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1978-05-09 Info Packet
MlLkW iLN• U BY JDRM I.IICROLAB LEDAR RAPIUS ANU LJL'� TO: eal Berlin, City Manager, Community Development DATE: April 26, 1978 and Dennis Kraft, Director of FROM: Julie Vann, CDBG Program Coordinator .(ub�_ RE: JCRP Small Cities Application Human Services Center ur On April 20, 1978, I met with Larry Heeren and Johnson County Regional Planning personnel to discuss the potential for funding �J a human services center with Community Development Block Grant - Small Cities funds. During the meeting Heeren emphasized that this type of a project would most likely be a single purpose application. He stated that single purpose applications must meet one of three problem areas: (A) Housing problems; (B) Deficiencies in public facilities which affect the up blit health and safety, and (C) Economic conditions. Heeren emphasized that if JCRP does submit a pre -application for this project, they must make a special attempt to document how this public building will directly impact low and moderate income people, and how it will improve public health and safety conditions. Since the pre -applications will be competitive (our grantsmanship game) he insinuated that a project of this type would not necessarily meet the HUD goals and objectives for conquering an imminent health threat, and therefore JCRP should make a special attempt to document the relationship of this project to that goal. Heeren did remind the group that there was a maximum limit of $400,000 to be awarded for any single purpose programs. Since HUD is anxious to see the successful completion of projects, they are encouraging cities to only undertake programs that can be completed within the alloted funding, or to have previously identified alternative funding sources. Heeren also spent time emphasizing that past performance on com- pleting Community Development Block Grant activities in a timely manner would be a key element in evaluating small cities applica- tions. He reminded JCRP to keep this in mind, since one entire year has passed since they were awarded their first CDBG allocation. Heeren seemed to encourage JCRP to develop a comprehensive small cities application (rather than a single purpose application), so that they could continue the Housing Rehabilitation and Site Improvements Programs that they have already started in small 41, / MICROI WIN BY JORM MICR6LAB irppr p.1 t"!". MIUROFILMLD BY JORM 141CROLAB • LEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS MUi[,L'�, Ur,, -2- , rural communities of Johnson County. Although more than one ap- plication can be submitted by an applicant, he encouraged the comprehensive application development by Johnson County at this point. Heeren did think that the program was a good idea. Fie urged JCRP to continue program development, and to involve the City as much as possible. There was a short discussion about what the City's role might be. Examples such as providing funding to acquire the site, or becoming involved with a cash commitment were discussed. I don't have a lot of time to spend on this project. Next fall when it resurfaces, maybe we can assign one of the Community De- velopment staff to help coordinate the City's role with the Johnson County effort. jm3/11-2 MICROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LA6 rrnnc a?�,In� . ,�z iaor+Fs 1I�itU11LMED BY JORM 111CROLAB CEDAk RAPIDS Ali!) uta, HUi'r,L, DATE: May 4, 1978 TO: City Manager and City Council FROM: Hugh Mose, Transit Manager RE: Transit Publicity So far this year Iowa City Transit has undertaken the following marketing projects: 1) Large display ads were purchased in both the Press Citizen and the Daily Iowanshowing evening schedules. Cost - $507.78. 2) "use It or Lose It" evening bus service fliers were dis- tributed with the City's energy newsletter. About 20,000 were mailed out just prior to the beginning of night service. Cost = $518.90 3) General transit awareness newspaper advertisements. Fifteen ads with various messages were run in both the Press Citizen and the Daily Iowan. Cost = $358.74. 4) Packets of transit information were distributed to new residents in the community through Welcome Wagon. Each information packet con- tains a system map, a complete set of schedules, and two (2) compli- mentary passes. About 150 packets have been distributed at a cost of 21� each. 5) New transit maps. Our three-year-old transit system map was revised and 15,000 new copies were printed. Cost = $2013.00. 6) Radio spots and Interstate Shopper ads placed by the Mall promoted Iowa City Transit bus service. No cost, courtesy of Emily Rubright of the Hall Merchants Association. 7) "You Could Have Ridden the Bus" signs were placed at the Mall. Printing cost = $80.00; placement courtesy of the Mall Merchants Assoc. 8) "Hear 1'e, Hear Ye" posters, telling of the new elderly and handicapped free service hours, were placed in about thirty locations around town. Cost = $100.00. 9) Three "Free Bus Service for the Elderly and Handicapped" ads were placed in the Press Citizen. Cost - $90.00. 10) A series of "Free Bus Service for the Elderly and Handicapped" ads were run in the Interstate Shopper. Cost = $240.00. 11) Iowa City Transit information was provided to the elderly at the Senior Center and other congregate meals sites, over 100 packets of maps and schedules were distributed at a cost of 21p each. = I4ICROPlu4r..n BY ' JORM MICRbLAB C(pAF I+AP!n; 14C V1019f5 s 1.11CRUF 1LMEU BY JORM MICROLAB Transit Publicity memo, Page 2 CEDAR RAPIDS AND UL:, ;IWNL, o"n 12) Radio advertising. Four messages, featuring general transit awareness, evening service, monthly passes, and Rider Appreciation Day, were played over KCJJ, KRNA, and KXIC-KICG. Estimated cost to date = $900.00. In addition to the above program, we are working on several other marketing projects: 1) Transit awareness messages. Small ads are being placed in both the Press Citizen and the Daily Iowan, running three times a week with variable messages. Cost per week - $90.00. 2) Revised Bus -and -Shop program. A two-month trial of a new plan to attract shoppers to public transit includes the cost of new coupons, publicity, and reduced -fare merchant incentive. Estimated cost = $800.00. 3) Wardway Park -and -Ride. To help reduce parking congestion down- town and to increase ridership on our Wardway route, commuters from south and southwest of Iowa City will be encouraged to park at Wardway and ride the bus downtown. Estimated cost = $500.00 for publicity. ( Progress on this program has been stalled by our inability to reach an agreement with the owner and managers of Wardway Plaza.) 4) Evening service promotion using VAL-PAK. Transit information and two free evening bus coupons will be distributed by direct mail to 10,000 Iowa City homes. Dates of distribution will be May 26th and 27th. Cost = $364.00. 5) Small ads in newspaper "Classified" section. Classified ads have been purchased in both the Press Citizen and the Daily Iowan, advising people to think about transit before buying a car or finding a home. Cost = $30.00 per week. 6) Continued radio advertising. New messages will be run during May and June on all three local stations. Various messages, including some prepared by the State DOT. Cost - $1800.00. ,�—Or l ll•1CU BY JORM MICR+LAB rrjAr ung,;.,• . 1V MiI:ROF IL;4ED BY JORI4 MICROLAB SEDAk RAPIDS AND ULS I•IuiNLj City of Iowa C"y u e,;; DATE: April 27, 1978 TO: teal Berlin and City Council FROM: Dick Plastino,`A-r or of Public works and Hugh Mose, Transit Manager RE: Rider Appreciation Day Saturday, April 15, Iowa City Transit held a Rider Appreciation Day. That day we carried a total of 4970 passengers, all free of charge. The Saturday prior to April 15th we counted 3310 riders and took in revenue of $568.49. The Saturday following April 15th we carried 3164 passengers and took in $518.75 from the farebox. Simple averaging of these figures reveals that had April 15th been an ordinary Saturday we would have carried about 3250 passengers and received approximately $550. Therefore Rider Appreciation Day cost the taxpayers of Iowa City $550.00. However, for its money the City got 1720 additional passenger trips. If one percent of these persons decide that riding the bus is a good idea and start buying a monthly pass each month, the revenue generated for the City over the coming year will be $1652. This would give a 3 to 1 payback. Costs incurred in advertising the free -fare day will be paid by the State as part of our IDOT transit assistance grant. We were awarded $10,000 for such marketing expenditures. In addition, transit ridership has been up substantially this winter, with corresponding increases in revenue. Through the first three quarters of fiscal year 1978,reccipts from the farebox and the sale of monthly passes totaled $264,400. If current trends continue, our total revenue for the year will be almost $330,000, or $10,000 more than expected. I4ICROI7ILI.IED BY DORM MICRbLAS cr,,p vArin`. 6101:1[5 ME tgICRUFILMLD BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND DLS b1U1uL5, iUei,; City of Iowa Citti MEMORANDUM DATE: May 3, 1978 TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council FROM: Angela Ryan, Asst. City Attorney �« i RE: Building Permits on North Side QUESTION PRESENTED What building permits may be issued for the North Side during the 60 day period prior to the enactment of the new zoning ordinance? CONCLUSION In the areas within the former moratorium area where no cha in zoning classification is contemplated, building permits may b issued in accordance with the present zoning classification. In the areas where a change of classification is proposed, permits may be issued for structures which would be permitted um the present and the proposed zoning classification. For example area is presently zoned R3A and the City proposes to rezone it t building permit for a duplex may be issued during the 60 day per other words, the most restrictive classification applies. MICROFILM BY 1 DORM MICR+LAB rrDAP V,1pin; • )rS M01?1F,5 MILkOFIL14LD BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS IUihLa, Ui+ City of Iowa City MEMORANDUM DATE: May 4, 1978 TO: Linda Schrieber FROM: HLYM RE: Bicyclists Riding the Wrong Way on One -Way Streets Ir Officers have been told to advise bicyclists, when observed violating the one-way street ordinance, to cease and desist under penalty of the law if the violation continues. MICROFILM BY i JORM MICR+LA6 MAP PAP P'� nrt MOPIIs WA 111tROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB A TO: F i.3 O `.4: 13E DATE: CEDAR RAPIDS AI'ID UES I•IUi(IL :Uv.h M-» M- o :t A l\r D U TA IONNA CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY Iowa City School Board Lolly Eggers, Di rector, T:%e;a City Public Lihoavy ]review of services pvovi.de:i by the public 3 ibrrivy to the students and teachers of :Ica:a Ci Ly Public Schools May 3, 1978 The public library has often wished for a keener appreciation of the role it plays in the formal education process. We welcome this opportunity to describe the services we 'provide for the students and teachers of the community and hope this report can stimulate a close .corking relationship between the Library Board and School Board and between the library staff and the adminis- trators, teachers and librarians of the district. Serving the needs of the students, teachers and librarians of the school district is such an integral part of the everyday life of the Iowa City Public Library that it is difficult. to describe and quantify the major areas of service. No such description can fully portray either the impact- that the school program has on the public library or the degree to which the public schools depend on the public library for day-to-day support. I. Some General Statistics 1. About 26° of all users of the public library are school aged children 5 - 17. 2. There are 5,200 registered borrowers in the Children's Department (pre-school through 6th grade) and an estimated 3,100 young people 12 through 17 with adult cards. Allow- ing 10% of this total for pre-schoolers and children in private schools dr from outside the district, it indicates that from 75 - 800 of the children attending Iowa City public schools have ICPL library cards. (students living in Hills and University Heights are not eligible for free cards.) 3. A higher percentage of teachers hold ICPL borrowers cards than any other occupation group. The following table is based on a study made of all residents who registered for a borrowers card in the first eight months of 1973• All former cardholders who used the library during this period were required to re-regi.st.er. 89S Y._. �•i 141C Of RM[O BY JORM MICR+LAB CFnnP PnP17 .Pry, MOPIrs 611CROFIUMED BY JORM 141CROLAB 1'1 f 11 [.01'1.0 Occupation 1-73_ Elementary & Secondary Taachers Other' Professionals l;ar.nScrs Sales Clevical Craftsman/ Operations Transport/Farm/ Laborers Service/ Household CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS i•lpiiiL�, ojei,. ur;t;ir:f; _to_ Tylia Citi;;ns 29.8& 264 P: vl'S C%i'!'d in this OCctl 1: 1.0 f1 1,166 22.8° 677 9-73 _(1970 census) 327 2,124 644 118 814 9.01% '/9.1 in 3 rnor.ths as percent' of ].)70 census total 1,817 6,083 29.8& 264 11433 18.4% 2.66 1,166 22.8° 677 3,614 18.7% 327 2,124 15.3% 118 1,185 9.01% 407 4,204 9.7% TOTALS 4,520 20,623 21.9% Other surveys indicate that between 60 and 70 Percent of the non- student population use the public library at least once a ,year, (some in ways that do not require a bor'r•owLr's card.) This study demonstrates that elementary and secondary teachers in Iowa City probably use the library more intensely than any other occupation. 4. About $70,000 a year is spent on new books, films, recordings, periodicals and pamphlets. About 20% of this amount goes for materials whose purchase was influenced by school assignments and requests from teachers. II. Services to Schools From the Children's 2�art:ment I. The Children's Librarian estimates that over 3,000 items a month are checked out to elementary teachers from the Child- ren's collections. About ten teachers a month request the library staff to select a collection of 10 to 50 titles on a particular subject or reading level. Another 100 to 125 trips are made by teachers each month to select and check-outmaterials for school -related projects. The Children's Library contains 35,000 volumes, about four times the size of the average elementary school media center. 2. Nearly half of the telephone calls received in the Children's Department are school -related. This means there are about 1,000 calls a year from school librarians, teachers, students and parents making a wide variety of direct information re-' quests or asking questions about specific library materials. MICROFILM BY JORM MICR+LAB rrOAP, ppPIPS • 9F5 NOIt4C5 Mii•k0iILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIUS AW UL, IUIJIL: , •J-1 3. All aV',�;'2 ire r"J �7lhi I,,1v.-n a tray coille to tihP CIli.�ui'U 11'S Rao in for ..si:;tan,;e ::ith r•cports or other a!Isi;;nalents. Requests run tihc ^.!Ut from how chipmunks hi.bevnate to the history Oi' i:. Ci r•i .-g1LIS. A Lyni(,8l ScnOOl ,7 B;t1' finds them supply.ing ctatovials (ncir and old) on planets, birds, social customs, geogranhi.c areas, specific anirnal.s, Iow, a history, Indians, b:iographics of famous people, crafts, legClhds, sc'Lence es:p41':L lui3n t5, weather or all,, oi:iher sub- ject under consideration i.11 the I,rade schools of Io:'ra City. 4. Reading readiness and beginning reading skills are fostered and sustained by library programs and materials for the pre-school child and suirlmer activities for elementary aged children. A lame picture book collection, hundreds of easy readers, educational toys and games, regular story - hours and film sinowinSs.are some of the library's materials and programs that build interest and skill in reading and literature. About 25,000 children a year attend storyhours and film programs including regular attendance by many of the area nursery schools and day care centers. About 160,000 items a year are checked out from the Children's Room. 5. The Children's Librarian has developed bibliographies on special subjects, held workshops on crafts and storytelling and sponsored children's art and wp.1ting project's in coop- eration with elementary teachers and librarians. In the past five years thousands of entries have been received from Iowa City children for the annual Children's Department story writing contest. Stories are judged and the winning stories are published by the library as a way to stimulate and recognize creative writing skills of the elementary aged child. Tours and visits by school classes the library. The younger children learned library skills at a larger reports or hear a story. All sixth tour the entire library and receive cards during the tour. Emphasis is using the reference and information for school assignments but also to to the library as a lifelong resour and information. III. Services of the Adult DeRartment A. Special Staff for School Needs are a regular event at try out their newly libr'ar'y and work on school graders are invited to their "adult" library placed not only on services of the library orient the young people ce for learning, recreation The library's Young Adult Librarian is assigned to provide materials and services for the junior and senior high school student. Beginning with the sixth grade tours, she introduces the older student's to the wider scope of services offered by the library, keeps the other information librarians and subject specialists informed about the particular needs of junior and high school students, and coordinates with school librarians and teachers about on- going assignment's from the schools which will be making demands on the collections and information services at AICR01'ILMID BY JORM MICR�LAB ffilAP V:11'I �`. ��fS vD14f r• MiLROFILMW BY JORM MICROLAB M LEDAR RAPIDS AND uL5 SiUiNLS the 1 ibravy She m;cts oath fall.'ell"l7 the school ]ibrarLlns to use ';e.s:.;cr,:ueu Alert' foi•:ns to and encoura�'es tcaciicrs � i inform the library :ihfead of t-Ime about major assSr'uments. B. Effect of Contemporary_Teaching_I•iet-hods Changes in curriculum and teaching methods in the last decade have had a great impact- on the library's services to school age children. 'Pile enlarged curriculum, indivi- dualised instruction, inter -disciplinary projects, emphasis on use of primary sources, fevrer textbooks with varied rCa ding assl.FntrycntS, arid tI7C USC of non -print !!led l.a to enhance or enrich the Or leal`ning process have all contributed to the incr•oased variety, range of subjects and formats requested by the student- (and assumed to be at the public bibrar•y by the teacher.) "Decade" studies, assiEnments tiaili.ch compare tile periodicals of 1920 and 1960, studying the history of the small towns of Johnson County, vocational studies by junior high stu- dents, the research projects of City High's SCATE group (Students Concerned About The Environment) and compilation of slang dictionaries are merely a few samples of the kinds ,j of assignments which annually engage the retrieval skills of the library's information/subject specialists and in- fluence the selection of new materials in order to enlarge the resources available for similar assignments in the future.. j' C. Information Services Teachers and students alike depend on the library's resources and the librarian's skills to find particular items or facts to complete an assignment or prepare a unit of study. The school system has no central reference service and media centers have limited reference collections. Librarians call the library's information service for answers to questions which can't be obtained from their collecti°ns ototo request identify, bibliographic information about items they wish locate, or order. Teachers call for addresses, quotations, definitions and origins of words, dates, statistics, names of government officials and agencies, bibliographies, book reviews, laws and regulations, court decisions, time zones, pronunciations or spelling of foreign words, candidates for office, reprints of speeches, maps, reproductions of famous paintings, abio- graphical of specific people, places, events or objects, graphical material on local officials, specific facts about Iowa City, Johnson County or Iowa, or a recording of a play, song, symphony or dance -tune. MICROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LAS nnn rn� t� •yrs MOINFr I•IiGiWi iLMLD BY JORM MICROLAB all Special Resources CEDAk RAVWS AND uL'; ;•IuL'iL Uro' The film collection is popular with teachers and lib- rar.ians and films are often booked weeks in advance. Ii he library has recordings collection of 4,500 items and subscribes to over 350 periodcials. Local history collections, pamphlet files of coir:munity affairs and current events and extensive backfiles of magazines and newspapers are other important resources that are not available to the schools except through the public library. The library has the largest collection of college catalogs in the community but we also find that young people looking for other kinds of post high school training- truck driving, mortuary science, beauty school, piano tuning - use our vocational files either to explore career opportunities or to locate specific training institutions. E. Use of Materials and Physical Facilities by Students Few young people telephone the library information service but they fill up the limited number of study tables after i school, evenings and weekends. During these periods it is not unusual for three-fourths of library seating to be occupied by students obviously, working on school assignments. They often take the full -attention of the information librarians on duty to assist in inter•prd;ing assignments and locating materials. Paging staff must also be available to provide back issues ij of periodicals from non-public storage areas. About 5,400 items a year are retrieved from these storage areas and one-half to three-fourths of these requests are for use geierat'ed by elementary and secondary school children working on assignments. No matter what the resources of the school media center, when children are given research assignments for which they need access to library resources they often must depend on the evening and weekend hours of the public library to enable them to complete their reports. When 25 to 50 students are all assigned reports on 18th century French history, social protest in art, or the native people of Africa, there is no place but the public library which can provide enough materials. When 100 or more students have the same assignment, the library's resources are soon depleted and the student goes away feeling frus- trated and upset with the library's failure to supply what the teacher suggested "should be available at theublic library." The library's collection of p 75,000 adult volumes is more than four times the size of the junior high or high school libraries - but not enough for some large assignments. '• , „r: MICROFILMED BY JORM MICR6LAH FFIAG '•1Di'V MIUNO' ILMEU BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAVIUS AND ULA -E- Debate, sci,?nee and social studies fairs, dramatic and nnlsi cal pi-odrnct:i.ons are other school project's that bring students .into the library -checking citations, looking I or :ideas and reseaiching facts. 1V. Limitations of Current Library Facilities There are several important ways in which the present facilities are inadequate to meet school related use. 1. There is insufficient space to build a collection large enough to meet both school and general community needs. 2. There is insufficient seating space to accommodate needs of school children when large numbers are working on assignments. (total seating capacity is about 85 excluding the children's room) There is sometimes "competition" among students and adults for certain areas. i 3• The library lacks any space for group study. Students sometimes need'to work in groups, This can annoy other library users unless enclosed group study rooms are pro- vided. This is a frequent request. Student -tutor meet- ing space is also frequently requested. 4. Almost all backfiles of periodicals are stored in non-public spaces and must be requested. This slows down student research efforts and discourages full utilization of this valuable resource. 5• The library lacks media production and viewing space where maps can be copied, book illustrations photocopied, slides selected, films previewed or tapes edited. V. Summary Contemporary education requires reliance on all kinds of print and non -print resources. Both students and teachers frequently need access to collections larger than those school media centers can provide and available when schools are closed. They need the help of trained staff to locate and utilize these resources for assignments, independent projects and classroom preparation. The young child benefits from pre-school library experiences and the student needs to learn that the public library can be a life- long source of information, education, and recreational opportunities. cc: City Council Library Board MICROFILMED DY ' JORM MICR6LAB MAP PIT"' • '')rs ,.I0111(" b11�i<UFILME0 BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAk RAPIDS AND uLS ;•1u„iL City of Iowa City DATE: May 5, 1978 TO: Neal Berlin and City Council FROM: Richard Plastino, Director of Public Works RE: Signalization of Gilbert Street/Bowery Street-P� ntiss Street The following is a list of recommendations in regard to the signalization of the above referenced intersection: 1. Install signalization at the intersection using a two- phase controller. See the attached drawing. The first phase will grant right-of-way to Gilbert Street north and south, the second phase will grant right-of-way to Bowery Street and pedestrians. This controller will be semi - actuated which means Bowery Street's turn and the pedestrians' turn will occur only when vehicles or pedestrians are present to demand right-of-way. 2. The Gilbert Street crossing point should be moved from the existing extension on the north side of Prentiss Street southerly to the extension of the north side of Bowery Street. 3. An adult crossing guard should be maintained at this location during school hours. 4. Prentiss Street should be made to be one-way westbound from Gilbert Street to Maiden Lane. This is a distance of approxi- mately 100 feet. Additionally, an island should be constructed on the south half of Prentiss Street so that the one-way characteristics on Prentiss Street will be self enforcing. 5. South bound traffic on Gilbert Street will be restricted from making a right turn on red onto Prentiss Street. Additionally, the traffic southbound on Gilbert will be required to stop for red lights north of Prentiss Street. 6. No access be permitted to Gilbert Street from the southerly terminus of Maiden Lane. This intersection, because of its offset characteristics, has presented many unique problems in the design of the signalization. Public Works makes the following comments in regard to the recommended signalization scheme. I. It is recommended that the school crossing guard continue at this location to insure a safe crossing. We feel a traffic signal without an adult guard is more dangerous than the existing situation of adult guards without a signal. MA �" -- MICROIALMED BY JORM MICR6LAB CIDN' onr:nS . '1r %1OPIF5 MICRUFILMED BY JORM I.IICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS ;4U1NL,, ;U✓n, -2- 2. The changing of Prentiss Street to a west bound one-way street from Gilbert Street to Maiden Lane will remove many significant vehicle -vehicle conflicts and vehicle -pedestrian conflicts during the side street signal phase. If Prentiss Street were to remain two way traffic, the potential for conflict between left turning vehicles from Prentiss onto Gilbert and straight through traffic from Bowery onto Prentiss would be in direct conflict. This conflict would occur as a surprise to both drivers. Causing Prentiss Street to become one-way westbound will eliminate this potential for vehicular conflict occurring. 3. The City's Legal Department is reviewing the issue of access loss to Gilbert Street from the southerly terminus of Maiden Lane. No opinion has been made as to the legality of this portion of the proposal. The Department of Public Works is most anxious to meet with the Council and discuss this proposed signalization scheme. This is a very difficult signalization problem. jm5/3 Y• tfr MICROFILI•IED BY JORM MICR¢LAB CCDM il�tl p5 Df5 !40I=IE5 14iuRUFIL&D BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UL.) MuiliL:, :un„ TME 5HAMROCKI I 80 Row. r THE PLAINSOWOMAN BOOKSTRE — IOWA CITY < I BLDG. 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MICROI ILMLII By DORM MICR6LA9 MliwWt ILIAL) BY JORM MICRULAB 'N • LLDM RAPIOS Arid UL TKA�F=16, ES N (S;rl t -J EE K I 4 14 1 C.POr I LMI 0 By JORM MICR6LAE3 a 0r i 0 W-qblhlqmi alom IM I n 10 MA60V qor iL;,It U By JORM MICROLAb CEUAR Mild; AIIU LJL, Al—A VEA 16 ALJrO HO.JtPf 1-1 TKUCK, �-f*p Mli.,tUf ILAD BY JORM DIICROLAB CEUAR RAPIUS ANu uL� :'u�fL., •�++ WulP Exhibit C _AL /" i &Yz i I joRm MICROLAS -T' iil�:�� II to =-�,� tlt I joRm MICROLAS -T' TKUCK, Fq f I, ,'-11o+:n av .MRM MICROLAB • CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES I.JUINL�, idw, E �. �i✓.1F'I_ ��� v1�1 s97:1 MILI(OfILMEU BY JORM MICROLAB Mr. Keith Kafer Iowa City Chamber of Commerce P. 0. Box 673 Iowa City, Iova 52240 Dear Sir: • CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS 'lvihu, LOW' 'larch 6, 1978 Our Company is interested in the 19+ acre plant site in your industrial park located on Highway 6. Your City Engineer, Mr. Eugene Dietz indicated he felt your wastewater treatment plant could handle the effluent from our proposed plant, but chat permission would need to be obtained from the Iova Department of Environmental Quality since during heavy rains the plant is overloaded. We would like the City to approach the I.D.E.Q. and obtain their d ruling in writing for permission of an industry with the following wastewater quantities and characteristics to be added to the system: jA. Flow Volumes Initial (Late 1979 or early 1980) Ultimate (1983 or 1984) Daily Wastewater 0.100 MCD 0.182 MGD Average Daily Flow 69. CPM 126. GPM Maximum Daily Flow 210. CPM 315. CPM i' D. Anticipated Wastewater Effluent Characteristics Production Day Average Pounds/Production Day Parameter Strength, Mg/1 Initial Ultimate BODS 310 259 471 Suspended Solids 220 183 334 Crease G 100 83 152 p1l Range 6 to 10 -- -- JJB:yls Very truly }ours, Cy <( James J.ggauer - 141tROMMED BY JORM MICR6LAB ffOaR P.nPin�.. p(s Id01'if5 MICROr MED BY JORM MICR+LAB CrN1R NMIM • iFr mows 1'I10MILMLO BY JORM 141CROLAB CLOAk RAPIDS AND UES Table of Contents Page SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • ' i . . . 1 MEMORANDUM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I. STATEMENT OF OPPOSITION TO THE STAFF PROPOSAL; PROPOSED ALTERNATIVES I AND II . . . . . . . . . . l A. Proposed Alternative I . . . . • . . • • • • • I B. Proposed Alternative II . . . . . . . . . . . 2 II. THE BUDGETARY, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND HUMAN COSTS OF THE CITY ST'AFF'S CURRENT PROPOSAL . . . . . . . 3 A.Impact on the Budget and on Property Taxes 4 B. Impact on Life in Neighborhoods in the Melrose Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. Evictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2. Environmental Impact . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3. Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 III. CURRENT TRAFFIC PROBLEMS IN THE GRAND AVENUE- MELROSE AREA --THE RELATIVE CAPACITY OF THE STAFF's PLAN AND OUR ALTERNATIVE L TO.SOLVE THESE PRO13LDIS EFFICIENTLY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 A. The Bottleneck at Byington Road and Grand Avenue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 B. Traffic Flow Between Rienow and Slater Dormitories . . . . . . . . . . . . • • • • • 10 C. Melrose -Woolf Rush -Hour Congestion . . . . . . 10 D. The Melrose Court and Myrtle Avenue shortcut . 14 IV. FUTURE TRAFFIC NEEDS --THE RELATIVE CAPACITY OF THE STAFF'S PLAN AND OUR ALTERNATIVE II TO MEET . 15 THEM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. The University's Hospital Complex . . . . . . 16 B. The University's Pedestrian Campus . . . . . . 18 C. The Urban Renewal Project . . . . . . . . . . 20 D. Future Growth in West Iowa City . . . . . . . 21 E. Increased Traffic from Route 518 . . . . . . . 22 F. A Highway from the West to Fast of Iowa City . 25 S•��Y'=' MICROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LAO fC OAR 64PIPS !SFS MOINC.S ! I4ICROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LA6 CMAR 2nr!M • rrs MDI!+rs f•11t.ROFILj'4ED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND DES :•IuiNLS, luw;+ Be S U M M A R Y A N D C O N C L U S I O N S The city staff's plan to widen Melrose Avenue and construct a diagonal to the Burlington Street bridge is not in the public interest and should not be funded in its present form. Our recommended Alternatives I and II offer a more reasonable and efficient solution to the present and future problems the staff's plan is intended to solve. In short, we recommend that Melrose Avenue be left a two-lane road and that minor changes be made in the Grand Avenue - Melrose facility to deal with the problems that are local to that area (Alternative I). We also recommend that after Freeway 518 is constructed, Melrose Avenue be protected from the impact of the Melrose interchange on Freeway 518 by designation of Melrose as a local road and designation of North Dubuque Street and Routes 1, G, and 218 as the pri- s Mary routes to downtown Iowa City and the University's hospital complex from points north, west, and south of Iowa City. A. The C- . of the Cta f'o Proposal. The staff's plan will cost over $2,000,000, will have a 2.5 mill impact on the budget for 10 years, will destroy completely one neighbor- hood, and will result in several evictions; it will produce pollution, noise, vibration, and a safety hazard in what is now an attractive resi- dential area. In contrast, our alternative would cost the taxpayers very little, would cause no evictions, and would destroy or impair no neighborhoods. B. The Current Problems of the Grand Avenue - Melrose Area. The traffic problems in the immediate Grand Avenue - Melrose area that are susceptible to solution are a so-called bottleneck on Grand Avenue at Byington Road and traffic flow between Rienow and Slater dormitories. These two problems can be solved at relatively small cost by widening the Grand Avenue - Byington Road intersection, altering traffic flows in the area, and erecting an overpass between the dormitories. The major bottleneck in the west -cast flow of traffic, however, is the intersection of Grand Avenue and Riverside Drive. This problem can be solved only by closing Riverside Drive to traffic. DORM MICR+LAB ❑'DAP an rel n.. Of` moms HILROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULA iUi(iL: -iA.- Construction of the proposed project as a respon5o to the rush- hour congestion at t:he Melrose and Woolf intersection would be excessive and inefficient because the University is the CAUSU of this problem; there are many alternatives available to the University to alleviate the problem it has created, Widening Melrose would not solve the prob- lem; there are cheaper ways the city can alleviate the problem, and the slight benefits to be gained if the problem could be solved do not justify the enormous costs. Also, the proposed project will not reduce the use of Melrose Court and Myrtle Avenue as a shortcut. Our Alternative I is a reasonable and proportional response to the i area's current problems; the st'aff's proposal is pure overkill. C. Future Traffic Needs and Problems. The city staff also argues that the project is needed to serve the future needs of (1) the University's hospital complex, (2) tile urban renewal project, and (3) future residents of west Iowa City and beyond. lie believe Chat the facts do not support these contentions. First, the present road system is adequate to serve the hospital's current and anticipated future volume of patients. Future growth of the hospital will not be as large as the University's planners now suggest. Moreover, the University's opposition to the Melrose inter- change on Freeway 518 indicates that the University's officials in fact share our conviction that the Melrose - 518.1inlc to the interstate system to the west and north is not necessary to meet the hospitals' future needs. Second, the widening of Melrose and Byington will have no effect on the urban renewal project because there already is an abundance of fast access routes to downtown Iowa City --from points north and west, North Dubuque Street is the fastest route in, and from the* South fast access is provided by Routes 1, 6, and 218. These routes will continue to provide the fastest and most preferred points of access whether or not Melrose is widened. Third, prudent projections of future development in west Iowa City indicate that the population living in that end of town will be small. Morcove:r, the benefits this project would produce for those people affected (a 10 or 20 second shorter ride ;imKvrancu 01 ,r,l JORM MICR+LAB CrIIAP RARIP' • !TS MOPIFS 6110(OHOLO BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAk RAPIOS AND "OLS HuikL„ -1.11- to Iowa City) are not of sufficient importance to justify the costs of this project. Nor can the project be justified as necessary to serve the desire of University officials to have a pedestrian -oriented campus. It is extremely unlikely that the pedestrian campus will be constructed as currently planned because; it has not been approved by the Regents; it is facing stiff opposition from within the University community; and key features of the plan (closing the WesLlawn curve and the Iowa Avenue bridge) are opposed strongly by the city staff. Without city and state approval of these key features of the plan, the University never will actually "need" a wider Melrose as part of its c.unpus plan. And, even with city and state approval of these Ivey features of the plan, the University's "need" would not'becoine actual for nearly a decade. 41e 'I think a commitment now of $2,000,000 in public funds in the name of such a nebulous, long-range, and uncertain plan would be considered highly improper r by the vast majority of Iowa City's taxpayers. The Freeway 518 interchange at Melrose Avenue will put more traffic onto Melrose Avenue, but this "problem," if indeed one develops, will be aggravated rather than solved by the staff's proposal. Rather than widening the road and attracting more traffic, the city should protect the Melrose area by adopting methods which minimize the flow of traffic onto Melrose Avenue. Also, we believe the flow of traffic onto Melrose from Freeway 518 will be minimized by the many natural obstacles on Melrose which will delay a motorist traveling on Melrose from Freeway 518 to downtown Iowa City. The final argument in support of the project is that a west -east in -town four -lane highway across Iowa City is needed and the Melrose project is the first and necessary step in carrying out that plan. We do not believe the need for the highway has been shown. Also, such a project would frustrate the objective of carrying traffic around rather than through Iowa City. Moreover, it would cost millions of dollars and would impair many neighborhoods for the sake of only marginal benefits to shoppers, commuters, and interstate travelers, and it is 1 11MKV1 ILMU ui .,1 DORM MICR+LAB (FOAI` pnPi'�`. • 'SFS FIOI:�FS I MILROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB -iv- CEDAR RAPIUS AND ULS MUihL,, 'U'd opposed by nearly all of the uelghborhoodn t.h:tt would be nffecerd by it --Burlington Street from StUMUL to Muscatine, west across Muscatine to Scott Boulevard, and from Scott Boulevard to I-80. At the very least, a city-wide referendum should be conducted before such a vast and controversial project is undertaken. In summary, we think the city staff's Melrose proposal is an over- reaction to problems that can be handled with more limited and far less costly alternatives. The time has come in the highway planning process to stop the destruction of Iowa City's in -town neighborhoods and to concentrate on their protection. We think that tae, as much as any other group in this city, are entitled to an envi. people are put ahead of cars. I Also, we object to our exclusion from participati stages in the planning of this project. If any Furth is given to altering traffic patterns in the Melrose area, we should be given notice and an opportunity to continuing basis. Finally, we request that the city to submit in writing a documented (cost/benefit) just plans for the Melrose area, and that we be given acce information and granted an opportunity to respond in further staff proposals affecting the Melrose area. 141LKUt1LMtu V JORM MICR+LAB C(f)l.R I;pntn5 pf5 .dOINC` MILROFILFIED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND uLS MultiL , ;Jw, -I- M 1- MIsM01tANDVM I. STATEMIiNT OF OPPOSITION TO TIB- STAFF PROPOSAL; PROPOSED ALTERNATIVES I AND Il. We believe that the city staff's plan to widen Melrose Avenue and construct a diagonal to the Burlington Street bridge (see Appendix A) is not in the public interest and should not be funded in its present form. In its place we recommend two alternatives --one which can solve the immediate traffic problem in the Grand Avenue - Melrose area, and the second which suggests a solution to the longer -range problem of carrying traffic from west Iowa City and beyond into Iowa City in the 1/ most efficient manner. A. Proposed Alternative I (See Appendix B). Alternative 1, which is directed toward the immediate traffic problem in the Grand Avenue - Melrose area itself, involves; 1, curving and widening the intersection of ilyi.ngton Road and Grand Avenue to eliminate the bottleneck which now exists there, 2. modifying the flow of traffic onto Grand Avenue from Byington Road and from the north spur of South Grand Avenue to minimize the traffic danger at these inter- sections, 3. converting Melrose Avenue to a one-way road between South Grand Avenue and Byington Road to speed the flow of traffic off South Grand Avenue and Melrose onto Grand Avenue, and 4. constructing an overpass between Slater and Rienow dormitories to reduce the safety hazard for pedestrians moving between these buildings. 1/ For ehc purposes of this analysis, we assume that Route 518 will be constructed, although the placement of: the road in a way that it will connect with Melrose is still in doubt because of environ- mental litigation and rising discontent with the decision to put an intersection nt. Melrose Avenue. JORM MICRTLAW M)AP flftr70'•Pf5'•1 rir1 f•IILkOFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB Sa CEDAk RAp1US AND ULS MuIhL�, :u'++:• B. Proposed Alternntiva 11 (See Appendix C). Alternative 11, which goes to the long-range: consequences of of the projected Freeway 518 interchange on Melrose'Avenue, includes: 1. designation of Melrose Avenue as a local street with low speed limits to serve shoppers and commuters and hospital users coming from west Iowa City and those parts of Johnson County in the vicinity of the intersection of Route 518 and 2/ Melrose Avenue, 2. maintenance of Melrose Avenue as a two-lane two-way street with no on -street parking, with low speed limits, and with through truck traffic prohibited, 3. for traffic coming from the west via I-80 or from the north via I-380, a. designation of I-80 and North Dubuque Street as the primary route to downtown Iowa City, and b. designation of I-80 and Routes 6-218 as the primary JI route to the University's west -side hospital complex, and 4. for traffic coming from the south via Route 518, designation of Routes 218 and 1 as the primary routes/td downtown Iowa City and the west -side hospital complex. Alternative II reflects what we believe the evidence indicates will be the fastest and safest, and therefore the natural, traffic routes into Iowa City. Alternative II also reflects our belief that the city government should protect us from the consequences of Route 518 by minimizing the flow of traffic onto Melrose Avenue from Route 518 and should not aggravate The road can be so designated on Route 516 north of Melrose Avenue. 3/ These designations can be made north and west of the I-80 inter- section with I-380 and Route 51.8. 4/ These designations can be made on Route 518 south of Clic respec- tive interchanges. JORM MICR+LAB UDAR PAr!pV! MOMB MICROFILK D BY JORM MICROLAB -3- CEOAk RAPIDS AND UL`> •Iu INL�, :urrn the Route 518 problem by enlarging Melrose Avenue and increasing the flow of cars and trucks into the Melrose area. We believe that the city staff's current proposal to build a four -lane highway with unlimited access and a 25-30 m.p.h• speed limit through the Melrose area is an overreaction to the area's current problems and overlooks alternative ways of i' anticipated traffic loads into downtown carrying current and Iowa city and the hospital area. The project will divert nearly $2,000,000 from higher-prior.i.ty program!:, such as mass transit, and will destroy or seriously impair the neighborhoods which lie in its path --all for the sake of very minor benefits to the University of Iowa and to commuters, shoppers, and land st side of Iowa City and be developers on the weyond. Finally, it is hard for us to believe that funding is being recommended on a proposal of this scale and potential impact without prior submission of the plan to the Johnson Commission for consideration along c i.o l Planning Co unt g na Y R 5/ with ocher allcrnatives. Also, we believe that because the staff considers the ldelrose project as the first step 1.11 the construction of a major west -east four -lane highway across Iowa City, no further consideration should be given to the ferendum on the desirability Melrose project until a city-wide re of the entire plan has been conducted. II. THE BUDGETARY, ENVIRONMBNTAl., AND HUNAN COSTS OF THE CITY STAFF'S CUItRENT PROPOSAL we believe that it is important to examine first the costs associ- ated with the staff's proposal. It is because of the enormity of these costs as compared with the very slight benefits the plan will produce that we believe the proposal is not in the public interest and that our T--- conal >/ A major Purpose of the current study being conducted by the Reg. ider the potential. effectiveness of Planning Commission is to cons various alternative traffic plans for Iowa City and Johnson County. JORM MICE}+LAB MAP PATIOS • ?[S MOM 1,11CR0FILMED BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND uLS blJihLJ, iw,;, recommended alternatives stand as a more reasonable response to the areals traffic problems and as adequate means of satisfying the legitimate needs of the University of Iowa and the downtown Iowa City business community. A. Impact on the Budget and on Property Taxes. 6/ The direct cost of the Melrose project is $1,275,000, to be paid from $1,110,000 in general obligation bond receipts 7/ and $165,000 in general revenue sharing funds. If the bonds are issued at 6.57, for 10 years as the staff currently plans, the interest costs will add an additional $721,500 to the bill, while the opportunity costs on the $165,000 revenue sharing money used 8/ will add another $107,250, making the total price $2,103,750. If the bonds are financed over 20 years instead of LO years, the total cost will be over $2,900,000. All of this money will be paid by Iowa City taxpayers. Not even the revenue sharing money will be "free," since the use of revenue sharing funds for this project will mean they will not be available for programs that are financed exclusively from the. property tax. We have calculated that if the Melrose Avenue project is financed over a 10 year period, it will represent a total expend - 9/ iture of $143 for each household in Iowa City and on the basis of the existing tax base the project will represent an annual 10/ 2.5 mill differential in Lite Iowa City tax rate for 10 years.— 6/ It is not clear if this figure includes the cost of acquiring homes in the path of the project. Neither is it clear if this is at today's prices or takes into account future inflation. See Appendix ll for a budget summary. 7/ $525,000 (1974) qnd $585,000 (1977). 8/ If the $165,000 in revenue sharing funds, instead of being used for this project, were used to retire a $165,000 10 year 6.5% outstanding 9/ bond, the interest saving (opportunity cost) would be $107,250, In 1970, Iowa City hnd 14,766 households. If the project is financed 10/ over 20 years, the per -household total cost will be $199. At the current t:nx base, one mill produccn $84,500. Letter from Ray Walls to Iowa City City Council, August 31, 1973. If fi.nnnced over 20 years, the impact per year would be 1.74 mills, JORM MICR4�LA6 fFDA1* P"111. r, lIL.ROHLMLD BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAVIOS AMO DO Mui:i'L,, iJv1" -5- For the owner of a home with an assessed valuation of $7,000 (whish is typical), the project will mean an annual difference of $17 in 11/ his or her tax bill for 10 years, B. Impact on ].i.fe in Neighborhoods in the Melrose Area, 1. Evictions. No one wants to be forcibly evicted from his or her home, and the psychological and economic costs of such an action are obvious. This project will cut a swath through the heart of an attractive, well-maintained residential neighborhood that has stood for nearly 50 years on Grand Avenue Court. Under the current- plan, seven of the 10 residences facing Grand Avenue Court will be demolished. Four of these seven dwellings are 12/ privately owned; three of them currently are occupied by their owners, and one is occupied by a tenant. The heads of two of these families are or are soon to be retired, and both of these families plan to live on Grand Avenue Court permanently. The project also will evict a family from a privately -owned, tenant -occupied home west of Byington Road, and will demolish a day care center. The law of eminent domain does not compen- sate for the psychological effects of an eviction, nor does it even cover the purely economic losses of one who wants to live in equivalent housing in Iowa City. These losses are especially severe at this time of skyrocketing interest rates. 2. Environmental impact. No one wants to live next to a four -lane highway. To understand why, simply stand next to Route 6-218 at any time of the day. Noise, smell, vibration, and ugliness dominate the scene. This is what the staff's plan will bring to the remains of Grand Avenue Court and to all of Melrose Avenue in 11/ If financed over 20 years, the annual tax impact would be $12, aitho1p,11 the total 20 year bill would be over $240. 12/ The University of Iowa owns the other six residences. MILNUI'ILMLU sr a( JORM MICR+LAB CfONi P,9p1nc shS 1'101'1!'5 MICROFII.MED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS AUINL,, :Uf;i -0- Iowa City, which are now attractive and desirable residential. neighborhoods. 'These effects will spi.11over onto adjacent neighborhoods al.no, and because they are uncompensated by the city, they lower the property values of all of the homes affected. Enlarging Melrose Avenue will cause an increase in the volume of traffic on Melrose, which in turn will make access to Melrose at the many intersections along it more difficult 13/ and dangerous. The same effect will be felt throughout University Heights. The residents of University Heights are affected by the decisions of Iowa City and should be taken into account by our government, and we expect the same con - 14/ sideration from the government of University heights. By increasing the traffic flowing to the Burlington Street bridge, the staff's plan will increase the wait required to get across Riverside Drive and onto the bridge. As one regular Cambus rider pointed out, the wait at the bridge is incrrnscd by every new increment of traffic flowing down Melrose. This fact holds true no matter how wide Melrose itself is. An enlargement of Melrose Avenue will destroy eight tennis courts currently available to area residents and will further shrink the size of the rapidly disappearing athletic fields 15/ adjacent to Melrose and Wolf Avenue.^ 3. Safety. The proposed expansion will also produce a dangerous barrier for people moving from the north to the south across 13 If the staff project is built, there will remain six intersections in the Melrose area and 10 intersections in University Heights and west Iowa City. The city accident map shows that the great majority of accidents occur at intersections. 14/ The suggestion that University Ileights can be coerced Lu open its borders to four. -lane L•raffic by running a four -lane highway to either side of its borders is not befi.tLi.ng a community which in interested in pronating the public interest by roasounbi methods. 15/ The University's construction of parking lons on these fJelds have rut their size by a third. ,i MICROFILMED DY JORM MICR+LAB [rDA¢ RAMPS . 'irs MOI'7C5 9 r41LRUFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB -7- CEDAR RAPIDS AND DLS IiU1iiE�, i�rl. Melrose Avenue. Increased traffic, especially trucks and the cars of out-of-towners who are less likely to observe the speed limits, will make pedestrian crossings more difficult. Bike riding to and from school and to and from City Park also will be more dangerous. This is a particular concern because of the large numbers of children who must cross Melrose or who use it as a bicycle route to reach West high School and the two elementary schools serving Lite arca, Roosevelt and 16/ Ernest horn. The enlarged road also will pose a threat to the over 50 preschool children who attend seven day care centers in the 17/ Melrose area. One of these centers will be demolished, and for the remainder the enlarged highway poses a safety threat to the children and an inconvenience to the parents who must drive them to the day care center in a more complex and more 18/ dangerous traffic environment. In sharp contrast to Lite city staff's plan, our alLeruative proposals would require a significantly smaller tax expendi- 19/ ture, would result in no evictions, and would destroy or impair no neighborhoods. 1G/ West high's total enrollment is 906; Roosevelt has 270 students, and Ernest 11orn has 321. 17/ Dum Dum, Friendship, Bolco, U.P.C.C., Ho 110, Alice's, and Melrose. 18 We are troubled not only by the scale of the costs associated with the project, but also by the cavalier manner with which Lite city's staff appears to dismiss suggestions that destruction or impairment of neighborhood quality is even a matter worthy of serious consideration in deciding where a road should be placed or whether one should be widened. We believe the city staff should be no less attentive to environmental impact than if it were required to be so by law. 19/ Aside from slight modifications in the Grand Avenue area, our plan contemplates the widening of Route 1 from Route 518 to Route 6-21.8 if and when the evidence suggests that such an expansion is needed and that some control over residential development along that stretch of highway will be exercised. 1' IdICROf ILMED BY DORM MICR+LAB MIMI! RAP!P� Itt5 MOINFS J h11LROF1LMED BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND DLS i40iiil Un, -8- III. CURRENT TRAFFIC PROBLEMS IN TIB-- GRAND AVENUL•' - MELROSE' AREA--TIIH RELATIVE. CAPACITY OF THE S''WV S PLMI MIO O1111 ALTERNATIVE I To SOLVE, THESE PROBEEMS EFFICIENTLY This section analyzes the relative ability of our Alternative I and the city staff's proposal to solve current problems in the Melrose Avenue area. Part IV discusses future traffic needs in the area and how traffic can be moved most efficiently from west Iowa City and beyond into downtown Iowa City and the went -side hospital complex. Our Alternative II addresses these questions. Given the enormous costs associated with the staff's plan, one naturally assumes that it must be needed to solve an equivalently large problem. However, this is not so. A. The Bottleneck at Byington Road and Grand Avenue. The main traffic problem in the Melrose area consists of two bottlenecks which slow the movement of the traffic off Melrose Avenue onto the Burlington Street bridge. The first bottleneck is the merger of two lanes of traffic off Byington Road into a single traffic lane on Grand Avenue. The second is the stoplight at Burlington Street and the 19,000 vehicles which daily flow 20 north and south through the intersection on Route 6-218. The first bottleneck can be cured by widening Byington Road and eliminating the one -lane merger of traffic at Byington Road. The second bottleneck, however --traffic on Route 6 -218 --cannot be eliminated unless the highway is closed. The plain fact is that no matter how large and straight Melrose Avenue and Byington Road are, Riverside Drive will remain the primary bottleneck. We therefore recommend the curving and widening of the intersection of Byington Road and Grand Avenue, which will eliminate the merger of two lanes into one. We also recommend a curving of the entrance to Byington {toad from Melrose Avenue. (See Appendix. B.) 20/ Interstate 80 in the Iowa City region carries between 15,000-18,000 vehicles a day. IdILROf ILIdEO BY JORM MICR�LAB q'.IMf' PP!rd • Of5 4101NIS I•I'LROF OLO BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND DLS 'IUINLi, :Ueo, -9- In addition, we believe that the east -west flow of traffic can be smoothed and the risk of accident reduced if three addi- tional changes are made in the immediate Grand Avenue - Melrose area. First, traffic enterinS Grand Avenue from the north spur of South Grand Avenue should be routed to Grand Avenue via South Grand Avenue, Melrose Avenue, and Byington Road, instead of crossing over the west -bound lane of Grand Avenue traffic as it currently does. This change will reduce the flow of traffic between the dormitories and eliminate a bad left-hand turn to the east. Second, Melrose Avenue between South Grand Avenue and Byington Road should be made one-way east. This will smooth the flow of traffic off Melrose Avenue and South Grand Avenue and onto Byington Road. Third, Grand i' Avenue between Byington Road and South Grand Avenue should be made one-way west, with left -turning traffic from Byington Road and Grand Avenue Court moving west in what is now the east -bound, downhill lane of Grand Avenue. Fourth, a stop sign should be installed at the foot of Byington Road, to warn motorists crossing Grand Avenue that they do not have the right-of-way. These latter two changes would smooth the westerly flow of traffic up Grand Avenue and reduce the present traffic danger at the Byington Road and Grand Avenue intersection. The proposals embraced in our. Alternative I in effect would make a four -lane divided road between the intersection of South 21/ Grand Avenue and Melrose Avenue and the Burlington Street bridge with Grand Avenue moving traffic west and Melrose and Byington moving traffic east. The diagonal proposed by the staff would be almost straight, while our solution includes two turns both east and west, however, these turns will make little time difference for Lila motorist since the city's plan contemplates no increase in the 25-30 m.p.h. speed limit currently in force. Moreover, the staff's diagonal will reduce the driving distance between Lite Lwo 21 The distance covered by the staff's proposed diagonal. 4 '- f� 141CROFIL1.1L0 6Y JORM MICR+LA6 MAP FlMin' ?Cf. 140I9EP. r•11LROFILi1ED BY JORM MICROLAB LEDAk RAPIDS AND UES -10- points by only 29% and will produce at best a 10 to 20 second time saving --which generally will be consumr_d in waiting for the stoplight at the Burlington Street bridge - Itoutc 6-21.8 inter - 22/ section. B. Traffic Flow Between ltienow and Slater Dormitories. Another traffic problem in the Grand Avenue area is the ped- estrian safety hazard caused by the flow of cars between Slater and Rienow dormitories. This is a legitimate problem and could be solved by construction of an overpass between these buildings. The staff's proposal will not completely solve this problem since local traffic to the dormitories, Field liouse, and hospital area will continue to flow between the dorms. Our Alternative I recommends the construction of an overpass. C, DIelrose - Woolf Rush -Hour Congestion. It is further argued that the staff's current proposal is needed to eliminate the congestion that occurs at the intersection of Woolf and Melrose Avenues during the morning and evening rush hours Monday through Friday. We believe that such a response to the problem would be excessive and inefficient and that many less costly and less destructive alternatives exist to alleviate the pressure at this intersection. In approaching this alleged justification for the staff's pro- ject, it is important to ask: Why does the problem exist? What alternatives are available to cure it? What are their relative costs? There always has been a heavier -than -usual traffic flow on Melrose Avenue at the start and close of the working day because a larger number of hospital employees live to the west, east, and 23/ south of the hospital area. For many of these commuters, the 22/ Current driving time between these two points is be 50 and 60 seconds. 23/ Wu over 2,500 people are nploycd by the 11niversiLY's hospital system. MICROFILMED BY JORM MICR4�LAB [IPAP vAPI�� • 9R M01tV MICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND DLS 11UINL�, lUr1.1 -11- most direct route to work takes them onto Mclrosc Avenue mid down Woolf: Avenue. The traffic volume ural, at Appendix l shows the impact of this conemitcr traffic on Melrose Avenue's traffic volume. The heaviest flow (8,300 vehicles per day) is between Woolf Avenue and University heights; the next heaviest- flow (7,100 vehicles per day) is between Woolf Avenue and South Grand Avenue. Applying these standards that are used by the city staff, Melrose Avenue and Byington Road at their present width:: are adequate to handle the 24/ traffic flows that existed in 1971. Pbreover, the traffic volume on Melrose did not show significant growth from this 1971 level until this fall. What happened this fall was that the University of Iowa closed off South Grand Avenue as an access street to the hospital complex, and traffic formerly using that route has been rddirected over Melrose Avenue and Woolf Avenue. Also, the University's closing and relocation of Woolf Avenue and Newton Road last year has meant that hospital -bound traffic that formerly entered the hospital area from the north via the Iowa Avenue bridge, Newton Road, and Woolf Avenue now, finds it more 25/ convenient to make the trip via Grand Avenue and Melrose Avenue. These University actions, especially the closing of access through South Grand Avenue, have increased traffic volumes on Melrose and have increased pressure on the Woolf and Melrose intersection during the rush hours. Does it follow that Melrose Avenue now must be widened and a diagonal constructed at a cost of over $2,000,000 in public funds to "solve" this problem? Such an argument is identical to the approach of a manufacturer whose plant produces smoke and noise which impair the quality of life in adjacent residential areas, 24 See Footnotes 27 and 28 at pp. 13 & 14 infra. 25/ This diversion was further aggravated this fall by the coimnunccmcnL of construction of a hospital addition which las closed off access from Newton Road to the general hospital parking ramp along the north side of the main hospital. a "ar- IdICROCILMCD BY DORM MICR�LAB MOP PAOIn' M01 -11S rtILROiILMLD BY JORM MICROLAB U CEDAR RAPLJS AND UES ;'iu;NLj, J,,, -12- who asks the local government to solve the problem at Public expense by removing tine homes which already are bearing the brunt of the noise and dirt. As it would be With the factory, the first question to the University should be: Why are you creating the problem (in the University's case the congestion at melrose and Woolf) in the first place? Are the traffic changes you made, which caused the problem, necessary to your efficient operation? If the University cannot show that its decisions to close off south Grand Avenue and Woolf Avenue were both necessary and reasonable in light of the costs these decisions have imposed on the surrounding area, the University should be respectfully requested to undo its decisions which are causing the current problem. And, if the University will not take reasonable steps in this direction, its requests for the expenditure of Iowa City tax money to solve problems it caused itself should be denied. Even if the University can justify its creation of the present problem at the Woolf - Melrose interchange, it does not follow that the proposed project (road widening and straightening) is the most efficient way to solve the problem. First, there are several alter- natives open to the University which would relieve the pressure on this intersection: 1, stagger the hours of employment to avoid the concentration of traffic at two rush hours. 2, reduce the number of employee cars driving into the area by: a. raising parking rates in the area. b, providing cheaper parking oil University land farther from the area, with shuttle buses to carry the employees to the hospital complex. c, encouraging car pools (e.g.. by offering lower 26/ parking rates). 26 Instead of reducing the number of: cars converging on this intersection, the University appears to be increasing it by building more parking lots on the playing fields adjacent to Woolf Avenue. t .. ars~_MICROFILM By JORM MICR4�LAB Ff OAF PAP!11. • ,r, 11011if5 MILROIILMED BY JORM MICROLAS CEDAR RAPIDS AND UES AOiNL,, iu'e," -1.3- 3. opening South Grand Avenue and Woolf Avenue to employee traffic during the rush hours. 4. opening another access road to the hospital complex from Melrose Avenue to the new road runnvig in front of the Recreation Building. If the University had to pay the cost of widening Melrose, you can be sure it would carefully examine and experiment with these alternatives before undertaking such a massive expenditure. As far as we know, the University has not seriously considered any of them. If after the University does its part, action by the city is required to deal with the Woolf - Melrose intersection, alternatives short of road widening (SiL, stoplights) should first be tried. i :improved public transportation to the hospital is probably the most 4 promising and cheapest solution. Furthermore, what evidence is r there that a widening of Melrose Avenue would solve the problem? E Congestion exists at the intersection because turning traffic must 1 ent2r a,,,d Cress liii2s of wuvi.nL Lt:afffu awl Lhlb wca,u curb uu Melrose and Woolf must each trait their turn, Widening the road will not change that basic condition. The only thing that can "solve" the problem is a cloverleaf. Moreover, simply widening the road may draw more traffic onto Melrose and make the pressure on the intersection worse than it now is. Finally, we ask that the benefits to be gained by solving the traffic "problem" at Woolf and Melrose, if that were possible --a few minutes cut off the daily commuting time of several hundred University employees -- be weighed against the costs of this project. If the adjustments recommended in our Alternative I are made-, the most recent traffic data available (1971) show that Melrose 27/ Avenue (two-lane, two-way, with 8,300 vehicles per clay) and :27:7— The 7The uninl:crrupted flow capacity for a dao -lane, two-way street under ideal conditions is 2,000 vehicles per lour. At peak hours (except during athletic events), Melrose traffic possibly reaches 1,000 vehicles per hour. The city staff estimates peak -hour traffic at 12% of daily flow. National Academy of Sciences, IiLujonal Research Council., llighway Research Board, lg lig Capacity I•Lanual (8pucial Report 87, 1965), Table 4.1, p. 76. .4ICROF ILMEl1 OY JORM MICR+LAE3 VTDAl' P.hl,l�,: ?fS •401':(5 hilCi(Ol ILMED BY JORM I4lCROLAB CEDAk RAPIDS AND DES -I4- 2111 Byington Road (two-lane, one-way, with 3,400 vehicle: per day) 2')/ are adequate to ]Handle current traffic loads. It will require a doubling of traffic on Melrose and a tenfold increase on Byington before, according to the guidelines used by city staff members, it would be appropriate to begin thinking about increasing the size of these roads. Moreover, except for the rush-hour traffic problem at Woolf and. Melrose, which was discussed above, the University's planners agree Chat the current Melrose - Byington facility is adequate to handle the University's present land use needs on the west side of Iowa City, D. The Melrose Court and Myrtle Avenue Shortcut. A further argument in support of the staff's plan is that it is needed to discourage the use of Melrose Court and Myrtle Avenue d ' 1 as a shortcut between Melrose Avenue and Route 6-218. This argu- Ment rests on an incorrect assumption thHat the shortcut route in preferred by drivers over the Melrose - Byington facility because Melrose Avenue is a two-lane road. In fact, the alternative route is preferred for different reasons. First, the shortcut avoids the stoplight and long wait at the intersection of the Burlington Street bridge and Route 6-218. Second, it is the beginning of west -east routes to the Summit Street area via the Benton Street bridge that are faster than the Burlington Street route. The project proposed by the staff will not eliminate Clic bottleneck' at the Burlington Street bridge, nor will it change driving 28 The uninterrupted flow capacity for a two-lane, one-way street under ideal conditions is 4,000 vehicles per hour. At peak hours (except during athletic events), Byington Road traffic possibly reaches 410 vehicles per hour. The city staff estimates peak hour traffic at 12% of daily flow. Ibid. 29/ This statement excepts, of course, times of: athletic events at the Stadium and Field House, which all sides agree should not provide the basis for determining road widths. MILRDf IL14ED BY JORM MICRO LAB CrpAR. f?n P!^` RCS '4019E� 1•11URUrILI4LU BY JOR14 h11CROLAB -15- CEDAR RAPIDS AND I1L5 :'Iuii1Lo, .Uew 30/ condiC'ione; on Burlinl;tou Street. It tilurufore will have no effect on the factors Which cause people to prefer the Mclrose 31/ Court slortcut-.� the evidence is clear that as far as in sWmary, therefore, the present Alclrose - 8yington facility current needs are concerned, eptions already ,Dred, our proposed is adequate, with the few exc al and reasonable response to those Alternative I is a proportion The city staff's proposal is pure problems that do now exist. overkill. 1V. PUTURL•' TRAFFIC OUR- CAPACITY ALTGRNA'rM% II TOI.LET TI,0: 1ldd STAFF'S PIAN AND ary line of justification for the t•Iclrose widening The secondand the University of. Iowa diagonal rests on projected future needs of (1) 1the urban renewal project and Iowa City's downto% hospitals, (2) ure residents in west Iowa city and business community, and (3) fut nrtGS S:.yu�•d • it uiou i6 da5ai tad uiui- Ll,u pre jeci. (i) is uecucd Lu oblem" that will be created when Freeway 518 is connected solve the "pr to Melrose Avenue, and (2) is needed because it is tile first step in Che development of an in -town west -cost highway stretching along Melrose d. Avenue, Burlington Street, Muscatine Avenue, and Scott Ibulevnrel on we believe that this series of justifications is based larg Y velopments and that the proponents unsupported assumptions about future de of tile project have presented no evidence to show in What manner and to whaL_� construction of the project actuall will benefit the inter- ests it is intended to serve, we also believe that the projecC rests on unacceptable value and Policy judgments about (1) the role rhe city ds, and (2) the price should play in protecting in -town neighborhoo li hts on Strece has many ::CopLi.{;hes, and they are 30�ternative routes arc shorter bucause they have fewer scot and less traffic. Burling't not timed for a fast West -east trip• ' loBi.n;l of access l:o tlw 31/ It should be iotud that the University c tic Avenue shortcut. hospital vin tlm north spur of South Crand Avenue gill have the natlual effect of increasing the use of the Aryl" �t MICROFILMED BY i JORM MICR+LAB crnnr. RP�InS • orz !aor,Er, MICROFILMED BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS MUINL:,, itj&, -16- present taxpayers and residents of Iowa City should be r t!ct(,d to pay for the benefit of the University of Iowa, land develo)—rs in west Iowa City, and commuters and shoppers who someday will live in areas on the outskirts of Iowa City and beyond which have not yet been developed. A. The University's hospital Complex. First, how important is the project to the University's hospital complex? We are told that is is important --but we are not told how it will be important or exactly why it will be better than what is now available. Contrary to statements made on this issue, we think the facts indicate that the construction of this project will make i no difference whatever to the ability of the University's hospitals i to attract and serve their patients. { The first thing to observe about the "hospital" justification I j is that the University's behavior indicates clearly that it does $not consider Melrose Avenue to be an iinportant route to the hospital i i area from points north and west on I-80 and I-380. In the mid -60's the University opposed the Melrose interchange nn Freeway 518, and last year President Boyd re -opened the issue and tried without 32/ success to get the interchange relocated. And, as recently as September 28, 1973, President Boyd said, "The University las urged consideration of methods to reduce traffic which would come from 33/ the Melrose interchange."� The second point is that the capacity of the current road system and the number of patients the hospital now serves and is likely to serve in the future support the conclusion that a four -lane Melrose Avenue is not needed by the hospitals. In the last year, approxi - 34/ mately 300,000 patients came to the Universil.y hoopitals. This 32 Letter from Willard Boyd to Nancy Lineback, Septernbcr 28, 1973. 33 7.b id . 34/ From ,July 1, 1972 to June 30, 1973: All of: the University hospitals lad 37.,457 patient admissions; 261,133 clinic visits; 7,805 patients by ambulance (an average of four patients per .wibulance trip). V MICROFILMED BY ' JORM MICR+LAB rrnnP PAPM . ars `anmrs Mit,ROFILMED BY JORM 141CRULAB CEDAR RAPIDS A110 ULS ilU;tIL w+� -17- is a daily rate of approximately 1,000 patients who enter from many directions at all times of the day and night. A cursory look at the traffic flow Inup (Appendix B) will show that the current road network is perfectly adequate to handle this volume. But what about the future? The fact is that growth in the number of patients is controlled by the physical facilities available to treat them. Tne new 100 bed addition to the General hospital will increase the total in-patient capacity by only a tiny fraction since it is being tuilt primarily to recoup in-patient capacity that has been lost over the years by the convers:i.on of wards to smaller roOMS. Nor antly affect capacity. will the new addition signific No major additions currently are planned, and a major new hospital is not likely to be started for ten years at the soonest. A 6 patient growth rate of 1-2% per year, therefore, is a reasonable estimate, and it is clear that the present road system is perfectly t adequate to handle it. We agree that inside the hospital complex itself, traffic circulation is a nightmare --but the point overlooked by some is that the nightmare inside the complex is not caused by the widths of Tfelrose Avenue and Byington Road. As for our recommendation for handling the "hospital" traffic problem, we agree with President Boydts suggestion that methods be considered to "reduce traffic which would come from tla Melrose interchange." We therefore propose that the University and Iowa City: 1, not designate Melrose Avenue as a primary route to the hospital area; 2, designate Route 6-218 and Newton Road from both its cast and west ends as the main access routes to the University hospitals; and 35 Tile sifpus on 1-80, 1-380, and L•'reeway 518 indicating what are the routes to the hospitals are the major duturmit>tnts of tile routes taken by incoming patients. MICROFILMCO 6Y JORM MICR�LAB M)AI' PVIP'. • N" M01'IFS M1Ci<UF1Li4EO BY JORM 1.11CROLAB _18- CEDAk RAPIDS AND UL5 L1U1NL, 11- 3. consider the feasibility of opening at the VA Ilospital an additional point of access to the hospital complex from Route 6-218. B. The University's Pedestrian Campus. J eo, Why then do the University's planners favor the Melrose pro- ject? We learned at our meetings with them that an enlarged Melrose - Byington system would serve the plan for a "pedestrian - oriented" campus if and when that concept is adopted, approved, 3G It has been suggested that the University wants the Melrose - Byington project constructed now and may be willing to give up the land to get it built. This desire on the University's part, however, is based not on laid use considerations on the west side of t:he river, but on the University's brli.cf that it: must give up land for the Mfelrose project as the price the city demands before . it will close certain strcetn on the east campus which the University waits vacated. Thus, the University "wants" the Melrose project: because of land use needs on the west side. We Object to this, bar- gaining procedure and believe t:he city for its part should dcci.du the i1elrose - Byington issue on the b."Iim of le1;1111MILL traffic and Land use needs nn the west side and not ns part of a deal. :41CROFIL14ED BY JORM MICR+LAB CrnAR PnPtm . nFs MOPIFs and executed. And, we believe that the if is a very important consideration, for the plan has not been approved by the Board of Regents and is meeting stiff opposition from within the University community itself. Moreover, the central elements of the plan, i closing Westlatmi curve and the Iowa Avenue bridge to all traffic, are vigorously opposed by the city staff. Also, if Westlzu curve p N is not closed, the entire basis of the University's eventual "need" f for an enlarged Melrose Avenue and diagonal (to serve as an interim t relocation of Route 6-218) evaporates. Not only, therefore, is it uncertain if the plan will be approved and therefore uncertain if the University will ever actually need a widened Melrose, the anticipated need is too long-range to justify spending public money now to support it. Bien according to its own plan, the enlarged Melrose - Byington facility will not be needed until 1981-82, after an institutional road is built from Route 6-218 (at Roclry Shore Drive) to Melrose Avenue, and Route 6-218 is closed 3G/ at the Westlawn curve. Prudent planning on the part of Iowa City 3G It has been suggested that the University wants the Melrose - Byington project constructed now and may be willing to give up the land to get it built. This desire on the University's part, however, is based not on laid use considerations on the west side of t:he river, but on the University's brli.cf that it: must give up land for the Mfelrose project as the price the city demands before . it will close certain strcetn on the east campus which the University waits vacated. Thus, the University "wants" the Melrose project: because of land use needs on the west side. We Object to this, bar- gaining procedure and believe t:he city for its part should dcci.du the i1elrose - Byington issue on the b."Iim of le1;1111MILL traffic and Land use needs nn the west side and not ns part of a deal. :41CROFIL14ED BY JORM MICR+LAB CrnAR PnPtm . nFs MOPIFs htlt,ROFILMLO BY JORM MCROLAB CEDAk RAPIUS AND ULS MUiNL�, 910 would require at the very leant chat to public *funds be committed to such an uncertain project until (1) it is approved by the Regents, (2) the City Council and State Highway Commission have decided that they will close Westlawn curve and the Iota Avenue bridge to all traffic, and (3) the University has spent some of its money on the institutional road it currently is talking about building. A final point is that the relocation of Route 6-218 through the Melrose area will require a much larger facility than the four - lane highway the city staff is now proposing. Moreover, pouring 19,000 cars down Melrose Avenue will make the entire area unlivable. President Boyd has stated his desire for "a campus which will put 37/ people ahead of cars." We think it is not unreasonable that } people also be put ahead of cars in residential neighborhoods where I people are trying to raise their children. i Finally, we believe that even if the University needed an I enlarged Melrose Avenue today, the burden of cost and sacrifice it is asking the residents and taxpayers,, of Iowa City to bear. is simply too great. We are all. interested in the welfare of the University and have raised no objection to its planning for its own internal development. We also understand that University expansion means some encroachment on the neighboring community and we have not complained in the past. This time, we feel the University has asked for too much, has been insensitive to lcg- itimate neighborhood interests, and has been unwilling to make what we consider to be reasonable compromises with the citizens on any point, i•brcaver, we think many Iowa City taxpayers would seriously question the propriety of the city government's allocating 2,000,000 scarce tax dollars for the benefit of the University, especially for the sake of such a nebulous and impractical plan. 37/ l.etl•er. from Hillard Boyd to Nancy Lineback, SepL•embmr. 28, 1973. r• '�'r� 14ICROFILMED BY } JORM MICR+LAB crnn� r.ut�•. • ars �aalna 1416OFILNLD BY JORM MICROLAB C. The Urban Renewal Project. CEDAk RAPIDS AND L)E I•iullil -20- r The City Manager argues that the Melrose project is important to the success of the urban renewal project. The assertion assumes that if Melrose Avenue is a four -lane road, more shoppers will come to downtown Iowa City than if it is not. A brief examination of the map at Appendix C will show why this assumption is dead wrong. The actual distance between I-80 and I-380 and downtown Iowa City is the same whether a motorist takes Freeway 518 and Melrose Avenue or goes via I-80 and North Dubuque Street. However, the driving tine will be much shorter on the North Dubuque Street route. More than 70'% of the North Dubuque Street route is on a high-speed interstate, while the Melrose route is only 50% on a high-speed road. Also, North Dubuque is a much faster street than Melrose Avenue will be, even if it is widened. West High, University Heights (with some two-lane stretches), over 20 intersections, stop signs, red lights, and most important, the delay waiting to cross Route 6-218 at the Burlington Street bridge, will make the Melrose entrance to the downtown area less nttractive to motorists coming from points north and west even if: it is four lanes in Iowa City. There are also an abundance of existing routes to downtown Iowa City from the south (Routes 1, 218, and 6) which will be faster than Melrose Avenue, regardless of its width. (See Appendix C.) Finally, we think it is self-evident that the success of the urban renewal project is going to depend on the attractiveness of its shops and stores. Even if Melrose Avenue was a three- to four - minute faster ride into town than North Dubuque Street, which it is not, this fact would not increase the volume of goods sold in downtown Iowa City by one dollar. A variation on the urbnn reiieva1 argument is that the present two- lane width of Melrose Avenue eventually will create demand for commercial development in west Iowa City by resident.^, who rebel at the long drive into Iowa City. Tito increased commercial development, it is said, Y- r- 4KRor ILMED BY . S JORM MICR4aLAB fE0N1 I'Arllc . 11S '1011!F5 1•111LROFILMED BY JORFI MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS 10iNL�, :Uej,, -21- will compete with the urban renewal arca and hurt it, That a 10-20 second 38/ shorter ride to downtown Iowa City could make any differ- ence in demand for commercial development in west Iowa City is inconceivable. Also, the long-range zoning plan for west Iowa City shows that only a small area will be available for commercial develop- ment. Finally, it can be argued just as easily that if a shopping center is built in west Iowa City, a fast road from downtown, which the staff's proposal is not, will lure in -town customers away from the urban renewal area and hurt it. D. Future Growth in West Iowa City. The argument that anticipated future growth in west Iowa City requires the project assumes (1) a certain rage of growth, and (2) that the desires of the future residents of these areas for a 10-20 second faster ride into Iowa City justify thte destruction and impairment of existing in -town neighborhoods. First, it appears that the staff is bacine, its growth projec- tions on the past growth rate in Iowa City and on the 1965 Mid- American Appraisal and Research Corporation PLv:ket Study, which projected a 30,000 University of Iowa student population by 1980. It is now apparent that the student population has stabilized at about the current 20,000 - 21,000, that the 30,000 student figure never will be reached, and that as a result future development in west Iowa City will proceed at a much slower rate than in the 39/ past. Second, the long-range zoning plan approved by tine Johnson County Regional Planning Commission will drastically limit what 38 This time savings would result from construction of the diagonal.The widening of Ptclroso Avenue in Iowa City will not reduce the driving time into the downtown area. 39/ University growth rate explains virtually all of: the residcnti.nl. growth rate in Iowa City. The stabilization of student population reflects the t,,,anticipated and sharp drop of totallive bi.rLhs in IOWA in recent years and the increased use of couvaunity colleges, Total live births in Iowa dropped 23'4 between Lilt! period 1955-63 and the period 1.964-72. Bureau of Vital SI:aL•i^utie9, Iowa Department of Ilcalth. Yom."tMICROFILM BY i JORM MICR(�L AB rrltAP Vpn�•r_ •qf. !401!ir$ 11 t•i!LkUFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND uL5 iullil 'U1111 -22- r-1 would be the normal growth rate 111 111181'. Iowa C'il.y. Nea•Ly unc-half of the undeveloped sec Lor is 1n a "huldi.ug arca" (Area 33), and the vast bull: of the remaining undeveloped land abutting Melrose Avenue is owned by the University or will be zoned for large lots (four to six families per acre; Areas 34 and 38). Third, the staff proposal considers the desire of outlying shoppers and commuters for a quicker ride into Iowa City to be of far greater importance than we believe is justifiable. Iowa City is not a metropolis, and even at rush hours Inas only minor traffic delays. Under normal conditions, with the road as is, the trip from West High to downLo:rti Iowa CiLy is only 8-10 minutes. The 40/ staff's proposal will cut that trip by at most 10-20 seconds, for the major barriers to a speedy trip doinitown--University Heights, West High, a 25-30 m.p.h. speed limit, unlimited access, stop signs, heavy traffic on Route 6-218, and stoplights between Lha bridge and downtorni--will remain regardless of the width of Melrose and the diagonal. The "need" the city seeks to meet even if west Iowa City is developed is so trivial it cannot possibly justify tile. costs associated with the staff's current proposal. E. Increased Traffic from Freeway 518. The Freeway 518 argument is: the interchange at Melrose will put more traffic on Melrose Avenue; this will create a problem; and the staff's project will solve the problem. It is true that the Freeway 518 llelrosc intcrchalge will put more traffic onto Plelrose, and this may create a problem in tile. Melrose 41/ area depending on the type and volume of traffic, but the widening 40 This time would he saved by the diagonal from South Grand Avenue to the bridge. The widening of Melrose Avenue wi.t.b:in Iowa Ci.Ly will not shorten the trip one second under normal. conditions. 41/ At this time, no one knows what the i.nrrease in volume will. bc. (This i.s a question the Regional Planning Commi.snion's 'fraf.fzc Study may provide an annwer. to.) And, of course, We do not know whether Lhe present road system will be adequate to handle I'ho i.ncreasccl flow. Id l cltor l l.M(D BY JORM MICR�LAB erase e:v,ma . ,r,, iinmr� M1LkOFILMED BY JORM MILROLAB LLOAR RAPIOS AND ULS AUIfiL�, :U++,. -23- of Melrose will not solve the potential problem --it will make it worse. The staff argument that the increased traffic from Freeway 518 requires the widening of Melrose begs the question presented by the construction of the Freeway 518 interchange, which is: What should be the city's response to a llighway Commission decision that threatens an Iowa City residential neighborhood with increased traffic! We think that unless there is an over- hospital and downtown Iowa City; 3. barring through truck traffic frnm Melrose; 4, designating for traffic coning ]roto the south, !lin war; I. and 218 as the main through -traffic and trek routes i.nlo Iowa City from Freeway 518; I I41CR0(ILMED BY i JORM MICR+LAB MDAP ItnPln` riding reason to the contrary, the city in such circumstances should Let to protect the residential area. In this case, the ciLy'a policy should seek to reduce, not increase, the Lraffic which will come from the Melrose interchange. The staff's assump- tion that Lhere is nothing the Iowa City government or anyone else can do to control the volume of traffic comini; onto Melrose from t. Freeway 518 is not correct. The fact is that the actions of the Iowa City government (c.p., what it recommences should be placed on the Freeway 518 Melrose exit sign; whether or not it builds the Melrose project, whether or not it encourages development in west Iowa City) will have a large influence on how much additional i traffic goes onto Melrose. Rather than considering alternatives that would protect the Melrose area, the city staff goes forward with a proposal that aggravates the area's problems by encouraging more traffic. Instead of following tine staff's proposal., we urge the city to discourage the flow of traffic from Freeway 51.8 onto Melrose Avenue by: 1, maintaining Melrose as a two-lane, two-way local street to serve primarily resident choppers, commuters, and hospital users; 2. recommending that Melrose not be identified on I-80, I-380, and Freeway 518 as a route to the hospital and downtown Iowa City; 3. barring through truck traffic frnm Melrose; 4, designating for traffic coning ]roto the south, !lin war; I. and 218 as the main through -traffic and trek routes i.nlo Iowa City from Freeway 518; I I41CR0(ILMED BY i JORM MICR+LAB MDAP ItnPln` MILROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UCS flui;iLi, lUw. -24- 5, designating I-80 and North Dubuque Street as the primary route to downtown Iowa City from points west and north, and 6, designating I-80 and Routes 0-21.8 as the primary routes from out-of-town to the University's west -side hospital complex. In assessing the potential flow of traffic from Freeway 518 onto Melrose, it should be noted that there are several "natural" factors that will. tend to minimize the attractiveness of Melrose Avenue as a route from Freeway 518 into downtown Iowa City and thereby will minimize the volu¢ne of traffic coming onto Melrose Avenue. These factors will exist whether or not Melrose Avenue is widened. s First, University Hci.ghts stoutly refuses to open its borders to a four -lane road and promises to keep a low speed limit even if Freeway 518 opens. Second, the many 1101Tes, pedestrians, and 4G% intersections along Melrose Avenue will require low speed limits, and additional stop signs or red lights are a distinct possibility. Fourth, traffic flow in and out of Nest High School will be a bottleneck for several hours a day. Fifth, the Burlington Street bridge intersection will continue as the major barrier to a fast ride into town, along with the many stoplights between the bridge and the center of Lawn. Sixth, a faster route into Iowa City exists for traffic from the north (I-380) and west (I-80) via the Dubuque Street: interchange on I-80 and for traffic from the south on Freeway 518 via Route 1. All of these colc]iti.ons make Lila future Melrose traffic flow from Freeway 518 at best uncertain. But what- ever it may turn out to be, the city should in lila meantime discourage h2/ The staff project: contemplates unlimited access and a 25-30 m.p.h. speed limit in Iowa City. IIICROFIL14ED BY DORM MICR#L.AB UOAV MILROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RADIUS AND ULS MUi:iL�, 10A - the flow of traffic onto Melrose and leave the street its current size. Also, we reconuncnd that when it seely to determine whether Melrose or any other street ❑weds widening, the city staff should inquire of the area residents who use the streets each day, we are entitled to notice and a chance to present: alternatives when The city is planning projects that will take our homes and destroy our neighborhoods. Because we had no access to the crucial stages of the planning process for this project, we now face a city staff convinced of the correctness of its plan and interested only in refuting our argument's of protest rather than really discussing and evaluating the nanny alternatives to the current proposal that do exist. The fact that we dial not have a chance to be heard on E the wisdom of the project until after it was finally decided on by the staff may partly explain why the nearly unanimous voice of f protest- from residents of the Melrose area appears to have less 1 i influence on the staff than the "voicus" of people who have not "r yet moved into undeveloped areas of the city and beyond. In any event, if this project receives any further consideration by the city staff, we believe we should be invited to participate in the process on a continuing basis. F. A Highway from the West to East of Iowa City. The final justification for the. project is the assertion that Iowa City needs a went -to -cast four -lane in -town highway ruluni.ng from Freeway 518 to I-80 over Melrose, Burlington Street, Muscatine Avenue, and Scott: Boulevard and that the Melrose project is an important step in Lire completion of the project. We believe this grand proposal will make the map more symmetric, but there is no demonstrated 'need for it now or in the future, it frustrates the objective of taking through-Lraffic around instead of. through the city, slid vi.r.tually every person in its path is opponvd, we bel.l.eve that most of the argtune nts against the Melrose project apply to tam entire plan; it will. cost millions, and will needlessly destroy Y `Yt�-�•TOFILIIED BY 1 JORM MICR+LAB crane PAPAS . 9rS MOMFI MILROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CLOAR RAPIDS AND uLS luiht.�, N-: e"" many desirable nei.t;hborhoods. All. of this fur the sake of what? At most a few minutes r;avcd a shopper, conunutcr, or interstate traveler. Moreover., before the city undertakes the first step of such a massive and controvCrsial. plan which would affect the entire city, it should conduct a referendum on the entire plan. The Melrose project is oven nxu•e difficult to accept when one 43 Where federal subsidies are available for the purchase of buses. 44/ The 1974 ISudget proposes a $45,000 cul• in support Co the Johnson County Department of Public health, which provides many valuable nel-vices, thro6gh such orgauiviLi.ons as the Visiting Nurses Association, to residents of Iowa City. V MICROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LAB rrnne P.+P!a' considers the many unmut needs in Iowa City in the areas of public 43/ 44/ transit, health,' and housing. In our view, if the money budgeted for the Melrose project must be spent, it should be spent for these higher -priority progrmas which destroy nothing and meet far more legitimate needs. In conclusion, we believe that the evidence supporting the Melrose r r project utterly fails to justify the staff's proposal. For this reason, we urge Council to direct the staff to undertake Melrose - Byington improvements of the type suggested in our AIJtenuttive I and to protect the Melrose area by undertaking the steps we have suggested in our Alternative II. Also, if any further consideration is given to the project, we should be given notice and an opportunity to be heard mi s continuing basis. Finally, we request that the City staff be directed to submit in writing a documented (cost/bcnefi.t) justi- fication of its plans for the Melrose - Grnnd Avenue area, that we be given access to all relevant information, and that we be given an opportunity to respond in writing to any further staff proposals affecting the Melrose area. 43 Where federal subsidies are available for the purchase of buses. 44/ The 1974 ISudget proposes a $45,000 cul• in support Co the Johnson County Department of Public health, which provides many valuable nel-vices, thro6gh such orgauiviLi.ons as the Visiting Nurses Association, to residents of Iowa City. V MICROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LAB rrnne P.+P!a' MI(;ROFILMLD By DORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULA MUINLj U6" 7 7: 'o b+ :ux � i , w . .. i _rnw.w � � n.•, ......... .. . 1—.r.xw.m:v-• n.r•. +.rr.i^nnuw„a.arax. rj FILI�l (lkJ% to rn :L!Ll 5ctrN ._1... T. ?Fit If ;l. . —, :lt r u4, -A P % 1�j lsixtx,sl�71 ;In "I I I .I rir IL, Itirmlig"': oe Wtifirct. 1.4 r '"o it L -p Ir y, 110 If 0 u u 9 n E 0 0 A PrOPOE5,11 ftirla Pedestr j -Ln:: 1; ' Oriented calopil. -1973)' /11y',�:'FMJRE 6: 'INTE'RIM CIRCULATION1 -A (The "O'tt'Le ofI he I;tnf f I f;.:pr/oposedproJvrt 1;; ' Ill-il-ked In red Al,ll(,11(IIY. A I er= i MCROT'll.1-110 By JORM MOCR+LAB rrjw-,. IAICROFILMED BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND UO MOiNu, iUvb, plum Sta:[x HAIL � i� •I/ I i \ f- � �, ;. _.\ -�. , \ % {l �, > _ r �I L---- • . 1_J I "l.--� l i j -. `_ Iry • { , �� � I '• I i L_._J r--1 r � —1 f � l f � - j� '� , c,,� -- \ rte•: J -L-:j � l `rnr� •, J __ .�' 1 `-J, Li 771 `0 1•\VIE1E%(CORNERS OF Qy q7 MP-L-RoSE r}xrD-�+T r IAICROFILMED BY JORM I.IICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS MUINh, ;u.l;. I _ _ .ALT�,.RNATiVE S LA E- F -� 1. s E� =� � � — .i— HAtt 11 /�^ i'\ r_ [I J� ,�-•ice, u , �.. 1^l�-j � 1 � �- � --� � � ; ,,—' 4 \: -. � \ � � � , � � � ----- —� �, '� L�,' - _ I 1 -moi JF� I�� ' 1 i • •'1�� _ • 1\� •'\ C,•� • ��1 J -_.'' • -�r i ".. I c� .. - ,-� %•� • ,fI ^I,t�-� II' � L..� \Y ��1 �r\ ' 1\_ I `\� �.�r':� l� ,\11` Y`1 ` � 1 • �,1•� �4T ILL f1` �l 1 E-WWr4 t=AST PROM" - I : L. NG-ToNj T7fE12EBYI --' /"-----' � �'-•�J %• ��; �, —•--� CM ROSE _,_,�• _ ... -- A —`_'- � .. .. ._ :.._. --- -.._ -• �� f----�.. — ` —I _`l •••' i1�ll ,-w ~' i L:�i rte_ , r r—^1 J.. •rel � �, ' MICROFILMED BY , JORM MICR+LAB ffDAl' VAI`19; • ''C`• N01!!f5 MILrM ILMED BY JDRM MICROLAB LLDAk RAPIDS AND ULS ;iVi NLS, iJnn THE PROPOSED DESIGN OF THE 518 FREEWAY PROPOSED IMPROVEPJENT 518 FREEWAY N°"° Appendix C 1 141CROFILIIED BY JORM MICR(�LAB r'OAp VAP'n,,: pF5 mol'VES v SSL ff.2JtLI h�.ner A l f PA.' MILItOrlLM D BY JORM MILROLAB LEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS AUINL�, :U&, APP 1i N RIX 0 r�-- ES'J']']dATL OF COSTS OF t-0Ii1,IlOSIi PROJECT Estimation proceeds oil the assumption thatthe bmtde i:aacd pay 6.5 interest annually. Tlto estinGltes are made: one contmnplates a bond issue with term of 10 years; the other a bond issue with term of 20 years I. ]•lelrose• Component Costs interest Interest Project Cost Payments on Payments nn Outright 10 Year. L'onds 20 Year Bonds Phase I: 1974 Issuance of $525,000 525,000 $ 341,250 $ 682,500 in G.O. Bonds $ ($34,125 Yearly) ($34,125 Yearly) Please II --1976-77: a. Use of $165,000 in General Revenue 165,000 opportunity Cnllta opportunity Costs Sharing or, $i6b,000'•. on 167,UUU' b, Issuance of $585,000 in G.O. Bonds760 500 585,000 380,250 ($38,025 Yearly) ($38,025 Yearly) 1,275,000 721,500 '1,443,000 Totals + Opportunity 4. Opportunity Costs on Costs on $165,000•` $165,000•-` trpssuming that the $165,000 could be used to retire a presently existing debt in that amount, which debt required interest payments of 6.5% mid had 10 yens to term, the opportunity cost would be $107,250. debt in ,,ecAssunring that the $165,000 could be used to retire a presently existing that amount, which debt required interest payments of 6.5% and had 20 years to term, the opportunity cost would be $214,500. II. Melrose: Total -Project Costs 10 Years ng 20 Year. Pi.n;u1ci.ng $1,996,500 + Opportunity Costso2'71.8 000 -I Opportunity Costs $1.65 on $165,000 = $2,103,750 n 000 _ $2,932,500 Appendix 0 ti MICROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LAB rF)AP N��'I �°, PFS. Nn;afS i4ll.RUFILMED BY DORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIUS AND UES ;-iuPIL�, vx G p(, F. r M v� c MELROSP _ L'F NTON ST (.Goo • — — --- --- — --- _..__ .. ........ Excerpt from 1.971 Average Annual Dally r TrafficPlow 1.1n), Iowa City Department of i I Public Works (numbers i,ndi.cnte vehicles per day, both directions) Appendix li DORM MICROLAB MAP PIIPIn, • DCS MOINFS MiLkOFILMILD BY JORM MICROLAB LEUAk RAkIUS AND OL5 ILLEGIBLE DOCUMENT, ALL OR IN PART JORM MICROLAB TARGET SERIES FOLLOWING DOCUMENT ILLEGIBLE ENTIRELY O R IN PART R'. MICROFILMED BY DORM MICR+LAB I•IiLIV ILMED BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIJ� ANU U'u ?Iul:iL, September 1B, 1973 ' CITIZL•TIS PGTITICN to %/ 3 THE CITY COUNCIL Or IG4lA CITY, IOWA In Re: Proposed Melrose Avenue Expansion and Diagonal f� We, the undersigned, respectfully request that the proposed plan to convert Melrose Avenue into a four -lane arterial highway and to construct a new four - lane divided diagonal from Melrose Avenue to the Burlington Street bridge be deleted from both the Annual Budget for 1974 and the Capital Improvements Budget. :'Ul1CVU that if the proposed plan is carried out, it: 1. will destroy or produce incalculable damage to as yet unimparied resi- dential neighborhoods in Iowa City and University Heights Z- will create a serious safety hazard particularly for the students of Was: High School and two elementary schools, Roosevelt and Ernest Horn 3. will endanger nine child-care centers in the area 4. ,uiill-cause'"rious persoiial.hardehipsodna•inccnveniencovto.iaidivid6als �. will impose a significant and unwanted tax burden an the taxpayers of Iowa City 6. will reduce funds available for higher priority programs, including mase transit and health services 7. will unnecessarily increase truck traffic through residential neigh- borhoods B. will destroy 8 of the present 16 stadium tennis courts. D. will encourage the university to approve a connector road from Melrose Avenue to Highway 6-218 in Coralville. The construction of this rood would run through the present intramural fields west of the Recreation Building destroying •7 of the 7 flag football fields, and. 5. of .the 7Q,ecaftbalrl,.fiolde,_ au.lt.. Wo do not believe the marginal benefits this 9 project will produce for persons living outside Iowa City (a slightly faster ride into Iowa City) can possibly justify the cost and hardships that it will impose on the citizens of the Iowa City and University Communities. For these reasons, we believe the project is not in the public interest and should be dropped. Name ~L Address (Streett;and Residence No.) 2. ✓cd5 c S� G/zS Telephone Number 5/7 � rJ �._.; �...; - . ;_• ,r , /�—i`t �5 �4 aJ,�l�,.+..���,.� •3 ��/ •SIG zTV J g_.Jit-.'- �`{i, )�,C`..'Ji�''1✓ �' 1 /�f •1��1i �GQ((E 7J``� ���J % ✓ o l (,: r.t, >�. e 11(17 'l7 to kc /1I, onn*_A ae� SI LJ IIF s d •;r , 1r.4 DI 1 JORM MICRbLAS CMAV PUT)" Pf S M��'IfS J MILRUFILMED 8Y JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS :IultiL, In 'Jill: (TI Y COUNCIL OF IOWA C 1'11' , IOWA In Re: I'rohu:_ed Nlelro_,e Avenue E. I :;ion and Hi_,gunol 'Jvin ,y ptrw6or IK, 197i We, the undersigned, respectfully request that the proposed plan to cunvert Melrose Avenue into a four -lame arterial highway mul to construct anew four -lame divided diagonal from Melrose Avenue to the Burlington Street bridge be deleted from both the Annual Budget for 1974 and the Capital Improvements Budget. We believe that if the proposed plan is carried out, it: (1) will destroy or produce incalculable damage to as yet unimpaired residential neighborhoods in Iowa City and University Heights (2) will create a serious safety hazard particularly for the students of West Iligh School and two elementary schools, Roosevelt and Ernest Horn (3) will endanger nine child-care centers in the area (4) will cause serious personal hardships and inconvenience to individuals (S) will impose a significant and unwanted tax burden on the taxpayers of Iowa City (6) will reduce funds available for higher priority programs, including mass transit and health services (7) will unnecessarily increase truck traffic through residential neighborhoods We do not believe the marginal benefits this project will produce for persons living outside Iowa City (a slightly faster ride into Iowa City) can possibly justify the costs and hardships that it will impose on the citizens of Iowa City. For these reasons, we believe the project is not in the public interest and should be dropped. Name Address Telephone (Street f, Residence No.) Number -✓i.. _(-'.- CLtv4G...ln/. F:�c:�K4.............l.�7...C�-t.r�!.%✓fP.....�..............._3S"�:". �N.:e�............../a.t�:...,4�)cc�.Qi�',...C� :........... 3...:.. .............. V3L ;. 12..Q..G.,...-o.c,..Cuv.f..............331-.?624 .d.. �-('Ee-�.l?...a...........1 �_a ,>.:1tia.,,.oC. 0.,.,_e:.:,........_... 6-0 /3U &-and Iloc. Cl-. go -440 t .,t- `I () 141 Grawc( A.°.c- C4:.... ....-%,C4-3Leb i.:........... . cn.%bTt................ /Z%�yirn� Gic,.Ct_....337.-r7ZZ- I G.,�.,,,�.............6J...... ....... :. _•r- 141CRef ILl4ta By -- ' JORM MICR+LAO MAP "d`• fl014C`. 3.3e 77sZ ....✓......... l MIUtOFILMED by JORM MICROLAi CEDAR RAPIDS AND utI ;46i:IL', johnson county SLC i'ir_t s 1.978 regional planning commission I:All r;l Lllua rl.vl..+.. 1M/?'d Hllh (lulgn pli• •.In •GI, mwn I.d y, K)wn !0741) (3191 1411;66L Incl 114tu,t1 L�. •m., i.�.. �.. April 21, 1978 COMMITTEE STATEMENT RE: Potential Human Service Center Human Services Project Steering Committee Adopted by Committee April 21, 1978 A considerable amount of money has been committed to the Johnson County Regional Planning Commission's Human Services Study by Iowa City (using HCDDG funds) and other sources for the purpose of making the provision of human services in Johnson County as efficient and effective as possible. This will be accomplished.by providing policy makers with the information necessary to make sound decisions about needs and resource programs. All five subcommittees of the Human Services Study identified as top priority problems a lack of communication and coordination among service delivery agencies and the lack of a common data collection system on needs and clients. A joint physical facility to house human service agencies is one way of implementing this desired coordina- tion. Such a project would fit in well with the human services �p project's goals of: 1. Facilitating client access to services with a minimum of red tape. (Information and referral i system - saving of travel time for clients who have multiple problems); 2. Allocating efficiently local financial resources _ for meeting human needs (saving of expenses for administrative needs such as waiting rooms, printing facilities, accounting services); 3. Facilitating the development of a common data collection system for continuing needs assessment; 4. Encouraging agencies to communicate with each other on an ongoing basis thus avoiding duplication and misunderstanding. While the need for such a facility seems clear, we would hope that the preapplication process would allow the first year's grant activities to coincide with and utilize the recommendations of the human service study which is expected to be completed in February, 1979. Submitted by: v v J41CRor1LMF..e BY JORM MICR46LA9 Carol Spaziani Chairperson M i M.ILRUFILMED BY JURM MICRULAB LEDAk RAPIDS ANO ULS r1Ui1lr_j ® Johnson county regional planning commission i.1 Apr] I 21, 1976 MEMO TO: FROM: •.lu +•i. to un Iy. (.:19(:161 N'i'l!, 1 Jim Swaim, United Action for Youth Ron Henderson, Youth Homes, Inc. Margaret Stephenson, IIACAP Linda Schreiber, Administrative Asst., Iowa City Mary Lee, Mark IV Community Center L. Graham Dameron, Johnson County Department of Health Clayton Pape, Johnson County Department of Health Rosalie Rose, Visiting Nurse Association Pat Roe, HACAP Jo Staab, Birthright, Inc. Harold 14. Donnelly, Johnson County Board of Suporviuors Ruth Bucker, SuCial Wolfare Board Susan Shouts, Community Development Kay Duncan, Iowa City Crisis , Intervention Center Pat Meyer, Transient Services, Inc. Rex Honey, Human Services Steering Committee Verne Kelley, Human Services Steering Committee Kathy Kelley, Human Services Steering Committee Jim Harris, Human Services Steering Committee Barbara Murray, Small Cities Assistant 1v it 11 it rs n.wl.n..• I mil 119111, II I ... •,e... Elizabeth Bunge, Community Coordi- nated Child Care Winifred Brooks 11el.en Ringgenberg, Social Welfare Board Carol Fracassini, }lead Start Susan Burdan, Center East Jeff Knoll, CETA Jan Cronin, Early Childhood Education Center Kristy Kissel, Aids and Alternatives for Victims of Spouse Abuse Jim Ward, Johnson County Ambulance Service John Gerringcr, IIACAP Tom McMurray, Ilawkcyo Lognl Ald Soclet Lorada Ci.lck, Itoatd of tiupi!rvl;;ors Don Sehr, Board of Supervisors Carol. Spaziani, Human Services Steering Committee Florence Spaine, Human Services Steering Committee Dave Schuldt, Human Services Steering Committee Kathy Wallace, Human Services Steering Committee REA Discussion of funding assistance for a Human Services Center Thin is to sive you an undate report on discussions concerning a human services center. At the present time it appears that federal HUD Block Grant funding would be unlikely with FY'78 funds. We rnut with the John.^,on County Regional Planning Human Our vi r, r,:; Prujr:rl. f;Ln,;riny Committee on April 19, for their views on the needs for ::uch a center. Eric iunurl is a memo from the Steering Committee expressing support of the idea and a desire for careful planning. Yesterday, we met with Larry Hearer, Program Manager of the HUD Area office in Omaha and Molly Newington from the HUD regional office in Kansas City to discuss the likelihood of CDBG funding for constructing a new Human Service Center. Also attending Id ICROf1UdfD BY DORM MICR+LAB ICIII<P ♦!A�!�` 7f5 ''-0DI `If5 mILROFILMLD BY JORM 141CROLAB LEOAR RANOS AND UES ;-Iulf,L�, �Oel, -2- were Jud Te Paske, County CDBC Administrator, (carry Hokanson and Emil Brandt of JCRPC and Julio Vhnn, town Clty Community Ilrvelopmont Hlo,:k Grant Coordi.ndtor. Nr. Ileeren suggested that, if applied for, it should be as a single purpose grant, and such a grant has a funding ceiling of $400,000.00. Because the money is limited and because funds must be spent within a single year's program, Mr. Heeren recommended waiting until next year to submit this application. He felt this would give more reasonable amount of time to plan for such a facility. Our intent at this time is to proceed in that fashion, waiting until this fall to begin preparations on a new pre -application. Your comments and suggestions on this approach would be welcome. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions and thank you for your efforts in assisting us to explore the possibility of a Human Service Center. cc: Emil Brandt Isabel Turner Neal Berlin MICRUFILi4E0 BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS iuli{Lj, iuNn @@® Johnson county Go regional planning commission ® 221/2 2 south dubuque street. Iowa city. Iowa 52240 (319)351-8556 April 26, 1978 MEMO TO: Johnson County Board of Supervisors City of Iowa City - Mr. Neal Berlin United Way - Ms. Mary Ann Volm Isabel Turner cm.,w. Emil L. Brandt [,o ,,. a,Ki. FROM: Sally S. Baldus - Planner for the Human Services Project RE: Joint Review for Human Service Agencies Funding At our meeting on April 12, 1978, it was acknowledged that each of you (as representatives of local funding bodies) would like to ex- periment with a coordinated effort to fund local human service agencies; and, as part of this process, look into the possibility of prioritizing requests and developing a method for program evaluation. The Regional Planning Commission, through its Human Services Project, offered to assist in this task. Set forth below, for your consideration, is a suggested procedure that could get a coordinated effort underway this summer. It is by no means a com- plete process. Rather, it is a way to get started. The United Way has an agency review and evaluation process which is about to begin its annual work. Therefore, it is suggested that the city and county join in this process to hear agency requests for funding during the summer of 1978. This would allow all of you to experiment with joint hearings this year, analyze the experience in the fall of 1978, and submit your reactions to the Human Services pro- ject for use in developing its final on-going planning process recommendation. (January 1979.) To facilitate this, several components of the procedure are listed below: 1) In order to have information on agencies consistent, it is suggested that each agency applying for funds submj.t its request on the Program Information Form developed by the Regional Planning Com- mission (see attachment A) and use the Budget Information Form devel- oped by the United Way (see attachment B). 2) Two suggestions are offered regarding participation in the agency hearings themselves: a. Bring together the Iowa City Council (7 members), the Johnson County Board of Supervisors (3 members), the United Way Planning and Allocations Divisions (19 members), a staff member from each (3) and a staff member from the JCRPC Human Service Project. (oyer) 141C.110FIL1410 By JORM MICR+LA6 CrIAP 11M'M° ^f<, 1 -101 -IFS OR: hliLit HU4LU BY JORM MICROLAB -2- CEDAR RAPIDS AND OLS rNrilL� b. Have the city and the county each appoint one elected representative and one staff person to join with the United Way Planning and Allocations Divisions. In- clude a staff member from the United Way and the Johnson County Regional Planning Commission Human Ser- vices Project. The city and county representatives would have the responsibility of informing their re- spective elected bodies of information gathered at the hearings. While both suggested groupings bring the funding bodies together, the latter may be more workable and realistic than the former. By appoint- ing two people each from the city and the county, the expectation is eliminated that all elected Council people and Supervisors will be available to attend all the hearings. Also, by assigning this task to four people selected by their respective governmental bodies, a clearer understanding of who is responsible emerges. 3) Agencies would be expected to submit their Program Information Form and Budget Information Form by May 15, 1978. The United Way staff will collect these and set up the schedule of agency hearings. For the hearings, the agencies would be grouped by type of service provided (i.e., recreation, counseling, health, etc). The hearings themselves would be scheduled to begin in June and would be held once a week through- out the months of June and July. It is anticipated that each agency would be given up to one hour for its presentation and that three pre- sentations per night could be arranged. (There may be several agencies which all'three funding bodies do not need to hear jointly and their presentation would be scheduled separately. An example is School Chil- dren's Aid funded by the United Way.) 4) After the agency hearings are completed, the representa- tives of the funding bodies (see No. 2) would have useful infor- mation to consider in determining their next year's allocations to agencies. It is also hoped that they will meet to analyze the experience and provide comments and advice to the Human Services Project as to desirable features to include in an on-going plann- ing process to be finalized and recommended by January 1979. For your information, the Human Services project's Program Development Subcommittee is pleased at the interest expressed by funding bodies in joint action. They feel that the soundest way to develop a process that will have long-range chances for lasting success and acceptance is to incorporate this summer's experience into their work program. This procedure for joint review for human service agencies funding is submitted for your consideration. We would suggest meeting with you soon to go over this outline, get your reactions to it and hopefully your committment to try it out this summer. 111CROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LAB fFOM V1"I �C ^F` '101'1[` 11 MII,ROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB • CEDAR RAPIDS AND uLS }iuihio -3- ue;� NOTE: Attached for your information is a chart listing a number of agencies and their local funding sources. It has been put together with information obtained by the Human Services project, does not purport to be fully up-to-date and is submitted to you in draft form. We would appreciate receiving from you changes and corrections. Hopefully, it will be useful to you as a picture of where local human service dollars are currently going. As soon as possible, we will add to this by showing funding sources other than local dollars that are coming to some of the agencies on the list. CC: Bill Stewart, Chairman — United Way Curtis Purington, Planning Division - United Way Jim Shenk, Allocations Division - United Way Carol Spaziani, Chair, Program Development Subcommittee, Johnson County Regional Planning Commission '[ NICROrILMEO BY I JORM MICR+LAB rrnnr en ;nr. • nrs �nlnrs MILROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS HU,:+L,, :'Je", urart 4/Ll//a DISTRIBUTION OF LOCAL HUMAN SERVICES MONIES FUNDING BODIES AGENCY CITY COUNTY UNITED WAY American Red Cross X 'Assoc. Retarded Citizens X .Boy Scouts X ;Campfire Girls X Community Coordinated Child (Care (4 C's) X (Council on Aging X ( X X 'Congregate Meals X (In-kind) Crisis Center X X X (Transient Progr m) i Day Care Centers X (Title XX Match) Free Medical Clinic X X Friends of Children's Museum � X Girl 'Scouts x Girls Softball X Goodwill X X (Title XX Match) Headstart X Hillcrest -Iowa City Residence X for Women (Title XX Match) Hills Pre -School X X I.C. Babe Ruth X Id I CIV ILI4C0 BY ' JORM MICR�LAB CSPM? PRPID', PFt Id01NC5 MILROIALMED BY JORM M(CROLAB • CEDAR RAPIDS MID DLS •iUliiLJ, !JV111 AGENCY I.C. Boys Baseball Iowa Childrens-Family Services i,utheran Social Services Mark IV (Willow Creek Center) Mayors Youth Employment . MECCA Mental Health Association ;Mental Health Center ,Nelson Development Center PALS Project Hope iRape Crisis Line Salvation Army ',School Children's Aid Systems Unlimited United Action for Youth Visiting Nurse Association Youth Homes FUNDING BODIES CITY COUNTY IINITED '•; :Y X X r x EE of Servi es) x X lye X X X X xx I X x I X t X �� t^ 141CROEILMED BY JORM MICR+LAB rrnnr N riDi�us I•ILROFILMLD BY JORM 141CROLAB • CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULA iiUi:.Lj. JOHNSON COUNTY REGIQiVAL CITY OP IOWA RCITY EQU QUESTIONNAIRE FOR AGENCIES REQUESTING FUNDI ''''•''j3 X1978 PLANNING COMMISSION A. 1. Agency Name 2. Agency's Long Range Goals 3. Do you have a Board of Directors? ° No Yes If yes: a. Is it policy making, or advisory in nature? b. flow many people serve on the board? c. flow frequently do they meet? d. Average number in attendance at meetings e. flow are board members selected? (Both method and criteria used) f. What are the terms of office? g. Please enclose a list of your Board of Directors. 4. If you do not have a Board of Directors, to whom are you accountable? S. Title of program for which funds are being requested 6. a. At what location is the program carried out? b. What are the hours of operation? c. Are the facilities accessible to the handicapped? No _ Yes B. 1. a. What is your total funding request? $ MICROMME0 BY JORM MICR+LAB E�PAP I+d��n� arC 1d010E5 t41LROFILMED BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND OLS I UINLJ, iOIl.. -2- 1). Will thesefunds he used :Is matching funds? No _ Yes If yes, what is the source of the money these funds will match? c. What other sources of funding do you have? Please specify: (federal, state, grants, donations, fees, etc.) PLEASE FILL OUT THE ATTACHED BUDGET FORM. 2. Does your Agency carry insurance for this program? No Yes If yes: How much? $ What type? 3. Is your Agency regularly audited? _ No _ Yes If yes: How frequently? By whom? PLEASE ENCLOSE A COPY 01' YOUR LAST' AUUIT. C. 1. What criteria do you use for hiring staff? (educational, experience, etc.) Please specify: 2. Do you use volunteers? _ No Yes If yes, in what capacity? 3. what is the client/staff ratio for this program? Mi CROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LAB fFOM N 1'I MN:IFS MICROFILMED BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS i40iliLS, ileo, - 3- 4, is the program formally evaluated periodically? No Yes a. By whom? B. Do you utilize client feedback on the evaluation? _ No _ Yes c. Are reports available? _ No _ Yes 5. Do you routinely follow-up on clients? No _ Yes t if yes, by what method? i y Y6. Please list any other agencies which provide a similar service: t A Mi CROFILMEO BY ' JORM MICR+LAB MIAP V.A1117 • lf° M0MFS IdICROf ILI4ED BY JORM MICR+LAB CEDAR VAMPS PES MOINES les t ed . Its What other agencies are concerned with these particular goals? How muc will it cost? MILM ILMEO BY JORM 141CROLAB • CEDAR RAPIDS AND uLS '-IuiNL�, fuv.„ PROGRAM EVALUATION li, please complete this section with reference to one program your agency carried out in 1976. (if applicable, describe a program funded through "Aid to Agencies".) 1. Aecnev Name: 2. Name of Program: 3. Year: Length of program (e.g., 3 months, 1 year) 4. flow successful were you in meeting your goals and objectives? (Please be specific) S. How many people were served by the program? 6. what was the cost of the program? $ 7. Ilow was the program funded? i j 8. what factors within your organization either helped or hindered you in meeting i your goals? r 9. What factors outside your organization either helped or hindered you in meeting your goals? i If there has been a formal evaluation of your program, please enclose it. -[ •«—MICROFIL141D BY ' JORM MICR+LAB MAR q,v'?n' SFS h1O19F5 MILRUFILMEU BY JORM MICROLAB • LEUAR RAPIDS AND UES NUiNL�), :Ud,� CITY OF IOWA CITY FY 1979 BUDGET AGENCY^ SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES CLCLASSIFICATION, ACTUAL ESTIMATE BUDGET FY 1977 FY 1978 FY 1979 PERSONAL SERVICES 6100 Salaries & Wages 6200 Part-time & Overtime 6300 Pension & Retirement 6400 Insurance SUBTOTAL COMMODITIES 7100 Office Supplies 7200 Operating Supplies 7300 Repair & Maintenance Supplies SUBTOTAL SERVICES & CHARGES 8100 Professional Services 8200 Communications 8300 Transportation & Education 8400 Insurance 8500 Public Utility Service 8600 Repairs & Maintenance 8700 Technical Services 8900 Miscellaneous SUBTOTAL CAPITAL OUTLAY 9100 Land 9200 Structures, Improvements & Buildings 9300 Equipment SUBTOTAL TOTAL E E E E S E E S E E E E E 3 E S E E 5 S E E E E E E E E E 111CROFILMED BY JORM MICR+LA13 Cr%M VAr1DI • 'IFS MOINFS I I,'1L,k01 ILMLD BY JORM MICROLAB nuns CT0CPADITI It ATInM;:nR FISC 19 CEDAR RAPIDS AND uL:, ;•1U,;IL_ BUDGET FORM: 1 PUBLIC SUPPORT, REVENUE d EXPENSES FOR CURRENT PROPOSED ACTIVITIES OF 1912 19-1-a BUDGET Last Year This Yaar 1879 Name of Agency Address ACTUAL ESTIMATED ESTIMATED City Zip Telephone 1. TOTAL UNRESTRICTED FUNDS—CARRIED FOR, - WARD AND CURRENT (Line C Form L,,ts __________________________ 1a. Total Allocations from other United Ways (included In Line i 1 2. TOTAL EXPENSES Bs OUTLAYS FINANCED BY UNRE- STRICTED FUNDS (Line D Form Z) 2. EXCESS (DEFICIT) OF UNRESTRICTED FUNDS OVER EXPENSES FINANCED BY NRESTRICTED FUNDS ,s (Line -E Form 2 ------------ -- - ------ ----- -------------- ALL FINANCIAL INFORMATION ROUNDED TO NEAREST DOLLAR K "!f ! morlLRED BY JORM MICR61.AB AGENCY: PROPOSED BU BYPROGRAM PUBLIC SUPPORT A R 1 4000 Contributl< 2 4100 Contributk 3 4200 Spacial Eve 4 4300 Legacies ar 5 4500 Collected 1 6 4600 Contribute 7 4700 Allocated t 8 4800 Allocated t Fund-Reisii 9 5000 Fos 8. Gra 10 6000 Membershil 11 6100 Assessment 12 6200 Program Se 13 6300 Sales of Mi 14 6400 Sales to Put 15 6500 Invostment 16 6600 Gains on In 17 6900 Miscellanea 18 TOTAL SUPPORI 19 TOTAL FUND W THE YEAR—ALL 20 TOTAL PUBLIC; FORWARD✓1 CU 21 TOTAL PUBLICS DONOR (Includin of the Year 5_ 218. Current Re 21b. Land, Build (Including I 21c. Encimmim 22 TOTAL UNRESTI CURRENT 20.2 EXPENSES (7000.91199) 23 7000 Salaries... 24 7100 Employer E 25 7200 Payroll Tax 26 8000 Professional 27 8100 Supplies... 28 8200 Telephone. 29 8300 Postage and 30 8400 Occupancy 31 8500 Rental and 32 8600 Printing enc 33 8700 Travef.... 34 8800 Conference 35 8900 Specific Asi 36 9000 Membership 37 9100 Awerdsand 38 0400 Mlscellanwi 39 TOTAL EXPENSE 40 9500 Deprnalntici 41 TOTAL FUNCTIO, 42 9691 PAYMENTS 43 9900 MAJOR PRI (MEMO ON 44 TOTAL EXPENSE ACTIVITIES Of + 45 TOTAL EXPENSE RESTRICTED FUI 459. Current Rat 451b. Land, Buildi 48 TOTAL EXPENSE UNRESTRICTED 47 EXCESS IDEFICII SUPPORT 6 REVI BY UNRESTRICT 48 ALLOCATION RE ALL FINANCIAL INFORI Nli,tWr ILMLD BY JORM MICkOLAB CLDAk RAVLllb AND JL >i : ; i 111(,RUI ILMLO BY JORM 141CROLAB CEDAk kAP1US AND ULS 'IU;;a;, :'J"11 err:Nrv, Eudeet Form 4 FUND BALANCE SHEET Current Funds Land, Building and Equip. mant Fund Endow- mens Fund Total All Fulls Unra- stricted Ro- stricted 19_ 19 ASSETS 1. Cash ........................................ 2. Short -Term Investments—at Cost, which Is Approximately Market Value .................. 3. Accounts Receivable, Lass Allowance for Uncollectlblos of $ 4. Pledges Receivable, Less Allowance for Uncolloctibtes of$ Unrestricted Fund and$ Land, Building and Equipment Fund 5. Grants Receivable ............................. 6. Materials for Sala or Use—at Cost or Market, whichever is Lower ................................... 7. Prepaid Expenses and Deferred Charges .............. 8. Board•Deslgnatod Long -Term Investments ............ 9. Endowment Fund Investments .................... 10. Land, Buildingsard Equipment—at Cott, Less Accumulated Depreciation of $ 11 . ............................................ 12. ............................................ 13. TOTAL ASSETS LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCES Liabilities: 14. Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses ........... 16. Research Grants ................................ 16. Support and Revenue Designated for Future Periods.... 17 _96 Mortgage Payable, Due let Is. ............................................ 19. ............................................ 20. Total Liabilities and Deterred Revenues ............. Fund Balances: Currant Unrestricted, Designated by the Governing Board for - 71. Long -Term Investments ........................ 37. Purchases of New Equipment ...................... 23. ........................................... 34. Current Unrestricted, Available for General Activities .. Currant Rsttrlcted, Designated by Donors for — 46 . ........................................... 26. ...................... I.................... 77. Expanded ................................... 38. Unexpanded—Restricted .......................... 79. Endowment Fund .............................. 30. Total Fund Balances ........................... 31. TOTAL LIABILITIES & FUND BALANCES ALL FINANCIAL INFORMATION ROUNDED TO NEAREST DOLLAR RICROf ILMED BY ' JORM MICR+LAB rrnnp vni.��. . �tlr �1nclrs _cSf-Et (J United Way of America 1975 I4FLi<O1 IUILD BY JORM NICROLAB • CEDAR RAP 105 AND ULj +iU,iL- ;Jen AGENCY: r Budget F' orm 5 SCHEDULE OI . JSITIONS AND SALARIES SUPPORTING AuTUAL EXPENSES AND BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR AGENCY STAFF TOTAL CIF •• Full time staff will be noted as LOD; helftima as 0.60; quartartirna as 0.26 and so on. ALL FINANCIAL INFORMATION ROUNDED TO NEAREST DOLLAR -401-9 © Unlmd Way of Arnerla 1076 I4ICROFIL14FD BY JORM MICR4�LAEI rr0(•I' V"4,in� 'tiC v,01'll'c. ACCT. JOB POSITION TITLE FULL 1877 1878 to79 N0. GRADE AND TIME ILENT" LAST YEAR THISYEAR NEXTYEAH CHARGED NO. EMPLOYEE NAME EOUIVA• ACTUAL BUDGETED PROPOSED • ^ Position Vaunt TOTAL CIF •• Full time staff will be noted as LOD; helftima as 0.60; quartartirna as 0.26 and so on. ALL FINANCIAL INFORMATION ROUNDED TO NEAREST DOLLAR -401-9 © Unlmd Way of Arnerla 1076 I4ICROFIL14FD BY JORM MICR4�LAEI rr0(•I' V"4,in� 'tiC v,01'll'c. I•11LR0f1LMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS V�UINL;, ILMm AIRPOItTS: MUNICIPA"'PIES: CITIES. 501 and 141— A.nlendments, Const of U.S.; S5 330.17, 3 .21 and 613A.8, Code: of Io,..,, 1977. The Airport Commission is an independunt or autonomous commission and has power to defend, save harmless and indemnify its off..i.cers, employees and agcuts ayainst tort and conLracL claims. 5310.1.7 prescribe; elections as the only means of creating or abolishing an Airport Commission. No airport property can bL transferred or sold by the city council without approval of thu Airport Commission. If. an Airport Commis- sion is abolished, its contractual agreements legally made arc bind- ing upon the city. ('Turner to I,ightscy, DOT Aeronautics Director, 5-1-78) #78-5-1 May 1, 1978 14r. James L. Lightsoy Director, Aeronautics Divison Department of Transportation State Capitol Des Moines, Iowa 50319 Dear Mr. Lightsey: You have requusLcd an opinion of the attorney general as to the following four questions: "First, does a City have the duty to defend, save harmless, and indemnify members of. an Airport Com- mission (established under the provisions of Chapter 330) Or the officers, employee,.,, or agents of the Airport Commission? "Second, can an Airport Commission be abolished in a manner other than by a petition filed by the electors and an election held as provided in Chapter 330.17? "Third, can all or any part of the municipal air- port property be transferred or sold for other than airport purposes by the City Council without the approval of the Airport Commission? "Fourth, if an Airport Commission is abolished pursuanL- to Chapter 330.17, are the contractual :uireemcnts made by the Commission hi.ndinq on the city (or counL•y or township) owning the airport?" I. The answer to your first question is that the Airport Commission is till "independent or autonomous board or commission of a municipality having authority to disperse funds for a particular municipal function w.it:)lollt approval OI the governing body" and has power to "defend, ::;lve harmless and indemnify its officers, omployces and agents against r•- MICROF ILMfD By ' JORM MICRbLAO (711AP PAPIPS • 7S !401!11_S F0 2 IQILROYILMLD BY DORM MICROLAB Mr. James L. Lightsey Director, Aeronautics Division Page 2 CEDAR RAPIDS AND UL) MUINL� ww„ . . . tort claims or demands." 5613A.0, Code of Iowa, 1977. The governing body of a municipality is so defined as to include a city. 5613A.1. To the extent that the Airport Commission might have insuf- ficient funds -or other resources with which to defend itself, the governing body of the city, that is the council, would have that duty under 5613A.8. It is to be noted that while 5G13A.8 pertains to tort claims and demands, a suit on a contract executed by Airport Commission members truuld unduubLudly Le Lruught uyainst the city and the culmlission, rather than against the Airport Commission members in their individual capacities and, in any case, it is my opinion that either the commis- sion or governing body should defend a suit on a contract made and executed by the Airport Commission, even when brought against the members in their individual capacities, and has a duty to indemnify and save them harmless. II. 9330.17 prescribes the only means of creating or abolishing an Airport Commission --by a majority of the voters of the city. Expressio unius est exclusio alterius. / i ��n l✓J�•N .`� Iqr 74:d/ id III. In my opinion, no airport property, real or personal, can be transferred or sold for other than airport purposes by the city council without approval of the Airport Commission. 5330.21 provides that the Airport Commission has all the power granted to cities "except powers to sell the airport." Thus, the Airport Commission could not sell the airport without action by the city council. But on the other hand, creation of an Airport Commission gives the commission "manage- ment and control" of the: airport until it is "abolished sixty days from and after the date of" the election to abolish it, at which time "the power to maintain and operate such airport shall revert. ' to" the city. 5330.17. "All funds derived from taxation or otherwise for airport purposes shall be under the full and absolute control of the commission and shall be disbursed only on the written warrants, or orders of the airport commission, including the payment of all indebtedness arising from the acquisition and construction of air- •,/ ports and the maintenance, operation, and extension thereof." 5330.21. These broad delegations of power make the Airport Commission' 1 independent and autonomous and there is no way in which the city council can subvert the commission's power without the consent of the coaunission. Ser: 1958 OAG O16, 1976 OAG 541, OAG 7.-4-77, Blumberg to Griffee, and OAC 7-1.4-'171lil.umberg to Itedmond. OFILMED DIY JORM MICR+LAB rrnnr WT" . -,F' »mnc. r MILROFILMLD BY JORM MICROLAB Mr. James L. Lightsey Director, Aeronautics Division Page 3 • CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS hlUi•r,u Iv. UM, If an Airport Commission is absolished under 5330.17, its con- tractual agreements legally made by the commission would be binding upon the city (or county or townships) owning the airport. If the conunission is abolished, the city would take over the liabilities as %,ell as the assets of the commission. We have said that an Air- port Commission has the power to lease airport land under its con- trol not needed for a public purpose. DAG 2-4-77, Blumberg to -riffee.Obviously, a lessee or other person holding benefits properly awarded by contract with the commission could not be de- prived thereof without due process and just compensation. Amend- ments 5 and 14, Constitution of the United States. Si ely, RCT:pw RICHARD C. TURNER i i :;i;it .tip T�MICROf ILMED BY ' JORM MICR+LA9 ffOAR PAP1911 • )rS !4omrs t41Li<UFILMLD BY JORM MICROLAB art OF rRghS W T0. O Y o IOWA CEDAR RAPIDS AND uLS AUUIL'�, ;UA,, R._.,EIVED i''1;^X 81978 Post Office Box 427 Iowa City, Iowa 52240 May 5, 1978 Mr. Neal Berlin City Manager 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240 HIGHWAY DIVISION REF. NO. 472 RE: Special Public Road Connection - Hy -Vee Food Stores Dear Neal: Attached please find a copy of a letter dated April 26, 1978 from Neil Volmer of our Development Support Department at Ames, concerning the proposed Special Public Road Connection Application, submitted by the Hy -Vee Food Stores, for access to U.S. 6 from the south side opposite station 175+82.85 in Iowa City. Mr. Volmer's letter advises us that after his department and the Office of Road Design reviewed the above mentioned application, as submitted, they are recommending denial of the request. Mr. Volmer concludes his letter by saying that he does not believe it would be in the best interest of the highway user to approve an addi- tional access, unless additional data in the form of detailed traffic assignments can be presented which will show that accesses available without the connection are not adequate to serve the property. Perhaps the city of Iowa City and the Hy -Vee folks would like to re- view the current status of this application for a Special Public Road Connection and decide whether or not additional data in the form of detailed traffic assignments is to be presented and who will prepare the presentation for us. Also in his letter Mr. Volmer mentions a request for a Special Public Road Connection that we had denied for the K -Mart shoping center in 1970. If Hy -Vee proceedes with their request for a Special Public Road Connec- tion at station 175+82.85 I would like to have the city of Iowa City's position presented to us in regard to an additional access to U.S. 6 in the K -Mart area. COMMISSIONERS RARHARA DUNN DONALD H. GARONCII s1❑RIFN GARS? WILLIAM r. WGRA711 RODENT n. RIGLCn L. STANLCY SCIIOELCn MAN ALLAN TIIDMS Def Mp.ne1 Cetlm RaprcN Cp." R.p d, M<Imn New IbnIpinn SRenrnl OubpNrt 903 IdICROFIL1410 BY 1 JORM MICR+LAB MAR PAI'11f pf S t1019rs 1I1CROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB • CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS 1.10111LS, iUvin 1-1 If there are any questions please feel free to contact this office. Sincerely yours, 44, s lo:Maurice F. Burr Resident Maintenance Engineer MFB:jg :s cc: Records Center ;e W j. U I: i' :e.Far.f• ' 4t?iae:i:S I' i d.: •, 141CR0[IL14ED BY I I DORM MICR+LAB [.FMR PAND', D[5 1401'4[.5 Page 2 MILRUFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB CEDAR RAVIUS AND [)LS i!U,fiLj, lUv,n ' II 4 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTA N To Office r District 6 Dale April 26, 1978 Attention John Saunders Ref. No. Johnson County 472 From Neil Volmer Office Development Support Subject Special Public Road Connection - Hy -Vee Food Stores We have reviewed the request as submitted -in behalf of Hy -Vee Food Stores, Inc. to construct a special public road connection, south side of U.S. 6 opposite station 175+82.85 in Iowa City and recommend denial of the request as submitted. This proposed access location was to serve a food store, drug store and a small shopping complex. We have reviewed the request with the Office of Road Design and the following are our thoughts pertaining to the request and to U.S. 6 in general. 1. U.S. 6 is a Class IVA highway with access rights purchased. 2. 1976 average daily traffic was over 15,000 vehicles in the project area. 3. The location of the requested access is in an area of a four -lane divided highway, however this is also the area where the highway begins to merge into a four -lane undivided highway and would appear to be a poor place for an access location. 4. Directly south of existing U.S. 6 and lying between Keokuk Street and Broadway Street is the K -Mart shop- ping center. A request was received and denied in 1970 for direct access to the K -Mart. Approval of the request to the Hy -Vee store could bring added pressure from the K -Mart for direct access. 5. In 1956, U.S. 6 was designed and right of way acquired in accordance with Class III access standards whereby access rights were acquired from all properties and access allowed at major street intersections only. Many minor streets were not connected to the relocated "bypass" highway. Therefore, we do not believe it would be in the best interest of the highway user to approve an additional access, unless additional data in the form of detailed traffic assignments can be presented which will show that accesses available without the connection are not adequate to serve the property. 141001-I LI -110 By 1 JORM MICR+LAB cnAV PAPP)'. pfF 1401!1[5 -7K 14ICROFILMED BY JORM MICROLAB • , District 6, John Saunders April 26, 1978 Page Two • CEDAR RAPIDS AND ULS MU1(iL�,, iU'vlh From the information presented, it appears that an extension of the present frontage road (Hollywood) to the west, plus the access from Gilbert would serve the development satis- factorily. If further discussion is required, please feel free to contact this office. NEIL M. VOLMER Development Support Engineer LRH:jmv Attach. cc: Robert Klopping Narr R. Heintz Acc ss and Hearing S e isor IIICROFILI-110 BY JORM MICR+LAE CrOAP PN'@5 • ars !amR[S