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� ? 1 CITY OF IOWA CITY www.icgov.org City Council Information Packet September 7, 2017 IN Council Tentative Meeting Schedule Miscellaneous IP2 Copy of article from City Manager: The Looming Decline of the Public Research University IP3 Invitation: Iowa Shares 25th Anniversary Celebration, September 14, 26, October 12 IN Civil Service Entrance Examination: Recycling Coordinator Draft Minutes IP5 Planning and Zoning Commission: August 17 it ot -4 CITY OF IOWA CITY Date City Council Tentative Meeting Schedule Subject to change f 1P1 September 7, 2017 Time Meeting Location Tuesday, September 19, 2017 5:00 PM Work Session Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Tuesday, October 3, 2017 5:00 PM Work Session Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Monday, October 16, 2017 4:00 PM Reception Emma J. Harvat Hall 4:30 PM Joint Entities Meeting Tuesday, October 17, 2017 5:00 PM Work Session Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 PM Formal Meeting *Monday, November 6, 2017 5:00 PM Work Session Emma J. Harvat Hall (*Revised date) 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Tuesday, November 21, 2017 5:00 PM Work Session Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Tuesday, December 5, 2017 5:00 PM Work Session Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Tuesday, December 19, 2017 5:00 PM Work Session Emma J. Harvat Hall 7:00 PM Formal Meeting Saturday, January 6, 2018 8:OOA-5:OOP Budget Work Session Emma J. Harvat Hall Tuesday, January 9, 2018 1:0013-7:0013 Budget Work Session (CIP) Emma J. Harvat Hall Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 1 of 11 IP2 Washington Monthly From the City Manager t htto: //wash i ngtonmonthly.com I .September/October 2017(hItp:/Iwuhinztonmonthly.com/magazinelsentemberoctober-2017/) The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Cuts in research funding have left midwestern state schools—and the economies they support—struggling to survive. Jon Marcus (http,//washinztonmonthly.com/people/jon-marcusl) MAGAZINE (htto://washingtonmonthly.com/maeazine/seotemberoctober-2017/1 Four floors above a dull cinder -block lobby in a nondescript building at Ohio State University, the doors of a slow-moving elevator open on an unexpectedly futuristic 10,000 -square -foot laboratory bristling with technology. It's a reveal reminiscent of a James Bond movie. In fact, the researchers who run this year-old, $750,000 lab at OSU's Spine Research Institute resort often to Hollywood comparisons. Thin beams of blue light shoot from thirty-six of the same kind of infrared motion cameras used to create lifelike characters for films like Avatar. In this case, the researchers are studying the movements of a volunteer fitted with sensors that track his skeleton and muscles as he bends and lifts. Among other things, they say, their work could lead to the kind of robotic exoskeletons imagined in the movie Aliens. The complex and cutting-edge research here combines the expertise of the university's medical and engineering faculties to study something decidedly commonplace: back pain, which affects as many as eight out of every ten Americans, accounts for more than 100 million annual lost workdays in the United States alone, and has accelerated the opioid addiction crisis. http://washingtonmonthly.comlmagazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 2 of 11 "The growth of the technology around us has become so familiar that we don't question where it comes from," says Bruce McPheron, an entomologist and the university's executive vice president and provost, looking on. "And where it happens consistently is at a university." But university research is in trouble, and so is an economy more dependent on it than many people understand. Federal funding for basic research—more than half of it conducted on university campuses like this one—has effectively declined since 2008, failing to keep pace with inflation. This is before we take into account Trump administration proposals to slash the National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) budgets by billions of dollars more. "We're in the early stages of the stratification of public research universities," said Dan Reed, vice president for research and economic development at the University of Iowa. "The good ones will remain competitive. The rest may decline." Trump's cuts would affect all research universities, but not equally. The problem is more pronounced at public universities than privates, and especially at public institutions in the Midwest, which have historically conducted some of the nation's most important research. These schools are desperately needed to diversify economies that rely disproportionately on manufacturing and agriculture and lack the wealthy private institutions that fuel the knowledge industries found in Silicon Valley or along Boston's 128/I-95 corridor. Yet many flagship midwestern research universities are being weakened by deep state budget cuts. Threats to pensions (in Illinois) and tenure (in Wisconsin) portend an exodus of faculty and their all-important research funding, and have already resulted in a frenzy of poaching by better - funded and higher -paying private institutions, industry, and international competitors. While private institutions are better shielded from funding cuts by huge endowments, midwestern public universities have much thinner buffers. The endowments of the universities of Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois and Ohio State, which together enroll nearly 190,000 students, add up to about $11 billion—less than a third of Harvard's $37.6 billion. Together, Harvard, MIT, and http://washingtonmonthly.comlmagazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 3 of 11 Stanford, which enroll about 50,000 students combined, have more than $73 billion in the bank to help during lean times. They also have robust revenues from high tuitions, wealthy alumni donors, strong credit, and other support to fall back on. Compare that to the public university system in Illinois, which has cut its higher education budget so deeply that Moody's downgraded seven universities, including five to junk bond status. This ominous reality could widen regional inequality, as brainpower, talent, and jobs leave the Midwest and the Rust Belt—where existing economic decline may have contributed to the decisive shift of voters toward Donald Trump—for places with well -endowed private and better -funded public universities. Already, some midwestern universities have had to spend millions from their battered budgets to hang on to research faculty being lured away by wealthier schools. A handful of faculty have already left, taking with them most if not all of their outside funding. "We're in the early stages of the stratification of public research universities," said Dan Reed, vice president for research and economic development at the University of Iowa. "The good ones will remain competitive. The rest may decline." Those include the major public universities established since the 1860s, when a federal grant set aside land for them in every state. "We spent 150 -plus years building a public higher education system that was the envy of the world," said Reed, who got his graduate degrees at Purdue, in Indiana. "And we could in a decade do so much damage that it could take us thirty years to recover." That land grant was called the Morrill Act. Abraham Lincoln signed it into law during the depths of the Civil War, in 1862, resulting in the establishment or major expansion of, among others, Purdue, the University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign, the University of Minnesota, the University of Missouri, and Ohio State. Along with many other major public universities in the Midwest, each would go on to have an outsized impact. It was at Illinois that the first modern internet browser was developed, along with other advances in computer science and technology including early versions of instant messaging, multiplayer games, and touch screens. Today, researchers there are working on a new treatment for brain cancer, a way to boost photosynthesis to increase crop yields, and a solution to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. http://washingtortmonthly.comlmagazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 4 of 11 Scientists at the University of Minnesota created the precursor to the World Wide Web, performed the first open-heart surgery, and developed GORE-TEX waterproof fabric. The University of Wisconsin is where human embryonic stem cells first were isolated, and it has since become a center of stem cell research. Researchers there are trying to develop new drugs to fight the Ebola and West Nile viruses. The University of Iowa's Virtual Soldier Research Program uses human modeling and simulation to design new military equipment, and its National Advanced Driving Simulator is heavily involved in driverless -vehicle research. Universities perform more than half of all basic research in America, and public research universities in particular account for nearly 60 percent of the $63.7 billion allocated annually by the federal government for research. That spending, in turn, produces more than 2,600 patents and 400 companies a year, according to the National Science Board. The impact on local economies is hard to miss. In places like Columbus, Ohio, and Columbia, Missouri, the big research universities are among the most important institutions in town. The checkerboard patchwork of farms on the approach to Port Columbus International Airport gives way to office buildings housing high-tech companies spun off by Ohio State and the affluent suburbs where their employees live. The real estate company CBRE ranks the city as the country's top small market for attracting tech talent. More than one in five graduate students who worked on sponsored research at eight Big Ten universities studied by Ohio State economist Bruce Weinberg, including Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Purdue, and Ohio State, stayed in the state where they attended school -13 percent of them within fifty miles of the campus. That may not sound like a lot—and, indeed, the exodus of highly educated people is a serious problem—but it's significant when you consider that the jobs for these students exist in a national labor market. People with engineering PhDs from Minnesota could take their talents anywhere. If even 20 percent stick around, that's a big win for states that can't expect an influx of educated elites from other parts of the country. These graduates provide an educated workforce that employers need, create jobs themselves by starting their own businesses, and pay taxes. These universities have served as bulwarks against a decades -long trend of economic activity fleeing smaller cities and the center of the country for the coasts. Since the 1980s, deregulation and corporate consolidation have led to a drastic hollowing out of the local industries that once sustained heartland cities. (For more on this subject, see Brian S. Feldman's "The Real Reason http://washingto=onthly.comlmagazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 5 of 11 Middle America Should Be Angry," in our March/April/May 2016 issue.) But you can't just pick up a university and move it from Madison to New York in the way you can with a bank, an insurance company, or even a factory. "What difference does having a major research university in a place like Wisconsin make?" said University of Wisconsin Chancellor Rebecca Blank. "It's the future of the state." If Blank is right, then current trends put that future in doubt for much of the Midwest. Many of these same universities have suffered some of the nation's deepest cuts to public higher education. Illinois reduced per -student spending by an inflation-adjusted 54 percent between 2008 and last year, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The figure was 22 percent in Iowa and Missouri, 21 percent in Michigan, 15 percent in Minnesota and Ohio, and 6 percent in Indiana. While higher education funding increased last year in thirty-eight states, Scott Walker's 2015-17 budget cut another $250 million from the University of Wisconsin system. The University of Iowa recently had its state appropriation cut by 6 percent, including an unexpected $9 million in the middle of the fiscal year. The University of Missouri is eliminating about 400 employee positions, many through layoffs, after protests over race and other issues resulted in the resignations of the chancellor and system president and a major drop in enrollment. That decline, plus state budget cuts, will cost the school more than $31 million, though it hopes to make up some of that shortfall by increasing tuition. These financial woes would only be made worse by Trump's proposed budget, which would cut funding by between 11 percent and 18 percent for the federal agencies that provide the bulk of government support for university research. Congress has so far resisted this call, instead adding $2 billion to the NIH and $8.7 million to the NSF in the five-month budget extension approved in April. But budget cuts remain a threat. So does a Trump budget proposal to eliminate so-called indirect cost payments—billions of dollars' worth of federal reimbursements for overhead such as lab space and support staff to conduct the research. (The House Republicans' 2018 budget plan rejects that idea, at least for medical research.) Private universities with big endowments and wealthy donors may be able to weather the storm. (So, too, may the handful of public universities, like the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia, that receive far more private than public funding.) But most public research institutions won't. http://washingtonmonthly.comlmagazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 6 of 11 This is not abstract or anecdotal. Midwestern public universities are already experiencing a pattern of relative decline, based on NSF rankings of universities by total research -and - development expenditures. From fiscal years 2007 to 2015, according to NSF data, federal funding for university- and college - based research grew by 8 percent nationwide. But for the seven states generally considered by research organizations to make up the Midwest—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin (to its definition of "Midwest," the U.S. Census Bureau adds Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota)—the increase was only 4 percent. Both those numbers lag far behind the roughly 14 percent inflation during that time period, meaning that federal funding for university research actually decreased overall, and it decreased more in the Midwest. As private and better -funded public universities elsewhere in the country found alternative sources of support, they pushed their midwestern rivals down the research rankings. The University of Wisconsin -Madison was ranked second in 2008; in 2015, for the first time since the figures have been tracked, it fell out of the top five. Ohio State dropped from tenth to twentieth, Missouri from seventy-first to eighty-fifth. The University of Iowa rose from sixtieth in 2008 to a peak of thirty-ninth in 2010, but has since fallen back to forty-ninth. Purdue, for which the NSF rankings date only from 2010, has slipped from thirty-second then to thirty-seventh now. Some experts caution against reading too much into these numbers. Big changes in research rankings could result from shifts in the type of research under way, said Howard Gobstein, executive vice president at the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. Biomedical research, for example, costs more and brings in bigger grants than research in the humanities. The question is how long that can last. In Illinois, for instance, research output has stayed surprisingly steady as of 2015, the most recent year for which full data is available. But since then, a budget impasse has resulted in some of the deepest cuts to higher education in the nation. (Thanks to a legislative override, the more than two-year budget standoff finally ended in July, but significant damage had already been done to university enrollments, staffing, and facilities.) "It really is amazing that the administrators and staff can keep it together by cutting everywhere they can," said Arthur Kramer, who last year left a post as head of the University of Illinois's Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, a 313,000 -square -foot research center, for a provost position at private Northeastern University in Boston. "But this can't go on forever." http://washingtomnonthly.comlmagazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 7 of 11 Rebecca Blank, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin -Madison, has been outspoken about the problems facing her institution and others like it. She told the state board of regents in 2015 that budget cuts had hastened Wisconsin's much -lamented fall out of the top five of the NSF rankings; more reductions, she warned, would further jeopardize the school's standing as a top research university. (Governor Scott Walker's proposed budget would restore $105 million over the next two years to the University of Wisconsin system, and an additional $35 million to offset money lost from cutting tuition. But that's still a full $110 million less than what the system lost in the 2015-17 budget.) Prodded by Walker, Wisconsin's legislature changed tenure protections to allow for the firing of tenured faculty for reasons other than an imminent threat to the survival of the institution—the threshold in many other systems. The result has been something many other public universities are reluctant to discuss, but that Blank addresses frankly: the raiding of her faculty by better - endowed institutions. More than 140 Wisconsin faculty members were approached with job offers by other universities, including Harvard and Temple, last year, a third more than the year before. Most of them stayed, thanks in large part to salary increases of as much as 49 percent, plus inducements like new research equipment and teaching and research assistants. All of that cost the already cash- strapped university nearly $24 million. Still, twenty-nine faculty members left, and with each one of them what the university calculates is an average of $271,795 worth of research funding, or nearly $8 million total. That included the award-winning chemist Laura Messling and the biochemist Ronald Raines, who both went to MIT. "We lost some of our very best people," Blank said. "It is our very best faculty that get outside offers. If you're looking at research dollars, those are the people who are bringing in millions in research funding. And the people you replace them with bring in much less. So those retention issues have a real impact." There's equal concern about attracting top new faculty. "Reputations matter here," Blank said. "If you've been a university people have wanted to be coming to for twenty-five years, and suddenly they don't, that will be very deadly." Private and better -funded public universities can continue to offer talented new professors not only more money, but also more stability—and they can continue to treat midwestern universities like candy stores, shopping there for star faculty who may be ready to jump ship. http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 8 of 11 Illinois lost a slightly smaller number of professors—twenty-two, up from thirteen in the year before. There, the ongoing budget uncertainty has been made worse not because of changes to tenure but because of threats to pensions earned by public employees including those at universities. Most Wisconsin faculty cited salary as the reason for leaving or entertaining job offers. Blank said the median offer promised a salary 30 percent higher. Pay is another area in which public universities are losing ground—especially those in the Midwest, unable to get more money from their legislatures for counteroffers. The University of Wisconsin system requested $78 million this year for faculty raises. Walker has offered less than $12 million. University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld said in a statement that his faculty is being "cherry -picked by other institutions." But when he asked the legislature in 2015 for $4.5 million to retain key faculty and recruit more, the request was turned down. (The university announced in late June that it would find $4.9 million from its existing budget to give some of its faculty raises.) Full professors at public doctoral universities already make 24 percent less than their counterparts at private ones, according to the American Association of University Professors. "And full professors at public universities in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin earn 9 percent less than those at institutions on the West Coast, 17 percent less than those in the Mid Atlantic states, and 28 percent less than those in New England." "Clearly, private universities have an advantage in this case to expand their faculty, because they haven't been dependent on state funding," said Barbara McFadden Allen, executive director of the Big Ten Academic Alliance. "If you're in Illinois and you haven't had a budget for three years, your faculty are restless." That's what Kramer saw among his University of Illinois colleagues before he left, along with his wife, Laurie, who was also a professor there. "A number of the faculty came to me and said either their spouse was worried or they were worried or they both were worried about the pension situation," he said. "I had a budget cut every year. It gets tough. It also gets frustrating." WW hile the decline in public research funding may hurt midwestern communities first, in 1 the long run it puts the national economy at risk. The long slide in American R&D has triggered warnings since 2007, when a commission of experts from the National Academy of http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 9 of 11 Science, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine produced a report ominously titled Rising Above the Gathering Storm. It urged that the federal government do no less than double spending on research. Instead, the situation worsened. By 2012, the National Science Board pronounced itself "concerned about the continued ability" of public universities to "conduct the basic science and engineering research that leads to innovations." In a 2013 survey by the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, more than three-quarters of provosts said federal spending cuts tied to sequestration were taking a toll on their universities, including in research. The state cuts have only made things worse. Meanwhile, global economic rivals have continued to approach and even surpass the level of American research output. The U.S. share of all research and development funding worldwide dropped from more than a third to barely a quarter from 2003 to 2013, the most recent period for which the figures are available, according to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. China could catch up by 2030 based on current trends. Last year, Chinese researchers for the first time filed more patents applications in the life sciences than their U.S. counterparts. The historical global leader in science and technology, the United States is now ninth among the nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in the proportion of gross domestic product spent on research. Because basic science can take decades to translate into new drugs or products, the consequences of this won't be immediately visible. That makes it hard to argue for renewed investment in research in a political system that doesn't prioritize long-term thinking. Nor does private industry always want to invest in the years of research it can take to translate fundamental discoveries into the kind of marketable commodities that drive the American economy—and that often originate at universities. "We've been in the lead long enough that people think we always will be, [but] we cannot assume that we are going to lead the world in technology twenty or thirty years from now," Wisconsin's Blank said. "I think we've stalled out." http://washingtonrnonthly.com/magazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 10 of 11 Meanwhile, doctoral students and younger faculty are leaving, too, or are stuck in limbo while awaiting research funding of their own. Where the NIH funded more than 30 percent of its grant proposals as recently as 2000, it now approves just over 15 percent of them. The NSF approves only one in four proposals. The average age at which researchers win their first NIH grant now is forty-two, up from thirty-eight in 1980. "It's getting more competitive to get this funding, and that's your bread and butter if you want to get a faculty position," said Billy McCulloch, a twenty-six-year-old doctoral candidate at Ohio State who is developing a next -generation fuel cell. McCullough does want a position in academia, but he's almost certain there won't be one for him; many of his friends are getting jobs in Asia. "The long-term consequence of this is a significant brain drain, said Nicholas C. Burbules, an education professor at the University of Illinois. "Other countries around the world are looking at what's happening here with eagerness and snapping people up. It takes a long time to build up quality and talent at this level. It doesn't take very long to lose it." here are some efforts being made to reverse these trends. Universities are trying to do more to make the public understand their value, while more private philanthropic money has been flowing into research. "We are working hard to diversify the funding sources of the faculty funding portfolios," says Susan Olesik, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Ohio State, as she gives a tour of a two- year-old, $120 million building that combines chemical and biomolecular engineering research. "Ifs a matter of survival." But without a renewed commitment to research funding from the federal and state governments, that survival is in serious doubt. The system of public research universities that Abraham Lincoln helped create—the one that became the envy of the rest of the world and a central component of America's dominance of science, technology, and the global economy—has become an afterthought and even a target of state and national political leaders. Declining Private and better -funded public universities can offer talented new professors not only more money, but also more stability—and they can treat midwestern universities like candy stores, shopping for star faculty who may be ready to jump ship. http://washingtomnonthly.comlmagazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 Washington Monthly I The Looming Decline of the Public Research University Page 11 of 11 university research may be less visible than decaying roads and rail systems, but the results could be even more devastating and harder to reverse. Behind Olesik, in a frigid room crammed with $15.4 million worth of nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers that look like stubby spaceships, scientists are analyzing how polymer chains interact, down to their individual amino acids. The results will help the state's important polymer industry avoid costly impurities. There's a steady wheezing of compressors and a whoosh as a sample is whisked through a tube and into a huge white tank, where superconducting magnets are bathed in liquid helium to keep them at a temperature of minus 273 degrees Celsius. Olesik gestures toward the researchers working in the lab. "They will leave," she says. She is referring not just to her own staff, but also to the bright young researchers working in centers like hers on this campus and others across the Midwest. "That's the problem." Jon Marcus(http://washingtonmonthly.com/people/ion-marcus/) Jon Marcus is a higher education editor at the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education news outlet based at Teachers College, Columbia University. © 2017 Washington Monthly. http://washingto=ontWy.comlmagazinelseptemberoctober-2017/the-looming-decline-of-th... 9/5/2017 IOWA SHARES 25th ANNIVERSAW CELEBRATION Q5.' Thursday, September 14th 6:30 - 8:30 pm Old Brick 20 E Market St, Iowa City Song, Dance Comedy Thursday, September 26th 6:30 - 8:30 pm Legion Arts / CSPS 1103 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids Silent Auction - Art, Print, Jewelry Thursday, October 12th 7:00 - 9:00 pm Des Moines Valley Friends Meetings 4211 Grand Ave, Des Moines Music and Fun Entertainment TBA 20 E. Market HARES a IVIOIC14- lit l I va-vr-i s IP4 CITY OF IOWA CITY 410 East Washington Street Iowa City. Iowa 52240-1826 (319)356-5000 (319)356-5009 FAX www.icgov.org September 5, 2017 TO: The Honorable Mayor and the City Council RE: Civil Service Entrance Examination — Recycling Coordinator Under the authority of the Civil Service Commission of Iowa City, Iowa, I do hereby certify the following named person(s) as eligible for the position of Recycling Coordinator. Jane Wilch IOWA CITY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION LyrO W. Dickerson, Chair N C= CD ,C7U 1 �(-M 7t1 m C4 rn MINUTES PRELIMINARY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AUGUST 17, 2017 — 7:00 PM — FORMAL MEETING EMMA J. HARVAT HALL, CITY HALL MEMBERS PRESENT: Carolyn Dyer Mike Hensch, Phoebe Martin, Max Parsons, Mark Signs, Jodie Theobald MEMBERS ABSENT: Ann Freerks STAFF PRESENT: Sylvia Bochner, Sue Dulek, Bob Miklo OTHERS PRESENT: Alan MacVey. Clifton Young, Ron Amelon, David Tokuhisa, Brenda Scott, John Niemeyer, Kolleen Shields, Scott Ritter RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL: By a vote of 6-0 the Commission recommends approval of REZ17-00010 and SUB17- 00007, a one lot subdivision and a rezoning of approximately 2.4 acres of land from Medium Density Single Family Residential (RS -8) to Planned Development Overlay (OPD - 8) for property located along the north side of Dodge Street Court, subject to resolution of minor technical deficiencies and discrepancies on the preliminary plat and planned development plan and subject to the following conditions: a. Owner shall dedicate sufficient land along the entire property frontage to widen the Dodge Street Court right-of-way to 50 feet as a part of the final plat and planned development plan. b. Development on the subject properties shall be designed to drain on-site storm water away from Dodge Street Court to the extent possible and shall be designed to prevent erosion in the steep ravines and on abutting properties. The City Engineer shall review and approve the drainage plan as a part of the construction drawings for the final plat and planned development plan to ensure these conditions are addressed. c. Building designs shall be reviewed and approved by the City's Design Review Committee to ensure compliance with the planned development standards for townhouse -style buildings. By a vote of 6-0 the Commission recommends approval of SUB17-00009, an application submitted by Watts Group Construction for a preliminary plat of Country Clubs Estates Seventh and Eighth Additions, an 81 -lot, 27.95 -acre residential subdivision located of Rohret Road west of Lake Shore Drive. By a vote of 6-0 the Commission recommends approval of SUB17-00012, an application submitted by Linda Lovik for a preliminary plat of Lovik First Subdivision, a 3 -lot, 11 -acre residential subdivision located at 4665 Herbert Hoover Highway SE. Kaltelklexem1_; Hensch called the meeting to order at 7:00 PM. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017 — Formal Meeting Page 2 of 12 PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF ANY ITEM NOT ON THE AGENDA: None. REZONING/DEVELOPMENT ITEM (REZ17-00008=1317-00007): Discussion of an application submitted by Build to Suit for a rezoning of approximately 2.4 acres from Medium Density Single Family Residential (RS -8) zone to Planned Development Overlay - Medium Density Single Family Residential (OPD -8) zone and a preliminary plat of Focus First Addition, a 1 -lot, 2.4 -acre residential subdivision with 7 townhouse style dwelling units located on Dodge Street Court. Miklo began by showing images of the property, located on North Dodge Street Court east of Conklin Lane. The area to the west is zoned Low Density Multifamily (RM -12), the subject property is zoned Medium Density Single Family (RS -8), and the property to the south is zoned High Density Single Family (RS -12). The proposal is to change the zoning from RS -8 to Medium Density Single Family with a Planned Development Overlay (OPD -8). Miklo explained the purpose of the planned development overlay is to allow clustering of housing units into smaller compact areas. So rather than building seven single family lots on this property the proposal is to cluster them into two buildings, one with four units and one with three units. By doing this the wooden ravines and steep slopes on the property can be preserved as open space. Miklo noted there is a list of approved criteria in the Zoning Code that should be considered whenever a planned development overlay is proposed. The first is that the density is in character with the neighborhood. As noted this property is zoned RS -8 which allows up to eight dwelling units per acre. Miklo stated that with the amount of open space preserved on this site the development would actually be three units per acre, so well within the range permitted by zoning. Next the development should be in characteristic with other developments in the neighborhood. There are several townhouses directly to the west of the subject property and a multi -family building also to the west. There are single family homes to the south and east, and duplexes also to the south. Staff believes that these seven townhouses arranged in this pattern would be compatible and similar in character to the other properties in the neighborhood. He said they would also be similar in terms of building mass and scale. Miklo stated they must also consider open space, there is a considerable amount of open space being preserved on this property as a result of the proposal to cluster the units. The next item to consider is traffic and pedestrian circulation. The vehicular access for this property would primarily come off of Dodge Street through the existing multi -family development and through a rear lane where there would be driveway access to garages within the townhouses. There would be a pedestrian access from Dodge Street Court and the sidewalk extended. It may be possible that some visitors may choose to use Dodge Street Court for parking, but there will be additional visitor parking provided on this property as well as rear door way so there would be no reason to have to approach the building from Dodge Street Court. Miklo noted that the right-of-way for Dodge Street Court is fairly narrow so staff is proposing as a condition of this zoning that additional right-of-way be dedicated to bring it up to the minimum of 50 feet. As noted, this property does contain steep slopes and woodlands, and the majority of those will be preserved. The homeowners association for this development would be required to maintain that open space. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017 — Formal Meeting Page 3 of 12 Additionally the Commission is being asked to approve the preliminary plat for this proposal. That would result in the dedication of the street right-of-way and also contains information about stormwater management. Miklo stated that the City Engineer has not yet signed off on the stormwater plan but is in agreement with it conceptually. The goal is to direct stormwater to the ravine to the north. To prevent erosion in the ravine from the more concentrated flow, additional measures may need to be taken beyond what is shown on the preliminary plat. As a condition of approval Staff is recommending that the City Engineer sign off on the grading plan. Miklo stated they have received revised elevation plans and noted that the Code does require the masonry extend along the entire two feet on all sides of the building to protect building siding from lawnmowers and other damage. That will also need to be revised prior to this item going to Council for approval. Staff recommends approval of REZ17-00010 and SUB17-00007, a one lot subdivision and a rezoning of approximately 2.4 acres of land from Medium Density Single Family Residential (RS -8) to Planned Development Overlay (OPD -8) for property located along the north side of Dodge Street Court, subject to resolution of minor technical deficiencies and discrepancies on the preliminary plat and planned development plan and subject to the following conditions: a. Owner shall dedicate sufficient land along the entire property frontage to widen the Dodge Street Court right-of-way to 50 feet as a part of the final plat and planned development plan. b. Development on the subject properties shall be designed to drain on-site storm water away from Dodge Street Court to the extent possible and shall be designed to prevent erosion in the steep ravines and on abutting properties. The City Engineer shall review and approve the drainage plan as a part of the construction drawings for the final plat and planned development plan to ensure these conditions are addressed. c. Building designs shall be reviewed and approved by the City's Design Review Committee to ensure compliance with the planned development standards for townhouse -style buildings. With those conditions Staff finds with the rezoning and preliminary plat meet the Comprehensive Plan for this area and is consistent with the general character of the neighborhood. Martin asked about land dedicated to be open space, what are the requirements for that space? Can it never be built upon? Miklo answered that with this planned development they will specify that only these seven units will be allowed to be built and the rest will remain permanent open space. Only if it comes back before Planning & Zoning and City Council could it be reexamined for additional building. Miklo does not anticipate that happening given the topography of this area. Signs asked if there were two single family homes at the end of the street. Miklo confirmed there were single family homes and a series of duplexes in that area. Theobald asked about the good neighbor meeting and if there was a report of that meeting. Miklo said the applicant could comment on the meeting. Theobald asked if there was anything that needed to be added to this recommendation regarding the access and driveway for the single family house at the end of the street. Miklo said the engineers have looked at it, currently the driveway crosses the property (there is no easement) so the applicant has agreed to formalize the easement and grant rights to that property for use of the driveway. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017 — Formal Meeting Page 4 of 12 Hensch opened the public discussion. Alan MacVey (1124 Conklin Lane) questioned if the street (Dodge Street Court) was going to be widened. Miklo stated that at this time there are no improvements planned for the street other than putting in a sidewalk. It is the right-of-way, or easement that the City would own that is being widened to 50 feet meaning more land is dedicated to City ownership. MacVey stated his concern that with the addition of the townhouses along that road even though they all have access from Dodge Street a lot of them park on the street anyway, and now we are adding seven more which makes it quite crowded. The street is narrow and does not have great pavement. MacVey noted this concern did come up in the good neighbor meeting as well. He would like to see some improvements to that street. Clifton Young (1124 Dodge Street Court) stated that what the developer is doing is fine. He is just concerned about the traffic added to the street and the issues with drainage on the street. He pays $5 a month for drainage fee to the City and his driveway keeps getting eroded by the water that runs down from the slope of the street. He hopes they can fix the drainage issues. Hensch closed the public discussion. Signs move to recommend approval of REZ17-00010 and SUB17-00007, a one lot subdivision and a rezoning of approximately 2.4 acres of land from Medium Density Single Family Residential (RS -8) to Planned Development Overlay (OPD -8) for property located along the north side of Dodge Street Court, subject to resolution of minor technical deficiencies and discrepancies on the preliminary plat and planned development plan and subject to the following conditions: d. Owner shall dedicate sufficient land along the entire property frontage to widen the Dodge Street Court right-of-way to 50 feet as a part of the final plat and planned development plan. e. Development on the subject properties shall be designed to drain on-site storm water away from Dodge Street Court to the extent possible and shall be designed to prevent erosion in the steep ravines and on abutting properties. The City Engineer shall review and approve the drainage plan as a part of the construction drawings for the final plat and planned development plan to ensure these conditions are addressed. f. Building designs shall be reviewed and approved by the City's Design Review Committee to ensure compliance with the planned development standards for townhouse -style buildings. Parsons seconded the motion. Signs noted that it appears that the intent of the developer is to deal with the drainage issues so hopefully that will alleviate the neighbors' concerns. Additionally the density seems appropriate. Theobald is concerned that the conditions listed do not include the issue of the driveway, just the steep slopes to the north. Miklo said the plan shows the driveway being paved and so by the Commission adopting this plan the driveway up to the property line will be paved. The adjacent owner would need to make arrangements to pave the driveway on their own property if they wished. He also noted that the City Engineers believe that the drainage can be improved with implementation of this plan. A vote was taken and the motion passed 6-0. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017—Formal Meeting Page 5 of 12 DEVELOPMENT ITEM (SUB17-00009): Discussion of an application submitted by Watts Group Construction for a preliminary plat of Country Club Estates Seventh and Eighth Additions, a 27.95 -acre, 81 -lot residential subdivision located north of Rohret Road and west of Lake Shore Drive. Bochner presented the Staff report and began by showing pictures of the subject property. This area is in the process of being rezoned from Rural Residential (RR -1) and Interim Development Single -Family Residential (ID -RS) to Low Density Single -Family Residential (RS -5). The applicant used the "Good Neighbor Policy". A Good Neighbor Meeting and Open House was held on May 25. The subject area is located within the Weber Subarea of the Southwest District Plan. The Southwest District Plan indicates that the undeveloped portion of the Country Club Estates property is suitable for low-density single-family residential development, with a density of 2-8 dwelling units per acre. This plan show approximately 3 dwelling units per acre, so it falls within the Plan's range. The subject area is in the process of being rezoned to Low Density Single -Family Residential (RS -5), a zone which is primarily intended to provide housing for individual households. In this zone, the minimum lot size is 8,000 square feet. However, Section 14 -2A -7A of the zoning code provides a density bonus that reduces minimum lot size for dwellings whose vehicular access to garages and off-street parking is restricted to an alley or private rear lane. Under this provision, minimum lot size is reduced to 6,000 square feet and in this subdivision, the lots along Rohret Road are in compliance with this provision. According to the subdivision regulations, block faces along local and collector streets should be between 300 and 600 feet and on arterial streets, the subdivision regulations state that blocks should be longer than 600 feet. All the streets in this proposed development met that requirement except for Sedona Street but because it is longer than recommended there is a pedestrian access trail. The two new streets created in this subdivision are Sedona Street and Yuma Drive. Tumbleweed Terrace will be extended into this subdivision from a prior development. All of these streets meet the subdivision regulations of having a 60 foot right-of- way and a minimum 26 foot street width. The subdivision also includes a private residential alley behind the lots on Rohret Road. Because the alley is an 1100 foot, unimpeded straight road, the preliminary plat includes traffic calming devices to prevent speeding and protect pedestrians. These include two speed tables and a raised crosswalk for the connecting pedestrian trail. The subdivision includes two outlets that provide access easements and open space, which will be deeded to the Country Club Estates Homeowners' Association. To prevent issues with double frontages for lots 72-81, Slothower Road should be vacated. This can be done if and when the land to the west is annexed. Bochner stated that in terms of the infrastructure Rohret Road is a rural cross section with chip seal surface and drainage ditches. When prior phases of this subdivision were built the developer improved Rohret Road up to Lakeshore Drive. As a condition of the rezoning of this area the developer agreed to improve Rohret Road up to Sedona Street. The applicant agrees to pay 50% of the cost of improving the street to the western city limits. The City and/or future private development to the south will be responsible for the other 50%. Until Rohret Road is fully improved, trash and recycling collection for the lots along Rohret Road must be done via the private rear alley. Because the City does not collect trash and recycling from private alleys, trash and recycling from these lots must be collected by a private hauler. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017—Formal Meeting Page 6 of 12 In terms of open space during a previous phase of Country Club Estates, approximately 4.7 acres were dedicated for parkland. This dedication was intended to provide open space for future phases of Country Club Estates, including the area in this subdivision so no additional open space fees will be required. Bochner explained that stormwater management is also provided through a previous phase by a stormwater basin located north of the subject area. Sanitary sewer service is available to serve this property as a result of the lift station installed for earlier phases of Country Club Estates. The applicant has submitted a water pressure study demonstrating that water pressure is adequate to serve the proposed subdivision. Staff recommends that SUB17-00009, an application submitted by Watts Group Construction for a preliminary plat of Country Clubs Estates Seventh and Eighth Additions, an 81 -lot, 26.37 -acre residential subdivision located of Rohret Road west of Lake Shore Drive be approved. Hensch asked why Yuma Drive was just continued rather than putting in the pedestrian walkway. Miklo said Staff did consider that at the concept plan phase but after discussions with the developers it was decided to allow the pedestrian walkway rather than a street connection. Hensch asked if Tumbleweed Terrace connects to Slothower Road. Miklo said it does but that section of Slothower Road has been abandoned by the County so it is not possible to drive on it. Dyer asked if Sedona Street opens onto Rohret Road. Bochner replied that yes, Sedona Street opens in two different places, one closer to Lake Shore Drive and then again further west closer to Slothower Road. Dyer asked then why is Rohret Road not being improved to the western intersection wiht Sedona Street. Parson noted that discussion was had when the rezoning was discussed and had to do with the conditions on the south side of the road. Miklo added that the Commission has made a recommendation to the City Council that when they do the Capital Improvements Plan they include the remainder of Rohret Road. Hensch mentioned the correspondence the Commission received concerning possible drainage onto a neighboring property and asked if there was a grading plan that accompanies this item. Miklo noted that there is a grading plan and he has also passed the neighbors letter of concern onto the City Engineer. Miklo also stated by looking at the plans, the drainage should go the other direction and not affect the neighbor's lot. Hensch opened the public discussion Ron Amelon (MMS Consultants) is representing the developer. As far as the concerns about the drainage the back lot line is the low area and the back yards of lots 4 & 5 will drain towards that back lot line but won't actually drain onto the other property. There will be a swale there to collect the water before it gets onto the neighboring lots and then direct that water down to the detention basin. Signs asked when there is a neighbor or citizen that expresses a concern, does someone reach out to them to explain the solution. Amelon said they typically do, especially if they approach them, he is happy to meet with them and show them the designs. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017—Formal Meeting Page 7 of 12 David Tokuhisa (3305 Rohret Road SW) lives on the south side of Rohret Road and has a couple of concerns. On May 25 at the Good Neighbor Meeting the representative for the developer stated they would have Rohret Road resurveyed so that any further extension of Rohret Road would be to the north of the center line, they wouldn't be taking any more right-of- way. His question is if that has been decided and become locked into black and white print or was it just used to placate homeowners. He recalls it was briefly mentioned during the rezoning meeting but doesn't know if anything came of it. He also has concerns about the higher density housing along Rohret Road where on the other side are very large lots and houses. That will be quite a contrast. Tokuhisa thought it was the desire of the City to have those situations not happen and he suggests those smaller lots be moved to the west along Slothower Road and the larger lots placed along Rohret Road. Therefore his two recommendations are that the current development plan be modified to ensure that the road is going to be developed further north and also so that the smaller lots be moved away from the very large lots across the road. Miklo stated that the subdivision has been designed to shift Rohret Road to the north when it is rebuilt so that no additional right-of-way will be needed from the properties to the south. Miklo confirmed that is reflected on the preliminary plat. Miklo added that one benefit of having the smaller lots with the alley access on Rohret Road is Rohret Road is considered an arterial street and this will minimize the driveways onto the street. Hensch asked if there would be parking allowed on Rohret Road and Miklo said there is no parking allowed. Brenda Scott (1783 Lake Shore Drive) asked about the other three lots and if they would have similar drainage away from their houses (lots 1, 2 &3). She also is concerned about the walkway and not having a solid walkway for the 41 — 32 area as she is guessing that walkway is going to be a great cut through for kids since they are only a few blocks from Weber School and if there is not a good sidewalk between that area all the school that is a danger as people speed fast down that section of Rohret Road. Scott also mentioned that she didn't understand what vacating Slothower means between the area of 72 & 81 because at the Good Neighbor Meeting there was a request for Slothower to be connected to Melrose Avenue and if it's vacated does that mean it is shut down forever. Hensch said that currently Slothower Road is a level B road which is in the County system but it is at a much lower maintenance level (maybe grading once a year with no snow removal in winter time). Miklo added that the intent is that the connection to Melrose will occur on the northern part of Slothower Road and it is the southern part that has been abandoned. Miklo said there are streets in early phases of Country Club Estates that are intended to connect to Slothower Road and be the path to Melrose Avenue. Scott stated her concern with that is what happen at Shannon Drive, a lot of cut -through traffic in the neighborhoods where there are a lot of kids out walking around. It would be better to have the through traffic go on the back of the property where there are less kids walking around. Scott also asked if it was outlots A & C that will be deeded to the HOA. Bochner confirmed that was correct. Miklo stated regarding the sidewalk, although the street (Rohret Road) will not be improved, there will be a sidewalk put in place for all lots along Rohret Road. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017 — Formal Meeting Page 8 of 12 John Niemeyer (1405 Lake Shore Drive) was unable to attend the Good Neighbors Meeting and has a couple questions for clarification. Nothing has been said about the timetable for moving this project forward and is there any generalization that can be made with respect to that. Miklo responded that in terms of City approvals, if all moves forward and the final plat is approved yet this fall it would then be a question to the developer when they would want to start construction. Niemeyer asked if it was the Watts Group that is developer in question. Miklo said he believes Watts Group is in the process of purchasing the land, but at the time the application was submitted the land was still owned by S&J Development. Niemeyer stated that reference was made to 4.7 acres of open space and he is unclear where that space is. Bochner confirmed that land has been dedicated to be a park that will be built in the future and she showed the area on the map, near Wildcat Lane and Slothower Road. Niemeyer asked if that open area would not be accessible from the tract currently under consideration. Bochner said not directly, but once the streets are built it will be accessible to the neighborhood. Miklo noted that the 4 acres is intended to serve all of Country Club Estates. Niemeyer questioned the pedestrian path, what it is for and where it starts, where it ends, and who will use it. Bochner showed on the map that the pedestrian path begins on Rohret Road and goes through to Tumbleweed Terrace, it is an extension of Yuma Drive as pedestrian access. Niemeyer asked if then students perhaps walking westbound along Rohret Road would approach the pedestrian walkway and reach their homes that way. Bochner acknowledged that is a possibility. Kolleen Shields (3335 Rohret Road SW) stated she has similar concerns to her neighbors that are also on the south side of Rohret Road. The characteristics of their lots, which are 2-4 acres in size and that the area on the north side was zoned Rural Residential for 1 acre lots or greater when they bought their properties 30 years ago and now they will be looking at this higher density housing. It is so uncharacteristic with what they consider their neighborhood. She is also concerned about how much of the development that can occur before the road actually gets finalized down where their home is located. Can those lots be developed without Rohret Road being finalized? Right now one cannot walk on Rohret Road so that pedestrian path has no purpose leading to Rohret Road. Miklo noted that the subdivision has been designed to include an 8 foot sidewalk along Rohret Road and the grading for these lots will need to accommodate that. When Rohret Road is improved in the future those sidewalks may need to be rebuilt but once houses are built here there has to be a sidewalk. Brenda Scott (1783 Lake Shore Drive) asked based on the talk about grading to the north, does that mean any existing homes (such as hers on the corner of Rohret Road and Lake Shore Drive) may have extra land taken from them to allow for the grading to the north. Miklo replied that no current home lots will be affected, the shift occurs after the entrance to Lake Shore Drive. Ron Amelon (MMS Consultants) said that as far as the drainage on lots 1, 2 & 3 when the previous phase was graded the back lot line was designed to be the low point through there such that it would pick up water on both sides. The runoff from those three lots would not actually go onto the other lots, it would stay on the back lot line and keep the water there and send it up to Tumbleweed Terrace and collect it in the City storm sewer system. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017—Formal Meeting Page 9 of 12 With regards to the construction schedule, Amelon said the developer would like to get started grading this fall and depending on the weather and when approvals are granted there is a possibility they may get streets paved yet this year, but if not then in the spring. Hensch closed the public discussion Parsons moved to recommend the Commission approve SUB17-00009, an application submitted by Watts Group Construction for a preliminary plat of Country Clubs Estates Seventh and Eighth Additions, an 81 -lot, 27.95 -acre residential subdivision located of Rohret Road west of Lake Shore Drive. Theobald seconded the motion. Hensch asked how wide the pedestrian walkway will be and what the surface of the walkway will be. Miklo said it will be five -feet wide and concrete similar to other sidewalks in the subdivision. The sidewalk along Rohret Road will be eight -feet wide and also concrete. Dyer asked if the houses along Rohret Road face Rohret Road. Miklo confirmed they do A vote was taken and the motion passed 6-0. DEVELOPMENT ITEM (SUB17-00012): Discussion of an application submitted by Linda Lovik for a preliminary plat of Lovik First Addition, an 11 -acre, 2 -lot residential subdivision located at 4665 Herbert Hoover Highway SE. Miklo stated that this property was recently rezoned from County Commercial to County Residential. The City recommended that the County approve the rezoning subject to a Conditional Zoning Agreement (CZA) requiring City approval of any development of the property and the owner consenting to annexation of all parts of this property upon the annexation of any adjacent property. This property is in the City's growth area and they do anticipate it will be annexed. The current owner has already agreed to be annexed whenever an adjacent property annexes. The City is comfortable with that agreement because it will make sure this does not prevent another property from being annexed. The intent is to subdivide the property into a lot with the existing house, create a second lot that could be sold and both properties would have access from the current driveway through a temporary easement. It is anticipated in the long term Grindstone Lane which is being built currently in Churchill Meadows will continue to the west and likely go through this property and that would provide long-term access to the second lot. There would also be an access and utility easement across Lot 2 to provide for a future connection of Lot 1 to Grindstone Drive so that Lot 1 would not have driveway access onto Herbert Hoover Highway. The remainder of the property will be an outlot that can only be developed on annexation to the City under the Conditional Zoning Agreement. Upon replatting of Outlet A, a street system must be established, thereby eliminating the need for this access easement and giving Lots 1 and 2 access to the new street. Lot 1 is currently served by a private water well and a septic system and the proposal is to use that common well and septic system for the additional lot. Upon annexation these properties would hook into the City's systems upon the owner's expense. Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017 — Formal Meeting Page 10 of 12 Martin asked if both Lots 1 and 2 are each at least 1 acre. Miklo confirmed they are each 1 acre which meets the County's minimum size for a lot with a septic system. Staff recommends that SUB17-00012, an application submitted by Linda Lovik for a preliminary plat of Lovik First Subdivision, a 3 -lot, 11 -acre residential subdivision located at 4665 Herbert Hoover Highway SE be approved. The CZA requires that the owner consent to annexation at the time an adjacent property is voluntarily annexed into the city. To assure that future buyers are aware of this agreement it should be reiterated in the legal papers for the final plat. Hensch asked if Staff is anticipating any additional access points on Herbert Hoover Highway. Miklo said there is the possibility of a street replacing the current driveway. Hensch opened the public hearing. Scott Ritter (Hart -Frederick Consultants) is representing the owner, Linda Lovik, who is also in attendance at tonight's meeting and are available for questions. Ritter noted they have worked extensively with Staff on the street ideas. Dyer asked if another house on the new Lot 2 is planned. Ritter confirmed another house is planned by Lovik's son. Hensch closed the public hearing. Parsons moved the Commission recommend approval of SUB17-00012, an application submitted by Linda Lovik for a preliminary plat of Lovik First Subdivision, a 3 -lot, 11 -acre residential subdivision located at 4665 Herbert Hoover Highway SE. Theobald seconded the motion. A vote was taken and the motion passed 6-0. CONSIDERATION OF MEETING MINUTES: AUGUST 3, 2017 Signs moved to approve the meeting minutes of August 3, 2017 with edits. Parsons seconded the motion. A vote was taken and the motion passed 6-0. PLANNING AND ZONING INFORMATION: Theobald questioned the Comprehensive Plan talking about diversity but also consistent with neighborhoods and the confusion. For example, the application this evening and if all lots have to be the same size and all housing has to be the same density. Miklo stated that when reading the Comprehensive Plan it actually favors the side of diversity. Theobald thinks that may need to be communicated better to the public. Signs added that the reality is everyone wants to live across from a field of green and woods and believes it will be that way forever. It is just a significant disconnect. Miklo said in the situation of tonight's application, those houses were Planning and Zoning Commission August 17, 2017 — Formal Meeting Page 11 of 12 built in the County prior to the City and County having a good understanding of future developments so there isn't such a huge lot size differential. ADJOURNMENT: Signs moved to adjourn. Theobald seconded. A vote was taken and motion carried 6-0. 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