AN ORDINANCE relating to land use and zoning; extending a moratorium established by Ordinance 125425 for six months on the filing, acceptance, or processing of applications for the establishment, expansion, or change of use for certain uses on parcels with a Commercial 1, Commercial 2, or Neighborhood Commercial 3 zoning designation within the Aurora-Licton Urban Village; declaring an emergency, and establishing an immediate effective date for this extension; all by a 3/4 vote of the City Council.
The bill passed. Chair of the Senate. Please read the next report. The short title, please. The Report of the Planning, Land Use and Zoning Committee should own 22 Bill 119 342 ruling to any since zoning, sending a moratorium stoppage by ordinance 1 to 5 425 for six months. The committee recommends bill pass. Katherine Johnson. Thanks. This is the first of four items from the Pledge Committee. Fun fact since we're going along today. We almost called it the Up Beat Committee, urban planning, built environment and trees. I settled on plans instead. The first item is a moratorium on certain uses within the Araw Linton Springs Urban Village. Last October, we passed emergency legislation prohibiting certain uses that conflicts with our comprehensive plan goals for love. The moratorium was in response to continued application for uses such as storage and many warehouse facilities in a residential urban village. When those uses crop up, it tends to lock up our land use for two plus decades. And that's a place where we want to see more housing, not necessarily more self-storage units. So we asked for that emergency legislation, adopted it, and anticipated that those changes would be made permanent through the adoption of the citywide mandatory housing affordability proposal. But given the lengthy ness of that appeal, we are here asking for an extension of that moratorium by six months, as was outlined in public comment today. We've had a couple three folks in our position, maybe four or five, and received in excess of 100 emails and phone calls to the office in support of this extension . So I would ask for your support in adopting the Council Bill 119342. For because remember. Brian. Thank you. Councilmember Johnson, thanks for your ongoing work on this and I will be supporting this. I want to just reiterate what I said. A committee, which is that I'm committed to the city, takes a kind of comprehensive look on the types of uses that are currently in this fight. I think the the feedback that you and others have talked about, about the number of comments are important. I also think, though, there are certain types of uses that we need to function as a city. Those uses have to be somewhere I've heard from because as soon as like the folks at Handy Andy that have talked about , if we, you know, they will be there because they're invested. But if these uses don't exist in our city, where will they go? And I think it's worth a conversation to make sure that we are creating spaces for the types of uses we need and also honoring, you know, neighborhood desire to evolve over time. And it may be that these uses are not incompatible in certain ways, and we can figure that out. And maybe that there's there is some type of incompatibility and we just have to figure out where that goes and not just prohibit things. I do think continuing this with this legislation to extend the timeline to allow us more time where the process moves forward is makes sense, which is why I'm supporting it. Good. LS President Press if you. Would just council members. Thank you. This this location obviously is located in District five. And again, the purpose of this legislation is to extend a moratorium on certain types of heavy commercial development inside the Aurora Lipton Springs Urban Village, Ala. Boundaries by an additional six months. This moratorium was originally approved by council. As was stated earlier, one year ago. Restricting heavy commercial development will encourage more housing and pedestrian friendly development in the C-1, C-2 and NC. Three designations within the boundaries of ALA of the goals of this legislation are consistent with a two or three five comprehensive plan. They are the Aurora, Clifton Urban Village Neighborhood Plan and the mandatory housing affordability that is MH eight, the city wide reasons, all of which have had community and council review over the last several years. No businesses will be asked to leave or relocate as a result of the legislation. Any new businesses, any new business development. It has been has recently been permitted or is in the permitting process will still move forward. The ALA community has been welcoming to potential density and zone changing and a more pedestrian friendly development. However, since ALA was part of the citywide rezoning, those permanent changes will have to wait. And this is a way to ensure that we do not lose too much development capacity with things that are incompatible with the vision for that neighborhood, and we will be legally incompatible in the future. I want to thank the community members who brought this to our attention and who have contributed and continue their work with our office to achieve the goals for their community. Many individuals, but those in particular. Leah Anderson, Lee Burch, David Osaki. Brian, do you ever say that? Do you remember? Just to name a few. So I asked my council colleagues for your support today in voting yes to approve. Thank you. Thank. You can remember her bold. Thank you. I just wanted to mention, for the record, I believe that of the three or so comments that we received in opposition to this action, one of them was on behalf of a membership based organization, the Aurora Merchants Association, so likely representing more than three individuals. And I think that speaks to the interest that was discussed in committee in using this time not only to make sure that there are not any additional incompatible uses of filed for incompatible uses, but to actually have a more intentional engagement that includes that body as well. Very good. Any further comments before we vote? If not, please call the role on the passage of the bill. Gonzalez I Herbold II Johnson Suarez O'Brien, Sergeant Bagshaw President Harrell Aden favor and unopposed. Bill Passenger Assignment. Please read the next agenda item.