This just in from the City’s Web site: The Planning Commission’s View of its Role in the Community. It’s a special meeting of the City’s Planning and Zoning Commission, and it’s taking place at 3:00 today, outside of the regular planned Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. Visit the link above for additional details, including an agenda. I assume that it will be broadcast on Channel 19 “Woody TV” but the current schedule does not list it.
June 23, 2008
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The City’s online agenda was incorrect. Today’s P&Z meeting is a “retreat” and will be in the old council chambers, not the Library Community Room as the agenda indicated. The meeting starts at 3 p.m. and is open to the public. The online agenda also incorrectly indicates the packet for today’s meeting is available through the link. It is not; the link goes to the June 10 meeting packet.
The regularly scheduled General Services and Public Works commitee meetings scheduled today in the Community Room are apparently still on.
By the way, never rely on the CDA TV 19 schedule. It almost never has up-to-date live broadcast listings. Today’s tag-team retreat will not likely be televised or even recorded for broadcast.
Comment by Bill — June 23, 2008 @ 10:01 am
This is the annual retreat. It was usually held at the Jewett House when I served on the commission. This was the time that the commission decided on a list of priorities. I would note that only a few items on the list were accomplished. In later years, the list seemed to vanish.
Comment by Susie Snedaker — June 24, 2008 @ 7:07 am
I was unable to attend. Now that the property that housed the Suzuki car dealership in Midtown has been sold by Stephen Shortridge; I am especially interestedin theMid-town planning update presented by Tony Berns. Is it possible to find out how much money was pledged for this deal? If the housing project is going to move forward, is the LCDC board going to appoint someone with housing experience? If one looks at the bios of this organization, it appears as though no one posesses a great deal of experience in this complex area.
Comment by doubleseetripleeye — June 24, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
I spoke with the gentleman from IHFA, who is running the new housing development for “workforce” housing in Midtown. While he was nice and answered my questions, I cannot say that I was completely happy with the situation. My opinion, shared by others in the room, is that the development will turn into rentals. And the parking is terribly inadequate. It’s too bad that Habitat for Humanity couldn’t be running the deal instead of the IHFA.
Comment by Dan — June 24, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
Not all rental developments become slum areas for the downtrodden, dan.Young people have to start somewhere, before the road takes them to home ownership in their thirties or older. Even if the midtown development does turn into rentals at least LCDC has done something to address the low-income housing problem.
Comment by kageman — June 24, 2008 @ 11:09 pm
They should make sure it is “OWNER OCCUPY”. That would make sure it would give the chance to not become slums. Not talking about the independent build, but ALL new development should be owner occupy.
Comment by concerned citizen — June 25, 2008 @ 6:23 am
It makes sense that any residential development subsidized with public money should have ownership restrictions. To allow an investor to buy up units that are priced “affordably” due to tax incentives, then have that investor rent them out for a bigger profit, seems wrong.
Comment by mary — June 25, 2008 @ 7:49 am