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          [CALL TO ORDER]
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          IT IS FIVE 30 ON APRIL 15TH, 2026, AND THIS IS THE REGULARLY SCHEDULED MEETING FOR THE AUSTIN DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. 
          THE FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS IS ROLL CALL. 
          RYAN, WOULD YOU, I WILL TALK VERY SLOWLY FOR YOU TO GET BACK OVER THERE. 
          , WOULD YOU MIND CALLING ROLE PLEASE? YES, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO CHAIR, UM, CHAIR ISHMAEL, PRESENT VICE CHAIR LEVINSON PRESENT. 
          COMMISSIONER BERNHARD, IT'S CURRENTLY ABSENT, BUT SHE LET ME KNOW IF SHE'D BE JOINING LATER. 
          COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL HERE. 
          COMMISSIONER BTA? PRESENT. 
          PRESENT. 
          OH. 
          SAID COMMISSIONER PATO. 
          PRESENT. 
          SORRY. 
          COMMISSIONER CAR PRESENT. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER POLLACK. 
          SHE, SHE DROPPED OFF. 
          YEAH. 
          COMM, SHE'S STILL ON THE AGENDA, BUT YES, SHE IS NO LONGER ON THE COMMISSION. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER CHEN. 
          COMMISSIONER SCHIFFER. 
          COMMISSIONER  PRESENT. 
          COMMISSIONER SILVA, UH, IS ABSENT, BUT HE LET ME KNOW HE'D BE JOINING VIRTUALLY BY WEBEX. 
          THINK HE'S HAVING SOME TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES. 
          COMMISSIONER FRANKLIN AND COMMISSIONER WILEY HERE. 
          THAT CONCLUDES ROLL CALL. 
          ALRIGHT, WE HAVE A QUORUM. 
          THANK YOU, RYAN. 
          UM, NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS PUBLIC COMMUNICATION. 
          DO WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP FOR PUBLIC COMMUNICATION? WE DO NOT. 
          CHAIR. 
          ALRIGHT, 
          [1. Approve the minutes of the Downtown Commission regular meeting of March 11, 2026.]
THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING. 
          HAS EVERYONE HAD A CHANCE TO READ HIM? DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE? I MAKE THE MOTION WE APPROVE. 
          COMMISSIONER PITO. 
          I'LL SECOND THAT MOTION. 
          AND COMMISSIONER GUPTA SECOND. 
          BTA SECOND THAT. 
          UM, 
          [2. Briefing regarding updates to the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan. Presentation by Chris Ryerson, Division Manager and Evelyn Mitchell, Planner Principal, Austin Planning.]
NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS MOVING ON TO REGULAR RESCHEDULED BUSINESS, AND OUR FIRST PRESENTATION TONIGHT IS GOING TO BE A PRESENTATION REGARDING UPDATES ON THE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PRESENTATION BY CHRIS RYERSON, DIVISION MANAGER AND EVELYN MITCHELL PLANNER, PRINCIPAL AUSTIN PLANNING. 
          THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. 
          LIKE WE JUST SAW YOU RECENTLY,  . 
          YOU SEEM TO HAVE YOUR HANDS IN A LOT OF THINGS. 
          I TOLD YOU YOU'D BE SICK OF ME THIS WEEK. 
          HERE I AM AGAIN. 
          WELL, WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE, WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU READY. 
          ALL RIGHT, WELL, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. 
          UH, MY NAME IS CHRIS FRIERSON. 
          I'M PRESENTING TONIGHT WITH MY COLLEAGUE EVELYN MITCHELL. 
          WE ARE BOTH WITH AUSTIN PLANNING AND WE'RE HERE TONIGHT TO BRIEF YOU ON THE EARLY STAGES OF UPDATING THE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. 
          SO, I WILL START OUT BY BRIEFLY DISCUSSING WHY UPDATING OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS IMPORTANT. 
          RIGHT NOW. 
          EVELYN WILL GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF OUR PROCESS TO DATE THE PROJECT GOALS AND SCOPE, AND OUR TWO KEY ADVISORY GROUPS. 
          AND THEN WE'LL COVER OUR PROPOSED APPROACHES TO ORGANIZING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN. 
          DISCUSS THE COMPACT AND CONNECTED PRIORITY PROGRAM IN A BIT MORE DETAIL, AND THEN WE'LL FINISH THE PRESENTATION WITH A REVIEW OF OUR PROJECT TIMELINE. 
          SO, UPDATING IMAGINE AUSTIN IS IMPORTANT FOR BOTH PRACTICAL AND STRATEGIC REASONS. 
          FROM A PRACTICAL STANDPOINT, JUST AS HIGH PERFORMING BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS REGULARLY UPDATE THEIR STRATEGIC VISIONS, SO SHOULD WELL PERFORMING CITIES LIKE AUSTIN, WHILE IT'S BEST PRACTICE TO UPDATE A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN EVERY EIGHT TO 10 YEARS, IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 14 YEARS SINCE THE ORIGINAL IMAGINE AUSTIN PLAN WAS FIRST ADOPTED IN 2012. 
          THEN EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, IMAGINE AUSTIN IDENTIFIES AND CLARIFIES A COHESIVE LONG-TERM VISION FOR THE CITY. 
          AND IT STRENGTHENS OUR CAPACITY TO PROACTIVELY PRIORITIZE AND FULFILL OUR STRATEGIC LONG-TERM GOALS. 
          AND IT DOES THIS IN TWO WAYS. 
          FIRST, IT PROMOTES STRATEGICALLY ALIGNED DECISION MAKING AND THAT DECISION MAKING CAN RECOGNIZE THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL AND INTERCONNECTED NATURE OF MANY OF OUR KEY ASPIRATIONS AND CHALLENGES AS A CITY. 
          IT ALSO PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK FOR EFFECTIVE, ACTIONABLE COLLABORATION FOCUSED ON IMPLEMENTATION OF SHORT AND MEDIUM TERM PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS THAT HELP US ACHIEVE OUR LONG-TERM GOALS. 
          SO ON THIS SLIDE ARE, UH, SOME MAJOR MILESTONES FROM THE PAST EIGHT TO NINE MONTHS TO THE PRESENT. 
          UH, THE RESOLUTION TO UPDATE IMAGINE AUSTIN WAS APPROVED IN AUGUST OF LAST YEAR. 
          FOLLOWING THE RESOLUTION, WE SELECTED OUR CONSULTANTS AND BEGAN THE ONBOARDING PROCESS IN NOVEMBER. 
          COUNCIL REALLOCATED ABOUT HALF OF OUR BUDGET, AND DUE TO THAT MODIFICATION, WE PAUSED WORK WITH THE CONSULTANTS TO RE-SCOPE 
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THE PROJECT, CLARIFYING WHICH TASKS WOULD BE STAFF LED AND WHICH UNDER THE REFINED OR MODIFIED BUDGET, UH, SHOULD REMAIN CONSULTANT LED. 
          SORRY. 
          THAT'S OKAY. 
          . 
          UM, SO TO HELP IDENTIFY THOSE STAFF VERSUS CONSULTANT LED TASKS, WE HAD TO REVISIT OUR PROJECT GOALS THROUGH SCULPING. 
          WE IDENTIFIED THAT THE MAIN DELIVERABLE THAT WE NEED TO KEEP CONSULTANT LED BASED ON THEIR SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE IS THE CREATION OF A CITYWIDE PLACE TYPES MAP. 
          WHILE WE'VE HAD TO ADJUST OUR ENGAGEMENT APPROACH, CREATING MEANINGFUL OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY TO BE CONSISTENTLY INVOLVED THROUGHOUT, THE UPDATE IS STILL VERY MUCH A HIGH PRIORITY OF OURS, ALONG WITH UPDATING THE POLICIES IN IMAGINE AUSTIN, ENSURING THE PLAN STRUCTURE IS CLEAR AND CONCISE FOR ALL OF ITS USERS AND STRENGTHENING ALIGNMENT WITH IMAGINE AUSTIN AND OTHER CITYWIDE LONG RANGE PLANS, INCLUDING, UH, THE CITYWIDE STRATEGIC PLAN AS WELL. 
          SO WHILE RE SCOPING, UH, WE HAD TO WORK WITH THE CONSULTANTS TO IDENTIFY THE MOST IMPORTANT ASPECTS OF THE PLAN FOR THEM TO WORK ON. 
          AND WITH THAT WE SETTLED ON A LOT OF WHAT YOU SEE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE IN THE GREEN BOXES, UH, INCLUDING THE EXISTING CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLACE TYPES, PALETTE AND METHODOLOGY, WHICH WILL DIRECTLY INFORM THE CREATION OF THE PLACE TYPES MAP. 
          AND, UM, EVEN THOUGH THAT THOSE TASKS ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE ARE CONSULTANT LED, I WANNA NOTE THAT STAFF IS AND WILL BE VERY MUCH INVOLVED AND PRESENT THROUGHOUT ALL OF THOSE TASKS, UH, RELATED TO THOSE KIND OF SUBTASKS ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE. 
          AND THE TASKS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE WILL BE, UH, MAJORITY CITY STAFF LED. 
          SO WE HAVE OUR ENGAGEMENT APPROACH, UM, AND STRATEGIES, UH, REVISITING OUR PRIORITIES AND POLICIES, UM, THE PLAN ALIGNMENT COMPONENT, MAKING SURE EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED IN AN ALIGNMENT WITH EACH OTHER, AND THEN, UH, WRITING AND DRAFTING THE PLAN ITSELF. 
          SO AS PART OF THE UPDATE PROCESS, WE'RE FORMING AN IMAGINE AUSTIN COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP THAT WILL SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PLACE TYPES, MAP AND OTHER KEY COMPONENTS OF THE UPDATE. 
          THE WORKING GROUP WILL CONSIST OF 45 MEMBERS AND WE'LL MEET ABOUT SIX TIMES FROM SPRING. 
          STARTING IN SPRING OF THIS YEAR, UH, TO SUMMER AND FALL OF 2027. 
          THERE WERE TWO APPLICATION WINDOWS WHICH RESULTED IN ROUGHLY 360 APPLICANTS. 
          IN TOTAL, MY TEAM DEVELOPED THE DETAILED AND METHODICAL EVALUATION AND SELECTION PROCESS TO SELECT THE 45 MEMBERS AND ALTERNATES THAT REFLECT THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S DEMOGRAPHICS AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE. 
          UH, NOTING IT WITH SUCH A LARGE GROUP, IT WAS HARD TO NAIL DOWN EVERY ASPECT. 
          AND THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE WAS COMPRISED OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM SEVEN DIFFERENT CITY OF AUSTIN DEPARTMENTS THAT EVALUATED EACH APPLICATION AND PROVIDED RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE IMAGINE AUSTIN TEAM. 
          UH, THE GRAPHS ON THE SLIDE REFLECT THE INITIAL COHORT OF 45 SELECTED MEMBERS. 
          UM, WE ARE IN THE FINAL STAGES OF SELECTING, UM, THE FINAL WORKING GROUP. 
          SO THESE NUMBERS MAY CHANGE SLIGHTLY, BUT WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF THE DEMOGRAPHICS AND FACTORS, UH, THAT WERE CONSIDERED. 
          AS MENTIONED, ONE GOAL WAS TO ALIGN THE WORKING GROUP'S COMPOSITION AS CLOSELY AS POSSIBLE WITH THE CITY OF BOSTON. 
          DEMOGRAPHICS AND THE SELECTION PROCESS SOUGHT TO BALANCE THE REPRESENTATION ACROSS MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS WHILE ENSURING A STRONG AND ENGAGED GROUP. 
          UH, THE FINAL COMPOSITION, UH, WILL BE SHAPED BY THE POOL OF QUALIFIED APPLICANTS REPRESENTATION ACROSS CATEGORIES DEPENDS ON WHO APPLIED, MET THE VALUATION CRITERIA AND WAS AVAILABLE TO PARTICIPATE FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT ITSELF. 
          SO AS A RESULT, SOME GROUPS MAY APPEAR OVER OR UNDERREPRESENTED COMPARED TO CITYWIDE PERCENTAGES. 
          UH, PARTICIPATING IN CITY PLANNING PROCESSES HAS ALSO HISTORICALLY VARIED ACROSS COMMUNITIES DUE TO DIFFERENCES IN ACCESS, AWARENESS AND TIME AVAILABILITY, WHICH FURTHER INFLUENCES THE OUTCOMES. 
          AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT THE WHITE CATEGORY UNDER THE RACE AND ETHNICITY TABLE INCLUDES APPLICANTS WHO IDENTIFY AS WHITE ALONE, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO IDENTIFY AS MIXED RACE AND SELECTED WHITE AS THEIR PRIMARY RACIAL IDENTITY, WHICH MAY CONTRIBUTE TO THE HIGHER PERCENTAGE SHOWN ON THE SLIDE. 
          FOR INTERNAL STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT, WE'RE ALSO CREATING AN IMAGINE AUSTIN INTER-AGENCY TECHNICAL ADVISORY GROUP. 
          UH, THIS GROUP WILL CONSIST OF CITY STAFF ACROSS DEPARTMENTS, AS WELL AS OTHER LOCAL AGENCIES. 
          WE WILL PROVIDE UPDATES TO THIS GROUP AND SEEK INPUT AND FEEDBACK THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THE UPDATE PROCESS. 
          SO SOME OF THE, UH, COMPONENTS OF THE UPDATE THAT WE'LL BE SEEKING INPUT FROM THE IAG MEMBERS ARE PROVIDING RECOMMENDATIONS ON, UH, THE POLICIES THAT BE REVISING AND UPDATING THE PLAN ALIGNMENT COMPONENT, AND THEN THE PLACE TYPES MAP DELIVERABLES. 
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SO WE ARE PROPOSING TO STREAMLINE AND SIMPLIFY THE STRUCTURE OF THE IMAGINE AUSTIN PLAN. 
          UH, THIS WILL MAKE IT EASIER FOR ALL USERS TO UNDERSTAND AND INCREASE ITS USE AS A KEY REFERENCE POINT AND DECISION MAKING TOOL IN THE YEARS TO COME. 
          AND SO JUST KIND OF WORKING OUR WAY DOWN THIS SLIDE, A LOT OF IT'LL LOOK FAMILIAR TO A LOT OF YOU, UH, BUT THE VISION IS OUR WHY. 
          IT PAINTS A PICTURE OF THE ASPIRATIONAL BUT ACHIEVABLE SUCCESS THAT WE ARE WORKING TOWARD. 
          THE GOALS ARE HOW, UH, THESE STATEMENTS FURTHER DEFINE THE CITY WE WANT TO BE AND HOW WE WANT TO GET THERE. 
          UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE ROOM TO TO LIST THEM ALL, BUT, UH, I THINK A LOT OF THESE STATEMENTS WILL SOUND FAMILIAR TO YOU. 
          SO WE JUST SELECTED A COUPLE. 
          UH, BUT SOME OF THE GOALS IN THE EXISTING PLAN ARE AUSTIN IS LIVABLE, AUSTIN IS MOBILE AND INTER AND INTERCONNECTED, AND AUSTIN VALUES AND RESPECTS ITS PEOPLE AND AUSTIN IS NATURAL AND SUSTAINABLE. 
          SO THOSE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE GOALS TOGETHER. 
          THE IMAGINE AUSTIN VISION AND GOALS WILL INFORM THE TWO MAIN DELIVERABLES OF THE PLAN. 
          FIRST, THE CITYWIDE PLACE TYPES MAP WILL BE THE CITY'S FIRST COMPREHENSIVE FUTURE LAND USE MAP GUIDING GROWTH DEVELOPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROVISION. 
          THE SECOND MAIN OUTPUT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IS THE PRIORITY PROGRAMS. UM, THOSE ARE MEANT TO ORGANIZE THE PLANS, KEY POLICIES AND ACTIONS FOR COLLABORATIVE IMPLEMENTATION ACROSS DIFFERENT CITY DEPARTMENTS. 
          THE CURRENT IMAGINE AUSTIN PRIORITY PROGRAMS ARE SHOWN IN THE GRAY BOXES, AND THEY'LL BE USED AS A STARTING POINT FOR DETERMINING THE PRIORITY PROGRAMS IN THE PLAN UPDATE. 
          WE WANTED TO PROVIDE KIND OF JUST ONE EXAMPLE HERE THAT YOU SEE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM, UH, OF THE SLIDE. 
          AND THIS IS JUST TO KIND OF ILLUSTRATE, UM, THAT EACH PRIORITY PROGRAM WILL BE REFLECTIVE OF AND HELP US ACHIEVE, UM, THOSE EIGHT GOALS THAT WE DISCUSSED EARLIER. 
          AND THEN EACH ONE WILL ALSO SORT OF BE THE WAY THAT WE ORGANIZE THE KEY POLICIES OF THE PLAN. 
          AND SO THE EXAMPLE THAT YOU CAN SEE HERE IS THAT THE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PRIORITY PROGRAM SUPPORTS THE GOAL THAT AUSTIN IS NATURAL AND SUSTAINABLE AMONG SEVERAL OTHERS. 
          AND THEN ONE EXAMPLE POLICY THAT YOU MIGHT FIND UNDER THE GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PRIORITY PROGRAM IS LISTED THERE, EXPAND THE CITY'S GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK TO INCLUDE SUCH ELEMENTS AS PRESERVES AND PARKS, TRAILS, STREAM CORRIDORS, GREEN STREETS, GREENWAYS, AND AGRICULTURAL LANDS. 
          SO POLICIES SUCH AS THOSE WILL FORM THE BASIS OF PLAN IMPLEMENTATION AS WE'RE SHOWING ON THIS NEXT SLIDE. 
          SO, ALIGNMENT BETWEEN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THE DEPARTMENTAL SYSTEM, AND STRATEGIC PLANS, THE CITYWIDE STRATEGIC PLAN AND OUR IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS IS CRUCIAL TO SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF IMAGINE AUSTIN'S PRIORITY PROGRAMS. AUSTIN PLANNING IS WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S, OFFICE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS, AND AUSTIN BUDGET AND ORGANIZATIONAL EXCELLENCE TO DEVELOP AND IMPROVE FRAMEWORK FOR ALIGNING THESE PLANS AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION ACTIONS. 
          AND JUST A FEW NOTES, UH, DEPARTMENTAL PLANS, LIKE THE FEW EXAMPLES SHOWN HERE IN THE GRAY BOXES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN, UH, WILL SERVE AS CHARTER REQUIRED PLAN ELEMENTS IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE A SUBSET OF THE DETAILED POLICIES FROM THOSE DEPARTMENTAL AND STRATEGIC PLANS, UM, WILL BE DESIGNATED AS IMPLEMENTATION PRIORITIES UNDER THE RELEVANT PRIORITY PROGRAMS IN IMAGINE AUSTIN. 
          ANOTHER NOTE IS THAT WALL COMPREHENSIVE PLANS GENERALLY TAKE A 20 TO 30 YEAR VIEW. 
          THE TOPIC SPECIFIC DEPARTMENTAL PLANS SHOULD LIKELY BE UPDATED ON 10 YEAR CYCLES TO KEEP THEM, UM, UPDATED AND RELEVANT ON THEIR RESPECTIVE TOPICS. 
          AND THEN AS WE MAKE OUR WAY DOWN TOWARDS THE BOTTOM, UH, THE IMAGINE AUSTIN PRIORITY PROGRAMS AND THE DEPARTMENTAL SYSTEM PLANS SHOULD BOTH INFORM THE THREE TO FIVE YEAR OUTLOOK AND PRIORITIES OF THE CITYWIDE STRATEGIC PLAN. 
          AND IN TURN, THE CITYWIDE STRATEGIC PLAN SHOULD INFORM OUR MAIN IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS LIKE THE CIPM BOND PROGRAMS, THE ANNUAL CITY BUDGET, AND THE CITY MANAGER ANNUAL GOALS. 
          SO WE UNDERSTOOD THAT, UH, AT LEAST SOME OF YOU HAD A PARTICULAR INTEREST IN THE COMPACT AND CONNECTED PRIORITY PROGRAM, SO WE WANTED TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF EXTRA INFORMATION ON THAT PARTICULAR ONE FOR YOU. 
          THE COMPACT AND CONNECTED PRIORITY PROGRAM IN THE CURRENT IMAGINE AUSTIN, UH, PLAN REALLY ORIGINATES WITH THE GOAL OR THE VISION COMPONENT AS IT'S SHOWN HERE THAT AUSTIN IS MOBILE AND INTERCONNECTED. 
          THIS HIGHLIGHTS THE CRUCIAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN OUR DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS AND OUR MOBILITY CHOICES. 
          THE PRIORITY PROGRAM ITSELF, WHICH THE FULL NAME IS INVEST IN A COMPACT AND CONNECTED AUSTIN FURTHER SPELLS OUT THE IMPORTANCE OF DEVELOPING COMPLETE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE CLOSE TO AND CONNECTED BY MULTIMODAL OPTIONS, ENSURING THAT DAILY NECESSITIES SUCH AS WORK, DINING, SHOPPING, SERVICES, AND SCHOOL ARE LOCATED CLOSE TOGETHER AND OR EASILY ACCESSIBLE BY SHORT WALKING, CYCLING, OR TRANSIT 
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TRIPS. 
          AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE, WE LISTED JUST A FEW SELECTED PLANS AND INITIATIVES RELATED TO THE WORK OF CREATING COMPACT AND CONNECTED COMMUNITIES, INCLUDING PROJECT CONNECT, OUR EQUITABLE TOD POLICY PLAN AND A VARIETY OF IMPORTANT MOBILITY PLANS. 
          AND THEN ON THIS SIDE, I JUST INCLUDED A SMALL SELECTION OF EXAMPLE POLICIES AND ACTIONS RELATED TO THE COMPACT AND CONNECTED PRIORITY PROGRAM IN THE CURRENT VERSION OF IMAGINE AUSTIN. 
          AND AS NOTED THERE, THESE ARE TAKEN FROM THE 45 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION POLICIES AND THE 45 LAND USE AND TRANSPORTATION ACTIONS IN THE PLAN. 
          SO THIS IS JUST A VERY SMALL SUBSET, UM, AND I WON'T READ THEM ALL IN DETAIL, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY EACH TOUCH ON IMPORTANT THEMES OF ALIGNING LAND USE AND MOBILITY PLANNING, PROMOTING COMPACT, UH, CENTERS AND CORRIDORS THAT ENCOURAGE WALKING AND CYCLING, ENCOURAGING A VARIETY OF WAYS TO ADD CONTEXT SENSITIVE DENSITY, AND EXPANDING OUR HIGH CAPACITY TRANSIT SYSTEM, INCLUDING EAST WEST CROSSTOWN ROUTES THAT ENHANCE THE NETWORK'S OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS. 
          AND NOW TO WRAP UP OUR PRESENTATION, EVELYN WILL PRESENT ON OUR PROJECT TIMELINE. 
          SO HERE'S IT. 
          UH, HERE'S A HIGH LEVEL PROJECT TIMELINE, UH, THAT SHOWS THE TWO YEAR UPDATE PROCESS ENDING WITH THE PROPOSED ADOPTION IN 2028. 
          WE'VE DIVIDED THE TIMELINE INTO THREE CATEGORIES, SO INTERNAL ENGAGEMENT, EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT, AND DELIVERABLES. 
          UH, FOR INTERNAL ENGAGEMENT, WE HAVE THE IAG THAT I MENTIONED. 
          AND THEN WE'LL ALSO HOST A KIND OF TWO DAY INTENSIVE POLICY WORKSHOP FOR CITY STAFF TO GO OVER THE POLICIES, UM, AND PROVIDE UPDATES AND REVISIONS TO THOSE. 
          FOR EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT, WE HAVE THE COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP, WHICH I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT WILL RUN THROUGHOUT MOST OF THE DURATION OF THE PROJECT. 
          AND THEN WE'LL ALSO HAVE CITY, UH, SEVERAL ITERATIONS OF CITYWIDE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, UM, THAT WILL OCCUR THROUGHOUT THE UPDATE. 
          AND THEN FOR DELIVERABLES, OUR FIRST DELIVERABLE, WHICH WILL BE THE EXISTING CONDITIONS REPORT OR ASSESSMENT, WHICH WILL BE COMPLETE, UH, THIS SUMMER. 
          AND WITH THAT, UH, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, I, UH, I HAVE A QUESTION PRETTY QUICKLY. 
          UM, SO IT SEEMED LIKE YOU WERE SAYING THAT YOU WERE GOING TO WRAP UP THIS UPDATE ON THE PLAN SOMETIME SUMMER, FALL OF 2027, UH, SPRING OF 2028. 
          OKAY. 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, THAT, THAT STILL SORT OF FITS WITH MY QUESTION, WHICH IS, UM, THERE'S STILL A CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN BEING DEVELOPED. 
          UH, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, THERE'S SUPPOSED TO BE A DRAFT THIS NOVEMBER. 
          HOW DOES, HOW DOES THAT, HOW WILL THAT CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN BE INFORMED BY AN IMAGINE AUSTIN UPDATE THAT ISN'T FINISHED YET? , OR, OR WILL IT BE THE OTHER WAY? WILL THE CITY, CENTRAL CITY PLAN BE INFORMING? IMAGINE AUSTIN? THAT'S GOOD QUESTION. 
          MM-HMM . 
          I MEAN, IT'LL BE A LITTLE OF EACH, YOU KNOW, AS WE'RE, WE'LL OBVIOUSLY BE IN THE EARLIER STAGES OF DEVELOPING IMAGINE AUSTIN UPDATE WHILE WE'RE COMPLETING THE CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN. 
          BUT ANYTHING THAT WE ARE HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY, FROM OUR WORKING GROUPS, OUR ADVISORY GROUPS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT SEEMS LIKE IMPORTANT NEW DIRECTION, CERTAINLY WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO REFLECT THAT IN THE CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN AS WE HAVE TIME TO WRITE THAT IN. 
          UM, AND THEN TO, TO YOUR POINT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE CONCLUSIONS FROM THE CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN ARE CERTAINLY GOING TO INFLUENCE HOW WE WRITE ABOUT THAT AREA AND, YOU KNOW, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, THINGS LIKE THAT ACROSS THE WHOLE CITY AND HOW THE CENTRAL CITY AFFECTS THOSE THINGS. 
          IN IMAGINE AUSTIN, THERE WILL ALSO BE A LINK BETWEEN THE FUTURE PLACE TYPES MAP. 
          SO WE ARE BUSY DEVELOPING THE, WHAT WE CALL THE PALETTE, LIKE THE COLLECTION OF PLACE TYPES, UM, THAT WE'LL BE USING IN IMAGINE AUSTIN. 
          WE ARE TRYING TO GET THOSE, WELL, WE WILL GET THOSE DONE IN TIME THAT THEY CAN BE USED IN THE CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN. 
          SO THE CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN WILL ACTUALLY KIND OF BE THE FIRST OF OUR PLANS TO USE THOSE PLACE TYPES. 
          AND SO THEN WHEN THAT PLAN IS DONE, WE SHOULD BASICALLY BE ABLE TO JUST DROP THE CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN INTO IMAGINE AUSTIN A PLACE TYPES MAP INTO OUR IMAGINE AUSTIN CITYWIDE PLACE TYPES MAP. 
          THAT'S WHAT I WAS WONDERING. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I DON'T THINK, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AS, AS YOU HEAD INTO ADOPTION. 
          SURE. 
          BUT IT, IT SHOULD BE RELATIVELY ESTABLISHED AND IT'LL BE A, A VERY RECENTLY ADOPTED PLAN. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, JUST ONE POINT OF OF ORDER, UM, LET ME CALL ON YOU BEFORE YOU START TALKING, JUST FOR THE RECORD SO WE KNOW WHICH COMMISSIONER IS SPEAKING AND WHICH ISN'T. 
          UM, SO COMMISSIONER VOTO? YES. 
          A COUPLE OF THINGS. 
          UH, 
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FIRST, CAN YOU SUPPLY OUR, OUR COMMISSION, UM, THE TEAM, THE NAMES, UH, ON THE, UH, THE CONSULTING TEAM AND THE 45 NAMES ON THE COMMITTEE, ON THE COUNCIL. 
          UM, I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL MOVING FORWARD. 
          AND THEN, UH, MY OTHER COMMENT, HAVING BEEN INVOLVED IN DIFFERENT, UH, DOWNTOWN ESPECIALLY, UH, CITY PLANNING EFFORTS, UH, I THINK OUT THE GATE, MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S AN INTERPRETIVE STRATEGY INCORPORATED IN YOUR OVERALL PLANNING. 
          UM, I, I THINK THE BOTTOM LINE IS BASICALLY KNOWING THE HISTORY OF OUR CITY, KNOWING WHERE WE CAME FROM TO KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING, I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT. 
          AND, UM, I, I THINK THAT WILL LEAD TO A MORE MEANINGFUL, UM, UH, OVERALL RECOMMENDATIONS COMING FROM A, A FINISHED PLAN I THINK WOULD BE, UH, VERY HELPFUL. 
          UM, BUT TO THE POINT, THE EARLIER POINT, UH, ABOUT, UM, THE, UH, THE DISTRICT, UM, CENTRAL DISTRICT PLAN, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S COORDINATION ALONG THE WAY, BECAUSE WE HAVE, IN THE PAST WE'VE TENDED TO HAVE SEPARATE POCKETS OF PLANNING, AND THEN SUDDENLY, UM, WHEN EVERYTHING'S DONE, THEY DON'T, UH, COORDINATE, THEY DON'T, UH, INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER. 
          SO I THINK HAVING COORDINATION ALONG THE WAY IS, IS REALLY KEY. 
          THAT'S MY RECOMMENDATION. 
          YEAH. 
          AND WE TAKE THAT TO HEART. 
          AND THE REASON SOME OF THE MEMBERS ON THE COMMISSION ARE GONNA BE SICK OF ME IS 'CAUSE I'M ALSO THE DIVISION MANAGER MM-HMM . 
          WORKING WITH THE CENTRAL CITY DISTRICT PLAN. 
          SO COORDINATE COORDINATING BETWEEN THESE TWO PLANS AT LEAST, SHOULD BE MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD, UM, WITH RIGHT, WITH ME AND A COUPLE OTHER PEOPLE HAS REALLY GOOD CONNECTIVE TISSUE BETWEEN THE TWO. 
          OKAY. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS? COMMISSIONER WILEY? UH, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU ALL FOR, UH, COMING OUT TONIGHT AND, UH, I CONSIDER THIS TO BE A INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT PIECE OF WORK AND FULLY SUPPORT THE CITY SPENDING MONEY ON IT. 
          IN FACT, YOU COULD SAY IT'S A LITTLE OVERDUE. 
          I HAD A QUESTION ON ONE CHART THAT YOU HAD ONE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMMUNITY WORKING GROUP, AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN PULL THAT UP, BUT, UM, A GENERAL OBSERVATION HERE IS THAT THE, THE DEMOGRAPHICS LOOK REALLY GOOD. 
          I'M, I'M REALLY HAPPY TO SEE THAT. 
          AND IN ORDER TO GET THERE, I'M JUST KIND OF TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT TRADE-OFFS MAYBE WERE MADE IN THE PROCESS. 
          SO IT LOOKS LIKE YOU, YOU ACTUALLY, INSTEAD OF IT BEING KIND OF A RANDOM SELECTION THAT, UM, YOU HAD SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS REVIEWING APPLICATIONS, UM, AND WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THAT AND WHAT, LIKE, WERE, WERE THEY BLIND IN TERMS OF SEEING THE NAMES OF THE PEOPLE AND YEAH, THEY WERE, THAT'S GOOD. 
          YEAH. 
          AND SO, SORRY, I DIDN'T WANNA CUT YOU OFF IF YOU HAD S YEAH, SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD SOME AWESOME PLANNING STAFF. 
          WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD DIVERSE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND JUST EXPERIENCE, UM, ON THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE. 
          SO IT WASN'T JUST AWESOME PLANNING STAFF OR MY TEAM UHHUH SELECTING THE APPLICANTS. 
          AND SO WE CAME UP WITH SEVEN, UH, THOSE SEVEN MEMBERS, UM, AND THEY REVIEWED THE APPLICATION IN ITS, UM, ENTIRETY. 
          AND THEN ALSO WE, AND THE PART OF THE APPLICATION PROCESS WAS TO RESPOND TO TWO SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS. 
          UM, AND THE EVALUATION COMMITTEE SCORED THOSE WITH THE RUBRIC THAT WE CREATED. 
          UM, BUT THEN ALSO MY TEAM MEMBERS TALKED WITH, UM, THOSE EVALUATORS TO SEE IF THERE WERE ANY NUANCES THAT WEREN'T COVERED IN THE RUBRIC, UM, AS WELL. 
          MM-HMM. 
          WE ALSO ASKED THE APPLICANTS TO SELECT THE DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDER GROUPS THAT THEY'RE A PART OF. 
          UM, WE JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE WERE ALSO LOOKING AT BACKGROUNDS AND KIND OF LIVED EXPERIENCES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD KIND OF AS HOLISTIC OF A GROUP, UM, WITH A DIVERSE OF A GROUP AS POSSIBLE. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO WE LOOKED AT, UH, THESE CITY OF BOSTON DEMOGRAPHICS TOO, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE CITY AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND, UH, I'M, I'M, I'M ESPECIALLY PLEASED TO SEE ALL THE YOUNGER PEOPLE MM-HMM . 
          BEING PART OF IT. 
          THAT'S IMPORTANT. 
          I NOTICED THAT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          YEAH, YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSIONERS? WELL, ONE ADDITIONAL, EXCUSE ME. 
          UM, UM, THANK YOU. 
          I FAILED TO ASK IN THE BEGINNING. 
          I HAVE A MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE, UM, UH, THE BUDGET FOR THE CONSULTING TEAM. 
          UM, UH, WAS IT BASICALLY CUT IN HALF OR IS THAT THE SITUATION? YEAH, SO IN FY 23, UH, AWESOME PLANNING WAS AWARDED 3 MILLION FOR THE PROJECT OVERALL. 
          MM-HMM . 
          MM-HMM . 
          UM, AND THEN WITH THE BUDGET DECISION DECISIONS IN NOVEMBER, THAT OVERALL BUDGET WAS CUT IN HALF DOWN TO 1.5 MILLION. 
          UM, AND SO THAT'S FOR CONSULTANTS AND KIND OF OTHER, 
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UM, COSTS, UH, FOR THE PROJECT. 
          UM, SO WE JUST HAD TO MODIFY, THE CONSULTANTS HAD ALREADY STARTED WORK, SO WE HAD TO PAUSE THAT AND WORK WITH THEM TO SEE WHICH TASKS WE CAN KEEP WITHIN THE SCOPE, UM, AND WHAT NUMBER WE COULD WORK WITH. 
          IS THE CONSULTING TEAM LOCAL OR, YEAH, SO OUR PRIME IS THE GOODMAN CORPORATION AND THEY'RE LOCALLY BASED HERE IN AUSTIN. 
          GOOD. 
          GREAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM . 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSIONERS? I HAVE JUST, OH, YES. 
          COMMISSIONER KANA, GCI. 
          YEAH. 
          YOU GOT IT. 
          AND FIRST OF ALL, LEMME JUST SAY WELCOME. 
          HE IS THE NEWEST MEMBER. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UM, SO I, I GUESS, RIGHT, I'M LIAISON TO THE HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION AND I, I KNOW THAT THIS IS PROBABLY EARLY IN THE PROCESS OF THIS PLAN AND EVERYTHING, BUT I KNOW THAT MEMBERS FROM MY COMMISSION WOULD BE, UH, I GUESS CURIOUS, YOU KNOW, HOW THE EQUITY BASED PRESERVATION PLAN IS GONNA FIT INTO KIND OF THE OVER OVERALL OVERARCHING IMAGINE AUSTIN PLAN. 
          AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I KNOW, LIKE I SAID, IT'S PROBABLY EARLY IN THE PROCESS, BUT IF YOU GUYS COULD COME LIKE TO THAT COMMISSION, I KNOW THAT THEY WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE KIND OF YOUR TIME AND THOUGHTS SURROUNDING THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          I CAN REACH OUT TO THE COMMISSION AND WE CAN GET, UM, ON AN AGENDA. 
          OKAY. 
          AWESOME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM . 
          OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, MR. UM, I HAVE JUST ONE OTHER QUESTION. 
          UM, COMMENT MAYBE, UH, REQUEST. 
          WHEN DO YOU, I GUESS FIRST THE QUESTION, WHEN DO YOU ANTICIPATE BEING ABLE TO HAVE SOME SUMMARY OF THE KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE CURRENT IMAGINE ASPEN PLAN AND THE UPDATED PLAN? BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED STREAMLINING IT, AND I'M JUST WONDERING WHAT GOALS, PRIORITIES MIGHT BE JETTISONED OR MODIFIED. 
          AND I KNOW THE FINAL VERSION OF THAT WOULDN'T HAPPEN UNTIL ALL OF THE STAKEHOLDER MEETINGS ARE IN PLACE, BUT I'M IMAGINING YOU HAVE SOME IDEA OF SOME OF THE ONES YOU'RE GONNA BE FOCUSING ON MORE THAN OTHERS. 
          SO I, I, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT KIND OF STREAMLINING THE PLAN, IT WASN'T NECESSARILY WITH AN EYE YET TO SPECIFIC GOALS OR SPECIFIC POLICIES OR SPECIFIC PRIORITY PROGRAMS. IT WAS REALLY MORE REFERRING TO, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT HAVE READ THE ORIGINAL IMAGINE AUSTIN, THERE ARE MANY, MANY SORT OF INTERCONNECTING LAYERS AND FRAMEWORKS WITHIN THAT PLAN. 
          UM, AND EVEN ME AS A PLANNING PROFESSIONAL, I REMEMBER THE FIRST TIME I READ IT WHEN I, YOU KNOW, WAS THINKING ABOUT TAKING THIS JOB, I WAS LIKE, WELL, THIS IS A LOT TO KIND OF WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND AND UNDERSTAND HOW EVERYTHING INTERCONNECTS WITH EVERYTHING ELSE. 
          UM, AND EVELYN'S TEAM HAS ACTUALLY WORKED WITH OUR, UM, TECHNOLOGY SERVICES DEPARTMENT, AND THEY'VE BEEN DOING SOME RESEARCH JUST ON A VARIETY OF PEOPLE'S SORT OF REACTIONS TO THE PLAN. 
          AND THAT IS ONE OF THE BIG PIECES OF FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT FROM CITY STAFF, FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS, OTHER CITY DEPARTMENTS, ET CETERA, IS THAT THE, THE PLAN JUST FELT KIND OF CUMBERSOME IN LIKE, THERE WERE TOO MANY LAYERS TO WORK YOUR WAY THROUGH. 
          SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT STREAMLINING AT THAT POINT, THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS JUST TRYING TO, TO MAKE SURE, LIKE WE HAD ON THAT SLIDE, THAT IT'S JUST A VERY CLEAR PROGRESSION FROM VISION TO GOALS TO PRIORITY PROGRAMS TO IMPLEMENTATION, AND HOPEFULLY MAKING THAT A VERY CLEAN STRAIGHT LINE THAT ANYBODY CAN FOLLOW, WHETHER IT'S CITY COUNCIL COMMISSIONERS OR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS FAR AS INDIVIDUAL GOALS, AND EVENTUALLY THE INDIVIDUAL POLICIES. 
          THAT'S REALLY ALL STILL TO COME, AS YOU NOTED. 
          SO, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO PROBABLY IN THE SEPTEMBER TIMEFRAME IS, UH, LIKE A TWO DAY ALL DAY POLICY WORKSHOP WITH THE VARIETY OF CITY DEPARTMENTS WHO, YOU KNOW, HAVE POLICIES WITHIN THE PLAN. 
          AND THAT PO THAT WILL BE TO DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU WERE WONDERING IS TO LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE, ASSESS WHICH ONES HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, YOU KNOW, WHICH ONES HAVEN'T, IF THEY HAVEN'T BEEN, ARE THEY STILL RELEVANT? AND WE NEED TO KEEP 'EM IN THERE. 
          AND THEN ALSO TO REALLY IDENTIFY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S LOTS OF NEW POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES THAT THE CITY HAS AND THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN PLANS THAT WERE ADOPTED SINCE 2012 THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE INTEGRATE INTO THIS CURRENT VERSION. 
          UM, AND THEN A LITTLE BIT OF OUR JOB IS EVEN LOOKING PAST ALL THOSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE JOB OF THIS PLAN IS TO LOOK OUT 15, 20, 30 YEARS. 
          AND SO WE NEED TO EVEN BE WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND WITH THOSE OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO TRY AND IDENTIFY THOSE THINGS THAT MAYBE WERE LIKE PERCOLATING WHEN THOSE DEPARTMENTAL OR SYSTEM OR STRATEGIC PLANS WERE DEVELOPED. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T QUITE, THOSE IDEAS DIDN'T QUITE MAKE IT IN. 
          AND WE HOPE TO CAPTURE SOME OF THOSE AND PUT THOSE INTO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS WELL. 
          AWESOME. 
          YEAH, 
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APPRECIATE THAT. 
          YOU BET. 
          SO, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR JOINING US AND PRESENTING TO US AND, UM, WE AREN'T GETTING SICK OF YOU YET. 
          , , . 
          WE'LL SEE TWO YEARS FROM NOW, HOPEFULLY. 
          HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE GOOD STUFF EVERY TIME WE VISIT. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, 
          [3. Briefing regarding Downtown Density Bonus Phase I Updates. Briefing by Nicholas Smith, Planner Senior and Stevie Greathouse, Capital Program Consultant, Austin Planning.]
NEXT ON OUR AGENDA IS GOING TO BE A PRESENTATION BRIEFING US REGARDING THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS, PHASE ONE UPDATES, BRIEFING BY NICHOLAS SMITH, PLANNER SENIOR AND STEVIE GREATHOUSE CAPITAL PROGRAM CONSULTANT AUSTIN PLANNING. 
          WELCOME. 
          THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR HAVING US. 
          UM, ALAN PONEY IS ACTUALLY THE PROJECT LATE ON THIS PROJECT, BUT HE IS ON A FLIGHT TO JAPAN. 
          I SOMEHOW LET HIM LEAVE THE OFFICE SO YOU GET GET ME THIS EVENING. 
          BUT I'M VERY HAPPY TO HAVE SOME OF ALAN'S TEAM MEMBERS HERE WITH ME, UM, WITH NICK SMITH. 
          I'M STEVIE GREATHOUSE, I'M A DIVISION MANAGER IN AUSTIN PLANNING, UM, OVERSEE OUR WORK ON REGULATORY REFORM AS WELL AS EQUITABLE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT PLANNING. 
          UM, I'M JOINED BY NICK SMITH, WHO'S BEEN WORKING AS PART OF THE TEAM, SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED, UM, ON THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM UPDATE. 
          AND I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND, UM, UH, START IT OFF AND THEN I'LL TURN IT OVER TO NICK TO KIND OF PROVIDE SOME MORE DETAILS A LITTLE BIT FURTHER INTO THE PRESENTATION. 
          UM, DURING THIS BRIEFING, WE'LL BE DISCUSSING THE PROGRAM'S BACKGROUND AND CURRENT PROCESSES, AS WELL AS OUR PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE PROGRAM AND ITS ELEMENTS AND OUR TIMELINE FOR THE AMENDMENT PROCESS. 
          UM, THIS WORK WAS INITIATED IN JULY OF 2024 WHEN CITY COUNCIL DIRECTED STAFF TO UPDATE THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM IN CONCERT WITH DEVELOPMENT OF THE CENTRAL CITY PLAN, WHICH YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LAST ITEM. 
          IN OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR, CITY COUNCIL AMENDED THE CODE TO ADD A HEIGHT LIMIT TO THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT ZONE AND MADE SEVERAL RELATED AMENDMENTS TO THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM AS PART OF THIS ACTION. 
          THEY ALSO DIRECTED STAFF TO BRING BACK PHASE ONE OF THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM UPDATE BY JUNE OF THIS YEAR. 
          AND OUR STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING ON AN AMBITIOUS TIMELINE TO MEET THIS DEADLINE. 
          THE MAP THAT IS ON THIS SLIDE REFLECTS THE EXISTING PROGRAM AT ITS BOUNDARIES, WHICH WE'LL DIVE INTO A BIT MORE IN SUBSEQUENT SLIDES. 
          WITH ADOPTION OF THE AMENDMENTS TO THE EXISTING PROGRAM LAST YEAR, PROJECTS WITHIN THE CORE RAINY AND CONVENTION CENTER, SUBDISTRICTS NOW HAVE A HEIGHT OF 350 FEET AND AN FAR OF 25 TO ONE WHEN THEY PARTICIPATED ADMINISTRATIVELY IN THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM. 
          APPLICANTS MUST REQUEST COUNSEL APPROVAL IF THEY WISH TO EXCEED THESE ENTITLEMENTS. 
          PHASE ONE OF THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM UPDATE IS FOCUSED ON THESE THREE SUB-DISTRICTS BECAUSE THERE WAS BROAD CONSENSUS AROUND PROVIDING AN ADMINISTRATIVE OPTION FOR EXCEEDING 350 FEET OF HEIGHT IN THIS PART OF DOWNTOWN. 
          I'M NOW GONNA TURN IT OVER TO NICK, WHO'S GONNA WALK YOU THROUGH THE OVERALL FRAMEWORK AND STANDARDS THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING, AND THEN I'LL BE BACK AFTER THAT TO WRAP THE PRESENTATION UP. 
          THANKS, STEVIE. 
          UM, LIKE STEVIE SAID, I'M NICK SMITH, PLANNER SENIOR WITH AUSTIN PLANNING, AND I'LL BE GETTING INTO SOME OF THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM. 
          SO IN TERMS OF APPLICABILITY, LIKE STEVIE MENTIONED, THIS PROGRAM GENERALLY APPLIES TO THE CORE RAINY AND CONVENTION CENTER SUBDISTRICTS OF THE CURRENT PROGRAM. 
          THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IN THOSE BOUNDARIES IS THAT WE ARE REMOVING PART OF THE RED RIVER CULTURAL DISTRICT THAT FELL INTO THE PHASE ONE AREA FROM THE PHASE ONE AMENDMENT AREA. 
          AND THAT'S JUST SO WE CAN ADDRESS THE ENTIRE RED RIVER CULTURAL DISTRICT AND PHASE TWO OF OUR UPDATE. 
          THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS, LIKE ALL OF OUR OTHER DENSITY BONUSES, IS A VOLUNTARY PROGRAM, AND IT CONTINUES TO SUPERSEDE THE OVERLAYS LISTED HERE. 
          UH, I'LL NOTE THAT THE CAPITAL DOMINANCE OVERLAY IS NOT THE SAME THING AS THE CAPITAL VIEW CORRIDORS. 
          UH, THE DOMINANCE OVERLAY IS JUST A BUFFER AROUND THE CAPITOL THAT LIMITS HEIGHT NEAR THE CAPITOL BUILDING. 
          SO GETTING INTO THE DETAILS OF OUR PROPOSED PROGRAM, WE'RE PROPOSING THAT TWO ADDITIONAL COMBINING DISTRICTS BE CREATED. 
          THOSE ARE DDB 400 AND DDB EIGHT 50. 
          THEY ARE NAMED FOR THE ADDITIVE HEIGHT FROM THE BONUS. 
          SO FOR EXAMPLE, A CBD SITE HAS A BASE SITE OF 350 FEET. 
          UH, WITH DDB 400, THAT SITE WOULD NOW BE ABLE TO DEVELOP UP TO 750 FEET. 
          WE ARE PROPOSING THAT SITES BE REZONED IN PHASE ONE INTO THE DDB 400 SUBDISTRICT, AND THOSE SITES WOULD BE ELIGIBLE TO REQUEST 
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REZONING INTO DDB EIGHT 50 THROUGH THE STANDARD REZONING PROCESS THOSE HEIGHTS. 
          SO UP TO 750 FEET WITH DDB 400 AND UP TO 1200 FEET WITH DDB EIGHT 50 CANNOT BE EXCEEDED BY ADMINISTRATIVE COUNCIL APPROVAL. 
          UH, WE ARE CREATING ADDITIONAL COMBINING DISTRICTS IN PHASE TWO FOR THE REST OF THE DENSITY BONUS AREA. 
          AND WITHIN THE COMBINING DISTRICTS, DIFFERENT SUB-DISTRICTS COULD BE MAPPED IN THE FUTURE. 
          AND AGAIN, THOSE COULD BE FOR AREAS LIKE RED RIVER WITH SPECIFIC, UM, CULTURAL AND, UH, CHARACTER NEEDS FOR THOSE AREAS. 
          BUT WE ARE NOT CREATING ANY SUBDISTRICTS IN PHASE ONE. 
          SO LOOKING AT HOW THE SUPPLIES AS MAPPED, YOU CAN SEE THE SITES IN ORANGE ARE THE ONES WERE PROPOSED BE REZONED INTO DDB 400. 
          SO THOSE WILL BECOME ELIGIBLE FOR THAT ADDITIONAL 400 FEET OF HEIGHT IN EXCHANGE FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE DENSITY BONUS. 
          THOSE SAME SITES WOULD ALSO AGAIN, BE ELIGIBLE TO REQUEST REZONING INTO THE DDB EIGHT 50 COMBINING DISTRICT. 
          LOOKING AT SOME OF OUR EXISTING BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN THAT WE USE TO INFORM OUR HEIGHT TIERS. 
          THE CURRENT CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT BASE HEIGHT IS 350 FEET. 
          THAT IS SIMILAR TO WINDSOR ON THE LAKE. 
          THE AVERAGE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT PROJECT HAS A HEIGHT OF 450 FEET, WHICH IS VERY SIMILAR TO 300 COLORADO. 
          THE DDB 400 MAX HEIGHT WOULD BE 750 FEET, AND THAT'S A LITTLE TALLER THAN THE REPUBLIC AT 707 FEET. 
          AND THEN LOOKING AT DDB EIGHT 50, THAT WOULD ALLOW YOU TO BUILD UP TO 1200 FEET, WHICH IS TALLER THAN THE WATER LINE, WHICH IS OUR TALLEST BUILDING IN AUSTIN. 
          AND IT'S ONE OF THE TOP 25 TALLEST BUILDINGS IN THE COUNTRY. 
          LOOKING AT THE STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAM, WE'LL HAVE SOME GENERAL REQUIREMENTS THAT'LL COVER IN THE NEXT SLIDES, BUT THEY'RE LISTED HERE. 
          AND AGAIN, IN FUTURE PHASES, SHOULD WE CHOOSE TO CREATE SUBDISTRICTS, THEY MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO THOSE SUBDISTRICTS. 
          SO LOOKING AT THE SITE DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, WE'RE PROPOSING SOME EXEMPTIONS, UH, FOR THINGS LIKE MAXIMUM BUILDING COVERAGE, LANDSCAPING REQUIREMENTS, MINIMUM SITE AREA, AND PRIVATE COMMON OPEN SPACE REQUIREMENTS. 
          THESE GENERALLY DON'T APPLY TO CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AND DOWNTOWN MIXED USE OR DMU SITES, BUT WE DO HAVE A FEW OTHER, UH, ZONING DISTRICTS DOWNTOWN THAT THESE MAY APPLY TO. 
          THIS IS MAINLY TO PROVIDE CONSISTENCY WITH OUR OTHER RECENTLY UPDATED DENSITY BONUS PROGRAMS. AS FAR AS USES GO, WE'RE PROHIBITING OR MAKING CONDITIONAL NON-TRANS SUPPORTIVE USES. 
          THIS IS IN LINE WITH THE EAD AND DB EAD GUIDELINES. 
          FAR WILL BE UNLIMITED FOR ALL PROJECTS. 
          UH, THAT'S IN RESPONSE TO SB EIGHT 40. 
          AND JUST TO STREAMLINE THE REQUIREMENTS HEIGHT AGAIN, UM, UP TO 750 FEET WILL BE ALLOWED WITH DDB 400 AND UP TO 1200 FEET WILL BE ALLOWED WITH DDB EIGHT 50. 
          AND THEN THE GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENTS I'LL COVER IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES. 
          UM, BUT THOSE ARE GREAT STREET STANDARDS, UH, TWO STAR ENERGY GREEN BUILDING RATING AND DESIGN STANDARDS. 
          SO GETTING INTO THOSE GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENTS, WE'RE PROPOSING THAT, UH, LIKE THE CURRENT PROGRAM GREAT STREET STANDARDS WILL REMAIN IN EFFECT THAT WILL INCLUDE ANY FUTURE UPDATES TO THE GREAT STREET STANDARDS. 
          AS THAT UPDATE IS ONGOING, WE'RE ALSO PROPOSING, UH, KEEPING THE MINIMUM TWO STAR AUSTIN ENERGY GREEN BUILDING PROGRAM RATING. 
          THE ONLY CHANGE FOR MAKING THERE IS THAT AS PART OF ACHIEVING THAT RATING PROJECTS WILL HAVE TO COMPLY WITH THE BIRD FRIENDLY DESIGN STANDARDS. 
          THE CHANGE FROM THE CURRENT PROGRAM THAT IS THE LARGEST IS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING THAT INSTEAD A DESIGN COMMISSION REVIEW BEING PART OF THE APPROVAL PROCESS FOR THE DENSITY BONUS. 
          UH, WE'RE NOW PROPOSING THAT PROJECTS ADHERE TO A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DESIGN STANDARDS, WHICH I'LL GET INTO MORE DETAIL IN THE NEXT SLIDE. 
          UM, DESIGN COMMISSION REVIEW WILL NO LONGER BE PART OF THE REVIEW PROCESS. 
          WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE DESIGN COMMISSION WORKING GROUP TO COME UP WITH A LIST OF STANDARDS THAT PROJECTS WILL HAVE TO ADHERE TO IN ORDER TO, UM, BECOME ELIGIBLE FOR THE DENSITY BONUS. 
          SO GETTING INTO SOME OF THOSE URBAN DESIGN STANDARDS, WE'RE PROPOSING THAT PROJECTS NEED TO MEET A CERTAIN NUMBER OF REQUIRED STANDARDS AND THEN A CERTAIN NUMBER, UH, OF MIN MENU STANDARDS. 
          SO PROJECTS USING DDB 400, WE'LL HAVE TO CHOOSE SEVEN OUT OF THE 14 MENU STANDARDS AND PROJECTS 
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USING DDBA 50. 
          WE'LL HAVE TO MEET 10 OUT OF THE 14 MENU STANDARDS. 
          WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THE FINALIZED STANDARD. 
          SO THOSE NUMBERS MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE AS WE GET FEEDBACK AND CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE DESIGN COMMISSION. 
          UM, AGAIN, DESIGN COMMISSION REVIEW WILL NO LONGER BE PART OF THE PROCESS FOR APPROVAL. 
          INSTEAD, UH, URBAN DESIGN STAFF IN AUSTIN PLANNING WILL DETERMINE COMPLIANCE WITH THESE STANDARDS AT THE TIME OF THE SITE PLAN REVIEW. 
          SO LOOKING AT OUR MANDATORY STANDARDS, SO PROJECTS AND THE DENSITY BONUS WILL HAVE TO MEET ALL OF THESE. 
          SO THOSE ARE THINGS LIKE PROVIDING SCREENING FOR WASTE, UTILITY AND MECHANICAL USES. 
          AND FOR ABOVE GROUND PARKING, WE'RE PROPOSING THAT THERE BE PARKING CAPS. 
          SO WE'RE PROPOSING THAT ABOVE GROUND PARKING BE LIMITED TO 60% OF THE PARKING FORMERLY REQUIRED BY APPENDIX A AND UP TO 80%, UH, IS ACHIEVABLE ONLY WITH UNDERGROUND PARKING OR REQUIRING THAT PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED FRONTAGE. 
          UM, THERE WE'RE REQUIRING THAT THERE WOULD BE 75% OF FRONTAGE DEDICATED TO PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY USES ALONG THE PRINCIPAL STREET. 
          AND WE'RE PROPOSING THAT THERE BE ENTRANCES FOR, UM, EVERY 150 FEET ON THE FRONTAGES. 
          AND THEN GETTING INTO OUR LIST OF OPTIONAL STANDARDS, I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE. 
          UH, WE DO HAVE A FULL DOCUMENT OUTLINING ALL OF THESE STANDARDS THAT HAS BEEN POSTED TO LAST NIGHT'S PLANNING COMMISSION BACKUP, AS WELL AS ON OUR SPEAKUP PAGE IF YOU WANT ADDITIONAL DETAIL ON THESE. 
          UM, BUT THESE ARE THINGS, UH, LIKE LIMITING CURB CUTS, LIMITING THE NUMBER OF GARAGE LANES, UM, PROVIDING FRONTAGE ALONG THE TOTAL BUILDING FRONTAGE INSTEAD OF JUST THE PRIMARY STREET, UM, AND PROVIDING TRANSPARENCY ON STREET LEVEL FACADES. 
          AND NOW PASS IT BACK TO STEVIE TO GET INTO SOME OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS. 
          ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU NICK. 
          UM, SO IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS, THE CURRENT DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM REQUIRES THAT 50% OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFIT REQUIREMENTS BE MET WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING, EITHER ONSITE UNITS OR FEE IN LIEU, WHILE THE OTHER 50% CAN BE MET THROUGH A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS. 
          THE PROPOSAL SHIFTS THIS APPROACH APPROACH TO ONE THAT FOCUSES PRIMARILY ON HOUSING, EITHER ON ONSITE UNITS OR THROUGH FEE IN LIEU, BUT ALLOWS THE FLEXIBILITY FOR PROPERTY OWNERS WHO WISH TO PROVIDE ANOTHER BENEFIT, UM, TO REDUCE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENT BY PROVIDING ONE OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS LISTED. 
          A PROPERTY OWNER MAY REDUCE THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENT BY UP TO 2% OF THE REQUIRED ONSITE UNITS, OR 20% OF THE FEE IN LIEU UNDER THE PROPOSAL. 
          UM, AND THESE ALTERNATIVE COMMUNITY BENEFITS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED BASED ON, UM, REVIEWING SOME OF THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT ARE ON THE CURRENT LIST AND THE CURRENT PROGRAM, UM, WORKING TO DO, KIND OF LOOK BACK AT THE APPLICATIONS THAT HAVE COME IN THROUGH THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS PROGRAM IN THE PAST, WHICH PROJECTS HAVE UTILIZED THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT ARE IN, UM, THE CURRENT PROGRAM. 
          AND THEN WE ALSO DID A SURVEY OF STAKEHOLDERS, INCLUDING DEVELOPER STAKEHOLDERS, UM, AROUND KIND OF COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT FOLKS WOULD ACTUALLY USE OR WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UM, CONSIDERED IN THE PROGRAM, WE ARE PROPOSING THAT ONSITE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, REQUIREMENT BE A UNIT REQUIREMENT OF 5% OF UNITS AT 50% OF MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME FOR RENTAL UNITS AND 80% MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME FOR OWNERSHIP. 
          UH, IN BOTH OF THE NEW COMBINING DISTRICTS, UM, STAFF IS ALSO PROPOSING A FEE AND LIE OPTION IN BOTH DISTRICTS THAT WOULD, UM, REQUIRE $10 PER GROSS BONUS SQUARE FOOT FOR THE DDB 400 ZONE AND $12, UM, PER SQUARE FOOT FOR THE DDB EIGHT 50 AND PROPERTY OWNERS THROUGHOUT, UM, THIS AREA AS PART OF PHASE ONE WOULD BE ABLE TO OPT FULLY INTO, UM, THE IN LIE FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          ON THIS SLIDE, YOU CAN ALSO SEE THE CURRENT REQUIREMENTS, WHICH ARE QUITE A BIT MORE COMPLICATED. 
          AND DEPENDING ON THE DISTRICT AND THE ZONE THAT YOU'RE IN, UM, THE FEE MAY BE DIFFERENT. 
          YOU MAY HAVE SOME ONSITE UNIT REQUIREMENTS IN, IN ADDITION TO THE FEE. 
          UM, SO THE PROPOSAL FOR COMMUNITY BENEFITS AND, AND KIND OF THE HOW WE'RE APPROACHING THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PIECE OF THIS IS A STREAMLINING AND SIMPLIFICATION FROM THE EXISTING PROGRAM, WHICH WAS PART OF OUR, OUR DIRECTION AND UPDATING THIS PROGRAM AS WELL. 
          UM, ON THIS SLIDE, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THAT, THAT THE FEE AND LIE GENERALLY FOR THE AREAS THAT WOULD ALLOW A FULL FEE AND LIE UNDER THE CURRENT PROGRAM TENDS TO BE SOMEWHERE IN THE NINE TO $12 PER SQUARE FOOT RANGE. 
          UM, SO REALLY THE FEES THAT WE'RE PROPOSING ARE PRETTY SIMILAR WITH THE FEES THAT ARE ON THE BOOKS TODAY. 
          OUR RECOMMENDATION IS INFORMED BY A MARKET ANALYSIS 
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THAT SHOWS CONSIDERABLE HEADWINDS FOR DEVELOPMENT CURRENTLY, AS EVERYBODY ON THIS D I'M SURE IS AWARE OF. 
          UM, BUT ALSO INDICATES THAT, UM, SHOULD WE, UM, GO BACK TO A PLACE WHERE WE HAVE, UH, DIFFERENT MARKET CONDITIONS MORE SIMILAR TO THE ONES THAT WE HAD EVEN AS RECENTLY AS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. 
          UM, THESE FEES WOULD BE QUITE REASONABLE AND WOULD LIKELY WE COULD PROBABLY LOOK AT INCREASING THEM, UM, AND STILL HAVE FOLKS BE WILLING TO PAY THE FEE. 
          UM, AND THE PROPOSAL DOES ALLOW FOR THAT FEE TO BE ADJUSTED IN THE FUTURE AS MARKET CONDITIONS IMPROVE AS PART OF THE PROPOSAL. 
          THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS WILL ALSO REQUIRE COMPLIANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS THAT EXIST IN CITY CODE CHAPTER FOUR DASH 18. 
          THESE REQUIREMENTS INCLUDE DISPERSION OF UNITS AND EQUAL ACCESS TO AMENITIES IN THE BUILDING, AS WELL AS TENANT PROTECTIONS AND REDEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS THAT APPLY WHEN A PROJECT WOULD INVOLVE REDEVELOPMENT OF CERTAIN EXISTING NATURALLY OCCURRING AFFORDABLE HOUSING OR LEGACY COMMERCIAL ON THE SITE. 
          ALRIGHT, THE PROCESS. 
          SO I MENTIONED THAT SORT OF, UM, DIRECTION TO DO SOME, SOME STREAMLINING. 
          UM, AND THE PROCESS WOULD DEFINITELY BE, UM, STREAMLINED UNDER THE PROPOSAL. 
          SO UNDER THE PROPOSAL, IF AN APPLICANT SOUGHT TO UTILIZE THE DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS 400, UM, WE WOULD BE DOING A CITY INITIATED REZONING FOR THE CORE OF THE AREA TO HAVE THOSE SITES BE, UM, ZONED INTO DDB 400. 
          SO AT THAT POINT, ONCE THAT ZONING GOES INTO EFFECT, THEY WOULD SUBMIT THEIR SITE, THEIR APPLICATION TO HOUSING FOR CERTIFICATION. 
          UM, FOLLOWING CERTIFICATION, THE APPLICANTS WOULD BE ABLE TO SUBMIT THEIR SITE PLAN, WHICH WILL INCLUDE THE STAFF REVIEW FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE GREAT STREET STANDARDS, AS WELL AS THOSE URBAN DESIGN STANDARDS, UM, THAT NICK PROVIDED AN OVERVIEW OF IF AN APPLICANT ON THE OTHER HAND SOUGHT TO UTILIZE THE ENTITLEMENT UNDER THE DENSITY BONUS EIGHT, DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS EIGHT 50, THEY WOULD FIRST HAVE TO REZONE INTO THAT COMBINING DISTRICT THROUGH A STANDARD REZONING PROCESS. 
          UM, AT THAT POINT, UH, STAFF WOULD REVIEW THE REZONING REQUEST, PROVIDE THE RECOMMENDATION, WHICH GOES TO PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THEIR REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATION. 
          AND IF CITY COUNCIL REVIEWED AND APPROVED THAT REZONING REQUEST, THEN THE APPLICANT WOULD THEN FOLLOW THE REMAINDER OF THE PROCESS, UM, TO SUBMIT THEIR, THEIR SITE PLANS AND GET THEIR APPROVALS THROUGH THE STUDY. 
          SO STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, STAFF HAS BEEN MEETING WITH STAKEHOLDER GROUPS, COMMISSIONS AND INTERNAL DEPARTMENT STAFF TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSAL TO GATHER FEEDBACK AND HAVE ALSO BEEN GATHERING FEEDBACK THROUGH A SURVEY AND THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN THE PUBLIC EVENTS OCCURRING AS PART OF THE CENTRAL CITY, UM, DISTRICT PLANNING PROCESS. 
          WE HAVE CONDUCTED STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT THROUGH JANUARY OF THIS YEAR FROM, UH, FEBRUARY TO APRIL. 
          WE CONTINUED THE STAKEHOLDER AND DEPARTMENT DISCUSSIONS, FINALIZED THE DRAFT PROPOSAL, AND BEGAN SHARING THE PROPOSAL. 
          UM, WE PROVIDED A BRIEFING TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION AT THEIR MEETING LAST NIGHT, AND WE ANTICIPATE RETURNING TO PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING ON MAY 12TH AND TO CITY COUNCIL FOR A HEARING ON MAY 28TH BECAUSE THIS PROJECT WILL INVOLVE A REZONING OF EXISTING PROPERTIES INTO THE NEW DOWNTOWN DENSITY BONUS 400 COMBINING DISTRICT. 
          UM, WE'LL ALSO BE SENDING OUT PROPERTY SPECIFIC NOTIFICATION TO FOLKS THAT WOULD RECEIVE THAT REZONING OR EVERYBODY WITHIN 500 FEET OF THAT, UM, WHO WILL BE OBVIOUSLY INVITED TO COME PARTICIPATE AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND COUNCIL HEARING. 
          UM, AND WITH THAT, THAT IS ALL WE'VE GOT FOR Y'ALL. 
          HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE. 
          UM, COMMISSIONERS, COMMISSIONER LEVINSON, UM, IT MAY BE A STUPID QUESTION, BUT, UM, LOOKING AT YOUR FIGURES ON CHARGING, UM, LESS FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND MORE FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON YOUR DENSITY BONUS, YOU KNOW, PROGRAMS, IF YOU, WHAT YOU WANT IS MORE HOUSING, SHOULDN'T IT BE REVERSED ? YEAH. 
          AND THAT'S THE, THAT THAT FIGURE YOU'RE REFERRING TO IS THE EXISTING, AND WE ARE CHANGING FROM THE EXISTING TO HAVE IT BE A FLAT FEE THAT DOESN'T VARY BASED ON THE OKAY. 
          IT DOESN'T VARY FROM, IT'S NOT GONNA BE BASED, IT'S NOT GONNA VARY BASED ON USE ZONE. 
          THAT'S GOOD. 
          OKAY, GOOD TO HEAR. 
          COMMISSIONER WILEY , WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO, WOULD IT BE POSSIBLE TO PULL UP CHART 18 OF, UH, 28 IF WE'RE WORKING OFF THE SAME SET THAT WAS POSTED? UM, THE TITLE OF IT IS OPTIONAL URBAN DESIGN STANDARDS. 
          OH, RIGHT. 
          UM, I WANTED TO, I, I APPRECIATE THAT THIS IS STARTING TO GET INTO THE WEEDS AND THERE'S BACKUP, BUT I DID WATCH THE PC, UM, CONVERSATION ON REPLAY BEFORE COMING HERE AND HAD, AND THE REASON I WATCHED IT IS I WANTED TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT NUMBER 13. 
          SO MY QUESTION IS, WE'RE LOOKING, IT LOOKS LIKE TO HAVE SOME KIND OF A 
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COMPATIBILITY THOUGHT RELATED TO HISTORIC BUILDINGS, AND I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND HOW THAT FITS IN WITH OTHER CONSTRAINTS THAT YOU ALL ARE WORKING WITH. 
          SO, SO WE NOW HAVE A BUILDING THAT'S 350 FEET TALL BY RIGHT. 
          AND IT CAN GO OUT TO A CERTAIN PLACE NEXT TO THEIR NEIGHBOR. 
          AND THAT SEEMS TO ME LIKE I WALK A LOT DOWNTOWN. 
          ONCE YOU GET UP TO 350 FEET, ANYTHING ABOVE THERE, YOU DON'T REALLY NOTICE, UM, UNLESS YOU'RE AT A DISTANCE. 
          SO WHAT, WHAT DOES 13 MEAN? IS THERE ANYBODY HERE THAT CAN KIND OF TELL US WHAT THAT IS? SO NICK CAN PROBABLY DIVE A LITTLE BIT MORE INTO THE SPECIFICS OF IT, BUT THE GOAL IS BASICALLY TO HAVE AN AN OPTIONAL, I MEAN, THESE, THESE STANDARDS ARE MENUS, SO NOT EVERY PROJECT WOULD MEET EVERY STANDARD ON THIS LIST. 
          RIGHT? YEAH. 
          APPRECIATE THAT. 
          SO FOR A PROJECT THAT IS ABLE TO DO THIS AS PART OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT PERFORMA AND HAVE IT WORK, YOU WOULD HAVE A DIFFERENTIATION OF THE FIRST 15 FEET SO THAT AS YOU'RE WALKING DOWN THE STREET, IT, IT KIND OF HAS A SENSE OF BEING MORE CONTINUOUS, UM, WITH THE EXISTING HISTORIC PROPERTY NEXT TO IT. 
          UM, IS THAT CORRECT, NICK? AND THEN WHAT IS THAT, IS IT LIKE A STEP BACK OR ARTICULATION? DO YOU, CAN YOU PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THAT STANDARD IS ACHIEVED? YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT. 
          UM, I BELIEVE IT WOULD, IT WOULD LOOK SIMILAR TO A STEP BACK. 
          AND THIS WAS A STANDARD THAT WAS ADAPTED, UH, FROM THE DESIGN COMMISSION'S DRAFT, UH, URBAN DESIGN GUIDELINES UPDATE MM-HMM . 
          OH, OKAY. 
          I I, I JUST, I GUESS I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHY WE WOULD DO THAT THOUGH. 
          IT'S MAINLY JUST TO HIGHLIGHT EXISTING HISTORIC STRUCTURES. 
          UM, BUT AGAIN, THESE ARE OPTIONAL, SO DEVELOPERS CAN CHOOSE NOT TO DO STANDARDS THAT THEY DON'T FEEL ARE APPLICABLE TO THEIR, TO THEIR SITES AND CHOOSE TO DO OTHERS INSTEAD. 
          YEAH, I'M, I'M, I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THAT PARTLY BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE NOW DEALING WITH 350 FOOT BUILDINGS, BUT THE NEXT TIME WE MIGHT BE DEALING WITH 200 OR A HUNDRED. 
          UM, AND THESE PRECEDENTS, I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE REAL VALUE OR, I MEAN, FOR, FOR MANY OF US, LIKE YOU LOOK AT CONGRESS, THEY'RE ALL, IT'S LIKE ROW HOUSES, RIGHT? THEY'RE ALL BUILT ONE AFTER ANOTHER SIDE BY SIDE. 
          AND, AND WE DO HAVE VERY TALL BUILDINGS, UH, DOWNTOWN THAT ARE SOMETIMES LITERALLY ATTACHED TO OTHER BUILDINGS, AND I THINK LOOK VERY NICE. 
          SO I'VE JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO THERE. 
          YEAH, AND I'LL JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT I DON'T THINK EITHER NICK OR I ARE DESIGNERS. 
          SO ASKING US DESIGN QUESTIONS IS, UM, OKAY. 
          I'M NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO FULLY ARTICULATE. 
          I CAN KIND OF LIKE, I CAN VISUALIZE AS A PLANNER IN MY MIND, SORT OF AS YOU'RE WALKING ALONG THE STREET, HAVING CONTINUITY IS A GOOD THING. 
          UM, AND BEING ABLE TO KIND OF HAVE THE SCALE OF THE HISTORIC STRUCTURE CARRY FORWARD INTO THE SCALE OF THE LARGER STRUCTURE IN SOME, LIKE, HAVE KIND OF AN HOMAGE TO THE SCALE OF THE NEIGHBORING HISTORIC STRUCTURE IS A GOOD THING FROM A DESIGN PERSPECTIVE. 
          BUT I'M NOT A DESIGNER, SO I'M NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO, UM, GIVE YOU THE, THE FULL ANSWER ON WHY THAT'S A GOOD THING. 
          , THAT, THAT, THAT'S FAIR. 
          I, I'M JUST AWARE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE TO KIND OF PULL BACK ON THE COMPATIBILITY AS WELL AS OTHER PEOPLE HELPING YOU TO PULL BACK. 
          AND SO, UH, THIS SEEMED LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF A SHIFT IN DIRECTION. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT'S MY ONLY QUESTION, AND I'LL JUST ADD ONE MORE THING, IS THAT WE WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE DESIGN COMMISSION'S WORK AND UPDATING THEIR URBAN DESIGN GUIDELINES AND INCORPORATE AS MANY OF THOSE AS POSSIBLE INTO THESE UPDATED SET OF STANDARDS. 
          SO THAT WAS ONE THAT WE THOUGHT COULD BE INCLUDED, UM, IN THE STANDARD PROCESS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU COMMISSIONER PITO, AND THEN COMMISSIONER. 
          WELL, FIRST TO THIS POINT, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, IT'S A, LIKE YOU MENTIONED, IT'S CONTINUITY. 
          IT, YOU'RE WALKING DOWN THE STREET, IT'S LIKE STREET ACTIVATION. 
          THERE'S A CONTINUOUS, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE GOAL. 
          SO AS SOMEONE NAVIGATES THROUGH THE DOWNTOWN, THERE'S THAT CONTINUITY I THINK IS THE KEY HERE. 
          BUT THE POINT I'D LIKE TO, TO ASK ABOUT AND MAKE IS I'VE LIVED DOWNTOWN 45 YEARS, I'M DATING MYSELF, BUT THAT'S HOW LONG, AND I'VE SEEN ALL THE CHANGES. 
          AND 42 OF THOSE YEARS I'VE LIVED AS A PEDESTRIAN, I MADE THE CHOICE OF NOT TO OWN A CAR. 
          AND SO 99% OF MY LIFE IS NAVIGATED AS A PEDESTRIAN. 
          AND, UM, AS WE CONTINUE THE DEVELOPMENT AND INCREASE THIS, UM, DENSITY, THE BONUS DENSITY, UM, THERE SHOULD BE A COST DOING BUSINESS. 
          UM, AND THAT COST, PART OF THAT COST SHOULD BE PROVIDING COMMUNITY BENEFITS THAT WE KEEP DISCUSSING. 
          BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE 
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THE, UH, OPTION OF OPTING OUT OF THAT AND PAYING A FEE. 
          AND ANY FEE, UH, PAYMENT LOOP FEE SHOULD BE, THAT FEE SHOULD GO TO THAT ENHANCEMENT, THAT INFRASTRUCTURE TO BENEFITS OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND THERE SHOULD BE A REQUIREMENT ON THAT. 
          AND, UM, I JUST DON'T SEE THAT. 
          AND SO AGAIN, IT SHOULD BE A REQUIREMENT AND IT SHOULD BE THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS FOR ANY DEVELOPMENT MOVING FORWARD. 
          THERE SHOULD BE GUARANTEED, UH, COMMUNITY BENEFIT. 
          AND PERSONALLY I'M NOT SEEING IT OFTEN. 
          SOMETIMES YES, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S JUST, UH, AN OPTION, UH, FOR A DEVELOPMENT. 
          I THINK IT SHOULD BE A REQUIREMENT. 
          THAT'S JUST MY POINT AS A DOWNTOWN STAKER HOLDER FOR MANY DECADES. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND YES, GO AHEAD. 
          IF I COULD RESPOND TO THAT. 
          UM, THE PROPOSAL FOR THE FEE IN LIEU IS THE FEE IN LIEU OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          ALL OF THE OTHER REQUIREMENTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DON'T HAVE FEE IN LIEU OPTIONS. 
          SO THE COMM THE, THE REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO SORT OF BUILDING DESIGN, UM, THERE IS CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO MEET IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM THAT ARE THE GATEKEEPER STANDARDS, AND THEN KIND OF THE MENU STANDARDS. 
          WE'VE TALKED ABOUT GREAT STREETS, YOU WOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE TO MEET THAT, UM, GREEN BUILDING. 
          YOU WOULD NEED TO MEET THAT AS A, A GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENT. 
          THE FEE IN LIEU IS REALLY THE FEE IN LIEU FOR, UM, THE PROVISION OF THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. 
          SO THERE'S NOT A, NOT A FEE IN LIE PROPOSED FOR ANYTHING OTHER THAN, ALTHOUGH, I MEAN, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A KEY PART OF THIS PROGRAM, SO I DON'T WANNA MINIMIZE THAT, BUT IT IS A FEE IN LIE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING WHERE THE OTHER, UM, STANDARDS THAT ARE BEING REQUIRED AS GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENTS, YOU WOULD NEED TO MEET THE STANDARD. 
          SO THEY'RE REQUIRED STANDARDS OF PROVIDING GREAT STREET ABSOLUTELY ELEMENTS, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE YEARS THAT GREAT STREET, UM, VISION HAS CHANGED AND, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT, UM, THE REQUIREMENTS ARE JUST, UH, TRANSPARENT AND THAT ALL DOWNTOWN STAKEHOLDERS ESPECIALLY, UM, ARE AWARE OF, UH, THOSE REQUIREMENTS AND IF THEY'RE BEING MET AND THEN IF THEY'RE MET LONG TERM, UM, HOW THEY'RE BEING MAINTAINED. 
          'CAUSE YOU KNOW, ADDING TO ANY, UH, CITY, UM, REQUIRED MAINTENANCE. 
          YEAH, HAVING THE CITY BE RESPONSIBLE, UM, ESPECIALLY AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN THIS ENORMOUS DEFICIT, YOU KNOW, THERE HAS TO BE SOME GUARANTEE THAT WE'RE GETTING A GOOD PRODUCT BOTTOM MIND. 
          SO COMMISSIONER CARROLL, THANK YOU CHAIR. 
          UH, SO, UH, I DO APPRECIATE, UM, STAFF WORKING WITH THE DESIGN COMMISSION AND I UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE MOVING TO DESIGN STANDARDS INSTEAD OF DESIGN GUIDELINES. 
          I DON'T AGREE WITH IT, BUT I UNDERSTAND IT. 
          UH, BUT WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND IS THE PROPOSED STANDARDS ARE FAR LESS THAN WHAT EXISTS TODAY AND OR EVEN FURTHER LESS THAN THE NEW GUIDELINES THAT THE DESIGN COMMISSION WROTE. 
          SO I'M STRUGGLING. 
          I GUESS MY QUESTION IS WHY, WHY DO WE FEEL WE NEED TO LOWER THE BAR FOR THIS PROGRAM? I STAFF AND PUTTING TOGETHER A PROPOSAL FOR THE DRAFT STANDARDS WAS BALANCING A NUMBER OF THINGS. 
          ONE OF THOSE IS MAKING SURE THAT AS WE SHIFT FROM GUIDELINES TO STANDARDS, THAT WE ARE PROVIDING OBJECTIVE STANDARDS THAT CAN BE APPLIED BY STAFF THROUGH AN ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS AT SITE PLAN REVIEW. 
          SO THAT'S KIND OF THE, ONE OF THE FILTERS. 
          UM, THE OTHER IN TERMS OF THE BALANCE OF THE PROGRAM, AND I RECEIVE A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM A LOT OF STAKEHOLDERS EVERY DAY ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE ALLOWING DEVELOPMENT TO OCCUR AND NOT PUTTING SO MANY IMPEDIMENTS INTO THE PROGRAM THAT IT MAKES IT NOT BE CALIBRATED. 
          SO THERE IS SORT OF A CALIBRATION OF WHAT COMMUNITY BENEFIT WE'RE ASKING FOR WITH A COMBINATION OF THE FEE AND THE GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENTS THAT ADDS TO THE COST OF PUTTING A PROJECT ON THE GROUND. 
          UM, THAT WE HAVE BEEN DIRECTED BY, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL, WE'VE BEEN ASKED BY STAKEHOLDERS TO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER WE DO WITH THIS PROGRAM IS AS CLOSE TO BEING CALIBRATED AS IT POSSIBLY CAN BE. 
          UM, SO I GUESS THE, THE, THE, UM, SUGGESTION THAT I WOULD MAKE BACK AS YOU ALL ARE KIND OF WEIGHING IT, AND PARTICULARLY AS DESIGN COMMISSION, AS 
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WEIGHING AND PLANNING COMMISSION COUNCIL OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL WEEKS, IF THERE ARE ADDITIONAL STANDARDS THAT SHOULD BE ADDED, UM, DEFINITELY SUGGEST ADDING THOSE. 
          BUT THERE MAY NEED TO BE WORK ON THE FEE AND AFFORDABILITY SIDE OF THINGS TO BE ABLE TO ALLOW A PROJECT TO STILL BE A FULLY CALIBRATED PROJECT THAT COULD BE BUILT DEPENDING ON KIND OF THE COST OF, OF IMPLEMENTING THOSE STANDARDS, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. 
          SO STAFF WAS BALANCING A LOT OF THINGS, UM, AND TRYING TO GET TO A PLACE WHERE WE COULD RECOMMEND A CALIBRATED PROGRAM THAT HAD OBJECTIVE STANDARDS. 
          IF THERE'S OTHER OBJECTIVE STANDARDS THAT, UM, FOLKS FEEL NEED TO BE ADDED TO THE KIND OF THE, YOU HAVE TO DO LIST AS PART OF THE GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENTS, UM, THAT'S WHY WE ARE MOVING FORWARD IN THE HEARINGS PROCESS AND HAPPY TO HAVE FOLKS, UM, PROPOSE THOSE STANDARDS AS AMENDMENTS TO THE PROPOSAL. 
          SO THAT SAID, AND AND PART OF THIS WORK, WERE THERE ACTUAL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF THESE DESIGN STANDARDS? WE WORKED WITH CONSULTANTS TO, UM, CONDUCT A MARKET ANALYSIS THAT REPORT AND ITS FINDINGS ARE AVAILABLE ON, ON THE SPEAK UP PAGE, AND WE'LL BE PART OF THE, THE PLANNING COMMISSION BACKUP WHEN WE GO BACK FOR A HEARING TO PLANNING COMMISSION. 
          UM, THEY DID NOT GO THROUGH AND KIND OF CALCULATE A COST FOR INDIVIDUAL STANDARDS NECESSARILY, BUT THEY DID DO CALIBRATION TO FIGURE OUT KIND OF WHAT THE, AND, AND PROVIDED SOME ASSUMPTIONS AROUND KIND OF THE GENERAL COST OF IMPLEMENTING THE GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENTS. 
          UM, THEY DIDN'T NECESSARILY DO A COST FOR EVERY SINGLE INDIVIDUAL STANDARD AS PART OF THE CALIBRATION, BUT THERE'S CHARTS IN THE, THE BACKUP MATERIAL FOR THE MARKET STUDY, UM, WHERE YOU CAN SEE SORT OF WHAT THE RESIDUAL LAND VALUE IS AND WHAT THE IMPACT OF THE KIND OF, WHERE THE FEE FITS INTO THAT AND WHEN, UM, WHAT THE COSTS WOULD NEED TO STAY WITHIN IN ORDER TO GET TO A CALIBRATED PROGRAM. 
          AND SO I GUESS I, I'M, I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT DID THEY USE TO CALIBRATE THAT? DID THEY USE THE EXISTING URBAN DESIGN GUIDELINES? LIKE WHAT DID THEY, WHEN YOU SAID THEY USED THE GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENTS TO CALIBRATE IT, LIKE THEY MADE SOME ASSUMPTIONS AROUND THE KIND OF COST OF GATEKEEPER REQUIREMENTS AS PART OF THEIR ANALYSIS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OTHER COMMISSIONER QUESTIONS? YES, COMMISSIONER, UH, JUST WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR, YOU KNOW, SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE REALLY PRIORITIZING, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING, OBVIOUSLY WITH THIS PLAN. 
          UM, I KNOW THERE'S RESTRICTIONS AROUND HOW YOU CAN DESIGNATE, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR CERTAIN WORKFORCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          UM, I DON'T KNOW THE WAY AROUND THIS, BUT, AND I'M LEARNING, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO SEE, UH, SOME PRIORITIZATION, UH, FOR THE FOLKS WHO WORK DOWNTOWN, SERVICE INDUSTRY, VENUE YORKERS, UH, MUSICIANS, ARTISTS, UM, IF THERE'S A WAY TO ADD IN, YOU KNOW, SPECIAL, I GUESS, BONUSES FOR, UH, PROVIDING FOR THE FOLKS WHO ACTUALLY, UH, PROVIDE THE STRUCTURE AND BACKBONE OF DOWNTOWN. 
          I WOULD LOVE TO LOVE TO SEE THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS? YES, COMMISSIONER WILEY? UH, YES, WOULD YOU PLEASE PULL UP CHART 21 AND, UH, THAT IS ON THE, UH, AFFORDABLE HOUSING REQUIREMENTS? AND WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THAT, IT, IT, IT BASICALLY ADDRESSING WHAT I PERCEIVE AS THE CLIFF. 
          SO WHEN WE GO FROM, UH, THE DB DDDB 400 OF $10 TO THE DDB EIGHT 50 OF 12, THE WAY THAT IT'S BEEN EXPLAINED TO ME IS THAT THAT 12 IS NOT AN INCREMENTAL FEE, THAT IT WOULD ACTUALLY APPLY TO THE FIRST 400 FEET AS WELL. 
          UM, AND I HAVE A CONCERN WITH THAT, THAT IT CREATES WHAT I, I REFER TO AS A CLIFF THAT, UM, SO IF YOU WANNA GO FROM, I KNOW I DON'T WANNA ADD UP A BUNCH OF NUMBERS, BUT THE THREE 50 BASE TO THE 400, AND NOW YOU'RE AT SEVEN 50. 
          AND I KNOW THIS IS AN EDGE CASE, BUT WE'RE SETTING PRECEDENT AND WE'RE BUILDING MODELS HERE. 
          SO WHEN YOU GO FROM SEVEN 50, IF YOU WANTED TO GO TO 800, THAT EXTRA 50 FEE WOULD NOT ONLY COST YOU $12, BUT THE OTHER 400 YOU WOULD HAVE TO PAY $2 MORE FOR. 
          SO INCREMENTALLY IT BECOMES VERY EXPENSIVE. 
          AND, UM, I, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IS NOT HOW UNO 
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WORKS WHEN YOU WENT FROM UP TO THE 300 FOOT. 
          IS THAT, THAT, IS THAT RIGHT? THAT UNO TREATED IT MORE INCREMENTALLY? I, I THINK YOU'RE CORRECT, ALTHOUGH I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND RE-REVIEW ALL OF THE, UM, UNO MATERIALS TO GET TO THE MCKAYLA SAYS YES. 
          OKAY, EXCELLENT. 
          UM, THAT IS CORRECT. 
          UM, SO THAT'S DEFINITELY, AGAIN, AS WE'RE GETTING INTO SORT OF SUGGESTING AMENDMENTS TO THE PROPOSAL, THAT'S CERTAINLY A SUGGESTED AMENDMENT THAT SOMEBODY COULD MAKE. 
          UM, WE ERRED ON THE SIDE OF TRYING TO CREATE AS SIMPLE A PROGRAM AS POSSIBLE THAT WAS, UM, AS COMPARABLE IN FEES AS THE CURRENT PROGRAM AS WE COULD GET IT. 
          BUT, UM, THERE ARE TRADE OFFS TO SIMPLICITY. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          AND I, I'VE, I'VE RAISED MY CONCERN A COUPLE TIMES, BUT NEVER OCCURRED TO ME BEFORE THAT WHO WHOO, IS ACTUALLY DOING MORE OF WHAT, WHAT I WAS THINKING, UM, INTUITIVELY MADE SENSE TO ME. 
          ALTHOUGH, ANOTHER WAY TO LOOK AT IT IS THE TALLER THE BUILDINGS GET, THE MORE EXPENSIVE IT IS TO BUILD ADDITIONAL FLOORS. 
          AND IT'S ALMOST LIKE BONUS TO THE COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE GETTING ALL THAT ADDITIONAL SPACE WITH HAVING TO LAY ANY ANYMORE ROADS OR OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS. 
          UH, BUT YEAH, THAT, THAT WAS JUST A QUESTION I HAD, SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OTHER QUESTIONS? IF NOT, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME AND THE PRESENTATION. 
          THAT'S VERY HELPFUL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO THE NEXT TWO ITEMS ON THE AGENDA HAVE BEEN RESCHEDULED, FOUR AND FIVE HAVE BEEN RESCHEDULED. 
          [6. Approve a recommendation to Council regarding renaming Cesar Chavez Street.]
SO, UM, NEXT WOULD BE THE APPROVAL OF A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNSEL REGARDING RENAMING CESAR CHAVEZ STREET. 
          AND, UM, I WILL READ THIS INTO THE RECORD. 
          UM, BEFORE I DO, JUST LETTING YOU KNOW THAT, UM, BEFORE WE MADE THIS RECOMMENDATION, WE DID GET INPUT FROM, SHOW IT TO AND GET INPUT FROM, UM, COMMISSIONERS, CADRE, VELA, VELAZQUEZ, AND FUENTES. 
          AND WE ALSO, UM, PROVIDED A COPY AND GOT INPUT FROM THE MEXICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER. 
          ALL OF THEM EITHER GAVE THEIR, UH, APPROVAL OR ONE OR TWO SAID, WE HAVE NO OBJECTIONS. 
          SO, UM, JUST WANTED TO SORT OF PREFACE IT WITH THAT. 
          SO THE RECOMMENDATION IS RENAMING CESAR CHAVEZ STREET, WHEREAS, AND ACTUALLY, UM, I'VE ALREADY HAD IT POINTED OUT THAT, UM, AT THE VERY START, I LEFT THAT WORD, SO , I WILL ADD THAT WORD AS I'M READING IT, WHEREAS IN THE 1839 CITY OF AUSTIN CITY PLAN, THE DOWNTOWN STREET RUNNING PARALLEL TO AND NORTH OF THE, AND NORTH SHORE OF THE COLORADO RIVER WAS NAMED WATER AVENUE MM-HMM . 
          AND WHEREAS IN 1884, THE CITY OF AUSTIN, THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL RENAMED WATER AVENUE TO FIRST STREET IN AN EFFORT TO MODERNIZE AND SIMPLIFY DOWNTOWN NAVIGATION. 
          AND WHEREAS IN 1993, AFTER HIS DEATH, LOCAL COMMUNITY LEADERS PETITION THE CITY TO RENAME A MAJOR STREET AFTER CESAR CHAVEZ AS A WAY OF RECOGNIZING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LOCAL LATINO COMMUNITY AND THE PROGRESS IN FARM LABOR CONDITIONS ACHIEVED BY THE FARM LABOR MOVEMENT, FOUNDED IN PART BY CESAR CHAVEZ, BY HIM. 
          AND WHEREAS LATINOS MAKE UP ROUGHLY A THIRD OF AUSTIN'S POPULATION AND HAVE CONTRIBUTED IMMEASURABLY TO THE HISTORY VIBRANCE CULTURE AND CHARACTER OF THE CITY, AND WHEREAS THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THAT COMMUNITY AND THAT OF THE UNITED FARM WORKERS ORGANIZATION ARE WORTHY OF RECOGNITION. 
          AND WHEREAS RECENT DISTURBING ALLEGATIONS COLLABORATED BY SEVERAL VICTIMS HAVE CAUSED MANY TO REEVALUATE THE PROPRIETY OF HONORING CESAR CHAVEZ WITH AN AUSTIN CITY STREET NAME FOR HIM. 
          AND WHEREAS MANY CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND BUSINESS OWNERS ARE ON RECORD SUPPORTING A STREET NAME CHANGE. 
          AND WHEREAS THE CITY MANAGER HAS STATED IN THAT, HAS STATED THAT THE CITY FIRMLY BELIEVES THAT THE RIGHT THING TO DO IS MOVE FORWARD TO REMOVE HIS NAME FROM THE STREET THAT RUNS THROUGH THE HEART OF OUR CITY. 
          AND TO DO SO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR COMMUNITY, PARTICULARLY THOSE GROUPS WHO HAVE LONG SUPPORTED THE FARM WORKERS MOVEMENT AND CHAMPION CIVIL RIGHTS. 
          AND WHEREAS THE REMAINING THE RENAMING OF THE STREET SHOULD BE A THOUGHTFUL PROCESS THAT ENGAGES KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND COMMUNITY LEADERS. 
          AND WHEREAS A CORE VALUE IN OUR CITY IS RESPECTING THE DIGNITY AND AUTONOMY OF ITS CITIZENS. 
          AND WHEREAS TODAY, MORE THAN EVER, WHEN 
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MANY OF OUR NATIONAL AND STATE LEADERS VENERATE TOXIC MASCULINITY, CELEBRATE CRUELTY AND BODY MIGHT EQUALS RIGHT MENTALITY AND WORK TIRELESSLY TO ERODE THE AUTONOMY OF WOMEN OVER THEIR OWN BODIES. 
          IT IS INCUMBENT UPON US TO, WHENEVER POSSIBLE, TAKE A STAND IN OPPOSITION TO ANYONE WHO SHOWS THEMSELVES TO BE LESS THAN FULLY RESPECTFUL OF EACH INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT. 
          OF BODILY SELF-DETERMINATION. 
          NOW THEREFORE, IT IS A CONSIDERED RECOMMENDATION OF THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION THAT THE CITY MANAGER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, INITIATE A PROCESS OF COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT TO DETERMINE THE MOST APPROPRIATE AND EXPEDITIOUS PATH. 
          FOR ONE, REMOVING THE NAME CESAR CHAVEZ FROM ANY DOWNTOWN STREETS OR SIGNAGE, AND TWO RENAMING CESAR CHAVEZ STREET, BASED ON COMMUNITY AND STAKEHOLDER CONSENSUS WITH THE INTENT TO CONTINUE HONOR HONORING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF OUR LATINO COMMUNITY AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS ADVANCES ACHIEVED THROUGH THE FARM WORKERS MOVEMENT. 
          SO JUST A, UH, POINT OF PROCESS, UM, WE WOULD NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND BEFORE WE THEN, UM, MAKE COMMENTS OR RECOMMENDATIONS, DISCUSS, I MOVE THAT WE, UH, ACCEPT THIS RESOLUTION. 
          I SECOND, THERE HAS BEEN A, UH, MOTION MOVED AND SECONDED AND I WILL OPEN IT UP TO DISCUSSION. 
          AND I KNOW THAT, UM, THERE ARE, I I'VE HEARD ALREADY OF A COUPLE OF CONCERNS. 
          SO, UM, LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS. 
          CAN, CAN I MAKE A COMMENT? UH, YOU KNOW, I, I TOTALLY SUPPORT, UM, RENAMING THE STREET, UH, PERSONALLY. 
          UM, I, I WOULD LOOK AT WHAT THE STREET WAS OR ORIGINALLY NAMED AND CAN MAKE THAT CONSIDERATION, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YOU KNOW, THE FACT THAT THIS CULTURAL, UM, GROUP HAS BEEN HONORED, UH, THESE MANY YEARS OF FINDING A WAY TO CONTINUE THAT, UM, UH, RECOGNITION OF, UH, CONTRIBUTION, BUT NOT NECESSARILY THE STREET. 
          YOU KNOW, I JUST, I, I REALLY THINK THAT, UM, AGAIN, PERSONALLY, I I WOULD GO RENAME IT, UM, WHAT IT WAS CALLED ORIGINALLY, WATER STREET OR FOR MANY DECADES, FIRST STREET, AND STICK WITH THAT. 
          AND AGAIN, REALLY FOCUS ON HOW YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THIS CONTRIBUTION AND MOVING FORWARD IN THE FUTURE. 
          I WOULD BE RELUCTANT TO NAME ANY STREET AFTER ANY INDIVIDUAL. 
          UH, AMEN. 
          AMEN TO THAT. 
          I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS AGAIN. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER WILEY, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER FOR CONSIDERATION WHAT IS HOPEFULLY A, A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT, UM, IN THE FIRST, WHEREAS THERE'S A WORD SHORE, AND I THINK THAT MAYBE IT BELONGS AFTER RIVER. 
          RIGHT NOW THE SENTENCE DOESN'T QUITE WORK FOR ME. 
          IT'S ALL RIGHT. 
          IT SHOULD BE NOT, AND IT SHOULD BE PARALLEL TO THE NORTH SHORE. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          IT'S, UH, TO THE NORTH SHORE, OR, OR YOU COULD MOVE SHORE, WHICHEVER IT WORKS FOR YOU. 
          BUT, AND I ACCEPT THOUGH THAT CHANGE, I THINK, UM, PARALLEL TO THE NORTH SHORE OF THE COLORADO RIVER WORKS, IT WORKS OUT. 
          UH, YES, COMMISSIONER COUPLE, I'M SUPER IMPRESSED WITH THIS. 
          UM, AND REALLY, REALLY GLAD OUR COMMISSION IS PUTTING THIS FORWARD. 
          I WOULD OFFER, UM, SOME, I WOULD OFFER A DIFFERENT OPINION THAN MY COLLEAGUE THAT I THINK WE NEED TO CENTER THE LATINO COMMUNITY. 
          CES CHAVEZ HISTORICALLY RUNS, UM, EAST WEST, AND WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT COMMUNITY AND THAT THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AND SPECIFICALLY, UM, THE CIVIL RIGHTS COMMUNITY WITHIN, UM, OUR LATINO NEIGHBORS IS CENTERED HERE WHEN WE RENAME IT. 
          TO ME, THAT'S CRITICAL. 
          I DON'T WANNA LOSE THAT, THAT LEGACY. 
          WELL, YOU KNOW, WE, WE CURRENTLY HAVE THE COMMISSIONER, OH, I'M SORRY, WE CURRENTLY HAVE THE HISPANIC CORRIDOR. 
          YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE'S WAY OF RECOGNIZING, UH, THESE CONTRIBUTIONS THROUGH THAT, WHICH IS JUST PARALLEL, ADJACENT, UM, TO THIS, UM, AGAIN, UM,  THAT'S ALONG FIFTH STREET, I THINK, RIGHT? YEAH. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THIS IS JUST MY OPINION. 
          I MEAN, I THINK THAT, UM, SPECIFICALLY NAMING ANY STREET AFTER AN INDIVIDUAL WOULD BE A MISTAKE, UH, CULTURALLY, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT SHOULD BE A, COULD BE AND SHOULD BE A CONSIDERATION, UH, WITH COMMUNITY INPUT TO MAKE A FINAL DECISION ON IT. 
          SO THAT'S, I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          YES. 
          BUT HELLO? OH, THANK YOU. 
          UH, 
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I'M NOT SURE, WHO AM I CALLING ON? COMMISSIONER BEHAR? COMMISSIONER BERNHARD? I'M COMMISSIONER BERNHARDT. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          HI, COMMISSIONER , CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, I THINK MAYBE NOT NAMING THINGS AFTER INDIVIDUALS ANYMORE GOING FORWARD IS ACTUALLY TAKING IT A BIT FAR. 
          UM, I'M NOT SURE, AND I DON'T MEAN TO BE FLIPPED BY SAYING THIS, THAT WE WOULD BE HAVING THIS PROBLEM IF WE NAMED MORE THINGS AFTER WOMEN. 
          UM, AND I, I THINK THAT IT MIGHT BE VALUABLE TO ADD AWARE AS, OR EVEN A THEREFORE, TO THIS RECOMMENDATION, UM, THAT PUTS BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL THE IDEA OF RECONSIDERING THE NAMES OF SEVERAL STREETS, UM, AND MAYBE ALSO A FEW SCHOOLS. 
          UM, ALTHOUGH I DON'T THINK THAT'S THEIR BUSINESS NAMED AFTER, UH, PEOPLE WHO WERE, UM, WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND, UH, GENOCIDAL RACISTS. 
          LIKE WE HAVE, UH, ONE OF THE BIGGEST CORRIDORS IN THE CITY NAMED AFTER MBO LAMAR. 
          AND EVERY TIME I DRIVE ON IT, I HAVE TROUBLE NOT THINKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE WAS VERY EXPLICIT ABOUT HIS IDEA THAT THE ONLY THING THAT THE NEW STATE OF TEXAS COULD DO ABOUT ITS NATIVE AMERICAN POPULATION WAS ERADICATE THEM. 
          UM, THAT THAT WAS THE IDEAL SOLUTION. 
          UM, I'M NOT TRYING TO MINIMIZE, UH, WHAT WE NOW KNOW ABOUT, UH, CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, CESAR CHAVEZ. 
          UH, OBVIOUSLY, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT HE IS SUSPECTED OF DOING IS INCREDIBLY SERIOUS. 
          UM, BUT WE DO TOLERATE NAMING OR KEEPING THE NAMES OF SEVERAL PLACES HERE IN AUSTIN THAT ARE AT LEAST IN THE BALLPARK, IF NOT ARGUABLY MORE HORRIFIC IN TERMS OF THEIR CRIMES. 
          YEAH, AND I APPRECIATE THAT COMMENT. 
          UM, I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THAT MAY BE GOING A BIT FURTHER THAN WE NEED TO FOR THIS PARTICULAR RECOMMENDATION. 
          UM, THIS MAY BE SOMETHING WE CAN PUT ON THE AGENDA TO TALK ABOUT AT SOME OTHER TIME. 
          UM, YEAH, NO, I DON'T THINK, I THINK THAT THIS HAS BEEN RAISED BECAUSE OF THE RECENT PRESS AROUND, UM, THE LEGACY OF CESAR CHAVEZ, AND THAT'S FRONT OF MIND FOR ALL THE POL POLITICIANS. 
          BUT IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT THIS, NOT IN TERMS OF SORT OF WHAT'S ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEWSPAPER, BUT IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE HAVE NAMED THINGS IN THE PAST, RIGHT? UH, WE WOULD FIND SEVERAL EXAMPLES THAT ARE, IT IT MUCH MORE DISTRESSING THAN THIS ONE. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          UM, I WANNA MAKE ONE MORE POINT, UM, WHICH IS THE, THEREFORE, NUMBER TWO DOESN'T ACTUALLY SUGGEST A NAME OF ANY PARTICULAR PERSON OR THAT IT BE A PERSON AT ALL. 
          UM, JUST MORE OF A PROCESS AND AN INTENT TO CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZE THE LATINO COMMUNITY AND THOSE CONTRIBUTIONS. 
          COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL LET YOU NEXT. 
          SO, UM, THANK YOU CHAIRMAN. 
          UH, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR AUTHORING THIS AND YOUR WORK ON THIS. 
          I ALSO WANNA SAY, LIKE, AS IS I, I PLAN TO VOTE ON THIS RECOMMENDATION. 
          I DO HAVE SOME THOUGHTS THAT I JUST KIND OF WANNA AT LEAST VOICE INTO THE RECORD AND MAYBE A SUGGESTION OR TWO IF THAT'S, UM, SOMETHING THAT THE COMMISSION IS INTERESTED IN. 
          SO I WAS INFORMED WHEN I SAT ON THIS SIDE THAT THIS IS THE OPINIONATED SIDE, SO I'LL TRY TO, YOU KNOW, UPHOLD THAT LEGACY . 
          UH, I'M USUALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE, SO, UM, BUT, UM, A COUPLE THINGS. 
          SO I'LL EASE INTO IT. 
          LIKE I SAID, ONE THING, THE AT THE BOTTOM, WHEREAS WHERE IT SAYS A CORE VALUE IN OUR CITY IS REPRESENTING THE DIGNITY AND AUTONOMY OF ITS CITIZENS, I THINK IN SPIRIT THAT IS CORRECT. 
          HOWEVER, YOU KNOW, WHEN I WAS LOOKING ONLINE, I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE CORE VALUES OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          UM, THOSE WORDS ARE NOT, UH, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY A CORE VALUE OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO ADJUST THAT WORDING JUST TO BE REFLECTIVE OF THE, THE TITLE OF THE ACTUAL CORE VALUES THAT WE HAVE AS A CITY, UM, ACCORDING TO THE STRATEGIC, UH, 20 20, 20 23 STRATEGIC DIRECTION. 
          THOSE WOULD BE EQUITY, INTEGRITY, INNOVATION, COLLABORATION, ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP, PUBLIC SERVICE. 
          AND THEN I THINK THE BIG ONE WOULD BE RESPECT WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE LANGUAGE HERE, UM, NOT NECESSARILY EMOTION OR ANYTHING, BUT JUST SOMETHING I'VE NOTICED THERE. 
          ONE THING THAT, UH, SO TWO WHEREAS IS ABOVE THAT, OR DID YOU ONE OF TWO WHEREAS IS ABOVE THAT. 
          I, I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT, UM, IF IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO CONSIDER WHAT OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE IN THIS SITUATION. 
          COULD THAT BE POSSIBLY ADDED AS A THIRD? THEREFORE, AS FAR AS, UH, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M, I'M CERTAIN THAT PEOPLE AT THE CITY ARE LOOKING INTO WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING, BUT IS THAT A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE SHOULD CONSIDER MAKING THAT THEY, THAT THEY DO CONSIDER, UM, WHAT OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE IN THIS CASE AND, UH, TO THE PREVIOUS SPEAKER'S POINT? MAYBE NOT IN THE SCOPE HERE, BUT UH, MAYBE THAT SHOULD BE SOMETHING THAT'S DONE IN 
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A MORE UNIVERSAL SENSE AS WELL. 
          UM, AND THEN THE LAST THING IS JUST LIKE A, A POINT THAT I'M, I'M STRUGGLING WITH A LITTLE BIT, AND I'M SORRY I DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO TALK WITH YOU BEFORE WE, UM, HAD THIS MEETING ABOUT THE, THE DRAFT. 
          UM, I DO THINK IT'S ALL GREAT, HOWEVER, I I, IT, IT FEELS, SO I, I WORK IN JUVENILE JUSTICE. 
          I HAVE A 3-YEAR-OLD SON AND AN 18 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER. 
          AND I, I THINK THAT WHAT, UM, MR. CHAVEZ WAS ACCUSED OF. 
          AND, UH, IT'S ONE OF THE, THE, THE WORST THINGS THAT A HUMAN CAN DO TO ANOTHER HUMAN, ESPECIALLY A CHILD. 
          AND I, I SEE IN MY, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT DIRECT CARE WITH YOUTH, BUT WE KNOW THAT, UM, ABUSIVE CHILDREN, SEXUAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN, TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN, AND HOW THAT TRAUMATIZES PEOPLE FOR LIFE AND JUST HOW, UH, DETRIMENTAL THAT THAT CAN BE FOR, UH, IT RIPPLES SO MUCH AND, AND WE DON'T KNOW THE FULL SCOPE. 
          AND, AND I HAVEN'T, I'M NOT AN INVESTIGATOR. 
          I'VE SEEN THE NEWS, LIKE EVERYBODY I'VE, I'VE HEARD, I'VE LISTENED TO, UH, ABSORBED THE INFORMATION. 
          UM, BUT I, I, I WONDER IF THE RECENT DISTURBING ALLEGATIONS THAT ARE, THAT THAT'S THE ONLY REAL, UM, LANGUAGE HERE. 
          AND THEN WE PIVOT TO, YOU KNOW, TODAY MORE THAN EVER, WE HAVE A NATION AND A STATE OF LEADERS WHO, YOU KNOW, UM, SORT OF ALLOW THIS, THIS SORT OF THING IN OUR SOCIETY. 
          AND SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE SHOULD TAKE THIS TIME TO CONDEMN THE ACTIONS THAT, AGAIN, LIKE I THINK THERE'S STILL INVESTIGATIONS AND STUFF TO BE FOUND OUT. 
          BUT I WANTED TO SAY ON THE RECORD SO THAT I CAN HAVE MY PIECE SAID THAT I THINK THAT THE ABUSE OF CHILDREN IN ANY WAY IS ABSOLUTELY, UM, SHOULD BE CALLED OUT. 
          AND I THINK ESPECIALLY IN A TIME, AND AGAIN, PROBABLY NOT RIGHT HERE, BUT THE EPSTEIN FILES RIGHT NOW, AND NO ONE HAS BEEN ARRESTED FROM THE EPSTEIN FILES OTHER THAN PEOPLE SENDING DOCUMENTS, SECRET DOCUMENTS IN OVERSEAS, BY THE WAY MM-HMM . 
          NO ONE IN AMERICA EXCEPT THE WOMAN, UH, . 
          SO I, I, I TAKE A LITTLE BIT OF ISSUE WITH, UM, WITH THAT, WITH THAT PIECE, A LITTLE BIT OF NOT LIKE NAMING IT A LITTLE BIT. 
          AND, AND THAT MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR US. 
          UM, I DO THINK THAT THERE'S A SOCIETAL ISSUE HERE, BUT I, IT, IT, IT SEEMS THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE, THE, THE INDIVIDUAL'S RIGHT. 
          OF BODILY SELF-DETERMINATION YES. 
          AND THAT IS ALSO QUITE BROAD COMPARED TO THE ALLEGATIONS OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING, RIGHT? YEAH. 
          AND SO, AND I THINK, UH, JUST REAL QUICK, I THINK PART OF IT IS THE LAWYER IN ME IS LIKE, UH, HE HASN'T ACTUALLY BEEN CON, YOU KNOW, HE'S BEING TRIED  YEAH. 
          IN THAT COURT OF PUBLIC OPINION, BUT THERE HASN'T EVER BEEN YET A TOTAL DETERMINATION OF WHAT DID HAPPEN, DIDN'T HAPPEN. 
          SO I I WAS BEING CAUTIOUS. 
          SO YEAH. 
          YEAH. 
          I I, I FEEL LIKE IT, THE, THE, THE RECOMMENDATION, YOU KNOW, IT, IT NAMES IT BY DISCUSSING THE ALLEGATIONS AND THEN IT, AND IT PIVOTS TO A LARGER SOCIETAL ISSUE, WHICH AGAIN, FINE. 
          UM, BUT TO ME, I, I JUST, UM, I'VE BEEN PERSONALLY STRUGGLING WITH THIS A LOT, YOU KNOW, HAVING YOUNG KIDS BEING IN JUVENILE JUSTICE, SEEING ALL THIS EPSTEIN STUFF, SEEING THIS, THIS CURRENT SITUATION. 
          AND, UM, I JUST WANTED TO, TO MENTION THAT. 
          'CAUSE I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN. 
          BUT JUST TO BE CLEAR, YOU'RE NOT MAKING, UM, A THE ONLY, THE ONLY RECOMMENDATION, IF Y'ALL WANTED TO ADD SOMETHING ABOUT THE HAVING REVIEW WHAT OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE AS PART OF A RECOMMENDATION, I COULD PUT THAT OUT THERE. 
          AND THEN FOR DISCUSSION, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO DISCUSS THE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE CORE VALUES PIECE THAT I MENTIONED, UM, YES. 
          UH, COMMISSIONER LEVINSON. 
          YEAH. 
          I WAS ACTUALLY MAKING THEN COMMISSIONER WILEY MAKING A NOTE ON THAT CORE VALUES PIECE. 
          I THOUGHT PERHAPS WE, INSTEAD OF A CORE VALUE IN OUR CITY AS FAR AS LIKE, SAY A CORE VALUE IN OUR COMMUNITY, BECAUSE THAT IS NOT, YOU KNOW, SPECIFIC TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN GOVERNMENT, PER SE, THAT IS A COMMUNITY VALUE. 
          AND I AM FINE ACCEPTING THAT FRIENDLY AMENDMENT. 
          AND I KNOW ALSO THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED, AND THE REASON WE ARE NOT BEING PRESCRIPTIVE ABOUT ANYTHING, ANY NAME OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, IS THAT THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL DISCUSSIONS, UH, GOING AROUND ABOUT WATER STREET FIRST STREET AND FARM WORKERS BOULEVARD MM-HMM . 
          SO, UM, I DON'T, ANY OF THOSE IS FINE WITH ME. 
          I DON'T PARTICULARLY HAVE AN OPINION. 
          RIGHT. 
          UM, BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO GET PRESCRIPTIVE OR ANYTHING ON THAT IN THIS RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE WE WANT THE COMMUNITY TO COME TO THE CONCLUSION. 
          IT'S NOT OUR JOB TO IMPOSE ONE, UH, COMMISSIONER BTA. 
          YEAH. 
          JUST A QUESTION ABOUT PROCESS AGAIN. 
          UM, WHAT, WHAT, UH, DO WE KNOW WHAT THE PROCESS WILL BE FOR COMMUNITY, UH, ENGAGEMENT? UH, DO, DO WE KNOW WHICH CITY DEPARTMENT IS GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, HEADING UP THIS HOUR? UH, I CAN ANSWER THAT AS BEST 
          [01:25:01]
I CAN, WHICH IS, UH, I DON'T KNOW, , AND IT DIDN'T APPEAR WHEN I WAS TALKING TO COUNCIL, UH, CITY COUNCIL STAFF, UM, THAT ANYBODY YET EXACTLY KNOWS. 
          YEAH. 
          AND PART OF THE REASON THE RECOMMENDATION FELT IMPORTANT AND SOMEWHAT URGENT WAS JUST TO BE ON RECORD AS A COMMISSION THAT WE THINK IT SHOULD GET STARTED. 
          ASAP. 
          YEAH. 
          I'LL, I'LL JUST SIMPLY SAY THAT I HAVE FULL CONFIDENCE THAT THE CITY WILL TAKE THE INPUT OF ALL THE COMMUNITIES, UH, THAT SHOULD BE CONSULTED WITH. 
          YEAH. 
          YEAH, THEY WILL. 
          THEY, THEY, THEY'VE SAID IT'S GONNA BE A SOMEWHAT LENGTH PROCESS BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A LOT OF COMMUNITY FOCUS GROUPS AND TALK TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND I THINK THEY SHOULD. 
          ARE THERE COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, CONCERN OF COMMISSIONER WILEY? UH, YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY, I, I WILL BE, UH, VOTING IN FAVOR AND APPRECIATE YOU, UH, BRINGING THIS FORWARD. 
          AND I'M ALSO REMINDED OF, UH, THE HISTORY BEHIND WEST MLK BEING RENAMED. 
          AND, UM, I DON'T WANNA RELIVE THAT FOR YOU ALL HERE. 
          IT'S WORTH, UH, IT'S WORTH READING ABOUT IT IF ANYBODY HASN'T DONE THAT. 
          UM, BUT I THINK IT'LL BE A VERY HEALTHY THING FOR THE COMMUNITY TO GO THROUGH THIS. 
          SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP HERE. 
          THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, UM, I BELIEVE THE AMENDMENT WOULD BE TO ADD, UH, TO REPLACE THE, AND IN THE FIRST, WHEREAS WITH THE WORD THE, AND ALSO, UM, TO ADD IN AT THE VERY START OF THAT, WHEREAS, 'CAUSE THAT WAS LEFT OFF AND THEN ON THE, WHEREAS REGARDING CORE VALUES TO CHANGE THE WORD CITY TO COMMUNITY, AND I GUESS WE NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THAT. 
          I'LL MOVE THAT. 
          WE MAKE THOSE CHANGES. 
          AND COMMISSIONER MCDANIEL SECONDS ALL IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT AND THE, OR THE MOTION AS AMENDMENT AMENDED, IS THAT RIGHT RYAN? UM, WE WOULD VOTE ON THE AMENDMENT AND THEN RETURN TO THE OVERALL MOTION. 
          OKAY. 
          FOR SECOND. 
          SO, UH, ALL IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT? A AYE. 
          AND NOW ALL IN FAVOR OF THE, UH, MAKING THIS AN OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION OF THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION? AYE. 
          AYE. 
          AYE. 
          OKAY. 
          NO OPPOSED, NO OPPOSED. 
          NO. 
          OKAY. 
          THE RECOMMENDATION PASSES. 
          GREAT. 
          UM, 
          [7. Conduct officer elections for Chair and Vice Chair.]
NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS THE, UM, CONDUCTING THE ELECTIONS OF THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR. 
          IT'S WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN EVERY YEAR, UM, IN APRIL. 
          SO I OPEN THE FLOOR FOR THAT. 
          WELL, I MOVE THAT WE, UH, REELECT YOU AS CHAIR . 
          ANY SECONDS? , CAN I MOVE THAT WE REELECT YOU AS LET'S TAKE ONE AT A TIME. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH, YEAH. 
          , CAN WE JUST DO IT ALL AT ONE TIME?  A SLATE. 
          WE CAN DO A, I GUESS WE COULD DO A SLATE ACTUALLY. 
          YEAH, WE COULD DO A SLATE. 
          UM, BUT LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE ON THE FIRST. 
          SO ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF I VOTE OR NOT. 
          YES, YOU DO. 
          UM, YOU ABSOLUTELY. 
          UM, AND NOW COMMISSIONER PEOPLE, I MOVE THAT WE, UM, REELECT KIMBERLY LIVINGSTON AS OUR VICE CHAIR AND I SECOND THAT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. 
          ANY OPPOSED? CONGRATULATIONS. 
          THANKS. 
          CONGRATULATIONS. 
          YES. 
          ALRIGHT, UM, WE'RE 
          [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
ABOUT TO WRAP UP. 
          I GUESS WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS, BUT BEFORE WE DO THAT, UM, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, IT'S UH, COMMISSIONER COUGH'S LAST MEETING AND WE ARE SORELY GONNA MISS YOU. 
          YOU REALLY ARE REALLY ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU ON THIS COMMISSION AND GETTING TO KNOW YOU. 
          DON'T LEAVE ME . 
          . 
          MAYBE WE SHOULD REQUIRE, UM, VISITS. 
          YEAH. 
          , I'LL SIGN TO PUBLIC COMES BY. 
          ABSOLUTELY. 
          BUT TRULY, WE APPRECIATE ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE COMMISSION AND TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 
          IT'S BEEN AN HONOR. 
          I'VE LOVED WORKING WITH YOU GUYS AND SERVING THIS INCREDIBLE CITY. 
          AWESOME. 
          IF I DID NOT HAVE A GROWING COMPANY AND A YOUNG BABY, IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT, BUT VERY EXCITED TO HAVE SOMEBODY IN THE SEAT WHO HAS A BIT MORE CAPACITY THAN I DO RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU GUYS ARE INCREDIBLE. 
          I'M REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF THE LAST THREE YEARS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT, FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. COMMISSIONER BTA, YOU KNOW, UM, I KNOW THAT THE, UH, RED RIVER CULTURAL DISTRICT, UH, PRESENTED THEIR, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN YESTERDAY MORNING AND IT SEEMS LIKE A VERY ROBUST, UH, PLAN THAT'S GOT A, I WAS THERE GREAT VISION FOR THE FUTURE. 
          WERE YOU THERE? ? I WISH I COULD. 
          UM, BUT, UH, I WOULD LOVE TO INVITE NICOLE IN TO PRESENT. 
          SHE WAS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE PRESENTING TODAY. 
          SHE'S MOVING TO MAG, SO SHE'LL BE HERE NEXT MONTH. 
           A GREAT SUGGESTION, LIKE GREAT SUGGESTION. 
          LIKE MINES, I WAS BASICALLY JUST, 
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YOU KNOW, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE, UH, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ALREADY RESCHEDULED, BUT WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THE CONVENTION CENTER COME AND PRESENT IT IS HAVE THEY ACCEPTED FOR MAY OR LET ME CHECK. 
          I DON'T BELIEVE THEY HAVE CONFIRMED YET. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, I'VE LET THEM KNOW THAT THEY'RE NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT IN APRIL, MAY IS THE NEXT PREFERENCE. 
          I DON'T BELIEVE I HAVE RECEIVED CONFIRMATION. 
          OKAY. 
          WE'RE TRYING TO SET THAT UP FOR, YEAH, WE WANT THAT BACK. 
          AND THEN I HAVE A YES RECOMMENDATION PROBABLY IN THE NEXT TWO MONTHS OF, UM, THE HISTORY CENTER, UH, AND THE HISTORY CENTER ASSOCIATION IS GOING TO A VISION PLAN FOR THE CAMPUS AT A GREAT EXPENSE. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK AS THAT IS COMPLETED, THE END OF JUNE, UH, THAT'S THE GOAL OF HAVING A PRESENTATION OF WHAT THAT VISION WILL BE BECAUSE, UH, IT, IT'LL HAVE A DIRECT IMPACT ON OUR DOWNTOWN. 
          SO THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 
          SO LET'S TRY TO GET A PRESENTATION FROM THEM. 
          AND I SECOND THAT SUGGESTION. 
          ANY OTHER NEW BUSINESS OR PROPOSED, UH, AGENDA ITEMS? IF NOT, I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL. 
          GREAT WORK THIS EVENING AND, UM, WE STAND ADJOURNED. 
          THANK YOU.
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