Tempe approves Tempe Gateway redevelopment; Landmark student housing faces near-certain defeat June 27

good evening everyone welcome to the tppe city council regular council meeting item number one is call to order Council meetings can be watched in real time via Cox Cable channel 11 and at tempe.gov temp1 members of the public may also attend the meeting virtually through Microsoft teams if you're here to speak on items designated as public hearing items later on in the agenda please know that you will have an opportunity to speak when I introduce those time those items at the time of their public hearing the city council and I will need to complete the other items of business leading up to those items so we appreciate your patience if you wish to speak on a public hearing item you haven't filled out a speaker card yet please make sure to fill out and submit your completed card to the city clerk prior to the agenda item coming forward for Council discussion I will call your name when it is your turn for public comment now I like to invite everyone who's able and willing to stand to join me in a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance thank you I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much just want to also note very quickly too that uh council member keing as well as council member Hajj are both virtual this evening so they are definitely attending tonight's agenda has a number of items that the city council must consider in order to conduct City business guidelines for conduct at City Council meetings are on the table near the entrance for those in attendance at tonight's meeting we will now play a video with a proper protocol for ensuring the appropriate conduct at City Council meetings we wish to acknowledge that Tempe is the homeland of the people okay well that's the na land acknowledgement statement so let's do we'll do we'll do the land acknowledgement statement and then we'll go back to do the uh Rules of Order we wish to acknowledge that Tempe is the homeland of the native people who have inhabited this landscape since time immemorial these ancestral lands of the aam known as Pima pipos known as the Maricopa and their ancestors extend far beyond our city this land continues to be spiritually connected to the aam of the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community and hila River Indian Community we accept the responsibility of stewarding those places and solemnly pledge to consider this commitment in every action all right thank you very much we're now going to do talk about the uh proper protocol for ensuring the appropriate conduct at City Council meetings we can roll that video as well the City of Tempe welcomes public comment at this time disruptive behavior will not be allowed continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers we need to be able to hear everyone in the room behavior that disrupts disturbs or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of any city council meeting is not helpful and is not permitted this includes Behavior both inside and outside of the council chambers should individuals inside the council chambers become disruptive so that City business is not able to be conducted the mayor will first ask that the individuals allow City business to be completed there will be time for public comment during the call to the audience portion of the meeting if no cooperation the mayor will issue a verbal warning and let them know that the continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers if there is still no cooperation the mayor will issue a second verbal warning and let them know that the continued disruptive behavior will lead to removal from the council chambers if there is no cooperation after asking and two verbal warnings then the mayor will ask security officers to remove only those individuals who are causing the disruption security Personnel should not engage in any way but only escort them from the council chambers if individuals refuse to leave security Personnel shall warn them that they are trespassing and that the next step will be arrest by a tempy police officer tempy officers may have to arrest if individuals refuse to leave charges for trespass and disorderly conduct May apply as well as other charges should anyone be asked to be removed the mayor will recess the meeting all right thank you so much we're going to turn next to item number four which are our meeting minutes and tonight I'll be assisted by council member chin council member chin thank you mayor uh I submit first for approval item 4 A1 okay it's been moved by Council chin and seconded by council member keing please vote Yes I and that item passes 7 to zero next up we have item 4B acceptance of board Comm and committee meeting minutes council member chin thank you mayor I submit for acceptance items 4 B1 through 4 B4 it's been moved by council member chin do I have a second second seconded by council member Garland please vote Yes and that item also was approved unanimously 7 to zero next up we have mayor's reports and announcement I'm going to step down front here all right item 5 A1 is our pride month Proclamation is there anyone here to receive that this evening if not I will hold on to it and then give it to someone later on but the pride month Proclamation reads whereas the city of temp is deeply committed to equality for all and whereas the lgbtq plus Community has fought tirelessly for equality and the rights and protections they deserve at home at work and in the public and whereas the fight for lgbtq plus equality continues across Arizona the United States and the entire world and the City of tempy is a committed partner in this effort and whereas in 2014 the C Tempe city council established protections for lgbtq plus individuals from discrimination at home work and in public spaces which then were enshrined by voters in 2015 in the Tempe City Charter by an overwhelming majority since the passage of these protections the City of Tempe has received a perfect score of the human rights campaign's Municipal equality index and where whereas the City of Tempe has an lgbtq plus alliance called Tempe pride and celebrates the great diversity of our employees including those identifying AS lgbtq Plus and joins them in celebrating Pride for who they are and whereas Tempe will proudly participate in Pride events throughout the region with dignitaries Public Safety officials and city employees all unified to support the lgbtq plus Community as they remember their history and commit to continuing the work towards true equality for all people no matter who they they are or who they love and whereas the City of Tempe is proud to celebrate Pride with the help of the downtown Tempe Authority who is showing their support with special Pride Flags installed on lamp post along Mill Avenue and the organization of the annual Tempe Pride party now therefore I Corey Woods mayor of the City of Tempe Arizona to hereby declare June 2024 as pride month in Tempe Arizona and Dr hes [Applause] [Music] any want to be in the photo here but come on [Laughter] down you oh no you and then Eddie's coming down with the camera oh the real camera thank you all right next up we have our juneth Proclamation and do we have anyone here to receive the Jun Proclamation all once again I'm going hold on to this one for a while too so actually uh Dr Humes can you come perfect yeah don't don't don't go too far on me all right so this Proclamation reads whereas President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1st 1863 formerly abolishing slavery and on June 19th 1865 after 2 and A2 years the executive decree was finally fully enforced throughout the Confederate States when Union Soldiers arrived in Galveston Texas to ensure all enslaved people were declared legally free and whereas juneth has been called the second Independence Day for the United States and began a post-emancipation period where formerly enslaved people began the brutal journey of reunifying families obtaining education acquiring private property and running for elected office and whereas juneth is a day on which we as a society pay honor to those Americans who were enslaved and recognize the evils of slavery and how its aftermath has shaped our nation and whereas juneth is also a day of reflection and renewal as we show appreciation for the many valuable contributions and sacrifices made by African-Americans to our society and whereas the Tempe African-American advisory committee through the support of the Tempe History Museum the Tempe black employee Alliance and the Strategic Management of diversity office work together to celebrate juneth and honor our state's Nation our state and nation's strong African-American Heritage and remember the lives of those who were enslaved as part of that history and whereas we honor through this Celebration The Life and contributions of Michelle Lyn Brooks tatris on the anniversary of her passing for her outstanding leadership of the aaac her support of TBA and for establishing the annual juneth celebration of freedom in the City of Tempe which is now in its 11th year and whereas the transformative work of equity inclusion and reform must be shared by all in order to ensure that the unable rights of all people to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and whereas Tempe recommits itself to the values of inclusion Equity Justice and reform in recognition of this important day in our country's history now therefore I Corey Woods mayor of the city of Tempi Arizona to hereby declare as an official City Holiday June 19th 2024 as juneth in temp Arizona I know that's something to my heart thank you all right next up item 5 A3 us Environmental Protection Agency green power partnership recognizing City of Tempe green power use with Arizona Public Service all right I see some folks coming forward so I'll start reading here so today we celebrate temp's recognition by the United States Environmental Protection Agency or EPA as a green power partner for purchasing green power voluntarily this honor underscores our City's steadfast commitment to sustainability and environmental stewardship in 2018 our city council set an ambitious goal achieving carbon neutrality in Municipal operations by the year 2050 with a 100% renewable energy strategy by 2035 and joining us today is Arizona public service and I want to take a moment to recognize and applaud APS for being instrumental in our journey towards carbon neutrality by adding more renewable energy to their portfolio and supplying temp with green power helping us reach our Council goal APS supplies our city with nearly 11.6 million kilowatt hours of green energy equivalent to powering over a thousand homes per year so I want to thank APS for their dedication to a cleaner Greener future and thank you to the EPA for recognizing Tempe is a city leading the charge toward a sustainable future and also of course want to thank our sustainability and resilience department for all the work that they do and shepherding through these very important initiatives not only to the city council but frankly to each and every member of our community so thank you very much [Applause] all right next up item 5 A4 green business certification for local first Arizona and cafetel coffee so I want to call up is Nick here from there we go from local first Arizona as well as Nikki and Sebastian Ramirez oh they've got the little one with them I love it no no don't you don't ever to apologize for bringing cuteness into the council chambers that is there's never a need for an apology for that are good good so I want to make sure that I thank everyone about the fact that every Coffee Bean that has ever been harvested dried roasted ground and brewed into the beverage that the world enjoys each and every day has been picked by hand we have the coffee Harvesters and Farmers to thank for supplying this amount of coffee not only to the City of Tempe but to the entire Globe so just a little bit of detail here much of the world's coffee changes hands 20 to 30 times before it reaches the person who will ultimately enjoy it often between middlemen that aren't adding any value to the product and have no concern for the country of origin and the people that make it possible just passing it along and then collecting their profits but this is not so at CAF tal coffee located right here on College Street in the city of Tempi owners Nikki and Sebastian Ramirez Source coffee directly from their rainforest certified Family Farm on a mountain in Santa Barbara Columbia started more than 60 years ago by Sebastian's great grandfather coffee sourced in this way ensures incredible quality and that everyone in the value chain from the coffee picker to the Barista is fairly supported they are a strong player in our local economy sourcing baked goods roasting Services distribution services and authentic Colombian ARA from small local businesses in the area Cafe talk is a local first Arizona newest green business certified company here in Tempe they're implementing new business practices that reduce their impact on the environment both here in Temp and in the rainforest where their coffee is grown this Council deeply supports our small business community and even more so celebrate those who are conducting Business Without harm to our environment so I encourage everyone everyone here in the audience and those folks watching at home to make sure that you visit Cafe T coffee tomorrow Friday June June 7th for your delicious cup of joe or your authentic baked good and of course a big thank you as well to local first Arizona for supporting the business Community with programs such as the green business certification congratulations and thank you for all that you do stage [Applause] right oh yeah please one over go yeah I'll give the address too yeah I guess I'm the designated speaker um we're located right here on College Avenue if you know where snooze in postinos is we're right next to snooze uh right next to the parking garage um but just real quick we we are so excited to be green business certified thanks to Nick he was on our case for months and honestly as small business owners who were a million hats I was like put I I don't have time I don't have time and then summer came I said Nick I have time let's get together and and and he's kind of going through this list with us and he's like wow you already completed a lot of the things to be green business certified I was like well fantastic and then he gave us some great ideas for other ways we could do that uh one thing I want to mention is we give away free coffee grounds because we we have like pounds and pounds on a daily basis that would be going to the landfill so if you Garden you know someone who Gardens you compost feel free come by any day you don't need to reach out just come over tell the bces you want coffee we have buckets to give you um but really the the whole basis be behind wanting to go green um become a green business really was because of the farm his parents Farm they do such a great job of sustainability practices and being as green and clean as they can in Colombia and we wanted to make sure we mirrored that as we brought their coffee to our coffee shop here in temp pee so thank you thank you Nick thank you mayor Woods one of our our customers I recognize from years ago um thank you all appreciate it [Applause] all right next up fight 5 A5 which is our 2024 Community survey so I'm going to pull up a little slide here so that the Tempe city council values are ongoing involvement in our community and therefore we are requesting your assistance in providing input on the annual Tempe Community survey the survey is available now through July for you to share your thoughts on a wide range of city services including Public Safety parks recreation Economic Development and code enforcement your input helps us to set priorities and continue to improve our services just a few notes the survey is anonymous and confidential results from the survey will be available in November and for more information please contact the city of temp's strategic management and Innovation office next up item five 5 A6 arts and culture commission and Transportation Commission appointments I just want to congratulate Teresa robinet will luck and Kevin Godfrey sh shali on their appointments to the City of Tempe arts and culture commission and Anthony Strait on his appointment to the Transportation Commission as outlined in item 7 A1 on this evening's agenda before I move to the uh city managers reports and announcements just wanted to do a very uh quick kind of point of personal privilege uh is Maria Bobby still here where is she there she is so Maria Bobby is been is my intern in the mayor's office so they're quite a few people at the City of Tempe who know uh that when I first started we were looking to start an internship program with arizota State University to provide students with the opportunity to get real world experience working in the city of tempe's office uh ASU provides all of the services and they really help us actually identify uh a great collection of students from which to choose from and this past year through 2023 and 2024 Maria Bobby was the intern in the mayor's office uh she is actually leaving uh my office tomorrow uh which we are all extremely sad about uh but she is right now studying to become a doctor so frankly I cannot uh try to hold her in my office when she's actually going to go out and actually physically save lives um but I just wanted to say to Maria it's been a real honor and a pleasure having you in the office you've were a tremendous addition to the city of temp be and I'm telling you it's true we all like we love having you around and it's going to be very very odd for me to come into the office and not to see your bright smiling face uh and I will tell you the amount of work she actually produces as well on top of just being an all-around incredible human being uh is truly second to none so I'm going to miss working with you but I just wanted to say a very very public thank you to Maria for everything you've done not just for my office but frankly for the entire city of temping so thank you all right next up item 5B city manager reports and announcements Madam city manager thank you mayor one announcement this evening I'd like to welcome Benjamin Butler our new budget director we're very excited to have him on board um Ben started his career at the Arizona joint legislative budget committee and then transitioned to the city of Peoria in 2016 where he became the budget manager and now he's here in Tempe and we are very excited to have you Ben so help me welcome Ben and just making sure that the community knows who's taking care of our budget thanks Ben thank you mayor thank you all right next up item number six public appearances according to the Arizona open meeting law the city council may only discuss matters listed Elsewhere on this agenda for discussion in legal action the purpose of the open call to the public is to allow individuals to address the city council on any issue within the jurisdiction of the city council no person shall shall speak more than once and there is a limit of 3 minutes per speaker speakers present at the podium must State their name and city of residents and provide a speaker Card members of the public shall refrain from making personal impertinent or slanderous remarks and from becoming boisterous while addressing the city council or while attending the meeting speakers will be taken first come first serve in the order in which the cards are received speakers visual aids and appearances by phone or recordings are not allowed council members are prohibited by state law from taking action on commenting or discussing a matter raised by a member of the public even if asked to do so by a member of the public so long as the subject discussed by the speaker is not listed as a specific agenda item for council's consideration for discussion and legal action at the conclusion of public appearances the council may ask the city manager to review a matter or place a matter on a future agenda so tonight I've got two cards here just once again um if you have cards here speaking on specific agenda items related to development projects later on in the agenda we're going to call you up at that time uh but the two cards I have this evening the first card I have is from Mario Martinez please come forward state your name in place of Resident you have three [Music] minutes good evening my name is Mario Martinez I live in Tempe public reports in indicate that a temp an expensive Tempe consultant will be hired to review the Tempe uh crime lab or lack thereof some issues can re be resolved without a consultant as as I will demonstrate while some people not including me do not view misdemeanor uh DUI offenses as something serious nothing could be further from the truth when a DUI driver injures or murders someone it doesn't get any more serious than that uh therefore it is imperative that the combination of Tempe and Mesa crime Labs be able to effectively perform DUI blood tests I was arrested for DUI after a witness told the police that I was drunk the witness also told the investigators that I almost hit him and potentially killed him and his wife on a certain Street my G GPS cell phone insurance app clearly shows that I was never even on the street that he claimed that I was on but uh without without verifying the story the police and the prosecutor took the word of the witnesses for granted anyway after my blood alcohol level proved to be zero the Mesa crime lab determined that this sleeping medication this is the exact bottle okay that I took the night before and I took it as prescribed was still in my system that that's true although the Tempe uh and Mesa crime Labs correctly detected the sleeping medication they were too professionally ignorant to figure out what the levels were and when I use it the bottle says use it the night before no problem they sent my blood samples to some place in in in Pennsylvania they couldn't decide the levels now out of millions of cases of DUI in the United States this place in Pennsylvania had four cases dealing with my situation that's not a big number the inability of the Tempe Police and prosecutors to proficiently obtain use and interpret DUI blood test was the key legal reason why I was never convicted of any DUI offenses with de uh DUI enforcement losers like this it is no wonder that DUI drivers can inure and kill people in 10p I should know I sustain LIF long Medical inuries that were a result of DUI driver actions the Tempe Police and prosecutors didn't prevent that uh DUI either performing DUI blood tests effectively is not rocket science you don't need an expensive consultant to figure that out and it should have been done already I want to point out that I've as as a employee of the federal government deals with dashal security I've been tested so many times they've never found anything and also routine it's not rocket science it should have been done already thank you super appreciate it the next speaker I have this evening is an till please come forward and state your name and place of residence you have three minutes hello my name is Ann till tempy resident I want to talk about the B delection and property tax increases uh my property tax have increased an average of $100 a year since um that's getting kind of expensive to live here is much as it's increased um R more rapidly in the last few years um and that impacts property owners and renters so you know I'd love to have my roads fixed but what I'd like to see is public meetings to go over the bond election details and a commitment to exactly which streets are going to be fixed um and the cost per year because I haven't seen that anywhere so um so that would really help me with my decision on how to vote because um I'm getting older and as I get older I'm going to be retiring and my income will actually go in half and it's going to make it more difficult for me to actually stay in a house that I paid off you know so anyways that's my ask uh the second thing is the general plan one of the reasons that some people opposed it was this it was we didn't want the status quo and there were something like 40 changes in the 2040 plan um and there's two proposed changes on the agenda to the general plan and the inks hardly you know been off the presses um so and I also wanted to so I I oppose both and I'll talk on those specifically um but um I wanted to point out you know that I pointed out to you mayor Woods you know the 39 or 40 and my concern about it and um you're you said um one of the things that you liked about the 2050 plan was that it's an accurate vision of where we need to go moving forward when it comes to things such as housing and walkability and that that would mean that it's a plan we can truly stick with with far fewer amendments um because it properly documents what our future housing needs will be based on sound so you know it's just been a couple months and we already want these changes right there's a reason why some of these were put in the land use map the way they were so I just wanted to point that out instead of going over it on each of the ones I was going to talk on so thank you I appreciate that thank you all right is there anyone else in the audience wishing to address the council tonight before public appearances if so please get my attention all right seeing that I will close that section of the meeting uh I'm going to move forward to the uh consent agenda which is item number seven all items listed on the agenda will be considered as a group and will be enacted with one motion by the city council unless an item is removed for separate consideration members of the public May remove public hearing items for separate consideration public hearing items are designated as public hearing item at the beginning of the item title council members May remove any item for separate consideration or to declare a conflict of interest if a council member would like to declare a conflict at this time the city clerk will provide the council member with the disclosure form if you wish to speak on a public hearing item please fill out a speaker card and submit your completed card to the city clerk prior to the agenda item coming forward for Council discussion I will call your name when it is your turn for public comment this evening the consent agenda is listed as miscellaneous items 7 A1 through 7 A4 Awards of bids and contracts items 7b1 through 7b1 14 and resolutions items 7 C1 through 7 C13 once again any agenda item designated as public hearing item can be removed by a member of the public for separate consideration if anyone would like to have a public hearing item removed please please get my attention now all right seeing none I will close that portion of the meeting uh Council any agenda items that you'd like to have removed from a consent agenda for separate consideration all right then I will look for a motion on the consent agenda it's been moved by Council second um I'm gonna give that to council member Hajj why not please vote you hear I yes and that item passes 7 to zero now I'm going to go ahead and move some things around here this evening because once again we have a couple of items on the agenda that are development items we have a lot of people who are here speaking either in person or virtually so to really be uh to respect everyone's time I want to move those items up so the public has their chance to speak uh and doesn't have to hang out all night with us if they don't want to uh so let's see I'm going to move on then first to item 8b2 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt a resolution authorizing a general plan land use and density map Amendment from mixed use high up to 65 dwelling units per acre to mixed use urban more than 65 dwelling units per acre an adopted ordinance for a zoning map Amendment from CSS to mu4 a planned area development overlay an appeal of a denial for a use permit to allow tandem parking and a development plan review for for a new 21 story mixed use development with 363 dwelling units I see Mr Nick Wood here from Stellan Wilmer good evening mayor mayor members of the council Nick Woods snow and wmer one uh East Washington Street we moved recently uh Phoenix um and I represent Landmark um if I could have the oh there we go see if this works give me one second uhuh there we go ah so before we get into the well let's talk about the site so sles at the southwest corner of the intersection of Rural and Apache um as you can see U along Apache we have both the street car and then up the block we have light rail um on southwest corner we It's The Old Vine site um the vine used to be an institution uh in fact when council member Naro and I used to meet we used to meet there when it was still open and working and um but it's been close since it's been close since 20122 so it's it's been a while um and you know as you look around in the area you see several things number one ASU is right across the street to the north of us ASU is also across Sunset to the west of us and then to the south of us we have some burrow voodo donuts and W burger and then south of that also is ASU um across uh rural we have the CVS Moxy um and as you're aware we have a project going on there as well next to that is a district as some of you may recall um I did the district gosh almost eight nine years ago um then east of that pass pet is the Marshall another student house project that uh we did and you actually this Council actually approved last year across the street to the north um we have 922 Place 922 place was built well over 10 years ago originally before the recession happened and um but that now was student housing as well and then of course I did what is now the Carmen at the time it was a rise and then of course uh you know the 922 places 10 stories and uh the car is 15 stories and you recently approved uh 1020 Apache 15 stories and as some of you may recall I did the Apollo uh that's right next to that um but the idea here is to build a landmark to build a uh student housing project at the southwest corner they're under contract to acquire both the vine site as well as the Chevron itself um one of the things that jumps out at you here is we have streets on three sides of the property it's the only property within the area that actually has three streets why is that important well obviously temp B has has a very stringent requirement for streetscape um and streetcape includes sidewalks landscaping and everything else and there are another other a number of other constraints that I'll talk about in a moment but it's really U uh the perfect site for uh this particular project a little bit about landmark um Landmark has been around for 20 years it's one of the top student housing uh developers uh in the country you know they have their own Capital that they invest they vertically integrated basically they're their own general contractor um they handle the construction process and they're long-term holders um and very highly regarded around the country um for example they were number one uh developer in student housing by student housing business for the last six years 99% average resident satisfaction and that's really important right when we have our students whether it's you know anybody else's kids or my kids I want them to be in a very safe place so that they can Thrive and succeed and and and with a company has a relationship with the with ASU now in this case we actually went we met with Dr vogle uh in Dr Run's office had Dr vogle meet with our um uh management team and Dr vog came away uh very impressed and very pleased with both the way that they operate and manage their facilities with all the security that's there and of course we'll have a a security plan that will'll negotiate with the Tempe Police Department that'll be part of the entire project and here is where Landmark is located pretty much in you know major universities um all around the country they have one in Flagstaff they have one in Tucson this would be you know their their one in Tempe um and uh hopefully we can get this across the finish line and here's some examples of the quality of their design now because they're a long-term holder they take special care in developing things that will last a long time because again they're longterm developers um as I think you all know um I'm a former Tempe resident I I lived here for a long time and um in South Tempe and vice mayor and I were almost neighbors uh just a couple subdivisions apart um and I love living here um the things I love about Tempe is the people right you walk down the street people actually say hi to you that doesn't happen happen very often um I love the amance there's a certain feel right to the City of Tempe I love the diversity which of course you celebrated today and um and not just the diversity of the people but the diversity of cultures even the diversity of opinions right now there's an old adage that say everyone has an opinion and if you're talking to a lawyer you'll get several but when it comes to a diversity of opinions what I love about the people here in Tempe it doesn't matter whether it's leadership staff neighbors you know Community leaders even though there may be diversity opinions it's done in a very respectful manner the discussions are always very respectful and very courteous there's no nastiness you know I do work all over the valley and I can tell you that doesn't happen very often usually people get very emotional and of course the first um um casualty of emotion is Reon and people start going off but at every level at every step here we have um had a very respectful and courteous dialogue and discussion um and again I want to thank your staff as usual uh they're above and beyond and they're problem solvers by nature and and we did a lot of work with them uh as well as Community leaders and others so one of the things I try and do in order to again return that level of courtesy and um is to make sure that whatever I'm presenting right I can at least give some objective uh background and and substance to it so in looking at this particular project there's certain things that I took into account when we first talk about doing this project with Landmark the first and foremost is we have a housing crisis here in Tempe fact we have a housing crisis throughout the valley and throughout the state we are kind of victims of our own success and so is Tempe it's a wonderful place to live which means a lot of people want to live here we have a university right that has become a world-renowned highly respected University and people want to come here so we have a combination of uh increases in enrollment and that'll continue for as long as it does and then of course we have people who want to move here so we have an increasing population but of course we have a very small footprint as far as the geographic boundaries of the city of temp and trying to maintain a balance is difficult you know for example you know building Heights really until 2000 when US Airways headquarters was built at 130 ft really the tall buildings that were in Tempe were on asu's campus um but after 2000 we've all seen how everything has gone vertical and taller and taller and taller and I think there's a reason for that and the reason really comes down to what's on this graphic Tempe today is the ninth largest city in the state of Arizona um the 2024 population at least under world population review is estimated to be 190,220 people the census from 2020 um revealed 181,000 so you've grown own by almost 10,000 people in four years in the City of Tampe as has the enrollment in ASU that creates a tremendous Demand on housing it creates it for not only for residents right new residents existing residents families especially but also for students so it becomes a challenge right for all of us on how to meet that need while still doing things that are necessary one is protecting neighborhoods protecting neighborhoods against encroachment but also creating situation where neighborhoods aren't filled with students and that's not a criticism if if I own a single family home and I've got three students ready to pay me 1,200 or500 bucks a month that's a lot of money versus what a family can pay so providing alternative housing for students is very important and you've done a great job of that um and it's been very successful so far but the enrollment continues to grow and as you can see the population continues to grow but the biggest challenge is when you look at the density category in the area in square miles you have the highest density of people per square mile than any other City any of the other actually probably in the state um you have 4,758 people per square mile that's much larger than anybody else yet your square miles in Geographic boundaries is 39.9 the smallest by a huge margin and then when you think that asu's campus is probably one square mile you take another number off of that so the challenge and I admire you for you know addressing it is how do we make sure that we're providing adequate housing for residents of the city Tempe existing and new for students that go to ASU with continuing uh increase in enrollment while still again maintaining balance and protecting neighborhoods from encroachment so that's was my Approach when I started sitting down and talking to my clients talking to staff um talking to you know neighborhoods the other thing is at least it's been the policy for some time and someone told me that policy may be changing but the policy for the longest time by this Council and was Unwritten was where do we put student housing we don't want it downtown in fact Landmark my client attempted to put a student housing project downtown a number of years ago and it was denied by the city council at that time again the policy was we don't want student housing downtown we want more market rate right we want again that balance so um I have focused my attention on all my student housing clients on this triangle um of course a triangle you have rural on the West Side you have Apache on the south and you have Terrace on the East and you know as I mentioned you know we did the district at the at the uh just just uh you know it's seven stories just east of Rural and then we did the rise which is a carment across the street we did The Marshall we did Apollo we did canvas I've got another one tonight at University Valley so we focused on all of the student housing here and the rationale at least at the time when I was told that this is where we'd like to have student housing is it's right across the street from the campus and we have street car right here and we have light rail right here and it's best place right to put students um and certainly the most convenient place to put students so in looking at the site again in my mind it made sense that this would be the appropriate location for that the site itself is an interesting site it's not a square it's not a rectangle it's it looks kind of like a Tetris piece um and you have the vine site and you have the the gas station um but we again I mentioned to you that there's challenges to the site along Rural Road um we have a significant setback that we're going to have to provide we're going to have to dedicate some of the land that's currently within that yellow line which is the property line for for a bus stop and then we're going to have to build a you know a bus shelter and we're going to have to provide you know uh lots of uh Landscaping as much as we can but the challenge is another challenge is we have 69 KV lines that run right along that side of the road so we have to move the building back not only for the bus uh pick up and drop off in the shelter but we also have to move the building back in order to keep it away from those power lines we can't put the power lines underground a because it's prively expensive B Because APS won't let us and C because there's already stuff underneath there that would prohibit that from happening so that limits what we can do from a design standard as well and we have the same issues along Apache although strictly we don't have the power lines but you know you can see that the the the property line is is is Jagged and we basically have to move things back and then as I mentioned we have streets on three sides so we have to basically design around you know the need for having adequate shade 8ft sidewalks and all the other things that go into streetscape design that's mandatory not just in Tempe but really every place else and then the last challenge is fire you know when the Fire Marshall took a look at this understandably the Fire Marshall said well you know we don't want to stop Trucks and Things on an Apache we don't want to stop on Rural we really want to come down and have to come down on Sunset but Sunset dead ends we don't back up big major trucks so basically you have to provide space for us to come in pull in and then you know do whatever is necessary for the call for service and then back out and turn around so that they can now come out Sunset straightforward rather than trying to back up on Sunset cuz you trying to back up a truck and you know consan Naro would know better than than any of us how do you back back into Apache you just you just really can't so um you know and and when we talk about projects especially residential right we hear Too Tall too dense too much traffic and crime well we went ahead and got a call for service report just for the uh Chevron station um and of course you can see uh the calls for service from January 1 of 22 till April 3 of 24 the good news is those kinds of things will go away with respect to this project secondly is traffic you know we hear about traffic quite a bit whenever we're doing any kind of residential so we add our traffic engineer um do an analysis and the analysis is what kind of traffic generation would we have at our first iteration which of course is larger than one to present you tonight with more uh parking but basically our proposed development would have about 1,000 trips per day um that's using whatever scientific method Traffic Engineers use I don't understand it I just they tell me what it is and I go okay um and they we have the am peak hours we have the PM peak hours and essentially they compared that to the existing uses now we know that the vine is not you know doing business but if it ever reopened or they replaced it with something similar we took a look at the traffic that would be generated by existing uses and the vine and of course uh they would generate more traffic and have in the past generated more traffic and then of course when you see the cars leaving the Chevon station sometimes people are a little adventurous with the way that they leave and cross you know and sometimes even try and cross the tracks um I mentioned earlier about protecting neighborhoods from encroachment I've been doing this over 40 years and I have done hundreds of multif family housing projects often close to to single family home uh subdivisions and when you get close to single family home subdivisions there are criteria that come into place that are just not only you know accepted land planning criteria but just respect right and usually it's privacy you don't want to put a tall building next to somebody's house because now they're concerned about people looking in their backyard looking into their home their bedrooms their living room looking into their life so one of the things I looked that when we started this process was really the distance that this property is from the existing single family home subdivisions especially the historic ones um we are almost a quarter mile away from University Park we're quarter mile away from University Heights and we're about a half a mile away from Hudson Manor um and that was important because again we don't want to encroach into neighborhoods we don't want to get close to neighborhoods and with ASU between us for example in University Park and ASU between us and University Heights what ASU is going to do ASU is going to do I often hear the term precedent right well that's usually a legal term and for example if a supreme court makes a decision in a certain fact situation a lower court is compelled to follow that direction when they're making a determination on how to handle the lower court matter when it comes to legislative processes it's your prerogative you have a legislative ative to approve or not approve anything and if someone says well you know you gave them this height over here you must give me this height over here well that's that's not actually true because again you have that discretion that's the difference between the judicial use of the word precedent and the use of the word precedent in here but again we thought ASU doesn't need to look at us and say well you know they have a tall building we can build this hall building you know basically they're going to do what they're going to do and and we understand that we respect that and and I have great respect for you know anyone who who either disagrees with this or you know wants it smaller wants it shorter I you know I I don't take any of that personally I understand all I'm doing is explaining our rationale for how we got to where we are today and um uh so and then of course we looked at if someone was standing out of the street now their the neighborhood doesn't come out to the street right there's there's commercial between the neighborhood and and Apache but if you're standing on Apache and of course the neighborhood would be about a half a block uh to the South this is what they would see at that distance and as you can see privacy is certainly not an issue and and encroaching on a neighborhood wouldn't be an issue now this is at what you see here is is at um uh 21 stories uh it's 20 stories in other side what I'm going to show you tonight is a little bit shorter the site itself I mentioned the lines you can see them U very clearly in this photo we can't touch them we can't move them we have to move our building back away from them as you can see there's no bus stop there today that's that where there's a pull in right I mean basically bus has to stop out on the street which is not a safe situation but we would create a pool in and a shelter and shade and other thing so as we provide all of that and dedicate that land we have to push the building back fact the building will be 30 ft from the back of curb until the front Frontage of the building of course as you can see here there's no shade um it's not a very welcoming pedestrian experience at all um and there's lots of traffic coming out of um of that and of course the vine as I mentioned has been closed since um so again you can see where the site is Visa V this this triangle we um like I said one of the things I admire about your staff is they don't tell you we disagree with this without having a discussion on the rationale right um and then rolling up sleeves and saying okay let's let's go to work so as you see here we had nine meetings with staff um I didn't attend more than I think one of them because I'm just a lawyer and I don't know anything about design my wife dresses me um I have no taste in anything so when it comes to design and design standards and criteria I know very little but our Architects um and the design folks um along with the client you know came in uh or in person in many cases and sometimes you know through through uh Zoom um and in each case there was an evolution of the design of this building one which is very unique and in fact is in a staff report to the the sto of that uniqueness so here's some of their comments in your staff report um and I'll just read a couple of them you know in the first one the use of louvered corrugated perforated metal panels in a compliment of cool and warm colors and use of textured insulated panel with respected reflective Med metallic surface provides newer materials that complement the more traditional materials such as breaking glazing um I love what they say in the next one that the plans provide dimensional shifts in the wall plane from 2 in to 23 ft on anyone elev Elation the larger massing is broken down by changes of material of color and texture and color utilizing natural light to create surface change in depth of recessed and projected Elements which will create a sense of movement based upon a time of day I've been doing this a long time I've never heard anybody say anything like that and in the last one um I I really like the last one as demonstrated in the elevations and renderings the design provides significant architectural detail exceeding any of the surrounding structures or student housing developments this would be the best of the best and as I walk you through all of this I think you'll see how again this is evolved we arrived here um here's our conceptual site plan and our landscape plan as you can see on the rural side of it um you can see how far that building is set back the reason is that that gray rectangle you see there that's a shelter for the bus turnout and of course that you know um uh those little squares that look like tiles that's where the bus pullout is so we have to make that dedication so where the buses can come in come off of the street and pick up people safely um you can see the Landscaping that we have and of course the corner we have pavers everywhere we're not even using regular concrete for any of these sidewalks and then along Apache you can see how we have almost 5,000 ft about 4700 squ ft of retail and areas where we can put outdoor dining um and chairs and tables and other things and you can see the Landscaping along there um and how far back it's set back and then along Sunset you again you can see the Landscaping we have 8ot sidewalks for example that we have along Apache and we have along Rule and then on the bottom that gray area that's the fire pull in and pull out so as we Design This And as more and more things kind of squeezed you know the building back it's like a balloon you squeeze a balloon and it kind of gets taller um and then you know we we there's other design that's unique to this we have two levels of underground parking there's not another student housing project that has done that underground parking is expensive um it's blowing your mind expensive and um and then of course we have parking above but most of the time when you see parking above right you can tell it's parking there's even it's not open anymore that those days have long passed but they have other types of siding and things on it that you can still tell as a parking garage well here they've actually wrapped the parking structure with units so it's not fake units they're real units that are back up against the parking structure which again you know the parking structure now gets um in and you know we have cars basically coming in off of off of sunset um and out onto rural um but you know and then we create this sense of arrival on the corner of Sunset and um Apache where the lobby happens to be so as we've made these changes this is what we actually what we brought to DRC uh we have a 1 acre site again it's small we had Building height of 20 and 21 stories at 245 ft 363 dwelling units and then the breakdown of the units between Studios ones twos threes and fours um we were parking in at a ratio of about 35 um and then of course lots of uh bicycle parking spaces and separated you know uh uh gated uh bicycle parking spaces within the parking garage itself but now we've lowered the building and made it smaller so now it's uh 18 and 19 stories rather than 20 and 21 now 18 stories is just three stories taller than the Carmen which was the rise that I did and I remember the consternation and the hand riging and we did that at 15 stories because really the tallest building in the area at the time was 922 which was at 10 stories um but it worked out and it worked out and um pretty well so now we have a shorter building so we have fewer bedrooms down to 872 we still have the same amount of of commercial we didn't cut back on that at all uh the parking ratios are still the same at.

35 and we still have the same amount of bicycle spaces at 392 um we we have two areas of amenity space one is a passive amenity space uh basically on what is the sixth floor level and then we have the the greater amenity space up on roof and you can see the building you know I talked about Tetris you can see how this building's now designed it's almost like it's two buildings right uh basically in two teture shapes that that won't match if you're playing the game but essentially you know they're at right angles to each other so we have a lot of space we have a lot of depth have a lot of movement and we don't have a monolithic structure anymore because most of these are tall buildings end up being monolithic structure simply because it's cheaper so here's that sense of arrival that I mentioned this is the corner this is the entry into the lobby for the student area um and on the left is uh Apache and on the right is Sunset and these are sustainability features um Landmark is big on sustainability even EV charging stations you we'll have four stalls plus 5% of all the Stalls will be convertible to EV depending upon the demands of the residents um but the idea is as you can see here in fact probably better out here so above the glass area you can see those units there's a parking structure behind it and that's what I mean about wrapping the thing in the parking structure um even the the windows and the shade and all of the movement and things that you've you know read in your staff report about the design and this was the result of all of the rework in the evolution now this was the original one at 20 and 21 stories again you can see at the ground level um we have glass we have the commercial in the corner the bus pull out and everything else and then you see those basic four stories above it of units that wraps the parking structure and then there's a step back of 26 ft basically from the surface to the building and then the building moves up and higher and then of course it separates because it's those two L shapes and it's 20 stories here in 21 but we've lowered it right since DRC so we've lowered it down basically to 18 and 19 story so the 18 story element as I mentioned is just three stories taller than the rise and three stories taller than the one that you recently approved right next to the rise as you can see we've taken a level out of the parking garage so basically we still have the units wrapping the parking garage it's just shorter um and smaller um and here again is that that corner a little bit better picture than the one I originally showed you you can see the Landscaping along Apache the trees um the Landscaping you know the outdoor area for seating and other things the the the Great 8ot Wide sidewalks but you know as you look at the building itself all of the movement and all of the really the unique features that again I've this is uh pretty special um and this is now the one that's revised we took out another level so basically you don't now have we have the two and three levels above it rather than the four with the parking structure behind it um we had a request for some tanm parking spaces for 22 that's what the use permit was about uh the idea is you know we have students living in the same unit um it's just like people in a family they have tantm spaces they just work together and and they have so many you know units across the country that you know it always works out well for them um as far as the zoning is concerned you know we're going from what is commercial shopping center you know basically the mu4 uh pad um when we originally filed for our general plan amendments there were two of them as you can see we did our preliminary filing back in September of 2023 uh last year and you know we were commercial but we changed it to mixed use now this is the 2040 plan the 2050 plan of course changed that and made it all mixed use anyway um and then you know as far as the density um under the 2040 plan which this is as you can see um on the the leftand side when we did The Marshall that you approved last year um we actually had to do a general plan amendment to create more density for that particular project so that's why there's that dark you know chocolate area on the South Side that's where the Marshall is is so we filed a corresponding one for this particular Corner as well and again we did this back in September um you know months before the S months you know before the election uh for the 2050 plan um and of course this was the 2050 plan um now what what you did with the 2050 plan what was approved by the voters was increasing the density on the south side of Apache on the east side of Ru so we had that one loan Marshal change in density right now that entire area so if we filed that today we wouldn't need to have a general plan Amendment but one of the things that that you can see is on these Corners right um with the exception of the green on the ASU site right which is basically um uh a um reserved really for open space area in the future even around that it's all 65 and over but then on the southwest corner it's it's not but this is one this is an intersection with two major arterials and under general principles of land use planning um you typically on your intersections that are High um volume high capacity intersections that's where you typically put your density your intensity and your height um and and that's you know what I learned years and years ago so again and this is just me is my opinion um is it would make sense to have the Four Corners have that same kind of General plan Amendment which is why we made that application in the 2050 plan we are also in your um the character area which is the Rio solato downtown ASU Northwest neighborhoods character area when you look at an areial of Tempe all of your high-rise buildings are located within that character area you get inside their character area you don't have that and again that makes a lot of sense because you pick you choose areas for planning purposes and that's where your your high-rise buildings will go um the 2050 plan also uh lays out land use hubs now there's one land use Hub that's right there on Apache Boulevard kind of up in the middle it goes left to right um and it actually crosses and includes our property so you can see where the star is right that's our property right there at aach and Rural and if I go back you can see that the Hub actually extends over onto our side of the street when we look at the growth area and Innovation hubs right uh rail corridors we're in it so the idea is you know again from my opinion is this is where you put your density you put your intensity you put your height and you put it in the areas where it's going to be served by your street car which is right out in front and it's going to be served by Light Rail which is just right down the street and it's right across the street from the University which is really cool um so you know we were asking with respect to the stipulations but I don't need to talk about those tonight really because tonight is just about sharing our vision with you um you know and then we come back in two weeks and you make a decision and whether you share that Vision or you don't which of course um we would respect either way way um but that's that's how we got to where we are today and uh I'd be happy to answer any questions you have sounds good thank you Mr wood appreciate it I know I've got a couple of uh folks here who were scheduled to speak as well and then I guess I think the council can then get to questions if you wouldn't mind coming back up in a second thank you so much all right let me go to comments here oh here they are all right so this evening on this item I right now have three comment cards and of course that means that's where we're going to start and obviously if other people would like to request to speak this is a public hearing item so I'm going to take these once again in the order in which I received them the first Speaker this evening is virtual and it's David soosi hello can you hear me okay yes sir uh please go ahead state your name and place of residence you have three minutes my name is David SOI I live in tenp I'm here to ask the council to vote Yes on this project my view of urban planning is that it's important to place density near Transit preserve open views create an interesting Skyline and have iconic landmarks we should try to disperse the intensity of urban heat and create distinct character within our neighborhoods I don't want downtown T to look like New York I've been involved with transportation for seven years and I would challenge anyone to find a better location for to wherever the city builds it's going to be uncomfortable for some if we have to find another location that neighborhood will also have news talking about shadows and traffic even if we build a Mesa there will be traffic because those people will have to commute into temp students will drive along aache on their way to NSU we're in a housing crisis and we can't call it a crisis and then prioritize something like traffic as a member of the community working group we were told the general plan was a living document and you could amend it many on the cwg had concerns that we would need more density for projects to pencil out that's why it's called a general plan and it's completely normal and routine for Tempe to change the plan if you vote no on a project you have to accept there are serious ramifications of that choice there is an opportunity cost and it can have unintended consequences a continues to grow and students are overflowing into our neighborhoods overcrowding is a serious problem in t if you vote Yes on this project the developer will donate to home time for all and this will set a good example so that more donations can be made to solve the housing crisis we need to build student housing to meet the current and future demand I can't think of a better service than providing education to people all over the world think about the students struggling to keep a roof over their head many of them are from developing countries and our city should be proud to host these students in our community this one project isn't going to solve all of our problems and we still need to invest in affordable housing but voting yes for this project will be one step forward thank you thank you so much appreciate it the next speaker I have this evening is an till please come forward state your name and place of residence you have three minutes hello I'm an till Tempe resident and I'm not in support of this project um it was denied by the DRC and it involves a change to the general plan and although I understand it's a living document it was just released and how did we miss this oops or did it get presented and it wasn't in line with temp's plans I'm not sure but anyways what conditions have changed since the draft which was very recent um also um I'm sure there's plenty of documentation from nearby residents that are opposed so I'm here to support that um anyways um also um there is a need for student housing but I don't think Tempe has to provide all of it ASU itself has novice Innovation quarter you would think that they would have big plans for student housing there so that's all I have to say about it thank you so much appreciate it okay I apologize if I get this incorrect um the next speaker I have is toas jile hello that's me okay my name is Thomas J I'm a resident of the City of Tempe um in the Wilson art Garden neighborhood and I'm super excited about this project I'm excited for all my new neighbors and I think it'll be great for businesses around the area and also be super convenient to have everyone living next to school so that's all I had thank you thank you so much appreciate it the last card I have this evening is from Paul Kent please come forward stay state your name and place of residence you have three minutes hello I think you have uh Paul Kent uh City at Tempe and uh I wanted to just uh make sure that uh you guys have all the information that we've submitted uh previously uh from a uh collection from our neighbors and uh also I wanted to make sure that I really like the process that we have in the city and going through the development review commission and their recommendation of a denial in a unanimous f um form is pretty unique in my experience in the city so the other thing I would say because you have all of this uh is that the this site is not in the Tod in the transportation overlay District it's also not in the revitalization and Redevelopment area on the map in the general plan 2050 the um density designation that the de the owner developer is looking for is six times what the general plan says it's not 10% more it's six times which seems excessive the staff recommendation was four times the general plan designation so it just seems like a huge departure from the plan that we just approved as people have said um what I what I would say is that I would I would like to see a project that is substantially in compliance with the general plan I would like to see a project that's substantially in compliance with the existing and approved Heights along the south side of Apache if it was something in that neighborhood that's fine I like the way the building looks if this project at this height could find another site totally for it absolutely this is not the site for it and that's what I have to say thank you thank you Mr Ken appreciate it once again that's all the cards I have this evening is there anyone El in the audience wishing to address the Council on this item yes Mr Williams please come forward state your name place of residence you have three minutes thank you very much my name is Nolan Williams I'm a resident of the City of Tempe I live in the neighborhood daily park daily park is less than one mile from the proposed site and I would like to speak in strong strong favor of both this project and any project which will bring more neighbors into my neighborhood I think that it is I can't understand why staff opposes a project that is replacing a gas station with a bus stop and 900 people who are going to get to use the street car I cannot understand why they're using parking as a justification for killing a project when students who live next to a bus stop across the street from campus on a light rail line or on a street car line are going to be the people in the city who use the least amount of driving on their day-to-day regular basis of anyone in the entire city it is crazy to me that this is opposed um having gone having been a member of the general plan uh Community working group as some of the other speakers today have been one yes we were told that it was living document and we were told that the last General plan was amended I think they said over 200 times in the time and we were told it won't be a completely final plan it is a living document but we also had to live through a bunch of meetings of of people who came out because they opposed housing and then a campaign waged against the general PL election specifically on the grounds publicly and frequently explicitly saying we don't like this plan because it is bringing more housing to the city that is what they made the campaign about they made it publicly we don't want there to be more housing in the city we want the city to stay the way it is they lost in a total lands side Landslide win for the city of Temp and the general plan and now we're using that as just now we're using that as testification to say well okay now that the general plan is passed we should just wait a year or two years before we allow any other amendments before we allow any new housing that is outside the 10 or 15 small zones that were included in the plan if we have to do the general plan every 10 years and then we have to wait another two years or another year but before we include anything else that is 10% of all time that we can't build housing in areas that weren't in the very small very narrowly tailored parts of the general plan so I here representing my organ organization temp yes in my backyard and we only come out and really publicly whip support for projects with three very simple criteria is there money for affordable housing which was promised a million dollars were promised for the affordable housing Fund in Tempe at the last meeting this happened um two is it more homes in the area than they were before by a significant amount and three is it near Transit and this is a slam dunk this is a phenomenal project and if you're not going to build it please I'm this is honest this is earnest I live in daily park put them all in my neighborhood build up 10 build up daily park I want 950 people in my neighborhood if we can't build this project because I want them here I want the people to live where I live because I want neighbors and I want what it brings thank you very much thank you so much all right once again that's all the cards I have this evening is anyone listen the audience wishing to rest the council if so please get my attention on this item all right seeing none um I guess we can turn to comments and once again just want to note too this is only the first hearing on this the second hearing is actually scheduled and final vote for June 27th uh I guess I'll make some comments to start so the good part about the project for my perspective there's people who've talked about the the quality of the building and the quality of the building materials and the design I agree when I've looked at the building uh it's very welld designed from my perspective the building materials are actually topnotch um they Landmark is clearly a builder that's built a lot of quality student housing all throughout the country I know they have a couple of projects and uh where my alma moer was in an Arbor Michigan might have won a national football championship there but I won't talk about that again um but so I mean I I know they've definitely done great work throughout the country and I appreciate what they've done here in trying to bring a project to the city of temp uh that's going to bring a lot more housing uh I literally at this point in time right now I'm actually wearing socks that are for building more housing because that's frankly as people know that is the cause of one one of the reasons why I got into politics in the first place and sometimes I've gotten criticism for it for actually wanting to increase housing Supply in a very major way sometimes faster than even a lot of people might want us to uh so you know so that's sort of you know my predisposition when I look at pretty much any project that comes before me at the same time though when I look at the general plan in this situation that just recently passed uh you know with a 60 to 40 percentage uh so it was a major win as was talked about I Believe by a couple of speakers this evening uh I was a big uh supporter and proponent of that plan when I look at that plan and I think to myself and I look at this project the heights that would currently be allowed at this site under the general plan would be roughly somewhere between four to five stories the project that's being pushed here is 21 stories it doesn't at this point have approval from staff it got a unanimous denial from the DRC and many times I and I watch our DRC meetings on a pretty consistent basis sometimes there are unanimous approvals many times I see split votes of four to three or 5 to2 but to see unanimous denial was actually very surprising because I rarely see the entire DRC go completely in that direction of moving towards a denial one of the things and Miss till talked about this early on and she was actually quoting a Facebook post that I made towards the end of the uh campaign before the general plan 2050 vote and one of the things I said was it's not to say that we shouldn't ever talk about amending the general plan I can even see when you get later on maybe eight nine years down the road and a lot of the conditions may have changed you may have a lot of people here or frankly things are just a lot different than they were when the plan was actually passed but in this situation we're talking about being more or less three months removed from the general plans passage and so when I'm presented with a project where the current height that would be allowed would be roughly between four and five stories and the project that was presented to the development review commission was 21 stories that's more than four times what would currently be allowed at that site it's one thing to me if the project was actually somewhat close to that if we were talking about maybe something equivalent to a rounding eror if someone said well hey we want to go six stories here or perhaps even seven stories and I'm not saying that I would approve it necessarily even it at that height it would actually make it a very different project if you're cutting a project down from 21 stories down to that height we would have to frankly go back to the entire process again staff approvals development review review commission but from my perspective that project at that corner given the 2050 plan that was just approved by our voters in a very big way is simply too big for the corner it's not about the it's not about the building quality it's not about the building materials and it's not about the people who actually want to build it because I believe they are absolutely quality builders that have done great work throughout the entire unit States but the fact of the matter is I do feel that given that this plan the 2050 plan passed just so recently to amend the plan already but to amend a plan for a project that's going four times more than what the current height would be at that site is something that I just cannot support at this point in time um it from my perspective as I said it's not to say I want to be very clear that there could not be General plan amendments at some other point in time for other given projects if something is close to the general plan and someone's coming in looking for just sort of a slight variation on what was already approved by voters I would absolutely be willing to look at that if there was a situation where I had a lot of people in the neighborhood and folks in the surrounding area saying an overwhelming grp number of people saying we know that mayor council it's a general plan Amendment but this is something that the majority of our community absolutely supports and so we are asking that you amend the general plan to bring this project to the City of Tempe that's absolutely something I would very thoughtfully consider but in this given situation for me personally and I know we're not taking any formal votes this evening and it's very rare that I would offer these kind of extended comments during a first public hearing but not a second hearing but I thought of the situation was absolutely necessary that I do this for me personally is just way too much at that location and I just can't see how by the time we get to June 27th how there would be anything that would substantially change enough to frankly change my mind so at this point it's just something that I simply can't for I appreciate um I appreciate Landmark for wanting to bring this project to the City of Tempe I appreciate Mr Wood's presentation uh to the city council and and his perspective on all of this but at this point in time I I could not if the vote was taking place today I could not support this and I just honestly don't see anything changing substantially prior to the 27th councilor thanks mayor first off uh thanks Landmark I mean the project is beautiful the L the the building is phenomenal I have to say when you when you see the slides and you see your portfolio my God I mean you guys do some great work out there and and the sense of what you're providing and I love the question ASU should help out with student housing as they grow um the thing is ASU is growing uh they have more land to grow um and we do not know what the future has for us and when I got in this Council it was what can we do to get student students out of the neighborhoods how can we get students next to ASU and truly this is a project that would help do this this is a project that would help free up housing for families this is a project that and it was said logically and even though it's not in our general plan or the to it's a smart location where it's at I think this thing from what I'm hearing from the council Corder across the street probably would fly on this side of the street it's just one of those things of perception when this Council started and and I was probably when I got on this Council first one to say character areas in fact I was up in the office today looking at 2009 files of character areas and and I asked St to design some stuff what does that look like you know how do character areas look I said the downtown you know in my opin was the Reel track to the North River Bottom you know kind of that area we're seeing today that's your density that's where we have to start to plan for and look at things to make things move and that's the character of the downtown area but there's a blend we said also there's a blend with neighborhoods we said by the rubal tracks everything will start to tear down things will start to kind of blend into the neighborhood and this is where the toughness comes with a project like this you know how does this on this side and yes it's on that other side of the street and yes it does provide you know great housing I mean God I've never been to a college my year in 1986 that had a housing like this with big jumbo TV screens and pool parties phenomenal I mean what a great college experience um but at the end of the day we also have to be able to manage this and I think the mayor said it even though this deal has gone on before the 2050 plan in the election it's still the perception of what we're trying to provide our neighbors and and the perception of what this looks like right now I would I would say that if the Builder could take that sabran uh sanos uh Voodoo Donut I'm say am I right yeah because I eat there all the time water SOS thing thanks SOS God I can't get this right I'm nervous about this I'm going to take my burritos away um but I visit a good location today I was there too earlier at 10:00 in the morning getting my burger number two special with a Coke and a fry regular it's pretty standard but the thing is even if they can get that corner and drop it down you had one slide I think it was from U Florida University of Florida 10 story or eight story project on that corner I could I could digest that I could digest that and the thing is is the perception of what it does and what it looks like I I would love for for you if if anything could work on this project a little bit more I don't know if there's any time between here and the next one and I'm saying these things I might be in the vote I might not be in the vot the final day of this whole thing but I lived when I first was born in t b a block away on limit and Terrace and to see this project and to see what has transpired from when I was a kid I live next to a junkyard car lot I have a scar dorine right there you do I saw it four years old got that scar in the junkyard next to my apartment and to see the transition of what this neighborhood has transpired to be has been phenomenal so it it's it's a delicate thing it's a smart thing gentleman over there said what a great location for this to be at with all the things that are going on next ASU it is it's a slam dunk I ask you to see if we can make that thing drop a little bit lower and figure it out I I wish we can um I think that's a logical ask um I think sometimes on these tougher projects we've come out with even a beautiful project a better project than we thought we would come out with um give that some consideration I know this is a tough night it's a tough night for me I I'm a height guy um I enjoy it but I also try to make sure that we listen to our residents as best we can sometimes it's not uh What the residents wants and and what maybe I want or some of the council members want but I think at the end of the day we find a solution that's best for everybody thank you so much vice mayor Adams yes thank you Mr Mayor just a couple things uh thanks to landmarks for your uh presentation and to nickwood for his presentation um it was excellent this project has a lot of quality um project products involved with it and um just a real classy uh product and which I a project which I appreciate easy for me to say tonight um I would like to see it uh lower um because of the neighborhood concerns neighborhoods mean a lot to me and I really try to listen to what the neighborhood uh want because they're experts in their own area um so and we have a very diverse City we have all different kinds of uh neighborhoods and so we have to respect our neighborhoods but I mean I really like this project and I wish um that anything you could do to drop it uh lower and and still make it happen um I would be supportive of so they thank you very much thank you anyone else Council Garland yeah I um when we had a discussion about this project before with um landmark and um with Mr wood um I did say that I think the project is beautiful I think it's really cool how you wrap um apartments around a parking garage I thought that was so incredibly smart um but I also said at that time that um you know we've been working on the general plan for 2 years there have been so many changes made to the general plan um heartburn headaches and happiness all involved in putting this plan together listening to our residents and working back with staff um and we just voted on this and I know that Mr wood said that they started doing this in September but we have been working on this plan since September and I find it hard to believe that there wasn't an idea that maybe we should kind of take a glance at what the 2050 plan is looking like to see if our project is going to fit into that so we don't have to immediately ask for an amendment to the general plan that as our mayor said was voted on by you know 6040 passed by our residents I feel like instantly coming in here on on when you knew we were doing a general plan Amendment it just seem feels like kind of a slap in the face to our residents right at this moment and I and I I like the the building I want more housing in our um in our city I think we all do I think we understand how important that is but I also think it's important that we take a step back and listen to the residents that voted on the 2040 plan um the 2050 plan that had asked not for that um that specific area not to have that tight when we had the opportunity to be able to talk about that um you know I I appreciate what Mrs till said because as she was speaking I felt like she was kind of saying words that I have said before I completely agree with you that we ASU needs to start building on their own property for their own students I have said this before I will I'm going to stand on the soap box and yell it because I think that's really important um the City of Tempe should not be using the small parts of lands that we have to build student housing I would love to see um residential come in I want to start seeing not just departments coming in I want to see Home Ownership coming into our city small you know apartments or small condos I think that's really important to us but um I cannot see that that with the changes and the discussion that was had at the DRC um and they were asking if this project could get down to 15 stories even that um it was said no we couldn't do that I I can't see putting a height in here um that is not part of what we already have written in the general plan without doing a general panel amendment I cannot imagine if it if it can be changed by the next time we meet that but right now looking at this and I have I have I said to you guys trying to be really respectful about it um I cannot support this thank you counc pin thank you mayor um this is difficult for us uh in this process I've learned more about the bill Builder and they do great work I I think they have some nice projects around the country um and I would love for them to find a location in Tempe um I agree with the mayor's comments you know we we need housing in in Tempe and but it has to be the right project for the right site and I think this site unfort Ely this project is too big for that site we have to find something appropriately scalable for that area and uh when necessary there may need to be a um an amendment but unfortunately for this one uh I am not comfortable supporting it right now thank you very much anyone else um anyone on the phone this evening uh who wants to weigh in on this project yes mayor yes uh counciling thank you very much mayor um I just want to thank the the applicant for for coming forward it was a informative presentation as C Naro said it's a great looking building and your portfol portfolio throughout the country looks amazing I love the amenities as council member Garland uh talked about rapping you know parking Garage in and and units I think is a very smart thing to do um you know it doesn't sound like there's a whole lot of support to pass this tonight but I do hope that you continue to work with the surrounding neighbors with staff um to try to come up with something that that will have the the support to pass a city council because I do think that as Mr Williams pointed out and Mr um sovi mentioned and others have mentioned this too we are in a housing crisis and it is on it is on this body to to take that as seriously as we can and I know that we do but we we also can't just put the onus on ASU because I I would like to remind everybody that ASU students live in Tempe they are Tans they are residents they share our city with us they're not other than Tempe they are part of Tempe it was only 20 years ago I was an ASU student living on campus in Tempe and I moved off campus to an apartment in Tempe and I paid $900 a month for a two-bedroom apartment within walking distance to my classes so A lot's changed obviously and I know that we're doing everything we can to alleviate the pressure on the housing market so it is my firm hope that we get to a point with all involved the the the neighbors staff DRC this Council um to come up with something that adds additional housing units to that corner um that is a very important Corner in our city um you know the the the light rail is right there it is across the street from campus right sitting empty is not benefiting anyone uh in the city frankly from from a tax standpoint from a housing standpoint from an activation standpoint too we can't have abandoned Corners in the city because that that invites a host of other problems so I would ask you to continue to work to try to find a um you know a more um palatable solution because we definitely want to be in business with you and we appreciate that you are are are so willing to to work with us and are appreciate that you that you want to be in temp because temp is a business friendly Community we pride ourselves on that and I'm willing to work with you as far as we can to make sure that we get something there really as soon as possible because I do think it is an imperative so I appreciate your time tonight um doesn't sound like we're going to get there but um you know I know that you know I Nick we worked together for a while um I know that you will do what you need to do to make sure that this Council eventually does have a project that we can support thank you thank you Council uh counc Rod yes thank you um well I think everything has probably been said by every one of my C my colleagues tonight about how I feel it is not cut and dry it's not a it's we do have a housing crisis I I am one of the ones who yell at the top of my lungs of how much we need affordable housing how much we need housing but also know that our I I listen to my community also and I listen to my neighbors so it's it's it's it's it's a balancing act and right now um I have always and and people can say I I voted I'm I'm very much indeed about making sure we have housing making sure we do development but also I have to say I don't feel as comfortable with this because the fact that our our our staff hasn't came to a conclusion I've never had a time when the staff has said absolutely no on this you know they're they're not they're not there with the the with the height where it's ated at that point um and uh and with Mr Ken himself you know he's been very supportive of of development he wants more we talk about that over and over again he has kids he wants more development but just to hear our neighbors say the same thing I'm not there until we can come to a point that our neighbors and the city and everybody is included I don't want I'm I'm I'm like council member Keaton I know we need something there but I don't think at the the hike that you're proposing we're going to get there as a councel so um if we if there some way we can work to bring um to bring a compromise to that I'm all willing to hear hear it but at this point I am not there yet thank you thank you so much all right anyone else from Council any further comments okay no um Mr wood anything else before we I know okay sounds good thank you okay so just want to um let folks know here that once again this the final vote's not being actually taken this evening but the second and final public hearing where the vote will be taken is going to be on June 27th 202 4 which brings me to the next item under the section which is item 8b3 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a zoning map Amendment from R3 and R4 to mu4 mixed use high density a planned area development overlay to establish development standards and a development plan review for a new five-story mixed use development consisting of 9210 91 9910 dwelling units I mean seriously and versal uses on 17.22% 12 they are no stranger here to the valley in fact they have 11 properties throughout the valley and they've got a very good track record of reinvesting in those properties and redeveloping those properties you can see the site here at Camelback in 78 Street from 2014 to 2020 just up the road the site we're here discussing today was actually built back in 1970s you can see the aerial here that is actually from 1979 it is indeed a site that is right for reinvestment um our request tonight is to rezone it from R3 and R4 to mu4 uh and bring in a pad overlay development plan review we are redeveloping this site with nearly double the density of market rate units and I can tell you that we began this project by sitting down and meeting with the north Tempe neighbors and we're very grateful for the input that they've given us um throughout this entire project you'll hear from them of course tonight there has as I know this council is keenly aware been quite a bit of misinformation that's been circulated about this project so I do want to set the record straight uh and I'm grateful after the dialogue that I just listened to that we do not need a general plan Amendment we are not seeking a general plan Amendment we are entirely in conformance with your recently adopted General plan uh I can also tell you that we are not kicking people old people out of their homes um in fact this developer is handling this project I think as responsibly as as you possibly could um construction on this site won't actually begin until 2028 and then there's there's three phases of this project which I'll show you and then there's three years between each of those faces um I can tell you that we also sat down and noticed tenants about this project back in November of 2023 and any tenant that was there that was a tenant in good standing prior to that date will be included in our relocation plan that I'll tell you a little more about here as well um we are providing a minimum of oneyear notice to Residents when we actually start construction again the soonest of which would be 2028 and that relocation plan was shared um has been shared with the tenants of course so a point I perhaps can't emphasize too much tonight that we are entirely in conformance with your 2050 General plan the land use density map as well as many of the policies within that plan oh sorry I've never been accused to being too quiet um the details this is three phases over a 17 Acre Site uh we are seeking five stories a maximum height of 75 ft we're proposing 910 residential units and we have commercial space roughly 24,000 square ft along Scottdale road so the height that we show you we really have worked to very sensitively integrate it to the surrounding residential IAL you can see where we have a mix of 5 4 3 and two stories and how that tapers um I will share with you a recent change here you can see the one portion up along mops uh that we will be working with staff to memorialize this would like to seek to to further loow to lower that height on mops in response to some comments from one of the neighbors across the street uh dropping it from that 5 to four stories you can see when you go to the north side of the project that the height again transitions to residential from Papo Drive North of the site what that um sight line looks like and how we have made sure that it tapers appropriately um this shows from the south side of the projects when you're headed east on melops you can see that 100 foot of RightWay on mops um what this project will look like and then we also took a view from a from a neighbor that perhaps you'll hear from the evening as well that lives on the south side of mccallops looking directly north of the project and what that would look like and you can see I think thank you see it is a pretty reasonable condition with the the width there of mccallops Road the Landscaping that we're proposing and then how again we have tapered that building so phasing there's quite a bit of discussion about this at the DRC uh we are phasing the development of this site again to do it very responsibly for the community allowing us to take people that are in Phase One to relocate them to phase 2 or three or to another project we have just up the road um as I mentioned the timeline here is we notified the tenants back in November of 2023 we're of course here for the zoning approval but then you'll see that we're taking quite a bit of additional time as we work through construction documents building permits utilities until we ultimately would start construction in 2028 this is consistent we work with um staff on stipulations and then uh lease up J 2029 and then start into the second phase and then ultimately the same process to the third phase and then you can see how those phases actually look when you plug them into an aerial and how they work and how they integrate that the existing projects in two and three that are out there today can be um effectively lived in and can be wellmaintained and work very synergistically with the project that we're proposing so this is phase one you see it as it rolls in ultimately to phase two and then finally into phase three again overtime allowing the community to be relocated here as we go you'll also see I know um sometimes this Council has been interested to understand what garages would look like so when we have phase one of the garage this of course is internal to the existing multif family but we have designed me metal screens that will go up and will be on the end of that garage until Phase 2 is built and then of course phase three entirely wraps the garage with residential so the relocation plan I wanted to share with this Council what we are doing again we've given tenants uh notice back in November of 2023 any residents in place in good standing prior to that date are covered by this relocation plan we have a a point a contact that we have referred people people do and what we will do is we've agreed to in writing let them know one year prior to the start of construction everybody here I should tell you was on a one-year lease um we are are assisting them with relocating to either a future phase on the project phase two or phase three or to a property that we have just up the road chazelle at Roosevelt and Miller we're also assisting them with moving Logistics including scheduling mov moving company recommendations we've got negotiated discounts an on-site coordination the day of the moving and we're offering a moving voucher of $500 for everyone who is eligible under this plan so trying to do this um as responsibly as possible some of the images of what this will look like this is looking at the corner of Scottdale Road in mccallops you can see the retail that we um expect to have there restaurants shops when you come a little bit further down melbs Road it gives you an idea of how that height comes up and down that movement that you see and then this is Phase One ultimately you see the shadow kind of how Phase 2 would connect there you see what those metal screens would look like um at the end of the garage phases one and two again you see those metal screens here on the end of this garage and then ultimately with phase three you'll see that we've got a landscape plan very lushly landscaped landcape site overall we also and I wanted to make sure the neighbors saw this have updated the entry with Landscaping on mops with some palm trees and that shows you what that will look like here as well this is a market rate project it has um the type of amenities you would expect to see on a market rate project everything from barbecues and bite parking swimming pools shade structures clubs Business Center fitness center Sports courts it does also have a dog Park of course a dog park happy dog oh happy dog h a dog park for our residents uh there was also discussion at DRC wanting to ensure and so I'm demonstrating how the project is indeed walkable not only through the first phase green lines entering showing how it's walkable but through phase two and of course ultimately through phase three you will be able to live in phase three walk entirely through the project and get to that commercial out on Scottdale Road same thing is true with cyclability we know Tans like their bicycles so we've made sure how we are accommodating those how it can uh Connect into the network uh there was also some discussion at the last DRC about on-site trees and we committed to going and taking a look into the trees onsite and determining what could be salvaged um it was not great news from our arborist the trees are really not salvageable really due to the age and the health the type of species um or not within the adwr Phoenix AMA plant lists or they have excessive Roots nonetheless we are committed to as we take those trees out um to you know have them available for anyone in the neighborhood that for a period of 30 days wants to come and take those trees and believe that they can make them salvageable uh we want to work with the community um and we'll be doing that to anyone who is interested uh I have also um wanted to bring to attention some of the ways that we are complying with your altogether voluntary Green Building Code um the project does address several of the principles that are within there um connectivity of course how we're using the walkways that I've just demonstrated uh the connectivity to bicycles that I've demonstrated we are providing a lot more bike parking than is required as well as providing 2% of parking spaces to allow um EV equipment and 10% of the spaces of EV capable and 25% EV ready so compliance with several elements of your Green Building Code and then finally as I mentioned we began this project with the north Tempe neighborhood associations meeting with Cavalier with door to-door Outreach we're very grateful for all of the support and help that they have brought us throughout this case um we of course are continuing to have ongoing discussions we are also fortunate to have 77 letters of support that are in your packet from North Tempe residents with that Mr Mayor I'm happy to answer any questions thank you so much Mr Rell appreciate the presentation I know vice mayor has a comment and then I need to open up the public testimony portion oh yeah we can do that first yeah absolutely you got it okay sounds good let me then go ahead and open the public testimony portion then we can bring you back up right afterwards wonderful thank you thank you very much okay I'm going to bring these out here uh just also a really quick uh couple of things I need to read into the record there have been a couple of changes made here so uh there's one following change has been made to the zoning map am the zoning Amendment and planned area development condition number one which states that a building permit application shall be made within three years of the date of city council approval or the zoning of the property May revert back may revert to that in place at the time of the application and also wanted to note for development plan review condition number two has also been amended which states that phases 1 2 and three shall be constructed simultaneously or consecutively with an application for building permits for each phase within 3 years of the prior phase receiving final certificate of occupancy and just want to make sure that those revisions are going to be to the ordinance are going to be uh for inclusion in the June 27th 2024 city council packet so I want to make sure that's noted for the record for those in the audience and those watching at home as well so with that said I'm going to open the public testimony portion and I will once again call these in the order in which I received them uh the first person I only have a um have a name a first name but not a last name and I believe it's uh either Jackie or or jacqu and they're virtual in the audience okay oh sorry about that can you hear me no problem we can hear you please state your name and place of residence you have three minutes sure my name is Jackie krove and I'm a resident of of North Tempe um I am in opposition of the project um I spoke at the DRC as well for not necessarily reason of just the physical building um but some of the concerns I even brought up to them is being a North tempy resident we really don't have a lot of infrastructure um the only place that those of us who live in the North part of temp can grocery shop is Scottsville we have one grocery store probably within a four to five Mile Square radius um and there isn't any other type of of like say a drugstore or shopping other than or not Arizona meals excuse me um 7 Marketplace and the majority of those are utilized by ASU students um and one of the DRC members happened to say in response to that that until we get more people in the community or a larger population that those grocery stores aren't going to come but somebody who's lived here 40 years I ask you where are they going to build them there's nothing left we're landlocked and we're just adding more people to an area that already supported by another city I mean the amount of times that I go north of Mel or excuse me south of melops for any of my needs is is next to none um you have to compete with the traffic I have to compete with ASU students and um the idea of putting 990 units on that corner when just the other day we had a motorcycle accident they had to reroute traffic and it was 45 minutes of not being able to leave our existing community so you add 990 units to that corn excuse me another 450 I can only imagine what that's going to be like um the other thing is being a resident in this area is the idea of having to put up with 10 years of construction um you know you get the first one built for three years then you have two phases that are existing people that are going to have to hear that construction and live there uh not only that we are less than a mile away from this build and there was no one that reached out to our community about this um so there was was no you know ability at that point to put any input for us yes it doesn't directly affect us in the sense of that they're our next door neighbor but it does affect our surrounding Community um the amount of people being displaced I know in the slide presentation they're saying that no one is going to be displaced and one of the big concerns that came up was affordable housing and I think the idea that keeps coming up is that affordable housing has to be some type of subsidized housing by the government and this particular community is actually I would say more on the affordable side when you have rents that are somewhere around $1,000 and you have the rents that are going to be you know two times what they are now and you say okay well these folks can go ahead and move into the first phase or stay here or we'll relocate them the properties that they own that they're trying to relocate them to if you view them have less than 5% vacancy I'm sorry that that's time I'm sorry sorry no worries no thank you so much appreciate it all right the next speaker I have this evening is Christian Wimer who's also virtual Okay Christian can you hear me hi Christian can you hear me uh yes can you hear me okay yes uh can you state your name in place of residence you have three minutes yes absolutely hello mayor and council members my name is Christian Wimer I've been a resident of 10 Tempe for 44 years I have a several I have several concerns regarding the plans for the Tempe Gateway project while I understand that growth is essential for the right reasons I am UNS I am unsure of how this new project will benefit the community despite previous meetings where Tempe residents have voiced their concerns for more affordable housing high cost apartments continue to be developed I've witnessed firsthand the negative impact of these high cost apartments on our community there's very little affordable living anywhere in Tempe and I am sure I am unsure how this project will address that issue the SC the Scottdale Gateway serves a purpose the people who currently reside in that complex are not the problem with the crime that happens in North Temp and if this project is approved I'm just concerned that all we are going to see is the the homeless that's there now in front of a highrise you know expensive apartment complex North hemp is landlock and we have no grocery stores I'm just really concerned about that as well I'm also worried that much like the apartments on the Southeast corner of Apache and mclin talk there will be INF infent parking for these retail shops leading into the vacant and leading into vacant storefronts please consider the impact on the people who will be displaced by this project thank you for your attention to these concerns thank you so much appreciate it the next speaker I have this evening is Deborah zjack please come forward state your name and place of residence you have three minutes thank you mayor and Council my name is Deborah Z Jack I'm a 30-year resident and I always say North North Tempe so anyway I oppose this project and want to address the following Four Points affordability and homelessness amenities and City investment in streetscape completion timeline and contribution to the hometown for all project affordability and homelessness rents in these more mature complex are more reasonably priced than in the newer developments demolishing this complex will displace hundreds of people who will not be able to afford the increase in rents in the new project how does this reflect on the city taking action to address the issue of affordability and homelessness number two amenities and City investment in streetcape supporters of the project are saying that the increased density that this project will create more than doubling it will attract better amenities for local residents maybe so but there is another way which has been implemented by Scottdale and Mesa Tempe would be wise to consider it have the city invest in improvements in the streetcape from 202 North to Continental driving north on Scottdale Road into Scottdale from Tempe there is a noticeable difference Scottdale has public art pavement that is not only functional but are aesthetically pleasing and attractive street signs a big difference from the crumbling medians and tired intersections that we have in North temp or mesa's improvements along Southern from the canal to Alma School Boy Can you notice the difference going east from Tempe into Mesa these improvements in the streetcape have attracted new businesses and development even as the mall has died which came first chicken or the egg let's try something different you hear a lot about Kerbal peel in residential real estate but maybe it could apply to Tempe Tempe wants to spend money on upgrading mil Avenue extending the street car giving raises to high level management bumping up pension commitments for decades but improving Scottdale Road in North North Tempe has not been addressed this could satisfy the residents who are looking for better amenities and improve temp's image three phases and 10-year completion time we who knows what the economic conditions will be in 10 years and the disruption it will cause for nearby residents for a decade this issue was brought up in the DRC with the passage of 4 to three not acceptable contribution to Hometown for all it was stated that support for affordable housing will come from the developers voluntary contribution to Hometown for all but the amount was not mention mentioned I would question what this would be and will it also come in phases I do hope the city staff closely monitors these Financial commitments because as we saw this last year they can slip through the cracks and not be paid in a timely manner thank you so much the next speaker I have is Tim Palmer please come forward state your name and place of residence you have three minutes uh yes good evening Council my name is Tim Palmer um I'll say it again I'm a 60-year resident in Tempe and I have um grave concerns about this project I actually walked this project this week and felt like I needed to understand what I was seeing and what uh was being talked about and so um what I want to say first of first and foremost is I really feel like the council or the the the property is a lovely place to live it's extremely well landscaped has very mature Lush landscaping and I think that you know some of the questions that are being raised about you know the displacement of the the residents has uh there is a true concern for that and there's a lot of questions that are you know that haven't been answered and might not ever be answered anytime soon but what concerns me most of all uh from uh you talk about tonight you know green construction methods the sustainability that this project is going to present is going to be really bad for the environment it I mean if you can imagine the the demolition of this property into the landfills this is going to be horrendous the air quality during construction is going to be very very bad and so I really question you know what are the is the true essence of the need for this project to change what is the true Essence that this needs to torn down and uh affordable housing as it's being discussed being eliminated so I really you know hope that the council is going to really consider that you are now again have a moral compass project in front of you and I hope you take this seriously because the residents a lot of residents in Tempe take this extremely serious and when I say that I'm in in favor of development in Tempe I'm in favor of really strong commercial development but this is Housing Development and more times than not the City of Tempe makes mistakes when it comes to housing or at least the perception that housing is not taken seriously on some levels this is not a good project for the city to uh not take seriously I hope you have the moral compass to consider everything on this thank you thank you so much the next speaker I have is Janice bedone hope I got that correct please please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes it's Jan bador by the way sorry close but um and I'm a resident of Tempe my husband and I bought our home in 1985 and have lived on mallister we're on the west side so this would be our front yard basically um our probably our bigger worries we love the quiet neighborhood we love knowing our neighbors and being able to walk to different things and the things that are around us and that's part of why we bought there um we are worried about the air quality the noise our privacy um I'm worried that will'll be observed from a five-story building um it just seems like a monstrosity to me that it just doesn't I don't think it's a bad project at all you know it's designed well I just don't think it belongs on that corner I know a lot of people in that neighborhood everybody greets each other just like the gentleman said earlier say hello to people things like that I just don't feel like that's going to happen once this goes in I worry about the parking because already we have spill it over onto our streets from who's there right now different times of year um I worry about that maybe an increase in people is going to also increase the need for police firemen fire stations things like that that we just I just think we're that's not an area that's really um going to have the the ability to build up what we need to for that kind of I wonder what too what happens if in the middle 10 years is forever I just think that's a long time to have our street torn up and construction and filth but um say something happens along the phases and something doesn't go through then that's another two or three years of I just see it being like a dominant no effective things that um plus it's going to block the sunrise and that's very personal I watch the sunrise every morning five stories is going to kill that um so I just do not think that that belongs in that area thank you for your time thank you so much appreciate it the next speaker I have this evening is darling Justice please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes hi my name is darling Justice I live in North Tempe I've lived in North Tempe since 1965 I've raised three children there uh eight grandchildren I have five great grandchildren I have worked really hard in this community I have seen things along Scottdale Road when we first moved there there was a lot different than it is now with the different stores Grocery and everything this corner these apartments have been called Scottsdale Gateway tempy has two main names on this road it's Scottsdale north of the lake and it's rural rural south of the lake we are part of Tempe we have affordable housing in Tempe in North Tempe uh they're saying that this building has to stay affordable housing um we want scottd road to change we want some of the environment to change we need a grocery store we need a a pharmacy we need different things we have to have more people we have to have people that H that can do this we need we need rooms also for affordable housing all of tempy needs room for affordable housing there are people here tonight that don't live in north tpe and they're trying to determine the future of our area we need this development we need the folks that are coming here it's right on uh trans public transportation people said oh that they're not going to walk down Scottdale road in front of these businesses that's not true we have a very no mobile in our neighborhoods right now our home was built in the early 60s we have people that are aging out a lot of neighbors have passed away I I'm in my I'm going to be 880 this year but what's happening is our our homes are not deteriorating they are coming in and they are completely upgrading and that putting new appliances we've actually my husband and I have been fortunate to do some of that but the community is thriving we have affordable housing we have duplexes quad plexes we have a county Island that's been a big stigma for a long time we finally have things happening with uh we have the 650 homes the long Miller that'll be opening this development will help our community we please ask you to think about the people who have lived here and we've worked hard for this community thank you for papico park preserve thank you for a lot of things thank you for your concern over the homelessness but this we really need this development thank you thank you the next speaker I have is GNE please come forward state your name and place of residence you have three minutes good evening mayor and Council thank you my name is Kim Gaffney Loa I'm a resident of North PP for the last 18 years now and I've been very active in it along with Darlene Justice um I think this de I I really like this developer and one of the reasons I really like them is the amount that they've been engaged with us and also because they've owned that property for a while so they've been in the neighborhood they know what the needs are of the neighborhood this project stays with the 2050 plan we need more density along Scottdale road we need to change the culture along Scottdale road right now when you first come off the 202 we look like a stop on the interstate with um gas stations and fast food and not a lot of new development it looks old and dated this complex is looking old and dated um it is not very sustainable I know the landscape is Lush but it's not very sustainable the pine trees have been dropping like flies these past couple years with the heat and they've got a lot of very old um pine trees in this area there's a development that went in um or not went in but an older development that had a lot of grass landscape along melops Road just a little further west they just took half their grass and changed it over to zeroscape to save water the landscaping for this project is Desert adapted um they're using a lot of great um material for that um they also were very responsive when they had their public meeting one of the things I asked for because they didn't have it at that time was a line of sight for the surrounding neighbors because I know how important that's been in other development in our neighborhood they complied they had it by the DRC and and went to a lot of the Neighbors in the area and showed them the line of sight so that they would feel comfortable with what the the view is was going to be so I am very much in favor of this we I think we really need it um I'm all for affordable housing but I don't think affordable housing should be old buildings that don't fit the the current look that look older and um it's not the same as a historic building might be like Watson's flower shop I totally support the historic preservation foundation on that one um but this is a a good project to update our area and I appreciate it thank you thank you the next speaker is Georgia Ker please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes hello can you can you hear me yes okay hi good evening I'm Georgia Kohler I am a longtime resident of Tempe as well I moved here uh to go to ASU graduated in the early 80s so I do have some longevity um chose to stay in the City of Tempe because I love the livability of the city the diverse population that we have here raised two kids that went to ASU and graduated from from ASU no junkyard scars though and uh but they do have both very successful careers after graduating um I've participated in the tempy sister cities program and just really enjoyed living in Tempe um I am in support of this project I kind of want to say ditto to what the previous two speakers said um because I do hit a lot of the points I have uh in the time I've lived in North TIY though I have seen a decline in the area and yet there's so much to offer in that area too so I have lived in four different locations in North Tempe uh including my current resident of nearly 29 years lived in the apartment complex in question that's asking for zoning changes um in two different apartments in in that particular complex when I was in college so I have seen some changes in that complex as well over the years my home's backyard is within sight of the multi-use development that we're talking about that's being proposed there um even with that in mind I do support the res zoning of this to the mu4 um this is really redeveloping a really I think well-loved but tired apartment complex property and it needs to be upgraded with modern amenities which I think will also be helpful to the community with the retail space and so I I do support that and I'm glad they are putting that in that project um developing the property noted um I think it will only potentially increase our property values in that area uh will attract and expand the reach of more retail in the north TIY area which is become sorely lacking with the property development for the multi-use high density that they're talking about I see that the tax Spas for the city will change and increase and be a positive um positive influence and uh to me just having that is going to be a win-win solution for both the city and the residents of North Tempe and those are the ones that really have the most to gain or lose from the approval of this zoning change now I will say uh there are several concessions I want to consider with this project um and again in support but just some considerations one is that the buildings on melops that are west of cavalier would be limited to four Stories versus five which I do believe um Miss Rell spoke to um and I had not seen her presentation so I wasn't aware of that uh Landscaping that would be planted that she spoke about and then also just landscape allowances for any individual private properties negatively impacted by the line of side of this development um there are some houses that you can see in the pictures that are right across the street and so with that I would just like to say I'm suppor of this I want to see revitalization of the north TIY area thank you so thank you you're thank you the next speaker I have this evening is an till please come forward state your name and place of residence you have three minutes oh sh careful careful hi my name is an till tempy resident and I don't have an opinion on whether to support or oppose the project but um I also wanted to thank you for your perspectives on the previous project that was really useful to hear on the general plan considerations and differences so thanks for that um and a lot of the comments have been really good tonight on this project uh a lot of issues to be resolved construction seems like a definite I can see that concern and traffic is pretty heavy there so the city needs to look at that for Solutions um but the biggest concern I think well before I say that one I guess as far as the grocery thing um Can there somehow be a guarantee that I think this was mixed juice right so can can the developer line up a grocery store you know one that's reasonably priced to support that area is part of the mix juice project on the lower level because a lot of these um the units like on Apache are empty and they've been there 10 years or eight or 10 years um so I I always find that problematic when I drive by that that's not being taken advantage of so um but as far as the big issue is displacement I think and I don't think I saw anything about existing versus new rents and you know I think that the rents are higher is market rate because I think these were head rates I'm not sure um but um do existing residents actually qualify financially when the new property is built because I think there's usually Financial qualif ifications and if the rental rates go up then they you know even though they're acconting moving into the new units and gradually uh building you know people may not be able to afford that or the units down the street that they're proposing and then um to look at um how many elderly you know what's are in that area they should get extra help moving because elderly residents can have trouble mentally and physically moving you know I helped my parents move they could not move anymore without my help and some people are all alone in Tempe now without relatives and so and they're also losing their Community which is really important to an older person um so so I think it'd be good to specifically look at this in that in some of these housing projects where there's some displacement thank thanks thank you the next speaker I have is Philip Yates please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes evening M I'm sorry good evening Mr Mayor members of the council for the record my name Miss Philip Yates and I'm the president for the Riverside neighborhood association uh earlier today I watched a video on social media of a woman elderly woman and she lives at this uh complex and it's a very nice complex is very well uh designed and uh taken care of and she was scared the last thing I like to see or have ever heard of in the City of Tempe are people that are going to be displaced by the uh just the growth of the City of Tempe and she spends less than $1,000 per month where she lives she is not going to know where to go in the City of Tempe if she were to be displaced by this project and uh that really really needs to be taken to heart as you all make your decision as to whether or not to approve this project uh one of the things that that I hear a lot from candidates that are running is that we really are in a crisis where we need to have more affordable housing well we have affordable housing in some places and this is one of those places and we need to think about that the affordable housing that we do have we need to keep and this is one of those places uh last year as uh some of you may know uh my mother passed away and uh she was one of the most prominent Advocates of affordable housing and it really really Disturbed her whenever she would see something like this get uh torn down in eye of new development uh the people that live here and can afford to live here are um diminishing and that is really disturbing uh they don't have anywhere to go they have to look into other cities uh and they just can't afford to live here anymore and we need to help them because otherwise the City of Tempe is going to wind up with more homeless and uh we don't want that either uh and with that I'll close uh thank you for your time thank you so much the next speaker I have is milin pinkowitz please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes um good evening mayor and Council my name is milen pich I have emailed all of you about this issue um I am a resident of Scottdale and a prospective resident of Tempi as I'm looking for a house here in Tempe I often walk on McDow Road and I bike on mb's road along the site and I have always since I moved to the area 12 years ago admire the beauty and age of the trees on site but first of all I want to acknowledge my privilege in owning my own home in the Phoenix metropolitan area where the average rent has gone up almost 40% since 2019 and Maricopa Association of government data shows that this census track in Tempe where the proposed project would be people already spend 40 to 45% of their income in market rate is not affordable housing lack of consideration for affordable housing keeps residents trapped in a cycle of poverty unable to fund other living needs such as healthc care or plan for a future in terms of retirement I first want to emphasize that I stand in solidarity with the current residents of this complex given that the target rent prices that are being sought out for this project are completely out of tune with the city of DP 2040 housing inventory ratio which calls for at a minimum almost 50% of all housing stock to be affordable not market rate secondly I want to speak about the trees on the side which I mail all of you about extensively I see time and time again developers seeing a piece of land and not acknowledging the benefits that the trees have on that land these trees that are on the site are over 50 years old and yes it's true some Pines are dying and I appreciate our presenter uh talking more in depth about the trees and I would say that uh it's easy to say the trees are not salvageable because at this point after they're 50 years old it's impossible to remove them and Salvage them and I want to emphasize that it's um very exhausting for residents like myself to have to come to council every time there are tree canopy issues uh to defend on a case by case basis because there's currently a loophole where developers don't have to take inventory of trees that are non native yes the trees are not native but they're desert adapted and they can withstand the Summers that we're having that are increasingly hotter a lot better than new trees that tend to break away and currently are taking just as much water to keep them alive and are not providing the same shade benefits um I urge you to consider this from the perspective of the residents are living here and from the perspective of all of us who enoy uh enjoy the cooling benefits of the trees on the site thank you thank you the next speaker I have this evening is Ken Jacobson please come forward state your name and place of residence you have three minutes hi my name is sorry my name is Ken Jacobson I've lived in this complex for 21 years um when I GRE graduated from ASU in 1982 I lived here again in the in the late 1980s I lived in Minneapolis for 13 years after that I missed the place I move back because I liked it I found very few places that I like as much as this apartment complex people are complaining that this is somehow dated I don't see that at all everything was renovated in this place um 13 years ago inside and out was completely renovated um every time someone moves out now they're renovating the kitchens the kitchens and bathrooms again everything's in really good shape in this place um the pools to talk about amenities there's three pools in this place two of them are half Olympic pools um I can't find half Olympic pools anywhere else that are this nice around the area I like living in this area a lot um the big issue with me is I voted for the tempy tomorrow plan and one of the reasons I voted for it because it says things like what is it page 100 Tempe is dedicated to preserving existing affordable housing in the community the cool thing about this apartment complex is almost half the apartments are really small tiny apartments that are affordable 1,00 ,200 um the apartment I live in is an average size one bedroom I pay $450 that's about the average price for a one bedroom apartment the two bedrooms apartments are the average price of two bedrooms Apartments it's just that this apartment complex has a whole lot of really small apartments and I really like that I meet a lot of really interesting people at this place these these apartments the one that Liv across from me is Alinda who's moved from Louisiana she's in her 80s she's really upset about moving trying moving away and doesn't want to um the people who live in those small apartments a lot of those people are minimum wage workers they're putting half of their income just to pay for the these little places it's not easy for them um everyone I've talked to the PE the the Coit says that they had a meeting about this in November um five people showed up to that meeting um we were all emailed about that meeting I didn't go because I wasn't interested in hearing about about an exciting new plan to my Apartments down and build something else um I also didn't believe when I saw this sign outside it says it said that tempy was looking at changing the the zoning from 25 dwelling units per an acre to 65 and I told people we talked about this um I can't imagine the city would do that because there's nothing like that in this whole area um these are all like two-story Apartments all the way from Weber all the way up to McDow this is how do it for a mile around why would they put a five story thing here what nothing else is like this in the it's completely out an area it's completely out of character with the whole area and it's another thing this this the tempy plan says is maintaining neighborhood character I'm sorry but this is completely out of character with the place um one thing too like I want to reimburse this say again this is not a bad place at all I would am I on time already time already yeah I'm sorry I'm sorry know it goes by very quickly I apologist okay thanks thank you Mr Jacob appreciate it the I have a petition here I 30 signat everybody sign sure you can hand it to the clerk right there and we'll I'll take a look at it thank you yeah by the way say yeah oh I I've got I'm sorry I can't I can't we can't keep going I'm sorry L yeah we'll we she'll make sure that gets around to all of us so the next speaker I have and actually the last card I have I should say is from Lyn please come forward state your name and place of residence you have 3 minutes good evening Mr Mayor and council members my name is Julie Lind uh I live very close to this apartment complex um and uh as a matter of fact in some of the pictures that of the development you can see my house so I have lived uh my family my four children and uh six grandchildren um have lived in that neighborhood for 20 years I've lived in tpe for 30 years and been very active in the care and um the the needs of the north Tempe neighborhood and uh I believe that this development this Improvement will benefit my family we have um at Great cost to our family um tried to improve this neighborhood we even purchased a home down the street from our residents um from a friend who died and um with the help of friends and family and neighbors we purchased the house and completely renovated it so that it is um handicap accessible and likely where my husband and I will die in so um that being said the value that this um renovation and this Improvement to my very dear neighborhood is welcome we believe that the developer has been um open and available to us as a matter of fact I'm the one who caught uh the developer at the door uh at the last meeting and said hey if you're G to take out some trees um I have two properties and we had a serious loss of trees last year through that heat and if there's any way for us to you know that to be made available and I just heard her mention it I don't know how that works it was an Ask that's how responsive they've been they they contacted um our family um some time ago and asked us of what we thought and then asked us to talk to our neighbors which we did and gathered people and that's the kind of developer that I want in my neighborhood this is the kind of project that I want in my neighborhood to increase density so that I can have uh more amenities and I have no idea what these people are talking about that there's no grocery store because I can walk to Food City and um get groceries and I can go 2.8 miles from my house to fraud I don't know what they're talking about we have grocery stores in our neighborhood would I like to have bigger and better grocery stores in our neighborhood yes but I need more people and I need the value of of the north Tempe to increase which this will do so um I'm in favor of it on those levels and now my time is ended thank you thank you so much appreciate it all right the next card I have here is from Lane caroway please come forward state your name at place of residence you have three minutes good evening mayor and councel City staff um like so many of these people here I've lived in my home coming up 26 years in caver Hills prior to that like Georgia I lived at not Scottdale Gateway but foxt Tree Apartments which is the same complex for almost 5 years looking for somebody to pass away in my neighborhood so I could move in um so I have his history there I've seen The Good the Bad and the Ugly coming out of that complex it's gotten better but there's still a lot of issues with this it's an odor complex it's seen better days um I want to resonate what everybody's saying about the CD group they have reached out um Wendy's been great Susan from technical solution she actually held a emergency meeting my neighborhood given two days notice on a Saturday and Jeff came from the city of tempy to represent the city tempy there so with that being said this is great we actually have developers that want to work with the community and want what's best what Julie just said about a grocery store we want a better grocery store but these people don't seem to grasp the concept we have to have density without this project we're not going to go anywhere we've staged for nearly 30 years up in my area when I have a meeting with somebody I have one option bikini beans which some people don't have a problem with but some people do we have to go to Scottdale if we're going to have a meeting we have nothing Starbucks they say all the drug Tweakers they can't have a patio they can't have anybody indoors so we have nothing up there to even sit down and have a cup of coffee except for bikini beans so with that problem getting lost here because I wrote this and I can't even read my notes um as far as affordable housing goes they're really not that affordable you go right across the street from this complex those rents are lower than there you go behind my house 700 East Weber they're lower so all around North tempy we do have what's considered affordable housing by these standards um so I pretty much for almost two years have spoken to my neighbors I've spoken to people North melbs East Scottdale Road everybody's for this project they think it's great because it's going to generate and start having things in closing I'm going to have to say this why are all these people in South tempy sticking their nose into a project that is nowhere near their homes oh who I'm sorry who said I did so please sir you cannot no more Alper please with that being said I'll give you 10 more seconds cuz Okay I actually had Judy tabscott andron have been in my neighborhood spreading these lies about this complex i f it's beyond me that you would do these type of tactive and I really would like the city of tempy they need to look into addressing these issues I wouldn't be comfortable going down to speaking on something that I have no business in and that's time so yeah thank you guys thank you appreciate it all right uh any other speakers this evening yes sir please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes sure uh good evening my name is Angus I live in Cavalier Hills in North Dy um I'm going to switch subjects a little bit and talk directly to the city here instead of about the development I've gone back and forth on this development there's some pieces I like uh there's some pieces I could uh see it come down from five stor to four but they've been accommodating and and I hope they stick to their word there what I would like to speak about is the street itself I live uh directly across the street from this apartment complex and uh on the south side of melbs facing north um they showed the the bike ability of the complex and I think that's nice that they have that the problem I have with mccallops road is there is no bike lane and there is no bike lane planned to be on that street uh on top of that the speed limit in my opinion is a little bit too high uh it's a 45 and it's five Lanes wide um across the way there um when you meet College it goes to 35 and I think that when you're pulling out of residential driveways on to 45 I'd encourage you to come and stand in my front yard and wait for the bus to come by going almost 60 mil an hour um if that's something that the city could look at for this development I could be supportive of this project um I don't live in this apartment complex so I can't speak to relocating people and I won't um but I think that the city itself could have a look at how we look at Lanes there look at the speed there uh and overall make it a safer environment it's a little bit tight on the South Side there uh with no bike Lanes going both directions it is Tempe Gateway is what it will be called it is the gateway to Tempe let's also make it the gateway to Papo park with uh multimodal Transportation uh including walkability and bikability thank you wonderful thank you so much appreciate it is there anyone else in the audience wishing to address the Council on this project if so please get my attention Mr Martinez yes please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes [Music] yes uh uh my name is Mario Martinez I was not uh planning on addressing this issue I live in Tempe excuse me I live in temp I wasn't planning on uh addressing this issue which I am against it as proposed but the comment about people in South temp uh being concerned about it excuse me I've lived in every part of Tempe possible lived in work and I'm not proud of it because I'm from Flagstaff and I I hate this heat I still hate this heat but I live here okay but the thing is is not only did I live up there and build houses uh there that are affordable at marbor I mean we are concerned about this place my my city is responsible for establishing uh uh a an acceptable project there and the idea that someone from South Tempe cannot care about uh what goes on up there I do my wife works at ASU my son uh lives at basically University and Rural he's goes to ASU how could we not not be concerned about old people elderly people getting kicked out of their houses and uh Lizzy as far as you know who cares uh who has the concern I noticed that the develop that the developers attorney is Hugh hman I mean my God I mean what what it definitely looks like payback for him I mean in some respects he was the one that wrote the coyotes uh let's see coyotes deal that got shot down if he could have a say in this and is Law Firm then so can I thank you thank you is everyone else in the audience wishing to address the Council on this item if so please get my attention all right seeing none I will close the public hearing or public testimony portion which means uh I'm going to go back to uh either comments by Council or if people have questions for Miss Rell uh we can do that I know I've got several things but Vice May I'll let you go ahead and start okay um could I have uh Wendy come back up please I just have some questions for you thank you for coming up course yes um does it have affordable housing now this this current project uh mayor council no this is market rate housing currently it is not affordable housing okay thank you uh I really like it that you met with the neighbors um you know give them an opportunity to speak about the project so good job on that uh 2028 it gives people a long time to relocate or and tell me about how you're going to help people relocate a little bit certainly um it does strike me as I listen to the testimony my client is a little bit in a damned if you do damned if you don't situation um they have owned this property since 2012 I think you've heard universally they've been good landlords they have continued to reinvest and keep it up um but it is in fact a a dated site that is in need of of being redone and um dated and tired as you heard from some of the testimony um the idea here is by doing it over three phases we have the ability to relocate people from the first phase into phase number two or phase number three or a sister property they have up the road called chazelle it's up the road um um just a little bit on Miller and so anyone who has been a resident since um that date in November of 23 and they've been a resident in good standing is eligible for our relocation plan so they'll be allowed to continue there on yearly leases ultimately when we know we're hitting that construction date which we anticipate being in 20128 we will in writing advise them that they've got one year till we start construction we've got a designated person that will help with the relocation we've got negotiated discounts with moving companies and someone that will actually physically help coordinate on site as well as we're offering vouchers for those residents of $500 for that moving cost helping them find one of those places and then physically helping them move to them so if they're elderly um they'll be able to get help moving yes okay because I was brought up so I'm just trying to address some of the issues that brought up by the by the um members tonight even if they're not elderly frankly okay okay great thank you um I love it that you have a dog park that is a great way to meet your neighbors it's something that's near and dear to my heart um I mean there's nothing better than taking your dog down and and meeting your neighbors and letting the dogs run R run like crazy we agree yes get them out of the apartment for a while so uh I love the the design of it it's got a lot of movement which I think looks really cool um it'll really improve the the I like that the the um the trees that you're going to plant are going to be desert friendly trees it's really important that people realize that pine trees take a lot of water and and uh the desert trees do not take nearly as much water and they're much like more likely to succeed in and grow to be nice big sh shade canopies uh I like it that you have uh bicycles that are so close that they're so close to the lake you know it's going to be a great opportunity for people to get exercise so that's that's important to me with the gentleman that brought up about the speed and the bicycles it was a great comment yeah was so I think we should look at that and maybe slowing traffic down there and and making sure that the bicycles have a lane that's very safe for them I think ultimately that's going to require the transportation department I mean I'm nodding my head along because I agree with the comment but ultimately that's a transportation comment to the city okay so I would ask transportation to uh maybe be able to comment on that wherever they are there they hi hi Eric okay great U you're in the cheap seats tonight [Laughter] okay um I took a lot of notes the uh Green Building Code is something that council member Chen and I have been leading uh on this and so I'm really glad that that's included in the project without having to be asked and harassed about it uh so thank you for including that um what will be your uh contribution to Hometown for all that was brought up tonight also mayor and vice mayor I do not know the actual dollar figure I can work to figure that out between in the next hearing um I can tell you we are committed to contributing to Hometown forall I believe it's 20% equivalent to our building permit fees I just don't know what that dollar figure is okay it would occur over three um three separate times because again we're looking at essentially three separate projects that tie together but I I'll work to see if we can refine what that actual number is I just don't know that okay that'd be great for next next time Corey uh you know as far as housing goes Corey Woods leads the nation in in Hometown for for um Hometown for all housing initiatives and I think that's really important to point out because he is actually going across the country and talking about how great our housing is is doing so I'm very protected of Corey and this and very respectful of his efforts and we are we are leading the the country in our housing so I want to point that out are you going to have more parking than they have now current L for the future yes we're parking at a 1.78 ratio which I think is more than sufficient um parking okay so they most most likely won't be parking in front of these the folks houses okay thank you um I'm a huge supporter of North Tempe I lived in North tempy uh for some time uh and most of the north tempy residents are supportive of of this project and I think that is that is important that that because they're in their neighborhood and and that's I always believe that the neighborhoods should have the most say in their own neighborhoods and that's consistent with my stance that answer my questions thank you very much mayor thank you thank you for the compliments well appreciate it you're welcome uh council member d'aro and then uh Council chin then Council Garland no thank you and thank you Wendy and thank you everyone that's came up and spoke about this I know that um there might be oppositions both ways here in there but um I will tell you this over my 16 years of being on the council I can honestly say the one thing um that I have heard over and over and over again is what are you guys going to do for North North t b how you're going to improve North t b when are we going to get a better retailer a better strip mall a better something or another in North t b how are you going to highlight us this is one way we do this I know that we have taken great strides vice mayor has made taken great strides in helping us um taking the county Island away trying to get that developed trying to make that look good because correctly yes as you turn turn off the freeway and you come into Tempe that's what you look like when you go north and it's not impressive the fact that we have an opportunity to do something that these residents have told me over the years and I've walked these neighborhoods over a course of four different times on getting elected but hearing the issues and I can honestly say unanimously people want Improvement in their area right now they have transition housing that we're as a city trying to help homeless and trying to get them better housing they're taking their punches already on having those things in their neighborhood the fact that we're trying to improve their neighborhood trying to hopefully catacorner help a Food City or help a strip mall working with um Pollock to make sure that we can have even better re better services or a better uh food store something unique different from Scott sale or anywhere else within the area and I hate to say this when you live in North tempy you might shop in scottsvale when you live in South tempy you might eat in Chandler you might eat in Phoenix the city's blend across everything else we don't exclusively just stay in one city and confine one city we work within our neighborhood I lived up there off Weber I lived off in the in the condos for two years over there it was affordable still is today the prices are going up this complex is market rate it's not affordable I'm looking at the prices right now for a one-bedroom one bath from $1,000 to $2,000 depending on where you're going to pick two bedrooms $ 1,000 to $3,000 it's going to go up the thing is this neighborhood and this complex has problems it's going to continue having problems and one day it's going to get wiped down it's got cast iron steel it's getting to this point where those things are going to have to get fixed and it's going to be at a cost and the owner right now has done a great job on trying to improve the area and trying to improve it as best they can but there is a Time Scottdale road is creeping down if you've ever noticed past Continental there's open land and there's going to be more Apartments coming in that are going to be h in and higher quality and it's going to look a lot better Scott still is improving their landscape I expressed to the city we try to improveed the landscape in that area we did a decent job but it didn't do a great job we have curbing that needs to be redone we have streets that need to be redone in that area this is a shot in the arm to help that thing C help help that area actually improve all the way down towards the river bottom and I put that on the city to hopefully engage in that because this is an opportunity this is an opportunity to work with Pollock this is the opportunity any other retailer to help with the rent Landscapes to improve that area the kid that came up here I'm sorry gentleman that came up here younger than me um he had great point the biking needs to be improved great point the speed needs to be lower in that area we've seen on the news just recently deaths and and and car accidents the Starbucks I don't know how many times I've gotten phone calls the fact that we can't even eat drink a coffee on outside Starbucks anymore because they closed it they won't have that anymore because the elements and and the Personnel that's coming around that area this is once again a shot in the arm and I know I'm not going to please everybody you know we can't please everybody on every move we make here but I will stand by this product I will stand by it because it's a shot in the arm for what North tempy wants and I've heard it over and over again I think we're going to do our Justice we've had harder cases on taking people out of their homes because I as much as you want them to to stay within that area as best you can we've done a great job within the city to make sure transition of people and the families get to a better location is best ways possible we did not do this and we try not to surprise people with next day uh evictions so at the end of the day I'm a little bit passionate about this because I do want to see Improvement I don't live there dayt day you guys do I visit there often I go by there often but I don't have to deal with the dayto day that you guys have to do this is your area once again we talk about character areas once again we talk about neighborhoods it's your neighborhood I've listened to neighborhoods in South Tempe that didn't want a wall moved back or and want it put back their neighborhood I'll vote with them that's their neighborhood same with this have my support thank you thank you let me next go to uh Council pin thank you mayor I just have two points I want to clarify two facts the first first one is and I may look to staff to verify this I believe there is a streetscape Improvement I think that was questioned along Scottdale Road city manager can you help me with that is that true that that is in the final design phase from Scott on Scottsdale Road Continental to Scottdale Curry new trees um curb improvements bike Lanes we've been working with the businesses I should say Eric Iverson and his team been working with the businesses for the bike Lanes expansion good okay thank you the second item and I thought I heard this but I want to verify so uh this property it's the same owner who has had it for the last since 2012 2012 okay and it is a uh development that is currently 45 years old uh my running joke councilwoman is I went to law school to avoid math but I can tell you it was fully constructed By 1979 okay 45 years old I believe um and so they their intention with this is to reinvest correct got it thank you council member Garland I had a couple things I think everybody here has been saying stating some of the things so I had this huge list right here but I now only have one thing to say um I appreciate that somebody had brought up about the the streetcape I was going to mention the same thing that um council member Chen just did um the other thing was about the police station we are building another police station in North Tempe um we are actively right now identifying a location for it it is in our CIP it is coming um so just so you know that we are adding um those resources to North temp I just want to add that to the rest of the discussion but um I appreciate what you are bringing here and and as we have we keep saying it's we we need to add the density if we want to bring in if we want to get those empty storefronts we want businesses back in there um if we we need to have the traffic we need to have the people and that density is going to be able to do that for us um so I you know number of people have mentioned that already but I just wanted to say that also so thank you thank you thank you Council B thank you mayor um yeah to to kind of piggyback what C mcar said A lot's already been said but I did want to touch on on some points um I it's funny the different areas of the city right north of the lake has been asking for some sort of Redevelopment since I've been on Council some sort of attention people you know people have this a false uh perception that the city council only caters to certain areas of the city I had a conversation with a woman over the weekend that was consistent that all we cared about was downtown and you know you talked to people in 85281 to say all you care about is is South 10 be when really it's the market that drives where development comes right it's we don't we don't get some a project brought to us and we say let's put that project here we don't you know this is not how our system works um and and there's a very strong property right State and I won't go into all that but a comment that Mr caroway said I think really really resonated with me because I've lived north of the lake on three different occasions I live in the same apartment complex in unit at laam Mirage on Gary or Gilbert there right next to where carvana is now on two non-consecutive occasions and I lived across the street from Mr caroway on on Sunset there um so I've spent a number of years north of the lake and he's absolutely correct this goes back to 2003 of course he's absolutely correct that that area has stagnated and it has been stagnant for a very very long time and thanks to some of the efforts by the vice mayor and I I could credit her for the county annexation effort and I also plug council member Navaro in myself on that because we served in that working group as well it's now kind of becoming North temp's time where we're we're starting to see developments come to that area we're starting to see the density come to that area which will then um bring with it additional amenities to the people that currently live there so I think we see that in the comments of the neighbors who are in support saying hey these adding density adding people to my area will clean up some of the issues we have with regards to to Crime with regards to homelessness but it will also bring in new amenities to this area as well so I kind of see north north of the lake Tempe because it North is you know subjective um as this is kind of North tempe's time it's starting to come it's it's morning in in north of the lake Tempe and this is one of those projects that I think it would be a great addition to that area council member chin I loved your comments is kind of talking about this is the same owner who currently owns it they're trying to reinvest into our city this isn't a flip and burn thing where we're going to redevelop in like we see we see um every now and then this is someone who's invested in the city and trying to um you know upgrade essentially um not necessarily pricing but just something nicer higher quality um and that will bring more amenities and more people to that area so I see this as a win for the city and I know that um the developer is going to work with the current residents to see if we can't get them places in the new development I think and I hope that the gentleman who spoke earlier will will take a take a hard look at that because he you know he talked about how much he lived there he Liv there for a long time and really likes it I'm hoping that he'll he'll take a look at that and maybe he will find that he likes the new development that he is a resident of just as much as he currently does but this is um a needed project for this area and and I um I'm thankful that that it is coming and I hope that it passes here when we hear it again at the end of the month so that's my comments mayor appreciate the time thank you so much thank Council R hodj okay thank you um I can say everybody's probably I had a whole list of things to ask and everybody's already asked the question so I guess when you wait you wait to the last you you get it like that but I also just want to say one more time I appreciate the fact of how you guys are looking in the future and making sure that no one will be misplaced um that they're looking at that early you know you have that in your plan to make sure that our residents are there will have a a place to be and place to go after you know if they want to be a part of the next part of this um you know phase or or somewhere else that we're looking you're already looking towards that I just want to thank you for that and as as my colleagues have said I've lived my whole life in North Tempe um not as North as as this but in North TP and North TP has been a place that has not been um developed since I've been here and I've been here since I was a child I've I lived my whole life in TP and um I'm a I'm happy and appreciated that we are looking at North tempy we are developing and making it you know you know we are getting a a police station you know to get a larger food uh a larger grocery store we do need more people so this is things that we're looking for we've heard and I and and and a lot of people have told me the same thing well we uh our Council has always cared more about South Tempe or Central Tempe more than North Tempe but this is one of the times that I'm glad that we're looking and I hope to continue on in development and making sure we make North tempy proud and feel like they are a part of tempy as well as every other part of it but thank you so much for your presentation tonight and I'm not going to keep you guys any longer thank you councilwoman thank you uh I actually have a few questions here I think that haven't been asked yet so but just things that came up over the course of the public testimony so one thing regarding the relocation plan and this is actually uh probably less of a question and more of a request and I was going to see if you could actually work with our City attorney Mr Anderson because one of the questions that we've seen a couple of people raise online is you know we hear these sort of conversations about a relocation plan but what about that Rel location plan is actually enforcable by the council or by the city and I know one of the concerns becomes it's not questioning you personally but it becomes hey you know this this this comes up uh then the council recesses for the summer or we're gone for a few months and everyone kind of forgets about some of the conversations that happened and next minute we start getting concerns about the relocation plan and we're all trying to recall how that conversation went during that public hearing so I guess my request would be uh and I appreciate you talking about that extensively with the residents in here this evening but if you could work with Mr Anderson before the June 27th meeting to actually find a way to get something like that into the development agreement language or something of that nature I will leave the lingo up to the two of you as the attorneys not the guy who was just pre-law for a couple of years to see if we could work out something because I think that would also give a lot of residents a lot of additional Comfort if we know that you know this is something that actually is enforcable by the city council or by the city to make sure that it actually totally takes place so is that possible Mr Mayor would be delighted to work with Mr Anderson to come up with some language to make sure that's in the record yes okay sounds good thank you um one of the other questions I that someone raised was about uh parking and about the concerns about I think it's 910 units that are being proposed here so is there going to be enough parking on site to house all of the people that would live at this development so the parking is not spilling out into the adjacent neighborhoods yes Mr Mayor so we're parking at a rate of 1.78 per unit so yes there is more than enough parking I think that's 1,600 25 total spaces okay so we are very comfortable that we um as I'm sure this Council knows 1.78 is actually higher than most the projects you see come before you so we're very confident that we've got sufficient parking no absolutely and and just as a random note too I know that we've been talking about especially in the downtown and along Apache Boulevard and some of our more kind of urban core sections of town reducing some of those parking ratios because the council's been very committed to building more housing in all of the different income categories and it's been hey we don't want to add parking where we could actually be using be putting housing especially in a city that's just a little under 40 square miles we'd rather add units than actual parking but in this situation I do think the parking is absolutely very necessary to ensure that as we are nearly doubling the number of units that would be in the current Scottsdale Gateway complex that all of these people can actually be housed at the property and not be parking in the neighborhood so I appreciate hearing that you exceeding even the uh requested parking ratio um other thing this is just a comment and I appreciate you pointing this out but I do think it really is really critically important to say once again that this project does not require a general plan Amendment uh had the uh 2050 plan not passed from voters it would have required a general plan Amendment for full disclosure and transparency to anyone still here anyone watching but the fact that the general plan 2050 did pass uh does mean that this project is not going to require any kind of General plan Amendment whatsoever and uh folks heard my concern about the previous project that was in front of us that it was going to require General plan Amendment and that was what the push back was but in this situation where you're not going to require a general plan amendment that makes me a lot more favorable because I believe that not only do I think that you know it's a good project but our residents have clearly sanctioned that kind of project by you know a 60 to 40 um you know sort of margin um so I wanted to make sure I made that point a c just a couple of other things too and this is probably more of a staff question but I mean one of the biggest things that's been brought up here is been about affordable housing and uh you know sort of is This afford affordable housing or is it not affordable housing but I I wanted to know I mean I I see Tim Burch if he's able to come and speak to that from a staff standpoint because the reason why I asked this question is because the example I would use is when people talk about historic properties you know many times people will say well don't tear that building down it's historic no one said that this particular apartment complex is historic but you do hear that quite frequently but historic is actually not just simply about something being old it's because there is something about that building that has had it added to a Statewide or a national register of historic places sometimes people use the term historic Loosely but actually is a term that means something and the parallel I'm drawing here is affordable housing Workforce housing market rate housing all have specific income levels actually attached to it to actually be designated as affordable sometimes the term affordable is just thrown around but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is Affordable according to what we consider uh you know current rates and incomes to be so I'm just curious based on on the based on what we know here and I know council member darar talked about some of the the rates that he saw from looking up the site would this be technically considered affordable housing under HUD standards or under even Statewide housing standards sure uh good evening Mr Mayor member of council Tim Burch Community Health Human Services for the record um so there are two types of affordable housing those that are federally subsidized and built as affordable housing typically directed toward individuals who are making 30 or 50% of Aryan median income and they have a 30-year affordability period that that developer typically a nonprofit developer has to maintain that Pro this project is not that it does not have that technical affordable housing development on it there's also something called naturally occurring affordable housing typically older properties in a CGR apartment complex that have dipped into that because of the amenities and the ages of the project um that could be afford in in in Space the Aran median income and what we typically look like is uh look toward an our area America county is 101,000 is the area median income standard for a family of four so if you're looking at anything that is 80% of every immediate income or below meaning a family of four making about $81,000 a year um they could afford approximately $1,800 a month two-bedroom two bath apartment plus utilities and still be under 30% of their total income going toward rent that's the loose definition of affordability without getting into that technical development which is specific and Fally subsidized okay sounds good no thank you that is a question thank you thank you the last couple of things and I promise I will go ahead and wrap this up a couple of things that were noted I I I know some of the concerns that have been raised about this project were regarding the phasing about it uh no construction starting till the year 2028 so about roughly I would say maybe three and a half to four years from now but also the phasing over a 10-year period And I know that was raised as a concern during the uh development review new commission meeting and it's also been raised by a couple of people tonight so I want to acknowledge that I guess you could look at it both ways there could be concerns about well will the developer still have all the cash on hand to do all of the phases or could something happen that might change those things so I think that's a relevant concern and I appreciate people bring that up at the same time though I do believe the flip side of that argument is when you're talking about relocating people who currently live in an apartment complex the phasing I think allows you to relocate people responsibly if you're doing it all over an eight a 12 or 18 to 24mth period that to me is what would appear to be rushed and could cause people to be displaced in such a way that would seriously disrupt their lives and disrupt their ability to work or or child care or frankly anything else and we talked about seniors a lot my dad will be 85 years old in the next couple of weeks so when I hear seniors I that's the first visual that pops into my mind at all times but in this situation I mean I choose to look at the 10-year phasing of a project like this when you're actually talking about a relocation plan that could be etched in stone as a responsible way of making sure that you can relocate people and not actually really upend or uproot their lives in a way that could really be truly catastrophic so I frankly I do think the other perspective on it is a rational one and I appreciate people bringing that up as a concern but I do think that the phasing of this frankly helps the relocation process and it doesn't hurt it the last thing I just say about you know the developer them and I know council member chin touched on this a little bit that that Co Rich has owned this property uh since 2012 so now for about 12 years and one of the things that I have appreciated uh hearing some of the stories from folks who currently live at the complex or even lived at the complex previously is that it is very well-maintained when you actually go on the grounds it still is a nice place it might have been built back in 1979 or so but it actually still was a very well-maintained property but I do believe that that speaks to the quality of the developer quite honestly and the fact that they have chosen to continue the maintenance and the upkeep of an older property we've heard stories all over the country and I'm never encouraging something like this but we've heard stories about people at the point that a company makes the decision that they're going to redevelop a property all of a sudden they stop investing in everything and the Landscaping goes to Absolute crap and and they're not upgrading the uh the utilities or the washing machines or the dryers or things of that nature and basically trying to in a certain way kind of force the existing occup out by just making the property so low grade that eventually people feel like even if their leases aren't going to be renewed they're going to have to move out anyway because simply the the quality of the property is not up to present day living standards so when I actually hear people talk about the fact that folks are still living here and that the property has been very well-maintained that to me makes me even more comfortable frankly with the Development Group because it shows me that even though they know that they're talking about reinvesting and actually taking the property down in phases to build something new and from my perspective as everyone's talked about build much needed housing that we do need in Tempe and especially that section of North Tempe uh I I I really am it makes me believe that these are people who are responsible and not simply completely disinvesting in the property while people are still living there in their 60s 70s and 80s and making their lives extremely uncomfortable because we have absolutely all of us in this room I'm sure have seen new stories about this not even just in the state but frankly nationally I think that's frankly appalling and so the fact that that hasn't been done in this situation and they're continuing to put money in it and make sure the people who can live there are living so comfortably and with their dignity I think really is critically important and gives me a lot more confidence so with that said I know once again we are not uh voting on this project this evening I know this is not this is going to come back on June 27th but I I will state this last and I'll probably repeat this at the meeting on the 27th a lot of folks have talked about the conversations that we've had with a lot of the residents in the north Tempe neighborhood association or Cavalier Hills you know I I first ran for Council unsuccessfully back in 2006 but then I know myself and council member devaro were elected in 2008 so we've been doing this for a long time together and this is one of the conversations that I've been having whether it's with Darlene Justice or Kim gaffy Loa or Lane caroway and a lot of people in that area for quite some time they have said we have seen a lot of investment take place in the downtown on along Apache Boulevard where light r is and a lot of other parts of the community that are really reaping the benefit of a lot of reinvestment uh that's going on but we feel like our section of temp and now what is now 85288 has frankly largely been sometimes forgotten by the city and you don't see a lot of private sector investment in this area and we desperately need it in terms of having more housing and different demographics to get some of the amenities like a better grocery store better restaurants better coffee shops a wine bar and other amenities that are really critically important to their way of life and I know those people have been longtime neighborhood they haven't been neighborhood chairs for three or four years they've been there for 10 20 30 years really trying to Steward these neighborhoods in a very responsible way and this has been a consistent drum beat that they've made to me and many members of the council since I first got involved in public service well over 15 years ago so I just want to make sure that I point that out that this is this is the kind of thing that they were talking about when I was first dipping my toe in the water in public service in the City of Tempe and I've seen that they're very excited about the possibility of a development like this coming to North temp so with that said I will be done for the evening um is there anyone else has any further comments or questions before we move on okay all right sounds good I will go ahead just remind everyone that the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for June 27th 2024 next up we're going to go back to item 8b1 which is the to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a zoning map Amendment from cssod and R and R4 Tod to mu4 Tod a planned area development overlay to establish development standards and a development plan review for a new five-story mixed use development consisting of 256 dwelling units with 13 live work units on 3.92 acres for Sterling Tempe located at 122 South Terrace Road the applicant is sellan Wilmer LLP good evening Mr wood good to see you again I'm back mayor members of the council uh Nick Woods SN wmer one one West East Washington Street and I represent dinstein um I have visited with each of you on this project um it has a very strong recommendation of support from staff DRC loved it so much they put on the consent agenda so we didn't have to do a presentation so with that I'm going to take all of 10 minutes again since I've shown it to you all but um just quickly um the site you're very familiar with there used to be a uh a very weird green color on the thing it's just an old old building and it's its time has come there's a helila monster painted on the side of it years ago um so that's a four-story building it will be demolished and um we'll have a very cool project to replace it with here here it is um yeah no accounting for Taste and color um again here's the site the site next to it's been uh vacant but it's part of the project for a while uh dinnerstein great National developer um they uh um actually we did the the projects called Atlas kin for them um they do quality work they're people like them right working with staff working with their team um you know people just like them and there's a reason because they're just they're just very very good and responsible developers um existing zoning basically R4 um and you know commercial shopping center Services were changing it to mu4 um as the mayor mentioned we do not have to do a general plan Amendment the 2050 plan uh resolved that for us um and uh here you can see where the the plan fixed that for us um conceptual site plan very welld designed very functional project that really works one of the keys is the live work component uh we did the canvas as some of you may remember just up the block and our client other client whole Brothers recently purchased it over this past year they Rave about those work uh live work uh units they said we wish you know when you did the original zoning you did another 50 of them because they really are very popular and it really gives students the ability to actually start their own businesses which is absolutely awesome you know we have access into the garage um uh both from lemon as well as from Terrace and amenities are interior to the Courtyard so we keep all of the students there we have a really nice you know pull in which I'll I'll show you here in a minute but basically it's a 4 Acre Site um we have you know 256 units we have 62 one-bedrooms 32 2os 53s and 154s um we're parking it at 0 55 uh which these days is a little overp parked but again um the idea is we have a big piece of land at 4 Acres so it works and dinner ste's experiences that ratio works very well for them uh here's a shot of the landscape rendering again working with staff we've got very cool Landscaping up and down Terrace uh as well as on Lemon you can see where the mortar court is and where the entry is to the garage both off of Terrace as well as off of uh Lemon Street sustainability um very big on sustainability um that's one of the Hallmarks um and you know the the project materials you can see this is a wonderful looking design what's interesting is I think I've done eight student housing Pro nine student housing projects in the past several years and we've stayed away from balconies balconies when they're done right are very nice amenity to a building and um staff had encouraged us to use balconies now ASU is not a big fan of balconies for several reasons one is they don't want their students throwing things off the balcony including themselves um and they don't want you know balconies connected so here the balconies are recessed to give some depth actually which really works and you can see how we've got the articulated surface es a lot of movement a lot of visual interest you know Landscaping at the base this this design is is really uh Superior um the architect did just a wonderful job and again working with staff right to come up with something that's really just absolutely lovely um and here's the motor Court this is so cool um you know kids especially use Uber lift they get picked up and dropped off by their friends this is so functional but it looks ni and it's a nice looking uh element to this and of course the corner which you see here um again makes a statement it's almost like a sense of arrival uh when you come here and being right here on light rail um is absolutely perfect so with that I'm done all right thank you just a quick note before I go to council M darar just want to note that the summary sheet for this item in the agenda packet mistakenly indicated that the development review commission approval was subject to modified conditions but however no modifications were made to the conditions at the DRC hearing so it should instead read subject to conditions so this correction is going to be made for the second and final hearing report for the June 27th city council packet so I wanted to make sure I read that into the record with that Council of bar thank you mayor Nick if you want to go ahead uh turn back to the aerial shot this is going to be a reference sure uh that one that dirt lot right there yes that's where this cut of my hand came from that was the junkyard I lived well there was not not there anymore we're sorry looked like it was almost still there with all those other cars in there so anyways being growing up growing up next to this facility I would often my eight-year-old brother at the time who tried to get me to go into the swimming pool which we never got into apparently and I don't know if we could swim at the time but he was trying to get me you usually he gets me to do all these things um but I have to say that you've had this before and did a good job keeping it alive and uh this is a perfect um uh blend especially for the neighborhood especially for that corner um what a strategic Corner that is to um it's look it's beautiful I I think it's a home run and I love the live work uh elements to that I think that's a real neat concept especially at ASU and kind of um the abilities of um the inovation of what ASU does and what their students do and you're doing it here so perfect thank you thank you sounds good thank you before actually we'll see I'll do vice mayor then I've got to open up the public testimony portion of vice mayor go ahead yes I love the project I think it's so cool looking and um I will be voting yes on it um in two weeks sounds good thank you all right anyone else right now okay well let me go ahead then and uh do the open the public uh testimony portion Mr wood and we might bring you back we might not we'll see so all right let's see here I preer not all right so uh the speak the card I have here this evening is from antil please come forward state your name and place of residence you have three minutes hi my name is an Cy resident and um I don't have an opinion for or against the project but uh it looks pretty and maybe it could use some shade in some of the areas that uh Mr wood said were inviting people in um but my main comment was on displacement because it looked like it was an area that had existing housing so it's kind of the same comments I had before and I appreciate on the the um the other units that you requested that the displacement plan be worked with the city um and so just in general on that project this project is when there's uh any um living places that are being torn down that people are living in it would be great if that could be kind of a standard and um especially to look at elderly residents and have some kind of help line available maybe through Tempe if it's just not working out for them because that that's one of the most vulnerable populations so so I would kind of ask for the same thing on that but maybe it's for students I really don't know that area but I just noticed that it looked like it was a place that people were living in so thanks excellent thank you is there anyone else in the audience wishing to address the Council on this item if so please get my attention all right seeing none uh I will close the public testimony portion of this um Mr wood just a quick question on my end because I know that I think we had talked about this before briefly about this project this is where the The Mark Apartments were before correct mayor that's correct okay um to to miss ch's questions wanted that are are those Folks at any sort of risk of displacement where they're mostly students in that building or because I mean I'm defin familiar with the complex so it's it's all students okay right sounds good okay thank you um any other comments or questions Council B Garland um I I like this I think it's the right structure the right amount of units I think it's the right thing for that area so thank you so much I think um I like the recessed um balconies and yes I'm one of the ones that's like oh balconies and college students that's dangerous but these look these look nice um so thank you so much for doing that um I will ask because I had mentioned it to um to Wendy rightel when she before she came did this presentation about the green building codes they're voluntary when we come back um for the second read would you be able to let us know if there is anything on there that you can start a checking off the box to see if you can do anything with the voluntary Green Building Codes there's um six departments have that the client would said yes that would be that would be great because we'd like it is voluntary but we would like to be able to see that that projects are starting to look at that um so I appreciate that that would be um wonderful and that was my only thing thank you great thank you anyone else any further comments or questions all right hearing none sounds good thank you Mr wood appreciate it just want to reiterate once again the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for June 27th 2024 so what we're going to do here now is finish all the eight B's and then we'll go back and do the 8 A's which we skipped which means the next item under the section is 8 B4 which is introduced and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the partial abandonment of a portion of a waterline easement located at a subdivision located north of Warner Road in West of Hardy Drive this is also a public hearing item so if there's any public testimony can you please get my attention all right seeing none uh Council any comments or discussion all right seeing none the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for June 27th 2024 the next item under the section is 85 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the abandonment of a waterline easement located on the west side of mlto drive and north of Weber Drive this is also a public hearing item is there any public testimony if so please get my attention seeing none uh Council any comments or discussion all right then the second and final public hearing on this item is also scheduled for June 27th 2024 the last item under the section is 8 B6 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance to amend appendix a schedule of fees and charges police of the Tempe city code to revise existing fees related to the production of Police Department Records and add a new fee for camera video review and redaction this is also a public hearing item is there any public testimony if so please get my attention seeing none we'll go ahead and close that P portion of the the public hearing um Council any comments or discussion all right the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for June 27 2024 next up uh on our agenda is non-consent agenda uh is ordinances and items for second hearing and final adoption and a vote on these items will be taken this evening the only item under the section is 8 C1 which is to hold the second and final public hearing to adopted ordinance to amend chapter 22 Article 1 of the Tempe city code relating to offenses miscellaneous by amending section 22-12 relating to failure to provide information this is also a public hearing item is there in the audience wishing to address the council during public testimony please get my attention okay I will I will close then the public testimony portion of this uh Council any comments or discussion okay it's been moved by council member garlet and seconded by council member chin please vote Yes yes I and that item passes 7 to zero all right now let's go back here to item 8 A1 so just want I should note as well just for the record I'll read this all items listed on the non-con agenda will be considered separately agenda item scheduled for introduction and first public hearing will be heard but will not be voted upon at this meeting agenda item scheduled for second public hearing and final adoption will of course be voted upon tonight Council counc members who may have a conflict of interest May abstain from voting on a matter and the city clerk will provide the council members with the disclosure form at this time first up 8A miscellaneous items bids contracts and resolutions 8 A1 is to approve a one-year contract renewal with signate dental health plan of Arizona Incorporated to provide a dental preferred provider organization plan and dental health maintenance organization plan for eligible city employees and their dependants just want to note as well that Human Services advised an edit to the fiscal impact amount from $1.4 million to $1.6 million council members any comments or discussion okay it's been moved by council member dvaro and seconded by vice mayor Adams please vote I yes and that item passes seven to zero the next item under the section is 882 which is to award a one-year contract renewal to Sun Life Assurance to provide stop loss insurance for the city's self-funded medical plan Council any comments or discussion so move been moved by council member hjge and seconded by vice mayor Adams please vote I yes and that item passes seven to zero the next item under the section is 883 which is to approve a two-year contract renewal with Allegiance Benefit Plan Management Incorporated to provide a preferred provider organization medical Network and administration Services flexible spending account Administration and Consolidated Omnibus budget reconciliation act Administration services for eligible city employees and dependants Council any comments or discussion been moved by council member dvaro and seconded by vice mayor Adams please vote I yes and that item also passes 7 to Zer the next item under the section is 884 which is to approve the utilization of a state of Arizona Cooperative contract with velocity Truck Centers for the purchase of solid waste collection Vehicles Council any comments or discussion it's been moved by council member dvaro and seconded again by vice mayor Adams please vote I yes that item also passed is 7 to0 the next item under the section is 885 which is to award a Construction contract to TF Contracting Services LLC for project number 32210 23b Wastewater collection system ductile iron pipe Rehabilitation Council com second it's been moved by Council MJ and seconded by vice mayor Adams please vote Yes I and that item passes 7 to zero which brings me to the last item under the section which is 886 which is to award job order number 6 to Valley rain Construction Corporation for project number 6308181225 East Orange Street 5805 South Lakeshore Drive and 2600 West Vineyard Road Council any comments or discussion so move it's moved by Council M dvar and I think seconded by Council M chin please vote Yes yes I and that item also passes s to zero which brings me to item number nine current events Council announcements and future agenda items once again want to note that council members May request that an agenda item be added to a future council meeting during their allotted time in accordance with the open meeting law there should be no discussion on the item other than to clarify the request and I will now call upon the council members for their comments and this evening I will start with vice mayor Adams thank you Mr Mayor okay one of my new favorite organizations in Tempe is the Arizona theater company and this weekend is the last show for the Tony nominated play true West so I'd encourage you I've seen the play it's awesome um to go out and to the Tempe Center for the Arts and enjoy a beautiful show at the beautiful TCA uh tickets if you want tickets you go to at.org when you can pick them up there park rangers park rangers are having a community hike this Sunday at 700 a.m.

meet at papico North Ballfield parking lot at the Arizona Heritage Center Park Ranger Jackson Dar will be leading the hike and it's free which is always good and you can go to bit.ly Ranger hike to register and finally finally I lost my spot with all the notes I took this evening but I'm I can get it back I think yeah so I got it so um we will be having an SCV meet meeting on June 17th at 1: p.m.

right here in council chambers um for our sustainability and economic Vitality Council committee and we have three items on the agenda this month we will be hearing about bicycling in Tempe a multimedia experience we also get an update from Municipal Utilities on solid waste and Landfield verion and we'll be having a presentation on app app apprenticeship program for economic development just a possibility of one so we're going to have that the a virtual option is available and a recording will also be posted on T's Channel 11 YouTube page after the meeting thank you that ends my announcements thank you so much vice mayor next up council member chin no announcements thank you so much next up council member Garland no announcements all right thank you so much next up council member Hajj yeah thank you I only have two I don't know which I can't see the screen so I can't see which one they have up uh the uh breakfast with Bretta okay yes I have breakfast lier data it is um on June 15th it's it is a great one it's um world ederly abuse awareness day um and it's going to be we're going to have the tempy police the sheriff Maricopa County Maricopa attorney and tempy fire and we're going to be talking about ways um to help and to to notice and and what happens if it does if someone does so um please come out and you know this affects everyone sooner or later life so thank you and last but not least uh we have our youth uh summer reading program and also also for our children so it starts from June 1st to August F August 1st and registration already began May 1 and that is all I have to say thank you oh and everybody Welcome um congrat um happy um pride month and also happy June teen because we probably won't see each other before then all right thank you so much appreciate it uh council member keing told me he doesn't have any announcements this evening next up then council member dvaro I got nothing all right thank you uh and I guess since we're not going to be back before this time I definitely uh wanted to wish my dad a very happy 85th birthday on June 17th of this year and what makes it even more special is my brother will actually be in town on business uh from June 13th through I believe the 16th so we'll have an opportunity to have not one but two dinners together as a family which is is wonderful rarely happens with him living in Virginia and me being out here but we pulled it off so so happy birthday dad I hope you're watching at home with that said that ends my comments that brings me to item number 10 public appearances just remember to note to the council too we have two more meetings right after this as well just so don't try to run off on me uh but public appearances here uh according to the arizota actually I should say is there anyone in the audience who'd like to address the council if so please come forward and state your name and city of residence for the record see seeing none I will close that portion of the hearing which brings me to item number 11 adjournment the next regular scheduled city council meeting will be on June 27th 2024 I'm going to adjourn this meeting and we're going to take 60 seconds and turn everything around and start the next meeting