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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1994-03-29 Agenda ;~:I,~:'.'.,:'.~~.::!:')~;~'::.; ~" ,.,,'. ,'., '.' ".,~"' "': . ,'; " ". r- JJ'i; c\ ~ ~ ! ' J , ' . ~ . . :((- 0 . '., . '1 . :: ," '~': :; , '::}:;~'~~'~.'{.~ .::.: '.' . 'to. '.". .,'1 , :<, .,'" '<'.. .. ',';'r', :.-.' " : ','...!i,', .' . ", 'C '. , '. ." , " ...,.. ,.. ,,'.' . , . . , ... .. ," I ". ~.:.....".;...__..~:~,,:A.. .';,__:,'~ ~.. . ..' ! " . .,,:, ~, .-.._~_.-.~_._._--'''''':''-. ...'.. . 1 i . I ~. . ,~~ , IOWA CITY CITY COUNCIL AGENDA ~.. . . " ., REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING OF MARCH 29, 1994 7:30 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CIVIC CENTER 410 EAST WASHINGTON ~_j' ';~:~~A-~_ ).........".......'.'''...''......'''......''.-. . ..........1......... 'I.."......::; : ,. ,,':"'.,"';',' ','., I' ,...:::";'''''-:;,.".",.\ """', '''''''',:\ '0"'; " .' .... ..>:..-:..\0.....,;... . . I' 5' .'.., .,j --. ,.:...':..~,,'.,,,'~':\.',,.',,i,:~~:.'~','Lj'~' /.~)"". ,.' , ,". ,:,'",'",:,'".:.,<,';". ITEM NO.2. MAYOR'S PROCLAMATIONS b.8'. HealthFIRST Month - April 1994. - f.d- ~ cUr. Fair Housing Month - April 1994. 1-". Days of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust - April 3-10, 1994. c..1f. Spring Clean-Up Day - April 9, 1994. ~ Rud4.. ~ ' a. j. Community Development Week - April 3-9, 1994. 7l{~/I-.. Ptu';'-4 f. Masonic Week - April 3-9, 1994. ~\\F ,.', .. ., AGENDA IOWA CITY CITY COUNCIL REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING. MARCH 29, 1994 7:30 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS ,;.- ~ ",:l. ITEM NO. 1 - CAll TO ORDER. ROLL CALL. \: ' ':, I ,I , ,.. .' :.':. ... ~ ~. .~ .f~ ~ ~ ~ lJ1.I~ ~~ ,j :c: i I ] I ",i ,', " ITEM NO.3. CONSIDER ADOPTION OF THE CONSENT CALENDAR AS PRESENTED OR AMENDED. a. Consider approval of the Official Council Actions of the regular meeting of March 1, 1994, and the special meeting of March 8, 1994, as pub- lished, subject to correction as recommended by the City Clerk. b. Minutes of Boards and Commissions. (11 Airport Commission meeting of February 15, 1994. (2) Parks and Recreation Commission meeting of February 9, 1994. , ~-; i:.J (3) Board of Library Trustees meeting February 24, 1994. J:l <-'I . . t/:l4/91 'I (4) Senior Center Commission meeting of December 20, 1991.3 J ~ , I (5) Board of Appeals meeting of February 7, 1994. ~~. '/:.- , ~ I, (61 Broadband Telecommunications Commission meeting of February 16,1994. ~ , (7) Planning and Zoning Commission meeting of March 3, 1994. ./ (8) Planning and Zoning Commission meeting of March 17, 1994. I ~, (91 Riverfront and Natural Areas Commission meeting of February 16, " 1994. I' : . I (101 Housing Commission meeting of January 11, 1994. ~~ (11 ) Housing, Commission meeting of February 8, 1994. ., '. .~ . ./~) (12) Historic Preservation Commission meeting of January 25, 1994. -..... , .' .. i o . "';':,,,0.,". ,"'-. ''"/ '~I:':;: :-.',; '"..~',."" .'-"~: '.' ~., ,."." .~. ~_..-.. \...~ ._.'.....T'":'.".~.\'~.,:, ,\ B . . . 2s::u'B~ "'''.''';'"'':'''::'','I.:r,,, . " . i, ,. -,'....-...\'--, "", '",:::,::;'\':'\ ':'. ":,;~t\,\h' . . '.' ~ .',' ',.. :~. .,.",;,.', l:.it~,:,,-,,. , , , , I J ,~ \ .. \ ~ , I I' . I . ~ . I : I 1\ ~ ,~ , i.'~i'..' ~. . , j ,,Co ~~. .,. ." . :"t , , ... .~ '. ..,'_->='-......:,u'.~~:~:..__'._~::::.:.~~:~L,_-:::.~~. " , . .......; ..,__.... ......;.._.__... _.~~.._..,._..__,._..;._~_,_; ~ _.c, Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 2 c. Permit motions and resolutions as recommended by the City Clerk. (1 ) Consider a motion approving a Class" C" Liquor License for Rang- er Enterprises, Inc., dba The Deadwood, 6 S. Dubuque. (Renewal) (2) Consider a motion approving a Class "C" Liquor License for Season's Best, Inc., dba Season's Best, 325 E. Washington. (Re- newal) (3l Consider a motion an Outdoor Service Area for Season's Best, Inc., dba Season's Best, 325 E. Washington. (Renewal) (4) Consider a motion approving a Class "C" Liquor License for Gringo's of Iowa City, dba Gringo's, 115 E. College. (Renewal) (51 Consider a motion approving a Class "C" Liquor License for Sports Column Corp., dba Sports Column, 12 S. Dubuque St. (Renewal) (6) Consider a motion approving a Class "C" Liquor License for Kitty Hawk Co., Inc., dba The Kitty Hawk, 1012 Gilbert Ct. (Renewal) m Consider a motion approving a Class "B" Beer Permit for M&T Investments, Inc., dba Happy Joe's Pizza & Ice Cream Parlor, 225 S. Gilbert. (Renewal) (8) Consider a motion approving a Class "C" Liquor License for Little Donkeys, Inc., dba Panchero's Inc., 32 S. Clinton St. (Newl (91 Consider a motion approving a Special 5 Day Class "C" Liquor License for The Regina Foundation dba The Regina Gala, 2140 Rochester Ave. (Newl 4/15/94-4/19/94 ~4 '" 'Iz, (10) Consider resolution to issue cigarette permits. d. Setting public hearings. (1) CONSIDERISETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR APRIL 12,1994, ON AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 32.1, IOWA CITY CODE OF ORDINANCES, "TAXATION AND REVENUES" BY AME- NDING ARTICLE VI, ENTITLED "PARKING FACILITY IMPACT FEE ORDINANCE" . Comment: At its meeting of March 8, 1994, the City Council directed staff to prepare an amendment to the parking facility impact fee ordinance requiring new commercial development in the Near Southside Neighborhood to pay a parking facility impact fee. ,. I .. '.' "-- - "\"..,.."........,..."..,"'''''',.. ,....' "';'i8:,:",A):'> '\ . "'"I .. .'-c ",' ':- ,", . ,.. . ~, :' ... ..I , i 1 I I , I I G\' I:;J . , I .' , I. .' "Ii '''..'., .T....... /5 '. .,'1'0., ,.,-,.,.....,;."..., "', -":":=-:"~I":: i/ ~;':>~~".:l' "I. ,..\..',...:;. ' . f)."" ' "':::"~.r\:~'~:~,'<.':,.:' . . I,'" -,', ;'. " '.'. "\ ",,,' " " ,'..," ",' '~; . , " " :' ,.. ',. . -.<-,. Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 3 'H-' 13 (2) CONSIDER RESOLUTION SETTING PUBLIC HEARING FOR APRIL 12,1994, ON PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT AND ESTIMATE OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE ROHRET ROAD PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES PROJECT. Comment: This project consists of the construction of two (2) free-standing pedestrian bridges over U.S. Hwy. 218 adjacent to the existing Rohret Road bridge. The approach pavement, minor grade widening, and limited sidewalks on each side is also includ- ed. The preliminary construction cost estimate is $740,903.00 with Federal STP funds available up to $481 ,487.00. This project will be bid by the Iowa Department of Transportation. L'; , ' " 'f't- '71 (3) CONSIDER RESOLUTION SETTING PUBLIC HEARING FOR APRIL 12,1994, ON PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT AND ESTIMATE OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE LAND- FILL LEACHATE CONTROL SYSTEM PROJECT. ,', Comment: This project consists of the construction of a leachate control system along the east edge of filled landfill cells. The leachate will be collected and pumped through a lift station into the City's sanitary sewer system. The estimated cost of con- struction is $447,000. ~+.'15 (4) CONSIDER RESOLUTION SETTING PUBLIC HEARING FOR APRIL 12,1994, ON PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT AND ESTIMATE OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE PRIMA- RY ROAD SYSTEM PROJECT NO. STP.6-7(42)-.2C-52. Comment: This project consists of paving, storm sewer, flood control, water main, sidewalk and landscaping improvements to Highway 6, from Rocky Shore Drive to First Avenue in Coralville. The estimated cost of construction is $2,200,721. Iowa City's financial commitment is approximately $130,000. This project will be bid by the Iowa Department of Transportation. '" "., . ..... ;,:.;',;' ....'1 )'...."....."""..""'..""'."...Ir-."---.. "::'>8';,';,' ,:;/:'.., "\,". '"..' "\' ~ :,!" ---- --_._--_._-~-_._--------- l ." I" ,,") ~. ~ ~) ,i,' I"'; lo> ....I,r.1 ,,\,' ( ~-~--':. . o "{'" .. ,,- : - ~- - ::,- " '.." -::','. . -, ':,i;;':~,~,~..\'l, '" ".: . l~' " "~i~).-~,::',~, . I .J ,. \ ~ . ,,:.' q,/,- '7'7 : ~ , I , I \1 :\\ 1 p ~!. ~"j !:i' \. l~ , ..': ,'.. " " " ~, 1 , " '_"'-:'4~" ,'.....,' ~.i' . '. Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 4 (51 CONSIDER SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING FOR APRIL 12,1994, ON THE CITY'S 1994 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBGl PROGRAM STATEMENT AND THE CITY'S HOME INVESTMENT PARTNERSHIP (HOME) PROGRAM DESCRIPTION FOR THE 1994 PROGRAM YEAR. Comment: Iowa City is required to prepare a Program Statement which details how 1994 CDBG monies will be allocated. A public hearing is required prior to Council's approval of the Program Statement. CCN's recommendations will be forwarded to the Council and published in the Iowa City Press-Citizen, prior to the Public Hearing. Iowa City is also required to prepare and hold a public hearing on a Program Description which details how 1994 HOME funds will be allocated. The proposed use of funds has been discussed by the Housing Commission and will be available for public review prior to the public hearing. e. Motions. (1) CONSIDER A MOTION TO APPROVE DISBURSEMENTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $7,736,426.71 FOR THE PERIOD THROUGH JANU- ARY 31, 1994, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE FINANCE DIRECTOR SUBJECT TO AUDIT. (21 CONSIDER A MOTION TO APPROVE DISBURSEMENTS IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,802,788.43 FOR THE PERIOD OF FEBRUARY 1 THROUGH FEBRUARY 28, 1994, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE FINANCE DIRECTOR SUBJECT TO AUDIT. f. Resolutions. 9",. '1iJ (11 CONSIDER A RESOLUTION ADOPTING SUPPLEMENT NUMBER 63 TO THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF IOWA CITY, IOWA. (21 CONSIDER A RESOLUTION TEMPORARILY RESCINDING POR- TIONS OF THE 8.5, MONDAY THROUGI:I FRIDAY PARKING PRO- HIBITION ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF GLENDALE ROAD AND ON THE'SOUTH AND WEST SIDES OF MORNINGS IDE DRIVE. Comment: This Resolution will provide temporary off-campus parking for City High students until the end of the 1993-94 school year. Both the neighborhoods of Glendale Road and Morningside Drive have agreed to this accommodation of City High School students' parking needs. .,.....11" - 11'~,'.'::~;:':':':<" '.";""," ":0'", '. " , ~" ,':',.,' . , ,.,..:,', :,.', . . '. ,~ : ':"";:<';;"'; _;::rL '. . ----.----.- JC~__:~~: \ .- ,- ,,'" ;': i,' ... ,.. ,,'i "" , "'1" o \ ~ . . .. ',I" '-'1 ;" "'.'j":'.. :/5 ',' 'I' "':'.': 0, 'f , ,~:' " :, :." "~' .,..'..!. <: ' . ,. ".:~' , .,..;0:. ~~:;.: ",' -~...~. ..,',...'..-'-',.; ,} ','f "'-- I .....-:...1 ,~\ . \ I ' ~ ,~ "~ ,,:~-. t' ( ~. \ 111 , i J .) :! ~ fl I 1/: 1 : .~, i .' : [, i ! ~J./ ' \'\1'- I , ( . " , ;,'.' tc'-'- 0 " , .,,", "," ;~, , , ''"... ..' j , ", '.')" ' '( '.".' ,-,--"--,,'., Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 5 g. Correspondence. (11 Letter from the State Historical Society of Iowa regarding the Schindhelm-Drews House at 410 N. Lucas. (2) Letter from Colleen Ernst regarding support for the arts. (3) Letters regarding tax abatement from: (a) Nick Duppong (b) Gary R. Lundquist (4) Letter from William Radl regarding health benefits for domestic partners. (5) Letter from Chris Reitz regarding the need for an ice skating rink. (61 Letter from Jared Rowell regarding the need for a crosswalk at First Avenue and Lower Muscatine. A copy of the City Manager's reply is attached. (71 Letter from Arian Betenbender regarding the need for control of installation of courts (tennis, basketball, volleyball, etc.) within city limits. ' (81 Petition from 46 residents requesting the installation of a traffic light at the intersection of Highway 1 and Mormon Trek. (9) Letters regarding parking in the City High area from: (a) Jeff and Cathy McCullough and the residents of Morning- side Drive, and Sheldon Kurtz and the residents of the Glendale Road area. (b~ n " Tom and Jean Teale y,J/JI..; cuid.d7 07 . (10) Letterfrom Deanna Hanson Abromeit regarding a bill for a parking ticket. A copy of the reply letter from the Customer Service Manager is attached. (11) Copy of Notice of Purchase of Equipment from the Finance De- partment. This is placed on the agenda in accordance with state law. . (12) Memoranda from the Traffic Engineer regarding: (a) Parking prohibition on the 400 block of South Third Ave- nue. (bl Parking prohibition on the west side of Third Avenue from its intersection with Dunlap Court north to the cui-de-sac and including the outside portion of the cul-de-sac of Third Avenue. - /.7,~~'- . ".)';'" ,,0,...'..' 'i' . ", ,..... '.. .:' ' ., .,-..,...,.. ~' ",,'...",. ,.'," ..', " ' , , "\ '- I ,.. . ".."......,.., .. ", , I 1 , ,....1........,..'...1"'...'.," /5.0'. , . \' I' :~:. ~qj:;>~'r; '.' .1 . , . " ",,;.; ",< ',:, . ~ . . , '. _: . . , . .. . . --,_..~- ..,.-. _.,-,~-... City of Iowa City MEMORANDUM ,.' I , 1 ....i . .",,1 ~ ! '.... FROM: City Clerk DATE: March 29, 1994 TO: Mayor, city council, General Public RE: Changes to Agenda ;'. :i Addi tions: 3g.(9) Letters regarding parking in City High area froro: (c) Cheryl Tugwell. (d) Richard Roberts. (e) Louise Janes. (f) Donna McGlot~n 3b.(4) Sr. Center Corom. minutes of 1/24/94. t.::\ ;'\;.;1 , Corrections: 3b.(4) Sr. Center Corom. minutes of 12/20/94 changed to 12/20/93 i t .,y. ,~ \. : " \ '. :'1 , /~.. '." I: .' , " , ~ I II , .~ ~" Ii I; 1,1 " "I: ".',' ..'..,."'~~"~....,:..'..,I'.:Oi:,... , '. ';"""'-,1"-,,,,' ','.,-" }", ! ;::,:-;:'\:'::':"':-'I,'<~:',';;';,.;.9,:::, ,;.",' '.', ',T. ~~~ ::~j:~. ;:'; :::";-\, ,'."j '. m.~ : ',f:':' ':~-"':" '."",\: i', o .' , , ,.'.' .' ,,' ~ .t. ',' mW1' ..,. ,", . ."'';''', "," ,', j .',,,:,\-. : ;, "I I I '" ~ \ \ ;1. / I, , I I I I I , I . ~ I 1 i I ~~ {~"" d '1i" ~ ' '- 'Jr 0'- " ,~: ,,' ....'.' . . "'t' , ,. ":"~ - '-\', " " '~".. ...'" <, ... '.- ~ . , " , (. , , ,.' I . '~"' " , ,,' Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 6 {cl Parking prohibition on the south side of Dunlap Court from its intersection with Third Avenue to and including the cul- de-sac. (d) Restoration of parking on the south and west sides of Morningside Drive from its intersection with 7th Avenue to College Street. (e) Installation of stop signs on Lucas Street at its intersection with Davenport Street. (f! Yield sign installation on Fairchild Street at its intersection with Lucas Street. h. Applications for the Use of Streets and Public Grounds. (1) Application from March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation for permission to have the Walk American on April 20, 1994. (ap-' proved) (21 Application from the Activities Therapy Department of the Univer- sity of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics for permission to have the Ronald McDonald House Race on May 7, 1994. (approved) i. Applications for City Plaza Use Permits. ITEM NO.4- (11 'Application from Pathfinder Books for permission to set up a table on City Plaza on March 19,1994, for the purpose of distributing political literature and offering books and pamphlets for donations. (approvedl . ~ / ~7 CXA ~o,o -1l~?~ ~/P~^~~~. }(/~a.-d)/{t1/ ~ ffu ~ END OF CONSENT CillN~~ ~ a.QQ.~ h //;;;J)' PUBLIC DISCUSSION. r- --- .&.v I~ l'--_ , ,'~-'.l ,',~" " . ,,""; , .,' I - )',1 ;,\:.:r,,^ . ,'... ,:, ( ': .' . . ,;/,::"'"~""'r.9'1,,::,, j j CD I :! '~ j I l "I">' Ii c.. ( !'- ~ IB, ,....,;".,.-, ""!li.i;] .r ,..-:\ , \ \ ......., ":;-"';'1 : i' i ~ '" I"". I . ' i i ','I ~~ t~~: ~.~ , ',~; ,..t~ ~!} '1<' .......... - ' .. ' I':: . ." ' ,~- l , ''\~. ,,..\i.\ f' ':'" -.,\ ~ '.~'" ,.. . . .. ~ -,.~~. _.:.. .- - I' #3 Consent Calendar page 1 Horow/ (#3-Consent Calendar) Baker/ Before we do that is it possible-what is the procedure for pulling that one item. Kubby/ It has to be on the floor first. Baker/ It has to be moved and seconded and pulled out. Horow/ Moved by KUbby, seconded by Lehman. Discussion. Kubby/ I move that we pullout #3f(2) and 3g(12)(a-d) for separate discussion. These are all having to do with parking around city High School. Baker/ I would also like to pullout #3d(1) for a brief discussion. Pigott/ Second. Horow/ #3f(2), #3d(1), and #3g(12)(a-d). Okay. It has been moved and seconded by Kubby and pigott. Any further discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye (ayes). That was the approval for pulling them out. () . Karr/ Okay, that was the approval for pulling them out. Was Baker/pigott or KUbby/Lehman. Horow/ It was KUbby/Pigott. No, Baker. I am sorry Larry. All right, now we are back to the main motion and that is to consider the adoption of the consent calendar minus those items. Roll call- (yes) (Reads setting of public hearings) Now we are back to the items pulled out. Let's begin with #3f(2). Kubby/ Well, two things that we pulled out about what to do about parking on City High are in conflict with each other and we can't do both of them. At least that is clear if nothing else and so those are two choices. I had presented a third choice last night and people were uncomfortable with doing that because the whole neighborhood had not been contacted about it and we thought we need to deal with options that everyone knows about and has been notified about. And in terms of process I agree with that. I would like to move that we consider the resolution that is the neighborhood compromise about prohibition of parking on the south side of Glendale with certain conditions and the west sides of Morningside Drive under the certain conditions. F032994 o 0, " r ~", ~lj ~[l 'I" i1D3iit.:.~' ,\ " r:: r ..\ .' _.~ \ I \ \ ~ :~r I' I~ I 'f 1 . i , , , I '-.(.J \<~ ";~'~"" F: )1 :' ~- j :l;:~~. I ' l"._.. ~{C-.- ~.--- ., ,~! ~'l . :',.', . .t\\'f,'. -, . ... . ~ ." '. 1 , .'; ,.. . . '.. ,._...,,~.'.:'-'..-.. - #3 Consent Calendar page 2 Throg! I second that. Horow! (Reads #3f(2)) When we say compromise we realize the compromise means that not everybody agrees when you walk away from the table. Nov! Can we discuss all of these together before we start one at a time. Horow! (Reads 3g(12)(A-D)) Nov! And it is D that is in conflict with the neighborhood compromise. Horow! Right. Nov! So if we decide to approve the neighborhood compromise we vote no on item D. Kubby! There was some discussion last night after the meeting and somebody said that if the real reason you want to ban parking on the curve on Morningside is safety issues and especially construction trucks for this interim period and the construction vehicles are there before 8:00 and they are most likely there after 5:00 because construction happens dawn to dusk basically, why is the parking prohibition from 8:00 to 5:00 instead of basically all of the time or from dawn until dusk. My basis has been safety issues I didn't really have an answer and wanted to bring that question to this group to see if someone else had an answer or if we just need to stick to 8:00 to 5:00 because that is what- 10 Horow! consistently throughout the city it is 8:00 to 5:00 any prohibitions or any parking prohibitions. Kubby! That is not true. pigott! Most of the parking in that area and most of the cars in that area are parked there from 8:00 to 5:00 and it clears up after those times or i.s that not correct. I just wondered whether the area cleared up. Nov! It probably clears up by 3:00 because- Kubby! This person was saying if you are really trying to deal with safety issues and not trying to target students and maybe that is hard to separate out at this point. That you would really want to put 3:21 on the sign or whatever. But saying 8:00 to 5:00 is everywhere in the city is not correct because we have lots of places that just says no parking period. F032994 ~ ' T' -- ) , I ~d. ,Q. '}S " " ... ~ ., " , ',\ '''',~:Q'!~'.i.~. ,; '...,i.: ., .,!'I-"j . ....... , :~t\,~'1 ~ , .. '.... '" . '-'o,', , ...-.... . '.1,',. .-,., .." ."...--:"......,.~.,..,-...;..,,,.:,-_.,...:~.~.~,...'.,,.'. ~....., ", r'~ <. "e;\ , \ \ ~ ~ : ' I ~ ! . I", r';. , .' 1 . i j' \ ; \~ ~~ "~: :i:: f.~,' " IJ.,j, ''''r' " ~. '.l'~ ._~ ,t~-_?~ #3 Consent Calendar page 3 Horow/ Okay. Nov / The hour signs are usually those hours and Monday through Friday. KUbby/ People feel okay about the 8:00 to 5:00 thing. Lehman/ I think I really do. Nov/ That doesn't bother me. Ernie and I did a little looking around in the neighborhood and there is no question the safety issues exist and there is no question that we need better enforcement with or without moving the parking restrictions. And it is a difficult decision. One of the things that concerned me was parking on Third Avenue near Court street. There were cars parked there all the way up to the corner and it was very difficult to get a car around the corner and I can't see how a huge truck would get through there without that kind of turning allowance and we need to do that kind of enforcement. Horow/ Let's get off the discussion. Let's see if we can't vote 'on these individual items and get the ones off the table that we know that we are not comfortable with. Does anybody have any problems with that. For instance. Kubby/ There is a motion on the floor that has been seconded. Throg/ What was it. Kubby/ That is the neighborhood compromise. Lehman/ Susan, I have just one comment. I really think, and I was out with Naomi this morning, Morningside Drive is a very narrow street. It has a great deal of traffic. Even without parking that is not a particularly safe situation. You add parking plus all of that traffic I think there is a real problem. And while I appreciate the neighbors compromise and the spirit in which they did it I really thinking we are compromising a certain amount of safety for convenience. I think that is wrong. I can't support that. Nov/ So you want to leave it as is. Lehman/ Morningside Drive without any question. I think we need to address traffic and parking. If we have parking and no traffic that is one situation. If we have traffic and parldng, it is definitely another situation. A very dangerous one. Horow/ I think the traffic there as it is going right now, even F032994 ~~_L ~ - ') ,.-'''' r'-' . , 0 "~"'. \ ".', ,. , ;~"'" \" ,.. . I',' ",., , ' 't c. l :.) " , ~ I , I . ,., i, , , I I I o .-'1 'l'r5' 3J."@;:l<! ',,. , , ; , :J; ! i' ,.) II I , . :( ~- ., ,~;" ~' . ., ' . '.,( , <:. \~'i'.' .. ., (, " "", . . , , . ,. " '~.,. '\,":".\ 1 ,,' <" . ,.' ,;1'" ..~ .~ ... ,_.._~'..._~.. -, - ---, . " " . '. .. ._._. ,,~ ._.'_.~..._.., ."~"-~:."....;";,;";",,,,,,,,,,_, ......-.' ~..' '''' ""_''''''C,t.'~ '_ .'_' ,_' . ,...._......h "...... .,._,....~_"_,_.___,___. _ #3 Consent Calendar page 4 without the parking, i~ dangerous. They are definitely speeding because there is no parking. I am not saying I am promoting parking but I was there this morning too at the time the kids were going to school. They were just dashing. The buses, the trucks, the cars. Throgl That is the major concern that I have. If we reduce the amount of parking there which I am going to support in terms of the compromise, I am a little concerned that people might simply speed because it is easier to drive through there and it might turn out to be unsafe or more unsafe. Lehmani Neighbors said that wasn't true. Nov I The neighbors said with or without parking the kids are speeding. Kubbyl The thing we talked about last night was we asked the school board to look at this issue more carefully. We have asked both neighborhoods to give something and the thing that we are bringing to this, besides all of this discussion which doesn't really help that much in a real sense, is to direct our Police Department to do as much as possible during the three peak times when there is lots of movement of traffic around the school. To do traffic enforcement. Horowl I totally agree with that. Let's-are you ready to give a direction on the resolution that is the compromise. okay. Roll call- This is for (#3f(2)). This is from tomorrow until June 11. Throgl Sue, is it worthwhile stating that I think there are maybe three major elements to the compromise. Just stating them to we are clear what they are. Horowl We are talking about the 1700 block of Morningside drive. That is what is means on the south and west sides of Morningside Drive. On the south side of Glendale Road, 150 feet from and 150 feet after the asphalt walkway that extends from the football field down the Glendale and on no part of the cuI de sac. Novl And basically Ashwood drive to Heather Court. Horowl Right. Throgl Enforcement. Horowl We didn't talk about this last night but the compromise also said do not remove any of the existing sign. simply put hoods F032994 _.-:~ ..' W-'- ) . '. '.,~",':: .,' ',' . . . , ",:"Q"" .1 ," , '. ,.. . y 1 j I .. '1'.'.." , '} c.,: ,I: ~~ '" i, ""';, W 0, ., " , ,'I; m. ~ " I ,\, ~ ~.'... \ \ ~ ~'-~( , 'i' I /" I I I , I I , i i ~: I'{'. i i i I 1 " ,(--~ ., '~ ' ~. i '. ,::',~t;,\;I' '. '., ,. ~' f' " , , . .~.. ""'.11. , . ......., , - ..:.1,: " #3 Consent Calendar page 5 over them so the enforcement can be easily reinstated the day after school is over. I don't see any problem with that. As a matter of fact I would totally agree with that. Lehman/ On Morningside we are talking about 20 parking spaces. Pigott/ 18 or 20. something like that. Nov/ And I don't know that there are many people on the street either. Horow/ Roll call- It carries with Lehman voting against it. That effectively eliminates item-but we still have to take a vote on this, #3g(12)(d).Moved by Kubby, seconded by Throg. Discussion. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Those oppose same sign (ayes). This one fails. Let's go back to #3g(12)(a) This has been recommended by our Traffic Engineer (Reads #3g(12)(a)) Moved by Nov, seconded by Kubby. Discussion. All those in favor (ayes). Great. Next one is (Reads #3g(12)(b)). Moved by pigott, seconded by Throg. Discussion. Nov/ I have some discussion on this one and this would also apply to the next one which is a parking prohibition on the cul de sac on Dunlap Court. There are some people there who have been talking to me about the need for parking during the day on occasion. For example they have grown children and the three families all get together for the week of Christmas to New Year's and other such time. There isn't enough space on driveways for everyone to have all of these cars on the driveway and we need to think about the possibility of a special permit for a limited time. Other cities have done this kind of thing. You can do it by a phone call of a letter that says this car with this license number will be visiting for the specific period of time, specific date and it can be given a permit for just those few days. And if the council will agree to do this kind of administrative compromise on occasional guest parking I think that I can support this. Horow/ steve, can we do that. Atkins/ Yes, I think you can. I talked to the Chief late this afternoon. Naomi and I had been visiting about this on a number of matters and it is not uncommon that if someone has some special social event: bridge club, garden party, wedding or whatever that might be occurring, that they do need extra parking and what we have or can do is that arrange from some F032994 ~=~ - .,~ ') " .. 'i', :~ - !,Q. ~ bll . ' - I I ,.. , ',' @ , I' , ij' Id ',i. .. Y l ,~, '" . "'r' ",' "'1, ~, ..,', ~ '. ,.. . . :~ .. #3 Consent Calendar page 6 sort of notification. In another community in which I served we simply required the people to call in with a vehicle description, plate number and it just simply went out to that particular watch and we usually limited it to a couple of days and if it was anything longer than that then they called back in. So it is not an uncommon practice. We think we could administer it reasonable effectively. Kubby/ I would assume that if we did it we would do it for anywhere in the city. Not just for one area. Atkins/ Yes, to be fair Karen, unless there was some extreme circumstances where clearly we didn't want to have parking. We can arrange it. I don't see any problem with that. Nov/ It has been done all along for short periods of time. The garden club kind of meeting. It has not been done for days at a time for overnight guests. Horow/ Any other discussion on this. okay, all those in favor of (12)(b) signify by saying aye (ayes). okay, #3g(12)(c). I am assuming the same will go for that one. Any other discussion. Moved by Pigott, seconded by Nov. All those in favor signify by saying aye (ayes). We are going back to #3d( 1) . Moved by Baker, seconded by Throg. Discussion. f.:I V Baker/ Yes. I was just going to give people the opportunity that might have been here for something else that might want to leave that they don't have to worry about interrupting us now if you want to go ahead and take a break. We won't be offended. As we are doing that I want some clarification and then a request. Implicit in this p.h. is the figure that we agreed upon last night on Table 2-that chart. This is not the sq.ft. requirement. This is the impact fee plan. We had talked last night about option 4. Now later in the agenda under P/Z #5a we have a discussion of the actual parking requirements for that zone and I have some questions about that that I want to raise but I was thinking that perhaps what we ought to do with this p.h. on this issue is consider instead of #4 consider #5, the 100% flexibility and I want to do that because I don't want to unnecessarily alarm those other commercial owner, developers in the southern part of the zone. We may want to look at the percentages of allowable or permi tted parking, required parking, as part of the p. h. process but to start out with 100% up front for everybody might be counter productive and I would like us to see us set the p.h. based upon option 5 if that is agreeable to everybody F032994 ufC 0 ~ ,~ ~: l_ , Q')i " I id is - , ----"'- ' "-", " Jrl'iir~ , -\ , \ \ .\ ,...."". r;:~l ( !" I I , Ir.' I\::'~ I , , . , 'I ~I , \"~ )i'~'" ~,1. ',~" 1-:" ;,:' ~ L__ '~, .' 0, ,'" .'''1 '.';,,' ,_,1\\, '.'J '" , '" " ,'-.,', ~ ...... . ..' . - .. .,: ..-.'.-.' !,~ ..' .'" - . ..". .-'.c.,...... #3 Consent Calendar page 7 else. Horow/ I appreciate that Larry. Nov/ That is what I was saying yesterday. There are all kinds of other commercial areas in that zone. Baker/ And this is one of the things that Linda and I talked about today and we are going to be talking about it some more for clarification about what you can do for one designation vs. another designation. There maybe some flexibility in there that we are just not sure of yet and I don't want to, like I say, unnecessarily alarm the people south of Court street. Kubby / Larry, last night your desire for one of the options on Table 2 in terms of the impact fee options was linked to the sq. ft. Baker/ Right. Kubby/ Is it still linked. You need to tell me what sq.ft. you want. Baker/ I am very up front about what sq. ft. I want. That is the first item on the P/Z items. setting p.h. on the parking requirements. I am going to talk about that again and talk about whether or not there are four people who would like to reconsider that figure as well. At least setting the p.h. But I think in the spirit of compromise I am willing to go with #5 now and make it easier on everybody if that is amenable. Throg/ I am willing to support the 100% flexibility. Baker/ And we can work out-if there is some flexibility within that we can work that out at the p.h. Horow/ So that is option 5, Table 2. Gentry/ And that is permitting up to 50% parking on site for both CB-5 and C-l, Baker/ That is the way it is worded now and that is what I want to discuss in the p.h. which you and I need to talk about about what we can do as far as separating those types of commercial uses. And if it is possible separate the types of commercial uses and the requirements for them within that impact fee zone. I would like to see us do that. It may not be possible and then we can deal with that. But if it is possible, this gives us the flexibility to do that. F032994 o o ",',' ,', ,\ ' ..,~.~....._, ,.. . i , I 10 , I , " I , ~!:, '.: !O, ',", . ;~:Jt~d ^ ( r '-"~ \ \ i:1:1 ( I I , 'fl I I ~' , . , I ;-"" '~ \'f:~" I*j,t " '':f ~- ,( ~.' .~I' -~. " < '. ~~: 'j '~"~ f' ',' .' ~..', , -. ,.. .' . . .\ ., :: ' I . #3 Consent Calendar page 8 Kubby/ So you are also looking at for another item on the agenda the one space per 900 feet. Because it may make a difference to me as to whether I am interested in going. Baker/ I think that will be coming up under a zoning item. Kubby/ You think it possibly might. Horow/ Okay, right now let's deal with #3d(1). Baker/ To cite the figure in the agenda item here. I want to make sure that we agree that we want to use option 5 for the p.h. process. Horow/ There is a motion and it has been seconded (Baker/Throg) for the p.h. for April 12. Any further discussion. Kubby / I wanted to say a few things. After last night's discussion I went home and I was feeling a little uncomfortable and I find ourselves in a position that in my five years on council we haven't had at least very overtly and what that is is that we have four people who want the tax abatement, one person saying I only want if this other thing happens. And last night I got this feeling that the other three people for the tax abatement, if it weren't linked, would not find the parking impact fee the best policy decision. It didn't seem like there was big support for it. But the three people who were willing to it to get the tax abatement and the three people who don't want tax abatement I felt were interested in the impact fee but I felt myself hanging back because I didn't want to give Larry four votes for an impact fee because I didn't want the tax abatement to occur. And so there were six people on council possibly that were going to make a policy decision that they really didn't think was in the best interest of the city because of the political system and I don't want to base my policy decisions based on that kind of a situation. And so I will be, even though I said last night I may not be interested, I really was. I was playing a game. I don't like to be playing those games so I am not going to be playing them anymore. o Baker/ I am shocked. Kubby/ You are the cause of all of this Larry. Out of six people you are getting stuff that you want done and the rest of us may be doing stuff that we don't think is really the best thing in order to get something else and I guess that is the political process and- - Baker/ It hasn't happened yet. I may get nothing. F032994 =. :- T~ 'T' . . ~:' iQ'~)'i I ~d, '~I ~ \ <l ~ ., L .,... :,1\, ~', .), ' ., ~. i' ' ,J ,:>. . ': .. '-~t~\'1 .... " , ,~, '.,)' ",r, " ':,'~ , -., '-. '. , .,':, ,~,., ,,,' ,<. .... '... A......_;;, '..,t.,......,_ ...,.~:.___.~,.,',:..._ '.._,. , /, ( "',~ \ 1 ~ : I I" k. I (.~ i I , \ ;"'0' J ., ~ .' '." {< .1' I,. :~? , i~ '/, I '. ". -- ., . ,-,._"......,<".,',',.:-~-. ,...".-. ,.... -"......_".._,.....--_..,~ ----. -., , #3 Consent Calendar page 9 Horow/ We haven't talked about that. Whether or not that is actually where everybody else- KUbby/ I am saying that that is my observation and talking about how I was basing my behavior on and I didn't want that. I am talking about me. Throg/ There were interesting feelings last night and I think I was aware of some of them within me and other people around me, too. I have a feeling though the discussion- Pigott/ It was an incredibly volatile discussion last night. Throg/ I think the end result-I am hopeful that it will be better than the way you described it. Nov/ You never can tell. Horow/ Not over until the fat lady sings. okay. Do you have anymore discussion. Kubby / I do have one other thing and that is I really want to encourage council to finalize the parking impact fee ordinance before the final vote on the Revitalization Area that implements tax abatements. Because I think this is so fluid and because we are having a hard time visioning what the right thing just south of Burlington between Burlington and Court and what is the best for south of Court that things may change enough that Larry might not find it acceptable and I don't want to see you give away your bargaining chip. Baker/ I appreciate your concern for me Karen. Kubby/ I want us to look at the whole thing and I know that we will in one aspect but on the other aspect because it is linked in Larry's mind I would like us to finish one decision before we finish the other one. Horow/ No problem. Kubby/ Is that true. You just said no problem. Is that no problem for other people. Last night it was another answer. Horow/ I think it will all fall together. Throg/ If I am understanding you correctly we are going to settle on what we expect the parking impact fee components to consist of tonight when we are setting the p.h. for it. Kubby/ No. I am asking that we vote on impact fee before we do the F032994 o 'd'O .,/:',,': ;(,,'" ( ,I ,> "'. . ,\'.' - /'iI \IJ I I i I I I I 1 I I I . R /5 . wO, , " ~,,>t.:;:,;.., :,'1 '.,' ;,~ . .'... - #3 Consent Calendar page 10 final vote on the revitalization area and people are agreeing to that time frame. ."'j , " ~ Baker/ I am assuming that you are going to participate in that vote and help us solve that. Kubby/ Yes. You bet. I would love to be involved in those- Horow/ All those in favor signify by saying aye (ayes). Great. Kubby/ Different answer than I got last night. .":', ,) " " .. " F032994 ....\\,1 ,,,-"'( " ';,\~'-:-,..,.H:""'<';F~::' '.,\,:'":,, ,'" I'...'r'.-,~. ,I "'IOC" """'.:' ,."",-, is' I'" .;; \.""." o~ o '/ .,', '.' "..," , :),:'''- '/;::'7~'>,'i.9.',,',,:,;::< ~ " ,I" '1I \\<:",', , ' ..f' ,: ,\ ~'.. ,- \ rj i i :--. ., '1 I) " Ii N ,';.-'--,...., ., . ." )" I ", . 'If" 'W.., -. ,-.. ',' " .'-".,'" , '~.,. . . .,' ..~,:,~"-'''~'_:._- ,.. ,,~,.,,'. j,_"" _, _,',_.,_'-',,',_'.,," C;,;";:;. 'J ,~:."..,,~ ' ""'"j,, .~ #4 page 1 Horow/ (#4) Public discussion. Larry Quigley/There is a group of us here tonight that are addressing the city council an issue that I have addressed before. I have a letter. I don't know how many people got the letter. There originally were 15 copies. Horow/ We all have it. Gentry/ Not all of us got it until now. Quigley/ Some of them got distributed somewhere else. I also have a copy of the ADA Handbook, section 3604 Removal of Barriers, Title 3 which is also in the letter I made reference to the priority issue. It is really important that people understand the ADA ACT is designed to stop current discrimination against people with disabilities. As far as I am concerned and as far as a lot of people are concerned it is blatant discrimination and the issue the money is always brought up. I hear lots of dollars being floated around here tonight. I think the city needs to spend some money and I am not ashamed to say that. I think they need to spend some money on people with disabilities. And there needs to be some changes made. Attitudinal changes made with the businesses around here. And also the city. The city needs to be more proactive and there needs to be more done. So I have the letter. I guess I will read the letter so that everyone here knows what it is about. (Reads Letter) So that is it. The city is actually in violation and that is the way I read it and that is the way I want the city to look at it. There are things that need to be done and some people are really getting tired of waiting. So I guess that is all I will say. Gentry/ Linda, can you step into this and give us an opinion. Gentry/ I am at a disadvantage, Larry, because this is the first I have seen it. I know that Dale Helling and I have talked last week about getting together with Chuck Schmadeke who is Public Words Director and Doug Boothroy who is the Director of H.I.S. Those two people were both on vacation and we plan to meet with them today on establishing some parameters for easements on public r.o.w. Those can only be done on a case by case basis based on whether you are creating an obstruction or a dangerous situation. And I cannot answer the question because I have no idea on this steakhouse without talking to Doug Boothroy or Ron Boose. My attorney that works with H.!. S. was also gone last week. So you have caught me up short and I will just have to get back to you. Quigley/ I don't really buy that. F032994 o " 0 ,-, .' , , ,'.', t" .;'1 'I, ','" ';,' " ,,,'J ,.. . - r 'j r... ... ...'~ @ ,1[1 " -,..'; i" " ' ',\ l~~. " ' ., ~, J i ... " . 'Or' . '., ~ \ If ,: , .' ': ;~, ..d ~ " .. . ',I", ,.,'-.,-,_.....;.-~.,.~~'.'-"' .. . :;....--,,:'.--",I..~--,....-",.., " .l r-''\ \ \ ,~ ;;r I~ I I I I k~ I'{'. , ; , , ' II I ~'~ , ,~,i I , f.') ~,l " ~'.'I,~, I"jl'., ...,#.. 'C 0 .............,.....""...., "'.'-'P"",._~..,~., #4 page 2 Gentry/ I am sorry. Quigley/ Well- CHANGE TAPE TO REEL 94-53 SIDE 2 Gentry/ Phone number. 5030 extension. Quigley/ Yes, I know, I have tried to call. But anyway, I brought up the issue of easements before and there doesn't seem to be any initiative on the part of the city or the businesses to get the easements put in. So what I am saying there needs to be a procedure in place so that the businesses can be given the procedure to make it easy for them to apply for the easements. Kubby/ Even if it is a case by case basis who do they need to call to inquire about it. Someone can come out and make an inspection to say you could do this kind of thing but not that kind. Gentry/ And Doug has his concerns under the UBC and Chuck has his concerns and we all need to sit down. Quigley/ I talked to Karin Franklin, Community planning, I guess the procedure goes like the business comes to the city Attorney. The City Attorney, then, needs to go the Public Works. Public Works and the City Attorney need to determine whether of not an easement is possible, a criteria assessment kind of thing and then they come to the city council and the city council has to approve the easement. That is correct. And then the easement-then the city council has to go to the Public Works Department to determine whether or not the easement is doable. So it is kind of a back and forth process. Gentry/ No. Once Public Works makes a recommendation and my office makes a recommendation, then it comes to the city council. This, you have to understand, is dictated by Iowa property law and municipal law. It is not something I made up and I am just enforcing Iowa law as we have it today. Quigley/ I think it was October the first time I brought this up. I don't know how many months have passed. Gentry/ And my assistant has been at all of your meetings. Horow/ Larry, I think sometimes these things appear to be very very frustrating. They have got to be done accurately so that you are protected by law and so is the city and the business. In F032994 -- -' : --~o, "',),, ,; . ,'.!' ..'.,. ,.' "~ ",," l ,.. . . ~ .' - o js rd. ~ ~-:..LlI-i'li;o:;., ' ('7 ( .\ \~.\ \' ,~ ~ r \ I 1 I- i I ~. I'l.'~ , I, I,; 0~" " ~: j '-';: if: '( tl~ i;l~i l.... " ., .., )' '~ ....' , '~t:\'1 , '; ... . .~. ','. '~.' " , "w...., . .''', ",...- '.'....e....._' ".,_..'-',.",;.......'..,....: ',. ".,.,',:,.... #4 page 3 other words, everyone be protected by the law. I don't want something done half done. Kubby/ At the same time I have to agree that it has been-you have been here at least three times talking about the same issue. I like the idea that you have down here of a specific date and that maybe council can give some direction to say we want to make sure that that meeting of staff happens in the next three weeks. Gentry/ Is Doug back from vacation. Kubby/ I am taking the concept of a deadline and it may not be exactly what Larry has in his letter but this is what I am suggesting as another starting point. Throg/ I heard Larry imply that the April 12 date was not a fixed date. Quigley/ It is just a date I put down. I said a reasonable amount of time. pigott/ To set up the meeting is the first step and that can be done early. Gentry/ If everybody is back we will get together. Right, Dale? Atkins/ Linda, let me ask a question just so I understand. The process of private business securing an easement over public property is not complex. It is a simple request and the council ultimately approves it. Gentry/ Right. It is not that difficult. Atkins/ So I don't understand what the debate is. Gentry/ As a matter of property law you can't give a permanent easement over public r.o.w. It is prohibited. Atkins/ I understand that. I am trying to answer Larry's question as well as our own question. Gentry/ You send a letter to the city. Either Chuck's department or my department or the city council and it gets referred for action. And the businesses may be playing dog in the manger but they don't need to. Atkins/ The businesses do these easement requests as requests. This is not a mandate by us or any other governmental authority that they have to do this. It is available to them. F032994 o o , :-,. . ". --. --- ,.. . I I I , I i (') , ~\~ 1d, ,',' ., '.. ", ,...." ',; _f,rn' . ' - (:" r .\ '-I \' \ 1 ~ , I , f ~. , r{'~ , . , , , " ~I, ,) \~J1 , ) ;\~~~; ~'l In.,, \\"''''.' '-.' _J[~ , , ' , ~,'...~.- ..' ., " t>- . , ," ~t ~ \' 'I: , :. " "~. . ;~, 'j, .. ," "", ,'-.., ""'.'\ , . , , . . ;.,..,...,.....,...-'..,'., ,...,'"",~_...__'.:.~~......"'.,...,..'".. .-~."'~'r'."...,,j,,_.,,,", " ..,. _,. h__......,..,.'..~_....n.___ #4 page 4 I think that is important that we understand that easements over public property are not that difficult to obtain as long as they satisfy the legal and technical requirements of the bureaucracy of Public Works. Kubby / But there are two questions here. One are about those businesses who need to comply with ADA on their own and others that may need to through processes that we have some control over. Atkins/ The enforcement of the ADA and those aspects-the aspects of that particular law are a different set of circumstances. Is that correct. That is what I understood them to be. Gentry/ Right. Atkins/ We do not have the authority. Gentry/ Right. Atkins/ Thank you. Gentry/ And the businesses can call Chuck Schmadeke at 356-5141 and they can call the City Attorney at 356-5030. We have always answered your questions. Throg/ It sounds to me like we need to have a report back from Linda at our next meeting. Gentry / I would be more than happy now the two are back from vacation. Throg/ About the results of the meeting and indication of what action we should take. Gentry/ We are ready to do this. Nov/ There is also a question about whether of not the building permi t for that particular business did not have required accessibility. Gentry/ I have no idea. Nov/ Just look it up and let us know whether or not. Atkins/ We will prepare a specific report on the Texas Steak House based upon the allegations this evening. I will give you something on that. But I think we have to understand that the easements are not that difficult to obtain. But the actual enforcement of the law does not rest with us. Is that F032994 w ~-, ',,-'-~.n_ .~- o : -::'"Q; ".,. ')i '.', r' 'A.b.. ,:,.' I , , , I ".. . .,' - , I )5 ~d. :mm" ,:1 " ,~' I, ( .~ (-:.\ \ \ ,-""'" T' I~ I I ~, , !\t.. Ii '~l" \~t1 ,:J- l"~IIJ' " .. 1 , :'>.'\1 ~'l~" ", .' , - .f " .' .~~ .f' J' . ': ":'""\t:: , " ',~I:j , ~., ... ".' '" " , ~, , ..' ," '.: '. ~ i , 'v.,.' . ',I"~. ... ",._.,..." ~,+ '.~.. ...,.--..... ,.. ,__..~. ...... '-' ..~' ,,""' .' " '"l ,~',"L'''. ,:, :,,'.~"'. 7'..-.:,:.. ,:.;';':;: ".: -'~ .:. '.~ .,'. 'c.,'.., ,'"..."...~.."........,....,,,,.,____'_._h_. ,\ ., #4 page 5 correct. Gentry/ We haven't had any applications and we haven't denied any. Quigley/ Also I think I asked the council to direct whoever they need to direct to work on this procedure. Gentry/Educational, I think the Human Rights Commission is doing something. Aren't they? Horow/ Yes, we already made that. Atkins/ Shortly after Larry's first appearance you will recall we directed correspondence to the Chamber of Commerce specifically asking them to initiate a program of this type of activity. They have under contract with, I don't recall the details. But they have already initiated their acti vi ties, as far as I understand them, to encourage their membership, d.t. businesses in particular, to go above and beyond. That initiative was undertaken. Now whether that has been- Quigley/ We are not talking about the easement. Atkins/You have to have an easement, however, Larry to accomplish some of the things- Quigley/ Right. What I am saying is I am asking the council to direct the Public Works or whoever it is to work on the procedures for the easement so that there is a specific guideline to follow for the easements. So that if I want to go to a business and hand them the procedures I can do it. KUbby/ I think what we are saying is that all you have to do is call the City Attorney's office and make the request. Throg/ I hear Larry saying he wants just one page with a guideline about what steps to follow in order to get the easement. Gentry/ We can do that. I can provide that to you tomorrow. okay. God I heard you. Kubby / Do you know what ~lould be great is if someone from the Coalition and someone from the Chamber made house visits to businesses and so that here you have people right in their face from various perspectives saying this is a good thing to do and it is the law. We want to help you figure out how to make this happen. Quigley/ We can look at the legal aspects of it but I mean the fact is is that it is a minority that is being discriminated F032994 o o .....',. ~,': -", .... ,..,.. '\ \ ' I"~ . ,.. 1 ' I I I , I I o \" ,. is ...'. ;"-:'1 '-,I-. &~~;,,'-- " '... . '.....},.._, . <"\'.\', , '.' '. " ,f,; ... .1 , ' ".;-..' j""', ., " . 1.: . , ,i" ..'....', , ,'..... " ,.. . '. ,"'~~" , ',' , ; .' "'~:"" ,.:',;,. ;,.. ; "~~,,.,; u ~:'_ ,',~~!~~~:..", __... #4 page 6 against. And if it was another minority it would be recognized. But in the name of the cost of renovations, readily achievable language, we are always bringing the money aspect into it and anything or any change has cost money. And I am saying that the relative change for ramps or easements or whatever it takes to make these ramps-to make these businesses accessible that maybe the city needs a program. Maybe the city needs a program and they need procedures as they do with housing rehab so that people can apply for money. Businesses can apply for money to do these. Pigott/ Sort of an incentive program perhaps that would encourage them through CCN funding to give them money to carry out these procedures. Is that what they are saying. Quigley/ If we are going to give tax abatements. Horow/ The last time you did come here I appreciated that and I thought and we did send a letter to the Chamber and it was my understanding there was going to be a cooperative set of activities with you and other people from the Coalition and the Chamber to visit the various businesses and what happened. Quigley/ No one from the Chamber of Commerce has contacted me. I mean it- 0', " \ , Horow/ Let me look into that aspect of it because that- Quigley/ That is another issue. Horow/ That is the beginning. I think when you and a Chamber person do make these visits you have a lot more power in terms of looking and talking with the business owner. That is a direct intervention. , I, I .\ ......-:~ , ~ I r I~ Pigott/ I think you are right, Sue, but he is also talking about another approach as well as that. I don't think he disagrees. But I think it is worth investigating-worth maybe asking the CCN to find out whether it is feasible to use CDBG monies of some sort as a small incentive package for businesses to-I know there are difficulties with this. I know that there is income requirements and so forth. But investigate whether that sort of incentive program for businesses would be possible so that we could provide some sort of small initiative. , I 1 I I I b i'<' ~ I! 'c\' 'j Nov/ If it was a business that catered to low income and you could do a low interest loan of some sort. It might be possible. It might be even more possible or equally possible to say we will encourage to ask for easements. We will grant easements F032994 , ,,';,1 t, ~Ii 1", "I. ~" (~:. - ~~ .. ~ - ,.', - -, ,) ,'." , I If], .", 0 ,.0 , ,5 ' ,',,': ..':" \ """":-.,, "L!.A_ .b.~ ' ," , , ',; jw~~i~, i . " ...,.,,(;.."^,.,.."J,_, i:'. .\ ,..._.....l \ \ \ ~ ',( , r I' I r I I I I i , %~ I'<'~ , , , I: \1" '~;j , '~,: it, 1" , /, "i y"',( " '.'.\" . ".,'.tl,\'l:.' . , ,~. ... . , , ./.: ' , ", "'..., '.' ~.;.:' ~ I ' , ", ;. . .~\ . :,;, ;..:..~'--_,:_':....-.~'.',,;.,~,"-'-,;...:~w !...~~:.::'_, _h __... ,'., - .-.,_....--~ """~,..'.'...~.,,._....,...__.- #4 page 7 free of charge. That sort of thing might be a little bit easier because I don't think the actual cost is that high. It is just ramp costs. Kubby/ I have got to believe that there is also some grant money out there. That as this issue becomes more and more important for communities and communities wanting to take some action that there has got to be some foundation money that we could explore, looking for, actively looking for to have so that when Coalition members and Chamber members go together to businesses they can say there is this money to apply for through the city or through the foundation or that foundation They can have all that laid out so that it is easy. Quigley/ Also, I think there is a need for the city also to take some responsibility. Now who is saying that, for example, that businesses along Dubuque street and along Clinton street that are one step are out of compliance. Maybe the sidewalks have to comply. Maybe we need to raise a sidewalk. Okay. Horow/ I think we will look into it. Not just us. We have already started with the city Attorney's office. We are asking CCN then to look at their program. These are all city programs we would have to start giving direction to. What I would like to know if there is anyone else who would like to speak along the same lines. Karr/ Could I have a motion to accept correspondence. Horow/ Moved by pigott, seconded by Kubby. All those in favor signify by saying aye (ayes). Nov/ Check the DTA also on this business. Kubby/ We have a multi million dollar CIP budget and why can't $30,000 or $50,000 or $70,000 be earmarked for d.t. accessibility or small business accessibility projects. Horow/ Why don't we take a look and see what the dimensions of the problem area. You could find the $30,000 from what we have already set up on the CIP. Pigott/ I think in some ways these folks will give us some sense of the dimensions of the problems. Kubby/ There is no doubt that they are there. Horow/ We are talking around this. It seems to me that there is a grant process being approached right now through the Institute and through the Chamber and through I thought Independent F032994 o ,'..,/,.0", , ,,,,,,\,,,..-,',, " ,.. '. - I"." " ,., IS I , , '."1 ~ ",' j:;\ I;J Id, ': ".,', I . " I, .1!'mOl, , [ "\ i -.\ \! , , \ I:~ ( " I , !, '~' , . ,; ;,.~,.." ., fit \~<i ~. :':~",,' ,,1<, !'IV>. , ~-~ ~co .'~ Y I " ~~ . . "II.\!, ~ "" , " '., ,< , " ..' #4 page 8 Living. Is that not in existence. Kubby/ That is in the process but you won't hear about the grant for six months and that grant gives money for research and creating a model. Not money for actually implementing specific accessibility projects. Nov/ However, if you are going to create a model why go and do something without the model first. If there is a good model wait for it. KUbby/ Because in the meantime people still can access businesses. Horow/ Let's take one thing at a time. Obviously H.I.S. should look at the steak house. KUbby/ Can we look to see if there was any money in the CIP. Horow/ I appreciate the effort that you have made. Is there anyone else who would like to address council. We have got somebody coming from both sides here. Leslie Lemar/ I guess I am a little upset. I think Larry has gone to bat for many many people here in the community that don't speak out and don't come to meetings and don't even attend groups for advocacy and maybe they think it is they are going to get sort of kicked out the door or looked down on and I think what he is asking and what we are asking is that person's with disabilities are considered regardless if they are here or not. We have the right to be able to get into any of these facilities d.t. that anyone else. And, by law it is required that new buildings or new facilities, new businesses going in and renovating are made accessible and that is what we are asking to have done. I am sure they went in and renovated or did whatever they wanted to make the changes inside the Texas Steak House to make a change for the burger place that it was and by law my understanding of it is then it is a new facility or new establishment and that under that it falls into be able to be-it has to be made accessible. And I know that there are city guidelines with having a distance of the ramp and I know there is always the issue of the cost of having a ramp and that we as a group went at one time-we had another group who went to the Mill and had spoken with the owner of the Mill and everything else and he brought up the thing of saying that well, he was going to have to shut down the front door if he was going to have to build a ramp there and he wouldn't be able to get shipments in and all kinds of things are brought up that were just outlandish and ridiculous in my opinion. stating that it was going to cost him however many dollars to shut down to make it accessible. Well, in the F032994 ,=~::."~' "Q, '] " ... . 11 ~1" 1 ,~ f~ .~ ~ ! D ~/~ iD l~~~ f ,.. ( , ,\ I . , \ \ ',.'f... I" , I " I~ . , , ,-i., ,I "J'" '. 9' ,.,~~:, l'! ~l k ri1", ~,:\l ,.,\~ L~. .' ~;' ~;: I . ',~t:' : .,..\l,t ... . ',' , , "\'\ " ...." . -,..',.." -," .... :'.'- ,.~...., ..,.. #4 page 9 long run he did make a ramp. It is in the side back. I don't know how that happened. It came out. It was put there. I am sure it wasn't that big of a deal afterwards but in the beginning it was stated that way and it was going to be a horrendous affair. And so there is an example that it obviously wasn't such a bad deal. It can be done and we are just asking. A few of us did show up more than just Larry and we are just here to say please help us in making it accessible for the people now and in the future that have disabilities. That we have not had access to for many many years and years before. So that is all I have to say. Thank you. Renee paine/ I will just get started here and then I will sign my name after. I live at 4347 River Bend Road S.E. here in Iowa city. I am the Director of Public Access here in Iowa City and I just want to give you a quick update as to what is going on at the access center. We have a lot going on these days. Last week we were involved with the spring science Center workshops and we hosted two groups of kids and they got a chance to find out a little bit about how television is made and that was pretty exciting. We are looking forward to being one of the judging sights for a national video contest. The Home Video Festival and that is sponsored by the Alliance of Community Media and if you don't know what that is it is a national organization that is dedicated to access issues and the medium of television and other kinds of communication fields. We are having a free grant writing workshop coming up on May 4, 7-9 PM, Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library and this is sponsored by the Iowa Humanities Board and everybody is welcome to attend that. We are going to be concentrating mostly on writing grants for our producers and also for the Access Center as an organization. We are looking forward also to a hosting a regional spring conference for the Alliance for community Media. That is going to be here in Iowa City on May 20 & 21. And that is a nine state event. Nine states are involved and once again that is people who are interested in issues in access and it is really exciting time because of the information super highway and all of that. So we are looking forward to about 150-200 people being a part of that are in Iowa city and that is coming up in May and finally we encourage everybody to tune in to Open Channel and come on down to the Public Access Studio. It is every other Friday night. The next show is April 8 and it is a live program from 5-6 PM on Friday evenings. Just come on down. You can call ahead to make sure that you can reserve a place or just come on in that night. You can talk about whatever you want. Do whatever you want and that is a way that we try to accommodate people who don't want to go through the workshops and don't have the time to do that and still get their message out. So, I just would like to pass out videos to everybody on the F032994 o o '" '.1," , \ ,.' . - I 'i5 .. ~ I ~ ~ I o , rd.. ~' ,~. ,< . .'.:' , ,I ~.-.. <, c'~\ ' , \ \1 \'1, .,.... . T\ I" I I , _c_~~ ., ~; .~" i ':, . .f"\!,,, ", .. t>- o ." ,'~, \ ' " ''''., . ..~..>:.,~:," ,".-,.....,:,.'," #4 page 10 council. It is a real short video tape about the Access Center and some of the programs we have been working on and the things we are doing there and you can take them home, watch them whenever you would like and if you don't have a VCR, come on down to the Access Center and we can accommodate you right there or at the Library. Someone is going to pass those out and we hope that you enjoy them and come on down and see us again. Thank you. Kubby/ The videos are probably over $2.99 so we should return them to you for re-use. paine/ You can hang on to them. Gentry/ Are they valued more than $2.99. Paine/ No, they are not. 15 minute videos so you won't even be able to tape another show. Nov/ A blank tape is probably worth $2.99. Kubby/ Thank you. Horow / Thanks, Renee. council. Anyone else who would like to address Linda Heneghan/ I am a member of Johnson county Coalition for Person's with Disabilities and besides the easement issue another issue with the accessibility is transportation and there were a couple of facts that I found out recently that I would like to just tell the city council about. In 1973 they passed an act to make public transportation wheel chair accessible and it has never been done in Iowa City until 1993. You know, that is 30 years-20 years. Also, one of the needs I feel that persons with disabilities have are like call ahead service. I don't know anybody that plans-well, they try to plan their day maybe a day ahead or 14 days ahead. But how many plans stick to what they have decided to do you know for the next two weeks. And I don't feel that I am any different than you. My word for persons are temporarily able bodied other than me who is disabled. A person with a disability. Another issue that was brought up was as long as these businesses are open it would be nice if some of us had transportation to get to and from them. Like bars close at 2 o'clock. That is not my issue but it was mentioned by somebody. Also another thing they do make public transit buses that will hold six wheelchairs. Right at the moment the public transit only hold two and with more and more buses coming in I think by 1996 there are suppose to be something like 15. That would give persons with disabilities more of an F032994 . ~_."'- ~=-~-~-- ,.,,';,Q,),> . \ ,.. . ; ~ f j' 1'1".: nO,"".,' l ...,~ U ~ ,\, ....._" , ' ,. \ " ,'c.\ , 1 \\ ~\,'1- ,.. ' "':1\ 'I \ I · i I I I i I 1 H I : I '~' j , . i I "~' , ~,I.', "'. '. , l;'m', I"~ i y, ~ ~ '",'k\i " \!~,~ ;');"0, ' . :..;~ ,--..." "C- 0 .' '.., Y i '" . "t . ~ \\'1,; . ". ,'.. ., , " '~.. ,,'. .'.': 1 . ,,' #4 page 11 opportunity to come and go at more free will. So, this may be a consideration to tell the DOT. I think that is all I have got to say for the moment. Kubby/ In terms of all of these issues. The city is updating-we are going to update our comp plan and before-for other people out there, there are lots of opportunities to get involved in some of these issues by getting on one of our task forces that will give us some suggestions on how to update our comp plan and I hope that a lot of people that are here tonight will put their names in to be on those communities. Throg/ Sue, what is the deadline for applying to those task forces. Horow/ 6th. April 6. April 6th. The applications are in by Wednesday, I was going to talk about that under council time. Nov/ The forms are at the City Clerk's Office. Horow/ city Clerk's Office and the City Manager's Office. Kubby / Linda, I am still a little confuse about the building inspectors. We had talked about making sure that they gave out information when people came to get inspected when they had a new building and when they came to get a building permit. That even though we weren't enforcing that they were going to give people information and encourage them to do the right thing. I assumed that once you look at the specific instance that has been brought to our attention again that if things weren't okay that we make them okay. Horow/ Is there anyone else who would like to address council. Lori Bears/ Mayor Horow. 1213 First Avenue in Iowa city and I have lived here most of my life. I do have a disability. The disability is not well know. Well, I would like to say that we do need easements and we do need transportation and these all come together and Hawkeye Advocates which I am a member and you have probably seen my name. We would like to have our voice known in these boards and commissions. I am one person who is with the County Board for Mental Health Mental Retardation. There is the other two. But it seems to me when we find out we found out a day later and we as people with disabilities want to know. We want to go through the process with these people and this is 1994 and if it is Larry Quigley, if it is Tim Clancey, if it is me, we need the council and we need the Coalition, we need everybody from the community to come together because why do we even have this active-these buildings are not accessible. We need these places and these places-these people that SEATS or Transit get together. That F032994 - _.~ ~- '_f<,J ! ~ - ,.' . - I D ~IJ ~d, -, ..:,..,~;_. . ' ~ .,:':. ' .~~~~(.: .. . .,'. ".', ..,~" ~. : r ,( -'\,' '\ \, ~ .~ ~:f-~ I, ~ I i . , I I I I ~:. I , I II . ~~ ;' t:~i' ~~ I /1 " i,:1! I. I, ':' I ' '--~ ~~.. , ,,'.. .' .: ~ ~ , ..', , . ': ,'~,~t ~ "1 , '1'1 " 0>. '. -1~' , . ," ':' I...' " ','~. ; ~ ~ 'I , '"~ . ,c. 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If you don't want to just put in curb cuts and don't do a I don't know how long a curb cut took but we don't need to put a lot of time into just bringing up one thing, don't need to be anything such a small thing and please proceed on the higher scale and I just wonder who your interim director you have for transit director. How soon will a director will be in place. Nov/ They are in the process of hiring a new director. Atkins/ I think you are discussing a replacement for John Lundell and we are in the process of doing that as we speak. Horow/ Is there anybody else. Ruff/ I'd just like to add to this conversation, some people forget to realize, behind our disability, behind the wheelchairs, we are definitely human as anyone else and if we cannot participate in this community as a credible person, the disabili ty sticks out even further. We have enough trouble in this country with other minorities being put down or put into a corner or put into certain part of town because they are different. But everybody forgets and I don't mean to be dramatic but everybody here is a step away from a disability and then you begin to realize what discrimination is. How and I am not putting you down necessarily. I am just asking for cooperation on those things. Thank you. Throg/ Karen, you asked a question about Ernie and I meeting with the Coalition. You folks meet on Monday nights at room A, Library. Are you meeting next Monday night. / (Can't hear) Throg/ Oh, at Independent Living. Okay. Next Monday. F032994 -:. '::- J' ,., .0, .', :'-'1 .".." " " ~~,..,;". .', ':.--' ";" :- . I ..1 . ,.. .- ~ ,... . j I " ~ ~5 lei .,..",,',',,',. ' e;~' '" 'J" : i ;-.. " )(,'1 ~1, f'l "r l 'J ~' . , ",' , '. ~t :"\'l.~ , .. '" . " , '., . ",' _...,...J.I~__,- #4 page 13 Kevin Burt/ Next Monday and every Monday at 6:30 at Independent Living Inc. and that is located at 26 E. Market in Old Brick. Throg/ Karen was shaking her head like maybe there was a- Kubby/ No, I am sorry. Pigott/ I can do it. Throg/ What time was that. Burt/ 6:30 PM. Lehman/ Yep, at the Library. Throg/ Independent Living in Old Brick. Kevin Burt/ The one thing that I would like to make mention of is throughout the evening I have heard a term being used. I work with Independent Living Inc. and I am also a member of the Johnson County Coalition for Persons with Disabilities. I have heard a term that is being used that to me is very derogatory and it kind of gives me like the hair on the back of the neck kind of raises up and that term is handicapped. The term handicap is derived for an English term that is this: cap in hand. You are basically saying that the individuals who have disabilities within this community are beggars. That is what the term is derived from. As an advocate it has been stressed to me to make emphasis on the individual first. They are a person but they have a disability. A person first and if we can learn everyone's name we no longer refer to anyone as Kevin Burt that bald black guy over there. Once you know that is Kevin Burt I am no longer that large black man over in the corner. I am Kevin. If we can emphasize individuals even you know just always. I think that will knock down some barriers in its own right. Thank you. Horow/ Is there anyone else who would like to address council. Kay Preston/ I am not from Iowa city. I am from Kalona. But I would like to give you a little background on myself. I was born and raised in Iowa city. I am also not- I have some exhibits also. I apologize for not having enough for every member of the council. The exhibits I would like to have back. I would also like to state that I am not employed or by or related to any merchant in Iowa city area. I would also like to state that I worked at the airport as a teenager. I knew the traffic that the airport had associated with it then and it wasn't a whole lot more than it is now. To tell you how far back in Iowa City I go anyone that remembers the Big F032994 o o , '. ,.. . .. ~ , , I o " .' liS ~O ,... ." .""m,.' ,~...... '1\ . ,;'. ." "I'" ..>--.... /, .\ i"'i \1 " \ , \ ~ i I I j I I bl I.. : , I I , . I ! ! i '\.!..-/ \"~ , '10,;.' " _'"'\.J " ,,! , ". . ''j~\'l; "\ . .,>. . .;~, ':: ... .'., ", 'M"l' .'...1.-. , " . . ;";1,'... ," ....-":c...":,,.___,.,,_, ,:" .i'..,......u_'..-c~'."._'-...._,_....._,__.. #4 page 14 Ten Inn and remembers the car hops, I was one of those car hops. Now, I am here tonight as President of the Iowa city Women's Bowling Association. We have a membership of 1500. We are one integer in a family of four. The Men's Association, the Women's Association, the Junior Association and the Bowling Proprietors. A year ago the Women's Association decided to bid for the 1996 state Tournament. We had a signed letter for the former mayor, Darryl Courtney, signed June 6, 1993 supporting our bid. I am shaking like a leaf because I am so angry at this council and what they have done to the merchants of Iowa City and to the Chamber, I am sorry to the Convention and Tourism Bureau and in particular, Wendy Ford, who worked with us for over a year to submit a bid and two weeks before we were to go to our state convention this council and the Airport Commission torpedoed us. We were bidding against two other very large organizations, cities: Cedar Rapids and Davenport. We could not overcome the negative press and t.v. coverage this council generated and that $2 million worth of business that \vould have come into this community was lost 25 miles north. If you, as a council, and specifically the mayor are going to sign a statement supporting us don't torpedo us. We were just devastated. Our people have worked for a year on this. I passed along the delegate gifts that we gave the members of my board who worked diligently raising money for the gifts. The men bowlers, the junior bowlers, the proprietors supported us and especially Wendy Ford from the Convention and Tourism Bureau. She worked her fanny off helping us. The merchants of Iowa City very generously donated over 150 door prizes. And I am not talking rinky dink door prizes. I am talking diamond necklaces. I am talking 5 X 7 area rugs. Now how do you think those merchants feel about contributing the next time someone walks in the door and asks for a contribution for an event. Throg/ May I ask you a question. I saw your letter in the paper today and I assume it is the same. Preston/ It is similar, yes. Throg/ I understand that you are angry. Preston/ Yes, I am angry. Throg/ But you are going to have to help me understand what you think we did or what we did do to as you say torpedo. Help me understand. preston/ Let me explain. As a bowling organization you don't bowl in the streets. We bowl in bowling centers. Colonial Lanes in one of the two centers in Iowa City that is large enough to F032994 o q.' , ".~': c : \ ' " I ,.. ~ .. , , i ?S':, 10: '<,< .,' -'.~" \ " ;~! :., .w~' . ' "r:- " ,\ c-'i \J , ~ " . I i~: : l' i . .il, ~ ,1 i.l~,", \if~ '--- . " , ' ; ^' ~, · -- 0_ ". J ," ~ .~' ," --': " , ',,'..1 .;,ti\'l: .','t, . ,,,. . , ,~. " .', " 'M,,' . " ' , , , ' , . h_ _.._~'--"""'_M'-"'''~'''''.._''4~~''_'_''_''_''~''_''__'''___n.. #4 page 15 hold this event. out state rules state that you must have at least two 24 lane bowling centers. When it was announced prematurely or what have you a couple of weeks ago that the airport would be expanding and Colonial would be gone in the year 1996 the bowlers across the state saw and read that information. Our delegates vote. We could not generate enough publicity and enough information to those delegates to reassure them that Colonial Lanes was still going to be there. Do you have any other questions on this. Horow/ I would like to then pick up on this because Charlie Roberts and I have been on the Kirkwood Avenue Association for a number of years. She called me and I got a letter pulled together very quickly which I had assumed was what she wanted and what you wanted. Preston/ Yes, Charlie, very nicely-we did-but we were also assured and we were told that we did not need to go to that Airport Commission meeting last week. But we were assured or at least she assumed that we were assured that the statement would be made that Colonial Lanes would still be there in 1996. Horow/ That was not one of the threads that I picked up to tell the Airport Commission. NoV/ I did read that in the paper though. Horow/ I am at a loss to know how we could have anticipated that the press would have even published it if they had said it. Preston/ My question to this council is do you not work closely with your Convention and Tourism Bureau to know what events they are working on. Horow/ That is not the question. The question is can we control what is put in the Press and the answer is no. Preston/ You can control what is on this agenda and two weeks before our delegates from across the state went to that meeting you did not have to have that airport issue on the agenda or at least- Kubby/ I did not know about the timing of these two issues at all. Preston/ I am sorry but I guess I don't understand why the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing. Nov/ First of all the CVB is not part of city government. Preston/ I understand that. F032994 ': -- -'. .) '",0. '.' '.,' "", ': ---------~~-~ '--- _._':~~-------~. - I I ,.. ~ , ' ... "'~;J' ro-, , ., !' 6!,t'i . ..~(, : .~1'1 " .. ,~, 21'flt~" " . '" . " ...;\ , "- . "-_._:,~'"..:~-,~-, #4 page 16 Nov/ We did not have any information about when your delegates were voting. Horow/ I didn't know about this until last week and after we had already had that council meeting and the Airport Commission meeting. Preston/ I cannot believe that a mayor of the Iowa city community would sign a support document and not want to know when that event was going to be taking place or when we would be submitting a bid. Horow/ I knew the event was talking place. I wrote Charlene a letter on March 22 and I knew that you were going that weekend to the meeting. Preston/ This past weekend we went, yes. Horow/ Now, as far as when the Iowa City Airport Commission met that is not under my control. Preston/ No. That is to the issue here. We were assured last Wednesday night we did not need to go to the-or whenever it was. Horow/ Was I the one that told you not to go. '~- I' " \, '-'C.', c ' , \\ ~ ~. ~ ,'~,.. :'('1 Preston/ Yes, you were the one that assured us we did not need to go. That the mention of Colonial Lanes being there in 1996 would have been mentioned and would have been in the paper. Now it is too late for us this year. I am sorry. We will not have the '96 Tournament. We will try again and we will succeed. But what I am here asking you tonight is for you to please keep informed. If we need to tell you monthly, weekly, whatever what we are intending to do and what other organizations are-I am sorry, my mouth is so dry. If we need to tell you or if other organizations need to tell you what events they are trying to bring to Iowa city we will work with you. But we need to know to keep in constant communication with this council so that this sort of thing does not happen again. Now, I understand that our sport is one of the few that uses a business and I am not here about Colonial Lanes tonight. That will be another issue down the road and I will have 100 bowlers standing behind me because tonight I would just like the merchants of Iowa City to know that we appreciated all of their efforts and also the Convention and Tourism Bureau for all of the hard work that they did and I think this council did them all a disservice. '" . I I I ~: I' , ,I I ! I, ! '7Jl"'; \ l....~ "- r 1f'1' ,1 Lehman/ You are convinced the reason they didn't get it was because F032994 ":'1';' {,i ~. ,'" ~'? V '~'.l'" _..~ :(' 0 _ _-~ , ,_. __-1' ~ ' ,,).,.:.,,' to '.' .' ,', . '\',' '..' '\ ..-- ,,0. ; -,".".., ,.. . ,\ " - ~ I " ~ M.~ ..., \, 10. '.."., , .' ... , ' ;t<.~~L" " !, I ,~ \ '\ ~ I I' ~ ! I,. j\[/, 1 I 11 . ; 0- .~~ ',~ j," " t\ 'j';" . , " ,",: ., '~ ... ., :-".',".. , . ',~"\i.~ : .' t>- . ~, , , . , '. ". .' ~,;! .. ''-,. \ ,.' , ,.. . . ,......., .".. , . ~'-'-"'--.- ..., '-.'--.." .1" ' ,_ "....~'. ,. .';'", "'u - #4 page 17 they are worried about Colonial Lanes. Preston/ I am fairly confident that we did not get it because of the bad publicity. The first vote for the three cities: Cedar Rapids, Davenport and Iowa City was Cedar Rapids-89; Iowa City-87; and Davenport-82. And the way our organization runs is the one with the least amount of votes drops out. Those 82 votes of Davenport's and I have no way of knowing. Those people were not all from Davenport. They are only allowed a certain number of delegates. But the people that voted for Davenport were the ones that made the determination between Iowa City CHANGE TAPE TO REEL 94-54 SIDE 1 Preston/ About the airport taking Colonial Lanes and we could not identify those people and assure them that that bowling center would still be there. Horow/ Did Charlene read my letter at the delegation. Preston/ No, she was not allowed to. We are not allowed to politic like that. All we could do is make copies and we made 200 copies of your letter. I made copies of the newspaper articles that came out on Friday. I don't take the Press citizen but I work someplace that I can get it. I made copies and took those up. But those delegates by that time, by the time they got that, had heard and talked and you know how things spread and how rumors are taken as fact and I just don't want it to happen to another group that is trying to bring $2 million worth of revenue into our community and the only reason I am here tonight is because I want our merchants to know that we fully appreciated all of their efforts and some day we will be back asking and I don't want them to say what is going to happen to the next time. Lehman/ I am a bowler first of all. Not a real good bowler and I am also a business person. I also gave a door prize and I can't believe that we lost that strictly because of the airport. Nobody who is voting on a convention would assume that any city would be bidding if they couldn't provide the facilities. Preston/ Well Ernie, to be real frank with you the city that is going to host the tournament next year had a bowling center close and the state secretary was not informed until she got to the state meeting last Wednesday that that center was closed. She indicated to the delegates to make sure that there was proper facilities and it doesn't take a lot of subtle things being said. Iowa City only has two centers large enough. We are not like Cedar Rapids. We don't have a half a F032994 o , 0 ," , . " " .'.',.,,<, . l), . '\ ,."', l"", '~I l:. Ii. ",) I CD " "I'" ,.,",' , ,0, "'J - ',m' . SjJ ,',- ,,~ - " . ......_.:_,',.'.-,>,-".-;-,:_',-'-,'~ ,; [ \ i1 I I I . , I I i I ~\ '1 ~,'l', " " :f ;::, ;r L ., ,~: ",'., ""'t'." , '~ , '\ I' '.'1 / ", . ,', , "1, '.i: , , .", .~." ,','. . ',: A.~!, , , . ;, ,,'.,1.., :.. ,_::._..., .~;....., ~....'-"..~,' ~ _".~~b'.;,,:, _. .._ #4 page 18 dozen that has over 24 lanes. Between that and this it was enough. It really was. Kubby/ The other suggestion I had maybe was Bruno since you are our representative on the eVB that especially in this particular instance where we had a meeting planned and it got cancelled due to weather that that could have been something that the eVB saw as kind of a flag. Make sure that this point is emphasized so maybe you could relay that it is a two way street of communication and that us being informed of pending events is equally important to us. Pigott/ I would be happy to relay that to them. Happy to, great. Preston/ And if you need more information we will be glad to furnish you with it with anything else and mayor, also with your proclamations I would like to stress (a) and (e). Bowling is the type of sport that relieves family stress, promotes emotional well being and also promotes time together. The bowling center in question is not just a bowling center. It was well ahead of its time when it was built in 1959. It originally had 16 lanes. Where the last 8 lanes are was the put put that is now over on the north end of the building and in the north end of the building that was filled with billiard tables. That is not used just by bowlers. The Big Brothers/Big sisters use the lanes every year free of charge for their promotion. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts come down, the churches. I teach junior bowlers. We have over 100 junior bowlers every saturday morning. Also the handicapped come in and use it and especially Playmor. If anybody wants to bowl at Playmor they have got ramps to go down. It is used by hundreds of people that have no connection with our association. Birthday parties. I coach a youth/adult league where the parents and children bowl together on sunday evenings and when we get done at 8 o'clock there are people standing in line waiting for those bowling lanes. So I want you to know that that bowling center serves the total community and not just a small portion of the community. And I thank you for your attention. Horow/ Thank you very much. Karr/ Madam Mayor, could we have a motion to accept the letter. Horow/ Moved by Kubby, seconded by Pigott. All those in favor signify by saying aye (ayes). Kubby/ Thank you for coming. Horow/ We do have got to move on here. I am going to close the F032994 o . .,'C'/'" . ,.: , ... o ! Ss . ,10, ,\,.,"; .,'. ":':::':':j: ~;, ',; .;'. ,'; ,:",-\"., A "".'.';"~.~~;:I,:t',/:.. . , ,.-1 ! , I I . 'i -~'-- 1 " ,~ [~ J I! I I , I I I ~" f \ I ! I,l._/ ' \.,,-,. . "'I,i ... .' , . , "., ~. ," =-'-'- ~:;:~~';...:.: _i:~;. ~ --.:.,~"~: .;i~~~,~~i.~ ,:..'"-',1-'....,....~:~.:..~:..: ,c:(~. _. #4 page 19 public discussion. F032994 o '~-,-; ..'~. .. - '-"""1 ....... 1)" ':.,.,.".,' .. ,,' '. .... '. j" ': P., :' ':" .,";..,:"'...;, 1';,'''-' ,.,0", ... """;~".'~;">:. :'~ '1',:;,:: :~. ;.' " , '.. ..,..^'"""'.",, \, ",- , I :1 " ',(, ,,'" , ... i j , ~, : " i , " .".."'j.'s"\""., '.I,.',[J;." " ' ~ ,'-: 'v:'" , , ' .' ;~~\>,r .'..,j_:,j,,". .i-' ' /,'.' :":"',~t>'" , -",.H~ " "-,,' ,'.. ,~~. ,'... . -'I' , , .'. ,', . :',' "'~-"f , , ';, . ':::",;:! ,:.:"_L..:'~;~ ,~~,.-__i.i:;:~~~~~~~:';;'~i,e;.>';'~'~r\~":~'~"'~':.""~ ...._~-~~~~~~~~,-,...~.. ' ...:. _ ,::,.:.. ..~,_,__~" a ~ : '.'; ::i Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 7 ITEM NO.5- PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS.(r.'/5) a. Consider setting a public hearing for April 12, 1994, on amendments to the Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 36-58, to require parking for commercial and office uses in the CB-5 Zone. Comment: At the Planning & Zoning Commission's April 7, 1994, meeting, amendments to the off-street parking requirements for com- mercial and office uses in the CB-5 zone will be considered. These amendments are the result of Council discussions regarding redevelop- ment of the Near Southside. -! Action: ~/ /3~ J.ee, ~ d~ a<(AJ b. Public hearing on an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance by establishing the Brown Street Historic District. < /- I" ..(, ,-'~ \ ' \ Comment: At its January 25, 1994, meeting, the Historic Preservation Commission, by a vote of 5-0-2, (Russell and Irelan abstaining), recom- mended approval of the proposed Brown Street Historic District. At its meeting of February 17, 1994, the Planning and Zoning Commission, by a 5-0 vote, recommended approval of the proposed Brown Street Histor- i~ District. Staff concurs wit~th~ ~~~dations of both commis- sions. .-4-f!.V T"""" A,,;on: fIti/1M.y (J.f ttp ~J5Wi1f1DYir1M~~ .~ ~:~ J c. Public hearing on an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance by changing the use regulations for an approximate 7,500 square foot parcel of land located in the 1300 block south of Sheridan Avenue from 1-1, General Industrial, to RS-8, Medium Density Single-Family Residen- tial. lREZ94-0002) ~ I I l. , I". . , [ I, 1\ ' , Comment: At its March 3, 1994, meeting, the Planning and Zoning Commission, by a vote of 4-0, recommended approval of rezoning the former electric power substation site from 1-1 to RS-8. This recommen- dation is consistent with the staff's recommendation contained in the report dated March 3, 1994. Action: Y\~~~ , ;~ , ~ " j\ I~ ,( F~, -" l( ': -~ .--"~ ')".,:,::,'" ",' . . ~ . ; ; ~, :,' , ',1." "",:_''''_' , . o ,. . ' , "",',0, ,'.",',' ...'" , '..',' oJ,:'... ~ :;".', ".;.!;> L _ I 'JJi' j " ". "".' , I I I , '~ o '.\ ~ r"'"'' , , 25" lo:, ',"',', ", ,; . ' .' m;t:), ..' , ,', ,~.-".,.; '" . , ,1.-'. '\\ ' ,,"1\\" '.": \~' , " ',' "".,: , ". ,.. . . _,..:.._A #5a page 1 Horowl (#5a) Moved by Kubby, seconded by Pigott. Any discussion. Bakerl Madam Mayor, in a continuation of our discussion we had last night. We had discussed various options for setting the public hearing and there seemed to be a tentative agreement last night that 1800 sq.ft. would be the figure that we would use. At that meeting that night I suggested that perhaps we ought to start at 900 to allow us more flexibility if we wanted to amend it in the other direction instead of starting at one figure and amending it down to make it more restrictive. I would like for us to consider that before we vote on this tonight and use the 900 figure again and with the possibility that it can be amended up. But I would like for us to start at that figure and begin our deliberations and allowing ourselves a little more flexibility. I would like to offer that as a suggestion to see if there is anybody out there that would like to support that idea. Throgl That strikes me as a pretty good idea and this is connected with-is there another portion later on about parking impact fees. No. ~ Bakerl No. This is just the parking requirements. no \;J , I, "'"~ , \ \ Throgl Okay. So. How to say this. A majority of the council has already voted in favor of the Near South Side Redevelopment stuff and a majority of the council last night indicated that it was in favor of having a parking impact fee of some type as a part of that. Given that, it seems to me that the fee schedule should be modified and the requirements for parking in the CB-5 zone should be modified. In order to make the total benefits from the proposed development consistent with the magnitude of the tax abatement involved. So I am bringing in some other issues. J ~ ~ " Bakerl Jim, I want to make sure that we are clear that we are not linking those two. Throgl Not explicitly. ~ 'f' II{,. KUbbYI We are continuing the game. Throgl So I want to support Larry's suggestion about the one space per 900 sq. ft. as the requirement for the CB-5 zone subject to several understandings and these are understandings that I put forth to see if they are shared with a substantial number of people. So the understandings that I have are, I think, four in number and we will find out in just a second what they turn out to be. The first would be that the council instruct the staff to initiate a design study for the south town area soon . i I \1,. \,~ , F032994 ~ ~;i " 1,;' ;:, C'_~~- - - - ')' ,',Q., ,:'; " ,\ "., ,',,' ,"'-1- .\ . , )J I'd. ...- ,',. ,., ;"! {. :!Jill.m 'i ,'CC, , r I,: ( , \ ,.', ,_.\ \ ,~ ,~ ,,~-(-, I IN I I i i I ~: , . I , I I, \." "~ ,f: \'~" ~';' ~~' '1 , ;-j ~ 'r.~ , " -- .,C_ 0 .,..:i: i ., ': ...\..., '''-\1,. . . '\.L" '" . .'..' , "..,.....: , ."...... , ",' . #5a page 2 and by soon I understand that to be some time probably during the month of May. Right. The second understanding would be that design study would include the basic features contained in the proposal that Bruno and I suggested three weeks ago. I don't want to reiterate them right now. If you would like to I would be happy to but I don't want to waste time. Thirdly that any new parking structure that might be built as a result of this situation provide-consist of office and retail space on the first floor. And I guess fourthly that I will oppose locating a new public parking structure in the 3 1/2 block area that is the redevelopment area, the Near South Side Commercial Redevelopment Area. It seems to me putting a parking lot in that area would be misguided and wasting valuable commercial office space. So I think that is what I want- Pigott/ Have you talked about urban design standards as well or design standards for that area. specifically the Dubuque Street area that we talked about possibly closing including a pedestrian mall. That would be something that I would like to see. Baker/ That would be part of the sign standards that you are talking about getting staff working on by May. Throg/ That is the way I understood it. I understood my second point about the basic elements contained in the memo that Bruno and I wrote to involve those design features. I did-I omi tted one other point and that would be a net gain of affordable housing in the Near South Side. Baker/ Can I respond to several of those things. certainly with almost all of those I adamantly agree up front. I have two sort of clarifications that I would like to get across. When you are talking about you could not support putting a parking ramp in the CB-5 zone I am assuming you are stating what you would like to see happen but you are not asking for a commitment from us to guarantee that that happens now. It is just something that you want us to be aware of. Throg/ I would think that would be a bad place to put a parking structure and I would personally oppose it. Baker/ I would not rule it out putting it in that zone. I certainly think that we ought to allow ourselves time and some flexibility to put it where we think it is the most appropriate place and I don't rule out the CB-5 zone now as the most appropriate place. My first inclination is to say that is where I would want it. But we can- F032994 - -'~ ~-:,'., -~~ ,\,',: -." '.0",,",), ,",,',,'.,',.... '.. ,':.' , ,! ";" '~.),' . . I' '...' 1 '1 ' ~ ,: I ,.. . .-, ",' - r ! \. ,lJ' lo', ..'.,:-:-\ ...". "..'1 ~" ,.' ,_.' ,'~ I' ! c~ ,"N iM" . ' ,::~"':" I' ,~ , I .1 I I i,-.: 1,'- , . , . . -'~ {c--~ ., .; , "', i'." ~ '. . . ,;' '.';, ,.,', ': , ..._f \\ I,~ " , .'. , ,.~. ",. '. ;j ':1 " , , " ...,'.. "\l!.. " . . , .' , .,... ,.,.., .~":,:,,';'.'..:::~~~..',;,:~,.~!...ii'!;..b"~,::;!~:S~,,.,~._.....,_~; __.:.. . , , .' ' " .., _ ,... _"_~_~"",,,,_~.",_.__.__u,_.._,.._,_.__._._~.._, __, #5a page 3 Pigott/ Would you be amenable to having it in other places if other places are deemed more appropriate upon- Baker/ Sure, sure. The most appropriate place is what I am amenable to. Right now- And on the affordable housing or housing for low income programs. I can certainly support that in general. I want to get a clear understanding of what is down there. What are we talking about. What sort of figures and I don't think that has been determined yet and we need to be really clear about that. But as a general goal I can support that goal. pigott/ I support, Larry, your proposal with Jim's suggestions as well. Baker/ In a sense we have already talked a month ago about your plan and there seemed to be people on council that liked the idea. Liked some design standards down there and want to talk about those things. I understand your misgivings about this particular revitalization plan not including your plans at this time and I think I went on record saying that I support it in general your ideas and would like to see some version of them passed. So I am comfortable with what you are interested in now but again with a couple of minor reservations I certainly am not going to commit myself to absolute fidelity to it. Kubby/ So you are willing to make your vote on revitalization plan pending on something very specific but you are not willing to have-to make other people's votes for the revitalization plan dependent on something very specific meaning the parking impact fee and how it is implemented. But you are not willing to commit to something specific to get votes to get what you want. Baker. Say that again. Kubby/ You are willing to be very general about these conditions. I would urge Jim to make you be more specific. Or to ask you to be- Baker/ But I don't think that- Well, I will let Jim respond. Lehman/ Madam Mayor, we are talking about the density on the CB-5 zone aren't we. Horow/ Yes. Throg/ The parking spaces per sq. ft. F032994 - )",..;'.-:"';. ,;: 0, ".... i:" "'.:,' '-. ':"'~~~ ...\~/',-:,:, ,I::;;" I, ':'\ .":1'.',(.",\', - -' , , ,.. . - \',';. I)~' , lfJ: ". 'i'! ..., 'f\ . ~,,' ,,,!'.>I ... - ""t', , ",\,:,', , . ,~, ,I .., " , '....;\ \ ."" ,.. . . ':~ . , , , , . H' _ .,.__.~".... ",_~.,.._..~_ '-,'. ~. _", __ _,. - #5a page 4 Baker/ I am just offering this amendment of 900 sq.f.t. for the purposes of setting the p.h. Pigott/ Especially since this is for setting the p.h. Horow/ setting the p.h. for April 12 and I would remind council of what all staff has to do. This specificity of Jim's support which I can understand why appears to me to be rather difficult. Baker/ No, there are not contracts here. Throg/ I am stating points of view, positions that are a part of my willingness to go along with a certain vote. I am not insisting that any I said be written in to something the staff has to write up for the April 12 p.h. That is something I understand a majority of council are willing to agree with. For the p.h. the only important point is the 900 sq. ft. Nov/ I still think the 1800 sq. ft. is a better way to start. You can always change it up or down. -{ , Pigott/ It is harder to change it down. f\\ \J Baker/ It is harder to make it more restrictive. You start at 900 you can go up to 1800. It is less restrictive and that seems to be much more- Lehman/ Does anybody know how many parking spaces there are per sq. ft. based on the Old Capitol Center. There are what-800 and some spots. r Throg/ Of course that is a very different type of use, Ernie. It is retail and not primarily office. , Lehman/ No. But that area that we are talking about, if we are going to talk about a requirement, a sq. ft. requirement, hopefully there will be retail, there will be office, there will be all kinds of uses and that Old Capitol street Ramp probably has, I am just guessing but 20% of the folks who park there work in offices. " \. Nov/ Yeah. Throg/ We got an estimate from the staff in their memo for the packet today about how many spaces would be required and they added that the various factors to toy with it. Atkins/ I am trying to give some perspective. The lot adjacent to the Holiday Inn is a little less than an acre, about 38,000 '.. F032994 ~ - ~ ~.. - T ., ~~\- .):,',.'. ,,,".1, I ~O, '" 0 .' Q l~ 'I" , ',\ .; .!- ' .' ,', , "- I, , , , -' . ' _." ,: , '. " , . .', " . ~,,' , ..hC_...__......,_...._'- ~..______ '~ #5a page 5 ~ . sq.ft. And it has, I think, 78-80 spaces. Does that give you any perspective what can be fitted on that one level. Lehman/ Less than a quarter of a block. Atkins/ Yeah, I think so. Baker/ I don't think we need to resolve the issue tonight of what we want. We just need to have a starting figure for the p.h. and that is what I am trying to get a more feasible figure to work with to begin with. "; Kubby/ I would go for it. Pigott/ I would as well. Horow/ okay. There is a majority to-we have got the motion on the floor. Motion-all those in favor signify by saying aye (ayes) Kubby/ Again, ideally, I would like this issue then to be resolved before we do the parking impact fee before we do tax abatement. Baker/ You may have to make some votes you don't like to make then. We can resolve it somehow. I' r ... '"'...., \ ' \ Franklin/ I am sorry but I lost you somewhere there. What did you just decide. Baker/ We just set the p.h. at 900 feet instead of 1800. Franklin/ O]tay. Baker/ And that is the figure going to P/Z. 1 I II, .~ ! I \ \, ~~ '1 ',: , F032994 ~' " , ,'., r' , ,,( '0 { ' .~. .....d.IlIIIL, ."1 ",jii,:hipO,'0.Z)g'(' .'..\ ".', , _I'" .IIftI.......~~___ -~--- I ""-, I I . :), ,...' .~ >' 10(' I, :,.,. ":""',' '}_ ''';~::'1 ' r"'" 25 ,. ' ., ^ ,'" '.1' ~ , "It ~ \' . " - ~ ,~, ~tl.:1i4:;.~ ,fo ':' ......, 1 -, . #5b page 1 Horow/ (#5b) Declare the public hearing open. I Douglas Russell/ I am the chair of Iowa City HP commission. I appear you before you on behalf of my fellow commissioners. The proposed Brown street Historic District is an idea whose time has come and I would like to give you some information briefly. I am going to proceed without audio visual aids in the interest of brevity. The HP Plan was adopted by this council in December 1992. It identified the north side as one of 12 older neighborhoods that should get the attention of the city council for historic preservation purposes. It identified Brown street and a Brown street Historic District as one of the key objectives for the North Side neighborhood. In March, 1993 the Commission obtained a grant to have a professional consultant complete a survey of the Brown Street area and prepare the historic district proposal. The proposal that you have before you we are satisfied is a good product and it is justified historically, architecturally and politically. In April, 1993 in cooperation with the North Side Neighborhood Association we distributed packets of information about the proposed district to every household in the proposed district. In september 1993 the consultant held a public meeting in Iowa ci ty to which the public was invited. This topic has been the subject of numerous neighborhood meetings and many many HP Commission meetings. The proposal before you is in compliance wi th the city ordinances in all of its respects. Every property owner in the proposed district received written notice by mail before the Commission held its own hearings. In January this year the HP Commission gave its unanimous approval after a p.h. In February this year the P/Z Commission gave its unanimous approval. Following another p.h. the city staff concurs with the proposal. The proposal has been approved by the State HP office. The proposal has been endorsed by the board of the North Side Neighborhood Association and we have taken the liberty of conducting a survey in the past two weeks of the Brown Street residents to see what the public interest was in the matter. There are 100 households in the proposed district. 73 of them gave an ans~Jer, 27 were unavailable to comment, 61 or 84% were in favor of the proposed historic district. 84% of the answering households, 10% on the answering households were opposed, 6% of the answering households had no opinion or were uncommitted on the issue. Although this is not a referendum, these numbers should be illustrative of the feeling on the North Side. You have an opportunity with this ordinance to make historic by preserving a portion of Iowa City history. On behalf of my colleagues on the Commission I urge you to approve the ordinance when the time comes to do so. It will be good for Iowa city today. It will be good for all of Iowa City and not just Brown Street property owners. And it will be good for F032994 l ~ ,(- ~~- -, _'l _ _ ~ _ ,Q) ','\"" ,.. . - ~: !i': (l Ii! ~~ o ~s ~d , , ,r bS!~.'i I > t ,---';- \ \ ,-"l 7. ..:~ ( i I I i' k I" \i., \"~ ~l~ :'~ /. ..... I ~. ',( 0 . "Y , '" . ". ' '\\\1,', <, .' ~ ". . .' , : ' !, : ",.;, -- ~.: ' : ' <. - : ' :.:. ' ...'; ;.. :,~': " .--'",.,..,... #5b page 2 Iowa city in the future. I think if you approve this ordinance, create this first historic district in 11 years since Summit Street and Woodlawn were created that future generations will comment favorably on your wisdom. Thank you. Pigott/ Doug, can't I ask a question. You have mentioned a number of p.h.s and surveys. Could you just tell me how many you folks had. It was a good number. Russell/ There were five block meetings on the Brown Street District. There was a separate block meeting for the Bella vista neighbors. There were-every HP Commission is a p.h. and there have been literally dozens of those over the years. On this particular ordinance there was a p.h. in the HP Commission and a separate one in the P/Z Commission. pigott/ I just thought that that was wonderful that you folks went out to the public like that and I want to commend you on that. Of bring it and including the public in the process and I think we can learn a lesson from that in all of our activities. I think it was marvelous. Russell/ That is a compliment paid to the staff that supports our commission. Thank you. Horow/ Anyone else that wished to address council. Dwayne Jensen/ I have lived on Brown Street for 37 years and I haven't talked to anybody on the approved of this. Horow/ Your name please. Jensen/ And I haven't run into anybody that approves of it and the only person I know of that approves of it has a vested interest in making it a historic place because he does historic reconstruction work and design painting and it is to his-well, he is going to profit from it because he is going to get more work doing this type of thing and I believe he is the one that was pushing it. He can come up here with all kinds of figures but I haven't talked to anybody that is in favor of it. You keep saying they want it, they want it. Well, where are the people that want it. They never come up here and say they want it. Your last meeting there wasn I t anybody standing up here and say I live on Brown Street and I want to be historic neighborhood. All we are hearing is figures but no people. I can come up here and say 99% of the people of Brown Street don't want to be a historic neighborhood because it is going to cost more money. You got to get okay on everything you do. You have to pay a commission, a fee, to come out and get their opinion. And we don't want it. We got along great. F032994 " __L .........~ --_:- ~ Q ) ,.. . " ' '."---,, , , o '.. I,}~ ~'O',"'., 0, ~ .~ - ' , '.."L ...-...... ,.l '-'I '\ \ \\ ':\: ~I , I I" 1'1 " Ii I I , I I I, . :~'. i [I" . I J : , \ I: ~I:/ . "" ( ,.,. " ',.,;' ., ..,Y'i '\" . .' ~t \ ~( ., '~ , .. '~' t>- . I ,I: . , '-., " ". '. ~ ~ ,.. . . .., :.'.,..":;.-.-~ .-...,~,~,~~".'_.;.l,:",~., "_,,...,~.(,.:.....:,~;'_.:.;.-.:,: '.',_.. .J:: . '.::,_,,: "',; , ' .:....",.'..', ,-,_.J'" .'.- ,~".';.... #5b page 3 And now we have somebody comes into the neighborhood restores a couple of houses and decided well, let's make everybody here restore their houses the way we want. Not the way they want them, the way we want them. The Historical Society is trying to take over the whole north side. They couldn't get it done about three or four years ago. So now they have backed up and they are going to try and do it one street at a time. Start on Brown Street. Next year you are going to hear about Ronald Street. The year after that Church Street. Then Fairchild. Then Davenport. Then Bloomington. Pretty soon it will get down here and we can make this place historical. !:i ~. Kubby/ I do want to correct three things that you said. That l-one don't have to pay a fee when you talk to the HP Commission about changes you make to your property. 2-It is only certain things that you have to check in with them about. You don't have to check in with them about painting and some other things. But any external structural changes you need to go to the HP Commission to get a certificate of whatever from them. So, whether or not I agree with your views, just make sure that people are getting correct information. Jensen/ Another thing is he said that everybody was contacted. Nobody ever contacted me. I am retired. I am home all of the time. Nobody contacted me. They said some of them weren't home. Maybe I wasn't home but they could have called back. I don't remember any questionnaire to fill out whether I want to be historical or not. I am historical. But that house isn't. It is just an old house. Horow/ Anything over 50. Believe me I know. I am historical. Thank you sir. Anybody else care to address council. Illene Holbrook/ I have lived on Brown Street more than most and less than some. I also was notified one time Doug of a meeting and that was by telephone. Last week was the first time anybody came to my door and that was for the survey. I am not against anything historical. Some of you that have been on the council know that I have been here before in favor of preserving and so forth. Our house was built in '24, nothing historical about it. I guess what I don I t like is to be dictated to. I think individual homes to be on the historical list is a wonderful thing. If either one of you had a home on Kirkwood or Brown Street or wherever in town and it was an old house that you had restored as a historical home, that is wonderful if you want to get in on the HP list. But I don't think that we who do not want our homes on a historical list should be deemed to do so and I think it is against our constitutional rights actually because you are under a dictatorship. Anytime you want to paint your house you get to F032994 " o '0 . ,.,' 'I'" ,.,...'., . I~ fo"', i ,) '---, !i.- ~~D3 ,,,.--. , ' .:\r, , ".-. ' , \1 \ I. , , . " ' "(' I[ ') I" I I I I ,I I ! I ~: I I' : j i i I ! ~l,/ ~..... -,.-' .; :i , ' "~I:'" { I" ' '" l$ii, L_~,_ f .. " ., ,~. ,1-:"1 , " "r :"'\1' .' '; .~, to< . , .,', , "".11 . #5b page 4 have to get somebody's permission or you want to do a little trimming on your porch or maybe you want to add a deck or do something else to the exterior of your house and you have to have a commission come in and say you have got to do this and you have got to do that. There is something wrong there. Kubbyj The deck you are correct about, the paint you are not. Holbrookj No painting, well whatever. Horowj The deck, unless I am mistaken, only is you can see the deck from the sidewalk on a pedestrian area. Holbookj I now there are little nicks and curves and in betweens and all of this. But the idea is-I really think it is against our rights. There is nothing historical about our house. It is a too big house that we are having a hard time selling because it is too big. In fact there is the vonnegut house you all know. That is the type of home that should be on the historical list. It is. But I don't know why Brown street has to be an historical street. All the homes aren't all old homes. And I would like to know what happened with the other percent of people that weren't home. I think they could be contacted also. And there is just a few of us here tonight but I know of more that have contacted me. In fact that is kind of how I knew how one of these meetings was going on was from another neighbor that lived up in the next block. Was a little hot and heavy about it and I guess it is everybody's fault if those hot and heavy people don't want it and they don't come out here like the rest of us and speak up. Possibly we won't be living there much longer, hopefully. But I just hate to think that anybody has to live under the thumb of somebody else. I think that it is our freedom here to do what we want to do with our homes and if we want them on the preservation list, fine. And Mr. Jensen was right because one person buys up homes on Brown street and redecorates them and wants Brown street. This is the way it all started. One man pushing it and that man got his way and I don't think it is fair to the rest of us. I have been kind of hot and heavy with you guys over a couple of other things tonight. I was sitting there thinking hold back your temper Eileen. And I am doing that; But I guess it is a late in the game now. I should have been one of those at those meetings and had I known that they were all going on. I was coming to one and ended up out of town. I would have been there but I was notified one time and one time only and the only other time outside of friends I talked to in the neighborhood. But the only time anybody from this commission contacted me was a representative that was taking the survey last week. ' F032994 o o .'......; I ! I ,.. . ,- ~: ~ ~I '. )s "to: liW~' r I ..\ '-,.\ .' \ , \ ,( \ -"<!O/: ,~ ~f"~ " \ , I I i" I , ,~'. \'111'1., ;/ \...~., !It ( i:il~~'l",',' i-'\]' (I'."~I; l_~ :'\ ^ ., ,~Ir I '~r\ ,'i' , '. "" . '..' , ' , . '., ~ ~ '" . ,'"..,.."'__..'0 ",.'.;_,i..',.'.':'_ _',_.;, #5b page 5 Throg/ Thanks. Horow/ Anyone else wish to address council. steve Vanderwoude/ I live at 730 N. Van Buren. I have lived in the neighborhood for 20 years and I have pretty much been active in revitalizing the North Side Neighborhood with newsletters, the neighborhood association, neighborhood fairs and I think districting is another tool in the ongoing process. Somehow I have polarized my neighbors. I didn't mean to. I appreciate your support. Charlie Grunewald/ I want you to know one thing that I am not against a historical area. The only thing that I do say is my mother was probably one of the first ones that had petunias planted up and down the places. I can remember helping here and that was one heck of a job. I don't know how many thousands of plants that they did plant up and down Iowa Avenue and around the areas of where ever the Veteran's Hospital out here and so forth. The thing that bothers me more than anything is the fact that someone who can get money for the historical area to buy homes and revamps them and so forth and I have not been able to buy any homes without paying my interest rate and not any forgivable interest. Now this is getting to be just a little bit too far. I think there are only two homes there that are historical. On Kimball Avenue and Dubuque Street the lawyers house that sits up there on the hill. That is beautiful and that should be preserved. The other one, home, is it is just being remodeled and I think that is on N. Van Buren and Brown. Back out there and the lady is spending thousands of dollars up there to make that a beautiful place. It is five acres. Those are the only two beautiful homes in historical area that have been around for a long long time and I will go along with that. But with Brown Street I cannot go along with that. My house is an apartment house. That is what it is and it will always be that way. I don't have any family. I don't have anybody to look after. The only thing I am is a bachelor farmer. And when you are a bachelor farmer you bring home calves quite a few times or a lost mother or lightning struck. I can remember having a cat that mother was-it was just shortly born and it was struck by lightning and I brought her home. I put it out in the backyard there, tied it up, I had the Police Department, I had the dog catchers and everybody say hey you can't have a calf in there. Well that was the most beautiful thing that happened in the neighborhood. I had more kids coming around there playing with it. I said that calf is no different than a police dog. It is going to stay there until he is able to eat by himself. I said you want to go to court you are talking to the right kind of guy. Well nobody took me to court. F032994 o '0 ,J . .' ,.. ~ ","J', _,'".,.____ f' , I i ~ ;j D I I I )5 ~d, " .' ,\ , JJl.11Jm, . ' .' ~, .~' , ,; . t"- . "'.;", :'hl' "\ , , . " , :~' " .... ~ , -. ,.. . . " '.t.., "..,..,._......," .,',..'''';"....--".1.....,......-.,.. #5b page 6 I I- I I i I , Horow/ Good for you, Charlie. Grunewald/ I have had a lot of nice friends in this town. I have taken many animals down to schools to the first, second and third graders. I have gotten a lot of nice letters back. I have had ponies where I took the kids and go out and ride the ponies out there. So I have been kind of a young mother for a lot of them. But another thing I want to say we have Black village out there. Have you ever been in those places all of you. Not a damn one of you have. Or you would see the sheets as the dividing line. If that is suppose to be historical up there then by God somebody better clean it up pretty soon. It is unbelievable. Here is a kitchen with one bathroom in it and they use sheets to put across to divide the thing up. I was talking to a girl one day and somehow Black Village came up and she said you know I had spend the whole day just cleaning up the kitchen, a small little kitchen there. And that kitchen was so filthy that it took me the whole day to clean it up. And after I got through the next day I went in there the people that lived there they didn't have any-it was just about as dirty. She had to just move out. You people had better start looking around some of that Brm'ln street up there. You had better go up there and start looking at it. Look at the stuff and junk that is up there. I am just surprised that you people hadn't done that already. If it had been my house you would be all-I would be on report so damn many times it would be pitiful. And if you are going to do this I may have to sue. Thank you. Horow/ Thank you. Anybody else wish to address council. Al Soucek/ 801 Brown Street. I also own another house on Brown Street at 727 Brown which happens to be the house I was born in. So I think I'll probably take my little priority as far as longevity and all that goes on Brown street. I am here to express my strong approval of the proposed HP District. I have been all through it. I don't think anyone was denied any chance to attend a meeting or to express their opinion. I think Mr. Russell have given his facts and figures and they are there. I personally, I am not going to spend a lot of time without a (Can't hear) like some people have. I am going to get down to the point. I did go from kindergarten to high school, City High, and then four years of liberal arts and four years of dentistry and stayed there until the wars came along and I was gone for about 12 years and likewise with two older brothers one of whom took medicine and later became a psychiatrist and another one took engineering and became a hydraulics engineer. So we were the very popular people around there because we carried papers and we did lawns and did snow shoveling so I got to know the people very well. One t r ,( .-'\ \ \ \\ \ ' ~ ,..,.J r,~:;..1t . \ : I' ! " . ~. !'{'. 'I i ~'~ ., h '~: ~~ ." f ~! ,r~' ;,::rl.' , r' F032994 ~ "., ~,Co - .". _: ~ - )/, I 0:, '0. 'j S " . ..,.L, \ ;!lL;~ .( \ \ ,~ .i: ~;""'l : I I I 1" I Z'. ," , . ~I~;j ~ " !'~':,;, h ,\ P ~ ;:: '~i , l' , l....... '7i " - . .~,. t'"' I '" . . '.,~' " \\t;~ , " , '. ..,' ~ 1 ". ," ::,:...., #5b page 7 of the things I want to express to you and I don't think it has been brought up before. And that is that there are a lot more to that district than just the wood and the brick. I want to take you down a little trip and not going to spend a lot of time but in the 700 block of Brown street where I was born, on the corner, on the southeast corner of Dodge and Brown was born will Hayek, very prominent lawyer, good soldier, when in as a lieutenant colonel in WW II and came out a brigadier general. Next door, he lived most of his life when he first started his practice. On the corner across the street from him Dr. Chase lived. A pioneer in public health and preventive medicine at the Uni versi ty . He also doubled as health officer of the city. He house was later occupied by White who is in the Department of Romance Languages. Next to him Fred Racine, the big house that is now occupied by Mrs. Hickerson. Fred Racine was a big businessman. He had three cigar stores in Iowa City. Anybody who ever went to college knew about him. Loren Hickerson took it over and now his widow is living there. On the south side of the street 600 block was Professor House who was a distinguished professor of spanish. Now let's go up to Johnson street. Horow/ Mr. Soucek, you have one minute. Soucek/ Okay. I am talking about Rolly William, Eddy Anderson, Professor Shimek, Professor Bartel, Dr. Bye, Dr. , Hayden Raymond, lot of famous people lived there. So it is not just an ordinary garden variety neighborhood. You have had two mayors from there. So I, again, voice my approval, 100% for the proposal. Than]{ you very much. Horow/ Thank you. Anybody else care to address council. Liz Miller/ I am the President of the Northside Neighborhood association. I am also one of the people who was doing this survey that Doug Russell reported about. And just in case anybody wonders I went to every house three times if need be. On a few occasions I couldn't get people at all. One is in D.C., three are out of the country, what can we do. That is where the unknowns come in, things like that. The Northside Association has supported this project from its beginning. In september our Board voted unanimously in support of it. We have been doing all of these things you have also heard about the block meetings, distributing things door to door, we have reported things in our newsletter. Either Doug Russell or carolyn were at all of our meetings. We have tried to encourage everyone to call people if they had questions, let their opinions be known about it and we think that everybody has had that opportunity. We believe that the historic district will benefit all the people who live there and we F032994 o '0 /._, " , .... - - ,j' 0',' , ' I I I j:;, ~b', ~7J]im ,: r ,c\ 1'.'\ \ I \ \' , ~ , , , I' I I I ii-I , ~: : . '~ ,1 "~' :1:, ~' ~; PI ;T~~ , ,-~ j( " ~, .1- \ . '''~t ;,~I,', ... '. . " 1 -.. ,.. , , ,:,~/. " .,:.. ,.0..'<'.,... #5b page 8 also believe that it is a good thing for the entire north side. Perhaps the appeal of the district will ooze out into the rest of the blocks and make the rest of us as important as it would be. One of the problems that we deal with very often, our association does, is lack of care for the architecture and history and so forth of what is already there in the north side. Perhaps a historical district would be a reminder to everyone that we should acre about these things. It is obvious that the people who live on Brown street do care. All you have to do is look at it. You know that everybody likes their homes, takes care of them and it is not just that the homes are historical but that they are so nice. They have taken good care of them over all of the years. Everyone has. For those reasons the people who live there do deserve to have their area declared a historic district. It would be an honor to them and to the people who have been there before them. I don't happen to live in that district but I am right on the edge of it and it would be very nice to me if I had been included but I am not. So I can just be happy that I would live next to it. I encourage you to approve it. Thanks. ! I' '1 ~f i,~ ~. .~., r, , , i Horow/ Anyone else care to address council. Kay Ireland/ I live on Brown street and I just wanted to say that there are many of us on Brown Street and in the north side who appreciate people like steve Vanderweirte and other property owners who have done really wonderful things with old houses and I wanted to tell you that I have lived in Iowa city for 20 years and I have always wanted to live on Brown Street and I have lived there for four years now and I couldn't be more pleased about this and I encourage you to approve it. Paula Brandt/ I live at 824 N. Gilbert. I am here wearing two hats. First as President of Friends of Historic Preservation which very strongly supports this proposed designation. And secondly and more importantly as a home owner and resident of the proposed CHANGE TAPE TO REEL 94-54 SIDE 2 One of the first things you will notice is that most of the homes have been very carefully maintained. You will also notice that many other homes have been remodeled or have had new additions that have been very sensitively done and have done justice to the neighborhood. And then you will also notice a few that have been remodeled to the point that their bone structure is barely recognizable from what it once was. We hope that with historic district designation and with wise assistance of the Commission that we will be able to have more of the first two categories of houses and absolutely no more F032994 o .,... )" I ~ .. '" - ,.0 'S \ D. ," ,,; l ,"." ;,' ~," '. -", .~ '--; , , ""'""1 I; '1 \1 .-'""'1.: 1:7' ~ , , , I , I I I , , . I I pi,' . . i I : ~'\~"". .;:;:,y , , " , -'I (.~- ., 0 '.' 1;' ,/, ,.f '. .. .It.,'......1 ".,."~ \ \1' .;','1 ;~' to. , :.'. '... ','-\ '-, \ " " " . , . , ,'. ',. : ,.. '.' -..,,,....,.'..,' '.' ,'.' .' . '-.,I_'----........_..._...__"'_.~~"'..""..........~....,,~,...._,"-'-_.._~.._.. ~ . #5b page 9 of the latter remodeling kinds of projects that have gone on in the past. But it is also my hope that future home owners in the district will buy their old houses because they love old houses which would be kind of a novel idea in Iowa city and also because they take pride in the neighborhood and the history of the neighborhood and then finally, because they recognize their commitment and have an understanding of their role as a caretaker for those houses and for that neighborhood. Not only for future possible home owners of another generation but for future Iowa citians. Thank you. Horow/ Does anyone else care to address council. Karr/ Could we have a motion to accept correspondence. Horow/ Moved by Nov, seconded by Throg. All those in favor signify by saying aye (ayes). Declare the p.h. closed. F032994 -',. ','.', .~-~: ,~- '/ li .' ",)"", , . ',.-,. ,",.' .:.,:,,-,,:', ',/"., !'-",: ,',!-""".:,o."",,::.., ,;', " ". "".,., ,. -,-', ",' '," ,.~ :', ,; I,','" , 'I' ,.' ",.: ", . ..~".., -, ......, -,.1':: 111 " ,I , '. ,,.. " i I .. , I , i .. , I :'!, I' " I, " '\" ","1;'" """1 ',"<., "5 O' · "'f, , ", , ", "," ".... " " , ,,,.:,,:,,,.,,,,..i,,:-:.,:,,,,, ,......"..,,' - ,', ," w~\ 'I'." ,;,.,,, ..,1' .,": ! ,; ~ i:;". I ."' ,..- ,--. ''-''':: :,~t\ :,,:,-. ;- "'..,'~ ': .- , , ,I , t>- . ,l; . , " '-' ," " , ". . '~..,;. . ;".,. ., , ,: ' ,.. -:' . . , ' ' , , '_, :~~:....,:"",:,........~..";':llo;,';:~,,--,....,,:;~._~~~_.__~;:,._, ~,_ ,.., ... I Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 8 . d. Consider an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance by changing the use regulations for an approximate 7,500 square foot parcel of land located in the 1300 block south of Sheridan Avenue from 1,1 to RS-B. (REZ94-0002) (First Consideration) e. Comment: See item c. above. In a letter dated February 28, 1994, property owner James O'Brien requested expedited consideration of the proposed rezoning. ~f~ /51~i~ ~ Public hearing on an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance by amending the Conditional Zoning Agreement for Wild Prairie Estates, a 71.05 acre property located north of Rohret Road. (REZ94-0003) . " i'.. Action: Ilw /lito # Comment: At its February 17, 1994, meeting, the Planning and Zoning Commission, by a vote of 5-0, recommended approval of the proposed amendments to this Conditional Zoning Agreement. The Commission's recommendation is consistent with the staff recommendation contained in a memorandum dated February 17, 1994. 1';1' \jI Action: .I!;~ 11~ (fttI~~ ) /)iJ.... atf~ f. Consider an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance by amending the PDH (Planned Development Housingl plan for Walnut Ridge, Parts 5 through 9, an 85.32 acre, 56 lot residential subdivision located north of Melrose Avenue on Kennedy Parkway extended. (REZ93-0015 and SUB93-0023) (Second consideration) _11- 3"/1 >( \ \ \ ~f: I' , ~ I 1 ~\ 1"- . I I, U, '" .' ~ , , -' i( Comment: At its January 6, 1994, meeting, by a vote of 5-0, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of an applica- tion submitted by Southgate Development Company for approval of an amended PDH plan for Walnut Ridge, Parts 5 through 9, subject to submission and approval of a Grading and Erosion Control Plan. This plan has been approved by the Public Works Department. The Commis- sion's recommendation varies from the staff recommendation contained in the staff report dated December 20, 1993. Public input was received at the Council's February 1, 1994, public hearing on this item. The applicant requests expedited consideration of this ~a.nce due to the Council's revised meeting schedule. .p ~ ~ Act;,.: ~.!?akJ w J "; & "" if' .;( '/ 'iw' K.~!I.F ~da# ~A- ~~ , , , 1/ :" . :- - ,'-~ ,'~-~."" ~ ),'.."','..'.-- ,..10.",'.;"" ":" "'-"":''/:',.,';''''''',,''- ,':;!'.:" . - ','" -- \ IfJc :-,\ "'~ I ./" .' '. '" ?5 o . "',"- '" " ;~, ',: , .' ~) .t i .,. . " '.~" ' ,.f '.\ t, ~ " ",. "..' , .... ~ , '. ,.. . . \ '.' '. '- .,..:~ .-,::. '-','..' ~',:o',.c,:';".I', ,;:(.1':, ".. .~~ .~".;, c.'..c, I ' #5d page 1 Horow/ (#5d) Moved by Kubby, seconded by pigott. Discussion. Kubby/ Someone from the neighborhood just came in and I don't know if you missed your opportunity to speak at the p.h. I don't know if you are here to speak and I would like us to allow you to speak. Horow/ Sue, for the purpose of the record, we are temporarily going back to p.h. on item- KUbby/ You can't officially. Horow/ Go ahead. Chair gives you permission. \ Sue Scotti I live at 722 Rundell Street and I am president of the Longfellow Neighborhood Association and on behalf of our association I would like to ask you not to expedite consideration of this rezoning request. Specifically because of some unresol ved questions regarding possible PCP contamination on this particular site. I just like to note that the neighborhood association is not resisting the R-8 rezoning. In fact we have gone on record in support of Mr. O'Brien's request. We are just asking you not to rush through the process until we have had a chance to be assured by either the city or the property owner that the property is safe. Kubby/ We talked about this a little bit last night and our City Attorney is recommending that the best time to deal with the issue of contamination is during the platting process. Then before we accept any public dedication of the road that that area and we talked about areas around that area that may not be right where the public dedication is-that that whole area get a clean bill of health before we would approve a plat. Would that be acceptable to you. Scotti I think so. One of the things that people have talked about when we have discussed the issue is that there is a possibility that maybe we shouldn't worry about this because they are just going to pave over that site with a roadway anyway. And our concern is that there is going to be a fair amount of earth moving going on during the construction process and there is no guarantee that any particular pieces of soil are going to remain in anyone place of that they are going to be moved here or there or taken off site. We just- again, I would just like to say we are not trying to delay development of the property. We concur that RS-8 is the proper zoning for this particular site because it is in keeping with the surrounding land as well as the surrounding property. There is just a lingering question about that that has recently been brought to light. We would just like to () I I I I I r , 0- , , I' I i I I I " , ~ I \ I , I" ~" ',~ 'j " " ',", ~' t ;:il I": I l. F032994 tC ~~l - - ), '. ," I ~d, 0 /~ ",".,..', . , , --~._-- ""," ,\ " , ~';','~ i,' . ..--,' . .,' ","'/i ": , ':'-~t, :\i" , " , ,'co, '" . ',' " , .. '-:",'., , , ", . '~., " , . , '," " . ...... .~. .'.,...... .' .~.,...,~.CJ. ... ..' ,;..._. ..:.....~.,,"".--'~..-',.,-.:.:l,," ~.,~ '",,';.' ,;,' .".:..: '.:'.' .:.'. ~':.'.'; :,,:,',".. . " . ] .1: ,.._~~ \ \ \ ,~ i::"~ I r r , , I ~~ , I". , . i ! I 'I.,) ~, #5d page 2 make sure that that is- Pigott/ We share those concerns. Kubby/ Linda, do we have the ability to say no to the plat if there is some area that doesn't get a clean bill of health that is other than right where the public dedication of streets and utilities area. Gentry/ I can't give you a very definitive answer of that. As I have explained to you before, our authority to trigger what is an environmental site assessment is by reason that we will become owners of the r.o.w. Clearly is there is an issue of health and safety we have authority, general authority, although I am not going to wander off into some unknown area that is not before me. If it comes before us and I have a specific factual basis I will be bale to give you a better answer. Kubby/ Can we require testing other than just the site where the pUblic dedication will occur. Gentry/ I don't feel real comfortable with that at this point but I need to know a lot more about what Iowa Illinois has done in the past and what potential problems there are. And at this point I just got the information from Iowa Illinois yesterday and I have not had a chance to sit down with them and talk to Jim O'Brien, etc., etc. Kubby/ That is where the distinction between the rezoning and the plat comes in. If we don't have the ability once we rezone to condition what we do on testing other than the public r.o.w. If your answer comes back that no we don't have that right, we have already voted for the rezoning and we have given away- Horow/ This is first consideration. Kubby/ Rig~t. But if we wanted to make it a condition on the rezonlng. If that is the only way we can get the whole area to be given a clean bill of health vs. just the r.o.w. then we need to talk about that at this point. We have already closed the p.h. Franklin/ The thing is is that the rezoning is on 7500 sq. ft. So that is all your condition applies to. So it is not going to get at what you want anyway. Kubby/ We need to work closely with the developer. That if we can't do it regulatorily that we- F032994 o ""0 ,,' ", ", .' ""./, '. .,..,' ,.. . - 1- "~ i ~, I I I J. (:) lti , ,.,....1 '~~, , .. ., ~ ~' ,:::-:':;,<:'~ i>. ~.'~L~,.:.Jlj,':':":~..L~~~::.:~~.....~~~:~~~_._.., #5d page3 Gentry/ He called me several times and we tried to meet. We are in close contact. Horow/ Any other discussion on this. Nov/ Yes. We ordinarily will expedite by collapsing second and third readings rather than doing the first reading on the same day as the p.h. And I think that is a better way to handle this. So this gives us two more weeks to be sure that we have some rights or not and I can't see any reason why we should expedite it by doing the first reading today and then two more rather than collapsing later. Pigott/ I agree. Horow/ I think there is a consensus. Any other discussion. Roll call-The ordinance passes first consideration, Nov. voting no. ( t I ~ , F032994 I . :[~~ '",-" " ,".".~';...,.,'):-" , ,",'" .,;,0" I..." ""'\' ~';.'..,,~,':';:."',':',:'''::' '\"";"/"';'; " . y:'''", ,:,..t:;"':";' "'11, '~','f'" .. y ./ ' " - '. ""I"" ;., , ,.', . ..,-,:-.- "'.', '" , , , .'j, 1 I .' A ~ '.,' I' '" . " . , , 'i ' I: I ' , 1"0"'1: ):'. U. , >, " . I "";--"-'0 'r...' , .~':';!.,ri;.,i "5," ;{ >" ~' \ " ~' " ..., '..i," , . ~ '.' , . '\~ '-, ::l\\i: A " ,I,. . ',' j- , :' ....... " t., '.' ... ~ , ;.'. . . """,';"',,q.'i:,', --- -'.,;,. .-..,',~,.. :;.. ~..-.~, ~;,~,~~.. . ~, . , , ___, __ ..._, _,_"_.__"~h"_'''''''''''''^''''''''';i-'_".',,,,''_', .,~ #5f pagel Horow/ (#5f) Nov/ I don't get it. Horow/ This was suppose to take place last- We had such a long period of time. Nov/ Yeah, but the third reading would have happened on the 12th no matter how we have changed our schedule. Horow/ He is asking for a collapsed- Nov/ Yeah but that is not a valid reason. Nothing changed. Horow/ Okay. Is there a consensus that we don't collapse. Kubby/ I don't mind collapsing. , , Baker/ I don't mind collapsing. Lehman/ I don't mind. Nov/ If we have strong objections I just think that reason doesn't- Horow/ There is four people here who are willing to collapse. Throg/ I would like to have a reason for doing it. Franklin/ I can't really organize my thoughts enough to answer that particular question, Naomi. But there was a lot of discussion about this and there has been a request to expedite. You can't do the next two items unless you do expedite this. I think the developer would appreciate moving on with this after we had rather extended discussions of the secondary access issue. ,v (-', \ \ .~ i;:~":"-' Horow/ There are four people who would go along with expediting. pigott/ We need 6. Nov / I would go along with expediting except I don't think the council schedule had anything to do with it. Kubby/ It did in that we slowed things down to reconfer with P/Z and we disagreed with them and it was on the secondary access issue. We then conferred with P/Z and that took an extra meeting and that is how I interpret the schedule of things. " 'G:. I' , : I Il , t' \~ " Nov/ okay. F032994 \~., H ^ " ~, P', ',' , J .- c~-_~~~-- - ~:.: . ..LJ!Illiltl ,) ...' \', " " - ,'. 0 , " '.~..' ~.'" . ,.. ~ - ' , I' i~ i o I I t , , t ~ ld\ "::>'-'.',';:..' ...' '. ~l. ::'~",~::~,',r',;; , '..C ,):'.:' ~\_.:':':1. ' , '.i j i I ,I ,J" '. ..~ ' '. ,.', .~'...:.;"-___.......:.""',....\...;..~..,~~.....,,;.,...;.,........,.;.w,-.....__,.___:._ ..'...., , _.-...~:.... #5f page2 Horow/ Are you willing to go along with that. Bruno- Moved by Pigott, seconded by Baker. Any discussion. Throg/ I am inclined not to support this. So I need to know if that has consequences for anybody else. Nov/ You are inclined to not support collapsing. Throg/ Yeah. Horow/ We still have six as far as I know. It is perfectly all right. Roll call- (6/1 Throg-no) Gentry/ You need to get the ordinance on the floor. Horow/ Moved by Kubby, seconded by Pigott. Any discussion. Roll call- ( 6/1 Throg-no) The ordinance passes 6/1, Throg voting no. ~'I.' . .,..,.: . ! -'--; " I , (71 f ,,;i ':\1" ...-' .' \ \ \;j iT1 I ~ I ! ., I : I I , r' 'l.-I ; . , I I' ~,L_" ~, .--. [if: . ,F',,',: '.. i , " F032994 , ,'" . .'" . '. "".', ';- "~'~r":~'" ~ 't:\:",~,:::~,; :'-;-':>: ,.,""....,."."..",..h'T'.',', ,;?,>1~:';','.,'" '\, :",(1,,',"~:f:,,''''I'' """"''''''', ''''''''''''1,''. '1"""'" ' '}C;; . "[J..: " ~),... 1 "", ',,' ,\ '" "'.' ~ :" .: I , , o '.. , . " ,. "'.":-'.':'::'/:",': ) ~.. " ",.':";~~o;',.." " ' ,,:...t'II" , :' ',','~,'. "'l' .'<. , to. ',-. , ...'.:.' ':' ';:~.:' . , ~f ~ , '," '., . . :,,' .: ...',j':.:.. .., '~"~''''-''~'' '.;'-:':'v;:.~~,!.,.;~~:.:..:. ..w:.;:.~'.:2~L:...,;L:~~J'_ ".' , . .',.. ,.-, . ' , .__.____............_~'_..H_,_,;_.:... Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 9 ~lf- ' '1$ g. Consider a resolution approving the preliminary plat for Walnut Ridge, Parts 5-9, an 85.32 acre, 56 lot residential subdivision located north of Melrose Avenue on Kennedy Parkway extended. (SUB93-00231 , , , Comment: At its January 6, 1994, meeting, by a vote of 5-0, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of the prelimi- nary plat for Walnut Ridge, Parts 5-9. The Commission's recommenda- tion varies from the staff recommendation contained in the staff report dated December 20, 1993. Refer to item f. above, the ordinance amending the PDH plan for Walnut Ridge, Parts 5-9. Consideration of this resolution requires adoption of item f. " , , YI~m.JV/ &W Action: ~f-, 7q h. /f# ~ Consider a resolution approving the final plat of Walnut Ridge, Part 5, an approximate 18.64 acre, 1410t residential subdivision located north of Melrose Avenue on Kennedy Parkway extended. (SUB94-00041 (1$0- day limitation period: April 11, 1994) r " ; r ':; l " (~ 'f r I : I I I Ir.. I." i ' Ii ~ "~:f.;"\ ~\ }',j' " I';J" II~ 1 -", Comment: At its March 3, 1994, meeting, by a vote of 4-0, the Plan- ning and Zoning Commission, recommended approval of the final plat of Walnut Ridge, Part 5, subject to staff approval of legal papers and construction plans prior to Council consideration. The construction plans have been approved by the Public Works Department. The legal papers are being reviewed by the City Attorney's Office. The Commission's recommendation is consistent with the staff recommendation contained in the staff report dated March 3, 1994. Consideration of this resolution requires favorable consideration of items f and g. r{t~/YJ1~/ 7ltt~ jfb~ Action: 1-~, % i. Consider an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance to revise Section 36-20.5, Central Business Support (CB-51 Zone requirements. (Second Considerationl Comment: At its February 17, 1994, meeting, the Planning & Zoning Commission, by a vote of 5-0, recommended approval of amendments to the CB-5 Zone. The Commission's recommendation is consistent with the staff recoinmendation contained in a staff memorandum dated February 17, 1994. No comments were received at the March 1 public hearing on this item. Action: ,:(_ 0_ --- - ;l'<':'~'" :' , :i ~" :'. , ,\.',' , ",..... , ,':,"""'( " >.;;8::' ..-' ,~" .1~ -.. , ,.~ ..,I " a '. ! , r ~:; '~ ". , "?'s" 10, ~ " " _.,,, " , ' , . , I : , ~:"<'V ',", ,..',' .:'-'.- : :\' \. ' ,'~ ,.. "'f " . ."~',,, i I 1 "~'':''_~<',,,,~.~, __._. .~.____'.,~..,-,-,~'~;~~,~,~:J.~,.~. #5h page 1 Horow/ (#5h) Moved by Lehman, seconded by Nov. Discussion. Mr. Throg. would you like to tell us why you are voting against this. Throg/ I am not voting against this. I voted against the others on the grounds of secondary access which we talked about before and this is different. '. .~., ,- .' Horow/ Okay. Great. Any other discussion. Roll call- Resolution passes. " , .1 [ (', " ,__ I I , I I , ! " , , 'I " , , I .. F032994 , . -,.'....~ o ",\': . '" '. "" ::;':,~\ :~.':~;.'~,' ~{-:';~.:'.::~; , .\", , '\ ,... "T;,-i"~: f' 'I; .(.) .', ,DO): ,..,.....".,,'1.'.,.', ~L>~'J::" <,i,1 ,,. ." T' j~, , '" , ..;, '. , .~,- " #5i page 1 Horowj (#5i) Moved by Nov, seconded by Pigott for second consideration. Any discussion. Throgj Sue, I get confused very easily about ordinances particularly after three hours of being up. Help just remember what the elements of this particular one- Horowj The elements have to do with height, columns- , ' Kubby j Columns around the pedestrian way in the front of the building. The height of the building. What is the third one. The floor area. Throgj Thanks. Horowj Great. Any other discussion. Roll call- Ordinance passes second consideration. , , . , ''-j , i':\ ~ I , .J ~- \ \ ~,~. .' ',,' .d II Ii ~\ \'1 " F032994 I' ~ ~i iP "I, __( 0 _ :~,,: ' '::'.."',_:,', .," "; ,~-\. .~.,'. .. '-. u, -""'.",:':'i:"O":I):;,:.r'; " .{,;" ,'," "~I, ",,:"t, ' _', '.-", ~: \" '-";.' ' I'lt, :" ~ .b4__ J," :"" '~":':\:':"~'"''':.~'''''''''''''':'.',\''.'''''M':r~,~':'': ,'. ft 0' ' .. ", " ," 1,','.5"','""\', , ., " ;__,,, ",I,,'^-,,'" ,',:\ . ,.. ',-' '. ,'~' ~ " ,.', ", ; ,-',',, ~;~' '.'::'!' , ..,I ., ~- \ \ ,-,!! ~... , I I \ I II \\ \1 ~( () 1:\ ( -;,-,""',.':; 91 ~ eo ,',., . ,~,' '.t' .' ,,"". "t"" " :""'-\1,:' " .,;)., '. . "."" , . , , \, ' .,;. ,; i'. . .,', , ...,'. "~.,.: . , ...., " . ..;"'_~~',:;,~~,~:~-",^~;,.,:,:~~'"""-;";,,,'~~..!,~~,-,.,~ ' , " ' " " . .- --- ,,_.-----_.~.'~_..._--,-',---,.._.._,----~~-....~. ,~-.-- ,... Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 10 j. Consider an ordinance repealing the vacation of the southern 97 feet of the north-south alley in Block 102 bounded by Clinton, Burlington, Dubuque and Court streets. IV AC94-00021 (Second Considerationl Comment: At its February 3/ 1994, meeting, the Planning and Zoning Commission, by a vote of 6-0, recommended approval of repealing this street vacation. The Commission's recommendation is consistent with the staff recommendation contained in the staff report dated February 3, 1994. No comments were received at the March 1 public hearing on this item. Action: oJ(;lMr / I?~/fi) rfLllIi e-I/ ;/'1 .&I~.% 'M-~ :,{,I2. k. Consider an ordinance amending the Zoning Ordinance by conditionally changing the use regulations for a 12.5 acre tract of land located west of Sycamore Street and south of Burns Avenue from ID-RS to RS-5. IREZ93-0014) (Pass and Adopt) Comment: At its January 20, 1994/ meeting, the Planning and Zoning Commission, by a vote of 7-0, recommended approval of the requested rezoning, subject to conditions. The Commission's recommendation is consistent with the staff recommendation contained in the staff report dated January 6, 1994. No comments were received at the February 15, 1994, public hearing on this item. Action: Y\~ / 1 ~L/' <t- CV / ~ ~ I. Consider a resolution approving the preliminary plat of Scott's Fourth Addition, an eight lot, 13.4 acre resubdivision of Lot 4 of Scott's Sec- ond Addition located west of Naples Avenue in the southwest quadrant of the Highway l/Highway 218 interchange in Johnson County, Iowa. (SUB93-00111 Comment: At its March 3, 1994, meeting, by a vote of 4-0, the Plan- ning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of a preliminary plat of Scott's Fourth Addition subject to clarification of the note on the plat referring to access from Lot 8 to the Highway 1 frontage road. The Commission's recommendation is generally consistent with the staff recommendation; however, staff has concerns regarding access to the frontage road and Highway 1 as described in the memorandum dated March 23, 1994. Action: .-{k~;:~ ~ !/tJ,)1 % o .,~~,' ~-- " ,-;')8':)\1': ' " ,-,' --,.",.-', "'," " , - "',' .\ \, . u .,_'._,__" ',._, '. . '1"'. I.S I , , I 'I ~. CD I 1 I 'I i ':-:j " l'ltJ', ",,,L..',.' :::: . ',_,n' ",,, .;.\wi:a, ...',0.1.- ',:', ,,-,,',".'..c" .r ,-,., \ \ ~ I I' I~ I I , I ! I i I i i€~ .1 Ii \ ~, -' :', " ," , ., ",",~, ',i " ,,' :: ~'~ ~ \ -' , 'II, , ',.. "~. t>. . ... ,.,,' .....,1 , , " ~.,. .' _.,..~'" ,~: ,.;. ,-,;...,:,~., "':;,-,,...~~..,,:,_, ',...,.. ,," ,- :" '., . .- :... _ __,_,.. "., '~.',v..'.~,,>;."','-,.'~ '",Jj'". ;",;;"v;.:",~"'-,:.,,:_,;~;,,,-.-,j:_'..~ #51 page 1 Horow/ (#51) Moved by Kubby, seconded by Pigott. Discussion. Kubby/ We had talked last night about wanting to merge lots 7 & 8. And I spoke with the developer today and when I asked the question last night if we merge them and have a note on the plat or don't merge them and have a note on the plat, in a functional way does it make any difference and the answer was no. The developer said that in order to negotiate with the utility company to have a smaller easement that needs to be a separate lot or else they have told him they don't believe that there is anything to negotiate about because they have room on lot 7 to build the residential structure. And so, in order for it to become a buildable lot it need to be to a separate lot so those negotiations can take place so the easement can shrink and then functionally it becomes a buildable lot. So I would like to leave it as it is to afford that opportunity for negotiation. Baker/ And that was P/Z's recommendation. Kubby/ And that was P/Z's recommendation which is the resolution before us. Nov/ And this did not come out in yesterday's discussion. Also the builder/developer would like to have lot 7 as commercial and lot 8 as residential. Kubby/ That seems significantly different. Nov/ That did come out yesterday. Horow/ The P/Z Commission feels that if it is residential and the access was out onto Highway 1 that they would have more comfort with that than if it were commercial. Kubby/ So which thing does the current resolution state. Horow/ The current resolution states- Kubby/ That 7 is residential? Nov / 7 is commercial and only 8 has the potential of being residential. Franklin/ They are all commercial now and the access question relates to when the access can be provided to lot 8 when lot 8 is zoned residential. Nov/ And that was part of the condition or part of the plat or whatever. F032994 o .,0 " ,:,1, .;".,~,', ' ,~:,:_,'- ,.. . ",. , . ~ f:\ V \ /5 ,,10 ';'~~.,.' h.~;-I: '; ,:",;,", .. ." ,... . , "';,'j'.."o, , , ,.t'\I: : ~,:", '1 ",.. '.',". " ',.,., " ~.. . ,'_' '; ,:;1 'i'I,' ;Jl.. ",. '~ 1 " , ','''' , "', " ,," " ' ' , , " : ' ., - , ,I~, ' ",. ':, .:: '..n~":_,~~~.,.,..:.,,,,,'':'.-.'':''~:,,,,:,~..:;.,,::: ,.-~;.:,~, '. ~-;,~;;;"., :o::;,,;;',-;;:;:,;,;:,:'_~;i.":!;( '.-:.:;' _,~';.'~) ~'.-_"" "~,,,~.;;.,~-,., ,:..' "~.,~,,,..,",.._....._._:~.":'-... ___u.-. . '. ,.. #51 page 2 Kubby/ And that is in the resolution before us. Franklin/ It is on the plat, yes. Horow/ As I understand this, P/Z commission feels very strongly that if this is commercial and it gets access to Highway 1 that is not something that they want. Franklin/ Right now lot 8 is commercial and access is restricted. They have no access to Highway 1. The only way they can get to lot 8 is going through lot 7. The only way they can get access to Highway 1 according to the papers right now and the plat is to rezone lot 8 to residential and develop it residentially. Horow/ What would keep them from getting that-the residential. Is there anyway- Franklin/ They have to go through the rezoning process. We would comment on it and the board would vote. Horow/ The way it is written right now this is consistent with what P/Z wants and what the developers wants. 1,0 Franklin/ Yes. Yes. Nov/ And the developer did think there would be room with the change in the easement for a house. I doubt there is going to be room for anything commercial. Horow/ Well, you never know. Nov/ The access to Highway 1 isn't available. Horow/ Any other discussion. Roll call- The resolution passes. " j F032994 ',{l' " , o . , , '0 ' "'", ' ,,', ," " " ~/:i c':,' _, ",.', .....-,..",,'.... .,...w, ' 'TO'" D" .\ . t' 5&0" "",,,,"" .~. ~',~:,~ ~.~', ..,:..,._", "._:;. ;~~;~"'-"~'h;';;;':"':"_"'~"""''''';''~~~~~_' _.: , . ,:::.\, , 'f" " ' ~~':""~' ", . ., ,,' ,'::,:'-' ", ('" i ,\' r-'\ \ .~ T~ ~ I I I I . I~~' i( , ~~ )'''j ',I , -"' :; ,0' .,t, ";,' ',.....;.',..., '.. ,,~'h~l: "',t'I:" '.' , ,'> ,.,. . .,",".'1'. ~ , ',.':, " <,....,i "",.,\ , , , . , ' ,"- ." ' " ',' , " ;.:.-...:.......'...~"-.\,~...,.;,.,""."'''''',;;:.:."<.;.':,'';;~'.Oi.t';;.:.';.:.-..n,,;J;,.'.;;",...:.:..',.,,'..>. ." -. ''''~,"".,-- ~~-~,-" ,~~. ---. Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 11 m. Consider a resolution approving the final plat of Mt. Prospect, Part VII, an 8.95 acre, 32 lot residential subdivision located south of Lakeside Drive and east of Sycamore Street in Iowa City, Iowa. ISUB94-0002) (60-day limitation period: April 11, 19941 n. Comment: At its March 3, 1994, meeting, by a vote of 4-0, the Plan- ning and Zoning Commission recommended approval of a final plat of Mt. Prospect, Part VII, subject to staff approval of construction plans and legal papers prior to Council consideration of the final plat and a provision in the legal papers referring to the construction of basements. The construction plans have been approved by the Public Works Depart- ment. The legal papers are being reviewed by the City Attorney's Office. The Commission's recommendation is consistent with the staff recommendation contained in the staff report dated March 3, 1994. drJ if/; c2. d.P c11~ Recommendation to the Johnson County Board of Supervisors regarding a request to rezone two 1.99 acre lots from A 1, Rural to RS, Suburban , Residential. Action: 7/tMf/1?r Comment: At is March 17, 1994, meeting the Planning and Zoning Commission, by a vote of 6-0, recommended that the City Council forward a comment to the County Board of Supervisors finding that the request to rezone two 1.99 acre lots from A 1 to RS is inconsistent with the current, mutually agreed upon Fringe Area Policy for Area 5 and should be denied. The Commission's recommendation is consistent with the staff position stated in a memorandum dated March 17, 1994. ITEM NO.6- ~~J,/ ~7 IJ j} ~ t?dr ~ 1r!:tl5 . /~"3() PUBLIC HEARING ON PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT AND ESTIMATE OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE IOWA CITY SENIOR CENTER EXTERIOR REPAIRS PROJECT. Action: Comment: This project consists of the repair and reconstruction of the Senior Center roof and skylight as well as repair and restoration of exterior stone work, brick facade, and window lintels. Preliminary cost estimates include base bid: $43,575.00 and add alternate #1: $21,700.00. Action: o o ."",':, . ,;1;,;:'" ". , 'I,', l i I ,.. . : .,'",' ... I' I .' " I I ! '1" ,I:' , i"O'(, ,', "," , ,'.'~l. " . #5n page 1 Horow/ (#5n) Moved by Nov, seconded by Throg. Discussion. Throg/ Important to adhere to the Fringe Area Policy. Horow/ Yes it is. Nov/ strictly. Horow/ Okay. All those in favor (ayes). F032994 '~, , o I, ' , I " .',;,;,"\/;>8;""-" ';;(',"1.";'; ;::,r ',~} , " "r}'< ~'.., "~ ~ , ':, ". ' ,.. ,-,,:,.-'"'_.'~<- ' , ,.,,:\ " ,-," " .,', I.i\.' -~' I, I [' ! I " I I, i i .' "i ',: \,\ \ ;":' .'? 5:',:"fci " -/" , ~,-,,~,~'.::~~,.. !>>". ~;{,~'; '.,'" 1"-' '., !.. " '," ,,' '-", .." ,~. ~ ' ';,' . . "..r.\I" ,~- .' .1',.." , .' "",.',.;.. ," ..,'.. ,,,'. ,'~, ' ; ~r .,; ...'-'",".', , .. ';'. ~.., .",' ',' ,'." ,', , ~ ",:", ,:'" :", ',''', ..,' '" '." ..__._...."....~~"t."'''''''_...''._",_.~.'E..'''......._'''-<....,,..._..._''~___.:. .. ..:-,.,-;-...--,_..:.:-.:..~-,---.,..:~- . ':','.',: ,; , #6 page 1 Horowj (#6) Declare the p.h. open. Anyone wish to address council about the Senior Center. The p.h. closed. Novj Can we have any information about what is going on with the addition $21,000. Kubbyj What the alternative is. , ' Atkinsj Yes, the add alternate was the- I am sure they are going to recommend it because the Commission wanted it. It probably should have been incorporated in the base bid. It is actually constructing a sky light as opposed to a window treatment that they wanted to do. Kubbyj Restoring what is there. Atkinsj Pretty much so. Remember the project was about $60,000 and it got split out during the bidding process (can't hear). Architecturally it is also more in keeping with what the building is and I am sure we would recommend it to you. :) , _."; , , I I :...~ ~",: ,(.. , \\ \ 11 ,." . I ," -;~,...\ , ' I' ~. ' I I I , I I I~'~ ',,' . ' i , ~ " . F032994 ,( -0 _ , g, , ","'.,....,'.' "/ ~-~ -~_~I,,: 2' ',' , )',.,,';; .. ,'," " ",', ,,'..' ,,', ,:' ,,,,.'.~", ' ' ", ','. , ':, C', ", ,', ":' "".;:,;",., ".,:",/,Q,;:""",' ,':",,' ", .-' ' ,', ," ',"""',,,',,,', '," ", ,",', '.' ..>,,""'. _n__'____,________, _ _________ ':"\" ..,...., ",:'.'..',.';." ""''''''.\...."..,. " . ,"\5" , ".,1 ,'lo',: . l "'~, "" :: ,,,' ",,1;( ;~i~::il~}:'~'::\:~'.~. "t':;.::.-,. '-, ""," .', ,J"." , ';~' ' . ';, 'l. ".-,,' '... , :.~. ,",", ,'...,. ':"",,<,; " "." " . " i,:_:,;.~:~~..:~:"..,.,w:~;.....,."...i:>.::""'~J:."''';~--'';'''''j,-.u.:....,~'';_..._._,..;..;.-:._._-';';'."'-;'..-";"_-'--._ Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 12 ITEM NO.7- q,,\~ t'>I' , CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING PLANS, SPECIFICATIONS, FORM OF CONTRACT AND ESTIMATE OF COST FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE IOWA CITY SENIOR CENTER EXTERIOR REPAIRS PROJECT, ESTABLISHING AMOUNT OF BID SECURITY TO ACCOMPANY EACH BID, DIRECTING CITY CLERK TO PUBLISH ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS AND FIXING TIME AND PLACE FOR RECEIPT OF BIDS AT 10:30 A.M. APRIL 19,1994. Comment: See comment above. Action: f~ /~-??~ % ITEM NO. 8 - PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ITY OF IOWA CITY'S FY95 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION STATE TRANSIT ASSISTANCE GRANT APPLICA- TION. Comment: The Johnson County Council of Governments has prepared the FY95 Iowa DOT - State Transit Assistance Grant Application on behalf of Iowa City Transit. The application contains the FY95 State Transit Assis- tance funding for Iowa City Transit, as well as a listing of projects pro- grammed for FY95. A public hearing on the application is required by state law. Action: b ~ I\Q /nW a.w A-\-"'o , ITEM NO.9. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE FILING OF AN APPLICATION ql/"~~z. WITH THE IOWA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION FOR FY95 IOWA I STATE DOT TRANSIT ASSISTANCE. Comment: This resolution authorizes the filing of the FY95 Iowa DOT State Transit Assistance Grant Application for Iowa City Transit. Iowa City Transit will be receiving approximately $193,723 in formula operating funds and is requesting $12,500 in special project funds for FY95 transit operations. Action: Y\~ ,I 1~ ~% ([ ~.r ~~2~.' 0' ',..,-_:--,',' -. )' "..,.,..,.."_.~..,"'''.._.....,_.., ' ,i :":~:,...<; ,~:::J:',:;,::':, 0'/,:.,:-"'::": :.";,-;,~:,~,:",,;,,,: :', '.' ' . '<' ,r.' " '~ I',.' '; .' ,,":~"1"-";""":"" Ir"-":;,':.' ,)'':;''', ' l ",.,''', . " " ',I ' ".' ',-', " ", ,;' ::',' , ' >.'., , . A,; " .. i , ,] I , I . .; ~ ' d ,',','l: 'f' "J r. , .( ..') " .',., I:" 1:16;: ''',W ~ ~~\~,-:f, ,;4,<;:~';". ' ~ I I I '",": ':. ,:,;:.:,,~,,'.,,:,:',:,::.~t:,~'I.;/ _:/; ~". '.'~ ':'1 , '.., . <~ ,.,., ",", ... ' ."1'" #7 page 1 Horow j (#7 ) Moved by Kubby I seconded by Lehman. discussion. Marian, does this mean that we have open these bids at 10:30 or who does the. Comments or a meeting to Karrj I escort the bids to the official opening and the staff opens the bid. Like the Oscar's. Horowj All those in favor signify by saying aye- (ayes) Roll call- (yes). Thank you very much. F032994 o ",'.":',,0 '.' "",\:"", .',,;,,: """"" " . .....,.~..,.'.'".._" . ;\ ". .'..- \.i';\ ,...1',.. "", '. ,.', "T':' , 15;: ,'" I I I .1 , 1 I ',-~ ~, J "I,' ",~.:;,' . O!,' 1 "......,.',...", :,;i ,~m~' -.\ ~ ..\ ....~ , \ "~'Of"~ I, t , . I i , ,~ . I" , I , ' ,I \,' ') ~~. !\ '''''' it · ..... '. ;"',. , ,~, " ,;, ~:\'i .,' . ':', " . "',..",.. ,'. '. " .,. , . . ",'; "I" ' "', ' ," ..: , ',~ :..-', .. . , ;".,,,, f; '. " #8 page 1 Horowl (#8) Declare the p.h. open. KUbbYI Kevin, was there any advertizing on the buses for this p.h. Doylel Not for the hearing. We just did the usual publication in the newspaper and to on the buses for this particular hearing. KubbYI This is a big thing and I would think it makes sense for us to advertise where people who are most concerned about Transit are transit riders that we should advertise ph.s on the bus. Throgl I agree Horowl Close the p.h. F032994 o "...'-.,'1'<:",.'.."'.'" ,,\. "'~-'" " 1':1" :,"", , , ,.. . , 'I j , ", .i , r I I 1 I I 1 I, ! I I' f.:\ V . " I I 2"S ~:l [): .,.."..'; ,". ,". "".,.,..,': ,\,' :',.' .m~;mf '~, .' ,I' '- ., , .. " ,~.', 'j' , ,', . ". . .' . "1' ' , ,~'\\\t.. . ~ ' ~,,", . , , "': . , ,.' ".,," ,'. ., '".' , "', '"., , ",~', ' '. ',' ~;:. , ;.' . , '. - ", , ' " " , -'-- '_~ _,~._ .><~.< ",...~,'. ",,, ,-,..~.........",.,' ,",.,.-~ ""n ,~", ..... ,,+~~,. ._.. ~._..n'~_ '_'._ " Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 13 ITEM NO. 10 - PUBLIC HEARING ON THE ISSUANCE OF $6,940,000 GENERAL OBLIGA- TION BONDS OF IOWA CITY, IOWA. Comment: This public hearing is being held to receive oral and/or written comments or objections from any resident or property owner regarding the issuance of $6,940,000 General Obligation bonds. The projects include: Rohret Road ($2,100,000); Wastewater distribution projects - Westside Trunk, Pine, Kineton, Sunset ($795,000); Wastewater-EPA compliance, design only ($1,555,000); New Water Treatment Facility - design only ($1,500,000); Whispering Meadows Wetlands Park Development ($190,000); Curb Ramp Improvements (ADA) ($50,000); ,Regional Stormwater Detention - S. Sycamore Area ($705,0001; and Bond Issuance Costs ($50,000). The actual bond issue will be closer to $7.4 million because the City Council already approved Resolution 93-258, which allowed the City to reimburse itself from bond proceeds for the costs associated with the Robert A. Lee Recreation Center roof an~ floor replacement ($425,0001. ''';00< ~~/11.~~ WARAfon~( ~J? IW.L/~~~,,()_ a.Q.Q...~ '3'3 ITEM NO. 11 . CONSIDER A RESOLUTION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS TO TAKE ADDI- q~_ ~. TIONAL ACTION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF $6,940,000 GENERAL OBLlGA. TION BONDS. , r r' '';'~ C \ ~ , ' , ' Comment: This resolution directs staff to take action necessary to proceed with the bond sale which will fund the projects listed above. Action: 1~/1:l~ Jt~ ~ I!x % ITEM NO. 12 - CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AND PROVIDING FOR T~ ANCE OF $7,370,000, GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND LEVYING A TAX TO PAY SAID BONDS. I~ I I , I I I I . I~: ; i . , i 1 ~t., 'J ~ C)'f- 1>4 Comment: This resolution provides authorization for the issuance of the bonds. Action: YL tdtdD1/ ~ ,kr (uMa % "",,,',', .'" ..", '. ,- o ",.' ,',' .l ,'" ,.. '. ,~ ," - I ':1 ~, ~ , I ..' . .. '~I'~ . ftt ,..,..','",' 'j .', ., " :...,.,;;..;',.: '.,l! ~::;i;~': ,:' '.',~: .:::','~,~':,'~'l,'(,~' .. ,'. '!\" ," " ..:; , , , '., . :",' ,',.. ._~::"':';:~~;:'::",~~~':'..":':".tj;;:''''-,M.''M^~:,;,,,,,'~',..~.',,r-:...",~,,.'.~,.........,~,_,....;.~....:.__..:.~__,_.__".~': #11 page 1 Horow/ (#11) Moved by Throg, second by Nov. Discussion. Kubby/ I had a question and I think I may have answered my own question but $3.84 million of this $7.4 million deal is for revenue fund project. And we haven't made a decision yet about whether to pay for some of these things through property tax of from the fees. So, I think the answer to my question is that if we choose to stick with paying for these things with fees, we will take fees to pay the GO bonds. Atkins/ That is correct. Throg/ I thought you were then going to ask Steve to answer your question. Kubby/ Thank you. I am glad I figured that out. Horow/ Any other discussion. Roll call- (yes) " -"~ Kubby/ I did have another quick question. Are GO bonds cheaper than sewer bonds. Atkins/ Yes. credit bonds. They are AM rated pledging full faith and vs. A which is the best you can get on revenue So they save us money. i ! i f , (~ l ; C~'\ ~ ~ rn '1 · , , : , .~ , I l ; I.'~ , ,I · II j ~I.",.,.; ~"-' , , .,1'/', F032994 '..', . "", ': i 1 ... I i I j , I ',: I I , , lLa ,~) , . .,'~~.. --' "",>0:,:),:"" .,. "" ""', "',',' '" I," ' :',,' ""',,,.;,' . ",/' ":::/,.-,, .<,.....,:,""...'2.5., lfi: r ' ",,,,,,,.',,..;,," ,'''-:',' --> 4:~:,c~r;::'; .. -'",'-,;,'," 1 :" ': ::I,~', . , ; - ,~ ~:, ' ,.. ", " .. ' ", ~ ..--+~:~-~-:-~':~., #12 page 1 Horow/ (#12) Moved by Nov, seconded by Pigott. Discussion. Throg/ I wonder if steve could clarify the meaning of the words IIlevying a taxll here. Just to look at it it sounds like a tax that is being added onto stuff. Atkins/ General Obligation bonds require you to pledge the full faith and credit and that you would levy an irrevocable tax to pay for that bond issue. This is the authority to do that if it became necessary . We are suggesting you sell general obligation bonds because of the lower interest rate. It is our intent to repay the debt service through fees and changes other than taxes on a substantial portion of these. Those are strictly at your discretion. Sometime in the future you could change that. The bond holder has the confidence in this particular bond that you have no choice but to levy the tax if it became necessary. ,") I.. ' Throg/ Thanks. Horow/ Any other discussion. Roll call- (yes) (j\ 'v ,:l " \ ' \ .-:'4 r I ! ~ ,i Ii ~\ "] " 1/ F032994 ~: ,~l n [1 , ,--I' '. , ", o '. ,- '.. . ,..- ':", ;,:~;,,~..:::. ~:;'\'.;",,:':,ii:::,9,('-,;:i1','.::I:', , "" ~h.",~",...,.,:.'" "("""""[-'" , B 0' , . t5:'3:i~:::,. . . ; , ' . , :. "'~I""\,'-"I"l' '.... ~"'< , -.:.,~-,,--I-: . .;1,"". ',~ :~,'.:.l...:~_...L.:.;'....:..:;.........L...._~""",:,......~'...-w'.,;.~_____.__, .. L' Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 14 I:' ITEM NO. 13. ANNOUNCEMENT OF VACANCIES. a. Previously Announced Vacancies. '; (1 ) Mayor' s Youth Employment Board - Two vacancies for unexpired terms ending November 4, 1995 and May 5, 1996. (Karen Heim- er and Paul Engler resigned.) These appointments will be made at the April 12, 1994, meeting of the City Council. i I I i ".1 ,! i I i b. Current Vacancies. (1) Charter Review Commission - Nine vacancies for one-year terms ending May 10, 1995. These appointments will be made at the May 10, 1994, meeting of the City Council. ITEM NO. 14 - CITY COUNCIL APPOINTMENTS. ..... . ',; , -:-1 , ,'1 a. Consider an appointment to the Design Review Committee to fill an unexpired term ending July 1, 1995. (Gordana Pavlovic resigned.) Actio~: 11!~ ~~ ~~ 9/J.Cf 71. &If .." 'a . , 'l ab~ ITEM NO. 15. CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION. ,r~ ~',; " \~ \ }, , k-1 f'AJ ITEM NO. 16 - REPORT ON ITEMS FROM THE CITY MANAGER AND CiTY ATTORNEY. a. City Manager. ~ "'(J - I ,h ! [ i I ~W"'X'" ~: ; , ,....,' i'~ b. City Attorney. -I) ... -'" "?',:: .....,-.."f\\'.~~. .';',,.,,',,.-,.,,..\. ' ! o ;\!,>\ '-""'"" ',"'1''''''''''''' ...,5 .. ~~ . I '.--t' .. \ " 1" , 'r":~ DO, l ", .,..,;."".., ,Ii,', '., " " ,.." ~ 'Ii ~' ,.,i ,,'Y'i ': , " ',~r ~ \'1 , " , ~ , .. ,', , . f- , , ~.. , ~: '~.; ~ 1 . ,..-.'-..:._;,. ,,,'C.:'" !J :' I ~',,, '~:.. '; '.'_, '., ; ." #15 page 1 Horow/ (#15) City Council Information. Baker/ I am glad Karen came back because this has to do with her. I just want to very briefly expand on something that we talked about in the beginning of this three hour meeting about this proposal for the South Side Redevelopment Revitalization and I think one of the things that Jim talked about was getting some sense of starting the ball rolling. Getting staff headed in that direction sort of officially and let staff know there is a majority if not a consensus that wants them to start doing that. And I talked briefly with Karin at break about what she could do and I am wondering-I want to make sure on the council's part that indeed we do want staff to start the process where you come to us, not with specifics, but with how the process is going to start, at least, as soon as possible. Karin, could you just very briefly just tell us what you could do. Throg/ Larry, when you say the process you are developing what I refer to as the design plan side area. referring to for the south Franklin/ What I could do- Throg/ We know that David Schoon can color. r~ , . .\ "''-';'1 , Franklin/ Right now as Susan will get into during the council time is we are entering into a pretty major project in this community visioning and long range planning which is going to take up a lot of our staff time and I think it is a very important effort for us to undertake. The Near South Side or South Town, Jim, which ever you want to call it. As we get into this next step beyond the general policy that we have already set for it and try to look at more specifics in terms of design, it is going to take time to do it well and may take expertise we don't have. I need to think about this, bring an outline and proposal to you as to how we might address this and I would certainly be happy to do that in May. Baker/ I don't know Jim if-I am comfortable with this. Kubby/ Can you do that without taking anything off the current work program. Franklin/ In terms of an outline and a proposal of how to proceed, yes. Not the plan itself. Nov/ In terms of implementing an outline we will defer. I cannot see why or how we can possibly do this along with the revision of the comp plan and the visioning and these ten task forces. \ \ ,~ t;~~J I" I I I I I I i I h . I"~. , I , ' ! , . I 0111," '" F032994 ',"~~:,~,' ",:' > ~:.' ril J ~r\: ....,.. :(___?' v _ ~--:. u--- v ., .." 0,,"')' ,0:" ~ .' I. I' , ' ; , , . ,,::'," ---~--~-~------ - .' ;... ,.. . -""'" I' , . ' )~ G lei 1'-,. ,,' ",.,' ..(.. " . ' ., ',' ~'l -: ",~ ':. ".,l\\" , ' .j . .'.. ,~, " . ... .. , ", """ ',' ~,", , ,.' .' . . " ."" _' ;.:...,.. __',,_.: _:......_,_..:. ,:.~,~,~''"".c.,.:.,...~,..!L '..:....' ,;. ( ,\ -., \. 1 , \ \ \ ~f-~ , ' I" I I , i i,., t". , ! , i , : , \ I.; \~ .' .~) ~l' !C"\~\'". '!' II. r.. " L_~ ~C 0 on..,....." .,',",;._'-,J,,_".:..'.-... ~_-"."~. _,,^';':',;_',I.,:'~'.:,';:.L'_'_'. ,,' ...,-..... .,'.". "._''''__,..~,__..'''_'._'' #15 page 2 So at what point are we talking about something beyond an outline. Franklin/ It depends upon whether you want it done in house or outside. Nov/ Okay. Baker/ And outside requires us- Franklin/ That is where I want to evaluate the expertise we are going to need, too. Throg/ To clarify what I had in mind in terms of a design plan. This comes from a conversation that Karin and I had a couple of days ago. We were talking about how many of the ideas that Bruno and I suggested were kind of clear on the surface but fuzzy when you would start thinking about precisely what they mean and I understand that. And furthermore several of the elements need some clear focus in terms of the design- somewhere in our memo we talk about, how did we put it, the design patterns of the pedestrian mall and wanting to extend them to south of Burlington to a new pedestrian mall. What does that mean. wi th the design plan we could have some sketches or renderings from an urban design consultant or an archi tectural consultant who would present a hypothetical about what that kind of mall could look like and what design patterns that are consistent with the pedestrian mall would look like and likewise for a creek walk. What does that mean. We could have some design sketches of what that would entail and specific pedestrian oriented amenities in the area that go beyond what is in this south landscaping plan or the streetscaping plan and so on. That is the kind of stuff we are thinking about. Baker/ And if we go out of house obviously we are going to have to be willing to spend some money. D Horow/ Right. Franklin/ Right. Nov / And at one point you said the Maiden Lane Streetscape was pretty close to being finished design. Franklin/ The Maiden Land project is scheduled for this summer. We will be starting the sewer work first south of the creek and then putting in the paving and the parking spaces, the street, lights, any furniture that goes in there and then the bridge over Ralston Creek, pedestrian bridge not cars. F032994 =&' L .- ,~ ,) .. qr " I~ 0, 0, .".:'> 'is , ,I' .'.' ':04, '"' ....... , ,\ &:.i:~~i ~ . \ \ ;1- , , I' , I i I I " I , , , l ~, '1 '~ 'I'; ,", i'~ .,,' :c~"-'- .' ~.- ,~. I '" . "I( , . ',- \~I,', ,. \, " , ',I', , -. . . 'o..,~l;',~_ .. ',' ~-",', .c,; . .':,1 #15 page 3 Horow/ Thank you. Anything else, Larry. Baker/That is fine. that direction. I just wanted to make sure we were going in Thank you. I feel better. Franklin/ Thank you. Throg/ I want to bring up two things. Four of us, I think it was four, went to the National League of cities Conference and one of the things that struck probably you and I think it struck Bruno and probably Karen, I don't know was how important PATV is as we heard from Renee earlier. How important it is in enabling people in this community to take part in conversation about life in Iowa City and how threatened that is by legislation pending in congress, RH3636. In other words, we can build an information super highway that makes people into passive consumers of goods and entertainment or we can build a network that enables them to engage in public democratic conversation about life in the community. And I just want to reinforce what my own sense about that is and many of you share it I am sure. That we need to do what we can to try to create that kind of network here in Iowa City. The other thing has to do with a conversation I had with a family near Wales street and they are concerned about parking and I don't want to make light of it but many of the issues that come before us have to do with parking and their concern is that there are construction vehicles parking on the street and many other vehicles that seem not to have anything to do with the neighborhood parking there and it creates problems for the flow of traffic on Wales street. So I am wondering if staff can look into it for us. Just off of Court. Atkins/ I know where it is. I will check it out for you. Throg/ Thanks. Pigott/ Jim, could I borrow a minute of your time. I would like to interject. That PATV did bring me back to something I was going to mention but I will bring it up anyway just because it has to do with the interactivity and you talked about the importance of PATV. I would like to just make one of my endless plugs for the Internet and the constant creation of a community. We are doing it not only here on the city level by providing some of the minutes but also the library is playing a part in this and they have a proposal to do this and I would like to coordinate with them and keep it in the back of our minds a coordinated effort with them with a neighborhood net and with the library would make information kiosks and that sort of information-interactivity so much greater. So, just another little plug. F032994 i ~'_R"~'I ,~~ -. .. Q.,)i ~. . " ... 10 " I IS. 20'" I . .' ',.'.' i~~: '\'1" ... " r ~\. r- "I \ , \ \ ~ ! r , I" i I ~, Io,:,~ i , , Ii "j' ~, '*~'" 1,\;' , , 'i,ll, ""," , l'....' -' . ,~, i ... . ': ':'~":.\'l.~ , " , !'. , ", .,../ .,' "'" .', , . ::''''': _ ;J...' ,'_,~';, '. :: ' .'_".'u..'.'_h~._._.... .",-" ...... ,~~", ~,~,_.,. .-.... ~~~~-" #15 page 4 Lehman/ In the interest of time I will pass. Kubby/ In the interest of time I will cut my six items in half. CHANGE TAPE TO REEL 94-55 Sl I know that the city was involved in some negotiations and being involved in a feasibility study and are doing some composting and that the city chose to take itself out of that effort in terms of the feasibility study. Horow/ The study is with Cedar Rapids and the composting study was collection and analysis and final disposition and part of it there was to be a survey of the elements of what the various were but Cedar Rapids is also interested in c'ollection and how they manage it which is what we really weren't interested in. However we did have a discussion with- I meant to write a memo. Thank you reminding about this-with Brad and Floyd and Dave Hogen from Cedar Rapids in terms of since Iowa City was going to do a survey of what our composition of material was anyway to make sure that we worked with R.W. Beck in Cedar Rapids SO that we would be looking at apples and apples. Kubby/ So we had compatible information. And the request was going to go back to the City Manager's office that we therefore take part in a part of that study. Kubby/ My big point in bringing this up is that I feel very much out of the loop and I don't think council should be out of the loop on these issues. I don't think it should be (can't hear) or city staff person. I think at some time and maybe we just need to schedule in that solid waste and that is coming up I know. I think that some of that is a policy decision and- Atkins/ I don't doubt what you are saying. Kubby/ And we should talk about it and I want us to be talking about those kinds of things. Atkins/ That went to JCCOG. Kubby/ We talked about it. We were informed about composting issues but-and we don't have authority there to make decisions for the council on those individually. Atkins/ That is a good point. Kubby/ We shouldn't be out of the loop. F032994 o ,..,,0 " '" . .... '>,' \: !:" I ,.. . ... f ;, , I (1) I I, js,fO ;~ ,~ ' '; ,co'Ela, to, ')' I '". . '''t'', , ,'\\1:. . . ~ .' .. " "" . , ,~ -, ." ". ...~" .'...,\: , . -, "..", - ..,_.,', '~'... ..,..',. ~ ;..".~,', :...., +.. ,.... . .....-.+.,~".....''',,: , ", ..-'.",.',:,'.:,;'.-:,'.,.c'.:..';>...' #15 page 5 Horowj By the way, speaking about a loop, 9 o'clock tomorrow at the landfill Dr. is talking about garbage. Kubbyj Is he going to excavate or what is the right word for an archeologist. Horowj Garbologist. Kubbyj To dig in our landfill and tell us about ourselves. We should be embarrassed. Horowj I am having dinner with him Thursday night. Not at the landfill. r ,( \~.\ \ ' \ ,~ l'\ I Kubbyj The other thing I want to do is take a few minutes to thank some people. One of them is John Lundell, our Transit Manager, who resigned from city staff to take a position with the University and I want to thank him for his years of service and wish him well on his new endeavors. Secondly I want to thank David Osterberg who even though he doesn't directly represent us here in Iowa City has chosen not to run for reelection for the state legislature and I feel that Iowa is a better place to live because of many of his efforts that he has made. Specifically with ground water protection and other environmental things. He is a great role model for me. Lastly, in terms of thanks, I want to thank the crew. I thank the crew a lot at night but it is really far into the night and you are still standing up so I appreciate it. I think you should get some kind of stool so that it bumps you awake every once in awhile or something so you don't have to stand the whole time. I appreciate your efforts. I don't think that our video crew and staff are paid anywhere near what they are worth and they really help us have that conversation about life in Iowa city. And I will save the rest for another day. Thank you. Novj I would just like to report that Susan and Karen and I all went for a meeting at the Soil Conservation Service. We had a forum on Women in Government. Not just local government, our state legislators weren't able to be there but we had a couple of representatives from the national level: Beth Freeman from Senator Harkin's Office and Jennelle Redick from Representative Leach's Office and they all were very interesting people. They provided excellent information on how to contact your local folks. Call us, we are already to listen and we made that point very strongly and then I have to give you an example of what happens when people do call us because people on Teg Drive, Aber Avenue area called city council members because they were concerned about traffic. We referred them to our neighborhood coordinator. She pulled together a " , ~'; , , ',I. ,j ~ :' j " F032994 ,,~,i , ~\ .~ 14 :.~".. t.': " t 'I, , ......... ~~~~~ -, "Q.,:-l:.'" I ,.. . ~ I) ., , ~/sl d, , , ':,-' ~ . 'I 'r., 1:lm1I '; ....-'.. ,,( , '-', . 1\ \ I \ : 1 i " I I I ! I I I I i : I I I ~. I I'{'~ \ i I II ! ',I " ;-C"o" , I .:~.....- ,; , " Y ,I' ., " " " :. ",\,t~\'j, " " 'f ,-. " '.... '" . '.,'/ ," " .'...';, ~ '. ", .. . ..__._.._,.,'.._.o.-."J",:,"...,_"..''''~'., ,;.-"._'-., '~:""__';"''''''''. ' ' "'-", ".,h ,.....',__.". #15 page 6 meeting. It is April 7 at 7 PM including our planner for transportation. Including our mayor and all you need to do is call and ask. I thought it was a terrific way to handle it. Also for those who are interested in the tree ordinance you can go to the P/Z meeting on April 7 instead of the Teg Drive meeting. That is at 7:30 here in the council chambers. And the other one is in the neighborhood at 7 o'clock. Horow/ This evening I would like to use my time asking citizens to consider taking part in the community comprehensive Plan Update. We need your applications. We need them in the interest of the various task forces. We are encouraging you to contact the city clerk's office, the city manager's office or the Department of Planning for information and application. This is an opportunity for citizen participation to take part in updating our comp plan. The task forces will be on transportation, housing, parks, recreation, open space, social services, art, cultural, human development, environmental protection, public safety, economic well being, land use and urban patterns. This is a time for you to get involved. This is going to take approximately a year, over a year's period. Nov/ No. Horow/ You don't think it is going to be a year. Atkins/ The citizens' participation process is about 75 days. The process is about a year by the time we get you an updated comp plan. Nov/ When we are asking people to commit to a task force, we are asking people for a few weeks. Horow/ Thank you. The applications are due Wednesday, April 6. There will be more information about this on Channel 4, the Information Services Channel. But I really urge you to consider taking some time, getting involved in this. It is not going to be that much of a commitment. You will learn a lot about the city and help us build the city for the future. I also would remind citizens we are moving into construction season. The key word is patience. If you have any specific streets that you think need to be repaired drastically let our ci ty Department of Public Works know. I now I have had requests on brick streets on Fairchild between clinton and Dubuque. Bricks are really settling in and there are some pot holes. But the main thing is patience. I know Kirkwood Avenue is about to be reconstructed from my driveway to Franklin. If anyway thinks I am going to be anywhere on time, you have got another thing coming. F032994 o ,0 ! ,'" ~,' I.:,', I ,.. I I I . ~\'~.. lti : ", "~' '. ..,: f' ~:,;::~,>,,!, " ---:~;.; / .' ",:'>:','" .' ,~I,,:, , "':""" ,", l~' '" '.-' ., ..,' ." " .',' .. ',',' ""',', , , , ". ' ...,,'" '" :"','" -....., ,- ,', ", ., '",-_.. ..,__..>.....-'_.........___.........."..."',...'~~'""',#",'..~','''-'.,'J'...''_M,'....~_.~_....,_ Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 15 ITEM NO. 17 - CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AWARDING CONTRACT AND AUTHORIZING ~., _ ~ 5 THE MAYOR TO SIGN AND THE 'CITY CLERK TO ATTEST A CONTRACT FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE RIVERSIDE DRIVE RIVER TRAIL PROJECT. Comment: The bid opening for this project was held March 22, 1994 and the following bids were received: All American Concrete Inc. North Liberty, Iowa $31,596.00 : "'j Wolf Construction Inc. Iowa City, Iowa $37,231.00 Streb Construction Co., Inc. Iowa City, Iowa $45,095.00 Engineer's Estimate $42,150.00 Public Works and Engineering recommends awarding this contract to All American Concrete Inc. of North Liberty, Iowa. Action: -l/t,i/1 /1J1j/ ~tV1d % .'~- I,; ( , .\ ..._.....,.;a \ \ \ r ~ ITEM NO. 18 - CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO SIGN AND THE 'i'+ _ <6 6> CITY CLERK TO ATTEST AN AGREEMENT WITH BRW, INC. OF MINNEAPO- LIS, MINNESOTA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND ALTERNA. TIVES ANALYSIS SERVICES ON THE MELROSE AVENUE STREET AND BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. Comment: A contract has been prepared between the City and BRW, Inc., for environmental assessment and alternatives analysis services on the Melrose Avenue street and bridge reconstruction project. The City is required by the Iowa Department of Transportation to conduct an environmental assessment on the project because of $850,000 in federal funds which will be used for the bridge reconstruction. The scope of consultant services was approved by the Melrose Avenue Focus Group. The not to exceed fee is $83,873.51. The project will be completed in approximately 12 months. : I 1~/~ k-~ ft~ % 1 Action: : I~; II . \ I,' ~ ".~, iI"" -\ f'fl,., , ,~ -~ ,{( ~_:- ~- - ) , ," ..,-''""'^',,..., "..,' ,..,';,:,:8,,~.fi:"'" '\' " , - ,...,- ~' ; 1 I I I " . ,.. , ."A, " \. I I " I . ." "", "~:'5~";: '..10,::., , , ",_",,,,1,,:,,'-; ,I' ""',',.' """",,,"" ';~',," "I"A :,<..... ' ":~', '1 " ..., " . '. " , ' . '. , ,:;,,-,' , ',-, ."': ,,': .,~;_..2_;~:.-~_;;.;~~~..,~.:~~';';""~~~...~,~_~~__.__,",~,._, #18 page 1 Horow/ (#18) Moved by Throg, seconded by pigott. Discussion. Kubby/ Where is the money going to come from. Atkins/ ROq~ ~se tax reserve. Horow/ O~qY. AnV further discussion. Roll oall- (yap) R~solu~ion pas~es. I I ""', ,; "<~ : .,~-' I ,,.o-l..... I'" (""~\1, , , \ : \\" ,.]) ~'~f" " " ' , I . : I : II ,~ F032994 \([-0 ~,~ - . ~-~T~=", , 2"",1)""".'....'...."""."'."''''' , ',',','. ":.'."~'O,.,C;' '\ , ...-:,:',,:,~.\:~:~D.~:-",_<.'I'~.\"',~: ,,.:;:).......' " , ' , "'- " ...,.'., I ,I ".. ,"f '(""1""":"" n ? 5U'Ci,: ",. I """"""'","1"""'" ,.-:'::y' .,),.,:. ~'., '.., "..'.,J,;" , ' ".:! : i " , { .. \ \, . 'I' ~ ~ \ I I Ii ; I I' I I b! ,I. , i tJ " ,,,,' ,""- , , '1 l...._.......... ., I .' ,~, : "'t"" ' " ',':', \\l,~ . ,,~, .,..'.. . :-..' . ,I ,,' .,., ., ... '," '.1 ~4;"1 ..':.,....;,.-: (, , ,.. , . '~ ,.,' ,_~_"_... _ ..._....l.>l ,_~,.,.v)v~_'..~...:.4\..}:~..:....,_ _. " ,,'.', ':. . ,.....~__._...~~--'--'_u__',.~r,~~...."..~"... _"__n'__',_h", ..., Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 16 ITEM NO. 19 - CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING AN AGREEMENT TO AMEND THE GJ/- - <il /l CONTRACT FOR CONSULTING SERVICES WITH RICE, WILLIAMS ASSOCI- . ATES. Comment: The Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 grants certain rate regulation authority to the City as a franchising authority, consistent with a complicated set of regulations and formulas created by the Federal Communications Commission. Rice, Williams Associ- ates has agreed to amend the scope of services in the current contract to include a Benchmark Rate Analysis to determine whether or not basic rates charged by the cable company are consistent with FCC formulas. The cost of these expanded services shall not exceed $8,000. Revenues from the franchise fee will cover these costs. ,". Action: f~/ y - 'L~ 1~ ITEM NO. 20 - CONSIDER A RESOLUTION RESCINDING RESOLUTION 84-182 ESTABLISH- qt- <i'~ ING A FEE SCHEDULE FOR THE USE OF PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR SIDE- WALK CAFES, AND ESTABLISHING A NEW FEE SCHEDULE FOR SIDEWALK CAFES. Comment: The fee for the use of public right-of-way for a sidewalk cafe was established at $300 in 1984 and has not been adjusted since that time. Setting the fee at $500 is more in line with current fee schedules. I'M I( Action: ~/ &Jzw j~~ ITEM NO. 21 - CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE DESIGNATING AN AREA OFTHE CITY OF IOWA CITY, IOWA, AS AN URBAN REVITALIZATION AREA WHICH SHALL BE KNOWN AS THE NEAR SOUTHSIDE COMMERCIAL URBAN REVITALIZATION AREA (Second consideration) ~' ~tJ:& f' Comment: The proposed urban revitalization area includes the area zoned Central Business Support Zone, CB-5, located between Burlington and Court Streets and is required to implement the Urban Revitalization Plan; therefore, final passage should occur only after the Council's adoption of the Plan. Designating this area an urban revitalization area would grant property tax exemption to qualified improvements as designated in the proposed plan. Action: ~/'rV:J;ltJt) t I~~) f.;J lIar ~<!J uif hluU 'f/s o 1';0.,'.":','" ,..""..", ,. 'I' " N""'\",: """"~"T' , 15, . , '\ ,,. .,0, '" " " " ," ,', ,.".' ",..,.',' ., "... '\':__.'J ' .~ "',.".,; '. ., ..,"/ .. ..<;,;;..:,", ",.'. "t" ,,:"':"'\\:~t,~:',::,'.;,': ':,~. '. .' . , .." ,', ,,', ~, "','- ,','.".' -. -" ,'.. , ,:-:i~.:"'_~':';.;.:.'.....:.;,;;~,,,",..,,,,,,;,,,:.-.;.~..\...=,.~,. .t..d'~ ~':;""""~"_'~,,_ ...."r'.."..~_,'_~~. _.-_;....;.~ .";,, #19 page 1 Horow/ (#19) Moved by Pigott, seconded by Throg. Discussion. Pigott/ I was just going to ask Dale if he could just explain perhaps for people who don't have the memo and what the bench mark rate analysis is. Helling/ In restoring some regulatory authority to local the federal legislature empowered the FCC to create this process and the FCC-the main type of regulation that they are looking at-they created certain bench marks for certain types of basic services. The idea was to keep it simple so that the locals could deal with it. Some months and 100 and some pages of simplicity later and it is still coming by the way. It keeps changing. It \"as pretty clear that it would be take up a lot of time and a lot of energy on the part of the legal staff, Finance and everything to go through all of these formulas and try to apply it locally and be able to defend that if in fact the rates are inconsistent and we want to force the company to come into compliance. So Rice, Williams has done this for a number of other communi ties. They are in the process of doing it for a number of other communities and have that expertise. Made a lot of sense to use them. , " Kubby/ Will they set us up to do this on our own later if the rules don't change. Helling/ If the r~les don't change we will have the benefit of what they do. I ~m not confident the rules won't change. Horow/ Any f~Jt~ aiecussi?n. Roll callr (yes) The resolution passed or was adopted. \ ,I ~ I I I I : I I r. j ,J/. ~'1'~ , F032994 . , -~"-~ ~,"'"""'"''''':<''' i'" , ," , , ' ":"":'I~:':':,>;R,:,~:""'>.":::,' ."',".','i' o .' . 'I J:, ,<, ,.. "', ',.', - i I j j I I " I I; I.:' r,"~"" 'rO'~"" , ~} ,,\, 8 '_;~' -.-",.'.., ' ... .' .:,','" .' '\t " , , ,.-,~ \\ f,", ""', .. / I . ,:::-\ ",,'~, ." ;~:"~ ." ., "'. " ~.., i. ,.., "", ' . ,', , ,.. , ; I i 1 I I ".,' ..' ... ." .', , ,', '.~' \ , ...', ','-Of , '., . . ',I, ._....~...: c., ;..;..-~'. ',~~,.., .,- ..'. , ,. ,:, J.;::"_''',,~,, ....:." , ' ,._,e_".".... > "','~,,~,~...., ,,>".-~:.,, '-"~",',:,,'..,.:,,'-,', ',..,-'.-. #20 page 1 j I Horow! (#20) Moved by Nov, seconded by Baker. Discussion. Throg! I would like to ask two questions. The first is how many businesses would be affected by this change. Atkins! Literally any eating establishment that would want to. We do have none now, Jim. Pigott! Does this serve as a disincentive for businesses to establish outdoor- . '~ Atkins! Outdoor cafes have been a subject of some debate amongst councils for some time and I had specifically asked for departments to look through our fee schedules and just throughout where haven't we kept current and where haven't we moved these things along and this one had been sitting there for a number of years. We raised the cart fee I remember a couple of years ago for the plaza and it just seemed to make sense to bump this thing up. There is no magic number. No scientific analysis went into it other than it appeared to be fair given- Nov! Have other fees gone up that much in ten years. Atkins! Other than the carts. Carts in the plaza went up dramatically. We bumped them from $400 or $500 to $750 in one jump. And we haven't bumped them in a couple of years. Kubby! Is Yogurt Etc. considered on private property and not in the rIO'WI ....-.'..... .(. ,-.\ I, \ \\ ~ , "'I ;'(\ '1: '; \~' ,:1 I I~ I '~ I" 'I . I II I ,I : I , I : I' ~.~ , , ! . Jl. ~t,; " ~.... - ;:" ,) , Atkins! That must be their property. Kubby! No one currently is paying this fee. Gentry! Right. Nobody is affected. Kubby! Because I have a problem with a 60% jump once but I think I do feel a little differently about it when no on is paying it. Atkins/ No one would be surprised. Kubby! Larry is looking questionly but- There is no individual business is being affected. Throg! The second question I wanted to ask is one that steve actually alluded to and I wondered if you could expand on it and it has to do with what happened to past initiatives to make it possible or more possible to have cafes. I think it is a great idea but - I I! F032994 u~.c ~" - :' ~:~~ :): I"" rO" 0 ,;,: / , :; I. ,'__:'l ""Ir;'~'1" ' ", .C ~-'I \\t rr1~ .",..-.-:..' ,.- , I, !'~ I , : I j k, , I<'~ ! I i I ~~, !#" , 1 , l'~/':-' ~: ,1,1, ~~ ,1 ' , ::',1 ." (- -~~: ' ',. " ,'" ' , ..," 1'-,. ., ~, ",f :;i "t' , ", \.\~~- . A ." I. . ,', , <' ""'.'\ , :.....,. . .' ":,".. , __'..__._J"'C" ..-"L-",..,".~>_~"~."".-'_,...n #20 page 2 Gentry/ It is a long discussion. KUbby/ We were suppose to do that before John McDonald left. We didn't. Karr/ There is also a distinction to be made. This was for sidewalk cafes. We have the distinction between outdoor service areas and sidewalk cafes. That should be noted. Pigott/ What is that distinction. Karr/ On public r.o.w. vs. private property. Big distinction. Throg/ And this concerns- Atkins/ Public r.o.w. Kubby/ In a certain sense I don't mind a fee when you are using public property and you are gaining a profit even though it is a great amenity to the city I believe. Pigott/ In some ways I think of it as a slight disincentive. I would love to encourage it. I would love to reduce the fee even though it is on public r.o.w. because I, myself, am in favor of that. I would love to see the proliferation of them. Throg/ So the question I have is would it make any difference if this council was strongly for having (can't hear). Would it make a difference. Atkins/ To me it would not make a difference. I imagine it wouldn't make any difference to the proprietors out there that might use it. You just charge more or less than the other guy. Kubby/ Or you are increasing your usable space of your restaurant on a seasonal basis. $500 is a very small investment for the benefit. Throg/ No. I must not have stated my question clearly. If this council was really strongly supportive of sidewalk cafes, period, and have nothing to do with the fee-would that make any difference or- Kubby/ Difference in what. Baker/ How do you express this support. Atkins/ I doubt it, Jim. I would think if you were making a public pronouncement as a council that you would encourage folks that F032994 o"'r , --'- 1I1:l1l ,'/iR-::),,' ''''''''''\ ". \.' Tv ,.. 1 . I I I I i i . . ... II , 1/"5' , It], ""1, i~' I I j '.' ," " ," ,.,. i~ '. . .:.~ ' i';"'". ~, "~ ' '" . ,',I"" "r-" "W,','. " t .. ,- 1,-' .','/ ':,'1 , .<,~", ,;', , ' I' " ,.- .' . ," . ..."'~::., .,; :'~:~~:..:....:,....:...~. ,;".-..:L,:::,~.,__,..._ ,~'_." '", . - . , . 'm___~'~_'~_~";_,u,," <,.,..", ".',...',. ~".-_,_,'..,'" -''',0. .. #20 page 3 have eating establishments to utilize the availability of the public r.o.w. for a sidewalk cafe. As a matter of pronouncement because you prefer doing that- Throg/ Are there any obstacles that we as a council can clear out of the way that past councils didn't. Atkins/ I can't think of any. pigott/ I wonder what those obstacles were. Horow/ I can tell you you would be doing battle with me in terms of the use of alcohol on the sidewalk cafes. Throg/ I would be happy to do that battle with you. pigott/ So would I. Throg/ From my point of view it is not. Atkins/ The single biggest question is the control of alcohol. Nov/ May we defer this discussion to another day. Pigott/ Maybe we could set up a discussion. Horow/ This is one where Jim would have to give me all the information on the finances that this city and the county has to go into MECCA and mental health problems that come from alcohol used in outdoor cafes. (]) , ' j ( ,I, ,~ I, \ Pigott/ I don't think that is fair. Atkins/ I told you so- Nov/ May I have a second to the motion to defer. rtif' I.' Ii I I I I I I I I , ~ I i i I II 1 Karr/ You have a motion on the floor. Horow/ No. There is a motion on the floor. Baker/ I will withdraw my second if you want to defer it. Nov/ I think if we are going to get into a discussion on sidewalk cafes rather than just a fee this is not the time. Throg/ Why don't we defer it. Horow/ Are you withdrawing your motion. '. II' F032994 " l! r~' ~~. j,. :( , ~ - =~ -- '. . )" '\ I" fo, 0 .,.',.,/~" 'j 5 ',- ',.', .. <..\:",," ;',' " ",,-...\... '., l~\ ".",l , ." ,'. " :,'".,..', .,'1.__";-: ' ':"'''11' ' , ')'~;f'" i~" '! , '. ' '", '; ,', .,- ",', ", . . ,..~,ii.~~...,..~":,:L~:t.'L'.1~'~;:.;;~;;""..t.;;1.~'.:.:J.,.::.,~,,,:;,,~",,,,",,,,......,...~..__._, .,. ' #20 page 4 Kubby I Should we say for discussion of the fee for when we do discuss sidewalk cafes. Novl I would be happy to discuss the fee but not the concept of cafes. I think that is too time consuming. Atkinsj It has been in the past. Horowj Now. She is not talking about now. Novj If we want to vote on approving the fee, fine. But I don't want to get into a lengthy discussion of whether or not we want to encourage sidewalk cafe. Horowl You just lost a second. " ,- ". 1.. . ;( .',. ",,', " ',' ,.. .< 'I J' '\ " Bakerj If you wanted to defer it I would withdraw my second. I thought that was the question. ", Novj Well, no. What I wanted to defer was the discussion on the principles of sidewalk cafes. Throgj That is fine. Bakerj Let's vote on the fee here. I keep my second. Throgj I would just like to come back to it. Can we get ,it on the agenda in some point in time. ,r 'I.. [; " .....!,.;\;.'1 \ Bakerj A Thursday night special meeting. Horowl Roll call- Passes, Baker, Pigott and Throg voted no. \ ~ .~ ~:~-! 1 : ~ I , I . I~:; i I ,i" \~j ,v. F032994 -' o '\ " ' } , , "';':"',"0.-..'-',""" ......, "', ' I'.:?'-"; 1\>,':.';" " '., .' ,,' . ..,.,A_..:.__ C> ! i , [~s "I'd;: AO" ~ ',,"-' '"., , ;'" " ;. . ",..--',, . ~';'''' ,," . , '. - ,_:..,. '-- . -',' : .:..~-, ,~:,;~~:., -', , ,I ~ I I I I ! I I I I i ~; I' ,I J ii, " \~../ ,'- '~L' ~"'I"'-':';' I,;~. r:' .. " _........J , I o ., . " " " '-~t~\'!; , . '1 "'. ,', " , ' ,,' '" . .- ,,', " .,,', ....,,;., '...4; , " :.,. . ."...''---'---,-', , ' . .'__.'~"__'~__'~'~'-"",..--..."..__,.u".,_.._,___.~.". #21 page 1 Horow! (#21) Moved by Lehman, seconded by Nov. Discussion. Kubby! I did want to make a few comments because of a question Larry asked me last time that I didn't answer correctly. He said you don't really want affordable housing in CB-5. For some strange reason I said no I don't. And that is not true. You asked me and I answered no I don't want it and really my answer is yes. Baker! That is what I thought. Kubby! So I wanted to clear that up and try to explain why very briefly. People who have property south of Burlington Street have a really valuable resource and revitalization of the area will do nothing but increase the value of this resource. If we are going to use tax abatement to spur redevelopment I believe we need to make sure that that public benefit is worthy of the abatement and I know people think just the increased tax base is a positive pUblic benefit and I think that that is too but I don't believe that it is enough in and of itself to warrant abatements in this very viable area of our community. An area I think will develop on its own in the near future anyway. And Additionally I think that affordable housing should be linked to tax abatement as an additional public benefit. One of the biggest problems in our discussion of affordable housing is the price of land. The cost of the land drives much of the housing costs. An here is an opportunity to have people who own this very valuable resource, the land, to use it in part if they want the abatement to increase the affordable units. That is not part of the plan, I can't support it and will be voting no. Baker! This is not specific to your opposition but the discussion since we have had since January since this group has been together about the term affordable housing. When you say affordable housing I here Section 8 Low Income Housing. Is that what you are saying. Rubby! Yeah and especially in this area because with subsidized housing with either vouchers or certificates the landlord gets that fair market rent. It is just a split between the tenant and the federal government as to who pays it. You are still getting that fair market rent for that unit. It is just ensuring that not just an elite group of people live in these valuable areas and we are increasing the cost and that value of that land, that is the thing for me that triggers the cost- one of the big things that triggers the cost of housing. So there is a link. Baker! I don't think that there is anybody on the council who F032994 , , '"i' ' '\ O ' , . ",..- ,.,,' '-'" <:"', ~ ,,' . .'-, I , I ,.. . " - ,\2S t I:fi ,",,' ,", ;~\::"':";'l:. '. :,;,~,' '. ...'.., " , ", , J \ dj""f" I" , , II I I k, I.' " i I I' \\ \'~ ~ : '..,. ,c ".' """;''';,, ,".. ,-";',<, " "~ ..- -. ;:'!'"I',, . .. " "''-'''' ",' , ' " ". . ',' ,,; ~, ", ..,', ',:,'1 , .', , " . , '" '.", ,- -.,". " . ,... :-._..,'__._._~.....,...~....,..'~...,",_"~,..."..'>'h"''',''~."..". ~,,_.. .~.,.~ .._,"_.__,.-. " #21 page 2 opposes the idea of section 8 Low Income Housing in as many places as possible. There are, I think, many people on council and I am one of them who thinks the intensely commercial zone is probably inappropriate for section 8 Housing of that kind and let's take those efforts and put them in the South Side Revitalization Area that we are talking about further south of Court. I don't see any possible residential development in this zone being for an elite tenant. I see it as just more student housing happening down there. KUbby/ It is not going to be a cheap apartment. Baker/ Whatever it is there are going to be exorbitant rents just like they are most places in town. Nov/ It is my preference to have the housing in areas other than CB-5. I think we ought to really concentrate that area commercial. Kubby/ And concentrate and exclusively commercial are two different things. We have already decided that one of the amendments that we are going to make is that there is a possibility for up to 20% housing in CB-5. We have already said this is an appropriate place. Horow/ But we are still concentrating on commercial. Kubby/ And I don't disagree with that concentration. Throg/ I don't want to rehash arguments that have been made at previous meetings. All I want to say is that tonight I intend to vote against this ordinance but given the other things that we are doing with regard to the parking impact fee I may find myself voting for it at another point two or four weeks from now when we get to this stage. I think the sequencing is important for me. If we do the impact fee given the understanding that we have had then the chances are pretty darn good I am for this ordinance but I can't do it tonight. Horow/ Any other discussion. Roll call- The ordinances carries with Throg, KUbby, and Pigott voting against it. F032994 ,I '.'" , ,~ '. 1 ,.. . , ". ~ .. f1\' I.iI "~I o . .....".....,....,";,..'1"'...... )5 ,'10,' '. , "I , ":""0 " ..""c," ' "',' ';'/'''', ,".' "-', . ' . - -- ---,-~. - --.------- - ',:';,'.:.':.-",,-.;, "~' ".' , " /I.',-.-::,l ~~,' '.1 ~, .. .,,' ., .': " /,:;-~t:,;\~:',_:_.<., . ,. to.: ' . ,', , ''":. ''-', ;...' . , , -, , '...--, " ,- .,.' ___, ,_"__""" ~,......._.......lo~..........,.,.....,..--,-",..:-","",,~...,-Jo,~........, ..~_... ___.., '_',' ,,' Agenda Iowa City City Council Regular Council Meeting March 29, 1994 Page 17 ITEM NO. 22 - CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE REPEALING DIVISION I OF ARTICLE IV ENTI- qt- ~i/3 TlED "COMMERCIAl PESTICIDE APPLICATION," CHAPTER 34, CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF IOWA CITY, IOWA. (PASS AND ADOPT) Comment: This ordinance repeals the "Commercial Pesticide Application" Ordinance passed January 18, 1994. Action: ~I \l~ I ro/eV ~ 51d. " ITEM NO. 23 - CONSIDER A RESOLUTION RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 94-17 WHICH '11-- 'e~ ESTABLISHED A FEE FOR COMMERCIAL PESTICIDE APPLICATION REGIS- TRY. Comment: See Item No. 22 above. This resolution rescinds the "registry fee" and should be approved upon the passage and adoption of the ordinance above. Action: L~/~ cI(~- 1j ~ ITEM NO. 24. CONSIDER A MOTION TO APPROVE A TENTATIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF IOWA CITY AND THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF STATE, COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES, LOCAL 183. r .(' C"'''' \ \ .~ r~:";,, I : Comment: Representatives of the City and AFSCME Local 183 have entered into a tentative agreement for a two-year contract (FY95-96). It provides for a 3 % across-the-board wage increase at the beginning of each year, overlay- ing of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Alliance program on the existing health insurance program, implementation of the 1993 job classification study, an increase in the reimbursement to employees for safety shoes, the provision of rain gear for employees who regularly work outdoors, and a number of other language changes reflecting contract administration. A copy of the tentative agreement is included in Council's agenda packet. ~ Action: iuMl~ / 1~ jpO) fbAJ ~/~ . /l~~ '~~ ITEM NO. 25 - ADJOURNMENT. mgrlagcndaI3.29.agd ,,',,: " ,. " .' '. '~''.':'::\;'';IR:'~;:';':>:'':<-'~ o ,{ .',' '. " ,~ ..,..... ,.., ~ f~ I I "'j ',', .', ,.. j I,' . ' ID I ., I' " , ...,js;;::!.:pi:. ~~:../,!"", "',.' ~"., ' , ",-." . ' , ,.. '. , i::,~ ",' - ,- . :,,' _~',.:~:~~._~; ~:.:._...;.;~:",.~t~.i...":,:,',,,,;'~j':..;:.i:.:I.'.::;~~~,..:kl~'~'-"'''~~~~';"'i-"..u~,;~""'____",_~_,;,~_;---:~~,':,_'_._.c."~-.~" ' i , , #24 page 1 I , I ,'I' Horow/ (#24) Moved by Kubby, seconded by Throg. Discussion. ! ; ., I "'1 .: ~ Kubby/ There is something in here I don't understand, Dale. It is just contract jargon that I am not getting. It is the Transit Division where it says for equalization purposes employees who refuse extra hours will be charged the same number of hours as for- That doesn't sound very good. Helling/ The same way we do for overtime. Basically, only this would be for certain other kinds of assignments. What it is is that we want to give everybody equal opportunity to have the extra hours. So what happens is you contact people systematically and if somebody is contacted, they are reached, and they refuse it, that is fine, that is their prerogative. But they are then credited with 8 hours of opportunity if you will so that everybody gets the same opportunity. That way people who don't want to do the extra work don't have to but they can't come back later and say they didn't get their fair- i , , '. , Kubby/ That doesn't sound so bad. Helling/ It works. Kubby/ The other thing I wanted to make note of is that there is a side letter that says at mutually agreed upon times during the 94-96 contract the investigation and discussion of on site child care and or childcare vouchers will be considered a proper topic for consideration by the labor management committee referred to elsewhere in the document. I think that it is wonderful that we are going to start-encourage us to be the initiators of those discussions and not wait for the union to contact us. ,,.. }; ,...~~ \ \ Horow/ Any other discussion. Roll call- Motion. All those in favor (ayes). '..> c I ~ : I I . [I , ,1 , . ['j \~ ,.~ F.o32994 , " ., , ',I o ,- ",:",..;,<<:",~:'.~""'"'~',r:J''' , ./ "':,.-':!",:":,\,:>,:,,q',.;-:>',\':', .- ,'; ',' i I , I I I I" I' [ 1 i , , 1 I I i , 'I C) ",' I. I' " " I " I, I/h "l....,..-,'l,""""} "")~j:iD';,' ... .J, ' " ,I, , ,',..'.-..,;,..,':..1..-'" . ..' '" . "~~':, . , .' ~ \'\ i:. ' ,.' ;.,'. " " I ,;~;di}' .', ' ,._,.:'...J,:-. ., y: . ":" . .< r -(.,' . :! . "', ' I ,." i I I ,.' ,. " . . ,,/. <'" '\'~;,iL : ',I',. , ", " l' ,Y,' ; ~::~,-,~,""~.~:.,,::.;,~;:,,;:-...~-.:.;;.,;"-.~,.::.:.,..~~.... '~.i::......~._:..._..:..:._,....;.~:.,_....:,' ,.", : ,_,t " , , i ." " -. :,'"", ,.' . , ' - .. , _.....~,-_......--_._..'------..__...;....-,',' .,"-.,--,.-..-., ...:..,:_~'_....~;.....~.,; , J , , City of Iowa City MEMORANDUM i , , , , , , , DATE: TO: FROM: RE: March 25, 1994 City Council City Manager Work Session Agendas and Meeting Schedule I I March 28, 1994 .6:30 P.M. Monday 7:00 P.M. 7:30 P.M. ' 7:45 P.M. 8:30 P.M. 8:50 P.M. - Special Council Meeting - Council Chambers Executive Session (Land Acquisition and Collective Bargaining) City Council Work Session - Council Chambers (Times approximate) Review zoning matters North Dubuque Street Elevation Project ~ Near South Side Redevelopment - Parking Requirements in CBS, Zone and Impact Fees Council agenda, Council time, Council committee reports - Consider an appointment to the Design Review Committee 7:00 P.M. , " ", March 29, 1994 7:30 P.M. - Regular Council Meeting - Council Chambers April 11, 1994 Monday 6:30 P.M. - City Council Work Session - Council Chambers Agenda pending Tuesday ~..- I ' f . ',~ c"'\ \J ~r:-' I ' ~, April 12, 1994 Tuesday 7:30 P.M. - Regular Council Meeting - Council Chambers ',' I I : I I : I~\ ,( . i : ~,-':.~,) fII( "'\'.~,,'::,'I:' ~~ ..' tP(, L"'''1 PENDING LIST Appointments to Mayor's Youth Employment Board - April 12, 1994 Appointments to the Charter Review Commission - May 10, 1994 "" ,( o '~~__L_"ML ,>-~~~___ ,~,,_:;~::':~,:8),~)t., "~:'~- '.~ '";'';~:''' '..'...'.,.,..,," ,I','. ,'" \",.., Ho' 'J:J', 'l"~""'~'" , , 25 I", ;': , [1 ,," ..'