[0:07] OK, now we'll call to order the meeting the City Council for June 4th.
[0:12] Welcome everybody.
[0:15] There are.
[0:16] Five public hearings.
[0:19] I presume that.
[0:21] One of them there may have some comments at least, but.
[0:24] Prior to getting these public hearings. Now that let's just name the public hearings the first one.
[0:29] Uh, will be there is the rezone.
[0:31] On the South end of Highland Drive.
[0:34] And then the second public hearing is on proposed budget amendments.
[0:38] And then third public hearing is?
[0:40] Opposed A fiscal budget for the coming year.
[0:43] And then we have a public hearing on the city compensation schedule.
[0:48] And then on the consolidated fee schedule?
[0:51] So those are the five public hearings. But before we get to any of those public hearings now if you have anything to say about any
[0:55] of those particular items?
[0:59] Hold until we.
[1:00] Open that public hearing.
[1:02] And make your comments during the appropriate.
[1:04] Appropriate public hearing.
[1:06] Part of the meeting.
[1:08] But if they're.
[1:09] Anything else under the sun you've come to speak to the Council about other than those topics on the public hearing?
[1:15] Public comment is now open for.
[1:17] Any of those.
[1:17] Other topics.
[1:19] Other than the five I've listed.
[1:20] Are there anyone that like to address the Council on?
[1:23] Anything else under the sun?
[1:24] Please step to the podium with your name and address.
[1:27] And feel free to take up to 3 minutes ago.
[1:30] Like.
[1:33] There might be a button at the base.
[1:35] I think I got it all right. Apologize for being late. I was at the wrong City Council building.
[1:41] Mayor Fotheringham.
[1:42] Council members.
[1:43] Thank you for the courtesy of a few minutes tonight. My name is Kent Davis.
[1:46] I reside in Cottonwood Heights with my wife Katie and my two children.
[1:50] I am the Republican nominee for Salt Lake County District Attorney, and tonight I'm here to listen.
[1:54] Short word on why I'm qualified to do that.
[1:56] I spent the last two decades leading teams in difficult environments.
[2:00] I did 2 deployments to Iraq, was an infantry officer, got my Ranger tab a bronze *.
[2:05] And came home to continue my public service.
[2:07] My first job after law school was clerking for a federal judge. I went from there to the United States Department of Justice.
[2:12] Before coming here.
[2:13] And serving as a deputy District Attorney in Salt Lake County.
[2:16] I tried felonies. I built the offices for cybercrime prosecution unit.
[2:20] And today I lead cybersecurity.
[2:22] And I'm corporate counsel for Woodbury Corporation.
[2:25] I serve on 2 Utah Supreme Court advisory committees, including the rules for.
[2:29] Professional conduct.
[2:30] And I show that not as a resume, but to make a point.
[2:32] Leadership, as everyone here is particularly acutely well aware, is showing up where the work is being done and listening to those
[2:36] who are doing it.
[2:40] Over the last few weeks I've been visiting city councils across the across the county.
[2:44] West Jordan, Taylorsville, Sandy tonight.
[2:46] Holiday.
[2:48] Because the DA is a county wide race.
[2:50] And its work touches every one of those rooms.
[2:53] And that's why I'm here tonight, and that's what I want to keep doing regardless of whether or not I win in November.
[2:58] And here's my commitment to holiday.
[3:00] The DA's office, as I said, is a county wide race.
[3:03] But its work lives in your city.
[3:05] When officers refer a case.
[3:08] The outcome lands here.
[3:09] And holiday.
[3:11] When a domestic violence victim calls 911.
[3:13] What happens next is partly on the district attorney's office.
[3:16] Holiday should not have to wait until a press conference to know what the DA's office is doing about break INS or car prowls in
[3:19] your neighborhoods.
[3:23] Fentanyl, meth and stolen cars moving up and down the Wasatch corridor.
[3:26] And the repeat offenders who drive most of it.
[3:28] So I'd like to open a Direct Line.
[3:30] Now, I know that holiday is served by Unified Police, and I'd welcome the opportunity to sit down with your precinct chief.
[3:36] Sit down with any council member who has any questions.
[3:39] I'd happily attend a town hall if you'd be willing to have me.
[3:42] Answer any questions you bring.
[3:44] Tell me what it is that Holiday needs from its next District Attorney.
[3:48] I'm taking it seriously.
[3:50] I'm an easy guy to find. I welcome you to do so.
[3:52] Mayor, council members, thank you.
[3:54] Thank you.
[3:58] Anyone else for public comment? Oh yes Sir, Trudy.
[4:01] Hello.
[4:04] Treaty from the library.
[4:05] Wanted to thank the community for coming out to our summer reading kickoff party we had.
[4:10] Around 350 people come, so that was a pretty good turn out and I checked this morning and it.
[4:15] This morning.
[4:16] We had over 800 people who've signed up.
[4:19] We really encourage everybody else to come sign up for summer reading. You can get a free book and a fine waiver and all the fun
[4:21] stuff.
[4:25] And you have till the end of July to get it done so.
[4:28] Please come in and sign up for summer reading.
[4:31] The other thing that's going on all month long at the library is duck spotting.
[4:35] We have 10.
[4:37] Small costumed rubber ducks that are very well hidden. It is a scavenger hunt for all ages.
[4:43] And we encourage people to come and join that find the ducks and join the drawing.
[4:48] Other things for all ages this month at the library. We've got a tree party tomorrow.
[4:54] It's the.
[4:55] 1st anniversary of the planting of Artie, our Moon Tree.
[4:59] Since he's an astronaut, we're celebrating.
[5:01] You can come help fill out things for the time capsule, or you can make a pocket Galaxy. I don't.
[5:07] Know what that is, But it's going to be cool.
[5:10] And that's from 2:50. You can come in anytime tomorrow.
[5:13] We're also having a summer Wellness series, so there will be one a month and it's geared towards mental health and creativity and
[5:17] how those.
[5:21] Intersect.
[5:22] This month will be on the 11th at 6:00 PM and we'll be doing some Zentangle.
[5:28] And the other all ages is pencil pouches for pride on the 18th from 3:00 to 6:00.
[5:34] You can come in anytime and make yourself a pencil pouch.
[5:37] And there are all kinds of goodies that go inside and that is for.
[5:40] Anyone of any age also.
[5:43] For the kiddos on the 17th we're going to have a paleo adventure because the summer reading theme is UN.
[5:48] Unearth a story.
[5:49] So lots of dinosaur themed stuff. So we're having a paleo adventure that's a lot of crafts and a lot of fun at 2:00 on the 17th.
[5:57] And that's what's going on at the library this month.
[6:01] Thank you so much.
[6:05] I'm making a note of that.
[6:06] Dinosaur thing.
[6:08] I've got a three-year old grandson.
[6:10] OK. Thank you.
[6:13] Anyone else?
[6:14] Public comment for anything under the sun other than the public hearing items.
[6:20] Gap Singham will close public.
[6:23] And proceed to item number 3, which is our first public hearing.
[6:27] The first one regarding the rezone at the South end of Highland Drive.
[6:33] And.
[6:35] I imagine our first.
[6:36] Should be our applicant.
[6:39] Assuming our applicants.
[6:40] Here we go.
[6:42] So when did you come up and?
[6:44] If it's your outline of your objectives and.
[6:49] And then we'll open public comment to the rest.
[6:51] Sure. Want to say thank you for your time tonight and thank you.
[6:55] Holiday City has been very.
[6:57] Open and collaborative with this process. Jared Bunch has been helpful. John and Carrie have been very helpful in several of you.
[7:04] Have been very helpful in working on this. I have three properties.
[7:08] 4 Excuse me?
[7:10] Right there.
[7:12] For sale.
[7:13] Or excuse me for purchase.
[7:15] I own the front 3 now and will be closing on the back parcel.
[7:20] Before the 19.
[7:22] So this land right there is the combination of R1 and R2 zone.
[7:28] Formerly in the history when it was the county land it was zoned.
[7:31] R2.
[7:32] I'm trying to get it to RM zone.
[7:36] With the room zone.
[7:37] This allows for.
[7:40] Similar heights to R1 and R2.
[7:42] And so there would be no height variance.
[7:44] From what the current zone is.
[7:46] That allows for a little greater density.
[7:50] I am AM.
[7:52] Interested in doing?
[7:54] A little.
[7:55] More high end project here.
[7:57] And a little history on me. I'm not from Holiday City.
[8:00] But about 22 years ago, I drove through here and saw the trees and.
[8:03] Found the city and fell in love with it.
[8:06] I have now lived here for 20 years. I built a small house on Cottonwood Lane amongst all the big houses.
[8:11] And I own a brokerage and I've done developments in holiday.
[8:15] I went through this process similarly with the.
[8:18] Office building that I own on 53rd South and Highland Dr. which required a rezone to neighborhood commercial. John Tierlink was
[8:22] very helpful in that process and so are many of you to get that done.
[8:27] As with that, there was some public pushback, but.
[8:31] I'm proud of what I built there.
[8:33] And we have a building there that's filled with holiday business owners and holiday residences.
[8:38] And I think it was something that added the community and that's what we're trying to do here.
[8:41] So basically we would effectively.
[8:43] Tear down the.
[8:44] For homes that are there.
[8:46] We're looking to change this to an RM zone which would allow up to 20 units.
[8:50] I think that there's an opportunity here.
[8:52] For higher quality townhome project in holiday.
[8:56] If you see a lot of the townhome projects.
[8:58] They are.
[8:59] Three story.
[9:00] They're much higher density.
[9:02] Typical density is 22 to 25 units per acre. This was his much lower density. 18 units for an acre and a quarter is what I'd be.
[9:09] Looking to do here.
[9:10] You see a lot of these townhomes that are.
[9:13] Two car garage on the main.
[9:14] You go up to a kitchen and some living area and you go up to a third level for your living space and so.
[9:19] With this, you could technically under the ARM zone, put 20 units. Here I'm looking to do 18 units because I believe that you can
[9:22] have.
[9:25] Some main level living.
[9:27] On these units.
[9:28] And you can then have.
[9:30] Some private yards, which most of the three story townhome units do not have. They don't have private yards.
[9:36] So I'm interested with a little less density, a little better project.
[9:39] And something that would be a little bit more.
[9:41] Conducive to holiday?
[9:43] And so we would do a more traditional design on what's there.
[9:47] And something that fits in with the holiday village feel.
[9:51] A unique opportunity here.
[9:53] And then part of the reason this came about was that.
[9:57] After meeting with Jared Bunch, trying to determine where the best Access Rd. would be on this for this project.
[10:03] He mentioned that the only reason that small one lane Rd. of Highland Drive.
[10:07] Is there is because it provides access to those three homes that front on Highland Drive.
[10:12] And the project that I'm proposing would.
[10:15] Relocate.
[10:16] The access to 6060 S.
[10:18] The S Boundary St.
[10:20] And then we would vacate the access on a Highland Dr. which then provides an opportunity.
[10:26] For restructuring that intersection.
[10:28] And I've spoken with many of you. I think there's.
[10:32] Public and.
[10:33] Private sentiment for people to do something better there with the with the traffic.
[10:38] And if we can.
[10:38] Eliminate that.
[10:40] Not my job, your job. That one lane.
[10:42] Luzerne of Rd. there.
[10:44] And then?
[10:45] Redo something with the park.
[10:47] That small island and make it more of a park, like some of the drawings that I've put in there.
[10:51] Then I I I think it can create a more dramatic entrance to the city. You can put up some better signage.
[10:58] One of the original founders.
[11:00] Of Holiday City of course was John Holiday, but one of the other guys name was Robert Covington.
[11:06] And so.
[11:07] These townhomes we would name Covington Park Townhomes.
[11:11] In kind of an homage to one of the original founders of Holiday City, and also to put a little pressure on you as the city to make
[11:16] it next to a park if it's going to be called Covington Park Townhomes.
[11:21] And I just think it can. We can do something really spectacular there.
[11:25] Also by doing that.
[11:27] There are massive trees there.
[11:29] And they're beautiful.
[11:30] And they're very.
[11:31] Uncapped.
[11:32] And and I got a call from Rob Jones, who is in the furthest NN house that.
[11:38] This last windstorm, one of the branches fell on the sidewalk. There are a ton of deadfall branches and issues with those trees.
[11:44] I immediately went over with the chainsaw, cleaned it up, and trimmed up some of the other trees.
[11:48] But if we put a park there.
[11:50] I can maintain those large trees as a presence to Holiday city with the large trees and and make a more beautiful entrance.
[11:57] And I've also I've spoken with.
[11:59] Several of the arborists who.
[12:01] Associated with this project and I think we can save and maintain.
[12:06] Almost all the trees on the perimeter.
[12:08] Clean them up, get rid of a bunch of the deadfall and make it a better project.
[12:12] Affordability.
[12:14] These will these will land in 8 to 900.
[12:16] $1000 range.
[12:17] Which?
[12:18] For people outside of holiday, that does not seem affordable, but in holiday that's very affordable.
[12:22] And I think it's a project that will.
[12:26] There are ways you can do mass production projects.
[12:29] And.
[12:31] Make them cheaper.
[12:33] And you, I see a lot of that around.
[12:35] In a holiday.
[12:36] As well.
[12:37] But I'm less concerned with making.
[12:41] A larger profit than I am concerned with doing something.
[12:44] That is conducive to the holiday village feel and making it a project there. That's right. And there's a picture of kind of what
[12:47] the.
[12:50] The park may look like in that intersection.
[12:53] There's already a lane there and there's a turn lane, so nobody would have to merge going around that. They would just be, they
[12:58] would have their own lanes. You could put a yield or a stop sign there and really slow down traffic.
[13:03] I think.
[13:04] For the subdivision to the north of this.
[13:07] They have major ingress and egress problems. You've probably heard of that.
[13:10] Continually.
[13:12] This has an opportunity.
[13:13] Write an opportunity to solve that problem.
[13:16] Because we can eliminate one of the lanes, we can get them out further and they're.
[13:19] They would cross two lanes to go South instead of three.
[13:22] And it would slow down the traffic dramatically and so.
[13:25] I'm a huge advocate, obviously selfishly because.
[13:29] It would put a park in front of the project instead of a.
[13:32] Highland Dr. Lane that people go down 50 miles an hour.
[13:35] But also because it's better for the neighbors and I'm.
[13:38] I live.
[13:40] Here, my kids go to school here. I have an office building here.
[13:43] I'm interested in doing something.
[13:45] That is, that makes holiday and the and the surrounding neighborhood better.
[13:49] And so.
[13:51] To the east of this project.
[13:52] Are two townhomes.
[13:56] Bill is the most adjacent.
[13:58] To it.
[13:59] And he and I have talked and this is going to add value to his property as well because we'll clean up on the trees on the east
[14:03] boundary of.
[14:07] My property which?
[14:08] Border his property.
[14:10] And then I'm going to.
[14:11] On my dollar, pay for a nice new fence that will clean up the property and make it better.
[14:15] He has issues also with those trees, with every time there's a windstorm.
[14:19] Trees branches falling down on issues.
[14:22] So.
[14:23] I'm excited about it. We've already closed on the front three properties.
[14:26] So the opportunity is there to vacate. The Highland Drive will close on the other one soon and.
[14:31] I'm happy to answer any questions anybody might have about it.
[14:35] Umm thanks so much for coming and and sharing this with us today. I just umm.
[14:40] I know we're going to get into this more later that.
[14:42] There are.
[14:43] A lot of neighbors that have concerns about the effect.
[14:47] This property will have on traffic.
[14:50] But it sounds like what you're saying is that.
[14:52] With this.
[14:53] Idea of this park that you're willing to work with the Planning Commission?
[14:56] To address those issues. Is that, is that right? Yeah, absolutely. OK.
[15:02] It's always a concern with traffic, right? Highland drives a massive Rd.
[15:05] This will slow down traffic if you do this.
[15:07] That's being proposed.
[15:09] If he did not, it's still.
[15:11] The amount of traffic that this 18 unit.
[15:14] Townhome project will drop onto Highland Drive is minuscule compared to what the traffic guard is on there.
[15:18] There's plenty of bandwidth to.
[15:20] To handle that.
[15:20] Right and.
[15:21] And the thing you have about this, that's different.
[15:24] You know residential development than a commercial development is there. People are not coming and going all the time.
[15:29] You'll have once or twice a day someone's coming and going back and forth to work or something. It's just not going to.
[15:35] Oh, it's a huge traffic issue there.
[15:38] Thank you.
[15:38] Yeah, thanks.
[15:42] OK, so let's open the public hearing then.
[15:46] Do we want staff to do like review their staff report?
[15:49] Is there a?
[15:50] Do I have Carrie come up and.
[15:52] And address them.
[15:56] Thanks for the reminder.
[16:00] I think Casey did a great job.
[16:02] Explaining some of the motivations and reasons behind the rezone and kind of what the rezone.
[16:09] Enables in terms.
[16:11] Of development of the project.
[16:13] I just wanted to touch on a couple of the.
[16:16] Technical factors, you know.
[16:18] Casey mentioned that this would allow up to 20 units depending on site constraints. Good design that he was.
[16:26] Talking about that.
[16:28] It may not be up to that.
[16:30] Maximum amount, but that is what the zone would allow.
[16:33] In regards to height between the R2 zone and the RM zone, they do have the same height allowances at 35 feet, so there's not a
[16:38] difference in the height between those two.
[16:44] Zones.
[16:46] Staff recommendation on this is is an approval there was some discussion and Planning Commission about.
[16:53] Keeping the.
[16:54] Rear parcel that's on the east.
[16:57] As an R2 zone and then doing RM on the front.
[17:01] Configuring in that way, there's a difference of three fewer units that would be allowed.
[17:07] Regulatory wise it's when you have split zoning between a project it it can lead to some complications.
[17:14] Where it's because of the.
[17:17] Small difference between the number of units that it produces. Staff recommendations for the room zone for the.
[17:23] For the full project, all four parcels.
[17:27] As Casey mentioned, the.
[17:30] Having those 3 parcels.
[17:33] Involved in this rezone and the.
[17:36] Intended design for the project.
[17:39] Enables.
[17:40] Access for those to be removed from that bypass lane and accessed off of 6060 S.
[17:47] I talking with the city engineer, there would be some potential required improvements.
[17:53] On potentially 6060 S and.
[17:57] To manage that the change in.
[18:00] The Highland Dr. Bypass.
[18:03] There is a single lane on that T section.
[18:07] Likely that would increase to two lane so that there's a right.
[18:10] And the left hand turn lane.
[18:12] And then the two lanes on Highland Dr. would start much sooner.
[18:17] Because it's.
[18:18] Shifting that bypass lane now over to Highland Drive.
[18:22] There's capacity on the shoulder there that that.
[18:26] Is already paved, so there should be some minimal.
[18:29] Paving involved with that, but.
[18:31] Some of that will.
[18:33] Beyond the responsibility of the developer who is.
[18:37] Kind of involved in that.
[18:39] In that change.
[18:41] The city engineers also suggested potential traffic study.
[18:47] Impact involved with that intersection, specifically of how to engineer that to work.
[18:52] Correctly.
[18:55] The Planning Commission.
[18:57] Had a positive record or.
[18:59] Positive recommendation. They had two votes.
[19:01] And or. Sorry, 5 votes in favor and two votes against.
[19:07] They have.
[19:08] Their recommendations listed in.
[19:10] The staff report that was provided to you.
[19:12] And.
[19:13] The main.
[19:15] Point on this recommendation for a rezone is to provide a transition.
[19:21] Type of zone in between.
[19:23] The more intense.
[19:25] Holiday Crossroads zone that is directly adjacent to this property on the South side.
[19:30] And the less intense.
[19:32] R2 zoning that's on the north side.
[19:34] So RM is kind of the fill in between those two that's an intermediary.
[19:39] Buffers between less intense residential uses and more intense commercial uses.
[19:47] Safety issues with traffic is obviously a big concern with the residents.
[19:52] And I think Casey addressed that a lot with how the traffic can be reconfigured there to.
[19:59] Address some of those concerns.
[20:00] Residents that are coming out of Diamond Hills.
[20:05] Add the.
[20:06] Kind of battle that they have to face going through a bypass lane and then getting onto Highland Drive. So they have kind of two.
[20:11] Points where where there's traffic conflict.
[20:15] So changing the intersection up where it's now all at the T.
[20:20] Makes a much more consistent traffic where they can enter traffic more safely.
[20:25] And greater.
[20:27] Pedestrian and biking safety as well.
[20:30] Being separated from Highland Drive.
[20:32] There's improvements for cycling and.
[20:36] And walking.
[20:38] In our Highland Dr. improvements.
[20:39] So this would tie into into those improvements.
[20:43] If there's any other questions that we can go through those, I'm happy to.
[20:50] How address any does they know that there's?
[20:52] Probably some.
[20:53] Questions from the public that we can definitely.
[20:57] Discuss.
[20:58] So, so this is in my district and so I have spent a lot of time looking over all of the letters that residents have sent in and
[21:03] make sure that I understand.
[21:07] Their concerns and want to make sure that we we address the concerns that they have.
[21:12] Here.
[21:14] A lot of people are concerned.
[21:16] In general, independent of this project about the traffic on Highland Drive and pulling out of that Diamond Hills.
[21:22] Development. But it sounds like what you're saying and just confirm is that if we get rid of that deluge, run for lack of a better
[21:26] term.
[21:29] And people have to stop on that tea or slow down if they're coming from the north, but ultimately that.
[21:35] Have a calming effect.
[21:37] On on traffic. Is that what you're saying? It's call me because you have a more predictable.
[21:44] Place for cars to be on that luge run. There can be issues with visibility. You don't know how fast cars are coming through that.
[21:52] And and also the double point of of conflict where you're having to enter traffic.
[21:57] At that bypass point and then again when you're entering Highland Drive.
[22:02] So that reduces those points of conflict to a single one.
[22:06] Traffic is more predictable. Cars are already in two lanes.
[22:09] Traveling and that's.
[22:11] What you then have to navigate through.
[22:13] It's reducing conflict points is is a big part of.
[22:17] Increasing Traffic Safety so.
[22:20] Having fewer intersections where where vehicles have to.
[22:23] Navigate.
[22:25] Entering traffic is an improvement.
[22:27] OK, umm, another concern.
[22:30] Umm, that, that we're seeing in a lot of the public comments just deals with the overall capacity.
[22:37] To to service the traffic on Highland Dr. Obviously this is a small development that they're concerned deals with.
[22:46] That there's the new apartment building to the South and then there's also the holiday hills to the north and the just concern
[22:50] about that. Can you can you speak to?
[22:54] Highland drives capacity.
[22:56] Sure to deal with all of all of this increased traffic with these different.
[22:59] Projects. Yeah, I, I.
[23:01] I know that as a city, we're all very aware of the traffic that's there. We've managed that intersection and some of the the
[23:05] traffic.
[23:09] That we have to deal with getting to some of those commercial businesses or.
[23:13] Going out.
[23:15] Van Wigle.
[23:16] Getting in between it's a major Rd.
[23:19] In the city.
[23:21] That road was built with capacity to manage a lot of come and go.
[23:28] Consistent traffic throughout.
[23:30] Every day for.
[23:32] For the regional.
[23:34] Development of the Cottonwood Mall.
[23:38] Malls have a tremendous.
[23:40] Traffic impact and so that.
[23:42] Highland Drive is billed with two.
[23:44] And a high enough speed to handle that capacity.
[23:49] And that.
[23:51] That a development that.
[23:54] In the location closer to an intersection.
[23:56] And also being on that roadway that already has a lot of capacity.
[24:01] A smaller development like this doesn't necessarily impact that.
[24:06] The.
[24:08] The the Holiday Hills development and Holiday Crossroads development.
[24:14] Are both taken into account on the the roadways capacity?
[24:19] When developments there are proposed.
[24:21] That traffic capacity is looked at as what can the roadway handle and is this development then going to be something that would
[24:25] trigger?
[24:30] Or caused there to be.
[24:32] Necessary improvements to the roadway.
[24:35] And our city engineer can go through some of those, um.
[24:39] Kind of.
[24:39] Ways that you deal with increased capacity it.
[24:43] There's a lot of different strategies when you have a roadway that has.
[24:47] Reached its capacity.
[24:49] But it's typically.
[24:50] At the point where there are.
[24:52] Ongoing issues.
[24:54] It could be things like dedicated turn lanes or.
[24:58] Reduce speeds in some areas.
[25:00] There's various strategies, so.
[25:03] I think that.
[25:04] The city engineer is aware of the traffic that's there and the capacity is.
[25:09] At its current time, not at.
[25:13] It's full amount that it can't handle.
[25:16] So and that was taken into account with.
[25:19] Those developments already known.
[25:21] And then there were people concerned about you. So you said that height, the height standards are the same and the set back
[25:26] standards are the same. So it wouldn't bring things closer.
[25:34] Somebody there were a couple of concerns about.
[25:37] Lighting and dealing with lighting from from parking and we I know we just passed a residential lighting ordinance.
[25:44] So how will that affect?
[25:48] Affect this new development.
[25:49] Yeah. So our new lighting ordinance, we have a standard for R1 and R2 zones and then we have a standard for all other zones and
[25:57] that all other zones coverage is things that are commercial all the way down to multi family residential.
[26:05] It regulates things from your parking pole lights.
[26:09] Landscaping lights and then architectural lights too.
[26:13] All of those architectural lights are required to be shielded. They have specific color temperatures that are required.
[26:21] And so the.
[26:23] The lighting standards that we have passed have improved.
[26:27] Lighting within.
[26:29] New developments.
[26:31] So there's less impact on neighboring properties from lights because of our new lighting ordinance?
[26:38] Umm, sorry, I'm just trying to make sure that we cover all the concerns that we've heard thus far.
[26:44] There was also concerns about.
[26:47] Umm, adequacy of.
[26:49] Police and Fire Protection.
[26:51] And the Planning Commission found that everything was adequate. And I'm just wondering if you can speak to that at all as well.
[26:57] Yeah, I think that.
[26:59] So we've review.
[27:01] Rezone request and then also review again when development plans go before the Planning Commission for site plans as to what?
[27:11] What kinds of impacts or requirements are needed so?
[27:14] For fires exact.
[27:17] Making sure that there's.
[27:19] Fire turn around on some properties that require that.
[27:23] If there's a lot of units on a single St. there has to occasionally be a additional means of egress.
[27:31] So our fire official reviews.
[27:33] Things and.
[27:34] Works with the applicant on. Hey, these might be your fire requirements and then.
[27:39] The.
[27:40] Developer or builder is then required to meet those requirements.
[27:45] So those kinds of impacts from fire or?
[27:50] Other potential impacts like on utilities.
[27:53] The the Apple Center developer then.
[27:55] Addresses those by.
[27:57] By upgrading things or by putting in the necessary infrastructure.
[28:02] With police service.
[28:04] It's fairly minimal impact to have a residential.
[28:09] Type of.
[28:10] Development.
[28:12] There's our, there's.
[28:13] A lot of impact already at the commercial area.
[28:17] So likely that there wouldn't be an increase due to.
[28:21] This.
[28:22] Development specifically.
[28:24] All new dwelling units.
[28:27] Pay an impact view when they are built.
[28:30] That impact fee goes toward.
[28:33] Police fire.
[28:35] I don't know if it we have one for you to leave at parks is another one.
[28:38] So there's impact fees that.
[28:41] New development pays.
[28:42] When they're building.
[28:44] And then also.
[28:46] Continual funding through property taxes. The portion of property taxes pay for those.
[28:51] A community services that is assessed across the city.
[28:55] Thank you so much for covering all of that. I appreciate it.
[28:58] Yeah, that's all I've got.
[28:59] OK. Any other questions?
[29:02] Carrie Yeah, the the two members of the.
[29:05] Planning Commission who voted against this?
[29:07] Project can you?
[29:09] Tell me what?
[29:10] Their concerns were.
[29:12] Yeah, I think they were more conflicted on.
[29:14] The issue of the.
[29:16] East Parcel where that was kind of that discussion around.
[29:21] Well, these.
[29:22] Have two different zones currently.
[29:25] Why don't we just up zone 1 and up zone the other one accordingly instead of having it?
[29:30] I'll be the room zone.
[29:32] So.
[29:35] I think that was the primary concern there.
[29:39] OK. Anything else?
[29:41] Thank you. I thought the staff report was.
[29:43] Right. And it was very informative and so thanks for your work on that.
[29:47] Thank you.
[29:51] OK.
[29:52] So we did receive a number of public comments through e-mail. The council has had an opportunity to review those.
[30:01] And so if you're here to comment and you also send an e-mail, you're certainly still welcome to come comment, but you don't need
[30:04] to.
[30:06] Essentially repeat your e-mail.
[30:09] Word for word because we've we've had an opportunity to review that.
[30:12] Nonetheless.
[30:13] Public comment is now open if you wish to address the Council on this rezone application.
[30:18] Please come forward to the podium. State your name and address.
[30:20] And.
[30:21] You can take up to 3 minutes. If you're speaking for a group, you can take a couple minutes more. Otherwise, let's.
[30:27] Keep the.
[30:28] Train rolling, rolling.
[30:29] Anyone here to address the Council on the rezone?
[30:44] Hello, my name is Dan Lawler.
[30:47] My wife and I reside at.
[30:49] 6018 Emerald Ridge Cove.
[30:51] In the Highland Point.
[30:53] PUD.
[30:56] And we're really in favor of this. I just I.
[31:00] I just turned 80 years old.
[31:01] And I never thought I'd get to see this project.
[31:05] Change from those old houses.
[31:07] In the landscaping torn up.
[31:09] In the world. So I'm really in favor.
[31:12] I was in a retired realtor.
[31:14] And home lender for.
[31:16] 45 years.
[31:18] And I know.
[31:19] Some of my neighbors are upset about this change.
[31:23] For a number of reasons, but I just think it's going to be a new improvement.
[31:27] To the city of.
[31:29] Somehow.
[31:31] I believe if if you allow the city, the.
[31:34] The road to be closed.
[31:35] That will really slow down the traffic.
[31:38] I'm sure the stop sign would go away, but it would slow the traffic just making the curve.
[31:43] To get out of our.
[31:44] Our development currently.
[31:46] If we're going to turn South.
[31:48] We have to look at 3 lanes. We got that little.
[31:51] Lane coming down where they're just flying down there, some of them probably over 50 miles an hour.
[31:56] And the others you know coming down.
[32:00] From the.
[32:01] From the West.
[32:02] And then those just.
[32:04] It's three lanes and when we have friends over, we warn them when you're leaving, if you're gonna go South.
[32:09] You gotta be very careful. You gotta look at all three lanes.
[32:12] There's no place to pull over, so this would be a tremendous improvement.
[32:15] If you could.
[32:17] Close the street down.
[32:19] And make just the two lanes through a curve and I guess you own the park.
[32:23] Already there in that.
[32:24] Parcel of that, Sarah.
[32:25] And do something with that, but I'm really in favor of it.
[32:30] Obviously the area needs something.
[32:32] The current owners are never going to do anything with those properties through.
[32:36] They fix them up. We.
[32:37] I know the city is.
[32:39] Find the one owner.
[32:41] A couple times because he went.
[32:43] Take care of his landscaping.
[32:45] So.
[32:47] Another point.
[32:49] Is it, you know, what's the new 70 or 80 unit there? There's been a lot of talk about the traffic that's going to.
[32:54] 'Cause it's it's progress is something that we know it's there.
[32:59] And this is going to put.
[33:02] A little more traffic in our area, but it's going to be minimal.
[33:05] I was afraid those integral commercials so.
[33:08] I know what's the Jason this commercial property, so I'd rather see some individual owners.
[33:14] In, you know, living in these properties rather than being a big apartment building.
[33:19] You know, we're having a commercial thing, so.
[33:22] Anyway, that's my opinion.
[33:23] Thanks very much.
[33:37] Yeah, my name is Bill Flandro, 2015.
[33:40] East, 6060 S.
[33:44] Umm, I'm actually right next to that development that's going in.
[33:47] When home.
[33:49] It's been an ideal place to live with the Dead end St. There are only 10.
[33:53] On that.
[33:55] Old Street. I really like the idea.
[33:59] Closing off that.
[34:01] That little one way strip.
[34:03] Because right now.
[34:05] It's hard to get out a lot of times of our streets.
[34:08] He had 30-40 cars coming through there.
[34:11] Able to do, just not that busy. Then you've got it coming through about 40 miles an hour.
[34:16] Now.
[34:17] I uh, obviously like everybody else, I had concern about the traffic.
[34:23] But we're not gonna do anything about that because they've got a big apartment building going in.
[34:28] They're gonna start moving in there in another month.
[34:31] That's 8 and 4 units.
[34:35] And I went up to the city.
[34:37] Uh, when they were getting ready to.
[34:39] Approved that.
[34:41] I said, you know, I've got a real concern about the traffic coming through.
[34:45] There and he said.
[34:46] I don't think you'd be that bad I.
[34:49] By like you said, well, you've got your head up your ***.
[34:54] We can't do anything about.
[34:57] But this is gonna obviously give me some traffic.
[35:01] But uh, I like the concept.
[35:03] Of what he's trying to put in.
[35:05] I've looked at the.
[35:07] The plans.
[35:09] Every time we have a windstorm.
[35:12] We've got.
[35:13] Tree limbs all over our backyard.
[35:16] Because there are so many trees there and.
[35:18] He said he could definitely trim those up.
[35:22] So I'm.
[35:23] Actually in favor of it.
[35:27] Thank you. Thank you.
[35:34] My name is Angie Meredith.
[35:36] I preside at 2005 E Diamond Hills Lane.
[35:41] I'm representing.
[35:42] Myself.
[35:45] My husband and I.
[35:46] Disagree.
[35:47] On this, but I'm here strongly in favor of this project.
[35:52] And I can speak for some of our neighbors.
[35:54] We're not all on the same page and the.
[35:57] I think the biggest concern is the traffic.
[36:00] But I am just.
[36:02] Thrilled that that.
[36:03] Corner is going to be cleaned up.
[36:06] We bought in 2018 and.
[36:10] I feel like it's just gotten worse.
[36:12] Since 2018, the traffic and.
[36:15] Just the general presence and upkeep of those three homes.
[36:20] I My name is probably known because I've written to the city.
[36:24] On several occasions, same thing, tree limbs down on the street.
[36:28] There's people biking, there's people walking, there's mothers pushing their children in strollers.
[36:33] And.
[36:34] They can't even walk.
[36:37] Along that sidewalk it's and I can't either.
[36:40] And I I'm a runner and I enjoy walking around there, but.
[36:44] The traffic is a concern, but also being able to walk along the sidewalk there.
[36:49] And I think I'm more concerned with the 84 unit apartments with the traffic than I am.
[36:54] What Casey Kershaw is proposing so.
[36:58] I am in favor 100%. I think it's going to clean it up. It's going to be a nice presence coming into holiday. You have that
[37:02] beautiful island there with the monument.
[37:06] And then you look to the east and you've got.
[37:10] I mean it's.
[37:11] It's not very pleasant to look at, so I'm.
[37:15] Thrilled that we're doing something.
[37:16] To add to the city and.
[37:19] As you come into holiday, I think that.
[37:22] This will.
[37:23] Be I just think it will add. It will be very nice to have that area.
[37:29] Cleaned up.
[37:30] Thank you.
[37:42] Hi everyone.
[37:43] I'm Paul Knott. I reside with my wife Sherry on 6010 S Diamond Hills Lane, just the second house in.
[37:49] Right in from where you turn in and out.
[37:51] So we have the opportunity to see.
[37:53] The traffic challenges and everything that goes on.
[37:57] What's interesting is when the.
[37:58] Project was first proposed I.
[38:00] Texted the.
[38:02] The gentleman that's going to do that and.
[38:05] I believe he's going to accomplish what?
[38:07] He says he's going to do. I think he can beautify the area.
[38:10] I think he can do a number of great things for that area for us.
[38:14] We've had that challenge with the.
[38:16] With the neighbors on the South and you know.
[38:18] With it looking like it did, I think is a good entrance to Holiday and we moved from Murray to Holiday to.
[38:23] Live in holiday We've always wanted to live here, my wife and I and.
[38:26] Our young daughter.
[38:27] So what's interesting is.
[38:31] I I think all the comments talking about.
[38:33] The fear and some neighbors wanting it and some neighbors not, and I think we've heard.
[38:38] From some of the things and Emily, I love that you had so many comments and.
[38:42] You've really listened to him and listened to our fears, I think.
[38:45] The fear of traffic. I'll come back to the fear of crime coming up.
[38:49] I think is is.
[38:50] Reasonable fear.
[38:51] I think a fear of.
[38:53] The building that's happening, the fear of how it's going to look.
[38:56] All of those things, I feel like those have been personally addressed for me.
[39:00] My fear is not because crime is going to go up and not because it's going to look bad, or not because we're going to have some new
[39:04] neighbors.
[39:08] My fear is that development will be done.
[39:10] And Holiday City won't.
[39:12] Put enough funds.
[39:13] To make.
[39:14] The traffic, correct because that's going to take an investment from Holiday City.
[39:18] So I haven't heard anyone from Holiday City say.
[39:21] Yes, we like the idea.
[39:23] We're going to invest dollars because I believe that park is going to take investment from Holiday City. So I would be curious.
[39:30] And, and I don't know if I can ask questions. This is my first time addressing the council. Generally we don't get into a back and
[39:34] forth debate this year. Opportunity to be heard, that's absolutely fine.
[39:38] So my fear is.
[39:39] That it will be developed.
[39:41] It will.
[39:42] Look great.
[39:43] And the traffic won't be addressed.
[39:45] And we'll still have that runway that comes down.
[39:48] My wife and I stood out in the back deck. We see how the traffic goes. We see how.
[39:52] Asset traffic moves.
[39:53] We say how fast the traffic moves when we're trying to exit our neighborhood.
[39:57] And it's a risk. Our daughter's 20.
[40:00] And I warn her about it all the time. You gotta be.
[40:02] Really careful coming out of our neighborhood just because everyone's driving so fast so.
[40:07] I am a proponent for this. I think it would be great.
[40:09] I am not.
[40:10] If we don't have an investment from Holiday City and address the traffic.
[40:14] Thank you.
[40:15] Thank you.
[40:24] Anyone else?
[40:25] Comment regarding the rezoning application.
[40:28] Please come on up. Hey, good to see you.
[40:30] Diane Hazen. Umm, I.
[40:32] Own the building at 6065 and.
[40:34] Casey would be my new neighbor.
[40:37] I cannot embrace all of this.
[40:40] Enough.
[40:42] The developers from day one with that new project.
[40:46] To the South of me.
[40:47] Have worked with me.
[40:49] I've toured it.
[40:50] They worked with the city.
[40:52] It's amazing.
[40:54] Because I have sat there for 32 years in a 1960 bank building.
[40:59] And people come in and they go.
[41:00] Wow, my.
[41:01] Grandparents had the Chevron station and.
[41:04] I used to bank here when it was.
[41:06] The bank.
[41:07] And I love it because.
[41:09] There has been no new development in 32 years.
[41:12] And the apartment complex they are complying with.
[41:16] Everything to make it beautiful.
[41:19] Montes is the same way.
[41:20] Casey is adding.
[41:22] Something to.
[41:24] Our District 5, that is amazing.
[41:26] It's amazing.
[41:28] It's going to be beautiful.
[41:29] All of the neighbors.
[41:31] I know all 10 of them.
[41:32] And we're just.
[41:33] The only concern I hear is our 6060. They want to be able to get to their home and back.
[41:38] I hear nothing from Casey that they won't be able to do that, and Casey and I've worked together.
[41:43] About the traffic in and out.
[41:47] I can't see enough I I just think it's time that we make some really.
[41:50] Beautiful changes to District 5.
[41:54] Completely endorse it.
[41:58] Thank you.
[42:07] All right. Anyone else?
[42:08] For public comment on rezone application.
[42:11] Don't be shy.
[42:14] Going once.
[42:16] Going twice, OK.
[42:18] I think we can.
[42:19] Close the public hearing. The objection to closing the public hearing, OK.
[42:22] We've had a.
[42:25] Some good comment there. Appreciate that very much. So we'll close the public hearing.
[42:29] Expect we'll have a vote on this next week, is that correct?
[42:33] About next week.
[42:34] OK.
[42:36] All right. And then also in the work session following the the the.
[42:40] City Council meeting we will be discussing.
[42:43] The public hearing.
[42:46] In fact, we'll be discussing all the public hearings, but I expect more will be spending the most time on would be this one.
[42:52] OK. Moving on, we'll go to item number four, Public hearing on Proposed Budget Amendments for fiscal year 20252026 Christian.
[43:02] Please feel free to not hang around in my ship.
[43:04] You're totally interested in the rest of the agenda.
[43:11] All right. Good evening, Mayor and Council. This is the final budget amendment to fiscal year 2026 budget.
[43:17] I'll start with the general fund.
[43:20] First, with the revenue side, we are budgeting an increase in sales tax revenue of 220,000. This is just a result of.
[43:28] A small spike we've seen in our overall sales tax revenue in fiscal year 2026.
[43:33] Additionally, we're budgeting an increase in appropriation of fund balance of 1.8184 million.
[43:40] I'll go into the details of that.
[43:41] More specifically right now.
[43:44] The first section we have relocation costs.
[43:47] Rent of the temporary City Hall.
[43:50] City Hall, construction site, utilities and then the portable trailer, if the council recalls previous.
[43:55] Work sessions. We've discussed that.
[43:58] We originally had the intention of.
[44:00] Budgeting certain items within our local building authority.
[44:04] After conversations with our auditors, we found that we actually need to move those expenses to the general fund. So we're.
[44:10] Rather than budgeting them within the LBA, we're now budgeting them within the general fund.
[44:15] The benefit of this is that it does open up.
[44:18] Some extra dollars within the LBA for our projects that we're working on.
[44:22] And those.
[44:23] Increases include the relocation costs, the rent of the temporary City Hall.
[44:27] The construction site utilities and then the portable trailer which would be located.
[44:32] At our regular 4580 S location and.
[44:35] Would really work as sort of a hub for any.
[44:38] On site activities that we have or.
[44:41] A location for our city engineers to work out of.
[44:44] When they're monitoring the project.
[44:46] So just to summarize, in these first four items are.
[44:50] Budget movement as opposed to new budget or additional funds such as moving it from 1:00.
[44:55] Organization to the other.
[44:57] Correct. So rather than spending, rather than using LBA dollars which came from the capital projects fund or from our bond
[45:00] proceeds, we're now using.
[45:05] Sales tax dollars just happened to coincide that we did see an increase in our sales tax dollars, otherwise it would have been a
[45:09] larger appropriation of general fund fund balance.
[45:16] Moving on from those, if there aren't any other questions, we have an increase in our translator fees.
[45:21] This has been an ongoing conversation. With the addition of Mill Creek, we've seen a larger increase in the need for translation
[45:24] services within our court.
[45:28] That's this increase is just recognizing that additional need.
[45:32] We have a small adjustment to our unified fire.
[45:35] Contract near the end of the previous fiscal well.
[45:40] Fiscal budgeting process last year there was a small adjustment that happened to the UFA contract. It's, it's a $2000 adjustment.
[45:43] Uh.
[45:48] Believe it's more just a rounding error in.
[45:50] The initial budget that we had received from.
[45:53] UFA.
[45:55] Next we have a.
[45:56] Decrease in.
[45:58] The salaries, wages for full time, this is specifically within the community development department and this is just recognizing
[46:02] the fact that we had had a position which was previously supposed to be our part-time building inspector. It was a position we've
[46:07] had.
[46:12] Difficulty filling.
[46:13] And the other side of that is we are increasing our building inspection contracts, so.
[46:18] Reducing the salary and then increasing our contracted services by the same amount for a net neutral budget effect.
[46:24] But just recognizing.
[46:26] That we do have that additional need for inspection services.
[46:30] Next we have an increase to.
[46:33] Engineering contract this is with Foreskin primarily and this is for right of way and just some General Services that.
[46:41] Foregren does for us, just as we're getting close to the end of the year, we have a few items that are.
[46:45] That are getting close to fully.
[46:47] Appropriating their entire budget. And so we're just trying to create a little bit of room for those projects that are getting a
[46:50] little closer.
[46:54] Next, we have our credit card processing fees which we're increasing by 9500. If you notice you look at the base budget, it's it's
[46:59] quite a bit lower and it's a pretty substantial increase.
[47:05] The reason for the pretty big increase pretty late in the.
[47:08] Here we had a number of.
[47:12] Building permits which?
[47:13] Traditionally, if it's over a certain dollar threshold, we require.
[47:17] Applicants to pay via check.
[47:20] There were just a few permits which were taken via credit card when they should have been checked.
[47:25] So because of that, we had to increase this this amount.
[47:29] This problem was addressed with an employee who was just unaware of the policy.
[47:33] So we've informed them and it it shouldn't happen again.
[47:36] Somebody got some airline miles out of it. Don't.
[47:38] Somebody did.
[47:40] Somebody did.
[47:41] And then the next line item, the last two were actually transfers. The first one is 1.2 million of dollars in transfer from the
[47:47] general fund to the capital projects fund and this is primarily for Highland Drive.
[47:53] With the logic being that.
[47:55] With our general fund having a pretty healthy fund balance, we're relatively near the state maximum of 35%.
[48:01] Unreserved general fund fund balance as a percentage of general fund revenue.
[48:05] So we're trying to preserve.
[48:08] In the event that we do have additional fund balance that's unassigned that's above what the state maximum is, we're just
[48:12] intending to move that over to capital projects to.
[48:17] Start to try to fund our large project in Highland Drive so.
[48:20] We may not necessarily transfer the full 1.2 million, but this is to give us the flexibility. If we do have that extra cash, we
[48:26] want to be able to move it over to capital projects to meet those needs. I also understand when you're.
[48:32] Grant writing for that sort of thing at Scadorny. Have some of your own matching Monday.
[48:37] Correct, sitting there.
[48:38] It increases your chances, right?
[48:39] Yes, yes.
[48:41] And then that final transfer for 59,000, this is a transfer which is actually.
[48:47] More associated with the fiscal year 2027 budget.
[48:50] Along with our spike that we've seen in our sales tax revenue within the general fund in 2026.
[48:55] We also have some projects in 2027.
[48:58] So we have extra cash in fiscal year 26. So the intention is that we're moving some of that extra cash from the general fund to
[49:04] the capital projects fund to meet some of those immediate needs that we're seeing in fiscal year 27.
[49:10] And that's the vehicle replacement and then also unrestricted capital projects typically.
[49:16] What happens with our unrestricted capital projects?
[49:20] It's really meant as a budget that's specifically to use for projects we don't necessarily know are going to come up. It's for