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E
C
All
right,
I'm
chair,
darren,
green
and
I'd
like
to
welcome
you
to
the
january
13
2022
asheville
area,
river
redevelopment
commission
meeting
the
purpose
of
this
asheville
area.
Riverfront
redevelopment
commission
is
to
recommend
to
the
city
and
county
an
overall
policy
for
the
continued
excuse.
Me
christie
will
be
joining
us.
It's
for
the
continued
development
and
sustainability.
C
Of
the
regional
riverfront,
the
commission
provides
recommendations
to
the
city
and
county
for
effective
management
of
the
public
resources
for
the
districts
and
actively
pursues
and
assists
private
sector
investments
in
the
districts.
The
commission
is
made
up
of
14
members
representing
the
city
of
asheville,
the
council
of
independent
business
owners,
riverlink
asheville
city
council,
buncombe,
county
commission
in
the
town
of
woodfin.
Our
committees
consist
of
planning,
excuse
me
networking
and
river
economy,
as
well
as
transportation
and
mobility.
C
C
C
The
meeting
code
number
is
9385
for
callers
to
call
in
and
listen
send
comments
by
email
to
riverfront,
commission
january
13
at
public
input.com.
For
those
of
you
out
there
with
us
today
welcome
all
right,
we'll
go
into
some
administrative
items.
I'd
first
like
to
welcome
our
new
commissioners,
kate
and
kaya
she's
appointed
by
the
city
of
asheville
kate.
Would
you
like
to
say
hello
and
give
us
a
little
bit
of
information
about
yourself.
C
F
F
C
Thanks
kate,
thank
you
for
being
willing
to
dedicate
your
time.
I
know
it's
precious,
so
thank
you
for
being
here.
C
All
right,
we
do
have
another
new
appointee
to
the
aarc,
and
that
is
jim
mcallister,
he's
appointed
by
the
town
of
woodfin
gym.
Thank
you
for
joining
us
and
I'd
like
to
give
you
an
opportunity
to
introduce
yourself.
H
Thank
you,
jim
mcallister.
I
was
recently
elected
to
the
commission
town
commission
in
woodfin,
I'm
a
almost
five-year
resident
of
woodfin
north
asheville.
I
live
up
on
reynolds
mountain,
I'm
retired,
from
a
very
long
and
tiring
career
in
the
technology
business.
I
was
a
in
sales
leadership
for
an
english
and
a
japanese
technology
firm.
We
sold
hardware
and
software
to
banks
and
credit
unions.
H
I
also
serve
on
the
board
of
directors
and
I'm
chairman
of
the
medical
advisory
board
for
sebastian
strong
foundation.
We
fund
early
stage,
pediatric
cancer
research
projects,
that's
a
passion
of
mine
and
before
covert
I
was
a
big
traveler.
So
now
I'm
spending
most
of
my
time
at
home
on
zooms
and
google
meets,
but
I'm
glad
to
join
your
group.
I
hope
I
can
help.
C
Thank
you,
jim.
We
look
forward
to
having
you
and
congratulations
on
your
position
at
the
woodfin
council.
All
right,
we're
going
to
move
in
to
the
minutes.
Did
everyone
have
a
chance
to
read
those
that
they
they're
from
october
2021
and
december
2021.?
C
All
right,
I
see
nods.
Are
there
any
changes
or
additions
or
revisions.
I
C
I
E
H
I'll
have
to
pass
since
I
wasn't
there
on
the
commission
at
that
time.
A
So
jim,
what
we're
asking
you
to
do
is
vote
because
it's
your
duty
as
a
member
of
the
commission,
but
you
can
just
say
similar
to
what
kate
said
that
you
were
not
present.
But
you
trust
that
everyone
else
has
a
pr.
That's
made
sure
that
the
minutes
are
correct.
So.
C
Thank
you.
The
minutes
are
approved,
so
I'm
going
into
the
public
comment.
Was
there
any
public
comment
received
in
advance
of
this
meeting.
C
Thank
you,
we'll
move
on
to
the
annual
administrative
items,
so
next
we're
going
to
talk
about
the
annual
report
draft.
This
is
not
a
final
draft.
It's
it's
a
framework
for
the
draft
we
have
until
january
30th
to
complete
and
submit
that
to
city
council.
C
A
Yeah
I'll
I'll
comment
on
a
couple
things
and
see
if
it
starts
a
discussion,
if
that's
all
right,
the
first
thing
I'll
say
is
that
this
is
a
comment
copy,
so
the
chair,
darren
green,
has
already
created
a
a
chair
statement
and
inserted
it
into
the
final
copy.
I
believe
darren
is
that
correct.
A
Okay,
so
folks
should
know
that
that
actually
is
already
done,
and
similarly
we
have
a
placeholder
for
a
photo
for
our
dear
past
member
wendy
whitson,
so
we'll
be
changing
that
and
then
what
is
probably
most
important
is
for
those
of
you
that
were
here
this
year
last
year,
to
take
a
look
at
the
section
where
it
talks
about
commission
business.
A
D
Hey
steph:
this
is
one
of
the
things
I
like
that
we
did
in
the
downtown
commission
you
may
already
be
intending
to
do
this
is
to
when
it's
a
project
like
999
robert
street,
go
ahead
and
link
to
the
documents,
because
sometimes
when
council
gets
them,
it's
like
a
review
of
everything
and
you
kind
of
you
can
sort
through
it's
also.
We
learned
that
downtown
commission
was
really
helpful
when
we
needed
to
look
back
at
something
we
could
just
go
to
the
annual
report.
A
I
guess
the
other
thing,
while
you
guys
are
thinking
that
I
should
remind
you,
is
that
this
year
we
would
like
to
include
mini
bios,
and
some
people
were
wondering
what
those
were,
and
so
I'm
going
to
share
something
that
give
you
an
idea.
A
A
Yes,
okay,
so
this
is
an
example
from
the
2019
public,
art
and
cultural
commission,
including
a
little
bit
about
yourselves,
helps
the
members
of
the
public
understand
who
is
on
our
boards
and
commissions
other
than
just
having
a
name
what
they
do,
what
they
look
like
and
maybe
the
other
things
that
they're
involved
in
in
the
community.
A
We
got
a
lot
of
positive
feedback
from
doing
this
with
the
commission,
as
you
can
see,
it's
just
picking
out,
maybe
three
or
five
things
that
you
would
say
describe
yourself
and
including
a
a
small
photograph
which
I'm
going
to
get
from
all
of
you.
I've
got
some
already
from
from
the
three
of
you
have
gotten
them
from.
Thank
you
very
much.
A
Any
of
you
are
welcome
to
just
send
me
a
headshot
you
already
have
in
this
case
it
was
in
person,
so
I
was
able
to
take
photos
of
all
the
members,
but
I'm
hoping
that
chair.
Do
you
think
we
have
enough
time
to
actually
let
everybody
just
sit
here
for
maybe
three
minutes
and
write
down
three
or
four
things
that
they
would
just
that
they
would
use
for
their
mini
bio
yeah?
I
think.
C
J
A
17.,
that
must
be.
A
Can
other
people
see
the
screen?
But
yes,
okay,
I'm.
A
I
doubt
it
jim
you're,
fine.
What
I'd
say
is
so
I
sent
a
link
out
earlier
and
I'll
resend
it
to
you
all
so
I'll
I'll,
just
read
some
of
them.
So,
for
instance,
valeria
watson
wrote
about
herself
in
the
public,
art
and
cultural
commission
she's
an
artist,
priestess
baker,
butoid
dalani
refuge
african
cultural
center.
Director
j
fields
wrote
he's
an
artist
urban
trail
and
public
space
advocate
journalist,
non-fiction,
author
and
teacher.
A
So
these
are
just
it's
just
a
really
quick
way
to
say
like
these
are
maybe
the
top
five
things
that
you
need
to
know
about
yourself
and
people
put
in
their.
You
know,
mother,
like
you
heard
once
somebody
said
they
were
a
baker,
but
for
some
of
you
it's
going
to
be
river
district
property
owner.
Some
of
you
are
going
to
say,
you're
a
county
commissioner.
J
C
C
Steph,
do
you
want
to
pull
up
our
annual
report
as.
B
A
A
A
A
Then
the
meat
of
your
report
is
just
reporting
out
on
the
activities
that
you
all
have
worked
on.
So
you
had
a
significant
number
of
administrative
items,
including
for
the
second
year
in
a
row.
You
adopted
new
bylaws,
which
is
a
little
unusual,
and
then
we
also
had
the
recognition
of
service
last
month
for
jane
matthews,
the
business.
These
are
the
different
items.
A
We
worked
on
annual
priority
setting,
which
resulted
in
committee
assignments,
so
these
are
just
placeholders
there'll,
be
some
additional
language
in
here
for
each
one
of
these
councilwoman
turner
gave
us
a
great
idea
under
river
district
design,
review
and
development
impact
review.
We
can
actually
link
to
some
of
the
materials
for
those
projects.
A
The
main
work
that
you
did
last
year
and
then
we'll
talk
about
for
looking
ahead,
anything
that
you
guys
might
want
to
consider
putting
in
here,
but
what
we
have
so
far
is
just
that.
We
are
really
looking
forward
to
our
annual
retreat
and
having
a
full
membership
at
that
time.
A
And
then
this
is
the
membership
as
of
last
month.
So
we
are
going
to
have
many
bios
for
all
of
these
folks
and
then
at
the
end
I
will
be
adding
a
new
member
section
for
the
next
year
and
you
are
all
yeah,
there's
a
sorting
hat
that
sorts
you
into
houses.
So
some
of
you
are
the
house
of
riverlink.
Some
of
you
are
the
house
of
sibo
and
and
and
that's
that's,
the
report.
C
I'll
take
that
as
a
no
all
right,
if
there's
nothing
else
on
the
the
annual
report
draft
we'll
we'll
move
on
to
the
next
point.
The
annual
elections
update
in
our
exec
meeting
with
david
brown
and
myself
and
steph,
we
decided
that
we
would
wait
until
march
to
have
the
election.
C
So
we'll
we'll
be
looking
for
a
new
vice
chair
david
has
decided
that
he
would
like
to
step
down
from
the
vice
chair
position,
but
I'll
I'll
continue
to
serve
as
chair
through
through
2022..
C
So
anybody
who's
here
currently
or
any
other
new
we
have,
I
think
one
more
commission
seat
to
fill
is
certainly
encouraged
to
put
their
name
in
the
hat
for
vice
chair.
C
C
C
A
A
I'd
say
if
there's
the
only
other
thing
that
we
talked
about
darren
was
maybe
just
also
reminding
the
commission
members
that
you
know
it's
your
retreat,
and
so,
if
there
are
specific
items
that
you
want
to
be
learning
about
or
discussing,
please
just
let
us
know.
C
I'm
sure
we'll
be
talking
about
it
quite
a
bit
as
as
the
the
day
approaches
but
yeah,
please
any
any
ideas.
Suggestions
please
share
those
with
with
me
or
or
staff
or
david
all
right.
We
can
move
on
to
the
next
point
of
business,
which
is
updates
and
discussion.
C
We'll
start
with
council
person,
turner
on
the
city
staff
updates.
I'm
sorry
scratch
that
steph.
This
is
you
for
some.
A
Update
sorry,
I
wanted
to
re.
I
wanted
to
update
you
on
a
couple
things
we
are
going
to
actually
skip
the
open
space
update
because
right
now
I
don't
have
any
changes
to
report
but
design
review
committee,
which
you
know
jeremy's
eager
to
get
some
of
those
seat
seats
filled.
So
I
really
appreciate
that,
but
what's
really
important
for
you
to
know
right
now
is
that
there'll
be
a
public
hearing
at
city
council.
I
believe
the
meeting
date
is
on
the
25th,
but
that's
might
be
bad
math.
It's
25th!
Thank
you.
A
Sage,
there'll
be
a
public
hearing
that
day
to
amend
the
ordinance
that
deals
with
design
review
committee
membership.
So
we
updated
you
on
this
before,
but
and
now
is
the
time
to
really
pay
attention.
A
So
in
the
past
the
way
the
ordinance
was
set
up
was
that
we
would
select
full
council.
A
community
council
selects
four
members
from
the
downtown
commission,
four
members
from
the
riverfront
commission
and
then
there's
one
at-large
member
that
council
appoints
and
based
on
a
lot
of
feedback.
We
are
now
recommending
to
counsel
that
it
is
three
members
from
the
downtown
commission,
three
from
the
riverfront
and
then
there's
three
at
large
that
they
can
appoint.
A
So
you
should
know
that
that
is
headed
to
council
and
it
will
be
at
council's
discretion
to
make
that
design
that
one
design
review
committee
appointment
from
the
riverfront
commission.
As
a
reminder,
there
is
an
application
process,
so
kate
and
sage.
I
will
talk
to
you
about
that
and
make
sure
that
we
loop
in
the
city
clerk
and
and
do
the
correct
process
to
get
that
seat
filled
and
any
riverfront
go
ahead.
A
That's
right
so
now,
so,
let's
just
say
that
we
are
having
discussions
behind
the
scenes
with
another
potential
riverfront
commission
member
who
could
fill
out
that
application
and
then
of
course,
yes,
kate.
As
a
design
professional.
I
think
everyone
is
really
interested
in
encouraging
kate
to
be
a
member
of
that
committee,
but
that
would
fill
if
the
ordinance
was
changed.
That
would
fill
your
three
seats.
G
A
We
wanted
to
talk
a
little
bit
about
the
last
month.
There
was
a
request
for
an
update
on
the
haywood
street
congregation
project,
so
the
haywood
street
congregation
project
is
something
that's
not
in
the
river
district,
like
design
review
area
proper,
but
it's
in
what
we
call
sometimes
the
courtesy
review
area,
it's
an
area
that
extends
or
acts
as
a
gateway
into
part
of
any
of
the
river
districts.
A
So
this
is
in
the
weekend
neighborhood,
and
it
is
a
project
that
is
going
to
provide
support,
support
and
assistance
and
a
mix
of
affordable
housing
for
different
people
in
our
community.
If
passed,
it
did
go
to
planning
and
zoning
last
week
and
it
passed
unanimously.
I
believe
yes,
it
did,
and
next
week
there
may
be
a
housing
trust
fund
request
at
hcd
for
this
project.
A
So
what
I'm
going
to
get
here
is
the
takeaway
is
going
to
be
there's
a
lot
of
ways
for
you
to
learn
about
what
this
project
is,
what
it
looks
like
and
all
of
that
so
hcd
is
one
of
those
places
next
week.
I
also
linked
in
your
agenda
right
before
the
meeting,
just
the
p
and
z,
p
and
z
materials
for
the
project.
A
So
I'm
not
going
to
get
into
details
about
that.
Just
to
tell
you
that
this,
the
status
of
it
is
that
it
went
through
p
and
z
and
you
can
find
out
more
by
looking
at
those
materials
they
also
want
to
share,
because
that
is
a
it's
an
important
gateway
for
us.
Many
times
when
we've
had
our
in-town
retreats,
we've
looked
at
different
parts
of
this
gateway.
A
As
being
important,
you
are
you,
you
come
into
town
and
then
you're,
usually
gonna,
take
a
right
onto
clingman
avenue,
head
straight
down
into
the
river
arts,
so
city
staff
and
other
people
in
the
community.
There
is
an
I-26
aesthetics
committee,
for
example,
have
been
really
interested
to
see
what
the
final
plans
would
be
for
this.
A
The
changes
to
the
captain
owen
bridge
and
any
of
the
other
I-26
design
in
this
area,
the
western
gateway
of
cbd
and
entry
into
the
river
arts
district
for
quite
some
time
now,
and
we're
getting
to
the
point
where
we
have
a
good
idea
of
what
that
would
look
like
and
so
we're
starting
to
have
conversations
about
how
to
connect
to
the
design
of
that
project
and
what
opportunities
that
provides
us
for
racial
and
environmental
justice
initiatives,
housing
initiatives,
stormwater
and
environmental
protection
initiatives,
additional
initiatives
for
multi-modal
transportation,
connecting
neighborhoods
back
into
some
kind
of
grid
network.
A
So
it's
easier
for
people
to
get
around
and
have
opportunities
to
create
wealth,
and
that
requires
us
to
do
quite
a
bit
of
work
right.
Looking
at
that
that
area-
and
so
we
at
council
last
week,
we
staff
at
council
last
week
proposed
to
submit
an
application
to
the
french
broad
river
mto
to
ask
for
350
000
worth
of
funding
to
study
that
area
and
while
it's
not
dirt
like
it's
just
something
I
wanted
to.
A
Let
you
all
know
because
it's
obviously
connected
to
what
you're
thinking
about
for
the
growth
and
development
of
the
area
in
the
future.
It
would
be
something
that
we'd
be
looking
at
doing
in
fiscal
year
23
if
we
were
awarded
that
grant,
but
just
fyi
and
oh
and
the
last
one
I
think,
would
be
rad
loss.
A
People
asked
for
some
rad
loss,
update
everybody's
been
talking,
you
know,
brad
lofts
is
getting
some,
we
call
it
rad
lofts,
it's
actually
wood
field
apartments
right
now
and
I
think
they'll
come
up
with
another
name
sooner
or
later,
but
they
are
getting
their
permits
to
get
started
on
the
ground.
So
you'll
see
some,
you
know
groundwork
in
the
future
and
everybody
wants
to
know
like
you
know.
How
is
traffic
going
to
be
impacted?
A
K
Steph,
if
I
could
interject
right
there
about
the
rad
lofts
that
I'm
part
of
the
radba,
the
business
owner
association
in
the
district,
we'll
be
having
a
conversation
with
with
brian
chick
tomorrow,
and
I
know
that
brian
mccarthy,
from
who
owns
the
buildings
where
ultra
coffee
is
and
up
to
the
fergusons.
K
K
That
goes
through
the
brings
the
storm
water
down
through
robert
street,
so
it'll
have
to
be
closed
at
that
time,
but
I
know
the
district
is
going
to
be
one
of
the
things
I'm
really
interested
in
is
keeping
that
being
the
only
closure,
but
the
rest
of
the
construction
is
one
lane
closure.
So
that's
we'll
know
more
about
next
meeting
after
we
have
our
conversation.
E
J
A
It's
actually
a
one
mile
section
of
road:
that's
half
a
mile
wide!
It's
a
very
large
area.
It's
it's
akin
to,
I
would
say
about
half
of
the
rad
tip
that
we
just
completed
it's
a
major
major
project.
So
it's
the
area
where,
right,
where
the
bridge
ends
on
the
east
side
of
the
captain,
bowen
bridge
there
all
the
way
to
pritchett
park.
J
A
Would
be
studying
how
this
impacts
our
our
transportation
network
and,
like
I
said,
all
those
other
aspects.
So
no
I'm
sorry
about
that.
I
was
saying
that,
like
I
think
the
main
interest
of
this
commission
lies
with
how
people
get
down
into
the
riverfront
from
that
area,
and
this
is
the
kind
of
study
that
is
really
going
to
help
us
make
those
connections.
J
K
J
K
Connector
project
from
the
design,
whatever
it
was
called
the
committee
she
was
on
working
on
that
had
some
really
good
plans
about
coming
into
the
city.
That
way
it
was
as
I'm
having
trouble
remembered
exactly
what
it
was,
but
it
made
it
a
very
attractive
entrance,
so
maybe
they
was
going
to
be
pulled
back
up.
F
Yeah,
when
you
were
talking
about
that,
I
was
remembering
those
renderings
that
were
done
of
the
bridge
and
I
I
didn't
serve
on
the
I-26
task
force,
but
I
know
that
there
was
a
sort
of
now
that
adc
is
part
of
mountain.
True,
there
was
another
group:
was
it
the
connect?
F
A
It's
I'd
say
that
staff
has
done
a
considerable
amount
of
work
with
kind
of
taking
off
from
where
the
design
center
had
a
charette
with
some
of
our
staff
last
year.
I
want
to
say
now,
and
so
we
we
would
be
happy
to
come
and
bring
you
kind
of
a
a
little
bit
of
a
custom
slideshow
that
with
graphics.
A
That
explains
what
those
connections
might
be
that
tim
are
talking
about,
and
there
there
there
would
be
actually
a
new
connection,
so
you'd
be
able
to
connect
down
into
the
the
area
before
you
actually
reach
clingman
avenue.
If
we're
able
to
redesign
things
in
the
way
that
we
would
like
that
would
align
with
the
plans
for
the
weekend,
neighborhood
and
other
plans.
C
C
No
we're
going
to
get
to
you,
but
we're
going
to
hit
we're
going
to
touch
on
the
committee
updates.
The
two
committees
that
we
have,
but
you're
you're
coming
up
next
get
ready
tim
if
you'd
like
to
start
tim
is
the
chair
of
the
transportation
and
mobility
connections.
Committee.
K
Well,
christy
has
have
you
and
patty
done
anything
on
the
the
water
flood
conversations
anything
happen
with
that.
I
We
are
talking,
but
conveniently
we
haven't
had
any
weather
events,
but
we
are
we're
sharing
information
and
just
making
sure
that
I'm
connected
to
the
people
that
she
was
talking
to,
but
we
have
everybody
in
place
and
we're
just
we're
kind
of
waiting
until
we
have
a
little
bit
more
to
talk
about,
but
I
think
that
everyone
is
on
board
for
that.
K
The
other
half
of
the
committee,
which
I've
sort
of
chairs
somehow
hasn't,
really
been
that
active,
but
darren,
and
I
I've
been
working.
We
brought
it
up
last
time.
I
think
working
with
the
with
rada
and
trying
to
get
the
trolley
that
we've
been
working
on
for
about
three
or
four
years
that
will
connect
from
the
art
museum
down
to
black
wall
street
avl,
and
one
of
us
now
has
to
make
a
two
minute
talk
to
city
to
try
to
get
that
money
from
the
from
the
grant.
C
Yeah
we
were,
we
made
it
to
the
top
60.
C
so,
but
I
think
sage
will
have
an
update
there.
I
have
a
little
information
to
share
on
that,
but
we
can.
We
can
wait
until
sage
gives
us
what
she
has.
I
think
sixty.
C
K
Okay,
I
thought
about
bringing
that
up,
but
that's
just
okay,
a
lot
of
frustration
with
this,
and
I
don't
like
that
voice
frustration
with
the
cities,
because
I'm
not
getting
any
any
reaction
so
far
from
transportation,
so
maybe
maybe
sage
or
steph
can
tell
me
who
to
talk
to
now,
who
is
at
transportation
and
who's
the
who's
in
charge.
Now.
A
A
I'll
do
a
check-in
to
find
out
tim
where
that
request
lies.
Okay,
I'd.
D
If
y'all
copy
me
on
that,
that
would
be
good
great.
C
There's
been
an
effort
to
install
a
three-way,
stop
sign
at
the
at
the
intersection
of
the
entrance
of
the
south
entrance.
Excuse
me
the
north
entrance
into
the
foundation-
and
I
don't
know
the
name
of
that
street-
it's
all
it's
all
lyman
and
lyman
old,
lineman
and
lyman.
So
what
we're?
C
What
we're
noticing
is
that
people
are
driving
pretty
quickly
through
that
section
of
riverside,
drive,
slash
lyman
and
that's
a
that's,
a
pretty
active
crossing
right
there
and
the
hope
is
to
slow
down
traffic
but
also
protect
walkers
bikers
skaters.
C
So
all
of
the
above,
so
we've
been
we've
been
working
for
years
on
trying
to
get
a
stop
sign
there.
So
that's
that's
where
the
frustration
comes
in,
because
from
our
perspective
it
doesn't
seem
like
a
big
deal,
but
we
understand
how
things
work.
So
I
appreciate
sage
and
steph
following
up
and
trying
to
get
some
activity
on
that.
K
Well,
it
is,
it
is
interesting
because
today
is
the
official
grand
opening
of
the
marquee,
which
is
at
50
000
square
foot.
Building
that
will
create
a
lot
of
activity
and
more
traffic
in
and
out
of
there,
and
that's
really
what's
happening,
is
that
you
know
people
trying
to
turn
left
coming
out
of
there.
It's
just
a
yeah,
it's
a
cluster.
C
It's
a
very
significant
mobility
connection,
so
I
appreciate
you.
Oh
sorry,
my
dog
is
going
to
go
nuts
for
a
minute,
all
right,
family's
home
quickly.
Moving
on
so
I'm
I'm
kind
of
acting
as
the
co-chair,
I
would
say,
with
with
joe
ransmeier
who's
battling
some
health
issues
of
the
other
committee,
which
is
the
public
safety
which
includes
water,
quality
and
river
recreation.
C
You
could
probably
do
a
sprinkle
of
homelessness
in
there
and
crime.
That's
what
we're
going
to
be
focusing
on
one
of
the
goals
of
this
group
and
parker
was
at
the
at
our
first
and
only
meeting
so
far,
but
was
to
create
a
panel
discussion
with
some
other
commission
members
and
some
community
stakeholders
to
help
really
network
some
issues
and
communicate
with
one
another
on
some
on
some
issues
that
are
affecting
a
lot
of
different
commissions,
so
stay
tuned.
C
I
am
having
a
meeting
with
the
chair
of
riverlink
ann
keller
next
week,
and
so
I
hope
that
we'll
start
to
create
some
synergy
and
I
know
she's
a
wealth
of
information.
So
I'm
looking
forward
to
that
parker.
Do
you
have
anything
to
add.
L
L
This
might
be
just
my
memory
of
what
we,
what
the
goal
was,
but
around
water
quality
issues
and
storm
water
issues,
at
least
in
part,
and
to
engage
with
like
river
link
and
the
french
broadwater
water,
keeper
and
hat-
and
you
know,
use
our
committee
as
a
way
to
yeah
just
to
really
establish
some
sort
of
public
forum
and
or
speaker
series
of
some
kind
to
engage
the
specific,
the
district
and
there's
the
city
at
large.
I
think
that's
that's!.
C
Yeah,
that's
my
recollection
as
well,
and
the
other
thing
is
an
underrepresented
group
is:
are
the
river
outfitters,
the
river
recreation
community
and
I'm
hopeful
that
we
can
get
some
of
those
folks
to
the
table
to
also
share
you
know,
insights
perspectives,
goals,
challenges
and
then
something
I
failed
to
mention.
C
Not
only
will
this
panel
discussion
be
helpful
for,
for
other
commissions,
to
be
able
to
just
share
and
network,
but
it's
also,
of
course,
there
for
the
community
at
large
to
be
able
to
learn
and
be
be
connected
into
what
we're
what
we're
working
on
so
sage.
I
saw
you
had
your
hand
up.
D
I
was
just
gonna
chime
in
that
for
the
last
four
or
five
years,
there's
been
a
speaker
series.
This
is
part
of
a
collaboration
between
the
design
center
mentioned
earlier,
the
downtown
association
and
some
local
businesses,
but-
and
they
bring
in
folks
to
do
this
kind
of
thing
and
speak
to
you
know
whatever
the
need
is
in
the
community,
but
we
might
be
able
to.
I
think
most
of
that
is
canceled
for
this
year.
You
might
be
able
to
piggyback
on
some
of
that
and
pick
up
some
of
their
momentum
and
have
river
focused.
C
So
thank
you
for
that.
L
C
So
we'll
move
on
now
to
the
councilwoman
turner.
You
have
some
information
to
share
about
the
arpa
grant
application,
and
anything
else
you
want
to
share
would
be
great.
D
Okay,
mostly
two
updates
some
apd
changes
around
encampments
and
tent
camping
and
arpa.
So
as
a
city
councilor,
I
have
actually
not
received
all
of
the
arpa
applications.
Yet
there
have
been
some
delays
because
there's
an
evaluation
process
that
happens
on
the
staff
side.
To
date,
I've
seen
the
list
of
the
app
of
the
appliers
or
the
applicants,
but
not
the
actual
applications.
D
What
we've
done
we're
kind
of
juggling
back
and
forth
how
we
wanted
to
proceed
because
there's
so
many
great
asks
and
so
many
great
needs,
so
we've
decided
to
allow
applicants
to
submit
a
two-minute
presentation
and
we're
going
to
have
two
kind
of
afternoon
events
where
we'll
go
through
and
listen
to
half
of
them,
there's
about
70
and
it's
voluntary
not
required.
So
everyone
may
not
choose
to
do
this.
Those
dates
are
tuesday
february
1st,
from
10
to
12
in
the
morning
and
then
the
following
wednesday
february,
2nd
from
11
to
1
pm.
D
So
we'll
hear
two
minute
pitches.
It
will
be
live
streamed
and
then
council
will
reconvene
go
through
our
evaluation
process,
work
with
staff
and
then
in
february
also
choose
so
we'll
keep
moving
fairly
quickly,
and
that's
really
all
to.
I
have
to
update
about
that.
If
you
have
specific
questions
around
that,
I
can
try
to
answer
them.
It's
just
still
a
moving
process.
C
Well,
we
were
wondering
if,
if,
if
we
produced
a
a
video,
if
that
can
be
shared,
and
as
I'm
saying
that
I
know
that
sometimes
videos
shared
through
these
live
live
meeting
platforms-
don't
fare
well,
but
is
that
have
you
all
discussed?
Is
that
something
that
can
be
ordered,
like
it
recorded.
D
That's
a
good
question:
let
me
I'll
make
a
couple
text
messages.
While
we're
in
the
meeting
and
I'll
update
you.
K
F
K
I
just
don't
know
what
that
means,
because
it'd
be
much
easier
to
not
have
everybody
stammering
through
two
minutes
and
really
get
their
two
minutes
out.
You
know
so
I
agree.
D
Well,
you
know
some
had
more
than
one
application,
I
believe
there's
70
applications
but,
for
instance,
like
the
city
of
asheville
was
an
applicant
maybe
for
several
so
I'll
find
out
about
the
pre-recorded
any
other
questions
about
that
item.
D
Okay,
so
I
don't
know
how
many
of
you
love
to
spend
your
tuesday
nights
watching
city
council
meetings,
but
we
had
a
four-hour
meeting
on
tuesday
and
we
heard
some
updates
that
I
think
you
know
probably
do
pertain
to
riverfront
in
that
there's
been
a
recent
encampment
up
on
the
ridge
and
what
we
heard
was
an
update
from
both
emily
ball.
Who
is
the
homelessness
coordinator
for
the
city?
Is
a
remarkable
and
hard
worker?
D
That's
doing
a
great
job
with
this
and
then
also
from
apd
about
some
alarming
situations
that
are
happening
within
the
camping
and
within
around
like
a
500
foot
radius
and
a
thousand
foot
radius,
and
we
are
unfortunately,
I'm
very
shocked
to
report
that
some
of
the
situations
are
pretty
bad
in
the
encampments
we've
had
so
far,
there
have
been
over
150
aggravated
assaults
over
25
rapes,
100
and
something
burglaries
robberies.
D
I
mean
it's
staggering
figures.
There's
a
presentation
I
could
share
in
the
comments
if
you'd
like
to
see
it
and
so
what,
as
a
result
of
this,
you
know,
council
is
a
policy-making
body,
but
we
don't.
You
know
we
don't
tell
apd
what
to
do.
D
The
city
manager
and
the
chief
of
police
determine
that,
so
what
they
came
to
us
was
a
suggestion
that
they
noticed
that
the
seven
day
or
longer
terms
that
we
were
giving
people
to
relocate
was
actually
creating
part
of
the
problem
because
it
was
an
established
time.
Period
was
assessed
where
you
could
be
here
for
x,
amount
of
days
and
the
encampments
were
growing
and
the
crime
was
building.
D
So
what
they've
done
is
chosen
to
reduce
that
time
of
warning
to
just
a
couple
days,
and
you
know
the
first
question
that
comes
to
mind
every,
but
right
now
is
it's
freezing
out.
Where
are
these
people
going
to
go
so
there's
an
on
the
side
of
this
there's
still
this
coalition
of
non-profits
that
is
working
on
sheltering
emergency
sheltering
cold
purple,
you've,
probably
heard
of,
and
if
you're
on
that
list
serve.
D
You
may
have
noticed
that
we've
just
basically
been
an
ongoing
code
purple
for
a
while
now
and
it
keeps
getting
extended
for
days
whether
it's
freezing
or
not,
and
that
allows
for
greater
sheltering
to
happen.
So,
while
it's
not
great
and
ideal
sheltering
like
we're,
not
we
don't
have
any
more
new
hotel
rooms
and
stuff.
We
do
have
cots
and
shelters
and
places
to
be
warmed.
D
So
that
is
going
to
be
how
apd
approaches
it
right
now,
and
I
imagine
that
we'll
get
regular
updates,
but
it's
just
become
a
pretty
challenging
situation,
any
questions
about
that
or
concerns
or
what's
happening
in
the
river
or
things
you'd
like
to
share.
C
D
You
know
it's
remarkable.
The
amount
of
community
partners
and
organizers
are
already
on
this,
like
we
are
one
of
a
dozen
fast-paced
working
on
this.
It's
amazing
and
then
we
have
some
new
organized
folks
joining
the
scene
with
fresh
energy,
fresh
eyes,
trying
to
say
here's
the
gap.
This
is
what
we
see
they're
getting
together
weekly.
I
mean
it's
really
it's
almost
it's
inspiring
it's
both
troubling
and
inspiring,
but
what
we
really
need
are
like
short-term,
mid-range
and
long-term
goals.
So
we've
got
people
on
the
ground.
D
B
K
Yeah
it
is,
I
mean
it
is
a
really
horrible
situation
and
tricky
one,
and
my
personal
reactions
I
feel
like
some
of
us
in
the
river
are
searched,
could
probably
not
legally,
but
it's
almost
underground
railroad.
There
are
people
who
are
campers,
we're
not
a
problem
to
anybody
who
get
tucked
away
in
places,
but
and
it's
usually
one
or
two
people-
and
it's
you
know.
Hopefully
this
two-day
or
seven
day.
K
You
know
the
two-day
thing
is
not
gonna
give
license
to
pushing
so
some
of
those
people
that
aren't
a
problem
out
of
where
they
are.
I
think
you
know.
So
it's
just
that's
just
it's
yeah.
It's
I
mean
it's
in
my
business.
It's
interfered
sometimes
when
they
take
advantage
of
that.
When
more
than
the
person
you
allow
to
harbor
in
place,
you
know
brings
in
other
people,
then
we
have
to
move
along
and
then
there
is
the
police
thing.
So
it
I'm
not.
D
If
you
ever
have
any
input
or
ideas,
I
mean
we're
kind
of
just
I.
It
really
is
amazing
how
many
people
are
working
on
this
all
day
every
day,
so
you
have
ideas.
If
you
have
things
out
there,
that
could
help.
I
mean
that's
an
interesting
point.
Tim
I
mean
in
some
ways
I'd
worry
about
the
one
or
two
people
out
there
on
their
own.
Like
think
about
this
10
inches
of
snow
coming,
like.
K
J
E
J
K
Know
the
idea
of
sleeping
down
the
cold
is
not
an
issue
for
this
person.
You
know
they've
done
it
forever.
You
know
so
that's
you
know
it's
not
that
frequent.
It's
like
it
also
goes
back
to
when
some
of
us
lived
in
small
towns,
and
you
knew
that
one
or
two
people
that
everybody
gave
a
couple
bucks
to
at
the
post
office
kind
of
thing.
So
you
know
it's
no
longer
that
way,
but
it's
hard
to
you
know
preserve
that
a
little
bit.
That's
so.
D
You
know
I
mentioned
this
at
the
council
meeting
as
well,
but
I
think,
as
a
community
we
have
a
hard
conversation,
that's
yet
to
be
have
which
is
okay,
so
we're
learning
and
evaluating
understanding
the
whole
housing
cycle
from
living
on
the
streets
to
getting
fully
housed.
What
needs
to
happen
in
between
you've
heard
us
talk
about
low
barrier,
shelters,
high
access,
shelters,
cold,
shelters,
permanent
shelters,
supportive
housing,
shelters
wrapper,
I
mean
all
of
it,
but
the
question
I
get
a
little
worried
about
is,
you
know,
we're
still
a
small
city.
D
We
are
seeing
an
influx
of
folks
coming
to
us
because
we're
providing
services-
and
you
know
what
the
question
I
think
we're
going
to
face-
is:
what's
our
capacity
because
we
have
to
recognize
there
are
people
in
the
community
like
your
friend
tim,
that
may
never
seek
shelter
and
wouldn't
thrive
in
something
like
the
ramada,
which
was
going
to
be
115
people
in
one
place
suffering
from
similar,
complicated
afflictions.
So
we
have
a
lot
to
learn
still.
D
L
Yeah
thanks
darren,
I
mean
I,
I
can
just
touch
on
a
few
things,
that's
kind
of
coming
up
in
our
our
agenda
for
our
meeting
coming
up
on
tuesday.
You
know,
I
guess
first,
I
just
you
know
to
talk
about
homelessness
for
a
section
for
a
second,
we
just
recently
on
the
housing
committee.
L
The
county
housing
committee
had
a
great
presentation
by
emily
ball
from
from
the
city
of
asheville,
who
is
fantastic
and
a
wealth
of
knowledge,
and
I
I
guess
I
just
kind
of
echo
what's
been
said
around
the
city
is
putting
in
a
in
terms
of
city
staff
city
government
as
a
whole,
as
putting
a
tremendous
amount
of
just
men
and
women
hours
into
this
problem.
L
L
You
know
with
that
said,
I
think,
on
on
paper
what
the
data
tells
me,
what
the
kind
of
solutions
we
we
hear
about
tells
me
is
that
there's,
I
think,
there's
reason
reason
to
be
optimistic
about
our
ability
to
kind
of
tackle
this
problem
in
terms
of
its
its
scale,
the
quantity
of
of
of
beds
and
facilities
that
we
need.
L
You
know,
there's
there's,
definitely
a
need
for
long-term
housing
solutions
and
solutions
to
keep
people
from
out
of
out
of
homelessness
to
begin
with,
but
all
in
all
it
just
doesn't
seem
insurmountable
to
me,
and
so
that's
that's
just
something
that
when
I
talk
about
this
issue
recently,
I
wanna
just
really
seems
achievable
at
a
local
level
to
the
extent
one
can
achieve
solving
this
problem
in
a
society
that
has
homeless
people
to
begin
with.
L
So
that's
yeah,
that's
my
belief
and
nugget
of
optimism
for
january
2022.,
the
other
thing
yeah,
just
a
quick,
quick
touch
on
on
kovid.
I
think
it's
going
to
be
next
week.
L
Hopefully,
the
first
of
next
week,
you'll
start
seeing
take
home
rapid
tests,
as
well
as
high
efficiency,
masks
at
libraries
and
a
few
other
community
facilities
that
will
be
the
people
will
be
able
to
pick
up
for
free
while
supplies
last
look.
It's
a
program
kind
of
set
up
by
the
state
where
local
health
departments
can
order
these
things
in
bulk
and
we're
having
the
same
problem.
Everybody
else
is
having
that
there's
just
physically
aren't
that
many
of
these
tests
in
the
united
states
and
so
ordering
them
is,
is
a
challenge.
L
So
I'm
really
excited
about
that.
I
wish
it
happened
three
weeks
ago,
but
I'm
I'm
excited
about
that.
Nonetheless,
it's
a
tool
we
haven't
used
enough
moving
on
just
a
couple,
important
things
coming
up
on
our
agenda.
L
L
So
that's
that's
our
agenda,
what
else,
yeah
and
and
and
so,
affordable
housing
goals
and
policies
in
general?
That's
something
that
our
that
our
housing
committee
has
looked
at
over
the
past
six
months
is
solutions
and
ideas
around
supporting
people
in
existing
housing
through
vouchers,
expanding
the
quantity
of
rental
units
and
home
ownership,
affordable
units
that
we
have
in
our
community.
L
We've
been
doing
some
goal
setting
for
months
now,
but
I
think
we'll
hopefully
start
to
see
some
see
some
action
taken
and
some
really
kind
of
historic
levels
of
investment
from
our
from
our
budget
this
year
we'll
be
going
into
affordable
housing.
It's
the
it's
the
number
one
issue
on
on
the
commissioner's
minds
per
hour
per
our
budget,
retreat
that
we
had
in
december.
L
I
think
one
one
solution,
you'll
see
down
the
line
idea,
is
putting
a
ballot
initiative
on
on
the
ballot,
the
next
election
to
do
a
bond
to
kind
of
leverage,
more
upfront
capital
to
build
more
to
build
more
rental
units,
because
that
is
the
biggest
just
in
volume
the
biggest
need
our
community
has
yeah.
I
think
the
only
other
thing
I
I'd
mentioned
on
the
arpa
funds.
You
know
we
kind
of
the
count.
The
way
the
county's
done
it,
we
kind
of
split
it
up
into
two
two
tranches.
L
We
had
a
first
round
of
applications
for
arpa
funds
to
the
community
that
we
finished
up
in
december,
that
kind
of
ended,
roughly
20,
24
million
dollars
of
spending
and
we're
expecting
another
25
million
dollars
to
come
from
the
federal
government
in
may,
and
so
tuesday.
We're
also
kicking
off
our
kicking
off
our
our
solicitation
of
to
the
community
for
for
further
ideas
on
how
to
spend
this
second
tranche
of
money.
L
I
I
the
only
thing
I'm
sure
of
is
that
affordable
housing
will
be
something
of
interest
to
to
me
and
my
my
colleagues,
we
had
a
lot
of
great
applications.
Last
time
certainly
couldn't
fund
all
the
ones
we
wanted
to,
but
we'll
yeah
I'll
keep
you
guys
updated
on
on
on
how
that
goes
in
terms
of
what
we're
seeking
applications
for
moving
forward
with
this
second
tranche.
C
L
Yeah,
that's
a
good
question,
so
I
did
kind
of
informally
outside
of
the
government
form
french
broad
water
quality
task
force,
I
think,
is
what
we
ended
up,
calling
it
primarily
made
up
of
about.
L
You
know,
mountain
true
and
riverlink,
sierra
club
folks
and
myself
and
the
french
river
keeper
and
we've
come
up
with
a
variety
of
recommendations
to
the
county,
mainly
some
of
them
aren't
government
specific
around
water
quality
and
erosion,
control
and
development,
and
that
and
that
sort
of
thing-
and
I
think
those
issues
will
be
will
be
taken
up,
and
you
know
I
should
probably
share
it
with
this
group
might
as
well.
L
Those
issues
will
be
taken
up
over
time
through
buncombe,
county's,
new
climate
and
environment
subcommittee
that
we
have
so
that's
kind
of
the
avenue
for
the
those
types
of
of
regulatory
and
programmatic
changes
and
ideas,
and
I
think
you
know
an
idea-
that's
recently
come
up
that
I
think
is
probably
best
is
if
we
have
some
sort
of.
L
C
Yes,
please
please
share
that
when
you
are
able,
maybe
we
can,
we
can
discuss
it
further
in
our
next
meeting
yeah.
I
will
thank
you
steph
that
reminds
me
months.
If
not
a
year
ago,
there
was
a
studying
economic
study
being
done
by
some
some
professors
or
maybe
private
from
western
carolina.
I
think
about
the
economic
benefit
of
might
it
was
it
the
arts
or
was
it
the
river,
but.
A
It
was,
I
think,.
A
Watershed-
and
I
believe
that
riverlink
and
or
they
started
a
watershed
alliance
group
and
buck
might
be
able
to
help
me
here.
I'm
not
sure,
he's
familiar,
but
I
think
it
was
something
that
that
group
was
doing
for
a
three
or
five
county
region,
and
I
have
not
heard
back
about
it.
But
I'd
be
happy
to
check
in
with
some
of
those
folks
who
I
heard
about
it
from
last
year.
E
Yeah,
when,
when
darren
meets
with
ann
keller
next
week,
and
can
certainly
filling
in
on
that
as
well.
C
C
Thank
you
so
for
our
next
meeting,
which
will
be
in
february
we'll
we'll
have
a
presentation
about
the
swannanoa
greenway
and
the
development
impact
review
for
the
bleachery
boulevard
to
thompson
street
section
we'll
have
an
informal
discussion
of
woodfield
woodfield,
the
rad
lofts
project
with
the
developer
brian
schick.
C
All
right:
well
then,
it's
50
508..
Can
I
get
a
motion
to
adjourn
the
meeting.
D
C
All
right:
well,
I
hope
everybody
has.