City Council - Regular Meeting

To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Mayor Larkkey, here. Council member White, here. Council member Thompson, here. Council member Davidson, here. Council member Bryan, here. Council member Lawson. Council member Richardson here. Council member McCllum here. Council member Johnson

here. We have a quorum. No personal appearances tonight. Presentations. One. Bill Stoddel, regional director, American Public Works Association. Thank you. Um, yep.

All right. I appreciate the time to uh help present the uh city of Belton public works department with their fourth accreditation. Uh you get initially accredited then reacredited every three years. Um, so many times public works departments like to stay behind the scenes and are very happy and a public works professionals day, a perfect day is not getting noticed. Now, you guys have an elite public works department as I'm sure you figured out a couple weeks ago, whatever they had to spring into action on a Friday night when most of us public works professionals like to be doing other things and springing into action. Um, how elite is your public works department? There's roughly 30,000 public works departments in North America, of which only 228 are accredited, less than 1%.

Wow.

So, just remember that. So, I would just like to say that accreditation is a mark of professionalism indicating a public works agency has made the commitment to continuous improvement in the delivery of public works operations and services in the community it serves. Accreditation recognizes an agency's policies, procedures, and practices which have been evaluated against nationally recognized management practices determined to be appropriate for that specific agency. A team of evaluators consisting of experienced public works professionals from California and Washington reviewed 132 practices to confirm the department's compliance with internationally recognized management practices applicable to the agency's operations and responsibilities. I'm proud to report that the department achieved 100% full compliance with all applicable practices. Following the evaluation team's recommendation, the accreditation council for APWA granted full accreditation to the city of Belton public works department. I'd like to now present you the plaque to your director, Greg, and recognize this achievements. Congratulations to the entire public works department and the accreditation manager, Ryan Vaughn. piece it all together.

I got to tell you, this isn't a oneperson effort. This is a whole team effort. It took months of preparing lots of documents reviewing a lot of uh different things we have to go through going through all our processes and procedures to make sure that we are a top-notch outfit and I thank all the people elite sorry elite elite people elite uh department and this thanks the effort of everyone in public works. So don't look at me look at them and look at the fantastic job everyone did like to thank them all. You might as well stay up here.

Yeah. I don't know why he's walking off. Oh, he's probably going to do it from over there. No problem.

All right. Item two, safety committee accomplishments. Good evening, council. How are you guys tonight?

Great, good, good, good, good. Hey, so uh after working really hard with our safety committee and accomplishing quite a few things in my opinion, um you know, the the co-chair David Michael and I um Carla and HR and Mary Jones, we all decided uh it'd be really good to highlight to you guys uh the things we have accomplished and uh kind of go through what our safety committee is and what we work on. Um, so what is a safety committee? Uh, we work together to try to protect employees, the public, and our city of Belton assets. You can see everybody's out here working, doing dangerous stuff all the time, trying to do it the safest way we can. Uh, why the safety committee matters. Uh, so u you know, every department has to worry about their safety. Even people down to uh, you know, that are in offices all day, we we need to worry about the guys out in the field. Uh, make sure they're staying safe, make sure the folks in the office are watching their ergonomics, stretching, stuff like that. you know, there's there's potential for claims and and injuries everywhere you go. Um, obviously with injuries comes downtime. We're trying to reduce that as much as we possibly can at all times. And uh we're always trying to get to where the the employees and the people are looking out for each other um to to notice unsafe acts and and things we could do to keep ourselves safe at all times. Um I'll start right away by showing off some of our accomplishments. Um financially, I know everyone likes those. So, um, you can see by our numbers, our general liability from July, um, 2012 to 2019. Sorry, I kind of put those backwards there. Um, we we ran 135 claims at $1.14 million. Um, that was the cost to our risk pool at the time for those claims. Um and then uh as you can see since we started our safety committee kind of in not its latest iteration but our second to latest iteration um we were able to work really hard on on safety presence of mind. Uh we got our general liability claims down to 55 um uh down to a total cost of 102,000 to the risk pool uh from July 19 to the present. So um those are those are really cool numbers to see. You can

kind of see in our work work comp loss ratios. Um that was I stole that slide from presentation Carla made uh when we switched to MEM when we were able to save $380,000 in our um uh uh contributions to our new insurance company. Um and if you can kind of look back uh you look back through the data there um you know 1920 as you go farther back um you know our our work comp loss ratio was was out of control at one time. Um and so uh that's kind of uh 2016 we had kind of a talk about starting a safety committee starting to try to do more. Um and then it just kept evolving into newer newer iterations and and cooler cooler things happening for us. Um so basically what we do we meet uh every other uh month. Uh we were monthly for quite a long time. Uh we thought we had a really good grasp on things so we're back to bimonthly. Um there's at least one employee from every department. If a department has multiple divisions, they bring uh uh you know, everyone from each division to kind of talk. I know public works, we show up with four. I don't know if they like that, but it's working for us. So, um employee driven concerns reviewed and addressed. Basically, anything that uh you know, an employee brings to that uh safety committee representative in their department or their division, we come, we talk to the safety committee, what can we do about this? Is there money we can put towards this? Um for the longest time, our uh our risk pool uh gave us grants. Um I think our new work comp insurance company gives us grants every year to uh purchase safety related items to to try to reduce any and all claims that we can. So um and then yeah we we go through a quick run of the claims. Obviously personal information is kept out. Um that's not stuff that needs to be disclosed to safety committee members but we do our very best to strategize our training from there. As you can see safety training is tracked um and we have a wide range of subjects. Sorry, I'm not trying to read directly off the slide. Um, but uh we go through we track all of our training. We make sure um that we talk as a group

about the topics we definitely want to hit on and um uh make sure that we're talking regularly with our crews. Uh public I can I can speak mainly for public works. Um having regular talks about safety and safety subjects. Um and then of course we we developed a new employee safety orientation. Um it's not really something we had before. We had prioritized we do now. uh where they they make it through orientation and then they sit through a safety orientation to to make sure they're aware of at least the safety subjects. Um we do our best to to identify the hazards before the incidents occur. Um you know, we we perform facility safety reviews. Um I know one of our gentlemen here uh he hits every facility out at public works for us. Um we do our best to to identify those hazards and and mitigate them before um they're a problem. And then um we have our our we've encouraged near miss reporting that kind of gets us uh uh more more ideal on the thing more gets our mind more on the things of of what could happen if you know we're near miss here. We can't just forget about it. We need to do better about um reducing the risk for even the near misses. Um and then of course uh we started the new safety stop program, the stop safety program. As you can see it's a safety talk observation and practice. Um and that is a system where we are we are taking nominations from people in uh departments across the city for if they've noticed somebody that has um you know thought of a safety idea has has introduced you know a new policy someone who is always looking out for their fellow employee. Um and quarterly we pick someone as a winner. uh they they win a small prize and then um we we at the end of the year we'll be selecting someone out of those four winners every quarter and or eight winners I'm sorry we pick two every quarter and then uh they get a grand prize at the end of the year so excited

to see how that turns out. Um as you can see like I talked about we we do review and update the safety policies. Um the latest iteration of the safety policy book should be out very soon. um just trying to improve the clarity and consistency and of course um always looking out across uh our industries and seeing you know what are some of our best practices we can be working through. Um and as as you saw it has uh it has shown in reduced incidents and the severity of the incidents that we've had. Um we're we're responding much faster to safety concerns that people present to us. Um and we uh we uh people's minds are more on safety of their task at any at any given day it seems. So again, um just a you know, as a kind of a follow-up there, um that it's creating safer work environments and um increasing the awareness and u we we've really through the HPO program um and the safety committee, we're trying to empower employees to speak up a little bit more. Um and so obviously overall this looks good for us because it's fewer injuries and claims. um we've had uh more efficient operations because we're not stuck with so much downtime and uh really getting people to look out for each other is a is a big part of our culture out in public works and across the city. So, um looking ahead, we're just going to keep keep continue to try to improve on our training. Um, I know we had a great um anti-harassment training uh the last couple days. Um, and just trying to think of ways to to provide the best training and education possible to all of our employees. Um, definitely we we've constantly kept working on reducing all our high-risisk tasks. Um, you know, um, one thing I've always like to brag about is our little uh electronic meters that our guys can wear if we have a tree down and a power

line is in it. Those came in great. Those came in very handy uh this last storm. So, um and then of course we're always trying to keep everybody's mind on safety across the city. And that's all I had for you guys. So, thank you very much. I have one question. Go ahead. And I guess now that I've seen the numbers, that's why you didn't call me to help plow. That is exactly why. Yeah. Just was curious. No. Yeah. Um Okay. In the nicest way possible. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Anybody else? Great work. Nice job. Thank you guys very much. Thank you. Be careful driving.

F. Unfinished business. Number one. Motion approving final reading of bill 2026-12. An ordinance approving a special use permit to allow a vehicle and equipment sales light land use in the C2 zoning district at 1016 North Scott Avenue, unit E. Present. Second. We have a motion, a second. Any final discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Council member Johnson. I. White. I. Richardson. I. Davidson. Yes. Brian. I. McCllum. I. Mayor Larkkey. I. Thompson. Yes. Motion passes. Item two, motion approving final reading of bill 2026-13,

an ordinance approving the 29th amendment to the Oldtown Belt and Redevelopment Plan to approve the 515 to 519 Main Street project as redevelopment project 2026-01 and to authorize tax abatement as described therein. Present. Second. Motion a second. Any final discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Council member Bryan. I Davidson. Yes. Thompson. Yes. White. I Johnson. I McCallum. I mayor Larkkey. I Richardson. I. Motion passes. Item three, motion approving final reading of bill 2026-14.

An ordinance approving the 30th amendment to the Oldtown Belt and Redevelopment Plan to approve the 704 Main Street project as redevelopment project 2026-02 and to authorize tax abatement as described therein. Present. Second a motion to second discussion. Go ahead. Due to a conflict of interest regarding this item, I will recusing myself from discussion and vote.

All right, we have a motion, a second. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call. Mayor Larkkey. I. Council member Johnson. I Brian I White I McCallum I Thompson yes Davidson yes motion passes item four motion approving final reading bill 2026-15 an ordinance amending chapter 2 division 4 procedure of the code of ordinances of the city of Belton Missouri by clarifying the procedure for abstension present. Second.

We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Council member Richardson. I. Thompson. Yes. Prian. I. Davidson. Yes. Johnson. I. White. I. Mallum. I. Mayor Larkkey. I. Motion passes. Item five, motion approving final reading of bill 2026-16. An ordinance amending chapter 6 business licenses and regulations of the code of ordinances to clearly define license application timelines. Present. Second. We have a motion a second. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Council member Johnson. I. Thompson. Yes. Mayor Larkkey. I. Davidson. Yes. Brian. I. White.

I. McCllum. I. Richardson. I. Motion passes. Item six. Motion approving final reading of bill 2026-17, an ordinance approving a tips hotline contract with the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission in the amount of $3,000. Present. Second. Motion in a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Council member McCllum. I. Johnson. I. Richardson. I. Davidson. Yes. Bryan. I. Thompson. Yes. White. I. Mayor Larkkey. I. Motion passes. Item seven, motion app final reading of bill 2026-18.

An ordinance approving the Belton, Missouri Police Department municipal Jail 2026 housing contract for inmates of the Harrisonville, Missouri Police Department. Present. Second. Motion is second. Any more discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Council member Johnson. I. White. I. Richardson. I. Davidson. Yes. Prian. I. McCllum. I. Mayor Larkkey. I. Thompson. Yes. Motion passes. G. New business. One. Motion approving first reading of bill 2026-9. An ordinance amending chapter 4, animals and appendix A, schedule of fees and charges of the code of ordinances to improve public safety. Present. Second. Motion is second. You're up, sir.

Hi. I brought uh animal control officer Brad Wicklander with me in case you have any questions that are way above my pay grade. But uh tonight we're asking for amendments to the animal control ordinances. Um first and foremost is the ordinance, a new ordinance in regards to the keeping of bees. This would be an ordinance that would help um uh set standards for the keeping of bees within the corporate limits of the city for the purpose of protecting not only the public health safety uh but also residents. The other amendments that we're proposing in this um reflect practical enforcement that our animal control officers have noticed over the course of the last several years that would both help them and citizens with clear, concise uh language that's effective as far as regulations and then also the fact that these amendments reflect best practices in the animal control industry. And if you have any questions,

any questions? Go ahead. If we did not adopt this update specifically regarding to to bees, um does somebody currently have bees in like within city limits? Is that Yes, we have uh we do have some beehives in the city. Okay. Yeah. So that's really part of where this need came from is that we have an active use and we want to make sure we're um we're being you know careful to the neighbors about it. Yes. Okay. Do and then do we know on the same front neighboring like you know think of the Raymore Grand View peculiar do they also allow bees?

Off the top of my head I can't necessarily answer that. I can say that these ordinances that I reviewed for the surrounding cities, most of these came from the surrounding cities areas. I'm not sure if Raymore does. Um, a lot of this information came from active areas like Overland Park. I believe some of it may have come from Grand View and then a lot of the information I gathered from a Kansas CityB lady who's just south of our city. So, thanks. Anybody else? All right, I've got I've got another thing unrelated to be speak until someone else speaks. Well, let's I was hoping somebody else might have some questions, but go ahead. Apparently not. Go ahead.

Um, all right. So, there was by my count approximately 37 pages uh included in the packet here for update. Now, obviously, not all 37 uh pages included updates andor, you know, commas or whatever. And I'm not I'm not Rob Powell, so I'm not uh sure if we missed a comma or not. But um uh that being said, can you you gave us a very nice work session where you went over all these changes? Is there anything different from that work session discussion that we had? No, we actually merged those two sections that we had had in work session to make it a lot clearer that what we were after or trying to capture.

Okay. Thank you. Anybody else? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item two, motion approving first reading of bill 2026-20, an ordinance approving the Belton, Missouri Police Department Municipal Jail 2026 housing contract for inmates of the Graan View, Missouri Police Department. Present. Second. Motion a second. You're up, sir.

This is one of two that we're presenting tonight. This is the Graan View, Missouri Police Department. We hold prisoners for them like we do other agencies. We're trying to get all of our contracts on the same schedule that so they all come up at the same time. That helps us in regards to setting pricing so we don't have one agency is getting charged this and one agency is getting charged that. And so it was convenient for us in Grand View to go ahead and do this. And uh we're keeping it at the same rate which is $63.93 per day. That's the same as the other ones we brought before you. Again, this is just trying to get everybody on the two-year cycle. Any questions?

Hearing none. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Motion approving first reading of bill 2026-21. An ordinance approving the Belton, Missouri Police Department Municipal Jail 2026 Housing Contract for inmates of the Peculiar Missouri Police Department. Present. Second. a motion and a second. And this is the last one. Peculiar promise police department. And so uh it's the same. We're trying to get them all on the same schedule and it worked out uh really good for us and them to do it right now. So we scratch all of them off the get them off the table.

Any final questions? Hearing none. All in favor? I I Any opposed? Motion carries. Item H, consent agenda. One motion nonvailable to approve the recommendations noted. Any member of the council may ask for an item to be taken from the consent agenda for discussion and separate action. Present. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? I I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Reports and information communication from city council. Council member Johnson. I just want to thank again all of our first responders and all the people in the public works department for all of their hard work after the tornado last Friday. Um, everybody did a great job and thank you to the emergency management director for um, letting everybody know what was happening. Appreciate that very much and all your work in coordinating the resources for the community. um appreciate all of the community members who helped out fellow community members um who were injured or who had damage from the tornado. Um the coalition is having a 5K or a sip and stroll this Saturday from 3:00 to 6:00 on Main Street. Um would hope everybody can attend that. Um the Cass County uh community health foundation is having their 5K that same day, but that's in the morning and not in the evening. Um, so if you haven't signed up for that, that's always a good thing to raise funds for the community health. Um, also want to thank the mayor uh for all his work during the incident last week. Uh, and Aaron for coordinating all the communication. Everybody did a great job and it's much appreciated.

Council member McCallen,

I guess I should have wore my uh public works hat today. I didn't realize we were going to be so heavily focused on our on our A team. Um, I know there's a lot that can be mentioned uh in regards to the tornado uh that hit town. So, I'm going to try to keep it brief and focus on uh some of the things that were maybe closer to me. Um, but this is not an inclusive list. So, please don't feel left out. Um, Claire, Joe, and everybody on the city staff, seriously, wonderful job. Um, I got to imagine part of the reason we hit zero injuries and zero uh fatalities is because of the advanced warning. Um, there was I was I as much as I don't love to admit this, I was on Main Street uh maybe 30 minutes before the storm and I can tell you it was dead. Um, there was not really anybody out and about and it was, you know, it's good to see that the warnings were heated. Um, I was also fortunate enough, uh, you know, I I didn't personally sustain any damage at my house, so I had some time to help with debris cleanup. And so, I wanted to give some shout outs to some of the people I uh talked to as I as I um was part of that. Um, all right. So, first off, I want to mention Tammy. So, Tammy is one of the residents whose front yard looked um like a war zone. She lost a huge tree and um and she was outside. I saw her the Monday after. Um she was helping with some cleanup and doing what she could and it also happened to be her birthday. So I just want to say happy birthday Tammy. She was very thankful to even be able to celebrate a birthday. So um just want to give that shout out. Um Lifequest Church, holy crap, those volunteers came through. Um the the cleanup they did over many many days made a huge difference. and specifically Matt Laughofner, who I know is uh grew up here in Belton. Him and his family, part of the Lifequest team. Um they own a disposal business and I got some

numbers from them. They hauled off over 20 cubic yards of trash debris and 160 cubic yards of brush and logs. Now, I don't personally know exactly what those numbers mean, but after talking to him, I understand it's a very large number. Um, scooters, man. I saw I saw a lot of food and drink from scooters and um, Jack specifically, the owner. I mean, he was literally out there helping move debris as well. And Heart and Hand was everywhere to be seen. Um, providing food and drink as well. Um, so I just, again, I know it's not all-incclusive, but I wanted to um, at least mention those that I had some direct contact with. Um, okay. Then I have a few other things. Arbor Day celebration. I want to give a quick shout out to that. It was a really great event that we had. Um and the reason I want to point it out is is among other things is that it also was the announcement of the this year's um winners for the drawing contest. And now if I remember correctly, those will be hosted at High Blue for those people to view. I'm getting the nod. Yes. So um so go check those out if you get a chance. There's some really good ones. Um the first cruise night of the year took place. I had a fantastic turnout from what I saw. So, um, thank you to DBMSI for helping to make that happen. Um, hopefully the rest of year looks just like that. It was really good. Um, I also had I've had a couple busy weeks here. I've had the honor of participating in the interview panel for the Belton School District um for their teacher of the year finalist. U, don't ask me how they picked me. I don't know how I don't know why they picked such a guy like me. But um, anyways, the the winner will be announced if I got the date right. I believe it's May 4th. Do you know if that's the right date? I know you're not. Okay. I believe Anyways, it should be early May when that winner is announced for teacher of the year. So, keep a lookout on that. Um, that was Man, there's a lot of great teachers we have here. And, um, oh, in case you all missed the social

media buzz, the Wallace playground park, the Wallis Park playground is now officially open. And, uh, there was a nice, they did a really nice ribbon cutting, grand opening. Um, and fun fact, that um grant that was awarded to pay for half of that uh playground, it was awarded in 2025, that grant was the first one to be completed out of those that were awarded during that cycle. So, you know, very efficient on our parks team um on making that happen. And I know I know my kids and I I see a lot of other kids are very appreciative of that being open. Um, and that, okay, that's everything I have from that personal standpoint. I do have, of course, a parks update, so perfect segue there. Um, summer camp registration is open and underway for kids 5 to 13. Camp goes from June 1st to August 7th. Um, so check that out. And then, if you didn't see, the Taste of Belton was postponed. Actually, semi-adjacent to the tornado, there was some uh some of the vendors had issue with inventory because of loss of power. So, they decided to postpone it. Um, so look for that to be updated likely later this fall is my understanding. Um, let's see. I've talked about Oh, farmers market May 7th. As a reminder, not far away, the youth fishing derby is officially sold out. Um, just to make people aware if you were um wondering about that. And May 12th, I don't believe I've talked about this, there's a benefit bingo coming up for Lily's Rescue Rehab. Um, and then the only other thing is Carrie Nation Days. I don't think uh I don't think that's a secret, but the Carry Nation Days is also not far away. May 29th and 30. So, it's everything I have. Um, I want to go on a little bit to the tornado. Um, I was over on Coburn pretty much Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. We our daughter um lost her whole roof. Um,

she's a school teacher here in Belton. and Jared, her husband, is a pretty great parks employee over there. Um, but just seeing all the people showing up that came out to help that it was pretty amazing. Um, and just like everybody else said, I mean, Lifequest Church was they showed up and and they cleaned that whole street up and it was amazing to see a Jack from Scooters, uh, Chris Beal and his wife and he even had his kids out there helping. Um, it's pretty impressive to see all the all the police, the sheriffs, the emergency management. I saw Claire out there driving, you know, picking up stuff. So, it was it was pretty incredible to see that. On that note, I want to go into the uh roofing companies that were literally there that night and all day the next day that I know didn't have solicitors. Um, and to see that and just going up knocking on everybody's door. I know they were t probably taking advantage of people and I don't know if there's anything we can do on that later on down the road. Maybe if they didn't have a solicitor's license, they were out there soliciting, maybe not give business licenses to them when they do come in to do the roofs. I don't know. Um, but I've had multiple multiple complaints and I witnessed it and saw it. So, um, I don't know. We'll look for look to do maybe do something down the road on that. I don't know. Um, but the help that was on Coburn over there, the cemetery was pretty incredible to see all the people. Um, and then the car show of course Saturday was pretty amazing. I think do a shout out to Scott Woodward from Family Tree who's put that on and got a lot of people out there. Thanks.

Um, I'm very proud of the people of Belton. Um, the cemetery lost their flag pole and I understand they have enough or they're very close to it. So, thanks everyone for pitching in. I just got the official word they do have their amount. So, um if we get extra, maybe they'll go bigger and better. My wife's on the cemetery board, so very proud to hear that. Um we also closed out a a big era in Belton. Uh Darren Jones handed out the checks from the St. Patrick's Day parade, so he is officially retired as the head honcho of that. Um but he told me to mention that. Gives him plenty of time to buy and sell houses for you. So, um, he did an outstanding job for numerous numerous years. Um, and so I I appreciate what he did and that was always a fun time and, uh, he will be missed and big shoes to fill for those that took over. Not naming any names. All right. Thanks.

Um, I also attended the park ribbon cutting on Friday and it was great. I ended up going back later that day with my granddaughter and she played for a good hour and a half. She had a great time. Um, this Sunday is Cinco de Mayo at Pala Park.

Well, I uh don't know that I ever want to dance with a tornado that close again. Um, but I shout outs. I mean, my main street was blocked. There were lots of streets blocked by by me. Um Sean and the and his crew came out and did it. And then the next day I went out and helped the families haul brush over to our dump spot. And shout out again to Shawn and N that were there. And it was nice to have that open. I know that I've been a a big thorn in the flesh about that, but it was it was very nice to have that open, Greg. And I mean, people that that were there when I was helping move stuff were just very appreciative that they could do that there. So now they want a grappler so you can come around to their house and get it from now on rather than taking over there. shout outs to that. Um I too witnessed the door knocking right after the rain let up enough for them to come in and knock at doors. So that is something that we ought to think about. Um if you haven't heard, we're having an art sip and stroll this Saturday um from 3:00 to 2. It it will have eight artists. Some of them are featured at High Blue already. So these are people that that we are knowing about and doing about and Yes.

You said three to two. 3 to six, excuse me. 3 to 6. That would have been a long 2 a.m. 3 to 6. 3 to 6. Yeah. No, we don't have that much liquor bought, but anyhow, um, big things are happening at the train. If you haven't come down and looked, the engine is painted,

the caboose is primed, and the coach truck is primed. We hope to have all those cars painted before we run, which is also on May 2nd. So, I'm trying to cram as many things in on that day as we possibly can. We run from at 11 and two for the first run of the season. This is a month earlier than we've done it in the past. So, that's a big deal. Um, but thanks for the help and thanks for I'm I'm done practicing, Claire, now. So, if you could stop turning those sirens on, I'm good. Thank you.

Um, dittos to what everybody said. I'm uh impressed with the way the city responded. Uh, little different note. Um, I've never ridden in an ambulance before. Uh, and I had the pleasure of riding in one as a patient. Um, and, uh, it was quite an interesting experience. And I even called the mayor and told him that, uh, the, uh, two individuals that were there were exceptional. I'm not going to say their names out loud. Uh, and I was pleased. So, thank you. you you did it. It's very good job. And uh I think I'm going to be done now.

All right. Uh I mean, everybody's covered everything. I just want to thank each and every city employee that was responsible for anything to do with the tornadoes and the storms. It just shows you, you know, what what kind of city we are. And then thank you to all the citizens, business owners, and everything. that pitched in and helped no matter what they did. You know, I'm not going to sit here and name her. I don't have enough time to do that, but we'll do that next meeting actually. So, but just thank everybody. I mean, it was it went well. We got lucky. Um, just shows you how strong Belton are and the people are. So, thank you everybody. That's all I have. See, man, do you have anything?

Mr. Mayor, yes, I do have uh regarding the tornadoes um and the response to that of of course super proud of the staff and the reaction that we had. Um I am asking each of you as the elected officials and anybody in the community who is who who knows of anybody who was part of that exceptional response. We are planning to do a proclamation for May 12th to try and and formally honor some of the folks that went above and beyond. you know, formally honor the staff members who came in on with, you know, extra time. Um, without, you know, without being scheduled, just, you know, jumped in, the folks that came in from the community that helped out, uh, I know there are some church folks and some, uh, a lot of businesses, uh, donated, uh, time and money and effort. And so, um, please, if you know of some folks that were part of that response that, you know, the things that make our community a great community, make Belton what it is, we'd like to try and and get them on this formal proclamation and and give them the their proper due. I I know the moment we do this, we're going to forget somebody, miss somebody, and I I hope I really hope we don't do that. So, I'm asking you to help me um because uh I was at a lot of places throughout that weekend, the mayor's at a lot of places that weekend. staff was as well, but none of us was were everywhere all the time. And so there were a lot of people that helped and so we do need to know um who they are. And it kind of almost segus perfectly into um public service recognition week is actually May 3rd through the 9th. And so the staff, we have a lot of things planned for our staff throughout that week. Um and just kind of want to give them all a shout out. And that's all I've got.

All right. Item M. Items for review and discussion. number one, Uptown Development Incentive.

Good evening, mayor and council members. Um, just wanted to provide a little bit of context as the presentation comes up. And right before I introduce Tyler, um for the last year or so, we have been working with the developer Petra and Tyler Burke, um to really talk through not just the resoning and the development plan that council saw uh here recently, but also looking at some of the other factors that I know we've talked to individually with council members about in that this development is a little unique. Um, in a lot of the developments that we have throughout the community, typically it's we're building a driveway into the major development itself. And so it, you know, entirely sits on private property. This development, because it is an infill development, kind of sits in a little different location where we're actually looking to the developer to build two major collector roads through the development and have kind of a a much larger public infrastructure lift as part of this overall development in these 40 acres. And so with that, I want to be able to introduce Tyler to talk a little bit about how there will be some public part the ask that they're making uh on the public participation side, both to support that public infrastructure, those public roads, as well as some of the other public infrastructure like the storm water, some of the sewer and other water items that are going to go into supporting this development throughout the the life of the development itself. And so happy to hand that over um to Tyler for presentation. Um, this is also the opportunity for council to ask any questions of the tools um that are being requested by the developer as well as I know you've got a packet in front of you. There's a lot of data involved in that packet. Um, and I think it's good just to level set a little bit that while we definitely get a lot of information from developers to have this much transparency and open book about the incentive request and some of the other things. Um, that is a little unique and so, you know, happy to have that in front of council for any questions and discussion going forward. So, with that, I'll hand it over to Tyler.

How's it going, guys? Thank you. Hello. Good to see you all again.

I apologize in advance. There's a lot of numbers on here, so we'll we'll take it slow as we need to. Um, so without further ado, I'll just kind of dive into some of the incentive tools that we're looking to use on this project and and make it become a real thing. Um, so real quick, we'll talk about the kind of the project history there. there is some um history on part of the site with some incentives here. So, I just wanted to touch on that really quick, reintroduce the project a little bit and talk about some of the updated phasing and and things like that that's going on as well. Um and then of course the the actual tools and then overall at the end of the day how does this in you know incentivized project at the end of the day generate a financial benefit to the community not just you know a developer asking for incentives just to make the project awesome. I mean it's again for the community at the end of the day. So uh without further ado um so a little history on this here. Um again there's a lot of dates and things like that here. So with the the uh Y belt and TIFF was uh originally established in 2007. So the area that you see in the blue down here is actually the northern half of our site. Um so there was or is currently um you know a tiff that's uh over the site currently. So then we're looking to uh change that up a little bit to new mechanisms that actually um act in a positive way for the project. Um, and of course over here, I mean, you can see plenty of dates of how it's extended and things like that all the way till today. Um, and then some of these uh project costs. So, I wanted to throw that in there just to kind of show um, you know, what was approved before. Again, a different mechanism. We're not asking for a tiff tonight or anything like that, but just kind of to show the similarities in project costs between this one and um and hours uh and then and what those u project costs went towards um on there. So, I won't read

all the numbers or anything, but at the end of the day, I mean, the total approved uh tiff, CI uh and TDD amount was uh 35 and a quarter million there. Um and then the estimated project cost was 146844 uh million and roughly about 24% of the project cost. And then so that was a a successful journey there. Um and then so just that mechanism alone and what it did for for the city and how it was successful um ultimately it started the project and got things going and then it and then it uh brought in real commercial development and national tenants. I mean that's a big deal to bring in those types of national tenants and into this area at that time. Um we all know u you know Ross Dress for Less Petco Marshalls Party City Five Below. So mechanisms like this that really gathers national attention when you're able to do things like this. Um advanced public infrastructure uh most notably Turner Road here. Uh what I was able to do to Turner Road and again it's going to spark future development later on down the road. Obviously, it brought in attention from us as well. Um, and then it was actually utilized, you know, for for its intended purpose. So, that was, you know, success with that there, too. So, I just wanted to put that out there as far as, you know, mechanisms like this actually work. Um, and then last but not least, probably one of the most important pieces here. I mean, it attracted new investment. Um, it attracted us and other developers that want to partner with us on on this type of project that we're doing here today. Um, and then just residentially, I mean, before this was even a thing, I mean, you know, Encore wasn't even here and Sen 301 wasn't even here. So, when you get things like this, I mean, it's it's a good magnet for for growth. Um, and then just again, just kind of touch base on the project. I know you guys are familiar with it overall here. You know, 40 acre mixeduse master plan. There's a lot of moving parts here. And then so that's why you see a lot of

you'll see a lot of math here in just a little bit with how it all works. I mean because each piece is its own project if you want to look at it that way. It's not just one big gigantic project or one big you know u equity requirement or or debt you know bank requirement things like that each individual piece is its own and I mean it's a it's a living organism at the end of the day and you know there's finances behind it so it's pretty complicated. So, the things that we're going to talk about here today, I'm hoping that um it's understandable makes sense in my mind because I I put together the model and all that stuff, but we'll see. Um you know, again, the the pretty picture that we see here. So, a lot of that infrastructure, you know, as Mike mentioned, I mean, this is public road coming in through here, this windy road that's going to meander all the way up into uh the northern project here. And then you know Cedar or I'm sorry Given is going to come over here to the west and then stub out to future development you know and again it's a very similar thing as what um the project to the north did for us is that you know it it garnered that that attraction to the south and then now this is going to garner traction over to the west hopefully in the future and then also ultimately downtown in here in this area too. So it's it's all going to reverberate and and move throughout here. Um, and then you got these uh wet bottom ponds and and things like that, you know, fountains and and things like that that we've got scheduled in there right now. And then, you know, it's going to create an attractiveness, too, as far as, you know, an appeal from the road or when you're walking down the sidewalk and all of that. Sorry, just kind of jumped there. Um, just kind of touching base on it and and again it's it all comes down to the attractiveness of who you're bringing in. You know, this is the big anchor that everyone's excited about is the is the B&B uh theater entertainment uh concept here with the go-karts and all of that. And so just having this as a presentation um again, I can't stress it enough really creates a lot of attraction for folks.

Uh phasing again. Um, so one big change here is that I have the phase one of the roads starting up here in the north side. So the way that it's actually logistically working out is that it's going to make sense to kind of start on the southern half here, uh, work on the multifamily on the south here and then just kind of move our way north as we go. And of course, as the southern portion here comes in, so is uh, given. And then so we can have this nice little loop uh, to get the thing started. And then then everything else again is going to magnetize and and flow to the north and to the west as well. All right. And then so the mechanisms that we're looking to use is uh the chapter 100 um how it works the sales tax exemption on construction materials and then a pilot program on the property tax uh community improvement district. I'm sure you guys are all familiar with these mechanisms. Uh 1% sales tax districtwide just on the retail just inside the district here. You'll see a boundary of what we're looking at here. So it's not outside the boundary. Uh transportation development district TDD very similar to the CD. Uh and then the sales tax reimbursement agreement again very similar to the TDD and uh CD. Um and then termination of the TIF on the project three area only, right? Because you know let that thing run its course and what it needs to on the north. But since we're putting new mechanisms here just on that project three that blue outline uh just on that. All right. And then so some of the boundaries here so you can kind of get a visual where these items are going. Um, forgive me, I kind of did this on my own. I'm not an artist. So, uh, the chapter 100 kind of leads down and what it's being used for is on the public infrastructure road here all the way down. And then we got to do a little median down here on 58. Uh, and then another um improvement of the median on Turner Road. Uh, traffic study said we got to improve the stacking at that turn lane there. Uh so that's where that's going to go to and then you have this

overall boundary of where it's set now. Uh is that the chapter 100 goes around this area up here on the north side. Uh then you see the pilot programs there. Uh they start in um you know different ranges depending on the use case and and what each one needs and then as time goes on they increase year-over-year uh by 3%. uh community improvement district, uh the TDD and the sales tax reimbursement. Effectively, it's just a whole boundary all the way around the entire project site. One thing that's new here, uh that's uh wasn't mentioned before in any of the previous meetings or anything is that we actually have an LOI out on this right now um uh right here on this southern piece uh this one and a quarter acres here working with the land owner looking to purchase that as well. Uh and then also incorporate new pad sites and things like that, new retail and restaurants or what what have you there. Uh and include that into the project so it stays inside this whole district here. Um and then the C again I mentioned uh 1% sales tax on retail lo uh located in here. So only the retail and then we have um u a set special assessment a C special assessment on each individual unit of multifamily. So those uh pieces of the development are actually paying into the CI to help actually contribute to all of these public improvements there too. Uh which is something that's a little bit different than what you typically see. It's just something that we wanted to add in there too and made it a little bit more favorable to to the success of the project. Um it just kind of a typical uh Missouri statute 27-year term. TDD again similar action here with everything else on the CD. It just doesn't have the special assessment on the multifamily. Uh again, you're just using the Missouri statute for the limitation on term. And then the ST 1% reimbursement of taxes um from the city on the retail located within the

boundary as well. All acts very similarly and on a 15-year term on that one. So, it's a little bit shorter.

You've probably said this before, Tyler. What when you did the studies of this, how far mileage wise do you think you'll be pulling in for the retail stuff? Oh, so it goes a long way. So we So the big study actually came from the B&B guys and that retail um study that we pulled was pulling all the way from Nevada some folks. So I mean whatever the mileage is on that and then however far east past Pleasant Hill and things like that. So it's a pretty big radius. So, this is also a big attraction and and how the project to the north actually really approved a lot of what we were talking about to our investors and and future retailers is whenever you look at the data and you see how long folks are staying here, where they're coming from, and I mean, it's pretty amazing. And then you compare it to something like Overland Park, it actually does a lot better from a visit standpoint in many cases. And the reason being is because there's not much else to choose from once you get out south or get out a little bit further southeast until you get to Springfield or Joplain. So, we're pulling in a lot of those folks into this into this county seat. And then when you have compared it to Overland Park, um like the one one thing that really jumps out of my mind is the visits to to the other place which is just right across the street here. It's a great example versus to the Tanners off 143rd Mechaf and Overland Park. It's almost twice the amount of visits. But the reason be and it's successful over there because it's Overland Park and it's Johnson County, but again, yeah, you have limitations on your choices over here, but that that causes success, but over there you're block by block, right? And then so that's that's pretty tapped down. It's really to at this point it's difficult to develop in many areas of Overland Park. So again, that's creating that attraction, not just from other developers or anything like that, but actual folks who want to be here and visit. So, um, yeah. All right. Um, I apologize for how tiny

this is, and I hope so, I'm going to try and I want to read off this thing because it's difficult for me to read, too. Okay. So, over here on the left side are all the project costs again are by the individual uses, right? And at the very end, I mean, you can see that's a very large number, $223 million of total project cost in all of this. So, I'll kind of start from the top. So, you got your your land cost, which is roughly about $7 million just for the land. And again, that's that's kind of a steal uh to be honest with you. Uh but it, you know, it's still a project cost at the end of the day. And then you have the biggest important piece, this first box here, which is getting the site ready for everything else that's coming in. And just that alone is over a $10 million hard cost. Uh with that, uh I guess there's some soft cost in there, too. So overall $10 million cost just in just in that in and of itself, right? And then so when you add the hard cost of it and the land cost just to get the project, it really has a detriment on if it were just to act on itself, right? Just the standard project straight up with no incentives. Uh so that right there out of the gates just is a barrier, right? Um and then you got the the uh the phase one multifamily uh about a $65.4 4 million project. 312 units is what we're looking at there. Um and then phase two, yeah, phase two, the entertainment. Uh that building is going to be about a $55 million building. Uh with, you know, the building itself, and then all the FFN that's in there, you know, the the tracks, the the laser tag, the the this that, all the things, right? I mean, it's a it's a pretty sizable project in and of itself. Um, and then you have the pad sites, um, which, you know, the smallest portion of the project, but not insignificant at $13 million just for those. Um, and then last but not least, the phase four

multifamily. Um, this one's a little bit higher from a multifamily perspective because what we are doing to it from a mixeduse perspective and also why we're putting it towards the end of the project too to kind of let things be successful. Um, you know, and parking becomes a an issue here for that because when you're trying to fit all of these things in here, I mean, you're going to get squeezed with parking. You don't want to see a parking all over the place. You know, you still want to create that uptown district feel. So, adding in a parking garage here is what really drives a lot of that up, right? And then so having and the way that we're planning it now is on that ground that first floor of the parking garage is would be used for the retail folks down there and all that stuff. And then the upper floors would be used for the residents up there too. And then you add in the cost of commercial on the ground floor too. So that really kind of juices that that project cost up. Even though it's only 288 units, it's a higher cost per unit. Um and then so therefore, you know, you kind of need to let the project economics of everything else have success before you can really get to this one. Um but if you if you phase it correctly and you let things kind of do what they need to do, it's going to be successful at the end of the day. Um, and then over here in the middle here, um, I won't dive into each individual line here because it'll bore you. Um, but essentially this shows what the project looks like and the gap in funding um, that it would need to be successful if you if it didn't have incentives, right? And again, as I mentioned, just the return like the yield on cost, right? Basically, the return versus the cost and what does it give you? Very simple economics there. this is at a negative 16%. Automatically it's a losing proposition just to get the land ready, right? So that's why I say this is the most important piece just to get things started, right? And then that has a domino effect with everything else once you kind of get to it, right? So this probably one of the reasons why

this thing has sat for a while too. I mean because this site when you drive by it, it looks flat, but when you look at the topo and then we actually just got geotech back, there's some rock in there, too. It's gonna it's going to go up, you know, on those on those things. Actually, a little bit of insight. We just got our cut fill sheet from our uh GC's. Almost the entire northern site needs to be stripped and then filled in on the south side because it needs to be built up because it's too shallow uh for infrastructure and things like that. So, just that alone, I mean, is it just drives up a huge cost to be able to move all that dirt and there's a lot of trees and things like that. I know we're going to try and keep some, but you know, there's a just that alone. Again, I can't stress that piece enough. Um, and then the multifamily there. I mean, this one isn't needing as much, but it needs the it needs the chapter 100 to be successful. U, the biggest reason here is that, you know, Belton's still early on the multifamily market, right? I understand we have center 30 or yeah, center 301 and encore, but it just hasn't quite hit the mark from the rent perspective, which is fine. It's totally fine because it needs to be affordable to some degree for for the folks who live here, but it's still not able to perform like an overland park, right? That's always going to be the thing, right? And because the over the rents over there are 20% higher, right? So then you can kind of get things going. But in order to keep this to where it needs to be from affordability standpoint, it needs a little bit of that help. Um, and then really kind of help the market, you know, really prove itself out even further, which is also the reason why we want to push the phase 2 mixeduse multifamily back a little bit, right? Just kind of let that multifamily and the phase one uh do its work. But it's still the multif family, as I mentioned, is still paying into that C, right? So, it's still helping that out from that perspective. Um, and then the entertainment u just again the project cost alone, the risk on this type of project is huge. Um, there's a reason why a lot of movie

theaters aren't really working now these days, right? You got to do these extra items in here. I mean, you got to keep folks in integrated inside of one building. It's not just that you go to the movie theater, you know, the dinner in the movie thing isn't really what it used to be, right? I mean, I used to do it every Friday night when I was in high school. It was awesome. It's just not the thing anymore, right? So, now you got to have integrate all of these different tools, if you will, from from an investment standpoint inside of the building. So, you got to add in, you know, the arcade, you got to add in the AR uh the uh the laser tag and and the go-karts and and all of those things just to kind of keep it going. You if you look at something like, you know, Dave and Busters, it does okay and all of that, right? But it's just kind of really good at one thing. Um, and then Andrees is doing great, but again, it's just kind of one thing with um, but something to really look at that is successful and how we're mimicking is Blue Hawk. Um, they have so many different things and they're they're doing phenomenal over there, but again, at the end of the day, there's still a risk to it when it comes to entertainment because it's not bread and butter like multifamily or commercial building. Um, so it definitely needs some help there to kind of get it across the finish line. Uh pad sites again pretty kind of straightforward on those as well. Um you know what they need. Uh again it comes down to the rents in Belton as well. I mean it's it's not the highest tier market of rents but we also want to make it attractive for those national folks as well too. Uh to kind of keep those where they need to be with where the market is calling. Um and again I just kind of touched on the multif family the phase two multifamily. I mean you got a parking garage and ground flooror retail. You got to add to it. So, this one needs a little bit of fire behind it, too. And then overall, what I kind of did here, uh, just if if this was just one huge project just all blown out all together, just what it would look like. And again, that's a little unrealistic, but I just

wanted to see what that looked like. It only generates a a 4.87 return percent return. I mean, you can get more in a CD out of that. Uh, so you're not going to get any investors if you do something like that, right? So, I mean, you're going to get that comment. I've gotten that comment before on on other projects like, "Hey, if I put it into an interest savings, you know, interest bearing savings account, it just doesn't work, right?" So, that was just kind of a little tidbit in there. All right. And then the uh project costs where where each individual dollar is going to on this, right? So, it just kind of flows down the line site corridors. And don't worry, I have some maps after this to kind of show you visually where where these dollars are going, right? Again, it just kind of starts from the top and it works its way down. Um, acquisition costs around $7 million and then you have just the hard cost in and of itself, 6.3 million. Do all that dirt moving, all the roads, the sidewalks, the infrastructure. Uh, and then soft cost, you got your carry cost and and your design team fees and and all the things that come with it. Um and then that total over there uh 17 yeah between everything is about $17 million in total just to get the project going. Um and then you have phase one multifamily and hard cost. This is just for horizontal costs which are qualified costs, right? So anything that's public uh or horizontal. It's not anything vertical. Um and then so that site cost just in and of itself 1.7 million. soft costs uh 338,000 about $2 million in total uh for the qualified cost there. Entertainment uh you got a big parking lot there. So you got to spend a little bit more on the parking. So 2.2 million on the soft on the hard cost for the horizontal. Um and then there are some efficiencies that we were able to find. So we're able to save some on the soft cost there. Uh but about two and a half million just for the qualified there. Uh pad sites. Uh there's several of them, right? um there's five

uh sites there. So then inside of those uh about 1.7 and then around 300,000 again everything kind of flows similarly as you can see the costs are similar. Um and then the big one here is the multifamily mixed use and that's because of that parking garage that's in there. Um and that kind of jumps things up as well. And then all told at the very end $36.2 million in total. And so also why I brought up the the Y tiff because the Y tiff uh earlier uh was about just about a million dollars less than this. Uh but our project cost is uh 220 versus 146, right? So it's when you look at it from a percentage of cost standpoint, we were able to find efficiencies in there. I tried really hard to do that um you know to to make it work with the least amount of help. All right. And then visually where these things are going to go. Obviously the site corridors are coming down here and then you have these uh storm water ponds right. Um just again a lot of that cut is coming in up here and then all of these right here. I mean we got to dig down 10 feet just to put these ponds in uh in order to achieve what we want to achieve. And then so we're going to have to move a lot of this dirt up. And if you drive by hopefully some of you guys may may notice at this moment but if you look down in there how how low it goes. I mean, we're going to have to build a lot of that up on the southside close to the dentist office here. So, you'll start to kind of get like a real visual as you drive by the next time. Um, and then again, we we're going to have to we're going to have to clean up the stream in there. I mean, there's there's tires, there's whatever in there. I mean, who knows at this moment and I I've seen some fun fun things in there in our wetland study. Um, all that I mean, there's a lot of cleanup involved in this thing. Um, and then you have all the all the public parking uh on the pad sites that's going in there. Um, and then of course the on street parking that's going on, you know, within that and all the landscaping. We have artwork in there scheduled as well. I'd like to, you know, try and find some local

artists and things like that, kind of incorporate that. Maybe get the parade of hearts in there at some point. I don't know. Um, you know, but things like that is where the pad site costs are going to go to. Uh, the entertainment, I mean, you see this gigantic parking lot. So, I mean, it's kind of self-explanatory on that one. Um, and then the mixeduse multifamily. Uh, I know in here you have uh landscaping in here, but in reality that's going to end up being a parking garage. So, that's where you kind of see that garage uh that that square there. And then you have the ground floor retail and all the landscaping that's going along it. Um, and again, we'll probably have some, you know, art and things like that that's outside of it. Just kind of create some interestingness uh throughout the boulevard. And then off-site improvements, I mentioned it earlier. Um, we're going to have to upgrade this median here to improve the stacking at that light. Uh, right now it's a little short for all the traffic that's being generated throughout the project here. So, we have to lengthen that stacking going to the north. Uh, so we will have to upgrade that median there. Um, and then we have the median down here on 58 uh that's going to go in there. And then these uh boxes are actually for the um timing improvements of those lights. Um hopefully we can do that on 58 one of these days too. Um but um yeah, so just to make sure that the traffic flows the way that it needs to flow, you know, once we're bringing in all this uh uh new traffic. All right. Um and then these are the sales generators. So this is the fun part, right? uh what what's actually coming in here and and and how much money is coming in through all of this and how does this create the value and how does this become successful. Um I have a lot of work to do in order to make this happen. So and and we're working on it. We've got some we got several um positive movements that are happening in here. Right. So the entertainment first and foremost I mean that's our number one focus. Get that sucker in here because it's the biggest driver uh to make this incentive request

successful. U you know year one at full buildout. I mean, it's projected to make, you know, $16.6 million in sales at the end of the day. I mean, it's it's pretty remarkable. Uh, but again, that comes down to all the mixes of of the entertainments that are inside of one building. Um, and then we have some u you know, these numbers again, I didn't put any names in there because nothing's set in stone at the current moment, but we had things in motion, but they're based upon, you know, the conversations that we've been having, serious conversations of folks who want to come in. uh and then based upon you know historical sales of other stores that they have. Uh so we just kind of plug some of those numbers in there. Some of them are actually a little more aggressive so I try to dial that back a little bit just to be realistic. Um you know first pad site hopefully that's one of those ones on 163rd and given um you know when we bring that in there. So kind of that front piece kind of trying to anchor this thing and so that'll likely be how the restaurant moves. all the restaurants will probably move from 163rd towards the west on given and then so that's what you kind of see there. Um the highway 58 pad I mean again I mentioned that earlier we we're pretty close on locking that one in and then we'll include this in into the whole thing. Um we are trying to revive the previous tenant that was looking to come in there too. So we're having conversations with them if you guys if anybody's familiar with what that is. So, we are having conversations with them and so that's based upon their projected sales as well. Um, and then of course this kind of moves out throughout I won't bore you with every single one but um it just kind of moves and all the way to year five. So it's not year five of project start. It's year five of total sales, right? So year one of total sales is probably closer to the mid of 2028 to, you know, 2029. Uh so if you can kind of think of it that way, I know I mentioned in city council it's probably going to be about a seven to eight year project. So that's technically year five in the sales

generator uh model here. And then oh and then we have the um what the the totals are of each one here. So ultimately it just equates to those qualified costs $36.2 million. Um and then you can kind of see where that is and then the year time frame. So I know the TDD earlier said 40 years in total. That's Missouri statute, but it doesn't need to last that long to be honest with you. So, um, and then the ST 15 years is all we really needed to achieve this in this model here. And then we actually have, um, this kind of leads into a little bit later what the actual benefits to financial benefits to the city are. Um, what it's going to lead into. So, out of that, right? So we're capturing things, the city's capturing things, the city's sharing sharing things, but what at the end of the day, what is the city going to get from these sales tax and year 10, I mean, it's it's showing, you know, upwards to a million dollars in that year of year 10, but at the end of the day, after, you know, 27 years, just on these sales tax alone, about 36.48 million or uh 36.4 $4 million that the city is going to receive on the city side uh for taxes uh through the through the benefit of this project just on the sales tax and then we'll lead into the property tax here in just a minute and then all of the uh the fees associated permit fees and and all of those things as well. Um and then that's kind of where we're headed here. And then so the community benefits I mean this is this is kind of a jobs model here. So, what the what jobs are created in this? Um, it's it's definitely a lot more than what I mentioned in the city council meeting. That was more for like what permanent jobs are here, but I mean there's there's construction jobs, there's engineer jobs, architecture jobs, things like that. And then what does that lead into u for each individual component? How many jobs it's going to create for each individual component? Again, it's

an it's it's an assumption, uh, but I feel like it's fairly conservative where, you know, uh, I'm modeling out here that there's three jobs for every million dollar worth of value in each portion here. And then that leads into just in construction jobs, uh, 533 construction jobs while the project's going on. And then that equates to $34.1 million in um um payroll uh just just from the construction workers that are coming into the circulation of Belton. Um and then you have your uh soft cost esters and and all of the other folks that are associated with the project, not physically working on it, but some somehow working on it. And again, very similar, but we go down to two jobs per million. And then ultimately that leads down to 77 jobs created. But these are higher paying jobs. So then over the course of that, you're going to get about $6.3 million worth of payroll coming through this. And then the more important part at the very end, what each component is generating from a job perspective. Um and then ultimately we kind of backed it into, you know, estimated payroll for these folks. Uh some of that I actually used um the median wage of Belton, but then I discounted it um a little bit. And then it's going to lead down into uh 626 permanent jobs inside the district alone. Um and you know part-time job or 189 full-time jobs and then 438 part-time jobs inside of this when it's at full buildout. And then you kind of flow over here to the total of payroll that's being generated just for this is $56.8 $8 million worth of payroll that's flowing through Belton uh because of this project. And then you kind of you add in I just did kind of the on-site payroll here and year-over-year I mean it's growing 3% year-over-year and by year 10 just anybody who's working inside of

this all told is $21 million of payroll by year 10 just just on site just assuming the same job count if it doesn't go up or doesn't go down. All right. Um, oh, and then the population growth. So, again, we want to grow the community as a whole from a population standpoint. Um, and then again, we just have these factors in here as as the residential pieces are being built out, you know, what the occupancies are. Um, you know, as they're moving throughout the years and then ultimately we just typically underwrite to a 95% occupancy. Um, you know, the phase one residence is is going to be 474. Um and then same thing with phase two applied the same arithmetic there 438 but then the thing that I really wanted to show was new to Belton actually new residents not anybody who's moving into it who's currently a resident here but new folks u and we just estimate about 30% of those folks who live in these is going to be new um and then so that equates to about 638 new folks in the town um and then we apply that to new resident payroll So again, very similar. So um Belton, you know, income per capita is about 40 $45,000 per per person. I I applied an income factor of 25% and just saying anybody who's new here on average is going to equate to a, you know, $33,000 year income. And then again what that does wages that are coming in through this area um over the length of time and you know that's 21.5 million dollars that's coming over there. Um and then of course I you know threw in an additional item here. So something that you know most folks don't even think about is those folks are paying property taxes in the area too on their vehicles. So there's other items there too. And then you know what that does per year 161,000. And then we have our growth rates over here. And then

ultimately what that's going to be capturing over over time uh to the city. And then this is my final slide. I'll I'll be quiet after this, but this is the the big piece here. Um um so actually a permit fees. So again, even before I start on all of these things, just flat fees that are going to the city is $1.8 million just in fees. Um, and then I I'm going to jump down to this piece here. I'm going to jump up here. This kind of a fun one little added in here. Just look I just kind of give you an investor perspective on something like this. Um, so I just aggregated all of the the payrolls, the jobs, the, you know, the population growth, etc., etc. Ultimately, what it leads down to at the end of the day, this is again, this is money in circulation. This isn't just direct dollars that are coming to the city, but you know, with the payroll that's in circulation with construction, on-site jobs, things like that, all of the the new residents, the property taxes, all the items that I just mentioned over a 27-year period, you can see the number there. So, it's a very large number that is that is coming in through circulation over time just because of this project success alone. Um, and then this piece right here, if you look at it today, what is this thing doing today? I mean, it's basically nothing. You know, it's it's getting agricultural taxes. It's it's collecting $100 a year in taxes. Um, and then, you know, what's being generated in taxes, you know, this is just year one's full buildout with all the taxes, including the, you know, the pilot program and things like that is $3.7 million just in property taxes, that full buildout. And then if you include property taxes and and and the sales taxes my 27 years this is to the city 100 million right over time. Um

that is a 3.7 million% increase in taxes just from this. Right? If you look at it comparatively of 100 million versus $2,700 over 27 years for what's what it's if it were to just do nothing for the next 27 years is only going to generate the city $2,700 right of the tax base. And then last but not least, I just kind of look at this again from an investor standpoint. And again, this isn't a check the city is writing. It's just okay, this is kind of a deferred deal here. We're not collecting this. This is an investment from the city, right? So what does the city get out of this? Right? And again, if just this is a hypothetical thing, if the city were to write a check for $36.2 million to the project, what does it get? What type of return does it get at the end of the day? And you jump over here, uh the ROI is 178%. And then it's just just shy of a three equity multiple. On a typical investment, you typically want to do a two equity multiple. So it's exceeding that of a typical investment from any of these investors that you would do. So any of our investors that we talked to if we hit a two happy right so if we look at that equated to you know the 100 million versus 36 at year one again it's not a check that's being written it's just a hypothetical situation if it was you know what does that return look like. Um so yeah so that was kind of the overall benefit that the city's going to get at the end of the day. That's it. Who's first?

Me. Go ahead. I couldn't quite hear you. What were those restaurant names that are coming up? We're close. We're close. Okay. They're going to be good. I promise. I tried. A for effort, I guess. I'll let you know as soon as I I get dotted line signatures. Anybody else? Go ahead. Did I hear you properly or I don't know. I I guess I want to make sure I understood. you were talking about roads and the phase and that kind of thing. Mhm. Is so is the is the plan to do the roads as the development gets done or is the plan still to do the roads first?

Do the roads but we're just so since we have since we have items coming in so the multif family coming in first. I wanted to start that right away to kind of get them going because, you know, talking with city staff and and what we need to get get them going so they can go right away. This year is what the target is by fall. Um, we needed to get that in right away. So, let's go ahead and start there and then as we kind of go, we'll we'll move forward. So, there's subfasing inside of the road phase, if you will.

Yeah, I guess that's the part I wanted to understand a little better. Um, we're not are how do I word that? Will you be waiting to do the rest of the road? So, I understand what you're saying. You're saying we need to do that south part of the roads first to make sure that we can even get that part of the project started. Totally makes sense. Yeah. But once that part of once, let's say we get those roads done, that project's, you know, that phase is working on its own, whatever. Um, will you continue to then work on the roads or is it uh, no, we're going to wait until we you know, you see what I'm Is that making sense?

Yep. For sure. Yeah. You don't want us to stop at some point and then come back later. And I don't want to do that either because it's it's going to be pain in the butt to bring guys out, bring them bring them back in, things like that. So, inside of our project cost that you saw in there is to do the whole thing all the way through. Um, and then from logistically, it actually makes sense to just get it all the way in. All right. So even though it's you're kind of looking at as a phase, it's really just you're starting south and going north as opposed to starting north and going south like Okay. Yeah. And it's not that long of a project either. So once we get started, it's going to get moving pretty quickly.

Uh assuming that we don't hit more rock. Um so we'll see about that. But you know, it probably be in total about an eight-month process to get it all all the way in there. Uh looking good. And then each individual component will start adding to it as they need to. Surely I'm not the only one with questions. Go ahead. Um, when you talk about 638 permanent residents coming in here, have you found

Have you found that people who live in multifamily are so enamored with the city that they end up buying single family homes and living here? And that's just kind of an abstract question, but you know, we need kids in school and we need single family homes. And I'm just wondering if that if you've seen that as a as a norm.

Yeah, I mean I think that's kind of a general human behavior across the board that once you move into an area, you get integrated that you end up wanting to stay. Um I haven't actually seen hard data on that, but that's also my assumption. So very similar to what you're thinking there is, hey, we we bring folks in here. I mean, anybody who's new is we do an awesome job. I mean, they're going to want to stay, especially with the school districts and all the things that you guys were uh working on earlier today. I mean in the presentations earlier I mean you have things like that. I mean people are going to want to stay I would imagine. Go ahead. So um this will be coming for us again. So we will be hearing a lot of this again. Uh and so I I want to chew on this before I start asking questions.

Okay. So uh just just warning you. Okay. And and just to kind of provide a little bit of context. You're correct council member. So tonight we wanted to just give the broad overview, a reintroduction of some of the tools and also an opportunity for council to ask questions um here at the meeting. But yes, there are a lot of other pieces and kind of some of the mechanisms that we still need to work through that'll all individually be coming back to council for approval. Go ahead. And all of your numbers are are basically estimates based on current conditions and what we understand is in front of us right now. Correct. because you can't predict the future and we don't know what's going to happen, right? That's correct. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead.

I've been talking about buying that crystal ball though. Yeah. I'd really need to get one of those. Me, too. Yeah. Um, yeah, you mentioned this, but I want to go a little more detail into it. The TDD being a 40-year term. Um, what So, typically a TDD is in existence for a specific purpose, right? Um, can you talk about what a realistic time frame on that TDD might be as opposed to that 40-year term?

Yeah, so that 27 years that I mentioned is the realistic time frame for that. Um, there's there's so many different ways to model this thing. But um, for this project, there's no need for anything beyond 27 years um, on anything. Um, in reality, a lot of that will actually get exhausted before then.

Okay. those those costs and things like that. So to council member Johnson's point, I mean it's everything's projected on today. I mean as we go, you know, project costs will likely increase year-over-year. Asphalts up and oil is up and and all the things. So a lot of that might actually get exhausted sooner, I would imagine. Yeah. So, and then on that thought process with the um with the TDE and whatnot, I assume then, you know, let's say it gets exhausted in, you know, 15 years or something a lot faster. I assume then we we we're going to dissolve that TDD is the plan. Once the Well, go ahead. Which means no more that that that sales tax would that that is correct. Yeah.

Okay. Yeah. So, the more sales and success that this thing is, the faster it's going to get done. Okay. Yeah. Um, and that's Yeah,

I was going to say as we get into these uh in these incentives individually, um, there's, you know, we can put some caps, number of dollars, so that way, you know, they hit that certain amount, then it then it goes away, that kind of thing. So, and we can do stair step things. there's lots of ways to to tailor this to to get it to where you want it to be eventually and it makes sense for them and for the city. And so, um, we definitely want to make sure we do a public exhaustion of of ideas and and models and whatnot. So that way we can, you know, get the best thing that we're most comfortable with as a council, as a public, and then also that they're all they're comfortable with as as a developer. So, but yeah, we we will I we would recommend for for sure some caps on that like on the dollar numbers and everything. Perfect. Um because one of the things while sure it's only going to affect those that would use the area um it's still an increase on sales tax. I mean I know it's not a you know a a tax to our residents directly. It's just into those people that would choose to use the venue but um it's still I I think anytime we can reduce a tax even in that situation it's always a positive. Um, regarding the parking lots, uh, did I hear or am I understanding that correctly? So, all those parking lots are intended to just be public parking.

They're currently public parking. Yeah, that's how the current plan is. Yeah. So, like I I don't I can't think of a reason off the top of my head now, but if I don't know, I guess we no longer have a um uh we no longer have the park and ride from MDOT and as as now that's an Olive Garden. Um, so if somebody decided to use, you know, B&B's, um, parking lot there to, if I saw that, that was on there, right? Yeah. Someone decided to use that parking lot as their parking ride for their daily commute or whatever, there's that's not a problem. I don't know yet to be honest with you.

Well, I'm just I'm just thinking through, you know, part of the idea with the incentive is public infrastructure, right? So, I'm just trying to think of what that may look like there. Sure. There are so as part of the development agreement, we can build into it that while it is a public parking lot, there is still private requirements for maintenance, security, things like that that we can build into that agreement. Okay. I I you you got the second part of my I didn't even have to say it. You knew where my brain was going. I would also note just because it's a publicly owned parking lot does not mean that it is publicly accessible at all times for all members of the public. Correct. For example, you guys have a public parking lot right there. You have a public parking lot behind city hall as well that are not available for people just to park and leave their car and go somewhere else for a day.

Yeah. And now while some of that might be totally fine like in all seriousness, but there is a concern of you know crime or thing other things that could lead to. So that's exactly where my thought process was going. Um and anybody else? No, just me. Okay. Um that may have been I don't know. quick glance. That may have been my question. A couple that I want want to talk about. Uh first of all, in all your numbers and all your figuring of all the sales tax and everything, none of that includes any money that those 638 new residents would spend elsewhere in the city. No.

Okay. And also I want to you explain the sales tax reimbursement in a little bit more detail about what actually sales tax that affects and which ones it does not please.

Yes. So through our conversations so far with Tyler the the the sales tax reimbursement the ST that he has in the presentation this is very similar to the agreement that we have with the Olive Garden development. Um it is just the 1% that goes to the general fund. So all of the other sales tax revenue um fund streams essentially will be preserved. They're they'll continue to collect the regular sales tax in this development as they do throughout the city. So just to add to that, so the um now I'm going to forget the names. The the firefighter tax, public safety sales tax, thank you. Correct.

So that for example would not be affected. Give can you give us a couple other examples? Perfect. Thank you. Yeah, they would all from day one benefit from this development.

Anybody else? We didn't design this to be the catchall end all of all the questions. We just wanted this as an introduction, get everybody thinking about it. So, we expect more questions to come down the line and as the public gets to review this and gets to scrutinize it, we expect questions from the public as well. So, and we welcome that. That's why we do this as a public process. We got to this point just trying to to get some parameters set up, but it's it's all going to be publicly voted on, publicly discussed at this point. And so, um, and it's not there's no rush on this other than we're going to try to keep a formal timeline, but if there needs to be a delay, then there has to be a delay. And that's just the way it would work out. So, Do you have anything else?

Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Uh item two, Belton Gateway, Y Belton Plaza, TIFF. You're up.

I I may just stay at my seat for this one just to introduce uh David Christie with Christine Associates here. Um just also to provide a little bit of context on this. This is for the Belton Gateway um tiff. So this is the shopping center as you come right off 163rd and I49. Um one of the conditions within that is it has a list or an appendix as part of that tiff that has restricted uses within that tiff. Um one of those is you know one a grouping of those is automotive uses. Um a request by the developer has been made to remove that restriction from the overall tiff. So, we thought it'd be great to have the developer come and make that uh make that request to the council directly since ultimately council will be voting on that uh that tiff amendment. Um happy to turn it over to you.

Thank you so much. I've running late out here. I was I was worried I was going to miss my opportunity to visit with y'all. Um we've really enjoyed our relationship with the city. came here in uh what 2000 started building the Home Depot and worked with multiple administrations and it's been a it's been a great uh time for me and my family and the live close. I'm a member of Lloyd so I'm I'm over in this community all the time and we've really appreciated the confidence that the governing bodies has put in us our de development team to make these things work. Um the the gateway uh project we're planning on I've met with the the mayor and and and uh Joe to discuss a strip center that I'm going to build next to Neers and I had to do the same thing when I did the Home Depot project where uh I guess Jose Peppers was originally uh and where Dollar Tree is now um to get create activity and the difficulty we've had is we've had u kind of a black eye with Neers. We did the deal with Neers in full confidence. They were running 45 stores and uh and I ate there. I like the food. I think other people ate there. uh and we discussed it and they uh the Neers family and I don't know if that's the correct term but the people that own the Nether's name basically was rescended their their offer to sell the business to these operators that were good operators that ran it. And so they bought it back and within 75 days they closed the business. All of them. 45 businesses.

Wow.

All over. And so it was just terrible. And so nobody could really suspect. I mean, they closed in Overland Park in front of Target. I mean, how's that happen? So, um, so anyway, it's it's been very difficult for us to attract, uh, additional restaurants. and I moved Olive Garden from uh Belton Gateway to that freeway site that we acquired from the city to develop that and because they had approved it originally and then because of the lack of activity they said we want to go someplace with a little bit more activity. So I currently have uh an agreement with Dob's Tire. Uh it's a 8800 square foot brick building. their average store does over $5 million a year in sales and we're excited about trying to get this uh along the the tiff agreement and when we do these things years and years ago

we try to look into the past of what happened and the previous administration Mayor Davis asked us not to do fast food so we passed on multiple fast food deals to develop those because Beldin doesn't need fast food I mean you've got plenty I think we can all agree. So, we've been trying to do things that that we can create large sales per square foot. Uh I think the Stop's Tire deal will do. I'm I'm not going to say they're doing it as much as as Ross or Marshalls, but it's pretty close of what they're doing in sales. And so, we're thrilled about it. It's a a $5 million building and u about $4.5 million is what they've told us. So, we're excited about uh making this happen. And I'm here saying I try to do what you asked me to do. Um we've redeveloped and finished working on finishing the development at the Price Shopper Center that I bought at the request of the city to fix that vacancy and put tenants out there. We built the other place and we're excited about continuing the positive uh reaction that we're having from citizens and so on. But Dob's Tire is not a fly by night operation. Very credible. Several hundred stores. It's a national operator and they're building an all brick building. So, we're excited about doing it. I I want to get activity out there. We want to we I think we're I think your staff will tell you we're ahead of all of our projections on the revenue that you gave us to pay those off. I mean, Turner Rose almost paid off and look how long it's been there because we're putting high volume. I did the Old Navy deal. I built Old Navy with no profit. I'm losing old when I sell the Old Navy building, I will lose money on the building to get

the retail sales and the property taxes up so that the incentives can be reimbursed so you guys can start capturing the revenue instead of having to pay off my loans. So, we're thrilled about being here and I'm just asking for your consent to move forward to amend the the uh the tiff agreement that was done many many years ago to allow us. The tiff agreement does say that we can do uh you know Jify Lube and Valvalene and those type of people. So, we can do automotive services. We just can't I guess we everybody's determined that we just can't do a DOS sty without amending the the agreement. So, I'm happy to answer any questions, but we're we're uh excited about moving this forward and building this strip and and finishing that out like we did the original uh Belton Town Center.

Go ahead. Do you happen to have the list for that TIFF the the restrictions on it? I don't have it with me currently. Okay. Can you could I at least I would like to request you to I'm sure I can get access to it. But whatever. Could you email that and so we can take a look at that to better understand to all of us. Yeah, I'm sure to all of us is a and we we're not we're not approving this tonight. We're just discussing this tonight. Is that correct? Correct. This this is just provide feedback to the staff.

Um I and I I appreciate the fact that you're here to talk to us tonight. Um, I'm kind of wondering what the other lot's going to be filled in by Valene. That's that's a question in my mind. Um, I um with with the new Petra stuff coming in here and all the the new excitement we've got in that area, I'm wondering if that's in my mind, I'm wondering if that's the best use of space for a tire spot there. Um, I think that I I have to have way more facts about it and I and I'm like Alex. I'd like to see the list. Go ahead.

Ward four, which is there has been inundated with um concerns over all of the automotive focused uh businesses. And so, uh, you know, I remember when it started off with Caliber Collision and then with the, uh, Express and now the, uh, one in front of Price Chopper. Um, and so I'm just concerned about adding anything else automotive, uh, in Ward 4.

Anybody else? I I appreciate you being here and uh and and bringing it forward and giving us something to consider. Has there been I'm I'm going to assume there I mean you talked about Olive Garden obviously that was you know chose a different spot and whatever and um but has there been any other interest that or even you know small bites on that area? Very little and this is what we do.

Okay. So, I'm really saying and I'm not making excuses because I've worked here a long time. The the fatality of that restaurant on the corner has said something to the national retailers that uh is this too far away from the residential? Are people using this for entertainment, dining, and so on? And it's really hurt us. I understand that the building is under construction and ready to be put back in play and open as as a fast casual restaurant and that's exciting to us. We tried to buy it. So, and the price was just, you know, astronomical. So, or we would have bought it and fixed it ourselves. So, um you know, I'm committed to this project. Um I'm trying uh I'm working on expanding my land acquisition in the area so to do a basically add to the size of the project. So uh but it's I think it's critical that we uh and and I think maybe maybe Joe or or one of us can talk about that later or you guys can look at it financially but you should look at how much we've paid back. I mean, it's I understand and I don't think I'm speaking out of school that that the entire incentive package will be paid off in 28 on both projects.

It's pretty incredible. So, we we have I like the short timeline. I'm sorry. I like the shorter timelines as I was mentioning at a previous Anyway.

Yeah, it's because and and they're doing a Petra is doing an amazing job, but they're building residential, too. So that hurt. The size of the project goes up because it's more expensive than than retail and there's no sales tax. So they're a little bit handicapped. So I think I think he did a great job. Tyler did a great job explaining the need for the add for incentives to make this thing work. Um but we uh you know they've been they've come to us. They said can we co-develop? Can we figure this out? And I said absolutely. We've been friends and we will continue to be friends. We just we want to get this project finished for the city. We want we want sit down restaurants out there and you guys know I can do it. But I think this this issue of of uh you know of having this fatality there has just been it's just been you know I've just never I've been doing this since 1979. I know you all can say you don't look that old, Dave.

But it's a it's a it's a big uh big undertaking. And we uh you know, I'm working on a nice tenant for the phase 2 land there. Um I had lunch with the mayor and and and Joe, and I said if this if the if the library wants the land next to my retail center, I'll I'll donate the land. So they can go build their own freestanding. Cass County can build their own freestanding library on ground that they own,

you know, as part of the shopping center. So I'm going on the record saying that we're we are here. We're team players and I'm just saying I'd like to get some of these pads developed. I've got six pads out there, guys. I'd like to get some things developed. I'm going to do one on the strip. So, I'm gonna go borrow four or five million dollars, build a strip, and but I'd like to let I'd like to let Dob's Tire, who does a good job, and you know, I live in Leewood, there's tire stores all over Leewood. There's tire stores all. It's just a necessary evil, unfortunately. And you guys, the difficulty is and you guys did a great job changing your ordinance. So if the use changes and the building is closed, they lose the right to go back to the old use. Phenomenal. Everybody, all major cities do that and Belton is now doing that. It's great. You lose the right to, you know, if the tire, if a lube shop or something closes, they lose the right to do it. They got to come back and ask for a special use permit. It's a great idea. So, you're trying to you're trying to navigate that as best you can and and it's very competent thinking relative to that because big cities are doing it.

Where is the closest Tire? I just tried to look it up. I'm not I'm not sure. They're from St. They're based in St. Louis. Okay. So, they're breaking to this side of the Missouri. Yes. Anybody else? Thank you. Thanks. Thank you all for your courtesy. Appreciate it.

Item three, Wilbur Parish Circle. Where'd he go? Oh, there he is. Thought he left. I thought he was late.

He's throwing trash away. Sorry. Uh Mr. Lee Perez, can you join me? Is uh Mr. Dakota Sims here tonight, too? Okay. on uh on March 13th uh 2026, we received a contact the city uh complaint and Mr. Lee Perez, who's with me, he's the president of Coxair Systems um as is asking for city council to consider no parking in the culde-sac, which is critical to his operations at Coxair Systems. And this is at Wilbur Parish Circle right off of North Scott. And so Coxair Systems uh is a industrial supplier of fabricated metals. Um they do stainless steel tanks, staircases, mezzanines, um and other large assemblies and their products are um some with some of Kansas City's biggest manufacturers like Dots, Pretzels, Kelloggs, now Mars, and Intercess. And so they employ 25 union craftsmen and they support u a 47-year operation. Pretty impressive. Uh they're located at the inside the culde-sac there at Wilbur Parish. I'll uh show you a picture in a minute, but they receive uh structural steel every day. And some of these can come in 20 foot lengths. They could come on um you know trucks that have a 35 or 45 ft flatbed trailer. They pull down in the culdesac, they turn around to then back up in the driveway and offload the metal. It's quite the operation. Uh but the problem is is there's other businesses located there on that uh that street and sometimes the workers park in the street. Now, they have a terrific

relationship with all the businesses on that street that especially the ones that have workers that park there and they will get some of those visits come and move cars if they're in the way. But the problem is it's on the daily basis and when they can't get participation, the police department has been involved in going out there u maybe sometimes as you know dozen times a year uh to try to help get the traffic moved for them. And so, um, I've talked to, um, Mr. Perez and Mr. Sims via email. Mr. Perez is here tonight in case you have any questions because he's the one that originally uh, brought this to our our attention. The other thing is is I've been in contact with some of the other businesses and I'll go a little bit into that. The other businesses, like I said, are cooperative and most of the time and they can get those personal vehicles moved so they can get the trucks in there. But sometimes it is disruptive to their business and it's also disruptive because sometimes even the cars are parked in front of the mailbox. This is looking from North Scott down the street. Uh this was a really good day I would say because there's only a couple of cars that are in the culde-sac and I'll show a picture of them right now. Um but you can kind of see that there is a lot not very much uh way to park on the north side of the street but which is on the left and then on the right side of the street you have mailboxes and some green space where vehicles can park. This is in the culdesac looking back towards North Scott and you can see that there's some vehicles parked there on the south side and that truck right there is inside the culde-sac. The other ones are at the leading edge or behind uh previous to or prior to the culde-sac.

Mr. Dakota Sims uh he also emailed back when I reached out to the businesses and sent him a letter about the complaint and asked for some input from them. Uh he says that um the end of the culdesac doesn't affect uh his business per se. He is in the building that I'm going to show you here in a minute from the top view. Uh but he says that he would suggest extending the no parking zone not only from the culdesac but the entire south side of the street leading all the way up to North Scott. Um that they uh he says in particular they block the mailboxes for the businesses. And the other thing is is that there is uh some difficulty when their vehicles are trying to pull out and it's a tree trimming business that he owns. When they're trying to go up to the intersection of North Scott, make a left turn to turn south on North Scott, the vehicles sometime can obscure their view when they're trying to make that left turn on that traffic that is coming northbound. And if you're up in that area, even with the new traffic light, if they do have a green light, there's some speed to them and they could be on top of you pretty quick. So, I could understand that it's a very difficult area from this view. This is a top view. If we put new parking in the culde-sac, that's going to be option number one. And there's some language for that. And so you can see to the north there in the middle of that uh the top of the slide there's a white building and it looks kind of like a upside down uh L. You have a tree uh tree removal business in there. Um you also have a plumbing company and then you have uh one business that's not occupied right now. I talked to both of those individuals and they say that if we put no parking on that south side,

they would have employees impacted from parking in the street and they would have to come up with some other arrangement. Um, you can see that it's very compacted area for those businesses in that white building and they don't have a lot of parking space on the property itself. That's why they end up in the street. This slide shows if we were to do the culde-sac and then wrap it down and then do no parking all the way back to North Scott. And so there's just option one and option two. And so um if you'd like to hear from Mr. Perez, he's here. Um if you have any questions,

go ahead. Is option one uh who's putting in that parking lot? Wasn't option one the additional an additional parking? No, the uh option one was just to do the culde-sac is no parking. Oh, I misunderstood what you're saying. Okay. Yeah, we're so Yeah, no parking lots. That'd be impact the businesses in the culde-sac. And which business was um stating that they might be impacted by this?

It would be the uh tree trimming business and also the um plumbing business. And I think it's because they have vehicles that they get out of the property in the morning. Their employees park on the street. They then go to the business and then leave for the day leaving their vehicles in the street. Yeah, I guess what would what would be a remedy for them

if we were to uh just do the culde-sac and then they would have the rest of the street to try and park. Um that would probably be a remedy for them. And so the tree trimming business I talked to today, they said it would be one or two cars at most and then one or two cars for the plumbers would be able to park on the street. Cool to say to be frank. It's all that really inhibits our business. So we would be fine with that. Question. Go ahead.

So there was a com I heard a complaint about trying to turn uh onto North Scott and that they they couldn't see because of what was the reason? Vehicles parked there. I believe vehicles parked. So that So could you without taking them all away, could you stop just the vehicles parking close to the uh intersection at North Scott to help with uh being able to see so the danger goes down a little bit? Yes, we could take care of a little bit of green space right there prior to uh right off North Scott as you come down the street to that first apron.

Go ahead. And then one of the businesses said there was an issue with the mailboxes uh parking in front of the mailboxes, right? Okay. So, was that when you on the second proposal for going further up the street, would that solve that problem?

Yeah, that problem is probably going to going to still exist. If you look at the overhead picture, there's a white truck in the middle across. It's basically uh just north of those storage sheds. There's a white truck or white vehicle there. And then there it looks like a tree. I think that's where the mailboxes are. And so that's the biggest green space on that street. And it would be very difficult for us to allow parking there um without and still give access to those mailboxes. That would probably be given up at least a car length. Go ahead.

On the south side of the Wilbur Parish Circle. Yes. There's two containers sitting there. Is that correct? Um I think in this picture there Yeah, there is. This is from Google, so I don't know what time of year or when when this photo happened. So, have they got a permit to have those there? The containers? Yeah. Um in the I'd have to go drive down the street. I wasn't particularly paying attention to that today or when I took the original photos, but I can go back and look at that. But if there was containers that would be that would be between us and codes

and and not in that but that could technically be used for parking it looks like to me couldn't it? You mean on the property? Yeah, because it looks like it's either paved or gravel or something there. Oh. Okay. Yeah. On that one side of the building. I got a feeling from what my discussion was with the the businesses in there that is currently that currently is vacant. That's the part that's currently vacant. Correct. Yeah, that's Oh, is that an old picture? I was looking at it on the map also. So, I was just like that could be used for parking.

And that was one of the things I was going to ask is there is some space there. I don't know who I was going to do. We know who owns that space in between that building and the north side there. The ownership of that building. Maybe they rent. I don't know if they could work something out with the property owner or because it seems like there's opportunity for more parking there. I what I hate to do is impact another business's ability to get their employees there or whatever um to sol you know solve one problem, create another one kind of a thing.

Um the other now that Marky Parkway exists um there's no other way to enter into uh Coxair. I know presently there isn't, but there isn't an opportunity for a um another, you know, driveway in off like Market Parkway or something like that. How about a very large financial investment? We wouldn't want that off of Market Parkway either, would we? No, that would actually probably be very close to the intersection.

Yeah, we wouldn't want that off Marky Parkway like that, would we? We looked at uh having a road come off Marky Parkway up that way before. There's also a large grade difference there. And so in order to make something work in there, you're going to have to uh probably go further to the east. And we looked at at ways to make it work, but it's just very difficult. I was that that one piece of property is owned by one investment group. So, the buildings and that piece of property where those containers are or if they're not there. I was just it looks like you could use that for a lot of parking to me, but which would help eliminate some of the parking out in the street, but

I would imagine the original uses of these buildings were for another business or other businesses than what they are for now. And so, but they're all personally owned businesses that do very well. And this is a very busy street in our town as far as almost everything there is occupied. I got one. Go ahead, Matt. How does a business not have enough parking for their employees? This must have been before our time, right? Yeah. I mean, most of this was developed in the 70s and 80s, so there's probably a lot of legal non-conforming parking situations there that we just try to address uh as properties redevelop or they make additions.

Gotcha. Just for clarification, Mr. Perez, you would be satisfied if the culde-sac was no parking. You didn't necessarily have to have any further up the street. Is that okay? Thank you. Go ahead.

I I hate to say this. Uh there there's there's uh a a lot of streets that have no parking signs and right underneath the no parking signs are cars. And so um in addition to putting up signs, you're still going to be spending time going over there and doing things because people are going to park there anyway. So, uh, what kind of enforcement difference will there be?

It's a It's one of those things where we would actually proactively come through this area for several months just proactively trying to make sure that everybody understands there's no parking there. And then that such at some point there if there would if there was a vehicle out there, it would just be a call to service and we would go out there and dispatch an officer. It's a very easy ticket to write in regards to no parking because it's in code that this area is no parking and we write the ticket and we can actually tow the vehicle if we can't get the owner to come and get it. So, it's pretty much primmaaccia. Um but when you have a situation like blocking mailboxes and you know um it's really hard to get people to move their vehicles cuz it's they can park there. It's very inconvenient for the mail service. Um the other thing is is that u parking in front of a fire hydrant that we can do something with that right away. A lot of times just writing a ticket and rolling off doesn't help anybody cuz this car is still parked there and people sometimes will accumulate many parking lot violation or parking violations before they'll actually be some type of action towards them. But we're a little bit more proactive than you would find a bigger city that just writes the ticket and then rolls off and leaves the vehicle there.

Anybody else? All right. Thank you. Thanks. All right. Did we Did we need to provide a recommendation for this to come forward to us next? I mean, from a process standpoint or I'm assuming it would be helpful if you guys do prefer one or the other or neither than to give us that kind of feedback. That way we can if we decide to.

If we're looking at that traditional area where there might be or might not be uh containers there, that would influence, wouldn't it? Because I'm I'm for blocking off, but I'm also for blocking off by North Scott when they can't see because that's kind of dangerous. All right, clear as mud. I mean, if he's satisfied with the culdeac enough, then if that's what satisfies him, then that makes sense. I mean, he's the one here asking for it, right? Yeah. Yeah. If that's the direction we can I'd like to start with the culde-sac. Start with the culde-sac and see what we can do.

Then we can start with the culde-sac and we can also take a look at that little intersection. If it makes sense to draw to draw out a 10 or 15 or 20 foot barrier from the corner. I mean, if that's what he says he can get his trucks in to do, then that's what Okay. All right. I think we have our marching orders. All right. Item four, Spanish Villa Mil Valley.

Yeah. Your seat says a handout um double-sided for both work session items here. Uh the first one is for Spanish Villa Mil Valley, which is uh south of Mil Street, west of Lacy, and north of Sunrise. Um so, the city acquired this property about five years ago. um and the storm water detention um on kind of the west half of that has been completed. Uh so this is something we've been working on for several years and we're now at the point where we can go ahead and vacate the undeveloped portion of the Spanish subdivision there that's outlined in orange on the aerial and then replplat that into two tracks. uh the west track, track tract A will remain uh the city uh the city's property for a drainage easement over the existing storm water detention area and then tract B is a piece of property that we would eventually put an RFP out for single family home development. Um utilities have already been contacted for this and we've made a few revisions to the plat. Uh several utilities have been utilizing the easement um at the back of the lots along Lacy and along Sunrise. So, we've accommodated those. Um, and this is scheduled to come before planning commission in June.

Any questions? Go ahead. There's a creek there right now on track A. Is that correct? There's a creek. I think it's all drainage ditch. That's where the detention basin is. Yeah. So the

So when you say detention basin, that's I guess because I guess where my question's going is tract A has quite the funky um shape, right? And so I'm trying to understand like is that all like with the rain that we just had and the flooding we just had all AC, you know, all across the whole region, is that the area we typically would see that would get wet with a huge storm like that? So the area you're talking about because I know A and B. So I assume that's the western tract. Track A is west. Yes. Track A is west.

So that all the area that's in that the the reason it's in that weird shape is because that's where the flood plane exists at it because you know this is a 2D view, but in reality it's it's it's a 3D hill. And so everything that's in the flood plane area remains and that's in that flood uh flood that that dam holds up. That's what that area is. You can't build a house in that.

Okay, that's what I needed to understand because it's just a, you know, it's a weird shape and it it's going to it's going to likely hinder what we can get from an RFP, I assume, but it's obviously still needs to be done. I'm not suggesting that, you know, we ignore flooding, um, but just thinking ahead. Anybody else? You said the magic word, single family housing. I'm for it. Everybody okay with this? All right. Item five, the plateau.

All right. And then on the back side is the plateau, which um started development back in 2003 um and then completed the first phase of about 50 homes and then has been for sale for a number of years. Uh it's finally under contract and a developer submitted um a revised preliminary plat for the remaining phases of the development. Previously this was going to be a fivephase subdivision. They've condensed that down into two. Um 180 single family lots, 101 phases, 101 lots in the first phase and then 79 in the phase three which will be the second phase for the revision. Um they're they are adding amenities um into their into the project in phase two which would include a sports court and a playground. And then they will also be adding trail connections to a new city trail that's adjacent to the creek there at the northeast corner of the property. Uh that trail has been in our long range trail plan for about 20 years and eventually that trail will connect up to Cleveland Lake and um the Dryen Nature Reserve. um no modifications to lot sizes. So it it's not going to go through any kind of reszoning or PUD process. There are a couple of minor things that they're requesting with the um preliminary plat revision which includes reducing the front setback from 30 ft to 25 ft along the culde-sacs and then an increase in the building coverage from 25 to 40%. Um and the reason for that is they have a few larger home footprints that they would like to use. Um, and just for reference on the minimum 8,400 foot lot, that's a 3,300 square foot footprint. So, they are looking to build larger homes here. Um, they are not joining in with the plateau HOA. Uh, that was um basically the the HOA is now controlled by the residents as opposed to the developer.

Um, so this new FA these new phases will be under a new HOA and they're going to revise the subdivision name with the final plat um just to avoid that confusion. Um, so this comes before planning commission next week and then we anticipate having a final plat that would come before council um sometime later this year and hopefully home construction will start next year.

I have I just have one quick question. Go ahead. I'm getting a lot of all of a sudden a lot of people really fussing about the playground that's on Sycamore that has two swings and a slide and it's considered the a playground and are we holding them to a higher standard of more than two swings and a slide? Yeah, our goal with um any single family project going forward is that it has to be a commercial grade.

Well, these are commercial grade, but they're a two swings. So yeah, there's not necessarily a minimum design standard unfortunately in the current code for those, but we can work with the developer on bringing forward a playground that fits um the needs for 180 homes. Okay. Could is that something we should consider putting in codes? Those are things that we are looking at with the development code update is having a little bit more specific requirements on amenities. Okay, go ahead. It all sounds really good. Can we get them to also do Timber Creek and finish that area?

Um, so we have talked to any developer that's looked at the plateau. We've also provided them with the contact information for Timber Creek. Um, I would imagine that if this is successful for them that they will um be interested in that as well. Um, that's a nice if you know that's a nice area and it sounds like that they want to do is well like Mr. Brian just said the uh single family homes he kind of got us sold. Yeah. I uh have concerns with the HOA being separate. So we met with both the developer and the current HOA and the HOA was not interested in the current one.

Yeah. So the both both develop the the developer and the HOA had a few different conversations and could not come to an agreement on joining together. I just think that's going to be a problem in the future. So anybody else? No, we got one. Yeah. Done. Go. Motion to adjurnn. Second. A motion is second to adjurnn. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call, please. Or what? All in favor? I. All the opposed. We stand a journ.