Speaker 2: And I got my questions answered via email and I'll be following up after this. So with the extension just going until December and a commitment that there will be an RFP and a competitive bid process. I feel I feel okay about going forward with this tonight.
Speaker 0: Okay. Thank you very much. Madam Secretary, please, with the next item on our screens and council member, can each of you please put Councilor 115 on the floor?
Speaker 1: Yes, I move that council bill 20 115 consideration and.
Speaker 0: Thank you has been moved and seconded. Questions and comments by members of council can go back to Councilmember CdeBaca. Go ahead.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. President. Called this one out because of some issues with the process. It was an early vacation in a challenging area of town, and I say challenging to refer to the traffic pattern of the area. This is right near 38, then one underpass where we have several one ways that back up and create. Really difficult situations for the neighbors and people trying to get through this area. This alley has often been used by people to turn around and go the other direction when there are substantial backups. It was closed off a while back, kind of as a foregone conclusion that.
Speaker 1: We would.
Speaker 2: Be passing this vacation tonight. And so I personally wanted to go on record as voting no because I didn't think it was appropriate for them to block off this alley as a private alley before we voted on this. And it has been blocked off for weeks now with without us having approved this. So I'm going to go on record as a no tonight and encourage the applicant to make sure that this doesn't happen again in the future.
Speaker 0: All right. You don't remember? I don't see anybody else in the queue. So hold on. Let me check big screen here. Oh, Councilman Ortega, you got to. Hold on. There you go.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Mr. President. I just wanted to understand a little bit more about what is being proposed at that location. Is there an adjacent development that is looking to vacate.
Speaker 1: The alley that is.
Speaker 2: Part of the basis for why this request is coming.
Speaker 1: Forward?
Speaker 0: Thank you. Councilmember, I think we have in here. Can you speak to that? All right, come on up and I'll see if we can get you on here. Hold on. Just say it. And Councilmember Ortega, if you can mute your audio. Well, the questions answered and then unmute if there's another follow up. And if you could, you could speak right into that microphone so everybody can hear you. Thank you, John. I know the president is located across the street from the site here. This is our development. For those who remember the city council last year, you may remember these on this property council articles. I just want to say that we are building a grocery here. This is a food desert and your grocery store in this district, in order to pull off the construction of a grocery store, we had to acquire a state highway. How do we know those neighborhood record streets? So we acquire that street at our own expense. And now we need to go forward with squaring off the street and how they got their comments and questions exactly right. It is a very dangerous intersection. It's a very dangerous place because we have a one way street in both directions. Street is one way street. So in addition to building his grocery store, we are going to be converting down the street. And there is pretty much work that street, bicycle safety two way street. And so the 2009 area plan that was adopted by a previous city council. So we're providing a grocery store to alleviate your fixing the very basic infrastructure that it's very, very dangerous. We're also working on providing over a hundred jobs. I think we can all agree to jobs right now. And we're also going to provide affordable housing above and beyond what's required. Councilmember Ortega, if you're unmuted, any follow up.
Speaker 2: Or you could say just one last quick question. Does the city have any financial resources in the project? Either in the housing or in the commercial component of it. Just curious.
Speaker 0: Yeah. If I make a decision by May 28 to seek a private discussion with the Housing Department, it has to be made in our company for the building. We will be asking for some collaboration with the city. But if we go to the 80% EMI as part of the agreement, that will be in the contract. So if we're looking for a 60% in my situation, we are going to be working with the housing authority here in the cities to do something for us. But I don't have specifics on that. All right. Thank you. Maybe have a seat in that front row because we have one more person in the queue coming to us from a sunny day directly outside the Building Civic Center Park. Councilmember Glynn, go ahead. Thank you. I hope I can be heard there, Andy. Councilwoman CdeBaca mentioned that the alley has been blocked off. Do you have any explanation for how that happened? You can't block off a public right of way without a permit or some such. What's been going on there? Now, the only thing I can't think of your question is only been locked temporarily for demolition. We have begun demolition. We have a demolition permanently begun demolition of this project. And I have to say this, but we need to get building. We've made a long time to get going this a long time to get our our demolition permanent north, to safely demolish the existing structures. We had to block off the alley, temporarily reopening anything. Okay. Mr. President, just an added comment is that when this was resolved about a year and a half ago, it was it was explicitly stated in the rezoning paperwork that not only would this alley and the little private alley that I think went in, probably in the forties when State Highway 33 was pushed through here, through this neighborhood and divided it the way it does with Lawrence Street and the Marion and Dowling couple, it's going right through that block. It was fully anticipated that these vacations would occur in order to finish off to implement the 38th in Blake Stationery, a plan, reunite those two blocks in the traditional grid. Now that state Highway 33 no longer goes through there. And so this includes not only the vacation of the alley that was originally part of the 1880 something Hyde Park subdivision, but also the little bitty alley on the west side. When the state put Lawrence Street through there, I think in the forties, they got a little private alley that goes through some of the private parcels there. And so this eventually when 36th Avenue is is is completed and the blocks are realigned the way they had been originally. This will restore the community back to what it was. And so I support I support this vacation as part of the plan that was anticipated back in a year and a half ago when the rezoning occurred. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember. Councilmember CdeBaca, I see your hand back up or you're back in the queue.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Just wanted to thank you, Mr. President. Wanted to go on record. I had a briefing with Dottie this morning, and there was no permit to no demolition permit that allowed the temporary closure of this. And it was also the understanding of community that that the squaring out of the block was going to happen before we got to this stage of the process, because now you don't have the squaring off and you have an even more challenging traffic situation in the area. And so that was why it's an issue and that's why I brought it up.
Speaker 0: All right. Thank you, Councilmember. I don't see anybody else in the queue. Right? Yeah. Come on. And Councilwoman, if I could just a your information we have to demolish the sites first in order to square Laurel Street to make it safer for the rest of the area. It could be to remove some utilities from the alley into Downing Street. And I believe that was part of your presentation today. All right. I don't see. Check the big screen. Make sure nobody's waving at me. Anybody else in the queue right now? So, Madam Secretary, roll call on 115.
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Speaker 0: Like.
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Speaker 0: Madam Secretary, please, before the voting announced the results.
Speaker 1: So that is one thing.
Speaker 0: Well, I's always one day count. Bill 115 has passed. That concludes the item to be called out this evening. All bills for introduction are published. Council members remember that this is a consent of up and you will need to vote as this is your last chance for an item of reciprocal jobs. The member can easily please put the resolutions for adoption and the bills on consideration or final passage on the floor.
Speaker 1: Yes, Mr. President, I move that resolutions be adopted and built on financial considerations. Final consideration, in fact, for the following items. 23 four 622 425, 20 1726, 27, 23, 1823, 29, 23, 30, 21, 95, two, 39, 23, 4420 302. 2308 2309.
Speaker 0: Thank you. Council Member It has been moved and seconded. Madam Secretary.
Speaker 1: But I more friendly. I mean, I swear I saw it. I see. I know.
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Speaker 0: I. Madam Secretary, please don't worry about the results. 3939 of the resolutions have been adopted and bills have been placed upon final consideration and do pass. Council will not take a recess this evening. And so, you know, the business before this by this meeting is adjourned.
A bill for an ordinance vacating two alleys bounded by East 36th Avenue, East 37th Avenue, Lawrence Street, North Marion Street, and North Downing Street, with reservations.
Vacates the alley running north/south and the adjacent L-shaped alley, bounded by East 37th Avenue, Lawrence Street, North Marion Street, East 36th Avenue and North Downing Street in Council District 9. Councilmember Herndon approved direct filing this item on 4-9-20.