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HomeMy WebLinkAboutcclc.min.010715 COMMERCIAL CORE.&.LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF JANUARY 7, 2015 Vice-chairperson, Riley Rippet called the meeting to order at 8:30 a.m. Commissioners in attendance were Terry Butler, Fred Ayarza, Don Sheeley; Kiki Raj,and Bill Dinsmoor. Siam Castillo was absent. MOTION: Don moved to approve the minutes of Dec. 17t", second by Fred. All in favor, motion carried. Newspaper racks Fred said some of the newspaper racks are on city property and some are on private property. One third of them sit there empty and they are unsightly. What can we do to improve the racks, possibly purchase them from the newspapers and clean them up. Steve Barwick, city manager said the racks are owned by the newspapers. We could look at the overallcity i.e. newspaper racks and trash cans. Do an overall makeover. We need to make the.trash cans and newspaper racks shine'off. We need to make Aspen different. We want the tourist to come and see that Aspen is different with innovative newspaper racks and trash cans. CCLC can be involved in this discussion. Make this place different than where the tourist came from. Don asked'if CCLC can we get more people on the board Steve said advertising can occur for the vacancies. Don said we handle the mall leases and hear all the complaints and handle the Saturday market. This board does so much more than the ACRA ever did and I am pleased to be on the board. Steve said some of the problems are that the CCLC says one thing and the ACRA says another thing. The ACRA only represents about half the businesses. Steve said the CCLC needs to be more of a focus on major topics: Upcoming is the traffic study and pedestrian flow; do we mall more;:do we change one way directional signs; do we add more parking; do we take a fountain out here and there. The second one is the mall remodel and the infill structure. We are hoping to coordinate the infill with new buildings on the mall that will be constructed. My personal opinion is that one building 1 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING'COMMISSION MINUTES OF JANUARY 7, 2015 will render the center of the mall unusable for.outside dining. People will not site there if there is noise. We are trying to look at construction mitigation and work inside some kind of sound barrier. We could do the mall piece meal also but that would take several years. Mayor Skadron wants CCLC to be the conduit to the business community. We would like you to convene input sessions with the businesses with the help of different staff members. CCLC would be the organizer. CCLC needs to be less of the complaint center. That is not your major role. Steve also said there is a lot of move for locally grown food. Cozy Point is looking into growing local foods. This might be discussed regarding the Saturday Market. Bill said we need a data base for the businesses. Bill said there are e-mails for liquor licenses that can be a start. Fred said there are a lot of good ideas that come out of this board. Steve said CCLC and the ACRA need to be consistent and maybe have a communication meeting with them. Sit down with the ACRA and find out who is representing the business community. Don said the ACRA mainly represents the lodges. Riley said the ACRA gets a lot of complaints. Bill said the ACRA represents their members not all the businesses. Terry said we are more of a grassroots board. Steve said the ACRA goes back and forth whether they should be political or not. Steve said the CCLC needs to be involved with transportation through the core and the mall upgrade and CCLC needs to do a special outreach to the businesses to make sure the information gets to them. Don said a lot of people have talked about the round-about: Steve said Council has directed us not to do flowers like Vail. Bill said that is not what we are asking. We want seasonal flowers in the round-about. Steve said he will talk to the Parks Department. 2 COMMERCIAL CORE & LODGING COMMISSION MINUTES OF JANUARY 7, 2015 Chris Foreman said there are electrical issues at the round-about. Our RFP is going out to do the electrical upgrades in the spring. We will put more perennials out there once the electrical is completed. Bill said we don't want a weed patch at the round-about. Don said if we can at least try and see what it will look like at the round- about with more perennials. It is the entrance to Aspen. Kiki said we would like it to have seasonal colors. Election of Chair—Don nominated Riley as chair. All in favor, motion, carried. Kathy said at the next meeting we will review the mall lease criteria with Com Dev; Engineering; Clerk's; Police; Fire Department etc. and come up with concrete criteria and make sure all outside dining applicants are clear on the regulations. There is too much time spent trying to enforce violations. The attorney's office has supplied us with an infraction notice. MOTION: Riley moved to adjourn; second by KIKI. All in favor, motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 10:00 a.m. athy Stri land, Chief Deputy Clerk 3