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NICE.WE'LL TRY NOT TO BORE YOU, I PROMISE.
I'M GONNA TRY TO BE ENTERTAINING.
I'LL TRY AND DO SOME JUGGLING LATER.
[CALL TO ORDER ]
WE'LL OFFICIALLY CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER OF THE RICHARDSON CITY COUNCIL AT 6:00 PM AND AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO, UH, PASS THE BATON OVER TO MR. MARSH.LET HIM CALL HIS OR HIS MEETING.
TO ORDER EVERYBODY, I'M BRIAN MARSH.
I'M THE CHAIRMAN OF THE RICHARDSON CITY PLAN COMMISSION, AND I'D LIKE TO CALL THIS PORTION OF THE, UH, MEETING FOR THE CITY PLAN COMMISSION TO ORDER.
UH, ALSO, AND, UH, WHILE WE'RE AT IT, I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND INTRODUCE THE REST OF THE, UH, COMMISSIONERS, STARTING WITH OUR VICE CHAIRMAN.
HI, I'M KEN SUTHER AND, UM, I'VE BEEN ON THE, THE PLAN COMMISSION ABOUT SIX YEARS.
UM, I'M GLAD TO SEE THIS, UH, NEW CITY PLAN, UH, COMING TOGETHER.
SO I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT WE HAVE TONIGHT.
AND I'M GWEN WALL WALRAVEN, AND I DON'T REMEMBER HOW LONG I'VE BEEN ON
I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION, UH, THREE YEARS I THINK.
MY NAME IS MIKE KELLER AND I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS AS WELL.
I'M A 25 YEAR RESIDENT OF RICHARDSON, AND I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION ABOUT A YEAR.
BYRON PURDY, MOVED TO RICHARDSON 2011, AND I'M A NEWLY ELECTED ALTERNATE FOR THIS YEAR'S COMMISSION.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING, HEARING YOU, AND HAVING YOUR INPUT.
[A. VISITORS/ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF PUBLIC COMMENT CARDS ]
MR. MAGNER, IF YOU WOULD, PLEASE TAKE IT AWAY.UH, MAYOR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
THIS PORTION OF THE MEETING IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE PUBLIC COMMENT CARDS RECEIVED BY 5:00 PM TO ALLOW VISITORS TO ADDRESS THE CITY COUNCIL ON ANY TOPIC THAT IS NOT ALREADY A SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
ALL SPEAKERS SHOULD COMPLETE A PUBLIC COMMENT CARD AND SUBMIT IT TO THE CITY SECRETARY WHEN YOUR NAME IS CALLED.
SPEAKER SHOULD STEP TO THE PODIUM AND STATE THEIR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, SPEAKERS ARE LIMITED TO FIVE MINUTES AS INDICATED BY THE TIMER.
SPEAKER SHOULD REMAIN AT THE PODIUM DURING THEIR COMMENTS.
UH, SPEAKER SHOULD, UH, SPEAKER SUBMITTING COMMENTS ON THE SAME TOPIC SHOULD REFRAIN FROM REPETITIVE REMARKS AND THEY WISH TO CONSIDER A REPRESENTATIVE SPEAKER.
IF THE CITY SPEAKER HAS, UH, IF THE SPEAKER HAS HANDOUTS FOR THE COUNCIL, THEY SHOULD BE GIVEN TO THE CITY SECRETARY FOR DISTRIBUTION.
THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT PROHIBITS THE CITY COUNCIL FROM DISCUSSING OR TAKING ACTIONS ON ITEMS THAT ARE NOT PA POSTED ON THE AGENDA.
THE MAYOR OR CITY MANAGER MAY RESPOND WITH FACTS, A POLICY OR DIRECT CITY STAFF TO RESPOND TO THE SPEAKER AFTER THE MEETING.
AT THIS TIME, I'D ALSO LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE TO SILENCE THEIR CELL PHONES DURING THE MEETING.
UM, MAYOR, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY CARDS IN ADVANCE, SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO CITY SECRETARY FOR, UH, TO CALL THE VISITORS.
MAYOR, WE HAVE TWO SPEAKERS SIGNED UP TONIGHT.
THE FIRST ONE IS HUMBERTO RODRIGUEZ.
MY NAME IS HUMBERTO RODRIGUEZ.
I AM A, A RESIDENT IN THIS CITY FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
I MOVED FROM MELISSA, TEXAS OVER HERE.
I REMEMBER IN THE EIGHT I, I NEVER STOPPED IN RICHARDSON BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DRY AREA.
I CANNOT GET A BEER HERE, SIR.
WOULD YOU PLEASE GIVE US YOUR ADDRESS? UH, SO MANY YEARS I CAN.
WOULD YOU PLEASE GIVE US YOUR ADDRESS, PLEASE, SIR? UH, I LIVE IN 5 0 1 CALTON.
UH, THE REASON WHY I AM HERE IS, UH, 'CAUSE I WANT TO INTRODUCE YOU TO SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE NEW CITY HALL.
I WAS MAKING SOME EXPLORATION IN THE INTERNET TWO WEEKS AGO, AND I CAME UP WITH SOMETHING I KNOW ABOUT, BUT I DIDN'T PAY TOO MUCH ATTENTION.
UH, THE CITY HALL IN CHICAGO HAVE THE INDIRECT STRUCTURE OF THE BUILDING, AND THEY HAVE A SYSTEM TO REDUCE EXTREME, EXTREME HEAT.
WHAT THEY DO IS THEY CREATE A SYSTEM WHERE THEY PUT A GREEN ROOF ON THE ROOF OF THIS, OF THE BUILDING WHERE THEY TRY TO INSULATE THE HEAT FROM THE SUN GO THROUGH THE BUILDING TO THE END.
AND WHAT I MEAN IS THIS SYSTEM WILL GIVE, UH, A VERY NICE, UH, NATURAL INSULATION TO THE ROOF OF THE BUILDING, REDUCING CLOSE TO 90% OF THE HEAT.
LIKE IN THIS BUILDING HERE, THIS
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BUILDING IS RECEIVING THE SUN, UH, I WOULD SAY MORE THAN 14 HOURS A DAY.AND ALL THAT HEAT IS ACCUMULATING IN THIS BUILDING AND DON'T HAVE A WAY TO DISAPPEAR.
BUT IN WITH THIS GREEN SYSTEM, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE GONNA MAKE A NEW CITY HALL.
THAT WOULD BE A SAVING OF ENERGY AND ELECTRICITY FOR DAY NUMBER ONE.
UH, I KNOW WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT PLANS TO DO STUFF LIKE ELITE, UH, CERTIFICATION.
I DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT BUILDING IS GONNA HAVE LEASE CERTIFY OR NOT, BUT THIS GOING MORE OVER THERE, OVER THE LEASE CERTIFICATION BECAUSE WHEN THIS SYSTEM WORK, THEN IT'S GONNA WORK.
WE REDUCE PROBABLY MORE THAN 80% OF THE HEAT.
YOU GETTING THIS BUILDING RIGHT NOW THROUGH THE ROOF.
UH, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTION, I WILL ANSWER.
I KNOW A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS.
NO, WE UNDERSTOOD, BUT WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO ASK YOU QUESTIONS 'CAUSE IT'S NOT A TOPIC ON THE AGENDA.
WELL, I, I CAN GIVE THIS INFORMATION TO YOUR SECRETARY.
I FEEL KIND OF SHORT BEHIND HERE.
UM, AS YOU REVIEW THIS BRIEFING ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, I'D LIKE YOU TO FOCUS ON THE FEEDBACK THAT THE CONSULTANT HAS HEARD, SUSTAINABLE, LOCAL, GREEN, ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY, PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO POINT YOUR ATTENTION TO THE THINGS MISSING IN THIS PRESENTATION.
MOST COMP PLANS HAVE MULTIPLE CHAPTERS, HOUSING, MOBILITY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, FUTURE LAND USE, FISCAL IMPACT, ET CETERA.
MAYBE IT WILL COME IN FUTURE HEARINGS, BUT I ONLY SAW THE PRESENTATION TODAY.
I DIDN'T SEE ANY FUTURE HEARINGS ON THE TIMELINE, BUT MAYBE IT'LL COME IN FUTURE HEARINGS.
BUT I WAS LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING HOW THE CITY IS GOING TO RESPOND TO THE STAKEHOLDER COMMENTS AND ADD BIKE LANES, MORE TREES, HOW THE CONSULTANT WAS GOING TO RECOMMEND UPDATES TO THE ZONING THAT WOULD REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF PARKING, BECAUSE WE HAVE A TON OF COMPLETELY USELESS PARKING IN THIS CITY.
WHAT IS PRESENTED TO YOU TONIGHT READS MORE LIKE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR FUTURE TIF DISTRICTS.
IT ALSO SEEMS TO IGNORE EVERYTHING THE CONSULTANT HAS HEARD DURING THEIR ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES.
FOR EXAMPLE, SMALL LOCALLY OWNED PIECES OF PROPERTY SHOULD NOT BE TARGETS FOR REINVESTMENT OR REDEVELOPMENT, BUT RATHER THE AREAS THAT WE PROTECT.
I'M HOPEFUL THAT THE CONSULTANT WILL RETURN SOON TO TALK ABOUT THE REST OF THE PLAN, AND THAT YOU WILL ADD ADDITIONAL PUBLIC HEARINGS.
[B. REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE ENVISION RICHARDSON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE AND COMMUNITY SUMMIT ONE ]
TIME, WE'RE GONNA GO TO ITEM B, REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE ENVISION RICHARDSON COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UPDATE AND COMMUNITY SUMMIT ONE.MAYOR COUNCIL AND C P C, UH, MEMBERS.
WE, UH, UH, VERY MUCH APPRECIATE YOU JOINING US TONIGHT FOR THIS JOINT MEETING.
UM, I WANT TO, UH, FIRST DO A COUPLE OF INTRODUCTIONS, MAYOR, THEN I'LL MAKE, UH, JUST A FEW COMMENTS.
I DO WANNA INTRODUCE, UH, MARK BOWERS AND, AND JEN.
UH, JESSICA ROSSI FROM KIMLEY HORN.
THEY'RE JOINED BY VERY FAMILIAR FACE TO RICHARDSON, UH, MONICA HYDE, WHO WITH, UH, PROLOGUE UH, CONSULTING.
THIS IS THE TEAM, UM, THAT WILL BE MAKING THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT.
I ALSO WANT TO JUST, UH, THANK CHARLES, UH, GOFF FROM MY OFFICE AND, UH, SAM CHAVEZ, CHRIS SHACKLET, AND KEITH CRU FROM OUR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TEAM.
UM, WHAT YOU ARE SEEING TONIGHT IS THE ALREADY, UH, THE CULMINATION OF DOZENS AND DOZENS OF HOURS, UH, OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, UM, TAKING FEEDBACK AND ENGAGING WITH, WITH OUR STAKEHOLDERS.
UM, I WANNA THANK BOTH OF THE SPEAKERS TONIGHT FOR THEIR COMMENTS, BUT I'D LIKE TO, UH, REALLY KIND OF, UH, LEVERAGE, UH, THE, THE, THE LATTER COMMENTS.
UM, I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR US ALL TO RECOGNIZE TONIGHT WHERE WE ARE AT IN THE PROCESS.
UM, WHAT YOU'RE GONNA HEAR, UH, EACH OF THE THREE SECTIONS, UH, THAT, UH, ASK FOR FEEDBACK ARE PURPOSELY ENTITLED, PRELIMINARY, UH, PRELIMINARY VISION, PRELIMINARY STRATEGIES, AND PRELIMINARY STUDY STUDY AREAS.
IT'S BECAUSE TONIGHT WHAT WE HOPE TO DO IS WE HOPE TO RECONCILE WHAT WE HEARD FROM OUR STAKEHOLDERS, WHAT WE HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
WHAT WE HEARD FROM YOU IS TWO VERY IMPORTANT BODIES, UH, THAT WILL HELP US SHAPE THIS COMP PLAN AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
IT'S A RECONCI EXERCISE AND RECONCILIATION CALIBRATION, IF YOU WILL.
AND SO WE'RE NOT HERE TO DECIDE ANYTHING TONIGHT.
WE'RE NOT HERE TO, TO RECOMMEND ANYTHING TONIGHT.
WE'RE NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT NEXT STEPS IN ANY KIND OF DEFINITIVE WAY.
IT'S REALLY MAKING SURE THAT ALIGNMENT IS ACHIEVED, UH, BECAUSE AS THE SPEAKER, UH, SAID, UH, THE NEXT STEPS IN THIS ARE VERY IMPORTANT.
AND ANY, ANY, UM, LACK OF ALIGNMENT OR,
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UH, RECONCILIATION BETWEEN WHAT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE AND WHAT THEY LAUNCH TO DO NEXT, UM, WILL MAKE US LESS SUCCESSFUL OVERALL.SO, UM, I JUST AS WE, AS WE EMBRACE THIS EVENING, I JUST HOPE WE CAN ALL JUST HONOR WHERE WE'RE AT IN THE PROCESS AND, UH, PROVIDE THAT, THAT VALUABLE FEEDBACK THAT THE CONSULTANTS TEAM'S LOOKING FOR.
UM, WITH THAT, MARK, LET ME TURN IT OVER TO YOU AND THE TEAM.
I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE TO GET US HERE THIS EVENING.
AND AS DON SAID, MY NAME IS MARK BOWERS.
IT'S, UH, GREAT TO BE HERE WITH YOU AGAIN THIS EVENING.
I THINK WE'VE, UH, MET JUST ABOUT ALL OF YOU, EITHER THROUGH ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS THAT WE HAD THROUGH SOME OF THE, UH, THE STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS OR SMALL GROUP MEETINGS, AND CERTAINLY AT A LOT OF THE EVENTS THAT WE'VE HAD, UH, GOING ON OVER THE LAST, UH, SEVERAL WEEKS.
UH, SO WE HAVE A PRESENTATION TONIGHT, AND AS DON SAID, WE ARE VERY EARLY IN THIS PROCESS, BUT WANTED TO SHARE WITH, WITH YOU, UH, WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AND WHAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING SO FAR, UH, AT THIS POINT IN THE SCHEDULE.
SO, WE WANT TO GO THROUGH THE PROJECT PROCESS AND SCHEDULE.
UM, IF, IF YOU'LL RECALL IN THAT LAST MEETING WE WERE HERE, UH, PROBABLY ABOUT SIX WEEKS AGO, UH, BEFORE WE LAUNCHED ALL OF THE COMMUNITY INPUT.
UH, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS THAT COUNCIL HAD AT THAT MEETING, UH, RELATED TO SOME OF THE WORK THAT JESSICA ROSSI HAD DONE FROM THE, THE MARKET STANDPOINT.
UH, SO SHE WENT BACK AND DID A LITTLE BIT MORE RESEARCH AND HAS SOME ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS THAT WE'LL HAVE FOR YOU.
UM, AND WE WANT TO GO THROUGH A SUMMARY OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES AND THE LEVEL OF PARTICIPATION WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING.
UM, AT THAT POINT, WE'LL PIVOT AND START DIGGING INTO SOME OF THE PRELIMINARY VISION CONCEPTS.
ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT WE TRY TO DO AS A PART OF A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROCESS WHEN WE GO BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, UH, THE INTENT WOULD BE TO BE WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY ON A DRAFT VISION STATEMENT.
AND THAT'S TYPICALLY BUILT UPON WHAT WE'VE HEARD THROUGH THE FIRST ROUND OF FEEDBACK.
SO WE WANT TO GET WITH YOU AND GET SOME OF YOUR IDEAS ABOUT WHAT ARE THE KEY THINGS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE ARE INCORPORATED, UH, IN THOSE VISION STATEMENTS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
UM, MONICA WILL BE WALKING THROUGH SOME OF THE VERY PRELIMINARY STRATEGIC ISSUES THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED TO DATE.
SO GOING THROUGH THE, THE STAKEHOLDER MATERIALS AND FEEDBACK, WHAT ARE THE, SOME OF THOSE COMMON TRENDS THAT WE HEARD OVER AND OVER? UM, AND, AND THOSE START TO ALIGN WITH SOME OF THOSE FUTURE PLAN COMPONENTS THAT WE WILL BE DEVELOPING, UH, MUCH LATER IN THE PROCESS.
AND THEN, UH, FOCUSING IN THE NEXT PIECE WOULD BE THE PRELIMINARY REINVESTMENT AREAS.
WHAT WE HAD TOLD YOU IN JUNE IS THAT WE, UH, HAD SEVERAL AREAS THAT HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED, UH, BY STAFF.
WE WORKED WITH YOU TO, TO VERIFY THAT THOSE WERE PRELIMINARILY SOME OF THE ONES YOU WANTED US TO LOOK AT.
BUT THEN WE WORKED WITH THE COMMUNITY AND ASKED THEM TO IDENTIFY ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS, UH, THAT MIGHT BE CONSIDERED, UH, FOR POTENTIAL REINVESTMENT AREAS FOR ADDITIONAL VISIONING IN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, SO WE WANT TO GET YOUR FEEDBACK ON ARE THOSE THE RIGHT SET OF AREAS AND, UH, UH, SO THAT WE CAN THEN, AS WE GO BACK TO THE COMMUNITY IN OCTOBER, UH, START TO GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF, UH, WHAT THEY'RE ENVISIONING WITHIN EACH OF THOSE AREAS.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A WRAP UP IN NEXT STEPS.
SO, UH, AS, AS DON SAID, WE ARE EARLY IN THE PROCESS.
UH, WE REALLY KICKED THIS OFF IN FEBRUARY OF THIS YEAR.
UH, WE'RE BETWEEN A QUARTER AND A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS.
UM, WE, WE HAVE HAD THAT FIRST ROUND OF ENGAGEMENT IN THOSE ASTERISKS THAT YOU SEE ON THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN ARE THOSE ROUNDS OF ENGAGEMENT.
SO YOU SEE THAT WE'LL HAVE MORE ENGAGEMENT COMING UP IN THE END OF SEPTEMBER THROUGH EARLY NOVEMBER TIMEFRAME.
AND THEN, UH, AN ADDITIONAL ROUND OF ENGAGEMENT THAT WILL BE GOING ON AS WE START TO DEVELOP THE PLAN COMPONENTS IN THE JUNE JULY TIMEFRAME OF NEXT YEAR, ALONG WITH A LOT OF WORK GOING ON BETWEEN THOSE THINGS.
SO WITH THAT, I'M GONNA ASK JESSICA TO COME BACK, COME UP AND DISCUSS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE RESPONSES TO THE QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAD IN THE LAST MEETING.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA STEP THROUGH BASICALLY TWO TOPIC AREAS.
ONE QUESTION THAT CAME UP WAS RELATED TO, UH, A RETAIL INVENTORY OR RETAIL VACANCY MAP THAT WE HAD SHARED, UM, THAT, THAT, UH, MADE IT A LITTLE LESS CLEAR ABOUT THE, THE HEALTH OF THE RETAIL MARKET.
AND THEN THE OTHER ONE WAS ABOUT, UM, JOBS AND SOME DIFFERENT, UH, COUNTS CAME COMING FROM SOME VARIATION OF SOURCES.
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OUR LAST BRIEFING WAS THAT THE DISTRIBUTION OF RETAIL VACANCY WAS CONCERNING BECAUSE THERE APPEARED TO BE MANY LOCATIONS WITH HIGH VACANCY AND SOME POINTS SEEMED DUPLICATIVE.UM, THE DATA ITSELF CAME FROM COSTAR.
THERE WAS NOTHING EXPLICITLY WRONG WITH THAT DATA.
BUT WHAT WE DID TO HELP SIMPLIFY THE MAP WAS TO DIVIDE THE DATA INTO FREESTANDING RETAILERS.
SO IN INDIVIDUAL RETAILERS THAT ARE IN THEIR OWN BUILDING AND SHOPPING CENTERS AND SHOPPING CENTERS COULD TAKE A VARIETY OF SCALES.
BUT WHEN WE AGGREGATED UP SOME OF THE DUPLICATIVE POINTS INTO THE SHOPPING CENTERS, IT REALLY HELPED US TELL A MORE CLEAR STORY OF, OF WHERE THERE MIGHT BE SOME INDICATION OF VACANCY.
UM, WE, SO IN SOME CASES, WE WERE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, SLIGHTLY ADJUST HOW WE WERE REPORTING OUT THE DATA, BUT WE DIDN'T MAKE ANY CHANGES FROM COSTAR'S DATA ITSELF.
UM, WE REALLY LIKED THE RESULTS AS WE DID.
ONE OTHER TWEAK WE MADE, WHICH WAS JUST A VISUAL TWEAK, WAS CHANGING THE COLOR SCALE SO THAT THOSE CENTERS OR FREESTANDING RETAIL SPACES WITH, UM, VERY LOW VACANCY WASN'T A, A LESS, UM, JUMPING OUT COLOR IT.
AND PREVIOUSLY IT WAS, AYE, A SHADE OF YELLOW THAT WAS KIND OF BLENDING INTO THE MAP IN THE BACKGROUND.
SO NOW YOU CAN VERY CLEARLY SEE A DISTRIBUTION OF VERY HIGH PERFORMING, LOW VACANCY, UM, FREESTANDING RETAIL SPACES AND SHOPPING CENTERS, UM, WITH, WITH A LITTLE BIT OF VACANCY SCATTERED, BUT NOTHING OF ANY ALARM.
UM, IN FACT, WHEN WE RAN THE SHOPPING CENTER AND FREESTANDING, UH, PROPERTY NUMBERS, UM, IT'S JUST UNDER 7% OF RICHARDSON'S RETAIL PROPERTIES HAVE A VACANCY RATE OF 20%.
SO, CLARIFIES THE MAP A LITTLE BIT, I THINK IT TELLS A MUCH MORE ACCURATE STORY WITHOUT ACTUALLY CHANGING THE DATA ITSELF.
UM, THE DATA WAS GOOD, BUT WE ARE REPORTING IT IN A BETTER WAY.
NOW, THE SECOND QUESTION WAS RELATED TO JOBS.
UM, PREVIOUSLY THE NUMBER THAT WE REPORTED FOR, UM, I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT WORKS, UM, ON THE TOP.
SO THE TOTAL NUMBER OF JOBS IN THE CITY BY INDUSTRY CLASSIFICATION VARIED QUITE A BIT FROM THE COMMUTING DATA.
UM, WHAT WE DID IS WE COORDINATED WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND WE SWITCHED DATA SOURCES.
SO PREVIOUSLY WE WERE USING, UM, BUSINESS ANALYST ONLINE, WHICH IS A PLATFORM OF ESRI.
UM, BUT WHAT WE DID IS WE STARTED USING THE CITY'S DATA, WHICH IS JOBS EQ.
AND THERE WAS A, A PRETTY NOTABLE DIFFERENCE, I THINK, UM, WE REALLY LIKE THE JOBS EQ NUMBER.
IT'S ALSO A NUMBER THAT THE CITY RELIES ON TO COMMUNICATE JOBS.
SO NOW WE ARE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THAT.
SO WHAT WE'RE SHOWING IS THAT THERE'S, UM, JUST OVER 122,800 TOTAL JOBS IN THE CITY OF RICHARDSON.
WE'RE VERY CONFIDENT IN THAT TOTAL NUMBER, AND THEN THE INFLOW OUTFLOW NUMBER.
SO THAT COMMUTING PATTERN, THEY ARE STILL SLIGHTLY OFF, BUT THAT IS LARGELY A FUNCTION OF VARIATION IN YEARS.
THE MOST RECENT COMMUTING DATA IS FROM 2020, WHEREAS THE JOBS EQ DATA IS FROM 2022.
BUT OVERALL, THE NUMBERS ARE VERY, ARE, ARE MUCH CLOSER THAN THEY WERE PREVIOUSLY.
AND WE'RE FEELING, UM, VERY CONFIDENT IN HOW WE'RE USING THIS DATA AND HOW IT WILL BE UTILIZED IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
THANK YOU FOR THOSE CLARIFICATIONS, JESSICA.
AND LIKE I SAID, WE WANTED TO CLOSE THE LOOP ON THOSE ITEMS WHERE YOU HAD QUESTIONS IN THE LAST MEETING.
UM, SO THE, THE NEXT STEP WE WANTED TO GO THROUGH IS, UH, MORE INFORMATIONAL, UH, MORE OF A SUMMARY OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATION FOR COUNCIL.
THIS IS GOING TO LOOK SOMEWHAT FAMILIAR.
UH, WHEN WE WERE IN OUR, OUR LAST MEETING, WE SAID, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE PLANNING TO DO.
SO UTILIZING THAT SAME FORMAT, WE'RE COMING BACK TO YOU NOW THAT WE'VE DONE IT AND SHARING WITH YOU SOME OF THE RESULTS THAT WE STARTED TO SEE MORE FROM A NUMBER STANDPOINT RATHER THAN SOME OF THE RAW INPUT.
UM, SO JUST, JUST A QUICK PRIMER.
THE PURPOSE OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, UM, IT, IT PROMOTES TRANSPARENCY BY INVITING THOSE MOST AFFECTED BY THE OUTCOME TO BE PART OF THE PLANNING PROCESS.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN SAYING SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THIS PROCESS IS WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR, OUR MEASURE OF SUCCESS IS THAT THE COMMUNITY SAYS THIS IS OUR PLAN FOR THE FUTURE, NOT A, NOT THE CONSULTANT'S PLAN.
AND SO, BY HAVING THIS HIGH LEVEL OF COMMUNITY INPUT, UH, THIS IS ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE DO THAT AND ENSURE THAT IT'S TRULY STATING WHAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY.
UM, IT ALSO ALLOWS STAKEHOLDERS, UH, A LOT OF TIMES WE'LL BE IN MEETINGS AND FOLKS WILL SAY, EVERYBODY
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IN THIS MEETING MUST AGREE WITH ME THAT THIS IS THE DIRECTION WE OUGHT TO BE GOING.SO THROUGH THE PROCESS, WE'RE ABLE TO SHARE INFORMATION THAT THERE ARE DIVERGING IDEAS IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND REALLY, UH, WE EMBRACE THOSE DIVERGING IDEAS BECAUSE WE THINK THOSE ARE REALLY THE AREAS WE NEED TO DRILL DOWN AND DEVELOP CONSENSUS.
IF EVERYBODY'S SAYING THE SAME THING, THAT'S, THAT'S EASY, BUT WE WANT TO DEVELOP CONSENSUS ON THOSE THINGS AND NOT IGNORE THE THINGS WHERE THERE MIGHT BE DIFFERING OPINIONS.
UM, AND, AND FINALLY, IT HELPS BUILD PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR THE FINAL PLAN.
UM, THE PUBLIC NEEDS TO BE VERY ENGAGED NOT ONLY IN THE PLAN ITSELF, BUT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PLAN.
SO HAVING THEM ENGAGED THROUGH THIS PROCESS REALLY STARTS TO HELP BUILD ADVOCATES FOR GETTING THE PLAN IMPLEMENTED SINCE ULTIMATELY WE'RE IMPLEMENTING THE VISION THAT THEY HAVE FOR THE COMMUNITY IN 2050.
SO, UM, THE, THE FIRST SLIDE, UH, WE WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE OVERVIEW OF THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.
IT, IT COMMENCED, UH, RIGHT AFTER THAT LAST COUNCIL MEETING IN, IN JUNE.
UH, THE, THE FIRST, UH, MEETING WAS ON SATURDAY, JUNE 24TH WITH THE RICHARDSON 150TH CELEBRATION.
AND WE ENDED FEEDBACK ONLINE ON JULY 16TH.
SO SINCE JULY 16TH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING FRANTICALLY TO, UH, TAKE IN ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT WE'VE RECEIVED AND, AND, UH, START TO DRAW SOME OF THE VERY PRELIMINARY CONCLUSIONS WE'RE SHARING WITH YOU THIS EVENING.
UM, WE'VE ESTIMATED THERE WERE ABOUT 7,300 INDIVIDUAL TOUCHPOINTS WITH RICHARDSON STAKEHOLDERS AS A COMPARISON.
A FEW YEARS AGO, WE WORKED ON A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN FRISCO, AND AT THE END OF THE PROCESS, UH, WE HAD CLOSE TO 10,000.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY PLEASED.
WE, WE THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS A REALLY SUCCESSFUL PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH.
SO, TO DATE, SINCE WE'RE LOOKING AT AT LEAST THREE ROUNDS OF, OF THIS PROCESS IN THE COMMUNITY, UH, WE'RE VERY PLEASED SO FAR WITH THE TYPE OF FEEDBACK AND TYPE OF INVOLVEMENT THAT WE'RE STARTING TO GET.
AND THEN, UH, THE COMMUNITY SUMMIT WAS THE FIRST OF THREE ROUNDS OF ENGAGEMENT AGAIN, THAT WE PLAN.
WE, UH, THROUGH EACH SUMMIT WE HAVE ONLINE PRESENCE, TARGETED PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, AND COMMUNITY EVENTS.
SO LET'S START WITH THE ONLINE.
UH, SOME OF THE HIGH POINTS AND VISION RICHARDSON WENT LIVE ON MARCH 20TH.
UH, IT WAS CONFIGURED TO FACILITATE FEEDBACK IN NEARLY A HUNDRED LANGUAGES.
AND, UH, UH, TO DATE, THE WEBSITE HAS RECEIVED 5,930 UNIQUE VISITS, UH, THROUGH JULY 21ST.
UH, ALMOST 75% OF THOSE VISITS WERE IN JUNE AND JULY.
IT ACTUALLY WENT LIVE A LITTLE BIT EARLIER.
UH, BUT, UH, IT, IT WAS GOOD TO SEE THAT A LOT OF THAT WAS THAT, UH, ENGAGEMENT WAS ALIGNED, UH, WITH THE TIME PERIOD WHERE WE HAD QUESTIONS OUT THERE FOR PEOPLE TO START TO ANSWER, UH, STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS.
UH, WE HAD 21 INDIVIDUAL AND SMALL GROUP INTERVIEWS INVOLVING ABOUT 55 STAKEHOLDERS BETWEEN MAY 31ST AND JULY 6TH.
UH, RANGE OF INTERVIEW QUESTIONS, A LOT OF THOSE WERE IN ALIGNMENT.
UH, THOSE OF YOU THAT TOOK THE ONLINE SURVEY, THE QUESTIONS WE WERE ASKING IN THE INTERVIEW WERE THE SAME TYPES OF QUESTIONS.
UH, AND YOU CAN SEE THE VARIOUS GROUPS THAT, UH, WE, WE REACHED OUT TO FOR, UH, THOSE STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS.
AND IN FACT, FOLLOWING THAT LAST COUNCIL BRIEFING, THERE WERE A COUPLE OF ADDITIONAL GROUPS THAT WE REACHED OUT TO, UH, WANTING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE, UH, WERE BEING AS INCLUSIVE AS WE COULD.
UH, RICHARDSON EVENTS, YOU CAN SEE, UH, THESE, THESE ARE THOSE EVENTS WHERE PEOPLE ARE ALREADY ATTENDING IN RICHARDSON.
UH, UH, NOT SPECIFIC EVENTS THAT WERE SET UP FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THE COTTONWOOD ART FESTIVAL, WILDFLOWER AND ARTS, ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL, IQ BREW RICHARDSON, ONE 50TH, AND THE, THE FOLKS ATTENDING, UH, THOSE EVENTS AND COMING AND GATHERING INFORMATION ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, GETTING DIRECTED TO THE WEBSITE.
AND THE ONLINE ENGAGEMENT RANGED FROM ABOUT 50 PEOPLE AT THE COTTONWOOD ARTS FESTIVAL, UH, TO OVER 125 AT THE WILDFLOWER ARTS AND MUSIC FESTIVAL.
UH, COMMUNITY SURVEY, WE HAD 590 INDIVIDUALS TAKE THE COMMUNITY SURVEY.
UM, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF, UH, METHODS THAT WE GOT THAT OUT THROUGH A DIRECT LINK ON THE WEBSITE, UH, QR CODES OF THE OPEN HOUSES AND EVENTS, UH, LINKS WITH THE VIRTUAL ENGAGEMENT ROOMS AND KIOSK STATIONS, AND THEN EMAIL AND SOCIAL MEDIA, UH, REMINDERS.
THERE WERE ALSO HARD COPIES MADE AVAILABLE FOR THOSE FOLKS THAT MIGHT NOT HAVE ACCESS TO THE TECHNOLOGY, UH, TO DO IT ONLINE.
AND, UH, SO WE MADE THAT AVAILABLE AS WELL AT THE LIBRARY, SENIOR CENTER, RECREATION CENTER AND SERVICE CENTER, UH, ONLINE VIRTUAL ENGAGEMENT ROOMS, 85 INDIVIDUALS PROVIDED FEEDBACK THROUGH THE ONLINE ENGAGEMENT ROOMS. UH, UH, THAT WAS AVAILABLE FROM JUNE 24TH THROUGH JULY 16TH.
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AGAIN, THE NUMBER THAT WE SEE THERE IS SOMEWHAT IN LINE WITH THE MEETING THAT ATTEND THE FOLKS THAT ATTENDED EACH OF THE INDIVIDUAL STAKEHOLDER, UH, MEETINGS, OPEN HOUSES THAT WE CONDUCTED.UH, SO WE BELIEVE, UH, UH, THAT IT WAS A GOOD FORUM TO BE ABLE TO GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM FOLKS THAT MAYBE COULDN'T ATTEND A FACE-TO-FACE EVENT.
UM, AGAIN, THE TOPICS AND FORMAT PRETTY MUCH MIRRORED WHAT WE WERE DOING AND THE, UH, IN-PERSON EVENTS.
AND, UH, MAIN TOPICS WE ASKED FOR INFORMATION ON AT THIS POINT WE'RE VISION PRIORITIES, REINVESTMENT AREAS, TRANSPORTATIONS IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOUSING.
AND THEN I JUST TOUCHED ON THE TWO COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS.
UH, 200 PEOPLE, MORE ABOUT 200 PEOPLE CAN, UH, ATTENDED THOSE EVENTS.
UH, WE DID ONE ON A TUESDAY EVENING, ANOTHER ONE ON A SATURDAY MORNING, AGAIN, TRYING TO MAKE OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE TO ATTEND.
UM, WE DID ONE IN THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN, ONE ON THE WEST SIDE OF TOWN.
AGAIN, JUST TRYING TO MAKE, UH, OPTIONS AVAILABLE.
AND AGAIN, WE ALSO HAD THAT ONLINE, UH, INPUT AVAILABLE THROUGH THOSE VIRTUAL ROOMS. UM, WE ALSO HAD POP-UP KIOSK AND BANNERS THAT WERE PLACED AT SEVERAL LOCATIONS, UH, AROUND THE COMMUNITY.
UH, THEY WERE ROTATED IN THE COMMUNITY FROM THE NETWORK.
UH, FIRST YOU MIGHT HAVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, THE CHAMBER NONPROFIT FAIR, RICHARDSON PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE SENIOR CENTER, THE CUSTOMER SERVICE AREA AT THE MUNICIPAL COURT BUILDING, UT DALLAS.
AND THE, UH, CHAMBER LOCAL BUSINESS RESOURCE ROUNDUP.
UM, SPECIFIC ENGAGEMENT ACTIVITIES WERE MADE AVAILABLE IN NEARLY A HUNDRED LANGUAGES.
AGAIN, UTILIZING GOOGLE TRANSLATE.
UH, WE DID CONTACT EIGHT ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS, UH, UH, THAT WE REALLY WANTED TO HAVE HOST THE POPUPS, UH, AND AFTER SEVERAL ATTEMPTS DIDN'T RECEIVE RESPONSES.
UH, SO THERE'S SOME WORK THAT WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO DO IN THE NEXT ROUND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE GETTING EVEN MORE AND BROADER FEEDBACK, UH, UH, THROUGH THESE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN MEETING IN A BOX DISCUSSIONS, WE WERE REAL EXCITED ABOUT UTILIZING THAT APPROACH WHERE WE HAD, UH, 24 PROJECT AMBASSADORS THAT VOLUNTEERED TO, UH, STRUCTURE DISCUSSIONS WITH NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, RELIGIOUS GROUPS, CULTURAL GROUPS, BUSINESS GROUPS.
UM, THE AMBASSADORS FACILITATED 20 DISCUSSIONS INVOLVING ABOUT 80 COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
AGAIN, UH, MATERIALS WERE AVAILABLE IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES AND ON THE PUB, ON THE PROJECT WEBSITE.
AND WE'RE ENCOURAGING THOSE SAME AMBASSADORS TO, UH, CONTINUE THEIR PARTICIPATION IN COMMUNITY SUMMIT TWO, AND THEN THE FINAL COMMUNITY SUMMIT THREE.
AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL AMBASSADORS AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
SO THAT IS THE APPROACH THAT WE TOOK, UH, SO FAR.
WE'RE, WE'RE PLEASED WITH THE AMOUNT OF TURNOUT THAT WE STARTED TO SEE.
AGAIN, WE'RE EARLY IN THE PROCESS.
WE WANT TO KEEP REACHING OUT, UH, INCREASING THE NUMBERS OF PARTICIPANTS, INCREASING THE DIVERSITY OF PARTICIPANTS AS WE GO FORWARD.
BUT THE KEY IS IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCESS AS WE GO FORWARD.
SO NOW WE WANNA PIVOT A LITTLE BIT AND START TO GET INTO SOME OF THE PRELIMINARY VISION CONCEPTS.
UM, AT THE, AT THE END OF THIS YEAR, UH, WE'LL BE HAVING ANOTHER JOINT SESSION, I THINK THE END OF THIS YEAR, OR MAYBE THE VERY BEGINNING OF NEXT YEAR.
AND IN THAT JOINT SESSION, REALLY WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS PREPARE WHAT WE CALL STRATEGIC DIRECTION.
THAT STRATEGIC DIRECTION IS MADE UP OF A VISION STATEMENT, A DRAFT GI VISION STATEMENT, SOME GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND A PRELIMINARY SCENARIO.
AND AS YOU THINK OF A PRELIMINARY SCENARIO, THINK A FUTURE, FUTURE LAND USE SCENARIO FOR HOW THE, THE, UH, CITY, UH, MIGHT DEVELOP IN THOSE REMAINING AREAS OR REDEVELOPMENT AREAS IN THE FUTURE.
UM, WE, WE DO THAT SO THAT WE CAN REALLY GET THOSE BASIC THINGS IN PLACE EARLY IN THE PROCESS, GO BACK TO THE COMMUNITY, MAKE SURE THAT WE'VE HEARD THEM CORRECTLY, THAT WE'RE GOING THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
AND WE DO THAT BEFORE WE GET INTO ALL OF THOSE PLAN COMPONENTS, THE FISCAL AND ECONOMIC COMPONENT, THE HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOODS COMPONENT, ALL OF THOSE SPECIFIC COMPONENTS THAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN HEARING GOOD INFORMATION ON, GOOD FEEDBACK ON TO DATE.
BUT WE WANT TO GET THOSE, THE, THOSE THREE THINGS RIGHT WITH THE COMMUNITY BEFORE WE START HANGING MORE ON THOSE BONES.
SO THIS FIRST DISCUSSION IS REALLY FOCUSED ON THAT VERY PRELIMINARY VISION STATEMENT, UH, THAT WE'LL BE GOING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY IN OCTOBER SAYING, THESE ARE SOME OF THE KEY WORDS WE HEARD FROM YOU.
THESE ARE SOME WAYS THAT A VISION STATEMENT
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MIGHT BE STRUCTURED, UH, SO THAT WE CAN GET A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY ON WHAT THAT MIGHT BE.SO, UM, ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WE ASKED IN EVERY SINGLE VENUE, UH, ACROSS THE BOARD WAS, WHAT WORD OR PHRASE DESCRIBES YOUR BEST POSSIBLE VISION FOR RICHARDSON IN 2050? THE REASON WE DID THAT WAS SO THAT WE COULD START TO GET SOME RESPONSES RELATED TO A VISION STATEMENT.
UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING FOR IS WE DEVELOP A DRAFT, UH, VISION STATEMENT TO, TO START TO GET FEEDBACK ON, IS WE WANT TO CREATE SOMETHING THAT'S, UH, AN INSPIRING IMAGE FOR THE FUTURE THAT PARTICIPANTS WANT TO ACHIEVE.
WE THINK IT NEEDS TO BE SUCCINCT, SUCCINCT BUT MEMORABLE.
IT NEEDS TO BE ASPIRATIONAL, YET BASED IN REALITY NEEDS TO DESCRIBE WHERE THE COMMUNITY WANTS TO GO, NOT THE PROCESS FOR GETTING THERE, AND NOT JUST BE A LONG LAUNDRY LIST OF INDIVIDUAL TOPICS.
SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD, THOSE WILL BE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE KEEP IN MIND.
SO THIS IS A WORD CLOUD THAT WAS DEVELOPED, AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, WE ASKED THAT QUESTION ABOUT A FUTURE VISION FOR RICHARDSON IN EVERY SINGLE VENUE, ONLINE, FACE-TO-FACE, UH, STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS THAT WE HAD.
WE'VE RECEIVED A LOT MORE FEEDBACK IN INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES THAN YOU'RE SEEING ON THE SCREEN RIGHT NOW.
BUT THIS WORD CLOUD IS REALLY STARTING TO SAY, WHAT WERE THOSE THINGS WE HEARD OVER AND OVER IN THE COMMUNITY? AND THE THINGS THAT ARE THE LARGER WORDS WERE THE ONES THAT WE HEARD CONSISTENTLY, THAT THERE WAS CONSENSUS THAT PEOPLE SAID THOSE THINGS MULTIPLE TIMES, UH, IN, YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT'VE BEEN IN MULTIPLE VENUES.
WE HEARD IT MULTIPLE TIMES, OR YOU MIGHT'VE NOTICED IN SOME OF THE, UH, FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS.
WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOMEBODY TO WRITE A WORD AND YOU WOULD START TO SEE JUST A LONG LIST OF CHECK MARKS NEXT TO IT WHERE PEOPLE SAID, YEAH, I, I AGREE WITH THAT.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO HEAR.
SO THESE WERE SOME OF THOSE KEY WORDS SO THAT YOU'RE NOT TRYING TO MEASURE WHICH ONE IS THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH AND WHICH ONE IS AN INCH TALL.
WE'VE STARTED TO TAKE IT A LITTLE STEP FURTHER.
UM, UH, SOME OF THE KEYS, KEY WORDS THAT YOU SAW THAT WERE THE LARGER WORDS WE'VE LISTED ON THE LEFT HERE WITH WORDS LIKE SAFE FAMILY, UH, FAMILY WAS USED IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS.
FAMILY FOCUSED, FAMILY ORIENTED, SUSTAINABLE, AS YOU HEARD, UH, UH, FROM ONE OF THE SPEAKERS EARLIER WAS, UH, ONE OF THE KEY WORDS THAT WE HEARD OFTEN THROUGH THE PROCESS, BUT ALSO CONNECTED, MAINTAINED DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE, WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS AS GROWTH.
BUT AS I SAY THAT THESE OTHER WORDS WERE ALSO ON THAT LIST, ON THAT IMAGE.
UH, CONTINUING INNOVATE, SERVICE HOME, UH, GREENER, RESILIENT.
UH, YOU CAN START TO SEE A LOT OF ADDITIONAL WORDS THERE, UM, THAT, THAT MIGHT BE KEY ASPECTS OF WHAT THE COMMUNITY WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN A VISION STATEMENT.
SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD, I GUESS THE FIRST POINT OF DISCUSSION WE WANTED TO HAVE, AND AGAIN, THIS IS VERY PRELIMINARY AND WE KNOW THAT YOU RECEIVED THESE PACKETS RECENTLY.
UM, BUT WE WANTED TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF DISCUSSION AS YOU LOOK AT THOSE WORDS AS TO WHICH OF THE WORDS LISTED, EXPRESS THE IDEAS THAT YOU BELIEVE ARE MOST IMPORTANT FOR, UH, ENVISION RICHARDSON'S VISION STATEMENT.
UM, BECAUSE WE WILL TYPICALLY HAVE A NUMBER OF WORDS THAT WE INCLUDE.
AND THERE ARE THERE ADDITIONAL KEY WORDS THAT YOU'VE BEEN HEARING FROM YOUR CONSTITUENTS THAT YOU THINK ARE IMPORTANT, UH, TO BE THINKING ABOUT AS WE DO THAT.
AND AGAIN, THIS IS THE VERY FIRST TIME WE'RE GETTING ANY FEEDBACK ON THIS, BUT WE WANTED YOU TO BE THE FIRST TO PROVIDE SOME OF THAT FEEDBACK TO US.
SO I'LL GO BACK TO THE IMAGE WITH THE, THE WORDS ON THE SCREEN.
MARK, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.
AND JESSICA, WE APPRECIATE YOUR WORDS OF WISDOM, NO PUN INTENDED.
BUT AT THIS TIME, WE'RE GONNA ASK, UH, CHAIRMAN MARSH, IF YOU WOULD WANNA TAKE CONTROL OF THE MICROPHONE AND LET'S LET THE CPCS HAVE THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK FIRST.
AND WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM Y'ALL, JUST LIKE WE ARE THE REST OF 'EM.
WELL, JUST SO I UNDERSTAND IT, IS THERE MORE TO GO ON THIS PRESENTATION OR IS THIS JUST, THERE IS MUCH JUST THE FIRST STOPPING POINT, RIGHT? YES.
SO, UH, THIS, THIS IS, WE'RE PROBABLY LESS THAN A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH IT.
SO, UM, WELL, I, I'LL ASK THE, UH, COMMISSIONERS IF YOU WANNA SPEAK, UH, JUST JOE, I THINK YOU'VE GOT YOURS.
YEAH, OBVIOUSLY I THINK THESE ARE, I THINK YOU HAVE A LOT OF GREAT WORDS HERE.
UH, SUSTAINABLE OBVIOUSLY SHOWED UP BIGGEST AND KIND OF BOLDEST.
AND DOES IN YOUR MIND, IN YOUR EXPERIENCE INTERACTING WITH THESE PEOPLE,
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DOES SUSTAINABLE MEAN LIKE IN THE, YOU KNOW, RECYCLE, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL SENSE, OR DOES IT MEAN SUSTAINABLE INSOFAR AS MY KIDS CAN LIVE HERE AND LIVE THE SAME WAY I DID? 'CAUSE THOSE ARE TWO IDEAS THAT CAN DIVERGE QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY.AND I KIND OF WONDER, JUST BASED ON OTHER STUFF I'M SEEING, UM, YOU KNOW, IT, IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S THE SECOND KIND OF DEFINITION SEEMS MORE LIKELY WHAT PEOPLE MEAN.
LIKE, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO SUSTAIN THIS FOR THE FUTURE FOR MY KIDS, NOT THAT I CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND MATERIALS OR RECYCLING.
I, I THINK, UH, I THINK WHAT WE'RE HEARING COULD BE FOLKS TOUCHING ON BOTH OF THOSE TOPICS.
UH, BUT I DO TEND TO, TO LEAN MORE TOWARDS WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT A, A MORE SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, A PLACE FOR PEOPLE TO LIVE.
UM, BUT THE OTHER CONCEPT THAT WE'VE HEARD A LOT RELATED TO SA SUSTAINABLE IN THE PAST, AND PARTICULARLY IN RICHARDSON WHEN WE HEAR SUSTAINABLE IS FISCALLY SUSTAINABLE AS WELL.
SO IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT IT'S HAVING A FISCAL BALANCE AND A FISCAL SUSTAINABILITY THAT THE C THE CITY CAN CONTINUE TO PROVIDE RESOURCES.
BUT I DO TEND TO THINK BASED ON SOME OF THE DISCUSSIONS AND SOME OF COMPARING SOME OF THE NOTES THAT WE HAD ON SOME OF THE OTHER BOARDS, THAT THERE WAS CERTAINLY, THERE WERE CERTAINLY A LOT OF PEOPLE AT THE FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS ANYWHERE ANYWAY, THAT WERE VERY INTERESTED IN THAT, UH, THAT FORETHOUGHT OF WHAT DO WE NEED TO BE DOING FROM AN ENVIRONMENTAL STANDPOINT FOR THE PLACE WE LIVE IN.
WELL, WITH THAT BEING SAID, ONE OF MY FAVORITE WORDS UP THERE IS INNOVATIVE.
'CAUSE I THINK IT HITS A LOT OF THAT KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, PLANNING AND TRYING NEW THINGS TO TRY TO GET TO A BETTER PLACE.
AND I, I WILL TELL YOU, I FAILED TO MENTION MONICA AND JESSICA ARE TAKING CLOSE NOTES HERE, AND THIS IS ALSO BEING RECORDED, SO WE'RE NOT LOSING ANY OF THE COMMENTS YOU HAVE TONIGHT, KEN.
ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I, I DON'T SEE UP THERE IS MORE INVOLVEMENT, MORE INVOLVEMENT BY, UM, PEOPLE WHO DON'T NECESSARILY SPEAK ENGLISH.
UH, MORE INVOLVEMENT AT, AT MEETINGS OF BOTH OF THESE, THESE GROUPS, UH, CITY COUNCIL AND, UH, AND THE PLAN COMMISSION.
AND, UM, I, I DON'T HAVE A, A BREAKTHROUGH IDEA ON HOW TO GET THAT DONE, BUT I SURE WOULD LIKE FOR THAT TO BE A PART OF THIS PLAN AS MUCH AS IT CAN BE.
AND I THINK THE WORD INCLUSIVE IS, IS MEANT TO, UM, PROMOTE THAT IDEA AS WELL.
YEAH, WHEN I, WHEN I LOOK AT THE LIST, I, I THINK A LOT OF THIS ALREADY EXISTS IN RICHARDSON TODAY, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE, ARE DESCRIBING WHAT THEY FEEL AND SEE HERE AND RIGHT NOW, AND THEY, SO A LOT OF IT'S THEY WANNA KEEP THAT.
AND I'M, I'M CURIOUS IF, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN IDENTIFY PARTS OF THIS THAT MAYBE ARE MISSING OR LACKING, UH, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, TO ME IT'S LIKE, UM, A LOT OF THIS IS HERE.
SO HOW DO WE, IF YOU, IF WE CONTIN, IF WE'RE JUST SAYING WE WANT TO KEEP IT LIKE IT IS, OR ARE THERE PARTS HERE THAT WE'RE REALLY SAYING ARE MISSING AND WE NEED TO ADD TO IT AND HELP CREATE? YEAH, AND I THINK, I THINK PART OF THAT THOUGHT PROCESS RIGHT THERE, UM, THERE ARE, I, I THINK YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE PEOPLE IN THESE TYPES OF MEETINGS THAT WILL SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE ARE TODAY, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THAT CONTINUES THROUGH.
BUT THAT'S CORE, THAT'S INTRINSIC TO WHAT WE ARE, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE MAINTAIN THAT.
UM, BUT I, MY TAKEAWAY IS THAT IN SOME CASES, FOLKS, UH, THINK THAT THERE MIGHT BE A WAY TO DO EVEN A BETTER JOB THAN YOU'RE DOING TODAY.
SO HOW CAN WE IMPROVE ON SOME OF THOSE THINGS? NATE? UM, SO MARK, THANKS.
UM, I THINK THAT, UH, TWO OF THE WORDS DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE ARE ONES THAT JUMP OUT FOR ME.
AND I THINK THAT, UH, IN TERMS OF ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY, YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A YEOMAN'S JOB IN TERMS OF THE PROCESS THAT YOU'VE LAID OUT FOR INCLUSION FROM, UH, THE PUBLIC.
I DID A LITTLE BIT OF MATH HERE, AND WHAT I CAME UP WITH THOUGH WAS OUT OF A POPULATION OF 122,000, UM, RIGHT NOW, ACCORDING TO MY MATH, I COULD BE OFF, BUT LOOKS LIKE YOU'VE INTERVIEWED ABOUT 6% OF THE POPULATION.
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FOR DIVERSITY INCLUSION, ARE YOU GUYS TRACKING THE ACTUAL DEMOGRAPHICS OF WHO YOU'RE INTERVIEWING? BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, AND I MEAN THIS SINCERELY, YOU'VE DONE A YEOMAN'S JOB AT THE PROCESS FOR REACHING OUT TO THE PUBLIC, BUT I'M WONDERING WHETHER IT'S ACTUALLY, OR HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS.YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU'RE GETTING THE NUMBERS IN, YOU'VE GOT 6%, WHICH IS A GOOD NUMBER, BUT I'M WONDERING IF THAT'S ACTUALLY HITTING THE TARGET.
SO FROM A, AGAIN, FROM A STANDPOINT OF WHAT WE'VE RECEIVED SO FAR, UM, I'LL REITERATE, WE'RE WE'RE PLEASED AT WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS, BUT WE WANT TO DO BETTER.
WE WANT TO INCREASE THOSE NUMBERS NOW RELATED TO, UH, UH, DIVERSITY OF THE, THE RESPONDENTS, UM, OBVIOUSLY WE HAD SOME FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEWS AND WE KNOW BACKGROUNDS OF THE PEOPLE THAT WE MET WITH FACE-TO-FACE IN THE STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS.
ALSO THROUGH THE ONLINE SURVEY, THERE WERE SOME DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS, UH, PEOPLE COULD CHOOSE NOT TO ANSWER THEM.
UH, BUT, UH, WE DID HAVE DEMOGRAPHIC, UH, QUESTIONS THAT WE ASKED THAT, UH, WE, WE THINK ARE IMPORTANT TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE PROCESS.
UM, FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE FACE-TO-FACE MEETINGS, I WOULD SAY THAT THE MAKEUP OF FOLKS THAT ATTENDED THOSE, THOSE MEETINGS PROBABLY WEREN'T, UH, REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIVERSITY THAT RICHARDSON HAS AS A WHOLE IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON.
SO FOR ME, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S, I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT JUST MAKES SENSE THAT, UM, YOU WOULD WANNA MEASURE HOW INCLUSIVE IT ACTUALLY IS.
AND THE FACT THAT WE DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE WERE SUCH PROMINENT WORDS THAT MADE THAT, YOU KNOW, THE ORANGE OR YELLOW COLOR, I CAN'T TELL WHAT COLOR MUSTARD COLOR THAT IT IS ON HERE.
UM, I THINK THAT THAT SAYING THAT THERE WERE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY SAYING IT, AND IT'S SOMETHING THEY ASPIRE TO BE, BUT IN ORDER TO HAVE A PLAN THAT REFLECTS THAT, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THROUGH THIS PROCESS WE'RE HEARING FROM THAT DIVERSE POPULATION IN THE, IN THE COMMUNITY.
WELL, AND WE'RE ON THE SAME WAVELENGTH BECAUSE I WAS THINKING WITH ALL OF THE EFFORTS THAT HAVE GONE INTO, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, I SINCERELY MEAN YOU GUYS ARE DOING A YEOMAN'S JOB IN THE PROCESS OF REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, BUT MEASURING HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS WOULD BE REALLY GOOD TO KNOW.
WE'LL, WE'LL CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR ADDITIONAL MEASUREMENTS THAT WE CAN HAVE TO HAVE THAT DATA IN THE FUTURE.
I THINK THAT'S BYRON DOWN THERE.
AND TEAM, I USE A SIMILAR WORD CLOUD APPROACH IN, IN MY EFFORTS TRYING TO ILLUMINATE VISION IN MY PRODUCTS IN MY DAY TO DAY.
SO THIS IS SPOT ON, LIKE INDUSTRY BEST PRACTICE STUFF THAT YOU'RE DOING HERE.
ALL MY FAVORITE WORDS ARE IN THE LEFT COLUMN.
BESIDES THE INNOVATE IN THE FUTURISTIC, WE LOVE THEM TO, TO MAKE THAT CUT, I'M WONDERING IF WE GOT OPPORTUNITY TO CONCATENATE SOME WORDS LIKE SAFE FAMILY, SUSTAINABLE GROWTH IN ORDER TO ABSOLUTELY, YOU KNOW, GET, GET EVERYTHING KIND OF IN THERE.
THE BIGGEST WORD I SEE MISSING IS A THREE LETTER F WORD FUN.
AND WE PROBABLY HAVE IT ON THE LIST SOMEWHERE.
IT JUST DIDN'T HAVE SO MANY RESPONSES THAT IT ROSE TO THE TOP GWEN.
SO, AND I REALLY WISH I SHOULD HAVE STARTED TAKING TRACK OF HOW MANY TIMES THIS WORD HAS BEEN USED SO FAR THIS EVENING.
BUT, UM, I'M GONNA CALL IT AN UMBRELLA TERM AND WE ALL KEEP SAYING IT, BUT IT'S NOT ON THE LIST.
AND THAT'S COMMUNITY AND, AND I THINK MANY, IF NOT ALL OF THESE TERMS FALL UNDER THAT MM-HMM.
AND I, I JUST THINK IT'S KIND OF MISSING, BUT EVERYTHING FALLS UNDER IT, SO.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE DATA ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE TRAVEL INTO RICHARDSON TO WORK RAISES A QUESTION IN MY MIND.
UM, WAS THERE ANY, UH, INVOLVEMENT THAT YOU COULD DETECT OF PEOPLE A AMONG THOSE INCOM COMMUTERS IN ANY OF THE, THE RESPONSES THAT YOU GOT? OR MIGHT THERE BE A WAY TO INCLUDE SOME OF THAT? SO COMMUTER SPECIFIC, JUST THROUGH THE OUTREACH TO SOME OF THE, THE, THE FACT THAT THE, THE SURVEY WAS SHARED.
FOR INSTANCE, MY, MY OFFICE IS HERE IN RICHARDSON AND WE SHARED IT
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WITH THE OVER A HUNDRED EMPLOYEES, WHETHER THEY LIVE HERE OR NOT.THE FACT THAT THEY WERE HERE IN TALKING TO YOU AND TALKING TO THE CITY MANAGEMENT TEAM, YOU SAID, YEAH, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE THAT WORK HERE.
UM, SO THE, THE HOPE IS THAT OTHER ORGANIZATIONS HAVE DONE THE SAME THING.
WE CERTAINLY WERE PUSHING THAT.
UM, BUT BEYOND THAT, I ALSO WANNA POINT OUT THINGS LIKE THE WILDFLOWER FESTIVAL.
THOSE EVENTS THAT YOU HAVE ARE VERY HEAVILY ATTENDED FROM PEOPLE FROM THE REGION.
AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE HEARING FROM THOSE FOLKS ABOUT HOW THEY ENVISION RICHARDSON AND, AND WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT THEY SEE THAT DIFFERENTIATE YOU.
UH, BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN YOU LIVE HERE OR WORK HERE, IT'S RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU AND YOU MAY NOT NOTICE IT AS MUCH AS AN OUTSIDER COMING IN.
SO I, I DO THINK THAT WE'VE GOTTEN OUR SHARE OF RESPONSES FROM FOLKS LIKE THAT.
AND IF I WAS JUST GONNA ADD ANY WORDS OR PHRASES, I, I DON'T HAVE ONE, BUT TO ME IT'S LIKE, WHAT DOES THIS ALL ADD UP TO? AND IT'S, UM, A FEELING OF PRIDE AND THAT WE'RE AN EXCEPTIONAL PLACE OR CITY THAT'S UNIQUE AND WE'RE FIVE STAR, WE'RE CLASS A, WE'RE TOP-NOTCH OR WHATEVER.
IT'S, AND WE'RE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE HAVE A LOT OF PRIDE IN, IN BEING FROM RICHARDSON AND OR WORKING HERE AND LIVING HERE.
AND, AND THAT'S WHAT THIS ALL ADDS UP TO AT THE END OF THE DAY, IS IT MAKES US THAT ONE OF THOSE GREAT SMALL CITIES, IF YOU WILL.
THANK YOU COUNCILWOMAN JUSTICE.
WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD, MA'AM? UH, I THANK YOU, MAYOR.
FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD SAY THE DANGER IN LETTING ALL OF THEM GO FIRST IS THAT THEY STOLE ALL OF THE REALLY GOOD COMMENTS,
THE WORD I WROTE DOWN WAS SUSTAINABLE TO COMMISSIONER.
UH, CONSTANTINO'S POINT IS, IS THAT SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, AS IN WE NEED TO, YOU KNOW, THERE DENTS IS UP THERE, BUT WE NEED TO DO THAT IN A SUSTAINABLE MANNER.
WE TALK ABOUT WATER A LOT, UH, ON THIS COUNCIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND SO I WAS CURIOUS, WHAT, WHAT DID THAT MEAN? UM, SO TO THE EXTENT WE CAN DRILL DOWN WHEN WE TALK TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT THAT WORD ACTUALLY MEANS TO THEM, I THINK IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE I THINK WE ALL AGREE, UM, THAT THERE ARE MULTIPLE MEANINGS AND WE NEED TO REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS.
UM, AND THEN, UM, THE COM NO, I LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT.
OH, IT WAS A, IT WAS A CHAIRMAN MARSHA'S POINT ABOUT WE ALREADY HAVE ALL THESE THINGS IN THE LEFT COLUMN.
AND I, I AGREE THAT WAS, THAT WAS INITIALLY MY THOUGHT.
AND THEN I THOUGHT, OKAY, LET'S LOOK AT THE WORD ATTAINABLE.
LIKE WE CAN HAVE A SAFE, SUSTAINABLE, CONNECTED CITY, BUT IS THAT ATTAINABLE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO COME HERE TO WORK OR, OR WHO WORK HERE AND WOULD LIKE TO LIVE HERE BUT CAN'T, UM, TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS ALL THE GREAT THINGS ON THE, ON THIS LIST.
SO I DO THINK THERE IS IS WORK TO DO THERE TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT YOU AND I FEEL LIKE IS, IS IS THAT THAT IS DESCRIBING WHAT I FEEL LIKE MY CITY IS, IS ACTUALLY ATTAINABLE, UM, TO, TO OUR TEACHERS AND OUR FIREFIGHTERS AND OUR JANITORS AND WHOEVER ELSE, UM, YOU KNOW, WOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN RICHARDSON AND BENEFIT FROM THESE THINGS.
UM, SO THOSE, THOSE WERE MY INITIAL THOUGHTS IS THAT SUSTAINABLE WAS THE BIGGEST WORLD ON THAT CLOUD.
AND I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT PEOPLE MEAN BY IT, UM, SO THAT WE ARE NOT JUST SORT OF, UH, FORCING OUR OWN INTERPRETATION ON WHAT THAT WORD MEANS.
AND THAT, THAT WILL BE PART OF THE FOLLOW UP THIS FALL IS AS WE IDENTIFY THESE WORDS, DRILLING DOWN A LITTLE FURTHER ABOUT WHAT THEY MEAN TO THE COMMUNITY.
I, I MEAN, I WILL SAY, I MEAN, IT IS, IT IS COMFORTING, YOU KNOW, SITTING ON THIS COUNCIL AND REPRESENTING PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN RICHARDSON THAT THEY'RE DESCRIBING, UH, SORT OF WHAT I, I'LL SPEAK FOR MYSELF, WHAT I, I WANT RICHARDSON TO BE, UH, AND WHAT I BELIEVE IT TO BE.
SO, UM, IT'S GOOD TO HEAR THAT THEY THINK WE'RE DOING A GOOD JOB,
UM, IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW WE BRING IN THOSE OTHER WORDS, LIKE ATTAINABLE AND, AND MAKE IT REALLY, TRULY INCLUSIVE, UH, AND ATTAINABLE FOR ALL.
UM, ONE, ONE QUESTION BECAUSE I'VE HEARD IT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT, UM, UH, CONNOTATIONS ON THIS AND IS SMALL TOWN, IS IT SMALL TOWN FEEL OR SMALL TOWN? BECAUSE THERE'S A VERY DISTINCT DIFFERENCE.
AND WHAT I HEAR PEOPLE SAY TO ME IS THEY WANT TO CONTINUE TO SEE US GROW, THEY WANT US TO CONTINUE TO, TO, TO MOVE FORWARD.
BUT THEY LOVE THE IDEA THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, VIA THE NEIGHBORHOODS, VIA THE H O A, THEY KNOW WHO THEIR NEIGHBORS ARE, AND THAT'S A SMALL TOWN FEEL.
AND SO IF IT'S TRULY SMALL TOWN FEEL, I THINK WE OUGHT TO ADD THE WORD FEEL ONTO SMALL TOWN FEEL SO THAT WE CAPTURE THAT MORE OF WHAT, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING IS THAT IT'S MUCH MORE ABOUT STILL, EVEN THOUGH WE GREW UP TO BE WHATEVER WE ULTIMATELY END UP BEING SIZE WISE, WE STILL, I KNOW BRIAN, BRIAN KNOWS ME.
WE'RE NEIGHBORS, WE'RE DOWN THE STREET FROM EACH OTHER, WHATEVER THE CASE MIGHT BE.
SO I JUST ASK FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.
SO, AND THEN I'VE GOT ONE OTHER COMMENT.
AND WE, WE CERTAINLY, UM, I I BELIEVE SMALL TOWN FEEL IS THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT WE WILL DOUBLE CHECK THAT IT IS THROUGH THE NOTES THAT WE HAVE.
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YEAH.UM, AND, AND I THINK WE OUGHT TO, I THINK WE OUGHT TO DELINEATE THAT AND PUT FEEL ON THE END OF THAT, IS WHAT MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE.
AND THEN THE OTHER, THE OTHER, MY OTHER THOUGHTS ARE IS, YOU KNOW, IN THE, IN THE THE TIME THAT I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL AND ALSO WHILE I'VE LIVED HERE, I THINK WE'VE ALSO BEEN VERY, VERY COMPETITIVE AND WE'VE BEEN APPROPRIATELY AGGRESSIVE WHEN OPPORTUNITIES HAVE PRESENTED THEMSELVES.
I E I GO BACK TO WHEN, YOU KNOW, WE INITIALLY LEARNED THE STATE, STATE FARM WAS LOOKING MM-HMM.
AND WE WERE VERY, WE WERE APPROPRIATELY AGGRESSIVE AND APPROPRIATELY COMPETITIVE TO, TO TRY AND GET, GET THAT HERE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'VE BEEN SEVERAL OTHER, OTHER THINGS THAT I WOULD I, THAT I COULD USE AS EXAMPLES.
BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, AND I, AND ALWAYS HAVE TO, I ALWAYS WANNA SAY APPROPRIATELY 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, JUST TO SAY YOU'RE AGGRESSIVE, THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY WHAT I'M SAYING.
BUT WHEN IT'S APPROPRIATE, I THINK AS A, AS A CITY, AS A COUNCIL, AS A, AS A AS, UM, C P C, UM, WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, WE'VE BEEN VERY APPROPRIATELY AGGRESSIVE AND COMPETITIVE.
SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE WORDS THAT I DON'T SEE ON THERE THAT I THINK, I MEAN, DYNAMIC IS SORT OF, BUT NOT NECESSARILY, NOT NECESSARILY THE, THE, THE, THE, WHAT I WOULD SAY WE WOULD, WE WOULD WANT TO CAPTURE.
BECAUSE I THINK, I THINK, YOU KNOW, MOVING FORWARD, WE KNOW THERE ARE, THERE ARE TOWNS TO THE, TO THE NORTH OF US THAT ARE, THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE JUST FLAT OUT AGGRESSIVE AND COMPETITIVE ON EVERYTHING.
AND I'M NOT, I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT'S WHERE WE WANNA BE, BUT IF WE IDENTIFY SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY FEEL LIKE WE WANT TO GO AFTER, THEN I THINK WE ARE APPROPRIATELY AGGRESSIVE AND APPROPRIATELY COMPETITIVE.
SO THAT, THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD BE WHAT I WOULD ADD.
UM, MARK, I HAVE A FEW COMMENTS AND SOME CLARIFYING QUESTIONS.
UM, BUT BEFORE I GO INTO THAT, THE, THE, THE WORDS THAT POP OUT TO ME, OBVIOUSLY EVERYTHING ON, ON THE YELLOW SIDE, UH, ON THE WHITE SIDE, IT'S THE WORD INNOVATIVE IS PROBABLY, IF I HAD TO PICK ONE WORD THERE, UM, THAT POPS UP.
BUT I THINK THERE'S SOME OVERLAP BETWEEN INNOVATIVE GROWTH, SUSTAINABLE, UM, FUTURISTIC.
THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP THERE.
SUSTAINABLE, WHEN RESIDENTS HAVE TALKED TO ME, I KNOW I HEARD ABOUT IT KIND OF COMMISSIONER CASTANO, DID I PRONOUNCE THAT CORRECT? CORRECT.
UH, WHEN RESIDENTS HAVE VENT MENTIONED TO ME, IT'S YES, MAINTAINING THAT SMALL TOWN FEEL MM-HMM.
UM, JUST AS MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, WE TALK A LOT ABOUT WATER.
I KNOW THAT'S SOMETHING YOU MENTIONED TO ME BEFORE I WAS A MEMBER OF THIS COUNCIL, THAT WHEN YOU JOIN THE COUNCIL, IT'S AMAZING HOW MUCH YOU'RE GONNA CARE EVERY TIME IT RAINS.
AND IT'S VERY MUCH BECOME TRUE
BUT SO TO ME, I THINK THAT SUSTAINABLE IS YES, MAINTAINING THAT WAY OF LIFE, BUT THAT INVOLVES SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE, SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL, UM, ASPECTS, BUT THAT, THAT WORD AND INNOVATIVE ARE REALLY, REALLY STAND OUT TO ME.
RECENTLY, UM, MEMBERS OF THE CITY STAFF WON AN AWARD FOR OUR TRANSPORTATION PLAN, UM, THROUGH THE NORTH TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS IN OUR 150 YEARS.
THERE'S A LOT OF, THERE'S, THERE'S THINGS WE'VE LEARNED AND A LOT OF TH THINGS WE'VE DONE.
UH, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT WHATEVER COMES OUT OF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HOPEFULLY IS AN AWARD-WINNING PLAN.
UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS IN RICHARDSON, AND I HOPE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE CAN ADD TO IT.
UM, BECAUSE IT'LL EITHER BE GREAT OR IT'LL, WE'RE GONNA LOOK BACK 10 YEARS FROM NOW AND GO, WOW, WHERE DID WE GO WRONG? UM, OR FUTURE COUNCILS WILL LOOK BACK AND SAY, WHERE DID THEY GO WRONG,
SO I REALLY HOPE THAT AT THE END OF THIS, WE DO COME OUT WITH SOMETHING WE COULD BE PROUD OF AND WE CAN HANG OUR HAT ON.
COUPLE OF MY CONCERNS, UH, SO WITH COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINO INNOVATIVE.
RIGHT ON, UM, NATE, YOU MENTIONED THE 6%.
I THINK YOU, YOU'RE BEING VERY GENEROUS THERE IN MY, MY BASIC, MY BASIC MATH.
I BELIEVE EVERY, I KNOW EVERY ONE OF US SPOKE TO YOU INDIVIDUALLY.
I BELIEVE EVERY MEMBER OF THE C P C HAD AN INDIVIDUAL MEETING AS WELL.
SO YOU HAVE 14 OF US RIGHT HERE SEATED AROUND THIS FOUR HORSESHOE THAT DOESN'T EVEN INCLUDE STAFF 14 OUTTA THE 55.
THAT'S 25.45% OF THE PEOPLE YOU SPOKE TO ARE IN THIS ROOM.
UM, SO, AND WE OBVIOUSLY DO NOT REPRESENT BUT A SMALL FRACTION OF OUR CITY.
MY BIGGEST CONCERNS ARE AROUND WHAT NATE MENTIONED AND NOT DEMOGRAPHICS YOU MENTIONED THAT WE CAN DO BETTER
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AT, AT INCLUDING PEOPLE.I'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT ARE YOUR SPECIFIC THOUGHTS AND PLANS TO DO THAT? UM, BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
UH, IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I KNOW WHEN I MET WITH Y'ALL WAS AT, AT THE TOP OF MY LIST WAS MAKE SURE THAT THE FEEDBACK WE DO GET GET IS BASED ON SOLID EVIDENCE AND THAT WE DO INCLUDE PEOPLE.
I WILL SAY, I THINK Y'ALL DID AN AMAZING JOB AT THE PROCESS.
I BELIEVE, UH, COMMISSIONER ROBERTS MENTIONED THAT, THAT THE PROCESS WAS EXCELLENT.
I'VE HEARD FROM RESIDENTS LEFT AND RIGHT, HOW THEY REALLY ENJOYED THAT THERE WAS SPACE TO, UM, PROVIDE WRITTEN FEEDBACK.
THERE WAS, IT WAS INTERACTIVE IN DIFFERENT WAYS THAT, FOR THOSE THAT EITHER THEY HAD AN INTEREST IN CITY PLANNING OR THEY WERE NEW AND JUST WALKED IN MM-HMM.
MY CONCERN IS WHETHER WE TRULY GOT EVERYBODY'S CON EVERYBODY'S FEEDBACK.
I DID OVERHEAR ONE PERSON WHO I KNOW ATTENDED BOTH FEEDBACK SESSIONS AND ON THEIR WAY OUT THE DOOR, I ALS I ALSO KNOW THEY WERE AT WHILE, UM, AT THE 150TH.
AND THEN I HEARD HIM SAY, WELL, I'M GONNA GO HOME AND FILL OUT THE, FILL OUT THE FORM AT HOME TO MAKE SURE THEY GET MY FEEDBACK.
WELL, I'M THINKING, WELL, THERE'S FOUR TOUCHPOINT OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN YOU MENTIONED.
SO I KNOW AT WORK, WHENEVER THEY ASK FOR OUR INPUT, THEY HAVE US ENTER EMAILS SO WE COULD IDENTIFY INDIVIDUALS AS FEEDBACK VERSUS THERE BEING, YOU KNOW, I GOING ON SEVEN TIMES AND GIVING MY FEEDBACK AND SKEWING THE DATA.
UM, SO I DO HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT THAT ON WHETHER THE DATA ITSELF AND THE COLLECTION PROCESS TRULY REPRESENTS WHO WE ARE AS A CITY.
AND SO I'M GONNA MAKE A COUPLE MORE POINTS I'M GONNA ALLOW YOU TO RESPOND TO OKAY.
BUT I DO HAVE THAT QUESTION AROUND, OKAY, YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU WANNA INCREASE DIVERSITY, BUT WHAT SPECIFICALLY ARE THE PLANS SO THAT WE CAN DO IT THE NEXT TIME WE GO TO THE PUBLIC? 'CAUSE I DO FEEL, WHILE THE PROCESS WAS GREAT, I DON'T FEEL WE DID THAT THIS TIME.
AND, UH, THOSE ARE DIFFERENT CONCERNS.
YOU MENTIONED THERE WERE LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH, I'D LIKE TO KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE THAT WITH YOU, BUT HOW MANY WAS THAT ACTUALLY UTILIZED? HOW MANY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES OR HOW MANY OF THE RESPONDENTS DID ACTUALLY USE THAT PROCESS? UM, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU KNOW, IF I WERE A SPANISH SPEAKER, HOW MANY SPANISH SPEAKERS, HOW MANY UH, VIETNAMESE SPEAKERS, UM, USE THAT TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK? SO WHILE IT WAS AN OPTION, WHAT DID WE DO TO ACTUALLY UTILIZE THE TOOL WE HAD? UM, DID WE HAVE AN EXACT, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT TOUCH POINTS.
UM, DO WE HAVE AN EXACT NUMBER? HOW MANY INDIVIDUALS WE SPOKE TO? SO AS FAR AS THAT, THAT FILLED OUT A RESPONSE EITHER ONLINE OR SHOWED UP IN PERSON.
AND PROVIDED RESPON, LIKE HOW MANY INDIVIDUAL RESPONDENTS.
SO WHAT, WHAT WE DO NOT HAVE IS THE SITUATION YOU HAD, YOU MENTIONED AND, UH, OF SOMEBODY WHO IS VERY GUNG-HO AND LOVES THE PLANNING PROCESS, WHO UTILIZED EVERY TOOL AVAILABLE TO DO IT.
BUT WE DO HAVE, UH, INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES THROUGH THE SURVEYS AS WELL AS INDIVIDUAL RESPONSES ONLINE AND THE SIGN IN SHEETS FROM THE MEETINGS.
SO WE CAN PULL THAT TOGETHER TO SAY, YOU KNOW, TO START TO CROSS REFERENCE SOME OF THOSE THINGS TO, TO FIGURE OUT HOW MANY INDIVIDUAL RESPONDENTS YEAH, I THINK WE CAN START TO GET THERE.
AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S GOING TO BE MORE OF AN ART THAN A SCIENCE, BUT I THINK WE CAN GET SOMETHING.
YOU MENTIONED THAT THE ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE HAD DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS.
WHAT WERE THOSE DEMOGRAPHIC QUESTIONS? SO IT, IT WAS QUESTIONS RELATED TO WHAT IS YOUR, YOUR ETHNICITY? MALE, FEMALE, JUST KIND OF STANDARD, STANDARD, UH, DEMOGRAPHIC, UH, RELATED TO ETHNICITY RACE, AS WELL AS, UH, UH, GENDER AND AGE AND AGE LIVING RICHARDSON OR WORKING RICHARDSON, OR BOTH, OR NEITHER.
AND, UM, UMM, TRYING TO THINK.
THERE WAS ONE MORE ZIP CODE NUMBER OF YEARS IN RICHARDSON, I THINK.
WELL, THAT'S, THAT'S A GREAT START.
I MEAN, THAT'S THE KIND OF INFORMATION THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN, UH, TELL HOW MUCH DIVERSITY WE GOT THERE.
AND JUST FROM THE, JUST FROM THE SURVEY ITSELF, THERE WAS A, THERE WERE A HIGH NUMBER OF RESPONDENTS TO THE SURVEY, SO I THINK WE CAN GET THAT FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING THERE.
WELL, JUST FOR THE SURVEY AND JUST SO THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M, NOTHING GETS LOST IN FUTURE MEETINGS, I WOULD DEFINITELY LIKE TO SEE, AND IF, IF THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE, YOU KNOW, THEN I NEED TO KNOW, HEY, THIS ISN'T POSSIBLE BASED ON THE TOOLS WE HAVE, BASED ON
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OUR REACH OR THE TOOLS IN MY TOOLBOX.BUT, UM, IF WE DON'T HAVE, I'M NOT SAYING IT HAS TO MEET, YOU KNOW, EVERY PERCENTAGE ACCORDING TO OUR CENSUS DATA, BUT I DO FEEL IT SHOULD MUCH MORE CLOSELY ALIGN WITH WHAT WE ARE, UH, AS A CITY.
UM, BECAUSE ANYTHING WE BASE, ANYTHING WE DO MOVING FORWARD SHOULD BE BASED ON TRULY WHO WE ARE.
AND I THINK OUR, BASED ON WHAT YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, IF WE ASSUME THIS IS REAL DATA, THEN THAT WOULD SUPPORT THAT.
UM, BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BEING INCLUSIVE AND DIVERSE AND CONNECTED AND FAMILY AND A SAFE COMMUNITY FOR ALL.
SO, SO THIS, THIS IS A VERY, VERY HELPFUL INPUT.
UH, BUT I THINK THERE, THIS IS A, A CHANCE FOR CALIBRATION.
BECAUSE I NEED, I NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE COUNCIL'S EXPECTATIONS WHEN IT COMES TO, UM, CREATING A ENGAGEMENT PLAN IS THE EXPECTATION THAT WE ARE GONNA CREATE THE OPPORTUNITIES.
WE'RE GONNA CREATE MULTIPLE FORUMS, WE'RE GONNA, AND, AND, AND LIKE WE HAVE DONE, WHICH WHEN WE WERE HERE LAST, THE, THE PLAN WAS APPRECIATED IN THE THUMBS UP, OR IS THE EXPECTATION THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ANOTHER LEVEL AND WE'RE GONNA GO AND KNOCK ON DOORS TO GET PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE.
AND, AND, AND, AND BECAUSE THEY'RE TWO VERY, WHAT YOU'RE, WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ARE TWO VERY, VERY DIFFERENT THINGS.
THERE'S NO WAY WE CAN ASSURE THROUGH OUR OUTREACH PLAN THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE PARTICIPATION THAT'S PROPORTIONATE TO OUR DIFFERENT POPULATIONS BY MAKING IT VOLUNTARY.
UM, I MEAN, I THINK WE'VE ALL AGREED THAT THE, UM, AMOUNT OF OUTREACH AND THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF OUTREACH THAT WE'VE PROVIDED HAS BEEN, HAS BEEN WELL RECEIVED.
SO I NEED TO UNDERSTAND FROM THE COUNCIL WHAT THE EXPECTATION IS.
BECAUSE WHAT YOU'RE SUGGESTING AND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS ONLY GONNA MAKE IN, I GUESS IN, IN YOUR OPINION, WOULD ONLY MAKE THIS VALID IF IT HAPPENED, IS GONNA TAKE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LEVEL OF RESOURCES.
AND, AND THEN YOU STILL CAN'T FORCE PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE.
SO, COUNSEL, I, I'D REALLY LOVE TO HEAR THE FEEDBACK, UM, BECAUSE MOVING FORWARD, WE, WE HAVE TO PLAN ACCORDINGLY.
AND I, I THOUGHT WHEN WE LEFT LAST, THE PLAN THAT WE SHARED WAS, WAS, UH, APPRECIATED AND SUPPORTED.
UM, THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT QUESTION AND, AND ABSOLUTELY.
AND I DON'T, THIS IS APPRECIATED.
AND, UM, I DON'T, I OBVIOUSLY EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER WILL HAVE A MOMENT, A MOMENT TO RESPOND.
AND I BY NO MEANS MEAN TO SPEAK FOR THE ENTIRE COUNCIL OR ANY OF THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, BUT I, I DEFINITELY DON'T EXPECT ANYBODY TO GO DOOR TO DOOR, NOR DO I EXPECT TO SAY, HEY, WE'RE 49.8% MINORITY, THEREFORE WE SHOULD HAVE 49.8%, BUT WE SHOULD AT LEAST SHOW AGAIN, GREAT JOB OF GETTING PEOPLE OUT THERE.
I KNOW THERE WAS A GREAT TURNOUT.
PEOPLE COMING OUT ON THE EVENTS AT BO REC CENTERS OUTSTANDING.
UM, I WAS EXTREMELY PLEASED, AND A LOT OF THE PEOPLE I TALKED TO WERE EXTREMELY PLEASED.
SO PLEASE DO NOT TAKE THIS AS, HEY, THIS HAS FAILED.
WHAT I AM SAYING IS THERE'S DEFINITELY YOU SELF-IDENTIFIED THAT AS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH.
I JUST DON'T WANT IT TO BE ONE OF, THEY SAY, WE REALIZE THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR GROWTH, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE LEAVE HERE WITHOUT IDENTIFYING WHAT THOSE I, WHAT THOSE MIGHT BE OR TABLING IT FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD, UH, AND THEN ANOTHER WAVE GO OUT.
AND NOW WE'VE, YOU KNOW, FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD, I STILL HAVE THE SAME CONCERN.
AND YOU GUYS ARE FEELING, HEY, HE DIDN'T COMMUNICATE THIS, THAT THIS WAS A CONCERN.
SO DO, DO YOU HAVE ANY LIKE, EXAMPLES OR LIKE DIRECTION OR IF, LIKE MAYBE FAITH COMMUNITIES OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, OR MINORITY FAITH COMMUNITY, LIKE WHAT, WHAT ARE SOME IDEAS YOU MIGHT HAVE FOR WHERE THEY COULD PUT A KIOSK, FOR EXAMPLE? ABSOLUTELY.
THAT IS, AND I DO THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME OF THAT.
YOU DID THE DIVERSITY OF WHERE THE KIOSK POPPED UP AS FAR AS SENIOR CENTER.
I KNOW ONE WAS AT MY CHURCH, I SAW IT AT MY CHURCH, I SAW A COUPLE OF PEOPLE RESPONDING ON IT.
UM, THAT ANOTHER GREAT EXAMPLE OF HITTING DIFFERENT DIVERSE GROUPS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, WORSHIP HOUSES, SENIOR CENTER, UM, I FORGET WHERE ELSE YOU HAD LISTED, BUT I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE CAN DO IS HIT THOSE, UM, FAITH COMMUN MINORITY FAITH COMMUNITIES.
UM, PERHAPS SOME OF THE CULTURAL CENTERS, YOU KNOW, MAYBE RAINDROP SOCIETY, MAYBE I N T MAYBE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE JUST SAW THE LETTER, UH, MAYOR WROTE TO MOUNT PISCA, HEY, DAN, CAN I STOP YOU FOR A MINUTE? THIS IS NOT THE PURPOSE.
I MEAN, WE WERE ASKED TWO QUESTIONS AND WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC CONCERNS, YOU KNOW, WHICH I, I I, I DON'T SUPPORT WHAT YOUR CONCERNS ARE.
I THINK WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN INCREDIBLY AGGRESSIVE AND I THINK WE'VE BEEN, I THINK THE CITY STAFF AND OUR CONSULTANTS HAVE DONE THIS.
BUT IF YOU HAVE INDIVIDUAL CONCERNS ABOUT THAT, I THINK WE REALLY NEED THOSE TO BE TAKEN OFFLINE BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN ASKED TWO
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QUESTIONS, NOT ABOUT THE PROCESS.GO BACK TO YOUR TWO QUESTIONS, PLEASE.
WE WERE NOT ASKED TO GET INTO THIS WHOLE DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW YOU FEEL WE SHOULD FURTHER ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY.
THAT'S NOT THE PURPOSE OF TONIGHT AND NOT THE PURPOSE OF THESE TWO.
THIS WAS PRELIMINARY FEEDBACK, DISCUSSION, THESE TWO QUESTIONS.
AND, AND I, I'M NOT TRYING TO BE DISRESPECTFUL, BUT WE CAN GO DOWN THIS RABBIT HOLE ALL NIGHT LONG AND, AND UNLESS, AND LIKE, LIKE, UH, CITY MANAGER SAID, WELL, I, I DISAGREE POINT NO.
CITY MANAGER SPECIFICALLY SAID, IF YOU WANT, IF, IF YOU'RE ASKING FOR SOME CON SICK CON UH, SOME CHANGE FROM WHAT WE ALL AGREED TO AND WE'VE ALL SAID IS A VERY STRONG PROCESS, THEN THAT'S A SEPARATE DISCUSSION THAT NEEDS TO BE HELD AT A DIFFERENT POINT IN TIME BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN ASKED TWO SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT WE NEED TO DISCUSS.
WHICH ARE THOSE TWO QUESTIONS THAT ARE UP ON THE BOARD.
THAT'S THE POINT THAT I THINK WE NEED TO STICK TO TONIGHT.
IF YOU HAVE INDIVIDUAL CONCERNS, I WOULD ASK THAT, OR PERSONALLY, I FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD TAKE THAT UP OUTSIDE OF THIS WITH DON AND WITH, WITH, WITH, UM, MARK.
AND, BUT I DON'T, I, I, I, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S LIKE I SAID LAST WEEK, YOU KNOW, IT WAS VERY DIS IT WAS VERY DISHEARTENING TO ME.
WE HAD A WHOLE LOBBY FULL OF PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT WAS NOT EVEN A REALISTIC ISSUE FOR OUR CITY.
THAT THERE WAS NO INTENT THAT THE N R A WAS COMING HERE.
AND WE GO IN AND WE HAVE BUDGET, AND WE LITERALLY HAD TWO PEOPLE HERE.
AND TONIGHT WE HAVE HOW MANY WE HAVE HERE AND HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ONLINE.
AND I HEARD SO MANY TIMES ALL ABOUT THE DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT AS A PART OF, OF, OF THE NEXT 10 YEARS, WHICH IS THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO I WOULD RESPECTFULLY SAY, CAN WE PLEASE STICK TO THE SCRIPT TONIGHT AND WHAT WE NEED TO DEAL WITH AND NOT GET OFF INTO THESE RABBIT HOLES.
SO, SO TO, I WANT TO, I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT MY RESPONSE IN THIS AND MY, THE POINT OF BRINGING THIS UP, BECAUSE IT IS PART OF THEIR PRELIMINARY VISION CONCEPTS.
SO THE WORDS INNOVATIVE, INCLUSIVE, GROWTH, DIVERSE, THESE ARE, AND I'M SAYING, IF WE ARE TRULY GONNA LIVE IN THIS, WE NEED TO, AND WORK IN THESE WORDS, THEN WE NEED TO WORK AS PART OF THE PROCESS.
I'M NOT SAYING THEY HAVEN'T, AGAIN, A HECK OF A JOB BRINGING PEOPLE OUT, THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT SHOWED UP THE PROCESS, EXCELLENT.
HE HIMSELF MENTIONED THAT THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, FOR, FOR BECOMING BETTER.
WE ALL HAVE OPPORTUNITY FOR BECOMING BETTER.
I AM NOT BY ANY MEANS TRYING TO SAY, THIS WAS NOT A GOOD JOB.
I'M NOT BY ANY MEANS SAYING, STAFF HAS NOT DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB AT THIS, BECAUSE COMPARATIVELY, THIS IS EXCELLENT.
WHAT, WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE.
I WAS BEYOND ELATED AND EXCITED TO SEE THOSE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE SHOW UP TO THE REC CENTERS.
I HOPE EVERYBODY'S HEARING THAT.
BUT IN THE, IN RESPONSE TO THAT, THESE ARE WORDS THAT ARE STICKING OUT.
SO THAT'S WHY I BROUGHT THAT IN RELATION TO THAT, UH, COUNCILMAN BARRY, I, I WILL COMMIT TO YOU AND TO THE REST OF THE COUNCIL THAT WE WILL COME TOGETHER AS A TEAM.
UH, WE'LL IDENTIFY A DIFFERENT, UH, I'M SORRY, ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, UH, UTILIZING THE STRATEGIES THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE THAT WE'VE SHARED WITH YOU.
WE'LL FIND ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES TO TAKE IT TO, TO NEW AUDIENCES.
UM, I THINK THAT'S WHAT MARK HAD COMMITTED, THAT, THAT, THAT WAS HIS COMMENTS WERE ALL ABOUT FINDING NEW AUDIENCES.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT THOSE AUDIENCES DO AND HOW THEY TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT, I THINK IS BEYOND OUR CON OUR CONTROL.
AND I THINK THAT'S THE POINT THAT WE WERE TRYING TO MAKE, IS THAT THE OUTCOME, UM, YOU KNOW, IS DEPENDENT ON A LOT OF THINGS.
UH, WHAT WE CAN DO IN TERMS OF EXPANDING AND REACHING OUT TO NEW AUDIENCES.
WE WILL COME BACK TO YOU IN THE COUNCIL AND WE'LL SHARE THAT REPORT BEFORE WE GET TOO FAR, TOO MUCH FURTHER DOWN THE LINE, DON, IF IT'S OKAY, LET ME SAY TWO WORDS TO CLARIFY.
WHERE I WAS GOING EARLIER WITH THE COMMENT I MADE.
WE TALKED ABOUT, THERE WERE SEVERAL GROUPS THAT WE REACHED OUT TO WITH THE KIOSK.
THERE WERE SOME GROUPS WE REACHED OUT FOR STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS AND WE COULDN'T GET A RESPONSE.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE KICKED AROUND IS IF WE HAD A COUNCIL MEMBER REACH OUT TO THE GROUP AND SAY, WOULD YOU PLEASE BECOME INVOLVED IN THIS? ARE THERE OTHER, SO THOSE ARE THE TECHNIQUES THAT WE WANNA WORK ON, IS NOT THROW EVERYTHING OUT THAT WE'VE DONE, BUT MAYBE EVEN COME BACK AND ASK THE COUNCIL TO IMPOSE ON THEM AND, AND GET SOME ASSISTANCE IN GETTING SOME RESPONSES FROM FOLKS.
AND, AND TO END IT, UH, THANK YOU, DON, FOR YOUR RESPONSE, AND I HAVE NO DOUBT YOU AND THE STAFF WILL, WILL, I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU HEAR WHAT I, WHAT I'M SAYING THERE.
UM, IF THERE IS A WAY TO MAKE IT SO THAT THERE ARE INDIVIDUAL RESPONDENTS VERSUS JUST ALLOWING, YOU KNOW, IF I WANTED TO GO ON THERE AND SPILL IT OUT, FILL IT OUT 10 TIMES FOR, TO SKEW THE WAY I'M WANTING, IS THERE ANYTHING STOPPING ME FROM DOING THAT? ARE ARE THOSE, YOU KNOW, THERE IS, YEAH.
SO THAT WE CAN TRULY IDENTIFY WHETHER IT'S ME OR IS IT 10 INDIVIDUAL RESPONDENTS.
SO IF WE CAN SEE WHAT OUR TOOLS ARE ON THAT, THAT WILL, I THINK, MAKE ME FEEL, HEY, WE DO HAVE SOMETHING
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THAT WE CAN TAKE TO OUR CITY AND SAY, LOOK, THESE ARE OUR EFFORTS.AND WHILE WE CANNOT CONTROL WHAT PEOPLE DO, UH, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY IT IS IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE, RIGHT? THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH WE CAN DO AS COUNCIL MEMBERS, AS STAFF, AS CONSULTANTS, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO BE ABLE TO SHOW, HEY, THIS, THESE WERE OUR ATTEMPTS.
THIS IS HOW WE TRIED TO MAKE THE PROCESS BETTER EVERY TIME.
ULTIMATELY, WE NEED PEOPLE TO RESPOND AND NEED PEOPLE TO BE INVOLVED.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T, AT THAT POINT, IT'S OUT OF OUR HANDS.
BEFORE I GO TO ANOTHER COUNCILMAN, I WOULD ADD THAT I THINK IT GOT LOST IN THE CONVERSATION.
I THINK ONE OF THE KEY REAL IMPORTANT THINGS IS THAT WE HAVE THOSE AMBASSADORS, OUR AMBASSADORS, IT'S DON'T LOSE SIGHT OF THE PEOPLE.
AND, AND I THINK THE PEOPLE INVOLVED IN IT, THEY WENT OUT AND WERE VERY COGNITIVE OF BEING DIVERSE IN WHO THEY WENT AND TRIED TO RECRUIT.
SO WE HAD PEOPLE THAT WERE TRYING ON A PERSONAL LEVEL TO, TO DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR.
SO I DON'T FORGET ABOUT THAT PIECE.
AND I DID HAVE HEARD FROM SOME AMBASSADORS AND I THINK ALL THE AMBASSADORS THAT I KNOW THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARDS THAT, SO THANK YOU.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I DO THINK THAT THE WORD, UH, I MEAN THIS SUSTAINABLE STICKS OUT.
UM, I THINK THOUGH THAT, YOU KNOW, FROM JUST TALKING ABOUT ME PERSONALLY, RIGHT? BUT ALSO THE WORDS THAT, THAT ARE ON HERE AND ON THE WORD CLOUD, RIGHT? WALKABLE, CONNECTED, GREENER, TRANSIT ORIENTED, BIKE FRIENDLY.
I THINK IT'S UNDENIABLE THAT THERE'S A TREND THERE.
UM, YOU KNOW, UH, COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINO, RIGHT? SO, SO, BUT, BUT WHO DOESN'T WANT A SUSTAINABLE CITY ECONOMICALLY AS WELL, RIGHT? UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD STRIVE FOR REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE COMP PLAN IS HERE OR NOT, BUT THE COMP PLAN CAN PROVIDE OUR ROADMAP TO, TO STAYING THERE IN A CHANGING ENVIRONMENT.
UM, YOU KNOW, AS A CITY, I THINK THAT WE'RE, WE'RE KNOWN FOR OUR DIVERSITY.
AND I KNOW THAT THIS COUNCIL AND THE, THE PRIOR COUNCILS HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD TOWARDS THE INCLUSION ASPECT NOW AS WELL, OF THAT DIVERSE POPULATION.
UM, JUST TALKING ABOUT THESE WORDS.
BUT OF COURSE, ALSO WITH THE FORMATION OF PLAN, RIGHT? UM, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HUTCH, LIKE TO, TO YOUR COMMENTS ON THE SMALL TOWN WORDS THERE.
'CAUSE I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I, I DO PERSONALLY FEEL LIKE THE WORD SMALL TOWN MAYBE MEANS SOMETHING PHYSICALLY TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.
UM, THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE IT OR NOT, JUST THE GEOGRAPHY OF OUR CITY HAS GOTTEN AWAY FROM WE ARE, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW.
I THINK WE ARE TOO, MAYBE TOO URBAN AND TOO DENSE, TOO CLOSE TO THE CITY OF DALLAS TO PHYSICALLY BE SMALL TOWN.
SO, UM, COMMISSIONER WAR, EVEN YOUR WORDS COMMUNITY.
I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE FEELS THIS WAY.
I FEEL LIKE IF IT WERE MY PREFERENCE ON A VISION PLAN, USING THE WORDS COMMUNITY INSTEAD OF SMALL TOWN OR SMALL TOWN FEEL WHERE POSSIBLE JUST TO AVOID, JUST TO AVOID MISCONCEPTION OR CONFUSION, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE TOWARDS A PHYSICAL REALITY THAT, UM, HAS PROBABLY ALREADY ESCAPED US.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S MAYBE A CONTROVERSIAL STATEMENT OR IF ANYONE HAS, YOU KNOW, ANYONE ON C P C HAS THOUGHTS ON THAT, OR MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE THOUGHTS ON THAT, BUT THAT'S JUST A PERSONAL PREFERENCE OF MINE.
WELL, I THINK YOU'RE SAYING THE SAME THING.
I THINK HE'S A SMALL TOWN FEEL IS A COMMUNITY, RIGHT? LIKE IT'S THAT, THAT YOU CAN GO TALK TO YOUR NEIGHBOR.
SO I THINK THEY'RE SAYING THE SAME THING, BUT I THINK COMMUNITY AND MAYBE IS A MORE UNIVERSAL AND LESS, UH, HAS LESS STIGMA TO IT MM-HMM.
BUT I, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT COUNCILMAN HUS WRITER WAS SUGGESTING WE USE THAT TERM, BUT JUST MAKE SURE WE CLARIFY WHAT THAT TERM MEANT IN THE LIST.
YEAH, I MEAN, I, I, I'M, I'M DON'T DISAGREE AT ALL, JOE.
I THINK IT WAS JUST THAT I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS THAT PEOPLE WERE SAYING THEY WANTED US TO BE A SMALL TOWN.
I, THAT'S WHY I WAS TRYING TO QUALIFY WAS IT WAS MM-HMM.
BUT THAT, THAT'S WHERE MY CLARIFICATION WAS COMING FROM.
NOT, NOT SUGGESTING AT ALL THAT I THINK WE'RE A SMALL TOWN AND THAT, I MEAN, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU JUST SAID.
I, I JUST THINK THAT THE FEEL WAS THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO GET TO.
I DIDN'T THINK THAT THAT YOU, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SEIZE ON THAT, THAT TOPIC.
BECAUSE I THINK IT'S, I THINK COMMUNITY WORKS.
IT'S, IT'S IMPORTANT TO USE THE RIGHT, IF WE'RE GONNA BE REALLY PICKY ABOUT WORDS, IMPORTANT TO USE THE RIGHT WORDS ON HERE.
UM, INSTEAD OF KIND OF HONE DOWN MAYBE INTO STUFF THAT'S MORE SPECIFIC.
BECAUSE NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE OUR OWN CONNOTATION.
BECAUSE NEIGHBORHOODS KIND OF KEPT, YOU KNOW MM-HMM.
AND SO I, I AGREE A HUNDRED PERCENT SURE.
THE ONLY OTHER THING I'D SAY IS THE, THE OTHER SORT OF,
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YOU KNOW, UH, SECOND PICK FAVORITE WORDS.I HAVE ATTAINABLE, DENSE, UH, DYNAMIC, WHICH IF WE DON'T LIKE THE WORD DYNAMIC, JUST CREATIVE.
UH, YOU KNOW, FIRST BEFORE I GO ANY QUESTION OR COMMENTS, I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS NO CONFUSION THAT YEAH.
THAT I LOVE THIS PRESENTATION, THE WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE.
UH, AND ALSO LOOKS LIKE, BASED ON WHATEVER YOU HAVE DONE SO FAR, IT LOOKS LIKE THAT, UH, YOU TRIED TO GET, UH, PARTICIPATION FROM, FROM EVERYWHERE, AND YOU DID NOT LEAVE ANY, UH, ANY OPTION.
YOU KNOW, ON THE TABLE YOU USE PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING POSSIBLE, UH, ECONOMICAL, SO NO DOUBT ON THAT.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT IS A CHALLENGING FOR HAVING SOME OF THE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION MORE.
TODAY'S PRO PROCESS PROBLEM, IT'S BEEN A PROBLEM LONG TIME.
SO CHANGING CULTURE, CHANGING ATTITUDE, IT'S DIFFICULT.
EVEN THOUGH SOMETHING ON THE TABLE, UH, YOU KNOW, ANYONE CAN COME AND GRAB IT, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL SEE THAT CERTAIN PEOPLE, THEY WILL NOT COME TO GRAB IT.
OTHER PEOPLE WILL COME AND DO IT BECAUSE THEY, THEY, THEY'VE BEEN TAUGHT NOT TO TAKE IT FROM THE TABLE WITHOUT, UH, SPECIFIC PERMISSION.
IT'S LIKE, IT'S LIKE, IT'S DEFINITELY THE CULTURE AND IT'S GONNA BE LONG PROCESS TO CHANGE IT.
AND WE HAVE TO GET INVOLVED SLOWLY CHANGE IT OVER TIME.
UH, WE CANNOT CHANGE IT, YOU KNOW, SUDDENLY IT'S, IT'S A BIG PROCESS.
SO I WOULD NOT GO INTO THAT ROUTE WHY PARTICIPATION WAS NOT THERE.
I UNDERSTAND BECAUSE I KNOW MY FAMILY, I KNOW MY COMMUNITY.
I KNOW LOTS OF THEM PERSONALLY MORE THAN PROBABLY THEY KNOW THEMSELVES, UH, ON SPECIFIC CERTAIN THINGS.
UH, UH, NOW I HAVE SOME QUESTION.
I KNOW THE QUESTION THAT, UH, COUNCILMAN THEN ASK THAT THERE WERE LIKE A HUNDRED LANGUAGE, IT'S A GRID THAT YOU PUT A HUNDRED OPTION LANGUAGE.
WAS THAT EFFECTIVE OR SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO BE WORRIED ABOUT PUTTING NEXT TIME OR, UH, SO IF WE HAVE SOME KIND OF DATA THAT SHOWS THAT THIS MANY WAS, UH, THEIR RESPONSE, UH, THIS WAY THAT PEOPLE WHO SPEAK CERTAIN LANGUAGE, THEY COULD SEE THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT, EVEN THOUGH THERE IS LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE HERE WITH THIS LANGUAGE, THEY DID NOT PARTICIPATE.
SO IT'S JUST TO, YOU KNOW, ENCOURAGE THOSE GROUP TO PARTICIPATE MORE.
SAME THING WITH THE, WITH THE DEMOGRAPHIC.
I THINK, I KNOW, I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERN.
IF WE COULD HAVE A DATA THAT THIS PERCENTAGE PEOPLE FROM THIS DEMO, YOU KNOW, DEMOGRAPHIC THAT THEY PARTICIPATED, JUST A BREAKDOWN THAT WAY.
THE, THE GROUP THAT DID NOT PARTICIPATE THIS TIME IN THE FUTURE, THEY WILL SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE CAN DO BETTER.
AND IT'S NOT THAT THEY DON'T WANT TO DO, IT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CAN DO.
UH, SO IF YOU CAN HAVE THAT BREAKDOWN, THAT WOULD BE A REALLY, REALLY GOOD, UH, NOW I KNOW THAT THE, ONE OF THE OBJECTIVE WAS THAT, YOU KNOW, TO GET PEOPLE'S DESIRE AND THEIR CONCERNED TO ADDRESS, BECAUSE THAT'S WHY THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT WAS, UH, DONE.
AND, UH, THAT WAS ON YOUR, UH, PAGE NINE, I THINK.
AND ALSO YOU MENTIONED THAT, THAT YOU WANT, UH, WE WANT THE PUBLIC TO GET INVOLVED FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION ALSO.
UH, AND, UH, BUT HOW CAN YOU TELL, AND IT'S PROBABLY MY QUESTION, THAT HOW THE PUBLIC CAN GET INVOLVED, IMPLEMENT ON IN THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS OF THIS, UH, COMP PLAN? SO IT, IT'S VERY COMMON THAT AS YOU HAVE SPECIFIC ACTION ITEMS THAT COME OUT OF A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THAT THERE'S STILL OPPORTUNITIES FOR INVOLVEMENT IN THE COMMUNITY.
FOR INSTANCE, UH, THE, THE CITY IN THE PAST HAS DRILLED DOWN FROM THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, IF YOU LOOK AT THE 2009 PLAN AND DEVELOPED THE SMALL AREA PLANS.
AND THROUGH THAT PROCESS, THEY, UH, TOOK IT ALL THE WAY TO DEVELOPING THE CORE DISTRICT AND DEVELOPING SOME OF THE PLACEMAKING STRATEGIES.
AND SO THE, THE IDEAS THAT CAME OUTTA THE PUBLIC VERY EARLY IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, THEY CONTINUED TO BE INVOLVED IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO ALMOST PICKING THE, PICKING THE CARPET IN THE HOUSE OR THE CARPET IN CITY HALL.
SO THERE, THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES ALL THE WAY THROUGH AS THINGS GET IMPLEMENTED FOR ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK.
UH, YEAH, THANKS FOR THIS CLARIFICATION.
AND, UH, LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU TOOK ALL THE OPTION TO GET THE INVOLVEMENT AND I SEE SOME OF THE OPTION
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WAS MORE EFFECTIVE THAN THE OTHERS.AND IS THERE ANY OPTION THAT, THAT YOU HAD BUT YOU DID NOT GET ANY PARTICIPATION, UH, FROM THAT METHOD? THERE, THERE WAS NONE WHERE WE GOT NO PARTICIPATION.
UM, AND WHAT I WOULD SAY IS EVEN SOME OF THOSE OPTIONS WE MADE AVAILABLE, UH, THAT MAYBE DIDN'T RECEIVE AS MUCH PARTICIPATION, I THINK IT'S STILL IMPORTANT TO MAKE THEM AVAILABLE.
BECAUSE IF 10 PEOPLE, IF THAT WAS THE FORM THAT WORKED FOR THEM, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ENGAGING THOSE 10 PEOPLE.
SO I THINK IT'S, IT'S IMPORTANT.
I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S IMPORTANT THAT EVERY SINGLE DATA IS IMPORTANT.
UH, NOW, COMING, COMING BACK TO THIS, ALL THIS WORD THERE, I SEE THAT, UM, DEFINITELY THE SUSTAINABLE IS SOMETHING THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
UH, NO MATTER WHAT DEFINITION YOU GO, UH, IT'S IMPORTANT.
BUT ALL OTHER WORD THERE ON THE SCREEN, I THINK THEY ARE IMPORTANT.
UH, IT'S, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO MAKE IT HERE TO THIS SCREEN SEPARATELY, SO IT WAS NOT JUST ONE OR FEW DID THAT.
IT'S, YOU KNOW, THERE IS QUITE GOOD NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT SAID THAT, UH, HOW CAN WE COME UP WITH, YOU KNOW, JUST A FEW WORD, YOU KNOW, SO THAT WE CAN COMBINE ALL THOSE WITHOUT REPEATING THOSE THING WITH THE MAIN SENTENCE.
SO I THINK THERE IS A WAY PROBABLY, UH, YOU CAN COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT, UH, THAT COULD INCLUDE SOME OF THE THINGS, UH, TOGETHER BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, DIVERSITY THERE, INCLUSIVE, THERE GROWTH, THERE, SUSTAINABLE THERE.
UH, BUT YOU KNOW, I THINK CO UH, COMMISSIONER GOEN
I THINK, YOU KNOW, IF YOU JUST TAKE THE WORD EXCEPTIONAL, YOU COULD PROBABLY SAY, YOU KNOW, COMBINE AND YOU CAN SAY THAT THAT DEFINITION OF EXCEPTIONAL MEAN BUNCH OF THIS WORD TOGETHER.
SO IF YOU CAN ADD THOSE KIND OF THINGS, THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.
OKAY? I'M NOT SAYING THAT TO USE A CERTAIN WORD, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT BECAUSE YOU ARE THE PROFESSIONAL AND, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE PUTTING THINGS TOGETHER.
AND IF THAT MAKES SENSE TO EVERYBODY, I THINK THAT WOULD BE, THAT'S MY OPINION.
UH, SO, BUT IN GENERAL STATEMENT, I THINK THIS IS A GOOD NUMBER OF, YOU KNOW, REPRESENTATION THAT YOU HAVE, UH, THE INPUT.
EVEN IF YOU TAKE MORE, UH, DATA, PROBABLY THE DATA IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE.
PROBABLY THE DATA, WHATEVER YOU HAVE THERE, YOU KNOW, THE OUTPUT HERE IS PROBABLY GONNA COME BACK SIMILAR TO THIS.
UH, AS I THINK THAT'S, AS AN ENGINEER, I CAN, I CAN SAY THAT, THAT, UH, THAT EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, 7,340, IT MAY NOT, YOU KNOW, MAY NOT, UH, MAKES LIKE BIG NUMBER COMPARED TO 122,000.
BUT I THINK, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, SO MANY PEOPLE REPEAT THE SAME WORD SO MANY TIMES.
SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS TO COME UP WITH A PLAN FOR THIS.
I THINK, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF, UH, THE, ALL THIS THOUGHT, I MEAN, IT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE FROM COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY BECAUSE, UH, YOU KNOW, SUSTAINABLE IS, IS I THINK EVERY COMMUNITY WANTS THE, YOU KNOW, THE CITY TO BE SUSTAINABLE.
UH, SO, AND FIXING THE ROAD, YOU KNOW, THESE ARE LIKE EVERYONE'S CONCERN.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT BACKGROUND WE ARE FROM.
SO I THINK OVERALL, I THINK IT'S, UH, IS VERY GOOD WORK DONE.
UH, AND, UH, BUT DEFINITELY WE WANT THE OTHER COMMUNITY, EVERYONE TO GET INVOLVED.
UH, BUT, UH, SO FAR WE ARE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
UH, AND, UH, I THINK, I THINK THIS IS ALSO THIS, THE VISION CONCEPT, THIS WHATEVER WE ARE TALKING ABOUT, THIS IS ALSO GIVING MESSAGE TO THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY TO COME TO THE CITY, RIGHT? SO WE NEED TO GIVE MESSAGE TO OUR SIDE ALSO THAT THIS IS THE CITY THAT, UH, IS WELCOMING CITY AND THIS IS THAT THING THAT WE CARE AND THAT'S HOW THEY WILL COME INTO THE BUSINESS HERE.
SO THEY'RE ALSO VERY IMPORTANT.
I WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER INTRODUCING, UH, ANOTHER WORD AND THAT IS ENVIRONMENTALLY OR ECO-FRIENDLY.
AND I NOTICED THAT SUSTAINABILITY, EVERYONE, UH, PRETTY MUCH KNOWS WHAT SUSTAINABILITY IS, BUT IT REALLY DOES CARRY A LOT OF, UH, DEFINITIONS.
SO, AND I THINK A LOT OF, UH, INDIVIDUALS WILL UNDERSTAND THE TERM ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY OR ECO-FRIENDLY OR SUSTAIN AS A SUSTAINABLE, UH, FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT.
BUT I THINK IF WE ADD THAT, AND THAT REALLY CREATES MORE OF THE, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE AND, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT MOVING FORWARD.
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BUT I THINK IF WE COULD CONSIDER ADDING THOSE WORDS, AND I'M STICKING JUST TO ADDING WORDS TO THIS, TO THIS PRELIMINARY VISION CONCEPT.SO, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER THAT AS AN OPTION.
UM, ALSO JUST WANNA MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTS.
UH, UH, COUNCILMAN HUTCHIN WRITER ABOUT THE SMALL TOWN.
I THINK MOST PEOPLE CONSIDER RICHARDSON AS A BIG CITY, SMALL TOWN ENVIRONMENT, HOWEVER YOU WANNA PHRASE THAT.
BUT THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHAT IT IS, IS A BIG CITY, SMALL TOWN ENVIRONMENT.
AND WE DO LIKE THAT SMALL TOWN FEEL.
UH, THE LAST THING, UM, AND I'M JUST CAPPING ON A FEW THINGS THAT SOME OF THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE MENTIONED.
UH, I THINK MOVING FORWARD, I THINK EVERYONE, UH, WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHICS.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE COUNT ON DEMOGRAPHICS, THE AGE RANGE, AND WHO LIVES AND WORKS HERE, AND, UH, CONTINUE.
UM, WHO IS, WHO IS, UH, PARTICIPATING? PARTICIPATING AND WHO IS PROVIDING, UH, THIS FEEDBACK SO WE CAN GET A BETTER FEEL OF, UH, 'CAUSE OBVIOUSLY IN SHORT, AN OLDER GENERATION, A PERSON IS GONNA LOOK AT THINGS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY THAN SOMEONE THAT, YOU KNOW, IS MOVING TO RICHARDSON THAT'S JUST STARTING A FAMILY.
SO WE'D LIKE TO KNOW, ARE WE GETTING AND GATHERING ALL THE INFORMATION FROM BOTH DEMOGRAPHICS? 'CAUSE WE ARE MOVING FORWARD, WE'RE A, YOU KNOW, A PRO, UH, PROGRESSIVE AND INNOVATIVE CITY.
ALRIGHT, COUNSEL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
UM, GREAT WORDS, ONE WORD THAT I'VE HEARD MENTIONED TONIGHT BY SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS.
AND THAT'S OPPORTUNISTIC OR MAYBE THE OPPORTUNITY.
AND I THINK THAT IS INCLUSIVE OF SO MANY OF THOSE WORDS THAT YOU ALREADY HAVE, WHETHER IT'S DIVERSE, INCLUSIVE, OR, YOU KNOW, BUT IF YOU, IF RICHARDSON IS A OPPORTUNITY, A PLACE WHERE OPPORTUNITY ABOUNDS, I THINK THAT SAYS A LOT.
AND IT IS ENCOMPASSING ALL THOSE PEOPLE AND IT'S MAYBE AN ATTITUDE THAT I THINK THAT MAYBE WE WANT TO CONSIDER.
WELL, WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE INTO THE SECOND DISCUSSION TOPIC.
UM, AND MONICA, IF YOU'LL COME UP AND, UH, WE'LL GO THROUGH THE, AN OVERVIEW OF THE STRATEGIC ISSUES.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE, AGAIN, A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS TO ASK YOU ON THAT.
ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
HAPPY TO BE WITH YOU THIS EVENING.
AND, UH, I'M HOPING THAT MAYBE THIS NEXT PART OF THE PRESENTATION IS GONNA ADDRESS SOME OF THE POINTS THAT YOU BROUGHT UP.
UH, 'CAUSE I'VE DEFINITELY USED SOME OF THE WORDS THAT YOU BROUGHT UP IN HERE.
UM, IF YOU NOTICED, WE TITLED THIS SECTION OF THE PRESENTATION, PRELIMINARY STRATEGIC ISSUES IDENTIFIED TO DATE.
AND I WANNA MAKE, MAKE SURE YOU UNDERSTAND WHY WE CHOSE TO TITLE IT THAT WAY.
UM, YOU'VE HEARD THAT WE'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF INPUT, RIGHT? AND WE'VE COMPILED, WE'VE ORGANIZED, WE'VE SUMMARIZED A LOT OF INPUT, BUT WE'RE NOT DONE, WE'RE NOT QUITE FINISHED.
AND THAT'S WHY SOME OF THE WORDS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT MAY NOT HAVE APPEARED IN THE LIST YET, ET CETERA.
THAT SAID, I WANNA ASSURE YOU THAT WHAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING ACROSS THESE MULTIPLE PLATFORMS OR FORMATS THAT WE'VE HAD AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE HAS BEEN ON, ON IN IDENTIFYING THESE MAJOR ISSUES, HAS BEEN STRIKINGLY SIMILAR EVEN ACROSS ALL THESE DIFFERENT WAYS THAT PEOPLE COULD PROVIDE US INPUT.
SO WHAT YOU'RE GONNA HEAR IS A SUMMARY OF, UH, SEVERAL HIGH LEVEL OVERARCHING THEMES, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR YOU AT THE END, AS WE SAID.
AND, UH, IF WE ENCOUNTER ADDITIONAL ISSUES AS WE WRAP UP OUR WORK ON WHAT WE ARE GETTING FROM THIS COMMUNITY SUMMIT ONE, WE'LL LET YOU KNOW THAT AT A LATER DATE.
SO, SO YOU, UH, YOU'RE AWARE OF THOSE AND YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE WE'VE MISSED ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE HEARD.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, AS I SAID, WE'VE GOTTEN SUBSTANTIAL INPUT ACROSS, UH, VARIOUS FORMATS OR PLATFORMS, AND MANY OF THE ISSUES THAT, UH, WE'VE HEARD SO FAR ARE GONNA IDENTIFY OR HELP US FORM THE BASIS FOR THE PLAN'S, VISION STATEMENTS, STRATEGIC DIRECTION, AND GUIDING PRINCIPLES.
LET'S JUST TAKE A SECOND TO TALK ABOUT EACH OF THOSE IF WE CAN.
AND WHAT YOU'LL NOTICE HERE IS YOU TAKE THE TOP LINE, UH, VISION STATEMENT, AND THEN IT ALL STARTS KIND OF NARROWING DOWN AND FOCUSING IN UNTIL YOU GO GET THROUGH THESE, THESE ITEMS. AND IF YOU WANTED TO ADD ANOTHER ONE AT THE BOTTOM, IT WOULD BE ACTION ITEMS. SO THAT'S THE IMPLEMENTATION ITEMS, THE VERY SPECIFIC STEPS THAT WE FEEL NEED TO BE TAKEN IN ORDER TO, UH, PUT THE PLAN THAT, THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS IDENTIFIED INTO ACTION.
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THE MOST EXPANSIVE AND SWEEPING STATEMENT IN THAT PARTICULAR, UH, SET OF LI OF, OF ITEMS. STRATEGIC DIRECTION IS STILL BROAD, BUT IT NARROWS IT DOWN SOME.AND THE KITING PRINCIPLES ARE BASED ON THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION, AND THEY ARE MORE SPECIFIC STATEMENTS, AND THEY ALSO ARE AIMED AT ACHIEVING THE COMMUNITY'S VISION.
AND AS I SAID, THEN THOSE FOCUS DOWN EVEN MORE NARROWLY AND MORE CLOSELY INTO A SET OF ACTION ITEMS THAT ARE PART OF THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN.
SO THE FOLLOWING SLIDES ARE GONNA SUMMARIZE WHAT WE'VE HEARD AS PRELIMINARY OVERARCHING STRATEGIC ISSUES, AND I'LL LET YOU KNOW THAT THESE ARE ORGANIZED GENERALLY ACCORDING TO THE WAY THAT THE FINAL DOCUMENT ITSELF IS GOING TO BE ORGANIZED.
SO KIND OF BY CHAPTERS OR, OR MAJOR ISSUES THAT ARE GONNA BE THIS KIND OF HOW THIS PLAN IS STRUCTURED IN THE END.
OKAY? SO FIRST SET OF ISSUES HAD TO DO WITH LAND USE.
AND THOSE ARE, AND I'LL TELL YOU ALSO, THIS BOARD IS NOT NECESSARILY MEANT TO ILLUSTRATE ANY OF THESE PARTICULAR ISSUES, BUT JUST TO SHOW YOU HOW WE GATHERED INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC.
AND THIS PARTICULAR ONE WAS FROM AN OPEN HOUSE BOARD.
SO, UH, THE FIRST OF THOSE ISSUES IS TO, UH, DESIRE TO MAINTAIN THE STABLE AND ECONOMICALLY VIABLE AREAS WITHIN THE CITY, THEN TO ADDRESS THE UNDERPERFORMING AREAS AND FOR THE REMAINING VACANT LAND IN RICHARDSON TO ATTRACT THE HIGHEST QUALITY DEVELOPMENT.
SO TO ME, THOSE JUST LIKE LINE UP VERY, VERY LOGICALLY UNDER THE CATEGORY OF MOBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION TO DEVELOP A SAFE, EFFICIENT, AND WELL, WELL-MAINTAINED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM, WHICH IS ALMOST LIKE A TRIPLE THREAT RIGHT THERE, RIGHT? SAFE, EFFICIENT, WELL-MAINTAINED, AND THEN TO ACCOMMODATE OPTIONS FOR MULTIPLE MODES OF TRAVEL.
WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN COMMITTED TO THAT FOR A WHILE.
NEXT, UNDER COMMUNITY FACILITIES TO PROTECT THE CITY'S INVESTMENT IN BUILDING STRUCTURES AND EQUIPMENT.
SO THE, THE CITY'S ASSETS THROUGH PROPER, TIMELY MAINTENANCE AND REPLACEMENT, WHEN AND IF NECESSARY.
OKAY, SO THE, THE MAIN GOAL, THE THE FIRST GOAL IS TO PROTECT, AND THEN IF YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT LATER, THEN DO IT LATER.
AND THEN FINALLY, TO ENSURE THAT MUNICIPAL FACILITIES ARE APPROPRIATE TO AND EFFECTIVE IN MAINTAINING THE HIGH LEVEL OF SERVICES THAT'S THAT RICHARDSON RESIDENTS HAVE COME TO APPRECIATE UNDER OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO THAT'S BESIDES BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES AND, UH, TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO MAINTAIN AND UPGRADE OTHER TYPES OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN RICHARDSON AND PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
WITHOUT GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE, YOU'RE GONNA STRUGGLE TO ATTRACT THE KIND OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR.
AND THEN TO COOPERATE WITH REGIONAL AGENCIES TO ENSURE SUFFICIENT WATER QUALITY AND QUANTITY, UH, ADEQUATE WASTEWATER TREATMENT AND SOLID WASTE CAPACITY.
SO I KNOW THOSE ARE TOPICS THAT YOU'VE DISCUSSED ON MULTIPLE OCCASIONS IN THE PAST, AND THE PUBLIC IS AWARE OF THOSE TWO.
UH, THE NEXT ISSUES ARE NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOUSING AND PARKS, TRAILS AND OPEN SPACE NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOUSING.
AGAIN, THE BOARD IS JUST TO, UH, ILLUSTRATE OR TO DEMONSTRATE THE WAY WE'VE COLLECTED, UH, INPUT ON A ONE SPECIFIC ASPECT OF, UH, HOUSING AND NEIGHBORHOODS.
SO THE, THE TWO STRATEGIC OVERARCHING ISSUES ARE TO PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND ENHANCE RICHARDSON NEIGHBORHOODS.
WE ARE A CITY OF NEIGHBORHOODS, THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
AND THAT'S WHAT SEEMS TO BE THE MOST IMPORTANT TO EVERYBODY, UH, WHO LIVES HERE AND, YOU KNOW, RIGHTLY SO.
AND THEN TO ENCOURAGE CREATIVE HOUSING TYPES APPROPRIATE TO RICHARDSON TO ADDRESS SUPPLY DEMAND, AFFORDABILITY AND WORKFORCE RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION CHALLENGES THAT CAME UP WHEN WE WERE INTERVIEWING, UH, SOME OF OUR PARTNERS IN THE COMMUNITY.
UH, SOME OF OUR, THE STAKEHOLDER PARTNERS, CORPORATIONS ARE STRUGGLING BECAUSE THEY'RE, THEY'RE NEEDING TO ATTRACT EMPLOYEES WHO'D LOVE TO LIVE HERE, BUT CANNOT.
THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS ARE STRUGGLING, AND I KNOW EVEN IT'S A CHALLENGE EVEN FOR THE CITY.
SO, UH, THIS, THIS VARIETY OF HOUSING THAT WE NEED TO, UH, TRY TO GET INTO PLACE WILL CERTAINLY HELP US WITH SOME OF THOSE ISSUES AS FAR AS PARKS, TRAILS, AND OPEN SPACE GOES.
UM, CONTINUE TO INVEST IN RICHARDSON PARKS, TRAILS AND OPEN SPACE.
AND THAT COULD BE IMPROVEMENTS, THAT COULD BE A MORE LAND ACQUISITION THAT COULD TAKE PLACE IN A NUMBER OF FORMS. AGAIN, THIS, WE'RE DOING A BROAD STATEMENT HERE.
DEVELOP CONNECTIONS, A VERY IMPORTANT
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WORD.IT SHOWED UP IN OUR LIST BETWEEN PARKS, SO BETWEEN PARK, ONE PARK AND ANOTHER, AS WELL AS BETWEEN PARKS AND NEIGHBORHOODS AND OTHER DESTINATIONS.
AND THEN TO MAINTAIN HIGH CALIBER COMMUNITY EVENTS AND RECREATIONAL PROGRAMMING.
EVERYBODY'S VERY PROUD OF OUR COMMUNITY EVENTS AND THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, UH, WE KEEP THOSE THINGS LIVE.
THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THE ISSUE OF SUSTAINABILITY AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
THIS ABSOLUTELY CAME UP IN SOME OF THESE COMMENTS.
WE DIDN'T HAVE A NATURAL ENVIRONMENT STATION REALLY AT THE OPEN HOUSES, BUT IT WAS ABSOLUTELY SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WERE COMMENTING ON.
SO WE CAPTURED THOSE COMMENTS.
UM, THREE OVERARCHING STRATEGIES THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED SO FAR.
ESTABLISH AND PROPO PROMOTE ECO-FRIENDLY DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONAL PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES TO MINIMIZE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS.
RECOGNIZE THE IMPACT OF THE CITY'S DECISION MAKING ON THE NATURAL WORLD, AND COLLABORATE WITH REGIONAL PARTNERS TO DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS.
AND THEN INFORM AND INVOLVE RICHARDSON RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES IN EFFORTS AT PRESERVING AND PROTECTING THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT.
NOW, LEMME SAY THIS ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR ONE.
UM, THE QUESTION THAT WE POSED IN, IN THE INTERVIEWS AND, UM, PRIMARILY IN THE, IN THE INTERVIEWS, BUT ALSO IN SOME OTHER FORMATS, IS THE CITY DOING ENOUGH TO PROTECT THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT? ALRIGHT, IN OUR FACE-TO-FACE INTERVIEWS, VERY OFTEN PEOPLE WERE FOCUSING ON PARKS AND THEIR RESPONSE WAS, WE'RE DOING JUST FINE.
BUT WHEN WE GOT OUT INTO THE COMMUNITY, THE COMMENTS THAT WERE COMING INTO US SAID, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE DOING BETTER.
SO WE ARE VERY AWARE OF, UH, THE, THAT THERE ARE TWO KIND OF TWO DIFFERENT COMPONENTS, OR ACTUALLY MANY COMPONENTS TO THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT AND ECO-FRIENDLINESS AND THAT SORT OF THING.
AND WE WANT TO, UH, TRY TO DEAL WITH ALL OF THEM IN A WAY.
NOW, THE ONE THING THAT THE COUNCIL IS GONNA HAVE TO DO IS PROBABLY DEVELOP A STRATEGY INITIALLY AND, UH, DETERMINE EXACTLY WHAT THE CITY CAN DO.
'CAUSE THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT THE CITY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO INFLUENCE, AND ALSO WHAT YOU CAN DO MOST COST EFFECTIVELY.
ALL RIGHT, SO, SO THIS IS A, THIS IS GOING TO BE A BIG EFFORT, UH, AND IT'S PROBABLY NOT GOING TO BE RESOLVED, YOU KNOW, IN A NI LITTLE NICE LITTLE PACKAGE.
WITH THE COMPLETION OF THIS COMP PLAN, WE MAY JUST BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY SOME STEPS THAT YOU NEED TO LOOK INTO LATER.
OKAY? UH, AS FAR AS THE ENHANCEMENT AND REDEVELOPMENT AREAS, GO IDENTIFY LOCATIONS WITHIN RICHARDSON THAT PROVIDE SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR NEW INVESTMENT AND REINVESTMENT.
AND BY THE WAY, UH, IN THE PAST WHAT'S HAPPENED, UH, ON ANY OF THESE AREAS IDENTIFIED FOR IN THIS, YOU KNOW, IN THIS MANNER THERE HAVE BEEN FOLLOW UP STUDIES.
SO WE'RE ASSUMING THAT THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN AS A RESULT OF THIS, THIS COMP PLAN AS WELL.
UH, THE OTHER ITEM IS USE INCENTIVES CREATIVELY BUT WISELY TO ENCOURAGE IMPROVEMENTS IN THESE AREAS.
IT WAS, IT'S, IT'S SOMEWHAT REASSURING TO KNOW THAT MANY IN, IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE, YOU KNOW, VOLUNTEERED TO SAY WITHOUT BEING PROMPTED THAT, THAT THEY FAVOR INCENTIVES AS LONG AS YOU USE YOUR HEAD ABOUT HOW THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, HOW THEY'RE GIVEN OUT.
SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S VERY ENCOURAGING FOR YOU AS A, AS A COUNCIL.
NOW THE TWO QUESTIONS THAT WE HAVE ARE FOR YOU, OH, SORRY.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UM, MAKE RICHARDSON ECONOMICALLY COMPETITIVE IN THE D F W REGION.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME SPECIAL CHALLENGES THERE, UH, IN TERMS OF, OF, UH, OUR ABILITY TO OFFER INCENTIVES, BUT, UH, WE WANT TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN DIVERSIFY THE LOCAL BUSINESS MIX AND SUPPORT BUSINESSES OF ALL SIZES.
THERE WAS SOME, SOME COMMENTS DURING, UH, THIS PROCESS THAT BIG CORPORATIONS ARE GETTING ALL OF THE ATTENTION AND THAT SMALL BUSINESS NEEDS TO, NEEDS SOME LOVE ALSO.
UH, AND THEN UNDER IMPLEMENTATION, THERE'S A DESIRE TO CREATE A PLAN THAT'S FLEXIBLE ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE NEW OPPORTUNITIES.
I HEARD FLEXIBILITY, UH, IN THE, THE FORUMS THAT THE LEAD OF WOMEN VOTERS CONDUCTED THE CANDIDATE FORUMS. FLEXIBILITY CAME UP A LOT IN TERMS OF THIS PLAN.
SO, UH, THERE ARE DEFINITELY WAYS THAT THAT CAN BE DONE.
AND THEN TO DEVELOP A STRATEGY AND TOOLS FOR IMPLEMENTING AND MONITORING THE ENVISION RICHARDSON GOALS AND ACTIONS, AND PROVIDING TRANSPARENCY, WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN BECOME INVOLVED IN BEING A PART OF THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS, HOLDING, UH, THE CITY AND ITS PARTNERS AND THE RESPONSIBLE PARTIES ACCOUNTABLE FOR IMPLEMENTING THE ACTION ITEMS. OKAY, NOW THE QUESTIONS, AND THERE ARE TWO FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
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UM, DO YOU DO THE OVERARCHING ISSUES THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED SO FAR, ALIGN WITH WHAT YOU'RE HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO ACHIEVING THE VISION.SO ARE YOU HEARING WHAT WE FEEL LIKE WE ARE HEARING? AND THEN THE SECOND ONE, ARE THERE ADDITIONAL STRATEGIC ISSUES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN IDENTIFIED THAT SHOULD BE ADDRESSED? SO HAVE WE MISSED ANYTHING IN THIS LIST OF BROAD OVERARCHING THEMES? SO THOSE ARE OUR QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
GREAT PRESENTATION CHAIRMAN MARSH, YOU'VE GOT IT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK, UM, IN OUR WORLD TODAY WE'RE, WE'RE FACING A LOT OF NEW CHALLENGES IN TERMS OF, UM, UM, THE, LIKE WORKING FROM HOME AND, UH, YOU KNOW, OUR OFFICE BUILDINGS ARE IN CRISIS, UM, BECAUSE NOBODY'S GOING INTO THE OFFICE ANYMORE.
AND, UH, WE'RE LOSING A LOT OF, UM, I THINK WE'RE GONNA POTENTIALLY GONNA BE LOSING A LOT OF TAX BASE AND VALUE IN OUR COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, WHICH PLAYS A PROMINENT ROLE IN, IN RICHARDSON.
UM, AND, UH, RETAIL HAS CHANGED AND, UH, THERE'S, THERE'S JUST A KIND OF A SHIFT GOING ON IN THE WORLD AND THE WAY WE LIVE AND INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER AND, AND LIKE OUR WORKING HABITS AND, YOU KNOW, SO I THINK THERE, WE'VE GOTTA REALLY START THINKING ABOUT WHAT, WHAT DOES HAPPEN TO THE IQ AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THOSE, SOME OF THOSE AREAS AROUND GALLATIN OR UPPER ALONG THE BUSH WHERE WE'VE GOT A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF, OF OFFICE BUILDINGS AND WHAT IS THE FUTURE THERE? UM, AND DO WE NEED TO BE WORRIED ABOUT THAT AS SORT OF A THREAT PERSPECTIVE OF, YOU KNOW, UM, POTENTIALLY LOSING DOLLAR TAX DOLLARS AND, AND THOSE SORT OF THINGS.
SO IT'S, UM, MAYBE IT'S, YOU KNOW, A STRATEGY.
I JUST THINK WE HAVE TO, TO THINK ABOUT HOW WE GONNA CONFRONT THAT AND, AND FACE IT IN THE FUTURE.
TO, UH, TO GO ALONG WITH BRIAN'S, UH, IDEAS THERE.
SOME OF THE REPORTING RECENTLY ON, UH, DALLAS CITY COUNCIL AND CITY PLAN COMMISSION HAS HAD TO DO WITH HOW TO MANAGE ADAPTIVE REUSE.
YEAH, SO MINE IS ACTUALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
UH, IT SEEMS LIKE, UM, SHOULDN'T THERE BE A SECTION OR SOME SORT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY? UM, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE DO THIS BETTER? HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE DON'T GET, YOU KNOW, SOME SORT OF RANSOMWARE ATTACK? HOW DO WE MAKE SURE WE RE YOU KNOW, HAVE THE, 'CAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS WE DO DO IS AS A CITY, IS WE HAVE BUDGET FOR POLICE AND FIRE.
YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE COULD TALK ABOUT EDUCATION, BUT WE REALLY, THAT'S NOT OUR BUDGET.
UM, SO HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE PUT THINGS IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT GOING FORWARD THIS IS BETTER? UH, WHAT ARE THEIR NEEDS GONNA BE? HOW IS THAT GONNA LOOK? YOU KNOW? YEAH, SURE.
WE'RE WORRIED A LITTLE ABOUT HOUSING, WHERE ARE THEY GONNA LIVE? UH, BUT YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT CAN WE DEVELOP TO, TO KEEP THAT GOING? BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S KINDA THE BACKBONE, IT'S THE MUSCLE, YOU KNOW, IT KEEPS THE BAD GUYS OUT, KEEPS CHALLENG FROM BURN DOWN, KEEPS YOU, YOU KNOW, FIRST RESPONDERS.
I THINK THERE'S, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE SHOULD PROBABLY PUT A LITTLE BIT OF, LIKE, WHAT, WHAT DO WE THINK ABOUT THIS? HOW DO WE DO THIS BETTER? AND, AND THERE ARE PROBABLY LITTLE SECTIONS AND EVERYTHING, BUT I THINK IT'S PROBABLY WORTH PULLING OUT AS A SECTION OR TALKING ABOUT ON A HIGH LEVEL.
OKAY, NICK? YEAH, SO, UH, TO START OFF, I, UH, I'LL SAY FOR, UH, COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINO, DITTO,
I MEAN, WE ALL CAN JUST TAKE A LOOK SOUTH AT WHAT'S GOING ON THERE AND, UH, LEARN FROM THAT.
UM, BEYOND THAT, MY COMMENTS ARE RELATED TO, UH, YOUR ORIGINAL QUESTION, WHICH IS, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT THE PLAN, WHAT'S BEEN PRESENTED, UM, CAPTURING WHAT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, THE MOOD OF THE COMMUNITY, THE SPECIFIC THOUGHTS OF THE COMMUNITY AND THAT, AND, UM, FROM, FROM WHAT I, WHAT YOU PRESENTED, UH, MONICA, AND FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN WRITTEN HERE, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF POINTS THAT ARE JUST RIGHT ON TRACK WITH, UM, I KNOW FEEDBACK I'VE GOTTEN FROM FOLKS, I'VE TALKED INTO THE COMMUNITY, SOME OF THE THINGS I'VE PERSONALLY RELATED TO YOU GUYS.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO I THINK THAT THERE'S, UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT THAT'S RIGHT ON
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POINT.SO THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS, UH, BY BYRON.
UM, DEFINITELY FEEL LIKE ALL THE SECTIONS ARE PRETTY WELL REPRESENTED, BUT I AM SEEING MAYBE A SECTION DEDICATED AROUND TECHNOLOGY.
UM, DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT TO KIND OF PULL THAT OFF TO THE SIDE, BUT I, I THINK THAT IS A BUCKET TO KIND OF BE SPOKEN TO.
UM, ADDITIONALLY I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, MY EXPERIENCE WITH RICHARDSON HAS BEEN AWESOME, BUT STILL TRYING TO FIND MY BLACK COMMUNITY HERE.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A BULLET I ITSELF, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING I WAKE UP EVERY DAY THINKING ABOUT IS, YOU KNOW, HOW DO I FIND MY TRIBE TO BRING THAT THROUGH FOR THE NEXT 50 YEARS? AND THEN KIND OF GOING BACK TO THAT TECHNOLOGY POINT, YOU KNOW, I DO FEEL LIKE THIS WAS A SEMICONDUCTOR BOOM TOWN, BUT, BUT IS THAT THE TECHNOLOGY THAT'S GOING TO TAKE US FOR THE NEXT ONE 50 YEARS? SO WE DO NEED TO START THINKING ABOUT HOW WE CHANGE, YOU KNOW, UPSKILLING, RE-SKILLING, YOU KNOW, OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO COMPETE WITH YOUR, YOU KNOW, SAN DIEGO, SAN FRANCISCO, NEW YORK, BOSTON.
'CAUSE THOSE ARE GONNA BE THE PLAYERS THAT, THAT WE NEED TO BE, UH, COMPETING WITH.
I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD JUST ROLL OVER AUSTIN.
LIKE THEY SHOULDN'T EVEN BE IN OUR
ANY OTHER COMMENTS? WE'LL PASS IT BACK TO YOU, MAYOR.
ALRIGHT, COUNCIL, MR. HUTCHIN RIDER.
UM, TWO POINTS I MAKE LIKE TO MAKE REAL QUICK IS NUMBER ONE, ARE UNDER MOBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION.
I DON'T SEE THE WORD FUTURISTIC AND I, MY CONCERN IS, EXCUSE ME, IS THAT AT SOME POINT DOWN THE ROAD, I'M NOT TRYING, AND I'LL EXPLAIN THIS LATER, JOE
UM, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M, I DON'T WANNA SAY THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE FLYING CARS TOMORROW, BUT IF YOU READ, YOU KNOW, IF, IF IF THIS IS GOING TO TAKE US FOR 15 YEARS, 20 YEARS, YOU KNOW, I, I CONTINUE TO HEAR THAT BY 2030 ISH, WE MAY VERY WELL HAVE THE, THE OPPORTUNITY, IF YOU WILL, TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, UBER AIR OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
SO I, I WOULD JUST ASK IF SOMEWHERE, I KNOW IT SAYS ACCOMMODATE OPTIONS FOR MULTIPLE MODES OF TRAVEL, BUT I, I'D LIKE TO ADD THE WORD FUTURISTIC BECAUSE MULTIPLE MODES OF TRAVEL, I THINK MOST PEOPLE THINK ABOUT RAIL, BIKE, CAR, ALL THE THINGS THAT WE CURRENTLY ARE, ARE USED TO, IF YOU WILL, WHOOPS, SORRY.
AND THEN THE SECOND THING, AND I'M, I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED, I GOTTA BE HONEST WITH Y'ALL 'CAUSE I BROUGHT IT UP THE FIRST TIME WE MET AND I DID A LITTLE, I I, I DID A PREVIEW.
WELL, AND IT'S A MAJOR, AND IT'S A MAJOR COMPONENT THAT AS WE LOOK OVER THE NEXT 15 TO 20 YEARS AND THE MEETINGS I'VE BEEN AT, THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF GROWTH.
AND YOU KNOW, THEY ARE, IT'S, EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, WE ALL JOKE ABOUT THIS AS UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS IN RICHARDSON MM-HMM.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT BE THAT WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA WORK COOPERATIVELY MM-HMM.
OR WE'RE GOING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEIR STRATEGIC PLAN IS MM-HMM.
YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE HAVE HEARD FROM AND HELP ME DO, IT'S, UM, MOVING, UH, NOT MOVING COMMENTS, BUT IT'S, OH, COMMENTS FOR BETTER TRANSIT, COMMENTS FOR BETTER TRANSIT.
YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE SOME VERY SPECIFIC IDEAS, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ON, ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS TO THE, TO THE, TO THE PRESIDENCY AND, AND OTHER, OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY.
AND I'M, I I JUST THINK IT'D BE A MAJOR MISS IF WE DON'T SOMEWHERE IDENTIFY U T D.
AND I'M NOT SAYING WE'RE GONNA AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THEY WANNA DO, AND THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GONNA ALWAYS BE, I KNOW DON MEETS WITH 'EM VERY, VERY REGULARLY.
UM, AND, AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S GONNA BE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS THINGS, BUT I JUST, I THINK WE'VE GOTTA HAVE IT IN HERE SOMEWHERE.
AM I, AND I LOOKED AHEAD AND I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING IN THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT, SO WE JUST CONCERNS ME THAT WE DON'T HAVE IT.
WE, WE IN THERE AND WE MET WITH THEM AS WELL.
SO IT, THEY JUST, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S NO, UH, LOSS OF OPPORTUNITY TO INCLUDE THEM.
AND I'LL SEE IF I CAN FIND A PLACE TO STICK 'EM INTO ONE OF THESE OVERARCHING PRINCIPLES.
I MEAN, I JUST, I THINK WE NEED TO, I REALLY, REALLY DO BECAUSE THEY'RE, CAN I ASK YOU A CLARIFY CLARIFYING QUESTION ABOUT THAT? I MEAN, BECAUSE HOW FAR DO YOU TAKE THAT? 'CAUSE I MEAN, IN MY OPINION, OUR HOSPITAL IS A VERY IMPORTANT THING AND SHOULD THAT BE INCLUDED MEAN? WHERE DOES IT, I DON'T DISAGREE.
I MEAN, WE'RE ON AN EDUCATION COMMITTEE.
I THINK UTD IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
BUT I'M CURIOUS, I GUESS WHAT YOUR THOUGHT IS BEHIND THAT.
YOU KNOW, AGAIN, GIVEN THAT OUR HEALTH SYSTEM IS ALSO JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, UM, YEAH, I, I, I THINK, AND, AND, AND I APPRECIATE THAT AND THANK YOU.
I, I THINK WE'RE, FROM MY STANDPOINT
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IS THERE'S SO MUCH THAT U T D CAN DO WITH WITHOUT OUR OVERARCHING ZONING AND OR GUIDE, OR MAYBE GUIDANCE ISN'T THE RIGHT WORD,YOU KNOW, IF WE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING PRETTY, MY WORDS RADICAL THAT WOULD AFFECT THE CITY, WE'RE DEFINITELY GONNA HAVE TO COME BEFORE BOTH C P C AND THE, AND THE, AND THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO THAT'S WHERE I GUESS I, I, I SEE IT AS DIFFERENT, I, I, I SEE IT A LITTLE, A LITTLE DIFFERENT AND THAT THEY SHOULD BE INCLUDED IS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED IN THE PAST, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT LIKE THEY, THERE, THERE'S CONVERSATION ABOUT THEM CREATING A VERY, VERY LARGE, I'M NOT SURE THE RIGHT WORD TO USE, I DON'T WANNA SAY CIVIC CENTER, BUT EVENT CENTER MAYBE EVENT CENTER MM-HMM.
AND THAT WOULD BE, AND, AND FROM WHAT I, UNDER WHAT I'VE UNDERSTOOD IS THERE'S CERTAIN COMPONENTS OF THAT THEY COULD DO WITHOUT EVER DISCUSSING THAT WITH US.
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON THE WEST SIDE AS FAR AS TRAFFIC AND MOBILITY AND THE WHOLE, THE WHOLE IDEA.
SO I THINK WE, I THINK WE NEED TO SOMEWHERE SAY THAT WE'RE ALWAYS GONNA HAVE THAT IN THE, IN THE, IN THE DISCUSSION WHENEVER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
SO I, I GUESS THAT'S WHERE I, I KIND OF HAVE A DEMARCATION AND I, AND I RESPECT COMPLETELY THE, THE POINT YOU'RE BRINGING UP, UM, JENNIFER, BUT I, I THINK THAT'S WHERE I SEE THE, THE DEMARCATION.
I DON'T MEAN TO CH I DIDN'T MEAN TO CHALLENGE YOU, I WAS JUST, OH, NO.
LIKE HOW DOES THAT DOES FIT HERE BECAUSE WE'RE, WHERE, AGAIN, WHERE DOES IT, WHERE DOES IT STOP? WHAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE YEAH, WE'RE GONNA INCLUDE ALL THESE ENTITIES.
UM, SO YEAH, I, I GUESS I SORT OF THINK OF THOSE THINGS SORT OF SEPARATELY AS SORT OF, UH, WHAT COMES OUTTA THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS OPPOSED TO SOMETHING THAT GOES IN AS FAR AS THIS BEING SORT OF VISIONARY AND, UM, PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE.
AND SO I GUESS THAT'S WHY I WAS CURIOUS.
THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE, I'VE HEARD THAT.
AND SO I, I GUESS I'M TRYING TO WRAP MY HEAD AROUND.
BUT, BUT YEAH, AND MAYBE I DIDN'T BRING IN A MEETING.
MAYBE IT WAS WHEN I MET, MET WITH Y'ALL INDIVIDUALLY.
I KNOW I BROUGHT UP PT SOMEWHERE.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS IN OUR INDIVIDUAL MEETING OR IF IT WAS IN THE LAST MEETING, BUT, BUT I DID BRING IT UP.
I KNOW THAT, AND REMEMBER, THERE'S A LEVEL BELOW THESE BROAD, EXPANSIVE, SWEEPING STATEMENTS, THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES.
THERE'S CERTAINLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT INSTITUTIONS, WHETHER IT'S EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OR HEALTHCARE INSTITUTIONS AS WE GET MORE FOCUSED IN ON, ON THINGS.
SO, SO, WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINITELY NOT FORGET THEM.
UM, YEAH, I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT, UH, WE DID INCLUDE A LOT OF THAT IN THE COMMUNITY FACILITIES, UM, DISCUSSION IN THE PREVIOUS PLAN.
AND THAT IS SOMETHING IN TERMS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S, U T D, THE HOSPITAL SYSTEM, THAT THAT IS PART OF THAT, UH, DISCUSSION FOR THAT, FOR THAT, UH, UH, COMPONENT.
I WAS EXPECTING THIS THOUGH, UH, QUESTION, LIKE, YOU KNOW, LOTS OF THINGS, YOU KNOW, PRESENTED ALSO CAME FROM LOTS OF ASSUMPTION.
AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE ASSUMPTION IS BASED ON CERTAIN DATA, AND, UH, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THAT WE HAVE SO MUCH OFFICE BUILDING THAT CAN SEE HOW WE DO THAT.
UH, BUT WE, WE READ THIS THING FROM DIFFERENT SOURCES, BUT IS, IS IT NECESSARY OR WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO HAVE SOME KIND OF DATA HERE THAT BECAUSE OF THESE CERTAIN THINGS WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH CERTAIN WAY, UH, IS BASICALLY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IN THE PAST, NOT JUST HERE ANY OTHER PLACES, COUNCIL MADE DECISION AND, UH, OR WANTED TO DO SOMETHING TO HAPPEN, BUT THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.
EVEN IF YOU REACH OUT AND IF YOU SEE THAT CERTAIN THINGS HAPPEN, CERTAIN THINGS DID NOT HAPPEN.
UH, SO WHY, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN THINGS DID NOT HAPPEN.
UH, CERTAIN DEVELOPMENT DID NOT GO THE WAY WE, WE WANTED TO SEE THAT GO.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, EVEN FOR IQ, UH, YOU KNOW, LIKE IQ, WE TALK, WE ARE PRETTY EXCITED THIS IS GONNA GO, UH, AND FORWARD AND WE ARE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T WAIT FOR THE FUTURE TO CHANGE.
BUT IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU SEE THAT, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLE THAT, UH, PROBABLY NOT A GOOD IDEA.
PROBABLY CERTAIN START, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN THINGS YOU NEED TO TWEAK HERE AND THERE.
UH, JUST AN EXAMPLE, BUT THERE COULD BE SOME OTHER PLACES THAT, UH, THAT WE NEED TO THINK, UH, DIFFERENTLY.
I MEAN, ANY, ANYTHING LIKE THAT YOU THINK WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO, I THINK MAYBE DON PROBABLY CAN INJECT A FEW THINGS HERE BEFORE HE ANSWERS.
I, I'M, I'M THINKING YOU GO AHEAD.
SO I THINK GOING BACK TO WHAT MONICA SAID EARLIER, UM, I DO ABSOLUTELY THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY.
THESE ARE, THESE ARE, UM, THIS IS, THIS
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IS THE STAFF, UM, THE CONSULTING AND STAFF TEAMS ATTEMPT AT THIS TIME TO THEME THINGS UP, RIGHT? AS MONICA MENTIONED, THERE'S EVEN THE THEMES ARE GONNA EVOLVE, UM, AS THEY TAKE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AS WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS, THERE'LL BE A CONTINUAL EVOLUTION.UM, WAY BEFORE WE GET TO THE POINT OF WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING, I THINK IS WHICH, WHEN, WHEN WE HAVE TO START DECIDING SPECIFIC THINGS.
SO I, I PERSONALLY FEEL LIKE THESE ARE THEMES AT THIS TIME.
UM, AS WE GO THROUGH THE SECOND PHASE OF THIS, OF THIS PROCESS, UM, THEY'LL, THEY'LL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE.
I THINK THAT THERE'LL BE SOME THEMES THAT CARRY ALL THE WAY THROUGH, BUT AS WE GET DOWN INTO, UH, MORE SPECIFIC DISCUSSIONS, MORE THOUGHTFUL DISCUSSIONS, I THINK THAT WE'LL LEARN NEW THINGS THAT PROBABLY WILL, WILL, WILL INFORM, UM, KIND OF THE TAKEAWAYS THAT WE HAVE NOW.
AND, UM, SO, BUT, BUT I THINK REALLY KIND OF WHERE, UM, A LOT OF OUR MINDS ARE JUMPING ALREADY IS THE NEXT STEP.
UM, I THINK YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, WE, A LOT OF THIS IS, YOU COULD GO DUH, RIGHT?
RIGHT? BUT IT, IT, THERE'S A HUGE VALUE TO, IN YOUR, YOU DIRECTED THIS, THERE'S A HUGE VALUE IN GOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS TO CONFIRM THAT WHAT WE'RE ABOUT TO DO ISN'T JUST BASED ON WHAT WE THINK IT'S BASED ON WHAT EVERYONE THINKS.
AND THAT'S THE PRO, THAT'S THE VALUE OF THIS PROCESS.
IT'S A, IT'S A VERY VALUABLE PROCESS.
AND THESE TAKEAWAYS, WHILE THEY MAY SEEM AT A HIGH LEVEL OBVIOUS, UM, IF, IF WE DON'T GET THOSE RIGHT, AS WE BEGIN TO DRILL DOWN AND WE BEGIN USING YOUR ANALOGY, COUNCIL YOUR GOALS ANALOGY, THIS IS THE, THIS IS THE STRATEGIES, RIGHT? WE STILL, UH, OR I'M SORRY, THESE ARE THE GOALS.
WE, WE STILL HAVE TO DO STRATEGIES.
AND TO MONICA'S POINT EARLIER, THEN WE GET DOWN TO THE TACTICS.
THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO, UH, IN THIS PROCESS.
AND IN TERMS OF WHY, YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT'VE IDENTIFIED SOMETHING THAT ENDED UP NOT OCCURRING.
WAS THAT, THAT WAS PART OF YOUR QUESTION, RIGHT? WELL, PART OF IT VERY OFTEN IS PRIORITIZATION.
SOME THINGS CAN HAPPEN QUICKER THAN OTHER THINGS.
THAT'S BECAUSE SOME THINGS REQUIRE PUBLIC VOTE, UH, OR LARGE AMOUNTS OF FUNDING OR STAFF RESOURCES OR THOSE, THOSE SORTS OF THINGS.
AND THAT'S WHY PART OF OUR IMPLEMENTATION PLAN WILL BE TO SUGGEST TO YOU THAT YOU REVISIT THIS PLAN EVERY FIVE YEARS OR SEVEN YEARS OR WHATEVER, AND SAY, IS THIS STILL WHERE WE WANNA BE GOING? IS THIS STILL WHAT WE WANNA BE DOING FIRST? BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THE MARK, THINK HOW MANY TIMES THE MARKET HAS HAS TURNED OVER SINCE 2009.
I MEAN, THINK HOW MANY OPPORTUNITIES THINK EVEN LAND USES? LIKE DID WE KNOW ABOUT, UM, UH, YOU KNOW, DATA CENTERS BACK IN 2009? I DON'T KNOW IF WE DID OR NOT, BUT WE SURE DIDN'T FIVE YEARS BEFORE THAT.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT CAN JUST COME UP, UH, UNEXPECTEDLY THAT YOU CAN'T ADDRESS UNTIL YOUR NEXT ROUND.
AND THAT IS, AND THAT IS WAY TRUER TODAY THAN IT WAS EVEN, YOU KNOW, 12 YEARS AGO WHEN WE DID THIS.
I MEAN, THINK ABOUT IN THE, IN, IN, THINK ABOUT IN THE TECHNOLOGY, UM, UM, BYRON, YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT NEEDS TO BE AN AREA AND, AND OTHERS MENTIONED THAT NEEDS TO BE AN AREA OF FOCUS.
FIVE YEARS IS WAY TOO LONG TO RETHINK THAT.
THERE'LL BE CERTAIN PARTS OF THIS COMP PLAN THAT WE NEED TO REVISIT MM-HMM.
AND SO THAT'S THE, THAT'S THE EVOLUTION THAT I SEE EVEN BEYOND IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, YOU KNOW, THAT LIVING DOCUMENT, WORD OR PHRASE IS THROWN AROUND A LOT.
BUT IF WE DON'T REALLY EMBRACE THAT AND MAKE THIS A LIVING DOCUMENT BY, BY LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT CHAPTERS AND REFRESHING THEM AT THE APPROPRIATE RHYTHM, RATHER THAN JUST WAITING ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, 10 OR 12 YEARS, UM, THEN IT, IT'LL, IT, TO YOUR POINT, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM, IT, IT'LL BE VERY OUTDATED VERY QUICKLY.
UH, NOW, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT VISION STATEMENT IS IMPORTANT, GOAL IS IMPORTANT, BUT SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, IF THIS IS THE ACTION THAT REALLY TAKES YOU TO A DIRECTION MM-HMM.
UH, DIVERSITY COULD BE OPINION DIFFERENCE.
IT COULD BE TWO PERSON HAVING TWO DIFFERENT IDEA THOUGHT PROCESS.
SO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE REALLY, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, HOW CAN WE AVOID THIS THING LIKE, UH, IN THE FUTURE, UH, SO THAT WE DON'T GET, LIKE, SAY, OKAY, STUCK WITH THIS, THAT, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL OR EVEN THE GROUP SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ARE, WE HAVE DONE ENOUGH.
AND THERE MIGHT BE NO DIVERSITY REPRESENTATION IN THE COUNCIL SOMETIMES.
SO COUNCIL WOULD BE PROBABLY GOING, I'M NOT JUST SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S A BAD WAY, OTHER WAY, BECAUSE LOTS OF THINGS ARE IMPORTANT.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO GIVE SOME, YOU KNOW, ON THE, YOUR SECOND QUESTION THAT YOU HAVE, UH, WHAT'S THE QUESTION YOU HAVE? CAN YOU SHOW ME THAT? YEP, SURE.
SO IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE COULD PUT, UH, IN THE STRATEGY THAT WILL DEFINE LIKE, UH, MORE
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LIKE, UM, DEFINITIVE WAY MOVING FORWARD THAT WE CAN, UH, I MEAN THAT, THAT WE CAN, THAT WE CAN STRENGTHEN OR EMBRACE OR EVEN, UH, BETTER LEVERAGE DIVERSITY? YEAH, THAT'S ONE THING, BUT ALSO THE, YOU KNOW, ONE THING YOU REMEMBER THAT I SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL, YOU KNOW? YEAH.BUT THE THING IS AT WHAT COST? YEAH.
BECAUSE WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, SUSTAINABILITY IS IMPORTANT.
AND THE DEFINITION OF THAT ONE IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, DO WE SACRIFICE, UH, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN THINGS TO SAVE, YOU KNOW, I LOVE PRE, BUT I'M GONNA, THAT'S THE POPULAR THINGS RIGHT NOW THAT, YOU KNOW, SAVE THIS TREE, BUT, YOU KNOW, SACRIFICING, UH, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN THINGS FOR THAT.
WHAT I MEAN, WELL, AND, AND I GUESS THAT'S WHY I SAID, JUST TO TAKE THAT EXAMPLE A LITTLE BIT FURTHER, THE, THE, THIS PLAN MIGHT NOT TELL YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO DO SPECIFICALLY ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, BUT IT MAY SAY YOU NEED TO DO, YOU NEED TO, UH, DELVE INTO THIS AND YOU NEED TO COME UP WITH A STRATEGY.
AND AS PART OF THAT STRATEGY, YOU NEED TO DECIDE, DO WE HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO THIS? OR DO WE NEED TO PARTNER WITH OTHER AGENCIES IN THE REGION OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR WHATEVER.
SO, UM, I, I GUESS, UM, IN ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, IT MAY BE THAT WE IDENTIFY, WE IDENTIFY THE ISSUE.
WE, UH, WE, WE COME UP WITH AN ACTION STEP THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE THE ULTIMATE ACTION, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE THE, THE INITIATING ACTION TO A STRATEGY THAT MAY, UH, TAKE A FEW YEARS TO DEVELOP.
I MEAN, THE THING IS, UH, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, I, AS I UNDERSTAND THIS IS GONNA BE A GUIDELINE THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS WILL HELP THE COUNCIL TO MAKE SOME DECISION.
AND, UH, IF YOU GO CERTAIN WAY, THEN WHAT ARE THE PROS AND CONS? CERTAIN, I DON'T KNOW HOW, I MEAN HOW TO, UH, WHAT THIS THING, SO, SO MAYOR, I'M SORRY.
I WAS GONNA, CAN Y'ALL SPEAK TO THE FINANCIAL MODEL AS WELL? 'CAUSE THAT MAY MAY HELP GUIDE SOME OF THE DECISION MAKING AS WELL.
SO AS, AS PART OF THIS PROCESS, AND IT'S GONNA HAPPEN PROBABLY EARLY NEXT YEAR WHEN WE'RE GETTING TO THE POINT OF STARTING TO THINK ABOUT TRADE-OFFS, UNDERSTANDING ALTERNATIVES AND HOW WE WANNA GROW AND, AND WHAT WE WANT TO BECOME AS A COMMUNITY, WE ARE GOING TO BE PREPARING A FISCAL MODEL THAT WILL BE ONE INPUT INTO UNDERSTANDING AND THINKING ABOUT WHAT THOSE TRADE-OFFS MIGHT BE.
SO WHEN, WHEN YOU WERE TALKING A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ABOUT KIND OF LIKE SUSTAINABILITY AT WHAT COST THE MODEL CAN'T, IT, IT WON'T TELL US EVERY ANSWER UNDER THE SUN, BUT IT MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP US, UM, WEIGH SOME DECISIONS IN A, IN A, IN A MANNER THAT, UH, WILL HELP NOT ONLY YOU AS ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS TO FEEL LIKE YOU MADE AN INFORMED DECISION, BUT HELP THE COMMUNITY TO ALSO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE UNDERSTANDING WHY DECISIONS ARE BEING MADE.
I THINK, I THINK I KNOW MY EX, I WANTED TO EXPRESS WHAT I WAS THINKING.
IT TAKES SOME TIME TO GET THAT OUT.
UH, WHAT I'M THINKING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S ONE OF THE ANSWER DEFINITELY.
UH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE MIGHT SAY THAT WE ARE HERE TO LOOK WHAT WE NEED TO DO TODAY, BUT TO ME, I THINK WHAT WE DO TO TODAY IS IMPORTANT.
IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT THE FUTURE, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY IT CAME LIKE 2050, WHAT YOU LIKE TO SEE RESEARCHING IN 2050.
SO OUR ACTION, WHAT WE DO TODAY WILL DEFINE 2050.
2050 IS NOT GOING TO DEFINE HOW THAT 2050 IS GONNA LOOK LIKE.
BECAUSE WHAT WE DO TODAY, IT HAS LONG IMPACT, RIGHT? FIN BEING HERE IN THE CITY, CHARLESTON IS GONNA DEFINITELY SOME CHANGE.
THE STEP WE TAKE OUTSIDE, STEP ON A GRASS, THAT LITTLE CHANGE WILL HAVE IMPACT, UH, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, WE MIGHT SEE THAT, OR WE MIGHT NOT SEE THAT.
SO, UH, THAT'S, THAT'S THE THING THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE WHEN WE WANT TO HAVE THAT AS AN ENGINEER, I LIKE TO SEE THE PICTURE 2050, HOW IT LOOKS LIKE, AND THAT PICTURE NOT JUST MY DREAM, BECAUSE I'M GONNA BE DREAMING A NARROW WAY, ONE LITTLE PIECE.
AND IF WE CAN COMBINE THIS 7,390 OR WHATEVER NUMBER YOU HAD, THAT'S A BIG NUMBER.
ALL THE DREAM, IF WE CAN PUT TOGETHER, THAT WILL GIVE US FIVE D VIEW.
I'M JUST THROWING A NUMBER FIVE D, IT'S A THREE D OR FOUR D.
SO IF WE CAN CREATE SOME VISION THAT, OKAY, WE ARE HEADING TOWARDS THAT WAY AND WE NEED TO MAKE DECISION THIS, UH, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WILL MAKE THE DECISION, BUT BASED ON CERTAIN GUIDELINES.
SO THE STRATEGY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A GUIDELINE THAT SHOWS THAT, OKAY, WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU A GUIDELINE.
IF YOU GO THIS WAY, YOU'RE GONNA HIT THIS.
IF YOU GO THAT WAY, YOU'RE GONNA HIT
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THAT.SO, BUT HOW DO WE BALANCE IT? YOU KNOW, STILL AI IS NOT ALL HERE TODAY.
UH, WE HAVE TO THINK THAT OURSELF.
AND THAT'S WHAT THIS PROCESS IS ALL ABOUT.
IT'S JUST A VERY GOOD WAY OF THINKING ABOUT IT.
I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MR. MAYOR.
UM, YEAH, SO I'D LIKE TO, TO OPEN AND JUST SAY I'M REALLY HAPPY THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES HERE AND, UM, THAT WE'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I DO THINK THAT, I KNOW WE HAVE A WHOLE SECTION ON REINVESTMENT ZONES LATER, BUT I DO THINK THAT IF THE COMP PLAN WAS JUST, HEY, HERE'S FIVE REINVESTMENT ZONES, TWO OF WHICH WE'VE ALREADY LOOKED AT, UM, YOU KNOW, I'D KIND OF CONSIDER IT A LITTLE A FAILURE, NOT TO BE DRAMATIC, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT ALL THIS OTHER STUFF AS WELL.
UM, AND SO I'M, I'M REALLY HAPPY WE'RE HAVING THE CONVERSATION.
I JUST WANTED TO GET THAT OUT THERE FIRST.
SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING I THINK THAT, UH, MAYOR PRO TIMM SHAEL MENTIONED, UM, I KINDA WANNA ELABORATE ON, 'CAUSE I, IT, IT WAS AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR COMMENTS, BUT I, I AGREE IS, YOU KNOW, THE IMPLEMENTATION PART, UH, THE STRATEGY, I DO THINK THERE'S A BULLET POINT MISSING THERE THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE, WHICH IS, UM, YOU KNOW, ONE, UH, IF THEN SOME IF THEN FUTURE LOOKING COMMENTS, RIGHT? IF SOMETHING DOESN'T PAN OUT, THEN WHAT ARE SOME GENERAL STRATEGIES THAT WE CAN TAKE, RIGHT? IF, UM, IF SOME ASSUMPTIONS WE HAVE IN THIS COMP PLAN CHANGE, YOU KNOW, LET'S JUST, LET'S TRY TO SEE THE FUTURE A LITTLE BIT.
IS THAT MORE OR LESS WHAT YOU WERE SAYING? YES.
UM, YOU KNOW, I'D ALSO, AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO KNOW, LIKE KINDA ON THAT TACK RIGHT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WASN'T IMPLEMENTED FROM THE OH NINE COMP PLAN.
MAYBE JUST, UM, YOU KNOW, LITTLE, A SMALL DISCUSSION SOMEWHERE IN THIS COMP PLAN ON LIKE WHY THAT WASN'T IMPLEMENTED AND, UH, WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO TO MAYBE NOT LET STUFF LIKE, I DON'T KNOW.
I MEAN NOT, I DON'T WANNA MAKE IT SOUND NEGATIVE 'CAUSE THERE'S ALL SORTS OF REASONS WHY SOMETHING COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED, RIGHT? BUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WHAT LESSONS DID WE LEARN FROM THAT IS A NICE WAY TO SAY THAT.
UM, UH, I'D ALSO, JUST TAKING THIS TO SAY SOME STUFF THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE IN THIS PLAN.
I KNOW THAT WE, YOU KNOW, TALK ABOUT SOME REALLY BROAD THINGS.
AND MONICA, YOU MENTIONED THAT THERE'RE GONNA BE SOME BROAD SUGGESTIONS TO US, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE TACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL.
I KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THINGS LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALRIGHT, WELL, A LOT OF PEOPLE PUT STICKERS ON FOURPLEX LIVE WORK WITH TWO STORY COURTYARD HOUSING.
UM, BUT MAYBE SOME TACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON, HEY, LIKE WHERE WOULD THAT WORK IN THE CITY? AND SOME IDEAS, LIKE WHAT SPECIFICALLY DO YOU NEED TO CHANGE EITHER ZONING, ZONING WISE OR, UM, INCENTIVE WISE OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, TO GET THAT, TO GET THOSE THINGS, UH, THAT PEOPLE VERY CLEARLY WANTED DONE.
I HOPE I PHRASE THAT IN, IN SOMEWHAT ELOQUENT WAY.
AND THEN LET ME SEE, MAKE SURE I GOT EVERYTHING.
UH, I WILL SAY ALSO REAL QUICK, THE, THE ECONOMIC INCENTIVE PIECE THAT WE MENTIONED AT THE VERY BEGINNING, UM, CHAIRMAN AND VICE CHAIR IS, IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
AND THAT'S LIKE A GREAT AREA, AGAIN FOR THE TACTICAL, SOME OF THE TACTICAL THOUGHTS AS WELL, RIGHT? AND SOMETHING THAT, UM, I LITERALLY JUST READ WAS, IT WAS IN THE D M N AND I, I WANTED TO BRING IT UP HERE WAS THAT IT SAID, YOU KNOW, TURNING MULTIFAMILY OR TURNING OFFICE SPACE INTO MULTIFAMILY, FOR EXAMPLE.
IT'S A GREAT IDEA, BUT THE REALITY IS IT'S REALLY EXPENSIVE TO CONVERT OFFICE SPACE TO HOTELS OR MULTIFAMILY.
THE COST IS WIDELY PROHIBITIVE AND NOT DOABLE WITHOUT A LOT OF PUBLIC SECTOR SUPPORT.
BUT WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE FOR US, RIGHT? I MEAN, WHEN WE'RE MAKING THESE PLANS, UM, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE YOU GUYS HERE DOING THE PLAN, HELPING US WITH SOME IDEAS ON WHAT PUBLIC SECTOR SUPPORT MIGHT LOOK LIKE, IF IT'S ADVISABLE IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL TO US, AND, UM, MAKES SENSE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT WHILE WE'RE IN THIS PROCESS.
TO ME, UNLESS, AGAIN, UNLESS THAT'S BROADENING THE SCOPE TOO MUCH, BUT I PERSONALLY, I DON'T THINK IT IS.
JOE, CAN I, CAN I RESPOND TO ONE THING THAT YOU SAID? YEAH, OF COURSE.
THE, THE ISSUE OF COMPARING OR GOING BACK TO THE PREVIOUS PLAN AND FIGURING OUT WHAT WASN'T DONE AND WHY NOT MM-HMM.
IT HAD VISION STATEMENTS MM-HMM.
SO IT WAS MORE OF, YOU KNOW, IT'S PRETTY BROAD.
IT WAS MORE OF THE ASPIRATIONAL KIND OF STATEMENTS.
IT DIDN'T HAVE A SET OF SPECIFIC TASKS, SO THERE MAY NOT BE A WAY TO, I, I THINK A VARIATION ON THAT MONICA WOULD BE TO, BUT, BUT THERE WERE HUGE PLANS THAT CAME OUT OF THE COMP PLAN THAT WERE BASED ON THE COMP PLAN.
AND SO I THINK A VARIATION ON THAT WOULD BE TO GO LOOK AT WEST SPRING VALLEY PD, WHAT IN THE DID
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DONE MM-HMM.AND, AND THERE THERE ARE, THERE ARE LOTS.
I THINK THERE ARE, EVEN IN THE CORE IN THE IQ TODAY, THERE ARE LESSONS LEARNED, UM, COMING OUTTA THE MAIN AND CENTRAL.
SO I THINK A VARIATION ON WHICH, AND I THINK THAT MAY HAVE BEEN KIND OF IT IS JOHN.
MONICA, I'M NOT LOOKING, I DON'T THINK IT'S NECESSARY TO HAVE A LAUNDRY LIST OF EVERY LITTLE ZONING PARCEL THAT THAT DIDN'T PAN OUT THE WAY MM-HMM.
BUT A LITTLE MORE OF A LIST OF, HEY, LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE LAST ONE ON THE IMPLEMENTATION.
UM, AND I, UH, ECHO A LOT OF WHAT COUNCILMAN CORCORAN JUST SAID.
AND, UM, SO THE OVERACHIEVING STRATEGIC STRATEGIC ISSUES IDENTIFY, THEY, FOR THE MOST PART DO ALIGN WITH I WHAT I HAVE BEEN HEARING FROM, UH, RESIDENTS AND CONSTITUENTS AND NEIGHBORS AND ALL THAT.
THERE IS ONE THING THAT YOU MENTIONED IN HERE THAT I HAD NOT HEARD BEFORE.
SO I WAS CURIOUS TO KIND OF WHAT THE THOUGHT OR IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING, UM, TO ADD TO THAT UNDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT MAKE RICHARDSON MORE ECONOMICALLY COMPETITIVE IN D F W RE REGION MM-HMM.
SO I WAS KIND OF CURIOUS WHAT SOME OF THAT THOUGHT WAS, UH, IN, IN OUR DISCUSSIONS WITH PEOPLE THAT WERE, ARE FAMILIAR WITH, UM, THE REAL ESTATE MARKET, LEMME PUT IT THAT WAY.
IN, IN RICHARDSON, OUR SPACE IN THE IQ DISTRICT, UH, DOESN'T COMPETE WELL, FOR EXAMPLE, WITH SPACE IN PLANO AND FURTHER OUT, BECAUSE IT, IT'S OLDER, UH, IT'S SMALLER.
THEY DON'T HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY OR THE INFRASTRUCTURE THERE TO SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY AND THAT SORT OF THING.
SO, SO, UH, CONSEQUENTLY YOU GET MAYBE LOWER LEASE RATES AND THAT SORT OF THING, AND JUST LESS INTEREST IN GENERAL.
THE OTHER HAS TO DO WITH YOUR ABILITY TO OFFER INCENTIVES BECAUSE A, A PORTION OF OUR SALES TAX GOES TO DART, WHEREAS, UH, CITIES THAT ARE NOT PART OF THE DART SYSTEM CAN USE THAT IN OTHER WAYS.
SO IT'S THOSE KINDS OF THINGS.
HOW DO WE OFFSET, UH, THOSE POSSIBLE DISADVANTAGES, UH, IN THE FUTURE TO MAKE US A LITTLE BIT HARDER HITTING? OKAY.
UM, I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, SHOULD, SHOULD BE A PART OF THIS KIND OF LARGER VISION IS HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, GOING FORWARD, I KNOW A LOT OF THAT'S GONNA BE ADDRESSED IN THE ZONING PROCESS THAT HAPPENS AFTER ALL THIS IS ADOPTED AND CEPT AND WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
UM, I'M, I'M POSITIVE WHETHER IT'S THIS COUNCIL OR THE FOLLOWING COUNCIL WILL ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE.
BUT THAT ADAPTIVE RE IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING I'D LIKE TO SEE MORE OF.
AND ONE THAT I HAVEN'T HEARD MENTIONED, AND UNLESS SOMEBODY MENTIONED IT AND I JUST DIDN'T CATCH IT, UM, CONNECTIVENESS TO NEIGHBORHOODS, LIKE HOW DOES IT FLOW WHEN WE LOOK AT THE VISION AND IN A BIT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN FOCUS AREAS, UM, POSSIBLY REDEVELOPMENTS, BUT WHEN WE, HOW ARE AREAS GONNA BE CONNECTED TO OTHERS? I KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THE PREVIOUS PLAN, AND THEN SOME OF THE PDS THAT CAME ALONG AS PART OF THAT WAS, UM, OH, HERE WERE OLD 75 RECENTLY OPENED UP AND THAT CONNECTION TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND IT, YOU KNOW, THE IDEA IS IT FLOWS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD INSTEAD OF, AS WE LOOK AT THIS OVERALL PLAN FOR THE CITY, IS HOW ARE WE GONNA LOOK AT THINGS LIKE ARAPAHO OR, UH, DOWNTOWN OR SOME OF THESE NEWER AREAS WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW ARE THEY'RE GONNA CONNECT TO THE LARGER VISION MM-HMM.
UH, SO I THINK THAT WHILE A LOT OF THOSE WEED DETAILS WOULD BE WORKED OUT IN THE PROCESS AFTER THAT, I THINK THAT SHOULD STILL BE A PART OF THIS LARGER CONVERSATION, IS THAT CONNECTIVITY NOT JUST IN, UM, BIKING AND MULTIMODAL TRANSPORTATION, BUT THE ACTUAL USES CONNECTING TO NEIGHBORHOODS AND, UH, HOW, HOW THAT WILL IMPACT THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOODS AND MM-HMM.
I THINK, WHAT'S THAT? IT NEEDS TO BE, IT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT.
WE HAVEN'T LOOKED AT IT YET, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT.
AND I THINK, I GUESS, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS WORKS OUT.
I MEAN, YOU, YOU GUYS, YOU GUYS ARE THE PROFESSIONALS RIGHT THERE.
THERE'S A REASON YOU GUYS ARE HIRED AS CONSULTANTS.
UM, BUT HOW DO WE PUT THAT INTO, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ANOTHER SECTION OTHER
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THAN THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT OR ENHANCEMENT OR THAT JUST KIND OF TIES INTO ALL THAT.I'M NOT SURE HOW THAT IS, BUT I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE PARKED, SAM.
WELL WE HAVE IT UNDER THE PARKS, UH, SECTION THERE IN TERMS OF THE STRATEGIES, BUT WE COULD ALSO WORK IT IN UNDER NEIGHBORHOODS AND HOUSING AS WELL.
THAT, THAT, THAT SORT OF OF, UH, CON UH, CONNECTIVITY REALLY COULD FALL INTO SEVERAL ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN.
IT COULD IN THE LAND USE INTO MM-HMM.
SO REALLY WHEN YOU START LOOKING AT, AT SEPARATE ELEMENTS, THEY COULD REALLY FALL IN VARIOUS TYPES OF ELEMENTS IN THE PLANT, SUCH AS THE LAND USE AND, AND THOSE, AND THOSE TYPES OF MAJOR ELEMENTS.
SO YOU'LL FIND THAT KIND OF FLOWING THROUGHOUT THOSE ELEMENTS IN THE PLAN WHERE YOU'LL ADDRESS TRANSPORTATION, SAFETY, UH, ADAPTIVE REVIEWS.
SO YOU'LL FIND THOSE MULTIPLE KIND OF REFERENCES, UH, WITHIN THE ELEMENTS OF THE PLAN, BUT WE'RE NOT AT THAT POINT YET.
AND THEY ARE KIND OF, THEY'RE KIND OF THEMES THAT WILL BE WOVEN THROUGH.
SUSTAINABILITY IS ANOTHER ONE THAT WOULD BE LIKE THAT, WHERE IT'LL BE WOVEN THROUGHOUT.
UM, MONICA, I THINK THAT THE, THE OVERARCHING STRATEGIES ARE, ARE ALIGNED WITH WHAT I'VE HEARD FROM, FROM PEOPLE AND WITH WHAT, WITH WHAT I THINK THAT A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN SHOULD INCLUDE.
UM, I DON'T DISAGREE WITH, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SAFETY AND TECHNOLOGY AND, UH, YOU KNOW, EDUCATION PARTNERS MM-HMM.
I THINK TO USE YOUR, TO USE COMMISSIONER WAL RAVEN'S POINT AS SORT OF UMBRELLA OF WHAT THE BULLET POINTS BELOW THEM ARE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT AN UMBRELLA UNDER AN UMBRELLA IS, BUT THAT'S SORT OF HOW I'M ENVISIONING IT.
UH, IT'S UH, LIKE, I GUESS AN ORG CHART.
UM, BUT, UH, I THINK THAT WHAT YOU HAVE HERE FROM UH, SORT OF THE MAIN BULLET POINT ARE THE ACTUAL STRATEGIES THAT WE NEED TO BE EXECUTING ON AND WHAT THE BULLETS ARE UNDERNEATH THEM.
WE CAN CERTAINLY DEBATE FOR DAYS, BUT TECHNOLOGY, FOR EXAMPLE, DO WE PUT THAT UNDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR DOES THAT COME IN UNDER REINVESTMENT AS WELL? I MEAN, I THINK THERE ARE WAYS TO INFRASTRUCTURE, EXACTLY.
THERE ARE WAYS TO INCLUDE, I THINK ALL OF THESE REALLY GREAT IDEAS, BUT AS STANDALONE STRATEGIES, I THINK YOU'VE NAILED WHAT OUR STRATEGIES NEED TO BE, AND THEN WE CAN SORT OF NITPICK FROM THERE, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT OTHER THINGS WE, WE THINK SHOULD BE INCLUDED, UH, UNDER THOSE STRATEGIES.
SO I, YOU KNOW, I I THINK THAT YOU HAVE, UM, INCLUDED EXACTLY SORT OF WHAT WE NEED TO DO HERE FROM A ROADMAP PERSPECTIVE.
AND, AND I AGREE WITH, UH, MS. JUSTICE.
I THINK IT'S WELL PRESENTED AND IT, IT, YOU'RE HITTING THE BULLET POINTS THAT WE NEED TO HIT THE ONE, ONE THING THAT I, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO SAY IT HERE, BUT MAYBE WE NEED TO ADDRESS THAT WE WORK WITHIN THE LAWS OF OUR STATE SOMEWHERE IN THERE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, HOUSE BILL 21, 27 AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS, YOU KNOW, MIGHT PREVENT US FROM MOVING FORWARD WITH SOME OF OUR THOUGHTS.
AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO CAPTURE THAT SOMEWHERE.
THE GOOD THING IS WE'RE NOT GONNA GET TO THE END OF THIS PROCESS ANYTIME SOON.
SO WE MAY KNOW WHAT ALL THOSE OBSTACLES ARE, BUT WE'LL BE, WE'RE GONNA BE TOLD ON CERTAIN THINGS, WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T DO, AND I WANNA REMIND EVERYONE IS, ESPECIALLY OUR COMMUNITY, JUST GO DO IT.
WE, WE GET TOLD AS COUNCIL MEMBERS ALL THE TIME, WELL JUST GO DO THAT.
WELL, IT DOESN'T ALWAYS WORK THAT WAY.
ARE WE GONNA BE ALLOWED TO STRATEGIC PLAN ACCORDING TO THIS NEEDLE? YEAH, EXACTLY.
I GUESS, MARK, YOU'RE BACK UP OR WHOEVER BACKED UP.
SO, UH, JESSICA WILL BE UP NEXT, BUT, UH, THE NEXT AREA WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS, UH, REINVESTMENT AREAS.
AND I, I GUESS THE ONE THING I WANNA POINT OUT, YEARS AGO, AS WE TALKED ABOUT REINVESTMENT AREAS, WE USED TO CALL THEM REDEVELOPMENT AREAS.
AND THAT IS BY NO MEANS WHAT IS INTENDED TODAY.
SO, UH, IN IN SOME CASES IT MAY BE, UH, REDEVELOPMENT.
IN SOME CASES IT MIGHT BE REINVESTMENT IN EXISTING BUILDINGS FOR ADAPTIVE REUSE.
IN OTHER CASES IT MIGHT BE REINVESTMENT IN THE FORM OF PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE TO IMPROVE AN AREA.
UH, SO I, I, I HOPE EVERYBODY CAN KIND OF KEEP THAT IN MIND THAT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT REINVESTMENT, WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY TALKING ABOUT REDEVELOPMENT, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS, WHAT ARE THE AREAS WE FOCUS ON FOR ENHANCEMENTS SO THAT THERE ARE MORE VIABLE AREAS GOING FORWARD.
Y'ALL READY? WE'RE GETTING THERE.
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A LITTLE BIT OF LIKE BIG PICTURE ON THE REINVESTMENT, AND I THINK MARK DID A GREAT JOB OF, OF KEYING IT UP.THE REINVESTMENT CAN REALLY MEAN A A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS, AND IT, IT PROBABLY WILL ACROSS THE DIFFERENT AREAS THAT ARE SELECTED.
UM, WHEN THE PROCESS STARTED, UH, FOUR AREAS WERE RECOMMENDED BETWEEN STAFF AND COUNCIL AND THE CONSULTANTS SEEM, YOU HAVE SEEN SOME OF THESE AREAS.
THE COMMUNITY HAS SEEN AND PROVIDED FEEDBACK ON SOME OF THESE AREAS, BUT OUR SCOPE ALLOWED FOR TWO ADDITIONAL AREAS TO SPECIFICALLY BE SELECTED OR IDENTIFIED THROUGH THE COMMUNITY SUMMIT ENGAGEMENT.
UM, AND SO THOSE WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT TO YOU TONIGHT, UM, AND, AND HOPE FOR SOME FEEDBACK ON THAT.
UM, THE, THE GOAL HERE, THE IDEA IS NOT THAT AS SOON AS WE SAY WE LIKE THESE REINVESTMENT AREAS THAT WE'RE GONNA PUT A SHOVEL IN THE GROUND OR START STRATEGIZING, IT'S REALLY SAYING THAT THESE ARE SOME REALLY INTERESTING AREAS AND WE THINK THEY NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE STUDY.
THEY NEED, WE NEED TO ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES A LITTLE BIT MORE SO WE'RE, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE OUT TURNING DIRT TOMORROW, BUT, UM, REALLY JUST IDENTIFYING THOSE AREAS THAT NEED A, A LITTLE BIT MORE FOCUS OR A LITTLE BIT, UH, MORE INVESTIGATION.
SO, SO WE DID A LOT OF DATA ON, ON THE AREAS THAT, UM, THE, THE FOUR THAT YOU HAVE SEEN ALREADY, AND THEN THESE TWO ADDITIONAL AREAS.
SO WE'VE ALREADY RUN SOME NUMBERS SO YOU CAN SEE IT.
AND, AND WE WANTED TO START BY UNDERSTANDING IS AN AREA RIPE FOR REINVESTMENT IS, IS IT LIKELY THAT REINVESTMENT COULD OCCUR? AND SO WE STARTED WITH SOME PRETTY QUANTIFIABLE NUMBERS.
WE WANTED TO LOOK AT THE RATIO TO BUILDING VALUE, UH, BUILDING VALUE TO LAND VALUE.
WE WANTED TO UNDERSTAND IS THE PARCEL BIG ENOUGH TO, UM, TO, TO CHANGE USES? OR IS IT SO SMALL THAT IT NEEDS TO BE ASSEMBLED INTO SOMETHING LARGER? WE WANTED TO KNOW, IS IT AN ODDLY SHAPED PARCEL OR ARE THE BUILDINGS ON THE PROPERTY PERFORMING WELL SO THAT THE CURRENT OWNER MIGHT NOT WANT TO EVER SEE ANY CHANGE THERE? SO, SO WE'VE IDENTIFIED SOME INDICATORS THAT WE'LL WALK YOU THROUGH TONIGHT.
UM, BUT I THINK WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO TO, TO JUST KINDA KEEP IN MIND IS THAT THESE VERY QUANTIFIABLE NUMBERS DON'T NECESSARILY TELL THE WHOLE STORY.
AND THAT IS VERY MUCH WHY WE WENT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY TO, TO RECEIVE FEEDBACK AND TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO THEM.
AND SO WE'RE HOPING THAT SOME OF THAT IS REFLECTED IN, IN THIS EXERCISE AS WELL.
UM, SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT THOSE TWO ADDITIONAL AREAS, SO THE TWO AREAS THAT WE CAME FROM FROM THE COMMUNITY, UH, WE EVALUATED IT BASED ON, UM, THE INPUT FROM THE ENGAGEMENT.
UH, WE FILTERED IT BY UNDERSTANDING WHAT LOCATIONS HAD ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED, LIKE BELTLINE, PLANO OR HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN STUDIED IQ DISTRICT, CORE DISTRICT.
UM, WE WANTED TO FILTER IT BY SOME SUGGESTIONS THAT JUST WERE NOT RELEVANT FOR REINVESTMENT STUDY, UM, BUT MIGHT BE INFORMATIVE FOR OTHER PARTS OF THE PLAN.
SO WHETHER THAT'S PARKS OR DART, UM, TRANSPORTATION ISSUES THAT ARE BIGGER THAN THE REINVESTMENT AREAS THEMSELVES.
AND THEN WE ALSO WANTED TO DIG INTO AND FILTER BY OTHER SUGGESTIONS THAT MIGHT BE MORE USEFUL FOR OTHER PLANT ELEMENTS.
SO THOSE TWO ARE KIND OF RELATED.
AND SO ULTIMATELY THOSE LAST TWO, UM, LOCATIONS WERE SELECTED BASED ON, WE WANTED AN AREA THAT WAS LARGE ENOUGH THAT WE COULD AND SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH THAT WE COULD STUDY IT FURTHER.
UM, WE WANTED LOCATIONS WHERE THERE WERE OBVIOUS ISSUES OR CONCERNS OR, OR MAYBE OPPORTUNITIES, UM, AREAS THAT DO NOT INCLUDE SINGLE FAMILY HOUSING, UM, AND THEN LOCATIONS THAT ARE NOT CURRENTLY UNDER DEVELOPMENT, OR IF IT'S IN AN INTERSECTION IN AREA WHERE ALL FOUR CORNERS ARE WITHIN THE CITY OF RICHARDSON.
SO THOSE ARE KIND OF OUR GUIDE RAILS.
SO YOU HAVE SEEN, SO HERE'S A MAP OF ALL SIX THAT WE HAVE DONE A LITTLE BIT OF SOFT TOUCHES ON.
SO A IS QUITE, ROAD B IS WEST CAMPBELL, ROAD C IS WEST ARAPAHO, AND D IS BELTLINE PLANO.
AND SO THOSE SHOULD ALL BE RELATIVELY FAMILIAR TO YOU.
AND THE COMMUNITY WEIGHED IN ON THOSE BY, UM, INDICATING THEIR INTERESTS, THEIR CONCERNS, THEIR ISSUES IN EACH OF THOSE AREAS.
NOW FOR THE NEW ONES, SO WE STARTED, UM, OVER HERE ON THIS SIDE AREA E WEST SPRING VALLEY.
UM, SO THIS IS NORTH OF SPRING VALLEY BETWEEN CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY AND WEATHERHEAD, AND IT'S SOUTH OF THE ST.
PAUL, UM, APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH.
UM, SO THIS IS A FAIRLY TIGHT AREA.
UM, IT IS PART OF A LARGER AREA THAT WAS STUDIED AND REZONED AS AN ENHANCEMENT REDEVELOPMENT AREA UNDER THE 2009 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
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HOWEVER, VERY LITTLE ACTIVITY HAS OCCURRED SINCE THAT TIME IN THIS AREA.AND THEN AREA F OVER ON THAT SIDE OF THE SCREEN IS BELT LIGHT, BELT, BELTLINE, BOWSER.
UM, SO IT'S THE SOUTH SIDE OF INTERSECTION OF BELTLINE AND FRANCIS WEST TO THE K C S RAILROAD.
UM, PLUS THE APARTMENTS AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF BOWSER AND BELTLINE.
UM, THERE APPEARS TO HAVE POTENTIAL BASED ON THE REINVESTMENT AREA CRITERIA.
SO THESE ARE THE TWO THAT WE DID A LITTLE ADDITIONAL STUDY.
AND SO WE'VE KIND OF WALKED THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND WE WANNA, UM, INCLUDE THOSE OR INCORPORATE THOSE INTO, UM, CONSIDERATION FOR ADDITIONAL STUDY AS PART OF THIS PROCESS.
SO WHEN WE THINK ABOUT, WE'RE GONNA, UM, WHAT DID, WHAT DID YOU SAY? YOU SAID HOW THE SAUSAGE IS MADE, WHICH IS A REALLY FUNNY STATEMENT TO TO SAY, BUT, UM, I DON'T MAKE SAUSAGE, UM, BUT I, I DO CRUNCH NUMBERS.
SO, UM, SO WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS I'M GOING TO WALK THROUGH KIND OF THOSE DIFFERENT METRICS AND HOW WE SCORED THEM.
I INCLUDED, UM, AREA A COIT ROAD AS AN EXAMPLE FOR EACH METRIC.
UM, I ONLY SELECTED THIS AREA BECAUSE IT WAS AREA A AND BECAUSE IT'S A NICE VERTICAL IMAGE ON THE SLIDE.
SO THERE'S REALLY NO, NO SECRET SAUCE FOR WHY WE USED AREA A.
I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT.
SO ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE DID IS FOR EACH METRIC WE SCORED, THE, THE, UM, THE RANGE OF THE SCORE IS HIGHEST FOR THOSE THINGS THAT WOULD INDICATE THAT A PROPERTY IS MAYBE RIPE OR AN AREA IS RIPE FOR REINVESTMENT.
SO IN THIS CASE, BUILDING TO LAND VALUE, IF THERE IS NO BUILDING ON A PROPERTY AND IT IS VACANT, IT SCORED VERY HIGH.
AND THEN AS THE BUILDING VALUE BECOMES MORE AND MORE, SO BY THE TIME YOU GET DOWN HERE WHERE THE BUILDING IS, YOU KNOW, FIVE TIMES WHAT THE LAND VALUE IS, WE ARE GONNA SCORE THAT ZERO.
THAT'S GOING TO BE MUCH HARDER TO SEE SUBSTANTIAL CHANGE.
WHEN WE LOOKED AT PARCEL SIZE, THIS ONE BECAME A LITTLE BIT MORE SIMPLE.
WE WANTED TO LOOK FOR PARCELS THAT HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF ACREAGE TO THEM THAT MIGHT SUPPORT SOME CHANGE OR SOME REINVESTMENT.
SO LARGER PROPERTIES SCORED HIGHER THAN VERY SMALL PROPERTIES.
AND SO YOU CAN SEE FOR AREA A, THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY LARGE, UM, IN, YOU KNOW, IN THIS CONTEXT PARCELS THAT COULD PROVIDE SOME OPPORTUNITY.
WE LOOKED AT BUILDING VACANCIES.
SO THIS SHIFTS OVER TO IS THERE A BUILDING ON THE PROPERTY AND HOW IS IT PERFORMING? PROPERTIES THAT HAVE VERY HIGH VACANCIES, UM, COULD BE IN TROUBLE FINANCIALLY.
WE SCORED HIGHER THAN PROPERTIES THAT HAVE NO VACANCY.
SO THOSE ARE GONNA BE THE YELLOW.
SO YOU SEE THAT ON, IN THIS ONE.
MOST OF THE PROPERTIES ARE, ARE DOING FAIRLY WELL.
UH, COMMERCIAL LEASE RATES, AGAIN, SO PROPERTIES WITH LOWER COMMERCIAL LEASE RATES ARE GOING TO SCORE HIGHER THAN PROPERTIES WITH HIGH COMMERCIAL LEASE RATES.
SO THIS IS, UM, NOT A PERFECT METRIC, BUT WE ARE KIND OF INTERESTED IN, IS THIS PROPERTY LOCALLY OWNED? IS IT, IS THERE A, UH, A PERSON THAT WE COULD COMMUNICATE OR PARTNER OR SPEAK WITH VERSUS IT BEING OWNED BY A REAL ESTATE COMPANY IN NEW YORK CITY? SO THIS IS REALLY THE METRIC HERE, AND I FEEL LIKE I MISSED ONE.
THERE'S A PARCEL CONFIGURATION TOO, WHICH IS, IS IT A FUNNY LOOKING PARCEL OR IS IT A, A SQUARE NORMAL SHAPE PARCEL? SO THAT WAS ONE, TWO.
UM, SO THIS IS SHOWING YOU THE AGGREGATE FOR EACH PARCEL WITHIN EACH REINVESTMENT AREA.
SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW WHEN WE PUT ALL OF THOSE NUMBERS TOGETHER, WE, WE ADDED THEM ACROSS THE EIGHT METRICS.
A PERFECT SCORE IN THIS CASE WOULD BE 40.
YOU GOT FIVE IN EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE EIGHT METRICS.
UM, SPOILER, VERY FEW PROPERTIES GOT A PERFECT SCORE.
UM, VACANT PROPERTIES CAME PRETTY CLOSE.
SO THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL SEE THE RED.
SO YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF SCORES IN AREA A AND THEN AREA B, WEST CAMPBELL, UM, AREA C, WEST ARAPAHO.
SO YOU KIND OF SEE, SO, UM, JUST AS A, A POINT OF, UH, INTEREST IS THAT THIS IS GREENWOOD SQUARE.
THAT RED, UH, PARCEL IS ACTUALLY A DEVELOPMENT THAT IS WORKING ITS WAY THROUGH THE ENTITLEMENT.
SO IF WE DO THIS EXERCISE AGAIN, IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T MAKE IT INTO THE REINVESTMENT AREA 'CAUSE I BELIEVE IT'S GONNA BE SINGLE FAMILY.
BUT AS IT STANDS TODAY, THE PROPERTY IS VACANT AREA D, BELT LINE AND PLANO.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE DISTRIBUTION OF THIS.
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AND THEN HERE'S HOW AREA E.SO THESE ARE THE TWO NEW AREAS, AREA E AND F.
BOTH OF THEM DO HAVE A VACANT PARCEL IN THERE.
BUT YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THE DISTRIBUTION OF HOW, HOW THE PARCEL SCORED.
SO THEN OUR NEXT STEP WAS TO AVERAGE THE SCORES ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA.
AND WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT, HONESTLY, THERE WAS SOME VARIATION, BUT THE, UM, THE AREAS ACTUALLY PERFORMED FAIRLY CLOSELY.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT AREA C BASED ON THESE VERY, UH, QUALITATIVE, OR EXCUSE ME, QUANTITATIVE METRICS SCORED THE HIGHEST.
SO THE MOST RIPE FOR REINVESTMENT.
HOWEVER, WE WANNA DEFINE THAT AT 22.8, WHERE AREA D SCORED THE LOWEST AT 17.5, BUT THERE'S NOT A HUGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO NUMBERS.
AND SO THIS IS REALLY WHERE THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING SOME COMMUNITY FEEDBACK, UNDERSTANDING HOW, UM, THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE FEEL ABOUT THESE AREAS AND WHAT THEIR VISIONS ARE TO HELP US NARROW DOWN, UM, INTO, TO, TO REACH.
UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE ORIGINALLY SAID FOUR, BUT WE ACTUALLY HAVE NARROWED DOWN TO FIVE THAT WE THINK HAVE SOME POTENTIAL AND COULD USE SOME ADDITIONAL STUDIES.
SO THOSE ARE GONNA BE OUR OTHER CONDITION OR CONSIDERATIONS.
AND I'M GONNA PASS IT OVER TO, TO MARK TO TALK THROUGH THAT.
YEAH, SO I'M, I'M GONNA GO BACK JUST FOR A MINUTE BECAUSE IT'S FUNNY HOW PLANNING WORKS SOMETIMES.
UM, WE WENT THROUGH THIS PROCESS AND I WILL SAY, UH, WHILE IT LOOKED LIKE A VERY SCIENTIFIC PROCESS, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS A PROCESS, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
IT WAS REALLY MORE OF AN ART THAN A SCIENCE.
SO WE WANTED TO START TO GET A GUT FEEL FOR HOW THINGS WERE PERFORMING.
AS YOU CAN SEE, AREA D GOING THROUGH THAT, THAT COMPARISON, GOING THROUGH THAT QUANTITATE OR, UH, YES, QUANTITATIVE APPROACH, AREA D SCORED 17.5, AREA A WAS ONLY 0.2, UH, POINTS ABOVE THAT.
UM, BUT THEN IT'S FUNNY HOW PLANNING WORKS.
YOU GO OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND TALK TO FOLKS AND SAY, WHAT ARE YOUR PRIORITIES? 'CAUSE THAT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO US.
AND WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS AREA D, UH, WHICH ESSENTIALLY WAS LANDING IN, UH, JUST ABOUT LAST PLACE, UH, WAS RANKED NUMBER ONE BY THE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN WE SAID, OKAY, IS THAT BECAUSE WE HAD A MEETING OVER ON THE EAST SIDE OF TOWN AND THE HEIGHTS, UH, UH, NOT THE HEIGHTS, THE, UH, YEAH, THE, THE RECREATION CENTER.
AND SO, UH, AND WE STARTED LOOKING, AND EVEN IN THE HEIGHTS, IT RANKED NUMBER ONE IS AN AREA.
SO, UH, AS WE LOOK AT THIS, UH, REINVESTMENT AREA D AT BELTLINE, PLANO WAS RANKED NUMBER ONE BY THE COMMUNITY.
UH, NUMBER THREE WAS THE COY ROAD, UH, WHERE THE PROMENADE CENTER IS.
AND THEN NUMBER FOUR, UH, CAMPBELL ROAD.
AND SO AS WE TOOK THAT INTO ACCOUNT, UM, WE LOOKED AT IT AND SAID, WELL, AS YOU, WELL, LET ME FIND IT.
SO, UH, THE COMMUNITY FEEDBACK, UH, WE THOUGHT WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
UM, AND WE NEED TO LOOK AT, UH, WHAT THE COMMUNITY WAS SAY SAYING OF THE FORESIGHTS D WAS RANKED AS THE TOP PRIORITY, FOLLOWED BY CA AND B.
UH, PARTICIPANTS WERE ALSO ASKED TO SHARE THEIR COMMENTS ON ADDITIONAL SITES.
AND THAT'S HOW WE COME, CAME UP WITH AREAS E AND F AS ADDITIONAL, UH, LOCATIONS TO STUDY.
UM, ONE OF THE KEY THINGS WE WANNA POINT OUT IS EXISTING CONDITIONS SHOULD ALSO BE CONSIDERED, UH, THE URGENCY OF ADDRESSING LONG-TERM AND OUR ONGOING PROBLEMS MAY ELEVATE AT A LOCATION, UH, UH, IN THE PRIORITY LIST.
SO BASED ON THAT, AS JESSICA SAID, WE, WE ENDED UP SAYING WHAT HAPPENS IF WE START TO LOOK AT FIVE AREAS? UH, THE AREAS THAT WE'RE SUGGESTING AT THIS POINT, UH, FOR ADDITIONAL VISIONING, ADDITIONAL STUDY, UH, WOULD BE AREA C, WHICH RANKED NUMBER ONE, AREA F, WHICH RANKED NUMBER TWO, AREA B RANKED NUMBER THREE, AREA E RANKED NUMBER FOUR, UH, BASED UPON THE SCORING.
UH, BUT THEN WHAT WE DID IS BASED UPON THE FACT THAT SO MANY IN THE COMMUNITY FELT SO STRONGLY ABOUT AREA D, WE SUGGESTED THAT THAT REPLACE AREA A ON THE LIST.
AND WE DO THINK THAT BASED ON THE SIZE OF SOME OF THESE AREAS, YOU THINK ABOUT, UH, THE STUDY THAT TOOK PLACE FOR MAIN STREET CENTRAL, THAT WAS A VERY LARGE AREA.
UH, YOU, YOU LOOK AT THE, THE, UH,
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COLLINS, ARAPAHOE AREA, IT WAS AN EXTREMELY LARGE PORTION OF THIS CITY.AND AS YOU START TO LOOK AT THE SMALLER PIECE ASSOCIATED WITH AREA B, AREA E, AND AREA F, WE THINK IT IS FEASIBLE, UH, TO TAKE ON, UH, AN ADDITIONAL AREA.
AND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING THROUGH THIS PROCESS WITH THESE AREAS IS REALLY TALKING TO THE COMMUNITY ABOUT VISIONING AND WHAT ARE THE ISSUES, UH, AND OPPORTUNITIES THAT YOU SEE WITHIN EACH OF THESE AREAS, UH, THAT MIGHT BE ADDRESSED BY THIS PLAN.
SO, LIKE JESSICA SAID, WE'RE, WE'RE ON THE HOME STRETCH HERE, SO, UH, UH, THAT'S OUR RECOMMENDATION, BUT WE DO WANT TO OPEN IT UP FOR ANY, ANY QUESTIONS.
CHAIRMAN MARSH, WE GET TO GO FIRST.
WE ARE, WELL, I JUST, ON THE, ON THE AREAS, I THINK THAT, UM, FROM MY PERSONAL VIEW IS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK DE IS IF THE, IF THE COMMUNITY IS SAYING THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE, AND I HEAR THAT A LOT AND WE GET A LOT OF ZONING CASES OVER THERE, UH, FOR BELTLINE AND PLANO, AND THERE'S SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY THERE.
YOU JUST LOOK AT THE MAP AND YOU JUST SAY, A LOT CAN HAPPEN THERE.
YOU'VE GOT HUFFINES AND, AND THE, UH, THE VACANT LAND THAT THE CITY HAS THERE FOR A FUTURE CITY PARK.
SO I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT, BUT I ALSO BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, WEST ARAPAHOE WITH THE, UH, CITY HALL AND ALL THAT'S GOING THERE, AND THE LINK TO CENTRAL, IT'S RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF RICHARDSON.
IT'S RIPE FOR REDEVELOPMENT OR REINVESTMENT AND COULD BE LIKE THE LOCKWOOD AND UH, ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE AREA THAT WE'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, THAT SHOULD BE HAPPENING NEXT IN, IN, IN THAT PART OF THE CITY.
YEAH, MY, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY I'M AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT GUY.
I HEAVILY INVOLVED IN CHAMBER LAW STUFF, BUT MY QUESTION IS KINDA WHY, MAYBE THIS IS MORE TO THE, THE COUNCIL THAN, THAN THE CONSULTANTS.
LIKE, WE HAVE THESE FIVE TOPICS, RIGHT? THESE FIVE STRATEGIC TOPICS, WE HAVE 10 BULLET POINTS UNDER THEM, AND WE'RE GONNA FOCUS ON IMPLEMENTATION FOR ONE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
LIKE, WHY I, I FEEL LIKE THIS COULD BE TABLED TILL LATER, TILL WE GOT THOSE FIVE TOPICS WORKED OUT WHERE THEY NEED TO BE AND, AND ADDITIONAL TOPICS THAT THEY NEED TO BE AND GET EVERYTHING KIND OF WORKED OUT.
AND THEN SAY, OKAY, WE KNOW RE REDEVELOPMENT IS GONNA BE IMPORTANT LONG TERM.
WHAT ELSE ARE WE LOOKING AT? 'CAUSE WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT, LIKE, THERE ARE OTHER TOPICS HERE, LIKE, YOU KNOW, HOW, HOW MUCH, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH MORE, YOU KNOW, TRAILWAYS DO WE THINK WE NEED OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS? HOW MUCH MORE, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE HAVE TO DO FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, COMMUNITY FACILITIES? WHAT DO WE, WHAT DO WE FORESEE THERE? WHAT DO YOU KNOW? THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS WE CAN HAVE AND START TO DELVE AND STUDY, BUT THIS, YOU KNOW, IT'S, I THINK IT'S KIND OF A LITTLE BIT LIKE, WHY ARE WE GOING THIS WAY? THAT WOULD BE MY ONLY COMMENT AND DISCUSSION.
I JUST DON'T FEEL LIKE WE HAVE TO JUMP INTO IT YET.
AND, AND, AND AGAIN, WHATEVER YOU AGREED WITH, YOU KNOW, I WASN'T INVOLVED WITH THE CONSULTANTS IN YOUR AGREEMENT, BUT THAT'S, THAT WOULD BE MY KIND OF QUESTION.
LIKE, OKAY, YEAH, THESE ARE, THESE ARE GOOD.
UH, BUT I, I DON'T THINK WE'RE, WE'RE STUDYING AND IMPLEMENTING YET.
I THINK WE HAVE TO KIND OF FIGURE OUT WHAT THE OTHER STUFF IS AND GET THAT NAILED DOWN AND REVISED, AND THEN WE CAN START SAYING, OKAY, WHICH OF THESE TOPICS, UH, DO WE WANNA DELVE INTO, JOE? I THINK, I THINK THAT IS WHAT WE'RE SUGGESTING.
UM, MARK OR WHOEVER TALK ABOUT WHAT, ONCE THESE AREAS ARE SELECTED, WHAT HAPPENS NOW AS PART OF THIS PROCESS VERSUS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, UH, AS PART OF A LADDER PROCESS THAT JOE MIGHT BE MORE FAMILIAR WITH WHEN, WHEN HE WAS SERVING AS THE CHAMBER CHAIRMAN, AND HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN BUMPED INTO LIKE BELT, I MEAN THE, UM, 75 MAIN STREET OR EVEN THE, THE IQ.
SO AS, AS A PART OF THIS PROCESS, WE HAVE ASKED NOT TO GET INTO DETAILED STUDY OF EACH OF THESE AREAS, BUT MORE TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY TO IDENTIFY WHAT IS THAT NEXT SET OF STRATEGIC AREAS FOR THERE TO BE SOME ADDITIONAL FOCUS FOR ENHANCEMENT AND IMPROVEMENT.
UM, AND SO THE NEXT STEP WITH THE COMMUNITY, UM, AND, AND THE REASON FOR THE TIMING AT THIS POINT IN THE PROCESS IS WHEN WE GO BACK IN OCTOBER, UH, WE'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY BASED UPON YOUR FEEDBACK AND SOME ANALYSIS THAT WAS DONE.
THESE ARE THE FIVE AREAS, UH, THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR ADDITIONAL STUDY.
NOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT THESE AREAS IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL.
UM, SO THAT AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THE CITYWIDE COMPONENTS LIKE LAND USE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ALL AND MOBILITY, WE'RE ALSO STARTING TO PAINT A LITTLE BIT OF A PICTURE OF WHAT ARE THE OPPORTUNITIES AND THE ISSUES THE COMMUNITY WOULD LIKE TO BE SEE ADDRESSED IN EACH OF THESE AREAS SO THAT OUR IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY IS COVERING ALL OF THAT.
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MUCH MORE DETAILED STUDY THAT WOULD FOLLOW ON WITH THE COMMUNITY TO COME UP WITH LAND USE, ET CETERA.BUT, BUT WE'RE NOT, LIKE, WE'RE NOT TAGGING AREAS TO STUDY FOR ANY OF THE OTHER BULLET POINTS, RIGHT? WE'RE NOT SAYING, OKAY, YOU'RE BASICALLY SAYING WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IS IN OCTOBER WE'RE GONNA SAY, LOOK, HERE'S KIND OF WHERE WE ARE AND THESE ARE THE FIVE AREAS WE THINK WE HAVE TO STUDY IN THE FUTURE.
ARE WE GONNA STUDY, UH, TECHNOLOGY AND IN IMPLICATIONS? IS THAT, IS THAT GONNA BE AN AREA WE'RE GONNA STUDY? AND WHY ARE WE NOT DISCUSSING THAT NOW? AND WHY IS THAT NOT GONNA BE PRESENTED IN OCTOBER? MM-HMM.
ARE WE GONNA STUDY, YOU KNOW, BEST PRACTICES FOR DIVERSITY? IS THAT GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, SO I FEEL LIKE THERE, THERE ARE AGAIN, FIVE TOPIC AREAS, 10 BULLET POINTS, ALL THESE BASICALLY FALL IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
WHY ARE WE NOT FLUSHING OUT THE THIRD LEVEL FOR OTHER STUFF IN TERMS OF WHAT WE HAVE TO STUDY? YEAH.
AND MAYBE THERE'S A TIMING ISSUE OR, OR SOMETHING ELSE, BUT THAT'S REALLY THE QUESTION.
AND IT'S NOT MEANT TO CHANGE DIRECTION.
IT'S JUST MEANT TO BE LIKE, HEY, WHAT? LIKE, IT'S, IT'S UNEVEN, RIGHT? WELL, I DON'T THINK THIS IS JUST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THOUGH, RIGHT? LIKE, SO, SO WE'LL LOOK AT THESE AREAS AND SAY, WHAT TYPES OF HOUSING DO WE WANNA ALLOW IN THESE AREAS? WHAT SORT OF PARKS OR TRAILS OR, YOU KNOW, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OR INFRASTRUCTURE TO, YOU KNOW, TECHNO, DO WE WANNA HAVE A TECHNOLOGY FOCUS LIKE WE DID WITH THE IQ? SO I, I DON'T THINK IT'S JUST AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLANNING TOOL.
I THINK WE TAKE ALL OF THOSE STRATEGIES AND SAY, WHEN THIS AREA DEVELOPS OR CONTINUES TO DEVELOP, WHAT DO WE WANNA DO FROM A PLANNING STANDPOINT? SO WHEN IT COMES TO THE C P C AND YOU, YOU GUYS LOOK AND SAY THAT, THAT'S NOT WHAT WE REALLY ENVISION FOR THIS AREA FROM A HOUSING PERSPECTIVE.
FOR, FOR EXAMPLE, JUST AS AN EXAMPLE.
SO I, I DON'T THINK IT'S JUST AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOL.
I THINK ALL OF THOSE STRATEGIES DO COME INTO PLAY AND WE'RE JUST SORT OF STUDYING THESE PARTICULAR AREAS TO EITHER, YOU KNOW, UH, REVITALIZE THEM OR PREVENT THEM FROM FURTHER DECLINE, UH, AND MAKE SURE THEY'RE DEVELOPING IN THE WAY THAT WE WANT THEM TO.
BUT JOE, FROM TO, TO A, A, A, UH, A GOOD QUESTION OVERALL.
UM, BUT THEY ANSWER, UM, TO THE, TO, TO THE SECOND PART OF THAT QUESTION IS, YES, THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER STUDIES THAT ARE BEING DONE CONCURRENTLY TO TAKE DEEP DIVES.
FOR INSTANCE, WE'RE DOING A CITYWIDE, UM, WATER AND WASTEWATER MASTER PLAN.
WE'RE DOING A SOLID WASTE STUDY SERVICES PLAN TO THE, TO THE POINT EARLIER, UM, WE'RE, UH, THE FIRE CHIEF AND FIRE DEPARTMENT BE LAUNCHING A NEW FIRE STRATEGIC PLAN.
AND SO WHILE THESE ARE PHYSICAL AREAS, SOME OF THESE OTHER AREAS OF INTEREST TO YOU AND AND TO THE, TO C P C MEMBERS THAT YOU'VE BROUGHT UP ARE BEING STUDIED IN GREATER DETAIL.
AND THAT WHAT THAT'LL DO IS WHEN, WHEN THOSE STUDIES ARE WRAPPED UP, WHEN WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE TACTICS MM-HMM.
AND SO THERE ARE, THERE ARE, UM, PROBABLY OTHER STUDIES THAT I'M FORGETTING ABOUT RIGHT NOW THAT ARE CONCURRENTLY BEING DONE.
TWO THAT WE FINISHED ALREADY, FOR INSTANCE, WAS THE PARKS, PARKS OPEN SPACE PLAN, AND THE ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN, THE ACTION ITEMS THAT CAME OUT OF THOSE PLANS.
THOSE AREN'T JUST LIKE IN ISOLATION.
THOSE WILL BE HEAVILY IN INFORMING WHAT HAPPENS, UH, IN THE COMP PLAN.
THE OTHER THING I'LL SAY, ONE OF THE BENEFITS THAT I SEE, UM, IN, UM, SO, SO, UH, IT TOOK US ALL OF THE 11 YEARS, UM, TO GET THROUGH FOUR OF THE SIX STUDY AREAS FOR THE FIRST, WHAT I THINK WE'RE DOING DIFFERENT, MARK, YOU HELP ME ON THIS, IF, IF I'M MISSTATING THIS, BUT I THINK WHAT WE'RE DOING DIFFERENT IN THIS COMP PLAN REFRESH THAN WE DIDN'T DO THIS LAST, IS THIS LITTLE, THIS LITTLE ADDITIONAL STEP OF TAKING THESE SIX AREAS BACK TO THE PUBLIC AND GETTING INPUT.
NOW, WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GONNA DO ALL THESE AREAS IN THE NEXT TWO TO THREE YEARS.
SO AS OPPORTUNITIES EMERGE, SAY FOR INSTANCE, IF AREA F ISN'T STUDIED FOR FIVE YEARS, IF AN OPPORTUNITY EMERGES IN TWO YEARS IN THE AREA, F AT LEAST WE HAVE THE CONTEXT IN THE, IN, IN THE INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT WAS PICKED UP THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
EVEN THOUGH IT'S GONNA BE A LIGHTER TOUCH TO HELP STAFF AND, AND C P C AND COUNCIL KIND OF INFORM WHAT THAT AREA COULD BE, I THINK THAT THERE'LL BE OPPORTUNITIES IN SOME OF THESE AREAS THAT EMERGE FAR BEFORE THE STUDY IS COMPLETE.
AND SO WHAT WE LEARNED THROUGH THIS PROCESS, THIS COMP PLAN STUDY PROCESS ABOUT THOSE AREAS CAN STILL BE REALLY BENEFICIAL TO US.
I'M, I'M NOT FOR LESS STUDYING, I'M JUST FOR LIKE UNDERSTANDING HOW SOME OF THE OTHER BULLET POINTS ARE GONNA BE FLESHED OUT, I THINK, AND JENNIFER'S RIGHT? AND I'M NOT, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT TRYING TO TAKE OVER THIS MEETING.
EVERYBODY'S LIKE, OH, KILL JOHN
BUT THAT, BUT THAT, BUT THAT'S JUST KIND OF THE QUESTION THAT LIKE, HOW ARE THOSE OTHER AREAS GONNA BE STUDIED? MM-HMM.
AND I, I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE SOME OF THOSE GOING ON, BUT MAYBE WE SHOULD KNOW HOW THAT'S ALL GONNA COME TOGETHER.
SO WHEN WE'RE KIND OF ROLLING OUT THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN YEAH.
I, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT SUGGESTION MAYBE.
AND, AND THE NEXT TIME WE PULL EVERYTHING TOGETHER, EVEN BEFORE THEN WE'LL FIND OUT, WE'LL FIND A, A STRATEGIC WAY TO SHARE WITH YOU EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S IN THE WORKS THAT'S BEING STUDIED THAT WILL RESULT IN SPECIFIC ACTION PLANS FOR THINGS LIKE WATER OR WASTEWATER OR FIRE SERVICES THAT WILL HELP INFORM THE TACTICS AND THE ACTION ITEMS THAT COME OUTTA THIS PLAN.
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YOU KNOW, WE, WE ARE A LITTLE, A LITTLE CAUTIOUS ABOUT WHAT WE SHARE PUBLICLY ABOUT OUR CYBERSECURITY.SO, WE'LL
UM, YEAH, JOE, I MEAN, I, I DO WANNA SAY LIKE, YOU KNOW, IN SO FAR AS IT'S IN INEVITABILITY THAT AT SOME POINT IN THE NEXT DECADE WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT MORE OF THESE ZONES.
IT'S IMPORTANT WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL OF THIS HOLISTICALLY TO IDENTIFY THEM.
BUT TO YOUR POINT, I ALSO DON'T WANT THIS TO BE SOMETHING THAT, UM, TAKES OVER THE ENTIRE COMP PLAN, RIGHT? AND SO, YOU KNOW, AND, AND SO I, I A HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE WITH THAT FROM MY END.
ANYBODY ELSE ON C P C? BACK TO YOU, MAYOR.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCILWOMAN JUSTICE.
UM, I THINK THE AREAS YOU'VE IDENTIFIED ARE, ARE REALLY GOOD.
I THINK IT'S SORT OF INTERESTING.
UH, YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, AREA D IS ONE I WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT.
THAT'S THE AREA OF RICHARDSON I GREW UP IN.
AND I THINK I'VE TAKEN THREE VOTES AGAINST OTHERWISE GREAT BUSINESSES, UM, BECAUSE I DIDN'T FEEL LIKE IT WAS THE, THE WAY THAT THAT AREA NEEDED TO DEVELOP.
UM, AND SO I THINK THAT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, NOT TO JUST LOOK AT AN AREA THAT WE'VE DECIDED HAS ALREADY DECLINED OR IS, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO ADDRESS IT.
UM, BUT REALLY SORT OF PUTTING A VISION BEHIND HOW WE WANT AN AREA TO DEVELOP.
AND I THINK AREA D IS THE PERFECT EXAMPLE OF THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK JOE'S DONE THE MATH ON IT AND IT'S SOMETHING LIKE 20 DRIVE-THROUGHS OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE, I'M THINK 24, I THINK.
YEAH, A LOT OF DRIVE-THROUGHS.
AND I MEAN, WHEN I GREW UP IN THAT AREA, WE WERE EXCITED THAT WE WERE GETTING A CHIPOTLE.
I MEAN, TO BE HONEST, THAT WAS EXCITING.
AND IT WAS A DRIVE-THROUGH CHIPOTLE, AND THAT WAS GREAT.
AND IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE A DRIVE-THROUGH STARBUCKS, BUT AT SOME POINT YOU HAVE TO SORT OF STOP AND SAY THAT'S, WE CAN'T JUST HAVE DRIVE THROUGHS AT THE, AT THE INTERSECTION OF BELTLINE AND PLANO.
IT'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING MORE THAN THAT.
SO, UM, I, I THINK THAT THAT'S A, A GOOD EXAMPLE OF, IT SEEMS TO BE, YOU KNOW, SORT OF A THRIVING PLACE AND THE NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE OPPORTUNITIES OVER THERE, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY DESERVE A LOCKWOOD DISTRICT OR THEY DESERVE, UH, YOU KNOW, INNOVATIVE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN THE IQ, FOR EXAMPLE.
UH, SO I, YOU KNOW, I SUPPORT THAT.
THE AREAS THAT YOU HAVE UP HERE, I THINK THAT YOU'VE DONE A GOOD JOB BOTH IDENTIFYING WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS AND WHAT, YOU KNOW, JUST FROM A, A DATA STANDPOINT IS, UH, IMPORTANT AS WELL.
SO I, I THINK THIS IS, UH, A GOOD DIRECTION.
WELL THAT'S, THAT'S WONDERFUL.
YOU KNOW, ONE THING, YOU KNOW, ALL THIS PRESENTATION, ONE THING TELLS YOU THAT RICHARDSON IS A SMALL CITY, AND WE MIGHT HAVE FOUR DISTRICT, BUT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THE WHOLE CITY.
SO PLACE THREE, PLACE TWO, EVEN THOUGH IT'S IN PLACE, ONE AREA D.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER DATA THAT WE GOT TONIGHT.
CONFIRMATION THAT WE DO CARE ABOUT, CARE ABOUT WHOLE CITY, AND, YOU KNOW, AREA D YOU KNOW, THE DATA THAT YOU HAD, LIKE, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE FIVE CATEGORIES THAT YOU HAD, THOSE ARE ALL GOOD NUMBERS.
I THINK THAT, UH, AND THAT HAS ALSO SOME, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT FURTHER STUDY OF AREA D WILL GIVE US SOME REALLY GOOD INFORMATION, UH, BECAUSE THE CRITERIA THAT YOU HAD INITIALLY AND THEN PUBLIC WANTED.
UH, WE HAVE SEEN SO MANY CASES IN AREA D AND, UH, YOU KNOW, AND SOME CERTAIN BUILDINGS, YOU KNOW, DOES THE OWNER REALLY WANT TO REBUILD, RECONSTRUCT, OR WANT TO CHANGE THAT, THE SIZE AND LOT SIZE AND THE SHAPE, THIS ALL THING WE SAW.
AND UH, AND THAT'S WHY WE SEE SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMING.
I WISH WE COULD HAVE SOME CERTAIN THINGS IN THIS AREA, BUT IT'S NOT HAPPENING.
SO I THINK THE FURTHER STUDY DETAILS STUDY, I THINK THAT WILL REALLY GUIDE US THAT IF WE HAVE MISSED ANY OPPORTUNITY, OR ARE YOU GOING TO MISS OPPORTUNITY IF WE MAKE CERTAIN DECISION.
UH, HAVING A STUDY I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT.
I WOULD SAY THAT'S PROBABLY, UH, PROBABLY NOT NUMBER SIX.
PROBABLY IS, UH, IT'S CLOSER, YOU KNOW, UP THERE BECAUSE SO MANY CASES WE HAVE SEEN RECENTLY AND, YOU KNOW, THE SEAS BUILDING THAT'S EMPTY, UH, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING'S GONNA HAPPEN, BUT, YOU KNOW, AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT OPPORTUNITY WE, WE WOULD BE MISSING.
SO, YOU KNOW, ALL THIS RANK, UH, I THINK IT DOESN'T MATTER ONE THROUGH SIX.
I THINK IF IT, IF THAT HAPPENED, YOU KNOW, SIMULTANEOUSLY OR SAME TIME, UH, THOSE STUDY, I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
UM, THANK YOU FOR THIS, UH, PRESENTATION.
THANK YOU, MAYOR PROIN, MR. HUTCHIN, WRITER.
UM, GLAD TO SEE THE PROCESS WORKED, YOU KNOW, VERY MUCH HAVING THE COMMUNITY PROVIDE THEIR INPUT AND MOVE D UP TO A MORE, WHATEVER I WANNA SAY, PROMINENT POSITION, IF YOU WILL.
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ONE THING THOUGH THAT, THAT WE ALL, YOU KNOW, AND WE TALK ABOUT THIS A LOT AND IT'S JUST KIND OF A REMINDER, IS THAT WE CAN STUDY THESE AREAS WHERE THERE'S A LOT, THERE'S, THERE'S SO MUCH THAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY, BUT ULTIMATELY WE HAVE TO HAVE PEOPLE COMING IN AND REDEVELOP, REDEVELOPING THESE AREAS.AND SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ALWAYS KEEP, YOU KNOW, KEEP THAT IN IN OUR, IN OUR MIND.
WE CAN DO A LOT TO TRY AND HOPEFULLY WORK WITH THEM APPROPRIATELY, INCENTIVIZE THEM WORK FROM A ZONING PERSPECTIVE.
A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS WE CAN DO.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS GO BACK, 'CAUSE I REMEMBER GOING VERY EARLY ON TO ONE OF MY VERY FIRST DUCK CREEK, DUCK CREEK HOMEOWNERS MEETING, AND IT WAS PEOPLE COMING UP AND SAYING, IF WE COULD JUST GET THIS ONE RETAILER AND WHAT CAN YOU DO TO GET 'EM HERE? AND I'M LIKE, UH, SORRY, I DON'T KNOW THEIR PHONE NUMBER.
AND IT WAS LIKE, I WAS JUST, BY THE TIME I WALKED OUTTA THERE, I WAS LIKE, OH MY GOSH, OKAY, I GET IT.
AND I UNDERSTAND AND I'D LOVE TO HAVE IT THERE TOO, BUT I, I JUST, YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK WE ALWAYS HAVE TO, WHEN WE'RE PUTTING THIS TOGETHER, BE JUST HAVE ALWAYS THAT, JUST THAT LITTLE SLIGHT BIT OF, IF YOU WILL, REALISM, NOT REALISM, BUT JUST THAT UNDERSTANDING MAYBE IS A BETTER WAY TO SAY IT.
THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN, THERE'S A LOT WE CAN DO.
THERE'S A LOT OF LEVERS WE CAN TURN, BUT ULTIMATELY WE'VE GOTTA HAVE THAT DEVELOPER WHO WANTS TO COME IN AND DO, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WE, WE LIKE THE LOCKWOOD DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A DEVELOPER, WE HAD, WE HAD AN ENTITY, ENTITY.
WE HAD SEVERAL ENTITIES THAT WANTED TO COME IN, WANTED TO BE IN THAT AREA.
BUT AGAIN, WE'VE GOTTA HAVE THAT, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES KIND OF TWO SIDES, IF YOU WILL, TO, TO MAKE THAT.
SO JUST WANT, JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT AS WE, AS WE GO THROUGH.
BUT I'M JUST GLAD TO SEE THAT, UH, I REALLY THINK THE PROCESS WORKED, AND I'M REALLY GLAD TO SEE THAT.
UM, I WILL SAY I AM, I'M SAD TO SEE THAT AREA A DID NOT MAKE THE CUT 'CAUSE THAT IS MY BACKYARD AND IN THE, UM, BUT I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS AND I THINK IT WORKS, RIGHT? UM, I, I, I, SO I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT.
I, I, I SEE THE REASONING BEHIND THAT.
I'M NOT SURPRISED THAT AREA D UM, WAS NUMBER ONE, UH, ON, ON RESIDENT FEEDBACK.
UH, WHEN I FIRST RAN IN 2019, THAT WAS THE NUMBER ONE THING PEOPLE WANTED TO TALK TO ME ABOUT WAS AREA D THIS TIME AROUND.
IF IT WASN'T FOR AIRBNB'S, THAT WOULD STILL BE THE NUMBER ONE THING PEOPLE WOULDN'T TALK ABOUT.
UH, AIRBNB'S BEAT IT OUT THIS TIME, AT LEAST IN MY CAMPAIGN.
UH, EVERYBODY WANTED TO TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT.
BUT THE, I I DO HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
UM, CAN YOU HELP CLARIFY FOR ME? I'M, UH, I AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER CONSTANTINO.
RESEARCH IS NEVER A BAD THING.
LEARNING MORE IS NEVER A BAD THING.
NEITHER IS DATA, RIGHT? IT GIVES US A BETTER PICTURE AND HELPS US UNDERSTAND, AND IT GIVES US, UH, THE DATA BEHIND REASONING.
AND, UH, I'M A BIG FAN OF DATA, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE POINTS I WAS TRYING TO MAKE EARLIER, UM, WAS WE, WE DO NEED SOME DATA TO, TO MAKE DECISIONS ON.
SO, YOU KNOW, I WOULD NEVER STAND UP HERE AND SAY, WE SHOULDN'T STUDY THIS AREA.
WE SHOULDN'T STUDY THIS AREA, BECAUSE KNOWING MORE WILL HELP US IN EVERY WAY MOVING FORWARD.
UM, I DO WANNA UNDERSTAND FROM, FOR THOSE WATCHING FOR MYSELF, CAN YOU CLARIFY, UM, THE, AND YOU KIND OF MENTIONED, SPOKE TO IT A BIT AGO, BUT CAN YOU CLARIFY WHAT THIS KIND OF RESEARCH LOOKS LIKE MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT? IS IT A PURE, THE RESEARCH, PURELY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COMMUNITY BUSINESS? IS THERE SOME BACKGROUND DATA WORK THAT GOES FURTHER INTO THIS? I GUESS, WHAT'S THE NEXT LAYER IN THIS SANON? I, I JUST DON'T QUITE, SO, UH, YEAH.
WE'RE, WE'RE DISCUSSING IT RIGHT NOW.
UH, SO WHAT, WHAT WE TYPICALLY DO WITHIN EACH OF THESE AREAS IS JUST LIKE WE DID TO GET TO THIS POINT WITH IDENTIFYING THESE AREAS.
YOU KNOW, JESSICA, I'LL LET YOU TALK TO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
BUT ALSO MORE FROM THE COMMUNITY AND FROM THE COMMUNITY STANDPOINT.
I THINK IT'S, UH, LIKE I TOUCHED ON EARLIER, WHAT, WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT NEED TO GET ADDRESSED? WHAT ARE THE ISSUES THAT ARE FOLKS ARE HAVING? UM, AND JUST GETTING A, A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF, UH, WHAT TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS PEOPLE WANT TO SEE.
WE STARTED SCRATCHING THE SURFACE ON AREAS A THROUGH D, GETTING SOME OF THAT FEEDBACK IN THE FIRST ROUND OF MEETINGS.
UH, SO WE, WE WANT TO DIG INTO THAT EVEN FURTHER TO SEE WHAT IS IT THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE IMPROVED WITHIN THESE AREAS, BUT FROM THE OTHER STANDPOINT, RESEARCH THAT WE MAY LOOK AT.
AND I, I THINK WHAT WAS INTERESTING TO ME, UM, IN SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS TODAY ABOUT THE ELU EVOLUTION OF REAL ESTATE, HOW THINGS ARE CHANGING.
I THINK THAT THAT'S SOME OF THE RE RESEARCH THAT WE WOULD WANT TO HAVE IN OUR BACK POCKET ON THESE AREAS.
WE WANNA UNDERSTAND WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS ENVISIONING
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FOR THE FUTURE, BUT THEN WE ALSO WANNA UNDERSTAND WHAT SOME OF THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES ARE OR COULD BE IN THE FUTURE FROM A REAL ESTATE STANDPOINT.SO IS IT A HEAVY OFFICE AREA? WHAT ARE SOME OF THE CHALLENGES, UM, GIVEN THE AGE OF THE, OF THE INVENTORY IN ANY GIVEN AREA? UM, HOW'S RETAIL CHANGING AND HOW MAY THAT INFLUENCE WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IN, IN AN AREA? I MEAN, THAT'S GONNA BE HIGHLY, HIGHLY RELEVANT IN AREA D.
UM, AND SO, SO YEAH, IT WOULD BE THIS BALANCE OF UNDERSTANDING HERE'S WHAT THE COMMUNITY'S TELLING US IN MORE DETAIL THAN WHAT THEY'VE TOLD US SO FAR.
UM, AND THEN HOW DOES THAT MATCH WITH WHAT WE KNOW IS HAPPENING IN THE AREA TODAY? WHAT'S GETTING, WHAT, WHO, WHO'S COMING TO THE TABLE? UM, WHAT'S, WHAT'S NOT THE PREFERRED DEVELOPMENT TYPE? AND THEN HOW ARE THINGS CHANGING IN THE FUTURE? AND THIS, THIS AREA CAN BE PART OF A, PART OF A, A MISSING PIECE FOR RICHARDSON.
NOW, WE'LL SAY, I'LL, I'LL ADD ONE THING TO THAT.
OFTENTIMES THAT ADDITIONAL RESEARCH THAT WE DO, UM, CAN BE USED BY THE COMMUNITY TO INFORM THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, BECAUSE WE CAN DIG IN A LITTLE BIT DEEPER AND A LOT OF DEVELOPERS IN MAYBE LOOKING AT THE SURFACE AT CERTAIN THINGS.
AND THEY MAY BE LOOKING FOR CERTAIN LOCATIONS.
AND UNTIL WE GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS, WE MAY, WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO, IN SOME CASES, CHANGE THE PERCEPTION OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY ON OPPORTUNITIES IN AN AREA THAT THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE SEEN BEFORE.
SO I WOULD THINK THAT SOME OF OUR RESEARCH WOULD BE FOCUSING IN ON HOW DO WE TELL THE RIGHT STORY ABOUT THESE AREAS.
WHEN I, UM, WHEN I RECEIVED THIS, WE, WE RECEIVE, I DON'T KNOW, WE GOT THIS, YOU KNOW, HOUR AND A HALF OR WHATEVER IT WAS PRIOR.
UH, AND I HAD ABOUT FIVE MINUTES TO KIND OF JUST LOOK, LOOK THROUGH THIS REAL QUICK.
THE ONLY THING, AND THIS WAS, I, I DIDN'T LOOK THROUGH THE FIRST HALF.
I WENT, 'CAUSE I WAS REALLY CURIOUS ABOUT THESE DEVELOPMENT ZONES.
AND THE ONLY THING THAT, FOR ME THAT WAS KIND OF A AREA THAT WAS A SURPRISE WAS THIS AREA F BECAUSE THAT WASN'T ON MY RADAR.
I, I HADN'T HEARD THAT ON ANYBODY'S RADAR OF ANYBODY I HAD TALKED TO.
UM, AND I, I DROVE OVER THERE REAL QUICK JUST TO MAKE SURE I REMEMBERED, OKAY, WHAT DID THAT INCLUDE? 'CAUSE I KNEW THE AREA, BUT I WAS, HAD TO DRIVE OVER THERE AND JUST KIND OF LOOK AT THAT AREA AGAIN, UH, ON THE WAY TO THE COUNCIL MEETING IN THIS AREA.
AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS, AGAIN, I SUPPORT LOOKING INTO IT.
AND AT THIS POINT, I WOULD NEVER SAY, LET'S NOT LOOK AT THIS JUST BECAUSE, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE DATA AND, AND THEN YOU HAVE MY EXPERIENCES OR COUNCILMAN CORCORAN'S EXPERIENCES AND WE GO UP WHAT WE KNOW AND WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TALKED TO US.
UM, DRIVING OVER THERE, MY CONCERNS AND SOME OF THE HURDLES I WOULD IN, IN CONSIDERING THAT AREA IS WITH EXCEPTION OF THE, IF YOU TAKE OUT BRUCE MILLER, NOT THAT ANYBODY'S SAYING TAKE IT OUT, I'M JUST SAYING, WHICH IS THE BIG NURSERY TAKES UP A LOT OF THAT AREA.
UM, AND FOR ME THAT THE, THAT IS ALWAYS A CONCERN AS FAR AS DISPLACEMENT, AFFORDABILITY, DISPLACING PEOPLE THAT MAY NOT HAVE ANOTHER AFFORDABLE PLACE TO GO.
UM, SO, SO WHILE THAT'S NOT PART OF THIS DISCUSSION, I KNOW THAT'S THE NEXT PROCESS.
AND LONG AFTER THAT FOR ME IS THE ONLY KIND OF AREA.
AND IN FULL TRANSPARENCY, I'M SHARING THIS NOW, UM, RECENTLY IN THE CITY, THERE WAS, UH, SOME CONCERN ABOUT THE OMO MOTEL, UH, ABOUT IT.
YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE WAS, THERE WAS A SALE THERE, THERE'S SOME CHANGES TAKING PLACE OVER THERE.
THIS AREA HAS MULTIPLE APARTMENT BUILDINGS THAT ARE THIS MID-CENTURY MODERN, REALLY NEAT.
THEY'RE OLD, UH, THEY DE DEFINITELY COULD USE SOME BETTER UPKEEP.
UH, BUT IT IS A COLLECTION OF MID-CENTURY MODERN APARTMENTS THAT I THINK THE COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE INTEREST IN IN THE FUTURE.
SO THOSE ARE JUST KIND OF THE, I HOPEFULLY DOWN THE ROAD WHEN WE LOOK AT THAT, WE DON'T LOOK AT IT AS TEAR DOWNS.
AND MAYBE WE COULD LOOK AT IT AS HOW DO WE REPURPOSE OR ELEVATE THOSE VERSUS TEARING DOWN AND REPLACING, BECAUSE YOU DON'T SEE A LOT OF THOSE MID-CENTURY MODERN APARTMENT COMPLEXES.
AND BASED ON THE FEEDBACK OF WHAT HAPPENED AT THE COMO, I WOULDN'T BE SURPRISED IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT POPS UP AGAIN IN THE FUTURE.
UM, SO, AND I, I WOULD JUST WORRY ABOUT DISPLACEMENT THERE.
UM, SO THOSE ARE THE, AGAIN, I KNOW THAT'S NOT PART OF THIS.
AGAIN, I WANT TO MAKE DATABASE DECISIONS VERSUS EMOTIONAL.
AND SO I'M NOT SAYING LET'S NOT LOOK AT IT BECAUSE INFORMATION'S ALWAYS GOOD.
AS A TEACHER, I ALWAYS SAY, I, I ALWAYS WANNA CONTINUE TO LEARN.
AND I, I AM, I HAVE NO DOUBT MOST OF THE PEOPLE, IF NOT ALL THE PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM WOULD AGREE WITH THAT.
THAT, UH, INFORMATION'S ALWAYS GOOD.
AND THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SHARE.
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YEAH, I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE NEXT STEP.UH, COUNCILOR BARRIOS, I, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK THAT WE DO NEED MORE SPECIFIC DATA POINTS TO MAKE DECISIONS ON A LOT OF THESE AREAS, AND THERE'S A TON OF DIFFERENT TACTICS WE CAN TAKE, RIGHT? THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY INVOLVE DEMOLISHING, UM, DEMOLISHING BUILDINGS.
BUT JUST THE, THE ONLY POINT I WOULD MAKE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, IT IS, IT IS GONNA BE ALL THINGS, YOU KNOW, ALL THINGS, EVEN WITH THE SCORING SYSTEM, IT IS GONNA BE A TOUGH DECISION THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE TO DECIDE WHICH OF THESE, YOU KNOW, TO CHOOSE FOR OUR, YOU KNOW, FOR THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
AND SO THE ONLY THING I WOULD ASK GOING FORWARD, AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE, AS WE GET CLOSER TO THAT PROCESS IS, YOU KNOW, A, UM, WITH SOME OF THE DIFFERENT METRICS THAT WERE USED TO SCORE THESE INITIALLY, UM, OBVIOUSLY A BREAKDOWN.
'CAUSE SOME OF THE DATA, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE USING THE SCORE ARE, UM, IMPORTANT TO ME AND SOME AREN'T.
RIGHT? UM, SO, YOU KNOW, ANY INFORMATION WE CAN GET THERE AND, UH, BROKEN DOWN.
AND THEN ALSO JUST THINKING OF, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE ELSE HAS IDEAS ON THIS, BUT OTHER DATA POINTS THAT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO US AS WELL.
RIGHT? I'M THINKING, YOU KNOW, PLACES THAT ARE OVER PARKED OR INFILL OPPORTUNITIES, RIGHT? AVERAGE VALUE OF THE SQUARE FOOT, YOU KNOW, IN A BUILDING THERE, THE TAXABLE CONTRIBUTION TO THE CITY.
UM, EVEN, YOU KNOW, SAFETY COULD BE A DATA POINT THAT WE USE.
THE AREA THAT YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT, UH, DAN, RIGHT? WE HAD HOMICIDES IN AN AREA TIED TO THAT, UM, TIED TO THAT SPECIFIC ZONE.
SO THINKING ABOUT OTHER METRICS BESIDES JUST THE FOUR THAT WERE HERE, I THINK WILL BE EXTREMELY HELPFUL AND RELEVANT, UM, TO MAKING A DECISION.
AND, AND TO THE POINT WHERE I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE MAKING A DECISION WITH JUST THE FOUR METRICS THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
IS THAT A FAIR STATEMENT? IS THAT OKAY? THERE WERE SEVERAL MORE METRICS THAT WERE EVALUATED OKAY.
THAT WE MAPPED FOR EVERY ONE OF THE AREAS.
BUT FOR TIME'S SAKE, WE DIDN'T WANT TO GO THROUGH EVERY AREA AND EVERY METRIC.
AND I DON'T THINK, I'M SURE WE CAN MAKE THAT AVAILABLE FOR SURE.
I MEAN, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T, AND WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH IT IN A MEETING.
IF YOU JUST PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE US WITH THE POWERPOINTS, WE CAN ALL LOOK OVER THE DATA ON OUR OWN.
I'M JUST, I'M, I'M GONNA BE SHORT.
UH, I'M HAPPY TO SEE THAT, UH, AREA D MADE, UH, TOP RANK.
SO, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO, I DO AGREE WITH, UM, COUNCILMAN JUSTICE ABOUT YOU CAN ONLY HAVE SO MUCH, SO MANY DRIVE-THROUGHS AND SO MANY FAST FOOD CHAINS.
AND I DO THINK THAT AS WE PURSUE THAT AREA, UM, LOOK AT, LOOK AT, UH, DISCUSSING MORE WITH THE DEVELOPERS AND ANALYZING WHAT WE COULD DO TO ELEVATE THE AREA.
BECAUSE TWO EVERYONE'S POINT, THERE ARE SPECIFIC AREAS IN RICHARDSON, ONE, LOCKWOOD DISTRICT, THERE ARE THE AREA B THAT'S GOING TO HAVE, UH, REVITALIZATION AND AREA A IS GONNA BE SUPER IMPORTANT AT A FUTURE DATE.
I THINK ELEVATING THAT AREA IS VERY IMPORTANT DUE TO THE FACT THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE COME UP TO ME DURING THE CAMPAIGN AND STATED THAT THEY WANT SOME MORE, AND I USE THIS TERM LOOSELY, MORE OF AN UPPER END ENVIRONMENT.
THEY WANT TO SEE SOME OTHER TYPES OF, UH, ESTABLISHMENT.
SO I HOPE THAT WE CAN USE THAT METRICS TO TRY TO, UH, EVALUATE AND ALSO, UH, INTERVIEW MORE PEOPLE AND ASK THEM WHAT TYPES OF, UH, SERVICES THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IN THE AREA.
AND WE HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY IN AREA D, SO I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT DEVELOP.
UM, MARK AND JESSICA, THANK YOU.
I'M GONNA ASK ONE QUESTION AND THEN I'M GONNA LET YOU GO INTO YOUR NEXT STEPS.
'CAUSE UH, YOU'RE PROBABLY GETTING TIRED OF STANDING UP THERE.
SO, BUT I, I, OVER THE COURSE OF TIME, WE'VE HAD DEVELOPERS ADDRESS THE COUNCIL.
THEY HAVE ADDRESSED THE C P C AND THE MESSAGE THAT THE DEVELOPERS WERE SHARING WITH US KIND OF PROMPTED SOME OF OUR DRIVE-THROUGH FLEXIBILITY, LET ME PUT IT THAT WAY.
SO WE HAVE ALLOWED MORE DRIVE-THROUGHS BECAUSE THE DEVELOPERS SHARED WITH US THAT THE TREND WAS BECAUSE OF COVID AND BECAUSE OF PEOPLE NOT WANTING TO GO SIT DOWN BECAUSE OF ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS.
AND THEY BASICALLY TOLD US THAT IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY FROM THAT POINT ON.
BUT NOW I'M SEEING THAT MAYBE OUR FAMILIES, OUR PARENTS, OUR COMMUNITY IS WANTING TO GO HAVE THAT RESTAURANT.
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IN, THEY WANT A LITTLE BIT NICER ENVIRONMENT.SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE THE DEVELOPERS TELLING YOU? WHAT CAN WE LOOK FOR AND WHAT'S THE TYPE OF THINGS THAT WE SHOULD BE CONSIDERING? OR DO WE HAVE THAT? OR CAN WE PUSH THAT NARRATIVE TO THE DEVELOPERS AND SAY, THIS IS REALLY WHAT WE'RE WANTING BECAUSE WE WERE TOLD BY SO MANY OF THEM THAT THIS IS THE FUTURE, THIS IS THE WAY WE'RE GONNA DO IT, AND WE'LL NEVER GO BACK TO SIT DOWN RESTAURANTS.
DOES THAT THAT MAKE SENSE? THAT'S A LOADED QUESTION,
IF YOU'RE ASKING IF YOU'RE EVER GONNA GET A MCDONALD'S TO GIVE UP THEIR DRIVE-THROUGH, ABSOLUTELY NOT.
IN FACT, FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS LIKE THAT ARE LOOKING AT WAYS TO MAKE THEIR DRIVE-THROUGHS MORE EFFICIENT OR GET MORE CARS THROUGH.
AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S ABSOLUTELY HAPPENING ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
AND SO I THINK THAT TREND IS, IS ACCURATE, BUT I THINK THAT THAT IS A VERY SPECIFIC SEGMENT OF THE RESTAURANT OR RETAIL SERVICE INDUSTRY.
I THINK THAT, THAT THEN YOU HAVE THOSE USERS THAT ARE KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE LIKE A CHIPOTLE.
I'VE NEVER GONE THROUGH A CHIPOTLE DRIVE THROUGH.
AND I DON'T KNOW THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS NECESSARILY AS CRITICAL TO THEIR BUSINESS MODEL AS IT MIGHT BE FOR A FAST.
SO WHEN YOU GET INTO THAT FAST CASUAL, THEN I DO THINK WE SEE MORE VARIATION.
AND I THINK AS A COMMUNITY, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS, IS NOT IN RICHARDSON'S BEST INTEREST, I THINK THERE ARE PLACES THAT YOU DO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PUSH BACK A LITTLE BIT.
UM, NOT EVERY RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT NEEDS A DRIVE-THROUGH, BUT THERE ARE SOME THAT ABSOLUTELY, YES, IT'S BOTTOM LINE FOR THEIR BUSINESS.
SO IT'S KIND OF BALANCING THAT UNDERSTANDING WHAT YOUR GIVE AND TAKE IS.
AND I THINK I SAID TRADE OFF ALREADY ONCE TONIGHT, BUT I'M WORKING ON SOMETHING ELSE THAT HAS TRADE-OFFS AND IT'S IN MY HEAD.
BUT, SO WHAT ARE THOSE TRADE-OFFS? WHICH ONES COULD YOU GIVE, GIVE TO, AND WHICH ONES DO YOU WANNA STAND YOUR GROUND? BECAUSE YOU CAN NEGOTIATE A LITTLE BIT.
DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? NO, BUT THAT'S OKAY.
WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS TONIGHT THERE, BUT I THINK WE CAN CIRCLE BACK ON THAT ONE.
I HAVE A FOLLOW UP QUESTION WHEN YOU'RE DONE.
UH, COUNCILMAN DORIAN MENTIONED SOMETHING THAT I MADE ME THINK.
HE MENTIONED THAT HIS CONSTITUENTS TALKED ABOUT MORE OF AN UPSCALE AREA.
AND DON, I, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A QUESTION FOR YOUR OR THE CONSULTANTS IN, IN THIS PROCESS.
IS THIS STEP NOW OR IS THIS, IS THAT STEP LATER IN ROOM LATER WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ZONING AND STUFF? UM, WHEN WE LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, FIELDS OF AREAS D YOU KNOW, IF WE WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, AREA D WE WANT TO MAKE IT, I DON'T KNOW, THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SAYS UPSCALE VERSUS IF WE WOULD'VE DONE A, I KNOW ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS I, I HAD PUT OUT THERE, I THINK THINKING OUT LOUD WITH A COUPLE PEOPLE IS, HEY, IF AREA A IS IS AN AREA DEVELOPMENT, IT'D BE COOL TO MAKE IT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE SOME LOCAL RESTAURANTS DO SOME KIND OF INCENTIVE TO, TO, TO REALLY INCREASE LOCAL OR, YOU KNOW, IF WE WANTED TO HAVE A FEEL OR A THEME BEHIND CERTAIN AREAS.
IS THAT THIS THE PLACE OR IS THAT A ZONING THING LATER? WELL, I MEAN THE, THE VISION FOR A A LOCKWOOD TYPE DISTRICT WOULD DEFINITELY BE MORE IN THE, UH, EARLIER STAGES OF THE VISIONING STAGES, RIGHT? UM, THE, UH, THE, THE PROBABLY MOST IMPORTANT PIECE TO WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THAT WE HAVEN'T REALLY TALKED ABOUT IS THE MARKET REALITY, RIGHT? RIGHT.
I MEAN, WE CAN CREATE A VISION.
AND, UM, IF THE MARKET WON'T SUPPORT IT, THEN THE VISION IS NOT, AND NO ONE'S GOING TO, NO DEVELOPER'S GONNA COME AND INVEST MONEY IN SOMETHING THAT WON'T BE SUCCESSFUL.
AND THEY HAVE ALL THEIR OWN METRICS FOR THAT.
UM, WHEN WE CREATE A VISION, UM, THE, OUR, THE, THE THING, WHEN WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL, WHEN WE'VE BEEN SUCCESSFUL A LOT, WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE REDUCED OR ELIMINATED AS MANY OBSTACLES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY TO HELP ACHIEVE THAT VISION.
AND MANY TIMES WE'VE HAD TO BE FINANCIAL PARTNERS TO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT WOULD'VE NEVER HAPPENED.
AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED IN LOCKWOOD.
I MEAN, WE'VE, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN A, A, A SIGNIFICANT PARTNER TO EVERY SINGLE ESTABLISHMENT ON LOCKWOOD IN THE 500 BLOCK WE HAVE BEEN A PARTNER TO.
UM, SO IS THAT A SUCCESS? IT'S A SUCCESS.
WOULD IT HAVE HAPPENED IF WE WOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT? PROBABLY NOT.
AND SO SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION, I MEAN, WE CAN, RESIDENTS CAN TELL US THEY DESIRE SOMETHING, BUT IF IT DOESN'T PROVE OUT TO BE MARKET REALITY, WE EITHER HAVE TO SUBSIDIZE IT OR WE HAVE TO, UM, CLOSE THE GAP OTHERWISE, UH, BETWEEN MARKET REALITY AND WHAT THE, WHAT THE VISION IS.
AND, AND THAT'S DEFINITELY LATER IN THE PROCESS.
YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UM, THE, THE ZONING PIECE IS ONE IMPEDIMENT, THAT'S ONE OBSTACLE.
UM, BUT IT, FOR MOST, IT'S NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT OBSTACLE.
IF SOMETHING MAKES MARKET IS MARKET REALITY AND SOMEBODY CAN MAKE MONEY AT IT, THEY'LL GO THROUGH THE ZONING PROCESS.
RIGHT? UM, BUT, BUT IF, IF, IF IT'S JUST ANOTHER OBSTACLE, UM, THEN IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A BIGGER, UH, DETERRENT
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TO, TO, TO THE REINVESTMENT.AND SO, UM, I THINK IT'S SUBSEQUENT, UH, THE PART THAT YOU'RE ASKING I THINK ABOUT IS ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, SUBSEQUENT TO THE INITIAL VISIONING WORK, THE ENTITLEMENT WORK IS A OBSTACLE.
YOU KNOW, THE FINANCIAL GAP IN THE PROFORMA IS AN OBSTACLE.
THE INFRASTRUCTURE FROM US TO DELIVER THEM WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, THE WATER OR TREAT THE, YOU KNOW, COLLECT THE SEWER THEY NEED MIGHT BE AN OBSTACLE.
I MEAN, BIGGEST OBSTACLE, I CAN'T BELIEVE HOW MUCH IN THE LAST EIGHT YEARS I'VE TALKED ABOUT GREASE TRAPS AND FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS. 'CAUSE AS YOU ADAPTIVELY REUSE A BUILDING, THOSE ARE TWO OF THE BIGGEST THINGS IF YOU'RE TRYING TO PUT IN A RESTAURANT MM-HMM.
AND SO, UM, IT'S, IT'S A, UM, BUT IT'S, IT'S REALLY, IT'S NEVER, IT'S, IT'S NEVER ENDING REALLY.
IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE A CONSIDERATION AS WE, AS WE TRY TO REINVENT RICHARDSON.
AND WE TRY TO, YOU KNOW, REBUILD AND, AND, UH, OUR, OUR, OUR BRAND AND WHAT WE OFFER TO THE COMMUNITY.
THESE ARE ALWAYS GONNA HAVE TO BE PARTS OF THE CONVERSATION.
I'M, I'M MOST, THE MOST VALUABLE THING THEY'LL DO WILL BE HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THE MARKET REALITY.
BECAUSE ONCE YOU AND THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS MARKET REALITY, THEN WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE VALUE PROPOSITION OF WHAT DO WE, HOW DO WE INJECT OURSELF IN THE SITUATION? DO WE WANNA INJECT OURSELVES TO THE EXTENT THAT WE WANT IT? THAT, THAT YOU WANT IT THAT BADLY.
UM, THAT IT TAKES ZONING, FINANCIAL, RIGHT, PUBLIC INVESTMENT, YOU KNOW, ALL PUBLIC IN, UH, PRIVATE INCENTIVES, PUBLIC INVESTMENT.
AND, AND THAT'S REALLY A VALUE PROPOSITION.
SO WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE I HEARD IS YES, THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF HAVE THAT FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY, BUT COMMUNITY AND WE AS A COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTAND THERE ARE OTHER REALITIES MM-HMM.
AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE ELECTED AND THAT'S WHY IT COMES BEFORE US, RIGHT? IS 'CAUSE THERE'S SO MANY OTHER FACTORS THAT GO INTO THAT.
THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT.
I KNOW IT WAS A LOT OF INFORMATION.
WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR STAYING FOCUSED AND, UH, PROVIDING FEEDBACK.
'CAUSE IT'S GONNA BE EXTREMELY USEFUL TO US GOING FORWARD, UNDERSTANDING WHERE, WHERE YOUR HEADS ARE AS WE GO FORWARD.
UM, SO FOR NEXT STEPS, UH, IS, UH, WE SAID RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING, UM, WE STILL ARE PUTTING TOGETHER A COUPLE OF FINAL ITEMS RELATED TO THE FEEDBACK, THE SUMMARY FROM COMMUNITY SUMMIT ROUND ONE, AND THAT ALL WILL BE GOING ON IN VISION RICHARDSON.COM.
UH, WE WANT THIS TO BE A VERY TRANSPARENT PROCESS.
EVERYTHING THAT WAS SAID WILL BE OUT THERE FOR PEOPLE TO SEE WHAT WAS SAID.
UH, THE CONSULTANT TEAM'S GONNA TAKE THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED FROM YOU TONIGHT AND BECAME BEGIN PREPARING, UH, WHAT I DESCRIBED EARLIER AS THE STRATEGIC DIRECTION.
SO THAT'LL BE, UH, UH, DRAFT VISION STATEMENT THAT WE CAN, UH, START TO DISCUSS WITH THE COMMUNITY, UH, BUILDING UPON THE WORK THAT MONICA'S BEEN DOING THAT SHE SHARED WITH YOU.
UH, SOME, UH, FLESHING OUT THE GUIDING PRINCIPLES A BIT MORE, AND, UH, DEVELOPING A PRELIMINARY STRUCTURE FOR A SCENARIO, UH, FOR HOW THE COMMUNITY MIGHT DEVELOP GOING FORWARD.
AND THEN FINALLY, COUNCIL WILL BE BRIEFED ON SEPTEMBER 25TH.
THAT WILL JUST BE THE COUNCIL THAT NIGHT.
ALTHOUGH I THINK AS WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, UH, STAFF WILL BE, UH, BRIEFING THE C P C, UH, REGARDING THE PRELIMINARY STRATEGIC DIRECTION.
AND JUST LIKE WE DID IN JUNE, WE'LL BE DOING THAT PRIOR TO GOING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.
AND AT THAT POINT, WE'LL BE SHARING WITH YOU SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT WE'LL BE TRYING TO DO TO GET, UH, FEEDBACK FROM SOME OF THOSE GROUPS, UH, SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING WITH STAFF AS WE GO FORWARD.
AND THAT'S, UH, COMMUNITY SUMMIT TOO IS SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR.
SO WITH THAT, WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR FEEDBACK TONIGHT.
UH, THANK YOU WHOLE TEAM, UH, FOR, UH, A GREAT BRIEFING.
VERY GOOD DIALOGUE TO THE COUNCIL AND THE C P C.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUGGESTIONS.
UM, I COMMIT TO YOU, THE WHOLE TEAM COMMITS TO YOU WHEN WE VISIT AGAIN, YOU'LL SEE THOSE REFLECTED IN OUR THINKING AND, AND THE WORK PRODUCT THAT WE BRING BACK TO YOU.
UM, MR. MAYOR, UM, IF, UH, UM, CHAIRMAN WOULD GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN THE C P C PORTION OF THE MEETING, WE WOULD ASK YOU, UH, A LITTLE MORE PATIENCE.
WE HAVE TWO VERY QUICK ACTION ITEMS THAT THE COUNCIL WILL, UH, HANDLE.
AND THEN, UH, WE CAN ALL KIND OF ADJOURN TOGETHER IF THAT, OR WE CAN ALL KIND OF TAKE, TAKE, LEAVE TOGETHER, IF THAT'S OKAY.
IF YOU CAN HANG OUT JUST A FEW MORE MINUTES AFTER ADJOURNING.
WELL, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN THE C P C PORTION OF THIS MEETING.
SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, COUNSEL, IF I COULD GET YOUR ATTENTION TO LOOK AT ITEMS D THROUGH G.
UH, WE WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER THOSE AS A CONSENT AGENDA AND VOTE ON THEM ALL AT ONE TIME.
UNLESS ANY OF YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC ITEM THAT YOU'D LIKE TO DRAW.
MOTION TO APPROVE ITEMS D THROUGH G AS PRESENTED.
GOT A MOTION? YOU GOT A SECOND? SECOND.
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HUTCHIN RIDER? WE GOT A SECOND.ALL IN FAVOR? RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND PLEASE.
I GUESS IT'S ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST.
IS THAT, I BELIEVE THAT IS NEXT.
SO COUNSEL, ANY ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE WITH US TONIGHT? MS. JUSTICE? THANK YOU.
I, UH, GOT TO SERVE, UH, AT MY FIRST NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS MEETING THIS PAST THURSDAY.
I WAS, UH, OFFICIALLY, UH, UH, APPOINTED IN JUNE.
AND IT WAS OUR FIRST MEETING AND IT WAS A LONG DAY, A LONG ORIENTATION.
IT REMINDED ME OF JOINING COUNCIL, A LOT OF INFORMATION TO LEARN.
UH, IT'S A VERY LARGE AREA IN NORTH TEXAS, SO, UM, IT WAS AN HONOR TO BE ABLE TO SERVE AND TO LEARN.
AND, UH, I LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING SERVING NOT JUST RICHARDSON'S INTEREST, BUT LEARNING MORE ABOUT THE REGION AND HOW WE CAN BE A PARTNER AND THEY CAN BE A PARTNER FOR US.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPRESENTATION AND WE KNOW YOU'RE GONNA DO A WONDERFUL JOB.
ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, UM, SEVERAL OF US HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO THE EISMAN CENTER ANNUAL VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION DINNER.
UM, IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE EVENING.
WE ACTUALLY HAD THE OPPORTUNITY THANKS TO THE MAYOR TO GO UP AND RECOGNIZE, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT WAS NINE, RIGHT? YES, SIR.
YEAH, THAT WAS THE NUMBER I WAS GONNA, THAT I HAD, WAS NINE VOLUNTEERS WHO STARTED WITH THE EISMAN CENTER AND HAS SEEN IT ALL THE WAY THROUGH.
AND IT WAS JUST A, IT WAS AN INCREDIBLE EVENING.
I WANNA THANK, UM, CITY STAFF AND ALLIE AND THE WHOLE TEAM.
UM, 'CAUSE IT WAS JUST A SPECIAL, SPECIAL EVENING AND I KNOW WE ALL THAT WE'RE, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO MAKE IT REALLY ENJOYED THAT.
UH, ALSO ON WEDNESDAY, UH, SEVERAL OF US WENT TO THE RIBBON CUTTING FOR THE MAD HATTER PUB IN THE CITY LINE AREA.
UM, AND I ACTUALLY WENT BACK THERE.
THE FOOD WAS SO GOOD, I DIDN'T GET TO TRY ALL OF IT, SO I WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY AND ORDERED MORE FOOD
BUT WHAT'S REALLY COOL IS, UH, IT EXEMPLIFIES SOME OF WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO THERE BECAUSE THE GENERAL MANAGER ACTUALLY LIVES RIGHT ABOVE THE MAD HATTER PUB.
SO, UH, IT WAS A NIGHT OF NICE.
I WAS GONNA MENTION THAT, BUT I WILL ADD TO JOE'S POINT THERE ON THE MAD HATTER, UM, THE DAY BEFORE THAT WAS ALSO THE AUSTIN CIRCUIT DESIGN RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY.
UM, AND THEN THE FOLLOWING DAY WAS MED HATTER.
IT'S A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, SEEING IT HAPPEN.
AND, UM, IN THE COMMUNITY, AUSTIN CIRCUIT DESIGN IS PART OF THE IQ.
LOTS OF GOOD THINGS HAPPENING ALONG WITH MED HATTER.
THESE PLANS AND THESE THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON SEEING THAT I GUESS COME TO FRUITION, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT, THAT WAS REALLY NEAT.
UM, THE OTHER CHAMBER EVENT I DID, AND AS I MENTIONED ON SOCIAL MEDIA, I APOLOGIZE TO ALL THOSE WHO HAD TO HEAR ME SING KARAOKE, BUT I DID TEND TO YOUNG PROFESSIONALS, UH, PARTY LAST WEEK.
AND THAT WAS, UH, REALLY NEAT TO, UH, NETWORK AND CONNECTED A LOT OF THEM AND DO A LITTLE KARAOKE SINGING.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH MR. BARRIOS.
I'M, I'M SORRY MR. DORIAN, WE GOT YOU.
I CAN, I CAN DO, I CAN DO BARRIOS TONIGHT.
UM, WE, WE, A LOT OF US ATTENDED, UH, THE SAME EVENTS AND, AND THEY WERE ALL REALLY SPECTACULAR.
ONE OF THE EVENTS, UM, WE ATTENDED LAST WEEK WAS THE R I S D, UH, LUNCH AND LEARN, UH, WHICH WAS REALLY AN INVALUABLE MEETING.
IT WAS MORE OF US GETTING TOGETHER, BOTH SIDES, KIND OF, KIND OF HAVING A POWWOW JUST TO SIT AROUND AND, YOU KNOW, ONE, UM, BREAK THE ICE BREAK BREAD AND KINDA LEARN MORE ABOUT WHAT THEIR GOALS ARE AND SOME OF THE NEW THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN THE DISTRICT.
UM, AND WE LEARNED QUITE A BIT.
AND I THINK WE STARTED SOMETHING THAT I THINK THINK WE'LL CONTINUE TO ENGAGE IN.
SO I WAS REALLY HAPPY ABOUT THAT.
SO, AND WE DID SO MANY OTHER THINGS, BUT I'M GONNA LEAVE IT AT THAT FOR THE MOMENT.
WELL, I'D LIKE TO ADD A COUPLE THINGS ABOUT THE EISMAN CENTER ANNUAL VOLUNTEER APPRECIATION DINNER THAT WE HAD.
THE COM LEVEL OF COMMITMENT THEY HAD WAS, UH, TREMENDOUS.
YOU KNOW, SOME OF THEM HAD THE VOLUNTEER HOURS, LIKE BETWEEN 1000 TO 5,000 HOURS.
SO IF IT IS A 5, 10, 5, 5,000 HOURS, WHICH IS, IS UH, ABOUT, UH, TWO AND A HALF YEARS OF WORK, FULL-TIME WORK.
SO THAT'S, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, BY HEARING THOSE, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES ME TO APPRECIATE MORE OF THEIR VOLUNTEER WORKS.
AND THEN WE HAD, WELL THERE WAS LIKE COUPLE OF THE EVENT THAT YOU HAD THAT I ATTENDED WITH YOU WAS MAYORS, UM, UH, READING A BOOK AT THE PRIMROSE SCHOOL OF RESEARCH.
AND, UH, THE TOPICS THEY CHOSE TO READ.
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THE BOOK WAS, UH, SOMETHING THAT I LEARNED, IT REFRESHED MY MIND.ALSO, IT'S ABOUT, UH, KINDNESS, ENVIRONMENT, TAKING CARE OF OTHERS AND, UH, KIDS ASKING QUESTION, INTERESTING QUESTION.
THEY ASK SOME OF THE QUESTION.
I KNOW THAT PROBABLY THE PARENTS GUIDE THEM, BUT SOME OF THE QUESTION CAME FROM THEMSELVES, SO AND SO THE KIDS ARE SO LIKE ANGEL.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT REALLY I ENJOYED A LOT.
AND ALSO, UH, TODAY, UH, THERE WAS ANOTHER IMPORTANT EVENT TODAY AT LUNCH, WHICH WAS RICHARD MAYER'S SUMMER INTERN PROGRAM.
SO I'M SURE PROBABLY YOU WOULD BE TALKING A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT.
BUT THE KIDS, YOU KNOW, HIGH SCHOOL KIDS, UH, THE, THE ROLE THAT THEY PLAY AND THE THINGS THEY DO, UH, I, I THINK THE, OUR FUTURE IS BRIGHT.
UH, SO ALL THIS PLANNING THAT WE ARE DOING IN THE FUTURE, THEY'LL BE DOING MUCH BETTER THAN THAT.
CURTIS, YOU HAVE, I WAS GONNA ADD ONE MORE THING, AND MAYBE PLEASE DO, POSSIBLY YOU MIGHT HAVE, UH, BROUGHT THIS UP.
BUT, UM, UH, THE MAYOR AND, UM, PRO TIM SHILL AND MYSELF WENT TO A, THE PRIMROSE SCHOOL OF RICHARDSON LAST WEEK.
AND, UH, WE WERE, WE HAD, WE WERE FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO READ TO THE STUDENTS THERE.
AND I SAY STUDENTS, THEY WERE, I THINK I HAD ONE TO TWO YEAR OLDS AND, UH,
SO ANYWAY, IT WAS REALLY A NICE EVENT.
WE HAD A REALLY GREAT TIME AND, UH, THE KIDS REALLY ENJOYED IT.
BUT WE WERE ABLE TO READ A BOOK.
I HAD, I THINK MINE WAS BLUE TRUCK
AND ANYWAY, THE KIDS REALLY LIKED IT.
AND, UM, WE JUST HAD A REALLY GOOD TIME AND WE WALKED AWAY FEELING REALLY GOOD.
SO ANYWAY, I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT IN THERE.
WE DID SO MANY THINGS LAST WEEK.
IT WAS, I, THERE WAS PROBABLY A FEW OTHERS, RIGHT? THERE WERE, BUT ANYWAY, THERE YOU GO.
UM, WE, THE KICKOFF FOR THE FOOD PANTRY, NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK HAS KICKED OFF AND THEY DO AN ANNUAL EVENT WHERE THEY RAISE OR THEY HAVE DONATIONS OF PEANUT BUTTER, AS MUCH PEANUT BUTTER AS POSSIBLE.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA GIVE YOU A SHOUT OUT.
UH, TOMORROW NIGHT WE HAVE AN EVENT.
YOU CAN BRING ALL THE PEANUT BUTTER TO THE, UH, KICKOFF FOR THE, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH, UH, WHAT IS IT? NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.
AND AT ANY GIVEN TIME YOU CAN BRING PEANUT BUTTER TO THE IQ HEADQUARTERS.
THERE'S GONNA BE BOXES AT OUR, UH, RECREATION CENTERS.
THEY'RE GONNA BE AT THE SENIOR CENTER, SO THERE'S GONNA BE LOTS OF PLACES FOR YOU TO DONUT PEANUT BUTTER.
AND SO THERE IT IS A CONTEST, BUT IT GOES TO A REALLY, REALLY GOOD CAUSE.
SO, UM, THAT IS THE NUMBER ONE NEEDED FOOD FOR ALL OF THESE NETWORKS, UH, ANNUALLY.
SO IF YOU CAN HELP WITH THAT, WE'D APPRECIATE IT.
AND THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS I CAN TALK ABOUT, BUT WE'RE GONNA AGENDA THIS, UH, CALL THIS A, A MEETING.
SO WITH NO FURTHER BUSINESS, THIS MEETING OF THE RICHARDSON CITY COUNCIL IS ADJOURNED AT 9:24 PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.