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RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION
NOVEMBER 1. 1988
Chairman Welton Anderson called meeting to order at 4:30 pm.
Answering roll call were Bruce Kerr, Michael Herron, Jim Colombo,
Mari peyton, Roger Hunt, Jasmine Tygre and Welton Anderson.
Graeme Means arrived at 5:05.
COMMISSIONER'S COMMENTS
Jim said he would be leaving at 5:00 in order to attend a county
Board of Adjustments meeting after which he would return.
Roger Hunt: The Hotel Aspen which we approved 9 years ago has
just put on its new addition in the back. In that new addition
is this contraption up on top on almost a steeple or smoke stack.
It is some sort--apparently an exhaust blower. The thing is
hideously loud by itself but it is even punctuated by the fact
they have got loose meet metal that buzzes on top of it. This
isn I t quite the thing to have in a residential zone so I have
contacted Cindy on it and she has taken action to get this thing
corrected.
Welton: How did that addition get built? Did they enlarge some
rooms?
Roger: That was originally approved and then they kept getting
extensions on the approval. I do remember during approvals that
we were sensitive to the fact that the back end of the Hotel
Aspen is in the R-6 zone. And we were sensitive to what was
going to be back there particularly industrial sounds that belong
in SCI zone and not in the residential zone.
Mar i: I noticed that we still have headless lamp posts on Rubey
Park after a year. Is that always the way it is going to be?
Roger: I have been after that too. Apparently there is
lamp head to put on it. The Engineering Department knows
it and their are trying to figure out what to do with it.
ran out of matching lamp heads from one supplier.
Jasmine: Alan, did you have a chance to check out on that trail
on ute?
not a
about
They
Alan: No, it was not a required trail by the applicant as part
of the PUD. They originally offered to put the trail in mostly
on public property. The trail meanders on and off private and
public property. They offered as part of the Growth Management
package to put that trail in. The feeling by the Commission and
the Council was it was more important to get the trail dedication
and trail construction through the PUD which we did get the one
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along the road that connects the PUD out to ute Avenue. We
really wanted that active trail installed and since the other
trail the one down by the river basically meanders mostly on
public property that the city could if it so chose go in and
install it. The developer's offer to install was not a big deal.
The real big deal on that property was getting the r-o-w, getting
the easement, getting the trail across the property. So they
were not required to install the trail.
The issue, I think, that you have raised that we need to resolve
is whether the house in terms of where it is sitting does not
only cover the trail but in fact block it. We feel that the
results of the construction that the trail is going to be capable
of being replaced. It should be.
Jasmine: And the bridge will connect the trail that goes through
1010 ute?
Alan: That is my under standing. But it was actually not a
requirement that they install the trail nor that they grant us a
trail easement along that area. The main trail that we have been
discussing and finally requiring is the one on the ute Avenue
side of the site--the community trail as we call it.
Mari: My recollection of it was that we did have that r-o-w
already--or that easement. That easement was there and the only
thing that they were offering was to actually construct the
trail on the easement that was already there. So I am very
concerned that the easement is no longer there.
Alan: No. The easement is definitely still there. The question
is whether they put the building envelope sitting on top of the
trail or do you simply see debris from excavation that has made
it appear that the trail is not there. Once the site is cleared
up after construction the trail will once again be there.
Jasmine: And there will public access along the river?
Alan: Yes.
Mari: Behrhorst said "NO, there will be no trail there".
Alan: I know that he said that at the meeting that we held on
the site and he is incorrect.
Michael:
that?
If he is incorrect, is anybody going to follow up on
Alan: Yes. Us. We have got a substantial bond in terms of the
landscaping on the site. Those always come in as part of PUDs
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and if we are not satisfied with the way it is cleaned up and the
trail goes along and all of a sudden there is a huge pile that
used to be the ground--we certainly have the money in house to
clean it up. There is no reason we can't get the trail restored.
Welton:
zone?
Alan, are house trailers a permitted use in the SCR
Alan: I doubt it. I only know of them being allowed in MHP--
mobile home park zone. We can't prohibit manufactured housing
from being built in residential zones. That is a state law but a
trailer I don't believe is allowed anywhere but in MHP zone.
Welton: There is one on Spring street. There are 2 of them in
there. They look pretty permanent because they have pink
flamingos and flower beds.
Alan: I will have Bill Drueding investigate that.
STAFF COMMENTS
There were none.
RESOLUTIONS 88-12 AND 88-13
COMMENDATION FOR DAVID WHITE AND RAMONA MARKALUNAS
MOTION
Roger: I move to adopt Resolution 88-12 and 88-13.
Michael seconded the motion with all in favor.
DISPLACEMENT/AFFORDABLE HOUSING CODE AMENDMENTS
CONTINUED PUBLIC BEARING
Welton re-opened the public hearing.
Alan: Applicability: After our discussion last week about how
to deal with substantial demolition or partial demolition vs.
rehabilitation and alteration, I finally decided that the
cleanest way to handle it was to come up with separate
definitions for demolition and then substantial alteration which
would then allow the City to write separate standards for what
would apply under demolition and when you did a substantial
alteration that looks and sounds like demolition but couldn't
actually be called demolition.
I did that so that the standards could be different because we
really came up with innovative ideas as to what the standard
would be last week--that payment in lieu idea. Then what happens
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if Council decides they want to eliminate it. This is very
severable. The rest of the regulation can live if this is taken
out of it. And if we are challenged in court over either of
these provisions, the whole ordinance doesn't go down if we go
too far.
Michael: The last sentence of applicability on page 4 works away
from where you are looking to go. I am not in favor of this
ordinance. For example--if you had a 1,700 sqft house in a zone
where you could add 700 sqft to it and somebody turned around and
was going to do an 80% demolition, they would be subject to the
ordinance. But if they add 700 sqft then they are exempt from
the ordinance. Is that what you really want to do? It would
seem to me that what you want to do is not compute the addition.
Alan: Yes. That is correct. what I am suggesting there is that
700 sqft that you are talking about is comparing to the 1,700.
Michael: Shouldn't it be that the area that is added is not
computed in determining 75% as the original area? Because when
there are additions to the original floor area of the unit, the
area of the addition shall be used in determining whether the 75-
-it should read that the area that is added is not computed in
determining 75% as the original area.
After further discussion it was determined the wording shall be--
replace "shall be used" with "shall be compared to the original
floor area". This at the end of the 3rd paragraph, page 4.
Alan: One thought I had was to be able to get at substantial
demolition--demolition that effectively takes the unit down for
all respects except it might leave up a wall or even less. I was
able to get at that in the definition of demolition alone. We
talk about it dismantled to raze such that the unit is no longer
habitable.
All that the second substantial alteration, remodeling or
reconstruction then gets at is somebody who is doing I of 2
things. Either somebody who is wrapping a building around a
smaller building or somebody literally coming in and appointing
something with the marble bathtubs or something of that nature.
If either of those 2 things is your greatest fear, we may be able
to drop this whole alteration/remodel approach and just go with
the demolition definition and have an ordinance that you are
go ing to get a lot less publ i c coming in and screaming. The
demoli tion definition goes further than I thought it would and
maybe we don't need this alteration.
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Brian Harper: Example: You have a family with a I, 700 sqft
house. They want to add a family room and another bedroom which
they need with a growing family. They want to do a 700 ft
addition. Does this ordinance require them to build an
additional unit to that?
Alan: It is an option. They do a 700 ft addition--no. If they
affect 75% of the original floor area, they have 2 choices.
They can build a caretaker unit or they can put in a restriction
on the unit--on their home. They write a restriction on their
home saying "We agree that this house will only be occupied by
residents or employees of the community ie people that live and
work here". And they are exempt.
Brian: So they have limited their market.
Alan: They have limited their resale market to employees of the
community. Not price, not income, just the occupancy.
Brian: But then nobody will buy the house.
Alan: That is what I am saying--just how far do we want to take
this ordinance?
Brian: I ask you to really think about this because the people
who are working in the community could barely afford to do the
addition. Now you have doubled the cost by requiring them to
build another unit in a single family neighborhood.
Bill Dunaway: Oh no. You can just say that only residents will
live there. You are a resident--you can live there.
Jim: But suppose someone wants to move into the community. They
are buying a home in order to move into the community. They
have to establish the fact that they are a resident prior to the
time of purchase. How do you do that? You can't. So you are
preventing possible residents from coming into the community.
Michael: Alteration section: The dwelling unit that you refer
to--that is any dwelling unit regardless of whether it is a
mUlti-family, single family or duplex?
Alan: That is correct.
Michael: The other thing is whose choice are these options?
Alan: The owners.
Michael: So now we are going to get back into the fact that you
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can have cash-in-lieu not at city Council's direction but at the
owner's option.
Alan: In this case, yes.
Michael: Then why wouldn't we make that same option available
in a demolition?
Alan: Because I think it is clear that if people have the
opportunity to buyout the requirement to provide that, they
will. And the whole direction in this ordinance has been to try
to have the private sector producing affordable housing on-site
to a degree which is feasible.
Mar i: In the case we were just di scussing--when we said such
families were exempt, does that mean that now you are saying that
they would have to restrict their house at the time they did the
alteration--
Alan: That is the only way they become exempt.
Mari: So it is really not an exemption.
Alan: No. The way this has been written, we have accomplished
substantial alteration and addition into the concept of
demolition out of a concern that people will use alteration or
remodels to avoid ever being effected by the demolition
regulation. I think we can go far enough with the demolition
definition that maybe we don't need to do that. Maybe we test it
with the definition of demolition. I am afraid it is more of a
reach than people in this community will stand for and either the
whole ordinance will go down on that basis or a lot of the
positive things that we have done here will get lost in that
discussion.
Jim: In general whether it is alteration or demolition if the
home were restricted that they could only sell it to a resident.
Alan: Right.
Jim: Suppose those owners who had lived here 10 years and
operated a business here decided that they wanted to spend part
of their year in Miami Beach? Would they be forced to sell their
home?
Alan: No. They would be forced to do the payment that would be
required had they never put the restriction on it. Essentially
they would be breaking that restriction, lifting it and saying
"OK, now we are subject to the other limitation". There has got
to be a way to get out of it.
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Jim: So they would be punitively dealt with some fee basis
because they decided to--
Brian: Who can buy these properties if you are restricting it?
welton: Anybody can buy it. If it is going into the second home
market then the person that buys it is going to be responsible
for putting in a unit into the house or cash-in-lieu.
Alan: We don't care who it is. It has to be a person that lives
and works here 30 hours a week 9 months of the year. That is a
resident.
Brian: You have got a single family neighborhood, free market.
These people have paid the price to buy. They have not bought
subsidized housing--have not had subsidized interest. They have
paid the price for free market. They have lived in the community
maybe for 17 years. They are ready now to do an addition on
their house. They have a growing family. Look what you are
doing to them. You are essentially saying "OK, you are going to
have to sell if you can't afford to do a double addition". You
have doubled the price of the addition.
Jasmine: No you haven't.
Brian: Why haven't you? If the 700 or 900 sqft addition--if it
puts you over the 75%, you are required to provide cash-in-lieu
or build another unit.
Jasmine: Not as long as you are living in it. Or deed restrict
it to a resident.
Brian: You deed restrict it to a resident. What have you done
then? who is going to buy it? A working man cannot afford to
buy it. A school teacher cannot afford to buy a free market
unit. Its the economics of the community we are in. We are way
beyond that.
Mari: That is just what we are trying to fix.
Alan: Maybe we are trying to affect the economics. It has gone
haywire. We understand that. And it is our job to intervene in
the market that has gone beyond the ability of the community.
Brian: There is no way you can do that. You cannot. There is
no way.
Bill: I don't understand the objection to deed restricting to a
permanent resident.
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Brian: I can tell you the objection. It cuts your marketability
at least in half.
Bill: That is the idea.
Brian: These are not subsidized units. These are free market
that people have paid the price for, have owned for a number of
years.
Bill: The problem with Aspen today is everybody is getting on
the bandwagon to make the most money out of their property and
the whole community is suffering.
Brian: That is not the case. The effect of this is going to be
to drive people out because they can't do an addition.
Jasmine: I think you are misinterpreting what was said. If the
family is expanding and they want to do the addition--as long as
they continue to live in the house they qualify as residents.
There is no reason why they can't do this addition. They don't
have to pay a fee. They don't have to pay cash-in-lieu. They
don't have to build another unit.
Brian: They have got to deed restrict it to somebody who can't
afford to buy it.
Jasmine: If, in fact, they want to sell it. people who are
living in the community who want to do an addition or improve
their property for their own personal use are not penalized. The
only thing that is happening is that the amount of speculation
that they get if and when they decide to sell will be restricted.
It does not affect people who plan to stay and live in this
community.
Brian: Everybody sooner or later is going to move on and going
to need to sell their house. If you put a deed restriction on
it, you may not be doing it now. It may be 10 years or more. If
you put a deed restriction on it, it is going to affect the
ability to sell it.
Jasmine: Exactly.
Michael: An example of what this gentleman is trying to say is
if you took 2 houses that have 1,700 sqft that were occupied by
residents and one of them wanted to expand it to the point that
he was subjected to the ordinance and he agreed to deed restrict
it and the other one didn't and they lived there for another 7
years, the one who didn't do anything to his house who had been
there as long as the guy who did do something to his house, could
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turn around and sell as a free market unit and may get $750,000
or $850,000.
We live in a free country where people are entitled to sell their
property for the best value they can. The guy who went ahead and
fixed up his house a little bit is now restricted to selling it
to a resident and there is no resident who can afford $850,000.
So if he does want to sell it to somebody, he has to sell to
somebody who can only afford $250,000. That is the difference.
That is where the effect of this ordinance comes in.
If that is what you are looking to do then that is fine. But
what you are accomplishing is #l you are never going to get
anybody to fix up their house because the minute they fix up
their house to the point where they are subject to the ordinance,
they are giving away 3/4 of the value of their property.
The ordinance, to me, just doesn't make any sense at all. I do
think the Planning Office has done a phenomenal job of trying to
come up with something that works in the situation. It is just
illogical to me. What you are going to do is penalize people who
are living here who have a house and I don't know what you
accomplish by doing that.
Jasmine: What this resolution is really aimed at is to try to
preserve the community for people who want to stay here and live
here. And the ultimate price of what happens when they sell or
if they sell is really something that goes on down the line. We
are trying to deal with the problem that is existing in the
community today of making sure that this becomes not a community
of just millionaire second homes. That is what this ordinance is
all about.
We may have to make some refinements on it because it may cause
undue hardships on people that it is not intended to apply to.
But this is a very good approach to the problem.
Rick Neiley: I tend to agree with what Mick says and with what
Brian says. But it seems to me that of you are going to err one
way or the other, it ought to be on the side of the people who
want to do some remodeling or development on their own homes and
not come back and say "If we are too harsh on them down the road,
we can change it". I think the attitude of this ordinance ought
to be if we find that the ordinance doesn't work well enough, we
can come back and reconsider it rather than putting the burden on
the homeowner to come back in and say this doesn't work.
An ordinance like this has a real potential to have a negative
impact on the typical homeowner in Aspen. Someone who has bought
a house here over the last few years and maybe wants to upgrade
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it--the potential for a negative impact on that person is really
great.
This Board ought to be directing its attention towards trying to
minimize that impact and saying if we can't come up with an
ordinance that works right now we have an option to look at it
down the road. But that requires your citizenry to come back in
and say this is hurting us too much, please change it. That is
too much of a burden on individuals out there that have no
ability to realistically get together to form a group and come
before a board like this and present any kind of logical case.
I have got a lot of other problems with this ordinance. This is
one that really strikes home to me. I have got an expanding
family. I can see myself in exactly this kind of situation. I
feel real threatened by it.
I bought a house 2 years ago that was rented for many years and
was essentially trashed. I have been spending a lot of time
working on it and I can see a lot of other people in that kind of
situation. It is threatening to me because I feel that at some
point I would like to sell it and get as much as I can out of it
and buy another house in this community that is maybe in a more
desirable location or a more desirable house. It would seem to
me that this is likely to impair my ability to do that. It is
liable to reduce the market place or the people in the market by
saying that it has got to be residential. My concern is not so
much that.
My concern is being able to improve my living and my life style
here. This seems to really impair it and in a way that I don't
necessarily see it as being justifiable. There are a lot of
provision in this ordinance as a whole which create--whether you
call it incentives or inducements or penalties. If you don't
provide affordable housing which we ought to take a look at as
far as whether or not they are successful over the next couple of
years before you put this kind of burden on your existing really
middle income property owners. This seems to represent a real
threat to those people and to me.
I think you should err on not putting something like this in with
the thought that you may have to come back and implement it down
the road if you find that the other provisions don't work.
Welton: To summarize where we are I think you are saying that
this alteration/remodeling can either be deleted by us now and
City Council later or we can enact it and see what is going to
happen.
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Alan: If we just drop it right now, it will leave some openings
in the ordinance--Ioopholes--for ways that people can
substantially alter a building and get out of the principle home
market to the second home market. Maybe that is not the end of
the world if a limited number of people choose that option. If
we see that is what everybody is doing and the ordinance having
no effect on the market then we have got a problem but I hate to
penalize as many people as we are going to. I just know we are
going to catch a huge number of people in this wide net that we
don't want to. It is either going to be the death of the
ordinance at Councilor if it gets enacted we will all doubt the
validity of this provision.
I think we have gone far enough with the demolition definition.
Welton: I tend to agree with you. I think the Council is going
to react to the emotional outcries of the public during the
public hearing and is liable to eviscerate the whole ordinance.
Mari:
tough.
down.
I wonder if we shou ldn' t er r on the side of being too
You know when Council gets it they are going to cut it
Michael: I would like to see us delete it. The way it is
written right now somebody who has got the bucks can get around
it to begin with. So all we are doing is just making this one
more thing in Aspen that is only affordable by people who have
money. A family who has got enough money to pay the cash-in-lieu
payment is going to avoid the consequences. The family who
doesn't have the money to pay that is not going to be able to
avoid the consequences.
Bruce: I must say that at this point you probably don't have a
consensus. In spite of valiant efforts by Alan and the rest of
the staff and by this Commission and in spite of our concerns
about employee housing and the displacement problem, we all
recognize that that is a problem, I would vote no on the
ordinance even with the deletion for the following reasons:
I think, at best, it sends a mixed signal to the community. On
the one hand we have concerns about growth and our burgeoning
growth. I don't think this resolution deals with that. In fact
I think it encourages growth. I think it does not solve or
ameliorate the real problem with displacement. It attempts to.
I don't think it really solves it. I think it does away wi th
GMP because in effect at least at a minimum doubles density.
You have got single family houses being forced to go duplex by
adding the caretaker unit or some other restriction.
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It irrevocably changes the character of the neighborhoods--single
family neighborhoods into duplex neighborhoods--duplex
neighborhoods into quadplex neighborhoods. And as has been
discussed in our previous meetings I think there are some real
problems about constitutionality. I think it may place
unreasonable restraints on alienation--transferability of
property. And for all of those reasons I must say that I will
vote against this ordinance. I am concerned about our problems.
I am concerned about the work that Alan has done. I understand
that we have got a charge from City Council to address the
problem. But I don't think we have done anything to solve the
problem in this ordinance.
Roger: I am in favor of dropping the alteration paragraph.
I do like in the demolition which in effect covers really
alterations is that the unit is no longer habitable.
prevents a remodel leaving a 2 X 4 sticking in the air.
what
major
This
Not having a 2 market system right now is pushing a lot of
residents out of town. Residents can't afford to compete in the
single market system in this area. It is not what I like but I
don't see a better solution. We do have to deal with the
problem of potentially doubling the density. I can't handle the
potential of doubling the number of home owners in a
neighborhood. That is through the condominiumization allowance
which I am adamantly opposed to. That allowance causes me not to
support the ordinance. It is only that so far.
Marty Schlumberger: In Mountain Valley this was tried a number
of years ago when Kinsley made all the illegal units legal out
there. And the reaction of the people at Mountain Valley in the
subdivision was horrendous. That is because of the fact of the
number of people that now live there, the number of cars that are
parked, the snowplowing, the fire--all those types of situations.
It seems to me if you are going to increase this in the downtown
area that the impact is going to be surmount compared to what
this is going to be. All of these employees have car s,
motorcycles and boats. And when you put all of this downtown--
all that impact in a very tight area--well, Mountain Valley
residents didn't like it at all.
Frank Peters: On the condominiumization issue I think if you are
going to do it you have got to let them condominiumize it. If
you are going to force somebody into building an accessory
dwelling unit on their property you have to give them ability to
sell it and give them a little bit more control over who is there
than if they just have to rent. And then if they can't find a
suitable renter the Housing Authority is going to come in and put
somebody in. I think condominiumization is going to be the one
thing that is going to make the whole thing palatable.
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welton: Bruce is going to vote against the ordinance. Roger is
going to vote against it if we don't take the condominiumization
out. Mickey is going to vote against it. Let's take a straw
poll to see who else is going to vote against it. Assuming we
are going to drop the alterations who else is going to vote
against it?
The vote was 4 for the ordinance and 3 against.
Alan: Demolition: Of course this will be changed now and we
won't have a subsection A and B. That is the last 2 paragraphs
in Section 5-702 and subsection B of 5-703 will not be in this
ordinance.
In Section 5-703 A we mention the term Resident Occupied Units
which I find also on page 9. It is not a new requirement in the
ordinance. It simply for the first time I defined this thing of
what it means a qualified employee only occupied unit. The
suggestion was made looking at the FAR sliding scale where we
have got the 75% and the 100%--you can get to the 100% by either
having an accessory unit on the property or having the deed
restricted affordable housing unit--a price and income restricted
unit. They said "Do you also want to let somebody have 100% of
the FAR if they restrict it as to occupancy"? I think it is your
intention that those units qualify in all ways to meet our
requirements so they ought to qualify for the FAR as well.
Hopefully you will agree with that concept.
eligible for the FAR.
Michael: what I don't understand is if you opted to build a
smaller house, you are still stuck into this ordinance by somehow
having to provide it when you sell it to a non-resident anyway.
There is no way to build a smaller house and escape the
provisions in the ordinance.
They should be
Alan: Sure there are. For someone who has a vacant piece of
land right now and in no way is affected by this ordinance and
wants to build a single family house, they can choose to build at
75% FAR or 100% FAR. Someone remodeling a house that exists,
they can choose a 75% or a 100%. The only time that they are
affected by the provisions of this ordinance is when they choose
to demolish the residence.
The effect of this new sliding scale will be to make anybody who
is above the 75% and doesn't have affordable housing effectively
non-conforming. But the only impact in terms of the code is you
can't get any bigger. You can remodel, alter in any way that
does not increase the non-conformity.
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Frank Peters: If this goes to City Council one of the things I
think is wrong with it is that I think it is going to preclude a
lot of people that have lived in this town for a long time that
will not fit into the Housing Authority guidelines. And just
because they may not be an employee, they may not work but they
may have lived here for 40 years--they are not going to rent one
of these units.
A definition should be made for resident as opposed to employee
and make these things restricted to residents. That will include
everybody that lives here whether they fit under the employee
housing guidelines or whether they don't.
Michael: One of the things that really bothers me about this
ordinance is the fact that I still think we are building smaller
employee units than garages. I think this is unfair. It looks
horrible and I think creates a caste system of employees who are
living in the little doll houses.
If we are willing to recognize that somehow you have got to have
demolition, then why don't we have a fee where somebody can pay
to the Housing Authority a cash-in-lieu. Make that an option.
At least then you don't have to build that small house. If you
are going to sell the property, you can afford to bump the price
for whatever that fee is. I don't know if I am in favor of that
but I am certainly in favor of that over this ordinance. At
least give the person looking to demolishing the house the
option of being able to do that. That would let the Housing
Authority, which really should have the responsibility to provide
housing, somehow provide proper housing for people in this town.
It may not be the fairest thing in the world but it certainly is
fairer than this.
Alan: To this point we have been pushing the creation of these
units on site in the hope of disbursing employee housing
throughout the community. The Housing Authority's most likely
solution on given cash and given the fact that they are not going
to go out and do 20 or 30 projects at a time--2 or 3 is a full
plate for the Housing Authority. They are going to try and get
the most bang for the buck with those projects. They will be at
the Marolt Dorm or they will be an addition to the Red Roof.
They are not going to be what we are really trying here which is
to bring some life back into the neighborhoods in town that are
dying in several seasons of the year. I have been an advocate
for requiring those units on site. I think that is the most
appropriate answer.
Welton: I agree.
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Alan: The definition of who is a qualified person for resident
occupied unit. I used the Housing Authority's guidelines because
these were adopted by City Council. The 3 categories are #l the
person who works 30 hours a week 9 months of the year. This
takes into account the person who seasonally goes away in the
Spring and Fall but works the Summer and winter. #2 a senior so
it brings hypothetical case somebody who has been 40 years if
they are 60 years of age or older by definition. #3 a
handicapped person. You can come up with a residency criteria if
you so choose.
Discussion was then held on establishing what qualifies a person
for resident occupied units.
Bruce: I would like to hear Alan's explanation of this
ordinance. Since we are an advisory board and this has a legal
effect only when Council does something with it, I might be
inclined to let it go to Council for them to do whatever they
want with it so that we have showed them we have satisfied our
charge to send something to them.
Alan: There is a provision in the City Land Use Regulations
which says that once the Commission passes a resolution, nothing
that would be prohibited by that resolution can be granted a
building permit for a 6 month period or until the City Council
shall act to either approve or deny that action.
Do you want to change the definition of resident occupied unit in
any way shape or form?
Roger: I would like to see it include the ability by the Housing
Authority on their judgement taking into consideration such
things as record of where they have voted, where they pay taxes
and so on leaving it open ended--Iet them make the judgement as
to whether that proves the residency.
Jasmine was in favor of this option.
Mari: I would prefer defining it but I can go along with it too.
Graeme: I would rather see it defined unless the Housing
Authority has a board that that can be appealed to.
Alan: They have that.
Graeme: Then I can I support that.
Bruce and Michael agreed.
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Alan: We will create that criteria and add a second sentence
that will say something to the effect of in granting such
approval the Housing Authority shall take into consideration
where the person is voting, where the person pays taxes, length
of residency in the community.
The only other thing I did on this was to reverse the sliding
scale which took an enormous amount of work.
Welton asked for further public comment.
There was none and he closed the public hearing.
MOTION
Michael: I would like to move that we approve this resolution as
amended tonight with one additional stipulation. That is that
there be one additional option available and that is the payment
of cash-in-lieu to avoid the consequences of the ordinance.
Motion died for lack of a second.
MOTION
Jasmine: I would move to approve the resolution as amended.
Mari seconded the motion.
Roll call vote: Graeme Means, yes, Bruce Kerr, no, Michael
Herron, no but I think Alan did a fantastic job in working with
this difficult problem. I think the ordinance is probably one of
the worst pieces of legislation that I have ever seen under any
set of circumstances notwithstanding anything that Bush or
Dukakis has come up with. Mari, yes, Roger, no for the reason
that I have stated before and only that reason, Jasmine, yes,
Welton Anderson, yes.
Meeting was adjourned. Time was 6:15pm.
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