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Notes from this evening’s Fort Wayne City Council meeting.<\/p>\n
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Councilman Marty Bender is absent.<\/p>\n
The vote for the Council’s appointment<\/a> to the Metropolitan Human Relations.<\/p>\n Two persons have submitted their names – Paul Morrison and Jerome Gaines. Karen Goldner Public Hearings<\/strong><\/p>\n No one spoke at any of the public hearings.<\/p>\n R-09-10-30<\/strong><\/p>\n Elissa McGauley is before the Council. \u00c2\u00a0Approved, none opposed.<\/p>\n R-09-10-32<\/strong><\/p>\n Heather Pressley, PJ Thuringer and Dawn Galloway, Keller Development, are before the Council. \u00c2\u00a0Mayor Henry signed a letter of recommendation for the project. \u00c2\u00a0Competition\u00c2\u00a0will be in 2011. \u00c2\u00a0It is in City Council district #1. \u00c2\u00a0Councilman Tom Smith is supporting the project, praising developer efforts to work with the surrounding neighborhoods. \u00c2\u00a0Approved, none opposed.<\/p>\n R-09-10-34<\/strong><\/p>\n Same three before Council. \u00c2\u00a0Serving those making 60% below the poverty level. \u00c2\u00a0Councilmanic District 4. \u00c2\u00a0Councilman Mitch Harper is also stating the developer worked well with the neighborhoods and processes. \u00c2\u00a0Hines is asking if the person buying the home, a 15 year rent-to-own lease, knows the amount they will need to pay at the end, up front. \u00c2\u00a0The answer is they don’t, it’s a state-structured program the City has no control over. \u00c2\u00a0What happens if someone moves out after 10 years? \u00c2\u00a0Last person living there get’s the benefits of the previous payments and equity gained. \u00c2\u00a0Approved, none opposed.<\/p>\n R-09-11-02<\/strong><\/p>\n Approved, none opposed.<\/p>\n Z-09-09-01,\u00c2\u00a0Z-09-09-02\u00c2\u00a0and Z-09-09-03<\/strong><\/p>\n Michelle Wood is before the Council. \u00c2\u00a0This is the former Rogers, most recently George’s supermarket site at the corner of Fairfield Avenue and West Packard Avenue. \u00c2\u00a0Part of this development is a gas station. \u00c2\u00a0Councilman Tom Didier is talking about how the design provided is nicer than some of the buildings in his district. \u00c2\u00a0He is asking Tim Pape what the issues are.<\/p>\n Pape is responding that different people have different issues with it. \u00c2\u00a0It’s generated a certain amount of difference in opinion. \u00c2\u00a0Concerns over fit and whether or not another gas station is needed in this area. \u00c2\u00a0A suburban design put into the urban core and surrounding historic neighborhood.<\/p>\n Didier is responding that he’d rather see something there than nothing.<\/p>\n Pape is responding that he thinks the developer has done a good job of working with the neighborhood. \u00c2\u00a0He thinks there are other things the developer could do to make the development fit in and be more urban in character and design. \u00c2\u00a0“If you don’t do something unique with this design, you will rob the neighborhood of character.”<\/p>\n Councilwoman Goldner. \u00c2\u00a0Concerned about lease restrictions not being binding at this point. \u00c2\u00a0Hours of operation is one area.<\/p>\n Councilman Shoaff. \u00c2\u00a0Asking why gun shops are not included in the owner’s list of restricted businesses which may operate in development. \u00c2\u00a0Michelle is stating that gun shops are an included restriction in the \u00c2\u00a0CM2 zone classification. \u00c2\u00a0Talking about it being fair for limitations on hours of operation to be asked for to limit disruption to the surrounding neighborhood.<\/p>\n Councilman Smith. \u00c2\u00a0Kim Bowman, Department of Planning is now before the Council. \u00c2\u00a0Asking about timing of putting this off.<\/p>\n Councilwoman Liz Brown. \u00c2\u00a0Liz is pointing out that the Council is not the body to make restrictions and rules and is concerned about the Council acting in that manner. \u00c2\u00a0Is it necessary to do a market analysis when a business moves in? \u00c2\u00a0Kim – no.<\/p>\n Councilman Didier is asking about feasibility of hours of operation restrictions? \u00c2\u00a0Things change. \u00c2\u00a0If someone’s going to invest that kind of money into a project like that…I would think they would be jumping up and down for joy to have something like that coming in. \u00c2\u00a0Didn’t the college just close down? \u00c2\u00a0Boards on the windows… \u00c2\u00a0Or do we want a Humpty Dumpty there for years?<\/p>\n Councilman Pape – there are no guarantees that this will be successful. \u00c2\u00a0Council has the broadest discretion in these matters. \u00c2\u00a0He is making a motion to hold, seconded by Councilman Smith.<\/p>\n Didier is asking the developer to come to the Council table to talk about what delays could mean to the project. \u00c2\u00a0Chris Rongos, Phil Troyer, Jerry Rongos. \u00c2\u00a0The Rongos’s own Georges market on the corner of Broadway and Taylor Avenue.<\/p>\n At this point, I had to leave the Council meeting. \u00c2\u00a0I had to leave my recorder at the meeting and will pick it up tomorrow evening. \u00c2\u00a0Here ends the reporting.<\/em><\/p>\n Notes from this evening’s Fort Wayne City Council meeting. 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\nand Glynn Hines voted for Gaines, Liz Brown, Tom Didier, Mitch Harper, Tim Pape John Shoaff, and Tom Smith voted for Morrison. \u00c2\u00a0Before the vote, Councilwoman Goldner stated she thought they both would make fine Commissioners, however, Gaines was a constituent and she would be voting for him.<\/p>\nRelated Images:<\/h3>
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