Remarks by Dietrich Hoefner
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“Councilmember Heffner and then Mayor Pretent. Yeah, thank you all so much for being here and all the great material and appreciation, not only of your group, but of staff who we value at least as highly as you do. The only thing I want to share is there's at least, I think, some preliminary good news on budget, that a few things like 4th of July, and I think, I'm trying to remember what the other ones, there's a few items that I think we've gotten into the budget. It's probably not all of the items that we could possibly want, but it's a few of the critical ones, and we're certainly, I know…”
“I would say no, provided that the discussions continue, you know, in good faith at the staff level, which it sounds like they are. So I know what? No to us taking it up as long as the discussions are continuing toward a mutually agreeable solution at the staff level. I don't think any of us need to play road engineer anytime soon. Yes.”
“Just, I think we're very close. My idea is just let's have the various engineering staff work together to find a solution everybody likes or at least can live with. Council Member Kern.”
“Motion. Is that a motion to adjourn, Mayor? So moved. Second. All in favor?”
“Josh Cooperman, Ward 1. Dietrich Heffner, Ward 3. Thanks for coming.”
“Yeah, thank you. Thanks to all of you for coming and sharing in the presentation. I agree with everything my Word 3 colleague said. I would add, you know, on the sort of taking care of what we have front, I do think that's really important. The other thing we've all been working hard on is we just finished our comprehensive plan for land use and we'll be implementing that with a development code rewrite. You know, and depending on who you ask, I think one of the outcomes of that is going to be We're hoping to get open Lewisville to more and different kinds of people than necessarily live here…”
“Yeah, thanks. You know, I know I've shared a lot of my feedback directly with staff. I think there's a lot of things to liken here in terms of the amount of community input. I think we have a lot of really good sort of statistical information about what people asked for, sort of what does the wish list look like in terms of what people want. I think there's a lot of great descriptive information about what conditions are like now, especially in the trails plan. I think there's a lot of that good information, the vegetation survey, the existing needs assessment. The thing that I struggle with…”
“Do you mind if I just... Is your proposal we take like long-range plan out of the title Yeah, but the sort of the core document is called the long-range plan I”
“Yeah. Council Member Abbott. Yeah, so I guess I think about it in a slightly different way. which is it's been the better part of two years of engagement. I am reluctant to insert ourselves directly into the editing process. I think this is all, in my view, this is all useful feedback to staff, and they should sort of think about it and chew on it. and consider whether it makes sense and whether there's sufficient remaining resources to accomplish the feedback if it does make sense. I don't know that I'm especially comfortable sort of directing fine grain adjustments at this point. And the…”
“Yeah, so I mean I think of it as are we signing off sort of that these are the right set of recommendations and priorities that have been sort of informed by our input and at least what i'm looking at especially with respect to the long range plan less so with respect to the trails plan it's it's more of just a sort of a summary of a lot of information and so to sign off on it as a plan and thinking about 10 years into the future when most of us probably all of us won't be sitting here and some proposal comes forward and it's like, well, that's in the plan, we should go do it. This plan could…”
“Can I just read from the plan and see if this solves the issue? The proposed trail improvements are for consideration purposes only, each of which will require further evaluation prior to final approval. All proposed trail system improvements will undergo a thorough staff review and city council approval prior to implementation. Evaluation criteria may include connectivity, safety, ecological protection, maintenance cost, and staff resource ability. That sounds good. Put that in there. It seems like a good disclaimer to me.”
“First, yeah, go ahead. I'll just say on the second question, for my money, the time is better spent having staff continue the community engagement window, focus on that process. That's who we really want to hear from. And I'm sure to the extent any of us have additional comments on the draft, we'll share those. But that's just my view.”
“Yeah, thanks, Mayor. I was going to make the same point as the city attorney about the resolution covering both. And while I appreciate that others may still have more questions, I was going to go ahead and move approval of resolution number 66, series 2026. I was very pleased with both the staff report and the applicant presentation. And I look forward to approving this tonight so i'm going to go ahead and make the motion second any discussion about either part of the”
“Yeah, thanks, Mayor. I think the... and the memo supports approval of this, and I'm pleased to do it. I do want to just briefly call to everyone's attention an email we got this morning from a resident. linking to an article about Telluride's experience with doing affordable housing and highlighting a lot of the problems they've had as they've sort of embarked on a municipal effort to decide what kinds of people should live where and for how much and for how long and how much dissatisfaction that has generated. And I think This project is a little different insofar as it's not going to be…”
“Only because of the internet delay. I was there in person. I'm the fastest second in the West.”