This combined Work Session and Regular City Council meeting on March 4, 2025, addressed a range of topics including a proposed 10-acre park, a contentious discussion on fire engine staffing levels, budget adjustments, and water rate fee schedule changes. The Council also heard public comments on traffic safety and a resident firefighter's concerns, recognized community achievers, and approved several resolutions and ordinances.
All right, Council, I know we have quite a bit to talk about here in work session meetings, so we'll get started a couple of minutes late. Call our work session meeting to order all of our elected officials present. Three items up in discussion. Um Ryan, help me out 5A. How much time do you think that would that would take? Because I'd like to prioritize some for some open discussion and work in the work session on uh 5C. Mayor, my recommendation is that you just exercise your prerogative as board chair to go ahead and bump mine to the end. We'll take whatever types left. Then let's and as much as we got Brandon here on 5B, let's go ahead and talk about that, and we'll move into 5C and then time permitting the uh business license code updates. So it's five we're on five B. Five B. Is that right? Okay. This is, and I'll I'll just level set this conversation very quickly. This is a discussion item on the park, the ten acre park that is part of the mountain ridge development. I don't know why I put that picture together. It isn't very good. Uh just shows you it's uh it's the area south of 134th along Sentinel. The east side of Sentinel is now uh beginning development uh with edge homes. It's the second part of that uh mountain ridge uh and it includes the ten acre park. This is is rotated to its side, so a hundred and thirty-fourth is on the left side of the screen, but it's the uh ten acre area along the canal with 138 forming the uh the south border, uh, and then it comes up to this point. Uh this is early uh in the process. Obviously, there's uh some uh very decently fleshed out plans for the park. They've been working with our our parks and trails committee, but it is not before you for approval, nor is it uh going to the planning commission yet. So we just wanted to get general feedback uh from you and and priorities and and questions and concerns. Just to make it fun, I rotated this the other way, so 138th is now on the other side of the screen. Uh but you can see uh it is bordered the canal on the east side, uh, this Greenford Lane along the west side, uh, and then it's kind of broken up into general areas. The the southern portion, uh, we've got a couple of play fields uh that are scaled out with the associated parking. This middle area, and we'll we'll get to some more detail is is laid out for the the recreation, the play area. There's a splash pad, some playground equipment, and then uh pickleball courts. Uh and this this north area, because of the geometry is is not quite sized sufficiently for uh formal programmed play space. Uh so the discussion that we've had uh with this area would would be a little uh more informal and passive uh with some walking trails and things there. But uh Edge Holmes, who is uh developing the overall area and is also going to serve as the design and and contractor on the park itself, uh has put together some uh renderings of the space. I'll just go through those very quickly and then we'll go back and and we can both respond to questions and provide any additional details. Uh you can see the uh pickleball courts laid out and then play ground equipment and uh and a splash pad uh that you can see there. The this northern area here, there's a a break point between them. This is the clubhouse and pool that would be private to the mountain ridge development. Uh so separate from the public park, and and we felt it best for a lot of reasons to have a very clear dividing line between the two. Uh so again, oh and the the trail will extend along the canal. That's kind of that uh hatched line that you see here. Uh so the trail will run uh within the park area along and then it will connect to the loop. And let me go back to uh it will connect to a loop that goes around the development. It they'll be able to cross Sentinel, uh, and then it it loops all the way around. So there'll be some walking paths internal to the development as well. So, really tonight uh just we both wanted to introduce you to the park as it's currently laid out, but also give you the opportunity for input, feedback, questions, concerns, and and we can move forward with uh more formal design uh to incorporate those things in. So we have a representative from Edge Homes, uh Brandon that's here, and then again, it's also been reviewed uh over several meetings by Cheryl and the parks committee. Thank you. That was gonna be my first question. So this has been a lot of input from our parks committee uh to come to this point. And second question, the clubhouse component there, that's not part of the 10 acres, correct?