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City Council Meeting Minutes March 7, 2017 Page 5 of 14 Attomey Light stated the Plan does include language noting the maps and illustrations are conceptual and are not intended to show the locations or designs of improvements. Councilmember Loo stated the illustrations do send a message and they are confusing. She noted this Plan is not realistic for a 20 -year plan. She hopes with the next comp plan we can fix this. It sends a contrary message to someone by stating we want some things but don't give tools to get things done. Councilmember Loo stated just because the Plan has commercial not residential it will still generate traffic. In fact, it may generate more at peak hours. Councilmember Leh thanked residents for hanging in with the process which has been long and arduous. He thinks there is good consensus for land uses on the east side of McCaslin Boulevard. Perhaps there is less consensus regarding the design guidelines and we will need wide participation on those when we create them. He stated we don't have any idea of how development will really take place on the west side of McCaslin Boulevard and what the fiscal impact will be, and we should be honest about that. He still has questions about the message this Plan sends to residents and developers; the Plan does not provide any incentive for development in that area. He does support the plan as presented but with the knowledge that it is not perfect. We have to be honest we aren't sending a message that we want TOD or other real development right now. Mayor Muckle moved to approve Resolution No. 6, Series 2017, Councilmember Keany seconded. Councilmember Maloney stated he would like better illustrations to send a more clear message. Director Zuccaro stated the design principals included in the Plan feed into the design guidelines. If the illustrations were removed the concem would be losing the concepts. Councilmember Maloney stated he can leave the language. Mayor Pro Tem Lipton made a friendly amendment: add date on page 5, legend on page 23 needs TOD removed, instead of leaving the crossing just leave it as future crossing with no signal. Mayor Muckle and Councilmember Keany agreed. Mayor Pro Tem Lipton stated he sees a lot to like in the Plan, particularly the east side of McCaslin Boulevard and it represented the citizen well. Until Sam's Club is redeveloped we don't really know what we need over there. This is a strong supplement to the comp plan. It is not perfect but we need to have some finality to this knowing this will be looked at again with the comp plan. Councilmember Stolzmann stated she appreciates the community input and the compromises made between different parties and she feels this is a good step forward. Councilmember Loo made a friendly amendment to remove all of the language that states "this is a plan for the next 20 years." Mayor Muckle declined to accept the