demolition by neglect status. Ms. Hill stated that the previous night, City |
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Council, in a pre-planned four/three vote, granted Mr. Gilbert his wish to |
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delist and to be able to demolish the home. Unless the Planning |
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Commission required the home to be rehabbed in some way, it would |
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completely be out of the picture. She recalled that the house was one of |
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the main criterion for using the PUD in the first place. Mr. Boswell, Ms. |
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Brnabic, Mr. Hooper and Mr. Kaltsounis should remember having heard |
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Mr. Galvin, Mr. Gilbert’s attorney in 2003, present various criteria to use a |
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PUD. They all voted to recommend a PUD. The three criteria were: To |
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provide complimentary housing types for mixed-use residential and |
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commercial development; to alleviate traffic congestion - in another |
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words, less curb cuts; and to provide appropriate redevelopment or reuse |
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of a designated historic district. She said that one of the primary reasons |
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for using the PUD was easily dismissed. She referred to Section E under |
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Permitted Uses and said that she did not believe the proposed PUD |
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needed Section i or iii if the intent of the PUD was truly mixed-use. If it |
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was strictly for multi-family or some type of housing or for all office, she |
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asked why they did not just dissolve the PUD and look at rezoning for one |
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of the suggested uses. The PUD process had been recommended for |
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the property. The original office/retail/restaurant spaces were limited to |
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35,000 square feet. The proposal is for 50,000 square feet for |
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retail/restaurant and another 25,000 for office, which was a total of 75,000 |
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square feet, or another 16, 4,300 square-foot bank buildings. She asked |
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them to think about having another 16 bank buildings placed on the |
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property. The original housing was for individual condos and people |
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could rent those, but the majority would own them. With multi-family, |
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apartments would be allowed, and she thought they should eliminate |
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apartments in the PUD. Building setbacks under the FB-1 zoning allowed |
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15 feet between residential and parking. She thought it should be |
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mandated that the 50-foot buffer stay in a natural, landscaped state |
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between any buildings and residential. Regarding the right-of-way issue, |
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a 180-foot right-of-way was discussed heavily in 2002 and 2003, and Mr. |
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Gilbert was well aware of that. Mr. Schroeder had a very good idea to at |
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least have easements given to the City in case they needed the 180 feet. |
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If the house was gone, Mr. Gilbert would save $1 million he claimed it |
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would cost to rehab the structure. The original PUD had a ten-year |
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timeframe. She felt they were violating the PUD already because the |
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bank was the only structure completed. In the proposed PUD, developing |
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the property substantially was described as 65%, which was in the |
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original, and it also said that it should be “under way in the first two years.” |
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It had been six years, and there was very little developed. She thought 20 |
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years was too long. She was not against saying because of the |
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conditions that existed today that maybe a site plan needed to be |
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presented within five years, but she felt once that happened, that it should |
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