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Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. ©® ©® _ Attachment B Page 1 of 3 Jamfe Radel From: Gary Grefenberg [ggrefenberg@comcast.netj Sent: Monday, July 07, 2D0810:35 PM To: Jamie Radel Cc: Pat Trudgeon Subject: Re: Response to Your July 3rd E-Mail on Housing & Neighbofioods Chapter Jamie: HRA Draft Housing Chapter and Proposed Staff Revisions: the draft minutes for our last Steering Committee meeting am't dear, but I remember that we gat about halfway through the Staff Revisions distributed at that meeting with Committee consent (in the sense of not raising any objections} as follows: 1. Policy #1.5: Partner with neighborhood organizations and provide forums for residents to participate in_ dx achievement of t}x:sc goals. 2. Policy #2.6: ro read `Fscounge and support neighborhood organizations and forums. and other ...." 3. Policy #2.8: ro read "Fixourage communication channels between ci officials.... 4. Policy 3.2 ro mad:...ro promote decreased energy and land consumption, ...water conservation, and lessen s_i_te, neighborhood, and community impact. 5. Policy #3.6:... including transit, biking, and walking [DF.Lb'I'E and?] ro sites that e_fliciently utiliu land in a sustainable manner. Though the draft minuses don't pile this up, I'm fairly clear in remembering Tammy Pust expressing some concern over the indusion of city officials in Proposed Staff Revision #3. With only That one exception, however, I believe the Committee accepted the rest of the abtrve Staff Revisions. As such I'm assuming the above language (except for #3 above) will be inducted in the draft Housing 8 Neighborhood Chapter transmitted to the HRA this Thursday, July 10th. Because we ran out of time at our June 26th SMering Committee meeting ] dan't believe staff ever got to the trrttaining five revisions, beginning with the addition of a new goal `Encourage the development of neighborhood identities that build a sense of community and fosh:r neighborhood interaction`, with four new policies added under that goal I would personally mcommend, however, that you include those five Self 12cvisions in the draft submitted ro the HI2A; providing them with a comptchetuive-but not final-draft invites their advice on all issues the Steering t:nttttttittee tray consider. Proposed Addltlonal Neighborhood Language to Housing 8 Neighborhoods Chapter: Though we have now added some Neighborhood goals and objectives, in order to achieve some balance with housing I'd suggest we add some descript'roe language about what we mean by Neighborhoods. To achieve this I'd suggest the following language. I've located It at the end of the Introduckion section (p.6-1}, though 1'd leave it up to you as to whether that is the most appropriate place. I'd like to add some language describing the nature and Importance of neighborhoods, such as the fallowing, beginning with the current draft's existing last sentence which I make the sfarl of a new paragraph: { Ncw Paragraph] Diverse, affordable, and high quality housing and neighborhoods err critical components in defining community [DELh'TF: iatngr], maintaining a hcaldty tax bast, and attracting and retaining rosidents and 7/ 10/2008 11