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Mayor Mills here mayor pro-10 blackhurst president council member green I am present council member Johnston present council member Padilla here the member Pulaski here council Member Pollock. Excuse. Council Member Tadeo. President, you have a quorum, Your Honor. Thank you. Next is the approval of the agenda. Anyone want to make a motion on that? May I approach them? approve the agenda as written. Anyone want to make a second? Oh, okay. Council member Green. I'm happy to second that mayor. Okay. Somehow these screens are not populating our emotions here. All right. Write that again, Clint. There we go. We'll probably first and second approve the regular agenda. We'll call though. Maybe. Motion passes seven to one with one out or seven to zero with one absent. Next is the consent agenda. Madam Deputy Clerk will you please read that into the record. Item 3A approval of the September 19, 2023 City Council minutes. Item 3B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, accepting the proposal of J.R. Engineering, LLC, for design services for Sable Boulevard Improvements, Project No. 23-007963, for the contract amount of 2,361,000, $313,000, and authorizing the City Manager or designate to execute said contract on behalf of the city Item 3c a resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton Colorado accepting the proposal of Larson in city architects PC for the Brighton gym expansion design project number 23-008162 number 23-008162 for the contract amount of $524,000 and authorizing the city manager or designate to execute said contract on behalf of the city. Item 3D, a resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado, approving and affordable housing, baseline estimate, related to a proposition one two three and proposed an authorizing the submission of a commitment commitment related there to item three E resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado calling for a special mail ballot runoff municipal election for ward four if necessary to be held on December 5th 2023 appointing the Brighton City Clerk as the designated election official, specifying the authority of the City Clerk regarding the conduct of the election and setting forth other details related there too. Item 3F, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, waiving the formal solicitation procedure for the purchase of fleet vehicles, and equipment through the end of the 2024 fiscal year. Item 3G, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, approving acceptance of an Edward Bern Memorial Justice Assistance Grant, JAG, and authorizing the Chief of Police to sign the JAG grant agreement and any other public safety grant agreements from the federal government. Item 3H, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado approving amendment number one to the Master Price Agreement 22-007836M with building technology systems incorporated for on call HVAC services with the annual not to exceed contract amount of six hundred thousand dollars and authorizing the city manager or designate to execute the agreement the amendment on behalf of the city. You want to close your council council member Polsky Thank you, Mayor, and since we've gone over all of these already, I move for approval of the consent agenda. Council Member Padilla. On the second hand motion. I'll be right back in a second to approve the consent agenda's read. There's no other discussion. We'll call vote. Motion passes 7-0 with one absent. Moving on, there are no ceremonies tonight. This will go to public invited to be at a heard on matters that are not on the agenda. There are three other people that sign up to speak on the item coming up on the agenda. We will hear from them when we get to that point, but for one person that signed up for the item not on the agenda is Tom Lambo. So Tom come up and state your name for the record and you'll find minutes. Tom Lambo, it's good to be back in front of Brighton. I'm here to pray for the city and its people. Please join me in prayer. Heavenly Father in Jesus Christ holy name, we invite you here to the city of Brighton. Thank you for your presence amongst us. This is your city. You're the creator and ruler of all. It states in Psalm 1-319, the Lord has established his throne in heaven and his kingdom rules overall. You rule overall as a loving God that has given us free will to make our own decisions. First Corinthians 10, 23 states, I have the right to do anything, you say, but not everything is beneficial. I have the right to do anything, but not everything is constructive. So with free will we sometimes make choices that can be harmful. Goddess with your loving touch and direct our paths. Proverbs 3, 5 through 6 states. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding in all your ways submit to Him and He will make your path straight. Help us to trust in you and guide us in our decisions. We are less than a month away from being able to vote for those that will serve us here in Brighton. Give us wisdom. You want our leaders to stand and not to do things as politicians, but as children of God in a political position. So assist us in electing those people who will look at their position as an opportunity to further serve you. Recently across our country and worldwide, many significant changes have taken place. What we see happening is the manifestation of what we don't see. The spiritual battle wages on. We see chaos, but you are a God that brings order from chaos. In John 8, 3 through 11, it states, the teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in a woman caught an adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, teacher this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say? They were using the question as a trap in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, let any of you who was without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. Again, he swooped down and wrote on the ground. At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? No one's sir, she said. Then neither do I condemn you, Jesus declared, go now and leave your life of sin. Rather, we know you have already won the battle. Would you clear your victory? Please now bring order to the chaos we live in. In your precious name we pray. Amen. Thank you and have a nice night. Thank you Tom. Deputy City Clerk will you confer of anybody it's time to speak on the items not in the agenda. We have no other sir. Okay. Moving ahead is public hearing. I'm 6A and ordinance of the City Council. The City Brighton Colorado approving the Brownlee Farms zoning map amendment from the Brownlee Farms plan unit development to the 1A, R1B, R3, and O, or approximately 142.72 acres of property, generally located on the south of Bromley Lane, east of Chambers Road, west of the Brighton, Oasis Family Aquatic Park, north of the Indigo Trail subdivision, Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County and the Wasteland County Oh my God. I'll go ahead and officially open the public hearing. Ask of our deputy city clerk will confirm all the necessary postings and publications were done. Yes, Your Honor, the notice of public hearing was published on the Brighton City of Brighton website on October 3rd, 2023. Thank you. City manager Martinez, who will be presenting tonight. Thank you Mayor. Good evening Mayor of Mayor of Pro Tem and members of Council. Present this item as Senior Planner Nick Demario. Welcome Nick. Good evening Mayor. Mayor of Pro Tem. Members of the Council and members of the public. My name is Nick Demario. I'm a senior planner here with the City of Brighton. And tonight I'm presenting on the Bromley Farms zoning map amendment. Before you're on the screen is a subject property. The property is located to the south of Bromley Lane, east of Chambers Road, west of the Brighton Oasis, Family Aquatic Park, and north of the Indigo Trail subdivision. The request before the city council in the public tonight is to rezone the 142.72 acre property from-Bromley Farms planned unit development to the zoning designations of R1A, single two family residential, R1B, city neighborhood residential, R3, multiple family residential, and open space. Zoning is the second step in the land development process and is followed by plotting, which includes a subdivision plan and a final plan, site plan review if applicable and permits. The Land use and development code allows for the adoption of a zoning map amendment or rezoning it is as commonly referred to as. And staff uses zoning map amendment review criteria from the Land use and development code to review the proposal. As mentioned, the property is 142.72 acres in size. It was annexed under the Hishanuma annexation and was most recently zoned the Bromley Farms Planned Unit Development. Current allowed uses include single family, multi-family, and parks and open spaces. The in place Bromley Farms PUD was approved in 2011 with a vested property right of six years. Furthermore, the City Council granted two extensions to the initial vested property right, which extended that timeline to December of 2021. City Council found with a second extension that no further vesting should take place unless the land was plated by December of 2021. Speaking to the plating specifically, the property has not yet been plated. In conclusion, the applicant is now requesting that the land be re-zoned to those zone districts under the land use and development code. The in place Bromley Farms PUD includes several planning areas throughout the property. The PUD regulates each planning area in relation to allowed uses. Moving forward, I'll be referring to the planning areas as PAs. PAs 1 and 2 allow for low, medium medium and high density single and multiple family residential. PA 3 allows low and medium density single family residential. PA 4 allows low density single family residential. PA 5 allows-family residential. And PHA6 allows for low density single-family residential. Additionally, the PUD allows for parks and open spaces throughout the property. Before you on the screen is the zoning map of amendments submitted by the applicant. The proposal, as mentioned, is the zone to zone the property R3, multiple family residential, R1A, single, single and two family residential, R1B, city neighborhood residential, and lastly open space. For some further information, before you is a summary of the intense statements for each zone district included in the proposed zoning amendment. The intent of the R1A zone district is to provide low density residential neighborhoods with close access to assembly uses, schools and parks. And it can be used in walkable neighborhood settings when integrated with other zone districts. In this instance, the R1A zone district would be integrated with the R1B, R3 and open space zone districts. The intent of the R1B zone district is to provide compact and walkable neighborhoods with close proximity to supporting uses. And it should be located close to zone districts that provide a broader range of housing types. In this instance, the close proximity of the R3 zone district provides a range of housing types. The intent of the R3 zone district is to provide medium to high density residential living, located in areas that have transitions between lower density neighborhoods and more intense non-residential land uses, such as the natural grocers and the pliesy marketplace, and should be located near public amenities such as RTD transit stops within the Sable and South Forth Avenue corridor, and the Brighton Oasis Family Aquatic Park. Lastly, the intent of the Open Space Zone District is to integrate open and civic space systems, such as parks, natural areas, and trails, and should be integrated into various development patterns. It is important to note that all of the proposed residential zone districts do allow for parks and open space uses. That being said, parks and other open spaces may be scattered throughout the residential zone land. Here we have a comparison of the in place Brahmi Farms PUD on the left versus the proposed zoning map amendment on the right. In regards to use, the PUD and proposed zoning map amendment generally allow the same land uses within the same areas. Additionally, the proposed zoning map amendment generally allow the same land uses within the same areas. Additionally, the proposed zoning map amendment includes an open space zone district. If the zoning map amendment is passed and the land is plotted, said open space area would be dedicated to the city. Under the beep right and comprehensive plan, the property is designated a mix of high and low density residential and parks and open spaces. The primary uses of the residential designations include single-family attached and detached, as well as multiple-family dwellings, with secondary uses being parks and open space and recreational amenities. In relation to the opportunity area number two. The R3 multiple multifamily zoning shown here in orange would have access to an arterial roadway. Furthermore, the higher density zoning is located along the same roadway and in close proximity to existing and future commercial uses. Additionally, the land located to the west across Chambers Road is designated as mixed use commercial. The proposed R3 zoning will contribute to the diversity of residential uses located within proximity to commercial zoning. In relation to opportunity area number 14, the proposed rezoning would facilitate development that would be responsible to build out a joint network of residential areas. In relation to opportunity area number 14, the proposed rezoning would facilitate development that would be responsible to build out adjacent roadways to their ultimate condition. One of these roadways is Bromley Lane. Furthermore, number 14 states that spaces between commercial development should be developed with mixed density residential and open spaces. The proposed zoning map amendment proposes a wide range of residential densities and includes a vast area of open space zoning. Moving into chapter four of the comprehensive plan, the plan states that the included policies are citywide themes that should guide all developments and renovations. We're soon to the policies before you on the screen. are citywide themes that should guide all developments and renovations, pursuant to the policies before you on the screen, the property is within the urban growth boundary and is bound by a major arterial and a collector roadway circled in red and blue before you. Furthermore, there currently exists water and sewer lines adjacent to the property. These existing utility lines are shown in blue and green before you on the screen. Lastly, the build out of any future roadways and all infrastructure items, but fall into the financial responsibility of a developer. Pursuant to the policy before you on the screen, staff and applicant worked with multiple external agencies throughout the review process. If the zoning map amendment is passed and subsequent land use applications are submitted to the city, these external agencies will continue to be involved in the review process. Presumably to the policy before you on the screen, the proposal will contribute to the healthy balance between residential and non-residential uses. As you can see on the screen, the property is located within the close proximity to existing and future commercial properties within the Bromley Lane corridor. Lastly, the proposed rezoning will allow for a mix of diverse housing options that will utilize the commercial properties. Pursuant to the policies before you on the screen, the proposed open space zoning will allow for the utilization of the Fulton Detch as a water conveyor, an open space corridor, and an alternative transportation corridor. This directly pursues the city's goals of creating a north to south pedestrian and cycling route. Furthermore, the residential development would be required to provide trails throughout the subdivision and along the Fulton ditch. This will allow for more alternative forms of transportation. Resumance of the policies before you on the screen, the residential development would be located just over half a mile from existing RTD bus stops circled start here and red Additionally, a build out of Chambers Road and other internal roadways and internal trails would allow for a more walkable and bikeable environment We're soon to the policies before you on the screen future residential development of the land would require residential design standards review. Said review would ensure design and architecture enhances the streetscape. Additionally, the mixes zoning zone districts would provide for diverse housing options and costs. Lastly, the proposed open space zoning will facilitate usable and accessible green spaces for the neighborhood and community as a whole. In making its decision, the City Council shall use the review criteria from Section 2.03B of the Land Use and Development Code. In relation to the review criteria before you on the screen, the proposals and accordance with the goals and objectives of the comprehensive plan and the proposed uses as allowed by the desired zone districts are in line with the correct character of this rounding uses. In relation to the review criteria before you on the screen, the property can be adequately served by the city and other agencies. The proposal serves a community need that is not possible under the current zoning. And city staff finds this site as appropriate for residential and open space uses, given its specific location based on the desires of the community as expressed in the comprehensive plan. In accordance with the land use and development code, signs detailing the date and time of this hearing were posted on the subject property on September 29th. And notice was posted on the city website and mailed to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the subject property on October 3rd. In addition to these postings, notice of the hearing was also posted on Facebook and next door. In accordance with the land use and development code, and neighborhood meeting was held prior to the formal submittal of this application. And Planning Staff, so our correction to the slide, Planning Staff has received two formal comments in advance of this hearing. The Development Review Committee has reviewed this project and finds that the zoning up amendment is in general compliance with the requirements as outlined in the Land Use and Development Code. Planning Commission heard this request on August 24, 2003, sorry, 2023, and unanimously voted to recommend approval. City staff recommends approval of the Brownlee Farms zoning map amendment, and as such has provided a draft ordinance of City Council agrees. The options for City Council are before you on the screen. Thank you Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of Council and members of the public for allowing me to present tonight. After a brief presentation from the applicant, I'll be free to fill any questions you may have. If the applicant was to come forward and add, welcome to do it. Good evening mayor and city council members. My name is Phil Stupor with HR Green and I've been the lead planner on this project for quite some time. In a moment I'll introduce some of our other development team. I want to mention first of all, Mr. DiMario, a good chava going through a lot of detail there. So I'm going to try to minimize or avoid a lot of repetition of that. It really just focused on the review criteria because that's what you all are voting on tonight. It's how our project and proposal relates to those review criteria and how we meet them. I'll see you next slide here. So I didn't want to introduce the development team, the developers, Mr. Jack Hogueman here on the left, Mr. Craig Campbell on the right, and then we also have the lead engineer, Aaron Cleutter of JR Engineering in the back. So they'll all be here to answer questions and not going to be presenting, but we'll be here for answering questions. So again, covered by staff going through the zoning. One of the things I want to mention, and I'll talk about this when we get to the comp plan, of how we're not only meeting your comp plan, but also the zoning makes a lot of sense, how we've transitioned across the site and how it relates to the context, which is one of your review criteria. The multi-family, the R3 up in the northwest corner, while there is single-family homes to the north, as you look to the west, as was covered earlier by staff, future commercial retail, apartments that already exist in multifamily that's already immediately in the area, and also proposed mixed use including multifamily. So we think and hopefully you agree a very logical transition. Because you wouldn't want to have single-family detached homes and things like that in this parcel, it just wouldn't fit with the character of the area. So we've done this, put multi-family at the Northwest corner at a major intersection for your city. And let's face it, this is a very urbanized area and it's only going to continue to be like that as bright and gross. So we've placed that multi-family in the Northwest corner and as you transition away the R1A allows duplex units, which again, we're not at that point yet, but we do plan to propose duplex units in that location. As you go down to R1B, we are doing typical single-family detached homes, which are very similar to the surrounding area. And then open space in the southeast corner. So I mean, we feel this is a very good transition, because you look at to the surrounding area and then open space in the southeast corner. So I mean we feel this is a very good transition because you look at to the south, you have a very large buffer of open space. That's a significant area. Your comp plan, as you'll see in a moment, actually shows some residential in that area, but through conversations with staff and parks department, you know, they really requested, hey, can you just put that all in open space so it's a significant corridor for trails to connect up into the Oasis Park as well as a historic farm so the developers were willing to do that so and that's great it's great for the city it's great for the project to have that much open space as a buffer. So just read your criteria, a couple of things to mention, a proposed zoning does meet your comprehensive plan and that's your first criteria. Second talks about the character and how we fit in with the character of the area. I just explained some of that and we'll talk a little bit more about that in a moment. Here's your comp plan. And we are meeting this very closely, almost, almost exact, to your kind of approved comp plan, with the exception of that small residential that you see in the Southeast corner, which we turned into open space. That's really the only change. Otherwise, we're meeting, and that's, I would hope that you would see that's a positive good change. Otherwise we're meeting this comp plan very closely. As far as densities, you know, we're not at a detailed plan yet. We will be in the near future. But we will meet all the densities for low density up to five units per acre and the high densities up to 24. So we'll be at or below those densities when we come down the road with an actual plan. To meet in your comp plan very well. As far as transportation, Mr. DiMariel covered some of this. We have very good access to the site. We have collectors that are going to go through the property that tie in very well the circulation of your area. So if you look at the planned roads and green that are external to our site, we're going to carry those through our property and there will be very good vehicular and pedestrian circulation through our property. And like I said, very good vehicular access as well. Number three for criteria talks about, is there existing water and sanitary infrastructure in your bi is immediately adjacent, which it is. We're able to provide those services and tie right into your water and sanitary adjacent to the site as opposed to being a green field that's way out where we have to extend infrastructure a mile or two miles, which happens a lot in cities. This is immediately adjacent to existing infrastructure. This shows some of that and I'm not going to spend a lot of detail on utility design tonight we're here for zoning hearing, but I just wanted to show you where those lines do occur to the north and to the west, sanitary the same on the north and the west. So immediately adjacent to this property. Number four talks about the need for the area. Obviously there's a growing need for housing, not only in the city of Brighton, but the entire Denver metro area in Colorado for that matter. There's a growing need for housing, and not only does it a certain type of housing, but a broad range of housing. This property is large enough that allows us to offer lots of different products. So we have the multi-family. We have the duplex, and we have single-family detached. So we're able to offer and hit a lot of different housing needs on this particular property. Lastly, number five talks about the recommendations by staff, which you just heard from Mr. DiMario, recommending approval and the Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval as well. We did have a neighborhood meeting. There's lots of things discussed at a neighborhood meeting. We talked about details of the plan, our initial concept layout and things like that. I just pulled out a few things that more relate to zillions and that's the purpose of us being here tonight. And then it focused on some of the other details. We will talk about those when we come back with the subdivision plan. But as far as, you look at something here, they asked about the comp plan and does this application follow, which we do, and I just demonstrated that. There's a lot of discussion about the Northwest corner of the apartments, which you show as multifamily on your comp plan. Some people felt like they didn't want apartments. Some people felt like that was fine. It was better than commercial. We heard a mix of all kinds of things. We feel that it's a very good use for that corner. It could be a high density commercial property. I mean, a lot of times you see that in a hard corner, but I think the way your comp plan is set up, you have your commercial retail off to the west, and it transitions the multifamily on this parcel, and then in the single-family detach, which transitions to the existing character of the area. So we feel like your comp plan makes sense, and our application makes a lot of sense. With that, I'm gonna conclude. So kept it brief and short, we'll be here to answer all of your questions and comments and concerns from neighbors as well. the committee. I'm going to conclude. We'll be here to answer all of your questions and comments and concerns from the neighbors as well. And with that, I'll conclude our part. Thank you. All right. Well, for those of you that signed up to speak, I'll be calling on you one by one. And if you hadn't signed up to speak and intend to speak, there are forms in the back under the clock. Welcome to sign up and bring them to City Clerk. So, grab the list of those of sign up and speak. Julie Blair, come up and state your name for the record and our Deputy City Clerk will let you know when your five minutes are up. Deputy City Clerk will let you know when your five minutes are up. My name is Julie Blair 13 E five cherry way HKS subdivision ward four. I'm a long time bright and resident. My background is in public safety, fire police and EMS. I've served on many boards and volunteered in the community. I have a very vested interest in my city. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. I have been before Council in the past when I felt strongly about issues and this is one of them. I do appreciate that you are taking time to listen to the public. I do hope you are truly hearing the voices of your public. I do realize growth and change our reality. I have seen positive changes in our city. However, it appears to many that the growth is way ahead of the infrastructure. Current resources are scrambling to meet the needs of the citizens. This proposed development raises what I feel are valid serious concerns. Just to the south, along 144th is a soon to be very large development. First issue is water. We've talked about this endlessly. There's been discussion for years, reference the quantity and quality. I have served on a water committee. We are currently, we currently have summer restrictions in place and have for many years. It is my understanding the developer is to bring water resources with development. However, for a very large fee, they can buy out of that requirement. When you have deep pockets as these developers do, that is not a problem for them. Yet we have yet to solve our water issue. Emergency services, our police and fire departments currently have multiple openings and a large increase in the volume. I mean, cause for service over the last year. Everyone's calls for service have increased substantially as well. Our local hospital is often at a 100% capacity. In the emergency room and being staffed with PAs and MPs. Recently had a family member in critical condition have to wait over an hour for a room. Safety. I have observed other recently built affordable housing apartments such as around 50th Avenue. These are so many cars parked on both sides of the public street. Two cars cannot pass, let alone a large fire truck. When you concentrate that many people in small areas, of the public street, two cars cannot pass, let alone a large fire truck. When you concentrate that many people in small areas, it is proven crime increases, domestic violence calls, theft, assaults, property crimes. HKS is a well-established neighborhood comprised of longtime residents making them a more vulnerable target for crime. The traffic, romantically in bridge are the two main arteries, east and west. They're extremely busy during daytime hours, making it time consuming and difficult to navigate through town in a timely manner. Emergency service vehicles are often delayed due to the volume on the streets. Developers proposal is to make 15th Avenue a main artery of this subdivision. That's loading Bromley even further. Dividers will be placed along other entrances to HKS, delaying entry and exit for many homes. In emergencies, Minus Count. This alignment will run right up against the historic Bromley farm. This will destroy the beauty of the historic place. There should be large buffer zones, as open space in park between that and the development. A better plan would be to extend the existing green belt along Poppy in two proposed area and place a traffic light at that location. Home values. The proposal of R3 to create affordable housing is a large concern. $2,300 for a two bedroom apartment is not affordable to most people. And that is the average price of these new apartments. Therefore, they must occupy with multi-families to afford even that accommodation. With, again, increase in vehicles parking on public roadways. Excuse me, the concern is that the environment will decrease the value of our homes in this rounding area. There is a community attitude that public hearings in this town do no good because decisions are already made. I would hope the council would take time to consider information and concerns voiced tonight. We understand growth is inevitable. However, these issues will continue until we slow the explosive growth, especially of our three zoning and solve these longstanding concerns. These developers come with big proposals and plans filling their deep pockets and leave with no concern for the citizens or problems they leave behind. Also, I'd like to note that the notice was dated October 3rd, however many of them, and we've checked with many of our neighbors, did not receive them until last week. Also, the only notice on the land was on chambers until the one I'm broadly appeared again last week. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Julie. So next, Morris Pensac. So Morris, come on up. State your name for the record. You got five minutes. Where is it, Maris? Maris. Okay. It's all day. It's all right. I get that a lot. I'm really allowed to ask any questions. This is the time when you speak to us. Just talking? Yes. Okay. ask any questions? This is a time when can you speak to us? Just talking? Yes. Okay. I'm Harris Pinsack, 7-8-4-Rose Drive. I guess one of the big things I'd really like to address is a comment that said that the apartment complex was going to be great. We live across the street from that. It's not going to be great. Most of us have lived there for years back to the 70s and most of us are a retired community and that brings a lot of problems. Bromley, if the developer were to hang out at Bromley at any particular point, you would see that that road is so hard to cross. It's really busy and adding another couple lanes is only going to make that worse. I have a huge concern also with the fact that as the last meeting kind of commented about our school systems, our school systems have been greatly impacted by our growth. As you guys know, like we can't seem to get any bonds or mills past. We finally did and now we're kind of like at capacity and everything is going great and now you just want to add a huge influx of students back into our population that we're not prepared for. Our none of our buildings are prepared for. We're not prepared for busing. Everybody said that the students that would be over there would go to Veecon and then Riverdale. Well, that's busing because they're only blocks away from Brighton High and we know they cannot possibly be accounted for at Brighton High. We have been in this community long enough to know that that is a very, very difficult part about being in Brighton. And I don't think that we should take this lightly and just say, oh, it's OK to develop this big. Part of your job is to decide whether things are good for Brighton growth and whether things are too much. This is too much, too fast. We don't have the infrastructure. We don't have the police. I mean, the other day, like literally, the other day, we were all put into a shelter in place. That's never happened before. But that whole community that he's talking about, that's what happened to us. And that is concerning. And it's scary for those of us who have lived here for so many generations. So I'm just asking you to consider it. And I'm asking you to think about it. is concerning and it's scary for those of us who have lived here for so many generations. So I'm just asking you to consider it and I'm asking you to think about it. I'm asking you to think about the impact that this really will have on all of us who have lived there for so long and who have been part of this community and the farm that you proudly put on your web page. Do you think that's going to look the same when this is put in? And I understand that housing development is important, but that huge complex right on Brighton is just going to bring down all of our property values. And it's going to really affect that historic farm. The other thing too, just one more comment. I don't understand why that green belt can't be put on that other side where the apartment complex is is zoned for, because it makes more logical sense that way. You've already got the trail that's coming on poppy, so you can actually access it. So people who are using the bike trails could actually access the green point. Plus, maybe you wouldn't have so many people turning all in the same spot. It would be more filtered behind the line a little bit better. I'm not saying that development can't happen. I understand that we need housing, but this is just too much, and I'm asking you to please consider all of what it would do to our city. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Maris. Next, sign up to speak. Morgan Stiles. Come on up Morgan. State your name for the record. You've got five minutes. I'm up. Come on up Morgan state your name for the record you've got five minutes. Morgan styles 805 rose drive. Thank you for taking the time to listen to us. We appreciate that. I don't have a big speech prepared. I was doing this at the last minute, but I asked a simple question. Why did all of us move here to this part of Brighton? I know for me and my wife 15 years ago, it was because we were tired of seeing all the development in Thornton. We lived there for 10 years, right on Colorado and 120th, the crime, the schools not being able to keep up. And we said, you know, we've got enough money, where do we want to move? And we picked this part of Brighton. And I used this part of Brighton as old Brighton. And old Brighton to me is Brighton Road up to 144th, 85 up to 27th. We've been building a new Brighton all the time. Go out there and build. This part of Brighton is charming. It's an old farm town and we don't want to ruin. Yes, development is edible. Put two like a lot's on there. We don't have any in Brighton. We got Jacob's run and I think that's it. And I don't even know if that's Brighton or Unincorporated Adams. But we all moved here because we didn't want to be in these big cities. We don't want you turning this part of old Brighton into Aurora. We don't want it turned into Thornton. Go build a new brighten. There's plenty of places out there to build. Leave this part of Brighton that we all move to a farming community, a small town with that charm and not all these problems. I can go through all the water stuff and we don't have the water and everybody's already kind of covered that. We don't have the police. We don't have the infrastructure to everybody's already kind of covered that. We don't have the police. We don't have the infrastructure to do this. And for goodness' sakes, we just approved something on the other side of 144th. And in the go-trail still isn't developed. And now we want to drop another 150 acres of development. And we haven't even finished developing that. And so for those reasons, I say that it's a bad idea. Let's not turn lovable brighten, old brighten, into Thornton, into Aurora. Go out and build a new brighten because the people here move here because of all the farmland, the less people, the less population, the small town feel. We could build two-acre lots on this thing. We don't have any of those but you know Builders do what builders do and city just wants more tax dollars and more tax dollars and the heck with people and You know, I'm for one just don't think it's a good idea. We vote bright and old bright go develop somewhere else Otherwise, we just continue right up Bromley. There's all kinds of land between here and the courthouse. And when you just keep building and keep building until this part of Brighton looks like new Brighton. Houses on top of houses, on top of houses, on top of houses, on top of houses. Instead of driving in. I remember when I first moved here, I picked up my parents at the airport and my parents grew up in rural Montana and we were driving by the cornfields guys down on us, tracked them. My mother was, where did you move to? I said, well, we moved out to the country, mom. We don't have two acres, but that's the way it felt to us when we moved to Brighton. And we would just like to see the City Council think about that. I mean the infrastructure I know is not there and we would like to see you keep this part of Brighton that way. Thank you. All right. Thank you Morgan. Deputy City Clerk will you confer if anybody sign up to speak in addition to the three? Oh we got more. Okay. Lori Meyer, come on up Lori. Take your name for the record. You got five minutes. Thank you mayor. Members of City Council and staff. Lori Meyer. Laurie Zanomire to be specific, 504-voils drive. Lifelong residence of Brighton. And Brighton, as you know, is a very important city to me. I want the best for it. Looking at this particular proposal, I think there's a lot of things that we haven't addressed yet. Coming from the public works area, and seeing the impact this is going to have on Bromley Lane, we're going to have to cross Bromley Lane to get kids to school. We're going to have to cross Bromley Lane to get to the roundabouts. Traffic is already a mess. We're going to have to cross-bromely lane to get to the roundabouts. Traffic is already a mess when you try to get on-bromely and take the roundabouts, especially at peak times, peak hours of the day. I didn't see that address here. We do have issues with infrastructure as well. The other issue that we have, of course, is water. And I kind of agree with the fact that we need to look at how we're acquiring that water because that's putting the responsibility back on us if they're paying in lieu. Maybe too late to look at that. However, it's not too late to continue this item to be reviewed again. That is one of the options that you have as a council to continue so that we can review it again. Because of some of the things that I've heard from residents in the area and their concerns, the fact that affordable housing is necessary in Brighton. Unfortunately, how affordable is this the city council. I would like to thank the council for the consideration. Unfortunately, how affordable is this housing really going to be? I would like to look at that too. For that reason, I ask that city council consider continue the item for another date so it can be reviewed again. Thank you for your time. Thank you very much. Deputy City Clerk, will you confirm anybody else? I don't speak. There are no others, Your Honor. Thank you. Staff or either staff or the applicant like to add anything based on the comments that were made? Yes, thank you, Mayor. Starting off with some, with water seems to be one of the most pressing issues. Per city code, and I know a comment was made that developers have deep pockets. They're able to pay fee and lose. The way city code is written now is fee and lose, not allowed. To the amount of water that this development would need, they would not be permitted to pay fee and lose. So they will be required to dedicate water per city code. In terms of infrastructure items, traffic, bromelain, chambers, water sewer, things of the city council. I would like to state that the planning commission and the city council as well as the public will see a subdivision plan if of course if this is passed in the near future that details all of those infrastructure items. Planning commission will be tasked with approving the subdivision plan. City council will be tasked with accepting the public improvements that we have. The public is not going to be able to do that. The public is not going to be able to do that. the near future that details all of those infrastructure items. Planning Commission will be tasked with approving the subdivision plan. City Council will be tasked with accepting the public improvements, the roadways and the infrastructure that are associated with that subdivision plan. So that will come back before the public and before the appointed and elected bodies of the city of Brighton as well. Let's go over my list here. Parking issues, if you guys recall or not at the beginning of the year or sometimes during this year, parking requirements were actually increased. So comparison to our prior, the prior version of our code, it was one parking space per unit for a studio or one bedroom that's been increased to two parking spaces per unit, two and a half units for a two bedroom, two and three quarter units for three bedroom. So parking rates have been increased with recent code updates. In terms of parking on roadways, I can say with positivity, we would not allow parking on Bromley Lane as a major arterial unless some sort of cut out in the concrete was allowed for that, but I do not foresee that. Parking would not be a lot on Bromley Lane. So, with the recent code updates that is designed to mitigate those parking effects and have them all on site, especially for these larger higher density multiple multiple family issues. Again, we have stuff on traffic. There was a traffic impact study submitted with the zoning map amendment. It's very broad, very high level shows the potential impacts of these zone districts, some impacts that they have on intersections, but we really get down to the nuts and bolts that engineering at the time of subdivision plan stated that will come back to this body for consideration. In terms of decreasing property values, it's not a reviewable criteria of our code, affordability. If the developer and the applicant would like to speak to the affordability of their units or they're not affordability of their units, they're more than welcome to do so. In terms of crossing the road, as has been mentioned that is a danger with the build-out of Bromley Lane, especially in front of this property, it would not be permitted to drive back and forth across Bromley land across six lanes. For the school district comments, the city is not the school district, the school district is a separate entity. They were involved in the review process of the zoning. They are also involved in the review process of any application moving forward. They will decide one if land needs to be dedicated. If they do not want land, they will decide a decently sized fee that will need to be paid for the city, paid to the school district as a fee in lieu, and with every residential permit that they pull, they also pay into the CFF, the capital facility fee foundation, which goes to a resources for the school district. And looking across, I believe that was all mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Nick, would the applicant like to add anything? I'm going to be able to do that. And looking across, I believe that was all mayor. Thank you. Thank you, Nick. Would the applicant like to add anything? I think Mr. DeMaria went through a lot of that. I think what we'll do is just sit here and let you all discuss. If you have questions or certain items that you want to address that the public brought up, we're more than happy to address those but for now we'll just wait to, if you have any questions for us or want us to address certain things. Okay. I'm sure more will come up. I'm just dire. Thank you. And then Deputy City Clerk, are there any other correspondences for or against the request? No, you're on her. And then we had some printed out that was given out to the council as well just for the record too. All right questions comments from the council got council member Plosky. Thank you Mayor. Well ladies and gentlemen this property goes back 20 years ago when I was mayor when this was first brought into the city. And during that time, I went off as mayor in 2009, and in between that, there's been many changes made, but I think that we need more input into this. I went out there today and drove around the property. And the Fulton Ditch and all of that open space area up there, to me, provides a lot of separation between what could be built on the north side of the ditch compared to the homes that exist on the south side. Personally, myself, I would love to see the apartment units go in there, not on broadly laying. I know that one of the things that's planned with the traffic pattern is that starting at chambers, there will be a median put in that has trees that would at least provide some separation, which I think is very important, because I do like the fact that between 4th Avenue and chambers, there is a median with trees and that separation, think is very important because I do like the fact that between 4th Avenue and chambers, there is a median with trees and that separation, which is very important. So anyway, at my age 79, it goes back to how many years I've been involved in seeing the city grow. And I just think we need more information. I think we need a little more time. I know the developers have been great people to work with and understand concerns, but when you talk about 1200 new homes, plus apartment units, multiple, I forget how many, but it's a lot. And then you're talking about in that area alone, over 3,000 cars can exist. And so I think we really need to think deeper about all of this. So that's kind of my opinion. Thank you. And councilmember Green. Thank you, Mayor. In defense of the school district, we've built 10 schools in the past 10 years. We are not overtaxed. And we will have more room at Prairie View High School for these students to go to when we build the high school in Commerce City which will be coming up in the next two years. But I do have some questions here. Mr. DiMario, is the PUD currently in place? It is. And when does it expire? So the vesting expired in December of 2021. Okay. But the PUD is still in place. So what I would be understanding then is they could build medium to high density right now in that corner without having any sort of zoning changes. If the decision was made by the elected and appointed bodies of Brighton to allow subdivision plan to move forward under the Brown and Farms P. D. Correct. Okay. And we talked about how they're they have to pay for the infrastructure and Farms P.D. correct. Okay. And you talked about how they have to pay for the infrastructure improve with themselves. They have to bring their own water. And I'm sure there'll be stoplights at Chambers to get across. That's still being determined through the subdivision plan but we'll be brought back to council for consideration. Okay. Thank you, Mr. DeMiro. Anyone else? Council Member John Okay, thank you, Mr. DeMiro. Anyone else? Councilmember Johnston. Thank you, Mayor. Yeah, I mean, we can't. As a staff in a city council, we can't pick and choose when we divulge certain information for certain projects. So I, there was some questions that were asked and I feel like they're getting cold shoulder right now and they're very important to rezone something. Just a few weeks ago, we had a major in the news rezoning happening. And we talked about the roads. We talked about what it would look like to rezone, especially when you're adding density. So as this is a public hearing, correct, Mayor? Yeah. And so testimony was entered. So we can discuss that before we see the actual documents in the future if this does pass. So I'd like to have those questions from the public answered if it pleases you, Mayor. Go ahead, thanks. And just to clarify Councilman, we were talking about roadways. Yeah, mostly roadways. That's Councilman Poulouse, he's concerned. And that's always been my concern. The infrastructure issues that we face were watered. Council and staff has done a great job by saying, no, we're not going to do fee in lieu. I find this project as a whole very valuable to the city if it's done right and the roads are done correctly But I find this not a valid zoning and I don't feel like public as I always state in the comprehensive plan It states that public safety is one of the major factors that we have to judge I I was I had the pleasure of helping to form that on the comprehensive plan committee long ago and it was a big deal We talked through that heavily. And so yeah, I think it's important that we discuss small factors when it comes to those as much as we legally can. I know we can go pretty far because we've done it multiple times. So if it please you, Mayor, I'd just like to hear about some roadways, especially Bromley, that's important right here. Thank you very to clarify that. Yeah Councilman thank you for the question and answering this question I'll call up director Lebrie from the from the Public Works Department to provide further information. I would like to state that as mentioned in the presentation chambers up to eighth Avenue is designated as a collector roadway this development will be required to build that out when they get to that phase if this is all approved and they'll be required to build out that unbuilt portion of brownie lane as well. Director. Yeah, good evening, mayor, mayor pro temp and members of council. The at this point, the developers provided us a traffic impact study to give us an ideal what type of traffic they're going to generate. And then we look at that number and look at how Bromley is designed and is Bromley as a full arterial, four lanes in both direction. It can hold up to a maximum of 50,000 vehicles per day. Currently, from the last report I've have been working on the health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health health help facilitate traffic as well as auxiliary lanes. We may, the developer may be required per, as we get into the study, provide, right, you know, dedicate it right turn lanes, dedicate it, acceleration lanes and things of that nature to ensure that we keep the traffic moving. But that actually comes at the time as Nick has indicated at the time when they start providing more details to specifically what they're going to build out there. But at this point, they also have connectivity. They're providing internally through their proposal and so they'll be connecting with chambers, connecting with 19th Street. And we're going to encourage that kind of connectivity so that cars can actually go either north or south or east and west and that kind of thing. So we've essentially looked at it from a rezoning standpoint. We have looked at it and evaluated it and says yes the roads are with the full build out will be capable to handle and manage the traffic that's going to be produced by this development. That's essentially what we assess at this point, based upon the information we have, with the understanding that there's more information to come, that we will be bringing before this board as well so that you can evaluate and make sure that we're on the right track. All right. Thank you. If you please, your marriage or just have a couple more. Yeah, I also think that there's some thoughts that have been brought up by both residents and council member Pulaski about the alignment of how this works and what we could do, especially when it was said by a resident, the trail connections. That's also a major part of our comprehensive plan where the Green Belt can be, where the apartment complex can be. Is that a thought that we can move forward with, hopefully with the developer, to try to move some things around with this before we pass the rezoning? And just so I'm understanding the correct, understanding correctly, we're talking about the alignment of the fault and what we call the fault and ditch trail. So the comprehensive plan speaks to the fault and ditch as a green way, as a water conveyor, which it already functions as, but also providing a natural area that provides north to south connection. So in applicants, that's the number of locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the locations that the It specifically states the high-density residential should be placed up on the corner of Romulan and Chambers Road with the lowered-ensity uses being down south But the issue with that is That is in order for the developer to not have to build out more roadway and I don't care about that We all have to care about the citizens and what that'll end up as and what our trail systems. We have a horrible, non-mobile city. And we've been trying to fix that over time. But as the new things come in, what I'm asking for from the developers and the city staff is to hear the citizens and a few council members that have already said this and that's been being said for years is there's ways there's ways to make this to where we I find this to be doable but the way it is now it it makes it to where here's a four-lane road Let's throw the high density there so we don't have to build more roadways and or make the roadways bigger In order to accommodate pushing that somewhere else So it doesn't affect the residents directly that already live there. So I would like to look at more options than just sending this forward. One thing I'll say that won't get me any claps from this audience is I found it appalling to hear, let's send it to the new side of Brighton. And I respect the unders, I understand. But let me ask you about the Metro district taxes over where you live. Because we were getting hit with .89 on the mill 700 a month for a long time before we changed it. And then I'll also ask, we had to pay for our pipes, our streets, and everything through that Metro District Act and then got double dipped. I used to actually call your neighborhoods. We were the piggy bank for your neighborhoods. And I want to be very clear about that before I say my next comment because saying all that, I still find it just troubling that we're gonna head if we do head this direction without a few changes and I'm still going, even with that comment and the thought of it, I definitely back you all for being here and it does change things and I hope hopefully it can help this situation before you have to deal with what we all dealt with out in New Brighton. I've been here for so many years. My house is like 20 years old. But I do want to bridge that gap between our communities, both verbally and where we're at with these zoning. So I definitely am here to help and listen. And I think the rest of the council is too. And I appreciate staff for holding all the developers accountable and the developers willing to bring water. That's just everything to me and to all of us on. Let's see what we can do. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Councilmember Padilla. Thanks. All of you who came here to speak tonight are my people. It's my ward. You are the people who I've spoken to for all of this time, and I so value your engagement and the value of the fact that you're here, and I appreciate everything that you have to say. The first thing that I have to think of, though, is the new side of Brighton, we've sort of filled up everything that's going to the east. We've hit I-76, we've hit where we're going to go. The new developments in Brighton are heading between south of Bromley and essentially between in A85 and 76 and that's where the development is. And this PUD that exists today is similar to what's being asked for in going back to strict zoning. I like as much as possible getting to standard definition zoning instead of having everything be a specifically defined PUD as much as we're able to do so. Let me ask both Nick and the developer the R1B which is new in here. as I understand it, what that enables is the building of duplexes or fourplexes or patio homes, things that are a little bit more dense and don't necessarily have 3,000 square foot houses on 6,000 square foot lots. So a little bit of a change of nature. That's correct. The R1B, and as mentioned, the intent of the R1B zone district is kind of a more walkable Media-mish density residential zone district. It does allow detached houses It allows duplexes in row homes though, but the lot minimum square footage is much lower to encourage density to encourage more walkability It also encourages more affordability just naturally compared to a larger house on a larger lot. I think of many of the people who moved into the HKS neighborhood in the first place because that developed as I was graduating from high school and the parents of all of my friends from high school got rid of the homes in which they raised lots of kids and built homes in that neighborhood. So we're designing to be where they wanted to be. But in some cases, downsizing in some cases not, we don't have much in the way of places either for people to start or for people to downsize and retire. And that's to me what this is owning accomplishes is earmarking that kind of space versus the fact that right now in the PUD, that high density space is against Bromley. When we look at this from HKS neighborhood or my uncle and aunts house on 12th, on the north side of this street. The apartments in this design are nearest to you. If we use the model that was presented elsewhere in here and flip that and move the apartments towards the south side of this, then it's the ward three people in to go trails who come in and say why are you putting all these apartments right on top of where we are? So it exactly borders on the north side of indigo trails. So it's choosing who, where is the impact for that? But as we look around, I had to rent an apartment when we're building our house, there are no apartments for rent and brighten. There are very few vacancies. We have to create places for people to live. And the main streets like Bromley are the places to do that, to put the nearest to the bus stations, to put the nearest to walkability to the grocery store. If we move the apartments to the south side of that particular arsel, we increase by another half mile the length that people need to move with groceries. So trying to balance all of the sets of needs for people around, the infrastructure questions. Let me just ask again to make sure the requirement will be for chambers to be completed between where it ends into go trails or narrows it into go trails would get us to wrongly lane. So in terms of- not as a zoning requirement, when we get to the next development, yes. But what would come out of this zoning would include? Of course, and I would like, I'm just speak lightly here and kind of more broad. We are actively reviewing a subdivision plan, which we'll move forward if this passes. So nothing has been obviously agreed to yet by the city. But included in that is the build out of chambers to its full designation as a collector. the city. So nothing has been obviously agreed to you by the city. But included in that is the build out of chambers to its full designation as a collector build out of bromley to its full designation as a major arterial and South 15th Avenue that's plan to come through there as well as kite street that will come from the east those will also be built or designated to be built as collectors as well. Okay. And then when we think about open space and connectivity, I get the concept of trying to align the open space to the memorial parkway. I think that's what you're referring to, somebody mentioned a green belt and what I see is the memorial parkway behind there. Is that the right space? Okay, again, right behind my uncle and aunt's house. That's space. But I don't see a natural place to align that whereas the current or the design, I think I can't remember which slide here that showed that. But it's aligning with the Fulton Dig, essentially, because we can't split the apartments up around the Fulton Dig, but it does create a pathway that gets you out to the open spaces around where the Hishinuma farming is, but also the Maddox open space on the east side of that property and north side of Romley. Is that the target area? That is the target if I could go to the appendicesides. All right, it's a long way back. the the next one please perfect thank you so and really the decision to zone that area as open space it's in staff's opinion is the most optimal place in the subdivision plan to zone open space because of the ditch. The ditch cannot go away. Farmers have rights to that irrigation so that cannot go away. So it's a natural feature we have to work with and also utilize for our residents as well. So starting down here where it meets the nico trails, the trail will follow all the way up. And then eventually over here in the case, farms property. It will connect to a trail that they're building their current or not currently, but will be required to be built there as well. And then that will go out to Bromley, which of course has crossings over up into the North side of Bromley up in Observatory Park. So it is tying into a park destination. It is tying into a trail. It just doesn't happen to align with that particular one. And I see the value in doing so, but again, with increased traffic on Bromley, which is coming, regardless of whether this zone in change happens limiting the number of pedestrian crossings on Bromley's safety element. One thing that I worry about, and maybe I just missed it or maybe it's part of the next line of planning as I get where the open space moved to the southeast corner of the property but what I'm trying to make sure is that that didn't lose the adjacency to parks and the various types of parks that appear in neighborhoods. They didn't all move down to that open space. No, so there's, so we designate between open space, which is traditionally an area kept natural. Sometimes it's a monetized with this development, we're hoping to monetize it. They're currently with their preliminary subdivision plan that will be brought back to council. There are parks scattered throughout these different zone districts. They are three to five acre parks that show them currently on the plan, their pocket parks. So aside from the designated open space, there are other green park open space amenities throughout this subdivision. And furthermore, if and when the R3 develops, it will have to develop as we'll be consider a common lot and it will have to include the apartment complex if that is what comes in here would have to include some sort of amenity for its own residents as well too. So they'd be able to utilize their own amenities there at the property. And they would also be able to utilize the amenities that are scattered throughout the subdivision scattered throughout the city as a whole. Okay. Another question here with we've discussed apartments or rentals, density of rentals in R3. That's not currently designated as affordable housing in any regard, is it? I would defer to the applicant on that. Sorry. The applicant, what you come up to from the mic. The R3 zoning is earmarked or committed as affordable housing. It is not committed as an actual affordable project, mean with federal funding and things like that. No, it's not. Okay. Your mark. I had just heard a reference in questions to to what happens if we put low income apartments or or a for to specifically designated affordable housing at that corner. And I didn't think that that was the distinction as market rate. Market rate. Apart. Correct. Okay. And as much as I am also an advocate of getting as much affordable housing into the city as possible, despite the fact that the definition of affordable is still greater than my mortgage, is this, that's not a specific issue for this one. Okay. And then just as the last clarification, given that that is not marked as affordable and our requirements are for development to pay its own way and development to bring the raw water rights, there are no exceptions to either of those contemplated at this time. No, they're not. OK. So the infrastructure demands, this is designed to build out. So where we comment and talk about the impacts on Romley, the impacts on Bridge, the impacts on all of the streets that I drive day in and day out. Development, unfortunately, is the piece that fixes the problem that exists today, because the improvements that come to make it accommodate the volume come from the development. We don't go out and in rare cases do we go out and build that out ourselves and then demand money back from the developer in general that's built when the development warrants it and pulls it along. Okay. As I see it, this is rearranging what's in the current PUD. This is not creating something new out of whole cloth. That's correct, the very similar. And as councilman Green mentioned, if the development were to move forward today, all areas, whether it's as compared to the proposed zone district before you would develop in a similar manner. Right. So if we turned down this zoning request change today, the requirements of the PUD would still be in place and plans could be brought forth to develop against the PUD. Zoning is not what is enabling or disabling development here. That's correct. It's even though it's not vested, it still could be brought forward with a development application. Whether that gets passed is... Right. Right. I mean, it could... But that's not what tonight's decision is. Tonight's decision is not let's approve this plan and bring in 240 houses. Tonight's decision is... I'm making up a number, Jim. 7,682 houses. That's not the plan in the question in front of us. The question in front of us is should that development that is intended come forward with the existing PUD as the governing design for it or should this zoning be the governing design for any plan that comes forward. That's correct. And it was applicants and staff's preference to move to a straight zone in order to better conform to the current land use and development code, as you have mentioned. Yeah. That's where my vote sits is that my preference is for the banding and the creation of the zones as they exist and the ability to apply our new and updated standards to that development versus the PUD design sometime between when Jan was last on the City Council and today, I think somewhere around 2011, somewhere else, something shifted, but I like this design better than the original design. So that's where I sit. Thank you. What takes care of a lot of the questions I would have had? That's more plosky. Yes, sir. When we're looking at the picture that's shown on the screen, it shows it as flat. And that is not true of that property near the canal. And it goes trails there. It's actually a hill or a no-well. I don't know what you want to call it. And so that's why I felt the apartment units would be better there because they'll sit down below the indico trails people. So I just that I just wanted to clarify that that and I love for everybody sitting here just go out and take a drive out there and actually look at what exists today and just see what maybe would be better off being there. Thank you. Councilmember Green? Yes, the mystery to Mario just to clarify the planning commission voted unanimously to approve this rezoning correct. So recommend approval that's correct. Thank you. All right. If there's nobody else on council that has any commoner question. I'll close the public hearing. This is before council for consideration. Council member Padilla. Thanks. Again on the basis of the fact that that is an improvement over the existing PUD, I would move item 6A. And then council member today. I'll second that. Prove. There's a motion and a second to approve 6A if there's no other discussion. We'll call both. All right. Motion passes five to two. Okay. Moving ahead on item seven a. A resolution of the City Council of City of Brighton Colorado adopting the fiscal year 2024 budget and appropriating sums of money to the various funds and spending agencies in the amount specified below in the amount of 265 million, $434,894 and for the city of Brighton, excuse me, for the city of Brighton for the city of Brighton for the fiscal year 2024. This is a public hearing. I will officially open the public hearing. Ask for deputy city clerk will. Better follow the necessary postings and publications were done. Yes, Your Honor. The notice of public hearing was published in the Brighton standard blade on October 5th, 2023. Thank you. City Manager Martinez introduce our presenters tonight. Thank you, Mayor. It is my pleasure to introduce the award winning budget and performance team. As you're all aware, we've been working on this budget for a few years now. So a lot of what you'll hear tonight, you've heard a lot about over the last two years. We're excited that this is really the culmination of this first two-year budget cycle. We're happy to move into the next two-year budget cycle next year. But it's been a fantastic process and I am pleased with the budget that we've come up with this evening to recommend to you and with that I will turn it over to Kayla. And I'm actually going to turn it over to Pierce for his actual first formal presentation at a council meeting. All right. Good evening, Mayor and City Council. We're really happy to present the 2024 recommended budget. I'm joined by the budget team, obviously Kayla and Catherine and myself. We do have the full package to present you tonight that includes the budget, the mill levy and the fee resolutions and which are all three to next three items on the agenda. So we're excited to touch on some of the highlights from the 2023 budget as well as update you on all the progress that's been made since we last updated you guys in August. That progress includes our final budget recommendation as well as the mill levy and the fee recommendation. The final item on the agenda will be council action. So looking at the 2023 highlights, some of the highlights we have for you are first are Housing Eats Assessment, which will be coming next week for discussion, alongside with the MSC Breaking Ground, as you all know, as well as innovation projects that will be coming your way. We actually have our next graduation to be scheduled right now for November 21st. And now for an update on the 2024 budget, just a quick reminder of the budget process that took place this past year. That process started in early July with discussions with departments. And then as you remember, we presented that draft recommended budget to you guys in August. The past month we have been incorporating that feedback you all gave us as well as making any final adjustments. This leaves us here today currently in the budget adoption stage. And now I'm actually going to turn it over to Kayla for updates from the August budget form to adoption. August budget form to adoption. OK, Council. So we just want to make sure that we do our due diligence on walking you through. Some of those changes that occurred between August and October. As you know, we really try to dial in those numbers as best we can for you. So the first one on here should not be too much of a surprise we go through this each year. And that is that capital carryover. So as you know, when we have multi-year projects you do commit that full budget for those projects. However as we narrow in this timeline sometimes that has to move from one year to another so we've simply spent the last couple of months dialing that in with our project managers. The next item is personnel adjustments so we did our final personnel polls, as well as got our final information regarding benefit costs for 2024. Another big item that has been adjusted in here is insurance. We did get our final numbers just a few weeks ago for you. We have also updated the ERP system. That is that financial system, as you will remember. I'm not going to do the mouthful for that. But we've updated the numbers for that as well. Since there was some good interest from Council, we have started to reach out to potential vendors just to get a better idea of what a financial system of our size would take to migrate. So we have updated those numbers accordingly. We have also dialed in the numbers for PD retention. If you will remember last year you did fund a two-year pilot regarding summer recruitment and retention initiatives for the police department and we've got our first full year of data on that so we were able to dial those numbers in. And then finally a fun one we did here through a little birdie our city manager that there was some interest from the council in regards to potentially increasing funding to the Legacy Foundation in 2024. So we have included an additional 40,000 and that is contained in your donations line in the council budget, which you can choose to put towards that Legacy Foundation item or any other item in 2024 that you choose to use those donations for. So some additional highlights for the 2024 budget. I'm just gonna call out a few here. We are gonna continue that great work that has started with the Housing Needs Assessment in regards to affordable housing and homelessness through the funding of a Housing Coordinator in 2024. We have also increased investments in street maintenance. If you remember, we did recommend inclusion of that additional streets maintenance worker, as well as some increased funding across several of those capital projects, including increases to the street preservation project. And then finally, a very exciting one that you can tell your constituents about for 2024 is the new Civic Academy. If you remember, that was a Council initiative straight out of your strategic plan and will allow residents to learn more about processes, programs, and what it really takes to implement the services they enjoy day to day in the city. So I think a really great win in terms of building trust and transparency with the community. So as part of our due diligence, I also want to show you the 2024 budget by type. Couple things to draw your attention to. First, the budget contingency is not 0%. That is an Excel thing. We want to make sure the text is large enough for you to read. We did include all of our regular reserves, including the 200,000 that we put in all of the major funds. But the big story here is actually in the capital, which you will note is 55% of that overall budget. We did mention last year that that was the first of several years in which we would see capital B that largest portion of expenditures. And that is really because we have a lot of exciting projects that are happening right now, construction on the water treatment plant, municipal service center, bridge street just to name a few. We are all very, very busy. But we do expect that around 2028, we will return to a more operations, ongoing operations base budget. Largely because as we complete those projects, we will be depleting. Fun balance in a number of those funds and really needing to rebuild that before we can take on more exciting projects. And then just one other way to display the 2024 budget for you. You do see here at the bottom, the $265.4 million dollar total for 2024. That is the full recommendation that we are seeking adoption of tonight. But you can also see the breakout by fund and this was included in your packet. So rounding out expenditures, I'm actually going to trade this off to Catherine to walk you through the revenue side. Thank you Pearson Kayla. As Kayla mentioned, I'm going to be jumping into the revenue side and really rounding out a few of those other official actions that go hand in hand with the budget adoption. The first of which is the mill levy. So as a reminder, council is required to set the mill levy annually to support the property tax revenues that we receive. We are once again recommending 6.65 mills, which is what the city has held here for over 20 years. I know there are some items at the state level that may impact this, but as of now we are utilizing the more conservative estimate that you see here on this slide of just under 6.6 million to be collected in support of the 2024 budget. We are keeping an eye on that and if the picture does change for this projection we will be in front of you sometime next year with a budget amendment. And the other item in support of those revenues that we have in front of you is the fee resolution resolution which similar to the Milleevy also must be set by City Council annually and this is the resolution that sets fees charged by City Departments for services that they provide. As our city manager mentioned earlier and reminded you, this is the second year of our by our first two-year budget process and because of that a lot of the major changes on the fee resolution were actually completed last year. So what you see this year is some fairly minimal changes to this. The first thing that I will point out in those changes is some cleanup in some of our department sections. This happened in the cemetery portion where some adjustments were made to ensure that similar services are charged the same fee. This was with the open and close of a cremation site as well as for the perpetual care of a site. Additionally, in these sections for police and for courts, there was some additional language added for when we provide digital data that we can provide that in the format of either a disk or a flash drive and that that will be the same fee. We did also re-look at the organization of this resolution as a whole and in doing so, some items were moved related to business and liquor license issuance from the finance section to the city clerk section. And that's to just reflect which department is actually collecting those fees. And the last item is that there were some adjustments made to the utility section to reflect the current costs of service delivery. So this includes the hydrant meter deposit where we previously charged $3,000. And as the cost to purchase a replacement hydrant meter has increased, we have also increased the deposit to $3,900 to cover the full cost to replace that item. Additionally, the fee for a water meter relocation due to a property owner request has been adjusted from $50 to $75 plus the actual relocation due to a property owner request has been adjusted from $50 to 75 plus the actual relocation costs. And with those items, the action requested of you tonight, council is the adoption of the 2024 budget resolution as well as the millevi resolution and the fee resolution. Thank you. I will now turn it back over to you, Mayor, for public hearing and questions. All right. Well, this is the time when I ask if the applicant wants to add anything. I guess we're the applicant. So that's taking care of anyone signed up to speak on this. No, you're on her. Okay. And then staff doesn't have anything else to add because nobody else signed up to speak and then Deputy City Clerk is there anybody that's had any correspondence for against this request? No, you're under nothing has been received questions from the council mayor pro-tem Thank you mayor Excellent presentation nice shorts weed but allalot points were there, but you missed a few things. My first question is, since the very first slide, what was the very first slide of your presentation? Are we buying a herb goat? No. Ha, ha, ha. Where is that hidden in the budgets? Is that the parks and rec? Eric? David on our lawn. The goats are actually, yeah. error the the the goats are actually yeah we've highlighted the goats this year and um... we've continued that funding source we've been using a contract and it's simply um... exchanging that out for that pilot program so it wouldn't be cheaper for us to buy the goats um... i don't know if buying the goats would be cheaper i think they run them for a little while and then they move them on to somewhere else and then they bring them back when they're needed again. So, I don't know if we have any leads for that. Now to the main questions, the real questions. How many total additional staff positions is the 24 budget fund? Right now it is only three additional that is likely to change with the first budget amendment that we anticipate bringing you regarding public safety in the new year. Oh yeah. That speaks well for staff because I tell you that's a very, very, very small increase considering all the extra work we ask you all to do. So I'm impressed. What is the percentage of health insurance increase? What do we think are it's going to cost us percentage wise more than 2023? The overall number per plan or just overall with growth because we've got a couple things that go into that. I'm just looking to health insurance because that's one that's kind of out there. Yeah so we did get some final numbers back that were better just around 6%. That being said, we do also see increased usage in our claims and all. So we are actually probably going to be before you in a couple of weeks regarding a fourth budget amendment for some of that coverage. So for the 2023 budget. So there's a couple of things that go into that number. And my last question, I'm kind of shite to go into questions all around here, but given the increase in assessed valuations, what are you estimating the increased revenue will be from property tax? So right now we have an increase, so it's about a million dollar difference. That being said, we're using the conservative estimate until we see what happens at the state. And if that changes, we will be back in front of you as far as that first budget amendment to see what we would do with the good decision. Your conservative estimate is additional million dollar in revenue. From our original projection, let me pull up the exact number on property tax for you. Because our assessments, most of us, when we receive our assessment, we're pretty like goodness, you know, 20, 30, 40 percent increase. The stock for a lot of people. Yeah, I know I've been working diligently to appeal to the county for my own property tax assessment. So yeah, let me pull up. So it's actually closer to 2 million from year over year 2023 to 2024. It's about a million more than what we initially anticipated. Thank you. Council member Green. Thank you Mayor. Again excellent presentation. Appreciate you guys very thorough and we've been going over this for several months and so I really appreciate the condense version tonight. What I'm probably most proud of and it's going to be our next item is we've been able to keep that mill levy at 6.65 for 20 years 20 years without an increase here more than 20 more, 20 years without an increase here. More than 20. More than 20. So that's something that the city of Brighton can be very happy with. We're a very efficient with your money. So thank you again. You know, it's better than most cities if you look at communities all around us. It is a much bigger milleve. I looked up a community up in Weld County and there are about 30 mills for their city or town so you know. Exactly. I'm very proud of what we're doing here. Yep. That's I remember Johnston. Thanks Mayor. The uh want to talk and I have hit this a little bit but you know my time here is coming to a close and I want to try to hit it again with the reserve fund. Because of table we have a laid out reserve and I have said for a long time we're way over reserve. When crisis did hit we still didn't dip into it. Which is great and we need to have a reserve but we're forced to have a reserve and we add a large amount. Could you tell us the number of total reserve dollars we have sitting right now in a $265 million budget for next year? What would that look like right now? What's the meaning? So I would have to pull from a couple different funds, which means I'd have to add across multiple models. So I don't have that exact number for you tonight, but what I can say to that is we are aware that we have some higher reserves. And so we've actually, if you'll remember back in the August discussion, included that $20 million transfer out of the general fund into Parks Capital and the Capital Fund in order to support some one-time projects and spend down that extra reserve. We do have a smaller one modeled in 2025, and then we expect to be in our normal operations. Okay. Do you have a rough estimate of how much we have overall in our reserves right now? Something. I can do some calculations and send it out, but I don't want to give you a wrong number. Okay. Like, within 5 million, can you do it? I just, because it's a way larger percentage than some of the new council members know When you really look at this and I I saw it pretty easily before I just I don't want you to say a wrong number But I mean are you referring to the slide that says reserves on it and when I had the breakout by type because that is So we have two different types of reserves. I think you might be mixing some of them up So each so we have the fund balance reserves, right right which is the unappropriated portion and then we budget. Oh no I would never ask you for no. I'm okay. I'm sorry. I'm using the wrong term in all. Okay okay yes I can give you that exact number. I'm sorry. I think I might have been using the wrong term. No no no let me see here. I actually have it on here. So the total that we budget in terms of emergency reserve so something happens it on here. So the total that we budget in terms of emergency reserves, so something happens. In 2024, it's 1.2 million. So that's that 200,000 in the major funds and then the 40,000 in the cemetery fund. And what is table force for us? So that's a little bit different. So table is part of that reserve that we have to keep in that unappropriated. And so that is based on a percentage of what we collect. So I don't know the exact number of the top of my head of what we've got in each fund. But that is totally separate from this. You actually don't even see it reflected because it's not technically budgeted until we need it for an emergency. And what about the oil and gas money that we have at our fingertips? How much is that for this year, do you know? I'll the top of my head now, but I can look it up and I can send it out for you guys. That'd be great because with this council before things change, I'd like to talk about using those funds that we've talked about using, but just kind of sit there. And that's the major one. In past councils, we have gotten that money and said, here's what we want to do. And if police funding doesn't come through from the voters whether it does, if it does not, I think we need to really look at, look at how we do fund that. I mean, I've advocated for marijuana for it, but that's yet to come. And so I just, I don't, we can't let that one drop. And there's a few other things with, with parks and recs that parks and rec, I should say, that we, I think we can do some things with from some of our over-reserved funds. So I just kind of want to look through that a little bit more before I'll go forward. But other than that, I've been here for a while, and this is one of the best budgets I've seen for multiple reasons, the presentation. If you ran this up against the budget in 2015, for instance, the differences of transparency in things are why you don't have me yelling like I would have been in 2015 at those budgets, and why I can stay silent about what has happened in the past is because of the work done. So just well done and I hope that I know it will continue. So thanks. All right, Councilmember Padilla. I was wanting to believe that it was my calming influence that it kept me alone. Just a quick high level question, which is that this is a significant drop from the total from last year because we had already kicked off and spent large amounts of money on capital, but we may actually see some adjustment on capital rollover that will end up making it look. Yes. So the biggest variation is really in terms of capital and also in 2023, if you'll remember, we've got that buyout of Metro, which is not, it's a one-time item. It doesn't move into 2024. So that's why you see that drop off. And then I apologize. What was the second part about? That was really, we have the service against that that goes on over time, but the large investment was that specific one and then I think I heard you already say that we do have that that planned by down that's where the money is going into parks and rec capital that enables the sports fields in particular. Yes, so we had a overall we transfer 20 million the bulk of that going to parks and recreation the last thing is just the comment. Positively that I like this cycle and would want to just point out for anybody saying oh, we can't do a two year commitment. We can't do that. This is a very important thing. We have to do that in particular. Yes, so we had a overall we transfer 20 million the bulk of that going to parks and recreation capital in order to support the proposed sports complex. And positively that I like this cycle and would want to just point out for anybody saying, oh, we can't do a two year commitment. We can't do that. This is designed as two year planning, but we are only approving one year's budget. Just as we only approved the 2023 budget at the start of this two year cycle, which lines up nicely with the fact that each time new council members come in, there's a full review cycle. And then this lighter review and modification. Okay, excellent. Thank you. Excellent work. All right. There's no other council members. Do you have some added council member Johnson? You're still on the screen. Okay. He just disappeared. All right. I will go ahead and close the public can and this is before council for consideration Mayor pro-10 Do we have to make Separate motions on each one or different we've only read the first one into the record into the record. Okay, and I need to make a motion to 7a 7a proof 7a. All right, then council member today. Oh, second that probably first in a second to prove 7a in my I add real quick. We usually do this in December. So this is really nice to get this going earlier. So maybe reduce our meeting time at the end of the year. We'll call those. the motion passes seven zero with one absent all right even though we have the presentation on seven B I got to still read into the record so it's a resolution of the city council of city Brighton Colorado Levine general property taxes for the year twenty twenty four to help defray the cost of government for the City of Brighton, Colorado, and setting the Mill, Levie at 6.65 mils for the 2024 budget might I quickly add that is no change over the past couple decades. We have anything to add, City Manager Martinez. You said that eloquently. Thank you. Okay. All right. This is before council. If there's no other discussion, council member Pulaski. Thank you, Mayor. I'm very happy to approve item seven B. And then council member green. Yeah, Mayor and Jan was too quick. I wanted an emotion to approve this, but I'm happy to second it. There's a proper first and second to approve 7B, roll call vote. Motion passes 7 to 0 to keep the same. Now 7C, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, setting forth certain fees and charges assessed by the City of Brighton, effective January 1, 2024 City Manager Martinez. Nothing additional to add, thank you. All right. All right. This is before council mayor Proto. Yes, I'd like to make a motion to approve 7C. All right. Then council member today. I'll second that too. the city council. All right then council member today. I'll second that too. If there's nothing else we'll call bill. We'll should pass the seven to zero with one absent. And then item seven and D and ordinance of the city council of the city of Brighton Colorado and Mending and repealing certain sections of the Bright Council of the City of Brighton Colorado and Mending and repealing certain sections of the Brighton Municipal Code and enacting sections related to the sale of marijuana. This is a final reading. I'm going to propose real quick and I think Council member Padilla is probably going to do the same that we move this out to when we have a full council given we have two missing people. So all nine people can make a decision on this. Yep, that's actually the motion I was going to ask specifically for February 6th, 2024. We need a date. The city attorney recommended that I suggest a date for a second. All right, so it's been recommended we move this out to February 7th. Oh, 6th, 2024. So, was that a motion? Yes, sir. Okay, so there's a proper motion and then council member Green. Just clarifies this for items D and E. This is D. They're just D. It has to be a separate action. Okay, I second that. And then council, all right. has to be a separate action. Okay, well I second that. And then Council, oh right, there's a proper first and a second to move this out to February 6th, 2024. Rokuble vote. All right, motion passes six to one. My name, no vote is so I wanted to vote against it and I won't get an opportunity. Thank you. I'll still be here so I can do that. Make me know real quick. All right, and then item seven E a resolution of the City Council of the the city council. And then item seven E a resolution of the city council. The city of Brighton Colorado dedicated sales tax generated by. Marijuana stores to public safety. City manager Martinez I guess this is a mute idea until next year. I'm sorry. Correct. Since you did not approve, marijuana, we don't have any sales tax to generate. We ask that you move this item into next year as well. Councillor Member Patilla. My request is that this item actually be moved to a study session so that we've got the results of the budget and have the results of the safety tax election as well before we consider a resolution. Maybe the last study session of January would be an appropriate time. That's something we can accommodate city manager Martinez. You can accommodate that. Thank you. All right. Council member Green. With that, I motion to continue item 7E. All right. Do we need to put a date on that too? Okay. Motion to continue. Council member Padilla. I'll second that motion. The proper first and a second to continue future to a future date. Roll call vote. first and a second to continue to a future date, roll call vote. Motion to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next room. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the next page. I'm going to go to the All right. Ready? Let's go. The next item on our agenda, item 9A, an ordinance of the city council of the city, Brighton Colorado, Grantee and A Prope, Easement to Public Service Company of Colorado over a portion of real property generally located in the southeast quarter of section 34, Township 1 North, Range 66 west of the sixth principal meridian and authorizing the city manager to execute said easement on behalf of the city, city manager Martinez. Thank you mayor. This is a second reading. Staff does not have anything additional to present this evening. Thank you. All right. Mayor Pro Tem. I would like to make motion to approve 9a. Councilmember Padilla. I second that motion. There's a proper first and a second to prove. Approved 9A. There's no discussion, roll, cobble. Motion passes 7 to 0 with 1 absent. Moving on to item 10A, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, the city council. Moving on to item 10a, a resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado setting compensation for the city manager and authorizing the mayor to execute an amendment setting forth other details related to. Do I go to city manager Martinez for this or city attorney called the room. Kevin Young is in the audience. Oh, we have Director Young. Where's Director Young? There he is. Oh. Director Young, do you have anything to add to this? I am, Mayor Pro Tem. Council members, no, I don't have anything else to add to this. Just based upon the fact of what we've discussed in executive councils. This is just to close out the same managers' evaluation, set the compensation, and amend his current contract. What it be known in nearly six years on this council, this will be the first time we've had year three of a city manager start. So I think we're finally getting it right here. Council Member Padilla. I believe the city of DeCono followed up thanking their city manager for 20 years of great service. Whoa, what are we doing here? I'll move 10 a without further comment. Okay, the comment was already made here. Alright, councilmember Polowski. I'm happy to make that second. Thank you. Proper motion to approve 10 a if there's nothing else roll call vote Motion passes 7 to 0 no with one absent Thank you sir and let's see next item Thank you, sir. And let's see next item 10B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, to in support of ballot measure 3F, the public safety tax to provide additional revenues to the fund or to fund public safety. City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. I think that we've spoken about this item at length, but tonight I would like to invite our deputy chief up to give you a little more insight on why she believes that you as council should support this item. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, members of the council. I really appreciate you having me here tonight. I wanted to let you know that I am here in lieu of our chief, who is at the International Association Chiefs of Police Conference right now, accepting an award for our Victim Services Unit. So we're very proud of that, and I wanted to highlight that first. Very good. But we're here to request that City Council pass this resolution in support of ballot measure 3F. It's a proposed 0.15% public safety sales and use tax ballot measure and urge a yes vote in the November 7, 2023 election. This public safety tax use will help our department staff a lot of different resources. We're looking for some additional opportunities outside original funding and some of these staff positions that we're looking at. Obtaining would be impact unit which works not only with businesses, the community, our investigations unit, there's a lot of different aspects to that impact team, and also some task force officers, some additional patrol officers, and some traffic officers, which we know as we've talked about with some of these others issues tonight, traffic is only going to be an ongoing issue with our growing city. This tax would be about approximately $2.75 million dedicated to the police department. This would not change any of the, or supplement the existing funds and would be a 15 cent per $100 spent. And this would be spread across residents and visitors to the Brighton City. We ask that you support this resolution and help us provide the crucial and critical public safety services that this community deserves. Thank you. All right. And then Mayor Potello wants to say something first. Yes, I appreciate that Mayor. I think it's very important. I had a couple of conversations with citizens over the last couple of weeks as I go around advocating for this particular increase. And the question has come up more than once and I think we need to make I would like to make a public statement that this tax, if passed, will not supplant the regular funding for the police department, that the funding will be still maintained at that same level. I know that our deputy chief has mentioned that, but I think it's important for us to make that statement. And I've been given that assurance by our city manager who never tells a lie. And I think it's important to get it on the record. Obviously, I'm very much in support of it. My only reservation is, I think it should have been twice as much, but we'll live with what we have on the book. Thank you. Council Member Bidia. I wanted to underscore that same point that this is new funds available. And we need to bring those in not just to keep up with normal everyday growth, but to keep up with the inorganic changes that have come about the city. Each new step doesn't require just x percentage increase of police officers, but there's we have a number of different kinds of services, victim services being one of those that we talked about that are amazing services from this community, but enabling our police department to provide all of that support is important. But we also need to positively fund it. We can't just draw down against existing reserves somewhere because eventually those existing reserves run out you have to have a funding source. So I think this is a fantastic opportunity and absolutely support the ability to raise funds to provide this increase. Oh, it for public safety. Thank you. Thank you for staying there. Normally I'm not a real advocate of increase in her taxes, but I think due to, and I went on a local radio show a couple months ago to advocate for this, it's a lot to do with dealing with the unfunded mandates that the states have brought out and this is going to help recover some of those costs that we've incurred over the number of years really. I will be supporting this. There is a motion to be had. I count some member green. Thank you mayor. And my father was a police officer. The mayor pro-temble attested the fact he was one of the first meetings I ever had was sitting in his office in his former duties expressing my support for the police. I am really in favor of the additional funds to support our public safety services. Therefore, I move item resolution 10b. And the council member, Padilla. Second that motion. Proper first and a second to approve 10b. We'll call vote. Motion passes 7 to 0. And the next item 7c, a resolution of the City Council of City, Brighton Colorado, approving an agreement to allow. Pedcore investments, a limited liability company, to pay fee and loot of water dedication and authorizing the city manager to execute such agreement on behalf of the city, city manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor. As you recall, recall at your last study session we presented this item at length, but I've asked Scott to just give the public another general update on this item. So it acts as a refresher, and we also have staff in the applicant here to answer any questions that you may have with that. I will turn it over to Scott. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Mayor Pro Tem and members of City Council. The item that I have before you tonight is a request for payment of fee and lieu of water dedication for the retreat at Brighton Ridge. This item was initially presented to you at last Tuesday's study session. Tonight I'll just give a brief overview of the item. I have a few other staff members here with me tonight to assist with any questions that you may have. The applicant, Pet Corps Investments LLC is also here. I believe that they have prepared a presentation that they would like to give following mine if that pleases this council. So as an overview, Pet Corps Investments LLC and city staff are requesting city council to authorize the retreat at Brighton Ridge to pay fee and lieu of water dedication for the difference and water that they are in the process of dedicating in the total amount that is required by city code. That amount is just a little bit over $2 million. The Retreat of Brain Ridge is a 100% affordable housing project, so all those that are living in the project will be at 60% AMI or lower. The Retreat of Brain Ridge will allow the city to meet the requirements of Proposition 1, 2, 3 while ensuring the city has funding to purchase water rights when available. City staff has worked with our water consultants to confirm that we have enough raw water to allow for fee and lieu payment for this project. And then city staff's recommendation is to approve a resolution allowing PEDCOR to pay fee and lieu of water dedication for the difference of water that is in the process of being dedicated and the total dedication requirement for the project. The options for City Council this evening are to approve the resolution as presented, reject the resolution as presented or request changes to the resolution. And if with that mayor, if it pleases you you I would like to have the applicant give their presentation and then we can open up for any questions that you guys may have. I'm Patrick Stoffer, I can develop a vice president of development for ped core investments. And as we discussed just a week ago, we're here to talk about the Fian Liu and the affordability factor for our the Retreat at Brighton Ridge Project. This more is a review because we just talked about it last week, but for the record and for the public. Ped Core companies is a vertically integrated suite of companies were involved in development, design, financing, construction, and long-term management of housing projects. A lot of those are affordable housing projects such as the Retreated Brighton Ridge. Our company is involved in 21 states for affordable housing development. We've been around for 35 years, and we've developed 192 apartment communities across the country, which totals over 300 and, sorry, over 34,000 apartment units. And the general sense that I want to give you with this brief overview of our company is that we're there every step of the way from the moment that we laid eyes on this particular property to when we're in year 30 of operations. It's all us. You can reach out to me at any time and connect with our company. This apartment development, you can see sort of detailed in the Northwest corner of this schematic. It's the first phase of the Brighton Ridge major subdivision and along with our particular property, which you see highlighted there as well, the area highlighted in salmon, which would be additional roads and widening of 120th to its ultimate with on the south side are also included in the scope of our first phase of this major development. So by supporting this project and our ability to pay, Fian Liu, you will help us kickstart the development of this part of Brighton, which I suppose would be New Brighton, as we're building it for the first time here. Just to give some detail on what the rent structure is like under this official affordable housing designation, we use Internal Revenue Code Section 42, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, and that restricts us to a certain level of affordability for these apartments. In 2023, the maximum amount of rent that we can charge monthly, the maximum amount for rent plus utilities. So this would be the rent amount if the landlord was paying all utilities. The rent amount is less if the tenant pays some of their utilities. But for one bedroom, it's $1396 monthly. Two bedrooms is 1675, and three bedrooms is 1936. So that's just the rent side of things. That's the rent limit. We can't charge more than that, and that number fluctuates each year as the area median income for the Denver metro area changes and typically goes up. Similarly, there are income limits for the household who rent with us. You can see that detailed on this chart in 2023, depending on your family size. If your family is a size of one person in the household, then the maximum income that you can make in that year is $52,140 in order to qualify for these units, which are designated for 60% of the area median income or less adjusted for family size. And you can see that income limit going up to $86,400 if your family size is up to six people. And that range is anywhere between $25.07 to $41.54 per hour full-time equivalent. You can see in this chart that the income target range is that green highlighted area there in the middle of the chart from a little over $40,000 where you make enough money to afford our cheapest rent, the 1396 one-bedroom rent. Again, this isn't a handout. It's not free rent. Every tenant has to pay the full amount of their rent. So that's the minimum amount in order to afford our apartments all the way up to the maximum amount, which is the maximum income limit for the largest family size. And as a reference point, City of Brighton employees average salary according to GovSalers.com is $47,018, which is right there in the middle of that range. So depending on family size, a lot of your staff could actually qualify for this type of housing, which is nice. And just as a comparison to some of the other things that we see out there compared to luxury apartments in Brighton, our rent structure is about $1,000 per month more affordable and compared to typical market rate which you would not be able to distinguish our project from these types of projects, we're still $450 more affordable than typical market rate. And so with that, I'll just leave my contact information there and I'm happy to answer any questions anyone may have. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you, Council member Greene. You got a question? Yes, thank you, Mayor. Disclareify it is just this parcel that will receive the fee and lieu of water dedication. That is correct, yes. Okay. And my second one, what about blended families? How do you determine, you know, what if it's relatives, cousins or whatever, how do you determine whether it's a family that qualifies for that? Right. So it's, I say family size, I should have said household size. So it's the number of people in the household that are renting that unit, the number of people that are on the lease. Thank you. Thank you for the clarification. Anybody else? If not, this is before Council for Consideration. Mayor Pro Tem. Yes, I think this is a good step in the right direction for the city to try to make a accommodation so that we can have affordable housing in the city. And without making some accommodations, is my opinion, we'll never get the affordable housing that we're waiting for. So with that said, I would like to make a motion to approve 10 C and see it. And then Councilmember Padilla. Thank you. I would add that it is a rare thing for us to desire to do fee in the we have insisted people bring water but we also have understood in the development of affordable housing how incredibly complex those different funding cycles are to align and so this is the best the city can offer at the moment to be able to come in line and keep this project on on track and bring the affordable housing that we said desperately. Therefore I second this motion. There's a proper first and a second to prove ten C. There's no other discussion. Motion passes seven to zero with one absent. Thank you for time this evening. Motion passes 7 to 0 with one absent. Thank you for time this evening. Problem, thank you. General Business Item 12A Schedule a Special City Council meeting on November 9th, 2023 at 6pm to certify the ballot content or the special ward for a runoff election on December 5th 2023. City Manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor. We do not have anything additional to add the title of this item speaks for itself. Okay. We'd like to make a motion. Count some member Plowsky. Thank you Mayor. I move for approval of item 12A. Then Mayor Pro Tem. I would like to second that motion. Is it proper first and second to approve this item? We'll call vote. Motion passes seven to zero with one absent, so we'll have a special meeting if there's a runoff. Next we'll go to reports. I'll start with reports by mayor. I'll be really brief. I had my Metro mayor's caucus meeting a couple weeks ago. The new mayor Denver was there and talked about the migrant situation. And they're still dealing with a lot of issues that kind of affect the whole region. I've been to several different events as well. Some chamber events. We had a morning with the mayor last Wednesday. The chamber's trying to do those quarterly. And so we'll probably do another one of those after the new year. Chamber luncheon. This is really cool. The chamber had an artist come on Friday. His name's Eric Dallel. If you are familiar with that last name, he creates art and makes puzzles out of this art. And they're looking to do a portrait of Brighton. I know we just had a portrait with the mural that opened up recently. But this would be an additional piece of art for the community. It would be Peusle's soul really area wide, maybe nationwide. We'd be another part of that. I think that's really cool that we've been selected to be a part of that. There's not very many cities that are on that list in Colorado. And so it's really cool to show Britain's unique identity and display Brighton when he comes out with that. He was talking a lot of people try to get ideas. We probably won't see anything until somewhere in the middle of next year and the next year. I recommend to do them if he's going to put something out. Maybe we introduce it at the city barbecue next year. I recommend to him if he's gonna put something out. Maybe we introduce it at the City barbecue next year. So we'll see if that works out with his timeline. So I think it's really cool. Next we'll go to reports by the department directors if there are any. There are not any. Thank you. Okay. Reports by our city attorney. Nothing Mayor, thank you. Wow, we're just bored today, huh? Oh, it's horrible. Uh, reports by our city manager. Quickly, I'd just like to express my gratitude for proving my contract this evening. It has been the opportunity of the lifetime to serve this council and I look forward to continuing that effort. I wanted to call myself the applicant for the first time during that because technically I was but no, just my sincere gratitude to you as council and I look forward to continuing to serve this community. Thank you. I call a historic because I mean a 30 year entering as a city manager just just weird for us. The next contract that I'll be in front of you, be in my retirement because that's been here for a long time. Right. Right. And then we'll go to reports by our city council. Start down here. Councilmember Tadeo. Thank you, Mayor. I don't have a whole lot, but I was able to attend the candidate forum, which was very interesting. And I enjoyed that. I also was able to attend the Brighton Chamber. And then we had our Brighton Legacy Foundation meeting on Monday. Our next meeting is when we collect all the grants and start handing out the money. It's great. It's very fulfilling. and thank you for everyone for voting that increase for us. I think Council member Green, thank you mayor, just to remind everybody that the ballots go out this week some people have already received theirs. In my travels in addition to all the other meetings we also had the Adams County Regional Economic Partnership bus tour that toured the city of Brighton, Converse City. And we also toured the area east of the airport. And I'll tell you what, if you think you're seeing development bright and you should see what's going on east of the airport as far as industrial buildings and homes and apartments and everything else, this whole area is really growing. This is where the available land is and so you can see why there's such a demand to move into this area. I also attended the Brighton 27J Bright Beginners Preschool which is moving back. They moved from the what we call the block and they've moved into the psychotic campus which is the old north and so it was really nice to see kids back in the north school building again and they couldn't be happier and I couldn't be happier to see it there. So that's some of what I did. All right thanks for highlighting that. May I prove to him? Wow pass thank you. I'm not sure if you can see what I did. All right. Thanks for highlighting that. Mayor Brotem. I'll pass. Thank you. Councilmember Johnston. I'll pass. Okay. Councilmember Polowski. Thank you, Mayor. Well, the only thing I want to share is kind of a sad story. Last Thursday, E470, we had our regular meeting. And at that meeting the executive director Boe memory officially resigned. And it's sad, it's after a year's time of him being there, but the saddest part, he moved here with his wife and three children and his wife did not like it here being away from her family and so she had moved back East and it was just too hard on him. So we were very, very sad to have to accept that. He's done a great job in his short period here and we really appreciated him but now he's really just a memory. Oh, memory. And our new interim executive director is the finance director Jason Myers and I know he'll do a good job. He's done a great job with finances I just hope it doesn't take away now from his ability to be super involved there too, so it's gonna be quite a challenge. So thank you very much And then councilmember Padilla Thank you very little again tonight except to mention that not only did we have the candidate forum for the City Council Which is viewable on demand on our KBR8 local TV, but also the night before also viewable on YouTube is the School District 27J candidate forum and there is a lot to decide for the future of our school district. There's a lot to decide for the future of the city and I hope that people take a chance to be informed and make a good decision and then cast their votes. I hope that we have a high turnout for both of those elections. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Everyone stick around. We do have a second meeting as we switch hats. We are now going to be the South Brighton General Improvement District. And our Deputy City Clerk just needs a couple minutes to change a couple things over. So I will adjourn this meeting, take two minutes, and we will get back into the other meeting. What shouldn't take too long? So we will adjourn this meeting.