10-20-2023, 05:11 PM
This is going to the next Planning and Strategic Initiatives meeting on the 30th. Staff are recommending approval of the development. The public comments are surprisingly minimal for this development with only 10 members of the public commenting. There were the usual too tall, doesn't fit into the existing downtown comments. There were also comments surrounding 3 bedroom units as well as not enough bike parking. Vanmar has updated the design to include 1 bike space per unit. There has been no 3 bedroom units included but city staff provided an interesting data point in that 27000 of the 3+ bedroom units in the city are occupied by only 1 or 2 people. This means 44% of large units in the city have more bedrooms than people living in them.