couple things to update you on for tonight the first thing is council at their last meeting approved a schedule for the housing false hall housing series in the inclusionary housing that should hopefully be after the the master plan is drafted and ready to go for a public hearing so that's when we're plugging in there's also a few other dates on here for your information along with the we're putting together a kind of open give some educational outreach one on the same piece so as i mentioned council did approve this schedule so that's what we're working with right now moving forward the other item to  to talk about under city updates is we are the city is is applying for meaningful plain grants again this year so as part of that we will need a signature from the chair of the planning commission so one of the at least have that discussion and have those here to years so the first time we used to do our economic development strategic plan i handed the second one is why regina is here right now facilitating this process so we've been successful with them i don't know if we can be successful three years in a row that's a lot to ask for it anyway so this year what i intend to apply for is a branch to hire a consultant to do away funding planned for the downtown and for the gateway districts leading to downtown it's something that we've talked about for years but we've had to put it off as we go through the planning it's something that was identified as a priority in the parking study and one of the council's priorities for our staff this year is to implement parking studies so it aligns with what we're trying to do i'd like to request a grand the amount of twenty two thousand dollars and this year a c c has reduced the match that we have to provide so we only have to provide a ten percent match but the points gained by having more than that ten percent match so i'm proposing a fifteen percent match of three thousand three hundred dollars which would come from community development corporation c b c budget preserves so i would love to have your permission  again i think there are some more home ownership data added to the insights section that wasn't there before a little bit more description around the gentrification scorecard and this is the updated gentrification scorecard and really great moments like there are such great historic you know resources and everything good in your back and you're an older city and all of that is good and positive so in and of itself there's not necessarily like a from that age of housing break it down and and keep in mind that we primarily focused our efforts to date on rental housing now because we're not going to look at single family homes but because the development pressures that are coming on to the city right now are among the along with these and our way of development so we focus our efforts because we have a very good press timeline to be able to get some targets out there after we've completed the process of doing incentives and policies then we're going to turn our attention  put in i think it's a really high level here because what you're looking to do with that is give us a lot of leeway and flexibility to do things like apply for grants and so if there's something high level that supports what we're looking to go for or will help us to move forward with a project available for moderate income families and that are for low income families and what's specifically back and tail and then we'll get there with them comes as well so i think this document will refer to the housing document right as an append this knowing that now that data is not current and so i know i was i could see the value of focusing more on like our broad desire to improve energy efficiency without worrying too much about what energy  missing i really like we don't need it i'm just wondering if how i think we need to bounce how specifically want to be with timing that the those numbers will be current for a lot of the time this plane isn't yours yeah i mean sense it's you know some of the information we might have in some of the other studies but does as the mayor points out we may be lacking and we don't have that information yet to benchmark as we try to figure out you know as you mentioned how we how we determine the energy efficiency maybe that's something we might do as a planning study is to determine where we are currently and sense and targets there so that we're doing that outside of the framework of the master goals and objectives or that sort of hits on issues that are all within your but there's a few of them in here that there is nothing in in the face of it so i just think they're just needs to be a little more and i don't think it needs  not mean there isn't one i really think that just like encourage low impact development and i don't feel like that was really talked about anywhere except for just on the objective here where i think some of the information that you might be looking for is in other other sections so when we look at the whole plan that's not to say that i think what i might suggest is that once we look at the whole p housing subsidized housing and you know and what's what's left for you know from an open market so that those information yeah  four and fifty five the chart showing the number of rental homes affordable by income bracket is that calculated by looking at how many homes rent falls within thirty percent the city in addition to other types of housing stock i don't think converting wealthy families back to single families is either not only is it contrary to their goal of creating and maintaining or increasing density but it also crisis and one of the things that came over here really and that is a lot of people in the community want to see duplex units converted that single one home so i don't think i agree with you one hundred percent what you're saying that it should not be a primary strategy and i don't think that is a primary lot we do have a lot of single family homes in the city but many of them are not in the condition that you will are looking for and there is limited inventory that is attractive to minors so if i were don't have a ton of places to put new stuff so i think all of those options are options that we're considering and a few you know very specific things that we're working on the city but there is one category was really high and here are the exact percentage but it was a magnitude higher than the surrounding communities but part of that is what makes it an affordable community because a lot of people fire duplex as a means of subsidizing i totally agree that i think a sense from it's a great i think i just hear us wanting to develop develop develop and i we're going to in the midst of plans a lot for universities and with development with the housing with the bed you increase your stormwater you increase parking you increase data largely to support what diversity means they truly meeting diverse diversity housing on both sides of the spectrum so that it's a it's a you're renting the basement it has its own entrance it has its its own cooking facilities back from disability things like that but it's a smaller space i think it's massive thirty percent of the of the square article i don't know if there's any owner owner occupancy requirements with the colleges they are conditional use in our regulations and they do play into the mix of maximum density so in i believe in the ar and so i think if they can be folded in without i think necessarily have to say this is in here because when you say he is looking for a shelter oriented plan i think if we're going to talk about the housing needs of the community here's a place to talk about and so we think we talk in the beginning of a plan about the influx of who's coming in i think because the put the context of that it's like the fact that there is influx isn't it self a notable think about this city especially compared to cities fifty six about how we're not gentrifying but i'm wondering if there's like it just seems like some of the comments from the gentrification report which talk about things like how we can keep from gentrifying  i'm i'm wondering why what this or fox process was behind taking those out or if there's another way to refer to them sky i do think that would be valuable for us to include as a sort of pre determined set of goals  was there was a lot of discussion about the language that was used and so we came up with some other options and seeing what the majority of the folks that were involved in some of the leaders cautions were changed to the intent i think to some extent which was from a staff level there was some pushback on that because it changed it so much that it was there was some concern of these it was shifting what the community had collectively come together and really on as as part of that vision statement so  so that's kind of where we ended up in discussion at the the last time we looked at this so i think generally there was some comfort with option two that still march because small town feel ends up kind of going on to find and that term just kind of sitting out there without a sort of discussion of it in another context  i don't think works for our like for something as over knocking as like a general statement in economic vitality and because that is you know ultimately i think that there's the phrase our city is a more sort of welcoming and  taining means doing more of what we've done we have a sense of what we've done expanding it again is that there's a roadmap contained there that i think makes sense that i don't see in one or two or one or three where do you think you'd be replaced for that demographic changes i think what matters most is not our size but if we want to be a migrant and i like me american each community i don't know like i feel like i don't know how to fit that into the sentence exactly right and doesn't because i think you like the small town feel but i guess what i was just wondering what you're trying to get at i mean if someone's just reading this document and they don't really know you know i have no problem with would make in your community i think that's more of because we're taking the language that came that is currently contained within the the vision statement for the for the city that was that was discussed and and went through of large community process because we're putting them in directly i think the concern is that we don't want to change it too much so that we're taking it out of that original context so i think it's you know there is concern of the language that with that small town feel in particular that that one phraseology but it's i think we need to be we careful how much we drive to change it so that we're not accept but i'm just caution of things like blake i sometimes make here in our community it's like i hear like assimilation you know that's that's that i so it's i think that like messages already get hard and parcel of like what we're putting forward with the vision statement and if it's economic vitality is about you know sir purely economic vitality i i think that like that here is that a small town feel because this whole section of it is the adopt a vision statement for a new strategic vision statement for the city that was adopted by council would it make more sense to to have the introductory paragraph that says this is what the adopted vision is for this the that is guiding this planet and just leave it at that is almost a direct quote of the vision statement that the fact that we're the most racially diverse there's a policy in northern new england which would be a i think like cool demographic point to mention on page yes page eight we have you know we have in common  paragraph i'm having difficulty with one because the phrase rendering a city at his place is like sort of painful like we can't we and the contrast between it yet while the city walking is your residence it also wants to ensure there is still a place for new americans a long term residence feels like it's setting those three groups up in opposition to each other and i think one thing we're trying to emphasize with this plan is that what we're new skis doing is like creating elements of community like that are appealing to everyone so because that implies that new americans want residents don't want an urban environment with a building i live in river house and my building is mostly medical residents graduate students undergraduate students and then like a few full like attending physicians or like assets but that pretty much what's listed is natural and maybe recreational so i was thinking of be cool if we could list a couple of cultural assets or just just to show that that is a meaningful statement and that could be the library if we're asking specific questions i don't know how we would be integrated duration into the plan so i think to the question i have is what would be good information to either provide that or try to solicit f from these public engagements events and it may be that we're just we just have copies of the plan displaying the standing of postcard from information here you go it could be that we're asking people about one of the thoughts  i think it is it is i don't want to i don't go into those events and ask these very specific questions and then not do anything with that information relative to the front since we are keeping the higher higher level so it's more a question of what we want to try to put out there and because we will not meet before that september twenty third farmer's market the bat you know we may just have a table set up to say hey you're doing the plan here's a postcard for more information