Chair Riley asks about micro plans and community engagement

The Blah Blah Block report also proposes micro plans, a new concept of publicly led planning actions that are smaller than neighborhood rezoning.

What exactly is a micro plan and would it involve community engagement and planning investments like a neighborhood rezoning?

Thank you for your question.

So what we're really talking about is just a difference in planning approach.

Typically, as I mentioned earlier, we pursue large-scale neighborhood plans, which we will continue to do.

We have new tools at our disposal, such as eLERP, which is an X.

expedited land use review process.

We have SECRA reform, which can allow the agency to potentially move in a way that's more flexible and more nimble for small-scale rezoning opportunities that may be a catalyst for a community that can help activate and unlock sites that can be suitable for housing.

Any city-led action will absolutely include engagement with communities and investment that's appropriate to the scale of the action.

But what if there's multiple small projects in a single area?

What does the approach DCPs want to take for that?

So we have not identified plans.

Right now we've been focused on larger plans.

I think as we get to a place where we're looking at smaller scale plans, we would certainly see what those plans mean in the aggregate and whether they are actually a larger plan.

But in all of those scenarios, we would still, again, identify opportunity for investment, make sure that we're engaging the local council member and the community.

Do you foresee the micro plans taking advantage of the secret exemptions?

So, yeah, and I would just, again, a plan is a plan regardless of the size.

If we have a plan that is at the scale of secret exemption, that would allow us to move it along more quickly.

But, again, it doesn't change the land use review process.

We would still need to go through all the steps of ULERT.

Okay.