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Brandon, probably Jody and and uh
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potentially others in in further
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refining the the list of candidates.
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We want to make sure and get there's a
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high profile position
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on one regardless. So we want to get it
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right and go through a proper uh
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in-depth process. There's going to be
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time jinxing us. I don't need a lot of
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time. Okay.
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Anything.
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>> All right. Thank you. Right. The next
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item on the agenda is a discussion led
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by Jared Hall, our planning director on
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detached accessory dwelling minutes. So
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got 60 minutes and if you if we end at
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45 minutes, you've got to sing for 15.
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[laughter]
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>> About an hour 30 if you want. I can
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>> through. So after our last meeting uh
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took the comments that we heard uh the
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council talk about especially dealing
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with the setbacks that was a big issue
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and what they would look like and uh the
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idea of
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how would it look if we had setbacks
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that cut the expectation that people
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have now of the setbacks for instance
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you have to have a 30ft setback or a 25
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ft setback in the backyard. How would
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that work? And so we took those comments
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and we've got some graphics that show
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what this would be like.
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>> And as a reminder in this discussion,
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the goal, you haven't had the goal to
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try and make every lot be able to have
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an accessory
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uh or a detached uh accessory dwelling
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unit. Sometimes depending on how the
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property is built or constructed, for
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instance, they take up their whole
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buildable envelope on the property. It
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might make it difficult for someone to
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have a a a what do we call them now?
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What are we?
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>> No, I thought we were calling
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>> calling him daddos.
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>> He was doing that.
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>> So, did Jared would prefer you call them
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daddos? I will openly bully anyone that
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refers. [laughter]
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>> I heard that discussion in planning
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commission. That is not how it happens.
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>> Fair enough.
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>> Uh and so the larger you get in a lot
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the easier it may be, but the smaller
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lots admittedly they're difficult
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because someone may have maxed out uh
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already what they can build on and do.
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And so, uh, Jared will walk us through
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these, uh, graphics that we have.
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>> Okay. Um, thank you, Gary. So, this is a
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this is just a generic
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I don't want I don't want to use the
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term fake. It's a generic slide showing
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kind of a a typical or a a prototypical
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11,000t lot. They're usually just a
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little bit longer than they are wide.
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Sometimes they're a little wider than
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they're long, but you got to be, you
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know, in the typical zones that would generate 11,000 square foot
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lots, you'll have an 85 foot frontage
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requirement. 100 foot frontage is not out of the norm. Uh, but again, you
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know, every lot is shaped differently.
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So, this is just for purposes of
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discussion about what the setbacks might
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or what different approaches to setbacks
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might result in for us to start talking
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about this. Um what this is showing is
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in different parts separation from the
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primary residence at six feet. That's
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kind of the building code separation
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from accessories to main main buildings.
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That's the first one to be aware of.
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This is showing 25 ft for the rear um
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for the setback to the ADU from the rear
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property line. That is a typical R8 rear lot setback is 25 ft. Um, it's
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important to remember that this is not
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tied on that on that state code. This is
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not tied to zoning. It's tied to lot
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size. But so it might be there might be
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an 11,000 foot lot in the R8 zone, which
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would be a 25 ft rear. There might be an
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11,000 foot lot in the um R8 and in the
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R6 zone that would only be a 20ft rear
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lot setback, but we're going with so it
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would be tied to that zoning or 25 ft or
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whatever that case might be. So it's
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showing that setback and then we talked
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about in that meeting um [clears throat]
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in the last meeting
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uh looking at separation from not just
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the property lines but from the
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buildable areas of the adjacent lots so
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that if somebody has a small house we
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can look at this better in other
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graphics too. Somebody has a smaller
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house and they're only required say an
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8ft sideyard like this and this one
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here. Um, if you're if you're 10 feet,
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like we're saying on interior sides, you
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have to be at least 10 feet for your
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ADU, but you need to be 30 feet from
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anybody else's buildable area. So, if
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they add on to their house, you're not
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closer than you would have been
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otherwise. That's the thinking behind
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that kind of a setback. And then again,
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just a minimum, no matter how far, uh,
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of 10 feet from interior property lines,
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border sides, again, that would be
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facing a street. So, that would show you
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25 ft from any street, just like a front
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yard setback would. So this this um
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fictional house here 50x30 is a pretty
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typical ORM twostory house and plunked
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down here at 25 ft which is the front
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setback that the R8 zone would require
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and well inside of its 8ft sideyards
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that would be required as well. So that
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kind of shows you this this area right
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in here about 13x 56 in this um
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prototype diagram would be available for
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someone to put an ADU an attached ADU.
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Does that all make sense?
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So what we did is take this um
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configuration, these types of setback
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applications and apply them to some of
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the real world um lots that we had
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randomly selected for the last time we
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talked and laying those over those. So
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you can see kind of what Gary was
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talking about there. It it won't it
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wouldn't make it possible for every
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single lot to be used. But again, um,
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just looking for some of the kind of the
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goals was to have setbacks that might
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preclude something like this happening
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where it's it's further from the house
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here, but it's right on top of the
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neighbor's house that happens to be real
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close to a property line there, bigger
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unit, and it's plenty far from this
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adjacent home here, plenty far from the
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existing house here. It's right on top
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of these folks. So, trying to keep that
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from happening as a goal. You want
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something more into that. And right
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here, right in back, that back corner,
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it f it's in there, but it's right on
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top of this other folk's house. So, we
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applying it to the real world. You see
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these kind of situations. This is a
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culde-sac lot right here. This greened
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out area. You can see the house
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footprint right here, but the buildable
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portion of that lot is all of that. They
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could add on to all of those lines. So,
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that's that 30ft setback from their
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buildable area. Um, that would show if
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we have that kind of a setback, then it
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would limit that ADU location from 30 ft
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away from the buildable, 25 ft for the
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rear yard, and then 6 ft from the house.
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So, you have this area in here where you
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could fit a small ADU perhaps.
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Uh, this is a lot kind of like the one
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we were just looking at, but it's a
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little shallower.
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So, you went with that 25 ft rear
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setback showing here, 6 ft from the
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house, 30 ft again from that buildable
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area. You see the the house right here.
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they could add on coming to this area.
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So that setback of 30 shows from the
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buildable area instead of from the foam
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itself and then 25 like 25 ft to the
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street back here on the corner.
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You have a kind of a narrow area, but
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again there are some units that could
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fit in there. Uh this is a this is a
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good situation. Gary mentioned people in
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the way they site their homes. Whoever
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did this was thinking about an ADU in
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the future that they couldn't possibly
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have known about time and traveled back
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and they got this is the best area of
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all of them that we kind of randomly
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sampled in uh given these kinds of
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setbacks. 30 ft from the buildables and
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they're built right to their line. 30 ft
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from the buildables, they're built
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really close. 20 ft off still gives you
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a nice big area in this this in this
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middle of that lot. 11,296
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ft. So it's not a huge lot. It's right
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there just inside where we would allow
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them under that state code. Here's a
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culde-sac lot. It's a big lot, 13,500
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ft², but it's a bigger footprint home
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and taking up a bigger portion of that
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lot. A lot of that lot is in this area
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here. Um, some of that square footage is
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just kind of lost. 30 ft off that
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buildable setback, 25 ft from the rear.
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So, you end up with a kind of an odd
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shaped area that you could use. It might
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be hard to sight one.
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This one looks like it would be easy to
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do. It's a little tougher. 30 ft from
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the buildables gives you this area. and
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that 25 foot rear set back. They don't
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have a whole lot of space they could
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build it. Again, some lots just will not
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quite with this nook in their house.
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They could have maybe gotten something
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in here, but with that 30 foot off,
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keeping them off of this house here,
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it's a little tougher.
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These again are just samples. We can't
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show you all 5,800 square or 5,800 lots
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in the city and how they would work. But
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yeah,
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>> and Jared, this is spec specifically as
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it relates to detached statues.
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So
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>> some of these if it doesn't work for
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detach they could do like a basement
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ADU.
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>> Absolutely. Absolutely.
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>> They come into compliance with all of
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those specific regions.
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>> Yeah. Jack, let me go back up to the the
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wrong word. When somebody realizes what
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the right word I'm looking for here is,
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say it and they'll remember.
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>> This house has not been built to its
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setbacks. So let's say they couldn't get
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an ADU, a detached ADU, um, like Bren
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was saying in the area that they want
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here. They just can't find the one they
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want to fit. they want to go bigger or
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something. Our internal ADUs or attached
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ADUs, this is a
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>> I like internal.
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>> Internal is a term, a different term.
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Um, they could add on. They have space
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they got on with their setback. So, they
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could add on instead and do a nice ADU.
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Or they could maybe they've got enough
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space in their basement right now. They
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could do it.
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>> That dash line in the [snorts] schematic
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there is their buildable line for the
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house on that lot. So they may not be
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able to get the
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detached ADU that they want, but they
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certainly could add on to the house to
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that crosshatch area, which they can do
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now, and put a an ADU there. Correct.
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>> internal.
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>> Yeah, thank you.
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>> That's that's a good that's a good
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point. So all of the and all of these
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lots, most of the zones would allow
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internal ADUs. That that's a good fall
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back.
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This is this discussion is limited to
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stadium use. Um let's see. We made it to
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that one. Uh here's another one that
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kind of works out better for the folks
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that have this lot. It's a it's
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straight. It's an exactly 11,000t lot.
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Uh there's a nice area in here where you
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could build a detached ADU
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or again you could add on if you wanted
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to an internal. Um, so those are kind of
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our examples for the spacing for
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setbacks to talk about and that's what
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we're again the setbacks we're using in
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these diagrams.
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These examples are those maintaining a
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25 ft rear and then going 30 ft from the
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buildable areas on the adjacent lots and
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6 ft from
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>> that looks very fair. I like your work
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there. That looks like you've addressed
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concerns on all sides. It's
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>> it's uh it would preclude some of these
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kinds of things.
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but allow other situations maybe to
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work. So, um any discussions about that
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before we talk about Pike stuff?
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>> Um can you maybe and maybe you said this
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already, I missed it, but can you tell
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me of of the 11,000 square foot lots
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that would qualify for this? How many of
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those would that would these setbacks
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restrict?
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>> I don't know. have to
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we could survey all of the the eligible
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11,000 foot lots and see and run this
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kind of diagram on all of them.
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>> But we could potentially be eliminating
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50% or 60% or we have no idea.
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>> We wouldn't be able to tell you that. We
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have to run that.
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>> My next question is how do these
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setbacks compare to other cities?
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>> That's a good question.
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>> Other places.
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>> That's a good question. They are um
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there are several cities that run
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programs that have the this you maintain
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20 or 25 ft from rear. A lot of them
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have 10 foot sides. That's where I came
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up with the 10 foot interiors in the
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first place. Um the cities that are this
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is maybe a good point to get to. Quinn
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had asked about um are you there?
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>> Uh yes, I'm here.
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>> Awesome. So Quinn, you had asked about
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um other cities and getting some
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information from them and Jen's question
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kind of goes to that. So, I'm going to
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take a second and go through some
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numbers if that's okay.
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>> That would be be really great. Thank
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you.
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>> We we haven't heard back from everybody
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we reached out to. It turns out that
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planners are notoriously bad at
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returning phone calls. I don't know if
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you knew this.
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>> I know.
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>> I had no idea. [laughter]
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>> Return mine.
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>> Terrible. But waiting for a couple of
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cities to contact us back with some
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numbers, but just for a for a a I'm
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going to start with the one to talk
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about
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um the setbacks. Um so in Murray for
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example uh 10 foot rear setbacks, 10
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foot side setbacks, 20 foot corner side
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setbacks. Uh Salt Lake and but they have
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with those setbacks they've got a total
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of nine units right now. Um detached
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units.
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>> How long have they had that?
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>> It has been more difficult until
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recently until 2019. That's as of 2019
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that it went to those setbacks.
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Um
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the South Salt Lake City, this is just
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permit data from 2025 and 2026. Um they
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have run 73 units and they've permitted
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73 detached accessory dwelling units.
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Most of those are between 400 and 600
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ft² and almost all of them.
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Yeah, that's the note. Almost all are
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for garage conversions. Uh, Salt Lake
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City is allowing garage conversions for
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detached accessory dwelling unit and
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it's up right up to property lines. So,
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that's a little different that probably
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and that I'm assuming that accounts for
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the greater numbers. It's just easier to
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do those setbacks and when you're
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putting them not just garage
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conversions, but they're allowing them
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over garages um as well. So, that's one thing. West Jordan allows
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them at 15t rear property line setbacks
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and 8ft internals 20 ft from corner
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sides. Um, they've got 12 units.
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[clears throat] Bountiful started doing
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this in 2008. The code now allows for 8
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foot setbacks at the rear and side
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property lines. Um they have 27 units
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and Salt Lake County. Uh same as uh Salt
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Lake City, they've got 20 total units in
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unincorporated county. So places like
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Magna and Karns and um Immigration
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Canyon, I suppose. White city. I could
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keep listing them because I have a city
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planner, but I'm going to stop there.
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And unincorporated Salt Lake County, 20
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units. uh they allow them at five feet
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from property lines uh and one foot from
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property lines is a garage a garage
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conversion. They don't have a lot but
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you know it's it's incorporating camp.
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So those are the numbers we've been able
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to get so far. So they're kind of all
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over the place on setbacks. Um and where
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you have them at where you have them at
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lower setbacks you do see greater
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numbers of units and that that kind of
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makes sense in Victoria.
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So I think my concern is I did some
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research into that too and that way you
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came up with generally tracks. Murray
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was 10 feet from uh rear and side. Salt
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Lake was uh 10 ft rear. Salt Lake City
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was three feet from side and rear.
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Colorado Springs was 5T rear side and
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front. Um and Portland very by location.
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But I think my point is I feel like that
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this is kind of an outlier. 25 ft is
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kind of an outlier for me. So, I think I
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would feel more comfortable looking at
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that again and seeing if we could maybe,
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you know, release some of those because
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I think my ultimate concern is the what
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does the law say? It says that they need
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to be reasonably what is it?
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>> It can't be unreasonably difficult to
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locate them.
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>> It can't be unreasonably difficult to
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locate them. So, I think we're trying to
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balance two things. We're trying to
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balance the privacy of the neighbors
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with the ability of people to do with
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their properties what they want in a way
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that's not unreasonable. So, I would
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argue that 25 feet is probably a little
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extreme. And the other thing I'm
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concerned about is the property um the
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uh the 30 foot distance between
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properties
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>> the buildable to the
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>> because that that brings up equity
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issues for me. You know, well, you don't
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actually have anything there. You could
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potentially put something there, but you
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might never, you might not if you build
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first. Like there's just all kinds of
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issues there. I would rather have us say
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look, it needs to be 10 foot from a
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fence line. And then either way, you're
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going to be 20 ft between.
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>> Yeah. No matter what, you'd always say
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about 20. Some cases you might be.
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>> That feels more fair to me.
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>> Would be that would be the result of
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that. So yeah, that's a conversation we
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need to have.
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>> So those are my concerns.
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>> Will you remind me again what the
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planning commission recommended?
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>> The current recommendation is 20 is 10
[16:49]
ft from interior property lines. That
[16:51]
would include rears. Let me go back to
[16:52]
the diagram and just do it this way. So
[16:54]
the current recommendation would be 10
[16:56]
ft from all property lines that are
[16:59]
interior. So the rear and the sides,
[17:01]
your ADU would have to be 10 ft from
[17:03]
those and at least 20 ft from anybody
[17:05]
else's dwelling on their lot. So, if
[17:07]
they happen to be a sideyard up against
[17:09]
your rear lot area where you want to put
[17:11]
your ADU, you got to have 10 feet on
[17:13]
your side, then you have to be 20 ft
[17:15]
from theirs. Well, if they happen to be
[17:16]
5 ft from their property on your side,
[17:19]
stay 20 ft off their building. That's
[17:20]
the current post.
[17:22]
>> Thank you.
[17:24]
>> And you need to remember that that those
[17:26]
standards came in to put that in the
[17:29]
staff report because state law doesn't
[17:31]
require a setback. state law would would
[17:34]
allow you to go right to the property
[17:36]
line. However, internally as staff, we
[17:38]
thought don't do that. Absolutely do not
[17:41]
go below 10 on any of these. Doesn't
[17:44]
mean you you shouldn't go higher or
[17:46]
couldn't go higher depending on
[17:48]
balancing those equities, but we felt it
[17:52]
important to make sure that the planning
[17:55]
commission and council knew we just
[17:58]
don't think you should go below 10 at
[18:00]
all.
[18:01]
>> Thank you. Well, and when I attended the
[18:03]
planning commission meeting where they
[18:04]
went over this ordinance, there were
[18:06]
some discussions that were being had and
[18:08]
it was interesting when I mentioned
[18:10]
about impact on surrounding properties.
[18:13]
Um, several of them were like, "Oh, we
[18:15]
didn't think of that." So, that would,
[18:18]
you know, what they what they designed
[18:22]
was property specific without looking at
[18:26]
impact on the surrounding neighbors. And
[18:29]
when that was pointed out, I felt like
[18:32]
in that meeting that there was some um
[18:35]
indication of
[18:37]
we missed that.
[18:41]
>> I have two other thoughts on um one you
[18:44]
and I had talked about um setbacks that
[18:48]
might be different in the rear setback
[18:50]
for properties that above a normal
[18:52]
residential.
[18:52]
>> Oh, for yeah, for commercial
[18:54]
>> commercial or like there's a school
[18:55]
behind you or there's a park behind you
[18:56]
or there's trail behind you. I mean like
[18:59]
that's I think having the I mean all the
[19:00]
way at the property line for me like
[19:01]
that's not going to impact anybody and I
[19:03]
think that those property owners deserve
[19:04]
to to do that. So
[19:05]
>> that's a good that's a good point. Non
[19:07]
non-residential properties or unused
[19:09]
open space properties park space that
[19:11]
kind of thing
[19:12]
>> but it does impact the neighbor next
[19:14]
door. There may not be someone behind,
[19:17]
but if I have a neighbor who has filled
[19:19]
their backyard with a
[19:22]
that impacts me and my quality of life.
[19:24]
>> Well, and that's how the side setbacks
[19:26]
would would impact that. So, the rear
[19:28]
setback I think could be different where
[19:30]
the side setbacks could be the same.
[19:33]
>> Um, I think if you're filling your
[19:34]
backyard with the dwelling,
[19:37]
that's a I'm talking about kind of a
[19:39]
little different impact there. Well,
[19:42]
certainly it would still be limited by
[19:43]
size and a number of other factors as
[19:46]
well. I don't think that they that would
[19:47]
give them license to build the whole
[19:48]
fence line in some giant building. I
[19:50]
think it would just mean they could be
[19:51]
closer to that than maybe someone else
[19:54]
who has a neighbor behind them. But it's
[19:55]
still if I'm in my h house. I mean, I
[19:57]
have that right now, but the home's
[19:59]
being built behind me, right? I'm in my
[20:01]
house. I have this setback. I can see
[20:04]
over here cuz my neighbor has the same
[20:07]
setback.
[20:09]
If my neighbor fills their backyard with
[20:12]
20 foot tall building, that is then
[20:16]
impinging on my
[20:19]
um expectation of the zoning that was in
[20:22]
place when I moved in and built my
[20:24]
house. We're now increasing we're now
[20:27]
decreasing my sightelines, increasing um
[20:30]
and this isn't even you can't build
[20:32]
behind me, you know, nim stuff. this is
[20:34]
just normal expectation from an R8
[20:38]
um housing development. That's kind of
[20:40]
the way I'm looking at it, I guess, is
[20:44]
there's not just the rear, but there's
[20:46]
side impacts, too, that can affect the
[20:49]
quality of life of the people living on
[20:52]
either side of someone who fills their
[20:54]
backyard with a hatch to in other words,
[20:56]
another dwelling really.
[20:58]
>> So, I just want to make sure I
[20:59]
understand. So you're what you're saying
[21:01]
is is the rear the rear in uh setback
[21:05]
impacts
[21:07]
>> neighbors
[21:07]
>> the side neighbors even if the if the
[21:10]
side setbacks remain the same if they
[21:12]
have is it's the rear imping back. Okay
[21:15]
make sure I understood.
[21:16]
>> Thank you.
[21:17]
>> My my other point was
[21:20]
and I don't know how to reconcile this
[21:22]
in my head but you have this house can
[21:24]
be 8 foot setbacks. So, we're saying,
[21:26]
well, your ADU can't be I mean, 10 or 20
[21:30]
or whatever, 30 feet from the other
[21:31]
property line, but I could extend my
[21:32]
house and I could go eight feet for
[21:34]
forever. And yeah, there's just this
[21:35]
sort of inconsistency between I could
[21:37]
build a giant house and it could be two
[21:39]
stories, it could be as tall as I want
[21:40]
and only 8 ft, but the ADU can only be,
[21:42]
you know, there's just a little bit of
[21:43]
>> I get what you're saying. So, like the
[21:45]
Yeah, the house can be 8 ft off, but the
[21:47]
ADU can't. ADU has to be
[21:49]
>> accessory dwelling has to be further
[21:51]
from my house. Your actual dwelling has
[21:53]
to be
[21:54]
>> Sure. And I, you know, and maybe that's
[21:55]
something we just sort of live with, but
[21:57]
I think I would like to see a little bit
[21:58]
more consistency. I think that's because
[22:00]
the ADU is subordinate to the home. Um,
[22:03]
and I'm just going to use my
[22:04]
neighborhood as an example with very
[22:06]
modest neighborhood. We all built our
[22:07]
homes 35, 40 years ago, right? I have
[22:09]
had several neighbors that have now
[22:11]
expanded their footprint their homes
[22:14]
because they can afford they want a
[22:16]
little more room now. So I think the
[22:18]
fact that the reason the the footprint
[22:22]
for the home means um
[22:26]
uh I don't know what the right word is
[22:27]
dominant superior whatever is for
[22:30]
whoever moves into that home whoever
[22:32]
builds that home they will always have
[22:34]
opportunity
[22:36]
for that footprint and it will never be
[22:38]
impinged upon by a dwelling built next
[22:41]
door. So, it's kind of preserving
[22:45]
their any land owner's true opportunity.
[22:50]
That's the kind of the way I I feel like
[22:52]
you're presenting it. And that's
[22:55]
I think a key thing to
[22:57]
>> Well, and I just wonder if we're
[22:58]
incentivizing something we don't intend
[23:00]
to. Are we incentivizing people to build
[23:02]
more and closer to the fence line by
[23:04]
keeping that rule rather than saying,
[23:05]
"Okay, you're going to have a little bit
[23:06]
more flexibility, but the impact isn't
[23:08]
going to be quite as big if you build an
[23:09]
attached unit."
[23:11]
That's say that one more time.
[23:13]
>> Well, so I wonder if we're in by by
[23:15]
keeping the setback rules more strict. I
[23:17]
wonder if we're incentivizing people to
[23:19]
build more onto their houses than build
[23:21]
bigger
[23:22]
>> because they I would just build an
[23:23]
attached
[23:24]
>> So you could go up higher and farther
[23:26]
and the impact of the neighbor is going
[23:27]
to be greater than if we just let them
[23:29]
build a smaller
[23:30]
>> but but it would still be protected.
[23:32]
Their expectation of the zoning in place
[23:35]
when they and like my next door neighbor
[23:37]
I know he's never going to go bigger
[23:40]
that footprint because he has the same
[23:43]
setbacks from the property line. those
[23:45]
are preserved and whoever moves in,
[23:48]
whoever does it, that's an expectation
[23:52]
that is always, you know, I can always
[23:55]
have confidence in. So, you want to add
[23:58]
and put an ADU in there instead of
[24:00]
adding a family room on the back of your
[24:01]
house, that's your choice.
[24:03]
>> As long as you stay in that same
[24:04]
footprint, I really can't say anything
[24:06]
about it. I mean, I can be upset or
[24:08]
whatever, you know, but it's really not
[24:10]
my call because you still preserved the
[24:13]
integrity of the zoning that was in
[24:15]
place when those homes
[24:18]
>> that's kind of my
[24:20]
guess. So, I mean, I see what you're
[24:22]
saying, but I think um I guess I'm
[24:26]
looking more longterm for whoever ends
[24:28]
up living in the home and the next door
[24:30]
neighbor who lives next to the home that
[24:33]
it's just going to stay equal and fair.
[24:37]
into the decades forward. [laughter] Um,
[24:40]
you know, because everyone can rely on
[24:42]
that.
[24:43]
>> I think there's also the expectation
[24:45]
that if I bought my home in a single
[24:49]
family home neighborhood, I expect it to
[24:52]
do that. And so that detached unit
[24:56]
should be as unobtrusive as possible for
[24:59]
that family home feelings. That's part
[25:03]
of it for me.
[25:09]
question.
[25:10]
>> I think you answered all the questions.
[25:12]
>> I have a question that's a little bit
[25:13]
down the road. So, that's really nice to
[25:15]
be able to have that template to put
[25:16]
over a lot. So, if someone wants to
[25:18]
consider doing this, they come to you or
[25:21]
will you have something online that they
[25:23]
tool that they can say, okay, if I
[25:25]
wanted to do this, this is these are my
[25:26]
parameters. And it would be cool if we
[25:29]
could make it a tool so they could use
[25:30]
it on their lot. I'm not sure we could
[25:31]
do that cuz I don't know the technology
[25:33]
well enough, but we could certainly do
[25:34]
it. Help them see if it would work not
[25:37]
set by be neat if there was a way for
[25:39]
them to to use what we use to do it.
[25:43]
>> Produce these. That would be cool.
[25:45]
>> Whatever the council ends up deciding, I
[25:47]
would envision we would have something
[25:48]
like that that graphically reflects how
[25:52]
the ordinance works on our website so
[25:54]
somebody could look at it and get a
[25:58]
rough idea. And again, every lot's a
[26:00]
little different. Sometimes the house
[26:02]
isn't as 30t deep. Sometimes it's 45 ft
[26:07]
deep. Sometimes they're at 25 ft.
[26:09]
Sometimes they're 30.
[26:11]
>> So, moves around a little bit.
[26:13]
>> An info sheet we would definitely have
[26:15]
put online and things like that.
[26:16]
>> Yeah.
[26:17]
>> And we take those kind of calls a lot
[26:19]
already. Not about detached ADUs because
[26:21]
right now we're just saying you have to
[26:22]
wait and see.
[26:24]
We get that a lot with um accessory like
[26:26]
sheds and garages. Where can I put it?
[26:30]
>> The other thing that comes
[26:31]
>> appreciate this conversation. Oh, go
[26:33]
ahead. I know.
[26:33]
>> Please.
[26:34]
>> Um I appreciate the graphic.
[26:36]
>> That's Emma. Thank you, Emma. If you're
[26:38]
watching watching, you know,
[26:41]
>> because it it helps me better helps me
[26:43]
visualize visualize this. I'm I I
[26:46]
appreciate I appreciate council member
[26:48]
Millet what you're saying and and your
[26:51]
suggest and the suggestions that have
[26:53]
come to create this has helped me better
[26:55]
understand I I have I have some concerns
[26:58]
about the size of these setbacks. Uh one
[27:01]
of the reasons is I don't want the as a
[27:06]
state has mandated
[27:08]
uh that we allow ADUs
[27:12]
on 11,000 square foot lots. I don't want
[27:14]
to be construed as somebody trying to
[27:17]
make it unreasonably difficult to locate
[27:21]
to where we would be used as an example of
[27:26]
being unreasonably difficult to locate.
[27:28]
That one looked like a looked like one
[27:30]
of those little cat tunnels that would
[27:33]
go.
[27:33]
>> Oh yeah,
[27:34]
>> just whatever. But not but I also
[27:37]
recognize that we don't have to allow
[27:42]
a reasonable we don't every 11,000 plus
[27:45]
square foot lot doesn't have to
[27:48]
>> fit this either
[27:50]
>> that's in it's inevitable be lots that
[27:52]
it just whatever we wrote it
[27:54]
>> I need I need to think about
[27:55]
particularly the the ones the the I
[27:58]
understand the rear yard I'm just
[28:00]
thinking the 30 feet from the buildable
[28:02]
area on each side and I and I get that
[28:04]
because some of those some of those
[28:06]
examples you used are are alarming and I would not want that but
[28:13]
this is a good discussion to try and
[28:15]
figure out a balance.
[28:16]
>> I listened to ULCT's DAU discussion or
[28:20]
they had a little webinar about that
[28:23]
2008
[28:24]
>> and I don't think that that setback
[28:26]
would be construed as unreasonable by
[28:28]
their definition. So, if you haven't
[28:31]
watched that, I would encourage you to
[28:32]
go watch that because they really do
[28:35]
break down what they feel like would be
[28:37]
construed as reasonable and unreasonable
[28:39]
in those situations. And my
[28:42]
interpretation of that is that this
[28:43]
would not be construed as unreasonable.
[28:45]
Um, and again, just because you have an
[28:47]
11,000 foot lot does not mean that you
[28:49]
are therefore have the right to have to
[28:53]
Yeah. There's there's not some right
[28:54]
that's inherent in having that size of
[28:56]
lot that you could then have this. There
[28:58]
are limitations on what that looks like
[29:01]
and and we are
[29:04]
>> with the responsibility of determining
[29:06]
what that looks like to make sure that
[29:08]
we're not
[29:10]
infringing on other people's property
[29:12]
rights and the the neighborhood feel and
[29:15]
all of that. And and a lot of what they
[29:17]
talked about in that was that
[29:22]
to to maintain the character of a single
[29:24]
family home neighborhood is okay. That's
[29:27]
part of what they're doing. This this
[29:28]
shouldn't
[29:30]
the ADU should not change that for
[29:32]
people.
[29:33]
>> So, I'll go back. I had to step away
[29:35]
from it partway through. So, I'll go
[29:37]
back and and watch watch the whole thing
[29:39]
again. So, thank you.
[29:42]
>> Great.
[29:44]
>> Any other questions about that backs or
[29:47]
kind of how that might work?
[29:48]
>> I would almost say like you gave us
[29:49]
these unit numbers. I mean, I they
[29:52]
really don't help me unless I know what
[29:54]
percentage they are of homes.
[29:56]
>> Yeah.
[29:57]
>> Salt Lake City 73, but they have so many
[29:59]
more houses, right? So, and I'm just to
[30:03]
me when I look at these numbers that you
[30:04]
gave us, Salt Lake County is huge in
[30:07]
geographic area.
[30:08]
>> Um, it it actually just makes me think
[30:12]
this is a great tool for some people,
[30:14]
but this is probably not the most
[30:16]
desirable. We probably have more
[30:18]
interior ADU opportunities.
[30:20]
>> Probably have more interior adus than
[30:22]
>> Yeah. So, you know, I just feel like
[30:25]
we're um the people who are going to
[30:28]
want to do it are going to do it because
[30:30]
they can and they're otherwise they're
[30:32]
>> they're going to be there are going to
[30:33]
be more more there always in every city
[30:35]
in most cases there's going to be more
[30:37]
opportunity for people to do interior ID
[30:40]
use. I think that's that's verifiable.
[30:43]
That just it's it's more cost effective
[30:45]
sometime. I guess there are times when
[30:46]
it wouldn't be, but it's generally been
[30:48]
it's been more cost effective. It's a
[30:50]
lot. You don't have to rerun the
[30:52]
utilities. You don't have to run more.
[30:53]
It's expensive to treasure utility lines
[30:55]
thing. So, the costs skyrocket pretty
[30:57]
quick on on detached, but some things
[31:00]
about that are changing. I think but I
[31:02]
think those numbers actually kind of
[31:03]
bear that out. Salt Lake City is is a
[31:06]
big place. They've been doing for a lot
[31:07]
longer and 73 seems like a big number
[31:09]
until you take it in context. It's still
[31:12]
the other thing that happens is if if
[31:14]
you have a really narrow lot, a small
[31:15]
lot, you're trying to make things fit.
[31:17]
We have these setbacks, and this is true
[31:18]
of everything, not just detached
[31:20]
accessory dwelling units, but you're
[31:22]
putting up a shed, you're putting up a
[31:23]
garage, and you want to put it further
[31:24]
toward your property line. This doesn't
[31:26]
even take into account the easements
[31:28]
that are probably there. There's
[31:29]
probably a seven or an eight or a 10ft
[31:31]
easement that you may have to get, if
[31:33]
we're allowing it, even if we allow you
[31:34]
to go in there, you have to get it
[31:36]
vacated or get a waiver from all the
[31:38]
utility companies. one of those utility
[31:40]
companies won't vacate or won't wave,
[31:42]
you don't build in that area, regardless
[31:43]
of what our setbacks do or don't
[31:44]
require. So, that's out there, too. And
[31:47]
that might kill some projects otherwise
[31:49]
if people are, well, I'm going to add on
[31:51]
to my garage. It's back here. It's only
[31:52]
a foot off. My garage is non-conforming
[31:54]
because it's built in. Won't let us give
[31:56]
a new permit to put the That's going to
[31:58]
happen to anybody. Easements are unless
[32:02]
you're an engineer, you like
[32:06]
>> necessary.
[32:07]
Um so you say
[32:12]
Jared how how
[32:15]
quality assurance work you take the
[32:18]
total amount of
[32:20]
possible products
[32:23]
would say we'll take a random sample of
[32:26]
a square root of that and then that was
[32:29]
a representative sample that would then
[32:31]
help you figure out what was uh the
[32:35]
likely outcome um if applied to
[32:38]
everything. So maybe we could take a
[32:42]
bigger random sample. So if if there's a
[32:44]
total of 5,000 11,000 plus square foot
[32:48]
single family lots in the city, take the
[32:52]
square root of that number, you random
[32:55]
amount of them. Why these setbacks?
[32:58]
Um and then and see if it is it does
[33:02]
that does that mean a majority of those
[33:05]
wouldn't be able to do a detached or a
[33:09]
minority
[33:11]
know would be restricted and
[33:13]
>> so I I don't know that I need you to do
[33:15]
that. I to me this that that's data is
[33:18]
great, right? But to give you the the
[33:22]
charge to go do that. I I don't know
[33:24]
that that's the key um determinant.
[33:28]
Maybe other council members feel
[33:29]
differently, but I kind of hate
[33:31]
offloading that to you guys. I don't see
[33:33]
that as relevant data to the extent that
[33:36]
I can use it.
[33:38]
>> I would have to teach the
[33:40]
>> decision planners what a square root is
[33:42]
first.
[33:44]
I mean data is great but how do you
[33:46]
apply it right? How does it affect
[33:50]
>> it? It's important but it's one of
[33:53]
several things that we're looking at
[33:54]
decision points. Yeah.
[33:56]
>> It's also something that we could do if um not that I'm obsessed with
[34:00]
deadlines. My whole life is deadlines.
[34:02]
So it's also something we could do if um
[34:05]
if something is passed and then we're
[34:06]
concerned that it was overly restrictive
[34:09]
or not restrictive enough or if it if it
[34:11]
made it too available. You know what I
[34:12]
mean? Um, and it
[34:15]
>> Yeah, but it's something we could do. I
[34:17]
could do a T-square list right now.
[34:20]
>> I think that's another great point. We
[34:21]
have to come up with something by August
[34:23]
or October 1st. That's what we're
[34:25]
charged with by the state. It doesn't
[34:27]
mean that we can't revisit this and and
[34:32]
change things later. Um,
[34:35]
loosening things up is a lot easier than
[34:37]
reeling them back in. So I I think that
[34:39]
there is some prudence in starting with
[34:43]
>> maybe a tighter
[34:45]
ordinance to begin with and then as we
[34:49]
see the practical implications of it we
[34:52]
can decide what what changes would need
[34:56]
to happen. We have that ability
[34:58]
>> and as an example of that uh recently we
[35:02]
worked and redefined the building
[35:04]
envelope
[35:05]
>> right
[35:06]
>> uh of that you can build heights you
[35:09]
know when we had a situation where
[35:10]
people have built the envelope was their
[35:13]
home and that didn't seem to be good so
[35:16]
we came up with a new way of looking at
[35:18]
the envelope and I can tell you it was
[35:21]
our best estimate and best guess we
[35:24]
didn't go through every single property
[35:25]
and try and look at it what they could
[35:27]
do. But what we're doing as people come
[35:30]
in and if an issue comes up uh we work
[35:35]
through it or if we run into something
[35:38]
that okay we didn't anticipate this.
[35:40]
What we would do is come back to the
[35:42]
council and say okay this is the
[35:45]
ordinance we passed. It was our best
[35:48]
estimate of what happened. we now run
[35:50]
into this situation and a a property
[35:54]
owners in this uh trying to build this.
[35:59]
Did we mean to capture and stop this
[36:01]
from happening? And if we did, great. We
[36:04]
leave the ordinance alone. And if we
[36:05]
didn't, then we could tweak the
[36:06]
ordinance. And there's some simple
[36:08]
tweaks that we could do uh with that.
[36:12]
but an ordinance like this, if
[36:14]
you're asking me and Jared, is this
[36:17]
going to be the best ordinance ever
[36:18]
written on this and it will never need
[36:20]
to be amended? Well, yeah. Well, no, it
[36:23]
won't. Uh because it never is. And as we
[36:27]
get experience applying it in the real
[36:30]
world, we may run across some things
[36:32]
like, yeah, we're capturing things that
[36:34]
nobody really thought that was a
[36:37]
problem. Or it may be, yeah, that's
[36:39]
exactly what we wanted to stop from
[36:41]
happening. This would be a big impact.
[36:44]
So all of our ordinances as we have ex
[36:48]
real life experience with them, we'll
[36:50]
come back to you and and update you on
[36:53]
it. And like the uh the building height
[36:56]
or the building envelope one and this
[37:00]
one as we go on, you know, we could just
[37:02]
schedule out 6 months, 9 months from
[37:06]
enactment, we would come back and give
[37:08]
you an update on how this ordinance is
[37:10]
actually working. So you actually know
[37:14]
what the effect is that it's having on
[37:16]
the community.
[37:21]
» Thank you. Council members, any other
[37:23]
questions? I know I I say you've still
[37:25]
got 20 minutes, 25 minutes.
[37:28]
>> Got two other categories to go through.
[37:30]
>> All [laughter] right.
[37:33]
>> Because we we did talk about as well in
[37:35]
that in that in the previous meeting we
[37:37]
talked about [laughter]
[37:38]
and again we were we kind of um
[37:42]
in the interest of making the deadlines
[37:43]
work, we spitballled a lot of these um
[37:46]
suggestions. So, looking at heights, we
[37:49]
had originally said um
[37:52]
oh my gosh, I can't as I'm sitting here
[37:54]
remember what we had allowed before and
[37:55]
I can't remember. I I apologize. This is
[37:58]
just this was a diagram that Emma did
[38:00]
for us to show really simply and rel
[38:03]
relatively what 14 ft would look like
[38:05]
next to a typical home. This is a 30-ft
[38:08]
tall home that would allow and like a
[38:10]
home on an adjacent lot. This is showing
[38:11]
that 25t rear setback, etc. So this is
[38:14]
where it would live an ADU in the kind
[38:16]
of setbacks that we're talking about
[38:17]
here. And with respect to um this
[38:21]
actually doesn't show the 25 ft that on
[38:23]
the property. Sorry, it's different.
[38:25]
This was from before, but this is the
[38:27]
kind of mass you'd be looking at. This
[38:29]
is a flat roof at 12 ft. Um
[38:33]
we're looking at um the kinds of things
[38:35]
at a graded graded height allowance. So
[38:38]
the minimum setbacks that we require
[38:41]
say something like and these are again
[38:42]
just kind of spitball numbers a flat
[38:44]
roof could have 12 ft of allowable
[38:46]
height at the setback that's required
[38:48]
the minimum and then give it a one for
[38:50]
one increase as it gets further into the
[38:53]
itself up to 16 ft for the flat roof and
[38:57]
then pitch roofs 14 ft at the minimums
[38:59]
and up to 18 ft to get more on the
[39:02]
interior of the line. We've been um
[39:06]
a little higher than that on the
[39:07]
previous the current proposal is greater
[39:10]
than that. I I wish I I'd left the slide
[39:12]
that showed that and I took it out at
[39:13]
the last minute
[39:14]
>> thinking. So
[39:15]
>> you want to know what? Yeah, we have you
[39:18]
want to know what the current It's 20T
[39:21]
for uh pitched and 14 for flat.
[39:24]
>> Flat. Okay.
[39:25]
>> Current.
[39:26]
>> There you go.
[39:29]
>> And no increases, right? That's just
[39:31]
straight.
[39:32]
>> Straight. This would this would be and
[39:34]
these are again just numbers. Um some of
[39:37]
it is related to just ceiling heights
[39:39]
that people like to use. 12 foot would
[39:42]
accommodate uh for flat roofs. Let me
[39:43]
just show you a picture. 12T would
[39:45]
easily accommodate a flat roof. This is
[39:47]
a converted OnX um unit. Uh it would
[39:51]
accommodate these. They're they're
[39:52]
technically flat roofs under our
[39:54]
definition of 312. So, and this one is
[39:58]
you can see the interior of this unit
[40:00]
pretty well. It's nice. You can nice
[40:01]
high ceiling. This is a unit
[40:03]
specifically designed for
[40:04]
exhibitionists. There's no shades on it.
[40:07]
>> And and what Jared's talking about is
[40:11]
one of the big pushes for
[40:14]
patch
[40:16]
or conx. They're shipping containers
[40:19]
shipping those
[40:21]
>> modules and you bring them in and you uh
[40:25]
you can buy some on Amazon. Now
[40:28]
>> I think that's the same structure. It's
[40:30]
a It's
[40:31]
>> looking at it. It looks like it's the
[40:33]
same structure.
[40:33]
>> The daytime version.
[40:35]
>> Yeah.
[40:38]
» It looks taller in the dark, doesn't it?
[40:40]
>> Just how it is.
[40:44]
[clears throat]
[40:44]
>> Dark is magical. So,
[40:46]
>> but it would accommodate those kinds of
[40:47]
units. And then,
[40:48]
>> so can I ask you something? Well,
[40:51]
>> so and maybe I don't know if chief if
[40:52]
you know this. I someone today told me
[40:55]
that those structures are very
[40:57]
questionably
[40:59]
their safety
[41:00]
>> questionable in their safety for fire
[41:02]
codes and things like that. Do we that
[41:05]
might be something in our list six
[41:07]
months from now or a year from now to
[41:08]
look at is I I I would like to get some
[41:12]
feedback. I don't I don't necessarily
[41:13]
want to do that
[41:14]
>> now because of the deadline, but I think
[41:17]
that would be something we might want to
[41:20]
look into. They would have to meet all
[41:23]
uh the international residential code,
[41:26]
international fire code that
[41:29]
>> they couldn't they couldn't not be safe.
[41:31]
>> Oh. Oh, really?
[41:32]
>> Yeah. They they wouldn't be allowed.
[41:34]
They have they would have to fire code
[41:37]
>> to be habitable.
[41:38]
>> I mean, there are different levels of
[41:39]
fire code. No,
[41:41]
>> this person made it sound like I would
[41:43]
never stay a night in one of those
[41:45]
>> code for your house would be what would
[41:47]
be required for this
[41:49]
>> same code.
[41:53]
And we and we that's written in the
[41:55]
ordinance too. It has to meet those
[41:56]
codes.
[41:57]
>> So it might just be quality of
[41:58]
materials.
[42:00]
>> Sure.
[42:01]
>> So the the 18 ft for pitched roofs uh
[42:04]
that would accommodate something like
[42:05]
the that would let you build a tall
[42:07]
enough wall like a 12ft wall inside so
[42:09]
you could have a loft that was usable
[42:11]
because there are rules about how you
[42:12]
have to be able to stand up and stuff.
[42:15]
you'd need a pitch roof to do for flat
[42:17]
roofs to go and allow um any kind of
[42:20]
loft space would be really difficult.
[42:22]
Even 16 would be the bare minimum and
[42:24]
that might not work either. So,
[42:27]
>> how do these heights compared to what
[42:29]
other cities are doing?
[42:30]
>> I don't have a lot of data on the
[42:32]
heights for cities. Most of them are
[42:34]
like they're they're related to their
[42:35]
accessory structure code. So, they're
[42:36]
going to be 18 or 20 and a couple of
[42:39]
them have like 12 foot heights.
[42:41]
Again, they're kind of around. most from
[42:43]
18 to 20.
[42:44]
>> Why would the flat roof minima be
[42:47]
different than
[42:50]
>> the because of the massing um with the
[42:52]
flat roof? I guess I I don't know.
[42:55]
That's a good question. It may not it
[42:56]
may not be relevant with with respect to
[42:58]
these structures. That may not be
[43:00]
relevant. I worry about the flat roofs
[43:02]
or we worried about the height of flat
[43:03]
roofs with the the building envelope
[43:05]
ordinance that we're just talking about.
[43:07]
That may not be as relevant here.
[43:10]
have flat roofs on the brain.
[43:14]
>> I'm just a little concerned because I
[43:16]
also did research on what other cities
[43:18]
are doing. And I went out and looked and
[43:19]
measured brought my tape measure out and
[43:21]
said, "How tall is this?" You know, and
[43:22]
I 12 is like the very lowest of low you
[43:25]
could maybe get agree with. And and I
[43:27]
think it's just almost too low,
[43:29]
>> even another couple of feet just to
[43:31]
give, you know, a little bit of latitude
[43:33]
because by the time you get the roof and
[43:35]
insulation and all the things like it's
[43:37]
>> Yeah. You need you need so the wall you
[43:39]
don't want the walls to be typical walls
[43:41]
now are going to be at least 8 ft in a
[43:43]
house and they're maybe going to in new
[43:45]
construction they're going to be maybe
[43:47]
so another foot and a half of structure
[43:48]
would get you that flat roof at 12.
[43:51]
>> Yes. And I think that would be an
[43:52]
outlier from most of the ordinances I
[43:54]
saw they were significantly higher like
[43:56]
20 or I'm not advocating for 20 was too
[43:58]
low. I got you. I I I think most of them
[44:00]
are based on they've just looked at
[44:01]
their accessory their accessory
[44:03]
structures in general like garages and
[44:06]
sheds and said we allow up to 18 ft or
[44:08]
20 ft. Just use that code
[44:10]
>> so it doesn't stand out on the
[44:12]
>> right. You're trying to again it's got
[44:13]
to be it ought to be le and the other
[44:14]
thing is yeah not taller than the
[44:17]
primary dwelling that kind of thing.
[44:19]
>> I wanted mine to look like one of those
[44:20]
fire training guys will come over. It's a
[44:27]
good question.
[44:32]
» Eat a lot.
[44:34]
>> Yes, we do.
[44:36]
>> We do too.
[44:37]
>> 12 foot. You say then you could have
[44:39]
like a 9 foot ceilings and have plenty
[44:45]
have another three foot for insulation.
[44:47]
You only need a foot and a half
[44:48]
insulation.
[44:51]
>> So do 10 foot.
[44:52]
>> You could do it. I think one of the
[44:54]
other reasons that I looked at it this
[44:56]
way and said, you know, lower for the
[44:58]
flat roof than for the base roof is
[44:59]
because we're not allowing in this code,
[45:01]
I didn't leave it written in here, but
[45:03]
the ADU code isn't allowing that we've
[45:06]
proposed is not allowing for second
[45:07]
stories, only lofts. So, I was trying to
[45:09]
get with 16 ft at least a loft or a
[45:11]
small loft for a flat roof and 18 to
[45:14]
allow a a small loft in a pitched roof
[45:16]
situation like this. But, yeah, you
[45:18]
might it that's what I'm thinking is
[45:21]
there's no second story. So, I'm not
[45:23]
sure why a flat roof needs to be 18 feet
[45:27]
or something in the, you know, not sure
[45:29]
why a flat roof structure needs to have
[45:32]
ceilings or whatever
[45:35]
since we don't allow the second stories,
[45:36]
but it could allow better lofts to that
[45:39]
point. I'm not sure that it matters
[45:40]
really something you guys have to
[45:42]
decide. It I know why it mattered for us
[45:45]
envelope heighting houses and I just
[45:46]
kind of transferred that thinking to
[45:47]
this and it may not be relevant for
[45:49]
these. I don't know.
[45:51]
That's a good question.
[45:53]
>> So, I have a question on
[45:58]
for the flat roof when there is the
[46:00]
small pitch to it.
[46:03]
>> Um,
[46:05]
do we have that the pitch of that has to be towards the
[46:12]
main resident's house?
[46:15]
>> That's not at all. No,
[46:16]
>> I worry about the runoff. Yeah,
[46:20]
>> that's so far off the property line
[46:21]
anyway that wouldn't
[46:24]
>> Yeah,
[46:25]
>> potentially. I mean, it depends on
[46:27]
around that all
[46:29]
>> paved or you know, have they paved up
[46:32]
the line? Have they
[46:33]
>> any of those things?
[46:35]
>> Yeah, we didn't really we didn't talk
[46:36]
about orientation of the of the roof.
[46:39]
>> So, to her point, the hardscape could be
[46:41]
a concern.
[46:43]
If they have hardscape in the eight foot
[46:45]
setback, then that's totally and and you
[46:48]
do the the raid.
[46:51]
>> Yeah.
[46:52]
>> Well, I guess we need to think about
[46:54]
that because that could flood the
[46:55]
neighbor.
[46:59]
» And we do this with um we would probably
[47:01]
review that as
[47:04]
I can look at what we've written in our
[47:05]
accessory structure code. I don't think
[47:07]
we have anything about that, but with
[47:08]
building permits, we always look at
[47:10]
drainage. you you have to maintain your
[47:12]
drainage on your own property
[47:13]
regardless. So, whatever we wrote here,
[47:15]
>> we have to [snorts] deal with that. And
[47:16]
there's lots of cases where people have
[47:17]
to install kind of a waterway at the
[47:19]
edge of their because they paved right
[47:20]
up to the sides. We would look at that
[47:22]
kind of thing.
[47:23]
>> And I guess that would be the fix,
[47:24]
right? Is to put the herb.
[47:27]
>> Yeah. And
[47:28]
>> so it disates the water.
[47:29]
>> Yeah. And and with residential lots, so
[47:32]
this is a good this is a good point. And
[47:34]
we could talk for an hour about this. We
[47:35]
won't, but we could.
[47:36]
>> You got 10 minutes.
[47:37]
>> Got 10 minutes. And I'll be I'll be
[47:39]
>> then we're going to eat our dinner.
[47:40]
>> I'm not making promises. No, I'm just
[47:42]
kidding. The with residential lots, the
[47:44]
thinking is always so drainage is really
[47:46]
complicated on commercial lots where a
[47:48]
lot of the lot is pavement or rooftop or
[47:50]
whatever. On residential lots, the
[47:52]
thinking is always that everything just
[47:54]
it's that's a lot of lawn and then the
[47:55]
driveways all slope to the street. So
[47:57]
everything in the building code is
[47:58]
saying the water has to go away from the
[48:00]
house and then down toward the street.
[48:02]
the more things that take up that uh
[48:06]
pvious surface and make it impervious to
[48:08]
the backyard or the rear, the front
[48:09]
yard, what have you, then the more that
[48:11]
drainage is not like typical old old
[48:14]
style thinking we start to worry about
[48:15]
it. So, we don't have in our code a
[48:18]
coverage requirement for imperous
[48:20]
surface for residential.
[48:23]
We could, we probably should. As lots
[48:26]
get smaller and homes get bigger. Some
[48:28]
of these homes are gigantic. And that as
[48:30]
that box fills up, the more of that box
[48:35]
on new properties, how that box gets
[48:36]
filled up, that's just more runoff and
[48:38]
less lawn absorbing that water. And then
[48:41]
um you have you have less likelihood
[48:43]
that all that drains out to the front.
[48:45]
All of that is just to say that when you
[48:47]
look at a property, let's just take this
[48:49]
house for example in this picture
[48:51]
because randomly here it is. There's
[48:53]
plenty of lawn absorbing water and this
[48:55]
driveway is sloping down to that street.
[48:56]
Everything is supposed to do that. They
[48:58]
put an ADU in the backyard because they
[49:00]
pave they put a foundation here because
[49:02]
it meets our requirements. Whatever.
[49:04]
Part of its process will be to look at
[49:05]
that and say that's got to drain out
[49:06]
toward the front too or it's got to
[49:08]
drain into the lawn so that it can
[49:10]
percolate draining on a hard surface
[49:12]
that should all be sloping theoretically
[49:14]
up toward the front and out to the
[49:16]
street. And probably there are no
[49:18]
violations of that anywhere in the city.
[49:20]
I'm sure it's all working perfectly.
[49:22]
>> Well, we're all gunshy right from that storm two years ago. I had two
[49:25]
three houses flooded. They flooded three
[49:28]
feet in the walls. So,
[49:31]
>> it's something we should look at.
[49:32]
>> And a lot of communities have impervious
[49:34]
surface lot coverage limit that you
[49:38]
can't go above a certain percentage and
[49:41]
so you have to have spaces for that type
[49:44]
of thing. But ORM does not have such an
[49:46]
>> but don't isn't our landscaping minimum
[49:49]
landscaping requirement kind of
[49:52]
>> indirectly
[49:53]
>> but is that only in the front yard
[49:57]
>> that's for the front yard but in the
[50:00]
rear yard you know one of the things
[50:02]
that we haven't talked about yet and and
[50:05]
I don't know what to do with it is
[50:07]
people taking up the backyard and
[50:09]
putting in concrete for parking because
[50:12]
now I can drive into the back or
[50:14]
something like that and
[50:16]
>> sports or sport courts and pickle ball
[50:21]
and lots of things.
[50:23]
>> Yeah, it's it's it's something that has
[50:26]
it's on our radar, but I think we can in
[50:28]
the immediate now. I think we can deal
[50:29]
with the drainage through the building
[50:31]
and we would we'd like more tools in the
[50:34]
future though as it goes on. Jerry, can
[50:36]
you when you're addressing these
[50:38]
heights, can you help us know what
[50:41]
process we come to to determine whether
[50:43]
a height is good, adequate, sufficient?
[50:45]
Because I mean, I arbitrarily be like,
[50:46]
"Yeah, 10 feet sounds great, but like
[50:48]
what does that actually mean? Has a
[50:49]
builder weighed in on this? Are there
[50:50]
standards that weigh in on this?" Like,
[50:51]
what tells us if that's reasonable or
[50:53]
not reasonable?
[50:54]
>> Just talking to builders about what
[50:56]
works and looking at home plans and
[50:57]
things, that's all I've done.
[50:59]
>> We have builders that have said 12 foot
[51:00]
minimum is reasonable.
[51:01]
>> I have builders that have said that to
[51:03]
me personally. online builders have told
[51:05]
me,
[51:07]
[laughter]
[51:07]
>> internet builders have said,
[51:09]
>> "What are these online builders who are
[51:11]
>> I know a lot of online people
[51:14]
>> and our experience
[51:16]
with building inspection and
[51:17]
planchecking as residential homes come
[51:20]
in and looking at them. What are the
[51:22]
trends for heights? uh walls ex you know
[51:26]
and it's anywhere from 8 ft to 10 ft now
[51:30]
the walls so that you can have a vaulted
[51:32]
ceiling or 10 ft if it's not vaulted you
[51:36]
most homes you go into now you know
[51:38]
you're looking at 10ft ceilings that's
[51:40]
kind of the style
[51:43]
um which ironically from 100 years ago
[51:46]
is actually smaller
[51:49]
>> were 100 years ago
[51:50]
>> there are some pretty tall walls anymore
[51:51]
in the interior so we're looking at I I
[51:53]
10 is kind of the baseline for
[51:55]
>> what's the third thing? We're stopping
[51:56]
you again.
[51:57]
>> Yeah, I'm sorry. The third thing is
[51:58]
overall size. We we um and it's not a um I I don't have any any
[52:04]
data for you here other than as we look
[52:06]
at the numbers from so we had we had
[52:09]
proposed um 850 or 6 you know
[52:13]
>> 6
[52:14]
>> 650 to 850 to a,000 and those those
[52:19]
footprints looked bigger in real life on
[52:21]
those plans that we laid out than we had
[52:24]
kind of envisioned them. um talking
[52:26]
about this with the planning commission
[52:27]
last week as well just in letting them
[52:29]
know kind of where we were in the
[52:30]
process and then looking at some of the
[52:32]
units that are out there. There are a
[52:34]
lot of smaller units and they seem to be
[52:36]
pretty popular. The most popular of
[52:37]
these ConXes is four is the 400 model.
[52:40]
That's 400 ft. That's pretty popular.
[52:42]
It's affordable. Even that one's 108,000
[52:44]
without ground market stuff. Um so they
[52:48]
get expensive as they get bigger,
[52:49]
especially stick building them. Um, just
[52:52]
as a as an example, uh, in West Jordan
[52:54]
there are 12 total units and 10 of those
[52:58]
12 total units right now are under 1,000
[53:01]
square ft. Four of them are 800s and
[53:03]
then they go 700s down to four. I don't
[53:06]
know that we need to go as high as
[53:08]
that,000 ft. If people feel more
[53:10]
comfortable about getting the ordinance
[53:12]
done, I don't think we'd be hurting
[53:14]
anybody by reducing the sizes that we
[53:16]
proposed.
[53:17]
>> What size do you think recommendation?
[53:20]
>> Hard. It's hard to say.
[53:23]
There are plenty of 300 unit 300 foot
[53:25]
units. There are lots of 400 foot units.
[53:27]
There's probably not as I look at if
[53:29]
these are the kinds of setbacks that
[53:30]
we're going to be looking at. Um, most
[53:33]
of these would not need to accommodate
[53:36]
more than 3 and 400 ft. 650 ft might
[53:39]
start to feel big for an ADU. Um, 800 is
[53:42]
certainly plenty big. I don't think
[53:44]
there's any need to go into the
[53:45]
thousands.
[53:45]
>> Yeah. Um, if I could share an example,
[53:49]
my first home in War was 800 ft on the
[53:51]
main floor. Had two bedrooms, a
[53:53]
bathroom, a front room, and a narrow
[53:55]
kitchen. So, 800 ft is pretty good size.
[53:58]
>> What do you think?
[53:59]
>> Work. I mean, it works. Yeah,
[54:00]
>> it worked.
[54:02]
>> So, we could we could significantly
[54:03]
reduce and I'm not seeing a whole bunch
[54:04]
of ADUs that are larger um in in just
[54:08]
the sort of limited spotty looking at
[54:11]
it. we've done. Um,
[54:14]
I don't really be hurting anything if we
[54:15]
reduce that size. How does everybody
[54:17]
feel about that? Is that a
[54:19]
>> I don't know that they're designed to be
[54:20]
really big. I think for a mother-in-law
[54:22]
or for, you know, a young married couple
[54:24]
or
[54:26]
>> Yeah, we're not trying to house me and
[54:27]
my six kids.
[54:30]
>> I think my first house was like four.
[54:33]
[laughter]
[54:34]
>> Um, yeah. So, I'll I'll probably start
[54:37]
looking at bringing those sizes down and
[54:39]
uh we'll we'll we'll do that. So, we've
[54:41]
got looking at vote on our agenda items
[54:44]
coming this this evening and we've got
[54:46]
two more city council meetings before
[54:49]
this ordinance needs to be adopted
[54:53]
council. Just so you know, we have
[54:55]
meetings two meetings in September the
[54:56]
8th and the 22nd.
[54:59]
So, are we are we working is this going
[55:02]
to be another on the work session on the
[55:04]
25th as well?
[55:05]
>> It's up to you. Um, I can bring back I
[55:08]
need to um
[55:11]
>> we need to corral you in on the setbacks
[55:14]
a little.
[55:14]
>> The setbacks feel like we're I think
[55:16]
we're probably going to be okay in
[55:17]
heights as a as a group.
[55:19]
>> As a group, I I'm not I'm struggling
[55:22]
with the size of those setbacks a bit.
[55:24]
Not a great reduction, but a reduction
[55:27]
from that. So, I I understand and
[55:29]
respect where brothers are coming from.
[55:32]
>> Okay. on that just so you know.
[55:34]
>> But specificity, the 25 foot for the
[55:38]
rear or the 30?
[55:39]
>> 30. The 30 foot.
[55:40]
>> The 30 is bothering you from the sides.
[55:42]
And I'm feeling like the 25 to the rear
[55:44]
is bothering you.
[55:44]
>> The 30 is bothering me and the 25.
[55:46]
>> Both. Okay.
[55:48]
>> Council members, other feedback.
[55:50]
>> Yeah. Where's the rest of you?
[55:52]
>> So, I'm the 30 from the side. Uh, I
[55:56]
would be concerned with I I like the
[55:59]
8 ft or 10 ft in the 10 ft in
[56:03]
sights.
[56:06]
» If this rear lot setback that we're
[56:10]
proposing, if we kept the 10s on the
[56:13]
interiors and if we dropped the 30 from
[56:16]
the sides, but kept the 20. So, sorry,
[56:19]
this is going to sound complicated. I'll
[56:20]
be I'll
[56:22]
if we dropped the 30 ft from the
[56:24]
buildable area but kept at least 20 ft
[56:28]
from anybody else's home existing home
[56:31]
or whatever and then gave an exception
[56:32]
to people that let's say I own this home
[56:36]
somebody builds their ADU right here and
[56:37]
now when I put my addition on that I
[56:39]
want to build by right I can't because
[56:41]
I'm going to be closer to their ADU than
[56:42]
I'm supposed to be if we wrote in an
[56:44]
exception so they weren't penalized by
[56:45]
that proximity would that be
[56:47]
>> then you're creating legal nonconformity
[56:49]
I I don't think that's good planning.
[56:51]
>> Well, specifically would be trying to
[56:52]
avoid creating legal non-conforming by
[56:54]
doing that. I think
[56:55]
>> Well, cuz you're then you have an ADU
[56:57]
that's too close to a house. They go and
[56:59]
they build on you. The house was the ADU
[57:01]
was there first.
[57:02]
>> Well, except that the exception it
[57:04]
wouldn't technically be legal
[57:05]
non-conforming because the exception
[57:07]
would make it allowable. So, it wasn't
[57:09]
>> Well, but yeah, we're giving them an
[57:11]
exception.
[57:12]
>> Right. Right. That's what I'm saying is
[57:14]
if it to protect the rights of a person
[57:17]
to build to their line without impinging
[57:20]
and in most cases it won't matter. Most
[57:22]
cases the 20ft separation and 10 ft on
[57:25]
the interior keep them outside of where
[57:28]
that buildable line is. But there are
[57:29]
cases where it wouldn't. So that's got
[57:32]
to be I'll keep thinking about that. And
[57:34]
then that's why I like the simplicity of
[57:36]
that is if you've got 10 feet on both
[57:38]
sides then feet
[57:41]
wide keeps it simple
[57:43]
>> in is when you have a not side by side
[57:47]
houses
[57:48]
>> the culde-sacs the rear is on that side
[57:52]
so you may have 10 on one but then
[57:54]
you're up to the rear of another person.
[57:56]
So when that person had an expectation
[57:58]
of the house behind them being 25 ft,
[58:01]
they now have something 10 ft.
[58:04]
>> It's also when you have the corner house
[58:06]
and one's oriented facing this way and
[58:08]
then the next house is oriented facing
[58:10]
this way and one's a sideyard and one's
[58:11]
a I don't know. It gets complicated.
[58:14]
>> Could you do could you do projections
[58:15]
for that?
[58:17]
>> Try. I'll come up with something. Look
[58:19]
at that. So, if we can I'll keep the 20
[58:22]
foot separation and see if we can work
[58:24]
some way of
[58:26]
making sure that there'll always be at
[58:28]
least 20 ft between somebody's house and
[58:30]
an ADU on another lot. That we can do
[58:33]
without that's what we're learning today
[58:36]
that we can do. This rear setback if the
[58:40]
25 is too much. Um, we can I just need
[58:45]
to know if we should reduce that all the
[58:47]
way to 10 like we have it or if we need
[58:48]
to increase it a little bit. There are
[58:49]
some 20s out there. G Jen, you've looked
[58:52]
at um some others. There's some 20s and
[58:54]
15s. And if there is a difference in
[58:56]
interiors, it's usually for the rear.
[58:58]
Like the interiors will be 10 all around
[59:00]
and the rear will be 15 or 20 or
[59:02]
something like um or they'll just be the
[59:05]
same.
[59:11]
Yeah, the 30 was a little bit much. Uh
[59:13]
on the rear, I don't think a lot of
[59:15]
change, but possibly a 20 because of u
[59:19]
the buildable and then you'd still be a
[59:22]
long ways away from anybody else.
[59:23]
>> In the case of this one,
[59:24]
>> a lot of them have have on a current
[59:26]
home already that has some kind of an
[59:28]
awning for a little patio or something,
[59:30]
they already have that 10 ft basically
[59:32]
anyway. So that doesn't bother me. If
[59:34]
this were 25, for example, if this 25
[59:38]
were a 20 foot setback, it would open
[59:39]
that area up a lot more. My feet can
[59:42]
make a big difference.
[59:43]
>> That's all I'm saying.
[59:44]
>> That's my thoughts.
[59:45]
>> Are you guys more comfortable 20 then?
[59:49]
>> I would be more comfortable with 15.
[59:53]
>> We can we can
[59:55]
>> completely against that.
[59:56]
>> And Quinn, what's Quinn? Do you have
[59:58]
thoughts on this setbacks?
[1:00:01]
>> Um, I do. I I think this is a productive
[1:00:03]
discussion. Uh and thanks Jared for
[1:00:06]
showing those visuals as well. Uh when
[1:00:09]
you showed the visuals, I did have
[1:00:10]
concerns that we were really
[1:00:12]
constraining uh space for the sample of lots that you had. So uh I I do think
[1:00:19]
that what you showed us was uh the
[1:00:21]
setbacks were too too large. I'm also
[1:00:24]
very sympathetic to Len's uh desire to
[1:00:27]
protect the neighbors and I think it's
[1:00:30]
just a balance. I just I think if we aim
[1:00:33]
for 20 feet between buildings, maybe 15
[1:00:36]
to 20 ft in terms of the rear setback, I
[1:00:38]
would be comfortable.
[1:00:40]
>> So, we're going back to the 20 from a
[1:00:42]
dwelling instead of using property lines
[1:00:45]
>> instead of 20 from a dwelling. The
[1:00:46]
property lines are still there. 20 from
[1:00:48]
a dwelling instead of going 30 ft off of
[1:00:50]
the buildable, the build to line. Um I I
[1:00:53]
will point out this just to make
[1:00:55]
everybody feel better as we're not if
[1:00:57]
we're not um reducing a long way from 25
[1:01:00]
if we're going to 20 or to 15. This was
[1:01:03]
not a lot that we had done originally.
[1:01:04]
It's not a sample that we pulled
[1:01:05]
originally. It it didn't take a lot to
[1:01:08]
find this one. And you can see the ones
[1:01:09]
around it would be similar in their
[1:01:10]
allowances. So there there are you know
[1:01:13]
the ones that we had had pulled randomly
[1:01:15]
before. Yeah, they they looked a little
[1:01:16]
more restricted. Uh, but I had Emma pull
[1:01:19]
two more that were it wasn't hard to
[1:01:20]
find two lots that made it pretty simple
[1:01:23]
to do. Um, so there's there there going
[1:01:27]
to be lots out there. It'll stay fairly
[1:01:30]
open, I think, at 20 or 15 feet for a
[1:01:32]
setback. Not a not a big deal. Um, but
[1:01:35]
you know, again, it's got to be it's got
[1:01:37]
to be something that can be acceptable
[1:01:40]
to everybody. So,
[1:01:41]
>> and unintended consequences. Basically,
[1:01:43]
all you're doing is you're increasing
[1:01:45]
density without having it go through the
[1:01:47]
city council.
[1:01:49]
>> It's Yeah. But uh pay to use do increase
[1:01:52]
the density
[1:01:54]
that this ordinate you're right that
[1:01:57]
this ordinance would be the increase in
[1:02:00]
the density.
[1:02:00]
>> Yeah. So if something like that, how big
[1:02:02]
of a are limiting the [clears throat]
[1:02:04]
ADUs then to 850 max. Could we could
[1:02:07]
even live with them lower than that. If
[1:02:09]
the goal is to if the goal is to is to
[1:02:12]
keep them unobtrusive, then maybe that's
[1:02:13]
the better way. They still
[1:02:16]
>> require.
[1:02:17]
>> And for me, there's two things here. For
[1:02:19]
me, it's the unobtrusive and the the
[1:02:22]
because I saw there's some
[1:02:23]
municipalities they're talking about
[1:02:25]
once they get this passed, then they get a law that they can subdivide
[1:02:29]
and then you have a house behind a
[1:02:30]
house. So you you the unintended
[1:02:32]
consequence is I could have double the
[1:02:35]
density on both sides of me, my
[1:02:37]
neighbors without my having any control
[1:02:39]
or any ability to to to do
[1:02:41]
[clears throat] that. that and then also
[1:02:43]
the um protections of the expectation of
[1:02:47]
where you know unobtrusive and then my
[1:02:51]
expectation of the setbacks in my
[1:02:54]
neighborhood being consistent and fair
[1:02:56]
to everyone every house on the block
[1:03:00]
and I can see reducing the size you know
[1:03:02]
saying look 850 max because I don't
[1:03:04]
think the goal is to put more people
[1:03:05]
there it's just given more flexibility
[1:03:06]
where to put it
[1:03:07]
>> okay let's let's definitely reduce the
[1:03:10]
size allowance and pull pull that back
[1:03:12]
far enough that the setbacks feel more
[1:03:14]
comfortable.
[1:03:15]
>> Yeah. But once again, the big thing is
[1:03:16]
the impact on the neighbor.
[1:03:17]
>> Yeah.
[1:03:18]
>> You know, I and this is the thing I've
[1:03:19]
said. This is kind of what's in my
[1:03:21]
crawl, right? So, you guys all know
[1:03:22]
this, but you know, I don't want it
[1:03:24]
close to my house. I'm going to put it
[1:03:25]
in the farthest corner possible. Then my
[1:03:27]
neighbor feels the impact and not me. To
[1:03:29]
me, that's just not fair to do that, you
[1:03:33]
know, and if we're facilitating that by
[1:03:35]
creating this setback from a dwelling
[1:03:38]
instead of from a property line, if
[1:03:40]
we're not um, you know, referencing and
[1:03:42]
maintaining the property rights of the
[1:03:44]
property lines, we're setting up an
[1:03:46]
opportunity
[1:03:48]
impinging upon other people's property
[1:03:50]
rights.
[1:03:52]
>> So, privacy. It's a good point and and
[1:03:55]
that's still the goal is to make this
[1:03:57]
not violate state code requirements but
[1:03:59]
also keep the uh of those existing
[1:04:03]
people around and keep the character of
[1:04:04]
the neighborhood
[1:04:06]
very residential. So looking at the
[1:04:08]
height as a as a smaller allowance at
[1:04:11]
the bare setback and then getting bigger
[1:04:13]
as you go incentivize people to go
[1:04:15]
further in and then if we have greater
[1:04:18]
setback for the rear that'll help and if
[1:04:19]
we keep that 20 foot separation from
[1:04:21]
anybody else's home
[1:04:24]
um we'll we'll take a stab at it for the
[1:04:26]
next meeting.
[1:04:26]
>> I just don't agree the 20ft separation
[1:04:28]
from a home. I think we should be using
[1:04:30]
property lines for our metric. I don't
[1:04:31]
know why we're using the property both
[1:04:34]
someone else's the next
[1:04:35]
>> this or whatever is greater. community.
[1:04:37]
>> Yeah, it's it's a greater of the two.
[1:04:39]
The 20 the 20 ft from anybody else's
[1:04:41]
home is a fail safe in case the 10 feet
[1:04:43]
on an interior or the 15t on a rear does
[1:04:45]
not get you 20 in case somebody has an
[1:04:48]
existing condition. It's different than
[1:04:49]
normal. The normal situation like like
[1:04:51]
Chris was saying 20 ft no matter what.
[1:04:53]
There are those cases where less and the
[1:04:56]
20 foot building to building separation
[1:04:59]
instead of just property lines is a fail
[1:05:00]
safe. That's all it is.
[1:05:02]
I don't think I would want the rear set
[1:05:04]
back to be any less than 20.
[1:05:07]
>> Let me get some graphics done at 20 and
[1:05:09]
50.
[1:05:10]
>> See what that looks like.
[1:05:12]
>> So, nobody wants 25. Nobody wants to
[1:05:13]
keep this the setbacks that we have in
[1:05:15]
place right now in our zoning
[1:05:18]
25.
[1:05:19]
>> I want to keep the 25.
[1:05:20]
>> That
[1:05:23]
I'm 20. I mean, I'd like to see 20 from
[1:05:25]
the property line.
[1:05:28]
And I just think of my kids playing in
[1:05:30]
the backyard and there's now a house
[1:05:32]
right there in the neighbor's yard.
[1:05:35]
That's
[1:05:38]
that just doesn't feel great.
[1:05:40]
I wouldn't like that as a parent. So, I
[1:05:42]
would rather it be closer to
[1:05:46]
the house of the property that it's on
[1:05:49]
than
[1:05:51]
>> I I agree with that completely.
[1:05:54]
I'm just saying that I I feel like 20
[1:05:56]
foot property line is a is a that's a
[1:06:01]
>> maybe
[1:06:01]
>> it's a good distance. Um
[1:06:05]
we kind of look at both sides of the
[1:06:06]
pancake here. Um but I I agree
[1:06:10]
completely that we want to keep it as
[1:06:12]
close to the the home
[1:06:15]
impact should be on the home on which
[1:06:17]
the property resides, not on the
[1:06:19]
surrounding home. And
[1:06:21]
>> the more we move that set back, the more
[1:06:23]
we're pushing that
[1:06:25]
>> on the neighbors. And and if that were
[1:06:27]
me living there, now I now have people
[1:06:30]
living
[1:06:31]
on in that property in that, you know,
[1:06:34]
DADU behind my house. that feels a lot
[1:06:38]
more obtrusive to me and my kids playing
[1:06:42]
in the backyard, right? So that that's
[1:06:44]
the thing that I don't want to see
[1:06:46]
happen.
[1:06:46]
>> Could you do a combination of um 20 25
[1:06:50]
step back in
[1:06:53]
coordinated with a how close it is to
[1:06:57]
the home
[1:07:01]
» coordinated with how close
[1:07:02]
>> Yeah. So you can you um you have to be
[1:07:06]
within 10 ft of your house
[1:07:10]
if you
[1:07:12]
if your rear setback. So in other words,
[1:07:14]
I'm trying to say, can we get them to
[1:07:16]
have the impact be next to their house
[1:07:18]
is
[1:07:18]
>> scooch them up closer.
[1:07:20]
>> Yeah. Instead of next
[1:07:21]
>> right right in the river the neighbors,
[1:07:25]
keep it close to you for your
[1:07:27]
>> most of an internal
[1:07:28]
>> because that kind of helps me with this
[1:07:30]
impact on the neighbors issue. I mean, I look at my backyard and I think I'm
[1:07:34]
probably my backdoor neighbor is
[1:07:36]
probably 20 ft.
[1:07:39]
>> Mhm.
[1:07:40]
>> And you know, that's
[1:07:43]
>> I think you're 25. [laughter]
[1:07:48]
» 24.
[1:07:49]
>> I've honestly never thought about it,
[1:07:51]
but you know, as I think of myself
[1:07:54]
coming out and saying, "Hey, neighbor,
[1:07:56]
you know, it's it's not that far, but
[1:07:59]
it's far enough.
[1:08:02]
I don't feel
[1:08:04]
and and I'm sure that she would say
[1:08:05]
something completely different. She say
[1:08:06]
those lamesons are so [laughter]
[1:08:09]
you say keep it
[1:08:10]
>> 100 feet away.
[1:08:12]
>> And I get that.
[1:08:16]
>> All right. Do you have the direction you
[1:08:17]
feel comfortable with?
[1:08:18]
>> Enough to get to the next meeting.
[1:08:20]
>> Okay. You want to talk about this again?
[1:08:23]
>> No problem. Thank you. No, thank you all
[1:08:24]
very much. I appreciate it. It's very
[1:08:25]
helpful.
[1:08:26]
>> All right. Um, dinner's ready. I've
[1:08:27]
asked Council Member Lamson if you would
[1:08:29]
offer a blessing on the
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» Our Father in heaven, we humbly bow our
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heads in humility and gratitude before
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thee this evening. We're so grateful,
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heavenly father, for the many blessings
[1:08:43]
that we enjoy each and every day because
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of thy greatness and thy glory.
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We're especially grateful, heavenly
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father, to live in this community. And
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we're grateful to be able to
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serve in the various capacities that we
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do and pray that that would bless those
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in our community who are hurting at this
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time or who are going through personal
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struggles. We pray that that would bless
[1:09:08]
them and comfort them and help us to
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know as neighbors how we can lift and
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share their burdens.
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We are grateful this evening, heavenly
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father, for this meal and pray that
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would bless it. We pray that we would
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use it to strengthen and nourishment to
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do good. And again, we just want to
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express our gratitude to thee for all of
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the blessings that we share.
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[snorts] And we say these things in the
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name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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of me. Nobody
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And before we go to Mr. McInn and his
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presentation,
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I'm going to turn the time over to Mr.
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Carile here for just a couple of
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minutes.
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>> I know this is unusual and some of you
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can see me here, but I want to give some
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gratitude. On May 1st, I had five bypass
[1:22:06]
open heart surgery and changed my whole
[1:22:09]
life. I was in the hospital for about 8
[1:22:12]
days. I came home for three days. I
[1:22:15]
started losing consciousness, getting
[1:22:17]
really sick. My wife and daughter are
[1:22:20]
saying
[1:22:21]
all the paramed.
[1:22:23]
Long story short, two minutes later,
[1:22:25]
paramedics were at my door. I live
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between Mountain View High School and
[1:22:28]
Lakers Junior High. All I remember, they
[1:22:31]
came downstairs, Mr. Carl and Mr. Carl
[1:22:34]
in the paramedics vehicle. Next day I
[1:22:37]
was in ICU. Evidently they got me here
[1:22:40]
so fast down to Utah Valley or city
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paramedics.
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And after about half hour doctors say
[1:22:48]
he's not going to make it because they
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got me quickly. They worked on me and
[1:22:54]
did make it a lot of big time is because
[1:22:57]
of Orange City paramedics.
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So I don't want to hear on my thing
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about how we shouldn't police or
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whatever that going. So I thank you very much for that and some blessings
[1:23:11]
and prayers. A quick thing I'm home
[1:23:14]
about two weeks later. Remember we had
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rain had rain in May. We had rain in May
[1:23:20]
and in front of my house the sewer drops
[1:23:23]
about this far away. You know the manual
[1:23:25]
cover. I called Danny at Om city say hey
[1:23:29]
we got a problem here. Kids are walking
[1:23:30]
around here. They're going to fall. Been
[1:23:32]
about three days. Danny's out. Looks at
[1:23:35]
it. Within about four or five days, a
[1:23:38]
big city crew. I mean, it's this big.
[1:23:40]
They come, they raise it up. It's
[1:23:43]
beautiful. Then maybe in another four or
[1:23:45]
five days, become an asphalt. So, I love
[1:23:49]
Orange City. Appreciate you guys. You
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guys,
[1:23:53]
>> thank you.
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>> I'm glad it all all turned out for you.
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>> I'm alive. We're glad to have you here
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back at our council meeting.
[1:24:02]
>> Thank you for the time. I appreciate it.
[1:24:04]
America.
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>> All right. Our next item on the agenda
[1:24:08]
is a presentation on the community
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development code update. 10 minutes.
[1:24:13]
>> Uh hopefully it won't be anywhere near
[1:24:15]
10 minutes. As as you know, community
[1:24:18]
development is the department that we
[1:24:22]
have here. Uh however, our code calls
[1:24:26]
the community development department
[1:24:28]
development services. We did a little
[1:24:31]
rebranding from development services and
[1:24:34]
renamed the department community
[1:24:36]
development. And I think uh the reason
[1:24:39]
for that was to send the message that
[1:24:41]
we're focusing on the community uh the
[1:24:46]
residents who live here uh but also
[1:24:49]
developers and businesses. you know,
[1:24:51]
it's developing the community. It's not
[1:24:54]
development services. And it makes it
[1:24:56]
almost sound like we're we're there for
[1:25:00]
developers and and the residents aren't
[1:25:03]
involved. So because of that rebrand, we
[1:25:06]
do technically in the code say a lot of
[1:25:09]
things like uh the development services
[1:25:12]
department shall do something and we
[1:25:16]
just need to change all of that to be
[1:25:19]
community development. So it's it's a
[1:25:23]
massive change. There's well over 400
[1:25:26]
individual changes and we'll have to
[1:25:29]
take some of these to the planning
[1:25:31]
commission because they're in the zoning
[1:25:32]
code. So it'll go there and we'll just
[1:25:37]
be renaming
[1:25:40]
development services and correcting it
[1:25:42]
to what the name of the department is
[1:25:44]
which is community. So don't be
[1:25:47]
surprised here in the future when we
[1:25:49]
come back and you go, "Oh my gosh, what
[1:25:52]
is this 400page document for a second?"
[1:25:55]
>> That's really what it is. And uh so feel
[1:25:59]
free to read it,
[1:26:01]
>> but hope but
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>> you're going to do red lines, right?
[1:26:04]
>> Yeah.
[1:26:05]
>> Okay. Thank you. I'll ask.
[1:26:07]
>> We'll do red lines and
[1:26:08]
>> count. [laughter]
[1:26:13]
And I have hidden in there somewhere a
[1:26:15]
secret code. And if you call me with
[1:26:18]
that code, [laughter] you get ice cream.
[1:26:21]
>> It'll be and and no using AI.
[1:26:26]
» So just be aware that this is on the
[1:26:29]
horizon to come to you. Just wanted to
[1:26:31]
give you a heads up. We haven't taken it
[1:26:34]
anywhere to planning commission or
[1:26:35]
anybody yet. Just to make sure you're
[1:26:37]
aware and feel comfortable with that
[1:26:40]
change. We've uh if you're not, we need
[1:26:44]
to redo some signage because
[1:26:47]
you come here and it says community
[1:26:49]
development and that's what we're doing.
[1:26:52]
>> That makes sense.
[1:26:53]
>> Yeah.
[1:26:55]
>> I I think it's a great rebrand for us to
[1:26:57]
really send the message. We're trying to
[1:27:00]
build the community, not just provide
[1:27:02]
services for developers.
[1:27:04]
>> I agree.
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» Thank you.
[1:27:09]
Our next item is a city council report
[1:27:13]
from council member Gail. So, I'll turn
[1:27:15]
the time over to you. Fabulous.
[1:27:19]
>> Okay. Um I'm just going to update you on
[1:27:21]
all of my commissions and there are a
[1:27:22]
few. Um America 250 is kind of wrapping
[1:27:25]
up and we are celebrating with lunch
[1:27:27]
with all of our volunteers on that
[1:27:29]
commission next week. That's been fun.
[1:27:32]
Um the care commission also has wrapped
[1:27:34]
up for most of their things, but we did
[1:27:35]
get some lovely thank you notes from
[1:27:36]
some organizations that participated and
[1:27:39]
we're looking towards next year to maybe
[1:27:41]
just further solidify how we make this
[1:27:43]
rather than feeling a little bit
[1:27:45]
arbitrary to some of them. Um IHC
[1:27:48]
outreach we toured along with Crystal
[1:27:50]
and Mayor we toured the new hospital
[1:27:53]
edition at um Orum Community Hospital.
[1:27:56]
They added a new MRI machine, a new
[1:27:57]
fancy MRI machine and that was really
[1:27:59]
cool. Um, so it's a great great to have
[1:28:01]
them as a part of our community and they
[1:28:02]
really give back a lot. Um, and it's a
[1:28:05]
great offering. So if you an MRI, weight
[1:28:07]
times are shorter and the time it takes
[1:28:09]
to get in is shorter. So go to or
[1:28:11]
community. Um, the natural resources
[1:28:14]
advisory commission is doing all kinds
[1:28:16]
of fun things. They're having some
[1:28:17]
community events and education. They're
[1:28:19]
doing an event in October that looks at
[1:28:21]
Utah Lake restoration and maybe and
[1:28:24]
education and role in it and how there's
[1:28:26]
this Utah lake advisory commission and
[1:28:28]
educating our residents about that. Um
[1:28:30]
then October 12th we're going to have a
[1:28:32]
leaf themed greenhouse event in our new
[1:28:35]
greenhouse is the arts and crafts with
[1:28:38]
leafs and then we're having a library
[1:28:40]
seed swap in February ready to do their
[1:28:43]
garden. So that'll be fun. Um the tree
[1:28:46]
initi the tree planting initiative is
[1:28:48]
called rooted in orum. That's the name
[1:28:49]
that they decided on and uh the goal is
[1:28:53]
10,000 trees over five years. Um and
[1:28:57]
we're doing uh the initial distribution
[1:28:59]
or sale of about 50 trees is in early
[1:29:02]
September. So they've ordered them and
[1:29:04]
they're going to be distributing at a
[1:29:05]
deep discount to residents who want them
[1:29:07]
be gone. and other things. We're looking
[1:29:11]
at doing a recycling tour of the
[1:29:13]
facility and then helping with the
[1:29:15]
farmers market bike ballet. Um, so
[1:29:18]
they're active and busy doing great and
[1:29:19]
fun things and Brad and Caitlyn have
[1:29:21]
been so they're doing a great job. Um,
[1:29:25]
Utopia passed a budget just recently
[1:29:29]
that will allow the cities to get even
[1:29:31]
more money. So I think we're about
[1:29:33]
$95,000 more this school year.
[1:29:36]
this facility often because they also
[1:29:38]
were able to hire several employees to
[1:29:40]
help keep um service operating. Um and
[1:29:44]
they are currently we just got a check
[1:29:46]
from them from about
[1:29:48]
the number what's the number was in June
[1:29:50]
it was 1 million98,000
[1:29:54]
1 mill98,950.
[1:29:58]
Does that sound right?
[1:29:59]
>> I'll drag and say 1.1. Yes.
[1:30:02]
>> Oh 1.1. [laughter]
[1:30:04]
>> Okay. Um, and they are adding about 640
[1:30:09]
new subscribers every month. So, that's
[1:30:10]
good for us and helps the whole uh of us
[1:30:13]
be successful. So, that's good. And then
[1:30:16]
the Utah Valley University/Orum Business
[1:30:19]
Resource Center. We had a great meeting
[1:30:21]
with Brian and Garrett, our new
[1:30:25]
person. We met with Steve those who Josh
[1:30:28]
Barlo who is the new director of the ORM
[1:30:30]
business resource center and Seth Jensen
[1:30:33]
um who is the director of the uh
[1:30:35]
entrepreneurship at Utah Valley
[1:30:37]
University and he's now responsible for
[1:30:39]
that center and then who is who is the
[1:30:41]
other do you remember the lady was she
[1:30:43]
responsible for curriculum at UVU in the
[1:30:45]
business program?
[1:30:45]
>> Oh, she's Seth's number two.
[1:30:47]
>> Yeah, we met with her too. Anyway, it
[1:30:49]
was a great meeting. Um we talked about
[1:30:50]
the direction it's going. I feel like
[1:30:51]
there's a lot of new energy there. I
[1:30:53]
feel like Seth, especially with him
[1:30:54]
being responsible for entrepreneurship
[1:30:56]
at UVU, has a really vested interest in
[1:30:58]
making this successful and our staff is
[1:30:59]
currently working on a new agreement
[1:31:01]
with them. So, we'll see as that takes
[1:31:03]
shape over the next little while what
[1:31:04]
that looks like.
[1:31:08]
Thank you. Any questions for Jen?
[1:31:11]
Appreciate you representing us.
[1:31:15]
Right. Next item is just quickly
[1:31:19]
reviewing our agenda for today.
[1:31:23]
We have a presentation from the public
[1:31:26]
works advisory commission and the
[1:31:30]
presenters are going to be Chris Shery
[1:31:33]
and then Mike Wimpby who's on the
[1:31:36]
advisory commission the chair he's
[1:31:39]
>> oh is he the chair okay great
[1:31:42]
then we have a presentation by Chief
[1:31:44]
Sanderson citizen life saving and then
[1:31:48]
we will have some time for personal
[1:31:50]
appearances
[1:31:52]
And then we have a consent item on um
[1:31:55]
our city council meeting schedule and
[1:31:57]
it's adding
[1:31:59]
excuse me a work session
[1:32:02]
only on August 25th. So that will be our
[1:32:06]
next meeting will be the 25th. It'll be
[1:32:08]
work session only. And then on Thursday,
[1:32:11]
August 27th,
[1:32:13]
I uh where we'll be having our truth in
[1:32:16]
taxation
[1:32:18]
hearing on on that date. And then
[1:32:23]
our scheduled item is a resolution
[1:32:26]
appointing to the uh appointments to the
[1:32:29]
Justice Court nominating commission,
[1:32:31]
excuse me. and talked a little bit about
[1:32:35]
that in the in the work session earlier
[1:32:38]
in the work session. Uh financial items
[1:32:40]
and then uh city manager items and we
[1:32:42]
adjourn. It looks like we do not have a
[1:32:45]
closed door meeting um this evening. Any
[1:32:48]
questions? Anything you want to discuss
[1:32:50]
in here before
[1:32:53]
uh on anything with the agenda or the
[1:32:55]
work session? I have one question. We've
[1:32:57]
seen the few two few times I think
[1:33:00]
lately that we've had people sign people
[1:33:02]
up to speak during the public comment
[1:33:05]
and I mean multiply people and those
[1:33:08]
people aren't present. I know in the
[1:33:10]
past we've always had kind of the you
[1:33:12]
need to be here. You need to sign up for
[1:33:14]
yourself. I mean, you know, maybe if
[1:33:17]
they signed for her husband or
[1:33:19]
something, we could say, but I feel
[1:33:20]
like, you know, what we've seen happen,
[1:33:23]
not sure if we should make that clear
[1:33:27]
that that's really not the way we want
[1:33:30]
to. What do you think?
[1:33:32]
>> Yeah, that's
[1:33:33]
>> May I also to address that? Would it
[1:33:37]
help to possibly have a member of the
[1:33:38]
city staff verify who you are as you
[1:33:41]
sign up? Does that would that help or
[1:33:43]
would you
[1:33:43]
>> Yeah. Well, and I don't want to be too,
[1:33:45]
you know, I don't want to be too anal
[1:33:47]
about it, but I just felt like, you
[1:33:48]
know, we had what, four people, three
[1:33:50]
people, I can't remember that you called
[1:33:51]
up and they weren't here and they
[1:33:52]
weren't here and then they rushed in.
[1:33:55]
Oh, you missed me. And I'm like, they
[1:33:58]
she didn't find her,
[1:34:00]
>> you know. And the other thing would be,
[1:34:02]
I mean, I'd like discuss that, but then
[1:34:04]
the next thing would be is maybe in a
[1:34:06]
way to make it go a little smoother is
[1:34:07]
we could like do what you do, have the
[1:34:09]
name, say the names of who's next, but
[1:34:11]
have them come sit on the front row so
[1:34:12]
we're not waiting for people to talk up
[1:34:14]
again. I think next
[1:34:16]
>> the 27th we're going to have a lot of
[1:34:19]
comments. So maybe if we have like seats
[1:34:22]
where people can, you know, come and
[1:34:25]
>> that's what the mic
[1:34:27]
>> regarding the 27th. In fact, today I
[1:34:30]
talked to Brent about this is that I
[1:34:31]
would like to have have our protocol for
[1:34:34]
that public comment outlined and ready
[1:34:38]
pro before just soon.
[1:34:39]
>> Yeah.
[1:34:40]
>> And just because if you're not aware,
[1:34:42]
it's a meeting where we're required by
[1:34:44]
law not just to have the comments of
[1:34:48]
people present in the room, but we are
[1:34:51]
required to allow online comments. So
[1:34:54]
someone can attend virtually, which is
[1:34:56]
fine. It's just that we don't have any
[1:34:58]
protocol for that. One thing as I've as
[1:35:01]
I've asked Bren to look at it is my my
[1:35:03]
intention is not to give everybody three
[1:35:06]
minutes. So we're trying to work out
[1:35:07]
what is the time that's appropriate for
[1:35:10]
someone can feel comfortable sharing
[1:35:12]
their thoughts but yet also recognizing
[1:35:15]
that there going to be many pe I
[1:35:17]
anticipate many people wanting to give
[1:35:20]
comments. So that's what I've tasked
[1:35:23]
Bren to do is to come up with some ideas
[1:35:26]
for that. But like you said, sitting be
[1:35:28]
able to sit up front or or whatever it
[1:35:30]
is. And it's and also if I like I said
[1:35:35]
I'm I'm comfortable going less than 3
[1:35:37]
minutes and I don't know unless any of
[1:35:38]
you are really wanting to go have three
[1:35:41]
minutes per person. Um I I don't know
[1:35:44]
like I guess I don't know what number
[1:35:45]
we'll land on and then discussing at
[1:35:47]
what point do we give out the
[1:35:49]
information about how the public hearing
[1:35:50]
will be run. I would I would appreciate
[1:35:53]
having that information available so we
[1:35:55]
can give it to the public days before
[1:35:57]
and even before they even show up at the
[1:35:58]
meeting so they understand when they
[1:36:00]
come to the meeting this is how it's
[1:36:02]
going to be run. So there's a level of
[1:36:03]
expectation.
[1:36:06]
So would you anticipate something like
[1:36:08]
you'll have five in person
[1:36:10]
followed by five online followed by
[1:36:14]
>> something some just whatever that's what
[1:36:17]
>> some nature word
[1:36:18]
>> so bread brand
[1:36:20]
>> yeah some some way of doing that so I I
[1:36:23]
don't want to have everybody waiting
[1:36:24]
online and everybody waiting here it's
[1:36:28]
>> Bren Bren gets to do that
[1:36:30]
>> I'll come up with some suggestions on
[1:36:31]
how to organize it
[1:36:32]
>> how to organize it
[1:36:32]
>> with the intent to have it be as for
[1:36:35]
sure
[1:36:37]
still, you know, uh make sure we're well
[1:36:39]
within the law
[1:36:41]
>> and make we we hear from our our
[1:36:44]
residents.
[1:36:44]
>> Yeah.
[1:36:45]
>> And regarding the be during the meeting,
[1:36:48]
yeah, I would I can reiterate at the
[1:36:50]
beginning or
[1:36:53]
whether or not, you know, just reiterate
[1:36:55]
again that they have to be present to
[1:36:57]
win or whatever [laughter]
[1:36:59]
must be present.
[1:37:00]
>> They need to sign their own paper. you
[1:37:02]
sign your own paperwork because
[1:37:05]
>> we are getting in particular on on on
[1:37:08]
certain topics that we're getting people
[1:37:10]
someone coming and signing up a bunch of
[1:37:11]
people and then they're not here or
[1:37:16]
>> show therapy. Do you know do we say
[1:37:18]
anything like that on the paper?
[1:37:20]
>> Yeah,
[1:37:21]
>> I think you do. Don't you on there?
[1:37:23]
>> They're not supposed to or not sign up
[1:37:25]
for therapy,
[1:37:28]
>> but no one's guarding it. So,
[1:37:33]
» well, but then you as mayor and council
[1:37:37]
knowing that know that that that gives
[1:37:39]
you a little bit more
[1:37:41]
standing to say
[1:37:44]
as it says on the signup sheet
[1:37:48]
sign up, [clears throat]
[1:37:50]
>> you know,
[1:37:50]
>> and I think to your point of I in my
[1:37:53]
prior life before I was on the city
[1:37:55]
council, I did have issues in my
[1:37:56]
neighborhood and I did come and speak
[1:37:58]
before the city council. It's and it's
[1:38:00]
quite nerve-wracking. And I spent the
[1:38:02]
whole day preparing what I was going to
[1:38:04]
say and timing it. [clears throat] And
[1:38:06]
so I can empathize with people who have
[1:38:08]
a three minute speech plan and then
[1:38:10]
they're told they need to cut it to two.
[1:38:12]
That just adds more stress and defining
[1:38:14]
that before I think is a broken idea
[1:38:17]
because then I think it will just create
[1:38:19]
a better environment and atmosphere too.
[1:38:23]
>> Yeah. And so I that's what I hope to do
[1:38:25]
is to let them know that we are
[1:38:27]
interested in hearing what they have to
[1:38:29]
say, what people have to say, give their
[1:38:31]
thoughts and be respectful of that. And
[1:38:34]
I think giving them setting the
[1:38:35]
expectations as early as possible is an
[1:38:38]
important way to do that.
[1:38:39]
>> Thank you.
[1:38:41]
There's anything else? I entertain a
[1:38:43]
motion to adjurnn. Second. All right. All those
[1:38:50]
in favor? Hi.
[1:38:51]
>> Hi.
[1:38:54]
>> And we'll reconvene at 6.
[1:40:27]
So funny.
[1:40:31]
» No, I mean I heard in front of me heard
[1:40:33]
progressive. It was like the student
[1:40:35]
last video.
[1:40:50]
Every experience.
[1:40:52]
>> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Every experience
[1:40:56]
including
[1:41:00]
this school
[1:41:07]
one I grew up
[1:41:17]
near
[1:41:20]
bodies of water. I've never been
[1:41:29]
» they're teaching
[1:41:50]
started an instrument. Feels
[1:41:53]
president
[1:41:57]
to avoid losing his he
[1:42:03]
» rules that he would be in a different
[1:42:17]
» like like the scarlet
[1:42:19]
They get you with a little red dot.
[1:42:22]
That's not
[1:42:27]
» I mean the whole school body terrible.
[1:42:31]
>> They're like you haven't heard.
[1:42:32]
>> No, I haven't heard.
[1:42:37]
» It is. It is pretty. It's always I think
[1:42:40]
the power dynamic is always grow and
[1:42:42]
then especially when it's a church
[1:42:43]
school that power dynamic is
[1:42:45]
accentuated.
[1:42:51]
» Yeah.
[1:42:55]
feeling the craziest.
[1:42:59]
>> No, I don't know what I'd say.
[1:43:08]
» What is it? watching
[1:43:10]
>> homogeneous
[1:43:22]
» like baby fish because I've seen guys
[1:43:27]
like
[1:43:30]
and they're really cool and then they go
[1:43:33]
to like either university or they leave
[1:43:35]
university so much data here I'm like,
[1:43:38]
"Yeah, cuz you're interesting."
[1:43:41]
But in this dating pool, you're
[1:43:43]
interesting just by virtue of being a
[1:43:45]
relish, a decently attractive guy who's
[1:43:47]
in the church who has a pulse.
[1:43:50]
>> Yeah.
[1:43:53]
>> Like you go and you have a personality.
[1:43:55]
I'm sorry, but you know, man,
[1:43:57]
>> we're to have
[1:44:01]
» if not all your life. I'm saying you
[1:44:03]
don't have a person, but I'm saying the
[1:44:05]
likelihood of it being less developed.
[1:44:12]
You developed uh checkpoints, you
[1:44:15]
develop police checkpoints.
[1:44:22]
» Got to find you learn. You learn what a type of attractiveness is good
[1:44:26]
and then you develop a sense of it is
[1:44:28]
it's like super attractive is not oh
[1:44:32]
>> it's like no I realiz this person is
[1:44:35]
attractive but in a way that is
[1:44:37]
interesting not like they're dry
[1:44:41]
>> what is it
[1:44:42]
>> and they have a more interesting
[1:44:45]
>> like
[1:44:48]
ugly
[1:44:50]
that's correct
[1:44:52]
>> I think
[1:44:53]
Not sure. Yeah, Adrian.
[1:44:56]
>> Yeah,
[1:44:56]
>> I'm bad at recognizing celebrities. Um,
[1:45:11]
» Oh, yeah.
[1:45:12]
>> He's got like a little weasel man face,
[1:45:14]
but also he's But he's fashionable.
[1:45:19]
>> He had very high cheekbone.
[1:45:21]
>> Okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's
[1:45:24]
>> but it's like with the interesting
[1:45:28]
>> but I always
[1:45:31]
like
[1:45:36]
[laughter]
[1:45:42]
people Test test.
[1:46:01]
Last time I went to one of these, it was
[1:46:03]
25 days a week. Not really, but a young
[1:46:06]
kid. He was like,
[1:46:08]
>> he was just so like overwhelmed. That
[1:46:10]
was the case.
[1:46:24]
Love it.
[1:46:32]
» Test one, two. Test. Test.
[1:46:35]
That's it right there. And then the
[1:46:38]
flags right there.
[1:46:40]
And the best. Pretty simple. Just break
[1:46:43]
it in front and soon as we're finished.
[1:47:07]
Father,
[1:47:43]
I think she said ghost.
[1:47:51]
Nice
[1:48:08]
job. All right.
[1:48:39]
I know there's
[1:48:45]
is not
[1:48:48]
your
[1:49:10]
son
[1:49:13]
again. my sun. So
[1:49:26]
yeah,
[1:49:29]
that's why
[1:50:00]
You're alone.
[1:50:16]
Yes.
[1:50:21]
Yeah.
[1:50:32]
Good.
[1:51:36]
finish.
[1:53:44]
Council
[1:53:55]
member Mikum, are you do we have you
[1:53:57]
online?
[1:54:00]
>> Yes, indeed I am here.
[1:54:01]
>> All right.
[1:54:08]
Good evening. I'd like to welcome you to
[1:54:10]
the August 11th, 2026 ORM city council
[1:54:14]
meeting and I'll call the meeting to
[1:54:16]
order. Our invoca invocation and inspir
[1:54:20]
or inspirational thought will be given
[1:54:21]
by Amy Walker and the pledge of
[1:54:24]
allegiance will be led by Greywalker.
[1:54:33]
Dear heavenly father, we are so so
[1:54:35]
thankful for
[1:54:37]
um this time of year and season that we
[1:54:39]
can um enjoy all of the many luxuries
[1:54:43]
and um bounty of our city and our
[1:54:47]
nation. We are thankful to be gathered
[1:54:49]
together to
[1:54:53]
unite our um opinions and hearts. We
[1:54:57]
pray for patience and kindness to
[1:55:07]
be present in our communication and in
[1:55:10]
our thoughts as we strive to find unity
[1:55:14]
um in seeing the point of view of
[1:55:16]
others. We are thankful for this great
[1:55:19]
nation that we live in. grateful for the
[1:55:21]
community and the camaraderie that we
[1:55:23]
share with our neighbors and
[1:55:26]
um the great families that we enjoy
[1:55:29]
here. We are so thankful for our
[1:55:32]
blessings and grateful for
[1:55:36]
the safety of our community. We pray
[1:55:38]
that thou will be with those who are
[1:55:41]
enduring the wildfires and the tragedies
[1:55:45]
that are happening in Utah. We pray that
[1:55:47]
thou will be with the firefighters and
[1:55:51]
their families and the people who have
[1:55:54]
suffered. We pray that they will
[1:55:56]
continually watch over
[1:55:59]
our nation and help us to find peace and
[1:56:02]
safety and continue to strive for
[1:56:04]
greatness and to choose to step forward
[1:56:08]
with our best selves and
[1:56:12]
to
[1:56:14]
brave the humanity and the kindness that
[1:56:16]
we can offer this great nation. We are
[1:56:19]
grateful to thee and pray for these
[1:56:21]
things. And we say these things in the
[1:56:22]
name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
[1:56:24]
Thank you.
[1:56:37]
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
[1:56:40]
United States of America and to the
[1:56:43]
republic for which it stands, one nation
[1:56:47]
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[1:56:50]
justice for all.
[1:56:55]
Thank you for the prayer and for leading
[1:56:58]
us in the pledge of allegiance.
[1:57:01]
Right. Next item on the agenda is 7.1.
[1:57:03]
It's a presentation by the public works
[1:57:06]
advisory commission. So I'm going to
[1:57:07]
turn the time over to our public works
[1:57:09]
director Chris Schey and our public
[1:57:13]
works advisory commission chair Mike
[1:57:14]
Wimpy.
[1:57:21]
Do you want me if if he's not here, do
[1:57:23]
you want me to go on to the next item?
[1:57:26]
Okay, why don't we do that? Because I
[1:57:27]
think the next item we've got people
[1:57:29]
here.
[1:57:30]
I see them all over in the back.
[1:57:33]
[laughter]
[1:57:35]
[gasps]
[1:57:35]
All right. What we'll do is then we're
[1:57:38]
going to wait on that and go to our next
[1:57:40]
item which is a presentation a citizen
[1:57:44]
life saving and our presenter is our
[1:57:46]
fire chief Mark Sanderson and we welcome
[1:57:50]
the your colleagues here this evening as
[1:57:52]
well.
[1:57:53]
>> Thank you mayor and councel. I just want
[1:57:55]
to first start off publicly thanking
[1:57:57]
Chief Swinson and the members of our a
[1:57:59]
platoon for joining us tonight. A lot of
[1:58:01]
the things I'm going to discuss tonight
[1:58:03]
are closely related, if not very
[1:58:06]
specific names of individuals in this
[1:58:08]
room who have received recognition and
[1:58:11]
provided life-saving um care to multiple
[1:58:16]
citizens throughout all three
[1:58:18]
communities we serve. Um
[1:58:22]
I would challenge you to over the next
[1:58:24]
couple of weeks a shift most recently
[1:58:27]
yesterday have had a rash of very
[1:58:31]
traumatic calls. Um I don't want to
[1:58:34]
share the details. However, I will share
[1:58:37]
that based off of the level of
[1:58:39]
expertise, not only in our critical care
[1:58:42]
program and our critical care
[1:58:43]
paramedics, but from our captain, our
[1:58:46]
battalion chiefs down to our very brand
[1:58:48]
new EMTs, the level of service that
[1:58:51]
they've provided yesterday to two
[1:58:53]
specific patients definitely made a
[1:58:56]
difference and provided an opportunity
[1:58:58]
for the very best outcome for their
[1:59:00]
circumstances. And so you'd have to reach out to these guys
[1:59:05]
the next time you see them. We
[1:59:07]
definitely have uh photographs because
[1:59:10]
they're used for training. They're
[1:59:12]
appropriate. Um doesn't disclose any
[1:59:15]
personal or private information, but it
[1:59:18]
would give you a better taste of what
[1:59:20]
these guys and gals do on a regular
[1:59:22]
basis. And so I'm very appreciative for
[1:59:25]
the things that they've done over the
[1:59:26]
course of the week. If we could just go
[1:59:29]
to the next slide. I've shared with you
[1:59:31]
this packet. I'm gonna cover. Oh, I got
[1:59:34]
a clicker.
[1:59:35]
>> There's the clicker.
[1:59:41]
» Maybe.
[1:59:49]
» Thank you.
[1:59:51]
I have people that turn my clickers on
[1:59:52]
for me.
[1:59:56]
I wanted to just start out. Many of you
[1:59:58]
have had the opportunity to attend our
[2:00:00]
quarterly recognition and and several of
[2:00:03]
you have got other obligations. We just
[2:00:06]
I just know that the crews appreciate
[2:00:08]
your involvement, your attendance, um
[2:00:10]
and your continued support. So, I'm just
[2:00:13]
going to highlight I'm not going to read
[2:00:14]
them all, but you can see. But I but for
[2:00:17]
the people in the back, I would I really
[2:00:20]
when you see your name up here, I would
[2:00:21]
like you to stand up. I'm going to go
[2:00:22]
through this really quickly, so you
[2:00:24]
won't have to stand up very long, but I
[2:00:26]
want you to at least have the ability to
[2:00:28]
recognize those in the room that have
[2:00:31]
made a difference on most of these
[2:00:33]
calls. But this first category of
[2:00:35]
operational excellence and medical
[2:00:37]
calls,
[2:00:38]
multiple cardiac arrest patients, and we
[2:00:41]
even heard it in our work session today
[2:00:43]
that wasn't a cardiac arrest, but easily
[2:00:45]
could have led to that. Um and based on
[2:00:47]
the care of our people that the our
[2:00:50]
people provide, we see really positive
[2:00:52]
outcomes. Um even as recently as last
[2:00:56]
year, we've received recognition through
[2:00:58]
Tempenogus Hospital of uh achieving
[2:01:02]
national records with our spontaneous
[2:01:06]
return of circulation
[2:01:08]
uh across the across the country. And
[2:01:12]
it's because how quickly we respond.
[2:01:14]
It's because of the level of service
[2:01:15]
that our people provide, the
[2:01:16]
certifications and the additional
[2:01:18]
training that um we have within our
[2:01:22]
organization that make us truly amazing,
[2:01:25]
the citizens that need us. Um along with
[2:01:28]
these things, it's uh this recognition.
[2:01:31]
I think it's so important that we
[2:01:32]
identify the multiple citizens that
[2:01:35]
actually call 911, start CPR, get help
[2:01:39]
coming because in a lot of these
[2:01:41]
circumstances,
[2:01:43]
if somebody outside of the fire
[2:01:45]
department hadn't initiated something,
[2:01:48]
then we wouldn't see the positive
[2:01:49]
outcomes that we do. And so the shout
[2:01:52]
out goes to our community and the
[2:01:54]
citizens who will step up when the time
[2:01:56]
needs to help start life- saving efforts
[2:01:59]
that we can then take over on. But you
[2:02:02]
can see I mean most significantly an
[2:02:05]
8-year-old cardiac arrest. We have
[2:02:06]
Captain Belnap and his crew in the back
[2:02:08]
with our CCPs. We were fortunate enough
[2:02:12]
Yeah, please.
[2:02:18]
We were fortunate enough with this
[2:02:20]
circumstance to have a bystandard start
[2:02:22]
CPR, which then Captain Belnap and his
[2:02:25]
crew were able to step in, transport
[2:02:28]
this kid to Primary Children's, who
[2:02:30]
walked out of their ICUs with no
[2:02:34]
deficits. Just amazing results. That was
[2:02:37]
Bailey Bird, who we've noticed with an
[2:02:39]
award for that citizen heroism.
[2:02:41]
Um, also Captain Hickman and his crew.
[2:02:45]
You can see there was an MVA extrication
[2:02:47]
down on Geneva Road that was significant
[2:02:50]
and horrific injuries to a patient that
[2:02:53]
because of their expertise, their quick
[2:02:55]
response, their abilities to cut the car
[2:02:58]
open and extricate that patient and get
[2:03:00]
him to level two trauma center, Utah
[2:03:02]
Valley
[2:03:04]
is alive and doing much better than
[2:03:07]
most. And so I just want to thank them
[2:03:10]
for that. very impressive.
[2:03:16]
I actually included this additional
[2:03:18]
recognition.
[2:03:20]
Um, but I want to point out that our
[2:03:22]
people don't do this for recognition.
[2:03:24]
You guys know that when you attend. Um,
[2:03:26]
I beg them every meeting to please
[2:03:29]
provide the things that we don't see
[2:03:31]
from the office. We don't hear the
[2:03:33]
calls. That's not why they do it. They
[2:03:35]
do it because they love the community
[2:03:36]
they serve. They love the job that they
[2:03:38]
do. and they really do care and make a
[2:03:40]
difference. And so highlighting these
[2:03:43]
additional recognitions
[2:03:47]
um
[2:03:49]
they're significant when we identify 20
[2:03:52]
years as an ORM city employee with
[2:03:54]
assistant chief and chief Boehner all
[2:03:57]
the way down to our 10 and five similar
[2:03:59]
to what the city does on this month that
[2:04:01]
are city recognition. Um,
[2:04:06]
a couple of the other categories that I
[2:04:08]
think are impressive, training,
[2:04:09]
instruction, and the professional
[2:04:11]
development. You can see, I mean, just
[2:04:14]
quickly looking up there, we have I know
[2:04:16]
Lieutenant Metaf in the back um that
[2:04:19]
completed a heavy rescue school, part of
[2:04:21]
our SRT countywide team. It was a
[2:04:24]
six-week program where he comes off of
[2:04:26]
shift and uh is working a 40-hour week
[2:04:28]
Monday through Friday, which is not your
[2:04:30]
normal firefighter schedule. disrupts
[2:04:32]
your family life and that whole
[2:04:34]
schedule. But but based off of
[2:04:36]
completion of that heavy rescue school,
[2:04:39]
it brings a whole new level of
[2:04:41]
experience to our own organization that
[2:04:43]
will continue to grow based off of their
[2:04:44]
leadership.
[2:04:47]
And then Utah Fire Officer Designation
[2:04:50]
Award. This is this is something that
[2:04:53]
EURA awards based off of a like a 60page
[2:04:57]
packet of requirements. And we have
[2:05:00]
several um employees who have earned
[2:05:03]
that. Most recently, Scott Slater, one
[2:05:05]
of our critical care paramedics.
[2:05:08]
And then one other thing we just
[2:05:10]
highlighted in trying to encompass all
[2:05:12]
of these recognitions over the past two
[2:05:14]
quarters is this leadership and
[2:05:16]
mentorship and tactical support. The
[2:05:18]
thing that I do appreciate and love is
[2:05:20]
that it doesn't always these are these
[2:05:24]
are recognitions for working with our
[2:05:25]
own crews, working with a new employee.
[2:05:29]
It's also citywide training. Uh Grant
[2:05:32]
Mquist, he's in the back. He provides
[2:05:34]
all of our city department specialized
[2:05:37]
CPR training for our employees. It
[2:05:40]
wasn't an assignment that he I think was
[2:05:42]
signed up for originally, but based off
[2:05:44]
of his abilities to connect and his his
[2:05:48]
teaching and and connections he makes
[2:05:50]
with our employees, he keeps getting
[2:05:52]
calls and he keeps doing those classes.
[2:05:54]
So, it's it's very important that he
[2:05:57]
recognize the value that he brings to
[2:05:59]
not only our fire department, but the
[2:06:00]
city as a whole.
[2:06:03]
And I this is also because the crews
[2:06:05]
here uh Captain Hickman, firefighter
[2:06:08]
Cole Hannon Rosequist, we had an
[2:06:10]
incident. Um really quickly, a UHP
[2:06:13]
officer, they've been chasing a
[2:06:14]
motorcyclist all day long, multiple
[2:06:18]
1080s. They turn their lights on, takes
[2:06:20]
off on the motorcycle. Well, it just so
[2:06:22]
happened the highway patrolman happened
[2:06:24]
to see the kid stopped at a light,
[2:06:26]
parked his car, tackled the kid before
[2:06:29]
he was able to leave the light. As our
[2:06:31]
tiller was driving by, those three crew
[2:06:34]
saw the officer fighting with the kid.
[2:06:36]
Didn't look like he was winning and
[2:06:38]
bailed out of the fire engine and helped
[2:06:40]
subdue the the evader. And so you you
[2:06:45]
just don't know the impact that has with
[2:06:48]
any of our officers. They do it if it
[2:06:50]
was an arm officer. They do it if it was
[2:06:51]
a citizen and you just don't know if the
[2:06:54]
guy gets the officer's gun. Our guys
[2:06:56]
don't intervene. You have a totally
[2:06:58]
different outcome. And so our fire
[2:07:00]
department employees just don't do fire
[2:07:02]
and EMS. I mean, they're they're amazing
[2:07:05]
humans, amazing abilities, and they
[2:07:08]
really do care about everybody within
[2:07:10]
the cities.
[2:07:13]
And then the then the last one that I
[2:07:15]
just wanted to highlight from their
[2:07:17]
recognition is this compassion and
[2:07:19]
external recognition. and I kind of
[2:07:21]
touched base on that things that Grant's
[2:07:23]
done with other departments. Um,
[2:07:27]
just looking really quickly to see.
[2:07:31]
But when you read through these, I mean,
[2:07:33]
we had the incident in Lynon.
[2:07:34]
Everybody's aware of the family that
[2:07:36]
lost a three-year-old daughter. As
[2:07:38]
horrific as that type of call is, the
[2:07:41]
benefit and the value and the compassion
[2:07:43]
that our people bring to even worst case
[2:07:46]
scenarios um make a huge difference. And
[2:07:50]
so I want to leave you with that. I want
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to thank them again for all that they do
[2:07:53]
and supporting our city and
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say thank you.
[2:08:16]
Mayor, if you don't mind, I'd just like
[2:08:18]
to give them the opportunity to be
[2:08:19]
excused unless you guys had questions or
[2:08:22]
comments.
[2:08:22]
>> Oh, no. They have to sit through the
[2:08:23]
whole No. No. Go ahead.
[2:08:25]
>> So, they do, right?
[2:08:26]
>> Yes. [laughter]
[2:08:27]
No, you're welcome to be excused. You're
[2:08:29]
welcome to stay. Whatever. Whatever you
[2:08:31]
would like to do. Now, council members,
[2:08:33]
that doesn't apply to you. So, or
[2:08:35]
myself. So, [laughter]
[2:08:38]
thank you. All right. Next item on the
[2:08:40]
agenda, we'll go back to the
[2:08:42]
presentation on the public works
[2:08:44]
advisory commission. We have our public
[2:08:45]
works director Chris Scherey and Mike
[2:08:47]
Wimby who is our public works advisory
[2:08:51]
commission chair. So welcome.
[2:08:58]
Thank you mayor and council. It's a
[2:09:00]
pleasure to be here tonight. Next year I
[2:09:03]
vow to not follow police or fire. Okay.
[2:09:06]
Because that is a hard act to follow.
[2:09:07]
Every year I seem to be in this position
[2:09:10]
between BJ and Mark. So anyway, we uh we
[2:09:13]
love police and fire and all the
[2:09:15]
outstanding uh services they provide for
[2:09:17]
our community. Um I'd like to introduce
[2:09:20]
Mr. Mike Wimpy who is our chairman of
[2:09:22]
our public works advisory commission.
[2:09:23]
We've been asked to provide our FY26
[2:09:26]
annual report and I'll turn the time
[2:09:28]
over to Mike.
[2:09:31]
Thank you. It's a it's pleasure to be
[2:09:33]
here tonight. Um I've enjoyed my
[2:09:35]
opportunity that I've had to serve on
[2:09:37]
the public works advisory commission. I
[2:09:39]
think it's been three years now. Uh, I
[2:09:41]
just received an email from April
[2:09:43]
Nielson saying that I needed to reapply
[2:09:46]
to uh to have so much fun. So, I gladly
[2:09:48]
did so. Uh, thanks Chris. It's great to
[2:09:51]
work with the public works group. I
[2:09:53]
think the the thing that uh is just it's
[2:09:56]
a pleasure to work with such
[2:09:58]
professional people that care so much
[2:10:00]
about the public and care about doing
[2:10:01]
their jobs and doing a great job. And so
[2:10:03]
we get an opportunity to meet with the
[2:10:06]
um public works supervisors and
[2:10:08]
departments every month. I know uh
[2:10:12]
Councilwoman Millet has participated in
[2:10:14]
that in the past and now Councilwoman
[2:10:16]
Milstein and uh I think it's just very
[2:10:18]
evident how much city staff care about
[2:10:20]
their jobs and do a great job to keep us
[2:10:23]
in great shape. So um [clears throat]
[2:10:26]
like Chris said, my name is Mike Wimpy.
[2:10:28]
I've uh had the opportunity to serve on
[2:10:30]
the public works advisory commission
[2:10:32]
going now into a second term and um my
[2:10:36]
work outside of uh volunteering with the
[2:10:39]
city is as assistant general manager at
[2:10:42]
central Utah water conservancy district
[2:10:43]
and so I'm lucky to have opportunity to
[2:10:46]
work with city staff both in a volunteer
[2:10:48]
capacity as well in my as well as in my
[2:10:50]
professional capacity uh on a regular
[2:10:52]
basis. Other uh council or other members
[2:10:56]
of the commission include Gary Moley.
[2:10:59]
He's a retired doctor. Uh Jim Michaelus,
[2:11:02]
who I think was the prior chair and he's
[2:11:04]
a retired UVU, uh was responsible for a
[2:11:08]
lot of their facilities and buildings
[2:11:10]
and did a great job leading the
[2:11:12]
commission. Joseph Gordon, um linguistic
[2:11:16]
project manager at Utah Translation
[2:11:17]
Analysis Center. Rob Moore. And you'll
[2:11:20]
note that Rob is uh also from Central
[2:11:23]
Utah Water Conservancy District. That
[2:11:25]
didn't happen. Uh he worked at the
[2:11:27]
county in the county attorney's office
[2:11:29]
and we were so impressed with him that
[2:11:31]
we were lucky enough to convince him to
[2:11:33]
come work with us at Central Utah Water.
[2:11:35]
Uh but that he was he was appointed to
[2:11:37]
the commission while he was still an
[2:11:38]
attorney at the county. And then Brent
[2:11:40]
Tobler, uh he works at West Engineering.
[2:11:43]
We had a member of the commission uh
[2:11:45]
Todd Hadley that just after nine years
[2:11:49]
uh was was no, you know, probably
[2:11:52]
willing but no longer uh able to serve
[2:11:55]
on the commission. So, and then once again, like I mentioned,
[2:11:58]
Councilwoman Mulestein is the liaison to
[2:12:01]
the commission
[2:12:04]
and I'm going to turn it back over to
[2:12:05]
you, Chris. So, all right. Thank you,
[2:12:07]
Mike.
[2:12:09]
There's a there's a brief history I'll
[2:12:10]
just share with you. we did last time,
[2:12:12]
but um in 2014 is when we created this
[2:12:16]
commission, the city council created
[2:12:18]
this commission. Um we had uh I think uh
[2:12:23]
Jim Michaels was on the original
[2:12:24]
commission. Then he left for a period of
[2:12:26]
time. He served a mission and then came
[2:12:28]
back and we had a vacancy and he was
[2:12:30]
able to to come back again. So um so we
[2:12:34]
had originally seven members on the
[2:12:36]
commission and then it was expanded in
[2:12:38]
uh 2017 to accommodate the need to
[2:12:41]
evaluate broadband and utopia and UIA
[2:12:44]
and provide additional analyses. Uh we
[2:12:47]
had two experts that came and joined us
[2:12:49]
since we had nine members on the on the
[2:12:51]
on our advisory commission at that time
[2:12:54]
and we adjusted it back in 2021 to uh to
[2:12:58]
back to seven members. So that's where
[2:12:59]
we stand today. We do have one vacancy
[2:13:01]
as Mike mentioned and we're looking for
[2:13:03]
a replacement soon on that. Basically,
[2:13:06]
the duties of and responsibilities of
[2:13:08]
the commissioners are to uh to get more
[2:13:11]
acquainted with our infrastructure, our
[2:13:12]
facilities, the services we provide, uh
[2:13:16]
help us to determine the level of
[2:13:17]
service that we should provide to the
[2:13:19]
community with regards to water, sewer,
[2:13:21]
storm water, traffic, street lighting,
[2:13:23]
um street conditions, and so forth. Um
[2:13:26]
and then they they review uh studies
[2:13:29]
that are made by professionals
[2:13:30]
externally uh professional engineers and
[2:13:33]
financial consultants and after much
[2:13:35]
review and sometimes debate and analysis
[2:13:37]
and so forth we go back and forth and
[2:13:39]
then we bring recommendations to the
[2:13:41]
council in this last fiscal year in
[2:13:44]
FY26.
[2:13:46]
Last year at this time we our meeting
[2:13:48]
was to help prepare for this actual
[2:13:50]
presentation the one from FY25. Uh we
[2:13:53]
only met six times in the last uh 10
[2:13:55]
months or so. October 25, we had a tour
[2:13:58]
of the ORM city hall since this was
[2:14:00]
pretty new and and nobody had been here
[2:14:03]
uh pre previously to that. We also had
[2:14:04]
our major project review that took place
[2:14:07]
and we're going to update you on those
[2:14:08]
projects here shortly. In January of
[2:14:11]
this year, we had our annual public
[2:14:13]
commission training much like uh what
[2:14:15]
others do on commissions and boards and
[2:14:17]
districts and and uh council members.
[2:14:20]
they have those trainings that are
[2:14:21]
required by the state regarding uh
[2:14:24]
public meetings and and so forth. In
[2:14:26]
March of 26, we then also had a review
[2:14:29]
of our transportation utility fund and
[2:14:31]
the state of our streets and condition
[2:14:33]
of our streets were evaluated and
[2:14:35]
presented at that time. In April of 26,
[2:14:38]
we toured the uh the new or water reuse
[2:14:41]
facility which the council toured I
[2:14:43]
believe in in March or February of this
[2:14:46]
year.
[2:14:47]
So, our completed projects in the last
[2:14:49]
fiscal year um include number one, our
[2:14:51]
water reuse facility.
[2:14:53]
Number two, our 10 million gallon water
[2:14:55]
tank. It's not online right now, but
[2:14:57]
it's it's um it's pending, and it's in
[2:15:00]
tandem with the booster station and a
[2:15:03]
new well that was drilled recently.
[2:15:05]
Those we hope to have both of those
[2:15:06]
completed next year. Uh number three, I
[2:15:10]
would say substantially meaning 99% plus
[2:15:13]
um the abandonment of the Provo bench
[2:15:16]
and North Union canal companies. The
[2:15:18]
Metropolitan Water District of ORM is a member of both of those companies
[2:15:23]
and those companies uh for a variety of
[2:15:26]
reasons have chosen to to aban be
[2:15:28]
abandoned and uh and to dissolve. In uh
[2:15:33]
number four, we have our northeast storm
[2:15:35]
water improvements. I think sister or
[2:15:37]
sorry um about that councilwoman Elen
[2:15:40]
Millet mentioned in our work session
[2:15:43]
that we had substantial uh storm water
[2:15:46]
damages that occurred 2 years ago. After
[2:15:49]
that, we met with uh the neighborhood
[2:15:51]
and the community members in that area.
[2:15:52]
We developed plans with our engineering
[2:15:54]
staff and public works team and other
[2:15:57]
engineers to develop improvements and we
[2:16:00]
put in nearly a million dollars worth of
[2:16:02]
work to help uh prevent that from
[2:16:04]
happening in the future. Um this one
[2:16:07]
item here I wanted to bring to your
[2:16:09]
attention very specifically. Uh Jen
[2:16:12]
Gail, Councilwoman Gail has been heavily
[2:16:14]
involved with mountain biking and with
[2:16:18]
um with the youth and m and mountain
[2:16:19]
biking efforts. She's a coach I believe
[2:16:22]
as well. And uh we have been working
[2:16:24]
with her and others in our public works
[2:16:26]
advisory commission and the recreation
[2:16:28]
commission on the development of our
[2:16:30]
bike skills park. We have three phases
[2:16:33]
of that that are now completed. This one
[2:16:36]
in particular is very uh challenging.
[2:16:40]
I've not done it myself. I know I'd
[2:16:42]
probably get hurt. I know for sure I
[2:16:43]
would. Um maybe when I was a teenager I
[2:16:46]
would go off some of these jumps and so
[2:16:47]
forth. We have worked with uh Mike Wimpy
[2:16:50]
and Kurt Beecher of Central Utah Water
[2:16:52]
Conservancy in a very professional and
[2:16:55]
team oriented solutionsoriented
[2:16:58]
process to help us to accommodate that
[2:17:01]
new bike skills facility or phase 3 is
[2:17:04]
what we call it that was formerly on
[2:17:06]
central Utah waters um property on the
[2:17:08]
hillside. They felt like they probably
[2:17:11]
didn't need that per se to have the
[2:17:13]
title to that. And we worked out an
[2:17:15]
arrangement where they needed some
[2:17:17]
access through our park to build a
[2:17:19]
sedimentation basin below their 10
[2:17:21]
million gallon water tank just adjacent
[2:17:22]
to our Mount Bonogus Park. And so we
[2:17:25]
were very um I I appreciate Mike and
[2:17:28]
Kirk Kirk and Beecher and and the effort
[2:17:31]
that they put forward and the motivation
[2:17:34]
that they had. I think this is a prime
[2:17:36]
example of how public servants in
[2:17:39]
different agencies can work together to
[2:17:41]
solve mutual problems for the greater
[2:17:44]
good of the community. I'm just really
[2:17:46]
thrilled with that that project and the
[2:17:48]
effort that went forward. We had uh
[2:17:50]
others from our legal legal staff that
[2:17:52]
were involved and and then including um
[2:17:56]
Aaron Mcnite and Steve and uh our our um
[2:18:00]
city manager and also Brenby and and
[2:18:04]
Ryan, our assistant city manager, as
[2:18:06]
well as Bryce, our rec uh recreation and
[2:18:09]
library director. They were involved
[2:18:12]
heavily and and Tyler Pay, I should
[2:18:13]
mention him as well. Um, so it was it
[2:18:16]
was a it was a fullcourt press on this
[2:18:18]
effort to get this done in in a
[2:18:20]
relatively short amount of time. It
[2:18:22]
couldn't have happened without the
[2:18:23]
cooperation of Central Utah. So, thank
[2:18:25]
you for that. Um, we were also able to
[2:18:28]
complete in the last year the Northridge
[2:18:29]
Park playground and pickle ball and
[2:18:31]
tennis courts as well as the Windsor
[2:18:34]
Park um at Windsor Park the new jazz
[2:18:36]
multiport court which is now underway
[2:18:39]
for a new um a new four four pickle ball
[2:18:43]
court facility at the recommendation of
[2:18:45]
Councilwoman Millet from a couple of
[2:18:47]
years ago uh in a council meeting that
[2:18:49]
was added and that is uh now underway.
[2:18:53]
um ongoing projects we have. Um
[2:18:56]
I'll skip number one right now. We're
[2:18:58]
going to come right back to that. I'll
[2:18:59]
I'm going to go over these other ones
[2:19:00]
quickly. Well number 10 is located at
[2:19:02]
four south and fourth west. That's the
[2:19:04]
well that I mentioned that is being uh
[2:19:06]
has been drilled and developed. We now
[2:19:09]
we need to put a wellhouse on top with a
[2:19:11]
new pump and a new uh a new um a motor
[2:19:15]
and so forth and and get that on
[2:19:17]
operational. That'll take place over the
[2:19:19]
next uh 12 uh 12 months. the booster
[2:19:22]
station right next to it. Um you you
[2:19:24]
noticed that there was a massive hole on
[2:19:26]
the ground over there that's been filled
[2:19:27]
in and that's all in preparation to take
[2:19:30]
that water out of the new water tank
[2:19:31]
which is a 10 million gallon water tank.
[2:19:33]
Put it into our system. We're
[2:19:35]
diversifying the location of our water
[2:19:37]
sources in the event we do have
[2:19:39]
emergencies. For example, on the on the
[2:19:41]
hillside over here, we have the Wasatch
[2:19:43]
fault. So that'll help to remedy any
[2:19:46]
concerns that might arise as a a result
[2:19:48]
of a a major seismic event. We've been
[2:19:53]
also updating uh the commission
[2:19:55]
regarding the UDOT Geneva Road widening
[2:19:58]
and Lake View Parkway project. Most of
[2:20:00]
that, if not all of that is done in
[2:20:02]
Provo and then a good portion of it is
[2:20:05]
underway right now. We've also been
[2:20:07]
working with uh the parks and recreation
[2:20:09]
department on developing entryway and
[2:20:11]
city park monument signs. Um I don't
[2:20:15]
know Mike if you would like to take a
[2:20:16]
minute to address that first one. Uh the
[2:20:18]
central Utah water reuse feasibility
[2:20:22]
study.
[2:20:22]
>> Sure. Um Central Utah [clears throat]
[2:20:24]
Water about 20 years ago had the
[2:20:26]
opportunity to acquire all of the former
[2:20:29]
Geneva Steel water rights and water
[2:20:32]
related infrastructure.
[2:20:34]
And um when we acquired that water, we
[2:20:36]
didn't have a customer for the water.
[2:20:38]
And as we went out to the various cities
[2:20:41]
and and gauged interest and demand for
[2:20:44]
that water. Um it was a little bit slow.
[2:20:47]
2008 the the crash occurred and uh we we
[2:20:52]
were wondering if we would ever sell all
[2:20:53]
that water. Well, that water is long
[2:20:56]
gone. Um, everybody is scrambling and
[2:20:58]
coming in asking where is there more
[2:21:00]
water that we can purchase to supply to
[2:21:02]
our communities. And [clears throat] we
[2:21:06]
approached Chris and Reed and as we
[2:21:09]
became more aware of the reuse, many of
[2:21:12]
you know that reuse in the state of
[2:21:14]
Utah, throughout the country, reuse is
[2:21:15]
occurring and being uh leaned on heavily
[2:21:18]
to augment existing supplies in Utah. Um
[2:21:22]
it you know 101 15 years ago it was seen
[2:21:24]
that any drop of water that makes it to
[2:21:26]
the Great Salt Lake is wasted and that
[2:21:28]
mentality has shifted over the the last
[2:21:30]
several years as we've recognized the
[2:21:32]
importance the ecological importance of
[2:21:35]
the Great Salt Lake and health
[2:21:36]
importance for the community. And so uh
[2:21:38]
reuse is no longer uh permitted within
[2:21:42]
the state without an a makeup or a
[2:21:46]
replacement water going to the Great
[2:21:48]
Salt Lake. Fortunately, um, leaders here
[2:21:52]
at the city 20 over 20 years ago, 2003,
[2:21:55]
I believe, submitted an application to
[2:21:57]
be able to have the right to reuse the
[2:21:59]
water from ORM's wastewater uh
[2:22:02]
reclamation facility. And so, as uh you
[2:22:05]
all have have to facility, you're aware
[2:22:08]
that ORM is applying that that water uh
[2:22:12]
to city uh city parks and golf course.
[2:22:16]
However, there's there's more supply
[2:22:18]
down there than than I understand is is
[2:22:21]
needed for the city um facilities. And
[2:22:24]
so, Central Utah Water approached Chris
[2:22:26]
and Reed and asked about the uh what the
[2:22:29]
[clears throat] plans are for that water
[2:22:31]
and how we might best, like Chris said,
[2:22:32]
I think the biggest thing that the the
[2:22:34]
relationship we've had has been able to
[2:22:36]
look at what is in the best interest of
[2:22:38]
the public. And so we've been working
[2:22:40]
closely together with city staff looking
[2:22:43]
at different options to potentially take
[2:22:46]
that water and uh put it to to the best
[2:22:49]
use of our community. So um and we're
[2:22:52]
right in the middle of that. Probably
[2:22:53]
don't have much to report yet, but we're we had a meeting today and we're
[2:22:58]
looking at really good options uh to to
[2:23:00]
be able to utilize that water. We're
[2:23:03]
excited about what the potential is for
[2:23:05]
that. It could be a variety of things.
[2:23:06]
For example, it could be land applied
[2:23:08]
for for water reuse. It could be used to
[2:23:10]
augment the the water supply. It could
[2:23:12]
be used to actually develop and put it
[2:23:14]
back into our drinking water system. I
[2:23:17]
know that doesn't sound very appetizing,
[2:23:18]
but there are many communities in the
[2:23:20]
Phoenix area that go direct potable
[2:23:22]
water from the the end of the uh
[2:23:24]
wastewater treatment plant. That water
[2:23:26]
has a higher degree of water quality
[2:23:28]
than the drinking water that we
[2:23:29]
currently consume today. So, it's one of
[2:23:33]
many opportunities or options that will
[2:23:35]
be out there in the future. We couldn't
[2:23:37]
do something like this without the
[2:23:38]
partnership of someone like uh Central
[2:23:40]
Utah Waters. We're grateful for that. We
[2:23:43]
have some upcoming projects uh big
[2:23:45]
projects that are coming on right now.
[2:23:47]
We're in the m middle of working with
[2:23:49]
our engineer uh firm Hansen on Loose to
[2:23:53]
uh develop the new well number one. It's
[2:23:55]
actually this well number one was
[2:23:58]
drilled in 195758
[2:24:01]
and developed. That's our first well in
[2:24:02]
the city. However, we are abandoning
[2:24:04]
that and we're going to be drilling a
[2:24:07]
new well at the Hillrest Park and that
[2:24:09]
is going to be starting in this coming
[2:24:12]
fall. Uh number two is our city center
[2:24:15]
200 East City Center, excuse me, 200
[2:24:19]
East Center Street over here. Um it's
[2:24:21]
our city center well. we call it well
[2:24:23]
number five that's been in place since
[2:24:25]
the late uh or the mid mid60s
[2:24:29]
that is in need of uh some major
[2:24:31]
overhaul and replacement that'll be
[2:24:32]
taking place this coming year west 16th
[2:24:36]
north uh we've talked about this for
[2:24:37]
some time but we're finally at this
[2:24:39]
point where after we uh do some bonding
[2:24:42]
uh coming up in this uh this fall we'll
[2:24:44]
be able to start that and and and start
[2:24:46]
drilling that well number 11 at west
[2:24:49]
16th north in conjunction with that
[2:24:51]
there will be a pioneer
[2:24:52]
children's memorial at that location.
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And in conjunction with that on number
[2:24:57]
four, we're looking at also the family
[2:25:00]
and children memorial garden at this
[2:25:01]
orange uh city cemetery.
[2:25:04]
So, um thank you. We uh we appreciate
[2:25:08]
your support and uh we're excited about
[2:25:11]
the work we do and what we do. uh
[2:25:13]
providing for the community is uh is
[2:25:16]
extremely important to us and we have
[2:25:18]
great professionals uh in this in these
[2:25:22]
areas of need and service that we're
[2:25:24]
grateful and that we lean on quite
[2:25:26]
heavily and we thank you for your
[2:25:28]
support and and supporting these needs
[2:25:30]
too. Are there any questions?
[2:25:32]
>> Say thank you. I know that you said it's
[2:25:34]
hard to follow the fire department, but
[2:25:37]
your I would argue that that your port
[2:25:40]
your department and what you do is very important as well for our health
[2:25:44]
and safety of our our community just in
[2:25:46]
a different way and appreciate that.
[2:25:49]
>> Thank you.
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>> Council, do you have any questions or
[2:25:53]
comments? Um, Council Member Gail.
[2:25:56]
>> Well, first I want to say thank you. Um,
[2:25:58]
and second, I want to just say how
[2:25:59]
struck I am by the quality and
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professionalism of your sta, your
[2:26:04]
commission. I mean, you have some really
[2:26:05]
tip-top people in there with lots of
[2:26:06]
experience, and I'm super impressed by
[2:26:08]
that, and really grateful that they are
[2:26:10]
behind these things that are so
[2:26:11]
important to our infrastructure and, you
[2:26:12]
know, our day-to-day life. So, thank you
[2:26:14]
for the work you do.
[2:26:15]
>> Thank you.
[2:26:17]
>> Great. Anyone else? All right. Thank you
[2:26:20]
so much. And I I love hearing about the
[2:26:22]
cooperation and the partnerships that
[2:26:24]
we're having. And so, thank you. Thank
[2:26:27]
you.
[2:26:29]
[gasps]
[2:26:30]
>> All right. The next item on the agenda
[2:26:33]
is time set aside for public
[2:26:35]
appearances.
[2:26:36]
Times been set aside for the public to
[2:26:38]
express their ideas, concerns, and
[2:26:40]
comments on items not scheduled as
[2:26:43]
public hearings on the agenda. Those
[2:26:45]
wishing to speak are encouraged to show
[2:26:47]
respect for those who serve the city.
[2:26:50]
Comments should focus on issues
[2:26:52]
concerning the city. And those who will
[2:26:55]
be invited to speak have already um I
[2:26:57]
have the signup sheet will have signed
[2:26:59]
in and you'll have the opportunity to
[2:27:02]
have up to 3 minutes to to share your
[2:27:06]
thoughts. So we'll go ahead and we will
[2:27:09]
start. Let's see. Looks like we do have
[2:27:14]
a note here that says please only sign
[2:27:15]
up for yourself in order to be fair for
[2:27:17]
those that want. So is everybody Well,
[2:27:19]
you wouldn't know the answer. Everyone
[2:27:21]
never mind. I was going to ask a
[2:27:22]
question, but it doesn't make sense. All
[2:27:24]
right. Milo,
[2:27:28]
is Milo here?
[2:27:31]
All right. I don't see him. I guess I
[2:27:32]
could have asked that question, but
[2:27:34]
never mind. All right. He's Is it Teo
[2:27:37]
Teao?
[2:27:39]
Uh, Buckingham.
[2:27:42]
And then it's up. And then after Mr.
[2:27:44]
Buckingham, it's Kathy Ambrose. Welcome.
[2:27:48]
[snorts]
[2:27:49]
>> Thank you, council person.
[2:27:53]
>> [clears throat]
[2:27:54]
>> Good evening, Oramm City Council. My
[2:27:56]
name is Teao Buckingham. I've lived in
[2:27:58]
Orum for six years. My son has lived
[2:28:01]
here his whole life. He loves our
[2:28:03]
neighbors like I love our neighbors,
[2:28:05]
many of whom are fathers like me. It is
[2:28:08]
for this reason that I am making a
[2:28:10]
request to this council to issue an
[2:28:12]
executive order or formal resolution
[2:28:15]
barring ICE agents and those working in
[2:28:17]
cooperation with them from using
[2:28:19]
city-owned property for immigration
[2:28:22]
enforcement activities. This includes
[2:28:24]
parks, schools, libraries, and public
[2:28:27]
buildings and their parking lots. These
[2:28:30]
places where we gather as families and
[2:28:32]
neighbors and community cannot become an
[2:28:35]
operations ground for masked agents who
[2:28:37]
have killed multiple people this year
[2:28:39]
who have been seen to operate with
[2:28:40]
impunity. My immigrant neighbors are
[2:28:44]
equally entitled to and deserving of
[2:28:46]
safety and protection from these racist
[2:28:48]
deportation operations. Regardless of
[2:28:51]
documentation status, they are mothers,
[2:28:54]
fathers, aunties, uncles, cousins,
[2:28:57]
lovers, and friends. all of whom belong
[2:28:59]
here in Family City, USA. That is all I
[2:29:02]
have for public comment. Thank you.
[2:29:05]
>> Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. All
[2:29:07]
right, Kathy Ambrose. And then after
[2:29:12]
Miss Ambrose, we have Ally Ac.
[2:29:15]
>> Thank you. And I want to thank the
[2:29:17]
council for their uh long days during
[2:29:20]
city council meetings for uh serving the
[2:29:22]
city. Um, for the last seven years I've
[2:29:25]
served as the executive director of Hope
[2:29:27]
for ORM. It's a self-funded zero
[2:29:30]
solicitation suicide prevention
[2:29:32]
nonprofit that serves the city. Every
[2:29:36]
year we provide zerocost mental health
[2:29:38]
resources to our community. We fund
[2:29:40]
higher education scholarships for
[2:29:42]
graduating seniors at all three high
[2:29:44]
schools. Over 15,000 to date have been
[2:29:47]
donated. We provide free CPR crisis
[2:29:51]
training to any entity that requests our
[2:29:53]
service. We also entirely fund an annual
[2:29:56]
mental wellness resource fair at no cost
[2:29:59]
to ORM, the city, and surrounding
[2:30:02]
communities.
[2:30:03]
Despite our history with the city and
[2:30:06]
the previously signed contract and
[2:30:07]
months of preparation,
[2:30:10]
um administrative restructuring
[2:30:11]
surrounding this year's Armfest resulted
[2:30:13]
in Hope form being asked not to
[2:30:15]
participate.
[2:30:17]
We were grouped together with commercial
[2:30:20]
vendors and transactional nonprofits.
[2:30:24]
That classification does not accurately
[2:30:26]
reflect how hope for ORM operates. We
[2:30:30]
use zero transaction, zero on onboarding
[2:30:34]
model. We don't sell programs. We don't
[2:30:36]
collect data. We don't pitch
[2:30:38]
subscriptions or service for services.
[2:30:41]
We exist solely as a public safety and
[2:30:44]
community resource. And hope for ORM
[2:30:47]
belongs at ORMFest. In previous years,
[2:30:49]
Hope Forum's footprint has been located
[2:30:51]
in the municipal public safety quarter
[2:30:54]
by police, fire, and public utilities.
[2:30:57]
We believe that that is the most
[2:30:59]
appropriate location for our suicide
[2:31:01]
prevention and mental wellness
[2:31:02]
resources.
[2:31:04]
Placing our station directly alongside
[2:31:06]
the city emergency services creates a
[2:31:09]
centralized care and resource zone for
[2:31:11]
residents. It keeps crisis and mental
[2:31:13]
health resources logically connected
[2:31:15]
with the city's first responders. It
[2:31:17]
also keeps our nonprofit footprint
[2:31:19]
separate from commercial traffic and
[2:31:21]
related activities.
[2:31:23]
I am proposing to protect
[2:31:28]
our community and provide administrative
[2:31:30]
clarity for city staff. We have
[2:31:32]
submitted a formal proposal to the city
[2:31:34]
manager. We are requesting a formal
[2:31:37]
memorandum of understanding. The purpose
[2:31:39]
would be to officially recognize Hope
[2:31:41]
Forum's inkind scholarship contributions
[2:31:43]
to ORM students to establish us in the
[2:31:47]
permanent public safety and community
[2:31:49]
resource category and protect our booth
[2:31:52]
footprint from blanket commercial roll
[2:31:54]
backs in future years. Um I've provided
[2:31:57]
copies of our proposal um and an
[2:31:59]
executive summary to the city recorder.
[2:32:02]
Um, and I'm asking the council to direct
[2:32:05]
the city manager to schedule a brief
[2:32:07]
meeting with hope for ORM during the off
[2:32:09]
season for from Ormfest.
[2:32:12]
Um, our goal is to work together to
[2:32:13]
finalize a clear framework that will
[2:32:15]
avoid this issue in future years. I
[2:32:17]
would like to personally invite each of
[2:32:19]
you also to come to the mental wellness
[2:32:22]
resource fair on Monday, August 31st at
[2:32:24]
Oram Library Hall. It's completely free.
[2:32:28]
It's entirely funded by hope for ORM.
[2:32:30]
It's open to everyone and it features
[2:32:34]
community providers, resources, music,
[2:32:37]
keynote address. Um I couldn't get Cosmo
[2:32:40]
or Willie because they're going to be
[2:32:42]
playing a game against each other. So
[2:32:43]
they said no. But besides that um we
[2:32:46]
would love to see um this community
[2:32:48]
network in action and I will email a
[2:32:51]
copy of all the documents also. Thank
[2:32:52]
you.
[2:32:53]
>> Thank you. And just so you know, we all
[2:32:55]
have I think we all have copies.
[2:32:57]
>> Are there any questions for me? So,
[2:32:59]
we'll go ahead and u we've got your
[2:33:01]
contact information and All right. Thank
[2:33:03]
you.
[2:33:04]
All right. Next, we have Ally AC. And
[2:33:07]
then after Miss AC, we have Ethan Staer.
[2:33:12]
It's so nice you said AC right. Everyone
[2:33:13]
else mispronounces it. So, thank you.
[2:33:15]
>> Oh, I've got one of those last names,
[2:33:16]
too. That [laughter]
[2:33:18]
>> Well, um I'm up here also to talk about
[2:33:20]
ICE in ORM. Um, right now ICE is held
[2:33:25]
very unaccountable by the American
[2:33:28]
government and so I'm hoping to ask my
[2:33:29]
city to be better. Um, I am asking that
[2:33:33]
ORM city pass a formal policy directing
[2:33:35]
local law enforcement not to honor ICE
[2:33:38]
civil immigration detainers without a
[2:33:40]
jur judicial warrant signed by a judge,
[2:33:42]
not an administrative warrant signed by
[2:33:44]
ICE alone. Uh this ability for ICE to
[2:33:48]
basically determine itself that they can
[2:33:50]
grab someone is a strict violation of
[2:33:52]
the fourth amendment which declares that
[2:33:55]
um people are protected from
[2:33:57]
unreasonable searches and seizures. And
[2:33:59]
I know a lot of people might say, well,
[2:34:00]
they're not citizens. They don't get to
[2:34:01]
have the rights or whatever. First of
[2:34:03]
all, we said we say liberty and justice
[2:34:05]
for all at the end of the um at the end
[2:34:07]
of the Declaration of Independence. But
[2:34:09]
also without these laws being applied to
[2:34:14]
um to all people then it gives law
[2:34:16]
enforcement the ability to grab people
[2:34:18]
and act say that they didn't think they
[2:34:20]
were a citizen without having being able
[2:34:22]
to prove it. It is a very dangerous
[2:34:24]
thing to allow groups especially groups
[2:34:27]
like ICE that are famously unaccountable
[2:34:29]
right now being held unaccountable right
[2:34:31]
now um to be able to do whatever they
[2:34:33]
want and then say oh no we didn't we
[2:34:36]
didn't [clears throat] check. Um, people
[2:34:37]
are I have many friends who are here
[2:34:40]
legally or and they're they're
[2:34:41]
documented. They were born here and
[2:34:42]
they're scared they're going to be
[2:34:43]
snatched off on the road because of
[2:34:46]
their way they look. I mean, just
[2:34:47]
because the Supreme Court says they can
[2:34:49]
racially uh they can be um racially
[2:34:53]
profiled uh ICE is allowed to do that
[2:34:55]
doesn't mean it's right. Um I was
[2:34:57]
recently visiting what an old um
[2:34:59]
Japanese internment camp and just
[2:35:01]
because something is legal doesn't mean
[2:35:03]
it's right. And I think we have a place
[2:35:05]
in our legal power to prevent these
[2:35:07]
harmful inhumane treatments that are
[2:35:09]
being happening to our neighbors
[2:35:11]
documented or not. And I think that ORM
[2:35:14]
should has the ability to be held to a
[2:35:16]
higher standard and standard and hold
[2:35:18]
our federal officers to a higher
[2:35:20]
standard as well. So again, pass a
[2:35:22]
formal policy directing local law
[2:35:24]
enforcement not to honor ICE civil
[2:35:26]
immigration detainers without a judicial
[2:35:28]
warrant signed by a judge, not an
[2:35:30]
administrative warrant signed by ICE
[2:35:31]
alone. Thank you so much.
[2:35:33]
>> Thank you.
[2:35:36]
All right, we have um Ethan Ster
[2:35:40]
and then after after him we have um Judy
[2:35:44]
Christensen.
[2:35:47]
Hello mayor and city council people. I'm
[2:35:49]
sure by now my face has become a tired
[2:35:51]
one to see, but I have spent the last
[2:35:54]
this is my third city council meeting
[2:35:56]
now in a row that I will be talking
[2:35:57]
about the flock cameras that are around
[2:35:59]
the city. Um, I've already talked about
[2:36:01]
the privacy concerns I think they pose
[2:36:03]
as well as the ways that ICE can abuse
[2:36:04]
them. Um, but today I would like to talk
[2:36:07]
about some real stories of real people.
[2:36:09]
Now, these stories will involve uh
[2:36:11]
political buzzwords that I'm sure you
[2:36:12]
will have your own opinions about. I
[2:36:14]
urge you to look past these buzzwords
[2:36:16]
because they aren't the point of the
[2:36:17]
story, whether you are in favor or
[2:36:19]
against them, and to look at the actual
[2:36:21]
story itself and what's actually
[2:36:22]
happening.
[2:36:23]
>> [gasps]
[2:36:23]
>> There's a woman from Texas who left her
[2:36:26]
home state, where abortion is illegal,
[2:36:28]
to get an abortion in the state of
[2:36:29]
Illinois. She was tracked down using the
[2:36:32]
flock system by police officers in her
[2:36:34]
home state of Texas and arrested for
[2:36:37]
getting this abortion despite doing it
[2:36:39]
in a state where it is legal. In Utah,
[2:36:43]
abortions are legal until the 18th week.
[2:36:45]
She could have come here to do this. And
[2:36:48]
if she did, she would have still been
[2:36:49]
tracked down and arrested by her own
[2:36:52]
state police officers in her city. I'm
[2:36:55]
not asking whether you think that the
[2:36:56]
abortion is right or if you think that
[2:36:58]
she shouldn't have done that. I am
[2:37:00]
asking if you think that police officers
[2:37:01]
have the right to overrule city laws and
[2:37:04]
track people outside of their
[2:37:05]
jurisdictions using this system that has
[2:37:08]
little to no oversight. Now, the woman
[2:37:10]
was released. She did not get any
[2:37:12]
criminal charges, but this is a
[2:37:15]
situation that shouldn't have been able
[2:37:16]
to happen in the first place. She
[2:37:18]
shouldn't have been arrested to begin
[2:37:20]
with. She didn't break any law and she
[2:37:23]
adhered to every law in every
[2:37:25]
jurisdiction that she was in. There is
[2:37:27]
another man in a similar situation. He
[2:37:30]
left his state where it was illegal to
[2:37:31]
have recreational marijuana and bought
[2:37:34]
one in a state where it is legal to buy
[2:37:36]
it. He was arrested similarly by police
[2:37:39]
officers who used flock to track him
[2:37:41]
down. Again, I am not asking your
[2:37:43]
opinions on the use of recreational
[2:37:45]
marijuana. Whether you are in favor of
[2:37:47]
that or against that is not relevant. It
[2:37:50]
is whether you think that police
[2:37:51]
officers should be able to use this
[2:37:53]
system, this international private
[2:37:55]
system with no oversight to track down
[2:37:58]
people outside of their jurisdictions
[2:38:00]
and arrest them for crimes that aren't
[2:38:02]
illegal where they committed them. I
[2:38:04]
think that this system is highly corrupt
[2:38:06]
and it is highly dangerous beyond all
[2:38:08]
the other issues that I've already
[2:38:10]
raised with you all. I hope that you
[2:38:12]
guys are listening to my words and you
[2:38:13]
guys will do what you can to terminate
[2:38:15]
any flock contracts that the city has
[2:38:18]
and be able to take these cameras down
[2:38:20]
because I do not see any way that they
[2:38:22]
truly benefit the people of ORM or the
[2:38:24]
people around the nation who have to use
[2:38:26]
this national database. Thank you.
[2:38:30]
>> Thank you.
[2:38:31]
And our final personal appearance this
[2:38:34]
evening is um Judy Christensen. Welcome
[2:38:42]
to our honorable mayor and ORM city
[2:38:46]
council. Like was said, I'm Judy
[2:38:48]
Christensen. I've had the privilege of
[2:38:51]
calling ORM home for 35 years. I've
[2:38:54]
raised all five of my children here and
[2:38:56]
I'm really proud to live here. I love
[2:38:59]
it. I think it's a beautiful place. I'm
[2:39:01]
grateful for all of my
[2:39:06]
all the many residents, including
[2:39:08]
yourselves, who help to keep and
[2:39:11]
safeguard our city. I have actually
[2:39:15]
wasn't planning to say this, but I do
[2:39:17]
have firsthand experience with hope um
[2:39:20]
for ORM and I've seen a lot of good that
[2:39:23]
it's done for kids who are um in really
[2:39:27]
um hard situations [clears throat] and
[2:39:30]
it's helped families as well. I am here
[2:39:32]
to respectfully reiterate my request
[2:39:35]
that this council pass a formal
[2:39:37]
resolution prohibiting the use of
[2:39:39]
municipal funds, staff, time,
[2:39:42]
facilities, and um for federal
[2:39:44]
immigration enforcement and to ensure
[2:39:46]
the safety and trust of all our
[2:39:48]
residents. I have friends and neighbors
[2:39:52]
and close um
[2:39:56]
acquaintances who are here legally but
[2:39:59]
are scared. And I think it's very sad.
[2:40:02]
Um I would like to have some p some
[2:40:06]
transparency from our city knowing
[2:40:10]
um that we I just would like to prohibit
[2:40:14]
the voluntary disclosure of of our
[2:40:16]
individuals here as far as their
[2:40:18]
immigration status to federal
[2:40:20]
authorities and to establish a
[2:40:22]
requirement that our city publicly
[2:40:25]
report any interactions that they have
[2:40:27]
with federal immigration
[2:40:29]
authorities. I think that we can be kind
[2:40:32]
and respectful to all of our residents
[2:40:34]
and and do things with um
[2:40:38]
with taste and with compassion. That's
[2:40:40]
all I have to say. Thank you.
[2:40:42]
>> Thank you. Thank you to all of you who
[2:40:45]
have come tonight to to share your
[2:40:48]
thoughts. I I really appreciate it.
[2:40:51]
Right. The next item on the agenda is a
[2:40:53]
consent item and it's updating our city
[2:40:57]
council meeting schedule. and council.
[2:40:59]
You'll see [gasps] in that proposed
[2:41:01]
schedule that our next meeting, August
[2:41:04]
25th, is going to be a work session
[2:41:07]
only. And then we will on that Tuesday,
[2:41:11]
we'll have that work session. And then
[2:41:13]
you'll see on August 27th, that Thursday
[2:41:16]
is going to be a another city council
[2:41:20]
meeting. And that's going to be only
[2:41:22]
truth and taxation hearing. So there's
[2:41:24]
nothing else that will be on that
[2:41:25]
agenda. We won't be doing personal
[2:41:26]
appearances or any other other types of actions. We'll be focusing on that truth and taxation hearing on
[2:41:34]
August 27th. And so the consent item is
[2:41:37]
to um amend the calendar, update the
[2:41:42]
calendar to um August 25th being a work
[2:41:45]
session only. So if you're comfortable
[2:41:47]
with that, I would entertain a motion to
[2:41:49]
approve the consent item.
[2:41:51]
>> Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve the
[2:41:53]
consent item.
[2:41:54]
>> All right. Have a motion. Is there a
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second?
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>> I second.
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>> All right. I'm going to start off voting
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and I'm going to go this way. I'm gonna
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vote I
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>> I I
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>> I.
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>> Quinn.
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>> I.
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>> All right. Motion carries. Thank you.
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Next item on the agenda is our scheduled
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item. It's a a resolution to uh for
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appointments to the Justice Court
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nominating commission. Now, uh Mr. Earl,
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do you have a presentation or are we
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just we're just doing the doing the
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nomination?
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>> Uh it depends on what information you'd
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like. We already discussed this in the
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work session. And so basically the uh
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the item to be acted upon is just the
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appointment of uh two individuals to
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serve on the justice court nominating
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commission. And I'm happy to uh give
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more information on that or if you're
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ready to move forward on a motion that
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would be fine too.
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>> Okay. I'll just for the for those in the
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audience just to so you know we ORM has
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a justice court and the justice court
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judge has given notice that he he would
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like to retire at the end of the year
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and since we thought somebody who's
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going to force somebody to stay he's
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going to retire at the end of the year
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and there is a process that's run
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through the state the court
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administrator's office on how to select
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a new justice court judge and there is a
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nominating commission that is the law
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spells out a group of different groups
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of people who are part of that
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nominating commission and two of those
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positions on that nominating commission
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uh are ones who are approved by the city
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council and that's what this item is
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this evening is to approve those two
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names. Uh we a couple two council
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members just so just have have expressed
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interest in representing ORM city in in
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that process. The commission will also
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have I think some from the bar
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association and someone from appointed
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by Mountland Association of Governments.
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I think the county commission.
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>> County Commission. Yes.
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>> County Commission. And so it's a variety
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of individuals who will be reviewing
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these applications to be a justice court
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judge here in Orman. And the decision is
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made by the city manager with the
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ratification of the city council. So
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council members Millet and Kilpac have
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expressed interest council as as though
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as ones who would like to represent the
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city of ORM on the justice court
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nominating commission. And if you're
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comfortable with that, I would entertain
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a motion to to appoint them unless you
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have some other discussion or anything
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you'd like to do beforehand.
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» Mayor, can I make a motion?
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>> Yes.
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>> Um, I move to approve the appointment of
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council member uh Len Millet and council
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member Chris Kilpack to the justice
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court nominating commission. Right.
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Thank you. Have a motion. Is there a
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second?
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I'll second that.
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>> All right. Thank you, Council Member
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Molstein. Okay, we'll go ahead and start
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uh the vote with you, Council Member
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Millet.
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>> I I
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>> I Council Member Mikum.
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>> I
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>> All right. Thank you. The motion carries
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unanimously.
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All right. Next item on our agenda is
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financial items. There were no items in
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the packet. just um Teresa wanted me to
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just make a note of that for the
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meeting. And then we'll go to number 12.
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Um we have the city manager information
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items. So I'll turn the time over to our
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city manager, um Brenby.
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>> Thank you, mayor and council. Just two
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items wanted to highlight. Um I don't
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normally mention these, but uh this
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Thursday there is a uh a retirement
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party for Lane Gray. And so I just
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wanted to publicly not only invite you
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to to come to that, it'll be at the
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library hall from 11:30 to 1:30, but but
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also just to uh publicly recognize Lane.
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He is he's had a phenomenal 37year
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career here at the city. And sometimes
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when uh an individual is getting close
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to retirement, they maybe are coming in
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for a landing, but that has never been
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the case for Lane. He is just always
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such an incredible doer and um 37 years
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of being such a a hardworking
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individual. Um and and dealing with very
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critical projects, you'd think that
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maybe on occasion you might come away,
[2:46:33]
you know, stressed or worried or or even
[2:46:36]
a little bit overwhelmed. Never with
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Lane. He he is uh just the consumate
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humble, hungry, smart uh employee and he
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has great catchphrases like get her done
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and keep smiling and uh I just I love
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the guy and and so wanted to publicly
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recognize him and and invite you to his
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uh retirement party at the end of this
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week.
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Uh there are several uh and well
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technically all of our employees who we
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will be recognizing at the end of next
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week on Thursday at our building a
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better ORUM employee appreciation party
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and would love your continued help and
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support in that uh event and we'll be
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able to uh speak to the specific details
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of some incredible accomplishments that
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uh uh many of our employees have engaged
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in over the course of the last year. And
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um that'll just be here at uh City
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Center Park as per usual at at the
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stage. So um with that, that that's all
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I have. Thank you.
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>> All right. Thank you. I had the
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opportunity to sign some awards today
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and there's some pretty amazing things
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that are our employees, which we we knew
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they were all amazing, but it just it
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was fun to see those
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um in person. So, um, if there's nothing
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else, I would entertain a motion to
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adjurnn.
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» I motion that we adjourn.
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>> Second.
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>> A motion and a second. All those in
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favor, please say I.
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>> I.
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>> And we are adjourned before 7 p.m.
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» Nice work, Mary.