Town Council - Regular Meeting

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Good evening everybody. Go ahead and call this meeting to order. This is the March 23rd uh meeting of the Parker Town Council. The time is 7:02. Let the record show that all the council is present. First time business. If you would please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you all. Welcome to Parker Town Council. Just going to go through here. Sorry, little jumbled. We were running a little long in the other room. Um, first item of business is public comment. Public comment, no action will be taken on these items. Public comment is an opportunity for town residents and other interested individuals to speak about items that are not on the agenda. This comment period is limited to 30 minutes of total time with each individual allowed a maximum three minutes to speak. You must sign up ahead of time in order to comment and that sign up begins 30 minutes before the start of the meeting. The council will accommodate as many speakers as possible during this time with reference to town residents. But if public com comment extends beyond the allotted 30 minutes, town council will continue the comment period to the end of the meeting prior to adjourning those already signed up. As any matters raised by individuals during public comment are not on the agenda and other potentially interested parties would not therefore be aware of this discussion or of these matters. The town council will not engage in dialogue regarding any items raised during public comment. With that said, I've got I want to recognize one public comment from a Henry Keller that was um sent electronically. Each council member has a record of that in front of them. Please take the time to read that at your leisure. Next up, I've got three item three members of the public wishing to speak. I'd like to uh first invite up Mr. Dr. Excuse me, Dr. John Vender, please. The floor is yours.

Wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. Uh, good evening council and thank you for your service. My name is Dr. John better. I'm a family medicine physician and I represent Wellness Centers, one of your local enterprise businesses headquartered in Fort Colorado, from which I broke down for three months. Uh, 14 years ago, my company took a risk. We opened a clinic here in Parker to improve health care and to offer alternatives to large hospital systems. My nurses and I purchased three acres of land at the end of 20 mile road north. Beautiful wooded land that borders the creek we had subdivided and we gifted the town of Parker 2 acres uh so that the beautiful water uh waterfront property could be a lasting legacy for the town and we kept the bald hill which had once been a landfill. We mitated that and we built our state-of-the-art uh facility and began paying $30,000 a year in property taxes annually to fund the community and county. At the same time, we still provide outstanding health care and provide local jobs. How has the town responded with neglect? The beautiful wooded area has become a bed for transit persons and criminals. Our video came show people urinating in our dumpsters, uprooting our tost, busting out our windows, stealing electricity. And that's just in the last eight weeks. And for those who have vehicles, we see them parking there illegally after hours and on our private block, dumping trash illegally for my nurses and my receptions to clean up and pick up the next day. When we call the police, every outcome the same. No arrest. We show them the video footage, but there's nothing they can do. And there's no change in patrol patterns. Dear council, we want a refund of $30,000 because we're paying for this infrastructure. We donated the land intended to be for the good of the town's people and it is being squandered. It could be a beautiful

park. It's not. And I have pictures if you want to see. It's grotesque of the human stuff that's being left there. This is not the Parker I know. This is not the town we committed to a decade and a half ago. I want you to tell me what your plan is to stop the wasteland that's developing next to our small employee owned business. Yes, my receptionist will be honest. They own it. I only own 20% of it. Uh it's threatening the healthcare access of our patients, your neighbors, and the security of my staff. Thank you for listening. Thank you, doctor. Appreciate your time.

Next up, I'd like to call Michelle Diller. Floor is yours. Good evening, council members, and thank you for your time. My name is Michelle Diller. I grew up in Parker, and now once again, I'm fortunate to call this beloved town my home. Growing up, growing up here, some of the things I loved most were the wide open plains and the sunny night skies. On a clear evening, you could look up and see the Milky Way stretching across the horizon. Or at least you used to be able to. Just as I have grown over the years, Parker has grown as well. I'm glad more people want to enjoy what our special and formerly small town has to offer. But I believe we have a responsibility to grow smarter. I have many concerns about how Parker can better care for our local ecosystems and the health of our community. But today, I want to focus on one specific practical solution. Reducing lights pollution through a dark sky ordinance. As our town grows, we are adding more buildings, more roads, and more artificial light. Without thoughtful planning of the future we are building, we risk failing both the people here today and those who will come after us. With continued development, more light spills into our sky, our homes, and our natural habitats. Excessive nighttime lighting disrupts wildlife, affects human sleep cycles, wastes energy, and gradually erases one of the most beautiful natural natural resources we have, our night sky. This is about more than just efficiency or environmental impact. For all of human history, people have looked to the night sky for meaning, guidance, and perspective. Our earliest stories, navigation, science, and sense of place are written in the stars. When we lose access to the night sky, we lose a connection to our shared human past. There's also a growing body of evidence that access to natural darkness supports mental health and better sleep. Seeing the stars can inspire awe, reduce stress, and provide a sense of calm and perspective that is increasingly rare in our modern and always lit world. Protecting our night sky is not just about conservation. It's about human well-being. Communities like Hilo, Hawaii, Flagstaff, Arizona, and Breenidge, Colorado have taken meaningful steps to address this by adopting dark sky ordinances. These policies don't mean pitch black spaces. They mean turning off non-essential

lighting after certain hours and using smarter lighting, shielded and downward facing fixtures, warm color bulbs, and appropriate brightness only when needed. Throughout Parker, many homes and businesses leave lights on all night, disrupting natural cycles and wasting energy. The benefits of Parker implementing a dark sky ordinance are immediate and lasting. We can reduce energy costs, support local wildlife, improve public health, and restore our connection to the night sky. We can preserve a sense of place, something that makes Parker feel like Parker by being intentional and caring for the future while preserving a connection to our past. I want future generations and Parker to have the same experience that I did. To step outside on a clear night and feel a sense of wonder looking up at the stars. That's something worth protecting. I am eager to leverage my experience in community organizing, advocacy, and education to support the council in exploring and implementing a dark sky ordinance. I am committed to driving this initiative forward for the benefit of Parker's continued development and I look forward to working with you all. Small thoughtful changes today can have a profound impact on the kind of community tomorrow. May we create a brighter future by starting with a darker sky. Thank you for your time and your service to our town.

Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Next up, I'd like to call Mr. Rick Wilson, please. Thank you for letting me speak. Uh, council members, my name's Rick Wilson. I'm a new resident of Parker Pal. I have a home that's just south of Belelfford Road. Um, recently they put up some zoning signs and said they were going to discuss zoning last week and tonight. Uh, is that on your agenda tonight? That is on the agenda tonight. And so if you have the time, it would probably be more appropriate to get your record during that item specifically on I just wanted to know if I needed to sit here longer.

Yes. Yes. Is there any member of the public wishing to address council generally tonight about any specific item? All right, seeing none, we will close public comment at 7:10 p.m. Um, to those who spoke, we do have your information. Thank you very very much. Um, you also have our information. It's online. I'm Jay Rivero at parkerco.gov and you are welcome to reach out to me. We will circle back with you. Um, and uh, we cannot address what you spoke about tonight as I read in our opening statement, but we will we will close that loop. Thank you so much for addressing your government. We are truly appreciative of your time. Thank you for the drive. All right. Next up, reports, items, and comments from mayor and council. Todd, you want to start us off, please?

Sure. Uh, last week I attended Parker Senior Center board meeting as part of my duty and then also attended Parker or the partnership of Le County governments. Since you were absent, I took your place. That's all. Uh, Ann, you know what? We let Yes, Brandy.

Um, yeah. So, last week I was in Washington DC meeting with um four of our congressmen. I serve on the public safety and crime prevention federal advocacy committee meeting uh federal advocacy committee and I have been working on an initiative for the last three years. I can't go into too much details about it right now, but I've been working on an initiative for the last three years regarding our SRO program. and after meeting with um four of our congressmen and women, I am very excited at the outcome of that and the progress that we're making moving forward. So stay tuned for more updates as I'm able to discuss them. And then before I went to DC, um I was the honorary coach for the unified legend basketball game where it was our unified kids versus Parker PD and they whooped us again. The final score, our PD,

I know it's my fault. So we lost. Um, the unified kids beat us 90 to 42, but it was awesome to watch. It It was awesome to watch and to be a part of. So, I think there's got to be a different coach next year because I I didn't do good, but it was still fun to say the least. That's all. Thank you, Randy. And you want to go back?

Okay. Yes. Um, I also attended that uh unified game with our police department. That was actually the first time I was able to go and it was it was very interesting. Some of those kids are amazing. So, the shots they were making was I was I was really impressed. Um, let's see. So, I on March 11th, I attended that and the DBA meeting and then also I was in Washington DC and just wanted to uh recognize our council woman Brandy Wilks. She was tenacious, amazing. She represented us so well. She was on point with all of the congressmen that she met with and women. Um she had kind of a little bit different spin for everyone depending on which side of the aisle they might be on, but it was very appropriate and she was great and I just wanted to recognize her publicly for that.

Great job. I just followed her around. John. Yeah. On the uh 11th I attended a Douglas County citizenry event and our own mayor Rivera was uh there and full force in front of all the other mayors and the chair

chair Highlands Ranch person. Um good event, great discussion. Um on the 12th E47 and 8470 board meeting um just a bunch of administrative stuff that doesn't is not true to the town partner. And on the 18th out of Dr. Cog uh board of directors meeting uh this time of the season it's it's all about discussing state bills that um that pertain to what Dr. Cog's mission is which is uh more planning uh transportation as well as aging. So um lots of bills going on and lots of discussion about that.

Thank you sir. I don't know if they were leaving any low hanging fruit, but since last time we saw each other, u we all attended the Parker day at the capital on Tuesday the 3rd with the chamber. It was was a well attended event and um had opportunities to sit with some state legislators and get tours and have some good discussions with local business owners. We also have the town council strategic retreat on uh May March 6th um which which was super informative. It was a great day. Uh and that's that's it. Thank you. Laura,

um yes, I attended the Advent Hospital um patient council meeting. Um and at that um I we had the opportunity to tour the emergency room and make some recommendations to the hospital. um about signage and trying to make that a more uh welcome welcoming and informative space. I also attended the budget retreat. Um I also attended again um the Heroes Hall Foundation, a meeting um for private foundation for veterans that I sit on as a board member for all veterans in Douglas County. Um, I also attended the Parker Day at the Capitol and then I did attend the Douglas County homeless initiative meeting where they had the winter point in time count results um which were u throughout Douglas County, 45 unhoused in Douglas County, 23 sheltered, 18 sleeping in vehicles or people sleeping outside. And um the heart team goes out throughout the county and they assist homeless individuals with direct contact. And so some of the signs that you see douglas hasart.org. If you want to contribute to douglasheart.org, those funds go directly to nonprofit organizations that actually help and assist homeless people. And we have many of those organizations throughout Douglas County. And so if you're interested on that website, it's um the Douglas hasart.org and you can also look it up on the Douglas County Commissioners website as well. Thank you.

Thank you, Laura. Um as was stated, I got a much needed break, so I will keep my update very short. Um I was out of town and it's good to be home. It was hot. Um all right. Next up, consent agenda. Consent agenda items are considered to be routine and will be enacted with one motion and vote. There will be no separate discussion for consent agenda items unless council votes to remove an item for individual discussion. Ordinances on the consent agenda are for introduc introduction only and will not be removed for discussion. Council, in front of you are consent agenda items A 4A through E. I move to approve consent agenda items 4 A through 4E. Have a motion from Wils. Do I have a second? I'll second. Have a second from Bington. Hris.

Yes. Bington. Yes. Wilks. Hi. Do Franen? Yes. Hefta? Yes. And that passes unanimously. Next up in front of you, council, we have public hearings. We have one item. I'm sorry, we have two items on public hearing. Uh first public hearing we have is ordinance number 1.667.1. On second reading, a bill for an ordinance to adopt the 2026 revised budget for the town of Parker and to make appropriate appropriations for the same. We'll go ahead and open this public hearing at 7:18 p.m. The Chris team, the floor is yours.

Thank you, mayor, members of council. Chris Beaver, budget manager with Chris and Daka, finance director. Today we have our 2026 budget amendments. Section 9.12 of the municipal code allows for uh council to increase or decrease appropriations during the fiscal year. These uh carryovers and supplementals will be increasing the appropriation. We generally have two of these during the fiscal year. So this will be the first but the second anticipated in November. We had a study session and first reading which was on the consent agenda on March 2nd. Legal ads were p placed in the newspaper March 12th and March 19th and tonight is the second reading public hearing and adoption of the budget amendments. The amendments take two forms. One are the the carryovers. So carryovers are generally uh multi-year projects. They're capital projects that uh take place over a number of years. However, we do have some purchase orders that are outstanding at the end of the fiscal year. So we need to carry the funding over to pay for those. And these don't impact fund balance because they've been previously budgeted. Supplemental requests. These are expenditures that weren't anticipated at the time of budget development. So the budget that you adopted in November, there are a couple of things that came up since then and those are submitted as supplemental requests. These do impact fund balance unless there's offsetting record. So we had noted uh at the study session if there were any changes from first to second reading, we would detail those for you. So the changes are up here on the screen. Uh the first item on there, the new and gulch trail connection, that's related to public works and parks. Uh talking through that project, realized there might be a little more funding needed

outside the scope of the current project. So we've added $200,000 to that. Uh the next four items are related to invoices that we received late. So, we got the invoices, we put them in the financial system, and the carryover amount had to be reduced because we paid the invoice in 2025. So, you can see the carryover adjustments there, uh, reduced the carryover amount by $350,000. And then on the supplemental, the one project that's on there, it was a 2024 project, which we didn't have any budget for in 2025, but it's going to be an active project in 2026. We the available balance there and just made a small adjustment of $15,000. Other than that, those are those are the only changes made since we spoke to you at the study session on March 2nd. So, this is the summary of the requests. Uh just for perspective, last year we had 1.389 million in supplemental requests and 106.88 88 million in carryovers. This year we have 10.75 million in supplementals which is really related to one project and 85.89 in carryovers. Uh for the general fund only supplementals were 449 uh 449,000 last year with 4 million in carryovers. So this year 518,000 supplementals 3.92 in carryover. So you're really looking about the same amount uh when you combine those two from last year to this year. On the screen you see the bottom line which is where we were at the first reading and then the line above it incorporates all the changes we just went through on the previous slide.

As far as a supplemental request, we'll go through these briefly with you. The first two on the screen are related to the police department. One was the adjustment to the police range that you all approved in December 25, $211,000. And then the addition of an SRO SRO officer with uh 100% offsetting revenue. So those two items right there are about 80% of the the supplemental requests. Uh, public works had a a need for some ongoing compliance with the Douglas County Hab habitat conservation plan. That was $25,000. And then the expansion of the DAM facility at our public works operation center. They reviewed the cost of that. That's probably come in a little more than we had available. So, it's 50,000 there. 40,000 is added for landscape architect associated with their land development ordinance. And then the the bottom two are small items. Uh the town attorney's uh automobile uh reimbursement or didn't get make it into the budget. When we found out it didn't make it into the budget, it was kind of too late to change anything. So that just uh pays for that. and then $500 for a Parker uh greater Parker Foundation scholarship. We've already received the revenue for that scholarship. So, this is just providing the budget authority for the scholarship expense. These are your general fund supplemental requests totally 518,000 with 185,000 in offsetting revenues. other supplemental requests from our other funds. Uh just briefly, the first item on that list, the Ruter Hess Recreation Area, this is an annual contribution we make. I left it out of

the budget. It didn't get carried over onto the spreadsheets. It is an annual contribution. Uh we we fixed that problem going forward. It's $210,000 and that's from the parks and recreation fund. The big one on here is the Salsbury Regional Park. This supplemental allows us to advance a number of different amenities that were planned in out years in this project. So, originally we were going to do the uh 17 pickle ball and two tennis courts, but now we're going to be able to do a community hub, some bike parks, restrooms, parking, a number of amenities that were planned in future years. But because of the contribution from Douglas County, 7.5 million, and some favorable bids we received on this project, we're able to advance the funding and get this project moving forward even quicker. And you can see the revenues there. That is the revenue received last year from Douglas County for the grant. We did have a little bit in expenditures. However, we need to rebudget or we need to budget that again because we can't account for the revenue until we actually spend it. Also in parks and wreck, there's a turnaround on the E470 trail so we can get our equipment in there and turn around when we need to do maintenance on it. On the revenue side for parks and wreck, the Douglas County Shareback, we budgeted 1.2 and and parks has indicated it's going to be about 2.2. So, we're going to budget that an additional million dollars. On the recreation side, this $ 109,000 is rental revenue uh and membership at Discovery Park that we've always received. And there was some talk about splitting it out. It got split out, but it didn't get put back in. So, this is just putting in revenue that we've always received at Discovery Park. The capital renewal replacement

fund. This is kind of the start of the the PEWAK expansion project that we have in our long range plan. So this is the uh kind of unditional work study concept design for that and storm water. These are just three projects um that will be going on in 2026. Two of them were 2024 projects. The bottom two, there were no budget or expenditures in 2025, but they're coming back in 2026. So, we need to appropriate those funds. And then this just summarizes our grants. The top is a grant related to the America 250, Colorado 150. It's in the cultural fund related to that community grant award. $7,500 all grant funded. No town match required. Recreation fund. The American Camp Association. This is to build character at our camps in town. $38,000. Again, no town match 100% grant funded. Then our charge ahead Colorado grant of EV stations at the Pace parking garage and town hall. The grant is $51,600. Requires a 20% town match of $10,320. The total the expenditures uh 10.75 million with 4.8 million in offsetting revenues. Move on to carryovers. And this is in your ordinance in exhibit A. Just walking through the process. department submit these requests to finance. Finance then reviews them, confirms it was an item in the 2025 budget. We review if there's a purchase order, if it's not a purchase order, what the

status of the budget item is. And then we verify there's sufficient funding to carry over into 2026. We compile the request. We review them with the town manager's office and come up with the final list. carryover amounts did change from first to second reading and generally when that happens it's because of invoices that we receive late we have to adjust the balances and finally all the fund balances and all the funds are reviewed for compliance with adopted financial policies. So everything you're seeing here, all the numbers, uh the bottom line, we are in compliance with all of our fund balance policies. Carryovers are almost $86 million. And you can see by the pie chart, 97% are capital projects, multi-year capital projects, or you know, maybe a one-year capital project that's still going on. could be larger equipment that's been ordered received, but this is generally what you're going to see on carryovers. The other category was significant significant amount purchase services. Sometimes these are consulting projects that are multi-year things like that. Uh but the majority is always going to be capital on your carryovers. carryover detail uh by fund. You're looking at your public improvement fund and parks and recreation fund. They make up 83% of that which aligns with the the capital you saw before because that's where our larger capital projects are located. Uh capital renewal replacement fund also is about 7%. That's completing work at the Pace parking garage and then the town hall expansion.

All the details of the 3.92 million were included in exhibit A with your ordinance. I'll just give you some examples of some of the items that are in here because they're they're vary. We have police vehicle upfits uh which are about $640,000 in the police department. Uh the Parker Main Street master plan for which we're receiving some offsetting uh grant revenue as you see up there is is on the list. A lot of uh traffic equipment, traffic control items, uh those are being carried over uh related to capital or related to smaller improvements. Uh the senior center feasibility study which is ongoing. Uh funding was carried over for that. and then some consultant work for our ERP systems. These are our critical business systems and we're looking at technology and software and hardware and how they can all start uh talking together a little bit better. We have a consultant we're engaged with right now. So, those are some of the items of the 3.9 million that are carried over in the general fund with the revenue being the federal grant funding. In our other funds, um we have a number of projects in here. Uh most of them are capital parks and wreck. The Salsbury Regional Park, that's the big one. about $30 million in carryover funding which will be added to the supplemental in the 2026 budget on that. A cultural fund has some items related to security and cameras at their different facilities. Recreation fund a number of smaller building improvements are kind of still ongoing. We're carrying over funds for that. Capital renewal and reserve capital renewal and replacement reserve fund. That's what I just talked about. The the

pace parking garage, town hall renovations, and then our fleet services fund. These are related to vehicle purchases that are have been ordered but not yet received. So the total on those are about $82 million, bringing the total request to about $86 million, 3.4 4 million in total carryover revenues. Both the revenues that you see listed on this slide are related to grand fun that we just need to carry over and we'll receive them in 2026. And with that, that is the summary of the carryovers and supplements.

Thank you very much. We'll start with questions. Laura, would you like to start us off? I actually have no questions. Great job. What? Eric, I also don't have any questions. Man, if Laura doesn't have any questions, I don't think I have any questions either. Count. Mine was answered on just why we had the discrepancy between first reading and second reading and you answered that with the invoices came in. So, thank you. Yeah. Yeah. Questions. Thank you.

I'm good. Thank you. Um, no questions from the council. We'll go ahead and open public comment at 7:33. Any member of the public wishing to address council on this specific item, the revised budget, please make yourself known. Seeing none, we'll close public comment at 7:33. We'll also close the public hearing and go back for um deliberation from council. Todd? Yeah, we uh had meetings prior to this and this is very common every year invoices come in late and get sales tax information from the last few months of the year. We have to set the budget initially the fall. So, uh, great work. Thank you. And I'm in support.

Thank you, Todd. And yeah, it's, um, and just kind of routine clean up and some recalibration. Thank you guys for always being on top of this and appreciate everything you do. Thank you, Brandy. I love that you answer the questions before I can ask them because your presentation's so thorough because those numbers blend together in my brain so much that I don't know how you guys can keep them all straight. So, I appreciate the the work on that. Thank you, Brandy. John, no, I mean I I don't know how many different ways we can say good job

and Eric say different languages perhaps. No, I I think uh you know this is this is very thorough um you know things that stand out right where you look at these carryover expenditures, but these are these are items that we were previously budgeted for that just didn't hit last year. So all we're doing is shifting that appropriation into the current year. So it's clean up. You know, there are some supplemental expenditures, some of which are offset by supplemental revenue. Salbury Park funds we got from Douglas County coming in this calendar year. So overall this is super well comp well it's comprehensive and well done. Thank you. Thank you. Another way

Laura.

Yeah I just just a big picture comment. Sometime sometimes citizens maybe they don't realize what the town really has to do to keep up a high standard for its citizens. So I just want to and we had that highlighted here tonight. For instance, technology keeps on updating and it's updating with the police department and in society as a whole. Now when those technology updates, we have to update as well. Um when crime increases, we have to account for that as well. Uh when we have parks planned for about 20 years ago and now we're building those parks. We have constant road improvements that we have to make, vehicle replacements, infrastructure updates, and so as a whole, our town and Parker, we stay updated and proactive in how we approach the town, its residents, and what we need to do as a whole for the residents. And so I just want to commend um our finance team for always staying on top of this with our town manager and our town attorneys because everyone works as a team here and this is is a result of that here today. You see that teamwork coming together from all the directorates in the town and you see that rolled into the budget for the year. So thank you.

Thank you all very very much. Appreciate it. I would uh entertain a motion on this ordinance. I move to approve ordinance number 1.6. 667.1 on second reading. Motion from Hendricks. Do I have a second? Second. A second from Wilks. Hendricks. Yes. Barington. Yes. Wils. Hi. Dy. Yes. Franen. Yes. Anda. Yes.

And that passes unanimously. Next up, council. In front of you is ordinance number 3.253.9 on second reading. A bill for an ordinance to amend the Comp Park Village PD development guide amendment number seven. and the compar development plan amendment number seven pursuant to the town of Parker land development ordinance and amending the zoning ordinance and map to conform therewith. We'll go ahead and open this public hearing at 7:37 p.m. and Stacy, the floor is yours.

Thank you. Good evening, mayor and council. Set before you is the Conport Village Plant Development 8th amendment. So, the Concord Village plan development, which the entire area on this map is yellow, is approximately 390 acres, consisting of mixeduse development. It's located on both sides of E470 and primarily west of Chambers Road. The majority of the planned developments was annexed and zoned into the town of Parker in 2007. In 2015, an additional 150 acres south of E470 was annexed into the town and zoned a part of the Conart Village development. These 150 acres are commonly known as Com Park Village South. There's also been several additions and amendments to this PD between 2007 and today. The subject properties, which are highlighted in blue on this map, are bordered to the north by E470, to the south by Belelfford Avenue and residential, to the west by vacant land within unincorporated Douglas County, and to the east by vacant land and commercial land in the town. So the applicant has submitted a reszoning application to reszone the commercial area of the compark village south located south of eer 70 and north of avenue highlighted in orange. So the PD amendment proposes to reszone planning areas 13 14 and 15 to expand the permitted uses within these areas. Planning area 13, which is located on the far west, is proposed to be changed from a mixeduse designation to light industrial flex. This planning area is proposed to decrease in size from 26.4 acres to 22.7 acres. Planning area 14, which is located in the middle, is proposed to be changed from neighborhood commercial to office employment designation. This planning area is going to increase in size from 9.07 acres to 12.8 acres. And then planning area 15 which is located on the far east is proposed to go from a mixeduse designation to

neighborhood commercial. This planning area will be decreased from 9.86 acres to 6.4 acres. In addition, the open space area between pling areas 13 and 14 which contains the greenacres tributary is proposed to be increased from 9.33 acres to 16.7 acres. So the overall land use modifications are proposed to change from primarily commercial retail uses to a mix of commercial office and light industrial. The applicants set up the resoning to locate the commercial retail component adjacent to the commercial zoning and chambers highpoint plan development to the east. The land uses are then proposed to transition to office employment and then to light industrial. The light industrial proposed uses are strategically located to be north of Greenacres tributary on the far west side of the development. Due to the location of the Greenacres tributary, this planning area only has a small area that touches Belelfford Avenue to the south. Greenacres tributary provides an additional buffer to Belelfford Avenue as well as to the residential to the south. In addition, as part of this plan development, all non-residential structures proposed within the planning area are required to meet the commercial design standards of the development design standards of the town. These standards will require light industrial uses to be designed to look like commercial buildings maintaining the commercial character of the property north avenue. So the Parker 2035 master plan identifies the property as mixeduse district within the E470 corridor which recommends a mix of uses including residential, office, retail, and restaurant. The Comfort Village South zoning was created to allow for the residential land uses south of Belelfford Avenue with the commercial uses being north. The proposed reszoning does not change the layout of the uses or the character of the area. So there are eight criteria used to

evaluate a resoning. These criteria ensure that a need exists, the proposal is consistent with the master plan, and there are adequate services to serve the proposed uses. After evaluating the zoning information, staff has determined that this application is in conformance with the required criteria. So as development has occurred in the area and is outlined in the applicant's narrative, the market conditions are changing leading to the demand for more flexible uses. The proposed PD amendment does not change the character of the area but allows for a greater variety of land uses to attract users to the area. Staff has reviewed the proposal and has determined that the A criteria for resoning have been satisfied. The applicant is application is consistent with the master plan that all referral agency comments have been addressed and all notice requirements have been satisfied. The planning commission heard this request on March 12th, 2026 and recommended unanimous approval. However, during deliberation, the planning commission voiced concerns over the autoor oriented uses permitted within the office employment district. The planning commission and town staff recommend that town council approve the compar plan development amendment number eight. This concludes staff's presentation. The applicant is here tonight also has a presentation for you.

Excellent. Thank you very much, Stacy. Just a second, Larry. Um, we'll go for Stacy questions. Staff questions first, please. No questions. And questions for Stacy, I guess. Could could you just maybe um walk us through again light industrial flex? So, what would be like the I don't want worst case allowed I don't want to say that just because some people might think worse. What would be I guess can you tell us like some of some of the the most intensive use is what she's looking for. Most extreme.

Yeah. So, kind of how the zoning was organized, you have the neighborhood commercial, which is strictly commercial. So, restaurant, retail, office. That's on the east. In the middle, you start to add uses to that. So, you start to add um more medical uses. You start to allow some auto uses. And then as you move further to the west, you add those light industrial. So, what is the most intensive use? It could be something similar to the Edge 470. So, kind of those big office warehouse uses that have could have research and development, they could have some flex space, whether it be for a contractor's office. Um, storage is still going to be limited. So, storage is still limited to the town standards, so you can't have a bunch of outdoor storage. Um, inside storage, you can't have a lot of that either. So, it's limited to 50% of the entire building footprint.

What about noise? So when we there's there is an intense statement in here in the development standards of these users shouldn't have any noise, dust, vibration. It's also in the town code. Um noise is evaluated. It's also regulated by our code. So we have noise ordinances in place. We look at these uses for what they could emit. We don't know exactly what they are going to until they're built, but we have ordinances for them where we can go out there and make them change. Okay. Thank you. Or put up mitigation efforts if needed. Thank you. Are any questions for staff? No. No.

Yeah. So, with the light uh the light industrial kind of push against T470, what what is that buffer um that um uh we have? Well, the buffer is the is the open space. So, I'm kind of looking for I mean, how much how much space do we have between um where the light industrial property line ends and sort of on the other side of Belfford, so to speak. So, Belelfford right now is only constructed to its half size. As Belman occurs north, you will have the other half of Belelfford Avenue constructed. So, that'll increase and I want to say that's about 80 ft.

Okay. Um, and then the Green Acres tributary, I don't have the exact width measurement, but I want to say we talked about it. It's about 20ish feet. Okay. With there that's off Belfford. So, there is a small section that does touch Belelfford. Yeah. I don't know if you can construct a building there based off be like access maybe or something. Yeah, most likely. So, we're we're adding light industrial, we're adding office, and we're shifting retail and we're getting rid of multi-use, multif family. multif family residential was never allowed north of Albert. Okay. Um the mixed use was kind of left over

because it's yeah not really mixed use. Um but you could do like most of the use is retail, office, restaurant. Those are going to be permitted no matter what district you're in here. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you. You're welcome.

Questions for Stacy. Can you So you alluded to discussion at planning commission where they were talking about the the permitted auto uses. Can you elaborate on that a little bit? Yes. So within the office employment which is the big area right in the middle. Yep. Um so that has gone to office employment. So that allows for your healthcare facilities, your offices, your retail but there is this section of the code that says transportation, vehicles and equipment. Um it allows for gas stations, automotive repair minor which is going to be your tire changes, oil changes, those sort of places. Um and then it also allows for automotive sales. So that was their biggest concern is what does sales look like? Um lighting with outdoor like their display areas. How does that look? How does that impact the residential to the south being off Belfford? Um the other one is a transit station. Don't know if that'll ever be there, but it's always good to keep it open.

It won't. It will. It won't. Thank you, Eric. And I guess is there so that the the zoning is is pretty I guess broad for use. Is there a different zoning to maybe narrow in more what like in my mind right I'd want to see this is a question so I got to frame this as a question. I'll wait for my commentary.

I know you're going like the light industrial reflex kind of builds from the neighborhood commercial. So that's the most intensive where you get the most uses. Um, and the what the town wanted and staff wanted to see from a planning perspective and the developer was we still wanted to retain that ability to have retail sales or restaurant here knowing that this realm doesn't generate that sort of traffic and it's hard to get to while also opening it up for there's a hospital hospital being built just to the west. So could some of those uses start to spill over here? Um, and what could that look like? So that's why the uses and intensity kind of gain as you head to the west um in this land is kind of difficult just layout, the topography, the flood plane. So trying to get that so that it could be developed.

Okay, thank you. Laura, questions for questions. Thank you. Thank you. With that, we'd like to invite the applicant up. Please uh state your name and address for the record. Sure. Uh, thank you, mayor, council, council members. Larry Jacobson, Westside Investment Partners, 8350 East Crescent Parkway, Sweet 200, Greenwood Village 8011. So, thank you all for uh having us here this evening. Um, we're here to talk about the southern part of Comp Park uh on the south side of 470.

Sorry, we're going through some PC issues. We'll get the apple one of these days.

Thank you. So, you can see the the two parcels in orange um as Stacy described. Also, I want to thank you, Stacy, for your very detailed report. So, I don't have that much to talk about, which is good news for everyone in the council. Okay. So, um this is kind of an older aerial photo. Um the residential was largely built out south of Belelfford. And then we're talking about the property between Belelfford and 470 in K Park South. Will you click me?

Yeah. Yeah. So, I wanted to run through

Yeah. Yeah. So, I wanted to run through the history of compartment because it, the history of compartment because it, you know, it's been around since the '9s you know, it's been around since the '9s and um there are a lot of zoning and um there are a lot of zoning designations that started in 1998 or designations that started in 1998 or 2002 or whenever that really didn't 2002 or whenever that really didn't apply to today's market. And that's kind apply to today's market. And that's kind of why we're here today is like the of why we're here today is like the mixeduse zoning designation was very mixeduse zoning designation was very confusing. Will you click me? confusing. Um the market has changed. The um hospital common spirit being built, you know, which is directly connected to this property by Belelfford at Peoria. Um we anticipate that there there should be a lot of additional medical users that could come to this area which generates jobs and um helps with daytime traffic. So, you know, we've gone through all of these changes through the years. Um the seventh amendment, excuse me, the sixth amendment, February 24 was for the data center. Um the seventh amendment was just a little cleanup kind of typo thing. So now we're here with the eth amendment uh proposing to get rid of the old zoning and put in something that is more in tune with market conditions, light industrial flex, office employment, and then retaining the neighborhood commercial. So this gives you an idea of the acreage in each one. One of the other factors um since um well actually that's going to be the next slide, but we this area used to be unplatted. So it was just in a bubble plan with the PD um the comp park south plat recorded a few years ago. So now we actually know exactly what the size of these lots are. So we're conforming that with um with the PD so we have exact acreages similar slide just larger so you can see

the size if you look at P813 um by industrial flex so we discussed earlier there's just a small piece of it that touches Belelfford um then the rest of it goes out towards 470 it's a very oddshaped property Actually, all of these are kind of odd shape because of Green Acres Trip. So, for instance, that's slight industrial flex, but if you look at the edge buildings across the street across 470, we could maybe fit one of those on that whole parcel. I think what's actually going to happen is a series of smaller buildings. So, I think those are 80,000 plus. I think this one is probably going to be 20, 30, 40 per building. uh depending upon how things uh evolve over time, but it's it's um I've always been envious of the edge project because it's a nice rectangle and people put those buildings in there pretty efficiently, whereas our site is extremely inefficient. So, here's the plat that I was referring to earlier. So track B is green acres trim and that's prone to um how many

16 acres and that was a mile high flood drainage project also. All right so proposed changes reszone 41.9 acres um track A reszone PA13 from 26.4 4 acres of mixed use to 22.7 acres of light industrial flex. Um track C resone PA14 from 9.07 acres of neighborhood commercial to 12.8 of office employment. And then uh reszone PA15 from 9.86 acres of mixed use to 6.4 acres of neighborhood commercial. So just to summarize um why are we doing this? A lot of it has to do what I alluded to earlier. So, we're just trying to bring this PD into 2026 and um try to make it as marketable as possible to bring jobs and economic growth to the town. Um the hospital is certainly a big factor in all of this. If you go through the PD the specific category, there are a lot of permitted uses that are related to medical. So we're really trying hard to attract those people as comp spirit moves forward and opens. Lastly, we have the criteria which if it's okay with council, I'll I'll let Stacy's reading them into the record suffice so I don't have to bore you with going through all the eight criteria.

And with that, I conclude the presentation and available for any questions. Thank you. Appreciate it, Larry. But uh council questions Lauri starts us off. Yeah, that that you mentioned common common spirit hospital and it is that being built in close proximity to this area. Yeah, it's a about a mile to the west maybe a mile and a half straight down Belelfford at Poria. Is that in progress right now or Yeah, very much so.

Okay. And and so this will sort of accommodate for any of those additional specialty offices where doctors have to urologist, heart surgeon, that type of thing. They all have to have their own offices for that hospital. They're all specialists for that. So that might account for that reasoning right there. That is precisely right. If if any of you have been to for instance Skyidge, you know there's the Skyidge property and I think Common Spirits is around 45 acres I think. But then there are medical office buildings not on the Skyidge campus surrounding the whole hospital. That's what we're trying to attract here.

Thank you. Thank you Eric. Thanks for the presentation. So question on um I guess the light industrial parcel parcel a um will so the access to that parcel is it going to share I guess it won't share an egress but an ingress egress it'll it'll be on the same street I guess as residential you go left to residential or right into industrial is that the only access point

that's the only way to to access that parcel it's it's one of the weird quirks of this property. And again, like the the Greenacres tributary that was built in the middle there, it it ended up becoming a huge mile high flood, you know, basin. So, uh it ate up almost all the access uh to it PA13.

Yeah. And then so then but I guess if you could talk about where Belelfford you're going to add a new road or a new side of the road on Belelfford. Will it be a like a split road or No, it won't have a medium. It'll it'll be four lanes. No medium and people will be able to get in and out of there. Um I think Stacy alluded to this. If you look at that shape, I just don't know how you get to a building until Excuse me. So, you get to like here. Uhhuh.

So, I think this is access and maybe some landscaping. Um, but just the shape and the dimensions of it, I just I don't know how you get anything in there unless it's a really small building. So probably the buildings there will be set back and some of them will be along 470. And then part of the design guidelines is that the um it has to follow the code in terms of orientation of the front and parking that kind of thing. Got it. Thank you.

Um yeah, Larry. Um, so are there any end users uh in mind or or or items that maybe driving this that you have in concept that could could assist? Fortunately, no. Okay. You know, for all these years, we've had very little interest in this and a lot of it have to do with the zoning. Yeah. People just don't know what what to do with it, what we're looking at here. Yeah. All right. Thank you. Just real quick to say about that. Does this change in use lead to maybe assemblage to what's what's west of this? And because the access point you're this is one way in right now,

mayor, you're I try them about every 3 months and I get the same answer about every 3 months. But maybe one of these days they'll say yes. Okay. Assembly the Coriera property. Buy another piece next to it which is west of here. Um, it's in between the hospital and our property and it's a wonderful piece of property and it could be right in our wheelhouse in terms of entitling and developing but you have to have a seller two parties. Yeah.

Brandy questions. So, um I can appreciate the increase from open space from 9.33 acres to 16.7 acres, but it seems like the open space would actually be on the E470 side and not on the side where you've got residential houses. And I'm just curious the thought process behind that. If you're going to have open space, why have why not have it on that side?

Well, again, it has to do with the the stream that goes through there, the Green Acres Tributary. So the um western part of it is against Belleford and across the street from the residential. The eastern part is not. Um and the retail the red is actually across from multif family. So um there's as Stacy mentioned there's sort of a gradation as as you go west the intensity increases but um there is just no other way to do this. and also keep access to PA13.

Yes. And question. Yeah. So, I guess mine mine is kind of was kind of along the same line of questioning. So, we're going from a little over nine acres to 16, which actually seems significant, but I don't I guess I don't understand where where it was before. And so, I see where it's going to be now, but where and I understand now there's drainage or you know the the the the water sorry, Greenacres tributary.

Thank you. Um, so that doesn't leave you with many options because it it's just it is what it is. Where was the open space before? It was in the same location, but it was before we were platted. So, it was an estimate based on the bubble plan. And now that we've platted the property, we know exactly what the size and shape of Greenacres tributary is. And therefore then then we have the other lots track A and track C that we're um looking at amending the PD for.

Yeah. Filing one. So when they plotted these two as tracks and they built Belford Avenue which is filing one for Compart Village South. They had to design that drainage way and make improvements to it. And so that's where it kind of came from is they kind of thought here we know this is green across tributary. We think it's going to take up this much space. But as they started to design that drainage way, it got bigger. And as you go towards E470, you kind of have it expands because you have that cooling blockage or whatever you call. I'm not an engineer. I don't similar. So there was never like a promise that that was all going to be like wide open green space.

It was always intended to be green acres. That was the open space. Okay. So is it safe to say, sorry, that your original bubble plan consisted of nine acres that was just the stream itself. Mile High came in and said you need to have pooling at the bottom of the stream where this can capture and that went from 9 acres. So added additional seven acres just in the pooling which you see under that OSG right there, that circle

gained additional open space from 9 to now 16.7. Um and then as far as um just the market, I I mean the market is constantly changing and and I understand that there's just we are kind of drifting away from just all retail. I mean can you speak to that at all? Like what so the way that it was I mean it's it's just not marketable. It's I think Dr. Cog in 20 45 prom is that when the next projection is

uh usually it could it could be I mean it could be 2050. I Okay. Yeah.

They're projecting um somewhere between like 16 and 18,000 vehicles per day. So that's when all of this is built out. Belelfford's fully built out. It's just not enough traffic to warrant much retail. We would love to get retail. Um, and we've retained acreage for retail. Um, but the likelihood of getting office employment and by industrial flex is much higher. Um, the the retail the red um, if you notice across the street to the south, it's lined up with that roadway there. So, there's an access. That's Wolf Fox Street. I didn't name it. Um, so at Wolf Fox and Belelfford, people will be able to access the red the the retail site. So someday I think it'll attract something, you know, as the residential fills out. I, you know, I don't know, maybe I mean, great to get a restaurant, sit down restaurant or something, but it's just not like Chambers and 470 where the traffic counts are 40,000 or 50,000. It's just not it's not going to happen to the extent that we all want it to.

Was that anywhere near where there was some initial just talk about the ice skating that's I thought you were going to talk about the movie studio. Movie. Yeah. No, that was on the other side. Red Fox. Yeah. Yeah. Um, I mean, I've never got any legs on it at all, but I just it was in this it was in compartment on the other side. Okay. So, I mean, basic Well, I'll leave the rest of my comments, but thank you. Thank you. And questions for the applic. Thank you, Mr. Dixon. Appreciate your time. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, council members.

And I just got to point out that this podium, everybody seen that that fire station that the light bulb has been on for 57 years. We don't know why there it amplifies. It's not plugged in. We don't know where it's getting power. It's a ghost that's making it talk. I don't know how you talk into that thing. Really? It's not plugged in. It's just there. I was going to say, why is it working now? Don't know why it's working now. Um, with that, we will go ahead and open public comment at 8:06 p.m. This is an opportunity for citizens to come up and address council on this specific item. Um, any members of the public wishing to address council? I'm going to go with the gentleman in the back with the hat here for public and then we'll go to you.

Thank you for letting us have this opportunity to talk. Uh my name is Rick Wilson. Brand new to Parker. I bought a house just south of Belelford. Um across the street is u a drainage area and they said uh there might be medical offices to the west uh towards the medical campus. Um, I don't know if it's a mile away, but um, so I didn't know anything about this until tonight. Um, so I'm not prepared to speak on this. Um, being a retired physician, I know that office buildings for doctors, they like to be 2 minutes away from the hospital. They're not going to get in their car and drive someplace. They want to, you know, go to the clinic, get back to the O, whatever they're doing. Um, they're going to be way over there by the medical campus. So, uh, when I hear Light industrial use really concerns me. The traffic, it's already a frontage road for these big trucks. They use their engines for breaking. You know, the Jake brake. Uh, it's already noisy. I hear you're going to turn it into a fourlane road. Now I'm worried about ambulances with that kind of noise all day all night long. Wow.

That was that time.

Um, I know developers only care about money. Um, I know Parker needs revenue for all the expenses you were talking about earlier. Uh, so it's great for you guys, but all these people that moved in this development, it's ironic that the U boards for the zoning popped up two weeks after the last last house was closed on. I don't know if that's was planned or what, but um who on this council would like to buy my house next to this fourlane road with ambulances and trucks going up and down there all day. 17,000 cars. I think you need to talk about the responsibility to these people that have these houses. I mean, I don't know how you're going to noise suppress um when people are living 20 ft away from it.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Thank you. Next up, please.

Um, thank you so much. I um hear a lot of that sentiment as well, especially with the large um traffic predictions. I'm just lower this much for me. um concerned with those large traffic predictions that was initially said as small with I think 17,000 um quite clearly the environmental impact as well as the noise impact um largely does concern me. Whatever was to develop be developed in that area um like I personally have friends who are nurses and I know that if if something was to be developed in that that area first of all I would agree that quite possibly is too far. Um, but if something was there, there was a quick mention of a transit station and it quite frankly seems to be quickly laughed off. Um, Harvard desperately needs more public transit for the youth, elderly, disabled, and quite frankly all of us in this community. Otherwise, we're just propelling ourselves in a worse situation. A lot of people can say around the Denver metro area, we're becoming more and more just a traffic congested LA feel. And I think that's why a lot of people move here to avoid that sort of thing. And if we develop in that direction, it just quite simply concerns me. Um, whatever this area will attract, um, we just have to be conscious with that growth, especially for the people who already live here and will live here in the future. Um, especially that traffic pollution, noise pollution, and light pollution.

Thank you. And I'm sorry, I do have to ask you to state your name and address for the record. Michelle Diller, 7359 East Ponderosa Circle, Parker, Colorado. Thank you very much, Michelle. Appreciate your time. Any else member of the public wishing to address council at this specific time on this specific item? Seeing none, we'll close public comment at 8:10 and go back for deliberation amongst council. Public hearing.

I'm sorry. Thank you. And I will close public hearing at 8:10 also. Now I will go back for deliberation. Todd, I hear the concerns, but I mean this area is right next to 470, which is a highway tollway. Um, this land's been sitting dormant for many many years and this council we have to abide by criteria that is set forth by us and I agree that there's been it's consistent with the master plan and other items and so I'm going to support thank you to Ann

um yeah I I think when we are just kind of looking through this uh criteria lens there's definitely there's there's evidence of changing conditions and the proposal it still aligns with the master plan. Um there is increased open space um it's being used more as a buffer and as far as you know a a key question is compatibility and I definitely think that that has been thoughtfully addressed and whether or not this is something that there are certain boundaries that we have to stay within. And I think that this for criteria and even if we we didn't like it, we still have to look at the criteria and I think that this um this definitely seems to to fit the criteria.

Thank you, man. Brandy.

Well, I interpret the criteria a little bit different. So, for me, um, when I look at specifically 25, five, seven, and nine, I can argue that it doesn't necessarily fit our criteria. I can talk about that this particular parcel of ground is the correct site. I I don't think it is. I think listening to even the applicant talking about how difficult it's going to be just to even get a building on this proposed site, let alone the traffic implications of a four road being the frontage road. I hear all of that which ties into nine about there being adequate services and necessary impacts created by the proposed land use. when we're looking at one egress into this whole area off of a main road where you have to turn one way into residential and another way into this. I don't I don't personally feel like that fits. And the increased open space isn't isn't open space that can be used. It's open space required from the drainage system in the flood plane that's there. So, I'm not really seeing an improvement on that. Um, and then the minimal environmental impacts. You you kind of nailed it. I was thinking the same things when we look at the noise pollution and the traffic congestion and what that's going to mean. We do have a responsibility to our citizens who already live there and have established that as home. And if we look at the conformity, you know, we've got Grand View Estates to the south of it and we've got other residential to the east of it. And I I personally don't think it fits the criteria. So, I am not in favor of this. And John, can you ask a clarifying question?

Um, I don't know that we can't ask a clarifying question. All right. Um, statement.

Yeah. Uh, so to me, when when we have these types of um these types of developments, we we just don't um you know, the the expansion to a four-lane roadway just doesn't happen. It is um it is planned. um it's not constructed but it's planned and it will be constructed at the time that is needed. So the traffic count in terms of the observation um that was going to come regardless. So, at the time the people um have have moved in, um it would have been fortuitous to come down to the town of Parker and take a look at the the future plans uh of that area before transacting. Um, in a in a previous life, I uh I had the the county surveyor office in in my office um about 20 years ago and we had a couple questions like that and those were very very good questions. Um, and we gave those those people the information, but not a lot of people do that. And to the point, um, you know, E470 is a pretty major roadway, which has noise impacts that go far beyond, I believe, this this development and the built development. Um, I've I've addressed or I've attempted to uh engage citizens on uh noise issues far beyond what this overall project is. So, um I'm just trying to speak to the the public comment and and this this development is kind of uh it's kind of challenging. I think it always has been challenging. Being here 14 years, we've talked about this. We didn't really know what was going to happen. I think we call it the the eyelid I think at a at a certain

point in time and uh if you take a step back it it becomes very challenging. So um you know I think applicant did it did his best at the beginning or if applicant wasn't the one who who started this process um whoever did tried to figure out what what could be done and push all of the all the development up to that major highway to an attempt to buffer uh what potentially could be sound for those people who purchased homes who are living in in the residential areas to the south. Um I'm in agreement with Council Member Bington on on her statements. Thank you.

Thank you, John. Eric, please. Yeah. So, I've got a lot of notes that are spread out, so bear with me as I try to get through some of these, but

um you know, I want to acknowledge that you this this specific parcel of land was was annexed into the town and zoned in 2015. So we we've had 11 years of vacant land with no real use, no real identity um to what it should be. So you know I I do believe there's been significant change uh where did I write it here? There's been a significant change in the area surrounding the property. Certainly with E470, the development that's happened above uh to the north and certainly the hospitals developing to the west. Um, you know, this is consistent with the master plan. Um, you know, this this the current zoning of of mixed use, you know, acknowledging there's different zoning on each three of the properties, but you know, current zoning is is not necessarily appropriate for this site. And so changing and moving the zoning to something that's more stacked, that's more aligned with, you know, you have this light industrial concept, which really will be light industrial, smaller footprint buildings because of the the restrictions on that site, transitioning to an office, more employment use, and then retail kind of at the tail end. I believe that's the right mix of use for this property that again has been zoned in this way, in a similar way since 2015. So, this is not something that's um all of a sudden in front of us. I do I guess I do want to voice just some mild concern on the middle zoning and if that's the appropriate zoning with the ability to have it be pretty broad in its its use, but acknowledging that maybe we don't have something that's more specific for that site. But um I certainly you know would would love to see more diversity than you know gas stations or automotive but um I guess

with that you know I I am in support of this uh this zoning request or reszone. Thank you.

Um yeah I mean looking at the the history um you have to take into account that this was originally commercial uses. So, this was always planned for commercial uses. And sometimes when we move in, I know where I live, there's vacant land around us and we think, oh, well, that that's always going to stay vacant or, you know, but what we don't realize is somebody owns that land and it's probably have it part of a plan development. And in this case, it's been through, you know, seven iterations. I think this is the eighth request here. Um, so it's been vacant a very long time and there's there's a parcel by me that's been vacant a very long time. I've lived in my subdivision 14 years and that is zone commercial where I'm at right now as well. So just trying to draw that analogy on you know vacant land is owned by somebody and uh there is a plan for that development and I I do when I read and study the criteria for resoning approval I see that that area has changed significantly. There's a history the land has remained vacant. Um there will be a hospital setting close by that will attract offices. Um probably some retail as well, perhaps a restaurant. And you know, those physicians and nurses and medical staff do have to eat. They'll want to eat in that area as well. And so I do think that it's definitely satisfied number criteria number one. Um definitely criteria number two. Um, and based on the history, it satisfies criteria number three, the need uh for the type of resoning based

on how the area is changed. Um, I I think the applicant has and along with our planning department looked at the topography for this site and the pro proposed development. So I satisfies number four. There is adequate uh pedestrian, bicycle and vehicular access. Although it would be wonderful to have another means in and out as was previously stated and the applicant said he is always consistently trying to get that. So I appreciate his efforts of consistently trying on that. Um and number six um and number seven and number eight were also satisfied as well. Um so I am in favor of this resoning.

Thank you and especially excited about common spirit and the ability of medical offices coming to that area as well.

Thank you Laura. We'll go back to Brandy. Yeah, just to be clear, um, no one was saying that it was going to stay open space or that that's what they thought it was going to be when they purchased it. It was to be a neighborhood commercial. So, when I look at criteria number two specifically, the parcel ground is the correct site for the proposed development. Well, for the neighborhood commercial, it is. We've got neighborhoods there. We've got access there, and it is a frontage road. So having it be the neighborhood commercial retail space with the shops, with the restaurants, with the places to eat lunch, that's that's not up for question or debate in my mind. That does make sense. For me specifically, it's changing it over to a light industrial flex that I'm having the issue with. And that's where my heartburn's coming from because I don't believe that this parcel ground is designed for the light industrial flex. Um I don't believe that it's going to work with the t the traffic flow that we've got. I believe it will have the environmental impact because we can't control if somebody wants to put an auto there or if somebody wants to put a gas station there. If it's zoned for it and that's what they choose to do, that's what they choose to do. We can't pick and play like that. So for me, this isn't the right parcel to have the light industrial flex. It is still the right parcel to have the neighborhood commercial. So that is where my argument is coming from. It's not let's keep this as open space. That's not that's not it at all because it's never been dedicated open space. That's never what it was proposed to be. I am saying specifically, and I don't know if there's a way to separate out since it's all kind of as one thing, but I am specifically not in support of changing that to a light industrial flex area.

Thank you, Brandon. Anybody else? And

so I I mean, we would all love retail. That's that's where I mean the town we don't make any money if there's if there's not retail. But I think just the market's changing and we we've seen that with other sites. And so I I do think that there's also like I said before that I times are changing and so there's I I I agree with that. But um I also wanted to address uh a possible transit station and there was a comment made that uh we laughed that off and I I don't want there to be any misunderstanding. We've been dealing with RTD and we know we are lacking uh transportation. We we kind of laugh because we have been fighting with RTD for years to get our our fair share of services. And so again, I just didn't want I didn't want anyone thinking that that was a joke. I'm not supposed to to comment on comments, but I felt like that was something that maybe uh warranted. Um, also being in real estate, Council Member Wilks, also we have heard so many times how people are, you know, promised what's going to be across the street from them or behind them and unfortunately there there's misinformation out there and things can change. And I I feel for for the people that, you know, maybe were led down led to believe one thing and you know it it will probably turn out another way. I mean I've I've dealt with that for

almost 25 years. People used to think that um Chambers Road was open space and were really upset when Chambers got built. So, um it's it's unfortunate, but um that's just a comment that I wanted to get. Appreciate it. Anything else? Council,

if I could just um for myself, I I was here in 2015 um sitting in one of these chairs and I in my 13 odd years sitting up here, I've learned a lot and seen a lot. And what we saw in 2015 and prior to this even being zoned in 2015, we saw had hoped for big boxes. I believe that Shields was here looking at one point and they wanted to be there. Um, and we hope they would be there next to E470 and we hoped that the location there at E470 would be able to answer the big box that we needed. Well, that's gone. And and that leads to the to the statement I think that's been made up here a few times. The conditions have changed. um what this was originally viewed for um back then is non-existent anymore. And that goes to to our point that we have and in the meantime ourselves as a town changed our LDO to answer the needs that have changed. The zoning that existed in the pretty blue there doesn't exist in our zoning anymore in that in that sense and and so we have changed and thus that identifies that there needs to be changes in the and vacant built property. I will say that the dream of this being retail throughout, you know, would be wonderful for our coffers. Um, you know, that that's that's a given. You saw from our budget, revised budget that we revised budget that we we do capture the majority of our revenue from sales tax, but that also would be incredibly um traversed. We would have more traffic with us all being retail than we have with office andor mixed use or light industrial flex. And I I believe that the scary word here is industrial because light industrial flex if you look at it exists um over on 20 mile um by Lowe's. It exists um and Dansfeld. I mean it exists in many parts of of town and it is not you know the horrible things that we we come to mind when we think of the word industrial. There's daycarees, there's generator sales, there's there's all kinds of uses that that need a bigger space than what is just the traditional retail storefront.

And so this opens that up and and I believe that you know the manufacturing is what we're really after here because this does touch a medical campus and this whole area this whole compark area was the dream back in 2012 and and obviously prior when this is originally in '05 was a was a light industrial flex was our industrial and employment center for the town of Parker. And so I think that this is a drift back from what we thought was the dream of retail back to what this heart this should be the the true heart of our of our workforce. Um, so for me that that there are quite a few criteria that I that I see have uh identified that this is the perfect opportunity for a reszone and I encourage council to uh make a motion and cast your vote. I move asking for motion. Yes, please.

I move to approve ordinance number 3.253.9 on second reading. I second. I have a motion for friends and a second from yes. Barington. Yes. Hols. No. Dak. Yes. Franen. Yes. Anda. Yes. Records show that that passes 5 to one. Thank you all very much. Appreciate your time on that. We do have one ordinance before we get into the craziness. Um if I could I'm just going to take just a second. Students, you will Thank you guys. Appreciate your time. Thank you.

Mr. Wilson, thank you for taking the time to come, sir. Students, there is a lot of your agenda left. It will go quicker than you think. If you're willing to stick it out, I promise I will talk to you after it's over. It's uh it's going to go faster than you think. Uh next up, we have ordinance ordinances and ordinance 6A, ordinance number 4.119, a bill for an ordinance adding a new chapter 11.21 to the park municipal code concerning Colorado wildfire resiliency and adopting the 2025 Colorado Wildfog Resiliency Code. Mr. Nelson and Mr. Sale, I believe Mr. Nelson has the floor.

Yeah. Good evening, Mayor, council, attending public. It's a statemandated code um where they've generated a wildfire map that they've identified areas um that properties that are within those areas have requirements. They're like surface hardening and um surface hardening defensible space site requirements. Um part of part of uh that resiliency um code is was created by Senate Bill 23166. Um what that bill requires is that governing bodies with jurisdictions in the WOOI areas adopt uh their the model code that meet or exceed those standards. Um the the three things um that come with that is the WOI mapping, structure hardening and defensible safe space site requirements. Uh the state schedule for adoption and implementation um is April 1st. Jurisdictions need to adopt by April 1st. implementation is currently set to be deferred out three months July 1. Um where does it apply in Parker? Um we've got several areas that show up on the map um with both moderate and lowrisk areas. Some of the development sites um that that occurs on is Looking Glass, Tantara, South Park, Kim Ranch. um what what what are the triggering requirements? So, all new buildings would need to meet those surface hardening requirements. Um and that mainly applies to exterior surfaces and

uh the building materials to uh construct the building. Um and the timeline between April 1st and June 30th, we're uh developing policies and procedures to um create um training training for the contractors to educate them as we we we start to learn and and uh these requirements ourselves. Um some of the amendments that we added into uh this code were was the ground truthing policy which um gives builders and developers the option to um go through and ground truth the area um to to develop a different fire intensity. Um we're currently working on a policy with South Metro Fire to um create a record that we can track on how we determined to reclassify that. And in doing so, um the policy we're working on first is to um something that we can run concurrently with site plan that come into the town because it's hard for um to to force a requirement for surface hardening that could potentially be uh reclassified through ground truththing. Um, another section that we added into an amendment was um, the ongoing defensible space. Um, it wasn't uh, real clear on how enforcement would take place. Um and so we wanted to clarify that upon completion uh of the building that that the defensible space which is basically landscaping

and adjacent to the the buildings and structures um it's the duty of the land owner and property owner to maintain that. Um we also added another section which is the applicability and administration for the defensible space for that review to take place during the site plan process. Um and you know planning has we're working with planning for them to develop uh policy to implement with homeowners associations to make sure that they're following through with that as well. I guess with that we recommend approval of this mandated state code.

Thank you. That's a good good closing line. Yeah, we have to report back to the state July 1st and the state's going to publish jurisdictions that are non-compliant. You know, I guess our goal is they do have an implementation date of uh July 1st, but we're going to work with developments that have already gone through approval processes, and we're currently doing so to try to ease this into that um and make it as least impactful as possible because it does add cost of development. Thank you, John. You ready for questions? Sure.

All right. Laura, I'll start with you, please. Uh, so this is in accordance with the model code. These are the updates.

This is just the wildfire model code. There's another one, the Colorado solar electric ready, which we'll be bringing to you in a separate ordinance um later in April, June. And so this the buildings the structure that you were talking about that reinforced material and I was just wondering is that is that fireproof or burnproof or does that stop the flow of the fire or how does it actually slow it down?

So it's surface hardening. So it's basically getting rid of uh wood shingles. You know the classification of asphalt shingles changes um if you're going to do like a vinyl sighting or replace a vinyl siding. Um there's triggers for that as well and you may have to um create a like a 1 hour wall assembly if you wanted to go with that type material. So it does add cost to construction. Um but but it actually slows

it slows the fire down. Yeah, that's that's the whole idea. So all the houses will not just light up one after another like we saw in 2020 in Grand Lake, Colorado. Again, I feel like these codes are kind of result of that fire.

The east it was the east troublesome I think it was the east called the east troublesome east troublesome fire of 2020. And the reason why I know about that is because I have relatives that have a cabin up there and they were lucky not to be destroyed in that fire. So this is directly assisting in this regard. So all the houses don't just light up and start burning down like they did there.

Correct. you know, and you know, it's when development occurs, a lot of times they go in overlock grade. And so that's something that these current wildfire maps don't take into consideration because you take a lot of that risk away. So it's just, you know, we're where properties back up to open space. I think that that's where they're more subjective to um taking on a wildfire. So I think those are the properties that are going to be impacted the most even after we go through some ground roofing. Um we do have one developer, Dreamfinders, who's working with a wildfire professional and so we're kind of using that as a learning tool to see what it looks like to go through the ground truthing process and um how they change those uh fuels on the map. Um but we're we plan to kind of document and keep um those updated maps. So, if the state reaches out or updates their map, which I think they're on a timeline to update every five years, which is way too slow for current development to keep up. I mean, uh five years a lot changes. Uh as well as the the way that we go in and overlock rain and put in the infrastructure, roads and streets. I feel like a lot of that risk goes away at that point. Um so, these are all new. There's a lot of building departments that still have a lot of questions and unanswers unanswered questions. So, we're going to be learning as we go.

Questions? He answered my question. Other than that, John questions. No, good. There any questions? Um, two. So, with the looking glass, because obviously they're nowhere close to being built out yet, what does this mean for the houses that were just built within the last couple years? Are they grandfathered in and now it's just moving forward? If the building's not there when the code's adopted, it's existing non-conforming. There is um requirements for renovations. So, if they were to go in and do sighting, a re- roof, um it could trigger surface hardening requirements. A lot of those communities are already using Hardy board and meet that criteria. It could mean a class A asphalt shingle. Most of the current roofs are class A.

Sorry, point of clarity. If the building is there when the code is adopted, then it's so the ones that are still at aren't built yet are if the building's not in place. And and so that's where we have to develop implementation, you know. So for us, if a building's issued and we've already have an approved master plan, we're not going to send the builder back to reinvent the wheel. Um I think that that's, you know, that's a lot. That's ridiculous.

Yeah. Which ties into my second question. Um, I know you said that they're going to publish a list of people who are non-compliant. Is that the worst of the consequence because I'm thinking that's not a big deal.

Yeah, I don't know. I imagine they'll tie it to uh funding that maybe the state provides. Um, yeah, that's that's a great question. And, you know, adopting it, there's enforcement. you know, there's nothing really in that bill that says who's enforcing that. I think that it would be unjustice for us to adopt something and not enforce it. Um, but we're pretty practical when we enforce our codes and we work, you know, try to be as practical as we can with implementing them. Um, so Okay. Thank you.

Can you ground truthing? I'm I'm not understanding ex what that really means.

So, they put a provision in there since the state maps used a current wildfire map. A lot of the risks that were shown on that map don't actually match what's out there today. So the the ground truthing they they created a kind of an exception for the code official through three three three items and it it's uh the topography the surrounding fuels and local weather weather patterns. Those are three of the criteria that need to be evaluated by a wildfire professional. And so, you know, we've been working closely with South Metro Fire to determine what those qualifications are and what that looks like. There's professionals that work with jurisdictions that are truly in wildfire areas like Jeffco um that are able to kind of go out and look at what's actually out there and give us uh documentation that supports maybe a lesser risk

because I remember um during our study session um we talked about like how was this map determined And I know there was a lot of um you we weren't agreeing in for example the pinery wasn't included but the open space you know you know the vacant land the vacant land is so it's not like we want to throw the pinery under the bus but I mean they should definitely I think they

there's lots of areas that don't make sense and there's a lot of opinion on you know what what ground truthing means and you know talking to other building officials it you know some of it just doesn't make sense. I think for us we want to be able to document how we're arriving at reclassifying it so if we have to report back to the state or if they come up with a a policy to easily amend those state maps we can provide that documentation. Okay? Because even though there's buildings that are grandfathered in, we're going to get hail and they're going to have to have a roof replaced,

when they replace their roof, you know, typically it would be with as asphalt shingles. The type of materials that are needed now. And I mean, I I don't, you know, we're all afraid of wildfire and we want to protect as much as we can, but what do we think the cost increase? I mean, do you have any idea right now? the roofing material that they're using currently meets. So, a dimensional shingle meets class A roofing. It has all the criteria. Okay. So, even my house was with one as well. Didn't need it, but it's already in the listing. Okay. Well, it's not hard to achieve.

Most of the shingles they saw at Home Depot or class A. Okay. Uh, that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you, Todd. Thank you. I would open up for public comment at 8:44. Any member of the public wishing to address council on this specific item, please make yourself known. Seeing none, will close public comment at 8:44 and go back for deliberation. Todd, I just view this as a simple update to code get us into compliance. So, I'm in support. Thank you. And

yeah, I think that with the ground trooping, um I know you guys have put a lot of work in into this since since you last talked to us about it. We appreciate that and um like I mentioned, we we all understand the risks with wildfire and we want to mitigate that as as as much as we can. So, and the fact that it's statemandated and we always go with the state mandated, right? This one is very important though. Thank you, Ann Brandy. Yeah. To Ann's point, if we're going to be volunttoled to do something, at least it's something that's going to help our citizens in the long run with wildfire. Thank you, Brandon, John.

Yeah, with uh with us constantly hearing drought, especially now and um seeing the effects of the Marshall fire, I think wildlife is very important. I'm sorry, wildfire is very important and we need to uh make sure we're doing the best for our citizens in this respect. Thank you, John. Eric,

yeah, align with what everybody else has said, I think it's important to note, too, that this these wildfire maps may be outdated. Um hopefully the updates will will continue to come, but it doesn't in it doesn't incorporate the entire town. There's portions of the town that'll have to be part of this mitigation plan. Um so just think that's an important point to point out that it's not the entire town, it's just certain areas of town that need mitigation. Thank you. And Laura, I'm in support.

Thank you. Yeah, I think it's you. we could do nothing but then we'd be stuck with the original maps and we don't want that because those maps were not true. So with the ground truth um and and participating in this I believe that we have a a better product for our citizens and and put our own stamp on code that we're mandated to do. So with that or if you vote yes that would be the case and I would entertain a motion. I move to approve ordinance number this one 4.119 on second reading. Second. Thank you. Thank you. I have a motion from Barington and a second from Hendricks. Hendricks, how do you vote? Yes. Barington, yes. Wilks, I. Dak, yes. Cranon, yes. And Hefta, yes. And that passes unanimously.

All right, Chapperel, I'm sorry I made the mistake of saying we'd be done quick. That was that I jinxed us. So you guys could probably go whenever you want. You're welcome to email me and I can answer any questions from your email. You're also welcome to stick around, but don't feel like you have to stick around. We could run long. So with that, thanks guys.

Thank you. All right, council. Well, next up in front of us is item 6B. This is the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan Districts numbers 4 through 11. In your packet are suggestions for motions. You'll see that the motions for ordinances are separate and individual and the motions for the resolutions are together and inclusive on whatever the numbers are. I am going to read the entire um thing into the record. So, I'm going to go through and read B 1 through 16 into the record. Jamie will speak and present. We will go through the regular process and then we will uh get open it up for motions at that point and you can see the process of the suggested motions. Um so bear with me while I read here for a few minutes. Um D1 ordinance number 9309.3 a bill for an ordinance to ratify the town's attorney town attorney's determination that the updated intergovernal agreement attached here too satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of ordinance number 9.39.2 2 series of 2025 regarding the second amended and restated intergovernmental agreement between the town of Parker and the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number four and to repeal ordinance number 9309.2. Item B2, resolution number 26-00004, a resolution ratifying the town attorney's determination that the updated second amended and restated service plan of the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number four satisfies the conditions stained in the town council's conditional approval of resolution number 25-059 series of 25. Ordinance number B3, ordinance number 9.310.2, two, a bill for an ordinance to ratify the town attorney's determination that the updated intergovernmental agreement attached here 2 satisfies the conditions

contained in the town council's conditional approval of ordinance number 9.310.1 series of 2025 regarding the first amended and restated intergovernment agreement between the town of Parker, Colorado and the Cherry Creek Metropolitan District number five and to repeal ordinance number 9.310.1 resolution number 26 6-005, a resolution ratifying the town attorney's determination that the updated, amended, and restated service plan of Cherry Creek South Metropolit 5 satisfies the conditions contained to the town council's conditional approval of resolution number 25-060 series of 2025, excuse me, B5, ordinance number 9.311.2, 2, a bill for an ordinance to ratify the town attorney's determination that the updated intergovernmental agreement attached here 2 satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of ordinance number 9.311.1 series of 25 2025 regarding the first amended and restated government agreement between the town of Parker, Colorado and the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number six and to repeal ordinance number 9.311.1 item B6 resolution number 26-06 6006. A resolution ratifying the town attorney's determination that the updated and amended and restated service plan for the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number six satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of resolution number 25-061 series of 2025.

Uh item B7, ordinance what? Go ahead.

Okay. Ordinance number uh 9.312.2 Two, build for an ordinance to ratify the town attorney determination that the updated intergovernmental agreement attached here to satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of ordinance number 9.312.1 series of 2025 regarding the first amendment and rest intergovernmental agreement between the town of Parker, Colorado and the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number 7 and to repeal ordinance number 9.312.1. One res and item B8, resolution number 26-007, a resolution ratifying the town attorney's determination that the updated, amended, and restated service plan of Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number 7, satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of resolution number 25-062 series of 2025. Item B9, ordinance number 9.313.2, Two, a bill for an ordinance to ratify the town attorney's determination if the updated intergovernmental agreement attached here 2 satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of ordinance number 9.313.1 series of 2025 regarding the first amended and restated intergovernmental agreement between the town of Parker, Colorado and the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number 8 and repeal ordinance number 9.313.1. Item B9, resolution number 26-008, a resolution ratifying the town attorney's determination that the updated and updated amended and restated service plan of the Cherry Creek South Metropolit satisfy the the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of resolution number 25-030 series of 2025. Item number B11, ordinance number 9.314, sorry, 5.2, Two, a bill for an ordinance to ratify the town attorney's determination that the updated intergovernmental agreement attached here 2 satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's

conditional approval of ordinance number 9.314.1 a series of 2025 regarding the amended first amended and restated intergovernment agreement between the town of Park of Colorado and the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number nine and to repeal ordinance number 9.314.1 item B12 resolution Number 26-00009, a resolution ratifying the town attorney's determination that the up that the updated, amended, and restated service plan of Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number 9 satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of resolution number 25-064 series 2025. And item B13, ordinance number 9.315.2, 2. A bill for an ordinance to ratify the town attorney determination that the updated intergovernmental agreement attached here 2 satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's initial approval of ordinance number 9.315.1 series of 2025 regarding the first amended and restated intergovernmental agreement between the town of Parker, Colorado and the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number 10 and repeal ordinance number 9.315.1. Item B14, resolution number 26-010, a resolution ratifying the town attorney's determination that the updated amended to restate service plan of the Cherry Creek South Metropolan District number 10 satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of resolution number 25-0652. Item B15, ordinance number 9.316.2, Two, a bill for an ordinance to ratify the town attorney's determination that the updated intergovernmental agreement attached here 2 satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's conditional approval of ordinance number 9.316.1 series of 2025 regarding the first amended and restated interdominal agreement between the town of Parker, Colorado, the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan District number 11 and repeal ordinance number 9.316.1. And lastly, item B16, resolution 26-011, a resolution ratifying the town attorney's determination that the updated amended and restated service plan for Terry Creek South Metropolitan

District number 11 satisfies the conditions contained in the town council's traditional approval of resolution number 25-066 of 2025. Thank you. Thanks, Madam Town attorney. The floor is yours. I apologize for the ownerous reading that probably is longer than the presentation.

Wow. We do have the attorney for the metro district, Megan Murphy, here too. Um, back on September 15th of 2025, the town council, as demonstrated in all of those titles, provided conditional approval for certain proposed amendments to the intergovernmental agreements and the draft service plans for the Cherry Creek South Metropolitan Districts, districts number 4 through 11. Those conditional approvals specified that the requests for amendment that were in compliance with the town's code and the town's model service plan would be approved provided that updated amended service plans and updated amended intergovernmental agreements were provided to the town's attorneys to be reviewed to ensure that the amended provisions complied with the model service plan and the town's code. There were additional provisions being requested back in September of 2025 that were not in compliance with the town's code and model service plan and those provisions were denied. Council worked diligently with council for the metro district. We probably put them through three or four different reiterations of these amendments, but they provided us updated documents that were reviewed by my team and our outside council. It was determined that the current amendments that are being presented before council today are in full compliance with the town's code and the town's model service plan. The amendments basically do just update the IG and the service plans to be in full compliance with our model service plan to make sure the provisions are accurate and to do some additional updates for things that have changed since the last time that the service plans were updated. just different acreages and things like that that have been um administratively approved throughout the time. So at this point they are asking that town council enter eight different ordinances and eight different resolutions which will approve the conditional approval ratify the conditional approvals that were entered in on September 15th of 2025 and then make the original ordinances and

resolutions that were entered on that date that were only conditional approvals null and void so that these ratified ordinances will be in place. This is really more of a cleanup so that way the records are in place and everybody knows what happened and that all of the current documents are the ones that people know will be in place going forward. And if Megan has anything additional to add, I'm happy to let her floor is yours. You have something to add. Good evening to speak. We got we got the new stuff but you don't need to know this this big thing we'll listen to.

I just wanted to say thank you to your staff who's always wonderful. We all really went through the ringer on this one. So hopefully we don't come back on these service plans and Tantara is moving forward. So thank you again. I'm here for any questions you have. Thank you, man. Appreciate that. All right, we'll open up for questions. Laura, you want to start us off? Questions on this rehash.

So this was uh taking place for how long now? Like a year or half a year on all the events? I think uh we probably first started talking about this at least a year ago. There were a number of meetings between the attorneys, between the developer um going back and forth with a number of discussions. We did talk to council a few times throughout. Um they published everything I believe in August of last year. They went through everything required because it was a public hearing at the time um for any amendments to our service plans because it is a land development issue. We do have a public hearing, but those discussions went back and forth for months and they went through all the required publications and so um this has been pending. These specific issues have been pending since September.

Thank you, Eric. Questions for council questions? John questions for the councils? No, this is um Yeah, this is a clean up. We will never do this again. I promise. I promise. Don't say it. Can we get the mayor to read read those in going forward? The ones in the middle. Yeah. Brandy questions. I don't think you question. With that, we'll open up public comment at 8:58. Any member of the public wishing to address council on this specific item? Please make yourself known.

Seeing none, we'll close public comment at 858. Go back for any deliberation. Council, anything to add with that? There is a series of prepared motions in your packet. I would entertain any of those said motions, preferring you stay in order. I move to approve ordinance number 9309.3 on second reading. I have a motion from Hendricks. I'll second. And a second from Bington. Hendricks, how do you vote? Yes. Bington, yes. Oaks, hi. Dak, yes. Branson, yes. Hefta, yes. Let the record show that passes 6. Next. We have a plan. Yeah. We're gonna go on down the line here. let everyone get a chance to

get on the record tonight. I move to approve ordinance number 9.310.2 on second reading. I have a motion from Bington and I have a second from Oh yeah, second. Sorry. Hendricks, yes. Barington, yes. Wilks, I. D. Yes. Franen, yes. Hefta, yes. That also passes unanimously. Next. Trying to leave behind. And now I'm all lost and flustered. Um, I move to approve resution ordinance. No. Ordinance number 9.311.21 second reading. Second. I have a motion from Wils. Second from DAK. Hendricks. Yes. Barington. Yes. Wilks. Hi.

Dak. Yes. Branson. Yes. And yes. And that passes 6. Next. All right. I move to approve ordinance number 9.312.2 on second reading. Second. I have a motion from Dak and a second from Franen. Hendricks, yes. Barington, yes. Wils, hi. Dak, yes. Franen, yes. Hefta, yes. That also passes unanimously. Next up, oh boy. Feel like I get this one right. I move to approve ordinance number 9.313.2. On second reading, I have a motion from Fran and a second from Yes. Hefta. Yes. I'm sorry, Hendricks. the council members. Yes. Barington. Yes. Hi.

Dak. Yes. Branson. Yes. Hefta. Yes. That also passes unanimously. Next up, I move to approve ordinance number 9.314.2 on second reading. A motion. Do I have a second? Second. Have a second from Hendricks. Motion from Hefta. Second from Hendricks. Hendricks, how do you vote? I vote yes. Bington, yes. Books, I. DK, yes. Branson, yes. And Hefta, yes. That passes unanimously. Next, please. I move to approve ordinance number 9315.2 on second reading. I'll second. Have a motion from Hendricks and a second from Bington. Hendricks. How do you vote? I vote yes. Bington, yes. Wilks, hi. Dak, yes. Branson, yes. Yes. That passes unanimously. And last for the ordinances.

I move to approve ordinance number 9.316.2 on second reading. Second. I have a motion from Barington, a second from Wils Hendricks. How do you vote? Yes. Barington? Yes. Wils. Hi. Dak. Yes. Peransen, yes. Hefta, yes. That also passes unanimously. And last up, the resolution motion. I move to approve resolution number 26-004 through 26-011 as part of the regular agenda. Have a motion. I have a motion from Wilks and a second from Dak Hendricks. Mayor, I choose a vote yes. Bington, yes. Wils I. Dak, yes. Branson, yes. And Hefta,

yes. And that passes unanimously. And we are done with that. And that will never happen again. Thanks, baby. Yes, I just jinxed you. Hey, Mr. Class is here. I thought you were going to get the boss to swing it for you, but you were hiding all there. Word for word. He's napping in the corner. All right. Next up, contracts over $500,000. Item seven, Becket Drive at Woodman Drive Connection, CIP project 23-025. Mr. Claus, the floor is yours.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um while Chris is pulling this up here presentation um here for contracts over 500K uh for Becket and Woodman Connection CIP23-025. Uh here's the vicinity map for the project. The project is called Becket and Woodman Drive connection. So you can see the roadway connection. It's just this tiny little piece that's going on right there. Um right off of Becket Drive and Woodman Drive. Um but we are doing a lot of uh improvements along Becka Drive. curb and gutter replacement, sidewalk improvements, milling overlay, um some storm drainage infrastructure improvements as well too. So, not just the connection, but also some infrastructure improvements along Becket as well. Uh to give some background, I started the town four years ago. It was the first meeting I ever attended working for the town and we are finally here four years later and we're doing it. Um so, this is a long background. Try to fit all in one slide. Uh in 2018, the Parker Meadow Condominium Association approached the town asking to dedicate the privately owned Becket Drive to the town for maintenance. Uh the town does not accept ownership of private roads, but upon further investigation, it was discovered that there is only one means of emergency egress serving 171 residential units uh which does not meet life safety requirements currently. Uh in order to complete this connection, rideway would need to be acquired from both the Parker me Parker Meadows Condominium Association and Parker Water and Sanitation District. On October 7th of 2024, uh town council approved the notice of intent to acquire ordinance for the Becket Drive Rideway for the Parker Meadow Condominium Association via Friendly Condomination. On December 2nd to 2024, town council approved an intergovernmental agreement with Park and Water and Sanitation District, uh, which outlined requirements to dedicate Woodman Drive to the town to complete the access point to the neighborhood at no cost. And then finally, on January 9th, 2026 of this year, the town completed all the required steps to acquire the necessary rideway to successfully construct the project. To give a little bit of background from

the project bidding, we advertised this project February 10th of this year. publicly open bids bids on March 4th. We received four responsible bids ranging from 826K to 630K. Uh the lowest responsible bidder was FNF Construction Inc. Um FNF Construction Inc. is a reputable contractor in the area and also performing well on the stro lighting project currently.

Um construction schedule so looking to recommended of award for the contract is for tonight. Notice to proceed probably March or early April. Um and then anticipated construction schedule we're going to complete early fall of this year. Uh and then recommendations recommend recommend approval of the construction contract with FNF Construction Inc. in the amount of 630,954. Uh this project was will be fully funded by the Parker Authority for reinvestment to the urban renewal district. Um and funds are available to cover the construction cost in the 2026 highway and streets capital project funds. And I'll open with any questions. Thank you. Laura, we'll start with you. Questions for Nathan.

I I feel like we've talked about this project at Nauseium since like four years ago, so I'm going to tell you, you've done a terrific job and I have no questions. Thank you. Fantastic. Thank you, Laura. Questions to to what was your favorite part? It's a joke. Um, can you talk about how much did we have budgeted for this project versus where the the bids came in? Um we're well under what we had initially budgeted for the project. I think the engineers estimate was somewhere around 800,000 something along those lines. Um so the the bids came back very favorable in this case. Perfect. Thank you. John, no questions. Brandy.

I mean I should but no no questions. Thank you. And Todd is getting four bids. Are you are you shocked to swing like 200,000 gap? Yeah, there's a little bit of a spread, a little bit of shock, but at the same time with um you know, how things came in and how the market's been kind of lately that the the end number seemed to be kind of in line with how the market's been lately. So, a little bit, but you know, the players that were at play, it it seemed, you know, fairly reasonable what was going on. So, great. Thanks.

And I'm just I think it's outstanding that somebody has a construction company called Chhattos Construction. I think that's just the greatest thing in the world. Sorry. Sorry, he didn't win or they didn't win. Um, all right. With that, we'll open up public comment at 9:07. Any member public wishing to address council on this specific item, please make yourself known? Seeing none, we'll close public comment at 9:07 and come back for a deliberation. Dod, anything to add? N. No. Thank you for all your for your four years of work on this. I'm going to be sad when it's all done. Me too,

John. No, again, I mean, I think um there are always things that um that are kind of uh could be improved upon. I'm glad we can provide additional access for those people down south, especially signalized access. And it looks like they're going to be getting a new um quick trip um right next to them. So, I again, it's this is just a very tedious thing. I remember all of the interactions with the HOA trying to figure out how they can get a get a quorum together, how we can how we can truly get the approval, how we move parking spots. Um these things just um aren't aren't easy and I'm I'm so glad we're here now. Thank you, Eric.

Thank you for the tenacity to stay with it. We could actually postpone this for three more years. Yes. Just see how long we keep you strung along. Kitty still be here. We hope so. That's the goal. Um, but no, great job here putting putting all this together. This a labor of love, I'm sure. But I appreciate that the uh came in under under what we budgeted and using FNF is, you know, again to your point, they're doing a great job on stro widening. So, it's a great pick. And Laura, thank you.

No, I think it's again four-year project and it's under a million dollars. Sometimes it's the small ones that that take the hard work. we have huge projects as compared. Um, but I do just want to thank you again and I know thank you on behalf of South Metro because they really wanted that second point of access and so not just for our citizens but for for their safety also. So well done by council and hopefully by council. See what happens here in the next 30 seconds. But well done by you sir. With that I would entertain a motion. I move to approve the staff recommendation as part of the regular agenda. Second. A motion from Fransen and a second from Hefta. Hendricks. Yes. Bington. Yes. Bulks. I Yes. Franen, yes. And Depa, yes.

And that passes unanimously. All right. Last on our agenda is resolution number 26-021, a resolution approving the intergovernmental agreement by between the town of Parker and the board of county commissioners regarding the cost sharing to establish link on demand microtransit pilot program. Bryce, Mr. Matthews, the floor is yours.

Thank you, mayor, members of council. As mayor noted uh tonight is a resolution regarding RGA between us and Douglas County regarding micro transit. Little bit of background. Um Douglas County initiated the integrated transit multimodal study um a couple years ago. Purpose of it was to utilize some Dr. cognitive funding um to expand on the previous transit and multimodal planning efforts both with the county and the jurisdictions involved uh to respond to concerns about limited transit options especially RTD identified gaps in the transit multimodal system recommend specific improvements um identify pilot projects to implement and provide a framework to guide and improve and sustain transit and multimodal throughout the county. Coming out of that were a series of phases and projects uh part of phase one uh that recommended pilot projects. So one was Highlands Ranch which is an operation by the county. Second one was part of the east system which is what we're talking about tonight. So, as you know, uh, town and the county have been talking about transit for a long time. Um, RTD service, um, Parker 2035 master plan adopted in 2012 talked about many of these goals. Um you'll see in these goals that RTD has mentioned in this case it's going to be Douglas County that's going to be the partner's achievement.

Uh the proposed expansion shown on the map here um you can see I25 and um E470 kind of in the center there. I'm color blind so I can't tell you what color that is. Um that's the existing the training space. Um, and so to the east is a portion that would be the blue section. Um, it includes areas like compartment that we talked about. It includes meridian stonegate and most importantly for this conversation in the western portion of of the town. So think Parker Road corridor and west and uh H test H road and north. It also includes our downtown area and the hospital area as well. Um the areas to the uh east of there are served by RTOR. Um to the areas by Cbury and I those areas and the areas to the south right now don't have service yet. Um assuming that pilot project is um successful then we will work with county and look at the areas that are served to see what opportunities are out there to expand it. Um the area that is proposed right now is 1.6 million. Um the town's contribution would be $250,000 to the pilot project annually. And I added this one just to kind of get bigger context. You can tree in the middle. Highland Ranch as the one that's operating today. And then you can see the eastern part of your portion as well. Some of the potential benefits transit access to Lone Tree train station

has Friday night service um and Saturday and weekday evening transit service which we do not have today. Uh provides transit service on the west side which is currently not served by RTD by flex ride. Rides are free for users. Uh utilizes proven technology via an app. So think about it like the Uber app. It kind of works like that where you schedule your rides. Um expands an existing system already in operation to us and leverages Dr. some of the key provisions of the IGA again uh 250,000 towards year one of the pilot program uh with the ability to extend the second year um county responsibilities they secure the rest of the funding they manage the day-to-day operations and reporting and performance monitoring um in partnership with service area we talked about harder and some incorporated areas program evaluation. So there'll be performance metrics through via um and operational data that will be collected to determine the success of the program. Some of this information will be evaluate the service effectiveness, cost efficiency, wrership levels, and kind of explore the long-term feasibility of what this looks like moving forward. Uh staff recommends town council approve resolution 26.021 uh for an IGA between the town of Harford and county regarding cost sharing for the link on demand project and pilot program. As always, I'm available for any questions you may have.

Thank you, Bryce. Start with time. Bryce, can you speak to the success that I've heard that Lo Tree and House Ranch has had with this program or the numbers? And

yeah, so I can't speak to specific numbers, but the Lone Tree system has been operating for over 10 years at this point um and has been successful. They continue to do that. Um that is kind of the basic format of what the county is looking at for what is now Highlands Ranch and partly because it's been so successful. Um Highlands Ranch the reports back have been has been successful in terms of meeting and achieving performance goals um whether it's wrership on time services those types of things. So reports back are we we know a loan trade has been successful reports back in Highland branches the first year but the number

uh three questions sorry um so going back to um like the the last slide the the like how are we going to evaluate it? Yes. So, wrership levels, do we have like a a goal? I don't mean to put you on the spot for this, but have we talked about like what what is good? So, uh the county has some threshold goals that they're targeting at I apologize. I don't know them off the top of my head. Um actually do. I think it's five boards per hour. Um

yeah. Okay. All right. Um what what is uh uh Julian Bouet? What is he to us? He's our he's our representative on RTD's board. Yes. Will he be at the ribbon cutting? Um we can invite him. I will invite him. I think we should invite him and maybe he'll come and bring us a big check. That was a question in the form of a question. I don't think Bryce Why would he be coming to bring us a big check from RTD? A hypothetical question, but I mean

but I mean I guess I I will answer a similar question. Um one of the things right when this starts is the town, Douglas County, the partners will be looking at different ways to fund this ongoing. This is a pilot project so it's for two years. Dr. Cip is helping fund it for two years. After that, it's going to be a partnership between us, the county, hopefully RTD, hopefully others. Uh, and so those conversations are going to begin immediately. Okay. Thank you. Great.

Um, also two questions, but simple. With the vehicle that you showed up there, is there a larger bus or van that can hold like I'm just thinking about, you know, my 13-year-old and her and six of her friends want to scoot over to the mall. like do they need to take six different rides like an Uber or can they all fit? So, so the minivan is that's what they all are. Um some are ADA equipped um and some aren't but they're all the minivan of that scheme. Okay. And then um more than one can ride in. That's good. Yeah, that's good. And then hours of operation. Do we have any idea on that yet?

Yep. Uh 7 to 7 Monday through Thursday. Um 7 to 10 on Friday and 10 to 10 on Saturday. No service on Sundays. Perfect. Thank you, John. No questions. So question is, you'll we note that our town contributions up to $250,000. What parameters would allow us to not get to 250 uh if if it came in less than 1.6 So, okay. So, so if it's cheaper for the county, cheaper for us, is that Yeah. Okay.

And then that's just year one. Do we anticipate year two costs? So So year two cost would also be 250,000 as a as a max. Yeah. The set up to be annual. Got it. So it would be renewed for the second year. Perfect. Automatically renewable or does it have to come back in front of us next year? It will have to come back. It will. Yeah. Okay. That's it. Thank you, Laura.

Yeah. So I, you know, I had the opportunity to witness the link in Loan Tree at one of their partnership meetings and celebration meetings and they have a lot of partnershibility issue is h how does Parker attract those Parker those partners for Parker because those partners look different from Parker to Low Tree. Um, so What do you think? How could we do that? Do you have any thoughts on that?

So the county um we are already kind of having conversations about that. It's early days but right I mean it's there all kinds of partners there public partners the ones you can guess about the potential for private partnerships which I know is a lot of what's going on in um we've got less than two years to figure that out to kind of figure out what that financial package looks like kind of what it would look like with town funds county funds other funds and are you close contact with their link folks to get some ideas from volunte.

So, so I meet with the link team once a week. Um, and we talked about all kinds of things lately. It's been obviously the ribbon cutting on April 8th. Um, but we talk about expectations for service. We talk about working on that call and they have 10 years of experience. It's very great resource. Douglas County has got some great um people on their team that have great resources. Um, so that partnership is very strong for folks to help us kind of as as this comes. Thank you.

Thank you, Bryce. Um, we'll open up public comment at 9:22. Any member of the public wishing to address council on this specific item, please make yourself known. Seeing none, we'll close public comment at 9:22 and go back for deliberation and Closing comments, Mr. Hendris.

Yeah, very excited for this. Uh, as we've looked at RTD in the past, it's been somewhat of a failure. So, I'm really hoping partner can embrace this program and see what happens. But I'm definitely support good night. Um, so yeah, there's we've been talking for a long time about this gap between what what park what RTD pays and the the last mile, how we're kind of stranded here in Parker. Um, so this is just, you know, we were able to step up a lot of research done on this. I'm I'm excited that Douglas County is helping. I hope RTD eventually does. Um but this is, you know, it's a proactive step towards solving um some of that first and last mile challenge.

Thank you, Brandy. Yeah, I'm I'm excited. I think it's not just going to help um my kids, but going to help all of the citizens of Perker and their kids, too. So, it's it's a wonderful thing. I I don't know how much to to talk about this, but um it's been a while.

Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, the the original uh the original study, um that was something many years ago that we were we were talking about, the county stepped up. It was Dr. COA funding gave the county 90%, we we talked the county into kicking the 10% for the study, which created this opportunity. Um, as we talked about RTD and and the challenges that we have with with mass transit and service, you know, I think, you know, we give about 23 or so million to RTD with with the 1% sales tax and uh we do back of the envelope type type things and we get about maybe two million of service um for that 23 million. So, that's the inequity and that's the challenge for how come RTD can't can't help us. So, Um, we have this opportunity and you know, thank you to the county commissioners and the county and and their staff in creating this opportunity for us to uh create a pilot project that doesn't take care of all the town of Parker, but gives us um enough to to potentially see if we can hit those thresholds that Bryce is talking about to potentially go out to RTD to make that make that case that if you can just help us out a little bit. It'd be great. Um, that is a very unproven path. Um, to council member Hefta's question, um, who are our funding partners? I mean, I think if RTD doesn't want to want to help us, um, it maybe be the county or ourselves if if the results are successful, but uh, we can't find any additional funding partners, and that would be a conversation for council on how to address. Um, this is a small step to to figure out if if bus service truly does um does work in Parker. Um, I think our numbers over the past number of years have indicated the

the big bus services don't work, but the Lone Tree Link was something that um that we we thought might work. So, I'm I'm incredibly uh thankful that we have this situation to potentially uh provide some some data to go and try to get RTD to help us out at this low threshold. Uh but I I don't know if if in year three uh we will have a funding partner to help us expand service and take over our obligation. Thank you. Thank you. And Eric, please. I don't know why I follow John.

Very very eloquently said a lot of work that's been put into this. Um you know thankful that we have an opportunity to take some of these matters into our own hands and address the huge inefficiency we have with public transit the town. Hopefully this gives us a a standing board to go in front of RTD or other partners and say hey this this works. I think it will and uh help us out, right? Take take some of the burden off of us and help expand some of this. So, I'm in sport. Thank you, Eric. Laura,

I I agree with council member on, you know, we are going to have to find those funding partners for future. And we're going to have to look at the whole picture of how we're funding this, not the entire picture. Um because this is probably going to be wildly successful, I think, for our seniors, for our young people, for our folks working at home, for incidentals, uh car breakdowns. I've had a few lately, not mine, but my husband's um you know, and these things come up in your daily life and you know, not everybody. Sometimes you get reimbursed for Uber, sometimes you don't, wherever, depending on where you're going. Uh sometimes you have seniors at home that are kind of living as shutins and then they need to go to the hospital for a visit. Uh you have teens as council member Will mentioned that want to get around town. And so there's just a variety across the board of folks that are going to want to use this service and I I do believe it's going to be successful. But the town as a whole will will thoughtfully go into the future facing those those funding challenges and take it step by step on how do we fund this for our citizens. So those are big questions for the future. I think we're good for two years right now on this pilot program and I'm hoping that we'll see some statistics as well um regarding the usage as you mentioned. So great job on working on this price. Thank you. Thank you, Laura. Yeah, real quick. I'm sorry, council. Just another minute. I I just want to say a thank you to council. Um this came in um outside of budget and and a huge thank you to staff for finding these dollars. Um I know council was apprehensive um for the reasons that Councilman Dak stated. We

don't know that RTD is going to come play. It's an incredibly transportation is incredibly expensive and we don't want to be um on the hook. But I I think that what council decided was the right decision. um that we have something to sell. If we can show that the writership is there and if we can invest a small amount um maybe not fund something this year to invest a small amount to show that we need this we can we could function RTD can what they can see is dollars and cents and if they see more ridership on their train because we have a a bus micro first mile to their train then they'll invest. So I'm proud of council for for this initiative. I'm thankful to staff for finding the money. Um, I know it's painful to go back and rebudget, but it it it was a necessity. And more importantly and most importantly, Bryce, you've been at this for the 13 years I've been sitting here and and so here we are. So hopefully this is the first step in a big change. Appreciate your work. But thank you, council. I entertain a motion.

Just I I I said I I was asking you hypothetical questions. I meant rhetorical questions. I really wasn't expecting an answer. Sorry. I move to approve resolution number 26-021 as part of the regular agenda. Second motion from Hendricks and a second from Wilks. Hendricks, yes. Barington, yes. Wilks, hi. Dak, yes. Branson, yes. And Hefta, yes. And that passes unanimously. No business in front of this council. We are journ right at 9:30. So we talked about in the new room teacher.