Building_development + Cross_cutting

49:24 one and two which concentrated things in different ways I guess but but but it is more evenly spread out. So this is the end of a potentially the end of a long process as you know the Planning Commission's core task is to review and advise on land use matters including and particularly the comprehensive plan and the zoning code and make recommendations formal recommendations to the City Council via a public hearing and public vote. So we are at that process after approximately three and a half years and 20 some workshops and we are as a staff recommending that based on all the information in the staff report the process to date as well as the the draft plan itself and the code and the underlying

50:22 appendices and analyses that support it that Planning Commission recommend Council adopt the updated comprehensive plan and zoning code as outlined here tonight and in the materials and assuming or if that happens tonight the next steps are it'll go to Council for first reading on May 11th and that's where they'll read the ordinance adoption ordinance into the code and vote to advance it to a final hearing and then that final hearing is scheduled for June 1. I want to note that the new planning code won't based on our current drafting of the ordinance won't go into effect for 60 days and that's really to give us plenty of time to make sure our processes work. Middle housing is a new thing in terms of the way we take in and process development applications we want to get that right and we also understand

51:16 and want to be clear that we will not get everything right in an overhaul of the code of this scale and size and so our commitment is that we will be ready to educate people and facilitate development applications and help them move through the new code as they get used to it and that we will be taking in information from development community and others about the code where the code may not be working we may there may be conflicts we need to address and we will do that quickly we will we will not get it perfect but it has been very thoroughly vetted by a variety of people who care about this stuff and so I just want to say we appreciate their help it is a better code because of the working groups and the development community affordable housing providers the builders the community members the neighborhoods that participated in this process and that's that's what we've

52:11 got for you tonight chair thank you before we dive into the rest of it just a quick preamble the role of the planning commission is to review and to analyze proposed ordinances comprehensive plan amendments zoning changes and other land use related issues we follow a public process including holding hearings during which the public has an opportunity to provide additional perspectives and information and legislative matters the role of the commission is advisory city council will hold separate hearings consider our recommendations and make a final determination the planning commission will conduct a hearing tonight and take public testimony community members may register online or submit a speaker request form in person the chair will call upon you during the public testimony portion of the hearing if you are in person when you were called please come to the microphone if you've joined remotely you'll be promoted to a panelist and when you are called unmute your phone or microphone for all those testifying please state your name for the record if you're providing the

53:08 formal recommendation of a neighborhood association or other group tell us when the association voted on the matter as well as how many people were for and against we ask you to keep your remarks brief and to the point and direct them to the planning commission as a body not the audience or staff please do not repeat testimony that has already been provided in print or verbally as a reminder to my colleagues please indicate to the chair when you want to be recognized at the conclusion of public testimony the commission will deliberate and make a recommendation to council would anyone on the planning commission like to disclose any conflicts of interest please show respect for the people testifying tonight whether you agree with their comments or not so flow wise i believe we're into questions from the commission yes commissioner beck thank you patrick sandra beck planning commissioner

54:05 rebecca and team mark i see you wore a tie tonight very impressive um brian dominique anyone else many people mariska who i've missed and rebecca thank you thank you very much for the presentation and for all of your efforts i've been on the planning commission a little over three years or a little under three years and um have been very impressed with the depth and um thoroughness of um of the data analysis research outreach and visioning most certainly visioning that has gone into the effort to pull all of this together and and lastly but not least the um the materials that have been created

55:04 for the presentations as well as the final product um at this point i think are outstanding um just as a reminder for us all a comprehensive plan is a herculean effort i've been personally and professionally involved in a number of different long-range master plans for different owners across the country and um looking to vision out how we all want to grow and who we want to be as a community in the next 20 years is not taken lightly by anyone who is involved in those efforts these are these are huge questions that require a lot of guidance i appreciate that uh all the times that your team has come here and um presented to the planning commission and gotten our feedback gotten the public's feedback received a lot of feedback and input from city council and so on because how does one create a vision

56:02 without a lot of input and it's a vision for the community not a vision for me personally i have my personal little tweaky items that i would love to see as part of the comp plan but aren't necessarily in there but a vision for our community for who we want to be and and how we want to be in the future um i really believe that comprehensive plans are uh are intended to coordinate sustain and reflect the community's needs they are not the agenda of one person or one committee they are reflective of the community i wanted to commend you for a thorough process a plan with vision that is aspirational as well as reality based and for full involvement of the community i do have a few follow-up questions from the public comments i'd like to understand a little bit more around the exemption to medium scale

57:01 minimum density the three years the person who applies to rebuild does it have to be the owner of the parcel when uh when it was demolished or when the catastrophe occurred or could a new owner come in and submit for that exemption to the minimum density that that i'm not sure what the clarification is on that but it may need to be clarified could you answer that i don't mark person um senior planner community development department commissioner beck we don't speak to the ownership so we wouldn't be checking that it wouldn't matter it would just be from time of the demolition or catastrophic event to rebuilding or building

57:56 permits excuse me that is what we say in the draft you'd have three years and can i just say one of the reasons that as we were talking to people about extending this was actually like a state resolution issues so zoning runs with the land of rules associated with zoning run with the land agreed and i was curious um having lived in northern california and had neighbors who lived in paradise and went through the campfire and uh appreciate that you've extended the time frame for the exemption because it's it really took some of our friends quite a long time to resolve issues with their property um can i just one follows to that um i just want to be clear that um the language in our zoning code applies to regular circumstances if we had a paradise if we had a earthquake right we would the council would take emergency action that allowed us to suspend or extend or do different things with our local land

58:56 use regulation so this is really just our everyday stuff but like if if this is not we don't craft our zoning code to respond to a paradise or an earthquake we that's why we have the council has the ability to enact emergency declarations and emergency powers that suspend various regulations to account for those like non-typical things okay thank you for that clarity um my other question is uh around middle housing density one of the public comments that was submitted referred to an owner-occupied project off of broadway