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Planning Department outlines major planning initiatives and target dates
Summary
Long-range planning staff briefed the committee on a slate of planning projects, including station-area vision plans, downtown historic-resource survey, equity overlay and industrial study with milestones through 2026.
Erica Leek, the Planning Department’s long-range planning lead, briefed the Housing and Planning Committee on the status and expected timing of multiple planning initiatives across the department, including station-area vision plans and corridor and downtown studies.
“In May, we expect potential adoption of the North Lamar and South Congress Transit Center Station Area Vision Plans,” Leek said, adding that the department expects to complete other technical work through the year and into 2026.
Why it matters: these plans set policy and regulatory context for future rezoning, development, infrastructure and community investment decisions in parts of the city identified for transit-supportive growth.
Projects and expected timing - May: potential adoption of North Lamar and South Congress Station Area Vision Plans; completion of an agriculturally focused neighborhoods resolution response. - July: downtown historic resource survey and equity overlay study completion. - September: completion of an industrial study update. - By year-end: updates to urban design guidelines and the Great Streets plan and standards.
Other active projects: Leek said the Northeast District plan and the East Riverside Corridor vision plan update will remain active into the next year; the East Riverside update will be accompanied by accompanying code amendments described elsewhere in committee materials.
Committee questions focused on which documents apply downtown versus citywide (Leek said Great Streets standards are downtown-focused; urban design guidelines may have applicability beyond downtown depending on policy choices) and on the industrial study, which April D’Rousseau (division manager) described as an effort to produce decision-making considerations for retaining, adapting or converting industrial land given ongoing patterns of nonindustrial rezoning and redevelopment.
What's next: staff will continue outreach and return with more detailed schedules and deliverables as cost estimates and scoping are finalized.
