“I need to introduce all of you to the project. You've been aware of it for a few almost a year now. And uh we've been working to produce a draft the past about four or five months with a goal of having a draft up for adoption towards year's end.”

Overview of project timeline and progress.

“To remind everyone of the project goals, uh improve the zoning code alignment with the comprehensive plan. Currently the code and the plan are out of alignment and that creates development difficulties.”

Goals of the zoning code update project.

“Simplify the code. This is really to get administr make administration easier for the city staff and to make sure that standards that are objective are easy to understand for both code users and administrators.”

Goals of the zoning code update project.

“Promote sustainability in community. Uh this is kind of an extension of aligning the code with the comprehensive plans goals for the city and then enhance accessibility architectural graphics, visual guides, tables, making the code easier for the average person to understand.”

Goals of the zoning code update project.

“The zoning code uh here is a traditional zoning code. It hasn't been updated comprehensively in quite some time and as a result it is as previously mentioned out of alignment with the comprehensive plan to bypass this uh misalignment. The city has relied heavily on the plan unit development process as you are all aware. Um, the planned unit development process has given a lot of control to the city but it also leads to a relatively unpredictable development atmosphere throughout the city and leads to lots of reasonzoning hearings and variance approvals.”

Explanation of current zoning code issues and reliance on PUDs.

“So to run through a few as a topic of conversation tonight is residential development to run through a few residential developments that have required either PD approval or uh lengthy variance processes. We've highlighted four here and we'll run through them.”

Introduction to case studies of problematic developments.

“With the goal of the goal of the project is to allow for there to be base zoning districts where a lot of these projects would still need to require resoning but instead of that resoning being negotiated between the city and the developer they would pick a base zoning district and avoid that back and forth process of speeding up the development time but also creating more predictable results for both the city and residents and developers.”

Proposed solution to zoning code issues.

“I would hate to invest all this time and money and do what amounts to, you know, kind of spit in the ocean in terms of increasing um the ability to house more people. Um, so I certainly think following that line of questioning that we should move towards something that um allows us as much flexibility as possible in providing housing options, especially along those corridors where we can get transit.”

Expressing desire for greater housing flexibility.