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City Council Meeting Minutes September 6, 2022 Page 8of13 to help people that are struggling to find housing. Postponing this will only aggravate the problem and we have a responsibility to act and we can make changes if we need to. Councilmember Dickinson stated he is concerned that without incentives we will continue to get no new development which will mean no new affordable housing. He stated he has no reason to think this will be successful without defined incentives. There needs to be some assurance this will bring builders to Louisville. We all want his, but without having specified incentives he can't support this. The incentives are needed to make sure this happens. Mayor Stolzmann stated last year's inclusionary zoning rules were too late to affect real change. We need to have something on the books so that we can require things of all new applications. We need this in place sooner rather than later or we won't get any affordable housing. MOTION: Mayor Stolzmann moved to approve the ordinance with an additional Whereas, stating "adding this additional pathway in zoning to create housing fortifies compliance with House Bill 22-1117 by taking the following actions to increase the overall number and density of housing units within our jurisdictional boundaries, which changes zoning and land use policies in a way that is intended to increase the overall density and availability of housing by changing its zoning regulations to increase the number of housing units allowed on a particular site, by promoting mixed use zoning that permits housing units be incorporated in a wider range of developments and by adopting regulatory measures that are expressly designed and intended to increase the supply of housing within our local governmental jurisdictional boundaries"; seconded by Councilmember Brown. Councilmember Most reiterated that she wants this to happen quickly so opportunities aren't missed. There will be chances to make changes as development processes proceed. We don't need to have the incentives determined right now, we need something on the books without delay. Councilmember Leh agreed there is a need to move expeditiously, however, there needs to be a process that will actually encourage the development we want. There are developers who want to do affordable housing, but it has to work. Incentives need to be created first to signal to people that Council is serious. He expressed concerned that this is just checking a box. Councilmember Brown made a friendly amendment changing the 30% to 20%, Mayor Stolzmann accepted the amendment. Councilmember Brown stated this 20% would bring us in line with neighboring communities and has been tested in the region so this should not be out of the realm of what developers are already doing.