The comprehensive plan amendment before you tonight proposes to adjust the descriptions and minimum densities for two residential land use designations, change the future land use of a 4.4 acre parcel from commercial to high-density residential, and update tables to reflect these changes.

The property is located at 8800 Highway 7 in the southeast corner of or southwest corner of the city, um and it's adjacent to Minnehaha Creek to the east and then across the street from the Aldi and Target to the west. And the purpose of the future land use change is to accommodate a proposed affordable housing development on the site. The project proposes a seven-story apartment building with approximately 208 affordable units.

With phase two, we're not proposing any changes to the uses or the dimensional standards that were adopted in phase one. What we are doing with uh article four, currently article four is converting it to article three in this new phase, and we're taking the performance standards that are in article four and moving them into the new article that addresses only performance standards for uses throughout the city.

Another change proposed in phase two is that parking minimums are not going to be required at all in the historic Walker Lake over overlay district. So, there you can build a new building without having any parking minimums required by the city.

I would love to see less space of the city taken up with asphalt um and more for building housing or grass or permeable surfaces. Um there's benefits there for just better uses of our land um and it also has environmental benefits um allowing uh water runoff to be reduced because it goes into permeable surfaces.

But since the cost of building surface parking is 5 to 10,000 dollars per space, and 25 to 50,000 dollars per space uh in an underground garage, requiring just one space per bedroom adds hundreds of dollars to the monthly rent that has to be charged.

Um you know, number one as far as this goes with kids, um in asphalt creates heat. Heat creates I mean, just lack of comfort as my 4-year-old would tell you um being sunscreened every day. Um but from that side of things, um not only that, it increases likelihood for things like heat-related illness, um reducing outdoor playtime, which is crucial to kids' development.

I am a bit disappointed in the amount of progress we're making in this step, but I also believe that we are making some progress which is better than nothing.

Um but one of the effects that we kind of did is we sort of cordoned off auto-oriented uses into one specific district that is quarantined if you will into specific areas where we want to say for the majority of the city we want to focus on um you know walk roll bus bike car in that order.