Remarks by Adam Barajas
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Thank you, Madam Mayor. This past week, I did a few more visits with our water utilities, which I will be reporting out kind of a bigger piece once I'm kind of done and collated everything. I had a chance to swing by a EV, electric vehicle kind of showcase here at City Hall. So thank you to our Sustainability Department and Community Services for putting that on. I did not get behind the wheel of... North Glen brought some of their fleet down to kind of show the different vehicles that could replace gas vehicles in the fleet particularly now you know they mentioned a lot of pricing stability…
Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, City Manager, for the presentation. I appreciate you mentioning the... that was in downtown Westminster. I did have a chance to go to that, too. Just wanted to bring up, as I was chatting with some of the organizers from our downtown business association, a few highlights, too, that half of the vendors that were there were repeat, were kind of there for both years, so they enjoyed it enough to come back, and there was space enough for some new people to kind of wet their feet, and it was a very successful day from what I could tell and from the conversations I had…
Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, Councilor Ireland. I think that's like one of the, you know, infill is one of my biggest concerns when it comes to these data centers. So with that in mind, right, like the obsolescence of these larger data centers will be a task, particularly for areas that have many of them. And so I think that's now, you know, I know that i i that's one piece and i want to thank staff thank you john for for kind of bringing this to uh forward to us and for staff taking the feedback from council you know i i want to kind of be clear particularly for the few who might be…
Yes, I'm all for that. If we can do that, yeah, sure. Yeah, so I believe, and I'm not a land use attorney or work in land use, so I could be wrong about this, but I believe what the work required, if we're going to model it after oil and gas kind of setbacks, would be to go through all of our IGAs with oil and gas kind of setbacks and then maybe add language to that And then from there, go and renegotiate the IGA. So it's a really big lift, I imagine. And then frankly speaking, if there is a neighboring municipality that's interested in building this out, either they'll just walk out of the…