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05/04/2010 - Minutes PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010 The City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah, met in Regular Session on Tuesday, May 4, 2010 at 7 : 00 p.m. in Room 315, City Council Chambers, City County Building, 451 South State . The following Council Members were present: Carlton Christensen Stan Penfold Luke Garrott Jill Remington Love Van Turner The following Council Members were absent: JT Martin Soren Simonsen Jennifer Bruno, Deputy Council Director; Edwin Rutan, City Attorney; David Everitt, Mayor' s Chief of Staff; and Beverly Jones, Deputy City Recorder; were present. Councilmember Love presided at and Councilmember Garrott conducted the meeting. OPENING CEREMONY #1 . 7 : 04 : 18 PM The Council led the Pledge of Allegiance. #2 . 7 : 04 : 40 PM Youth City Government presented the Youth State of the City report. Damian Choi, YouthCity Government, Employment and Teen Coordinator; Joel Organista, Emma Waitzman, Alexandra Nelson and Molly Pace presented the Youth State of the City report. #3. 7 : 17 :29 PM Councilmember Christensen moved and Councilmember Love seconded to approve the Salt Lake City Council minutes for April 27, 2010, which motion carried, all members present voted aye . View Attachments (M 10-3) PUBLIC HEARING #1 . RE : 7 : 18 : 00 PM Accept public comment and consider adopting an ordinance amending the East Bench Community Master Plan Future Land Use Map from Institutional to Low-Density Residential land uses for property located at 1794 S . Texas Street pursuant to Petition No . PLNPCM2009-01358, and An ordinance amending the zoning map to rezone property located at 1794 S. Texas Street from Institutional (I) to Single-Family 10 - 1 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010 Residential R-1/7 , 000 pursuant to Petition No. PLNPCM2009-01359 . View Attachments The following spoke in support of the rezoning: Joseph and Paula Sargetakis; Judi Short and Ron Price. Councilmember Love moved and Councilmember Turner seconded to close the public hearing, which motion carried, all members present voted aye . Councilmember Love moved and Councilmember Penfold seconded to adopt Ordinance 30 of 2010 rezoning property located at 1794 S . Texas Street from Institutional to Single Family-Residential and Ordinance 31 of 2010 amending the East Bench Community Master Plan Future Land Use Map from Institutional to Low Density Residential, which motion carried, all members present voted aye . (P 10-10) COMMENTS TO THE MAYOR 7 :27 : 01 PM Councilmember Turner said the Deseret News Editorial Board strongly favored the Mayor' s proposed budget. He said the newspaper had complemented the Mayor for keeping core services in place and by not raising property taxes . David Everitt, Deputy Mayor, said he would pass the comments on to Mayor Becker. Councilmember Christensen said he attended the Mayor' s Education Summit. He said he was surprised at the level of engagement of different families and individuals primarily in Councilmember Turner' s area. He said it was a great public/private partnership in trying to improve literacy and reading. COMMENTS TO THE CITY COUNCIL 7 :29 : 05 PM The following spoke in favor of keeping the funding for YouthCity Artways : Brittany Anderson; Erin Mendenhall; Brad Slaugh; Clayton Carr; Hillary Van Moorleghem and Leslie Ford. Paul Heath submitted a card in favor of YouthCity Artways . Michael Erickson spoke in opposition to the Mayor' s alcohol proposal . Greg Johnson, Community and Economic Development Department, said he held one of the positions slated for elimination and asked the Council to review the criteria of which his position and others were selected for elimination. 10 - 2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010 Jim Breitinger spoke on the approved plans for keeping Tanner Park a dog off-leash area. Diane Schaufer said they had worked hard to make Parley' s Historic Nature Park work by following the City' s standards on creating dog parks . Fred Cox spoke about the zoning extension on 750 North Redwood Road. NEW BUSINESS #1 . RE: 7:51:40 PM Adopting an ordinance repealing Sections 18 . 16 . 080 through 18 . 16 . 260, Salt Lake City Code, relating to licensing requirements for boiler operators and steam engineers . View Attachments Councilmember Love moved and Councilmember Christensen seconded to suspend the rules and adopt Ordinance 28 of 2010, which motion carried, all members present voted aye . (0 10-8) UNFINISHED BUSINESS #1 . RE: 7 : 54 :25 PM Adopting a resolution extending the time period for satisfying the conditions set forth in Ordinance 24 of 2008 (rezoning property located at 728, 732, 752 and 766 North Redwood Road from Single-Family Residential R-1/5, 000 to Community Business (CD) ) . View Attachments Councilmember Christensen moved and Councilmember Turner seconded to defer this item to next week. Councilmember Christensen said he had voiced concerns about the houses in disrepair. He said the property owner was having some economic problems . Frank Gray, Community and Economic Development Director, said this was the second extension for the request . He said the owner would agree to demolition of the houses and because the houses were being removed there was a housing mitigation fee of $37, 000 . He said the City would place a lien on the property prohibiting a building permit from being issued to the petitioner until he could afford to pay the mitigation fee . Councilmember Garrott called for the question, which motion carried, all members present voted aye . (P 08-8) CONSENT AGENDA 8 : 00 : 07 PM 10 - 3 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2010 Councilmember Turner moved and Councilmember Christensen seconded to approve the Consent Agenda, which motion carried, all members voted aye. #1. RE: Approving the appointments of the following individuals to serve on the Mayor' s Records Appeals Board: Mark Flores, alternate member from the public; Brian Watts, alternate member from the public and Sandra Stanger, alternate records committee member. (I 10-11) #2 . RE: Setting the date of June 1, 2010 at 7 : 00 p.m. to continue to accept public comment and consider an ordinance adopting the Salt Lake City Historic Preservation Plan pursuant to Petition No . PLNPCM2009-00171 . (T 10-3) The meeting adjourned at 8 : 00 p.m. This document along with the digital recording constitute the official minutes of the City Council Regular Session meeting held May 4, 2010 . bj 10 - 4