Remarks by Dwayne Lowman
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Yeah, do we have any holds tonight? I just have one. I've got 311. But other than that, or do we want to? Okay, all right. Let's go. So then with that being said, Mayor, then I'll move 311 all the way through 310.
And then, Mayor, I have 3-11, which is the resolution to amend the city of Bloomington employment rules. And I'd like to vote against that, so I don't want to move that. And I've stated that many a time, so I don't want to get into the details here today. But if there's somebody else who wants to move this, I'd be happy.
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Oh, yeah, no problem. So I know that it's coming later on, but I kind of debated whether to bring it up now or just bring it up now. So if we, I mean, I have an image in my mind in terms of what this is and in terms of this definition here, in terms of what it looks like, but then I think about something like the, you know, when you go over to egan, they've got that whole vikings kind of set up over there. How does that fit or not fit into this definition and what do you think of that as you look at this definition? Could something on a smaller scale fit into this definition?
And then it kind of goes along with that. So if there's a limitation in terms of that, how would one expand into that? So if you're right up against the, and you wanted to expand and make it bigger, how does that fit into this definition if you're over that? Would it just be, at that point it would be a, you know, some other process to allow it to enlarge or I'm just trying to understand what we're trying to fit into this.
I wanted you to say it, not me. All right, I'll wait for my other questions later.
Other thoughts? Councilmember lomon. Well, I won't repeat all my colleagues have said here, but I'm in agreement with that. That conflict with the hazardous waste and that type of thing or any other conflicting things, I think it make it tough. while I like to consider, obviously, you don't want to have something sit vacant for decades just because you're waiting for something to come along. But my other concern that I have is that once you kind of lose that industrial use, it's really difficult to turn that around and go backwards. And that's more so from the data perspective, where I'm a…
So if I may, Mayor Wood, I'd comment on this is to say that it's not so much the square footage that I'm concerned about. My colleague here brought it forward, Council Member Nelson. It's the impact to the residential area. think that's where I think we've got to be careful about what that looks like and so I mean that's one way of solving for is to say we only want an ulterior you know but I wonder if we ask this in a different way what's the impact to the residential areas that are abounding or around that area and not so much worry about the square footage because the thing I'm afraid of…
Council Member Lohman? So I saw on the opening slide the 68... Firefighters, are those part time or full time? Does that include the ten? 68 includes the ten. Okay. That doesn't include the ten. I was curious about that. I figure I just throw it in here now since I've got you here. I am curious. We saw the police chief talk about comparisons to Rochester and Duluth, and I'm not putting you on the spot here at all, ever. But I'd be curious about if we tried to compare ourselves to those other places.
So, I think you really outlined it quite well earlier. Basically, we have a real balancing predicament when we talk about fiscal responsibility and then also affordability and there are tradeoffs with that. And so, the thing that I think staff did a phenomenal job, bringing this and putting this together, you know, as always, this is, you know, each year, I wonder how they're going to top it. And this year they topped it again. So not a whole lot of questions in terms of that, but the question I kind of, you know, as a policymaker kind of struggle with is, you know, for the little gal or a…
Thank you, mayor, and I want to thank staff for their willingness to be able to meet with us and have those conversations. The only real question that I have, you had mentioned this earlier item here with the item 17 with ongoing building height is limited to 40 feet. Is that a pretty common practice that we do across the city?
I guess my real question, mayor, and maybe it's left for a policy discussion later on at a different point in time, if the rest of the block gets turned into R3, would they not have that restriction?
So that's pretty common, what you're saying?
you know, Mary, I think I'll pick up right after that. I THINK THAT IT'S DIFFICULT, YOU KNOW, YOU MENTIONED THE IDEA OF CHANGE, AND WHEN WE SEE CHANGE AND WE'RE NOT USED TO IT, I'M STILL, I SAY THIS OFTEN TIMES, I GET UPSET AND ANGRY ABOUT HOW 86th STREET WENT FROM FOUR LANES DOWN TO TWO. And it's really where it needs to, it's where it belongs. You know, and that's why we have a comprehensive plan. You know, we have made decisions to take portions and part of the city and to kind of say, hey, we want this area or this part to kind of move in this direction. And we've also created policies to…
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I want to be sure we're set with that then.
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So, I just had a question, too, in terms of the parking piece of it. So, you know, with how this changes things, it's possible that folks would be encouraged to utilize the street parking, right? So, then, you know, we have maybe, you know, maybe it's we're going to change it at some other point in time, but, you know, don't we have that 24-hour rule where you got to kind of move your car? And I'm curious, you know, if you'd opine just a moment on that, because that kind of almost in a sense sets you up for enforcement in some degree in some parts of the city, you know, I would just say,…
I appreciate that. And I guess that's sort of where I'm kind of having a little bit of trouble with this. I know we got a chance to come back and look at this, you know, and see how it operates over time. But, you know, it's kind of almost like we're saying a contradictory thing. It's kind of like, hey, let's utilize these, you know, use the street parking. you know, any reasonable person, you know, might end up utilizing it longer than that period of time. You know, and you're gone for whatever reason. You take a trip, you know, you're gone for a couple days or you're mom nursing and you…
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I guess if nobody else would do it, I'll do the bidding here. Mayor, I'll move to amend an ordinance for off-street parking requirements, thereby amending chapters 12, 21 of the city code.
I'll move a resolution authorizing summary publication amending off street parking requirements, thereby amending chapters 12, 21 of the city code.