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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOctober 7, 2003 PreCouncil MinsMeridian City Pre-Council Meeting October 7, 2003 Page 19 of 22 Hudson: Thank you. Madam Chairman and Members of the Council we'll work hard for you I promise. We will be accountable. Let us know if you have concerns along the way. We want to try to adjust and accommodate all of your thoughts, guidance, and good ideas. We're saying that to every person that we're working with. We're leaving our cards. We're saying please get to us tell us what you're thinking so that this is a collaboration that ultimately ends up with what Councilman Bird shared with us earlier and that is people in the know who have an understanding and a sense of ownership for the ultimate recommendations that are to be made. That will be the difference between another plan on the shelf and implementation. Thank you very much for your time. De Weerd: Thank you. Thank you Tom and Jerry we appreciate -Tom and Jerry isn't that fun. We appreciate you joining us. Item 5. Discussion of Design Standards in Downtown Core: De Weerd: Now Council we do have other agenda items. Steve I guess I would ask you. We wanted to take advantage of having the consultants and extending that conversation. Is this something that we can do next week? Is it a timely issue can we put this on our Regular Agenda or the Park's discussion? Siddoway: We certainly could do it next week. I also feel like why don't we let them go first and see what time they take. I had down 20 to 30 minutes or something but given the discussion that we just had, I think we can pair that down to about 10 minutes. We may be able to get through everything yet. Let's go ahead and let's Park's go first. De Weerd: Is that okay with the rest of the Council? Bird: Madam President. De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I would move then that we take Agenda Item Number 6 and move it in front of Item Number 5. Nary: Second. De Weerd: Okay it's been moved and seconded to hear 6 before 5. All those in favor say aye. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES, ONE ABSENT. Item 6. Presentation of New Park Impact Fees -Doug Strong: Meridian Ciry Pre-Council Meeting October 7, 2003 Page 20 of 22 De Weerd: Okay Doug you're up. ,Presentation of new park impact fees. Strong: Thank you Madam President Members of the Council. Actually, this item shouldn't take very long. This is information that when you passed the recent Park Action Plan the Comprehensive Plan update there's information about impact fees in that in that chapter. What we're looking for is just your basic understanding of what we're asking for in the impact fees and the changes to the impact fees so that we can move it to a public meeting date so it can become effective. De Weerd: Doug this went through the commission I believe a number of times is that correct? Have they looked at this and acted on it? Strong: Yes it's been through the Park Commission .it's also we had an impact fee committee that's had a final meeting on it and it's passed out of that committee. We have one letter of support from the Builder's Association I believe. I don't have that letter with me. It looks like we have general consensus that this is where it needs to go. I guess the place to start is that the impact fee hasn't been changed since 1996, which it was first, put into effect of April - I think April 1, 1996. Did all of you get the same PowerPoint presentation with this week's agenda? It mentioned the current impact fees were passed. They were established in 1996. They have not changed since that time. Those fees by the way but they're not shown here for single-family dwelling were $481.65 and for multi-family $370.50, that's what we're currently collecting. The proposed changes to the fees we've changed those amounts to $667 for single-family and $607 for multi-family. That's the important information. That change or that difference for single-family is an additional $185 more or less and for multi-family $236 change in the amount collected from previous. The calculations are shown here how we go through calculating the amounts for community parks. I'm not going to spend time on that. Then the neighborhood park share and then proportionate share is calculated. Then less a general fund share to come up with the $667 and the $607. We've also added an administrative fee of $20, which will be collected and used to update the Park Comprehensive Plan and the capital improvement portion of that plan into the basic impact fee. That's how we arrived at it without a lot of discussion about all the parts that go into that. That's what we would like to move forward with so that we can begin collecting those fees. De Weerd: Well I think we just need to get this on the agenda and move forward. It's been long time coming. I know there's been a lot of work and sure appreciate the committee that was put together and all the users that -the partners that came to the table and helped make sure that this was realistic, defendable and someone they could all buy into. Meridian City Pre-Council Meeting October 7, 2003 Page 21 of 22 Strong: I've been involved in this process a relatively short period of time and understand there has been quite a lot of discussion in the past. The last impact fee committee that we had lasted and Bill Nichols was there and can confirm this it lasted and I think you even left early. It lasted less than an hour and there was general consensus when we completed the meeting. It looks like an acceptable amount and something that we should be able to move forward on. De Weerd: Thank you Doug Strong: Thank you. De Weerd: Just work with Will and get that on the agenda Strong: Thank you. Bird: Notice for a Public Hearing and let's get her going. Item 5. Discussion of Design Standards in Downtown Core: De Weerd: Steve we'll go ahead and go to Item 5 the discussion of design standards in the downtown core. Siddoway: Thank you. The (inaudible) of where I was going with this discussion was just discussed with the market strategy and how those two processes overlap. How the market strategy can really provide some validity, background, and rationale for the types of design standards that we would do to implement the vision and the strategy that this process does. I would like to just use a couple of minutes to report back to the Council on where we are with the design standards process and then make a proposal related to the current effort. First, a reminder to us all as to why we even jumped into design standards in the first place. We identified a couple of years ago that a real barrier to development in Old Town when it's competing with the fringe is the fact that everything in Old Town has a Conditional Use Permit. Where if they were to go out in the fringe and get commercial zoning they could be a permitted use and be through P&Z in a week versus a four month Conditional Use Permit. That said, we decided that we did not - we weren't ready to just jump in and make. everything permitted uses in downtown because we didn't have any guidelines to say how those buildings would look. At staff level, we're doing staff level reviews we have to have some criteria to apply. Therefore, we went ahead with the design standards and we started this process a year ago. We hired Sherry McKibben as the consultant, worked up a set of draft design standards. That draft was brought before the MDC Board and they said well have you taken this to the developers, to the property owners who are going to be affected by this. Have you tested it with the architects that have to design buildings? Have you done these things? We said no, but we will and we did. We set up a meeting in February of this year. We emailed out the draft standards that we had come up with to over 50