Committee discusses redevelopment examples, floodplain limits and past incentive use

The committee reviewed concrete examples of potential redevelopment sites and the practical constraints that accompany them. Staff described the Comfort Cafe parcel as lying in a flood plain, meaning any redevelopment there would require elevated construction or a smaller footprint, and contrasted that with other vacant parcels outside the flood plain such as a former Pizza Hut site or the Sonic parcel. "That 1 really is a think outside your box because it's in a flood plain," the staff member said when describing constraints at one parcel.