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Regular Planning Commission Meeting Draft Minutes – Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Page 18 Mr. Lloyd advised that based on feedback from the CEC and the Planning 863 Commission, staff would then provide suggestions to the City Council for future 864 actions moving forward. 865 Chair Boguszewski stated his strong support of an on-site demonstration of a 866 model unit of poster board displays of units, opining nothing beats a visual 867 perspective. Chair Boguszewski questioned the intent in seeking feedback from 868 consultant caregivers, while supporting feedback from area realtors regarding 869 impacts to adjacent properties. Chair Boguszewski opined that the consensus 870 would most likely come forward that these units would provide helpful, but also 871 needing to understand what the city was seeking in this type of temporary housing 872 unit and whether or not the public agreed with that perspective and/or need. 873 Chair Boguszewski opined that time and expense spent in guiding or shaping this 874 effort would be well spent if only to evaluate their efficacy for use. Overall, Chair 875 Boguszewski suggested defining who the contact person was or who was in 876 charge for residents to react to as articles are published; and who was gathering 877 the information to make sure it was aggregated cohesively so a clear meaning 878 could be derived. In other words, Chair Boguszewski suggested identifying early 879 on who was running the communication effort and gathering of the feedback from 880 whatever source. Chair Boguszewski suggested that was a question for the City 881 Council to consider early on. 882 Mr. Lloyd advised that, depending on the scope of it and how expansive the effort 883 was going to be, it was basically a staff time question; and opined it was probably 884 up to the Community Development Department to supply the time and resources. 885 Mr. Lloyd suggested that he saw the overall approach to be starting with articles 886 informing residents of what the conversation was and then starting to include that 887 information, and when and where discussions will convene. 888 Chair Boguszewski suggested prior to those discussions, a date certain was 889 needed that the issue would be coming before the Planning Commission for their 890 recommendation to the City Council. Chair Boguszewski suggested this could 891 include meetings in neighborhoods, or even inviting speakers for their groups 892 before coming before the Planning Commission at a formal public hearing. 893 Specific to consulting care givers, Member Gitzen stated his interest in hearing 894 what they envisioned to be a demand for this type of dwelling, not only their input 895 on the challenges with the temporary units, but their reality in looking at using 896 them and whether or not they were open to doing so. 897 Member Daire stated he found himself wanting to take the next step in bullet point 898 #1 in the staff report suggested by the CEC to establish a foundation for the 899 community discussion: what the units look like, their maximum square footage, 900 the logistics for how the trailers are brought onto a site, what kind of analog exists 901 for their shape and how they differ from the current auxiliary building units for 902 parents and seniors under city code, the cost of a typical unit, and how is 903 “temporary” defined (e.g. 2-3 weeks, or a year or more). Member Daire stated his 904 interest in filling in those blanks before the city started publishing articles, with that 905 information more clearly defined including visuals or examples of models, the 906 good/bad and pros/cons for the community to respond to. 907 Member Kimble agreed that the CEC provided a lot of good ideas, but as 908 information was solicited including a townhall meeting or beyond that, efforts be 909 made to ensure a good age demographic, even though seniors were seen as the 910 typical user, it could extend across generations depending on specific situations. 911 Member Kimble opined that would also be relative to the process and how 912 information was collected to ensure every group was heard. Member Kimble also 913 noted the need to document that feedback and get those results back to the 914 community for their reaction and to ensure they know they had been heard. 915