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The City Council adopted the plan in February 2020 to guide development in the downtown area.
The main initiatives talked about during the meeting were creating a downtown district and fostering downtown living.
“What our plan calls for is those six districts to be consolidated into two,” Craig Harmon, a senior planner, said. “You’ll have a Downtown 1 district, which is basically what our downtown district is now, and then a Downtown 2 district that hopes to stretch the downtown off of that. Within these boundaries, we have everything from residential to office to commercial to industrial.”
Each district has different zoning standards. By turning the six districts into two districts, the city can provide more consistency in the types of businesses and licensures available downtown.
For example, sexually-oriented businesses, principal-use parking lots and private golf courses would not be allowed in the two new districts. Right now, they are allowed in at least one of the smaller districts that are currently set up.
“The main thing that this rezoning is looking to do is help with one, cohesiveness, and, two, some predictability for property owners,” Harmon said.
Alicia Moore, another senior planner for the city, says they want to focus on the walkability and living of the downtown area and the main way to do that is to focus on businesses that serve people who can walk there.
“Another way that we support downtown as a holistic, complete neighborhood is by building on its existing draw as a destination for restaurants and other activities that you enjoy and then leave, and rounding it out with more housing options to encourage more people to live there and by supporting more everyday commercial activities,” Moore said.
The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on zoning text changes on March 22 and then the Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on map changes on April 12. City Council will hold a public hearing on all the changes on May 23.