Planning Commission Regular Meeting/Work Session

Paul Nabtistaffby voicemarkets and so we didn't want to overly emphasize that and so that language was modified. The under the land use chapter the first guiding principle is a land use strategies guiding principle. There are no proposed changes to the general text here. The goal here for this one is only one goal and it's kind of unique because it is very descriptive for as much of them are just a paragraph. This goal is in the small area plans. So we had quite a few changes here. Essentially, focusing on the small area plans, the language was changed because it previously suggested that we develop small area plans for each of the five activity centers. And now that most of them have been developed, it recommends that we focus on using the completed plans.

property requests the ability to convert the upper floor to residential. So this is still under discussion. If the Planning Commission supports including this, then staff can draft language about that. So I'll stop there to see if there are any questions or thoughts on the land use guiding principle before continuing. Okay, continuing the land use chapter, the neighborhood's guiding principle, there are no recommended major edits to any of the text in that section. Commercial corridors and activity centers, the recommended changes to the general text for this section are to remove references to the Old Town and North Facts pages for These two pages were included in the comprehensive plan because we did not have small area plans yet,

with a six-foot sidewalk on the other. It was always unclear on which was which and so every project had to go through debates on that. In addition, all of the adopted small area plans that have these types of streets in them have 10-foot shared use paths on both sides. So this makes those consistent. And to show how this changes the street types map, the map on the left is the from the previous comprehensive plan and the map on the right is what's proposed. As you can see the green symbol goes away that was the boulevards and it was a little confusing because it went back and forth along the main roads so now all of our main roads

and a lot of those were larger scale major projects. Most of those projects are underway or funded so they're no longer in this list and they've been replaced by smaller scale projects that have come up through small area plans or other measures. As one of the recommendations in this comprehensive plan is to develop the Safe Streets for All plan, which will be getting very soon. That's the next major effort for transportation planning for the city and I believe the result of that plan will be additional larger scale projects and so in the future we'll