Alright, ladies and gentlemen, it is 7:25 p.m.

Uh I am going to uh reconvene and call back to order uh this August 18th meeting of the Woods 18th 2026 meeting of Woodstock City Council back into order, and although not required, Jane, I'm gonna ask you to do a roll call for purposes of the record.

Councilman Flynn.

Here councilman Denson.

Here.

Councilwoman McMahon.

Here.

Councilman Yarn.

Here.

Councilman Seivers.

Here.

Councilwoman ZM up here.

Neighbor's room.

Here, let the record reflect all seven members of Woodstock City Council have reconvened in the move of our meeting from our normal council chambers at City Hall to the Woodstock Opera House for the duration of this evening's meeting.

We at the time we had left.

We had just started working down our agenda.

I'm gonna go ahead and restart that process.

The first item on the agenda this evening is floor discussion, and under floor discussion, it is a presentation for Murphy Development Group, White and Company on the diecast site plan and architectural update.

This item is on the agenda this evening to provide a presentation uh overview and update of the items that are here for action this evening on items D1 and D2 for the Murphy proposed Murphy Development Group, White and Company Guidecast Development.

So for the purposes of this presentation, I am going to uh turn it over to staff over to Jessica Erickson, uh, who is going to go ahead and reintroduce the purpose, if you will, of the of the presentation, uh, the content and preview the content, and then she will turn it over to the team uh from uh Murphy and White and Company.

Thank you, Mary Turner.

Just briefly, uh the presentation uh this evening is intended to provide an update, as you said, in terms of the site plan and architectural direction.

The recall you asked, um, they last presented to you in May, and there have been some changes and some evolution of the site plan.

Uh so this is intended to provide some context for the choice that you'll be asked to make later today in terms of approving earlier this evening in terms of approving the redevelopment agreement.

We are not asking you to specifically approve anything that's being presented to you.

The site plan itself is within the redevelopment agreement, but the architectural design and direction is really just for informational purposes.

We're not asking you to approve that this evening.

Okay, great.

Thank you, Jessica.

While they're making their way to the podium, uh I'll highlight for council something that Jessica said, which is the um redevelopment agreement that we'll be considering later, you know, has its content and the the items that we're gonna see tonight are an overview of the of the proposal.

Uh there's still process to go through as it relates to architectural specifics and designs and design items and all that, but we certainly are far down the road and and uh pleased to be at this point where we can sit and can't consider uh this proposed development on a site that has been empty for the most part for a very long time.

So the floor is yours.

Thank you.

So we're straight here again, City Council.

Um I gave Ariel with Murphy.

Uh we're thrilled to finally have something.

Yeah, if you would straighten that mic out and uh panel let's uh you can use your opponent.

We're thrilled to finally have something to get approved tonight.

So um you know the planning is process is iterative, and we when we started this process, our community was we're gonna do a feasible project that can be built.

So while we're going through the design process, we're always checking the market financing construction and otherwise, and the plan is evolving.

So we're just getting updated on the plan.

Certainly, we're still gonna go, there's still a lot of work to do on the finishes and architectural look and feel.

But this is what we're at right now with the plan with the new veterans really long time, and we're excited to be on the next step.

So thank you.

I'll turn over right who do the presentation.

Well, there on the Cylon Fighting, it's nice to see you again.

Go to the clouds here.

Here we go.

Okay.

So as we discussed before on the project vision for this site, obviously, a high quality residential development, which they already talked about.

Finance still is also very important.

But I think from an architectural standpoint, that was very important to us was to be able to blend in with the neighborhood in the context of Woodstock itself.

Now that can be done in several different ways, and we kind of talked about a variety of them from the beginning.

But also we wanted to make the best of what we could in this spot.

So obviously the existing row houses are not going anywhere.

It creates character and actually is a nice transition between downtown and the neighborhoods to the north and to the west.

So what we're proposing right now are seven total buildings with a density, it's a total unit pound is 187, so a little more than we had in previous versions.

Parking is 281 spots total, required by code is 266.

Nine of approximately nine of those are kind of for the many so more public or visitorship.

But it really gives you about 1.5 spots per unit, which I know is right around kind of where we've talked about kind of where development is going right now.