City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, we'll call the meeting to order. We'll begin with the invocation and the pledge. Almighty God, send down upon those who hold office in this city the spirit of wisdom, compassion, and justice. Grant that with steadfast purpose, we may faithfully serve our community, seeking the common good, protecting the vulnerable, and promoting the well-being and harmony of all who dwell here. Amen. Pledge. 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. [snorts]

All right. Uh the clerk will note all members are present with the exception of councelor Mosby who is excused. We have one announcement tonight. Uh, it's a heavy one. Um, I would like to take a moment to recognize the loss of a valued member of the city family, Aaron Benjamin, who passed away on February 19th while rafting the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. Aaron joined the city in 2009, first serving seasonally in parks and streets before becoming part of our water reclamation division. He was known for the positivity and energy he brought to his work and for the genuine care he showed in protecting our community's water resources. He was someone who embraced life fully and will be deeply missed by those who worked alongside him. On behalf of the city of Post Falls, I want to extend our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends, and co-workers. We are grateful for his service and the impact he made during his time with us. And I would ask everybody to please pray for his family and friends and um everybody affected by that. It's uh it's a difficult situation. Um all right, moving on from that, any amendments to the agenda tonight?

We have none tonight, sir. Hearing none. Declarations of conflict, exparte contacts, and site visits. Seeing none, please present the consent calendar. Item A is minutes from the February 17, 2026 city council meeting. Item B is payables February 18th through March 4th, 2026. Item C is December cash and investments. Item D is Corbin dog park design agreement. Item E is replacement vehicles for streets. And item F is painted rock subdivision construction improvement agreement. Questions on the consent calendar? I would move to approve the consent calendar as presented. Second. A motion in a second for the discussion. Roll call. Luca. I.

Malloy. I. Sig leader. I. Flu. I. Ziggler. I.

Motion passes. Thank you. U. Next up is public hearings. Tonight we have two. If you're speaking, the forms are in the back. Um, if you're writing, please write neatly. We'll begin the first one. Prairie Medical Zone Change. We'll open public hearing. Good evening where May mayor Westland and city council. My name is Justin Solder. I'm an associate planner and the project you have before you right now is the Prairie Medical Zone Change file number ZC-25-2. The [snorts] property owner is Coupney Health representing North Idaho Healthcare Holdings and the applicant is OAC Services. The applicant is requesting the city council to approve a reszone of approximately 30.88 acres from community commercial services to community commercial mixed. The applicant intends to construct a medical campus at this site that includes a future hospital bed tower. The CCS zone has a maximum height of 45 ft while the CCM zone has a maximum allowable height of 105 ft. So the zone change would allow the hospital bed tower to be constructed at a height higher than 45 ft. That is the main reason for the requested zone change.

If I could ask what is would if the zone was just commercial would that height also be allowed? It's uh capped at 45 right now. But I mean just just zone C. I know this is currently mixed right between it is currently CCS. So in the red here is community commercial services. Mhm. And that yeah the height right there is 45. But if it was just commercial there there is no just commercial zone. There is no just commercial. Nester will be the other option but it doesn't really fit. So is this the only zone that would allow that height in the commercial? As far as I know it's the only zone that would allow height like that. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

Yep. Here's the project location. on the southeast corner of Highway 41 and Prairie Avenue. So you can see here is currently within the CCS zone and that is represented in the red. The property to the north and south are also within the CCS zone and the property to the west across Highway 41 on the corner is also within CCS. And there's also property just to the south of that in the CCM. Then you have residential uses to the east across Zoros Road which is in the single family residential R1 zone. Thanks. And just to reiterate, the applicant is requesting to reszone from CCS, that's the red, to CCM, which would be the red and yellow striped. The site is currently undeveloped. It's over the Roth Prairie Aquifer. Water would come from Ross Point Water District and wastewater would be handled by the city. The city has the capacity to provide service and is willing to serve the property at the requested zone. for traffic. Prairie Avenue and State Highway 41 are both principal arterial roadways and critical arterial corridors. Prosper Avenue and Zoros Road are considered minor collectors. So, we will get into the zone change criteria. The first is the proposed zoning district consistent with the future land use map and focus area contained in the currently adopted postfalls comprehensive plan. The site actually has two land use designations. The majority of the site is within the business commercial designation represented in pink and the northwest corner of the site is in the commercial designation in red. Both of these designations provide a wide variety of general services, retail, professional office, light industrial, and mixed uses to serve both local and regional residents. The requested zone change is consistent with the future land use map because the site is adjacent to properties with the same land the land use designation of business commercial to the south and

west and east and commercial to the north. The applicant is requesting to reszone from CCS to CCM which is an implementing zone district for both the business commercial and the commercial future land use designations. The CCM zone should be applied in areas primarily located near arterial and collector streets to support commercial, residential, professional office and civic uses the support accessible work live environments. So the zone targets hightra corridors with existing infrastructure such as highway 41 and Prairie Avenue um to facilitate largecale development such as a medical campus. And then the site is within the 41 north focus area. Here is a view of the site in the general area as well as the zoning. You can see there are variety of different zones within the area with commercial zones along Highway 41 north of Prairie and then residential uses further to the east and west. The 41 north focus area states that Highway 41 corridor will rival Seltis in terms of importance as retail mixeduse residential and services district. [snorts] Residential development has been predominant in recent years in this focus area and it's a trend that's likely to continue. Such growth is expected to spur commercial uses along Highway 41. So, the focus area seeks to provide regional uses along major transit corridors such as Highway 41 and Prairie Avenue. The future medical campus may support the residents in the immediate vicinity as well as on a regional scale due to its location. Moving on to the second review criteria which states is the proposed zoning district consistent with the goals and policies of the comprehensive plan. Goal one states grow and sustain a balanced resilient economy for postfalls providing community prosperity and fiscal health. The zone change request is consistent with goal one. The zone change may contribute to a resilient

economy by providing the opportunity for a new employment center to be developed. A medical campus with a hospital creates a variety of employment opportunities that contribute to the economic diversity and long-term prosperity of the city and may even attract related businesses such as medical suppliers, pharmacies, and other wellness services. Furthermore, the commercial and medical uses along Highway 41 will require diverse residential developments nearby to support a medical campus. There are several factors that need to be considered when applying a new zone. Um, and those are described in policy 2. We've already touched on the goals and policies in the future land use map. So, we can talk about infrastructure. Sanitary sewer is located within the intersection of Prosper Avenue and Highway 41 and would discharge to the 12th Avenue lift station. The city has capacity for the requested zone and it is in conformance with the city's water reclamation master plan. For traffic patterns, Highway 41 and Prairie Avenue are both classified as principal arterial roadways and critical arterial corridors. Prairie Avenue will be widened to the full paved width in 2026 or 2027 with Postf Falls Highway District's Prairie Avenue widening project. Prosper Avenue and Zoros Road are classified as minor collectors and when fully constructed the adjoining roadways will have the capacity to accommodate the projected traffic volumes for the surrounding land uses. Now for um goal seven which states plan for and establish types of quantities of land uses and postfall supporting community needs and the city's long-term sustainability. The zone change would support community needs by allowing the development of a medical campus which will be a major benefit to the city as it continues to grow. Additionally, a hospital can be considered a community need and an essential service. The zone change is also compatible with

policy 8 which encourages infill development within the city limits as the areas to the south and west are already developed and the areas to the norththeast and northeast are currently being developed. The CCM zone in the medical campus would be compatible with the commercial buildings being developed to the north and other medical uses being developed to the northeast. Is also consistent with policy 86 which seeks to work with local businesses to enhance, sustain, and diversify the local economy by supporting business opportunities related to campuses and attracting new businesses. The zone change would allow for the opportunity to expand medical services and jobs within a campus setting and likely attract other businesses to support a medical campus. The third and final review criteria, does the proposed zoning district create a demonstrable adverse impact upon the delivery of services? There have been no identified demonstrable adverse impacts at this time. Here's a list of the agencies that were notified of the project and we received comments back from these agencies. Most of them were neutral or will comment during the actual construction or had no comments. Uh one of no is uh PA4 the urban new red district actually did send us a letter supporting the zone change. Then there's the review criteria once more and that concludes my presentation. I'm available for questions should you have any. Thank you.

I have I think a staff related question. Um did we talk to the Cordelane airport in this zone? I see that it says um that we need to be cognizant of flying patterns for the airport with the height change. We did not reach out to them from um when I looked through the plan. I did not see that it was a point uh of concern for the flight path. I don't know if because you looked at a flight path. Um, yes, I looked at the I forget what the document is called, but I looked at the document from the airport for the flight paths. Okay. Okay, great.

And I and I can say from my position with the Ross Point Water District. We're building a water tower nearby that's much taller and that was checked through the flight. Oh, okay. Great. Cool. Um John was just reminding me it's also sent to the Coney. Where was it sent to? County. Oh yeah. To the planning department. So hopefully if they had any issues with it, they would comment as well. They would be the authority on this 2018 Celane airport master plan?

No. Um not necessarily, but um I guess theoretically there could be some coordination there. It just would be a darn shame if we built a big beautiful tower for patients and it ruined some flight patterns into the airport because we didn't think about it. But okay, sounds like it is fine then, right? We we can look into that again. Okay. I think if we have an airplane flying at 145 ft that far away from I don't know anything about airplanes and how close they need to be to the ground. Okay. I think we're well clear of the impact area. It just says it in the thing. We're wanting to go higher in the air seemed like a reasonable question to ask. But if we're confident that is fine. When I reviewed the airport plan, I didn't see any conflict.

Okay, great. Thank you so much. I think that's my only staff question. All right. Does the applicant wish to speak?

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Thank you for the opportunity to speak with you. My name is Ben Mcgran. I'm the owner's representative for North Idaho Healthcare Holdings representing Multicare and Cutney Health in this initiative. Um, my firm is OAC. Um, so we we're breaking this project down into a couple of phases. Our first phase is an emergency department with 14 beds. Uh, we're going to have an advanced imaging center. U, our connected lobby, which is basically our front door, and then our medical office building. Uh this first phase is expected to be completed in the end of 2027 and first part of 2028. Uh we do plan to build out the rightway around uh the facility during this which would be Zoros that goes north to south and connects to Prairie and then Prosper which runs east to west uh which connects to the um lakeside development directly to our east the residential development. Are you saying those would be the the principal entrances and exits for the hospital or would it also go on to Prairie or 41?

Yes, in the future buildout in phase uh two and three, we would have entrances off of Prairie uh for the future hospital. But in this initial phase, you would have inbound ambulances and so they would be entering through either Zoros or or Prosper.

So this this here is the the overall site plan which shows the future development. Uh you can see right now off of Highway 41 that there is a planned entrance. We're still working with ITD on the approval of that. Um so we have a encroachment permit in place with them that we're working through with our uh traffic impact analysis that's been submitted. So uh we are hopeful that that will be approved. Um but it'll primarily be for ambulance traffic going directly into the emergency department. Uh there will be access points off of Prairie and um Zoros and Prosper to to the campus. uh we'll have a kind of a ring road around the middle part of the um hospital, the future hospital expansion. Uh but the idea is that we've anchored oursel into the southwest corner and that we will expand to the northeast as the project progresses over the next 10 to 15 years. Uh as Justin uh stated, we'd look to have a hospital bed tower about 250 beds uh medical office buildings that total about 300,000 square feet and a parking garage. Um the the reason why we want to be able to go vertically up to six stories uh which this would allow is really just the efficient use of the space vertically integrated uh medical buildings. Uh and then also it reduces the site coverage and allows us to have some open space. We want to have some walking trails and gardens and areas for healing uh for patients and families and visitors to participate in uh the campus. So that's really the the reason to to do this is really to get that height so that we can be efficient with our space. So we we appreciate your uh support so far and we thank you for your consideration and I know that we will have some of you at our uh groundbreaking ceremony here that we have coming up on the um 17th. So that concludes my presentation.

Questions? Can I ask why we need to do the the zone change now um and not in 10 years when you start the tower, however long it is that you're looking to start the tower.

Yeah. Uh great question. Thank you. Uh as part of the master plan development, uh we have uh you know goals that we want to achieve with the the square footage, right? And so when we go into it with the master plan of saying that we want to have 500,000 square feet of hospital space and we want to have 300,000 ft of medical office building space. We can't achieve that without having the zone change now uh so that we can plan for that master plan. The master plan is really predicated on that zone change uh to to get that square footage.

Okay. I do have some heartburn about six stories surrounded by R1 um and it not being giving the approval for that kind of building now without it happening for a while and how do I say if something were to happen and you did not own this land anymore um and sold it to someone else they would by right have the ability to build whatever they wanted up to that height as well. And since your plan isn't for so long and it seems reasonable and beneficial for the community, I I I don't see why it would be denied when you get closer to actually making it happen. Does that like hesitancy make sense?

I I can understand that from our standpoint. We want assurance uh that we have that ability. Um now we want that assurance. Uh we can't wait for that in the future. Uh call it in five years when we're ready to do that. Uh again, our master plan that we're developing is based off of the uh assumption that we can go vertically. Uh if we weren't able to do that, we would have to completely change uh how we're approaching the project um and the services that we're going to provide.

Uh I I do take into account your thoughts on the residential next to us. We are being very thoughtful about that. We want to make sure that there's some distance and some landscaping that barriers that. Um, for example, you know, the the tree plantings that we will plant along Zoros. Um, you know, we're talking about like holiday lights and things like that that will be integrated into the site so that it's kind of like a really awesome, cool, welcoming environment when people are driving around the area. And there will be a helicopter pad on the top of this. This will not be a trauma center. There will be no helicopter pad. And the parking garage is not intended to be six feet. The parking garage will be uh that's six stories. It also won't be six feet.

No, not just next. No, not six feet, but uh that is yet to be determined. Um we're still working through uh whether we can do below grade uh parking. Uh there's been some discussion about preserving more green space and um putting some sort of like maybe playfield on top of a parking garage. Okay. Um, and so we would make sure that that is very well integrated into the architecture and design of the community so that you're not looking directly at a bunch of cars. Gotcha. But that the architecture is pleasing to our neighbors that would be adjacent to us.

Okay. In terms of the criteria that we are supposed to look at, while it does it does exist in the map of the future land use, I don't know that based on my original concerns, it's congruent with the um zoning that it's right next to. But having this conversation makes me more confident um in that. So so thank you for that. And then also um you know that in 5.2 it says of the development agreement that there will be no residential on this even though CCM could technically allow you to have a higher percentage of higher density residential. Absolutely. Okay. Great. Well, thank you for that and making it so that I didn't have to belabor it tonight. All right. Thank you. Further questions?

All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Anyone uh with comments? We have none. Nice and easy tonight then. So, there's nothing to rebut and we'll go ahead and close the public hearing discussion criteria. I feel better. All right. We're going to pull up the review criteria. Uh remember this is just a zone change tonight. So, there is no legislative decision. This is just a quasi judicial decision. So, uh, we will dive right in. Uh, is the proposed zoning dist district consistent with the future land use map and focus area contained in the currently adopted Postfalls comprehensive plan?

I would say the answer is yes. CCM is an implementing zone uh in the master plan. Um, there are uh adequate arterials to serve this type of development in that area. So I think it meets that review criteria quite soundly and one of the criteria is to uh promote the health of the community and this literally does that. So that's nice.

Um I am concerned about traffic and so I'm I'm like to see some more of the traffic plan that went in. I know ITD is looking to widen it but there's a school right there. where there's a shopping center that's going in. Now, there's going to be more traffic and that that road just it's going to have a lot of uh a lot of people going through those roundabouts that I've already seen a few cars go right over the middle of those roundabouts. And now we're going to add ambulances in and people that are that are um not familiar making turns and all that stuff in front of them. It's um so in terms of the best interest, I think there is some concern with that. I I definitely think that it's in the best interest to have reduced ambulance transit times and um less road miles, especially for elderly people that are driving to medical appointments and they can have something more local. Um there's a lot of benefit to it as well. But u so far is it is it in the best interest of the city? I think I'm mixed at this point.

We're we're skipping that one. That's the annexation question. Okay, we're we're on the one the one below it. Is it consistent with the land use map? Yes.

All right. Uh moving on to the next review criteria. Is the proposed zoning district consistent with the goals and policies contained in the currently adopted postfalls comprehensive plan that are relevant to the area under consideration? Let's say yes, the Highway 41 and Prairie corridors are identified as avenues for the higher intensity uses. Again, this literally supports the health of the community. Uh it also contributes to uh the financial sustainability of the community should bring in a lot of well-paying jobs and um and definitely save lives, which is a key of sustainability of the community.

Important. So, And it will deliver babies. It will deliver babies, which is also key. Yes, we like babies. I would like to comment on the on kind of the fiscal health or how it contributes to the community. We've talked a lot in this meeting, these meetings as well as workshops in the last few weeks about kind of yield per acre uh and in this type of addition going vertical will definitely help kind of that long-term sustainability from a fiscal perspective of the city. So, I think I think it's a great change. to that zone to allow it. Does it though? Because I mean, most of this property is going to be owned by a nonprofit corporation. So, they do still pay tax.

Would they be paying property taxes? Okay. Absolutely. So, there's not an exemption for them. I know that the medical offices and all of that there wouldn't be. I just wasn't sure about the nonprofit. Yeah, we asked that question a while ago and clarified that. So, Right. Thanks. All right. And finally, does the proposed zoning district create a demonstrable adverse impact upon the delivery of services by any political subdivision providing public services within the city?

None were noted. It didn't say so on there, but you know, having been in law enforcement, I know that that um national 911 data shows that um hospitals are among the highest frequency non-residential users of police services. um especially if they have an ER, they are two to four times more likely uh or they have two to four times more police calls than than um other similar commercial uses. So, um you do have especially if there's behavioral health units, you have people being released after a 72-hour hold right in the one of our busiest, soon to be busiest intersections in the city. So I I think that there is a possible adverse effect on the police department. Um that especially in light of the workshop that we just had, we have to be prepared for um that this could require up to an additional, you know, one to three FTE to have somebody who's constantly taking police calls at a at an ER and a six-story hospital and medical offices and all of that. It doesn't mean that I'm I don't think that it's it's manageable, but I think especially with the the fiscal outlook for the city, it's something that we have to keep in mind that it there would be an adverse impact. The question is if it's enough or if it's manageable.

Can I ask really fast? Is it on Ross Point water or is it going to be city sewer or city water? It's Ross Point. I think so.

Ross Point. Okay. So, and I just wanted to clarify for tonight's purposes, uh, when we consider these things, we have to consider what's in the record before us as part of the process. And so, uh, when you're talking about sort of, uh, possible adverse impacts, there's always a possibility, but we have to base our decision on what's before us and the evidence before us and whether or not it's a sort of provable, verifiable uh, negative impact as it relates to these review criteria. So, any further deliberation?

I have one comment. Um, and I know um most of this area abuing Highway 41 was annexed before my time, but I do remember annexing the pre the property to the northeast of this into CCM. And part of the deliberations there were kind of a a vision or or forecasting of what would be a great fit in that area. And this specific conversation I remember having of um and I really advocated for CCM there to allow a medical campus to be built on that intersection. So um to me this is just it makes a lot of sense to kind of what this site um or this area already is set up to support. Um so the CCM designation makes make perfect sense to me. I would move to approve the Prairie Medical zone change ZC-25-2. Second.

Motion in a second. Further discussion. Roll call, please. Malloy. I. Stigler. I. Pl. I. Ziggler. I. Luca. I. Motion passes. Thank you.

All right. Um, now on to the G annexation. All right, open public hearing. Good evening once again. Justin Ser here, associate planner. And now we have the G annexation file number ANNX-25-1. The property owners are TVA and Nolan Gaul and the applicant is Ace Solutions and they are requesting the city council to approve a request to annex approximately 7.76 acres with a residential mix RM zoning as part of an annexation request into the city. Here is the project site on the southeast corner of Cecil Road and 16th Avenue. It's actually four different parcels. You can kind of see it underneath the hatches there. But, uh, one project, one property owner. Here you can see the site is not currently within the city and therefore does not have a zoning designation. The properties to the north, south, and east are all within the county and contain large lot single family homes. The properties to the west are within the city in the single family R1 zone. And the applicant is requesting a zone of RM. site is currently single family homes and mobile homes over the Roth Prairie Aquifer. Water would come from Ross Point Water District and wastewater would be handled by the city. The city has capacity to provide service and is willing to serve the property at the requested density and zone and then existing septic systems would be required to be abandoned for traffic. Cecil and 16th Avenue are both classified as major collector roadways and additional rights of way and easements would need to be provided

as part of the annexation and then road widening at the time of development. So the first criteria for the zone change is the proposed zoning district consistent with the future land use map and focus area contained in the currently adopted comprehensive plan. The future land use designation of the subject property is medium density and the applicant is requesting a residential mixed zone which is an implementing zone district. A mixed zone blending commercial and residential may be considered in areas as they develop providing they feature high traffic volumes and or are located um and designed to function as pedestrian friendly focal point to the surrounding neighborhood. The site is adjacent to properties with the land use designation of medium density to the south and east and low density to the north and west. There are also some business commercial designated properties further south along Cecil and that's in the pink. Further guidance for growth in this area can be found in the comprehensive plan with the central island focus area. And a particular challenge for this area has been the incorporation of county islands into city limits. So there are some guiding policies um found in that focus area. So the focus area includes key policies to guide development in this area including promote infill, prioritize annexation opportunities, support development that provides pedestrian connectivity, and focus provisions for commercial uses along arterial or collector streets where traffic exceeds 4,000 trips per day. Annexation of the property may promote infield devel development while maintaining the general characteristic of properties within the im immediate vicinity and may also help facilitate better pedestrian connectivity as Cecil Road and 16th Avenue would both be improved at the

time of development with sidewalk. Additionally, both Cecil and 16th are major collector roadways with anticipated traffic capacities between 4,000 and 12,000 trips per day. Traffic counts from 2023 shows Cecil with an average traffic daily traffic exceeding 4,000 and 16th Avenue exceeding 3,000 trips per day. It should be noted that these traffic counts may be may have been impacted by the state highway 41 construction that was going on at the time of the count and the results may be slightly skewed resulting in high slightly higher on Cecil and slightly lower on 16th. However, model projections for both roadways um anticipate between 4,000 and 6,000 trips per day by the year 2045 with the design parameters for the roadway classification. And then just taking a look at the general area, we have a handful of churches or rel religious assemblies. There are apartments both to the north and south. And then you have Highway 41 less than a mile away to the east. And then not shown on here you have Mullen Avenue less than a mile away to the south. Here is a conceptual plan of what the applicant intends to do and this is contained within the annexation agreement as well. So the applicant intends to develop the property with R2RM density with single family cottage home with a small amount of commercial on the northwest corner and that's represented in the red. That's the NC

neighborhood commercial. Okay. Thank you.

And then uh the rest of the site would be for the housing um open space and roads and whatnot. And uh the the R2RM density is there represented in the yellow. The target density would be consistent with the future land use designation of medium density as well as other single family homes in the immediate vicinity. By providing a small amount of office or retail space, the applicant hopes to create an environment where residents can have easy access to retail services, entertainment, or convenience store or a local small business opportunity. Uh the churches and apartments in the area may also benefit from some neighborhood commercial that's within walking distance. Mhm.

When we look at this area in the yellow with the R2 RM density, the development agreement specifies that single family, attached or detached duplexes or town homes are the types of residential uses that would be allowed. The planning and zoning commission asked that we dive deeper into the allowed uses within the RM zone. So, I have listed some of the commercial uses that are allowed within the RM zone. Now, this does not mean that the applicant is intending to do any of these. It's just an example of what could be done. Um, I'm sure the applicant can tell you what they would like to see on the property. Um, but these uses on the left, uh, in the column on the left are uses that are allowed by right. And, uh, you can see they're mainly focused to be very, um, neighborhood, commercial, and smaller scale. So, you've got a neighborhood shopping center, a grocery store, less than 17,500 square ft, a convenience store without gas pumps, restaurants, but not fast food, so no drive-throughs, a veterinarian [clears throat] office, or a mixeduse building. Then there are also a few uses that would require a special use permit. This also is not an exhaustive list, but just as an idea, a general office building or a bar or a church would all require a special use permit, which means they'd have to come back to the planning commission for an approval for any of those. Um, a mixeduse building with residential and office or retail would also be an allowed use. There's a handful of use. Um, and when thinking about a mixeduse building, we have a local example that may be helpful. Once again, the applicant has not indicated that this is something that they're looking to do, but just an example of something that could be done as a mixeduse building. This is the mill that's in Celane. It's on the northwest corner of Government and Mill Avenue. So, you have some shops on the bottom floor. There's a

restaurant, a coffee shop, a salon, I believe, and then some units above that. Also want to note that the max height in the RM zone is 45 feet. So you would not get something that's quite this tall. And then last point is um in the RM zone, commercial development is limited to 10% of the overall site. So here what you see in the red is a pretty accurate or good depiction of what would happen at the site. And so when you're thinking about neighborhood commercial, they're going to be pretty limited to how much commercial they can do on the site or what kind of development they can do because they would have to fit it within that 10%. So then uh moving on to the second criteria, is the proposed zoning district consistent with the goals and policies contained in the comprehensive plan that are relevant to the area under consideration? Goal one states, grow and sustain a balanced and resilient economy for postfalls, providing community prosperity and fiscal health. The RM zone can deliver attainable housing choices in the form of cottage homes and diversify the housing stock may assist in sustaining a balanced and resilient economy. And then you also have some opportunity here for a small amount of commercial. Policy two describes factors to consider when applying a new zone. And so talking about infrastructure, sanitary sewer is located within 300 to 600 feet of the eastern boundary of the site at the intersection of 16th and Tanzanite um and at Lapis Avenue and Cecil Road. Sewer flow would discharge the Third Avenue list station which has capacity and um is within conformance with the city's water reclamation master plan. For traffic patterns, Cecil Road and 16th are both classified as major collectors and currently configured as two-lane roads. However, to accommodate the projected traffic volumes for the

year 2035, both Cecil and 16th would require would um would require widening to the major collector configuration for the length of 16th in Cecil or just at this property? Just at this property, just on their frontage. That will be weird, right? Um, we see in other areas of the city, but uh these other parcels to the east or on the north of 16th that aren't within the city, um, we wouldn't be using their property to widen the road.

What about the 16th to the west? Is that two or is that four already? That's in the city. Yeah. Um I believe that is two but then there's it looks like they've already given some of the right of way dedication. So what you see west of Cecil would be like as far as the width of the street section. See from here to here. Yeah. It would look very similar to that but only along the project site to the uh and on the south. So they're only required to do the improvements on their property and on their side of

I understand that they don't have to widen the entire block of 16th. My question is more is the traffic plan to widen all of 16th to be four lanes or it truly is only for this property like when the other in I would defer to Rob city engineer for the traffic. It's ready [laughter] primed. It's been a long time since I got to talk to you here. Hi Rob.

Good evening. Good evening, honorable mayor, members of the council. Robert Paul, city engineer. So on your question, the master plan that we currently have in operation as well as the master plan that we are working on both show that Cecil Road and 16th Avenue will be three-lane roadways by 2035 to handle the full volume.

Okay. Now, how growth actually occurs between now and 35, we may not fully have that three those three-lane roads in place. We grow as development occurs, they put in those jigsaw puzzle pieces and then we end up with the final product when everything's developed along that roadway. That may mean for certain periods of time, we may have to live with a slightly lower level of service. Okay? But in the end, if growth occurs at the rate we anticipate or faster, we should have all those improvements by the buildout period of the master plan.

So for this section of 16th, should this all be approved and move forward, that section will be widened to be three lanes or four lanes? Three lanes. That is what the major collector is. We do not a four-lane road would step into a arterial roadway. Okay. And then presumably as those other pieces of property annex and should they they would widen to match what it currently is. That is correct. Okay, great. Thank you so much. And then the same is true for Cecil obviously the same idea. The same is true for Cecil as well. Yes. Okay. Thanks. Yep. So these would be one lane of travel in each direction with a center turn lane.

Correct. And with the major collector, there's also the ability for us to have um bicycle lanes and parking on one or both sides depending upon what configuration um engineering staff views as working best with the growth as it occurs in that area. But if this project was developed, let's say in the next year, then that uh Cecil would be a three-lane road in that that just just next to the contiguous red line there.

Yes, it's a almost an eighth of a mile section which goes a long way towards what we're trying to accom accommodate long term. And that's with the property owner dedicating part of their parcel to the roadway, but not the people on the west side of Cecil. Correct. the people on the west side of Cecil have already built to a collector standard. Okay.

Uh the collector standard has changed a little bit since I think that was about 2003 or 2004 when that subdivision went in, but with the dedication that this proponent is would be required to do and they would we would be able to get the current standard for the road with in place. Thank you.

Thanks. Okay. The annexation is also consistent with goal 12, which seeks to maintain the city of Postfall's long-term fiscal health. The proposed annexation could be considered an efficient and effective measure to providing housing closer to the city provided infrastructure and services. and neighborhood commercial may also add to fiscal health by providing opportunity for small businesses. The project is also consistent consistent with policies eight and nine which encourage infill development and annexation of county islands. The annexation and proposed zone may help provide an opportunity to encourage infill development. And furthermore, the site is within a county island with services and infrastructure nearby. and it's also within a mile of commercial services along Highway 41 and Mullen Avenue. Third and final review criteria. Does the proposed zoning district create a demonstrable adverse impact upon the delivery of services? And there have been no identified demonstrable adverse impacts at this time. Here's a list of agencies that were notified of the project and we received comment back from these agencies. uh they either remain neutral, we'll coordinate at the time of development, have no comments or no facilities within the area. And then there's the review criteria once more for you. That concludes my presentation. I'm available to answer any questions should you have any.

Can I get some clarification on 5210 in the annexation agreement? Um, with regards to the um, neighborhood commercial, I'm not like familiar with the rules of neighborhood commercial because I couldn't find I don't know in my papers like anything that gives me like the setback or the hide or what's allowed and not allowed. Um, but this says residential development shall be restricted to attached or detached single family homes or duplexes if town homes are constructed. more than six single family unit structures, which I think is lovely and I read it and was very excited. But a mixeduse is not single family, detached or attached. That's like apartments or condos. So would that be allowed in this section?

Correct. So there would um within that neighborhood commercial zone, you could have a mixeduse building that has um an apartment or a unit above some of that commercial space except that this development agreement point says that you cannot um maybe John could come help clarify some of this. Okay, thanks. [clears throat]

So the the [clears throat] intent of that condition was to deal with standalone um classifications for residential type housing, not to trump the allowed mixeduse building that that could be that would be allowed by the RM zone by itself. So if needed for added clarity, we could add and augment that 510 5-2-10 if it would help. um meet that intent. So, sorry to jump in. Yeah. Um so, for the public hearing, we we do we hold the public hearing on the development agreement, but we can make changes to it. It still has to come back to council. So, if it

uh if that needs to be tweaked or clarified um as to talking about the residential versus the the mixed use, we can do that in the inter room. Can can we do it right now? Like, can we talk can we talk about it right now? Oh, abs, absolutely. That's that's what I was saying. The motion can be to to include um an edit to the development agreement to that effect, that sort of thing.

Personally, I think that this is like a lovely buildout in this area, provided that it doesn't have what is more commonly referred to as highdensity housing, which while it is a small portion, I think is what most people view um what would be on top of a mixeduse building. So for me, it would not be helpful to have an added point in the development agreement allowing that on top of a uh commercial, especially not to the height of three stories. Maybe I could be convinced to do just one story on top, but I I don't think that the nature of this area um with the other duplexes and single family homes, like detached or attached single family homes that I was sort of hoping had 45 feet, three stories, is that what that is

typically? Yeah, your 45 foot is a three-story development. I think, like I said, I think it's a delightful mix in this residential area that's mostly R1, but I think that at two stories, it's a delightful mix. At three stories, I think it will be upsetting to the nature of this area of town. So, that's that's what I would request on the development agreement. and what kind of frame the development agreement was in collaboration with the applicants looking at what they were trying to do and they could speak to more to it more once they get up but their goal was to get some attainable type housing in this area and their goal was to do cottages and maybe that mixeduse type product.

Yeah. Um, so but being that as it may, we actually threw some additional conditions in it because as you know the somebody who comes in and applies today may want to do a different product in the future. So staff added some guard rails within the development agreement. Okay. That was coordinated with them even though they they currently don't intend to develop that currently. Sure. And I when I read that I really appreciated that point um but then was caught off guard by that one. So So yeah, we could look at heights. So, for some reason you guys were open to mixed use and you wanted to add a height restriction, we could go that route. If you want to not do mixed use, you guys can discuss that. Okay. But that's for you guys to determine how you'd want to handle that mixeduse product. Gotcha.

So, just so I'm clear on your question. You're talking about [clears throat] a height restriction on the 10% that is allowed for mixed use on that parcel. Yeah. I mean, my original question was like, how can you allow mixed use if in the development agreement there's a point that literally says residential shall be restricted to single and detach like uh single family detached and duplexes which is not at all what that mixeduse building is. So your intent on that if trying to get this straight in my head is so that was my original question. The R2 more or less zone would be for the balance of the property minus the mixeduse area is kind of what that development agreement is trying to accomplish.

Yeah. The intent of that 1 5.210 wasn't to infringe on the automatically allowed mixeduse product of itself. It was to for standalone residential units for that to be restricted to those types of housing, the single family attached or detached the duplex andor town homes and then put some guard rails. So if there was town homes, you didn't get 20 of them lined up in a row. But that applies to the whole zone which seems like it would it would make disallow the mixed juice building because as written I can see how you

Yes. So that's what I wanted to clarify but within the conversation I decided that I sort of like it being restricted at two stories. So even to allow mixed use. So that's that's how that happened. Sorry Nathan just trying to catch up. Okay. Good discussion. Thanks.

This seems very unusual. Um looking thinking about other neighborhoods in the city to have a corner commercial all surrounded by R1 and there's still I think some existing A to the east of that or at least large lot development. Um, was that discussed? And and I'll say the reason for my concern is, you know, some of our goals like keep neighborhoods safe and attractive. Um, really would depend on what type of commercial went in on that corner. Um, which, you know, we would have minimal control over. So, was that discussed? Um, and is it unusual? Uh, I don't know of other neighborhood commercial mixeduse developments like this in the city. So, I I guess you could say in that sense maybe it is unusual.

Prairie Falls might be a good example. What's that? Prairie Falls like a anchored the golf course clubhouse and that's a good point.

Hotel place. So there may be some more examples out there that I didn't think of or even provide. Um but yeah, that is sort of contemplated within the residential mix zone and in the focus area of the comprehensive plan. Um I think there was a second part of your question about commercial uses and that's what uh sort of this slide is for. So it's not an exhaustive list of everything that is allowed within the RM, but this gives you an idea of the type of uses that would be allowed. So we can't, I guess, regulate the, you know, necessarily the content of what businesses go in there, but we do have within the code what types of uses are allowed to go in there,

right? But for example, could they I mean the I know the property owner is envisioning a coffee shop or a bakery, something that would be really nice and quaint and contribute to the neighborhood, but could it be a massage parlor? You know, could it be some other use that that could potentially um you know, and maybe this goes to the next question about about adverse impact, but could could there be something there that doesn't accomplish that goal? In other words, it doesn't keep our neighborhood safe and attractive.

Uh, I don't know [clears throat] about massage parlor in particular, but when I looked through the list today, that was not one that popped up. Um, and again, I think that's sort of within the within our built into our code of what do we think is appropriate in the RM zone and that's what's listed that's allowed by right. So neighborhood commercial already restricts a lot of things that we definitely don't want in residential areas. Okay.

And if there are some that are maybe a little more sensitive or need some extra care, maybe such as a bar, that would be a special use permit where goes back to the plan goes to the planning commission for approval. So there's a lot more oversight for some uses that may seem um I guess a little more sensitive. Are you done? Question about the property to the northwest. Uh if my memory serves me, that came up to council not long ago and I believe it was annexed to the to the city. Um Oh,

do we know what zone that was annexed to? I don't remember. So, um looks like R2. R2 exclusively. It wasn't a no res or a mixed use or anything. D2 just R2 shown from the zoning map. Yeah. Gotcha. Thank you. Yep. So, the reason I'm asking is, you know, we're talking about rights of way and continuing um safety and services along 16th Avenue. that that parcel, you know, just north of the existing city parcel would also kind of is already in the plan of development for that that arterial. So, sorry, can you say that again?

So, the northeast property or excuse me, northwest of subject property tonight has already been annexed in. So while it's undeveloped as of today, it I think it speaks to what Rob was talking about on kind of peacemealing the you know as properties coming into annexation that uh threelane arterial that 16th Avenue will develop into um so those pieces are kind of although it's not hasn't really changed since that annexation it's it's already in but that was single use residential right

residential but speaking specifically to how the arterial will be developed out within annexation Yeah, because I because I'll say my concern is not I mean infill makes total sense and um would be a positive. It's just that commercial piece that I'm not sure meets our goals. Any other questions of staff? All right, the applicant Good evening. Uh I am Nick Edner, professional engineer with Ace Solutions, uh the owner's representative for tonight. I want to thank uh Justin and the rest of the city for your presentation and you guys uh we're gonna probably just hit on a lot of the same things you've heard, but uh just want to make sure that uh that we talk about a lot of some of this some of these things. So, as mentioned, the G the gall lot is or the golf property is four four parcels within Kney County, just under 8 acres. Um, currently with in the county, it's uh zoned high density and a suburban depending on which lot you're talking about. Um, bit of a history is that they have we at one point they did talk to the county. uh they are allowed, you know, the it sounded like I believe the number of units that they currently have on there, they could probably double or triple that and they would still be within what the county would allow uh number of mobile home units. But um the goal right now is to get annexed into the city and uh provide uh a different a different um

project. So um so anyways, what we are proposing is res residential mixed Um, as mentioned, we are located in a county island right on uh Cecil and 16th. Uh, there's parts of the parts of the city that are R1 and parts that are R2. Uh, and we believe that residential mix is a good uh transition between the two. Um, so yeah, so residential mixed, as mentioned, the the residential part, we're going to kind of be searching for an R2 density. We're going to be uh most likely building or we will be building cottage homes um which are kind of smaller units um you guys will probably know the city recently did a housing needs analysis and a couple of things that were highlighted were that um single family detached homes are the priority uh and to try to get those lower cost without them being truly you know affordable type rental houses is is kind of the goal. Although also another goal would be to try and get lower rents for seniors. These are two possible ways to make that happen in a bit of a more um innovative way rather than rather than having high density uh town home or you know um or apartment building. Uh we can we can accomplish that with cottage homes. And then the commercial aspect uh as mentioned it uh the total amount is not to exceed 10% of the lot. So we're limited to less than an acre. And there the limited uses are are small retail um possibly daycare, gym. If we do have an office building, it has to have that combination otherwise we have to go back for special use permit. Um yeah, no gas station, no department stores, no fast food. Uh, councelor Lucas, you mentioned

the the idea would be for a, you know, a local um bakery, a an ice cream store, perhaps a daycare. However, we don't know that at that time. There's nobody signed up for that, but that's that's the goal. Um, and uh, yeah, and and another possibility within residential mix, you are allowed to do multif family. We are not seeking for that um, tonight. So, I just would like to highlight that. Uh as mentioned the the city showed you our conceptual layout. Uh the idea would be that the commercial is focused up there on the intersection of Cecil and 16th. There will only be two access points. Uh the one that's currently existing is called Bantam Avenue and there will probably be one more created uh just to the east. Um as again as mentioned uh part of the improvements we will be widening the road at Cecil uh and 16th and also installing sidewalks and storm water swailes to match the rest of the design of the of the city. And for utilities uh again uh sewer will be served by city post falls. There is some mains located in Selena and Lapis which are not far away. Uh and same thing with water through Ross Point. There's a couple mains. There is a main right at 16th and there's also one at Cecil Lapis that we can uh extend up to meet our property. And so I would like to thank you for your time and I think I will invite Tree Vagal up to take a few more of our time here.

Hi there. I'm Tagal. I want to thank you all for serving our city. It's um it's important to me. I remember back when I was a kid going to Girls State and doing all this anyway, for fun, you know, just for one week, not for all the work you guys put in. But anyway, um I've been living um owning property in Post Falls since 1997. Um the first subdivision um house that we purchased was over on Westwind at the time right off of Pines and Real Life was coming in on that 30 acres and blocked our view of everything. And so right before that happened, we sold and um we're driving down Pines Road, the gravel road there, and saw an old double wide trailer. And that's what we could afford because we still had our little ranch in Montana. And so back in 1998, we purchased that 2 and 1/2 acre piece. Um, so I've I've been around and I've seen a lot of it. Um, they ended up taking the front part of our property. We helped pay to pave the road and then they put a subdivision right in front of our house. And you know, I'm I've got horses and cows on the property right now. So then we bought the two and a half acres behind us so that we could still see the sunsets. So ultimately we left and moved out of town um finished raising our family and taking care of our parents and then moved back to Banham Court which is right next door, bought a home there and then we bought the trailer park there in 2016, 10 almost 10 years ago. And so at that time um we found out that it was zoned high density residential. Um, I've been to the county for over 15 years looking at situations and they told me that it was 38 units per acre that we were allowed to put there. So, I thought, "Oh, I'm

I'm from the country. I don't like that we have eight units on two and a half acres. They're old. They're ugly. The whole place was even uglier. We've remodeled. Um if we could, we would um just fix things up and rent them and be fine, but they got to go. They're old and ugly. We've been doing tree service work, so our logard is there. You can drive by. You can see my horses. You can see my cows if you look very deep. Anyway, so um the city talked about these uh little homes, these little cottage style homes, and we were very excited about it. And so we want to put the five acres that's left after we give a lot to the city and do a lot of the building of the roads and everything. We want to put uh all the little cottage style homes. We've been looking at the ark and speaking with Noah and um we liked his little homes, but they were just a little bit too tiny. I just I've looked at them for a long time and I just thought, "Oh, let's just make them a little bit nicer." Still small square footage. Originally, I thought maybe we could own the property and lease the land, and then I just don't want the headache. So, we're just going to sell all the homes um to uh maybe new young families or to older families that can't keep up their 3,500 foot homes. And so, as far as the highdensity residential spot, we felt like that since that is already high density and we chose not to do that. And that's almost exactly what we we thought we would do is put a bakery coffee shop. We've been asked to do ice cream store. Um, I've been dealing with a guy that's um been counseling with a lot of small businesses on how to build and do their things. I know it may sound funny to you guys, but I'm a dog lover and it seems to be very popular now. And I'm thinking of a dog grooming shop. I mean, little ideas. I don't When I saw that first picture go up with this grandiose building, I'm like, yikes, we could never afford that. We're doing this out

of our hard work and money that we've earned. And so we don't have any huge grandiose schemes. We just like to I'd like to get my husband out of climbing trees. He's going to be 65 and he's been climbing trees for 30 years. So that's our goal. And just a nice commercial area there to look good, to clean it up. And who knows, maybe we'll live in one of those little homes and and be happy there. I have a dear friend that is a chef. She'd like to cook some nice meals. I had ideas of renting the top stories to the people that owned the bottoms so they could be close. And I don't know, I'm a small town girl. I like a small town feeling. And that's why I like Post Falls. I lived in Celane. I've lived out of town. I keep coming back to Post Falls. And um who knows though, as much as it grows, I might have to move to Worley or something like that. I don't know. Thank you for your time. I appreciate all you guys do. I really appreciate how hard you guys have have worked to to get this all put together.

Mr. G, before you go, um I just want to say that your story is a great American story of starting small and working up and all that. And I'm excited that whatever happens here, um you know, that that this will be something of value to your family. And uh so thanks for your stewardship of that land all those years. And I really like Thank you. where you say you want to go with this and the fact that you're still potentially going to stay in that neighborhood is uh is a testament to how you're going how you want to continue to steward it. So anyway, it's a great story and thank you. I hope your husband gets out of those trees. Thank you safely. Appreciate it. [laughter] Any other question?

Quick question for you too. There's concern down here about uh building heights. Sam Sam has a [laughter] concern. on the building heights of the of the commercial mix part of it. Would you have any objection to limiting a height to 35 ft as opposed to 45 ft? Is that plenty of room to build a twotory? That should be plenty for a two-story, right? Yeah. I I I don't really have any I I never had any grandiose building ideas. I don't like high stories. I went to South Korea in January and I got dizzy. [laughter] So, okay. Are you

are you intending to be the landlord for the commercial part or just sell it? Yeah, actually I am actually we are we're we're hoping that that will be our retirement income is to actually rent out the and I don't know I I have this crazy idea of putting a a euro shop in there and making euros because that's something I love and that's where we actually had our first date and I think they're really popular if you do it right

and we don't have any in in Post Falls and they're they're really not hard. They have one on Sixth Street in Missoula that when we were going to college, we'd go to all the time and it's just it was right in in the neighborhood and they had the spit, they made the girros and now they're still going 45 years later and it's pretty I don't know. I just think that's a great plan. You get people hooked on that and they'll come back. As long as you're okay with the large percentage of our population calling them gyros. Oh, that's because I don't think I say it right either. I'm not from Greece. Thank you. Thank you guys. How's your delight factor, Sam? I feel great. [laughter] Delight factor up.

I'm excited. I want to go to all of these places. Well, maybe not the dog. If we could do cats, then I'm going to go to every store she puts in there. Do shop. Or a dog shop. Yes. Okay. We have comments. We have none. All right. Nice and easy. So, there's no need for rebuttal. We can go ahead and close the public hearing. All right, we can go through the questions. All right. Uh, first one up tonight uh for this one because it is an annexation as well. So, we'll take that up first. Uh, is the annexation of the property in the best interest of the city? Yes. Central Island, right?

In the county pocket partially. Uh, really important part is increases the sanitation within the city. Um, get rid of a lot of those septic tanks. uh and improves connectivity between some pretty high intense use high intensity uses within the city. Agreed. Agreed. Getting nods from everyone, so I won't call for a vote. Agree.

Um all right, on to the uh zoning criteria. Is the proposed zoning district consistent with the future land use map and focus area contained in the currently adopted postfalls comprehensive plan? I'd say yes. The land use map calls out medium density specifically. So, this fits that to a te. I would also like to point out this is a bit of a unique parcel within the county that is designated high density. Um, we don't see that very often. So for us to go to a medium density is actually a reduction of the number of units per acre. So I think that's of note.

Yeah. Just to be clear, it's the residential mixed, not res but residential mixed, but it's high density county. High density county. Yeah, that's what you're saying. 1960s. So would you say that that is an implementing zone in Yes, it is an implementing zone. [laughter] in the comprehensive. So stated. [snorts] All right. On to criteria two. Is the proposed zoning district consistent with the goals and policies contained in the currently adopted postfalls comprehensive plan that are relevant to the area under consideration?

Again, I would say yes. The goals and policies promote annexation of uh county pockets. who wants to promote infill development. Uh and this also this development particularly this zoning designation would provide for a diversity of housing types um that currently doesn't exist on in a very high proportion in the city. So correct sir long-term fiscal health. It's nice to have commercial mixed in with residential. Absolutely. Improves walkability. keeps the small town charm. I don't know what numbers these are, Field. I'm sorry. Works for me.

Okay. All right. Finally, uh, does the proposed zoning district create a demonstrable adverse impact upon the delivery of services by any political subdivision providing public services within the city? None were noted. I would like to note my skepticism that the postfall school district is yeah anyway the difference between what is said publicly by the school district and what has been submitted um but I do not think that it is enough to change my decision about this project.

No thank you. All right, we've gone through that. Um, further discussion. Does anybody besides councelor stickler have any heartburn about the 45 foot? [laughter] Uh, no. I I don't

Well, I would I would say that um, you know, I did have those concerns that I mentioned in the previous discussion about what might go in there. Um, I think Mrs. G changed my mind on that. Um, I think that she'll be a great steward of that land. um based on your history there. So um and I and I look forward to the fact that other people you want to help other people start out in the same way that you did and achieve their dreams. It's uh it's great. It's beautiful. It's American and it's Idaho, specifically North Idaho friendly. And so uh for that reason, I'll be supporting it.

Okay. Well, if I'm the only one with heartburn, but Mrs. Gaul says that she's okay with putting it in the development agreement. Can we please have it?

Um, so I I'm the last to speak on this, I know, but uh even if it was at the 45 ft, I don't think I would have any objection to it. mostly because if we are going to position ourselves as we have stated of being small business friendly I think I think it is incumbent upon us to also consider if we're going to allow commercial development in these little pockets um to also support their viability and I think to limit their their commercial viability by limiting their the kind of vertical growth that is allowed in this zone would be hypocritical I think to our state of goals. So, I I would be in support of of allowing the annexation and development as written.

Can I just state that I don't think I'm being hypocritical and that I don't think that it is the appropriate place for the type of density that would be allowed as the development agreement is written, but I'm not against being supportive of commercial developments by any means. I just don't think that this teeny tiny 1 acre plot um in a residential already mostly built out residential area is the exact spot to consider going vertical. So So I guess uh someone can make a motion. We'll see where it goes.

The other uh consideration was uh I believe just the uh amendment to the development agreement to make it clearer on the neighbor neighborhood commercial. Again, I I think it's probably okay as drafted with the with the residential, but it it could be clearer as to that not not applying to that 10% mixed neighborhood commercial development.

Yeah, I would be supportive of of making some clarifying changes to that verbiage. I would move to approve the Gaul annexationnx-25-1 and that it be uh designated the residential mixed zone uh and further direct staff to clarify the development agreement such that the uh restrictions on single family housing does not apply to the 10% potential commercial area. Second motion in a second. Further discussion. Roll call. Sick leader. Sorry. Sorry to do that to you.

Yeah, for real. [laughter] Um I I ardently do not believe that this is the right spot for a 45 foot building like on any piece of this property. So I think that it is absolutely the wrong thing to do to build it up to that. And I also take issue with the idea that limiting it means that we're limiting commercial development. Mrs. Gaul, I appreciate everything that you said and I tend to trust you. Um that this is not going to turn into something and while that's not official deliberation criteria um I will vote. Okay, [laughter] you find me, ma'am. Um I I loop I again step ahead of the game here.

Ziggler I Luca I Mallaloy I motion passes. Thank you. All right we are done with our public hearings. Next up is unfinished business and we have none. New business and we have none and citizens issues. This section of the agenda is reserved for citizens wishing to address the council regarding city related issues that are not on the agenda. Do we have anyone wishing to speak?

All right. And name for the record. And there's a timer in front of you, correct?

Oh, I'm sorry to see that because [laughter] I enjoy these stories. And my name is Kim Brown. I'm uh with the Postfalls Historical Society just to connect with uh Mrs. G. I'm a former Montanaan, so we have a lot of things in common, a Montana girl state and all the respect for government and living in communities. I loved her comment about starting small and working up. And I can't think of a better example of that than the Post Falls Historical Society's little museum over in the Chapen building. So, my comments to you tonight involve some comments that were made la uh at the last uh month's meeting and it has to do with uh national register nominations of the building maintenance costs and how we got there. There was a question about how does the Postfalls Historical Society fit in with the Museum of North Idaho. And I will tell you that uh several years ago, of course, the reason we have a Post Falls historical society and museum is because former mayors Franny Wilhelm, Cecil Meyer, Don Camps, and Mr. Helmer, and a lot of citizens felt that our that we had donated photographs and artifacts to the Museum of North Idaho. They were in a little recycled gasoline station and with a large scope of Museum of North Idaho, they didn't feel that Post Falls was being represented. Their history wasn't. So, I'm going to leave you with a lot of information because some of you are new here in town. So, we want to get you up to speed as to where this little organization came from, why it's working to preserve and share the history of the town. As far as maintenance costs, I will tell you that uh the use of the Chapen building came about after the city of Post Falls built this beautiful complex and the citizens were extremely

wanted to have a museum but the little Chapen building was open and uh due to comprehensive planning and our citizens gave the input that we want to preserve that building and a museum would be a perfect little fit. So, we had been around for 20 years doing all kinds of historic preservation, but we had no place to put any of our materials. Now, you know that even if you live in a small house, it can be wonderful. You can maintain it. You can have a wonderful little house and still do a have a pretty nice little family. So, that's kind of what we're doing there at the museum in Post Falls. As far as maintenance costs, before we could even get into the building, uh the southside had to be uh brick work and new doors. Uh there was over $50,000 put into that building before we could walk in. [cough] So, there have been a lot of maintenance costs that we've been doing in the building. And our treasur is here tonight. I don't we're going to be submitting a letter of intent and also uh take advantage of your RFP proposal. But I want to let you know that we've spent u well in the upwards of $100,000 on that building. So as far as saying that we haven't maintained it, well, we certainly have. So we can get in the details. We'll be giving you that information. As far as a national register nomination, uh the Eric Kek, who was a former city administrator, started to work on a national historic register nomination. We have several of them here in Post Falls. They're a little more tricky than you think. And that building was not eligible at the time that we moved in. So if it hadn't been for our remodel, it wouldn't be eligible right to this day. As far as keeping the upkeep of the building, we were um the register nomination became stalled right before it turned the building turned 100 years old because we had excessive water that

came into the basement and we had to shut down. So after a year of being shut down with COVID and a year of being shut down because of mold, uh we could we were dead in the water literally. So with and I'll let the treasurer handle all of the the that particular aspect, but the register nomination was stalled at that moment and because we didn't know really are are we going to is the building going to be maintained? So before we're going to put any more time and effort into it, that's why that was truncated at that moment. it's still sitting waiting to be done. So, as far as um the other aspects, uh hours that were open, oh, and uh hours that were open, I will say this, when you're talking about community service, I can't think of a better organization that's devoted, no cost to the city, uh worked on a grant with the Idaho Heritage Trust and did uh gutter maintenance and they came up and I can't tell you how beneficial the Idaho Heritage Trust and other organizations ations in Idaho have been to the Post Falls Historical Society. I've got some handouts, background information. I'm almost out of time, but the Idaho Heritage Trust has given at no cost to the city of Post Falls a 10-year maintenance plan for that building. It has historic integrity and an organization like the Idaho Heritage Trust packs a lot of wall up in the state of Idaho. I honor their work and I hope that we can maintain that building based on their architectural historians work that she has provided our community. So, we've got a lot of background information. I'm going to leave you with a little packet. I hope that if you have any opportunity, please anytime you want to visit, I didn't even get into our hours, but anytime any of you that want to come in to the Post Falls Historical Society MU Museum, you can call our office and all of us will

run down. We will give you personal tours. Um we we give those tours and guess what? It's not going to cost you any money. It's by donation only. We're over we're over time now. I see that. And thank you. Um, so I'm going to leave you a packet and um, do I get another five minutes after I sit down and the other [laughter] folks come up? You can always send us more info by email. Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate. Thank you. Anyone else wishing to speak?

All right. Name for the record. My name is Cindy Meade and I'm the said treasurer for the Post Falls Historical Society. Um, good evening mayor and council. Thank you. Um, I've been actively involved with historical society since 2009 and somewhat before that as my parents were charter members. Um, just want to after uh the last council meeting, I just thought some clarifications might be in order. We are only open as Kim said with volunteer hours. So, if you only have so many volunteers, that's all you can be open. Now, we have always maintained to um over the last several years that we've been open 24 hours a week. That's a lot of volunteer hours for only four or five people to put in all summer. We are open miday through the end of October. So, that's a pretty good commitment on our side. And then we're open for special tours. In fact, this Friday I'm going to be giving a tour for a descendant of Frederick Post. Um, Winterfest, we had about 125 visitors come through in December. Um, when we first, as Kim said, when we first came into the agreement with the city for the building, use of the building, a lot of work had to be done. And that's I'm still digging through records and getting a actual count on the amount, but just on the remodel, we think we've spent way over $50,000 on that so we could come into the building. Um, in 2023, we lost most of our visitor season due to mold mitigation that we did due to problems in the water in the basement that was there long before we ever came into the building. Um, so mold

mitigation and mold prevention, we've spent $13,000. Um, we got the grant to do the new gutter on the north side of the building. We also put uh paid to have a heat tape put on so we'd have no more ice dams on the back of the building causing more problems. um when the um awnings that were a part of the charm of the building and we were sad to see them go, but because of disrepair um they had to be removed. So then we had to spend over $2,000 for UV protection, blinds, and window film on our windows to pro protect the artifacts we do have in the museum. Um, I'm the type that if I see something that kind of needs done, I kind of sometimes jump in without maybe asking for some some donations on business parts, business, the business community to help. So, the fall of 2024, the wood exterior trim was in very bad shape. So, I cleaned [snorts] it, I cocked, I painted. Um, so I just want to present those numbers to you to show that we we haven't been an idol um occupant of the building over these past years and we'd really like to be able to keep it as a museum.

That's all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have anyone else wishing to speak? All right. Seeing none. Um, administrative staff reports, we have none tonight. Uh, mayor and council comments. Nothing from me, councilors. All right, seeing none, moving on. Um, we do not need an executive session tonight. Is there any other business to come forward before we adjourn? Seeing none, this meeting is adjourned. Thank you.