ISU students have the opportunity Tuesday to give their input about the development of newly annexed land likely to be used for a new mall.

The meeting, scheduled from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Gold Room of the Memorial Union, is designated especially for students. It’s one of seven public input sessions being held next week to include the Ames community in the process of creating design regulations for the land, referred to as the East 13th Street Gateway Overlay District.

Ray Anderson, planner for the Ames department of planning and housing, said although the land has already been zoned as a planned regional commercial district, these sessions will give the public the opportunity to tell city planners what sort of character they would like the land to have as a new “gateway to the community.”

“These meetings will assist us in adopting additional standards above and beyond what we have now for the development of the property,” he said.

“It could be a mall, an office complex, another sort of retail, a hotel.

“Whatever ends up on that land, these design regulations would be applied to that development,” Anderson said.

Each session has been designated to address particular issues from different sectors of the community.

The issues vary from environmental, transportation and design concerns.

From each session, two people will be chosen to serve on the steering committee.

Anderson said the committee will then develop the design regulations according to identified issues and opinions given in the sessions.

“People that attend each session will select their own representatives for the steering committee,” he said.

“We want to have some balance between people who are elected to the steering committee because we want a balance of different viewpoints, representative of the community,” he said.

Anderson said the steering committee will then submit its recommendations to the Planning and Housing Department and the City Council.

Government of the Student Body Vice President William Rock said he hopes students attend their designated session.

Rock said students can have an impact on decisions made about the land by providing their input and being on the steering committee.

“It’s pretty far away from campus, but this will affect the kind of businesses that come into Ames in the future and what kinds of jobs will be available,” he said.