Remarks by Bob Nelson
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“Which is all our districts are very specific in rural.”
“So but and I think that's where we're that's where I think we're getting planning the same. That's where design review is going to come into place. And you know what, after I was, you know, so negative, I want to try. We need to try something, guys. We have to do something different.”
“So, I mean, this may be painful for some of us, and we may have to come back here later on and change things in a couple of years because maybe it went crazy. It was, you know, maybe too successful. That'd a good problem to have. But knowing the history of how things have gone, it's probably not going to lead to uncontrolled, unfettered development that we're gonna be really uncomfortable with.”
“Okay. That takes us to design review, right? And so what's exempt? You're asking us on that exempt single family homes, some tiered approach, or”
“just Yeah, can you walk walk us through Sure.”
“Right. If we end up having the administrative design process. I hate to say it. What's the point of having our bars then? What would our bars be reviewing?”
“is that number one or is that number two? Well,”
“That's good because that will mean less things for the full board.”
“I think the middle ground actually makes things faster because I think there's exempt stuff Right. That's going be exempt”
“to the And it's stuff that's in between there that would get some so actually I think two is actually the fastest process because it captures some of those things and gets reviewed by staff instead of going to bar.”
“Okay. Well, understanding that concept, I'm okay with two, if that because again, we're trying to move to a more streamlined process.”
“two. This is the second one. This is the next two.”
“Okay. So we're at one two and two two. And we're not and so”
“So I got the Orchid Community Plan, which is a big community, right? But then I also have the Old Town Orchid.”
“Right. Then then you have like Los Alamos, but then you have Bell Street. I I and maybe it's more for the commercial piece, and maybe that's already gonna be covered no matter what. It's like Bell Street and Clark and and Old Orchid should have some design reviews. You're trying to keep an you know, a lot of people invest a lot of money into keeping the old town theme.”
“And I think that that is a good use of design review is is to have some additional purview on that. I I don't wanna get into all this extra design review on single family homes and whatnot, but I think for these commercial zones that have been trying to keep a historic theme, think it's important. Supervisor Hartman?”
“So real quick, do you have any commercial thoughts real quick before we leave you or before you leave us?”
“Okay. I think those were some of the questions that they're going need feedback on. So I wanted to make sure you got a chance to comment on that. So all right. Back to you, Alex.”
“Well, I think the question is to Supervisor Lee here on your thoughts on design review.”
“And give you I think that's because this is just looking for some This”
“So, let me recommend, especially since this is a really sensitive area there, that staff work with the First District on it, because I think that there have some conflict areas there, especially with the they have their own bar just for one community. That I think that's where the most of the work's going to need to be done. And I think the rest of us can get comfortable with what comes out of that.”
“we need to do some things differently. So I'm willing to take the risk here. Yeah. So.”
“I think there's some risk to it, but I think overall the greater good of what we're trying to accomplish here needs to be we need to take some risks.”
“Correct. And it's always hard to tell. Don't know if it's going be a popular restaurant or not a popular restaurant. Mean, it's true, right? Mean, some things get a lot of use, you're never going to know until it goes in there.”
“And it may blow up the parking lot and everybody's mad at that one, you know, one retailer. But, you know, and it's kind of the process that has to go through. And that sometimes ultimately becomes a self limiting factor for that business as well, is the parking available.”