09-28-15 Common Council Meeting Minutes

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REGULAR MEETING September 28, 2015 Western Ave. So you have these other areas, where only a portion of your patrons are actually going to go out on Hollywood Blvd. If you take a look at it there’s houses to the west of this particular site and you would like them to be able to get to this particular facility. Maybe some of the other patrons don’t like to use Mayflower Rd. or they don’t like to use Western Ave. maybe they prefer to have a less traveled way if they are going through a neighborhood. Sometimes older residents like to stay off the main roads and they like to have a way into these particular facilities. Councilmember Oliver Davis- You mentioned emergencies too. Could you talk about the trucks again? Also this is going to go up in 2017 and you’re saying after the traffic study, after they find whatever they find, if they need more road or whatever, that will be a part of the construction as it goes up and not after it’s up. Mr. Danch - That would be correct. When you are doing the traffic study, that’ll become part of the site plan process. He’s going to be taking a look at that when we are handling plans for the building site, how we do drainage, how we do our access points, that study will basically tell the city what needs to be done. The city will then tell us what has to happen as part of the approval. Chairperson White - I am going to ask councilmembers to address any questions they have with the petitioner and then our City Director of Public Works and comeback. Councilmember Henry Davis Jr. - Will this petitioner be seeking a tax abatement through the city or the county? Mr. Danch- If they were going to do that it would probably have to be in the City. I am not aware of any petition. There are different processes that you have to go through. I am not aware of anything right now. Councilmember Henry Davis- Are they here? Petitioner- They are here. Councilmember Henry Davis Jr.- Would they be interested in answering that question? Mr. Danch - They could do that. Robert Bartels 760 W Cotter- We do not have plans and have not requested any of those abatement kinds of things yet. We will see where the price tag is on infrastructure roadway and the rest. I don’t know what is going to be required there or what it might require from us. We don’t have plans right now. That hasn’t been a part of our program yet. We will see where the cards fall in terms of cost and ultimately what that road design requires. Councilmember Henry Davis Jr.- The reason why I asked that question is because we’ve had this issue before and I think that we stated this when we were at the public meeting at the Laborer’s Union. I fear that, not that this is your issue, but with the City having another empty building on a main thoroughfare that there is no interest in looking for a new tenant or helping support in finding a tenant for that building and also the tax issue of being able to file for a tax abatement through a county and getting zero and the City goes and annexes the area under that same tax abatement and then we have to honor it at zero. That’s why I’m asking that question. Robert Bartels- I thought I heard a question about the current building that we’re in right now and its future use. We’re not the landlord in that location. So I have no way of knowing what their plans might be for developing that center further. Councilmember Henry Davis Jr. - I said that that was a City issue. I was not putting that on you. Obviously you cannot answer that question. But the other question that you can answer is about the tax abatement. Robert Bartels- That is correct sir. Without trying to explain tax abatement in its entirety. There is some unforeseen possibility in terms of road and development. We’ve been a good community partner and we do the right things for the right reasons. We are looking forward to being earnest 8