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Planning Commission Meeting Minutes July 9, 2015 Page 12 of 17 restrictions, Albertsons, in particular to what operators or what businesses will go into and use that Sam's space, has had no meaningful discussions. At the informational meeting on Monday, a member of the public asked the question "who is going to go in there or what do we know?" and the response from Aaron was "the identity of that business has requested to remain confidential". O'Connell directs her comments to DeJong. I get the tool box and what we are doing. When I look at this document that is presented to us as the plan, are all of these pages part of this plan, or is the plan actually these four points we were given under UR Planning Components? DeJong says the plan is the draft of Urban Renewal Plan dated August 2015, the scheduled month for City Council. O'Connell says we are looking at this entire document and it's got these four points. Those are the tools essentially that we are looking at, allowing or presenting power to the City to do things? DeJong says the objectives of the plan are to re -tenant or redevelop for this parcel, does that conform with the intent that the Comp Plan has for this area or this parcel? We don't go parcel by parcel in urban renewal plans. O'Connell says we have objectives and then we have the power basically given by this document that says LRC is to authorize, negotiate, and enter into a redevelopment agreements, and then the power of eminent domain. Those seem to me to be the two tools given to the City on what they can do under this plan. Is that right or am I missing what is going on here? DeJong says those would be tools to address the blighting factors in the plan. O'Connell says the rest is the informational background on how we arrive at those tools and how they fit into the scope and context of the plan? DeJong asks if you talking about the conditions survey? That is the analysis that our consultant did to determine if the four blighting factors that were found existed or not. O'Connell says so the tools we keep referring to are those two things: the power for the LRC to negotiate and enter, and then the power of eminent domain. DeJong says the other power that urban renewal plans usually give is the tax increment financing, but that is not being proposed here. O'Connell says with the power of eminent power, I'd like to hear you elaborate further on eminent domain and what that means. I think the general perception among the public is that the City or government agency has the power to take a property and do what it will with it. In hearing this discussion going on with Albertsons, is it the eminent domain power or is it the negotiation power that would allow the City to remove these restrictive covenants? DeJong says it would be the Urban Renewal Authority, not the City. We have separate bodies. It would be the ability to address the restrictive covenants as one example to address the market. O'Connell says if the City were to utilize that, would that be instance where the City takes ownership of the property? Explain how that would work.