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City Council Meeting Minutes June 2, 2015 Page 10 of 27 Mayor Muckle agreed if you never mark up a map, you make a decision there will never be a different vision for the City even if it is really good. He suggested a principle of transparency. Planning and Building Safety Director Russ encouraged a principle of transparency and noted it is already followed to instill confidence in the Council and citizenry. A property right is a scale question; can the sight accommodate a public investment and still return a yield. Many of the improvements in town would not be there if the City's desire was not combined with the private sector's investment in redevelopment. Council member Stolzmann suggested a better wording might be "provide full analysis of the impacts of alternatives on existing land use Mayor Muckle asked for a motion on the principles. City Attorney Light suggested Council could entertain a motion to endorse the principles to guide further staff analysis on the preparation of the South Boulder Road Small Area Plan. MOTION: Council member Stolzmann moved to endorse the following principles to guide further staff analysis on the preparation of the South Boulder Road Small Area Plan: 1. No changes in zoning to allow for increases in residential housing above that currently allowed. 2. Provide full analysis of impacts of alternatives on existing land uses 3. Minimize conditional zoning Seconded by Mayor Pro Tem Dalton. Council member Leh asked if there should be a specific statement about transparency. Council member Stolzmann accepted that as a friendly amendment and added the principle: 4. Be transparent. Seconder accepted the amendment. Motion passed unanimously. Mayor Muckle suggested staff be directed to analyze the alternatives Council chooses. He supported staff's selection of Workshop and Survey alternatives and encouraged more than one fiscal model, to reflect the reasonably expected scale. Council member Stolzmann wanted consideration of the Commercial Development Design Standards to view what is and is not working with the existing land use. The reason she didn't see a reason to do a full analysis on the options proposed, was because of the retail and office scenarios. She did not see a reason to do a detailed fiscal analysis of scenarios not based in reality. Looking at design guidelines with the existing and entitled would be useful.