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READY TO GET GOING HERE? ALRIGHT,[CALL TO ORDER]
LET'S CALL TO ORDER AND HAVE A ROLL CALL, PLEASE.UM, THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO OUR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO MAKE COMMENTS ON ITEMS OF PUBLIC INTEREST THAT ARE WITHIN THE PLANNING COMMISSION SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION, AND THAT ARE NOT LISTED ON THE CURRENT AGENDA.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO UP TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON, AND DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PERSONS WISHING TO ADDRESS THE PLANNING COMMISSION TIME WILL BE ALLOTTED IN EQUAL SHARES NO MORE THAN 15 MINUTES.
WE'LL OPEN IT UP FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND ASK IF WE'VE HAD, UH, ANY SPEAKER CARDS FOR GENERAL.
WE RECEIVED NO GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING.
AND ANY CARDS IN THE ROOM? NONE.
THEN WE'LL SHOW CLOSE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND MOVE ON TO PRESENTATIONS.
UH, AND WE HAVE NONE, SO WE'LL CLOSE THAT RIGHT UP AND MOVE ALONG
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TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES.UM, UNDER MEETING ITEM ONE, WE'VE GOT APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR THE MEETING OF JANUARY 27TH, 2026.
ANY AMENDMENTS FROM COMMISSIONERS FOR JANUARY 27? ALL RIGHT.
SEEING NONE, I THINK WE CAN APPROVE THOSE AND MOVE ON TO MEETING ITEM TWO FOR THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FROM THE MEETING ON MARCH 10TH, 2026.
ANY AMENDMENTS? OKAY, THEN WE'LL APPROVE THOSE AND CONTINUE ON TO MEETING ITEM THREE FOR THE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR THE MEETING ON APRIL 28TH, 2026.
ANY AMENDMENTS? OKAY, THEN WE WILL APPROVE THOSE AND CONTINUE ON.
[4. Study Session – Recommendation to the City of Petaluma Planning Commission to Receive Staff and Consultant Presentations and Public Comment and Conduct a Study Session to Solicit Input and Recommend to the City Council Concerning Petaluma North SMART Station Priority Development Area Specific Plan Proposed Vision and Preparation of the Specific Plan and Associated EIR. This is a study session meeting item only; no action is being taken. Preparation of the Specific Plan will include environmental review as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). THE STAFF REPORT AND ASSOCIATED MATERIALS FOR THIS MEETING ITEM WERE PUBLISHED ON MAY 18, 2026.]
TO OUR, UH, STUDY SESSION, THE MOST INTERESTING PART OF THE MEETING, OUR MEETING ITEM FOUR, UH, WHICH IS A RECOMMENDATION OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA PLANNING COMMISSION TO RECEIVE STAFF AND CONSULTANT PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLIC COMMENT AND CONDUCT A STUDY SESSION TO SOLICIT INPUT AND RECOMMEND AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, CONCERNING THE PETALUMA NORTH SMART STATION PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT AREA, SPECIFIC PLAN, PROPOSED VISION, AND THE PREPARATION OF THE SPECIFIC PLAN.THIS IS A STUDY SESSION MEETING ITEM ONLY.
AND PREPARATION OF THE SPECIFIC PLAN WILL INCLUDE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AS REQUIRED BY THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT, ALSO KNOWN AS CQA.
THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC HEARING AND THEREFORE DOES NOT REQUIRE DISCLOSING ANY EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS.
SO, WITH THAT, WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO OUR PRINCIPAL PLANNER, TOM FORD, TO PRESENT.
THANK YOU CHAIR, VICE CHAIR COMMISSIONERS.
I'M THE PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE CITY.
FOR THE SPECIFIC PLAN, I'M JUST GONNA GIVE A, A BRIEF LITTLE OVERVIEW, UM, HITTING ON SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS OF THE OPENING OF THE STAFF REPORT, AND THEN I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO OUR CONSULTANT, UH, TO TAKE YOU THROUGH SOME OF THE DESIGN IDEAS THAT WE'RE PUTTING FORTH.
SO THE SPECIFIC PLAN AREA, SOME OF YOU ALREADY KNOW 'CAUSE UH, PARDON ME.
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UM, SO THE PLAN AREA IS ABOUT, UH, ALMOST 1100 ACRES.IT'S A LARGE AREA, PART OF THE CITY ON THE EAST SIDE CENTERS AROUND THE ORIGINAL CENTER.
THE FIRST CENTER IS AT THE TRAIN STATION, BUT THEN AS MTC DESIGNED WHAT THEY CALL A-P-D-A-A PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT AREA, UM, THAT AREA THEN SPREADS DOWN MCDOWELL BOULEVARD.
SO THAT'S STILL PART OF THE, UH, PLAN AREA.
UM, THIS PROJECT IS FUNDED BY AN MTC GRANT, UH, WHICH PUTS CERTAIN STIPULATIONS ON IT, WHICH WE'LL GET INTO, PARTICULARLY IF YOU SEE THAT CIRCLE.
THAT'S THE, UM, WHAT'S CALLED THE TOC, THE TRANSIT ORIENTED COMMUNITIES CIRCLE.
SO THERE'S SOME SPECIFIC POLICIES THAT APPLY THERE.
UM, AND SO THE PS THE PNSP PET NORTH SPECIFIC PLAN WILL GUIDE, UH, TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT.
AND ONCE THE PLAN IS ADOPTED AND IN PLACE, IT SHOULD PUT THE CITY IN A, IN A POSITION TO APPLY FOR FURTHER GRANTING FROM OBA, UH, THE OBA FOUR GRANTING THAT MTC CAN, CAN YOU, UH, YOU DEFINE THE ACRONYMS BEFORE YOU OH, SURE.
MTC METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, CORRECT.
UH, MTC IS THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION.
SO THEY, UH, PROVIDED THE CITY WITH A FUND TO DO THIS PLANNING EFFORT.
OBA FOUR REFERS TO THE ONE BAY AREA GRANT PROGRAM, UH, RUN BY MTC, AND THAT'S TEEING UP FOR, THEY'RE GOING TO START TAKING APPLICATIONS AS SOON AS NEXT.
SO THIS MAP IS JUST TO HELP SORT OF SITUATE WHERE WE ARE.
SO IT'S A LARGE STUDY AREA, BUT IT'S, YOU CAN SEE IT'S REALLY CLOSE TO YOUR OTHER PDA, WHICH IS AROUND THE DOWNTOWN STATION.
SO, UH, THEY'RE REALLY PROXIMATE TO EACH OTHER AND CAN INFLUENCE EACH OTHER, BUT THIS IS BASICALLY WHERE THEY ARE.
UM, ALSO OUR PLAN AREA, THE PETALUMA NORTH SPECIFIC PLAN PLAN AREA IS SEPARATED FROM THE CITY TO SOME DEGREE BY THE RIVER, BY THE FREEWAY, AND JUST BY THE SHEER DISTANCE FROM DOWNTOWN.
UM, THE SMART CONTEXT FOR THIS, UM, A FEW YEARS AGO, THE CITY CONTRIBUTED $2 MILLION, UM, TO FUNDING FOR THE STATION THAT, UH, TEAMED WITH, UM, A GRANT FROM THE STATE AND SCTA, UM, SONOMA COUNTY TRANSIT AGENCY TO, UH, BUILD THE STATION.
THE STATION'S BEEN ONLINE SINCE, UH, 2005 OR 2025, AND, UM, IT'S, THE PASSENGER SERVICE IS PRETTY ROBUST.
AND, UM, AS WE LEARNED THROUGH, UH, WHEN SMART CAME TO ONE OF OUR MEETINGS, ACTUALLY SMART IS, UH, LEADING THE COUNTRY IN RECOVERY OF PASSENGERS SINCE THE COVID, UM, SMARTS THE BEST PERFORMING TRANSIT AGENCY IN THE COUNTRY.
AT LEAST THEY WERE DECEMBER 4TH WHEN WE WERE GIVEN THAT INFORMATION.
SO WHAT ARE THE GOALS, UM, TO IMPLEMENT THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE? I KNOW THAT THAT WAS BEFORE YOU, UH, APPROXIMATELY A MONTH AGO, SO, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE SOME FAMILIARITY WITH THAT.
THERE'S A LOT OF POLICIES AND GOALS IN THAT THAT CAN REALLY FEED INTO THIS.
IF YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THE EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT, THERE'S, UM, QUITE A BIT OF, UH, QUITE A FEW PAGES IN THAT DOCUMENT THAT REFERENCES VERY SPECIFIC GENERAL PLAN POLICIES THAT CAN PLAY OUT INTO HOW WE PLAN THINGS.
IN THE, UM, IN THE, THIS SPECIFIC PLAN AREA, UH, WE WILL BE IMPLEMENTING THE MT, THE M-T-C-T-O-C POLICY.
SO MTC HAS A PROGRAM CALLED TOC POLICY.
IT'S THE TRANSIT ORIENTED COMMUNITY POLICY.
AND IF YOU REMEMBER BACK TO THE MAP, THERE IS THAT HALF MILE CIRCLE, THAT'S THE TOC AREA.
AND SO THERE'S A CER A CERTAIN NUMBER OF POLICIES THAT APPLY THERE.
UM, THIS WILL PROVIDE THE REGULATORY STRUCTURE AND IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK.
AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS IT, THERE WILL BE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT, AND THERE WILL BE PUBLIC REALM STANDARDS THAT ARE DEVELOPED AS PART OF THE SPECIFIC PLAN THAT WILL GUIDE BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, MOVING FORWARD.
UM, AND THEN THE LAST GOAL IS TO CREATE A UNIQUE IDENTITY TO TAKE, UM, ALL OF THE, THE BONES THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, HAVE BEEN COMING TO LIFE OVER THE LAST DECADES ACROSS THAT 1100 ACRES.
AND REALLY FINDING A WAY TO, UH, INSTITUTE A UNIQUE IDENTITY AND A SENSE OF PLACE SO THAT, UH, YOU CAN START TO SEE, UH, IN FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
THAT'S THE, THE SPECIFIC PLANNING GUIDES OUT ABOUT 20 YEARS.
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YOU CAN START TO SEE, UH, IMPLEMENTING A REALLY SPECIAL PLACE IN COMMUNITY, THE PROJECT CONTEXT.UM, AGAIN, IF YOU HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THE EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT, YOU'LL SEE THERE'S THREE REALLY SIGNIFICANT CHAPTERS WHERE, UH, THE CONSULTANT TEAM AND, UH, NOT JUST PERKINS AND WILL THE LEAD CONSULTANT, BUT ALSO FAIR AND PEERS, THE TRAFFIC PEOPLE, THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ANALYSTS, UM, THEY SPEND A LOT OF TIME REALLY LOOKING AT WHAT'S OUT THERE, UNDERSTANDING EXISTING CITY DOCUMENTS, CITY POLICIES, CITY INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND THEY HAVE THREE REALLY KEY CHAPTERS.
ONE WHERE THEY REALLY EXAMINE THIS PLAN AREA UNDER THE RUBRIC OF NATURAL SYSTEMS. UM, THEY, THEY HAVE A, A KIND OF A SPECIAL PART OF THAT DOCUMENT, THAT CHAPTER THAT I REALLY LIKE.
IT'S CALLED THE ECOLOGICAL HISTORY.
AND YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW IT, HOW IT WENT FROM RURAL FARMLAND TO INDUSTRIAL TO SUBURBANIZATION.
AND THEN NOW WE HAVE A TRAIN STATION.
THE SECOND PART OF THAT IS CONNECTIVITY AND ACCESS.
AND IT'S NOT JUST LOOKING AT MOBILITY FOR A, FROM CAR STANDPOINT, BUT HOW DO PEOPLE GET AROUND? HOW DO BUSES GET AROUND? HOW DO BIKES GET AROUND? AND REALLY EXAMINING THE 1100 ACRES FROM THAT STANDPOINT.
THE LAST LAND USE AND BUILT FORM, AGAIN, DRAWS ON SOME OF THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE IN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE AND UNDER TRIES TO UNDERSTAND HOW GENERAL PLAN LAND USE POLICIES AND LAND USE DESIGNATIONS CAN PLAY OUT IN THE SPECIFIC PLAN AREA.
SO IT'S REALLY KIND OF AN INTERESTING WAY THAT, UH, THE EXISTING CONDITIONS KICKED OFF, UH, FOR PERKINS AND WILL AND THEIR CONSULTANT TEAM, HOW TO REALLY, UH, START THE PUBLIC PROCESS AND TALKING TO PEOPLE, UM, AND, AND, UH, STARTING TO GET IDEAS FLOWING FROM THE COMMUNITY TO THE CONSULTANT TEAM.
THIS IS JUST A REAL BRIEF SUMMARY OF THAT COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROCESS THAT'S HAPPENED SO FAR.
UH, THERE WAS SOME FOCUS GROUP MEETINGS THAT THE CONSULTANT DID WITH SPECIFIC BUSINESSES, NONPROFITS, UH, POTENTIAL HOUSING DEVELOPERS, AND, UH, HAD REALLY KEY QUESTIONS AND KEY, UM, UH, MEETING SESSIONS ON DECEMBER 4TH, UM, AT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, WE HAD A WHOLE SERIES OF, UH, CITY STAFF COME TOGETHER FOR A CITY STAFF VISIONING CHARETTE.
IT WAS MANAGED BY THE CONSULTANT TEAM, BUT YOU, IT WAS REALLY WONDERFUL BECAUSE YOU HEARD ALL THESE DIFFERENT VOICES.
UM, THE STAFF HAS AN INCREDIBLE KNOWLEDGE OF JUST LIKE THE KINDS OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ARE OUT THERE THAT HAVE BEEN THERE FOR YEARS, HOW THEY MOVE WATER OR DON'T, AND HOW THEY MOVE PEOPLE, HOW THEY MOVE CARS.
SO IT WAS A REALLY INTERESTING SESSION AND I THINK IT REALLY GAVE THE CONSULTANT TEAM A LOT OF GOOD INFORMATION.
LESS THAN A WEEK LATER, WE WERE AT THE LUCCHESE CENTER FOR A COMMUNITY OPEN HOUSE.
I KNOW I SAW SOME OF YOU THERE.
UM, AND THAT WAS, IF YOU'LL REMEMBER, FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE THERE, IF YOU'LL REMEMBER, IT WAS A SERIES OF, UH, STATIONS AND THE STATIONS HAD A THEME AND THERE WERE PEOPLE THERE TO TAKE NOTES AND, AND INTERVIEW OR TO LISTEN AND ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS ABOUT THE DIFFERENT THEMED, UM, UH, SITES OR KIOSKS, IF YOU WILL.
THERE'S BEEN TWO POP-UP EVENTS SO FAR, THERE'LL BE MORE LATER, BUT RIGHT NOW THERE WAS ONE AT LUMON.
SO THE CONSULTANT TEAM WENT OUT THERE WITH AN AERIAL AND REALLY TRIED TO PICK, UH, YOU KNOW, IN, IN TRY TO GET INTEREST IN THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT WOULD STOP BY THAT BOOTH AND GIVE QUESTIONS, UH, GIVE ANSWERS AND, UH, INFORMATION ABOUT HOW WHAT THEY SAW HAPPENING IN THE PLAN AREA.
THEN THAT LED INTO A MARCH 21ST COMMUNITY WORKSHOP ALSO AT THE LUCCHESE CENTER.
AND THAT WAS A PRESENTATION BY THE, UM, CONSULTANT TEAM.
UH, LOOKED AT SOME, UH, INITIAL, UH, DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN IDEAS, SOME URBAN DESIGN IDEAS, SOME, UM, IDEAS FOR DEVELOPMENT FROM OPEN SPACE PARKS, INFRASTRUCTURE, LAND USE, AND THEN BROKE OUT THE GROUP INTO SMALLER TABLES AND ALLOWED THE GROUP TO WORK THROUGH SOME OF THE ISSUES IN TWO SELECTED PLAN AREAS OR STUDY AREAS.
THOSE ARE THE STUDY AREAS THAT ARE POINTED OUT IN THE STAFF REPORT.
ONE IS CALLED THE TRANSIT VILLAGE, AND IT'S UPRIGHT AT THE STATION AND INCLUDES A LOT OF THE UNINCORPORATED LAND THAT IS PART OF THAT TOC CIRCLE, THAT TOC HALF MILE.
UM, THE OTHER POTENTIAL STUDY AREA IS, UM, AT WHAT WE'RE CALLING THE HEALTH CENTER.
IT'S DOWN CLOSER TO EAST WASHINGTON AND MCDOWELL.
THE THIRD AREA, WHICH YOU'LL SEE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT TONIGHT, IS MCDOWELL THE BOULEVARD THAT THEN CONNECTS THOSE TWO STUDY AREAS AND WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO MCDOWELL.
AND I THINK, THINK, UH, ANNIE WILL SHARE SOME PRETTY INTERESTING IDEAS IN ADDITION TO ALL THAT.
THE LAST THING I WANT TO TOUCH ON, BACK, BACK IN NOVEMBER, UH, WE WENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND
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TALKED ABOUT A COMMUNITY OUTREACH PARTNERS WORKING GROUP.THE COUNCIL GAVE SOME INPUT AND SOME IDEAS, UM, LIKE THE SIZE OF THE GROUP, WHO SHOULD BE ON IT, WHAT KINDS OF, NOT WHO FOR LIKE A PERSON, BUT A DISCIPLINE, YOU KNOW, SO WHAT KIND OF STUDY OR WHAT KIND OF, UH, PROFESSIONAL DEGREE OR INTEREST DO WE WANT ON IT? WE HAVE, UH, MEMBERS OF, WELL, THERE'S TWO MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING, THREE MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION TRANSIT COMMISSION.
THERE'S A GPAC MEMBER, SENIOR COMMITTEE MEMBER.
AND SO THAT GROUP HAS MET THREE TIMES.
AND, UM, WE SORT OF, WE'VE BEEN PLANNING THE MEETINGS ON THE FLY BECAUSE WE'RE KIND OF GOING IN BETWEEN WHEN THE CONSULTANT, WE TRYING TO WEAVE OUR WAY INTO THE CONSULTANT PROCESS SO THAT WE CAN SHARE SOMETHING WITH THE WORKING GROUP, GET SOME INPUT, AND THEN COME FEEDBACK.
SO, FOR INSTANCE, SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THE STAFF REPORT AND THE PRESENTATION THAT ANNIE'S ABOUT TO GIVE, UH, WE WERE WITH THE WORKING GROUP WITH MANY OF THOSE SAME IDEAS ABOUT 10 DAYS AGO.
SO THAT'S, UH, IT FOR MY PRESENTATION.
I'M GOING TO GET A DIFFERENT SCREEN AND ALLOW ANNIE TO, OH, SORRY, I THINK I HAVE TO SHARE AGAIN.
SO THIS IS ANNIE RYAN, SHE'S A DESIGNER AT THE SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE OF PERKINS AND WILL, SHE'S ONE OF A NUMBER OF PEOPLE FROM THE PERKINS AND WILL OFFICE THAT HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS.
AND AS I SAID, SHE HAS A, A WHOLE TEAM OF CONSULTANTS FROM TRAFFIC TO ECONOMICS TO INFRASTRUCTURE TO, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL.
UM, AS TOM SAID, I'M ANNIE RYAN, I'M WITH PARKINSON WILL IN SAN FRANCISCO.
UM, AND WE ARE REALLY EXCITED TO SHARE ABOUT THIS VISION THAT IS STARTING TO TAKE SHAPE, UH, FOR THE SPECIFIC PLAN AREA.
IT GETS INTO A LOT OF DETAILS.
I'M GONNA REALLY TRY TO MOVE QUICKLY AND KEEP THIS CONCISE, AND THEN WE CAN TOUCH ON ANYTHING IN THE DISCUSSION.
I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER MORE QUESTIONS, GET INTO MORE DETAIL WITH ALL OF YOU.
UH, IS THIS, CAN WE DO THIS IN PRESENTATION MODE AND THEN I CAN OH, OR IS THERE A WAY? YEAH.
UM, THE PLAN AREA, I THINK TOM ACTUALLY DID A GOOD JOB SORT OF SETTING US UP IN THE CONTEXT, BUT JUST A REMINDER OF SORT OF WHERE WE'RE AT.
THIS IS THE 1100 ACRES, UM, SORT OF ON THE OTHER SIDE OF A LOT OF THINGS.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE RIVER, THE OTHER SIDE OF 1 0 1, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE, UM, THE RAIL LINE IN SOME RESPECTS.
AND SO IT REALLY IS THIS OTHER SIDE OF TOWN, UM, THAT WE KIND OF KEEP CENTRAL IN A LOT OF THE VISIONING AND DISCUSSIONS WE'VE BEEN HAVING WITH THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
UM, THAT SAID, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO JUST UNDERSCORE JUST HOW REMARKABLE THIS PART OF THE, OF THE CITY IS.
UM, THE EAST SIDE IS JUST INCREDIBLY DIVERSE AND INDUSTRIOUS.
THERE ARE SO MANY UNIQUE ASSETS HERE, UM, THAT WE HAVE NOTICED AS CONSULTANTS AND OUTSIDERS THAT ACTUALLY MANY COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS HAVE MADE US AWARE OF, UM, SOME OF THE MORE OBVIOUS ONES, RIGHT? SO THE SMART STATION, UM, IS THE IMPETUS FOR THIS WHOLE PLANNING PROCESS.
THERE'S THE SMART PATHWAY, WHICH IS THIS INCREDIBLE CROSS TOWN CONNECTOR, BUT ACTUALLY A REGIONAL CONNECTOR AS WELL.
UM, A REALLY RICH DIVERSITY OF NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO, UM, I WANNA POINT OUT THE, THE MOBILE HOME COMMUNITIES, WHICH MANY RESIDENTS, UM, OF THOSE HAVE COME TO OUR SESSIONS.
UM, AND THEY'VE REALLY IMPARTED ON US JUST WHAT ESSENTIAL PIECES OF SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE THEY ARE.
LIKE, THESE ARE REALLY, REALLY VALUABLE NEIGHBORHOODS HERE.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, A NETWORK OF PARKS, CREEKS, OPEN SPACES THAT REALLY WEAVE THROUGH THE PLAN AREA.
I MEAN, THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE.
UM, I ALSO JUST WANNA TOUCH ON THE SORT OF JOB CENTER COMMERCE, CENTER OF COMMERCE THAT'S OCCURRING HERE AND OF, AND AS, AS WELL, THE HEALTH, UM, INDUSTRY THAT TAKES ROOT, UM, AND REALLY SERVES THE LARGER REGION.
THERE'S JUST SO MUCH PRIDE FOR THE LOCAL BUSINESSES THAT OPERATE HERE THAT HAVE STARTED HERE.
IT'S A REALLY IMPRESSIVE ECOSYSTEM OF MAKING, OF PRODUCTION, OF, OF ENTERPRISE, UM, AND TECHNOLOGY.
IT'S, I, I CAN'T UNDERSCORE THIS ENOUGH, IT IS REALLY A LOT TO BE PROUD OF.
AND I THINK THIS PLANNING PROCESS HAS REALLY, UM, UNDERSCORED THIS.
AND THIS IS, THIS GIVES US A GOOD FOUNDATION TO KIND OF GET INTO THE VISION OF WHAT THIS WANTS TO BE IN THE FUTURE.
UM, SO THE VISION STATEMENT, THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.
WE'VE BEEN SHARING THIS AT ALL OF OUR, UM, COMMUNITY SESSIONS AS IT DEVELOPS.
UM, AND SO OUT OF THESE CONVERSATIONS, UH, WE HAVE THIS STATEMENT FOR A PLAN AREA THAT HAS YET TO BE NAMED.
UH, SO IT'S STILL A BLANK, BUT, UM, WE SEE IT AS A PLACE THAT WILL BE A RESILIENT, CONNECTED, VIBRANT PLACE WHERE HOUSING, JOBS, AND RECREATION COME TOGETHER IN A WALKABLE, NATURE ORIENTED DISTRICT THAT SUPPORTS HEALTH, COMMUNITY, AND LONG-TERM ECONOMIC RESILIENCE.
UH, COMPLETE NEIGHBORHOODS AND DISTINCTIVE MIXED USE
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HUBS WILL OFFER HOMES, JOBS, AND DAILY AMENITIES WITHIN A SHORT WALK OR RIDE TRANSIT.CORRIDORS WILL BE ACTIVE AND WELCOMING WITH ART PUBLIC SPACES AND HUMAN SCALE DEVELOPMENT THAT SUPPORTS RIDERSHIP AND CAR OPTIONAL LIVING CREEKS.
AND GREEN STREETS WILL FORM ECOLOGICAL SPINES, LINKING PEOPLE TO OPEN SPACES, MANAGING WATER, COOLING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS AND PROTECTING FROM WILDFIRE RISK.
AND A THRIVING ECOSYSTEM OF DIFFERENT BUSINESSES WILL BE SUPPORTED BY A MIX OF AMENITIES THAT GENERATE VIBRANCY AND ENABLE PEOPLE TO LIVE NEAR THEIR WORK, SCHOOL AND FAMILIES.
UM, AND SO FROM THIS, YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE ARE JUST WORDS,
SO THE PLAN FRAMEWORK IS GONNA TAKE THESE PILLARS, AND IT'S GONNA START TO THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS SPATIALLY AND I'LL, I'LL WALK THROUGH THIS IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES.
UM, AND SO WE START WITH AN URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK, WHICH REALLY JUST IS THE BIG PICTURE, VERY CONCEPTUAL DESIGN VISION FOR THE PLAN AREA.
AND IT'S FOCUSING ON THREE BIG IDEAS.
THE FIRST BEING A DISTINCT 15 MINUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CONCEPT.
AND THIS IS COMING STRAIGHT FROM THE GENERAL PLAN.
IT'S REALLY GREAT FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTUAL THINKING ABOUT WALKABLE, WALKABLE COMMUNITIES WHERE RESIDENTS CAN ACCESS HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, EVERYDAY SERVICES, OPEN SPACES, ALL WITHOUT NEEDING TO GET IN THEIR CAR.
UM, AND ALL ANCHORED BY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS THAT, AS I SAID, HAVE ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED IN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
SO OF COURSE, THE NORTH SMART STATION, UM, THE EAST SIDE TRANSIT CENTER OR WASHINGTON SQUARE CENTER, WHICH IS JUST OUTSIDE OF OUR PLAN BOUNDARY.
UM, AND THEN DEER CREEK VILLAGE.
UM, IN ADDITION, WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THESE NETWORK OF GREEN STITCHES.
SO THESE ARE THE PARKS, THE CREEKS, THE TRAILS THAT ARE WEAVING THROUGH THE PLAN AREA AND REALLY PLAY ESSENTIAL ROLES, NOT JUST IN TERMS OF ECOLOGY, FLOOD MANAGEMENT, AND, YOU KNOW, UH, SOURCES OF NATURE, BUT THEY'RE REALLY VITAL CONNECTIONS FOR, FOR RECREATION, FOR PEOPLE TO GATHER, UM, AND ALSO TO CONNECT WITH THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
I MEAN, IT'S WHY PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE CHOOSE TO LIVE IN PETALUMA.
UM, SO THESE ARE ALREADY PRESENT IN THE PLAN AREA TODAY.
AND SO THE GOAL IS REALLY TO ENHANCE AND BUILD FROM WHAT IS ALREADY THERE.
UM, AND THEN THE THIRD IDEA IS THIS, IS THIS IDEA OF NEIGHBORHOOD CIRCUITS.
SO THESE ARE, UM, WALKABLE BIKEABLE LOOPS THAT LEVERAGE THE OFF STREET TRAILS TO CONNECT RESIDENTS AND WORKERS TO ALL OF THE IMPORTANT DESTINATIONS, UM, AND AMENITIES AND OF COURSE, TRANSIT THAT ARE IN THE PLAN AREA.
AND SO WHY WE THINK ABOUT THESE CIRCUITS IS, YOU KNOW, THEY REALLY HELP TO BREAK DOWN THE PLAN AREA INTO MUCH SMALLER INTEGER, UM, AND, AND REALLY DISTINCT SUB AREAS.
SO THESE CAN START TO HAVE, EACH LOOP COULD START TO HAVE ITS OWN CHARACTER, ITS OWN IDENTITY, UM, AND THEY REALLY CAN HELP TO EXPAND CONNECTIVITY IN THE PLAN AREA, NOT JUST FOR THE PARCELS THAT ARE RIGHT ALONG THE, EITHER THE SMART STATION OR MCDOWELL, BUT PARCELS THAT ARE MAYBE DEEPER INTO THE PLAN AREA.
SOME OF THE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS THAT AREN'T BEING SHOWN.
YOU KNOW, THERE WOULD BE NO LAND USE CHANGES, BUT HOW CAN WE STILL BRING THESE AREAS INTO THE CHANGES THAT WE'RE ENVISIONING FOR THIS PLAN AREA, MAKE IT FEEL MORE INTEGRATED.
UM, AND SO MOVING FROM THAT INTO MAYBE SOME MORE THEMATIC ASPECTS OF THE FRAMEWORK, UM, FROM A ENVIRONMENT AND RE RESILIENCE STANDPOINT, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY CRITICAL THAT THIS PLAN BE GROUNDED IN AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE RISKS OF FLOODING WILDFIRE AND THE REALLY ESSENTIAL ROLE THAT OUR OPEN SPACE NETWORKS PLAY IN, IN, IN, AND IN THIS, UM, THAT WHEN WE DESIGN WITH NATURE, WE ARE SETTING OURSELVES UP FOR MUCH LONGER LASTING AND FINANCIALLY LESS RISKY DEVELOPMENT OUTCOMES.
THIS IS REALLY CRITICAL AND, UM, IT'S, IT'S SORT OF THE FOUNDATION OF WHAT PERKINS AND WILL DOES.
I MEAN, IT'S WHY WE WANTED TO WORK WITH YOU ALL IN PETALUMA.
WE THINK THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT HERE.
UM, THE ENVIRONMENT AND RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK IS LOOKING AT TWO KEY RISKS, PRIMARILY WILDFIRE UP IN THE NORTHEAST.
UM, WHAT TOM REFERRED TO AS THE, THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS, ESPECIALLY PRONE TO WILDFIRE RISK.
UM, THAT IS, AS YOU CAN SEE ILLUMINATED HERE, THE, THERE'S A SIGNIF SIGNIFICANT PART OF THE PLAN AREA THAT IS WITHIN THE FLOODPLAIN.
UM, AND SO IT'S PRIORITIZING DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR STREETS THAT CAN ENABLE THEM TO BECOME MORE CLIMATE RESPONSIVE.
SO STREETS THAT CAN MANAGE STORM WATER, UM, STREETS THAT CAN MITIGATE FIRE RISKS.
THERE'S THE, THERE ARE DESIGN STRATEGIES THAT A SPECIFIC PLAN IS SPECIFICALLY, SPECIFICALLY WELL EQUIPPED, UM, TO HELP PUT IN PLACE.
UM, THE PLAN CAN ALSO PRIORITIZE THE ENHANCEMENT OF EXISTING AND NEW MULTIFUNCTIONAL OPEN SPACES.
SO OPEN SPACES THAT ARE BOTH CLIMATE RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE, PLACES TO STORE WATER, UM, PLACES THAT PEOPLE CAN GATHER, PLACES THAT PEOPLE CAN BE IN NATURE, UM, FROM A MOBILITY STANDPOINT.
WE'RE LOOKING AT REALLY PRIORITIZING HUMAN SCALE WALKABLE ENVIRONMENTS FOR ANY LARGER, NEWER SCALE DEVELOPMENTS.
WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE UNINCORPORATED AREA THAT IS RIGHT CLOSE TO, UM, THE SMART STATION.
UM, THINKING ABOUT HOW THAT AREA MIGHT EVOLVE OVER THE NEXT MANY DECADES, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE ENSURE THAT THERE IS A MORE WALKABLE, BIKEABLE, UM, SENSE OF PLACE THERE WITH CONNECTIONS, UM, THAT PEOPLE WANT TO WALK AND BE OUT OF THEIR CARS IN, UM, WE'RE THINKING ABOUT BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN FACILITIES THAT ARE REALLY PRIORITIZING ALL AGES.
WE TALK ABOUT THIS AS EIGHT TO
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80, SO A STREET THAT PEOPLE, UM, A CHILD TO AN 80-YEAR-OLD FEEL COMFORTABLE, UM, MOVING ALONG.AND WE WANNA BE REALLY BRINGING IN THESE OFF STREET TRAILS, UM, INTEGRATING THEM INTO SURROUNDING OPEN SPACES WHEREVER POSSIBLE, AND EVEN NEW DEVELOPMENT AS WELL.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, I I REALLY WANNA TOUCH ON THIS
THAT THERE IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT FREIGHT AND LOGISTICS MOVEMENT THAT IS CIRCULATING THROUGH THIS AREA.
UM, AND THAT HAS TO, THAT HAS TO BE INTEGRATED INTO THIS AS WELL.
AND SO HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT ENABLING THE INDUSTRIAL AND THE BUSINESS PAR PARCELS TO SUSTAIN THEIR BUSINESSES, UM, IN A WAY THAT IS, UM, NOT MINIMIZING THE SAFETY FOR PEDESTRIANS AND BIKES.
UM, AND THEN THE, THE LAST PIECE OF THIS IS, IS THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE COMPLETE MIX OF USES.
SO HOW ARE WE THINKING ABOUT HOUSING ECONOMY IN PLACE? UM, AND SO MUCH OF THIS IS WHAT ALREADY MAKES THIS AREA SO EXCEPTIONAL.
AND SO NOW WITH THE SMART STATION REALLY COMING ONLINE, THERE'S EVEN GREATER POTENTIAL, UM, TO, TO SEE THIS THROUGH.
AND SO THIS MEANS STRATEGIES THAT ARE REALLY FOCUSING ON, UM, ENABLING AND, AND, AND FURTHERING THIS SORT OF WALKABLE 15 MINUTE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER, UM, WITH A MIX OF USES, OPEN SPACES AND PROXIMITY OF ALL RESIDENTS AND WORKERS, UM, KEEPING AND STRENGTHENING THE EXISTING JOB CENTERS AS VERY DIVERSE LOCAL EMPLOYMENT HUBS, UM, AND ADDING MORE HOUSING WHERE POSSIBLE NEAR TRANSIT THAT CAN SUPPORT MIXED USE GROWTH IN THE AREAS WITH THE GREATEST POTENTIAL FOR CHANGE.
SO THESE ARE WHAT YOU SEE SORT OF IN THE DARKER PURPLE.
THEY'RE AREAS THAT WERE ALSO IDENTIFIED IN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, ALONG WITH THE UNINCORPORATED AREA THAT IS ACROSS FROM, UH, THE SMART STATION ALONG CORONA.
AND SO HERE'S JUST SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT THIS SORT OF COMPLETE MIX OF USES, WHAT THE MENU COULD MAYBE ENTAIL.
I MEAN, THIS IS ALL VERY CONCEPTUAL AND THESE ARE JUST, UM, LIKE BIG LAND USE TERMS. BUT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF WHAT I THINK WE'RE TRYING TO GET ACROSS IS THAT IT REALLY CAN BE A MIXTURE, AND IT SHOULD BE A MIXTURE THAT DIVERSITY AND USE IS IMPORTANT HERE BECAUSE THIS IS LONG RANGE AND MARKETS CHANGE AND CYCLES CHANGE.
AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE PLAN IS SORT OF FLEXIBLE ENOUGH, UH, TO, TO ENABLE DEVELOPMENT THAT THAT CAN ALIGN.
UM, WE WANNA SEE A DIVERSITY OF HOUSEHOLDS ABLE TO ABLE TO LIVE HERE.
UM, AND WE ALSO WANNA ENSURE THAT THERE'S SORT OF A FLEXIBLE INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL CHARACTER, UM, THAT IS REALLY SUCCESS, THAT'S BEEN INTEGRAL TO THE SUCCESS OF MANY OF THE BUSINESSES HERE THAT THAT SORT OF SENSIBILITY NEED NEEDS TO REMAIN.
AND SO, JUST GETTING A LITTLE BIT INTO NOW, THE, THE, THE CONCEPTS THAT WE'RE GONNA TALK THROUGH MORE WITH YOU, UM, AND WHAT WE'RE REFERRING TO AS THE PROPOSED VISION.
IN ONE WAY, THIS SPECIFIC PLAN IS VERY UNIQUE IN THAT IT'S NOT PROPOSING, IT'S NOT LOOKING TO DO SORT OF WHOLESALE LAND USE CHANGES ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA.
IT'S ACTUALLY CONTEMPLATING, UM, MUCH MORE FOCUSED, UH, CHANGE.
AND IT'S LOOKING AT, AT THREE AREAS IN PARTICULAR.
AND WHAT TOM MENTIONED, OF COURSE, IS THE TRANSIT VILLAGE.
SO THE AREA THAT'S RIGHT AROUND THE SMART STATION.
UM, AND THESE ARE SORT OF WHAT YOU CAN SEE AT THE TOP OF THE SCREEN.
UM, THESE ARE PARCELS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS OPPORTUNITY SITES, EITHER IN THE GENERAL PLAN AREA OR THEY'RE PART OF THIS UNINCORPORATED AREA THAT IS SORT OF UN UM, HAS, HAS LIMITED DEVELOPMENT ON IT TODAY.
UM, THE HEALTH DISTRICT IS WHAT YOU SEE SORT OF TOWARDS THE BOTTOM.
AND THIS IS REALLY THE PLAZA NORTH AND SOUTH SHOPPING CENTERS.
IT'S THE AREA, UM, THAT INCLUDES LUCCHESE PARK AND THE HOSPITAL.
SO IT'S SORT OF THINKING ABOUT A, A NODE THAT COULD START TO OCCUR HERE, UM, THAT IS, THAT IS ALL THROUGH THIS LENS OF A HEALTH ORIENTED DISTRICT.
AND THEN WE'RE, WE'RE THINKING ABOUT NORTH MCDOWELL CORRIDOR.
AND SO HOW THAT, UM, HOW THAT CORRIDOR CAN START TO BE A PLACEMAKING, UM, FEATURE IN AND OF ITSELF, UM, AND POTENTIALLY AREAS ALONG THAT CORRIDOR THAT CAN START TO AUGMENT PLACEMAKING AND, AND MAKE THIS A REALLY SORT OF DEEP SENSE OF PLACE.
AND SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE, I'M GONNA KIND OF WALK THROUGH EACH OF THE FOCUS AREAS, WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE, THIS IS A CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM OF WHAT COULD BE POSSIBLE FOR THE TRANSIT VILLAGE.
SO OVER THE LONG RANGE, LONG RANGE FUTURE BUILD OUT OF THE PLAN AREA, YOU'RE SEEING, UM, COLORED BUBBLES HERE.
UM, THESE ARE REALLY JUST LAND USE INTENTIONS OR BLOCKS, UM, THAT INDICATE HOW WE MIGHT START TO IMAGINE A MORE MIXED USE NEIGHBORHOOD, UM, WALKABLE, PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED, A RANGE OF HOUSING, UM, THAT'S SORT OF PRIORITIZING INTENSITY CLOSEST TO THE STATION.
WE WANT, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS IDEA OF ACTIVE USES, PLACES THAT PEOPLE CAN SHOP, GET THEIR DAILY AMENITIES, NOT JUST FOR RESIDENTS, BUT FOR WORKERS TOO, ALL SORT OF IN PROXIMITY OF TRANSIT.
UM, THE IDEA OF A GROCERY STORE WAS SOMETHING THAT CAME UP A LOT IN OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS.
SO REALLY PLACES THAT ARE USEFUL AND, AND, AND THAT PEOPLE THAT CAN SUPPORT PEOPLE LIVING CAR FREE SHOULD THEY CHOOSE.
UM, OPEN SPACES CONCEPTUALLY ARE SHOWN PURELY DIAGRAMMATICALLY TO JUST, UM, COMMUNICATE THAT THERE'S A REAL DESIRE FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE IN PROXIMITY OF OPEN SPACE, UM, AND THAT A SPECIFIC PLAN CAN HELP LAY THAT OUT.
UM, AND, UH, I GUESS JUST TO, TO ADD, LIKE, THERE IS A LOT ON HERE
UM, BUT I THINK THE BIG IDEAS THAT THESE ARE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS THAT WE CAN START TO BUILD STRATEGIES AND POLICIES AROUND,
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UM, ALL SORT OF IN, IN THE, IN THE VEIN OF WANTING TO SEE SOMETHING THAT FEELS COMPLETE, A MIXED USE SORT OF INTENT FOR THIS AREA THROUGH THE FUTURE.UM, MOVING OVER TO THE HEALTH DISTRICT.
SO HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME WAYS THAT THE PLAZA NORTH AND SOUTH SHOPPING CENTERS, UM, WHICH THE UPDATED GENERAL PLAN HAS DESIGNATED AS URBAN CORRIDOR MIXED USE, HOW FUTURE DEVELOPMENT HERE COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE A MORE WALKABLE ENVIRONMENT ALONG NORTH MCDOWELL AND REALLY ENABLE ENHANCED CONNECTIONS ACROSS THE STREET TO LUCCHESE PARK, TO THE HOSPITAL, UM, AND ALL OF THE WONDERFUL SORT OF CIVIC ASSETS THAT EXIST OVER IN THE, IN THE CIVIC CENTER AREA THERE.
UM, SO AGAIN, JUST TO REITERATE, EVERYTHING HERE IS, IS CONCEPTUAL IN NATURE.
ANY NEW STREETS, UM, OR OPEN SPACES, YOU KNOW, ARE MEANT TO SHOW POTENTIAL INTENT, BUT ALL OF THIS HAS TO BE WORKED THROUGH WITH PROPERTY OWNERS, WITH FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS IS A VERY FIRST, UH, VERY FIRST STEP IN ANY KIND OF, UH, PLANNING PROCESS, UM, WITH THAT.
OH, AND THEN OF COURSE, THE LAST PIECE,
UM, AND SO HERE WE'RE REALLY THINKING ABOUT, WELL, WHAT IS THE SPINE OR THAT SORT OF, UM, CONNECTION THAT HOLDS THESE TWO DISTINCT, UM, UH, FOCUS AREAS AT THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH TOGETHER.
UM, MCDOWELL NORTH MCDOWELL, IT'S NOT THE SAME STREET FOR THE ENTIRE THREE MILES.
IT REALLY FLUCTUATES IN CHARACTER, DEPENDING ON THE LAND USES THAT SURROUND IT.
AND SO WE SEE REALLY, WE SEE OPPORTUNITY TO DIFFERENTIATE A BIT HERE AS WE LOOK ALONG THE CORRIDOR AND FIND SOME KEY AREAS WHERE THERE COULD BE POTENTIALLY MORE PLACEMAKING OR DIFFERENT TYPES OF OPPORTUNITIES TO SHOWCASE COMMUNITY IDENTITY.
SO THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE SEEING WITH THE STAR SYMBOLS.
THESE COULD BE PLACES FOR PUBLIC ART, PLACES FOR POP-UP EVENTS, SMALL BUSINESSES, TO, TO SHOWCASE THEIR WORK.
UM, IT COULD BE IMMERSIVE WAY FINDING AND SIGNAGE THAT REALLY CREATES A SENSE OF ARRIVAL, A SENSE OF, UM, DIRECTION AND CONNECTS YOU TO THINGS LIKE THE SMART PATHWAY OR THE CROSSTOWN TRAIL.
UM, NORTH MCDOWELL BOULEVARD, OF COURSE, IS A STREET
SO WE'RE THINKING ABOUT, UM, THE STREETSCAPE AS WELL, AND OPPORTUNITIES TO SORT OF ENHANCE THAT EXPERIENCE.
AND SO THIS VISION IS FOCUSED ON FINDING OPPORTUNITIES TO, WHEREVER POSSIBLE SHIFT THE ALLOCATION OF THE STREET FROM BEING ONE THAT IS MAINLY FOR VEHICLES, UM, TO ONE THAT GIVES A LITTLE BIT MORE SPACE TO PEOPLE AND TREES AND NATURE.
AND THIS CAN BE DONE IN A VARIETY OF WAYS.
UM, CHANGING THE RIGHT OF WAY, UH, OF COURSE NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED THROUGH A TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT STANDPOINT.
SO OUR CONSULTANT TEAM IS ACTIVELY ANALYZING THIS RIGHT NOW TO UNDERSTAND WHAT LEVEL OF CHANGE COULD BE FEASIBLE, UM, TO PLAN FOR IN TERMS OF TRAVEL LANE CHANGES, EITHER FOR A, A PORTION OF NORTH MCDOWELL OR, OR THE ENTIRETY OF THE CORRIDOR.
BUT WHAT YOU SEE HERE ARE OPTIONS, UM, WHERE, YOU KNOW, AS TRAVEL LANES PERHAPS ARE NARROWED OR REMOVED, THAT THEN IN, IN CHANGE GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT MORE SPACE FOR PEOPLE, MORE SPACE FOR EXPANDED SIDEWALKS, UH, ADDITIONAL BICYCLE FACILITIES, AND EVEN ADDITIONAL, UM, TREE PLANTING SCREEN INFRASTRUCTURE THAT CAN REALLY MAKE THIS STREET, UM, A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE.
AND SO, UM, STAFF AND OUR TEAM HAS PREPARED SOME KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION TONIGHT.
AND THESE ARE, I BELIEVE, ALL PRINTED IN YOUR STAFF REPORT AS WELL.
UM, AND SO THESE ARE, UM, I'LL, I'LL JUST READ THROUGH THEM NOW.
UM, KEY RECOMMENDATIONS TO CONSIDER ARE TO SUPERSEDE AND EXPIRE THE CORONA ELI SPECIFIC PLAN FROM 1989, SUPERSEDE AND EXPIRE APPLICABLE PORTIONS OF THE PETALUMA SMART RAIL STATION AREAS, TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT TOD MASTER PLAN FROM 2013, EXPAND THE PLAN AREA TO INCLUDE ALL OF THE ANNEXATION POTENTIAL FOCUS DEVELOPMENT PLANNING ON THE TRANSIT VILLAGE AND HEALTH DISTRICT SUB AREAS.
DESIGN THE MCDOWELL BOULEVARD CORRIDOR AS A RESPONSIVE AND SUPPORTIVE MULTIMODAL MULTICONTEXT PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, AND PREPARE SPECIFIC PLAN CONSISTENT WITH THE PROPOSED VISION.
SO THAT, UH, THAT'S OUR PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU, AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO STAFF AND THE CONSULTANTS, UM, FOR THEIR PRESENTATIONS.
LET'S SEE IF THERE ARE ANY SORT OF SPECIFIC QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS BEFORE WE MOVE INTO PUBLIC COMMENT IN A MORE OPEN-ENDED DISCUSSION.
UM, ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS, COUNCIL MEMBER BARNICLE? YEAH.
UM, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY WITHIN THE, THE, THE PDA, BUT UM, I KNOW I SEE, UH, MS. GROVE HERE TONIGHT.
HAVE WE TALKED TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THAT ABOUT, UM, POTENTIAL PLANS FOR, UM, TURNING THAT INTO OPEN SPACE? I CAN TAKE THAT.
UH, WE'RE, WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF SETTING UP A MEETING WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN THE PLAN AREA, BUT, UH, MS. GROVE AND HER BROTHER FRANK HAVE BEEN FRANK'S ON THE WORKING GROUP.
AND SO THEY HAVE BEEN GIVING US INPUT, BUT WE HAVEN'T STARTED TO GET TO THE POINT
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WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO REALLY, UM, ENVISION THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING OUTSIDE OF OUR PLAN AREA.BUT I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA AND THEY'RE OPEN TO IT.
AND AS PART OF OUR DISCUSSIONS TO GET GOING WITH THE PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREA, WE'VE BEEN STARTING TO, UH, CONVERSE WITH PERMIT SONOMA AND, UH, LAFCO.
SO WE'RE INITIATING THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
UM, AND THEN FINAL QUESTION, I NOTICED THE TRANSIT CENTER, UM, I KNOW WE'RE, UH, IS IT JUST SORT OF A FOREGONE CONCLUSION THAT THE TRANSIT CENTER'S GONNA REMAIN IN THAT LOCATION? DO YOU MEAN YOU MEAN THE NORTH STATION? NO, THE PETALUMA TRANSIT CENTER.
OH, OH, AT, AT WASHINGTON, THE BUS DEPOT.
THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
UM, WE HAVEN'T REALLY PUSHED ON THAT TO SEE, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SHOPPING CENTER, BUT WE HAVEN'T REALLY SORT OF DELVED INTO TALKING TO TRANSIT OPERATORS ABOUT WHAT THE LONG-TERM VISION IS OF THAT SITE.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT, COMMISSIONER? NO.
UM, COULD YOU BRING UP THE, THE OVERALL PROJECT AREA MAP AND THEN, UH, HELP IDENTIFY WHERE THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY PORTIONS OF THAT, UM, ARE SPECIFIC MAP? IS THERE A SPECIFIC MAP? 'CAUSE WE HAVE TWO DIFFERENT PRESENTATIONS.
WAS IT, UM, THE FIRST MAP? UH, I, I, EITHER ONE.
THE MAP, IF YOU'VE STILL GOT, GOT THE, THE, UM, CONSULTANT, MAYBE SLIDE 16 THAT HAS THE PROPOSED VISION WITH THE THREE FOCUS AREAS WOULD GIVE US, IS THAT ENOUGH OF AN OVERVIEW FOR YOU? YEAH, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY FROM, FROM THE GENERAL PLAN, WHICH I HAD A MAP IDENTIFYING WHERE THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES WERE, I RECALL THAT IT'S SORT OF THE MCDOWELL CORRIDOR PORTION OF IT IS, IS THAT CORRECT? I'D SUGGEST LOOKING, PULLING UP PAGE OR SLIDE THREE OF THE, UM, CONSULTANT'S MAP WOULD BE THE BEST PLACE TO FIND THAT INFORMATION ON THE CONSULTANT ONE OR STAFF ONE, UH, CONSULTANT, I BELIEVE.
YEAH, I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE THOSE BOUNDARIES MAPPED ON THIS PLAN.
UM, SO I WOULD, MAYBE IF YOU GO FURTHER, YOU SAID SLIDE THREE, I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO, BUT I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE THOSE BOUNDARIES SHOWN HERE EXPLICITLY.
UM, I THINK IT'S A CENSUS TRACK LEVEL OF BOUNDARY, RIGHT? THAT IS PICKING UP, UM, SIGNIFICANT PORTIONS OF MCDOWELL, PROBABLY THE LOWER SIDE OF MCDOWELL, I WOULD GUESS LIKE THE SIDE THAT'S SORT OF IN BETWEEN 1 0 1 PERHAPS, BUT I DON'T HAVE THOSE BOUNDARIES SHOWN HERE.
I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO AND I, IF THERE'S A QUESTION I I, IF YOU HAVE LIKE A FURTHER QUESTION TO IT, I'M HAPPY TO, I WAS JUST HOPING TO MAKE SURE THAT MY MEMORY OF WHERE THAT PORTION OF THE PROJECT AREA WAS ALIGNED WITH, WITH OTHERS MEMORIES.
BUT THAT'S, THAT'S MY QUESTION.
IT'S, UM, THERE'S, I THINK WE CAN FIND THAT ONLINE AND COME BACK, COME BACK TO IT BECAUSE IT'S STATE LEVEL DATA THAT'S MAPPED AND SO, UM, WE JUST NEED TO FIND THE RIGHT PORTAL FOR IT.
IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS, WE CAN MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
ALRIGHT, THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO COMMENT ON THIS ITEM.
PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
AND IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO ALREADY, PLEASE FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND BRING IT TO THE CLERK CLERK'S OVER HERE.
IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY TURNED IN YOUR BLUE SPEAKER CARD, I'LL TALK SLOWLY SO YOU HAVE A CHANCE.
AS THOSE CARDS ARE GETTING TURNED IN, CLERK, DID WE, OH, WELL.
ONCE YOU'RE BACK TO YOUR MIC,
NOW I'LL ASK DID WE RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS, PUBLIC COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING?
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WE RECEIVED NO PUBLIC COMMENTS PRIOR TO THE MEETING.I THINK WE RECEIVED, WELL, WE RECEIVED ONE THAT'S IN THE, THAT'S RIGHT.
WE RECEIVED THE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT RIGHT BEFORE THE MEETING AND IT'S BEEN PUBLISHED ONLINE FOR VIEWING AS WELL.
AND FOR IN-PERSON SPEAKERS, I'VE GOT THREE AND MAYBE A FOURTH ON THE WAY.
I THINK WE CAN KEEP IT TO THREE MINUTES AND WE'LL START WITH DWAYNE BELLINGER, FOLLOWED BY NICOLA FRY.
UH, GOOD EVENING, DWAYNE HERE.
UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE.
AND I AM A, A BIT SURPRISED AT THE EX THE EXTENT OF THIS, THIS PROJECT, THE LAST TIME I WAS INVOLVED IN PLANNING WAS, UM, BACK IN 90, WE'RE TALKING 36 YEARS AGO.
AND, UH, I WAS INVITED INTO THE, UH, PLAN INTO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE TO SPEAK WITH TWO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY WERE GOING TO APPROVE THE CORONA ELI PLAN AND GIVE OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, A TOTAL OF 800 STUDENTS AT THE TIME WE HAD 35.
AND, UM, SO IT GAVE US, TOLD THEY WANTED US TO GET THAT DONE.
UH, ONE OF THE, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS MENTIONED THAT THEY DON'T WANT THE SAME PROBLEM THAT THEY HAD ON THE, UH, SOUTH END OF TOWN.
AND I WAS KIND OF STARTLED AT THE TIME NOT BEING INVOLVED.
AND SO I'VE, I'VE CHECKED OUT TO WHAT, WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM SOUTH END OF TOWN AND, AND GETTING THE SCHOOL STARTED AND ON TIME AND IN PLACE.
AND THE OTHER THING WAS THEIR MARKET ON THE SOUTH END OF TOWN, THEY HAD PLACED IT CLOSE TO HIGHWAY.
WHAT WAS IT? DOWN? UM, UM, CASA GRUY AT, UM, MCDOWELL.
AND IT, IT'S RIGHT, THERE WAS A MARKET, NOW IT'S A GYM, AND IT, IT FAILED, I PRESUME, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T SURROUND IT WITH HOUSES.
AND SO WHEN WE WENT TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH THE CRO ELI PLAN, WE CHOSE TO PUT THE, UH, LAKEHORN PARK RIGHT IN THE CENTER SO THAT IT WOULD HAVE AS MANY WALKABLE COMMUNITY MEMBERS IT COULD POSSIBLY HAVE.
AND I HANDED OUT A, UM, A MAP FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE HERE.
UM, OF THE, OF THE THINGS THAT I FOUND, UM, INTERESTING WAS A DISCUSSION IS TO, UH, FIRST OF ALL, WHAT FROM OUR HOUSE, IT'S ONE MILE EXACTLY NOT AS THE CROW FLIES, AS AS THE, UH, HORSE WOULD RIDE, UM, TO THE SMART STATION.
AND WE, OF THE THINGS I HOPE GET DONE HERE IS THAT WE GET A, A PATH I HAVE MARKED IN BROWN, UH, THAT WE GET A PATH FOR ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING ON, ON ELI.
AND ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING ON CORONA THAT ARE CLOSE BY CAN WALK TO SMART.
AND THE, UM, OTHER THING THAT WAS MENTIONED IN THESE REPORTS, UH, WAS THE WATER PROBLEM.
AND OF THE, UM, MAPS I COULD FIND, THE ALONG THE RAIL I MARKED IN BLUE IS THE, UH, MAJOR PLACE WHERE THERE'S WATER.
AND WE HAVE TO DO SOME PLANNING AS TO HOW TO ACCOMMODATE WATER ON THAT, UH, VERY WESTERN POINT.
THE FIRE I EMBARK BY WRITING EUCALYPTUS AT THE TOP.
UM, AS YOU, THERE ARE A, A GROUP OF EUCALYPTUS TREES RIGHT THERE ON THE RAIL, UM, NEAR THE STATION THAT REPRESENT THE MOST SIGNIFICANT FIRE HAZARD FOR OUR PLACE HERE.
I I DON'T KNOW WHETHER WE CAN GET THE EUCALYPTUS DOWN, BUT WE CERTAINLY SHOULDN'T CHARGE THEM, UM, SPECIAL FEES FOR REMOVING THEM AFTER THEY GET ANNEXED.
UM, THAT WE SHOULD, WE SHOULD PAY PEOPLE TO TAKE YOU.
NEXT WE'VE GOT NICOLA FRY, FOLLOWED BY TOM SCOTT.
UM, MY NAME IS NICOLA FRY AND I HAVE BEEN A LONG TIME SUPPORTER OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING IN PETALUMA.
I LIVE IN THE PET PETALUMA ESTATES AND REPRESENT PETALUMA STATES, YOUNGSTOWN, AND THE OTHER FIVE MANUFACTURED PARKS, AND SEVERAL PROPERTY OWNERS AND SEVERAL BUSINESS OWNERS ALL IN THIS AREA.
UM, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING REALLY PARTICULAR THAT OCCURRED TO ME WITHIN THE LAST WEEK.
UM, THE BUILDINGS ARE GOING UP IN THE MERIDIAN HOUSING, AND IF YOU LEAVE OUR DRIVEWAY OF PETALUMA STATES OR YOU LEAVE THE DRIVEWAY OF
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YOUNGSTOWN, WE ARE NOW FACED WITH A WALL BECAUSE THE BUILDINGS ARE FOUR STORIES HIGH AND THE BUILDINGS ARE ALSO FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE SIDEWALK.SO BETWEEN GETTING OUT OF OUR PARK, YOU HAVE TO ADDRESS MCDOWELL BOULEVARD, UM, WHICH IS NOT THE FRIENDLIEST STREET, AND YOU ARE FACED WITH A WALL.
NOW, HOPEFULLY WHEN THEY GET TO ACTUALLY LOOKING LIKE BUILDINGS AND NOT JUST PLYWOOD WALLS, UM, IT WILL BE BETTER.
BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT OCCURRED TO ME THAT WE'VE NEVER DISCUSSED ON THE PLANNING COMMISSION OR THE CITY COUNCIL OR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A NEIGHBORHOOD GETS ISOLATED BY A NEW BUILDING? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EIGHT STORY BUILDINGS IN THIS AREA.
WHAT ARE THOSE BUILDINGS GOING TO DO WHEN THEY ISOLATE OTHER COMMUNITIES? UM, WE CAN'T, WE DON'T HAVE A VIEW ANYMORE.
UM, WE, IT WAS NEVER TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.
UM, I WENT BACK TO ALL THE OLD PHOTOGRAPHS AND PICTURES AND DRAWINGS THAT THEY DID OF IT.
NOTHING EVER SHOWED IT FROM OUR VIEW, LOOKING OUT FROM OUR PROPERTIES.
UM, BUT WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WHEN WE'RE TALKING EIGHT STORY BUILDINGS? ARE WE TALKING ABOUT ISOLATING ESTABLISHED COMMUNITIES? IT'S REALLY KIND OF SCARY.
UM, SO I'D LIKE THAT TO BECOME A PART OF WHAT WE THEN DISCUSS ABOUT PUTTING IN NEW HOUSING.
UM, I'M NOT AGAINST THE HOUSING THEMSELVES, I'M JUST AGAINST WHAT IT DOES TO OTHER COMMUNITIES.
UM, MCDOWELL ITSELF IS NOT A, A FRIENDLY PLACE TO GO.
UM, AND ONE OF THE PROBLEMS WITH MCDOWELL, IT IS NOT HANDICAPPED, ACCESSIBLE, FRIENDLY.
UM, GETTING ACROSS IT IS DIFFICULT.
UM, WALKING ALONG IT, THERE'S DAMAGED SIDEWALKS, INCOMPLETE SIDEWALKS, ONLY LIMITED CROSSINGS.
BUT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I WENT ON THE, UH, WORKING GROUP IS THEY SENT US 120 PAGE REPORT, WHICH I READ BECAUSE YOU ALL KNOW I READ EVERY WORD.
UM, AND DURING THAT, IN HIGHER 120 PAGES, THERE WAS NOT ONE MENTION OF A DA COMPLIANCE, THERE WAS NOT ONE MENTION OF AGE FRIENDLY, WHICH PETALUMA IS AN AGE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY.
SO APPROXIMATELY 900 SENIORS ARE BEING ISOLATED FROM THE, I'M SORRY, YOUR TIME'S UP.
WE'VE GOT TOM SCOTT FOLLOWED BY FRANK.
I THINK THE FIRST LETTER OF THE LAST NAME IS K, BUT THE REST IS A BIT TOUGH TO READ.
SO TOM, THEN FRANK
I HAVE SOME, UH, INFORMATION HERE FOR YOU THAT I COULDN'T, UH, FIT IT ALL INTO A DISCUSSION, SO I THOUGHT, WELL, I'LL JUST MAKE SOME PACKETS OF INFO FOR YOU.
I OWN THE PROPERTY JUST, UH, KITTY CORNER TO THE SMART STATION.
IT'S THE ONE DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE SMART STATION ALONG THE RAILWAY, HALF A MILE TO APPROXIMATELY LAGUNITAS.
AND, UH, ANYWAY, THIS IS SOME INFORMATION ABOUT SOME OF THE HISTORY THAT WENT INTO, UH, EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING TODAY, BASICALLY.
I DON'T KNOW WHO I GIVE IT TO, TO GIVE OUT TO THE OKAY.
GIVE IT TO YOU AND THEN YOU CAN GIVE IT TO EACH ONE.
THEN I HAVE A ONE FOR YOU, BRIAN ALSO, BUT
UM, BUT ANYWAY, UM, BECAUSE THEY GREW, DREW THIS HUGE GREEN SPACE, IT LOOKS LIKE IT TAKES UP 20 OR 30% OF MY, MY PROPERTY, UH, ALL ALONG THE RAILWAY, WHICH IS BIZARRE.
UH, I KNOW A LOT OF FIREFIGHTERS IN THE AREA AND THEY SAY, WELL, THE, THERE THERE'S NO FIRE THREAT IN PETALUMA
I MEAN, MAYBE IN, UH, GRASS VALLEY OR SOMETHING, I DON'T KNOW.
BUT, UH, ANYHOW, UM, I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHAT THAT REPRESENTS.
I WAS TOLD THAT IT, IT'S JUST A DRAFT AND IT'S NOT N NOTHING SET IN STONE.
YOU, YOU DREW UP THAT MAP, IS THAT CORRECT? OR YOUR, YOUR FIRM I ASSUME? YEAH, YOUR FIRM.
I, I DON'T KNOW ALL THE PLAYERS INVOLVED IN THIS, BUT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR ABOUT 30 TO 40 YEARS.
AND I GOT US TAKEN OUT OF THE COMMUNITY SEPARATOR AT THE COUNTY LEVEL.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS ALL ABOUT, BUT, UH, AND THEN I GOT US, THAT WAS, I GOT US OUT IN ONE GENERAL PLAN, AND THEN I GOT US TO KEPT OUT IN ANOTHER GENERAL PLAN.
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I HAVE A LETTER FROM PAMELA TUFT, WHO USED TO BE THE HEAD OF THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IN CITY OF PETALUMA FROM TWO THOU DECEMBER OF 2002.THAT WAS THE SECOND TIME THEY HAD A GENERAL PLAN UPDATED AT THE COUNTY LEVEL.
AND I GOT TO, I GOT THEM TO KEEP US OUT AT THAT POINT IN TIME.
AND, UH, SO THEN I GOT, THEY CREATED AN URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY AROUND THE CITY OF PETALUMA BEFORE THE, ANY OF THE RAIL STUFF WAS THAT REALLY FACTORED INTO THIS.
AND I, I EXPLAINED TO THE CITY COUNCIL THAT I, THEY NEED MY, THEY'RE GONNA NEED MY PROPERTY SOMEDAY FOR A RAIL.
EITHER A TRAIN OR A BUS OR SOMETHING IS GOING GO, PROBABLY GONNA GO ON THAT LINE.
AND SO I WANTED TO GET INTO THE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY, BUT THEY WEREN'T ACCEPTING ANY PROPERTY INTO OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, INTO THE BOUNDARY I WAS TOLD, WHICH DIDN'T HAPPEN TO BE EXACTLY TRUE.
BUT ANYWAY, I'M SORRY, YOUR TIME'S UP.
OUR LAST COMMENT WAS FROM FRANK.
MY NAME IS FRANK CORDEM, SORRY FOR MY, UH, ELECTRICAL HANDWRITING.
I, ONE OF THE SLIDES REFERRED TO A, A FLOOD MANAGEMENT STREET.
AND TO ME THAT IMPLIES THAT THE WATER IS GONNA GO BE, BASICALLY BE PUT INTO THE PEDAL OF RIVER.
AND I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY WITH THIS PLAN SPECIFICALLY, UH, FOR THE AREA THAT'S NOW IN DEVELOPMENT, BUT COULD BE A TRANSIT VILLAGE TO, UH, FOCUS ON RECHARGING OF THE PETA VALLEY AQUIFER.
UM, IT'S, UM, AND IT'S OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY TO WORK WITH THE GROUNDWATER SUSTAINABILITY AGENCY TO, TO SEE IF THERE'S WAYS TO, INSTEAD OF JUST MANAGING THE FLOOD WATER INTO THE RIVER, TO MAYBE, UH, HAVE COLLECTING BASINS OR, OR MAYBE RESTORE SOME VERNAL POOLS THAT COULD ENABLE RECHARGE OF THE, OF THE PETAL VALLEY AQUIFER, WHICH HAS, HAS BEEN STRESSED.
INNO COUNTY, THERE'S A LOT OF DEMANDS ON WATER, AND THE MORE THAT WE CAN PUT INTO THE AQUIFER INSTEAD OF PUTTING INTO THE RIVER, THE BETTER OFF WE'LL BE, UM, UH, ON PROPERTY THAT'S NEAR WHERE IT'S OUT CURRENTLY, OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, THERE ARE SOME AL POOLS THAT COULD BE PROTECTED AS A, AS A WAY TO DEMONSTRATE THE VIABILITY OF THIS, THIS, UH, RECHARGE POTENTIAL.
SO I THINK I WOULD HOPE THAT, UM, THAT THAT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL TAKE PLACE DURING THE, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF A SPECIFIC PLAN.
I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT HAPPEN.
UM, I ALSO NOTICED THERE'S A FOCUS ON MCDOWELL'S AS A WALKABLE STREET.
AND I THINK CORONA ROAD IS FAR FROM THAT NOW.
IT'S VERY DANGEROUS TO WALK ON THAT.
AND I THINK AS THAT AREAS DEVELOPED, THERE SHOULD BE, UH, ATTENTION PAID TO, LIKE DWAYNE SAID, TO MAKE, TO HAVE THAT BE A WALKABLE STREET AS WELL, AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DITCHES ALONG EITHER SIDE THAT, UH, THAT THAT WATER IS ALSO GOING TO WASTE INSTEAD OF BEING RECHARGED.
AND, UH, LATE BREAKING EDITION OF JULIE GROVES.
I'M JULIE GROVES AND I'M A PROPERTY OWNER, UH, NOT WITHIN THIS PLAN, BUT NORTH OF THAT ALONG THE RAIL.
AND, UM, BUILDING ON MY BROTHER'S COMMENTS AND ALSO IN DEFERENCE TO TOM, UM, I THINK IT IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF YOUR PROPERTY.
UM, THE IDEA THAT THAT AREA IS RIP REPAIRING ALL THE WAY ALONG THE, ALL THE WAY ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS.
AND AS MY BROTHER SAID, IT WILL DECREASE FLOODING.
AND AS TOM POINTED OUT, IT'S THE CITY HAS RECENTLY ANNEXED, UM, THE OLD WICK LUMBERYARD, WHICH FLOODS CONSIDERABLY AND WILL PROBABLY FLOOD MORE.
SO I THINK THERE IS A, UM, A NEED FOR PLANNING OUTSIDE JUST LOOKING AT THIS PLAN, BUT A LARGER AREA AND THE, AND THE IMPACTS.
SO IF WE CAN HAVE REHABILITATION OR ARIAN AREA, WHICH IMPROVES THE QUALITY OF THE HOUSING WITHIN THAT PLAN, UM, DECREASING FLOODING IN THE RIVER, DECREASING FLOODING FOR THE NORTH, WHERE THE OLD WIX LUMBERYARD IS.
UM, UH, AND THEN I, I JUST WANNA COMMENT ON, ON YOUR COMMENT.
I, I DO THINK THERE'S A BENEFIT, UH, TO, AND SOMETHING THAT WASN'T MENTIONED AS THE BUSCAPE AS YOU'RE DRIVING ALONG, YOU CAN SEE THE MOUNTAINS AND, UH, PLANTING AND BUILDING SO THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN THAT VIEW SCAPE IS IMPORTANT.
WITH THAT, WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT AND BRING IT BACK TO THE COMMISSIONERS FOR CONSIDERATION.
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INTO DISCUSSION UP HERE, I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF STAFF OR CONSULTANTS HAD ANY RESPONSES TO THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.THERE WAS SOME ABOUT AQUIFER RECHARGE PRIORITIZATION AND UCH SHED CONSIDERATIONS, JUST IF YOU HAD ANY RESPONSES.
I THINK I'LL JUST KICK IT OFF, BUT I WANNA LET ANNIE TALK ABOUT IT.
THE IDEA ABOUT THAT PERKINS AND WILL HAS BEEN WORKING ON FROM THE BEGINNING ABOUT THE STREETS, UM, STREET DESIGN, UH, OPEN SPACE DESIGN IS THAT IT'S MULTIFUNCTIONAL, IT'S NOT JUST A STREET, BUT IT ALSO IS DESIGNED IN A WAY TO GET THE WATER TO GO RECHARGE.
THAT THE OPEN SPACES ARE NOT JUST A PLACE TO PLAY, BUT IT IS ALSO A PLACE WHERE, UM, WATER CAN RECHARGE.
AND, UM, NOT ONLY RECHARGE TO THE AQUIFER, UM, BUT ALSO THINKING ABOUT HOW WE HOLD WATER AND USE IT WHEN WE NEED IT IN FIRE SEASON.
SO THE IDEA IS THAT THESE ARE STREETS THAT CAN BE WETTER.
AND SO WHEN THERE IS POTENTIAL THREAT OF FIRE, WHEN TEMPERATURES ARE WARMER, THESE ARE PLACES THAT ARE SORT OF ALREADY READY TO SORT OF WITHSTAND THAT FIRE THREAT.
SO MULTIFUNCTIONAL AQUIFER RECHARGE.
AND I'M REALLY GLAD TO HEAR THAT THAT'S COMING UP, UM, IN PUBLIC COMMENT AND IN DISCOURSE BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE IN THE SPECIFIC PLAN.
UM, THE OTHER POINT WAS YOU VIEW VIEW SHEDS? YES.
ABSO ALSO A, A CRITICAL PIECE OF WHAT WE WOULD WANNA SEE WITH BUILT FORM DESIGN GUIDELINES.
UM, THE VIEWS OF THE MOUNTAINS ARE CRITICAL.
THIS IS WHAT URBAN DESIGN AND PETALUMA HAS TO BE ABOUT.
LIKE HOW DO WE SORT OF HOLD ONTO INTRINSIC SURROUNDING QUALITY, UM, THAT BRINGS US ALL HERE AND MAKES US FEEL LIKE WE'RE IN A SPECIAL PLACE.
SO IT'S REALLY, REALLY HEARTENING TO HEAR THAT KIND OF THING COME UP, UM, FROM THE COMMUNITY.
'CAUSE IT'S WHAT WE AS CONSULTANTS, WE WOULD ALREADY LIKE TO BE WRITING THAT.
SO IT'S COMING FROM THE, THE COMMUNITY.
UH, OH, GO AHEAD, TOM AND CHAIR.
AT YOUR LEISURE, I WAS ABLE TO FIND THE, UH, FIGURE IN THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE THAT IDENTIFIES THE EQUITY PRIORITY AREAS.
SO AT YOUR LEISURE, I'LL, I CAN BRING IT UP.
IF, DO YOU WANNA COMMENT ON SOMETHING AND THEN WE'LL JUMP TO THAT? OH, SURE.
SINCE WE'RE SORT OF IN A, UH, RESPONSES TO Q AND A OR, OR COMMENTS, I DID WANT TO, UM, THE OBSERVATION ABOUT CORONA ROAD IS A, IS A GREAT OBSERVATION AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE STARTING TO ELEVATE HOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT CORONA ROAD TO THE LEVEL OF HOW WE'RE THINKING ABOUT MCDOWELL BULL OF OUR CORRIDOR.
UH, WE REALLY SEE THOSE AS BOTH, AS BEING THE, THE TWO BACKBONES OF THE PLANNING AREA.
AND AS YOU ALL KNOW, CORONA ROAD'S GOING TO NEED A LOT OF WORK, RIGHT? SO AS DEVELOPMENT HAPPENS, UM, ANNEXATION AND SO FORTH, CERTAINLY BEING ABLE TO MAKE IT A MULTIMODAL CORRIDOR WILL BE A PRIORITY FOR THAT ROAD.
UM, THE OTHER THING TO COMMENT ABOUT THE GREEN SPACE ALONG THE RAIL IN THE TRANSIT VILLAGE AREA, THAT THAT GREEN SPACE HAS BEEN IN ALL CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAMS SINCE THE COMMUNITY WORKSHOP IN MARCH.
SO IT'S NOT A NEW AD, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS.
AND AS ANNIE POINTED OUT AT THE, UH, DURING HER PRESENTATION AND TOM SHARED AS WELL, THIS IS STILL VERY HIGH LEVEL CONCEPT.
WE'RE LOOKING AT THE VISION, WE'RE LOOKING AT CAPTURING WHAT THE COMMUNITY SEES AS OPPORTUNITIES AS NEEDS.
UM, MS. FRY POINTED OUT ABOUT ACCESSIBILITY AND, AND ABOUT AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES, MAKING SURE THAT THOSE PRINCIPLES, THE AGE-FRIENDLY PRINCIPLE THAT THE CITY ASPIRES TO IS FULLY INTEGRATED.
IT'S, IT'S THERE THAT THE EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT DOES RECOGNIZE, UH, THE, UH, AGE GROUPS IN THE POPULATION, BUT CERTAINLY AS PART OF THAT VISIONING AND PULLING IN THE GENERAL PLAN PRINCIPLES AND BUILDING UPON THEM THE, UH, THE AGE RELATED OR THE AGE FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES WILL SURFACE.
AND THEN I THINK ACCESSIBILITY HAS BEEN INTERESTING BECAUSE WE ALL RECOGNIZE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT MULTIMODAL CORRIDORS DESIGNED TO TODAY'S STANDARDS THAT THEY WOULD BE ACCESSIBLE.
HOWEVER, I THINK WE DO NEED TO PUSH ON THAT A LITTLE BIT, AND WE DO NEED TO EXPLORE AND MAKE SURE THAT, UH, NOT ONLY ARE THEY ACCESSIBLE PER, UM, CALTRAN STANDARDS, BUT THAT WE'RE ALSO MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S, THEY'RE ACCESSIBLE ESPECIALLY FOR THE RESIDENTS OF, OF THE VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, WHO DO LIVE IN THE PLANNING AREA.
YEAH, I WOULD JUST ADD TO THAT, AND I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE USEFUL BOTH WITH THIS EFFORT AND FOR ANYTHING ELSE COMING OUT OF THE, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT AND, AND BRIAN'S TEAMS THAT I THINK WE OFTEN TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT, YOU KNOW, ACCESSIBILITY AND THE A DA COMPLIANCE SORT OF LIKE GOES WITHOUT SAYING, BUT GIVEN THE POPULATION OF PETALUMA, OUR VALUES AROUND AGING IN PLACE AND, AND OUR AGING POPULATION, LIKE WE SHOULD SAY IT
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POINT ON IT AND A, AND A EMPHASIS ON IT.HAVING JUST LOOKED AT THE GENERAL PLAN LAND USE, WHERE ARE WE LOOKING AT EIGHT STORIES IN THE, IN THIS PRIORITY DEVELOPMENT AREA? I, WE, WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN THAT FAR.
WE HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED A HEIGHT.
WELL, BUT I THINK, I THINK, UH, DIRECTOR O IS GOING TO COMMENT BECAUSE IT, IT IS IN THE GENERAL PLAN.
AND SO WE DO HAVE SOME, SOME GUIDANCE FROM THE GENERAL PLAN, THE LAND.
SO I, I WOULD ACTUALLY, WHAT TOM SAYS, UM, WE'RE VERY MUCH EARLY IN THE PROCESS, RIGHT? WE'RE ESSENTIALLY SIX MONTHS IN, WE'RE STILL RECEIVING FEEDBACK.
UM, THIS, AND I WOULD ARGUE THAT THIS IS THE INTENT OF A, A ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY WHERE WE'RE HEARING, UM, CONCERNS, IDEAS, WE'RE WORKSHOPPING IT.
UM, BUT AT THIS POINT, I MEAN, REALLY WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO DO IS GO BACK AND, AND PUT LIKE A, FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY, UM, BECAUSE WE'RE SO EARLY IN THAT PROCESS, UM, WHAT OUR PLANNING MANAGER IS REFERRING TO IS THE LAND USE, RIGHT? SO THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE IDENTIFIES A, A TOOLBOX, IF YOU WILL.
AND AS NEW OPPORTUNITIES ARISE, FOR EXAMPLE THE, THE NORTH STATION AREA PLAN, UM, WE SHOULD LOOK TO UTILIZE SOME OF THOSE TOOLS.
UM, I DON'T BELIEVE WE'VE GOTTEN, YOU KNOW, INTO THE DETAILS ABOUT X YOU KNOW, LAND USE GOING WHERE AT THIS POINT.
SO JUST TO, I GUESS, CLARIFY THAT RIGHT NOW, THE LAND USE THAT I'M, THAT I UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IS LIKE WHAT WE JUST APPROVED IN THE GENERAL PLAN.
IS THAT REASONABLE FOR US TO THINK ABOUT LIKE THE ONLY, THE ONLY LAND USE THAT WE HAVEN'T DEFINED, RIGHT.
THAT IS THE STUFF THAT'S BEYOND THE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY COR, YES.
UM, WE ALSO DID, UH, OUR GENERAL PLAN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, OUR PLANNING COMMISSION, CITY COUNCIL, UM, WE ESSENTIALLY PUNTED, I THINK THIS IS WHAT OUR PLANNING MANAGER'S REFERRING TO, UM, FOR THIS SPECIFIC PLAN TO REENTER THAT CONVERSATION.
SO IF THERE'S MORE DISCUSSION AROUND, HEY, TRANSIT VILLAGE, WHAT SHOULD THE TRANSIT VILLAGE LOOK LIKE? WHAT KIND OF DENSITY, WHAT TYPES OF USES, THE GENERAL PLAN HAS NOW CREATED THAT SET OF, UM, LAND USES SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AS A COMMUNITY.
ALRIGHT, BEFORE WE JUMP TOO DEEP INTO DISCUSSION, LET'S HAVE A LOOK AT THE MAP THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO DIG UP OF OUR OVERLAY OF THE DISADVANTAGED ZONE.
SO WE'VE GOT THAT IN MIND AS WELL.
SO THIS IS IN THE HEALTH EQUITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ELEMENT.
AND, UM, YOU'LL SEE THE PLAN AREA, I'VE GOT IT ZOOMED OUT, BUT, UH, IT'S EITHER SIDE OF MCDOWELL IS IDENTIFIED AS AN EQUITY PRIORITY AREA FROM, UH, THE CREEK JUST NORTH OF THE SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH IS IDENT, WHAT WE'RE CALLING THE HEALTH, UM, SITE, THE HEALTH CENTER PRIORITY AREA, ALL THE WAY UP TO CORONA ON EITHER SIDE OF, UM, MCDOWELL.
IT IS A GOOD CHUNK OF THIS, THE PLAN AREA.
THIS DOES SEEM TO CONFIRM YOUR MEMORY, THAT IT'S GENERALLY THAT STRIP OF THE MCDOWELL CORRIDOR FOCUS AREA THREE.
UM, WHICH OF THE THREE DOESN'T HAVE A TON OF PROGRAMMING SORT OF IN MIND FOR THE PLAN.
ARE THERE THOUGHTS OR QUESTIONS ON THIS MAP? ARE WE TRANSITIONING TO THE COMMENT PHASE? YES.
LET'S MOVE INTO DISCUSSION ACROSS COMMISSION, BUT WHILE WE'VE GOT THIS MAP UP, IF THERE WAS, WHILE WE'VE GOT THIS SECTION OF THE GENERAL PLAN MAP UP, IF THERE WAS ANYTHING FURTHER ON THAT, I, I THINK THIS REALLY INFORMS THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE MCDOWELL CORRIDOR COMPONENT OF THIS SPECIFIC PLAN.
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YOU KNOW, MY, MY FEELING AND, AND WHAT I'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH, WITH EVERYONE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, AS WE, YOU KNOW, DO A ROAD DIET OR MAKE IT MORE PEDESTRIAN AND, UM, FRIENDLY FOR, UM, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEELCHAIR ACCESS OR, OR OTHER, OTHER MODES OF TRANSPORTATION THAT THAT, THAT WE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE IS, THERE IS THAT, UM, THAT EQUITY PIECE THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED FOR THAT, THAT SECTION, UM, OF, OF MCDOWELL.AND I'M NOT SURE TO WHAT EXTENT ANYBODY ON THE, THE CONSULTING TEAM OR OR STAFF HAVE DONE TO ACTUALLY GO OUT AND GROUND TRUTH THAT, YOU KNOW, WALK ALONG MCDOWELL.
UM, I'VE, I'VE DONE IT ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE TIMES IN THE LAST COUPLE MONTHS.
I'VE WALKED ALONG THE SMART TRAIL FROM DOWNTOWN, UM, ALL THE WAY TO NEAR THE COALS, UM, AND THE SMART TRAIL HITS MCDOWELL AND I WALKED PROBABLY ABOUT THAT, PROBABLY ONE AND A HALF MILES, MAYBE FROM WHERE THE SMART TRAIL HITS, UH, MCDOWELL.
AND IT'S, UM, EXTREMELY BUSY, EXTREMELY UNFRIENDLY, AND IT'S, UH, IT'S HARD FOR ME TO DESCRIBE IT AND, AND OUR MAPS DON'T REALLY SHOW IT THAT WELL.
AND WHAT NICOLO WAS TALKING ABOUT, UM, IS, IS VERY, VERY ACCURATE THAT IT'S NOT FRIENDLY, UM, FOR ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT, UM, PEDESTRIANS.
SO, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS, THIS ELEMENT HERE OF THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY, I REMEMBER THAT, THAT THIS CENSUS TRACK SPECIFICALLY WAS IDENTIFIED AS AS HAVING AN IMPACT FROM DIESEL EMISSIONS.
AND THAT'S FROM 1 0 1 NATURALLY, WHICH IS ON ONE SIDE AND MCDOWELL THE FREIGHT CORRIDOR THAT'S GOING RIGHT, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT CENSUS TRACK.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I I HOPE THAT THAT CONSULTANTS AND STAFF TAKE BACK, YOU KNOW, THIS, UH, A PRIORITY TO, TO REALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS MCDOWELL SECTION.
YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NOT THE, THE TWO VERY FLASHY ENDS OF, OF OUR SUB AREA.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S IN THE MIDDLE, BUT THE, YOU KNOW, THAT NEEDS TO BE ELEVATED ON PAR WITH THESE OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE'RE GONNA CREATE.
LIKE, LET'S NOT, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITY STATUS.
LET'S, YOU KNOW, RAISE THAT UP SO THAT THE PETALUMA WHO ARE LIVING IN, IN, IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS EXPERIENCE, UM, UH, SOME MORE EQUITY.
UH, AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT NOW WITH THIS PROCESS.
SO YEAH, IN FUTURE PLAN, UH, YOU KNOW, PACKAGES AND PRESENTATIONS AND STUFF, LET'S GET THESE CENSUS TRACKS PART OF OUR MAPS AND PART OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS AND AWARENESS, UM, SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SOME EQUITABLE DECISIONS.
YEAH, AND I THINK JUST ON THE, THE NOTION THAT NICK MCDOWELL IS UNFRIENDLY, I THINK IT'S, IT'S, UH, HEAVY NODS ACROSS
UM, AND, AND THAT'S WHERE I THINK THE, THE ROAD REDESIGN HAS A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO MAKE IT A FAR MORE SORT OF LIVABLE CORRIDOR.
UM, THAT IS OBVIOUSLY STILL GOING TO SERVICE CARS, UM, BUT ALSO BE A LOT MORE PLEASANT TO WALK AND RIDE AND ROLL IN WHATEVER, UH, MULTIMODAL, UM, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES THAT, THAT FOLKS WANNA TAKE ADVANTAGE OF.
AND, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY FOR STREET TREES IS ALWAYS, UH, IS ALWAYS A, A EXCITING THING ON THIS COMMISSION.
I KNOW WE'VE, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT STREET TREES OVER THE YEARS.
UM, SO INCREASING THAT, UM, SHADE AND, AND UH, TREE COVER IS, IS ALWAYS A GOOD THING WHEN WE CAN GET IT.
UM, I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S THE SORT OF INDUSTRIAL COMPONENTS THAT WE NEED TO BE MINDFUL OF.
UM, THAT SAID, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE AS MUCH CONNECTED
IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE DOVE REALLY DEEPLY ON WITH THE, UM, ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN RECENTLY.
SO WE, WE SHOULD GET IT RIGHT FROM THE BEGINNING INSTEAD OF CREATING A BUNCH OF FRAGMENTS
UM, SO LET'S, LET'S PLEASE GET OUR STREETS CONNECTED AND, UH, TO THE EXTENT THAT WE CAN HAVE SORT OF CONSISTENT BIKE PATHS, CONSISTENT SIDEWALKS, CONSISTENT OPPORTUNITIES TO WALK, RIDE, ROLL, UM, FOR THIS COMMUNITY TO, TO ENJOY
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AND, AND GROW OUT IN THAT WAY INSTEAD OF BEING FRAGMENTED.UM, OTHER, YEAH, GO AHEAD, COMMISSIONER EBNER.
I THINK TO ADD TO THAT, THE TRAFFIC STUDIES TO SUPPORT REDISTRIBUTION OF THE RIGHT OF WAYS WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO SEE.
AND WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DEDICATED BIKE LANES, THINGS THAT TAKE WIDTH OUT OF THE STREET, UM, I KNOW LIKE THE CURRENT BIKE SET UP THERE, EVEN WITH BOLLARDS, IT'S STILL PRETTY UNPLEASANT.
SO, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING MULTIMODAL.
I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TAKING A DECENT PORTION OF REAL ESTATE AND IF IT'S STILL A FREIGHT CORRIDOR, IT NEEDS A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A BUFFER PROBABLY, UH, IN THERE.
UM, SO YEAH, UH, I'M GLAD WE'RE LOOKING AT THE MAP.
UM, WHEN I THINK ABOUT SOME OF THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE THERE, LIKE THE BUS DEPOT, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU FIRE UP A BUS AND YOU LET IT RUN AND IT'S BURNING DIESEL.
UM, THERE'S THE USPS AND I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING 50 OR SO FREIGHT TRUCKS THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, FIRE UP AND RUN OUT OF THERE.
IF WE CAN START TO TRY AND ENCOURAGE, UM, THOSE SORTS OF HEAVY DUTY VEHICLE USES ON DIFFERENT AREAS AND LIKE MOVE THIS TO BEING MORE OF A PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED USAGE, UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
UM, THE, THE OTHER CONNECTION THAT I DON'T SEE, AND I KNOW IT'S, IT'S STILL SPECULATIVE, BUT I THINK IT'S WORTH SORT OF ACKNOWLEDGING IS, IS THAT THERE IS THE, UM, THE RAINIER UNDERPASS THAT GOES UNDER THE FREEWAY.
AND WHAT WILL COME FROM THAT IS, YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT'S THE POTENTIAL TO CONNECT, UM, THIS, THIS PDA TO POTENTIALLY ONE OF LIKE THE BEST SORT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PARKS THAT WE HAVE TOO.
SO, UM, I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO THINK ABOUT THAT AND, AND THINK ABOUT WHAT THE CONNECTION UNDER THE FREEWAY MEANS, WHETHER IT BECOMES HOUSING AT SOME POINT, OR I THINK IT'S ZONED NOW FOR IT'S GONNA, THE LAND USE DESIGNATION IS LIKE A MIXTURE OF SOME LOW DENSITY HOUSING AND LIKE MICRO BUSINESS OR WHATEVER, BUT THERE'S ALSO TALKS ABOUT TRYING TO ACQUIRE IT AS PARKLAND AND, YOU KNOW, PUTTING SOME, YOU KNOW, MAYBE SOME BALL FIELDS RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR, OF OUR CITY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS FROM A RECREATION STANDPOINT.
UM, THE, UM, I THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD TO THINK ABOUT WHAT SMALL SCALE BUSINESSES, UM, LIKE FOOD TRUCKS WE ARE, I DON'T KNOW WHERE WE'RE GONNA PROBABLY TACKLE THAT IN OUR ZONING CODE UPDATE, I WOULD IMAGINE.
BUT, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE, UM, THAT WE'RE WELCOMING OF THAT IN THIS PDA SORT OF EXPLICITLY.
UM, I ALSO THINK WE, I'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ENCOURAGING OF LIKE, UM, MANUFACTURED HOMES AND, YOU KNOW, INNOVATIVE CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
I KIND OF LOOK AT LIKE, THE NEW, THE ANNEX AREAS, LIKE OUR LITTLE LIKE MICRO VERSION OF CALIFORNIA FOREVER, A LITTLE BIT OF LIKE, DAMN, WE CAN LIKE DESIGN FOR NARROW STREETS AND BIOSWALES AND NICE, YOU KNOW, A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE COMMUNITY THAT, YOU KNOW, ISN'T SUBURBAN NECESSARILY, BUT IS MORE, UM, WALKABLE AND INVITING.
SO, UM, DEFINITELY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT, UH, PLAN FOR, YOU KNOW, IN THAT AREA, LIKE PLAN FOR 15 OR 20 MILE HOUR STREETS, LIKE THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE AREA.
UM, HAVING CANVASED THE ENTIRE CITY, THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT IS HOW FAST PEOPLE DRIVE ON THEIR STREET.
SO MAKING SURE THAT WE DESIGN OUR STREETS FOR 15 OR 20 MILES AN HOUR IN THAT AREA WOULD BE, UM, AND DESIGN OUR STREETS, NOT JUST OUR STREET SIGNS.
IT HAS TO ACTUALLY BE A STREET THAT CUES YOU TO GO SLOW.
SO JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE DON'T MAKE THOSE MISTAKES OF DESIGNING STREETS FOR PEOPLE TO GO 30 MILES AN HOUR ON, MAKE 'EM 15 MILES AN HOUR.
AND, UM, UH, AND THEN YEAH, I JUST, UM, EXCITED ABOUT THE, THE, THE PROSPECTS HERE.
UM, AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO BE A LITTLE MORE, UH, INTERESTED IN THAT, THAT RAINIER AREA AND LIKE WHAT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE DEER CREEK APARTMENTS ARE OBVIOUSLY THE DEER CREEK APARTMENTS.
THERE'S NOT GONNA BE MUCH INTERFACE WITH RAINIER, BUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET THERE, THOSE ARE SORT OF, YOU HAVE LIKE THE BUS DEPOT AND THEN A COUPLE OF COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES AND LIKE, TO THE EXTENT THAT THAT BECOMES LIKE A GRAND
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OPENING TO A PARK OR IT'S LIKE IT CONNECTS INTO, YOU KNOW, IT CONNECTS THE EAST SIDE TO THE RIVER AND GIVES PEOPLE THAT RIVER ACCESS.LIKE, UM, THERE'S A REAL OPPORTUNITY FOR PLACEMAKING I THINK THERE AT THE END OF RAINIER BEFORE IT GOES UNDER THE OVERPASS.
SO, UM, REALLY KIND OF GETTING CREATIVE IN THAT SPACE SEEMS TO MAKE SENSE TO ME.
UM, ON THE NOTION OF GETTING CREATIVE, I'LL JUST THROW IN HERE THE, THE DRUM.
I HAVE BEEN BEATING
UM, AND THAT IS TO ENCOURAGE FLEXIBILITY.
UM, AS MUCH AS I APPRECIATE THE SORT OF EMERGING URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK AS YOU'VE LAID OUT HERE WITH THESE DISTINCT NEIGHBORHOODS AND GREEN STITCHES AND THE CIRCUITS, UM, I HAVE BEEN SORT OF GENERALLY UNCOMFORTABLE WITH OUR 15 MINUTE NEIGHBORHOOD PLAN ANOINTING, A SPECIFIC PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT NO ONE HAS CONFIRMED WHETHER THEY'RE INTERESTED IN BEING
SO ENCOURAGING FLEXIBILITY SO THAT ORGANIC NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS, UM, HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO POP UP IN PARTS OF TOWN, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE LOOKING FOR THOSE SORT OF INTERESTING MIXED USE OPPORTUNITIES OR WHATEVER, UM, THEY TURN OUT TO BE.
BUT KEEPING OURSELVES OPEN TO, UM, NOT JUST THAT ONE STAR ON THE MAP, BUT A POTENTIALLY ORGANIC OPPORTUNITY THAT COULD POP UP.
QUICK QUESTION ABOUT, UH, DESIGN STANDARDS OR DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
IS HE REFERENC IN HERE TO OBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS IN OTHER AREAS? THERE'S KIND OF STANDARDIZED DESIGN, UH, AND IT SEEMS TO INDICATE POTENTIALLY HARMONIZING THE 150 PLUS PUDS IN THE AREA AS AN EVENTUAL STEP OF THIS PLAN.
WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? WE'VE HEARD A LOT, WE'VE TALKED A LOT ON THIS COMMITTEE ABOUT OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS.
THOSE ARE SPECIFICALLY FOR STREAMLINING PROJECTS, RIGHT? FOR HOUSING, FOR STREAMLINED HOUSING PROJECTS USING KIND OF STATE ENABLING LEGISLATION.
BUT THEN ARE WE PLANNING OTHER KIND OF DESIGN STANDARDS THAT ENSURE OUTCOMES, ESPECIALLY FOR ANY PRIVATE PARCELS WE'RE HOPING GET REDEVELOPED OR ANYTHING? UM, I GUESS HOW DETAILED WILL THOSE BE? WILL THOSE BE COMING WITH THE DRAFT? IS IT OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS AND SOME OTHER KIND OF DESIGN GUIDANCE, OR WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? THAT'S A, THAT'S A REALLY GREAT QUESTION.
I'M GLAD THAT YOU, UH, BROUGHT IT FORWARD.
THE, WE, WE DO BELIEVE THAT, UM, HAVING WORKED WITH THE PUDS AND, AND THE MAJORITY OF THE STUDY AREA, CERTAINLY THE RESIDENTIAL PORTIONS ARE PUDS, UH, BUT MANY OF THOSE PUDS WERE ESTABLISHED TO GUIDE A DEVELOPMENT OF THESE SUBDIVISIONS.
AND SO THAT DEVELOPMENT IS COMPLETE.
AND ACTUALLY ONE OF THE, THE GOALS OF THE ZONING REFORM PROJECT IS TO LOOK AT CREATING SOME TOOLS, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, FOR INSTANCE, OFTENTIMES WE HAVE TO DO ADMINISTRATIVE SITE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW FOR A SIMPLE MODIFICATION TO A SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURE THAT ANYBODY OUTSIDE OF THE PUD WOULD BE ABLE TO DO WITH A BUILDING PERMIT.
AND SO WE DO WANT TO CREATE SOME TOOLS TO EITHER BE ABLE TO ROLL BACK THESE PUDS OR TO, TO FACILITATE BRINGING THEM MORE IN LINE WITH WHAT WOULD BE THE STANDARD ZONING CODE, UH, IF WE'RE NOT ABLE TO, TO ROLL THEM BACK COMPLETELY.
SO I THINK WE'RE GOING, WE'LL START THAT EXPLORATION WITH THE, UM, PETALUMA NORTH STATION PROJECT, AND THEN WE'LL PICK IT UP MORE FULLY IN THE ZONING REFORM PROJECT, REALLY DIGGING INTO HOW WE CAN IDEALLY ELIMINATE SOME OF THESE PUDS THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT OUT, OR AT LEAST BE ABLE TO MAINSTREAM THEM INTO THE STANDARD ZONING CODE.
UM, SO THEN TO THE SECOND PART OF YOUR QUESTION, DESIGN STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, OF COURSE, WE HAVE THESE VERY BASIC OBJECTIVE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS.
UM, AND, AND I THINK THAT WE, WE CONTINUE WITH SOME OF THOSE, MAYBE WHAT WE DO IN THE, THE TWO DEVELOPMENT FOCUS AREAS, THE TRANSIT VILLAGE AND THE HEALTH DISTRICT, WE'RE ABLE TO DRILL DOWN A BIT MORE DEEPLY AND GET A MORE, A BIT MORE DETAILED ABOUT THOSE TO GET MORE AT THE FORM OF THE BUILDINGS AND SO FORTH.
AND THEN WHEN WE DO THAT, WE CAN BUILD THOSE INTO, UM, THE STANDARD ZONING CODE IS OVERLAYS.
SO IN A, IN ESSENCE, WE WOULD BE DOING A HYBRID FORM-BASED CODE, UM, BY, BUT BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THAT DETAIL FOR SPECIFIC AREAS THROUGH AN OVERLAY APPROACH.
UM, THAT PROBABLY IS THE MOST EFFICIENT WAY OF GOING ABOUT IT, UM, BECAUSE WE FOCUS THAT TIME AND THAT EFFORT AND THAT COST ON
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THOSE AREAS WHERE WE ANTICIPATE DEVELOPMENT TO HAPPEN.YEAH, I WAS REALLY CURIOUS ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IT SEEMED, UM, YEAH, IF WE'RE DOING SPECIFIC LIKE BUILDING FORM GUIDELINES IN THIS AREA, IT'S LIKE, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT EXTRAPOLATES INTO OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY? IS THAT, 'CAUSE I KNOW WE'VE KIND OF STRUGGLED WITH WHAT DOES THAT EVEN LOOK LIKE? HOW IS IT ENFORCEABLE, ESPECIALLY IN RESIDENTIAL PROJECTS? WELL, AND I DO THINK THAT THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO START KIND OF PLAYING AROUND WITH SOME IDEAS THAT WE CAN THEN PICK UP FOR, UH, THE ZONING REFORM PROJECT FOR THE DOWNTOWN STATION AREA, TOC UPDATES PROJECT THAT'S COMING FORWARD AND SO FORTH.
I THINK THIS, THIS, THIS ACTUALLY, THIS SPECIFIC PLAN EXCITES ME BECAUSE IT, IT, WE'RE AT A POINT IN TIME WHERE WE DO NEED THESE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPLORE A BIT AND TO BE CURIOUS, THE IDEA OF FLEXIBILITY, YOU KNOW, HOW WE, WE'VE GOT THIS, THIS AREA WHERE IT'S SO INSPIRED BY, BY THE MAKER BUSINESSES AND A LOT OF INNOVATION, A LOT OF SMALL SCALE ENTREPRENEURIAL ACTIVITY.
AND SO HOW CAN WE THINK ABOUT ACHIEVING THAT AS IT RELATES TO POP-UP SPACES OR, OR SHORT TERM ACTIVATION AND SUCH THAT CAN HAPPEN AS THE AREA FINDS THOSE PLACES WHERE IT WANTS TO GATHER AND WHERE IT WANTS TO PROVIDE THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL, UM, YOU KNOW, GOODS AND SERVICES TO PEOPLE WHO ARE MAYBE TRANSITING UP AND DOWN THE CORRIDOR ON THE WAY TO WORK OR WHAT HAVE YOU.
SO I THINK AS WE MOVE INTO THIS NEXT PHASE, STARTING TO GET THROUGH VISION AND STARTING TO BUILD OUT THESE, UM, THE POLICY FRAMEWORKS, THE REGULATORY FRAMEWORKS, WE'RE REALLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO, UH, GET ACTIVE AND PLAY WITH SOME OF THESE IDEAS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT, UM, THIS SPRING AND, AND AT THIS MEETING THIS EVENING, AND HOW WE ACTUALLY CREATE THE REGULATORY TOOLS TO, TO ENCOURAGE THAT.
NO, THAT'S A GREAT SUMMARY AND IT SEEMED LIKE TO GET SOME OF THE OUTCOMES, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CONNECTORS OR LOOK AND FEEL OF CERTAIN AREAS, LIKE WHAT MECHANISMS ARE WE USING TO ACTUALLY DRIVE THAT? UM, AND I THINK THAT'S KIND OF A QUESTION WITH SPECIFIC PLANS, TRYING TO MAKE THEM MAYBE NOT TOO SPECIFIC SO WE CAN'T GET THINGS DONE, BUT THEN HOW DO WE PAINT A VISION? THAT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING TOWARD.
UH, AND THEN THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD WAS ABOUT MCDOWELL, AND DO WE KNOW WHERE THAT FITS IN IF WE TALK ABOUT CHANGING MCDOWELL? BECAUSE IT WASN'T THAT MANY YEARS AGO WHERE WE SPENT A LOT OF MEASURE YOU ROAD MONEY ON MCDOWELL, UM, AND NOW WE'D BE REDOING IT AGAIN.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT FITS WITH OUR FIVE-YEAR PAVING PLAN, UM, OR IF THAT REALLY COMES KIND OF WITH THE DRAFT OR MAYBE EVEN LATER.
LIKE, THIS SETS THE INTENTION AND THEN IT'S UP TO PUBLIC WORKS TO KIND OF DECIDE WHERE THAT GOES IN THE OVERALL WORKLOAD.
WELL, WE'VE, SPEAKING OF PUBLIC WORKS,
UM, EARLIER THE VICE CHAIR WAS TALKING ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALL THOSE UDS AND ALL THAT, THE, THE DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES.
THERE'S NOT A LOT OF CHANGE THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN, UM, IN THE PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT.
THOSE ARE JUST RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE'RE NOT PROPOSING TO CHANGE IN ANY WAY.
SO THE CHANGE THERE IS GONNA HAVE TO BE IN THE CORRIDOR, WHETHER IT'S LANE CHANGES, UM, INTRODUCING BIKES, INTRODUCING SOMETHING THAT CAN KNOCK DOWN THE DIESEL FUMES LIKE VEGETATION.
SO WE, UH, THE CONSULTANT TEAM, BOTH PERKINS AND WHEEL AND THEIR TRAFFIC CONSULTANT FAIR AND PEERS HAVE STARTED WORKING WITH, UH, OUR OR YOUR, UH, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT TO LOOK AT, UM, POTENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS.
IT WAS WAY TOO MUCH TO BRING HERE TONIGHT BECAUSE LOOK AT THIS CONVERSATION.
IF WE HAD STARTED BRINGING THOSE THAT THEY'VE ALREADY PRELIMINARILY STARTED TALKING ABOUT, IT WOULD'VE JUST BOGGED DOWN THIS MEETING.
BUT WE ARE MOVING DOWN THAT PATH.
CAN I ASK A REALLY QUICK QUESTION RELATED TO THAT? UM, WITH THE TRAFFIC STUDIES, LIKE, UH, I GUESS POINTS OF CROSSING AS WELL, THE TRANSVERSE CONNECTIONS, LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF CONTINUITY ISSUES I THINK RIGHT NOW AT THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL SMART PATH, ALL OF THAT.
IS THAT SOMETHING WE COULD EXPECT TO SEE AS PART OF TRAFFIC STUDIES AND JUST DESIGN OPTIONS FOR THE SHORT ANSWER IS YES, BUT I'LL LET ANNIE EXPLAIN.
BUT, UM, THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN THINKING ABOUT THAT AS WAYS TO ACTIVATE CREEK CORRIDORS AND OTHER WAYS TO THE THI THE, THE INFRASTRUCTURE, THE, THE NATURAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT, UM, INTERFACES WITH MCDOWELL AND WAYS FOR PEOPLE TO GET AROUND.
YEAH, I JUST WANNA ADD, LIKE THE CROSSINGS ARE CRITICAL BECAUSE WHAT THE COMMENT THAT GOT BROUGHT UP EARLIER ABOUT SORT OF ISOLATING THESE NEIGHBORHOODS, PART OF THE ISOLATION ISSUE IS THAT ALL THESE NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE AN INSULAR NETWORK OF STREETS THAT DON'T CONNECT TO ANYTHING BUT MCDOWELL.
AND THEN WHEN THEY GET TO MCDOWELL, IT'S
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NOT AN INTERSECTION, RIGHT? IT'S SORT OF LIKE A, A A DEAD END.AND SO THEN YOU'RE LEFT TO TRAVERSE UP ONE SIDE OF THE STREET SO THAT YOU CAN, CAN JOG OVER, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST, IT'S NOT A FUNCTIONAL WAY TO, TO MOVE AROUND, BUT IT'S ALL, YOU HA IT'S ALL WE HAVE, RIGHT? WE HAVE TO GET ONTO MCDOWELL.
SO I THINK THE, THE INTERSECTIONS, THE CROSSINGS ARE CRITICAL.
AND WHAT WE HIGHLIGHTED ON THAT PLAN WITH THE STARS, THAT'S THE IDEA, IS HOW CAN WE SORT OF LEVERAGE THOSE POINTS OF MOVEMENT WHERE WE KNOW PEOPLE WANT, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THE DESIRE LINES EFFECTIVELY, AND HOW CAN WE MAKE THESE BOTH REALLY FUNCTIONAL, SAFE, VISIBLE CROSSINGS, BUT THEN ALSO PLACES THAT CAN BE CATALYSTS AND PLACES FOR OTHER TYPES OF PROGRAMMING, OPEN SPACE, WHAT HAVE YOU.
UM, SO THAT IT FEELS, IT'S THOUGHTFUL.
IT'S NOT JUST, UM, A FLASHING BEACON.
IT'S LIKE AN ACTUAL PLACE THAT PEOPLE ARE SLOWING DOWN AT OR PAUSING AT OR WANTING TO GATHER AT.
I I, IT'S VERY HEARTENING TO HEAR ALL THIS TALK ABOUT MCDOWELL 'CAUSE WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT AS WELL.
AND MY FINAL THOUGHT THERE IS IN SPEAKING WITH OUR, OUR PAST TRAFFIC ENGINEER, KEN ETA, WHEN THEY HAD REPAVED MCDOWELL, YOU KNOW, KNOW, I, I SPOKE WITH HIM ABOUT LIKE, WHY DIDN'T WE GET TREES PLANTED? AND HE WAS LIKE, WELL, IT'S A REALLY THIN STREET.
THERE'S NOT A LOT OF ROOM ON EITHER SIDE.
THERE'S NOT A TON TO WORK WITH.
AND AS WITH ANYWHERE THE PATCHWORK OF PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERSHIP MEANS ANYTHING IN THE RIGHT OF WAY AREA IS GONNA BE A CHALLENGE TO COORDINATE.
UM, SO YEAH, I'M JUST CURIOUS, AND I GUESS THIS WILL COME FORWARD MORE AS WE GET INTO THE DRAFT OF THE PLAN, WHICH SOUNDS LIKE IT'S GONNA HAVE SOME OF THIS FLESHED OUT.
LIKE WHAT ARE THOSE DESIGN IDEAS FOR THE STREETS? UM, HOW DO WE TRY TO GET SOME OF THESE OUTCOMES? WHAT TOOLS CAN WE USE? UM, 'CAUSE IT COULD BE, UH, ILLUSTRATIVE FOR OTHER AREAS.
BUT I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR NOW.
I KNOW ADAM, IF YOU WANTED TO, UH, YEAH, UH, I THINK I'M THE ONLY COMMISSIONER UP HERE WHO LIVES IN THE AREA THAT'S GOING TO BE AFFECTED BY THIS.
SO FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE EFFORT THAT YOU'RE PUTTING IN, UM, INTO THIS.
UM, IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I MOVED TO THE AREA BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE THERE WAS A LOT OF POTENTIAL FOR REALLY FORWARD THINKING ABOUT HOW PETALUMA COULD BOTH INTEGRATE THE EAST SIDE AND THE WEST A LITTLE BIT BETTER OR JUST, YOU KNOW, IN CREATE MORE OF THAT, UM, CONNECTED COMMUNITY.
WHEREAS THAT POINT ABOUT ISOLATION IS VERY TRUE FOR A LOT OF THAT COMMUNITY REGARDLESS OF WHERE YOU LIVE, JUST BECAUSE OF ITS, UM, COMMUNITY DESIGN AS THE, YOU KNOW, THE GOAL AT THE TIME WAS TO PACK AS MANY UNITS REGARDLESS OF THEIR SIZE, UM, INTO A SPACE AS POSSIBLE.
SO THAT, THAT JUST CREATES A LOT OF CUL-DE-SACS, A LOT OF DEAD ENDS, A LOT OF WHAT TURNS INTO A LOT OF INACCESSIBILITY FOR GETTING THROUGH NEIGHBORHOODS.
THE BEST EXAMPLE THAT I HAVE IS THAT I LIVE TECHNICALLY THREE BLOCKS AWAY FROM THE SAFEWAY, UM, OVER AT LEGHORN, BUT IT TAKES ME, UH, ABOUT 25 MINUTES TO WALK IT BECAUSE THERE'S NO DIRECT PATH.
AND IT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU THINK ABOUT LIKE, OH, I'M GONNA BE LIVING IN A COMMUNITY THAT IS WALKABLE NICE, UM, AND ACCESSIBLE, BUT IT TURNS OUT BECAUSE OF THE DESIGN PROCESSES THAT WENT INTO SOMETHING LONG BEFORE I GOT THERE, UM, MAKES IT ACTUALLY NOT THAT EASILY, UH, NAVIGABLE.
UM, SO IN THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW THAT MIGHT BE DESIGNED IN THE FUTURE, I, I APPRECIATE THAT ALL OF THE, UM, TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, UH, FOCUS ON BOTH WALKABILITY AND ALTERNATIVE MODES OF TRANSPORTATION, AND THEN ALSO THE A DA COMPLIANCE REALLY THEN CREATES JUST MORE ACCESSIBILITY FOR THAT AREA IN GENERAL.
UM, I THINK THAT WILL GO A LONG WAY TO MAKING IT FEEL, YOU KNOW, JUST A LOT MORE CONNECTED EVEN TO ITSELF.
UM, THE, I ALSO REALLY APPRECIATE THE NEED FOR, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT THERE IS AN INTERESTING NEXUS BETWEEN THE, UM, COMMERCIAL AND THE UM, UH, UM, I GUESS COMMUNITY ORIENTED SECTIONS OF IT WHERE THERE'S A VERY STRONG DEMARCATION POINT ABOUT WHERE THAT STARTS AND BEGINS TO WHERE YOU JUST KIND OF RUN INTO, UM, LARGE BUILDINGS THAT AREN'T VERY INVITING, THAT AREN'T, YOU KNOW, IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE WHY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME AS WE'RE THINKING ABOUT HOW ANY OF THAT THEN BECOMES SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO WALK BY, THAT YOU WANT TO MAKE, USE EITHER BETTER USE OR MORE INTEGRATED
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USE OF THAT SPACE, IF WE COULD REALLY THINK ABOUT HOW TO DESIGN THAT IN A WAY THAT CAN BOTH FUNCTION AS THAT NECESSARY INDUSTRIAL SECTOR, WHICH I THINK ALSO NEEDS MORE STRENGTHENING AT THE SAME TIME AT, UM, ANYTHING ELSE, BECAUSE I'VE SEEN A FEW OF THOSE BUSINESSES NOT D DECIDE TO NOT STICK AROUND.UM, YOU KNOW, THE, IT, IT'S A HARD PROBLEM, BUT I THINK THAT IT'S ONE THAT'S WORTH REALLY TRYING TO SOLVE BECAUSE THAT WILL BRING, YOU KNOW, BUSINESS THE AREA.
SO POTENTIALLY PEOPLE WHO MOVE TO THE MORE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE DEVELOPED CAN LIVE CLOSER TO WHERE THEY WORK AND CREATE ALL OF THESE OTHER SYNERGIES THAT COME TOGETHER AND REALLY MAKE A PLACE THAT JUST INVITES, UM, YOU KNOW, MORE BUSINESS, UM, MORE COMMUNITY AND ALL OF THOSE INTERACTING THINGS.
SO COULD I TOUCH ON SOMETHING? YEAH.
UM, THIS KIND OF GOING TO WHAT ANDREW WAS TALKING ABOUT, THE SORT OF THE EXCITING PERIOD THAT THIS SPECIFIC PLAN FINDS ITSELF IN.
I THINK THE SPECIFIC PLAN IS GOING TO BE WANDERING AROUND THE WANDERING DOWN THE PATH OF GETTING BETWEEN WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU WE CAN'T HAVE TREES, THE ROAD'S NOT WIDE ENOUGH, AND THEN THE COUNCILMAN SAYS THE ROAD SHOULD BE DESIGNED FOR 20 MILES AN HOUR.
SO SOMEWHERE IN THERE THIS SPECIFIC PLAN HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO FIND WHERE'S THE SWEET SPOT IN THAT, YOU KNOW, WE STILL GOTTA MOVE THE COMMERCIAL TRAFFIC, BUT WE HAVE THIS NEED FOR SAFER STREETS AND, AND ABILITY TO GET PEOPLE AROUND.
UM, LET ME POINT OUT ONE OTHER THING TOO.
THE SCOPE OF WORK THAT PERKINS AND WILL IS MEETING IS NOT JUST OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS FOR PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT, BUT THERE'LL BE PUBLIC REALM STANDARDS.
SO FOR INSTANCE, WHEN YOU TAKE THAT WALK DOWN MCDOWELL AND YOU JUST SEE BACKYARD, BACKYARD, BACKYARD, BACKYARD, WELL, HOW CAN THAT STREET BE DESIGNED BETTER SO THAT THAT SIDEWALK ISN'T JUST A REMNANT ONTO A BACKYARD, A BACKYARD FENCE, BUT WHAT, HOW CAN THE PUBLIC REALM BE DESIGNED? AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE STARTING TO WANDER DOWN WITH PUBLIC WORKS AND FAIR AND PEERS IS WHAT IS THAT CROSS-SECTION? HOW DO YOU GET MORE GREENERY? WHAT'S THE BIKE PATH? WHAT'S THE MULTI-USE PATH? IS IT PROTECTED? IS IT NOT? DOES IT HAVE TO BE THE SAME FOR THREE MILES OR CAN IT BE RESPONSIVE TO THAT LAND USE ON EITHER SIDE? I'D VOTE YES, PROTECTED AND YES, CONTIGUOUS FOR THREE MILES, BUT
I THOUGHT IT WAS A WONDERFUL PRESENTATION OR PRESENTATIONS AND I THINK AT THIS STAGE, CONCEPTUALLY, IT'S, IT'S EXCELLENT.
OBVIOUSLY THE DEVIL'S ALWAYS IN THE DETAILS LATER ON.
UM, I THINK IT SUCCEEDED IN ACHIEVING, UH, UH, ESTABLISHING A SENSE OF PLACE OUT OF WHAT REALLY NOW IS JUST A SPACE, UM, AND STUFF.
UH, AND I LIKE HOW IT CONNECTED THOSE PLACES.
UM, I ALSO DO APPRECIATE THE INCLUSION THAT OTHER PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY MENTIONED, WALKABILITY, HUMAN SCALE AND THOSE THINGS.
BUT THE THING THAT STRUCK ME THE MOST WAS WHAT THE CONSULTANTS SAID ABOUT VIEWSCAPE.
AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HERE.
BUT AS WE MOVE INTO THESE STANDARDS, THESE OBJECTIVE STANDARDS AND HOW WE LOOK AT FORM THAT WE REALLY CONSIDER VIEWSCAPE AS AS A FUNDAMENTAL PLANNING POLICY.
JUST AS A FINAL THOUGHT THERE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING THROUGH THE DOCUMENT, I ASSUME BEFORE WE CAN, YOU KNOW, DO ANY KIND OF EIR, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO KNOW HEIGHTENED DENSITY IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES PLUS ANY DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS THAT WE THINK OF FOR EITHER PUBLIC REALM OR PRIVATE PROPERTY, WE'LL HAVE TO BE INCLUDED.
'CAUSE I'M, I'M SEEING IN THE DOCUMENT IT DOES SAY, WE HAD MENTION OF STORIES AND PUBLIC COMMENT, IT DOES SAY HIGHER DENSITY RESIDENTIAL IS THREE TO FIVE PLUS STORIES.
UM, SO JUST TO GIVE A SENSE OF AT LEAST WHAT'S LISTED IN THE DOCUMENT FOR NOW.
UM, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT WILL ALL BE MORE CONCRETE IN JUNE WHEN, WHEN THAT COMES FORWARD AS A DRAFT AFTERNOON.
SO THE COUNCIL WILL NOT SEE A DRAFT, UM, ON JULY 6TH WHEN WE GO TO THE COUNCIL, THEY'RE GONNA GET BASICALLY WHAT WE SHOWED YOU AND ANYTHING YOU WANT TO TELL US, ANY DIRECTION YOU WANT TO PROVIDE US.
I WANTED TO JUST KIND OF GO OVER A BIG PICTURE SCHEDULE.
SO THAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN JUNE AND WE'LL GET SOME MARCHING ORDERS FROM THE COUNCIL WITH YOUR INPUT.
AND, UM, THEY'LL THEN THEY'RE GONNA GO AWAY AND WRITE THE SPECIFIC PLAN AND GET THE, THIS, UH, CQA CONSULTANT STARTED AND START TO DO THAT.
THEN THEY'LL BE CHECKING BACK.
THAT'S PROBABLY GONNA BE THREE TO FOUR MONTHS THAT THEY'LL BE AWAY DOING THAT.
AND SOME OF THESE THINGS LIKE OBJECTIVE DESIGN STANDARDS, PUBLIC REALM STANDARDS, WHAT IS THE CROSS SECTION, SOME OF THAT'LL START TO COME TO FRUITION, BUT NOT UNTIL WE CHECK IN WITH THE COUNCIL.
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THAT MAKES SENSE.I BELIEVE I READ IN THE STAFF REPORT, UH, TALKED ABOUT THE TRANSIT ORIENTED COMMUNITY ASPECT OF THE, THE SPECIFIC PLAN AND THAT, UM, THERE WAS A 25 UNITS PER ACRE, I BELIEVE MINIMUM DENSITY STANDARD FOR CORRECT.
UM, I MEANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER.
SO THE TOC POLICY, THE TRANS COMMUNITIES POLICY, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, UM, HALF MILE CIRCLE, ANY PARCEL THAT'S DESIGNATED TO ALLOW RESIDENTIAL MM-HMM
SO YOU ADD THEM ALL UP AND THE AVERAGE DENSITY ACROSS THAT UNIT, THAT, THAT THOSE ACRES HAS TO BE 25 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE MINIMUM.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT EVERY PARCEL HAS TO BE 25.
YOU KNOW, RIGHT NEXT TO THE STATION YOU MIGHT HAVE 40 DWELLING UNITS PER RE AND THEN OUT AT ELI ROAD YOU MIGHT HAVE 12 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
BUT THE AGGREGATE HAS TO, UM, HIT THAT 25, UH, DWELLING UNIT PER MINIMUM.
AND THEN THE SAME APPLIES TO OFFICE.
ANY NEW OFFICE WOULD HAVE TO DEVELOP, UM, I BELIEVE IT'S 1.0 FAR MINIMUM WITH A 4.0 FAR MAXIMUM IN THE HALAU CIRCLE.
THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT AGGREGATION OF THE, OKAY.
UM, CAN YOU, I WANT TO JUST GO BACK TO THE PRESENTATION FOCUS AREA THREE NORTH MCDOWELL, AND THEN THERE'S SEVERAL GOLD STARS ALONG THE WAY THERE.
SLIDE NUMBER, WHAT SLIDE NUMBER ARE YOU ON? SLIDE NUMBER 19.
UM, AND I JUST WANT TO KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHAT THE, THE, LIKE, I, YOU KNOW, THERE'S TWO, TWO FOCUS AREAS THAT ARE VERY CLEAR.
THEY'RE LIKE LARGELY LAND MASSES.
AND THEN ALL ALONG MCDOWELL I, UM, I'M A LITTLE UNCLEAR LIKE WHAT THE, LIKE THERE'S SO MUCH DI DIFFERENT THI LIKE EACH ONE OF THOSE STARS FEELS LIKE IT'S A DIFFERENT SORT OF STRATEGY.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S THAT ONE LIKE JUST WAS CRUISING THROUGH THE STREET VIEW AND LIKE THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THAT BIG OFFICE BUILDING WITH AN EMPTY PARKING LOT THERE.
AND LIKE, WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH THAT? YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE LIKE, UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, SOME ARE, THERE'S LIKE SOME OPPORTUNITIES LIKE ON RAINIER, IF YOU WERE TO ABLE TO GET THOSE THREE PARCELS TO BE REDEVELOPED, YOU COULD LIKE, LIKE CUT, YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD CONNECT TRANSPORT WAY OVER TO RAINIER TOO, SO YOU START TO GRIP MORE, UM, PERMEABILITY THERE.
WHAT, LIKE, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW YOU'RE SORT OF LOOKING AT, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT EACH STAR, BUT MAYBE LIKE, WHAT DOES THE, THE STARS SORT OF MEAN? 'CAUSE THEY'RE JUST THERE RIGHT NOW.
WHAT, WHAT DOES THIS GRAPHIC ACTUALLY MEAN? YEAH,
UM, YEAH, IT'S SUPER, THE, I, I'M LOOKING AT THIS, I'M LIKE, YEAH, THIS NEEDS A LITTLE BIT MORE, UH, DESCRIPTION.
SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING WITH THE STARS, THESE ARE ALL EXISTING CROSSINGS AND SOME OF THEM ARE LIKE SIGNALED INTERSECTIONS AND SOME OF THEM ARE, UM, LIKE, LIKE HAWK LIGHT, YOU KNOW, LIKE PEDESTRIAN ACTIVATED FLASHING BEACON.
UM, AND SO THE IDEA IS THAT THEY'RE ALL THERE.
WE NEED TO MAKE THEM SORT OF FUNCTION MORE AS PART OF A PLACEMAKING STRATEGY THAT IS COGNIZANT OF THE LAND USES OR SORT OF ADJACENT PARCELS ON EITHER SIDE.
BUT THOSE PARCELS ARE ALL VERY DIFFERENT.
LIKE, THIS IS NOT GONNA BE A CORRIDOR THAT LOOKS AND FEELS ENTIRELY THE SAME.
LIKE WE KNOW THAT THE LAND USES ARE VERY DIFFERENT.
THE DEPTHS OF THE PARCELS ARE VERY DIFFERENT.
A LOT OF THESE PARCELS, ESPECIALLY THE, THE GOLD SECTION IN THE MIDDLE, MANY OF THESE ARE REAR FACING, LIKE THIS IS A BACK OF HOUSE.
UM, AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE HIGHLIGHTING THESE INTERSECTIONS OR THESE, THESE CROSSINGS RATHER BECAUSE WE THINK THAT THERE'S, UM, AT EACH ONE A DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITY.
SOME OF THESE OPPORTUNITIES MIGHT BE SIMILAR, LIKE IN SOME CASES THERE MIGHT BE A, A TRAIL CROSSING HERE.
AND SO THERE'S A TREATMENT THAT YOU COULD IMAGINE THAT WOULD START TO BE APPLIED.
UM, SOME OF THEM ARE AT, UM, THERE'S A, UNFORTUNATELY THE STARS ARE SORT OF COVERING THIS, BUT THERE'S THIS REALLY LIKE WEDGE SHAPED, UM, PARCELIZATION THAT OCCURS WHERE MCDOWELL, NORTH MCDOWELL INTERSECTS WITH THE SMART LINE AND THE SMART PATHWAY.
ONE OF THOSE WEDGES IS A PUBLICLY OWNED PARCEL.
SO WHERE THAT STAR IS, IT'S LIKE WHAT COULD HAPPEN HERE? LIKE THERE'S NOW A DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT THAT PARCEL BEING SOMETHING THAT IS MORE PUBLIC REALM DRIVEN.
SO I THINK CONCEPTUALLY, LIKE WE, WE INTENTIONALLY ARE TRYING TO KEEP THIS HIGH LEVEL BECAUSE WE DON'T, WE'RE STILL DEVELOPING
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THE, THE, THE CONCEPTS PER SE, BUT THAT THIS IS HOW WE'RE STARTING TO THINK ABOUT MCDOWELL BEING SOMETHING THAT CAN BE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH THAT IT'S STARTING TO STITCH TOGETHER ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES, BUT, BUT THE STARS THEMSELVES ARE SHOWING CROSSINGS.UM, THIS GOES BACK TO, I THINK WHAT NICOLE SAID TOO, LIKE THAT MCDOWELL'S NOT VERY, IT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT THAT FRIENDLY THAT I THINK YOU REALLY NEED TO THINK ABOUT.
LIKE, NOT NECESSARILY LIKE A 15 MINUTE WALK ON MCDOWELL, BUT LIKE, THINK ABOUT IT AS LIKE SOMEONE SHOULD BE ABLE TO ENCOUNTER SOMETHING WITHIN THREE MINUTES OR LIKE FIVE MINUTES, RIGHT? SO, BECAUSE WE REALLY NEED TO, UM, IF SOMEONE, IF WE SAY THAT THERE'S A SOMETHING 15 MINUTE WALK AWAY, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A MILE PRETTY MUCH, RIGHT? AND THE MILE ON MCDOWELL IS, YOU KNOW, REALLY IT'S CORONA ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE KOHL SHOPPING CENTER IS, THAT'S LIKE A MILE, RIGHT? SO IT'S NOT A PLEASANT WALK.
SO, UM, MAYBE WE THINK ABOUT IT AS LIKE A THREE MINUTE COMMUNITY OR SOMETHING.
YOU KNOW, LIKE JUST, UM, I THINK THAT'S WHERE YOU GET INTO THE HUMAN SCALE.
THEY HUMAN, IT'S LIKE, IT'S MEANT TO APPEAL TO A HUMAN.
AND I GUESS, ARE WE GONNA COME UP WITH LIKE PARCEL LEVEL STRATEGIES IN THE SPECIFIC PLAN? LIKE HOW SPECIFIC WILL IT GET IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS? UM, WE DON'T KNOW THAT WE'LL GET THAT SPECIFIC.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY KEYING INTO THE CONVERSATION WE'VE STARTED HAVING WITH PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE UNINCORPORATED AREAS IS, UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE ALL NOT NECESSARILY IRREGULAR, BUT THEY'RE ODDLY SHAPED AND THEY HAVE DIFFERENT SIZES.
SO WE DON'T KNOW THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET INTO ACTUALLY RECOMMENDING SPECIFIC PARCEL, UH, SPECIFIC IMPROVEMENTS TO A PARCEL IN 1100 ACRES.
BUT I THINK THERE'S GONNA BE, UM, POLICIES AND SUCH THAT CAN, UM, ACTIVATE CERTAIN AREAS.
SO FOR INSTANCE, UM, WE'RE TRYING TO PLAY WITH AN IDEA THAT THERE COULD BE A POLICY THAT AIR THE WEDGE SHAPE, WEDGE SHAPED SPACE THAT SHE, THAT, UH, ANNIE WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT, RATHER THAN WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO BUILD A RESTAURANT THERE, MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO WHERE WE PUT DOWN A PAD AND SOMEBODY PUTS A, UH, SOMEBODY OR RANGING, UH, FOOD TRUCKS CAN LIKE ROTATE THROUGH THERE.
AND YOU STILL, SO YOU'VE ACTIVATED, YOU HAVEN'T SPENT NEARLY AS MUCH MONEY.
YOU'RE NOT WAITING FOR THE PRIVATE, UH, SECTOR TO PUT A BUILDING IN THERE, BUT YOU CAN, IT'S CALLED TACTICAL URBANISM.
SO TRYING TO FIND THOSE WAYS TO ACTIVATE SOME OF THESE SPACES.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'D BE EVERY THREE MINUTES SOMETHING CHANGES, BUT CERTAINLY THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES ALONG THERE WHERE A CREEK COMES IN AND HITS.
UM, IF YOU TAKE THAT WALK, YOU'LL SEE A LOT OF JUST SPACE THAT'S JUST NOT TAKEN.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE POLICIES THAT CAN ACTIVATE THOSE.
UM, QUESTION RELATED TO THAT, I GUESS, LIKE WHAT'S DRIVING THE INTERSECTIONS, BEING THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR PLACEMAKING? LIKE AN, AN EXAMPLE IS THE, I THINK IT'S THE LYNCH CREEK WAY CROSSING.
YOU ACTUALLY HAVE TO DO A BIG U IF YOU'RE CROSSING MCDOWELL THERE AND THE INTERSECTION'S LIKE A TERRIBLE HOSPITAL ENTRY OR WHATEVER, MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING ENTRY, AND THEN THE COMMUNITY MARKET IN THE, OR THE TUESDAY MARKETS IN THE COMMUNITY CENTER IS ACTUALLY CLOSER TO THE TRAIL.
BUT YOU'VE HAD TO KIND OF GO YOUR WAY, UH, OUTTA THE WAY.
SO I, I GUESS SOME CONTEXT THERE WOULD BE HELPFUL FROM AN URBAN PLANNING PERSPECTIVE,
UM, BECAUSE IF YOU HAVE THIS SORT OF JAGGED CONNECTION, RIGHT, WHERE YOU'RE, YOU'RE DEPARTING THE LYNCH CREEK TRAIL ON ONE SIDE AND THEN TRYING TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE, AND YOU'RE INHERENTLY GONNA BE WALKING DOWN AND NOW YOU'RE PASSING, UM, A PORTION OF MAYBE THE HOSPITAL SITE THAT HAS SOME ADDITIONAL SPACE, LIKE, CAN THAT BE BROUGHT IN SO THAT YOU'RE CROSSING EXPERIENCE IS PART OF THIS CONTINUOUS, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO JUST THINK ABOUT LIKE A POINT OF CROSSING FROM HERE TO HERE.
UM, IT CAN BE SORT OF, WE, WE CAPTURE THE SORT OF SPACE OR THE PATH OF TRAVEL THAT'S NEEDED AND LIKE HOW DO WE SORT OF BRING THAT INTO AN OVERALL PUBLIC REALM EXPERIENCE.
SO THE SYMBOLS HERE ARE, YOU KNOW, TRULY SYMBOLIC.
I THINK HOW THAT MIGHT PLAY OUT IN A PHYSICAL DESIGN STRATEGY THAT WE PROPOSE AND AT A POLICY LEVEL.
'CAUSE AGAIN, IT'S SPECIFIC PLAN, IT'S NOT PARCEL LEVEL DESIGN.
UM, BUT I THINK THERE'S STRATEGIES, APPROACHES THAT WE, WE COULD START TO, TO BRING FORWARD IN THAT WAY.
COULD WE MAYBE RELAY THAT OR INCLUDE THAT IN THE JULY PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL? JUST THE IDEA.
'CAUSE I THINK WHEN YOU OVERLAY THIS WITH THE, I THINK IT'S THE CONNECTIVITY DIAGRAM WHERE IT INDICATES SIGNAL CROSSINGS AT THOSE SAME MOMENTS, I JUST KIND OF ASSUMED LITERALLY LIKE THE CROSSINGS WOULD BE THE,
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THE PUBLIC KIND OF, UM, PLACEMAKING WHERE MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO DEFINE THAT JUST MORE BROADLY.AND I THINK ALSO HELPFUL, UM, AS YOU'RE PREPARING FOR THAT, THAT NEXT PRESENTATION, I THINK THAT FOCUS ON THE PUBLIC REALM IS REALLY INTERESTING AND EXCITING AND SOMETHING THAT, UM, MCDOWELL IN PARTICULAR NEEDS TO THE EXTENT THAT THERE'S ANY PHOTOS, EXAMPLES BEFORE AND AFTERS OF COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE SORT OF RECLAIMED THOSE SPACES IN A WAY, UM, THAT CAN HELP US SORT OF IMAGINE WHAT'S POSSIBLE.
UM, OBVIOUSLY TREADING LIGHTLY THAT THESE ARE ALWAYS JUST SORT OF IDEAS AND INSPIRATION POINTS AND NOTHING IS, UM, NECESSARILY SET IN STONE.
BUT I THINK VISUALS ARE ALWAYS HELPFUL FOR THE COMMUNITY TO, TO SORT OF SEE WHAT'S POSSIBLE AND, UM, BEYOND THAT STREET VIEW THAT YOU'RE CLICKING THROUGH AND SAYING, OH YEAH, I KNOW THAT INTERSECTION.
IT'S, IT'S REALLY CRAPPY WHEN YOU'RE ON A BIKE.
AND, UM, HELPING US SORT OF ENVISION IT WOULD BE GREAT.
DID, DID I MISS, UM, LIKE A, A SLIDE THAT OVERLAYED THE SMALL BUSINESSES, THE LAGUNITAS WITH LIKE AN EXIST, LIKE JUST KIND OF AN, UH, AN INVENTORY OF EXISTING KIND OF PLACEMAKING OR DESTINATION SPOTS? I DON'T KNOW IF WE, WE HAVE EXACTLY THAT, BUT WE DO HAVE A SLIDE THAT'S SHOWING EXISTING BUSINESSES.
IF YOU GO FURTHER UP, UH, OH WAIT, NOT THAT FAR.
BUT IT'S PRETTY, IT'S LIKE OVERLAYING THAT SPECIFICALLY ON A MAP WOULD BE YEAH, PRETTY HELPFUL, RIGHT? I MEAN, LIKE, THESE ARE KIND OF POINTING OUT WHAT'S THERE NOW MM-HMM
UM, AND I THINK WHERE YOU'RE GETTING TO AT IS LIKE, HOW DO WE SORT OF THREAD IT ALL TOGETHER AND, AND ILLUMINATE THE, THE NEW OPPORTUNITIES? YEAH.
AND IF, IF YOU GO DOWN TO FOUR, THEN YOU'VE GOT, SO THIS HAS THE FLAGS YES.
AND THEN THE, THE NEXT SLIDE HAS FLAGS FOR, FOR BUSINESS.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE A NARROWER STUDY OF EXISTING PLACEMAKING OR DESTINATION POINTS WE HAVE ON EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE TOO, JUST TO UNDERSTAND.
'CAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LOT KIND OF, THAT YOU MIGHT END UP WEAVING THROUGH IN THIS AREA THAT JUST ISN'T KIND OF CONSOLIDATED, BUT IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO MAP THE, LIKE THE FREIGHT STUFF THAT'S ON THERE, RIGHT? LIKE, THERE'S THINGS WE KNOW ABOUT LIKE USPS AND ALL OUR BUS DEPOT, BUT LIKE RECOLOGY IS BACK THERE TOO.
AND SO IF WE'RE TRYING TO GET A BUNCH OF HEAVY DUTY VEHICLES OFF THIS AREA TO ELIMINATE THE DIESEL EMISSIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, LIKE, UM, IDENTIFYING ALL THOSE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S LIKE ON THE CORNER OF CORONA AND MCDOWELL, THERE'S LITERALLY A THING CALLED THE TRUCK, A TRUCK LOT OR TRUCK, TRUCK HANGOUT OR TRUCK CLUB OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE A, JUST A, YOU KNOW, IT'S A TRUCK STOP, BUT LIKE IF WE'RE TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, THE TRUCK PARKING CLUB IS WHAT THEY, IS WHAT IT'S CALLED ON, ON GOOGLE MAPS, RIGHT? SO I THINK REALLY KIND OF MAPPING LIKE THESE SORTS OF THINGS AND THINKING LIKE WHERE WOULD WE ACTUALLY WANT TO HELP RELOCATE THESE BUSINESSES TO, OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T WANNA LOSE THEM FROM OUR COMMUNITY, UM, BUT ARE WE MOVING THEM OUT TOWARD LAKEVILLE AND SOME OF THE MORE BUSINESS PARK INDUSTRIAL AREAS? UM, YOU KNOW, AND TRY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A HUGE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DO FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM TO, TO SUPPORT THAT.
BUT UM, IF OUR VISION IS TO CLEAN UP THIS CORRIDOR, WE PROBABLY NEED TO LOOK AT THE HEAVY DUTY TRUCKING USES AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE MIGHT COME UP WITH SOME POLICIES OF HOW WE MIGHT ACTUALLY ENCOURAGE THAT.
WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE FROM THE TEAM THAT YOU WERE HOPING TO GET FEEDBACK ON THAT WE HAVEN'T TOUCHED ON YET? GUIDANCE? WELL, ONE, I BRING UP THAT SLIDE AND THEN IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT YOU INDIVIDUALLY OR AS A GROUP WANT TO TALK ABOUT OR GIVE US ADVICE ON.
I THINK WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF GOOD COMMENTS AND, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC THINGS TO TAKE TO THE COUNCIL, BUT, UM, ANY OF THESE, UH, SPECIFICALLY, YOU KNOW, THE EXPANDING THE PLAN AREA, UH, TO MATCH WHAT THE VOTERS APPROVED AS POTENTIAL URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY.
IT'D BE GOOD TO KNOW IF YOU GUYS HAVE AN OPINION ABOUT THAT.
I THINK, LET, LET ME JUST OFFER THIS
SO THAT THAT TRANSIT VILLAGE CONCEPT IS DEPENDENT UPON ANNEXATION.
WHEN, WHEN WE START TO LOOK AT THAT TRANSIT VILLAGE CONCEPT, THEN IT STARTS TO MAKE SENSE TO WANT TO GO UP TO WHAT
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WE CALL PARCEL 25, WHICH IS THE NORTHERNMOST EXTENT OF A POTENTIAL UGB EXPANSION AND SUBSEQUENT ANNEXATION, AND THEN ON OVER TO ELI ROAD AND THINK ABOUT THAT WHOLE KIND OF SQUARE AREA, THEN BOUNDED BY PARCEL 25, ELI CORONA IN THE TRACKS AS A, AN ANNEXATION POTENTIAL AREA.BUT THEN HOW MIGHT THAT LOOK IN TERMS OF, OF DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY? SO REALLY TO GET TO, IF YOU FIND YOURSELF LIKING THE TRANSIT VILLAGE CONCEPT, THEN THEN SOME INPUT ON SUPPORT FOR THE UGB EXPANSION AND ANNEXATION, UH, WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
JUST A QUICK ORDER OF OPERATIONS THING HERE.
FIRST OF ALL, ARE WE TALKING TO THAT PROPERTY OWNER ALREADY KIND OF DEEPLY ARE WE COMMUNICATING, AND I KNOW WHICH ONE, UH, THE PROPERTY OWNER FOR PARCEL 25 OR WHATEVER WE NEED TO ENABLE THIS TRANSIT VILLAGE CONCEPT? I ASSUME WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED INTEREST, AND I MEAN, I THINK WE DO, BUT WELL, WE HAVE, THERE'S 27 PROPERTY OWNERS AND 62 VOTERS.
UH, BOTH OF THOSE FACTORS FIGURE IMPORTANTLY INTO ANNEXATION PROCEEDINGS.
UM, SEVERAL OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS ARE HERE THIS EVENING, A LOT MORE HAVE BEEN PARTICIPATING IN, UM, THE COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS, WORKING GROUPS AND SO FORTH.
AND, UH, FOLLOWING THIS MEETING, WE'LL BE LAUNCHING INTO A SPECIFIC EFFORT, UH, TO OUTREACH TO ALL OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS AND, AND, UM, AND, UH, SEEK ENGAGEMENT.
WE DO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE INPUT WE'VE BEEN GETTING IS, UH, SEVERAL OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS ARE REPRESENTED BY THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS.
UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF LONG, UH, DECADES LONG PROPERTY OWNERS IN THAT AREA.
AND, AND SO WE'LL BE OUTREACHING AND, AND WORKING WITH ALL OF THEM.
AND THEN, UH, HAVING NOT DONE A SPECIFIC PLAN PROCESS IN MY TIME ON PLANNING, IS IT STANDARD TO HAVE THE PLAN INCORPORATE PARCELS THAT AREN'T ANNEXED YET? IS THAT NOT AN ISSUE PROCEDURALLY, LEGALLY, ANYTHING LIKE THAT? WELL, WE'RE DOING A SPECIFIC PLAN, SO I THINK IT MAKES SENSE.
AND ALSO IN THE, UH, VOTER INITIATIVE, I THINK IT'S A ARTICLE THREE, UM, WHEN IT GETS TO THE POINT WHERE THE CITY COUNCIL HAS TO MAKE A SIX SEVEN VOTE DECISION, ARE WE GONNA DO THIS OR NOT? THEY CAN'T JUST DO IT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO DO IT.
THEY HAVE TO BE PRESENTED WITH A TRANSIT ORIENTED PLAN.
AND I THINK THE LANGUAGE ACTUALLY SAYS TRANSIT ORIENTED IN THE VOTER INITIATIVE, RIGHT? YOU NEED SOMETHING.
UH, AND WE'VE BEEN SPEAKING WITH THE LCO PERSON, AND THIS IS FINE FOR THE PLAN TO GO FIRST.
UM, ANNEXATION IS GONNA NEED A, A MUNICIPAL SERVICES REVIEW, IT'S GONNA NEED A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT THE, THAT THE SECRET DOCUMENT CAN GIVE IT A LOT OF THAT.
BUT THEN LAFCO WILL HAVE TO DO MORE.
I JUST ENCOURAGE THAT YOU CONTINUE TO UNDERSCORE THOSE POINTS SO THAT IT'S CLEAR TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WE AREN'T PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE.
IT IS NOT A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.
WE'RE STUDYING IT, WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO UNDERSTAND IT, WE'RE COLLECTING COMMENT ON IT, UM, BUT IT'S NOT A DONE DEAL.
SO MAKING THAT CLEAR, UM, THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS, I THINK WILL BE IMPORTANT.
AND, AND JUST THINKING ABOUT DARREN'S QUESTION FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT, YEAH, THE CITY, I MEAN, WE CAN ONLY ENFORCE UP UNTIL OUR BOUNDARIES.
SO WE MIGHT NEED TO HAVE SOME LANGUAGE IN THE RESOLUTION WHEN COUNSEL ADOPTS A SPECIFIC PLAN THAT THIS OR, UH, THOSE PARCELS NOT IN THE CITY BOUND WILL TAKE EFFECT WHEN WE GO THROUGH THE LKO PROCESS.
AND ONLY THEN, I MEAN, I'M DEFINITELY SUPPORTIVE OF THE ANNEXATION.
UM, WE INCLUDED, WE EXPANDED THIS EXPANSION AREA BECAUSE WE WANTED TO SEE THIS HAPPEN.
SO, UM, THE COUNCIL'S DEFINITELY SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.
UM, YOU MENTIONED THAT THE EIR WILL LOOK AT CERTAIN THINGS, BUT NOT CERTAIN THINGS IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO LOOK AT THE CERTAIN THINGS, THE OTHER THINGS FOR ANNEXATION WHILE WE'RE DOING THE EIR SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH ANOTHER STUDY, UM, AND JUST LIKE ACTUALLY DO THE ANALYSIS RIGHT NOW FOR ANNEXATION SO THAT WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO WHEN WE'RE ACTUALLY ADOPTING THIS PLAN TOO.
UM, AND WE CAN MOVE IN TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION AND NOT HAVE TO
SO THAT, UH, THAT DID COME OUT OF THE CONVERSATION WITH LAFCO AND WE'LL BE PURSUING THAT.
SO THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW TO SORT OF SET THE STAGE AND, AND ALSO I, I THINK IT'S HELPFUL TO THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, I FIND IT, TOM POINTED OUT IN HIS PRESENTATION THAT THE COST OF THE NORTH STATION CONSTRUCTION WAS
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14 MILLION.THE CITY CONTRIBUTED 2 MILLION TO THAT EFFORT.
WHEN WE SMART IS A SIGNIFICANT PUBLIC INVESTMENT, A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
SO THE ANNEXATION IS AN EXPANSION OF THE CITY BOUNDARY.
IT'S ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THAT PUBLIC INVESTMENT IN THE SMART RAIL LINE BY CREATING HOUSING ADJACENT TO THE STATION BY INCENTIVIZING TRANSIT ORIENTED COMMUNITY LIFESTYLES AND SO FORTH.
ADDITIONALLY, IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO ATTRACT, UM, RESIDENTS AND ATTRACT EMPLOYEES TO FULFILL THE JOB NEEDS OF THE BUSINESSES IN THE CORRIDOR.
SO BALANCING THAT, THAT JOB SUPPORT, THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY ALONG WITH PROVIDING THE HOUSING, BOTH OF THOSE, UH, BECOME FULFILLED THROUGH THE ANNEXATION PROCESS.
SO IT IS, IT IS LITERALLY AN EXPANSION OF THE CITY BOUNDARIES, BUT THERE'S ALSO A LOT MORE THAT THAT CAN RIDE ON THAT ANNEXATION, UM, IN TERMS OF THE SUPPORT FOR SMART SUPPORT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PROVISIONS FOR HOUSING.
YEAH, I THINK THE REASON WE SORT OF PUT THAT CONSIDERATION IN WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY WAS THAT IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DRY DRAWING, A 15 MINUTE CIRCLE AROUND THE SMART STATION AND A QUARTER OF THAT PIE ISN'T IN THE CITY, YOU KNOW, WE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO EXPLORE INCORPORATING THAT, THAT WEDGE.
UM, SO YEAH, I, I TOO AM IN FAVOR OF, UM, EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OTHER COMMENTS ON THESE RECOMMENDATIONS TO CONSIDER AS REQUESTED BY STAFF.
ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS MEETING ITEM? OKAY, THEN I THINK WE CAN, SORRY, BEFORE, BEFORE WE LEAVE THIS, I WANT, I WANT TO ADDRESS, UH, MS. FRY'S COMMENT ABOUT THE EIGHT STORY BUILDING.
IT IT DOES, IT DOES SEEM LIKE AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THE, UM, THE GENERAL PLAN UPDATE, LAND USE DESIGNATION MAP IS SHOWING THE, UM, WHAT WE REFER TO AS THE DANCO MERIDIAN SITE, THE, THE, THE, UM, SMART STATION NORTH STATION PARKING AREA.
AND THEN IF WE GO ACROSS THE STREET, I THINK IT'S THE TRUCK PARKING CLUB IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, THAT THAT RATHER LARGE PROPERTY OVER THERE IS BEING SHOWN AS, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL MIXED USE LAND USE DESIGNATION.
SO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER MIXED USE THAT MAXIMUM HEIGHT IS, UH, THREE STORIES WITH A MAXIMUM FAR OF UM, 2.0.
THEN WE'VE GOT THE, THE AREA THAT IS OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS, BUT THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AS THE POTENTIAL ANNEXATION AREA.
WHEN WE LOOK AT THE, THE GENERAL PLAN LAND USE DESIGNATIONS, WE HAVE THIS STATION MIXED USE LAND USE DESIGNATION THAT DOES HAVE A MAX HEIGHT OF EIGHT STORIES MAX FAR OF 5.0.
HOWEVER, AND, AND POTENTIALLY WE COULD, WE COULD PROPOSE TO DESIGNATE THE ANNEXATION LANDS AS STATIONARY MIXED USE.
WE DON'T HAVE TO, NOTHING IS COMPELLING US TO GO TO A HEIGHT THAT HIGH OR A DENSITY THAT DENSE.
WE DO HAVE TO MEET AS, AS TOM MENTIONED, WE HAVE TO ACHIEVE THE AGGREGATE, UH, DENSITY ACROSS THE 15 OR THE HALF MILE RADIUS AROUND THE STATION OF 25 DWELLING UNITS PER ACRE.
SO I THINK IF YOU READ, IF YOU READ IT AND YOU LOOK AND YOU SEE THE DEFINITION OF STATION MIXED USE AS HIGH DENSITY MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT ADJACENT TO TRANSIT HUBS, LIKE SMART STATIONS, YOU WOULD SAY, WELL, THIS IS A SMART STATION AND IT WOULD MAKE SENSE THAT WE WOULD APPLY THIS, BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO.
SO I THINK WITH HOPEFULLY WITH THAT IN MIND, UM, WHEN WE COME BACK AND AS WE WORK THROUGH IT, WE'LL BE ABLE TO REFINE THAT A BIT MORE AND MAYBE THESE COMMENTS WILL AT LEAST, UH, AT LEAST ALLEVIATE SOME CONCERN.
HAVE, HAS THE WORKING GROUP MADE ANY COMMENTS ON LAND USE AND THE TYPE OF LAND USE WE'RE LOOKING AT? WE SAW, YOU KNOW, LIKE VERY BROAD DIVERSE HOUSING, BUT LIKE WAS THERE LIKE STRONG DEMAND, ANYONE SHAKING THEIR FIST AND SAYING EIGHT STORIES OR YOU KNOW, WAS IT, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING LIKE THAT? NO, WE HAVEN'T HAD A DEMAND FOR HEIGHT, BUT WE'VE HAD A DEMAND.
THE WORKING GROUP IS PRETTY, UM, PRETTY SOPHISTICATED AND NIMBLE AT UNDERSTANDING THE IMPORTANCE OF PUTTING DENSITY NEAR THE TRAIN STATION SO THEY KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE A DENSER PLACE.
AND EVEN AT THE WORKSHOPS THAT THAT IDEA COMES ACROSS PRETTY CLEARLY, WE, SO, SO FAR WE MADE A DECISION NOT TO TALK ABOUT THINGS IN TERMS OF NUMBERS YET.
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IT'S JUST WE A DARKER YELLOW, YOU KNOW, CLOSER TO THE STATION AND A LIGHTER YELLOW.AND SO PEOPLE ARE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT'S, UM, ABOUT DENSITY AND INTENSITY NEAR THE STATION AND WE'RE GONNA WAIT AND LET THE CALCULATIONS DETERMINE TO GET THE RIGHT DENSITY THEN WHAT'S THE DEVELOPMENT GOING TO HAVE TO DO TO BE RESPONSIVE TO THAT.
BUT THE DARK YELLOW DOES NOT YET EQUAL A SPECIFIC ZONING TYPE, NOT IN THESE CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS.
BUT, BUT IT DOES SUGGEST I THINK A, A A NEIGHBORHOOD OF A LIFESTYLE, RIGHT? RIGHT.
AND, AND SO I THINK WITH INTENTIONALITY, WE ARE APPROACHING THIS FROM SAYING, OKAY, IF YOU WANT TO LIVE AROUND THE STATION, IF YOU WANNA SEE A NEIGHBORHOOD EVOLVE AROUND THE STATION, WHAT'S THAT NEIGHBORHOOD LIKE? AS WE START TO GET DEFINITION TO WHAT THAT NEIGHBORHOOD'S LIKE, THEN THAT WILL START TO INFORM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE NUMBER OF DWELLING UNITS, HEIGHT AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
WE COULD GO LIKE IT, RIGHT? THAT, THAT IMMEDIATE AREA WHERE WE'VE GOT SOME OF THE DARKER YELLOW, THAT MORE GOLDEN COLOR THAT COULD BE HIGHER DENSITY, SMALLER UNIT SIZE, RIGHT? AND SO, SO MAYBE THAT LIFESTYLE THERE IS SOMEBODY WHO COMMUTES BY TRAIN WHO, WHO LIKES TO BE OUTSIDE, WHO WANTS TO, YOU KNOW, HANG OUT IN THE COMMUNITY OR TAKE OFF ON THE SMART TRAIL FOR A RUN OR A BIKE RIDE OR, YOU KNOW, EVENTUALLY CUT OVER TO THE, THE RIVER AND, AND SO FORTH.
AND, AND SO MAYBE THAT LIFESTYLE APPEALS TO THEM TO HAVE A SMALLER UNIT BUT MORE OUTDOOR SPACES, MORE SENSE OF, OF A FEELING OF CONNECTEDNESS TO COMMUNITY.
AND IF SO, THEN THAT MEANS WE GO, WE'RE ABLE TO ACHIEVE MORE UNITS ON A PARCEL AT A LOWER HEIGHT, BUT STILL HIT SOME OF THE DENSITY GOALS THAT WE HAVE.
AND SO IN THAT SENSE WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT, WHAT SEEMS GOOD FOR A LIFESTYLE AND THEN LET'S START TO CALIBRATE THAT IN TERMS OF UNIT DENSITY AND BUILDING HEIGHT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
ONE FINAL THOUGHT ON THAT, BECAUSE THERE ARE EXPLICIT NUMBERS IN THE PACKET OF THREE TO FIVE STORIES.
PLUS, I WOULD SAY AS WE GET INDICATIONS ON WHAT THOSE NUMBERS ARE GONNA BE WITH FEEDBACK FROM THE WORKING GROUP, FROM THIS GROUP, FROM COUNCIL, THE SOONER WE COMMUNICATE THAT TO THE COMMUNITY THE BETTER.
UH, BECAUSE THIS WILL COME UP NO MATTER WHAT, PEOPLE WILL PLANT NUMBERS IN THERE.
UH, SO THE SOONER WE GET A READ ON THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, AND NOT BEFORE IT'S TIME.
UM, AND I THINK DENSITY IS REALLY THE MOST IMPORTANT METRIC AND KIND OF THE CONCEPT BEING DISCUSSED.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD TO, TO MAKE IT EXPLICIT WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS IN THAT AREA.
NOT THAT YOU HEAD OFF FUTURE FIGHTS EVER, BUT IT'S A WAY TO FIGURE IT OUT SOONER.
ALRIGHT, ANY FINAL COMMENTS ON THIS ONE? OKAY, THEN WE WILL CLOSE OUT MEETING ITEM FOUR.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH TO STAFF AND THE CONSULTANT AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR JOINING US THIS EVENING ON MEETING ITEM FOUR.
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THE HOME STRETCH OF OUR AGENDA WITH COMMISSION COMMENT STARTING ON THIS END.COMMISSIONER GOLDMAN, NO COMMENT.
I'M GONNA LET KEITH GIVE ANY RELEVANT TACK COMMENTS.
I HAVE NOTHING ELSE, NO COMMENTS FROM ME EITHER.
UM, MY ONLY COMMENT IS THAT I WAS PARTICIPATING ALONG WITH THIS WORKING GROUP.
UM, SO THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ELSE WHO'S ON THE WORKING GROUP, WHO'S COME TONIGHT.
UH, ON MONDAY, COUNSEL, UM, ADOPTED A RESOLUTION DIRECTING STAFF TO PREPARE THE FINAL GENERAL PLAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT.
UM, ACCEPTING, UH, ALL OF THE RE YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT WE PASSED ONTO 'EM, THEY WERE VERY APPRECIATIVE.
UM, AND TODAY WE BROKE GROUND ON THE LU CASEY SKATE PARK.
SO I'LL JUST GIVE A QUICK UPDATE ON THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
WE HAD A MEETING YESTERDAY, ACTUALLY PROBABLY ONE OF OUR BETTER MEETINGS.
IT WAS REALLY A LOT OF ENTHUSIASM, UH, DEALING WITH PROTECTING BUT ALSO GROWING TREES AND, AND COOPERATING WITH OUR, OUR NONPROFIT PARTNERS LIKE RELIEF AND SOME OF THOSE IMPORTANT AGENCIES.
SO THAT RELIEF JUST CELEBRATED THEIR, I THINK, THEIR FIFTH ANNIVERSARY, THEIR 3000TH TREE.
I BELIEVE AT AN EVENT LAST WEEK I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND AND AN EXTRAORDINARY, UH, ORGANIZATION THAT HOPEFULLY WE, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS ON THE TREE ADVISORY COMMITTEE, THAT, UH, US ON THE CITIZENS AS WELL AS ON THE COMMITTEE TO REALLY BE PASSIONATE ABOUT, UM, HAVING THE CITY AND OTHER PLACE, OTHER ENTITIES, UM,
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FUND RELIEF FURTHER 'CAUSE THEY'RE REALLY TAKING CARE OF OUR TREE COVER.AND WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE IT OVER
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TO STAFF COMMENT.UH, JUST WANTED TO, UM, REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THE, UM, APPOINTMENT REAPPOINTMENT APPLICATION OR NOMINATION PERIOD CLOSED, UH, AT 5:00 PM TODAY.
AND SO ON JUNE 8TH, UM, THE, UH, COUNSEL WILL BE, UH, CONSIDERING RESOLUTION APPOINTING INDIVIDUALS TO COMMITTEES, UH, COMMISSIONS AND BOARDS.
UM, THEN IN TERMS OF WHILE THE GENERAL PLAN HAD PASSED A MILESTONE ON MONDAY EVENING, UM, WE'RE ALREADY, YOU KNOW, GEARING UP FOR IMPLEMENTATION THROUGH THE ZONING REFORM PROJECT.
WE'VE GOT, OF COURSE, THE NORTH STATION PLAN WORKING.
WE'RE UNDER, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH FINAL REVISIONS ON THE SCOPE FOR THE DOWNTOWN STATION AREA UPDATES.
UM, THE, UH, FAIRGROUNDS MASTER PLAN IS MOVING FORWARD.
THAT CONTRACT IS IN FINAL REVIEW, SO THERE'S A LOT OF PLANNING ACTIVITY GOING ON, WHICH IS REALLY EXCITING.
AT THE SAME TIME, UM, WE'VE GOT SOME INTERESTING HOUSING PROJECTS.
THE, UH, FORMER DEER CREEK PROJECTS, DEER CREEK ONE AND TWO RESUBMITTED.
UM, THEY HAVE CHANGED THE NAME TO RIVERFIELD, NORTH AND SOUTH.
UM, BUT THAT, THAT PROJECT HAS BEEN RESUBMITTED.
WE RECEIVED AN SB THREE 30 PROJECT FOR, UH, THE CEDAR GROVE PARK, UH, RESIDENTIAL, UM, DEVELOPMENT.
WE'RE ENTERTAINING A COUPLE OF OTHER ONGOING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT KEY SITES IN THE CITY.
UH, THE OYSTER COVE BEING, UM, SITE BEING ONE OF THEM, AS WELL AS THE FORMER BARNA UM, SITE.
SO INITIAL CONVERSATIONS THERE.
WE HAVE THE HEALTH PETALUMA PROJECT THAT, UH, IS IN PRE-APPLICATION REVIEW.
UH, AND THEN WE JUST RECEIVED THE PETALUMA RIVER PARK, UM, APPLICATION, FORESIGHT PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW.
SO I THINK THAT, UH, WE'VE GOT A LOT IN THE PIPELINE THAT'S WORKING FORWARD, A LITTLE BIT SLOWER THAN IT HAS IN THE PAST, I THINK, UM, REFLECTING SOME OF THE ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS AND, AND, UH, MARKET, UM, CONDITIONS.
BUT, UH, NEVERTHELESS, IT'S I THINK A REALLY EXCITING TIME FOR THE CITY.
AND, UM, A LOT OF REALLY THOUGHTFUL, UH, ACTIVITY IS TAKING PLACE IN PLANNING DIVISION.
DOES THE RIVER PARK SPAR COME TO US, OR, YES.
SO THAT, THAT PROJECT, UM, ONLY REQUIRES SITE PLAN AND ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW.
AND I THINK WE, WE BROUGHT IT TO YOU IN STUDY SESSION.
IT'S BEEN A WHILE THOUGH,
I THINK YOU'LL, YOU'LL REALLY LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING IT.
UM, IT, IT INFORMATION WILL BE AVAILABLE HERE IN, IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
WE ARE, WE ARE FOLLOWING THROUGH ON THAT DISCUSSION ABOUT IT THROUGH THE SPARK PROCESS, CREATING SOME DESIGN GUIDELINES AND EMBEDDING THOSE IN, UH, THE PLANNING COMMISSION'S RESOLUTION TO GUIDE, UM, FURTHER FURTHER DEVELOPMENT AND TO BE ABLE TO REDUCE, UM, LATER SUBSEQUENT PHASE REVIEW TO ADMINISTRATIVE SPAR.
SO I THINK THAT'S A REALLY NEAT TOOL.
IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY INTERESTING TO LOOK AT HOW THE COMMISSION REVIEWS THAT AND IS ABLE TO, UM, HOPEFULLY DELIVER THAT TOOL TO THE PROJECT.
CAN YOU SEND US LINKS TO THE PROJECTS THAT ARE LIVELY, JUST SO WE MAKE SURE WE HAVE ALL OF THOSE? MM-HMM
AND THEN, UM, ALSO WE, WE WILL BE CANCELING THE JUNE 9TH MEETING, UM, BUT HOLDING THE JUNE 23RD MEETING.
WHEN WILL WE SEE THE FIRST, OUR FIRST CRACK AT THE ZONING, UH, REFORM PROJECT? I DUNNO IF YOU CALL IT A FIRST CRACK.
I DON'T KNOW IF
UM, WE'RE MEETING NEXT TUESDAY AND I THINK THAT OUTCOME FROM THAT MEETING WILL HAVE A SPECIFIC DATE THEN.
ANY OTHER SCHEDULING NOTES AS WE ARE SORT OF HEADING TOWARDS SUMMER THAT WE OUGHT KNOW ABOUT? OR STILL TBD INTO JULY, AUGUST, I THINK.
WELL, WELL, AS WE, AFTER WE, UM, PASS NEXT TUESDAY ZONING REFORM MEETING, AN INTERNAL STAFF MEETING WITH THE CONSULTING TEAM, UM, WE'LL BE ABLE TO FIRM UP A DATE TO BRING THAT INITIAL SCOPE AND, AND SOME WORK BEFORE, UM, PLANNING COMMISSION.
SO, UM, WHAT I'LL, I THINK THERE WILL BE MORE INFORMATION FORTHCOMING, BUT WE MAY TRY TO CLEARLY GIVE YOU A MONTH OFF IF POSSIBLE, SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT DOING ONE THING EACH MONTH ALL THROUGH THE SUMMER, SO,
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STAFF? FINAL COMMENTS? OKAY.THEN LET'S ADJOURN HERE AT EIGHT 10.