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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPB memo Draft Plan 06-16-2020 TO: BOZEMAN PLANNING BOARD FROM: CHRIS SAUNDERS, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER TOM ROGERS, SENIOR PLANNER RE: COMMUNITY PLAN UPDATE REVIEW DATE: JUNE 16, 2020 A revised Bozeman Community Plan is attached for your consideration, version 11 dated June 16, 2020. This draft includes minor edits listed in the consolidated individual Board edits chart also attached to this memo. The edits include all those which we discussed individually with Board members as a follow up to the May 19th meeting. Please note that this draft in is MS Word format with strikeout and underline. All design, layout, images and illustrations are removed from the text to allow the Board to complete editing work. Provided below is the schedule for the completion of the plan review. Please review the schedule carefully. The Board identified an omission in the previous Plan addressing resiliency. The City has integrated resiliency into its processes. However, a more robust and deliberative statement ought to include in the Community Plan. Resiliency is needed to address a wide range of circumstances affecting all elements of the community and its operations. Stressors include natural disasters, climate change, economic shocks and transitions, and in 2020, a pandemic. Long term systems and adaptations, not just initial responses, are needed to maintain a healthy community. Staff respectfully submits a proposed Theme 7 | Resiliency for the Board’s consideration as an included edit in version 11. Considerable attention to housing affordability is reemerging in Board discussion. Although housing is prominently placed and discussed in Chapter 1 | Basics of the draft plan with references to associated and supporting plans additional content and discussion may be needed. First defining the term “Missing Middle.” Missing Middle housing is a typology of housing which is the range of house-scale buildings with multiple units—compatible in scale and form with detached single-family home. City has allowed, by right, missing middle homes for decades, see Chapter 38, Division 310, permitted uses. Permitted housing types include duplex, triplex, live-work, cottage housing, group living, row houses, townhouses, horizontally layered apartments, flats, and any configuration therein. The City does not require a minimum or maximum number of bedrooms. The city lets the market dictate what is constructed. Perhaps that is the fundamental issue, market perceptions interfere with the desired variety of housing types being constructed. In addition, required minimum lot size for new subdivisions have been significantly reduced over the last 15 years. For example, from 10,000 square feet for a single detached home to 2,700 for affordable housing. The City removed minimum home size restrictions in 2004. Minimum house sizes have been imposed since then by private developers through private restrictions and covenants which the City does not regulate. At the June 9, 2020 planning board meeting the Board voted to accept the proposed indicators and metrics listed in the March 16, 2020 draft Plan with modifications. The Board made the following edits and modifications to Chapter 4 | Implementation: 1. Include qualitative measure(s) such as the American Community Survey or an equivalent to be determined 2. Retitle Development vs, Redevelopment under A City Bolstered by Downtown and Complementary Districts to “Location of Development” 3. Add “Per Capita” to Greenhouse Gas Emissions under A City Influenced by Our Natural Environment, Parks, and Open Lands Theme. 4. Revise the notes for Transit Accessibility under A City that Prioritizes Accessibility and Mobility Choices to say “Increase Ridership.” 5. Revise Monitoring and Updates, second paragraph, line eight to nine to say, “Development of specific targets for each indicator should be completed within a year six months of Plan adoption.” 6. Strike “Commercial Acceptability” under A City of Neighborhoods. 7. Cathy Costakis to work with City staff to craft better language so move towards more non SOV. These changes are reflected in the draft attached to this report. Review Schedule – Please review carefully  Distribution of packet materials to Planning Board under this memo for the June 16th meeting includes the revised text incorporating PB direction to date, public comments since last meeting are specifically provided.  The final Planning Board hearing on the plan update is set for July 21st via WebEx.  The City Manager directs the Planning Board to vote on a recommendation to the City Commission on the plan before adjourning on July 21st. No additional meetings other than June 16th and July 21st will be held by the Planning Board on the Plan.  The contract with LoganSimpson concludes on June 30, 2020.  Staff will work with LoganSimpson to close out the contract prior to June 30th, obtain all working files to continue the project in-house, and complete last draft for Planning Board consideration in July. Staff will provide LoganSimpson revised text from Planning Board meeting on June 16th and some additional images to complete needed edits previously identified such as changes to the industrial land use designation description.  The Planning Board can recommend additional public outreach type and amount after their recommendation goes to the City Commission. The Planning Board future meetings are limited to the June 16th final work session and July 21st public hearing.  We will work with Melody Mileur (City’s communication specialist) on advertising for the July 21st public hearing. We will ensure that notice meets and exceeds minimum legal standards. Attachments: 1. Bozeman Community Plan V11, June 16, 2020 2. Bozeman Community Plan V11, June 16, 2020 clean copy 3. Consolidated Individual Board Proposed Edits 4. Urban Agriculture memo, Jen Madgic & Cathy Costakis 5. Urban Agriculture public comment 6. Human / Bear conflict comment 7. R. Kruger FLUM comment 3-18-2020 8. M. Egge comment 9. Sixty-two written public comments were received regarding the Blackwood Groves growth policy amendment the Planning Board considered on May 19th to amend the future land use map. Many commenters merged comments on the Blackwood Groves zone map amendment, blackwood Groves growth policy amendment application 20021, and the overall update to the 2009 Bozeman Community Plan application 16521 the Board is considering at this meeting. To honor the intent of the comments please review the submitted comments for applicability to the overall future land use map with the overall growth policy update. Written comments are available at http://weblink.bozeman.net/WebLink8/0/fol/210983/Row1.aspx.