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<p class=MsoNormal>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We had a relatively easy day back at committees after a
couple of weeks off. We spent about half the day doing interviews. This can get
a little tedious but this time I developed a little scoring sheet to help keep
track of the people since we were doing ten in one day. We interviewed six of
ten applicants for the open space advisory board and four of five applicants to
the planning board. We’ll probably do the rest next week. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We started with Public safety with the confirmation of four
new police officers and the purchase of six police car video cameras. The
cameras cost about $5000 each. They mount in the rear view mirror and record to
a flash memory device. It requires a supervisor with a key to remove the memory
from the device. So when they come off shift the supervisor removes the
memory stick and puts it in a lock box. Someone assigned from IT then takes it
from the safe and uploads it to the server and then makes the stick available
for use again. The video is stored for a minimum of 90 days until it is
automatically erased unless it has been flagged as something that needs to be
saved. The officers do not have access to delete video from the server any
more.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In conservation we did the six OSAC interviews.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In PAZ we spent the first hour with a preliminary
presentation of the new Linda Vista Estates subdivision and the second hour
doing planning board interviews. The LVE project was before us a number
of months ago but it had so many problems the developer withdrew the
application. The project is a 200+ unit subdivision over the back side of
the hill way up miller creek. The developer has about $500,000 committed
to the redevelopment of the intersection of lower and upper miller creek but it
is predicated on the entitlement to build another bunch of homes up there. So
when it started to look like the subdivision proposal was going to fail it got
the public works people a little concerned because the road project had assumed
the approval of the subdivision.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>So they went back to the drawing board. Roger Millar called
in an outside planner to facilitate a mini design charrette between OPG staff
and the developer to draw up a subdivision that could be approved. This got
tweaked a bit and was presented to us today. There were only a few issues needing
to be addressed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The big one is a provision in the Miller Creek Plan that
says this area cannot be developed until the rest of miller creek is built out
to 80%. Based on the way you calculate it the area can never be built out to
80% of the planned density because the subdivisions were all built at lower
densities. The planning department has come up with a way to interpret this to
allow for this project but we will consider it on Monday night. If we do go
along with the interpretation then the lots can be entitled now but the
development will have to wait until the build out threshold is met. This is
estimated to be 8-10 years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>There is also an issue with some long block lengths we will need
to work out and a question about ten lots that face “green streets.”
These homes are accessed through an alley and have a sort of big boulevard in
the front with no actual paved road for cars. Dick had some concerns on this
one. Who in their right mind would want to live in a house that couldn’t
be approached on both sides by a vehicle? We are hoping to hear from fire and
ambulance people on Monday as to what they think of this. We are also hoping to
see other examples of where it has been used. There is a remote chance we can
actually hold the public hearing and resolve these questions on Monday night to
approve the subdivision. But it will probably come back to committee.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>After lunch we started with public works. We bought three
BMW motorcycles for the police department and discussed speed limits. In
the ongoing saga of variations on the discussion of speed limits it came out
that speed limits were not supposed to be set anywhere in the city without the approval
of the city council. So staff did some research and came up with all the places
that speed limits had been set by the public works department without council approval.
There were only about six places. Almost all west of Reserve street.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The one that concerns me the most is George Elmer Drive.
This is essentially Greenfield development being built around a road that has
been set at 45 mph. My position is that the adjacent development pattern is being
shaped by the 45 mph design speed of the road. When we considered the two Flynn
ranch subdivisions there were aspects that were predetermined and others
strongly influenced by the nature of the road design. Dick argued that the speed
has no influence on the development pattern but he is wrong. We didn’t
resolve anything and will be revisiting this issue again. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Something else I should note is that Steve King made an
announcement that they are anticipating some flooding conditions as all the
snow melts and we get some rain in the next day or two. They will be working to
keep storm drains clear of ice and doing their best to have crews monitor the
known problem areas. Marilyn pointed out that since they don’t even have
storm drains in most of ward six there are already big lakes all over the
roads. Please drive carefully!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for your interest,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bob
Jaffe</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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City Council, Ward 3</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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