Remarks by Sebastian Griffin
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“Chat's on it. ChatGPT is going to find out real quick.”
“And I don't mean that to be any way aggressive. I just, I don't know how tall it is. So maybe eight foot was sufficient. I didn't think so, but thank you.”
“Mayor? Yes. Just my initial, I pretty much just stated it in the last little portion of what I stated. I'm having a very tough time with this one, and I was hoping that the neighbors would help me find a point of almost mediation where we could have some resolve. I really feel for them because oftentimes we're able to get after some folks that say, I don't want something in my backyard. like houses or neighbors or anything along those lines. If you live in a residential area and your future land use map calls for residential, you should plan on maybe having neighbors one day. These folks were…”
“Mayor? Is this a second summary? It's just a request. I think for me, possibly to get there, after doing a good long back and forth with ChatGPT, I have found that there aren't no trees that we should put there that would mitigate the issue. However, considering the neighbor's back doors, if there was a five to six foot tall berm and an eight foot tall fence, opaque in color, placed there, they shouldn't see the buildings, let alone the semis ever going by. I think that would be amenable rather than having even homes because something's going to go there Um, if there's homes, we might, we…”
“No, I'm not. But if there were to be a motion to include a berm in a fence, that's where I would be leaning more support.”
“Councilman? Is it specified that that fence is not going to be chain-linked?”
“I only spell it out because I'm dealing with a current development where we weren't super clear and it led to issues. So if we Unless it's in our code and says it cannot be chain link, I would really like to not have it be stated as chain link.”
“What is the triggering event to require them to install the sidewalk? Does this... Because I see a neighborhood looking like it's going to be going in there very soon.”
“When's the timeline for that? Is there any timeline for that? This one's hard for me because I constantly want to see at least minimal efforts of sidewalks going into the city. There's a major development going in there and we could do this piece by piece and I also don't want the developer on either the townhouses or this designated property to basically be off the hook because who knows when that street project goes in and who knows who owns it at that point.”
“I assume that unit... 302, 306, 208. I apologize. Are they townhouses or apartments? That's the enclave apartments, and they have installed sidewalk along their frontage. And so we're talking about the western portion to the drain.”
“And I also – and this is where I'm cutting against myself. I say we collect the funds now for the sidewalk project because I can't imagine by the time we actually get a road project through there, maybe Crystal can call it out, that this property owner is going to be the same. So is it a deed restriction saying when it's developed, you're going to be on the hook for it, whoever buys it?”
“Crystal, how long is the timeline for that project? You can sit there and say it if you want.”
“Just for a comment for Doug, in our calculation for our Fiscal impact analysis. Can we use the high number on police replacements when we're factoring in that number? Because I know it's easy to calculate impact fee dollars and saying, okay, we get to cover the first, but now that we're losing vehicles and needing to cover the replacements. If we could capture the full amount of anticipated vehicles that are going to be replaced as we continue to grow, I would like that factored in beyond just the impact fee analysis, but rather when we're actually having to pay the bill like we are tonight.”
“Just clarification then. How is it clarified in the current analysis? Are we factoring in just the impact fee number of the initial vehicle, or are we factoring in the replacement?”
“Okay. All right. I think this next one might be a 3-3, though. Prepare yourself. Who knows?”
“Do we need a motion for this, Mayor? A continuation?”
“I'll make a motion to approve. Second. Under suspension of rules. Okay, roll call.”
“Mayor, question. Yes. Just in regard to the development agreement, and it might be for Rodney, I'm trying to remember this specific project by looking at its site plan as well as the development agreement restrictions that we were requesting within it. Is this that cottage cluster type style where the park is in the center of the backyards of all those little townhouses? Did we call out, I thought there was something about the dog park being called out for a specific location, but I didn't see it within the development agreement. Is that written somewhere that I might have missed? Or am I…”
“And I can't either. I tried to look back. I'm going off of the site plan where it's showing that they have the $238,000 townhouses that will be for sale in that center portion, and then there's going to be the park there. But I couldn't remember if the dog run along the back. I just remember there being language specific to the actual dog park, and I'm not seeing it in the development agreement, so I'm not fully certain if it was applied or not. And once again, I apologize for”
“Can you tell me the difference between a condition of approval and the development agreement?”
“So what do we have as teeth? if something is not in the development agreement to go after a development for not honoring a condition of approval rather than... And, Rodney, this is, if I may just refine... 7-1, we're on.”
“I think you were about to call roll call, and I cut you off, so I apologize, Mayor. I think it's just important, especially knowing the... We want to be sure that these development agreements are spelled out. If it was intended to be part of the development agreement rather than a condition of use, I just know it was a hot topic for that night, and it might be something that we want to have written.”
“So we need to be looking for it in the consent agenda as well moving forward.”
“Well, and I know it was a close vote either way, so it might not have even been part of the motion. I just remembered the discussion, and I want to be sure I have this process right moving forward for development agreements to be able to look for an unfinished business and on the consent agenda. Just adds another step, I suppose.”
“What has more teeth, a development agreement or a condition of approval?”