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City Council Meeting Minutes July 17, 2018 Page 8 of 13 • #8 there are a number of things the City could finance from additional fees/taxes, we need the public to know this is one of a number of priorities the City may want to pay for including transportation and infrastructure for examples • #9 regarding herbicides— the community needs to understand this comes at a cost, we will have more weeds if there is a total ban. Members agreed the weed questions need to explain the outcomes and be clear; need to word it in a way to get a useful answer. Mayor Pro Tern Lipton continued • #10 on sustainability needed to clarify how we would do things, what it will cost and what the return on investment is. He stated we will get emotional responses not informed responses as written. We need more on the general concepts of sustainability; not so specific/technical. • #11 Affordable Housing should be removed entirely; people don't have a basis to answer this. • #13 Affordable Housing we need to explain what the role the City would play and include examples. • #14 Accessory Dwelling Units, if we have to explain what it is this is probably the wrong place to ask this; there are other ways to get information on this. • #15 Short Term Rentals should be re -worded "would you consider short term rentals in your neighborhood" so it is more personal. • #16 Short Term Rentals is too technical to understand. • #17 Business Assistance maybe should be removed or if kept, reword so people understand the source of funds for these are fees they pay; it's not free. • #18 Sam's Club, may want to add apartments to the list of the types of housing. • #19 Special Events, not sure people know what is city -sponsored or what isn't. • D4 & D8 _- Don't like asking people about income. Councilmember Stolzmann #10 Sustainability — she would like it to be specific but we need to provide context and costs. We need the specific questions about what we could require and how tough the regulations could be. Councilmember Leh stated on the sustainability issues it is important to get the temperature of residents on these things and whether people are comfortable with a requirement. Most people support providing incentives but there is a cost to doing that too and it is borne by everyone. Councilmember Leh stated he was hearing there needs to be more context in the survey to explain the questions. He noted it is hard to do this in the space allowed; every question with context may force out other questions and it may be hard to do as many as we would like. He asked the other members to think about which questions really need context to reserve space.