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Resolution Regarding the Draft Comprehensive Land Use Plan
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Whereas, The City Council is grateful to Staff, Planning Commission, and the public for the ongoing work, conversation, and products since October 2023 to develop a new Comprehensive Plan;
Whereas, The City Council seeks to ensure that the eventual Comprehensive Plan recommends a balanced approach to residential, commercial, public, and industrial uses that meets community needs, community aspirations, and is capable of garnering broad community support;
Whereas, The "Residential Category" in Draft 2 of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan includes only areas of the City currently zoned R1 and R2;
Whereas, This Resolution uses the term "neighborhood context" to refer to: 1) the built form of a neighborhood, including building features such as height, mass and scale, setbacks, lot coverage, roof styles, and porches, stoops and entries that face the street; 2) streetscape and visual rhythm, which involves street trees, sidewalks, building spacing; 3) neighborhood walkability, mix of unit types, and features that allow a wide range of people - young adults, seniors, families, individual adults - to live nearby and enhance social and cultural life.
Whereas, The City Council values an incremental, practical, and predictable approach to residential infill that enables small-scale multifamily housing - duplexes and triplexes - in the Residential Category (Draft v. 2), using form-based standards to guide design, but that does not entitle small apartment buildings and larger scale development throughout that category;
Whereas, The future land use map provides direction on how the city will develop over time, but that it does not equate to a one-to-one translation into zoning districts;
Whereas, The additional edits requested by this resolution will necessitate a budget amendment to extend the contract with Interface Studio LLC.
RESOLVED, That the City Council requests that the draft Comprehensive Plan ...
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