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Housing Advisory Board
Minutes
February 16, 2011 at 3:30 p.m.
New Planning Conference Room —Georgetown Municipal Complex
300‐1 Industrial Ave., Georgetown, Texas 78626
Members present: Tim Todd; Chair, Dollene Thompson; Secretary, Morris Greenberg, Kyle Fisher,
Gary A. Leissner, Patsy Williams
Members absent: Lalena Parkhurst
Staff present: Jennifer Bills, Housing Coordinator; Avery Craft, Recording Secretary
This is a regular meeting of the Housing Advisory Board of the City of Georgetown. The Board,
appointed by the Mayor and the City Council, makes recommendations to the City Council on
affordable housing matters.
Regular Session ‐ To begin no earlier than 3:30 p.m.
The meeting was called to order at 3:35 by Chair Todd.
Agenda
1. Consideration and possible action to approve minutes from the January 19, 2011
meeting.
Motion to approve the minutes byLeissner. Second by Greenburg Approved 6‐0
(Parkhurst absent)
2. Discussion about revising the first four policy recommendations of the draft Housing
Element.
a. Review recommendation #3, “Increase the amount of land zoned specifically for
multi‐family housing development” and determine locations for future multi‐
family development.
The Board reviewed the current Zoning and Future Land Use maps and
discussed possible locations for multi‐family sites. It was determined that
concentrating on the east side of town, around future employment centers and
the University would be the best places to look. Bills suggested that the best way
to approach creating a detailed plan for this recommendation would include a
more broad view of possible areas that would require future research. The plan
should contain amounts of acreage and the number of sites that the city should
look to rezone in the next 5 years without naming specific tracts.
b. Discuss the possible revision of the other policy recommendations.
Housing Advisory Board Minutes, February 16, 2011 1
Housing Advisory Board Minutes, February 16, 2011 2
Bills stated that the Board members should review the other 11 policy
recommendations to see if they any needed to be reworded or removed from the
plan.
Members of the board expressed interest in possibility creating working groups of a
couple board members to flesh out the wording on specific recommendations that
would be brought back to the full board.
3. Update on current 2010 Census schedule.
Bills said that the city should receive basic Census data in the last week of February and
staff would begin analysis of the data once it was available.
4. Discussion and possible action on future meeting dates.
The board will meet on the regular schedule on March 16th at 3:30.
5. Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 4:47 pm.
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Approved, Attest,