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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,January 30,2023 Page 16 Councilmember Etten appreciated the approach to this and that it was going in the right direction. He thought there was a lot of good in what can come here. One of the things he was worrying about is that some of the pieces are more valuable to developers, noting the Council had specific detailed discussion on things such as building height, for example. Tonight there was discussion about impervious sur- face and these are all pushing out and impact a development that will impact people around them and green space so it is almost in direct contrast to environmental goals or some of the things the City has tried to do to preserve neighborhood situations. He wondered about how the pieces are looked at,how staff will weigh these things, and also how it will work with other parts of the development code. Ms. Gundlach explained the simple answer is what does the City value as a com- munity and how much incentive does the City want to offer in order to get sustain- able development. She noted that right now, staff cannot require these things and there has been a lot of pressure and demand by certain groups within the community that the City should be doing more sustainable developments,and if the City cannot legally do it then it needs to be incentivized. Mayor Roe wondered if this should be rolled out as a pilot program or available to everyone. He felt it was safer to do a pilot program rather than open it up to every- one because he has some concern about how this will work. Councilmember Schroeder thought a pilot program would be best because she was also concerned there is so much to this. A pilot program would be easier to roll out because the City would want to monitor and measure each project to see if it is working or not. Ms. Gundlach reviewed staff recommendations and indicated the recommendations will be implemented and brought back to the City Council in March for further discussion. She noted the incentives will be reviewed further and taken out of the Zoning Code update at this point to work on the possibility of a pilot program. Mayor Roe thanked HKGi for the presentations. e. Consider Approval of Payoff of Interfund Loan Between PMP and Shopping Center Funds with Use of Excess Cash Reserve Fund Removed for consideration at a future City Council meeting. 8. Council Direction on Councilmember Initiated Agenda Items 9. Approve Minutes Comments and corrections to draft minutes had been submitted by the City Council prior to tonight's meeting and those revisions were incorporated into the draft presented in the Council packet.