[Call to Order]
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BY CALLING THE ROLL COMMISSIONER OR COMMISSIONER GEARY HERE.
VICE CHAIR, BURRELL RAMIREZ, COMMISSIONER BRAY, COMMISSIONER DINKLER COMMISSIONER DUNCAN, COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER KING HERE.
JOLENE CABASA COMMISSIONER RAY.
[Reading of the Agenda]
AND OUR AGENDA IS A ONE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES FROM SEPTEMBER 1ST, 2020, AND THEN B ONE REZONING C 14 DASH 2020 DASH ZERO ZERO EIGHT FOR THE TRAINING KITCHEN DISTRICT FIVE.AND THIS IS A DISCUSSION POSTPONEMENT BE TO RECEPTIVITY C EIGHT DASH TWO OH ONE NINE DASH ZERO ONE ZERO 0.08 RESUB DIVISION OF BLOCK THREE BLOCKY WESTOVER HILLS.
UM, AND THIS IS A DISCUSSION ITEM AND B B THREE FINAL PLAT OUT OF AN APPROVED PRELIMINARY PLAN, C A J DASH 2017 DASH ZERO TWO THREE 5.2 A M BELLA FOR TUNA FOR TUNA PHASE TWO.
AND THIS IS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA BEFORE FINAL PLAT OUT OF AN APPROVED PRELIMINARY PLAN, C H J DASH 2010 DASH ZERO ZERO ZERO 8.1 A M CREEK CENTER PHASE ONE.
AND THAT IS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
AND THAT IS OUR CONSENT AGENDA.
[Consent Agenda]
WILL, UM, OUR CONSENT AGENDA IS THE MINUTES A ONE, AND WE WERE SENT REVISE MINUTES AND THEN FOUR, UM, AND THEN ALSO A B3 AND BEFORE, BUT I SHOULD ASK IF THERE IS ANYBODY HERE WHO, WHO IS LISTENING, WHO HAS SIGNED UP TO, UM, SPEAK ON B3 OR BEFORE, AND IF NOT, WE WILL JUST GO TO OUR WE'LL JUST CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND, UM, DO THE CONSENT AGENDA AND APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.NOBODY'S SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THOSE ITEMS. IS THERE A MOTION COMMISSIONER KING? THERE IS A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER KING TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.
SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DUNCAN.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND AND GREAT.
AND I SHOULD JUST SAY AT THE TOP THAT WE ARE FOR ANYBODY, UM, ON THE PHONE WHO WANTS TO PAY WHO'S LISTENING.
WE ARE NOT ON ATX LIVE WE'RE ON ATX AND TWO, BECAUSE COUNCIL WORK SESSION IS GOING ON, SO YOU CAN MONITOR THERE AND ALSO PLEASE USE YOUR COMMISSIONERS.
PLEASE USE YOUR, UM, THE RAISE HAND ICON TO SPEAK AND EVERYBODY MUTE WHEN YOU'RE NOT SPEAKING.
[B1. Rezoning: C14-2020-0084 - The Training Kitchen; District 5]
AND SO OUR FIRST ITEM IS B ONE THAT POSTPONEMENT REQUEST, UM, FROM A NEIGHBOR.AND, UM, SO WE WILL, OUR RULES ARE THAT WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE SPEAKING IN FAVOR AND AGAINST THE POSTPONEMENT.
AND, BUT I DON'T THINK ANYBODY HAS SIGNED UP IN FAVOR OF THE POSTPONEMENT.
SO, UM, WENDY, CAN YOU HELP US OUT HERE? UH, WENDY, ARE YOU THERE? ALRIGHT.
WHY DON'T WE TAKE THE NEXT ONE AND COME BACK TO IT.
WE'RE A, WE'RE TRYING TO GET A RESPONSE FROM HER RIGHT NOW.
SHE'S IN THE CHAT, BUT I THINK SHE MAY BE MUTED OR
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MAYBE HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WHERE OKAY.AND WENDY, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE SITUATION FOR THE REQUEST FOR THE POSTPONEMENT OR DO YOU WANT ME TO, AND I'M HAPPY TO DO IT, WENDY.
I, I COULD, I COULD DESCRIBE WHAT I UNDERSTAND FOR WENDY.
ARE YOU THERE THEN I WILL GO INTO, TO THE POSTPONEMENT REQUEST UNLESS WENDY, HEY WENDY, WENDY.
WENDY, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, I'M HERE.
I THINK THERE'S THIS DISCONNECT.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S TRYING TO BE WASHED OUT RIGHT NOW.
DO YOU WANT TO EXPLAIN WHAT, WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE POSTPONEMENT AND THEN WE'LL HAVE THE, UH, THE SPEAKERS AGAINST THE POSTPONEMENT SPEAK, BUT WHY DON'T YOU SPEAK FIRST? MY MIND.
I'M THINKING THIS IS JOLENE COMMISSIONER OR, OH, HI JOLENE.
I CANNOT, I JUST NOW HEARING YOU, YES.
I WILL BE ABLE TO SEE, UM, ADDRESS THE MATTER AS IT RELATES TO THE POSTS I RECEIVED YESTERDAY.
IF YOU COULD GO AHEAD AND THAT'D BE GREAT.
UH, AS OF YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AND APPROXIMATELY TWO 50 IN THE AFTERNOON, I RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM MR. MARY.
UM, I CALLED HIM BACK WITHIN THE HALF HOUR AND, UH, HE DISCUSSED HIS NEED FOR A POSTPONEMENT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE, UH, DRAINAGE CHARACTERISTICS IN RELATION TO THIS DEVELOPMENT, UH, FROM THERE AT APPROXIMATELY FOUR 15, HE SENT ALONG THE POSTPONEMENT REQUEST, UH, WHICH WAS, UH, UPLOADED AND PROVIDED TO THE COMMISSION EARLIER, AS YOU KNOW, UH, HE IS NOT, HE IS NOT ABLE TO JOIN THE MEETING BECAUSE IT WAS AFTER NOON ON MONDAY, BUT HE IS NOT ON THIS CALL.
I AM JUST REPRESENTING, UM, WHAT HAPPENED AS FROM THE CASE MANAGER'S POINT OF VIEW, UH, MR. MARY AND MS. STANSBERRY HAVE HAD SOME DISCUSSIONS, UH, YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S, I DON'T KNOW THAT THEY HAVEN'T ACTUALLY MET TO DISCUSS THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT ON HIS PROPERTY AND HE IS REQUESTING A, THOSE TO OF THE 6TH OF OCTOBER.
IT'S IT'S UM, CHAIR KOBASA THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND NOW, UM, I ASSUME WE HAVE NOBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK AGAINST ARE IN FAVOR OF THE POSTPONEMENT REQUEST.
IS THAT CORRECT, ANDREW? I MEAN, IT SORT OF GOES TELLING IF THE PERSON DIDN'T SIGN COULDN'T SIGN UP TO SPEAK, THEN THEY COULDN'T SIGN UP FOR THE POSTPONEMENT REQUEST.
SO WE'LL JUST GO TO CORRECT? YES.
SO WE'LL GO TO, I BELIEVE, UM, IS IT BLAINE? STANSBERRY IS FIRST, UM, OR I JUST LOST MY NOTES, BUT UH, OKAY.
IT LOOKS LIKE, UM, UH, AMANDA LONG TEEN WILL GO FIRST, UM, BUT THEY CAN DECIDE AMANDA LONG TEEN OR BLAINE, STANSBERRY, AND THEY WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES OR TWO MINUTES EACH STANSBERRY.
UM, THE AMBLIN STANDS FOR, I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK FIRST.
UM, COULD THE TECHNICIAN PLEASE PULL UP THE PRESENTATION FOR THE DENIAL OF POSTPONEMENT REQUESTS THAT I SENT EARLIER, PLEASE? SO WHILE THAT'S THAT'S,
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UM, BEING PULLED UP, I WILL JUST SAY, UM, GOOD EVENING, MADAM CHAIR AND COMMISSIONERS.UH, AS I SAID, I'M BLAINE STANSBERRY.
I AM A CIVIL ENGINEER AND FRIEND AND SUPPORTER OF THE TRAINING KITCHEN, HELPING THEM WITH THE ZONING REQUESTS.
UH, IF I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL ARE ABLE TO SEE THE SLIDES, I'M NOT ABLE TO SEE 'EM ON THE SCREEN.
I AM, I'M LOOKING AT, BUT, UM, IN ON SLIDE TWO IS MR. MIRI EMAIL REQUESTING THE POSTPONEMENT.
AND I UNDERSTAND THE REASON FOR THE REQUEST BY MR. MARY IS DUE TO CONFUSION OVER THE SPEAKER REGISTRATION DEADLINE, AND HE WISHES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE HEARING.
HE STATES HE HAS CONCERNS ABOUT THE OVERALL DRAINAGE AREA, UH, IN THE PROPERTY.
THANK YOU FOR PULLING THAT UP.
AND, AND, UH, WHEN YOU GET A MINUTE, UH, SLIDE TWO.
SO I'VE HIGHLIGHTED WHERE HE ADDRESSED HIS CONCERN.
UH, AND THEN ON SLIDE THREE, AS AN ENGINEER, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO SEE, WELL, WHAT, WHAT DRAINAGE CONCERNS WHAT'S GOING ON? CAUSE THAT'S AN IMPORTANT COMPONENT OF, OF THE SITE ENGINEERING.
SO ON SLIDE THREE, THE TRAINING KITCHEN IS SHOWN OUTLINED IN ORANGE, MR. BARRY'S PROPERTY AT 72 10, DAN GENE OUTLINED IN BLUE IS DOWNSTREAM OF THE TRAINING KITCHEN AND I'LL CALL IT TTK FOR SHORT, THE CRITICAL WATER QUALITY ZONE FOR A MINOR WATERWAY IS SHOWN IN THE HATCH AREA AND IT ENCOMPASSES THE REAR OF TTK AND THE ENTIRETY OF MR. MARY'S PROPERTY AND THE ADJACENT HOMES ON BOTH SIDES ALONG DAN JANE STREET LIGHTS FOR, UH, UH, OKAY.
I'M SORRY, IF YOU COULD GO TO SLIDE THREE, THAT'S WHAT I WAS JUST DESCRIBING THE TEACH GATE PROPERTY IN ORANGE, MR. MARY'S PROPERTY IN BLUE, AND THEN YOU SEE THE HATCHED AREA OF THE CRITICAL BARN QUALITY ZONE.
THE NEXT ONE, CAN YOU SWITCH TO SLIDE FOUR, PLEASE? WE'RE CURRENTLY ON SLIDE FOUR ON SLIDE.
UH, I'M SORRY, THAT SAYS THREE.
I'M SORRY, GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
THIS IS A STREET VIEW OF MR. MARY'S PROPERTY.
HE OWNS THE VACANT LOT OF PARKING TO GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE OF THE STREET.
YOU, UM, IT IS A VACANT PROPERTY BETWEEN TWO HOMES.
YEAH, SO, UM, IT IS, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE DRAINAGE WAY COMES RIGHT THROUGH THE CENTER OF HIS, HIS PROPERTY THERE CULVERTS UNDER THE STREET, CARRYING IT TO THE OTHER SIDE OF DAN JEAN'S PROPERTY.
I HAVE MADE MYSELF AVAILABLE TO MR. MARY TO DISCUSS HIS CONCERNS.
UH, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO CONNECT TODAY DUE TO HIS SCHEDULE.
SO, UM, ALL RIGHT, SO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
SO DRAINAGE, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE PROHIBITS ANY DEVELOPMENT, UM, FROM ADVERSELY IMPACTING DOWNSTREAM DEVELOPMENT OF BOTH UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM LANDOWNERS, AND IF SITE IMPROVEMENT, IF THERE ARE ANY SCORES, THIS PROJECT WOULD BE SUBMITTED, WERE DRAINAGE IMPACTS, UM, WOULD BE, UH, WHERE THE DRAINAGE IMPACTS WOULD BE REVIEWED FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE LBC.
AND SO THEREFORE WE ASKED ME TO DENIED POSTPONEMENT REQUESTS FOR MR. MARY AND PROCEED WITH THE HEARING ON THE ZONING CHANGE AND THEN DRAINAGE WOULD BE ADDRESSED DURING THE SITE DEVELOPMENT STAGE.
AND THEN, UH, AMANDA LONG, YOU WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES AND JUST PLEASE SPEAK TO THE POSTPONEMENT REQUEST.
THIS IS JUST FOR THE POSTPONEMENT.
SO YOU COULD JUST SAY YOU'VE BEEN MUTED.
HELLO? HELLO, AMANDA LONG TANE.
YOU WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES AND PLEASE JUST SPEAK TO THE POST REQUESTS.
UM, YES, I WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO AVOID THE POSTPONEMENT.
UM, AS BLAINE SUGGESTED HE IS WORRIED ABOUT DRAINAGE.
UM, WE HAVE NO INTENTION OF INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE PROPERTY.
UM, AND SO I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT WHAT WE DO ON OUR LAND WILL AFFECT IN ANY WAY WHATSOEVER.
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THANK YOU.AND, UM, I, UM, I DID SPEAK WITH THE NEIGHBOR MR. MIRI, BEFORE THIS, AND HE RECEIVED HIS NOTICE ON SATURDAY AND THE NOTICE DIDN'T MENTION A DEADLINE FOR SIGNING UP TO SPEAK.
AND I THINK THAT IS AN INTERESTING PROBLEM THAT WE HAVE, THAT WE ARE REQUIRING PEOPLE TO SPEAK UP MORE OR TO SIGN UP MORE THAN 24 HOURS BEFORE WHEN YOU COULD JUST ROLL IN THE DOOR AT SIX O'CLOCK SIX, A ONE TO SPEAK ON TUESDAY NIGHT.
AND THERE WAS JUST NO WORD WHATSOEVER ABOUT HAVING TO SIGN UP AT NOON YESTERDAY.
AND ALSO A POINT OUT THAT OUR RULES AND REGULATIONS SAY IT IS PREFERRED, BUT NOT REQUIRED TO REQUEST A POSTPONEMENT BY MONDAY NIGHT.
AND EACH PARTY IS ALLOWED A MINIMUM OF ONE POSTPONEMENT AND THAT'S FROM OUR RULES AND REGULATIONS.
SO, I MEAN, SO, UM, I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE, UM, FOR, UM, JUST HE'S HE IS JUST ASKING FOR A POSTPONEMENT UNTIL THE NEXT MEETING, UH, WHO WANTS TO RAISE THEIR LITTLE HAND, UM, ON THE LITTLE THING ON THE USE, THE ICON.
CAUSE IT WILL BE, I THINK IT'S A LITTLE EASIER FAIRER, SO, OH, EXCEPT I DO NOT HAVE THE, I DO NOT HAVE THE, YEAH.
I WANT TO BECOME THE PRESENTER AGAIN.
UH, DAVID KING, UH, COMMISSIONER KING AND THEN COMMISSIONER BRAY.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, I DROVE BY THE PROPERTY TODAY TO LOOK AT THE PROP, YOU KNOW, TO LOOK AT THE PROPERTY.
AND, UH, UH, THE, UH, I NOTICED THAT THE, THE NOTICE OF REZONING SIGN WAS NOT POSTED IN THE FRONT OF THE PROPERTY, ALTHOUGH THE, IN OUR BACKUP YOU WILL SEE THERE'S, THERE IS A, UH, I BELIEVE THERE'S A SIGN THAT, UH, BACKUP SOMETHING IN A PAGE IN THE BACKUP THAT SHOWS THAT THE SIGN WAS POSTED, I SUPPOSE, EARLIER ON.
SO, AND GIVEN THE SITUATION THAT WE'RE IN WITH DEPENDENT PEN AND ALL THE CONCERNS AND THE ISSUES THAT CHAIR BROUGHT UP, I, I MOVED THAT WE RENT THE POSTPONEMENT FOR THIS CASE TO OCTOBER 6TH, SO THAT, UH, OUR NEXT MEETING AND SO THAT THE ADJACENT NEIGHBOR CAN HAVE TIME TO MEET WITH THEM.
UM, AND, AND POTENTIALLY OTHER NEIGHBORS AS WELL, UH, CAN MEET WITH THEM TO DISCUSS THE POTENTIAL IMPACTS THAT THIS, UH, DEVELOPMENT WOULD HAVE ON THEIR, UH, REZONING WOULD HAVE ON THEIR, ON THEM, IN THEIR PROPERTY.
AND IS THERE A SECOND, IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY.
SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DANCLER AND COMMISSIONER BRAY.
YOU HAD SIGNED UP, YOU HAD YOUR LITTLE HAND UP.
IT SEEMS A LITTLE ABSURD TO ME THAT LIKE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT BECAUSE SOMEONE COULDN'T SIGN UP IN TIME, BUT THEY CAN ASK FOR THE
JUST MAKE AN EXCEPTION AND SOMEHOW LET THEM SPEAK THIS MEETING.
IT JUST SEEMS LIKE A, LIKE A CRAZY OUTCOME TO ME.
AND I MEAN, AND SO THAT'S WHY I'M IN FAVOR OF THE POSTPONEMENT.
AND WE ARE JUST STUCK WITH THE RULE THAT YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP BY NOON THE DAY BEFORE.
UM, SO, BUT YEAH, YOU'RE MUTED.
ANYBODY ELSE HAVE THEIR LITTLE HAND UP ON THE THING? AND UM, SO THE MOTION TO POSTPONE TO OCTOBER AND WHAT WAS THAT EIGHTH AND WAS BY COMMISSIONER KING AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DINKLER.
OH, AND I SEE, UH, HANK, ARE YOU COMMISSIONER SMITH? ARE YOU TRYING TO SPEAK? NO.
THE POSTPONE ONE WOULD BE TO OCTOBER 6TH, OCTOBER 6TH.
THEY HAVE SCHEDULED FOR CITY COUNCIL ON OCTOBER 15TH.
WE DO ON THE OCTOBER 6TH WOULD BE IN THERE AT TIMES.
THERE ARE A COUPLE OF 15TH OR NO DELAY.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF POSTPONEMENT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
SO WE HAVE, IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE COMMISSIONER.
IT LOOKS LIKE
UM, THOSE OPPOSED TO THE POSTPONEMENT COMMISSIONER EVANS AND, UH, ABSTAINING COMMISSIONER DUNCAN.
DID YOU WERE, HOW DID YOU VOTE ON THAT?
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DO YOU ALL SEE YOU WERE COMING, YOU WERE BEING BLURBY IN AND OUT.I COULDN'T EVEN HEAR UNDERSTAND.
I'M GOING TO HAVE TO COME BACK.
I'M GETTING PLASTIC HAS GOT, I THINK I'VE JOINED TWICE.
HOW DID YOU VOTE ON THAT? DID YOU VOTE IN FAVOR AGAINST OKAY.
IN FAVOR OF THE POSTPONEMENT? SO THAT IS OKAY.
AND I CANNOT COUNT RIGHT NOW, BUT I BELIEVE THAT PAST AND THAT PAST, UH, IF YOU COULD CORRECT ME, ANDREW, THAT PAST NINE TO ONE.
POSTPONEMENT PAST NINE TO ONE.
SO THE COMMISSIONER SO WOULD ACTUALLY BE EIGHT TO ONE.
GOSH, I'M THINKING, I'M THINKING WAY AHEAD.
I'M CURIOUS, LIKE DISAGREE WITH ME.
SO 71 IN THE MEETING, IT WAS NINE TO ONE BECAUSE THAT ONE TIME THE OTHER COMMISSIONER WILL NOW STEP OFF.
BERRERA ROMERO CAUSE NOT IS, IS UNABLE TO JOIN US TONIGHT.
SO IT IS A ONE WHERE WE'RE MISSING HER AND WE'RE MISSING AND WE HAVEN'T YET.
I SHOULD, I SHOULD HAVE A LITTLE CHEAT SHEET ON THAT.
SO THANK YOU EVERYBODY WHO SHOWED UP, I THINK THIS IS A PAIR, JUST EVIDENCE OF A LARGER PROBLEM THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS CHERISH YOUR KING.
I BELIEVE IT WAS ONE, TWO, ONE, EIGHT TO ONE.
YES, BECAUSE NICE CHAIR FOR RARER RAMIREZ.
SO THERE ARE ONLY, I'M GOING TO GET ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, THERE'S ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN, EIGHT, AND COMMISSIONER.
UM, COMMISSIONER DUNCAN IS GOING TO JOIN US.
HE'S REJOINING US BECAUSE OF SOUND PROBLEMS. SO THAT IS NINE PEOPLE TOTAL RIGHT NOW.
BUT I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE PARTICIPANTS AND TO THE PEOPLE, UM, FROM
UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.
I THINK THESE ARE JUST SORT OF CRAZY TRYING TIMES.
AND I, UH, I DO WANT TO TALK TO STAFF A LITTLE BIT OFFLINE ABOUT THE WAY THE NOTICES ARE HANDLED, BUT I THINK THE STAFF IS ALSO DOING A REALLY GOOD JOB.
SO, AND ACTUALLY JIM IS CALLING RIGHT NOW.
SO, UM, LET'S, UH, I WILL, UM, I'M GOING TO MUTE AND I'M GOING TO SEE HOW I CAN HELP HIM.
UM, HEY, UM, THE POWERS THAT BE AT CITY HALL, UM, COMMISSIONER DUNKIN CANNOT IS UNABLE TO REJOIN THE MEETING.
SO CAN YOU HELP HIM OUT? COULD YOU SAY I'LL ANDREW HAS HIS PHONE NUMBER.
COULD YOU, UM, CONTACT HIM AND WORK WITH HIM ONLINE OR OFFLINE TO GET HIM, UH, HOOKED IN AGAIN? SO WE'LL BE WORKING WITH HIM RIGHT NOW.
AND YOU HEARD THAT JIM, SO THEY WILL CONTACT YOU RIGHT NOW? YES.
[B2. Resubdivision: C8-2019-0100.0A - Resubdivision of Lot 3, Block E, Westover Hills Section Four Section Phase Two; District 10 (Part 1 of 2)]
OKAY.WE ARE ONTO B2, THE SUBDIVISION AND, UM, IT, UM, CESAR ZAVALA IS THE CASE MANAGER FOR IT AND SAYS OUR, COULD YOU GO AHEAD AND X AND EXPLAIN AWAY, GIVE ME RIGHT NOW.
CASEY TOOK OUT HER 19 ZERO ONE ZERO 0.08.
UM, MAYBE YOU COULD GET CLOSER TO THE MIC, BUT WE CAN HEAR YOU.
UM, AGAIN, THIS IS FOR KCA 2019 THROUGH 100.08.
THIS IS A RECENT DIVISION OF LOT 30 BLOCK E WESTOVER HILLS 600 FOR PHASE TWO, LOCATED AT 42 ONE.
THIS CASE IS A CONTINUATION FOR THE FIRST MEETING IN SEPTEMBER, WHICH OCCURRED ON SEPTEMBER, UH, SEPTEMBER 1ST.
AND, UM, THIS MEETING WAS CONTINUED TO, UH, TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON TRANSPORTATION REVIEW AND, UH, TRACK CERTAIN THE TRANSPORTATION OF IS ONLINE SKIRT, LIKE ADDITIONAL
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INFORMATION ON THERE.UM, I'VE BEEN INTERESTED IF I COULD PLEASE, UM, HAVE YOU, UM, PROVIDE SOME DETAILS ON THE CASE, A GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS.
UH, THIS IS ITEM THAT I'M HOPING WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND, UM, UM,
IT WAS SIMPLE AS SAYING, UM, UH, WE PREVIOUSLY HAD THIS MEETING, UH, POSTPONE TO GET TONIGHT, UH, TO TRY TO ANSWER SEVERAL QUESTIONS THAT THE COMMISSIONERS HAD NOT PREVIOUSLY.
AND WE HAD BEEN WORKING ON, ON ANSWERING MANY, MANY QUESTIONS, UM, UH, AT ANY POINT, UM, UH, WE HAD BEEN WORKING WITH THE AUSTIN TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT AND, UH, WE HAVE ALSO COME UP WITH, UH, I GUESS, A SITUATION RIGHT NOW THAT WE'D NEED ADDITIONAL TIME.
SO MAYBE YOU, THE SIDE DISTANCE CONCERNS THAT, UM, YOU GUYS HAVE EXPRESSED TO US.
AND, UH, WE WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A, UM, A POSTPONEMENT AT THIS TIME TO LOOK INTO THE CASE FURTHER AND ALSO CONSULT WITH OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ADDRESSING ALL ITEMS PROPERLY.
SO I THINK I DID I HEAR THAT CORRECTLY? THAT YOU'RE REQUESTING A POSTPONEMENT.
UM, AND I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE LITTLE, I'M GOING TO BE LOOKING AT THE LITTLE HANDS, UM, COMMISSIONER, UM, COMMISSIONER, UH, TARA, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WAS THAT TO POSTPONE TO OUR OCTOBER SIX MEETING? YES.
WE'LL ALMOST, I'LL MAKE THAT MOTION THAT WE POSTPONE UNTIL THE OCTOBER SIX MEETING.
IS THERE A SECOND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DINKLER AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW.
I JUST GOT A MESSAGE COMMISSIONER.
AND I BELIEVE THAT, UH, VICE, UH, COMMISSIONER DUNKIN WAS JUST RE SENT SOME INFORMATION ABOUT HOW TO SIGN UP.
AND GIVE ME JUST A SECOND CAUSE I WAS CC'D ON IT.
SO I'M GOING TO TRY TO, CAN WE HOLD ON JUST FOR ONE SECOND, CAUSE I WILL ACTUALLY, UM, I WILL TRY TO MAKE SURE HE SEES THIS.
JUST MAKING SURE, UM, THAT YOU GOT, THAT YOU SAW IT AND THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO CONNECT.
SO, AND I WILL START MY VIDEO AGAIN.
I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO BE MESSING AROUND WITH THE SCREEN TO TWO DIFFERENT SCREENS.
WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM COMMISSIONER DUNK, UH, COMMISSIONER KING AND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DANGLER TO POSTPONE TO THE OCTOBER 6TH MEETING.
AND, UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF POSTPONING BY REC AS REQUESTED BY STAFF TO OCTOBER 6TH, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND IT IS, UH, COMMITTEE IT'S COMMISSIONER KUBASSEK COMMISSIONER KING COMMISSIONER, GARY COMMISSIONER, DINKLER COMMISSIONER RAY COMMISSIONER BRAY, AND COMMISSIONER DUNKIN, ALL THOSE OPPOSED THE COMMISSIONER SMITH AND COMMISSIONER EVANS.
AND SO THAT VOTE IS, UH, I'M JUST GOING TO SAY SEVEN TO TWO IN FAVOR OF THE POSTPONEMENT.
UM, AND ESPECIALLY IVAN AND CAESAR FOR, UM, THOROUGHLY ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS.
I WANTED TO SAY THAT BEFOREHAND.
AND SO THAT LEAVES, UH, NO MORE DISCUSSION CASES.
AND WHAT IS NEXT FOR US IS THE IMAGINE IS, IMAGINE AUSTIN, CAN I OFFER ONE THING? YES.
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NOT SEVEN TO TWO.WE DID HAVE THE APPLICANT ONLINE TO TALK.
I NEVER GAVE ANY OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYBODY ELSE TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING.
UM, THAT IS A GOOD, THAT'S A POINT.
UM, YEAH, WE NEVER CLOSED THE PUBLIC HAND.
WHO ELSE WANTS TO THAT'S ACTUALLY COMMISSIONER SMITH.
THAT WAS DEFINITELY A MISTAKE.
I WAS VERY CAUGHT OFF GUARD BY THE REQUEST.
AND I SEE COMMISSIONER KING WANTS TO SPEAK SO WE CAN RESENT OR IF IT'S POSSIBLE, I'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND WITHDRAW MY MOTION AND WAIT TO HEAR.
BUT, BUT, BUT I DO PLAN TO VOTE THE SAME WAY, EVEN THOUGH I'M WITHDRAWING THE MOTION, UH, AT THAT, JUST TO EXPEDITE THE PROCESS, I'M WILLING TO DO THAT, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO REBOOT AND YEAH.
I MEAN, THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER SMITH.
UM, THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION ABOUT ALSO, DO WE HAVE TO, CAN COMMISSIONER KING JUST RESEND HIS MOTION OR DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO VOTE ON A RECENSION AND I'M LOOKING AT OUR PARLIAMENTARIAN COMMISSIONER DINKLER AND COMMISSIONER DANCLER WE CAN'T HEAR YOU.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO VOTE TO RESCIND THE, I THINK HE'S JUST WITHDRAWN IT, UM, ACTUALLY WITH WITHDREW, UM, YEAH, WE HAVE TO VOTE.
WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THE RECEPTION.
UH, SO, SO I'LL MOVE CHAIR TO RESCIND THAT VOTE SO THAT WE CAN GET THE APPLICANT OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND.
AND THEN I PLANT A MOTION AGAIN FOR, FOR THE POSTPONEMENT AND I WOULD JUST TO GET IT OUT THERE, NOT CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
WE WANT TO LEAVE IT OPEN FOR THE NEXT MEETING AND THE APPLICANT SHOULD ONLY SPEAK TO THE POSTPONEMENT SINCE THE STAFF HAS REQUESTED IT.
SO EMOTION BY COMMISSIONER KING TO RESEND THAT MOTION OR TO RESEND THE, UM, RESEND THE MOTION.
IS THAT CORRECT? COMMISSIONER OR PARLIAMENTARIAN? DANCLER? UH, IT ACTUALLY SHOULD COME FROM MR. SMITH OR MR. EVANS, BUT, UM, FORMAL MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SMITH TO RESEND AND SECONDED AND THE SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER EVANS.
BUT I THINK IT CAN BE SECONDED BY ANYBODY.
AND THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER SMITH.
THAT WAS DEFINITELY A, UM, THAT WAS A BOOBOO.
UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF RETENTION, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS AND IT IS UNANIMOUS AND OKAY.
UM, GO AHEAD AND YOU WILL HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK TO THE, TO THE POSTPONEMENT REQUEST MADE BY SURE.
I'M NOT SURE I HAVE HIM ON THE TELECONFERENCE.
HEY ANDREW, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HANDLING ALL THIS.
THIS IS LIKE A CRAZY CIRCUS ZOO RIGHT NOW, UM, WITH ONLINE DROPPING OFFS AND ONS.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF SOMETHING'S GOING ON THAT PEOPLE CAN'T CONNECT.
SHOULD I ASK YOU A QUESTION? I COULDN'T HEAR YOU.
I OFFER A FEW MINUTES THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DISCUSSING BOTH TODAY.
ONE WOULD BE TWO, RIGHT? AND NOW WE'RE IN, UM, THE STAFF HAS REQUESTED A POSTPONEMENT ON B TWO SO THEY CAN ANSWER THE REST OF OUR QUESTIONS.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS CONFUSED ABOUT.
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I ATTEMPTED TO CALL MR.I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM HIM, ANDREW, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TRYING AND I'M GOING TO HIT MUTE SO THAT I CAN YELL AT SOMEBODY TO LET OUT THE CAT MEETING.
I WOULD KIND OF ENJOY A CAT WALKING ACROSS THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW.
WE'RE DUMPING ON MY SHOULDERS, BUT NO, I'M GOING TO GET, WE'RE WAITING.
WE'RE BACK ON THE COUNCIL WITH THEIR MEETING BACK.
AND UM, THANK YOU, ANDREW, FOR TRYING TO GET MR. ALPER OUT PEARLY, I BELIEVE IS HOW HE PRONOUNCES HIS NAME WHILE WE'RE WAITING.
AND I THINK THIS MIGHT BE SOMETHING YOU NEED TO BRING UP LATER, BUT I WANT TO KNOW WHEN I'M SUPPOSED TO BRING IT UP.
UM, I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT LIKE THE, THE FIRST NOVEMBER MEETING, WHAT THE DATE OF THAT'S ACTUALLY SUPPOSED TO BE.
THAT IS A GOOD QUESTION, BECAUSE WE HAD SAID THAT WE WERE GOING TO, BUT WE CAN DISCUSS IT OFFLINE, BUT WE WERE GOING TO NOT HAVE A MEETING ELECTION NIGHT IS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH.
SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S ACCURATE.
THAT'S THE WEEK WE DECIDED TO DO IT ON THE BOARD.
SO FOLLOWING THE ELECTION DAY.
THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER PREY FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
YEAH, I DON'T, I DON'T WANT TO BE WORRYING ABOUT THAT FROM THE DAY OF THE FATE OF THE ROLES DECIDED, YOU KNOW, HEY, REMEMBER, WE'RE ON A COMMISSION MEETING, SO WE GOTTA, BUT UM, SHOULD WE JUST TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK? UM, AND I BELIEVE SO THAT HOPEFULLY INSTEAD OF JUST ALL STARING INTO OUR COMPUTERS AND WE CAN GET A DRINK OF WATER AND COME BACK.
SO CAN WE OFFICIALLY, UM, CAN I JUST CALL A RECESS FOR FIVE MINUTES? IS THAT ALLOWABLE OR DO WE NEED A MOTION? OKAY.
I AM CALLING A RECESS FOR FIVE MINUTES.
ACCORDING TO MY CLOCK, IT IS SIX 39.
WE WILL GET BACK HERE AT SIX 44 AND, UM, AND HOPEFULLY MR. OPERA LEE WILL BE HERE.
AND AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH COMMISSIONER SMITH.
UM, IT'S JUST, IT'S ALREADY BEEN ONE OF THOSE MEETINGS.
FOR WE'RE RECESSING FOR FIVE MINUTES.
ANDREW HAS NOTIFIED ME THAT THE, THAT HIS PHONE CALLS ARE GOING STRAIGHT TO VOICEMAIL.
AND SO, UM, MR. ABERLI, IF YOU WERE WATCHING, IF YOU COULD CALL ANDREW OR SEND AN EMAIL SURE.
COMMISSION PLAYS ON ANDREW, IF WE COULD JUST, UM, I APOLOGIZE TO MAKE EVERYONE GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN, IF WE CAN, UH, MAKE SURE THAT THAT MOTION WAS FROM THE PREVAILING SIDE.
THE PREVAILING SIDE WOULD BE THE POSTPONEMENT.
SO IT WOULD BE, SO IT WOULD MEAN IT WOULD HAVE TO BE, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE SOMEBODY WHO VOTED IN FAVOR.
COMMISSIONER KING, YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UP.
I WOULD LIKE TO MOTION THAT WE, UH, MAKE A MOTION THAT WE, UH, UH, UH, WHAT IS IT REVERSE THE DECISION, UH, THE WORD I'M LOOKING FOR YOUR, I THINK IT'S RESEND.
I WANT A EMOTIONAL REPRESENTED THE DECISION TO POSTPONE A B TO A AND, UM, THAT'S MY MOTION.
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SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER DANCLER.SO WE'LL DO THE VOTE AGAIN, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S UNANIMOUS.
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WE JUST GO ON TO THE, UM, THE, UM, THE IMAGINE AUSTIN ANNUAL REPORT AS, AND, UM, AND WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK TO B TWO.SO HOPEFULLY MR. ALBERT LEE WILL CONNECT AT SOME POINT.
UM, IS STAFF READY TO GO AHEAD WITH, UH, THE BRIEFING C1 2020, IMAGINE AUSTIN ANNUAL REPORT AND THE SPEAKERS ARE, OH MAN.
I HAVE SEEN, I KNOW ANDREW IS PROBABLY TRYING TO GET THE PERSON, BUT HE ALSO, UH, OKAY.
THE, UM, SO THE SPEAKERS FOR THE IMAGINE AUSTIN ANNUAL REPORT ARE, UH, MATT DOUGAN, YOU'RE GOING TO GO IS LEADING OFF.
AND THEN CASEY DE LEON, THEN THERESA LUDICROUS, LAURA ESPARZA AND TEDFORD.
SO MATT, ARE YOU THERE? MATT? ARE YOU THERE? AND ANDREW.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GETTING READY.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PUTTING THAT ON THE DOCUMENT CAMERA.
SO IS THERE A IMAGINE AUSTIN ANNUAL REPORT TEAM? ARE THEY ONLINE? AND I FEEL LIKE WE PROBABLY HAVE TO CLONE ANDREW AT THIS POINT, DEALING WITH LINING UP THE SPEAKERS AND I BELIEVE IT'S HIT STAR SIX.
I DON'T BLAME MR. DEGENERES ON THE TELECONFERENCE AT THE MOMENT.
I DON'T KNOW IF ONE OF THE OTHER SPEAKERS WANTS TO GO FORWARD.
UH, CASEY DE LEON DAILY ON, ARE YOU THERE? AND IF SO, YOU COULD GO AHEAD.
DO YOU WANT TO, DO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE STARTING OFF OR DO YOU WANT TO TRACK DOWN, UH, UM, CAUSE YOU WERE LISTED AS SECOND IN, UM, IN THE ORDER FOR SPEAKING ON THE IMAGINE AUSTIN ANNUAL REPORT.
I CAN, I CAN'T DRINK IT'S OFF A LITTLE BIT.
AND THEN IT'S, UM, MATT IS BACK IN WHEN HE, UM, WHEN WE KIND OF GET THROUGH THE PARTY PROGRAMS, MAYBE HE CAN WRAP US UP SO I CAN KICK OFF.
I'M ACTUALLY, UM, MY NAME IS CASSANDRA AND I'M WITH AUSTIN PUBLIC HEALTH AND I'M THE LEAD FOR THE PARTY PROGRAM THAT HELP THE AUSTIN PARTY PROGRAM.
UM, AND I'LL BE ABLE TO DO THAT IN A LOT OF DETAIL, UM, AS FAR AS ACTUAL, UM, UM, ANNUAL REPORT AND THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE.
AND I'LL LEAVE FOR, UM, MATT TO GIVE MORE DETAIL ABOUT, UM, IMAGINE AUSTIN AS A WHOLE, WHICH I THINK YOU ALREADY HAVE A LOT OF CONTEXT FOR US.
WE'RE IN, I THINK, UH, YOU'RE SIX OR SEVEN OF OUR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE OVERALL PLAN OF THE 30 YEAR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
UH, SO IF, UM, AND ANDREW, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE ABLE TO, IF WE'RE ABLE TO DISPLAY THE, UM, WEBSITE AND THE FRIDAY PROGRAMS, UM,
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PAGES ON FOR THE COMMISSION, NOT, I CAN JUST RUN THROUGH MY COMPONENTS, UM, AND THE PARTY PROGRAMS ARE ORGANIZED.SO AS ANDREW IS PUTTING IT TOGETHER, JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME ORIENTATION TO THE WAY.
UM, AND WE ACTUALLY, I REALLY WANT TO APPLAUD, UM, MATT, MATT NEWTON'S TEAM AND ALL THE, UM, UH, TEAM THAT PUT TOGETHER THE HEALTHY, THE WEBSITE FOR THAT DISPLAYS ALL THE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPONENTS, BECAUSE EACH PARTY PROGRAM HAS REALLY NICE WITH PAGE THAT, UM, GIVES HIGHLIGHTS, BUT ALSO GIVES KIND OF CONTEXT FOR WHAT EACH PROGRAM IS GOING, YOU KNOW, IS INVOLVED IN DOING IT.
AND IT'S NICE USER FRIENDLY, A NICE USER FRIENDLY FORMAT FOR THE PUBLIC.
UM, SO JUST TO KIND OF GIVE AN OVERVIEW, UM, IT'S, UH, BLOCKED OUT IS THE PROGRESS THAT WE'VE MADE, THE CHALLENGES THAT WE'VE ENCOUNTERED, AND THEN YOU CAN TRACK THE DIFFERENT INDICATORS AND THAT, UM, TRACKS OUR PROGRESS TOWARDS MEETING COMMUNITY, UH, Y INDICATORS.
AND SO FOR HEALTHY OFTEN, FOR EXAMPLE, WE LOOK AT OBESITY RATE, UM, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, TOBACCO CONTROL, TOBACCO USE, AND, AND DIFFERENT COMPONENTS LIKE THAT TO KIND OF INDICATE HOW WELL IS THE COMMUNITY, HOW HEALTHY WE ARE.
UM, AND THEN THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT WE HAVE IS A CITY THAT WE'RE TAKING TOWARD IMPROVING METRICS.
UM, THOSE INDICATORS THAT WE'RE WORKING FOR.
SO FOR IMAGINE AUSTIN, THE HEALTHY ALSO PARTY PROGRAM, THIS HAS BEEN A CRAZY YEAR.
AND I THINK WE KIND OF HAVE ALL BEEN LIVING IN THIS MEETING AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE PANDEMIC AND HOW WE'VE HAD TO REALLY MAKE ADJUSTMENTS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE, THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME, ONCE IN A GENERATION, ONCE IN A CENTURY KIND OF SCENARIO THAT WE'RE IN, WHERE WE HAVE A GLOBAL PANDEMIC AND IT'S HIT HOME HERE IN AUSTIN, UM, AND DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT AFFECTED EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE DONE.
AND SO I THINK, UM, IT WE'D BE REMISS IF WE DIDN'T LEAVE FOR THE PARTY PROGRAM, THE HEALTH BAR PARTY PROGRAM WITH THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE.
AND SO THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH WORK THAT'S HAPPENED THAT HAS BEEN STAND UP TESTING TO STAND UP, UM, SOCIAL, TO MAKE SURE THAT ANYONE WHO'S AFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC, WHICH EVERYONE'S EFFECTED BY THE PANDEMIC IN SOME FORM OR FASHION HAS THE SUPPORT.
THEY NEED EITHER ACCESS TESTING, UM, OR TO GET, UH, RENTAL ASSISTANCE OR TO, UM, IF THEY'RE UNABLE TO SELF ISOLATE AND THEIR HOME, BECAUSE THEN YOU HAVE A VULNERABLE PERSON THAT THEY'RE LIVING WITH THAT WE GIVE THEM ISOLATION, UM, A RESOURCE WHERE THEY CAN ISOLATE AWAY FROM THEIR HOME AND, AND RESIST GIVING, UM, PREVENT THEM FROM POTENTIALLY SPREADING COBIT TO SOMEONE ELSE IN THEIR FAMILY.
AND THEN ALSO PROVIDING PROTECTIVE LOGGING FOR HOMELESS POPULATION TO ENSURE THAT THOSE WHO ARE AT RISK VULNERABLE, THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO BE, UM, PUT IN A SPACE THAT ALLOWS THEM TO, UM, NOT HAVE THAT ONGOING IS AT RISK OF POTENTIAL EXPOSURE.
AND SO IT'S BEEN QUITE A BIT OF EFFORT THERE.
AND SO OUR, OUR PAGE HIGHLIGHTS ALL OF THE VARYING THINGS THAT HAVE REALLY BEEN AT WORK, UM, THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC RESPONSE, WHICH YOU WERE STILL IN, IN ADDITION TO THAT FOOD ACCESSIBILITY HAS BEEN AN ONGOING PIECE.
AND, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK, WHAT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THIS, UM, HOW WE WORK AND WHAT OUR LIFE IS POSTCODED, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO, UM, ENSURE THAT WE WERE, WE KEPT OUR COMMUNITY GARDENS AND SPECIFICALLY OUR FARMER'S MARKETS OPEN AS A, ANOTHER, UM, UH, RESOURCE FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE FOOD ACCESS DURING A PANDEMIC.
AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO SEE THAT AS AN ONGOING EXTENSION OF ACCESS OF, UH, FRESH AND HEALTHY FOODS, WE THINK ABOUT TOBACCO FREE ENVIRONMENT.
UM, WE LOOK AT HOW, HOW MUCH ARE WE ABLE TO, UM, ENSURE THAT THE ENVIRONMENT THAT WE LIVE IN, UM, REALLY PROMOTES TOBACCO FREE LIVING, AND THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO QUIT HAVE THE STATION RESOURCES.
AND, UM, THIS TIME LAST YEAR, WE WERE DEALING WITH QUITE A FEW LUNG INJURIES FROM TOBACCO RELATED, UM, USE, ACTUALLY USE OF, UH, VAPE PRODUCTS.
AND, UM, THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF EFFORT TO TRY TO ADDRESS THAT, UM, WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY, AS FAR AS, UM, PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION AND WHATNOT.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, UM, LEASING WHERE WE HAVE THE NATIONALLY AND AT THE STATE LEVEL, UH, ADOPTION OF TOBACCO 21 LAWS, WHICH HAS CHANGED THE ACCESS LAWS FROM 18 TO 21.
AND WE MIRRORED THAT AS A LOCAL LEVEL.
AND THEN I THINK SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE, UM, WERE ABLE TO SEE COME TO FRUITION.
IT'S ONE OF THE MANY EFFORTS THAT WE'RE DOING IN THE COLONY PARK F UM, COMMUNITY TO, UH, DO THOSE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENTS.
THOSE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES THAT ARE SO ESSENTIAL TO IMPROVING
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QUALITY OF LIFE, UM, AND, UM, PROMOTING HEALTHIER LIVING.HE SAW THE, UM, LAUNCH AND OPENING UP THE COLONY PARK LIGHTS, LAKESIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH CONNIE PARKING, LIKE FIVE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, UM, THE NEW CONNIE PARK DISTRICT PARK, UM, WHICH WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL OF 2014.
SO THAT WAS EXCITING, UH, WORK THAT WAS, THAT WAS HAPPENING.
UM, AND THEN WE'RE ALSO SEEING WHERE WE'RE REALLY, WE HAVE FIRST TIME EVER.
AND IT'S BEEN INTERESTING DOING PLANNING WITH THE COMMUNITY IN A VIRTUAL WORLD THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO LAUNCH AN ACTIVE LIVING PLAN, UM, WITH SOME NEW FUNDS FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES THAT, UH, ALLOWED US TO REALLY THINK THROUGH WHAT KIND OF ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPORTS ACROSS MULTIPLE SECTORS ARE, ARE AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE TO, UM, UH, BE MORE ACTIVE, UM, THROUGHOUT THEIR DAY.
AND SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE HAD A PLAN LIKE THIS AND OUR, OUR, OUR COMMUNITY.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S BEEN, UM, A VERY INTERESTING PROCESS, BUT IT ALSO VERY HELPFUL PROCESS.
AND THEN ALSO, UH, REALLY WORKING ON THE ACTIVE LIVING, UH, PLAN FOR OUR AGE FRIENDLY, OFTEN, UM, PLANNING, SUPPORT GROUPS THAT WE'RE DOING.
WE THINK QUITE A BIT OF GREAT, UM, EFFORTS THERE.
AND THEN SO MUCH EFFORT ON OUR ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, SEEING JUST A LOT OF, UH, NEW DEVELOPMENT OF, UH, BICYCLE AND TRAIL FACILITIES, UM, MORE LANES FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO SAFELY TRAVEL AND, AND, UH, ON A NON-CAR, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT KIND OF METHODS, UH, FOR BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN WORK OF PATHWAYS, UM, AND JUST ONGOING THINGS TO REALLY HELPING IMPROVE THAT TYPE OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS TO, UM, HELP TO HAVE THAT ACCESS.
UM, I THINK SOMETHING WE REALLY THINK ABOUT CHALLENGES.
THESE ARE KIND OF IN GENERAL CHALLENGES THAT WE HAVE YEAR OVER YEAR.
I THINK SOMETHING I REALLY WANT TO HIT HOME AS WE ALWAYS SEE IN PARTICULARLY IN HEALTH AND IN PUBLIC HEALTH, THE MOST SPIRIT POPULATIONS REALLY POP OUT.
UM, WE ARE HEALTHY COMMUNITY, BUT WE SEE THESE, UM, UH, OUR DIABETES RATES OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE.
UM, AND THEN, SO SOCIAL SERVICE, UM, SOCIAL DETERMINANT RATES THAT WE SEE OUR POVERTY RATES ARE LOWER EDUCATION.
THOSE ARE AFFECTING THE SAME POPULATIONS YEAR OVER YEAR.
UM, AND I THINK THAT THE PIECE THAT WE SEE EVEN COMPOUNDED IN THIS PANDEMIC.
AND SO THOSE ARE THINGS WE JUST WANT TO CONTINUE TO TRY TO WORK ON AND, UM, HAVE THAT LENS, THAT EQUITY LENS, THAT WE CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON TRYING TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF ALL OF OUR COMMUNITY SO WE CAN WORK TOWARDS, UM, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE THRIVING AND, AND, UM, LIVING A HAPPY AND HEALTHY, UM, WITHOUT MY TIME TO THE NEXT PRESENTER, I BELIEVE MATT IS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, BOTH OF YOU.
THANK YOU, CHAIR, AND THE QUESTIONERS WITH THE PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT.
UM, APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE THERE.
AND ALSO THANK YOU, CASSIE, FOR JUMPING IN AND ANDREW FOR NAVIGATING THIS STUFF.
UM, SO YEAH, SO WITH ME TONIGHT, I'VE GOT A HANDFUL OF THE PARTY PROGRAM CHAMPIONS, INCLUDING CASSIDY, LEON, HE'S JUST FLYING OFF TO PUBLIC HEALTH.
THE NEXT COUPLE OF WE TREAT THAT OFF SOME WATER, UH, THEN LAURA SPARS, A EXCELLENT WRECK AND SAM HAD BURDENED NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.
UM, SO IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND CLICK ON THE MAIN PAGE OF WATCHING HER BRIEFLY, AND THEN I'LL HAND IT OVER TO THERESA, AND THEN I'LL SEND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE TIMELINE.
SO ON AUGUST 4TH, THE DRAFT REPORT WAS DISTRIBUTED TO THE MEMBERS OF THE CONFERENCE OF PLANNING JOINT COMMITTEE FOR THEIR REVIEW AND COMMENT.
UH, LAST WEEK, PREPARE, PRESENT THE PLANNING COMMISSION.
AND TONIGHT WE'RE TALKING WITH YOU ALL ABOUT IT.
UM, UH, LIKE LAST YEAR WE PUT THE REPORT ONLINE AND SO IT IS INTERACTIVE.
IT'S GOT A, UH, A HIGH AMOUNT OF FUNCTIONALITY.
SO PEOPLE, IF THEY WANT, THERE'S A SHORT KIND OF OVERVIEW, THEY CAN GET THAT.
OR IF THEY REALLY WANT TO DRILL DOWN AND DIG INTO STUFF, PRETTY SURE THE PARTY PROGRAMS OR FOR THE ACTION MATRIX, THEY ALSO HAVE THAT ABILITY AS WELL, TO ACCESS THAT INFORMATION.
UM, THE REPORTS ORGANIZED, WE'VE GOT THE PARTY PROGRAMS, THE IMPLEMENTATION HIGHLIGHTS, AND THEN THE ACTION UPDATES, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE PARTY PROGRAMS OR HOW IT'S STRUCTURED IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
UM, EACH PARTY PROGRAM TEAM HAS A CHAMPION, A DEPARTMENT LEAD ACROSS DEPARTMENTAL TEAM, UH, INSTEAD OF ACTIONS AND METRICS.
AND THEN EACH YEAR THEY REPORT BACK TO US ON THEIR PROGRESS.
UM, CASSIE WAS SAYING THIS, YOU KNOW, 2020 HAS BEEN, UM, IT HAS BEEN A DIFFERENT YEAR NOW.
IT'S HAD THE IMPACT OF A WORLDWIDE PANDEMIC, UH, PROTEST OVER SYSTEMIC RACISM AND POLICE BRUTALITY OF EMPLOYMENT, BUSINESS CLOSURES, EVICTIONS, HOW THEN OTHER ISSUES RELATED TO THE PANDEMIC.
UM, SO DURING THESE UNPRECEDENTED
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TIMES, WE FIND OURSELVES IN, UM, THE CITY OF AUSTIN IS REALLY HAD TO REFOCUS OUR EFFORTS TOWARD KEEPING ITS RESIDENTS SAFE, PROVIDING UNINTERRUPTED CITY SERVICES IN THE CONTEXT OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC, AND THEN STEPPING UP TO PROVIDE EXTRA HELP TO THOSE WHO NEED IT MOST.UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF, UH, UH, WITH COVID IS FROM SUCH A CHALLENGE EVEN JUST TO KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, SO TO SPEAK.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO PRETTY SALUTES AT AUSTIN WATER.
SO IF YOU COULD HOVER OVER WHO I CAN PROGRAM AND THEN CLICK ON SUSTAINABLE WATER.
LET ME DOUBLE CHECK THAT Y'ALL CAN HEAR ME.
ARE YOU HEARING ME? OH, THANKS.
YES, I'M THERESA LUDES WITH AUSTIN WATER AND I, ALONG WITH, UH, MATT HOLLAND FROM THE WATERSHED PROTECTION DEPARTMENT ARE THE PRO UH, PROGRAM CHAMPIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER, UH, FOR THE PRIORITY PROGRAMS UNDER AMANDA, JOHN AUSTIN.
AND WE APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT THIS EVENING ON KIND OF OUR LAST YEAR'S HIGHLIGHTS AND TALKING ABOUT HOW WE'VE HAD SUCCESS CONTINUING TO WORK TOGETHER AS THE TWO LEADS, UH, LEAD, UH, UH, DEPARTMENT FOR THIS PRIORITY PROGRAM, WE MEET FREQUENTLY AND WE WORK HARD TO HELP, UM, IMPLEMENT, IMAGINE AUSTIN, AND DO THE COORDINATION.
THAT'S KIND OF AT THE CORE OF THE, OF THE PRIORITY PROGRAM FOCUS.
SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS WE HAVE, UH, LAST YEAR, I THINK THE OTHER SPEAKERS HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB OF FOCUSING ON HOW DIFFERENT THIS LAST YEAR HAS BEEN.
UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING HARD TO MAKE SURE WE'RE MAINTAINING A BASIC SERVICES THROUGH THAT, THROUGH THE PANDEMIC AND THROUGH ALL THE, UH, VARIOUS ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD, BUT WE PICKED SOME HIGHLIGHTS MOSTLY FROM 2019 OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO, WE WERE FOCUSING ON IN, UM, NOVEMBER OF 2019, UH, COUNCIL PASS.
THAT WAS 14 FLOOD PLAIN ORDINANCE, WHICH IS, UH, UH, IS A GREAT THING FOR OUR COMMUNITY WHERE, UM, THROUGH THE WATERSHED PROTECTION DEPARTMENT EFFORTS ARE UNDERWAY WAY IMPLEMENTING THAT ORDINANCE.
AND SO THAT'S MOVING AHEAD AND UP AND RUNNING IN THAT PROCESS.
UH, AND THAT'S HIGHLIGHTED IN OUR ANNUAL REPORT.
UM, UH, WE'VE ALSO BEEN THROUGH WATERSHED PROTECTION, FOCUSING ON SOME SMALLER SCALE PROJECTS TO ADDRESS AGING INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.
AND THOSE PROJECTS ARE BEING VERY SUCCESSFUL IN HELPING MANAGE STORM WATER IN POINT VOCATIONS WHERE THAT'S NEEDED, UH, FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT.
WE'VE HAD, UH, IN 2019, OUR FISCAL YEAR 2019, WE HAD A RECORD LOW GALLONS PER CAPITA PER DAY AS A CITY.
THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT MILESTONE.
WE REACHED 120 GALLONS PER CAPITA PER DAY.
THAT'S ONE OF OUR KEY INDICATORS FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT IN THE CITY.
AND WE'RE PROUD OF, UH, GETTING DOWN TO THAT LOW NUMBER OF 120 GALLONS PER CAPITA PER DAY, WHERE WE HAD BEEN, I THINK, IN, AT ONE 96, UM, IN 2006 OR SO.
SO THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT DROPPED OVER THE LAST NUMBER BEERS.
A LOT OF THAT IS DUE TO CONSERVATION EFFORTS AND RECLAIMED WATER, UH, USE OF RECLAIMED WATER EFFORTS IMPLEMENTING WATER FORWARD, WHICH IS OUR HUNDRED YEAR INTEGRATED WATER RESOURCE PLAN IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT.
UM, AND ALL OF THOSE FACTORS AND THE COMMUNITY'S RESPONSE AND RESPONSIBILITY IN, UH, USING WATER EFFICIENTLY HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THAT.
UH, ANOTHER ASPECT THAT WE'VE BEEN FOCUSING ON IS OUTREACH AND PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
UM, AS I MENTIONED, AND WE'VE BEEN IMPLEMENTING WATER FORWARD OR A HUNDRED YEAR WATER RESOURCE PLAN, UH, PART OF THAT IS WORKING ON ONSITE REUSE AND OTHER, UH, CONSERVATION CODES AND ORDINANCES.
UH, WE HAVE BEEN OVER THE LAST YEAR, ENGAGING WITH THE PUBLIC AND REACHING OUT AND, UM, HAVING WORKSHOPS TO IMPLEMENT THAT, UH, AND, AND GET PUBLIC INPUT TO THAT PROCESS AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH IMPLEMENTING THOSE STRATEGIES TO USE, UH, ON, UH, ALTERNATIVE WATERS ONSITE.
UH, WE ALSO WERE PART OF A ONE WATER SUMMIT, WHICH IS A NATIONAL CONFERENCE THAT WAS HELD HERE IN AUSTIN IN 2019.
AND WE, UH, AS AUSTIN WATER AND WATERSHED PROTECTION AND OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY PARTICIPATED IN HELPING HOST THAT ONE WATER SUMMIT, WHICH WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL AND, UH, UM,
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BROUGHT PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD IN THE COUNTRY, UH, BACK WHEN YOU COULD HAVE THOSE KINDS OF EVENTS IN PERSON, UM, TO LEARN ABOUT ONE WATER AND, UM, AND SHARE INFORMATION.WE ALSO ARE PART OF A ONE WATER, SORRY, THE WATER UTILITY CLIMATE ALLIANCE.
THERE WAS A LARGE TRAINING THAT WAS HELD HERE IN AUSTIN, AND WE WERE A PART OF HELPING MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
SO WE HAVE QUITE A FEW CONNECTIVITIES ON HELPING, UH, DO PUBLIC INFORMATION SHARING AND LEARNING AND OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT WITH OUR COMMUNITY AND OTHERS, UH, IN THIS, IN THESE AREAS.
UH, AND IN TERMS OF CHALLENGES, WE HIGHLIGHTED A COUPLE, UH, THIS YEAR, UH, FOR THE ANNUAL REPORT.
ONE IS, ARE, ARE OFTEN WATERS.
AREN'T GOING FOCUS ON UTILITY SIDE, WATER LOSS MANAGEMENT THERE, WE'RE WORKING ON, UH, IMPROVING ACCURACY AND VALIDATING ACCURACY OF METERS.
UH, WE'RE ALSO MOVING FORWARD WITH IMPLEMENTATION, IMPLEMENTING A MULTI YEAR PROJECT TO, UH, INSTALL, UH, ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURE, WHERE WE HAVE SMART METERS AT CUSTOMER, UH, CUSTOMER METERS FOR ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS.
AND THAT'LL BE BEING IMPLEMENTED OVER THE NEXT NUMBER OF YEARS.
UH, THERE ARE SOME PILOTING THAT WE'RE LOOKING UP NOW.
WE'RE CUSTOMERS WE'LL HAVE MORE REAL TIME WATER.
YOU SAID INFORMATION WHICH WILL HELP IN WATER USE MANAGEMENT AND IN MORE ACCURATE TRACKING OF WATER USE IN THE SYSTEM.
AND ALSO MAIN REPLACEMENTS WHEN LEAK RESPONSE, UM, UH, WITH WATERSHED, WE WANTED TO FOCUS ON HIGHLIGHTING THE CHALLENGE OF THE TOXIC ALGAE, THE HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM THAT OCCURRED BETWEEN JULY AND NOVEMBER OF 2019.
UH, THERE, THERE WAS QUITE A BIT OF LEARNING THAT OCCURRED, UH, IN THIS YEAR.
THEY'RE CONTINUING TO MONITOR THAT AND PROVIDE PUBLIC INFORMATION.
THERE'S SOME HAS BEEN SOME ADDITIONAL HARMFUL ALGAL BLOOM ACTIVITY HAPPENING IN LADY BIRD LAKE THIS YEAR.
SO A WATERSHED PROTECTION HAS A WEBSITE WITH INFORMATION AND SIGNAGE ON THAT.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, AS A CHALLENGE THAT, UH, WATERSHED PROTECTION AND OTHERS ARE WORKING ON.
UM, AND SO WE'VE BEEN, UM, PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT THAT SITUATION.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS, UH, WHEN IS TO PROVIDE AND BE ABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE, BUT I THINK IT'S TIME TO PASS IT TO THE NEXT SPEAKER.
AND DON'T FORGET TO HIT STAR SIX BEFORE YOU SPEAK.
AND IF YOU COULD WAIT, AND FOR LAUREN, IF YOU COULD HOVER OVER PARTY PROGRAMS AND THEN CLICK ON CREATIVE ECONOMY, SASHA, I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T HEAR YOU CALL MY NAME.
UH, MY NAME IS LAURA, AS FAR AS THAT, AND I'M A CHAMPION FOR THE, UM, CREATIVE ECONOMY PRIORITY PLANNING, UH, GROUP, UH, WHICH IS MADE UP OF FOUR DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS.
WE WORKED TOGETHER ON, UH, CRITICAL NEEDS IN AUSTIN'S CREATIVE ECONOMY.
UM, AND AS WE STARTED OFF OUR YEAR, UH, PRE COVID, UH, WE WERE FOCUSED ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION, UM, THE, AND, UH, CREATIVE SPACE, UH, AND, UH, A REVIEW OF THE, UM, FUNDING PROCESSES OF THE CITY OR, UH, CULTURAL CONTRACTS IN PARTICULAR.
UM, AND SO LAST SUMMER IN THE SUMMER OF 2019, UM, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT LAUNCHED THE HERITAGE TOURISM DIVISION, UH, WHICH LAUNCHED IN JUNE, 2019.
AND IN THAT SAME MONTH, THEY WERE ABLE TO LAUNCH THEIR FIRST ONLINE APPLICATION FOR CAPITAL, UH, FUNDING, MARKETING EDUCATION, OR PLANNING PRESERVATION PROJECTS.
SO IN THEIR FIRST MONTH, THEY AWARDED 1.7 MILLION IN GRANTS TO 14 DIFFERENT NONPROFITS AND BUSINESSES.
UM, MAYBE DEPARTMENTS RECEIVED ABOUT TO AN ADDITIONAL 10 MILLION FOR HISTORIC RESTORATION PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES AT THE SAME TIME PART INITIATED ITS OWN HERITAGE TOURISM
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OFFICE, UH, CREATING A STRATEGIC PLAN AND MARKETING MATERIALS TO MARKET PARTS, HISTORIC PROPERTIES, UH, NATIONWIDE, UH, AND, UH, IN ADDITION, THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE COORDINATED TO HISTORICALLY SCORE SURVEYS, UM, AND, UH, CONDUCTED EXTENSIVE COMMUNITY OUTREACH INTO TO EAST AUSTIN, HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, EXPANDING THEIR EDUCATIONAL MATERIAL ABOUT THE HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM AND LOCAL INCENTIVES.UM, THEY ALSO COMPLETED THE BUILDOUT OF THE NEW AMANDA FOLDER TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND COORDINATION.
SO, UM, THIS WAS A GIANT STEP FORWARD FOR HISTORICS, UH, AUSTIN'S HISTORIC PRESERVATION EFFORTS, UH, AND EDUCATION GOALS.
UH, SECONDLY, WE WORKED ON CREATIVE SPACE, THE CREATIVE SPACE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, UH, WHICH IS A PROGRAM OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, UH, RECOMMENDED, UM, 26 ORGANIZATIONS FOR FUNDING OF MORE THAN $750,000, UH, TO ASSIST WITH THE, UM, THE PREPARATION OR RETENTION OF CREATIVE SPACE.
UM, THEY ALSO, UM, UH, JOINED WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT TO LAUNCH THE ARTISTS ACCESS PROGRAM, PROVIDING FREE OR LOW COST ACCESS TO A REHEARSAL SPACE AND PERFORMANCE SPACE IN PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT, UM, FACILITIES, UH, TO SPECIFICALLY THE CULTURAL CENTERS.
AND FINALLY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, UM, CONDUCTED A REVIEW OF ITS FUNDING PROCESSES, UM, AND THAT IS ONGOING.
UM, THEY WILL CONTINUE THE PROCESS, UH, THROUGH THE CALENDAR HERE, BUT COVID-19 WAS A DISASTER FOR AUSTIN'S, UH, CREATIVE ECONOMY, UH, IMPACTING THOUSANDS OF ARTISTS, UH, WHO WERE HIT MULTIPLE TIMES AS HOSPITALITY WORKERS OR EVENT WORKERS OR VENUE VENTERS.
UM, SINCE, UM, COVID, UM, HIT, UM, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT HAS DISTRIBUTED $23.7 MILLION IN LOCAL ECONOMIC BELIEF THAT WAS AVAILABLE, UH, TO ARTISTS THROUGH 15 NEW, UH, RELIEF PROGRAMS. IN FIVE MONTHS, THERE WERE ADDITIONAL, UH, NEW PROGRAMS THAT ARE COMING.
UM, THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, UM, TURNED, UH, TO PROVIDING PROGRAMMING ONLINE, PROVIDING, UH, OVER 500 MUSIC ART, UH, AND CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES DELIVERED THROUGH THEIR WEBSITE, UH, THE PARKS DEPARTMENTS, YOU TUBE, TUBE CHANNEL, AND SOCIAL MEDIA, UH, AND, UH, PROGRAMS, UH, THE LIGHT CHAIN TEAM THAT, UM, FORMERLY, UM, WOULD ATTRACT A THOUSAND PEOPLE.
WE'RE NOW ATTRACTING TENS OF THOUSANDS OF VISITORS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
UM, IN FACT, UH, THE MEXICAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER IS PREPARING ITS FIRST ONLINE.
GETSY SAY CELEBRATION ON THE 16TH OF SEPTEMBER.
UH, WE OFFERED OUR FIRST DIGITAL ONLINE SUMMER CAMP CALLED STAY CREATIVE THAT, UH, SERVED, UM, 700 CHILDREN WITH FREE SUMMER CAMP ACTIVITIES IN JULY.
AND LIKEWISE, THE AUSTIN PUBLIC LAW LIBRARY CREATED A WIDE RANGE OF MENU OF DOWNLOADABLE MATERIALS, UH, MOVIES, MUSIC, MAGAZINES, AND PROGRAMS THAT PEOPLE COULD DOWNLOAD, UH, AT HOME WHILE IN QUARANTINE.
UM, APL CONTINUES TO PROVIDE JOB SEEKERS, UH, ONE TO ONE, ONE TO ONE JOB COACHING, UM, FOR ADVICE ON RESUMES, CAREERS, UH, INTERVIEW PRACTICE, AND THE LIKE, UM, SO, UM, THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
THANK YOU, LAURA, GO TO ST THEM.
SO IF YOU COULD HOVER OVER A PARTY PROGRAMS AND THEN CLICK ON HOUSEHOLD AFFORDABILITY.
ALRIGHT, CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN.
DID YOU KNOW MY NAME IS SAM TEDFORD AND I'M A PLANNER WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, AND I'LL BE SHARING WITH
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YOU SOME OF THE PROGRESS MADE BY THE HOUSEHOLD AFFORDABILITY PIETY PROGRAM OVER THE PAST YEAR.UM, AS EVERYBODY HAS MENTIONED THUS FAR, IT HAS KIND OF SHIFTED THE WAY THAT WE DO THINGS.
UM, AND 2020 HAS BEEN AN EXTREMELY EVENTFUL YEAR FOR OUR PARTY PROGRAM.
UM, IN EARLY 2020, WE DID RESPOND QUICKLY AND HAVE TO KIND OF CHANGE GEARS TO STEP UP AND PROVIDE EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE, UM, IN RESPONSE TO THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE PANDEMIC, UH, TO TRY AND HELP KEEP US LIKE SPACE HEALTHY AND HOW, UM, WE ARE NOW IN THE SECOND PHASE OF OUR RENT OR RELIEF OF EMERGENCY NEEDS FOR TENANTS PROGRAM, UM, AND ARE INTENDING TO DISTRIBUTE AROUND $17 MILLION IN FUNDING, UM, IN RENTAL RELIEF.
UM, AND SO THE APPLICATIONS FOR RENT, UH, MENTAL ASSISTANCE IS ACTUALLY STILL OPEN AND WILL BE OPEN ON A ROLLING BASIS THROUGH THE END OF THE CALENDAR YEAR AND THE NEXT ITERATION OF THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
WE'RE ALSO VERY PROUD TO BE ABLE TO COUPLE, UH, RENTAL ASSISTANCE DOLLARS WITH TENANT STABILIZATION SERVICES AS EVICTION DEFENSE SERVICES AND TENANT LANDLORD MEDIATION SERVICES, UM, RIGHT TEACHER FUNDS AND, AND POSSIBLE TENANT RELOCATION, SERVICE, UH, EXPENSES AS WELL.
UM, SO THAT SAID A LOT OF OUR ENERGY HAS BEEN DIRECTED TO MORE SHORT TERM, UM, IMMEDIATE, RESPONSIVE, UH, ACTIVITIES DUE TO COVID.
UM, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WE'RE WELL INTO, UM, IMPLEMENTING THE AUSTIN STRATEGIC HOUSING BLUEPRINT.
UM, AND SO WE ARE SIMULTANEOUSLY IMPLEMENTING LONGER TERM APPROACHES, ESPECIALLY IN OUR DISPLACEMENT PREVENTION STRATEGY, WHICH, UM, IN THE PAST YEAR INCLUDED THE POINT CAPACITY BUILDING GRANT TO 13 COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT ME WHERE HAS SENT HERE TO COACHES TO DEVELOP TO PREVENTING THIS PLACEMENT AND INCREASING THE AVAILABILITY OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN AUSTIN.
UM, WE ALSO PARTNERED WITH THE OFFICE OF INNOVATION IN LATE 2019 TO HOST A DISPLACEMENT MITIGATION ACTION ACCELERATOR TO CATALYZE ACTION AND INNOVATION AROUND COMMUNITY GENERATED CONCEPTS.
AND THIS ACCELERATOR OFFERED SPACE AND RESOURCES FOR, UM, FOLKS AND ORGANIZATIONS TO DISCUSS THEIR IDEAS AND CONNECT WITH, UM, LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CITY RESOURCES WHO ARE ALSO WORKING IN THE SPACE AS WELL AS IT GAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE UP TO $50,000 IN SEED MONEY.
UM, AND THEN KIND OF THIS IMPORT FOLIO OF, OF WORKING TO PREVENT HOSPITALS FROM BEING PRICED OUT, WE'RE ALSO INCREASING SHARED EQUITY OWNERSHIP.
UM, AND SO IN THIS YEAR'S REPORT, WE HIGHLIGHT A STORY OF THE, UH, THE STORY OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE NORTH LAMAR MOBILE HOME PARK, UM, WHO AFTER YEARS OF STRUGGLING WITH THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WERE ABLE TO PURCHASE THE LAND UNDER THEIR HOME WITH ASSISTANCE FROM A NETWORK OF SUPPORT, BUT THAT INCLUDED ABOUT TWO AND A HALF MILLION IN 2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOND DOLLARS.
UM, AT THE SAME TIME, THE AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION HAS ALSO EXPANDED ITS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST PROGRAM WAS ABOUT NEW, UH, UH, ABOUT 20 NEW PROPERTIES THAT WE RECENTLY ACQUIRED FROM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
UM, ANOTHER STRATEGY THAT WE'RE USING IS LAND BANKING AND UTILIZING PUBLIC LAND FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
AND SO IN THE PAST YEAR HFC OR THE AUSTIN HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION HAS BEEN UTILIZING 2018 AFFORDABLE HOUSING BOND DOLLARS TO STRATEGICALLY ACQUIRE LAND FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, TO FURTHER ADDRESS, UH, HOUSING BLUEPRINT GOALS.
SO NEAR TRANSIT, ESPECIALLY, UM, AND THE HFC IS ALSO CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF DEVELOPING TWO CITY ON PROPERTIES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING, UM, IN ACTIVELY GENTRIFYING AREAS ON THE EAST SIDE OF AUSTIN AT 900 GARNER ROAD AND ANOTHER AT 1127 TILLERY STREET.
UM, WE ARE ALSO ALWAYS IN THE BUSINESS OF INVESTING IN HOUSING FOR THOSE MOST IN NEED.
UM, AND WE'RE VERY DEEP IN THE PROCESS OF ALLOCATING 2018 BOND DOLLARS, STILL MUCH OF WHICH IS BEING DIRECTED TOWARDS OUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
UM, SO THROUGH RENTAL AND OWNERSHIP, HOUSING DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS TO HOLD GENERALLY HUNDREDS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS THAT PREDOMINANTLY SERVE HOUSEHOLDS MAKING LESS THAN 50 AND 30% OF THE MEDIAN FAMILY INCOME.
UM, BUT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, THIS HAS BEEN A YEAR OF CHALLENGES.
UH, AND THE CHALLENGES FACED THIS YEAR BY OUR PARTY PROGRAM ARE IMMENSE, UM, AND SOME NEW AND SOME OLD AS THIS MAKING HISTORY AS THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC HAVE EXACERBATED AFFORDABILITY CONCERNS THAT EXISTED WELL BEFORE THE 10
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THAT MAKES FOR MANY AUSTINITES AND MAY NEGATIVELY IMPACT VOLUNTEERING SENATE BASED AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAMS. UM, AND OF COURSE, AUSTIN IS STILL VERY MUCH DEALING WITH THE IMPACTS OF OUR LONG LEGACY OF RACISM AS MADE EVIDENT BY THE GLARING INEQUITIES PRESENT IN OUR HOUSING, HEALTH AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES ACROSS RACIAL LINES.UM, SO TO THAT END, WE'RE ALSO CONTINUING TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH MUNICIPALITIES AND OTHER, UH, LOCAL GOVERNMENT ENTITIES IN THE REGION TO ADJUST FINDINGS, UM, OUR MOST RECENT ANALYSIS OF IMPEDIMENTS TO FAIR HOUSING, WHICH IS ALSO HIGHLIGHTED IN OUR REPORT.
UM, AND WITH THAT, I WILL CLOSE ON THAT.
THOSE ARE THE UPDATES THIS YEAR FROM THE HOUSE OF THE PORTABILITY PARTY PROGRAM.
UM, SO THAT CONCLUDES OUR PRESENTATION.
I'LL REALLY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH YOU ALL ABOUT THE PROGRESS WE'VE MADE ON THE CITY WIDE CONFERENCE PLAN AND HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT ANY TOPICS OR ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU ALL MIGHT HAVE.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
AND I'M GOING TO LOOK AT THE LITTLE, THE LITTLE HANDS THAT APPEAR MAGICALLY.
YEAH, MY SCREEN, I SEE COMMISSIONER KING HAS THANK YOU CHAIR.
UH, I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS, UH, THIS REPORT AND THE FACT THAT IT'S ONLINE.
I HAVE, AS YOU GONE THROUGH THE PRESENTATION FROM THE CITY STAFF TONIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THIS, UH, GOOD WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING IN THE PRESENTATION AND THE DATA THAT YOU'RE PROVIDING TO US.
AND I APPRECIATE THAT IT'S ONLINE AND I'VE BEEN ABLE TO REALLY NAVIGATE THROUGH THAT REPORT REALLY EASILY AND REALLY GET TO THE DATA THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.
UH, BUT YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF POINT OUT THAT SOME OF THE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT KINDA STRUCK ME AS ABOUT ALL THE INDICATORS, THERE ARE 41 INDICATORS, UH, IN THE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
THERE'S NOT, THERE'S NOT AN INDICATOR FOR DISPLACEMENT OR, OR EQUITY, AND, AND THERE'S IN THERE THAT I COULD SEE THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT GIVES US AN INDICATOR ABOUT, OR, YOU KNOW, INFORMATION ABOUT HOW WE'RE DOING WITH DISPLACEMENT.
ARE WE MITIGATING IT, UH, TO WHAT EXTENT WE'RE MITIGATING IT, THAT THAT'S ONE POINT FOR EXAMPLE, UH, AND I'M JUST PULLING ONE OF THEM OUT.
THE, UH, THE, THE, IT WAS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, I BELIEVE WAS ONE OF THE, UM, CATEGORIES.
AND, UH, IT POINTED OUT THAT WE ARE GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION, WHICH I AGREE WE'RE GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION ON THIS PARTICULAR, UH, INDICATOR IN THE PERCENT OF NEW RESIDENTIAL UNITS WITHIN GROWTH CENTERS IN CORRIDORS THAT, THAT, AND THAT THAT'S THAT'S RIGHT.
I AGREE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE MORE RESIDENTIAL UNITS AND WITHIN OUR CENTERS IN OUR, AND ON THE CORRIDORS.
AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT THROUGH MANY OF OUR ZONING CASES AND, UH, YOU KNOW, PLANNING DISCUSSIONS THAT WE'VE HAD ON THIS COMMISSION.
AND SO, UH, BUT WHAT I, WHAT I, UH, WANTED TO POINT OUT ON THAT PARTICULAR INDICATOR IS THAT I BELIEVE THAT IT REFLECTS THAT THERE'S A LACK OF SMALLER YOU'RE PLANNING FOR THE SENIORS IN CORRIDORS.
THAT'S AN ISSUE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE IS THAT IF WE HAD SUFFICIENT PLANNING RESOURCES FOR SMALL AREA PLANS FOR OUR CORRIDORS AND OUR CENTERS, THEN I THINK WE COULD THIS, WE COULD MAKE THIS INDICATOR GO IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
SO THAT'S ONE ISSUE I WANTED TO POINT OUT.
AND IN TERMS OF, UH, UH, UH, HOW WE, UM, DEAL WITH THE PLANNING, I WANTED TO ALSO POINT OUT ONE OTHER THING IN THE, IN THE REPORT.
AND THAT IS, UH, IN THE IMPLEMENTATION HIGHLIGHTS UNDER THE CATEGORY REGULATIONS.
AND THEN UNDER THAT CATEGORY, LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE REWRITE, IT, THERE'S A PARAGRAPH IN THERE THAT SAYS RECOGNIZING THE ROLE OF AREA PLANNING IN FURTHER APPLICATION OF MODERNIZED LAND USE REGULATIONS IN SORT IN SUPPORT OF IMAGINE AUSTIN VISION, THE CITY COUNCIL, DIRECTED STAFF, TO CREATE A NEW PLANNING PROCESS FOR DISTRICT LEVEL PLANNING.
AND SO THIS, THIS, THIS REPORT, THIS IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE REPORT, THIS UPDATE CALLS THAT OUT.
IT SAYS THAT COUNCIL WANTS THE PLANNING TO OCCUR.
SO WHAT I WANTED TO FIND OUT FROM STAFF IS WHERE ARE WE IN TERMS OF THE PLANNING RESOURCES ON THE GROUND PLANNING RESOURCES AND PLANS IN TERMS OF DISTRICT LEVEL PLANNING, FOCUSED ON, UH, CORRIDORS AND ON CENTERS.
UM, SO FOR THE FUTURE OF SMALLER PLANNING OR, UH, DISTRICT LEVEL PLANNING OR NEXT LEVEL PLANNING, WHATEVER, WHATEVER WE, UH, COME TO CALL IT, UM, YOU KNOW, THE RESOURCES ARE A BIG ISSUE ON THAT.
AND THEN THE, THE OTHER ISSUE IS THE, THE REVISION TO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
SO THE, WE HAVE NOT KICKED OFF ANOTHER SMALL AREA PLAN CAUSE THEY'RE WAITING TO GET THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE,
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UM, ADOPTED AND ON THE GROUND AND THEN GO OUT AND DO, UH, DO THAT WORK.UM, BUT YOU KNOW, AT THAT POINT, THE RESOURCE ISSUE WILL STILL BE THERE.
WE'VE GOT CURRENTLY WE HAVE ONE TEAM, UM, IN THE PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT THAT CAN, UM, WORK ON A SMALLER PLAN.
AND, BUT, UH, COULD, COULD SOMEONE MAYBE ADDRESS ANY, YOU KNOW, THE POTENTIAL FOR INDICATORS REGARDING DISPLACEMENT, UH, AND EQUITY? HI KIM IT'S JOHN KING, THIS IS SAM TEDFORD WITH NACD AND YOU'RE RIGHT AT THIS TIME, WE DON'T HAVE AN INDICATOR THAT SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES, UM, GENTRIFICATION OR DISPLACEMENT.
THOSE ARE BOTH THINGS THAT WE'RE MONITORING, BUT CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT TO GET, UM, TO GET NUMBERS FOR, BUT AT LEAST TO THE EQUITY POINT, I MEAN, THE WAY WE FRAME THE QUESTION OF AFFORDABILITY THROUGH IMAGINE AUSTIN IS, IS NOT JUST YOUR HOUSING, BUT ALL THESE OTHER COSTS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH, YOU KNOW, COST OF LIVING IN RELATIONSHIP TO YOUR INCOME.
AND, AND TO THAT POINT, WE DO DIS-AGGREGATE DATA.
AT LEAST USUALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT INCOME.
SO WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE RACIAL DISPARITIES IN TERMS OF, UM, MEETING INCOMES IN OUR CITY, WE HAVE A HUGE RACIAL WEALTH GAP IN THE CITY, UM, AND THAT CONTINUES TO BE AN UNDERLYING EFFECT, YOU KNOW, FOR ACCESS TO HOUSING AS WELL.
UM, AND SO WHILE WE DON'T MAYBE HAVE ONE INDICATOR THAT THAT IS, UM, AGAIN, NOT AN EQUITY INDICATOR, I THINK IN MANY OF THE INDICATORS, WE TRY TO DIS-AGGREGATE BY, UH, RACE GENERALLY AND, AND OFTEN BY INCOME AS WELL WHEN WE CAN TO, TO DIG INTO THOSE, UM, DISPARITIES WHERE THEY EXIST.
UM, I KNOW AS WELL FOR SOME OF OUR HEALTH INDICATORS, WE DO SIMILAR THINGS.
WELL, THANK THANK YOU FOR THAT.
AND I APPRECIATE THAT IT'S HARD.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF NAILED DOWN A PARTICULAR ONE INDICATOR FOR, FOR WHAT'S CALLED EQUITY.
I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT IN TERMS OF EQUITY, THAT COULD BE REFLECTED IN THE AMOUNT OF DOLLARS THAT WE SPEND IN INVESTMENTS, IN AREAS THAT ARE KNOW THAT, THAT WE KNOW ARE LOW INCOME AREAS, THAT WE KNOW THAT OUR, OUR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.
SO WE COULD, WE, WE COULD SAY, HEY, HERE'S THE AMOUNT OF INVESTMENT WE'VE MADE YOUR DURING THIS PAST SIX MONTHS OR PAST YEAR OR PAST, YOU KNOW, A PERIOD OF TIME.
I JUST, THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING FOR.
AND BY THE TIME WE REALIZED THAT WE'VE HAD SO MUCH DISPLACEMENT, THAT ALL OF OUR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR ARE GONE, IT'S TOO LATE.
AND SO THAT'S WHY I THINK THESE INDICATORS NOW ARE IMPORTANT TO SEE IF THESE POLICIES THAT WE'RE IMPLEMENTING THROUGH THE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ARE REALLY PREVENTING THE DISPLACEMENT, THE INVOLUNTARY DISPLACEMENT OF OUR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR.
AND I CAN'T SEE THAT IN THIS REPORT.
I DON'T GET THAT FROM LOOKING AT THIS REPORT, LOOKING AT THOSE INDICATORS.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE'RE ALL TO, I BELIEVE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES.
I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE NOT TRYING TO, I'M JUST SAYING IT'S HARD FOR ME TO SEE THE PROGRESS WE'RE MAKING IN THOSE AREAS.
WHEN I LOOK AT THE INDICATORS IN THE IMAGINE AUSTIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, OKAY.
UM, IF THERE'S NO RESPONSE FROM STAFF, THEN COMMISSIONER DUNCAN, BY SAYING, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS TYPE OF DISCUSSION AND I REALLY APPRECIATED THEIR INPUT.
I ALSO UNDERSTAND HOW DIFFICULT IT IS, ESPECIALLY IN THIS PERIOD THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH, UH, AND LOOKING FORWARD.
I, UM, I'VE BEEN GIVEN A LOT OF THOUGHT TO WHAT I PERCEIVE A POST PANDEMIC NEW NORMAL IS GOING TO BE.
AND I THINK NONE OF US REALLY, UH, OBVIOUSLY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY TOOLS OUT THERE THAT WE'RE BEING FORCED TO EXPOSE YOURSELVES TO DURING THIS YEAR.
UH, LET ME JUST SORT OF GIVE YOU SOME EXAMPLES AND THEY'RE GOING TO EFFECTIVE, UH, THE WORK AT HOME, UH, UH, UH, THAT IS A FACTOR THAT I REMEMBER WHEN WE DISCUSSED PROJECT CONNECT.
THERE WAS A CERTAIN PERCENT, UH, ASSUMED IN THAT.
UH, I THINK WE ALL WOULD AGREE THAT POST PANDEMIC WORK AT HOME IS GOING TO INCREASE BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING TO REALIZE THAT THAT WAS WORK.
UH, AND WHILE THERE MAY BE A DECREASE FROM WHAT WE'RE DOING DURING THE PANDEMIC, I THINK THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE.
SO THAT'S GOING TO HAVE A BIGGER EFFECT, UH, ONLINE RETAILING.
AND IN TERMS OF REAL ESTATE OFFICE SPACE AND RETAIL SPACE WORK AT HOME IS OBVIOUSLY GOING TO HAVE SOME EFFECT.
I DON'T KNOW HOW SIGNIFICANT WILL BE ON A, ON A NEED FOR FUTURE OFFICE SPACE, UH, AND, AND RETAILING.
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WE SEE SOME OF THE, ESPECIALLY THE SMALLER BUSINESS, THIS FALLING ASIDE DAILY, UH, BECAUSE THEY CAN'T COMPETE.UH, I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE A RESIDUAL, A POSITIVE RESIDUAL IN TERMS OF MORE TAKEOUT AND CURBSIDE.
I DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT CURBSIDE, BUT YOU KNOW, MY WIFE AND I USED CURBSIDE AT LEAST EVERY OTHER DAY NOW.
UH, AND IT GIVES YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET OUT, UH, HOMESCHOOLING THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
I THINK ALL OF THESE ARE GOING TO HAVE SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS, AS I SAID, ON THE NEW NORMAL, UH, THE, UH, A COUPLE OF MORE, UH, VIRTUAL MEETINGS.
UH, I ADMIT THAT OUR PERFORMANCE TONIGHT HAS NOT BEEN AN EXEMPLARY EXAMPLE OF HOW BETTER TO DO IT, BUT I THINK THERE WILL BE A LOT MORE VIRTUAL MEETINGS, ESPECIALLY WHEN DISTANCE, UH, AND, UH, AND THE COST OF, UH, OF, OF TRAVEL IS TAKEN IN CONSIDERATION.
UH, UH, THE, UM, SO I GUESS WHAT I'M WONDERING IS WHAT WILL BE THE RESIDUALS, THE LONGTERM RESIDUALS FROM WHAT WE ARE BEING FORCED TO UNDERGO LOOK DURING THIS ENDEMIC PERIOD.
AND I THINK THAT HAS TO BE TAKEN IN CONSIDERATION.
AND I THINK THAT'S A COMPLIMENT STAFF.
I THINK THEY ARE FULLY AWARE OF THAT.
AND THEY ARE ALSO HAVING TO LOOK AT SOME OF OUR IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS WERE W W WE DECIMATED ENTERTAINMENT IN THE HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC IMMEDIATE PROBLEMS WE HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF.
I THINK THAT WAS ONE THING THAT KIND OF BOTHERED ME ON THE LAST TRIAL THAT MATT AND I HAVE HIGH REGARD FOR MATT DOUGAN.
I APPRECIATED HIS WORK, BUT I THINK THAT THE DIRECTIVE THAT STAFF IS BEING YET HAVEN'T AND THE WAY IT WAS, AT LEAST I PERCEIVED IT WAS BEING SAID WHEN MY, UH, MY COLLEAGUE, UH, COMMISSIONER SEEING ASKED ABOUT, UH, A SMALL AREA OF PLANNING AND ACTUALLY, UH, I'M NOT SURE WHAT WE'RE COSTING.
YOU KNOW, I THINK SOMEBODY SAID DISTRICT LEVEL, SMALL AREA.
I THINK STAFF HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO USE ANYTHING THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, BECAUSE THAT'S THE OFFENSIVE WORD.
UH, BUT THAT THEY'RE ALL THE SAME.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE CLOSE TO THE GROUND TYPE OF PLANNING, WHICH THIS CITY IS NOT DOING.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO PREACH TONIGHT, BUT WE TEND NOT TO CONTINUE TO EXPECT, IMAGINE AUSTIN, THAT IS 30,000 FOOT LEVEL, UH, TO GUIDE US THROUGH, UH, SOME, UH, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
UH, AND, BUT WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID, WHICH IF I REFERRED IT RIGHT, WHICH I REALLY WANTED TO SAY, PLEASE RETHINK IS THAT YOU'RE NOT DOING SMALL DATA PLANNING UNTIL YOU DO THE LDC THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I WOULD CALL THAT'S BACKWARD.
THE PLAN NEEDS TO BE THERE BEFORE THE CODE.
AND IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT, THEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE PROCESS.
AND THAT'S ONE OF OUR BIGGEST PROBLEMS THAT WE NEED TO GET THAT MICRO LEVEL TYPE PLANNING OR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL, OR THAT LEVEL, OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT LEVEL, UH, GOING.
AND IT'S, IT'S UNFORTUNATE TO HEAR THAT THAT'S BEEN PUT ON THE BACK BURNER BY THIS ADMINISTRATION.
UH, AND, UH, THIS WAS ABOUT MECHANIZATION TO STAFF.
CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE ONLY DOING WHAT YOU'RE TOLD TO DO IT ON THAT, BUT ANYHOW, I REALLY APPRECIATED THE PRESENTATION OF THE NIGHT.
IT WAS FULFILLING PRESENTATION.
IT HAS SIGNIFICANT IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR FUTURE.
UH, AND, UH, AND YOU KNOW, AS THE OLD TIME AROUND HERE, UH, YOU ALL WERE GOING TO BE MORE EFFECTED BY IT BY ME.
BUT, UH, I THINK THERE'S SOME EXCITING, POSITIVE OPPORTUNITIES.
WE JUST NEED TO MELT INTO EITHER OUR WAY OF DOING THINGS THAT THANK YOU TO MATT AND THE REST OF THE PRESS PRESENTERS TONIGHT.
AND, UM, I WANTED TO SAY THAT, AND THEN I'LL RECOGNIZE COMMISSIONER GEARY.
SO I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH, UM, ON THE PRESENTATION, I'M GOING TO ALSO PICK UP FROM WHAT COMMISSIONER JEAN SAID REGARDING ONCE COVID-19 HAPPENED.
AND THEN OF COURSE, THE GEORGE LLOYD, UH, YOU KNOW, CIRCUMSTANCES THAT WE'RE NOW WORKING WITH OR DEALING WITH, UM, I'M LOOKING AT THIS STUFF IN FROM A VERY DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.
UM, SO LOOKING AT SYSTEMIC RACISM, UM, SO I WAS THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, IN REGARDS TO COVID-19, I WAS TRYING TO LOOK CLOSELY AND MAKE, I NEED TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT SECTION AGAIN, BUT I WONDERED, I SUFFER WHERE, YOU KNOW, LIKE WORKING WITH THE SCHOOLS, UM, YOU KNOW, LOOKING TABULATING, YOU KNOW, HOSPITAL SPACE, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
BUT I ALSO WONDERED WHAT ARE WE DOING IN REGARDS TO MAKING SURE THAT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE CONSIDERED THE FIRST SHIELD, WHICH ARE EMS, UH, FIRE DEPARTMENT AND LAW ENFORCEMENT, WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST LOOKING AT THAT PIECE, MAKING SURE THAT THEY'RE PROTECTED AS MUCH AS THEY CAN.
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ESSENTIAL WORKERS AND WE NEED TO TREAT THEM AS ESSENTIAL WORKER.SO I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE PROBABLY LOOKED AT, UM, FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE AND TAKE CARE OF THAT GROUP THAT I CONSIDER THE FIRST HEALING TAKING CARE OF HIS COMMUNITY.
SO I JUST WONDERED IF WE COULD LOOK INTO THAT SOME MORE AND MAYBE GIVE ME SOME GUIDANCE AS TO WHAT THE CITY IS DOING IN THAT REGARD, WHEN IT COMES TO THIS.
AND I'M JUST NOT JUST IN REGARDS TO COVID-19.
I THINK THIS HAS ENLIGHTENED ME A LITTLE BIT MORE OF WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING CAME PAUL.
SO I WAS WONDERING, WILL RECENTLY BECAME AWARE OF THEM AND I SHOULD BE LOOKING AT THIS MORE CLOSELY, THE MAYOR'S TASK FORCE ON INSTITUTIONAL RACISM AND SYSTEMIC INEQUITIES.
THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN DISTRICT AND DISTRICT TWO THAT I'D CONSIDER.
SO CONSIDER IS A VERY VULNERABLE COMMUNITY.
AND I THINK WE SHOULD BE DOING SOME MORE OF LOOKING MORE AT WHAT I SEE COMMISSIONER KING TALKING ABOUT IN REGARDS TO SMALL AREA PLANNING ON BIG.
WE NEED TO TAKE A STEP BACK AND LOOK AT HOW I IMAGINE AUSTIN IS ACTUALLY PAIN YET WHEN IT, IN THE WAY THAT THINGS ACTUALLY THE CURRENT EXISTING CONDITIONS, I THINK YOU NEED TO LOOK AT APPLYING WHAT THESE TEST FORCE, THE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE MAYOR'S TASKFORCE, THOSE DOCUMENTS, HOW ARE THOSE USED AND INCORPORATED INTO IMAGINE NASARA, THEY JUST IGNORED.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT OUR RESPONSES, WHAT HE MENTIONED, ALSO HIS RESPONSES FROM SOMETHING LIKE WHENEVER A TASK FORCE HAS CREATED, WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS? AND ARE THEY BEING FOLLOWED THROUGH OUR, YOU KNOW, IS OUR COMMISSIONING LOOKING AT THAT? IF YOU CAN TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION OTHER COMMISSIONS.
SO I THINK TAKING THAT INTO CONSIDERATION, UM, INCLUDING THE CITY COUNCIL, UM, ALSO I WONDER, UM, HOW INVOLVED IS THE EQUITY OFFICE IS HOW INVOLVED ARE THEY IN THIS PROCESS? SO I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE INVOLVEMENT FROM THE EQUITY OFFICE IN THIS REGARDS TO IT.
I THINK, UM, AND I THINK IT ADDRESSES KIND OF ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES WE HAVE AS A, AS CITY STAFF, WHICH IS THE IMPLEMENTATION PIECE.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE DID THE ENGAGEMENT, WE DID THE PLAN PRODUCTION, UM, AND THEN WE, THEN WE HAVE TO TAKE THOSE STEPS OF ACTUALLY FUNDING WHAT THE PLAN SAYS, UH, ACTUALLY STAFFING WHAT THE PLAN SAYS TO MAKE SURE WE GET THOSE THINGS THAT THE COMMUNITY TOLD US THEY WANT, UM, ON THE GROUND.
UM, AS FAR AS THE MAYOR'S TASK FORCE ON INSTITUTIONAL RACISM, I KNOW THEY WENT THROUGH AND WE LET THEM KNOW LIKE, HEY, HERE'S IMAGINE AUSTIN.
UM, YOU KNOW, IT KIND OF SHOWED THEM THE, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW WE TALK ABOUT THE 1928 PLAN AND CHAPTER TWO, WE TALK ABOUT THE RACIAL DIVIDE AND THAT SECTION, UM, YOU WANT TO, THINGS I THOUGHT WAS INTERESTING IS ONE THAT WHEN THE DRAFT PLAN CAME OUT IN OCTOBER, 2011, YOU KNOW, THAT SECTION TITLED THOUGH THE ETHNIC DIVIDE THAT WAS ACTUALLY CALLED THE RACIAL DIVIDE, BUT THAT, UM, I THINK THAT WAS LITTLE TOO MUCH FOR, UH, FOR FOLKS AT THAT TIME.
UM, NOT THAT STAFFING CONSULTANTS WERE READY TO TALK ABOUT RACE, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DID, WE DID PUT IT IN THERE AND, AND, AND, UH, ENTITLE IT AS, AS SO, UM, BUT IT GOT, UH, YOU KNOW, GOT CHANGED THROUGH THE, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE REVIEW PROCESS, TO, UH, FROM THE RACIAL DIVIDE TO THE ETHNIC DIVIDE.
UM, BUT I DO THINK NOW FOLKS ARE A LOT MORE, UM, I DON'T WANT TO SAY COMFORTABLE, BUT THE CONVERSATIONS ARE DEFINITELY HAPPENING A LOT MORE OFTEN THAN THEY USED TO.
AND I THINK A LOT OF THAT CREDIT GOES TO THE CITY'S OFFICE OF EQUITY, UM, WHERE FOLKS CAN, UM, YOU KIND OF BRING THE EQUITY LENS TO WHATEVER, WHATEVER THE WORK THAT MIGHT BE, WHETHER IT'S AN ENGAGEMENT PROCESS OR WHETHER IT'S PLANNED PRODUCTION OR WHETHER IT'S THE IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, SO FROM MY EXPERIENCE THAT IS, YOU KNOW, THAT THE EQUITY PIECE IS FRONT AND CENTER, BUT ALMOST EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING NOW AS A CITY.
IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WITH A HAND UP? OKAY.
I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I, I AGREE WITH, UH, WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY.
WE NEED TO BE LOOKING THROUGH THE LENS OF EQUITY.
UM, I WOULD SAY ON THE SMALLER PLANS, UM, I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE PROCESS.
I ACTUALLY WOULD DISAGREE WITH WHAT MY FELLOW COMMISSIONER SAID ABOUT, UH, THE CODE REWRITE COMING BEFORE THE SMALLER AIRPLANES ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, I THINK TO ADDRESS THE EQUITY ISSUES IN OUR CITY, WE HAVE TO TAKE A HOLISTIC VIEW AND LOOK AT THE PROBLEM WITH CITYWIDE AND MY CONCERN WITH THE AREA PLANTS.
IT'S JUST ANOTHER AVENUE FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, JUST LOOKING AT LOCAL PROBLEMS IS ONLY LOCAL.
UH, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, LIKE OUR HOUSING CRISIS, THIS IS A CITY WIDE PROBLEM.
A SHORTAGE OF HOUSING IS A CITY WIDE PROBLEM.
UH, HOUSING PRICES GOING UP WHEN IT'S GOING UP.
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IF WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT THAT AS A THING THAT NEEDS TO ADJUST CITYWIDE, WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF INCENTIVES TO TYPE OF SMALLER AREA PLANS.IT'S KIND OF A TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS EFFECT WHERE I DON'T WANT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT THE MORE TRAFFIC OR WHATEVER FROM THE THROUGH DEVELOPMENT.
UM, AND, BUT THE EFFECTS OF ON THE OVERALL HOUSING MARKET ARE GLOBAL.
UM, AND, UH, SO THAT'S, YOU KNOW, ONE PIECE OF IT, I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE WITH THE SMALLER PLANS, SOMETHING WHERE IF YOU'RE DOING A PLAN TO HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN LEVEL OF HOUSING, YOU KNOW, THERE NEEDS TO BE A MINIMUM OF, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GOING TO ALLOW THIS MUCH DENSITY, A LOT OF THIS MANY AFFORDABLE UNITS, A LOT OF THIS MANY APARTMENTS.
UM, AND, UH, ANOTHER PIECE OF THAT WITH THE EQUITY IS WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PROCESS IS INCLUSIVE OF ALL THE, UH, THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY IF ANYONE, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE OUR RECORDS ARE ENGAGED IN IT, UH, PEOPLE IN APARTMENTS, LOW INCOME PEOPLE, AND IF IT'S NOT PROPERLY FUNDED OR DONE IN AN ADEQUATE LEVEL, UH, SOME OF THESE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE DIFFERENT CONTACT TEAMS, LIKE, HONESTLY, I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT A NEIGHBORHOOD CONTACT HE WAS UNTIL LIKE A FEW YEARS AGO.
UH, AND I'M, I'M RELATIVELY POLITICALLY WELL-INFORMED.
I WOULD, I WOULD VENTURE TO SAY THAT PROBABLY 90% OF THE CITY DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A NEIGHBORHOOD CONTACT TEAM IS.
AND 90, 95% PLUS OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RENTERS ARE LOW INCOME.
AND SO WE HAVE TO HAVE WHATEVER THOSE PROCESSES ARE, NEED TO BE, UM, CONSIDERING THE HOLISTIC CITY VIEW AND NEED TO ENGAGE MORE PEOPLE.
AND OBVIOUSLY THAT'S GOING TO SEEK FINANCIAL RESOURCES, UM, TO ENGAGE MORE PEOPLE AND NOT JUST BE WHOEVER SHOWS UP AT THE MEETING.
ANYBODY ELSE? COMMISSIONER DUNCAN, DO YOU HAVE YOUR HAND STILL UP? YES.
JUST RESPOND TO MY COMMISSIONER.
UH, I THINK THE PROBLEM IS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE WAY WE'VE DONE THINGS FROM THE PAST.
LET ME SAY THIS PROPERLY SMALLER PARENTING IS HOLISTIC SHOULD BE HOLISTIC.
SMALL AREA PLANNING SHOULD NOT BE AFFORDABILITY, DENSITY.
ALL THESE FACTORS SHOULD BE IN THERE.
MY PROBLEM AS A PROFESSIONAL PLANNER IS THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE A PLAN TO PREMEDITATE.
THE IMPLEMENTATION IMPLEMENTING ZONING IS IMPLEMENTATION.
AUSTIN DOES NOT PLAN ZONING IN THIS CITY IS WHAT I CALL IT.
IT'S WHATEVER YOU CAN POLITICALLY GET SOMEBODY TO GIVE YOU.
AND THAT IS NOT THE WAY TO GO ABOUT IT.
WE CAN HAVE PLANS, WHICH CAN HOPE WE NEED ARE SMART.
YOU BROUGHT UP CONTACT, THAT'S ALL AUSTIN CREATIVE TYPE STUFF.
I'VE WORKED IN A LOT OF OTHER COMMUNITIES WHICH HAVE DONE GOOD PLANNING AND DO NOT HAVE THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE.
SO I THINK WE NEED TO GO BACK TO LOOK AT THE SYSTEM THAT WE'VE CREATED AND INTO PURGE THOSE PROBLEMS AND GET RID OF THE WORDS THAT WE ATTRIBUTED THE PAST PROBLEMS TO IN TERMS OF NIMBYISM AND RACISM AND ALL THE ISMS OUT THERE AND DO A, A, A, SOMETHING THAT COULD GIVE US SOME GUIDANCE ON WHAT THE ZONING.
I MEAN, WE ALL KNOW THAT WHEN THERE'S ONLY CASE COMES UP AND YOU LOOK AT IT, IT SAYS, IMAGINE AUSTIN, AND WE GET THE SAME THREE THINGS.
OKAY, IT'S GOT TO BE REASONABLE.
IT'S GOT, THERE'S NOTHING ON THERE TO TIE IT TO THE SPECIFICS OF THE PROPERTY.
UH, AND, AND THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT.
AND UNTIL WE, UNTIL WE FIGURE OUT THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT, WHICH INCLUDES A LOWER LEVEL OF DETAIL, LAND USE PLANNING, UH, WE'RE NOT GOING TO SOLVE THE CITY'S BASIC PROBLEMS. I, BUT I, I UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM TIM AS A YOU'RE YOU'RE YOU AND I, EITHER 60 YEARS, 30, 50, WHATEVER YEARS DIFFERENT BETWEEN US.
YOU'RE LOOKING AT WHAT'S HAPPENED RECENTLY, I'M LOOKING AT WHAT CAN HAPPEN.
AND I LIKE TO LOOK AT SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENING, WHICH HELPS EVERYBODY.
UH, AND I'VE GOT SOME GOOD THINGS TO SAY LATER IN THE MEETING, THERE ARE SOME GOOD THINGS HAPPENING.
THAT'S IT? IT JUST BOTHERS ME THAT WE HAVE FOREGONE A PLANNING AT ANY LEVEL OF THE 30,000 FEET.
AND, UM, AND, AND THAT THAT'S NOT GOING TO LEAD US TO A WOMAN, PRESIDENT HAPPY FAMILY.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER LITTLE HANDS UP, UM, AND STAFF, UM, I MEAN, MATT, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE US ANY PARTING THOUGHTS? NO, THANK YOU.
JUST REALLY APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY, UM, TO, UH, TO TALK WITH Y'ALL ABOUT THE PROGRESS YOU'VE MADE
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AND HAVE THIS DISCUSSION.SO THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
THAT WAS REALLY SUPER DUPER INFORMATIVE, AND I W I'M IMPRESSED WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT FACETS OF LIFE THAT YOU ATTEMPT TO COVER.
AND THANK YOU AND THANK YOU TO COMMISSIONER EVANS FOR HAVING SUGGESTED THAT WE HAVE IT ON OUR AGENDA AND NEXT
[D1. Discussion and possible action regarding supplemental postponement policy and or rule or regulation pertaining to postponements, per Zoning and Platting Commission Rules of Procedure, Article VII (C). Sponsors: Commissioners Evans and Smith]
UM, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING SUPPLEMENTAL POSTPONEMENT POLICY AND OR RULE OR REGULATION FOR ATTORNEY PERTAINING TO POSTPONEMENTS.UM, AND UNLESS WE HAVE MR. ABERLI ON THE PHONE.
I'VE BEEN NOT TEXTING, EMAILING BACK AND FORTH WITH ANDREW IS THERE, BUT IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE HE IS THERE CHAIR, COMMISSIONER, I'VE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH MR. ABERLI, BUT, UM, HE IS NOT ON THE TELECONFERENCE AND I HAVE NOT HEARD WHETHER OR NOT HE WISHES TO SPEAK TO THE DEPARTMENT TO CALL IN AND SPEAK TO THE POSTPONEMENT.
SO, UM, WHEN YOU HAVE THEM JUST SHOOT ME AN EMAIL.
UM, BUT WE CAN JUST GO AHEAD WITH, UM, DO YOU THINK HE'S GOING TO BE THERE IN LIKE A MINUTE OR WE'LL JUST GO ON WITH D ONE, WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST? NO, I HAVE NOT HEARD FROM WHETHER SHE WAS JUST TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM.
SO DO YOU ONE DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING SUPPLEMENTAL POSTS? SO COMMISSIONER EVANS AND SMITH, I WILL GIVE YOU THE FLOOR.
I'M GOING TO MAKE MY PART IN THAT, IN THIS RATHER SHARP AFTER.
WELL, WE DID WITH THESE FIRST TWO CASES THIS EVENING, I THINK THAT ANY DISCUSSION ON POSTPONEMENT POLICY IS JUST PURELY DISCUSSION.
THERE WILL BE NO ACTION TAKEN.
UH, WE HAVE CONTINUED TO JUST DO WHATEVER WITH POSTPONEMENT.
I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE THE COMMISSION'S DESIRE.
SO I'M CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO SPEND ANY MORE TIME ON IT THIS EVENING.
I WOULD LIKE TO WITHDRAW THAT OUT.
AND COMMISSIONER SMITH, DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK TO YOU? IT WAS UNDER YOURS, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO, UH, I THINK WE'VE COUNTED IT, THE DISASTER OF WHAT WE'RE HAVING WITH OUR OPPONENTS AT THE POINT THAT I WAS AD HOC, WHOEVER WANTS TO DO WHATEVER, WHATEVER I WILL SAY THAT CHANGING.
WELL, I APOLOGIZE FOR THE HANDLING OF THIS, THIS LAST POSTPONEMENT.
IT JUST THREW ME THAT IT WAS STAFF ASKING FOR IT.
UM, SO ON THAT, GIVEN THAT IT'S WITHDRAWN, DOES ANYBODY ELSE WANT TO SAY ANYTHING OR, UM, AND WHEN YOU OR COMMISSIONER DANCLER? UM, I DO THINK THE STAFF SUGGESTION THAT CAME UP LAST TIME WAS HELPFUL ABOUT PUTTING IN THE MEMORANDUM THAT, YOU KNOW, PUTTING SOME DETAIL OR BACKUP ABOUT HOW MANY WAS HELPFUL.
WASN'T THAT WHAT MS. JOY AND I BLANK BLANK BLACK I'M MRS. SUGGESTED THAT STAFF WILL START DOING IS WE SHOULD, UM, ANDREW COULD MAYBE ADDRESS THIS, BUT I BELIEVE THAT THAT IS WHAT SHE SAID.
AND I SAW COMMISSIONER, UH, I SEE LITTLE HANDS UP.
SO, UM, COMMISSIONER DUNCAN, I'LL GO DOWN MY LIST ON THE SIDE.
ACTUALLY, I DIDN'T HAVE MY HAND UP.
I HAD, UH, I WAS HOLDING MY CHIN UP, UH, SORRY.
UH, I WILL COMMENT ON THIS, A NICE SORT OF AGREE WITH ENGLISH EVANS ON THIS.
THIS IS, UH, UH, I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME LOGIC, I DON'T THINK, AND MAYBE WE WOULD HAVE TO DERIVE THE, WHAT I'M GETTING AT THROUGH OUR DELIBERATIONS.
BUT WHEN I, WHEN I SAY AN APPLICANT ARE A NEIGHBORHOOD OR AN ADVERSARY BY THE ROUTE, WE WANT TO CALL IT MISUSING, UH, THE POSTPONEMENT PROCESS AND THAT'S GOING ALONG.
UH, AND, AND, AND, AND THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS.
WE KNOW THAT, I MEAN, I'VE SEEN APPLICANTS WANT TO
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POSTPONE IT BECAUSE MAYBE THEY DON'T SEE THE BOATS THERE.I MEAN, MAYBE TWO OR THREE PEOPLE ARE MISSING.
AND SO THEY, THEY KNOW THEY MAY HAVE IT BETTER NEXT TIME.
AND I'VE SEEN, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, POSTPONE IT BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BUILD UP THEIR OPPOSITION.
UH, BUT WE CAN'T KEEP GOING AT IT FOREVER.
AND I MEAN, WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES.
UH, I WOULD PERSONALLY, WHEN STAFF WANTS A POSTPONEMENT, UM, I'M PROBABLY GOING TO BE A HUNDRED PERCENT BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, THEIR WORKLOAD AND, AND ALL OF THE THINGS THEY'VE GOT TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION FOR IT'S READY FOR US.
UH, BUT MAYBE WE WERE WRONG AND TRYING TO HAVE A TASK FORCE TO HAVE A HARD AND FAST POLICY.
UM, UM, AND MAYBE WE JUST NEED TO BE USED GOOD JUDGMENT IN THE FUTURE AND NOT RUBBER STAMP IT.
CAUSE WE CERTAINLY LEAN TOWARD THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR RUBBER STAMP CAUSE WE LEAN TOWARD AN APP.
WELL WE NEED TO MAKE, UH, YOU KNOW, MAKE GOOD JUDGMENTS IS WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING.
SO, SO ANYHOW, UH, BUT I, I AGREE WITH MR. EVANS THAT WE'RE SPINNING OUR WHEELS ON THIS AND YOU NEED TO GO INTO SOMETHING ELSE.
COMMISSIONER DANCLER DO I SEE, DID I SEE YOUR LITTLE PAN GO UP ON THE SIDE? OKAY.
AND THEN COMMISSIONER KING AND THEN COMMISSIONER BRAY.
WELL, SO I'LL LET COMMISSIONER BRICK, I'VE SPOKEN A COUPLE OF TIMES, YOU KNOW, SO I'LL LET HIM GO FIRST AND I'LL GO AFTER HIM.
WELL I FEEL LIKE THERE'S, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE RULES, I'M SORRY, KNOW THE BACKGROUND OF THE RULES ON THIS.
IF WE HAVE TO CONSIDER IT AT THE MEETING.
UM, UH, ONE THING I THINK ABOUT WITH A LOT OF THESE POSTPONEMENTS IS PEOPLE WERE TAKING TIME OUT OF THEIR DAY TO BE AVAILABLE, TO TALK WITH US SOMETIMES WAITING QUITE A LONG TIME WHILE WE WORK HERE, THE CASES WHEN THEY HAVE NO IDEA, IF IT'S GOING TO BE SIX 30 OR NINE O'CLOCK WHEN WE HEAR THEIR CASE.
UM, AND I WISH THERE WAS A WAY THAT IF WE WERE GOING TO HAVE POSTPONEMENTS, THAT IT WAS WORKED OUT BEFORE THE MEETINGS.
SO WE WEREN'T FORCING PEOPLE ON ANY SIDE OF AN ISSUE TO WAIT.
UM, AND IT'S LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S IN THE BYLAWS THAT WE HAVE TO GIVE PEOPLE TIME TO VOICE HER BEST MOMENT, BUT THAT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT'S CANCELING OUT HALF.
THE REASON FOR A POST MOMENT IS THEN WE'RE FACING EVERYONE COME BACK AND TWO WEEKS LATER, OR A COUPLE OF WEEKS LATER TO, UM, BE AVAILABLE TO, FOR THEIR KIDS TO BE HEARD.
UM, I'D BE INTERESTED IF THERE'S ANY, ANYTHING WE COULD DO TO CHANGE IT ON THAT FRONT.
I MEAN, I AGREE THAT IT'S BEEN, IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S BEEN AD HOC AND I SHARE THE FRUSTRATION OF COMMISSIONER EVANS AND THIS, WITH THAT, I, UH, HOPEFULLY WE CAN NESTLE COME UP WITH SOMETHING PRODUCTIVE.
ANY OTHER HANDS? COMMISSIONER KING.
AND I, I, I TOO AM FRUSTRATED AND SHARE MANY OF THE FRUSTRATIONS AND CONCERNS DISCUSSED ABOUT THIS ISSUE TONIGHT, UH, BY THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS.
UM, BUT YOU KNOW, UM, I, I, I'M NOT, I'M, I'M STRUGGLED WITH THIS AND YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S, IT'S LIKE THIS ISSUE OF VOTE BY MAIL IN A WAY, IF YOU'LL LET ME USE AN ANALOGY, UH, YOU KNOW, OH, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A MEDICAL REASON OR YOU BE 65 OR OLDER OR HAVE SOME REASON.
AND THE SUPREME COURT SAID, WE'RE NOT GOING TO, YOU KNOW, THE, THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S NOT REQUIRED TO JUDGE ABOUT WHETHER, YOU KNOW, TO SECOND GUESS THE BOATER'S INTENTION THERE OR REASON.
AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT THAT, THAT KIND OF A STANDARD, THEN, YOU KNOW, I'M, I, I HEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE I AGREE WITH WHAT I'VE HEARD THAT SOME, SOME, SOME APPLICANTS GAME, THE SYSTEM, SOME NEIGHBORHOODS, SOME PEOPLE BAY GAME, THE SYSTEM THAT'S TRUE TO ME.
IT'S NOT THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THAT? WOULD YOU KNOW ABOUT THAT, EXCEPT HIM IMPLEMENT A RULE THAT REALLY WOULD THEN AT SOME POINT WHEN WE IMPLEMENT A HARD AND FAST RULE, BECAUSE IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE, THEN WE BECAME, WE, I THINK WE RUN INTO SOME ISSUES THERE WHERE WE'RE UNINTENTIONALLY, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, NEGATIVELY AFFECTING SOMEBODY'S, UH, ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND THE CASE OR A TIME TO UNDERSTAND THE CASE AND HOW IT WILL IMPACT HIM.
AND THE OTHER THING IS THESE ARE ZONING DECISIONS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.
THEY HAVE LONG LASTING IMPACTS.
THEY ARE NOT LIKE TEMPORARY OR TEMPORAL KIMBERLY THAT THEY GO AWAY OR, YOU KNOW, AND THEY CAN, THEY CAN THEN BE SILENT FOR AWHILE AND BOOM, ALL OF A SUDDEN, ALL THE DEVELOPMENT COMES IN.
NOW YOU HAVE SOMETHING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU.
SO, SO I THINK THAT IT'S, I ERR ON THE SIDE OF LETTING PEOPLE HAVE MORE TIME, WHETHER IT'S THE APPLICANT OR STAFF OR THE NEIGHBORHOOD OR THE NEXT DOOR PERSON WHO, YOU KNOW, HAS,
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YOU KNOW, IT SAYS THAT THEY NEED MORE TIME, YOU KNOW, I KIND OF IN, IN THAT AREA.SO, AND AS I UNDERSTOOD WHAT, MY TIME ON THE, ON THE COMMISSIONER, I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT THIS POLICY WE'VE HAD HAS REALLY BEEN DETRIMENTAL AS CAUSED VERY DETRIMENTAL IMPACTS.
YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS I CAN TELL, AND, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT DELAYS THE DEVELOPMENT AND ALL OF THAT, BUT THIS IS A COMMUNITY, THIS IS A PROCESS THAT THE COMMUNITY IS INVOLVED.
IT, IT'S NOT ONE, YOU KNOW, ONE SIDE AND WE'RE JUST, THE APPLICANT GETS TO HAVE THEIR TIME AND THEIR TIMELINE.
AND IF YOU DIDN'T MAKE IT, THAT'S IT, YOU KNOW, TOO BAD.
SO I'M, I'M, YOU KNOW, I I'M, I THINK IT'S IT'S THAT WE LEAVE IT TO THE COMMISSIONER EACH COMMISSIONER'S JUDGMENT ABOUT THAT.
UH THAT'S WHERE I LEAVE IT AND LET EACH COMMISSIONER JUDGE, WHETHER THEY, IF THEY'RE LISTENING TO THE REASONING FOR THE POSTPONEMENT, WHETHER THEY AGREE WITH IT.
AND I RESPECT EACH COMMISSIONER'S DECISION WHEN THEY MAKE THESE, THESE DECISIONS.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I I'M, I RELY ON ANY COMMISSIONER TO, TO, TO, TO MAKE THIS POLICY WORK AND, UH, BE FAIR TO EVERYBODY.
UM, COMMISSIONER, COMMISSIONER EVANS, DID YOU WISH TO SPEAK? YES, PLEASE.
I THINK COMMISSIONER SHANE STATED IT PRETTY WELL.
UH, EACH COMMISSION IS GOING TO DO, LET'S SAY ABOUT OR WHAT THE RULES, SAME DAY INDICATE.
THAT'S WHY I SAY WE JUST GIVE UP ON THAT IDEA, THE RULES, WHAT WE JUST DID THIS EVENING ON THIS FIRST CASE, UH, WE WEREN'T POSTPONING THE CASE DUE TO ZONING ISSUES.
WE WERE POSTPONING THE CASE DUE TO SOMEBODY SOMEBODY'S MISUNDERSTANDING OF DRAINAGE ISSUES ARE CONCERNED ABOUT DRAINAGE ISSUES, WHICH HAVE REALLY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE ZONING THEY HAVE TO DO WITH THE SITE PLAN IF THE ZONING WENT FORWARD.
AND SO WE'VE ASKED AN APPLICANT AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVE TO COME BACK AGAIN.
SO WE'RE GOING TO BE IN THE SAME PROCESS WE WERE THIS EVENING.
AND THAT'S THE KIND OF THING THAT I THINK THAT WE'RE DOING CONTINUOUSLY IN ERA.
UH, WE'RE TAKING SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO THE ZONING COMMISSIONER KING SAID, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ZONING, LET'S TALK ABOUT ZONING AND LET'S NOT BRING THE OTHER ISSUES INTO THE FORTE HERE TO, TO GET ON BASE, TO USE AS A RATIONALE FOR POSTPONING, SOMETHING.
AS FAR AS THE GENTLEMAN, NOT SAYING HE DIDN'T GET THE NOTICE UNTIL, UH, SEPTEMBER 12TH OR WHATEVER, THAT WAS A SATURDAY, THEY WERE, UH, SAM OUT HOME SEPTEMBER 4TH, BASED ON THE INFORMATION THAT I RECEIVED FROM STAFF.
SO DID IT JUST SAID IN MAILBOX, WAS IT NOT LOOK BAD? YOU KNOW, WE DON'T ABOUT THAT EITHER.
AND I'M NOT REALLY A HAVE A KNEEL TO DEAL SOMEBODY, THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
IF THEY'RE NOT GONNA PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT, WHAT INFORMATION THEY RECEIVE, THE LINK WAS, UH, TO THE INFORMATION THAT SAID YOU HAD TO REGISTER.
AND WHEN YOU HAD TO REST YOUR, IF IT'S ON THE NOTICE THAT GOES OUT, SO THE INFORMATION'S THERE, UH, THIS PROCESS OF JUST WE'RE GONNA TAKE EVERYTHING AS IT COMES.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE, WELL, THERE'S STOP SIGNS AND YIELD SIGNS AND THERE'S RED LIGHTS, BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU DON'T CHOOSE TO OBEY, I'M, WE'RE GOING LET YOU OUT.
SO AGAIN, BACK TO WHAT COMMISSIONER KING SAID, IT APPEARS THE COMMISSIONER IS GOING TO DO WHATEVER THEY FEEL ALIKE.
I WILL CONTINUE TO VOTE UP AGAINST MOST POSTS ON MUCH TO THE LESSORS AND THE ACTUAL SOLID REASON FOR IT.
I'M GOING TO INTERJECT BECAUSE COMMISSIONER DINKLER WAS DROPPED OFF.
AND SO COULD OUR WONDERFUL, INCREDIBLY HARD WORKING TONIGHT, UH, STAFF HELP HER GET CONNECTED BACK ON.
IS THAT POSSIBLE? CAUSE I KNOW SHE GOT DROPPED.
CERTAINLY WE'LL SEND HER INFORMATION.
SHE, BACK TO YOUR SMILING FACE AGAIN.
I THINK OUR PROBLEM IS IN OUR POSTPONEMENT POLICY, BUT DID I GET TO THIS? LET ME MAKE IT WHILE WE'RE WAITING ALSO FOR, I PROMISE YOU'RE GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT POSTPONEMENT POLICY.
IT HAS TO BE, IT'S MORE GENERIC, BUT IT IS BOTH.
CONGRATULATIONS, COMMISSIONER DENTLER.
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THANK YOU, MR. COMMISSIONER, UM, FOR HELPING.SO, UH, DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK OR WERE YOU JUST DROPPED AND DROPPED? OKAY, WE'RE DONE.
I'M JUST GOING TO SAY ONE THING AND I APOLOGIZE.
AND I'M GOING TO CALL MR. OPP EARLY TONIGHT.
CAUSE I DID SCREW UP ON THAT, BUT UM, HAVING LOOKED AT THE POSTPONEMENT PAUL OR HAVING DONE THE ANNUAL REPORT, I NOTICED THAT THERE WAS ONLY ONE NEIGHBORHOOD POSTPONEMENT, UM, GRANTED IN THE PAST YEAR.
AND THAT WAS FOR THE COLON CASE, THE COLON AND SLAUGHTER CASE.
AND, AND IN FACT, THE THING THAT STRUCK ME WAS THAT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF STAFF POSTPONEMENTS AND USUALLY INDEFINITE POSTPONEMENTS, WHICH, I MEAN, IT TELLS ME THAT THEY NEED TO GET ON THE AGENDA IN ORDER TO IN, OR ELSE IT'S JUST GOING TO EXPIRE.
BUT, UM, I WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT AND THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF APPLICANT POSTPONEMENTS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE ARBORETUM HAS HAD FIVE APPLICANT PREP, POSTPONEMENTS.
AND SO I THINK THAT THERE, UM, I, YOU KNOW, I THINK MAYBE A FEW YEARS AGO THERE WAS MORE OF A PROBLEM, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM, BUT I COULD SAY THAT TODAY THERE WAS A PROBLEM WITH JUST, I WAS SURPRISED AND I, I REALLY APOLOGIZE, BUT I WAS COMPLETELY THROWN THAT A STAFF MEMBER WOULD ASK FOR A POSTPONEMENT DURING A MEETING SAYING THAT THEY HADN'T HANDLED ALL THE LEGAL THINGS.
SO I'M GOING TO, I AM GOING TO APOLOGIZE TO THE APPLICANT, BUT I ALSO DO WONDER ABOUT WHY WE WEREN'T NOTIFIED OF THAT EARLIER, UM, INSTEAD OF ESSENTIALLY ON THE VIRTUAL DYESS.
SO, UM, AND SO, AND I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO STAFF ABOUT THAT.
SO, BUT I ALSO HAVE TO SAY THAT I THINK STAFF IS AN ESPECIALLY ANDREW AND THE TECHNICAL PERSON, IF IT'S CORY OR WHOEVER ARE JUST DOING AN AMAZING JOB WITH THE SYSTEM THAT WE'VE BEEN GIVEN AND THAT WE'RE WORKING OFF OF AND A LOT OF DROP CALLS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, SOME THINGS COULD HAVE GONE A LITTLE QUICKER AND A LITTLE SMOOTHER, BUT I APPRECIATE THE REALLY HARD WORK.
AND I CANNOT IMAGINE, IMAGINE THAT ANDREW'S BRAIN IS JUST NOT EXPLODING RIGHT NOW AND PLAYING, RECONNECTING PEOPLE.
AND I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE VERY PATIENT AND YOU'RE PATIENT WITH ME.
BUT SO, UM, ON THAT NOTE, ANY OTHER COMMENTS? UH, I SEE COMMISSIONER DUNKIN AND THEN I'LL GO DOWN THAT COMMISSIONER DUNCAN.
OH, ARE WE STILL ON THE POSTPARTUM? OKAY.
CAN WE MOVE TO, UH, THE HEARING ON THE ITEM SUBDIVISION ON THEM OR ARE WE DONE? YEP.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE I THOUGHT WE WERE ABOUT TO START THE SUBDIVISION WE SUBDIVIDED.
OH, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU ANY MORE COMMENTS ON POSTPONEMENT POLICY AND THEN IF NOT, WE WILL GO BACK AND A VOTE ON THE POSTPONEMENT FOR
I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT, UH, I WOULD BRUCE RAPIDS, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO SPEAK UP, LIKE, UNLESS YOU GO TO GOSSIP, HE DIDN'T GIVE YOU THE REASONING.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S HELPFUL IF YOU, IF YOU FEEL LIKE WE'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG TO SAY IT AT THE TIME.
UM, AND I'D ALSO SAY LIKE THE ONE TODAY, LIKE, YOU KNOW, I, I, IT WOULD BE NICE, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE WERE HAVING TECHNICAL ISSUES AND MAYBE THIS IS A LITTLE OFF TOPIC, BUT, UH, ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO MESSAGE LIKE SEND US EMAILS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE EDUCATION.
NO, NO, WE'VE GOT SOME OPEN MEETINGS ISSUES THAT WAY.
SO, UM, I WOULD SEND TO ANDREW, IF, IF, AND MAYBE WE NEED A BRIEFING ON HOW TO HANDLE IT WHEN SOMETHING GETS DROPPED, THAT I'D BE REAL CAREFUL ABOUT CHATTING.
AND FOR ME, IT'S JUST A PERSON THAT'S SETTING UP TODAY.
LIKE THEY, IF THEY DIDN'T SEND UP ON A DEADLINE YESTERDAY, THEY COULD HAVE SENT US.
I MEAN, WE HAVE AN OPEN PROCESS FOR PEOPLE TO SEND EMAILS WHEN WE GET EMAILS ALL THE TIME.
SO, UH, ESPECIALLY FOR SUPPLEMENTS AND WE CAN'T MAKE A MEETING, YOU KNOW, IF SOMEONE IN THE PUBLIC OR AN APPLICANT CAN'T MAKE A MEETING, YOU KNOW, UH,
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THAT'S ALL PUBLIC RECORD.AS FAR AS I KNOW, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALLOWED TO GET EMAILS FROM, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY I MISUNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU WERE SAYING.
ANYTHING ELSE ON POSTPONEMENT POLICY? AND IF NOT, WE WILL GO ON TO BE ONE AND, UH, COMMISSIONER KING, IF THE APPLICANT IS NOT ONLINE THEN TO SPEAK, THEN I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.
I DON'T BELIEVE HE'S ON, I'LL CHECK MY EMAILS, BUT, UH, AND WE ARE GOING TO I'M SORRY.
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SO ON B TWO.SO I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE POSTPONE, BEAT YOU WITH LEAVING THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN.
YOU ARE MEETING ON OCTOBER 6TH AND IS THERE A SECOND SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DANCLER AND WE'VE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSION, ANY PARTING WORDS FROM ANYBODY, IF NOT, THEN ALL THOSE LK IS, AND THAT'S ALSO A MOTION TO COAT CLOSE.
FOR SOME REASON I'M BRAIN DEAD.
SO A POSTPONE TO OCTOBER 6TH, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND SO THAT IS COMMISSIONER CABASA DUNCAN KING BRAY DANCLER UH, GARY AND RAY, AND ALL THOSE OPPOSED IS COMMISSIONER EVANS AND COMMISSIONER SMITH AND CHAIR, JUST TO BE CLEAR, THAT WAS KEEPING THE POST, THE PUBLIC HEARING.
AND, UM, THEN ALSO, SO WE HAVE D
[D2. Discussion and possible action regarding matters related to any proposed revisions to the Land Development Code including but not limited to staff updates, presentations and scheduling. Sponsors: Chair Kiolbassa, Commissioner Duncan]
TWO DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION REGARDING MATTERS RELATED ANY CO PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, COMMISSIONER DUNCAN, ANYTHING YEAH.IS WHAT I'VE WANTED TO STRAIGHT WHILE WE GO ALL OF WHAT I'M GOING TO BE MENTIONING ONE WAY OR ANOTHER ON OUR AGENDA, BUT THIS IS STRUCTURALLY.
WE'VE HAD A FEW ISSUES, UH, BEAR WITH ME FOR A SECOND, A LONG TIME AGO, WHEN I WAS EDITOR OF MY HIGH SCHOOL NEWSPAPER, WE HAD A, I RAN A COMIC CALLED ARKANSAS ONIONS.
UH, AND IT BOTHERS ME SOMETIMES THAT CURRENT MIX ON THE NEGATIVE SIDE.
AND BEFORE THE MEETING TONIGHT, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THINGS THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING TONIGHT.
UH, AND OTHERS SAID THAT THE STORY OF AN ARCHAEA, AND I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THEM BRIEFLY IF YOU'LL BEAR WITH ME, OKAY, NUMBER ONE, I WANT TO THANK HOUSING AND HOUSING DEPARTMENT.
THEY'RE A DASHBOARD THEY'VE PUT ON WHERE, AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU LOOKED AT IT, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE ASKED FOR FOR FIVE YEARS.
IT'S IDENTIFYING WHERE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THAT IS A RESULT OF OUR EFFORTS.
THE CITY'S EFFORTS IS OCCURRING.
AND I THINK IT'S VERY READABLE, REALLY USEFUL, AND I'M SURE THE FEDERAL PUBLIC NEEDS TO SEE IT.
AND, AND, AND IT'S RELATING IT TO THE TRANSPLANTS, WHICH IS VERY POSITIVE.
BUT, UH, AND I, I, I WISH THEM WELL BECAUSE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT IMPLEMENTATION NOW IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE AFTER YOU KNOW, WHERE IT IS IDENTIFICATION, YOU NEED TO MONITOR AND YOU NEED TO ENFORCE.
AND, AND I KNOW THAT'S GOING TO BE A MAJOR EFFORT AND IT'S GOING TO BE IMPORTANT, BUT THAT'S A COMPLIMENT, UH, TIED IN WITH THAT.
I WOULD LIKE TO WISH OUR, OUR COLLEAGUES WELL FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION, THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR WHO HAVE MOVED INTO THE AFFORDABILITY AREA.
I, UH, I, I WAS VERY IMPRESSED THAT THE, UH, REGRETS THAT THEY'RE GIVING UP THEIR, UH, THEIR ENERGIES AND EFFORTS, UH, MAKE POLICY FOR THE CITY.
BUT THEY CERTAINLY, I THINK GOING TO BE SOMETHING MORE EFFECTIVE, UH, PROVIDERS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE FUTURE BECAUSE OF THEIR KNOWLEDGE.
AND I BELIEVE, I WANT TO THINK, UH, I STAFF OR THE MINUTES I'VE BEEN COMPLAINING ABOUT NOT HAVING MENTIONED IT ALL OF A SUDDEN WE GET THIS OVERFLOW OF MINUTES.
SO I THINK WE'RE UP TO DATE ON THAT AND THAT THAT'S, UH, I GOT A, AN EMAIL A WEEK OR SO AGO NOW, UH, FROM THE WATERSHED DEPARTMENT ANNOUNCING THE ENVIRONMENTAL COMMISSION COMING UP.
AND IT WAS JUST, UH, I NOTICED, I THOUGHT THAT WAS REALLY EFFECTIVE.
I WAS, I THINK, WELL, LOOK, I THINK ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO INCREASE THE PUBLIC AWARENESS AND INVOLVEMENT OF AFFIDAVIT IS GOOD.
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HIM UP.I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT'S A COMPLIMENT AND I DON'T LIKE TO CLOSE, BUT I DON'T KNOW IN LOOKING AT THE SCREEN TONIGHT, IF ANY OF YOU HAVE NOTICED THAT OUR COLLEAGUE COMMISSIONER TEAM HAS A DARK BACKGROUND AND THEY BREAK FIGHTS, UH, THAT'S ONE OF THE BEST, UH, USERS OF VIDEO OF, UH, VIDEO WINDOWS, VIRTUAL WINDOWS.
AND I'VE SEEN, UH, I MEAN, YOU LOOK AT IT.
I THINK THAT THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MAYBE WE OUGHT TO BE BETTER TRAINED TO HAVE.
I DON'T KNOW IF OUR TRAINERS SHOULD BE OUR TEAM.
I DON'T KNOW HOW HE, WHAT MAGIC DEVOTEES, BUT YOU KNOW, SOME OF US ARE TOO DARK, EMOTIONALLY TO LIGHT.
SOME OF US ARE WHITE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT COMMENT.
IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I SAID NOW, UH, I ENDING UP, I THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER JANE FOR, UH, BEING A BRIGHT FACE ON THE HORIZON, UH, EXTRA, UH, I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR ATTENTION ON THOSE THINGS, BUT I WANTED TO GET OUT, BUT I CONSIDERED A FIVE OR SIX.
HOW'S THE FEELINGS THAT I SEE GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND NOT BE MENTIONED, A BRAY WON'T EVEN KNOW WHO HE IS, BUT I'M FORMER VICE PRESIDENT USED TO CALL IT MENTORING NEIGHBOR.
UH, THAT WAS A 1972 CONDITIONER.
I DON'T THINK YOU WERE PROBABLY BORN.
AND THEN, UM, ANY, I GUESS THAT COVERS OUR LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE ISSUE, FUTURE
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AGENDA ITEMS. AND I BELIEVE THAT, UM, ANDREW, WHEN DO WE, ANDREW, WHEN DO WE HAVE A DATE FOR THE ONION CREEK? UM, DO YOU HAVE A DATE? I KNOW YOU'VE CHAIR ON ANDREW RIVERA.SO GIVEN THE SITE THAT WE POSTPONED A FEW ITEMS TO THE NEXT MEETING, UM, PROBABLY THE, UM, OCTOBER 20TH, UM, BRIEFING MIGHT BE BEST THAT'S SOUNDS.
THAT SOUNDS, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN TO ME.
SO, UM, AND COMMISSIONER GARY, ARE YOU GOOD WITH THAT FOR THE ONION CREEK, BECAUSE YOU HAD REQUESTED THAT AND I THOUGHT, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS AN EXCELLENT IDEA.
SO, OKAY, SO WE'RE ON FOR THAT.
AND, UM, COMMISSIONER KEN, YOU'RE RAISING YOUR HAND.
I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY ON THAT BRIEFING.
UM, IS THAT, IS THAT A VIEW, IS THAT GOING TO BE POSTED AS A BRIEFING WITH POSSIBLE DISCUSSION POSSIBLE ACTION OR JUST A BRIEFING? UM, I BELIEVE A DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.
UM, JUST IN CASE WE HAVE AN OPINION OR TWO THAT WE WANT TO SHARE WITH THE WORLD.
AND, AND CHAIR, I UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE PAST, WE, WE VOTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S WORDED THAT WAY.
UH, I THINK, UH, UH, ANDREW HAS AS INDICATED THAT WE HAVE TO VOTE TO DO THAT, TO MAKE SURE IT'S POSTED THAT WAY.
COMMERCIALIZE ON ADVER, I BELIEVE IT WAS AT THE REQUEST OF THE CO-SPONSORS.
SO IT WILL BE POSTED AS A DISCUSSION WITH POSSIBLE ACTION.
ANY OTHER FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS AND IF NOT, THEN WE'LL GO ON TO COMMITTEE
[F. COMMITTEE REPORTS & WORKING GROUPS]
REPORTS AND CODES AND ORDINANCES JOINT COMMITTEE.NO, WE'RE DONE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN JOINT COMMITTEE, NO UPDATES AND SMALL AREA PLANNING, JOINT COMMITTEE, NO UPDATES.
THE, A CANCELED MEETING HAS NOT BEEN RESCHEDULED YET.
AND THANK YOU EVERYBODY FOR YOUR PATIENCE AND THANK YOU STAFF FOR OVERCOMING.
SO, SO MANY CRAZY DIFFICULTIES.
THANK YOU SO MUCH AND HAVE A GOOD REST OF THE TWO WEEKS