City of Bloomington, Indiana City Council, 16 Jan 2019

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Common council regular session meeting of 16th of january 2019.

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Work will the clerk. please call the roll.

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Piedmont: smith, grainger president rallo here boland here, simms here, stir bomb.

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Sandburg, yeah, thank you.. Thank you.

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Clerk bolden will go next to approval four minutes and then we'll go to reports from council members. The mayor and city offices will.

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Have council committee reports and then will allow the public to have 20 minutes to.

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Speak on items not on our agenda this evening, we will then go to appointments to boards and commissions. Then we'll turn to legislation for second reading and resolutions.

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We have three items: ordinance 1903, to amend title aid of the bloomington municipal code, entitled historic preservation and protection to.

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Establish a historic district regarding the maple heights conservation district.

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Maple heights neighborhood association, but is the petitioner it received a committee recommendation- do pass.

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7-0. Our second item is of legislation for second reading, as ordinance 1904.

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That is to amend title 8 of the bloomington municipal code, entitled historic preservation and protection to establish a historic district regarding.

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1175, south smith, road, historic district, the harvey nelson house.

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James and sally harvey are the petitioners.

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Committee recommendation was 9, 0, 0 and then our third item of second reading is resolution.

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1902 to extend the bloomington urban enterprise zone for an additional five years.

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This received the committee recommendation of nine zero zero and then we'll go to legislation for first reading. That is resolution.

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1901 to adopt the city's transportation plan as an amendment to the city's comprehensive plan.

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Will then have an opportunity for additional public comments, 20 minutes and then we'll turn to council schedule and items coming up in.

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Future meetings before we adjourn this evening., so that is a summation of.

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Our agenda and you can find agendas beside the clerk if you care to have one. so now, let's turn to.

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Approval of minutes., we have none. we'll go to reports from council members and I will begin on my left with councilmember sandberg.

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Thank you. This would be more appropriate for council committees, but the community development block grant committee for social services will be making our.

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Determinations for the allocations for this year tomorrow evening, and I always like to take the opportunity to remind the community that.

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You know many cities do have community development block, grant funds available to them.

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But they don't always allocate the maximum amount that is allowed by law., and this is federal money.

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This this is administered by hud toward the operating expenses.. These are salaries which are very highly prized in the nonprofit community.

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For social services, the city of bloomington does make that maximum commitment to provide social service funding at the fullest extent that we are allowed to.

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And at that it is still not as much as our own.

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Jack hopkins fund, which is a much bigger pot of money that the city tax dollars go to support.

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But this is kind of the first round in the granting season for local social services that are providing.

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Very critical services for low-income individuals in our community and it's always a real pleasure to serve with the.

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Local committee that makes these tough decisions about who gets these very prized grant dollars from the federal and.

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So again, I want to thank my fellow committee members for all the diligent work that will be. We will be wrapping up tomorrow, evening.. Thank you.

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Thank you, councilmember sandburg come summer. Starbomb,. Do you have a comment? yeah, just a brief.

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Comment., I think it bears mentioning that the president of the president of the united states is under.

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Suspicion of being an asset of the kremlin.

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It's never happened before may or may not be true,, but it's shocking and I just wanted to say it out loud.

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Councilmember sims.: do you have a comment? thank you.? It comes from enrolling.

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Councilmember ruff: do you have a report this evening? Thank you., param chopra.. I do have a report.

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For the past several years with my son tommy, who was born on january 3rd,.

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Has had a birthday party at the city's banneker center.

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And that's because he likes to be active, but the weather is unpredictable. This time of year.

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And we have been always very happy with it,, but I wanted to report that the staff this year.

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Did an exceptional job of making his birthday wonderful because of the snow.

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We got there and we brought a shovel because we weren't sure if people would have shoveled the dry. The the walk into the.

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Into the gymnasium, where they play- and someone was already there with their salt and their shovel and making it all ready for us to get in and then.

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As we were, walking in the door was locked at first and the woman who's. Always there came up behind us and said,.

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Oh,, I'm here., I'm here., I'm a little late.. Sorry.

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She said that she walks to work and that, if it weren't for the man who had just left, who was shoveling snow, who saw her walking to work, she would have turned.

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Around but he offered her a ride to work and she got there on time and led us in.

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And so I just want to say thanks to the people in the city, who?.

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Aren't always seen as they're doing their work and I'll always think I want to. Let them know that they're appreciated.

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And that tommy had an amazing birthday party and.

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Pinata I made broke on the first hit.

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But it was fun nonetheless.. So thank you to all our city workers.

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Thank you, councilmember chopra, councilmember, piedmont, smith. You have a report.

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Yes, just briefly.. I wanted to remind the community that, of course, monday is martin luther king jr. day and.

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There will be a community celebration of his legacy.

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The busker chumley theater at.

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M7 p.m. there's a reception at 6:00 p.m. and then 7:00 p.m. is the start of our community.

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Celebration and the keynote speaker. this year is jenai nelson, who is an associate director and.

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Legal adviser of the n-double a-c-p.

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At the national level,, so I think her talk will be really interesting, especially given the.

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State of race relations in our country today and.

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We always have, I think, the fairview school choir perform and.

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Remarks from the mayor- and it's a it's a great evening and a way to come together as a community.

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And, of course, earlier in the day,, we encourage everybody to.

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Engage in volunteer activities to make it a day on not a day off.

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Some of us do have the day off from our jobs,, but.

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I'll be going to the mcdole to the mcdowell, gardens neighborhood.

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Annual volunteer work at the community kitchen,, which is in our neighborhood.

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And I'm sure other social service agencies would appreciate people reaching out and spending some time helping on monday.

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So that's it for tonight.. Thank you.

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Thank you for that reminder.

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Council vice president granger.

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I'll make a brief report just to say that this is the city launched.

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Today, the year of food to address hunger and activate local food network.

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Which is a wonderful thing, it is.

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Pursuing a goal, the sustainability sustainability action plan and it was hosted by the mayor and a number of prominent people within the local food.

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Network community and including autumn, sala mac was the.

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Sustainability director for the city and she announced that the city is hiring a value chain coordinator to help.

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To form networks,, but growers in the community and and.

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Purchasers and vendors and so forth, to try to expand local food network, and, of course,.

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There are a lot of people in the community that are challenged.

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Because they're low-income getting adequate food- and this is part of the effort- and I think it's wonderful.

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I think a lot of people in the council here have been advocating for it for some time, and I just want to.

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To thank the administration for moving forward on this.. I think it hits on all cylinders of.

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Sustainability, it hits on the economic because it can capture wealth in the community and recirculate. It employs people.

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Hits on social equity because we provide more food for people in the community healthy food instead of poor quality food.

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There's talk about food deserts in the community and so forth, making sure people have access and then it helps the environment by growing.

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Food locally,, especially a variety of foods if they're grown organically,, especially it helps the environment tremendously.

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So it's a it's good all the way around, and I wanted to note that.

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So that concludes councilmember comment. Are there reports from the mayor and city offices this evening.

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Okay, seeing none, then. we'll go to council committee reports and it counts committee reports.

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Seeing none we will go to the public., so if anyone would like to step up and.

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Have their say you could, could we have a show of hands if anyone is interested?.

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Okay,, seeing none if you change your mind and you're still around there'll, be a chance at the end of the meeting.

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Okay, we'll go now to appointments to the boards and commissions to.

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Appoint steve olin to serve on the food and beverage tax advisory commission.

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Thank you,, so we have a motion in a second.. Is there any discussion on this council attorney? sure.

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We forgot to do it last week,, so we're doing it now.

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Thank you for accepting. If you should so choose, I would like to serve again,. Thank you. Thanks for asking., alright good., so we'll.

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Reappointment, thank you. thank you. yes,, so he's got that historical knowledge.. So all in favor of this.

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Appointing steve olin to serve on the food and beverage tax. Advisory. Commission. say aye.

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Any opposed congratulations, thank you. okay,. We have further business regarding the food and beverage tax advisory commission.

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I move at the common council request that the food and beverage tax advisory commission recommend expenditures of food and beverage tax funds.

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For consideration by the common council.

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Okay,, shall we explain this a bit.

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Council attorney sherman,, I'm relying on you.

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Before the food and beverage advisory commission.

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Well, the food and beverage advisory commission should.

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Recommend expenditure of funds to the common council statute also says that you should request that recommendation.. This accomplishes that purpose.

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And we're getting close to a point where you may we'll get a.

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Request to expend funds.

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So it's time to make this request official. so before the commission can do their deliberation.

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We need to set the ball rolling with this.

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Request, correct. okay,. I.

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Have a question, please. mr. chairman,, so.

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Is this have to do with the anniversary of the tax coming up february? 1.

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It more has to do with progress of the advisory.

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Commission and subgroups in in coming to the point. they're ready to.

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I think maybe retain an architect.

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So that's actually the isn't. Mr. stir bomb. Aren't you serving on the? Where do you go?.

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Great. mr. servo, I'm serving on sort of the.

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The working group that's separate from the tax advisory. Commission.- they haven't brought it to us.. We haven't actually met in a couple of months and.

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You know,, I I'm a little mystified that this step is necessary for us to. I.

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Mean is: is the tax advisory commission asking the council to do this? no.

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It's it's. The lawyers, okay?.

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Well,, that's what I'm trying to get and I think you may well have a meeting coming up on the 22nd.

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Hopefully, yeah and I think this recommendation will.

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Set the stage for something you might be considering at that meeting or future meetings,. Okay,.

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It's got three.. Are you here for this or not necessarily?,.

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So corporate counsel, full of guthrie.

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Gathered an is correct.. I wasn't aware that.

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Counsel had to request, but they recommend, but the statute does say that the advisory commission.

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Makes recommendations on expenditures.? We are at the point that.

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They've chosen an architect, okay.

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So we will have to start paying the architect at some times., so we will be coming to you with a.

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Request but it would go to the commission first. Did the commission need the city council to.

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Formally recommend or requests that they make a recommendation. I'll defer to dan. On that.

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The statute calls for the fiscal bodies to request.

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Recommendations for expenditures from the advisory! Commission.- I don't think it it would preclude the commission from.

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You know doing its work and but essentially before we get a recommendation.

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We should have a request and that's what's driving this, but but this logic the council will be asked to make such a motion.

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Every time nani needs to be spent. I thought that's what the food and beverage commission was for no.

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And that's why you'll see that this motion is very general., it's not time limited., it doesn't say for.

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Expenditures in 2019 it doesn't talk about funds received by a certain date.

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So so I don't do not anticipate that you'll have to do this.

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Every time there's a you anticipate.

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A request to expend funds council member chopra.- yes,.

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Mr. shermin,, you give us an indiana code, site here,, but the quoted portion- and this is in our work packet.

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It's just sort of a where's, the rest of the sentence. I guess it says the county of the city must request advisory commission's recommendations concerning.

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Expenditures of any food and beverages tax funds collected.

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But like when and under what circumstances,.

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The dot-dot-dot does not establish when or under what circumstances.

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Like you understand the confusion, though, wouldn't I mean.

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Yes, what I can give you the full quote, just a minute.

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Okay, it's so it's.

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Indiana code 9 6, 9, 41 16, called it advisory commission.

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There's part a with.

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Five parts, and then there's part b and that's what I'm quoting here in the full site is.

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The county and city legislative bodies must request the advisory commission's.

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Recommendations concerning the expenditure of any food and beverage tax funds collected under this chapter.

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So that's where I left dot dot dot and it goes on to say that.

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The city and county legislative body may not adopt any ordinance or resolution requiring the expenditure of food and.

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Beverage tax collected under this chapter without the approval in writing of a majority of the members of the advisory commission.

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So that council, member roland, when, when you.

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Meet with them next week in future times., you may be asked to.

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Have a motion that that shows that a majority of the the commission.

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Approves an expenditure.

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So a mike, as I'm understanding it, it's that that next clause that says.

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That gives the win and why it's, when any ordinance or.

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Procreation is made., I don't remember the words., it poses a condition upon the.

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Adoption of legislation by this, in this case the city, physical bodies, basically prior to any.

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Legislation relating to the expenditure of the its prior to the adoption of the.

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Legislation are we expecting legislation soon, then?.

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In the near future, yes, yeah, you heard from corporation counsel that they're at a point. where?.

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They're looking at an architect and the architect would need to be paid.

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Thank you that it's just my questions.

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Thank you. any further questions on this motion.. Do we need a roll call vote or just simple?.

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Animation, a voice vote should be sufficient.. We have one more question comes from mr. bone.

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Is this the one up? We just approve it and that's that.

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Could you it won't come back to us?? This is a.

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One-Time request, I believe.

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You only need to make the request once you may, as a prudential matter in future years, want to re.

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State the request. so in that regard, yes,, but it starts the ball rolling.

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Soon, in the near future., you'll you'll see a recommendation.

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For use of funds, it'll come to you and you'll need to decide whether it's something you want to appropriate.

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Okay,, are we okay, concluded questions great?

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Will the city clerk, please call the roll on the motion.

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First of all call.

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Yes, granger, yes, rallo., yes, : yes.! Yes,.

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Standard, yes. thank you.. Okay,.

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The motion carries eight zero one, eight zero one, eight zero one. pardon me.

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Very good. we'll go now to legislation for second reading and resolutions.

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Mr. chair,, I move that ordinance 1903 be introduced in read by title and synopsis only.

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It's been moved and seconded that ordinance 1903 be introduced and read the clerk by title in synopsis. Ola.

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Only all in favor. say aye aye any opposed.

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With a clerk, please read.

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Three to amend title aid of the bloomington municipal code.

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Entitled historic preservation and protection to establish a historic district regarding the maple heights conservation district.

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Maple heights neighborhood association, petitioner, the synopsis is as follows:.

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This ordinance amends the list of designated historic districts in chapter 8.20 of the city of bloomington.

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Municipal code, by attack by establishing the maple heights conservation district in recommending this designation.

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The bloomington historic preservation commission conducted a survey held public hearings and submitted a map and accompanying report to the council.

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The map sets forth the boundaries of the district and the classification of buildings within the district. The report.

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Demonstrates how this district meets the necessary criteria, a.

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Conservation district is, in general, less restrictive than a full historic district and.

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Requires only the review of proposals to demolish or move buildings or construct new principal or accessory buildings.

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At the end of three years after adoption of this.

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Ordinance, this conservation district will elevate to into a full historic district unless within 180 and.

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60 days before that date, a majority of the property owners provide the commission with written objections to the elevation. Your committee.

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Recommendation for this ordinance was due passed, 7-0.

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Thank you, mr. chair,, I move that ordinance 1903 be adopted.

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Very good, we're joined this evening by historic preservation, program manager, connor hurt rich.

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Did the council have any questions.

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They perhaps would you care to sum up your previous presentation.

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Sort of the this is brought forward by the neighborhood.

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Are we're talking about maple high?? It's just a simple summation. yes,. This is the ordinance 1903.. Okay,.

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So ordinance 1903 will create the maple heights conservation district.

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In a conservation district, three things are required for review by the sort preservation. Commission.- that would be new construction.

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Demolition and the moving of a structure.

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After three years, vote will be taken.

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So I'll go over the ballot procedures again for that because I know there was a question last week.

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So one ballot will be mailed to each property owner by hand and.

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Unless 51% of property owners respond and say they would like to remain a conservation district.

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The they will elevate to a historic district., so that's.

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51% of property owners, not 51% of ballots, returned.

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So that'll happen at that time.

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Okay,, thank you for that well,. Mr. her torch was referring to a very thorough presentation at her committee meeting last week,.

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So if you have nothing more to add, I didn't mean to cut you off,, but are there now questions from council?.

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Regarding this ordinance.

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No questions councilman ron smith,. Would it be an appropriate time to introduce amendments?.

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1903 yes., this would be a good time.. I move amendment one to ordinance, 1903.

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Very good, could you explain this was?.

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Brought to our attention by the council office and just makes a few minor corrections.

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To the signature block at the very end of the ordinance,, which said 2018 when it should have said 2019.

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So that's very simple:.

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Amendment? okay, very good.

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Any questions from council counselor mr. baum has a question.

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Five for everyone.

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Mr. connors, we're just talking.

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So,, let's dispense with the amendments which is simply housekeeping.

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Is there a motion to adopt if you have to go to the public? oh, very good.

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Public comments on the amendment.

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Housekeeping amendment to correct the date, seeing none back to council for comment or a recommendation.

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I didn't I'll call the question.

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Okay, all in favor, say aye.

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Council member chopra,, yes, piedmont, smith,, yes, granger, yes,, rallo., yes, boland., yes, simms., yes, stir bomb.

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Sandburg, yeah ruff. yes. thank you.. Okay,.

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Nine-Zero that amendment passes., thank you.

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So councilmember storm. um, did you have a question just one more question?.

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You said what it did not what it did review what it does not review. Then lee that leaves all.

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Remodeling to be not reviewable by the.

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Historic commission, correct., any kind of exterior modifications or alterations will not be reviewed by the stork preservation commission in a conservation district.

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Yes., thank you.

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Further questions okay,, seeing none we'll go to the public, then.

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An ordinance 1903, any public would like to make a comment. please step to the microphone.

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And introduce yourself.

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And could you please sign in as well for the clerk's record.

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Can we please also ask people to sign in after they'd spoken just so that we can move the proceedings along.? Thank you.

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My name is terry ussery.. I live in mable heights.. I am on the property at.

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522 west 13th street,, I am in favor of the conservation district.

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As I said last week for all the reasons I said last week,, but there were a couple of concerns that were.

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Mentioned during the discussion last week., I thought I would speak to a little bit.

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One of them had to do with the overall energy impact carbon footprint impact of preserving a neighborhood like maple heights, just like to say that.

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There are a number of houses in maple heights that have had solar panels added to them.

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There is a lot of potential for more houses to have solar panels added to them in maple heights.. I.

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Fully anticipate that there will be more houses with solar.

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I can also say that, and my house is one of them by the way.

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I can also say that there's a good number of houses that have been.

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Renovated and upgraded for energy efficiency and window replacements and.

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High efficiency, hvac and so forth, I could show you a good number of houses that have been through those kind of.

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Renovations in maple heights in the last couple of years.

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The other point that was made.

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Was about density and.

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Density of people and housing, and that conservation district would maybe run against the grain of trying to increase.

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Downtown density, there are several empty lots in maple heights. There is opportunity for build in for sure.

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There is, according to my understanding, good opportunity for.

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Auxilary building housing units, the granny flats idea., I think- would fit on a whole lot of lots in.

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Maple heights,, so I just think that the potential for increasing density and the neighborhood is is pretty great.

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So,, I guess that's my comments,. Thank you. Thank you for your coming.

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My name is susan hathaway and I I've lived in maple heights for the past 17 years.

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When I bought my home, I desperately wanted a house with a yard where I could garden raise some of my own food and spend some quiet private time.

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I also wanted to live within walking distance of downtown in the university.

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Because I couldn't count on a steady income at the time.

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The house also needed to be very affordable.

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Only a few houses for sale in bloomington met all these requirements.

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So I felt lucky to find an old, somewhat worn out house in maple heights.

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Soon I came to understand how lucky I was.

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The day I moved in several neighbors came over to introduce themselves.

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One had lived next door since 1923.

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The other had grown up across the street spent many years in another state then returned to his childhood home to care for his mother.

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After he retired over the years, they invited me to join them for celebrations and day trips.

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They told me about the history of my house and about the showers workers and others who had lived there.

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They also told me stories about the neighborhood and I was able to find out more through research at the monroe county history center and.

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Local libraries., I came to appreciate that mabel heights had a unique and rich history that had largely been forgotten or ignored.

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Both of the neighbors I mentioned, along with most of the older people who lived in the neighborhood when I first arrived, have since died.

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But a sense of place, history and neighborliness is still strong in maple heights.

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Younger people bought many of the houses and started renovating them.

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We have a number of rental homes, but many of them look like the owner occupied homes and have tenants who are responsible and friendly neighbors.

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The streets are relatively safe for children and everyday neighbors can be seen chatting with others who are out walking their dogs.

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Taking a stroll working in the yard or sitting on the porch.

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We've come together again and again to have fun work on projects and address issues that affect us all.

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My house now 104 years old, was for many years owned by a carpenter, died. yoo-hoo, reused, materials being thrown out by the university.

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As I worked on the house over the years, I've discarded some of these recycled materials, such as the three layers of.

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Cellulose acoustic ceiling tiles used to insulate some of the walls, but.

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Have been able to retain a lot of what was in the house while significantly increasing the home's energy efficiency.

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Livability and useful life.

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I've also been able to turn a garden that was mostly grass and a gravel parking lot into an organic garden and life-filled yard.

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My house may not be as sustainable as some more contemporary options.

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But tearing down, houses like mine and replacing them with new housing would have its own set of environmental costs.

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Furthermore, if development in neighborhoods, like mine, were to proceed without due consideration of their history, flavor and livability., there would be social cost as well.

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The city of bloomington website says that a conservation.

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District is appropriate when there is significant development pressure or when the inventory of buildings to be protected is historic.

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But not individually of high or unique architectural value we meet both of these.

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Qualifications being so close to downtown in the trades district., we are definitely under significant development pressure.

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Furthermore, many of our homes, though, not have high or unique architectural value, our.

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Historic, not only in the sense of being old but of being connected to important historical people, events and organizations.

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I'm not against sustainable development.

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However,, I'm against the kind of development that he races, the history and character of a place.

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That's what a conservation district would prevent.

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Please vote for ordinance, 1903 and help us protect something worth protecting.

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Thank you for your comment.

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Good evening., I'm jane goodman of 7:15 west 13th street as a reminder.

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I live in one of the houses built for one of the blair daughters, grace blair in 1912.

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Her husband, fred fender, was one of the managers at the showers furniture factory.. I.

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Believe that the historic and architectural value of our neighborhood has been clearly established.

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And I wish to speak to some of the additional issues that were raised last week in.

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Particular the need to move toward more energy efficient housing solutions as a community in.

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The last two years, as my neighbor mentioned, solar panels have been added to at least four houses in the proposed.

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District, my house is one of those with recent solar panels.

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I added a large array in 2017 and a second smaller array in 2018.

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My solar panels provide approximately 90% of my electrical needs.

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Getting bills from duke showing zero or very low usage has been wonderful.

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I've also made other energy-efficient changes, including insulating the attic insulating window wells for the historic double hung, windows.

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Adding new storm screen window units replacing a 60 year old boiler with an energy-efficient one, this year. I'll be insulating the whole house.

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These are the kinds of investments that owner occupants make it's hard to see how developers benefit from making these additional.

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Expensive investments, though I hope that they will be incentivized to do so. I can assure you that I would not have made these changes as a renter.

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I'm invested both personally and financially, and my small footprint, modest single-family house.

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These are the kinds of energy-efficient changes that we can make and we are making right now because we own and value our houses.

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Maple heights already has a good deal of mixed income, housing and highly affordable housing types.

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There are large, very dense, multi-unit complexes on west 12th., maple, rogers and west 15th.

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Probably the greatest number of kind of small wells small, like probably a 20 unit,.

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Single-Story and sometimes double storey, apartment buildings and whole downtown westside.

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So our neighborhood clearly meets both historic and architectural guidelines of a.

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Conservation district and I urge the council to approve maple heights application to become a conservation district.. Thank you very much.

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Thank you for your comment. Any further public comments.

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Okay, then we'll come back to yes, a question raw material. I have a question a.

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Parliamentarian has a question, but we'll come to okay,, we'll come to the council of questions or comments.

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So councilmember following you has a question.

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Yeah,, so I just want to be clear about the notion of the.

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Conservation, district versus full historic district and the impact that has in solar panels.

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So, in other words, solar panels are not prohibited under.

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Either or just under the conservation, district?.

K

So, under a conservation district, solar panels would not be reviewed by the sort preservation commission if they became a.

K

Historic district, the neighborhood at that time has a.

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Chance to create what are called design guidelines and those design guidelines will help guide what sort of.

K

Modifications will come under review, so they could write into their guidelines. Then solar, panels. ook at that time,.

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They could just say we don't want somebody solar panels to be a reason. Why.

I

We don't want to prevent people from putting solar panels in correct? okay, and that's what I gather is the desire of the neighborhood.

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Yes, okay. thank you.. That's all.

A

Thank you other questions before we go to comments.

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Okay, we'll go to comments.

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Councillor sandberg.

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It was really educational to hear from a larger array of neighbors last week.

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And I certainly appreciated all the comments from the neighbors who are here today.

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And what it brings back to me is the sense of place the pride in place that owner occupancy.

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Often instills and the neighborliness of a neighborhood like this.

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I think some of the comments that might have been a little skeptical about is this the right thing to do in this era, when we do need more.

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Housing stock, we all want to be more sustainable and our practices.

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But to me this is doing exactly what we want and that is to.

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Allow for the housing stock in bloomington where people want to live, and I I appreciate that.

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Sometimes, when we stack people on top of one another and we we put people in very dense places,.

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That actually has an opposite effect of people wanting to associate.

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And you tend to have these anonymous places instead of a.

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Neighborhood that, as small already has a small footprint, you've heard from the neighbors, how they are working to.

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Provide homes for themselves that are sustainable as well as private, but yet can you know connects them to the people where they want to be?.

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Any concern over?

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gentrification or this being exclusive, I think- is kind of.

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Not an issue when you hear from these neighbors and what it is that they want to protect. So I'm in full favor of this.

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There are plenty of places in bloomington where we can look to make more housing stock available where we can develop, where we can.

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Develop more creative things like duplexes and quads.

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But to destroy the fabric of a neighborhood like this. To do something else, I think is very counterproductive and.

C

Again,, thank you to all the neighbors for being here tonight again to remind us why this is a good idea.

A

Thank you, councilmember stir bomb.

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Yeah,, the preservation community has been thinking and addressing.

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Sustainability for a long time, there are a number of concepts that I'll just touch on.

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One is original green,, which means that these are small houses.

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And it takes half the money to heat a small as it's a big house.

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These have windows that let heat out up high. They were built before.

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Furnaces and they were built before air-conditioning, so they are built and designed to cool. Naturally,.

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Original green is also that your clothes, so that you walk where you go and you're not burning gasoline.

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And then there's the myth of window replacement.

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Storm windows on windows is almost as.

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Efficient as a double hung, you create a air barrier.. Someone did the math. When you spend the money on new windows. You.

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There's there's an embodied energy cost. First, the.

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Creation of those windows used energy, the creation of the new windows uses oil to turn it into windows, and somebody calculated that you'll get a payback.

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After 75 years, when you spend money to change out all your windows, that you'll start saving money in year, 70 to 75 and.

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Then almost I think all this districts now have had.

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Photovoltaics installed and the guidelines of all the new districts always address that.

D

There's an interesting thing about taking a house down and building another house, and that also is about embodied energy.

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There's all this energy that went into that original house.

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And that's wasted when you destroy it and then there's a huge amount of energy that goes into.

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Manufacturing and hauling and building the new windows oil goes into that oil goes into the new roofing oil goes into the siding.

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So you have a huge energy cost of putting that one back and that also.

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Goes into the high numbers when you start saving oil in.

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Year, 60 70, something like that., so you really can't build your way out of these problems?.

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You it is so much more sustainable to use.

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The existing structures and then I'll just tell you about one other interesting study.

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This business built leed, platinum, building.

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For their manufacturing and everyone thought this is wonderful,, but what they'd done was.

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Abandoned the downtown existing building.

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Moved seven miles out of town.

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Made this building there was a huge energy cost to build the building., of course,.

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And now all the people who were working there were driving there and burning fossil fuel.

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It's just the full cost accounting is.

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Complicated and the results of, oh, if you put in windows,, oh if you build a leed platinum building,.

D

It's much more. it's much deeper than that., but the moral law really is that.

D

What's here is worth saving and has energy in it and has.

D

Natural green in it and is sustainable by itself. and so.

D

There's a lot more in this argument,, but.

D

For even for those reasons, it makes sense to conserve these neighborhoods.. Thank you.

A

Thank you, councilmember piedmon smith,.

F

Yes,, I'm in favor of this conservation district. I think.

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Councilmember sturm has already listed many of the reasons that I was going to list.

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But I want to emphasize the walkability of the neighborhood and the proximity of the neighborhood to downtown.

F

This so the location really does put development pressure on the area and.

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People who are just interested in making money are very tempted to tear things down and put in apartments.

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So this is needed for protection of.

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The existing streetscape, which is.

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Part of our local history and makes it.

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Walkable friendly pedestrian friendly neighborhood, where it's.

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Both by its street frontage and location., it makes it a place where people don't have to use cars.

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This I personally live in mcdowell. Gardens,, which started as conservation district is now a full historic district, and we do have.

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Solar panels on our house, we've also.

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Insulated heavily,, even though it's a night 19:25 house., so it is rather energy-efficient.. I think I will talk to councilmember stir around without.

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Better storm windows,, but that's another conversation.

F

So I am very much in favor of this. I think it'll protect a very.

F

Precious neighborhood and part of our history. thank you.. Thank you. Other comments from council.

A

Okay, I'll make comes members. I'm sorry.

P

I think this ordinance has been discussed and and.

P

Well served: we have criteria that is set.

P

And the requests from the neighborhood members and the presentation by staff, I think.

P

Clear clearly shows that we've met the criteria and.

P

Part of our responsibility is to do what we can to protect core neighborhoods.

P

The neighbor century,- maybe I just created a new word but neighbor centric stability and.

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Walkability and so many of the things that we are striving for in our core neighborhoods.

P

I don't believe in blanket legislation or.

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Blanket request because I think some are more worthy than others,, but I will support this because I think.

P

The maple heights neighborhood is very deserving and meets all the criteria of this, so I plan to support it.. Thank you.

A

Thank you, there's no other comment I'll just make a brief comment to say I think everything's been touched on the cultural heritage embodied energy.

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Is important for sustainability and the opportunities for density or.

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Are there need to be judicious about where we put density, but it's important to have a mix of density is important to maintain.

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Green space as well, and this neighborhood has.

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Small yards,, but the green space that is close to downtown.

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But I just I did want to say that it's very satisfying in assuring to have residents abdicate on behalf of their neighborhood.

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For neighborhood protection- and I appreciate you coming and.

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Making comment giving giving us a sense of your sense of place and being in describing it in a very.

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Erudite way I was moved by it. so with that, but someone like to call the question call the question.

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Has been called in second at ordinance 1903 will the clerk call the roll. okay council, member piedmont, smith.

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Grainger, yes, rallo.; yes, boland., yes, simms., yes, stirrer bomb.! Yes,.

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Sandburg, yes, ruff., yes, chakra. yes. thank you.. Thank you.

A

That carries nine zero congratulations to maple heights.

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Mr. chair,, I moved that ordinance 1904 be introduced in red by title and synopsis. Only.

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It's been moved and seconded that ordinance 1904 be introduced and read by the clerk by title and synopsis. Only all in favor. say aye aye.

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Any opposed will the clerk please read?.

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Ordinance 1904 to amend title aid of the bloomington municipal code.

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Entitled historic preservation and protection to establish a historic district regarding.

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1175, south smith, road, historic district, the harvey nelson house, james and sally harvey petitioners.

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The synopsis is as follows: this ordinance amends title aid of the bloomington municipal code entitled historic preservation and protection.

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In order to designate the harvey nelson house 11 75 south smith, road as a historic district.

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James and sally harvey sought this action and after a public hearing on december 13.

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2018, the historic preservation commission recommended that the structures be designated historic, with a rating as contribute.

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Contributing based upon certain historical and architectural criteria.

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Set forth in chapter eight point: zero: eight of the bloomington municipal code entitled historic districts.

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Conservation districts and standards, historic designation of a property under title 8, provides for the commission or staff to approve a certificate of appropriateness.

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Before conspicuous changes to the exterior of sites and structures may be made.

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Then thereby helps assure that the historic significance of properties is preserved.

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Your committee recommendation for this ordinance is, do pass nine zero, zero.

A

Thank you. Clerk bolton.

I

Mr. chair,, I move that ordinance 1904 be adopted.

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Thank you, mr. hurd ridge, back to you.

K

Council members for the opportunity to ride you, a presentation over the harvey nelson house.

K

Once again, I'm connor herders., I'm the historic preservation program manager with housing and neighborhood development.

K

So the harvey nelson house is located at one 175, south smith, road. The property consists of.

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Three structures on a three point: four six acre parcel.

K

Map a there really gives you a good idea of you know,. What's around it and there's subdivisions there.

K

That's I'm going to talk later on why it. This is one of the reasons why it's important to designate this structure.

K

And then map b gives you a close-up, so you can see that the three structures that are on the property there.

K

Staffan historic preservation commission,, I believe the nomination meets three of the ten criteria listed in ordinance. Nine.

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5-20 and is eligible for the designation as a single property, historic district?.

K

So I want to talk about criteria a first, which is has significant character, interest or value as part of the development heritage or cultural.

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Characteristic of the city, state or nation, or is associated with a person who played a significant role in local state or national?.

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History so, first of all,, this property was part of an atr cur 80 acre tract.

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Which was deeded from the state of indiana to robert ewing in 1830.

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That tract remained intact until 1936, when the nelsons purchased a 20 acre parcel.

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Including a two-story, I house, the I house, has believed been built in 1875 I'll, show you that when I go to the architecture slide,, so I want to talk about allison, nelson.

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Alice nelson worked at indiana university.. She was a director of the halls of residence for 45 years. Quite a tenure there.

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She was instrumental in development of libraries in the dorms, as well as bringing.

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Co-Educational dorms to the iu campus as well.

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I like to read you a quote from a newspaper article from 1965.

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Really celebrating her retirement from iu.

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Reads: alice nelson, the famed landlady of indiana university.

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Whose advice on student housing has been sought from the potomac to the pacific is retiring on thursday.

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When she went to work in iu in 1920,, she was in charge of its one residence hall, housing, 115 students.

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Today, 1965 iu has one of the largest dormitory systems in the world during the school year, 10,000 single students and.

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1,500 couples were housed.

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Miss nelson is credited with many firsts in university housing, this country, one of which is co-educational residence centers.

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So she really was seen as a pioneer in her day with with residents housing and that's a picture of her overseeing the construction of reed hall.

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So I feel like, as a, you know, a valuable member of iu and a longtime member of the community. That.

K

She certainly deserves to be recognized with this home.

K

All right, so criteria, 2 g is.

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Exemplifies the built environment in an era of history characterized by a distinctive architectural style, and what we're going to see here is we're gonna see this really part of the agricultural.

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Landscape of bloomington started out as a small family farm.

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The three structures on the on the parcel, the main house, a one-room house and a large barn all contribute to the.

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Agricultural identity of this property 130 years ago, this farm would have been one of the dozens of dogs, the landscape surrounding downtown bloomington, a once common site that has now become scarce.

K

So you can see there, the I house built in 1875.

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It really is, is almost original and its materials.

K

But the front porch you see there, the full height front, porch, was actually added by the nelsons in the 30s.

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And I'll show you some other additions that were added by the nelsons,, but I believe that photograph is a great contrast between.

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1938 and today you can see that not a lot has changed.

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The nelsons also added those rear additions that you see on the house.

K

But you know once again in 1938 today.

K

There's a small small difference. there ibly was a kitchen that was added later on, but it's it's very similar.. It's not.

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Altered heavily at all, and it's a great example of that,. You know farmhouse rural architecture.

K

This is another contrast,. I believe I was taking the 30s as well.. That was when that one-room house was recently built.

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That's the one-room house today and I really have to applaud the harvey's when they took stewardship of this property in the 70s,. They worked very diligently to really keep everything.

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Original as they found it to repair and maintain it and, as you can see, they've done a great job with that.

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So this this whole parcel really has high integrity. When you look at you know,, it's that aspect.

K

The other criteria it meets is to e.

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Which is contains any architectural style detail or other element in danger of being lost so.

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That's a picture. I took inside the barn, you can see the wooden pegs.

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That were, it was used with wooden peg construction, prairie style, barn.

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And and that's still there.

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So this barn is one of the last remaining structures of its kind in the perry, township.

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Two older barns have recently been demolished to make way for the residential development and expansion of the.

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Subdivisions,, so it does meet this criteria. He it's in danger.

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So the owners of the property james sally harvey they came forward to the sorc preservation commission.

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They nominated this property, they sought designation.

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Letters were sent to jason property owners., we received no negative feedback and a two letters in support.

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So both the historic preservation, commission staff and the harvey's would recommend designation of the harvey nelson house.

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Very good., thank you for your presentation.

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Would mr. harvey, would you like to.

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Make a comment be the appropriate time.

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I'm gonna take this opportunity to thank you for your consideration of this.

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When we purchased the property approximately 40 years ago,.

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We were interested in the history of it at the time and we did some.

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Inquiries and and we're told that it wasn't really that outstanding and we also over time, contacted the sycamore land trust that didn't really profess me. But a member of the historic preservation commission.

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Saw the house actually visited in this spring and said,? Have you ever thought about having this?.

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Designated as a historic house- and that was in april in may- and it started the process and.

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Thanks to your assistance and your predecessor.

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We've had nothing but support of.

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What it is, we're trying to accomplish.

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This is different than the maple heights. We are not home where our son lives in mcdole.

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On dodds, and so.

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Preservation of these kinds of properties- and this one in particular, means a great deal to us.

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It's been interesting, what's transpired over the 40 years in terms of the approaches that we've had of people who are interested in it?.

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But it's interesting of the house and how its perceived in the neighborhood as connor pointed out.

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This is the last barn in perry, one., not all perry, township.

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But in perry one that section, the other barns are gone,. They disappeared as.

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The subdivisions developed.

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Kids, we think we're living in.

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Bow radley's house because they think that this property is haunted.

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You know, houses develop reputations and people drive by and said. I go by your house every day and I see the barn and.

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Love that red barn, you're right., it hasn't changed much in the 40 years.

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We've modernized it some, but if you do what the house of this age,, you know.

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That nothing's plumbing. nothing's square and everything's unique, and so it's very special to us and.

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I just want to thank you for the encouragement and the support that we've received thus far, and I hope that you will.

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Designate the property because we'd like for it to be there for others.. Thank you.

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Thank you. mr. harvey., we'll go to questions from council for council.

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For staff or the petitioner?.

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Councilmember sandberg,, I had a question about the barn and I don't know if this was more appropriate for mr.

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Harvey but my question has to do with the condition of that barn and.

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Is it are there things that need to perhaps be done to preserve it? Further?.

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And would you know making this a historic?.

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Designated property. would there be any mechanisms for?.

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Making sure that the barn doesn't deteriorate further to a point that we lose all that wonderful history.

K

So I think structurally the barn is sound. Would you say that?.

K

It does need some some repairs on the exterior some boarding, especially in the rear of it, needs to be put in.

K

So some pretty simple patch repairs as far as mechanisms.

K

I know that there are state grants available for designated houses to receive funds to help repair them.. I.

K

Don't know of anything locally offered by the hpc or bloomington, maybe councilmember stair bom can answer that better. no.

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But you know my concern, of course, is you know anything? That's a wooden structure.

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I mean time and weather is going to take its toll, but again, and you want, we would want to keep it rustic.

C

I would just be concerned about you know the integrity of this structure to be able to keep it standing as long as possible., and would there be any mechanisms available, for?.

C

Again,, just to make sure that the history stays in place as long as is humanly possible.

D

Demolition by neglect, I'm not sure how much we have in reviewing that, but I think it may be part of our preservation law.. I'm.

K

I'm not familiar with demolition by neglect. yeah,. It's it's a practice that.

D

People that actually want to take places down, stop maintaining them.

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But I believe, there's some language that could let us.

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Have a approached a future owner if they're, not caring for the structure.

D

Yeah,, that's something I've added.. If there's a loophole we'll have to maybe we could close it. sure. yeah.

A

Customer granger has a question.

G

Thank you., I'm just wondering how many old farmhouses like this. do. We have in bloomington?.

K

The only one I could think of off the top of my head is the.

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Is currently headquarters at bri, the carton ankle farmstead,, I believe.

K

It's very similar to this one.

D

Set in the middle of additions that you don't you have to look for them,, but they're, hiding.

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In the middle of these subdivisions on the what used to be their farms.

C

Walk heights fit that bill. Think of one out whatever it's out of character,.

C

When matlock heights was just farmland before the mid-century, modern homes were built.

C

That was a farm home that I think was the linchpin and matlock heights. If I'm not mistaken,.

C

It's right next door to me. yeah. okay, perfect.. I was just curious why I can point to one.

K

We talked about and maple heights. actually,, it's a.

K

Blair house, the 83 north maple is in hi house,, but it's been heavily disguised.. I.

Q

Think mister stir bombs, right?. Mr granger would regard to these there's one in the middle of grandview hills that sets back in the middle of it.

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There's one down by bachelors school on the front on rogers there. they're kind of embedded in neighborhoods.

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Unless you drive around you'll miss them, if you're going on.

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More spike by the covenant or cemetery? that's a little subdivision.

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There's houses back., there's one back in there.: you can see the house., it doesn't fit.

Q

Everything else is, is more modern., but there it's kind of fun to drive around see. If you can find him.

Q

But they're they're here, but they're your answer., I don't know I would say.

Q

Certainly,, probably less than 100, maybe 50 75 in prying city limits were under 20 would be my.

Q

Thank you,, I had a question and since we're on the subject,, maybe I'll ask door sims.

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Director of housing, neighborhood development, because in.

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Councilmember stir bone. Recently we gave historic designation to the batman house.

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That beautiful, I think it's victorian.

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And there was some funds available to repair it, right?.

A

Where did that come from if it's cooked, if it's commercial?.

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The bue a can give up to ten thousand dollars on a facade and.

D

That's happening downtown right, now,, right?, so the commercial status- it's not commercial.. It's.

D

Those those state grants are pretty rare and it really is up to the individual to maintain them. yeah.

R

What the presentation rep probably will happen next by a brian, the bue has certain boundaries, and so, of course, this property is not within the boundaries of the bu. A.

R

Yes, I see. thank you for the clarification.

A

Further questions.

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Okay, we'll go to public now, if you would like to speak, public would like to speak. please step to the microphone and sign in state your name.

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Seeing no public we're back to council for comments on ordinance, 1904 we'd like to begin that's my mr. bone.

D

Yeah, these these personal.

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Discussions about property and homes., I.

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Guess has put me in a reflective mood about the interaction of what was a state and then now a local law.

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With people's feelings about their environment in their community- and it's it's really a privilege to be part of that, and.

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Working as city government with individuals to allow a mechanism and create a mechanism and enforce a mechanism that.

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Preserves these properties and allows people who love to come forward and.

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Try to save this history for the next generation.

D

And this is a great example of that, where this is a an absolute gift to the future.

D

And it will be there for unborn blooming. Tony and sue will one day go on a tour of these little fart. These farmhouses that are hidden.

D

In all these sub visions,, that's a great tour and I see and it's possible because people have saved those. I.

D

Don't want to thank the council, but that's our ultimate decision to save these and it's privilege to be able to affirm these.

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These preservations of character in our community and history.. Thank you.

A

Thank you for that comment.

A

Councilmember grainger is next.

G

Thank you,. I'm really excited about this pleased and.

G

Hopeful that this indeed is a gift to our future, but in thinking back to.

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Councilmember ster bombs point about conscious negligence. If you will, I think that we really need to.

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Pursue perhaps tightening up some of our.

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Legislation around this, because it I.

G

I just don't want to give it up, because it's too easy and somebody has found that loophole.

G

A

Thank you, councilmember simms,.

P

One of my concerns with legislations with this has to do with them maintenance and.

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Oftentimes,, it's difficult as a councilmember starbomb says when you have a private.

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Residence and to get sometimes the funds to secure.

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In order to repair and maintain can be problematic and, as he said, and I quote, rare.

P

So sometimes I have concerns about the expectations that we have and the owners.

P

Ability to maintain it to the standards and criteria that we've said.

P

That is not the case in in this situation.

P

As mr. harvey said last week- and he said- and I admit, the barn could use another coat of paint.

P

Was quite amusing, I also have.

P

Talked with mr. harvey on occasion., it's very interesting to hear how him and his wife came about acquiring this property.

P

The affinity that they have for this property and want to maintain it.

P

For their personal reasons, and as well as you could see the the development around it.

P

The demolition by neglect I found out an interesting.

P

Concept which leads to my ability of the owner to do it?, sometimes it may.

P

Be viewed as demolition by neglect when, in essence, it may be the inability of that homeowner to be able to afford or.

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Have the funds to maintain it to that certain criteria.

P

So I appreciate that that that that I'm.

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Perspective but I think that's something we'll need to look into further with regard to ability to to meet these criterias.

P

But in this particular case and as we all know, it has met the criteria and the intent, and I think this spirit of this legislation and.

P

And I've talked about my relationship with regard to where I work and.

P

Our headquarters being named alice, v, nelson building and that sort of thing, and then some of the history that I know.

P

So I am very happy to support this legislation and look forward to them that property being.

P

That we can go and actually see it years from now and appreciate its value and.

P

Personally,, it's nice to know the owners who take good care of it., so I will support this. thank you. thank you. mr. simms.

A

Councilmember peanuts, men.

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Yeah,, I just want to thank the harvey's for bring this forward,. I think this is a great way to preserve.

F

Important and historic buildings and just a note.

F

There's a lot of mention of the I house, and I have to google that, because I kept looking at the property like that's, not shaped like an eye, what is going on?.

F

But I house is a term used for houses, typical of indiana,, illinois and iowa.. I believe during the.

F

Late part of the 19th century., so just for the public information., it's not shaped like an eye.

F

It's not what I house means,, but I'm very much in favor of this.. Thank you.

A

Come to my room, chopra.

E

Yes, I was wondering that the same thing has.

E

Ms piedmont smith,, so thank you for that clarification. and I also wanted to thank.

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Staff for the information about mrs. nelson.- I bet that you were warned that sometimes we get.

E

The women up here sometimes get a little miffed when?.

E

The historic homes are named after just the men that lived there, and I thought that was pretty impressive.

E

That picture that you came up with and the information, so I also like the the combination of the harvey nelson naming there.

E

I think that it's entirely appropriate in this situation, given the.

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Lineage of the home ownership and to show the appreciation to the longtime current home owners.

E

So I am obviously in favor of this. I said that last week, and especially so as the representative for the district in district 3.

E

Because we really don't have much that I guess you could consider historic and are in our district and in the area and many of the homes do.

E

Look very similar and alike, and it's just fun to see something that adds a little bit of.

E

Eclectic flavor to even the east side, and I appreciate that, though,.

E

I realized that even the homes built in the 50s and 60s are now being considered historic. At this point,.

E

But thank you for bringing forward excellent work.

A

Other comments comes member, going.

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Yeah,, I just thought it would be appropriate before we missed the chance to talk about some of the buildings that.

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Alice nelson oversaw the first building she was overseeing in 1920 was a.

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Private dorm that does not exist anymore,, but.

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The buildings that were built after that still exist.

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Smith, hall and collins built in 1924 all of collins, built by 1940 the women's residence center. Now two of the four buildings.

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Have been returned to housing, those all stand, she oversaw the.

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Development of all those buildings and was a member of the iu dormitory committee, when it.

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First started in 1939,, so you can see her legacy more than just her own home., but in the many.

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Dormitories on campus. she ever saw almost all of them, except the ones built between 1965 and 1970.

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So that's quite a remarkable achievement.

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I thought we shouldn't miss the opportunity to mention that there are historic buildings that she was responsible for.

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Elsewhere, besides her own home., thank you.

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Thank you other comment before I want to give mr. herder.

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It's a chance to clarify about I houses because it it does.

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Pertain to the to the right, the forum. yeah,, so the I house is an architectural forum.

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It you can trace it back to say europe.. It was brought over here, start.. Obviously it started on the east coast. It made its way west.

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But the form of an I house is it's two rooms wide one room deep and two stories: tall., that's a true.

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I house so it's a rectangle essentially.

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And so when we refer to a house were referring to the architectural form.

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But not to say there might be another definition., I don't know, but I just thought we'd hear this again. yes., what's that?.

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Yeah, I'll trust, mr. hirsch, I thought it was really clarifying since we're. I hear it again,, but I wanted to say what an amazing legacy.

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Alice nelson had from going 150 students to 10,000.. That's absolutely remarkable.

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And I thought kima she deserves to have a building named after her, and then I googled it and it turns out you work there.

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But that was before he spoke,, okay.

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Anyway, I want to thank the harvey's.

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Jim and sally harvey for, coming and and and.

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Recognizing how valuable this is culturally and historically.

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So- and I did want to say one other thing that I think bears mentioning, and that is I do think that this has.

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Implications in terms of green space connectivity, because if you look at jackson, creek tributaries.

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This is right adjacent to one and it's a it's. A wonderful.

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Green track there. so another good reason to vote. yes.. So with that someone like to call the question call the question.

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Okay., the question has been called in second on ordinance: 1904 will clerk bolden., please call the roll.

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Councilmember granger. yes, rallo., yes, fallen., yes, simms. yes., mr. baum.

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Yes, sandburg., yes, ruff., yes, chopra., yes,, piedmont, smith. yes.! Thank you.

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Thank you. that is adopted nine zero.

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Congratulations thank you.. Mr. chair., I move that resolution 1902 be interested, be introduced and read by title and synopsis. Only.

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It's been moved and seconded at ordinance.

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1902 be introduced and read by the clerk by title and synopsis. Only., oh in favor,, please., say aye aye.

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Any opposed well, the clerk. Please read.

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Resolution 1902 to extend the bloomington.

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Urban enterprise zone for an additional five years.

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The synopsis is as follows: in 2018, the indiana general assembly adopted.

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Pl 146 2018 a measure that amended indiana code and authorized minas pull fiscal bodies to extend an enterprise zone for an additional five year period.

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Under the new provision, an enterprise zone that has not been renewed under indiana code.

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528 1510 d or e between january 1st,, 2017 and june 30th.

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2018 may be renewed for an additional five year period,.

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The extension would begin on january, 1st 2019 creating an new expiration date of december 31st.

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2023 the enterprise zone is not renewable beyond the state. Under current law., your committee recommendation is due passed. 9 0, 0.

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Thank you, mr. chair,, I move that resolution 1902 be adopted.

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Thank you presenting his brain pain.

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Assistant director, small business development welcome.

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Sd., I don't have much to say to.

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The legislation last year that would provide one more opportunity for a new renewal of enterprise zone.. It's been renewed four times unanimously,.

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We want to keep doing the good work we're doing and we appreciate your support.

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Thank you, mr. paine questions.

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On this ordinance.

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Okay,, seeing a councilman rollin has a question.. Mr. payne, would you say you've.

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Lobby to have it renewed each time., he lobbied us. We live at the statehouse.

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I presented to you last week., I don't know if I would call that lobbying,, but we worked with.

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Creep developed who the city has contracted what to do legislative affairs at the statehouse and.

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Staff, where the bu a worked with her to draft language, to add to the legislation. that would didn't have another renewal.

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I mean it was supposed to expire like at a state level, you know,, like last year this year.

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So, in other words, you you went to the statehouse to get them to extend it for another two five year period. That's.

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What we could do, it. okay., that's what I wanted to know.. Thank you.

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Other question comes from piemonte smith. This question.

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Yes, last week you had mentioned that there are still some loans out that the beauty a men made to.

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Businesses, I suppose or organizations., and you said you would find out how much is outstanding amoun? you said it was about. 50,000 did have you?.

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Confirmed matter, I can confirm that that's what I said and it is still accurate and that I.

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Don't have a precise number for you,, but I'm happy to you.

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Okay,, if you could find out- and even me, I want email this that just to counsel. yeah, happy. okay., all right. thank you.. I.

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Have a question, mr. payne,, so.

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This duration is for five years.. What is the.

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Potential window for the urban enterprise zone is it? Could it extend in perpetuity?.

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Renewal every five years is there any conditions and where it would be, it would end so under current law.

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There are no more renewals available to the bloomington urban enterprise zone because we have exhausted the other renewal possibilities.. So.

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There are renewals available to other enterprise zones., this five-year rule would be the last one of it will be the last one. I see.

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Okay counselor, mr bowman. Is it possible, though, that more lobbying might be done and more things might happen in five years.

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Yeah,, I would imagine.

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There will be some discussion what happened to that enterprise zone program. he's been declared dead several times.

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During my tenure so and who no revived, I guess.

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Their questions okay,, seeing no questions we'll go to the public, then on resolution 1902.

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Seeing a public comment back to council comes summer. mr. bowman.

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Yeah,, it's just a good mechanism to keep money that would go to the state in the city that spend in the zone that needs.

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Rebuilding there have been just numerous projects that the bia has been able to do in the latest is the trojan horse project.

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And the grant that the bia was able to give and they gave two grants, because there are two sides and actually two buildings.

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At the trojan horse, so I'll just give you a little interesting history that the it also came to the historic commission.

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With a plan to put efis all over the building and the historic commission.

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Said maybe that isn't the best way to go? And that's and mr.

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Oh, listen to that and the bricks have been scored for. I.

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Mean, they're somewhat damaged over time,, but there are incredibly old.. It's. I think it's an.

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1840S or an 1860s building., it's maybe one of the oldest buildings downtown.

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So these original brits that got scored when they plastered it in the 20s are now exposed and.

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They've repaired them and they have a lot of character to them.

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So it was a combination of working together with.

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You eab uea in this dark, efficient and really a good owner who wanted to do something.

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Important in that building because he didn't really have to he could have, but he, but I.

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Gotta say thank goodness.. He didn't and we'll be enjoying that for a long time.. It's a pretty much of a.

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We sit around and think of what are good things we can do with this money. right? and we do them locally,, and it's.

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Clearly we're gonna approve this.. Thank you.

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Thank you other comment.

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Recommendation maybe.

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Questions been called in second on resolution, 1902, the clerk.. Please call the roll.

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Yes. mr. baum., yes, sandburg, yes, ruff., yes, chopra.! Yes, few months, myth., yes, granger. yes.! Thank you.

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Thank you resolution is adopted. 9 0 thank you. mr. payne.

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Will go to now to legislation for first reading.

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Mr. chair,, I move that resolution 1901 be introduced and read by title and synopsis only.

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Thank you. It's been moved in second.. Will the clerk please read the synopsis?.

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Wait. oh, yeah. oh,, I'm sorry all in favor., please., say aye.

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Any opposed will the clerk. Please read this noises.

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Resolution 1901 to adopt the city's transportation plan as an amendment to the city's comprehensive plan.

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The synopsis is as follows: this resolution adopts the city's 2018 transportation plan as an amendment to the city's comprehensive plan.. This proposed city of bloomington transportation plan replaces the existing.

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Bicycle and pedestrian transportation and greenway system plan, as well as the master thoroughfare plan known as part 5 of the gross.

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Growth policies plan the transportation plan builds on the goals of the comprehensive plan.

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It includes information about street typology x' right of way with spadaro.

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Facilities, new street connections and other transportation related projects.

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Thank you, mr. chair,, I move that the council adopt.

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Actually,, I don't have the attached notice that the council here resolution 1901 according to the following schedule, that.

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We cancel the committee of the whole for wednesday, january 3rd.

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And instead to vote that evening to.

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Discussing the transportation plan that we meet again on january, the 30th for the same purpose and.

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That we also hear it on february 6th as part of the regular session.. Is this the appropriate time?.

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Mr. shermin, for this, or shall we attend to this during council schedule?.

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This is the appropriate time., very good. okay,, and I would also move that we.

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Adopt the notice and schedule for common council review of resolution.

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1901 as attached in our packet, that includes those dates.

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Okay,, it's been moved and seconded this tentative schedule.

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Shall we, if I may go further, we would also have deadlines.

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The deadlines for members to sponsor amendments would be wednesday. The 13th of february.

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And that those amendments would go out by in a packet by friday, february 22nd,, and that we would consider amendments and either.

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And have a second reading on the plan. no earlier than february 27th.. So those are.

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The logistics proposed for the carrying of resolution 1901.

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Thank you, does that require another.

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So no,, that's just I'm just summarizing the notice and schedule that we've just moved to adopt.

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Okay,, so are there questions or comments regarding the schedule?.

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Would counsel attorney sherman like to clarify, in terms of its.

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Certainly., I think it the intent just a.

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Little bit of context,, you know that this has come from the planning commission.

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They met twice in october november and before that.

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The planned staff, with the help of a consultant.

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Held a number of public engagements sure as sheriff charettes,, so it's a long history.

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It's now the council's turn to.

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Consider the adopting the transportation plan, as as an amendment to the city's.

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Comprehensive plan and as councilmember vohland described. there's a schedule for consideration for the next three wednesday's.

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The council will go through the plan.

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In a breakdown of chapters,- and you could see that in the schedule.

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Next week. it's chapters 1 & 2 and the executive summary.

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This as much as far as as far as I'll get in it to it today, so.

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The schedule, if you adopt it tonight, will go out in the packet.. It will go online.

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So the public will know how we intend to take this up and consider it? mm-hmm.

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I think this differs from the comprehensive plan in the sense that you are.

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Going to look at the entire document chapter by chapter before you entertain.

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Amendments so in some ways this is a cleaner process., you're you're in the deliberative mode.

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You know,: what is this all about mode and then you'll get into the amendment mode?.

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So that's about all I need to say now unless you have questions. yes,, I would just say that.

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Council, vice-president granger and I met with staff and.

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We also listened to council members and I think the feeling was to.

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Have this process deliberate at a deliberate pace, slow enough pace to allow the public to come digest to.

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Understand it and then have the ability.

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Opportunity to make comments.

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Through multiple meetings before we attempt any amendments to it., so that is really the overall.

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Intent,, so there was a question from councilman.

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Yes,, so if we follow this schedule, we are canceling two committees of the whole.

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One is for next wednesday., where normally this would be the only item anyways,. So I'm not concerned about that.

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But the other committee of the whole to be canceled and replaced by special session is february. 27Th.

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So I'm just wondering if there's any legislation in the pipeline that.

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Would be bumped because of this and whether there's any concerns about that,, certainly excellent question,. I.

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Talked to the deputy mayor today there were a couple of items. One were moving.

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Up, so it'll you'll see it in the next legislative cycle and the other we're moving moving.

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Into the next cycle. so we're clearing space for the.

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27Th, to give you an evening with the transportation plan and the amendments to that plan.

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So the short entered answer, councilmember, piedmont smith- is that.

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We can accommodate the legislation, that's coming in a sound actually on the last page of the memo that mr.

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Sherman provided this evening with this schedule.

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Thank you other questions or comments.

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It's already been made, I call the question. okay.. Shall we have a roll call vote on this? Is that appropriate?? Yes,.

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Motions been made and seconded would please.

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Call the roll. the this is the motion on the schedule adopting the city's transportation plan.

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Okay, councilmember boland., yes, sims, yes, stir bomb.

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Sandburg, yes, ruff., yes, chopra., yes,, piedmont, smith., yes, granger.

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Yes, rallo., yes thank you.. Thank you.

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That schedule was adopted nine zero.

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Now we'll go to additional public comments.

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Anyone would like to make a comment.

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Okay,, seeing none then we'll go to, we have council schedule. Would you like them? Shall we describe a bit more about her? Certainly.

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Since we don't have a another regular session before the 25th,, I did want to alert you to.

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That council work session and what might be on that agenda and so first there's a.

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Declaratory rose a tax abatement resolution for cataland, and you may recall that these.

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Declaratory resolution is followed by a confirmatory resolution.

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So in the next month or so you'll, if this goes forward, you'll have two pieces of legislation to consider.

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But you'll hear about that. If, on the 25th, as I mentioned earlier,, we could very well see an appropriation of expenditures.

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For the food and beverage tax.

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And you can hear about that on the 25th,. There are two amendments to the title: 10,, that's wastewater.

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One you heard about earlier.: it's an increase in stormwater fees,.

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And that came out of the usb the utility services board the end of last year and.

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And at the request of the mayor, it's going, it went back to them to see if they could look for more. What's called green.

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Stormwater infrastructure, so we'll see something a little bit different than what we would have. otherwise seen that should come forward.

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In early february, there are other changes to title 10 which will be in another ordinance.. That's wastewater and those.

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Are intended to comply with some epa requirements and, lastly,.

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There's a change the title 15 that would bring fees for.

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Certain public records, in line with statutory amounts and.

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Okay, thank you. mr. sherman, maybe a show of hands of who can attend the friday 28th, january 25th works at about ten days from now. yes. yeah.

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Is anyone okay just so we can.

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Thank you. all right. yeah we'll have plenty of attendance. okay,, terrific, any other questions from council move to adjourn?.

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All in favor for adjournment.