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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1993.06.16 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES~t City Council Meeting 6/16/93 7:30 P. M. State of Idaho) County of Madison( ss City of Rexburg) Present were the following: Chairman of Council: Councilman: City Clerk: Finance Officer: Attorney: 1 Pledge to the flag. Glen Pond Farrell Young Jim Flamm Bruce Sutherland Nyle Fullmer Brad Liljenquist Rose Bagley Richard Horner J. D. Hancock A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Farrell Young to approve the minutes. All Aye Glen Pond presided over the meeting in the mayor's absence. RE: SEWER LINE PROBLEM AT LARDELL HARRISONS' - 356-S 3RD WEST Dave Thibault was at the meeting to explain a sewer line problem at the Lardell Harrison property at 356 South 3rd West. Dave showed a map to explain the problem at South 3rd West where it joins West 4th South. Mr Harrison had Roto Rooter clean out his service line at the back of his house into the manhole that sets just north of the new house belonging to Don Packer. His service line crosses the corner under Don Packer's garage. He is concerned about the sewer line breaking in the near future. He wondered if the city would extend the sewer line from the manhole down to the south so he could hook onto it without crossing anyone else's property. He was going to check to see if he had an easement to cross that property but had not reported back to Dave. Some options would be to come down the property line to east and then go down the street and tie into where he is currently tied in or stay out of the street and get an easement from his neighbor on the south and tie into that sewer line that runs to the west between the house on the corner and the house on the north. The sewer line has probably been in there for 30 or 40 years. Farrell Young asked if the problem developed when the new house was built? Dave stated that it was suggested that the construction of the Don Packer house created the problem with the service line of Mr Harrison's house into that line just north of Mr Packer's house. Glen Pond stated that one problem is that street was just resurfaced and just completed last year and we are not anxious to have anyone digging in the street, so hopefully he has an easement. He felt we need to wait and see if he has an easement. RE: REQUEST TO MOVE PINE TREE ON EASEMENT AT 246 HARVARD Mitch Marrott requesting to move the pine tree on the city easement on a piece of property they have just bought at 246 Harvard. He is planning to build a house on that property. There are a lot of trees and he would like to move that one. Alan Wilson, Chairman of the Community Forestry Commission, was at the meeting. One of the things they are trying to do is save as many trees as they can in this community and especially those that are next to the streets in the easement area. He and Jim Long looked at that and did not see any reason for taking that tree out. It is a Blue Spruce, if someone wanted to buy one that size, it would cost about $1000. That is a wide lot, with quite a few trees along the front, but there is an adequate area between trees to put in a driveway. It seems that the driveway could be changed, curved or whatever to give access to the right-a-way. /~ Bruce Sutherland asked if the location of the tree is in the way of the drive? Mr Marrott said it was not in the way of the drive, but it would be in the center of the house. He wanted to open it up, so you could see hie house from the street. The council felt they would like to look at it and make a decision at the next meeting. RE: FIREWORKS PERMITS Glen Pond read Fireworks Permit for Porter Book and Variety and Payless Drug Store. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Brad Liljenquist to approve the permits. All Aye RE: RESOLUTION #93.11 ACCEPTING GRAND OFFER FROM STATE FOR AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT Glen read Resolution #93.11 ACCEPTING THE GRANT OFFER OF THE STATE OF IDAHO THROUGH THE IDAHO TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT, DIVISION OF AERONAUTICS, IN THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF $7,500 TO BE USED UNDER THE AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT AID PROGRAM PROJECT NO. 3-16-0031-04 IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE REXBURG-MADISON COUNTY AIRPORT This is for the new study. This is the State's portion and then the Airport Board has to match that amount which would be 5~. Brad Liljenquist declared a possible conflict of interest and would abstain from voting. (discussion) This comes out the Airport Board funds. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to pass Resolution #93.11. Those voting aye: Nyle Fullmer, Bruce Sutherland, Farrell Young, Jim Flamm. Abstaining: Brad Liljenquist RE: RESOLUTION #93.10 FEDERAL FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT (POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS) Glen Pond introduced Resolution #93.10 Whereas, the City of Rexburg employs personnel to perform law enforcement and fire suppression duties as described in Section 207(k) of the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (F.L.S.A.). A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Jim Flamm to pass Resolution #93.10. All Aye Jim Flamm gave a Planning & Zoning report. RE: REPORT FROM TRAFFIC SAFETY COMMITTEE CONCERNING INGRESS & EGRESS AT NEW CAR WASH ON 2ND EAST Bruce Sutherland gave a report on the Traffic Safety Board meeting. The Planning & Zoning Committee recommended that they look at the ingress and egress traffic to the proposed car wash off of 2nd East and 1st North. If you go down 2nd East from the light north, it is a 5 lane street with a turn lane in the center, but from the courthouse, just before the light, it is only a four lane street. The Safety Committee felt because of the businesses that are being developed along there, it would be best to have that stripped for a five lane street from just beyond the turn at the courthouse. They would have to petition the state to do that, because it is a state highway. He also stated that the Traffic Safety Committee will meet every 3rd Thursday at 7:00 P. M. A member of the Traffic Safety Committee will meet with the Planning & Zoning when needed. RE: CANAL ON 4TH WEST - TIM TAYLOR CONCERNED ABOUT SAFETY Tim Taylor 333 Bare Street was at the meeting. He had a concern about the recent drowning of the two year old child in the canal on 4th West. He would like to see a fence put in along the canal from the Fair Grounds down to West 6th South. There has been a lot of people concerned. He talked to Keith Erickson on the radio and Keith did not want to comment on it. Dan Kauer, Watermaster, said the only problem would be the clean out of the canal. Other cities are starting to fence in open water in residential areas. He thought we need to address it to the canal company and not accept no for the answer. Maybe we could get scouts or the Work Camp to do the work. ~°'~ i ;.. RE: PUBLIC HEARING FOR ZONE CHANGE FOR JACK COVINGTON PROPERTY He told the council Porter Park is an eyesore for playground equipment and the restrooms. Glen stated that the restrooms are a real problem in the parks. We can refurbish them and make them knew and the next day they are torn apart, possibly we need to have some citizens help us patrol the parks to maintain those facilities. As far as updating the equipment, we could refer it to Brad and maybe some of the civic organizations could help us with it. He said we maybe could get with the canal company. Jim Flamm suggested that maybe we would need to put it on an L.I.D. We would need to discuss it a budget time. Richard suggested that on the Steiner Ditch, the property owners paid for it. 8:00 P. M. Public Hearing that the following described property be zoned MDR (Medium Density Residential) rather than LDR1 (Low Density Residential) as it is presently zoned. The said property is located on the north side of First North Street between Fourth West and Fifth West Streets and is owned by Jack Covington. Glen Pond asked if there was any citizen comment. George Quarez - 558 Angela- (comments attached and on file) he also had three letters from other individuals in his neighborhood. Nancy Ellen Quarez, Rod Boam 606 Angela, and Mar Lyn Boam. Jack Covington- 464 West 1st North - The plan was to build three four-plex apartments which are not large apartment houses. They would be rented to retired people that wanted a nice place to live and would not be low income people who would drag the community down, but would build it up. As far as taxation, these people have not idea how much the taxes will be on it. They would be between $10,000 and $11,000 on those complexes. Jim Flamm told the council the recommendation from the Planning & Zoning recommended that the zone be changed. Nyle Fullmer stated that when this was first proposed, part of the change was contingent upon the sale of the property going into the way it was presented and asked if that was the case. Glen said there was nothing in the proposed amendment that states that the property has to be sold or is contingent on any sale. Nyle said he had been approached by more than just one or two neighbors in that area who signed a petition that Jack took around and they signed off on it on the basis that it was being done the way that it was presented to them and asked if that had been changed. Jack stated the only thing that has changed, is the first buyer backed off because of the high taxes. After he had gone through this process and paid the fee, he did not want another buyer to come along and have to wait two or three months to get the zone changed again and would like to go ahead with the zoning. If it was something the city was going to disapprove of they would turn it down anyway. Farrell asked if the property is sold now there is no guarantee that the owner would put retired couples in the apartments? Jim stated that there was no guarantee, but they can't build anymore than four-plex apartments on the property. Farrell read out of the Zoning Ordinance the requirements of MDR. Jack stated that it may not even take place because of the taxes. Possibly someone will want to put a house on the property, possibly a manufactured home. Jim stated that the Planning & Zoning recommendation was based on the plan that was presented to them. It was presented that there would be three four-plex for retired people. Jim felt that the chances of using it for single family houses is much less than if it gets changed. If the zoning is changed there would be a chance of some building that would clean up the neighborhood. George Quarez - He had talked to several neighbors and they would like the council to look at their plea that a lot of time and money has been ~j r spent to give their input and draw maps of the neighborhood. The recommendation was for LDR. Bruce - He felt troubled by the written comments concerning low income people being less than desirable and bad for the neighborhood and bad for the community. He felt like the City Council cannot or should they ever make a decision based on that kind of an opinion. He could not and would not ever condone that kind of a feeling. Jack - If we had been prevented from moving in there, because we are not high income people, what would that lot look like now? He did not feel that the change in zoning would have any affect on the people that live in Ricks Wade Addition. Jim had called several people on the petition and they have no problem with MDR but they do have a problem with HDR. A motion was made by Jim Flamm to rezone the property to MDR as requested. Glen asked for anymore comments from the audience. Irene Price - 150 North 3rd West - Her concern is if three four-plex go in and there is already the Madison Park apartments, if Don Rasmussen's property would go into MDR or HDR, they would be surrounded on four sides by apartments, and they have several small children at home. It would be nice if it went to retired couples. There is a four-plex across the street and there is a lot of traffic with young people driving fast. Glen asked for a second on the motion. Seconded by Bruce. Those voting aye: Brad Liljenquist, Bruce Sutherland, Jim Flamm, Those voting nay: Farrell Young and Nyle Fullmer. Motion passed. A motion was made by Farrell Young and seconded by Brad Liljenquist to approve the bills. All Aye Richard reported on the Solid Waste transfer station. There is a slide presentation they would like to show at the next meeting. It would take 10 to 20 minutes. Glen told the council there is a letter from the College on the road closure and asked the council to read it and we would discuss it at the next council meeting. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Nyle Fullmer to adjourn. All Aye Mayor, Nil L. Boyle City Clerk, Ro ag y