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GOOD, GOOD EVENING.IT IS WEDNESDAY, JULY THE 12TH AT SIX 30.
AND I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND CALL THIS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER.
IF WE COULD GO AHEAD AND CALL ROWE, PLEASE.
LOOKS WE, WE HAVE A QUORUM OF FIVE AT THIS TIME.
UH, SHOULD WE GO AHEAD AND DO SIT, GO AHEAD AND OPEN UP TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
THE TIME IS 6:31 PM IT'S ON MY MIC IS ON
UH, THE TIME IS 6:31 PM TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, JULY 12TH.
I WILL NOW CALL THE SPECIAL CALLED MEETING OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION TO ORDER.
MADAM SECRETARY, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL TO LAURIE.
WE HAVE ESTABLISHED A QUORUM AS WELL.
UH, AT THIS TIME WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND OPEN UP FOR OUR CITIZENS' COMMENT.
THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE TO COME FORWARD AND, UH, SPEAK ABOUT ANYTHING ON THE AGENDA ITEM, ANYTHING RELATED TO CITY BUSINESS AND PLANNING AND ZONING.
AND AT THIS TIME, DO WE HAVE ANYBODY SIGNED UP FOR SPEAKING? OKAY.
I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND OPEN IT UP FOR CITIZENS' COMMENT.
SEEING THAT WE HAVE NONE, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND CLOSE IT.
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Discussion between the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council with facilitation by Verdunity, the City's Comprehensive Planning Firm, regarding implementation strategies for the City of Kyle 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update. ~ Will Atkinson, Director of Planning
]NEXT ITEM UP FOR ON THE AGENDA IS GOING TO BE THE DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONS AND CITY COUNCIL AND FACILITATION WITH, UH, VERITY AND THE CITY COMPREHENSION PLANNING FIRM REGARDING IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES FOR THE CITY OF KYLE 2030.UPDATE IN THIS IS WILL ATKINSON.
UH, WILL ATKINSON FOR THE RECORD PLANNING DIRECTOR, UM, I'LL KEEP IT SHORT.
SO, UH, BEFORE YOU, WE HAVE, UH, VIRGINITY, WE HAVE AJ AND MARSHALL, AND THEY ARE GONNA BE DOING THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT FOR IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES.
CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME OKAY? WE DON'T HAVE ANY.
HOW ABOUT NOW? DO WE HAVE A SCREEN? GOT IT.
WELL, GOOD EVENING TO ALL OF YOU.
WE ARE EXCITED TO BE BACK WITH YOU THIS EVENING.
CAN WE PAUSE UNTIL WE DON'T LIGHT? I'M SORRY.
CAN WE, I'M SEEING IT ON MY COMPUTER.
SO, UM, ARE YOU ISSUES OR YOU EXPERIENCING ISSUES? I JUST DON'T SEE IT LOT.
WE JUST DON'T SEE IT ON THE MONITORS WHEN WE'RE SEEING EARLIER.
BUT YES, ON THE, UM, ON THE LI THERE IS A LIVE FEED GOING ON THE, ON THE WEBSITE FOR SURE.
IT MAY JUST, I JUST DON'T THINK THIS, THE SLIDES HAVE SHOWN UP JUST YET.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO VERIFY IT SO THAT WAY YES, IF THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING WOULD BE ABLE TO, UH, SEE AND HEAR IT.
SO THIS EVENING, WE ARE AS PROMISED, GOING TO SPEAK WITH YOU ALL ABOUT THE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY COMPONENT OF THE, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
WE DON'T PLAN TO TAKE UP TOO MUCH OF YOUR TIME THIS EVENING.
WE'LL TRY TO MOVE FAIRLY SWIFTLY THROUGH THIS.
SO WE WANT TO GIVE YOU SOME INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION.
WE HAVE AN EXERCISE THAT WE'LL WORK THROUGH WITH ALL OF YOU.
UM, AND SO WE'RE GOING TO START, AS WE ALWAYS DO, BY JUST REMINDING YOU WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROJECT TIMELINE PROCESS, WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE SLIDE HERE.
WE HAVE JUST FINISHED, AND WITH THIS TRIP, OUR WRAPPING UP, THE THIRD PHASE, UH, OF THIS PLAN AND MOVING INTO THE PRIORITIZATION PHASE, WHICH IS PHASE FOUR OF THE PLAN, WHICH WILL CARRY US THROUGH AUGUST.
UM, THIS WE WANT TO PAUSE ON FOR A MOMENT AND JUST DRAW EVERYONE'S ATTENTION TO THAT'S WATCHING AND THAT'S IN ATTENDANCE BECAUSE THIS
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IS A NOTABLE PART OF THIS TIMELINE.AND WHY IS THAT NOTABLE? WELL, THE REASON IT'S NOTABLE IS BECAUSE YOU WILL BE, UM, RECEIVING A DOCUMENT TO REVIEW VERY SOON.
UH, AND I KNOW YOU'VE ALL BEEN EAGERLY ANTICIPATING THAT YOU'VE BEEN VERY PATIENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS, AND WE APPRECIATE THAT YOU'LL BE RECEIVING THE FINAL DRAFT IN TWO DIFFERENT FORMS. UH, THE FIRST PIECE OF THAT IS GOING TO BE THE PLAN DRAFT ITSELF, WHICH YOU'LL BE RECEIVING, WILL BE TURNING OVER TO THE CITY BY THE END OF THE MONTH.
AND THE SECOND PIECE OF THAT IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO WORK ON WITH YOU ALL TONIGHT, WHICH IS THE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY COMPONENT OF THE PLAN.
SO IT'S TWO ELEMENTS THAT TOGETHER WE'LL FORMULATE THE FINAL DOCUMENT.
UM, AND AGAIN, AS A REMINDER, WE WILL BE MEETING WITH YOU ALL ONE FINAL TIME, UM, THROUGHOUT THESE FIFTH PHASE FROM SEPTEMBER TO OCTOBER, UM, TO ADOPT THE PLAN FORMALLY.
SO WE'LL BE WORKING WITH YOUR STAFF TO COORDINATE, UH, THE DRAFT DELIVERY.
THEY WILL BE WORKING WITH YOU ALL TO DO A REVIEW OF THOSE DRAFTS AND TO COORDINATE THE DIFFERENT EDIT COLLECTIONS, PROVIDING THOSE BACK TO US.
AND THEN WE'LL BE PUTTING TOGETHER A FINAL DRAFT FOR YOU.
SO WE'RE GETTING VERY, VERY CLOSE.
SO WHAT IS OUR TIME GOING TO BE SPENT ON TONIGHT? WELL, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION, AND WE WANTED TO START WITH JUST REMINDING YOU ABOUT THE APPROACH THAT WE TYPICALLY TAKE TO THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS.
THERE'S REALLY TWO MAJOR COMPONENTS OF IT.
IT'S INCREMENTAL IN NATURE AND IT IS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTRIC.
AND WHAT DOES THAT REALLY MEAN? WELL, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AN INCREMENTAL APPROACH TO IMPLEMENTATION, WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS SOMETHING THAT USES A SERIES OF SMALL, ACHIEVABLE, ATTAINABLE STEPS.
UM, IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS A CULTURE THAT YOU CREATE OF EXPERIMENTATION WHERE YOU TRY SOME NEW THINGS, YOU EXPERIMENT WITH SOME DIFFERENT IDEAS, TEST THINGS TO SEE HOW THEY WORK.
UM, IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT PROCESS BECAUSE IT IS A SLIGHT PARADIGM SHIFT FOR CITIES THAT, UM, TAKES US FROM A PLACE OF MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE OPEN TO I IDEA GENERATION, UM, AS THAT MEANS COMING FROM OUR CITIZENS, AS THAT MEANS COMING FROM ALL OF YOU.
UM, AND THAT WE ARE TESTING THOSE IDEAS AND CREATING LOW BARRIERS FOR PEOPLE TO COME FORWARD AND SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS.
UM, THAT HELPS YOU TO ACHIEVE MORE WITH LESS IN MANY WAYS, WHICH IS OFTEN WHAT GOVERNMENT IS CHALLENGED WITH DOING.
IT ALSO ENABLES YOU TO HAVE A LOWER, UH, SENSE OF RISK WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO TEST SOME DIFFERENT IDEAS.
AND YOU'LL FIND THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS THAT YOUR PUBLIC HAS BEEN VERY FORTHCOMING WITH SOME IDEAS OF THEIR OWN THAT THEY'D LIKE YOU TO TRY.
UM, AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF, OF IDEAS THAT YOU'LL BE SEEING.
THE OTHER BIG ELEMENT THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IS THAT IT'S VERY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTRIC AND NEIGHBORHOOD FOCUSED.
UM, GREAT NEIGHBORHOODS MAKE GREAT COMMUNITIES, AND WE'VE TALKED WITH YOU ALL AT LENGTH ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF NEIGHBORHOODS AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY OFFER A VARIETY OF THINGS THAT SERVE THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE AND WORK WITHIN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO THIS PLAN FOCUSES ON THIS IDEA OF A COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP OF THE PLAN.
THE PLAN DOESN'T BELONG TO CITY HALL, NOR NOR DOES IT BELONG SIMPLY TO THE CITIZENS.
IT BELONGS TO ALL OF YOU AS A WHOLE.
AND THE WAY THAT YOU CREATE THE IDEA OF COLLECTIVE OWNERSHIP IS BY MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE THEMSELVES AND THEIR IDEAS REFLECTED IN THE ULTIMATE PLAN THAT YOU ADOPT.
ANOTHER ELEMENT THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO THIS IS UNDERSTANDING THE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
UM, IN GOVERNMENT, WE OFTEN HAVE TO GET VERY CREATIVE BECAUSE THERE'S NEVER ENOUGH RESOURCES TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO.
AND WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IN MOST COMMUNITIES, AND KYLE HAS BEEN NO EXCEPTION TO THIS, IS THAT CITIES TYPICALLY HAVE A GREAT, GREAT WEALTH OF RESOURCES ALREADY AT THEIR DISPOSAL.
THEY MAY NOT BE AS WELL CONNECTED AS THEY MIGHT LIKE TO BE.
THEY MAY NOT BE FULLY AWARE OF ONE ANOTHER, BUT THEY'RE OFTEN THERE AND THEY'RE OFTEN PRESENT.
AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID THIS WEEK WAS WORK WITH YOUR COMMUNITY TO IDENTIFY THOSE RESOURCES SO THAT WE CAN SHOW YOU HOW TO INCORPORATE THEM, UM, IN THE CARRYING OUT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN.
SO A BIG PART OF THE IMPLEMENTATION IS THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BRING TO YOU.
AND WHAT WE TRY TO DO IN OUR APPROACH THAT YOU SAW WHEN YOU SELECTED US TO DO THIS WORK IS WE TRY TO TAKE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT TACK WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT RECOMMENDATIONS THAN WHAT YOU MIGHT TYPICALLY SEE IN COMPREHENSIVE PLANS.
UH, RECOMMENDATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE PLANS ARE GENERALLY VERY BROAD AND OVERARCHING RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THAT'S WHERE IT STOPS.
THAT DOESN'T QUITE GET YOU WHERE YOU NEED TO GO BECAUSE IT LEAVES YOU IN A POSITION WHERE OVER THE FIRST YEAR AFTER ADOPTION, YOU'RE TRYING TO DECIPHER THOSE BROAD RECOMMENDATIONS AND YOU'RE TRYING TO DEFINE THEM AND DETERMINE HOW TO CARRY THOSE OUT.
UM, AND SO THERE'S A GREAT DEAL OF EXCITEMENT THAT'S BUILT ABOUT THE ADOPTION OF THE PLAN.
AND THAT EXCITEMENT IS OFTEN DAMPENED WHEN EVER WE CAN'T SET TO WORK RIGHT AWAY.
AND SO WHAT WE'VE TRIED TO DO IN THIS EFFORT IS TO DO THE OPPOSITE, TO GIVE YOU THOSE BROAD, MEANINGFUL RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT CORRELATE THEM INTO A SERIES OF SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT YOU CAN CARRY OUT STARTING FROM
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THE MOMENT YOU ADOPT THE PLAN, SO THAT YOU REALLY GET TO WORK, UH, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.AND THE ACTIONS TOGETHER ARE VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IF YOU COMPLETE ALL OF THE ACTIONS, THINK OF THEM AS A TO-DO LIST FOR EACH RECOMMENDATION, THEN THE RECOMMENDATION ITSELF WILL BE LARGELY FULFILLED.
IT WILL REQUIRE SOME REEXAMINATION FROM TIME TO TIME.
AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW YOU WILL ESSENTIALLY TAKE THIS PLAN AND MAKE IT YOUR OWN AND CONTINUE TO UPDATE IT OVER TIME.
BUT THERE ARE SOME SPECIFIC THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT FOR ACTIONS TO CONTAIN AND TO ENCOMPASS.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA WORK WITH YOU ALL TONIGHT AND HAVE YOU COME UP WITH SOME OF THESE ACTIONS FOR US.
SO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT HERE IS THAT THEY ARE, AS I'VE ALREADY MENTIONED, VERY SPECIFIC, THEY'RE THINGS THAT ARE ACHIEVABLE.
THEY'RE THINGS THAT ARE PHRASED IN A WAY WHERE YOU AS A COUNCIL, AS A COMMISSION, UM, AND AS THE CITY AS A WHOLE CAN REPORT ON THOSE THINGS.
THE PUBLIC'S GOING TO BE VERY INTERESTED IN UNDERSTANDING HOW YOU'VE PUT THIS PLAN INTO MOTION.
AND THE BEST WAY FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO LET THEM KNOW HOW THAT'S WORKING AND WHAT SUCCESSES THAT YOU'VE EXPERIENCED IS BY HAVING A SERIES OF ACTIONS WHERE IT'S VERY EASY FOR YOU TO REPORT WHETHER OR NOT THEY'VE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
THEY ALSO HAVE TO BE REALISTIC FOR THE CONSTRAINTS WITHIN WHICH YOU'RE WORKING.
AND SO YOU'VE HELPED US REALLY GET A GOOD HANDLE ON THE CONSTRAINTS THAT YOU'VE EXPERIENCED AND HOW THEY'VE INFLUENCED THE WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING.
THERE'S ALSO A SERIES OF ACTION TYPES THAT WILL BE PART OF THE PLAN.
AND SO WHEN WE GIVE YOU THE FINAL PRODUCT, YOU WILL SEE THESE BROAD RECOMMENDATIONS.
YOU'LL SEE THE SPECIFIC ACTIONS THAT TAKE YOU TOWARDS ACHIEVING THAT RECOMMENDATION.
WE'LL SUGGEST THE DIFFERENT CITY DEPARTMENTS AND PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY THAT CAN BE PART OF CARRYING OUT THOSE ACTIONS AND WILL SUGGEST THE KINDS OF ACTIONS THAT ARE NECESSARY AND WARRANTED BY, UM, THOSE DIFFERENT ACTIONS.
SO HERE'S THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES THAT YOU'LL TEND TO SEE.
AND THE FIRST TWO, I THINK, ARE THE ONES THAT ARE, UM, THE ONES THAT COME TO MIND FOR MOST OF US.
WHEN WE THINK ABOUT SETTING A PLAN INTO ACTION, WE THINK ABOUT UTILIZING REGULATIONS TO SET THE BOUNDARIES AND THE STANDARDS OF THE COMMUNITY.
WE ALSO TEND TO THINK OF THE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE IN ORDER TO CARRY THAT PLAN FORWARD.
BUT THERE ARE OTHER ELEMENTS THAT ARE IMPORTANT ACTION TYPES TO INCLUDE AS WELL.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'LL SEE THROUGHOUT THE PLAN THAT TIES BACK TO THIS IDEA OF INCREMENTAL NEIGHBORHOOD CENTRIC IS THE TACTICAL SLASH COMMUNITY ACTIONS.
THESE ARE REALLY AREAS WHERE THE CITY, UM, MAKES POSSIBLE THE ABILITY FOR LOCALS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PLAN EXECUTION ON THEIR OWN.
SOMETIMES THE CITY WILL SAY, WE REALLY SHOULD MAYBE GET OUT OF THE WAY AND LET PEOPLE RUN WITH THIS AND SEE WHERE THEY GO.
YOU'LL DECIDE WHERE THAT'S NECESSARY AND WHERE THAT'S APPROPRIATE.
BUT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE SEEING MORE AND MORE WITH CITIES.
IT ALSO, AGAIN, GIVES YOU THE ABILITY TO EXPERIMENT BEFORE MAKING LARGE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS TO SEE IF SOMETHING IS GOING TO WORK WELL FOR YOUR COMMUNITY AND GET BUY-IN BEFORE THOSE PURCHASES AND INVESTMENTS ARE MADE, WHICH MAKES YOUR LIVES A LOT EASIER, RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU GET A LOT OF HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE.
PARTNERSHIPS ARE ALSO CRITICAL TO THIS IDEA OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTRIC INCREMENTAL IMPLEMENTATION.
THOSE RESOURCES THAT I MENTIONED AT THE OUTSET THAT WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER AN INVENTORY OF USING YOUR COMMUNITY AS, UM, KIND OF A LITMUS TEST OF WHAT GROUPS COULD BE PART OF THIS, UH, WHERE AND WHEN THEY SHOULD BE INCORPORATED.
AND THOSE PARTNERSHIPS HELP YOU TO DO MORE WITH LESS AS WELL.
UH, OFTEN WE FIND WITH THE DIFFERENT CLIENTS WE WORK WITH, THAT THERE ARE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS THAT CAN GIVE THEM ACCESS TO ADDITIONAL FUNDING, TO ADDITIONAL EXPERTISE THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE ON STAFF, UM, IDEAS AND INTRODUCTIONS THAT HELP YOU WORK MORE EFFECTIVELY AND GET THINGS DONE.
EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION WILL ALSO BE AN IMPORTANT TYPE OF ACTION.
UM, YOU'VE ALL ALREADY INDICATED HOW IMPORTANT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IS FOR YOU.
AND SO TO KEEP THIS CONVERSATION GOING OUTSIDE OF THE INITIAL PLANNING PROCESS TO MAINTAIN THIS TWO-WAY DIALOGUE THAT CITIZENS TEND TO VALUE AND PLACE MORE TRUST IN THEIR GOVERNMENT WITH, UM, EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION IS REALLY KEY TO THAT.
AND YOU ARE ALREADY IDENTIFYING WAYS THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS THAT YOU'RE CURRENTLY UNDER DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, UM, ON SEVERAL OF THESE ITEMS, INCLUDING THE EDUCATION PIECE, GUIDELINES AND INCENTIVES ARE TWO OTHER TOOLS THAT WE RECOMMEND THAT YOU USE IN COMBINATION WITH REGULATIONS.
REGULATIONS ARE VERY HELPFUL WITH SOME AREAS, UH, THAT YOU WANNA FOCUS ON, BUT IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT TO GUIDE PEOPLE IN THE DIRECTION THAT YOU'D LIKE THEM TO GO TO PROVIDE THEM THE RESOURCES AND THE KNOWLEDGE BASE TO BRING YOU THE SORTS OF THINGS THAT YOU'RE WANTING TO SEE AND TO INCENTIVIZE THEM AND INCENTIVES.
UH, TYPICALLY WE THINK OF THAT AS BEING MONEY, UH, SOME SORT OF FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION OR ACCESS TO SOME SORT OF FINANCIAL, UM, ACCOUNT OR PROGRAM.
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CAN ALSO BE A PROCESS INCENTIVE, MAKING SURE THAT WE MAKE THE PROCESS AS STREAMLINED AS POSSIBLE FOR THE SORTS OF DEVELOPMENT, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IN YOUR COMMUNITY.SO NEXT, WE'RE GOING TO WALK YOU VERY QUICKLY THROUGH SOME EXAMPLES OF THINGS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY.
THE FIRST REASON WE'RE GONNA DO THIS IS BECAUSE WHEN YOU GET IT, WE WANT IT TO FEEL FAMILIAR TO YOU.
WE WANT YOU TO KNOW WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR HANDS ON THIS.
AND SECONDLY, WE WANNA SHOW YOU SOME EXAMPLES SO THAT WHEN WE WALK YOU THROUGH THIS EXERCISE IN A MOMENT, YOU CAN BASE THE WAY THAT YOU APPROACH THAT EXERCISE BASED ON WHAT YOU'VE SEEN HERE.
SO THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT AREAS THAT WERE ENCOMPASSED IN THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT.
UM, NUMBER ONE IS SORT OF GENERAL OVERARCHING RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, THINGS THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH GOVERNING THE CITY.
WE'RE ALSO GOING TO LOOK AT SOME RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO NEIGHBORHOODS, WHICH WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING WITH YOU ABOUT.
AND THEN THIRDLY, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE SPECIFIC TO LAND USE AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT.
SO IN THE FIRST EXAMPLE HERE, UH, THE RECOMMENDATION GENERALLY IS TO ALIGN DECISIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY'S PRINCIPLES.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE GOT A LOT OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON FROM THE COMMUNITY.
UM, BACK IN TRIP ONE, YOU MAY REMEMBER US SHARING WITH YOU THAT ONE OF THE EXERCISES THAT WE WALKED THE COMMUNITY THROUGH WAS TELLING US WHAT SORTS OF PRINCIPLES SPECIFICALLY THEY'D LIKE TO SEE INCORPORATED IN DECISION MAKING.
SO WE KNOW THAT THAT'S AN IMPORTANT THING FOR PEOPLE AND KYLE.
SO THERE'S A VARIETY OF WAYS THAT WE CAN DO THAT.
WE CAN DO THAT BY SHOWING HOW THE DECISIONS THAT WE ARE MAKING ALIGN WITH OUR PRIORITIES AS A NUMBER ONE.
AND NUMBER THREE, WE DEFINE WHAT OUR STANDARDS ARE SO EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY IS FAMILIAR WITH THEM.
THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT BAR IS AND HOW THEY'RE ABLE TO REACH THAT BAR.
UM, NUMBER FIVE IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE.
WE, UH, ADMINISTER WAYS TO LET CITIZENS COMMUNICATE WITH US AND LET US KNOW HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT THE DIFFERENT GOVERNING DECISIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING.
SO THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THOSE ACTIONS THAT YOU CAN TAKE.
THE NEXT SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT BRIEFLY ARE FOCUSED ON LAND USE AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT.
AND I DO WANNA PAUSE HERE FOR A MOMENT TO SAY, I KNOW THAT THIS IS A VERY SHORT LIST AND I ASSURE YOU THE LIST THAT YOU'LL BE GETTING AS ANYTHING BUT SHORT.
UH, WE OBVIOUSLY ARE STILL WORKING ON THE OVERALL IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY, AND THIS TRIP IS REALLY PARAMOUNT IN FORMALIZING AND FINALIZING THE ELEMENTS THAT WE'LL RECOMMEND TO YOU.
SO KEEP IN MIND THAT THIS IS BUT A VERY SMALL SAMPLE OF WHAT YOU'LL BE SEEING.
SO WHEN IT COMES TO LAND USE AND GROWTH MANAGEMENT, ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT'S EVOLVED AND EMERGED FROM THIS PROCESS IS THAT WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE A DEVELOPMENT PATTERN THAT PRESERVES GREEN SPACES.
WE HAD A REALLY GOOD CONVERSATION WITH YOU ALL ABOUT THIS IN BOTH TRIP THREE AND TRIP FOUR, WHERE YOU GAVE US SOME FEEDBACK ON HOW GREEN SPACE, UM, PAIRED WITH DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS AND HOUSING TYPES COULD OR MIGHT NOT FIT IN KYLE, WHERE THOSE THINGS COULD AND MIGHT NOT FIT.
SO THERE'S A VARIETY OF WAYS, UH, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT WE COULD COME AT THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF PRESERVATION OF GREEN SPACE.
UH, WE CAN IDENTIFY THOSE AREAS THAT NEED TO BE PRESERVED AND MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TRACKING THOSE AND THAT THEY'RE PART OF OUR CONVERSATIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS AS A NUMBER ONE.
AND NUMBER TWO, UH, WE CAN PROTECT THOSE AREAS THROUGH THAT REGULATORY ACTION THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER.
WE MAY ALSO BE ABLE TO PAIR THAT, UH, WITH THE IDEA OF USING GUIDELINES TO PRESERVE THOSE AREAS.
ANOTHER EXAMPLE IS IN NUMBER FOUR, WHERE WE UPDATE THE PARKS AND TRAILS MASTER PLAN, SOMETHING YOU'VE ALREADY STARTED TALKING ABOUT, BUT THAT'S OBVIOUSLY KEY TO THE PRESERVATION OF GREEN SPACES.
UM, AND INCORPORATING THE VIBE TRAIL, WHICH IS A VERY IMPORTANT PROJECT FOR THE COMMUNITY IN THAT DISCUSSION AND PROCESS AND FINALIZING AND FORMALIZING, UM, IT'S DELINEATION.
SO THESE ARE A FEW EXAMPLES THAT IF YOU IMPLEMENT THEM AND CHECK THOSE OFF, YOU'LL BE WORKING TOWARDS THAT DEVELOPMENT PATTERN THAT'S PRESERVING GREEN SPACE.
THE THIRD RECOMMENDATION WE'LL SHOW YOU AS AN EXAMPLE, IS A NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATION.
AND IT IS TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF COMPLETE AND COHESIVE NEIGHBORHOODS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
NOW YOU ALL HAVE GIVEN US SOME VERY SPECIFIC FEEDBACK ON WHAT COMPLETE NEIGHBORHOODS MEAN FOR YOU.
AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE ALSO HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY, UM, THAT WE GOT SOME FEEDBACK ON LAST NIGHT AND YESTERDAY AFTERNOON INCLUDE THIS DESIRE TO HAVE A POLICY WHERE STREETS ARE WELCOMING TO MULTIPLE DIFFERENT MODES OF TRANSPORTATION.
WHETHER YOU'RE BIKING, WALKING, OR DRIVING.
YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO ACTUALLY GET FROM PLACE TO PLACE, AND THERE'S A CONNECTED NETWORK.
ANOTHER WAY THAT YOU CAN DO THIS IS TO EMPOWER YOUR LOCAL NEIGHBORHOODS, UM, TO BE PART OF THE PROCESS, TO IDENTIFY THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS, TO GIVE THEM
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AND RECOGNIZE THEIR IDENTITY THAT THEY CURRENTLY HAVE, AND FORMALIZE THAT THROUGH THE NAMING OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.AND BUILDING A PROGRAM WHERE NEIGHBORHOODS CAN ADVOCATE FOR THEMSELVES EFFECTIVELY AND HAVE A MORE CLEAR LINE OF COMMUNICATION WITH THE CITY.
THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO GET US TO COHESION AND COMPLETENESS IN NEIGHBORHOODS.
UH, ANOTHER EXAMPLE IN NUMBER FOUR IS TO TAKE THE PLANS, PLACE TYPES, WHICH YOU ALL GAVE US LOTS OF FEEDBACK ON IN TRIPS TWO AND THREE, UH, WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT WHAT A TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD COMPONENT, UH, LOOKED LIKE, AND HOW THOSE TYPES OF PLACES ARE ONES THAT YOU'D LIKE TO REPLICATE IN THE CITY.
SO TO CARRY THAT FORWARD, UH, IT WILL BE NECESSARY TO REVIEW THE PROPOSALS COMING BEFORE YOU TO MAKE SURE THEY CONFORM WITH THAT PLACE TYPE.
THESE ARE ALL EXAMPLES OF WAYS THAT YOU CAN SUPPORT THE CREATION OF COMPLETE AND COHESIVE NEIGHBORHOODS.
CAN I, CAN I ASK SOMETHING? OF COURSE, YOU CAN.
WILL, I SENT, UH, A QUESTION ABOUT IF I HAD SENT A QUESTION, UH, AFTER DOING SOME RESEARCH ON HOW TO INTEGRATE OR INCORPORATE, UM, THE PREVENTION OF FOOD DESERTS MM-HMM.
UM, AS PART OF OUR PLAN AND STRATEGY AS, AS WE ARE GROWING CITY.
WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THAT VERITY COULD WEAVE INTO THE COMPREHENSIVE, UM, GUIDANCE? THAT COULD CERTAINLY BE AN ACTION IN THE PLAN, UM, IS TO LOOK AT DOING SOME RESEARCH ON THAT TO POTENTIALLY, UM, LOOK AT SOME POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU MIGHT MAKE AS A GROUP.
THAT'S CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT COULD BE INCLUDED.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE FOOD DESERTS AS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF THE PLAN, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'S OUTSIDE THE SCOPE OF, OF WHERE WE STARTED.
BUT THAT IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF AN IDEA, UM, WHERE IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU COULD IMPLEMENT OVERNIGHT, BUT THERE ARE SPECIFIC ELEMENTS TO THAT YOU COULD BREAK UP.
YOU COULD START BY LOOKING AT SEEING WHAT SOME OTHER SIMILAR CITIES HAVE DONE IN REGARDS TO THAT ISSUE, UM, AND TALK WITH THEM ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCE.
YOU COULD THEN, UM, HAVE THE STAFF MAYBE PUT TOGETHER AN OUTLINE OF WHAT THAT TYPE OF POLICY COULD LOOK LIKE HERE LOCALLY.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT STEPS WITHIN THAT THAT YOU CERTAINLY COULD DO.
UM, YOU COULD HOST A WORKSHOP TO, THERE'S SEVERAL DIFFERENT THINGS THAT YOU COULD DO.
SO I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD EXAMPLE OF SOMETHING, UM, THAT OVER TIME IS YOU BEGIN TO ITERATE, CHECK THINGS OFF, AND UPDATE YOUR PLAN.
YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO GENERATE THESE IDEAS.
SO AS WE'RE PUTTING THE DRAFT TOGETHER, WE WILL SEE WHERE WE CAN FIT THAT IN, INTO IT.
JUST REAL QUICK, DO YOU MIND GOING BACK OVER, UH, NUMBER TWO? MM-HMM.
IS THIS ABOUT STREET NAMES NUMBER? NO.
NUMBER TWO, CONDUCT A SERIES OF LISTING SESSIONS, UH, TO SOLICIT INPUT ON NEIGHBORHOOD IDENTIFICATION AND NAMING.
AND AGAIN, TONIGHT WE'RE USING THESE AS EXAMPLES FOR YOU.
SO, UH, YOU WILL BE GETTING A FINAL VERSION OF THIS TO, TO WORDSMITH AND GIVE INFORMATION ON.
BUT WAS YOUR QUESTION ABOUT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR THERE? YEAH.
SO WHAT WE FIND OFTEN, UH, WITH CLIENTS THAT WE'VE WORKED WITH IS THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS AND CITIES THAT, UH, MAY BE VERY WELL ORGANIZED, FOR EXAMPLE, THROUGH AN HOA OR SOME OTHER FORMALIZED ORGANIZATION, OR SOMETIMES AN INFORMAL, UM, BUT YOU DON'T NECESSARILY SEE ALL NEIGHBORHOODS IN THAT CITY REPRESENTED IN THAT SAME WAY.
AND SO THE IDEA HERE IS, UH, TO HAVE THIS THROUGH A PROGRAM WIDE APPROACH WHERE ALL NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE THAT SAME LEVEL OF FORMALIZATION AND OPPORTUNITY TO BE IDENTIFIED TO PLUG INTO THE CITY, UH, AND THEIR INFORMATION NETWORK TO RECEIVE IN INFORMATION ABOUT THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN OR ADJACENT TO THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, THIS IS A SUGGESTION THAT CAME UP ALSO THROUGH THIS PROCESS, AS ACCOMPANYING OFTEN THE COMMENT OF AN INCREASED TRANSPARENCY.
THAT WAS ONE THAT WE HEARD A LOT.
SO THIS IS SPEAKING TO THAT AS WELL.
UM, PROVIDING A DIRECT CONDUIT FROM THE CITY TO NEIGHBORHOODS SO THAT THEY FEEL THAT THEY'RE GETTING BETTER, MORE ACCURATE, AND MORE TIMELY INFORMATION.
I HAVE A QUESTION FOR NUMBER ONE.
UM, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS MM-HMM.
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FOR THE CITY TO USE AS FAR AS, UH, MOBILITY GOES? BECAUSE WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF RETAIL COMING, AND I THINK THE CONCERN IS WE MAY NOT HAVE ENOUGH EMPLOYEES MM-HMM.UH, YOU HAVE TO BE 18 YEARS OLD TO UBER.
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE TECHNICALLY TO HAVE AN ACCOUNT.
SO MY CONCERN IS HOW WOULD WE GET THESE, UM, JOBS FILLED IF WE, IF WE ONLY RELY ON ONE TYPE OF TRANSPORTATION MM-HMM.
SO THAT'S NOT GONNA BE A PROBLEM THAT THE PLAN WILL SOLVE, BUT THE INVESTIGATION OF HOW TO MAKE KYLE MORE ACCESSIBLE THROUGH DIFFERENT TRANSPORTATION MODES WILL ABSOLUTELY BE A THEME THAT YOU'LL SEE, BECAUSE THAT TOO IS ONE THAT WE HAVE HEARD REGULARLY FROM YOUR RESIDENCE.
THIS MIGHT BE MORE FOR P AND Z, BUT I KNOW THE DISCUSSION HAS BEEN BROUGHT UP A LOT, UH, BETWEEN MYSELF AND COUNCIL MEMBER TOBIAS, ABOUT LOOKING AT OUR CITY AS NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, NORTHWEST, SOUTHWEST AS REGIONS.
JUST BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSION, UM, WHEN, WHEN THINGS COME UP TO THE DIOCESE AND WE DON'T KNOW WHERE EXACTLY IT'S LOCATED.
SO WOULD WE BE, BE BETTER SERVING OURSELVES, UH, THROUGH THIS WHILE WE THINK ABOUT OUR GROWTH AND OUR NEW ROADS? UM, IF WE ALL SORT OF COLLECTIVELY STARTED SPEAKING ABOUT NORTHEAST, SOUTHEAST, UM, THINGS LIKE THAT BECAUSE, UM, SOMETIMES WE JUST DON'T KNOW, WHERE'S THE DEVELOPMENT AT? WHERE'S THIS ROAD? AND, UH, I MEAN, IS IT SOMETHING WE NEED TO START KIND OF CONSIDERING? UM, EVEN WILL, IF YOU WANT TO CHIME IN ON THAT, UM, IF I COULD, WE HAVE MORE SIGNS AND AS WE HAVE MORE, MORE NEW PEOPLE IN THE CITY, UH, YOU TELL 'EM, OH, PUBLIC SAFETY CENTER, IT'S OVER THERE, PLUM CREEK, AND THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, PLUM CREEK IS, IS THAT PART OF SIX CREEKS? IS THAT PART OF CYPRUS FOREST? EVEN? WE EVEN HAVE LONG-TERM RESIDENTS THAT HAVE THOSE QUESTIONS.
SO, AND TO, TO FOLLOW UP, IF YOU DON'T MIND, WHAT WE, WHAT WE HAD DISCUSSED WAS, ARE WE AT THE POINT NOW OF HOW FAST OUR CITY IS GROWING? SHOULD WE LOOK AT IN A DIFFERENT LENS? MM-HMM.
LIKE WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE HOSPITAL, YOU KNOW, I'M ALREADY LOOKING AT AS EAST CENTRAL AND H E B, WHERE THE PAC CENTER IS, THAT IS WEST CENTRAL.
AND BECAUSE I THINK IT ALSO COMES INTO THE CONFUSIONS WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GOFOR ROAD, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE LIKE, NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT IT WAS.
AND YEAH, WE'RE, NO, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ONE BY BEBE ROAD.
AND WE'RE LIKE, OH, THAT AREA.
YOU KNOW? SO I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT THE, WE'RE LOOKING AT REGIONS OF THE CITY, RIGHT? TO HELP IDENTIFY.
AND THERE'S A FAMILIARITY IN EVERYONE OF REFER AT THIS, THIS SAME WAY AREA.
AND SOME, I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD ITEM THAT WE TALKED ABOUT A MINUTE AGO ACTUALLY FALLS RIGHT IN LINE WITH THAT.
BECAUSE THE IDEA IS IF EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT AN AREA IS, WE ALL USE THE SAME VERNACULAR WHEN WE TALK ABOUT IT.
WE BECOME FAMILIAR WITH OUR CITIES IN A WAY THAT WE WEREN'T BEFORE.
SO THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT RECOMMENDATION WILL ACTUALLY HELP YOU WITH WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, WHICH IS BEING VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHERE AREAS ARE, HOW WE REFER TO THEM, WHERE THEY'RE LOCATED, BUILDING THAT RECOGNITION WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY WHERE EVERYONE KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN YOU USE THIS LABEL OR THAT LABEL, ET CETERA.
AND HAVING THE NEIGHBORHOODS BE PART OF THAT PROCESS.
I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT THAT'LL BE VERY WELL REPRESENTED.
I THINK WE COULD EVEN GO SO FAR AS TO HAVE A GIS TOOL THAT JUST OUTLINES DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS OR REGIONS.
SO THAT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A SPECIFIC ACTION, RIGHT? THAT IS SOMETHING THAT FALLS WITHIN THAT RECOMMENDATION.
SEE, YOU ARE, YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY ON THE RIGHT TRACK, WHICH IS GREAT.
WELL, LET'S TAKE US INTO THE, THIS IS A GREAT SEGUE INTO THE EXERCISE THAT WE WANNA WALK THROUGH WITH YOU.
AND WE WON'T BELABOR THIS TOO MUCH, BUT I'M GONNA ASK MARSHALL TO COME UP AND WITH THIS.
AND WHAT WE WANT TO DO HERE IS TO HELP YOU WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS THAT WE'RE WALKING THROUGH FOR A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT REASONS.
AGAIN, WE WANT YOU TO HAVE A FEELING OF EXPECTATION WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE DRAFT AND A SENSE OF FAMILIARITY OF WHAT YOU'RE GETTING.
SO, UM, IT'S NOT ANY SURPRISE THE FORMAT IT TAKES.
UM, AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT WENT INTO THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.
I, I FIND TOO OFTEN IF PEOPLE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHERE THE RECOMMENDATIONS COME FROM, IT'S VERY HARD TO IDENTIFY WITH THEM AND KIND OF OWN THEM.
AND SO WE, UM, GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND THE DRAFT THAT YOU'LL SEE, WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TO DO, WE'VE DONE OVER AND OVER AND OVER ON EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE SUGGESTIONS.
SO WE'VE PUT SOME POST-ITS OUT ON THE TABLE AND SOME MARKERS, AND IF YOU'LL JUST GRAB A COUPLE OF SHEETS, UM, WE'RE GONNA JUST GIVE YOU THOSE TO JOT YOUR THOUGHTS DOWN ON AS WE ASK YOU TO WORK THROUGH THIS WITH US.
SO WE'RE STARTING HERE WITH A SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATION.
AGAIN, TO TAKE YOU BACK TO WHERE WE STARTED.
THE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE A BROAD, OVERARCHING RECOMMENDATION.
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WORK THROUGH WITH YOU ALL IS COMING UP WITH A LIST OF ACTIONS THAT IF EXECUTED WORK TO MAXIMIZE THE TYPES OF HOUSING OFFERED IN KYLE.WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THEY WANT THIS, RIGHT? BUT IN ORDER FOR YOU ALL TO DO YOUR JOBS EFFECTIVELY, YOU CAN'T JUST MAKE IT.
SO YOU NEED TO HAVE A LIST OF ITEMS, UM, THAT YOU ALL CAN COLLECTIVELY TACKLE THAT MAKE THIS WORK AND MAKE THIS START TO HAPPEN.
SO WE WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A FEW MINUTES AND WE'LL GIVE YOU, GIVE YOU A FEW MINUTES TO THINK THROUGH IT ON YOUR OWN.
AND THEN WE WILL REGROUP AND TALK THROUGH SOME OF THESE TOGETHER.
WE'LL ASK YOU TO SHARE A FEW OF YOUR IDEAS.
WE'RE GONNA PUT THEM ON THE BOARD UP HERE, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA HELP YOU REFINE THOSE SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH IN THIS PROCESS WITH YOUR PUBLIC, WITH YOUR STAFF, AND INTERNAL TO OUR TEAM.
SO THINK ABOUT THIS FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES.
JOT DOWN ONE TO THREE ACTIONS THAT ARE VERY SPECIFIC, RIGHT? THERE ARE THINGS THAT CAN BE ANSWERED, YES OR NO, WE DID THEM OR WE DIDN'T VERY DEFINITIVELY.
UM, THEY ARE THINGS THAT ARE SPECIFIC ENOUGH THAT WHEN PEOPLE READ THEM, THEY CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT THE ACTION IS.
THESE ARE SOME GUIDELINES FOR YOU TO THINK ABOUT.
SO ONE, TWO, EVEN THREE, IF YOU'RE SO INCLINED, UH, JOT THOSE DOWN AND WE'LL GIVE YOU A FEW MINUTES AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE ONES THAT YOU HAVE COME UP WITH.
SO WE'LL GIVE YOU JUST A FEW MINUTES TO FOCUS ON THAT.
CAN WE HAVE SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT IT IS? OKAY.
SO WE'LL GIVE YOU ONE EXAMPLE.
WILL YOU GET BACK? YOU WANT ME, FOR ME? I NEED THE CRAYONS AND COLORING BOOKS PLEASE.
JUST ANY ONE OF THESE? NO, THE THIS, THE ONE THAT WE STARTED WITH THAT SAYS ACTION TYPES RIGHT HERE.
SO IF WE WANT TO MAXIMIZE THE TYPES OF HOUSING OFFERED IN KYLE, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT SPRINGS TO MIND FOR ME IS DO WE ALLOW DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING AND KYLE, UM, DO WE ENCOURAGE DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING? HAVE WE DEFINED WHAT DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSES ARE? THINK ABOUT IT FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE.
IF YOU WERE GOING TO TACKLE THIS ON YOUR OWN, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE FIRST TWO OR THREE THINGS THAT YOU KNOW, THAT YOU WOULD NEED TO IDENTIFY IN ORDER TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN? DOES THAT HELP A LITTLE BIT? YES.
AND THERE'S NO RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWERS, SO WE'RE NOT GONNA GRADE ANYBODY.
WE JUST WANT, WANNA GET YOU THINKING THROUGH THE PROCESS.
IF YOU'RE STILL WRITING, FEEL FREE TO KEEP WRITING.
BUT LET'S, LET'S TALK THROUGH SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT YOU HAD.
UM, DOES ANYONE WANT TO SHARE WHAT YOU FEEL WAS PROBABLY YOUR
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BEST, UH, ITEM ON YOUR LIST OF AN ACTION PLEASE? UM, ADD INFRASTRUCTURE.AND WE'RE GONNA JOT DOWN THREE OR FOUR OF THESE AND THEN WE'RE GONNA WORK WITH YOU TO REFINE THEM.
ANYBODY ELSE WANNA SHARE ONE? YES SIR.
THE SAME THING, UH, REFERENCING, ADD THE SAME ISSUE.
UH, ROAD IMPROVEMENTS TO INCLUDE ALSO STREET AND SIGN REPAIRS.
CAUSE WE SEE A LOT OF THAT IN THE OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS.
ANYONE ELSE WANNA SHARE ONE PLEASE? WHAT ABOUT THE VERTICAL MIXED USE? OKAY, IT'S, UH, MM-HMM.
I WANNA MAKE SURE WE CAPTURE THAT CORRECTLY.
ENABLE VERTICAL MIXED USE TO ME, I GUESS I'LL TAKE ENABLE VERTICAL MIXED USE IN THE FOUR COORDINATED REVISIONS TO THOSE FOUR ZONE ZONING DISTRICTS.
ANYONE ELSE WANNA SHARE? SO I HAD A FEW IDEAS AROUND ADUS.
UM, LET ME SEE WHERE THOSE CATEGORIES ARE.
SO FROM THE REGULATION FRONT, WE COULD LOOK AT THE ZONING WHERE WE ALLOW ADUS BY RIGHT.
CUZ I UNDERSTAND THAT SOMETIMES ADUS ARE NOT, UH, LIKE THE LOANS FOR THOSE AREN'T APPROVED BY BANKS CUZ THEY'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THEM.
AND THEN, UH, LASTLY MIGHT BE A FINANCIAL OR PROCESS INCENTIVE, UH, WHERE THERE'S FEE REDUCTIONS OR FAST TRACK PERMIT APPROVAL FOR ADUS.
YOU SOUND LIKE YOU MIGHT HAVE GONE TO A CLASS RECENTLY WHERE YOU LEARNED ABOUT COUPLE
YES, WE'VE GOT ROOM AT THE BOTTOM.
I THINK PART OF ONE OF THESE THINGS IS WE TALK ABOUT A LOT.
THERE'S, THERE'S A TRUST BUT VERIFY METRIC TO IT.
UHHUH,
SO I THINK A BIG THING, BUT HAVING, HAVING AN ANNUAL REPORT ON THE HOUSING STOCK THAT'S PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.
LIKE IT SEE, SO THAT WAY AS THE COUNCIL REPORT ON HOUSING, THEY CAN DIRECT FOLKS TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND THEN THEY'RE GONNA GET BETTER FEEDBACK IN RETURN BECAUSE FANTASTIC.
WHAT THEY'RE SEEING AND FEELING OR WHAT THEY'RE SEEING FROM THE DATA.
SO ALREADY, TO PIGGYBACK OFF OF THAT MM-HMM.
IDENTIFY WHAT AN AVERAGE HOME IS.
YOU KNOW, SOME OF US LOOK AT IT AS 2,500 SQUARE FEET.
UH, SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S IDENTIFYING THOSE TO SEEING WHERE WE'RE AT AS, AS, AS A CITY, HOW WE'RE GROWING.
AND, UM, TO ACTUALLY INCLUDE, IF I DON'T MIND MIND ADDING ONE MORE, WHEN IT COMES TO HOUSING, AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, UH, IF IT'S A MATTER OF FINDING BUILDERS TO ASSIST MM-HMM.
UH, THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, WHO CAN THE CITY REACH OUT TO? OR IF THERE'S A DEVELOPER OR BUILDER THAT SAYS, WE ARE MAINLY FOCUSING ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR FIRST TIME BUYERS MM-HMM.
SO YOU'VE ALREADY DONE SOME THINGS THAT ARE REALLY VALUABLE HERE THAT I, I WANNA GIVE YOU CREDIT WHERE CREDIT'S DUE.
SO ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS YOU'VE ALREADY DONE WELL IS YOU'VE GOTTEN SOME VERY SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS, RIGHT? THAT'S ALWAYS IMPORTANT BECAUSE HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU'VE ACCOMPLISHED SOMETHING IF IT'S NOT SPECIFIC ENOUGH? SO YOU'RE SETTING YOURSELVES UP FOR SUCCESS THERE.
UM, YOU'VE THOUGHT VERY CAREFULLY ABOUT STEPS THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE.
THAT'S REALLY, UH, A MIND SHIFT FOR SOME FOLKS.
WE ALL, WE ALL THINK A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY, WE'RE ALL WIRED A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY.
SO YOU'VE ALREADY TUNED IN ON THAT.
UM, AND YOU'VE STARTED THINKING ABOUT DIFFERENT ELEMENTS.
SOME OF YOU HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT SOME OF THE DIFFERENT ACTIONS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, RIGHT? SO SOME OF YOU HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FROM A REGULATORY PERSPECTIVE.
SOME OF YOU HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT IT IN TERMS OF EDUCATION AND
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COMMUNICATION.SOME OF YOU APPROACHED IT THROUGH CAPITAL INVESTMENTS.
SO YOU ARE ALREADY INNATELY DOING THIS PROCESS THAT WE'RE WORKING THROUGH, UM, WHICH IS REALLY HELPFUL FOR US.
SO THIS IS A SIMILAR PROCESS THAT WE TYPICALLY TAKE.
SO NOW LET'S WORK ON REFINING SOME OF THESE WITH YOU TOGETHER.
UM, LET'S START UP TOP WITH THE ADDING INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, SOME EXAMPLES OF INFRASTRUCTURE OR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND SIGNS.
SO FIRST QUESTION THAT WE CAN ASK OURSELVES, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE COMPLETED AS IT'S WORDED OR IS THIS A NEVER ENDING PROCESS? RIGHT? BECAUSE YOU, YOU CAN ALWAYS ADD INFRASTRUCTURE, RIGHT? OKAY.
SO HOW DO WE MAKE THIS A LITTLE EASIER FOR US, UH, TO REPORT ON? IS THERE A SPECIFIC AREA THAT WE WANNA START WITH AS A PRIORITY? UM, IS THERE, UM, A PROCESS THAT WE WANT TO USE TO LOOK AT WHERE TO ADD INFRASTRUCTURE? IF WE WERE TO SIT HERE TODAY AND SAY, OKAY, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO ADD THAT INFRASTRUCTURE, WOULD WE ALL KNOW EXACTLY WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO ALREADY? RIGHT.
SO WE NEED SOME MORE INFORMATION, DON'T WE? SO WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE TO HELP MAKE THAT DECISION OF WHERE THAT INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS TO GO? CONNECTIVITY.
WHERE, WHERE DO YOU HAVE CONNECTIVITY? WHERE DON'T YOU HAVE CONNECTIVITY? RIGHT.
SO THAT MIGHT BE ONE SPECIFIC ACTION THAT WE HAVE IS WE NEED TO DO AN ASSESSMENT TO FIGURE OUT WHERE IN KYLE THAT CONNECTIVITY DOESN'T EXIST.
WE'VE HAD SOME TRAFFIC STUDIES DONE MM-HMM.
UH, SO IF, IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT THE CITY COULD DO AS A WHOLE TO IDENTIFY, AND THIS GOES BACK TO WHERE ZIKA AND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE REGIONS OF THE CITY.
WE IDENTIFY IT NEEDS IT MORE HERE.
AND THEN WE CAN FOCUS ON THIS IS WHERE THE PROJECTS ARE GONNA BE HANDLED.
YOU KNOW, THIS WILL BE AN 18 MONTH PROJECT, AND THEN WE MOVE TO ANOTHER SECTION OF THE CITY.
SO YOU'VE VERSUS VERSUS I GUESS I DON'T, UH, FIXING THIS POTHOLE OVER HERE OR FIXING THAT MM-HMM.
BUT I THINK IF IT'S IDENTIFYING THE SPECIFIC AREAS AND SAYING THIS IS FROM THIS YEAR, 2024 TO 25, THIS REGION OF KYLE IS GONNA BE MAINLY FOCUSED ON THE STREETS.
AND, AND JUST IDENTIFYING THAT AREA.
SO WHAT YOU'VE TOUCHED ON IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT PART OF THIS IS THE HOW.
SO TO IDENTIFY WHERE THE INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTIVITY DOES NOT EXIST, A STUDY WOULD BE A WAY THAT WE COULD DO THAT.
SO NOW WE'VE ADDED MORE SPECIFICITY TO THAT.
WE KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO IT.
WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK FOR.
SO LET'S SAY THAT WE'VE DONE THAT, WE'VE COMPLETED A STUDY, WE'VE IDENTIFIED WHERE THAT CONNECTIVITY DOESN'T EXIST.
WHAT DO DO NEXT? IT ALSO GOES BACK TO YOUR FIRST PAGE OF THE GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS MM-HMM.
RIGHT UP THERE AT NUMBER ONE WHERE IT SAYS, USE THE ANNUAL BUDGET REPORT TO SHOW HOW THE FINANCIAL DECISIONS, WHETHER IT'S SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND PRIORITY ALIGN WITH THIS PLAN.
SO THEN WE ALSO HAVE A MECHANISM TO DEMONSTRATE THAT, AND THIS IS PART OF WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
SO THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF THIS AS WELL.
SO YOU GUYS ARE NATURALS AT THIS.
I PROBABLY SHOULDN'T SAY THAT, BUT, OKAY.
LET'S, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE SECOND ONE FOR A MINUTE.
SO WHAT WE STARTED WAS ENABLE VERTICAL MIXED USE IN THOSE FOUR ZONING DISTRICTS.
AND WE NEED TO DO A COORDINATED REVIEW.
AND I'M ASSUMING, AND YOU TELL ME IF I'M OFF BASE HERE, THE COORDINATED REVIEW WOULD BE OF THE REGULATORY LANGUAGE FOR THOSE ZONING DISTRICTS.
SO WE, SO BY VERTICAL MIXED USE, YOU KNOW, COMMERCIAL ON GROUND FLOOR AND THEN RESIDENTIAL ABOVE.
SO THAT'S ONE OF THOSE TYPES OF HOUSING THAT WE'D LIKE TO HAVE.
SO WE'VE DONE SOMETHING IMPORTANT THERE.
WE'VE DEFINED A TYPE OF HOUSING, WHICH IS IMPORTANT.
SO WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UM, WE'VE STARTED TO NARROW DOWN WHERE THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO BE SPECIFIC.
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A REVIEW IS THE APPROACH THAT WE WANT TO TAKE A REVIEW IS SOMETHING WE CAN SAY, YES, WE DID IT.SO THAT'S ALL A REALLY GOOD START.
SO WHAT'S THE MECHANISM? WELL, I THINK EVERY SINGLE TIME WE'VE TALKED WITH YOU ALL, THERE'S BEEN ONE THING THAT HAS ROSE INTO THE SURFACE EVERY TIME.
AND THAT IS THAT YOU HAVE SAID, WE NEED A NEW CODE.
RIGHT? WE NEED A NEW SET OF REGULATIONS.
SO THAT WOULD BE THE MECHANISM.
UM, UNLESS YOU HAVE ANOTHER IDEA THAT MIGHT BE THE MECHANISM FOR HOW WE DO A REEVALUATION OF VERTICAL MIXED USE AND THE PERMISSIONS SURROUNDING IT.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT? WELL, THE, UH, THE ZONING CERTAINLY IS THE MECHANISM, BUT BEFORE THAT, I THINK WE NEED KIND OF GUIDELINES, GENERAL GUIDELINES IN THAT.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, UH, I WAS HAVING A DISCUSSION WITH OUR, UH, UH, OUR DIRECTOR PLANNING ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE ON THE, ON THE GROUND FLOOR, SHOULD IT BE LIKE CONTINUOUS, UH, DO I WANT CONTINUOUS OR JUST THE CORNERS TO BE COMMERCIAL? MM-HMM.
IN ORDER TO HAVE A CONSISTENT LOOK AND FEEL FOR THOSE AREAS THAT HAVE THIS KIND OF, UH, UH, VERTICAL MIXED USE.
PLEASE SAY THAT LIKE YEAH, IT'S NOT JUST THE, CAUSE WE LITERALLY MADE A WHOLE ZONING DISTRICT TO ENCOURAGE THAT KIND OF THING AND MXD YEAH.
BUT IT, IT HASN'T COME TO FRUITION IN THE WAY IT REALLY WE THOUGHT IT WOULD.
AND SO YEAH, I THINK WE'RE REALIZING IT'S NOT JUST THE, THE ZONING, IT'S THE, THE BUILDING CODE MM-HMM.
IT'S ALL THE SMALL THINGS IN WHICH COME INTO HOW DO I BUILD THIS VERTICAL MIXED USE BUILDING? OKAY.
AND DEVELOPERS MIGHT SAY, WELL, I WANNA DO IT A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY.
AND WE NEED A WAY TO HAVE SAY, WELL THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE.
AND SO YOU SEE HOW YOU, YOU PULL ON THE STRING, RIGHT.
AND IT STARTS TO UNRAVEL AND THERE'S ALL THESE PIECES TO IT.
THIS IS WHY YOU GUYS GET PAID THE BIG BUCKS.
CUZ THIS STUFF IS, IS NOT EASY.
SO, SO YOU'VE, YOU'VE SHARED A COUPLE OF IMPORTANT THINGS THAT I'M REALLY GLAD WE'RE INTUITIVE FOR YOU.
UM, BECAUSE THEY'RE THINGS THAT WE WOULD RECOMMEND YOU TO THINK ABOUT.
ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT YOU SAID THAT WAS INTUITIVE TO YOU IS WE'VE TRIED SOMETHING TO GET THERE AND IT HASN'T BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
MAYBE THAT'S A FIRST ACTION HERE IS TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT AT WHY PREVIOUS EFFORTS HAVEN'T BEEN SUCCESSFUL.
THERE'S, THERE'S SOMETHING TO NOTE THERE.
AND THAT COULD BE VERY IN INFLUENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AS YOU MOVE FORWARD, UM, INTO UPDATING YOUR CODE.
SO THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT PIECE.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GET MARSHALL A BIGGER WHITEBOARD, I THINK.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY GOOD INSTINCT.
UM, ANOTHER THING THAT YOU HAVE NATURALLY GRAVITATED TOWARDS HERE, UM, IS TO THINK ABOUT WHERE THOSE THINGS ARE APPROPRIATE.
AND YOU'D SAID GUIDELINES, THAT'S ANOTHER ACTION TYPE, RIGHT? IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT REGULATING THINGS, IT'S ALSO ABOUT PROVIDING GUIDELINES FOR WHERE THAT'S APPROPRIATE.
BECAUSE YOU CAN'T REGULATE EVERYTHING AS THE ONLY WAY TO GET IT.
YOU ALSO HAVE TO PROVIDE GUIDELINES TO YOUR DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE AND WHAT THAT MAYBE SHOULD LOOK LIKE, HOW THAT SHOULD BE PLACED.
SO WE MIGHT EVEN SPLIT THAT INTO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT ACTIONS, UM, WHERE NOT ONLY ARE WE IDENTIFYING THOSE BARRIERS, UM, BUT WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT, UM, GUIDELINES TO, UM, SHOW WHERE THE PLACEMENT OF THOSE THINGS MIGHT BE APPROPRIATE.
UM, YOU MIGHT EVEN HAVE AN EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT OF THIS WHERE ONCE YOU'VE DONE THAT, YOU'RE, YOU'RE MAKING THAT INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT YOUR COMMUNITY AND YOU'RE WELCOMING PEOPLE INTO THE CONVERSATION BY LETTING THEM KNOW HOW YOU'VE SET THOSE EXPECTATIONS.
NOW THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT ESTABLISHING SOME GUIDELINES MM-HMM.
THAT WAY IF THEY ALL ENJOY THE SAME AMENITIES AND EVERYBODY COULD GO TO A PLACE TO CHOOSE FROM.
YEAH, THAT'S, THAT'S A REALLY INTERESTING POINT BECAUSE THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT WAYS YOU COULD COME AT THAT.
YOU KNOW, ONE ELEMENT OF THAT MIGHT BE EDUCATIONAL.
UM, IS THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AWARE OF THE BENEFITS OF HAVING DIFFERENT TYPES OF HOUSING? UM, DOES UH, THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE UNDERSTAND THE BENEFITS OF MAXIMIZING THE DIVERSITY IN HOUSING TYPE? DO THEY UNDERSTAND HOW THAT CAN AFFECT THEIR BOTTOM LINE? FOR EXAMPLE, WE TALKED ABOUT HOW THAT
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HAS A FISCAL ELEMENT TO IT.UM, ARE THERE, TO YOUR POINT, REGULATORY TOOLS THAT YOU CAN USE.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE IDEA AND THERE'S LOTS OF DIFFERENT WAYS THAT YOU CAN ATTACK THAT IDEA.
AND THE ANSWER MIGHT BE A COMBINATION OF THOSE.
SO THAT'S A REALLY GOOD POINT.
SO THOSE MIGHT INDIVIDUALLY BE THINGS THAT WE LOOK AT TOO, IS UM, LET'S DECIDE FROM A REGULATORY APPROACH HOW WE WANNA LOOK AT THAT FROM, UH, AN EDUCATIONAL APPROACH.
UM, PERHAPS WE WANT TO DO SOME ASSESSMENT AND USE THE FISCAL ANALYSIS THAT YOU HAVE NOW AS PART OF THIS PLAN TO HELP GUIDE THAT.
SO THOSE ARE THREE THINGS THAT COME FROM THAT ONE IDEA.
SO YOU START TO SEE HOW THIS LIST GROWS, RIGHT? IT STARTS, UH, STARTS SMALL.
UM, LET'S, LET'S TALK ABOUT ADU FOR JUST A SECOND.
THIS IS ANOTHER INTERESTING ONE.
SO WE WE'RE STARTING OUT WITH SAYING ALLOW ADU BY, RIGHT? SO AS WE START TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE FROM A GOVERNANCE PERSPECTIVE, FROM A DECISION MAKING PERSPECTIVE, NUMBER ONE, UM, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN SAY YES WE DID, OR NO WE DIDN'T, RIGHT? WE'RE THERE.
OKAY, SO THEN ANOTHER PIECE TO CONSIDER MIGHT BE, UM, HOW DO WE DO THIS? RIGHT? DO WE DO IT THROUGH A UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE? UM, PROBABLY, UM, BUT KEEP IN MIND TOO THAT WE'RE ALSO WRITING THIS PLAN FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THEY DON'T DEAL IN ZONING EVERY DAY.
SO THEY MIGHT NEED A LITTLE MORE LANGUAGE TO UNDERSTAND HOW YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT SO THAT WHEN YOU START ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF DOING IT, IT'S NOT A SURPRISE TO ANYONE, RIGHT? THEY'VE BEEN, UM, KIND OF PREPARED FOR THAT.
SO WE MIGHT FLUSH THIS OUT A LITTLE BIT JUST SO THEY UNDERSTAND HOW YOU'RE THINKING YOU'RE GOING TO APPROACH IT.
SO IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING LIKE ALLOW ADU BY RIGHT? UM, THROUGH, UM, AMENDING ZONING RESTRICTIONS.
UM, ARE THERE OTHER, WELL ACTUALLY THESE TWO ACTUALLY GO REALLY HAND IN HAND.
SO THE NEXT THING YOU SAID WAS EDUCATE THE PUBLIC, UM, ON HOW THEY MIGHT BUILD THESE ADUS.
SO LET'S, LET'S THINK ABOUT THAT.
UM, CAN WE EVER SAY THAT WE'VE FULLY EDUCATED SOMEBODY, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? THAT'S KIND OF, THAT'S KIND OF DIFFICULT, RIGHT? AND I KNOW YOU ALL ARE IN AMBITIOUS GROUP AND YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY.
WE'VE DONE THIS, WE'VE CHECKED THIS OFF, WE'RE ONTO THE NEXT ONE.
SO HOW COULD WE MODIFY THAT WHERE IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DECISIVELY SAY WE DID IT.
CAN WE PROVIDE EDUCATION PAMPHLETS OR TOOLS TO THE PUBLIC? OKAY, SO WE DEFINE THE TOOL THAT WE'RE GONNA USE.
THAT'S A GREAT WAY TO DO THAT.
SO WHEN THE CALL, WE CAN SAY THIS IS WHAT EXACTLY.
OKAY, SO YOU'VE DEFINED HOW YOU'RE GONNA DO IT.
UM, HERE'S ONE THING WE HAVEN'T TALKED ABOUT YET, WHICH IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT PART OF THIS PROCESS.
WHO DOES THESE THINGS, RIGHT? SO THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ONE, UM, THAT I THINK IS A GOOD EXAMPLE.
WE TEND TO DO THIS THING WHEN WE DO COMPREHENSIVE PLANS IN CITIES WHERE WE GET TUNNEL VISION BECAUSE WE FEEL LIKE CITY HALL HAS TO DO IT ALL RIGHT? BUT WE CAN'T, IT REALLY REQUIRES THE COMMUNITY TO BE PART OF THIS.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE, UH, INCLUDED IN THAT PLAN IS THAT INVENTORY WE TALKED ABOUT OF LOCAL RESOURCES THAT YOUR COMMUNITY HAS HELPED US IDENTIFY.
ARE THERE ANY LOCAL RESOURCES OUTSIDE OF CITY HALL THAT COULD HELP WITH THAT EFFORT? FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU MENTIONED WAS FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS, RIGHT? COULD THEY BE A PARTNER IN THIS EFFORT? WOULD UM, BUILDING A PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM HELP THEM BE MORE RECEPTIVE TO THIS IDEA WHERE THEY COULD LIKEWISE PROVIDE COUNSEL TO YOU ALL ON WHAT LIMITATIONS MIGHT EXIST? ARE THERE ANY OTHER LOCAL EXAMPLES THAT YOU THINK COULD BE, I'M SORRY, LIKE REAL ESTATE AGENTS? OKAY, THAT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE.
UM, YOU HAVE A LOCAL REALTOR COMMUNITY THAT'S VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THE MARKET.
THEY KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR, WHAT THE DEMAND IS.
LIKE THEY COULD BE A GREAT PARTNER.
SO THIS IS ANOTHER IMPORTANT PART OF THIS IS THINKING OUTSIDE OF OURSELVES EVEN.
HOW CAN WE GET THE MOST DONE EFFECTIVELY? AND SO THOSE ARE TWO GREAT EXAMPLES OF LOCAL RESOURCES.
YOU MIGHT JUST COULD ALSO LOOK AT WORKING WITH OUR CHAMBER.
SO AS WE START THINKING ABOUT THESE PEOPLE, RIGHT? WHAT, WHAT DO WE, WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT? THEY HAVE ACCESS TO DIFFERENT NETWORKS THAN WE MIGHT HAVE.
UM, THEY HAVE DIFFERENT WAYS OF DISSEMINATING INFORMATION THAN WE MIGHT HAVE.
UM, THEY CAN PLAY DIFFERENT ROLES.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'LL SEE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY IS WE SUGGEST THE ROLES THAT LOCAL PARTNERS CAN PLAY.
UM, SOME EXAMPLES OF WHAT I MEAN, UM, ONE THING IS YOU COULD USE VOLUNTEER TALENT OR EXPERTISE, RIGHT? SAY YOU'RE TRYING TO PURSUE, UH, A PARTICULAR ACTION AND THERE ARE PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY THAT ARE VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT THAT THING, HOW COULD THEY BE PART OF THAT EFFORT? UM, HOW COULD LOCAL RESOURCES HELP YOU PROMOTE AN IDEA? HOW COULD THEY SUPPORT AN IDEA? UM, HOW COULD THE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY PERHAPS
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INVEST IN THAT IDEA AND WORK WITH YOU TO, UM, SHOWCASE IT IN SOME WAY TO PURSUE A PROJECT OF THAT TYPE.SO THAT'S ANOTHER ELEMENT OF THIS THAT WILL ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTINUE THINK ABOUT.
AND AS YOU'RE LOOKING THROUGH THE DRAFT, THAT'S GONNA BE ANOTHER THING THAT WE WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT TOO, IS HOW CAN WE GET THESE THINGS DONE? YOU ALL ARE GET IT DONE PEOPLE OR YOU WOULDN'T BE HERE.
HOW DO YOU GET THESE THINGS DONE? AND THOSE LOCAL RESOURCES ARE A REALLY BIG KEY TO THAT.
OKAY, SO THIS IS AN EXCELLENT LIST SO FAR.
LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS ANNUAL REPORT ON HOUSING STOCK.
SO, UM, ANNUAL REPORT ON HOUSING STOCK.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN REPORT? YEAH, WE DID IT.
SO LET'S, LET'S UNPACK THAT FOR A MINUTE.
CAN, CAN WE SAY IF WE DID IT ONCE, THAT WAS GOOD ENOUGH? NO.
CUZ WE WANT IT TO BE ANNUAL, RIGHT? SO YOU, YOU WERE THINKING ABOUT THAT WHEN YOU GAVE US THE, THE LANGUAGE YOU GAVE US.
BECAUSE THE INTENTION IS YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THE FREQUENCY WITH WHICH IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
IT'S IMPORTANT FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS.
IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE, UM, IDENTIFYING THAT INTENTION AND CAPTURING IT AND WRITING IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
IT'S IMPORTANT FOR YOUR RESIDENTS.
IF YOU TELL THEM IN THIS PLAN THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING ANNUALLY AND YOU'VE DONE IT ONCE, YOU'RE GONNA GET A LITTLE CREDIT, DO IT TWICE, DO IT THREE TIMES.
GUESS WHAT STARTS TO HAPPEN, RIGHT? YOU'RE MAKING BELIEVERS OF PEOPLE, YOU'RE DELIVERING THAT.
SO THAT'S ONE REASON THAT THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
ANOTHER REASON IT'S IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY STAFF IS EQUIPPED PROPERLY TO DO THE THINGS THAT YOU ASK OF THEM.
THEY CAN'T DO EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME.
THEY NEVER HAVE ENOUGH RESOURCES, PEOPLE TIME, ENERGY, MONEY, ET CETERA.
UM, SO THE WAY THAT WE GO THROUGH THESE STEPS AND THE WAY WE ARTICULATE THEM AND WORD THEM IS ALSO HELPFUL FOR THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO TAKE BUDGETING CUES FROM WHAT YOU TELL THEM IN THIS PLAN.
IT'S GOING TO INFLUENCE THE WAY THAT THEY THINK ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE STAFF, THE RESOURCES THAT THEY HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSAL, THE BUDGET AMOUNTS THAT THEY NEED TO SET ASIDE.
UM, ALL OF THESE THINGS REALLY DO WORK TOGETHER COHESIVELY.
AND YOU'RE FORTUNATE THAT YOU HAVE A STAFF THAT REALLY UNDERSTANDS HOW THIS PLAN IS INTENDED TO BE KIND OF AN UMBRELLA UNDER WHICH ALL OF YOUR DIFFERENT PIECES PLUG IN.
AND SO THIS IS ALSO GOING TO BE VERY HELPFUL FOR THEM.
SO LET'S TALK ABOUT KIND OF THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF HOW WE MIGHT COME AT THIS ANNUAL REPORT ON HOUSING STOCK.
DO WE HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION WE NEED TO JUST EXECUTE THAT REPORT TOMORROW? NO.
I DOUBT ANYBODY AT THIS TABLE OR IN THIS ROOM HAS ALL OF THAT.
SO COULD THIS BE A PLACE THAT MAYBE THERE'S A, UH, AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LOCAL PARTNERSHIPS? ARE THERE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT MIGHT HAVE INFORMATION THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR THIS EFFORT? WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT THE REALTOR COMMUNITY, RIGHT? ARE THERE OTHERS THAT COULD CONTRIBUTE TO SUCH A THING? YES.
IT WOULD'VE BEEN ON WHAT WAS IN THAT REPORT.
AND ANOTHER, TO YOUR POINT, UH, TO EXTEND THAT EVEN FURTHER IS WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO DO WITH THIS REPORT? WHAT'S THE PURPOSE OF IT? DO WE KNOW? WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH BY ISSUING THIS REPORT? MAYBE WE GET INFORMATION ON WHAT TYPE OF HOUSING HAS BEEN BUILT.
MAYBE THERE'S A STARTING POINT WITH WHAT'S AVAILABLE.
AND THEN THE FIRST YEAR, WHAT'S BEEN BUILT.
SO KIND OF THEN SEE WHAT WE WANT IN THE FUTURE.
KIND OF TAKING STOCK OF WHAT'S HERE.
WHAT WERE YOU GONNA SAY? I THINK ALSO IF ONE OF OUR THINGS IS MAXIMIZING THE TYPES OF HOUSING OFFERED IN KYLE MM-HMM.
ARE THERE THINGS THAT WE ARE NOT BUILDING? SO MAYBE THIS IS, YES, THIS IS ALSO A METRIC FOR US IN A SENSE.
IT TELLS US IF WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS OR IF WE'RE BEING SUCCESSFUL.
THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO KNOW.
SO WE NEED TO IDENTIFY THE METRICS.
WE NEED TO TRACK THEM AND WE NEED TO REPORT ON THEM.
SO REALLY OUT OF THIS, WE'VE COME UP WITH THREE SPECIFIC ACTIONS.
NOW, THIS IS THE PART WHERE MOST PEOPLE THINK TO THEMSELVES, THIS IS GONNA BE A REALLY LONG LIST, AND HOW CAN WE POSSIBLY DO IT ALL? SO WHILE MARSHALL'S WRITING, LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT FOR A MINUTE.
YOU CAN'T, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T DO IT ALL RIGHT AWAY.
AND SO THIS IS WHERE ANOTHER PIECE THAT WE'VE WORKED ON WITH THE PUBLIC YESTERDAY AND LAST NIGHT, UM, IS CRITICAL.
AND THAT WE'RE GONNA WORK ON WITH YOU ALL THROUGH THE REVIEW OF THE DOCUMENT.
WE ARE GONNA TALK IN A MINUTE ABOUT SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT YOU'RE GONNA FACE ONCE YOU ADOPT THE PLAN.
UM, AND SO THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'LL HAVE TO THINK ABOUT.
SO PRIORITIZATION IS GONNA BE REALLY IMPORTANT.
UM, AND IN ADDITION TO PRIORITIZATION IS AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW LONG THINGS TAKE.
WE TEND TO, AS HUMANS, UNDERESTIMATE ALWAYS WHAT THINGS ARE GOING TO TAKE IN TERMS OF TIME CONSTRAINTS AND RESOURCES.
UM, I THINK WE ALL NATURALLY DO THAT TO SOME EXTENT.
SO THIS IS ALSO A REALLY GOOD TIME AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW YOU ARE GONNA USE THIS PLAN MOVING FORWARD.
IT'S A GOOD TIME FOR YOU TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY WILL SET YOU UP FOR SUCCESS BECAUSE YOU'VE ACTUALLY UNPACKED ALL OF
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THESE THINGS.YOU'VE TAKEN STOCK OF THEM, YOU'VE TALKED ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THEM.
AND THE ADDED BENEFIT OF THAT IS WHEN YOU'RE DOING THAT IN A PUBLIC SETTING, YOUR COMMUNITY IS GOING TO START TO TAKE NOTICE OF THAT, PLEASE.
OH, TO, UH, BUILD ON THE, UH, THE LAST SEVEN, THE BUILDING, THE, UH, I GUESS HOUSING INVENTORY, LIKE UHHUH
IF THE GOAL IS TO ATTRACT PEOPLE, LIKE, HEY, I REALLY WANT MOVE TO KYLE.
YOU KNOW, I MEAN, CUZ PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HERE FOREVER.
OH, WE DON'T WANT A LOT OF PEOPLE UHHUH.
I MEAN, YOU, YOU'RE NEVER GONNA PLEASE EVERYBODY.
UH, BUT LIKE, SO IF WE HAVE AN INVENTORY OF, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BUILT IN CALENDAR YEAR 20, 23 X NUMBER OF HOMES, YOU KNOW, IN 2024, WE HAVE X NUMBER OF HOMES IN THIS AREA IN THE WEST, YOU KNOW, NORTHWEST PART OF KYLE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE X NUMBER OF HOMES IN THIS PART.
BUT I GUESS KIND OF, IF, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALL ABOUT, I MEAN, IT'S GREAT TO, WE HAVE HOUSING, YOU KNOW, BUILD, BUILD, BUILD.
BUT WHAT ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE HOMES THAT WERE BUILT FIVE, 10 YEARS AGO, PEOPLE HAVE LIVED IN THERE WHERE PEOPLE WERE LIKE, HEY, UM, I KIND OF, I GUESS SOMETHING THAT ON THE CITY IT'S LIKE, HEY, WE, WE GET CALLS TO REPAIR THIS STREET.
WAS IT ADDRESSED OR NOT? SO WE'D KIND OF HAVE AN INVENTORY OF KIND OF THE GOALS ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THE CITY DEPARTMENT.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, HEY, WE GOTTA CALL TO REPAIR A WATER MAIN BREAK ON, YOU KNOW, X STREET, YOU KNOW, AND IT TOOK US X DAYS LIKE THAT, THAT KIND OF STUFF COULD BE INCLUDED IN IT IN THAT INVENTORY.
CAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT BUILDING, BUT IT'S LIKE TO ATTRACT THE SAY IT'S LIKE, MAN MM-HMM.
I MEAN, IT'S ONLY ALWAYS GONNA BE, UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE, OH MAN, THEY, THEY RESPONDED IN FIVE HOURS I CALLED OR WHATEVER.
UM, WAS THE CUSTOMER HAPPY? HOPEFULLY THEY ALWAYS SAY YES, BUT, SURE.
BUT, BUT I THINK THAT KIND OF THING WOULD KIND OF, TO WHERE I, I THINK THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT.
SO WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU'RE ALREADY STARTING ON THE ACTIONS BECAUSE YOU'RE IDENTIFYING THE METRICS THAT WE NEED TO TRACK.
AND THAT'S ABSOLUTELY, EXACTLY.
I MEAN, THAT'S THE WAY ALL OF THIS PROCESS WORKS.
LIKE WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ABOUT INCREMENTALISM.
PART OF THE REASON AJ WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT HOW WE BREAK THIS DOWN, IT SEEMS LIKE THE BIGGEST LIST ON THE PLANET.
BUT THE REASON THAT IT'S BIG IS BECAUSE EACH PART IS SMALL AND EACH PART IS OBTAINABLE.
RIGHT? BUT WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT OUR PATH IS FIRST.
SO WE, WE BROKE OUT, BUILD A REPORT INTO THESE THREE PIECES.
WE REALIZED THAT WE NEEDED TO IDENTIFY METRICS AND NOW WE'RE STARTING TO, TO TO IDENTIFY METRICS.
YOU KNOW, ONCE THAT'S DONE, THIS ONE WILL BE CHECKED OFF AND WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.
AND ULTIMATELY, AS WE START COMPLETING ALL OF THESE ELEMENTS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? WE ARE MAXIMIZING THE TYPES OF HOUSING IN KYLE.
SO IT'S VERY EXCITING TO HEAR YOU GUYS LIKE WORKING ON THE FLY HERE, TAKING IT.
ANOTHER THING THAT YOU, UM, I'M SORRY, REAL QUICK, LET ME MAKE THIS POINT.
YOU ALSO TOUCHED ON SOMETHING ELSE INTUITIVELY, WHICH IS IMPORTANT, WHICH IS MAXIMIZING WHAT YOU CAN ACCOMPLISH WITH A SINGLE ACTION.
SO WHAT YOU TOUCHED ON IS THIS, THIS THING NOT ONLY IS A REPORTING MECHANISM FOR US, LETTING US KNOW HOW WE'RE DOING IT CAN ALSO BE A MARKETING TOOL.
IT CAN ALSO BE A WAY OF COMMUNICATING INFORMATION TO, UH, INDUSTRIES WITHIN KYLE.
SO YOU DO ONE THING AND IT HAS MULTIPLE IMPACTS.
AND THAT TOO IS A REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF THIS.
I'M SORRY, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT.
BARRY, DID YOU WANNA GO FIRST? OH, YOU HAD A QUESTION.
WELL, JUST TO KIND OF ADD ON THAT, AND I'LL JUST BE REAL BRIEF.
YOU'RE RIGHT BECAUSE IT, IT DOES GIVE THE METRICS TO DEVELOPMENTS AROUND HOUSING AND IT ALSO GIVES METRICS FOR PEOPLE WHO WANNA START LOOKING AT THEIR PROPERTY TAX.
AND IT ALSO HELPS IDENTIFY, PROBABLY FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO LOOK TO SEE WHERE THE HOUSINGS ARE AT, TO SEE WHERE THE NUMBERS ARE SO FORTH, TO SEE WHERE IT'S COMING FROM.
SO COULD ALL THAT COMBINED SO THAT BENEFIT STARTS TO SPREAD AT ALL BENEFITS TO LOOKING AT IT FOR ME AS A RESIDENT, I KNOW ON COUNCIL, BUT ME LOOKING AT THE METRICS, I CAN SEE THE HOUSING, HOW MANY APARTMENTS ARE COMING IN, HOW MANY APARTMENTS ARE NOT TOWN HOMES, AREAS THAT ARE BEING DEVELOPED.
SO THAT WAY IF THERE'S BONDS THAT COME FORWARD MM-HMM.
SO IT HELPS THE RESIDENTS TO LOOK TO SEE WHERE THE GROWTH IS, AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE HOUSING, THE TYPE OF HOUSING AND SO FORTH.
IS THIS CONCEPT SOMETHING THAT OTHER CITIES CURRENTLY DO? SUCCESSFUL ONES.
THAT IT ALMOST FEELS LIKE THIS IS A BUSINESS IDEA THAT WE ALL NEED TO GO INTO HERE AND THEN AND REPLICATE IT, SCALE IT ACROSS TO OTHER CITIES.
WHEN YOU SAID, UH, WHEN YOU SAID ARE OTHER CITIES DOING THIS, WERE, WERE YOU REFERRING SPECIFICALLY TO A HOUSING REPORT OF SOME KIND? YEAH, I MEAN, I, WE HAVE, UH, WE
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HAVE OUR VIBE TRAIL MAP, WHICH IS INTERACTIVE AND IT TRACKS, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHAT'S BEING BUILT, WHAT'S BEING PLANNED, APPROVED, ET CETERA.AND I JUST THINK ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS OBVIOUSLY VERY VALUABLE TO US AS DECISION MAKERS, BUT IT'S ALSO VERY VALUABLE TO THIRD PARTIES WHO WANT TO COME IN AND, AND MAKE MONEY OFF OF RESIDENTS IN OUR CITY.
AND I THINK, AND I'M JUST THINKING THIS THROUGH NOW, LIKE IT PROBABLY CREATES COMPETITION WITHIN DEVELOPERS AND HOLDS THEM MORE ACCOUNTABLE, WHICH IS A GOOD THING, UH, BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA WANT TO BE MORE TARGETED TO FILL IN THE AREAS IN WHICH WE'RE, WE'RE MISSING, UM, DIVERSIFICATION OF, OF HOUSING.
BUT MY GOD, DOES THIS SEEM LIKE THIS IS AN EXCEPTIONALLY LARGE AMOUNT OF WORK OF, OF TRYING TO, CUZ I MEAN, FOR ME, I'M THINKING LIKE, WHY DON'T WE EVEN, WHY ISN'T THIS SOMETHING THAT INTEGRATES DIRECTLY INTO, UM, UH, WHAT IS IT CALLED INTO THE, THE MLS WHERE WE'RE TRACKING IN REAL TIME, WHICH HOUSES ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE? AND, UM, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S ACTUALLY LIKE, IT'S, THE INFORMATION WEREN'T, PEOPLE AREN'T GETTING, UH, INFORMATION A YEAR.
UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A YEAR OLD WHEN THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE AN EDUCATED DECISION.
I'M JUST THINK OF WHAT OUR HOUSING MARKET WAS LIKE A YEAR AGO VERSUS TODAY.
WELL, TWO, TWO THINGS I WANT TO POINT OUT.
I I, I WANNA MAKE SURE I ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, BUT I ALSO WANNA BE CLEAR ABOUT THE ANSWER THAT I GAVE A MOMENT AGO BECAUSE I THOUGHT I WAS ANSWERING ANOTHER QUESTION, WHICH WAS THAT CITIES THAT TAKE AN INCREMENTAL APPROACH TO, UH, UH, IMPLEMENTING THEIR COMPREHENSIVE PLANS, THOSE ARE THE VERY SUCCESSFUL ONES.
SOME CITIES DO TRACK A GREAT MANY METRICS RELATED TO THEIR, UH, THEIR HOUSING STOCK.
BUT PART OF WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HERE IS WHAT'S REALLY OBTAINABLE WITH THE BUDGET THAT YOU'VE GOT.
AND SO PART OF THE PROCESS OF IDENTIFYING METRICS AND THEN CHOOSING TO TRACK THEM, YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS GO TOGETHER BECAUSE YOU FIND OUT, WELL, WHAT CAN WE REALLY GET DATA ON AFFORDABLY QUICKLY, RELIABLY WITH THE STAFF THAT WE HAVE? THAT'S PART OF THIS PROCESS AS WELL.
SO I THINK YOU'RE A LIGHTING ON A RATHER FANTASTIC BUSINESS IDEA, BUT, UM, I, I ALSO WANT TO MAKE CLEAR THAT MOST OF WHAT WE'RE SUGGESTING HERE IS COUCHED UNDER THE ASSUMPTION THAT WE HAVE TO DO THE ABSOLUTE BEST WE CAN WITH THE RESOURCES THAT THE CITY HAS TODAY.
AND WE DON'T GENERALLY SUGGEST, YOU KNOW, OVER THE TOP, UM, PROJECTS THAT WE CAN'T FORESEEABLY SAY WE'RE GONNA HAVE THIS KIND OF BUDGET AVAILABLE IN WHATEVER TIMELINE IS IS APPROPRIATE FOR IT.
SO, UH, I HOPE THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION A LITTLE BIT.
I WANNA ADD A COUPLE OF THINGS.
ONE THING THAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS PROCESS TOO IS YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THE RESOURCES LOCALLY.
IT'S PERFECTLY OKAY TO GO THROUGH AN IDEA PROCESS LIKE THIS AND REACH THE CONCLUSION THAT PERHAPS THE CITY'S NOT THE RIGHT ENTITY TO DO IT.
THERE MIGHT BE A LOCAL RESOURCE AND PERHAPS YOU CAN BE A PARTNER TO THEM BY SHARING SOME INFORMATION WITH THEM, AND THEY MIGHT BE THE BEST EQUIPPED TO DO THAT.
SO THAT'S A PERFECTLY ACCEPTABLE ANSWER.
AND THEN I ALSO WANNA MENTION THAT, UM, WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO, TO DO THESE TYPES OF THINGS, ONE OF THE THINGS WE MENTIONED WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE TYPES OF ACTIONS IS THAT TACTICAL COMMUNITY KIND OF INCREMENTAL APPROACH.
AND I MENTIONED AT THAT POINT THAT EXPERIMENTATION IS A REALLY IMPORTANT THING.
AND SO A BIG PIECE OF ADVICE THAT WE GIVE CLIENTS ALL THE TIME IS DON'T LET PERFECTION GET IN THE WAY OF GOOD.
RIGHT? DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S PERFECT TO DO SOMETHING.
HAVE A BIAS TOWARDS ACTION NOW.
YOU CAN ALWAYS REFINE AND MAKE IT BETTER LATER.
SO PERHAPS YOU TAKE THE VERY SMALLEST STEP TOWARDS DOING THIS THING AND, AND YOU DON'T, YOU DON'T GET IT ALL ACCOMPLISHED EXACTLY TO THE DEGREE THAT YOU WANT TO, BUT YOU GET IT STARTED AND THEN THE NEXT YEAR THAT YOU DO IT, IT GETS A LITTLE MORE, UH, COMPREHENSIVE AND THE NEXT YEAR YOU REFINE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
SO THOSE THINGS ARE REALLY IMPORTANT TOO.
I THINK WE OFTEN FEEL PRESSURE TO HAVE ALL THE THOUGHTS, UM, ALL THE, THE POSSIBILITIES ARTICULATED AND WE'VE PREPARED FOR THEM AND WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, THOUGHT OF ALL THE OBJECTIONS THAT COULD COME UP AND WE GET THAT ANALYSIS PARALYSIS WHERE WE DON'T EVER MOVE FORWARD.
AND SO THIS IS REALLY HELPFUL FOR THAT PROCESS AS WELL.
UM, YOU MIGHT TALK TO PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND THEY MIGHT SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE ALREADY HAVE A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION THAT YOU ALL WANT.
WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT ANYBODY WAS REALLY INTERESTED IN, IN PUTTING IT OUT.
OR THEY MIGHT EVEN SAY, WE'RE KIND OF DOING A VERSION OF THIS.
MAYBE WE COULD TALK ABOUT HOW TO IMPROVE UPON IT.
SO, UM, THAT'S ANOTHER THING TO KEEP IN MIND WHEN YOU SEE THE LIST STARTING TO GET LONG, IS YOU MAY NOT END UP DOING IT ALL.
UM, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT MAXIMIZING MM-HMM.
MAYBE THERE'S IN SUMMARY TIMES WE NEED TO MAN MINIMIZE OR CONTROL THE TYPE OF HOUSING.
I'LL GIVE YOU THE POINT THAT IT COMES TO MIND.
UM, CURRENTLY THERE IS A TREND IN FINANCE IN LARGE BUILDERS TO BUILD LARGE DEVELOPMENTS
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OF BUILD TO RENT HOMES.AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT, UM, WE NEED GOOD INFORMATION AS A PLANNING AND ZONING IN AN COUNCIL AS WELL ABOUT THESE TRENDS AND HOW IT APPLIES TO THIS COMMUNITY BECAUSE IT BEING IDENTIFIED MORE OR LESS AS A BEDROOM COMMUNITY, UM, BEING THE THIRD FASTEST GROWING TOWN, WE'RE 50,000.
UH, WE HAVE A TARGET ON US FOR EXACTLY THAT KIND OF HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.
AND I'M, I WOULD MAKE THE POINT HERE NOW THAT THE REASON WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT IS THAT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD WORK AGAINST US QUITE BADLY TO HAVE MM-HMM.
SO, UH, PERHAPS RESEARCH AND RECOMMENDATION BY STAFF, UM, FOR COUNCIL, UM, AND PLANNING AND ZONING, IF THAT MIGHT BE AN ACTION ITEM.
UM, FINDING OUT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU NEED TO DECIDE HOW TO PROCEED, THAT'S GONNA BE A REALLY IMPORTANT PART.
ACTION YOU'RE GONNA SEE IN A LOT OF THINGS, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
YOU MIGHT NEED LEGAL ADVICE, YOU MIGHT NEED TO, UH, TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT STRATEGIES.
THERE MIGHT BE DIFFERENT WAYS TO ACCOMPLISH THE SAME THING.
THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
WELL, I, I'VE OFTEN SAID, AND I WILL SAY AGAIN, THE DEVELOPERS ARE USUALLY WAY AHEAD OF US MM-HMM.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT WE'RE, UH, NOT GONNA BE ON OUR BACK FOOT WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH THESE PEOPLE.
WELL, YOU ALL HAVE DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB ON THIS, AND YOU'VE GIVEN US SOME VERY USABLE THINGS.
UM, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, WE, WE DIDN'T HAVE TO SPEND TOO MUCH TIME ON THIS BECAUSE YOU ALL WERE ABLE TO VERY QUICKLY, UM, UNDERSTAND HOW TO BREAK THESE THINGS INTO PIECES.
AND THAT'S GONNA BE REALLY IMPORTANT MOVING FORWARD.
SO LET'S TALK FOR A MINUTE AS WE WRAP US UP TONIGHT ABOUT WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN THE FUTURE.
SO YOU'RE GONNA SEE THIS GRAPHIC IN THE PLAN, AND IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
NOW, THE BIGGEST REASON IS BECAUSE IF YOU WANNA AVOID THE CURSE OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, RIGHT? WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF EXCITEMENT, WE GET IT DONE, AND THEN, OH, IT'S THAT BOOK THAT I NEVER OPEN.
UM, YOU WANT IT TO REMAIN RELEVANT.
ONE OF THE MAIN REASONS THAT HAPPENS IS BECAUSE THE PLAN IS NO LONGER RELEVANT TO THE COMMUNITY.
THE COMMUNITY HAS OUTGROWN IT.
SO HOW DO WE PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING? WE REFINE AND UPDATE AND IT'S AN ITERATIVE PROCESS THAT CONTINUES AND CONTINUES.
UM, THAT'S REALLY CRITICAL HERE.
I THINK THAT THIS GROUP IN PARTICULAR IS REALLY WELL POSITIONED TO UNDERSTAND THIS IDEA BECAUSE OF FEW THINGS THAT YOU'VE SAID TO US.
UM, YOU'VE SAID TO US TONIGHT THAT YOU REALLY UNDERSTAND THIS IDEA OF TAKING RECOMMENDATIONS AND BREAKING THEM DOWN INTO ACTIONS.
YOU'VE SHOWN US THAT YOU'VE TOLD US THAT YOU ARE VERY ACTION ORIENTED AND YOU'RE READY TO GET TO WORK AND GET THINGS DONE.
AND THE IMPLEMENTATION PIECE OF THAT IS ALL ABOUT GETTING IT DONE.
UM, BUT WHAT COMES NEXT? WELL, WE ALWAYS HAVE TO BE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS OF ASSESSING OUR NEEDS.
THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY TODAY ARE NOT ALWAYS GOING TO BE THE NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY A YEAR FROM NOW OR TWO YEARS FROM NOW.
AND IF WE TRY TO USE THIS TOOL AND IT'S CAST IN STONE, IT WILL BECOME VERY IRRELEVANT FOR YOU VERY QUICKLY.
AND YOU ALL PUT A LOT OF RESOURCES TOWARDS FINANCING THIS PLAN, AND YOU'VE INVESTED IN IT PERSONALLY, AND YOUR COMMUNITY IS INVESTED IN IT.
THERE'S A LOT OF VALUE BUILT INTO THIS DOCUMENT.
AND SO YOU WANNA RESPECT THAT VALUE AND EXTEND THAT VALUE AS LONG AS POSSIBLE.
AND THE WAY THAT YOU DO THAT IS BY CONTINUING TO HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS, WE RECOMMEND, AT LEAST ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, WHERE YOU'RE NOT REDOING THE ENTIRE PLAN EVERY YEAR.
I DON'T WANNA SCARE YOU BY SAYING THAT, BUT YOU'RE JUST HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS OF CHECKING IN.
IS IT STILL MEETING OUR NEEDS? ARE THERE AREAS WHERE MAYBE IT'S NOT? MAYBE WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT.
UM, AND YOU'RE ENGAGING THE PUBLIC IN THAT PROCESS.
ANOTHER ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN WITH THESE EFFORTS IS YOU HAVE THIS BIG EFFORT TO HAVE THE COMMUNITY TAKE SURVEYS AND COME TO MEETINGS AND TALK TO YOU ABOUT THINGS, AND THEN YOU ADOPT THE PLAN AND THEY DON'T HEAR ANYTHING FROM YOU AGAIN.
SO THEY WANT TO STAY ENGAGED AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT, REPORTING TO THEM SO THAT THEY CAN SEE WHAT YOU'RE DOING, HAVING CLEAR CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION WHERE THEY CAN STAY APPRISED AS TO WHAT'S HAPPENING.
THOSE ARE GONNA BE REALLY IMPORTANT THINGS.
AND SO THIS LOOP IS GOING TO CONTINUE AND IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL, UM, ARE GOING TO BE VERY MUCH, UH, INVOLVED IN YOUR STAFF WILL LEAD YOU THROUGH THIS PROCESS ON A REGULAR BASIS.
UM, WE'RE AVAILABLE IN THE FUTURE SHOULD YOU NEED US, BUT THE TRUTH IS, UM, AND I'M PROBABLY A BAD CONSULTANT TO TELL YOU THIS, YOU DON'T NEED US TO DO THIS.
YOU ARE ALL WELL EQUIPPED TO DO THIS THING, WHICH
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IS MAKE SURE THAT THE PLAN STAYS GERMANE AND RELEVANT TO WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO.SO LET'S TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT ARE GONNA COME OUT OF THIS.
AND SOME OF THESE, I'M SURE YOU'VE ALREADY THOUGHT OF.
SOME OF THEM MAY BE THINGS YOU HAVEN'T THOUGHT OF YET, BUT THERE'S KIND OF FIVE DIFFERENT AREAS THAT WE SEE, UH, CHALLENGES OCCUR DURING THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS.
THE FIRST ONE IS ONE THAT IS NOT GONNA BE A SURPRISE TO ANY OF YOU, AND THAT IS THE CHALLENGE OF TRADE OFFS.
UM, THERE ARE GOING TO BE TIMES WHERE A CHOICE IS GOING TO COME BETWEEN IMPLEMENTING THIS ACTION OR IMPLEMENTING THAT ACTION.
AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO DECIDE IN THOSE MOMENTS WHICH THING IS MOST IMPORTANT, AND HOW TO MAKE THAT CHOICE ABOUT WHAT GETS DONE TODAY AND WHAT WAITS UNTIL TOMORROW OR ANOTHER DAY.
YOU'RE ALSO GOING TO FACE THIS ISSUE WITH TRADE OFFS WHERE DECISIONS ARE NOT ALWAYS GONNA BE UNDERSTOOD BY THE COMMUNITY.
YOU ENCOUNTER THAT ON A DAILY BASIS, I'M SURE.
UM, BUT THIS IS WHERE THIS PLAN CAN BE A RESOURCE FOR YOU.
UM, WE HAD A REALLY GOOD DISCUSSION WITH THE CITY STAFF THIS MORNING AND THEIR TEAM INFORMED US ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT IN YOUR BUDGETING DISCUSSIONS, WHICH ARE ABSOLUTELY ON TRACK WITH WHAT YOU WANNA BE DOING RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS NOTION THAT THE PLAN IS THERE FOR MANY REASONS, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS IT CAN DO FOR YOU AS THE BENEFIT IS IT PROVIDES YOU ALL A FOUNDATION TO TALK ABOUT AND COMMUNICATE WHY DECISIONS ARE MADE.
THERE ARE ALWAYS DECISIONS THAT PEOPLE CAN'T AGREE WITH OR WANT TO AGREE WITH.
UM, BUT TYPICALLY IF PEOPLE AT LEAST SEE THAT THERE WAS A PROCESS BY WHICH YOU REACH THAT DECISION AND THERE WAS SOME CONSIDERATION, UM, THEY CAN AT LEAST AGREE THAT THAT DECISION WAS NOT RUSHED INTO, UH, THEY AT LEAST CAN SEE THAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS OF DELIBERATION.
SO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN CAN BE, UH, A GUIDE TO YOU NOT ONLY IN YOUR DECISION MAKING, BUT THEN DEFENDING THOSE CHOICES OR ESTABLISHING WHY THOSE CHOICES WERE MADE THAT WAY.
FUNDING IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE A CHALLENGE AS WELL.
THERE'S ALWAYS GONNA BE MORE DEMANDS THAN YOU HAVE FUNDING AVAILABLE.
BUT AS WE TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, AND YOU ALL HAD SOME REALLY GREAT IDEAS JUST OFF THE CUFF ABOUT HOW LOCAL RESOURCES COULD BE USED TO EXPAND YOUR REACH.
UM, THAT'S GONNA BE TRUE IN IN A NUMBER OF AREAS.
WE HAVE WORKED IN A LOT OF, UH, SMALLER RURAL COMMUNITIES, COMMUNITIES WHERE YOU COME INTO TOWN AND WHAT YOU HEAR IS, WELL, EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYBODY.
AND YOU KNOW WHAT WE FIND EVERY SINGLE TIME WE WORK IN THOSE COMMUNITIES, THE RESOURCES IN THAT COMMUNITY, WERE NOT CONNECTED.
PEOPLE ALWAYS SAY, OH, I DIDN'T KNOW WE HAD THIS GROUP.
OH, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT THIS THING OR THIS PROGRAM WAS ACTIVE.
RIGHT? IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW SMALL IT IS.
AND SO WE CAN ALWAYS BE MORE RESOURCEFUL WITH WHAT WE HAVE IN THE COMMUNITY LOCALLY.
AND BY HAVING THAT FOCUS THAT MARSHALL TALKED ABOUT, WHERE WE FOCUS ON A SERIES OF SMALL STEPS WHERE WE START TO BUILD TRACTION AND WE BUILD MOMENTUM, UM, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE BIGGEST, UM, GRANDEST THING TO BE DEEMED AN ACCOMPLISHMENT BECAUSE FORWARD PROGRESS IS AN ACCOMPLISHMENT.
SEQUENCING CHALLENGES ARE GOING TO BECOME PRESENT.
YOU'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THE PLAN, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THE EDITS THAT YOU ADVISED US ON, YOU'RE GONNA GET IT ADOPTED, AND YOU'RE GOING TO THINK WE GOT IT ALL AND WE GOT IT ALL IN THE RIGHT ORDER.
AND THE RIGHT SEQUENCE, THE PRIORITIES ARE THERE.
AND INEVITABLY SOMETHING WILL HAPPEN WHERE YOU HAVE A RECOGNITION OF, OH GOSH, MAYBE THIS THING NEEDS TO COME BEFORE THIS.
AND THAT'S PERFECTLY OKAY BECAUSE CONDITIONS CHANGE AND THOSE THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN.
BUT THE COORDINATION OF C SEQUENCING IS SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE REALLY CRITICAL.
AND THIS IS WHERE YOUR STAFF IS GONNA BE SO VALUABLE TO YOU BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO HELP YOU KIND OF LOOK, LOOK FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD AND SEE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING.
UM, AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF SUCCESS IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION OF WHAT IS THE PATH IN THIS PARTICULAR ISSUE THAT HAS THE HIGHEST LIKELIHOOD OF SUCCESS.
IT MAY NOT GET EVERYTHING THAT WE WANTED THE FIRST TIME, BUT WE CAN ACHIEVE THAT THING AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK AND TAKE ANOTHER RUN AT THIS AND GET THE NEXT PIECE OF IT.
POLICY IS ALSO GOING TO BE ANOTHER CHALLENGE.
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOUSING TYPES AND HOW TO MAKE THOSE THINGS GO TOGETHER.
AND I DUNNO IF YOU'LL REMEMBER THIS, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT IS THAT THERE'S ONE CERTAINTY WHEN IT COMES TO DEVELOPMENT OF HOUSING.
AND THAT IS, IF YOU DON'T ALLOW IT, IT WILL NOT COME BEFORE YOU FOR YOU TO CONSIDER IT.
RIGHT? WE TALKED ABOUT THAT CERTAINTY.
AND SO A REALLY IMPORTANT PIECE IS, IS HAVING THIS CHECK-IN REGULARLY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE POLICY MAKES POSSIBLE THE THING THAT YOU WANT TO HAVE HAPPEN.
BECAUSE IF IT DOESN'T MAKE IT POSSIBLE, IT'S ALREADY THAT THAT ACTION THAT YOU'VE ESTABLISHED IS ALREADY DEAD, RIGHT? YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET, UH, ANY TRACTION ON THAT.
IT ALSO SHOULD ENCOURAGE THINGS.
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SO WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT INCENTIVES, AGAIN, WE ALWAYS THINK OF INCENTIVES AS FINANCIAL, BUT THERE'S OTHER WAYS THAT WE CAN INCENTIVIZE THINGS.UM, AND WE CAN USE REGULATORY TOOLS TO ENCOURAGE AND INSPIRE IDEAS, UM, IN ADDITION TO DICTATE AND PREVENT AND REGULATE.
SO THAT'S GONNA BE IMPORTANT FOR YOU ALL TO THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THIS CODE UPDATE AND OTHER, UH, REGULATORY TOOLS THAT YOU WANT TO, UH, REVISE OR NOT BOARD.
ANOTHER THING ABOUT POLICY IS THAT'S USUALLY WHERE THE PUSHBACK HAPPENS THE MOST, RIGHT? THOSE ARE THE MEETINGS WHERE PEOPLE ARE GONNA SHOW UP.
THOSE ARE THE MEETINGS WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR A PUBLIC COMMENT AS WELL.
YOU SHOULD BECAUSE THAT'S THE WHOLE REASON THAT WE DO THESE IN PUBLIC.
BUT THIS IS WHERE, AGAIN, HAVING THAT PLAN AS A FOUNDATION THAT YOU CAN POINT TO, IT'S CHALLENGING, BUT IT IS MUCH LESS CHALLENGING THAN YOU HAVING TO FEEL THAT YOU NEED TO DEFEND A DECISION WITH NOTHING TO POINT TO THAT BACKS YOU UP.
SO ONE THING THAT WE'VE TALKED WITH YOUR STAFF ABOUT IS MAKING SURE, UM, THAT WE NOT ONLY DON'T CONTRADICT SOME DIRECTIONS THAT THEY'RE ALREADY MOVING IN, BUT THAT WE BUILD IN SUPPORT FOR THEM TO DO THOSE THINGS.
LIKEWISE, THE SAME IS TRUE FOR YOU.
AND THEN DATA'S THE LAST PIECE.
AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS WITH SOME OF THE ACTIONS THAT YOU GAVE US ON HOUSING.
UM, DATA'S NOT ALWAYS PRESENT.
SOMETIMES IT HAS TO BE SOURCED.
SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO GET CREATIVE ABOUT HOW TO SOURCE IT.
UH, I PROMISE YOU YOUR STAFF IS SUPER CREATIVE WHEN IT COMES TO THESE THINGS.
SO IF YOU'RE NOT SURE, BUT YOU HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU'RE WANTING TO GET DONE, TRUST THEM.
THEY CAN HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE BEST, MOST EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL WAY TO, TO GET THAT DATA.
AND THEN IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO ESTABLISH WHO'S GOING TO COLLECT IT, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT, WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING IT? HOW DOES THE SHARING OCCUR? THAT'S ANOTHER THING WE SEE WITH A LOT OF COMMUNITIES THAT FEEL LIKE THEY'RE REALLY WELL CONNECTED ON THE FRONT END, IS THEY START TO FIND THESE DIFFERENT SILOS WHERE THERE'S DATA THAT IS IN PEOPLE'S POSSESSIONS AND IN, UH, DIFFERENT GROUPS', POSSESSIONS, AND IT'S NOT BEING SHARED.
AND LIKE, AND THAT CAN BE VERY POWERFUL.
SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT YOU'LL FACE IN IMPLEMENTATION.
NONE OF THEM ARE INSURMOUNTABLE.
THEY ARE ALL MADE EASIER WITH AN ADOPTED DOCUMENT.
I KNOW ALL FIVE OF THESE THINGS ARE ABOUT FLEXIBILITY AND GROWING THAT INDOOR THING.
I THINK ONE OF THE BIGGEST CONCERNS I HAVE COMING FROM JUST HOW I KNOW THE CITY TO OPERATE IN RECENT HISTORY, NOT EXACTLY FAIRLY RECENT HISTORY, BUT OVER A GOOD 10, 15, 20 YEARS MM-HMM.
CAUSE I, I KNOW HOW MUCH IT TAKES TO WIN A KYLE CITY COUNCIL ELECTION.
IT'S NOT THAT MANY VOTES COMPARED TO A LOT OF OTHER PLACES.
SO I COULD EASILY SEE A SITUATION WHICH SOMEONE'S UNHAPPY ABOUT SOMETHING GETS SOME PEOPLE, AND ONE OF THOSE VALUES MM-HMM.
RIGHT? HOW DO WE, SO I GUESS MY THING IN IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES IS MAKING SURE WE BUILD A PLAN THAT IS SUSTAINABLE THROUGH THOSE CHANGES SO THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY ACHIEVE THESE THINGS AND LEAVE WHAT WE WANT TO INSTEAD OF LEAVING SOMETHING THAT CAN EASILY JUST BE PILED OVER.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT PIECES TO THAT ANSWER.
NUMBER ONE IS YOU MAKE SURE THAT THE PLAN REMAINS UPDATED AND RELEVANT, RIGHT? IT'S EASY TO COME INTO OFFICE AND DISCARD SOMETHING WHEN IT'S NOT RELEVANT TO WHAT YOU'RE DOING ANYMORE.
NO ONE WOULD REALLY QUESTION THAT.
SO THAT'S NUMBER ONE IS MAKE SURE THAT WHAT YOU'RE HANDING OFF IS STILL AS RELEVANT AS IT WAS WHEN YOU ADOPTED IT.
UM, ANOTHER PIECE OF THAT IS SOME OF THIS EXERCISE THAT WE WENT THROUGH HERE.
UM, THERE WERE A LOT OF BENEFITS OF IT.
THERE'S CLARITY IN WHAT WAS ADOPTED.
THERE'S CLARITY IN THE WORK PLAN.
UM, WHEN PLANS STOP WITH THOSE BROAD OVERARCHING RECOMMENDATIONS, IT'S LEFT UP TO EACH INDIVIDUAL ELECTED OFFICIAL AND APPOINTED OFFICIAL AND STAFF MEMBER AND CITY MANAGER AND SO ON AND SO FORTH TO INTERPRET WHAT THOSE BROAD RECOMMENDATIONS ACTUALLY MEAN.
AND IF WE THREW ONE OF THOSE OUT HERE ON THE TABLE AND ASKED YOU ALL TO WRITE DOWN WHAT IT MEANT TO YOU, AND THEN WE COMPARED NOTES, WE WOULD GET SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF AN ANSWER.
SO BY BEING AS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR AS POSSIBLE, UM, WHERE WE CAN SHOW THEM THESE ACTIONS AND WHOEVER'S COMING IN CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS MEANT, WHY IT'S THERE, HOW IT'S ACHIEVED, ALL OF THESE THINGS, THAT ALSO IS A REALLY IMPORTANT PIECE OF, OF HOW YOU DO THAT.
SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT WHAT YOU SAID IS SUPER IMPORTANT.
I THINK THAT IT WILL BE A GREAT WAY TO, UM, ENGAGE PLANNING AND ZONING IN THE CITY COUNCIL.
IF WE WERE TO HAVE, I DON'T KNOW, A BESIDES THIS TYPE MEETING, THE JOINT MEETING TWICE A YEAR TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE FOLLOWING THROUGH WITH THE PLAN THAT WE'RE ESTABLISHING.
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YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT, THAT WE'RE NOT GETTING OUT OF THE WAY WITH THE PLAN, MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE KEEPING ACCOUNTABLE WITH WHAT WE ARE AGREEING TO DO.SO TWO THINGS THAT YOU SAID ARE REALLY IMPORTANT.
YOU'RE COMMUNICATING CLEARLY, THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
UM, YOU MIGHT EVEN START THINKING ABOUT THOSE TRANSITIONS WHEN THEY'RE COMING AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU'RE GETTING EVERYONE IN A ROOM, PEOPLE THAT ARE OUTGOING AND PEOPLE THAT ARE INCOMING.
AND SO THEY'RE TALKING TO EACH OTHER.
ANOTHER THING THAT YOU SAID IS REALLY IMPORTANT IS ACCOUNTABILITY.
RIGHT? IF YOU'RE COMING INTO A WORK GROUP THAT HAS DONE A REALLY EFFECTIVE JOB IN IDENTIFYING WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO, THEY'RE SHOWING THAT THEY'RE DOING IT AND THEY'RE REPORTING IT TO THE PUBLIC, WHO WANTS TO COME IN BEHIND THAT AND NOT BE EFFECTIVE, RIGHT? EVERYONE WANTS TO BE EFFECTIVE.
SO YOU'RE SERE SETTING AND ESTABLISHING THIS BAR OF HOW THESE BOARDS AND, AND COMMITTEES AND COUNCIL OPERATE.
UM, AND THAT ALSO HELPS WITH CONTINUITY.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER REALLY GOOD, I'M GLAD YOU SHARED THAT.
UM, I WAS JUST GONNA SORT OF EXPAND A LITTLE BIT ON THIS CONCEPT THAT YOU SEE UP ON THE BOARD HERE, UH, ON THE SCREEN HERE, WHICH IS THAT WHEN YOU DO HAVE NEW PEOPLE COMING IN, UM, IT'S VERY PEOPLE, PEOPLE DECIDE TO BECOME INVOLVED IN CITIES FOR ALL KINDS OF REASONS.
BUT THEY OFTEN HAVE, UH, PARTICULAR SUBJECTS WHICH ARE VERY, THEY'RE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT, YOU KNOW, AND I'VE NEVER MET A SINGLE PERSON WHO TRIED TO GET ONTO A CITY COUNCIL WHO DIDN'T CARE JUST SO MUCH ABOUT THE PLACE THAT THEY ARE.
SO YOU CAN GET GOOD STUFF FROM EVERYBODY.
TH THIS PROCESS, WHAT IT DOES IS IT ALLOWS NEW FOLKS TO HAVE SOME SAY IN THE WAY THINGS THAT ARE GOING FORWARD IN A WAY THAT IS CONDUCIVE TO THE OVERALL ENVIRONMENT OF CITY OPERATIONS, RIGHT? SO ADDING NEW ACTIONS AS NEW IDEAS AND NEW PROBLEMS ARE PRESENTED IS A NET BENEFIT TO YOUR COMMUNITY.
UH, REFINING RECOMMENDATIONS OVER TIME AND REFINING ACTIONS AS THE FACTS ON THE GROUNDS CHANGE SHOULD BE LOOKED AT AS A POSITIVE THING IF IT'S NOT BEING DONE TO, YOU KNOW, GIVE THE SQUEAKIEST WHEEL SOME GREASE, BUT INSTEAD TO ACTUALLY TRY AND BRING, UM, THE COMMUNITY MORE IN LINE WITH THE GOALS THAT IT HAS IDENTIFIED, WHICH WILL BE CLEARLY OUTLINED IN THE PLAN ITSELF.
SO, UM, LOOKING FORWARD TO THESE CHANGES IS A POSITIVE THING.
THIS SHOULD NOT BE FROZEN IN AMBER WHEN IT GETS PUBLISHED.
THE ENTIRE POINT IS THAT IT UPDATES THAT WE WANT NEW IDEAS TO COME IN AND OPERATE THROUGH THIS PROCESS, NOT OUT OF ALIGNMENT WITH THIS PROCESS.
THE ACTUAL ENGAGEMENT NEEDS TO HAPPEN AFTER WE'VE ASSESSED NEEDS.
THE, THE NEW RECOMMENDATIONS NEED TO BE DRAFTED AND THOUGHT OF COGENTLY ACTIONS NEED TO BE CREATED THAT ARE IN LINE WITH THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.
IF THAT PROCESS IS FOLLOWED, UM, NEW PEOPLE COMING IN WILL FIND THEMSELVES ALSO WANTING TO MAKE THE ENTIRE PLAN SUCCESSFUL AS WELL.
AND THAT LEADS TO NUMBER THREE.
NOW, DEFINING THE GOLD STANDARD SO THAT RESIDENTS, DEVELOPERS, AND BUSINESSES AND OTHERS, COUNCIL MEMBERS, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, EVERYBODY ELSE ON BOARD KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS IN KYLE AND KNOWS AND HOW IT'S APPLIED.
THAT'S THE PROBABLY THE NUMBER ONE.
NUMBER ONE, THIS SALES REPEATED THING THAT WE HEARD.
THESE WERE THE THINGS YOU HAD YOUR ANNUAL REPORTS SHOWS THE FINANCES, DEVELOPING THE ASSESSMENT TO IMPACT AND MAKE THE KEY DECISIONS ON THE PROJECTS AND POLICIES.
AND THEN NUMBER THREE IS EXACTLY WHAT HE'S SAYING.
WHENEVER WE MOVE ON THAT THE NEW PEOPLE THAT COME ON BOARD UNDERSTAND MM-HMM.
AND, AND TO GO BACK TO WHERE IT SAYS, OKAY, IF WE'RE DOING THIS GOLD STANDARD, WE'RE DOING THAT WHEN PART OF THE ANALYSIS IS THAT YOU ALSO DO A COMPLETION OF MM-HMM.
THESE WERE THE ONES THAT WERE ACTUALLY COMPLETED, RIGHT? AND THESE WERE THE DATES AND THIS IS WHAT IT WAS.
AND WHAT DO YOU NORMALLY HEAR FROM RESIDENTS, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR PRIORITIES ARE.
I DIDN'T KNOW THIS WAS GOING KNOW WHEN THIS IS GOING HAPPEN.
AND SO BY TALKING TO A RESIDENT AT THE COMPREHENSION AT THE THING THE OTHER DAY, I ACTUALLY MENTIONED TO IT, IF WE SENT OUT FLYERS, IF WE PUT IN THE FREE PRESS, IF WE SENT YOU MAILERS, WOULD YOU READ THIS? AND HE'S LIKE, WELL, MAYBE SOME OF THE OLDER FOLKS.
BUT AGAIN, TOBYS, WE ARE STILL IN THE DIGITAL AGE WHERE I GET ALL MY STUFF FROM HERE MM-HMM.
AND SO AGAIN, IT'S STILL WORKING ON HOW WE CAN COMMUNICATE EVEN BETTER SURE.
THAT WAS POINT GET POINT ANALYSIS STUFF FORTH.
CAN I, UH, CAN I JUST PIGGYBACK OFF SOME OF THESE REMARKS PLEASE? YES.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE CREATED FOR US IS, UH, FOR OURSELVES IS AN ORDINANCE THAT SAYS EVERY 10 YEARS WE DO A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
AND MAYBE THAT'S THE WRONG MODEL, BECAUSE I DID LOOK AT THE OLD ONE AND I LOOKED AT IT AND SAID, WELL, THAT'S NOT GONNA WORK.
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KYLE.AND, UH, AND SO MAYBE WE NEED A DIFFERENT ORDINANCE OR A DIFFERENT MANNER TO DO THAT.
AND, UH, PICKING UP, UH, WHAT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN PARSLEY SAID, PERHAPS, UH, COUNCIL OF COURSE HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
AND SO MAYBE ONCE EVERY YEAR, ONCE EVERY TWO YEARS, YOU COULD HAVE AN AD HOC, AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR, UM, FOR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN REVIEW MM-HMM.
AND THEN WE DON'T HAVE THIS EVERY 10 YEARS A A BIG THRASH, UH, TO TRY TO CREATE A NEW RELEVANT PLAN.
RIGHT? WELL, LIKE THAT'S IN THE CHARTER.
WE JUST, AND ANOTHER BENEFIT OF DOING IT THAT WAY IS YEAH, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE DONE ONCE EVERY 10 YEARS.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A HUGE OVERHAUL.
YOU'RE, YOU'RE MAKING INCREMENTAL UPDATES TO THAT PLAN.
AND ANOTHER THING I JUST WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH TOO IS WE, WE HAVE TO KIND SHIFT THE WAY THAT WE THINK ABOUT THIS PROCESS.
AND YOU ALL ARE DOING A GREAT JOB OF JUST LEADING US DOWN THAT ROAD.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S REALLY HARD, UM, HARDER SOMETIMES TO GRASP IS THAT SOMETIMES THOSE UPDATES IN THE PLAN ARE GOING TO BE CHECKING OFF THINGS THAT YOU'VE ACCOMPLISHED.
RIGHT? AND THOSE ARE WINS AND THEY NEED TO BE CELEBRATED AND YOU WANNA SHARE THAT INFORMATION.
HOWEVER, IT IS ALSO OKAY WHEN SOMETIMES THOSE UPDATES ARE TO SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS IS NO LONGER A PRIORITY FOR US, OR, WE TRIED THAT AND IT DIDN'T REALLY WORK.
AND SO THAT'S NOT THE WAY THAT WE NEED TO DO THAT BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT THAT DOES, RIGHT? THAT MAKES YOU ALL HUMAN, RIGHT? IT HELPS YOUR COMMUNITY UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE THINKING CAREFULLY ABOUT WHAT'S IN THE PLAN.
AND IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT ACHIEVEMENT AND REELECTION AND ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE USUALLY THROWN OUT THERE WHEN WE'RE DOING THESE TYPES OF THINGS, BUT SOMETIMES IT'S JUST ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE STILL ON THE RIGHT TRACK.
AND SOMETIMES THAT MEANS WE TAKE THINGS OUT OR WE REDUCE THE SCOPE OF THINGS, OR WE SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS JUST ISN'T A PRIORITY TODAY AND SO WE'RE NOT GONNA FOCUS ON IT.
AND THOSE CHANGES ARE JUST AS MEANINGFUL.
UM, AND THERE IS NO FAILURE WHEN YOU MAKE THOSE CHANGES.
SO THIS ISN'T ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE WE WANNA PUMP YOU UP AND, AND MAKE YOU FEEL THAT YOU HAVE FAILED.
IF YOU MA DECIDE THAT YOU NEED TO MAKE SOME OF THOSE CHANGES OR SOMETHING DOESN'T WORK OUT, THAT TOO IS PART OF THAT PROCESS OF EXPERIMENTATION AND JUST TRYING IT IS JUST AS IMPORTANT SOMETIMES.
SO I THINK YOU ALL ARE, ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK AND REALLY WELL EQUIPPED TO DO THIS.
UM, AND WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE WHERE IT GOES.
YOU'VE ALL BEEN VERY PATIENT WITH US WITH YOUR TIME THIS EVENING.
WE'RE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF IT.
I DON'T WANT TO TAKE ANY MORE OF IT OUT OF RESPECT FOR YOU.
WE WILL BE HERE IF YOU'D LIKE TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS OR, OR VISIT WITH US.
UM, BUT I THINK YOU HAVE KNOCKED OUT OF THE PARK WHAT WE ASKED YOU TO DO, UM, VERY SUCCINCTLY.
AND, UM, IF ANY OF YOU ARE EVER LOOKING FOR A JOB AS A CONSULTANT, LET US KNOW BECAUSE
UM, SO, UH, JUST TO REALLY, UH, QUICKLY RECAP WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT.
YOU WILL HAVE A DRAFT THAT'S GONNA BE COMING TO YOU BY THE END OF THIS MONTH.
THAT'S GOING TO BE THE FIRST BIG PIECE OF THE PLAN.
THE SECOND BIG PIECE OF THE PLAN, THE IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY THAT WE TALKED ABOUT TONIGHT.
THAT WILL BE A DELIVERABLE THAT YOU'LL SEE A DRAFT OF IN AUGUST.
AND THEN WE'LL BE VISITING WITH YOU TO REFINE THAT DRAFT AND BE ULTIMATELY PRESENTING THAT TO YOU ON OUR NEXT TRIP.
SO THE NEXT TIME THAT WE SEE YOU ALL IN PERSON, WE WILL BE PRESENTING THIS, UH, THING TO YOU ALL THAT WE'VE ALL WORKED ON TOGETHER.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR, FOR YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION.
WE ASKED EVERYBODY TO COME UP WITH SOME ACTIONS.
WE GOT TO TALK ABOUT A HANDFUL OF THEM.
ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO AND IS WILLING TO SHARE THE OTHER ACTIONS THEY JOTTED DOWN, IF YOU'D GIVE 'EM TO ME, WE'D REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
WE'LL, UM, LOOK INTO THOSE AS WELL AS WE'RE WORKING ON THE IMPLEMENTATION PORTION OF THE, UH, THE PLAN.
OKAY, SO THIS ITEM HERE WAS FOR DISCUSSION ON THIS END.
DO WE NEED TO GO AHEAD AND LOOK AT, UH, ANOTHER DATE RIGHT NOW TO COME BACK? I THINK IT'S BETWEEN AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OR IF WE WANNA WAIT FOR THEM.
I THINK WE MAY HAVE ANOTHER DATE SCHEDULED.
BUT WE'LL, WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU AND, AND LET EVERYONE KNOW OKAY.
WITH THAT, UH, DON'T SEE ANYTHING ELSE.
IF WE NEED TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION, WE DON'T.
SO IF THAT'S THE CASE, DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING THAT THEY WANT TO ADD? IF NOT, I'LL GO AHEAD AND MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING.
AND FINDING ZONING IS NEXT, I WOULD ASK.
UM, I MEAN, I WOULD SAY SINCE THERE'S NO FURTHER BUSINESS AND WE'VE COMPLETED THE AGENDA, I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN.