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Home My WebLink About2005-12-13 Correspondence I ~ I f~I~!:'t ~:;'~..aa.~ ...ra~ CITY OF IOWA CITY rnllJ MEMORANDUM Date: November 14, 2005 To: City Clerk From: Anissa Williams, JCCOG Traffic Engineering Planner Re: Item for December 13, 2005 City Council meeting: Installation of one handicap parking space in front of 1027 Rochester Avenue. As directed by Title 9, Chapter 1, Section 38 of the City Code, this is to advise the City Council of the following action. Action: Pursuant to Section 9-1-3A(14) of the City Code, two signs indicating HANDICAP PARKING with ARROW will be installed in front of 1027 Rochester Avenue. Comment: This action is being taken to accommodate parking for patrons with disabilities for Gersh, Hartson and Associates. This action will be rescinded when the business is no longer at this location. mgrfAgendaltemsf1027 rochester.doc 0 ~ ~Q ~ ~ 0-:2 "" 2J ==iCj - ",' .,... r- _rr, :boo fll O?i! :Jl: 0 ~ - - " .::- .::- I! j -=~~-~... ~~W~'"!. ",,-... ~rml' .....~ CITY OF IOWA CITY~ MEMORANDUM f2 Date: November 23, 2005 To: City Clerk 1\.. l~ Anissa Williams, JCCOG Traffic Engineering Planner W From: Re: Item for December 13, 2005 City Council meeting: Installation of NO PARKING ANY TIME signs on the south and west side of Clover Street As directed by Title 9, Chapter 1, Section 3B of the City Code, this is to advise the City Council of the following action. Action: Pursuant to Section 9-1-3A(10), install NO PARKING ANY TIME signs on the south and west side of Clover Street Comment: This action is being taken because parked vehicles on the street directly opposite each other make it too narrow for emergency vehicles to get through. Mgr/agd/cloverst NPAT.doc ,..., = 0 = c.M So = ""- a )>-j T1 0-< """ N r- =10 w ~<r-- -0 ill n' 0 --:JJ ::JI: ~7' w )> c.n c.n FILED 2005 NOV 23 AM": 3 9 CITY CLER/< IOW/\ u! 1', IUWA November 21, 2005 Emie Lehman, Mayor Iowa City City Council 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240 RE: Proposed Annexation of the AItmaier Annexation District into the City of Coralville, Iowa Dear Ernie, Tbis letter constitutes official notice to you that the City Council of Coralville will take action on the proposed annexation into its corporate limits from the owners of the above-referenced, proposed Annexation District. The proposed Altmaier Annexation District is legally described as follows: See Exhibit "A" attached. A map of the Annexation District is also attached for your reference. Accordingly, the Coralville City Council will hold a public hearing and may take action on the proposed annexation on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005, at 7:00 P.M., in the Council Chambers of the Coralville City Hall, at 1512 7th Street. Tbis notice is given in compliance with Section 368.7 of the 2005 Code of Iowa. Please contact me at 248-1700 with any questions. Sincerely, ~~ Kevin D. Olson Assistant City Attorney , tX- . fd} ell City Administration 1512 7th Street Coralville, Iowa 52241-1708 319-248-1700 Fax: 319-248-1894 Exhibit "A" The NWfr Y. NW1I4 of Sec. 1, Twp. 79 N., 7 West of the 5th P.M., and Commencing at the southwest corner of section thirty-six (36), township eighty (80) north, range seven (7) west of the 5th P.M., thence north 57 minutes west along the west line of said Section 36, 1453 feet, thence north 52 degrees 55 minutes east along the centerline of the public highway 563 feet, thence south 56 degrees 35 minutes east along the southwesterly line of the right of way of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company 1073 feet to the east line of the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of said Section 36, thence south 1 degree 05 minutes east along said east line 1203 feet to the south line of said Section 36, thence west 1343 feet to the place of beginning, all of the above subject to easements and restrictions of record. 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FILED Z005 NOV 23 AM II: 39 CI1Y CLERK 10 "1\ elT' IO"'A vv J I, \" VV ~fJJ:rJ ~ CORALVILLE November 21, 2005 Mayor Ernie Lehman Iowa City City Council 410 East Washington Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240 RE: Proposed Annexation ofthe Forevergreen Road Annexation District into the City of Coralville, Iowa Dear Ernie, This letter constitutes official notice to you that the City Council of Coralville will take action on the proposed annexation into its corporate limits from the owners of the above-referenced, proposed Annexation District. The proposed Forevergreen Road Annexation District is legally described as follows: See Exhibit" A" attached. A map of the Annexation District is also attached for your reference. Accordingly, the Coralville City Council will hold a public hearing and may take action on the proposed annexation on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005, at 7:00 P.M., in the Council Chambers of the Coralville City Hall, at 1512 7th Street. This notice is given in compliance with Section 368.7 of the 2005 Code of Iowa. Please contact me at 248-1700 with any questions. Sincerely, fiMAW-- Kevin D. Olson Assistant City Attorney (;,c '. f c.() e-I? City Administration 1512 7th Street CoraMlle, Iowa 52241-1708 319-248.1700 Fax: 319.248-1894 Exhibit "An Parcel I Commencing at a point in the centerline of the County road that is 175 feet West of a point on the centerline of said County Road which is 8.9 feet West of an iron stake at or near the East Quarter Comer of Section 24, Township 80 North, Range 7 West of the 5th P.M.; thence West along the centerline of said County Road 643.7 feet; thence South 473 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 89055' East 656.6 feet; thence North to the point of beginning, subject to easements and restrictions of record. Parcel 2 That part of the North Yz of the Southeast Quarter of Section 24, Township 80 North, Range 7 West of the 5th P.M., lying West of the Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway & Light Company's right of way. And All that part of the North Yz of the Southeast quarter of Section 24, Township 80 North, Range 7 West of the 5th P.M., lying East of the right of way of the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City Railway Company, except a tract ofland described, as follows, in H. H. Schwob's survey dated November 29,1957, and recorded February 19, 1958 in Book 4, Page 392 of the record of the Johnson County Recorder: Commencing at an iron pipe at or near the East Quarter comer of Section 24, Township 80 North, Range 7 west of the 5th Principal Meridian; thence, West, 8.9 feet along the centerline of the county road and the place of beginning; thence continuing West 818.7 feet along the centerline of the said road; thence South 473.0 feet to an iron pipe; thence S 890 55' E, 831.6 feet to an iron pipe; thence N 00 45' W, 331.3 feet to an iron pipe; thence N 30 25' W, 143.3 feet to the place of beginning, comprising an area of 9.00 acres more or less of which 0.62 acres more or less is in road right-of-way. And Parcel 3 Q ~~ 0-< ::::iO _-<, m -::n 0-- ~/' )> ". :x: 11 I r-n U W ...0 , I \ I L_ I I ,~ - I ~ J.J.1J:1I811 "J."ONfiI"I^'Y~O:) ;INn UNIQIAla 'YNOI.LOIQSllIOr t ~ '"1 N ,~ 0 0 0 ( ~JC~ ) ^"\1QNn08311""; I \ .'.... 311IA1\111QO \ .... "4.... \ l ~~'MlT69--",,^ )--/ ,.." 0 = = ~.c:: en -_/ Z 0 ) <:: 0-<' N -~ W ~ --{.... ",' , ,-<,' m -::0 <tJ~ ~. 0;;>;:: lOOZ: .1;)QUHlflON 'Il ~ lU~mI~~.1'Bv 1I~5.- MJ!A~~ IBPOl!.I.1JllU1Xa ApJqn: In.1ON-~mAIB.10;) ^~VaNnOa 3'IW~OMl AJ."381l f1UJQN~ VIN!'1"[[ Marian Karr r=o From: Sent: To: Subject: JJ Booth [zsazsa5@excite.com] Monday, November 21, 2005 8:20 AM council@iowa-city.org stopg lobalwarm i ng. org Dear Council: I recently learned about the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement and was shocked that Iowa City is not listed as a participating city. And I was pleasantly shocked when I found that on the list of "Top 25 Participating Schools-Stop Global Warming", the University of Iowa is number 5! As an alumni of the University, I'm quite proud but again shocked that our own city has not committed to this extremely important agreement. So now I am asking that you take the time to consider this agreement and please sign it! Thank you for your time and thoughtful consideration. Sincerely, Jennifer L. Booth Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! 1 r::J Marian Karr Dear City Council: Please read this special edition of ABD eNews from Director Lynn Walding. Thank-you. Jim Clayton ___m____ Forwarded message m____m From: Walding, Lynn [ABD] <Walding@iowaabd.com> Date: Nov 17,2005 4:08 PM Subject: November 17, 2005 special e-news.doc To: undisclosed-recipients w11'w.lowgABD.col11 Lynn M Walding, Administrator "e -NEWS November17, 2005 SPECIAL EDITION Is Campus Drinking Out of Control? USA TODA Y November 17, 2005 Around the country, colleges and universities are taking on the issue of students and alcohol. Although schools mostly encourage parents to "let go" of their kids when they send them off to campuses across the country, many are seeking help. Are you a concerned parent? Are you a student who feels the issue is being overblown? 11118/2005 _.,~____._._._..__.__________~__'___ ___._~_,.__.~.___.___u_ Page 2 of] ] schools mostly encourage parents to "let go" of their kids when they send them off to campuses across the country, many are seeking help. Are you a concerned parent? Are you a student who feels the issue is being overblown? 1. CollegElsAre Reaching Their Limit on Alcohol 2. Al~ohoLM~kers on TriGIsY_F'aJh in MarketingtQCQ!lEillEl CrOWel 3. University Qfficials, AmesPolicElAnalyze PoIiGi~~for _Alc_ohol (lQwa) 4. Parents Tune in to Realities 5. Jraqic Lesson: 'Yourl"ifElGall be AlterEldjn,tSplit SEl~ond' 6. ~Eler SRQnsorshij:)~Make NCAAUn~~ID'[)uringF'ostSElason 7. Colorado Treads Carefully in Relationship With Coors 8. Too Much Alcohol in Sports Stadiums? 1. Colleges Are Reaching Their Limit on Alcohol By Steve Wieberg, USA TODA Y November 17, 2005 To curb abuses, some universities rein in tailgating, sales at games, commercial ties to beermakers There'll be no oversized trucks, buses or RVs allowed outside the historic Yale Bowl on Saturday. No drinking games. Pack up your coolers, grills and buffet tables by halftime of the 122nd Harvard-Yale game, please, and head into the stadium ... or head home. Fresno State students drain their beers during a tailgate party ] 1/21/2005 outside the team's Nov. 10 game against Boise State. By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY The rules for one of the most famous - and socially celebrated - rivalries in college football have changed, at least outside the stadium. Yale's new tailgating restrictions are designed to discourage binge drinking and associated unruliness, issues reverberating not only through college stadiums and arenas but entire campuses nationwide. "I'm sure there'll be a different vibe. ... It certainly seems like it'll put a damper on some of the social aspects of the game," Yale senior history major Nick Baumann says. CAMPUS DRINKING Tradition has taken a number of tweaks. From such football and basketball powerhouses as Southem Califomia and Kentucky to other Ivy League schools and lower-profile, lower-division institutions, college athletics is wrestling with its longstanding relationship with alcohol. Colleges and universities are turning up the heat in their fight against alcohol abuse. USA TODAY explores the fight on several fronts: Athletics: SJowi!:lgJt:J~f1ow--,3j stadtums Marketing: Cuttiogcommerc;ii?1Jties Parents: Tuningin to reaJities J-.9J!:LourfQrum on__whether caJTIR-Y.s drinkin~__Qutpf cQ.ntrol._4_Am. ET T!Ll!l'sday A USA TODAY survey of the 119 schools in the NCAA's major football-playing Division I-A found that nearly half (54) allow the sale of alcohol - through public concessions, in private suites or both - at one or more playing venues. Eighty- five of those schools have designated tailgating areas, and barely one in 10 keeps those zones alcohol-free. But NO.1-ranked USC, drawing a record 90,OOO-plus spectators a game at home in the Los Angeles Coliseum, cut off alcohol sales there this season. Studies highlight problem Amid reams of research on alcohol use on college campuses are two studies 11/21/2005 Miami (Fla.) ended a sponsorship arrangement with Coors two years ago, and university president Donna Shalala says the school is phasing out another with locally headquartered Bacardi. Florida, Page 3 of 11 focusing on sports: . Fans were more likely than non-fans to binge drink and have alcohol-related problems, from missing class or falling behind in schoolwork to vandalism and sexual violence, the Harvard School of Public Health found in 2002. It questioned nearly 12,000 students; about 30% said they were sports fans. More than half of the fans (53%) engaged in binge drinking, compared with 38% of the non-fans. The study also found that schools with larger proportions of fans were more likely to have high rates of binge drinking on their campuses. Among the study's conclusions: ''The results suggest that the link between sports and alcohol is an important one for colleges to consider in their efforts to decrease binge drinking and the harm that it produces. Athletic administrators and officials should take the findings of the present study into account when considering the role of alcohol in athletic budgets." . Researchers for Virginia Tech's College Alcohol Abuse Prevention Center, armed with handheld breathalyzers, fanned out before four Tech football games two years ago and found that 86% of 275 tested tailgaters had consumed alcohol. About 46% had blood-alcohol levels of 0.08 or higher, the state's legal standard for intoxication. Among the pregame tailgaters who intended to drive. after the game, a third were legally intoxicated and another 13% were at risk of being cited for driving under the influence (with blood- alcohol levels between 0.05 and 0.08). "That's a very serious concern if you consider the number of football games on the weekend, pro and college," says Steven Clarke, 11/21/2005 Ohio State and Kentucky no longer allow alcohol advertising on any TV and radio broadcasts they control. The moves reflect larger alarm. The National Institute for Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism estimated in March that alcohol consumption accounted for more than 1,700 deaths among college-age students in 2001, the most recent year for which such figures are available. "That's how many planes crashing?" says Henry Wechsler, a social psychologist and researcher at Harvard's School of Public Health who co-authored the study. "Indeed, if these were airplanes crashing, we'd hear a lot about it. We don't because they occur one at a time or two at a time." Colleges are trying to address drinking-to-excess rates that, despite increased national attention, haven't budged since the 1990s. Harvard's ongoing College Alcohol Study found that two in five college students admitted binge drinking, defined as consuming five or more drinks in one sitting for males, four or more for females, in 2001. That was nearly identical to rates reported in 1993, 1997 and 1999. That, the study found, has led to an increase in such problems as missing class, falling behind in schoolwork and having unprotected sex. Students themselves register concern. In a Student Monitor LLC survey of 1,200 full-time, four-year undergraduates on 100 campuses in March, alcohol abuse was most commonly identified as one of the largest problems on campuses today - more so (by 44%) than the cost of tuition (40%). Kentucky's athletics department adopted its no- alcohol ad policy in the wake of a November 1998 accident in which a truck driven by football player Jason Watts overturned, killing a 19-year-old teammate and a 21-year-old Eastern Kentucky student who was a friend of then-Kentucky quarterback Tim Couch. All three were intoxicated, Page 4 of 11 the Center's director. "Locally, there's beginning to be some tailgating at high school games, It's really just a matter of time before that behavior also increases. Then we're going to be in a real crisis." Consequences or college drlnklng DrIrb1g~<OIkio .""nn .... lS1D2400ntl:lt.lt.b:-slOan~ oiOnwl: ",,,ul"IIIiWIII_ "!PM"II" SlOO.1ililSSilutS 97_ ordu:~mpf!S . swdi:fttrJlhs.1.708 _:KollOOl~lklod"......_d _.ItI1A.kdIOI,",,:l:OJl Wbautudenl5~ Wbmc*:rz 5tOOcnt~ were aSkrd: f1J'iIcnttt)"(be~~tprot:wm(Ul <""11' .tohlil.ib.J.St'~d the list A~~ "" <0001 €.'dilutOR ~~~_za Uckat_21% trwnctdtaid Dr1.Ig<lbuse." -.. drM~ lBX ~:'h><lo<...llIzd.='LU:,........~l,201 t..:~:=;~,:.:';:~~~~,~z. Jljl.'Io5>l~qlolml>>t' Tie-ins are money-makers authorities said. His college career ended, Watts pleaded guilty to two counts of reckless homicide and served 3'h months of a 10-year jail sentence before being granted early release. Yale needed no such tragedy to address the environment around its football stadium. By one account, tailgating traces its roots to the New Haven, Conn., school, to 1904 and the game-day arrival of legions of fans by train. Their walk from the station to the stadium left them hungry and thirsty, and somebody came up with the idea of toting picnic hampers of food and liquid refreshment. In particular, The Game vs. Harvard has become as much about socializing - over beer, cocktails and fancy spreads of food - as it is about football. Yale's toughened new policy is simply an "attempt to promote an enjoyable, civil and safe tailgating experience," it says. Harvard similarly tightened restrictions when it hosted The Game last year, banning kegs and keg parties. It was inevitable that the search for an effective response to campus drinking would spill into the athletics arena. Alcohol consumption has long been a companion to sports, be it in the stands, the parking lots outside or sports bars around town. For college football, especially, tailgating is part of the game. But that's hardly alcohol's only entry point into intercollegiate athletics. Among the more than four dozen Division I-A schools allowing alcohol sales are 18 that permit public sales at facilities on campus, USA TODA Y's survey found. Sixty-four I-A schools, or well more than half, allow alcohol advertising at athletic events, in stadium or arena signage or in game programs. In an era of tight athletics budgets, a number of programs draw on high-dollar 11121/2005 Page 5 of 11 alcohol sponsorships. Missouri is getting $490,000 from Anheuser-Busch this year, not counting $75,000 it splits with Illinois from the brewer's sponsorship of their annual Busch Braggin' Rights basketball game in St. Louis. Wisconsin gets $450,000 from Miller and Busch. Colorado receives $392,000 from Coors. Those and a majority of other schools allow alcohol ads during radio broadcasts of their games. And conferences, which largely control regular-season television rights, allow them on those broadcasts. The NCAA has long banned alcohol sales and on- site advertising at the 88 championships it runs in 23 different sports, and its Executive Committee recommended in August that individual schools Frischling, follow its lead during the regular season. But the association gives beer, malt-beverage and wine advertisers access to postseason TV and radio broadcasts. The university presidents and chancellors who sit on the Executive Committee opted not to remove alcohol from that equation - most notably during the signature Division I men's basketball tournament. By Steven E. Bloomberg News A Yale police officer breaks up a keg-filled student tailgate party during the team's Nov. 5 game against Brown. Harvard's Wechsler was disappointed by the NCAA's action. "They ought to put their money where their mouth is, away from the beer industry," he says. "I see statements about increased sensitivity. I'm not sure about actions ... not where the pocketbook is concerned." Inconsistent message For most schools, and for the NCAA, pressure to toughen alcohol policies arises from escalating campus-wide concern about student drinking and efforts to moderate it. Sports can send a conspicuous signal. ~~rious ~_pproaches A sampling of schools where alcohol-and-athletics issues have simmered in recent years: . Hawaii - Efforts to ban alcohol from Aloha Stadium 11/21/2005 "Community leaders are trying to deal with this issue as it relates to underage drinking and binge drinking and drinking responsibly," Florida athletics director Jeremy Foley says. "To make that a priority, an initiative, and then there's the athletic association - one of the more high-profile entities on the campus if not the highest-profile - advertising alcohol, that's an inconsistent message" Page 6 of 11 have had mixed results. The stadium authority will hold a public hearing as early as next month on a compromise plan to bar alcohol from the parking lots next season. Beer, wine and mixed drinks still would be sold inside the stadium; a vending contract runs through 2011. . Ohio State - It began prohibiting alcohol ads on local game broadcasts and TV coaches' shows two years ago. The school also bans alcohol advertising in stadium or arena signage and game programs. . St. Cloud (Minn.) State - The NCAA Division II school (in everything but hockey) banned alcohol from tailgating on Oct. 14. That conforms to a no- alcohol policy on the rest of the campus. . North Dakota State - Coinciding with a move into the NCAA's Division I-AA last year, it allowed alcohol for the first time in two designated tailgating areas outside the Fargodome. No alcohol is sold in the Fargodome. . Kansas - As part of a plan to boost football attendance, it opted four years ago to allow alcohol consumption for three hours before each home game in the parking lots and grassy areas around Memorial Stadium. . Michigan State - It relaxed its no-alcohol policy in expanded Spartan Stadium in October, allowing beer and wine sales for two hours until kickoff but not during games - in new luxury suites. . Arkansas-Little Rock - The school is pushing for alcohol sales at the Stephens Center, its new 11/21/2005 During a campaign by school President Bernie Machen to change the drinking culture on the Gainesville, Fla., campus, Foley banned alcohol advertising from radio and TV sports programming this year. The school's $64 million athletics budget dwarfs the $200,000 a year the move is estimated to cost, "but $200,000 is $200,000," he says. "That's four endowed scholarships a year. That's not insignificant dollars whether you have a $15 million budget or a $60 million budget." At Miami, Shalala says of the loss of the Coors and Bacardi sponsorships, "We lose some money, but we do the right thing." She also has eliminated beer-hawking in the stands at home football games in Miami's city-owned -_Orange Bowl and says she's working with Mayor Manny Diaz to eliminate sales altogether when the Hurricanes are playing there. Decisions left to schools It was three years ago when Steve Angelucci, a vice president with Lexington, Ky.-based Host Communications, says he first sensed a growing sensitivity to alcohol tie-ins. Many schools fold their sponsorship and advertising rights, with TV and radio rights, into multimedia agreements with media and marketing firms such as Host, Missouri-based Learfield Communications and North Carolina- based ISP Sports. The firms, in turn, seek and secure the sponsors and advertisers. "If you had 10 new schools going out for bid today," Angelucci says, "I think as many as half would say, 'We don't want any alcoholic advertising or sponsorship presence sold.' " Page 7 of 11 on-campus basketball arena, asking the state's Alcohol Beverage Control board for a liquor permit despite resistance from the agency's executive director. If there's movement, however, there's not yet a movement. Only two of seven schools affiliated with Host - Kentucky and Michigan - impose such a ban, Angelucci says. Greg Brown, a senior vice president at Learfield, says all but perhaps two of its 22 major-college clients accept alcohol ads. Schools are left to decide for themselves. While setting policy for championships (except in football) and recommending guidelines for individual institutions, the NCAA has shied away from imposing across-the-board restrictions on advertising, sponsorships and sales at events. "I would personally wonder how one justifies the sale of alcohol in an on-campus venue," says University of Hartford President Walter Harrison, who heads the Executive Committee. But he says, "We just felt that was something better left to institutions, that the NCAA is not really in a position to dictate." He points to antitrust concerns: "Perhaps it's not even legal." Pressure for change comes from advocacy groups such as the Washington-based Center for Science in the Public Interest, which complains that college sports telecasts are increasingly delivering young viewers to beermakers. The center is enlisting schools to sign a pledge to prohibit alcohol advertising on local sports programming and work within their conferences and the NCAA to eliminate alcohol ads from all college sports on TV. CSPI counts 246 institutions that have signed the pledge, although the message that it sends is mixed. They include just five of the 65 members of the six most powerful conferences in I-A (Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pacific-10 and Southeastern). Those five schools: Baylor, Florida, Minnesota, Northwestern and Ohio State. In Washington, former football coach and current Congressman Tom Osborne, R- Neb., has gotten nowhere with three House measures in the last three years that would have eliminated or discouraged alcohol ads during radio and TV broadcasts of college games. Beer industry representatives argue that those campaigns are mis-targeted. The NCAA says Nielsen statistics show 88% of the TV audience for 11/21/2005 Page 8 of 11 By Robert Hanashiro. USA TODAY Students line up mixed drinks next to open beer cans at a Fresno State tailgate party. Division I men's basketball games and 90% of the audience for women's games are over the age of 21. "We feel in trying to reach the adult consumer, 21-plus. that it's very appropriate," says Tony Ponturo, vice president for global media and sports marketing at Anheuser-Busch. Even from officials working to curb college drinking, there are arguments that complete bans on stadium sales or advertising aren't necessary. Drew Hunter works with the Inter-Association Task Force on Alcohol and Other Substance Abuse Issues, a coalition of 21 organizations addressing college alcohol and drug issues. "Different campuses have different cultures," he says. "You have to have some flexibility to work within the culture that's there. ... It's important for a campus to have a consistent philosophy of how they want to address these issues. If they choose to do marketing, only do it in a way that does not add to drunkenness through promotions and things of that nature." That's the thought behind the "drink responsibly" taglines to most alcohol ads. Wisconsin's solution Wisconsin's sponsorships by Miller and Anheuser-Busch - each brewer accounting for about half the $450,000 total - reflect the gray that shades the issue. Officials at the Madison school weighed national attitudes and whether to maintain the agreements before renewing them this summer. The advertising they entail is concentrated in radio broadcasts and in football coach Barry Alvarez's Sunday TV show. There's no alcohol advertising in Camp Randall Stadium, and Miller and Busch can't use the Wisconsin logo in posters or other point-of-purchase promotions. But Wisconsin is ... well, a beer-drinking state. Shutting out Busch and especially Milwaukee-headquartered Miller, associate athletics director Vince Sweeney says, 1 1121/2005 Page 9 of 11 Page 10 of 11 "could be read the wrong way at a time when universities are pointed at as not being in touch with the populace. "It's such a complex issue. You have so many different people trying to attack it from so many different ways. I am in no way critical of the people who are saying 'ban this' or 'ban that' because I think their hearts are in the right place. "They're trying to make things better." Scott Boeck and Ellen Horrow contributed to this report Colleges respond about alcohol policies The questions . Does your athletic department have a policy concerning alcohol at athletic events? . Does your institution allow alcoholic beverages to be sold at athletic events? . Does your institution allow alcoholic beverages to be advertised at athletic events? . Does your institution designate an area for tailgating? . Does your institution have a pass out policy prohibiting ticket holders who leave athletic venues from re-entering? . Does your institution provide training to athletic facility personnel for dealing with alcohol-related incidents? [Message clipped] Schools' responses Conference Response Policy? Allow Ad Tailgate Pass-out Training? sales? signage? area? restrict? 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Thanks, Rick Dobyns <<AAWG letter to council for 12.11.05 mtg.doc>> *H eSafe scanned this email for maliciou.s content *** IMPORTANT: Do not open attachments from unrecognized senders H* H* 12/6/2005 To: From: Date: Re: Iowa City Council Alcohol Awareness Working Group December 6, 2005 Recommended goals not including a 21 ordinance These recommendations will be presented by Rick Dobyns, Co-Director, Alcohol Awareness Working Group during the public session on Wednesday, December 13th, 2005. 1. Changing the excessive alcohol use environment downtown a. 21 Ordinance-not under consideration by the Iowa City Council at this time b. Bar density zoning restrictions-recommend the City Council direct its staff to evaluate a downtown bar density ordinance (Rick Dobyns will present research on this issue at the upcoming council meeting) c. Noise & Nuisance Ordinance--support increase police staffing during peak problem hours (Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights from 10 P.M. to 3 A.M.) d. University ofIowa initiatives i. Existing 1. Stepping Up 2. Campus Activities Board (entertainment, Bijou, etc.) 3. Student Commission for Programming and Entertainment (SCOPE) 4. Volunteer Fair (10,000 Hours) 5. Elective alcohol education course offerings 11. Recommended 1. Friday exams/attendance 2. Advertise potential employer expectations regarding alcohol violations 3. Increased on-campus alcohol use surveillance e. Alternative recreational activities-recommend the UI Tippe College of BusinesslDepartment of Marketing and the Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center partner with the Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce to develop business plan for multiple non-alcoholic recreational venue marketed toward 18 to 21 year old students. 2. AA WG Public Policy Goals a. Develop a comprehensive plan that can be adopted by all jurisdictions to reduce underage drinking. b. Educate Iowa City that the downtown drinking is a community-wide problem. c. 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(Find It Now' Ingraining responsible alcohol behaviors before college would go a long way toward abating problems. Sam Hartle, Overland Park, Kan. Bars' responsibility As a nightclub and bar consultant, I can say from firsthand experience that businesses' dependence on promoting cheap and free alcoholic beverages to college patrons only adds to the growing crisis of binge drinking, underage drinking, drunken driving, confrontations and overall drunken behavior ("Colleges are reaching their limit on alcohol". Some states have taken the lead in enacting legislation that prevents two major influences on this crisis - banning free and all-you-can-drink nights and more than one or two nights a week of any kind of drink specials, as well as totally outlawing anyone under the legal drinking age from entering a liquor-only establishment. http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatodayI20051121/crn_usatoday/letfamiliescultivateresponsibledrinkingbylow... 11/2112005 Minors' sole purpose in being in such bars, clubs or lounges is to obtain an illegal drink. There Let families cultivate responsible drinking by lowering legal age - Yahoo! News Page 2 01'2 is no reason to allow minors into any alcohol-only premises. They are exploited, preyed upon and simply out of their element. YAHOO! NEWS SEARCH Yahoo! News Search Now Contains Blogs Find the latest posts about what's in the news. >> Lea rn More Responsibility and personal accountability are two factors that are never addressed until a tragedy occurs. 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C Federal Emergency Management Agency C Department of Housing and Urban Development By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY 1 hour, 36 minutes ago Thousands of low-income Americans on waiting lists for scarce federal housing aid will have to wait longer while communities nationwide give priority to victims of Hurricane Katrina. More than 1.5 million families sit on local waiting lists for public housing or rental vouchers because federal aid has not kept pace with the demand for affordable housing. Many have been on lists for years; in some places, the lists are so long that they have been closed to new applicants. ADVERTISEMENT you can get it on dfJI' - . I ~ . Hurricane Katrina made hundreds of thousands of additional families temporarily homeless. The federal government urged housing officials across the country to give priority to them. The result in many cities and counties is a competition between residents and evacuees for federal housing units and rent vouchers. (F"md It Nowl Those who were receiving federal aid before they were displaced qualify for special new federal housing vouchers in their adopted communities. But only about 6,000 families have enrolled in that program. The vast majority of displaced families are eligible only for temporary help from the Fecierlll.E:ITlElrgencYllllall1l9l!ITlEllltj).gell<:Y ~ .. Some have found apartments, but about 50,000 families are living in hotels and motels. Many of those families are poor enough to qualify for more permanent federal housing aid wherever they have relocated. That has put local housing authorities in the awkward position of having to choose between disaster victims and residents. "It's terrible to put the Katrina victims in the middle," says Barbara Sard of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. Other needy Americans "may be equally not at fault for their homelessness," she says. "It just wasn't on TV." The post-Katrina competition for existing federal aid could intensify in December and January as federal officials try to relocate those still in hoteis and motels. "We appreciate that this has put some stress on waiting lists," says Brian Sullivan of the DepartITlElllt()(H()usingallcllJrllllll[)evel()PITlElllt . . After Katrina, he says, "It really comes http://news. yahoo .com! s/usatoday /forpoorhousingwaitgetslonger 11/28/2005 For poor, housing wait gets longer - Yahoo! News Page 2 of2 ....... >> More Alerts YAHOO! EXCLUSrVES ... .. In the Hot Zone Destroying insurgent bombs is satisfying work. Read Today's Dispatch Photo Essay Video FULL COVERAGE . Supreme Court All news on Chief Justice Roberts, Samuel Alita's nomination, and more. >> All Court Coverage MOST POPULAR . Politically Popular The most popular politics news stories and photos. >> All Most Popular YAHOO! 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"It is a very delicate baiancing act." . The housing authority in Peoria, III., was going to place Katrina evacuees in a public housing development slated for demolition. Instead, the city is giving them some of its federal housing vouchers. "That's ticking off the current waiting-list residents," says Regina Morgan, a local advocate for low'income housing. Advocates say the solution is more federal aid. "People wait years for housing assistance," says Sheila Crowley of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. "They should not be delayed because somebody else is getting their money." 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Questions or Comments Privacy Policy -Terms of Service - CopyrightflP Policy - Ad Feedback http://news. yahoo.com! s/usatoday /forpoorhousingwaitgetslonger 11/28/2005 r::rr Marian Karr From: Smith, Terry L [TLSmith@midamerican.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 2:24 PM To: council@iowa-city.org Subject: Stabie Electric Rates through 2010 Dear Council, I just wanted to remind you and the residents of Iowa City that MidAmerican Energy's electric rates are stable through 2010. Specifically, this means MidAmerican is protecting Iowa City customers from the risk of price increases associated with transmission issues as referenced in the recent Gazelle articie, see below. Regards, Terry L. Smith Operations Manager MidAmerican Energy Company 1630 Lower Muscatine Rd. Iowa City, fA 52240 Publication:Gazette;Date:Nov 24, 2005;Section:Iowa Today;Page Number: 19 Electric shock: Huge bills loom Independence among first of many utilities with expiring deals By Orlan Love The Cedar Rapids Gazette INDEPENDENCE - The 3,200 customers ofIndependence Light and Power could be paying 2 1/2 times as much for electricity next year under a scenario that seems more frighteningly realistic every day, according to Darrel Wenzel, the municipal utility company's general manager. Under the market-based rate proposals that could replace the company's expiring 10-year contract with Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse, Wis., the rate the utility pays for electricity could increase from $23 per megawatt hour to $57 per megawatt hour, Wenzel said. Relying on the utility's own backup diesel g e n era tor s would cost even more, he said. The $57 per megawatt hour rate "would kill us financially," Wenzel said. I n d e pen - dence will not be alone in its difficulties. The cost of electricity will likely double for many municipal utilities in the next few years, said Anne Kimber of the Iowa Association of Municipal Utilities, which represents all 136 city electrical utilities in the state. The spotlight is on Independence because it is one of the first municipal utilities whose long-term contract is set to expire since the advent of the Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator. Wenzel blames MISO, a non-profit entity that regulates electrical transmissions in much of the Midwest, for most of the Independence utility's problems. MISO manages the power grid in a manner intended to promote stability and reliability while assuring fair access for both power generators and users. 11/29/2005 Page 2 00 In doing so, it assigns "congestion charges" to utilities when the transmission system reaches a limit. MISO also sets prices for wholesale electricity using a method called locational marginal pricing, which takes into account the ability of the grid to carry the energy. In practice, Wenzel said, "the MISO market has created astronomical prices for electricity." The combination of congestion charges - $146,000 from April through August - and the prospect of huge rate increases next year has Independence Light and Power on the ropes, Wenzel said. "Our only hope is to get MISO approval of a proposal to buy electricity from a South Dakota provider at $33 per megawatt hour," he said. If MISO rejects that plan, which it easily could because of unacceptable strain on the power grid, the Independence utility will be forced to buy electricity on the open MISO market at $57 per megawatt hour, Wenzel said. "It seems to me that something is amiss, that someone is taking advantage of the market, for costs to go up that dramatically," Independence City Manager Alan Johnson said. Mark Nielsen, president ofWapsie Valley Creamery, one ofIndependence Light and Power's biggest customers, said his company already has absorbed a 25 percent cost increase this year attributable to the congestion charges, with another even larger increase on the horizon. If the 150 percent increase materializes, "we might as well close up shop," Nielsen said. "We are a very energy-intensive business. If our monthly electricity bill goes from $40,000 to $100,000, I don't see how we could make up for that." The fundamental problem is the grid's inadequate capacity, Kimber said. "The highway is too small to handle all the goods that want to travel on it, which puts the squeeze on municipal utilities," she said. Under locational marginal pricing, which pays high prices to electricity generators, there is no incentive to expand the grid, according to Kimber. State Sen. Brian Schoenjahn, D-Arlington, whose 12th District includes Independence, said he intends to introduce legislation that would establish an independent entity to manage transmission of electricity. "We need a system that eliminates congestion charges and treats everyone the same," he said. Iowa Utilities Board Energy Section Director John Harvey said the locational marginal pricing that Independence Light and Power has complained about does not seem to be a substantial problem for other utility companies, which receive credits for excessive charges. Harvey acknowledged that more transmission lines need to be built and that an expanded network would yield more functional markets. He said he sees no indication that MISO and its locational marginal pricing are being used by some utility companies to prey on others. 11/29/2005 ------------.- ~~--'-~-----"-'--~'-"-'-~'------------'--"'--,,---,-, --.----,---,.,,--.----- r;n Marian Karr From: Steve Atkins Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:57 PM To: Marian Karr Subject: FW: Community Priorities Discussion From: Jan Peterson [mailto:jan@unitedwayjc.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:46 PM To: Steve Atkins (E-mail) Subject: FW: Community Priorities Discussion -----Original Message----- From: Jan Peterson Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 12:41 PM To: Steve Atkins (E-mail); Kelly Hayworth (E-mail) Subject: Community Priorities Discussion Dear Steve and Kelly, Would you please share this with your Council members? We would really like to have the active participation of our joint funding partners in these discussions. Thank you much! Jan Dear City Council members, Please mark your calendars for Wednesday, December 7, 4:30 - 6:00, Iowa City Public Library, Room A, for a Community Priorities Discussion focusing on the seNice areas of Assisting the Elderly andlor People with Special Needs and Promoting Mental and Physical Health. All UWJC agencies and local government representatives are invited to participate. This will be the first of two such discussions that United Way will host for our Community Impact Council volunteers, agency directors and staff, and our joint funding partners. At the first meeting (Dee 7), we will look at broad community trends and how those trends affect various seNice populations and the way our agencies do their work. We will also talk about the challenges our agencies face and the barriers they encounter (including - but not limited to - funding issues) as they work to meet the needs of clients and to strengthen our community. The purpose of this meeting is to broaden our understanding of our community and how it is changing, as well as our understanding of the environment in which seNices are provided. We believe that this is crucial to our stewardship of donor dollars and our ability to make informed funding decisions. The second meeting will be on Wednesday, January 25, 4:30 - 6:00, location to be announced. This will be a visioning meeting - we will concentrate on what is working, on successful models and what we would like to see happen in our community related to these two seNice areas. Please plan to join us for these discussions - your input is very important to us! Jan J.and :Jl. 9'ehMrm Director of Community Investment United Way of Johnson County 1150 5th Street, Suite 290 Coralville, IA. 52241 (319) 338-7823 ian@unitedwavic.orQ 11116/2005 rn:l Justin Harbit 207 Stanton Ave. #7 Ames, IA 50014 November 8, 2005 Q ~O -; 0-< =10 --<'r ~ 'm aT; ~/' )> "'" = = en Z CJ <: N w > 3: 11 Council Members, 410 E. Washington Street Iowa City, IA 52240 r- , m o Dear Iowa City Council: w U) As many of you know by now we have a serious deer over population problem in Iowa City. Many areas ofIowa City have over 35 deer per square mile. This is far too high a number and has caused serious problems. Several ofthe problems of over population are well known such as car vehicle collisions, defoliation ofhomeowner's plants, and crop damage. There are other problems that you may never think about like over browsing and disease. Because crop damage gets so much publicity many people assume deer eat primarily com and soybeans. While deer do often eat crops just as they emerge and eat large amounts of waste grain, they largely eat other things during the summer. During this time deer eat primarily under story species. This has caused large problems in recent years, as deer populations have grown the amount of food produced in the under story has not. This has lead to a condition called over browsing. In areas of high deer populations deer often eat anything and everything up to a height of about 6 feet, known as the browse line. The most serious outcome of this is the failure of successful oak regeneration. Because deer over browse the under story they do not allow oak seedlings ample time to get out ofthe danger zone. For this reason oak trees are not regenerating and will not be able to replace themselves when older trees die. Instead they will be replaced by lower quality trees, which will devalue the commercial value of the timber, as well as the value it has for wildlife, because many species other than deer depend on oak species as a food source. Another problem created by overpopulation is disease. As food sources decrease deer become under nourished and there immune system becomes weaker and more susceptible to disease. When you combine this with the fact that you have high numbers of deer living in close contact to each other, you have a recipe for disaster. Not only can this be dangerous to the deer, causing massive population crashes, it can be dangerous to livestock and humans as well. Deer have been associated with diseases that have direct effects on humans such as lyme disease. There has also been much concern about the possibility of deer carried diseases being spread to livestock. This could cripple the Iowa economy as much our economy depends on agriculture and livestock. While I agree that the current policy of sharp shooting deer in city limits is necessary due to the shear number of deer that must be removed I believe it is time you consider other options. The first problem with the sharp shooting program is the cost. At an average of 345 dollars a deer the cost to remove an effective amount of deer is huge. Iowa City Council 1118/2005 2 Also because deer can reproduce so quickly if the money is not available to sharp shoot one year all the money that was spent in previous years would be wasted. Another aspect that must be considered is safety issues, sharp shooters can not be safely used within housing developments. This is a problem because this is where much of the problems are at. Also ifthese areas are left unchecked they simply serve as feeders, and or, refuge areas for the areas that that sharp shooting is being done. An option I think you must consider is bow hunting. This is an option that you can safely use in areas with houses as the effective range of a bow is only about 40 yards. This would allow these unchecked areas to be controlled as well as provide supplemental control to areas with sharp shooting. The best part is not only will this not cost any money; people are willing to pay money for this privilege. The last several years Johnson County has sold out 1900 antlerless deer tags plus additional tags in special areas within the county. There is clearly a large population of deer hunters within the county who would most likely be willing to help the city with its deer control problem. Many cities are seeing this fact and have successfully implemented bow hunting within city limits. These cities include, Coralville, Dubuque, Marion, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, and Waterloo. The Squaw Creek Park area, which is a square mile park south of Marion, has allowed only bow hunting for 8 years now. The harvest has averaged about 40 deer a year during this time, which is a tremendous success considering the relatively small size of the area. Many common concerns are often raised when this issue is brought up such as concerns about hunter regulation, effectiveness, and humanity issues. Hunter regulation is closely control in other cities by requiring hunter to participate in a safety meeting and pass a shooting proficiency test. This assures that only hunters who know all the safety rules and are proven to be skilled marksmen are allowed in the hunt. Another issue often raised is the effectiveness of bow hunting; most people believe that it is not an effective option. This is not the case however, with modem day equipment many hunter are often able to harvest as many as 10 deer a season with their bows. Bow hunter are also able to distinguish between deer better and able to take only antlerless deer, unlike sharp shooting in which every deer that comes into the bait is shot. Shooting bucks does nothing to reduce the overall deer population. Finally the question of humanity is often raised. It is believed that bow hunting is an inhuman way to kill a deer. This is simply not true; a well placed shot from a bow will kill a deer in a mater of seconds. When you compare this with starving to death or being hit by a car, it is easy to see that doing nothing is really the inhuman way to kill a deer. As you can clearly see bow hunting is not only a viable option, it is the only option in some areas. Unfortunately we will never be able to let nature take its c.Q.urse, ~ because when pioneers settled American they forever changed the landscaped ~tI1e 5: balance of nature. I now believe that we owe it to the species that are left, to as~he ~ role of caretaker and try to replace some of the critical links in the food chain th~ we ~ have forever removed. .:< p (.,) rn > -:JJ ::x 0- ;:E /" - )> Sincerely; . j /dd; /1~' 11 r m o c..> \0 Justin Harbit GllllJ Marian Karr From: Dale Helling Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11 :37 AM To: 'victor hubler' Cc: .City Council; Matt Johnson Subject: RE; urgent request, please read Dear Mr. Hubler, Thank you for your inquiry to the City Council. Captain Matt Johnson of the Iowa City Police Department will contact you directly to update you on the status of the investigation and he will ensure that you are kept informed of further progress. I hope that you are recovering well from your injuries. Dale Helling Assistant City Manager From: victor hubler [mailto:hubler32@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, December 03, 2005 12:07 PM To: council@iowa-city.org Subject: urgent request, please read I was beaten by three individuals allmost 2 monthes ago on the comer Iowa ave. I and five girlfriends had just finished enjoying a show at a local establishment. We we're walking and trying to decide where we were going to get a bite to eat, when five me began saying slurs towards the five woman i was with(as the woman are lesbian in orentation.) We ignored this mistreatment and rounded the corner on to iowa ave. When three more men not connected to the first five, began saying slurs to my friends. My friends we're in front of me and i at the back of them. The three men shouted at us, and i turned to them and said that they should leave us be. The three men approached me and one can assume they meant to harm me. A struggle ensued, and i was shoved to the ground and before i could rise. I was struck on the head by a wooden walking stick, apperently a part ofthier attire for the holiday. I was bleeding from my forehead and could not know the extent of my injury. A friend amongst the woman convinced me to rush to the hospital. Mercy x-ray'd my head, and stated that the injury was to grave for them to handle, they shipped me to u of i hospital. I was told that my skull had been crushed and the bag surrounding my brain was torn. Emergency surgery was need at once and i went under. At some point officer, jelinek took a statement from me and i dont recall a single word. The remaining friends of mine followed the men and called the police, officers stopped the men though one men had left the original three. The men's names were taken, but with me absent there was no victem you see, and no arrest was made. I incurred thirteen thousand dollars in hospital bill's. As of yet, no arrest has been made. I have sent an e-mail to the sherriff asking to look into the matter, it's come to my understanding the men whom did this live in coralville. I cannot work, the doctor won't allow it. I was working on the moen building, but cannot continue till a plastic plate covers the hole where my skull once was. I am broke and struggling to feed myself, my landlord has been so kind as to let me slide till i'm back to work. I'm afraid for people in our town. These men remain free dispite a warrent for thier arrest. The attack on me was over in ten seconds, but the sad fact 12/5/2005 Page 2 of2 is, i will struggle and iowa city is'nt safe with these men being able to walk amongst ordinary folk ofthis town. My hope is one of you will read this, and be moved to look into this matter. Thank you, Mr. victor 1 Hubler 1618 muscatine ave. iowa city 52240 apt 2 Yahoo! Shopping Find Great Deals on Gifts at Yahoo! Shopping 12/5/2005 Date: December 5, 2005 I 4f(125) I To: From: Iowa City Council Members Derrill and Irene Klinzman 275 Paddock Cr. Iowa City, Iowa We hear the 'City Fathers' expressing the need for more affordable housing for low to medium income people, then in the next breath they want manufactured housing taxed equitably to single family dwellings. We are writing this letter to address the article published in the CR. Gazette November 29,2005 regarding the Iowa City City Council requesting the Johnson County legislators propose legislation taxing manufactured home court residents equal tu residents of single family dwellings. In this article Dee Vanderhoef was quoted as saying "taxing manufactured housing based on square footage and age was unfair because single family home owners are left paying a larger share for city services" and "the rest of the taxpayers are subsidizing the city services those residents get" We take issue with those quotes because: I) Fire protection and LIMITED police protection are the only city services we receive. 2) Being a privately owned development, snow removal is NOT provided to us from the city. We feel the taxes we pay are in line with the city services we receive. Our homes should be taxed as residential, not commercial. We should NOT be taxed as real estate because we do NOT own the land where our homes are placed and the amount of land is NOT considered minimum city lot size. We paid an average of$35,000 to the developer for a 99 long-term land lease, (renewable 10 times) Our garages are taxed on the assessed value, and are paid separately from our property taxes. We also do not qualifY for home equity loans because we do not have deeds to the land where our homes are situated. "Those residents" as we are referred to, are for the most part retired and on fixed incomes, the majority of whom would be unable to afford the higher taxes on their homes. We pay the same school tax, county tax, etc. the single family residents pay. We just don't have to pay as much on our manufactured structures. It seems when cities or schools need extra $$$, the homeowners are always the ones who pay the piper. Maybe a city sales tax would be the answer. It's time to leave the property owners alone. Let's have all the interstate traffic help us pay our bills. Other cities don't seem to have any problems with doing that. In the future if the city zones for mobile home courts and manufactured home courts, then will be the time to initiate different methods of raising tax money. In the meantime, consider Grandfathering the existing courts. We urge you to please reconsider your request to the legislature. Thank you for your time. "'" ~ . ~O = = c.n ,~ 0 )>..... r"l -n 'If!lA.- ("') =< - 0 I I =10 0"\ rn CC: Johnson unty Legislators ~-<~ :J>O tJ " :x Mary Masher -:::0 Dave Jacoby ~;A - Joe Bolkcom )> N U1 Bob Dvorsky Vicki Lensing Marian Karr ~ From: Sent: To: Cc: Subject: Dale Helling Tuesday, December 06, 2005 5:00 PM 'Eric Hulsing' 'City Council; Drew Shaffer (dshaffer@avalon.net) RE: Senior Project on Municipally Owned Broadband Dear Eric, Thank you for your communication to the City Council re: municipal broadband. Council members do not receive their email messages directly. Your message will be forwarded to them as part of their next agenda as official correspondence. You may contact Council members directly. Their names are listed on the City website www.icgov.org Click on "council" on the menu bar for their names and telephone numbers. You may also feel free to contact Drew Shaffer, the City Cable TV Administrator, at 356-5046, or call me at 356-5013. You've chosen a very timely issue to research, one that is certainly interesting as well as controversial. Good luck with your project. Dale Helling Assistant City Manager -----Original Message----- From: Eric Hulsing [mailto:erichulsing@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 3:04 PM To: council@iowa-city.org Subject: Senior Project on Municipally Owned Broadband Dear Council Members, Hello, my name is Eric Hulsing, and I am interesting in talking to someone in the City Councilor the City Government about the issue of Municipally Owned Broadband. Many cities across the country are thinking about this issue and I think Iowa City should as well. In addition, it is my Senior Project for college and one of my requirements is to talk to someone in government about the issue Currently, I live in Iowa City, but attend college at Upper Iowa University, by commuting and taking online classes. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, Eric Hulsing Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/Ol/ 1 [:J Marian Karr From: TIM05555@aol.com Sent: Wednesday, December 07,20057:10 PM To: council@iowa-city.org Subject: Downtown Dear Council Members I was quite dismayed to see the winter lights downtown going up so late and so haphazardly. Many of us did our own. It is my understanding that in most communities the city is responsible for the lights. I would propose that Iowa City consider taking the responsibility and include in the budget for next year and thereafter the downtown lights. This would be a wonderful winter project with lights going up at the time change the end of October until about March 1. This would allow the downtown to be lit up throughout the winter in the evenings and would appear so festive all winter. It certainly would be a great addition for the retailors. Possibly Mid America could volunteer for this project. I really think it takes the city coordination. I have noticed that many street lights are out also--esp. on Clinton 5t. I think it is essential that we pay particular attention to the upkeep of our city. We that are downtown on a daily basis tend to notice small things that may make a difference to our many wonderful visitors. This is what makes Iowa City the place we love. Thank you for this consideration Leah Cohen 12/8/2005 I! ! -...= -~... f~~!:"t. -..;::... ~IIII'~ ......- CITY OF IOWA CITY December 13, 2005 Planning & Community Development 410 East Washington Street Iowa City. Iowa 52240-1826 (319) 356-5230 (319) 356-5217 FAX www.icgov.org The Honorable Sally Stutsman, Chair and Members of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors 913 South Dubuque Street Iowa City, Iowa 52240 Re: CZ05-0001 Dear Chairperson Stutsman and Members of the Board: Johnson County has received an application from Mark Sharpless to rezone approximately 4.96 acres located in Fringe Area B on the north side of Lower West Branch Road, approximately Yo mile east of Iowa City, from A, Agricultural, to R, Residential. At its December 1, 2005, meeting, the Iowa City Planning and Zoning Commission recommended, by a vote of 7-0, that the City forward a letter to the Board of Supervisors indicating that the City finds that the requested rezoning is not consistent with the Fringe Area Agreement. The Planning and Zoning Commission felt that the request was inconsistent with the policies contained within the Fringe Area Agreement for Area B outside the City's growth boundary. These policies note that agricultural uses are preferred in the area in question. Furthermore, the property is accessed from Lower West Branch Road, which is unpaved and has limited site distance in the area. Based on the above reasoning, the City Council agrees with the recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Commission, and finds that the requested rezoning of approximately 4.96 acres from A, Agricultural, to R, Residential, is not consistent with the policies of the Fringe Area Agreement for Area B and recommends that the County not approve the rezoning request. Sincerely, ~w. ;(~ Ernest W. Lehman Mayor '~-'--'------~"-'-'-----'-'--'----'----'-"-""-,,,-'-~--'--'---'-"-'--"'--'---~----'-'-"----'----'-~---'-' an application from Mark Sharpless to rezone approximately 4.96 acres 10 e 'n Fringe Area B on the north side of Lower West Branch Road, approximatel Y. m east of Iowa City, from A, Agricultural, to R, Residential. Re: CZ05-0001 December 13, 2005 /' The ono Ie Sally Stutsman, Chair and Member f the Johnson County Bo 913 South Dubu ue Street Iowa City, Iowa 52 0 Dear Chairperson Stutsman ~ ~ I-I ~ --= -~... !~W~~ -..;::;.... ..11II.' .... - CITY OF IOWA CITY Planning & Community Development 4 J 0 East Washington Street Iowa City. Iowa 52240-1826 (319) 356-5230 (3191356-5217 FAX www.lcgov.org At its December 1, 2005 meeting, the I a City Planning and Zoning Commission recommended, by a vo of 7-0, that th City forward a letter to the Board of Supervisors indicating t t the City finds that e requested rezoning is not consistent with the Fringe Area Ag ement. The Planning and Zo ing Commission felt that the r uest was inconsistent with the policies contained w' hin the Fringe Area Agreement r Area B outside the City's growth boundary. T ese policies note that agricultural use re preferred in the area in question. Furtherm re, the property is accessed from Lower est Branch Road, which is unpaved and has limited site distance in the area. " ~- Based on the abo e reasoning, the City Council agrees with the recommendation of the Planning and ning Commission, and finds that the requested rezoning of approximately 4. 6 acres from A, Agricultural, to R, Residential, is not consistent with the policies of t Fringe Area Agreement for Area B and recommends that the County not approve th . rezoning request. Sincerely, Ernest W. Lehman Mayor City of Iowa City MEMORANDUM Date: December 1, 2005 To: Planning and Zoning Commission From: Jeffrey Banks, Planning Intern RE: CZ05-0001 Rezoning from A, Agricultural, to R, Residential, north side of Lower West Branch Road in Fringe Area B BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The applicant, Mark Sharpless, has submitted an application for a rezoning from County A, Agricultural, to R, Residential, for a 4.96-acre parcel of land located on the north side of Lower West Branch Road approximately 112 mile east of Iowa City. The property is located in Fringe Area B of the Fringe Area Agreement between Johnson County and Iowa City, within the two mile jurisdictional area of Iowa City, and lies outside the City's designated growth area. County records show this property was subdivided from the adjacent property in 1988 to allow construction of a cell tower, but to date no cell tower has been installed. The proposed R zoning allows one dwelling per 40,000 square feet. ANALYSIS: The Fringe Area Agreement provides the City with the opportunity to review and comment on proposed rezonings within the two-mile fringe area prior to consideration by the Johnson County Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Supervisors. The Fringe Area Agreement states that in Fringe Area B, "On the balance of land in Area B that lies outside Iowa City's projected growth area, agricultural uses are preferred. However, consideration will be given to applications for single-family residential development at a density of RS-1 0 (one dwelling per ten acres)." The requested rezoning is for R, a zone which allows one residential unit per 40,000 square feet. Therefore the rezoning request does not comply with the Fringe Area Agreement: the R zone would allow more than one house per ten acres and the lot is less than 10 acres in size. The intent of the Fringe Area Agreement is to discourage development density greater than one unit per ten acres for the area in question. The proposed rezoning to R would allow for 4 or 5 residences to be built. Access to the property is from Lower West Branch Road, which is unpaved and has limited site distance in this area. Given these circumstances, staff does not recommend approval of a rezoning that is contrary to the Fringe Area Agreement. STAFF RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that CZ05-0001 an application to rezone approximately 4.96 acres located on Lower West Branch Road from A, Agricultural, to R, Residential, be denied. November 23, 2005 Page 2 ATTACHMENTS: Rezoning Exhibit Approved by: /~,L-L. Robert Miklo, Senior Planner Department of Planning and Community Development I I ~ I CITY OF IOWA CITY I I I t t I t I t ! Ii t I I , I I I I I , , \ \ I I \ \ I . . . I , I \ , ID-RS . I I ":E , :::J # "' . f- I , .. ! 0:: , 0 Q. \ 0:: RSS 0 \\\\\\ u ~ U .. ~ "- 0 i ~ ! u i i I i i SITE LOCATION: Lower West Branch Road CZ05-00001 , I I I PREPARED BY: MMS CONSULTANTS 1917 S. GILBERT ST. 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