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REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 1,1992
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REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING. SEPTEMBER 1/ 1992 /~)
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ITEM NO.1.
CALL TO OROER.
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CONSIOER ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR'is PRESENTED OR
AMENDED.
ITEM NO.2.
a.
Consider approval of Official Council actions of the special meeting
of August lB, 1992 and the regular meeting of August lB, 1992,
as published, subject to corrections, as recommended by the City
Clerk.
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Minutes of Boards and Commissions.
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111 Committee on Community Needs meeting of June 24,
1992.
(21 Airport Commission meeting of July 23, 1992.
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Airport Commission meeting of August 4, 1992.
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14) Historic Preservation Commission meeting of July 14,
1992.
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Mayor's Youth Employment Board of Director's meeting of
June 24, 1992.
(61 Pianning and Zoning Commissidn meeting of August 20,
1992.
(71 Riverfront and Natural Areas Commission meeting of
August 19, 1992.
18) Senior Center Commission meeting of July 20, 1992,
c. Permit Motions and Resoiutions as Recommended by the City Clerk.
111 Consider a motion approving a Special Class "COO Wine
Permit for Bushnell's Turtie, Inc., dba Bushneil's Turtle,
127 E. COllege St. (Renewal)
121 Consider a motion approving an Outdoor Service Area for
Bushneil's Turtle, Inc., dba Bushneil's Turtle, 127 E.
College St. IRenewal)
Comment: One letter of objection has been received from
an adjacent property owner and is included in Council's
packet.
(31 Consider a motion approving a Class "B" Liquor License for
Highlander, Inc., dba Highlander inn & Supper Club, 2525
N, Dodge St. IRenewall
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14) Consider a motion approving a Class "COO Liquor License for
piamond Dave's Taco Company, Inc., dba Diamond Dave's
Taco Company, 201 S. Clinton St. #279, (Renewal)
15! Consider a motion approving a Class "COO Beer Permit for
FAP Enterprises, Inc. dba Gasgy's, 1310 S. Gilbert.
IRenewal)
16! Consider a motion approving a Ciass "COO Beer Permit for
Doc's Standard, Inc" BOl S. Riverside Dr. IRenewall
(71 Consider a motion approving a Class "E' Liquor License for
Reliable Drug Stores, Inc., dba Reliable Drug #5276, 2425
Muscatine Ave. IRenewal)
(81 Consider a motion approving a Class" E' Beer Permit for
Renable Drug Stores, Inc., dba Reliable Drug #5276, 2425
Muscatine Ave. IRenewal)
19! Consider a resolution issuing a Dancing permit to the
Highlander, 2525 N. Dodge St.
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Resolutions.
11! Consider a resoiution authorizing the Mayor to sign and the
City Clerk to attest a subordination agreement between the
City of Iowa City \ and Hills Bank and Trust Company for
property located at 730 East College Street.
Comment: The City's Housing Rehabilitation Office was
contacted by the Hills Bank & Trust Company requesting
the City approve a subordination agreement for the owner
of the property located at 730 East College Street. In June
of 1991, the owner received $14,000.00 inthe form of a
declining balance rental rehabilitation lien through the City's
Rentai Rehabilitation Program. Hills Bank would hold the
first and second mortgage on the property for a total of
$110,524,24. The City's lien is already subordinate to the
first mortgage. Ten percent of the City's lien has been
forgiven, leaving a total of $12,600,00. The total indebt.
edness on the property would be $123,124,24. The
property was appraised in July of 1992 for $123,000,
Since the balance of the City's Rental Rehab lien is continu-
ing to decline on an annual basis, there should be adequate
equity to support the loans,
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Consider a resolution authorizing the Mayor to sign and the
City Clerk to attest the release of a lien regarding a promis-
sory note executed for property located at 431 S, Dodge
Street,
Comment: The owners of property located at 431 S.
Dodge Street received assistance from the City's Housing
Rehabilitation Program on April 22, 19B5. The assistance
was for a total of $17,500 In the form of a declining
balance lien which expired on April 22, 1992, The rehab
staff was contacted by MidAmerica Bank in July of 1992
informing them that the property was about to be sold and
requesting a release of lien. Since the lien has expired, it
can now be released.
e. Correspondence,
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Letter from Tom and Sue Aunan regarding Heritage Cable.
vision.
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Letter from Bob Stein transmitting a letter from David and
Donna Morrell expressing appreciation for the proclamation
and key to the city,
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Letter from David and Janet Chestnut regarding agreement
between Iowa City and ACT,
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Letter from Marguerite Knoedel regarding condition of
sidewalks and lack of sidewalks,
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151 Letter from Shelley Hadley regarding the quality and variety
of selections on Heritage Cablevision.
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Applications for Use of Streets and Public Grounds,
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III Application from Joe Shurson for the use of the 1400 block
of Derwin Drive for a block party on August 22, 1992.
(approved I
(2) Application from Tim Finer to have the 1992 Chamber/
Student Bed Races on September 11, 1992, on Clinton
Street between Washington and Jefferson Streets, (ap.
provedl
(31 Application from Marty Maiers to have the Regina Fall Fun
Festival Road Races on September 5, 1992. (approved)
(41 Application from Ed Grattan to have the Old Capitol
D.A.R,E, Duathlon on September 13, 1992, (approvedl
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15) Application from Jeffrey Hahn for the use of Ginter Avenue
between Pickard and Yewell Streets for a block party on
September 6, 1992, lapprovedl
(61 Application from the Johnson County ERA Coalition for the
use of public sidewalks for an ERA Walkathon on August
29, 1992, ending with a rally on City Plaza. (approval!
g. Applications for City Plaza Use Permits.
11) Applications from Latin American Human Rights Advocacy
Center to set up a table on City Piaza during the periods of
August 24-September 2, 1992, and September 3-12,
1992, for the purpose of distributing literature and offering
crafts for donations. lapprovedl
(21 Application from Terrence Neuzil for permission to set up
a table on City Plaza on August 21 and 30, 1992, for the
purpose of distributing campaign literature and registering
voters. (approved I
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Appilcation from Billy Howell-Sinnard for permission to set
up a table on City Plaza on August 31 and September 3,
1992, for the purpose of distributing literature, (approved)
141
Application from Mark Ginsberg, Jean Gilpin and Down-
town Association for the use of the fountain area for
musical events on September 4 and 5, 1992, lapproved)
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ITEM NO, I
END dF CONSENT CALENDAR
PLANNING AND ZONING MA TIERS.
a. Consider setting a public hearing for September 15, 1992, on an
ordinance vacating portions of Dubuque Road.
Comment: The American College Testing Program of Iowa City
IACTI has requested that a portion of the Dubuque Road right-of.
way be vacated to restrict public access to this road within the
boundary of ACT property. This application has been deferred to
the September 3, 1992, meeting of the Planning and Zoning
Commission, If the Commission has not concluded its deliberation
of this proposai on September 3, the public hearing may be
continued to the September 29, 1992, Council meeting.
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b, Public hearing on an ordinance amending Chapter 27 of the Code of
Ordinances of Iowa City, Iowa, by. repeaiing the Large Scale
Residential and Non-Residential Development regulations and
replacing them with the new Site Plan Review Ordinance,
Comment: On August 6, 1992, the Planning and Zoning Commis-
sion recommended, by a vote of 4-0-1 IStarr abstaining I, repealing
the Large Scale Development regulations and replacing them with
the new Site Pian Review Ordinance. If adopted, as proposed, the
site plan review ordinance will reduce time for approval of large
scale developments while ensuring that all multi.family, commercial
and industrial developments are consistent with ordinance stan-
dards,
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Public hearing on an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance by
amending Section 36.76, Performance Requirements, to establish
new particulate matter emission requirements,
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Comment: At the direction of the City Council, staff has prepared
an amendment to the Performance Requirements of the Zoning
Ordinance to establish new particulate matter emission require-
ments. The Planning and Zoning Commission, by a vote of 5-0 at
its August 20, 1992, meeting, recommended approval of this
amendment. This recommendation is consistent with that of the
staff in a memorandum dated August 13, 1992.
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d, Consider an ordinance amending/the Zoning Ordinance by amending
Section 36-76, Performance Requirements, to establish new
particulate matter emission requirements. IFirst consideration I
Comment: See item c. above.
Action:
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Courtney / I would like to open the p.h. Any public conunents on this
item.
Close the p.h.
Kubby / I have one lnfonmition request from staff before this comes
to us for a vote. Even though we heard about it last night. If
we could have, unless It is a bog deal to get the information, for
the last five years how many L)R and NR developments that
council saw. So we see the numbers we are talking about. That
we won't see. Thank you.
Horow/ I appreciate your asking for that. I think that might held me
a little bit because I still feel uncomfortable about tllis. And I
almost need Doug or Karin to 'Nalk me tIu'ough what Is going to
take place with minor vs. major. And where the public Is
involved in it. And where council gets involved in it. At some
point. Maybe after we see what the magnitude of the problem
is. I don't want to Use a calU10n if a fly swatter going to work.
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COUltney/ Moved by HorolV, seconded by Kubby. Discussion.
Kubby / I had mentioned last night the possibility of adding a few
words so that the company wasn't monitoring itself, essentially.
I would like to talk about that again. To add, in the ordinance
under section l.b.2-when it says offer documentation from a
licensed engineer not employed part time of full time. by the
entity. I don't know if-they will have to end up contracting out
which is what we want to have happen. I don't want someone
who is constantly employed by them to be doing the
monitoring. I wanted tlmt to be opened up for discussion. I
would like to discuss it before I move an amendment to see
what people tllink.
Nov/ I think you could probably say it just as well by saying not an .
employee.
Kubby / That is fine. Because a contract worker is not an employee
bylaw.
. Courtney First off we have an answer on the question of the state
regulations.
Gently/Yes, you do. I talked with Chuck Mullen and he referred me
to the section in the code that he was discussing and he is
absolutely right. If DNR reduces their regulations to be less
stringent than the City's of currently, tile city would have to at
some time move to get DNR approval for lower reglJlations and
show that we have some will power and money to enforce
those. But we do not have to approve at this point that we
have the capability of financially enforcing those.
Kubby / lXles that mean we have to have someone on staff or can the
possibility be that on an annual basis we contract out with
someone to monitor particulate matter.
Gently/Contracting out would be celtainly demonstrating to the DNR
tlmt we had the capability. The likelihood of this happening is
like lout of half a million. In terms of what I understand
about the DNR. They are increasing their regulations, not
decreasing them. But in the event we get to a point of being
faced with enforcing our own regulations, we will have to have
the where with ail and we will have to go through the steps
outlined in 455 b.l44 and 145 to get DNR approval and to
demonstrate to them that we can do the work that the state
requires. Which would be actualiy at a lower standard which
seems highly unlikely. There is nothing to require us now to
say that we have the money, we have the people in place to do
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this in the event this remote eventuality. So there is nothing to
preclude you from adopting the ordinance as is. I think Chuck
agrees.
Courtney / I kind of see this ordinance as one of those that
somewhere down the line somebody is going to -it is going to
get buried and somebody is going to discover it and want to
know why did they do that. It just doesn't-I hate trying to
fight the state ordinance.
Kubby/Well with the new clean air act. I don't know that it is such a
remote chance that standards will stay the same of get more
restrictive or less restrictive. I feel like it is up in the air. I get
kind of cynical about what is going to happen about the state if
the standards are less restrictive there is less enforcement that
needs to happen. And with decreaSing staff and not the money
and hiring freezes, it seems like a political way to survive. So I
guess I am not assured as you are that the standards will stay
the same or become more restrictive.
Gentry/But it is clear that if the standards are reduced and the city
were placed ina position where they wanted to enforce a lower
$tandard-you would have to have the money and the people in
place whether you hired them or you employed them.
Larson/ Or relax your standards.
Gentry/Or amend the ordinance.
Horow/ The only question I had had to do with the two words
licensed engineer. Is this the-
Gentl)'/ That is controlled under-
Hbrow/ What I am looking for is that the type of professional that
DNR uses in Its guidelines. Is that the language. Because an
engineer denotes a particular profession and in the monitoring
of air quality you can have many other professions other than
a chemical engineer or whatever.
Gentl)' / Environmental. I assume it is a term of art and I assume
timt David Schoon did some research on that. I cannot tell you
for a fact that that is the magic person.
Horow/ I don't even though if it makes that much difference or
whether one would use the appropriate professional to monitor
this.
Gentry/ You want a professional to be able to put their signature on
It which places their ___ on It as a professional. That they
certify that what they have done is adequate under their
professional standards.
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Franklin/ We haven't specitled what type of engineer. One would
assume that it would be the appropriate kind of engineer to do
an air quality monitoring. Maybe we need to add that in there.
Gentry / I think leaving it-
Franklin/ There are two different things that you are talking about
here. Karen's problem of one amendment for it being a person
who is not employed by the company being evaluated and then
your concern about whether it is an appropriate kind of engin.
Horow/ I see why you have left this generic.
Nov/ I think generic is better.
Horow/ I was thinking even more generic like appropriate.
Franklin/ We want it to be a licensed engineer because the whole
notion was that the engineer's license was on the line when
they did this evaluation and hopefully whether they work for
the company or not. That was going to be a compelling issue
for them.
Horow/ I will withdraw my concerns.
Kubby / I would like to move that we amend titis to include a
licensed engineer not employed by the entity.
Horow/ I would second that.
Courtney/ Moved and seconded (Kubby/Horow) for an amendment.
Discussion.
McD/ What is normal procedure in tilis type of thing. I don't know.
I am not talking about procedure for amending. . I am talking
about for monitoring this type of thing.
Courtney/We are talking about the city is going to have to hire one
to go our and enforce it, right.
Franklin/ This is only in the event that DNR lowers it air quality
standards. This whole discussion of the licensed-
Courtney/But we are not going to go out and hire the company's
engineer to do this.
Franklin/ No. The industry or the commercial use which is subject to
tltis pmticular provision of the zoning ordinance has to submit
through the building official doCt1mentation from a licensed
engineer demonstration that the use complies with the Sept. 1,
1992 DNR standards. It is putting the burden of showing
compliance on the user. And whether that is a -now with your
amendment it would be a licensed engineer not employed by
the applicant.
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Courtney I I am lost here. She said the burden was on the city to hire
or provide staff to monitor.
Franklin! What the city has to show to DNR, if I understand it, is that
we have a mechanism or s system set up whereby compliance
can be achieved and I don't believe that it has to be people
employed by the city. We have to just demonstrate to DNR that
the standards that we have in place can be enforced. We have
made that commitment.
Kubby I So when the applicant gets a building permit the burden is
on them to show us that they will comply with our ordinance.
Sometime during the year if we wanted to do some monitoring,
that is what we have to show them that we have the ability to
do.
Franklin! If you are going to do monitoring over and above having
this particular requirement for the use to be established. Yes
you would have to show that you could in fact enforce it and
address the same issues that you are concerned about in terms
of DNR. That is the local govermnent would likewise maybe not
have the resources to do enforcement that you fear DNR won't
have resources for.
Horowl You would have to have-the city would have to have
someone on staff who would be able to read the report and
know whether or not the report coming in from the two people
was actually valid. Or hire someone.
Gently I That is only in the eventuality of if the standards are
lowered from what they are today. Which I am still saying Is
remote.
Novl If our standards is exactly the same as DNR standards It is still
the DNR enforcement that we need.
Franklin! Yes.
Gently I What we are doing by this ordinance is adopting DNR
standards right now. What we are trying to protect ourselves
against are some of the questions that you raised. In the
eventuality that they lower the standards we still want and we
have the home rule option to enforce. If we do that we have to
either hire people or independent contractor.
Courtneyl I just like to know why we are doing It now Instead of
waiting until they lower them. We can do It very quickly when
they lower them. I just don't like what if-
Nov/The CtuTent standards, our performance standards are not as
high as the DNR today.
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Courtney/ Then pass this ordinance when it happens.
Nov/ When want to meet DNR's today's standards.
Larson/ Why do we need to deal with the issue of what we would do
if DNR relaxed their standards.
Kubby / Because Naomi is saying that down the road that cmrent
perfonllance ordinances do not currently meet DNR standards.
So we are bringing them up from what our perf0I111anCe
standards are and bringing them up to DNRs and that is the
lowest that they will be.
Gentry/It is very sinliIar to a sUlVey that anyone brings in. A plat.
The land sUlVeyor and the engineer have to certify that tllat is
accurate. Our people or not. We don't have the staff for
engineers to re-certify everything. That is up to them. This is
very similar to that process.
Ambr/ If and when that happens we hire our consultant, some
future council, and they were paid a pretty handsome fee-they
will tell you the answer that the council wants to hear and the
other side will hire a consultant and they will give them the
answer that they want to here. So, whatever council that is in
power at the time is going to have to make that decision.
Gently/That is true.
Ambr/ At least that is the way it has worked out before.
Kubby / So the issue on the floor right now is really _
Gentry/ The independent.
Larson! Whether he is independent or not. Whether you feel the
licensing requirement of engineers is enough or do you want
. the engineer to be independent of the company. That is the
amendment. '
Horow/ The word independent or not employed by the-
Courtney/ As a licensed individual myself I am not going to impugn
the integrity of other licensed people and I don't know that
they are in doubt.
Larson/ As a lawyer I wouldn't dare.
Horow/Even get a second opinion on a position nowadays. There is
notlling wrong with that.
. Courtney/Any more discussion on the amendment.
Nov/ I don't have strong feelings on the amendment. I just want
original ut I would go along wither way on the amendment.
Courtney/Lets have a roll call on the amendment.
(Roll call-Horow-yes, Kubby-yes, Larson-no, McD-no, Nov-yes,
Ambr-no, Courtney-no.)
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Call11ney /The amendment is adapted inta the .original matian.
Harow/ Na. It failed.
Courtney/ Oh, four. I'm sany. The amendment falls. Any further
discussian an the Oliginal mation for the ordinance.
Kubby / The .only ather comment that I want ta make is that r have
requested that we talk abaut-actually I wauld like ta laak at all
the perfannance standards to make sure that they are nat
lawer than current DNR standards. But specifically if we are
daing this because we have concerns abaut air quality naw and
in the future that particulate matter isjust one part .of air
quality. We alsa have gat taxlcs. I am nat sure if there are
ather categaries within taxics that we have ta distinguish. But
I would like us ta look at thase items in tenus .of air quality
alsa.
Larsan! r thaught we agreed ta da that andr wauld like ta da that.
Have staff do that.
Harow/ I dan't think we have the staff ta do that. I really dan't
because this is-what Karen is talking abaut is you are dealing
with the wind CUlTents. You are dealing with the tapography.
Yau are dealing with the height of the stacks. You are dealing
with the different chemicals. You can come up with a
mathematical equatian that has like abaut 3S different
variables with that sart .of thing.
Kubby/ Cauld be the same with particulate matter.
Harpw/ I question whether we really wauld be able ta really get
what your asking far. I knaw what yau are asking far and I
applaud it but I am nat sure that the state of the art cauld give
us these answers.
Kubby / r am just making the comment that this is just part .of air
quality. If we are concerned abaut it we really need ta laak at
all parts .of air quality. TIus came up because .of General Mills
and .our cancern abaut pmllculate matter.
Larson! And if staff can't da it they wlll tell us. Our telling them that
we wauld like to look at these things doesn't preclude them
from camlng back and saying that we really dan't have the
expertise ta put tagether thase kinds .of things.
Harow/ Then I wauld suggest that we, in an infarmal sessian, come
up with every single variable that we want them ta laak at
because the analysis .of all' quality is samethlng that .once yau
stmt you keep finding ather little threads that you have gat ta
look at In .order ta make It really make sense.
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Kubby / But there are categories that you have to get permitted for
from the DNR and I am saying that we just bring our
perfonnance standards so that the language of them reads.
Even if DNRs might be more paramount in tenus of the
hierarchy of the law because they need a pennit for that. That
bring our design standards up to that and to say that today's
DNR's standards, those categ0l1es of things.
Horow/ What you are getting at, Karen, if I understand correctly is
the synergistic way that all of these various things get put
together.
Kubby/ We can't do that.
Horow/ I don't we can do that.
Courtney / I am not sure that this discussion is gennane to this
ordinance that we are discussing now. We can discuss it at
another infonnal.
Kubby/ My request was not about synergy, I think tl1at is very
complicated.
Courtney/Any more discussion on this particular ordinance.
Roll caIl-
Ordinance passes first consideration.
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September 1, 1992
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e.
Public hearing on an ordinance amending Chapter 36, entitled
"Zoning Ordinance" of the Code of Ordinances of Iowa City, Iowa,
by adoPting sign regulations for the CB-5, Central Business Support
Zone,
Comment: At its August 6, 1992, meeting, by a vote of 4-0.1
(Starr abstaining I, the Planning and Zoning Commission recom.
mended that the Zoning Ordinance be amended by including sign
regulations for the new CB.5 zone. This recommendation is
consistent with the staff recommendation included in a memoran-
dum dated August 6, 1992.
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Consider an ordinance amending Chapter 36 of the Code of
Ordinances of Iowa City, Iowa, entitled "Zoning" by repealing the
High Rise Multi-Family Residential (RM-145) Zone regulations and,
where appropriate, replacing RM-145 regulations with the Planned
High Density Multi-Family Residential IPRMl regulations. (First
consideration I .
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Comment: At its July 16, 1992, meeting, by a vote of 5-0, the
Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the RM-145
Zone regulations of the Zoning Ordinance be repealed. At its
August 6, 1992, meeting, by a vote of 4.0-1 IStarr abstaining I, the
Commission recommended in favor of the proposed sign and
accessory use regulations for the PRM Zone which this ordinance
incorporates. These recommendations are consistent with the staff
recommendations. No comments were received by the Council at
its August 18, 1992, public hearing on this item,
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Iowa City City Council
September 1, 1992
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Consider an ordinance amending Chapter 36, entitled "Zoning
Ordinance~' of the Code of Ordinances of Iowa City, Iowa, to permit
dry grain milling and processing as a provisional use within the 1.1,
General Industrial Zone. IPassed and adopted)
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Comment: At its July 16, 1992, meeting, by a vote of 5.0, the
Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of an
ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance by allowing dry grain
milling and processing as a provisional use within the 1-1, General
Industrial Zone. The Commission's recommendation is consistent
with the staff recommendation included in a memorandum dated
July 16, 1992, Comments regarding this ordinance amendment
were received by the Council at its August 4, 1992, public hearing
on this item,
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Consider a resolution approving the preliminary plat of Furrows Edge
Acres Subdivision of Johnson County, Iowa, ISUB 92-00121
Action:
'Comment: At its August 20, 1992, meeting, the Planning and
Zoning Commission recommended, by a vote of 4.1 (Gibson voting
nol, to approve the preliminary plat of Furrows Edge Acres, an,
apprOXimately 67,3 acre, 16.lot residential subdivision located east
of Highway 1 and north of Fox Lane in Newport TownShip, subject
to a 60.foot right-of.way reservation for the extension of Woodland
Drive between Fox Lane and Penny Lane and acknowiedging that
the subdivision specification limiting the length of a cul.de.sac street
is waived for this development. With the exception of staff's
concerns regarding access to Highway 1, this recommendation is
generally consistent with the staff recommendation contained in the
July 2, 1992, staff report and the August 14, 1992, memorandum.
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Courtney I Moved by Ambr, seconded by Horow. Discussion.
Larson! Darrel, I am going to vote against this preliminary plat
because I just don't think the street design is up to our
standards and I feel bad that the property owner is caught in
the situation where the county doesn't feel it has the resources
to provide the kind of road network that is necessary. And the.
developer apparently doesn't gain enough from the
development to be able to fmance those things. But I have a
responsibility to the people who have lived there for many
many years and I just don't think that it is a safe way of .
getting in or out of that development. And they are just going
to have to find another way to get it done at the county levellf
my vote causes it to fail because I am not going to vote for it.
Hormvl Randy, did you actually dlive it7 I didn't have time to go
over tllere and look at H.
Larson! I, it might meet the site distance st;:1lldards. It doesn't meet
my standards.
Horowl It does seem awfully close.
Larsonl When I pull out of Fox, the issue is, for those who aren't
aware of whether, one of the Issues is whether pulling out of
the new street that would be constructed there would give you
. enough time to see the people coming over the hill from the
north on highway 1. I don't think there's safe access from Fox
Lane. I sure as heck don't think there is .2 mlles farther north.
And that together with the fact I don't like long cul-de-sacs, I
don't like Fox Lane not being improved, I don't like opening up
a development to 14 or so tmits and,then saying you can't have
any more 'cause it's not safe enough to have the 60 or so
houses that might fir on tl1at land. It just doesn't make any
sense to me to have everybody on PZ say well we're going to
approve this, but no more. Because it might be different people
on PZ by tile time some more come in and I think it's just hard
to say you can get your development started, but it's not safe
access on to tile highway, so you can't have any more beyond
this number. If it's not safe for 60, it's not safe for 14.
Kubby I What I'd like to do is request that if this passes, that cotmcll
send a letter to the county maybe from council and from PZ
which you would think would be a strong statement saying
that there will be no new plats approved untll Fox Lane is
improved. And to send that memo from Melody explaining
what the different scenarios for numbers of lots because the
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reason for not wanting to improve it is it's very short deadend
street. But if you have anywhere from 40 to 70 lots on a street
it seems that at some point you've met a threshold by which
you need to improve the road to make sure it safe for those
people liVing in those lots. I would like us to send those letters
and then those letters would be in the file for this area that if
there are different people on PZ and city councH that this will
be a reminder to us and it will be their responsibility to
enforce it and those of us who keep flies can come to public
hearings and remind councH of past concerns.
Larson/ I don't want to get in that position. I don't want us to let a
bunch of people buHd houses out there and then a new
developer, new land owner, or someone else in that vicinity
come in and want to develop more and be told no. We let them
but we're not letting you. I don't think that's equitable.
Kubby / I'm going to be voting against this but in the case that there
are four votes to pass this I would request that we send such a
letter so that it's forewarning for the county so that they
rezone this property against our recommendation to not rezone
it which they have the power to do. Actually I think, didn't
they do it before they got our recommendation. Maybe it was
another one. Anyway, our recommendations don't hold much
water in this process.
Nov/ I think it can hold water. I think it's just on rezoning that they
don't
Kubby/ No I was just talking about the history of. We had decided
that we didn't want this to be opened up for development and
that if people are going to pass this, then it's only fair to the
county to say no more and to give them forewarning that we
won't be approving future plats in this area until they do the
road, do the road improvements so they can plan with their
budget this coming year improvements for the road And so
tllat they can't say you haven't communicated with us that you
would say no the next time. 1 tllink it's just good process of
communication. Let them know our tllOughts.
Courtney/Karin Franklin, what's the grade on Fox Lane COIning down
to
Franklin! I will see if it is shown on this because it is not part of tllls
subdivision. We don't have a grade shown on here, Darrel.
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Kubbyl We were told last night that it is steeper than the one on
Benton and Mormon Trek. Larry do you remember what that
slope was.
Courtney I Larry, if you know what this one is can you come up and
Lany Schnittjerl (can't hear)
Looks like a portion of this is in excess of 15%.
Courtney I And what are our standards in town for grades coming
down to arterials.
Schnittjerl (can't hear)
Larsonl It wouldn't take much grading to bring it up to our
standards. It is a fairly long distance.
Kubbyl Plus there are a couple of crests there.
Franklin! The second or the third dip in that as you get farther east I
think is probably steeper than 15,too.
CotUtneyl I don't mind those back there. It is the one coming down
to the highway. We always talk ahout the grade coming down
to a major arterial. The stopping distance and those sort of
things. I just have a hard time proving something in the
COt1l1ty that we wouldn't approve here. You are coming down
to a street with a 55-60 mph speed instead of the 25 at Benton
Street.
Larson! In a much lower level of maintenance than our city streets
have. You talk about slope on a street that might not get
plowed for a week as opposed to a city street that gets plowed
within like 6 days. It really is a different level of maintenance.
The county doesn't maintain this road at all.
Novl They don't plow this road at all.
larsonl No.
Gentry I Anything less than half mile they do not maintain period.
It's a policy.
And they are apparently unwieldily on this.
Larsonl We would be giving them a little encouragement by denying
it.
Courtney I I just think the county is going to have to-if they want all
of these subdivisions of these expensive houses out in tllelr tax
base they are going to have to be a little more wielding about
tlle services they provIde to heir county residences. We have
been through the lIbraty already and now here we are again.
We are going to be blamed for stopping tllis because tlley won't
provide the money for services.
Gentry I You have the authority.
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larson! For a good reason.
Courtney/Any other discussion.
Ambr/ I have driven Fox Lane several times and it is really not a
very good street by anybody's standards. I was hoping the
new street would have been farther to the north so there
would be better site distance. I don't think there is enough
space between the two. I think is it would have been up on the
hill it would have been alright. (can't hear)
Kubby/ Karin, if we vote this down and the developer wants to
reconflgure the development they can go back through the
process and again with -
Franklinl Sure.
Courtney/ Would this fall under the-you might as well stand up until
we vote. If this should happen to be voted down will this
trigger a meeting with P /Z because it will be against their
recommendation.
Franklin! That is a good point.
Gentry / I would think so. .
larson! Trigger it in the sense that there is some custom of doing
that
McD/Some things are more impOltant to them.
Franklin! That is a tough one. I hate to speak for them on this one.
They put a lot of time and anguish into this and as you can tell
from the minutes, it was not with enthusiasm that they
reconmlended approval of this subdivision.
McD/ I would say that with the existing policy it would trigger that
type of joint discussion. Again, as we-as other issues have
come before us sometimes it has not been that important that
it has been a whole commission meeting but rather than a
couple of representatives fonn the COlllillisslon that we have
met with before. But what I am wondering at this point really
Is if since there seems to be the sentiment-
Courtney / I suspect there may be another Issue or two coming down
the road where they would like to have a joint meeting. So this
one could be thrown in on that one.
McD/ The sentiment is there to deny. There seems to be a majority
that wants to deny what is In front of us.
Franklin/ Maybe you should defer and have a meeting with the
commission reps.
Kubby / That has been protocol In the past.
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them there is a majority that is not in favor of this particular
proposal.
Larson! I don't care about deferring. It is not the kind of thing that
is urgent for me but I also have never agreed with the custom.
They give us their recommendation, we agree or disagree. I
don't think it calls for a joint meeting every time we disagree
with P/Z.
McDI A lot better than what the old custom use to be. You know
what the old custom was-it triggered an extraordinary
majority. I would move that we defer. We do have a motion
on the floor,
Courtney I Moved by Ambr, seconded by Horow. I will leave the
motion on.
Horowl I withdraw my second.
McDI I would move we defer until we have an opportunity to meet
with P IZ or representatives if they wish to.
Courtney I OtheIWise we will vote at our next meeting.
Moved and seconded (McD/Horow). Any discussion.
All in favor (ayes)
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Iowa City City Council
SeRtember 1, 1992
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i, Consider a recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission
concerning an application submitted to Johnson County by Arie
Kroeze to rezone 1.95 acres of a 2,2B acre tract from A-l, Rural
District, to RS. Suburban Residential. This property is located in
Fringe Area 6, approximately 1}\ miles south of Iowa City at 4274
Nursery Lane. ICZ.92311
Action:
Comment: At its August 20. 1992. meeting, the Planning and
Zoning Commission recommended, by a vote of 5.0, that the City
Council forward a comment to the Johnson County Board of
Supervisors finding that the request to rezone the 1.95 acre parcel,
with an existing residential use, from A 1 to RS is consistent with
the mutually agreed upon Fringe Area Policy for Area 6. This
recommendation is consistent with the staff recommendation
contained in the memorandum dated August 20, 1992.
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PUBLIC DISCUSSION.
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PUBLIC HEARING ON THE CONVEYANCE OF CITY-OWNED PROPERTY AT 451
RUNDELL STREET,
Comment: The City has moved a house from 703 Bowery Street to the City.
owned right'of'way at 451 Rundell Street. The house is being rehabilitated and
staff has seiected an eligibie low to moderate income buyer for the property.
A local lending institution is now considering the applicant for mortgage
approval. A resale agreement will ensure that this home is affordable to a low
to moderate income household for at least fifteen years,
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ITEM NO.6.
ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANCIES,
a, Historic Preservation Commission. One vacancy for an unexpired
term ending March 19, 1993 IEleanor Steele resignedl, This
appointment wili be made at the October 13, 1992, meeting of the
City Council.
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Courtney/Public discussion...
Max Yocum/ I do. I would like to ask the council and the city
manager a few questions here. They came down there today
and tore down a building of mine. Did you people know all
about it.
Courtney / I did.
Yocum! I didn't say did you. I said did you people know about it.
Did you recommend this.
Larson! I did not know of it.
Yocum! You didn't know about it.
Larson/ I don't know if there is any reason why I should know about
it if they did it in accordance of law and everything.
Yocum/ That is why I am here. You know that I hate like hell to live
under dictatorship because I have read about it and I have
been over to other countries and evelything like that and I am
not going to live under dictatorship and I don't think anybody
here in the U.S. wants to. Now, I had a building down here by
the-on the Sand Road. It was nothing elaborate or anything
like that. But it was solid as a rock. It got a-I got an engineer
to go over the building, wrote a report on it, we turned it into
the city council. They lost it. Not the city council. The
department downstairs. They lost that thing. Very
conveniently lost it and so I went and got them another one.
And so then I got to moving other buildings. I moved a house
up in Cedar Rapids and I moved a school over in West Liberty
and I went to South America and a few things like that and so
then we come back and we went down and put the timbers
under tlns house down here by the Contractors Tool and Supply
and was going to get it ready to move off of the basement
because I got letters that this was dangerous and everything
like that. Now I forgot more about moving buildings than this
people that Is wrltlng me these letters and telling me how
dangerous it Is we will ever know. And so they came down
and we went down yesterday. I checked It here a few days ago
and they filled that land In there and it Is solid and we would
have a hell of a time moving it out through there so I-we went
down there and we put timbers under It yesterday and got it
already to move off of the basement. They came down there
the momlng, the city crew came down there with two backhoes
and two dump trucks and they tore my building down. They
pulled tlle timbers-the steel beams out from under it and tore
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it down and hauled it to the dump. Now if this is the way the
laws is run in the U.S. I think we had better do, especially here
in Iowa City, I think we ought to do a little Checking on it. Now
did you know that this was happening.
Horow/ I certainly had seen it there in the shape.
Courtney /. Before you go any further. Linda, could you feel council in
on what happened on this legally. '
Gentry / Yes/ There were problems with the integrity of the building
in terms of whether it would withstand moving. There was
also a problem in whether there was an appropriate place to
move it to. And charges were fried and were litigated in court
and the city had an order as of Sept. 1 that if Mr. Yocum did
not move the bUilding or bring it up to code that the City had
the authority to what we call abate the nuisance. Which means
to remove the problem which has heen decided by a court of
law to be in violation of the city code and the time ran for Mr.
Yocum to do what the court had ordered. That tune had passed
and time passing means that we had authority to remove the
property from the problem. It was an eminent problem of
possible moving to another location. And that was sort of
another problem but.
Larson! The underiying problem was that our ordinance requires a
house be brought up to code before it is moved. As I
understand it Mr. Yocum would liked to have moved it and
then done the fixing up.
Yocum/ It is not required that.
Gentry/That was already litigated. There was a court order from
Judge Slockett.
Yocum/ You mean to tell me that you have got a law on the books
that says you have got to bring a house up to code before it is
moved.
Gently/ / It has to have the structural integrity.
Yocum! I understand that.
Gentry/ To withstand moving process because you don't want it on
the street and falling apart. That is a velY practical problem.
Yocum! Lady, I understand that. I have forgotten more about
moving houses than anybody sitting here knows. So now and I
have been called in as an expert witness for many things just
like this. I just moved on in Cedar Rapids. We just moved a
bUilding over in West Liberty. And I have go to go to
Muscatine and move one. IX> you think that I and I have been
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doing this for years and years and years. I have moved more
buildings than anybody ever did in this area. And sure we had
a city manager that tore some of my buildings down. Good
ones right in the street. But they paid for it. Now we've got
that thing going again if this city manager is ordering this thing
down again. I don't know whether we will put up with this or
not. I am not a going to. I am not going to live under
dictatorship.
Larson! Mr. Yocum, isn't it the judge that ordered this to be done.
Isn't it the judge that ordered it.
Yocum/ They might have went and got an orcler from the judge but
these guys can anything like that if they want.
Larson! I don't think that is light and I think that is an insult to our
judicial system. If a judge issued an order and this was okay,
then your complaint if with the court and not us.
YOCl\In! I think that you went-whoever went and got the order from
the judge lied about it. If they told the judge that that house
was not structurally safe then they lied about it.
Larson! But that issue should been ben dealt with in front of the
judge. Not if front of us.
Yocum/ I was out of town. You guys-I am sure you guys must have
given orders to tear it down. Did you do it. Did this council
order him to tear it down.
Gently; No. It was done after adequate notice and you know Amle
Burnside would be very straight up and fair with you in terms
of what was going on in the court. And you were given
adequate notice. There was a hearhlg in front of the judge.
You had an oPPOliunity to present.
Yocum/ Who are these people who are orciering tills to be done. Who
are they to tell me what day to move a house. I get the permit
and I don't move it. I haven't moved any without any. They
had policemen dOl% there running up and down that street
afraid that J was going to move this house out into the street.
Gently/TIlls isn't the place to argue it. It is over.
Yocum/ Why sure it is over and done but they tore the house down.
And I imagine that they will probably pay for it.
Gently; That is another-
Yocum; That is another step and I understand that. Eut I will tell
you one thing. If we are going to put up with this here in Iowa
City. Who ordered this done. Is tIllS tile city manager's job.
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Did he order this done. I wanted to know who ordered this
done.
Courtney/Max, the judge ordered it.
Gentry/The judge ordered it done.
Courtney/ Were you aware that there was a heating.
Yocum! I was working in Cedar Rapids. I didn't know that they went
to the judge to get an order even. Knowingly, I didn't know it.
I went down there yesterday to get to work and that guy that
sits down there-Boothroy
Gentry/This was done months ago.
Courtney/Max, I told you the last time that you were here that this
was an item that needed to be handled through the legal
system. We are a legislative body here and you at'e going to
have to handle this through the legal system. We are not going
to change anything.
Yocum/ I am not asking you to change anything, anI I. I am just
telling you tat this is a dictator tactic that some of these people
are using. Evidently this-
Courtney/If we were a dictator it wouldn't have gone to court.
Yocum/ Evidently this went through the city manager's office. Now
and so tlle city manager had to give approval for this to be
done, didn't he. If you guys didn't do it, the city manager had
to do it.
Larson! That is not true.
Yocum/ Do you think that Bootlrroy went down on his own and
ordered to have the house tore down.
Larson/ He might velY well have started the steps to have action
done with legal dept. That is our city staffs job to uphold the
law.
Yocum/ Then why didn't they stop me yesterday whenever I went
down tllere to put the timbers on it. They had policemen
nmnlng up and down that road all day long. Stopping there
and everything else. Why didn't they stop me yesterday
instead of waiting until I had the house jacked up
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Larson/You have known about this for montlls and you have chosen
not to deal with it in a proper manner.
Yocum/ No. I never because it has rained and rained and everything
else. I have been ready three different times to move that
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house and I went out there just about three days ago and It
was wet out in that field and they graded that up in there. It is
wet and soggy. So any how what you are trying to tell me is
that you condoned this and you tore it down, right So you
think it is going to be no more problem. Just screw old Yocum
again and we will go on with every day problems. Well, we
will find out who is-whether I am right or wrong. I brought a
engineer's report up to the city manager from Shive Hattery
down there. The house was perfectly safe, structural sound
and everything like that. And they lost it. So I got them
another copy. Is there any questions. I still ask you people,
did you condone this. Did you order it done or anything or did
the city manager order it done. Or did he order it done with
your permission. Can I get that answer.
Kubby / We don't get into the details of these kinds of issues so we
did not, as a body, we did not talk about it. We did not
condone it We don't know what the details for the process was
for this pat1icular case.
Yocum/ I know what happened because-why would It be just Max
Yocum. I can go to Cedar Rapids or I can go to any place in the-
why they are going to have me move a building from Iowa City
clear to Muscatine. If I didn't have brains enough to do stuff
like that they wouldn't continue having me do it would they.
Gentry/ We're not questioning your ability to move. It was the
integrity of the house and obviously we've disagreed over that
In terms of safety.
Yocum/ They disagreed with it? Well I went and got an engineer.
They wouldn't take his report either. Shive, Hall, and Hattery.
If they wouldn't know if it was structurally safe or not, was
sound?
Gently/Well officials disagree.
Yocum/ See I could look like Hell and be healthy as could be, couldn't
I. Same way with a house. Thank you.
Courtney/ Any other Items for public discussion not Included on the
agenda?
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Bud Gode/ I don't have anything controversial for collncll, but I
would like to take a minute of your time. By the way, It's the
first time I've been here in a long time but it's nice.
Kubby/ Thatl you, Bud.
Gode/ I don't know when you did this.
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Courtney/It's been an ongoing process.
Kubby I We got one of these, Bud.
Gode/ I'm sure you got one, but I just want to point out a couple.
things in it.
Kubby I Pass it on.
Godel While I have the opportunity to. (inaudible) before the Senior .
Center Commission. On page one I really want to point out the
. tremendous growth we've had in the last four years,
specifically in the last year. If you look at those Senior Center
statistics, you'll notice the rather large increase in number of
cards issued, the number of visits made. Now in specifics, the
classes offered. Look how they've jumped from 215/year to
252. It took a great deal of staff time. Under special events
they jumped up from 1300 to 1600. Volunteers down there
went from 364 to 512. Getting a lot more participation from
our seniors. And the actual volunteer hours jumped up from
21,000 to 27,000.
Ambr I Bud. Interpret that first line for me. Senior Center cards
issued. Almost 5000 in '89 and less than 2000 in '92.
Gode that was when we started issuing new cards under the
computer system and so we went to all the old cards were
voided.
And that is why-in other words in 49 those were an
accumulation of cards that had been issued over almost 10
years. Lots of those folks had passed on and left the
community and so forth. The new ones are per year.
In addition to the large increase in statistics the commission
would like me to point out over on page 5-there is a little
diagram there showing you the effort that went into our last
quilt raffle whereby we did make approximately $650 for the
activities that go on in the Center. And so I think we as a
commission are velY proud of the activities of our volunteers
and hope that the council would be too and when time comes
for additional budget concerns and so fortil we hope you will
continue to support us in our activities over there.
COlu.tney I Has NliIo go this raffle rigged. I see he sold the winning
ticket again.
Godel He has done that evel}' year. I don't know whether he has got
it rigged but I am not going to buy a ticket for the next quilt
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Has anybody got any questions or had any concerns about our
center or the activities going on over there that we can help
you with.
Horowl No. Good work.
Novl Why don't you announce the Emma Goldman speaker. Get that
on tv.
Godel Now that you mention it. What is coming up. As of tomorrow
night we are having-we are passing out these brochures.
Almost little booklets sinlilar to what you Rec Center puts out
to the whole city. These are only going to be handed out to the
ones that are actually interested in participating in the 1992-3
classes that we are going to have there. We do have a large
increase in the number of classes that we will be offering
during this fiscal year. An along with the increase in classes
we think we have got a nice increase in the programs that are
to be offered during the course of the year. I think as you go
. through the Post you will notice down here on the front page of
the Oct. 9 date that we are having a Nile Kinnick Day. We think
we are going to have some good national press on that because
. Sports Illustrated has indicated that they want to come. I am
not sure of who else but I think we are going to have a lot of
good publiCity over there. The other activities. I can't
specifically-
Novl The one I had in mind was a public lecture open to anyone of
any age. I tllink that is Thursday Sept 10 at 7 PM. A guest
lecturer who is coming in to talk about the Emma Goldman
papers which are currently on exhibit at the Senior Center.
Godel You will find the discussion of the Emma Goldman Women and
Legacy in the middle column on page 2. It says that there will
be six public exhibitions and one of those Is going to be held
Sept. 10th at the Center in Iowa City. The opening of the
exhibit is at 7 PM on Sept 10th and will feature Candace Faulk,
official biographer and archivist for the project who will give a
gallery talk that evening to introduce the exhibit to the Iowans.
So our staff down there has felt that it was a VCIY good
opportunity to get tlus type of program before everyone and
certalnly the entire public is Invited and welcome to attend.
Not Just the Seniors. That is true of a lot of our programs there.
Any other questions. Thank you so much for your cooperation.
Courtney I Any o1ller Items of public discussion not Included on this
agenda.
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Richard Soppel I want to know what is happening with our new
parking ramp that was suppose to be build by the Civic Center.
Courtney I What is the scheduled start date on it.
Atkinsl The bid date is Sept. 10, construction Oct. 1.
Soppel Oct.1 is suppose to be-the only reason I am asking this is that
I don't want it to be another parking ramp that Iowa City had
in 1970 that was all of our bond issue. All we got was a black
top lot after all of the bonds were passed. Now the Holiday Inn
sits there. Now this is a question.
Atkinsl No. That is not going to happen.
Soppel TIus is not going to happen again.
Atkinsl I don't know anything about that. I wasn't around then.
There will be a parking ramp across the street.
Soppel Alright. That is all I am concerned about. The other thing is
this may pertain to Karen Kubby or city council is how come
the railroad tracks at Gilbert Street and across Bypass 6 and
out by West High-how come they haven't been brought up to
adjusted height to meet the road. Now the one on Gilbert
Street there is a two inch dump there.
Kubbyl So it is not a smooth crossing you mean. It is really bumpy.
Soppel Are they -they have to be built up again.
Kubbyl We have a hard time working with the railroad. Sometimes
making sure that that is maintained.
Soppel It hasn't been maintained all year in either location or in any
location around town. Does the city have to beat up on the
railroad or the railroad has to beat up on the city.
Courtney I There is a constant battle with the railroads to get them to
spend their money to maintain those. They are suppose to be
paying to maintain them. '
Soppel All I am saying is that I am pointing out three sites that-
Courtneyl There are more than three. First Ave by Southeast]r.
High.
Soppel The one on Gilbert Street is about two and a half inches when
you blunk blunk. Is the city council going to do something
about this.
Courtney I I have set here for seven years and we have been battling
in every one of those seven years. IvIcD and Ambr have been
doing it longer than that.
Kubbyl I am unclear about where the two other sites are. I know the
site on Gilbert. What are the other two. Could you say them
again.
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Soppel The one out west central.
Courtney I Southeast Jr. High on First Ave.
Soppel Yes. And the one on Bypass 6. The one on Gilbert, the center
lane Is about three inches. It is a thump thump. It will tear the
alignment out of your car. When are we going to get this done.
What I am saying is if the jacks are out and they have jacked
them as high as they have gone, when are they going to build
them up or replace them. The aligmnent on my car....the other
thing is, now that I am here to complain. Is down at Sturgis
Park the DNR is down there all of the time. Boating and
carrying on or whatever. That is a hazardous waste site.
Whenever are they going to post that.
Kubby I Because it was an old landfill you mean.
Soppel It was a landfill when I was a kid 40 years ago. And there is
batteries and everything gin there and we put in the salt
storage shed down there. You could read a paper when we dug
In there...just like it was brand new yesterday. If the DNR is
saying that that is not a hazardous waste dump I will tell you
we dumped tires, batteries, trees and everything else In there.
30 years ago. When I was driving a truck and they are down
there boating and having a good time. I think they should put
a sing up there. I take my dogs down there. I am not worried
about methylene gas or anything like that. But I think you
should warn the public that it is a hazardous waste dump.
Okay. Maybe I had better put in my teeth. I have dumped
trash In there 3S years ago.
Horowl Isn't that being monitored.
Soppel That is in the P/R Commission. I know that............
I like to run my dogs down there...how come It isn't posted.
Kubby I If an old landfill Is being monitored and It Is designated
parkland, doesn't there need to be any slgnage. Is there any
obligation.
Gentlyl Not that I am aware of.
Horowl As long as everything Is being monitored and it Is
determined that everything is okay.
Gentlyl And it is not being disturbed.
Soppel How can that not be disturbed. I just walked through there
the other day and a hot water heater popped up through the
ground....
Gentlyl If you are out there digging that would be a problem.
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Soppe/ What I am saying is that if there are things popping up out of
the ground....hot water heater popping up out of the ground is
abnonnal....
Horow/ Why don't we take a look at that.
Soppe/ Okay. All I am saying is that I love running my dog down
there because they live here on Gilbert Street. You know how
the traffic on Gilbert Street is. Not very good. I try and take
them down there for 20 minutes every day....is the DNR
monitoring it and taking care of it the way it is.
Gentry/ Yes.
Cour1ney / They are monitoring it.
Soppe/ You kidding me. They were down there the other day. Just
as well nm in to a bunch of buddies with a bucket of beer.
Sorry about that.
Cour1ney / Thank you.
Any other items for public diScussion not included on tonight's
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Iowa City City Council
September 1, 1992
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ITEM NO.7-
CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION,
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ITEM NO.8-
REPORT ON ITEMS FROM THE CITY MANAGER AND CITY ATTORNEY.
a. City Manager,
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RECOMMENDATIONS OF BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS,
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a, Consider recommendations of the Riverfront and Natural Areas
Commission to endorse and support the Parks and Recreation
Commission position as stated in the memorandum from Mary
Weideman, Chair of the Parks and Recreation Commission, dated
July 8, 1992. The Riverfront and Natural Areas Commission
specificaliy endorses the following Parks and Recreation Commission
recommendations:
1. That the Parkland Acquisition Fund retain its specific
acquisition nature, and that hotel/motel tax revenue
distribution for parkland acquiSition remain at 10% as
indicated in the June 11, 1992, memorandum from
Stephen Atkins;
2. That a cap !lQj be placed on the fund due to its acquisition
nature, for the reasons identified in the July 8, 1992,
memorandum from Mary Weideman; and
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Courtney/City Council Information.
Kubby/ I had two things. One, I wanted to let people know that after
we passed the cigarette ordinance, our police chief did a bunch
of follow up, and we found that all the vending machines now
comply with state law and we're still working on full
compliance with the affidavit process that we initiated to make
sure that employees of places that sell cigarettes over the
counter know that their responsibilities under the law not to
sell to minors. I would like to thank R.]. for doing that follow
and Lt. Fort fordoing all the footwork and doing enforcement
of this. And secondly, recently I've been getting a lot of mail
that's anonymous. Stuff people, articles people want me to
read, complaints, applauds, is that a word, anyway people said
we did okay. And they're anonymous. I want to get information
from people but it can be unsettling to get a lotof mail
anonymously. So I'm just going to put a callout there to feel
free to send me stuff, 'cause I look at it and I do respond to it.
But if it's anonymous, I can't respond to it to either have a
discussion about the article you sent me to get more
information, to thank you, or to challenge you about something
you said and have you challenge me back. Please, at least put a
name on it, even if it's not you're real name. Just to know that
there's a name on it somehow is, it's unsettling to get
anonymous mail. Keep sending It but put a name on it. Thanks.
Courtney/ Anything else?
Kubby / No, that's it.
Courtney/ Mr. Larson.
Larson/ I've been getting a lot of anonymous flowers, presents. I'd
like to encourage that to continue. I have a few things. There's
a letter from Tom and Sue Aunan about our cable service. One
of their points was that people maybe don't know that we can
have an individual channel taken off the selection you get
other than just the pay channels. Because I think that an awful
lot of people would like to have basic cable, but not have MTV,
I wanted to advertise that that is possible if not frce. But that
is something that I did not know you could do and I think
that's probably a good concern. I'm concerned with some of the
things that are shown on MIV and children. And yet I think
cable 1V is a good thing for children If used In the light way. So
I'd like to advertise that service. And also ask Dale Helling, our
resident cable TV expert whether we could do anything. They
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talk in their letter about the next time around negotiating for
things in the franchise renewal. Is there anything we can do
with the present franchise holder in terms of asking them
would they consider moving lvilV to a different spot so that if
you do block out MIV it doesn't also block out Nickelodeon or
ti10se kind of things. Could we ask them to do things like that
voluntarily? Or is that proper?
Hellingl Our real resident expert, Drew Schaffer, has that letter and
he's following up with the cable company now. And in both
cases you're right. We can follow up now and see if there is
something we can get done although I don't think we have any
power in the ordinance to force them to do that. We can
celiainly take it into account during negotiations.
Larson/ I would think that our bully pulpit power, coming with the
franchise renewal coming up would be as good now as it's going
to get. I'd appreciate it if we'd pursue that a little bit. Secondly,
I just want to follow up on, Mr. Murphy came last time and
asked that we put together the inventory of city land and we're
notified today in our packet that the city manager's having that
inventory put together. I wanted to explain that we'd acted on
that. Thirdly, our city manager obviOUSly has too much spare
time because he was reading a gardening magazine and came
upon a product which apparently is successful with deterring
deer from certain garden products or certain areas of your
home. I wanted to advertise it a little bit because we get a lot
of complaints about deer in neighborhoods and I don't want us
to act on those complaints because I think the deer in some
neighborhoods are a real asset tl1at some people don't like
because of the problems they cause with tlleir gardens but I
think add a lot to the ambiance of the neighborhood.! saw one
in my yard this morning. It's kind of why 1 brought it up. If my
Milorganite is the name of this product, it's M-I-L-O-R-G-A-N-
I-T-E, MlLORGANITE. and you have a problem with deer rather
than calling us and asking us to start a deer hunting season in
the city limits, please try tllis product and any other thing
before you continue to mount pressure to have deer shot in the
city. And last, Charley Ruppert's going to get on me about the
deer, I know. I want to say just one, a couple of minutes or so
about the Press-Citizen proposal that Bob Bums, a local
developer's put together for us. Because it was reported in the
newspaper as our being favorable about it but not saying why
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we're favorable towards it. And so I want at least to get that
on the record because I think It's important for people to
understand that we're hying to be fiscally conservative with
the tax freeze and everything. But I think there's an awful lot
of good things about this project. I just want to mention a few
of them so people understand why we were receptive. The
proposal is to abate the taxes on the improvements made to the
Press-Citizen building downtown. If that building is developed
as a residential place. A six story building with sixty some
units. And I think, one it's always good to do something that
keeps downtown a residential place. I hope downtown never
become all offices and retail. I think it needs to continue to
attract people to live there. And it's one of the things that
continues to make our downtown unique. Secondly, it's a
perfect location for elderly and disabled housing, right next to
the Senior Center. We invest a lot of nlOney in the Senior
Center. People invest more importantly, thousands of hours to
make that one of the greatest center in the country. This is a
project to increase the kinds of people that wlll be very close
and accessible to that without needing to park at the Center.
Thirdly and probably most importantly, we've done a lot of
things since we decided a couple of years ago to try to take on
the national issue of housing and homelessness. Most of the
initiatives the city has spent money on involved owner
occupied housing. And so this is a project where we can
contribute something towards rental housing which is every bit
as large a part of the problem and a big, key force. And so I
tllink it's important we do that. And I llke the fact that it's a
project where we cooperate with federal, state, and private
funds, because I think we have to quit saying this is
governments problem, this is a federal problem, this is a state
problem. We all need to have coordinated approaches any
more. And tillS a good example of that sort of coordination. I
would like to applaud it whenever we have that. And last but
celtalnly not least, it keeps an Intriguing looking building in
our downtown. And they don't build buildings like that
anymore in terms of how they look on the outside. You may
think it's quaint. You may tilink it's historically significant. 1
just think It's a neat building and I'm glad we might have a
chance to keep It. Thank you Darre!.
Courtneyl Thank you.
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Novl Nothing.
Ambr/ Mr. Mayor, you and I and I think Mr. McD all know that if
you really want to bring out the dark side of humanity, you
start tinkering with the parking, especially in the downtown
Iowa City area. As you know, on August 10, we asked our
parking director, Mr. Fowler to implement and experiment in
the Old Capitol !vIall parking ramp, which is city owned.
Basically, the first three floors, levels A, B, and C are no parking
zones until lOam in the morning from 6am until lOam. Now
that request came out of a lot of discussion with the Downtown
Association, parking people, the Old Capitol Mall's parking
committee, and the Old Capitol Mall Association, and our
professional staff. Ladles and gentleman, I just want to tell you
that it's been implemented with mixed emotions. Everybody
tells me who they are when they tell me about this parking,
Karen, so I can tell you that it Is not all readily acceptable by a
lot of people. But it is an idea. 1 want you to have a little more
patience Witll the parking committee and Mr. Fowler and
seeing if we can fine tune this a little more with your input. I
had a suggestion laid on me by several people that perhaps we
should just restrict it on level A and B. In further discussions
with some of the people In the downtown area I gather that the
two large anchor stores in Old Capitol Mall are delighted with
this arrangement. But I think we also have to consider the
other 30 or 40 small shop keepers In the mall and then all of
those that are outside of the pedeshian mall and surrounding
downtown Iowa City area. I think we have to just monitor this
on a weekly basis because from the report that Mr. Fowler, our
director of Parking, gave us. He said that until August 13, 1992
only warning tickets that were Issued. Approximately SO
warnings were issued each day. Beginning the 13th, $5.00
Prohibited Zone tickets were Issued. Since then over 600
tickets have been Issued In the ramps for lIIegal parking. I
know that it just rankles the average person to get a parking
ticket for any reason and for us to give a parking ticket right
on the heels of raising the hourly rate to SO cents, I know that
it just Isn't going over. I personally don't like it but we have
got to work together on this folks. So, let us all hear from you.
Spread out your phone calls amongst the seven of us so we all
don't get burnt with just one. The problem Is equally
important to each one of your council members. I guarantee all
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of your staff. Lets work together on it. We are open to
suggestions.
Larson! I think we as a council need to tinker with it to make it
work a little bit better. I don't think the public relations or the
informational aspect of those signs explaining It was as good as
it could have been. I think the placement of tile signs wasn't
necessarily as good as it could have been. And maybe a little
longer of grace period couid have been allowed. I think it was
a good idea. I think there was a good reason behind it to b)' to
open up those levels for shoppers. But we should tinker a little
bit with it I think.
Ambr/ The reason we did it and tlle reason the requests kept coming
was that, as everybody knows, is that we want to attract the
shopper to the downtown area and to that mall. You have got
over 100 million dollars invested in private and public money
in that project in the downtown. I don't walli something like
this which is a so called solution to work in the exact opposite
and drive customers away. And drive them to the other cities.
I don't want to see that happen.
Larson! But it is interesting that some oftlle complaints were from
the staff and faculty saying that I need to park there to go top
my class at 8 o'clock. PreCisely.
Ambr! There were a number of them.
Audience! Going to raise the parking to SO cents.
Courtney! Already has been.
Anything else.
Ambr! There is one other thing. It is matter of personal pleasure on
this one. There exists in this fine community many many just
fantastic citizens that we all know or we know who they are
and we see their names eve!)' day In matters that come across
our clty council desk. But we won't have another formal
meeting prior to this ne;..:t event. On Sept. 13th it wllI be the
60th wedding anniversal)' of Mr. and Mrs. Milo Pacina. Milo, I
am sure eve!)'body has seen him around town 80-90 years.
They use to be a local independent grocer. He is tlle
quintessential volunteer. Both he and his wife equally. I just
see him eve!)'day and have a lot of respect for him and I wish
him the very best and he is a great guy and I like him a lot
even though he is a white sox fan. That is all.
Courtney! And even though he does fi\; the quilt raffle at tlte Senior
Center.
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Ambr! Congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Pacina. That is all I have.
Horow! I have a few items. #1 I recently received comments from
some of the bus drivers to specifically thank our officers on
bike detail. They have truly appreciated the admonitions, the
tickets and everything else that police have been giving to the
bicyclists who have been really almost impeding progress of
the buses. It gets rather dangerous at times. So the bus
drivers have commented to me that they appreciate this. The
second thing is tllat I urge everyone to get your registration in
for the hospice road race that is coming Oct. 18th. It sounds
early but you really do need to register right now. And for
those on council who are going to take part, you need to start
walking a little bit more to make sure that you are-
The third and most important one is I have receive letters as I
am sure that we all have in favor or against the curbside
recycling program. But one that I received fromjustln
Kellerman recently who use to be a Mark Twain student was
reaIly-he rejoiced in curbside recycling program but he wanted
to know whether we couid include white office paper, colored
glass and cardboard. And Justin's letter along with comments
that people have made to me makes me realize that we have to
constantly talk about what goes into those recycling drop off
sites. What goes into the recycling bins in front of their house.
We can't, right now, pick up white office paper or colored glass
and cardboard. We just don't have room for it on the trucks
that we have right now. But Justin and anyone else can put
them in the drop off boxes around town. Which brings me to
the next point. I do frequent the drop off boxes and I check
with the people who are picking up the trash as often as
possible. rillks, this is a cherry coke bottle, empty, and it looks
like it is clear glass. But if you hold it up to the light, it isn't.
There is a green cast to it. This bottle and why it is in the drop
off box, I don't know because you could get 5 cents for it. But
this bottle is one of the things that is responsible for city carton
to have to sit on 55,000 pounds of glass tllat his market will
not accept. It is contaminated, the glass, that he is collecting.
Other things that contaminate it are window pane glass or your
light bulbs. Please keep these sorts of things out. Now I took
advantage of the 800 number on here to calI the Coca Cola
Company and found out I was calling Atianta. I told the person
that I was going to use their product as an exampie on
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television. He quickly tried to get me to call the Midwest
Bottling Company. But they never called back. I am not saying
don't drink this stuff. What I am saying is make sure sure that
when you throw bottles away it is clear glass for 1. #2 Tell the
manufacturer and tell the store keeper or whoever you get
these from to write back to the bottling company to produce
this product in clear glass. If we can't get lid of the glass,
recycling just doesn't work.
Kubby/ So do we put that kind of glass through-
Horowl You put this in the green glass container. You have to put it
in the color glass container. This happens to be tinted green.
Dr. Pepper is another product. I know this sounds silly to be \
singling out these particular products.
Courtney I Wait a minute. Just bring them all over to our house and I
will get the nickels for them.
Horow/ This is how I make my money.
Nov/ I have a better idea. Buy reusable bottles. You get 10 cents
back for those.
Horow/ There is that. Plus the other thing is that evidently in the
news cast recently is been reported that now the plastic bottles
with #6 on tlle bottom will be recycled. Folks, that is not true
in this area. We only take #1 and #2 and only if it has a seam
on the bottom. If there is a little dimple on the bottom of your
#1 and #2 plastic bottle, do not put that in the recycling bin.
Dhnples don't do it. Only serous. This gets sillier and sillier but
it is serious because if we can't get rid of this material, all of it
goes Into the landfill. It contaminates what we are trying to
send to markets.
Audience/
Horow/ We will be soon sending out. We are going to be redoing
those informational brochures telling you Just exactly what you
can do. We will be sending those out soon. Just use common
sense and really be careful of what you put In your recycling
cans In your curbside and in the drop off boxes. Thanks.
Kubbyl And what you buy. Be careful what you buy.
Horow/ What you buy starts the whole process.
Larsonl That Is where I disagree with you. I would say don't buy it.
If things aren't packaged enVironmentally or properly, don't
buy it.
Horow/ I don't want to get sued by the Coca Cola Company.
Larson/ That one is okay. it Just has to go in the green glass.
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Nov/ Those things are marketed in reusable bottles and anyone who
wants to do it can do it that way. They are also marketed in
aluminum cans.
Horow/ Right. Purchase the aluminum cans. We need to pressure
the manufacturers. Thank you.
McD/ No business, Mr. Mayor.
Courtney/Along the same lines of Susan has been talking about. For
those of you who haven't found what you consider to be
satisfactory solution to your various containers to put your
recyclables in, the city has a limited supply of containers that
you can come and view at the treasurers office where you pay
your water bills and they are on wheels. They have a lid on
them. They have three different separate containers inside.
There is a serial number on them. If they disappear we can
identify who they belong to, And Steve, how much.
Atkins/ $42.50. That is our price.
Courtney/ It is one large container, with wheels, a handle and if you
are having trouble hauling things to the curb-none of the-so
that I don't get flack for competing with retailers here. We
waited and waited and none of them elected to stock this
particular type of container. It was the one that we originally
had thought about requiring to be bought and had changed our
pattern on that a little bit. So now it is an option. If you would
like to come and look at one. I was going to have one down in
front tonight but I forgot to do that.
Atkins/ One thing I want to mention to you is that each of the
containers is stamped with a serial number.
Courtney/So If it disappears on YOLl then the city will have a record
of whose it is.
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Courtney/ This item has been deferred from a previous meeting and
staff is recommending that this item again be deferred.
Kubby/ Move to defer indefinitely.
Larson! Second.
Courtney/ Is that what you are looking for, Karin, is indefinitely.
Kubby / This is the third time we have deferred.
Franklin! The difficulty is we are waiting for the Corps. of Engineers.
We have to get access to the Smith Brother's property. I guess,
yeah, I would suggest that you defer it indefinitely so we don't
have to keep doing this again. But we are going to keep at it.
Horow/ Do we anticipate having another discussion about this given
what we ave been talklng about over the past couple of months
in terms of Scott Blvd.
Franklin! Yes.
Horow/ Okay.
Franklin/ You will certainly have a discu~sion of that soon.
Courtney/ Been moved and seconded (Kubby/Larson) to defer
indefmitely. Discussion.
All in favor (ayes).
Motion passes.
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Cotutney/ We have had a request from staff to collapse the readings.
Moved by Ambr, seconded by Horow to collapse the second and
third readings. Discussion.
Roll call-(yeses)
Moved by Ambr, seconded by Horow for third consideration-
fmal.
Discussion.
Kubby / We have a couple of people in the audience from the school
safety committee. I just wondered if you had any comments
since you had time now to look at the specifics of the
ordinance. If not that is fine. But if you do I would like to hear
them.
Myrna Arner/ With the district wide parent's organization. We did
look over it and we just hope to maybe give more consideration
to the streets in our further meetings and I also want to thank
you because we think that this is a wonderful project. Thank
you.
Ambr/ May I ask one question. Did you personally and the entire
committee look at every site in front of every school. Have you
physically looked at it and know where the signs are going to
be placed.
Arner/ Physically gone to each school, no. I did take out my map
and I have in the past couple of years been around all of those
schools so I do know where those are.
Ambr/ I have a specific question about Roosevelt School. The
placement of the eastern most 20 mph sign. I had a couple of
the residents over there request that that be placed more to
the east than where it is going to be placed because there is a
cross walk between Miller and Hudson. These folks felt that
you are coming down the hill and that is when the traffic
generates a lot of speed. Now I talked to the traffic control
about It the next day and he said the reason that they are
placing the signs where they are is that they want to keep the
areas as compact as possible in front of the school. The fact
that there was a guard at the bottom of the hill negated the
need to place that sign further to the east that is down the hill.
Would you just take a look at that for me or for the council and
give me your opinion as a lay person as to what you consider to
be the optimum way to do it. I got the professionals opinion.
Myrna/ I look forward to the opportunity to giving my opinion on
any of those sites.
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Ambr/ I appreciate it.
Nav/ I express some concern last time about Uncoln School
placement and I talked to somebody who has young children
who follow that street and he had less concerns about it than I
did but she said she would keep her eye on it.
Kubby / We are really going to need to go back through this again
and again. If we want to get this done for this year to get it
staIted. We will be meeting and going through every school.
Atkins/ We will be placing posts this week and until it is published.
Whenever the date of publishing is going to be and I am not
sure when that is going to be. Then it is officially effective.
What we will do is be putting the signs up and then bag them.
Once the ordinance is published then we are ready to enforce.
Hopefully no later than next week. We do have a few utility
locate problems that we are going to have to resolve. But
nothing really major.
Nov/ I noticed our pollee car 'r\1th the speed limit flashing was in the
newspaper tonight.
Atkins/ Talking this afternoon and I told her it went well the first
day and the thing promptly broke down that evening. So it has
to be repaired but we will get it back up right away.
Larson! I hope that our police continue to deal with educational
efforts because I think anytime you change a speed limit-
speeding-the level at which people drive in terms of speed is
often somewhat habitual. And I think it is good that we try to
move the speed down in these areas. But I hope we continue
to try to be educationai and informative for awhile to get
people use to this idea because 20 is significantly lower and I
think we need to enforce it carefully and get people
understanding that in all school areas. I don't want any
terrible hardships where someone comes through on a day and
its 10 o'clock In the morning and there are no school children
around and they go 4S in this area and it is now marked down
to 20 and that would lose them their license. Which for some
people can be a substantial hardship in terms of employment
and everything else. 2S over you can lose your license. 4S on
some of these streets would be unlawful now but wouldn't be
near what it Is at a 20 mph limit. I hope our police and our
prosecutors me dealing with people realistically and we get
evelybody to bring their speeds down in a fair way.
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Horow I I would like to ask if there are going to be any m1icles or
any notice of this in the various newsletters of individual
schools.
Arnel'l Tomorrow we have our first district wide parents
organization general meeting. And at that time there will be a
handout with this information so that they can take it back to
other schools and then it will also be in the newsletter that is
put out by the district.
Gently I Darrel, I did dictate a letter to the attorney in question citing
the state code. I think I understand some of the problems.
There is a section in there dealing with traffic control devices
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Courtney IRoll call-
The ordinance passes final consIderation.
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City of Iowa City
MEMORANDUM
DATE: August 28, I992
TO: Ci ty Counci 1
FROM: City Manager
RE: Work Session Agenda and Meeting Schedule
August 31, 1992
6:30 - 8:30 P.M.
6:30 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:15 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
7:40 P.M.
7:45 P.M.
8:00 P.M. -
8:10 P.M.
8:20 P.M.
Monday
City Council Work Session. Council Chambers
- Review zoning matters
- Neighborhood SerYices Video
Old Press-Citizen Building ,'Tax Abatement Proposal
Acquisition of Industrial Land
. Rundell Street Oyerlay Plan'
Library Funding Request
Prohibition on Use of Public Funds for Political
Purposes
- Council Computers
- Council agenda, Council time, Council committee reports
September 1, 1992 Tuesday
7:30 P.M. . Regular Council Meeting. Council Chambers
September 14, 1992 Monday
City Council Work Session Cancelled
September IS, I992 Tuesday
6:30 . 7:30 P.M. City Council Work Session - Council Chambers
Agenda pendin9
7:30 P.M.
Regular Council Meeting - Council Chambers
PENDING LIST
Appointments to Board of Appeals, Board of Electrical Examiners and
Appeals, Committee on Community Needs, Design Review Committee, and
Mayor's Youth Employment Board - September 15, 1992
Appointments to the Board of Appeals and Housin9 Commission. September
29, 1992
Appointment to Historic Preservation Commission - October 13, 1992
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3, That requests for borrowing from the fund for non-acquisi-
tion needs be discouraged. If borrowing from the fund is
deemed necessary, however, the Parks and Recreation
Commission requests that it be on a short-term payback
basis. The Commission further requests that it be given
advance notice and the opportunity to evaluate proposals
and provide input regarding the terms, and its justification
in relationship to the goals of the acquisition fund and park
and recreational needs,
Comment: The memorandum from Mary Weiderman was included
on the agenda of the August 4, 1992, meeting of the City Council
(consent calendarl.
ITEM NO. 10-
CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING STAFF TO PROCEED WITH
ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY FOR A COLLECTOR STREET BETWEEN
ROCHESTER A VENUE AND HICKORY HILL TRAIL.
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Comment: On May 11 the City Council heard a presentation from staff and
concurred with the need for a collector street in northeast Iowa City between
Rochester Avenue and Hickory Trail, Four alternative alignments were
evaluated and the City Council concurred with staff on the preferred alignment.
In order to facilitate the private development process it is necessary for the
,City to acquire the corridor. It is expected that the street will eventually be
constructed in conjunction with the private development process. At its
meeting of August 4, 1992, the City Council deferred this item to the meeting
of September 1, 1992, Staff recommends that this item again be deferred,
Action: J(u~/ IuMVIU cI-pAI'--/ (~I~~
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CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 23, ENTITLED "MOTOR
VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC." OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF
IOWA CITY, IOWA TO CREATE SCHOOL SPEED ZONES ON CERTAIN
STREETS IN IOWA CITY, AND TO DECLARE THE SPEED LIMIT FOR VEHICLES
IN SUCH ZONES. (SECOND CONSIDERA TIONI
Comment: The proposed ordiriance will create 20 mph speed zones on certain
streets adjacent to schools, It sets the times of enforcement as 8:00 a,m. to
5:00 p,m, Monday through Friday,
ITEM NO. 12-
Action: )h.,t6 / IIfflJ
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