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ITEM 2a. PLANNING AND ZONING MATTERS.
a. Consider an ordinance vacating the twenty-three foot wide
Grand Avenue Court right-of-way, commencing from the north
right-of-way line of Melrose Avenue and extending northward for
a distance of two hundred ninety-five feet. (Second
Consideration).
Lehman: (Reads item).
O'Donnell: Move second consideration.
Champion: Second.
Lehman: Moved by O'Donnell, seconded by Champion. Discussion?
Jean Walker: This is a hard copy of what...
Kart: Jean you'll have to use the microphone.
Walker: i'm Jean Walker and I live on 335 Lucon Drive. (Reads statement).
Lehman: Thank you, Jean.
Walker: And I've just got one question of whether this will come up in the
work session that follows this special session.
Lehman: It could but I don't know that it will.
Walker: I asked because of medical considerations.
Lehman: Yeah I have no intention of bringing it up. 1 don't know if anyone else
on the Council does or not, but it could be brought up.
Walker: Okay. Thank you.
Kant: Motion to accept correspondence.
Vanderhoef: So moved.
Champion: So moved.
Lehman: Moved by Vanderhoef and seconded by Champion to accept
correspondence. All in favor? Opposed? Motion carries. Any other
discussion?
Vanderhoef: I just would like to say one more time that we're not holding up the
University in any way if we do allow the change in grade of the road.
And unfortunately we didn't have that information earlier in this whole
This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City
Council meeting of November 4, 2002.
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process. And I had to bring it up on Tuesday when we had our first
meeting, but it was at that time that I had the word from our City
engineers that it would not change enough that it would impede using
the Court after the time of the construction zoned going out of that
area. I still feel that we must hold open all of our options for the Court
and for the realignment of however Melrose cormects with Grand
Avenue. And this is a premature vote.
Lehman: Any other discussion? Roll call. Motion carries, 4-3, Vanderhoef,
Ross and Kanner in the negative.
This represents only a reasonably accurate transcription of the Iowa City City
Council meeting of November 4, 2002.