Remarks by Victor Rodriguez
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“Thank you. As I listen to everybody speak, I actually formulated a couple of ideas here. A year ago, I went to all the Hispanic food trucks, and they were enjoying a great time, of course, because there's no regulations. And so now, if we're going to start doing this, the only impact I see is to our employees. Stricter regulations equal more impact on our code enforcement. So if we do that, it's going to take them away from all the other stuff that code enforcement does. Think about giving them some help. All the other regulations that sit here, I'm okay with. And I really am not going to…”
“Remind me what 673 is again. 673 is the ag bill.”
“Okay, Chris or Doug. So I'm just thinking out loud here that since we've had about 5,000 annexations over the last year, maybe a couple years, that I would assume that our property tax revenue would increase because of the growth. But it only increases by, what, 4 or 5 million maybe at that most. So I have a hard time grasping that growth is paying for growth, especially when, at the moment, the City of Nampa have decided to ask our developers to front the money to put in infrastructure for them, rather than us saying, we'll take care of it, we'll do it. By the way, you'll get that money…”
“And give me your, I've got 751 West Euston. Is that your address?”
“In District 2. And do you have a modification of... plans from the last time around, or is this surprise to you when you notice the changes?”
“Do you have an aerial view of the intersection of Star Road and U6?”
“Well, I was wondering about the consequences to parents allowing their children six, seven, eight, nine years old to ride on these bikes. So what actually is the consequence for a parent?”
“Also... I believe, in my opinion only, that these e-bikes not be allowed on our pathways. And so is that a Supreme Court ruling that you're following? This is a safety issue.”
“I would, it's just my opinion, fellow councilman, is that we should not allow them on our pathways, especially around six, seven in the morning when the mothers are taking their babies with their strollers. So the other thing is, it says exemptions to traffic laws any piece of service defined in this code, um, they're not, uh, uh, in the course and scope of their official duties, exempt from the requirements of a subsection of the section. Are we Joe, are we buying e-bikes? I don't think so. And so I don't even know why that's there, but it also says, see in the immediate pursuit of an actual…”
“It's exemptions to traffic laws number 1653.”
“I'm just going to make a motion to approve, sir.”
“Mayor Brunner. Yes, I guess I'll start it off. I think this will be for Daniel, so thank you. Under utilities, Daniel, it says sewer for this area is master planned to be served from the midway sewer trunk. Current service shall be to the Middleton trunk. Flat shall be revised to show the infrastructure needed to facilitate the abandonment of the private lift station. So what is the fiscal responsibility of the city then?”
“So if you abandon it, what happens to the Middleton trunk?”
“OK. Would you please explain what regarding under utilities, what is static pressure?”
“It says here that you would have static pressure over 80 psi. What does that mean?”
“It would be what you're doing by doing this is is uh assuring that the residents will have constant pressure of water yes we've modeled it to verify that that the system can handle the uh demands that they would put on this okay that's what i i didn't know what you said here so i got thank you thank you any other questions mayor yes candace how much open space did you say this has”
“One of the things that we have been worried about is the impact of growth especially on the north side and the southeast side of nampa it's just it's just so much the growth on the southwest nampa appears to in this project goes toward what i wanted to see in a long time and it's about time that we did that however Growth is not paying for itself. Growth is a detriment at times to our taxpayers. But you know what? It's a good thing to see a growth of a project like this. And I want to commend the developers and the owners for this. So I'm going to surprise you all. I'm going to support this.…”
“Mayor Bruner? Yes. Just one quick question, or one quick statement. The decision I made has no bearing on Grace Bible Church. I'm not connected by my decision to Grace Bible Church on the next hearing. Is that what you wanted to hear? I don't know.”
“That's totally separate. I just want everybody to know that. I understand the point.”
“Okay. I'll be real quick. The other day I did go into Burger King and it was at eight o'clock, 8 p.m. And your folks were cleaning it up and it looked fantastic. You've always been that way. Thank you for that. It's always clean. It's always workable in there.”
“No, thank you. Well, you're welcome. The other question is I have is, is regarding the variances. is it because you're making the building larger or, or is it easier for you to move it forward? Or I should say more East in the parking lot to not, to not have to use the variances.”
“Just one last question. Why can't you just move the landscaping out and put more building there?”
“I wouldn't worry about it. I just want to.”