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Regular Meeting March 28, 2005 Ms. Welsch described herself as very supportive of this development but said she would go with the majority of the Council if they acquiesced to Ms. Colquitt’s request to delay this issue to the next Council meeting; she will support that motion. She asserted that she is supportive of Mr. Tsai’s project but she also supports citizen input on new development in their neighborhood. If the notification has not been as successful as she would have hoped, she wants to give the discussion period another two weeks. Ms. Brot echoed Ms. Welsch and asked some other questions: are the apartments to be rental units and has there been any due diligence research to determine if people want to live there? Mr. Yang said they would be rentals and that a real estate company had been contracted and there is a waiting list of people who want to move in. Ms. Brot then asked if there will be other businesses, other than the dwellings? Mr. Yang replied that in addition to the first floor of the addition, there is a three thousand foot “out-lot” that used to be a Payless Shoe Store that will be updated for additional retail space. Outside of that, the property is not large enough for anything else. Mr. Ollendorff then suggested to the Council that the administration wanted to advise the developer that the rezoning is approved. That can be accomplished by adopting the ordinance tonight. The administration also wants the developer to know that the basic development concept is more than appropriate and very desirable, and that can be accomplished by adopting the Resolution. They can detain the final step of approving the detailed plan under the conditional use permit. That would allow time for residents to voice their concerns about the detailed plan but would not withhold Council’s official approval of the rezoning and the development concept and would allow the developer to continue with detailed plans, get ready for building permits and would not jeopardize the project at all. It would mean that at the next Council meeting, they could act upon the conditional use permit. Ms. Brot said she did not understand what the difference was between the Resolution and the Ordinance, which seemed to say the same thing? Mr. Ollendorff said he was not sure he could explain adequately, but under the Zoning Ordinance all three approvals are needed. He is not sure why it is set up this way. Ms. Welsch said the option outlined by the City Manager would work for her and would allow the Council to get detailed citizen input on the site plan and she supports the suggestion. Ms. Colquitt said she agreed to that as well and then she addressed the developer and said she wanted him to know that she wanted developers who come into the City to have more input from the citizens. Mayor Adams declared the Public Hearing closed at 6:58 P.M. and asked Mr. Smith if his questions had been answered to his satisfaction, and then he repeated the request from the Council for the developer to get together with the citizens to obtain their comments. Page 7