Hour 2:
Item 2: CIP projects
CIP projects are Capital Improvement Programs. This is basically public works – which major water/wastewater/electric/roads/facilities projects are coming down the pipeline in the next year? What about the next three or next ten years? It’s big and complicated. We’re looking at roughly $10 million of projects this coming year.
(There are so many projects that I’m not prepared to do a super deep dive, but if you want to know when a project on your street will be completed, this is where you look. For example, Hopkins will be reopened in 2050.)(Kidding. But really, just email the city and ask about whatever project you care about.)
Then there are a bunch of annexation and zoning cases.
Here’s the first:
That’s I-35 and Posey, right near Trace. They are asking for Heavy Commercial. Think retail and businesses, but they’re allowed to be car shops or other industrial-ish things, like you’d see along I-35.
Max Baker takes issue with how these are such fossil fuel heavy uses. Mark Gleason offers up a proposal: “No waste-related services.” (This is animal waste processing, landfill, composting, recycling, solid and liquid waste, incineration, etc.)
Vote on allowing waste-related services?
No: Mark Gleason, Max Baker, Alyssa Garza
It’s fine: Jude Prather, Shane Scott, Jane, Saul.
So it’s fine.
Next Max proposes nixing truck stops.
Vote on allowing truck stops?
No truck stops: Max Baker, Alyssa Garza
They’re fine: Jude Prather, Shane Scott, Jane Hughson, Saul Gonzalez, Mark Gleason.
So they’re fine.
Next, this chunk of land:
Which fits like a tetris piece alongside the last one.
This is going to be heavy industrial. This means basically anything goes – manufacturing, warehouses, etc.
The vote:
Yes: All of them except Max Baker.
No: Max Baker
Here’s the last one:
That is 123 running north-south, on the right hand side of the photo. In other words, if you’re driving out of town on 123, you’ll get to the overpass over Wonderworld, and you’d be at the top of the photo.
If you keep driving south, the site will be on your right, but set back a little ways, and before you get to the intersection with McCarty.
The owners want to do Light Industrial on part of it and leave the rest vacant. Max Baker proposes an amendment to nix waste-related services.
Vote to allow waste-related services?
No: Max Baker, Mark Gleason, Alyssa Garza, Saul Gonzalez, Jane Hughson
Keep them! Jude Prather, Shane Scott.
So this one flies.
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