we're keeping that type top of mind as we evaluate um all of the ideas that are um being brought forward so just wanted to highlight that thank you other questions on this you got a next part I just want to mention because a couple of questions came up about the uh composition of the committee we did have some personnel changes in the committee over the last few months but I think the present committee is gonna be the home win the home run committee I think we finally landed on the right folks who are committed to the process with diverse set of perspectives any from a business architectural

Other questions on this.

You got a next part.

I just want to mention because a couple of questions came up about the composition of the committee.

We did have some personnel changes in the committee over the last few months, but I think the present committee is going to be the home win, the home run committee.

I think we finally landed on the right folks who are committed to the process with diverse set of perspectives, any form of business, architectural, minority owned businesses, a business that actually is located in the commons.

So we've we've pretty much got a great set of people on this project.

I also want to give credit to uh Quinn and Sid on arriving on this evaluation criteria.

If we didn't have this evaluation criteria, it would be a nightmare trying to get everybody on board on how to rate these projects.

Now we all know okay, we've got these five these five criteria.

And the way the staff is doing it.

We use a internet polling where we can see the numbers of you know what's doing what, who uh thinks, you know, not who, but what uh criteria is doing well, what a project isn't hitting where it's not hitting the mark.

So it's making things easier.

Given like Janet said, the amount of things we have to rate evaluate sometimes can get overwhelming in a night, but having a standard set of criteria to you know look at each one of these items has made it a lot easier.

So I just want to thank you know, Quinn and Sid for coming up with that.

Um it makes the meetings flow easier, and we're all have the same five things we're looking for in each product, you know, each item of this bigger project, rather than having 10 big 10 different people with 10 10 different ideas and what should get done.

Now we're on the same sheet of music.

Right?

Floor's back to you.

Thank you.

Thank you both very much.

Thank you.

Thank you, Cozy.

Thank you, Janet.

Thank you.

Oh no.

Okay.

You know, you're up there by yourself.

All right.

Uh all right.

Uh our final item tonight.

Um, once again, for the record, Gwynbruner, um policy analyst in the urban renewal division.

Um so our final item of business is consideration of a letter of support for a grant application that we are preparing to submit to Metro.

Um now to orient us, I just uh space to put this timeline graphic back up.

So we are currently in phase two, right?

That middle green section there, and this grant would fund two of the three deliverables in of phase three.

So that's uh deliverable three A and three B, an urban design plan and a downtown set of downtown design standards.

That third deliverable there you can just kind of ignore for the sake of this presentation.

That's some work that staff will compile um internally.

And so um this here, um, an urban design plan um is essentially a blueprint for future development.

Um the uh they outline a district vision and design principles and ensure all new development contributes to a unified sense of place.

Um when Sid and I talk to developers, um, this is often the first thing that they ask for.

They say they want to know how their project would fit into a larger vision for a district.

Um now these downtown design standards, they make they're what make um an urban design framework enforceable.

So this uh exists in a designated chapter of the Twalt and Development Code and design standards outline objective requirements for all new developments in a district.

Um these serve to protect private investment, ensuring that um a developer who may be putting in tens of millions of dollars can be uh can know that the project that comes in next door will be held to the same set of high standards that um their project is being held to.

Um and so this process here that we are preparing to undertake beginning in the fall will involve lots of city council and planning commission touch points.

Um and uh we also have budgeted for significant community engagement throughout, along with a parking study and a real estate market study.

Um the goal here is that once we complete all of the work on this screen, so ending with phase three, um, we will uh have downtown Twileton in the best possible position for redevelopment.

So that's a little bit about for uh kind of what uh the project is that we are proposing for is creating an urban design plan and downtown design standards.

Zooming a little bit more narrowly, just focusing on the grant that we're looking at here.

Um we are working with the technical team to refine our budget estimates and our scope, um, but we anticipate our total grant request being an approximately 500,000.

Um wants to ensure that the grants they award to municipalities are supported by their governing bodies, um, which is why we are here requesting a letter of support.

Um with council's consent, we would submit this application before the April 10th deadline.

Um Metro would announce awards by the end of June, and if we are receive an award, um we anticipate having a consultant selected and on board by October of this year.

Um this is approximately an 18-month process that follows.

And so we would anticipate adoption of the urban design framework and design standards in early 2028.

And so this is all consistent with the downtown revitalization project that SICK kick started here in May of 2025, and that we just provided an update on.

But we're here seeking funding for the upcoming phase so that we can defray some of the costs.

So that's I'm happy to go into more depth on phase three or the grant process, but that's a little highlight for you.

Questions for Quinn or Sid.

Council Brooks.

I think it's good to be integrated.

I appreciate the work.

Thank you.

Other questions.

Awesome.

Thank you.

We will proceed.

So should you give to get money back from Metro?

Yes, please.

Sure.

And I don't know if you're familiar, but just coming back from the National League of Cities conference, they were talking quite a bit about the housing accelerator.

And so that might be something to take a look at for the housing part of the planning.

And they're also always wanting innovative designs to be submitted as well.

So I think what you're doing is really innovative.

And if you wanted to talk further about that, I'd be happy to talk about it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

All right.

So that's the last item of general business.

Next thing up is uh adjournment.

I move to adjourn.

Second.

I have a motion and a second to adjourn this commission meeting.

All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

We are adjourned.

Uh we're 15 minutes a little early for work session, so we'll take a 15 minute break and start our work session at six o'clock.