Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Miguel Garciahousing kind of stock to grow or to respond to the marketplace. Next slide, please. Apartments and accessory dwelling units. Again, there is always going to be a segment of a marketplace in the housing market where apartments and renters are going to be needed to be supported. And so even though there's always been battles between homeowners and renters in most communities that I've worked in most of my life, there are ways to hopefully make them coexist and make them see the value that each of them bring to the table in a local economy. Because sometimes, as you'll see in my final slide, I think next one, There are ladders of opportunities in the housing stock that you have here. And no one is ever necessarily going to be static in that housing ladder.

You can have folks at one end of the ladder that are trying to exit homelessness, always up to homeowners. And in between, you may have different stages where you have renters, would-be townhome leases. And in some cases you might have some apartment cottages or you might have some accessory dwelling units as well. The point here is that you have a ladder, any given housing market laid out here, going from just above and including those that are the unhoused, supportive housing, shelters, SROs, going always up to home ownership. But there's some key ladders along the way, some key kind of, let's say, rungs along that ladder. and along those those rungs you have enablers stabilizers and sliders you're

Naptystaffthank you mr chair members of the planning commission going back to the september 10 city council meeting aside from their discussion on the comprehensive plan they had a presentation on the 2025 legislative program a couple of things that are being suggested that the city submit that relate to planning and the planning commission one is about local authority for the city to be able to accomplish certain things, one of which is accessory, regulate our own accessory dwelling units. As you might recall during our earlier conversations on potential amendments to zoning orders related to accessory dwelling units, the city council is anxious to have our own policies in place because there is pressure from the state and potential for the state to develop their own