". >> Good Evening And Welcome To This April 10Th Meeting Of The Bloomington Planning Commission. The Planning Commission Advises The City Council On Development Proposals Development Standards Long Range Planning And Transportation Issues. Planning Commissioners Serve A Three Year Term For A Maximum Of Two Terms Each Planning Commissioner Has Been Appointed By The City Council And Are Reappointed As Desired At The Three Year Limit. The Final Decision Is Sometimes A Decision Made By The City Council And On Other Times The Planning Commission Makes The Final Decision Authority. We Have A Quorum This Evening With All Seven Planning Commissioners Present Here At City Hall And We Are Going To Begin With The Pledge Of Allegiance. Please Rise. I Pledge Allegiance To The Flag Of The United States Of America And To The Republic For Which It Stands One Nation Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty And Justice For All . Some Items On Our Agenda This Evening Are Public Hearings Where The Public Is Encouraged To Testify And You Can Do That Here At City Hall On Other Items We Have Study Items Where We Will Not Be Taking Public Testimony. Item Number One Is A Public Hearing And The City Of Bloomington Is The Applicants. We'Re Going To Be Discussing The Missile Missing Middle Housing Plan And Mr. Johnson, You Have The Staff Report. Yeah. Thank You, Chair And Members, Good To See You This Evening. I'Ll Just Jump Into My Presentation Here Again Just To Provide A Little Bit Of Background. This Is A Topic We'Ve Discussed Quite A Bit Over The Last Couple Of Years But Try And Provide A Snapshot Of Where We Come From And The Highlights Of The Phase One Missing Middle Ordinance And Then Just Provide A Reminder On Some Of The Public Engagement Activities That We'Ve Done For This Project And Then Wrap Up With A Staff Recommendation. So In Terms Of Background, The Missing Mental Housing Study Has Been A Multi-Year Project On The Planning Commission'S Work Plan. The Last Few Years There Has Been A Pause In The Project At One Time Or Another As You Know And We'Ll Wrap Up This On The Last Bullet Of The Slide But There'S Been On Multiple Occasions Now Efforts At The State Legislature To Look At Ways To Incentivize Or Authorize More Housing Production. And So Some Of Those Legislative Efforts Have Intersected With This Project And At One Point Effectively Caused A Pause In Its Pursuit In Terms Of Why The City Has Been Looking At Missing Middle Housing. It'S This Is Consistent With The Theme And The Thread That We'Ve Talked About On Other Projects And Specific To The City'S Land Use Element And Housing Element Of Our Comprehensive Plan. But Overall Just Trying To Reduce Barriers To Housing Creation And Conversion. So That'S That'S What Some Of These Amendments Are Intended To Do In Terms Of The Process That We'Ve Gone Through And From There'S Been Multiple Public Meetings But Just More Recently Study Sessions Were Held On Missing Mental Housing At The Planning Commission And Hra…