City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening everyone. Right, it is Monday, May 18th, 2026. Going to call to order our 6 PM Cwell city council meeting. We just had a workshop with the fire department before this. for those that are just uh getting into the meeting tonight. Um first on the agenda is going to be the invocation which tonight will be offered by Sherry. Help me pronounce the last name. I don't want to. Sherban.

Sherban. Okay. Thank you. Um the pastor of Cobalt Friends Church. Please stand if you're able. Join us in prayer and it'll be followed up by the pledge of allegiance with the flag is to the east side here. Most holy and loving God, we gather tonight with grateful hearts for the abundant blessings you have showered upon us and the city of Caldwell. Thank you for your presence here with us. May we honor you by being attentive to your spirit and how you may be leading in this meeting. Thank you for our civil servants and their hard work and sacrifice. We ask for your wisdom, discernment, and integrity to guide our mayor, city council, and all civic leaders. Grant them the grace to listen well and to give careful consideration to the various concerns and opinions of those who gather here tonight. May they seek to address the challenges of our times with compassion. We pray that you would inspire them with creative ideas and solutions to the problems that come with growth and wisdom regarding new technologies and their use. May you be present in our upcoming election process and may we value um that process and may you inspire people to vote for the good of our city, state and country. Thank you Lord that you desire justice for all. Let us be attentive to the cries of the poor. Let us share their burdens and come to their aid. I pray that the people of faith in the city would shine brightly and be a positive influence on the city. Help us to be good neighbors. Please watch over and protect our city. May you bless and guard our first responders as they guard and protect us. Thank you for our medical profession, teachers, and businesses, places of worship, and all those who are working together to make this city a great place to call home. Unite us in our efforts to build a safer, thriving, and more prosperous community for all. May your face shine upon this city and be gracious to us and bring us peace. In

the name of our savior Jesus, we pray. Amen.

America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you pastor for that. We always appreciate our volunteers that come in each and every council meeting to offer the invitation. So now we're going to go to the next item on the agenda which is roll call. Madame clerk, would you please call the role? Councelor Tilmont here. Stoic here. Register here. Williams here. All good here. Denber here.

All right. Thank you for that. All counselors are present. For those that are here tonight, item agenda number four on new business development agreement mod PUD and preliminary plat for Evier height subdivision. That item has been pulled from on tonight's agenda and a public hearing will be held at the June 15th, 202026 6 p.m. Kell city council meeting. So if you're here for that, just be aware that it has been pulled. Next is the conflict of interest declaration. Are there any members who have a conflict of interest to declare on tonight's agenda? Council,

Mr. Mayor, I have no conflict of interest to declare, but I was chatting with someone when you said which item was pulled from the agenda. Could you repeat that? Uh, yes. Uh agenda item number four on new business development agreement mod PD and preliminary plat for the Avary Heights subdivision was pulled.

Yes. Does that clarify that? All right. Uh just confirm no conflicts. Okay. Seeing none, we'll skip. Um, we were going to have a deerflat national wildlife refuge representatives come and speak tonight, but they called out sick. So, um, we are not going to have that tonight. So, we'll apologize for that and reschedule. Next on the agenda is an update from Director Scott Swanson from the Kobell airport. He's our director of aviation.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. council. Uh, I'm going to hand out an information sheet first and then I'll talk. All right, as previously previously stated, uh I'm Scott Swanson, director of aviation for the city of Caldwell. Um this is just going to be a short update to begin this meeting and focused on four areas to talk about here I think that are the biggest projects going on in the airport. up first uh just kind of give an update on Silverhawk Aviation and their progress with the farmhouse redevelopment. Um right now they're at phase one which is the hangar and offices. They plan on being done by mid August and then along with that there'll be public bathrooms available for use by the end of August is what is anticipated right now in the main hanger building. phase two, which is Silverhawk's uh amenities and restaurant. Right now, they have drawings completed uh going through engineering and architecture with BRS. And right now, uh they're anticipating as long as the permitting process goes smooth, uh they'll start breaking ground and beginning that development as early as September this year. Uh next up, uh big electrical project for the old 200 hangers on the airport and a little bit of the 300s. Uh we do know uh the initial estimated cost to bring power in from outside the airport to the airport with ingground transformers was estimated $80,000 by Idaho Power. We ended up paying $44,794

because some of that work was taken up by the Caldwell Electrical Department. And then we also received a refund check check back from Idaho Power of $5,600 um just due to the budgeting and how that all that worked out. So that refund went right back into the system. Um so it can be used against an expense. Now it's not uh applied like revenue. Um, so in total right now we've spent $39,186 and that has gotten the power from outside to inside where it needs to go, plus all the transformer boxes and a Jbox set up already on near the 300 hangers to run that project once it's set. Uh right now there's a joint planning that consists of some city staff, mainly the electrical department, a little bit of myself and airport board members that are currently working on a council proposal to address how the system itself will be fixed and anticipated cost estimates and to include a scope of work to the best of our ability. Once this proposal is complete and accepted by those generating it, the anticipated plan is to set up a council workshop to discuss that plan in detail. Uh I would say probably 30 to 45 minutes at a minimum on that. And then once there is concurrent agreement from council within that workshop, it'll come back to council as an agenda item to start moving forward on correcting those power issues for the tower. And I apologize here. I'm going to read this perbatim. So, the tower, they did award the grant contracts under the AIA program for the federal contract control tower. Uh bottom line up front is we got awarded $2 million that do not require a match to it, but that is anticipated to go through uh engineering and architectural

design to create the blueprints and everything else. Uh so the ongoing uh control tower project multi-stage multi-year project. So to date we've completed the planning the sitting study and environmental clearance. Next step is design the control tower and create a set of construction plans bidding documents and technical specifications. The airport received that grant of $2 million. The grant would cover 100% of the cost and there would be no required matching funds from the city on the design and engineering for the tower. Um with that the city will need to go through a qualificationsbased selection process to to choose an architectural firm to complete this work. Once we've selected a firm we will negotiate a scope of work and fees. The design process is expected to take 12 to 18 months. The airport will continue to pursue funding for the construction of the tower itself and construct construction is still estimated at that 20 to $25 million. So next year once the FA does a reauthorization act if need be if they have to run that we're going to look at what programs are coming out and what extra money is available. Uh below that statement, um I sent the FAA back this morning already a list of questions or whether or not we have to use the federal design for the contract tower, if that's still available, or if we're free to go out and find our own design. That would be less money ideally. Um also asked if we're mandated um any specific items within engineering and what that looks like. Will there be a pre-approval to work beyond the standard 36-month federal project completion requirement? So, normally on federal grant projects, once initiation of any part of that project begins, they expect a completed project within 36 months. And I foresee this going beyond that

time limit, but hopefully not. Um, and also of note, so the infrastructure and jobs act federal contract tower program started in 2022. That completed itself this year, uh, FY26 at the end of September. That program will be gone. So, we're still kind of hunting for answers on what programs coming next to put money into infrastructure for non-commercial airports and available out like that. Um, and like I said, so anticip the anticipation right now is to put an RFQ package together to identify best qualified firm to design a tower scope of work establishment and an RFP bid process. And this will all be in conjunction with Jub Engineering uh to get that done and expecting to try to enter a contract by midepptember for tower design. And then my last update is uh working with uh economic development and our fantastic new director Dan Torres. Uh we are working on concept discussions on what potential future potentially to fund future projects outside of FA grant eligible projects in the vicinity of the airport. So we're just kind of looking at all options that are out there to see what monies are available or not available and what that looks like. And that is my update, sir. Thank you for that, Director Swanson. Um, council, any questions?

Sorry, Councelor Stoic. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, Scott, on the electrical, uh, did, uh, did has the board seen this at all? So, uh, I emailed back and forth today with Mr. Ner and Mr. Cordell. um the actual board as a whole has not seen this and that was the next step in this process before a council workshop. Yeah, because I had I think a preliminary report on the electoral part of it. It had good detail in but it was it was a short one which was great for us but uh great detail. So have they seen that one yet or

uh yes they have seen that. I know Mr. Ner has been working diligently on putting a bunch of information together. There's a lot of information, so we're trying to condense it in the best way that makes sense and be able to present it so that the council can make an informed decision on what we're doing moving forward. Okay. I thought he did a great job. I don't want to give him a big head out there, but I thought he did a great job and the cost and it got right to the point. So, anyway, thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you, Councelor Stodd. Councelor Tilmont.

Um, Scott, just a real quick question. um you're going to be asking for a pre-approval to work beyond the standard 36 months. Now, if it's not granted and we're not, are we on the hook for the 2 million for the design project grant that I couldn't give you a straight answer on that time? I I need to ask more questions to the FA and get responses before I could answer that. Okay. So, we haven't actually pulled this grant yet.

We have not. We have been provided the opportunity to accept the grant. I am once I receive answers and really hammer that out, I have not seen an approval of to go beyond 36 months on a project, usually not expected, but if they anticipate more money being available within the next 36 months of this project, I would recommend that the city move forward based on FAA guidance of having money available to finish a tower. U but we'll just have to see what they tell us. Okay. Thank you. We'll get an answer back to council as soon as we can on that. Anyone else? All right. Thank you. Yes, sir.

Dr. Swanson. All right. With that, next on the agenda is audience participation. Each person can speak. council for up to three minutes. And just to clarify, this section agenda is reserved for citizens wishing to address the council regarding city related issues that are not on tonight's agenda. Persons wishing to speak will have three minutes. There's a clock right here. Comments related pending public hearings, including decisions that may be applied to city council, are out of order and should be held for public hearing. Repeated comments regarding the same or similar topics previously addressed are also out of order and will not be allowed. Comments regarding performance by city employees are inappropriate at this time should be direct to the mayor. Um and I can take those comments offline either by subsequent appointment or after tonight's meeting if time permits. In order to ensure adequate public notice out of law provides any item other than emergencies council action must be placed on the agenda of an upcoming council meeting. As such, city council can't take action on items raised during citizens issues at the same meeting, but may request additional information or that item be placed on a future cobble city council agenda. So with that, going to start with Miss Alman clarification. How do I just start address you? Can somebody guide me along?

Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry. You can go ahead and start.

Okay. So, just want to read the statement. Over the past several weeks, public discourse in Caldwell has deteriorated at an alarming rate. Social media platforms and public conversations have become saturated with hostility, intimidation, personal attacks, and inflammatory rhetoric. Even more disturbing is that some of this conduct has been modeled, enabled, and ignored by individuals in positions of public authority. As somebody who has a lifelong disability that isn't visible to the naked eye and who suffered decades of bullying, ridical exclusion, and being misunderstood, standing up against bullies is not something simply a reaction to my own experience. It's deeply personal commitment. I know firsthand how damaging cruelty can be when it's disinished as joking, ignored by band bystanders, or normalized over time. Because of that, I refuse to stay silent when I see people, including myself, being targeted, mocked, manipulated, and dehumanized. Standing up against bullies means defending the basic humanity of the people who are often too ignored, disinished, or treated as expendable. It means speaking truth even when is uncomfortable, and refusing to reward cruelty with silence. I am profoundly disturbed by the behavior and actions I have personally experienced while attempting to correct and defend myself. At no point during the previous city council meeting did I flip anyone off in attendance as confirmed by everyone sitting next to me and the city's own armed security guard. Spend 10 minutes with me. I'm not shy. If I was ever going to flip somebody off, I would certainly be an adult enough to own it. I attend city council meetings like numerous others who sit in this room who care about the issues being discussed. And yes, I do not always agree with the decisions being made, just like I didn't agree with the previous decisions made by the previous mayor and council. So that means my livelihood, my place of employment, and the numerous volunteer board positions I

hold deserve to be threatened or boycotted. Funny, what was good for the goose clearly isn't good for the gander. Now, secondly, a social media post in which I refused the standard term law enforcement and did not call out any particular law enforce agency, let alone CPD, caused such a quote concern that on Wednesday 56 at 8:30, I was not only called, but I was emailed by the HR director, somebody who I've never had, nor would I ever have business contact with. Both voicemail and email came with demanding instructions to return the call immediately. as I a non employee of the city might have firsthand knowledge of a CP CPD officer or leader possibly in mental health crisis. How would a private citizen not employed by the city or the police department have any firsthand knowledge of a CPD officer or leader possibly being suici suicidal? I am still dumbfounded to this day that anyone employed by the city or with any level of common sense would think a lowly citizen such as myself would have any firsthand knowledge. Not sure how it makes any sense if the quote mayor is so concerned with a CPD officer or leader being possibly suicidal.

I don't think he booked the villa to waste valuable life or death time calling private citizens. Unless, of course, this is yet another example like the leak voicemail we have all heard over a certain chief. I'll stop because that's past my point. Thank you for that. Next up is Mr. Decker.

Thank you, sir.

All right. My name is George Decker. Uh Mr. Mayor Council, uh, I just come real quick, uh, I want to say first and foremost, thank you for resurfacing Kimble. It looks beautiful. It's going to get painted tonight. Uh, this past weekend when it was all torn up, we had three to five different customers come in and ask about access to the sidewalk, a curb dip. So, I spent this morning uh on on ADA compliance websites looking to see if there's a maximum minimum. There is no stated minimum distance for a curb access from a handicap parking spot. The reason I bring this up is because from in front of our store, we've got a handicap parking spot, which is wonderful. There's also one down on the corner of Kimble and Maine, which is also wonderful. However, to get onto the curb from in front of our store, you have to go 50 ft to one side where it actually the sidewalk sort of gets out into the street a bit or it's 100 feet down to the corner of Kimble and Maine where they can hop on to the sidewalk from there. We have two of our usual customers at at our bookstore who are in wheelchairs and they're always saying that it's they have to go park somewhere else to get onto the sidewalk. They can't you utilize that particular parking spot. I just was wondering um I said I did send off an email this afternoon to engineering. Uh I don't know if that was the right spot to send it to. It could have been street. It could have been I don't know. Um, I hadn't heard back by by now. Um, but uh that was it. That was that was my only question and I thank you.

Uh, thank you for that. We'll follow up. Um, just make sure that we look into that and see what we need to do. All right, Mr. Winters. Hello. Do you need some help?

Hello, mayor and council members. Um, I'm here today is with a irrigation problem on the other side of the railroad tracks. It's I haven't had water for two years. from the other across the street to the freeway. They haven't watered for six years. Um, one of us paying for the irrigation and we don't get it. I've already have a half dead yard and I've had to put a new pump in because of the wire going down and then I have to go out and reprime it and one it's not very easy for me to do that to and everything and um it's just irritating of everything going on of the pioneer Golden Gate of the they're running out of money every year and they just shut the line down and we can't. And so my deal is just we get this issue resolved over on the other side of track.

Any questions from council on that? I have. Is is this Golden Gate then? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So, I've missed the last couple of meetings because I've been gone, but I've been going to those meetings and they said that they were planning on having the bigger repairs done so that the water would be on in the spring and it's not on yet.

I Yeah, it's not on. I've been last week, last Tuesday, I got hit um ran across the the irrigation maintenance guy and he said they've already I guess they understand they fixed one issue on Chicago and then they went over here on Fourth Street of fixing another line and they already spent $8,000 and they ran out of the money and so since he told me they ran out of the money and they're shutting the system down for this year is what I got told. So obviously, you know, the city doesn't have any control over it, but I've been trying to go to the meetings to kind of bridge the gap or

I've been fighting this for some time and the I've been coming here to water, city water, and the issue is because they are a separate um irrigation deal. There's no they have no leeway or any say of anything that they will do or anything to fix our problem. It's their problem and they have to fix it. and they are shut down or issues of complaints and that so much that the they shut their phone off. You can't even call and talk to them. You I mean you can't get a hold of them. You can't do anything with them. So, I'm going to find out when the next meeting is and then I'll make sure I can get to that one and find out what's going on. Attend that one.

Yeah. And see if I don't know. I mean, we bring suggestions back to the city and then there's only so much the city can do like legally. So, we'll just let me go back and see what's really going on and then I don't know if the city can help or not, but we can certainly give it a shot. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. We definitely empathize. Obviously, is an ongoing situation. It's just, you know, with the different municipal powers, irrigation district, we don't have authority over unless it's our own. But, um, we'll definitely follow up and then see what that looks like because we do empathize with your situation and that whole district. So, thank you for that. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next up, Miss Kushlan. Sue Kushlon, 121 South Louisiana, Caldwell. Um, to start it off, according to realer.com, there are currently 93 homes for sale in Caldwell. That does include existing homes, new homes, and I didn't go to Red Fin or Zillow to see what their number was. That was the only one I went to. But mayor and council, so here I I go again trying to think out of the box. I'm good at that. With over 10,000 doors approved to be built, and who knows how many are in progress, once again, it's time to figure out how new builds pay for themselves. With the increased stress on city services like water and sewer, with the sewer capacity possibly being compromised and needing upgrading, uh two new wells having to be drilled on the south side, um uh and the improvements needed to those facilities, I think it's time the new builds pay for themselves. Meaning, for example, water and sewer rates for water zones three and four should be higher for than those of us that live in older neighborhoods like zones one and two. The older established neighborhoods 25 years and older are not causing the need for increasing the capacity of those entities. The new builds are. So, as I see it, they should pay an increased rate um for water and sewer to cover the cost, perhaps for a set period of 10 years, maybe. This should be fairly easy this day and age with the with computers. And uh the rates do not need approval of

the developer because they're city rates. They're not developer rates. Um, and I've heard for a few years now at council meetings, we need to figure out how new builds pay for new builds, how they pay for themselves. This might be a way to do it. That's all. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you, Miss Kra.

Good evening, Jean Credbring. I did a public records request on March 10th. The finance director wrote to all counselors and the mayor stating, quote, "For FY2026, I am projecting a $1.2 million reduction in revenue. There are several actions we can consider helping offset this reduction." End quote. One counselor's response was quote, "I would suggest putting a spending hold on what you can until we can decide the best course of action." End quote. The mayor sent an email to all stating, quote, I'm good with placing a non-essential hold on spending. We've already significantly scaled back the freefor-all travel allowance for outofstate travel that was in place before. I have scaled that back to more than no more than three for all city employees to include appointed officials. I can scale back that back further if council wishes. I am no longer approving more than three outofstate travels for anyone. We are reworking our travel policy to remove paying for any travel that doesn't directly benefit the employee, department, city, and the community. if it doesn't meet the criteria, it won't be approved. We've also scaled back the take-home vehicle distance to 15 miles." End quote. Later that night, the mayor wrote to department heads, the finance director, and council. Quote, "Current projections also suggest that fiscal year 2027 could see a shortfall approaching $1.5 million." End quote. Further, furthermore, he stated, quote, "Effective immediately, please review your fiscal year 2026 budgets and identify any nonessential

expenditures that could be reduced, delayed, or eliminated if necessary." End quote. And he wrote, quote, "As we evaluate potential reductions, we will pri prioritize maintaining currently employed personnel and look first at reducing nonessential expenditures, programs, or discretionary spending. This includes technology contracts, social media verification marks, and any other items we can survive without." End quote. Granted, it's no longer a $1.2 2 million budget budgeted shortfall, but there's still a shortfall. So, my milliondoll question, or actually $40,000 question, why are we proceeding with the quiet zone? Especially given that $500,000 was removed from the streets department. The quiet zone isn't essential and can be delayed or even eliminated, especially in a budget shortfall when funds are limited. Right now, you are sending mixed messages and double standards to the citizens, plus the heavy expense needed to make 21st Avenue safe for traffic. And please don't tell me that the quiet zone is essential for commercial the corridors. I have one sentence.

Just just if you're finish up, please. Yeah, one sentence. The commercial corridors need to be 2026 and Carter Road, not downtown. Thank you.

Questions. Um, thank you. Next up, Miss Layman. Deb Layman about trees. Oh, sorry. Thank you. Very simple. Just the uh road signs when it says dead end and the bushes are covering up the dead in and the culde-sac. Who cuts the trees of the bushes so you can see the sign for the culde-sac? Are you able to advise exactly where or would you mind sending me an email and we can get that figured out?

Yeah, my neighborhood. Yes. They me the spokesman. That's all.

Yeah. If you would like, we can follow up with that just to verify who does what, whether it's right away, city, county, etc. Irrigation district. So, if we can get your email or give her mine and I'll farm that out to the necessary people. trees. All right. Next on the agenda, well, that concludes audience participation. Next on the agenda is approving the consent calendar. These are items that are grouped together for approved to be approved in one motion. Let's say city councelor moves for one or more of the items to be moved from the consent calendar and considered separately. First, are there any motions to amend consent calendar tonight? All right. Seeing none, I would entertain a motion to approve the consent calendar as presented.

Mr. Mayor, council all good. I move to approve the consent calendar as presented. Second.

All right. Motion in a second. Who's consented? Please vote. With that, it's unanimous. I think we need a little countdown song. Um, with that, there's no old business. Now, we're going to move to new business. And that was approval for the consent calendar, by the way. Um and the first item is an action item and is a public hearing on case number ANN25- 00000012 SP25- 00000016. The applicant NV5 on behalf of Endurance Holdings LLC is requesting annexation of a partial with a zoning designation of R2 concurrently. The application is requesting approval of a preliminary plat application for traverse landing subdivision, a single family residential subdivision with six buildable lots and one common lot. The site is located within the neighborhood 2 place type within the future land use map approximately 1.07 acres is the site and is located on the north side of Marble Front approximately 1,040 ft west of the intersection of North K in Cwell Idaho. This is a quas judicial hearing. It is essential to follow the process to ensure that participants are treated fairly and respectfully and helping to inform the decision that is made. First, we're going to hear from the applicant and the representative. We have about 10 minutes. Then staff is going to provide a report on their application following that. Then we're going to move to public s comment for those that have signed up on the sheet, which looks like none. Um, everyone will have three minutes. If there were to be anyone on the signup sheet, comments was real with

the application. And then after public comments, which once again there's none, the applicant would have five minutes for rebuttal. With that, we'll go ahead and hear from the applicant. And we'll have up to 10 minutes. And here's your clock right here. And thank you for being here tonight. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, and members of the council. My name is Bonnie Leightton. I'm at 5561 West East Hudal Drive in Boise, Idaho 83716. I'm here this evening. I'm no longer with NV5, but I'm still representing the project. Um, this is Traverse Landing Subdivision. It's a very small um annexation and preliminary plat uh application that we are requesting your approval with uh approval for tonight. Uh we received unanimous approval at the planning and zoning commission and uh I intend not to take 10 minutes to do this presentation. Not sure it's forwarding here. Oh, there we go. So, just a quick reference of where uh the project is located. You can kind of see the red uh square um towards the top center of this vicinity map. So, um, what I've placed in there is a surrounding project that, uh, was approved by the city a couple of years ago, a larger project called, uh, Traverse Creek. Um, at that time, this, uh, parcel that we're here tonight to discuss was an out parcel. Um, we had planned around it and provided a stub street um, which is typically required. Uh as you can see the location of the site is close to the North Ranch Business Park. Um it's adjacent to Marble Front Road and um there's a lot of growth uh and development going in on

in the area and especially uh also uh a lot of jobs. Let's see. Hopefully. Okay. I'm not sure what's going on here. It's not clicking through properly. Can you somebody

Oh, okay. Um, sorry about that. Um, so as you can see the uh the site plan with the uh red dashed line is actually the parcel. Um, and I'm showing here how it sort of fits into the overall larger project that was previously approved. Um, fairly straightforward. Uh it's a six lot um subdivision that uh works well and ties in with the existing um surrounding plan project. Next slide please. Um so as you can see here uh we've got six lots. Uh we've got a couple of larger lots and then um and then four smaller lots that are consistent in size uh with the lots to the east that are adjacent to Marble Front. Um, next slide, please. So, um, as, um, as I mentioned, this is a request for annexation and zoning to an R2 designation. The project is a total of 1.07 acres, um, which equals 5.61 units per acre. Um on this uh image you can see the the lot sizes which are in compliance with uh the city's uh zoning code for an R2 uh zoning designation. Um because of the lot size the amount of lots we were not required to do a traffic impact study per code. Um and we were also not required to provide um significant open space or any sort of open space. Uh that being said, these lots will fold into the surrounding

development and be part of that homeowners association and uh enjoy the use of the amenities um of the surrounding uh development. Next slide, please. And so just as a refresher again, the the much larger project um was Traverse Creek and we had a phasing plan for that. So I would anticipate that this project would fold into um phase four of that uh of that project in terms of construction. So there's some significant improvements that we are doing to the Traverse uh Creek project and um and again frontage improvements along Marble Front uh will continue from Traverse Creek uh along the southern boundary of this project. Next slide, please. Um the standard uh the two larger lots, the standard single family lots. These are the homes uh very typical of what we would we will be building. Uh next slide please. The narrower lots um have a uh a narrower footprint um less yards uh yard space um on the sides. It's really meant to be a little bit more of a lowmaintenance type of lifestyle um for the homes. And we find that uh residents really like to choose some of them like larger lots and some really like to not have to maintain a whole lot of yard space. Um but overall the the lots again blend into that larger project that was previously approved. Next slide. So with that I'm happy to stand for any questions.

Thank you for that. Um councelor Algood. Yeah Bonnie just real quick. So, this the larger subdivision is already annexed. That is correct. How did we end up with this one parcel that wasn't included?

Uh, Mr. Mayor, Councilman, all good. That's uh that happens at times. You know, a property owner isn't willing to sell at a certain point. Um, and for whatever reason, their timing changes. Um, I've seen it happen time and again where somebody's decided that they are finally ready to move someplace else. Um, or their life circumstances change. And so, yeah, we um the rest of it was annexed. Um, it was under a different ownership and this parcel uh was not part of the original purchase, but was sold to this developer. Yeah, it's just weird to have that one little outpiece that that's not connected to the rest of it.

Yep. Um and I think your staff does a great job of making sure, you know, we had to provide a sub street for that. Um because eventually we know that uh parcels all all over the community. Um you'll see sub stub streets to adjacent parcels. So we did that here. We met with staff um once we were able to u uh obtain this piece of property and and then worked with staff to to make sure that we were in compliance with um city code. Yep. Thank you. Yes.

Thank you, councelor. All good. Anything else from council? All right. Next up, we'll hear the staff report.

Thank you. Thank you, mayor and councel. Katie Wright, senior planner, 205 South 6th Avenue. Uh this is Traverse Landing Leight and Planning and Consulting LLC on behalf of Endurance Holdings LLC is requesting annexation of parcel R3523601 with zoning designation of R2 and approval for a preliminary plat application for traverse landing subdivision, a single family residential subdivision with six buildable lots and one common lot. I think I figured it out. It was off. Uh the subject parcel is 1.08 acre parcel located approximately 1500 ft east of uh Sme Parkway on the north side of Marble Front Road. The parcel is currently located within the county and within the city's impact area. The parcel is contiguous to Caldwell city limits. Therefore, an annexation request by the property was permissible. Uh, the parcel is 5 acres or less. It is located in a predominantly built out and largely developed area in which municipal services are already available and therefore is classified as infill development. The applicant is proposing single family residential detached homes which conforms with the purpose statement as specified within the Caldwell city code for R2 community residential zone which states that R2 zone accommodates single family residential. The proposed density is 5.61 dwelling units per acre is compliant with city code which requires a minimum of two dwelling units per acre and a maximum density of eight dwelling units per acre. The subject parcel is currently occupied by a vacant single family home. The

property is surrounded on three sides by the previously approved Traverse Landing sub or creek subdivision, I apologize, and Topaz Ranch subdivision to the south. The subject parcel is located in the neighborhood 2 place type within the comp plan. The neighborhood 2 is the primary residential place type in Caldwell. This encompasses residential areas that provide an array of low and mid-density housing options. These neighborhoods are located outside of most commercial centers but should still be well connected to nearby services. The design and character of the proposed development is compatible with the surrounding area and that is called out in the comp plan. and the requested R2 zone is compatible zoning district within the neighborhood two place type. The preliminary plat request is for six buildable lots accommodating six single family detached homes in one common lot. The applicant isn't proposing um enough lots to require open space as the applicant mentioned. Uh this development is proposing to be part of Traverse Creek uh a planned unit development that was approved in 2024 consisting of 265 single family detach lots and 14 town homes shown in the lower left of the screen. If approved, Traverse Creek would be with or Traverse Landing would be within the Traverse Creek HOA allowing them to utilize the neighboring open space and amenities within Traverse Creek. The development will take access through uh the Traverse Creek development and none of these lots will have direct access onto Marblefront. Due to the size and scope of the development, a traffic impact study was not required. Since this was an out parcel of Traverse Creek when it was approved, the applicant has me uh has mentioned the frontage improvements for the development will be constructed with phase one of Traverse Landing. um traverse landing uh or traverse creek phase one is actually the phase that was approved around this out parcel. Just to clarify um those construction drawings

and that final plat have been approved. Um and at this point in time again those construction drawings for phase one have been approved and based on previous um conversations the applicant is willing to do the frontage improvements with phase one. Um if you have any questions about that I'm sure the applicant would be able to answer that. Uh staff has reviewed this development for compliance with all site and development standards and has found the proposed development is compliant with the standards that apply and all utilities are available or will be made available to serve the proposed single family development. Political subdivisions including school districts were notified and provided opportunity to comment. Valley View School District submitted a memo mentioning this would provide added pressure to Skyway Elementary but that it's not currently at capacity. No additional information was included about the middle school or the high school and public notices were sent to all property owners within 500 foot radius of the property and staff received no public comments at this time. On April 8th, the planning and zoning commission recommended approval of the requested applications and staff's initial review found that the proposed project is in conformance with all applicable city codes, approval criteria per city code and Idaho code, the adopted comp plan and future land use map, and all other applicable city adopted master plans. and city council has the authority to approve or deny applications based on the approval criteria within Caldwell City Code once they've reviewed the record and evidence and heard all public testimony. And I stand for questions. Thank you.

Uh thank you for that from our staff council. Quick question, Mr. Uh council. Yeah, Katie, since this is going to be molded into the larger traverse, I can't it's been so long ago. Did the larger traverse have any variances or circumstances that would need to be included in this particular development?

Thank you, mayor and council are all good. Um, so the original did come through as a planned unit development and with that they did request some reduced lot sizes. Um, they were within the R1 zone, I believe. Uh, and so those wouldn't none of those variances would have to translate over to this. They're fully meeting the code for lot sizes and all of those things. Um, it just happens to be compatible with what they were approved for before. Thank you. Yes. Thank you, councelor. Al good. Anything else from council? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for the staff report.

Um, now we're going to open up public hearing. There's no one to testify, so I'm going to go ahead and close it. Um, I don't Do we need a rebuttal at all? I think we're good on that. All right, we're going to move on. Um,

what's that?

And does staff have any recommendations? Can those recommendations be for the order of motions? And what motions need to be made? Correction. I'm going to go back to questions for the applicant. I was going to say I believe we closed it. Correct. You'd have to open back up the the public hearing to do that. Is that correct, Legal?

Uh, Mr. Mayor, I I don't believe I I know that you said the public hearing was closed. I think you meant that for public comment. Yeah, sorry. Comments. Correct. I'm not aware of the public hearing actually being closed. So, if there's questions for the applicant, public comments are closed. Just to correct the record on that. I have a question for the applicant. Can the applicant please come up again for the record? Bonnie Leaden with the development. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Counselor Register.

Um, thank you. So, I know there's nobody here to speak tonight, but I did notice you had a neighborhood meeting um and there were a few people there. What kind of feedback did you get? Uh Mr. Mayor, counselor register, they were actually more curious about the timing of starting of construction of the larger project. Um so, this was uh there there was wasn't really any comments uh about this project. Um it was just more about timing of when we were going to be under construction for the larger tra Traverse Creek. Um you know they were happy to see that we were going to be doing the entire frontage improvement of both projects along Marble Front. Um but it was it was a pretty uh pretty short meeting from my recollection. Um and again it was more just discussion on on the larger project in general. So, I was looking at the planning and zoning notes, too. It looks like there were six or seven people there that signed up in opposition for unless I'm looking at an old one. But this was on April 8th or maybe hold on, let me make sure I'm on the right the right one. Actually, that may be the wrong notes. So, you did okay. So there was no push back from the residents is what I'm asking at the neighborhood meeting or anything like that.

That is correct. Okay. It was just moreformational. Um you know they were you know sometimes they get questions are there going to be apartments there? It typically is kind of a big question. I said no it's going to be single family detached homes. Um you know but I get that question a lot sometimes. Um okay. I I just wanted to make sure that there wasn't any um additional comments we were missing. Thank you. No, and I don't I don't recall anybody testifying at the planning and zoning. I was I think I was looking at the wrong one on the notes as I was sort of skimming through here. So, yep. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you, Council President Reeser. Councelor Denver.

I think this is a pretty straightforward project and I'm ready to to to go straight forward. Um, but I do have some questions about procedure when we get to that point after the testimony has been closed. Yes, councelor Tilmont. Um, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just a question for staff. The lot to the west that they're stubbing out to that traverse Creek is actually stubbing out to, that's not going to have frontage done, right? So, there's still going to be a short section on marble that has no frontage. Correct, Mayor and Councelor Tilman. Um, are you referring to the one west of even this property?

Correct. There is going to be that short chunk, right? Yeah, we do not have an application for that for that property. I just wanted to make sure we weren't having them extend it beyond that. To my knowledge, maybe engineering knows different, but no. Thank you, councelor Tilmont. Anything else from council? Now we're going to close the hearing. Mr. Mayor, if I may, I just want to say thank you again for your time this evening. Staff is always very helpful and professional to work with. Um we are in agreement with the staff report and the conditions of approval and um we respectfully request your approval of our project this evening.

Thank you for that and we appreciate you've always been very respectful when you come here and very informative. Y thank you. All right. Um, no more council comments to any planning staff recommendations for the order of the motions and what motions need to be made and is that your assistance you requested councelor Denber? Yes. So before I I move forward and I think you know where we're going. This number one has three different parts to it. Is that correct? That is correct.

Okay. I just wanted to make sure. So, uh, based upon the Caldwell City Code, the comprehensive plan, and upon the testimony given, evidence in record and the facts presented, I move that the annexation be approved subject to the condition as presented or modified and subject to the approval of the proposed zoning designation. All right, we have a motion. Do we have a second? Second.

All right, motion second. With that, Let's go and vote. Sorry. Any discussion on that motion before we move on to the vote? See none. Madam cler. All right. That is unanimous. Now I'll entertain a motion for the preliminary plat.

Mr. Mayor, I'll just continue on with the process. Uh so uh this is the zoning map amendment. So based upon Cell City Code, the comprehensive plan upon the testimony and evidence and record, the facts presented and the applicability of code approval criteria, I move that the proposed zoning are to be approved subject to the conditions as presented. Thank you for that motion. Do we have a second?

Motion in a second. Any discussion? With that, Madam Clerk. All right, that carries unanimous. Moving on to the It'll be the third item. Third item. Yes. Sorry. All right, we're going to move on. Third item, councelor Denver.

So, just for the record, this is the subdivision preliminary plat approval. So, based upon the Cwell city code, the comprehensive plan, upon the testimony and evidence in record, the facts presented, and the applicability of code approval criteria, I move that the preliminary plat request be approved subject to the conditions as presented.

Motion in a second. Any discussion? That third item. All right, madame clerk. All right, with that it is unanimous. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is an action item. Public hearing for case number DV26-00002. Mr. Mayor, we need the ordinance for the annexation. Sorry, we'll move on.

There's a missing item in here. Apologize for that. All right. Do I have a motion for the ordinance? Councelor Williams, I move to sponsor bill number 7. Four, ordinance number 3726 associated with ANN 2512 request to move for its passage by title only and approve the summary for publication.

All right. Thank you. I have a motion to second on bill number 74, ordinance 3726. Madame clerk. All right, that is unanimous. And now we're going to move on to the next item officially. The next item on the agenda is an action item. Public hearing for case number DEV26-0000002. Applicant K&M Engineering LLP on behalf of 3,300 Ustick LLC is requesting approval of a development agreement modification for the existing Solstice subdivision development agreement recorded by instrument number 2022-026412. The applicant requests lot 2 block one of the Solstice subdivision be allowed the following uses. Single family dwelling detached. Single family dwelling attached. Tuplex dwelling triplex dwelling. Forplex dwelling and multifamily apartments, smallcale residential uses will be limited to no more than 50% of the total land use. Law two, block one, the partial is zone C1, neighborhood commercial. Thank you. And resident residential uses are currently prohibited in that zone. That the 39 acre site is located on the south side of Eastk Road, approximately 1,000 ft of the west side of uh the intersection with Lake Avenue. All right, just reminder this public hearing. Uh we're here from the applicant representative. We'll have up to 10 minutes to speak like to come forward. Okay. Uh my name is Stephanie Hopkins. I work with KM Engineering and I am

pleased to be here this evening representing the property owner 3300 UTIC LLC on this request. So, um we are requesting a development agreement for Solstice Subdivision and I will uh provide you I'm sure you're all familiar with where it is, but this is located south of Ustick between Florida and Lake Avenue. It's east of a church. It's south of Silver Meadow subdivision which is a mix of single family town homes and multifamily just north of Eustic um and west of another church Centennial serve church and school and then um there are existing roundabouts and improvements that are made on Ustic and Lake. This is the zoning map. Uh the property is currently zoned C1 and R2. Our development agreement uh modification request is going to pertain just to the C1 district which is the neighborhood commercial district. Uh we're proposing a modification to the development agreement to broaden the uses that are allowed within the development agreement. We're not requesting to reszone or change anything that's already been permitted as part of the plan unit development plat or the development agreement that was approved for solstice subdivision. There are adjacent commercial and residential districts in the area. Several properties are currently in the county. Those are ones that are not in color on your screen and those are currently being used as commercial or could develop into commercial properties in the future. So the uh Solstice subdivision was approved in 2022 with an annexation uh and development agreement. It was zoned into the C1 and R2 districts. There's a preliminary plat and a planned unit development along with that approval. The Solstice subdivision was platted in 2025. infrastructure improvements have been completed and homes are currently being constructed. Uh our request is specific to lot 2, block one. This is outlined in red on the screen. It's a little bit under a half an acre of land located at the northwest corner of the subdivision

adjacent to Ustic Road. It's currently zone C1 and we're requesting uh to modify the development agreement because currently that agreement prohibits residential uses on this lot. Um, we are requesting to add this language to the development agreement. So, we'd like to amend the development agreement to allow residential uses uh in conjunction with commercial that could develop to the north of what's shown here on a conceptual site plan on the south side. So, this is a conceptual site plan. We don't have anything proposed at this time, but this is just kind of showing you how it could eventually develop. So, commercial uses, it'd probably be around 3,000 square feet. Here it shows a division of three units. So those would be about a thousand units per uh per commercial space and um there's a parking lot that would serve both commercial uses and the the um residential uses that are shown on the southeast part of this. All access would be via Solstice Avenue which is uh via Ustick. No direct access would be permitted to the commercial directly to Eustic. We're proposing to add this verbiage to allow for single family detach, single family town home, two family or duplex dwellings, multifamily which would include threelex, forplex, and then uh multifamily smallcale apartments. And again, this is just to broaden the possibilities. So our uh the owner doesn't have anything planned specific for this area, but they have been marketing this property for commercial uses for about a year and they haven't gotten a whole lot of interest. So, they're hoping to broaden that to um to hopefully develop further into the site where it's not optimal commercial property. So, let's see. Um they have committed to limiting the amount of commercial or the amount of residential to the amount of commercial that's provided. So, it' be one to one ratio. So, if there's 3,000 square feet of commercial space

presented in the future to staff, um there would be 3,000 uh square feet of residential space. There is an overflow parking lot that was required as part of the plan unit development that exists just to the south of where this commercial lot is currently shown. So, this is an original uh plan that was included with the plan unit development that shows the commercial lot. So, this is the one that we're proposing to modify the development agreement for. And then there's an over overflow parking lot that is just to the south that could accommodate uh town home units as well as commercial uses. And then as you can see in this site plan, there would be um plenty of extra parking for commercial and residential uses as well. So I think the the important things to remember with this request are that we are preserving commercial along UTIC, which is really where commercial tenants will want to be. This is where they're most visible. this is where um they'll be most successful. Uh it's challenging when you don't have access directly to a main road. It's less likely that people will access via solstice to go to a a use or maybe even be able to see a use that's further down into the site. So, um that's, you know, that's a really important thing to consider with this. Uh the current zoning code does allow for a mixture of commercial and residential uses within this land use designation, uh which is the community center designation. And um our residential uses would not exceed six units. And um if we were to add three units to this, it would keep us at we'd be at 4.19 units per acre, which is well below the the maximum density allowance in the R2 district. Uh and as mentioned, we don't have anything specific planned at this time. This is really just to provide some flexibility for the developer as they're trying to um fully develop out the project in the development. So, um I appreciate your consideration on this request. I u can stand for questions and

uh thank you for that. Any questions from councel?

All right, seeing none. Thank you. Next will be our staff report.

Thank you. Thank you, mayor and council. Katy Wright, senior planner, 205 South 6th Avenue. This is Solstice development agreement modification. KM Engineering submitted an application on behalf of 33000 UTIC LLC for a development agreement modification of Solstice PUD subdivision uh DA2208 to modify the land use schedule uh for parcel R24957101 to allow specific residential uses within the C1 zone. The site is point4 acres and is located on the southwest uh corner of Eustic Road and Solstice Avenue within the Solstice subdivision. The parcels commercially zoned u parcel within the Solstice subdivision, the applicant is proposing a development agreement modification that allows specific residential uses. Um just on this parcel within the current code, residential uses are prohibited within the C1 zone. The parcel is located along a key corridor overlay. The purpose of this overlay is to connect people and help them move through the city, but also serve as a distinct place that is high-profile. They utilize streetscape elements with distinct landscaping signage or similar placemaking elements to create a sense of place as one moves along the corridor. As part of this project, the applica the applicant will be required to submit design review for commercial buildings fronting Ustick Road that include building fronting the street with parking in the rear, specific street landscaping and elevations that are cohesive with the surrounding areas. The subject parcel is currently a vacant land within Solstice subdivision with residential to the northeast and south and church to the west. The site was part of the subdivision in

the county openorf subdivision. It was then annexed into the city in 2022 with a PUD and subdivision application for Solstice PUB subdivision ANN 2115, PUD 21105 and SUB 2142. This subdivision included 100 single family attached and detached homes with point4 acres of commercial which is the subject site. When this application came through, a mixeduse component was required for all PUDs. Um, in 2024, an administrative determination AD2404 was approved to remove alley um alley loaded homes in the development, modifying those um to front access homes, adjusting the secondary access uh to meet fire requirements, and relocating the six foot wide pathway to accommodate additional landscaping between the pathway and the rear yards. In 2024 also the final plot was approved SUB 2432 consisting of 28 single family attached lots and 72 single family detached with point4 acres of commercial. Again the subject site uh this plot was recorded um 0902 2025 and the star on the final plat shows where the C1 parcel is in relation to the subdivision as a whole. The subject parcel is located in the community center place type within the comp plan. The community center is low to mid inensity commercial place type that focuses on creating a a destination for residents. The community center provides a focal point where people can connect. They are easily accessible and provide commercial services that serve the needs of the community. Low and mid-density land uses or residential land uses are shown as supporting land uses within the comp plan in this designation. The existing C1 zone is a compatible zone within the community center place type. The community center place type requires a density of 8 to 15 dwelling units per acre. Since the applicant isn't proposing a specific

number of residential units at this time, staff has condition or recommended a condition that if residential uses are utilized, the density shall meet the comp plan. The applicants proposing that the land use schedule within the Solstice DA be modified to allow the following residential uses. A single family detached, single family town home, three or less attached, four or more attached and uh two family duplex um and then triplex forplex and then multifamily apartment small scale. The applicant did not submit a site plan only a concept plan within their narrative. Therefore, the layout may change. The applicant has proposed that if residential land uses are used for this development, no more than 50% of the building square footage can be residential. Staff has included as this as a condition in the DA. Also, staff is recommending that it be conditioned that if any residential units are constructed on the subject parcel, the applicant shall provide a minimum of three dwelling units uh but no more than six dwelling units to comply with the density within code. As conditioned, the project is compliant with all required codes. Many code sections cannot be reviewed at this time for compliance since there is not a site plan, but all code sections that are applicable shall comply at time of design review and building permit. All utilities are available or will be made available to serve the proposed land uses. Uh political subdivisions including school districts were notified and provided opportunity to comment. No agency submitted any comments mentioning concern and public notices were sent to all property owners within 500 foot radius of property. Uh staff has received no public comments at this time. Staff's initial review found that the proposed project is in conformance with all applicable city codes approval criteria per city code and Idaho code, the adopted comp plan and future land

use map and all other applicable city adopted master plans. City Council has the authority to approve or deny applications based on the approval criteria within the Caldwell City Code once they've reviewed the record and evidence and heard all public testimony. And thank you. I stand for questions. Thank you for that. Now we stand for questions from council. Council President Register.

Thank you. I have a just quick question. So this um point4 acres that they want to now reszone um or change the development agreements. Sorry. Um, this was approved already with that area as residential or I'm sorry as commercial. Uh, mayor, councelor register, that is correct. So, this portion of the overall project uh where the star is located. That's the subject site we're discussing today. Um, it was approved at in the C1 zone where the rest of the development was allzoned residential. Um, and that was a requirement of the PUD code at the time. They had to have some mixeduse component. Um, and so, so that's, uh, how that ended up there.

And when was this? That was, I believe, 2022. Yes, 2022 was the original approval for Solstice. And at that time when they uh, presented the project, they were good with the fact that that part had to be commercial. Mayor and counselor. That is my understanding. Thank you. Thank you, Council President Register. Councelor Alen. Uh yeah, kind I had kind of the same question as councelor Register. They they had to put this in at the time to meet the code at that time, but the code has since changed.

Mayor and counselor, that is correct. It was essentially to meet the mixeduse component or the requirement within the planned unit development code. Um, and so that was within the DA mentioning that this lot had to be commercial. Um, and so that's what they're requesting to modify is to include residential uses that they could potentially add. Um, they would not be allowed to do this law as all residential. They would have to do the one to one at a uh maximum, I guess you could say. So they will have to have a commercial component on this lot. Um, but they cannot exceed the residential footprint or square footage to be over the commercial square footage if they were to be approved and if they were to choose to do residential on the lot

and and that'll that will be in the in the in the notes so that that will be adhered to. We can we can assure that that correct? Yes. There are some uh specific um well this lists out uh some of the conditions that are going to be within the development agreement and that was also in the packet the draft development agreement addendum um which do list out these requirements that would limit them to no more than 50% commercial square footage um and also the the density if they were to choose to do residential here. Thank you. Thank you, councelor. All good. Councelor Dentonber.

Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Katie. So, can we scroll back to a couple pictures of the Earth view there? Uh yeah, right there. That we'll we'll this one will be fine. So, back in 2022 when this was approved, it was approved uh with the understanding that there had to be a commercial component to it. And was there any discussion or any thought given to what poor location this lot was in relation to a major road and a commercial lot?

Mayor and councelor Denber, I apologize. I I am not aware of any discussion. Um there were conditions that I believe made it rather specific that this be commercial. So, I would imagine no, but again, I would have to go look at the minutes again and and look to see if there was strong conversation

because going forward, I would hope that this council would say that's a poor position of a commercial lot in conjunction with where the roads are and that's but my my question is uh so if this changes, they still have to have the commercial like uh councelor Olig asked. They just have more options now and they didn't come forth with any definite this is what we're going to do. They just wanted to have greater options for an ill-placed lot. Mayor and counselor Dentur, that is correct. Really, it just allows them the option to do some residential um if they can't utilize the full lot for commercial. Thank you. Thank you, Councelor Denm. Councelor Stoic.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh Katie, would storage units qualify under our current uh specifications for this commercial lot? Mayor and counselor, no, they would not. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, councelor Estada. Council President Register. Um just one other question. This was recommended denial by planning and zoning. Correct. Uh Mayor and Councelor Register, since it's a development agreement modification, I'm sorry. Doesn't actually go before them. Y the first hearing for it. Okay. Thank you. M I have one other question. Councelor, thank you. Councelor President Register, councelor Denver.

So Katie, this is a question that I always want to ask and I don't know who wants to answer this question, but if this is a multifamily, let's say a triplex, you know, uh that qualifies as multifamily under the minimum standards. Are there there's no exemptions for a uh property owner exemptions or anything? Isn't a multifamily building taxed at the same rate as let's say a commercial building? Mayor and counselor, I do not know the answer to that. I apologize.

Does anybody know the answer to that? You would think that there is no homeowners exemption. So, the value of the property would just be assessed by the assessor, right? Unfortunately, I do not know. I I I don't know that. I'm sorry. We can work on getting that answer for you um moving forward. Any other questions? All right. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Now, we're going to open up the public hearing and if anyone signed up to testify, which we have two, um one I believe left, uh they're going to have three minutes. Please give us your name for the record. And we're going to start with Miss Stephanie. Sorry, that's the applicant. I hate the way people write this sometimes. Sorry. Um, so there's no one in neutral. There's one in opposition. Um, it's Jean Krying, but she left, right? Not out in the hallway. Okay. All right. with that. All right, we're going to go ahead and move back to Yeah, rebuttal. Um, there's no rebuttal. There's no one against it. Any additional information?

Sorry. If you'd like to come forward for rebuttal. Yes. Based on the questions from council during the staff report.

Thank you, mayor, members of council. Again, Stephanie Hopkins, my address is 5725 North Discovery Way in Boisee. Uh you all brought up really good points and um in particular agree with Councilman Denber on his uh questioning the the arrangement of the commercial lot and access. It's really challenging along minor arterials to get access directly to commercial which is almost essential for um the success of businesses. So that's, you know, a key component of trying to broaden the uses that are allowed here just to appeal to more to different uses that can can locate here. Um, and then another, you know, some important things to note. Um, Katie's been great. Love working with her. She's been super helpful and, um, all of your staff is always wonderful to work with. Uh, we are in agreement with the staff report and the conditions of approval. And then um just to note the the 50% max of residential uses is something that we're agreeing to and staff has recommended and a maximum of six residential units we think would be um totally appropriate and agree with that condition. So uh the commercial as mentioned would be adjacent to Ustic Road and we feel that that's the most appropriate spot for it and um I will stand for any other questions if we have them. Thank you for your consideration.

Councelor Councelor Williams. Thank you Mr. there. Um, I don't know if you know the answer to this, so forgive me if I'm throwing a curveball at you. Do you have any idea how this was marketed being what it was? What what potentially could we have could you have marketed that for? It is a really oddball commercial lot. What What were What was the desire to market that for?

Sure, Mayor Councilman Williams. I I don't know exactly how it was marketed. I do know though as I was driving down Ustick on the way here just to make sure because there's so much development that occurs all the time. I like to visit the site right before hearings a lot of times there were several commercial signs out on some of the more key corners with like good access. Um my guess is that brokers probably put their sign out and and note that they're for commercial uses. Maybe a neighborhood serving commercial would be appropriate in this location. I don't know if they would put, you know, like professional offices or um like personal service kinds of things, but I feel like that's probably what would be appropriate in this location. And most of the realtors and brokers that we work with as an engineering company um that come to us as applicants or or representing developers typically just put their signs out with contact us and then, you know, they'll say like what the potential square footage of commercial space could be.

Thank you. I I think you answered both of my questions with one Thank you, councelor Williams. Any additional questions for the applicant? Thank you. Thank you. All right. With that, uh, no other questions. I'm going to declare it closed. Um, the public hearing the council going to discuss the application before making any additional motions and voting. Councelor Williams.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I I'm I'm with uh Councilman Denber. This is a crazy commercial lot to begin with, and I'm disappointed that anybody um would agree to this, either the council or the applicant. It just it doesn't make any sense at all. And so I'm I'm sitting here thinking, what do we want there? What do we hope for? Because the reality is marketing this is going to be a nightmare. So if we don't modify the DA, we could end up with nothing there and no taxable revenue. Uh or we could end up with it sitting empty for quite a long time. Um, at least with the 50% commitment to commercial and it being on Ustick, I think there's something of a redeeming of this poor DA to begin with. Um, uh, so I don't know. I'm I'm I'm partially inclined to say no, live with what you got, but I'm I'm also thinking what what is that gain us as a city? and um we we may end up with something worse for it. So um I'm I'm I'm open to amending the DA frankly.

Thank you, Councelor Williams. Council President Register.

Thank you. Um I agree with Councelor Williams in the fact that it's a it seems like it's a bad spot. However, I'm looking at a map and we have a church on one side of it and a school on the other. And my concern is removing commercial because this city needs commercial and if we start getting in the habit of removing commercial, I I think we're setting a bad precedence. Um, just down the street closer to the Walmart, we had sort of an odd lot that we kept commercial because we felt like that was important. Um, and in between this church and school, I realize this is kind of an awkward lot for commercial, but I think that would might be a nice place for um, a small restaurant or coffee shop or some sort of gathering space that we are desperately needing on USK. We do not need um, in my opinion more residential. Um, and the fact that this was purchased and at that time the development agreement was to do commercial. I'm afraid that if we now modify it that we're setting a precedence for anybody to come back and say they'll do commercial and then later come back and say no, we're actually I want to put an apartment or multif family there. So, um, I think we should keep it the same for those reasons. Thank you, council president, president register, councelor Denver. Mr. Mayor, I see that there's a lot of uh what we may want to do or what we may want to do. So, in the interest of moving this issue forward, I'll go ahead and make a motion for approval.

I'll go ahead and entertain a motion. Thank you, sir. Uh so I'll go ahead and read the uh statement as prepared based upon city code and upon the testimony evidence and record and the fact presented. I move that the development agreement requested be approved subject to uh any conditions presented and subject to the approval of the proone uh proposed zoning designation.

Motion second for approval. Any discussion on that motion? All right, Madam Clerk, and just confirm that as a motion for approval. All right, that motion failed. Do we have another motion?

Do I get an Can you clarify? Mr. Mayor, if if you wanted to, you could you could break the tie on this one since it's not a quasi judicial hearing. Um, I definitely agree it's an awkward lot. Um, you know, it's kind of set off from the commercial. There is some churches in the area, but I do appreciate that there is still commercial in this. So, with that, I'm going to vote in favor of the motion. So just to clarify the record, that would mean it was a 43 with the approval.

Yes, with the approval as long as it maintains the commercial up front and residential in the back. And it is a very awkward lot. So I understand the issues. All right. The Do we still need the motion on item number four? Are we good since that's been moved? Uh, Mr. Mayor, it's already been removed. So, I don't think there needs to four just still on the document that I had. Um, the next item on the agenda is the finance report. Um, council,

it's mine. Sorry, Councelor Tmont. Mr. Mr. Mayor, I move to approve accounts payable in the amount of $4,358,8863 represented by check numbers 1 1931-96 through1 193499 and electronic payments and payroll for the amount of 847,988.77 represented by check numbers 40791 through 40808. 8 and direct deposits be accepted, payments approved, and vouchers filed with the office of the city clerk. All right, thank you for that. And do we have a second for the approval of the financial board?

Second. All right, motion to second. All right, voice vote. Councelor Tilma. Yes. Yes. All right, that passes. All right, the next item agenda is reports from the council. We'll start with councelor Williams.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, just a a brief comment. Our new parks and wreck uh commission uh is actually full of a lot of really exciting uh I'll say vision and and uh a lot of new people. There's a couple that have been on there already, but just uh good to see some new blood in there and some people that have some new vision and they're working on some projects and we're looking forward to seeing what they can uh do and hopefully they'll bring even some recommendations to us in the in the future and uh just good good to see a lot of really positive things going on in the city.

Thank you for that, Councelor Williams. And we do thank you all of our volunteers and such these boards and commissions for their service. So with that, council all good. Uh yes, uh kind of a broken record, but uh tomorrow's a big day. Please, please go vote. If you haven't done it, make sure you do that. And then speaking of voting, the Boisey's best vote is out there. There's a number of Caldwell businesses on there. Rediscovered books, Rosstock Furniture, Amano's Restaurant. Click that like button. Let's let's represent Caldwell. Um anyway, that's all I have. Thank you, councelor Algood. Councelor Dentur.

Yes. A couple different things I'd like to chat about. Uh the first one is something that uh the gentleman who runs the bookstore brought up and that is about uh walkability in downtown Caldwell several years ago there was a group I think their name was Truvian and they came in and they did a walkability class. And so for two days you got to look at uh the walkability of downtown Caldwell and it's really not walkable. uh Kimell and uh Blaine is a terrible non-place to cross just that you have to literally go in the gutter to cross. Uh the truncated domes in downtown Caldwell are located in very poor places. And what I would encourage us to do and and council member Dodie and I used to do this from time to time is just find a section of the city and walk it and just experience ourselves what the what the walkability of our city is like. And I would like to to see us and I think I've even recommended that to planning and zoning that a couple times maybe we just get out once a month and walk and and and point to things that need to be uh to be addressed. But uh Caldwell is a great place and uh it should be a great place for everyone and being more walkable is important. Um the other thing uh uh and I asked this during you know this last uh this last consideration of this development agreement change um what is the different why why can't a uh why can't a multif family unit be considered commercial? Why isn't it commercial? It's high use. It's high density. It's there's no tax breaks. So, why are we squabbbling over something that is commercial versus something that is multif family? Why isn't multifamily commercial? And I'd like uh some sort of maybe looking into that and see why we

have to to change that because if multifamily was commercial, gee, we got a solution to a whole bunch of issues on council. Uh then I'd like to also thank those uh organizations like Meals on Wheels. Julie, thanks for all you do. Uh for all the other organizations like the the veterans organizations, we're in we're in tough times in our economy. Uh gas prices are soaring. Inflation is uh is at a higher rate. And those organizations that run in the margins are doing a great job. And I just want to uh recognize and appreciate all those in the community who are running on the margins but who still continue to uh answer the calling every day.

Thank you, Councelor Denber. And staff, can we just make sure we follow up on the walkability downtown, start putting our sneakers on and getting out and seeing how that is. Thank you for that, Councelor Denber. Councelor Tilmont. Mr. Mayor, the only thing that really I had comment on was was at the senior center um board meeting. Um they have been trying to get a hold of the city's grant writer. They are not returning calls or emails or getting a hold of them. So, they would really like to get with them because there are a couple grants they're looking to try to get. Um outside of that, I don't have anything. Thank you.

Uh thank you for that and I'll follow up um on that right after the meeting. Send an email Councelor Stoic. Thank you, Councelor Stoic. And by the way, thank you, Councelor Tmont, uh, Council President Register. All right. Yes. Council,

I apologize. One more thing. Um, we had some discussion about revenue and budgets and everything. And I for I wanted to just bring this out. Uh, four days ago, Governor Little uh, came out with a statement that said uh, the state's revenues exceeded projections for the month of April and on track to end fiscal year with a balanced budget. um that came out on the 14th. Um and I believe although we're not going to be uh great financially, I believe we're going to see some uh benefit from that as well in our tax uh revenue. Uh thank you for that, council. All good. Yeah. One more thing if I could. I I just should have said I think our city engineer got off too easy tonight.

Mr. City Engineer. Yeah. Hi, my name is John Perbonic. I'm the new city engineer um now that Haley is the public works director. So, nice to meet everybody.

Yeah, thank you for being here and thank you for being willing to step up to that next position. That's a big step up and we appreciate all that you do. Um with that, just to follow up, uh councilor all good, you had asked about the Sorry, there's a distraction. Um went and took some photos of the by the steel bridge, the path that goes down towards the river uh on the east side. um following up with parks and wreck. There is some fallen branches and stuff. So, we'll just make sure that uh that's not irrigation or somebody's else's responsibility, but even at that, we'll work with them to try and get that cleaned up. And then we talked about if you're available, we'll figure out a time Friday to go walk that and look at some um things further down the way down there. So, with that, uh the overlay project is coming along. Sorry for the, you know, there's a lot of complexity with that as we tear that out. And I really want to apologize from the city of Caldwell to the businesses that it affects people trying to navigate around downtown. We are kind of a sardine and a sardine can right now. So, it is looking wonderful though, the parts that are done. Um, we look forward to that. There is going to be some more parking over by the movie theater. So, those are some things to look forward to. And with that, um, we're going to go ahead and move. Sorry, that's all I have for tonight. Uh the last item of business is an executive session. I would annotation entertain a motion to enter executive session under

Yeah. Does someone want to go and give the motion? Yeah. Do you want me to finish it or someone want to read the motion? I got it. Uh Mr. Mr. Mayor, I move that we move in we enter into executive session pursuant to Idaho code 74-2061 section C D and F. All right, we have a motion for entering executive session for items paragraphs CD and F. We have a second motion to second. Yeah, thanks. Councelor Tilma. Yes. Councor, yes. Councelor Williams, yes. Yes. Councelor D. All right.

Yeah, we're going to take a quick break and thank you for coming tonight and thank you um call police department Lieutenant