Planning Commission Agenda and Packet 2016 03 10

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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes February 11, 2016 Page 2 of 18 This is a legislative act and does not have the same public notice requirements as usual quasi- judicial applications. Staff posted signs along South Boulder Road and posted notice on City website. Agenda posted per regulations and email sent to email distribution list. Staff Report of Facts and Issues: Robinson presented from Power Point: • Staff has worked on Small Area Plan since October 2013 and presents a draft plan for the PC to review. • What is a Small Area Plan? The Comp Plan updated in 2013 is a city-wide policy document. What is built on the ground is controlled by zoning and design guidelines. To go from the Comp Plan to zoning and design guidelines, Staff uses the small area planning process. It takes the big ideas from the Comp Plan and translates them into one specific area, such as the South Boulder Road area. Out of this, Staff will create the zoning and design guidelines that will then create the built environment the community wants to see. The South Boulder Road study area includes both sides of South Boulder Road from Via Appia on the west to the city limit at Lafayette on the east, and along Highway 42/96th Street to the city limit at Paschal on the north. • Three big questions in the Small Area Plan are: o What are desired land uses for the corridor? o What are the preferred physical character design guidelines for the corridor? o What are the public infrastructure priorities and public investment needed? There are some public investment items called out in the plan, but for the most part, this sets design guidelines or parameters for design guidelines that will control private development. Staff will present some drawings and renderings, but these are to give the PC an idea of what these guidelines would produce. The City is not proposing to tear down any buildings or build any new buildings. Staff is putting the guidelines in place so that when and if areas develop or redevelop, they will be built with the character and design that the community wants to see. • Project Schedule: o October 2014 — Kick-off Meeting (talked about general goals for the plan) o January 2015 — Walkability Audit and first Placemaking Workshop #1 (looked at transportation, walking, and biking issues) o February 2015 — Placemaking Workshop #2 (looked at different sites in the corridor and asked what people would or would not like to see on the sites) o November 2015 — Placemaking Workshop #3 ■ Development scenarios • 1 story • 2 story • 3 story ■ Urban design elements ■ Roadway improvements We took the outcome of the November 2015 meeting and all public comments received through the planning process (including the survey done in late 2014 and early 2015) and used it to create the preferred alternative which is the basis for the Draft Plan presented tonight. In general, the Plan has six sections: • Introduction • Process • Context • Project Principles 1. Provide for safer and more convenient connections across South Boulder Road and Highway 42 for bikes and pedestrians.