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From YouTube: 6-13-22 City Council work session
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Des Moines City Council morning work session on Monday, June 13, 2022.
View the agenda: https://DSM.city/CouncilMeetings
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A
We've
got
a
couple
of
our
council
members
on
the
phone.
We
have
four
of
us
here
in
person,
and
so
I
suggest
we
go
ahead
and
get
started.
I
will
say
that
I'm
excited
and
I
hope
everybody
else
is
to
see
a
sort
of
an
update
on
this
future
forward.
A
A
B
B
B
Several
members
of
the
council
are
a
couple
of
members
of
the
council
and
staff
are
on
the
steering
committee
tiffany
with
the
partnership,
we'll
we'll
go
through
that
in
a
minute.
We.
B
Worked
together
with
the
partnership,
the
partnership
initiated
this
effort
and
brought
together
the
steering,
convened
the
steering
committee
and
selected
the
consultant
laura
kessel
is
here
today
representing
rdg
and
that
consultant
team
and
we'll
go
through
the
details
of
that
plan.
G
We
set
out
for
the
downtown
vision
plan
to
be
the
most
inclusive
community
driven
plan
that
downtown
has
ever
had,
and
I'm
pleased
to
share
with
you
today
that
we've
had
nearly
8
000
individuals
that
have
participated
in
this
plan
and
process,
and
what
you're
going
to
hear
today
is
just
a
draft.
The
initial
summary
of
that
feedback
and
ongoing
conversation
that
we've
had
with
the
community.
G
This
plan
wouldn't
have
been
possible
and
going
through
this
process
wouldn't
have
been
possible,
if
not
for
our
funders,
so
want
to
thank
city
of
des
moines
for
your
help
and
support
from
a
funding
perspective,
but
also
polk
county
catch
des
moines.
Bravo
greater
des
moines,
dart,
mpo,
fused,
dsm,
downtown
chamber
operation
downtown
and
the
partnership,
those
those
organizations
came
together
to
hire
a
consulting
team,
which
was
representative
of
local,
regional
and
national
experts
to
help
us
truly
define
and
better
understand
our
unique
opportunity
as
a
community
for
short-term
economic
recovery
and
long-term
economic
vitality.
G
So
with
that,
we
were
led
by
a
group
of
steering
committee
members
as
well
as
future
forward
council
members.
I
wanted
to
share
that
list
with
you
today
so
you're
aware
of
the
the
leadership
behind
this
vision,
plan
and
action
plan.
Of
course,
the
mayor
mayor
county.
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
leadership
as
well
as
angela
connelly
from
polk
county
and
terry
caldwell,
johnson
of
oak
ridge,
and
representing
capitol
crossroads
as
well.
Jake
christensen,
obviously,
developer
jen,
carruthers
from
capital
city,
pride,
catherine
coonert
from
mid-american
energy
and
mary
sellers
from
united
way.
G
In
addition
to
the
leadership
team,
we
had
a
steering
committee
and
future
forward
council
that
was
representative
of
more
than
50
different
government
business,
nonprofit
and
community
organizations,
so
again
really
driving
to
ensure
that
this
was
set
up
from
the
foundation
and
moving
forward
to
be
an
inclusive
community
driven
plan,
because
what
we
know
is
that
this
is
everyone's
downtown
and
that
downtown
does
not
have
boundaries.
It
really
should
be
welcoming
to
all
and
inclusive
of
those
neighborhoods
surrounding
downtown.
G
So
I'm
pleased
to
share
with
you
today
the
progress
that
we've
made
along
with
laura
kessel
from
rdg,
but
also
want
to
ask
of
you
please
for
your
support
and
hopefully
some
buy-in
on
this
plan.
I
also
wanted
to
call
out
and
thank
city
council
member
mandelbaum
for
his
support
and
involvement
on
the
steering
committee,
as
well
as
some
city
staff,
including
scott
sanders,
matt
anderson,
aaron,
nelson
douglas,
of
course.
G
Here
today,
thanks
erin
and
then
our
team
worked
closely
with
the
economic
development
team
from
the
city,
as
well
as
the
planning
and
design
division
to
help
us
get
to
where
we're
at
today.
With
this
initial
summary
and
draft
so
with
that,
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over
to
laura
kessel
with
rdg
design
and
again,
thank
you
for
your
time.
G
H
Thank
you
all
for
the
time
today
to
share
this
update
an
initial
summary
draft.
Again.
Our
goal
is
to
get
input
from
you
all
before
this
is
finalized.
So
this
is
a
great
opportunity.
I
am
going
to
give
a
presentation
for
roughly
30
to
35
minutes
about
the
overall
recommendations
of
the
plan,
but
then
really
want
to
turn
it
over
to
you
all
to
understand
what
questions
you
have
and
what
feedback
you
have
about.
H
Some
of
the
community
input
themes
that
I
want
to
highlight,
and
I
won't
read
all
of
these
to
you,
but
we
did
hear
time
and
again
it
was
interesting
how
much
there
was
a
convergence
of
some
of
the
the
different
groups.
Feedback
about
the
future
of
downtown
and
a
couple
of
key
items
to
highlight
is
that
downtown
really
needs
to
be
inclusive,
vibrant
and
have
choices
for
a
variety
of
different
elements
of
downtown
and
that
mobility
and
connectivity
for
all
is
absolutely
critical.
H
We
heard
often
that
downtown
has
done
a
wonderful
job
of
creating
some
amazing
destinations,
but
the
connectivity
between
those
destinations
breaks
down
in
some
areas
of
downtown
and
to
some
of
the
surrounding
neighborhoods
as
well.
So
how
can
we
find
ways
to
tie
together
in
the
the
wonderful
assets
of
downtown
and
how
do
we
also
adapt?
We
know
that
the
workforce
downtown
the
behaviors
of
the
workforce
have
changed
due
to
the
pandemic.
H
That
was
not
a
part
of
this
project,
but
was
associated
with
this
project
called
the
workforce
trends
and
occupancy
study,
and
this
study
surveyed
over
5000
employees
of
folks
that
are
working
downtown,
and
there
were
a
couple
of
critical
items
related
to
downtown
that
really
emerged
from
the
study.
One,
not
a
surprise.
The
hybrid
workforce
really
seems
to
be
here
to
say
to
stay
at
least
if
the
workers
have
something
to
say
about
that
folks
really
enjoy
the
ability
to
blend
working
from
home
with
working
from
an
office.
H
Folks
in
this
survey
talked
about
the
need
for
deep
work,
but
they
also
mentioned
how
that
they
value
the
office
still
for
the
socializing
and
collaborative
work
efforts.
What's
interesting.
Is
they
value
downtown
for
very
similar
reasons?
They
value
downtown
for
the
social,
cultural
and
recreational
aspects,
and
they
want
downtown
to
grow
in
those
areas.
H
H
What
is
what
describes
the
downtown
of
the
future
and
though
it's
always
fun
to
wordsmith
with
many
many
many
people
we're
really
proud
to
share
the
vision
statement
that
emerged,
that
really
talks
about
the
depths
and
the
layers
of
downtown
of
the
future,
and
that
vision,
statement
for
downtown
is
that
downtown
dsm
is
the
destination
for
inclusive
opportunities
and
welcome
surprises
and
this
statement
really
every
one
of
those
words
is
very
intentional,
especially
the
highlighted
words
that
you
see
on
the
screen
so
on
the
right
side
of
the
screen.
H
The
other
component
that
we
wanted
to
be
sure
we
did
not
lose
sight
of
is
that
there
has
been
a
tremendous
amount
of
work
related
to
downtown
that
has
taken
place
over
the
last
decade.
So
while
there
has
not
been
an
official
downtown
master
plan
completed
for,
as
aaron
said
about
15
years,
many
of
the
projects
that
have
been
completed
touch
on
downtown
and
are
relevant
to
downtown.
H
H
So
pulling
in
from
that,
we
moved
into
establishing
a
series
of
five
plan
goals
that
are
overarching
for
the
future
of
downtown
these
build
upon
those
past
plans,
as
well
as
some
of
the
current
plans
that
are
in
motion
for
downtown.
They
build
upon
the
community
input
and
also
respond
to
the
the
new
conditions
of
today.
H
So
you
see
a
messy
diagram
here
and
it
just
starts
to
talk
about
you
know.
If
you
look
at
this
diagram,
we
we
know
that.
Where
do
you
start?
So
we've
worked
to
organize
these.
These
initiatives,
which
are
the
completion
of
the
green
ring,
the
skywalks,
reimagined
inner
circle,
stadium,
district,
connected
corridors
and
strong
neighborhoods
and
I'll
walk
you
through
what
each
one
of
those
mean.
H
Fundamentally,
though,
before
we
get
into
each
initiative
again,
we
heard
time
and
again
that
connectivity
of
our
wonderful
assets
is
something
that
is
one
of
the
bigger
missing
features
of
downtown
today.
So
this
is
an
abstract
diagram,
but
it
talks
about
how
we
can
start
to
connect
these
existing
and
emerging
assets
and
neighborhoods
together,
and
that
leads
us
to
our
first
initiative,
which
is
the
green
ring.
H
One
thing
that,
as
we
work
to
study
the
downtown
and
what's
needed
in
the
future,
there
has
been
an
incredible
investment
in
some
of
the
outdoor
recreational
aspects
in
and
around
downtown.
So
you
look
at
what's
happened
along
the
riverfronts
and
what
is
emerging
with
the
water
trails
projects,
the
papa
john's
sculpture
park
and
the
western
gateway,
even
the
capitol
grounds.
On
the
east
side,
we
think
about
all
how
all
of
those
start
to
tie
together.
H
So
one
illustration
of
what
this
could
look
like-
and
this
is
on
15th
street,
looking
north
towards
the
papa
john's
sculpture
park
so
to
the
south,
we
have
the
future
pro
iowa
stadium,
the
coleman
bridge
to
graze
lake
and
to
over
to
waterworks
park.
So
this
is
a
link
that
could,
though,
the
detail
of
the
design
has
not
worked
out.
The
illustration
shows
how
this
could
be
a
really
wonderful
greenway
link
for
bikes
and
pedestrians
and
all
the
way
to
the
north.
H
The
next
initiative
is
called
the
skywalks
reimagined
and,
as
we
think
about
the
skywalks,
this
is
a
topic
of
has
been
a
topic
of
great
debate.
We
know
that
the
skywalks
serve
a
functional
purpose
for
downtown
that
they're
highly
integrated
into
the
buildings,
but
that
they
are
somewhat
disorienting
to
folks.
So
we
have-
and
there
are
areas
that
don't
necessarily
represent
us
well
as
a
community
as
we
have
visitors
coming
to
and
through
the
skywalks.
H
So
a
couple
of
key
recommendations
in
this
area.
One
is
to
improve
the
wayfinding
by
looking
at
a
transit
model
of
color-coded
lines
for
the
different
routes,
but
the
second
is
to
think
about
how
two
key
lines
of
the
skywalk
could
be
reimagined
as
a
linear
destination.
This
was
inspired
in
part
by
a
precedent
project.
The
new
york
city,
high
line,
an
abandoned,
elevated
railroad,
rail
way
that
has
been
turned
into
a
true
destination
in
linear
park
for
the
city
of
new
york
city.
H
So,
looking
at
that
for
our
community,
we
looked
at
two
key
routes,
one
that
connects
the
event
center
on
the
north
down
to
capitol
square
and
then
an
east-west
route
that
connects
some
critical
destinations
as
well
thinking
that
some
of
these
can
be
themed
for
different,
celebrating
different
aspects
of
downtown,
so
that
could
be
celebrating
their
history.
The
arts
community
sports,
depending
on
the
section
and
just
one
draft
rendering
of
this
to
illustrate
this
idea.
H
The
next
initiative
is
the
inner
circle,
and
this
this
initiative
looks
at
a-
I
guess
you
could
say
square
or
circle
of
connections
surrounding
the
core
of
downtown,
largely
in
areas
with
many
underu
underused
parking
areas
as
well
as
public
right-of-ways.
That
may
not
have
the
best
pedestrian
or
bicycle
amenities
today
and
looks
at
how
we
could
reuse
some
of
those
parking
lots
as
well
as
rethink
some
of
the
right
of
ways
to
create
a
wonderful
connection
between
some
of
these
destinations,
and
this
is
just
one
example
here
at
keough
way.
H
You
can
see
kiowa
going
east-west
through
this
route
and
then
9th
street
and
8th
street
as
they
come
together
with
kiowa.
So
this
vision
looks
for
a
reorganization
of
the
traffic
patterns,
as
well
as
the
opportunity
to
make
improvements
for
pedestrian
ways
for
opportunity
for
private
redevelopment.
We
know
that
some
of
these
parking
lots
are
not
needed,
potentially
based
on
the
pandemic
influences
of
workforce
behaviors.
So
there's
an
opportunity
for
some
of
these
areas
to
redevelop
and
create
pockets
for
mixed
use
and
residential
uses.
H
The
next
initiative
is
the
stadium
district.
This
area,
south
of
mlk
junior
parkway,
looks
at
how
do
we
tie
together
some
of
the
emerging
and
existing
destinations,
the
pro
iowa
stadium
and
global
plaza
with
principal
park,
think
about
some
of
the
areas
that
have
our
opportunities
for
redevelopment.
Some
of
the
areas
that
are
kind
of
east
of
9th
street,
a
lot
of
one
story,
office,
buildings
and
service
parking
lots,
and
how
do
we
also
tie
together
from
a
vehicular
bike
and
pedestrian
route?
H
H
Our
fifth
initiative
is
the
connected
corridors
initiative,
and
this
vision
really
looks
at
how
do
we
create
complete
streets
that
tie
in
and
out
of
downtown
and
create
a
welcoming
experience
for
downtown,
and
so
that
can
include
streets
like
kyo
way.
It
can
also
include
some
of
the
bridges
that
go
into
our
neighborhoods
around
the
perimeter
of
downtown.
H
So
this
is
one
example
of
a
potential
project,
that's
being
recommended,
which
is
the
9th
street
bridge.
So
if
you
were
taking
this
picture,
the
dmacc
urban
campus
would
be
to
your
north
behind
you
looking
to
the
south
to
downtown.
This
is
a
bridge
that
does
not
have
any
interstate
access
really
creates
a
wonderful
opportunity
to
make
a
much
more
welcoming
experience
and
multimodal
experience
into
downtown.
H
Of
the
recommendations
wrapping
up
now,
I
want
to
turn
it
over
to
you,
but
before
I
do
that
in
terms
of
next
steps
where
we're
at
we
have
a
draft
plan
document
underway,
that's
working
its
way
through
stakeholder
reviews,
but
opportunities
are
still
available
to
make
adjustments
to
that
document
and
again
we're
working
through
some
of
those
implementation.
Conversations
and
priorities.
G
A
Let's
go
ahead
and
anybody
have
any
questions,
thoughts.
F
Sure,
if
you
could
go
back
just
like
maybe
three
slides
that
showed
some
of
the
graziano
s
corner
and
yeah
at
the
upper
portion
of
the
screen,
there's
a
bullseye,
but
it
doesn't
identify
what
that
neighborhood
is.
H
Yeah,
I
believe
I
apologize.
I
did
not
create
that
particular
graphic,
but
I
believe
that's
on
forest
avenue
in.
A
H
F
And
one
of
the
planning
sessions
that
that
I
attended,
marty
shukhart
from
rdg
omaha
was
in
that
and
he
was
trying
to
figure
out
a
way
to
reuse.
Some
of
our
viaducts,
which
guys
pam
you
can
maybe
help
with
this
is
the
ninth
street.
Viaduct
is
scheduled
to
be
to
be
rebuilt
or.
D
D
F
H
We,
what
we
are
recommending
in
the
plan
is
that
we
do
explore
the
potential
for
the
removal
of
those
viaducts
to
make
those
at
grade
not
to
make
them
into
necessarily
a
destination,
but
they
do
create.
I
encourage
you
to
go
down.
If
you
haven't
recently
go
down
and
and
walk
that
area,
they
do
create
pretty
significant
barriers
and.
F
Right,
I
mean,
I
think
he
was
trying
to
think
of
something
like
a
a
high
line
experience
or
just
I
think
again,
a
gathering.
F
F
C
But
I
I
just
share-
I
mean,
since
I've
had
an
opportunity
to
be
involved,
I
mean
I
I've
provided
various
pieces
of
input
along
the
way,
but
I
mean
I
just
wanted
to
thank
the
folks
who've
done
work
on
this.
You
know
with
that.
A
plan
like
this.
It's
meant
to
be
very
big
picture
and
address
a
lot
of
different
aspects
of
our
downtown,
and
the
success
of
this
is
gonna
is
gonna
depend
on
folks
working
at
implementing
various
pieces
of
it
and
taking
ownership
of
various
pieces
of
it.
C
Some
of
it
it's
going
to
require
public-private
partnerships,
some
of
it's
going
to
require,
I
think,
leadership
from
from
the
council,
particularly
when
we
talk
about
the
connectivity
and
integrating
our
neighborhoods
into
our
downtown.
I
mean,
I
think,
that's
something
that
we've
had
a
lot
of
conversations
about
as
a
council,
and
this
provides
us-
maybe
some
road
map
in
areas
consistent
with
what
we're
we're
already
doing,
that
we
can
focus
on
and
and
have
some
success
there.
C
But
I
appreciate
all
of
the
work
that
the
consultant
team
that
the
partnership
that
the
full
range
of
stakeholders
put
into
this
and
there's
a
lot
of
good
stuff
there,
that
we
can
pull
out
and
and
use
going
forward.
So
I
just
wanted
to
provide
that
piece
of
context
as
folks
are
mulling
this
over
and
thinking
about
their
feedback.
E
A
But
it's
been
interesting
to
watch.
The
evolution
is
a
number
of
folks.
I
remember
working
through
plan
and
zone
and
through
downtown
des
moines
inc
and
trying
to
figure
out
what
is
it
is
the
key
that
that
keeps
people
downtown.
We
had
a
awful
lot
of
people
working
downtown,
but,
with
you
know,
the
evolution
of
shopping
centers
and
all
that
sort
of
thing
they'd
come
down.
A
They'd
work,
they'd
get
in
their
car
and
they'd
go
back
home
and
they
didn't
shop
downtown
as
much
as
they
used
to
or
quite
frankly
now,
for
the
same
purposes.
Not
at
all
I
mean
the
department
stores
are
gone.
An
awful
lot
of
the
retailers
are
are
gone,
but
I
think
the
element
that
really
has
helped
change
downtown
into
a.
A
Deviation
from
strictly
just
a
working
area
is
the
housing
we
saw.
You
know
what
was
it
20
years
ago.
We
had
about
1700
people
living
between
the
capital
and
meredith
and
the
river,
and
in
235
now
we
got
about
17
000
of
them
and
that
helps
not
only
attract
restaurants
and
entertainment
venues
and
all
those
kinds
of
things
into
the
downtown.
A
Destination,
retailers,
specialty
retailers
and
the
idea
of
connecting
as
carl
had
you
pull
back
up
the
dots
of
these
neighborhoods
connecting
those
neighborhoods
to
that
opportunity,
as
well
in
safe
multimodal
kind
of
ways,
and
then
I
know,
josh
has
been
working
on
the
transit
and
trying
to
make
sure
that
we
can
get
good
access
for
dart
downtown
and
to
keep
the
downtown
buses
circulating
to
move.
People
around
is
certainly
helpful
as
well,
and
I
think
that
revisioning
and
rethinking
not
only
what
we
were
but
where
we
are
today
and
what
the
future
looks
like.
A
This
is
an
exciting
opportunity
for
all
of
us
to
put
our
thoughts
into
it,
and
I
want
to
thank
everybody
for
working
on
it
and
let's
keep
working
on
it
and
keep
envisioning
how
des
moines
grows.
We
have
done
an
awful
lot
as
a
council
and
our
parks
department
and
our
full
city
staff
working
on
improving
neighborhoods
and
making
des
moines
a
great
place
to
to
live
and
work,
but
the
idea
of
connecting
those
neighborhoods
with
improved
parks.
A
A
Actually
the
idea
was
to
tear
down
everything
between
9th
street
and
meredith
and
from
ingersoll
down
to
essentially
what
we
call
ml
king
and
we
would
it
re-envision
it,
like.
You
know,
sort
of
one
of
those
streets
out.
E
A
An
area
where
you
know
you
put
a
building
in
the
middle
of
a
of
a
block
and
you
park
all
the
way
around
it,
and
then
you
move
to
the
next
one,
and
you
do
that
again
and
again,
and
it
didn't
even
consider
multimodal
connectivity
and
people
walking
and
and
biking
or
doing
anything
other
than
driving
a
car
to
where
they
are.
So,
I
think
part
of
the
beauty
of
downtown
is
that
people
can
live
here.
A
They
can
work
here
and
they
can
get
to
and
from
their
their
destinations
in
their
workplaces
if
they
live
downtown
without
a
car
that
they
can
move
around
and
they
can
do
those
sorts
of
things.
And,
of
course,
quite
frankly
at
the
moment,
it's
an
affordability
issue
too,
because
I've
read
a
lot
of
work.
A
That
would
tell
people
that
if
you
have
to
travel
20
minutes
from
where
you
live
to,
where
you
work
and
then
turn
around
and
travel
20
minutes
the
other
way,
your
probable
probable,
auto
single
occupant
vehicle
transportation
costs
will
be
about
as
much
as
your
home
and
so
it,
and
especially
with
fuel
being
what
it
is
today
that
might
even
exceed
some
of
those
numbers.
A
But
let's
all
work
together
and
plan
for
a
stronger,
better
des
moines
appreciate
all
the
work
that
you
guys
have
done
and
with
that,
unless
anybody
has
anything
else
we'll.
Let
you
guys
get
your
your
places
at
work
thanks
for
coming.
This
means
adjourned.
We'll
see
everybody
that's
interested
tonight.
We've
got
a
city
council
meeting.
I
know
everybody
gets
excited
about
that,
and
so
you
know
either
tune
in
or
come
on
down
and
and
enjoy
and
watch
the
work
that
we
do.
Thank
you.