City Council - workshop

I think that's the That concludes our remarks Council members Good yes, go ahead I understand the the sale The revenue from the sale of the property will need to remain within the airport. Where do you anticipate those proceeds? being allocated within the department I

Thank you. I just have a couple of curious questions. So when it comes to the chargers, do you ever see us reaching max capacity where there are folks who are looking for a charger to be had, but they're not available?

Thank you. I fully support the efforts to move towards the level one charge in terms of what that looks like. I will say I do know that, you know, having a family member who has an electric vehicle, that there are more and more of these charging stations that are coming online that do charge overages, like if you're just hanging out there. AND I GUESS IT'S NOT A NEED FOR HERE NOW AND TODAY BUT ESPECIALLY IN TERMS OF SOME OF THOSE HIGH USE AREAS THAT MAY BE SOMETHING WORTH LOOKING INTO IN THE FUTURE JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DO HAVE AVAILABILITY AS OPPOSED TO THE 3.97 DAYS BECAUSE THAT NUMBER S

Is there a reason why we're so worried about square footage when we already have limitations on setback and height, which by virtue of that, we're limiting where people, either it fits in their space or it doesn't. Is there a reason why we would go that extra mile and limit the square? I don't care if it meets all those other criteria.

It seems to me we can't control things like finishes. Can't say you have to have a laminate countertop in instead of granite. The ground's already paid for in this scenario. So what we're putting in really is in what we're building. So I understand it, but Councilmember Wharton and I have had KIND OF DEEP THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS. I DON'T SEE THIS AS THE VEHICLE TO PROVIDE AFFORDABLE HOUSING. I SEE THIS AS CREATING THE CONDITIONS RIGHT FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT AND CREATE AFFORDABILITY WITHIN THE CITY. THERE IS A LOT OF NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. THERE'S A LOT OF WORK

Well, I'm happy to go in so Thank You councilmember Wharton What I'm hearing in what you're sharing about a desire for a mailer and more public engagement That it's important. We take the time to get this, right?

and that residents know. And so I support continuing public engagement on this and understanding that residents understand that this affects 77% of all residentially zoned land in our city. And I will say that even as a new council member, understanding zoning restrictions is not the most exciting topic for most folks and most residents. And so I think it is incumbent upon us to educate as many of our neighbors about these proposed changes as possible. So I think it's important we get this right. If we are going to... go a different direction than our peers went in the 90s, we have time to mak

Thank you. I concur on the mailer piece. I was just running some quick numbers based on what's in the presentation. So if we do conservative estimates around that there's 200,000 residents, 77% is 154,000 individuals if we go one per that could be impacted. And so based on the 152 responses we've seen in the survey, that's less than 0.1%. And again, I think that in terms of scale, for me, I'd just like to see an opportunity for us to get the word out. I think, and I say this with all sincerity, you guys set the bar really high with mixed use zone. And I think that the department and all of the

And I want to amplify. I spoke with Councilmember Wharton. I am always fine with involving more, but these two gentlemen came to a Valentine's Day event for my district at Señor Pollo. Like, they were in the most... like, nascent experience in my neighborhood. So if we just do the things that we've always done, we're going to get the feedback that we've always gotten. And it's going to be from a predictable demographic that cares about this, that understands the importance about this. So I would like something forward-looking. I would like an easy response QR code, like if we're going to do a

Yeah, so I'm just going to build on those statements to say I think one of the things that I found to be like the most useful is even in the times that you've come to present when we have visuals. The visuals, I think, make a huge difference in terms of the accessibility. And I think the team does a really great job of presenting it that way. I think sometimes when you put like, well, here's the actual text. you know like most people are like i have no idea what that means um and so you know that there's already a lot of great materials around that and i think it's just around being able to us

In speaking earlier with Council Member Wharton, we had identified that the two primary examples that we keep using, Portland and Durham, they each had supplemental policies around them that bolstered them. In Portland, it was their aggressive ability to do rent controls and use policy for that kind of thing. And then in Durham, it was a $95 million bond for affordable housing. have we been able to control for the variable do we have reasonable confidence that should we step into this and take this risk that this policy in and of itself will be enough to set the table or do you have other reco

In thinking about these other cities, I have a couple questions and apologies if you shared this in the earlier briefing, but did they include an owner occupancy requirement in any of those other examples?

Okay. And then a follow-up question is, you know, for a property owner to, say, take advantage of this ordinance, there's a certain level of both technical knowledge and access to capital in order to really build that additional unit on their land or, you know, have a place for their kids to live. I'm curious in the other examples, were there any examples of, or the other cities, were there any examples of technical assistance or capital assistance to really ensure that those who took advantage of these changes were the mom and pops rather than large institutional investors?

Yes, you just set it up perfectly, Director Norris. So since we have our fearless legislative director here in the room as well, I do think that that's the other piece of this conversation. I continually see a lot of interest at the state level in terms of affordability. And oftentimes what I've seen as the proposed legislation tends to look like kind of shifting that land use authority from the municipality to the state level. For me, there appears to be a lot of opportunity to be able to kind of flesh out that landscape of these are all the other restrictions that we're battling against to b