Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

Sorry, everyone.

Hi, everyone. Sorry, I'm a little late.

Not a problem. Well, for those of you that are just joining us, it is Wednesday, March 11th. We are in steady session for the Aurora Planning and Zoning Commission. We are joined for the first time, of which we will hopefully hear a little later in our actual meeting, from Robin Becker. Robin is our brand new commissioner, so. Welcome again, and I believe that we have an APS Aurora public schools presentation 1st up. So, I'm not sure who's going to present that.

Good evening commissioners, Connor Bailey here on staff is I will be presenting a staff presentation and I know we have a representative from APS that they have their presentation after mine. Uh, let me go ahead and share my screen and start the presentation. I just want to double check. You can all see that.

Yes.

Okay. Awesome. Okay. Uh, good evening commissioners. Um, my name is Carl Bailey. I'll be presenting for staff for tonight is tonight. We'll be presenting the Aurora public schools, health science, high school application. This is a. Application that we've seen previously, um, and then it's coming back for a 2nd study session. So getting into the 2nd review of this project, uh, the applicant or our public schools is presenting their revisions to the advisory site plan that was presented to PC back in October of last year. Again, this is a project that is for a new three-story, 85,000-square-foot high school with a focus on health science skills and simulation-based learning leading to careers in the healthcare industry. The current zoning for the subject site is original Aurora, low-density residential with a Aurora place type original Aurora. So kind of go quickly again on some information you've seen, but just want to make sure that we're all familiar. The subject site is located within Ward 1 of the City of Aurora. As seen on the vicinity map, the subject site is located north of the major intersection between North Peoria Street and East Montview Boulevard. Specifically, the subject site is located at the southwest corner of the intersection between North Peoria Street and East 23rd Avenue. As shown in red, the Fitzsimmons Innovation Community is to the east of the subject site. The University of Colorado Anschwitz and UC Health Hospital are shown in the bottom southeast portion of the vicinity map. Per the aerial of September of 2025, you can see the existing conditions for the subject site, which are public playfields north of the existing middle school. The scope of the advisory site plan was just for the approximate 7 acres of these play fields, and there are no modifications to the existing North middle school. I seen in the area of the subject site is bound by East 23rd Avenue to the North where across East 23rd Avenue is single family residential as part of the North neighborhood to the East of the subject site is North street, which across North street is vacant land belonging to the Fitzsimmons innovation community. As previously mentioned, the existing North middle school is to the South of the subject site and to the West of the subjects site is single family residential, which is a part of the North around neighborhood. Please note that a ally exists between the Western residential property and the subject site. As noted earlier, the subject site has a zoning designation of original Aurora, low density residential. The surrounding area to the south and the west shares the same zoning designation of OA-R-1. The single-family residential to the north across East 23rd Avenue has both zoning designations of original Aurora medium density residential and mixed-use Fitzsimmons boundary. The vacant land to the east across North Preoria Street has a zoning designation of planned development associated with the Fitzsimmons Innovation Campus GDP. And please note, per the Fitzsimmons GDP, the land directly east is planned for mixed-use innovation and research uses, while the land to the northeast at the intersection is planned for mixed-use office and commercial uses for the Fitzsimmons Innovation Campus. So getting into the history for this project, again, the Advisory Site Plan application was formally started on August 28, 2025. after pre-acceptance was completed. The Advisory Site Plan application was discussed at the October 22nd, 2025 Planning and Zoning Commission study session meeting. It was at this meeting that the Advisory Site Plan was moved forward into the IGA process. However, the Planning and Zoning Commission did request that the applicant come back to Planning and Zoning Commission for a second study session. to present an updated site plan that addressed the comments from Civil Engineering. Since that time, APS has coordinated with the City of Aurora on design solutions to address the Civil Engineering's comments, which occurred during the month of January 2026. So, just to quickly go over what the previous issues that were discussed, it was with the coordination of sidewalks and streetlight improvements. The City of Aurora Civil Engineering coordinated with the applicant regarding the following sidewalk and streetlight improvement requirements, which we had the requirement of a detached 10-foot sidewalk along Peoria Street. a detached five and a half foot sidewalk along East 23rd Avenue, updating streetlights along Peoria Street, East 23rd Avenue and East 22nd Avenue, and then ramps to be updated at the southwest north and east corners of the East 22nd Avenue and North Oswego Street intersection. The applicant was requesting variances from these improvements wherein at that time the variances were not granted. We also had the traffic impact study. The traffic engineering department had indicated that there were several outstanding comments that needed to be addressed for the traffic impact study. A revised TIS needed to be provided at the time of the civil plans. And again, the TIS needed to be revised to better reflect accurate traffic counts associated with APS school projects. And then we also had our coordination on the street frontage design. We had the architectural elevations for the north and east building facades should have been revised to incorporate massing and human scale elements. to meet architectural standards. And then second, additional screening should have been provided for the north service loading area along East 23rd Avenue to screen that area from the public right away. To give an update based off of what the applicant has come up with certain design solutions in regards to the sidewalk and streetlight improvements, the applicant coordinated with the city civil engineering department to address those comments. that were reviewed and discussed at the previous PC study session. The applicant revised the site plan based upon the meeting with the City of Aurora in January, which include revisions as providing a detached sidewalk along both Peoria Street and East 23rd Avenue, providing new or upgraded sidewalk lighting, and providing two bulb outs at the southern intersection of Oswego Street and East 23rd Avenue. We also did receive a revised TIS provided by the applicant following the PC study session. The updated TIS did address the outstanding comments from traffic engineering, and any minor comments will be coordinated during the civil plan review process. And then for the street furnished design, the applicant did not propose any architectural revisions for the project. So here we have the revised conceptual site plan that was provided by the applicant. You'll see here that the applicant, they have provided a 10-foot wide detached sidewalk with a 6-foot wide buffer along Peoria Street. The applicant is updating existing street lighting to meet photometric requirements. They also have a proposed a 5.5 wide detached sidewalk with a 8-foot wide buffer along East 23rd Avenue. The applicant is installing new lighting to meet photometric requirements. along that public right-of-way as well. And then the applicant is proposing new bull belts at the southwest and southeast corners of East 22nd and Oswego Street to accommodate new ramps. So in conclusion, the application is still currently proceeding with the advisory review process per the IGA. This study session is a recommended update on the revised site plan addressing civil engineering's comments. That concludes staff's presentation. I'm happy to answer any questions. If there are any, if not, we can move on to the applicant's presentation. I do want to note that we have another agenda item after us. So I want to be kind of cognizant of everyone's time.

Correct Thank you. Connor commissioners questions. Without any questions of staff, let's go ahead and move into the applicant's presentation, please. Who will be presenting, and if you would state your name, the company you are associated with, and if you wish, whether or not you are an Aurora resident.

Hi, my name is Christina Camp. I am a project manager with Aurora Public Schools, and I am an Aurora resident.

Thank you very much. Do you have a presentation for us or are you here to answer questions?

I do have a presentation, but it is almost exactly what Connor just shared with you. So I can either pull it up or I can answer questions. I think that that is up to you. OK. Let me go ahead and pull this up then.

Can everyone see that?

Okay, wonderful. So go to our next page for the Health Science High School. As you saw, we have submitted an updated site plan for this location. And we just wanted to call out that, as Connor mentioned, the changes along Peoria Street include a 10-foot detached sidewalk with a six-foot buffer. and we are going to update the existing street lighting to meet the new photometric requirements. Along 23rd Avenue, we will be including a detached sidewalk of five foot six inches with an eight foot buffer, and this frontage will also receive new street lighting to meet photometric requirements. As he mentioned, we're doing the two bulb outs on the southwest and southeast corners of 22nd and Oswego to accommodate the new ramps and the northeast corner will be reconstructed as part of the original plan. I did keep a list of all the questions that were asked at the October 22nd meeting. And if you would like, I can start with those. Or if you have current questions, I'm seeing some nodding nods, head nods to go ahead with the questions from previously. Yes, please. Okay. So question one was what communications had been issued. We actually did go through a couple rounds of issuing communications. On October 1st of 2025, we made sure to distribute information about the project at the Aurora Public Schools Back to School event at the Aurora Mall to get that information out to our students' families. Information was also shared during an on-site meeting with Denver Urban Gardens and the curator of the community garden at North Middle School on August 20th to ensure that they were aware of what was coming and how it would affect the garden. We have actually already moved their tool shed and are working closely with them on that as well. Informational flyers were shared with parents at the Montview Back to School event on August 21st. August 27th, we had a presentation at Charles Burrell P8, which is one of the schools that is expected to have students interested in attending the Health Science High School. That was done on August 27th. And Information was shared at the North Middle School Back to School event on August 28th of 2025. Letters were physically mailed to local residents on October 9th of 2025. And there was additional mailings made to residents and the HOAs. two weeks after that. It was the week before our presentation last time. Second question was, how is student safety being addressed? So in addition to the sidewalks along Peoria and 23rd, we're actually going to encourage our students to walk within the site because of the wider walkway and the fact that it has been built with the intention of providing an interesting walk for the children as they're walking along there instead of walking along Peoria. And then in regards to students crossing at Peoria and 23rd, since that is a signalized intersection, it has crosswalks. We did not feel that that was going to be an issue for students crossing. These are high school students and any traversing that they do during school hours will actually be done in groups. And they would be going across to the Fitzsimmons campus to participate in learning opportunities with UC Health, which is one of the community partners involved with the development of the programs and pathways at the Health Science High School. I believe we addressed sufficient parking. Yes, we actually feel that there is sufficient parking. It has been designed to support both driving students and full-time staff. We've seen a reduction in student drivers in the Aurora Central and Hinkley High Schools, which are both located within similar neighborhoods. The recommended number of parking stalls from the district's traffic consultant was consultant was actually fewer than the parking spaces that we ended up providing. We added an additional 45 stalls above what our consultant had requested in order to make sure that we were accommodating the district's full-time teaching staff. If there is additional parking needed, there are currently over 30 parking spaces available at North Middle School that are underutilized, and we will utilize that as overflow parking for the high school. There are also six additional spaces that we have included to provide EV charging stations at the site. And the traffic study didn't show counts from standard dismissal time of three o'clock, Because North Middle School has a 4 o'clock dismissal time and a 9 o'clock start time. So they're off from what traditional standard dismissal times are. The district is considering different start times, which actually were just announced, I believe, last week. And so the traffic impact study, that's why we did the traffic impact study at three o'clock. However, as Connor mentioned, it was updated to standard dismissal times. Our plan for North Middle School is that it will remain unchanged. It will remain a middle school with the same boundaries and feeder structure, including all of the same elementary sites, and then feeding into the same high schools And the Health Science High School is a magnet school, and so it will have a different enrollment. North Middle School is also supposed to, it will also be remaining open during construction. And the district is familiar with construction in and around schools during the school year. And we work very closely with our contractors to ensure the safety of students, staff, and the surrounding communities. And we actually work with our contractors to ensure that our material delivery times do not conflict with bell times so that there is less construction traffic. There shouldn't be any construction traffic impacting bell times. The plan for the north soccer field, the portion of the field is actually being reserved for the middle school use during construction. Um, so there's, there will be a portion of that field that this, the North middle school will still be able to use for, um, recesses and, um, uh, physical education. And then the new artificial soccer soccer field will be provided as part of the project to allow your round year round usability for the district and for the community. Infrastructure has been designed to provide lighting for use in the evening, which aligns with the anticipated later bell times throughout the district. The field is intended for North middle school use during the school day and for district athletics whenever they're scheduled and community rental use at other times. There was also a question about why we are competing with AST. And the program at AST is a DSST school with a STEM based program. The new high school is specifically health science based. There are not going to be other programs within the school. Every single pathway is health science related. We have partnered with UC Health and Community College of Aurora to offer opportunities to graduates with associate degrees in pathways that meet specific needs within the healthcare industry. And those pathways include behavioral science, emergency medical technician, imaging, nursing with options for both CNA and MA, respiratory therapy, surgical technician, and sterile processing. I have to expect that there are additional questions after that, but those are the ones that were brought up at our last presentation.

Thank you, Christine. With that, commissioners, do you have questions of either staff or the school district representative?

Commissioner Benka?

I don't really have a question. I love that the sidewalks are wider. I love the changes that have been made. I think this is an exciting project. I mean, oh my gosh, if they'd only offered this kind of stuff when I was in high school, way back when, way back. So I think it's really exciting.

Excellent. Commissioner Becker.

I didn't see this in the staff report. Is there like a proposed amount of students that you're expecting to, what's the max capacity? Of enrollment, I guess this might. It was just a question.

Christine, did you hear that?

I unfortunately I did not hear that.

She asked what the capacity, the maximum capacity of the school is.

Oh, of course the maximum capacity of the school is 450 students.

Commissioner walls chair walls.

Thank you, Commissioner Hogan. I'm very happy to see the changes from the October meeting. Those are definitely welcome and certainly addressed my concerns about the detached sidewalks and the concerns with the variances that were being requested. So thank you for that. Thank you for taking our notes kind of seriously in terms of the safety along Peoria and along Oswego in that area. My question, in your list of questions there, you had the traffic information study Um, we had specifically asked, uh, it was a fairly old study at the time in October. We see that one has been revised and Christina, you can answer as well as maybe if Dean Kaiser's online to address, uh, any of the outstanding comments on the TIS and what were, was the traffic information study, the new one, because it wasn't included in our packet. Did it actually cover the drop off and let out times, um, for school? That was one of our concerns in October.

Christine, I can answer this. I did do the review chairman walls. They did look at. It did have the dismissal time incorporated. I will note that. What they ended up doing was they took the dismissal time trip generation numbers of number of students that were leaving parents, picking up things like that. They incorporated it into actually the peak hour, which was obviously just a little bit after 4 o'clock. We consider that a conservative analysis, meaning it's like the worst case scenario. So if you have all that traffic out there, all the traffic just going up and down all the roadways, and then you bring in the trip generation of the facility and combine the two, Um, we, we get an analysis, we get, you know, levels of service that are not great, but, you know, they're most of them are acceptable. Uh, so I, from my perspective as the reviewer, they did do the, the trip generation appropriately. Uh, they just did a very conservative analysis to say, Hey, this is, you know, it's, it's gonna, it's probably gonna look a little worse, even though they're letting out earlier than the normal, uh, peak hour of traffic. Uh, but it just helps it helps for me to determine, hey, are our signals are our roadways going to be able to handle this this type of additional traffic. So, uh, I'll just say that. Yes, they, they did incorporate that into the study and, uh, I just have a couple of minor comments. Um. But that's that's those are things that we can, uh, deal with during the civil, uh, the civil review process.

Perfect. Thank you, Dean. And again, thank you for bringing this back. I think that you definitely took our comments to heart and the concerns that we had as community members. And I'm looking forward to this project. I think it'll benefit APS and the neighborhood. Thank you.

Any further questions from our commissioners? If not, I'm actually I have a different meeting that I need to attend temporarily. So I'm passing this off to our a more than capable second vice chair to continue the rest of the meeting. So Mike, it's all yours and I will see you a bit later.

Thank you very much. So, uh, now that we are completed with the APS health science high school site plan update, we're going to move into connecting Aurora, uh, presentation and, uh, Stephanie, I know we've got some folks queued up and planning and business development. So I'll, uh, I see them on there right now. I'll let them begin with their presentation. Thank you kindly.

Hello, good afternoon.

My name is Hui Liang Lu. I'm a principal transportation planner with the planning department. I am also the co-project manager for Connecting Roads, the city's multimodal transportation master plan. We have provided a number of updates from the process, project process. The project started about two and a half year ago. And at this point, we have developed a final draft, adoption draft plan that will be presented to the city council, transportation committee, as well as the city council study session and a regular session for adoption through the places comprehensive amendment. by adopting this plan by references. So with that, we'd like to make today's presentation as many as a project overview to kind of recap and refresh your memory about what's going on and also the SWOT project process. So with that, our project consultant, Keith Borsheim, he's the HDR project manager. He should be online to make the presentation today.

Hi, everybody. Can you hear me? Great. And everybody can see my screen with the presentation? Awesome. So I'm really happy to join you here. I do also want to highlight a couple other folks on the call. Carly Camposano with Public Works is the city's co-project manager working with Huiliang. And also, Lauren Plattman is on the call. She also works with me. We're both with HDR, which is the lead consultant on the consulting team. We're both transportation planners, and we're really excited to be presenting this project overview to you all today. There was a question about being an Aurora resident. I'm not an Aurora resident, but I was born and raised in Aurora. So really happy to be making this plan for my hometown. So with that, we'll go into the presentation. Quickly, our agenda here, a review of the project's purpose and goals. We will touch on public engagement results and process throughout this presentation to remind folks about all the great public engagement that the city was able to conduct throughout this process. We'll review the proposed policies, programs, and projects. Those are the key recommendations that resulted from the process. And then touch on the final plan adoption timeline. Excuse me. So as a reminder, as Huilin mentioned, this plan is the city's first opportunity to create a citywide vision and goals for transportation. The city has conducted sub-area planning efforts in the past and corridor planning efforts in the past, but this is the first chance that we've had to really put it all together into one plan. It will result in an amendment to Aurora Places after connecting Aurora is adopted. And really the goal here is to be innovative and adapt to a very rapidly changing transportation landscape. One key aspect of this plan is that it's an integrated approach to both transportation and land use. So you'll see that a little bit in the presentation and how we plan for possible futures in the city. And the projects really are intended to create a multimodal system of complete streets for all people, no matter how they choose to move around. And then I do want to just highlight on this last bullet, this is a long-range plan. There are many projects, policies, and programs that have resulted from this process that will take time to implement. And it's not something that can be accomplished in the next 10 years. It's really a two or three decade effort for this plan to come to fruition. Our overall project approach was really divided into four phases. The discovery phase is where we dug in and learned all about what the city's transportation assets are today and what they might be in the future and what conditions those are in and how well they're serving people today. Then we took that information and developed our vision, goals, and objectives for the city and really started to look at the future scenarios that might play out as the city grows and as the way that we move around the city changes. Then we took all that information and created our visionary multimodal networks. So you'll see those in this presentation as well, but it's really a layered approach to providing networks that provide service for people no matter how they move. And then finally, there was the realized phase where we developed those recommendations and an implementation plan to go along with them. Here's the overall timeline. So we kicked off at the end of 2023 with that discovery phase. So this has been a little over two years now of working with the city to identify these projects and policies and programs. I want to highlight on this slide there were four main engagement points or milestones throughout this process and a couple bonus engagement, smaller engagements that we were able to conduct throughout the process. Here are a couple slides about the engagement activities that we were able to conduct throughout the process. The main takeaway from this slide is that the city put a lot of effort into identifying many different routes to meet people where they are and have people come to city events and have city staff go to community events. In addition to those events, Notices went out in various forms from paper notices in the form of flaring and signage, as well as inserts in the water bills and social media, of course. One last thing on this slide is that we were able to translate many of these materials into several different languages using some of the nice new tools that we have at our disposal. Obviously, Aurora is a very diverse city, so we didn't translate into all the languages that people in Aurora speak, but it was available if folks requested it. So throughout that process, we were able to engage with people on a number of fronts, resulting in over a million what we call touchpoints. So those touchpoints are just instances where people have interacted with the project. So they may have just seen an ad for connecting Aurora on social media site, or maybe they engaged with somebody at a public open house. We had over 10,000 visitors to the online website. 2,500 people filled out surveys, including 700 different pins were placed on maps to provide comments, location specific comments. Over 500.

I know you've got a lot of slides here and you've got 25 less than 25 minutes left, so I might have to encourage you to move quickly.

OK, thank you. I'll crank it up. Just want to highlight one other thing. In addition to the people who were able to attend our events, we did engage with almost 600 people at community events. During the discovery phase, two main topics really rose to the forefront. Safety challenges resulting from driver behavior, street design, street network, and the land use patterns. And then finally, the mobility challenges. Here you see the layered networks. And really the focus here was identifying where those connectivity issues exist for people I do also want to highlight the different demographic shifts that we are expecting. I heard the silver tsunami comment earlier. Those demographic shifts will change how people move through the city. Key transportation concerns. People find that it's unsafe to travel outside of a car. They experience bottlenecks and dangerous driving behaviors. They find that the destinations that they wish to travel access are too far to comfortably walk or bike to, and that there are a lack of connections to those services and destinations. People desire to have higher quality streets and places, and they find that transit is often too slow, infrequent, unreliable, and sometimes feels unsafe. We did develop a shared vision and mission, as well as 10 goals. In the interest of the time, I'm only going to read the vision. Aurora safely connects all people to our places for a healthy, sustainable, and economically strong community. And then we have 10 goals that really support the city in trying to achieve that vision. And the city will be tracking its progress towards meeting these goals over the next two decades. So we talked a little bit at the outset about scenario planning. This is a process that we like to go through to imagine different possible futures. And these are extreme futures that are based on what investments the city makes, also what external factors might impact the way people move and live in the city. And so we examined three key kind of extreme futures. One is the car-oriented city, which you might think of as mostly how Aurora has grown over the past five decades or so. Kind of disconnected networks, particularly for walking and biking and taking transit. Then there's a transit-oriented city where we really concentrate future growth on these transit corridors and provide greater transit service throughout the city. And then finally was the neighborhood-oriented city, which kind of takes aspects of both of those but provides better connections for walking and biking and really focuses that development on what we might think of as town centers throughout the city. When we asked the public how they think each of those possible futures might impact their overall quality of life, we found a strong preference for the neighborhood-oriented and transit-oriented cities and a preference to move away from that status quo car-oriented city. So the city used that input and some of the modeling and testing that was done to develop the preferred scenario for how the city might grow in the future. And it's really a combination of all of those, providing better transit service throughout the city, more walkable communities throughout the city, and really concentrating that future development on these nodes and town centers. And we dubbed it the place-oriented city. Building on that scenario and that vision for the future, we were able to then develop these visionary networks, these multimodal networks. So there's a pedestrian visionary network, a bike visionary network, transit, as well as the street network for cars and trucks. These networks really drive the future design of the city and development. And it reflects that vision to safely connect people to their destinations no matter how they want to move. In the Visionaries pedestrian network, every city street must safely and comfortably accommodate pedestrian movement, particularly near schools, transit stops, and commercial areas. These are a couple examples of what that might look like in the future. The Visionary Bike Network really expands on the existing bike network that exists today, providing separated bike lanes, shared use paths, and new crossings. All of this in the service of making biking a truly viable option for people as they move through the city. You see a couple examples of what a trail might look like or a separated bike facility along a street at the bottom here. The Visionary Transit Network imagines a great expansion of transit service throughout the city, as well as infrastructure improvements such as dedicated lanes, bus priority facilities, and signal improvements, all in the service of making transit more convenient for people who choose to move that way. And then finally, we do imagine that there will be a need to continue to improve the auto and freight network, of course, as the city grows. So there are many capacity improvements and freight enhancements that are included as part of the plan. In order to realize these visionary networks, we've identified four key methods to implement these improvements. One is the establishment of and revision of city policies, as well as new programs and revisions to programs And then a big portion here, of course, is capital investments. And the city, of course, will need to work with its partners regionally and nationally as well. There are five new updated policies. Those are listed here. The top one is something that we are developing as part of this plan. It's a complete streets policy, as well as design guidelines to go with that. A lot of that would be in support of for example, what we just heard about the transportation improvements going in at the APS project. So those design guidelines would help guide the city and developers as they develop those kinds of improvements. On the program side, we have identified 12 new or updated programs. The ones on the left here are really focused on the multimodal, so walking and biking, improvements and how we can make those improvements in a programmatic way across the city. Then we have three on the right here that are focused on the transit system and how we can programmatically make transit updates. And then the city on the bottom right is really focused on maintaining its information system as well as its transportation assets. So we identified over 900 individual project elements as part of that process. A couple highlights here. There are over 100 new signals and upgrades to existing intersections, including roundabouts, 300 miles of bikeways and trails, and 100 miles of sidewalk upgrades, as well as 300 bike and pedestrian crossings. So really running the gamut here of different project element types. Here are the maps. I'm not going to zoom in on them, but they are in the final report. And one thing I want to highlight is that you will see on these maps that many of the projects are concentrated in the currently developed area of the city. And that's because that's where most of our existing transportation needs are. As the city continues to grow to the east, new projects will be needed out east as well. But most of those will be built by those developments that come online. So that's another key aspect of that development, or excuse me, those complete street design guidelines. I mentioned the implementation plan. So we have identified short-term projects to be implemented hopefully within the next 10 years. Here's the map that goes with that. It's a wide variety of projects. And that total investment is going to be about $45 to $65 million for the next 10 years. And that is exclusive of the maintenance that goes along with those projects. And of course, with the city's current transportation system. Before I move on from this, I do also want to highlight that the city has been actively participating and contributing to Adams County Safety Action Plan, which is another list of safety-focused projects that will be needed over the next couple of decades. Here's our plan adoption timeline. We will be coming back to present to you all later this month with the final plan, and then also we'll be taking it to the TAPS committee the next day, and then moving towards submitting that final plan to City Council in April, targeting an April or May adoption. And that's my presentation. Thank you, Keith, for accommodating the time schedule.

We appreciate that. Commissioner's questions? Okay, I got a couple. I sat in on the Build Aurora sessions, and I noticed under transportation infrastructure, 1A and 1K talked about multimodal, and 1F talked about sidewalks. Is there collaboration with what you're doing to part of this Build Up Aurora effort?

Yeah, absolutely. And I know I have some city partners online here who might want to jump in, but Build Up Aurora is very much in our project list and forms the bulk of those short-term projects. Carly, did you want to jump in?

Yeah, I can add more. I thought someone else maybe said something too. I couldn't hear. That wasn't me.

Okay. No, Carly, I'll defer to you. Janine Rustad, Director of Planning and Business Development.

Thanks, Janine. Carly Camposano, Deputy Director of Public Works. Yeah, a lot of the projects you saw in the build-up Aurora process are also reflected in this study, as Keith said, with short-term projects. So the high-priority missing sidewalk gap, some of the bridges and different complete streets projects that you saw with that are all reflected in here as well. So We've done a lot of communication and back and forth on those.

All right, thank you.

Commissioners, other questions? Garrett?

Yeah, thanks for the presentation, Keith. That was really helpful in getting kind of an overview about where we are in the process. My question is, Huilong, when you and Mac presented to us last year, We had talked sort of extensively about how this is going to be displayed. I'm really familiar with the section on the city's website for Connect Aurora, but things are still very clunky. And we had talked about the interactive maps and kind of the dashboard. And is that still planned? Those maps are a little difficult to view. They're all just in PDF version. So it's kind of difficult to parse through those. So I was just wanting an update on where we're at with how this is going to be sort of publicly displayed on the website.

Sure, I can start in the postcard and Keith can give you more information as well. Yes, we do. We are working very hard on the dashboard as I introduced last time. That will be a very important tool to measure essentially the progress we made over the next many, many years. And the goal is to have that dashboard available. And when we come back in two weeks, then you'll be able to play with it.

Actually, if I may about the dashboard, one thing we are being very cognizant of is we don't want to create confusion for the public because right now so much of the focus is on Build Up Aurora and what we may bring to the public. So We also have the city's strategic plan and creating a public dashboard for that. So there are many conversations going on about how we clearly and concisely present information to the public. And with the thought that right now, the public is probably most interested in what we're getting done, not what we will get done. So really a lot of emphasis on that build up Aurora, that 10 year project list there.

Good point. Yeah, we are coordinating closely with the city's overall dashboard to make sure we're all coordinated.

Any other questions, commissioners?

Very good. Okay, so we certainly thank planning and business development, the staff. This was very, very informative. Commission, we will adjourn for now. And reconvene at 610. We'll probably see most of all these other faces again. So we'll see you soon. Thank you all very much.

Thank you.