City Council - Regular Meeting

manager, please. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Father God, you're so good. Lord, I just want to praise you uh this evening for the good favor that you continue to show our community time and again. Lord, I want to thank you for the leaders and our neighbors who are steadfastly praying our community forward. God, I pray that your Holy Spirit be in the room this evening. You help us make wise decisions on behalf of our community. Thank you for the privilege that it is to serve. Lord, it's in your son Jesus perfect name I pray. Amen.

Amen. Okay. Item C, approval of tonight's agenda. I'll make a motion to approve tonight's agenda. Do I have a second? Second. There's a second. So, all those in favor say I. I. Very good. Welcome, Naomi. Motion carries. 5-0. Thank you.

Let the record reflect that Naomi is on the phone this evening. So, they question who that voice is. We'll move along here to B citizen comments. Uh three minutes to address the council. We'll listen and uh go ahead and open some comments.

Why doesn't unless your name's really long? Yeah, it's not.

Okay. So, I'm hearing concern to I um dur after code when citizens started having chickens for minutes, some citizens started having ducks, but then because of complaints of neighbors of the duck noise, they made they disallowed ducks. And now I heard that some people want to have ducks again. But I don't think that would be a good idea because ducks do not make good neighbors. Frequent quacking, especially at dawn and dust, can disturb adjacent homes. Odors and droppings create unpleasant smell and sanitation problems. They also attract pest and predators, food and waste draw rat, raccoon, foxes, and stray dogs, increasing neighborhood nuisance in safety risk. Ducks also carry pathogens like salmonella and parasites that threaten people and pets. And if the ducks got loose, they would cause um they could cause distraction in the road and put the drivers in collision risk for animals and vehicles. And also right now the legal limit for chickens is six. And I know some people would like to have more than six chickens, but citizen and residents should only be allowed six chickens each to prevent overcrowding and ensure proper care as keeping too many can lead to health and hygiene issues. Additionally, limiting the number of chickens helps manage noise and odor concerns in urban developments. Allowing too many chickens can lead to overcrowding which increases the risk of disease and stress among the birds. Each chicken produces approximately two pounds of manure each week, limiting the number of chickens ups manage wasted effectively and reduces the potential for unsanitary conditions. Chickens can be noisy. Limiting the number of chickens up minimize disturbances to neighbors. A higher number of chickens lead to stronger odors from waste can which can

be pro problematic in close urban settings. Urban backyards often have limited space. Restricted the number of chickens ensure that each bird has adequate room for a healthy living environment. A limit on the number of chickens also helps maintain good relations with neighbors by reducing potential complaints about noise and smell. Fewer chickens still provides educational benefits about food production and animal care without overwhelming the community. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else today? Anybody from the back room?

Okay. Uh since there's no uh other citizens come forward, no closing comments, we'll move on to item E, the exparte conflict of interest declaration. Anyone have any conflicts this week in case? No, we're good. The answer is five zip on that. We're good. Uh no appointments and recognitions. That brings us to the consent agenda. I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. There is an item that will need a roll call in it. We moved it out. Yeah, we we took that out. We took it out. Yeah. Just because of that.

Okay. Thank you for being watch. Yeah, that's great. Um Okay. Make a motion to approve tonight's consent agenda. Thank you. M has made a motion. I'll second it. Thanks. 40 seconds. All those in favor say I. I consider passes 5. Thank you.

No unfinished business. That brings us down to new business. Microphone drum roll. City manager Craig Passette at the plight. Honorable mayor and city council, it's my pleasure to present to you the long awaited um contract award for the North Park project. Uh with me is Matt Ham, the architect uh and uh leader for our design team, which also includes Fau and we also have uh Mr. Biggs, who represents uh Conco Construction, uh the firm that we are recommending uh to be awarded the bid this evening. So at the end of the presentation, I'll give each of them an opportunity to share a few words with council and you're more than welcome to ask myself or other any questions. So on March 2nd, you might recall the governing body authorized advertising for bid the North Park project. If you remember, we had several items uh of major work there in the base bid that included all the site work, the pavilion and rental space, playground and surfacing. Uh, it also included the uh dog park, two pickle ball courts, landscape parking, and utilities. There were some alternates. Sorry, I got this sentence a little uh janky here. The alternates included uh the pond restoration, a third pickle ball court, the trail around the pond, and a secondary parking lot, and a alternate to concrete. So, I I did get in a little bit of a rush today, so hopefully I don't have any other errors or omissions in this presentation. Um, we successfully bid the project using the final construction drawings and specifications prepared by Schaffer. Um, and our legal team took a fine tooth comb to what you probably saw uh was hundreds of pages worth of contract documents including the AIA owner contract agreement, the insurance and

bond exhibits, A201 general conditions, statutory bond requirements, the city's mandatory contractual provisions, and again the full project specifications and drawings. So, we had three bids, Conco Construction, Dominger, and Key. Based on the attached bid tab, which you would have seen in your agenda packet, Conco submitted a low bid on both the base and the total, including all alternates. As mentioned previously, we are recommending that we accept uh Conco's bid, including the alternates exclusive of the wood grain set upgrades. Uh this approach delivers a full phase one vision now rather than deferring components for later consideration. Um, I mentioned what the alternates were. You guys seen those time and again. Um, you saw the bid tab as well and probably realized that Conco's proposal came in materially lower than the other two biders. Uh, the draft construction agreement identifies them um as the contractor using a stipulated sum format provides a contract time of 210 calendar days from the notice to proceed. Here is a look at the bid tab in a condensed form. You can see uh Conco here in this column. This yellow item down here is the total bid including all alternates. And then you have Don Linger and of course key construction. I'll get into this in the next slide, but the the um the the large delta is really accounted for in this pond work. So we had a because of the significant delta between the the low bid and the second low bid, we had a pretty uh intensive uh process of just verifying the bid for accuracy. We had in-person meetings with Conco and several several uh phone conferences between uh they the city and our design team. We just wanted to be very sure uh that uh we could confirm their scope understanding, their pricing assumptions and of course particular attention paid to the pond

portion of the project. Um and really the the difference was is there uh they had a strategy on the pond uh utilizing the on-site soils whereas the other firms were priced as if they had to import all the soils. um those firms would have had the ability to utilize the on soils themselves and taken the difference basically if they were all if they're all found suitable and so um is basically taking the risk that if they have to import soils those will be at their cost. Um we uh there's a redundant element in the contract that accounts for that. Um, of course we will have our on-site u field services team that'll be out there with uh Conco just kind of making sure that uh the city's well represented and that uh we're satisfied with the pond and the soils and and the like. So um we're super uh thankful uh that uh we're getting a phenomenal price we think on the project. you compare it to the engineers estimate that you would have seen with the the documents when we originally put this project out to bid. Uh so uh this is the kind of the financial breakdown. If you want to take a look at the budget matrix here, uh if you remember way back last year, uh we had an authorizing resolution of $5.9 million for construction and engineering that excluded cap interest and cost of issuance. uh we had a a a planning estimate of about $4,86,000 uh and 2 nearly 5 million for all the alternates. So in that engineering estimate you saw was about $6.6 million. Um and then of course uh since then we have executed uh the grant amendment and have the $1 million award from KDWP. Super exciting. uh Conco's bid with the alternates again 3.916 million uh very favorable when you

compare it to uh what we estimated as the cost for the bids plus all alternates um down to the budget matrix. Here's Concost contract. We're uh suggesting a construction contingency of about $300,000 on the outside contract. If there are any change order requests that are in excess of my expenditure authority, I will take those to council. Um, if it's something that we're running into a timing issue, hopefully this doesn't happen. I I think that I I continue to hear it reiterated that this isn't a super complicated project, but if there was some kind of emergent issue, maybe we throw a special meeting together to get a change order in, but we don't anticipate that. And hopefully if we have any, they're owner initiated. Um, so we'll have some contingency available. Um, designing construction administration costs. So all of our fees with Bofman and Schaffer uh and the other subs that were a part of putting uh the plans together and the construction administration uh 342,000. The uh playground equipment and safety surfacing contracts that were awarded to um Playscapes and Forever those are 882,000. We have a slew of by owner estimates. This is not exhaustive, but it makes up some of the larger bioowner costs. About 150 grand. Um construction field services. This was not in your agenda packet. I got a price for this. Uh this will come to you during the May 4th city council meeting for uh construction uh inspection and observation uh during the duration of the project. Uh about $25,884. So total project costs 5.79 million. When you net out the KDWP grant, we're at 4.79 million of the total project budget of 5.9. So uh obviously we're very pleased that we uh

should be able to deliver this project over a million dollars under budget when we consider the funds that have been raised and more news to come on that uh in the near future that will continue to better that number. and we'll be excited to share that with you later this week. So, um, like I said, there was a lot of we had a couple meetings including our attorneys as well, just kind of working through contracts. So, a lot of due diligence has gone into this project process. Took a little extra time to get to this point of awarding the bid uh in the contract. Very thankful uh for Conco's time and effort in putting together a competitive bid and being willing to answer all the pointed questions that came from us and our design team. Um I had a chance to uh talk with my colleague in a uh peer community where they just finished a very similar project. Uh those that reference checked out uh had good things to say about the firm as well as the individual who led their project at will also lead ours that was unsolicited positive feedback that I received. Um another community that they uh were the GC on. I wasn't able to connect with the project manager, but I have been to the park. It just opened last year, and it's a beautiful park. Um, and so it seems to me that they did a a good job on that one, too. So, uh, that also checks out. With that, we have a recommendation to you uh that you would approve the contract with Conco attached to the A uh and authorize the expenditure authority for their base bid plus alternates, which is the 3.9 million plus the contingency amount of 7.5%. So, at this time, I'd be glad to uh open the floor to the council uh for any questions or comments like to direct to myself or Matt or Mr. Digs of Conco. I just want to say uh thank you for being innovative and for finding a way to kind of make this park cheaper. Um we

know this is a pretty big expense, but we're really excited to have this for the community. Um I think you're correct for just making sure there's some verbiage to kind of cover that and um that we're all on the same page and we're taking the extra time to kind of go through this. So really excited to kind of see this come to life.

Matt, you got a big smile on your face. You guys comments Yeah, sure. I'll say a couple words. Um, yeah, thanks so much for having us here tonight and I just say congratulations in order to the city and the whole community uh for persevering through the design process and uh the bidding process and having the success right at your doorstep. Um, I would just say that I really appreciate the team that I worked with from the city. Um, we had a lot of meetings, made a lot of decisions as you always do with these projects, and I was I was really impressed and had a really good experience, and I don't doubt that the construction will be any different. And looking forward to working with Conco and and seeing their work up close and personal. We're going to be on site with the contractor, with the city, and getting our feet dirty. Not our feet, our boots dirty, but uh hopefully our feet dirty. Really muddy. Uh but uh really excited about it. So thank you very much for trusting us with this project.

Any questions that you have? We're just I think all really looking forward to the next 210 days. Uh maybe 205 sooner. No pressure. No pressure. I was going to say that if you need a little extra clay, I've got a pile in my backyard right now. You come scrape that off and I won't charge anything to come. We'll take All right. Well, no questions.

No questions. I guess I'll just say we're we're really excited for this. I know we just recently broke ground on public works facility, which is great for the city and for our employees, but this is really something great for all of our citizens, and we're really looking forward to having this new park in our in our community to be able to enjoy. Yeah.

And it's something that started, I think, in in 2014. And so this has been a long journey to get to this point. So I think it's kind of fun to be able to be the group that pulls the trigger. So I will make a motion to authorize the contract with Conco attached to exhibit A and authorize the expenditure author authority not to exceed 3 million $916,600 plus a contingency of 7.5%. I'll second. 40 seconds. All those in favor say I. I. I. I. Motion pass. 5 Z. All right. Looking forward to gentlemen. Good luck. Thank you.

Thank you.

We'll try to stay out of the way. Okay. Moving on. Item two, honor man city council. This is item I two. This is road name change for a galleria. Uh so quick background, Dwayne Dugan um has submitted an application to change the road that runs through the GT Galleria around the Walmart. It's currently being built right now by Pearson. That road is currently platted in name seasons second and sixth street. U Mr. Dukan has asked that it be renamed to Goddard or sorry to Galleria Drive and Gateway Street. Um, this went before the planning commission and they approved it and now it's coming before city council for final consideration with an ordinance to follow. So, this is just consideration and for changing the name of the street that behind Walmart and I highlight it over here so you can see it. But this is the road in question. This would be switched to Gateway. This would be Galleria Drive. So, it would be continuous. I might correct me if I'm wrong, but gateway would be the name of the street all the way to 83rd.

No. So, this would just be from here to here. This section right here, this area from here to here is actually a private drive, a long private road. So, it's not owned by the public, which you know, we're stewards of public land. So, this area is all private here. This is public road here, and this is a public road here. So, that's why he has to petition us for that if he wanted to. There's no name on here. That's a no-name road, and it's private. So that's why he's petitioning us. I did inform um the only other property owner which is property group that name has been changing and they really said nothing in objection to that. So they're the only other property owners that are abing those rights. Any comments, questions?

It is an ordinance. We ask a twostep. I have recommend that we wave the reading of the ordinance. Second. Chris has made a motion to wave the reading of the ordinance. A hands. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carries. 5. Next step. I move that we approve the street name change for the daughter Galleria. Second. Moved and seconded. Roll call. Council member Dur. Yes. Council member White. Yes. Mayor Lee. Yes. Council member Hall. Yes. Council member Leonard. Yes. Ordinance 1039. 1039.

1039. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

Oh. Mayor and city council. This is the US 54 uh and Main Street commercial building call for a public hearing uh to consider issuing industrial revenue bonds. So uh as you may recall uh staff have been actively working to respond to repeated feedback from both the community and the governing body to aggressively recruit additional restaurant and retail development here within our fine community. The governing body has provided policy direction to staff promote incentives such as IRBs to attract additional restaurant development primarily as well as retail. Paradise Corner LLC proposes to develop a property US 54 Main Street into a 20,000 square foot commercial strip center intended to support additional restaurant and retail activity here in Gddard. During the May 4th council meeting, assuming you guys approve this tonight, the governing body will consider approving a development agreement that requires a developer to deliver a fast casual casual or fine dining restaurant operating within the project space to receive the economic development incentives to include the IRBs. The purpose of this agenda item is simply to call for the required public hearing necessary to issue the IRBs. Uh also during the May 4th council meeting, uh the governing body will consider approving the intent resolution for the IRBs after the scheduled hearing. State law requires a completion of a cost benefit analysis prior to issuing of the IRBs. The attached in-ear packet uh Witchaw State Center for Economic Development and Business Research Center uh provides a cost benefit analysis supporting the project's fiscal case. The analysis shows city of Goddard benefit cost ratio of 1.82 82 over 20 years, meaning projected public benefits exceed public costs over those periods. Anything over 1.0 is a net benefit to the community, 1.82 is a fantastic ratio. So, um small publication fee at this point is all um and then legally it's been approved to form our bond

council. Kevin C with Gilmore and Bell has put together the uh bond documents. Um, and this is kind of the first step and, uh, we anticipate some fun announcements associated with this one over the next few weeks. Um, and hopefully this will just be the start of the procedure that that comes with all that. Recommendation is that you move the call for the public hearing. Pretty straightforward. Any questions?

A motion. I make a motion the city council move to call for and provide notice of a public hearing to be held on May 4th, 2026 to consider the advisability of issuing industrial revenue bonds for the US 54 Main Street Strip Center project. Chris has made a motion. We have a second. Second. Good to know. We'll let Naomi second that since she's calling in so from far away. So all those in favor say I. I. I motion carries 5.

Thank you, sir. Jason, good day, sir. So, I'm here to seek approval for the uh acceptance of low grid bid for the 2026 projects. Um on April 29th of this year, Harland engineering design and the city of God held the bid opening for the 2026 street project. Um this is a comprehensive bid that held that's being held within the 505 street improvements as well as street maintenance. Um payback was a low bid at $972,58163. Um as you can tell we had three bids. Um the streets the streets that uh we are going to be doing is the uh spruce from ler park the third which is a full depth reconstruction uh pine the same it's building the line park at the school with a full depth reconstruction oak line park the third with full depth uh reconstruction for main oak with a crack seal with a surface ceiling and a full depth reconstruction at the approaches um and then our street maintenance program will be the approach that's coming off a pelog at Casado Oak and Walnut. Um, and we're going to be doing full Gulf repairs there and we've been in contact with KOT to potentially do their part of the uh approach as well. We're still waiting back from word from them on road. Uh then we're also do 199 Maple Kellogg crack seal with a surface sealer and 183rd from Maplewood Prairie Sunset Trail with a crack seal with surface sealer and that will be a little more extensive um on that uh south of Pillow. Those cracks will be a 24 in uh repair where they'll actually move up those cracks and do a whole movement of those cracks

too to alleviate some of the the destruction that's happening to those. Um this is a map that's showing kind of where those areas are that we're be working. So at this time the funding for the project will be made possible through the five and five uh program and also the funds set aside in the street maintenance line item with a total budget funding of 1.2 million. Um there may be uh some additional work that we're looking at as well uh with some work funds out of this 199. Um, so at this point, uh, we recommend that we move to authorize one to a pack the project. Is there any questions?

I do have a question. I'm going to put you on the spot. If you don't have the answer, that's fine. But who did uh the pulled up reconstruction in the last year on the streets? That was Pearson. Pearson. Okay. Any other questions? If not, nothing. All right, I'll move make a recommendation vote to move to authorize the award for the 2026 road project. I second. Just a second. All those in favor say I. I year two of year five of the projects. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks.

Sure it's not year three. No, year one didn't count. That was borrowed money. That was That was zero. That was borrowed money.

Good evening. Uh Ryan, your city attorney here to discuss a couple of code enforcement matters. Uh if you recall, we revised the process for handling of code enforcement to um get you all out of the process as much as possible. Uh we've been able to accomplish that to a significant degree. there are still some remaining uh elements that are required by statute for you all to be involved and this is one of those occasions. So um there we go. All right. Uh you're being asked to consider a proposed resolution to order abatement of nuisance conditions at 611 North Spruce Street and also 2009 North Clearstone Street. Um, basically our friends at Pro Code Compliance, um, they are your boots on the ground in terms of handling day-to-day code enforcement. They have made numerous attempts to resolve this informally, get the property owners voluntary compliance. That has proven to be unsuccessful. And so as a result uh pro code has uh issued formal orders of abatement uh to the property owners giving them formal notice that they need to remedy uh the situation. We're dealing with debris, junk, junk motor vehicles on the property of both of these uh residences and the property owners did not comply. They had opportunities with the no notices to request uh hearing uh meetings to discuss the matter silence. So uh as a result we are here asking you for a resolution that would authorize

the city to go in and abate the nuisance on its own. basically clean up the property and then also uh assess the expense of that abatement to the property so that the city gets reimbursed eventually through the property tax rules. There are uh no financial considerations besides just the cost of of cleaning it up, legal considerations. Uh the resolution and agreement have been reviewed by my office. So it's recommended that the city adopt the resolution ordering the abatement of certain nuisance conditions at 611 North Spruce Street and 2009 North Clearstone and also authorizing the city to proceed with abatement and assessment of those costs if the property owners uh once again do not comply. Any questions? Any discussion? It's exciting stuff.

Pretty straightforward. I think so. Entertain a motion to approve. I make a motion to adopt the resolution ordering the abatement of certain nuisance conditions at 611 North Street and 2009 North Gearstone Street, GD, Kansas 67052. Make a motion. I will second it. All those in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries 5.

Thank you very much. Item six. So we're looking to come to council tonight for an amendment to uh do a contract with for engineering services with CR certified design uh with with waterline moving improvements. Um, essentially since we're making an amendment to the contract, we just need to come to the council to seek approval for that. Um, so we're looking to amend that contract to C for inspection services. Um, as I said, it's a amendment for the on-site inspection services for our opening project uh through a separate contract. Um, this will be remaining under the five and five uh street program. Um, any questions?

We're all good on that. Y I just make one comment. It won't be in the five street program. It'll be in the water loop. That must have not got cut and pasted over financially. It'll be out of the temp note funding the water looping project. Um, I recommend or make a motion to authorize the mayor to ex execute the first amendment to the contract for engineering services between the city of Goddard and certified engineering design PA. Chris has made the motion. I'll second. 40 seconds. All those in favor say I. I.

Motion carries 5. Thank you. on our mayor and city council. This is I7 pipe modification for the C2 general business district. Um well this is not much anymore but um as city entertains urban projects which we're excited for obviously and there's consideration about height maximums and one reason this came up was an open property group apartment it exceeded the 62.5 requirement. So we thought perhaps if we're going to see more of these ideally which generates a lot of revenue for the city and helps the growth development long-term sustainability of the city then we should consider increasing that height maximum only as pertains to the C2 zoning district classification. So that is what you're considering today. Planning commission did approve this at the last meeting uh 6. So these are some other cities I looked at and a comparable zoning classification just to see where they are at and what kind of regulations they have. And so obviously WTO has an 8 foot maximum in the general business district plus an additional 2 feet for every additional foot of setback that they add on to it. So we're not including any additional setback requirements. We're just simply saying you want to go up to 75 ft as a maximum in C2 district. So we're not going to say additional feet on top of that as you go back further from the setback. We would rather buildings be closer to the setback as close to setback as possible to maximize the building where it generates more tax revenue for the city. Sorry. Um, this is the site below the property group. I highlighted the area where they identified that it's actually 66 ft 10 12 in. Um, a lot of site times come in where they identify over at the set of the truss area. So, we said specifically, hey, what is the maximum height at the peak of the roof? That's

where they identify 66 feet. So, this is kind of trigger all of that. Obviously, it's a beautiful building. We're really excited about that. So if we can encourage more of that and allow sort of more of that aesthetic architectural design um latitude then we would public notice given current small cost small cost approved the legal considerations approved as form. It is recommended city council vote one way to read the ordinance and approve ordinance change the hyper tax in the CG general business district plus call. So any questions about this one?

I don't really have any questions. I'm just hoping that you'll I mean I guess I did ask a question before when we first talked about this on just kind of the areas that this covered. I'm hoping that you'll touch on that a little bit as people see that we're talking about raising the height limit of buildings. I Yeah, that's good. Maybe I should put a zoning map in there. I tell you what, I can jump ahead if that helps. How about I just jump way ahead? So the purple areas are areas that are affected by this regulation. Okay, thank you. Yeah, it's hard to tell, but this is a darker red. It's identified here as a central business district is this area. It's only really three blocks.

And I I think that that's kind of the place that people are going to have the most concern. So, I just wanted to touch on that so that people understood that we're not approving these big buildings on Main Street right now. We're looking at other areas. No, no, we only go 45 is the maximum in the central business district. We're going up to 75 on central business district. So, I think the purple areas are that helps. That's it. Thank you. No problem. And these heights are primarily going to be um around here limited to apartment living.

No. So, it doesn't necessarily be defined by the land use. It says any development that's allowed under that zoning classification can go up that high. Um however, most commercial buildings don't go up that high. The Walmart really doesn't have a reason to go up up higher and higher and higher. It doesn't really have a because of course sprinkling it and everything else just that just adds unnecessary cost. The Walmart doesn't need to be 50 ft in the air unless they have multiple stories which there's no footprint for that. So largely it's going to be condos and apartments especially ones that have a commercial on the first floor because that pushes the residential up another level. And then when they add that architectural element like we saw in that one that those gabled roofs really tall, really peak roofs which is really pretty and aesthetically it's aesthetically pleasing unnecessary but aesthetically pleasing. We enjoy it obviously but that being said it does push that limit. So I mean it does it does begin to add to the gard skyline which is an interesting dynamic that you guys call partake of. But technically it's not just apartments. It could be something else as well. So when Cody wants to build Dur Towers, he wants to build it.

79 would be the maximum. In all seriousness, isn't there a limitation? Doesn't Walmart have some limitation of height for the lots in front of their store?

They from what I understand, which is, you know, I wasn't fully aware of, but I think Goddard Galleria has architectural and restrictive covenants that we don't enforce. They enforce privately. So any regulations a city council adopts, it supersedes any regulations besides state law. So if we say we can go up to 75, that's fine. But if Mr. Dugan sells a property in front of the Walmart and he's got a private agreement with Walmart, that's between him and Walmart. So he would have to enforce those regulations with the restrictive covenant that the city does not enforce. Restrictive covenants with the small exceptions are generally enforced by HOAs or other, you know, business corporations. Oh, okay. This includes signage. Signage. Yeah.

No, this is for business building heights. Okay. But like a Walmart sign could be higher. They're not going to go that high. Science science file on article 7 is a different regulation. Yeah. No, that's different regulations. I um move that we wave the reading of the ordinance. Christa moves we wave the reading of the ordinance. Cory seconds. We'll slide that down there. All those in favor say I. I. Motion carries 5. Step two. And I move that we approve the ordinance changing the height maximum in the C2 general Vistas district. Krista's made a motion. Second.

Sure. We have a second. All right. All those in favor say I. I. I. Roll call. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Sleeping. Go ahead. Roll call. Council member. Yes. Council member White. Yes. Mayor Lee. Yes. Vice Mayor Hall. Yes. Council member Leonard. Yes. The ordinance 1040. 1040. Thank you very much.

This is I80. This is a modification to the R1 single family residential and R22 family residential with the introduction of modular homes. Um I'm going to skip most of this. So basically what we're talking about is introducing modular homes as an acceptable land use under R1 and R2. Modular homes are defined under our sub regulations under article 2, but for some reason they were never included as an acceptable use under R1 and R2. The conversation around modular homes has come up a couple times. And I think the key delineator here for modular, mobile, and manufactured is quality and the fact that modular homes are meant to be permanent. They're fixed to a permanent foundation, a permanent structure. Um, I did visit some modular homes in Witchaw and they I was told that they do appreciate at the same level as traditional stick built homes, which is something to take into consideration. If they're introduced into the market, they have that potential for being an introductory home for um individuals and then they would continue to appreciate at the same level as traditional single family detached built homes. So, Planet Commission did approve this. They did ask however that the manufactured homes that are considered an acceptable use under the R1 get shifted to a conditional use and that under R2 right now manufactured is not considered an acceptable use but it continue to be considered a conditional use. And so that's something that planning commission has asked. So once again once planning commission makes a recommendation city council has to ratify that. So that recommendation has to come before you guys and we have to put that condition up. But city council has that ultimate authority to make that determination.

Are we doing that?

Yes. So that's what the ordinance was drafted to introduce modular R1 and R2 and take manufactured out as an acceptable use and put it under conditional use. Conditional uses are technically considered acceptable uses, but they have a larger a longer review period which requires them to go before the planning commission for for review. Is there any additional conditions you want to put on? That's why it's called conditional use. Is there any other additional conditions you want to put on? Planning Commission wants to see manufactured homes moving forward. Modular homes they feel is more acceptable given uh it land use composition in the urban area. These are some pictures I took. Um the two on the bottom are in daughter. The two on the top are the ones we visited in Chicago. Um as you can see, mobile homes are not skirted. I consider manufactured more skirted but very traditional and similar to mobile homes. The modular have a very interesting composition. They're prefabricated and they're assembled on site but you can see they're fixed with a concrete structure or footings. Public notice was given a small cost. There will be a small cost additionally for the publication if approved by approved as form. It is recommended that city council do once again wave reading the ordinance approve the ordinances for modification R1 single family residential and R2 two family residential zoning classification the voice call. Do you have any questions related to this one? Um, when we're talking about modular homes for R2, is that can you um does that mean developers will come and want to do an entire neighborhood of modular homes?

Expedential they could consider that. Okay. That are duplexes. Yes. So the fall under modular would be treated very similar to that one. be a duplex or single family but under R2 that would be considered acceptable. So then they would come before you to say hey we want to reszone and the modulars would be in there. So the ones we looked at, we looked at both a single family modular and a duplex modular. But both of those would be considered a single family modular, duplex modular, still would have to be res. And you still have to consider that resing. And if we put additional restrictions on two family homes for such, it would apply to these. Yep. Yes, it would.

So the design standards that we spoke about last weekend or last time would have to apply to this as well. It would. Yeah. If you're doing a modular duplex, it would be invoked. In which case, they would probably just not do modular duplex. They would just do traditional duplex look at standards that are required.

So that would probably just prohibit modular duplexes, in which case they would just do single family duplex or sorry, single family modular or traditional duplexes. So it just depends on what they're able to accomplish given the criteria that council adopts in the future. That's it. I think it'd be really challenging to find a pre-esigned modular plan for a two family property that would fit within the design standards that council and planning commission are looking at. Maybe

I think that um modular homes um can bring dynamic to water in the sense of you can get some pretty nice modular homes, right? Um they're very beautiful. I think we continue to have the talk about uh seniors or even people freshly have high school, college that need this slab home. Um the reality is the cost of living is not going to go down. The cost of building these houses is not going to go down. Um and so just from the standpoint of I've looked at them in the past, but just when you came and talked to us looking at them a little more, I mean the cost difference to be able to put some of those around versus um just a slab even new build is quite a bit. And this could be a really good opportunity for again anybody that are seniors, our younger generation, even you know maybe single parents looking at the school district um things like that. So I definitely think that this is a really good thing to look at and you can still make them very beautiful modular homes with landscaping around them are gorgeous and they've got some really fun layouts. So

yeah, we calculated what a mortgage would be on the modular that we looked at and it would be about $700 a month at 6.8%. So that's pretty. You talk about being able to bring people in to stay and I think that's a and still have an acceptable way of living. I think that's that's an unheard of mortgage honestly to consider it being around $700 $800 in today's market. So and knowing that appreciate the same level is pretty well you've shown us like a a lower cost model. I believe they have straight in ones that are very nice even compete with a stick built home. They can still be put on basement. They can still be put on garage. Yeah. I mean,

yes. Porsches, patios, off of them, everything. Yeah. Send me Lego blocks you want to put together. So, by doing this, we're taking the manufactured homes out of the equation and used only for conditional use. And then these will be Yes. in in that place as acceptable uses. Yes. So that that doesn't prohibit manufacturing. It just means that somebody would have to go through an actual review before planning commission approve it. Go ahead, I want to build a manufacturing house. In which case the planning commission may say you need to do XYZ to get your building permit. Okay. Avoid reading of the ordinances. Thank you.

Makes a motion to do that. Second set. All those in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries 5 Z. I make a motion to approve the ordinances for the modification of the R1 single family residential and R2 two family residential z classifications. We has made a motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. Court seconds. Roll call. Council member. Yes. Council member White. Yes. Mayor Lee. Yes. Vice Mayor Hall. Yes. Council member life. Yes. Motion carries 5. Ordinance 1041 for R1 and 1042 for R2. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

This is no problem. This is item I 9. This is removal of the R1A from the zoning regulation. So city staff is presenting to the city council the possibility of removing R1A zoning classification such that if annexation continues, there is no concern about R1A being used in future for default zoning classification. So, city staff believes just like R1B, R1A is moving away from a more economically viable neighborhood and would prefer to move it just like R1B. The ordinance will take effect after its publication newspaper. Planning commission did review this and approve it since zero on April 13th. City council review the possibility of moving on a zone classification from the zoning regulations. So, this is R1A. This is where it's located. This is the only place it's located. Public notice was given her a small cost. There could be a small publication cost if approved. Legal considerations, it is approved as deformed. Um, we can talk about more of the legal justification behind this if you prefer. Um, this this will tie into the next agenda item as well. What is this a lengthy year legal consideration? Ryan P is here, city attorney. Um, I did exhaust his colleague Robert Quickenvol on this matter for years before he retired. So that's probably why he probably We're really extracting every dollar from them.

Thank you. You're welcome. Uh it is recommended city council wave read of this ordinance and approved one classification voice plus a roll call. Um if you want we can discuss a little more you know we'll give more history behind it but with 10 as well. You said this affects like 83 86 86. And um just a question that I asked was, you know, how this affects other areas for these current homes. Um because we're not really making too much of a change by structuring them over to R1, it doesn't. So

yes. And so um without getting too much into basically zoning is the land uses are predicated on the zoning that's underneath it. And so by removing that tablecloth from underneath that, it basically nullifies the land use on top of it, which causes what's called nonconformity. To avoid nonconformity, um, we want to go ahead and remove R1A on this one. And then on the next agenda item, we're going to introduce one. So it's basically an N Jones situation where you take the stat, you can put the sandbag on top of it at the same time really quickly before the boulder rolls down if you've seen that movie. So basically, we're doing a swap really fast. They're both going to get published at the same time. So there's no non-conformity issue. But you're exactly right. Everybody wants to know is the land use that's sitting on top of that zoning allowed? And so they ask me that all the time. Banks, realtors, property owners, everybody asks that question because the concern is of course if it's destroyed, is it allowed to be rebuilt? If there's no zoning classification underneath it, it becomes non-conforming. And the answer is no. And so we have to then say, what's the next zoning classification? R1. R1 allows for single family detach. So all those 86 lots and on delays that were considering reszoning at the next item would basically still be in play. There would be no issues of non-conformity. No banks would be concerned about their asset being appreciated or being able to be rebuilt or managed and no there'd be no concerns about underwriting or sale of property. So

and they created and put that under R1 at time because square footage.

Correct. Yeah. And granted I wasn't here when it was introduced. It's my understanding uh based on my limited knowledge that there was a concern that housing um would devalue additional housing if it was too small. So if you had at least 1,200 foot on your house and your neighbor built 800t house next to you, it could potentially devalue the property. Now whether or not that's true or not raises, I can make that determination, but that was the concern. And so they created R1A. It's also why I understand they created R1B which was 1,500 ft² as the minimum. R1A is 1,200 ft as a minimum. So there was concerns about your neighbor building a smaller house than yours and devaluing your property. So they introduced this and reszone that area for that reason. So

which is why now most builders have that in their covenants or building. Yeah. So restrictive covenants can that's cover usually. Yes. They a lot of developers nowadays will require a minimum square foot requirement. Um but that's if they're but that's something that they impose on themselves. Restrictive permits they impose on themselves. We're not imposing it upon them. They impose it upon themselves so that they can create their ideal development. So the only downfall here is if somebody's house does get wiped out, they can build a smaller one.

They could build small builders a year, you know. when we've learned a lot as a society in the last 5 years as to how appraisers appraise properties and I'm not so sure that I buy that if there's a smaller house next door to mine that it's going to be value mine because I've learned a lot about the appraisal process and how they're picking homes not so much that are near you but comps as far as the size of your house and a couple other things not not the size of the house that's right next to yours So

correct. I don't I Greg is absolutely correct that generally speaking, we spoke with the county for a long time and and residential land analysts and comps are one of the major factors that they use. So comparable properties they're going to use, how many how many build how many bedrooms you have, how many bathrooms you have, what is a square in your house. They're not going to jump directly next door and say, "Well, this one is next to you, therefore." It's not how brains work generally speaking. So, do this one then we'll do the next one. We're going to pull the sheet off the table. I feel like I just kind of kicked the ball toward you. So, you want to move real quick now. Sorry. No, you're fine.

We have a motion. Cory's made a move the reading of the ordinance. I'll second that. All those in favor say I. I. I. Motion carries 50. on that. Make a motion to approve the ordinance removing the R1A zoning classification. M has made a motion to remove the zoning. I second a second. Roll call. Council member Dur. Yes. Council member White. Yes. Mayor Lee. Yes. Yes. Council member Leonard. Yes. The ordinance 1043. Thank you very much. S50.

This is I 10. So it's a continuation of kind of what we just talked about. Official zoning map change. So there are 86 properties on blaze that are now generally considered void of the R1A. So we would like to reszone them in mass is R1. These are the A6 properties. I'm trying to cook it's not us given during small cost that'll be an additional small cost after publication if adopted legal considerations are here. This is an aid version of my legal conversation with Robert. So if you have any addition about that just need to put the new blanket underneath.

I always hold the same. Yeah. Let's get this done before things collapse. I make a motion to wave the reading of the ordinance. Second. Chris has made a motion a second waiting and reading the ordinance. All those in favor say I. I. I. Carries 5. Make a motion to approve the ordinance enacting the general revision of the official zoning map. Make a motion. I'll second. Cory seconds. Roll call. Council member. Yes. Council member White. Yes. Mayor Lee. Yes. Yes.

Council Leonard. Yes. The ordinance 1044. 1044 carries. 5. Thank you. Thank you.

It's a lot. How do you change your slot? City manager three more. Yes. Uh honorable may city council. This uh manager before kind of like when Han Solo is approaching the guest star Millennial Falcon. Oh, here it tractor. Never mind. Have you seen them? We're going to have a movie movie night here soon. So,

right here in city hall. In all seriousness, I do want to take a brief moment to recognize my colleague Micah um about a year and a half ago. We uh kind of charged him with taking our zoning and sub subdivision regulations out of kind of the dark ages and up to kind of a a more modern urban planning standard, which is no easy undertaking. kind of asked him to do five or six of them uh changes at a time in separate tranches. And so you might kind of think back, there's been two or three meetings like this a year where we brought four or five items to you um to to clean some of that stuff up and to change it. And I'm not sure the development community is uh quite caught up to those changes yet, but I do believe that uh the community will be better for the changes that um he's initiated and that the planning commission and council have supported. So um appreciate his time and effort over the last couple years on that. He's done a great job and there's there's more to come. Uh we're going to keep working at that and excited to see how the comprehensive planning process we take that uh to a whole another level. Next council meeting is Tuesday, April 28th at noon. We do have a planning commission meeting on Monday, May 11th, where we've asked the Goddard City Council to join the planning commission. Uh we will have Ryan Peek uh present the resolution um adopting the minimum design and non- monotony standards for the R2 multif family zoning district. So, uh there'll be that kind of that joint meeting flavor there. And our hope is that um the council meeting directly thereafter, we will be able to adopt that resolution to uniformly apply those design standards uh to the R2 zoning district. I know of some in the development community that are I actually had one call me today that was excited about

this and asking when's it going to be done and in in true bureaucratic form, I had to share, well, it's going to be a few more weeks. We we're we're taking a close look at this and we're going to be working with the planning commission on it and so hopefully we'll have this wrapped up by the end of next month. Villas at Pleasant Ridge Creek. We're getting really close to the end there. Um you've probably seen it's starting to look like a development out there. They finished a lot of the grading. Um and I would anticipate that you'll start seeing paving occurring here in the next few weeks. They're finishing up the ponds right now and um those sorts of things. So, it's going to be a beautiful project. We're excited about it. Uh the city received four bids for the water looping project. We've been verifying those bids for accuracy. We met with the two low biders today. I really appreciate Harland's due diligence on that project, asking all the right questions, um helping us kind of navigate the bids and the line items within that and giving the city good guidance on what direction we might head. So, uh, we anticipate requesting the council award the contract at the Monday, May 4th, 2026 city council meeting. Super pleased just to share preliminarily that the low bids are well under budget and it might actually allow us to um knock down another pretty significant project in our 10-year capital improvement program ahead of schedule, which would be great. uh cuz you know things are only getting more expensive. So the more we can get done now the better. The Bridger maple phase 2 project uh it's it's getting pretty close to being complete as well. I expect paving to come right in behind. They're testing water lines uh over the next few days. Neighbors United big gathering and day of service happening this weekend. Super excited about it. We we uh meet at uh Gddard High School football field at 7:00 a.m. I hope to

see some of my neighbors out there uh just um to to work together and helping um others with their projects and those sorts of things. Community cleanup day is uh going to be running uh concurrent with Neighbors United as it has the last few years. Uh we've got some vacancies uh with the Gutter Police Department. So, if you know any uh law enforcement officers, uh please send them to Chief Eagley. Uh paving is getting close to being completed at 167th West and 23rd Street South. I'm hoping that at some point in the near future, we see design plans for a sanitary sewer force made in a lift station. Um cuz that's got to happen before we can start building houses over there. And this project's starting to drag out a little longer than we would like to. So, um, we're going to continue to try to move the engineering firm along with delivering those plans to us so we can get that thing going. Hawkins Lane, uh, working days are paused now. So, we did a walk through with the general contractor. Uh, the water line is good, the road is good, and now we're just waiting on uh the it's a separate contract with a firm that's doing the power. And so, as soon as the power's done, then we can get the irrigation going. uh we don't want to start doing plantings and stuff until we're we're able to, you know, have the irrigation operating. So hopefully in the next week or two the power will be done. Then you'll start seeing all the plantings come in. You'll start seeing the gave baskets and then the beautiful monument sign. And I'm told that something really spectacular is to be delivered in May that will go in the center of the roundabout public works facility. The site pads complete. Our crew is going to start their aspect of the site utilities and hopefully the subs will be doing theirs as well and maybe we'll see some footings going in in the next couple weeks. Goddard Galleria project, they've had a couple walkthroughs on that one. There's several uh panels that will need to be replaced for defects. So, I really

appreciate uh Harlon and our public works team for holding the contractor u accountable with that and getting this fixed. And I'd say the contractor's been very amicable in taking care of those issues that we found in the field. Um, so we're getting really uh close over there. Looks like we've got some erosion control to go um in some of the finished grading. So looks starting to look like we have a a pretty near finished project product over there. We got a lot of upcoming agenda items. the 60 minute may become 90 minute on this April 28th meeting. Um if we have any ability, we'll try to push some of that maybe to the uh 4th of May. But there's a slew of upcoming agenda items there for you. Uh just so you have a heads up with what's to come. So mayor, the council have any questions? I'd be glad to stand for those.

Other questions? That's one and maybe for the community you can give us an update on the uh emergency preparedness study we were doing. I haven't heard anything on that. So maybe get an update on that. So we uh we met we've met twice since our last council meeting virtually and they sent us uh some questions and kind of a survey type deal that we need to fill out and get back to them. So, uh, a lot of the introductory work's going on and I think we're going to start getting into the meat of it over the next few weeks. We have another meeting on the calendar. I'm not quite sure when it is, but I will send council just kind of a paragraph um with with a few more details on where that's at.

Any other questions? Thank you, Senator Manager. Thank you. governing body comments.

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okay. Well, first of all, thanks for tolerating all my work trips and I'm hoping this is my very last one. Um, also want to uh give a shout out to all the staff and Congo uh for their work on getting the North Park up and running. I'm super excited for that project to start. I know everybody on the branches. So, I'm looking forward to that as well as thank to the staff for um all the work that you're about to do on the street and water looping projects. Lots of things from the CIP getting checked off. Uh and that's always a great sign. Um, also just kind of want to give a a shout out um and kind of a heads up for uh this Friday at noon. Uh we're going to be um thanking our senior center advisory board for all of their hard work over the last two years. I think that's at the community center. Uh so um hoping that the community will come out and thank our advisory board uh because they've really uh been doing amazing work over the last two years and uh hopefully we'll be there to celebrate and have some snacks and cake and things like that. So hope to see you all there and excited for Neighbors United. Lots of stuff going on.

That's all I have. Uh I echo all of Naomi's sentiment. I also want to um just give a shout out to Brent Trailer who kind of led the charge on the North Park and even like every he served quite a long time to see this come to fruition. So I just want to honor him in that and um I'm excited that we get to really see it moving forward. Um and then yeah, just saying everything's moving and it's it's good.

See? Yeah. Well, um I know we just kind of touched on the fact that we're going to say thank you to the senior centers, but I just kind of had a fun thing that I wanted to share. Um so I've been trying to get my dad to go to senior center events for quite a while. I've talked to Carrie about it. I talked to Amanda about it. I mean I like to like this would be so much fun. Um and I think I've planted the seed enough that Saturday night he got a night out by himself and so he went to Veno. Um said 50 bucks. He met a couple. He did not hit their names, but they were so friendly to him um that he agreed to come back next month. I said I'd go with him. So, um that was a really fun thing to see go to fruition. I think that that's a a really great uh resource for the seniors in our community. Not that my dad's a senior, if he's watching, he's not quite there yet, but um I just it was such a great thing to to watch that and to see him meet other people and get out there. So, thank you for all you guys do. Um caring you especially because I know you're out there running every time. So, um, that was a really fun thing. Uh, I'm really excited to see the North Park, um, come to life and just have a new space to go to go play and, um, all of the work that we've got going on in Gard two of the year two of the five for five. So, yeah.

Uh, so yeah, excited for the North Park. I can't wait to do the groundbreaking on that one because that'll be a big moment, I think, for everyone here. Uh, thank you staff for a fairly lengthy agenda, being real efficient and getting through it. I appreciate that. And, uh, I'll just continue to second the neighbors United Saturday. Lions Club, we're doing two um, blessing boxes. So, doing one over on Easy Place and replacing one from the library. So, be exciting to see what other good projects there are in the community and what gets done that day. They look beautiful here on the Facebook. Or did you impress yourself? I made one and lion Terry Runberg's making the other. They looked really good. So,

I might have some projects at home for you. I was just thinking that Lions projects keep me busy. I'm sure we could slave one of my wife's projects.

Sounds like the Lions have some projects coming up. Uh I guess one thing I'd like to note is just financially on these three big projects between the park public works building and the waterlooping project. This uh our preliminary estimates uh were I think fairly accurate that all three of these projects are are going to come in well below what we were talking about initially. Um bid process uh has been good and and and Harlon, all your work on that water looping project. Appreciate that. Those goods coming in the level that they did. Um I think we're really fortunate at this point to to to see all the way town's going to be torn up here in the next uh 210 days, but hopefully by uh Christmas time uh things will come back together. I know if you go down Third Street right now after tearing out trees and and and drive, you know, driveways and yards getting torn up that it's come back together and and once we're done, we'll deal with the immediate pain. But I just ask everybody in those neighborhoods to be patient and uh and the infrastructure of our community in the oldest part of our town is is being taken care of and that bodess well for the rest of the community as we continue to move out and and repair things and keep things in order. So, uh, also like to note that the, uh, the plaque for the, uh, annual volunteer of the year for the last two years is now on the wall. So, hopefully we can, uh, fill that up over the next 30 years. And, uh, just a constant reminder of the the type of people we have in our community that give of their time and their efforts to make this a better place. And, uh, I'm

very thankful for all that. So with that, uh, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. Second. All right. All those in favor say I. Five passes. Thank you.