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<p class=MsoNormal>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This morning in Conservation we learned about an agreement
the parks department had put together with developer Kevin Mitty regarding the
park in the 44 ranch subdivision. Kevin wants to go ahead and build the
improvements in the park and get reimbursed later as the city collects impact
fees. The estimated costs for the project are just over $1,000,000. In
the end the city will only have to pay him back around $410,000. It’s
a great deal for the city. I imagine Kevin’s motivation is that his development
will be more sellable with a finished park instead of a weed field. 44 Ranch is
a very vertical project in that Kevin Mitty developed the property, built all
the houses, and now is doing the city park improvements. It’s kind of
like John Didell at Pleasantview except Kevin is working with us for parks
instead of suing us to avoid them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In PAZ we had the dreaded Chickasaw subdivision
return. This was the painful project out on seventh just past
Tower. We had required a three acre Agriculture set aside and a
connecting road which required the whole thing to get redesigned. We approved
it conditional on staff and the developer bringing something back to us that
met all the various conditions we were after. They did this today and it was
pretty straight forward. There were still a few concerns including traffic
calming for the someday connection to the north and how storm water was being
handled with the shallow aquifer. The Community Food and Agriculture Coalition
didn’t like the shape of the resulting agriculture parcel so they requested
we deny the project. I get this image of the terraced farms cut into steep
hillsides when they say killing the project is better than farmland that isn’t
a perfect rectangle. We will finish this one up next week.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In A&F we discussed the parking garage planned for Front
and Pattee. There are still a lot of unknowns. It will be at least 300
spaces and some retail along front street. If there is enough money it will be
600 spaces. The downtown plan calls for 600 spaces so there is some concern of
what the implications are to the rest of the analysis in the plan if we only
build it to half size. On the other hand I have some concerns over the
idea of induced demand. We know that if we build a road bigger more people will
drive on it. I imagine if we make parking easier downtown more people will
choose to drive there. That’s fine if you are talking about customers but
not so good if you are talking about employees. I guess I would like to see us
build the bigger structure and then allocate as much as can be used for short
term parking and charge a lot for the leased spaces to encourage commuters to
develop other habits.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>In public works we had some disagreement over approving the
Mayor’s choice to replace Tom Wilkins with Ginny Iverson on the parking commission
board. The motion stalled on a tie and will be forwarded to the floor
with no recommendation. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We also agreed to accept a bunch of stimulus money for the
north Higgins street project, a project to build a whole bunch of handicap
sidewalk ramps around town, and the sidewalk project connecting Spruce to
Greenough. Some of us were expecting a fight from the more republican sorts
over the evils of stimulus money but no one had any complaints today.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In COW we heard a report from the lobbyist we hired to work
the session for us in Helena. If you would like to see the written report it
can be found here:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="ftp://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Packets/Council/2009/2009-05-04/Referrals/LegRptCOWRef.pdf">ftp://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Packets/Council/2009/2009-05-04/Referrals/LegRptCOWRef.pdf</a><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>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Missoula
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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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>406-728-1052</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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