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City council approves comprehensive-plan resolution, grants and development design changes
Summary
At this weeks meeting, the city council approved an appointment to the Ombuds Commission, planned-unit-development design changes to help small businesses, several contracts and grants including a Department of Health award, a resolution on preferred comprehensive-plan mapping, and resolutions recommending opportunity-zone adjustments in District 2.
The city council approved a package of measures this week that included an appointment to the Ombuds Commission, changes to development design rules, new contracts and grants, and a nonbinding comprehensive-plan resolution setting a preferred growth map.
Council member Paul Dillon of District 2, delivering the council recap, said, "We approved Justin Ackerman for the Ombuds Commission." He said the council also "held a hearing and approved planned unit development design changes that will expand the flexibility for the design of small businesses." The recap did not include vote tallies or the names of motion sponsors.
Dillon said the council approved "a series of contracts for legal services for claims against the city" and "several grants," including a Department of Health award "for emergency streets to support signage and visibility for safer streets" and funding for the police department training academy. The recap did not specify grant amounts.
A centrally notable action was approval of a comprehensive-plan resolution that Dillon described as "preferred Alternative mapping." He characterized the vote as guidance for future growth over the next two decades and emphasized that "this was a resolution, not the final adoption of the COMP plan." The resolution signals planning priorities but does not itself adopt the full comprehensive plan.
The council also approved resolutions supporting changes to opportunity zones, recommending that certain low-income census tracts in District 2 including East Central and Lower Cliff Canyon south of I-90 be designated for federal funding and support. "This is a recommendation for low income census tracts that would be designated areas that include in District 2, East Central and Lower Cliff Canyon south of I90 for federal funding and support," Dillon said.
Dillon closed by reminding viewers there will be no meeting next week for Memorial Day weekend and that the council's next meeting will be on June 1.
The recap provides an overview of approvals; the transcript contained no vote counts, motion texts, or amounts for grants and contracts, and no further procedural steps or implementation timelines were provided.
