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I'm going to have a few questions. I'm going to have a few questions. I'm going to have a few questions. I'm going to have a few questions. I'm going to have a few questions. I'm going to have a few questions. We just have to go to the hospital and do it with us. We're doing the job. We'll talk about that later. All right. Thank you for lead is in the pledge. First item on the agenda is that there's no administrative item. So the first item is the Brighton Youth Commission National League of Cities presentation City Manager Martinez. Martinez. Thank you Mayor, good evening Mayor, Mayor Proton and members of council. This time I will ask all of our youth commission members to join us at the table. I'm sure you're all aware, but our youth commission members joined us at the National League of Cities conference in March. As always, they did a wonderful job representing our community. And in fact, we had a lot of good feedback from other communities once again on the amount of participation that our Brighton Youth Commission showed at the conference. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to Tanya and the Youth Commission. Is there a green light? Thank you so much for your time tonight. I'm excited for the youth commission to share their experience and what they learned with you at the national league of cities. I'm going to turn it over to Nia who's going to start with some introductions. Good evening. Thank you for taking time out of your agenda to listen to our experience on the National League of Cities. We're going to introduce ourselves by saying our name, grade, as well as school and give you an overview of our experiences. So I'm Neal Opo, I'm a Senior at Eagle Ridge Academy in Chair of the Brighton Youth Commission. Hi, I'm Ellen Rolarsen, I am the Vice Chair of the Brighton Youth Commission and a junior at Brighton High School. Hello there. I'm Charlie Haggertey. I'm a freshman at Pasby. Hello. I'm David Durran and I'm a senior at Egoord Academy and I'm the secretary. Hi. I'm Annie West. I'm a senior at Brighton High School. I'm at Prairie View High School. Hello, my name is Diane Kim. I'm a freshman at Brighton High School. And Rachel Keely, your services coordinator, also joined us at the National Legacy Conference. Unfortunately, she's out sick tonight. And I don't want to steal too much of what they have to say because again, I will get in trouble for stealing their thunder. I want to share that the commission continues to make me so proud of these conferences. I will say that I think recovery and rebuilding after COVID has been so hard. This is the first conference I felt. We're back for real this time. And so if you haven't heard about the process for the National Legal Cities and how Youth Commissioners attend, they all first go through a pretty intense application process. So the application process always includes essay questions and some sort of making of a video to post a social media. And the video that they create often includes incorporating other aspects of the community too. So they have to highlight pieces of Brighton or interact with other people from the city of Brighton. I mean, there's an interview process. After they're selected, they go through kind of a training process to make sure that they're well prepared. So you'll hear them talk a lot about networking, but I just want to make it clear they don't just show up and know how to do these conferences and networks. So they go through a pretty structured, rigid training before they attend the national league of cities. And then once we get there, I don't know if they'll all talk about it, but there's so many life experiences that they that happen during this time in addition to the professional experiences. So it's always magical for me to watch whether it's they know that I'm terrible at directions. And so I give the disclaimer every trip that if you want to go somewhere, you have to find your way there. If you get lost, it's on you, it's not on me. But they're really out there figuring out If we're taking an Uber together how to look for the license plate number and how to check for an Uber or how to write a Metro and what that looks like. In addition, I think a large piece of this is building confidence and learning how to advocate for themselves. So whether they feel uncomfortable in a situation with a colleague at the conference that they they just met or they're mistreated by a cashier. These are things that in the past, maybe their parents would stand up for them, but their parents aren't there. And so learning how to advocate for themselves is also a huge part of the trip. So I just wanted to share those little pieces with you. I'm so incredibly proud and I'm excited for them to share their experiences with you. Hello, I'm first. So what I gathered from this experience from going to the conference was that I learned about like the importance of teamwork and like building a team structure with the people you're very good person. I was a very good person. I was a very good person. I was across this country. We were given three topics to work on. It was either youth civic engagement, housing, like affordable housing and like topics surrounding that and diversity and equity. And my group we worked on youth civic engagement. And so we made a a multiple step plan of how we can help get more youth involved in like local government and local policy making and I thought that was really valuable to learn and work with those other commissioners and council members and my favorite moment of um this trip like my favorite moments of the trip was exploring the memorials and the monuments, talking and networking with other commissions, commissions at the conference, and going to the American History Museum. Hi. Okay. So this was, well, I have gone to several out of state conferences during my time as youth commissioner. And I've just kind of noticed how I have like changed throughout these trips and because of them, like my confidence and my role in the group has changed. So on my first trip as a freshman in Kansas City, I was going through some pretty tough times and I relied really heavily on my shop loans and my senior youth commission members. Over time, I learned how to be more confident in my abilities and how to advocate for myself. Now, not only am I able to advocate for myself and feel confident, I'm able to feel confident in my role as a group leader and advocate for other people who need help. And kind of just becoming the mentor that I needed when I first joined. And I really appreciate the support that I've been given by city staff and council members. And I'm really excited to see how I can learn and grow in my final year in the Youth Commission and attending another year of National League of City conferences. And my favorite part of those trip was the Botanic Gardens and just seeing all the different like plants and stuff they had. They had so many different types of orchids. It was really impressive to see the diversity in orchids. And then also just hanging out with my fellow youth commissioners and getting to know them better. What I gathered from this experience was the importance of networking, whether it was with city officials or other youth. This is especially important given the fact that it's my senior year as well as I wanted to be, I want to be an elected official one day. So it gives me experience on that as well as already making connections. Another thing that I gathered was how other communities come together for the different controversies or complex problems that they inhabit or go through, especially the impact that the youth has on this. And then my last one of what I gathered is how other people tend to collaborate in group settings, whether they take on it as an observer or a leader or someone that just tends to speak when they feel like they need to. And my overall favorite experience from this was being able to stay connected with other youth members around the country through social media and continuing to follow their impact on their communities and societies. Okay so due to this experience I was able to develop my pitching skills with other people to better communicate my ideas within a certain amount of time. And I just appreciate that this skill will support me years from now by allowing me to just innovate new ideas and have that drive towards my career. And I would want to talk about the prior to the Colorado Municipal League Networking event. I had built up this confidence, I was just ready to show up and make those meaningful connections. And at some point, during the evening, I walked into the room and I make eye contact with a woman from across the room. So I approached her, I introduced myself, we shook hands, and all I did was ask her how her trip had been at that point. And all she had to say to me was that she had just gone to DC in that she certainly did not feel like talking at that moment. So she stood up from the table and just walked away without looking back. And I could have sat back down or just stopped networking all and all, but I decided to swallow that moment of embarrassment. And that is when I came across Mark Anthony Montoya from Denver. Similar to this woman that I had just encountered, he had gone to DZ at that same moment and the mindset that he had was completely different and that is where you truly make those connections and make that meaningful relationship. And so my favorite moment of this trip was just walking the appressing amount of 33 miles around the city, feeling the fresh air. Unfortunately, one of the commissioners, Amiri Jones, wasn't able to be here today to share experiences, though she did still want what she learned and the knowledge she was able to obtain to be shared. So during this experience, Miri gathered networking skills and communication and was able to improve on those. And her favorite moments was exploring the city and getting to know her peers. Good afternoon. I learned from this experience, I learned how to apply the practice that we did before we went on the trip to real life. Because I remember when we first were practicing, we did everything, I had my elevator speech ready, I thought it was so prepared. And then we had to try networking with another city official and I just forgot everything I learned and I was like panicking the entire time. And so when I got to DC, I was practicing, like stopping my anxiety and I worked on, and oh, I just, I worked a lot on making sure that I was comfortable talking to people I don't know. So, because there's so many people from all around the country, it was really hard for me at first to, like, to connect with them and have meaningful conversations. But I think throughout the experience, I got a lot more comfortable and I went a lot easier for me to talk to people. I think my favorite moment was seeing all the Smithsonian museums and going on the Memorial Walk. Well, I gathered from this experience was the value of different opinions and views, but then also stepping out of your comfort zone. Is it on? Is it working? Okay. So during the workshop, we had the opportunity to get together as a group and be with a bunch of different people from different parts of the country. And they all had their different experiences from their high schools and their own councils. So with this objective of increasing civic engagement and political participation. We needed to understand everyone's views based on what we had learned from our experiences and to create a further inclusive and developed plan. And stepping out of your comfort zone, we had the opportunity to go in network at the Colorado Municipal League. The moments before meeting someone new for me is especially scary and uncomfortable and definitely out of my comfort zone. But after networking, I found the importance of making the first move and beginning a conversation, pushing my comfort zone helped me make new connections, but also grow as an individual. Leaving this like the Colorado Municipal League, me and myself, myself and three other commissioners were the only ones remaining from the commission that had arrived. I think this experience built my confidence and helped me in my future networking through college and just my future plans. And my favorite moment was definitely walking throughout the city. The miles were crazy, but it was definitely a cool way to see the city. Hello again. From this experience, this is actually my second trip. My first trip was last year to Florida, Tampa, Florida. And why I remember was I was so shy to network with other people. I did say that I did network, but it was very vague and it wasn't meaningful to me. But during my second trip, I feel like I really networked with the other people. It was just an amazing experience. I got to know them so well and got to learn solutions to their problems in the city that I can apply to this community. And Also, I learned that even in the midst of disagreements, it's still very important to voice my thoughts. This girl and I was just we were having it at each other, but we kept arguing back and forth about this solution that we could have made to the problem. And I felt like I was losing my voice and I didn't appreciate that. So when I voiced my thoughts, it just branched off into different solutions that contributed to my group's success. And I was very proud of myself for doing that. And I think it's very important to voice your thoughts. Advocacy is a huge part in my life. And I also learned that communication is key to a comfortable and light-hearted trip. me and that girl, as I said before, we're having at it. And I built up that frustration. And I felt like I was really impacting my group in a negative way. It was saying a negative tone in my voice. And when I communicated that with my other fellow teammates, it just really lie in the mood. It helped us bond together, and it really helped me learn that I wasn't causing a problem. It was just natural to have a disagreement. My favorite moments were definitely the Botanical Gardens Conservatory. I really loved nature and it was awesome. It was awesome and I loved conversing with my teammates on solutions to various problems. I think it was just great knowing that other cities were having problems but they were trying to make an impact as well as here. It was also bonding with my roommates and my teammates. It was just an amazing experience to get to know that many people from around the country and also exploring to see. Thank you. Thank you all again for listening to our experiences and taking time out of your agenda for us to do so. Thank you also for your continued support and feel free to ask any questions if you have some. Thank you for your presentation. Everybody seem to represent very well. Councilmember Pulaski. Thank you, Mayor. Well, for those of you who are new here, new is here in this situation. I was the mayor at the time we brought the Youth Commission on board, and I am so proud of that fact. And hearing your stories makes me even more proud I could cry because it's wonderful to hear the experiences that you've gone through. And Tony, you've done such a great job too with this group and former groups too. I've loved every minute of it. So I'm just so proud of that fact that I can still say that since this will be my last time to speak after a national league of cities from DC anyway because I'll be done at the end of the year. And I'm 81 so just remember Gals, you can keep on fighting. Keep it up, good job. Council member Worth. Thank you Mayor. It was a pleasure being out there in DC with you guys this year as it always is and you always just make me so proud. First evening I was there. We were at an event you guys were networking and I would say hi I'm Lloyd from Brighton and you go oh I saw your kids I talked to them wow how do I do that you know how do we make our kids do that it's like it's like I'm kind of getting used to that but but it's really amazing and for the rest you guys you have anybody knows I've been on or been involved with the youth commission a lot years. And it's just so fun to watch these kids just grow David over here. Two years ago you couldn't get a peep out of this kid. And now he's going out, he's doing this stuff, he's going off to the School of Mines. I mean, amazing. It's just fun to watch all of them grow up and fun to see where they go beyond here. They learn so many skills in the Youth Commission that that led to their careers and their lives beyond that. So thanks guys you guys are always awesome. Anybody else? I just want to comment you know you talked about all the networking and maybe even having to warm up from, you know, having to try to warm up from just being there and I think it's great that you've been able to blossom in this role. I see like when we go to the networking events at CML that they just brag about oh my gosh we saw the Brighton Youth Commission and they're just so well put together and it's been great to say yeah I mean we've had this youth commission for some time now and it's been fun to kind of brag about what you've been able to do you know better represent your community our community is bright and I got other cities like also like Centennial and other cities that have a much greater population than ours that would love to have a youth commission like this and that just hasn't you to fruition yet in their community. So good job representing our city and our greater Brighton community, and I appreciate you doing that. So good job. We should give a round of applause for that. Applause. Thank you. Thank you. Next. Assessment of the 2025 private activity bonds. City manager Martinez. Thank you mayor for this item. Our finance director will be presenting this also available for questions. Will be bright and housing authority executive director Deb Bristol. I'll turn it over to Katrina. Thank you Michael. Good evening council. So as city manager said, this is an assignment of the private activity bonds for the city. This is an item I bring to you every year. So it probably sounds familiar if you've been on council for a bit. Our proposal tonight is to assign those 2025 private activity bonds to the Brighton Housing Authority for projects that they have underway are coming up and Deb will talk about that in a couple of slides. But first I want to give you a little bit of background for you and for those watching about what private activity bonds are. So private activity bonds are the ability for an entity to issue tax exempt bonds and take advantage of the savings that they would get from issuing tax exempt bonds. They would be used by a private entity for a public purpose. So the city already has the ability to issue tax exempt bonds, but private entities don't. So when they have a project that qualifies under the Tax Reform Act of 1986, they can utilize this bonding capacity for that project. The bonds are issued by an authorized issuer that could be the city, that could be the person or entity that we are assigning them to. They are then repaid by that private issuer, private entity. So I wanna be clear, private activity bonds are not a grant to the city. It's the capacity or ability to borrow money. So we have some options then again on how we can use that. So the way we receive this allocation is through the state. So the state has given the a bonding capacity every year. They then allocate that out to cities based on population. So this slide summarizes some of the things that private activity bonds can be used for. Affordable housing inventory is one of the more common ones that we see used in one of the most common that we have used here in the city to add to our affordable housing inventory. There are some other options there, but we're going to focus on the affordable housing inventory option. So the city's 2025 private activity bond allocation is $2,755,798. And we have a couple options for how we can utilize that bonding capacity. We could issue the bonds ourselves. If we were to do that, we would need to partner with an entity who is eligible to utilize those bonds. We would issue those bonds in partnership with them, we would have to define that project and we would manage that process. Option two would be to assign them to a qualified issue or like the housing authority to then use for projects that are qualified that they're working on. They would then issue the bonds and manage them along with the other financing components for their project. Financing affordable housing in a qualified way through all of the complex financing arrangements that are necessary. It is a very complex and lengthy process and we've talked about in here before. So, having somebody like the Housing Authority that understands how and when to use those funds is definitely an advantage of this option. The last option would be to do nothing. So if council were to not take any action regarding the private activity bonds by September, they would revert back to the state and the state within determine where to use them somewhere within the state for eligible projects. So the best option that we feel to keep the funds within our community would be to assign them to the housing authority for projects that they have underway. We're coming up and the project at this point we are proposing would be Adam's point. So at this point, I'm gonna turn this over to Deb, just talk about Adam's point. Thank you. Good evening. Last year we had brought, as part of this presentation, a couple of projects. So real quick, I wanted to take a moment to talk about the Ravenfield project and the reason why you don't see it as part of the presentation this evening is because that one has been submitted for a 9% tax credit application. We have not heard back whether or not that project has been awarded, but 9% generally do not have a combination of these private activity bonds, the 4% do. And Adam's point, we are proposing for August 2025, 4% light-tech application. That project currently is now being looked at potentially as a three-phase project. City Council has seen it as a two-phase previously, but with a lot of the interest rates and the tax credit pricing that we're seeing, there are some resizing of projects. So right now, what we have is a one-to-three-bedroom project, multi-family. We're hoping all the phases will be between, will be between 140 to 200 units and we're currently going through the site planning submission process with the city. So this is the project we are proposing. Of course, what you guys see on the screen right here is all conceptual, but I'm happy to answer some additional questions about the project. Thank you, Deb. And if council is supportive of this, we would have this on the agenda for next week's meeting on consent if that is council's wish. Questions? Council member Green? Oh. What happened? I want me to sign this can they default on these bonds? If the housing authority was unable to repay them. Correct. And then there's no obligation to the city at all for this. There be no obligation to the city, no, but they can default. If they were in a financial situation. Yeah, I mean, they could. There are so many organizations and entities that are involved with these projects. I can't think of a project that's necessarily gone into default that's been done by a housing authority because of all the other entities that are part of the financial structure and have interest in these projects. They are a secure way of putting bonds into a particular project because of the way that they're structured. And I think it's important to note too, in some cases, private activity bonds are required as part of the Housing Authority's financing to qualify for the tax- the tax-advantaged projects. Mayor Brutem. I'm definitely very supportive of making this happen and allocating these bonds. This is one of the ways that we can essentially make a statement of support for a local project without actually having to commit our own dollars. We allow those bonds or assign those bonds over to the organization and it's a nice thing when the our local housing authority has a project that's aligned with that. Sometimes we've given them to Loveland or to Commer City. They've given theirs to ours. So we've done that here and there. It's really nice when we've got two or three projects that are in flight in sequence enough to be able to make this investment in a way that doesn't harm us, but makes a positive statement to those other funding agencies that we are supportive of this project. And everything we can do to get, Adam's point moving forward off the ground is absolutely valuable. And the more we can do to get that application cycle in now under today's rules and hope that the rules haven't changed by the time everything else comes about. When time has have the essence and some making this investment now I think would be a good thing on our part. Thanks. I can't wait to see more of what it's going to look like. Councillor Mimba Schneider. Thank you, Mayor. I have been fortunate enough to go with Lloyd Worth in the last three or four weeks with Deb Bristol to look at a couple of the projects, the Brighton Housing Authorities working on. And I got to tell you, we're fortunate right now. We have great management. I have utmost confidence in them. I can't imagine them defaulting on anything. These people work night and day. And so I would be 100% for giving their authority to this. They are doing a fantastic job of getting affordable housing into this city that we desperately need. Right, Everybody else? I'm good with putting this on consent. Okay. Thank you, Council. We'll bring that next week. Thank you. Next is the affordable housing definition and matrix update. City city manager Martinez. Thank you mayor. This is a continuation of the conversation we've been having regarding the affordable housing matrix the fee matrix. And also tonight we're here to share with you. Something that we did discuss in a previous meeting as well regarding the definition of affordable housing or our official definition. As we will use it. So with us tonight is Sean Weiman who is our affordable housing coordinator and obviously Holly is here as well to answer any questions. I would also like to point out that our esteemed assistant city attorney who's here with us this evening also worked with Sean in compiling this presentation. Thank you Michael Michael. Good evening, everyone. Staying on Adam's point, of course, Deb mentioned that a site plan has been submitted for review. I wanted to update you and also mention that Ravenfield has been through the first site plan review process. And also Ravenfield project has been used as a model while working through fee reduction revisions. Another update on work with the Housing Authority is regarding a resolution that will be introduced in the near future. It is to amend a 2017 agreement that involves adding units to the Brighton Housing Authority properties on Jessup Street, North Fifth Avenue, and South 18th Avenue. Due to financial reasons of the scope of work at the fifth and 18th properties changed and not all of the units included in that agreement were added. Few reductions were taken for the Jessup Street units. However, none were taken for the fifth or the 18th Avenue properties. At the time of the agreement, a 50% AMI level was set. However, rising costs have moved to the average income over 50% AMI. And the proposed amendment removes the fifth and 18th Avenue properties and changes the AMI level from 50% to 80%. Other updates I wanted to share with you tonight include adding to a simplified definition of affordable housing to the website. It reads affordable housing, our homes whose rental rates or sales prices are restricted to households with certain income levels. The affordable housing definition in the land use and development code is also working through the Planning Commission review and approval process and amendments to the development code related to aid use are in process as well. The changes were necessary given to revise state statutes and they take into account how tiny homes and other factory built homes may be added as ADUs. Also an application for Proposition 123 grant funds was made to study how impact fees rate of use may be reduced and to evaluate city infill development opportunities. Being presented tonight are two items in the code definition of affordable housing. Three terms used regarding population groups and revisions to the draft table of fee reductions. The city code currently does not specify an affordability duration, though the fee reduction application hints at 10 years for rental housing and five years for owner occupied housing. However, neither of those provide very long-term benefit. The draft definition of affordable housing that we last looked at included a duration of 15 years, which was taken from the compliance period required by Chaffa. However, restriction agreements with Chaffa typically include durations of 30 years. The draft definition also included a deed restriction requirement, and the Brighton Housing Authority has requested that an additional restriction not be required by the city, but rather that the land use restriction agreement that they enter into with chaffa be accepted. So DOLO has published a list of what's called affordability mechanisms that comply with Proposition 123 requirements. And that list includes both deuter restrictions and land use restriction agreements. The revisions to population groups mentioned in the code that deal with fee reductions for affordable housing are large family, elderly and disabled. Regarding the use of large family, affordable housing income limits are currently organized, excuse me, are already organized by household size and bedroom count and state regulations prohibit discrimination based on family status and using family relationships as a basis for setting occupancy limits. Elderly is not defined in the code and senior housing is the more common term for age restricted housing that is usually set at either 55 or 62 years. And persons with disabilities versus disabled is the more accepted term and the one used in the Americans with Disabilities Act. Upon first presenting fee reduction revisions to you in January, it was expressed that the reductions overall were too large. And also a look at the impact on the general fund found them to be too large considering the potential effects on other city projects. So the table of fee reductions was redrafted to more closely reflect the current matrix used to reduce fees. In general, the reductions are 100 minus the AMI level of the Affordable Housing Project. In addition, the transportation and general services fees were waived for Senior Affordable Housing with a 60% or lower AMI. Using the proposed Ravenfield Senior Housing Project. These changes brought the reductions in line with those that were granted to the Brighton Housing Authority for the LeBretto Senior Apartments just at the end of the park over here. Here's a look at the revised table where generally the reduction is a function of the AMI level. The water and stormwater fees were reset similar to the other fees where 70% AMI means a 30% reduction, 60% AMI, 40% reduction, etc. And senior housing is addressed with a note at the bottom of the table. Applying the reductions from the table and using the Ravenfield assumptions produces these figures. The city would contribute to reductions in two ways by not collecting an estimated $238,000 in use tax given the housing authorities exemption status and two by not collecting $582,000 in impact fees. Those total 820,000 dollars total impact total impact to the city. Now a third part of this is making a payment from the general fund to the enterprise fund since the enterprise fund cannot be left short. In this example that amount is $176,000. Not all fees do a time of permit are shown here. And total standard fees in this example, including the fee and lieu of water dedication, amount to $2.2 million. This slide didn't make it into your packets, but it was felt important and was added to better illustrate how all of the fees and the transfer the the the the the the the the the the the the the fee and the water dedication and the external agency fees which include waste water, fire and school district. The second bar shows the exempt tax and reduced fees in gray and the fees that remain in color are due. And because a portion of the reduced fees are enterprise fund fees, which are basically the water and sewer. and the fees that remain in color are due. And because a portion of the reduced fees are enterprise fund fees, which are basically the water and sewer related fees, the enterprise fund fees cannot go and pay so a payment from the general fund has to make the enterprise fund whole. And this payment from the general fund affects budgeting and possibly other city projects and their timing. Staff recommend resetting the affordable housing fee and dedication reduction table amounts closer to the current attainable housing matrix and extending 60% am I senior affordable housing projects a full reduction of the transportation and general services fees. Staff also recommend a minimum 30-year restriction and accepting affordability mechanisms that are recognized by DOLA. The recommendations revising the population group terms are deleting large family and considering a project given its overall bedroom count and mix replacing elderly with senior and considering projects giving their age restriction of any and setting 55 years as a minimum and replacing disabled with persons with disabilities. City Council's consideration and direction is requested where code amendments and resolution. Excuse me is requested where code amendments and a resolution adopting the table can be drafted as shown with changes are not a bit all in preparation for our first reading. Thank you. Be happy to answer any questions. Thank you for your presentation. There are a lot of asks. We'd like... Thank you. Be happy to answer any questions. Thank you for your presentation. There are a lot of asks. Would like to make a comment or question. Mayor Bruddin? Thanks. I think these are the kinds of things that we've been asking. So again, I appreciate very much the follow-up to the January request and some literal steps that we can begin to take. And this is outlined nicely and clearly and in a very helpful fashion. So I appreciate that. Definitely for the change in language, it was a state legislature change last year that restricted the ability to have a limited number of unrelated adults and households.. So we need to make sure that we're staying in line with Colorado revised statutes. Certainly important. And I'm also supportive of the 30 year deed restriction. I think if you have two shorted deed restriction for owned properties, yes, you're enabling one family to rise out of a situation that they're in, but you lose that long-term affordability for the community. So I think that's important to keep that distance out. I have two questions. The first one is related to ADUs and not specifically in here, but I know that we've had seen two challenges looking at ADUs on existing properties. And the first of those is that the impact fees are essentially the same as new development. So do we have some things in process to begin to look at where we can look at the actual impacts of that additional housing and look for the possibility of reductions of impact fees for ADUs. Absolutely. Yes. The grant money that we applied for under Proposition 123 includes a project where we will be studying how impact fees for ADUs may be reduced based on the actual impact that ADUs create for the city. What that is going to lead to hopefully is that City of Brighton becomes what's called an ADU supportive jurisdiction which then would make us eligible for further grant money that could actually pay for the impact fees that are waived. Okay. I definitely look forward to the idea of being able to replace those fees, but I also think that if we want to really invest in bringing affordable housing into the community and making that one of our priorities, we may have to be willing to forego some of those fees and do some reductions to make that happen. We are a community ripe for ADU development because our core portions of the city have some extremely large lots with very small houses on them. My grandmother's neighborhood had an 800 square foot house on a quarter acre lot. We can do a lot of work to do with the government. We have a lot of work to do with the government. We have a lot of work to do with the government. We have a lot of work to do with the government. We have a lot of work to do with the government. We have a lot of work to do with the government. We have a lot of work to do with the government. willing to look and see what that costs us and make some investment into it. The other question on ADUs, again, given my grandparents' house as the example of a place that would be great to be able to keep family at, but the new family moving into the accessory unit or keeping grandma in the small unit, does our ADU have a restricted size that? Does it have to be smaller than the original house? Does it have, can we take advantage of that larger property and simply develop the second property and keep the small unit as the ADU effectively? Right, there is a restriction on the size of ADUs, a maximum of 1,200 square feet, however, no larger than the primary home. Okay, and in this case potentially they're looking at defying changing the definition of which one is the primary home, but I just think that that's the situation we may find ourselves facing. And again, redevelopment of core properties, core community properties I think is going to be critical to keeping affordable housing in the community and we may need to be flexible about how to make that happen. My last question is on senior housing and fee reduction. It strikes me potentially that listing senior housing and providing the discount as if it were 60% AMI is a little high. Because as I look at seniors who were in the senior housing, I'm wondering how many of them are actually hitting 60% of AMI. And if our average senior in our developments is really closer to 40% or 50% of AMI. So I'd love to know, did we choose 60% because that's the lowest of the numbers that we were going to? Did we do so because that's where our seniors are fitting with their actual income? Primarily, that was based on the proposed Ravenfield project which is going to average less than 60% in the 50s AMI range. So it was over 50 however less than 60%. I believe libretto might be averaging to less than 60%. Okay. If we're not hitting that 60% of AMI for that housing again potentially needing to look at what is that investment that we need to make into the community and having that good and new and safe affordable housing for seniors, it might be worth looking at a more substantial discount there and looking at that at the 50% instead of at the 60% AMI. As you're describing those two doesn't look like we're hitting 60% AMI. We're really building for people who are 40, which on our formula would be a 60% discount instead of a 40% discount. If I understood the formula correctly. Yeah, I said a 60% AMI level, the reductions would be 40%. That's correct. Okay, so I'm not the expert on this, but I'm looking at thinking a thinking where do we need to be slightly more flexible and where do we need to make that investment and I asked to look into that a little bit more. Where is our senior housing really at and what's the proper discount level for that to afford it? Okay, those are my questions. Again, thank you very much. I appreciate this. Thank you. Councilmember Tadayle. Thank you. I am also would be in favor of reduced fees for the 80 use. I think we really need to encourage that. I have one of those houses. It's a little tiny house on a big lot. So would but my question is 1200 square feet, the ADU can be not larger than 1200, is that the footprint or the total square footage? That's living area. So, complete living area. Yeah, total living area. So if it's a two story, that's correct. Yeah, it would be the first and second floor together. Okay. Okay, thank you. Anybody else? Council member green. Yeah, I'm pretty much on board with all the recommendations here. I I don't see a problem with it. I just want to do what we can to bring a board of law. Affordable housing here. I'm a little bit apprehensive about this. A to you discussion. Because it usually need to be behind the primary resident.. If you're going to build a bigger house and have the ADU be in front, I think we're going to run into some problems here. And I'm not necessarily ready to throw out the baby there with ADUs and let anything go. So I think we need to be a little trepidacious about what we do with the ADUs. I'm okay with these are great steps for affordable housing and appreciate the recommendations brought. Thank you. Anybody else? So based on the recommendations, this will come up for vote either next meeting or in the future. In the future, yes. What? In the future. In the future. Not necessarily next week. Correct. OK. Great. Hope you have your direction for one that's time to bring this up again. Yes, sir. Thank you. OK. Thank you. Next is the land use and development code, Oracle 9, which is a sign code code amendments discussion city manager Martinez. Thank you mayor presenting this item is our senior planner and historic preservationist and the lane. And I'll turn it over to Emma. Good evening. All right. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and members of Council in the lane, senior planner, historic preservationist for the city. And I'm here to present the mentioned items, sign cone amendments for study session and feedback from the council. So a little bit of background on this item as you may be aware, the city council and city staff worked with DIGS Studio, as well as Michael Baker International on the Brighton community identity design plan. The plan was intended to create a cohesive feeling within the city. The plan included design for landscaping within tree lawns, medians, and roundabouts, a design for medians around about separate from the landscaping, and a design for sound walls. When implemented, these will let people know that they are in the city when driving in and through Brighton. Also within this plan, a new sign concept was created. These signs have the same concept that when you drive through Brighton, you will definitely know you are in Brighton. However, however, this is the kicker. The current LanduSend development code sign code within Article 9 does not address this type of sign. Actually prohibits any signage within the right of way, which is where these signs are designed to go. Because many of these new sign types would be located within that right of way the code must be updated to accommodate for those new signs. Staff is actually working on a project with Burroth, the Brighton Urban Renewal Authority, which would implement one of these signs in the near future, but in order to do so these code amendments must be passed. And as for purpose, as a quick overview, the LanduCent Development Code outlines a code amendment process, which allows for the initiation of amendments by City Council planning commission and staff on behalf of these entities. City Councils should review, use the review criteria outlined in the LanduCent Development Code section 10, 2.10B for changes to the LanduCent Development Code. So there are three major proposed changes to the code section 2.10B for changes to the land use and development code. There are three major proposed changes to the code. The first is the addition of Gateway Signage as described in the community identity design plan. We took most of this from the plan, put it in code form. The code change will add images as shown on the screen into the code as well as location, size, and lighting criteria. The three sizes of the Gateway signs will be placed at specific Gateway locations on the edge of the city. The sizes will be based on those locations as recommended in the plan, as well as the design and context of the specific site. Michael Baker International is currently contracted with the city to create engineered drawings to make constructions of these signs feasible. While that project is not completed yet, staff has emphasized the importance of flexibility of the Brighton logo to allow for developers to pay for signs and have a neighborhood logo be included on that sign as well. The second change is adding trail gateway and wayfinding signs as well as artistic elements. The addition to the code will also include locations, size and lighting criteria. The artistic elements can be used to supplement the gateway signage as art pieces but can also be used independently throughout the city, mediums, roundabouts, things like that. The trail gateway and wayfinding signs can be placed at major trail gateways and places around the city such as downtown to provide wayfinding. The last major change is the addition of the language to allow these signs to be placed in our right of way. Our sign code is a content-neutral sign code which means that we cannot allow or prohibit signs based on the content of the sign. Instead we we have to differentiate signs based on sign types. Because no sign types, except traffic and controller are allowed in the right of way, we had to update that language. We made the language super-specific to only allow for these gateway, trail gateway, wayfinding, and artistic elements as laid out in the community identity design plan to be allowed in the right of way. At this time, you have four options on the screen. I think you all for your time and attention and I'm happy to answer any questions. But the sound of consent. Councilmember Green. Yeah, because we're all really excited about these new bright and signs. new writing signs we don't want to make them illegal. But I have a question about temporary signs, such as those tear drop ones outside of the car wash or the wacky inflatable flailing arm man in front of the cell phone store. What does our code say about those? And is there time so it's sort of just passed a code amendment to change all those and make them basically you have to get a permit to do it So I'm wondering what is bright and do that? So our temporary signs as long as they meet the code requirements are permit exempt But temporary signs do have to have a They have a limit of 90 days So they they are code exempt. That's definitely an enforcement problem. But yeah, we can definitely look into that if that's something. I will mention to that, if that's something that you want to look into, we can absolutely do that. This will likely come back on its own just because of the time crunch for the Burrha project. But I'm so happy. I already got a list of other things to change in the sign code, so if there's things that you want me to add, I'm absolutely happy to look into those as well. And I'm not trying to send the code enforcement's out there, but I think there is some that are abusing them privilege. Absolutely. I got reminded this is an ordinance, so this will not be on the consent, but I'm happy to vote on it when it's time. Um, will you, you've probably explained this before, and I don't remember, but will you give an example of what a print, where a primary sign versus secondary versus tritionary sign is? I'm guessing a primary is like highway 85. Yeah, so I actually have the map from the community identity design plan and then then my paper one. Yeah. So in our sign code, which our updates have not been reviewed yet by everyone, but I do have them here to lay out, I took these points and intersections, and I added them in here. So everything is very specific based on an intersection. So the primary gateway signs would be located high 85 in bridge, which is the one we're working on with Burra, 76 in East Bridge, 76 in Bromley, 76 in Eagle Boulevard, and E470 in Stable, or South 4th Avenue. So those are the ones that are located in that like purple giant little star burst and then they get smaller than that. And then all of the smaller signs are also able to be located at those so it kind of builds on each other just because it may not allow for, you know, we don't, if we don't need an 80 foot sign somewhere, you know, things like that. So they're a little bit flexible in that. But. Okay. Thank you for explaining that. And then. And then. Places like where C.Dot would have the right away. Do we have to go through them to actually put it in the median or. We would. Okay. Yeah. And we're working on that right now with a Burr project. So it's actually kind of nice that this is going through that process right now and it is in C.Dot right of way. So we'll have a process laid out in the future for how that would work with them. Is there ways we can put special barriers so the cars don't run unto them since we're gonna invest so much into it? Yes that is part of our engineered drawings and discussion that we're having right now is how to prevent that kind of stuff especially for signs so large. I think I swear there's like some sort of a light pull down every time I go near the roundabout or a way-finding sign, there's always something down because somebody doesn't know how to drive it around about. Yeah. Mayor, for a time, did you have something? Well, I was hoping that the Assistant City Attorney could quote the entire sign code to us from memory. But it's part of the hazy. Apparently the answer is no. And I think there are some people with campaigns this year that would like to make sure that their political signs can also go out in the roundabouts. No, this is helpful. I'm happy to see this project is moving along and it really had not even occurred to me at the time we were discussing that we were discussing the signage that we couldn't put up. So I'm glad somebody was paying attention to that and brought it back around. I think that's it. Thank you. This is great. Council member Worth. Thank you, Mayor. I've got a couple questions. One you eluded a couple of times to kind of vaguely to the lighting requirements or restrictions. I mean what what do those look like? Are we going to have Las Vegas big signs out there? They're flashing and irritating all of us full time? They're going to be very bright. No, so basically what I did just a little bit of background, we have sign types in our code existing, right? And they have, I basically took location criteria, quantity and height criteria and lighting criteria from that. And a lot of those are basically just say they can be internally or externally illuminated. Our engineering drawings right now have them being internally lit at least on the brighten portion and then uplift on some of it. So it differs a little bit but it's it's all very soft lighting it's just in order to accentuate the design. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What is these are these are signs obviously going to be installed by the city. What what prevents everybody along Bridge Street of installing something you know 80 80 feet tall all the way down. I mean another way we can look just like Vegas. Great question. So in the location criteria, like I mentioned, they're at specific intersections only. So those intersections are the only intersections that these can go in. And also, they have to look like this. So in order to create this sign, that's why we're putting the image in the actual text of the code so that we can't, you know, be like, oh, it's a pull sign, but it, you know, is 80 feet tall. No, that doesn't work, right? So they have to be exactly like this. They have to follow all the criteria in this including the intersection specifics and things like that. things like that. And we did allow for, so the city can put some up and likely they will be the majority of the installer here, but developers could also do it. We could have projects where Burra could do it in their areas and things like that. There are other entities that could also pay for these, but that's part of the reason that we did this, right? So developer can't just come in and be like, oh my gosh, let me put this everywhere. Has to look like this. It has to meet all of these criteria. Okay. Thank you. That helps a lot. Yeah, of course. I think you're concerned our city managers recent trip to Las Vegas is in Florence and our signage. Yeah. I've been trying to get the Vegas style signs here for 10 years now. So if we can make that happen, I've seen some of this as welcome to Brighton that looks like Vegas and it was some jeweler over there at the airport. trying to get Vegas style signs here for 10 years now. So if we can make that happen, I've seen some, this is welcome to Brighton that looks like Vegas and it was some jeweler over there at the airport. Oh yeah, I've seen that. I'm also going to bring to you eventually a plan for some fountains, like the Baju. The Baju and the Gateway piece to the city as well. I don't think we have the water for that. All right. Council member Fiddler, let's get us back to. Well, I'm not going to bring you back. Appreciate the work. Emma, I was wondering if you put a large sign on the north side of Bromley across from the Oasis family. A sign. A large sign. In in in in lo is back here. If it looks like this, no, because that's not one of the intersection. But any sign could happen. Make sure as well let like at Eagle Ridge. Oh, they did. Okay. Oh, man. Anybody else have anything to real to contribute? All right. You'll bring this back. Yes, this will go to planning commission for recommendation and it'll come to you for approval. After planning commission. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. All right. All right. Stick into being on time. Next is the Water Service Line Investigation Service Award. City Manager Martinez. Again, this is another item that you have been contemplating for quite some time I believe this is the third or fourth presentation on this specific item But just to give you an update on what's next with our water service line investigation Project here tonight is Sherry and Scott who will present where we're at I'll turn over Sherry Sherry. Hi, no most of you. I'm Sherry Skajary, Water Quality Compliance Coordinator. And we're here again to talk about what the next step is in our service line investigation project. So we will talk a little bit about background and then give you a recommendation on what we see happening. So again, this is an EPA and state requirement that we have to develop an inventory of our service lines. And we have about 1700 addresses where the service line is what we are terming unknown. These addresses are homes that were built before 1960. This next step is to statistically verify that there is no lead in our system and that's by doing a random list of 317 addresses at least. So we created that list from that 1700 and we will do a visual inspection that on each of those lines on our side as well as the customer side using what we call pot holding. I just want to make sure everybody understands pot holding is not the same as the pot holes that you drive over. It's a very it's a much smaller hole and it will be completely fixed once the pot hole is done at those two spots. the city council meeting. So we did do a formal solicitation process. We went through bid net direct and we got received five submissions from contractors. And we would recommend that a future city council meeting that you accept proposal number three, which was submitted by environmental works and that amount would be a contract not to exceed 600,000 over two years. We did decide that they were the most responsive and responsible contractor for this based on their understanding of our project. They actually did an investigation of the areas of concern in their bid, which I thought was very good. And they offered some solutions to try to keep that overall cost as low as we could. This company has completed this type of work before and the pricing was determined to be fair and reasonable by the committee. One thing I would note at this point is normally you might see a slide of like a comparison of the total cost of each of the contractors and because of the way we bid this, we had line items that they bid on. So it was kind of like an itemized list. And because the contract is also a not-to-excede contract, it doesn't really make sense because we don't know exactly how many of that itemized list of each of those things that they might end up doing. And so we don't have a slide that's an overall cost for you. And that's really all I have. And if you have questions, I'd be happy to help answer those. Questions, Councilwoman Polowski. Oh, I thought you raised your hand. Councilmember Green. Thank you, Mayor. While I understand your rationale, it's nice to us to at least get a range of where this proposal was in regards to the other ones. I know you say there's a list of them all the way that was. You're not everything, but we're basically asking to us to accept it, but I really would like to see something that at least tells us a little bit more than this is the one we want. Okay. You have numbers. I do have some numbers if you want me to go over and just as for an example. So the line item number one was potholeing on both the city side and the utility side. And so that's like we asked them what would be your cost per address for that. This contractor came out at $690 per each for that address, right? Most of the 317 will be both sides of the property. The second inline contractor was $650. The other range was, so the total range there was one that was $574 and then the highest of the five was $1950. But the other four were very close to that $690, $650 range. And then if you look at just another example of something that might happen, for instance, line item number six was repairing a broken service line on the customer's own side. There was one contractor that ended up had a, I think it was probably a typo, but they had 89,000 in that, so that doesn't even make sense, right? But then the one that we chose for environmental works, their cost for that was $6,950. And that particular cost ranged from $1,200, which doesn't also seem quite right to, again, the 89,000. So there were a lot of other considerations besides the price as far as the proposals and how they actually proposed what they were gonna be doing. And again, just to add to that. So if we would have added the total together, we hope that we don't replace a single service line. So if we would have added those in, the number would not really have meant anything. So. But again, these are the kind of examples that I accepted. That's what I was looking for. Thank you. Any others? Okay. And if it's okay with you all, we'd like to place this on consent for the next meeting. Do it. Yes. Thank you all. All right. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. Look forward to making our decision on that next week. Anybody have any policy items that they weren't able to put on the online forum? Mayor Putem? And once a dog park. In addition to that, I just want to comment, and I've been playing for the last week with Clippy, or Brightly, I guess his name. The AI dog. I keep thinking this little paper clip on the Microsoft thing. It's been fun. I've been asking every question I can possibly come up with and so far it's had a link to almost all of them. So it did refer to city manager moron. When I tried to ask to the city manager was, but it was two years ago. I know. Oh. Still, but it's a great thing. It's a great thing to add to the website, finding ways to make utility payments to preserve resilience at the park to enter art in the contest for the traffic signals. Everything I could think of so far has had an answer to the water treatment plant. Very helpful to have that up there because the search mechanism before always felt a little bit clunky. This is a nice addition. We'll define city majors well. Yes. You should check the city majors well just note, just a quick note on that. We have entered the AI world and it's inevitable that all of us will enter that at some point. This is really the city's first for a into AI and so far so good. Thank you for the plug on that because it really is a very powerful tool to help our residents navigate to things that they need. We've been playing around with it a lot and as Mayor Pro Tem mentioned, you can find some really cool useful information on there. You can find some not so useful information like City Manager Moron on there too. That's a good joke by the way. I have to tell everybody that joke. You don't know it later. When I put in City Manager, it changed to asking me what else can I help you with in French. See? It's also not a small if you need it. No, but honestly it's a really cool tool. I encourage everybody to get on the get on our website and play around with it. It's fun. Have fun. Count some, remember green. I would say I don't think we're playing around with it. I think we're in the testing phase. Let's not. I still want to pursue that sign in front of the oasis. I think that is a problem. At least put a placeholder in there so that if the opportunity arises, I think that we really need to showcase some of our city highlights, including our rec center. I think on one of the fences, we should have our folks go out and put future home of new historic Brighton sign just on the fence as a place holder. I think we should highlight some of our city amenities. Oh man. Anybody else have anything of importance? Just a reminder next week is a regular meeting.