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CITY COUNCIL STUDY SESSION
July 11, 1994
Call to order
Mayor Hanks called the meeting to order at 7 : 00 p.m.
Roll call
Present at roll call were Jeff Jacobs, George Haun, Robert Young,
Ron Latz, Gail Dorfman and Lyle Hanks .
Also present were the City Manager (Mr. Meyer) and Director of
Community Development (Mr. Hagen) .
1 . Excelsior Blvd. streetscape and redevelopment
Geoff Martin gave a presentation on the Excelsior Blvd .
streetscape project to date .
Councilmember Jacobs asked that the new entrance into Miracle
Mile be examined as an " in" only, that it was a real traffic
problem with cars exiting onto Excelsior out of the center.
Councilmember Dorfman questioned how the " soft " look of the
streetscape design would mesh with the acknowledged "busyiness"
of the development/Miracle Mile area . Mr. Martin said basically
the idea was to keep the area exciting.
There was discussion about looking at creation of maintenance
contracts with the businesses to help defray costs incurred by
the City for maintenance.
It was pointed out that agreement has been reached on nearly all
design details for the Hwy . 100 to Quentin segment and that
decisions on the remaining design details will be made by staff
in the next few days .
Some concerns were expressed about some aspects of the design phase. Mr. Martin was asked to en-
tertain sane consideration of other aspects of the design with staff and the constituents
involved in the project.
2 . Expansion of redevelopment pro-jects/creation of tax increment
finance district for Victoria Village
This report follows Council discussion on June 13 and direction
given to staff .
A gentlemen present felt the proposal was not in concert with the
zoning ordinance .
Staff was asked to review the ordinance in light of this comment
before proceeding any further.
3 . Zoning Ordinance amendment permitting bars in C-2 , General
Commercial District (Al ' s Liquors)
Councilmember Haun said the neighborhood was comfortable with
things the way they are .
Councilmember Jacobs was concerned' about a precedent being set .
Mayor Hanks reviewed the history of approving liquor licenses .
Mr. Meyer reviewed the options one of which would be to let Al ' s
remain as a non-conforming use under the ordinance which would
have less impact on setting precedent than permitted accessory
use provision of the ordinance.
It was the consensus to research this further.
4 . Issues related to potential redevelopment areas
Mr . Hagen noted the Maid of Scandinavia matter will be on the
August 3 Planning Commission agenda) The request is for R-50 High
Density Residential . Concern was expressed that that is an
inapproprite designation for that piece of property given its
access/egress problems.
Councilmember Haun indicated that he had been contacted by the
same developer that approached the Council a year ago on the
31st & Inglewood property This property ' s proximity to the
railroad tracks was noted.
There was nothing definitive to report on Honeywell at this
point .
Councilmember Young felt it would be helpful to have a mechanism
in place so that quicker decisions could be made .
It was Council ' s consensus that staff needed to provide more
information to assist in answering questions and making informed
decisions on potential redevelopment areas .
Some other miscellaneous business was briefly discussed.
The meeting adjourned at 9 :20 p.m.
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Recording Secretary