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CITY COUNCIL INFORMATION PACKET
CITY OF IOWA CITY
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IN Council Tentative Meeting Schedule
JULY 30 JOINT MEETING WITH PLANNING 8 ZONING
IP2 Agenda
IP3 Memo to City Manager from Development Services Coordinator: Allen Homes proposed
project at corner of First Ave. / Hickory Trail and correspondence [all correspondence
will be formally accepted at the August 19 Council meeting]
CITY OF IOWA CITY
Date
Monday, July 28, 2014
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
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City Council Tentative Meeting Schedule IP1
Subject to change July 28, 2014
Time Meeting
4:30 PM Joint Meeting /Work Session
5:30 PM Special Formal
Tiffin Citv Hall
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM Formal
Tuesday, December 16 2014 5:00 PM Work Session Meeting
7:00 PM Formal Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
Work Session / P &Z Joint Meeting
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
CANCELLED Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
CANCELLED Formal Meeting
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
5:00 PM
Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM
Formal Meeting
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
5:00 PM
Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM
Formal Meeting
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
5:00 PM
Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM
Formal Meeting
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
5:00 PM
Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM
Formal Meeting
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
5:00 PM
Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM
Formal Meeting
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
5:00 PM
Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM
Formal Meeting
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
5:00 PM
Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM
Formal Meeting
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
5:00 PM
Work Session Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
7:00 PM Formal
Tuesday, December 16 2014 5:00 PM Work Session Meeting
7:00 PM Formal Meeting
Emma J. Harvat Hall
CITY OF IOWA CITY
410 East Washington Street
Iowa City, Iowa 52240 -1826
(319) 3S6 -5000
(3 19) 3S6 -5009 FAX
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City Council Work Session Agenda
and
Joint Meeting with Planning and Zoning Commission
July 30, 2014
Emma J. Harvat Hall - City Hall
410 E. Washington Street
5:30 PM
• Consultation regarding rezoning First Ave. & Hickory Trail (Jesse Allen property)
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MEMORANDUM .�
Date: July 28, 2014
To: Tom Markus, City Manager
From: John Yapp, Development Services Coordinator
Re: Allen' Homes proposed project at corner of First Ave / Hickory Trail
As requested at the July 15 City Council meeting, Allen Homes / Neumann Monson Architects
have provided images of the proposed 11 -unit building at the northwest corner of First Ave /
Hickory Trail without landscaping.
See attached.
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From: Jennifer McDonald [mailto:jmcdonald @mchsi.com]
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:02 AM
To: Council
Subject: opposition to rezoning of property of Hickory Trail /First Ave, Iowa City
Dear Council members,
I would like to thank you for the support you showed on July 15th. The impression I received from that
meeting was that all the council members had done their homework and had listened to the community. I
understand there will be a meeting on July 30th with the council and Planning and zoning to discuss the
property. I hope the committee will continue to have the communities interest at heart. Please follow the
comprehensive plan that was reaffirmed last year. Here is my main concern over this rezoning issue.
We purchased our home with the knowledge that those lots were zoned RS -5. We assumed that only single
family homes would be built on these lots. Please stay with the comprehensive plan 2030.
After review of the developer's plans, I had several immediate concerns:
- The proposed condo unit is large and is placed on a very steep property. So steep that some consider it
unbuildable. Because of the steep slope, the back side of the condo will be span almost 4 stories inleight.
- The drive way is long, unsightly and has parking spaces. Cars turning into the driveway coming off 1 st Ave
will blare their headlights directly' into the back of all the houses along Cypress Court.
- A condo will change the feel of our neighborhood. These lots are zoned RS -5 for single family homes and we
want to keep it that way. Single family homes will maintain the neighborhood feel of our subdivision. A condo
will not.
Finally, there are too many multi units on First Avenue. Please stay with the comprehensive plan 2030 and vote
not to rezone this property.
Thank you for your time,
Jennifer McDonald
855 Cypress
Iowa City, IA
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CITY OF IOWA CITY
410 East Washington Street
Iowa City, Iowa 52240-1826
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LATE HANDOUTS
Information submitted between distribution of packet on Monday and 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday.
Special Formal Agenda of 7/30
ITEM 3 Asphalt Resurfacing Project 2014 (Revised):
Comment: Bids for this project were opened by the City of Iowa City Public Works and
Engineering Department on Wednesday, July 30, 2014 and the following bid was
received:
LL Pelling Company $ 799,910.75
This annual project involves the asphalt resurfacing and chipsealing of various
streets throughout Iowa City. The estimated cost for this project is $792,000 and
will be funded with Road Use Tax Proceeds, Parks and Recreation Annual
Operations, Wastewater Operations, and GO Bonds.
Special Info Packet of 7/28
IP 3: See additional correspondence regarding First Avenue rezoning
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Marian Karr
From: Synan, William J <william- synan @uiowa.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:11 PM
To: Matt Hayek; Susan Mims; Kingsley Botchway; Rick Dobyns; Terry Dickens; Michelle Payne;
Jim Throgmorton
Cc: Council; PlanningZoning Public
Subject: Opposition to rezoning on the east side of North 1st Avenue and Hickory Trail
Attachments: FW_city_council.zip
Dear Mayor Hayek, ProTerm Mayor Mims and Councilors Botchway, Dobyns, Throgmorton, Dickens and
Payne:
Thank you for listening to our concerns regarding the proposed rezoning with the intent to build an 11 unit
condominium along the east side of North 1 st Avenue and Hickory Trail.
I would like to make one other observation pertaining to the proposed development. In 2011 an application was
submitted to rezone a 23 acre plat of land from RS -5 to OPD -5 to create a 55 lot residential subdivision located
at 2949 Rochester Avenue in Iowa City. The developer, Mr. Allen, is involved with this ongoing subdivision at
Rochester Avenue.
There is a large stretch of that property which runs along Rochester Avenue, an arterial street. When the
application to rezone was submitted there were no recommendations or discussion of " clustering" homes into a
single multiunit building in order to preserve green space along this arterial street. There was no discussion of
preserving wetlands or trees.
However, there was discussion of disturbing 100% of the wetlands and 89 % of the wooded areas.
Please note, the planning and zoning staff and commission approved the application for this rezoning pending a
Wetland mitigation plan being approved by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and a plan for the applicant to
work with the City Forester to replace 134 trees.
The Planning and Zoning staff even said the proposed development "would be compatible with the nearby
neighborhood." The property aligning Rochester Avenue, an arterial street, was divided into single family
home residential lots.
If the developer wants to build an 11 unit condominium why doesn't he submit an application to amend the
rezoning in the subdivision at Rochester Ridge along Rochester Avenue? I suspect if he did, the homeowners
who purchased homes in Rochester Ridge one or two years ago would be protesting just like us.
Single family homes or single family -style homes can be built along 1 st Avenue in the First and Rochester
Subdivision. This is why so many of us bought here in the Bluffwood neighborhood years ago just like the
people who are buying now at Rochester Ridge. We, too, bought in a single family residential neighborhood. I
am confident that these two parcels of land can be developed tastefully and esthetically in a manner in which it
blends and is compatible with the adjacent single family homes in our neighborhood.
Please see the attached aerial views of the Rochester Ridge Development and the First and Rochester
development.
Respectfully,
William Synan
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Synan, Ann <ann- synan @uiowa.edu>
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 4:25 PM
Matt Hayek; Susan Mims; Kingsley Botchway; Rick Dobyns; Terry Dickens; Michelle Payne;
Jim Throgmorton
Council; PlanningZoningPublic
Opposition to the Rezoning of the Property at N. First Ave and Hickory Trail
Dear Mayor Hayek, Pro Term Mayor Mims and Councilors Botchway, Dobyns, Throgmorton, Dickens, and
Payne:
Thank you for your careful consideration of the information regarding the proposed rezoning of the property at
North First Ave and Hickory Trail presented to you at the July 15, 2014 City Council meeting. We appreciate
that several councilors as well as some Planning and Zoning commissioners have come out to visit the property
and see this issue from the perspective of the residents in the Bluffwood Neighborhood. We hope that you will
choose to uphold the 2030 Comprehensive Plan and deny approval of the rezoning to allow a multi -unit
dwelling to be built on the property -- which has always been part of the First and Rochester Subdivision and
has always been zoned for single family detached homes.
The character and identity of our Bluffwood Neighborhood -- and of neighboring Hickory Hill Park -- has
already been threatened by the number of multi -unit dwellings that have been built along the few blocks from
Rochester Ave to Hickory Trail -- most recently the large and unsightly multi -unit dwelling that is under
construction (Hickory Pointe) on the property directly across from the property that has the rezoning request. As
many of you are aware, Hickory Pointe was rezoned for the purpose of building clusters of town homes and that
application was amended within a year to allow a "cluster" of 16 units to be built in ONE building with a
massive and unattractive retaining wall. The building, at the edge of Hickory Hill Park, and viewed from our
homes on Cypress Ct and elsewhere in the neighborhood, has been recognized by Planning and Zoning
commissioners and City Councilors as a "mistake ". It does not blend in with the surrounding neighborhood.
We feel the proposed development on Mr. Allen's property would be another mistake.
Mr. Allen bought the property at First and Hickory Trail with the knowledge that the land was zoned RS5 for
single family homes. He never considered building single family homes in this established subdivision.
He proposed a plan that would might allow him to build something on the property -- but
not taking into consideration that homeowners in this established subdivision bought with the confidence that
single family homes would be built on this property. Mr. Allen took a risk that the City might allow him to
rezone this property -- a risk that now risks the investments of all of the Bluffwood Neighborhood.
We hope that you will uphold the RS5 ordinance.
Sincerely,
Ann Synan
833 Cypress Court
Iowa City