Business Retention and Development Committee Agenda and Packet 2011 06 06

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BRaD Meeting Summary May 2, 2011 Page 2 of 5 PUBLIC COMMENTS NOT ON AGENDA - None RESET MEETING DATES FOR JULY AND SEPTEMBER – Due to the Monday holiday in July th and September, the BRaD meetings will be rescheduled to Wednesday, July 6 and Tuesday, th September 6. Both rescheduled meetings will take place at 8:00 a.m. in the Library meeting room. CTC TRAIL UPDATE – Joe Stevens The estimated project cost for building the trail is approximately $105K for a 1,200 feet, mostly crusher fines trail, with a couple of switchbacks, that will connect to the Coal Creek Trail. The budget for building the trail is going to be requested in the 2012 capital budget. From a staff perspective, the CTC trail, has always had the support of staff in the 5-year Capital Project plan. The proposed plan for the trail will be presented to the Open Space Advisory Board at their May th 11 meeting to obtain a Board recommendation. Staff is hoping to receive a positive recommendation from the Board and hopes to have a funding partner with the CTC Metro District. Michael Menaker would like to see another 6 months worth of sales tax revenue before he would be in support of designating City funds to build the trail. Scott Reichenberg, CTC, said the CTC Metro District is hoping to have their recommendation in a couple of weeks for possibly funding a portion of the project costs. POSSIBLE INCENTIVES FOR LANDMARKING HISTORIC COMMERCIAL PROPERTY – Sean McCartney representing the Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) Sean, on behalf of HPC, presented the Commission’s proposal to offer incentives for landmarking commercial property similar to what is offered in the Code for landmarking a residential property. The proposal is to provide an incentive for landmarking of commercial structures in the downtown commercial core. The HPC hopes to get a discussion/public process underway to gain support for this change in wording within the ordinance and then present to Council. Michael Menaker asked if funds could be used for new construction and suggested providing more general language in the Code. Hank Dalton suggested polling the property owners and developers in attendance to get their opinions, which was mostly favorable of the proposal and they looked at it as a positive as long as the money is being granted without strings attached. Hank Dalton also suggested to consider linking the demo permit with landmarking and shortening the number of days for the demo permit. Michael Menaker said he would strongly object to linking a demolition permit to a PUD because action on the demolition permit should reflect whether or not the structure has historic value and that determination should be independent of any PUD. The discussion for this as well as the proposal for commercial landmarking is being postponed to the th July 12 joint meeting.