Board of Directors
Summit Hill Association
District 16 Planning Council
August 11, 2005
Members Present: Breymeier, Clapp-Smith, Hardy, Jozwiak, Kost, Odman, O’Toole, Rathman, Sanders, Siekmeier, Skally, Smith, Wefel, Wichman, Winsor, Zoltai
Members Absent: Barrerra , Dobson, Flahaven, Haas, Hedberg, Winsor
Others Present: Jeff Roy, Donna Swanson, Jane McClure, Mike Marolt, Maureen Bortel, Todd Hartman, Georgia Amdahl, Gerry Mischke, Beth Bergman, Susan Diekrager, Cathy Hauser, Mella Martin, Jan Crorquist.
Merritt Clapp-Smith called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. SHA stores the meeting’s full proceedings on magnetic tape for a minimum of one year from this date.
Additions to Agenda
Due to other commitments, Gerry Lindner has resigned from the Board and Rob Kost has been invited, and has accepted, a position on the Board to finish Gerry’s term. Rob has been our GABA rep this year.
Approval of Minutes
A motion to approve the July minutes was made, seconded and unanimously approved.
EQ Life Presentation and Q and A
Merritt explained the background of SHA’s objection to, and the first round appeal upholding of that objection to the parking requirements for the new EQ Life site. Mike Marolt, Maureen Bortel and EQ Life’s attorney, Todd Hartman, appeared to explain how EQ Life proposed to resolve the parking issue. A lively discussion ensued with participation from Grand Avenue business people in the audience as well as many board questions. EQ Life also passed around copies of the appeal it had filed with the Board of Zoning Appeals. An appeal will be heard on September 7, 2005. After considering these issues, the Board decided to review and study the materials and have the issue revisited at the August 25 ZLU meeting by which time all interested persons and board members should have forwarded their comments to SHA. The Board will then review the action taken by the ZLU committee via an e-mail vote.
President’s Report
Merritt reported that Susan Kimberly of PED has requested a meeting with three GABA reps, two SHA reps, the Stoplestads and their attorney, and Ellen Waters, tentatively on August 25. We will have a third person there as well; we object to any stakeholder having an attorney present; and we would hope that Councilman Dave Thune would be invited as well. PED is concerned about and wishes to discuss what it perceives, wrongly, as an anti-growth slant to the proposed plan.
The GABA Meet and Greet date is October 18th at the Acropol Inn. Time tentatively 5:30 p.m.
The Board discussed the formula business cap materials that had previously been circulated. A motion was made, seconded and unanimously approved to produce by November 10, 2005, of a draft city ordinance imposing a formula business cap on that portion of Grand Avenue that encompasses District 16.
The Board also discussed a moratorium on Grand for all development during the period for discussion and City Council action on a formula business cap and the Board unanimously approved a motion that had been made and seconded to ask the City to impose a moratorium on all development on the District 16 portion of Grand Avenue until such time as a formula business cap could be voted on and a final vote made by the City Council.
GABA Report
Nancy Breymeier reported that GABA is also interested in exploring a formula business cap. District 14 is also interested for the West end of Grand.
Committee Reports
Development Committee
Shannon O’Toole reported that the first House Tour meeting will be at 7:00 at the Rec Center on August 29, 2005.
Environment Committee
Pedestrian Safety and Traffic Calming Committee
Due to the time constraints there was no report this month.
Parking
Chad Skally requested that we all review the Framework that had been circulated by the SHA/GABA Parking Task Force and come to the public meeting to discuss parking issues on September 15 at 6:30 at the Rec Center. The Task Force will be soliciting comments from now until the end of January before making a final recommendation to the City.
Zoning & Land Use Committee
Maureen Flahaven reported that the City allowed the renewed petition to add a non-conforming apartment at 426 Grand, and it also approved the lot split to build a new house at 642 Lincoln. She also reported that the Board of Zoning Appeals supported SHA’s appeal of the decision on parking that had been made by the Zoning Administrator.
Treasurer’s Report
Financials were sent out in the Board packets, and John Siekmeier noted that things are moving as usual in a non-house tour year.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:50.
Respectfully submitted,
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