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Okay.
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Good evening and welcome to the regular meeting
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of the Design Review Committee on Thursday,
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December 18th, 2025.
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I now call the meeting to order at 5:00 PM Um,
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Lisa, roll call, vote please. Member
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Melissa Bates.
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Present. Member Goetz. Here. Member Johnson. Here.
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Vice Chair Boyd. Here.
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Chair Esther Jacobson Bates here. Thank you.
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Okay. We're gonna start with the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Um, Melissa, please lead us
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Stand. Please stand
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as you are able.
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I pledge allegiance to flag
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of the United States of America
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and to the Republic for which it stands.
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One Nation under God, individual with liberty
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and justice for all.
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Okay. Um, can I have a motion to approve the order
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of the agenda as presented?
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I so move. Do I have second? I second.
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Um, having heard a motion, I second
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to approve the order of the agenda.
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Lisa, roll call, vote please.
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Member Melissa Bates, approve. Member Goetz approved.
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Member Johnson approved Vice Chair Boyd approve
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Chair Esther Jacobson Bates
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Approved. Thank you.
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Okay. Consent items.
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Lisa, will you please introduce them?
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Items on consent are typically routine
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and will be approved in one motion.
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The chair will call on anyone wishing
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to address the committee on any consent item on the agenda,
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which has not been pulled by the committee.
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For discussion, each speaker will be permitted
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to speak only once, and comments will be limited
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to a total of three minutes.
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Okay. We're gonna start with, uh,
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in-person public comment first.
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Anybody in the room? This is, um, items on the,
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uh, consent agenda.
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Anybody on Zoom? Okay.
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Um, committee members,
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anybody have any items they would like to pull?
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Uh, I do, I am going to ask that we pull, just
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for clarification on item two,
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well, actually two A and B, please.
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Okay. So now we're gonna go back to these consent items
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and um, we're gonna go to item
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two A.
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Um, Lisa, would you like to introduce
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that just real quickly or
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Approve a sign permit for a proposed projecting sign
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and window sign located at 1693 Mission Drive,
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suite C one A PN 1 3 9 1 4 3 0 2 5.
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The proposed project is categorically exempt from csa
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and the applicant is here.
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So I'm the one that asked to have this pulled.
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My quick question has to do
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with the proposed window lettering.
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I see in the diagram here that the window, um, black,
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you know, sign has a white background.
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Is that just the way it's just high?
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Well, you come up to the microphone and yeah,
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I'm not tech savvy, so
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that's just the way I could make it happen
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for you guys to get an idea.
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Yeah. Apologies. I just, I was trying
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to delete the background, but I, I couldn't get it to work.
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No problem. That was my assumption,
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but I didn't wanna go with that, so, um, it'd just
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Be floating on the class. Yeah.
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Perfect. Clear back.
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Yeah, black shows up and the rest of it is just the glass.
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Thank you for clarifying. Of course.
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Anybody else have any questions? Okay.
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Then we'll take a motion, um, to, um,
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approve item one A.
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Excuse me. Item two A I move to approve.
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I'll second. Okay. Um, we've got approval in a second.
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Lisa, roll call vote please.
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Member Melissa Bates, approve. Member Goetz approved.
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Member Johnson approved Vice Chair Boyd approved chair.
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Esther Jacobson Bates approved. Thank
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You. Thank you for clarification.
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Um, moving on to consent item two, which is, um, uh, Lisa,
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do you wish to, um, introduce that as well?
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Thank you. The schedule
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Approved 2026 design review committee meeting schedule.
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Okay. I had a, a question on the schedule, um,
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and it looks like maybe I see something on Jennifer's too.
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Um, my question is, I do have
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potential conflict on the January 15th
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and when I looked at that date,
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I was also wondering if this might be a time to
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postpone a meet the meeting a week simply
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because of it being so early in the new year
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and allowing more time for staff to prepare.
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So, short answer is, it is codified
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that the meeting does happen on
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the third Thursdays of the month.
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We are actually being fully prepared for the next meeting
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as we have items that we shoved off from this meeting
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to go to the next meeting.
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So, um, if we have a quorum, which I'm assuming most
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of you will be here for that, then we will, should be able
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to move forward, um, with that meeting.
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And if we don't, we'll address that at a later date.
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Are there any other dates that's correct, that are, are
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of concern of note to anybody at this point?
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The only date that I will not be able
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to attend is the September 17th, as I will be
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setting up for Danish day,
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Danish day's high gear. Yeah.
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Yeah. So very, so very similar.
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If, if you can't make it, just let us know.
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Um, full disclosure, the June 18th date for me, um, I,
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I will be available if I have to be available,
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but I will be nine hours ahead of y'all, so, well,
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Alright. And June 18th
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I will be two hours ahead of you.
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Oh. So
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We'll, we'll as we go.
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Uh, so knowing that you know myself and, and, uh,
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and you would more than likely be out, um, again,
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very similar to what happened when I first started here.
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We had about, we sandbagged 2D RC meetings due to staff, uh,
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outages and vacations.
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Um, we, we may have to do that or we may move it, um, simply
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because, uh, we will be playing musical chairs
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for city staff over the summer.
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Um, so as we have, uh, folks coming off vacation
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and then folks that are, uh, going on, um,
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potential long-term leave, so.
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Alright, sounds good. Thank you.
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Esther. I probably won't be able to attend the 15th,
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the January 15th meeting.
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Okay. And that's the one that's kind of sketchy
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for me. So, um, we are
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Still contemplating it being on the
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15th. Well, unless
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there's not a quorum,
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but I think at this point we approve this schedule
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and then if necessary we revisit that that
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Is correct. So again,
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if, if, uh, if with let's, my recommendation is
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to approve the schedule as is, um, we will, uh,
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we'll revisit after holidays, uh, the quorum as, as I said,
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we do have an item already, uh, queued up for that meeting.
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Um, and so we'll, we'll do a separate poll
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and if we have to, we, we will special meeting it, so.
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Okay. But at the preference is
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to keep the schedule as is. Yep.
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Okay. So I think that that kind of stands
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for all the future meetings.
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And, and with that, um, I'd like to request just
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that staff send an email
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and maybe do this on a regular basis, you know,
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several weeks before the meeting just to confirm attendance.
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Mm-hmm. With that said, encouraging everybody,
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if you know you can't make a meeting, let, let us know
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as early as possible because that helps with preparation.
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So all that said, do I have a motion
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to approve the 2026 meeting calendar as presented?
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I motion to approve I second
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Lisa, roll call, vote please.
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Member Melissa Bates. Approved Member Goetz.
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Approved Member Johnson approved Vice Chair
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Boyd approved Chair.
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Esther Jacobson Bates approved. Thank you.
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Okay, we're gonna move on
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to public communications non agenda.
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Um, and I, at this point, there's nobody in the room
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and nobody, uh, that our attorney on Zoom,
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I don't think it's required that we do an introduction given
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that, um, such that being the case.
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Then we're going to move on to
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discussion item four A.
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Um, Lisa, will you go ahead
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and introduce discussion on possible
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action on the sign permit here?
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Discussion and pop possible action for a signed permit
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with a sign exception
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for application PA 2 5 0 5 2 located at 1665
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for Avenue apn.
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1, 3 9, 1 4, 3, 2, 1 for two wall signs.
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The proposed project is categorically exempt from CA
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and then I do have a PowerPoint.
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I'll get up here. It's really quick.
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Um, So the applicant is
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requesting an exception
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to the maximum allowable size for two wall signs.
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Um, each sign measures 9.33 square feet.
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Uh, the, it's existing signage, um,
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that looking back there were no permits initially
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fi filed for the sign.
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So we're just trying to get them into
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compliance at this point.
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Um, the exception is requested from the applicant due
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to the size of property.
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Um, there are multiple buildings
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and the location, um, it borders second Street and then fur.
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So it is out of the, um, visual corridor.
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It's technically in the VMU district,
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but it is set back from the village.
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Um, and there is some difficulty finding it.
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Um, and then there are findings required
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for the exception, um, that the DRC will review to, um,
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make their findings
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and the project is categorically exempt from SQA.
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Okay. Um, so now we're gonna go ahead
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and, uh, any questions of staff from anybody sitting here?
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And um, again, public comment, there's nobody in the room
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and nobody on Zoom, so we're gonna go ahead
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and close public comment.
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And here it is for our discussion.
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Um, I was able to walk the area today, I'm hoping some
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of you got to see the location as well.
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And, um, it's my understanding
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that this has been there for a couple of decades.
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Um, but that there was a code complaint that came up
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that brought it to, um, to us here today.
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Anybody have any comments?
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I walked it yesterday. Well, I didn't walk it.
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I drove it yesterday, uh, as well.
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And as you said there, signs have been there
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for over 20 years apparently.
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Um, if you were to all
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of a sudden make them meet current code,
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they're eight inches too tall.
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Uh, to me that's a very minor thing.
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And these signs have been there for a long time.
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Nobody's complained until now, apparently.
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Um, and I don't see any problem with them personally.
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Right. Um, I think that we've got conditions here
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for finding an exception within the standards as
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to the building location and the setback.
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Um, as I walked the area, a key factor to me is
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that, um, this is outside of the tourist related area.
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It's not within the visual corridor
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of anybody in the tourist area.
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Um, that we've already made an exception at the market, um,
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there across the street.
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And, um, because I'm the one that I think most of you know,
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I'm very reluctant to allow exceptions, um,
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because that kind of has a domino effect.
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But I think we have a very strong, uh, case here
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because of unusual building location
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and setback to, um, allow this.
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Um, any other comments? Do I have a mo I'm sorry.
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I agree with you what you're saying about the setback,
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it's out of the village and stuff.
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Should I look at something like the,
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there's a clothing store that's next
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to connect the tie cuisine cuisine that we just went in.
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Mm-hmm. And they have six signs for either 2099
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or 34 99 or,
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and those to me are much more of a, you know, eyesore.
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Eyesore. They shouldn't be allowed to put that many up.
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They should have their own store sign up. They don't.
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And so when you look at this out of the,
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and out of the village,
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Well I think to me, again, I'm not gonna compare it
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to any others except I just did in the, across the street.
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But I think we have to look at the exceptions that we can,
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um, slot this into.
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And we've got that right there at one one C,
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unusual building location or setback.
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I think the matter of years also matters
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how long it's been, how long it's been.
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And that sign has been there for that many years.
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And with that in mind, I also looked at the condition
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of the sign because my initial thought was
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that sign's been there 20 years.
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Um, but because of the material
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and the way it was fabricated
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and, um, the paint, apparently it is in,
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it still looks like it's in fine
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condition. So all that said,
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I do have a question. Yeah.
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Um, I'm looking at the requirement versus proposed.
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So really, um, it's just
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that each sign exceeds the wall sign maximum size.
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Um, there's only two signs.
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Um, so they're in compliance there.
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The letter height is in compliance.
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And so the, his only question was
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that the signs are slightly bigger and yes.
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And that's what we're approved as,
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As I said, that they're eight inches too tall,
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Basically. That's okay. Yes.
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I just wanted to be clear on
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what we were exempting things.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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The rest of it's within compliance
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and um, again, the fact that it's not in the,
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um, although it is in the zoning area,
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it's not in the tourist zone so to speak.
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This is a local business and that's Yeah.
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Not definitely not a tourist business,
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nor is it visible within that tourist area.
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Right. So any, uh, motion
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to approve as presented?
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If I could jump in, uh, excuse me
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before the motion is made.
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Yes. Um, I would just, uh, suggest
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that whoever makes the motion expressly, uh, add
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whatever the conditions are
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that you believe constitute the
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exceptions that you're granting.
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I heard a discussion among the members of the,
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of the committee as to which they thought,
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but it should be part of the formal motion.
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Okay. Um, I think I can make a motion then.
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I don't usually do that.
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But let's go back to, um,
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I move that we allow the sign permit as presented
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with the exception, um, looking at item one C
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as this is based on unusual building location or setback.
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So that's my motion. Does that sound okay? I see a head yes.
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I second it. All right.
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Having heard a motion and a second.
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Lisa roll call vote please.
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Member Melissa Bates. Approved Member Goetz.
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Approved Member Johnson approved Vice Chair
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Boyd approved chair. Esther Jacobson Bates
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Approved. Thank
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You.
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Okay, well we're zooming right on to item number five.
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Committee member comments.
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Well, I can start. I gotta say Merry Christmas gala.
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Happy holidays to all
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and a special thank you to my colleagues up here on the dais
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for our almost a year together.
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I think this is, I guess it's meeting 11
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'cause we were appointed in January.
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So it's been a pleasure working with you
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and I think we're getting it into a rhythm here
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and looking forward to next year.
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And that rhythm is made possible by our staff here,
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Lisa Raphael, um, for answering all of our questions.
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And believe me, there are many questions I ask them
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that are not from sitting in this chair.
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So thank you for all of that.
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Um, all of that said, um, I have a couple questions,
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but I think they're probably gonna be addressed in city
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staff comments and I'll, um, I'll wait till that time.
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Anybody else have comments?
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Um, I do have one comment.
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Um, I just wanted to confirm
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that our terms have been extended
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and Lisa, could you confirm the end date on that?
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I presume that that was gonna come up.
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That was one of my things. I have
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It right here. Why don't
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Lisa e each each end
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date's actually different from each member.
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Oh. So that, that that's why it's okay. It was, yeah.
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So if, if you need a clarification,
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I would email the city clerk about your
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end date. Okay. It's,
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I believe that the Bates is, uh, up here,
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although we're not related, we apparently also were, um,
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the ones who have the, I think it extended till 2092.
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Is that right Melissa? Um,
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but we have a longer term, so yes.
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Um, this, I a kind of a little quick background on that.
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Having everybody be appointed
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and our terms all end at the same time,
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I'd highly encouraged our city council to really reconsider
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that and, uh,
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because if I hadn't been here,
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it would be a completely new group.
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Um, and not that I couldn't, you know, not
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that I'm indispensable,
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but I think when you have a full turnover, you lose some
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of the background and institutional memory, um, as
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to why decisions were made.
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The staff is here and they're great,
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but they're also, you know, new since I started as,
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as a design review committee member.
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So, um, having that ability
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to have staggered terms I think will be very valuable.
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And that's happening with planning as well,
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if I understand correctly. Yeah.
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So I have one other comment too.
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I wanna second your comments.
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I'm wishing everybody a happy holiday season
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and it's been a pleasure being on the committee
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with everybody and I think we've been doing
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what I suspect is pretty good work.
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So thank you and thank you Esther,
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for leading us down the path here.
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It's been a year. Thank you. Thank you.
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Another question on terms, there's no prohibition on
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Reapp approving or reappointing any of the outgoing members
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to a a subsequent term.
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This Might, that, that, that would be up
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to the council person who, um, who will nominate right, uh,
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the next member of the DRC as part of their,
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um, nominations.
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So there'll be a new filing period just as we all did.
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That Is correct. And then
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the city council will look at the applications and pick,
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Okay. And
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in the past, each council member kind
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of selected their choice
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and honestly I didn't quite hear how that was.
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Is it going to be, I mean, it was always approval
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of the majority required,
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but kind of like each person appointed their choice.
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Is that still the way it's gonna be
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or is it gonna be Yes. Okay.
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Thank you. So still the same, but the, the terms just now
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align with the council person, so
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That was my understanding as well.
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Yeah. Um,
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but there's no limit as to how many times you can conserve.
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There's no term limit,
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but you have to go through the process each time, um,
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to be reappointed.
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Correct. There's no codification for term limits. Yeah.
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Thank you. Um, okay. City staff comments please.
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Trying to do multiple things at the same time.
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Um, so that was actually the first item on my list.
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Uh, so, uh, you were sent out an email
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from the city clerk, Sophia.
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Again, if you have any questions in regards to term dates,
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because it's not a standard term date for everybody,
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each one's person's different, go ahead
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and email the city clerk or email
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myself and I'll get you your answer.
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Um, our staff has been extremely busy with the influx
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of building permit submittals over the last, uh, six weeks,
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um, particularly actually last two weeks.
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Um, so we are, and that's the main driver. Two things.
[25:24]
One is, uh, we do have a new building code cycle
[25:26]
that will be, uh, ending, uh, this on the 31st
[25:29]
and starting on the January 1st,
[25:31]
we enter the 2025 building code.
[25:33]
So, um, major projects are trying
[25:35]
to come on under the old code.
[25:37]
Um, and then we also have an influx of solar permits due
[25:41]
to the expiration of tax credits on that.
[25:44]
So that's why we're pretty busy.
[25:46]
Um, there's some movement on a couple projects
[25:48]
or a, a project that's going on in town.
[25:50]
I know a lot of discussion on the apartment buildings
[25:53]
located near Fifth and Oak.
[25:55]
It's technically, it's four 25th Street.
[25:57]
Um, we did meet with the applicant uh, yesterday.
[26:00]
Um, we've actually been in contact with pg e
[26:03]
for the first time in many moons.
[26:04]
Um, so, um, anyways, so pg e has, has finally, uh,
[26:10]
provided sort of line drawings
[26:11]
for undergrounding, utilities for less.
[26:13]
Don know there's been no construction going on on the
[26:16]
exterior of the building because, uh, they, uh,
[26:19]
it was a requirement that those lines be underground.
[26:22]
Uh, pg e has taken their a while
[26:25]
to get us back what needs to get done.
[26:27]
So, um, we're hopefully, we'll,
[26:29]
we'll start seeing some movement on
[26:30]
that construction project within the next month.
[26:33]
Um, short term rentals.
[26:35]
Uh, so we did have a series of, uh, meetings
[26:38]
with the city council, uh, about the direction
[26:41]
of short term rentals and revision to that ordinance.
[26:43]
This is going to the planning commission on January 5th
[26:45]
for recommendation to the city council.
[26:47]
And so hopefully that'll get splashed down here in this
[26:49]
first quarter, uh,
[26:50]
with implementation pushed out in quarter two.
[26:54]
Um, as for, uh, your body, uh,
[26:57]
we do have a meeting in January for a sign program
[26:59]
and sign exception for Founder Square.
[27:02]
Uh, and potentially, uh, facade exception recommendation.
[27:06]
So, uh, the way our new code is set up is if for those that,
[27:09]
uh, applicants who are seeking exceptions
[27:11]
to the objective standards, they have
[27:13]
to get the recommendation here first
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and then it actually goes to planning commission
[27:16]
for official finalization. Uh,
[27:19]
Rafael, sorry to inter interrupt.
[27:20]
A founder square that's, uh,
[27:22]
Denmark Square. Okay. Formerly
[27:23]
known as Denmark Square. Yeah. So
[27:24]
Little Mermaid Square.
[27:26]
Yeah, so, uh, those are the two items.
[27:30]
One of the two is for sure going.
[27:31]
The other one we will see if we can get it, uh, completed.
[27:35]
Um, our signage.
[27:36]
So we, as you know, we've worked over the summer,
[27:38]
uh, with sign ordinance.
[27:40]
Uh, we did go to planning commission.
[27:41]
They had some input as well.
[27:43]
So we kind of have a couple things
[27:45]
that we'll need directions on, uh, from the city council.
[27:48]
So the hope is to take that, uh, in a meeting in January.
[27:51]
So right now it's keyed up for January 12th,
[27:53]
but it might get delayed to the second meeting.
[27:55]
So we'll see how that goes. Um, as for our design handbook,
[27:58]
we've been busy with other things, so
[28:00]
that's now been pushed back to come
[28:01]
to this body in February.
[28:03]
And then finally, um, it is a new fiscal year
[28:07]
and so our new fiscal year is gonna be upon us in June.
[28:10]
And so the city council does have a gold setting session set
[28:12]
for Saturday February 7th.
[28:15]
Uh, location and time is still yet to be determined.
[28:18]
For those that don't know, this is actually the time
[28:21]
where the city council, uh, sets their goals
[28:23]
and budget priorities for the, uh, two fiscal years.
[28:27]
So, um, and it's those goals
[28:29]
that we work towards over the next two years
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of accomplishing.
[28:32]
So it's a facilitated meeting, it's an open meeting
[28:36]
and so the, the more people that come out, the more, um,
[28:40]
they can chime in on, on the direction
[28:42]
of the city within the next two years
[28:43]
and how we program that budget
[28:45]
and eventually our workload from city staff.
[28:48]
And, uh, last but not least, uh,
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wanna wish everyone a happy holidays and Merry Christmas
[28:51]
and, uh, enjoy time with your family and friends.
[28:55]
That concludes my report, unless you have any questions.
[28:58]
I do have a question. Tell me again the meeting, uh,
[29:01]
for the, um, design codes to return to,
[29:05]
uh, the city council.
[29:08]
For which codes? Uh, you were saying I think
[29:11]
that there's something coming up that
[29:13]
Short term rentals.
[29:14]
No, there was, The handbook
[29:16]
Is, I thought there was something
[29:18]
else. I didn't quite catch it.
[29:19]
Um, the signs That had gone to planning
[29:22]
as well. Is that the sign?
[29:23]
Yes. Yeah. Signs. Yeah.
[29:24]
So signs will go for direction not adoption?
[29:27]
Um, both. So, um,
[29:29]
And what meeting is that? That's what I didn't,
[29:31]
It's currently scheduled for the 12th,
[29:33]
but we may push it out to the second meeting in January. So
[29:36]
You did or you're, We don't know yet.
[29:38]
Okay. So maybe. Okay. Alright.
[29:41]
And, um, update us if you
[29:46]
would, on the latest that you're allowed to speak of.
[29:51]
Is there anything that you can update us with the project?
[29:55]
I have no update for that project. Okay.
[29:57]
We'll leave it at that. Is
[29:59]
that the Ellis Allen mission project?
[30:02]
I guess there's no update to be had. Yeah. Thank you.
[30:05]
Um, available at this time.
[30:08]
Uh, I think Thank you staff
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and, um, record Meeting
[30:14]
adjourned at 5 25.
[30:19]
Merry Hi.