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MEMORANDUM
Date: April 21, 1988
To: City Council
From: City Manager
Re: American -Soviet Walk - July 3-4, 1988
As you will recall from a recent presentation to Council, the proposed
International Peace Walk - American and Soviet, is scheduled for July 3-4.
It will be necessary to provide a campsite for the participants. The
Director of Parks and Recreation, following consultation with the Parks
and Recreation Commission, has agreed to allow the use of Mercer Park for
a campsite. The park will be used on the nights of July 3 and 4 and the
activities will end sometime in the afternoon of July 5. All parties are
in agreement, and unless there are any further concerns on the part of the
City Council, we will be proceeding accordingly.
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cc: Terry Trueblood
City of Iowa City
MEMORANDUM
Date: April 29, 1988
To: City Council
From: Dale Helling, Assistant City Manager
Re: Energy Savings Payback Fund (ESPF) ,
Attached for your information is
Eneelder
rgy Coordinator, showing acts a chart expenditures from that
April 22, 1988, as well as estimated savings through FY89Jfor sthosefenergy
conservation measures which have been implemented, fund through
Many of the energy conservation measures
early in the program (FY86 Particularly those implemented
7 initial cost b ) will have returned 100%
1 expenditures under this of FY will This results from the Or more 0 fact that initial
conservation measures withpthersho test calculatedam were aimed paybackineriod,
measures funded in FY87 and FY88 Pe the energy
Those
payback periods but which are still coStleffective based somewhat
mewhat longer
I those with
savings which will accrue over the life of that the estimated
The operating policy for the Ener Particular measure,
to fund those energy Energy Savings Payback Fund continues to be
period as the highestpriority.
conservation measures with the shortest
two we will be able priority, We anticipate that over Payback
conservation measures with fund as those the next year or
a minimum, identified
and may well be a simple Payback period of seven energy
projected payback periodstas
continue funding many of those
years or less
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FACILITY
tI Civic Center
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Animal Shelter
SE 6 W Fire Stations
Airport Terminal
City Park Maint.
Cemetery Office
Water Treat. Plant
Transit Building
Pollution Control
Mercer Park PwL.
TOTALS
ESPF HISTORY TO DATE 4/22/88
ECM
PROJECT
COSTS
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ECM SAVINGS
$
FY86
87
88"
TOTAL
87
88
89
TOTAL
25
899.93
0
4,947.89
30
847.82
8,842.77
8,842.77
9,407.66
27
093.20
68
057.67
5,401.00
0
73
458.67
23
871.00
25
767.24
25
767.24
75
405.48
2.812.25
0
0
2,812.25
1,132.34
1,132.34
1,132.34
3,397.02
782.00
0
4,541.88
5,323.88
270.48
270.48
646.80
1,187.76
356.90
0
41.94
398.84
150.96
150.96
162.58
464.50
2
369.50
0
3,770.00
6,139.50
803.30
803.30
1,094.18
2,700.78
415.29
0
1,263.00
1,678.29
121.80
121.80
189.98
433.58
7.215.00
0
0
7.215.00
3,715.00
3,715.00
3,715.00
11
145.00
0
2,300.00
0
2,300.00
0
700.00
700.00
1,400.00
0
2,541.91
0
2,541.91
0
715.49
715.49
1,430.98
0
0
16
000.00
16
000.00
0
0
16
401.00
16
401.00
101
908.54
10
242.91
30
564.71
148
716.16
38
907.65
42
219.38
59
932.27
141
059.30
ESPF = Energy Savings Payback Fund
ECM = Energy Conservation Measures
"Known ECM's as of 4/22/88.
CITY OF
CIVIC CENTER JOVV 410E.WASHINGTON
sr. Iowa cIN log CITY
VA 52240 (319) 356-%C
April 25, 1988
Mr, Stu Schmidt
Waste Management Authority
Department of Natural Resources
Des
Wallace State Office Building
Moines, Iowa 50319
Dear Mr, Schmidt:
We understand that
s for
tiaiiforn recycling feasibRecycling,.
lity stud°rganization is about to
is to press to younoure Iowa City area, study, with respect to Poten-
hel express interest Purpose of
P address the long-term solid and support for this letter
oily, and hopefully you will waste dis projects that will
tion of Iowans for give every consideration of
Recycling. to their comnu-
Sincerely yours, aPPlica-
Joh
Mayor McDonald
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cc: City Council
City Manager
City of Iowa City
MEMORANDUM
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TO: Steve Atkins, City Manager
FROM: Larry Donner, Fire ChiefJ.
DATE: April 27, 1988
RE: Ladder Truck Delay
Grumman Fire Apparatus informed us today that delivery of our new ladder
truck will be delayed another three weeks. The aerial ladder did not meet
specifications and Grumman's Quality Control Is having the ladder rebuilt
before delivery.
We will let you know as soon as we have a firm delivery date,
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Mayor's Youth Employment Program
410 Iowa Avenue f Iowa City, IA 52240 f 356-5410
TO: Stephen Atkins, City Manager __P I' N
FROM: Peg McElroy, Executive Director
IN RE: Department of Natural Resources Grant
Iowa Conservation Corps Floating Pier & Canoe Access Project
City Park
DATE: April 26, 1988
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Pursuant to our conversations earlier regarding the grant
received from the Department of Natural Resources, I would like to take
this opportunity to request permission to proceed from the city council
` during the regularly scheduled May 3, 1988 meeting of council. 1 have
i met with water Access Coordinator, Jim Zohrer, and he has advised me
} that w:tars in a position to begin the project, however, construction
will not occur until June 14, 1988.
The proposal to DNR was submitted by the Mayor's Youth Employment
Program and the City of Iowa City Parks and Recreation Department in
late February. $7,2E8 was requested from marine fuel tax money to
construct a floating pier (12 -sided dinghy float), canoe access,
parking lot renovation and bank stabilization in city park. A similar
pier is located on the Iowa River at Edgewater Park in Coralville. The
remaining costs of the project will be provided by the Iowa
Conservation Corps/Summer Component (Iowa Department of Economic
Development lottery funds) and parks and recreation. The total project
cost is •14,306 and will involve 9 teenagers, 1 fulltime supervisor and
parks and recreation resource staff.
This project was endorsed by the Parks & Recreation Commission on
February 15, 1988 and a letter of support was written by the Riverfront
Commission. The initial concept and source for funds is attributed to
Melody Rockwell, CDBG Planner. This will represent the fifth project
completed by Mayor's Youth and Parks & Recreation. 1 have spoken with
1st Assistant City Attorney, Richard Boyle, regarding liability and he
has discussed it with City Attorney, Terry Timmins and Assistant
Finance Director, Kevin O'Malley.
1 would be happy to discuss this matter with you in greater
detail and will attend the informal council meeting scheduled May 2,
1988. If you wish to include any further information including design
plans, timelines, etc., 1 will furnish the appropriate materials.
act IDNR Floating Pier Sub -Committee
Terry Trueblood, Director, Parks & Recreation
John Watson, Parks & Recreation Commission
Melody Rockwell, CDBG Planner
Jim Daily, former Riverfront Commission member
Bob Howell, Parks Superintendent
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Bellevue's Natural Determinants
Implementation Project
By Ron DuBois
When the city of Bellevue, Washington,
embarked on a major program to
manage development on wetlands, steep
slopes, and other environmentally sensitive
areas, it adopted the name "Natural Deter•
minants'to describe the complex planning
and regulatory project. Although the phrase
sounds like something coined by Charles
Darwin, it refers to a set of regulations
designed to limit sharply or, in some cases,
prohibit construction in some pans of the
city.
In recent years, Bellevue has grown from
a bedroom suburb of Seattle to the state's
fourth largest city. It is part of the rapidly
growing eastern suburbs, separated from
Seattle to the west by Lake Washington.
Growth for Bellevue has come in the form
of 25 -story office towers in the downtown
core, plus outlying office parks, high•
technology industry, and a housing boom.
With most of the easily developed land in
the city's 26 -square -mile area already built
on, pressure has mounted for commercial
use of less desirable wetlands and unstable
hillsides.
7b blunt that pressure, Bellevue in 1963
began a comprehensive—and politically
controversial—program to manage growth
and protect its dwindling natural resources.
After four years of skirmishing with de-
velopers and property owners and more
than 70 public meetings, the city last year
adopted the series of regulations known as
Natural Determinants.
In recognition of the planning process that
led to those regulations, Bellevuds Natural
Determinants Implementation Projece won
this year's Current Topic Award, whose
focus is Rlanners and the Political Process:
How Planners Make a Difference'
Environment first
The Natural Determinants regulations are
a logical outgrowth of the city's—and the
region's—concern for environmental pro-
tection. In the late 1970s, for example,
Bellevue elected to use its natural system of
streams and wetlands to collect, absorb, and
gradually discharge slormwater runoff in.
stead of shunting it through underground
pipes and concrete culverts. Today,
Bellevues natural drainage system isaided
by computer -controlled floodgates that hold
back downpours in detention ponds and by
telemetry equipment and sensors that mon•
itor stream flows.
The city also created a separate storm and
surface water utility to run its drainage sys-
tem, which is financed entirely by rate
payers. The question that comes increas•
ingly to the fore, raised both by the utility
and environmentalists, is whether rate
payers should be held responsible for the
high costs of drainage in new development
on environmentally sensitive land.
Eventually, an interdepartmental team of
city planners, technical, and managerial
staff, plus two citizen advisory groups,
decided that developers, rather than resi•
dents, should bear the costs and be respon-
sible for the environmental consequencesof
their projects. In the case of building on wet.
lands, in stream corridors, or on unstable
slopes, the city said little or no development
would be allowed because of the damages it
could create downstream. This stance sig•
nalled a shift in philosophy that put the bur•
den of proof on developers rather than the
city.
Pam BLssonnette, now Bellevuefs assistant
city manager, worked extensively on the
issue as director of the Storm and Surface
Water Utility. 'What we said was that de•
velopers should be required to work in con•
cert with the natural environment instead of
trying to overcome it," she says. Along with
the city staff, the planning commission and
the Storm and Surface Water Advisory Com•
mission spent two years translating that phi.
Bellevue chose to
rely an the area's
naturaldrainage
system to soler
persistent–and
worsening–
flooding problems.
Slaps in the chy s
".Senshfee A teas
Notebook"mbresel
set out guidelines
Int bailding nn
slopes mid in
uetlund,.
677
been sharply divided onhland usehas issuels
adopted the Natural Determinants regula.
tions last May by a s to 2 vote, with the dis•
senters complaining that the regulations
amounted to an unlawful taking of
property.
Some of the benefits of the planning proj•
ect are readily apparent. The city protected
its natural storm drainage system and rate
payers wiR not have to pay the hidden costs
Of poor development. Equally impor.
tant, property owners were given a more
streamlined permit process and more
realistic expectations of how they can use
physically constrained land.
Ron DuBois is a reporter wilh the Journal-
.lnrrnr.:•�in Bellevue. tvashington.
APnI 1988 Planning 11
losophy into the set of policies that came to Front polio• to action
known as the natural determinants
policies. What the city ended up with in 1985 was 14
Opposition came ef ments
j
mostly from builders of hre nexttwoyea sof aefi ityThe complex
campus -style office parks, led by the Na.
�F'r
s
task of translating policy into action in-
tional Association of Industrial Parks. The volved nine separate regulatory ton in.
gflyers roup mounted a campaign of mass -mailed
1
nentsinnewandexistin ct c es. ng
homeowners into opposing Natural
homeondnewspaperadsintended to scare and land -use codes had to be changed
11 .'
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to
Deter• create a sensitive area overlay district
minants. The group claimed that once the detailingsetbacks, densities,
policies became law,
:•,
'
and variance
residents wouldnt be procedures. Utility, drainage, and clearing
able to builds patio or landscape their lawn and grading codes all had to
ifit was in a sensitive
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be revised to in.
area. corporate the new regulations and new
Planners countered bypointingout that in
I
standards for controlling erosion, preserv.
some cases, property owners would be al. Ing vegetation, stabilizing fragile
lowed to build toa higherdensityon
i
¢,
slopes,
the un• and maintaining water quality Planners
constrained part of their land. The city also created asensittve area
conceded that some
T '—• rr
notebook that
sites that were mostly mapped out all wetlands, steep slopes,
wetland or were very unstable would see floodplain, and
very little
a
' e
stream corridors, allowing
development. A major selling property and
Point was that the new land -use regulation ra to identify,
t
to the
s, what constraints
accompanied by site•specific ra Ing ,aps PPiled to them.
plieds
s because of the complexi.
would offer developers much greater ties involved
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dictability than the regulations in effect
nodrafting the regulations, or
Perhaps because they lost the battle
under the state environmental
l'
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Policy act, at the
which requiredcase•by-case review of rd• DetPoler inantscal but theopponents
ects on sensitive lands. P J Determinants t down
considerably
considerably
the
Besides contending with angry de • during the final stages. One issue that a
velopersand uncertain homeowners
of etoraseShowevertlwas
I di
Y
a
city had the ownesmallrscontinud
deal with internal
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•.
political whether the regulations would unfairly de.
et
conflict between the planning commission
la
r 'i
,t
and the storm we ter advisory co sthem teirdveghts.I
.ponshe esd a
The planning commission
' a R
'
variance
argued that de. procedure that allows the ownerofa totally
velopment on wetlands and steep slopes
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constrained pieceofpropertytobuildon 10
should be'managed.•But theadviso com-
advisory
a q p
• e r p a� '
commission
percent of it. The Planningtgethe
mission, mindfulo(itsratepayes,insisted tried unsuccessfuilytogetthecityto
that all such development be
S I, .p
prohibited un. con.
less builders could prove that no environ- rider buying wetlands outright when the
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regulations
mental harm would result. ns would deprive a property
• : !• •
In adecision that disappointed the plan. significant concession
ning
' •
wasmadet to
commission and developers a like, the of land along stream corridors. A grand.
citycouncil adopted the tougher wording. father
'—'--t••^•+•—
clause allows them to expand, re -
Now city officials feel that the matter was model, orrebuildtheir buildngsafterafire
resolved for the best. 'Sometimes
conflict oratherdisasterwithout having tocomply
You get a stage,'saysresult
etter you with s
debate at the
Policy
B'ssonnette. Thecitycounregulations.
cil h
been sharply divided onhland usehas issuels
adopted the Natural Determinants regula.
tions last May by a s to 2 vote, with the dis•
senters complaining that the regulations
amounted to an unlawful taking of
property.
Some of the benefits of the planning proj•
ect are readily apparent. The city protected
its natural storm drainage system and rate
payers wiR not have to pay the hidden costs
Of poor development. Equally impor.
tant, property owners were given a more
streamlined permit process and more
realistic expectations of how they can use
physically constrained land.
Ron DuBois is a reporter wilh the Journal-
.lnrrnr.:•�in Bellevue. tvashington.
May 1988
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