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Planning Committee Meeting

February 12, 2008

Present:
Ian MacConnell, Emily Foster, Doreen Uhas Sauer, Ron Hupman, Elan Daniel

Excused:
Catherine Girves, Bill Graver, Joaquin Serantes

Guests: Sharon Young

Meeting was called to order at 7:30 pm

1. Green Plan Update
   1. At the second and third public workshops where community stakeholders identified the most feasible and important programs that were thought of in the first meeting.
   2. 16 main programs have been identified and prioritized. Most of these programs relate to educating residents or include partnering with other organizations.
   3. The next steps include creating the plan and possibly another public workshop.
2. Conservation Districts
   1. Discussed the possibility of going beyond supporting conservation district legislation, but asking to be one of the pilot programs.
   2. There was also discussion around expanding design review instead of having separate guidelines and procedures.
   3. A compromise was made where we will ask for both design review expansion where the potential conservation district will not cover so that the area is covered in some way around aesthetics.
   4. We decided to draft a letter to Boyce Safford III with carbon copies to Council President Michael Mentel, Pete Cass, Roxyanne Burrus, and Randy Black that 1) supports conservation district legislation in its concepts and intents 2) would like to continue the discussion around the expansion of the design review jurisdiction boundaries and 3) expresses the desire for conservation district legislation to hold its pilot program within the Old North Columbus Neighborhood as it was identified within the pool of potential pilot neighborhoods.
3. Urban Commercial Overlay Changes
   1. The issues around current changes were discussed.
   2. We then came to a consensus as to what kinds of changes we would like to see and the comments we would put forth to staff in our meeting with them around the proposed changes. This consensus included asking that parking reductions be tied to use instead of building size, that administrative waivers be eliminated, and that the Commission was given some form of oversight on proposed patios. 

Meeting was adjourned at 8:30.

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