Item A: Ordinance on Chambers Special Area Zone

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or staffs impressions about what was meant or what was said. The November meeting was intended to provide an additional interaction between participants. consultants and staff that would result in a refined. mutual understanding of the project's objectives. Information derived from the survey was fed directly into the development of draft codes (standards) and guidelines. . Focus Group On Friday March 18. 2005, the consultant team and City staff conducted an all-day workshop in which the draft standards and guidelines were introduced and discussed. Half of the day was committed to work on residential standards; half was committed to commercial standards. While there was an attempt to include testing of the draft standards as part of each half-day meeting. that part of the program was less successful than anticipated due to the complexity of the task and the amount of discussion between participants that was necessary to proceed with testing. The discussions between participants, consultants and staff however, were very productive and enabled the consultants and staff to move fonvard with drafting the standards and guidelines. Several months before the workshop. City staff created an event application form to insure that a full range of neighborhood interests were represented in the process. That fonn was distributed at the November neighborhood meeting, was posted on the City's Mixed Use Development website and was available at the Permit Information Center. The form asked applicants to disclose which interest groups they represented and why they would like to serve on the group. The application process was left open between November 16. 2004 and January 28,2005. Twenty-seven applications were received. Thirteen of the applicants indicated an interest in attending the residential focus group; 8 indicated a preference for the commercial focus group, and 6 indicated an interest in attending both. On February 24. 2005 the Planning Commission approved all 27 applications to serve on the focus group and participate in the workshop. . Interaction and additional meetings with interested parties. This project generated an unusually high number of e-mail exchanges between neighborhood residents. consultants and city staff. Most of the e~mail dialogue was carried 011 between City staff and members of Chambers Area Families for Healthy Neighborhoods (CAFHN), an organization of area residents who were very active in this planning process. Staff received approximately 300 e-mails between September and May, many of which requested data, information, or answers to questions. In addition to the scheduled meetings with aU interested parties, staff and consultants met with representatives of CAFHN on two occasions to discuss code concepts for the "East Traditional Neighborhood" area that was of greatest interest to CAFHN members. . Internet Postinf<s. All materials relating to this project have been posted on the Planning and DevelopmentDepartment Mixed Use Development website Therefore, the process followed is consistent with Goal 1. Exhibit A ~ 12