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Proclamation is in recognition of the 55th anniversary of davis community transit davis community transit has provided transportation service to davis residents since JULY 1971. Community transit maintains cooperative partnership with the fixed transit yolo bus and uitrans dc dct has served as a community the ada paratransit provider since implementation of the americans with disabilities act. Requirements in 1995. To eligible customers approximately 60 people are currently registered with davis community transit with more than 80% of those age 62 or older. Transit provide lifeline and ensures residents and visitors have access to employment, healthcare shopping recreation, social therefore, b it proclaimed davis city council hereby recognizes the 55th anniversary of davis community transit and sincere appreciation for the many years of dedicated service to the community and I personally want to read this because my son rides davis transit and the stories he brings home are just amazing and staff is wonderful. And I think that in addition to providing the transit building community people get to know each other. They talk to each other, they look for each other. And so, so much for facilitating that important sur I'd like to say a few words. >> yes. In 1971. Transit began in davis with volkswagen van the city by holtz wagon. The service was operated with time driver and was fare free. City council then funds for the purchase of a 21 passenger deal. Unfortunately, the vehicle was plagued with mechanical problems, causing breakdowns during service and. 1872, the bus was taken off the road and a suit against the manufacturer was filed during the interim period. Dct sought and leased a five passenger station wagon from caltrans and drew up a contract with uc d disability services to provide services to the davis community. Six months later,, released six van from volkswagen and in 1978, city council created funds for another vehicle in addition to the council funds, we received grant of $2,000 from henderson fund of davis unitarian church and 2000 from senior citizens of davis for the first wheelchair lift needed for the vehicle we then had our first eight passenger vehicle with two wheelchair stations. Fast forward to tday in dct has four eight passenger vhicles with a wheelchair station in each vehicle. Through the years, the. He has housed at several locations in town. The first location was city hall at third and eighth street. Then the senior center greyhound station. The amtrak station, and our home. Since JUNE 10th, the city of davis corporation yrd.. 1971. The service began with one part time driver compared to today, dct has one full supervisor, two full time,, 17 times drivers and two part time dispatchers. In 1970s. City staff worked six hours a day on only weekdays from 8 A.M. To 4 P.M.. With no radio systems. N phones or. Access, and provided an average of about 15 rides per day. As of today. Dct operates 365 days a year, logging an average of 15.8 hours a day and date. Has 6500 or sorry, 654,520. Paratransit trips driving 3.2 million miles within the city limits. As public servants for the city of davis, it is a privilege to provide service to the customers that we serve you. >> thank you. >> would you like a photo? We can take a moment and do a lot of you in >>.. P and.. And just .. P.. Okay. >> we're back here for our item number two. I'm going to turn it to city dunstan for any brief announcements. >> thank you, MADAM Mayor. I'm actually going to receive an assist from director of public affairs jeff .. >> good evening. Council. I hope you guys are having the first item that we're going to be sharing with you today is that palomino place has started its construction. The location is at covell and the construction started last week. The builder came is expected to build 142 housing units. With park bocce ball, court pocket park with play structures and workout equipment, course. We also want to let residents know that the side of wild horse ag buffer which you can see with the image on the screen, will be for the summer due to the work is approved next item we have to share is tat 500 g street lumber yard formerly known as hibbert lumber on JULY 13th. In addition to that be on the first. Before construction occurs. Fire department will be doing training on site. There. JULY 8th through the 12th. Developer has hired the developer has hired brown construction to build a five story multifamily >> please do not interrupt poceedings. Thank you. >> developer. Hi, brown construction build a five story family building totaling about units the next item is 200. G street, which is the formal hardware that location will start demolition on JULY 27th. The demolition project is scheduled to last aout 60 workdays. Visitors and businesses should expect more traffic on the halts. Including third street, second street and there is outreach that is going to be done to nearby businesses and neighbors next week about impacts the developer is planning on building a mixed use apartment cmplex. For information about this project or other projects. We recommend going to the city website at w w dot city.Org. And the last item I have for you tonight is dangerous market. They will be celebrating their 50th anniversary of the celebration on first at a m to 1 P.M. We welcome and invite all residents to attend and to all the positive acts that this market has brought to our town and that concludes the tonight. >> thank you very much. Very good. Turning now, just to my colleagues, are there any brief announcements or liaison reports from our various. Two by two meetings or various interjurisdictional assignments? Any move on to a free item. Three is an opportunity to provide general public comment on items not listed on the agenda. And I just want to mention to everyone we are in process of transitioning affected. Effective JULY 1st, into some changes in law.. So the comments for this period, general public comment are just on item, not on agenda. That are within our jurisdiction. If comment on one of the senate calendar items we'll add up next. When we take up the consent calendar so that, you know your for be sent the general public comment question if you want to come forward. Is a procedural question. I jst said. You can come to the and speak and I can clarify your question about thank you. >> I hope I'm then procedure. Sent an email in we've been waiting. We're on almost six years now at else drug and we a year. Did the due diligence and I asked when closed he told me. Now, which I did. And they told me I had to come here to find the answer to when l street closed >> okay. Is the consent item, and I know that vice. >> would he mean, consent for today? >> so we haven't item that is not related to that issue, but a lot of people ask us question. So vice member partida is to make clarifying comment in just a few minutes about the schedule. Making up comment and she our vice mayor >> okay. Because I okay, then I just basically basically entire community has from what we've gone through number one, number two. Is bragging about getting rid of their and here. They're going to sacramento. I mean, it's, it's a disaster. They are now prostitutes in davis .. This is shocking to me. Saw him in the act. Behind the public works building where you did mural. Right of dinosaurs and all those. Landscaping is where they put their drugs for the day. And I saw their drugs and taking them. I, I'm just I'm mortified. Am mortified we're in the condition. Okay. The community. That this was put in was to be one year. It's on the council wrecked you got this right to wanted to believe that our city council would follow policies did you are not the only group as far as I know serious group that did this carry over. I know there's a lot of information you have to carry on your plate, but this is the most affordable place in davis and the most abused. That's my comment. Thank you. >> to be so question of this meeting. Will open. Comment for examples items for a four m for in collectively after these the the or is it after the times >> comment during the consent calendar each person who wishes to speak has one minute to speak. You should address me or all of those who are wanting to comment on. In one time. >> okay, so not the actual in the south, but out of the schedule has presented and for it's the only >> sorry, sorry, I'm not sure I'm following you. Question. We take calendar all the item. I'll call for public comment and and we have anyone who wishes to seak will have an opportunity to speak on the items on te consent calendar. We also council members who are going to make some clarifying comments as. Hopefully that's helpful. Yes, very good. Thank you. Hi >> evening. My name is beth. >> we made it through another pride month. I first has become the happiest day of the year for me. I'm here today. Specifically to speak to partida.. She's the one who paints rainbow crosswalks in davis who marches in with the group that got the free penis tucking kits and breast binders to in davis and she's the one responsible for putting up pride month banner that goes up and down. Russell boulevard.. Today's JULY 7th. It's still there. I'm not sure why we didn't have it down for 4th. >> of JULY. >> it there's no excuse. I'm here actually to talk about the fact that pushing to have girls in our town on t testosterone and which you can see in all these books as you know, I actually was approved testerone when I told my doctor I binary eight minute appointment. You probably all know about the. The aldehyde scandals, right? Of the 50s. Girls were taking nausea medicine and they were having babies that were born with severe birth defects. That's even if they were born because often they were stillborn or miscarriages. The doctors, you know, they kept giving out the drug. No one wants to admit when you're wrong. So why are we giving out testosterone to teen girls? Just going to take away the voices of permanently. Loss of hair because it's a strong drug we know it's going to affect our clitoris. Their genitals, because it wrong drug. We know it's going to take 5 to 10 off of their life because we know it's a strong drug so I guess my question and this is also gloria. Why do you want to lie to girls in town and tell them they can grow up to be if you're born a girl, you grow up to be a woman. If you're born a boy, you grow up to be a man. And you're responsible for being sterilized in this town. Thank you.. >> hi, my name is dora jensen. I've lived in davis since 1969. I was gone for some years, but came back so almost all the years of my life I've davis it turns out when you didn't tell us or have a proclamation about it beforehand now we had a two 50th birthday of our nation on JULY 4th. And the last council meeting had a proclamation for the month of JULY recognizing parks and the park and recreation department. And now. Afterward, you have a proclamation recognizing the 50th 55th anniversary of davis cmmunity transit so i appreciated. Tonight some detail about the yellow bus in and 660 people are in register using it. Wll, I'm asking in our country's history. Our 50th 250 years of tenants. How many people have died fighting within our country? I think it's in 660. But somehow you recognize that 660 people are registered to to be the unit. And the yellow bus you gave a proclamation recognized 55th anniversary of davis community but, you no proclamation about our 250th year, which is very significant. You know, it's a milestone more than 660 people died in every war. Certainly in the in our civil war. And the war, two, world war one. Vietnam. All these deaths. Somehow. Nothing to say about JULY 4th, which ws birthday and yeah, I had the fireworks just like every year. Thanks for that was no different from any other year. So that's the way it is it's. From me. I love the country. It would be nice for you. Ever gave anybody indication that that was so for you? >> thank you. >> hello. I'm richard mckee and I wanted to talk about an item that was on your consent calendar about palomino place raised an issue for me that wanted to just briefly comment about that. I done some research for the california energy commission on something very important. In the city of davis. Should be including all in all of its conditional use permits for large projects. That the job site be designated at point of sale and in doing that, you should collect the. Use tax from materials sold on site at that. At that place for the project is bigger than $5 million. When they are purchasing their materials, they actually gets this tax. Not woodland or sacramento or other location. Did this research actually looking at rural counties. In and san luis obispo. Where they have large solar projects that they were looking at trying to collect tax revenues was the solution for doing that? It's under the. And capital tax code sections two, 6. I sent an email about this panning commission last couple of weeks ago. And my colleague who many of you know, can probably win more on this information, but I think there could be a significant source of revenue and probably every large project. That you are this at the city. Thank you. >> thank you. Everyone, general public comment any public comments you want to make on any of the items on the consent calendar will come up next in the context of the consent calendar, it's a little bit of a change in our process from the previously.. >> it's >> okay. Share with everyone. Ai robots always clear. I the most beneficial or intelligence. So say, hey, you know, it's out there. So I want to share some information about you development. About human and the the. But in a she is showing a realistic. And it can walk so looks flawless beautiful and in china. Confucius. Went to commercial sewing. Perfect wife the but they don't have tax online I want to make sure you know our community. 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City council to want project after tons of money was spent trying to convince voters to for it. Think you all probably noticed that it cost what is that mean? Really think if. If the. Electorate actually realizes that the sprawl project are a bad idea for davis that means infill might be better understood I hope all of you will consider that carefully as you move forward. Supporting other projects. Let's be creative. Let's be innovative. To build up. Let's have a vital downtown can do it. And I support that kind of thing. And it citizen as well. Up the good work. >> anyone else here in chambers want to make general seeing none is there anyone thank you. We do have. Yes. >> alan miller, you've been unmuted. You have to.. >> oh, wow. Okay. I thought. Oh, this is not. No, this is not working here are my own voice. Louder than are okay. How do you that. Hello? Okay. Well, I'm I'm just giving this thing a test run I'm assuming. Okay. I can't hear anymore. That's geat. So yeah. 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What I'm going to do, first of all, ask my colleagues if there's any an item from the consent calendar not need to from our discussion. There's a number of us who have comments or point to make on various items. And I think actually it'll make more sense to make some of those disclosures and comments we go to public comment. I think that'll help to clarify things for members of the public dunston, I know that you have a would like to provide regarding items ma'am. >> correct. If you would like to go ahead and do that. >> thank you, MADAM Mayor. With regard to send items k and l, I would like few legally mandated details into record the following executive missions are receiving a 2.5% cost of living adjustment, positions are city manager. Assistant director of community services. Chief official clerk the engineer cmmunity development director engagement. Director development. Director finance director fire chief. Human resources. Director information technology director. Parks and community services. Director. Services and housing. Ginger police chief is receiving a net wage of two and a half to 2.2. An excuse me. The salary range for the new assistant public works director position is being set to range of 164,560 to $200,024 per year. The salary range for the works director position is being reset range of $189,205 to $230,020 per year, and changes are effective JULY 6th, 2026. Concludes my remarks. >> thank you very much. I know several of us had a couple of statements to various items member davis do want to. I know you had a comment or comment. Comments you wanted to make related to a oh thank you mayor. I just want to comment on the fact that I appreciated the davis police department reaching out to the. I had some concerns about particular.. App or black better word. Be paying for parking. Going forward and they sat down with me and antonio 20 specifically. Over kind of the whole system works. And then the frankly, wasn't some of the other types of apps that wanted to do a shout out to the taking the time to go over that with me and I appreciate that very much. Thank you and also, I'm trying to. Vice mayor subcommittee that has been working for several years now to address issues related to the respite center. I realize it's not on the agenda tonight, but we did receive a number of emails because there was an expectation that there would be oriented context about that. >> thank you. We did receive fiber of emails inquiring about what was going on with the response center, and realize that it been a number of months since we've had our last in with the community. There. And the were scheduled to have some some further information. And we are working diligently to come up with some solutions for issues that are associated with the and so we are working on that. But this particular item is not directly related to that center. And I think that there has been some confusion around that do you want to add anything. >> if you don't mind, if I add to that, we understand there's a lot of concern among many different groups of community about when we will be coming to you. And I just want to reassure you, we hard and coming back to you with a good solutions that really honor the commitments that we made earlier. there taking a little bit longer than we would like. But it is requiring our collaboration with some other partners so please know, we are really working as we can. We, we're going to try to get that back to you as soon as we can so I in councilmember, do you have any comments? I know we're all just making comments on consumption. I have two quick comments. I want to make also. One is related item consent calendar. To the lumber yard project. Have a number of emails today from some surrounding neighbors asking us no parking at that affiliated with that project, urging us not to approve the project. It's before us tonight is not approve the project. We actually did that several years ago, but it's taken some time for the to get things in place, to be able to proceed, project. But I do want the neighbors to understand I've been working closely with at least one of the surrounding neighborhoods for several years now, along with director chapman, who's been really invaluable assisting us in addressing some of the parking concerns. And just to be to explain to folks, there's no parking associated with that. No on site parking that project is because state law. Does not allow you to mandate that that can be provided, given some changes in the law that took effect several months ago the impact that this new project is. We are working very hard to address some of the symptoms comment. And this, I think, is the final comment related to the calendar and this pertains to item a are approval of the project. The community park restroom to making providing a new mayor. I a disclosure. I live between 500ft and 1000ft from that improvement will take place. That is where our homes that we own but I have consulted with our city attorney and I do not have a disqualifying conflict of interest because that improvement to the park will not have any material effect on value of my home wanted to make that statement for the record. With that, we are ready to open up for comment on the consent calendar. >> hi. Good morning. I'm sorry. I was at the supervisors. GOD evening my name is beth vaughn and I'm here to speak on item a on the consent calendar. The park restroom site I was just looking at the site and. The schematics for the floor it's not to me how the restroom will be designed. But might have read cole last week. Council member bapu. I spoke with the new york post about the gender restrooms that are actually already exist. The junior high schools in davis and the high school. We have all gender bathrooms on school campuses where multiple stalls where boys and girls are share same restroom. That's unsupervised. The most place on a school campus. So I can't tell from these plans, but I'm really going to urge this make sure it's very clear such that there's a women's bathroom for girls and women and there's a bathroom for boys in and we don't need an all gender because there's only two sexes. And you'd have to have lost your brain if you think someone could be tri gender or by gender or non-binary or gender fluid or genderqueer in fact, I just want to. Quickly read the sign in the bathroom at the library. I'm gonna ask member what he would do in this case. So it says in front of the women's restroom. Gender diversity is welcome. The restroom that best fits your identity. Sounds like can choose baths fits their identity on that day because gender diversity is welcome. So when you go to the davis. Library and I'm sure you. What's your preference on the bathroom that you use? Do you base it off of your gender identity or base it off of your biological sex?? >> my name is I was wanting to.. >> comment on I let's see. Six items on the calendar, but if them the first first two are regarding the money being psed or be approved or employees and that's. K and l and the next I topic. Is regarding measure v, which the city council approved to put on the ballot and which was dfeated. The voters. Then the last topic is items. O p, and q starting changes in parking and taking the first topic, which is k and l, the wasteland benefits and salary and stuff. I don't know everybody up there sitting up & there gets paid or you work hard and you do your best. But I know what kind of benefits we're receiving out in the public. What are our streets? Like? We have are there things that are still missing that we pay for, but we don't have because you seem to be prioritizing what tonight? Anyway, your paychecks or the paychecks in the city for the city staff or and you don't seem to be prioritizing the people who pay the bills. Taxpayer's. The second item is the results of the measure v election. You guys put it on to put on the ballot when it there wasn't enough information and all through the period to the vote, you were talking that about the project. Why did it on the ballot so early when you hadn't finished? Thinking about it, whether a good idea, especially given the fact it was going to be the old davis and which is about site so that was very bad judgment. Wrongful. The third topic is items. Zero q on paid parking. I don't want to shop in davis. If I pay for parking, that's ridiculous. I'll go to woodland.. Is juan >> I'm the granddaughter of los chinese empire. I'm the legal one. So pop and control. My money. I want to make a quick comment on city manager's comments you know for many positions blieve human you know okay, but make sure. No like a bolt fake human gave the money and also if the of money for the salary they should go to work like a every four days to to. Money second, I want to make on the parking someone just made I'm at davis farmers market. Every saturday for free speech. Usually I give the spot like 12. To the you know talking until today I did any lot of they can walk in the free and did you get this? I have community so don't know who gave the committee to the hand landscape and person people and I believe that's for people really need help. You should have gave it. You anyone with us. Problem and another issue is I want to ask the city manager the city department some have a problem like the rancho the out. If the, you know, I out me the code police arrest me. Arrest someone. Just make do I have a you know,, first amendment and fifth amendment rights. So I want to. How the police you know, arrest people. What can kind of procedure they have >> you. Your time is up. >> okay. So I wnt to ask city manager you want to >> do we have any not know listening chambers. That is correct. Those are all some items >> and michael schur it's really disappointed I paid parking situation. I fled berkeley. For davis for that was a huge reason was meter cart swarming all over and just a really intrusive atmosphere. Ticket writing and down there I hope days and headed down that road. Because people will leave. People won't here and you'll ruin davis davis, davis is beautiful and. I grew up in berkeley, which beautiful. Then 60s, 70s. I want to see it stay that way. I don't have to do. David be care, be thoughtful. Don't ruin davis for us. I've been here 30 years. A lot of people leave because it's, you know, too expensive. And if you make it with tickets and pay a parking people will leave also, I wanted to speak. You'll be getting iformation on a couple different propositions that some groups I'm working with have come up with raul davis probably gotten some emails you'll be getting some more. I hope you all will be open minded. About perhaps looking for a site for saving. In davis has a I. And it appears to be successful. This could be a wonderful solution workaround with the. Anti-camping ordinance that is in place let's use volunteers. The short conversation with using volunteers. Let's figure out how to do that because there's a lot of tears in the might not realize it hundreds of volunteers are waiting to help out food for all. All be sending you all an email with a draft of a proposition. Food for all. Davis thank you. >> thank you.. My name is odysseus. Community navigator. Union as well as the council of homelessness is to advocate for the unhoused this is an assessment that I aim to write directly to the county. Grand to finding form county jury states a commendation of service to paul's place but did not recognize the day respite center at all in their assessment how the city did nt work, yolo county. Civil grand jury on reporting how the city has reduced the staff of the center from 8 to 2. Logistically closing the can only serve towards increasing the number & of unhoused. Davis, california streets. 40 plus people who would normally have a place to stay monday through friday between 8 A.M. To 4 P.M. Will have one place to go. But on the public areas that you desperately proud of and exclude them from extrapolating from police chief todd henry's nvember 20th, 24. Presentation. We can assume that the clearing of eight large encampments month, which requires two days and supervision. Nine three officers with a base py of $80 an hour. While total yuba city, and cost of $1.25 million for also want to bit because it will also with thousand 100. 152 hours of their time, which also dramatically reduces their response rate should the center close will be an increase of 1600 plus hours of free time for the unhoused alongside their hours and further. Labored poorly mismanaged municipal resources highly suggest paying attention and paying for the development of shelter council reduce the cost to you you. >> very good. Excellent. Thank you everyone with that, I would entertain a motion to approve calendar. Councilmember diaz seconded by vilela. All in favor of the consent calendar? Say aye. I any oppose or hearing none. The consent calendar is approach. All right. Now. Moving on to our calendar and our first item of business is. A general plan update. And I'm going. To welcome director metzger. Already seated and ready and I will turn it over to you. Oh, like, sorry, city manager johnston, did you want to lead off okay. Yeah. Lisa has special powers very special powers.. >> evening. Metzger community development. And tonight I am here to present to you an update on where we are with the general plan. Update lot anyway. Let's see as you are all well aware, we have hired a consultant. W have assigned to the general plan update. We have appointed commissions and committee members to. Process of updating the general well into it at this point. So the first step in any general plan update and this is also recommended to you by virtue of the state of california. Guidelines on general plan. Preparation is to engage your community to create a shared vision project they have several suggested ways that you would go about doing such a thing in our case, we did hold several meetings and did. For feedback from all the participants who reached out to us reaching back and asking them what they learned and what they would like different about davis in from that information, we developed this vision statement that we have on the you and I'll read it for those in davis advance a safe air affordable, healthy sustainable where everyone has. What they need to thrive and succeed. >> and >> thank you. I going off your computer. maybe anyway. So.. From the project cmes the as I said, we have a series of meetings and we presented those issues and at those meetings from FEBRUARY to NOVEMBER 2025, the project outcomes. Became. This particular list. Complete neighborhoods connecting biodiverse parks open space system, and all the kind of thing tat you would probably expect if you just wrote the list yourself. These. A lot of many of these items are already discussed in our current general plan. And so we will be building on those particular issues as well.. Another project. Categories. The category of engagement. Where building knowledge and ownership listening, new voices and making and accessible language. Truthfully, we have not gotten to writing any policies at this point because we are still the relative beginning of creating the general plan. But when we get there, we'll want to make sure that those policies are very legible. Clear, and get to whatever it is that the council decides they would like. The general plan to address. We have made a concerted effort to get to a voices as one of the primary directives of the city started this process was to go to the not just hold meetings in the council chambers and everyone to be able to come to us. We've been having up events. We've been having specific needs where we go to a specific kind of participant and we have been getting some very interesting and broader vision of what davis people are interested seeing included in their own plan. And lastly terms of leadership are finding that's become very important that davis remain a.. Look to. For leadership qualities. That we have. Quality services. And that we try to retain a high level o ability and issues that are interwoven with all of the other general plan issues that as I get four minutes here to find very important to the city council unaware at this point. How wrapped up they are in the actual general plan itself. And then lastly are once we get all this data information together and we work through it. With our consulting firm, the last thing is a document itself. And this is something that you see closer to the end of the entire process meet all the requirements has to the ability and different circumstances. You have the same policy, used in different ways. You have to focus on the process and plan and the needs of use of documents. Monitoring these things will become much, much more important as we get past where we're actually developing the plan itself. So we are now at done all the background work. That's what I like to we've now to the community and we have asked the community what it is that they would like to see included in the next general plan so we are now at the part where we're do the first element of the general plan, which all the other elements are true based upon the that is the use element, the primary purpose of the general plan itself. Is the land use plan it's just the city. Tells the citizens. It tells everywhere. What a use is to go, where within our jurisdictional boundaries. In some cases outside of our jurisdictional boundaries. So we have begun the preparation of putting together. Land use concepts. We've had a workshop had about up and us with fact on some of the draft proposals that we came up with now we are in the process of collecting that data, trying to make some commonalities about it, to see if there are any threads that people in favor of and putting together what we would call the draft plan from that plan be referring to the city council after it goes through some process. A preferred land use alternative will come before the city council in the fall. And in the winter. Once we have refined the use policy, we will or the plan. This plan I should say we will begin working out policy, language. That is included in the >> land. >> use element itself. So the use element includes two important things map that assigns land use is two various pieces of property. Throughout the community and possibly outside the community and develops policies to talk about how those land uses work and how their developed that's what he hope that right. And partly this is another factor that I think we have to very carefully consider in any general plan process that we undertake there are a number of things on here that I consider kind of the practical implications of doing the general update and for me. If you don't sit some of these you're going to have a plan that is not implementable and you're spending a lot of money to put together this plan. I agree to end up with one that is not really implementable to key factor. I like to think are important to particular are bmd. Let's figure out what our bmd is and how we might be able to get it to be lower. I think some of my initial feeling and reaction would be that in order for us to lower our vmt, we need to have more jobs in town. We need more shopping in town. So how do we do that? How do we make it so that people don't have to leave? Davis. They don't go to woodland, they don't go to west to go shopping or to work how do we get more of those trips to stay right here? So that our vmt is significantly lowered by a city out in the middle of the country. So to speak. We're not doing anybody and people are pretty much left to doing that, which makes our vmt g up pretty high. The other say, there's two others that I'm very concerned about. One is floodplain. City of davis is surrounded by floodplain. I put the map, the fema map, that's in online in your pcket for you to see. And all tat blue is floodplain. So in order to get out of floodplain, you have to have projects that are very similar to what was being proposed for village farms. Now that isn't necessarily the only solution. And one of the things that concerns me. Is that I. Learned from the process of village farms that our floodplain is modeled not engineered means that computer us what the flood is out there. And I'm it might be worth our while to do a more detailed engineering analysis to figure out exactly how bad is it don't have any idea yet how much that lost think it could be one of those things that could ad building a lot of information on the other one is utility capacity for. We went through the process proving reviewing and approving both the project and the walgrove project. And as you MAY recall. We water and the sewer that came with those. Both of those projects. We have excess capacity, but not a lot not a lot I asked me how much. I don't have that number right off the top of my head. But one of the things that we're going to be working through with our is student questions, how can we better information than what we have can we make this work? So we know the plan is implementable?? These things on the list here are also important. I'm not going to go over every one of them, but I'm sure you know what the rest of them mean. But those are the ones that I think are the big sticking points that we need to wrestle with lastly, I wanted to be able to tell the public and the council where can you get more information about the update process? Very place is on this website. Which is bw general plan, which is all word dot com. And on this page works. Is a.. Okay. This is our web page. This is our general plan update web page. And down at the bottom of the very first page.. Is place here. Is informed and connected join the update mailing list and you can submit feedback on what you think should be included in the general plan the mailing list is important in staying involved and we are with things allows you to get time messages say, oh, this is what we're doing or this is what we're going to be meeting or this is what we're talking about at this point then the feedback is always open. We read those all the time. There is a project timeline. And it is here. I know it doesn't look like a normal timeline, but it does. It does change and it does give you an idea of what is happening and when and wanted to show you.. This is what I was looking for .. This is a list of all the meetings we've had and a lot of the events that we're planning to have all the way down through to the end of project. And this could be even expanded further into it. And we find certain things are working things are not working .. I just wanted the council to know as a part of this everything we've been doing, everything we're do and all the things we're taking into consideration this is a very document MAY not seem like it when you read it but trust me, it is the more of these items that we have better refine and and result two things will happen. One our environmental impact easier to prepare for. Number two, it will be easier to.. Entertainment questions. >> I question before we go >> to public >> just a couple questions before we get.. So I'm not sitting here wondering what the answer is. So when you spoke to the issue of the that the current maps are not engineered, is that a true statement for te land within the city? Oh, I'm developed >> in particular. It's the area. North of covell and east of 113. >> so so >> talk offline. I called you about this before. I am really curious about this issue, but for us, for a number of reasons, because I'll I'll stop there. Just a question about, you know, because there's this sort of bulleted list in the staff report around the meetings and there were these things called meeting in a box where I provided the materials then people could host a meting. Can you tell us a little bit more about how many meetings were held than anything? About who them or sort of little bit >> believe we hang on one. We won't have the summary back yet. So the best of my knowledge we have not had a number of them and I think partly it's because people are really not used to the concept understand what it is, bt a lot of other people have been to our workshops that we're interested in doing. Those kind of meetings. >> so using the workshop is that different or the same as the meetings that at the senior center and the considered workshops. >> those were the workshops, & >> those were the workshops. Okay. So I have some questions and comments about those later.. Okay, i'm going to hold the rest of my my comments and questions. Anyone else? So I would open it up to public comment this item >> only have a question about the stafford. Understanding what the basis is. Probably a of some kind for the questions. That we needed to purse. Students brought into the district per unit of housing development at the different density. Levels. I'm just this is just for educational purposes. I'm trying to understand what is the thinking behind using the word unit measure answering that question as opposed to per acre. And how we're assigning the likelihood of allergic generating possibilities bring families with children. Because the staff report suggests that per unit like would pretty intuitive them that you get more children coming in for the lower residential units built obviously the numbers in te & ratio of like nine units, one, if you built density even if it's lower per unit, still per acre. Potentially bringing in a lot more I just, I just the education purposes, curious why that's framing sort of what the staff and working with and generation of children through school district, where does that come from >> I'm going to hold the if you don't mind I'll come back to you and see if you're comfortable answering that question. So.. >> hello, richard. And I'm about the city is now at a planning for its future. Maybe was rejected by the voters for a variety of reasons. To the planners to go back to the drawing board for better options proposition 45, of sequa housing projects. Is qualified for the NOVEMBER today. This would leverage the city has over detecting the future. General plan update is particularly important for directing our future. We need clearly defined planning parameters that are legal and. We need to set our based on community asks the way the general plan process currently handled seems trying to answer the question of where can we accommodate growth rather than asking the more important question of how can create a sustainable and livable city citizens plan, of which I'm a member, hs developed a model over the past three years that provides a comprehensive vision for sustainable growth plan sufficient to provide for our community over the next 50 years. Dpg has prepared a proposed scenario for the general plan update into long term pragmatic plan for livable and sustainable. Davis also prepared a spreadsheet model that allows users to tp and parameters for achieving population targets based on this plan, I've eaten plan and a link to the spreadsheet to you today. These documents as well we now we show how the city can create space for 4300 new units along our designated hubs via staged up zoning. Based on neighborhood. And identify where 4000 more can be added. Peripheral areas we ask that we be allowed to present our scenario to JULY 22nd and third scheduled and with three scenarios in the preferred use presentation included in the meetings. Thank you.. >> hi, michael. Sharon so I want to say flooding. I have friend with flooding. Put in a water into the shared drainage ditch which backed up to the beginning. Track flooding poses and over our system. I lived there for 23 years and I'd never seen anything like it. The developers, the city council, the planner, they all either denied responsibility or were unable to prevent that from happening how unpredictable flooding and water can be there's a water always wins. You might check it out from and read it there's another phenomenon called atmospheric rivers. We experience those in around 2023. I took pictures of the beginning tract area in that quadrant. Around that time of those those events and the water rose. There were acres upon acres upon acres of apartment, for, you know outer resource, even not even from davis to do not city. We have very high vacancy rates and the student enrollment in very low. And I go to school and the and the school, you kow, elementary school to very rare.. And aware you know population and robots thank you. >> you have a >> not. Very good. Then I'm going to bring it back here for some questions. MISS Off >> thanks for the presentation. Chair for the work that's been done so far. I have a couple of things about the questions and and concerns about process. Mainly I'm just confused about council's role in this process and how often check in, etc.. Correct me if I'm wrong, but because I, I saw the planning commission meeting when the materials from planning permission concepts, the three concepts that were originally presented, the shown to answer is that correct? >> yes. That's correct. So I'm I'm. >> confused about that because it seems like there should be some kind of council on know, is this the framing or land use decisions? I do recall. Time you know making sure tat these are not exclusive options and we can pull fine. At the same time, none of those t attain even the sacog housing market. Or maybe one of the options get just gets to say housing targets far below. So to me. you know, what's missing in this process is, is more frequent conversations the public with council around what is it that we're trying to achieve when you're navigating all these trade offs between housing obligations for concerns and infrastructure and to me. You know not just because we're davis. But.. In part because growth has been sch an important part of land use, conversation here for generations. It feels like the fundamental question is how much do we want to grow over what? Over this time frame? So start the conversation. From a place of is davis going to be the popular? We are is it going to be 80? Is it going to be , maybe? Would be more than 100,000 by 2050. The face of not just a renal obligations, but our economic development, etc.. That seems to have been missing so, you know, I, I hear I see in the staff report that we're going to see a preferred. Alternative, but we haven't even weighed in on what missing or works the land use concepts because those are the presented to us. So to me that process seems off I ... There's, I sent an email to you and the consultants a little while ago. Which was in APRIL actually few I just want to flag. Put out there email, but I wanted to sy. One is that we don't have much to go on in term housing unit numbers. We have to rely on cycles. Department of finance projections, etc.. Know that each cycle has been different and you know, we're not sure what the housing need is going to be the reason I bring that up is not to criticize, numbers, but to say in addition to responding or reacting to obligations, there should also be a proactive visioning element where we say this is what we want our economy to look like. This is what we want. Housing opportunity look like. That's what this is, what we want school to look like then from there, be able to say, okay, this is what the housing demand might be. So start from the vision. Instead of the obligation that's missing some there's also, I think.. Part of the growth conversation, that's in part because it's hard to project these kind of things, but we know that population is flat. We know over the next couple of generations, etc.. Know we know that countrywide, you know affect our sacramento region, us question is, and for a lot of cities, a lot of jurisdictions like ours. Is what is the fixed cost of maintaining the infrastructure that we already have not, not the variable cost based on population numbers with fixed costs a reasonable assumption to say that for cities that don't provide housing opportunity because the population flattens out, there's going to be a potential hollowing out o that economy as people go from places where isn't housing, jobs, is there so that is one aspect of considering what our vision has. It's not just the arena numbers housing units that we think we need for the schools, but to say in order to be able to pay for the infrastructure that we have much do we have to how much d we have folks from cities that might be they're not building housing so that whole conversation to me has been missing. I'll speak to the jobs question again. This came up in the where there was kind of a focus and housing course you know land is not the it's one of the constraints for jobs, but also the economy is quickly and radically changing. Right now. And economic development is going to depend on a host of on housing types, depending incentives industries. Whatever else. And then this university city pipeline. So we're not talking about just jobs growth. We're talking about how to meet the needs, housing needs of our current workforce. And that implies a certain housing it implies certain zoning decisions, decisions for that workforce to match and that congress is not come up. With say that I understand your point, control from different land use concepts, but that's not what the optics are going to be like, right? It's sort of. Here's various pathways that have been presented to us and we kind of have to choose one of them. I think it's going to be difficult to, to overcome the of that. So me, this conversation, I have a lot of the things, you know, small things I'll just toss out there and then wrap it up. One is, would like to know about neighborhood shopping centers. And I understand that's going to be part of the zoning decisions that are discussed, but we've spoken for years about how to create more mixed use housing centers as they get redeveloped. That's one small thing. Another thing is you know, when we think about infill and densification, you know, I'm still not clear on I we're zoning certain areas. What's the yield in units over time? Because those are private parcels and can't keep pace of redevelopment. Right. So there's a lack of knowledge on my part because we have to be projects we know you're getting a certain amount of units in a certain year, more or less with within city limits. It happens gradually over time. And I'm not understanding to what degree we can map a certain density zoning designation with the amount of units yielded over, and that's a very decision. Now, measure be lost. That's a bullet for a lot of our goals. So now again, the conversation with council, I think has to be around more aggressively. Upzoning I don't know how that can not be conversation after we just 1800s. Of our housing targets so and council needs to to like put our heads together. Like, what upzoning options for me. Has to be far beyond concepts that we've been able and hopefully what comes to alternative is not just making at this point, it seems like we need far beyond in terms of our unit yields. So need to discuss inflation targets implications for both housing instead of some within city limits. Rezoning options and for housing and jobs for each of those options and then think about what's the remainder of we need to peripheral development and think about what density reductions have t been. Periphery. That not like the final think, has to come to a more often processes. >> thank you. That is really helpful >> and turn to everyone else. To pop in for moment, because I want to follow up on >> MR. >> question. Ties in to some of what you were just targets going to translate your question because into a slightly different frame but if, as we all interested relationships. Are in our community. In housing and very, very acutely aware of family friendly housing.. Not always, but more the more more families and more affordable way and I, I have a question made to. Maybe slightly different from MR. But it looked a little bit the staff were that we had more or less kind of looked to what bj was to to implement for them in which we know down what it should be 8530 to 6000. And that kind of growth and.. Similarly, I'm not sure why that would be the right. Is it the or what are we trying to accomplish here? Of our what are we the things that is really interesting to me. For recently had this to here. MR. A second time. Interesting because I different things from the second time around. And one thing that really struck me he is our explain what which ties into some of these he goes really I community, why did in now. It has a a lot to do with our age demographics. We do not have not have that percentage of families in our great statement. When I say like that. When you see that you should be the age of people living with two spans who does and what. La growth really telling we have far too many people in our lives and future to people that 35, 30, to 50 age range. So so I get this one in the translated a very but I think we, if the question for us population, what anticipate within that the agents patients really interesting. You know that like.. And be multi-generational community family starting out. Which is really desirous to us. But hold on. I have some suggestions for curious. You want to jump here? And are you going you're gonna you're gonna the whole team and okay. All right. So thank you for your comments that that that was a lot of what was on my mind as well. And so the presentation that we had on our fiscal situation cover. That. presented was been thinking about the you know, the relationship between population and our economic the development for a long time. And who we talk about the vitality of and you know, what? Can't we have some of the more and things like that? And, and to me that it's because we need more that population of folks who live here want to go downtown and spend money and we are providing those opportunities. And so this that you think forward about making sure that the structure and that you know, the, the tax base basically that you pay for all the things that we need it. It sort of gets to feel like a gentleman, an ache. Thing, right? Like we need the that we need to be able to sustain tat and how we do, how do you make that, how do you get its. Becoming quite clear. That is kind of the question. So that that you know that's to me here, I have a question about the box and it sounds like not themselves. We don't know how many people are using the meetings and having meetings. At the whatever at the workshops. Do we really that out to those >> we've offered it to people simply folks are really general person. Organizing place meeting record the meeting back in. The home assignment. I thought maybe we'd. That it is people are very watching maybe it. I my doubts in the beginning and I'm not sure that effective is it might be. But you get a lot of participation in our I would be happy to see that >> I, I am, I am see the number folks to the workshop. Because it would be nice to to out to maybe groups are already organized like I don't know. There, there are a lot of groups in the community that you and congregations and you know who are engaged already that utilize for those prposes. But. I also feel like we like more check ins or I I'm not sure like places where we can get, where we can get input about,, oh. Going rather than doing all at once. And I and I also said the utility of having a baked forward and, and we do make some but I, I do think that the more stops on us on that path for us to to and then I think this is my last question. this is around implementation and is really and you know, all these great ideas to actually.. And, and I'm wondering about our plan and do you feel that implemented.. >> I do.. Small university and not allow a tremendous amount of growth and that's exactly what's happened >> all right.. >> I guess that points to the power of when you put it out. I don't want to grow to development. That's what happens.. So the community I want to you know continue to hear. Updates as far as these workshops that we've had ideas did you learn about new things that you hadn't thought about? I mean, how what were you hearing fom folks? I would found here more of what was coming. I mean, I can emails from I'd be kind of curious. Okay, those 200 people, did they all say, we want high rises all. >> say >> know what? They all say. So I can hear more about coming from with to the floodplain. Isue. I'm at north dakota. Of 113, and I've know it's a mortgage need to have insurance and I tink curious what what means exactly by generated versus engineering. Otherwise, I don't really know that difference engineer use >> so >> I I'm not quite sure that I clarification. And and pain for going forward. So they new wants to other side of 113. The hospital. In that area. Then put together flood plans say, well, here's how we're.. Or eight basins such. Or is it city to for that? Time? I'm just clarify that forward I've been very impressed with community events have been. And both from what I understand and I'm glad to see that the overall vision as to what the city wants to be. I think it's good to keep really appreciate comments. Made about looking at population looking at numbers. Like that. I think important concept to the arranged with up here I have great thank you. Thank you. >> I agree with >> the one who pointed. I think we're all more frequent updates, more frequently. Will involvement. On our part. And from us. And i >> ask a few questions about the process and so these are not intended to be know, you're working really hard about it. You know, everyone's de la just going to share just kind of a few observations and I've heard just isolated, but.. That I've heard a number of that is that and they're very well attended. Packed packed. Capacity was so best and the contents. Presentation and.. Poster board. So that some folks little confused. Well this to you now I don't understand. I don't put us white board box to how do I know. So if you can the box from the little more about what you all do did that, but.. All the co