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 room. I'm going to go to the our city council meeting for Tuesday, May 6 6th 2025 and I will go ahead and lead us in the pledge of allegiance. which stands for the nation under God, individual, political liberty and justice for all. Madam City Clerk, please call the roll. Here Mayor Proto-Pedia. Here. Council Member Fiddler. Here. Council Member Green. I am here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. I'm going to move to the next item. I'm going to move to the next item. I'm going to move to the next item. I'm going to move to the next item. I'm going to move to the next item. I'm going to move to the next item. I'm going to that to the record. Item 2A approval of the April 1st 2025 City Council minutes. Item 2B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, approving a change of record keeper for the employee money purchase pension plan. Amending the trust agreement and authorizing the City Manager to execute plan documents and the master service agreement with the new record keeper as directed by the retirement pension board. Item 2C, a resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado, accepting the proposal of Wagner construction incorporated and approving the procurement of the core city phase two water line replacement for the contract amount of $5,501,898 and authorizing the city manager or designate to execute the contract on behalf of the city. Item 2D, a resolution of the city council of the city of Brighton, Colorado, appointing Joey Yarp as an at-large member of the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board to fill an unexpired term to January 2027. Thank you. What is the pleasure council? Councilmember Tadeo. Thank you, Mayor. Move to approve the consent agenda. And then councilmember Poloski. I'm happy to second that motion. Thank you. We have a first and second to approve the consent agenda as presented. There's no other discussion. call vote. Motion passes 8 to 0. Next is the approval of the regular agenda. If we can move screens here. Councilmember Green. Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve the regular agenda with one amendment. I want to remove item 4D. So you want to approve the agenda while removing item 4D. You are correct. Okay. And then may I prop time? Thank you. I'd like to offer an additional amendment to the agenda and to move item 9a to proceed public hearings proceed item number six You concur council member green. I do actually All right, so there's a motion to approve the agenda with two amendments one to remove item 4d The other is to move item 9a To be after Public invite to be heard on matters 9 agenda. So, all right. If there's no other discussion to that, we'll call vote. Motion passes 8-0. Next, item 4a, swearing in of new board and commission member. City manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and members of council. At this time I will ask our city clerk to come down and swearing our new board and commission member. I'll go. Yes. Raise your right hand, repeat after me. I state of Colorado, the office of Parks and Recreation Advisory Board member and will faithfully perform the duties of the office. I'm about to enter. Thank you, Joey, for your willingness to serve. Do you want to say a couple words? No thanks. OK. No problem. We always afford that opportunity when people are sworn into roles like this. Next item 4B, recognition of the Brighton Employee Charities Scholarship Recipients, City Manager Matias. I think Mayor at this time I will ask Cheryl Johnson and friends to come up and present this next item. Good evening Honorable Mayor and City Council. I'm Cheryl Johnson with Brighton Employee Charities along with Stephanie Stephanie Roche and Monique Martinez. Tonight, the Brighton Employee Charities, along with Brighton Ford, is honored to be able to give three scholarships to high school seniors who will be continuing their education in the fall. This year's recipients are Angelique. Each recipient will receive a $1,000 scholarship for the academic year 2025-2026. The scholarships are awarded to the recipients based on high emphasis of community service and academics. This year's recipients are Angelica Gallegos, Kimi Mila Ibarra, both from Brighton High School, and Tyler Blatt from the Stead School. If you could come forward as your name is read and we might appear for a picture. So a little bit about each of these recipients. Angelique is planning to attend the University of Central Florida in the fall and major in forensic science by biochemistry. She has been active on the Brighton Youth Commission. Kimi Meola is planning to attend Front Range Community College in the fall. Her aspirations are in elementary and special education. She lets to help other people and provide for those in need. Tyler is planning to attend Colorado Mesa University. He is helped with the Brighton Fire Kid Academy. He is a student ambassador at the Stead School. Community services will make these young individuals so important to have in our community. We are very proud of their accomplishments. Congratulations Angelica, Kimi Meola and Tyler. We wish you the very best. We'll let you individually have a picture and then we'll have you come closer. We'll get a picture with all of us in a moment. So we just have the lets us have them come down here and we'll just do a picture with the whole council. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. the lords of it. Congratulations, boys. Very good. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Thanks. Tyler, give the best report to him. It's on about a foot, so I saw him last. Oh, exactly. He's almost there. That's great. All right. So next we're going to move on to public comment. The proclamations tonight will be presented at a later time individually to the recipients. With that, item 5A is or 5 is public invited to be heard on matters that are not on the agenda. So each person that signed it speak you have a total of three minutes. I have two people signed it to speak. I have one other sign to speak on an item later on in the agenda, but two people signed it speak on items that are not on the agenda. First I have Nathaniel Miller. So Nathaniel, come on over. over. State your name for the record. You'll have three minutes. My name is Nathaniel Miller. My address is 4677 Kip Place here in Brighton, 80601. Good evening, Mayor Mills and Council Members. Andrin, I want to sincerely thank you for your support in forming a downtown development authority. We're encouraged by the Council's recognition of the importance of investing in our downtown and driving efforts to foster its growth and vibrancy. As small business owners who also call Brighton home, we strongly support the creation of a DDA. It's a powerful tool, one that will be essential in shaping a lively successful downtown, especially as Burrah sunsets. The DDA will give our downtown the structure and autonomy it needs to chart its own path forward. Some of you may know that our business originally opened in Brumfield. When we were considering where to relocate, Brighton stood out largely because of its authentic downtown. It has the bones of a true main street. Roomfield talks about wanting a main street, but Brighton actually has one. And with the right attention and care, it can be something really special. Andrew and I serve on the DDA steering committee and we're committed to helping bring this vision to life. As the process moves forward, we'll need others in the downtown community to join us in giving us that final push. We're happy to help that make that happen. Over the past eight years as Brighton's Downtown Business Community, as part of Brighton's Downtown Business Community, we've seen multiple initiatives aimed at supporting downtown. Some were promising, some missed the mark, but the goal was always the same to strengthen the heart of our city. I want to assure you that there are many of us who are deeply invested in Brighton's future. We're committed to seeing the DDA established and more importantly to support a driving, thriving, resilient downtown for years to come. And I appreciate your time tonight. I'm sorry, Andrea couldn't be here with me tonight. She's working at the brewery. So that's basically all I wanted to say. So appreciate the time. Thank you. Someone's got to stay and run the business, right? Next, Tom Lampo. Come on up, Tom. You have three minutes. Thank you guys. It's good to be here. Good to see all of you. Good to be in front of Brighton. My name is Tom Lampo, and I'm here to lift up Brighton in prayer. So please join me in prayer. Heavenly Father in Jesus' name, we invite you here to Brighton. There is no God greater than you, and you are always welcome here. Thank you for showing us your love and mercy. Psalm 10319 declares your authority. authority. The Lord has established His throne in the heavens and His sovereignty rules overall. We need your presence here with us as we go about our days. Father, we lift up our elected leaders to you. You've placed them in their offices to do your will. Guide them in their decisions. As terms are ending, elections will take place. We lift up all those who are thinking of running for office. At any level, it's an important responsibility. Psalm 10, 17 states, the desire of the humble you have heard, O Lord, you make their heart attentive. You banjo your ear. Thank you for listening to all of our desires and especially to those that want to lead. Prepare the hearts of those you will be calling. Let them hear from you. Awakening them a desired serve in a very difficult position. Give them your wisdom and knowledge as they pursue an important responsibility. Father we long for peace in our society. Peace between our neighbors. Peace within our families. Peace with those we work with. Matthew 7, 12 states, so in everything, due to others what you would have them due to you, for this sums up the law and the prophets. Help us to see those around us as you see them. Holy Spirit, intervene in our lives and guide us. Remove the judgment we have towards others. We need to show your love and mercy to those around us. Let us be instruments of your peace. You are God and we are your people. And your precious name we pray. Amen. Thank you guys, have a nice night. Thank you, Tom. Like I said, there are other signs of speak for items later in the agenda. We'll call you up when we get to that point. So now that we had altered the agenda, the next one is actually 9a. It's a resolution of the City Council of City Brighton, Colorado, renaming Eagle View Adult Center to be known here for, henceforth, as the Sue Corburt active adult center city manager Martinez. Thank you mayor. At this time I'd like to ask director Haynes to come up and present this next item. There's someone shocked in the audience. Good evening mayor Mayor Pro-Tam and members of council. I have Stephanie Brown with me as well. We are very excited to bring this to you tonight. She brought the petition to the parks and recreation advisory board on April 2nd to rename and the Eagleview Adult Center to the Sue Corbett Active Adult Center. The board heard the proposal and they approve bringing it to you guys to ask for approval from all of you as well Just a few things about Sue as you all know she is retiring next month after more than 35 years combined service with the city of Brighton Well, we don't accept it. Okay. We're trying not to but You know we tried so Just a few things about Sue. She's been, like I said, she's been an employee with the city for over 35 years. She was named the municipal hero in 2017 by the Colorado Municipal League. She's served on numerous boards. She was on the Meals on Wheels Board, Platt Valley Hospital Board, and the United Bank Board, just to name a few. She's played a key role in the Help for Homes Project, which over the years, many of you have volunteered with. And I'm happy to say this year was a milestone year, which she thought she was here to talk about tonight. That's how I got her here. We completed the 20th year of the project this year, and over 14 senior homeowners and Brighton had improvements made to their homes. Suzy accomplishments go away beyond this. I'm sure we could all stand here and talk for hours about the things that she has done for the city of Brighton and the community as well. Stephanie, anything you want to add? I'll talk. Okay, and then after Stephanie's done, we have a short video we would like all of you to see as well. Go ahead. First of all, Sue, I've never seen your speech. This is going to be cool. I just want to say that Sue has a hard for service, but she is also great at recruiting volunteers and keeping them. I wish I knew how she did it, but she was good at keeping me coming back for the past 10 years. And I enjoyed every minute of it. Since the minute we bought a house here in 2010, we got hooked into the senior sitter right away, and Matt Sue, and we've just had fun ever since. And another thing is she really knows how to handle those difficult troublemaker kind of seniors, like my father-in-law, Skip Brown, who used to cheat at cards. And he came home one day and Sue had talked to him about cheating at cards. But she dealt with him so kindly like okay this is not all right. We love to have you here. Come on back but stop cheating at cards. You know she just knew how to handle every situation and I was really grateful for that personally thank you Sue and anyway I just was I'm really glad you all are considering this Sue Corbett active adult center name change all right name Sue Corbett I'm the director here at at Eagle Adult Center. And I've been a city of Brighton employee for a long time. And I have to tell you, it's a great job. My memory is of Sue and all involved my mother. My mother Mary Shibow. She was a board of directors at the Brighton Senior Center in 1989 when Sue started. I met Sue in second grade. My pinpell got sick so she was my pinpell for the day. I have volunteered since 2013. Sue just called me and said, you want to come and help? And I said yes. The question about what Sue has done for the Eagleview Adult Center is not that's not the question it's what hasn't she done? Built it. I mean she she of course was part of the planning and all of that they went into it. She is a big supporter of the programs that we do on plan for the seniors. She started the spaghetti luncheon craft fair every year. The volunteer recognition every year helped for homes. My favorite memories of Sue is that her smile is always there. How she meets everyone greets them at the door or in the hallway with a smile and knows everyone by name. Zoo is, like I said, I think she's a lifeline of Brighton and especially with the seniors. I can't think of how many times I've heard her call somebody to check in on. Oh, I haven't seen you here for the last few days. How are you doing? It's a yearly memory. It's when we have our volunteer appreciation lunch and she tells her jokes. They're very good jokes. You'll never know where you're going to find her keys in a door or her water bottle. And I've started to do the same thing. Her coming to my wedding and I have a photo of her and Kelly's and they just look so happy. And I always tell Sue that her and Kelly are my goals when we get older just because how happy they are. I just want to be like Sue. She's leaving behind some huge, huge, huge shoes to fill. We love you Sue and congratulations on your retirement. Sue, I love you and I miss you. Just that we're going to miss you and congratulations. I hope retirement treats you well and you have all the fun and adventures that you possibly can. I'll miss you. I love you and I'm going to miss you. Even though I know you're up the street and I know you're gonna come see us and I'm gonna have you volunteer. You don't get to get away like you think you are just because you're retiring. So as they said on the video, we're obviously going to miss you, but we're happy to answer any questions you may have or any request. And we'll turn it over to you. Thank you. All right. Thank you. That's great. First off, Council Member Green. Thank you very much, Mayor. But, you know, I love Sukorbid. Without a doubt, everybody on this diet loves Sukorbid. And I love the addition of active adult centered into this name change. I just have one small request. I don't want to completely throw away the 13 years of Eagle View. So I was wondering if you guys would be willing to take a friendly amendment to this title and call it the Sue Corbin, Corbin Active Adult Center at Eagle View. The only change to it as though we don't throw away the Eagle View name but we certainly give Sue her due and I would really love if people would accept that. I have no issues with that at all. Thank you. That's good to be up to the council here, but thank you. I appreciate that. If those that are on the, that wanna make the motion, if they wanna make that amendment, that'll all leave that up to them. Council member Poloski. Thank you, Mayor. I'm very happy and delighted to be able to make this motion even though I don't want to lose her. But before I make this motion even though I don't want to lose her. But before I make my motion, I just want to say the last time I spoke with her, she said she's going to continue volunteering. So she said she is going to be around. So remember that, everyone. She said, I'm going to have to watch myself that I don't override and try to tell people what they need to be doing that are really in charge. So anyway, she did say that. But I think that she knows how to handle that too. I'm proud to make a motion of a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado renaming the Eagle View Adult Center to be known henceforth as a Sue Corporate Active Adult Center at Eagle View. Okay. Thank you. Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you. I also can't get to the motion without expressing appreciation for Sue and for this program and everything that she has created. Both of my grandmother's believed until they were 97 years old that they were volunteers working at the senior center in their time frame. That's part of the magic and the beauty is that everybody who goes in is not just going to attend events or attend classes. They have a role, they have a purpose, and they are making the world better for what my grandmother at 96 used to say. We're all the old people who were there because she was not old enough yet to go to the senior center. She was there to bring cookies to all of the old people who were at the senior center. That is the magic. I know of other communities that have active adult centers that have senior centers. They do not have the magic of what occurs in Brighton. And I believe that all of the people who are there are going to keep that magic going but I think that that comes from in large part that name that recognition the person who created that whole program being enshrined in in the center. So I'm so pleased to second that motion for the Sue Corbett active adult center at Eagleview. Very good. And then council member today I wanted to say a few words. I can't ever follow Peter and say it quite as eloquently, but I agree with everything you just said and everybody else, but I just was wondering, would you be a part of my help for home's team next year? Yeah. Yeah. Congratulations, well deserved. Sue, before we vote, and I'll just go and vote now, but before we finalize this, I just wanted to thank you for your service to our wonderful community. You've done so much good. The first time I came across you is when we brought my dad to live with us. I got 11 years ago, 11 years ago, and we brought him and got him involved in the Eagle View Adult Center. You and your team embraced him. We had some issues I know at times, but we really appreciate your willingness to welcome everybody that comes through those doors. And you will be missed, but it sounds like you'll be around too. So that's good news. All right, roll call vote. Motion passes 8-0. I'm going to take your picture. Okay, this one we want to picture. Yeah, oh yeah. Take your picture. Greg, this one we want to picture. Yes, oh yeah. We're done talking. We're gonna get to it. Come on. Okay, this one we want to picture. Yeah, oh yeah. Come on. Anthony, come on. Come on. Let's all come in. Oh no. I thought you were going to touch that after a while. You got tricks. Oh my goodness. Right here in the center. Right, a little bit. Oh, no. That's more like a weird seat. How are you? I'm sorry. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm not going to be a teacher. I'm going to step. I think you all need to be both here. Oh, no. You're all star. I think there's people here. Oh, you're a star. You're a star. You're a star. You're a star. You're a star. You're a star. You're a star. You're a star. You're a star. You're a star. Thank you. I do. I'm going to have to go to the office. I'm going to have to go to the office. I'm going to have to go to the office. I'm going to have to go to the office. I'm going to have to go to the office. I'm going to have to go to the office. I'm going to have to go to the office. I this Saturday. We have worked on over 300 houses for low income seniors and disabled residents here in Brighton. And it's a wonderful project. It is fun to watch and to see the homeowners faces when the project is all finished. But I also have to recognize the volunteers, but also city staff that make it work. The public works department, they always make sure that we have dumpsters and they have three staff over there with their big front end loaders to help unload all the debris. They're always just like Sue, whatever you want. What, how long do you want it? You know, it's just, it's always, I'm grateful. I am totally shocked. That's an awful long name. I think you could just call it dedicated to Sue Corbett. It would be fine. I have to tell you, I have the best job in Brighton and I have always said that for 30 some years. I've never not wanted to go to work ever. The people over the years, it's all about the people. We have the most beautiful building, still looks brand new 13 years later. But it's not about those people. It's not about that building. It's each one of those people that come through that door, whether they're volunteers, whether they're participants, whether they're staff. And my staff, they believe in what we do, they believe in those that we serve, and I couldn't be prouder to be a part. I also have to recognize those others within the city that really make it work because I say this daily the city never hired me for my math skills. And so I'm grateful to finance department to everybody that just does whatever when I call them they just say okay what what do you want to know. I thank them. We have an incredible Senior Advisory Board. It's so unique that we have this nonprofit organization that, again, they believe in the center, they believe in seniors, they believe in making the world a better place. And it's been my honor to work alongside each one of them for many years. We love Grammys. I did, it was so fun in our last volunteer recognition. I've been here so long among my third generation of family. So that might be a, that might be an indication that it might be time to retire. You have not seen the end of me. I do live in Brighton. I believe in Brighton. I will do whatever it takes to make our community the best around. And I'm totally, I'm never with that words as you can tell, but I totally am shocked. So thank you. Thank you, Kelly, for bringing me. So thank you. I appreciate it. All right. Then Councilmember Worth wanted to say a few words. I, Sue, I've learned a lot about Sue since being here in Brighton because 35 years longer and I've been here. You've done such a great job of creating a legacy. This will cement it. So congratulations on your retirement. For sure. Can you count the member of Poloski? Thank you, Mayor. Well, I have to throw one little negative factor in the Sue. When we passed the non-retiring 3.4 cent sales tax to build the recreation center and Eagleview, the one thing that she had requested was, please don't put a pull in there. I'll quit if you do. Right sue. So as you can see, we thought well enough of her that we never put a pool in there. But it's probably not far away now to. Since it's the adult called an adult center, we couldn't name it the senior center or that those taxes couldn't go towards building that center. So we had to call it Eagleville Dull Center. And but in order, as part of that original, this is back in the 90s, we were talking about, we would put a pool in there, a lap pool for seniors only. And seniors only are very frustrated with the Brighton Recreation Center because they have to deal with the youth that are there so That's probably coming just so you know, okay, but thank you so you'd congratulations. You've done a great job And thank you Kelly for bringing her to death great. Thank you guys And councilmember filler Thank you mayor so congratulations You and you and Kelly are two of the best people I know and I know you had a full-time job at home with Kelly on top of running the adult center. So, good host to you. Well, this is good to see you both. All right. Again, congratulations. All right. Now, let me see what's next. We just did a. So we're going to go back over to public hearings. Item 6 a resolution of the City Council of the City Brighton Colorado accepting all public improvements and public lands and facilities associated with the Brighton crossing filing number one second amendment subdivision planned for approximately 10.41 acre property, generally located to the north of East Bridge Street, to the west of North Prairie Falcon Parkway, east of Bristol Cone Street and south of Portilla Street. More specifically located to the southeast quarter of section two, Township 1 South, range 66 west of the 6th principal Meridian, City of Brighton County, Adams State of Colorado. Just give me one moment, get my public hearing notes out. I will officially open up the public hearing and ask if the city clerk will verify all the necessary postings and publications were done. Yes, your honor. The notice of public hearing was published on the city of Brighton website on April 17th 2025. Thank you. Next, I need to ask my fellow council members if they have any conflicts of interest or any ex-partake communications which they need to disclose regarding this item we're discussing. Seeing none, City Manager Martinez, turn it over to you. Thank you Mayor, presenting this item is Associate Planner Stephanie Iams. Welcome. Thank you. Good evening Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and Members of Council. My name is Stephanie Iams, Associate Planner with city, and I'm here to present the Brighton Crossing filing number one second amendment subdivision plan. The applicant is Brookfield residential LLC. The location of the property is outlined on the map. The 10.41 acre site is generally located to the north of East Bridge Street, south of Potentia Street, east of Bristol Cone Street, and West of North Prairie Falcon Parkway, situated within the Brighton Crossings development. For anyone unfamiliar with the process, plotting is the third step in the land development process with the city. Based on the number of lots being subdivided, a subdivision plan is required. A final plan will be required before site development can occur. When considering the subdivision plan, staff use the review criteria outlined in the Land Use and Development Code, section 2.02-D1. To provide some background, the subject property was annexed in 1985 as part of the Brownlee Park annexation. In 2001, the property was platted as a tract for future multifamily development under the Brighton Crossing filing number one final plat. In early 2025, the property was re-zoned from multifamily to single-family attached as a minor PUD amendment under the Bromley Park Land Use regulations. onto the conceptual layout of the subdivision, the applicant is proposing the creation of 102 lots for single-family attached development. One of the main purposes of a subdivision plan is to analyze the development's impact to public right-of-way and infrastructure. That being said, all improvements will be completed in one phase. Before going into detail on the required improvements, I would like to acknowledge as this property was previously platted, it remains under the obligations of the Brighton Crossing filing number one development agreement. If this application is approved and accepted by the City of Brighton, in addition to the in-place agreement, an amended development agreement will be drafted, which will add the specific obligations will be discussing tonight. That development agreement amendment will be brought before the city council for approval. With that, the general improvements associated with the subdivision are as follows. The developer shall construct private roadways and alleyways that provide internal connectivity from North Prairie Falcon Parkway and Bristol Cone Street. Next, the developer will meet water dedication requirements to serve the development. Under the Brownway Park annexation agreement, the development is eligible to pay fee and loo of water dedication. The developer will connect to the city's current water and sewer infrastructure along North Prairie Falcon Parkway and Bristol Cone Street and expand services to the development. The extension of all water and sewer lines will be paid for and constructed by the developer. Additionally, the development will implement private connections to the existing stormwater infrastructure that was built out with previous phases of Brighton Crossing filing number one. Since the adjacent external roadways are already built out, the developer will be required to enhance pedestrian connectivity by extending a five foot sidewalk along Bristol cone street, adding trails through the common areas in track A and track C, and throughout the site. Sidewalk connectivity will be maintained with five foot sidewalks in every log in front of every log. Lastly, upon final plot approval and as formalized in a future development agreement, the developer will design and construct the traffic signal located at North Perry, Falcon Parkway and East Bridge Street with this development. The signal has been planned to be at this intersection since the original development agreement was written in 2001. Additionally, as mentioned before, this area was contemplated as multifamily and has since been downzoned to single family attached. Therefore, this public improvement more than serves the expected traffic demand from this development. Now looking to the Land Use and Development Code, the City Council and making its decision shall use the following criteria found in section 2.02-D1. In regard to criteria A, the property's rezoning will help support policies of the comprehensive plan. The future Land Use section of B Brighton, the Comprehensive Plan, designates the property as high-density residential, which aligns with its current zoning as single-family attached. This designation is intended to provide high-density housing in urban centers and major corridors and near a mix of other uses. The property is located next to key community anchors such as a grocery store and a dense commercial intersection to the west and dense commercial intersection to the west. The project site is also located along East Bridge Street, a major corridor through the city. The subdivisions plan supports other policies and strategies outlined in the comprehensive plan. In the opportunity area policy section of chapter three, the application aligns with policy number 13, Bridge Street opportunities. This policy envisions the Bridge Street corridor as a vibrant main street with homes, farms and commercial centers with building intensities increasing nearing downtown. As adjacent lots along Bridge Street are already developed or in the process of development, infill projects are encouraged to enhance the corridor's appearance and value of investment. Within the Comprehensive Plan, Chapter 4 on Citywide Principles, Policies and Strategies, the subdivision plan advances a number of these goals as well. In reference to the policies before you on the screen, the property is surrounded by roadways and infrastructure that have already been established through previous phases of development and adjacent projects. This development will integrate seamlessly into the surrounding area, benefiting from existing infrastructure. The developer will pay all costs related to upgrading public infrastructure, including roadways and utility connections. The existing trails and open space amenities within Brighton Crossing already promote pedestrian interaction that fosters a sense of community. As part of this development, in addition to the completion of adjacent sidewalks and internal pedestrian pathways that will address the missing connections in this area, this development will be responsible for constructing the traffic signal on the Southeast intersection of the development, serving not only the future members of this development, but existing community members to ensure traffic safety. Given that all lots in Brighton Crossing filing number one and neighboring subdivisions are developed or under development, this property remains one of the last vacant parcels within an established area. The subdivision plan will promote infill development and prioritize this highly visible site along Bridge Street. The Comprehensive Plan promotes the consideration of diverse housing types and discourages the predominance of current housing designs and development trends. The proposed subdivision plan involves a single family attached product available for individual ownership, which is not highly available in the city. This will stimulate residential growth that serves a wide range of income levels and will diversify the current housing supply. Continuing with the land use and development code criteria, the proposed subdivision plan fully complies with the law and roadway specifications outlined in the Bromley Park land use regulations. Additionally, it addresses utility placement, pedestrian connectivity, and the overall site layout, ensuring alignment with both the physical and functional standards of the zone district. Should the plan be approved, a final plat will be submitted to the development review committee for additional review. The subdivision plan also specifies the maintenance of common areas and private internal roadways and alleyways by the Brighton Crossings Operation Board. In addition, it mentions the design and construction of the traffic signal located at the intersection of North Prairie Falcon Parkway and East Bridge Street. As mentioned, development will occur in one phase. To support this, an amendment to the development agreement will be required, which will include a schedule for improvements and set deadlines for financial guarantees. All technical reports have been thoroughly reviewed by the DRC, and the plan includes the necessary infrastructure improvements to mitigate the impacts identified in these studies. Lastly, the plan aligns with the goals outlined in the Compreh and supports the development of adjacent properties. It will not obstruct future infrastructure projects and is designed to enhance connectivity within Brighton Crossing. After careful review by the DRC and relevant external agencies, it has been determined that the proposed plan is appropriate and aligns with the city's objectives and requirements. All posting was completed in accordance with the Land Use and Development Code. The dates are before you on the screen. Prior to any formal submittal to the city, a neighborhood meeting was held on July 24, 2024. As of the beginning of this hearing, planning staff has not received any formal comments from the public regarding the project. The Development Review Committee reviewed this project and is recommending approval. Staff finds that the proposal meets the review criteria found in Section 2.02-D1 of the Land Use in Development Code and therefore recommends approval of the Brighton Crossing filing number one, Second subdivision plan. Staff has prepared a draft resolution that approves the proposed subdivision plan. At this time, there are four options before you on the screen. Thank you all for your time and attention this evening and I look forward to any questions after a brief presentation from the applicant team. The applicant wants to come up and do the presentation. Be sure to state your name. My name is Chris Bremner with Brookfield, address 6465, Greenwood Plaza Boulevard. First of all, thank you, Asu Leaves. Thank you for bumping us for Sue. It was pretty cool to be a part of that. So while she's beat us by 10 years, because we've been here since 2000. She's got us by 10 years. So we're pleased to present finding one second amendment. As I've said, we've been here for since 2000, developments started in 2003 out here. You've kind of seen a little bit this before, this has kind of been the progress since 2024. As of April 1st, we've had 1,750 units within Brighton. Residents that are happy to call home. A little bit of update on, I think, the Venture Park. Right now, it's under construction. Fields are going in. It's nice and green out out there We're hoping to have that starting the turnover process to the parks department and probably the June, July time frame So we're excited to finally get that piece of property filled in for the community As you know, we have a lunch lots of stuff out of Brighton for those 1700 residents, miles of pass, venture center, park parks, fitness centers, nine neighborhood parks, and we're even looking at starting to maybe some revitalize even some of the parks as they've been there for 20 plus years already. So I know the Metro district is talking about how to not repurpose the parks, but just kind of freshen them up over the years. So 25 and 26, we've already been to you for a number of these projects, PA1, PA13 that we call and then 8.2 out on the east side of the project, which all are currently under development and one way or another. And then obviously our subject parcel, which we call PA-1, but is filing one. So excited that, again, we've been here for over 20 years and we don't have any single family town home attached for sale fee simple projects within Brighton Crossing. within Brighton Crossing, so we're excited to finally be able to present that to you 102 units and there all be privately roads, privately maintained roads with alleys maintained by the Metro District out there. Like Stephanie has said, basically all the adjacent infrastructures in place. And so we're just essentially tying it into the existing infrastructure. Conceptual elevations of the townhums that are out there, kind of a folk style, or a gable style townhome. And hopefully we can break ground later this year and have some stuff going in vertical next year so that we can have stuff for sale by the end of next year. That's kind of our plan. So that's presentation, filing seven second amendment and happy to answer any questions that you might have. Thank you for your time. Thank you. Just a moment here. All right. So this is the time for public comment relating this item. Nobody signed up to speak that I know about related to this particular item. But if you do want to sign up to speak the sign up sheets are in the back. You'll tell the three minutes if you choose to sign up to speak on this item. Madam City clerk is anybody signed up to speak digitally Know your honor all right Questions to comment from the council council member green Oh, I was looking at some else council member Snyder. Thanks., Mayor. Councilmember Green probably has something more to say. I do have the, we've talked about this before and it's not a surprise and I think it's a good project but I do have a concern. Can we go back to the, the plant map? Is it possible? As I'm looking at this, the main road, road A, what appears to be the houses on the north side, it appears that there are three areas with six or seven extra parking spaces for visitors. On what would be the south side of the road. There's nine buildings, 50 units. I see no additional parking for visitors parking there. We do have parking problems out in that area. So I'm wondering how they're gonna adequately, or well, wait a minute, I just see one area. Yeah, there's one area with six parking spaces in that whole south side. Am I looking at this platt wrong? Who wants to answer that? Yeah. Yeah. So there are a couple of just those head in parking spaces for guests. I believe there will be garages for each of these ones. But then there also is on street parking along road A on both sides, I believe as well. So that will help kind of alleviate that. How wide is that road? I believe that road. Let me double check if Chris, if you want to add anything to that. Yeah, we have all on street parking. I have my engineer here and she can probably answer the exact width of the road. And then we have a bunch of internal parking areas within Allie A, next to Allie, what is that? Allie F. So we have a number of internal parking areas, and then all the town homes will have their own two car parking spots as well within each garage. So, I guess my engineer has the exact parking come out but we're actually over parked for the criteria for this area. Okay, thanks. That was my concern. I appreciate it. Next, Mayor Patim. Thank you. Really just two comments and not questions. The first I had not realized 1700 and 50 Brookfield units. That's more than 10% of the rooftops in town. So over the last 10 years or 20 years We have 16,800 some rooftops in the city and you've built more than 10% of those. That's a long-term partnership and I appreciate it. I'm really appreciative of the change. Of course it was the zoning change we've already discussed. This is a next step but I want to make sure that we've reiterated thanks for changing this from being high density and rental and apartment to something that hits the middle housing target that we simply are short of in town. So I really appreciate the effort to make that happen. I do wanna make sure that as we continue to move through these steps, we're calling out that this was originally designed for many more units than this and probably was going to be rentals. So we're creating a hundred and two attainable housing units in a primary of town. And I think that is commendable and much appreciated in something that we very desperately need. So. Thank you. That's really all I have to say on that, I'm supportive of those things. Great. I got a question. I noticed so it does say it's a private road and private alleys. Does that mean going forward? These will always be maintained by the Homeowners Association, like road maintenance, plowing, everything going forward, not just turnover to the city in the future. That's correct. It's all a metric that should maintain in perpetuity, but that is designed to a city standard road A. So if something changes for the future, at least the city has something that meets their standards, but that's not the intent. Thanks for clarifying. All right, that's it from the questions and comments. I'll go ahead and officially close the public hearing. This is before council for consideration. Council member Green. Thank you, Mayor. I'm excited to move item six A. There's a proper first to move six A. Council member, today. Thank you, Mayor. I'm happy to second that. There's also a proper second to move six A. If there's nothing else to discuss, what call vote? Motion passes eight-0. Thank you. Thank you very much. Moving along, item 6B, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Brighton, Colorado, accepting all public improvements and public lands and facilities associated with the Kestrel subdivision plan for to approximately 25.83 acre property generally located to the north of east 120th Avenue to the south of east 124th Avenue to the east of Peoria Street and to the west of Pravue High School. More particularly located in the southwest quarter of section 36, Township 1 South, Rain 67 west of the 6th Principal Meridian, City Brighton County of Adams State of Colorado. This is continued from the April 15th, 2025 Council meeting. So I will go ahead and officially open the public hearing. Ask of our city clerk will verify all the necessary postings and publications were complete. Yes, your honor. The notice of public hearing was published on the city of Brighton website on April 16th, 2025. All right. Thank you. And then I'm going to ask all my fellow council members. If they've had a conflict of interest or any expertate communication regarding this item they need to disclose. So council member, you have a question? Yes, is this project by Boulder Creek Builders? Yes. I need to recuse myself. Okay. Go ahead. Councilmember Sinner will recuse himself from this. Right. City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. Here to present this item is Senior Planner Summer McCann. Thank you, City Manager. Good evening, Mayor. Mayor Pro Tem, members of Council. Summer McCann, Senior Planner with the the city and I am here to present the Kestrel subdivision plan the project contact is my Cooper with Boulder Creek working on behalf of the applicant the orchard church. The location of the properties outlined on the map and is generally located to the north of east 120th Avenue south of east 124th Avenue east of Piorio Street and west of Prairie High School. For anyone unfamiliar with the process, plating is the third step in land development process with the city. Based on the number of lots being subdivided as well as the right of way being dedicated a subdivision plan is required, a final plan will also be required before site development can occur. When considering the subdivision plan, staff use the review criteria bound in section 2.02d1. Now to provide some background, the property was annexed in 2016 as a part of the Orchard Church annexation. The property was partially platted in 2017 under the Orch subdivision filing number one final plat and the properties currently zoned at Kestrel's plan development, which was approved earlier this year. Now onto the conceptual layout of the subdivision. The applicant is proposing the creation of 174 lots for residential development with all public improvements being completed in one phase. Now the general improvements associated with this subdivision are as follows. For water and sewer, there's existing water line in Peoria and existing sewer infrastructure along the northern property boundary, the developer will connect to and extend services throughout the site. Prior to approval of the final plat, the development will be required to dedicate water to the city. Next for drainage, the subdivision plan will utilize an existing storm water pond located to the northwest of the site, and to better fit the layout that pond will be shifted to the west, keeping it large enough to handle stormwater runoff. In addition, a smaller pond will be constructed to the southwest corner to manage stormwater runoff from a small portion of that site, and this new pond will ensure proper drainage for the overall development. And that pond will be located within a city-owned drainage easement. Both ponds will be owned and maintained by a HOA, Metro District, or similar entity, and all costs associated with the design and construction of the drainage infrastructure will be paid forward by the developer. Now onto streets. There are is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city that is a city Brighton and Adams County. On this side you will see the public roadways highlighted in orange and the private alleyways are in yellow. As outlined in the subdivision, Easter 120th will be built to an interim condition which includes adding curb gutter striping modifications and a 10 foot concrete trail. Moving on to Peoria Street, the East side will be built out to its ultimate condition as a collector street, with improvements that include curb gutter striping an eight foot concrete trail and a left turn lane at the intersection for southbound to eastbound traffic. In addition to the existing public roadways, the developer will dedicate right away and construct neighborhood connector streets at West Thunderhawk Place and South Orchardway, which will replace the existing private roads that are there today. Lastly, the developer will contribute to the design and construction costs for upgrading the traffic signal at East 120th, Mporia. Upon final plan approval and as formalized in a future development agreement, the city and developer will agree on a finalized percentage of the required contribution. Next, I'll discuss parks, open space, and trails. The subdivision plan proposes a comprehensive trail network that extends beyond the adjacent roadways. All parks and open space include a minimum five foot concrete trail which will connect to trails of varying widths ranging from six to eight feet along the public streets. Special attention has been given to ensure a continuous pedestrian access to Prairie View High School and the developer will connect to the existing sidewalk on the north side of Thunderhawk Place. The subdivision plan includes 5.64 acres of conceptual pocket parks in open space, which are shown in green niche on the slide. If there is insufficient land dedication, a fee in lieu will be required before the final plat is recorded. In addition to park dedication, the applicant must work with school district 27J to pay a fee in lieu of land dedication to the school district. The applicant will enter into an agreement with both the school district and the capital facility fee foundation. This agreement will require future builder to contribute funds to the foundation with each residential building permit. Now, looking to land use and development code the city council making its decision. She'll use the criteria found in section 2.0 to D1. In regard to criteria A, the subdivision plan will help to support policies of the comp plan. The future land use portion of V Brighton has designated this property as a mixed use residential. This designation supports a range of housing options integrated with nearby commercial and civic uses. The site's proximity to a church and a high school make it compatible with that designation, and the subdivision plan deviates from traditional single family layouts by utilizing smaller lots that front onto streets, parks, and open space. This layout enhances walkability and reinforces the mixed use concept. The subdivision plan also supports other policies and strategies of the comprehensive plan. And the opportunity area policies of section of chapter three, it aligns with number 15, which focuses on fostering long-term economic growth and high quality development along 120th. This policy envisions 120th avenue as a distinctive corridor that will generate significant revenue for the city The subdivisions unique design contributes to this vision by diversifying housing options Which could attract both new and existing residents to the south part of Brighton as this area continues to grow the increased demand for Homes will drive commercial investment alongth. Within the comprehensive plan chapter four on principles, policies and strategies, the subdivision plan advances a number of these goals as well. In reference to the policies before you on the screen, the property is positioned with frontage along two existing public roadways. As part of the subdivision plan, the developer will improve adjacent roads and convert existing private roads to public ones. In addition to the roadways, the developer will design construct and extend essential infrastructure, including water, sewer, and storm drainage systems. The developer will bear the full financial responsibility for those improvements. Currently, this area lacks safe pedestrian connections. This plan proposes a complete network of trails and sidewalks that will link to pocket parks and these improvements will significantly improve walkability for this area. The plan also includes over five acres of open space and pocket parks designed to provide recreation and encourage community interaction. Consistent with the Kestrel Plan development, each home will include a two car alley loaded garage and will front onto open space or public streets reinforcing the community oriented design through thoughtful streetscape and architecture. Now let's continue with our review criteria shown on the screen. The subdivision plan meets the lot and roadways standards set by the Custral Plan development and the city code. And addresses important elements such as utility placement, pedestrian connections, and overall site layout. It outlines right of way that will be dedicated to the city and clarifies the maintenance of open space, parks, drainage infrastructure will be the responsibility of a future HOA or Metro district. This is a single phased development and all public infrastructure must be completed and accepted by the city prior to building permits being issued. All technical reports have been reviewed by the Development Review Committee and all infrastructure needs have been addressed. While some adjacent roadways fall under other jurisdictions, City staff works closely with Adams County to ensure all required improvements are part of the subdivision plan. In conclusion, the DRC along with all relevant external agencies have thoroughly reviewed the subdivision plan, the proposal aligns with the city's objectives and requirements and all necessary recommendations from review agencies have been incorporated into the plan. All posting was completed in accordance with land use and development code the dates are before you on the screen. In part, any formal submit to the city, a neighborhood meeting was held on February 12 12, 2024. As of the beginning of this hearing, planning staff has received two formal comments from the public. One comment was in opposition and included a petition in opposition. Moving on, the planning commission unanimously approved the subdivision plan on March 13, 2025. As for staff staff recommendations the development review committee has reviewed this project and is recommending acceptance. Staff finds a proposal meets the review criteria found in section 2.02d1 of Landucent Development Code and therefore recommends acceptance of the Castral subdivision plan. At this time, there are four options before you on the screen. Thank you all for your time and attention. And staff is available if there are any questions after your presentation from the applicant. Thank you, Summer. We'd like the applicant to come and show us their presentation. Good evening, Mr. ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go it is a great job presenting. So I won't reiterate too much of what she says. I'll kind of go through and show you some of the flavor for the community. I think you've seen that with our presentation for the zoning a few months ago. And we do have some members of our team here, our planner from North Design, our civil engineer, traffic consultant, and we also have members from the Orchard Church. If there are any questions, I know there's some questions about parking and circulation and kind of the relationship to the school next door. So they're here to answer any questions about that. So with that, I'll get into it. Boulder Creek neighborhoods, we've been around for nearly 20 years now. We focused mainly on the Northern Metro Boulder County area. We're really excited to come to Brighton. We've looked at many sites here over the years. It's just, it's very difficult to bring this type of missing middle housing to areas like Brighton that require water, but we're really excited to make this deal work. So we're partnering with the orchard church here to bring this thing forward and very excited to bring our week hotages forward, which are some of the images on the top left in the bottom right. These are detached single family homes. Allie loaded at about 1,400 to 1,800 square feet up to 2,000 square foot max. Generally, there are about 2 to 3 bedrooms. They have large front porches, 6 to 8 feet wide. the renderings up. the community. The community is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a community that is a plan that's before you tonight. The layout of the community is what was included in the PD document in the zoning. What we did in the PD was we created some lot standards that were slightly smaller than than are currently in the LUDC of Brighton. They're not quite 3,000 square feet or about 2500 square feet or so. And've laid the framework out for the community here. On the left you can see where we've located, where the three story cottages will be, there never at the ends of the blocks. They're always interior to the blocks of the community. The comprehensive plan, some were did a good job presenting how we're conforming to the comprehensive plan. I will point out the mixed use residential designation on the comp plan signals to developers that this can be a slightly higher density. Mixed use residential, I believe, allows a density that's more intense than what we're proposing. It can have attached housing. I believe up to 15 or 20 units per acre. We are a little bit under seven units per acre on our plan. We are proposing 174 cottage homes. They are all alley loaded, as I mentioned. All of the public streets this summer pointed out will have detached sidewalks. It'll be a very walkable community from the public realm. Most of the homes, two thirds of of the homes front to court yards and about one-third of the homes front to public streets. There will be a parking on both sides of all the public streets. There will be about 250 or 230 on-street parking spaces and we're relying on that for the guest parking for the community. There's also about 20 off-street parking spaces in the alleys, which will be additional parking for guests and visitors and deliveries and such. Overall, with the public streets and the 20 off-street spots, there's about one and a half spaces per home for guests and visitors. In addition, we'll have a two-car garage on all of the homes as well. so there'll be another 348 parking spaces in the garages. So all in all there'll be about 600 parking spaces for 174 homes. That's about three and a half parking spaces for each home in the neighborhood. Furthermore for the three story homes that I was showing you there could also be an optional parking bay on the backs of those homes, on the alleys, and that could potentially even add up to another 100 parking spaces in the community. So therefore, there would be over four spaces per home to in the garage, to on street and off street. So we feel like there's plenty of parking on here and I know there's been some discussions about students, students parking on the public streets. We'll talk through that with you if there's any questions about that. But I just want to assure you that we have plenty of parking from our community needs where probably double or triple about where we would, but we would typically have in a neighborhood like this. The access points, the two lighter stars are the existing access points for the school and the church. We'll be proposing one three quarters access off of one-twentyth, as you can see on the left star there, and then additional full movement access on Puri Street. We will be enhancing the traffic signal to, and we'll be modifying the traffic signal that exists out there at 120th in Puria and restriping it and adding some lanes in there to help improve the flow through that intersection. As Summer mentioned on 120th Avenue will be widening the street a little bit and adding a new detached concrete sidewalk replacing the asphalt sidewalk that's currently out there. And on Puri Street we'll be also be having an 8 foot detached sidewalk. So both of those frontages along the entire community will be completely improved with Kerbingutter detached sidewalks and tree lawns and street trees. the public streets here. This is a diagram of the parking that I mentioned the public streets here. This is a diagram of the parking that I mentioned. I'll come back to this if there's any questions, but this is just highlighting. In the green is all the on-street public parking. There's some additional off-street parking in red shown there. And this is just summarizing all of the data that I gave to you earlier. The alleys will generally accommodate the sewer for the project and storm sewer as well. And for trails, as some are mentioned, the red trails are the major eight and ten foot trails along the two major local streets and along 120th in puria. Internal to the community, there's probably about another mile or two of internal sidewalks. This community is kind of modeled after what we consider pocket neighborhoods. We built recently developed a community up in areas called Erie Commons and this is very similar to that community, very walkable of all these different courtyards and pocket parks throughout the neighborhood, all connected with sidewalks. So I'll show you some renderings in a little bit and walk you through the character there. The big stars here are the larger pocket parks. These will be about a quarter to a half acre in size. This space is probably, this is about the size of the park that will be facing east towards the church, as you saw on the site plan earlier. You can see a mix of two and three story homes. This is one of the filings in Central Park, a little pocket park, she was the character there. And the smaller green stars are the courtyards. These will be about 40 to 50 foot wide, smaller neighborhood enclaves. These will serve about 10 to 15 homes that flank these, these more private courty courtyard areas. And this is a smaller pocket park. It'll be this is kind of a view that will be similar to the corner of 120th impuario where we'll have front doors facing that intersection. The homes will be set back a little bit further about 80 to 100 feet off of that corner. I'm not going to go through in detail the review criteria. So I submitted a great job with that. And just summarizing, yeah, we're really excited. You saw the project before you were townhomes. These are detached homes. This is a product that really is increasing in popularity and we're excited to deliver this in Brighton. This is gonna be a great pocket neighborhood. This is gonna have a lot of great improvements to 120th Impurious Street. This is one of our low maintenance communities. So it's not quite a lock and leave home, but it'll give people the opportunity to have a very low maintenance home in a very low maintenance yard. And we think this is really a product, it really doesn't exist much in Brighton at all. and these will be very water wise home and landscapes. Very small lots, there won't be much on lot turf areas or anything like that. So we're open to conserve water inside the home and outside the home. So available for any questions, we have our consulting team here as well and open it up for questions. Thank you. Yeah, thank you for your presentation. So this is time for public comment. I have a few people signed up to speak. If those that want to speak I'm not signed up yet. There are sign up forms in the back. You'll have up to three minutes to state your comments. First personal call up is Let me get all the people Leafs Southwell. Come on up leaf. I know you're excited. State your name. You got three minutes. Good afternoon. Mayor or good evening. Mayor and council people. I live a mile south of the location in question. Speak a little louder, Leaf. I know you can do it. And I'm not angry Greg. I'm not, I'm on pills now. Yeah, anger management. It's not working. I get another 10 seconds. I want to point out that site is four miles south of Brighton. It's not attached to Brighton. It's a standalone 24 acre site. It has the high school and the church to the east of it. If we could just, this will be nine units per acre. I looked at the area, there's nothing of that kind of density even close to there. The area is surrounded by Unincorporate of County. There's approximately 60 homes north and west of there on 130 acres. That's not nine homes an acre. Fuller states of south of there. That's 69 homes on 199 acres. I don't believe this density is appropriate for the area. So I looked in bright and to see where I could see this kind of density where it exists already. And this development could be located next soon because they have available property. And I came up with two, three sites. One of the sites is over by, off 27th and 44rds, 10 per acre. I don't know if you know that. And then mobile homes, there was two mobile home sites that had 10 homes per acre. So, as I said, the density is not appropriate. Could you keep this up to? Would you mind if I point some things out about the traffic study real quick? The first on a traffic 20 years, seven improvements you have to make. One of the improvements is coming down pure. One minute. A left into this site here with a bypass this road. And then another one is says, will make a left turn on to from pure to 120. There's seven improvement. How's he gonna make those two? There's seven improvements within his traffic study with a 161 trips a day. And the traffic study says, yeah, they'll approve. They agree with it. If he makes seven improvements to what she can't make. I wanna also point out, I did go through the comprehensive plan since Council of Patia awesome sites that 317. It says additional study in public outreach in particular master plans are recommended for 128. Do you happen to have those? Ensure provide 327.7 provides a good a pedestrian league linkages. There's no sidewalks on the opposite side. Is it time? It's time. Wow, damn, all right. Well, I urge you to vote against it. Thank you, leave. Next, Doug Damon. on over, Doug. State your name for the record. You got three minutes. I'm not that tall, so I'm going to bring this down. Good evening, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and City Council members. We appreciate you guys and all you do for our amazing community here in Brighton. We pray for you. And thank you for all your service to our community. It's hard to believe it was a sitting back to the thing in nine years ago that I stood here and we had a dream of building our first permanent facility for orchard church on the property next to Prairie View High School. And we worked with the city and for the most part it was a painless process and we got it done and it was a dream come true and it serves and hopefully blesses over 6,000 people in our community through Orchard Church and I want to say a special thank you to Dr. Chris Fiddler his time at 27J is a super intended. We met at Prairie View High School for 11 years went through four different principles. Hopefully we weren't the ones running them off and we spent the most time with Chris and had a great partnership with them. And you know we're excited about this project. If I'm being honest on a personal level, I'm not as excited about this because I'm going to lose my wonderful mountain view out my west window of my office. But I've been in the full-time vocational ministry for 35 years. I've had the privilege of being the leading founding pastor at Orchard Church for going on 20 years. Can't believe it this year. And if there's one thing I've learned in leadership is you don't make decisions based on what is best for you, but you make decisions based on what is best for other people in the community. And I absolutely believe this is going to be a wonderful addition to our community. It's going to meet a niche to help some people provide housing that's affordable in a very unique way and we're really excited about it. And so we appreciate your consideration of this project and we are asking that you would vote for it and we're excited about it. So thank you guys. God bless. Thank you Doug. Next Bill Baron. Bill Baron, are you in the room? There we go. I'm sorry I got you. Come on over. Stay your name at the mic and you'll have three minutes. Thank you very much council members. I appreciate your time. My name is Bill Barrow and I also work at Orchard Church. I just wanted to clear up a couple of quick things here. The gentleman who spoke before Doug mentioned that there was a high density. And there was, I believe he said around 9.4 homes per acres. That's not quite correct as we said earlier as our planner said. It's only 6.73 acres per home. So it's a lot less density. It's kind of a mid-range density just to speak to the builder itself. I actually purchased a home from Boulder Creek over in Westminster and the company itself Boulder Creek homes. I have been extremely happy with working with them. They have done excellent job from a builder standpoint. I know builders tend to get a bad name or developers tend to get a bad name. I can tell you from experience though from purchasing a house from them that I just moved into six weeks ago. I'm really happy with Boulder Creek Homes. And they didn't treat me differently just because I was buying a house and I had to do with this lay-in sale. So I appreciate them. They do a wonderful job. They build a quality home. I was a home inspector for a number of years and so I inspected my own house and I can tell you that I found very few things with them. I know the owners. I met with them. They're very sweet. They're very nice men and they just want to make Colorado build Colorado better. They're a smaller builder in Colorado. They're not a national builder. I also want to say that with the high school being next to us and the junior high being next to us, or just down, we want to be a blessing to the high schoolers. I understand that there's been some issues concerning frontage on 120th. We experienced that. The kids walk across our parking lot and they walk down a sidewalk and they go to 7-11. We're not happy with that situation. We certainly care about the kids. We know that there hasn't been any accidents or anything there that we're aware of but our desire and bolder creaks desire is to, as you guys saw on the plans, to make the sidewalks there accessible and off of the street so that the kids, when they do go down the road and go to 7-11 and go to wherever, that they're not in harm's way. And you saw that we're going to be making some improvements on 120th, we're going to be making some improvements on peoria for the safety of those kids. We want to see those kids come to our church. We want to see them join our youth groups and so forth. And we certainly don't want to build a community or put a community in that right next to us that would put any children in harm. So that's our desire. Again, I love working with Boulder Creek. Thank you for your time. And of course I'm in favor of this project. And there's going to be our desire when we when we purchased the property was to sell it. So regardless of what happens here, there's going to be a project there. I know some people see the land. I don't want anything to be there. Our desire to sell a land. So there will be something. Thank they are in the near future. Thank you guys for your time. I appreciate it. All right. Thank you, Bill. Madam City Clerk, anybody signed up for any digital public comment? That needs to be shared? Yes, Your Honor. Please pass those along. 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 room. I'm going to go to and get the comments. I'm going to go ahead and get the comments. I'm going to go ahead and get the comments. I'm going to go ahead and get the comments. At this time, I'd invite staff or the applicant to have any other comment based on the comments that were made today? Yes, thank you Mayor. So Mr. Southalwell did make a comment about this kind of not being attached to Brighton. I mean, it is incorporated within the city or your church is a part of Brighton, incorporating into the city, a prairie view, high schools a part of the city. So there are a lot of unincorporated areas that are adjacent to this, but this obviously is a part of the city. And I think that in terms of the comment that there's nothing with this kind of density. So Villages' Healthgate has single-family homes. They also have two Plexes, Brighton Ridge, which is east you know, east of this. They're doing apartments there. They have zoning in place for a mix of uses. And so this area is designated in the comp plan for mixed use. Mixed use actually doesn't have a specific density within the comprehensive plan. It actually just more leans towards apartment buildings and attached homes and things like that. So this is actually less dense than what was anticipated under the comp plan and in alignment with the various types of housing that we're seeing in the southern part of the city. And then the left turn lane on Peoria, they are adding that left turn lane. I mentioned that in my presentation that is going to serve people going south on Peoria, they're going eastbound on 120. I think he did make some comments about updating the master plans or there are strategies in the current plan about doing master plans for 120th and working with Adams County. That's obviously something that we still want to do. We are going through and doing a new comprehensive plan. So I think that that's something that might continue to be a strategy, possibly more guidance for implementation on that. Yeah are all the comments. Thank you. All right, thank you. And did the applicant want anything to? Okay. All right, questions and comments from the council. Mayor Potem. Sure.ar, maybe you can help me clarify just a little bit more with a Brighton map. The area is south of 120th and east of Peoria is also in the city of Brighton. But 120th itself is a shared road or is not in our jurisdiction, right? That's correct. South of 120th Ize Fuller States, that's also incorporated into the city. And then, yeah, under 20th is shared, Peoria is entirely Adams County's right of way. But yeah, there is incorporated properties of South. So that's the way to see that that's why there's nothing except what's to the east of the arsel as being in the city of Brighton because 128th itself is not but then south of 128th is which is the road that's not. That's probably picking nits but I was looking at her trying to figure out all the double lines on the map and it's not adjacent but it is. Okay. Okay. Then I would just reiterate again, this is the type of housing that we're trying to draw. We've made some changes to our code to make this kind of housing possible. And bring that attainable middle housing into the market. I have a nephew who has a nurse a couple of years out of school. he just bought a similar house to this not the same builder but something similar in Commer City and reunion. That's who we're targeting. That's what we're trying to accomplish. Although given the yard work that I just had to do, I'm also ready to move down to something like this that's easier to maintain. maintain. This is our target. This is what we're trying to achieve. And so I appreciate the developer and I appreciate the staff for going through the work to bring this possibility to us as the council. And I'm appreciative of orchard church wanting to bring that level of affordability and looking for the right developer for somebody to purchase the property from them. So I think we've hit that target. And I was concerned about parking along Thunderhawk, and I do believe that the count of parking spaces is more than I had expected, and certainly satisfy where I had concerns, especially for 120th, not being a street that you can park along. So thank you. All right. And then Council Member Green. Thank you, Mayor. Mr. McCann, thank you for the detailed presentation. Very good. One of the members of the public mentioned a traffic study. Can we elaborate a little bit on that traffic study? I'm more concerned within one of the digital comments we had talked about it, the pressure on 120th in Highway 85, which I drive by that corner a lot, probably at least six times a week. And I see how really difficult it can be to navigate that intersection coming from 120th and given that you're only gonna be able to turn right right out of South Orchard way, it would seem that you're feeding a lot more cars to that 120th and highway 85 intersections. So we talked a little bit about that traffic study, please. Yeah, I guess as it pertains to 120th and 85, I think that that probably would be better for one of the engineers to talk a little bit more about that traffic study So we do also have our assistant director Christopher Montoya. We can speak about it I know that the applicant also has their traffic engineer present. I would welcome you to one of them and again I do appreciate the developer pointing out the additional parking spaces that we had concerned about so I appreciate that but Let's hear a little bit about the traffic, please Yeah, come on over and be sure to state your name. Good evening, my name is Chris McGrannahan, LSC Transportation Consultants, 18 E9 York Street Denver, Colorado, 80206. Our firm did do the traffic study for the Kestrel Development. We've got a great exhibit on the screen. You can see on the south end, the south of the exhibit, you see 120th Avenue. The eastern access is the south orchard way. That is planned as a three quarter movement. So if you're on 120th Avenue, you go turn left into our project or right into our project. When you're coming out of our project, you'd only be able to go right 120th or to the west. On Southwest corner of our project, you'll see the big traffic signal symbol there. That's an existing traffic signal. And this project will be making some improvements at that intersection and then be participating in the overall improvements, as was mentioned earlier. So any of our residents that want to go east could turn left or east on 120th from Pury Street. So that's how our folks would do that. And then up at the Northern intersection on Pury and Thunderhawk, that's a stop sign controlled intersection. Obviously the traffic is a lot lower up there than it is on 120th. And then obviously you can go east on Thunderhawk into the school property which we know that wouldn't be somewhere we would normally have our residents go. It's just connectivity. And so the traffic study does have a lot of improvements. It shows we worked with staff. We got a couple different iterations of the study to does have a lot of improvements. It shows we worked with staff. We had a couple of different iterations of the study to address staff's concerns. And so I'm not sure if that fully answers your questions, but that kind of went through all the major access points and that you know we that wasn't something we just submitted to staff when they accept that it was a back and forth process over a couple of semitals. So in the fact staff supports the project shows that they support traffic study too. So I haven't happened to answer any other questions if there's something I didn't hit on. I think one other thing that I would want to add is that between where this parcel is and 85, there is a large part of unincorporated land. And so that is a challenge. We don't have the right of way to really be able to to make improvements like as you come to 85. So that's that's kind of another challenge with it. It's challenge, but it's also we're feeding right onto it. So again, it's something this we can't just keep kicking down the road. And I'm also a little bit concerned about a left turn on 120 of the South-Earthurtway, which is busy, is that can get in the morning and the like. I don't know what look. a little bit concerned about a left turn on 120th to South Urchard Way, which is busy as that can get in the morning and the like. I don't know what kind of impact that's going to have on the traffic. Well, the traffic signal currently, if you're South on a Peoria, you do not have a left turn lane. I'm talking about Orchard. So if you're trying to turn left from Peoria on to 120th, then that one left turning vehicle blocks, blocks everyone behind them from doing anything. Part of the improvements we were talking about is striping, building a little bit of widening and a left turn lane there. So. 20th and that one left turning vehicle blocks, blocks everyone behind them from doing anything. Part of the improvements we were talking about is striping a little bit of widening and a left turn lane there. So in the future, before this project adds any traffic, there's gonna be some widening there and that intersection will be opened up a little bit. So if someone's trying to turn left on 120th, they're not blocking through with the right turn traffic, which will dramatically cut back on the QA. So that's something that this project can do. And this project is obviously filling in all the areas around itself. And so in the future, if someone develops to the West, they can build on what we've done. So that's the intent. Thank you. I think I heard a couple other questions that you had so I can see if I can clarify those. You mentioned 120th and US 85. It's obviously a regional roadway and highway. When you look at traffic volume impacts, of course, to add a few extra trips, but largely a lot of the trips are on US 85 and 120th itself intersecting. Contributes a lot of your delays because you have to make 85 priority. It's a highway. Should have never been signalized. A lot of their long term plans basically say, remove signals on 85. There's long term plans for 120 for that to be an overpass. They've made studies, made some plans, actually started a purchase of right away. Still a large amount of funding that's required. They're seeking additional grants and it's been a continuous process for quite some time now. Regarding the total volume, I was trying to pull it really quick but if you give me one second, give you an idea of how much traffic's on 85. And so Dr. Cobb publishes traffic data. It's live to anybody who can go online and pull it. About 40, 1000 cars daily as of 2021 on US 85. So it's the dominant controller. Overall the trips you want to analyze the intersections there. They're so micro minimal to the overall intersection at the end of the day. that you ever wait that dead stop oh yeah so you know. It's been a while, okay? The worst one, well the development traffic, right? The intersection does have failures quite a bit. Mostly in peak hours. And it's the Westbound left turn going on to 120. Don't go that way, Find another way. You did mention one question just about the turn pocket from 120 attorney in. Generally that turn pocket will function in a good level of service other than probably a peak traffic. It will move cars out of the way for the left turn into the subdivision so that those impacts are not blocking eastbound traffic. And all the improvements that are shown and associated with this development are to mitigate their traffic impacts and then their contribution to traffic impact fees are for regional impacts that are more negligible across the board. Perfect. Thank you very much. And just one quick up day I'll share it and take advantage of the opportunity. 120 did recently have a safety study. What I can maybe do is send those copies just to show that information. It'd be something interesting since this corridor comes up quite a bit. They're going to have they have an immediate action plan, which will be pedestrian driven. And then there'll be a midterm long term plans as well. But I'd be more than happy to share that since it's pretty recent and it was a joint multi-agency project so sorry to bring that up. Thank you Mr. Montoya just like a politician take advantage of that mic right? All right next council member worth. Thank you Mayor. In our first presentation that we got some feedback on who would be maintaining this this neighborhood looks like it's gonna have beautiful parks beautiful roads and who's gonna who's gonna be in charge of that is that also gonna be Metro district yeah so all the roads that are highlighted in orange on here those will be public roads so those will be city owned and maintained anything that is in in yellow and all of the parks, all of the ponds, all of that will be privately owned and maintained by a metro district or HOA or something like that. And the parks parks as well. Parks as well. Yes. Thank you. Questions. Thanks for clarifying. And then council member blosky. Thank you. Thank you mayor. Well When I started serving this term in in 2022 At that time I was represented with Dr. Cog and At one of the meetings that was discussed what we were going to be doing with 85 and 120th. Now Commerce City, Adams County, 27J, Brighton, and I honestly think Thornton should be in this too for manufacturers for improving widening whatever because they in order to get to the airport they use 120th, all their residents. But at that time, or at the beginning, we were told they were in the process, the state of purchasing all the right-of-way and property around that. And I heard before I got replaced by the mayor for Dr. Cog, because I was too darned to hold a driving downtown at night, was that all the property had been purchased. So I think that we need to get our entities together and scream and yell and get something done. Everybody says, oh yeah, it's ready, it's there, but nobody's doing anything. So if we're gonna make something happen, I think we as cities and councils need to get something moving to get something done more safely with that intersection. So thank you Mayor. I agree and also we have our ad Cog sub regional meeting coming up soon and that is one area that will be discussed. So you know, yeah, yes, pound in the sand. All right, I think that's I'll sign up to speak here. Real quick, just as a comment, I was on a housing tour last year by the HBA and I didn't get to stop by the Erie Commons and so I did get a hands-on look at it before you're an applicant by the way. I did get a hands-on look of this kind of finished projects. So I'm excited for it. It looks like it'll be a great addition to the greater Brighton area. When I say greater Brighton area, it goes beyond our city incorporated boundaries because I know that area is definitely affected by other entities that are not calling themselves Brighton. So with that, I'm going go ahead and close the public hearing. And this is before Council for consideration. Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you. Yes, I'll move item 9B. And then Council member Fiddler. Thank you, Mayor. Happy to second. We have a first and second to approve item six B. Did you say nine? Oh, make that six B. All right six B and then you can carry council member. Second. Second. All right, thank you. And I'm going to go ahead and call for a recess and we will reconvene around 753. 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 room. I'm going to Council of the City of Brighton Colorado adopting article 2-33 of the Brighton Municipal Code related to the creation of a Sustainability Board and this is a first reading city manager Martinez Thank mayor here to present this item is our sustainability coordinator Tracy McClain Just think Tracy thought we were going to punt this. I did not think that. All right. Good evening. Is this on? Good evening Mayor Mayor Pro Tem and members of council. It is so wonderful to be here with you this evening. Tonight I'm going to take you through a brief presentation about the new proposed sustainability advisory board. All right, so on the agenda, I will provide you with just a brief overview of the sustainability division, some of the accomplishments that we had in 2024. Some of the major projects will be working on in 2025. And then I will jump into the sustainability advisory board, the purpose and the structure of that board, and then I'll leave some room at the end for any questions you might have. All right. So jump and write into it. So in 2024, the Sustainability Department had a few achievements that I wanted to highlight. So first, a significant one was that we adopted our first sustainability plan. So that's just basically going to be a blueprint of all of our sustainability programming over the next five years. We also sent out our first community-wide sustainability survey. It was our first temperature check of the community to gather feedback on the community's priorities. And those were also included in the sustainability plan. We also received some recognition in 2024. So we worked with the streets department and United Power on the Streetlight LED conversion project and won a sustainability award through the American Public Works Association. And then we just recently won a Community Leadership Award through DriveClean, Colorado, for our efforts in advancing clean transportation across the community. 2025 is gonna be an even busier year. So I'm just going to highlight a few of the projects that we're working on, but I'm happy to talk about a more comprehensive list if you like. First thing that we're working on is we're gonna to be working with Excel Energy through their partners in energy program to do the city's first community-wide energy action plan. We were also one of the cities that was accepted into the 2025 lead for cities cohort that we'll be launching here soon. At the end of that certification process, the city will achieve silver lead designation, which is exciting. And then of course, we will be working on a sustainability advisory board, which I'll be talking about more in the next few slides. And then also we will have ongoing events and educational opportunities for the community. We just hosted our first regional Earth Day event. So more to come on, some of the other events will be hosting later in the community. We just hosted our first regional Earth Day event, so more to come on some of the other events will be hosting later in the year. Okay. So why a sustainability advisory board? Well, you just saw on the previous slide sustainability division is working on quite a few projects in 2025, and we just anticipate that that workload is going to continue to grow. We're also always looking for meaningful ways to engage the community and the work that we're doing and provide some much needed support and input from the community. So first and foremost, this really demonstrates our commitment to community engagement, which really is at the heart of what we try to accomplish in the sustainability division. Very similar to our other boards and commissions, they will be tasked with studying, reviewing, conducting research and making recommendations on sustainability programs and initiatives. We also have a lot of sustainability leadership in the community, so we want to leverage that in an official way to help with these initiatives and events. And then also this just creates a space for us to exchange ideas and develop strategies with the community and to discuss what the sustainability needs and gaps and services are in the community. And then all of these members will have work plans so that they will have a specific focus on what they'll be advising on. So now getting into the structure of the board, so structure is as follows. So one council member non-voting. It will also include seven voting members, two of those will be youth members. These members must either live in the city or have significant ties to the city, for example, work in the city or go to school in the city, etc. These members will also have three-year terms with four consecutive term limits, so that means four terms in a row. They will, we will meet monthly once a month, similar to our other boards and commissions, and then I will act as the staff liaison acting secretary. So with that, staff recommends approval to proceed to final adoption, and with that I will turn it over for questions. Any questions? Mayor Putem. I was wondering if we could get that up to 17 members on the board. Six year terms. No, I think that's this is absolutely a message for us to indicate that we are investing in sustainability that this matters. It's a core principle for the city. We don't have very many boards of this nature for purpose. And so I think it's important and the time has come. So if the mayor will allow me to move forward to the motion since nobody else is. Yep. Then I properly this time move item 7a. Council Member Fiddler. Thank you mayor happy to second. There's a first and second to prove 7a. There's nothing else to discuss. Roll call vote. Motion passes 8-0. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Next item 8a and ordinance of the City Council of the City of Brighton Colorado approving the Singh property Zony map amendment for and approximately 10.59 Acre property generally located to the north of 120th Avenue to the south of east 121st place East of Wheeling Street and West Ophatomic Street more particularly located in the South East Quarter of section 36, Township 1 South, Rain 67 West of the 6th Principal Meridian, City of Brighton, County of Adams, State of Colorado, City Manager Martinez. Thank you, Mayor. As indicated, this is a final reading. Staff is available for questions, but we do not have any additional presentations at this time. All right, this is the final reading. If there's no other questions, we'll entertain motions. Council member Green. Is there any member of the public that wanted to speak on this? Oh, sorry. I'm glad you said that. I almost overlooked that. There are two people sign up to speak on this before we go forward with motions. Art Lambaugh, one up art. State your name for the record. You'll have three minutes. My name is Art LeBocke. Thank you all very much for letting me speak tonight. So we were here at this meeting in April 15th. I want to address a few things that City Council had mentioned. City Council member had stated that in the past meeting that a 20-year promise didn't meet anything. I think that everyone's spouse would be interested to hear about that. But they do, if you've relied on those promises. After almost 15 years ago, after the PUD was approved, they had been requesting to the city staff to build a gas station in our backyard, which the city staff continuously told them they would never allow them to do. In 2024, Denver passed an ordinance that doesn't allow a gas station to be built with a quarter mile of another gas station or 300 feet of low intensity residential. So Denver doesn't allow it but it think would be appropriate for us not to allow the same type of thing. The last city council meeting, one of the city council members that the state that the loss of the Tomahawk gas station was a negative thing for the city of Brighton, but it's ironic that the land that the Tomahawk sits on can't be built on for years because of leaking underground gas tanks. We also want to But it's ironic that the land that the Tom Oaxitzon can't be built on for years because of leaking underground gas tanks. We also want to make a comment that the comprehensive plan states, your own comprehensive plan, states that quote, Rural state property should retain their low density and large lot character with a buffer zoning from surrounding developments." Not a single zoning district between the neighboring Adams County or Brighton itself has any rural estate zoning next to a commercial district, not one. In fact, the zoning approved at 124th in Potomac has a buffer of R2 zoning next to the Adams County rural estate zoning. The Kestrel area that we just saw today has essentially R1 zoning next to Adams County rural estate. Why are we the neighbors not afforded the same protections as every other location in our area? Why is our neighborhood being treated differently? Quote, staff would not support entirely commercial zoning as it does not align with the comp-plant designation end quote October 2nd 2023 by Summoner McCann in a open records request. Why did the city staff say they would support an entirely commercial zoning that doesn't go against the comprehensive plan? In March of 2025, the commercial vacancy report shows that there are 14 vacant C2 sites totaling 27 acres. This doesn't even count the C2 and 3 C zoning in the 120th corridor in the same exact intersection. Our property values can expect to decrease significantly, 40% or more with a commercial designation, even when it's not been developed. At the last meeting, a council member, something about NIMBY, not in my backyard. We actually are fine with things in our backyard. We work with them on the PUD. What we don't agree with is that mixing residential and commercial, I'm sure the difference, I'd like you to post this, thank you. Thank you, Art. And next, Natalia Finley, come on up. Stay your name. You all three minutes. Natalia Finley. So we did want to come and just make some final comments. We're hoping that you'll take this into consideration. Although I know that it's hard to change a vote once you've already approved it, but there is a chance to possibly change it right now. So some of the things I wanted to mention was, we tried to bring this up in the last meeting, but I don't know, maybe it was kind of pushed under the rug, but the neighborhood meeting requirement notice was not adequate. You did hear, someers say that the mail that went out was addressed to the wrong zip code, so neighbors didn't receive that neighborhood meeting. I was one of those neighbors. I didn't receive a neighborhood meeting notice. I didn't get to participate in that and that wasn't considered or on file. Then the applicants changed their zoning from the original neighborhood meeting, which was in March or May of 2024. and sometime between that date and August of that year, they changed it from mixed use residential and commercial to just commercial. They were required to have another neighborhood meeting to talk about the zoning change, which changed the entire zoning to C2. There was no neighborhood meeting notice for that. That was kind of just brushed under the rug as well. We also sent notice of this city staff that the required public notice for the public hearing that was supposed to take place on March 4th that the notice was down and it was down for approximately a week. We took photographs off the public hearing notice being down for a week. Some are said she was going to tell the applicants to put their sign back up or fix that and that never happened. The sign never went back up and the sign was down for almost a week before the public hearing notice. They have a duty to maintain the sign in good fate, which leaving it down for a week, I think would be hard to say it was a good fate effort. Also, as you know, the Comprehensive Plan, this is not an alignment with it. The Comprehensive Plan shows PUD and the future land use map shows it as mixed use residential, which would be more appropriate next to rural estate residential. We've also told you that the PUD has expired and the properties actually residential estate also. As a residential estate property, they're supposed to keep it that way and they're supposed to have buffers between residential, rural estate properties and big development, which were not being afforded that that requirement. I also want to say the city didn't comply with CRS 31-23-225. That's requiring notice to be sent out to the appropriate agencies when a commercial development of five acres or more is being proposed. I suspect that notice never went out because they changed their application just in the middle of nowhere and that requirement I'm sure didn't go out because of that reason. I also want to state that the recommendations of any professional staff or advisory review bodies are supposed to be taken into consideration. The Planning Commission said no, and this, the professional staff actually has said no multiple times, and now they flip-flopped. Before they said no, not appropriate, and then for some unexplained reason they're saying yes. So we're hoping you change your opinion and change your vote, please, thank you. Thank you, Natalia. Does anybody have any question follow up before we go on motions? Make sure you're 40 of that opportunity with public comment. Next motions, council member green. Thank you Mayor, I remain unchanged. I vote to approve item eight. Eight. I motion to approve item eight. Okay. Then council member today. Thank you member. I'll second that. There's a first and a second to approve 8A. If there's nothing else to discuss, roll call vote. Motion passes 7 to 1. All right. Thank you. And then next item 9 B, a resolution of the City Council of the City Brighton Colorado, approved the purchase of real property located at 151 South Main Street, Brighton Colorado, and authorizing the City Manager to execute documents related there too. City manager Martinez. Thank you Mayor. Paris Miller will be presenting this item with the city manager's office. Good evening Honorable Mayor and City Council. We are here to present on a potential property acquisition of 151 South Main Street. There it is, of course. And just to remind my name's Pierce Miller, I'm the management analyst management analyst in the City Manager's office. So with that, I will go ahead and get started. So just some first general information on this property. The location is 151 South of Manchester. As you can see here on the map, just for context, the 1886 church is directly north of this property. The building size on the property is approximately 1,152 square feet. You can see the view of it looking southwest cross main street as well as the other picture below looking north-west cross main street. And then another view of the building, which is the rear view. And then... looking north-west cross main street and then another view of the building which is the rear view and then kind of a larger view looking north east across Pavilion's place is the rear view where you can also see the parking lot in this and the purchase price of the building would be or or the property would be $497,500. And really the purpose of this acquisition is, for the idea of is to relocate the city's museum from historic city hall to the site, the goal would be really to maximize this space as well as the 1886 church that asset is just north adjacent to this building and capitalize on the location of the building being downtown. And with that, I'll present the options for the council which would be to approve the resolution for the property acquisition or reject the resolution for property acquisition. And with that, I will now turn it to council for discussion. Thank you. Thank you for your presentation. I like it was shortened to the point. Oftentimes, I'm not always a fan of purchasing, but I mean, purchasing just a purchase, but I do see the global benefit to this. And so I am warm to it so far. We have members that wanna speak, Council Member, today. Thank you. I just wanted to say I'm very excited about this. I think it's been a long time coming. I'm excited for the museum. I'm excited for the residents because we do need to hang on to our history and to know where we came from. And I think this location is going to be ideal for maximum exposure for more people to enjoy what we have and for them to also increase, you know, what they what what what what people can see. So I'm much in favor of this. Real quick Pierce, how long has this been on the market? This property, do you know? I can answer that. City Manager Martinez. Well, technically it hasn't been on the market for sale for a time. We've been in discussions with the with the property owner for potential purchase for a few months, but the building itself is set vacant. If that's probably the better answer to the question that you're asking. It's been vacant for quite some time at least five years. So for the time it's been vacant, it has not been officially listed. I think I thought it's been listed all this time. No, it hasn't been listed. In fact, it was purchased by the current owner to put a business for his daughter, I believe, into the building. And over time, that just has a materialized. All right. Well, this way it will be an active productive building in the community again. Council member, today, oh. I'd like to move to approve the property acquisition of 151 South. So 9b? Yes, thank you. I couldn't think of the number. Council member Polowski. Before I seconded I just want to say what I like about this concept is we're going to be creating an area where there'll be a lot of people visiting it and there's great parking all around there in west of that The solitude so I think that's gonna I think that's very smart. So I'd like to second the motion All right, there is a first and second to prove this purchase item 9b. No other discussion? Roll call vote. Motion passes 8-0. Thank you. Next item 11a, the Ward 1 vacancy discussion. The elephant in the room so obviously Councilmember Johnston resigned recently due to him relocating out of state and right now the Ward one vacancy is open. I know that term does expire at the end of this year. And so what we choose to do with it, we could fill it. We could go to a special election, although that wouldn't be wise with a short time frame to the next election. Or we can let it stay vacant until the next person is elected in November. So I'll entertain thoughts, Mayor Pro Tem. Thank you. Yes. I asked residents in a number of different forums, different areas, what they would recommend we do. And of course, the first one that I would agree is not logical and we should take off the table is a special election. By the time we could coordinate a special election and get somebody selected, it would be time to run again. And in fact, we might not even finish naming somebody before they would have to pull out the paperwork for the November election. So I think that should not happen. The vast majority of advice that I had was to leave this seat vacant for the November election, that we are elected by ward, but we actually work pretty hard to represent the entirety of the city once we're here. So ward one is not going without representation. At the City Council meetings, we are all looking out for the northeast quadrant of the city and naming somebody in the meantime might create a challenge or or signify a favorite on the part of this council immediately before an election this fall. So my opinion is that we should go with that that advice that I received and leave the seat vacant for the November election. Besides our Ward 1 representative is good at filling all kinds of positions. So with that, council member Green. Well, no, I'm not gonna sing him back because I like the mayor. No, I agree that I think that creating an incumbent bestows some power of incumbency on an election that I do think is unfair. I agree that we represent the city as a whole that I don't think that Ward 1 is underrepresented at this point. Then there was some discussion about maybe we appoint somebody but they can't run on the fall and I don't believe we can put that restriction on someone and There's nothing to say that they might enjoy serving and decide they want to run and so I Think there's just too many pitfalls for us to a point and I I Agree with Mayor Pro Temp That I think leaving it vacant. I don't think does it to service to the city bright andon until the November election when we'll hopefully have a new one. And there are some of us that might live near the boundaries award one too. So here you go. So I entertain any sort of decision that you want to make at this time. I mean, it sounds like we're leaning towards just let it be vacant, but I'll go with what the members want to do. Council member green. If emotions required, I move that we will leave the word one vacancy seat vacant until the November election decides who the next word one can. Councilor will be. All right. So the motion is to leave this vacant until the next general election in November, which is next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. The next one. this seat vacant for the rest of the year. Book all though. Motion passed. First and second to keep this seat vacant for the rest of the year. We'll call the motion passes 8-0. All right. Now it's decided. Next is reports. I want to report by the mayor. A couple of weeks ago, I had my NADA meeting, the North Area Transit Alliance. We had a discussion about the ongoing improvements that we've had for decades on I-25. We had a Commissioner from Weld County come down and talked to us about the improvements they advocated for to the, you know, the Weld County side of I-25 to the North and how we can advocate for the Adams County side too. I know I-25 does not touch in a brighten, but the majority of residents somehow use I-25 or are affected by I-25. So it's important that we have representation and a say on how the improvements should go there. The past couple of weeks, I've been to the United Power Annual Meeting. My church did a teacher appreciation which went fantastic a couple weeks ago. Economic development had their development summit a couple weeks ago as well. We had our ad cog quarterly meeting here in Brighton We hosted just last week at the new municipal service center Food for Hope had a event at our armory so they came here to Brighton And I went to that last what was that last Thursday I think The speak walk went well. I was able to walk that Didn't need a golf cart. I was good. I needed my steps that day. We're good. After doing all that yard work and getting 10,000 steps before my walk, I did the walk. So, all right. And then I was at, I briefly made an appearance of the 27J Foundation lunch, and I was late due to some personal matters I had to take care of that morning. And this more or today, earlier today, I went to the Home Builders Association housing summit, and one of our very own developers was on a panel there, and he had some very good comments to say about what challenges there are here in the state compared to neighboring states that he has developments in. All right, coming up is the, let's see, the Adams County open space breakfast is tomorrow morning. If anybody wants to go, they usually have a great award ceremony early in the morning at the dome. The Arbor Day tree planning will be at Penock. Remember Penock this year not Bromley East, like we've had how many years ago. That's coming up this week. Almost Tom has their Havana nights and I heard there might be lunch at Olive Garden here in town at the end of this week. So a lot of great things to get ready for, summers upon us soon. You see a lot more events in our community and look forward to supporting those as well. Just so you know in two weeks, I know we usually have our council meeting on the third Tuesday in the month, but 27J decided to have the Brighton High School graduation that night and I have a senior. So I will be to that instead of our meeting in two weeks. But I'll be here for the study session at least. So next reports by any department directors. We have none this evening. Thank you. All right. Reports by our city attorney. And none this evening. Thank you. Reports by our city manager, including the board and vacancy updates. Yes, the always popular board and vacancy updates. So for those of you who haven't seen the report, we do have a ward one planning commission member vacant, but I do know that we have at least one applicant, two applicants, one applicant. Ward two. Did I say Ward one? My apologies. We have one Ward two opening. I'm reading from my phone, my laptop died, so I can't see it. So my apologies. We also have two Burah members. I know that there are also folks interested in that. We have one member and one alternate member of the Historic Preservation Commission open, one member and two alternates for Brighton Housing Authority, and two district plan commission members open. So if you're interested, the information is on our website on how to apply for these board and commission vacancies. And I would strongly encourage anybody who's interested in getting involved in our community to do that. You're right. We will have breadsticks and zupa-tuskana on the 12-end of May according to the sign. And it will be the ninth for us but I believe the 12-end is when they're opening according to their sign. They did replace that banner. I noticed last time over. They did it finally. Yeah. They haven't seen it. They fixed it. So the 12th they will be opening on the 12th, but I guess it's not a secret anymore in and out. It's expected to open later this week as well. So I dare you to get bread sticks, pasta, and a double double animal style in the same meal. And if anybody wants to buy that for me, I'll eat that too. The last thing that I will share this evening is, it's really cool to see people like Sue getting the recognition they deserve. I tell this to my staff a lot that I'm fortunate to be the city manager during a time where we have some fantastic people in this community who have been in this community and served this community for so long who are good role models and good examples for us who are really in the middle of our careers as city leaders. And so, you know, I live amongst giants with some of the folks here and it's fantastic to see somebody like Sue get the recognition that she deserves because without her, the Eagle View Adult Center would not be anything near what it is now and she deserves the recognition that she's received tonight. So with that, thank you. You know, witnessing Sue's face when it dawned on her that this building's gonna be named after her was priceless. It was just, I wish we had a camera pointing to the crowd to see that, because I had a perfect view of it. But I don't think it was capturing the crowd. So her face specifically, it was priceless. And by the way, if we pull into in and out, should we ask for a double, double on the breadstick bun? Will that satisfy both sides? I feel there's a collaboration in the making here. You should talk to somebody about that. Yeah. All right. Next, Reports by Assistant Council. I'll start with Council Member Poloski. Thank you, Mayor. Well, I've had a little busier time in since our last meeting. So I'll try to go over some things. I've been down to two meetings at E47A1 was an operations meeting and the other one is a foundation meeting and the foundation is where we give out all of what was announced the organizations that are receiving the 5,500 scholarships or whatever they call them for safe driving for you know to purchase either Students that are in driver's training to help them with the fee which is quite expensive on the places that actually offer it I understand and then also they many of them buy Baby seats and they give them away to recipients in need I was able to attend the ad coggedcock dinner last week and that was very good. I also was invited to read our proclamation that we passed its national day of prayer as Thursday. And tomorrow I have a parks and record board reading and then Thursday back to E470 again so I'm putting a lot of time in on E470 and I am looking forward to the ribbon cutting at Olive Garden on Friday and just to remind everyone the ribbon cutting and opening that we attend open to the public the 12th as a city manager just said so thank you very much. Alright, now it's a member worth. Thank you Mayor. I had a pretty busy couple of weeks here. I represented the city of Brighton pretty much at the ACM CYA Awards, Youth Awards at Over in Westminster and that was a really nice event. That one's one of those that always has me in tears. As these kids are just amazing, have come through amazing challenges to succeed. The BYC had their speak week last week, all of last week. One of the things they've really wanted to do because it affects their lives so greatly is have something about gun violence. And so they hosted the ceasefire group to come in, give a presentation over at the armory. Neat thing about that was it wasn't, hey, we need to take all your guns away and change everything. It's, it's, how can we be safer? How can we just be safer with it? And so, hope presentation on that. I thought it was very well received. And then they had their speak walk, as you mentioned, on Saturday, last Saturday. And that was really a tremendous success. A lot of people I heard registered for it. We were going up against some pretty stiff competition as both the nuggets and the avalanche had a game seven. And so I heard plenty of people say, yeah, I registered, but don't weigh in heck was I gonna go out and walk? I was gonna watch my nuggets. So anyway, I still had a decent size crowd. Got good support from volunteers from around the area. The kids did a phenomenal job of carrying it out and really believe in the message that they're trying to get out there. Had good support from the police department who helped us out. Make sure we can stay safe. So it was really a great event all around. And certainly the, I would actually not even sure which department, probably all of them that are helping make that event successful, but I know parks are actually involved. And anyway, it was a really great event. So thank you. Thank you. And thank you for helping represent with our youth. It's great that you do that. Council member Green Green. Oh thank you Mary. I got just a whole long list of this. I spoke before the troop 109 Scouts on government and I really enjoyed that and there it's had a lot of good questions about it too. So it was really a nice interactive session. Of course 27J Education Foundation luncheon. The Adams County Earth Day celebration which was was really a nice thing of first annual and I think that's only gonna grow and they'll do it more next year. Speak week, I'd like to give a shout out to that golf cart driver, Lloyd. The adcock dinner, the food for hope celebration was very nice, their birthday, it was their 10th birthday. So they've been around 10 years and they do great things for our schools, including giving lunch kits for the weekend for kids and overnight and stuff like that. So they really help out those disadvantaged youth. I'd like to give a shout out to the trash bash. Thank you very much. You got rid of that oven that was sitting in my garage for three years. Thank you. I'm just glad that we do that. And it was very busy. And I had to take mine for me. But he said that the line was all the way out to Cooner Road when they tried to arrive there. But it moved quickly once you got in there. So it was very, very busy. I feel for the Prath Center and the Traffic Jam that's going to be upcoming. I hope that they'll bear with us and appreciate what we're bringing to the community, rather than be frustrated with the traffic is going to be terrible there. I can just imagine. I too will not be here on the 20th because I got to give speeches at those graduations. Sorry, Mayor, you're going to have to hear me again. Look forward to it. Yeah, and then I had the pleasure of the Brighton High School senior were doing tree planting at the Bromley Farms there and they put out 30 plus trees all around the farm there that's going to be growing and I encourage these kids to check back Maybe next year in a couple years and name their tree and come back and visit And your son Cooper was out there too, so and that was that was very nice So I really appreciated that and that's all yep dropped him off that Friday morning Thank you. Thank you for representing over there All right count some member today. Thank you mayor I to talk about the things that these two didn't talk about. Thank God. I had to supervise them. Lloyd talked about the police being there to help us. And I had to be there to supervise them from not getting arrested and pulled over by the police officer that turned his lights on. No then of course, Tom Green needed to be supervised. So I was also able to attend the EDC summit, which was just an abundance of information and very, very good summit this year, very informational. What else do you do? Oh, the speak week, but I didn't walk the whole thing. You've heard of it. I'll admit week, but I didn't walk the whole thing. You've ever met. I'll admit it, but I had to supervise. Notice I let you go before Peter. Thank you. Mayor Brontan, go ahead. Sure. I was thinking about longevity as staff and people being around when we were talking about coffee and coffee, sorry, Sioux Corbett, and 35 years here. And looking at the directors and the folks who are about the back of the room, I actually hope that we're still seeing Shannon here at 30 years. I hope that we're seeing Travis here at 30 years. I'm hoping that Kristen is here, that Pierce is here and maybe one day as a city manager. We have an incredible staff all the way up and down the chain and this is a place I think the people now want to stay for a length of time and are not going to be easily tempted away from. So I believe that we have great potential for that. That's right. We will name the inside of the new police department for him. Yes. So a couple of things. I also attended the trash bash. We went to the trash bash. I actually had a quarter of eight in the morning and they let us in. So they decided, hey, we're already here. It's open. People are going to be lining up. That's just one of the best events of the year. First, because it allows us the ability to get rid of all of that stuff that's sitting around that waste management won't pick up. But it also keeps us from having those things on the on and off ramps at the highway. And it keeps us from having things dumped just at random. So I'm looking forward to the next version of that. I think we could do that quarterly and people would love that. I appreciate also the fact that Mike Miles was posting photos of what was going on. So the social media control coming out of public works is amazing. And hopefully other departments are picking up on that and starting to put out what they're doing as well. This Saturday was helped for home. So as Sue mentioned, we had 14 different homes for senior citizens in town that we were able to do some pretty significant work on, mostly painting and pulling weeds and getting stuff out of behind sheds and such, and wrote me into that and then didn't go. But it was, it's a great project. I appreciate the, again, the amount that we're able to do for residents are in the community, keeping them also proud of their homes. That is a component of affordability as keeping people in their homes. So on the themes of affordability, the Brighton Housing Authority meeting was this last week. And most of our conversation is around how to be creative with continuing funding. It's roughly $380,000 a month of funding that comes from HUD into the community for housing, for things that we own, for rent subsidies that we have for Section eight or or housing choice vouchers for veterans assistance and roughly a third of HUD is now gone. So looking at how do we make sure that we keep not only those people in their homes, but those people who own those apartments complexes so that they still own them and their mortgages and their insurance. The housing authority is looking at how can we be creative with the funding that is available and the responsibilities that we have in the community to maintain what we have to keep people housed and to build more of it. So not figured out how we're going to address all of those challenges, but the staff is being very creative in approaching that. address all of his challenges, but the staff is being very creative in approaching that. Also on the theory theme of affordable housing and homelessness, the I will all mention this, but almost homes. Annual gala is this Friday night, and this is one of the best events of the year in my opinion, but it also is one of those things that keeps almost home, which is a local and homegrown charity where we need to have more of our funding come from the people in the community, because again, too much of what we're dependent on to keep people housed and to get people back into housing is dependent on those federal grants that are very insecure at the moment. This is last one on my list. Next week is the Platt Valley Community Health Discussions where we're looking at what is the state of health in the community, public health, what do we need to do? How does Platt Valley help contribute to that in the community? They have their foundation chip that makes significant contributions, But they look at the overall health of the community, look at from a policy perspective, and from a hospital perspective, what can they do? I'll be representing the city at that event. And that should keep us busy for a little while, and we'll stay really healthy by having more breadsticks. Thanks. Thank you. Council Member Fiddler. Thank you, Mayor to share that hasn't been shared already. Thank you. Okay. Councilman. Oh my goodness. Sorry. Let's get let's get really good at this then. I'll do my Tom Green radio voice. A van a night spring out of homelessness benefit. Feel the rhythm and join the cause. Emmerce yourself in a night of tropical energy, vibrant music and powerful community impact while supporting almost homes, mission and homelessness. Sibon Handcrafted Cocktail cocktails, saver, delicious Cuban inspired dinner, enjoy the beats of a vanna. Been on exciting treasures in our in our live and silent auctions. Let's come together to community to make a difference together and buy a raffle tickets. That good. That's great. Right now. Council member Snyder. I'd ready to buy right now. Councilmember Snyder. Well, I'd like to report you've all made me feel a little guilty as hard as you worked. I spent the last 13 days in Florida doing absolutely nothing. But I'm glad to be back with you. I'm arrested so you'll get some work out of me next week. Hey, we all got to get away once in a while. So good job. We know you represent when you are here. That's it. See you next week. We are adjourned.