[1. Call to Order & Roll Call]
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MEETING TO ORDER. TONIGHT IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 13TH AND WE WOULD LIKE THE CITY CLERK TO ESTABLISH A QUORUM WITH THE ROLL CALL. GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL PRESIDENT FRANCIS HERE.
COUNCILOR RADFORD, COUNCILOR DINGMAN HERE. COUNCILOR FREEMAN HERE. COUNCILOR LARSON HERE.
COUNCILOR LEE HERE. THANK YOU. MAYOR. YOU HAVE A QUORUM? THANK YOU. TONIGHT, WE HAVE THE HONOR OF HAVING GARY MILLS IN THE AUDIENCE, AND HE IS GOING TO LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE ANY STAFF TONIGHT WHO WISHES TO RESPOND TO ANY OF THE
[ 3. Staff Responses to Prior Public Comment and Other Updates]
PUBLIC COMMENT THAT WAS GIVEN DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD LAST WEEK? YES, CHIEF JOHNSON. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. FINN, WHO? I WISH I REMEMBERED HIS LAST NAME, BUT I'VE TALKED TO HIM SO MANY TIMES, I THINK. GARRETT. GARRETT. GARRETT. SO HE AND I HAVE SPOKEN MULTIPLE TIMES. HE'S GOT NOTHING TO TALK MULTIPLE TIMES ABOUT. LICENSE PLATE READERS AND FLOCK SAFETY THAT AFTER WE TALKED AFTER THE COUNCIL MEETING LAST TWO WEEKS AGO AGAIN, AND AS WE WERE TALKING, WE KIND OF BOTH CAME TO THE CONCLUSION IT'D BE GREAT FOR HIM TO DO A RIDE ALONG. SO HE FILLED OUT AN APPLICATION TO RIDE WITH THE PD, AND THAT'S IN THE PROCESS. AND HE SHOULD GET SCHEDULED SHORTLY. ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY IS, I'M NOT SURE THAT WE WILL EVER SEE EVERYTHING EYE TO EYE BETWEEN HE AND I, BUT HE UNDERSTANDS WHERE WE COME FROM AND I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHAT HE IS SAYING OVER THERE, AND HE CAN TAKE CARE OF THOSE CONCERNS. AND I JUST HAVE TO RESPECT THE PERSON THAT HAS COURAGE, THEIR CONVICTIONS, AND IS WILLING TO, TO, TO COME OUT AND SPEAK FOR WHAT THE CONVICTIONS ARE. SO I JUST WANT TO REPORT BACK THAT WE'RE HAVING LOTS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM, BUT WE DO RIDE ALONG AND HE WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE DOING. AND EVEN IF HE HAS A DIFFERENT OPINION ON IT, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW BEING ABLE TO TRANSPARENTLY LET HIM SIT IN THE CAR WITH A POLICE OFFICER AND ACTUALLY SEE HOW IT WORKS AND DO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT, CHIEF.[ 4. Public Comment]
OKAY. NOW IS THE PORTION OF OUR MEETING WHERE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT. THIS IS NOT THE HEARING SECTION FOR THE BUDGET. THE BUDGET COMES LATER. SO IF YOU ARE HERE TO TESTIFY ON BEHALF OF THE BUDGET OR ANY OF THE OTHER HEARINGS THAT WE HAVE SET FOR TONIGHT WITH THE THE ANNEXATIONS, PLEASE WAIT UNTIL THOSE HEARINGS ACTUALLY OPEN. BUT NOW WOULD BE THE TIME TO COME AND ADDRESS THE COUNCIL. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES AND YOU CAN SPEAK ON ANY TOPIC THAT YOU WOULD LIKE. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS COLBY HUTTON. I AM A RESIDENT OF IDAHO FALLS. I'M HERE SUPPORTING STRONGER IDAHO FALLS. I FORGOT MY SCRIPT. DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. BUT TODAY I WAS. TODAY, OUR COMMENT WAS GOING TO BE ABOUT A SORT OF A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF MINE.MY WORK HAS GOTTEN TO LET ME LIVE AROUND THE WORLD, WHICH HAS BEEN AN INCREDIBLE EXPERIENCE. I'VE GOTTEN TO LIVE IN COUNTRIES FROM ASIA TO PACIFIC, LIVING IN THE MARSHALL ISLANDS, IN INDIA, ETC. BUT. AND NOW I LIVE HERE. MOVED IN A FEW MONTHS AGO. IT HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE HERE IN IDAHO FALLS, AND ONE OF THE KEY THINGS THAT I WAS LOOKING FOR WHEN I BOUGHT THE HOUSE, AND ONE OF THE GREAT LITTLE JOYS IN MY LIFE, IS BEING ABLE TO WAKE UP EVERY FRIDAY MORNING AND TAKE A LITTLE THREE MINUTE WALK DOWN THE STREET TO THE LOCAL BAKERY. THEY ARE LOCALLY OWNED. THEIR ECONOMY SUPPORTS LOCALS. THEY ARE. THEY HIRE LOCALLY.
THEIR TAX TAXES ARE DONE LOCALLY. THEY SELL LOCALLY. RIGHT NEXT TO THEM IS MIDGET MARKET, A CORNER STORE THAT HAS THINGS YOU MAY NEED. GOING TO NEED IS OPEN AS OPEN AS LATE AS 1 A.M. AND EVEN THOUGH I LIVE IN A DECIDEDLY RESIDENTIAL AREA, WE STILL HAVE THESE LITTLE
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SHOPS THERE. IT DOESN'T CAUSE NOISE POLLUTION. IT DOESN'T CAUSE TRAFFIC. IT IS NOTHING BUT A BENEFIT TO THE TOWN AND TO THE RESIDENTS NEARBY. AND ONE OF OUR POSITIONS IS THAT WE NEED WE WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE OF THESE KINDS OF THINGS IN THE CITY. WE'D LOVE TO SEE SMALL BUSINESSES THAT ARE LOCALLY OWNED AND ZONING THAT WOULD ALLOW LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES TO THRIVE, EVEN IN PLACES THAT ARE TRADITIONALLY AND STILL IN CHARACTER, WOULD STILL BE RESIDENTIAL THINGS SUCH AS BAKERIES, FLORISTS, BARBERSHOPS. WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A WALMART IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT ANY BUSINESS THAT CAN SUPPORT, SAY, FIVE PARKING SPOTS OR FEWER AS A MAXIMUM SHOULD BE, IN OUR OPINION, LEGALLY ALLOWED BY RIGHT WITHIN THE CITY OF IDAHO FALLS. IT'S A WEIRD THING TO SEE IN AMERICA, BUT LIVING AROUND THE WORLD AND IN CITIES THAT DO HAVE IT IN AMERICA, THEY ARE NOTHING BUT A BOON TO THE COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COLBY. IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND, JUST EXCUSE ME, IF YOU DON'T MIND JUST STATING YOUR NAME. AND IF YOU'RE A RESIDENT OF IDAHO FALLS. OKAY. YES. MY NAME IS RUSTY CURTIS, AND I AM A RESIDENT OF IDAHO FALLS. AND I AM HERE JUST TO VOICE MY. OPPOSITION TO FLOCK CAMERAS AND THE MONEY SPENT IN THAT, ALONG WITH THE MONEY SPENT WITH IN CODE ENFORCEMENT AND. PARKING ENFORCEMENT. I THINK WE NEED MORE POLICE OFFICERS ON PATROLS AND IN THE. IN THE AREAS IN MY AREA WHERE I LIVE, WE STILL SEE CARS HITTING 70 MILES AN HOUR OR MORE DOWN THE. THE STREETS, MOTORCYCLES AND IT. IT'S JUST A DANGER. I WATCHED THE ELECTRIC BIKE RUN A STOP SIGN AND I WAS WAITING FOR THE THUD OF THE CAR COMING UP THE PERPENDICULAR STREET AND WHY THAT NEVER HAPPENED. THERE WAS A CAR BETWEEN ME AND AND WHERE THAT IMPACT WOULD HAVE HAPPENED, SO I DIDN'T GET TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. BUT THE CAR COMING MUST HAVE SAW HIM COMING AND HIT THE BRAKES, BECAUSE OUT OF MY RIGHT VISION, I SAW THAT CAR AND THE TIMING. AND I HAD SEEN THIS KID RUN THE STOP SIGN FULL SPEED ON THE ELECTRIC BIKE MULTIPLE TIMES, AND JUST RUN THAT STOP SIGN SO MANY TIMES. I JUST KNEW THIS WAS THE END. AND AND HE BOUNCED OFF THE CURB AND, AND CONTINUED UP THE ROAD. AT FIRST IN THE CAR, HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN THANKING THE CAR FOR NOT KILLING HIM BECAUSE IT VERY WELL COULD HAPPEN. BUT THE PROBLEMS WITH, WITH THOSE THINGS FOR OUTRIGHT I THINK WHAT THE THE FLOCK CAMERAS DO, I DON'T THINK THAT THE MONEY SPENT TO PUT A FINGER ON THE PEOPLE, I GUESS, TO WATCH AND MONITOR HIM. I'VE GOT AN ISSUE WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS. THEY. I CANNOT TRUST THEM FOR ANYTHING. I WOULDN'T CALL HIM FOR FOR ANYTHING TO REPORT ANYTHING. I COULD NOT SUPPORT HIM IN ANY WAY BECAUSE OF VIOLATION OF SECOND AMENDMENT VIOLATIONS OF OF BASIC LAWS THAT I GREW UP WITH. AND I MEAN, IT'S JUST A RAMPANT THIS ISN'T THE PLACE TO GO INTO SPECIFICS OR, OR ANYTHING, BUT I WANT TO BE ON RECORD AS VOICING MY OPPOSITION. AND IT IS IT'S JUST A HORRIBLE THING WAITING TO HAPPEN. SOMEBODY'S GOING TO GET KILLED. AND, AND IT'S THEY'RE NOT ENFORCING THE LAWS. THERE'S NOT ENOUGH. THEY TELL ME THERE'S NOT ENOUGH PATROLMEN THAT THEIR PATROLS ARE CUT WAY DOWN. AND, AND, AND SO. TIRE SLASHINGS GO JUST THEY SAID, WE'LL PUT IT ON A ON A BOOK.[00:10:05]
AND, AND IF THERE'S ENOUGH OF THEM IN AN AREA, THEN WE'LL INVESTIGATE. THAT'S FOUR TIRES ON A CAR IS $800 AT LEAST TO THE OWNER OF THE CAR. AND I SEEN THAT THAT HAPPEN. AND IT'S JUST MY, MY PROPERTY HAS BEEN DAMAGED. AND AND I CALL THE POLICE AND NOTHING, NO PHONE CALL, NO RESPONSE, NOTHING. AND SO MY. SECURITY IS NOT THERE FOR ANY KIND OF POLICE SUPPORT WHATSOEVER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. CURTIS. WE WILL WE WILL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU. ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO TESTIFY TONIGHT IN THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION? OKAY. MR. CURTIS, WILL YOU PLEASE LEAVE YOUR YOUR NAME AND NUMBER WITH OUR CITY CLERK? THANK YOU. COUNCIL, WE ARE ON[4. Consent Agenda]
TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA. IF WE CAN ASK THE CITY CLERK TO PLEASE READ THAT IN. THERE'S ONE ITEM FOR CONSENT TONIGHT, AND IT'S FROM MUNICIPAL SERVICES FOR THE ANNUAL RENEWAL OF CUSTOMER INFORMATION SYSTEM SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE FOR 99,400. AND EXCUSE ME, LET ME START OVER $99,453.60. I'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO APPROVE, ACCEPT OR RECEIVE ALL IN THE CONSENT AGENDA ACCORDING TO RECOMMENDATIONS PRESENTED. SECOND. RADFORD. I. LARSON. YES.FREEMAN. YES. FRANCIS I. DINGMAN. YES. LEE. YES. THANK YOU. THE MOTION CARRIES. OKAY.
[5.A.1) Written Decision on Requests for Reconsideration Regarding Planned Unit Development for Willows Place Townhomes]
OUR FIRST ITEM ON OUR REGULAR AGENDA TONIGHT IS COMING TO US FROM THE CITY ATTORNEY, AND IT IS THE WRITTEN DECISION ON REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION REGARDING THE PUD FOR WILLOWS TOWNHOMES AND MAYOR. YES, I HAVE TO RECUSE MYSELF BECAUSE I WAS PART OF THE MEDIATION PROCESS. SO I WILL BE LEAVING THE DAIS. THAT WILL REMAIN A QUORUM. I ALSO WILL BE DOING THE SAME. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO I'VE PREPARED A POWERPOINT THAT KIND OF GOES OVER THE HIGH LEVEL OF THE DRAFT DECISION THAT'S IN THE PACKET ASSIGNED TO REVIEW THAT. AGAIN, THIS IS FOR THE WILLOWS PLACE TOWNHOME REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION THAT WE HEARD LAST THURSDAY. SO I USED THE PRIOR THE REASON STATEMENT THE COUNCIL HAD APPROVED WHEN THEY APPROVED THE REVISED EV AS A STARTING POINT, THEY REARRANGED SOME OF THE ORDER OF THE FACTUAL FINDINGS TO BE MORE CHRONOLOGICAL, BUT LARGELY, BY AND LARGE, THE SAME UPDATED PROCEDURAL HISTORY. YOU KNOW, LIKE WE HAD INITIAL PUBLIC HEARING, THAT SORT OF THING. AND THEN THIS WRITTEN DECISION GOES ON TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE ARGUMENTS RAISED IN THE REQUEST FOR CONSIDERATION.AND IF AT ANY POINT YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OR WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING, AGAIN, THIS IS YOUR WRITTEN DECISION. SO IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE SOME OF THE LANGUAGE, YOU WANT TO CHANGE IT, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. WE CAN GET IT REVISED. ONE OF THE FINDINGS IS THE FINDING 15 THE REVISED UD WAS SUBMITTED MAY 21ST AND THAT SUBMITTED THE CDS. RIGHT. BUT IT WASN'T PRESENTED TO COUNCIL WHEN WHEN CONSIDERING THE PROPOSED MEDIATION AGREEMENT AND THAT THAT THAT FINDING IS USED LATER ON IN THE BODY WHEN DISCUSSING THE LEGAL PRINCIPLES. BASICALLY IT WASN'T PRESENTED TO COUNCIL. SO AT THAT TIME, COUNCIL COULDN'T HAVE APPROVED THE REVISED BODY AT THAT TIME BECAUSE IT WASN'T PRESENTED TO COUNCIL. FINDING A NEW FINDING IS NUMBER 19, ADDED ADDED THAT THE REVISED OR THE UNITS IN THE REVISED BODY WILL BE TWIN HOMES, AND ADDED THAT THERE ARE TWIN HOMES IN THE AREA THAT ARE SIMILAR IN BULK SCALE, STRUCTURAL MASS AND CHARACTER. IT'S FINDING 33. SO JUST FOR YOUR REFERENCE, THIS IS KIND OF A. THIS IS A DETAIL FROM ONE OF THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS THAT CDS GAVE. THIS CAME FROM THE JANUARY 22ND ONE. SO YOU CAN SEE IN RED THAT'S THE AREA OF THE POD. AND IF YOU LOOK OFF TO THIS ONE, OKAY, HOLD ON, GO BACK. SO IF YOU LOOK AT THE UPPER RIGHT CORNER, THAT THAT RESIDENTIAL SECTION IS TWIN HOMES, AS YOU CAN SEE. AND I'VE GOT A LITTLE BIT CLOSER RIGHT THERE. SO
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THAT'S THE BASIS FOR THAT FACTUAL FINDING. YOU HAVE TWIN HOMES OVER THERE THAT ARE WITHIN THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE REVISED PUD THAT ARE SIMILAR IN STRUCTURAL BULK, THAT SORT OF THING. OKAY. AND JUST FOR REFERENCE, THAT AGAIN, YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE.THIS IS THE REVISED BODY THAT WAS APPROVED, AND YOU CAN SEE THE SAME SORT OF TWIN HOME LAYOUT HERE. THE MAIN DIFFERENCE BEING. YEAH, THE ONES OVER HERE LOOKS LIKE THEY'RE THEIR DRIVEWAYS ARE SEPARATED FROM EACH OTHER. WHEREAS WITH THE REVISED UD THEIR NEXT TO EACH OTHER OR TOUCHING AGAIN, IT DOESN'T MATTER THAT THE IDENTICAL. ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS BE COMPATIBLE. RIGHT? SIMILAR TO. SO THAT'S THE BASIS FOR THAT FACTUAL FINDING. SOME OF THE IN THE WHAT I'LL CALL THE CONCLUSIONS. THIS IS THE SECOND PART OF IT. THIS IS THE REASON. THIS IS WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT IT APPLIES THE LAW TO THE FACTUAL FINDINGS. IT WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE HEARING, AND WE DISCUSSED IT LAST WEEK, THAT THERE WAS A CLAIM THAT IT NEEDED TO GO TO BACK TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL PUD THAT WAS NOT APPROVED, IT HAD BEEN MODIFIED AFTER MEDIATION, AND THERE WAS AN ARGUMENT THAT IT HAD TO GO BACK DOWN TO PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. THAT'S ADDRESSED IN CONCLUSION NUMBER THREE, BASICALLY, THAT RULE IN OUR ORDINANCE REQUIRES IT GOES TO PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION ONLY IF IT'S A MODIFICATION TO AN ALREADY APPROVED PUD HERE. THERE'S THERE WAS NOT A ALREADY APPROVED PUD. AND SO THAT RULE DOES NOT REQUIRE IT GO BACK DOWN. PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION, ONE OF THE MORE SALIENT ARGUMENTS THAT THE. THE PEOPLE REQUESTING RECONSIDERATION MADE WAS ABOUT DUE PROCESS. KIND OF THE GENERAL THRUST WAS THEY WEREN'T AFFORDED THEIR DUE PROCESS RIGHTS TO BE HEARD IN A MEANINGFUL TIME AND A MEANINGFUL MANNER. THAT'S ADDRESSED IN CONCLUSIONS FOUR THROUGH SEVEN. THE WAY THE REASONING GOES IS THE PROPOSED MEDIATION AGREEMENT DID NOT BIND COUNCIL TO APPROVE WHATEVER REVISED DUTY THEY MAY SUBMIT. INSTEAD, IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO THROUGH A PUBLIC HEARING AS REQUIRED BY IDAHO CODE. WE HAD THAT PUBLIC HEARING, AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL AFTER THAT PUBLIC HEARING THE COUNCIL APPROVED IT. AND JUST IN CASE THERE WAS ANY QUESTION, THEY ALSO HAD A SECOND PUBLIC HEARING LAST WEEK, RIGHT, AT WHICH COUNCIL HAD FULL AUTHORITY TO RECONSIDER ITS DECISION AND CHANGE ITS MIND IF IT WANTED TO. SO THEY HAD. THAT'S THE WAY THAT THE WRITTEN STATEMENT GOES, THAT THEY HAD MORE THAN ADEQUATE DUE PROCESS. THERE'S SOME CONCLUSIONS REGARDING THE PLAYGROUND. AGAIN, COUNCIL, THIS IS THIS WAS A POINT THAT HAD COME UP WITH THE WITH THE DEVELOPER COUNCIL INITIALLY SAID, HEY, YOUR PLAYGROUND IS TOO FAR FROM THE PUBLIC STREET. IT DOESN'T QUALIFY AS A PUBLIC AMENITY. AND SO AS PART OF THE REVISED DUTY, THEY MOVED IT CLOSER TO THE STREET. AND NOW IT IS COUNCIL COUNCIL. AT LEAST THE LAST APPROVED WRITTEN STATEMENT SAID THAT NOW IT IS, AS A PRACTICAL MATTER, ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC. SO PROVIDING THE PUBLIC BENEFIT. SO IT SATISFIES THE EXCEPTION THAT THE SITE MUST BE TWO ACRES OR MORE. THERE WAS SOME ARGUMENT THAT THE PLAYGROUND LOST WASN'T A PUBLIC BENEFIT, BECAUSE IT WAS REDUNDANT TO OTHER PLAYGROUNDS IN THE AREA, AND THE WAY THE WRITTEN STATEMENT ADDRESSES THAT IS BY SAYING IT DOESN'T LOSE ALL THAT, BUT JUST SIMPLY BECAUSE THERE'S OTHER PLAYGROUNDS IN THE AREA, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S CLOSER TO SOMETHING MORE CONVENIENT TO USE IT. THE NEXT POINT THAT THEY'RE COMPATIBLE WITH, THE UNITS OF THE REVISED PUD ARE COMPATIBLE, COMPATIBLE WITH THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD STRUCTURES. THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE PREVIOUS FINDING WE JUST TALKED ABOUT. AGAIN, THAT WAS BRIEFLY MENTIONED IN THE ARGUMENT ORAL ARGUMENT LAST WEEK. IT WOULD BE GOOD TO ADDRESS THAT. THERE WAS ANOTHER ARGUMENT ABOUT A BERM BEING REQUIRED UNDER CITY CODE 11-2-6.
SUB. SUB. SUB SEVEN. SUB B. THAT WASN'T THE EXACT CITATION THEY GAVE. THE CITATION THEY GAVE WASN'T AN ACCURATE CITATION, BUT I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE AIMING AT. AND AS YOU CAN SEE IN CONCLUSION. 19. WHAT THAT DOES IS THAT WOULD REQUIRE IF THE PUD HAD A PARKING LOT THAT BORDERED A PRIVATE OR PUBLIC STREET, THEN THERE WOULD BE A NEED FOR A BERM. HERE. THE. THE PARKING LOT DOES NOT BORDER A PUBLIC STREET. YOU DON'T. YOU DON'T NEED. THEY WERE. THEY WERE KIND OF FLIPPING IT, BUT THEY WERE ARGUING. IS THAT BECAUSE THE CHURCH PROPERTY HAS A PARKING LOT THAT. A BERM IS REQUIRED ALONG THE PRIVATE STREET WITHIN THE TOD. BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE RULE REQUIRES. WHAT THE RULE REQUIRES IS WHEN THE PV HAS A PARKING SPACE, THEN IT'S REQUIRED TO HAVE A BERM. IF IT'S CONTIGUOUS TO A PRIVATE
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PUBLIC STREET, SO THAT CONDITION IS NOT SATISFIED, IT'S NOT REQUIRED. AND THEN IF THE CONCLUSIONS ALSO GO THROUGH, A LOT OF THE ARGUMENTS WERE IRRELEVANT, LIKE TALKING ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING. YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY TALKED ABOUT, THE DEVELOPER BEING ABLE TO PRESENT TESTIMONY ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, IT'S NOT RELEVANT. THE COUNCIL'S DECISION DIDN'T FACTOR INTO THE ORIGINAL REASON STATEMENT. OR ISSUE WITH THE NEIGHBORING CHURCH PROPERTY, LIKE WHETHER IT WAS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CFP. IT DOESN'T MATTER.CONCLUSION 30 TALKS ABOUT TALKS ABOUT FENCES, THAT THERE'S NO RULE THAT REQUIRES A FENCE IN THIS INSTANCE. AND TO THE EXTENT THE COUNCIL DID HAVE DISCRETION, AND THIS COUNCIL DOES HAVE DISCRETION IN SOME INSTANCES TO REQUIRE EVENTS, COUNCIL'S NOT EXERCISING ITS DISCRETION TO REQUIRE FENCE, THE REASONING BEING THAT IT'S A MATTER THAT CAN BE HANDLED BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL NEIGHBORS AND THE DEVELOPER. AND THEN FINALLY, THERE WAS A CLAIM EASEMENT. THERE WAS A PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT CLAIMED BY ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS. THAT'S.
AND THAT JUST SIMPLY SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL CANNOT DECIDE. AND THAT'S WHY THAT CONCLUSION.
THAT'S A MATTER FOR THE COURT SYSTEM. COUNCIL COULDN'T ADJUDICATE WHETHER THERE IS OR IS NOT A PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT. ALL RIGHT. SO THAT'S A HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF WHAT THAT DOCUMENT, WHAT THE DRAFT IS. I STAND READY FOR ANY REVISIONS. OR AGAIN THIS IS YOUR DOCUMENT.
SO I'M HAPPY TO REVISE IT ISN'T IT? FOR ANY QUESTIONS. I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION. JUST REALLY A QUESTION A PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR MY OWN INFORMATION. THAT IS BASICALLY IF YOU'RE USING SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY TO ACCESS YOUR PROPERTY OVER A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME, THEN IT CAN BE OPEN TO PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT. YES, IT'S JUST ACCESS, BUT IT'S STILL SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY THAT YOU'VE BEEN USING TO ACCESS YOUR PROPERTY. THAT'S CORRECT. IF I HAD A IF I WALKED ACROSS MY NEIGHBOR'S PROPERTY AND DID IT FOR THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF TIME AND MET THE OTHER ELEMENTS OF PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT, AND THEN AND THEN I COULD GO TO COURT AND I COULD SAY, HEY, JUDGE, I HAVE PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT, SO I GET TO KEEP WALKING THERE. THEY CAN'T STOP ME FROM IT. BUT BUT I DON'T I WOULDN'T HAVE TITLE TO THE LAND. THEY WOULD STILL HAVE TITLE. IT'S JUST THAT IF THEY, IF THEY PUT SOMETHING IN TO BLOCK ME, I COULD GO TO THE COURT AND SAY, YOU CAN'T BLOCK ME FROM WALKING THERE LIKE A FENCE OR SOMETHING. OKAY, SO THAT'S WHY IT IS NOT WITHIN OUR AUTHORITY, BECAUSE WE DO NOT KNOW HOW OFTEN THEY'VE BEEN USING SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY TO ACCESS THEIR PROPERTY. WELL, IT'S NOT JUST THAT. IT'S JUST THAT COUNCIL LACKS JURISDICTION. YEAH, IT'S JUST THERE'S JUST NOTHING. YEAH, WE ARE NOT THAT. AND REALLY, IT'S GOING TO BE THE DEVELOPER TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE A PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT. THAT'S A THAT'S AN ISSUE BETWEEN THE DEVELOPER AND THE NEIGHBOR. IF THE NEIGHBOR FELT LIKE THEY HAD A PRESCRIPTIVE EASEMENT, THEY CAN FILE IN COURT. AND THEN IT'S UP TO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A RISK THAT THE DEVELOPER IS TAKING, BUT IT'S NOT RELEVANT TO WHETHER PV SHOULD BE CRAMPED OR NOT. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. WE ARE. I WOULD MOVE TO APPROVE THE WRITTEN DECISION REGARDING REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION, AFFIRMING THE REVISED PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT FOR WILLOW PLACE TOWNHOMES, AND GIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. I'LL SECOND. FREEMAN. YES, RADFORD. HI. DINGMANN. YES. LARSON. YES.
THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, BEFORE YOU LEAVE TONIGHT AND AS OUR OTHER TWO COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE COMING BACK UP FOR THE FOUR OF YOU, THIS IS A DECISION THAT WE NEED TO SIGN TONIGHT. IT'S GOING TO TAKE ALL OF YOUR ALL OF THE VOTING MEMBERS SIGNATURES. OKAY.
[5.B.1) Memorandum of Agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration and the Idaho State Historic Preservation Office]
OUR NEXT ITEM TONIGHT IS COMING TO US FROM THE AIRPORT. DIRECTOR TURNER. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THE ITEM BEFORE YOU APPROVES A MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOR HANGAR THAT EXISTED AT 2541 FOOT DRIVE SOMETIME LAST WINTER. THAT HANGAR WAS TORE DOWN AND IT WAS UNFORTUNATELY ELIGIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL HISTORIC REGISTRY. DURING THAT HANGAR DOWN SHOULD HAVE REQUIRED PRIOR COORDINATION APPROVAL WITH THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION.DUE TO OUR GRANT ASSURANCES FOR ACCEPTING FEDERAL DOLLARS FOR IMPROVING THE AIRPORT, THIS MOA RECTIFIES OUR NONCOMPLIANCE FOR THAT HANGAR BEING TORE DOWN. NUMBER ONE, BY COMMEMORATING THAT HANGAR THROUGH A PLAQUE THAT WILL BE PLACED MOST LIKELY IN BAGGAGE CLAIM IN THE TERMINAL BUILDING, AND THEN ALSO THROUGH NOTIFICATION TO ALL OF OUR OTHER TENANTS AT THE
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AIRPORT. WHO OCCUPY A HANGAR THAT IS CURRENTLY ELIGIBLE FOR THE NATIONAL HISTORIC REGISTER.WE HAVE SIGNED A WORK ORDER WITH OUR. TO ASSIST US WITH THIS EFFORT, AND THAT IS A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $15,000, AND I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. DIRECTOR TURNER, CAN YOU JUST CLARIFY THAT IT WAS NOT THE AIRPORT OR THE CITY THAT TORE DOWN THIS HANGAR? THAT IS CORRECT. OKAY. WE DID NOT TEAR DOWN THE SINGER, THE THE LEASEE OF THE HANGAR. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? YES, I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS. SO FIRST ONE IS AT THIS POINT, WHAT RESPONSIBILITY IS GUNS AND GEAR TAKEN TO HELP WITH THIS COMMEMORATIVE. THEY HAVE RELEASED THEIR LEASE AT THE AIRPORT AT THIS POINT, DRAFTING THAT DOCUMENT. WE DID RETAIN SOME RIGHTS DEPENDING ON WHAT THE OVERALL COST TO THIS IS, BUT I THINK THAT'S A MATTER A DISCUSSION SEPARATE FROM THE MOU, TO KEEP US IN THE GOOD GRACES OF THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION. OKAY. MY SECOND QUESTION IS, CAN YOU HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT PROCEDURE STEPS THE AIRPORT CAN TAKE IN THE FUTURE? I'M SORRY. I GOT VERY DISTRACTED. ME TOO. I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE ASKING. I'M TRYING TO SAY, HOW DO WE CATCH THIS EARLIER IN THE PROCESS? IS THERE A WAY TO DEAL WITH THIS BEFORE IT HAPPENS? OR DID YOU? IT COMES SOMEWHAT COMES DOWN TO PROPERTY RIGHTS. THERE'S A CLASSIC POINT OF DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN AIRPORT SPONSORS AND TENANTS ON WHO OWNS THE HANGAR ON GROUND LEASES. I THINK THAT CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE HAS RESEARCHED THAT NOT RECENTLY, BUT THERE'S AN ELEMENT THERE TO ARGUE THAT THAT WAS PROPERTY OF THE CITY THAT WAS TORE DOWN. THERE MAY BE AN OPPOSING VIEWPOINT ON THAT MATTER. THE OTHER PIECE THAT IS PROBLEMATIC IN SOME OF OUR GROUND LEASES IS THAT WHEN THOSE GROUND LEASES WERE ENTERED INTO, THEY WERE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE HISTORIC REGISTRY. AND IT BECOMES SO THROUGH THE TERM OF THAT LEASE, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT WAYS TO ADDRESS THAT CONCERN. COUNCIL PRESIDENT, IT REALLY COMES DOWN TO HOW STRONGLY DOES THE COUNCIL WANT TO DIRECT ME AND OUR STAFF AT THE AIRPORT TO EXERCISE PROPERTY RIGHTS AND BALANCE THE RIGHTS OF TENANTS? I AM OPEN TO ALL INPUT AND DIRECTION ON THAT MATTER. I THINK THAT THERE WAS ONE OTHER THING I WAS GOING TO SAY THERE. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN DOING SINCE I STARTED AND WORKING THROUGH THE MASTER PLAN WAS EACH TIME I TALKED TO THE TENANTS OF THESE ELIGIBLE STRUCTURES IS AT LEAST MAKING SURE THEY UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR STRUCTURE IS ELIGIBLE, AND THAT THERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL STEPS THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN THROUGH THIS PROCESS. IT'S ANSWERED A LOT OF QUESTIONS ON HOW WE CAN PROCEED AND IMPLEMENTING THE MASTER PLAN, AND THANKFULLY, IT'S NOT QUITE AS ONEROUS AS I MAY BE FEARFUL OF, BUT. I THINK I'LL STOP THERE. OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER, I WOULD MOVE TO APPROVE THE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT AMONG THE FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, IDAHO STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE AND THE IDAHO FALLS REGIONAL AIRPORT, AND GIVE AUTHORIZATION TO THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND. LARSON. YES. FRANCIS I. LEE.
YES. YES. FREEMAN. YES. RADFORD. HI. THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. OUR NEXT ITEM IS COMING
[5.C.1) Development Agreement - Circle K Pancheri Drive and Skyline Dr]
TO US TONIGHT FROM PUBLIC WORKS. AND IT IS JUST A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, WHICH IS NOT ALWAYS HOW WE SEE THESE. SO WELCOME, DIRECTOR KENDALL. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING.SO TONIGHT FOR US WE HAVE A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH CIRCLE K. SO IT'S A DEVELOPER THAT'S DEVELOPING A CIRCLE K STORE ON THE CORNER OF SKYLINE AND PANCARI DRIVE. WE HAD A PREVIOUS DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT ON OUR PREVIOUS PLOT FOR THIS PROPERTY. AND IT WAS PRIOR TO IMPLEMENTING IMPACT FEES AND SOME DETAILS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS. BUT, BUT AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE BRINGING IT FORWARD INSTEAD OF CDS WITH THE THAT'S NOT BEING REVISED. THIS IS ONE LOT WITHIN THE PLAT, A THREE WAY COMMERCIAL CENTER AS THE PLAT THAT THAT IS BEING DEVELOPED. BUT WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT, WE REQUIRED THAT THEY EXTEND THE ROAD SKYLINE AT THE INTERSECTION TO THE SOUTH, APPROXIMATELY AN ADDITIONAL 200 TO 250FT. AND WITH THAT, WE'RE PARTICIPATING WITH THE IMPACT FEE FUNDS AS AVAILABLE UP TO ABOUT 119,500. THAT'S A COST PROJECTION BASED ON OUR NUMBERS, NOT ON THE ONES THAT SO. BUT WITH THAT, IT'S AN AMENDED
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DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH CIRCLE K THAT GIVES US THE ABILITY TO MEET OUR STANDARDS SUBJECT TO IMPACT FEES AND IN TURN REIMBURSE THEM FOR THE ROADS ON THAT ARTERIAL ROAD CONSTRUCTION TO IMPROVE THAT INTERSECTION. IT EXTENDS THE QUEUING OF OF THOSE TOURNAMENTS TO THE SOUTH ABOUT 200FT. SO WITH THAT, I'LL ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS. I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT CORNER IT'S ON. IS IT ON THE SOUTH EAST CORNER? YEAH, OVER TOWARDS CAMPING ROAD. OKAY.ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR DIRECTOR CANFIELD. ALL RIGHT THEN. WE ARE READY FOR A MOTION FROM COUNCIL. ALL RIGHT. I'LL GO AHEAD AND MOVE TO APPROVE THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR CIRCLE K AND CAREY DRIVE AND SKYLINE DRIVE, AND AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND DAIMON. YES. RADFORD. LARSON. YES. LEE. YES. FRANCIS
[5.C.2) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Section 5310 Small Urban Funding Agreement ]
I. FREEMAN. YES. THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. AND OUR NEXT ITEM IS ALSO COMING TO US FROM PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE FUND. THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION. YES. SO THIS IS A FUNDING AGREEMENT WITH THE FEDERAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY ADMINISTRATION UNDER THE 50 FUNDS AND 80% FEDERAL 20% LOCAL MATCH. AND THIS IS TO HELP ENHANCE OUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED. AND IT'S THROUGH OUR GIFT PROGRAM. IT'S A VERY SIMILAR AGREEMENT THAT WE'VE DONE A YEAR AGO TO THE EVEN FOR THE AMOUNT KIND OF THING. SO IT'S AN ANNUAL AGREEMENT WE DO WITH MTA LIEUTENANT IN THE PAST, AND IT'S A REPEAT AGREEMENT WITH THAT PRIVATE AS WELL. SO IT'S THE FEDERAL REIMBURSEMENT PORTION IS $230,400 FOR A TOTAL EXPENDITURE OF 288,000 FOR ENHANCING OUR. PROVIDE SERVICES TO ELDERLY AND DISABLED. SO WITH THAT, I'LL ASK IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS. COUNCIL MEMBER FRANCIS, DOES THIS ADD A VEHICLE TO OUR FLEET OR IS IT JUST UPFITTING WHAT WE HAVE OR IT DOESN'T ADD A VEHICLE TO THE FLEET? WHAT WE DO IS WE KIND OF EVALUATE OUR SERVICES AND WE WE TRACK WHO WE'RE ASSERTING ON THE ELDERLY AND DISABLED. AND WE IT'S ABLE TO KIND OF RATIO AND REDISTRIBUTE OUR COSTS FOR PROVIDING SERVICES BY TRACKING THOSE AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE EXCEEDING SERVICES PER THIS, THE SUPPORT OF THE GRANT AND THIS FUNDING AGREEMENT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. WE'RE READY FOR A MOTION. ALL RIGHT. I'LL MOVE TO APPROVE THE FTA 5310 SMALL URBAN FUNDING AGREEMENT AND AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND.OKAY. OUR NEXT. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR KEN. OH, I'M SORRY, WE HAVE TO DO THE VOTE. HERE WE GO.
WE ARE. WE'LL DO THE VOTE. AND THEN. BUT DIRECTOR CANFIELD, THAT IS. THANK YOU. DAMON. YES.
FREEMAN. YES. FRANCIS I BRADFORD I. LEE. YES. AND LARSON. YES. THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. CROSSED OFF MY PEN AND WAS READY FOR THE NEXT. THE NEXT ONE IS COMING TO US
[5.D.1) Bid Rejection - IFP 26-21-2 Upper Development Dam No. 1 Rehabilitation .]
TONIGHT FROM IDAHO FALLS POWER. THERE'S A COUPLE OF BID REJECTIONS ON OUR AGENDA. WE'LL JUST LET YOU LEAD US THROUGH BOTH OF THOSE, IF THAT'S OKAY. THAT'D BE GREAT. THANK YOU FOR OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE THIS EVENING. UNFORTUNATELY, THE TWO ITEMS THAT WE HAVE FOR PUBLIC WORKS ARE BID REJECTIONS THAT WERE MENTIONED EARLIER. AND THE REASON THAT PROBABLY MAKES THE MOST SENSE TO TALK ABOUT THOSE IS THEY'RE ACTUALLY NEEDED IN ORDER TO ONE, BE DONE IN ORDER TO PERFORM THE OTHER. BUT THEY INVOLVED PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'D INTENDED TO TAKE PLACE AT THE UPPER POWER DAM. THE FIRST PROJECT THAT WAS BID INVOLVED REHABILITATION, THAT WAS GOING TO REPLACE SOME HYDRAULIC PIPING AND SOME SEALS. AS THAT WAS BID. OUR ENGINEERS ESTIMATE IS $500,000 IN A LOW BID CAME IN AT $761,000. AND IN ORDER TO DO THAT WORK ON THE EAST CHANNEL, WE ALSO HAD A SECOND BID THAT WAS TO BUILD AN EARTHEN COFFER DAM. SO THAT WOULD BASICALLY ALLOW US TO DEWATER THAT. SO WE WOULD MAKE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS BASED ON THE FIRST BID. WITH THAT, WE RECEIVED FOUR BIDS, WHICH ARE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE OF 250,000 AND THE LOW BID OF 766,000. SO. SO IN TOTAL, WE BUDGETED $750,000. AND BETWEEN THOSE TWO PROJECTS IT WAS 1,000,500 AND SOME CHANGE. SO WITH THAT, THAT THAT CAME IN OBVIOUSLY OVER WHAT WE HAD INTENDED TO DO. AND ALSO BOTH OF THOSE PROJECTS WERE BID WITH THE CAVEAT TO MAKE THE TO MAKE THE CONTRACTORS AWARE THAT THESE PROJECTS COULD ONLY MOVE FORWARD SHOULD WE RECEIVE OUR, OUR APPROVALS FROM VARIOUS ENTITIES. AND AS OF AS OF THE LATEST CONVERSATIONS THAT I'VE HAD WITH OUR GENERATION GROUP, WE STILL HAVE NOT RECEIVED OUR APPROVALS FROM THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION OR THE DEPARTMENT OF DAM SAFETY.[00:35:01]
THAT'S THE FIRST TIME I'VE GOT TO SAY THAT. BUT BUT BASED ON THOSE FINDINGS, IS THE RECOMMENDATION OF IDAHO FALLS POWER TO REJECT ALL BIDS FOR BOTH PROJECTS AND REBID THE PROJECTS AT A LATER DATE, ONCE ALL PERMITTING IS IN PLACE AND AT A TIME MORE CONDUCIVE TO RECEIVING FAVORABLE BIDS. SO THE INTENTION WITH THIS WOULD BE TO BID IT IN THE SPRING, EARLY OR FALL CONSTRUCTION WHEN LOW WATER SEASON IS IN PLACE. BUT I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF THERE ARE ANY. SO THIS WILL TAKE TWO ACTION ITEMS, BUT I THOUGHT WE COULD JUST HANDLE IT ALL IN ONE CONVERSATION. COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN. YEAH, I'D BE I'D BE HAPPY TO MAKE THAT MOTION. I WOULD MOVE THAT COUNCIL REJECT THE SINGLE BID RECEIVED FOR THE UPPER DEVELOPMENT DAM PROJECT. SECOND. ME. YES, YES. FRANCIS I. FREEMAN. YES. LARSON. YES.BRADFORD. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. AND I WOULD ALSO MOVE THE COUNCIL REJECT
[5.D.2) Bid Rejection - IFP 26-21-1 Upper Coffer Dam Project ]
ALL BIDS FOR THE UPPER COFFER DAM PROJECT. SECOND. FREEMAN. YES. BRADFORD A. LARSON. YES.DINGMAN. YES. LEE. YES. AND, FRANCIS, I THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. WE HAVE SEVERAL
[5.E.1) Purchase Replacement Cardiac Monitor/Defibrillators for Idaho Falls Fire Department]
ITEMS TONIGHT COMING TO US FROM MUNICIPAL SERVICES. FIRST, WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THE PURCHASE REPLACEMENT OF THE CARDIAC MONITOR. AND WE WELCOME DIRECTOR ALEXANDER TO THE PODIUM. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. SO I'M VERY PLEASED TO SAY THAT WE HAVE EMS DIVISION CHIEF MILLS WITH US THIS EVENING AS WELL, FILLING IN FOR CHIEF OLSON. SO THIS ITEM IS ACTUALLY TO REPLACE SEVERAL. I BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT 15. STRYKER MADE CARDIAC MONITORS AND DEFIBRILLATORS, AND I CAN NEVER SAY THAT CORRECTLY. BUT THE THE THE OPPORTUNITY IS THERE FOR, FOR ME TO SAY IT CORRECTLY, PRONOUNCE IT CORRECTLY. THESE 15 STRIKERS WERE ACTUALLY PURCHASED DURING THE CARES ACT BACK IN DECEMBER OF 2020. AND THEY ARE ACTUALLY APPROACHING THEIR END OF LIFE. AND SO IT IS THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE FIRE EMS DIVISION, AS WELL AS CHIEF OLSON, TO GO AHEAD AND REPLACE THESE WITH THE ZOLL ZENIX MONITORS. AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY OFFERING US A TRADE IN ALLOWANCE FOR THE 15 STRIKERS.AND THIS ITEM IS TOTALS. TOTALS $759,308.67. AND IT DOES INCLUDE THE TRADE IN ALLOWANCE OF 165 000, OR A TOTAL OF 11000 PER MONITOR. I WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OR IF YOU WANT TO GET MORE SPECIFICS ON HOW THESE THINGS WORK, WE DO HAVE THESE EMAILS HERE. YOU HAVE CHIEF COME UP. I'M JUST CURIOUS IF WE'RE CHANGING OR CHANGING BRANDS OF MONITORS IS WHAT I OR IS THIS INCLUDE SOME TRAINING ON THE NEW MONITORS. ARE WE GOING TO HAVE TO. SO INCLUDED IN THE BID IS A FULL BUILD OUT OF THE MONITOR. SO ZOLL WILL SEND A TEAM. ONCE THEY GET HERE AND THEY'LL WORK WITH EVERY SINGLE CREW WITH THE BUILD OUT FOR THAT. I KNOW WE'VE BEEN USING LIFEPAK FOR DECADES. YEAH, THAT'S A BIG CHANGE. OKAY. AND I JUST LIKE TO COMMENT BECAUSE THESE, THESE CARDIAC MONITORS ARE ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECES OF EQUIPMENT WE CARRY IN THE AMBULANCE. AND THERE ARE $50,000 A PIECE PLUS AND THAT'S A BIG PURCHASE. SO, ALL RIGHT, THAT'S ALL I GOT. GO AHEAD. COUNCIL MEMBER REDFORD, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE GROUND EMERGENCY MEDICAL TRANSPORT. CAN YOU SPEAK TO WHAT THAT IS AND HOW THAT IS FUNDED? YEAH. SO THE GMG FUND IS. IT'S A FEDERAL MONIES THAT OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS CAPTURED. AND IT IS A PROGRAM THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS INSTITUTED BECAUSE OUR FEE STRUCTURE DOESN'T MATCH WHAT MEDICARE PAYS FOR OUR SERVICES PROVIDED IN THE EMS SIDE. AND SO THE GOVERNMENT, IN ORDER TO ASSIST AGENCIES THAT PROVIDE A LOT OF TRANSPORT FOR MEDICARE PATIENTS TO MAKE UP THAT DIFFERENCE A LITTLE BIT. AND SO WE'VE CAPTURED IN THIS THIS YEAR, WE RECEIVED $1.4 MILLION IN THAT. AND SO THAT IS THE FUNDS THAT ARE ACTUALLY FUNDING THIS. AND CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG, BUT I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST TIME WE'VE SPENT GMT MONEY. THIS WILL BE THE THIS IS OUR FIRST PURCHASE. OTHER THAN THE PAYMENT FOR THE FOR HELPING SOMEONE GET SOMEONE. YEAH. SO SO THIS IS. THE CONCERN. YEAH.
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AND IT WAS A CONCERN BECAUSE IF WE BOUGHT THIS WITH CARES MONEY, I ALWAYS HATE IT WHEN WE BUY THINGS WITH THOSE KIND OF MONIES. BUT WE HAVE ONGOING CONCERNS IF THEY HAVE A USEFUL LIFE OF ONLY FIVE YEARS. SO THIS IS GREAT NEWS THAT IT'S BEING PAID OUT FROM THIS. YEAH.SO BEING PAID OUT AND THE THE PART OF THE USEFUL LIFE IS THE MONITORS WE BOUGHT WITH THE CARES FUNDS WERE REFURBISHED AS WELL. AND THESE ARE ALL BRAND NEW. AND THE OTHER THING IS.
THE LIFE PACK. WE'VE USED THE LIFEPAK 15. I DON'T KNOW, COUNCILMAN FREEMAN PROBABLY 15 YEARS, MAYBE MAYBE PROBABLY 20 YEARS. SO THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE ACTUAL MONITOR IS SIGNIFICANT, DIFFERENT. IF WE WERE UPGRADING THE LIFE PACKS LIFE PACK 35 NOW AS WELL. SO THAT WAS WHAT WE COMPARED AGAINST WAS THE THIS ZOLL MONITOR OR THE LIFE PACK 35. SO AS FAR AS UPGRADING THE ACTUAL MONITOR, SO THESE WOULD HOPEFULLY HAVE LONGER THAN A FIVE YEAR LIFE IS WHAT I'M HEARING BEING NEW AS OPPOSED TO A. WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO ZOLL, THEY'RE APPROXIMATELY A NINE YEAR, 9 TO 10 YEAR LIFESPAN WITHOUT. AS FAR AS WARRANTIES GO, THEIR LIFESPAN IS LONGER, BUT THEIR WARRANTIES ARE ABOUT TEN YEARS. OKAY. THANK YOU. ARE WE READY FOR A MOTION? ALL RIGHT. IF OUR FIRE LIAISON OR MUNICIPAL SERVICES EITHER. YES. I WILL MOVE TO APPROVE AND ACCEPT THE PURCHASE OF THE 15 ZENITH CARDIAC MONITOR DEFIBRILLATOR DEFIBRILLATORS FROM ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION. ACCESSING THE SOURCEWELL COOPERATIVE PURCHASE GOVERNMENT CONTRACT 041823-ZLL FOR A TOTAL OF $759,308.67 AND AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO SIGN THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND. ME. YES. DINGMANN. YES, FRANCIS I. FREEMAN. YES. LARSON.
YES. RADFORD. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. AND NOW OUR BACKUP SOFTWARE AND SUPPORT
[5.E.2) Backup Software and Support Platform Services for Information Technology]
PLATFORM FOR THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. SO THIS ITEM IS COMING FORWARD TO YOU TODAY. IT IS A RECOMMENDATION FROM OUR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TEAM TO ENTER INTO A AGREEMENT WITH THE BACKUP, STORAGE AND SUPPORT PLATFORM SERVICES USING THE OMNIA PARTNERS COOPERATIVE PURCHASING CONTRACT WITH COMPUNET FOR VEEAM AND OBJECT FIRST DATA PLATFORM SERVICES, FOR A TOTAL OF $272,013.16. NOW, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS WE DID A COST BASIS ANALYSIS. SO OUR CURRENT PLATFORM, COHESITY, HAD ANNOUNCED TO US THAT THEY ARE GOING TO END THEIR LIFE OF SUPPORT IN EARLY 2027. I BELIEVE IT'S FEBRUARY OF 2027.THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE IT TEAM HAS HAD PLANNED FOR AND LOOKING AT VIABLE OPTIONS AND IN IN THE PROCESS OF LOOKING AT THE COST ANALYSIS, THEY WERE ACTUALLY GIVEN A COUPLE OF QUOTES. ONE QUOTE WAS A THREE YEAR SERVICE CONTRACT PACKAGE FOR $218,760.06. THAT WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY $72,920.02 PER YEAR. OR EXCUSE ME, WE COULD ACTUALLY ENTER A FIVE YEAR SUPPORT AGREEMENT. AND THAT IS A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS. THAT'S ALMOST A 25% SAVINGS OVER THE TERM. AND THAT WOULD BE $272,013.16, OR $54,402.63. THIS ACTUAL SOFTWARE IS REQUIRED, AND IT IS A BACKUP SERVER STORAGE. AND THERE'S, THERE'S ENHANCEMENTS IN THE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS PARTICULAR PURCHASE. AND WE'VE BEEN USING COHESITY FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS NOW. SO AGAIN, WE ARE RECOMMENDING A TOTAL FIVE YEAR SERVICE PACKAGE FOR A TOTAL OF $272,013.16. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER FRANCIS. OKAY. I DO HAVE A QUESTION ON THIS ONE BECAUSE I'M READING A PART HERE. UPON ACCEPTANCE, THIS QUOTE WOULD BE BINDING OBLIGATION THE CUSTOMER WITHOUT NEED FOR ANY ADDITIONAL PERMISSION. SO I'M USED TO SEEING THOSE TERMINATION CLAUSES IN CONTRACTS. AND I DIDN'T SEE ONE FOR THIS. SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO BE TECHNICALLY RENEW IT EVERY YEAR, RIGHT? CORRECT. SO WHAT DO WE DO IF THERE'S NO TERMINATION CLAUSE IN THE CONTRACT. OR THE ACTUAL ATTACHMENT IS ACTUALLY THE AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE WITH COMPUNET, WE WOULD ONCE WE ISSUE THE POA, WE WOULD WORK DILIGENTLY WITH THE VENDOR, WHICH IS THEME AND OBJECT FIRST DATA ON THE ACTUAL CONTRACT
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DOCUMENTS, WHICH WE WOULD GO THROUGH LEGAL AS WELL. WE DIDN'T WANT TO GET TOO FAR DOWN THE ROAD OR HAVE A PARTNER FROM THE PORCH OF TO SPEAK BEFORE WE ACTUALLY MADE A COMMITMENT TO THIS WITHOUT FIRST COMMITTEE COUNCIL, BECAUSE IT IS A PRETTY BIG PURCHASE, BUT THEN WE CAN UNDERSTAND THE CONTRACT WILL INCLUDE THAT TERMINATION CLAUSE. ABSOLUTELY, ABSOLUTELY. OKAY.COUNCILMEMBER BRADFORD, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND AND MAYBE JOSEPH TOO. IT MIGHT BE A QUESTION FOR YOU OR HIM IN THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN. AND WE GET THESE ATTACKS WHERE PEOPLE TRY TO TAKE OUR DATA. I'M ASSUMING THAT THIS IS AN AUTOMATED BACKUP SYSTEM SO THAT WE CAN RE STRUCTURE WITHOUT HAVING TO PAY A RANSOM THAT WE DON'T WANT TO. YEAH, THIS WOULD BE A DISASTER PART OF OUR DISASTER RECOVERY PLAN. SO IN THE EVENT IF WHEN WE WERE ATTACKED, WE COULD WE COULD RECOVER FROM THAT. WE ALSO USE IT IN JUST DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS. USERS WILL CALL DELETE HAVE DELETED FILES GOING BACK. WE CAN WE CAN USE IT FOR THAT AS WELL. WE USE IT MOSTLY FOR THAT. HOPEFULLY WE NEVER HAVE TO USE IT FOR THE DISASTER, BUT THAT IS PART OF IT. ALL RIGHT. THERE'S NO MORE QUESTIONS. WE ARE READY FOR A MOTION. START ON PAGE. I'LL MOVE TO APPROVE THE PURCHASE OF THE BACKUP SOFTWARE AND SUPPORT SERVICES FROM OMNIA PARTNERS COOPERATIVE PURCHASING AGREEMENT NUMBER R 250302 WITH COMPUNET INC. FOR VM AND OBJECT OBJECT FIRST DATA PLATFORM SERVICES FOR A TOTAL OF $272,013.16, AND AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR AND CITY CLERK TO SIGN THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND.
RADFORD I. DINGMAN. YES. FRANCIS I. FREEMAN. YES. LARSON. YES. LEIGH. YES. THANK YOU.
MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. NOW WE ARE GOING TO OPEN OUR PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE PROPOSED FEES
[5.E.3) Public Hearing for the Proposed Fees for Fiscal Year 2026/27 ]
FOR FISCAL. I WAS THINKING IT WAS STRAIGHT BUDGET, BUT IT IS IT IS THE PROPOSED FEE BUDGET, PROPOSED FEES WE'RE GOING TO START WITH. AND SO I AM GOING TO WE'LL HOLD THREE SEPARATE PUBLIC HEARINGS. THIS FIRST HEARING WILL ACTUALLY BE FOR THE FEES. AND IF YOU HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE, DIRECTOR ALEXANDER HAS LEFT SEVERAL COPIES OF. THIS HAS LEFT SEVERAL COPIES OF THIS ON THE TABLE FOR ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A HARD COPY TO REFERENCE AS WE. THESE ARE THE HIGHLIGHTS AS WE WORK THROUGH THE BUDGET, NOT THE ENTIRE BUDGET BOOK, WHICH IS THIS, BUT IT IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT. SO THANK YOU TO DIRECTOR ALEXANDER AND WE WILL CALL THE PUBLIC HEARING OPEN. OKAY. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. SO I WANT TO JUST DO AN OVERVIEW STAFF REPORT, IF THAT'S OKAY, BEFORE WE HAVE PUBLIC TESTIMONY. SO BEFORE I FORGET, THANK YOU, MAYOR, FOR POINTING OUT THE PACKETS ON THE ON THE TABLE HERE. BUT WE ALSO HAVE A QR CODE. SO IF YOU WANT TO FOLLOW ALONG ON THE BUDGET BOOK AND USE YOUR CODE, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO DO THAT. BUT I TRIED TO DO WITH THE PACKET OF INFORMATION. I TRIED TO PUT IT IN THE ORDER THAT I WILL BE PRESENTING THE INFORMATION. SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO FOLLOW ALONG AND TAKE NOTES IF YOU WOULD LIKE. AND WITH THAT, WE HAVE A LINEUP ON HOW WE DO OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS. EVERY YEAR. WE START WITH OUR FEES, THEN WE MOVE INTO FOREGONE, AND THEN WE ACTUALLY DO THE BUDGET BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE BUDGET IS ACTUALLY A COMPONENT OF OUR FEES AND FOREGONE. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO START WITH THE FEES. I DO HAVE SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT THE FEES IN PARTICULAR, BUT I'M JUST GOING TO GO OVER AN OVERVIEW. OVERVIEW. PARDON ME, BUT FIRST, I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW WE DID THE BUDGET. WE FOCUS ON THE STRATEGIC AND INTER INTEGRATED PLANNING COMPONENT. AND WE LOOK AT COUNCIL PRIORITIES. AND THIS YEAR WE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATION AND GREATER FOCUS ON PUBLIC SAFETY, QUALITY OF LIFE AND INFRASTRUCTURE. SO YOU'LL SEE SOME THEMES OF THAT THROUGHOUT THESE PRESENTATIONS THIS EVENING. AS A NOTE, THE BUDGET BOOK IS 188 PAGES. IT IS ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND YOU HAVE THE QR CODE AS WELL, AND SOME INFORMATION IS IN YOUR PACKET. BEFORE I GET TOO FAR ALONG THE ROAD, I JUST WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES, THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS. WE HAVE 11 DEPARTMENTS RIGHT NOW AND MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL FOR THIS, PARTICIPATING IN THIS THIS BUDGET PROCESS HEARD A LOT OF REALLY GOOD FEEDBACK THAT IT SEEMED TO BE A LOT MORE ORGANIZED, A LITTLE MORE GENTLER. THERE WAS A LOT OF COLLEGIALITY, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, AND I THINK IT WENT REALLY, REALLY WELL. AND THEN ALSO OUR FINANCE DIVISION, OUR ASSISTANT FINANCE MANAGER, BROOKE SLIDER, SHE WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ACTUALLY REALLY LED THIS WHOLE CHARGE OF THIS[00:50:02]
2627 BUDGET. AND SHE IS IN THE AUDIENCE. SO I WANT TO GIVE HER A LITTLE SHOUT OUT THERE AS WELL. SO BEFORE I FORGET, LET ME GO BACK HERE REAL QUICK. OKAY. SO WE ARE REQUIRED BY STATE STATUTE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR FEES REFLECT THE ACTUAL COST OF SERVICES. SO EVERYTHING YOU'LL SEE IN THESE SLIDES AS FAR AS FEE, THERE HAS BEEN ANALYSIS DONE ON WHAT THE COST OF SERVICE IS TO PROVIDE THE SERVICES. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS ALL BASED ON. SO I'M GOING TO START WITH THE AIRPORT. IT IS SECTION ONE PAGE ONE. AND WE DO HAVE OUR AIRPORT DIRECTOR HERE, DIRECTOR TURNER HERE. AND HE'S PROPOSING LANDING FEES THAT ARE REVISED FEE STRUCTURE.THEY ACTUALLY ADD LANDING FEES TO INCLUDE TERM FEES. THERE'S ALSO A REVISED FEE STRUCTURE TO ADD TERM FEES FOR TERMINAL RENT. AND THEN THERE'S A NEW FEE, A BAG FEE THAT'S A KEY REPLACEMENT FEE AT $50 PER KEY. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DIRECTOR TURNER? OKAY, SO I'VE GOT A COUPLE PAGES ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.
I DO HAVE DIRECTOR SANDER HERE TO ANSWER ANY OF THOSE QUESTIONS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DIRECTOR SANDER AND I SPOKE ABOUT, AS WELL AS WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE WORK SESSIONS, IS WE HAVEN'T REALLY DONE A DEEP DIVE ON SOME OF OUR FEES IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. THERE IS PLANS TO DO MORE OF A DEEP DIVE AND DO A TRANSITION OR INCREMENTAL FEE APPROACH OVER THIS NEXT YEAR, BUT THESE ARE THE FEES THAT ARE CHANGING, AND THERE'S SUBDIVISION FEES, ANNEXATION FEES AND APPLICATION FEES. THOSE ARE ON SECTION TWO, PAGES ONE THROUGH TWO, RESIDENTIAL BUILDING FEE VALUATION TABLE. I'VE GOT THOSE LISTED THERE, AS WELL AS THE COMMERCIAL BUILDING FEE VALUATION TABLE. AND THAT'S ACTUALLY ON PAGES TWO THROUGH FOUR. AND THEN WE'VE GOT A COUPLE MORE. SO NEW RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN ADDITIONS, CODE ENFORCEMENT VIOLATIONS, WHICH WE I BELIEVE WE HAD A WORK SESSION ABOUT THAT A FEW WEEKS AGO. AND THEN PARKLET LEASE TEMPORARY ON STREET CONSTRUCTION, PARKING PERMITS.
SO ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM MAYOR OR COUNCIL FROM DIRECTOR SANDER ON THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES FEES? I DO HAVE I DO HAVE ONE. I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THE ANNEXATION FEES THAT WERE REMOVED. AS IT SAYS, REMOVED. THIS IS THE BRIDGE AND ARTERIAL FEE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, SECTION TWO, PAGE ONE. TWO ANNEXATION FEES, THE 2.4 AND TWO POINT 4AB WAS REMOVED. I THINK THOSE ARE IN REFERENCE TO NOW WE DO IMPACT FEES. AND SO WHEN WE DID THAT, THE BRIDGE AND ARTERIAL ROADS GET REMOVED BECAUSE THEY'RE REPLACED BY OUR IMPACT. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. CORRECT. THAT'S CORRECT. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. WELL I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO IDAHO FALLS POWER. SO WE DO HAVE GENERAL MANAGER FREDERICKSON HERE. AND WE ALSO HAVE THE CFO, BRUCE JOSH BRUCE HERE AS WELL. THERE WILL BE SOME CHANGES TO OUR ELECTRIC SERVICES TO VARIOUS BASE DEMAND AND SERVICE CHARGES. THERE'LL BE A NEW STREETLIGHT UTILITY FEE PER ACCOUNT PER MONTH. AND EXCUSE ME, A PUBLIC UNLIT FIBER OPTIC NETWORK FEE FOR BACKBONE SERVICE FEE PER SINGLE PAIR. FIBER PER MONTH. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR IDAHO FALLS POWER OR FIBER? MUNICIPAL SERVICES? SO EVERYBODY KNOWS AT THIS POINT IN THE COMMUNITY, WE HAVE A NEW LOBBY AND WE'VE HAD A LOT OF INTEREST IN, HEY, CAN I COME AND RENT JUST A LOBBY BECAUSE IT'S JUST SO BEAUTIFUL AND IT'S GOT ADA RESTROOMS. SO WE'VE ADDED A NEW FEE. IT'S JUST THE MAIN LOBBY FLOOR RENTAL THAT WILL BE CONTINGENT ON ANY OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE IN THE AUDITORIUM, BUT WE'VE ACTUALLY HAD A COUPLE REQUESTS TO RENT OUT THE SPACE, AND WE ACTUALLY HAD A HIGH SCHOOL REUNION LAST WEEK, AND IT WAS A 40 YEAR HIGH SCHOOL REUNION THAT THEY HAD IN THE LOBBY, AND THEY LOVED IT. AND THEY WERE DOING SELFIES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO WE STILL DO SELFIES AFTER 40 YEARS. BUT ANYWAY, THAT'S THIS NEW FEE. IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A BASIC FEE RIGHT NOW, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING WITH IDAHO FALLS ARTS COUNCIL IS THEY WILL BE DOING A BENCHMARKING STUDY FOR US. WE'VE ALREADY ENTERED INTO NEGOTIATION WITH THEM TO BEGIN THAT PROCESS. AND WE'RE GOING TO REALLY DO A DEEP DIVE ON OUR BENCHMARKING OF OUR FEES WITH LIKE FACILITIES IN SOUTHEAST IDAHO AS WELL AS UTAH. AND WE ALSO INCLUDE WYOMING, AND I THINK WE DO MONTANA AND THAT THAT BENCHMARKING STUDY WILL BE AVAILABLE IN NOVEMBER. AND WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO COUNCIL TO GO OVER THE RESULTS OF THAT STUDY. BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, IF THERE ISN'T A FEE ON THE FEE SCHEDULE, WE CAN'T RENT
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IT OUT WITHOUT HAVING THEM PAY A HIGHER RATE. SO THIS IS ACTUALLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO, IF THEY HAVE AN EVENT, THEY WANT TO HAVE ONE IN THE MAIN LOBBY, THEY CAN. IT WILL BE CONTINGENT ON ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE IN THE AUDITORIUM. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS FROM COUNCIL MAYOR? I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, BUT I WOULD ADD THIS IS CONTINGENT ON WHETHER OR NOT SOMETHING IS HAPPENING IN THE FRONTIER CENTER. I DO THINK THAT IT IS AWFULLY BOOKED OUT, BUT THIS IS A VERY LOW FEE. SO IF YOU IF IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, YOU FIND IT WOULD BE FUN TO GO TO THE FRONTIER CENTER FOR $250 FOR THREE HOURS. I THINK THIS IS A REALLY A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO RENT OUT THE LOBBY OF THE FRONTIER CENTER FOR MAYBE A NIGHT LIKE WEDNESDAY NIGHT THAT NOBODY IS DOING ANYTHING. SO I AM APPRECIATIVE TO SEE THAT THERE IS A FEE ASSOCIATED WITH THERE, BECAUSE I DO LIKE TO SEE THAT BUILDING GET USED. SO THANK YOU, DIRECTOR ALEXANDER, FOR INCLUDING ONE. AND THANK YOU, MAYOR. WE'RE ACTUALLY BOTH ABOUT FIVE YEARS OUT AND ABOUT 180 SOME ODD NIGHTS OR DAYS A YEAR. SO WE'RE PRETTY BOOKED.BUT LIKE I SAID, WE HAVE HAD A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WANT TO BE ABLE TO USE THAT LOBBY SPACE.
SO OKAY, SO PARKS AND RECREATION SECTION EIGHT, PAGES SIX THROUGH 13. THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT HAVE THE MOST PAGES ASSOCIATED WITH THIS PARTICULAR HEARING. THE FEES, AS YOU SEE LISTED HERE, ■ARE REVISED WITH SERVICES AND PROGRAMS PROVIDED. WE DO HAVE OUR PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR AT HOME HERE. IF THERE'S ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS FROM MAYOR OR COUNCIL PRIOR TO US OPENING UP THE PUBLIC HEARING. I JUST WANT TO HAVE A QUESTION BECAUSE THERE ARE QUITE A FEW FEES THAT ARE CROSSED OUT. DOES THAT MEAN WE'RE NOT DOING THOSE PROGRAMS ANYMORE, OR WHAT ALL DOES THAT MEAN THOSE THAT ARE CROSSED OUT, WE'RE ACTUALLY REVISING SOME OF THE PROGRAMS AND FEES BASED ON THAT. BUT DO YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC PROGRAM THAT YOU WANT TO ASK ABOUT A LOT OF LIKE GREENBELT BENDING PAD? ET CETERA. ET CETERA. ACROSS THE HOW DOES THAT REPLACE OH, IS THAT REPLACED BY A LINE DOWN OR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL PRESIDENT FRANCIS. YEAH. SO JUST BELOW THAT OR JUST ABOVE THAT, EXCUSE ME. JUST BELOW THAT THERE IS A NEW FEE. WE HAD BOTH OF THOSE FEES IN FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS AND HAVE GONE THROUGH AND REALLY TRIED TO ELIMINATE EITHER PROGRAMS THAT WE DON'T OFFER ANYMORE, DUPLICATED FEES THAT MAYBE WERE PUT IN OVER THE, OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, WE WERE VERY PRECISE WITH OUR FEES.
WE'RE TRYING TO GENERALIZE A LITTLE BIT MORE NOW SO THAT WE CAN KIND OF INCLUDE NOT HAVE TO PUT EVERY PROGRAM THAT WHEN WE DON'T OPERATE ANYMORE AND TAKE THAT PROGRAM OFF, WE'RE TRYING TO KNOCK OUT ANY OF THOSE DUPLICATIONS AND NON-OPERATED PROGRAMS. SO REALLY, IF YOU SEE, AS DIRECTOR ALEXANDER SAID, SEVEN PAGES OF FEES FOR PARKS AND RECREATION, HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO WHITTLE THAT DOWN TO TO MAYBE FOUR PAGES OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. BUT IT'S REALLY, IT'S REALLY TRYING TO CLEAN UP OUR OVERALL FEE SCHEDULE TO BETTER REFLECT EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE HOSTING IN PARKS RECREATION. SO THE MAIN THING I'M VERIFYING WE'RE STILL EXPECTING PEOPLE TO PAY FOR THE USE OF THOSE SPACE. ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY. YES.
YEAH. I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION ON, ON YOUR RACEWAY, IDAHO FALLS RACEWAY 7605. IT'S ON. WELL, I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT PAGE IT'S ON BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT THIS ONE. BUT ALL OF THE FEES, I WASN'T SURE WHETHER THAT WAS JUST BECAUSE THE RACEWAY, WE ACTUALLY HAVE LEASES FOR THAT RACEWAY NOW. AND SO THEY PAY US A DOLLAR PER USER. I JUST WOULD LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF CLARITY ON, ON WHY ALL OF THOSE FEES WERE CROSSED OUT. SO A HANDFUL OF YEARS AGO, WHEN WE RAN THE MOTOCROSS TRACK AS A, WE WOULD PREP IT EVERY WEEK AND HAVE WEEKLY PRACTICES. WE WOULD CHARGE RIDERS. I THINK THERE'S A, THERE'S A RIDER CHARGE IN THERE AND THAT WE CHARGE THEM A WEEKLY FEE. WE GOT OUT OF THAT AND STARTED TO UTILIZE USER GROUPS OUT THERE RENTING THOSE FACILITIES FROM US. AND SO NOW THEY HANDLE ALL THEIR RIDERS, ALL THEIR PRACTICES. WHEN THEY DO HAVE EVENTS THAT PEOPLE THAT SPECTATORS COME AND PAY FOR, WE DO HAVE A SURCHARGE FOR THAT.
BUT OTHER THAN THAT, WE DON'T RUN ANY SPECIFIC EVENTS OR PROGRAMS OUT OF THAT SITE ANY LONGER. SO THESE FEES WOULD BE MAINTAINED THROUGH A CONTRACT WITH THE USER GROUP. YES, YES.
THANK YOU. YES. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO THE NEXT AREA WE HAVE IS SECTION NINE, PAGE 13, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. THERE ARE THREE NEW FEES THAT HAVE BEEN ADDED AT RISK, DANGEROUS, UNALTERED LICENSE, AT RISK, DANGEROUS ALTERED LICENSE, AND THEN A NEW EUTHANASIA
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NONRESIDENT FEE, AND THEN ALSO CHANGES TO THE ANIMAL SURRENDER AND CREMATION FEES. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FROM MAYOR OR COUNCIL ON THE POLICE FEES? OKAY, ROUNDING IT DOWN NOW, SECTION TEN, PAGES 13 THROUGH 16. THERE'S A TOTAL OF 16 PAGES TO THESE FEES. WE ARE NOW ON TO PUBLIC WORKS. THERE WILL BE SOME CHANGES TO OUR COUNTY LANDFILL FEES EXTRA DUMP, AND THERE'S A NEW BULK ITEM PICKUP FEE UNDER WASTEWATER. THERE'S CHANGES TO SERVICE CONNECTION FEES, A MONTHLY NON-METERED AND METERED FOR RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.THERE'S CHANGES TO COUNTY AND CITY RATES, AS WELL AS SEPTIC HAULERS. AND THEN ON OUR WATER, THERE'LL BE CHANGES TO SERVICE CONNECTION FEES, A DISCONNECT RECONNECTION FEE, AND A VARIETY OF THE OTHER RECHARGE, ADMINISTRATION AND SAMPLING FEES FOR WASTEWATER. I'M SORRY.
WATER. I FORGOT HIS OWN WATER. AND SO THIS IS THE LAST ONE THAT WE HAVE FOR FEES. THIS IS THE CONCLUSION OF THE STAFF PRESENTATION. AND ANY QUESTIONS THAT MAY NEED TO COME FROM MAYOR AND COUNCIL. AND AT THIS POINT, MAYOR, I WOULD LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THIS CONCLUDES THE STAFF PRESENTATION FOR THIS TIME. THANK YOU. WE WOULD NOW OPEN THE MIC UP THE PODIUM TO PUBLIC COMMENT. ANY RESIDENTS WHO WOULD LIKE TO COME UP AND COME TO THE PODIUM AND COMMENT SPECIFICALLY ON THE FEES, THE FEE CHANGES OR ANY OF THE FEES THAT ARE BEING CHARGED. YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME TO THE PODIUM TO DISCUSS ANY OF YOUR CONCERNS OR SUPPORT. OKAY. DIRECTOR ALEXANDER, I WOULD SAY THAT NO ONE IS HERE TO GIVE PUBLIC TESTIMONY ON OUR FEES THIS YEAR. OKAY. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. SO THE NEXT HEARING THAT WE HAVE IS THE FOREGONE HEARINGS. THERE'LL BE TWO HEARINGS TO STAFF PRESENTATIONS.
SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO START WITH THE STAFF PRESENTATION. SO EXCUSE ME, I DO NEED TO CLOSE THE HEARING AND WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE. YES WE DO. YES WE YES YES YES. SO ALL OF A SUDDEN I WENT TO THE NEXT ONE. SO YES, IF THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING WE'RE NOT HAVING A VOTE. RIGHT. YEAH. CORRECT. NOT YET. BECAUSE THIS IS THE HEARING. AND THEN WE WILL ADOPT THE BUDGET. WE'LL VOTE ON THE FOREGONE. YES, BUT NOT THE FEES. OKAY. THANK YOU. SO I'M GOING TO CLOSE THE HEARING AND REOPEN AND START A NEW HEARING, WHICH IS THE A PUBLIC HEARING TO LEVY THE 1% FOREGONE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2627. YES. SO THIS IS THE 1% FOREGONE. THIS IS THE PRIORITIZED REQUEST THAT WE REVIEWED DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS. THE 1% FOREGONE IS ALLOWED AS IS UP TO 1%. IT CAN BE LESS THAN 1%, BUT IT CAN'T BE MORE THAN 1%. AND THAT IS ONGOING. SO IT'S ADDED TO THE BASE. THIS 1% FOREGONE ACTUALLY COMES FROM OUR FOREGONE BALANCES THAT WE HAVE ABOUT $5.7 MILLION AVAILABLE. AND THAT IS MONEY THAT HAS NOT BEEN LEVIED IN PREVIOUS FISCAL YEARS THAT'S AVAILABLE TO THE CITY TO PROVIDE ONGOING FUNDING REQUESTS. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS PRESENTATION, THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF FOCUS AND DISCUSSION DURING THIS BUDGET PROCESS ON OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, LEGAL, FIRE AND POLICE PARTICULARLY, AND THE CONSENSUS OF THE DIRECTORS AND COUNCIL DURING WORK SESSIONS WAS TO GO AHEAD AND RECOMMEND AND PRIORITIZE ONE ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY, WHICH WOULD BE A NEW POSITION. THE FOCUS WOULD BE ON CIVIL AND PROSECUTION. TWO FIRE EMS TRAINING OFFICERS, THEY WOULD BE AT A CAPTAIN LEVEL, AND THAT WOULD SPEAK TO A LOT OF THE STANDARDIZATION OF THE TRAINING, INCLUDING THE DEFIBRILLATORS. AND THEN ONE POLICE DISPATCHER AND THE POLICE, THE POLICE DISPATCHER, THE NEW POLICE DISPATCHER IS ACTUALLY A SHARED COST WITH BONNEVILLE COUNTY. SO CURRENTLY THE SHARED COST WOULD BE $37,406 FOR BONNEVILLE COUNTY. THE FOREGONE AMOUNT THAT YOU SEE ON THIS SLIDE IS $36,947.
AND THEN I'LL GET INTO MORE DETAILS OF THE GROWTH AND THE OTHER FUNDING. AND THIS FOREGONE SLIDE IS ON PAGE 49 AND 50 OF THE DRAFT BUDGET BOOK. YOU SHOULD HAVE IT IN YOUR
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PACKET SO YOU CAN SEE IT THERE, HOPEFULLY LISTED THERE. AND. THAT CONCLUDES THE EXCUSE ME HERE FOR A SECOND. THAT CONCLUDES THE 1% FOREGONE. AND NOW IF IT'S OKAY, IF THERE ISN'T ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE 1%, I'M GOING TO MOVE TOWARDS THE ONE TIME CAPITAL OR I CAN[5.E.5) Public Hearing to Levy One-Time Capital Project Forgone for Fiscal Year 2026/27 ]
HOLD OFF ON THAT. YOU CAN MOVE TO THE ONE. YES. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO ONE TIME CAPITAL THIS THE FOCUS OF THIS DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD AS FAR AS PRIORITIES GO AND COUNCIL[5.E.4) Public Hearing to Levy 1% Forgone for Fiscal Year 2026/27 ]
PRIORITIES AND THE VISION OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE DEPARTMENTS FOCUSES ON FIRE, PARKS AND RECREATION, ONE TIME FACILITY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. SO LISTED HERE AS A FIRE UPGRADE REMODEL. THIS FIRE STATION IS ACTUALLY 35 YEARS OLD AND IT HAS VERY OLD, ANTIQUATED RESTROOMS. TWO PROJECTS RECOMMENDED AND PRIORITIZED FOR ONE TIME CAPITAL FOREGONE FOR THE WEST AQUATIC CENTER. ONE PROJECT WITH A JOE WAYNE LIDO ICE ARENA ICE ARENA FOR THE ICE RINK BLEACHERS. THE FIRE CONEX CONTAINERS FOR A FUTURE PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FACILITY. AND THEN WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN OUR BUDGET MEETINGS IS MAKING AN INVESTMENT IN A PHASED APPROACH, AND THIS WOULD BE FOR BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FUTURE PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FACILITY. THAT ACTUALLY IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO LEVERAGE THOSE CAPITAL FUNDS TO GO AHEAD AND START PUTTING TOGETHER THE FOOTPRINT FOR A FUTURE FIRE TRAINING FACILITY, AND I'M GOING TO GET MORE A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL IN AS I GET INTO THE BUDGET BOOK, BECAUSE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAILS ON THE BUDGET. BUT WITH THAT, THIS CONCLUDES THE STAFF PRESENTATION FOR THE BOARD ON HEARINGS. AND JUST AS A REMINDER TO THE PUBLIC COUNCIL DID ON THURSDAY, JULY 30TH, APPROVED A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT FOR THE BUDGET. THIS IS JUST A HEARING FOR ALL THREE OF THESE PIECES. SO COUNCIL IS NOT TAKING ACTION ON THIS HEARING. SO THIS IS JUST A JUST AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO HAVE THE HEARING. I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITY ON THE 27TH FOR US TO ACTUALLY ADOPT THE BUDGET, BUT THIS IS NOT THE ACTUAL ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET. THIS IS THE HEARING FOR THE BUDGET. SO NOW, IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO COME TO SPEAK ABOUT THE LEVY OF THE 1% FOREGONE AND THE 1%, ROUGHLY, OF THE. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO HOW WE CALL THAT 1%, ONE TIME CAPITAL VOTE ON. OKAY, I'LL TELL YOU. YES, I KNOW FOR SOME NO. BUT MY QUESTION WOULD BE BECAUSE I SAW IT WHEN I REVIEWED THE BUDGET ONLINE AND I ALWAYS GET FIRE STATION NUMBERS MIXED UP. BUT SO, YOU KNOW, BOTH THE AIRPORT ONE AND THE SOUTH WOODRUFF ONE WERE BASICALLY OPENED AT THE SAME TIME. SO WHICH ONE IS THIS ONE? THAT'S FOUR IS ON. WOODRUFF. SO IT'S THE WOODRUFF ONE. BECAUSE OTHERWISE, IF I WAS GOING TO ASK IF IT WAS THE AIRPORT ONE, THEY'D BETTER BE PUSHING SOME DOLLARS IN. RIGHT. OKAY. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. I'M GLAD THAT WE HAD COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN HERE. RIGHT ON. ANYBODY ELSE WHO'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE 1% FOREGONE AND 1% CAPITAL. OKAY.WE'LL OPEN OUR NEXT PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH IS THE PUBLIC HEARING. I'M CLOSING THAT HEARING NOW. AND I'M JUST LOOKING AT THE. MAKING SURE WE DON'T HAVE ANY OF THOSE ACTION ITEMS ACTUALLY WRITTEN ON THE AGENDA. I DID WANT TO MAKE SURE ON THAT. OKAY, SO NOW WE DO
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HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE 2627 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET. OKAY. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. AND THANK YOU, MAYOR, SO MUCH FOR POINTING OUT THAT WE JUST WE DID HAVE THE NOT TO EXCEED BUDGET CONVERSATION, THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING, AND IT WAS FOR A TOTAL NOT TO EXCEED OF $393,483,954 FOR ROUNDING 393.5 MILLION. THIS TOTAL NOT TO EXCEED INCLUDES IS OUR REVENUE SIDE OF CHARGES FOR SERVICES, STATE AND GRANT FUNDING. 3% STATUTORY PROPERTY TAX LEVY GROWTH AND ANNEXATION. THE 1% FOREGONE THAT WE JUST SPOKE ABOUT AND THE ONE TIME CAPITAL FOREGONE THAT WE JUST SPOKE ABOUT AS WELL. IF YOU WANT TO REVIEW, I'M REFERENCING PAGES, PAGE 21 OF THE BUDGET BOOK. AND JUST TO GET A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAILED HERE, THE 3%[01:10:04]
STATUTORY PROPERTY TAX LEVY IS A VALUE OF ABOUT APPROXIMATELY 1.5 MILLION. THE GROWTH AND ANNEXATION, AND IT IS EARNED AND IS CONFIRMED BY THE COUNTY EVERY YEAR AS 1.1 MILLION, THE 1% FOREGONE, AS I MENTIONED IN THE PREVIOUS HEARING, IS A TOTAL OF $538,354. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THAT ON THE SLIDE THERE AS A TOTAL. AND THEN, AS THE MAYOR MENTIONED, THANK YOU.LESS THAN 1% OF THE ONE TIME CAPITAL. AGAIN, WE CAN ONLY USE IT ONE TIME. IT'S GOING TO BE FOR SPECIFIC CAPITAL PROJECT. AND ONCE THE PROJECT IS DONE, THE MONEY GOES AWAY. THAT ONE TIME AMOUNT IS ESTIMATED TO BE $353,000. SO IT IS LESS THAN 1%. THE ESTIMATED ENDING FOREGONE BALANCE IF THE BUDGET ASSUMPTION IS ADOPTED, AS WE ARE PRESENTING THIS EVENING, IS ABOUT 4.6 MILLION WILL BE REMAINING. AND WE DO HAVE WE WILL HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL TALKING ABOUT PROPERTY TAX CALCULATION AS WE MOVE FORWARD THROUGH THIS PRESENTATION. BUT THE ESTIMATED PROPERTY TAX INCLUDED IN THIS THREE, 93.5 MILLION IS 54 MILLION. SO MOVING RIGHT ALONG, THE PROPOSED TENTATIVE NOT TO EXCEED BUDGET INCLUDES A 2% COST OF LIVING FOR NONUNION CITY EMPLOYEES. MARKET STUDY ADJUSTMENTS FOR IDAHO FALLS POWER AND FIBER EMPLOYEES. THEY ACTUALLY USE A MILLIMAN STUDY, AND IT'S AN ELECTRIC INDUSTRY BASED, MARKET BASED STUDY. AND THAT IS WHAT IS USED OVER IN OUR IDAHO FALLS POWER AND FIBER AREA, AN INCREASE OF 5% FOR MEDICAL BENEFITS, 5% VISION, AND 10% FOR OUR DENTAL PLAN. IT IS NOT UNCOMMON FOR EVERYONE IN TODAY'S DAY AND AGE TO HAVE INCREASES TO THEIR MEDICAL BENEFITS, AND WE'VE BEEN VERY APPRECIATIVE THAT COUNCIL HAS BEEN SO SUPPORTIVE OF OUR EMPLOYEES TO HONOR THOSE INCREASES WITHOUT IMPACTING THE EMPLOYEES SALARY AND WAGES. AND THEN FINALLY, OUR REPLACEMENT OF A UTILITY BILLING SOFTWARE IS CALLED, WE CALL IT A CUSTOMER INFORMATION SYSTEM, BUT IT IS A IT IS A REPLACEMENT. WE'VE HAD ONE FOR, I WANT TO SAY A LITTLE OVER TEN YEARS, AND THAT AMOUNT IS GOING TO BE AN ESTIMATED $2 MILLION AT THIS POINT IN TIME. AND THERE'LL BE MORE WORK DONE GOING, GOING ON TO THAT. AND WE PLANNED ON DOING THIS, THIS, THIS SECOND COMPONENT FIRST. WE AGREED AND THERE WAS COUNCIL CONSENSUS THAT WE WENT LIVE WITH OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEM. WE ARE USING WORKDAY AND SPRY POINT. THAT'S GOING VERY WELL AT THIS POINT. SO THE TIMING IS PERFECT TO LOOK AT A UTILITY CUSTOMER SERVICE INFORMATION SYSTEM THAT ALLOWS FOR SOME MORE BELLS AND WHISTLES, IF YOU WILL, OR ENHANCEMENT CUSTOMER SERVICES. AND I'M NOT GOING TO STEAL THE THUNDER ON THAT BECAUSE I KNOW OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER FROM IDAHO FALLS POWER WILL BE DOING A PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL.
SO. BUT WITH THAT, IT IS IT IS IN THE BUDGET AND IT IS INCLUDED IN THAT TOTAL. THE OTHER THING I WANT TO POINT OUT, AND IT'S IN YOUR PACKET, AND THAT IS THE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT IN COMMUNITY INFRASTRUCTURE. SO THIS IS THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE. IT'S A REALLY COOL INFOGRAPHIC AND I WANTED TO SHOW IT TO YOU. I'M JUST REMINDING MYSELF THAT IT'S IN THE PACKET BY THIS SLIDE HERE, BUT IT DOES LIST INVESTMENT IN OUR COMMUNITY AS A TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY $17 MILLION TOTAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT FOR OUR IDAHO FALLS POWER PARKS AND RECREATION, OUR IDAHO FALLS ZOO, GOLF PUBLIC WORKS, AND OUR IDAHO FALLS POLICE. THE FUNDING SOURCES ARE LISTED AT THE BOTTOM. THERE'S A VARIETY OF FUNDING SOURCES THAT ARE GOING TO HELP BUILD THESE INVESTMENTS INTO OUR COMMUNITY FOR ALL TO ENJOY, AND THEY ARE LISTED DOWN AT THE BOTTOM. SO THERE'S A VARIETY OF FUNDING SOURCES. BUT IN YOUR INFOGRAPHIC, IT ACTUALLY BREAKS IT OUT BY THE FUNDING SOURCES. SO FOR EXAMPLE, YOU'LL SEE HERE ON HERE THE STREET IMPACT FEE, PARKS IMPACT FEE AND IMPACT FEE. SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE. SO AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, PRIORITY REQUEST FOR PUBLIC SAFETY IS THE ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY THAT WOULD BE FOCUSED ON CIVIL AND CRIMINAL. AND I WANT TO MAKE A COUPLE OF NOTES, NOTES THAT OUR CITY ATTORNEY HAD SHARED WITH COUNCIL DURING OUR BUDGET WORK SESSIONS. AND THIS IS A REQUEST FOR A FIFTH ATTORNEY AS ESSENTIAL TO THE CITY'S GROWING POPULATION INCREASE OF CIVIL AND CRIMINAL CASELOADS. SO THIS POSITION WILL BE VERY WELL USED. AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, IT IS FUNDED OUT OF 1% FOREGONE. THE NEXT ITEM IS THE TWO FIRE EMS TRAINING CAPTAINS THAT ARE AT THE CAPTAIN LEVEL WITH 1% FOREGONE. CHIEF OLSON HAD NOTED TO TO THE COUNCIL THAT THE. EXCUSE ME, THE FIRE CAPTAINS ARE ESSENTIAL TO MEETING TRAINING DEMANDS ACROSS ALL SHIFTS WHILE MAINTAINING CONSISTENCY OF TRAINING STANDARDS. TRAINING HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED BY CHIEF OLSON AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS THE CITY CAN MAKE TO OUR FIRE AND EMS PROFESSIONALS, AS IT DIRECTLY IMPACTS SAFETY, PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
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AND THEN FINALLY, YOU SEE HERE, THE POLICE DETECTIVE, THIS ADDITIONAL POLICE DETECTIVE. IS SHARED BY CHIEF JOHNSON, IS WE'LL FOCUS ON THE INVESTIGATION OF DRUG OVERDOSE AND DEATH CASES, INTEGRATING COMMUNITY OUTREACH INTO NARCOTICS AND TREATMENT COMMUNITY FOR PREVENTION OPIOID. AND THIS WILL BE USING OPIOID SETTLEMENT. MONEY PREVENTION DOES QUALIFY FOR THE USE OF OPIOID SETTLEMENT FUNDS AND HOLDING DRUG DEALERS ACCOUNTABLE THROUGH THE NARCOTICS FUND. SO IT'S A BLENDED POSITION, FUNDING FOR A DETECTIVE TO FOCUS ON THE INVESTIGATION OF DRUG ABUSE AND DRUG CASES. AND THEN FINALLY, ONE POLICE DISPATCHER, I THINK I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT IT IS A COST SHARE, BUT IT IS A JOINT PLAN WITH BONNEVILLE COUNTY TO ADD ADDITIONAL DISPATCHERS AS A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO ADDRESS INCREASE IN CALL VOLUMES FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. AND I DID RATTLE OFF WHAT THE DIFFERENT WHAT THE DIFFERENT CONTRIBUTIONS WERE FOR THAT POSITION, FOR THAT POSITION, FOR THAT NEW POSITION.SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT PRIORITIZE REQUESTS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. THE TOP ITEM RIGHT NOW IS THE POLICE RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. THIS RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IS MISSION CRITICAL TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND IS IN COLLABORATION WITH BONNEVILLE COUNTY. WE'VE REALLY BEEN ABLE TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH ONE ANOTHER ON THE RESPONSE TO CALLS. IT ALSO IDENTIFIES SIGNIFICANT COST SAVINGS TO HAVING JOINT RECORDS MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH BONNEVILLE COUNTY, AND IT'S THE MOST COST EFFICIENT OPTION FOR THE CITY AND THE COUNTY. AND FINALLY, INSTALLATION OF A BASIC. FINALLY, THE FIRE TRAINING FACILITY. PHASE ONE. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THIS IS THE INSTALLATION OF BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE TO A FUTURE FIRE TRAINING FACILITY. AND RIGHT NOW WE'RE IN THE EARLY CONCEPTUAL STAGES, WHICH I DON'T THINK WE'VE ACTUALLY HAVE A LOCATION SELECTED JUST YET.
BUT THERE IS A LONG TERM VISION WITH SERVING EMERGENCY RESPONDERS THROUGHOUT THE REGION. SO IT REALLY COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR A REGIONAL TYPE OF TRAINING OPPORTUNITY FOR US IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND THOSE ARE ON PAGE 50 AND 54 OF THE DRAFT BOOK. THE OTHER PRIORITIZED REQUEST THAT WE HAD THAT WE SPOKE ABOUT IN OUR BUDGET SESSIONS IS OUR GIFT CONTRIBUTION. AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW, THE GIFT IS A POPULAR AND WELL LOVED, WELL USED PROGRAM, AND THE COSTS OVER TIME HAVE INCREASED. THE OPERATIONAL COSTS HAVE INCREASED OVER TIME DUE TO THE GROWTH AND DUE TO THE POPULARITY OF IT. AND SO IT WAS A PRIORITIZED REQUEST TO USE OUR GROWTH MONEY THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE, THAT WE HAVE EARNED BY GROWING CITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $20,000 THAT WILL BE ONGOING, AND THAT WILL BE DIRECTLY PUT INTO THE GIFT.
GREATER IDAHO FALLS TRANSIT CONTRIBUTION. WE HAD A PRESENTATION BY OUR LIBRARY BOARD AND OUR LIBRARY DIRECTOR. RIGHT. PRIORITIZED THE LIBRARY OPERATIONAL TAX LEVY INCREASE OF $201,661. THIS IS ONGOING. AND THIS IS ACTUALLY A NEW REQUEST. IT'S AN INCREMENTAL CITY CONTRIBUTION TO SUPPORT LIBRARY OPERATIONS, TO ALIGN THE LIBRARY MISSION AND VISION TO SUPPORT LIFELONG LITERACY, BROAD ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, WHILE REMAINING FOCUSED AND FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE. AND SO THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS RECOMMENDED AND PRIORITIZED WITH COUNCIL DURING OUR BUDGET WORK SESSIONS. THE NEXT ITEM IS OUR POLICE PAY SCALE CHANGE FOR SWORN OFFICERS. THIS IS ACTUALLY SOME OF THE NOTES FROM CHIEF JOHNSON ARE THAT IT'S A CONTRIBUTION TO POLICE RECRUITMENT AND RETAINMENT EFFORTS THROUGH REFLECTING A COMPETITIVE PAY SCHEDULE TO MAINTAIN COMMUNITY POLICING INITIATIVES. POLICE COMMUNITY POLICING HAS BEEN A PRIORITY IDENTIFIED BY COUNCIL, AND SO THIS IS ONE WAY FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GET THERE BY OFFERING RECRUITMENT AND RETAINING EFFORTS. AND THEN FINALLY, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE POLICE POLICE DISPATCHER I MENTIONED EARLIER, IT'S A IT'S A IT'S A VARIETY OF FUNDING THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH THAT, BUT THAT IS LISTED THERE AS PART OF GROWTH IN THE AMOUNT OF $8,533. THESE ITEMS ARE ON PAGE 49, 50 AND 52 OF THE DRAFT BUDGET BOOK. SO THE PRIORITY REQUEST FROM THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS AND THOSE ARE RATE FUNDED.
SO THEY ARE COVERED THROUGH THE RATES THAT ARE CHARGED FOR THE SERVICES, PRIORITIZED REQUESTS FROM OUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT IS TO WATER SERVICE TECHNICIANS. THE IDAHO FALLS POWER HAD PRIORITIZED TWO POWER WIRE MEN. THERE IS ONE APPRENTICE GENERATION MECHANIC FOR IDAHO FALLS POWER AND THEN ONE FIBER COMMUNICATIONS AND SPLICING TECHNICIAN FOR IDAHO FALLS POWER AND FIBER. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THEY ARE FUNDED BY THE UTILITY RATES AND THEY ARE DUE. THE REQUESTS ARE DUE TO GROWTH AND STRATEGIC AND INTEGRATED PLANNING TO MAINTAIN CITY UTILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE. SO I'M NOW GOING TO MOVE ON TO REVENUE. SO
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THIS IS ACTUALLY ON PAGE 31 OF THE DRAFT BUDGET BOOK, THE TOTAL REVENUE THAT WE ANTICIPATE RECEIVING FOR THIS 2627 BUDGET YEARS, 325.2 MILLION. AND IT INCLUDES EVERYTHING FROM CHARGES FOR SERVICES RIGHT NOW, CHARGES FOR SERVICES AS PART OF THIS, $325.2 MILLION IS APPROXIMATELY 50% OF THAT TOTAL PROPOSED, AND IT'S A 162 162,000.73, 162.7 MILLION IS THE TOTAL PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE REVENUE THAT WE ANTICIPATE RECEIVING FOR OUR CHARGES. FOR SERVICES, WE ARE ANTICIPATING AN INCREASE OF APPROXIMATELY 13.6% AS PART OF THIS NUMBER COMPARED TO LAST YEAR, AND WE ARE ANTICIPATING THIS RELATED TO GROWTH AND RATE INCREASES, MOSTLY WITH THE CITY'S UTILITY SERVICES. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE NEXT, AT APPROXIMATELY 25%, IS INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVENUE. AND THAT IS OUR STATE SALES TAX REVENUE SHARING, OUR STATE LIQUOR ALLOCATION, STATE HIGHWAY DISTRIBUTION, FEDERAL AND STATE GRANTS. AND THAT'S AT 25% OF THAT, 325.2 MILLION. AND THEN FINALLY, TAXES AND FRANCHISES ARE LISTED THERE. THAT'S THE VERY TOP ROW AT 55.3 MILLION. AND THAT INCLUDES PROPERTY TAXES OF 54.1 MILLION THAT I HAD MENTIONED EARLIER. AND THAT IS ACTUALLY THE PROPERTY TAX AMOUNT OF 54.1 MILLION IS LESS THAN 17% OF THE TOTAL PROPOSED BUDGET. SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE THE REVENUES THERE. WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO. EXPENDITURES. SO THE TOTAL ANTICIPATED EXPENDITURE BUDGET FOR THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR IS 393.5 MILLION. THIS IS ON PAGE 33 OF THE OF THE DRAFT BUDGET BOOK. IT IS THE LAST COLUMN HERE THAT YOU SEE ON THE SLIDE AND THE CURRENT OPERATING EXPENSES AT ABOUT APPROXIMATELY 33% OF THE TOTAL BUDGET. AND THIS IS JUST EVERYBODY. EVERYBODY'S IN THE POOL, ALL 11 DEPARTMENTS. THIS IS THE EXPENDITURE BUDGET THAT WE ARE PROPOSING FOR 26, 27. CAPITAL OUTLAY IS APPROXIMATELY 30% OF THE TOTAL BUDGET, AND THAT'S ON PAGES 48 TO 58 IN YOUR PACKET. IF YOU WANT TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT SALARY AND WAGES IS 19% OF THE TOTAL BUDGET, WE HAVE 819.25 FULL TIME EQUIVALENT POSITIONS. AND YOU PROBABLY GUESSED IT, THE MAJORITY OF THOSE POSITIONS ARE OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, 157 POSITIONS, FIRE AND EMS AT 146, PUBLIC WORKS AT 143 IDAHO FALLS, POWER AND FIBER AT 100 PARKS AND RECREATION AND GOLF AT 90. AND THAT THAT JUST THE ONES I JUST READ OFF ARE 636 POSITIONS. OF THE 819.25 POSITIONS. AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS PROPOSED ADDING SIX POSITIONS, AND I REVIEWED THOSE IN A PREVIOUS SLIDE. THE BENEFITS THAT WE HAVE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES ARE 9% OF THE TOTAL BUDGET CONTINGENCIES AT 5%, AND THE ESTIMATED BEGINNING FUND BALANCE HAS BEEN INCLUDED AS AN ADDITIONAL RESOURCE SECTION TO SHOW THE RESOURCES ACCUMULATED OR AVAILABLE TO FUND CONTINGENCIES AND CURRENT OR FUTURE DEPARTMENT NEEDS. WE'VE ALSO IDENTIFIED IN THE BUDGET BOOK RESERVES. THEY'VE BEEN INCLUDED AS ADDITIONAL RESOURCES SECTION TO DEMONSTRATE THE FUNDS RESTRICT RESTRICTED FOR DEBT SERVICE OR ACCUMULATED TO FUND FUTURE CAPITAL NEEDS. SELF-INSURANCE, HEALTH INSURANCE CHANGES, CONSERVATION OR RATE STABILIZATION. AND FINALLY, WE DO HAVE CONTINGENCY. AND THAT CONTINGENCY IS THAT LAST COLUMN ABOUT 18.6 MILLION. AND THAT HAS BEEN INCLUDED IN EACH FUND, AS APPLICABLE, TO PROVIDE EXCESS BUDGET AUTHORITY AS NEEDED. MANY OF OUR LARGER CAPITAL PROJECTS ARE MULTI-YEAR PROJECTS, AND MANY OF THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ARE ACTUALLY FUNDED THROUGH OUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS. SO THE AUTHORITY'S AVAILABLE AS NEEDED. IF WE GET A REALLY GREAT WINNER, MAYBE WE CAN GET SOME WORK DONE BEFORE IT WARMS UP AGAIN. AND THEN ALSO, WE ALSO RESERVE THE CONTINGENCY FOR FISCAL YEAR ENCUMBRANCE, YEAR END, ENCUMBRANCE CONTRACTS AND PROJECTS. AND THAT IS THAT THESE ARE ITEMS THAT ARE BUDGETED THIS FISCAL YEAR, BUT WE MAY NOT RECEIVE THE ACTUAL PIECE OF EQUIPMENT, OR WE MIGHT NOT RECEIVE THE ACTUAL INVOICE BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR, WHICH IS SEPTEMBER 30TH OF 2026. SO WHAT WE DO IS WE SET ASIDE SOME RESERVE TO BE ABLE TO COVER THOSE EXPENSES. AND THEN FINALLY, GENERAL FUND OUR GENERAL FUND. SUMMARY. THE TOTAL PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE 2627 GENERAL FUND IS 90.6 MILLION. IT'S ON PAGE 34 OF THE BUDGET BOOK. APPROXIMATELY 45.7 MILLION OF THE ESTIMATED PROPERTY TAXES ARE PROPOSED TO BE ALLOCATED TO THE CITY'S GENERAL FUND FOR DEPARTMENTS LISTED ABOVE, WITH POLICE, FIRE AND PARKS AT OVER 75% OVER 70% OF THE TOTAL. I WANT TO SAY IT'S 75, BUT WHEN I RECALCULATE, IT WAS MORE LIKE 7,071% OF THE OF THE TOTAL. THIS ALSO[01:25:06]
INCLUDES OUR NON-DEPARTMENTAL SECTION OF THE BUDGET. AND THAT NON NON-DEPARTMENTAL IS KIND OF LIKE A CATCH ALL, IF YOU WILL. AND RIGHT NOW IN THE BUDGET, WE HAVE THE DOWNTOWN PARKING MANAGEMENT CONTRACT IN THERE. WE'VE GOT THE CITY'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY FOR THE OPERATION OF THE GREATER IDAHO FALLS TRANSIT GIFT PROGRAM THAT WAS ORIGINALLY BUDGETED IN THE CITY COUNCIL DIVISION, BUT WE'VE ACTUALLY MOVED IT INTO THE NON-DEPARTMENTAL DIVISION. THERE'S ALSO FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDED IN HERE FOR OUR DOWNTOWN CAMPUS PERSONNEL. WE HAVE BEEN RENTING SPACE FOR OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT, AND WE HAVE A SPACE AVAILABLE. SO WE'RE GOING TO BE MOVING AWAY FROM RENTING SPACE INTO MORE OF A PERMANENT SPACE FOR OUR HR PROFESSIONALS. AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE WE NEED TO MOVE SOME OF OUR FINANCIAL ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING TEAM BACK INTO THEIR, THEIR ORIGINAL HOMES WITH THE, WITH THE GO LIVE OF THE VERY EXCITING WORKDAY SPRY POINT PLATFORM THAT WE HAVE HERE. AND THEN ALSO, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE WILL BE THE CUSTOMER INFORMATION SYSTEM. THAT'S THE UTILITY BILLING REPLACEMENT PROJECT. AND THAT IS ACTUALLY ESTIMATED AT $2 MILLION. BUT AGAIN, THERE'LL BE MORE DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT AFTER OCTOBER 1ST OF THIS COMING YEAR. AND THEN FINALLY, WE HAVE THE HEALTH INSURANCE FUND. IT WAS PREVIOUSLY REPORTED AS AN INTERNAL SERVICE FUND, BUT IT'S BEEN COMBINED WITH THE GENERAL FUND TO ALIGN WITH AUDIT REPORTING. WE DO DO ANNUAL AUDITS, AND THAT WAS ONE OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE RECEIVED FROM OUR EXTERNAL AUDITOR. SO OUT OF THE 90 MILLION, 90.6 MILLION AND WITH 70% OF THE APPROXIMATELY 70% OF THE TOTAL BEING FOR THOSE DEPARTMENTS I JUST RATTLED OFF. BUT THAT WOULD BE POLICE, FIRE AND PARKS. THE BALANCE WOULD BE OUR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT, PUBLIC WORKS, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, LEGAL, MUNICIPAL SERVICES AND HR. AND BEFORE I FORGET, THE NON-DEPARTMENTAL INCLUDES ABOUT $430,000 OF GIFT CONTRIBUTIONS TO COVER OPERATIONAL COSTS. SO NOW I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO PROPERTY TAX VALUATION AND LEVY BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW THIS SOUNDS GREAT, BUT HOW MUCH IS IT GOING TO COST? SO VALUATION AND LEVY RATES, WE RECEIVED THOSE FROM BONNEVILLE COUNTY THIS WEEK. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH AS PER STATE STATUTES AND STAFF, OUR FINANCE STAFF IS WORKING ON ANALYZING IT AND FINALIZING IT, AND WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO COUNCIL TO VERIFY THAT NUMBER. RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE TO PUT AN ESTIMATE.SO THIS IS THE PROPERTY TAX VALUATION TABLE. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE FAR COLUMN TO THE RIGHT IS THE ESTIMATED 2027 VALUATION CERTIFIED PROPERTY TAX. THAT'S THE 54.1 MILLION I MENTIONED EARLIER. AND THEN THAT LEVY RATE WOULD BE 0.006. AND IT'S ON PAGE 28 OF THE DRAFT BUDGET BOOK. BUT THERE IS AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN VALUATION AND LEVY RATE. SO WHEN VALUATION GOES UP, THE LEVY RATE GOES DOWN. WE ESTIMATED OUR FINANCE TEAM ESTIMATED A 3.3% INCREASE FOR PROPERTY VALUATION. AND THAT'S ACTUALLY A VERY CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE.
WE'VE BEEN VERY CLOSE AND OUR ESTIMATES AND OUR CITY TREASURER HAS DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB OVER THE LAST 11 YEARS, GETTING US WITHIN SOME CASES, 4 TO $5000. SO THAT'S THE PROCESS. WORKS IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY. THE PROPOSED ALLOCATION FOR THE PROPERTY TAXES. AND THAT WOULD BE YOUR SECOND TO COLUMN OVER TO THE RIGHT THE TOTAL. THERE'S THE 54.1 MILLION. THEIR GENERAL FUND IS 40 45.6 MILLION. STREETS AT THREE, RECREATION AT 1.2 AND LIBRARY AT 3.3. AND THIS IS ON PAGE 28 OF THE DRAFT BUDGET BOOK. IT WILL ALSO SHOW YOU THE INCREASED PERCENTAGE ON THE FAR RIGHT COLUMN. OKAY, SO THIS IS THE ESTIMATED ANNUAL IMPACT TO RESIDENTIAL. OUR CURRENT PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT IS LISTED ON THE TOP LINE RIGHT THERE FOR A HOME ASSESSED PROPERTY VALUE OF 375,000. THE CURRENT PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT IS $1,460, ADDING IN THE 3% STATUTORY GROWTH, YOU CAN SEE IT'S 95 TO $8, THE FORGONE 1% FOR OPERATIONS AND THE FORGONE FOR CAPITAL AND THE ANNUAL AMOUNT WOULD COME TO $1,580 PER YEAR, OR $132 A MONTH FOR A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY WITH A CURRENT PROPERTY TAX ASSESSED PROPERTY VALUE OF 375,000. THE TOTAL CHANGE FROM THE CURRENT IS THE ANNUAL WOULD BE $121 A YEAR, AND THE MONTHLY WOULD BE ABOUT $10 A YEAR. AND THEN THE OTHER ASSESSED PROPERTY VALUES
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ARE 450,000 AND 600,000. SO AGAIN, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE PER MONTH COST AND ALL OF THE AMENITIES AND ENHANCEMENTS AND SUPPORT FROM OUR PUBLIC SAFETY PARKS AND RECREATION, IT IS IS JUST FOR A 375,000 ASSESSED PROPERTY VALUE. IT WOULD BE ABOUT $10 A MONTH FOR RESIDENTIAL. AND ON THE COMMERCIAL SIDE, WE TOOK A CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATE OF 9.5 INCREASE IN VALUATION. SIMILAR TO THE RESIDENTIAL TABLE, YOUR TOP ROW IS YOUR CURRENT PROPERTY TAX ASSESSMENT. HALF A MILLION, $2,000,010 MILLION. AND THEN ADDING IN THE STATUTORY 3% STATUTORY GROWTH, THE 1% FOREGONE FOR OPERATIONS AND THE ONE TIME CAPITAL FOR FOREGONE. THOSE ARE YOUR NUMBERS THERE. AND THE FIRST COLUMN FOR A HALF A MILLION ASSESSED PROPERTY VALUE ANNUAL. IT'S THE TOTAL ESTIMATED IS 303 I'M SORRY, $3,115 A YEAR MONTHLY, ABOUT $260 A MONTH. AND THEN THE CHANGE ANNUALLY WOULD BE ABOUT $196 A YEAR, OR $16 A MONTH FOR A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY ASSESSED AT HALF A MILLION. AND THEN THE OTHER COLUMNS ARE OVER TO THE RIGHT. SO, MAYOR, WITH THAT, THAT CONCLUDES THE STAFF PRESENTATION. I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS IF NECESSARY. STAFF HAVE ANY DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE WE OPEN THIS UP TO THE TO THE PUBLIC? OKAY. I DO HAVE ONE. SORRY, I JUST JUST FOR CLARITY, THERE IS THIS ONE BIG NUMBER ON THERE THAT'S CHARGES FOR SERVICES. AND I KNOW WE JUST FINISHED TALKING ABOUT OUR FEES, BUT WOULD WE, WOULD YOU MIND JUST EXPLAINING, YOU KNOW, HOW FIRE EMS, WHAT OUR CONTRACTS ARE WITH BONNEVILLE COUNTY FOR DISPATCH, FOR FIRE, EMS, HOW ALL OF THAT IS CHARGES FOR SERVICES. AND THESE AREN'T JUST SMALL FEES THAT ADD UP TO THAT REALLY LARGE NUMBER, BUT SOME OF THE REALLY BIG ITEMS THAT FIT INTO CHARGES FOR SERVICES. SO CHARGES FOR SERVICES WOULD BE OUR RATES AND FEES, YOU KNOW, FOR OUR UTILITIES. IT ALSO INCLUDES OUR EMS FOR AMBULANCE SERVICES. WE'RE REQUIRED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO ACTUALLY CHARGE OUR RATES. AND THEN WHAT THEY DO IS THEY COME IN AND THEY DISCOUNT FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID. SO THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT, WE ANTICIPATE WE HAVE TO BUILD THE FULL AMOUNT, THE FULL AMOUNT. SO THAT NUMBER IS INCLUDED IN THERE AS WELL. AND THEN WE HAVE A VARIETY. AS MAYOR, AS YOU MENTIONED, WE HAVE A VARIETY OF COLLABORATION AGREEMENTS WITH OUR BONNEVILLE COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT. WE'VE GOT A COUPLE. THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A CONTRACT THAT THEY PAY FOR US TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES IN THEIR COMMUNITY. AND THEN WE HAVE A VARIETY OF OTHER OTHER. BUT THE BIG TICKET ITEMS ARE THOSE ONES THAT YOU HAD MENTIONED BETWEEN OUR UTILITIES, FIRE. THOSE ARE OUR BIGGEST ONES WE HAVE. AND THEN WE HAVE SOME OF OUR FEES FOR OUR PARKS PROGRAMS AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT IN TOTALITY, THAT IS THE CHARGES FOR SERVICES ARE FOR PAYING THE CHARGE. IT IS TO PROVIDE THE ACTUAL SERVICE OF WHAT IT COSTS TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE. THANK YOU, DIRECTOR ALEXANDER. THIS IS WE ARE NOT CHARGING FOR. IT IS IT IS TRULY. ALL OF THOSE CHARGES, I THINK, ARE WHAT MAKE IDAHO FALLS A REALLY UNIQUE PLACE TO LIVE BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A. AS I'M GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN, WE HAVE A POWER COMPANY. WE. WE DO. WE HAVE A LIBRARY AND, AND OUTSIDE OF THE CITY OF IDAHO FALLS, ESPECIALLY IN THIS REGION, PEOPLE ARE PAYING THEIR SEWER DISTRICT AND THEIR FIRE DISTRICT AND THEIR LIBRARY DISTRICT. AND IT ALL COMES IN ONE LUMP TO THE CITY OF IDAHO FALLS. AND I THINK THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE GREAT SERVICE BECAUSE WE ARE ABLE TO REALLY LEVERAGE ALL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS AND THE WAY THAT OUR DEPARTMENTS WORK TOGETHER IN ORDER TO KEEP THOSE CHARGES DOWN AND, AND PROVIDE A SERVICE TO THE IDAHO FALLS RESIDENTS.SO I AM I THINK IT'S AMAZING THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT I KNOW THAT THE THE IDEA IS, OH, THE CITY OF IDAHO FALLS VERSUS ANY OTHER CITY, BUT THE, THE THINGS THAT WE DO PROVIDE AS A CITY ARE NOT SEPARATED BY BOARDS. THIS IS THE BOARD FOR, FOR ALL OF THOSE. SO THANK YOU TO COUNCIL FOR PUTTING THAT TOGETHER. AND WE ARE NOW GOING TO OPEN THE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME TO THE PODIUM FOR PUBLIC COMMENT ON THIS BUDGET. YES. MR. MILLS AND I DO. PEOPLE KNOW THAT MR. MILLS WAS ACTUALLY, I BET NOT. I'M GOING TO SAY HE WAS A COUNCIL MEMBER AT ONE POINT. SO WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK IN CHAMBERS. WELL, YOU KNOW, I SAT OVER ON THE SECOND
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FLOOR OF THE ELECTRIC BUILDING IN THE VERY. WHEN WE HAD STILL A BAR FROM IN FRONT OF THE DESK THAT WAS BROUGHT OVER FROM WHEN COUNCIL CHAMBERS USED TO BE ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF CITY HALL.WHAT DO YOU MEAN, A BAR? IT WAS ACTUALLY AN OLD RAILING. SO. SO THEY COULDN'T THROW SOMETHING AT YOU. ALL RIGHT. I JUST WAS WONDERING HOW OLD MAYBE THAT WAS. THAT THERE WAS A BAR IN COUNCIL CHAMBERS. OKAY, FIRST OFF, BECAUSE I DIDN'T WRITE IT ON MY NOTE OF ACRONYMS WAS WHAT I WAS JUST HEARING ABOUT WITH FEES. AND I WANT TO EXPRESS ABOUT IT BECAUSE OF MY RECENT EXPERIENCE WITH IT AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WITH AMBULANCE THAT YES, UNFORTUNATELY, MY MOTHER PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR AND IT SEEMED LIKE BECAUSE OF THE CONTRACT OF THE THIRD PARTY BUILDING, AND I WAS SURPRISED THE CITY DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF IT THEMSELVES. BUT OUT OF CALIFORNIA IS THE CONTRACT TO FOR AMBULANCE BILLING. AND IT SEEMS LIKE OF ALL THE BILLS I GOT FOR MY MOTHER, THAT WAS THE LAST ONE, LIKE 90 DAYS LATER THAT THAT TOOK HER TO ER, AND THEN THE HOURS THAT LED FROM THERE FROM CARDIAC. SO IN OTHER WORDS, I WAS SURPRISED HOW SLOW IT WAS. SO WHETHER THAT'S JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY GET FROM YOU ALL OR THE FINANCE PERSON, OR YOU KNOW HOW THAT PROCESS HAPPENS. OKAY, NOW LET'S, LET'S START OFF WITH, I NOTICED THERE WAS ONE ITEM IN THE BUDGET AS I GAVE MY QUICK REVIEW OF IT, THAT APPARENTLY THERE'S IN A PROJECT THAT MAY USING THE LAND AND LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION FUND. WELL, I'LL TELL YOU FROM MY OLD MEMORY FROM BACK IN THE 90S WHEN I WAS. AND WHAT I'LL TELL YOU A WEAKNESS THAT I STILL WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HOW IT'S MAYBE MODIFIED OR MAYBE CAUGHT UP TO SINCE. BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE CITY WAS APPROACHED IN THE 90S FROM THE ART GUILD THAT BUILT THAT ART MUSEUM NEXT TO THE ELECTRICAL DEPARTMENT, YES, THAT'S WHAT WE CALLED IT THEN. I STILL CAN'T GET USED TO CALLING IT IDAHO FALLS POWER AND THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, THE TRADE OFF SORT OF THAT WE TOLD THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THAT WE WOULD DO IN AUTHORIZING THAT MUSEUM TO BE BUILT AS AN EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER ON THE GREENBELT WAS THEN THE ART GUILD HAD RECEIVED THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT'S TO THE WEST OF JOHN BASS FOR FOUR BAY THERE BY JOHN HOLES. THAT'S JUST ACROSS THE CANAL, AND THAT WE WOULD LANDSCAPE IT. AND FOR 30 YEARS IT'S NEVER BEEN LANDSCAPED AND IT JUST STAYS THERE IN THE DRY WEEDS. SO I'D BE CURIOUS IF SOMETHING HAS EVER BEEN MODIFIED WITH THAT, THAT WE DID SOMETHING ELSE IN EXCHANGE TO LEAVE THAT PIECE OF PROPERTY THE WAY IT IS. THE NEXT ONE IS THAT I WAS GLAD TO HEAR COMMENT THAT GOOD SOFTWARE IS PUT IN PLACE FOR PROTECTION OF THE MUNICIPALITY FROM HACKERS AND ALL BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I GUESS I'VE READ PLENTY IN THE LAST FEW YEARS TO WHERE APPARENTLY UTILITIES ARE THE MOST COMMONLY HACKED NOW. AND WE CERTAINLY DO, AS THE MAYOR JUST SAID, HAVE MULTIPLE UTILITIES. AND WHERE IT'S NOT, IT MAY SEEM LIKE A BIG PART OF THE BUDGET, BUT IT'S STILL PROBABLY A VERY MODEST SIZED UTILITY, AND HACKERS WOULD PROBABLY THINK THAT IT WAS A PRIME EASY TO GET ONE. SO I ALWAYS HOPE THAT NOBODY WOULD EVER QUESTION WHAT WOULD BE INTENDED IN THE BUDGET FOR THAT ONE. FINALLY, THEN, THE OTHER ITEM THAT I CAN SHARE WITH YOU AND HOPE THAT THERE'S NEVER ANY DISCUSSION AND BUDGE ABOUT FROM ANY DEPARTMENT OR ANY ABOUT. WE HAVE TO PUT THAT MUCH IN MURPH, WHICH. WHICH COULD PUT IT SOMEPLACE ELSE, BECAUSE I LIVED THROUGH THE DAYS WHEN I SAT NEXT TO MEL ERIKSSON, THAT SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW, OR SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE NEVER KNOWN. MEL ERIKSSON AND I SAT NEXT TO HIM AND MANY TIMES DURING BUDGET MEETINGS, AND HE WOULD REMIND US ALL WHAT IT WAS LIKE IN THE 1960S WHEN HE STARTED ON THE COUNCIL, AND THERE WAS NOT MURPH. AND WHEN THEY HAD TO MAKE THAT TRANSITION FROM CREATING MURPH, SO THAT THERE WASN'T ALWAYS THAT IT WAS A BACK AND FORTH OF LIKE, WELL, WHO REALLY DESERVES THIS PRIORITY THIS YEAR? OR, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF. WELL, WE WANT $100,000 FOR THIS. WELL, WE DO TOO. AND, AND SO I THINK IT'S A, IT'S BEEN A GOOD VEHICLE THAT'S BEEN USED FOR PROBABLY A GOOD 50 YEARS. AND HOPEFULLY IT WILL ALWAYS BE ABLE TO BE USED. AND IF YOU EVER HAD THOSE NICE PEOPLE, I'LL SAY THAT POLITELY
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OVER IN BOISE. EVER CHALLENGE SAYING THAT IT WOULDN'T BE ACCEPTABLE FOR MUNICIPALITIES TO HAVE IT, I WOULD HOPE THAT ALL OF YOU WOULD SCREAM REAL LOUD AND THE ASSOCIATION OF CITIES WOULD TOO. SO LET'S SEE. I THINK I GOT MY THREE ACRONYMS AT A MOMENT. THANK YOU. OH YES.MY NAME IS GARY MILLS. AND YES, I'VE LIVED IN THE CITY FOR A LONG TIME. AND MR. MILLS, I AM HAPPY TO REPORT THAT AFTER 30 YEARS, WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH OUR LWCF AND WE ARE. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE LANDSCAPING. THAT ONE PARCEL THEN THAT WAS DONATED. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THAT. BUT WE ARE FINALLY ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING BECAUSE WE ARE IN COMPLIANCE WITH WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE MAP AND PARK. GOOD. GOOD. ANYONE ELSE WOULD LIKE TO COME TO THE PODIUM? MR. ASHCROFT? YEAH. SO MY NAME IS CHRISTIAN ASHCROFT, AND I AM A RESIDENT OF IDAHO FALLS, AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE A COMMENT, MAINLY CONNECTING THE CITY'S MISSION, PART OF ITS STRATEGIC PLAN TO THE BUDGETING PROCESS, SPECIFICALLY THE PHRASE AND THE MISSION THAT'S MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. AND I THINK WHAT WE HAVE IS A BUDGETING PROCESS IS, IS PRETTY GOOD AS FAR AS CITY GOES. I THINK AS CITIES GO, I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION AVAILABLE, ESPECIALLY FOR HOW COMPLEX THE CITY WE ARE. I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION AND A LOT OF WORK GOES INTO IT, AND I THINK WE DO SOME DECENT ENGAGEMENT WITH SURVEYS, WITH SOME COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS ON SPECIFIC INITIATIVES. BUT I'M KIND OF TALKING MORE ABOUT JUST GENERAL BUDGET, HIGH LEVEL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMUNITY. SO I THINK WE WE FALL SHORT IN THE SENSE THAT, LIKE, TO ME, THIS KIND OF SEEMS LIKE THE BIGGEST STEP OF THE BUDGET WHERE WE HAVE A BIG HEARING TO APPROVE THE WHOLE THING. AND I THINK THAT'S KIND OF HOW THE COMMUNITY SEES IT TOO. BUT IT JUST ENCOMPASSES SO MUCH. AND, YOU KNOW, I, I HAVE TWO DEGREES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION. I CARE A LOT ABOUT THE CITY. AND I'LL SAY IT'S DIFFICULT FOR ME TO GOING FROM WHEN THIS IS RELEASED TO THEN YOU GOT A PUBLIC HEARING TO TRY TO THINK OF, HOW DO I MEANINGFULLY ENGAGE AND CONTRIBUTE TO THIS CONVERSATION AS SOMEBODY WHO REALLY CARES? AND. I THINK WHY IT'S DIFFICULT IS BECAUSE, ONE, THERE'S JUST SO MUCH INFORMATION. BUT TWO, IT'S ALSO THERE'S, THERE'S, IT'S HARD TO FIND THAT HIGH LEVEL INFORMATION AND DIGEST IT EASILY OF WHY WE'RE MAKING DECISIONS WHERE WE'RE STRUGGLING. BUDGETARILY WHICH DEPARTMENTS FINANCIALLY ARE JUST STRAINED, YOU KNOW, JUST TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS OF EVEN WHERE WE'RE SUBSIDIZING THINGS AND MAYBE FUNDS THAT ARE KIND OF OPTIONAL AND WHICH ONES WE'RE CHOOSING, WHERE WE'RE CHOOSING TO INVEST THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE HIGHER LEVEL QUESTIONS WHERE YOU GUYS ARE MAKING DECISIONS. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF HOW THAT LIKE THE REASONING BEHIND YOUR PRIORITIES AND HOW YOU'RE STRUCTURING IT. BUT I THINK IT'S JUST HARD TO GRASP FROM THIS PROCESS FOR AN EVERYDAY RESIDENT. AND I THINK IT'S HARD. IT MAKES IT HARD TO FOR COMMUNITY RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES TO TAKE OWNERSHIP IN THAT PROCESS FOR THE COMMUNITY.
AND SO I, I'VE LOOKED A LITTLE BIT INTO IT BECAUSE I KNOW IT'S, IT'S NOT AN EASY PROBLEM TO FIX, BUT I THINK ONE PATH TO KIND OF MAYBE START DOWN THAT I'VE SEEN EXAMPLES OF FROM OTHER CITIES IS TO KIND OF HAVE A SEPARATE PORTION OF THE BUDGET PROCESS THAT THEY CALL LIKE AN ADMINISTRATIVE BUDGET WHERE IT'S NOT THE TECHNICAL ACCOUNTING OR WHERE MONEY IS GOING TO BE IN THE FUNDS. AND IT'S JUST GOT A LOT LESS DETAIL AND IT'S A LOT MORE BOILED DOWN INTO THIS IS WHERE WE CURRENTLY SEE BUDGET PRIORITIES AND WHY. AND THE COMMUNITY CAN ENGAGE WITH THAT. I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS ARE VERY CAPABLE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THAT CONVERSATION. BUT I THINK WE KIND OF JUST HAVE TO MEET THEM IN A PLACE THAT MAKES IT POSSIBLE AND A LITTLE BIT LESS BURDENSOME OR CHALLENGING TO SIFT THROUGH EVERYTHING. AND I MAKE SURE LIKE YOU MIGHT HAVE SOME STUFF THAT I'M NOT EVEN AWARE OF THAT KIND OF DOES THAT DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE BUDGET SEASON. BUT, YOU KNOW, I JUST
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THINK FOR, FOR ME, AS SOMEBODY THAT CARES A LOT ABOUT IT AND I FIND IT CHALLENGING TO ENGAGE WITH, I'M SURE I'M CERTAIN THAT THAT OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY FEEL THE SAME WAY AND THEY'RE JUST BUSY. AND SO THEY'RE JUST NOT HERE BECAUSE IT'S A BIG CHALLENGE TO ENGAGE WITH IT. SO THAT'S MY RECOMMENDATION IS TO JUST LOOK INTO HAVING SOME PHASE THAT'S EARLIER IN THE PROCESS THAT'S SIMPLER AND MORE STRAIGHTFORWARD ON HIGH LEVEL, SO THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN ENGAGE WITH IT BEFORE SIGNIFICANTLY BEFORE IT GETS TO THIS POINT. AND THAT CAN ACTUALLY BE INCORPORATED INTO THE FINAL BUDGET. AND SO THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, MR. ASHCROFT. OKAY. SORRY, I HAVE LOST MY AGENDA THROUGH ALL OF THIS PAPER. DIRECTOR ALEXANDER, CAN I JUST MAKE ONE COMMENT? I NEGLECTED TO MOVE TO THE SLIDE BECAUSE I WANTED TO ALLOW FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, OF COURSE, AND TESTIMONY. BUT THE ADOPTION, THE NEXT STEPS WE USUALLY TALK ABOUT THAT NEXT STEPS IS THE ADOPTION OF THE 2627 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET WOULD BE. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27TH, 630 IN THIS ROOM WITH A START DATE OF OCTOBER 1ST OF 2026. AND THAT WILL CLOSE OUR BUDGET HEARING TONIGHT. THE NEXT ITEM THAT WE HAVE. AND THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO DID COME TO TESTIFY AND LISTEN TO THE BUDGET. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT IT TOOK TO GET THROUGH THIS BUDGET. AS, AS I LOOKED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE EFFORT, AND THEN ALSO TO THE DIRECTORS WHO ALSO ARE MANAGING, THEY'RE BOTH PROPOSING AND THEN MANAGING THOSE BUDGETS AND TRACKING THEIR REVENUES AND TRACKING THEIR EXPENSES. AND, AND IT IS A COMPLIMENT TO THEM FOR THE, THE WORK THAT THEY'RE DOING AS WELL IN THE CITY. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT. MAYOR. COULD I MAKE A COMMENT, PLEASE, ABOUT THE BUDGET AND SPECIFICALLY TO MR. ASHCROFT'S COMMENTS, WE START THE BUDGET IN FEBRUARY, AND IT'S BASED ON COUNCIL PRIORITIES. AND WE ARE YOU I MEAN, WE REPRESENT THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY. AND SO WE BRING THOSE PRIORITIES THAT WE HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY TO THOSE MEETINGS WHEN WE START THE BUDGET SO THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE ON ON THAT VERY FIRST STEP, THE PUBLIC IS IN THE ROOM EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE NOT IN THE ROOM, BUT I'M IN THE ROOM REPRESENTING THEM. AND THAT'S I THINK THAT'S A PART THAT THAT SOMETIMES PEOPLE MISS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HEAR STUFF ALL YEAR LONG. I GO TO THE GROCERY STORE, SOMEBODY'S GOT MY, YOU KNOW, I'M HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH SOMEBODY ABOUT SOMETHING. AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I'LL USE THE SPLASH PAD THAT WE BUILT ON THE WEST SIDE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO AS AN EXAMPLE, OR FUNLAND AS AN EXAMPLE OF, OF COMMUNITY COMING TO US AND SAYING, HEY, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE THESE THINGS.AND WE, WE FIND A WAY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. BUT YEAH, IT'S WE DON'T TONIGHT'S NOT THIS IS A, YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR MONTHS AND OUR STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR MONTHS AND JUST TRYING TO MAKE IT ALL WORK. IT IS REALLY COMPLICATED AND IT'S HARD FOR US TOO. SO, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE YOU FEEL THAT YOU DON'T KNOW IT ALL, IT'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO KNOW IT ALL. MAYBE BROOKS KNOWS IT ALL. OKAY, THANKS. THANK YOU, COUNCIL
[5.F.1) Legislative Public Hearing for the Annexation and Initial Zoning of R3, Multiple Dwelling Residential - 11.874 acres]
MEMBER FREEMAN. OKAY. OUR NEXT ITEM IS COMING TO US TONIGHT FROM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. IT IS A LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE ANNEXATION AND INITIAL ZONING OF R-3 MULTIPLE DWELLING RESIDENTIAL UNIT OF 11.874 ACRES. WE'D ASK THANK YOU TO OUR DIRECTORS. COUNCIL MEMBERS, I MEAN, DIRECTOR SANDERS. USUALLY IT'S THE PUBLIC THAT LEADS. THAT'S TRUE. IF THE CDS HAS THREE ITEMS BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING, AND THE FIRST TWO ARE BOTH ANNEXATIONS INTO THE CITY. AND JUST FOR THE PUBLIC'S REFERENCE, ANNEXATIONS ARE. THE REQUIREMENTS FOR ANNEXATIONS REALLY ARE PRESCRIBED TO US FROM THE STATE LOCAL LAND USE PLANNING ACT, SPECIFICALLY 50-222. JUST. THE PUBLIC IS EVER CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT ARE THE REGULATIONS THAT GUIDE ANNEXATION. AND THE FIRST ONE BEFORE US IS ANNEXATION.26-002A REQUEST TO ANNEX 11.874 ACRES INTO THE CITY AND WITH A ZONING DESIGNATION OF R-3. SO THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED RIGHT HERE ON 15TH EAST BETWEEN 49TH SOUTH, UP HERE TO THE NORTH AND
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65TH SOUTH. SO IT'S THIS RED PROPERTY OF RIGHT HERE. AND THIS IS A PROPERTY OWNER INITIATED ANNEXATION. THE ADJACENT PROPERTIES TO THIS PROPERTY ARE ZONED. THE BLUE IS R-3 A, THE BROWN IS R-3. AND THEN THE LIGHT YELLOW OVER HERE IS R-1. THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES TO THE SOUTH ARE ALL WITHIN COUNTY JURISDICTION. AND THAT DESIGNATION FOR THEM IN THE COUNTY IS A ONE. THIS PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN THE GENERAL URBAN TRANSECT, SO AN R3 IS CONDUCIVE WITH THIS TRANSECT AND WOULD MEET THE PRINCIPLES AND GOALS OF.IMAGINE IF. AND THIS. WITH EVERY ANNEXATION. THIS IS A. THIS IS THE EXHIBIT. THAT'S A.
INCLUDED WITH IT. I DID WANT TO POINT OUT. I DON'T KNOW WHY IN THE PC MINUTES. I'M JUST HIGHLIGHTING THE ACREAGE RIGHT THERE. IT'S 11.874. YOU'LL NOTICE IN THE PACKET THE PC MINUTES ACTUALLY DESIGNATED AS 10.7. I DON'T KNOW WHY THERE'S A DISCREPANCY THERE, BUT I JUST WANTED TO CALL OUT. THAT'S THE ACTUAL ACREAGE THAT'S BEING ANNEXED. THIS ITEM WENT TO PLANNING COMMISSION ON APRIL 7TH. NO ONE SPOKE AT THIS PUBLIC HEARING FOR OR AGAINST IT, AND IT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION. AND WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. AND THIS IS WHAT'S CURRENTLY ON THE PROPERTY. IT'S FARM LAND. THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY HERE WHO IS HERE TO TESTIFY? FOR THIS ANNEXATION? OKAY. THEN I WILL CLOSE THE HEARING AND LET. OKAY. SO ANY NO DEVELOPER, NO ANYBODY HERE TO SPEAK TO THIS PROPERTY AT ALL? OKAY. JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS WAS OKAY. YEAH. OKAY. COUNCIL.
THE HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. WE ARE READY FOR ANY DELIBERATION OR AN ACTION ITEM. WELL, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF TALK ABOUT IT OVER WITH DIRECTOR SANDER TODAY AND LIAISON MEETING AND PRETTY CLEAR. AND WE'RE USED TO ANNEXATION, SO. YEAH. OKAY. OUR LIAISONS ARE READY WITH EMOTION.
I JUST HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR DIRECTOR CENTER. CAN YOU TELL ME THE THE ROAD FRONTAGE ALONG 15TH EAST THERE OR FIFTH? SORRY, ARE YOU TALKING THE NORTH SOUTH. NORTH SOUTH. YEP. RIGHT THERE.
YEP. THAT IS 15 PIECE 15TH EAST. WHAT'S THE FRONTAGE? IT IS ON 15 PIECES. THE LENGTH. SORRY.
OH THE LENGTH APPROXIMATELY. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. I DON'T HAVE IT PRINTED OFF ON MY. HOLD ON. LET ME GRAB IT REAL QUICK. ON THAT ONE. YEAH. SORRY. THAT'S A SLIDE NOT THE ACTUAL ITEM. I CAN GET THAT INFORMATION FOR YOU, COUNCILMEMBER. TOO MANY BUDGET ITEMS IN THE IN THE AGENDAS. I JUST HAVE TO DOWNLOAD IT AND HAVE IT. THE ACTUAL EXHIBIT PULLED UP AND THEN I CAN ZOOM IN ON IT, I THINK. AND IF IT'S NOT EASILY OBTAINABLE, YOU CAN GET IT TO ME LATER. IT'S TOTALLY FINE, I GOT IT. HERE WE ARE. SO THE. FRONTAGE ALONG IT IS TWO. MAKE SURE THAT'S RIGHT. IT'S 40FT. IT SEEMED TO 2006. THAT'S RIGHT, I DON'T KNOW. TWO.
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OH THERE IT IS. 236.4 THREE FEET. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANYTHING TO THAT. OKAY. OKAY. YOU'RE READY FOR A MOTION. THEN I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE ORDINANCE ANNEXING APPROXIMATELY APPROXIMATELY 11.874 ACRES AND PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION FOUR AND THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION FIVE, TOWNSHIP ONE NORTH, RANGE 38 EAST. ASSIGN A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, DESIGNATION OF GENERAL URBAN AND UNDER A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES REQUIRING THREE COMPLETE AND SEPARATE READINGS REQUESTS THAT IT BE READ BY TITLE AND PUBLISHED BY SUMMARY.SECOND. LEE. YES. DINGMANN. YES. FRANCIS I. FREEMAN. YES. LARSON. YES. RADFORD. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. I'LL READ THAT INTO THE RECORD. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, PROVIDING FOR THE ANNEXATION OF APPROXIMATELY 11.874 ACRES DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT A OF THIS ORDINANCE, AMENDING THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY WITH THE APPROPRIATE COUNTY AND STATE AUTHORITIES, AND PROVIDING SEVERABILITY PUBLICATION BY SUMMARY AND ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU. I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE RECENT STATEMENT OF RELEVANT CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR THE ANNEXATION OF APPROXIMATELY 11.874 ACRES IN PART OF THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION FOUR, THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF SECTION FIVE, TOWNSHIP ONE NORTH, RANGE 38 EAST, AND GIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND, LARSON. YES, BRADFORD I.
LEE. YES. DINGMAN. YES. FREEMAN. YES. AND, FRANCIS, I THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. AND I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE INITIAL ZONING FOR R THREE MULTIPLE DWELLING RESIDENTIAL, AS SHOWN IN THE ORDINANCE, EXHIBITS UNDER A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES REQUIRING THREE COMPLETE AND SEPARATE READINGS AND REQUESTS THAT IT BE READ BY TITLE AND PUBLISHED BY SUMMARY THAT THE CITY LIMITS DOCUMENTS BE AMENDED TO INCLUDE THE AREA ANNEXED HEREWITH, AND THAT THE CITY PLANNER BE INSTRUCTED TO REFLECT SAID ANNEXATION AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND INITIAL ZONING ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND ZONING MAPS LOCATED IN THE PLANNING OFFICE. SECOND. LEE. YES. DINGMANN. YES. FRANCIS I.
FREEMAN. YES. LARSON. YES. RADFORD. I MOTION CARRIES, AND I'LL READ THAT IN AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, PROVIDING FOR THE INITIAL ZONING OF APPROXIMATELY 11.874 ACRES DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT A OF THIS ORDINANCE AS R THREE MULTIPLE DWELLING RESIDENTIAL AND PROVIDING SEVERABILITY PUBLICATION BY SUMMARY AND ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE DATE. AND FINALLY, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE RECENT STATEMENT OF RELEVANT CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR THE INITIAL ZONING OF R-3 MULTIPLE DWELLING RESIDENTIAL AND GIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND, BRADFORD. A. LARSON. YES. FREEMAN. YES. FRANCIS I. DINGMAN. YES. LEE.
YES. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. IT'S VERY SERIOUS IN HERE TONIGHT. I HAVE NOTICED, AND I WANT TO BRING JUST A LITTLE BIT OF LEVITY BECAUSE I LOVE THAT WE ARE ANNEXING APPROXIMATELY 11.874. RIGHT. IT'S GOING OUT TO THE THOUSANDS OF ENDANGERED. AND WE'RE CALLING IT APPROXIMATE. AND I JUST I DON'T KNOW WHY I FIND THAT FUNNY, BUT I THINK THAT IS YEAH, APPROXIMATELY LIKE PRETTY, LIKE APPROXIMATELY, RIGHT. WE'RE APPROXIMATELY 12 ACRES, BUT WE ARE AT THE THOUSANDTH .12 ACRES. BUT NO, WE ARE APPROXIMATELY. YEAH. SO ANYWAY, I, IT'S PARTLY BECAUSE ILLOGICAL FOUND ALUMINUM CAP. WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY. WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY THE SIZE OF IT, BUT IT IS APPROXIMATELY, WE'RE PRETTY, WE'RE PRETTY TIGHT ON THAT ONE
[5.F.2) Legislative Public Hearing for the Annexation and Initial Zoning of R3, Multiple Dwelling Residential - Annexation and Initial Zoning Ordinance and Reasoned Statements of Relevant Criteria and Standards for approximately 1.17 acres ]
TONIGHT GUYS. ALL RIGHT. OUR NEXT ONE IS A LEGISLATIVE PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE ANNEXATION AND INITIAL ZONING, MULTIPLE DWELLING RESIDENTIAL FOR APPROXIMATELY 1.1CM. AND WE WOULD TURN THE TIME OVER TO DIRECTOR TURNER. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. THE NEXT ANNEXATION IS 26-005. A REQUEST TO ANNEX APPROXIMATELY 1.17237589. I'M JUST JOKING.[02:00:06]
1.17 ACRES. I WAS JUST PLAYING ON THAT. SORRY, BUT THE REQUEST IS AN OWNER INITIATED ANNEXATION WITH AN R-3 DESIGNATION. JUST REALIZED ASSOCIATED WITH THE ZONING REQUEST OF R3. THIS IS IN THE AIRPORT OVERLAY WITH A LIMITED DEVELOPMENT AIRPORT OVERLAY DESIGNATION ON TOP OF THE R-3. THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED RIGHT HERE IN THE RED, JUST ON 33RD NORTH. THIS ANNEXATION IS IN. JUST TO GIVE YOU A HEADS UP, IT'S IN PART FOR A FUTURE PUD THAT'S COMING. SO THIS ANNEXATION, BECAUSE IT'S NOT PART OF THE CITY, IT'S OWNED BY THE PROPERTY OWNER THAT OWNS THE PROPERTIES AROUND IT. AND PART OF BE PART OF THAT IN THE FUTURE. SO THAT'S THE REASON FOR THE ANNEXATION REQUEST. THEY ARE REQUESTED AN R-3 ZONING DESIGNATION. THE EXISTING PROPERTY IS ZONED A-1 AND THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES ARE THREE. THIS IS LOCATED PRETTY MUCH IN A CITY ISLAND OR IN A COUNTY LINE. EXCUSE ME.AND. I'M SORRY. I'M MISSING A SLIDE THERE. THE. THIS IS IN THE GENERAL URBAN TRANSECT, WHICH WAS THE SAME TRANSECT THAT WAS LOCATED IN THE PREVIOUS ANNEXATION THAT WAS APPROVED. R3 IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD MATCH THAT TRANSECT AND BE IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PRINCIPLES OF THE. IMAGINE IF THIS IS JUST SHOWING THE LIMITED DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY RIGHT HERE. THIS. THIS CREAM SQUARE RIGHT HERE, AND THE PROPERTY IS THERE IN PURPLE.
THIS IS THE EXHIBIT FOR IT SHOWING THE 1.17 ACRES AND TAKEN FROM THE STREET. THERE'S TREES IN FRONT OF IT. IT'S BASICALLY A FARMLAND OR VACANT PIECE OF PROPERTY. THIS WENT TO PLANNING COMMISSION ON JULY 7TH. NO ONE CAME IN. THERE WAS SOME PUBLIC COMMENT. EXCUSE ME, I SHOULD OR NO, THIS ONE DIDN'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT. SORRY, THIS IS JUST THAT IT WAS PART OF THE FUTURE. PUD AND THE APPLICANT HAD REQUESTED THAT THERE WAS NO OPPOSITION OR ANYBODY THAT SPOKE FOR IT AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION, AND IT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY BY PLANNING COMMISSION. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ON THIS. AM I TO UNDERSTAND THAT? AM I TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF THIS WAS NOT APPROVED, THEN THE PUD THAT'S NEXT WOULD NOT BE GOING FORWARD BECAUSE IT DEPENDS UPON THIS PIECE TO TO DO THE P YOU DO. THAT'S A THAT'S A GOOD POINT. NOT ENTIRELY. I KNOW MY STAFF BECAUSE I DID POSE THAT QUESTION WHEN I REVIEWED THIS, AND THEY SAID THEY WOULD STILL LIKE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE ANNEXATION, WHETHER THE PUD MOVES FORWARD OR NOT. SO THEY'RE JUST WANTING TO INITIATE. I WAS LOOKING AT IT THE OTHER WAY. IF THIS WASN'T APPROVED, THEN THE PUD MIGHT NOT EVEN BE HEARD. THEY WOULD STILL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PUD. THEY WOULD JUST HAVE TO REVISE IT. OKAY. IF IT WERE TO BE DENIED, IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN TONIGHT. OKAY. CORRECT. YEAH. QUICK QUESTION THEN. JUST CLARITY. IS THIS RELATED TO THE PUD THAT INVOLVES THE WILLOW CREEK FLOW THROUGH THIS ONE OVER HERE? IT'S A FUTURE PUD. YOU MEAN ON THIS SITE? COUNCIL MEMBER TROUT. THIS THIS ONE. IT IS NOT A PED THAT WE'VE ALREADY. IT'S NOT ONE. IT'S NOT ONE THAT YOU HAVE. OKAY. THAT'S CORRECT.
YEAH. SORRY IF I WAS GIVING YOU A LITTLE BIT TOO MUCH INFORMATION THERE. IT'S JUST THE ANNEXATION THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. I WAS JUST GIVING YOU A HEADS UP. ANY QUESTIONS? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL FOR STAFF? OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANYONE HERE FROM THE PUBLIC? YES. PLEASE COME AND TESTIFY. THE. ARE YOU THE DEVELOPER? YES. YES. OKAY. I WAS GOING TO SAY I SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED THE DEVELOPER A CHANCE TO. YEAH. I'M DAVID REED, I'M REPRESENTING LAURA HOLMES FROM MAPLETON, UTAH. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS DAVE REED. AND IN UTAH, I'M WE'RE HERE TO REQUEST THE ANNEXATION OF A 1.17 ACRE PARCEL OF THE CITY OF IDAHO FALLS. IT'S CURRENTLY LOCATED IN BONNEVILLE COUNTY.
IT'S OWNED BY THE WHITE FAMILY, BUT IT'S UNDER CONTRACT WITH US. SO OUR HOMES, IT SITS RIGHT ON THE BORDER OF THE PROJECT. AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE DESIGN, ALREADY FITS WITH THE PUD THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND WILL BE IN FRONT OF THIS COUNCIL IN TWO WEEKS.
PRIMARY REASON WE NEED THIS APPROVED IS FOR THE RIGHT OF WAY AND CONNECTIVITY, AS REQUESTED BY THE CITY. WE'VE DESIGNED A 112 FOOT MINIMUM WIDTH DEDICATED ROAD TO PULL IN FROM 33RD NORTH, ITS POSITION JUST TO THE EAST OF THE LDS CHURCH. THIS CREATES THE SOUTHERN ACCESS POINT INTO WILLOW CREEK COVE, WHICH WILL ALLOW SMOOTH TRAFFIC AND FULL EMERGENCY VEHICLE ACCESS, AS WELL AS POTENTIAL FULL ACCESS TO THE FUTURE PARK ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE PROPERTY. TO MY ENTERTAINS AND ENSURES THE OVERALL PUD IS FULLY SERVICED
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BY CITY INFRASTRUCTURE AND SAFELY CONNECTS TO THE EXISTING ROAD GRID. THE PROPERTY OWNERS ARE ALL ON BOARD. THE ENGINEERING ALIGNS AND SAYS LOOK THE WHOLE PUD CLEANLY FOR CITY COUNCIL LATER THIS MONTH. WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR RECOMMENDATION FOR APPROVAL, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT THIS ANNEXATION. ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPER? OKAY. DOES ANYONE ELSE HERE TO SPEAK FOR OR AGAINST THIS ANNEXATION? OKAY. WITH THAT, I WILL CLOSE THE HEARING AND ALLOW COUNCIL TO DELIBERATE OR PROPOSE ANY ACTION. FOR GOOD FOR EMOTION. OKAY, I THINK WE ARE. I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE ORDINANCE ANNEXING APPROXIMATELY 1.17 ACRES IN THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION SIX, TOWNSHIP TWO NORTH, RANGE 30 EAST. ASSIGN A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, DESIGNATION OF GENERAL URBAN AND UNDER A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES REQUIRING THREE COMPLETE AND SEPARATE READINGS. REQUESTS THAT IT BE READ BY TITLE AND PUBLISHED BY SUMMARY. SECOND. LEE. YES. DINGMANN. YES.BRADFORD. ARE YOU. FREEMAN. YES. LARSON. YES. FRANCIS. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. I'LL READ THAT.
IN AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IDAHO FALLS, IDAHO, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF IDAHO PROVIDING FOR THE ANNEXATION OF APPROXIMATELY 1.17 ACRES DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT A OF THIS ORDINANCE, AMENDING THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION OF THE CITY WITH THE APPROPRIATE COUNTY AND STATE AUTHORITIES, AND PROVIDING SEVERABILITY PUBLICATION BY SUMMARY AND ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE DATE. I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE RECENT STATEMENT OF RELEVANT CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR THE ANNEXATION OF APPROXIMATELY 1.17 ACRES IN THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION SIX, TOWNSHIP TWO NORTH, RANGE 38 EAST, AND GIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND. YES. DINGMANN. YES. FRANCIS I.
FREEMAN. YES. LARSON. YES. BRADFORD. I MOTION CARRIES. I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING THE INITIAL ZONING FOR R-3 MULTIPLE DWELLING RESIDENTIAL WITH THE LIMITED DEVELOPMENT OVERLAY ZONE AS SHOWN IN THE ORDINANCE EXHIBITS UNDER A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES REQUIRING THREE COMPLETE SEPARATE READINGS AND REQUESTS THAT IT BE READ BY TITLE AND PUBLISHED BY SUMMARY. THAT THE CITY LIMITS DOCUMENTS BE AMENDED TO INCLUDE THE AREA ANNEXED HEREWITH, AND THAT THE CITY PLANNER BE INSTRUCTED TO REFLECT SAID ANNEXATION AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND INITIAL ZONING ON THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AND ZONING MAPS LOCATED IN THE PLANNING OFFICE. SECOND. LARSON, DINGMANN. YES. FRANCIS. I.
FREEMAN. YES. LEE. YES. BRADFORD. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. AND FINALLY, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE RECENT STATEMENT OF RELEVANT CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR THE INITIAL ZONING OF R-3 MULTIPLE DWELLING RESIDENTIAL WITH THE LIMITED DEVELOPMENT AIRPORT OVERLAY ZONE AND GIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS. SECOND, FRANCIS I DINGMANN. YES.
LEE. YES. FREEMAN. YES. LARSON. YES. BRADFORD, I THANK YOU. MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. NOT MY
[5.F.3) Quasi-Judicial Public Hearing - Planned Unit Development (PUD) and Reasoned Statement of Relevant Criteria and Standards, Harvest Village ]
PAPER HERE. OUR FINAL ONE IS A QUASI JUDICIAL PUBLIC HEARING. IT'S THE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT AND THE REGIONAL STATEMENT OF RELEVANT CRITERIA STANDARDS FOR HARVEST VILLAGE.YOU CAN HAVE DIRECTOR CENTER. I DO KNOW THE APPLICANT IS HERE AS WELL. JUST SO YOU'RE AWARE.
BUT I CAN START. THE NEXT ITEM. THE NEXT ITEM ON HERE IS A PD 26-002, WHICH IS LOCATED ON EAST 65TH NORTH JUST NORTH. THIS IS SAGE LAKES GOLF COURSE RIGHT HERE. SO WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT THIS PROPERTY RIGHT HERE, KIND OF THE IRREGULARLY SHAPED LOT HERE. AND THE REQUEST IS FOR A PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT ON 14.575 ACRES. THE PROPERTY IS CURRENTLY ZONED TO R-2 AND HAS THE AIR THE APPROACH AIRPORT OVERLAY ON IT. THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED IN THE GENERAL URBAN TRANSECT, WHICH TYPICALLY ALLOWS FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, CALLS OUT MIXED TYPE OF HOUSING AND DENSE, MORE DENSE FORM OF HOUSING. SO R2, R3 ARE TYPICALLY WHAT FALL IN LINE WITH THOSE ZONES. HERE'S THE. THE PUD CONCEPT. SO WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED? AND A
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COUPLE SLIDES HERE JUST TO DESCRIBE IT A LITTLE BIT. THE PROPOSED PUD IS 175 UNITS ON A 14.5 ACRES, JUST OVER 14.5 ACRES. IT WILL CONSIST OF SEVEN FOURPLEXES, WHICH EQUATE TO 28 UNITS, 135 PLEXES, WHICH EQUATE TO 65 UNITS NINE SIX PLEXES, WHICH CONSTITUTE 54 UNITS, AND FOUR SEVEN PLEXES, WHICH CONSTITUTE 28 UNITS. WHAT THAT EQUATES TO IS 12 UNITS PER ACRE, PER THE PUD ORDINANCE. THIS PUD COULD GO UP TO 17 UNITS PER ACRE, SO THEY ARE REQUESTING ABOUT FIVE UNITS PER ACRE LESS THAN WHAT THEY ARE ALLOWED. THE GARAGES ARE IN THE REAR, SO THE THE PUD HERE, THIS STREET, THIS CUL DE SAC RIGHT HERE AND THIS STREET RIGHT HERE ARE BOTH PUBLIC STREETS. THE REST OF THE STREET NETWORK INTERIOR ARE ALL PROPOSED TO BE PRIVATE. 26 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE STREETS THAT WILL BE OWNED AND MAINTAINED BY THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION. THE GARAGES FACE TOWARDS THE REAR. SO IF YOU. THIS IS ONE OF THE PRIVATE STREETS RIGHT HERE. THE GARAGES WILL ACTUALLY FACE INWARD INTO THE INTO THE PRIVATE STREET, AND THEN THE FRONT OF THE STRUCTURE WILL EITHER FACE OUTWARD TOWARDS A PUBLIC STREET OR IN SOME OF THESE CASES. RIGHT HERE, SOME OF THESE ACTUALLY FACE INTO EITHER THE RETENTION POND OR COMMON SPACE. SO THE BACKS OF THEM FACE INTO THE STREET. THEY THEY ARE PROPOSING FIVE AMENITIES, A A TOT LOT, WHICH IF I REMEMBER RIGHT. YEAH. TOT LOT, A PLAYGROUND, A DOG PARK, A DOG YARD AND TWO PICKLEBALL COURTS. SO THEY'RE PROPOSING FIVE AMENITIES. FOUR ARE REQUIRED FOR THEIR DENSITY. THEY DO MEET THE 25% LANDSCAPING REQUIREMENT, AND EACH UNIT WILL HAVE TWO PARKING STALLS. AND THEY'RE PROPOSING THAT THE PUD WOULD BE CONSTRUCTED IN FOUR PHASES. SO THERE WOULD BE FOUR DIVISIONS TO THIS PUD. THE PUBLIC STREETS ARE PROPOSED TO BE 60FT AND 70FT. SO 60 ON THIS SIDE, 70 ON THIS SIDE. AND THE VARIANCES THAT ARE REQUESTED, I JUST WANT TO SHOW THEY ARE REQUESTING A FRONT YARD SETBACK VARIANCE. SO I HIGHLIGHTED ALL THE VARIANCES IN RED FOR THE UNITS. AND THEY'RE ALONG A PUBLIC STREET THAT REQUIRED AN AN R2 IS 20FT AND THEY ARE REQUESTING 15FT FOR THE FRONT SETBACK OF JUST THE UNITS THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED HERE IN RED ON THE FRONT. SO THAT'S THE ONE VARIANCE. AND THEN AS I STATED, THE OTHER THAT THEY'RE REQUESTING IS A PRIVATE STREET NETWORK, INTERNAL PRIVATE STREET NETWORK. THEY ALSO ONE PART OF IT, IT'S NOT REALLY A VARIANCE, BUT JUST AS PART OF THE PUD, THE PUD DOES REQUIRE FOR A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF STREET TREES. THAT DEVELOPER CAME BACK TO STAFF AND REQUESTED AS PART OF THIS PV, BASICALLY TO RESHUFFLE SOME OF THE STREET TREES. THEY HAVE THEM PRETTY MUCH ALONG THE PRIVATE THE PRIVATE STREETS, BUT THEN THEY'VE DISPERSED THEM THROUGHOUT AREAS IN PUD, JUST SO IT'S NOT AS DENSE OF A STREET TREE NETWORK. SO JUST REALIZE THAT THAT'S A REQUEST THAT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'VE TYPICALLY SEEN IN A PD. THIS ITEM WENT TO PLANNING COMMISSION ON JUNE THE 2ND. THIS IS WHAT THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY LOOK LOOKS LIKE. IT'S GRAZING PASTURE. THERE WERE A COUPLE THINGS THAT WERE BROUGHT UP AS PART OF THAT BEAUTY THAT I THAT WERE PART OF PUBLIC COMMENT, BUT I JUST WANTED TO, TO DISCUSS THE FIRST. IT'S EASIER TO SEE ON THE AERIAL.ONE OF THE NEIGHBORS THAT CAME DISCUSSED THIS PROPERTY OVER HERE. I BELIEVE THEY THEY LIVE IN THIS HOME AND THEY HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THIS PROPERTY OWNER FOR GRAZING OF THEIR HORSES. WHEN HE CAME TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION, HE EXPRESSED JUST THAT. HE HAD THIS HANDSHAKE AGREEMENT WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER AT ONE TIME. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THIS PROPERTY IS SOLD AND THAT AGREEMENT MAY HAVE BEEN BETWEEN HIM AND THE PROPERTY OWNER AT THE TIME. BUT WITH THE NEW PROPERTY OWNER, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S NO SET AGREEMENT ON THIS. AND SO THERE WAS NOTHING REALLY THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION COULD REALLY DO ABOUT THAT ISSUE. THEY ALSO THERE WERE SOME INDIVIDUALS JUST THAT PRIMARILY DEALT WITH
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THE DENSITY OF THE THE PROJECT, THE PROPOSED PROJECT, AND ASSOCIATED WITH THAT DENSITY.THEY WERE COMMENTING PRIMARILY ABOUT THE SUBSTANTIAL GROWTH THAT WE ARE HAVING ON THE NORTH SIDE. THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT TRAFFIC ELEMENTS, THE EXTENDED AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT'S NOW GOING TO BE PUSHED OUT ON 65TH FROM A LOT OF THE DEVELOPMENT UP HERE TO THE NORTH. JUST AS PART OF THIS PUD, THERE IS A RIGHT OF WAY DEDICATION DOWN HERE, OVER HERE TO GET TO THE WIDTH OF 65TH, AS IT'S A MAJOR ARTERIAL FOR THAT EAST WEST OR A MINOR ARTERIAL ON THE EAST WEST. SO THOSE WERE THE ISSUES THAT WERE BROUGHT UP. PLANNING COMMISSION DELIBERATED ON THIS.
THEY DID PASS IT UNANIMOUSLY AND SENT A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION TO YOU. AND W&TH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE OR IF YOU WANT TO. I KNOW THE DEVELOPER IS HERE AND HE WANTED TO SPEAK AS WELL, BUT LET'S HAVE THE DEVELOPER. OKAY, OKAY.
THAT'S FINE. LET'S HAVE DEVELOPER SPEAK. AND THEN WE CAN ASK THE DEVELOPER OR DIRECTOR QUESTIONS. SO. GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MAYOR. MY NAME IS TYLER WARREN. I AM ENGINEERING. I'M HERE AS THE APPLICANT REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE DEVELOPER. I DID HAVE SOME COMMENTS THAT I WANTED TO BRING UP INITIALLY, BUT A WAY IS VERY THOROUGH, AS YOU GUYS PROBABLY KNOW. SO NOT TOO MANY THINGS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT. I KNOW PREVIOUSLY A CONCERN OF THE COUNCIL HAS BEEN MAYBE THE REASONING BEHIND GOING FOR THE PUD, PRIMARILY THE PRIMARY REASON FOR PURSUING A PUD ON THIS PROPERTY IS JUST TO GET THOSE LOTS TO FRONT ALONG THE PRIVATE STREETS, AND THE PD ALLOWS FOR THAT. BUT OVERALL, I BELIEVE THE OTHER COMMENT WAS WITH THE HORSE PROPERTY. THE DEVELOPER AND AND AND THAT HORSE OWNER HAVE BEEN COMMUNICATING ON THAT ON THEIR I DON'T ANTICIPATE ANY ISSUES ON THAT. SO IF THERE'S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO DIVE INTO THOSE QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPER. YES, LET'S DO IT. MY FIRST ONE, MAYBE ON THE TREES, DON'T WE REQUIRE TREES ON THE PRIVATE ON ON, I'M SORRY, ON THE PUBLIC ROADS. SO THAT WOULD MEET OUR STANDARDS. YES.
AND THERE'S NO MOVEMENT OF TREES OUT THERE. THIS IS ONLY FOR THE PRIVATE STREET. AM I CORRECT ON THAT? THAT'S CORRECT. THE PUBLIC STREET SIDE, THE STREET TREE REQUIREMENT IS BEING MET THAT REALLY IT'S ALONG THE PRIVATE STREET THAT THEY WERE SHIFTING THEM AROUND.
OKAY. YEAH. AND WE ARE WE'RE MEETING. SO I BELIEVE THE PRIVATE STREETS, IT'S YOU'RE NOT REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THEM ALONG THE DRIVEWAYS. CORRECT. SO EXCEPTING THOSE AREAS, WE'RE WE'RE, WE'RE FULLY ACCOUNTED FOR. THIS WOULD BE AN ODD QUESTION, BUT HAVE WE DONE A LOT OF THESE WHERE WE HAVE THE PRIVATE STREET AND THE PUBLIC STREET IN THE SAME PLACE, BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO LOOK ODD WHEN WE PLOW THE ONE STREET AND LEAVE THE OTHER ONES WITH SNOW ON THEM. IS EVERYBODY PREPARED FOR THAT? YEAH. SO WHEN IT COMES TO MAINTENANCE OF THESE, SO THE HOA WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR PLOWING OF THE PRIVATE STREETS. AND THEN WE WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR THE PUBLIC ONES. THAT'S CORRECT. SO YES, WE WE MET THESE THROUGH PUBLIC WORKS.
AND THESE ISSUES DO COME UP THROUGH THE COURSE OF REVIEW. AND THEY ARE OKAY WITH OKAY.
AND THEN FOR THE DEVELOPER, AS YOU KNOW, WITH PUDS, COUNCIL HAS SOME INPUT ON HOW THINGS ARE GOING. IS THE DEVELOPER AMENABLE TO ESTABLISHING A PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT TO MEET PARK STANDARDS? I, WE CAN I CAN DISCUSS IT WITH. INITIALLY, IT WAS MORE OF A PRIVATE. RIGHT.
BUT IT'S THE QUALITY OF WHAT'S PUT IN. OKAY, I WOULD CAN I ADD TO THAT? IT'S SOMEWHAT THE CONCERN THAT YOU GO TO WALMART AND GET A SWING SET, RIGHT? AND THEN. SURE. YEAH. THAT'S WHAT SEEMS TO ME. YEAH. AND IT'S THE QUALITY OF WHAT'S THERE. AND WE, WE HAVE A BIT OF PRECEDENCE TO THAT. SO IT MAKES IN MY MIND, IT'S PART OF WHAT MAKES A QUALITY. SURE. YEAH. I, WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIFIC IN MIND. I'M NOT, I'M JUST NOT VERY VERSED IN THE PARKS REQUIREMENTS. SO THAT'S WHY I'M HESITANT TO, TO, TO AGREE TO THAT. I, WE'RE INTENDING ON MAKING A NICE LIVABLE SPACE WITH GOOD AMENITIES. SO I WOULD INITIALLY SAY YES, THEY WOULD BE
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AGREEABLE TO THAT. WELL, COUNCILOR FRANCIS, WE CAN REQUIRE IT. I KNOW WE CAN REQUIRE IT REGARDLESS. SO SO YEAH, I MEAN, WE CAN JUST THIS IS WHAT SOMETIMES DOESN'T HAPPEN IS WE GET THIS EXCHANGE WITH THE DEVELOPER FOR SURE. NOW. YEAH. I THINK IT'S ALWAYS CHALLENGING WHEN WE DON'T HAVE AND YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT YOUR GUYS'S FAULT THAT YOU DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE GOING TO ASK THIS VERY SPECIFIC QUESTION AND YOU CAME AND CAN'T ANSWER THAT. AND THAT'S OKAY. BUT I'M JUST REMINDING YOU, COUNCILOR FRANCIS, THAT I WOULD SUPPORT YOU MAKING THAT EDIT. OKAY. IF YOU WOULD LIKE THAT. I'M INTENDING TO GO THAT WAY. OKAY.I WANT TO SAY I WANT TO SAY YES. SO. CAN YOU TELL ME THE THE PROPOSED LENGTHS OF YOUR DRIVEWAYS? FOUR FEET, THE APRONS BETWEEN THE PRIVATE STREET AND THE BUILDING. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE REFERRING TO? NO. THE ACTUAL LENGTH OF THE DRIVEWAY ITSELF BEFORE IT MEETS THE HOUSE OR THE BUILDING. 14 SO THERE'S NOT WE'RE NOT PROVIDING DRIVEWAYS. THEY'RE JUST APRONS. FROM THE BACK OF THE CURB TO. SO MAYBE I MISUNDERSTOOD. DIRECTOR CENTER, YOU MENTIONED TWO PARKING STALLS PER DWELLING. HOW ARE THOSE PARKING. TELL ME ABOUT THEIR PARKING STALLS. SO THAT'S TWO STALLS PER RESIDENCE. THERE'S TWO GARAGE PARKING THAT WE'RE PROVIDING. AND THEN SO SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE SITE, THERE'S SOME SOME VISITOR PARKING. OH, I SCREWED THAT UP. SORRY. WE'RE LOOKING TO ORDER SOME ACTUAL LASER POINTERS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE. SORRY. YEAH, BUT THERE'S JUST THERE'S, THERE'S VISITOR STALLS IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE SITE. IN ADDITION TO THOSE, THE GARAGE. I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING TO ASCERTAIN IS THE PARKING STALLS THAT ARE BEING COUNTED ARE DO THEY FIT A PICKUP TRUCK? I'LL JUST DO THEY FIT AN F-150? I BELIEVE THEY'RE 22 FOOT OR ARE THEY 20? I'M NOT SURE IF I HAVE THAT ANSWER FOR YOU CURRENTLY, BUT THEY'RE NOT FOUR FEET. NO, THE PARKING IN THE GARAGE STALLS ARE NOT. YEAH, THEY SHOULD BE 20. I BELIEVE THEY'RE AT LEAST 20. YEAH. I CAN LOOK IT UP IF IF THAT'S CRITICAL, LIKE IF YOU GIVE ME A SECOND. BUT YEAH, IT SHOULD.
COUNCIL MEMBER LEE MAYBE COULD YOU CLARIFY WHAT YOU'RE WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, WHAT WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT TO SEE FROM A PD THAT HAS THE GARAGE. AND THEN. WELL, I JUST THINK WHEN YOU HAVE THAT KIND OF PARKING TO PER. AND THEN THERE'S NOT IF IF YOU DON'T HAVE SIGNIFICANT OR SUFFICIENT GUEST PARKING, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE CARS THAT EXTEND TRUCKS, ESPECIALLY, RIGHT? THAT'S A FULL SIZE TRUCK IS GOING TO EXTEND WAY PAST THAT 20FT. AND SO YOU'RE JUST PARKING CONCERNS ME WHEN IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 20 FOOT DEPTH STALLS, ALL. I CAN LOOK THAT UP. I THINK I HAVE IT SOMEWHERE. QUITE SURE ON THE ON THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT HOW THE VEHICLES ARE. I KNOW THE VISITORS ARE NOT ABOUT 20. AND MAYBE YOU MIGHT NOT HAVE THIS, BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY OF THE ELEVATION DRAWINGS? YEAH. I'M SORRY. SORRY. I WAS TRYING TO PULL THAT UP. IT JUST TAKES A BIT TO TO DOWNLOAD. LET ME GET YOU THOSE DISTANCES COUNCILMEMBER. SO THE DRIVEWAYS THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR ARE. THIS IS THIS IS IT FOUR FEET THAT GOES INTO. SO YEAH, SO THIS IS THE, THIS WOULD BE BASICALLY THE CONSIDERATION FOR THE. BACK TO THE GARAGE, WHICH HAS. IT WOULD BE 22. YEAH. SO THE SO IT DOES TURN IN. IT'S JUST HARD BECAUSE I CAN ZOOM IN ON, ON OUR SOFTWARE HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER, I REALIZE THIS
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IS A SLIDE. SO IT HAS A FOUR FOOT TURN IN RIGHT HERE TO EACH UNIT. AND THEN EACH UNIT HAS A 22 FOOT GARAGE DEPTH THAT WILL HOUSE TWO CARS. SO IT'S A 22FT DEEP. AND I BELIEVE IT'S BY I DON'T AND I SHOULD KNOW THIS, I APOLOGIZE THAT WHAT THE WIDTH OF THAT IS, BUT I KNOW IT FITS THE TWO CAR GARAGE, BUT IT HAS THE DEPTH THAT YOU NEED. BUT AND AND AND IT'S SIDE BY SIDE.IT'S NOT TANDEM PARKING. CORRECT. IT'S SIDE BY SIDE. DIRECTOR SANAA, CAN YOU POINT OUT WHERE THE PUBLIC PARKING GUEST PARKING IS? SO NEAR PHASE ONE, THERE'LL BE THESE VISITOR STALLS HERE. THERE'S SOME VISITOR STALLS IN BETWEEN THESE BUILDINGS HERE. VISITOR PARKING OVER HERE NEAR THE PICKLEBALL COURTS. WEST OF THIS PUBLIC STREET HERE. AND I BELIEVE SOME SOME VISITOR STALLS ALONG THIS HERE. WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO TRY TO ENLARGE THE DRAWING? YES, PLEASE. I THINK IT'S KIND OF LOW RES IN OUR PACKET. SO IT'S IT'S IT'S HAVING A HARD TIME READING IT. HOW MANY HOW MANY PUBLIC OR GUEST PARKING STALLS DO YOU HAVE PER TOWNHOME? BECAUSE THERE'S NO ON STREET PARKING. RIGHT. LET ME. I PULLED UP HERE. SORRY. 18. 1818 VISITOR PARKING FOR HOW MANY UNITS? FIVE. SO ON THAT ALL THE PRIVATE STREETS WILL HAVE NO PARKING ON THEM. AM I RIGHT THEN? YES, BUT THE PUBLIC STREET WOULD ALLOW PARKING BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE THE WIDTH OF A PUBLIC STREET. YES, THERE WOULD BE PARKING ON BOTH SIDES IN A PUBLIC STREET. YEAH, YEAH. THE 70 FOOT, 60 FOOT ALLOW PARKING ON BOTH SIDES. SO THERE WOULD BE PARKING ON THE PUBLIC STREETS, BUT NOT ON THE PRIVATE STREETS. AND NONE OF THESE FRONTAGES ARE ON THE PUBLIC STREETS. OKAY, PERFECT. THERE. THE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE 70 FOOT RIGHT OF WAY, THERE ARE IN FRONT OF THE SULCUS. SO YOU'LL SEE HERE, IF YOU ZOOM OUT A LITTLE BIT, THE WEST, THE EAST SIDE OF THIS RIGHT OF WAY, THOSE ARE FRONTING THE PUBLIC STREET, BUT JUST A HANDFUL. THOSE ARROWS IN THE STREETS ARE. ARE THEY ONE WAY STREETS? NO, THOSE WERE A SEPARATE PART OF THE APPLICATION. SO THOSE ARE JUST INDICATING LIKE PRELIMINARY GRADING. THE LEGEND DID IT. YEAH. THE DRAINAGE LEGEND DIDN'T MAKE IT ALMOST LOOKS LIKE DIRECTOR CENTER. I DO HAVE THAT QUESTION. AND FOR THE DO WE NOT HAVE WE DON'T HAVE ANY REQUIREMENTS FOR. WE JUST HAVE TWO IN THEIR GARAGE BUT NO VISITOR PARKING. I JUST THIS IS THIS IS A LITTLE UNIQUE. I THINK THIS IS THE FIRST ONE I'VE EVER SEEN THAT HAS ONLY GARAGE PARKING, DOESN'T HAVE ANY DRIVEWAY PARKING AND THEN SUCH LIMITED 18 PUBLIC SPOTS FOR HOW MANY UNITS AGAIN, 175. YEAH. THE THE REQUIREMENT FOR PARKING IN RESIDENTIAL IS JUST THAT YOU HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE TWO OFF STREET PARKING PER UNIT. SO AS LONG AS THEY CAN ACCOMMODATE THAT PER CODE, THEN THEY'VE MET THE PARKING REQUIREMENTS, OFTEN WITH PUDS THEY WILL HAVE BECAUSE IN THIS INSTANCE, THEY'RE THEY'RE NOT ALLOWING PARKING ON THE PRIVATE STREET. THEY OFTEN WILL HAVE THIS GUEST PARKING, BUT REALLY THEY HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE THE TWO PER UNIT. IS THE REQUIREMENT TWO PER UNIT, BUT NOT GUEST PARKING NECESSARILY PARKING NECESSARILY. THAT'S CORRECT. THEY JUST HAVE TO IT'S KIND OF IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT WITH LIKE A SINGLE FAMILY HOME, YOU JUST HAVE TO ACCOMMODATE TWO PARKING SPOTS FOR THAT. BUT THERE'S NO DRIVEWAYS FOR GUESTS TO PARK IN. RIGHT? SO IN THIS INSTANCE, THEY'RE PROPOSING IT INSIDE THE GARAGE, RIGHT? SO THAT IS A LITTLE AND WE ALL KNOW THAT'S NOT A THING, RIGHT? DIRECTOR CENTER. I MEAN, THAT'S JUST THAT'S MY GUESS. DON'T PARK IN MY GARAGE. OKAY? JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT'S CRYSTAL CLEAR. THAT'S WHAT'S PROPOSED THAT WE'RE ALL LIVING IN THE SAME KIND OF WORLD TOGETHER. OKAY. YEAH. IF GUEST PARK IN YOUR GARAGE. I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT. YOUR UNIQUE LIFESTYLE, BUT. OKAY, I'M JUST CHECKING HERE.
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NO, IT IS, IT IS. YOU'RE YOU'RE RIGHT, COUNCIL MEMBERS, IT IS A LITTLE UNIQUE, BUT THAT THE REASON IT CAME BEFORE YOU IS BECAUSE THEY COULD ACCOMMODATE THE TWO. AND CAN I VERIFY THAT THEY'RE ALL TWO STORY. THAT'S IF I'M READING YOUR TWO PLANNING AND ZONING TWO STORY.OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER IS THERE AND THIS MAY BE FOR DIRECTOR. I'M NOT SURE. DOES THIS NEED A TRAFFIC STUDY? HAS ONE BEEN DONE? IS ONE ANTICIPATED? YEAH. WITH ALL DEVELOPMENT WE REQUIRE A TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY. AND THAT HAS BEEN CONDUCTED FOR THIS PROPERTY. AND IT AGAIN, THIS WOULD NOT MOVE FORWARD WITHOUT THAT BEING DONE OR THAT THEY COULD ACCOMMODATE THE TRAFFIC. CAN YOU SPEAK TO WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AT ALL? I WOULD ACTUALLY TURN TO CHRIS CANFIELD JUST BECAUSE HE'S THE ENGINEER ON. SO TRAFFIC STUDY WOULD BE REQUIRED WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT.
HISTORICALLY, WHAT WE LOOK FOR IS FOR TURNAROUND REQUIREMENTS OUT ON THE FRONTAGE OF 65TH NORTH. FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT. YOU'LL ALSO SEE NORTH OF THIS DEVELOPMENT, THAT ADJACENT ROADWAY THAT RUNS EAST WEST, THAT RUNS ACROSS THE CANAL. SO THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR THESE DEVELOPMENTS, WE'LL HAVE TO RESOLVE A CANAL CROSSING FOR THAT FUTURE ROAD ADJACENT TO THE RIVER HOLLOW DEVELOPMENT AS WELL. I CAN'T GIVE YOU THE DETAILS OF THE STUDY ITSELF, BUT AS WE PROCEED THROUGH THE PROCESS, IT'S INCUMBENT ON PUBLIC WORKS TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE ARE PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT, TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE IMPROVEMENTS, AS IDENTIFIED AND IMPROVED, ARE ADDRESSED WITH WITH THE FINAL PLAN. THANK YOU. I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION, MR. CANFIELD. YEAH. ON THESE PRIVATE STREETS, HOW DO WE MARKET SO THERE'S NO PARKING BECAUSE IT'S PART OF FIRE GETTING IN AND OUT. AND IF PEOPLE START PARKING ON BOTH SIDES, WE'RE NOT 26FT ANYMORE. SO HOW DO WE MARK THAT? SO FIRE IS PART OF OUR DEVELOPMENT REVIEW TEAM WITH THOSE IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE REQUIRED WITH OUR SITE PLAN SUBMITTALS THAT THAT WOULD BE SUBJECT TO THIS DEVELOPMENT FIRE. HISTORICALLY, I DON'T MEAN TO SPEAK FOR THEM, BUT BASICALLY IT'S SIGNING. SO THEY'LL SIGN IT AND THEN THEY'LL ENFORCE IT.
AND IF PEOPLE ARE PARKING THERE, THEN THEY'LL PAY ATTENTION. AND THEY'RE TYPICALLY THE STANDARDS THAT I'VE SEEN ARE LADDER TRUCK REQUIREMENTS REQUIRING 26FT OF PAVED WIDTH BETWEEN CURBS KIND OF THING ON THOSE PRIVATE STREETS, MINIMUM UNOBSTRUCTED. THANK YOU. A QUESTION OF THE APPLICANT. YES. BACK TO THE APPLICANT, PLEASE. CAN YOU COMMIT TO PAINTING THE CURBS RED? LET'S DO IT. BECAUSE SOMETIMES THE SIGNS ARE NOT ENOUGH. YEAH, I AGREE OKAY.
WELL, I WAS JUST GOING TO TELL COUNCIL MEMBER LEE THAT I LOOKED UP THE LENGTH OF A THREE QUARTER TON FORD CREW CAB 22.22. SO THEY'RE THEY'RE AT 22FT. YOU JUST DON'T HAVE ANY GRACE ROOM.
YOU GOT TO PARK RIGHT UP AGAINST THE. AND THERE IS THIS VARIED SETBACK. THE. ASKING FOR THE VARIANCE OF THE SETBACK FROM 20 TO 15FT SO THAT. SO CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT JUST FOR A SECOND? YES. WHAT'S THE COUNCIL NOT DELIBERATE. NOT IN DELIBERATION, BUT JUST TO THE APPLICANT. IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION CAN I ASK DIRECTOR SAM. YOU MAY. YES. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO TURN IT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. YES. OKAY. I MEAN, YES, THE THE TYPICAL 20 FOOT. WHAT'S THE THOUGHT PROCESS OF WHAT THAT GETS USED FOR? DO YOU KNOW, IN JUST IN PLANNING WHEN WE WHEN WE DO OUR PLANNING FOR THEM? YEAH, THAT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD, REALLY GOOD QUESTION. I'LL GIVE YOU A GENERAL ANSWER AND THEN I'LL GO VERY SPECIFIC. SO SETBACKS REALLY ARE TO PROVIDE AMPLE SPACE FOR PRIMARILY HEALTH AND FIRE REQUIREMENTS. SO THAT'S WHY YOU USUALLY HAVE A SEPARATION. IT'S A MINIMUM OF TEN FEET FROM HABITABLE STRUCTURES. HOWEVER THE FRONT SETBACK IN THIS CASE WE WHAT'S REQUIRED THERE IS THE 15FT. AND THAT'S REQUIRED BECAUSE OF THE UTILITIES THAT NEED TO RUN IN THERE. SO THE 20FT IS THE 15FT IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY THAT WE NEED IN THE FRONT FOR UTILITIES. BUT IF IT'S FIVE FEET FROM THAT, MEANING 20FT, THAT'S MORE FOR AN ESTHETIC COMPONENT TO THAT. SOME CITIES ACTUALLY CONSTRUCT
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RIGHT UP TO THE SIDEWALK, SO ALMOST TO THE PROPERTY LINE. BUT THE 15FT HERE IN IDAHO FALLS IS FOR THE UTILITY EASEMENT. THE 20FT IS JUST FOR ESTHETIC, AND SEPARATION FROM THE STREET GIVES YOU MORE SEPARATION. SO THOSE ARE ALL ON THE OUTSIDE PERIMETER. IS THAT THAT THEY'RE REQUESTING THE VARIANCE. THAT'S CORRECT. SO IF SOMEBODY BUILT A HOUSE, ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE IT RIGHT UP AGAINST THAT, YOU GET WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS. WE GOT 215 OUT OF 15 AND 20. THEY'RE GOING TO SHAKE HANDS. BUT YEAH, AS LONG AS THERE'S THAT 15FT THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN THE EASEMENT, THAT'S WHAT THE UTILITIES SAY. THEY NEED AMPLE ROOM TO ACCESS THEIR LINES. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. WE HAVE ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO TESTIFY ABOUT THIS. SO WE DO HAVE. A ROCK WITHOUT NOTES, SO FORGIVE ME. I TRIED TO RECONSTRUCT THEM. GOOD EVENING AGAIN. MY NAME IS COLBY HATTON. I AM A RESIDENT OF IDAHO FALLS AND I AM HERE REPRESENTING STRONGER IDAHO FALLS. WE HERE AT STRONGER IDAHO FALLS RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF DENSE HOUSING AS IT IS MUCH MORE EFFECTIVE AT LONG TERM FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY AND AFFORDABILITY. SINCE HOUSING HAS MUCH LESS INFRASTRUCTURE MAINTAINED PER CAPITA, LONG TERM MAINTENANCE IS SELF-FUNDED AS OPPOSED TO LOW DENSITY SINGLE FAMILY SUBURBIA, WHICH MUST BE SUBSIDIZED BY DENSER PARTS OF THE CITY, SUCH AS DOWNTOWN AND THE LETTER AND NUMBER STREETS. WHILE WE FUNDAMENTALLY BELIEVE THAT INFILL DEVELOPMENT IS PREFERRED TO GREENFIELD, THIS DEVELOPMENT STILL FOLLOWS SEVERAL PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABLE URBANISM, THOUGH WE WOULD HOPE TO SEE THE CITY IMPROVE ON NON-DRIVING TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS FOR THIS OR NON-DRIVING YET RIGHT NOW, MY GENERAL COMMENT. AT THE BEGINNING OF CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT, I DISCUSSED THE IMPORTANCE OF SMALL SCALE LOCAL BUSINESSES SUCH AS BAKERIES AND CORNER STORES. THIS DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE THE PERFECT CANDIDATE FOR SUCH BUSINESSES, PROVIDING USEFUL SERVICES WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE FOR RESIDENTS AND REDUCING TRAFFIC BY REDUCING THE NEED FOR, SAY, A LAST MINUTE GROCERY RUN. BY HAVING BY HAVING A MORE CONVENIENT OPTION WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.HOWEVER, EVEN WITH THAT, WE STILL FUNDAMENTALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS SORT OF DENSITY AND THIS SORT OF DEVELOPMENT IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING FOR IN THE FUTURE AS THE CITY GROWS, AS OPPOSED TO SINGLE FAMILY SUBURBAN SPRAWL. AND WE GIVE OUR SUPPORT TO THIS DEVELOPMENT.
THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THERE'S NO ONE ELSE FROM THE PUBLIC. WE WOULD TURN THE TIME. OH, I WAS JUST GOING TO COMMENT THAT IF YOU'D LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER, I DO HAVE THE ELEVATIONS PULLED UP IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE BACK OF IT. IF IT'S NOT SHOWING ME PUBLIC PARKING, THEN NO, I DON'T NEED TO SEE IT. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE ELEVATION. THANK YOU. SORRY, I DON'T HAVE IT ON THE ELECTRIC. THAT'S OKAY. THAT'S AT THE BACK OF IT. SO THERE'S THE FORFEIT RADIUS TO TURN IN AND THEN YOU JUST HAVE IT. IT'S TWO. IT'S A SINGLE GARAGE DOOR WITH TWO STALLS.
IT'S NOT TWO. I MEAN THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND WHAT IS THE WIDTH? IS IT? I MEAN, IT'S A DOUBLE CAR GARAGE IS WHAT IT'S. YEAH. IT'S A TWO CAR. CORRECT. AS OPPOSED TO TWO SINGLE CAR GARAGES. YES I DO. I'M LOOKING AT THE PUD LIST OF EXPECTATIONS, I GUESS I WOULD CALL IT. AND THERE IS A REFERENCE TO FUNCTIONAL AND EFFICIENT SYSTEM OF STREETS PATHWAYS. WHERE'S THE PATHWAY THAT WE WOULD CALL FOR THIS PUD. YEAH. SO THEY'RE THEY'RE PROPOSING THAT'S THESE TWO LINES RIGHT HERE. THAT CIRCLE THE DEVELOPMENT A LITTLE. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN. THERE WE GO. SO THESE TWO WHITE LINES OR THESE, THIS SOLID WHITE LINE RIGHT HERE. SO THESE ARE WALKWAYS OUT TO THE EXISTING SIDE TO THE SIDEWALK NETWORK. AND THEN THIS IS THE INTERNAL NETWORK RIGHT HERE COMES DOWN TO THE STREET. AND IT ALSO CIRCLES THE PUD. THAT'S WHAT THESE TWO LINES, THE SINGLE SOLID WHITE ALONG THE EXTERIOR. THAT'S WHAT THAT IS. OKAY. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THOSE OVER HERE? YEAH. SO THEN THERE'S, THERE'S A SIDEWALK NETWORK RIGHT HERE ALONG THE RETENTION POND THAT COMES ALL THE WAY DOWN AND CIRCLES THE UNITS THERE. IT COMES AROUND AND CIRCLES THE UNITS HERE. OKAY. AND THEN IT'S ALSO UP HERE. IT CONNECTS TO THE SIDEWALK NETWORK OF THE MORE APOLOGIZE IF THAT'S SO GRAINY,
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I CAN CLICK ON THAT TO MAKE SURE THOSE GET A LITTLE CLEARER. I WAS READING THE STAFF REPORT AND I'M PRETTY SURE I UNDERSTAND IT. JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE KIND OF HOW IT FOLLOWS THROUGH THE PROCESS. IT SAYS PHASING WILL ENSURE EACH DIVISION WILL INCLUDE ACCESS AS WELL AS ADEQUATE AMENITIES. SO IS THAT SOMETHING THAT GOES INTO A DOCUMENT THAT THEY SIGN THAT SAYS SO THAT WE GET THE AMENITIES AS WE PHASE THROUGH? YES. THAT'S PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT. THAT'S CORRECT. SO THE WELCOMING SO THEY CAN WE CAN'T RENEGE ON THAT PROMISE. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR LEGAL COUNSEL, MR. JONES. SO WHEN WHEN THE PD COMES FORWARD WITH A VARIANCE, CAN WE DENY SIMPLY BECAUSE THE APPLICANT CAN'T COMPLY WITH OUR PD STANDARDS? IF IF COUNCIL FEELS THAT ONE OF THESE STANDARDS HAS NOT BEEN MET, THEN YES, COUNCIL CAN DENY. WELL, ISN'T ISN'T A VARIANCE PLAN REALLY THEM NOT MEETING THE STANDARD LIKE IF THEY CAN'T PROVIDE THE AMOUNT OF SETBACKS IN THE PLAN AND THEY'RE ASKING FOR A VARIANCE. FROM 15 TO 20 20 TO 15, ASKING FOR TWO VARIANCES THEY'RE ASKING FOR.CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT THEY'RE ASKING FOR VARIANCES FROM OUR TYPICAL CODE, NOT THE PUD CODE. IS THAT CORRECT? NO. VARIANCE THEY'RE ASKING FOR IS FOR THE R-2 STANDARD IS A 20 FOOT FRONT SETBACK. WITH THE PUD. IT IS WITHIN THEIR RIGHT TO ASK FOR A REDUCED SETBACK ON THE FRONT, WHICH THEY'RE REQUESTING A 15 FOOT FRONT SETBACK. THE OTHER ELEMENT TO WHY THEY'RE REQUESTING THE PUD IS THE PRIVATE STREET NETWORK. SO THAT IS A. SO PD IS REQUIRED TREES ALONG PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STREETS. THAT IS A PUD REQUIREMENT. SO IN THEORY I MEAN IS IT ACCURATE THAT IF THEY CAN'T MEET THE PD REQUIREMENTS THAT WOULD BE A REASON TO DENY BECAUSE THEY CAN'T MEET THE THE ORDINANCE. YES. IF LIKE IF THEY COULDN'T MEET LIKE THE AMENITY REQUIREMENT, IF THEY DIDN'T HAVE AT LEAST FOUR AMENITIES, THAT WOULD BE A BASIS FOR DENIAL. WOULD IT WOULD IT WOULD A BASIS FOR DENIAL BE THAT THEY CAN'T PROVIDE THE REQUIRED TREES ALONG THE THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE STREETS? I MEAN, I NEED TO LOOK WAIT, WHERE IS THE PUBLIC STREET REQUIREMENT? BECAUSE IF IT'S IF IF THE IF THE REQUIREMENT FOR PUBLIC. A NUMBER OF CERTAIN PUBLIC TREES OR TREES ALONG. POETRY. YES. IF THEY HAVEN'T FILLED OUT, THAT WOULD BE A BASIS TO DENY. AND THEY CAN. THEY CAN MEET THE NUMBER OF TREES, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE ASKING, COUNCILMEMBER, THEY CAN MEET THE NUMBER. YEAH, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU. IT SOUNDS LIKE STAFF RECOMMENDED THAT BECAUSE THEY CAN'T MEET THE REQUIREMENT OF, OF, OF PLACING THEM ON THE PRIVATE STREETS. YOU RECOMMENDED THAT THE TREES BE PLANTED ELSEWHERE. SO THE SAME AMOUNT OF TREES ARE ON THE PROPERTY. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. THEY COULD PLANT THEM AT THE REQUIRED DISTANCES THOUGH. AND WE CAN'T ALWAYS GUARANTEE BECAUSE OF THE DENSITY WHETHER THOSE SPECIES OF TREES WOULD LIVE. SO THAT'S WHY WE OFTEN SAY HERE'S A LITTLE VARIATION. IF YOU'D LIKE TO ASK THAT YOU USE THE. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE A QUESTION THEN FOR THE DEVELOPER AS WELL. YOUR RETENTION PONDS THAT THAT ARE AS PART OF THAT 25% GREEN SPACE, WHAT IS THE WHAT IS THE SLOPE TO GET DOWN? TO GET DOWN? YEAH, LIKE AS IF THEY'RE EVERY RING IS HOW FAR WHAT IS THE SLOPE? YEAH. SO I'M, WHAT WE'RE PLANNING ON IS THE TYPICAL SIZE WOULD BE 3 TO 1.0 ON A. AND ACCESS DOWN THE SIDE OF A MANAGEABLE SLOPE IN CERTAIN AREAS. SO IT WON'T BE IT'S PRETTY STEEP. YEAH. PRETTY STEEP THROUGHOUT THE PRETTY STEEP. AND THEN THERE'LL BE AREAS TO GO DOWN. BUT I THINK THAT SHOULD ONLY BE A CONCERN WITH THE AREA IN THE MIDDLE, WHICH IS WHERE WE'RE PLANNING TO PUT THAT DOG YARD. THAT WOULD BE THE ONLY CASE OF THAT. THE THE OTHER AREAS ARE JUST GREEN SPACE. AND IF WE COULD REDUCE THAT SIDE SLOPE. SO IT'S TYPICALLY DO A 3 TO 1. BUT IF WE WANT IT TO BE ACCESSIBLE. SO IT WOULD BE POSSIBLE WE COULD DO THOSE DEDICATED AREAS. OR IF WE NEED TO WE CAN JUST REDUCE THE SLOPE. I'M JUST NOT SURE IF THOSE. THAT IS WHAT WAS
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PRESCRIBED BECAUSE OF THE VOLUME FOR THE RETENTION POND. AND SO THEN IT'S LIKE, OH, THIS IS REALLY STEEPER. IT IS TO ME, THE MORE IT'S RETENTION POND THAN GREEN SPACE. SURE. IT'S JUST KIND OF LIKE IT'S, I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND THAT WE ALLOW FOR BOTH OF THOSE, BUT AS IT IS, IT BECOMES STEEPER AND STEEPER THAN I THINK. WELL, THIS IS JUST ABOUT VOLUME. YEAH. YEAH.THAN IT IS ABOUT ACCESS. YEAH. THAT IS PRETTY CLOSE TO WHAT WE NEED TO GET VOLUME. BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE WILLING TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS TO, TO MAKE IT MORE OF A USABLE SPACE. SO IT WOULD SEEM LIKE YOU WOULD HAVE STEPS OR SOME KIND OF AN ADA SIDEWALK DOWN INTO IT, SOMETHING WHERE IT'S ACTUALLY ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE, THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT ONTO THIS PLAN, BUT THAT'S AT LEAST FOR THE MIDDLE ONE. THAT WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN. BUT IN THAT TRIANGULAR PIECE THERE, THAT WAS ALWAYS THE PLAN IS TO ACTUALLY HAVE SOME SOME WAY TO ACCESS DOWN IN THERE BECAUSE YOU HAVE 3 TO 1 SLOPE ISN'T ISN'T HELPFUL, BUT WE CAN INCORPORATE THAT INTO THOSE OTHER OPTIONS AS WELL. I WOULD THINK THAT WE WOULD WANT TO HAVE AT LEAST ADA ACCESSIBILITY OF A SIDEWALK DOWN INTO THOSE, IF THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AN AMENITY AND PART OF THE ACCESSIBLE GREEN SPACE. LET ME ADD TOWARDS THE COMMON SPACE, TOWARDS THE COMMON SPACES. YES. OKAY. COUNCIL, IF THERE'S ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR THE DEVELOPER, WE CAN ALWAYS CLOSE THE HEARING AND THEN DELIBERATE. AND IF YOU HAVE MORE QUESTIONS AS THEY COME UP THROUGH DELIBERATION, WE CAN OPEN THE HEARING BACK UP. OKAY, I'LL CLOSE THE HEARING AND ALLOW FOR COUNCIL DELIBERATION. COUNCIL MEMBER FRANCIS. I'LL I'LL LEAD OUT IF YOU WANT. I'M OPEN MINDED ON THIS. AND SO I'M I'M. BUT I'M SEEING AT LEAST THREE MODIFICATIONS THAT WE REQUIRING ONE, THE PLAYGROUND QUALITY. SECOND, EXTRA STEPS ON THE FIRE CLEARING PRIVATE STREETS, ABSOLUTELY NO PARKING. AND THE DEVELOPER WOULD BE TAKING STEPS CONSISTENT WITH FIRE REQUIREMENTS. I'LL FIGURE OUT HOW TO PUT IT IN MOTION TO MAKE THOSE EXTRA STEPS TO MAKE IT CLEAR THERE IS NO PARKING ON THAT STREET. AND THEN IF I UNDERSTOOD YOU RIGHT, IT WOULD BE A REDUCTION IN THE SLOPE, OR AT LEAST ADA ACCESSIBLE COMMON SPACE. YES. ON BOTH OF THEIR ON BOTH OF THEIR LARGE. THOSE ARE STORM. THEY ARE STORM PONDS, BUT THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE 80 ACCESSIBLE STORM POND. DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ADDITIONS? AND SOMEBODY. YOU THINK WE OUGHT TO NOT DO THIS AT ALL. WE HAVE MET OUR REQUIREMENTS. AND I GUESS I'M JUST A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE WE ASKING FOR VARIANCE, RIGHT? I MEAN, THAT THAT MAKES IT SEEM AS THOUGH WE JUST HAVE TO AUTOMATICALLY APPROVE EVERY VARIANCE THAT'S REQUESTED. THAT IS TRUE. I AM SORRY, MR. JONES. THAT'S WHERE I'M GETTING A LITTLE BIT CONFUSED HERE. SO I'M LOOKING SO I'M LOOKING DEEPER INTO THAT FOR FOR SETBACKS SPECIFICALLY. SO THAT'S ADDRESSED IN SUBSECTION FOUR OF 111126. IT SAYS DIMENSIONAL STANDARDS, INCLUDING SETBACKS IF DIFFERENT FROM THE REGULAR REQUIREMENTS AS CODE, SHALL BE ESTABLISHED FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PUD BASED UPON THE FOLLOWING CRITERIA.
AND THERE IS A CRITERIA FOR SETBACKS. THIS IS IN SUBSECTION D OF THAT SECTION. SETBACKS SHALL REFLECT THE GENERAL STANDARDS OF THE AREA AND CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN WHICH THE PUD IS LOCATED. ANOTHER SUBSECTION IN RESIDENTIAL PUDS. THE ESTABLISHED SETBACKS OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES CONTIGUOUS TO OR ACROSS FROM THE STREET FROM THE PUD SHALL CONSTITUTE THE MINIMUM SETBACK FOR THE PERIMETER PERIMETER AREA OF THE PUD, WHICH IS CONTIGUOUS TO SUBSECTION II. INTERNAL SETBACKS BETWEEN BUILDINGS OR INTERNAL LOT LINES WITHIN RESIDENTIAL DUTIES MAY BE ESTABLISHED AS PART OF THE PROCESS, SO THAT IS THE CRITERIA FOR VARYING THE SETBACK FROM THE NORMAL UNDERLYING ZONE. SO THOSE WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT AND SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL WOULD HAVE TO BE SATISFIED THAT WHAT THEY'RE REQUESTING MEETS THAT CRITERIA. IF IT DOESN'T, THEN COUNCIL CAN SAY, NO. YOU HAVEN'T MET OUR CRITERIA FOR VARYING THE SETBACK. AND IF YOU WANT, WE CAN TRY TO PULL UP THAT RULE. I KNOW THAT WAS A LOT OF LANGUAGE, AND SOMETIMES IT'S EASIER TO HAVE IT IN FRONT OF COUNCIL, BUT THAT WOULD BE THE PROCESS. THAT WOULD BE THE
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PROCESS WE WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW IS SAY THE COUNCIL WOULD FOLLOW. HIS IS HAS THE CRITERIA FOR VARYING THE SETBACK BEEN MET. AND THAT IS THE CRITERIA THAT I JUST GAVE TO YOU. AND WHAT ABOUT THE TREES? TREES? DO YOU KNOW WHERE THAT'S AT IN LANDSCAPING? IT'S REALLY JUST THE. DIRECTOR CENTER, AS I HEARD OUR ATTORNEY SAY, IF THERE WAS MAYBE A PROPERTY UP AGAINST IT THAT HAD A SETBACK OF 20FT, AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT MOVED INTO A 15 FOOT, THAT WOULD BE INCONSISTENT. BUT I THINK THAT'S THE CHALLENGE WITH THIS ONE, IS THAT THIS NOW SETS PRECEDENT FOR ANYTHING ELSE THAT COMES FORWARD FROM A PUD STANDPOINT. IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, SO IF WE DON'T LIKE THIS, BUT WE GRANT IT BECAUSE WE'RE GRANTING THE VARIANCES NOW ESTABLISHING THAT PRECEDENT FOR THE SETBACK. SO I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT HOW THAT READS OUT LEGALLY THEN BECAUSE. RIGHT TO IS IT TO THE WEST OF IT? THERE'S ALREADY A DEVELOPED PAR TWO, WHICH WOULD HAVE 20 FOOT SETBACKS TO THE. SO AT A MINIMUM, IT WOULD REQUIRE 20 FOOT SETBACKS TO. WHAT'S ALREADY DEVELOPED. I THINK IT'S ON THE WEST SIDE. IF I'M READING IT RIGHT, THAT'S ALREADY DEVELOPED, THE REST OF IT'S ZONED R-2, BUT IT'S NOT DEVELOPED AT ALL. SO WE WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO GO IN THERE. BUT IF I'M READING THE PART YOU JUST READ, IT WOULD BE CONTIGUOUS MINIMUM SETBACK FOR THE PERIMETER AREA, WHICH IS WHICH IT IS CONTIGUOUS TO. SO DOES THAT MEAN JUST THE DEVELOPED AREA CONTIGUOUS TO.OR DOES IT MEAN ALL OF THE ZONE IS CONTIGUOUS TO. ONE? I THINK WE WOULD HAVE TO ASSUME THAT OUR. ANYTHING BEING DEVELOPED WOULD CONTINUE THE R-2 ZONING REQUIREMENTS OF 20FT REQUIRED.
IF IT'S AN R-2, YEAH WE WOULD. SURROUNDING ALL THE WAY AROUND THE EDGE. THEY WOULD HAVE TO HAVE TO 20 FOOT. WE SHOW THAT AGAIN WITH THE WHERE THE. I THINK THE VARIANCES WERE TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH, NOT TO THE WEST. OKAY. YES. SO WHATEVER IS TO THE WEST WOULDN'T MATTER.
YEAH. IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME. AND CAN YOU GIVE US AN HOUR. THAT'S NOT THE VARIANCE BEING REQUESTED. NO THAT'S CORRECT. THE VARIANCE. SORRY, I WAS LOOKING AT THAT LANDSCAPING.
YEAH. THE TITLE AND CHAPTER. ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THE VARIANCE THAT YOU'RE THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS A FRONT SETBACK VARIANCE. SO THE. JUST TO IMPRESS THIS FIRST. SO THE VARIANCE IS UP HERE. THESE WOULD BE IF. DID YOU MENTION WEST. I'M SORRY I DIDN'T HEAR EVERYTHING THAT YOU WERE DISCUSSING. I APOLOGIZE THIS WOULD BE THE SIDE SETBACK OVER HERE WHICH IS A FIVE FEET IN THE R-2. THEY'RE REQUESTING THE 20 THE 15 FOOT SETBACK FROM THE FRONT ON THIS PORTION. THIS PORTION, WHAT I HAD IN THE READ ALONG THE STREET FRONTAGE, YOU HAVE THE ZONING MAP HAS R-2 ZONING THAT SURROUNDS THIS ENTIRETY. IS THAT AM I REMEMBERING THAT CORRECTLY? YES. EVEN THOUGH IT'S UNDEVELOPED. YEAH. THE SURROUNDING ZONING IS ACTUALLY. OH, OH, THAT'S THE ONE. YEAH. THE ZONING MAP THAT YOU WANTED TO LOOK AT. YEAH. SO THE SURROUNDING ZONING. I SEE WHAT YOU'RE ASKING. COUNCILMEMBER LEE, YOU ARE CORRECT. THE R2 IS WHAT'S COMPLETELY AROUND YOU, BUT NOTHING'S BEEN CONSTRUCTED.
WOULD YOU GO BACK TO THE ONE THAT HAD THE RED LINES? BECAUSE IT SHOWS THAT. YEAH. SO THOSE ARE THOSE ARE 15 FOOT. THOSE ARE 15 FOOT. AND THOSE ARE THE ONLY ONES. THEY'RE NOT UP AGAINST THAT OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD. OKAY. WHAT ARE YOUR. PROCEDURES? HERE ARE TWO. SO IT'S MORE THAN THIS. BUT THEY'RE THE THEY'RE THE FRONT SETBACKS. SO THE. I MEAN, HOW WOULD THIS AFFECT THE FUTURE? LIKE IF I'M LOOKING AT THE STREET SYSTEM, THE STREET NETWORK HERE, I DON'T SEE IT AS BEING UP AGAINST ANYTHING ELSE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU'RE BACKING THAT OTHER DIVISION THAT'S BEEN PLATTED. I CAN'T SEE THAT IT ACTUALLY SETS A. IT DOESN'T SET A LINE OR A CURVE INTO ANOTHER POTENTIAL PROPERTY. BUT I THINK COUNCILMEMBER LEE'S POINT IS THAT THAT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER IN THE SENSE OF THE NEXT DEVELOPMENT, JUST SOLELY BASED UPON ANY VARIANCE APPROVED HERE. NOW WOULD SET THE MINIMUM STANDARD REGARDLESS. DOESN'T MATTER. THAT ISN'T HOW I. THAT ISN'T HOW I UNDERSTOOD HIS I. WHAT TITLE AND CHAPTER ARE YOU READING FROM? 11 AS I UNDERSTOOD IT, IT WAS AS IT COMES UP AGAINST IT. 1126WW. I CAN APPRECIATE THE CONCERN BECAUSE I HAVE HAD THAT ABOUT SETTING PRECEDENT, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S SOMETHING WE LOOKED AT FROM LEGAL ON PRIOR SITUATION. THE FACT THAT IT'S
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BEEN DONE BEFORE DOESN'T MEAN IT HAS TO BE. AND THAT'S WHAT I'D LIKE TO ASK COUNCIL ABOUT.I THINK THAT'S WHERE I'M GETTING CONFUSED, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING TOLD THAT THAT JUST BECAUSE THEY REQUESTED A VARIANCE AND YOU'RE ALLOWED TO REQUEST A VARIANCE, YOU HAVE TO PASS A VARIANCE. I HAVE TO APPROVE IT. SO THAT'S WHERE I'M GETTING CONFUSED. AND I'M KIND OF TALKING ABOUT, I THINK WHAT, WHAT COUNCILMEMBER LEE SAID, IF WE DO THIS AND WE NEVER FORCE ANYBODY TO LIVE UP TO THE 20 FOOT, I THINK IT MAKES IT VERY DIFFICULT FOR US TO DO THAT. I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S SOMETHING I READ JUST RECENTLY FROM LEGAL THAT THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE CASE. DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT ON THAT? THAT IF WE DO, IF WE GRANT A VARIANCE FROM 20 TO 15, THEN DOES THAT MEAN EVERYBODY IN THE FUTURE CAN ASK FOR 15? WE'RE FORCED TO AUTOMATICALLY PROVIDE THAT. OR CAN WE TAKE IT ON A CASE BY CASE BASIS, OR DO WE NOT HAVE THAT? NO, YOU'RE NOT BOUND BY YOUR IT'S LIKE IT'S INFORMATIVE, BUT YOU'RE NOT BOUND BY YOUR PRIOR DECISIONS. OKAY. AND, BUT I THINK YOU MIGHT BE GETTING A DIFFERENT THING, WHICH IS IF THERE'S A PUD THAT'S BUILT ACROSS FROM THERE, WOULD THAT AFFECT THAT PUD? ABSOLUTELY. YES. YEAH. NOW, IF IT'S NOT A PUD, IF IT'S JUST A NORMAL DEVELOPMENT. NO IT'S NOT A PUD IN THIS CRITERIA DOESN'T APPLY. SO IT WOULDN'T AFFECT IT UNLESS IT HAPPENED TO BE ANOTHER PUD. SO HOW HOW DOES IT AFFECT IT IF THE ONE ACROSS IS A PUD. WELL IT ESSENTIALLY THIS SETS PRECEDENT OF WHAT WE'VE ALREADY ALLOWED AND DEEMED ACCEPTABLE. AND SO NOW THE NEXT ONE COMES IN. BUT YET WE DON'T WE'RE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH THIS VARIANCE, BUT YET WE'RE APPROVING IT THE NEXT WE. MY SHORT SIX MONTHS ON COUNCIL HAS TOLD ME FROM OTHER PUDS THAT IT IS VERY IMPORTANT, ACTUALLY, WHAT WE DO APPROVE HERE THAT PUD SAYS THAT THE. WE HAVE TO BE. THERE IS SOME AMOUNT OF CONSISTENCY THAT LOOKS IS LOOKED BACK UPON. THIS IS. I'M NOT REALLY TRYING TO CHAMPION THE THE VARIANCE. I'M JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT. IT SOUNDS A LOT LIKE. YEAH, THAT'S THAT'S. COUNCIL. NOW AS FAR AS TREES, WHAT YOU POINTED ME TO THAT IS IN SUBSECTION SIX. SO THIS IS 1126, SUBSECTION W, SUBSECTION SIX HAS A REQUIREMENT OF ONE. SO I CAN'T FIND SOMETHING SAYING THAT IT HAS TO BE ALONG A PRIVATE STREET OR A PUBLIC STREET, A NUMBER FOUR STREETS. WHAT IT DOES SAY IS A MINIMUM OF ONE TREE PER 5000FT■S. SO IF YOU'VE GOT A, YOU KNOW, A SQUARE, 5000, 5000FT■!S, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A TREE WITHIN THAT SQUARE. NOW, IN THE VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH, IT SAYS ALTERNATE TREE SPACING CAN BE REQUESTED AS PART OF THE PUD, BUT SHALL NOT REDUCE THE TOTAL NUMBER, MINIMUM NUMBER OF TREES REQUIRED. SO THAT'S WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY'VE DONE IS THEY SAID, HEY, IT WORKS OUT BETTER IF WE HAVE AN ALTERNATE NUMBER. BUT THIS THE, THE NUMBER, THE TOTAL NUMBER IS STILL MET. MY CONCERN AROUND TREES PRIMARILY WOULD END UP BEING THAT WE HAVE A CANOPY TO PROTECT THE PAVEMENT OF OUR PUBLIC STREET, BECAUSE WE GET 50 YEARS OF VALUE OUT OF A STREET THAT'S COVERED FROM UV, WHICH I THINK THAT THAT IS THERE. ALTHOUGH I DO WORRY THAT IN OUR PUD ORDINANCE, WE'RE NOT REQUIRING TALL ENOUGH TREES THAT WOULD ACTUALLY CREATE CANOPIES. YEAH. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE LOOKED AT IN THE TREE ORDINANCE. AND WE DID TRY TO SAY AND SUGGEST THAT GET THE TALLEST TREES FOR THESE STREETS. TO BE HONEST, SOMETIMES THE REGULAR NATURE OF TREES ALONG SOME OF THESE STREETS ARE TOO REGULAR. AND IT DOESN'T REALLY HELP NATURE AND SOME OF THE ANIMALS THAT WANT TO USE THIS. SO I'M NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY VARY A BIT, BUT THE TOTAL NUMBER DOES NEED TO BE TRUE, I THINK, BECAUSE I THINK WE WANT TO HAVE AS MANY TREES AS WE CAN TO HELP THE HEAT ISLAND EFFECT OF THE OF THESE ROOFS. ONE THING I WOULD SAY FROM AN IDAHO FALLS PERSPECTIVE, MORE TREES MEANS WE HAVE LESS ENERGY USAGE. A WELL-PLACED TREE CAN REDUCE AIR CONDITIONER USE BY 40%. AND WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH INSULATION. WE CAN'T DO THAT WITH ANYTHING ELSE. SO THE MORE TREES WE HAVE AROUND THESE BUILDINGS, THE BETTER. I THINK THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE PUBLIC STREET, THE PUBLIC STREET, DOES HAVE CITY CODE NUMBER OF TREES ON IT TO CREATE THAT KIND OF CANOPY, BUT IT WON'T BE THAT WAY IN THE PRIVATE STREETS. JUST TO TAKE A CHANCE OF DEVELOPERS THAT ARE HERE NOW.
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AND I'M SURE THEY DO. BUT THE VALUE OF TREES ON PROPERTIES TENDS TO 10 TO $50,000 PER TREE PLANTED, AND SO HOUSES HAVE MORE VALUE WHEN THERE'S MORE TREES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS. I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A REQUEST OF CITY CLERK OR DIRECTOR SANDER, BUT CAN I GET THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MAP PUT BACK UP ON THE SCREEN, PLEASE? I CAN'T ZOOM IN ENOUGH TO. YEAH.NO PROBLEM. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A TREE. THERE YOU GO. WELL, HERE'S AN IDEA. SEE HOW THIS GOES? IS THERE A WAY TO. MITIGATE THE 15 FOOT SETBACK IMPACT BY REQUIRING MORE TREES ALONG THAT SETBACK? KIND OF KEYNOTE? GO TO THE SETBACK PHOTO. I WAS JUST GOING TO MENTION THAT WE WOULD BE AGREEABLE TO THAT IF YOU GUYS WANTED TO WRITE THAT IN ON IT.
LIKE, LIKE AS STATED, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A VALUE TO THE TREES AND WE WANT A NICE LITTLE SPACE.
SO I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY, IF THERE'S A CERTAIN NUMBER OF TREES YOU WOULD WANT OR JUST YOU CAN PUT THAT IN THE THE REQUIREMENT AND WE'LL DO OUR BEST TO MEET THAT. WERE YOU ASKING ME THAT QUESTION? I'M ASKING THE REST OF THE COUNCIL BECAUSE THERE'S NO POINT IN TRYING IT IF NOBODY SUPPORTS IT. I WOULD JUST SAY THAT THE SETBACK FOR ME IS LESS OF AN ISSUE IF WE'RE PROTECTED BY OUR IF WE HAVE ENOUGH ROOM FOR OUR UTILITIES. I MEAN, LET'S BE HONEST, SETBACKS ARE A MODERN INVENTION AROUND HOW UTILITIES ARE BUILT, BECAUSE IF YOU WALK AROUND D.C. OR GEORGETOWN OR, YOU KNOW, CITIES, THEY BUILT RIGHT TO THE SIDEWALK, RIGHT? BUT THEY HAD A DIFFERENT WAY TO GET UTILITIES TO THOSE PROPERTIES DOWN ALLEYS. SO THAT'S MY THOUGHT. BUT I DO THINK MICHELLE HAS A GREAT POINT THAT IF WHEN YOU VARY, YOU'RE ASKING SOMETHING, YOU KNOW. THOSE ARE UTILITY EASEMENTS. CAN YOU PUT TREES IN THAT? THAT IS YOU CAN DO THAT. OUR FORESTER HAS WORKED OUT WAYS FOR THAT. YES, YES, THERE ARE THERE ARE WAYS TO DO THAT NOW. WELL, THE REASON I MADE THAT SUGGESTION OR IDEA IS IT'S A WAY TO SAY, OKAY, THERE IS A PRECEDENCE HERE, BUT FUTURE DEVELOPERS SHOULD KNOW THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE REQUIRED TO DO SOMETHING TO MITIGATE THAT VARIANCE. ALL RIGHT. AND COUNCIL RADFORD, I'M WITH YOU ON THE TREES. COUNCIL. ARE WE READY FOR SOMEONE TO MAKE A MOTION. AND AND WE'LL SEE IF IF WE GET ANYWHERE WITH IT, WE HAVE A THIRD OR FOURTH ITEM.
NOW. WE DO NOW HAVE A FOURTH ITEM. OKAY. SO WE'VE GOT PLAYGROUND QUALITY OF PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. THE NO PARKING MARKINGS, THE COMMON SPACE, ADA ACCESSIBLE. AND THEN THE TREE. YEAH. AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I'M REQUIRING TREES IN THE 15 FOOT SETBACKS, BUT I DON'T KNOW. I GUESS I NEED MR. SANDER TO HELP ME OUT HERE. WHAT TREES ARE REQUIRED OR SHOWN ON THE PUD FOR THE ALL THE ALL THE RED STUFF UP THERE. FOR THE 15 FOOT SETBACK SUPPLY.
YEAH, I WAS JUST, I WAS ACTUALLY JUST CRUNCHING THOSE NUMBERS REAL QUICK. THE TOTAL TREES REQUIRED ARE 127 TREES ON SITE FOR THAT 5000 RULE. WHEN YOU ASKED ME THAT QUESTION, I WAS AT 112 AND I HADN'T HIT THE THE NORTHEAST CORNER. SO I'M ASSUMING THAT THEY WOULD BE MEETING THAT REQUIREMENT. SO YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT THE IN THE FRONT SETBACK. IS THAT WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING. YEAH. WE'RE ALL AGREED LINES ARE HERE. THOSE AREN'T TREES RIGHT. THOSE ARE SETBACKS. THAT'S RIGHT. YES. THE RED IN THOSE ZONES. HOW MANY TREES WOULD BE REQUIRED
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FOR THAT STREET FRONTAGE. SORRY, I'VE GOT TO LOOK THAT UP. WHAT IT WOULD BE BECAUSE IN THE PUD IT JUST REQUIRES THE ONE PER 5000FT■!S. SO AS LONG AS THEY CN MEET THAT AND THEY CAN MEET THE NUMBER, THEN THEY WOULD MEET THE REQUIREMENT OF THE, OH, THIS IS GOING TO BE EXTRA.THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PLAN EXTRA TREES TO GET THEIR 15 FOOT SETBACK. THAT'S A SEPARATION WOULD BE. I'D HAVE TO LOOK UP THE ORDER. COUNCIL. COUNCILMEMBER. COUNCILMEMBER FRANCIS, WHAT IS THE. WHAT IS THE NEXUS BETWEEN TREES AND SETBACK? JUST TELL ME, ISN'T THE IDEA. THE SETBACK IS. YOU'RE. YOU'RE SOME DISTANCE FROM THE PROPERTY LINE EDGE.
THE. ALSO, THE OTHER CONCERN THAT WASN'T MENTIONED A LOT OF TIMES THE PLANTING. YOU CAN PLANT TREES IN THE EASEMENT. BUT JUST BE COGNIZANT THAT WHEN YOU PLANT THEM OVER THE UTILITY LINE, YOU CAN. THE ROOT SYSTEM GETS INTO THAT INTO THAT UTILITY LINE. IT CAN PROVIDE PROBLEMS AS WELL. SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT IT MORE AS A BUFFER. EXACTLY. AND HERE'S, HERE'S MY REASONING, BECAUSE IF WE JUST SAY, THIS IS WHAT I PICKED UP FROM THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF WE JUST SAY, OH, GO AHEAD AND DO THE 15FT. FIRST OF ALL, IT'S ACTUALLY POSSIBLE THAT THIS WOULD FAIL IN A VOTE BASED ON CONVERSATION UP HERE. JUST SAYING THAT. SECOND, IT SETS THE PRECEDENT FOR FUTURE PUDS. AND WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IS FIGURE OUT A WAY TO SAY, OKAY, WE UNDERSTAND TO MAKE THIS WORK, YOU NEED THESE 15 FOOT SETBACKS, BUT YOU OWE BACK BECAUSE YOU'RE REDUCING THE SETBACK FROM STANDARD AND FROM WHAT WOULD BE REQUIRED FOR THE R-2 THAT MIGHT DEVELOP ON THE OTHER SIDE. SO IN ORDER TO MITIGATE THAT, PUT THE BUFFER OF EXTRA TREES IN THERE BEYOND THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT. SO THIS IS AN EXTRA STEP BY THE DEVELOPER TO SAY, THIS IS THIS IS IMPORTANT. THIS WILL PENCIL OUT FOR US, BUT WE UNDERSTAND IT'S GOING TO BE REQUIRE MORE OF A BUFFER SCREENING OF TREES. THIS IS EXTRA BEYOND THE BASIC REQUIREMENT. SO THOUGHT THAT'S KIND OF OCCURRING TO ME IS THAT WE'RE GOING FROM 15 TO OR FROM 20 TO 15. THAT'S A 25% REDUCTION, RIGHT? SO THAT REDUCES THE NUMBER OF TREES THAT ARE NEEDED BY 25%. IS THAT MAKE SENSE? NO. IT INCREASES. THAT'S ONE WAY TO LOOK AT IT.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE 20. SO THE NUMBER OF TREES WOULD BE 25% LESS BECAUSE WE'D HAVE LESS LANDSCAPING. NO NO NO NO NO NO. IF YOU WENT DOWN YOU'RE YOU WOULD BE REQUIRING MORE INFINITELY NUMBER MORE TREES JUST BECAUSE YOU HAVE A, A 25% LESS SETBACK, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE ONE TREE PER FOOT PER. RIGHT. BUT COUNCILMAN FRANCIS, MAYBE 1FT/FT■!S LIKE THAT WOULD BE.
YEAH. IF I COULD ASK THIS QUESTION TO COUNCILMAN FRANCIS, IF YOU LOOK AT THE TREE SPACING ALONG PLAN SOUTH, WHERE THEY HAVE, THEY'VE ALSO NOTED THE VARIANCE OF THE SETBACK. IS THAT SPACING LOOK ADEQUATE TO YOU? SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT YOU'D LIKE TO SEE ALONG? I DON'T SEE THOSE TREE LINES ON THE NORTH. ON THE NORTH SIDE THEY'RE NOT. AND SO THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING IS IF YOU SEE SOMETHING COMPARABLE TO WHAT THEY'RE SHOWING, PLAN SOUTH EXACTLY ALONG THE NORTH. IS THAT IS THAT WHAT WOULD BE ADEQUATE TO YOU? WELL DONE.
THANK YOU. TO ANSWER YOUR TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION AS WELL, COUNCILMEMBER FRANCIS, YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT THE SPACING OF THE TREES. SO IT DOESN'T REALLY I'LL JUST READ THIS SECTION.
IT'S BEST JUST TO READ CODE, BUT IT SAYS ALL PUDS THAT INCLUDE LIMITED COMMERCIAL USES OR RESIDENTIAL USES CONTIGUOUS TO EXISTING COMMERCIAL USES. SO THAT'S THE ONLY TIME THAT THIS REALLY APPLIES. YOU SHALL PROVIDE A BUFFER FROM CONTIGUOUS RESIDENTIAL USES THAT ARE NOT PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT. THE BUFFER SHALL BE NO LESS THAN TEN FEET IN WIDTH, AND SHALL INCLUDE TREES WITH NO LESS THAN 20FT CENTER SEPARATE. SO YOU'VE GOT A 20 FOOT SEPARATION BETWEEN THE TREE, BUT THAT'S ONLY BETWEEN COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL BUFFERS. SO JUST BE COGNIZANT OF THAT. WE'RE NOT LOOKING AT THERE'S NO BUFFER HERE BETWEEN A COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL USE. I UNDERSTAND THAT. I ALSO SUGGESTING THAT WE REQUIRE MORE TREES TO BE PLANTED. AND I THINK MR. LEE HAS IT EXACTLY RIGHT. IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, WHERE YOU SEE THE TREES ON THE SOUTHERN PART. YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT THERE. CITY CLERK CAN YOU ZOOM IN ON THAT FOR US, PLEASE? THAT THAT EXACT LAYOUT WOULD BE REQUIRED ON THE NORTHERN. SO THOSE WOULD BE LIKE A 20 FOOT SETBACK. 20 FOOT. YEAH. AND I WAS JUST GIVING YOU WHAT THE CLOSEST SEPARATION STANDARD I COULD FIND WAS THAT IT WOULD BE BETWEEN COMMERCIAL 20. AND THAT WOULD BE A GOOD WAY TO PUT IT. BUT THAT'S WHAT WOULD BE REQUIRED ON THE NORTH.
THAT SAME LOOK. AND THEY'RE NOT THERE NOW. I SEE FOUR TREES, ONE PART OF THE NORTH AND ZERO,
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AND THE OTHER PART IS. AND ONE NO, THAT IT WOULD HAVE TO MATCH THAT 20 FOOT SEPARATION. IT'S JUST A IT'S JUST AN ATTEMPT TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE THIS GO AND ADJUST TO THAT.OBVIOUSLY, THE DENSITY OF. BUT IF YOU IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, YOU. THEY HAVE SIDEWALKS RIGHT LEADING OUT FROM EACH ONE OF THOSE. AND THERE'S A. IS THERE A PATHWAY? IS THAT WHERE THE PATHWAY RUNS? SO YOU CAN. YOU WOULD JUST BE PUTTING 22. OR IS THAT A ROAD. I CAN ONLY DRAW THAT. IT JUST DEPENDS ON HOW THE REST OF YOU FEEL, BECAUSE I'M NOT. I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MAKE IT WORK. YEAH, I CAN APPRECIATE IT. IF I COULD READ ON THAT WHOLE TOP EDGE.
THERE'S FOUR. I SEE WHAT I SEE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I ALSO, I MEAN, I CAN APPRECIATE THE SHADE, I COULD ALSO APPRECIATE WHO MIGHT LIVE IN THIS AND THINK LIKE, WHY DID THEY PUT ALL THESE TREES ON MY PROPERTY THAT I WANT TO HAVE A RIGHT? I MEAN, YOU GO OUT THERE AND IT'S LIKE, OH, WELL, I GUESS I DON'T HAVE ANY GREEN SPACE. IT'S JUST A TREE. I DO LIKE WHAT IS I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S RANDOM THOUGH. I LIKE WHAT IS ON THAT. WHAT I'M LOOKING AT IS THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S JUST NOTHING TO THE LEFT. SO I WOULD ADD SOME TREES, BUT I WOULDN'T SAY THERE'S A PERCENTAGE. AND SO THAT'S A VERY ODD STATEMENT. WAS WAS THERE A PATHWAY ALONG THAT NORTH BORDER RIGHT THERE WHERE THE FRONT OF THOSE HOMES MEET THE EDGE PUBLIC STREET SIDEWALK? YEAH, BECAUSE I WAS THINKING WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IT.
YEAH. RIGHT THERE WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A PATHWAY, I THOUGHT IT WAS WHAT I'M ASKING IS, ARE THE TREES GOING TO BE IN THE PATHWAY BECAUSE WE'RE HEADED THE THE LITTLE GRAY STRIP YOU SEE ALONG THE BLACK LINE, JUST THAT'S A THAT'S A SIDEWALK AS PART OF THIS STREET PROFILE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. COUNSEL, ANYONE IS READY TO MAKE A MOTION, ASK MORE QUESTIONS. SAY WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO TO SEE. AND I WOULD JUST ADVISE IF WE'RE GOING TO BE ASKING THE DEVELOPER TO MAKE CHANGES, WE WOULD OPEN THAT. WE. I WOULD JUST ADVISE THAT YOU YOU DIRECT STAFF TO WORK WITH THE DEVELOPER TO MEET THE CONDITIONS THAT COUNCIL WOULD LIKE. AND THEN WE TABLE THIS TO A DATE, CERTAIN TABLE THIS AND THE PUBLIC HEARING. AND THEN WE, YOU KNOW, THEN IT COMES BACK THAT WAY COUNCIL CAN SEE IF THE YOU KNOW, THE CONDITIONS THAT THEY SAID ARE. IF THE CONDITIONS THAT WE SET ARE NOT MET, THEN IT WOULD NOT BE APPROVED THOUGH. I MEAN, WE COULD APPROVE IT WITH THESE CONDITIONS AND NOT HAVE TO COME BACK FOR ANOTHER HEARING. THERE ISN'T A WAY FOR THEM TO BUILD IT IF IT DOESN'T MEET THE CONDITIONS THAT COUNCIL SETS. IT JUST DEPENDS ON HOW SPECIFIC COUNCIL WANTS TO BE WITH THE CONDITIONS. LIKE IF WE'RE SAYING, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT A CERTAIN NUMBER OF TREES AND THEY'RE GOING TO NEED TO REVISE THAT. SO YOU HAVE A CERTAIN NUMBER OF TREES. I THINK, IN CONDITIONS THAT THE CONDITIONS WOULD HAVE TO BE SPECIFIC. YES. SO THEY HAVE TO BE SPECIFIC ENOUGH THAT WE THAT WE THAT STAFF CAN GO BACK AND SAY, HERE'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO REVISE THIS. THAT'S WHAT I THAT IS THE ONLY I MEAN, FOR ME, THAT'S THE ONLY DIRECTION FORWARD BECAUSE IT'S LIKE, GIVE ME A ROCK. NO, I DON'T LIKE THAT ROCK. GIVE ME ANOTHER ONE.
RIGHT. IT HAS TO BE SPECIFIC. THIS IS WHAT, WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT AND NOT JUST. YEAH.
BRING US BACK ANOTHER DESIGN. SO I'M GOING TO TRY AND WE'LL SEE WHERE IT GOES. ALL RIGHT.
SO I MOVE COUNCIL APPROVE THE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT PUD FOR HARVEST VILLAGE AS AMENDED IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER. ONE THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT WILL MATCH CURRENT PARKS AND REC STANDARDS AS OF AUGUST 13TH. SO AS OF TODAY AND SECOND, THE. THE PRIVATE STREETS WILL TAKE ADDITIONAL MARKINGS, INCLUDING PAINTING THE CURBS TO MARKED NO PARKING AS WELL AS THE SIGNS.
AND THAT WOULD BE DONE WITH WITH FIRE'S INPUT. AND THEN ALL OF THE OPEN SPACES, STORM AREAS WOULD BE REDUCED. THE SLOPE TO ADA ACCESSIBLE STORM COMMON GROUND. OKAY. I WOULD SAY IT'S
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NOT REDUCED THE SLOPE. IT IS THAT THEY WOULD HAVE ACCESS RIGHT TO THOSE ADA ACCESS. YEAH.THEY COULD DO THE RAMP WAY INTO IT. THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE A RAMP WAY, MAKING IT ADA ACCESSIBLE. AND FOR THAT THEY WOULD MATCH THE TREE LINE OF THE SOUTHERN LINE OF THE PROPERTY SHOWN ON THE PUD ALONG THE NORTH SIDE OF THE DEVELOPMENTS. WOULD YOU WANT TO SPECIFY THE AREAS THAT HAVE A 15 FOOT SETBACK WOULD HAVE 15 FOOT. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE FINDING, RIGHT? SO IT'D BE THE SAME SPACING THAT THEY'RE SHOWING ON THE SOUTHERN PART.
BUT THEY WOULD DO THAT ON THE NORTH. OR AS CAN I JUST ADD ONE THING? I MEAN, IF THEY DO THAT AND IT LANDS ON A SIDEWALK, RIGHT, YOU WOULD DO IT TO ONE OR THE OTHER SIDE. I MEAN, A REASONABLE. RIGHT? YEAH. I MEAN YES, YES, YES. OKAY. JUST WITH WITH CREATIVE IMAGINATION. YES.
THIS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED. YES, YES, YES. CLARK, I'M SO SORRY FOR THE MESSY MOTION, BUT ARE WE OKAY? SORT OF THE FOUR POINTS. OKAY, I WILL SECOND IT. LARSON. YES. DINGMANN. YES.
FRANCIS I. FREEMAN. NO. LEE. YES. RADFORD I MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. I DON'T LIKE. DIRECTOR CENTER. YOU ARE ALSO BEEN CLEAR ON ALL OF THAT. OKAY. REALLY QUICKLY FOR OH YES WE DO. WE HAVE MORE TO GO. YEAH. LET'S GO AHEAD. WE'VE GOT THAT ONE. SO NOW LET'S GO AHEAD AND APPROVE THE REINSTATEMENT OF RELEVANT CRITERIA. STANDARDS COUNCIL. HOLD ON. SORRY. I JUST WANT TO THAT'S CORRECT. SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO NEED IF YOU WANT TO DIRECT STAFF TO REVISE THE REASON STATEMENT, TO HAVE THE CONDITIONS IN THERE, AND THEN WE'LL BRING IT BACK IN LATER.
MEETING. YES. AND SO CAN WE. FOR A DATE CERTAIN ON THE STATEMENT OR WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT. SURE. I CAN TABLE FOR CERTAIN. OKAY. SO I'M WHAT IF. MOTION JUST TO CHANGE THE. OR DO YOU JUST WANT TO. OR, OR YOU CAN JUST SAY THAT THE. I THINK I GUESS YOU COULD MAKE A MOTION SAYING THAT DIRECT STAFF TO. TRYING TO THINK ABOUT THIS, TO TAKE THE MOTION, USE THAT AS THE CONDITIONS AND INSERT THAT INTO THE REASON STATEMENT AND THAT THAT'S THE ONE APPROVED BY COUNCIL. AND THEN IT'LL JUST GET DISTRIBUTED FOR SIGNATURE. ONCE THAT'S BEEN DONE, YOU WON'T HAVE THE ONLY ISSUE WITH THAT. YOU WON'T HAVE THE SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IN FRONT OF YOU THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY APPROVING, AND YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO HAVE INPUT ON THAT.
YEAH, YEAH. I THINK WE NEED LANGUAGE. I WOULD ADVISE LET'S GET THE LANGUAGE, BUT WE CAN TELL STAFF TO BRING IT AT A DATE. CERTAIN. CAN YOU BRING THAT IN OUR NEXT MEETING, OUR NEXT THURSDAY? YEAH. WHAT DOES WHAT DOES THAT DO FOR TO ANYONE. DOES IT SLOW THE DEVELOPMENT.
DOES IT SLOW? WHAT IS THE. THE REASON STATEMENT IS, IS THE ACTUAL APPROVAL ONCE THAT GETS APPROVED. SO IN ESSENCE, WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS YOU'RE JUST SAYING THE REASON STATEMENT WILL COME BACK AND THAT'S WHEN IT WILL BE APPROVED BY VOTE. BUT THE RECENT STATEMENT HAS TO BE APPROVED. YEAH. BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WHAT THAT GETS APPROVED. THAT'S WHAT THE APPEAL GOES OFF OF. SO IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER. IT'S JUST REALLY MATTERS WHEN THE AT LEAST STATEMENT GETS APPROVED BECAUSE THE DEVELOPER ALREADY KNOWS WHAT THE FOUR STANDARDS OR MODIFICATIONS ARE, AND THEY CAN PROCEED WITH CDS TO GET THERE. OKAY, SO IF YOU WANTED TO GET DONE TONIGHT, YOU COULD TAKE A RECESS, DIRECT STAFF TO DRAFT IT UP REAL QUICK, AND THEN WE CAN HAVE A LOOK AT IT AND GO FROM THERE IF YOU WANT. THAT'S AN OPTION. IT IS A LITTLE BIT LATE AND SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO DO THINGS ON THE FLY. I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT TONIGHT. OKAY. I JUST THOUGHT, I MEAN, I'M WILLING TO IT'S FOR IT'S I THINK WE COULD GET IT DONE. YEAH. I THINK WE DO IT TONIGHT. YEAH. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. I'M GOOD. TAKE IT. TAKE A FIVE MINUTE RECESS AND THEN. AND THEN WE'RE DONE. I MEAN, THEN IT'S DONE. BUT IN THE MEANTIME, GO AHEAD AND DRAFT THAT UP. I'M GOING TO GIVE SOME ONE THING FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS. THEN WE'LL TAKE THE RECESS. I'M MOVING ON TO ITEM SIX FOR A MINUTE. THE 2023 2024. WE HAVE FOUND THAT
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THERE ARE SOME MINUTES THAT HAVE NOT BEEN TRANSCRIBED. THEY ARE STILL ON VIDEO, BUT THEY ARE GOING TO BE TRANSCRIBED OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. SO WE WILL SEE THOSE TRICKLE THROUGH.SO DO NOT BE SURPRISED IF YOU START SEEING LIKE MAY OF 2024 LIKE THAT. THEY TRICKLE THROUGH.
WE DO NOT KNOW YET HOW TO ALLOW FOR COUNCIL MEMBER LEE TO VOTE ON MINUTES THAT HE DID NOT SEE, SO THEY MIGHT COME ON. OH MAY MAKE A SUGGESTION. HOW ABOUT WE PUT THOSE ON THE REGULAR AGENDA WHEN WE HAVE THEM, AND THEN COUNCILOR LEE CAN ABSTAIN? OKAY. SO SO YOU WILL START SEEING SEVERAL OF THOSE COMING THROUGH. IT WAS A 2023. 2024 WAS A BUSY TIME, I GUESS. SO WE HAVE WE DO HAVE THEM ON VIDEO, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO REMEMBER. DID I REALLY SAY THAT IT IS ON VIDEO? THEY WILL BE TRANSCRIBED FROM THE VIDEO. OKAY, O COUNCIL. LET'S GO THROUGH.
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WE'LL START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER RADFORD. DO YOU HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS TO MAKE THEN WHEN WE GET THIS THIS BACK WE WILL JUST BE ABLE TO SIGN THEM AND ADJOURN. YEAH, I DON'T THINK SO.THIS WEEKEND I WE HAD AN AMAZING ICONIC WEEKEND LAST WEEKEND WITH THE YOUTH JAM, THE DUCK RACE AND SO MUCH GOING ON, BUT I DON'T THINK I HAVE ANY COMMUNITY EVENT KIND OF ANNOUNCEMENTS. COUNCIL MEMBER, I THINK FOR ABOUT THE 23RD STRAIGHT YEAR, I DIDN'T WIN THE DUCK RACE. BUT YOUR MONEY WENT TO GOODNESS NO ANNOUNCEMENTS. THANK YOU MAYOR. WE DID DRAW $25,000 INTO THE RIVER, AND THIS YEAR WAS THE FIRST YEAR THAT THE DUCKS DID NOT GO OVER THE FALLS BECAUSE WE HAD A WATERFALL TWO DAYS PRIOR. AND SO IT INCREASED THE FLOW OF THE RIVER TOO MUCH ON THE BOTTOM PART OF THE DAM, SO WE COULD NOT RETRIEVE THE DUCKS BELOW THE DAM. SO THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT THEY RETRIEVED THE DUCKS, JUST BY FUNNELING THEM AT THE TOP OF THE DAM, BUT IT'S STILL A DUCK RACE. AND WE HAD A WINNER AND 25,000 DUCKS, AND IT'S OVER $7 MILLION. THAT ROTARY HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE GREENBELT AND THE PARKS ALONG THE GREENBELT OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER. IT IS A MINOR THING, BUT COUNCILOR RADFORD AND I ARE GOING TO MEET WITH THE AARP ON WEDNESDAY TO TALK OVER POSSIBILITIES FOR GRANTS AND THINGS FOR ADDRESSING COMMUNITY NEEDS, PARTICULARLY FOR PEOPLE OVER THE AGE OF 50 AND HOUSING. SO WE'LL SEE WHERE THAT GOES. BUT IT OPENED SOME DOORS, WE HOPE. COUNCIL MEMBER FREEMAN DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. SECOND, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE IS A PICTURE, SO I JUST THOUGHT IT WOULD BE PERTINENT. WE STOPPED THE PICTURE. MR. JONES, WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE US THROUGH THE CHANGES THAT YOU HAVE MADE IN THIS DOCUMENT AS IT PERTAINS TO WHAT WE SAW IN OUR PACKET VERSUS WHAT WE HAVE BEFORE US NOW? YEAH. THE ONLY CHANGES I MADE WERE CONCLUSION 14. SO THAT'S ON PAGE THREE. FOR. SO AT THE VERY END, RIGHT BEFORE
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IT SAYS DECISION. AND THIS IS THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS, IT SAYS COUNCIL APPROVES A PUD BASED ON THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS. THE PLAYGROUND A THE PLAYGROUND SHOWN ON THE PUD SHALL CONFORM TO THE STANDARDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION AS THEY EXISTED ON AUGUST 13TH, 2026. B THE CURVES FOR ALL PRIVATE STREETS SHALL BE PAINTED RED AND HAVE NO PARKING MARKINGS ON THE CURBS AND MAINTAINED. AS SUCH, THERE ARE ALSO. THERE SHALL ALSO BE PLACED NO PARKING SIGNS ALONG THESE CURBS. SEE THE TWO STORM PONDS SHOWN ON THE PUD SHALL BE ACCESSIBLE PURSUANT TO STANDARDS OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT. D THERE SHALL BE TREES PLANTED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE D SITE THAT ARE APPROXIMATELY EQUAL IN SPACING IN NUMBER TO THE TREES SHOWN ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE SITE. THOSE WERE THE ONLY CHANGES I MADE. THANK YOU. WE ARE READY FOR A MOTION ON. MOVE ON. MOVE. COUNCIL APPROVED THE REINSTATEMENT OF RELEVANT CRITERIA AND STANDARDS FOR THE PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT FOR HARVEST VILLAGE. TO GIVE AUTHORIZATION FOR THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE THE NECESSARY DOCUMENTS.SECOND. FRANCIS, A DINGMAN. YES. LEE. YES. FREEMAN. YES. LARSON. YES. RADFORD. AYE. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. AND WITH ALL OF OUR ANNOUNCEMENTS HAVING
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