Tempe advances Sky Tempe 281-unit tower and Marshall 189-unit housing to September vote despite density concerns

foreign good evening everyone welcome to the Tempe city council regular council meeting agenda in the Harry e Mitchell Government Center apologies for being a little bit late we were finishing executive session upstairs I remember what is called the order Council meetings can be watched in real time via Cox Cable channel 11 and at tempe.gov Tempe 11.

members of the public may also attend the meeting virtually through Microsoft teams I'd now like to invite everyone who's able and willing to join me in a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance please stand 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 if you want to go ahead I know we've got a video here too uh just regarding we're trying something a little bit different this evening uh usually I read the kind of rules for proper etiquette during Council meetings but this time around I think to save my voice a little bit uh staff decided to film a video so I think Eddie's going to go ahead and show that video 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 were 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 arrested by a Tempe Police Officer Tempe 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 thank you Eddie appreciate it that brings me to item number four meeting minutes this evening I will be assisted by council member Garland but she will first do the land acknowledgment all right thank you so much mayor I appreciate it 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 Autumn known as Pima piposh known as Maricopa and their ancestors extend far beyond our city this land continues to be spiritually connected to the Autumn of the Salt River Pima Maricopa County community and the Gila River Indian Community and we accept the responsibility of stewarding those places and solemnly pledge to consider this commitment in every action and then mayor if you'd like me to go ahead and make the motion yes please so councilman if you'd look to approve uh approval of City Council meetings item 4A all right I'd like to make a motion to approve the council meeting minutes for a one through four a five okay it's been moved by councilmember Garland and seconded by council member Keating please vote um okay and that item passes unanimously seven to zero next up we have item 4B acceptance of board commission and committee meeting minutes council member Garland I'd like to make a motion to accept board commission and committee meeting minutes for B1 through 4b12 it's been moved by councilmember Garland it's seconded by council member Hodge please vote and that item also passes unanimously seven to zero next up uh we've got I've got a few announcements here under item number five if Council would like to join me at the front thank you all right so first up here we have under item 5a1 lawn Griffith's lifetime of service recognition day Proclamation I'd like to invite Lon to come up as well as his family who's with him too so I will tell you all um I had the opportunity to meet lawn first in 2005 uh when I first had the opportunity to join the kiwadis club of Tempe uh I've been a member of that club now for 18 years and lawn has been just an absolute Hallmark of that organization he has done the newsletter for each and every year uh he does it at no cost at the club it's just something that he does to make sure that kuanians know exactly what's going on in terms of these service projects and things they're doing in the community to benefit the children of the City of Tempe and Beyond he's also just an incredible human being he's someone that we have all long admired not just in the Kiwanis Club but frankly across the City of Tempe because he's a person who truly believes in service it's not about recognition it's not about accolades or getting credit for anything it's just because he's just an incredibly good and decent human being and I remember one of my favorite meetings with lawn ever was when I was first getting into public service he and I had an opportunity to go over to extreme being cop shop over at McClintock and Southern and I was sort of talking to him about how someone runs a campaign and one of the things I didn't know he was going to do was he actually had saved pretty much every direct mail piece for about 20 to 25 years that he had received during council elections and so he had an opportunity to pull out that large packet of information and he showed me all of so I had a chance to flip through them and frankly gain quite a few ideas that I'm sure I used as I ran for office but that's just one of my funny stories about you know working with lawn and knowing lawn for so many years but it's everybody knows who's ever come across him and who's worked with him at the Kiwanis Club or University Presbyterian church or the East Valley Tribune or any number of places he's just an absolutely incredible man so I'm just honored to be able to read a proclamation and so the proclamation reads whereas lawn Griffiths a resident of Tempe since June of 1984 has completed 40 Years of Journalism as a reporter editor and columnist for various Publications including the Tempe Daily News and Tribune the town crier and Cox Arizona newspaper and whereas he displayed exceptional Community involvement and leadership as an elder Deacon and Trustee of the Presbyterian Church board member of the American Red Cross and Tempe History Society and former chair of the Tempe Community Council Tempe Community the Action Agency Tempe Salvation Army Corps and the Adolescent pregnancy and parenting program with the Tempe Union High School District and whereas lawn devoted 37 years as a member of the kiwantis club of Tempe years marked by serving as Club president publishing the book club of clubs 60-year history of the Kiwanis Club of Tempe and becoming a five-time recipient of the club's Kiwani end of the year award and whereas his passion for and achievements in service were acknowledged the rewards such as the Tempe Community council's Don Carlos humanitarian Ward and Tempe leadership's outstanding Community leadership award an induction into the Arizona Veterans Hall of Fame in 2011 and Tempe history society's Living Legends Hall of Fame in 2004 and whereas long truly dedicated himself to improving the lives of the people around him through Civic engagement and Community leadership and whereas the City of Tempe recognizes the amazing work of Lon Griffiths and his commitment to the Tempe Community the State of Arizona and his Nation where his legacy will live on forever in the hearts of all of those who he continues to impact now therefore I Corey Woods mayor of the City of Tempe Arizona to hereby declare July 27 2023 as long Griffith's lifetime of service recognition day in Tempe Arizona foreign [Applause] thank you [Applause] Lord I want to know did you want to say a couple of words actually and also just in case I want to say for his family and for the Kiwanis Club members who I know who are all here to support them this evening if you'd like to come down as well after he speaks to come get a photo we would love to have you so long okay I've been an editor and writer for almost 60 years for very many Publications almost always been a manager but I've had an epic adventure with the Tempe Community I graciously appreciate this recognition tonight when I arrived in 1984 to the city of Tempe as a city editor or the Daily News I began meeting and knowing so many people here and they asked me to serve on their boards their committees and their agencies people like Tom canasi Bob Ashcroft Linda bolduck of the Tempe spread cross committee and my first engagement right out of Exchange Club over the years I have had some of them some kind of a road role with a couple dozen organizations here most are still very thriving oddly I was president of the Tempe Community Action Agency board signing payroll checks there every other week at the same time I chaired the Tempe Salvation Army Advisory Board I always wondered if there's a conflict of interest but the mission was always the same the Tribune newspapers generously allowed me to come and go at all times of the day the attend Community meetings through though it meant working lots of nice slate back in the office to catch up but temp is officially honored me with the Don Carlos humanitarian award 28 years ago so that I think tonight is just more a lot more Deja Vu the Qantas Club of Tempe I must say which I think about 20 people here from my club here tonight has Billy been the horse that especially carried me through almost four Decades of service so thank you Mary woods and thank you city council you have given me a big booster guy who sits and watches reruns of The Lawrence Welk Show on Saturday afternoon Arizona PBS [Applause] all right y kalanians or family want to come down come on down Council let's see if we can move out of the way let them get some photos hey how you doing [Music] thank you [Music] so guys yeah this is kiwanas and family and family yeah this is council member garland from the heavens as a fellow kawanian Ron Griffith you rock I love you one two three thank you [Applause] you've done good buddy congratulations all right are we done down here or do we have more no we got one more we have another one okay [Music] all right all right next up my my next item is the swearing in the oath of office for our new police chief Kenneth McCoy love to see if you could join me down here chief [Applause] all right so please repeat after me chief I Kenneth D McCoy Jr hi Kenneth McCoy Jr do solidly swear that I will support the Constitution and I will support the Constitution of the United States of the United States and the Constitution and laws and laws of the State of Arizona and the charter and the charter codes and ordinances of the city of Tampa that I will bear true faith and Allegiance and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the same and defend them and defend them against all enemies against all foreign and domestic foreign and that I will faithfully and impartially and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of the office of Chief of Police in and for the City of Tempe in City of Tempe according to the best of my ability according to the best so help be God or so I do affirm so help me God exit thank you congratulations chief [Applause] thank you [Applause] thank you one two three one one two three thank you thank you thank you and of course Chief it's not official until you and I both signed so I'm going to have you sign right in front of everyone here we have plenty of witnesses great thank you [Applause] foreign and next up we have item oh that's right thank you first put the record two that is my incredible new Aid Mariana Pena as well making a cameo during her first council meeting so give her a big round of applause [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] so I want to next announce the Tempe Police Department awarded accreditation from the Arizona law enforcement accreditation program this is actually going to be under 5 B1 under city manager announcements so I want to say first of all congratulations to our Police Department for achieving the Arizona law enforcement accreditation this rigorous and prestigious accreditation process is a systematic method of conducting a detailed voluntary internal review of law enforcement agencies policies procedures operations and training alepp's mission is to ensure compliance with established standards and a clear statement of professional objectives which represent current and professional industry industry best practices in the safe effective efficient and non-discriminatory delivery of law enforcement services in the state of Arizona thank you to Chief McCoy and his staff for their dedication to continued Improvement accountability and excellence in their service to our community thank you [Applause] we've got many members of Tempe PD here if you'd like to come down and join for the photo oh come on [Applause] all right next up here is item 5a3 United Arizona employees Association or uaea Jackie owishko the scholarship presentation I'd now like to invite Billy Vickers up to come join us all right thank you good evening mayor and council members I'm Billy Vickers president of the United Arizona employee Association um I stand before you today with great pleasure and a sense of gratitude As We Gather here to induct the recipients of the 2023 uaea Jacqueline jockey owissika scholarship program allow me to express my sincere things for graciously including us in your agenda this evening and the uaea scholarship program sets forth a rigorous criteria to ensure that only the most deserving individuals are awarded this prestigious recognition as a uaea jockey scholar to be eligible to applicants must either be a member or a child of the member they are required to submit an original essay chosen from six topics along with their academic transcripts a comprehensive summary of their honors Awards community service and other notable extracurricular activities to maintain a fair and unbiased evaluation the applications are carefully assessed by our evaluation Committee in keeping with our commitment to impartiality all applicant materials are thoroughly reviewed without revealing the identity of the applicants I am delighted to announce that based upon their exceptional performance and outstanding achievements the evaluation committee has recommended two exceptional students to be the recipients of this year's scholarship it is a testament to their hard work and dedication and we are proud to honor them this evening thank you for your attention and support as we continue to invest in the future of our community Through the uaea Jacqueline jockey uwashika scholarship program without further Ado I'll yield the floor back to you mayor to help us celebrate recognize these remarkable students as jockey scholars in each will receive a one thousand dollar scholarship pleasure all right so the first 2023 uaea Jackie scholar is Mason Kaminsky who was the son of City of Tempe employee Diana Kaminsky who works in Community Development I'd love to see if they can come up and join us [Applause] so Mason here has a GPA of 3.903 I want to make sure to get all of those numbers in there and he's starting his junior year at the University of Arizona and he's majoring in Neuroscience Mesa has been included on the Dean's List three times including two with distinctions he successfully completed 11 honors courses with 10 grades of a and one B for his essay Mason selected tell us about a piece of media so film album literature or game that you believe everyone should see listen to or play and then of course why so Mason wrote that everyone should read the brothers karamazov by Theodore Dostoyevsky he goes on to State and the karamazov family each of them showing their Humanity in their flawed nature and the way the characters in The Way their characters develop as the story goes on in summary Mason explains Dostoyevsky approaches his stories from a much more character-focused perspective relying on great use of character development to drive the plot keep the reader interested and capture the nature of humanity in his Works dostoevsky's greatness stems from his uncanny ability to capture essential aspects of humanity in his characters in exploring the fundamental questions in ideologies in his characters Hearts his reader contemplates the central principles of Being Human Mesa has received numerous honors and awards with highlights including Falcon award for football and Tennis the Iron Man Award for playing three or more Sports National Spanish exam gold medal BSA national outdoor awards for camping 86 nights and Hiking over 230 35 miles received the order of the arrow which is scouting's National Honor Society and many more Awards and honors he played o-line varsity football goalkeeper for Varsity soccer along with tennis singles and doubles Mason gained experience at his major of Neuroscience through working at the Cohen research lab where he reports he examined the effects of ketamine on reducing dyskinesia and the associated 80 megahertz Spike and a levodopa treated rat model of Parkinson's disease it's all here I'm telling like I'm telling you he's an amazing young man Mason's goal is to attend medical school after completing his undergraduate degree congratulations to Mason Kaminsky [Applause] in the middle here you gotta come you've got to come next I can't take that all right here we go one two three one two three [Applause] all right then our second uaea Jackie scholar is eastlander Bermudez the daughter of City of Tempe employee Hilda Bermudas who works in the Tempe Police Department so I'd like to have them join us up here right now there we go [Applause] so islada has a GPA of 3.9 it is starting her freshman year at Chandler-Gilbert Community College majoring in nursing islada completed over 16 honors courses and several AP courses she's been in the National Honor Society for two years and graduated high school in May laude with honors for her essay islada selected what is your dream job she writes that after watching nurses have courage and resilience to save lives while putting their own at risk during covet 19.

I knew that being a nurse would make a difference in my community it would give me this sense of gratification knowing that I'm using my platform to better my community and to help people who are in need of medical attention I would also be able to fill the shoes of my family who have dedicated their careers to giving back as well becoming a nurse just overall feels right and knowing that I will have a voice and will have a platform to make a difference in this world is all I could have wanted in a career career I never really had a dream job growing up instead I had this desire to be heard and to make a difference in my community so we Slaughter plays soccer volunteers that Feed My Starving Children and she makes Paper Cranes for hospice patients once again let's give you slana a big round of applause as our Jackie scholar number two thank you thank you so much next up item 5a4 which is development review commission appointment I want to congratulate Larry Tom on his appointment to the development review Commission that brings me to item 5B city managers reports and announcements Madam city manager thank you Mr Mayor I just have one announcement thank you for taking 5b1 and congratulating our Police Department again for the accreditation for 5b2 is acknowledging our very own Chad Schleicher economic development program manager who recently received the inaugural emerging Economic Development professional of the Year from the Arizona Association of Economic Development this award recognizing outstanding achievement and emerging Economic Development um advancements involvement and empowerment of future Economic Development is he laughing see there Chad there you are many professionals what we hear is lots of nominations were submitted for this inaugural award and it was a very tough competition but our very own Chad Schleicher received the award so congratulations Chad we just wanted to make sure that we acknowledge you publicly thank you excellent congratulations Chad thank you madam city manager that brings us to item number six public appearances according to the Arizona open meeting law the city council may only discuss matters listed on this agenda for discussion and 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 speak more than once and there is a limit of three minutes per speaker's president of the podium must State their name and city of residence 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 speaker's 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 that being said I now will go to my public appearance cards here and I said I will read these in the order in which they were received the first Speaker I have this evening is Rosa Harrison come on come on forward here please state your name and place of residence you have three minutes hello and thank you for allowing me to speak I'll be really brief um the main reason I wanted to come before you was to introduce myself I am a new business owner in Tempe although I do reside in Chandler um but basically we have we're opening a lounge and Cafe which is a really meticulously crafted social experience by day we're a cafe offering cappuccinos you know specialty coffees those types of things by night you're able to roll the stress of the day away with live music and a chef inspired menu the reason that I wanted to introduce myself and and let you know who I am is because we've noticed a huge problem with the vagrants in the area and so what we like to do is first of all make sure that you all are aware in our Plaza it is it is an issue and they are kind of you know damaging the property and you know kind of tearing things up so what we'd like to do is be proactive and maybe put some measures in place that can help them I guess maybe just not be so um desperate for shade and water and rummaging through the trash cans because they're hungry so basically we're going to over the next few weeks we're going to be curating our own policies and hopefully hopefully presenting them to you so that we can kind of get some things in place that can assist but we're hoping that we can get your help to kind of clean up the area because it's pretty bad over there okay thank you God bless you guys thank you so much um so we are the old Fuddruckers you guys know the old Fuddruckers on priest and Elliott um that's that's the building that I purchased so that's where we are so very easily to locate easy to locate it's gonna be awesome we're opening in October excellent okay thank you so much map city manager too is there a way we could follow up Miss Harrison afterwards or maybe have a member of our Human Services team reach out yeah Chief Reese is already reaching out there he is right there continue the further embarrassment to once again our our fire medical rescue Chief uh Greg Reese is now one of our interim Deputy city managers overseeing public safe [Applause] he didn't even turn around he was like I have business to take care of Cory I gotta go all right the next speaker I have this evening is Jason Harrison please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes hi uh hi uh Council and mayor Woods how you guys doing okay this one better oh me big guy yeah foreign Eddie has all the tricks um my name is Jason Harrison y'all just met my wife Rosa Harrison we uh we own two different types of businesses um she likes services in the community I do as well um uh the name of my business is Elevate you for Family Services my company is based in Phoenix and I'm a resident of Chandler Arizona but primarily we service over a hundred Children and adolescents in Guadalupe and Tempe Arizona all right the purpose of my visit is to get pointed in the right direction to do a gun buyback program funded by myself uh with my own personal money as well as my business partners Rosa and Byron Jackson there in the back and the reason for this effort is in direct response to some sad news uh one of the kids in my program Alize Valenzuela a 15 year old girl uh was lost on July 25th to gun and violence on the Tempe Guadalupe border so I'm here kind of just to get some help and some back-end from Council and I feel like uh if I get that I can make Guadalupe and Tempe a better place thank you thank you so much all right we just missed the chief I know but I I didn't want to ruin his moment but I wanted to get pointed in the right direction city manager Kim can also get him Union with me and everybody else because this is something we all can help out with absolutely thank you thank you sounds good thank you so much the next speaker I have this evening is David sokolowski who I think will be appearing virtually this evening all right Mr sokolowski can you hear me yes can you hear me yes sir please state your name and place of residence you have three minutes my name is David sokolowski and I live in Tempe I'm very disappointed right now because I feel the city is contributing to the housing crisis at least in this situation it's the city that has been restricting the supply of housing even the Miller state currently demands 300 000 units to supply it to solve the supply shortage in one example of the City of Tempe zone of the Apache Central project for 65 units per acre but put a limit of 50 units per acre costing our state 60 market rate units and 60 low-income units why can't the city get out of the way and let developers work the City of Tempe reduced The Marshall Project by half costing our state 141 units that would have contributed to our state's housing goal and literally all the city needs to do is just get out of the way you will also vote on the sky project that could add 281 units to the state's housing goal voting yes will allow the solution to the housing crisis to move forward if you vote no then you will become a direct cause of the housing crisis if I add up all the units that I'm aware of right now Tempe has the opportunity to contribute 542 units to our state but is restricting the supply of housing during a housing shortage honestly that's why we needed to pass SP 1117 because it's very clear to me that Tempe is not capable of meeting the demand for housing based on current demand or future job growth I have heard the cities doing everything it can to solve the housing crisis but the city might be considered a leading cause the city council should immediately ask for the developer to bring back the original project with the full 330 units and then you should vote to approve both of the large development projects on the agenda thank you thank you so much appreciate it the next speaker I have this evening is Kim Gaffney Loza please come forward stay at your David place of residence you have three minutes good evening I'm Kim Gaffney Losa um I'm a neighbor in North Tempe and of course you know that I'm here to talk about the desert management plan that we've been anxious to get for over a decade um I really think this fits in with our land acknowledgment because we are stewards of the land and this land's been neglected for so long and unfortunately has suffered a great deal as a result of it so I'm urging you to please approve the contract with Logan Simpson the other thing I just want to make mention of too is with our Ranger program allowing them the opportunity to be able to to give citations I just know from the many times I have sent to people you know what they are doing violated our regulations in the Parks and preserves I to put it mildly they ignore them or give me some rather colorful feedback about letting them know what is appropriate and what is not appropriate so please please you know my passion on this please pass both of those two things thanks very much thank you so much the next speaker I have this evening is Darlene Justice please come forward stay true David place of residence you have three minutes lived in Tempe for a long time many years I too am here to talk about 7b9 that for the preserves that we're getting the management plan this will be wonderful because pet for Papago Park has just been neglected in in many ways this will be a great management plan we'll end up getting eventually getting Trails marked and a whole bunch of great things are going to happen we're doing all of the housing right now open spaces become more and more important the park is becoming more and more important because there are more and more people who do not have access to outs open space the other thing is I thank you very much for going back to park rangers we had really good uh effort with them years ago and it solved a lot of problems I think that this time it'll be even better it's really focused and you're one thing please remember we have turf parks and we have desert parks they are quite quite different and so we need to make sure that the park rangers are versed in both areas and especially the desert I even mentioned the other day that uh Tempe PD does have horseback and there are occasions on Horseback in Papago Park The Preserve you can see things you don't see otherwise you can see down in the arroyas but I thank you very much for both of these this is a huge thing for Tempe and uh thanks a lot thank you so much the next card I have here is from Dr Jerry Coddington please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes hello there Mr Mayor we've known each other for like 20 years I'm here to rain on your parade I'm going to talk about the police department hundreds and hundreds of deputies and officers think your Tempe Police Department is a joke they call you different names I had one Deputy tell me that you're you couldn't catch a Tempe PD couldn't catch a cold let alone a criminal I'm a hundred percent disabled veteran I have a doctor in public administration and I just retired after 50 years as being a reserve deputy sheriff which I have done a lot of things that your police department has not I have a son who who's with Phoenix PD he hates Tempe PD with a passion I have a son-in-law and a daughter who work for DPS they feel the same about it hundreds and hundreds of officers from around Tempe do not like working with Tempe PD because they think your Police Department is a joke now I'll tell you what we did there was a Maricopa County sergeant and myself who arrested two burglars never called you we called a car out of Guadalupe and booked him on a county Dr rather than getting your what I would call incompetent Police Department involved so Keystone Cops is what your Police Department is known as around the valley many agencies do not like dealing with your Tempe Police Department my son was a work 13 years in homicide and had a deal with your Detectives there was a case there was a shooting down by on Baseline your detectives took it two weeks later they called Phoenix PD this is too big for us we can't handle it can you take it over so they had to go back and reinterview all the officers that shot the bad guy and you didn't Tempe PD did not win any points and like I said we've arrested Burr a burglar two burglars and didn't call Tempe PD because I think 10 pftd is incompetent I do not trust them I do not respect respect them I spent 50 years as a police officer and did so many things that the Tempe Police Department has never done I spent six years doing extraditions been to 49 of the 50 states and when I made a four-day trip to Paris France so I that's time sir I'm sorry okay traffic yeah that's that's the three minutes I'm sorry that's the end of the time okay can I just say one thing about your traffic engineer I can't unfortunately I've got to adhere to the time limit sir but this is there's the article that says you're on working on Improvement I wish the chief had stayed here because I have some ideas on how to help improve them sir that's time thank you okay all right that was the last card that I have I just want to make a note too I know that there are a couple of cards that I have on the sky project so I will call those at the point that we call that agenda item later on this evening since we didn't want people to think I'm moving on without recognizing those comment cards but is there anyone else in the audience who wishes to address the Council on another item if so please just get my attention okay seeing that I will close that portion of the meeting and I'll move on to item number seven which is the consent agenda all items listed on the consent 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 a 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 through the consent agenda is listed as miscellaneous items 7a1 through 7A 11 Awards of bits and contracts item 7b1-7b18 and resolutions item 7c1 through 7c 14.

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 get my attention now seeing none I'll go ahead and close that portion of the meeting Soul move hold on Madam clerk were there any comments received from the public wishing to address the city council on a consent agenda public hearing item nothing additional okay sounds good Council are there any additional items that you'd like to have removed from the consent agenda for separate consideration okay then seeing none then I will look for a motion once again on item 7a1 through 7 8 11 7B 1 through 7b18 and resolutions item c7c1 through 7c14 it's been moved by account seven tomorrow seconded by council member Hodge please vote and that item passes unanimously seven to zero it moves us to page 21 of my agenda which is the non-consent agenda all items listed on the non-consent 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 items scheduled for second public hearing and final adoption will be voted upon tonight council 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 item A1 is to ratify the administratively approved annual excess Insurance renewal program for fiscal year 2023-2024.

Council any comments discussion so move it's been moved by councilmember Hodge seconded by vice mayor Adams please vote and that item passes seven to zero the next item of the section is 882 which is to award a two-year contract with three one-year renewal options to floresco Services LLC for the purchase and installation of street light poles masked arms and luminaries Council lady Commerce discussion it's been moved by vice mayor Adams who have a second Ed by council member Navarro please vote in Council regard I and that item passes seven to zero the next item under the section is 883 which is to adopt a resolution authorizing the mayor to sign amendment one to an intergovernmental agreement with the Arizona Board of Regents for and on behalf of Arizona State University to provide funding for Flash bus service counsel any comments or discussion so move it's been moved by councilmember Hodge and seconded by council member Keating please vote and that item passes seven to zero the next item under the section is 884 which is to award a Professional Services contract to be an F Contracting Incorporated for providing traffic signal improvements and related services counsel any comments or discussion is there a motion moved by councilman Keating and seconded by vice mayor Adams please vote that item passes seven to zero the next item 885 has been removed from the agenda by staff and will be brought back at a later meeting which brings us to the next item which is 886 which is to award a Construction contract of vincon engineering Construction LLC for minor concrete improvements on-call maintenance and emergency repairs Council any comments or discussion been moved by councilman consecuted by council member Hodge please vote and that item passes seven to zero the last item under the section is 887 which is approve a change order allowance with Hayden building Corporation but the Tempe Municipal operations center GMP number three Council any comments or discussion so moved it's been moved by councilman Navarro and seconded by vice mayor Adams please vote and that item passes six to zero with council member Keating apps next up is item a b ordinances and items for introduction and first hearing these items will be read and introduced tonight but no votes will be taken the second hearings and votes for items eight B one and eight B2 are scheduled for September 7th 2023.

the second hearings and votes for items eight B three through eight B6 are scheduled for August 10 2023.

so the first item under the section is 8b1 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt a resolution authorizing a general plan density map Amendment from high density up to 65 dwelling units per acre to high density Urban core more than 65 12 units per acre adopt an ordinance for a zoning map Amendment from CSS Tod commercial shopping and services District transportation overlay District Corridor to mu4tod mixed-use high density District transportation overlay District Corridor a planned area development overlay to establish development standards and a development plan review for a new seven-story mixed-use development with 189 units for the Marshall at Tempe located at 1057 East Apache Boulevard the applicant is aptitude development with the Let's see we normally I guess it's our first hearing so we typically would ask the applicant to get a full presentation for public transport transparency as I can't say the word tonight apparently uh and I see here in front of me here Nick Wood from stellen Wilmer good to see you mayor nice to be here um thank you mayor members of the council Nick Woods selling Lumber won Arizona Center and I represent aptitude that was a long introduction mayor um I was thinking the same thing Mr wood I was like no it's lengthier than normal so uh it's probably my fault actually um so as you all know um I've been involved in many of the student housing projects in this area the council has made it clear over the years that there are certain areas in the City of Tempe where they will support student housing and other areas where they will not uh one of the areas that is Ground Zero for student housing is what you see here on the screen the site that we're talking about tonight is of course has a yellow border and it's on Apache uh to the West you can see rural is the the street that runs north south um and you know right next door to us you see that large project that's the district some of you are on the council and I brought the district forward it probably was about eight nine years ago that project actually has 900 beds and it was a time when it was really one of the first student housing projects in Tempe that was Private they really didn't know how to park it so they parked it at one one space per bed so there are 900 unit bezen air 900 spaces in that parking structure obviously that structure isn't even close to half full they actually lease spaces to folks who live in 922 Etc we also did the project right across the street to the north and that project has arise you may remember that it goes up to 15 Stories the rise is now called the Carmen it has 833 beds in it and then of course to the east of that on the screen it looks like it's under construction but it's not completed we did the Apollo project that is a big student housing project that has 946 beds to it as you may recall we actually had to buy a piece of property from the city at the corner uh at Terrace to do that and then around the corner we also did the canvas which is 837 beds so when aptitude came to me and and Noel was with me here tonight on this project you can see it's a much smaller site the District of course is extremely huge it goes from Apache on the North down to Spence on the South but this one is the smallest and it'll be the smallest student housing project in the city but it'll be one of the nicest I think for example they'll be the only student housing project with underground parking which is which is very very unique to the east of us are apartments and to the south of us are town homes and those Town Homes were built fairly recently um when we first discussed this project with staff um we were thinking a taller building like somewhere in the 10 to 15 story range staff brought something to our attention which I think was appropriate and that is we do have ownership uh units right behind us and because of that we really should bring the height down to about the same height as what the district is and that's about 90 92 feet and we agree with staff we thought it was the right thing to do um so here's a little closer shot of it as you can see um uh it's the existing Hotel it's actually the Sleep Inn Suites hotel and um and then you can see a little bit of the Townhomes behind us this is the Sleep Inn Suites existing condition today and you can see the district that's beyond it you know one of the things we did with the district so long ago is it has balconies well you don't do balconies in student housing anymore um and of course ours does not have any balconies although that one does the site you know is currently zoned CSS we're asking for an mu4 which is the same as all of the other student housing projects that we've done um the general plan shows a mixed use component because it's such a small site we're asking to change the general plan to increase the density per acre again it's just because of the size and dimensions of the site that is driving that that request uh the site plan um is very cool actually it has two ways in and out of the parking structure you come in on the west and then there's plenty of area interior for pickup drop off Uber deliveries you name it so nothing has to happen on the street then they can exit on the Eastern side of it you can see where we have a restaurant we'll have some outdoor dining but one of the things you see here is the lobby in the entry as we've done with prior student housing projects we did two things that are critically important number one we went to visit with Dr rund the dean of students with ASU we introduced our management team to Dr run it's a critically important for successful private student housing projects to have that communication and have that connection with the University both before they build it and after they build it and they're operating the other thing that we did is we entered into a security plan with the Tempe Police Department as you recall when I was doing the rise it was a time of great upheaval in the private student housing world right a young co-ed fell to her death across the street at 9 22 and and at the district some you know knucklehead fraternity kids were beaten up on each other and it was problems and it was significant so I took your initial you know security plan that you use for bars and restaurants because you require that so I took that we adjusted it modified it and created a security plan with Tempe Police Department right to set forth some operating standards and conditions so for example when anyone comes in either residents or visitors they have to check in at the front desk they don't have access there's no other access around the building where anybody can sneak in for example we have security guards on site we have you know management living on site we have we'll have cameras video everything all the way around it and one of the reasons is and having this discussion with with Dr rund several years ago and that is number one the safety of the students is Paramount but more importantly if the students don't feel safe or if they're in a living situation where they're unhappy they may not just change their place of residence they may change schools so the idea is to set all of this up right first and foremost for the safety of the students but also rights for the community and that's how this works so very well our landscape plan again working with staff working with your water department you know you can see at the bottom of the slide there's a large green space well there's basically water lines and other things that run through there so we worked on moving the building back creating some Landscaping back there creating the Landscaping up along the front and on the sides and of course the parking structure is two levels one down and one at grade but you can see the gray on either side those are units that basically cover the parking structure so no one will see it from the outside our development standards table basically it's 189 units which is much smaller than the others a mixture of Studios ones twos threes and fours are um I think at 15 of those and 59 of the fours which again is typical of student housing but the the larger you know number of beds per unit um so 189 units 479 beds 92 feet of height which is seven stories just like the district landscape area 29 feet vehicle parking 168 spaces and 316 spaces for bicycles and that's parking at a 0.31 ratio um material boards again aptitude does a great job with respect to the quality of their product as you can see from the material board we're not talking about a whole bunch of Stucco we're talking about you know Summit Brick we're talking about Precast um uh cement things I mean it's just great colors great materials Etc and here's the architecture right I have not seen architecture that's cool in the student housing project I don't think ever you can see the different colors that different articulation the the pop-outs the the materials you know the even the roof right has significant modulation and and changes the grade level The Pedestrian realm right I call it the 20 by 20.

when you stand on a sidewalk and you're next to a building that's more than a story or two right your experience level is 20 feet deep and 20 feet high as you can see here they take a a great approach to creating something that's very comfortable lots of shade lots of stone lots of Windows you can see where the end where the entrance is on on the west side of the building um Nice Landscaping it's just it's just a beautiful set of architecture here's another shot from a different angle again you can see the the district uh in the far end on the right but you can see where the exit is right here again we have retail and you can see where that entry is but it's just a really beautiful building beautiful architecture my hats off to that the architect on the design um in the back because we have those Town Homes uh talking with staff we thought that even though the views from the units really are East-West so people along Spence will still be able to see this building so the idea was it we create really unique architecture there as well so we have the pop-outs again the articulation so it's four-sided architecture that's really pretty cool and then you can see where the setback is in the back from our building to the wall and of course all the landscaping and things that we have in the back here's another shot of that you know and this would be a view again from the town homes parking lot um one of the things that staff asked us to do was to park this at a 0.5 spaces per bed um and I understand why staff is asking that that's kind of been the norm we did the the one for one with the district and then we went to 0.5 and 0.5 I understand you know adhering to percentages because of course the percentages is what sets forth precedent for the next case but here because we're so small I wanted to give you kind of a comparison right so on the top you see the Marshall attempty the second colony of 189 units we have 479 beds and when you look down the line right for the Carmen right the Carmen has 833 beds you go down to the cul-de-sac which we did not do but you basically approve that with no parking that is 786 beds the Apollo we did is 946 beds University houses 879.

canvas is 837 product place is 783. so we're about half the size of most of the other student housing projects but then when you look at the amount of units that won't have a parking space that's in the far right hand column so the number of beds without a parking space if you approve this in our project at 0.31 is 326.

you go across the street to Carmen they have 430 units that don't have parking it still works for them same thing with the cul-de-sac right 740 spaces don't have beds on our parking the Apollo 473 beds don't have parking University House 640 canvas 364.

so basically we don't have as many beds without parking as the others in fact we have significantly less and still it all works um in in speaking to my client gilbane who built the Apollo we have another project that we're going to be coming to you with uh fairly soon and I asked them I said what do you do I mean how you manage the question of cars right with your tenants and he says real simple we only have X number of spaces and if someone wants to rent a space if one's available they can rent it if not they're told they can't bring a car and we've never had a problem he said because so many of our kids don't have cars anyway I mean I've got five kids four went through college right none of them had cars and that was for a reason I don't want my kids in college driving a car and I've got another one that's about to go in a year and she's not getting the car either um so the bottom line is I understand the ratio and and you know I have the highest regard for staff and this is just basically a an agreement to disagree on the ratios because again rather than talking about percentages we're just talking about actual numbers so we're not going to have that many bets and again no one else has had any problem with it so um and the other problem we have is when you take a look at our building and our site plan you know we lowered the building right um and of course that compresses everything if we were taller we could provide more parking spaces because there's simply more room but we actually had to go underground with the parking now I think most of you know that underground parking structures alone are expensive when you go underground it increases that cost significantly that's why very few in fact no other student housing has underground parking so with that we would respectfully request when we come back approval the only thing we would ask is that we modify that stipulation for staff and that you are comfortable with the 0.31 ratio under these specific circumstances with this specific site and it's not deemed to be some kind of uh precedent going forward but again every project has to stand on its own merits uh and and this one because of the circumstances I think that the 0.31 is appropriate and I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have thank you so much let me do a really quick thing before we go to council questions since this is a public hearing item I want to see if there's anyone in the audience wishing to address the city council on item 8v1 speakers have up to three minutes if there's anyone please get my attention all right seeing that I'll close the public hearing portion uh Council Mr wood is still up here are there any questions vice mayor Adams yes thank you uh and for your presentation I really appreciate that you took the time to look at the joining property and lowered the height so it wouldn't adversely affect them so thank you for doing that we really try to work with our our neighborhoods and and be good partners I know um with our neighborhoods um this area is is probably the best transportation area in the entire Valley we've got light rail streetcar buses orbit scooters bicyclists you name it you can you can ride around um to school very very easily and you can also walk um and I I just um I'm I'm very happy to see that you're proposing less parking places I mean cul-de-sac another development with no parking spaces is already sold out so a lot of people are getting out of out of their cars they're they're not interested in driving cars anymore and it's a lot less expensive you don't pay insurance you're not putting so much danger and I I would I will be supporting less parking with the 0.31 as a result of this and obviously the buildings around that aren't aren't needing the parking anyway um so you know things have evolved and a lot of the young younger adults are not driving at all they don't many of them don't want to drive ever so I just think we can uh um I'm very supportive of that also we have Uber lift I mean I mean kind of you don't even have to drive anymore if you don't want to because you have so many options and the City of Tempe has the best transportation in this Valley so I think we need to recognize that and take advantage of it and move forward with less parking thank you for your presentation sir thank you vice mayor anyone else on Council any comments or questions on this item I don't have any either thank you Mr wood so just once again to us what a reiterate for the public here the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for September 7th 2023.

the next item under the section is 8b2 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance for a planned area development overlay to modify Building height and the development plan review for a new 27-story mixed-use development with 281 units for Sky Tempe located at 780 South Myrtle Avenue the applicator Snell and Wilmer LLP and I see Mr wood you are back again members of council a long time no see Arizona Center and I represent the uh Hubbard group with your permission mayor my client cage Brown um would like to you know make some preliminary statements before I make my presentation I want to share with you before he speaks one thing though we did a high-rise project for them in downtown Phoenix it's already been constructed they're doing the interior work right now and they'll be leasing it up fairly soon and they've done work all over the country um it was interesting because we had a we had lunch this goes back over a year ago in Tempe and what he observed with cage and his partner John McClendon observed was there's a lot of student housing in downtown Tempe but there's no apartment to serve the young professional right the lawyers the doctors um people who are highly compensated um and this is what they do this is really their product so that's one of the reasons they were looking for a site and then finally found one so that mayor with your permission I'll turn it over to cage sounds good Mr Brown yeah can you hear me yes sir yeah thank you so for the record this is cage Brown I'm a partner with Hubbard Street group we're the developer of Sky Tempe council members vice mayor mayor thank you for your time tonight I would be at this hearing a person but unfortunately I have an out of town family wedding tonight we're excited to present our 281 unit Sky Tempe project this is a culmination of over 18 months of hard work and collaboration with the City of Tempe our firm hover Street group search for sites within Tempe for multiple years before finally finding the perfect opportunity in January 2022 at the northwest corner of Myrtle and University the City of Tempe masterfully crafted the Tempe General plan 2040 which guided our development plan from the very beginning 18 months ago for the subject site the general plan calls for a mixed-use high-density Urban core development at 300 feet tall all qualities our Sky Tempe development in bodies since 2014 the City of Tempe has added over 8 million square feet of Office Space however market rate housing options for young professionals remain limited as Nick noted we wanted to change this with Sky Tempe given the proximity to ASU student housing developments are abundant across town however Sky Tempe will offer a first of its kind housing product in downtown 281 luxury apartments targeted for young professionals through empty nesters rather than students it should be noted that our company hover Street group formally centered Partners have developed over 5000 units over 35 plus years and have never once filled a student housing project it is a completely different development plan and operations that frankly we can't execute as it's not our expertise to further prove our commitment we will restrict and not allow any of our two bedroom units in the one three venue unit to be rented by the bed which is a standard practice for student housing Sky Tempe will be one of the first lead certified Department buildings in downtown as you'll see in the presentation The Architects did an incredible job creating a building that not only anchors the prominent Myrtle and University corner with a very distinctive design but also provides for an enhanced pedestrian experience at the ground level which includes a little over 6 600 square feet of retail or restaurant space it should also be noted that as part of our development we will be donating to the affordable housing Fund in the amount of 20 percent of our permit fees but a minimum of two hundred thousand dollars in an effort to support mayor Woods Hometown for all affordable housing initiative overall our development team met with ASU on multiple occasions presented to the broader community and conducted dozens of meetings with City staff over the last 18 months we seamlessly integrated feedback and improved the overall aesthetic and development plan while adhering to the Tempe General plan 2040.

before passing over the presentation to Nick we also want to thank Diana Ryan and the entire city staff of Tempe for their hard work and collaboration the final product is something we all should be proud of we cannot be more excited to take the final steps and break ground next year Nick please take it from here thank you so much Mr wood uh mayor members of the council um some of you have known me a long long time maybe longer than you'd like um but you know that I'm a pretty principled guy and integrity to me is Paramount no matter what and I expect that of my clients just as I expected of myself um when they came to me with this project right the first thing I brought up since the first time one of the first things I brought up was jeepletes right I mean every high rise in downtown Tempe has a G play and um you know I walk them through you know the jeepletes here in town and both John and uh and cage looked at me and they said we don't need one and I said what do you mean you don't need one they said well because it's a luxury apartment rental our rents will be high enough that we don't need any assistance to help stabilize our rents during the first years of when we open it um and I said but you understand you're getting eight years worth of total abatement of your taxes with a Jeep lit and the city council you know uh will routinely again for a great project at least consider giving one he said yeah but we don't need one well that's of course music to my ears for several reasons number one it shows that level of Integrity number two it's great for the school districts um you know in downtown Phoenix right there are 23 jeepletes I've done 19 of them and each case I understand the implications for the school districts but again they're a great tool when it comes to um assisting and building where it needs to be done the city council of Phoenix right is also taking a hard look at this and they've decided just like John has right that when you're doing a luxury apartment project that's a high-rise rents have now high enough right that you really don't need the Jeep leg so again um it tells me a lot about the client and then when they say that look we understand that there's been many representations by many zoning lawyers and many developers that you know their high-rise building is not going to be student housing um and rather than asking you to believe them this time right since so many others have not been necessarily forthright and I'm not trying to be critical it's just things happen they've agreed to restrict right um there are two bedroom units and they have mostly you know Studios ones twos and then one three which of course is contrary to student housing to begin with but they'll agree to a restriction right to limit the two bedrooms and the three from being rented by the room now obviously if it's a studio and it's a one you're running by the room because you're running the unit and only has one room but again that tells me a great deal about the Integrity of this client um the site is at the northwest corner of the intersection of Myrtle and University um it's Main Street on Main right this is the area of high-rise development um and it's always important of course to get a quality developer coming forward with a project and and you've already learned a lot about my client without even meeting them um we have let me go to the next slide so when you look around us right we're surrounded by high-rises to the South we have Mirabella uh to the east we have the canopy Northeast Union Tempe Olive to the north of us the west and also to the north of us and then right next door to us right the East University that's going to have 453 units um which you know I don't know if it's going to be student housing or not but I've certainly heard rumors um so this is the place to put high rises and it's not just the fact that my client wants to build a high-rise and by the way that Jack-in-the-Box is over there I don't know if you remember but there's a building that's on 44th Street and Camelback in Phoenix it was called the London Center and and they've built right around the Jack-in-the-Box it was actually built into the building so you know considering the high rises that are around here that may happen at that location um so here's the existing condition um obviously it's the Salvation Army building um we've gotten comments back from HP HP does not believe that this building has any historic relevance in speaking with councilwoman garlich she asked if we might be willing to before it's demolished talk again to the HP and maybe to the museum to see if there's anything within the building and the inside or outside that may should go into into the museum and of course we will certainly do that um you talk about policy I know that there's a movement afoot um to ask the council to change your policy regarding high-rise development in downtown Tempe and elsewhere in the city and that's your your legislative prerogative right you have the ability on a going forward basis to change policy whenever you as a council deem inappropriate on the other hand right once you've established that policy once the general plan has been voted on by the voters developers and neighbors have a right to rely upon that so in looking before we even move forward with this before my client even purchased the the site we took a hard look at what you know is the city's policy uh and it's it's shown right here in these slides so for example um you know this is the city center Tod as I mentioned this is Main Street on Main and we're right there in it um you look at the general plan mixed use right we're mixed use we have 6650 square feet of retail which by the way is very cool because that's going to be a really high-end you know type of restaurant that's going to go there other than some of the the typical ones that you'll find um density right we're in the high density Urban core the urban core more than 65 dwelling units per acre we're there and then the last one is you look at the downtown Mill Avenue District Community design principles again policy this policy on our site shows up to 300 feet maximum height so with all of that right we um my client decided to go forward in Reliance of course upon the policy and and it makes sense um the site plan has gone through a lot of iterations again as you know I work in many municipalities in the valley and it's always such a pleasure to work with your staff um we had some design challenges when we started and staff was very helpful in helping us resolve those for example if you look at the top of the larger screen it says garage access you can see with the two little red diamonds or triangles are that's our entrance into and out of our garage it's the only entrance into and out of our garage and of course it's secured it has doors that come in down and you have to have a clicker right to actually open them and then we have right next to we have a loading area the idea is to take everything out of the alley so there can be no off-site uh anything right everything is all done on site so the loaning and unloading if someone's moving in the truck pulls in into the loading area because it's huge they unload they bring it up the truck leaves nothing in the alley nothing out on Myrtle nothing on University that kind of stuff drives everybody nuts um same thing with garbage pickup right everything is done on site but when we first had our design the aps yard that you see in the upper right hand corner right that's basically perpendicular to uh the ground was turned 90 degrees and it cut across the back along along the alleyway that caused a problem with a refuse pickup because unfortunately the the truck would have to cross in front of our garage access and how do we have our tenants not be able to get in and out even if it's only for five or ten minutes so we rearranged everything we moved the aps we got approval from APS to do that same thing with gas we moved it over to the right which of course created another opportunity that opportunity is to create a really nice open space a setback area that's very cool it's going to have a mural on it and I'll show you that you know in a minute um one of the things that jumps out at you when you look at this is the size of the public right-of-way Where the Sidewalk is and where the you know the detached sidewalk is as you can see on the right hand along Myrtle we have significant Landscaping it's very deep as well as trees and other things we also have the entrance into the lobby again this is very high luxury so we have entrance into the lobby uh you have the leasing that's right off the lobby mail room is right behind there and then of course you see the FCC as a Fire Control Center but you see the size of the commercial and in talking to staff staff said you know what why don't you kind of create a sense of arrival and also let's make sure that we have a good site triangle at the corner so we went ahead and we cut back on the building and again I'll show you that in a minute so it has that really unique luxury style Building look to it and again we've got great Landscaping things along uh University as well but this is this is a very cool building um our our development standards we have 51 Studios we have 171 bedrooms again that's that young professional young lawyers one of the things we need to do is ASU is such a tremendous institution right I teach at the law school um like a couple of my kids went here and um too many times right they graduate and they leave the city right they don't stay here well we want them to stay here as you know I lived here for years um so the idea is you know to create a a place for them to be well you've got again 171 bedrooms 59 two bedrooms and again we'll restrict those there's not no rental by the bed uh and one three bedroom I have no idea how the three bedroom came to be I think it was just some extra space they had but so it's a total of 281 units and the retail restaurant space is 6650 feet uh square feet and of course we have 300 um uh foot building height and looking at the parking under your code we're required to have 175 stalls we're providing 271 stalls almost 100 additional stalls now as I said in the previous presentation parking is damn expensive to build right you're talking forty thousand dollars or fifty thousand dollars of space so why would you build more than you have to well again the reason is when you're talking about young doctors lawyers professionals right highly compensated people you know they want parking spaces and sometimes they'll have two you have a couple right and they'll have two cars and the other thing is you're going to have guests right now if they're going to invite a guest they're going to invite them in um so so the bottom line is we're building more parking as part of the idea that again this is a very luxury high-end this will be the highest luxury high-end product in downtown Tempe by a huge margin um landscape plan again you can see at the bottom along the university those are all pavers we're Paving the sidewalk to make it look really cool you can see what we have that that cut in and then of course you can see the level of trees and and uh um Landscaping along Myrtle and then of course the entry into the lobby for the apartments is again very very high end the architecture is again very unique and again shows money spent when you look at the one on the left right you can see where the entry is into the retail but none of the architecture on any side of the building is the same this is not some big box or some big rectangle um basically you you look at the finishes you look at the top on the on the rooftop you have your clubhouse right you have everything you have your pool up there Etc so it's all on top but again is very high end you see the articulation in the building the surfaces the the the insets right even the balconies are are inset and then at the bottom right hand corner of that of the right hand slide you can see where the mural is going to be it's going to look kind of like you know something out of the Grand Canyon um but again it's set back it creates some space and creates some elements and you can see the the level of the landscaping and the quality this is just a very very very high quality building then you look at it from looking South along University that is the coolest wall I've ever seen in an apartment building um very unique very special and again no side is the same as the others of course Wells Fargo is going to end up going away and that's that other high-rise that's going to be built next door to us but as you can see the quality and the consideration and the care and the Elegance of this design but again the idea is to attract that highly compensated person keep our young professionals here um a place where you know my wife and I might want to live this is the ground level remember I told you that 20 by 20 right how does it feel standing next to a building does it feel like the building's leaning on you right or does it feel like a sense of place or a sense of arrival well here you see on the left hand side the Myrtle Market you can see what we're going to do with the pavers and things on the sidewalk you can see that indentation that we made again to create something special that's not cheap to do but what this is all about shade I mean we we know better than ever now over this past month how important shade is so we have a combination of trees and awnings to create shade on both sides of the building and then on that again that bottom left hand you can see the the uh the Landscaping um on on both but especially on that right hand slide that's the entry into the lobby for the apartments that ain't cheap that's very cool and very well designed again it's a sense of arrival when people who live there and they're walking it feels nice to walk in there and look at the landscaping and the depth of the Landscaping from the sidewalk down to the uh the curb um you can see on the right you know where we have that really cool kind of separation and then we have that mural that's going to be Beyond it um the only thing that we would ask is um again with respect to the commercial element staff has asked us if we could provide three commercial spaces for customers in our parking structure as I mentioned and as I shared with you our site plan let's just walk by it okay so as you can see where those two red triangles are essentially those are doors that shut they're secure there's no access for the public we can't provide the public access and still provide security right for people who in that income level and that demographic requires security um so but what we are proposing is that we do give access for at least three spaces for the employees of the commercial so although we're not you know having you know um anybody who's name necessarily customer have access to garage we can certainly have employees have access to the garage um and that's it um it this is one of those that I'm I'm really proud of my clients and I'm really proud of the project I'm proud of their design and I'm glad to be bringing something to downtown Tempe of this quality um because it just doesn't otherwise exist I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have sounds good thank you so much appreciate the presentation let me first go to the public hearing portion of the agenda before I go to council questions I've got a few cards here the first card I have this evening is from Mel Kessler please come forward state your name and place of residence you have three minutes good evening mayor and Council my name is Mel Kessler I'm a 50-year plus resident of Tempe I am here along with a lot of other Mirabella residents who are concerned about this project I've been involved in making Tempe a great place to live through my work on community boards neighborhood associations and Community Improvement projects for many years I now live at Mirabella on the eighth floor across the street from what will be the sky development if it's approved the project along with other planned high-rise developments I believe are detrimental to the work I've participated in to make Tempe a great place to live I'm very concerned about the density of this project with a high number of residential units and the vehicles that will come with them traffic congestion will be exacerbated in the area including both Myrtle Avenue and the alley to the north Sky Representatives say all pedestrian traffic is on sidewalks on Myrtle and University well they have not been as observant as I am since I observed from the eighth floor unit many pedestrians including homeless people using the alley to the north to gain access to Mill Avenue they frequently must navigate around delivery trucks and vehicle traffic in the alley how will Sky ensure that no deliveries are made from the congested alley will they have a staff person keeping a constant vigil of what's Happening behind the building with the Sky Parking Garage access from the alley individuals will be placing themselves at risk with the increased traffic in the alley Vehicles as exiting the complex will most likely exit the alley to Myrtle Avenue going south or north given the increased pedestrian traffic on Myrtle at University and 7th Street intersections added vehicular traffic will increase the risk of pedestrian and vehicle interactions uh trash collection from the olive currently occurs in the alley at very early morning hours with the noise of garbage trucks heard throughout the neighborhood I've firmly believe that Sky will just be adding to this situation visitors to the building will have virtually no street level parking available to them as one current space on Myrtle is almost always taken by people going into the olive canopy or adjoining businesses this is not an acceptable situation and it needs to be remediated you should accept the recommendation of the development review commission I urge you not to approve this plan and its current configuration both as the building height density and vehicle accessibility thank you thank you so much the next speaker I have is John vallotta please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes good evening mayor and Council my name is John vallotta I'm a resident of Tempe and I'm here to speak on the of the sky project this this uh site is too small for the density of the scale of the sky design revision is essential prior to approval a vibrant attractive future Tempe requires pleasing cityscapes interesting architecture and ease of access the proposed project detracts from these goals and does not comply with the Tempe Vision future quality of life values may be reduced and the city flight and City flight may be encouraged both are contradictory to the long-range plan Myrtle traffic disruptions including tour buses parking and garage pickup will be exacerbated existing University Drive traffic congestion congestion will be significantly increased if the six proposed residence projects including sky are all completed traffic circulation needs to be improved with the city action such as eliminating on-street parking or one-way traffic well-designed turnouts in the project design should be considered the developer pose restaurant and luxury commercial on the street level will not be a viable Business Without improved access and parking Reliance on the Alley will exacerbate existing problems the alley is used for all of student move-ins and move outs tour buses use the alley large provisioners trucks stop on the Alley garbage trucks block the alley for pickup from other buildings pedestrian bicycle and scooter safety will be aggravated with the two corners of the large buildings adjacent to the sidewalk on Myrtle the design lasts consideration for efficient ride-sharing pickup delivery multi-mode transportation and The Pedestrian experience the assumptions of a residence Council excuse me the assumptions of residence Reliance on Transit bicycles and walking is not valid the developer Target population is is professionals as we heard unfortunately cars will be need by the majority of residents for occupation related transportation Phoenix is the fourth fastest warming city in the United States if transportation is inefficient and congested residents in Tempe will not be attractive lack of consideration for the Future Vision Gestalt does not justify continuing past failures in the design approval process the time for design changes to comply with attempties Future Vision is now when the developer is finished with the project Tempe will be left with to deal with any of the adverse consequences of Sky I appreciate your time thank you very much thank you so much the next speaker I have is Sandra volata please come forward did your name and place president you have three minutes Mr Mayor members of the council and City staff my name is Sandy villada and I'm here to provide comments concerning the sky Tempe high-rise project I attended the telephonic neighborhood meeting conducted by the developers legal counsel on March 22nd 2023.

at that meeting I heard my neighbor's voice numerous concerns about the project as currently proposed I share those concerns and those expressed by the dissenting members of the Tempe Planning and Development review Commission a developer has certain entitlements however just because you can does not mean that you should all proposed projects must be evaluated in context with adjoining uses either existing or proposed the city must rightly be concerned with the quality of the downtown Tempe living experience especially as proposed development impacts the lives of citizens and businesses that have already made the commitment to downtown Tempe simply put Sky Tempe as currently proposed is too much for a parcel that is slightly less than one half acre lot coverage is proposed at 99 percent building setbacks are non-existent the density of the number of Apartments is too great the way to reduce apartment numbers is to reduce Building height numbers of units will translate into increased traffic congestion the surface streets that will be used by the Project's residents are inadequate at this time to Bear the traffic load I am particularly troubled by the potential of increased emergency response time because of traffic congestion I live in a building where because of age and physical condition many of my neighbors are a vulnerable population EMS and ambulance response time is important to us the alley to the north of Sky Tempe is narrow the developer is expecting far too much from such a humble Little Alley vehicular circulation and the inadequacy of certain streets to carry more traffic must be addressed again reduce the density to alleviate the problems proposed building setbacks may not be adequate to provide a pleasant pedestrian experience Street skate Landscaping is sparse heat mitigation especially using appropriate plant materials at the pedestrian street level may not be adequate simply put the as the developers asking for far too much on far too little property please remember just because you can does not mean that you should thank you Mr Mayor and member of council thank you so much the next speaker I have is Robert Miller please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes no Awards members of the council thank you very much I for most everything that I would say has already been said by these people before me however I'm still going to take my three minutes so what whatever anyway I'm a long time resident of Tempe and also a member of the development review commission however I am not scared me I don't I don't make it a practice to interrupt your meeting but Mr Miller I do need to ask you I excuse can I finish please no maybe you can't that's the reason I'm just gonna say I'm not speaking on behalf of them I'm speaking on behalf of myself that's fine that was my question thank you sir that's well that's what I'm going to say anyway um I understand that this project staff has suggested additional conditions of approval uh based on the feedback and comments that they received I don't feel that these conditions adequately address the concerns that I have the project is simply too large for the site the site is less than half an acre the lot coverage is 99 percent there are zero setbacks this doesn't fit that's simply all there is to it the heightened density of the project will detract from the walkability of the area will negatively impact views of the streetscape and further reduce open space and view corridors all of which negatively impact the surrounding neighborhood and areas quality of life there's also no open space included in this development none you've got 99 lot coverage so where's your open space it doesn't exist also the project does nothing to add affordable housing to the downtown area it's market rate housing it's not affordable uh unlike the Marshall this project includes only one small space for deliveries loading and unloading a person's furniture commercial supplies which haven't which will have a negative effect on the traffic flow in the surrounding area although staff has included a condition of approval to address this that does not address concerns regarding Rideshare services or other intermittent disruptions that can and will occur those things will happen significant issues have been raised regarding staging and collection of solid waste and again this has not been addressed this is this was on the record from the beginning finally if you're so inclined to approve the project I would ask you to include a condition of approval that requires parking be placed Underground and that in addition includes a two-way access ramp to that underground garage also reduce the number of required parking spaces to 0.5 per dwelling unit if the this area is filled with multimodal transportation and finally ask the developer to include a agreement for addition use of additional parking in already existing garages you don't need to park it the way it is I'm not opposed to high density projects per se but this one doesn't fit with what you have so thank you very much I appreciate it thank you so much the next speaker I have is Phil Yates and I believe he's virtual Mr Yates can you hear me uh Mr Gates can you hear me is your microphone on oh Mr Yates can you hear me I I can hear you oh yes perfect I can hear you now you uh please state your name and place of residence you have three minutes certainly my name is Phil Yates and I am the president for the Riverside neighborhood association uh let it be known that the DRC voted against this project four to three almost all of the speakers that were at that meeting were against the Skyway 281 extreme luxury apartment at Myrtle and University this is a point six seven acre Delight 0.6 acres is far too small for a 27 story 281 extremely uh luxury apartment Tower with zero setbacks it would create a huge traffic problem for this area Myrtle Street and it's Alleyway aren't good enough to access this development the development isn't willing to excavate the area for Native American ruins the developer has in the for offered anything to the Salvation Army I hope that everybody remembers when we voted against the coyotes and the uh whole area we need to point out that you know the uh DRC and the city council and the mayor were totally for all of that the Entertainment District and then it was brought to the voters and the voters all said they didn't want it we don't want it we don't need this kind of a development in this area this whole area has become a sky why just insanely High dense area it doesn't need to be that way it never has needed to be that way uh we just don't want it I hope you're listening to all the people that have spoken this evening and spoke at the DRC meeting because it's obvious to me and tell everybody that um went to the DRC meeting and people that talked to me and friends and family that this is just kind of scary there are zero setbacks it's just terrible it's way too high there's no uh stepped down from the northern side it is not an attractive uh building at all it just does not fit the area and there's like no way to to get into or out of that building there's just nothing good about this kind of a hierarchy Mr Gates that's time unfortunately I'm sorry well thank you for letting me speak thank you so much appreciate it all right before I close the public hearing just want to make sure is there anyone else in the audience who's wishing to address us on item 8b2 this evening if so please get my attention okay seeing that I will close the public hearing I'll bring Mr wood back up uh are there any council members who have any comments or questions vice mayor vice mayor Adams um Mayors members of the council um one point of clarification there was only one speaker at DRC and that person was in favor um just to clarify that um with respect to all the things that I heard again I want to go back and just comment on again City Center Tod this is intended to be tall and dense mixed use which it is high density 64 dwelling units per acre it is up to 300 feet of height it is we are surrounded by high-rise buildings you heard speakers from Mirabella right across the street there's a high-rise building we have the canopy the union the olive the Western right you heard comments regarding the pickup and drop off as you can see here there is lots of space now along the alley so that nothing occurs in the alley pick up drop off furniture garbage you name it it's all interior to the site now when you go out to the alley you can see all of our neighboring buildings that have dumpsters out there they have all kinds of things out there of course this won't um as far as the the architecture beauty is in the eye of the beholder um again we have lots of public right-of-way in order to put in all of this Landscaping all of these pavers to create this high-end product it is exactly where it's supposed to be it's exactly the size and height and density that is supposed to be and that's been the policy right now again what you heard is from people who are thinking about the future the future policy and as you as a council look forward to changing right or addressing the general plan you know again it's your legislative prerogative if you feel it's appropriate the lower building Heights lower densities whatever then that's exactly what you should do again as a council but for anyone to say that somehow this doesn't follow the rules or the guidelines we exactly follow the rules and the guidelines and um this project is like I said the exact size location now a couple of other things as you know just making a 200 000 contribution now typically the only people who make contributions to with high-rise buildings is those who are doing cheaplets right that's part of the quid pro quo again it goes to my clients Integrity they still might have making a contribution of at least two hundred thousand dollars they're building a leads building they're putting in um to start you know 13 charging stations but they can expand to 75.

if that is in fact what's what's needed um we do I do want to mention one thing and that is compact parking spaces uh your code um does not give us any idea of what size of compact spark parking spaces can be obviously we can't use parking compact I'm sorry I can't talk all of a sudden we can't use compact spaces to achieve the minimum of 175 spaces those are conventional size but with the extra almost 100 we will have some compact spaces about 26 of those 20 of those are um you know regular spaces and then we've got six tandem spaces but the size of those are seven and a half by 16.

your your regular size space is eight and a half by eighteen so for the compact spaces you know we will have those and again there's nothing in your code that defines what those are et cetera but I just wanted to share with you um that we will have those 26 spaces in the 100 additional spaces that we're going to have as far as traffic I mean this is a downtown Urban core of course you're going to have traffic there are only really two downtown Urban cores in the valley right downtown Phoenix and downtown Tempe that's it so when you have high rise you're going to have but it brings with its excitement as well the energy as well trying to keep right this demographic of the people in Tempe as well so when you look at all the high rises and you hear some people who live in high rises complaining about other high rises um this is exactly where it's supposed to be this is your Main Street on Main so again with all due respect um and by the way someone said we had an issue with garbage pickup as I said that's all been resolved but the bottom line is um with the exception of the stipulation regarding the three commercial spaces we will provide those for our employees we hope that when we come back you will support this case thank you very much thank you so much let me go to vice mayor Adams and council member chin so I have a few comments and maybe some questions Nick so I might have to come back up but you're okay for now uh so you are not asking for a giblet which is great for our schools and our tax rolls I think that's a really important um point to make in in your right all other um buildings of this size in this area have received giblets so I really appreciate the company I'm not asking for that and I also appreciate that you're going to give at least two hundred thousand dollars to our hometown for all program which helps get people into affordable housing get people off the street helps the homeless so thank you for doing that um this is a perfect plan for high density uh housing I mean we need we need to have a high density housing for our young professionals this downtown we've been working on refreshing it and we need to get people down here in order to get more businesses we have to have more bodies down here and this is going to be an affluent uh area in it and then that's that's appropriate for this area of town and just like Marabella is and I'm so I'm super super excited to be able to have more businesses come in and refresh our downtown that will that will be immense and council member Navarro and I are particularly interested in refreshing downtown so thank you for that and we need to activate our um our downtown and so we have more energy and more businesses this this population will have extra spending money and businesses will Thrive and that's that's an important point they're they're going to have large incomes and lots of spending money so they'll be able to spend in Tempe and what let's confine them to only Tempe so they can stay and support our businesses um we have been working on our downtown improvements and this this com This falls into our categories of improving our downtown it also the high high density Zone it is in high density Zone that was approved by our voters in the general plan and that's what we have so it's it's a it's appropriate um can you tell me about parking places for visitors Nick um mayor vice mayor because we have a design and I'll go back to it again oops gone the wrong way so as you can see um the entry and exit is right there in the upper left hand corner of the site plan where those red triangles are um for visitors right we have an additional almost 100 Extra Spaces okay and so once someone who's living there has a visitor they can give them access but visitors can't just drive in again when you get this demographic security is extremely important you can't have people just wandering in and out of your parking structure so yeah so it's you know someone who lives there they'll be able to let you know their guests enter okay and I I thought the um the overhangs and to create shade and uh you know lead certified for those of you that don't know what leads certified that's a big deal in promoting sustainability we have our trans transport transportation across the street that's Leed certified and I I ran that facility for a while and we save a lot of money in water there we have low lighting we have a certain air conditioner unit that that takes up a lot more less energy and so I'm really proud of you I haven't heard Leeds certified certification for a long time so I'm really proud of you for for doing that that um going in that direction and that that is really promoting sustainability and uh speaking of sustainability um our EV charging stations how um how are we doing in this project with um EV charging station I will do I think it's 14 to start with okay and then we'll retrofit it so we can have a total of 75.

okay very good so that's that's that's helpful and uh Steph it's my understanding that staff promotes this project is is in favor of this project is that is that everyone's understanding or so stick staff who are experts um on on this there's Ryan and Jeff um that are experts in these kinds of buildings are supportive of it so I think that's really important that their their subject matter experts and I tell you what that that means a lot to me and so uh thank you for taking time um Brian and Jeff on this and I will be supporting this project moving forward thank you oh one other thing if I may mayor um that three bedroom I got a text from my client it's the penthouse thank you thank you and thank you for all everyone's comments to also councilman Mr Woods don't go too far please come back up and can you move find me the slide that has the breakdown of uh units parking all of that it is one that has okay here we go here we go Development Centers um is that it is there another one that's similar to that this is the only one that has the parking parking is in the right hand corner yep yeah okay so I just need to clarify because I thought I heard two uh contradictory facts so the first one is on guest parking you know I I the design looks very nice I am listening to your target market and audience and of young professionals um that have the ability to afford the rents in this area so my assumption also is that they will have guests and I am concerned I heard first No guest parking and then I just heard you respond to the vice mayor that there would be guest parking can you clarify sure um mayor um councilwoman Chen there is there is no area that's defined as guest parking where someone can just pull in and park and then go and you know hit some kind of a security device that get entry we've designed this with a hundred Extra Spaces for two reasons number one it's very possible that you know you may have a couple that lives there and they'll have two cars um so we have enough cars for them but if someone is a visitor right and basically you know call in or whatever and if they have a car the tenant can let them into the parking structure it's just that they can't have direct access as a visitor they have to actually have access through a tenant that lives there so of the two 271 stalls available for parking they can be non-resident parking they can be guests there are some there are some where guests that will not be designated as guest parking for example um but yes there will be parking for guests to the extent that again a resident allows them to enter and please understand I'm just trying to understand if the impact on available parking in the surrounding area for guests that would impact our other residents um okay so with this demographic my guess is they'll also participate in ride share it's this is the ideal uh segment of the population right target audience also perhaps they um young professionals will uh rely on delivery services whether it's for food delivery or package delivery so I anticipate a high amount of traffic that way I would urge you because I don't see any dedicated space for that as a pickup drop-off location I know that there's one meter to the east of that site a public meter but I wouldn't count on that as a drop-off location right or pick up yeah Americans will be working with staff on a dedicated area right outside the entry into the lobby that you can see here in the bottom left on murder my son for pickup and drop-off areas okay to clarify this you said that the intent was a minimum of two hundred thousand uh a donation into the affiliate fund for HomeTown for all yes okay and it's it's a percentage of our fees development fees well we already work with the city already works with Hometown for all did were you speaking of something on top of that an additional gift about the amount so the amount the minimum is 200 000 so let's say that the fees are a million dollars then it's 200 000 the fees are a million five that is 300 000.

all right thank you thank you you're welcome thank you sounds good thank you councilman Keating thank you mayor thank you Mr wood I have a question for you yeah get your steps in tonight appreciate the the presentation and um of the time and obviously it's late for all of us I wonder if and this is not something you have the answer tonight but just something to consider with your clients I don't understand it's coming back in September right not August or is it uh September 7th thank you mayor so just you know something to to kick around you know maybe 20 Workforce units to be uh 20 of the units to be designated Workforce housing and I have a suggestion on how to pay for that because it takes it takes away from the bottom line of course having just found out that there's a penthouse having grown up poor in the midwest I think if you can afford a penthouse and a skyrise you can probably pay a little bit more for that Penthouse in a skyrise so it's just something to consider um before next week good thank you thank you anyone else from Council any other comments or questions all right seeing none all right mayor yes councilman Garland hi thank you I you know I um thank you mayor I would like to say that I appreciate what what uh councilmember Keating just said about the affordable housing I love that idea so I'd love to hear um Nick noodle on that one a little bit um but I would like to say that I was really after watching the DRC meeting I was really um disappointed and frustrated a little bit um regarding the cultural sensitivity conditions and questions that were brought up but I have to say I'm very happy to see that um there are conditions eight and nine that were put in that um specifically state that you're going to be doing hiring um a company a qualified archaeologist firm to come in and monitor and just do the discovery of archaeology archaeological testing on the property and then you're going to require people to um to take the cultural sensitivity test that is put out by the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community I think that cultural sensitivity training is really important and I just have to say I'm very happy that this has been included so thank you yeah um mayor councilman Garland at the DRC I didn't have authority to agree to something so I I had the same know but we talked about it that night and agreed it's the appropriate thing to do so that's why it's back in as a stipulation I appreciate ment at the beginning of our council meeting so we want to make sure that in everything we do it's just not words and this is one of those things so thank you exactly thank you sounds good uh councilman Brevard yeah mayor I just want to say thank you I mean I appreciate all the comments uh not only here but in the audience and just hearing everybody speak about the concerns of uh this development and where it's at and all that good stuff I think that as a council as a whole you know we like to take in consideration of all these factors and also also all the factors that we've learned throughout the years of going through this process with other developments and where we're at today I know that each development has its own uh set of criterias and each development has its own merits in so many different ways when we talked about the downtown area we talked about the mixed use we talked about Marabella we were excited about Marabella because it was the different demographics that was going to be down in downtown Tempe but we all knew that we're we're creating a downtown we all knew that downtown was going to be a downtown we also knew that it was going to be vibrant it's going to have music it's going to have a different blend of people down here the excitement of being in the downtown and by ASU is because of that um so I think when you do when you talk about product that comes in to our city we talk about good products this is a good product as I'm seeing it right now we talk about things like um heat shade is like one of the biggest Assets in the downtown and there is nothing like a high-rise that provides great shade when you're walking down these streets so the vibrancy that we're that has been created is is what we're trying to do I I'm not gonna lie I've been a big component of high-rise and trying to make it downtown smart not to invade the neighborhoods that are nearby and to craftly gently Spirit up towards the mountain towards a mountain but that's the excitement of the downtown area the other thing of this is Salvation Army Salvation Army had a spot that was not really turning over as much as we as they they thought they would but the thing is they got to sell that land and make a tremendous amount of money to do their to do what they do within their society to help other people out to have a better location to provide better services at a better location so the wins there there are winds on these whole things that come around a fact of 200 000 goes into into our affordable housing that's a win still for us do you know that when we first started this I was we were glad to get 30 000 from a development and then it just kept on moving up moving up it's ridiculous how much money we're getting from this this city by far no other City no other city has gained as much money for affordable housing than this city by far and I put anything on that check the valley Wreckers are out there and we're going to do money we're going to do things with that money in appropriate locations locations that are connected to light rail locations are connected to different types of transportational Services looking outside the box you know ideas of two dollar two uh Uber rides City pays for the rest Salt Lake City does it why can't we getting people into the city effectively and efficiently programs like that help our residents out but it helps the people that support our services here in the downtown area so believe it we look at everything when it goes into a development everything and I know it's not going to be a win for everybody and it might be disheartening here disheartening there shoot we didn't think you know a lot of this stuff would turn out and it did turn out the thing is we try to have trust in the process we try to trust in what we're trying to do and for what we're trying to provide so I think we try to take these ideas we try to take these developments in the best way we can know we have a lot of time to chew on this and hopefully we make a better project too at the end that's all I have to say sounds good thank you anyone else any further comments or questions on the side all right once again just want to reiterate the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for September 7th 2023.

the next item under the section is 8b3 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance amending chapter 2 article 3 section 2-1-3-4 of the Tempe city code relating to the Community Services Department by adding a new section 2-134 B relating to the establishment of Park Rangers and authorization for Park Rangers to issue citations of notices of violations I just can I change that oh there he is I'm sorry um is there anyone this is a public hearing I want to make sure we recognize that first is there anyone here wishing to address the uh just the Council on this item if so please get my attention okay I'll close the public hearing vice mayor Adams yes I'm so excited to see the park rangers I've been dreaming about this for five years literally I drove the previous city manager crazy I know with um bugging them about Park Rangers I really when I was knocking on doors the first time I ran I heard so many people won our park ranger program back and I knew a lot of those Park Rangers back in the day and and they had they did such a great job and they connected with community members they knew knew who was out there and they just they you know it was such a wonderful program so I am so excited to have the park rangers back and really think uh um Madame city manager and um some of our folks out in community services and thanks for making this happen so thank you so much and go park rangers good thank you so much anyone else on Council any further comments or questions on this item all right once again just want to reiterate that the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for August 10 2023.

the next item under the section is 8v4 we should say introduced and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the abandonment of a water line easement located on the northwest corner of Warner Road and Emerald Drive this is also a public hearing item is there anyone in the audience pushing to address the Council on this item seeing that I'll close the public hearing Council would Economist discussion seeing none the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for August 10 2023.

the next item under the section is 8b5 which is to introduced and hold a public hearing to adopt an ordinance abandoning and existing Public Utilities but on property located near Mill Avenue and 5th Street is well this is also a public hearing interestingly he's written in the audience wishing to address the city council on this item okay I was gonna say I was shocked I will close the public hearing and once again Ask a video the council members have any comments or discussion items all right hearing none the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for August 10 2023.

the last item under the section is 8b6 which is to introduce and hold the first public hearing to adopt an ordinance authorizing the granting of a utility easement to Arizona Public Service Company over certain city-owned property identified by APN 124-63-013 and authorizing the mayor or his designee to execute an Eastman agreement and related documents this is a public hearing as well is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the Council on this item seeing that I'll close the public hearing Council any comments discussion hearing none the second and final public hearing on this item is scheduled for August 10 2023.

next up that brings us to 8C ordinances and items for second hearing and final adoption these the items will have had previous hearings and there will be votes on these items taken tonight and there's only actually one item under the section which is 8c1 which is to adopt an ordinance for a zoning map Amendment pursuant to the provisions of the zoning and development code no Pro tunk to correct a scrivener's error and ordinance number 02023.23 previously adopted on May 4 2023 for Rio 2100 residences located at 2132 East Cameron way Council any comments or discussion motion to approve second I think it was moved by vice mayor Adams and seconded by council member Hodge please vote my screen is a little Frozen here but there we go and that item passes unanimously seven to zero that brings us to item number nine current events Council announcements and future agenda items I will call upon the council members for their comments and this evening we're going to be starting with council member Navarro the first thank you I just want to let everyone know August 16th with my colleagues bird accounts member Hodge and Garland we're going to be doing a opioid talk through communication Pro with the community really want to get the kids and the community awareness especially the parents to start really getting engaged on what we're seeing within our community what we're seeing with our society really just kind of get another um uh edge of awareness out there so we're going to be hosting a conversation on this I think it's going to be great information the fact that the programs that we're doing here within the City of Tempe programs that are going on uh locally and Statewide and nationally and really have some communication on that also talk about some other ideas I think this community has done a great job in in providing that awareness especially in the high school level where every uh student within High School gets the not only the compressions only CCR program but they also get the open opioid awareness program and uh what to look for and we're how how drug addiction can start and then the negative aspects of what happens when you do partake in that stuff so please come on down to the Tempe Historical Museum uh right there on Southern right next to the library and that's gonna be 5 30 Wednesday August 16th and then another one I'm going to be starting a community conversation and we're going to be talking about housing and we're going to kick off this is going to be a series of conversations um that we're going to be doing hopefully every month for maybe about three or four months but we're going to talk about a lot of things about Heist housing from shelter to Extended Care to Affordable to Workforce to market rate this question I mean this was on tonight's agenda right uh people are concerned about where things are at and the type of housing we have and what we're doing within Tempe we're going to talk about a broad communication on housing in general we're going to take segments of this and try to kind of talk about the the the the the legal aspects what cities can and can't do the areas that we can and can develop within those areas so a lot of communication on this is not just a education this is also information and feedback from the community ideas have been generated from these coffee conversations so it's a great idea to kind of get out there if you have an interest you have um any inclination about housing or you just want to know more I think this is a great opportunity like I said this is going to be a series of conversations uh that we're going to have we're going to kick the first one off with more of a general overview of Housing and it's going to be 5 30 p.m Wednesday September 13th at the public library the Ironwood room so please come on by and let's have that discussion and hope to see you guys there thanks thank you councilor Bavaro next up we have vice mayor Adams thank you Mr Mayor just a couple things real quick uh this Saturday is uh zero waste zero waste day at Kiwanis Park so sometimes it's not there but um this Saturday it is from 7 A.M to 1 p.m and you can bring your recycled dispose of all that those things that you no longer want including hazardous waste paint Electronics lots of things and for to know exactly what you can recycle or bring down there you can go to tempe.gov forward slash zero waste so please participate in that program it's an awesome program I don't know David if you're still in charge of it in your section but it's a great program so please participate also um council member chin and myself are going to be here at council chambers at 1 pm on Monday August 21st for our next sustain sustainability and economic Vitality committee that's so easy to say and it will be available to watch on Tempe 11 if you can't come down in person so we really encourage you to to participate in this uh we're going to be hearing about the state of our water resources in Tempe and get an update um from our sustainability office on the international green construction code policy which we are very excited to continue to implement the green construction zone policy thank you and hope you'll join us and thank you for all of your help good job and thanks to staff for your hard work thank you so much vice mayor next up I have council member chin no announcements all right thank you so much let's next go to councilmember Garland hi thank you mayor so let's see what first our first slide I have all right so um a long time ago I came up with this um idea and working with um our staff about these backstage passes where we get to go to a location in the city and get to see kind of the backstage of how things happen how they work um and the way things are made which has really have been a lot of fun this next one is we're going to get an up um close look at the improvements to Clark Park um from our city team that put together and worked with the renovations we're going to take a tour of the park and get updates on the pool the community center public art and public improvements such as lighting and Pathways and things like that so if you are interested in attending it is Saturday September 9th at 8 A.M at Clark Park 19th and Roosevelt the space is limited to the first 60 people so if you can please get back to us as soon as you can if you can attend um RSVP you could do that to my Council Aid Madeline mcconville and you can look on that on our website and be able to find that so hopefully you can attend that'll be a lot of fun the next slide I want to tell you about we have a project we started a while ago it's taken a while to get it get this off the ground but um we have a Girl Scout patch a new patch that was designed by a young lady in our in City of Tempe her name is Lila she designed this patch and the Girl Scouts are going to we are going to work with the Girl Scouts to have this big kickoff on um the 12th of August from 10 a.m to noon at the Tempe History Museum uh if you can RSVP that'd be great we'd love to know if you can come or if you're interested in coming to learn about the Girl Scout patch work and meet with other girl scouts one of the um one of the opportunities or areas to focus on is on Tempe history so we'll be at the history museum so you'll actually be able to check off one of the very first items on the list of things you need to do to earn This Girl Scout patch as a past Girl Scout and past leader Girl Scout leader I'm really excited about this we have over 150 people signed up already right now so please RSVP for us so that we know how much snacks and drinks to ride but we hope that you can attend not only for the residents in Tempe but you know staff anybody else who wants to come we'd love to have you there thank you thank you councilman Garland next up I've got council member Hodge thank you uh August 5th um coming up very soon I have my next breakfast with burdetta I took the summer off now I'm back um the next one will have uh our Deputy yeah took the whole month the Whole 30 days of the summer off you know for for breakfast but um the next one will have our Deputy City met our new Deputy city manager Mr Greg Reese will have an introduction to our Tempe Police Mr Ken McCoy our interim fire Mr Daryl Duty and ours and assistant uh superintendent from Tempe Union Mr Sean McDonald and we're going to talk about safety and just in the city and just get to know everybody um and that's going to be at the Tempe Historical Museum on August 5th um in earlier oh go ahead I'm sorry okay and um earlier this week um the Tempe development review commission voted to pass the votive on the general plan we still have two more opportunities they're both at City Hall one is August 10th the next one is August 24th and um one of my favorite things is Tempe Pre-K is once again in swing and it's the seventh year of operation um they're fully staffed it's time to have 11 certified teachers and 20 assistants earlier this earlier this summer I was invited to speak to the two-day orientation at the library when they're all welcome back thank you Naomi for always inviting me it was phenomenal to meet all of our teachers and assistants and finally it is National Wing day on the 29th and July 29th which is one of my favorite places um we couldn't find a picture of my favorite place which is native New Yorker I love that place I love it forever we have three other ones just really good is blazing buffalo wings on Broadway ATL on one on Kyrene so you know we had a chicken shortage so it's about time now that we can go out there and enjoy some more Wings again so thank you and I'm welcome back everybody thank you so much next up councilman Keating thank you mayor councilmember Hodge for my money the best wings in Tempe are at Four Peaks okay very very good um mayor I wanted to say this when the gentleman was speaking but we can't react to public announcements I don't know what that guy was talking about earlier with regards to our police force I know they're held in very high regard amongst our citizens and across leadership and policing in the valley and uh we certainly have your back look I I I'm not going to question anybody but I highly doubt he executed an arrest in Guadalupe for that matter um but hey you know the mayor council had your guys is back and that was unfortunate but you know we appreciate the job you guys do thank you today sure I just want to say one thing um Bill back there we just came back from Noble and we had a phenomenal job and Tempe showed out at all about it we had the most people there at Noble so I'm proud of that thank you so much uh I don't have any remarks this evening which takes us to item number 10 public appearances according to the Arizona open meeting law the city council may only discuss matters listed Elsewhere on this agenda for discussion and 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 an additional aggregate total of 60 Minutes is allotted for public appearances no person shall speak more than one so there was a limit of three minutes per speaker's present at the podium estate their name and city of residence and provide a speaker Card members of the public shall refrain from making personal and pertinent or slanderous remarks and for becoming boisterous while addressing the city council or while attending the meeting 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 with that said I've got one card here from Joseph carton please come forward state your name in place of residence you have three minutes hello my name is poco cartoon no polka Joseph cartoon um I know on a people I've been seeing the videos of wanna for Best Buddies you I know best very fair a long time ago and I've been seeing this video of someone I'm so happy for uh somebody help her out but mothers and other mothers will be Belong Together to be what we are tell us anything you've known to his hearts always have to help people out although all the work World you've known about Tempe Arizona I want people understand I want to vote of people I trust and one of the people I've known is Hunt's family you're known I know her son Devin hunch because I've seen the video that I love my my mom I do too and all the things I've known are the people you know to I want to be their side I want to help them out and what we care about people I know like Corey Woods a long time ago and now I wanted to learn more things about Tempe Arizona that's why I'm here for my be here say this words my word to Hunt Club witch thank you very much thank you appreciate it thank you is there anyone else in the audience wishing to address the council under public appearances if so please get my attention all right hearing none just want to announce that the next regular city council meeting is August 10 2023 Council once again we have a quick special meeting right after this so just give us 60 seconds to turn things around it'll be over in about two seconds so with that said we are adjourned and we will see you all back here on August 10th good evening everyone welcome to the Tempe city council special budget meeting item number one is call to order Council meetings can be watched in real time via Cox Cable channel 11 at tempe.gov Tempe 11.

members of the public may also attend the meeting virtually through Microsoft teams and once you get the statement that I read earlier about proper conduct of city council meeting still applies for this special meeting item number two public hearing item is first of all it's 2A hold the second and final public hearing to adopt the fiscal year 2023 2024 property tax ordinance the first public hearing was held on June 15 2023.

this is a public hearing item is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the Council on this item if so please get my attention hearing none I'll close the public hearing Council any comments or discussion if not I'll look for a motion on item 2A so move move by councilmember Hodge second by vice mayor Adams please vote I mine won't go out and that item passes unanimously seven to zero that brings us to item number three adjournment we are adjourned foreign