Item A: Ordinance on Chambers Special Area Zone

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addresses within the study area as well as to. several hundred other interested parties who. live outside o.fthe study area but who requested no.tification. . Proiect Newsletters Follo.wing the initial newsletter mailing, project newsletters were mailed to all 1700 addresses in the study area prior to the October and November general meetings. After the November meeting, newsletters were mailed only to those who had attended previous meetings and others who had requested that their names be placed on the project notification list. . Back.ground Information Maps and Pro;ect Information. All background maps produced for the 1998 Existing Conditions Report were updated to show current co.nditions for each factor mapped. All tables and text in the report were evaluated for currency and were updated where necessary. The full Existing Conditions Report and a Summary of the full report were made available to the public prior to. the first meeting. . Bicvcle Tour. On October 19, just before conducting the Neighborhood Design Preferences Survey, staff and consultants joined about 20 area residents for a bike taur of the neighborhood. We began by following the tour map but responded to participants suggestions to view o.ther buildings that were not an the tour ro.ute. . Neighborhood Meetings. Five generalneighborhoo.d meetings were held; ane each in September, Octoher and November and two in April. Meeting attendance grew from about 20 to nearly 50 participants by November and remained fairly constant througho.ut the remainder of the praject. The September l1eighbo.rho.od meeting was held to explain the project, field questions and stimulate discussion; the October and No.vember meetings were dedicated to conducting and translating the Neighborho.o.d Design Preferences Survey. The two. April meetings were held to present the draft standards and guidelines and the conclusions of the traffic study to area residents. . Neighborhood Design Preferences Survev The survey is a unique public participation tool. The survey allows a given audience to provide preference feedback (likes and dislikes) on visual images that illustrate a set o.fphysicalcharacteristics. The images can be standardized for multiple presentations o.r customized to. fo.CUS on a unique set of co.nditio.ns. Surveys can be do.ne citywide, as was done in the 1994 TransPlan pro.cess, o.r fo.r a smaller area like a neighborhood, as was done for the Chambers project. The Chambers Reconsidered Neighborhood Design Preferences Survey was crafted to identify local preferences related to commercial and residential infill and redevelopment in the Chambers area. The survey design responded to. a criticism o.fthe traditio.nal visual preference survey that, in the traditional survey, the viewer of an image does not necessarily know what, specifically, is being evaluated. The Chambers survey was modified to. ask respondents to judge the image in the co.ntext of a stated topic. All images in the slide sho.w were identified as having a theme or tapic ("mass and scale", "parking", etc.) that provided a clue about what information we were seeking. The survey was given to the group on October 19; the results were presented o.n November 16. The results presentation was fo.rmatted to. identify tentative "conclusions" reached by the consultants, while allowing the group to comment on those co.nclusions. Sometimes the group added new infonnation; sometimes they corrected the consultant's Exhibit A-II