HomeMy WebLinkAbout1973-03-13 Council minutes•' COUNCIL DISCUSSION
MARCH 13,'1973
The Iowa City Council met in informal session at 12:30
'P.M. on Tuesday March 13, 1973 in the Conference Room at the
Civic 'Center. Councilmen present were: Brandt, Connell, Czar-
necki, Hickerson,' White. .Absent: None, Others..present. were:
Wells, Honohan, Speer, Bonnett, Kraft,'Stolfus, Palmer,Epstein,
The meeting was set to discuss removalofparking and
development standards for 'public works improvements.
Concerning parking the City Manager, Ray Wells, commented
on a letter he received suggesting use of bus routes as bikeway
system. Councilman White asked the thinking; on the time 'factor
instead of across the board prohibition, just' during: hour s' of
bus operation: The Staff proposed 24 hour no parking cit'
ing
oost'for signs and inconvenience to residents anyway with'6 AM
to 6 PM prohibition. ,Councilman Hickerson agreed only,i.f,park- '
ing was not removed from both sides of`a street, and he suggested,.
that the change occur at a -;time -of minimum'confusion`May or
during the summer, with a consistent pattern .such a.s:removal on
north or west. 'sides:of.all: :street s,. Councilman Czarnecki men -
bb tioned that very few people have objected in writing;"to the
removal;of parking, 'councilman White commented that there was
no necessity :to remove as much parking as suggested. He'stated
1ity:of look'ing.at'
that he felt stronglyabout the desirabi
each street in terms of a set of broad policy, guidelines, and
stated .that the Council would be 'altering what they've done
historically in terms of development, also in the .6*
we needed parking alternatives.`
Mayor Brandt suggested a compromise, removing
arterials on, both sides, but only on one 'Side of Director of Public.,Works of theroutes. Ralph Speer advised ,that he could pre-
pare a report concerning' parking removal for the three catagories
Of )) arterials, 2) arterials -bus routes and 3) bus -routes. The
Council discussed bikeways -and decided to look at bikeways,
calendar parking and street storage after bus routes and>arter-
ials were considered. Councilman' Czarnecki` discussed evening
parking` and suggested that the staff come up with alternatives
to the blanket proposal --a formula for access when there is no
Possible place to park.
The City Manager noted that discussion of Design Standards
was on the agenda for the regular meeting and he expected some
of the developers to attend, the meeting.- He stated that the only
problem so far concerned the additional width of streets. Mayor
Brandt questioned assessment procedures and the • City, Manager responded that the abutting owner would be assessed for
311f the City's responsibility would start from there.
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The City Manager announced 'the 'quarterly joint meeting
with the representatives of the University at Jessup Hall on
March 19th at 4PM,
City Attorney Jay Honohan discussed the documents sent
with ,the cover letter from.the Mayor concerning the reply to
the Civil Rights Commission complaint of discrimination.', tion.', The
-City Manager explained that this was the .initial answer to
get within ,the ten day time frame, and that we were not
to reply to all charges at this time. The City Attorney'.in-
dicated that it would not be proper for individual response
by Councilmen'.
City.Manager'Ray Wells reported on cooperative intergov-
ernmental efforts previously, considered in Johnson County,
specifically a facility for joint law enforcement, noting that
it'would be a functional consolidation, not a political.con-
solidation such as merging. He -explained :_ that the Director of
Public,. Safety >Dave'Epstein' had'been investigating ,the'desir-
ability for consolidation ofjoint use of communication systems,
records and joint use o£ manpower'in invest' ions, an had
discussed these ideas with the Sheriff and Coralville indiv-
iduals ,to see if they were -interested in some't
effort. The `City Manager requested Council reactionforoinb
questions. Councilman,Hickerson-noted that a preliminary
step would be in the direction of, clarifying,:who is in charge.
The City Manager advised that .,of
step would-be specific
arrangements such as sharing,a communications system, which
could be placed under a Board jointly; responsible to all. The
Council discussed cooperation on a route basis;. involvement
of University or Highway Patrol; reciprocalr.Fire;Agreements'
(we have 8 governmental agency agreements) and Emergency
operations Board. Mr. Epstein mentioned that problems cut
across, political boundaries daily, Mr. Wells:pr000sed that
the staff and attorney would work on the.areas Council called
attention and report back with the roughtdraft for further
discussion. Councilman White mentioned that the Council was
due to meet with the 'Supervisois and the`Coralville Council,
and questioned if at the Council's regular meeting,their
interest should be apart of the motion for authorization.
The Staff agreed that it should.