SPECIALLY CALLED MEETING of the COMPREHENSIVE PLAN JOINT COMMITTEE FEBRUARY 21, 2024, 4:00 PM PERMITTING AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER, ROOM 2103 6310 WILHELMINA DELCO DR. AUSTIN, TEXAS Public comment will be allowed in-person or remotely via telephone. Speakers may only register to speak on an item once either in-person or remotely and will be allowed up to three minutes to provide their comments. Registration no later than noon the day before the meeting is required for remote participation by telephone. To register to speak remotely, call or email Ann DeSanctis, 512-974-3102, ann.desanctis@austintexas.gov. CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS/COMMISSIONERS: PLANNING COMMISSION ZONING AND PLATTING COMMISSION Grayson Cox, Vice Chair Adam Haynes Alberta Phillips Hank Smith, Chair David Fouts Carrie Thompson AGENDA CALL TO ORDER PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL APPROVAL OF MINUTES DISCUSSION ITEMS 1. 2. 3. Approve the minutes of the COMPREHENSIVE PLAN JOINT COMMITTEE REGULAR CALLED MEETING on January 10, 2024. Presentation from Budget Office by Kerri Lang on budget process and integrating requests. Presentation by consultant CD&P on the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan Update’s Community Engagement Process. DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS 4. Presentation, discussion, and possible action to amend Imagine Austin Plan to attach Equitable Transit Oriented Development (ETOD) Typologies and map from accepted ETOD Policy Plan. ADJOURNMENT The City of Austin is committed to compliance with the American with Disabilities Act. Reasonable modifications and equal access to communications will be provided upon request. Meeting locations are planned with wheelchair access. If requiring Sign Language Interpreters or alternative formats, please give notice at least 2 days (48 hours) before the meeting date. Please call Ann DeSanctis at the Planning Department, at 512-974-3102, for additional information; TTY users route through Relay Texas at 711. For more information on the Comprehensive Plan Joint Commission, please contact Ann DeSanctis at 512-974-3102.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN JOINT COMMITTEE REGULAR CALLED MEETING MINUTES 10, January, 2024 The COMPREHENSIVE PLAN JOINT COMMITTEE convened in a REGULAR CALLED meeting on 10, January, 2024, at 6310 Wilhemina Delco Dr., Room 2103, in Austin, Texas. Chair Hank Smith called the Comprehensive Plan Joint Committee Meeting to order at 4:05 p.m. Board Members/Commissioners in Attendance: Adam Haynes Board Members/Commissioners in Attendance Remotely: David Fouts, Carrie Thompson, Grayson Cox, Hank Smith PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL There were no speakers signed up to speak. APPROVAL OF MINUTES DISCUSSION ITEMS 2. Approve the minutes of the COMPREHENSIVE PLAN JOINT COMMITTEE REGULAR CALLED MEETING on 12, October 2023. The minutes from the meeting of 10/12/2023 were approved on Grayson Cox motion, David Fouts second on a unanimous vote. Commissioner Connolly was absent. Presentation by ATD Staff regarding amendments to the ASMP. Presentation by Kelsey Vizzard, Planner Senior with ATD, to provide updates on ASMP amendments to the CPJC. The board has no recommendations at this time. Presentation by Ann DeSanctis regarding Imagine Austin Speaker Series potential speakers. Presentation by Ann DeSanctis, Planner Senior with the Planning Department on Imagine Austin Speaker Series for 2024 will focus on Equity, Resilience, and Sustainability in various facets. Carrie Thompson recommended topics around dark skies. Presentation by Christopher Crain regarding Priority Program meetings to date. Presentation by Christopher Crain, Planner Senior with the Planning Department on Priority Program work to date. The board has no recommendations at this time. 1. 3. 4. 1 Presentation by Chase Gonsoulin on Imagine Austin Compliance Checklist. Board directed staff to improve checklist by creating a threshold of how many “yes’s” trigger compliance with Imagine Austin, making the checklist more inclusive of all sections of Imagine Austin, and advised tracking compliance checklist. Chair Hank Smith adjourned the meeting at 5:06 without objection. 5. 2
CITY OF AUSTIN IMAGINE AUSTIN PUBLIC PARTICIPATION FOR A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE About CD&P We make it easy to connect, communicate, and be engaged. CD&P is a public engagement firm that empowers partners, clients, and communities to work together effectively through thoughtful programs and outreach. 1 Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan Update Initially adopted in 2012, Imagine Austin is a 30-year plan that shapes the city by guiding long-term growth, development, and land use decisions. As it approaches its 200th anniversary, Austin is a beacon of sustainability, social equity, and economic opportunity; where diversity and creativity are celebrated; where community needs and values are recognized; where leadership comes from its citizens, and where the necessities of life are affordable and accessible to all. - Imagine Austin 2 Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan Update - Timeline 3 STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT (MARCH 2024) Both internal and external stakeholder involvement is planned Internal – City staff and employees, Board and Commission Members • External – Nonprofit agencies, service organizations • A series of convenient listening sessions will be held to engage folks • • Internal – Meetings at COA offices, led by Planning Department External – Onsite at community centers, libraries and resilience hubs from South Austin to Eastern Crescent, as well as virtual meetings 4 Meeting Aspirations to Inform the Public Participation Plan • All meetings will be grounded in equity • Other individual and organizational voices will be organically recommended through these initial conversations • Relevant messaging, impactful ways of communication, and how and where populations successfully convene and celebrate will be identified • Additional Comprehensive Plan goals might surface through these exchanges 5
Equitable Transit-Oriented Development ETOD and Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan Joint Committee 2/21/2024 Agenda Background Next Steps 1 2 3 ETOD and Imagine Austin Background 1 From Transit-Oriented-Development (TOD) to Equitable TOD Equitable TOD works towards building equitable outcomes through proactive actions to ensure that everyone, especially historically marginalized communities of color, can benefit from transit connectivity. Roadmap Step 1: Establish Framework ETOD Policy Plan Accepted by City Council on March 9, 2023 ETOD Study Released Sept. 2023 ETOD Policy Plan • Builds on the FTA-funded ETOD Study. • Provides a comprehensive policy framework to guide future development around the Project Connect system. • It helps the Austin community ensure that the results of Project Connect support residents of all incomes and backgrounds, especially those that have been disproportionately burdened by transportation and land use decisions. ETOD Goals transportation 8 ETOD Station Area Typologies If a station has… …and is… …and has experienced… More Residents Today Historically Exclusionary or Low Displacement Rapid Change More Residents Today Historically Exclusionary or Low Displacement Slow Change Fewer Residents Today Historically Exclusionary or Low Displacement Rapid Change Fewer Residents Today Historically Exclusionary or Low Displacement Slow Change More Residents Today Vulnerable to or Experiencing Displacement Rapid Change More Residents Today Vulnerable to or Experiencing Displacement Slow Change Fewer Residents Today Vulnerable to or Experiencing Displacement Rapid Change Fewer Residents Today Vulnerable to or Experiencing Displacement Slow Change ETOD and Imagine Austin 2 Council Action on March 9, 2023 – Resolution no. 20230309-016 Imagine Austin and ETOD • ETOD typologies consider existing population, recent growth and economic development, and displacement risk of households. ETOD typologies also speak to types of growth most needed for equitable outcomes in a station area • Incorporating ETOD Typologies into Imagine Austin allows for: • Updating IA Compliance Checklist • Formal consideration in zoning and neighborhood plan amendment case review • Demonstrating alignment and transit-supportive policy to the Federal Transit Administration Imagine Austin and ETOD • The amendment to Imagine Austin will include: • The methodology through which staff developed the 8 ETOD Typologies • The 8 ETOD typologies and their descriptions • The ETOD typology map • A preface that provides context about the application of the typologies and their map to Imagine Austin Next Steps 3 Imagine Austin- ETOD Amendment Timeline Briefing and Possible Action at CPJC Feb 21, 2024 (today!) Planning Commission Hearing and Possible Action March 12, …
20 B AUSTIN paletas Typologies Background Policies and investments that help Austin achieve its ETOD goals will look different in different station areas given the range of existing conditions, needs, and trends across the diverse communities along the Project Connect system. Typologies help group each station according to shared characteristics, allowing policymakers to tailor policy tools to address the needs of each station area and ensure that every station contributes to improved outcomes for existing and future residents across the system. CapMetro’s 2016 TOD Priority Tool provided a foundation for planning and investment strategies around transit stations. Based on a wide range of metrics, each station that the tool included was given a TOD Place Typology and a TOD Readiness Score. The two scores provided an overall profile for the current state of a station area relative to its transit-supportive density within the larger urban network. The new approach to ETOD typologies differs from the existing TOD typologies due to its focus. The 2016 typologies primarily focused on the built environment, with categories such as location, connectivity, land use, urban form, and intensity. While the built environment is also considered in the new iteration, the new ETOD Typologies focus on the closing the racial health and wealth gap by increasing economic opportunities within a station area. The ETOD Typologies embed indicators related to equitable outcomes like displacement risk as well as population and job growth to characterize a station area in relation to achieving equitable outcomes for the neighborhood. Extensive data for all the station areas in Project Connect were collected through the ETOD Study, including a systemwide existing conditions analysis that can be accessed online. ETOD Policy Plan Unlike the 2016 TOD Priority Tool, ETOD acknowledges that the communities near each station are dynamic places that may require different policy interventions as they evolve. ETOD also shifts the focus of policy recommendations to focus less on place-specific outcomes and focus more on outcomes for people – especially the people that already live near future transit stations. The typologies use indicators from readily available and constantly updated data from the US Census Bureau, allowing us to reevaluate typologies every five years and adjust policy recommendations to respond to community needs in a timely way. People ETOD typologies The differentiate station areas primarily based on outcomes for the first two community- identified goals for ETOD: Goal 1: Enable all residents to …
Comprehensive Plan Joint Committee Presentation Overview • Strategic Plan • Budget Timelines • Memo Process Citywide Strategic Plan: Progress Overview SD23 Spring 2022 Summer 2022 Winter 2022 Spring 2023 Current State Transitioned to a Citywide Strategic Planning Process Initiated development of a strategic plan concept, roles, responsibilities, and staff participation criteria Conducted planning workshops with Assistant City Managers and department executives to establish City goals Goal Advancement Teams drafted and refined measures and strategies Citywide goals approved by City Management Continue plan refinement and coordinate next steps with nine pilot teams Measure and strategy finalization and internal work plan development 2/21/2024 3 Citywide Strategic Plan: Goals by Category Community Health & Resilience (CH) Economic & Workforce Development (EW) Equitable Service Delivery (ES) Homelessness & Housing (HH) CH.1: Ensure equitable delivery of core public health services with a focus on reducing disparities in historically marginalized communities. EW.1: Equip, empower, and retain the community through partnerships and investments that support economic mobility. CH.2: Ensure and preserve equitable access to parks, trails, open space, and recreational opportunities EW.2: Promote a resilient local economy that prioritizes small and BIPOC-owned businesses. IFC Alignment: 15 CH.3: Protect Austin's natural resources and ecological systems and mitigate for climate change. CH.4: Increase community preparedness to improve resiliency and adaptability to disruptions and disasters. CH.5: Operate Austin Animal Center(s) efficiently while providing high-quality care for animals, preparing both animals and potential owners for a successful transition from shelter to permanent homes. IFC Alignment: 38 ES.1: Foster relationships with under- resourced communities to deliver programs and services that represent Austin's diversity. ES.2: Preserve and enrich Austin's creative ecosystem. ES.3: Engage equitable authentic outreach and collaboration to improve service delivery. IFC Alignment: 17 HH.1: Support equitable complete communities where the necessities of life are accessible and affordable across our rapidly growing city. HH.2: Facilitate and prioritize development and preservation of affordable housing options. HH.3: Optimize investments, partnerships, and service delivery to reduce the number of people experiencing homelessness in Austin. IFC Alignment: 56 *Out of 243 Items from Council (IFCs), 225 (93%) align with Citywide Strategic Plan Goals 4 Citywide Strategic Plan: Goals by Category Mobility & Critical Infrastructure (MC) Organizational Excellence (OE) Public Safety (PS) OE.1: Ensure fiscal integrity and responsibility to meet the diverse needs of our community. OE.2: Enhance the City's data and technology capabilities to provide secure, modern, and accessible solutions. OE.3: Improve organizational efficiency and capacity …
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN JOINT COMMITTEE SPECIAL CALLED MEETING DRAFT MINUTES 21, February, 2024 The Comprehensive Plan Joint Committee convened in a SPEICAL CALLED meeting on 21, February, 2024, at 6310 Wilhelmina Delco Dr, Room 2103, in Austin, Texas. Chair Smith called the Comprehensive Plan Joint Committee Meeting to order at 4:00 p.m. Board Members/Commissioners in Attendance: Hank Smith, Carrie Thompson Board Members/Commissioners in Attendance Remotely: Grayson Cox, David Fouts PUBLIC COMMUNICATION: GENERAL There were no speakers signed up to speak APPROVAL OF MINUTES Approve the minutes of the COMPREHENSIVE PLAN JOINT COMMITTEE REGULAR CALLED MEETING on 10, January 2024. The minutes from the meeting of 01/10/2024 were approved on Grayson Cox motion, David Fouts second on a unanimous vote. (Commissioners Haynes, Phillips, and Johnson were absent) DISCUSSION ITEMS 2. Presentation from Budget Office by Kerri Lang on budget process and integrating requests. Presentation by Kerri Lang, Budget Officer with Financial Services, to provide insight on the budget process and how to integrate request from a Comprehensive Planning Perspective. The board has no recommendations at this time. Presentation by consultant CD&P on the Imagine Austin Comprehensive Plan Update’s Community Engagement Process. Presentation by Dennis Manalo, CD&P, to share approach and strategy for public engagement for Comprehensive Plan Update. The board recommends reviewing Equity Based Preservation Plan engagement presentation for best practices. 1. 3. 1 DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS 4. Presentation, discussion, and possible action to amend Imagine Austin Plan to attach Equitable Transit Oriented Development (ETOD) Typologies and map from accepted ETOD Policy Plan. Presentation by Lucy Hall, Planner Senior with Planning Department, on the Equitable Transit Oriented Development typologies and map from the accepted ETOD Policy Plan. The motion to approve the transmission of the ETOD typologies and map to Planning Commission, to be amended and attached to Imagine Austin, was approved on Commissioner Cox’s motion, Commissioner Thompson second on a unanimous vote, with recommendations for amendments to the ETOD map and typologies to include process for incorporating latest available data and adding a footnote noting the age of the data before transmission to Planning Commission. (Commissioners Haynes, Phillips, and Johnson were absent) Chair Hank Smith adjourned the meeting at 5:16 p.m. without objection. These minutes were approved at the 10, April, 2024 meeting on Commissioner Thompson motion, Commissioner Phillips second on a 4-0 vote. 2
