Agenda Date: 07/26/2021
Subject:
Title
ULUC Policy Issues Introduction
Body
Prepared By:
Jennifer Henninger, Community Development Director
PURPOSE:
To inform planning commission of policy level issues that are being raised during the Unified Land Use Code (ULUC) draft comment period and allow planning commission to provide input on the issues for city council consideration.
PRESENTATIONS:
Staff Presenter(s): Jennifer Henninger, Community Development Director
Michael Sutherland, Deputy Community Development Director
Additional Presenter(s): N/A
SUMMARY:
Since the draft ULUC was released in early June, staff sees several issues that do not seem to have community consensus on how they should be addressed in the code. Staff will present the issues at the July 26 meeting and seek planning commission input at later study sessions in August.
PRIOR ACTIONS OR DISCUSSIONS:
On June 7th, a draft of the ULUC was released to the public and in that time, over 400 comments have been entered into the online comment portal. In addition, staff has had several one-on-one meetings with council members as well as many members of the public. Yard signs, posters, surveys, and social media blasts have also been deployed and comments are trickling in from those efforts. Finally, several individuals have called the planner of the day phone line and talked with a planner about the ULUC.
Since May of this year, city council has held study sessions on specific ULUC items including:
* May 11: KKC and staff provided a briefing on the progress of the ULUC to city council
* Revisiting the project goals, the overall approach/methodology, outreach underway, parking lot items, and the logistics for commenting and reviewing the draft ULUC
* June 7: The draft ULUC was released for public comment and review. The draft is available
until July 30, 2021
* June 22: Council discussed the findings of the two economic models in the con...
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