ok well good evening my name is mark vander plug and i'm a planner with the city of holland and very pleased to see a lot of people show up here tonight i could think of an awful lot of excuses for not coming out to a m planning related meeting so but we're very happy for you showing up tonight and we've got a lot of information to share with you tonight so but we don't want to overburden you with things also so but we we still are in the process of doing the master plan but really are at a good point right now to to get more feedback from you all in the in the greater community too so my name again is mark barabbas is in the back there so it looks like we've got three planning commissioners city council member i see a couple planning commissioners amy aldrete there too so it's always good to see you all so this really is a an endeavor of the planning commission we're doing a master plan update to the cities the cities master plan and it's been well over twenty years since we've done a citywide master plan update so we are a little dated with that but it's not like we haven't been doing master plan processes in that twenty years we've been doing a lot of neighborhood based master planning efforts and that really kind of started back in the one nine hundred ninety s the planning commission at that time wanted to get more granular with our master planning efforts so chose to do it on kind of a neighborhood basis for a while but we we realized that we really need to get back to doing the citywide master plan update so we've been working on this for probably both a year and a half now and i don't want to delve into too much because harry burkholder one of our consultants is going to jump into that  i just wanted to bring to your attention also there are some items on the back a table there if you missed them as you were walking in the consultant said the draft master plan review ballot so if you don't have one of those please pick one of those up and i believe this can be dipped can this be deposited in the box back there to here ok and so if you have some  some things or ideas that come up while you are listening to the presentation here we would love to get that additional information from you and work that into the plan so again thank you very much for coming out on the c v and i'm going to turn it over to harry burkholder and we're going to have about twenty minutes to a half hour presentation then we'll do some q and a and then after that we're just going to open it up for an open house in let you all mill around and will be here to answer questions  thank you for coming thanks mark good evening everyone just show him how many people have been involved at least one meeting as part of this master plan process but how many people are involved in the last master plan process back in one thousand nine hundred two just one ok a good many people this is the first meeting you've heard about a master plan is tonight a couple good all right as mark said this is the culmination of about eighteen months worth of work to develop a new master plan for the city of holland as mark mentioned there's been a lot of activity since the last plant in one thousand nine hundred two so part of our job was to kind of coalesce all of those planning processes and the results of  into one new master plan but then also talk about some of the new concepts that are coming for not only the city of palm but west michigan and the state as a whole so tonight i have kind of an overview of our process if you see a picture of you take more than two that's fine we won't tell anyone stop this in the in the box and will take that back to the planning commission for consideration so let me get right into the presentation sure three clicker here ever go all right so we're going to talk a little bit about the background to what is a master plan look at some talk about some of the trends for the city and then we're really going to provide a broad overview of the goals and some of the actions for the community we could spend five hours to kind of go over page by page as is the draft master plan and i'm sure everyone has better things to do tonight so we're this is really a broad overview of symbols overarching goals talk a little bit about future land use and then where we go from here in terms of the planning process so just to give you a little bit of background on us where the called the land information access association or ally or leo we go by all three of you call our office well some of us last of the phone different ways we're a nonprofit group that we're working under a larger grant effort called planning for resilient communities right slide here which is actually a coalition of groups working to bring a resilient ideas and planning concepts across the state of michigan you can see our partners on this project the michigan miscible league michigan towns of the so ca sion michigan association of planning and then also the university of michigan college of architecture planning were all part of this process helping to guide not only this planning effort but similar resilient planning efforts in different communities across the state funding for this project kind of the umbrello that came from the coastal zone management program of the d e q the kresge foundation and then also the water center o university of michigan so my face is just part of the larger team that was part of this effort and what you don't see on here is all of you all the folks that participate in all the public meetings the planning commission city staff all were part of this larger project effort and are really part of the larger you know partnership that got this plan put together when we talk about what does it mean to be resilient if you just we even watch t v now you'll see things about resilient razors and resilient pick up trucks resilience is kind of this new catch phrase for a lot of different things income the urban planning or the land use side of things really designed to help communities develop the necessary capacity of the will and the means to meet all the different challenges that come before city that's economic challenges social challenges looking at our climate is changing and how are vironment changes can we build that capacity within a city to address those and expedited manner and when we talk about community resilience we're really looking at how the community then can then do that and really sustain that kind of activity in that forward thinking over a period of time and have the wherewithal and the means and the resources to respond to those adverse situations whether that's a plant leaving whether that's a big storm whether that's a school closes how do we respond to as a city collectively both us residents and public officials do some of those changes is the idea behind commu resilience so we've been taking this kind of concept with those other master plants across the state with this larger concept of resilience and we've been doing that here and so we like to talk about what are those challenges and the spectrum of all the challenges that any community faces on a given a given year so we know we have the interval populations and you'll see some of the boards around the room that talk about where those populations of might be so how do we address their needs how to be address those concerns and those are always changing and those all have trickle down effects into where people live how the homes are developing the community how schools have been flown in terms of student body population where they go into other schools in other communities how do we respond as a community to public health impacts and obvious thing from our access to food transportation how we do function terms of providing energy as a community and all the way to the blight and disinvestment in certain areas of the community we all have these challenges that come up different times of the year and different circumstances sometimes they come in multiple ways of how do we address it as a community is part of what we try to address this part of this master planning process some of the things that are kind of obvious in terms of responding to environmental challenges if you lived in the  monroe appear or toledo this is exactly the kind of thing that comes but we had actually the city's water system police shut down for three days how do you respond to that as a community so some of this is kind of emergency response activities but how do we plan for the long term impacts of such impediments to our to our communities of thinking about ways that we can kind of prepare for these kind of activities understanding that we have changes that are coming to our climate and we know that the participation not only in the wintertime in the springtime is increasing we're getting the last snow and more rain in the wintertime the last two winners are kind of a misnomer but of the overall trend of the last several years are showing this less winter ice on our lakes the intensity in the frequency of the storms that we're seeing is much more higher than it has been which then increases the opportunities and chances for flooding events severe heat events and then that really affects our vulnerable populations so thinking about that larger context of how holland fits in with these environmental challenges is something we tried to address as part of this planning process and you'll see again that some of the boards ways that we've done that so the idea is how do we take some of these concepts and then kind of bake it into this master plan process everyone does everyone have an idea what a master plan really is really is kind the guiding document for the community what we call a kind of a blueprint how do we want our community to to be what do we want to look like how we want to function in the next ten fifteen twenty years really big guy for the community it sets the  framework also for the zoning ordinances which is kind of the nuts and bolts of how we get that stuff done so the master plan is really much about broad strokes it does look at the strengths and weaknesses of the community some of the trends and i'll talk a little bit about that is very much about civic engagement so hearing from the community about what they want in terms of the future for holland there's a board in the back i'll talk a little bit about those activities but it's a document that lives and breathes so this is a doctrine that's not static it changes over time as new innovations as things change in the community this is a document that we constantly update this is the map from the one thousand nine hundred two plans anyone who has worked on that might recognize that map but this is exactly what a master plan is intended to do what we're trying to do is build that community resilience within that master plan through different ways but looking at ways we can prepare for that climate change or climate variability looking at ways to increase energy efficiency and some of those are innumerable resources and some of those might include  infrastructure and looking at ways that our entire ecosystem to balance out our community looking at the local economy and then also that social connection are all part of being a resilient community and if you walk around after the presentation look at some of these goals and action step to see how we've kind of incorporated some of these pathways to resilience within th one of the parts of the master plan that encourage you to look at is really an overview of the trends that have been happening within highland and port portions of west michigan for the last four years we've operated all the census figures from the one thousand nine hundred plan which makes sense looking at data from the two thousand and ten census two thousand and fourteen census we looked at regional data sources from west michigan and we had a tremendous amount of public engagement which included stake in every stakeholder interviews which probably many of you participated  in and then working with the that big team of partners that i mentioned at the beginning of the presentation some of the regional climate trends that we know of for this region speak to some of the things i mentioned before in terms of higher frequency of those severe storms that can cause some of that environmental and actually infrastructure damage more rain falling in those kind of shoulder seasons and spring in the fall the severity of those storms and also those heat events happening more frequently which then increases the summer drought risks and then also increases that transfer flooding good how can we address that as part of the master plan processes things that you'll see around on these boards looking at some of the population trends the city of population actually decreased about five percent between two thousand and two thousand and fourteen regional projections based on the growth of kind of greater west michigan actually things that's going to change so by twenty thirty actually increase in population of just around six  percent looking at where that growth is happening we actually see a larger population growth within the youth of the community we also have no rights over the last several years that holland is becoming more diverse as the  city moves forward the poverty has risen overall within the region and also within the city of holland two thousand more residents living at the poverty level since two thousand which is essential increase that goes to some of those impacts that i might and before and then looking at how our county is in our region and our community is in terms of health in terms of obesity how do we actually think about access to transportation how does the transportation impact our overall health and how do we address it as a larger or things that we've talked about as part of this master planning process as i mentioned in terms of the civic engagement we're very pleased and really proud of the amount of participation that we received from this community so i definitely big pat on the back for everyone who did all that thirty six meetings over eight hundred different participants at all of the different civic engagement activities that we had we had the opportunity to work with the youth council here in the city we worked with specific neighborhoods  leaders in all the different spectrums and stakeholder groups within the community and then also all of the citizens that participated it's really kind of hard to see but laser works doesn't work on t v right this map is kind of an indication of where all those meetings had in the radius of walking within the community how people get to those meetings which is really is a way to show of the amount of civic engagement that we did have as part of this process how many folks remember the shrek that we had or participate shroud this was several months ago about the design charette for washington avenue in chicago drive those that whole charette report and results are an appendix to this larger master plan and we understand that the township is going to adopt that because we do talk about how the township interacts with chicago drive so that was one of the other big results a big process is that that went on as part of this larger machinable planning process if you haven't been to the project website do so and i'll put up that address here at the end but we actually did some video interviews and interviews on the street of people on how about what they want for the community and then also some videos that some of those civic engagement processes you miss those and you want to see what people are saying or maybe you're on that video when the project website  you'll be able to see that and of course the contradiction will planning commission meeting city council meetings and now this is the open house one of the other things that we try to do is go out into the communities of the set of having people come to us let's go to them so we have what are called a series of pop up meetings and these are the locations that we've done that where we set up a table or we gave people an opportunity to write what their vision for the community was on the chalkboard or you can see this i want board on the bottom left things again that the the documents and all the results of the civic engagement processes are on this website you can get updates as to the adoption process so after tonight we'll talk about that a little bit at the end what's next you can find that out and actually of the draft of the master plan is on this website as well as what's on the desk up at the planning office on the third floor so i encourage you to look at that when you have a minute all right so kind of shifting into the goals and action steps which are really on the boards that you see here and then the planning commission over a series of time work to refine some of the language to get to a point where we have some nine overarching goals and we're continuing to develop those and refine oil so if you see things are language that doesn't make sense or you want to revise tonight is another opportunity to do that but you can start to see that on the boards here on the other side of the room and they're really address these nine topics so environment transportation public services parks and recreation housing urban design food and agriculture economy and social services those are really overarching umbrella terms for a lot of different things that fall into that category that you might say well you're missing a couple things we tried to kind of keep it in these nine topic areas so we have a goal statement for each of those nine and and then we actually have a series of action steps that work to address those these are the goals and actions that steps these are really the kind of the clean statements on what our goal is for these topics so we have an environment we want an environment that's clean and successful for transportation if we want to save and connect a system that serves the multiple modes so automobile walking biking that type of thing public services high quality efficient and cost effective parks and recreation visually appealing juran diverse activities and spaces that are accessible connected for all people housing energy efficient well maintained and includes various designs and housing types urban design statically pleasing tree line walkable mixed use neighborhoods that have recognizable development patterns food and agriculture locally sourced fresh foods that are accessible to all residents and businesses economy diverse industry based on technology and design and attracts and retains talent fueled by a strong entrepreneurial spirit and social services foster a safe and healthy community for all residents so very clean clear statements as to those overarching goal statements the next thing we worked on was the future land use of the community and the development patterns that are existing within the community and how we want to see that land use kind of transition from what it is now to the future and you see some of those maps in the back so this map where here this is in developed patterns is really the map that you see on the screen is what's happening now in terms of those land uses the future land use map is where we want to get to get to where we want to be when that happens and how that happens is part of the process that happens over time the map in the middle is kind of the strategy to do that so where do we want to put investment where do we want to make those investments to get to this map and then we have descriptions of all of the different your land use categories next to it and i'm not going to read all of those word for word so be part of the things that you walk around on but you kind of see the transition of those and some of the language that supports a lot of those to for future lan so again i could go on for a long time in terms of all the other dots of content that's in this master plan but i actually want to give you an opportunity to ask questions and then also walk around and look at these boards after tonight's open house we're going to review all the comments and ideas that you have the planning commission will and they will then amend this draft masterplan depending on what we hear expect to then have a public comment period which is sixty three days and that will probably  announced in june the draft plan will be available on that website will be available here at city offices at the end of that sixty three day public comment period there is then a public hearing the planning commission holds a hearing and also the city commission has a hearing probably in late august so tonight does not make the last time to provide feedback or recommendations for this master plan as i mentioned before you can actually submit comments via the website you can call city staff and then again we have these master plan right i'm going to ask that planning commission to help me out with what that means was my plan commissioners right i think there are addressed in ways that a touch on the specific items that were on that list in terms of transportation soon we talk about social equity issues and transportation how do they relate we try to address those issues when we talk about community health and looking at the vulnerable populations we can least identify where some of those folks might live and then try to address services to those folks so we are trying to address that we did make a concerted effort to talk to a diverse population as part of this  process we felt that we've we've we've achieved some of that i think continuing that conversation with the folks that are are always represented on planning commission in city commission is an important part of that process having that line of communication so that's something that's going to be in this plan as something that needs to continue to happen yes know i think that's a larger conversation with this idea of being more resilient community and how do we address the specific living wage in this in this masterplan we did not however we did address those trends that we're seeing in the community and i think this is the conversation that continues forward i think one of the i think the benefits of going through a master plan process is border the civic engagement and that's what the city has an effort to do is convene people and convene these types of discussions so i would encourage that to be pushed on you know over the next several years to address the specific issues facilitate as part of this larger process that conversation will keep happening so the stakeholder groups that are doing some of the work you mentioned are involved enough where they want to stick with this master plan process work with the planning commission work with the city to then maybe implement some of the ideas that come out of this some of the goals and action steps are things that those organizations are already doing so we hope that that encourages that collaboration ultimately it's up to people right so we have this document but it takes the people to help them to learn it and we hope that this conversation can continue to do that there is a legal requirement that the step that you update your plan every five years that's an opportunity to do that as i said before a master plan is constantly in flux it changes all the time so an annual discussion about are we meeting our goals do our struggles change  actions statements change should be part of this process and the more that you can have that conversation with all the stakeholders in the community the better off i think you'll be ok we're going to be around if you see anyone with a name tag fancy name tell you like this they're the ones who are still saying answer all the questions that you might have we're going to be around for another half hour forty five minutes as long as you want to stay you can look around these boards ask any questions that you have again with the name tax if you have a chance to fill out those ballot that be great there is a box in the back brown paper just fold it and put it in those will be considered as part of the next discussion with the planning commission also on these boards and you'll see it is supposed to do in helping guys future development guys preservation of where we want to do all those kind of land use for the next fifteen to twenty if it does fit into it maybe not so much in the context of a future leaders plan met but certainly are just questions about environmental issues and how can we when we go about doing our how can we bring them much more tree planting back into that because i mean that's what a low cost low wind bag design thing when we have recognized two i mean we've done a tree canopy survey and i don't forget it i forget the numbers right off the top of my head but i think it was like a twenty some percent was the overall treat canopy percentage on a citywide basis and i think we really want to get up to about thirty five  forty percent so that's definitely a goal out there something that we we need to be moving towards to get a sense of where things are so if you see in the darker red eye the areas where between sixty and eighty five percent of the units rental units in that area rents for seven hundred dollars or less chain and we chose a regional perspective so that you can get a sense in the surrounding communities where rental units are and what percentage of rents will stop in the region  ok maybe we can ok we'll take one more than we really just want are going to get into the open house so future and then this is how we get there because there's a lot out here as mayor was describing you can kind of split it into two categories things we're going to preserve patterns we're going to preserve and patterns we want to and this is your record of your thoughts so whatever's written on here we're going to summarize for the planning commission to review just give me one more second of your attention everybody and we'll let you go to do the exercise but  here are the of the instructions for that activity so if you're working through just start at the bottom answering the questions and you'll get to the middle for using stickers and stars for the goals and action steps so it's our times in a playful way to get your feedback on those goals and action steps so pick up the state the stars and the back golden green as marked on here represent an action step you really support so read each goal and if you really like it and support it put a green or gold star by it oh i'm sorry action step read the action steps so there's quite a few of them but you get to stickers per topic area to vote on the one that you most support you also get the red and blue stickers which represent one that you most oppose so one to two area that you most oppose you can put a red or blue sticker