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2008 04-03 SpecialMeridian Plannina and Zonina Special Meetina April 3, 2008 Meeting of the Meridian Planning and Zoning Commission special meeting of April 3, 2008 at Epi's Restaurant was called to order at 5:30 p.m. by Chairman David Moe. Members Present: David Moe, ,1oe Marshall, Tom Obrien and Wendy Newton- Huckabay: Members Absent: Michael Rohm Others Present: Anna Canning, Sonya Watters, Caleb Hood, Ted Bair.d, Machelle Hill, Bill Parsons, Jaycee Holman and Shaun Wardle. _ Item 1: Ro11-Call Attendance: Roll-call O Michael Rohm X Tom O'Brien X David X Wendy Newton-Huckabay X Joe Marshall Moe - Chairman Item 2: Adoption of the Agenda: item 3. Consent Agenda: None. Item 4. Downtown Meridian Urban Update Presentation by Shaun Wardle, Administrator, Meridian Development Corporation: Wardle: Thank you very much Members of the Commission, staff. For those of you that don't know me I am the Administrator for the Meridian Development. Corporation, which is Meridian's Urban Renewal Agency charged with redeveloping the downtown corridor. So just to orient you with the agency, it is essentially from the freeway to Cherry Lane and 4th Street to 4~h Street, very generally; we run along some specific boundaries fhat I will share with you in just a second. But, I am here today to talk about some projects and things that we have going on as well as the initiafives that we have. I appreciate your time and I can tell you that in my former life as Council Member, you probably don't hear this enough, but really we do appreciate your service; you address many, many issues that are very important to projects and I just want to extend that thank you very much for your service. And if your City Council Memb.ers are not thanking you regularly, they should and you can tell fihem I said that. Canning: Shaun and Commissioners, fhis is an appreciation dinner for you also, since I was very negligent and didn't get you your Christmas presents as I was supposed to do. This is part of your appreciation day. So, we do appreciate all you do so much and you get so little credit for what you do and it is really nothing that you can take forward with Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 2 of 12 you a lot of times other than training for City Council and that is really a mixed blessing, so thank you again for what you do. Wardle: I also would like to thank Epi's and thanks Kris for having us here and thanks for being in our downtown, you are doing a great job. So, with that I am going to talk just in general about a couple of initiatives that we have. Let you know first off that if you like to come to a meefing, we would like to have you .there. It is the second Wednesday of every monfh, with a couple of exceptions and April being one of those excepfiions. We meet at 7:30 a.m. at City Hall. You can always call me and you are welcome and we would like to have you fhere if you are interested in some of the projects going on. I am on kind of a speaking tour right now in terms of some of the things that we are doing. We have got a 3D modeling effort, which I am going to show you in just a minute, which is pretty exciting for our downtown core. In addition, you probably' have heard a lot about the split corridor and the transportation improvement plan and we have got engineering drawings and I am going to show you what that landscape is going to look like. So wifih that, I am just going to jump right in here and Jaycee I am probably not going to be on the mike the whole time. Do you want me to hold that? So a couple of projects - did you all receive this in your packet? We have got a couple of things happening and I will just touch real briefly - as you know the Boys and Girls Club has selected a new site, the former Administration School District building and are currently doing renovations to that. They have a fund raising campaign and they are looking to build a gymnasium and really spruce that property up and we have been involved with them . in that process. They do and just for a little plug here, they are having a Boys and Girls Club auction on Saturday, fundraising campaign, so if you want tickets they are still available. So there is my one fundraising acknowledgement for you. In addition to that we have a streetscape improvement plan that we are working on implementing and I will talk about that briefly. The streetscape improvement plan is a complete and comprehensive plan, which I believe that you have seen in some form or other and have approved its portion of the downtown development guidelines. We have costed out what it would take to really do the improvements ourselves through our increment and we have really found that it is about $500,000 a block face and a block face meaning from street to street, not four blocks, but just one block face, so that entire block if we had to take it firom zero to finished product, it would be nearly $2 million. Just to give you a little insight as to our budget. Our budget last fiscal year was $828,000. Our budget fhe year before that was $420,000 and our budget fhis year is roughly $1.5 million. So we are a very young agency and have only been in existence since 2002 and are really looking for areas where we can maximize our dollars. Streetscape improvement plan is very, very important to us. We are really right now getting those improvements through project development and parfinering with those developers. That being said, I am taking to the Board on Tuesday a plan to replace the benches and~ trash receptacles in fhe downtown area. They were done nearly 20 years ago by fhe Chamber of Commerce. I don't know if you noticed, but some of them are in need of - we didn't even look at repair - need of replacement. So we expect to have some of those things happening and would expect to see those improvements no later than the City Hall opening, which is expected sometime in the fall of 2008. Right, Ted? Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 3 of 12 Baird: Right. Wardle: So, fhat brings us to our New City Hall project, which is a catalyst project for downtown. I want to talk briefly about what we feel that project is going to bring to downtown. Not only is it going to consolidate all city employees into one area, but it will consolidate all of those people doing business in the city. The one thing that I can tell you first off and I would like to thank fhe Planning staff and the Clerk's Office, too, as I didn't really realize how much work there was to be done until I have been on the other side, the staff side of this operation and they do work very hard. I can tell you that fhere are a number of people that come in for many, many meetings and we expect to see that City Hall have a constant flow of traffic all day long between the hours of eight to five and then certainly other meetings, commission meetings and that is going to really generate a lot of activity in the downtown core. We have a project on the corner of 2"d and Broadway. The Development Corporation recently purchased what is known as fhe H&H Building or the former Meridian Hardworn Implementation building. We purchased everything on that half block from 2"d Street to 3~d Street. We are currently and that is where you see that mixed use development proposal in your pedestrian friendly area up here. We are currently under - we went out for RFQ to have developers propose projects - the committee has met a number of times and is `expected to make a recommendation to the Board of Directors Tuesday morning. So, that will all be out and like I said we have to proposers and two very exciting development plans. In addition to that fhe 2"d Street area is intended to become very pedestrian friendly. We had a very - I can tell you a brief history of 2"d Street between Main or excuse me between Broadway and Idaho Street and we looked at how do we make that more pedestrian friendly? Potentially even closing it down to vehicular traffic. When working with fhe Fire Department, one of the concerns is that street does provide access for the Fire Department to access those buildings. We don't feel at this time or the Development Corporation at least, is not pursuing a complete prohibition of vehicular access and so we are working with the property owners and developers in how can we make that an amenity to the city and how do we encourage people to get out of fheir cars to utilize their bikes, to get the strollers out of their cars and take the kids for a walk? And we look for all of those opportunities and certainly that is a discussion as development continues. I am just going to move down the area here. A project which has been proposed, which you haven't seen yet, Main Five project is on the corner of Bower and Main Street. This is the current rendering and again I don't believe there is an application pending, Caleb, but fhis is a proposal that is currently being massaged by the developers. I mentioned the 2"d and Broadway property here which is the project that I just spoke of. This was an original plan for the potential for - this would obviously be prohibiting vehicular access in some sort of a water amenity. We are still frying to figure out how to make that a reality and still achieve business goals and the goals of the urban development area. We discussed streetscape improvements. These are the plans that you will be seeing. This is the bench and the trash receptacle. These are recycled materials. One of the things that we had a discussion about was that solid metal bench becomes really, really hot in the summer Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 4 of 12 time and so we have gone to certainly some sustainable materials which have some added benefits. All right, Phase 1 of the split corridor. Newton-Huckabay: Shaun can f ask a question before you go on? Wardle: Sure. Newton-Huckabay: How many square feet is the Boys and Girls Club gaining by moving to fhat new location? Wardle: That is a great question. I don't have the exact answer. I believe the administrafiion building is nearly 16,000 square feet. I could certainly get you some more information, but the former Police Department building is less than 5,000. So I think they have at least tripled that. Sorry - 10,000 square feet building and I don't - they will again be expanding that with a gymnasium very shortly and I know their fundraisings are going very well. Phase 1 of the split corridor. This is the plan and I will get into this in just one moment, but Phase 1 is expected to begin, potentially eonstruction in this fall. It is a project slated for 2009, which means the Highway DisfiricYs fiscal year is from October 1, 2009 to September 30, 2010. It will be going from the couplet at fhe freeway to Franklin and I will get to that in just a minute. I am going - you are very familiar with this project, the Waltman project and I understand that you approved that and sent it forward to the City Council. We are currently working with fihis developer on partnership with the Development Corporation. For those of you that don't know this project, it does fall under our urban renewal area and is one that we expect to generate a large increment for us in terms of their taxable value. It is currently taxed as an agricultural land and when retail and mixed use development which you send forward becomes a reality will really be a generator of revenue for the Development Corporation. Any questions so far? So I am going to talk briefly about our involvement with the split corridor plan. The Meridian Development Corporation also is partnering wifh bofh the City of Meridian and the Highway District to landscape this project. Originally the Highway District said we are going to do the road and we are not in the business of landscaping and the Development Corporation felt fhat the entryway to our city is an important invitation to the city and especially to the downtown core. So, I am just going to point out real quickly as you will see on fhe bottom left hand corner our entryway feature, the sign will be moving and relocating up into the front corner of this proposed landscape plan. The one item that I might address here real quickly is - we talked about - talked about in what they would like to see in planting materials. My assumption was fhat they would want a mow strip that they could come in and maintain in a short period of fime. That really wasn't our preference. Working wifih the Parks Department we have actually got now - all these little dots on the screen represent individual planted grasses, so tuff grasses which require first off very little water usage verses turf and also very low maintenance in terms of you certainly don't need to go out and mow those tuff grasses. So that is what you are going to see up and down that corridor. In addition, you see fhese strips in through here represents a taller grass, so if you are familiar with the small tuff grasses and I have got planting materials in just a minute - but, small tuff grasses are going to have up to finro feet of natural grasses. Meridian Planning 8 Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 5 of 12 Again, low water utilization, but it will be one of the first areas of landscaping in this valley fhat utilize Idaho native materials. For those of you who don't know, Kentucky Bluegrass is not nafive to Idaho. Moving down the area you can see we are landscaping both sides of Main Street. We really are not focused on Meridian Road right now. Portions of it have been improved through redevelopment and we expect the western side of that to continue to be redeveloped or landscaped as redevelopment comes in. . Newton-Huckabay: Shaun I was confused on that diagram. Where is the sign moving from where it is today? Wardle: The current sign location is right here - Newton-Huckabay: -- oh, so it is just moving forward? Wardle: -- and it is going to move all the way up to here. And the other thing that it does is it gets it completely in the right-of-way. It is clearly a relationship that we share with the private property owner. One of the other items to discuss about the landscaping - our streetscape design program calls out for heritage lighting in the downtown corridor and one of the items that is of concern is that lighting is spaced roughly 15 feet apart in the urban core. To do an entire half mile stretch at that spacing would be very, very expensive. So what we have done is we have found a lighting standard fhat is similar, almost identical but can be 24 feet tall and so we have got them spaced 90 foot on center. So what you are going to have is a transition zone from the suburban freeway area that will transition very nicely into the downtown urban core. That will be one of the major impacts that you see here and will really have a nice effect. One of the areas where we have got some constraint is along the speedway area as you see here on the south and so rather than leave that blank, we have actually utilized some screening materials, some (inaudible) type of materials which will screen those grandstands. In addition to that, we have asked the Highway District to purchase some right-of-way. Let me address the pathway. This pathway is a ten foot asphalt pathway which will be a multi use pafhway instead of your standard on street curb, gutter and sidewalk; we expect to get that traffic and that separation from traffic. It was nice that we had additional area, with the exception of the constrained area you see here to the bottom corner of the page, the Highway District will be acquiring some right-of-way from the Dairy Show Boards who will allow us to put some improvement in there so you won't have a blank strip befinreen there and the park. We really felt that it was important to landscape those areas. This is what I am talking about. It is not a lot, but it is certainly more than there is. This is the planfing materials that I was talking about - fhe shrubs and trees and some of those things. These are documents that are available, if you would like to review them further, but I am not going to take the time to go through everyone now. So, just (inaudible) will be along that screening area in front of the speedway and decorative flowers and these are the grasses that I was talking about; fountain grasses - Marshall: (Inaudible--)? Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 6 of 12 Wardle: 1 believe - I may have misspoke. i am going to have to check that for you. These are the fescues and the tuff grasses that I was talking about. With that I am going to take about a two second break and let you guys get settled with dinner here real quick and I will show you our other exciting project: So as you are enjoying your dinner here I have got a project that we are very excited about. We have contracted a company called Visual Genesis to provide us a 3D model of downtown, the urban renewal area and what we have far, I met with them Tuesday and by the way this is a draft presentation and I asked the consultant to prepare something so I could show you really the bare bones of what this project is going to be. The first portion of that is a base mapping effort. So what our consultant has done has taken a recently flown aerial image of the urban renewal area and they take in a contour and they combine those images and fhat is really the base layer of what we are looking at. So this is the base layer that you see here. What they have done is they take that base layer and' they go out and shoot pictures of the area and essentially skim the existing condition with a 2d picture. So, as you see these images they are a combination of fihat base layer, that 3d model that is created and they essenfially built them up into finro dimensional objects - this is obviously a shot from the freeway coming in. Marshall: They are not skimming a 3D object like a(inaudible) object or something like that? Wardle: What they have done is they have essentially massed the building. So the building itself is there and they skim what is left and then after that, the next step in the process is to go in and remodel what could be done downtown. So, I probably didn't answer your question technically, but that is not my expertise. Marshall: I am just assuming, but Visual Genesis is that the company that is doing all the sketch up in downtown Boise? ~ Wardle: Yes. In fact, I brought the Boise model to show you essentially what will happen. And their sister company 3D-I does the groundwork. So here is a very high level overview of the urban core. As we come a little closer into you can see the level of detail that we are getting into. This is the corner of Main and Idaho and you can see the former Nazarene Church building, Generations Plaza in through here and the Heritage building. Since we were going to be having dinner here tonight - I had them put Epi's in and the level of detail, at least for me, was very impressive in terms of where fihey go. This again, they have done some photography and embedded that into the images here. Marshall: Are they going to place this on Google Earth like Boise has done Wardle: Our initial plan is yes; to make fhis available through Google Earth. It is probably t~he easiest delivery method for most people to be able to manipulate it. This is the reverse of Generations Plaza shot looking out south down Main Street. I put this shot in here to talk about the level of detail that we are currently seeing. You have got Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission Special Meeting APril 3, 2008 Page 7 of 12 this corner of 2"d and Broadway. This will allow us really to in the future take a look at what was the existing condition and we expect this entire block very quickly to redevelop. So, we will have a lot of ability to go back and say this is what was on fhe ground in 2008 and if we do our job correctly as a redevelopment agency it will look significanfily different than it does today. Canning: And the planning (inaudible). Newton-Huckabay: But it will maintain the historic character it has today? Canning: The design guidelines don't specify that architectural (inaudible), so a lot of those elements will get (inaudible) that way. Wardle: So let me talk just briefly about what this shot is. This is the current property that I was talking about, 2"d and Broadway. This is MDC's current property and as you can see, we didn't go out and map everything. We only mapped commercial buildings which we felt would be important for reference points. What we have got right here and what our ne~ step in the process will be is that we can go and mass what we feel or what we fhink will become the urban core. Meaning - well, you can do anything. We can say put a 20 story structure on this and fhen fly around it and see what that would look like. Certainly a 20 story structure at this location doesn't meet the guidelines, right Anna? But, it probably wouldn't be feasible in the market. But, that is one of the next steps for the consultant and us and really the community to say now that we have this base layer IeYs take a look and see what it looks like, understanding that private development is going fo drive everything that happens downtown, but can we look and see how those projects interact with one another? Anofher example of that corner and how you can see that relationship on how it interacts with the rest of the horizon and some of those view corridors. This is a new project that you probably have seen on Bower Street between Main and Meridian that is currently under construction. So we really have captured what is really a new development in the urban core and how that relates to some of the older buildings and obviously a shot of the automotive. These, by the way, are still shots of the model that I have asked the consultant to take and I am going to get real quickly a fly through so you can see some of the more exciting capabilities. Okay, here comes the animation portion of this. So we are beginning at the freeway, I-84 and this is just one of many camera angles and views we can utilize in this model. One of the things that Caleb and I were talking about is that you see - peopie talk about where are fhe opportunities in downtown Meridian and fhe thing is with that aerial view, you really don't have any density today. It is very, very open in terms of its ability to redevelop and bring that density. I am going to~show you right now the model that the consultant did for Boise and I should of set some catchy music but I didn't. This is available online. This is really where our model is going to go. I am going to show you one more project specific thing. So that is essentially Boise's model. This is a project specitic - if you are not familiar wifh the Aspen building, which is currently under construction and a parking garage on 9th and Capital on Front, the skinny building. So what the Aspen did is they took their building and they put it on this 3D mapping and a lot of people said how are you going to get a 17 story building that is Meridian Planning 8 Zoning Commissiom.Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 8 of 12 only a few "x" number of feet wide and what it is going to look like. So, they put it on fihis model as part of their presentation in front of the Planning and Zoning Commission. So that was the Aspen building, I showed you that project specific simulation for two reasons. First off, our consultant is currently mapping one building and that is City Hall. So you will have that level of detail for the New City Hall building built into the model. The other reason I show that to you is the Aspen utilized the base mapping technology that CCDC picked for them, which is Capital City Development Corporation. They used it to put their project on top of to show synergy and to really bring that. as part of the presentation to the entitling bodies, which are Planning and Zoning Commission and then City Council, in addition to CCDC because they are part of that regulatory agency. So one of the things that our Development Corporation has really expressed an interest in is to make this available to developers, make fhe technology available so that when they go and take the Main Five building for example, the architect on the project is actually the Chairman of our Directors and we would anticipate that as they make their presentations, they can now put that building onto fihe base level and show existing condition, in addifion to some of the other things that will be putting in future development, future massing of buildings and structures. So any questions on the 3D stuff? Pretty cool and this is real draft and we are really excited about that. Newton-Huckabay: I think these are great because they really do an awesome job of getting people a perspective that you can't get either way. Can we have one for every subdivision that has undeveloped land around it? Wardle: We are seeing some of those people go out and do it on their own. If the technology is available you can base map any area of the aity. Okay that ends my formal presentation. I know fhat you have some questions for me in terms of future plans for the Development Corporafion, things that are going on downtown and I will just open up for questions. I am tired of talking. Moe: S'haun, I want to know where is the first parking garage going ,and when is it going to be done? Wardle: That is an excellent question. We are working on a financing plan. In our current fiscal year budget is a financial plan for parking activity. We are asking for money to begin not only looking at that parking facility, but engineering and I don't have a definitive location for you. If I did, I would tell you. One of the issues right now that I can tell you is both on my Board of Directors and Council level is is there a need for structure parking in the downtown core? I think - just a practitioner at the urban renewal area, it certainly will alleviate parking and allow for additional development. There may not be the need today for a 400 car structure, but it is not too far off the horizon, especially with fhe New City Hall going up. Moe: That is my next question. Where is everybody parking that works at City Hall? Are they planning to walk in? Meridian Planning 8 Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 9 of 12 ' Wardle: I know that the Council are assernbling properties - the use development, it will have so solution for you, I wish I did. is working on some items in terms of parking and we 2"d and Broadway property, even fihough it is a mixed me component of parking as well. So, I don't have a Hood: I can probably help answer some of that, at least. I have been working with Keith and the Mayor's Office on onsite parking for City Hall that is currently there. I don't know if any of you are aware, but we are in the process of condemning the Buich property at the old Shell Station and fhe majority of that may be converted to surface parking. Now there may be some opportunity in the future to go vertical with that with a garage or something. So with the existing City Hall site the surface parking is there, the Buich site and the City Hall parking site will be roughly 150 parking stalls in that one block around City Hall. Moe: So the development that was planned for that was - I realize it is past time, but they are not looking to do that now? Hood: I don't know what they are looking to do - I know that City Council - Baird: We cannot talk about that on the record. Hood: Oh, okay. Wardle: Other parking questions which I might answer? Canning; I wanted to note that - I don't know if Evelyn Grimes - the Villas at Lochsa is going before Council on Tuesday. You guys remember fhat project? I don't know if Evelyn Grimes had the animation for you all. Did she have an animation for you? She came into City Council with an animation that came in at eye level and walked you through the whole project and showed what it looked like going down Linder - you know with the landscape buffer, with the pedesfirian path and the receding area and what that would look like (inaudible--) and also what the recreation area would look like and Council approved it wifh relatively little conversation for a multi-family, 72 acre type of development. I was just kind of blown away. But, it shows what a powerful tool these animations are when you have folks that have a hard time visualizing 3D. I mean, it is a difficult task and it is something that we sometimes take for granted because we do it all of the time. But, it really is an incredible powerful tool in helping people visualize what the look and the feel of the development is. I wouldn't be surprised if you don't see more of it. I mean, I was blown away. I think the Mayor had a few comments about guest parking and fhat was about it. So, it really went over quite well. Moe: That was fhe one where we wanted more - Canning: Right, you wanted a little more open space on that one. Moe: Did it come with more, or - Meridian Planning & Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 10 of 12 Canning: It did come with a little more, yeah. Marshall: Civil 3'D 2008 has automatically incorporated field (inaudible) right into it and (inaudible) to automate your areas. Canning: And - I don't know what she was using, but man it was a powerful tool for getfing support of us and it also helped that no neighbors came to it to. But, it was impressive. (Inaudible discussion) Marshall: Well, it is a lot more complicated than pushing a button, but at least it is all incorporated into one package so when you do your design then you can plot I want an aerial to follow this path and it takes a while to set it up, but you don't have to learn a whole new fhird party software, exported out of this, imported and then run the animation from a whole other software. ft is all in one package and the look and feel while you are creating it is much easier because you are using one single software. Wardle: One of the things about technology is that it is really becoming much less expensive. The one thing that you just saw and our budget for this project is $25,000 to $30,000, but the most expensive portion of that is the base map. Once that base mapping is done then it is up to fhe individual firms and there are other programs that allow you to take essentiaily the model and flip it~ up on its side and do whatever you would like it to do. So, expect to see rnore of this. I know that that is one of things as we evolve into a much more sophisticated, larger development area, you will probably as Anna indicated see those not just in fhe urban core, but other areas. One of the things that I might mention is we are having a discussion right now and we are going to be massing and what I mean by massing is essentially taking the downtown area and replacing some of those existing single family homes, existing one use businesses and placing things such as three, four and five story buildings in areas. Our expectation right now is the area essentially befween Main Street, the railroad traaks, 3~d Street and then Carlton and potentially farther north will become more of an historical type area. You asked where are we going to maintain some of that significance. There aren't a lot historical per se buildings that have historic value, but the downtown guidelines really has to create the stone sfiructures, the more historic look where it may not have been there, but it looks more historical. South of the tracks we are having some discussion in some real meat kind of opportunity to take the structures potentially vertical and farther than fhree to four stories, potentially six, seven stories and to be a little more modern in terms of their materials - glass, steel and some of those kinds of things. There are discussions that the Development Corporation is having wifh planning and what is appropriate and we are really going to need input from the community. That is community decisions. It doesn't mean that you won't have fhem on a case by case basis as projects come in; but it helps me when people say I am ready to go, I like what is happening in the downtown Meridian. The only way for me to pencil a project is for me to take it seven stories and I want to do some housing involved. You know, then I Meridian Planning 8 Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 11 of 12 could steer them to the southern portion of our downtown core instead of looking at the center. Canning: I would guess that MDC is looking at - they would have more parking than you would see in the downtown structures and that you are really trying to get people out of their parking lots and these might have more parking around fhem and be a little more (inaudible). Newton-Huckabay: So what about the speedway? Wardle: Cars go left and - we have - I get that question a lot. It is early in operation, however, that property just intuitively given the development, the freeway, given the transportation improvements that at some point and time fhat property will become much more valuable than its current condition and we expect it to redevelop. We are working with a number of people that would like to do a project there, but as you know, ownership in that entire complex as well as some of the grants and easements fhat are on the property is adjacent or even near are challenging. Newton-Huckabay: You are just waiting it out? Wardle: Um -- Newton-Huckabay: You don't have to answer that. Wardle: Well, we are working on a lot of stuff and those of you that know me know that I don't like to wait very much. So we are working on some options. Don't expect anything this fiscal year. Newton-Huckabay: I have been waiting my whole life for that. Wardle: We are going to screen it a little bit. All right, ofher questions? Thanks for giving me the opportunity to come in and - Canning: I hope we can make this an annual event at this location. That was a delicious meal. Newton-Huckabay: Just to clarify, nothing against the speedway, I just spent my whole youth there watching my father and brother race at the speedway. Canning: Usually people that grow up in Meridian like fhe speedway. So, I was a little perplexed. Newton-Huckabay: Well, I have enough bucket of beers to last a lifetime. Wardle: All right, well thank you and again fhanks for your time and for your service. Meridian Planning 8 Zoning Commission Special Meeting April 3, 2008 Page 12 of 12 Moe: Well, that was the only issue on fhe agenda, so if there aren't any other questions or comments in regards to Shaun's presentation, if not there is probably another motion that could be had. Marshall: Motion to adjourn. Newton-Huckabay: Second. Moe: All those in favor say aye. FOUR AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 6:25 P.M. (TAPE ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDI'NGS.) APPRO~/ ~ D MOE - AIRMAN ATTESTED ~~ SJ I D8" DATE APPROVED``~~,,,,,,,,,,,, .`~~`\`\\ ~ ~'''''~~~~. ~ ~'~~ ~ qy -; ~ - ~'~ ~ = JAYC L. HOLMAN, C~TY LEFS~AL = i ~ "' z ,~ ~~ p : ~ <,,, Q~T 1S~ • Q.I• ``.\`. . ~~''~., ~dJ{VTY . ~.~ ~~~ ~''~~rri~n i,~~~~rr~ S ~r~ ~