so I will call this meeting to order it is 8 30. um we have kind of a packed agenda today so presenters please be mindful of the time you've been allotted I will also uh be watching the time to keep everything on track council members Lawson and zavonic do you have any objection to approving last month's minutes I have no objection I will approve those and go right into General business item 3A Small Business program event update morning thank you for having me I will put up my slide deck my name is Marcia mcgilly I'm the executive director of the Aurora South Metro Small Business Development Center I want to make sure that you can see my yep we can see it all right perfect I will go right from there then um just want to update you on one program and one event uh today okay next slide where is that it's not moving okay just a second we all have to have um issues don't we I'm all that okay there we go uh agenda I'm just going to talk a little bit about services and sponsors economic impact uh and two new programs today again what we do one-on-one business Consulting free and confidential by appointment only in English and Spanish um educational webinars and events and resource referrals just a reminder uh um January through September of 2022 I'm giving you a partial year update we're doing very well on our impact this year we've had lots of citizens come in 36 jobs created uh 25 jobs retained 2.3 million in uh raising funds for their businesses 4.7 million in increased sales compared to this time last year and 3.4 in government contracts uh at all levels just want to give you an update that we're uh our citizens are working hard and getting lots of economic impact first program your screen is not your slides aren't advancing they aren't okay um are they now yes okay different screen working differently want to talk about two programs the first thank you is the business boost uh program the purpose was um re responding to the disruption caused by covid which is still out there um many have expressed interest in learning about digital business tools and processes to increase operational efficiencies this program was designed to enhance operations and scalability of small and micro businesses to thrive in a digital world the questions were people that that that may not have the digital equipment at home but use their phone to run their business and so therefore this um the three Partners have had the same requests from citizens therefore that's why this program was developed the program Partners were the Community College of Aurora they developed the English curriculum um Aurora South Metro Small Business Development Center our Consultants developed this Spanish curriculum we transcreated it and uh re developed it but that client base and then Arapahoe Douglas worked is doing the registration marketing and hosting live of these on-demand static sessions um our sponsors Arapahoe County gave money for um uh the Community College to do their work and the city of Aurora has supported the work we have done with our Consultants there are eight business boost models in English and Spanish um establishing a professional virtual presence uh that's on their website that's their any of their materials digital fundamentals uh very important for small businesses online hiring tools the new model cyber security fundamentals very important Excel Basics even down to the level of putting in uh formulas in different boxes um the the who this is geared for need that the very basic level of training in this that's why we've done this business boost program um credit budgeting and financial documentation your cell phone is a business tool and then QuickBooks fundamentals so those are the eight English and Spanish modules um the curriculum was developed they were presented live in June July and August we gathered feedback from those attending and the committee uh that has been working on this for over a year we adjusted the curriculum uh per the feedback they've been recording the modules now um we will offer them on demand probably prior to December but that is our latest time and there's no cost to take these business boost modules so we'll be promoting them heavily once they're up and they will stay up uh for as long as they're appropriate um program referrals for small business resources if um clients Citizens need further education they'll go to the Community College of Aurora if they need hiring retention and apprenticeship information from this these modules they'll go to adworks and if they need workshops and one-on-one Consulting for their basic business needs they'll come to the sbdc here second of are there any questions on that program okay next I'd like to talk about the 15th annual veterans small business conference this for 14 years was held in the at the Pikes Peak Small Business Development Center in Colorado Springs it moved to us this year um out of it with very short notice um we uh this is the the business page um announcing it the event provides veterans small business owners their spouses and partners access to the tools resources and people to make their businesses Thrive um because Aurora is home to 23 589 Veterans as of yesterday when I pulled those numbers um it's important uh that we do Outreach to the veteran community that we assist them and that we are doing um what we can to help them with their businesses I will tell you that in the last um five years the sbdc personally and I don't have a slide on this has served 164 veterans 87 service disabled veterans and eight active duty veterans so we do have a population um but we need to grow it and uh hence are taking this event on the event is today which is why I appreciate you putting me first on the agenda I will have to hop off quickly it's from 9 to 12. it is a virtual conference because it was a short term and we weren't sure where covid would be uh the registration opened August 15th it has it closed yesterday we had 107 attendees and 23 exhibitors um it is free this year to attendees and exhibitors um and the website came through US slash veterans that's this year's event that will happen today Partners the presenting Partners were the Aurora South Metro sbdc and the Chamber we're working together to present this the premier sponsors the city of Aurora through Aura funding from Andrea's division group um the collaborating sponsor was the SBA um later on we did get two other fiscal sponsors which were connected dot uh that connect to the Department of Transportation program at the sbdc and Colorado Enterprise fund they came in at a little lower level at Pillar sponsors um the event was pre-recorded uh the welcome sessions the mayor Etc and there's the sick there are six breakout sessions there are Lin then live roundtables for an hour via zoom and closing remarks so it will be 9 to 12 and all of that is what will happen the sessions are where is everyone the hiring issues uh maximizing social media again some of the issues that the business boost program are the same issues that our veterans are asking for um veteran owned certification to work with government entities or corporate entities and then so you want to start a business wisdom from the best what people have learned from uh experienced veteran entrepreneurs on the Move managing a mobile business from anywhere in the world I was actually the emcee for that session it's quite interesting the content and then where is everybody hiring retaining those are the sessions that are in English only these are sessions these um four sessions are in English and Spanish just wanted to let you know we are always doing that here's what a virtual Expo floor looks like the city of Aurora it looks a little different this was the mock-up so they'll click on those they will then open it up with information and then after that from 11 to 12 they'll go to live um uh live round tables uh Brynn villinger from purchasing will be at in the city of Aurora as will I for the Small Business Development Center and we'll answer questions people can pop in for five or ten minutes they can stay the whole hour um and it's quite interesting we've done this before Bryn and I and it's very successful and the city gets um great inquiries about purchasing issues and um the sbdc always get Garners additional citizens who want uh to work with us 2023 part of the uh a deal with Andrea and and funding for two years was that that we would have the event in Aurora it will be Monday September 18th um 8 A.M to 8 p.m because there is a reception at the end it will be an in-person conference we're working with the Hyatt Regency Aurora um the city will be uh the premier sponsor again and there will be uh probably fees for attendees and exhibitors maybe just exhibitors maybe attendees that hasn't been uh strategized yet um thank you I always if you're sending citizens to us have them register at Aurora hyphen southmetrosbdc.com because or go to call us or email us because that is where we are uh and we can help citizens that's my presentation this morning I hope I stayed within my time and are there any questions on just these two updates today I thought they were important to share well I have something I would like to say I um can you email me directly some information on on what you do for veterans I myself am a veteran and I I don't know of anything actually um out there to help veterans I know a lot of a lot of veteran-owned business owners um in Aurora and I would just like to make sure that I especially know absolutely everything that's out there and available to veterans so council member drinsky thank you for that question we do everything we do is available for veterans it has not been a a Target Focus for us um and with um you know Buckley being the number the highest employer in the city it is it has come uh what I have decided it's a new area for us to focus on and we're kind of kicking off our focus with this conference okay if there's anything I can ever do you know to be to be helpful um if there's anything that I can ever do um please please let me know and I will contact you thank you for that offer appreciate that thank you for presenting do my colleagues have anything yes Marcia before you go I think I brought this up last time but I wanted and and maybe we can discuss offline I I know that um you brought up that there are some things for youth I know that there's a lot of Youth who are interested in businesses entrepreneurship and I know some of them are kind of young to maybe start a business but I think the thought process of getting them and the idea if they want to pursue something like this I don't see anything on here that maybe you could have a virtual if there's any kind of virtual learning tools or if you do something in person maybe there could be something like this virtual thing for our youth as well so if you have information on that can you send me what you do for Youth and then also maybe we can have a discussion offline about that as well will do thank you for that question and I will contact you okay okay is there anything else okay thank you for the presentation we will move on to item 3B arpa small business grant update but just real quick if anybody from it is on here if you could message me I have no idea why I cannot get my camera on so if you could message me directly anyone from it and help me troubleshoot this I would appreciate that but go ahead with the arfa small business update good morning council members my name is Elena vasconis and I am here to present uh do a short update on the small uh business grant um and Crystal if you can uh sorry Crystal can you you're managing uh my power pipe there we go to the next one thank you very much they appreciate it stop sharing the presentation mode go to display settings and swap the uh the mode is how I do it so display settings up on the top right left that right there yeah uh I think I think that one will do it there you go thank you thank you can we go yeah can we go back to the there we go perfect thank you very much so uh this presentation to uh PD uh was scheduled before last week's study session at which time Andrew amendick presented it as part of our program report since you have might have heard uh part of the content I will make it short and sweet uh as you know on January 2020 city council approved 2.5 million dollars in arpa funds to support small businesses that are still struggling to recover from the pandemic the funding was designated to support approximately 250 small businesses by providing five thousand dollar grants to post-pandemic startups and ten thousand dollar grants for existing businesses next please um the promotion of the program was done Citywide uh with the help of communications team and used a variety of platforms and media Outlets we had a great response from a variety of businesses across the city eligible businesses had to show a net revenue of less than three hundred and fifty thousand dollars and the gross sales of less than 5 million dollars uh and business owners had to demonstrate that they were still impacted by the pandemic but they are currently in the recovery process we are reviewing an approving applications in order that there they came in next please next slide and as I mentioned we uh did a lot of Outreach too throughout the city uh to a variety and we got a great response from uh small businesses across the city next please we received and screened 320 applications but uh the budget of 2.5 million only covered 200 250 of those applications so we had a deficit of approximately 700 000 that is why uh last week we requested that Council approved extra funds that will cover all the screen applications and our request was approved last Monday currently we have reviewed 77 applications for payment and dispersed uh approximately half million dollars it's indicated uh we got applications from small businesses across the city from a variety of Industries such as food and Retail Child Care Manufacturing in a variety of service Industries from these applications 39 were female owned businesses and 62 percent from minority-owned businesses currently we are approving and funding applications on a weekly basis and our goal is to have them all approved by the end of the year uh at which time we will provide with the FI we will provide you with the final report of the businesses that receive the funds demographics and the industries that they represented thank you very much and I'll be happy to answer any questions I don't have any questions do my colleagues have anything nope nope all right thank you we will move on to item 3C development review quarterly updates hi good morning councilmember uh this is Jason Batchelor uh Deputy city manager and my colleague Laura Perry and I are going to be Friday providing this update for you today so let me see if I can go ahead and share my screen here all right hopefully you all can see that now we cannot see you well that's a bad trade-off how about now can you see it no Crystal do you have the presentation that you can share um yeah actually give me one minute because I show that you're presenting hold on one second Jason I actually don't have the presentation can you try sharing one more time there we go how's that yeah there it is okay uh so can you see the full presentation yes good okay so um this is uh part of our uh continuing updates to ped uh in accordance with uh the resolution passed after the red tape production committee uh we've got a number of different areas uh in the development review function uh that we are going to be updating Council on today and uh in terms of our progress and answer any questions that you may have so um uh the agenda we're going to go ahead and go through just how we're doing uh overall in terms of uh both the revenues and expenses and the fund uh through August and then we'll also be going over workload and performance and then we will be giving you updates uh on uh the red tape reduction plan in terms of our process Improvement roadmap as well as uh where we're at so uh this is just a reminder we track all of our revenues and expenses in the development and review Fund in accordance with the policy direction from Council that development pay its own way so we collect all those fees from applicants that are coming through our development review process and we use those to pay for all of the staff as well as any contracts we have to conduct the review and inspections for those projects uh this kind of shows uh the financials uh for the fund you see both 2020 and 2021 uh as well as both the 2022 budget uh and then the 2022 projected revenues right now are uh continue to be projected to come in uh over where we've budgeted them uh but we also are expecting uh expenses um to come in uh over budget as well and so that's because we continue to hire additional staff as well as third party contractors to make sure that we are meeting uh the increased workload and we continue to see at least through the first part of the Year continued High development activity and I'll show you some of those details here uh in just a second so any questions on financials before I move off now okay so uh this shows you across the different areas uh in the fund uh how we're doing uh so we um are um continuing to do well I think in meeting our pre-development applications and planning and then obviously the building division in terms of our inspections they continue to perform very highly and then on the engineering side which is where we had seen a number of comments um we've seen uh our activities in terms of Staffing in terms of some of the reorganization that's what we spent the last um part of the summer doing and we think we've kind of set that table uh to kind of really start to see Improvement here over the last part of the the year and so you can kind of see those performance measures as we are one of the things we are monitoring uh overall is development activity we've continued to see development activity remain pretty strong through the summer so we're still seeing very high levels of inspection requests of plan sets coming through um and so a lot of that does take time for itself to kind of work through the system one of the things we're monitoring you'll notice there on the pre-applications we've seen those numbers start to tick down over the summer so we've gone from 21 to 16 to 13. so that's something that we monitor for really is kind of a precursor for expected development activity coming on so that might be a little bit of an indication that we might start to see some slowdown uh in in development activity so that's something we're going to monitor very closely but at least through the last several months overall development activity and submittals have remained very high so uh workload is very high and it's something that we're continuing to to you know manage on a day-to-day basis Laura anything to add on that front Jason okay so uh this is going now into um the plan that we developed coming out of the red tape production so we talked about this uh with Council a few times now uh there's four major areas of focus that we're looking at those include management leadership oversight uh making sure that we continue to promote and develop and culture right and of customer service that we are looking at process and Technology improvements and then finally uh we are looking at process documentation teaching and training to make sure that our employees understand uh the overall process as well as our customers in terms of what's required and we have a very clear requirements for everyone so um terms of the items in the roadmap um the developments review governance committee has been stood up that is uh the senior leadership that's um the dcm's city manager as well as the department directors that are involved in the development review we are meeting regularly to make sure that we have um you know executive buy-in in terms of where we're at and that we've got a full line of sight in terms of the improvements that are being made if there's any roadblocks we're trying to make sure we take care of those and are just making sure we've got a much better finger on the pulse of what's going on um expedited review processes uh we again we stood those up that was something we've done in 2022 in-person meetings uh we have made available upon request we've actually seen more of those from developers but I will tell you we continue to see um a lot of in-person or excuse me a lot of um uh virtual or hybrid requests and then in addition to making in-person meetings available upon request staff are back in the office uh and most departments now are having um in-person staff meetings with either all employees or managers so we're seeing uh you know that as well as we kind of come out of the the covet times uh Oda pre-application meetings we've clarified that those are optional uh the good news is um we have seen those lead times come down so we've only been at about three week lead time uh since June so folks are not having to wait pretty long we know that was one of the complaints that Council had heard is that uh those meetings while optional a lot of folks want to Avail themselves of them and we had been scheduled as far as five or six weeks out so we're now down to three weeks uh which is I would say typical uh even you know sort of pre-pandemic times and sort of really pre-peak uh workload time so that that three weeks is a good number and something we try and Target uh on inspections uh we did um contract with uh third-party inspections uh for Paving inspections uh we did that uh this quarter third quarter so that is something that we've done and then we continue to utilize um third party inspections for roofing as needed based on workload uh as we've told Council we did eliminate the TCO extension fee uh last quarter so that's done uh here are some updates on uh the Public Works reorganization you're going to get a little more detail from Laura in depth on this in a couple slides but you can kind of see a high level overview of that uh the next one there is digital mylars we were successful in getting digital mylars uh that process coordinated with Adams County Arapahoe and Douglas so we are live on digital mylars for Platts and we are working through the last issues on um recording Master plans and things like that right now there's a file size limitation from the counties uh that we're having to work through because these are very very large documents that need to be recorded and the file size limitations we're hearing from the county are something we're going to have to work through so we're going to work through that but overall we've got that process up and running on on plats and are confident we will figure out something on master plans and other items that need to be recorded um in terms of the checklists we we have uh got the master drainage plan and the preliminary drainage plan checklists updated uh we got that done this quarter so Rural Water was successful in getting that done spent a lot of time and effort uh this summer getting that we think that's a critical uh piece of communication both for uh our applicants as well as staff in addition we have large project development review process up and running we have standing meetings for pretty much all of our large projects that we're aware of right now and if we have others that come through we'll work to accommodate them the way that works is we have outstanding meetings either monthly or every two weeks depending on the project and we are making sure that we have um good communication and we use that meeting to kind of identify priorities making sure we're staying on track to meet their needs and then working through any issues that come up as their submittals come in uh the next one there is a very major item that we need to do pretty much across the board is update our guidance and reference manuals um so that you can kind of see there those are um in process across the board so we are um working on those those are going to be major uh improvements for both our staff and for uh uh our our customers and so more to come on that front but that's something that's going to be ongoing here for the next several months uh across pretty much all areas in development review and then the use of uh outside Staffing so we're looking at our staffing and so that's something that as I noted is ongoing we currently have a number of outside contractors that we're utilizing with workload um and so that's something that we we review on a regular basis and again our comparing against uh where we see our overall workloads going uh in the future so Laura anything to add on those areas covered them well all right Council any questions yes sir yeah one question that's on the um large project development review uh who's who is currently participating in that is that Oakwood uh yeah right now we have Oakwood we have uh Penny Prairie we have Windler we have uh the Aurora Highlands we have um Jacob if you're on if you want to chime in a few more but yeah we've we've got uh those are all there um we had been doing it with Majestic uh and we're trying to see if they had stopped coming so we're trying to get them to re-engage on those processes um Jacob anything to add any of them I've missed yeah I did High Point to that and porteous up north thank you and and has there been any uh points of feedback from them on the updated process for the the larger projects since we've done this uh I think they enjoy uh having those regular check-ins I think is what we've heard uh now with that said um they still have to go through the development review process and they are anxious for some of these other improvements we're talking about so they'd look to see some of those improvements uh happen quicker but you know um I think just having those meetings and the ability to kind of do regular check-ins is generally well received so Jacob anything to add I would concur with that sentiment that's all I had thanks okay um so then this is the next area here on uh license agreements uh we know this is something you all have heard from some of our developers about the good news here and this is our good news update for the day um we think we are very close uh to making some uh changes that will allow us to eliminate up to 80 of the license agreements that we're currently requiring and we think that's a pretty uh major um process Improvement and we're happy with that uh we've had a lot of good meetings with um some stakeholders uh and then staff have worked very hard and thought about this as the ways to address um some of the needs for those license agreements and try to look for alternative ways to address those needs so we're excited for that we're not quite there yet but are very close to um finalizing that process and rolling out uh that Improvement so uh Laura anything you want to add on that one you've really been spearheading that effort uh no you covered it well I would say we're continuing to socialize this with key developers and getting additional feedback and are hoping to finalize before the end of the year uh the next one is our plan review comments uh tracking and scorecards so we are currently Gathering requirements for what that would look so that we are making sure that our process for making these comments out is the streamlined as possible we are evaluating our timelines and clocks so again we are same thing we're developing project requirements um and looking forward to taking a fresh look at that and then in terms of a culture of performance this is something that is ongoing we've uh started talking about having cross-departmental training and knowledge sharing workshops and having a weekly division meetings across the different review areas to make sure that we're being consistent we know that's a point of frustration for our customers where you might get one comment from One reviewer and potentially a different comment from another reviewer so we're making sure that we're having division meetings to make sure that we're being consistent across the division and then as well as having cross-departmental meetings to make sure that uh we're not providing conflicting guidance and also understand other departments processes and tracking so those those efforts are ongoing and hope to have that in place by the end of the year um but again that's something that's going to be ongoing even after we have those um cross-departmental meetings and weekly division meetings in place and then finally there's the the timing of the fee payment that's something that we are continuing to review we're Gathering requirements and are developing a plan of what that will look like so that we're trying to um again bottom line just avoid having plans held up for for want of a fee to be paid I want to make sure we get the the fees at the appropriate time but that we're also consolidate that and streamlining uh that process for our customers so that I'll turn it over to Laura to give more update on the public works reorganization so uh last slide in the deck uh we are working through the last stage of the public works reorganization and over the next 12 weeks we've started this initiative already we're on week three but we are implementing a change initiative within the public works department to support development review and improve organizational performance and customer service and the immediate goals of that are obviously as Jason mentioned an earlier slide employee tools training and mentoring improving predictability and con and consistency across the review process uh we are having conversations directly with developers and consistently getting feedback around this and how we can do this better uh looking to simplify the development review processes through continually looking at checklists and clarifying your requirements so it's Crystal Clear what's required externally as well as internally for our reviewers and then overall we want to enhance the customer experience through improved communication and continuing to partner with our development community on solutions that meet their Visions within our code so essentially we're taking every work group in public works and having a direct initiative and and work effort with each one and uh the goals of that are Contin are transitioning staff and resetting their roles as part of the reorg as well as continuously implementing additional solutions to become more efficient in the organization build capacity and standardize our plan review processes across the board and I believe that is our last slide all right I think you do my colleagues have any questions yeah so um Jason Laura I on specifically I'm the the licensing stuff one that's great news I'm very happy to hear that there's uh progress being made I just wanted to um make sure to make this is already happening that we're communicating with specifically with some of those stakeholders that have been bringing this to our attention um frankly since before I was on Council um and just want to make sure that they're kind of in the loop on this and providing feedback as we go along I assume that's happening but I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask yes sir both uh all developers that you have heard from we are in contact with um and meeting with them one-on-one to Garner feedback uh we're in the process of setting those meetings we have one on Friday another one coming up next week so that is actively happening thank you anything else all right thank you guys for that presentation we will move on to item 3D UVO text amendments good morning uh Brandon camerata manager of the planning department thank you for having me I'll probably be about five minutes let's see all right am I sharing correctly uh let's see looks like it okay yeah we'll see you um again good morning uh Brandon camerata with the planning department uh talk briefly about an ordinance we're bringing forward related to uh data centers as a land use and the Udo uh zoning code and in general I think most of you all familiar with data centers uh they're large-scale computer systems for data storage uh and processing for off-site users uh typically they're going to have uh supporting equipment backup batteries power generator cooling units fire suppression sometimes enhanced security features uh generally it's a pretty low activity and low employment sort of use oftentimes in pretty large buildings um so what this ordinance is going to do generally is we currently do permit data centers but we're going to move data centers into their own use and the reason to do that is because they behave differently than the use it's currently grouped in with and that will allow us to better adapt as as data centers adapt over time as well as address you know immediate hindrances and barriers uh to those uh to current development and the other piece that is related to that is separating this out allows us to look at permitting this use in the apz zone District um where other light industrial uses may not be permitted so as I mentioned uh we do permit data centers um they're being entitled uh currently and again the the take-home that I kind of uh mentioned there's data centers function differently than the use category that they're kind of under right now which is flex office so Flex office is you know typically like industrial uses you know kind of a multi-tenant sort of space a lot more Parking Services coming and going with those uses than than data centers so it kind of makes sense to separate them to better meet the needs of each of those um so again the the three things we're really doing here is moving data centers to be its own use and and getting it out of uh office Flex one of the immediate changes we're able to make with that is to reduce the parking requirement to better reflect the the actual needs and impacts of data centers and then the other is to be able to look at permitting that use in the APC district and that's a district where uh office Flex is not not a good use because of the more employment density and things of that sort with that use so looking at the apz district accident potential Zone it's located at the ends of the runways for for Buckley Spaceport and as I mentioned uh what the apz is trying to do is and it's been a in our community for a number of years is to limit the uses there to uses that generally have low employment density in case there is uh an accident or something of that sort and really those criteria that we use to evaluate that in the data center sort of land use fits in well for that low employment sort of density and Buckley is aware of uh us pursuing this uh adjustment and we have not received comments in fact as a as of yet and you know how did we even kind of get our our hands looking at at the apz as we did have a landowner uh this is the the corner of airport and uh Sixth Avenue um and most of that Land Is In the apz Zone District and and so you know we looked at um it seemed to make sense given the low employment density uh for that use but then again it was mixed in with the use of of office Flex which uh kind of made things more complicated and so by separating it out allows us to look at its uh on its own um so again it makes sense in this Zone District uh the landowner of this area is also engaged uh with the base on other Covenant related issues on this parcel so so the base is is aware of of this potential uh development proposal and related to that um if if we go forward with this proposal uh I believe the landowner is also looking to uh rezone that muc the Red Square which is part of their Holdings to i1 to to have a more Consolidated zoning to to a potentially accommodate uh data center uses at this location and you know with that also we've been in contact with ADC um and so they have a draft ordinance and again this is our first step in public public Outreach and so as folks have comments if this committee has things that they'd like us to flesh out as we go through the process um we'd like to hear that and really the next part of the process would be we'd like to bring this ordinance to the Planning Commission and then get a recommendation from the Planning Commission and bring it back to city council through study session and and adoption process that concludes my presentation if there's any questions I try to answer them I have a question um have have you heard any talks or do you know much about the cryptocurrency mining which is essentially also a data center I know that I'm not something that Adams County um is getting associated with oil and gas sites and then they're working on new regulations for that do you know anything about that or where we're at on that I do not do you mean as a as it relates to a land use on the ground or or more of a um I I they use a significant amount of energy um they can create a lot of noise but I don't know I guess just for data mining right thank you for the question and you know they they do use energy and I can work with aedc to kind of flesh out some of those those ideas there as we bring this forward I think the other consideration is you know like I mentioned we are currently entitled titling these over the last 10 years and currently so they are being implemented into the community but I think um if what you're asking is you know how what are we are we looking at the energy use uh I think water usually sometimes looked at as well um so we can look at fleshing that out um as we proceed through this process but I don't have good information for you today okay okay Do my colleagues have anything um Captain America I have a question so Cameron just a question um just a clarification on the parking piece so is that going to be relevant when you're saying the parking is that going to be relevant to the use so it could be it could be cut or decreased by whatever the data center uses I I'm just kind of not understanding you're saying about the parking piece so is that going to be on you know based on each use or each Data Center and what it's going to be used for and how many employees are going to be there sure thank you uh for that question and in general here this is uh how we approach uh parking for a lot of industrial projects okay and and so basically it's working with what their needs are which are typically pretty low um as it relates to that Okay so so now decreasing or increasing is just based on the need of what that data center and how many employees are going to be working there that's determining the parking yes and we can just look at data centers and we don't have to look at the rest of flex office which is almost closer to sometimes retail and service uses and things like that okay thank you thank you uh so first just want to applaud the planning department director and Brandon for uh working with us on this it was a specific use case but I think it does apply to city-wide um code and we've worked with a couple of centers that just wouldn't work and something we noticed and that we've connected with Brandon about is uh the uh the unintended change from where m-u-r and mua allow it as a permitted use meaning data centers this would change extracting this and making its own category would make it a conditional use there so we'll work through that detail and make sure no current uh or or prospecting businesses are are impacted negatively by this but generally just really really supportive of this and the parking requirements to council member Lawson's question is really really important because the ratios are dramatically different because they do employ less people so you could have a million square foot facility you would need a thousand parking spaces for that facility traditionally as categorized as an industrial use it would be obviously dramatically cut for for this development so we're all in support of that and we'll continue to work with the planning department all right thank you thank you Brandon for that uh presentation does anybody else have anything on this I have one question my name is Leah Ramsey I'm with I'm a developer with Chelsea Investments um thank you for the presentation Brandon what is the anticipated timing of this change to the Udo thank you for the question uh we're hoping to get to Planning Commission at the end of this month and and then get into city council um I'll say get through that in January given the holidays I'm not sure how all that will shake out so early first quarter of 2023 is where we're shooting for great thank you all right thanks bringing in we will move on to item three e um and then being a city code ordinance yes um so thanks this this uh change or this ordinance is um was brought to my attention or is it being brought forward because it was brought to my attention that um we have codes and specifically around Penance and for those of us who've been around the city or at the state or frankly anywhere in the country you're familiar with seeing businesses whether it's restaurants bars small businesses that have signage and these little pendants that they that they use to advertise specials holidays um or even their their favorite local sports team and it was brought to my attention that we have currently on the books three requirements for these little pendants one is a requirement of a permit to hang them two there was a limitation on the number of consecutive days in a year that you could actually hang them and then three uh was that they needed to be in good condition the of those three the only one that made sense to me was that final one I don't think we should require a permit to hang these little pendants I don't know that it's has there's any reason to limit the number of days so long as they're in good condition if somebody wants to hang a little pennant that shows their support for the Broncos although I don't know why these days they would year round um they should be able to do it but I think that they should be able to continue to whether it's St Patrick's Day or Cinco de Mayo or Halloween whatever the aura special that they're they're trying to advertise I think we should allow the business to use those because it is something that is commonly used by businesses for advertising um and so this this change is relatively small it just takes away the the permit requirement and the limitation on days and requires them to be in good condition I think this does two things one it's a it's a small indication to businesses in the city that we are trying to get these little things that could potentially Drive code enforcement meant to harass them away from them and so it's a good signal the business but it also does it pulls code enforcement and you know gives it frees up some of their time to focus on bigger things that they should be focused on this is the first ordinance that I'm going to bring forward my hope is that and I I would like to see this committee really spearhead this and and those of um those of you who are on this call on a regular basis I think um would be valuable to input on a broader code review process where we look for these types of smaller requirements that we're currently placing on businesses that really don't make a lot of sense and aren't going to make a difference to the city or to cut to Consumers but do have an impact on business when code enforcement comes knocking at their door so um it's pretty straightforward or ordinance it will have to go through a Planning Commission which is why I think it's on here as information only but I wanted to start the conversation here and today thank you councilmember Lawson do you have anything yeah I mean I'm supportive of that I guess um is there so with that being said so you could put up a campaign sign out of businesses and leave that and that can be in not good shape or anything but you can't do this that seems is that true can city attorney's office tell me that so businesses can have campaign signs at their businesses but they can't have and they can be in not good condition and they can place these around the businesses but they they can't have pennants I thought my understanding was campaign science can be uh that they can go up 45 days prior to an election I thought it was my industry if I could counselor lost and I know city attorney's office can answer more specifically but as I looked at this there are differences in types of signage so there is one that's specifically for um Penance and um and that that's you know why this one was brought to my attention but again there's a bunch of other types of codes that we put or rules that we put on businesses some of them make sense right I do think having him good and be in good condition makes it makes sense but I think there's others that I think we should take a hard look at and determine whether or not they should still be on the books yeah I support it I just was wondering I guess we need to take a little bit more of the code of Just parameters here so yeah I'm also in support of this and to be quite blunt as I am I cannot wait to tear through this code and Shred every single code um that is wasting businesses time wasting code enforcements time um you know the Penance and Banners and things like this these were something that were applauded these were something that were promoted during the pandemic shutdown so that to me obviously signals that government understands that this is a tool for businesses to drive business and the fact that there are things like this um in our code I council member zemonic I absolutely cannot wait for this opportunity to spearhead going through our code and getting rid of um anything anything like this that that holds businesses back and creates um harassment by code enforcement so I'm absolutely in support of this is there anything else all right with that miscellaneous matters and it looks like nobody uh Brad Pierce did you just want us to read the agenda in the backup or did you actually want to report um thank you councilmember yeah just uh report self-explanatory from the oil and gas advisory committee just um kind of reporting on our third quarter activities so there's really nothing to add other than what's in the packet great thank you so much thank you with that that scheduled for November 9th at 8 30 a.m does anybody else have any last minute thing great this meeting is adjourned have a great day