City Council - Regular Meeting

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Mr. Vice Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve consent agenda items 4A as in Adam through 4 Adam Boston on the consent agenda items.

Just to satisfy my own curiosity, why didn't they apply for that tiny little piece just north of them? Is that not their property or why didn't they change that little fraction of a piece just north of them?

Very good, thank you very much. Any other questions from council?

Yes, Andrea, let's talk a little bit about the overlying reason for this change. Is it, because General Commerce would be able to do the project they're looking for right now. What are the positives for the community and for the developer moving forward with the necessity for this change? Is there anything in there with that different kind of the C1 designation that makes the project better overall?

So that would change the project drastically if you're doing a 50-foot setback all the way around, right? Absolutely. You're basically making that acre and a half, an acre and a quarter.

No, it does. I think it's important to note those things and the reasons that we go from that old designation to the new one. Because a lot of staff time and effort went into updating all of our codes. So when we have an opportunity like this to update and make it more user friendly, not just for the developer, but it'll make it a nicer project overall. I just think it's important to point those out. So thank you very much, Andrea.

absolutely yeah i think it's just important that we we had a process uh we didn't exercise and change our our code so that we moving forward we have nicer projects that have more specific uses i think it's important to you know it's just it's an acre and a half win let's let's let's celebrate that acre and a half win

Mr. Vice Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve agenda item 5A as an atom.

Yes, I went over quite a bit of this with staff today and we talked a lot about it. A lot of what I had missed on it or overlooked was the reimbursement part of this. That's a very large, substantial amount of this is reimbursable. I think some people do not quite understand what's meant by reimbursable and how long it might take to get some of that back because the person has to start developing if he wants to pay and has to pay the money back to the city. But we are going to get our money back eventually. It may take a year or two. But we'll get our money back. But the project is such an imp

Yeah. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Let's talk about that, the reimbursement slope. Correct me if I'm wrong, on the scallops breed improvement, the way that works is it's a 10 years time lane, correct?

Correct, Scallop Street. And doesn't that percentage paid back reduce by every year that it's not developed?

So you're doing it, you're accomplishing, you're perpetuating the scalloped street improvement through the development agreement? Yes, sir. Is that what you're telling me? Yes, sir. Okay. So that's that's on that one. What about one of the questions that was asked I think by multiple of the speakers earlier is who is the developer? I think that you're talking about the southwest corner. I don't remember the name of the developer themselves but I remember we did do a lot of changes to make their project come forward and work out very well for them for the different types of zoning usages they h

So what's the timeline on that DA? Do we know if it's going to be done in a year? Are we on it?

Thank you. And so that also answers my next question about the Scallop Street improvement. Because if we're doing that mechanism through the DA, then it's not. The Scallop Street is only 1,000 feet from the center line of the intersection is what that ordinance is allowed by law. So that's why my next question was, how are we accomplishing using the Scallop Street beyond that 1,000 feet? So doing it within a development agreement makes perfect sense. Thank you. Where are we at on the timeline for this? I know that you were talking about helping to the overall project. Are we 30% done, 60% done

Okay. Let's talk about the appraisal differentiation real quick. How do part of this, am I understanding it correctly, that part of this increase is to help overcome the difference between the appraisals? Am I looking at that correctly? Yes, sir. Okay. When we have opposing opinions on that, when we have these happen to a private citizen, how do we, we normally will look at doing a condemnation if we can't really come to an agreement. Is that a mechanism that we have within the state, or is it because it's municipality to municipality? Is there some sort of stoppage there?

the goal here with this council uh item is to come once and for all uh but at the same time we are anticipating the goal of moving that number down so what i hear you saying with that third appraisal is that you're basically asking for an action within this seven hundred seven million dollars six hundred thousand that is to make up the difference between the two appraisals But if we get a third appraisal in, there might not be the usage of that money. So therefore you're just looking for the authorization within this action to do that in case of the worst case scenario. That's correct. Yes. Ok

And can you follow up with everybody, just whether it be email or whatever, just to make sure that we're good on all those things? You guys OK with that? Yes, sir, absolutely.

Mr. Vice Mayor, I would like to make a motion that we approve agenda item 5B as in boy.

I'll make one comment. I just want to thank Dave Rogwick for all he's done for the city. This is his last council meeting that he'll be with us. He'll be retiring. So thank you for all you've done. Thank you for your wisdom and your guidance for the council through this year and a half that I've known you. Thank you.

I think he's going to enjoy that retirement.