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Mr. Tackett is not here. Holy cow, so sorry. We'll just go around the bend. Mr. Griffith.

Mr. Haynes, Mr. McClellan, Mr. Broken, Vice Mayor Frazier and Mayor Rickle.

Good evening. Thank you, Mr. Break. So I'm just going to give you all a little bit of a summary of the housing pipeline and what's been approved as far as single-family, multi-family housing goes within the city of Delaware.

So I do just want to point out that this is for housing within the entire city, so this includes not only Delaware City Schools, but also O'Lantanji and Buckeye Valley as well.

So to start, this map on the first slide shows single-family housing in the pipeline, so this is housing that has its zoning approved and has development plans approved as well, but has not started construction.

So for single-family housing currently, as it sits, we have 1,273 unbuilt units that have been approved throughout the city. I do want to point out that since the last time we had a joint meeting, we have not approved any new single-family or multi-family residential developments within the city of the Delaware school district.

So in the past year, there have not been any new within that district. They've primarily been in the O'Lantanji school district, and then also we have one significant project in Buckeye Valley, which is the Northwood development.

As far as multi-family goes, the total unbuilt units across the city currently sits at 1,364, and as you can see on the map, most of these unbuilt units are within the Delaware City school district.

There are a lot of these larger projects that take a long time. If you look at number five, that's Tara Alta. They're working on their last section, so they have 37 housing units left unbuilt, and Tara Alta has been under construction for 20 years now.

So a lot of these projects will literally, like you see these numbers in the 4 and 500 as far as the number of units, but that's spanning sections that will take more than a decade to fully build out.

And then the last slide that I have here is our future potential units. So these are areas that have been re-zoned. So the properties have been re-zoned, usually from agricultural to either single-family or multi-family residential, but we do not have any definite plans for actual development on these sites.

Some of them may sit for another 10 years vacant. Others potentially, they could come in tomorrow and say, okay, we're ready to get moving. And at that point, they would need to come back to Planning Commission and City Council to get approval for any future housing developments.

As far as some highlights from 2025, we approved 526 new single-family dwellings last year. That's how many received occupancy, so the homes were completed and able to move into.

We have 161 single-family dwelling units under construction as of February 13th of this year. There were 302 new multi-family and condo units that received occupancy in 2025. And we have 774 multi-family and condo units under construction as of February the 13th.

So just to summarize, there are a total of 1,273 single-family dwellings approved and in the pipeline currently and 1,364 multi-family and condo units. And then that 3,911 are those that have been preliminary approved, so they just have zoning currently, but there's no actual development plans.

And if anyone has any questions, I can answer those now.

Nick Langford, economic development director.

Thanks, Paul. Thanks, school board members, council members. Just going to give you a brief update. And I will tell you, if you have any questions follow up, you can reach out to me directly. I'm fairly open book as much as I can be.

So I was just going to go over what's under construction, what's in the pipeline, and then kind of what's on the horizon over the next year or so.

I've broken it up by industrial. So that's your industrial projects and then commercial retail restaurant projects. So first to start, we have about 200,000 square feet of industrial flex space.

So that's industrial space with some office space attached to it at saw mill and innovation courts. That should be breaking ground this upcoming quarter next quarter.

We have 50,000 square feet of industrial flex space at 2044 Pittsburgh Drive. This is the pioneer flex building. There should be complete here in the next quarter.

In the pipeline, we have 45,000 square feet of industrial flex space at held industrial park. And then about 10 to 15,000 square feet of industrial sort of retail space at Bell Avenue on the horizon.

We have Gateway Commerce Park. It's about 135 to 200 acres of biotech advanced manufacturing space. This is on the state's radar. So I'm pretty confident we're going to get a pretty good development down there eventually.

One just came across my desk today that we're going to submit for. So hoping to build one and a half to two million square feet down there. And that should generate about 500 to a thousand jobs.

Currently, we are installing sanitary sewer and water down 42 and down saw mill. So that corridor should take off.

And then we also have a new industrial park adjacent to Pittsburgh industrial park taking off right now. It's about 60 acres moving on to commercial projects.

I'm sure what it's on everyone's mind is where the blue jackets and marital doing.

They should should should break ground this year. I'm confident that project will move forward exactly when it will is hard to tell, but I'm hopeful and I think that they're going to break ground this year.

We have the program marketplace just east of Meyer. That's 120,000 square feet. They're moving like really fast. It should open in quarter three of 26 this year.

Foundation's health. This is the senior living facility just across the street from program marketplace on Glen Road. They've broken ground. They're moving ahead. I think it's a 90 room facility.

90 rooms, 100 rooms. Something like that. The Miller building, which is downtown. This is about 16,000 square feet of mixed use office restaurant space. It's partially occupied. So we'll see that moving ahead for downtown the future.

We have the rooftop wine bar just across the street here, the former Jay Gumbo's building. They should be opening this month.

And Rose Buds, thankfully, didn't leave. They just relocated a three west winter in the pipeline. We're collaborating with Ohio Westland, a potential hotel at some vacant lots beyond off 27 Spring Street. That's an exciting project.

And then our retail corridor on Sunbury Road, 3637 in Glenwood Common Shopping Center. That's really taken off. So we should have a Chick-fil-A daycare to pull a into the three big box department stores coming to fruition the next year or two.

I won't say who. Some major expansions, PPG is putting $280 million into their existing facility of Pittsburgh Drive. That's about 100 jobs. That's announced.

We have another expansion. I can't get into it too much, but it's about $200 million and we should have about 400 jobs coming in the next quarter, I'd say.

And then some other programmatic activities we're working on. So we've been working on a comprehensive incentives policy.

We've engaged Brickard Grayden. We've hired them to kind of go through and rate all the kind of archetypal developments that happen and are standard in this area.

To see what the actual impact is on our schools, on our roads, on all the taxing subdivisions so that we can kind of have ready to go incentives policy for when a developer comes in and wants to build something.

We can say no right away and we can say maybe. So that's good. We've had some input from the school. We're going to have to have some more before we finalize it because we really want this to be a tool that works for all parties.

We're working on some affordable housing projects. So we're working with developers to allocate some more achievable for rent and for sale products.

So most runners in Columbus, Ohio, they're putting more than 50% of their income towards housing.

So if you can't house people, you can't win new workforce deals. If you don't have the workforce, you don't have the jobs.

So it's kind of this cycle. So it's something that we do have to cure. And honestly, I think Sonder and her team we've been doing a really good job getting those permits out the door, building more housing.

It's just the affordable units need some more attention. So we're we're tuning our heads towards that to try to kind of alleviate some of that pressure.

And then we're working with developers on land plans to allocate acreage towards accommodating existing and future school needs.

So that's something we've also heard the school districts say and we've tuned into that as well. So we're working on that too.

Here for any questions and sorry, I don't have any visuals. So sorry.

I'm in month eight now. I've been here for a certain people.

It's my two years of experience.

I've been here since I was here in 2025 and 2026 that is my two years of experience.

So in that transition phase.

The next step is coming out.

I was in the area.

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I'm going to focus on the top two. So you don't have to write on this.

The priority, the way they came up all those conversations.

So the first thing was community that I feel the work thing came over and over and over again.

And every conversation that was that was parents about the school that was staff about each other.

I was staff about the school that was students about their feeling in the school.

That work thing that came over and over and over again.

And the second was exceptional people.

That was a lot of conversation about our teachers and our principals.

How dedicated they are and how much they go above and beyond.

So that's things that came through.

Not going through all of these.

All of our resources are actually out on our website as well.

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I was really one of the things that we can strengthen or work on challenges.

And so again, these are four priorities.

These things are happening to the side.

And it's starting.

And each piece around these things around all the classes of our students.

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