This is really ultimately your your 10-year vision plan. This is your plan that really outlines a lot of your initiatives where you want to go over the next 10 to 20 years.

How do we balance growth? How do we address some of the housing needs? How do we look at the transportation system, parks, trails, a lot of your community assets that we want to continue to maintain and enhance?

We do a very good job of building detached homes and apartments, but we miss that missing middle. Town homes, quads, smaller affordable products.

Community development needs to stay within the community and uh so I encourage everybody to keep an eye on that, dig into that and learn about what it is.

We have a housing study that we've received grant to fund the entire housing study that should kick off in the beginning of August... the missing middle term really extends beyond just Rogers specifically or state specifically it's a nationwide issue and it's really a price point item more than anything.

Not everybody understands that there's an unelected body called the Met Council that uh dictates really every community within its reach that how much density we should have in Rogers for instance.

This is a little bit of a a longer amendment and it's just because it kind of has to be to make sure that we have uh uh reach all the goals that we want to have with this. if you want to, you know, limit any kind of nuisance conditions that may arise.

We're not recommending a permit process, but instead having a very prescriptive ordinance that covers common concerns.

My question for you the district code here that you've written it has a lot of um must be this far must do this you know must meet these criteria but there is no zoning application there is no permit there is no license. What is the enforcement and if there is a problem can those you know duties or those those whatever the ability to have chickens can that be revoked?

If there was a permitting process, um we would have the opportunity to have an inspector verify that the property is suitable, that the coupe meets the criteria, the run meets the criteria, that the food is stored in a sealed container and those things that need to occur.

Minimum square footage per bird. That's very important for animal health. It's very important for just the overall considerations as far as the design, the ownership. Provides commitment from the community that they're actually willing to do something.

Permitting has a person attached to it, which would be additional staff. it. So, that's something to consider.

Just that simple step is going to greatly reduce complaints to the police department... put the permit in place.