 Okay, I think we're ready to go. Is everybody ready? Are we live yet? Um, is everybody ready? Yes. Ready. Hey, Sean, can you... The day's meeting is not correct. Isn't this December 2nd today? Yes. I think it is. I hope so. On to the next slide. Okay, Dean. I have a reason I know that. I'm a child of slain writer. Is it your birthday? No. Just stay tuned. Wow, look at that. Are we live? Yeah, we are live. Okay, good. Okay, ladies and gentlemen. Capital and residents, welcome to the December 2nd Planning Commission. And, as usual, we'll be broadcast on Charter Communications Cable TV Channel 8 and AT&T U-Verse Channel 99. Our technician tonight is Walter, and if you care to participate on any of the agenda items or during our communications, if you look at your screen, you'll see now there's many ways you can by calling in, joining a webinar, and we'd love to have you join in if you have anything to add to our meeting. So with that, we have the will call please, Chloe. Yes, Commissioner Christensen. Here. Commissioner Newman. Here. Commissioner Westman. Here. Commissioner Wilk. Here. Chair Ruth. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you anybody? Thank you. Thank you. Chair Ruth … what would you mind chairingай until key … Oh, no, here in your next. You see that have a little bit of a connection issue earlier. Share with your on mute. There we go. I lost connection. It may help to turn off your video if you're having difficulty with your connection. So be so bad with it. Cut that straightened out. So that brings us to item two on our agenda tonight, which is oral communications. Our first part of that is additions and deletions to the agenda. Katie, can we have any of those? We did receive one additional public or one public comment on item 4b109, Cat Carmichael Attomace from the neighbor in support of that project. And I came to hear you else today. Yeah, I've seen that. Hopefully, everybody does. She supports the debt. OK? Any public comments? Now it's time for members of the public for addressing items of concern that are not on the agenda tonight. So we'll give you a little bit of time here to weigh in if you have anything to add to the meeting tonight. I'm not seeing any hands raised from panelists. OK, we'll continue on in. And go through item C, which is commission comments. Any commissioners have any of the case they'd like to address tonight? Here in no one, we'll move on to staff comments. Katie, any staff comments? Yeah, I do have a few staff comments. So first, Olivia, would you mind? I wanted to introduce you to Olivia Bears. You can see her in your screen. Olivia Bears reached out to me during the hand-dach and asked if we had any internships available when she was at UC Santa Barbara last year. It's kind of the pleasure of working with her. She did a study remotely for the city on sea level rise and what other communities are doing to update their LCPs. And she put together a great paper for me just outlining where other communities are in the process. Very informative, what kind of cliff they've been adding to their codes and what the coastal commission has had them add to their codes. We have some really great research and research paper that Olivia put together. And Olivia just passed summer, or last spring, graduated from Santa Barbara. And she is a local. She was in Aftos and her family was originally a very popular business here in the city of Capitola. It was very well-rooted here. And she, I already talked to her when we were short staff and said, would you like another opportunity for our office and start doing the day-to-day work within our office? So Olivia has been such an asset to Sean and I over the past two months, three months at this point, helping out with the day-to-day planning and admin responsibilities. And I just wanted to let you all know, introduce Olivia and let me know what she's doing behind the scenes. She was recently offered a position in San Diego, so she will be leaving us. It's heading down there in January. But just, just really wanted to give my thanks for all our hard work here and let you all know who's been helping us out behind the scenes. I think, I know Sean and I talked about how much we're in this or not already. So, she's just been a great asset to our team. So thank you, Olivia. And we wish you the best. She'll be here through the end of the year. Do you have anything to add, Olivia? No, just it's been a great experience learning a test. So thank you. Thank you, Olivia. You've picked the second best place to the state to land. Yeah, we've had great success with interns. He learned as well from having his daughter, Jovanna, who was an intern here. And then we got a great plan to mission her out of that internship and she moved on to work over the hill. And then, of course, John Sonsen started off as an intern. We were so lucky to be able to keep him. So, staff, so, anyways, that's my first update. And thank you, Olivia. She didn't have work for Rich Bruno down there? Not for Rich Bruno. The clothing will be closed by. Okay, just the weathering. The second update I have for you tonight is last night the city council did adopt, or accepted the first reading of the ordinance for the outdoor dining. They took all of the planning tuition changes to the ordinance other than the locations. And they kept sidewalk dining in the ordinance. So the sidewalk dining stayed in the ordinance. They allowed sidewalk dining to be added to Capitola Avenue to the list of sidewalk dining locations. And then they brought back the tree dining that was on Monterey Avenue and Capitola Avenue. But during their deliberations, they all gave us sincere thanks to the planning commission. There were many of, all the rest of your changes made it into the ordinance. They recognized the hard work and they understood they needed to do this right. And they did want to move the ordinance forward so they could have something permanent. Hopefully this summer starting for that three year trial. So again, there are things in appreciation by our hard work on that. And if you have any questions, feel free to contact me and talk through any of that. And lastly, the city council, they updated their recently two meetings ago. They updated the reimbursement policy for digital reading devices. I'm gonna send that to you via email. So you'll have an updated version of that and just know if you're ready. Now that we're so dependent on our technology for these meetings, budget has gone up and it has a little more flexibility included. So I'll be sending that to you through email and let me know if you'd like to utilize any of those funds so that's that for you. And with that, that concludes my comments. Okay, thank you, Katie. So that brings us to item three tonight, the approval of the minutes. We have two meetings that we have to address. I think we'll probably take them separately. The first meeting is October 7th of 2021. The minutes from that meeting is there a motion to approve any additions or corrections. I'll make a motion to approve. Anyway, we have a motion. Is there a second? I'll second it. Commissioner Wilk. We have a motion and a second. The second is like Commissioner Wilk. Very the roll call please, Chloe. Commissioner Christensen. Aye. Commissioner Newman. Aye. Commissioner Westman. Aye. Commissioner Wilk. Aye. Chair Ruth. Thank you. Okay, those minutes are up to Ruth and the second seven minutes is from the meeting of November 4th. Is there a motion to approve those minutes? They'll move. Commissioner Wilk. I'll second it. Okay, Commissioner Christensen second. May I have the roll call please, again, Chloe? Commissioner Christensen. Aye. Commissioner Newman. Commissioner Westman. Aye. Commissioner Wilk. Aye. Chair Ruth. The minutes are approved. That brings us to item four tonight, the Consent Calendar. We have three items on the Consent Calendar tonight. One of them is calling for a continuation. Would there be a motion to approve or does anybody want to pull any items for discussion? If no one wants to pull anything, I'll make an motion to approve it. Okay, there are seconds to approve the Consent Calendar. I'll second it. Commissioner Wilk. By Commissioner Wilk. Roll call please, Chloe? Commissioner Christensen. Aye. Commissioner Newman. Commissioner Westman. Commissioner Wilk. Chair Ruth. Okay, that brings us to item five, our public hearings. We have two tonight. The first public hearing is, I think just an overview of the new state of California housing legislation. There seems to be a lot of likely in the community development housing work plan. Katie, is this going to be you or Sean? This is actually a, my contribution is Layla. Layla, okay. Yeah, from our attorney's office. Layla's we give an update of the recent legislation. And I will, I'll try to get at the end so you can try a lot of work fun. Okay. Layla? Hi, good evening. Chair Ruth, Commissioner, staff. Pleasure to see you all over Zoom that week. My name is Layla, I'm the Director of the Nets. I'm the senior associate with Perfulting and Dorn Smith. So we have a pleasure of working with Sam Butler on a regular basis, who you may know. I'm going to be sharing my screen right now. But I think it looks like a muster who's sharing right now, but okay, I should be able to see that and I will go to the presentation. Okay. Can everyone see the presentation okay? Yeah. Okay, wonderful. Okay. So Layla? Yeah. Before you start, I just want to make it clear. I think there is a few that everything that was on the consent calendar, it's not maybe clear to the public, but everything that was on consent passed this evening. So if you have an item on consent to the pass, you will come to continue to attend the meeting. So I want to make sure that's there. Thank you. There's been a lot of activity. State web is later this year has been no exception. Particularly related to housing in California, which continues to be sort of the evergreen, popular topic to pass new exciting and sometimes nerve-wracking legislation. So tonight we're going to just be talking about some of the heavy hitters we'll call them in the latest batch of housing legislation. First, we'll talk about SC9, which involves the ministerial approval of two units and lots with development. There is also some streamlined updates from SC8 and SC10. And then lastly, the bill that kind of does a little bit with our housing element in terms of our timeline and then things that needs to look out for, and that's 80, 13, 98. So starting off with this year's most popular topic of discussion that we've related to housing, SC9, which is the two units and lots with legislation. And what SC9 does essentially is it provides for the ministerial approval of up to two units on a single lot. And in addition, the other part of SC9 also allows for the creation of two lots, essentially a lot, for it. Now this has created a lot of mechanics in a lot of places throughout the state, thinking about, is this the end of single-family housing? What does this mean, how is this implemented? And the answer is much of an effect anticipating right now. However, and so one of the big reasons for that is currently as drafted, SC9 would apply, for example, in Capitola to the R1 zone only. And this is because the current interpretation of SC9 and this, I should frame this with a slight caveat that could be subject to change pending updated HGC update or guidelines, HGC guidelines. But as of now at least, the SC9 will only apply to zones that are currently designated for single-family and that do not currently have or allow for most of the families' elements. So again, in Capitola, we're just talking about the R1 zone. Now, we still can apply also, even though there's a ministerial approval process that doesn't eliminate the possibility of applying local development standards. And these include setbacks of up to four teams up to one parking space per unit, although zero parking would be allowed to be required if they're near major transit. We want to require that rental for longer than 30 days. And we have to allow for a minimum of 800 square feet. The city can't deny SC9 project if the product would have a specific adverse impact on health and safety or the physical environment and that there's no reasonable feasible way to mitigate those impacts. So SC9 is all about objective standards. What does an objective standard mean? Well, basically it means that you have no personal or subjective judgment by public official. And that it's uniformly verifiable by reference to an external and uniform benchmark of criterion available and knowable by the development application for the climate and the public official. And that's basically a long-winded way of describing the checks. So one way, could be a thing about effective standards or ministerial approval process is whether or not you can have a checklist and if folks need that checklist, then the product gets approved. And if they don't, then they don't. So some examples of effective standards include height, setbacks, walk coverage, percentage of open space, empty, tar, et cetera. When we look at, we can ask ourselves how would a new single-family home are one zone required to design permit from Planning Commission be reviewed in the new year? Because that's kind of what we're looking at primarily. It's our one zone, how our single-family home is going to be looked at under SC9. Well, SC9 allows for up to two homes per lot. It doesn't specify that there has to be two. So potentially, none home would also be subject to the ministerial approvals of SC9. Therefore, we'd only be applying objective development and design standards, again, height, setbacks, floor area ratio, one parking space per unit. And we would not be able to apply discretionary criteria, which is most of our current design permit criteria, things like protecting privacy or being compatible with the neighborhood look and feel. So again, we want to ensure that we are applying an objective checklist to these applications as opposed to qualitative standards. Some examples of standards that have been found by the courts to not be effective is those things like special care shall be taken to avoid obstructing leaves, produce high-quality authentic design, reflect the look and feel of the community, or even put the vision map back for you that the site is not physically suitable for the proposed development. Anything that requires that kind of judgment or has that kind of fuzzy language that requires a judgment call or discretion takes you out of objectiveness. Some additional SC9 requirements that are specific to the lots with aspects. And I can kind of quickly go through them and talk about them more in detail if you'd like. Essentially, the lots have to be roughly equal size. You can't have a giant ball on one side and a small angle corner on the other, and no smaller than 1200 square feet. Other than the quality of requirements and the subdivision map back, it doesn't need to comply with all of the requirements. And it requires that the standards imposed can't preclude the construction of two units on high-high-visual parcels, or results in a unified with less than 800 square feet. Allow the requirements, that's a good requirement for easement and right-of-way. So for example, if we have a block lot, we can require access to the house in the back or the lot in the back. Required owner occupancy of one unit for a minimum of three years from the date of approval, and this is achieved by an affidavit. And it also prohibits more than two units on parcels that are already subdivided through an urban block split, so just junior 8-us, junior 8-us, and primary control units. So I think there was some concern at one point where that folks would build a second unit, do a lot split, throw a couple of 8-us, and you would have a city, essentially, a weight city, one block, but that's not what that meant. And then lastly, adopting an SC-9 local ordinance, which is definable, is exempt from CQA. So we are recommending that we go ahead and update the municipal code to implement SC-9 locally. This will allow us to implement our own application review process, as well as objective development and some standards that fit with the CDH capital and our goals. So next, we'll move on to SP-8. SP-8, essentially, extends the time of the housing crisis act for SP-330 from 2025 to 2030, so five-year extension. It's also specific to the topic of permit streamlining as related to affordable housing projects. So it allows for preliminary reviews and also your maximum of five hearings on those affordable housing projects. It also modifies the real-estation assistance requirements to help ensure that if you have affordable housing, you're replacing it. And also that there's a right of first refusal for folks to have been displaced by new construction. And it also updates some of the definitions before we don't have to necessarily go into that tonight. We don't need to only do any municipal updates for SP-8. There will be quality and critical tracking of development applications to make sure that we're complying with the streamlining and the extended timing. And SP-10, so these are, again, streamlined opportunities and this comes for up-stopping. So SP-9 is a, or SP-10, I'm sorry, is a completely permissive bill. So it allows the city to adopt an ordinance authorizing housing development projects with 10 or fewer units per parcel in transit-reached areas or urban and rural sites. And it essentially makes it easier for cities to up-zone and to increase density in certain areas. Part provided that those areas match the requirements of the legislation, which includes that the parcel cannot be located in a very high-fired hazard severity zone or if it was subject to a border or food restriction whether it be open space, parks, recreational purposes. And one of the, so the city council or the city of Catatola have the option of creating such an up-downy ordinance to kind of streamline this process. And then lastly, we'll talk about 18, 39, 38, which goes a little bit into the housing development and one of our favorite topics, the remand numbers. So Leila, before you go on, I was just gonna advise you at the top of your screen where it says display settings. Yeah. I think if you click on that, there might be an option to duplicate or. Yeah. And then it should, right now it's showing your notes. So if you try to press duplicate and see if that will. Oh, okay. There you go. Much better. Okay, thank you. Yes. Okay, so we know Rena that it's all about identifying housing sites or sites to accommodate housing. And this is all part of our housing elements update. And essentially, if we cannot identify enough sites to accommodate Rena, then we have to use our housing elements to identify specific sites for rezoning in order to create those housing opportunities to satisfy the Rena obligation. So the necessary rezoning needs to be done within three years, which is faster than normal, usually five to six years. So it can be up to four years if you have certain findings that are needed. And the time to reduce to one year if the housing element is about to wait or not certified on time. So we've been trying to not allow housing development with 20% lower income only as a permitted use. There's no sequel review for that. And again, limited to the effectiveness design sliders. So in terms of next steps, we're going to be in case we can talk a little bit more about this in detail, but we'll be continuing to work on updating the housing element to achieve HDB certification by December 2023. And we'll be to ensure that we have the council adoption of the housing element within 120 days of the December 31st, 2023 deadline, or we run into the rezoning issues. So yeah, just to conclude, if you haven't already noticed, there's that point of overarching trends, which are being heavily towards multi-family residential friendly legislation. And this is only expected to increase over the next several years. The inventory of housing needs to be not meeting the demand, but everyone is insured lower. And so there will probably continue to be movements toward making it easier, or even forcing local jurisdictions to allow for these greater density development projects. And it kind of goes into affordability with low supply, high demand. Housing prices are pretty high. So it's inventory and it goes to equities in terms of folks being able to access. And that kind of wraps up my portion of the presentation. And then Katie, I'll turn it over to you. Great, can you go to the next slide, please? Yes, this is a- I think there's a timeline, there's two slides. Okay, sure. Okay, so first I just want to thank you, Layla, that was a great presentation. Right after we adopt a new zoning code, you know what comes next, right? State, having us through again. So we'll be jumping into this in the new year. And I just wanted to also update you with the discussion on the housing element. We were expecting our rena numbers to go up by the rate of four times their current amount. So at a little over, I think we're at 160 more or less. I was expecting the numbers to come in somewhere between 450 and 600 in the new update. At the last AMBAG meeting that we had, early this week, the previous meeting, the capital and number was a little over 700. And at the last meeting, as we're looking at, typically we looked at jobs in transit, the new requirements, we're now looking at resiliency. So wildfire, areas that is essential to wildfire will get less and sea level rise. So that helps capital a little bit being done a number. But we're also looking at equity. And equity is a large number within the current calculations and less diverse cities, their numbers will go up in terms of AMBAG. Or in terms of rena numbers. So currently with the draft calculations, which the board will be looking at next week, we're now at 1,090 units of new capital. So there's more work to be done. They, in this consideration, they haven't really taken into consideration how small the city of capital is compared to our other jurisdictions. So I expect that the number will decrease. But just that we've got our work cut out for us. And that's why I wanted to bring this forward so that nobody's surprised what we'll be putting on the RFP for the housing element update in January. So the housing element update will go through the next two years. We have to have it in for each review by the fourth quarter of 2023. We're currently working on the multi-family objective standards at Novels Under Contract for that. But at the same time, we're gonna work with our city attorney to draft out the single-family effective standards for SB 9 to get that in place as soon as possible. So I'm gonna show you this timeline. And that concludes our presentation. I wanted to have Layla here for any specific questions you may have about the new legislation. I'm sure there may be a lot of them. If anyone liked you, address the question to Layla. No, this is a question, well, I've got a question. We talked about, I don't know which one it was, at CCHEN, maybe for the up-doning. And I'm trying to imagine. So there's this mall development thing where they were gonna have 600 units. And there was some pushback on that. So if that was, so we could zone that and say, okay, let's just put all of our re-enact units like in that location and that would cover it. We could just fix it off and say, this is where we're gonna cover this. Well, I'm gonna take, so within the re-enact numbers, it's not just market rate units. It's broken down between very low, low, moderate and above moderate. So if we were to say that a lot of re-enacters were going to help them all development, then all of those units would have to be affordable if they were gonna take that whole burden. So currently, I think with the mall development as proposed, it would have been about a little over, I think close to 100 units would have had more than just the 15% of the overall total. Doesn't get us anywhere close. So we'll never get close. I had a question. No, this is really loud. I seem to remember reading, it might have been SB 9, but I'm not sure that there was some distinction drawn between cities of less than 50,000 and cities from more than 50,000 in terms of application of the statute. I think this is in one of the earlier jobs, but as SB 9 applies to all cities as well as urbanized counties, urbanized means sort of a basic mission from the census. So, but definitely off the cities. Okay, I'll have to go back, I can't. That was in our packet somewhere, but I don't recall. Oh, okay, okay. Any other questions? I have a question. In talking about the mall project, which is probably the biggest area where housing's going to be provided in Capitola, one of the real concerns up there is current traffic and the additional traffic that will be provided by this new development. So, are you saying that there is no way any longer to require the development to deal with all of those? Oh, thank you so much. Oh, I'm sorry, go with just me. Hi, I heard most of the question. I can wait to go. Basically, I'm asking can we require traffic improvements of the developer in areas where the development's going in and it's going to have a significant traffic impact? Or is that taken off the table now? Well, if the project does fall under SB 9, which is a question in that itself, then no, we would not be able to implement these kind of discretionary traffic analyses, right? But we would first have to figure out if we're even dealing with an SB 9 project at all anyway. I'm not sure if the current zoning or the zoning will be a little fragile? I don't know if it's R1 or? So it's regional commercial and so the SB 9 would not apply in our, because it will only apply to our R1 parcels. And the other thing that, in the review of the objective standards, it only applies when somebody brings in a complete new unit. So it will not affect how we look at additions to homes, but it will affect any new units that come in or these subdivision applications for two months. Katie, I have a question of the up-zoning to the 10 units per parcel. Is there a definition as to how large that parcel has to be? Who determines that? My Latino face, a requirement for size on SB 10? I doubt we'll talk to my head, but I can double off child. That would probably all be kind of hammered out in an ordinance that would be adopted and I'm sure we have to specify minimum log size is as well. How's the double child of SB 9 itself identified minimum log size? I can get back to you. That is, that's all in terms, that the city does not have to follow SB 10. It just gives us the ability to develop that ordinance as we'd like, so it's not required. It creates an office committee. Oh, then. Any other questions for Layla while we have her here? There is none. Thank you, Layla, so much for the presentation. Yes, thank you, Layla. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Commissioner. It's been a pleasure. Let me have, again, any other questions? My email along the slideshow, so. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Okay, that brings us to item B under public hearings tonight, which is the Prototype ADU program. Okay, we've got our workbench and other designs team back, and I'm going to let them do introductions of like, y'all to meet them, and then I think Omar is gonna lead the rest of the team. Hi, everyone, great to be back. I'll introduce myself. I'm Omar, I'm an architect at Workbench, and I'll let the rest of the team introduce themselves now. Alexander, do you want to next? Hi, everyone, I'm Alexander. I'm working with Omar on the design portion of the project. Hi, I'm Camille Keenan. I'm the founder of Workbench and not really doing a lot, just letting out doing Omar. He's really excellent work, providing feedback. And hi, I'm Sam Souter. I'm the founder of Meta Urban Design, and I'm a sub consultant to Workbench, and I'm dealing with the informational materials, which I'll talk more about in a moment. Great, so that is the team, and I'm going to share my screen now. Bear with me for a second here. And if you could just let me know with a thumbs up, oops, if you can see my screen. So, it's a theater. Yeah, I'm having some flipper in here. Hang on one second, maybe try something different. There it is. You want to see my screen now? It says you can start it. Yeah, here we go. There's a little lag maybe. There it is. Hopefully this works then. So, Omar, I'm only seeing pieces. So, are you guys seeing that too? Yeah. It's locked out. It's just only the lower right hand corner. I could try to share it from my computer if it's like Omar, I have it. Sure, let's try. Is that better? I can't do it all day. Okay, great. Thank you so much, Katie. If you want to go ahead and jump ahead of a few slides. So, today we're going to talk about the schematic design package which we've completed for the capital AAU program. And so, if you want to skip ahead to one more slide there, perfect. So, last time we met, we gave a little presentation about our process leading up to what you're seeing on the screen right now, which is the design for three unit types, which is a studio, a one bedroom, and a one bedroom plus, sometimes called a two bedroom, sort of a flexible unit on the end there. And you'll notice that we ended up three versions of the studio, a small, medium, and large. And this was based on work with city planners, Katie specifically, to identify buildable lot sizes where we were trying to think of how to make these units most adaptable to most lots in capital AAU. And so, we presented these four plans last time, which is the five floor plans, and we had identified three architectural styles, which is the craftsman, the farmhouse, and the beach bungalow. And last time we had shared that exterior design development for the one bedroom unit. And since then, we've gone through and completed the exercise for all of the floor plans you're seeing on the screen now. So, we'll walk through that briefly and talk about some of the final tweaks we've made. I want to go to the next slide, perfect. So, this is the studio small. This is the smallest unit that we have. It is 10 feet wide by 25 feet, and it should fit on the majority of capital allots that could have an AAU in their backyard. On the, you'll see when you enter in the center of the unit, there is no circulation space. It is the most efficient, tightest plan of all. There is a bed area on the right with a full wall, a full height storage, a small kitchenette directly in front of the door, and a bathroom, a full bathroom on the left side. For this unit, we're proposing that there is lofted storage over the bathroom area. And then you'll see on the left-hand side of the slide, the three architectural styles, which is the craftsman, the farmhouse, and the beach bungalow. Keep in mind, we're just showing exterior design notions on this. When people select these, they can obviously change the side interior and collect colors that match their unit design and desires. And so these are just sort of inspirational images of the three styles that will be provided elevations in the future. The studio medium is slightly larger, the 12 by 25, there is an added washers rider at the bottom left-hand corner there. And you'll notice just a slightly larger, more local unit for lots that are able to accommodate it. And then the same thing again, the exterior designs are almost exactly the same on all of these studios, but just showing the sort of aspect of the different material and how you can achieve these different styles with very minimal changes to the actual building. And then the studio large, the largest of the studios is the 12 foot by 32 foot. In this one, we're able to actually accommodate a living space adjacent to that bed area, could be a dining space, a little bit more flexible on a studio unit. The next one is a one bedroom. This is a true one bedroom with a dedicated built-in closet, space for a wash dryer, and a full bathroom. There's a full-size kitchen in this one with additional full-height storage and a living space that you enter off of a door that is sort of tucked around the corner to give surprises to the AMU. Again, we're proposing to lock the storage over the bathroom and closet area of this unit. And you can see the exterior design is a little bit more articulated on this one. It really does feel like a small home. So we're really excited about how this one turned out. And you can see some of the differences between the different exterior styles more magnified in these larger units. And then the last one is the one bedroom plus, sometimes called the two bedroom. In this one, we're proposing sort of a flexible, longer living kitchen bar that could be used as an additional bedroom, or could just be a larger living space with a little more flexible, larger living room, a dedicated dining room, perhaps a work space. Really the idea here is to give people and home owners the opportunity for maximum flexibility. And so now Alexander's gonna talk a little bit about what we're starting to do next and how we're organizing our drawing sets moving forward. Great, thank you. So just want to quickly update everyone where we are at our work in this mad design phase along with doing all the work on the exteriors that Omar just spoke to. We're also starting to formulate our drawing set and do that in a way that is going to be the most user friendly for home owners that are taking advantage of the program. So what you'll get here is kind of a template for what we're working on for the main first use, which are all the project information for home owners. And the idea will be that a home owner can take this per sheet, decide what style of ADU they want, decide what size of ADU they want, check the box, the box will say, hey, if you want to let the studio each bungalow, you're gonna use sheet XYZ. They'll put in their project information and just as it's in the map, and then just all the information that the building department needs in order to review. And the other thing we're working on is we've put together a beginning for each architectural set. So this will be the first page and we do have it, we don't have all of them to show you it's for time, but we've done this for every side option and exterior style, starting to get it architectural sheets with exterior elevations. The next phase of the project will start to develop these further and we'll build in the construction documents. All right, so for the inspirational materials, again, that's where my piece comes in. I wanna explain how that fits with the larger and a Capitola ADU program. And so with the informational materials, we wanted to help residents, property owners understand what kinds of ADUs they can build, what locks, what resources are available. So this is probably a recap for a lot of you, but there are three levels of review for ADUs. The first layer, that's where workbenches, pre-designed plans come in. Those are all the ADUs under that threshold at 800 square feet. Beyond that, there's the second layer of review that's also administrative and then there's the third level which you guys are the experts on. So part of what the inspirational materials will do is to just explain those different buckets of review and explain the different criteria to help property owners understand which level of review they wanna pursue and the rationale behind the different layers. So for instance, if they're just dealing with the size requirements and they can understand the difference between the first layer review, second layer review, if they're degrading from the standards and that's where they'll have to go and get planning commission review. So one of the major intentions behind the informational materials is just to explain that process and the difference kind of choose your own adventure review process that property owners can go down. The second major intention of these informational materials is to just illustrate these standards. So even as I was explaining a different level of review, I was getting lost in all the different requirements. So a picture of this worth is thousand words. That's really my expertise. As a planner and a landscape architect, I really love illustrating regulations. So that's part of what I'm bringing to this team is making sure that as we're explaining the different levels of review, we're also explaining what the standards are intending to support in the built environment. So you don't need an attorney or a planning degree to understand the standards that could be really user friendly and engaging. And so the graph on the right is an example of work that I'm doing for Milpitas right now, very similar process, but we'll all work closely with Workbench. So the whole package of materials will have a consistent look and feel. And we'll definitely be in the same graphic vocabulary, but that will be the next phase of this project. And I'm really excited to build off of Workbench's great plans and help you guys round out this ADU program. Great, and so for next steps for us, our plan is to be complete with our work in Q1 of next year. And then our next checkpoint will be to go through the building plan review where each of these drawing sets is reviewed by a planning planner. And then hopefully we'll have a lovely functioning program for Capitola. I think that's all we've got, Katie. Yeah, thank you Omar. So yes, that is the next steps that the plans will be reviewed by our building department. And I just wanted to make sure that there's really no action that the planning push needs to take on this item, but just that they've developed the plans that you were expecting based on your last review and just to get your last thing to continue on. Yeah, I think you're doing a really, really good job of our intent. It looks really nice. We have a question. Mr. Welk. Yes, thank you Commissioner Ruth. So I was trying to imagine being an applicant about coming into the staff desk there and say, hey, I mentioned in the EU, I want to look at this for sure. And the first question that would come to my mind after I got kind of excited about it, I say, well, do you have a real quick idea of how much each of these are going to cost? Is there any thought of, you know, somehow our lending, the construction costs, you know, based on 2021 construction costs, this will, these will take, you know, whatever. Again, I think that that kind of thing would be really helpful, even if it was just a rough order of magnitude time, but they, is there any thought about providing that kind of information, Katie? You know, I don't think we have that included in our scope, but it's, I think it's a great idea. Omar, is that something that is easily done within the workbench team, or is that? I'll actually let you really speak to that. We could definitely do that, Katie. I don't know if our fee on this one has enough in it, but if we get to the end and we have enough time left, I'd be happy to help with that. Yeah, construction pricing is not pretty right now, so hopefully it would change a lot in 2023 in the downward direction. So, you know, we could provide some pricing now and it will inevitably change, but we know we could give people some, you know, kind of ballpark figures if they'd be looking at that. So, Katie, I'm happy to touch with you about later in the project and see what happens. Thank you. I know it's not in our current scope, but I think it's a great idea. Thank you. Okay, any other questions? Very nothing, we'll move on. Thank you again, Omar, and your team. Thank you. Thank you all. Yeah, thanks. Great. Thank you. Hey, Katie, do you have a director's report for us? I do not have a director's report for you. This was added tonight. Any commission communications? Mr. Newman. Yeah, I want to get back to the date of the hearing here. The reason I knew that the date was incorrect when it was put up on the screen is because today's date is what's known as a polyndrome. 120221, three forwards and backwards the same. So that's important for the commission to know. Yeah, thank you for that little good good. Thank you. Any other questions or concerns, communications? Very none, and we'll adjourn to our January meeting. Oh, you've picked a new chairman at that time, chairperson, and happy holidays, everyone. Have a wonderful Christmas. Thank you. Thank you. You too. Happy holidays.