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Welcome Please feel free to take a slip of paper and identify current development challenges and/or your ideas for improving the City’s development codes and processes 1

Development Code Update Stakeholder Listening Sessions 10.5.2015

Project Consultant Team » HKGi (Hoisington Koegler Group Inc.)  Minneapolis-based planning, landscape architecture, and urban design firm  Experience with Minnesota historic river towns » MDC (McBride Dale Clarion)  Cincinnati-based planning, land use regulation, and development services firm  National experience updating development codes 3

Purpose of the Development Code Update » Make the Development Code easier to understand and use » Create a Unified Development Code with zoning, subdivision, and site planning all together » Develop mixed-use and form-based standards for downtown » Streamline the development application processes » Eliminate discrepancies between the different codes and the Comprehensive Plan » Guide development as envisioned in the Comprehensive Plan » Provide more predictability 4

What will be included in the Unified Development Code? » Zoning » Subdivision » Site Planning  Controls how land is  Controls how land  Requires site plan used divided into lots review for all multi-family,  Guides location and  Specifies commercial, types of structures standards for industrial and built streets and trails institutional  Identifies parking  Regulates the development minimums installation of  Guides site design water, sewer,  Provides shoreland features including stormwater and protection and landscaping, other utilities prevents construction drainage, lighting, in floodplain parking lots, etc. 5

Current Code Sections (partial listing) » Zoning  Non-Conformities  Administration  Performance Standards  Districts (noise, odor, etc.) - Residential  Cluster Developments - Non-Residential  Flood Plain Management - Overlay  Parking & Loading  Bluffland Protection  Conditional Uses  Campus Overlays » Subdivision  Platting of streets, blocks, and lots  Improvements required (streets, utilities, sidewalks, etc.) 6

Project Process • Kick-Off Meetings and Tour • Kick-Off Meetings and Tour Project Initiation • Stakeholder Meetings • Stakeholder Meetings 2015 • Initial Code Issues Identification • Initial Code Issues Identification • Detailed Code Review & Issues Identification • Detailed Code Review & Issues Identification Code Review and • Best Practices Research • Best Practices Research Diagnosis • Community Engagement • Community Engagement • Annotated Outline • Annotated Outline Annotated Code Outline • Joint Planning Commission/City Council Work Session • Joint Planning Commission/City Council Work Session 2016 • Draft Update & Review of Code in Series of Modules • Draft Update & Review of Code in Series of Modules Development Code • Stakeholder Meetings • Stakeholder Meetings Drafting • Public Review of Updated Code & Zoning Map • Public Review of Updated Code & Zoning Map • Public Hearings • Public Hearings Development Code Adoption • Final Code Preparation • Final Code Preparation 7

Community Engagement Issue Drafting in Review & Identification Modules Diagnosis Stakeholder Stakeholder Sessions & Community Meeting Sessions Community Meeting about Preferences Web Engagement Throughout 8

For Discussion 1) What concerns do you have about building/development in:  Downtown  Commercial Areas  Residential Neighborhoods  Industrial Areas  Campus Neighborhoods  Natural Areas 2) What works or doesn’t work in the City’s application and review process? 3) Are there code requirements that are not up to date with today’s building practices? 4) What discrepancies are there between various code sections and/or the codes and the Comprehensive Plan? 5) Are there changes to the codes that would make them easier to use? 9

Please Stay Involved! » Send additional thoughts  Email the City at either mmoeller@ci.winona.mn.us or cespinosa@ci.winona.mn.us  Email Jeff Miller at HKGi at jmiller@hkgi.com » Check out the project website starting next week » Join us in December for our Community Meeting 10