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Yeah. 00:00:01
Welcome everybody. 00:00:23
It is January 18, 2023. It is 6:01 PM and this is the Vineyard Planning Commission meeting. 00:00:25
We'll have an Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance by Anthony Jenkins. 00:00:32
We'll do that fudge first. 00:00:37
Play. 00:00:41
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, 00:00:42
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:48
Father in Heaven, we're thankful for the opportunity to meet together as a Planning Commission and as residents and staff, and we 00:01:02
pray for guidance to keep in mind the the needs of this area and that we can always put people 1st and safety considerations. 00:01:11
And also recognize our responsibility in the community. 00:01:20
We. 00:01:26
Also asked for. 00:01:28
Continued insights into ways that we can better serve the community and say this thing with Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Thank you, 00:01:30
Anthony. All right. 00:01:35
We'll move into the open session. This is a time for public comment, for something that isn't on the agenda. If you have a 00:01:40
comment, we will have the public hearing for. 00:01:45
Both the conditional use permitted vineyard auto and the development agreement for the forge. So if you have comments for that, 00:01:50
there will be a time for you guys to make comments for that. But if you have any comments that aren't on for something that's not 00:01:56
on the agenda right now is your time to come up. Just come up, state your name. 00:02:01
Take about 3 minutes if you need to. 00:02:07
Any public comments? 00:02:10
I realize what you just said and I also realized that I can answer that get up here in a few minutes. And so I won't think of 00:02:20
comment about the course specifically, but I will say that. 00:02:24
You say your name on the record. I am here. I think I turned it on, too. I am Jordan Christensen. I live in the preserve 00:02:31
neighborhood. 00:02:36
And my comment is that in general, high density mixed-use developments are a great thing and I'm very excited for the future of 00:02:41
our city involving those higher density. 00:02:47
Housing options. I understand that that may not be the prevailing or or. 00:02:55
Necessarily a popular opinion in some circles, but I think. 00:03:02
A Terrific. 00:03:09
Investment in our community. 00:03:10
Great. Thank you, Jordan. 00:03:13
Any other public comments? 00:03:15
All right. If not, we will move into the Minutes for review approval. So I have a motion on that. 00:03:18
Yeah, I had a chance to review those and I make a motion that we approve those. 00:03:25
Do I have a second? Thank you, Tay. All in favor. Aye. All right. Moving to business item. Public hearing conditional use permit 00:03:30
for Vineyard Auto. 00:03:34
Play. 00:03:47
Sorry. 00:03:50
Sorry, Commission. Brian Maya, city planner. So that one's getting pushed. At least one more meeting. 00:03:55
So sorry. 00:04:03
OK. Do we need to make a motion on that, Don? 00:04:05
No, we're going to have to re notice that, so. 00:04:10
Yeah, we'll, we'll post. We'll put it on the agenda for one notice. 00:04:14
Thanks, Brian. All right, moving on to 4.2, the public hearing for the development agreement for The Forge. 00:04:19
Great. Thank you, Chair. Members of the Planning Commission, appreciate the opportunity to be able to address you tonight. 00:04:29
Then just give me one second to set up. 00:04:34
Looks like I have this on extended strands. See if my eyeballs can work. 00:04:38
There it is. 00:04:47
I should have said it from Mary. 00:04:50
That's. 00:04:53
Thank you. OK. But the Planning Commission remembers, I think it was a few meetings back. We had Dakota Pacific come and present 00:04:56
during a work session of this project. And so this is the area kind of depicted on the bottom of last that's the general plan 00:05:04
calls that hours the mixed-use residential district, the general plan there calls for it being an economic center with a mix of 00:05:11
residential entertainment, retail, office, professional type type uses. This is area just north of. 00:05:19
North and also West of the megaplex, so Block H which is if that's like a head that's of the neck that's the area right behind the 00:05:28
megaplex don't Orient you and then on the right that's the area generally it's I believe it's like 40 plus acres. The IC parcel is 00:05:35
not a part of the development agreement and so that's owned separately by HC knows hold off several years back. So I've noted that 00:05:42
on that block but essentially all the others would be included in this. 00:05:50
If you take out the roads and some of the common areas, you're about 21 acres of development. 00:05:59
Developable paths, 7 acres of which is kind of a mix between private and public open space. 00:06:03
And then I'll. 00:06:10
I see blocked I mentioned before. 00:06:12
The current zoning standards limits the site to 1/3 square footage as in residential use, so that requires 2/3 to be a non 00:06:14
residential commercial retail office entertainment. It could be kind of a mix. 00:06:21
It requires mixed-use with some ground floor retail and so that that's kind of even with the current code that's an important part 00:06:29
is having ground floor straight frontage retail that helps to activate the street that's that's very important to the code. The 00:06:35
there's internal private streets 650 N was the road that was built back and I think it was like 2016 and that was turned over to 00:06:40
the city as a as a public Rd. 00:06:46
And then it is a kind of a quasi form based Euclidean zoning. The kind of Euclidian thing on that old school zoning form based is 00:06:52
the zoning that has some focus on the architecture and design and so there is an emphasis on human scale architecture. 00:07:01
Which emphasizes entrances to buildings, window placement, connections to walkways. The block structure is called out in the code 00:07:11
requiring. 00:07:15
You know greater vehicular and pedestrian connections. 00:07:22
With a focus on their urban design quality of because the pedestrian way. 00:07:57
These are the primary elements of the development agreement. The applicant will provide a lot more detail. They'll they'll run 00:08:04
back through the designs. This is the official public hearing. It's a master plan community. That's one of the main points of this 00:08:10
is that we wanted to have a forge kind of at a higher level design than what is called out in the turn code. There's private open 00:08:16
space provided throughout, there's the corridors along Geneva Rd. So there's kind of the idea of doing the trail system with 00:08:22
pocket parks. 00:08:28
Mid block enhanced alley gathering spaces and so that's really helping to tonight make a better connection to the yard that's been 00:08:35
a desire of the city is to see kind of these two developments the yard with me complexes and a forge used together at A at a 00:08:42
higher level 25 maybe other it might be 24 deed restricted affordable units. 00:08:49
Serving the 60% AM. 00:08:57
That's area medium income and that's and that's pretty important because typically it's an 80% am I a lot of developers go for 60% 00:08:59
would deed restrict us so that it would serve you know folks that are are kind of in more of your entry level jobs. 00:09:07
And they are proposing that these be kind of geared towards your public safety officials, so firefighters, EMT, police officers 00:09:16
and then teachers would would be I guess like net, net next on the list. So those are typically the types of residents that he's 00:09:23
love to attract. Often the housing costs do kind of push those those types of residents out out of the city and so having you know 00:09:30
your public safety officials. 00:09:37
Within the city and you know, having a lot of those units dedicated towards them, the city, you know, the staff really believes 00:09:44
that be a massive benefit overall to city. 00:09:48
The pedestrian street may be blocked off for festivals, so different programming of the street system. It removes the 1/3 00:09:53
residential requirement. 00:09:57
Requires ground floor commercial and retail to be 50% of blocks. And so that's kind of ensuring from a retail standpoint your best 00:10:02
retail is going to be your street frontage retail and ensuring that you kind of maintain that ground floor retail look. 00:10:09
And they're providing A1 acre public park in addition to the private parks along Geneva Rd. 00:10:18
A really great benefit in the future. 00:10:54
Geneva Rd. Trail will connect the City Park and the two pocket parks and plazas. There's a hotel use established for phase one, 00:10:57
which is a really big benefit to the city with the transient room tax and just the, you know, the the dollars that those folks 00:11:03
bring to it to retail district are are positive. 00:11:09
There's two central plazas with eateries allows the development room does allow up to three acres or 300 units constructed in 00:11:16
phase one without commercial. So allows them to kind of get through the gate what they. 00:11:24
Primarily or really a fully residential project at the beginning stages. 00:11:31
And then it as right now, allows a maximum up to 1500 units. 00:11:36
Morgan, can I ask a question? 00:11:40
So I missed the working group, session and so. 00:11:42
Obviously this is spelling out specifics, but can you give me a brief quick snapshot of why we do? 00:11:47
Development agreements versus. 00:11:53
Standard stuff that makes sense, yeah. A development agreement allows you to be a lot more detailed, especially in things that the 00:11:57
zoning doesn't necessarily account for. So things like if there's a requirement like for innocence for this, for residential and 00:12:03
commercial, it allows them to get out in a phase one. 00:12:09
And with residential, where's the code would you say you know you when your first building needs to have that, that that make up 00:12:17
that erasure that's called out on the code. It allows you to phase in parks, so when you want to see the parks. 00:12:23
You want to see parks? 00:12:30
Sooner rather than later, which amenities do we want to be brought forward downtown? We were very specific with certain amenities 00:12:31
that needed added prior to the major development occurrence, which are like the promenade in place. So that allows you to do 00:12:37
things like that. 00:12:42
Having these amendments incorporated and getting the final draft prior to to a decision, so that's that's up to you. The first is 00:13:50
to a modifications to the concept plan. 00:13:55
Need to be better defined. So there's some language in there that allows some modifications to the concept. Plans are supposed to 00:14:02
be constant plans. So we're asking for a more definition as to when can a site plan that you would see. So the Planning Commission 00:14:07
would still see the site plan approval, but. 00:14:11
At what level can the site? 00:14:17
Be modified from the concept plan. So we're trying to get some better teeth to that to provide guidance to staff, better time 00:14:20
frames for phase one, sorry. 00:14:25
Sometimes our system does that or just cuts out. 00:14:30
We we would like to you know obviously this the city would like to see retail constructed sooner. So the quicker phase one goes to 00:14:34
the process means that we're going to get to the the retail portion of the development and we'd like to see some time frames 00:14:40
established. 00:14:45
A change so well, so we want to make sure that future laws, so we put future laws in place that they if a project is not built yet 00:14:52
in their developments that they come forward with a building that if we have a future law that they would have to follow that that 00:14:59
law and that basically they're not vested by whatever zoning. 00:15:06
Requirements are in place now, so if there's a zoning. 00:15:13
Requirement that would attach to their type of development. It would apply at the time and that's pretty standard short term 00:15:16
rentals too. They they do call out short term rentals. That is a use that the city is writing a code for and we don't. 00:15:23
We don't want it just to be a straight up approved use that they'd have to go through any city process for rental, so it's not 00:15:30
something that they would bypass. 00:15:35
Baseline improvements for the public park need to be clarified, so we do want some details as to that. 00:15:41
Most likely it would be a donation in the city assisting with reimbursement on on the improvements. That's what we do with Water's 00:15:47
Edge, but we would need to have that spelled out at at what level can we say, OK, that park's good, we'll take it from there. 00:15:54
So there's some interest and we probably want to do this in development of that next one interested in establishing a public 00:16:03
Improvement District and being a really special district and having kind of a higher level of of public infrastructure than 00:16:08
typically would be in just a public St. a public Improvement District may be something that we will look at as a mechanism moving 00:16:13
forward to help keep maintenance at a very high level. 00:16:18
There's a sentence about impact fees that would vest them with the impact fees that are in place. Now we are in the process of 00:16:26
updating our impact fees and so same thing, we want the impact fees that are on the books to apply to the development when it gets 00:16:32
developed, not not their vested down. So we're we're going to modify that language. 00:16:39
We need to understand the water needs to inform the water master plan that we're going to be working on. And so Missy and his 00:16:47
group are going to work with them on that detention facilities, clarifying that if you do a detention pond that that can't count 00:16:54
towards your open space unless it's it's an underground system and the open space is the quality is is maintained. 00:17:01
Probably you're going to modify that so they do a really shallow the detention pond that doesn't. 00:17:10
Take away from the character of open space and that may be something we can, we can accept, but we have a lot of developments now 00:17:16
where you have really deep detention ponds and they're kind of, you know, we call them open space, but they're. 00:17:22
It's not as usable, so we just want to make sure if it's open space you can actually use it. 00:17:28
So that. 00:17:34
On the phasing of the open space, want that clarified language added and indicated in the concept plan for a public safety 00:17:36
facility. So we feel like this might be a great opportunity to get a fire station and we're working with the developers that we 00:17:41
can at least designate a space for it so it doesn't get developed. So you know we we definitely need none of the fire station in 00:17:46
the city. 00:17:51
And then language added indicated to the, Oh yeah, and then the last one, update the concept plan so that they're consistent and 00:17:57
some of the material that we've seen, there's little teeny changes between the plans. We want all the plans to have the same 00:18:01
consistent design all the way through. 00:18:06
And then our recommendation is with those modifications, staff is recommending approval. 00:18:13
We provided 4 motions for your consideration. 00:18:18
One is to approve, basically, as is a motion to recommend approval. 00:18:21
With with modifications, should you have any kind of in addition to what staff is laid out. 00:18:26
And then a motion. 00:18:32
To. 00:18:35
And that that may be the appropriate one if you want to see kind of the final document and then a a motion to to deny and these 00:18:37
would be recommendations to to the City Council. 00:18:42
The motion for continuance obviously would go back to you. 00:18:48
The applicant is here and would like. 00:18:52
Prison as well. Great. Yeah, if you guys, I'm happy to entertain questions from Did you guys have any questions for Morgan yet? 00:18:55
One thing that I just wanted to kind of level set is. 00:19:02
You started out with that current state, so that's what's existing today if no action were taken just for the public's knowledge. 00:19:06
And then what we're discussing tonight is a recommendation or a non recommendation to the final decision making body which is the 00:19:14
City Council and the mayor. So anything that we would do in this body would not be binding or official, it would be a 00:19:20
recommendation for. 00:19:26
The legislative body of the city, which is the City Council, the mayor, So I think that's an important. 00:19:33
Thing for everyone to understand as well. Thanks Anthony. 00:19:37
Rachel, do you need to switch them over? 00:19:55
Well, thank you for allowing us to be with you this evening. My name is Jeff Goughner. I'm with Dakota Pacific Real Estate. We're 00:20:20
the ones that are planning this project and have been working on it now for about 7 years. So it's. 00:20:27
We're hoping it's due time to get something started on this site, and we're excited about it. When we met with you back in 00:20:35
November, we appreciated your input. You had some good thoughts and good points. 00:20:40
And so we feel like. 00:20:47
With what we'll be presenting tonight, hopefully addresses some of those issues that were. 00:20:49
So this is my colleague Steve Borup, and I'm just going to turn the time over to him now to go through our slides. And feel free 00:20:56
to stop or interrupt and ask questions along the way if you prefer. We're happy to address those as we go. 00:21:03
And for the public's benefit, we thought would back up, right we originally came and just think it would respond primarily to the 00:21:13
comments that came from November and we've you know. 00:21:17
Listed out some of the main comments and how I've addressed for the public's benefit. 00:21:22
And Commissioner, Browns benefit. We'll just go back through briefly on the design inspiration, if that's OK, and just kind of go 00:21:26
through the big picture and why we're doing what we're doing. 00:21:30
Um. 00:21:35
Just back back to that to the point you know currently this is this, this space is entitled. 00:21:37
You know, 2/3 commercial, 1/3 residential. 00:21:45
And it was anticipated, you know that there'd be a 1.8 million square feet of total space built and about 1.1 million of that 00:21:48
would be office and then you know 500, six, 100,000 square feet of of residential and that was that's what the current entitlement 00:21:53
kind of anticipated. Again, it doesn't say that in the code, but. 00:21:58
But that's when it was designed and if you look at the massing and everything that was anticipated that's that was the scale. And 00:22:04
so just keep that in mind, what we're proposing isn't necessarily an increase to the total space. We're not adding additional 00:22:10
density in terms of total square footage of the building what it is. 00:22:15
A proposal of a master plan and it changes some of the uses from commercial to residential. 00:22:21
I think that's important. 00:22:26
The As we started to look at the space and the inspiration for it, we looked to great places that we thought would make sense and 00:22:28
what we heard. 00:22:32
In early meetings with staff and and the mayor was like. 00:22:36
Gathering Space Festival. 00:22:40
Places people can come together, but in a very urban setting, right? That's what the zoning wants and mixed-use is what the zoning 00:22:44
wants. 00:22:47
Don't try to change the intent of that and so. 00:22:50
You know, from Denver? 00:22:53
To like this particular space here is up in Connecticut where first time a Newtown Center was being built. We're not your Town 00:22:56
Center, right? We're not the downtown. But but these were case studies that we looked at of how they kind of went from not very 00:23:01
urban to urban and what the effects were and what their design impacts were. 00:23:07
I think this one is in Indiana and then I get a couple in Denver. But but this is what we see right? Some beautiful open space, 00:23:14
access to green space, access to hardscape. 00:23:19
People can come together. 00:23:25
With within the urban environment and so that that has been our objective and goal. 00:23:27
This is. 00:23:32
Of what it looks like and I'll just emphasize again. 00:23:33
You know, we've shown structures within this plan view. 00:23:38
They're conceptual in that what really the master plan is the space between the buildings, what's the pedestrian connectivity, 00:23:41
what's the open space, what's the Plaza and then of course some of the key terms that we've talked about and. 00:23:47
We've got building placeholders here. 00:23:52
We'll go into some of the open space designations, but but that's really been I think what the ask was from us to bring a master 00:23:54
plan that. 00:23:57
That will ensure that as this gets developed over the next 10 years that there's good continuity and it makes sense and there's a 00:24:01
certain quality to it and that's that's the purpose of the development agreement is really negotiate those kind of details. 00:24:06
Some objectives in the master plan was to create a real strong presence on this corner. 00:24:18
Right. You're coming from Orem to Vineyard. What we want to say hello, you're in Vineyard now and and put a real nice structure in 00:24:22
a building there. Integrate well with this Geneva trail. 00:24:27
Bring kind of a central Plaza into. 00:24:32
Really helped with the pedestrian connectivity of this Geneva Trails. It gets built out. We anticipate, you know, people can come 00:24:36
enjoy the parks, come eat and dine, move over, right? Eventually go back over. 00:24:41
Over to the downtown area to the lake, right, Really, really connect pedestrians and bicycle activity through the space. And then 00:24:47
also just integrate well with all the activity that's going to the South of us, right the the theater and the top golf and 00:24:53
entertainment district that's there and work well with that and invite pedestrians kind of up through and and into our space and 00:24:58
and integrate well. 00:25:03
These are the open space designations that we have created. Again, you know, a nice pedestrian internal alley that would have 00:25:10
business activity on all sides. 00:25:14
An East West pedestrian connectivity that's really a shared St. shared between cars, shared cars, pedestrians and and and bicycle 00:25:19
traffic. 00:25:24
You know, if a car is on it, they're going 4 miles an hour, right? We'll have calming effects to make sure that that that stays in 00:25:30
place. 00:25:33
Maybe a retail Plaza more focused on dining, where people can come together and eat and have some common area together. 00:25:38
And then you know looking at view corridors as you're driving along the road being able to kind of see into the space and fill up 00:25:45
the depth and. 00:25:48
Was part of the objective to be able to, you know, utilize the views of the mountains to the east. So these are some of the main 00:25:51
objectives in the open space. 00:25:56
The development agreement will talk about the quality of finishes and and some of these key characteristic points. But the idea is 00:26:02
that, you know, this would be a concept elevation of what might be at that central Plaza that will have some kind of a feature 00:26:08
that we're going to commit to in the development agreement, whether that be a water feature or some kind of a sculpture. 00:26:13
Right. The kind of paving and and the variety that would be there. I would love to see a food hall, you know, along this Plaza 00:26:19
along with you know residential and some seated dining all all part of that Plaza. 00:26:25
We commit to the number of trees, we commit to, you know, some interesting seating and all those kind of things within the 00:26:31
development agreement to ensure again that there's a certain level of quality. 00:26:35
Another concept, elevation this would be that. 00:26:40
If we were, you know, walking, driving, bicycling all along, there will be seating that will be active. 00:26:43
Let's not. It's meant to be really integrated and living in terms of the way it feels. 00:26:49
This to be an aerial view of the mastering study, again based on some some concept structures that we put into this. 00:26:56
You know, again, you can see the pedestrian activity. This would be Cauldron Street is what it would be called. And the idea is 00:27:05
that this street would have commercial on both sides of it. You're driving down it would it would be that urban wall that Morgan 00:27:09
talked about. 00:27:13
Where would be guaranteeing in the development agreement that both sides of that on the ground floor would have, would have 00:27:18
commercial and kind of an active retail feel? 00:27:22
We'll get into I think some more of this because we'll be responding to this and some of the specifics in in response. 00:27:29
But a key piece of this is how much residential, how much commercial and what we're what we're proposing is that 50% of the ground 00:27:34
floor would be. 00:27:38
Required to be commercial and where these dashed lines are would be required to be a ground floor commercial. So specific area 00:27:42
where there's commercial and then an overall ratio that would be commercial. 00:27:47
I think Morgan's kind of covered some of those other areas. 00:27:52
This is another representation of where the. 00:27:55
Is likely to sit in the massing study that we have. We've designated again you've got Calderon St. here which would be very active 00:27:57
commercial based and some residential. 00:28:01
Kind of sitting in and and throughout the development and these. 00:28:06
Displays. How tall did those represent? 00:28:11
Yeah, so if I look here, this is 4 stories here, this is five stories, so four to five story structures. 00:28:15
You know you start to get above that the construction costs go up quite a bit. So it's quite that's kind of a ceiling in terms of 00:28:23
just the economics of the project. So that so that would be. 00:28:28
50 to 60 feet. 00:28:33
If it's five story or yes and yeah, for residential you could assume 10, the ground floor would be 1415 feet and then and then 00:28:35
yeah 10/10/12 feet above that. So, so in this plan you have those, it looks like 3 1/2 buildings as residential. 00:28:44
And you're thinking 1500 units in those 3 1/2 buildings, No, each of those would be about 300. I I, I think in the first session 00:28:53
we disclosed like this is about 1200 units. What's what you're looking at? Again, I understand this is conceptual, but these, 00:28:59
these, these could be like 250 to 300. 00:29:04
Dwelling units apiece, we talked about some potentially in. 00:29:11
You know this building I think is marked as could that be residential, could that be commercial to kind of mix that in and then? 00:29:14
We could bring some ground floor commercial with some additional residential somewhere else into the project. So this this picture 00:29:21
of the green being commercial and. 00:29:26
The other stuff being residential, really it could be all of it is residential at the ground floor could be commercial and all 00:29:33
these buildings. 00:29:36
If the plan changes, that sounds like. 00:29:39
Plans right now. 00:29:42
Ground floor would be guaranteed to be commercial on 50% of the of the space to really keep the the, the the street active. That's 00:29:45
right. I think we talked about last time that with the reduction of office demand multi story commercial becomes challenging and 00:29:51
how do we meet that? 00:29:56
In. 00:30:01
That has been reduced in demand. We still anticipate office. We still anticipate office here. We still anticipate office here. 00:30:04
An office here is just going to be at a reduced reduced amount, probably more than the three story range for office. 00:30:09
So is there a possibility because I know in the in the change for the height it goes from 1:25 to 1:40, it can go up to. So do you 00:30:15
anticipate any of these buildings would actually be double what's being presented here? 00:30:22
And reach that 125 or 140 height. 00:30:29
In the current economic environment, I think that would be challenging, right? Just higher construction costs versus the rents 00:30:34
vector? 00:30:37
You know comparable in the in the vineyard market. 00:30:42
Is that is that a concern or is that? 00:30:46
If we're putting in one 25140, it gives a huge option to do more. Obviously you have a cap of 1500, so there's only so much that 00:30:51
housing, but if the plants here present, you know. 00:30:57
1000 housing using it you know it's realistically that only means it can go up you know you have to use that extra height you're 00:31:05
going to end up with taller buildings so. So the discussion is you know what what what what's the impact of that so as soon as you 00:31:10
leave the anything over four to five stories you start to get out of wood construction and into metal or or pre you know or cast 00:31:16
in place concrete and. 00:31:21
And the costs start to go up 3040%, you know, per unit. It's just economically becomes very challenging. 00:31:28
My guess would be if we did go higher with the office. 00:31:38
Which would be in some ways a nice problem to have, which is already going to be, you know, steel building in general anyways. 00:31:41
So you know, I think we provided and in what was sent out, it kind of goes through some of the details of some of the common 00:31:51
areas. I don't know that we need to go through that again. We went through that I think in. 00:31:56
Some depth before, but umm. 00:32:02
I guess I'll just stop there and ask if there's any other comments or questions about the design intent or the design concepts 00:32:07
around the open space. 00:32:10
And and then if not, we can kind of go into responding to the Planning Commission. So a couple of questions I had. Are you 00:32:15
including the internal alleys and the shared street is open space? 00:32:20
Correct, Yes. And a lot of urban environments that becomes open space. You know, we have a project in South Salt Lake City and 00:32:26
this kind of shared St. idea is is very much considered open space there as well. Exactly, yeah. 00:32:33
Yep. And then my second question when we talked in our meeting last I. 00:32:41
The majority of your open space is. 00:32:46
Narrow and just along the frontage road and. 00:32:50
Mentioned bringing buildings up to the frontage and actually making bigger usable open space because most of that open space is 00:32:54
not usable for park space. 00:32:59
For festivals or for anything? 00:33:05
I mean, you can plant trees there, but beyond that you can't really do anything else and that's the majority of your open space it 00:33:09
looks like. 00:33:12
This was. 00:33:16
Version that was presented in NN November 17th and the Red Arrows kind of represent the ask. 00:33:18
Hey. 00:33:25
Remove that fronted Rd. That's pushed buildings up to the street. They've been there to have urban wall there. 00:33:26
And so we evaluated that and said, OK, we do that now, where else can we add that open space? And we ran through several 00:33:33
scenarios. 00:33:36
The response came back and I'll just move forward here through the through the slides. 00:33:41
In a response to look more like this, so we reduced, you know if you recall we kind of had a long linear part that went up here on 00:33:47
this E Gateway park. We reduced that and then we. 00:33:52
The walls here. There used to be a street here and now that went to open space, we still remain the 2.2 acres. All right, this is 00:33:58
a 2.2 acre. 00:34:02
Central Park not including the shared street. So if you talk about festival, the idea was that we'll have opportunity to put 00:34:07
bollards here and here. Traffic can then flow out and around and still get into the into the place, but you could. 00:34:13
It's. 00:34:19
Probably 3 A/C. 00:34:21
And really make that a festival area, right? You'd have hardscape, you'd have soft scape, you'd have a lot of seating integrated 00:34:22
into there. And so that's that's that's one of the. 00:34:26
The other was then we took the acre that was removed and we. 00:34:31
Umm. 00:34:36
In this block behind the theater. 00:34:37
We said we will donate that land for public park, right? And so that's the more traditional Square park and there was a lot of 00:34:39
requests and discussion about how do we get a park further South. 00:34:44
And you know. 00:34:50
It's a little far removed, right? We have HC as a buffer and 6:50 and it doesn't feel as integrated and so that was kind of. 00:34:52
A concession on our side. 00:34:59
This seems to be what the community wants and needs. Let's find a solution. 00:35:02
And we put it here rather than trying to integrate it up into the main development area. So they'll be kind of a pocket park there 00:35:06
along Geneva Trail as long as as well as the Apocrypha parks here. So you know you'll have a park here, you'll have a park down 00:35:12
here and then of course you'll have all access to. All right, if I could just kind of add. 00:35:17
The city is working with you dot. We would really love to see a multi use trail on our side of Geneva Rd. when they do the 00:35:23
expansion and and especially with the governors new stance that basically all you dot projects need to include active 00:35:29
transportation. We think there's a very good likelihood of of us achieving that. So if we get a regional trail that essentially 00:35:36
will connect down through you know the southern part of Geneva Rd. that connects into the Lakeview Trail, I mean that could be one 00:35:42
really nice regional trail. 00:35:48
So the thought was like as as you enter this part of Vineyard, it creates a series of pocket parks. 00:35:55
Pop off and being apart also you have a lot of residential there and that creates a nice corridor of open space. You know it's 00:36:36
next to the highway but if with all that open space it provides opportunities for the trees and some buffering. So we we are 00:36:42
pretty excited about it. The other question I had is just looking at the map you have exhibit. 00:36:48
The East Gateway park. 00:36:56
Currently looks like the train track would run right down the middle of that. 00:36:58
Where does the train lie in that park currently? 00:37:03
That'd be great amenity, right? 00:37:06
I'm just curious right now where that is. 00:37:10
Yeah, there's a canal there today and then there's train tracks, but I believe what? 00:37:13
What the city is working to do. 00:37:19
Be able to abandon those tracks and Morgan or somebody else, maybe you'll speak to the better. That's where the Geneva trail will 00:37:22
go. Then we'll add additional buffer next to that. 00:37:26
Along this. 00:37:31
So. 00:37:32
What was the tracks? What was the canal? Well, I think the canal is currently owned by flagship. 00:37:33
And we could potentially acquire that. 00:37:38
You'll have the canal on the tracks and then whatever additional 50 feet that we offer all kind of as a as a linear trail right 00:37:41
there on the East East Gateway. And I believe correct if I'm if I'm wrong on this Steve or Jeff but I think what you guys are 00:37:47
showing right here it isn't that your property like the like the so the railroad tracks are landing just. 00:37:54
East of that or is that, is that part of the rail corridor? This exhibit is going out into the road, yeah. 00:38:01
For survey, OK, so is the one is the 1.2 acres land you guys currently own or it is I don't know that graphic represents it well, 00:38:11
but the way the development agreement? 00:38:16
Described it as that building will be set. 00:38:23
50 feet from our our land or if. 00:38:25
Guarantees 50 feet of buffer between our land and the building. 00:38:33
OK, so from your property line to the building line, that's right. 00:38:37
At the narrowest point, I should say, right? So that's here. And then of course it would grow if that building remains angled like 00:38:43
that. 00:38:46
The idea with the development agreement is, you know, that was one of Morgan's comments is we need to know what kind of changes 00:38:51
are acceptable and for us. 00:38:55
It's 1.2 acres, right? And so this the size of that might change, I mean not the size, but the shape of this building might 00:39:01
change. 00:39:04
But in the end, it's going to be 1.2 acres, right? That's that's what we're trying to guarantee in the development agreement, if 00:39:08
that makes sense. 00:39:11
This is a random question, but do we know does U dot? 00:39:21
All the space they would need to widen Geneva. 00:39:26
I have had discussions. 00:39:31
Because right now they own all that space and then they also have the first right on a little 45 foot narrow strip that flag 00:39:34
Flagship Homes still owns. 00:39:37
And I do have emails and correspondence with you that saying that they will not need that additional 45 feet, right, which is kind 00:39:42
of where that canal is today. 00:39:46
Just thinking ahead, yeah, no, I'm just thinking ahead of like if we set up 50 feet and then five years from now UDOT comes and 00:39:50
they purchase. 00:39:54
You know half of that for whatever they need to expand on, So I know. 00:39:59
Necessarily read the future, but just. 00:40:04
Any other questions before we kind of address? 00:40:11
What else? We heard from last meeting and address some of those things. 00:40:14
I don't think you can continue. 00:40:17
We'll get to you guys in just in a little bit. 00:40:21
So from the November 17th, you know these are some of the favorable things we heard and comments to be addressed parks and open 00:40:26
space. 00:40:29
Adequate for the residential scale. I think that's what you just referred to, Commissioner. 00:40:32
Affordable housing for first responders, parking infrastructure, and then just, you know, there was. 00:40:38
Comments about, you know, 1500 residential units. Is that appropriate? We've just kind of left that open I think for some 00:40:44
discussion today. 00:40:47
We're, you know, certainly willing to commit to some numbers as needed, but anything to add? 00:40:51
Yeah. 00:40:57
So we just covered the open space. 00:40:59
And the one acre park that we offered down here. 00:41:03
As a concession to be able to provide more. 00:41:09
Affordable housing. 00:41:13
This is what we talked to the City Council. This is a slide that we. 00:41:16
With them last week, we looked at affordable housing. 00:41:20
And how? You know, the federal government and HUD defines affordable housing. They define it as no more than 30% of your household 00:41:24
income goes toward housing and utilities. 00:41:28
And so if you look at what the HUD? 00:41:33
Income is for the provoir areas, $96,000 and you start to take 30% of that and it eventually builds this table that we've 00:41:36
confirmed with. 00:41:40
Both the Utah Housing Authority and some other affordable housing consultants. 00:41:45
And so. 00:41:49
The area median income at 100% says this is how much people can pay for rents and at 60% this is how much people can pay for rents 00:41:50
for the different bedroom sizes. 00:41:54
In our analysis we found that Vineyard has 1500 plus units in the in the you know 70 to 80% range. You know based on what just 00:42:00
already being charged in the market by HUD standards. 00:42:05
Again, we're using HUD standards as a standard. I don't know that feels affordable to everybody, but that feels right to 00:42:11
everybody. 00:42:13
But it is the way the federal government administered affordable housing and. 00:42:17
And how we proposed it. So we looked knowing that there was kind of this niche need of first responders and. 00:42:21
How do we track those and keep them here and what are their salaries? And then if we take that and we'd say what's 30% of that 00:42:27
income, what kind of rent can they pay and if you can compare these affordable rents back to the table. 00:42:32
You start to say assuming that there's a single income in that household. 00:42:38
You know, it's 60% AMI. They can start to afford a one to two-bedroom apartment and so 60% AMI starts to say this is what we 00:42:42
really need to target, not 80% AMI. 00:42:47
And so with that, we looked at the value that that concession would be. 00:42:54
Which is about $5 million of value to offer 25 units at 60% AMI. 00:42:59
And we've got legal right now our legal and looking at it the 2nd, we actually put a first right on that for first responders, 00:43:05
right so. 00:43:09
When a unit comes available, if there's a first responder on there, they have first right to be able to take it as I mean they 00:43:13
meet all the other qualifications needed in order to take the housing and then potentially a second right. 00:43:19
For teachers. 00:43:24
So. 00:43:26
Well, so some other options that we put together on affordable housing, that'll be a new slide that we bring into you. But I'll 00:43:28
just note that this doesn't include any RDA funds. 00:43:33
That can also be allocated to affordable housing. So 10% of the increment that goes to the RDA is allocated for affordable housing 00:43:39
and that can also be added. 00:43:43
To the overall affordable housing that can go into the project. 00:43:48
So what we looked at is what else can we do to add additional affordable housing? 00:43:56
We know what the concession is here is in terms of total value. 00:44:02
And what can we do to add it and so? 00:44:07
Tries to repres. 00:44:09
Some different options. 00:44:11
If we stay within 60% AMI, how many units can we add? This is the 25. 00:44:13
And we can add that with structured parking, right. So structured parking adds. 00:44:19
And yet our rents will still be the same and so that starts. 00:44:23
Kind of take away from how much affordable or at least every affordable unit that that we bring to the table cost more, right, 00:44:27
because of the structured parking, because structured parking is going to add $40,000 unit. 00:44:32
For 1 1/2. 00:44:37
Without structured parking, if we were to eliminate that altogether and say take that out economically, it's the equivalent of 00:44:39
adding 45 units. 00:44:43
We wondered if we can take a section of. 00:44:48
Parcel and say can we remove the structured parking, let's say it's behind the lot behind the theater and remove the structured 00:44:52
parking for that area so we can increase the. 00:44:57
Affordable housing. 00:45:02
And you know if we were to add 25 or 30 affordable. 00:45:03
Units back there and then provide the rest of the main development. We could potentially add 36. 00:45:07
RDA would then fund some additional and then a 1300 total dwelling units. We could get you know something in these ranges. 00:45:13
If we were to say 70% is adequate. 00:45:20
Same kind of logic we could start to get. 00:45:23
Higher. And then if we were to increase and stay at 1500 dwelling units, which again we'll have a discussion about, I think some 00:45:28
additional can be added just for the economic benefit there as well as the TIF that could bring an additional. 00:45:33
For for the added valuation that would come. 00:45:39
So I'll pause there. Any thoughts, comments around? 00:45:42
A starting point for the discussion because we have a lot of people that work for the city, first responders, teachers and they 00:46:16
can't afford to live there. So that's a lot to get these people to be able to live in Vineyard. So and I believe this is something 00:46:21
that the RDA board is, is is going to discuss and then consider. 00:46:27
So from my understanding, all of these units would be rental units. 00:46:38
None of them would be able to purchase. 00:46:42
I'd say I don't. I don't want to set that in stone. 00:46:45
OK, I just say that. 00:46:50
If people are going to be invested in Vineyard, they want to live here. Paramedics, doctors, aunties and such. 00:46:54
They're gonna want to buy a home. They're gonna. 00:47:00
Have a permanent residence instead of renting. 00:47:03
Hoping that your rent doesn't get raised, which it? 00:47:07
And then it'll get raised and then I'll get raised, and then it becomes unaffordable. 00:47:09
I was just said these will be deed restricted, so they'll always be tied to the area median income. 00:47:14
I'd like to see units that people could purchase to buy. I want to see people that are invested in the city that they want to come 00:47:25
here, they want to stay here, they want, they care about the place, and the easiest way for someone to feel invested is to 00:47:30
actually invest in buying a home here. 00:47:34
Yeah, condominiums, apartments that you can purchase, things like that. 00:47:41
If it's just rentals, it's basically you're just saying, oh, these people are going to be here for a little while until they move 00:47:45
into something that's better. 00:47:49
I want. 00:47:56
I want to say unison people can purchase so that they feel invested in the city. Does this agreement preclude the ability to do. 00:47:57
No it doesn't. No. Yeah. And Bryce do you do you have kind of like a maybe are you just wanting them to to to come back with with 00:48:04
maybe a proposal on that or do you have some maybe some direction as far as. 00:48:10
As far as. 00:48:21
As far as doing something like that, what What is? What can we even do? Because if if it's units, it can be. 00:48:23
Sold. And investors can just buy the units and then rent them still, I mean. 00:48:30
I'll just say I don't, we're not opposed to for sale. I just think it's going to take some market analysis and understanding that 00:48:36
at the time that you're going out, how that's going to shake out construction costs and so. 00:48:41
I don't know that what that looks like. I do know that when you go for sale, often it's harder to bring the same number. 00:48:47
As it is on a four month basis, so. 00:48:54
At least in past analysis and I need to analyze it again. But when you start to go for sale that gap. 00:48:58
Of the sale price is harder to overcome in terms of number of units. So economically it's it's not like we can't say necessarily 00:49:03
that we can sell 25 units and have the same economic impact as you know just developer donating 25 four rent. So I had a question 00:49:09
to go along with what you're saying. 00:49:15
Is there? 00:49:23
And since you're kind of in this industry and maybe we need to research it, but if. 00:49:25
A certain amount of the units are required to be for sale. Someone buys it. How do we ensure that? 00:49:31
That it's being occupied by by the owner, Yeah. Because without having like a really large administrative kind of arm that that 00:49:39
can ensure that. I don't know, maybe that's something that from the CCNR standpoint they can do. But we were told that, you know, 00:49:44
at Edgewater. 00:49:49
You know, that or the Lakefront Town Center. I think that was something that the city was told. 00:49:56
That only a third of those would be rentals and they're not everyone you talk to. I mean I I know a few owners there, but it seems 00:50:01
like probably 70 to 80%. You know just then I I don't know for sure, but just everyone I've talked to seems to be renters, but I 00:50:07
don't know Steve or Jeff if you guys have kind of a response to that. But I I think that's. 00:50:13
You know, is there a way that we can ensure that? 00:50:20
That their own rocket? Yeah, that's the big question. Is there a way we can do that? But I think if we're talking affordability. 00:50:23
25 units. That's 1.6% of your total units. 00:50:30
And I mean 25 is more than 0, but I mean it's 1.6% when you're talking about affordability, you're talking about people. 00:50:34
That. 00:50:44
People that can pay for a home. When you're stuck renting continuously forever, you're not. 00:50:47
Gaining any generational wealth, you're not putting yourself in a situation where you're ever going to get out of that constant 00:50:52
struggle of living paycheck to paycheck. Whereas if you can invest in a home, if you can invest in a place, you can start to get 00:50:58
out of that. And there's a whole discussion that. 00:51:03
That we can't get into here about about that but. 00:51:11
I think just. 00:51:15
I think having something finding some way to get some units that can be sold to people and not rented out. If there's anything 00:51:17
that can be done, I don't know. 00:51:21
That would be a huge. That would be a huge draw, I think. 00:51:28
This location specifically. 00:51:32
Because I'm sorry, it has to be in the microphone or? 00:51:38
It's up to. It's up to the chair. I'm just. I apologize, but we. 00:51:46
If you just want to just save it for, I'm going to open up the public comment in just a little bit here. Sorry, but thank you. 00:51:52
Sorry, I'll just forget. 00:51:57
Yeah, all right. What's your name? I'll write down your name, Hector. 00:52:01
Hector agrees with Price. 00:52:05
OK. If you guys have any comments on that? 00:52:09
I think it's AI think it's a great idea. I think we got to go back and study what it means in terms of quantity like I said in 00:52:14
just the economic impact, like I said, we know we're basically donating $5 million of value through the decreased rents in this 00:52:18
25. 00:52:23
We know affordable housing is a hard solution, right? There's easy. People want to figure it out by now. 00:52:28
We spent a lot of time pondering like 25, like is that going to feel, is that, is that going to feel genuine or? 00:52:34
Umm. 00:52:42
But honestly, as we look at it. 00:52:43
Between the structured parking, the open space like between those two we're basically bringing $10 million to the deal right of of 00:52:45
of added quality of of open space and $5 million of that is an affordable housing. 00:52:52
And then we have even after the TIF. 00:52:58
On structured parking. 00:53:01
If you look at the the net present value of that. 00:53:03
It only pays for. 00:53:06
2530% of the structured parking. And so the rest of that gets borne on us and we're going to be competing on rents of other people 00:53:09
who don't have structured parking. 00:53:13
You know Will would be able to charge a little bit more. I don't know. The point is when we looked at it. 00:53:18
We worried about the economic viability of the project as a whole. It's, it's on probably hard to sound genuine on this, but it's 00:53:23
it's on, it's on the margin of what we think will attract investor money to be able to develop it and build it. And so that's why 00:53:28
that number is what it is. We wanted to be able to bring something. We knew there was a niche requirement or need within the 00:53:34
community. We want to be able to address it and be community players. 00:53:39
But that really did kind of feel like a limit where it started to push economic viability of the whole project if we push that too 00:53:45
far, so. 00:53:48
But when you've gotten into these these hybrid environments where it's a mix of management company were a lot of owner ownership 00:54:24
and individually renting them out, you're ending up with people that are are four or five single people in a house. All of them 00:54:30
have a car when they're supposed to be two parking spots. And I think that's the complexity here is if you had 1500 units and they 00:54:37
were all owned which is great, but we know it's going to be investors that buy them, you know it's it's going to be pricey. 00:54:43
And and you're gonna end up with a parking issue. So I think what we're doing here is trying to find that balance. 00:54:50
But we're definitely getting a win I think of of even the affordable housing discussion. So there's there's valid discussion here 00:54:56
of what do we want in the community and how do we balance the parking issue with the rental issue, with the ownership issue and 00:55:02
and I just hope as we give public comments it reflects. 00:55:08
Some of the opportunity we have here, because we're definitely giving a lot back to the developer of. It's a whole different 00:55:14
change from what was originally approved there. But I think there's a willingness on all parties to figure out what can we do 00:55:18
that's best for the community where everybody comes out a winner because the developer owns the property, they have property 00:55:23
rights as well, and we don't want a vacant lot sitting there forever. 00:55:27
I appreciate how seriously you took my request for affordable housing to be added. 00:55:36
I like that. 00:55:41
It will. 00:55:44
They'll be targeted to. 00:55:46
To. 00:55:49
City employees. 00:55:51
Live in the city? That's appreciated. 00:55:53
I guess I would hope that. 00:56:00
Can work with the city to find perhaps some federal funding for more affordable housing. 00:56:04
I'm sitting here as a single mother of four and an 80% AMI. 00:56:10
Is half my income. 00:56:17
Uh. 00:56:21
For a three bedroom place because. 00:56:22
Can you Can you imagine 4 kids in one room not doing it? 00:56:26
No, that's insanity. 00:56:30
As. 00:56:34
We move forward. 00:56:35
I would love to see more consideration. 00:56:37
Of the programs that are. 00:56:41
So that we can expand this to more than just first responders in our city. 00:56:44
Just more than just that. 00:56:49
And I don't know. I think everyone deserves to have a nice place to live. 00:56:51
But it's just me. Could we also add to it though? And I hate to be exclusion, you know, exclude other cities, but I'm sure in the 00:56:55
future we'll have a fire department, we'll we'll have a police force. Is it possible to say that the first option is for those 00:57:01
that not only are first responders but first responders serving? 00:57:07
In the city of Vineyard and then beyond that it would open to others, but I prefer to. 00:57:14
Have the people here that are actually serving in Vineyard, so it sounds like they were they already? Well, no, they they're still 00:57:19
trying to find out if they can make it for firefighters and EMT and stuff in general. So like getting it down even more than that 00:57:24
might be. 00:57:29
I like for Housing Act. 00:57:35
Preliminarily, our legal counsel has said he thinks it's possible, but there's more due diligence to be done on that. So I do want 00:57:38
to make sure that's clear and disclose that we are willing to do it so long as it's legal. And if approved from the City side, 00:57:44
we're definitely going to like let our officers go. And you know, we don't have our own fire department, but we contract with the 00:57:49
ARM City and so. 00:57:54
Yeah, yeah. I mean there's there's a time that we may. So I I think, I think you're right, it'd be great to have our folks. But 00:58:01
you know, I think that might be on the city's city end by trying to let our employees and people that work in the city now. And we 00:58:06
have met with affordable housing consultants on how could we further expand it. 00:58:11
One of the challenges, there's something called a qualified census district and unfortunately this land is not in it. 00:58:17
Highly discounts what those tax credits can be. 00:58:23
And then you again, you add on the parking structure, it really becomes a challenge economically for a developer to come in and do 00:58:29
that. If we were in the qualified census district district, I think maybe there would be a clearer way to make that happen. 00:58:36
But we're not. 00:58:43
Thank you. 00:58:45
OK. Parking, we kind of already talked about it. Right now zoning requires 1 1/2 spaces per dwelling unit and there was concern, 00:58:50
is that going to be enough? 00:58:53
What we're proposing is not necessarily to solve all that, but for you to tell us what the primary concerns are. 00:58:57
And we brought. 00:59:03
And then in the development agreement bind us to bring a management plan that addresses those concerns and those objectives, so. 00:59:05
Our plan is going to come with every site plan that we submit. We'll say this is the parking plan, right? Or at least it's got to 00:59:11
be compliant with the parking plan that was submitted. 00:59:16
And. 00:59:20
We'll address things like permitting right? If if we if we only have this many parks installed, we can't issue more permits than 00:59:22
that. How is monitoring enforcement going to work? How's the visitor parking designation on the garage going to work? 00:59:27
And you know, as we submit a site plan, you always have to say this is the. 00:59:33
This is how we meet. 00:59:38
Right. And then we'll have this additional layer to also meet the parking plan. 00:59:40
Right. We will have street parking as well along the streets. 00:59:44
I will just note. 00:59:48
In its full built out state. 00:59:50
You know, again, our plan is to have office here. That office is all going to vacate. So my visitor, perspective and others. 00:59:53
Right. There's some shared parking that overlaps, but there's still going to be excess parking in the evening. So a lot of the 00:59:58
concern, I think that's happened a lot of places is evenings. 01:00:02
And I think we. 01:00:06
We'll have extra. 01:00:08
Something that we're doing with the downtown area and is also something that I'd like to see here. 01:00:13
First off, let me just say with some other developments that have come in, they've made big promises on management for parking 01:00:19
and. 01:00:23
And then they have just bounced, they've left and then HOA gets that is there, is stuck with it and they don't even have an idea 01:00:28
of what they, the management promised and it's just been a nightmare for some of these developments that have gone in recently. 01:00:34
With the downtown while we're doing a thing where basically. 01:00:42
They can build X amount of units and then after that happens a parking study is done by an independent contractor and then. 01:00:46
They assess if more or less parking needs to be done for development. So I think that that is definitely something that we would 01:00:54
want to do. That's that's the kind of input we're hoping we could put into this plan. 01:01:00
And then bind it and record it with the development agreement. 01:01:06
Perfect. 01:01:11
And we could. 01:01:12
If you want that, that's something that. 01:01:14
From a staff side, we can look at maybe what a number I might look at, OK. But I love that suggestion because again it would give 01:01:16
you real site conditions. So if it's 200 units or whatever you study that you know, OK, those 200 units are requiring. 01:01:23
You know, two spaces per unit or three spaces per unit and then that would automatically adjust the parking code, move forward. I 01:01:31
think what that also does is it puts a lot of responsibility on the developer that they manage the parking. 01:01:37
Very efficiently, right at the front end. And that's what we've found kind of like Chris brought up is the the developers that 01:01:44
have managed parking. 01:01:47
Early on I've been a lot more successful. We have had others that had to catch up and it took several years like the alloy and the 01:01:51
concord, but they're now they're actually doing fairly well. They're probably still some issues, but it's way less than what it 01:01:57
used to be. So management is, is key, but that's something we can work on if you'd like. I think it's a fair ***. 01:02:02
We don't need to keep perpetuating a problem. 01:02:10
But I think last time it was brought up like people are starting to, you know. 01:02:14
With a 2 bedroom apartment starting to get four cars right because housing prices are driving up and people are starting to bunk 01:02:19
up a little bit more and again I think the parking permit. 01:02:23
Would mitigate a lot of that as well, that two-bedroom. 01:02:28
Two parking passes? Done. 01:02:31
So. 01:02:34
I guess going off of parking one of my big concerns. 01:02:35
Is transportation in general. We have the downtown plan that's come in and they've got the. 01:02:39
Bus transit. They are right next to the track station. 01:02:45
But here, there's no rapid transit, there's no bus station there, There's not even a sidewalk that goes to the current train 01:02:50
station now. 01:02:54
And that's a big concern for me. 01:02:59
This wants to be a walkable area. 01:03:04
Getting on public transport is difficult. I know that's something that's out of your guys's hands, but. 01:03:07
It just needs to be said that that's a big concern. 01:03:13
If we can support any way of pedestrian walkway through, I would always love to EU campus and then walk over would be be 01:03:16
brilliant, but we would support that in any way that we can. But. 01:03:21
To me the right well we're coming to you is saying can we, can we change the use from what it was. 01:03:28
To what we're proposing. 01:03:35
And we've shared with Morgan today the traffic impact study that was shared and and their basic conclusion is. 01:03:37
Versus the current entitlement. 01:03:43
The traffic impact is less, right if we were to build out the 1.8 million square feet with 1.1 being office. 01:03:46
In 1000 square feet you have, you know, four to five workers. Each of those have a car and 1000 square foot apartment. 01:03:52
You know you got two cars and, and the dispersion of those trips are quite a bit different. It's not 8 to 5, everybody leaves at 01:03:58
5:00. So the the impact of the level of service on certain intersections is actually reduced. 01:04:03
By adding the residential versus, you know, a heavier office use. 01:04:09
And. 01:04:14
You know, vineyards, the traffic's not going to be solved easy and there's lots of mitigations outlined in the in the traffic 01:04:15
impact study. But overall, what we're proposing is actually a benefit to traffic versus the current entitlement, if that makes 01:04:20
sense. 01:04:24
That probably won't make any sense to anybody waiting 5 minutes to get through you know the connections and get the trailer 01:04:30
section. 01:04:32
But that's. 01:04:35
So that's what the engineer came back. And yeah, I understand that it makes sense. 01:04:37
With if there's a bunch of office space, everybody leaves at the same time, it's crowded. 01:04:43
But also with the amount of residential units and the lack of office space in Vineyard, they're going different directions at 01:04:48
different times. 01:04:52
So if there was a bunch of office space and a bunch of retail and whatever. 01:04:55
People would be coming into vineyard while the people that are in vineyard that work outside of vineyard would be leaving 01:05:00
vineyard. 01:05:02
And. 01:05:07
Maybe. 01:05:07
That's addressed in the study that you guys did? 01:05:08
Right. 01:05:13
I can't see how it would send. The flows are different, yeah, the flows are different directions. 01:05:15
If if it's a higher mix, like more square footage of office, then you would get more capture of trips. As far as like multiple 01:05:23
trips, maybe someone parks. 01:05:27
Or or they're they're close enough so that so they walk and so that's a trip that's that's captured they're having to. So not 01:05:33
necessarily not what I'm saying is that. 01:05:38
The trips. 01:05:46
Going out versus the trips that are coming in the. 01:05:48
Times that are difficult to get into Vineyard. 01:05:51
5:00 and the biggest time to get out of Vineyard is 8:00. 01:05:54
And it would just be the opposite, that people are coming in at 8:00 instead of going out and when people are leaving. 01:05:59
At 5:00 instead of coming in. So it's just the traffic is going different directions. There's more traffic, but it's. 01:06:08
We would need our traffic engineer to answer that for sure, and why, why they came to the conclusion they did. 01:06:14
Just knowing that more people are leaving means the light can't be green for all those that are coming as much, right? Like I 01:06:20
don't know how that math shakes out exactly. I think your your questions really really good, but. 01:06:24
Just knowing that you got to push more people through it means this green lights got to be open longer to let the office people 01:06:29
out. Probably still has an impact, but I don't know how that shakes out. Yeah, I'd be interested to know kind of if if you could 01:06:33
ask them. 01:06:37
Get your comments like organized if you can. 01:07:11
It's, it's great. I'm excited that you guys all have comments and that is great. 01:07:15
But if. 01:07:20
Direct you can be the easier it is for us. We're going to try to write down questions that you have. We're not going to do a whole 01:07:22
lot of back and forth. We're going to ask questions and go from there. 01:07:26
If you could try to keep it within 3 minutes, that would be super helpful. So yeah, state your name and yeah. 01:07:32
My name, Hector Hernandez. I live here in the city of Vineyard, obviously. 01:07:39
Everybody who knows me knows that. 01:07:43
I'm a parking guy. Parking is a nightmare. 01:07:46
I lived in a city, obviously in on the East Coast. 01:07:52
We didn't do any building out there unless parking was taken care of 100%. 01:07:56
We've. 01:08:03
Because of the amount of high density in Vineyard and where we live, I live in the springs right next to the preserve, the other 01:08:08
gentleman who was here from the preserve. 01:08:13
And a nightmare. The HOA and the UP are against all the residents. We're at the mercy of them. I have a personal experience in our 01:08:18
new city manager can testify as to what I had, but I don't have time to go into that now. But. 01:08:28
I work in the city, I have clients throughout all the city, and I don't know of anybody that I've met in five years that want any 01:08:41
more high density. Of course, I'm not against. 01:08:48
Improvement. Growth. Some high densities. 01:08:54
Necessary, but we have too much already. 01:08:58
This plan looks very beautiful and we and we thank you guys for the seven years on the East Coast it took 20 years to get to. 01:09:02
Brand new parking. 01:09:12
Parking station and station from Trenton to the city of Manhattan took 20 years from concept to to final. You know, final. 01:09:15
Parking. 01:09:26
And station. 01:09:27
My other comment Bryce, I've been thinking of selling my house in the springs to buy a higher end apartment building in the either 01:09:31
the the the Town Center. 01:09:37
Or even here, but in under this option I don't have that option to actually buy. 01:09:44
I've seen the difference between owner, occupied. 01:09:49
And rentals. And the difference is huge. It's a big issue here, parking. 01:09:53
Um. 01:10:00
I got towed the other day. Not me personally. My family got towed. Who was moving out of town. 01:10:02
We got up to where I was picking up EU Haul truck with their car behind it and there was a boot I had to break the boot off. 01:10:08
I called the towing company right away. I told him, Hey, I'm sorry, I know I did this wrong, but I'll pay for the boot and I had 01:10:18
to go through a whole struggle. 01:10:23
To stop the UPE. 01:10:31
From threatening me that I was under criminal action, I had sent a letter to our H. 01:10:36
I had put my permit in the windshield. 01:10:45
None of that worked, so my issue is with parking obviously. 01:10:48
If you could just be brief on other things. 01:10:54
I guess my my my main thought is that. 01:10:59
Nobody that I know really wants. 01:11:03
Anymore high density some is necessary. 01:11:06
Obviously. 01:11:10
The city and a lot of the residents are very, very upset at the city. 01:11:12
Whether it's the Planning Commission, the City Council, the mayor. 01:11:18
Some of the people who work in there that they continue to go high density, high density, high density. 01:11:23
I know in the Town Center and I don't know the specifics, the builder has the option to go from 20% residential up to as much as 01:11:29
80%. 01:11:34
Those numbers can be challenged I'm sure, but it's somewhere in the in the contract there that in the end our Town Center could 01:11:40
end up being 80% residential. 01:11:45
Very little stores. So we want progress. We want you know to go forward at a higher at a higher rate, faster with retail and 01:11:51
commercial. 01:11:57
We have issues. Thank you, Hector. 01:12:06
Hi everybody. David Wright, Holloway Rd. 01:12:21
Long time no see. 01:12:24
Hey I want to make some comments on this moment. I've tried to organize a little bit but it be a little scattered sorry parking. 01:12:27
You know, as you've heard, it's the biggest deal. 01:12:37
It's really insane to calculate to expect people to have one point $5 per unit. The worst parking problems we have right now are 01:12:40
in Edgewater. 01:12:45
And they planned 1.1. 01:12:49
And that's just and people actually have to go out and park in Fields. 01:12:52
You know, half mile away and walk. 01:12:56
It's not workable. 01:12:59
Understand that we live in a university town. 01:13:01
You say where is it? Was Utah Valley University they own at. Probably a third of the land is still available for development right 01:13:05
now. 01:13:08
And it's going to get built. 01:13:12
Plus, we already have plenty of students. 01:13:15
We've had problems already because we've talked about that already. You'll have an investor buying a unit and then rent it out to 01:13:18
students. 01:13:21
And the investors out of state doesn't care. He's got 3 bedrooms. OK, that's six. That's six students. That's income. 01:13:25
Just like you're trying to figure out what will be. 01:13:32
Make himself money. 01:13:36
And he's going to pack it like crazy, just like you're doing here. 01:13:38
Wrong. 01:13:43
1.45 dollars is not enough. 01:13:44
You got a plan for the fact that if not right now. 01:13:47
At least in 10 years. 01:13:51
That's going to be student. 01:13:52
So make the adjustment now if you can please. 01:13:56
Hopefully you won't have to. Hopefully you won't build. 01:13:59
If you really want to help. 01:14:01
You'll give us some commercials and. 01:14:03
For heaven's sake, a grocery store will be nice. 01:14:06
That's what Vineyard needs. I know you need money and you need to build to get it. I get it. And the way to get you the fastest 01:14:09
money is to put people there. 01:14:13
But that's not what the town. 01:14:18
So be aware of that. That's a that's a large large. 01:14:22
Man, that's going around. 01:14:28
So, Mary, quite welcome. 01:14:31
Urban wall that works the wall in the yard. 01:14:37
You know, so everyone uses the back door of all the businesses. 01:14:41
Because the parking lots got behind and they build the front doors along the narrow St. with a few little parking stalls for 01:14:44
looks. 01:14:48
And everyone comes in the back door. 01:14:52
It's just I mean it just doesn't work. 01:14:54
I know the kind of the concept was well, we want to be a walkable city and make us less the front door, but no one walks here in 01:14:57
the winter, which is 6 months out of the year. 01:15:01
And very few people walk the rest of time of year because most of the people live here are young families. 01:15:05
What Mom wants to unbuckle her three? 01:15:12
And and grab them, you know, through the parking lot everywhere else, you know, to go shopping here. 01:15:15
People will go to businesses where it's convenient for them. 01:15:21
If we make it in the. 01:15:25
They'll go somewhere else and we lose those tax dollars. 01:15:27
So it's important for us to try to make things convenient for the people who do live here. 01:15:33
Who actually want to stay? 01:15:37
Who actually invest in the town like Bryce talked about? 01:15:39
And actually want to stay here and make it better. 01:15:43
So. 01:15:49
We gotta find a way to do that, and this isn't. 01:15:52
So why residential at all? 01:15:56
There's at least 3500 units in that same general area. 01:15:59
They're only there. 01:16:03
I mean, yeah, much started alloy down there, they got 600 units, you're off the side and so forth they go 606 hundred 300. 01:16:06
You add them all up. 01:16:13
Edgewater and so forth. There are thousands of units right there already. 01:16:15
And they were all built to be. 01:16:21
Low cost UN. 01:16:23
They're going to be, you know, introductory places where families will start to be their first home if they could either buy a 01:16:25
condo or rent for a while. 01:16:28
Why don't those work? 01:16:33
The same thing will happen here. You'll be able to find product. 01:16:37
And within a year or two, it was like the others. 01:16:40
Make your last comments real brief, David. Thank you. 01:16:46
Those 25 affordable units. 01:16:51
Well, my great student housing goodness, don't you think? 01:16:53
Thanks, David. 01:16:57
Hello, thank you. My name is Daria Evans and I am a resident of Vineyard. 01:17:10
And I have some questions that I would like to have answered. I'll write down your questions and then I'll. 01:17:15
When he was doing his presentation, he mentioned retail. I would like to know what kind of retail that is. 01:17:25
I would like to know where the possible public safety building would be going and what it would. 01:17:34
Entail. 01:17:40
This the Central Shared St. 01:17:43
I would like to know how they how FedEx, UPS, RC, Willey trucks. 01:17:48
Get access to these people who live. 01:17:55
To drop their packages off or, you know, deliver. 01:17:59
Are those streets really wide enough? Especially if it's a shared street? When you have residents or people walking along, it's 01:18:02
only four miles an hour. How? How is that going to work? 01:18:07
Can you guarantee you're talking about? 01:18:14
People coming to live there, can you guarantee that first responders, EMT's, these kind of people are really going to want to live 01:18:17
here? 01:18:21
Umm. 01:18:26
How many one bedroom, 2 bedroom, 3 bedroom units are you planning on? I'd like to know that. 01:18:27
And the parking structured. 01:18:34
Several levels. 01:18:39
And how many stalls will be? 01:18:41
Or is it going to be a street side with a cover over it? 01:18:44
I'd like to know what that all entails. I really want to see the aesthetics of it. 01:18:49
And they mentioned a possible hotel in the first. 01:18:56
I'd like to know what is the draw for the hotel at this time when we have hotels just on by Winco Maverick for there. 01:19:00
And. 01:19:09
The Planning Commission meeting on January 4th. 01:19:14
Page 12190. 01:19:18
15.3 point 6.030 point 1/2 is talking about views. 01:19:20
It says due to the community quality and character created by the scenic beauty, it is essential that the city and all 01:19:27
subdivisions and site plans. 01:19:32
Designs preserve general access to significant views. These views include Mount Timpanogos, Provo Canyon, West Mountain, Utah 01:19:37
Lake. 01:19:41
Heights need to be well below a maximum permitted height. So that's my next question. What is the maximum height you're planning 01:19:47
to build these? 01:19:51
Structures. 01:19:55
And will it comply? And will this continue? 01:19:58
Will this be in? 01:20:01
Future subdivisions. Will that continue on? Those are my questions. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. 01:20:03
3 seconds. 01:20:13
My name is Don Olverson. I live on Pintail. 01:20:20
I. 01:20:23
Couple statements in. 01:20:26
Number one, in my previous life we were designing the expansion of Geneva Rd. 01:20:28
UDOT said they would only. 01:20:35
The railroad. 01:20:38
Nothing past the rail record or? 01:20:40
That question you had about whether or not? 01:20:43
And that did include a trail. 01:20:45
So that's all part of. 01:20:47
Original plan now whether they? 01:20:49
Redesign. 01:20:51
Either right or there. 01:20:53
The question I had was. 01:20:56
If you would go to surface parking, how many units could you get? 01:20:59
In your area without ever putting. 01:21:03
Parking structures in there. 01:21:11
Is that? 01:21:15
I know that you're saying that you need. 01:21:16
You know, if you had surface parking, then you wouldn't. 01:21:19
Add the additional. 01:21:23
But I want to know how many units you could actually do there. 01:21:26
OK. 01:21:29
And the third. 01:21:30
Are we changing the zoning ordinance? 01:21:34
Agreeing to the development agreement. 01:21:39
Because the zoning ordinance is what basically says one third 2/3. 01:21:42
I wasn't sure of that. 01:21:48
So, So Jan a development agreement changed the zoning ordinance or do you have to go through a zoning process? 01:21:51
So. 01:21:59
Putting the cart before the horse here, sorry. 01:22:01
All right. Thank you, Don. 01:22:04
Comments from the public. 01:22:12
All right. 01:22:17
Get into asking these questions then. 01:22:19
Starting I guess just with don't questions as far as surface parking, how many units would you guys be able to do it? Like where 01:22:23
would you guys be at if you didn't have to do the parking structures? 01:22:28
How would this plan change I guess? 01:22:34
Well, that's a good question. 01:22:46
20. 01:22:49
I mean, again, it gets back to the residential mix, but I guess I'll just give some metrics out there like. 01:22:53
25 to 30 maybe if you go 4 store maybe you can get a little bit more units per acre. It's kind of a common for garden style walk 01:22:59
up. 01:23:03
Right. We said there's 21 acres of development pads used to make it. Do the math on that, but. 01:23:08
I mean, if the structured parking requirement would be removed, the character of the whole development could be quite different. 01:23:14
You know, there was a discussion of. 01:23:21
We could bring grocery if if that was removed it's hard in this urban environment to attract them in the same way. So it's it's 01:23:23
it's a different story. We've always assumed in in in working with staff that the structured parking. 01:23:29
Is is going to? 01:23:36
So we haven't studied it in depth. 01:23:39
I guess a question for staff that would kind of. 01:23:43
Coming off of that is. 01:23:46
Why? Why do we want the surface parking? Or why do we not want surface parking? And we want the structures and the highest and 01:23:49
best use. Remember when this zone was created, it was to be an activity zone. 01:23:54
A an economic development area for the city and it was intended to be urban mixed uses. You create that sense of place by by 01:24:00
densifying uses together by doing surface parking like if you look a lot of shopping centers those are just automobile type 01:24:06
centers where that you're going to drive to when you have building set very far back with the field of parking Also from an 01:24:12
environmental standpoint there's tons of runoff. Those are things that that that you can treat but overall you do get a much 01:24:19
better. 01:24:25
Product in terms of the value for land highest investigators. It's also how you achieve walkability is you mix uses together and 01:24:31
you can do that way more effectively with structured parking than you can surface parking. Surface parking spreads everything. 01:24:39
So. 01:24:46
OK. Thanks and then. 01:24:48
Are we changing the zoning ordinance as no. The development agreement allows allows the city to basically use the zoning warrants 01:24:50
as the baseline but then it allows you to to to fine tune and to agree to things above and beyond the the the zoning code. That's 01:24:56
why during the. 01:25:01
You know there are RMU code. When we did the additional units, we put down the code but we didn't need to. I mean you can do the 01:25:08
development agreement is kind of the the layered agreement on top of the zoning that allows the the the City Council to to to 01:25:14
negotiate. 01:25:19
You know details of prop projects. And so yeah, this is something we did have our attorney Jamie a blank so you can look at and he 01:25:26
felt that his owning that a development agreement was was sufficient. 01:25:31
And then going to Daria's questions, what retail do you guys expect in an area? 01:25:38
It's going to. 01:25:46
Market driven to some extent, right. The the purpose of this is to outline a master plan not right, not a lot of those questions 01:25:47
were site plan. We will come back with site plans. They'll have many of the details that were asked on that but. 01:25:53
You know, we see dining, we see seated dining around the central Plaza. 01:26:00
We. 01:26:05
We've really worked hard, like I said, to attract a grocer with the structured parking. We're having some challenges, but we're 01:26:07
we're still in pursuit of that. 01:26:11
Jeff, feel free to add in but. 01:26:17
Some some fitness would be great on that ground floor dining, small retail. 01:26:20
You know, we we see people going to the movie and coming over to the forge and and you know, dining, eating desserts, those kind 01:26:27
of things. 01:26:30
Quick question on the grocer. 01:26:34
Is it possible if you guys were to bring in a grocer that we could put something in that says that they don't have to use 01:26:39
structured parsing the structured parking for a grocery store? 01:26:44
Because I think that. 01:26:49
That just having a grocery store period would be a huge. 01:26:51
Right. They would start to meet the requirements for the setbacks and, you know, coming up to up to the street. 01:26:55
The the grocer that they they may be talking about. I've talked to them about this, the same site. 01:27:03
And they they want a suburban grocery store fill the park in the front. There are others that that we're working with that are 01:27:09
very interested in the city that that are willing to do more of an urban mixed-use site. 01:27:16
And so that's you know so it some of them are willing to do it and others they have their their kind of the more suburban template 01:27:23
that they that they don't really want to move off from. Is it possible to put something in this that would allow for a? 01:27:30
So if they're willing to follow kind of those design considerations, I think you definitely could do surface parking. If they're 01:28:12
willing to do it this, this amount of surface parking that we did ask for, I think it does outline that development agreement that 01:28:18
along this corner there could be some surface parking was intended to attract a grocer. 01:28:24
OK. Because I think anything we can do? 01:28:32
In this area, anything we can add to this development agreement to attract a grocery? 01:28:34
Something that we would want to do and we're not done in that pursuit. I don't want, I don't want to indicate that it would just 01:28:40
we just hit strike one that's all. Yeah. And the city doesn't have the position of like absolutely no to a grocery store on the 01:28:46
site. I mean if there's, I mean it's one of those things that if they can meet us in the middle like I definitely think that we 01:28:52
would we would do what we could do to attract a grocery store there. But what we don't want is. 01:28:58
You know, just a giant field of parking. I mean there there's other places in the city that we've been pointing developers to. You 01:29:05
do have the bifurcation of the railroad, which makes the overall, you know, customer. 01:29:10
You know, Circle, they're, they're they're kind of where they want to pull 80% of their customers from. It makes it a little bit 01:29:18
more difficult. 01:29:21
So, but yeah, we word that we're. 01:29:26
That's a huge priority for for us when we meet probably. 01:29:29
You know, twice a month I would say with a different group, groceries, we have several that were in constant conversations with 01:29:33
and we've done a lot of mop ups of different sites of how how could look. 01:29:37
And. 01:29:43
The priority and something just to add to that, having a grocery store in this area. 01:29:44
Makes the area so much more walkable for this and for the other places which. 01:29:51
If we're trying to get rockable, we need to get as many of the things that you need. A place that you can work, a place that you 01:29:58
can eat, a place that you can grocery shop and transportation, public transportation are those things that you need for it to be a 01:30:04
truly walkable area and health services. 01:30:09
OK. Next question was a public safety building. I guess to answer that, we're trying to get a fire department of some sort there. 01:30:20
I don't know if we're at the the point where we want to say that the spot, but we definitely are working with them on a spot. I 01:30:25
just I just don't want to say until I mean typically. 01:30:31
You know you don't want to disclose that stuff until you've you've, you know, I mean we're supposed to, but yeah, we're definitely 01:30:36
looking at a site in the in the. 01:30:40
And then trucks on a shared street. I guess to answer that the way a shared St. usually works is. 01:30:45
It's usually a different pavement type and. 01:30:52
You can go there and you can park there. If your car is like still on, they could make drop offs, but it's not a place that you 01:30:56
park, it's a place that you drive 5 mph. It's very. 01:31:01
Uh. 01:31:06
A shared street is you feel uncomfortable driving on it, but if you're making a delivery then it's. 01:31:07
Then and I would just add that the primary delivery points would not be along the third stream, yeah. 01:31:13
Sure you can. Yeah. I'll let you follow up real quick. 01:31:22
You gotta come to the mic. You gotta be the microphone. 01:31:25
Trying to get your steps in for you today. 01:31:30
Sorry, the mic got moved over here. 01:31:34
Here can you handle your mic there? 01:31:36
Thank you. 01:31:42
So. 01:31:44
Just Orient me where would these? 01:31:46
Part to deliver furniture. 01:31:50
Drop off packages, you know. 01:31:53
Grocery items that they have. 01:31:56
You know. 01:31:59
Where do these people do that? How do they access those homes? 01:32:00
The way that this looks, I just yeah, see. 01:32:07
So we're not into the nitty gritty yet of how the buildings are designed and that that's going to play a huge role in in something 01:32:10
like that. If the entrance to a building is in one spot, I'm sure that they would have some kind of parking designated for 01:32:16
something like that, but that's all the nitty gritty stuff that's yeah, I'd say. 01:32:22
Provide freight elevators for people to take up their furniture Again you. 01:32:31
So I'll just add, we're dealing. 01:32:38
And that's when the Planning Commission will look up flow and traffic and then they'll look at like, you know, making sure there's 01:33:14
spots for delivery trucks. OK. Thanks area. Thank you. And then the last question about the hotel. 01:33:20
Yeah, I have. You've got like five more that I'm going to ask still, so. 01:33:25
The guaranteed people, if they want to live there, that's just impossible to say. If if they're awesome, then maybe. But the place 01:33:31
I want to live is different than the place that Anthony wants to live, and it's just going to be different for everybody. I would 01:33:35
want to live in a single family home. Somebody would want to live in an apartment. So it's just hard to say if a paramedic would 01:33:40
want to live in a specific spot. 01:33:45
I do. I want to make a comment on that though, because we do know in Utah there is a, there is a housing shortage. People are are 01:33:50
literally going and applying to multiple apartments. They they definitely can't afford a house. They're trying to get somewhere. 01:33:56
There is a housing housing shortage on the Wasatch Front and we know over the next 20 years it's only going to get worse. 01:34:02
I don't know that. I know what off the top of my head. I don't want to, I don't want to mistaken. They'll probably be an updated 01:34:43
market study before we finalize the site plan that. 01:34:46
That would lock that in, but we'll certainly bring that as part of the site plan for sure. OK. And then I. 01:34:51
To answer your question Daria, about the parking structures, it would be like a wrapped they would wrap the parking structure with 01:34:59
the units like residential units. I don't know if you've seen it like the University Mall. 01:35:04
Where they have a parking structure and then they have units around it. They also have some at UVU where they've done something 01:35:10
similar to that. Is there anything, am I getting that right? 01:35:15
As far as what I understood from you guys and that's the intended topography that we would multifamily. 01:35:20
And then permanent high, currently it's permitted to go up to like 120 feet. 01:35:27
I think even 14140, So this plan was adopted in 2000 and. 01:35:33
15 or 14, yeah. So that plan for the forge got adopted in 2014 or 15 and the height for that was 120 feet. They were expecting to 01:35:39
have large residential units, so. 01:35:45
They could go up to 120 feet, but from the sounds of it though, they're only planning on doing 5, maybe six story. 01:35:52
Like Jeff mentioned earlier, office is probably more likely to go higher than yeah we are kind of pushing from just that you know 01:35:58
so like at that N that northeast corner making that a more prominent ability not necessarily like 14 stories or anything that 01:36:05
having having that that be like a really nice architecture gateway story that has some presence on that corner. 01:36:12
And then just for comparison, how tall are the top go? 01:36:20
I. 01:36:29
Let's pull I think they're 120. 01:36:29
Reference. 01:36:33
Like I live in Cascade and my Rd. looks straight down the top Golf and I mean it doesn't impede my, I think it like I can see up 01:36:35
to like essentially the top foothills of Vineyard and maybe just the start of the foothills of Provo. So if that's if it's that's 01:36:42
actually yeah that's a really good point. I mean that's if that's 120 it's definitely not for anybody that's on the essentially 01:36:49
the residential farther area that's going to be I guess West of this I I highly doubt it would affect. 01:36:56
50 Oh yeah. So it's definitely, even if they've maxed it out, anybody that's on the other side. 01:37:04
It shouldn't have an impact on our views of the mountains. 01:37:12
And then her last comment was the draw for hotel. You guys were saying you want to do that in the first phase? 01:37:16
She was asking what? 01:37:23
And. 01:37:27
I'll just say, I mean we've done some initial studies on it and you know looking at occupancy in the area. 01:37:29
Umm. 01:37:36
You know brings commercial to the area early on and so. 01:37:37
It feels like something would like to do. It's not without its challenges. It'll certainly be easier when it's all built out and 01:37:42
there's Office and all that around it, but. 01:37:45
But based on the occupancy in the market evaluation, you know we hope that we can make that work and then we met with a, just to 01:37:50
add a little more to that, we met with the three different hotel. 01:37:56
Analysts was people in their whole careers studying the viability hotels. 01:38:02
And what they said is Vineyard, is that definitely a good market even though you have hotels around, even just having units in the 01:38:08
more housing units you have generates a need for hotels and people come visit, people remodel, they need a place to stay, the 01:38:14
employment, just having employment they say yeah, you got, we have a very healthy flex office market right now. We're close to 01:38:20
1,000,000 square feet of employment on the north side and no one really considers that part of it, but it is. 01:38:26
And those are doing really well. And so I I'd say like the need, the needs definitely there we've heard, I mean it might be a 01:38:33
matter of like how many keys. 01:38:37
You know that the style and what? What type. 01:38:42
Maybe deter some people from illegally Airbnb being their. 01:39:23
So, so yeah. 01:39:28
OK. Any other questions from you guys right now? 01:39:33
I have a question. So so imagine this was from scratch and you didn't have to do structured parking. What would you view as the 01:39:38
best use? 01:39:43
Because it sounds like a grocer would come more easily want to come in if there was something else being done there, so I'm 01:39:49
interested in know what actually is. 01:39:53
From fresh something else that you would do. 01:39:58
I was going to legit answer that one. There's a loader, you don't have to answer it either. But but I mean I I feel like it was 01:40:04
alluded to that, you know, this may not totally appeal to all grocers there. There may be other things and you've been put in this 01:40:10
direction, but there's a lot of interest here from the public. So what what is it that that could have been on the table? 01:40:16
Well, I guess what I would say from the start we we were to Morgan's Point where we're looking for the highest and best use and we 01:40:22
wanted to create density and. 01:40:27
The city was on board with that and. 01:40:32
So that was really our intent was to create a nice dense urban mixed-use project that would be right at the gateway to the city. 01:40:36
And so I don't think we would change, we knew. 01:40:42
To get these suburban grocers, we knew they wouldn't fit, most likely, and you know, unless we found the right one, we've been 01:40:49
talking to a number of them that are. 01:40:54
The smaller, smaller scale, almost like a hormones come up with small stores and we've been trying to talk to them about it. 01:40:58
So there's still a possibility that could happen as Steve mentioned earlier, we haven't given. 01:41:08
But to get for the one that we've been talking about that was really wants to be in Vineyard. 01:41:13
They. 01:41:20
Hundreds of stalls of service parking and a grocery store in the middle of it and. 01:41:22
We they said if you give us that, we'll come. 01:41:29
And I don't think it's our in our best interest. I don't think it's in the city's best interest in that location. 01:41:32
So we feel good about what this plan is. I don't think we changed it in any way. It it takes some vision and you know scale to 01:41:39
build something like this in Vineyard. If it was suburban development, it would, it would, it would move right like. 01:41:46
No doubt about it, you see it all around us. But this is, this is, this would be something we're proud of, and it'll be special 01:41:54
when it's built for sure. 01:41:57
Do you guys have any other questions for right now? 01:42:05
I just wanted to make a couple comments. 01:42:09
Umm. 01:42:13
You know what people consider density varies, right? But also the appetite for it. You know, we heard from 1 gentleman. 01:42:14
Supportive of it. We've heard from others that aren't, and you're gonna get the whole spectrum. I think we all understand that. 01:42:23
I think in this location it's important to recognize. 01:42:29
You would never expect to see a half acre single single family home on the intersection of. 01:42:33
Geneva Road and 800 NI. Don't think anyone here is expecting that, or advocating for that. Or right next to a movie theater, 01:42:40
anything like that. 01:42:43
So in this area, you know, back from 2015, you know, it was always intended to be a little bit. 01:42:47
Denser of an area. I think the the question that there's two questions in my mind that I think that we need to answer is the 01:42:55
Planning Commission one is. 01:43:00
If this is going to move forward as proposed, what's the best way to do it? 01:43:06
And if it's not going to move forward as proposed, what's what's the best place to utilize this based on the current zoning? So I 01:43:10
think those are really the two questions that are at hand. 01:43:15
And I don't, I don't say this has a slight at all toward mayor, City Council, but also they have their opinions and visions of 01:43:20
what they would like to see. 01:43:25
And what we can do is provide an educated recommendation towards them that hopefully encompasses. 01:43:30
All sides of what the the public is. 01:43:37
And we can make recommendations based on that. However, I also fully acknowledge that they may already have ideas of what they 01:43:40
would like to see here. Not that I'm that they're not open to our recommendations or anybody else's, but that's reality too, is 01:43:45
final decision makers. 01:43:50
Will, will field all the different recommendations from the different bodies, whether it's staff or or the Planning Commission. So 01:43:56
I just wanted to say that here and and think that we need to address probably those two questions. What's the best way to move 01:44:00
forward if it was something like this? 01:44:04
And if it's not this, you know, what's the status quo? Best way to move forward? 01:44:08
We rely, I think on on on community Development Morgan's team to say, yeah, that that this would be appropriate. 1.5 is more than 01:44:44
the 1.1 it sounds like Edgewater had. 01:44:48
It's not going to be. 01:44:54
Recognizing parking could be huge. Maybe it turns out that after you build the first thing as a unit, there's double the amount of 01:45:25
people parking there than we plan. And I mean, based on the cost of structure parking, I mean, it may not even be feasible. I 01:45:31
don't know what the impact would be there, but I think it needs to be very strongly worded. 01:45:36
If it were to move forward in this form, this is how we're accounting for parking. We know it's a huge concern for everyone. 01:45:42
And I think we should listen to it and put very tight controls into that to to hold everyone accountable and and. 01:45:48
Sway on that and just let it go forward without accounting that for that that could be an issue based off I don't think it will be 01:45:55
but based off of history it it it very well could be and we should account the the parking study is is is a really good idea and I 01:46:01
think that's a way to to right size it as because you get on site conditions. 01:46:07
It also would put, I mean if the developers don't want a requirement of like 4 parts installed per unit then they're going to do 01:46:13
their best to manage it and to stay on top of it. And so you get it from kind of both ends right sizing and then it puts a lot 01:46:19
more responsibility on the management and the at the very front end. So if you want I mean that that's that's language that we 01:46:25
could we could we could work on with the the applicants and. 01:46:30
You know, if if you continue, we can come back with that or we could draft something now, but you know, it's up to you. 01:46:37
A couple of questions I have for staff. Do we have any timeline? 01:46:45
For. 01:46:49
Widening of 800 N and the removal of the rails per. 01:46:51
Public works directors engineer, so the widening excuse me the rail spur removal, we currently have it on the timeline side 01:47:00
starting 2024 and and in about 2026 again this is a project that is in coordination with UDOT Federal Railroad Administration and 01:47:07
also Union Pacific on that and. 01:47:14
We're working on coming up with a proper agreement with Union Pacific in terms of conditions. 01:47:22
Of that on 800 N specifically, I know that the widening that. 01:47:29
Is happening which it or you might be referencing is either it's going to be doing some restriping and extending their shoulders 01:47:37
along 800 N which will add some which will add capacity on 800 N on the Venezuelan side. 01:47:44
And you don't have a contract excuse me has the contract out for that and then working on getting a contractor to actually to come 01:47:53
through the work through looking at the next construction season. So how, how are they doing that exactly in essence what on the 01:47:59
with the road, they the road has like a wide node lane they're going to turn those utilize like their fifth plane in order to add 01:48:05
additional Turing warnings but. 01:48:11
The vineyard connector 800 N is going to be extended. 01:48:19
There's going to be an extension project that's but that's over it by the Main Street side of things. Not not necessarily going to 01:48:25
be impacting this particular area except for providing residents of vineyards and other connect connection route to go So what 01:48:32
they can choose to so those residents may choose to utilize that other. 01:48:39
Part of the vineyard. 01:48:47
Going westward around towards the lake instead of going eastward towards Geneva Rd. Geneva Rd. Are there any plans to do double 01:48:49
lanes each two lanes each way? I know that there's plant like we built the bridge for that intent and we're building that other 01:48:57
bridge for the Promenade. Yeah, so vineyard. So the vineyard extension project is going to be it'll be extended vineyard connector 01:49:04
on there and then the UDOT does have another long range plans. 01:49:12
I'm building that out to be double lanes and then of course everything will be widened going eastward. 01:49:20
As well and that to include a white addressing the overpass if you need the 800 N overpass as well, you know I I can't tell you 01:49:27
that there's a set plan in terms of the date because again that's AU dot long range planning on that. So I would I would think 01:49:34
about anywhere from 6 to 8 years. 01:49:41
And then my last question is, is that are there any plans to have any kind of sidewalk or anything? 01:49:50
On that on 800 N between Mill Road and the Oakland Pass. 01:49:57
Short answer, yes. OK. 01:50:02
Is the city doing that or is UVU planning on doing that? So and then Morgan now can speak on this too, but along 800 N? 01:50:06
Improvements along 800 N we you know we work with the dot you know on that in terms of the UDOT has ends also pushing a strong 01:50:15
initiative at the base I think believe it's from the Governor's office in regards to increasing the walkability along Utah roads 01:50:22
because you got understands that it can't keep widening roads that they have to provide. 01:50:29
Other options for people to get people from point A to point B as well. So there they have a big initial they had to do have a big 01:50:36
initiative to. 01:50:39
Push those types of things again just like most government agencies they I know they have their constraints with contracts and 01:50:44
actually were just recently we're working on AETA in terms of getting some things done because they UTA has money to do things but 01:50:49
they don't have. 01:50:54
The avenues to do it and we're we're teaming up with ETA in order to for them to implement ADA upgrades to bus stops because they 01:51:01
have the money, but they don't have the contractors for that. 01:51:07
And then with you dots kind of same way where we can we can take those opportunities to work with developers and UDOT and the city 01:51:14
to get those types of upgrades done in a in a advantageous manner for everyone. So that's a longer answer to your shorter to the 01:51:21
shorter, yes, thank you. Anything else, Sir? No, that's it. Thank you. 01:51:28
I don't know. 01:51:36
All right. So just based off of kind of stuff we've gone over today. 01:51:40
There are some things I definitely want to see. 01:51:48
I want to see the parking plan. How many units with the parking plan? 01:51:52
I want to see any kind of plan or any kind of works that you guys are doing to. 01:52:02
Help get some kind of transportation there, whether it's UTA or anything, some kind. 01:52:07
Even bust out any any of that would be really helpful and we can look at that too. I there is a bus route now on Mill Rd. I don't 01:52:14
know if it has a stop in front of this site or if it's in front of the megaplex, but. 01:52:21
We can research that there's a five year plan study going on right now that they're seeking public input on UTA is and one of them 01:52:28
is about rerouting. 01:52:33
More I think 2 routes through Mill Rd. yeah. 01:52:39
Given the. 01:52:43
Of what we're doing, I mean would certainly design in spaces for those and no concern but. 01:52:44
I mean if you put this this much activity in here not to have UTA like, yeah it would be silly of them not to. 01:52:50
Totally support that, OK. 01:52:58
Sorry, just looking at a couple of my notes and things. 01:53:03
Umm. 01:53:08
Do you guys have an idea on the percentage of commercial versus? 01:53:09
At the end build out, yeah, I know you had the 50% of the ground floor space, but. 01:53:16
I mean. 01:53:23
What we see in the massing diagram. 01:53:28
2/3 residential square footage. So you know, like a million square feet of residential and 500. 01:53:33
1000 square feet of commercial is what you're looking at on. 01:53:38
You know, is that hotel going to be 4 stories or five stories, right? It's hard to say. Is that office building going to be two 01:53:43
stories or three stories or four stories. So I don't know exactly how to answer that. We've again, we've tried to narrow it down 01:53:49
to what we feel like we can control with the market because we feel like we can build something in the market. 01:53:54
Will want at the ground floor. It's just harder on the on the multi story commercial that's why it's hard for me to answer but 01:54:00
what you're seeing there is, is. 01:54:03
You know 500,600 thousand square feet of commercial and a million 1.1 million residential net that feels feels reasonable and good 01:54:08
to us on on feasibility. OK. And then a question for you Morgan, in the downtown plan, are we including internal alleys and shared 01:54:14
streets as open space? 01:54:20
I'd have to look at we so they meet the open space requirement with without including those because they have, they have the 01:54:29
promenades, they have the Geneva Park that hasn't been designed yet, but that would be. 01:54:34
Can drive on it. I have a hard time like if I can't let my 10 year old go. 01:55:12
You do call me right with some curbs and it takes a little bit of winding because you've got a little bump out where there's a 01:55:53
park bench or write something that kind of activates that space. But I'll just say what, what we're proposing here is I think 01:55:57
double zoning requirements. 01:56:02
Even without those, I believe we would we would meet the current zoning, so. 01:56:08
Umm. 01:56:14
Yeah, I would. 01:56:16
I want us and the site plans, I think, right, because the site plan is where that's going to happen. When we submit a site plan, 01:56:18
we have to prove that we're meeting open space. 01:56:21
And yeah, yeah, So we would do as each site plan comes in, we would compare it to the. 01:56:25
To the concept plan. So they'd have to it had to be compliance with concept plan plus any zoning regulations that weren't 01:56:32
overridden in the development agreement. And then that's where we would we would look because the intent of the development 01:56:38
agreement is to make that a walking shared St. and shared in the sense that you know if a car goes in there it's. 01:56:44
You know, it's like it's very rare or it's going really slow and so that would be our opportunity to get down to the design 01:56:51
details. 01:56:54
OK. Yeah. I'm just curious. 01:56:59
Mostly about that and with the internal alley to. 01:57:01
I believe the internal alley is. There's no cars on that one. That one's pure. 01:57:06
I mean, do we include sidewalks is open space? 01:57:11
Typically you don't, but I mean like I'm saying where you're doing something like in a development agreement where it's it's just 01:57:14
different you may you're negotiating it's kind of like do you feel that this meets. 01:57:20
That's where if you don't feel it does, I would you know, up it. 01:57:27
Is. 01:57:32
Let's have a specific idea of what those are so that we can determine whether or not that would be open space. And I'll just, I'll 01:57:35
just comment that Paseos, right, if this was grass in a neighborhood, often those are right like a trail type system through a 01:57:40
neighborhood. 01:57:45
And when we kind of created this, this is an urban paseo and that was part of the rationale. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to see some 01:57:51
details on what you guys consider paseo. 01:57:55
Yeah. And there'll be an exhibit in the development agreement. This is what that is, right? How many trees are going to be there 01:58:03
and what the seating is, what the paper material is, right. And we said it just can't be monolithic Gray asphalt. So some of those 01:58:08
kind of things might be what you're looking for. 01:58:12
And honestly it is on that shared St. it is it is nice to allow cars because that the retailers are going to want cars to be on a 01:58:19
park right right in front of their store as well. So it's it's a lot of the design. 01:58:25
And then the the last thing was having some kind of plan for being able to sell units as well instead of just having monthly 01:58:41
units. 01:58:46
And as far as those being rented out to people, it's kind of the same thing if. 01:58:52
If there is a stringent parking plan, then even if those units sell to somebody. 01:58:59
They know that they only have one or two parking spots, and even if they rent to four people. 01:59:05
They know that they only have two parking spots. So and that's as far as like the comments earlier about parking that Dave Luray 01:59:10
was making. 01:59:15
1.5 units is enough. 01:59:23
If the person is buying the house knowing that, it's like if you buy a house that has one bathroom and you needed two bathrooms, 01:59:25
like. 01:59:29
You can't ask the city to give you a bathroom like this is just how it is. You buy something knowing if you know what you have 01:59:35
then. 01:59:39
It'll work out. It's when people have expectations, like I should be able to park here and then it gets taken away. That's when 01:59:44
the issues start to come. And that's a big reason why the city doesn't allow parking on specific streets is because. 01:59:51
Eventually those streets are going to be heading to somewhere and there can't be parking there. And if somebody has been parking 01:59:59
there for five years and they expect that, then they're going to be extra mad at the city because they are getting their parking 02:00:05
spot taken away. And so having a really stringent parking plan I think is essential. 02:00:12
Is there anything else you guys wanted to see or so it sounds like you're leaning towards continuing this and seeing it back and 02:00:20
then OK, yeah, if unless somebody has a. 02:00:25
I think, yeah, you had a list of those amendments earlier. And so, yeah, incorporating those in addition to what Bryce was saying, 02:00:32
just so it's kind of a. 02:00:36
Cleaned up final thing that we can make a motion on with minimal modifications. Yeah, and we'll still have, just so you know, 02:00:41
there are next step. We'll still go to the City Council with the public hearing, but they won't make a decision until it goes back 02:00:46
to you for a recommendation. 02:00:51
That'll be interesting. I mean, I would also like to know, yeah, in that meeting, it'd be, it'd be good to hear what the City 02:00:58
Council's thinking there. So that would be helpful. Yeah. Can I ask for clarification on the parking plan? Yeah, what we proposed 02:01:03
was we will submit a parking plan before the first site plan. 02:01:09
That'll be helpful knowing the actual boundaries of the physical right, the physical architecture, and be able to come back with a 02:01:15
meaningful parking plan. 02:01:18
Having a little more design and detail what we were proposing in the development agreement, we outlined the main objectives of 02:01:24
that parking plan, meaning it will be permitted, it will be monitored. 02:01:29
It. 02:01:34
I had, I had some of those items on the slide, how visitor parking will be addressed, right. They will have the study as well. It 02:01:36
will have the study that we're going to add, right. And so we can put those main objectives in there in the development agreement 02:01:41
knowing that a management plan with all the details will come later. Is that is that reasonable? 02:01:46
At that time our property manager would be more involved and and we I think we could come up with a better a better solution 02:01:52
though. 02:01:54
OK. And then my last concern and you guys said that this is workable is the 1500 units currently there are 2000 units in that 02:01:59
whole area, so it's almost. 02:02:05
The amount of units that are in that entire area. 02:02:11
That's a lot. Of course the rest of the area isn't mixed-use like it was supposed to be, and it would work a lot better if it was. 02:02:15
But I. 02:02:19
Still doubling that and then we're on top of that. UVU is across the street. They can build whatever they want and we have no say 02:02:23
they could build. 02:02:28
Thousands of units of student housing there and we don't know. 02:02:34
So. 02:02:38
We just want to be sure that we're. 02:02:39
Adding more. 02:02:41
Then. 02:02:44
The infrastructure can take that. We're not adding more than. 02:02:46
The trend? The roads can take infrastructure, of course. 02:02:51
How workable are you guys on the 1500 units? 02:02:57
I'll just address the infrastructure first. Again, I think with each site plan, there'll be an infrastructure assessment right 02:03:03
with the seaman and the team. 02:03:06
Working through that and you know we'll. 02:03:09
Impact and responsibilities. So it's it's hard. I mean we've done a study here it says this is the background and all that's going 02:03:12
to change, but even that won't be exactly accurate. So the best way to deal with that would be each time we come forward here is 02:03:18
the impact of this next building, right and how does that need to be addressed at? 02:03:23
So will that impact include a traffic study with each one? Yeah, I think you'd have to, right. 02:03:30
As far as the number of units I. 02:03:38
We are agreeable to come down if it helps bring the deal, there's a limit to it, obviously for the overall economic viability of 02:03:43
what makes sense given the amount of investment. 02:03:48
We've committed into certain areas in this common open space. We need, we need some mass to be able to help help cover all that. 02:03:53
So I don't know what what feels reasonable to you if 1300 units, you know bring that down to 10 or 15 to 20% down. 02:04:01
You know in that 1300 unit range 1250 is, is this does that, does that satisfy, so if we were to come back and say we will take 02:04:09
that that that hit is that agreeable? I don't live in an area like this I. 02:04:16
Tell you would you would have a better idea of what how you're feeling in your current area. You live there. 02:04:24
Sorry. 02:04:38
Been a little bit in and out. My kids are yelling at me on Messenger could. 02:04:42
Say the question one more time, I was trying to like, so we were just talking about the amount of units. Currently the amount of 02:04:47
units that are in this area is about 2000 units, OK and. 02:04:52
What do you think would be workable for them if they were to be able to come down from 1500? 02:04:58
What do you mean by workable for them? Like what do you think? 02:05:06
As far as coming down? 02:05:10
Like what kind of number would you personally like to see? 02:05:14
It. 02:05:25
It's interesting because it will be. 02:05:28
Two sections of population. 02:05:34
I'm putting all that into one. 02:05:37
So I see, yeah. 02:05:40
I. 02:05:49
I couldn't say because I I see that we are working to build. 02:05:51
And that infrastructure to support. 02:05:56
If there's. 02:06:03
If we're attracting the. 02:06:05
Commercial. 02:06:11
To allow people to feel that sense of community. 02:06:14
Give me a reason to walk over and stay the day. 02:06:19
I I don't know. 02:06:24
I don't know that. 02:06:27
Feel too crowded until we. 02:06:30
It's hard to say because we don't know what UV is. 02:06:35
I feel like 1500. 02:06:42
About Max. 02:06:49
OK. 02:06:51
OK. I think that's probably going to be something more of the city council's gonna, yeah. 02:06:52
Um. 02:06:59
Yeah, I think that's it. 02:07:02
Is there any other questions you guys had for us as far as what we're hoping to see or? 02:07:04
No. 02:07:09
So. 02:07:11
Do I have? 02:07:14
I'd like to move to continue. 02:07:19
I need to look up the words. 02:07:22
To close the public hearing, do we need to close the public hearing? It helps us to move the process because this is going to go 02:07:26
into public hearing with the with the City Council and so unless if you feel. 02:07:33
You know the changes that you're asking for significant enough that you would want the public to come back in. 02:07:41
So it's up to you. 02:07:48
OK, then I'll leave it. Does that mean you ask? 02:07:53
Do you know, does that make an issue with the City Council having a public hearing? 02:07:57
Maybe. 02:08:03
So procedurally it works better if you close it because I I think then we have to continue it at the. 02:08:06
You you can take comment you're you're you're allowed to take comment. It won't be the illegal public hearing but there's a bunch 02:08:13
of members of the public that come you can say I give you each two minutes to to speak. Yeah as a chair you you're allowed to take 02:08:19
public comment but it wouldn't be like the the legal public hearing we've now satisfied. So I I would recommend closing it and 02:08:25
then people still want to speak you you can make that decision. 02:08:30
I'll move to close public hearing, sorry. 02:08:38
A second all in favor. 02:08:42
Now I will also move to. 02:08:45
Move to continue this to our next planning session Planning Commission meeting. 02:08:50
What's the date for that February one? I think is that if everyone OK on February 1st 2023? 02:08:56
Do I have a second? 02:09:05
Yeah, is this This isn't roll call, is it? 02:09:07
No. OK. All in favor. 02:09:13
Right. 02:09:16
Do you guys want to do the training session now? You want to hold it out for next? 02:09:19
Yeah, you guys are fine. Big night. Continue. Yeah, I'm. I'm in favor of. 02:09:24
We have to hit our four hours. We have to hit our four hours a year and they're like, So what, We'll probably always have some 02:09:29
sort of training on there and then if it's you know, you bump it if we want to. 02:09:35
Do. 02:09:42
Yeah. No, we'll move it. OK. I. 02:09:43
There's no work session, Commission member report and expert a discussion and disclosure. 02:09:46
Staff did you have anything? 02:09:53
No, we don't engineering any. 02:09:56
Thinking they should be. Well, I just wanted to give an update, a couple updates. One first update being the traffic signal over 02:10:00
400 N and Main Street is on its way going in, they plan on, we plan to do some other testing tomorrow or testing, testing or 02:10:08
initializing the signal tomorrow. And then as long as the weather is holding up and there's no issues with the signal controllers 02:10:15
and so forth, we expect the light to be operational by Friday. 02:10:23
Let's make the contractor has been great to work with, has been very responsive and I won't say this often but hard to keep up 02:10:31
with sometimes. The other update I want to say is that I have one foot in the grave and Emily has one foot on my shoulder. Thing 02:10:37
pushed me into push me to the ground. She she was notified that she passed her engineering examination for her first level 02:10:43
engineering. 02:10:49
So now she can technically be called. 02:10:56
Engineer Emily Covet. And then on her emails you'll see EI at the end. 02:11:01
Very big milestone and congratulations. That's great, awesome. Any update cash on the Postal Service as they got back to you at 02:11:07
all? I have not been to the post office in a while, so I will work on it this before next meeting. 02:11:14
If there's nothing else. 02:11:23
Meeting adjourned. 02:11:26
Don't forget. 02:11:31