Remarks by Chris Leh
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“Any others? All right. We will move on to the consent agenda. Do we have a motion to approve the consent? So moved to approve consent. Second. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right, then. The next is council informational comments and committee reports. Do we have any informational comments or committee reports tonight? Yes, council member Kern.”
“Thanks. How about Councilmember Cooperman or Councilmember Heffner? No. Okay. I have a couple of them. Tonight is National Night Out. There were a lot of people over at the police station enjoying that. Thank you for... Thanks to the police department for putting that on and for the people coming out and so forth. The second thing is I believe it is the 20th anniversary of the library. If people remember, there was one ill-fated large bond issue that went to the voters and there was just too much in it. It was to build both the rec center and the library. But it came back, I think it was the…”
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“Actually, why don't we, we've done this both ways, why don't we actually ask questions or have counsel questions of you first and then we'll get the applicant up here. Because often those are separate questions. So either on the GDP amendment or the SRU, does anybody have any questions for Matt?”
“Okay. Thank you. Other questions? Great. Council Member Cooperman has questions.”
“I had a question. Was there a referral made to the Front Range Passenger Rail District?”
“No, I understand, but there is, you know, it's not a long distance between the train stop and Red Tail Ridge. I... I don't know that there is at least an option from a planning standpoint of a future kind of shuttle between those two areas. I wouldn't expect necessarily that's going to be run by the Metro District, but I didn't notice it in the transportation plan or any of that yet. And there is, so.”
“My recollection is that there was, at one time anyway, some concern about maybe it was an RTD concern, maybe it was actually an applicant concern, about whether there was going to be enough area around the hospital entrance to be able to have a stop for buses should that ever occur. Do I have that right?”
“I don't see any questions from our online council members here. Why don't we hear from the applicant?”
“Thank you very much. Council members, do you have some questions? Yep, Council Member Fahey.”
“Thank you. Other council members? Yeah, council members.”
“Okay. Thank you very much. Why don't we take some public comment if we've got any. Do we have any public comment? No. All right. So come back to council discussion. This is there's only one round of public comments. So we've had that time. This is. Pardon me. It's just either hallucinating or there is a car alarm going off behind us. No matter. We'll keep at it here. We've got the PUD and then the SRU. I guess probably best to take them one at a time. Bear with me for a second.”
“All right. I think the staff's done a really fine job of walking through all of the criteria. And I think what I'd like to do is if there are any first of all any questions about the Findings that they've outlined for us Relating to the PUD Let's talk about those now looks like Councilmember Heffner has a comment”
“All right, then. Somebody want to speak to that from the applicant? All right. Anyone else? Council Member Cooperman and then Mayor Pro Tem.”
“I certainly echo the comment about the groundbreaking. I agree on the comments that have been made by other council members and won't say anything further about those. I think the staff has done a good job about, as I kind of mentioned before about outlining the criteria for both pieces of this resolution. And so I think we can adopt those. And I really want to say thank you for their work on this, because these are massive amounts of work. I want to make sure that the public is aware just how heavy a lift these things are for staff over a long period of time, and it's really a credit to the…”
“No, just for questions. Council questions. It doesn't look like we have any questions right now. Do we have any public comment? No. All right. Then back to council. Does council have any...”
“Your enthusiasm is infectious. Councilmember Kuperman. All right, let's do a second round of public comment. If we've got one, do we have anybody? All right, back to council. Councilmember Kern.”
“comments. I wanted to make a couple of comments. One, I think Council Member Dickinson nailed it about the importance of council being United on this kind of project. I think that's terrific I don't think this is a new thing for this council. I think this is something we've been talking about and working toward for some time we've had two initiatives relating to it. We've had a comprehensive plan that discussed it. We've got, I think, importantly, private businesses that are working with council or with the city to bring this together. And I think that's something that a lot of people don't…”
“Thank you, Councilman Heffner. I wanted to just circle back. There's one thing I'd forgotten to mention. I didn't want to pull this off of the consent agenda, but if you look back at Item 5C, we have decided that we want to use the private activity bonds to participate in the private activity bond program, and that's going to help this project, we hope. That's a program that's been around for a long time, and it has been 11 years that I've been on council, and we have seen those projects or those bonds be provided to other communities over and over again, very gradually. worthwhile projects…”
“There'll be one round of public comment, and we'll give it to staff to present. Thanks.”
“Thanks. Council, any questions on this one? I was surprised that there isn't a currency house already. Is this the first one? It's the first. Wow. Because they're everywhere. The currencies, their fingerprints are on so much in our community. All right. Do we have any, do you have any questions? Okay, we take public comment if there is any. All right, back to council. Yes.”
“Thank you, Andy. ANY OTHER COUNCIL DISCUSSION? IF NOT, I COULD HEAR A MOTION.”
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“Council questions? Council Member Curtin.”