01-19-95 Valley Square Area C Task Force Minutes ad .
VALLEY SQUARE REDEVELOPMENT
AREA C TASK FORCE
Minutes of January 19, 1995
Present: Griffiths, Hackett, Jafvert, Johnson, LeSuer, Martens, Mundt, Pentel ,
Rappaport, Schmidt and Strande. Staff present: Andre and Butler.
Chair Mundt called the meeting to order in the City Council Conference Room in
City Hall at 6:35 PM.
Minutes
The minutes of the regular meeting of December 22, 1994, and the subcommittee
meeting of January 3, 1995, were approved as presented.
Review of Goals and Criteria
The members began discussion on the proposed goals and criteria for the Ualley
Square Area C Redevelopment Project to be presented to the HRA.
Jan LeSuer stated he thought the opening Statement of Development Concept as
written was too stark and distributed another version which he thought could be
presented both to developers and to the HRA. Jeanne Andre said she thought it
might distract a potential developer, and perhaps his statement could better be
used as a preamble, which would be separate from the Statement. Committee mem-
bers concurred.
Gregg Hackett then distributed his own version of the proposed goals and cri-
teria, and Committee members discussed and compared the original version along
with Gregg's version, until a revised draft (attached) was formed.
Jerry Mundt said the draft report distributed at the start of the meeting has
his thoughts on what to present to the HRA, including:
° background
° what the Committee did
° adoption of previous goals
° adoption of new criteria and goals
° plan for implementation
° list of participants
He also thought a preamble and a summary should be incorporated into the report.
Jan LeSuer suggested adding language that this is a springboard to other Valley
Square projects, that further study of desired public investment is necessary,
that the criteria be maintained over time and that a development czar should be
hired, if necessary.
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The Committee is anxious to present their report to the HRA, but they are having
difficulty determining a date which would be feasible for this purpose. February
14th is the next regularly scheduled HRA meeting, but Lloyd Jafvert is unable to
attend the meeting on that date and wants to be present when the report is made.
Also, there may not be time to get the report to the HRA one week ahead as
requested. Jeanne Andre informed the Committee that the March HRA meeting date
is set for just before a City Council meeting, so there might not be sufficient
time to make a presentation to the HRA. Jerry Mundt asked Jeanne Andre to check
into the possibility of the HRA calling a special HRA meeting at which the
Committee could make their presentation.
Topics for Future Meetings
It was decided that the newly revised goals and criteria and final report will
be discussed at the January 26th meeting, and any further revisions could be
made at that time.
Because of a conflict, Jerry Mundt requested that the meeting scheduled for
February 6 be rescheduled for February 7. However, that date wasn't convenient
for other Committee members, so it was decided to keep the meeting on February
6th, but start it earlier at 6 PM.
Visitor Comments/Questions
Guest Gary Kinkepenberg stated that a large grocery store would be incompatible
with the other perceived uses for the site, but small grocery stores normally
are not successful . Therefore, a grocery should be removed as one of the desired
uses. It was explained that a grocery store was identified in the community
survey as something that residents would like to have in their downtown and
should be retained on the list of uses, but perhaps qualified as specialty gro-
cery.
Mr. Kinkepenberg also said the ponding should have a strong pedestrian element.
The Task Force decided to keep the more general language in the current draft.
The meeting adjourned at 10:30 PM.
Jeanne Andre
HRA Coordinator