mixed use design standards and the Mudroom term
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A few more questions. Yes, sir. Um A policy
of One point one point seven. Well, I mean before I ask the question, did you want to get through the entire presentation? I do. I do.
There's only one more slide and then we're going to open it up for discussion. We're going to come back to this slide and then we'll we'll have our discussion like we usually do with the the ref chapters. There's only one more slide. that Terry is actually gonna walk us through to pretty much talk about the relationship um between the tier system that we have established for the SDR future learnings category. So I'll go so Terry.
Thank you,
Ryan. Um As part of the opening presentation of the workshop, we decided That we would quickly touch upon. Policy Gross 152 gives us this the R compatibility factors. Um at the last workshop I had mentioned that the new future land use category, suburban density residential, which is SDR, was a combination of the RISC III, RISC 6, RISC 9, RISC 12, and also covering the gap between 12 up to Uh seventeen. Uh and
that it was divided into three tiers. Uh, the first tier being uh three or two point eight to five point nine or six point oh and then the second tier being from six point one to Eleven. point nine, I believe. Um and then the third tier being from twelve point. Oh I went all the way up to seventeen ish.
Oh there's a pretty good Okay, so th those were the density ranges. When we presented this slide at the last meeting. And then we talked about the types of factors that would be included. in uh in in policy format, which is Um policy grows one five two here. So all of these factors are all the bullets that you see on the on the screen there under each tier is a type of factor. Well the Intent of
this chart is to provide direction to the or the intent of this policy is to provide direction to the land development code to establish the standards. for how a certain density type or housing type that would be built under that particular density level. uh should relate to the neighboring Awesome. housing types that are around it. So if you had a tier three apartment building development, for example. you know, garden style apartment sitting at about thirteen twelve units per acre.
And it was next to uh a single family subdivision, which sometimes happens here in Pasco. The comprehensive plan says, well, the compatibility factors that need to be considered are the height restrictions, the parking orientation, the architectural articulation, the building format design, screening setbacks, stepbacks, and vegetative buffers. And That's all the comprehensive plan says. It's just saying that Thou shalt not get these things in the Land Development Code. Then the Land Development Code actually expresses. what
the factors are through standards. So landing so the government's plan and Providing this Uh Development here frame root. is not a regulatory framework. But it is a direct and wanted publicly established one that has set standards. Those standards may not necessarily exist in the same exact spot in the land development. For example, which many people have pointed out, but for the purposes of being comprehensive in a comprehensive plan, a vegetative buffer. Well we have a landscape
section and the land on code already that what that sort of addresses this type of different butteryard requirement between certain uses. that would be addressing a factor that's established. uh in identified in the cop rights plan. Uh and so Tier three has the most factors associated with it because it's the most uh the highest density type with the largest. types of buildings that may be involved. And therefore it addresses how it relates to a
tier two density and a tier one density. A tier two density might have something like tunnels, eight twelve units per acre or what have you. And the TR2 density is really interested in its relationship to single family homes. So You can see the factors at a tier two density type, housing type. uh would be would be looking at in terms of fulfilling standards that the land development could have established. And then the tier one that's there is only really interested in itself. Uh particularly as it relates to Uh manufacture
buildings and the form and design of those buildings because the U State law changes that passed this year. Which essentially enable Um manufactured homes. Two coexist within single family Detached neighborhoods and developments. And how should those manufacturing home styles? appear in those neighborhoods, should they have Similar roof pictures, for example, should they have attached garages, for example, given The uh the existing context of the
typical single family detached neighborhood. And so the tier one factors are really only addressing themselves. How would they manufacture a building type? Excuse me.
Single down the detached housing ground. And that's generally what the breakdown is in the single in the in the SDR suburban density residential. Uh objective And under policy grows
one five two.
Um
This we talked about already. And
that's Google Sol. With that, um we'll open up Yeah.
Conversation of the Chairman M We should
Yes. Okay, so um
Sherry, my first question, my two questions. One is related to policy one point one point seven.
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I don't necessarily have an objection to the policy. I guess my concern is you're using a new term
This is different than what we codified in the Lancode, which is Mixed use chip production metro model thing. Yeah. We when we invented that server. Um Ten years ago. That's sure people haven't really heard of it, but now it's sort of become We now leave the Pasco Development Committee as a term of Art. Is there a reason you now want to use a different term?
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lot of the stakeholder feedback that we got when talking about How to use modram, how to think about moderam in the comprehensive plan for saying that We need to update my remote. Um and so In recognition of that of that update. Um what we want to think start thinking about is what modern 2.0 might be. And uh At the end of the day, what moderam two, what moderam one Pinell is really thinking about is multimodal compact development
area with a mix of uses. So we tried to get a little bit more Um um descriptive in what Munroom is and not just think about the trip reduction aspect of it, but think of it as a mix-use multi-lorm. Design standard. So if you see MMDS in the chapter. That's it is. Contemplating essentially Munitoring Two point none. Whatever that might be, 'cause we have to go through the whole stakeholder process of developing. An
editing and revising button.
Okay. Um
Uh I mean the only thing I might ask though was
if you maybe put something like formally known as moderum or something like that so that it's My um my concern is that there are incentives in our mobility fee regulations. And in that section of the code that deals with Muddro for this type of development. So I don't want this to be construed as that we're eliminating Okay. The existing incentives for Mughram because it doesn't reference Mugham anymore.
That makes sense.
So somehow you need to True. Grandfather means policy so that Does it look like we're moving away from
moderns? Hold on.
And then I guess my second question, and then I'll let everybody