So tonight this evening will present a first rough draft of our Co-Living Sro Standards. So the Planning Staff have been before you once before and in more informal study sessione're going to talk about what the goal of that session was and what we feel was accomplished as part of that and how that kind of sets the table and builds hopefully to getting your feedback on some some draft language that would be integrated throughout the City Code Mostly In The Zoning Code But Also In The Opportunity Housing Ordinance Chapter Nine And The Rental Housing Code As Well.

So For The Family Definition This Is An Amendment We Currently Have A Definition For Family But We Would Be Changing It To Basically Say That Six Or Fewer Adults And Minor In Their Care Living Together And A Dwelling Unit Make A Family So It'S Kind Of A Race In The Stuff That It Has To Be By Blood Marriage Adoption And We Kind Of Making It More Broader We Just Want To Say That This Is Still A Work Progress So We Haven'T Landed On This Definition Exactly.

So Right Now We'Re Proposing A 0.5 Parking Spaces Per Co-Living Unit And Again That'S Kind Of Out Of Her Bedroom Basis Basically And That Is On The Conservative Side Of The Range That We'Ve Seen The Alexandra Of Virginia For Example Requires 0.25 Parking Spaces Per Unit So Four Units Equals One Parking Space. The Parking Generation Management Manual From Institute Of Transportation Engineers For The Most Comparable Use Type Calls For 0.33 Parking Spaces Per Unit.

I think We'Re A Little Low At 0.5 And One Of My Concerns Is That If If We Have Six Units And There'S Only Four Parking Spots, You'Re Either Going To Have An Inequity Problem Where Some People Getting It That Their Neighbor Doesn'T. And Why Is That? I'M Not Sure Where They'Re Going To Start Charging For It, Which I Think Is The More Likely Scenario If You Have Parking Spots Then The Number Of Units You'Re Going Charge For That Parking Spot And Now You'Re Sort Of Undoing The We'Re Trying To Do By Creating Affordable Housing.

I think Especially With The Approach Of What We'Ve Been Trying To Do With Affordable Housing Especially, Larger Scale Development Is To Ensure That A It'S Spread Out Throughout The City And B Doesn'T Stand Out That We'Re Mixed Into Neighborhoods That You Know One Can Look At Your Unit And Say Oh You'Re At This Building . We Know What That Consultation Means, Right? And So Not Having That Allows A Yes It Does Support Developers Makes It Cheaper But Also It Goes Against What I Think Our Thought Was With Our Affordable Housing Plan Just To Make Sure That We'Re Spreading In Our Other City And That It Looks, Feels And The Community Is Set Up The Same Way So That No One Feels In Particular Like They'Re Being Singled Out.

I Grew Up In Low Income Housing In The City Of Bloomington And My Thoughts On That, You Know, If What If All Right. I Guess The Question For All Of Us To Think About Is What If These Like Do We Prioritize The Looks Of An Area Are Looking Cheaper Than Another Part Of The City Or Another Versus What If It'S Just More Affordable For The Developer And Then Onto The Residents You Know But It Still Does Maybe A Little Bit Different Or Stands Out What Do We Prioritize More You Know Because I Me Personally I Would Rather Have Something More Affordable Living Having A Space More Affordable Than Being Like Hey There Goes That Low Income Or The Hood Over There Or Whatever You Know What I Mean.

The Market Is Out To Make A Profit And Like The Market Right Now Is It Building This Type Of Housing Because It'S Not Maximizing Profit And So If We'Re Just Going To Let The Market Do What The Market Wants To Do, It'S Going To Be The Smallest Of Everything Making The Most Just Barely Scrape For The Tenant Because I Think That That'S The Goal Of The Market Where You'Re Going To Get Really Expensive Stuff Which Is What Our Market Is Right Now. And So Like I Think Of Our Role In This Is Trying To Help The Trying To Help The People Who Need A Assistance Right Now. And So If If We A Government Can Say We'Re Gonna Make Sure We'Re Not Going To Let The Developer Maximize Profit Here, That We'Re Going To Have Them Take A Little Bit Less To Improve The Experience For The User. That'S What I Would Prefer In This Case Market Rate Housing I'M All For It. We Have A Lot Of We'Re Going To Keep Doing It In This Case Where We'Re Trying To Help People Who Need Some Assistance As Soon As They Do . I'M In Favor Of Us Having Some Some Minimum Standards.

My Initial Thoughts On It Is Just Flexible Ality So Like The Lowest Possible And Then Allow The Market And The Developers To Figure Out What Size They Need Even If It Is At 70 Square Feet And They Decided That Was What They Wanted To Do And No One Wanted To Rent Them. They Could Knock Down A Wall And Have 140 Square Feet But That'S Up To Them In The Market To Decide. So I'D Like To See More Flexibility In That I Tend To Agree With I Choose Not Including A Floor And Seeing At The Market Will Bear.

I Will Throw One Thing Out There That I Know We'Ve Met About Years Ago And That Was The Cluster Housing And You All Arguing Because You Know This Is Something I'Ve Really Been Into And I Think Of That Too With The Living A Little Bit Having Like One Main Facility With The Cooking And Whatever And Then Have Small Cluster Houses Around. I See This Really Taking Off. I Know Of Many Organizations That Are Building Them The Tiny Houses And Things Like That And I Know There'S Projects Minneapolis So Just Kind Of Something To Throw Out There To Make That Conversation Continues Because I Do Think We Have Some Loft Properties Sizes That Could Help To Hold These Type Of Developments.

But I Just Want To Make Sure I Know Staff Is Doing And I Appreciate All The Work That You Do And But I Just Want To Make Sure That We Are Fully Taking Advantage Of Every Opportunity, Every Resource, Every That We Can Get Into Every Grant To Help Continue To Drive This . I Know Last Week We Just Had Conversations With The Port On La Money And So Everything We Can Do To Ensure That Boonton Continues To Stay On The Leading End Of It Instead Of The Trailing End Is The Thing I'M Particularly Interested In The Territory Right.