so this year as I stand before you making my final graduation speech I think we may share some of the same feelings over the past weeks I've experienced a host of emotions I've been excited anxious eager nervous and exhausted and ready to turn off the alarm clock and sleep in maybe you have experienced some of these same feelings but when I'm not thinking about how great it will feel to sleep in I find myself reflecting reflecting on the past year and on the past 33 years graduation day is certainly a day of Celebration but I think it's also a natural day to reflect for us all including those of us or those of you in the audience today when I reflect on the past 33 years of working in education I realized in that time I've learned a lot and I've experienced a lot and I and I've been impacted by thousands of people you too in your 13 years of school have learned a lot and experienced a lot and been impacted and impacted many people our experiences could fill a book while reflecting on all those experience I find myself most thinking about gratitude and making sure those who have helped me know how thankful I am for their belief in me their trust their support and their encouragement I also find myself thinking about what is most important in our lives throughout my life and career I've been fortunate to be around some very special people they have helped me in so many ways but I was often so wrapped up in a moment or consumed with how busy I was or thinking about what was coming next I didn't take the time to acknowledge the impactful people and simply say thank you if I could go back I would say thank you to more people more often specifically one example I would say thank you to somebody named Miss Flory Miss Flory was one of my High School Math teachers she not only made math interesting and fun she made me feel confident in my mathematical knowledge and abilities which believed me at the time were very average she was passionate about math but delivered her instruction with compassion and care for students she taught me that math was important but it was not the most important thing little did she know or at the time little did I know that I would go on excuse me to pursue math as an undergraduate and finish with a degree in mathematics so today looking back and far too late I say thank you to miss Flory Miss Flory is one person I wish I had thanked years ago I have so many more people to thank for their impact on me but I will spare you all that time you get the idea take time before 40 years pass to show your gratitude to the special people in your lives so today I encourage you to move forward with gratitude thank all those who support you encourage you and lift you up not only will make you make you feel great it will also make them feel great in fact research shows gratitude has many benefits living with gratitude improves your overall health grateful people experience fewer aches and pains and Report feeling healthier than others grateful people sleep better and feel more rested and maybe most importantly those who spread thanks and share gratitude report lower levels of stress higher levels of self-esteem and make and keep friends easier it is hard to argue with these benefits cultivating gratitude or what we might call developing an attitude of gratitude is one of the most overlooked Tools in our toolboxes the simple Act of saying thank you is mutually beneficial and will lead you to a happier and more successful life in the future my Reflections in the past week also remind me to keep the most important things in life at the Forefront and not let the little things dominate your time or treasure I will close with a short story adapted from a college classroom that best summarizes this concept a teacher stood before her class and had some items in front of her she silently picked up a very large empty jar of mayonnaise and proceeded to fill it with golf balls she then asked the students if the jar was full they agreed that it was the teacher then picked up a ball of small a box of small Pebbles and poured them into the same jar she shook the jar lightly the Pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls and she then asked the students again if the jar was full again they agreed that it was the teacher next picked up a box of sand and poured the sand into the jar gave the jar a little Shake the sand filled up the remaining voids in the jar she asked once Mars The Jar full the students a little bit more frustrated this time responded with an unanimous yes the jar is full now said the teacher I want you to imagine that this jar represents your life the golf balls represent the most important things your family your health your faith your friends your passions and if everything else was lost and only the golf balls remained your life would still be full the Pebbles are the other things that matter like School your home your job your career the sand is everything else the very small stuff now think about what would happen if you filled the jar with sand first there would be no room for the Pebbles or the golf balls the same goes for life if you spend all of your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are most important pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness spend time with your siblings your parents visit with friends take your grandparents out to dinner play another 18.
the amazing faculty and staff of a village as well as all of our distinguished District 20 board members of Education never would I have thought that my high school experience would be this unique I remember walking into a village on the first day and I was a lost puppy I was excited to be at a new school while still nervous because I really didn't know anybody my first interaction with a teacher at the school was going up to Mr Norris thinking that he was a math teacher when he was not at this point I thought that the world had ended I embarrassed myself in the first interaction I had with a teacher at my new school but this would not be my last interaction at my new school with a teacher like this and this would also not be the last time I would be embarrassed as he eventually became my mentor little did I know this interaction would not Define how the teachers are at the Village each staff member my freshman year always reiterated the point of how important it was to learn how to interact with adults especially young in your life this Foundation of encouraging interaction between students and staff is a reason I'm speaking here today this totally eliminated my fear of speaking in large settings and also speaking to adults Reminiscing on my sophomore year is wild within itself for those that don't remember a little thing called covet happened the 2020 election I got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and for one that had the privilege to see it I seen the greatest rendition of Let It Go at prom voyage I know as a class we all more than likely face some struggles during the first semester of sophomore year due to coven although we would not let covid Define us as a class we Face adversity and it all taught us things about ourselves that we didn't know and in my books that's the definition of perseverance first semester of my sophomore year I had to teach myself some tough lessons such as how to be responsible and how to better conduct myself when talking about ideas which challenged my own of which I could not have achieved without the help of the faculty and staff at the village in second semester I finally decided to take cr's valuable lessons of how to be responsible such as time management skills quality over quantity and one of these lessons was taking notes even though this was a lesson she taught me early as my second week of freshman year this translated to every aspect of my life especially how to be more responsible regarding my diabetes while my responsibility was improving something that was not was my ability to have difficult conversations and stay level-headed but Susan would guide and teach me on how to understand multiple perspectives students guidance immediately changed my attitude towards approaching difficult conversations instead of being stuck in my ways she taught me to try and see all perspectives while you may not change someone's mind you will always have a conversation and challenge your own ideas these lessons from CR and Susan are the two biggest things I took away from my sophomore year ah junior year I could finally be out of the shadow of my older sister as she had left the village my sister and I are very different people it took me a while to understand that I didn't need to be the same person she was however this simple lesson can be applied to the students of the class of 2023.
so I just want to point out I mean I don't know what the if that is also kind of what the rationale is there I think it's a matter of the design we kept adding more outdoor space so we set a bottom limit that we didn't want to go below but we're always just trying to go beyond that we almost got to double um which is great which is awesome yeah unless the site plan doesn't work right and which is another reason for me that it's difficult for me to approve the site plan knowing that it's hinging on some other body Beyond us just to be real clear because if if that site plan doesn't work then and and we do the rezoning at the same time again that's locked in forever so those are just a couple of things um that were in it I I didn't go through the parking calculation because effectively like we don't require any parking parking maxims awesome but at a um so I didn't see how far off you were from what the working maximum was um okay for one explanation for the sustainability um components that um I wouldn't say are added in that they're just designed holistically into it and that actually this project for the funding for this project it helps it if it has more con uh more sustainability into it more geothermal more um more insulation better Windows all of these things are actually helping the to make the project work financially which is a new model for for us as The Architects working on it but it's a really good one for how everything is is in it it's not just tack on things that it's all working together and it can't work with without each other so every component in it just has to be there to to make the building work and make the and it makes the financing work for this particular project which is great that's awesome that is such a that's so such good news for kind of what is going forward and I don't know if everything and yeah um I don't have the expertise to check every single one of those things there's so many sustainability elements in this and I think that some people have their like favorite one right and and and so this is where among the reasons why top some way that ensures that somebody's favorite thing happens even if this is n shaped I don't know building that we're seeing I don't know um uh that's not an end anyway um if this one doesn't come to fruition like what happens what you know what is the possibility because our rezoning of this is not conditional our rezoning of this is for Forever Until somebody else petitions us to rezone it so that's what I'm thinking of um so that's just that's specific to this I would just the things that I thought were interesting from this project that I hadn't thought about for a while is first of all the premiums are viable in some C districts and I had to look that up because we've been talking about that but only in D districts and this is the only premium that's that that is possible and in order to do that premium they have to have some minimal sustainability like we have that to unlock the door they're going by Way Beyond that but I I hadn't I didn't know that or I knew it but I never thought of it the other thing that may appear in commission proposed business is did you notice the table in the staff report about how many of these properties that are being combined are non-conformities in our 4C and this is a problem this is an ongoing problem in an r4c and among the problems in our foresee I mean the only way that you can actually meet that density is to combine lots and so you will see that again you will hear about that again later thank you again I want this I I want this to be built I want to just make sure that we're preparing ourselves like we've got we're thinking about the future and doing that can I can I just add a note to to your concerns excuse me I I understand your concerns with the rezoning and that how that runs with the property and then if for some reason this this site plan actually fails to come to fruition whatever site plan then in the future still has to come in front of the Planning Commission right so you still have room to voice those concerns of sustainability if and I find that very doubtful if the site plan is not to move forward and the reasoning does and I would just say uh yes and no because this is the real opportunity to to lock that in um there are limitations on what we can ask for when it's a it would be by right at that point if we and I as my understanding and so um uh so at that point too if we just took on the zoning tonight Council still approves the resulting but the site plans then are ours entirely so there's no more going before city council and so so this is this it's the rezoning um that's I I believe in the current context our primary thing but you should correct me Steph if I'm speaking amiss because it's past my bedtime me too um yes now some sort of plan must accompany a rezoning but it is procedurally possible to do a rezoning with just a area plan conceptual plan and then the site would be um um rezoned and then the the follow-up site plan for redevelopment would then be considered by right uh well it would be considered by right and our current procedures have site plans that do not associated with a legislative decision like a rezoning to be approved by the Planning Commission yeah but to be clear this one because it's associated with the legislative action this site plan would progress to the city council with this rezoning but you're right if if it were rezoned successfully all the way through that process then any project that met these the c1a our requirements which as you indicated do not include a lot of the attributes of this project that are appealing to you I want to be clear you could you can always ask but that subsequent petitioner can also say no thank you so that's so everybody's right can I ask the planning staff is there a condition that can be applied to the zoning that would make you feel comfortable moving forward I know that's kind of a unique request but just was curious yeah I think that I don't want to speak for um uh commissioner ditch but I think that's sort of the question I think um what I would suggest is if in the context of the reason if there are issues that the Planning Commission feels that are important to ensure that any subsequent development happens if this is owned a c1ar that's where I guess I would request I would request the space for staff to work with this petitioner to um the crap language make sure give the petitioner the opportunity which is difficult for them to do on the spot here and present potentially an amended condition statement that addresses more or all of those things I'm going to also butt in just being procedurally um we have had conditional rezonings that a condition is that the proposed site plan is what is the permitted development that has longevity issues but in general or not in general we will consider any condition that reduces or adds more requirement parking maximums because there is non reduced height limit because there is none prohibiting a gas connection prohibiting a certain use but we would not consider any condition that allowed more commissioner Abrams just a clarification question can we put in a condition that's something we don't actually regulate in the UDC put in a condition sorry can the petitioner include a condition that something that is not already part of our UDC um I might have to double check with our attorney's office but I if it's voluntarily offered and if it's enforceable I think it may be acceptable Brett gave a thumbs up to that enforceable thing because so many of the things that you're listing commissioner Mills are not things be currently regularly in the UDC okay yeah like I think that um maybe as an example if the condition is the building must be white I think that that could be but then color is Timber with geothermal and real gas hookups I think that you know that's not in our UDC but it it's enforceable I can think it's enforceable um but um behavior is hard to enforce okay thanks commissioner dish so I just want to ask is this a way this isn't technically correct but um do voluntary conditions offered by the petitioner um offer us the same kind of security that's supplementary regulations in a PUD do I believe yes they get documented in a conditional zoning statement of conditions which is the worst title ever and that is um insert the proper legal term but that is execute that is recorded is executed it is documented it is made enforceable anybody else well maybe from folks that we haven't heard from before we move on to seconds commissioner Lee anything yeah um I'd like to say just generally I think this is an excellent project um really impressed by what I've seen the question I had specifically was on John Madrigal the project Engineers comments about the proposed zoning not being appropriate for existing utility infrastructure that was in the overall package I um it said that there was a 2025 water main that had to be basically upgraded in the CIP so could I just get some clarifications on that particular everything else looked to be fine the fire marshal signed off and I just kind of looked at everything else it was only this particular division on the engineering and so just wanted a little bit of clarification where we stood there but um existing water main on Stimson and State Street is properly sized for this density development the water mains in Henry and white are undersized they are sized for r4c but they are undersized for c1a R I think that in the evolution of the reviews and the documentation that was documented that was noted the project team isn't has agreed is included to elected to not wait until the year 2025 when the city will be upsizing they are going to upsize as part of their project and I think that once that next review from engineering is completed the documentation will catch up that that is how that comment will be resolved got it understood um thank you thanks for the clarification um just refreshing myself on the UDC on what constitutes rezoning so for the purpose of establishing and maintaining sound stable desirable development within the territorial limits of the city um and the zoning districts has shown on the zoning map shall not be amended except to correct an error because of a change in Municipal policy or because of changing conditions in a particular area or in the municipality generally and I I would think that it actually satisfies the changing conditions of our municipality uh generally regarding the issues that we face in sustainability affordability now there's obviously been raised I think valid concerns regarding the affordability component of this um you know I I think strs are complicated uh me personally when we were looking at actually this is maybe this is kind of a segue but like adus for example I thought we could get more adus built if we actually allowed strs right if people could actually figure out a way to and be free to rent it out you know if it's an Adu in the back or something we we were pretty careful to say you know that's not the case um there is that component that history that exists of this particular petitioner and I am reading through the comments and trying to just make sure I understand but to me the intent of the rezoning um under the UDC seems to comply with what's being requested here so I'm looking at C1 AR very specifically to see if it complies on purpose statement again and I apologize if I'm just preaching at the choir because you guys obviously all read it but uh again for those listening in um or intended to encourage the orderly clustering and placement of high density residential and complementary commercial development near the campus business district so to me I was just trying to you know you guys have shown good context um is it near campus business district I think it expands it at the periphery um and I think that that is I think the answer is yes and I'm really looking at this from the lens of is it you know present future needs and best promoting public health safety morals order convenience prosperity and general welfare and I like this project I'd like to see it advance I also hear the concerns that are being voiced uh I just based on the context of the rezoning request I think it personally complies my question was mostly on the clarification actually and um and hopefully that gives enough of a thread for somebody else to pull from so I will end it there thank you else before we have any comments or questions or anything okay so shall we you've got a list yeah I mean we don't have to go through all my things I think the thing I'm still struggling with is this site these how many 10 units are in r4c which were all non-conforming we don't like well I don't like r4c I've been trying to figure out how we can move r4c to D1 or D2 as a sort of a city-wide approach we get a developer or petitioner who comes in upgrades 38 units a net of 178 new units in our heisland crisis and we say we don't want it because to do the rezoning we decouple the sustainability which we have no ability to do with our current UDC so we're in this cycle of we want things but we haven't changed the code to get the things that we want and then people come and bring the things that we want and then we tell them nope that's still not going to work so for my my part tonight I do not want to vote to postpone this I want to vote to approve this and so if we take a vote to postpone I am going to vote against that and I don't know if there is a mechanism for me or anyone who might support us moving this forward to amend the motion so that we do not postpone this I I just I just don't think it is I think we are asking for too much to try to couple our sustainability goals to this zoning without actually changing our zoning code the developers came and built or the petitioners came and presented something that our code has and then they checked all of the boxes that we wanted including the extra feet that you asked for which on Friday was not there so good job on doing that so I hear like hey let's do this let's build this but we just keep putting Roblox short-term rentals we are putting roadblocks if we rezone this a new petition can come and not have all these sustainability things so then we're just left with our non-conforming r4cs and not the housing that we need so I don't know how to do this in a Midwestern nice way but can we can we actually be honest about what is happening I'm just this is just kind of a frustrating sort of cycle so so I don't know chair get Randall or staff if there's a way to amend and if you can give me language and I can propose it and see if someone wants to Second it and then we can discuss that but I do not think we should propose postpone this because the zba is already a condition and if that gets denied the site plan won't move forward I'm just seeing commissioner speak do you want to speak or no I mean well I actually wanted to bring up something else but I mean I can respond I mean well no I I'm I'm very much interested I'm sorry I'm very much interested in figuring out procedurally what we need to do to accomplish what we're trying what what I think is before us I mean if you have more comments I guess you could I have those but I would like to respond to your suggestion that we're not being honest about what we're trying to accomplish um I have been um I've had a lot of conversations about what happens at the table and I've heard from many many different people in the city that it is not preferable for us to negotiate with a developer at the table and what I heard was a postponement would be uh what I heard was the the zba the the conditional upon the zba variance being granted is not a part of the proposal right now so we would have to add that if we didn't want to postpone but I also heard oh it is in there oh in the second one okay all right wait so the second motion is subject to the variance but also the correction is that right now we there's no motion to postpone we have been we have moved the full three emotions so to be clear to you if you are so we could just vote so we can just vote it there's nothing changing if we want to postpone it somebody needs to uh motion well I want to make that much so okay but in any case I am not what I am hearing is that we've heard a lot of ideas for what else the petitioner might offer us to ensure that we can have sustainability and housing and that those things should have further conversations and that nobody should be asked to decide on the spot because these need to be offered um it is in our place to impose them and um what but the the thing that I wanted to ask which we haven't talked about is the sentence and I want to ask this of Staff it's the sentence in the report which is highlighted in yellow on page five of 25.
so these are this is just conforming to state the classes that we have to offer requirements oh let me change your daughter for a question yeah that was the point you know the point question okay um any questions on okay uh motion uh to move to a third reading policy 6140 curriculum and 6142 basic instruction all favor right so we're voting on that on Thursday yes okay yeah and then uh is there anything I don't have anything for other oh yes really quick um policy 3542.43 which I just handed out the planning committee worked on this and the policy was required November 17th of 2022. this is the charging policy for food service we were required to do this to comply with state law we just had completed the audit the Child Nutrition program administrative review which is a big deal and we did very very well however with the state asked as one of its finding is that there has to be a declaration of the right for any child to obtain a Meetup so if you look at the third paragraph where there's a green crossout and then there's the following words were added students have the right to obtain a meal in accordance with CGS 10-215.
Michaela Ellis and Ava Lee and I'm also going to ask Michaela and Ava to please stand [Music] you guys can remain standing Michaela and Ava represented the Liberty High School class of 2023 on my student advisory Council they were the Liberty High School student voice to District leadership and for this past year and represented the student perspective with maturity honesty passion dignity and compassion thank you Michaela and Ava for your time and your commitment I believe these were the two students who maybe never missed one of the meetings so kudos to you I appreciate I appreciate both of you and know that your feedback and input has made a difference thank you [Applause] today is a big day after 13 years in school you are closing the first biggest chapter of your lives normally I would stand here and say I can only imagine how you must be feeling because let's face it it's been a few years since I graduated from high school however this year graduation ceremonies take on a whole new meaning for me because I am graduating with you as was said after 33 years of education I too am graduating not from high school but from a career and on June 30th I will officially retire and I will graduate from a fulfilling career as an educator in Academy District 20.
thank a special person for being special there will always be time for the small stuff take care of the golf balls first the things that really matter the things you will always be grateful for such your priorities because the rest is just sand congratulations graduates I thank you for allowing me to share in your celebration go forth and make your mark on this world keep what is most important a priority and live life with an attitude of gratitude thank you and congratulations to you all thank you Mr Gregory good evening class of 2023 friends family and colleagues it is my distinct privilege to now draw your attention to the academic achievements and other distinctions of our graduates the Board of Education and the District administration would like to recognize those students whose parent or parents have deployed during their four years of high school or are currently deployed in service to our nation these students are wearing a red white and blue cord with these students please stand you may be seated students wearing a blue cord please stand the blue cord is indicative of those students having participated for at least three years in afjrotc you may be seated students wearing a red cord please stand these students have each earned Straight A's at Rampart High School over the course of seven consecutive semesters students wearing the gold and blue cord please stand s wearing the gold and blue cord are inducted members of and have completed the requirements for membership in the National Honor Society students wearing the blue and white cord please stand students wearing the blue and white cord have completed the requirements for membership in deca students wearing the silver and light blue cord please stand students wearing the silver and light blue cord have completed the requirements for participation in future Business Leaders of America students wearing the purple cord please stand students wearing the purple cord have completed the requirements for Rampart High School journalism students wearing the orange cord please stand students were in the orange cord are inducted members of and have completed each of the academic requirements for membership in the international thespian Society students wearing the maroon and navy cord please stand we acknowledge students receiving a maroon and navy court for having completed a district Career and Technical education program that helps students develop the knowledge skills and abilities necessary for post-secondary and Workforce Readiness in one of the following areas Auto certified nursing assistant construction or emergency medical technician students wearing the green cord please stand students wearing the green cord have met the criteria for and earned the state and District recognition of the Seal of by literacy students wearing the bronze cord please stand students wearing the bronze cord signifies the students who participated in the international Baccalaureate diploma program course candidacy this signifies that students enrolled and tested in at least two International Baccalaureate diploma program courses during grades 11 and 12.
be your own person determine your own Journey there were some struggles in my junior year I hadn't quite found my own personal group yet there were people around me who was doing way more than I was I felt behind but some new relationships would help me push right through the sump I was in I started to explore classes that ultimately led to my choice of majoring in college which is political science these exploration in classes would also lead me to getting closer to Mr Stewart and Mr Norris simple things like building better relationships making better decisions academically and favoring my mental health our habits I build but to be honest bro Juniors seemed like the tamest year I've had at the village and naturally saving the best for last my senior at the Village gave me some of the greatest memories uh senior Sunrise Jamie and I placing out the costume contest prom and the overall relationships I've built with teachers I haven't interacted with such as Kevin and Jake the ones I've improved like Stewart and Norris and of course the student staff basketball game if this year has taught me anything is that you should always bet on yourself but in the moral words of the Village People no man does it all by himself I said young man put your pride on the Shelf Jake Kevin Norris and sewer and Flynn have all taught me how important it is to communicate with adults in your life I cannot give each of them enough credit to how much they have helped me grow as a person this year whether it be my physical health mental health or if I just need to talk to someone these staff members have taught me that it is okay to grow as a person and this I could not have done without them how honored I am that I was able to be a student of this amazing faculty and staff they've taught me how to conduct myself as a responsible young man I truly cannot thank them enough as far as for the graduates of the class of 2023 I'd like you to reflect on how these adults have made an impact in your life and have helped you accomplish your goals these teachers are the reason I saw faith in the education system thank you and congratulations to the class of 2023.
um my notes the project increases the development of the block about three times over what is currently allowed while Staff feel these increases are acceptable in order to meet the goals of the comprehensive plan exceeding them is not staff recommends approval provided without variance and I just wanted to ask is there any way to get to 311 far which is the maximum allowable plus The Pedestrian premium uh do you have any other ways other than build this building without parking build this building without a park is there another way staff um I think it doesn't matter where the about 24 000 square feet come from in terms of compliance it can come from the top floor can come from a middle floor it can come from the parking area can the building could be maybe narrowed a foot all around whatever the numbers work out um but there's a probably a a great number of ways to reduce the building by a total of about 24 000 square feet can I just clarify a few things so with the reduction it's if we were to meet the required 311 percent it's either essentially shrinking the building losing losing Apartments which we obviously don't want to do or it would be losing the parking which we also think does is not feasible for the project the unique thing I don't think we pointed out in the code is that within the UDC if the parking is at least 50 underground it does not actually count towards the far so that's the unique stipulation we can't do that because of the high water table and so that's why we feel we have the hardship to actually ask zba for the variants so it's only the distinction between it being 50 or more underground rather than at grade but does that get you if if that comes completely out of the equation it's still not under 300 though right it is with the premiums we meet we then meet the far requirements okay I get it everybody's looking at each other does anybody actually want to speak and commissioner Abrams I feel confused and I think maybe there's a misunderstanding going on here so um just to clarify is staff is this is the staff um position that the project as presented to us this evening does or does not meet c1ar it's currently within the 300 percent with the 8000 premium [Music] right now it's 24 000 square feet too big sorry assuming if it gets the variance if it gets the variance then then the variance effectively changes the standard right but if but if we if we were to approve it tonight it would always be with the stipulation that the variance must be approved right so so what we would be voting on tonight would meet staff's level of approve of of what they're asking for I don't think so so with the variance it meets the 300 percent yeah but yeah their thing is they recommend approval without variants did you not that is my staff recommendation that is what I understood yes but in terms of procedures if the variance is granted my recommendation is sort of moot um the variance is in hand it Me by definition it meets the code it meets the code but it is it exceeds and you don't you're not comfortable with that is what you wrote in the report yeah my um my staff position is more on principle and more philosophical I will always I will draw that Line in the Sand for a discretionary approval as um as meet the standards but don't exceed and you will have my support and that is um you know I agree with a lot of all of the statements at the table but for consistency in applying the code for being treating everyone uniformly if someone says I would like to rezone my I'm considering rezoning to this site it's a great and also propose a site plan that meets those standards whatever the district would be um and there with the discretionary decision such as rezoning um the standards are does it meet the goals of the comprehensive plan that's somewhat subjective that is discretionary um and so at some point you need to draw a line in the sand what when when does it meet when does it not meet when is it too big when is it too small when does it further our goals when does it impede our goals and my my principal is meeting the standards as written now there's procedures and there's the zoning you can get a variance and the variance that's what a variance does it changes the the standard for this particular site and that's also that's an entirely separate body they come to their they have their own findings they have their own approval criteria I can make a recommendation to them too and they don't have to follow it either I mean I didn't but like I I am only providing a recommendation the Planning Commission is a in this case they are a recommending body to the plant I'm sorry to the city council um I have provided you with my advice pros and cons what are the implications what are the ramifications what are the what is the precedent setting but in the end you need it is your determination uh for the rezoning does it meet the goals of the master plan have the conditions changed in the city as uh commissioner Lee well articulated does the site plan it is a fact the site plan as drawn does not meet the standards of the c1ar district if they receive a variance it does um what is your opinion about the site plan um and then the I mean it's a lesser but the alley vacation what is your recommendation to how the city council should act um and you are free to come up with the same conclusion that I have um radically different or marginally different um just as the city council can take your recommendation can take what maybe the zoning board of appeals has done and say and my staff recommendation and say we've come to a third conclusion or fourth conclusion and that is the way that the process has been set up and that the way the process is worked and it will continue to work that way commissioner Mills before I move to postpone I want to address something that commissioner white said because I think it's really important here which is I don't love the idea of putting like additional stipulations on things I think that we need to rethink uh clearly what our zoning is overall and not on a block by block basis I think that you that we may disagree though and I think that's part of the community conversation that we're having right now with the comprehensive planning process because I think that there is not a community consensus on whether it should be D1 or c1ar or D2 or something else and so that's where until that time I want this project to go forward but in the meantime I think that there's a we know that the two things that were among the things that we're asking of the consultant in this is like help us weigh housing sustainability like where the balance is because we can't have it all and where is the comfort for both you know um kind of how how do we what's the prioritize and like how much housing in in which places so that's why like I I I'm with you I don't and honestly I would much rather have this be in a normal Zone rather than a whole bunch of makeup things but in the meantime this seems like there's a couple paths forward from my mind which is um this could be the right zoning with some possible if offered up changes um or there's another kind of make your own zoning ordinance or zoning District um potential but that's so that's my position now I am going to move to post we will have conversation about the postponement if that's like but you can you can talk before I move to postpone well I just I wanted to ask you specifically a question um or just or it's to everybody I guess but you might be well suited to respond to it um which is that in in deliberating over uh a desire to see a PUD or a c1a or Zone rezoning with conditions or it just staying r4c um I guess on the one hand I'm wondering about the um what am I trying to say I think what I'm trying to say is that the the rezoning petition in front of us to see when AR is undoubtedly no matter what would get built there better than what exists would you agree I think what I'm struggling with is it's not like we actually get a menu and we get to order from it so we can we can kind of so like here's an amazing project and yeah it's true that there is this kind of like catastrophic what-if scenario where we rezone and the project falls through and then something gets built there and it's not sustainable but it wouldn't it would always be better than what is there now in terms of sorry in terms of meeting very specific goals for housing density housing availability mixed use potentially this didn't include the sustainability elements it would be difficult to convince me that that that creating a new patch of c1ar makes sense here but 200 units of housing is better than 38 right I agree but at the same at the same time I don't know that we've had that Community conversation I don't I think we would have that different people I think that I I would imagine that sentiments may be different if this were not an all-electric building I am 99 sure that they would be different if the and that's why I'm that's why I'm trying to like this runs with the land and so yeah if it doesn't pass like right now nothing's going to get built because they're an online conforming and if it's rezoned honestly nothing will get built if they can't conform to that except you could have a building that comes in and would it be better I kind of want to I kind of need to run the I don't know because because also there's so many other elements that could possibly be part of that um I think going I don't know I I'm happy with I'm not pushing just to be clear I'm not pushing this towards a PUD okay if that's like what's in your head if this is if if if we know that if it's tied to this site plan I have a lot more Comfort to be honest but that's not what was before us tonight it's not necessarily tied to this site plan um and so I yeah I think that there's a lot of benefits in this I think that this is moving Us in the right direction but I also think it's it it is in the context of a of an overall change in our place and doing this on a on a Case by case basis just seems like instead we should be rezoning whole swaths and that's what makes me feel a little bit uncomfortable especially rezoning with these conditions towards something that I'm not sure would be the zoning that if we were to rezone that entire neighborhood would be the right zoning like we haven't had that conversation at all so I don't disagree I think what I'm struggling with is that this here comes a project that is you know by all accounts and by by everybody's what they've shared this evening like an incredible project and one that kind of checks all the things that we are always asking for in the kinds of development here and yet we're gonna kind of hold firm on this one it's hard it's just like it just feels like we kind of move the what is that expect yeah we move the goal post in a way um and there are projects that come before and I guess we have that discretion because it requires the rezoning and that is this moment when we can do that but this project in a way like already meets all of the things we would typically ask for at this pivotal moment when we can ask for things um and in some ways I feel like well what's going to put this project at risk it might be something like Perpetual postponement um so I think I think this is you know as I said I think last time I was in the last meeting for me is always about trade-offs nothing is always very straightforward and so I'm trying to weigh the risk to the project um and the message that we send by making development here so difficult and postponing against yeah the risk we take in approving the rezoning and having this project not come to fruition and what might happen there in its place so I think that's just where my thinking is just to be transparent um but I think at this moment I would not be in favor of postponement commissioner Lee did you oh sure I was hoping to articulate what I was hearing from Sarah um commissioner Mills um there is an element of like does this feel like spot zoning right like the when you look at the continuity of the overall Zone kind of going down it's it's our 4C now I'm pulling up the 2009 Land Use plan I mean even though that's you know 14 15 years ago now it's what we have right so we're obviously in that process right now it does categorize it as South multi-family so in in some elements of it I'm like I feel the moments of the current comprehensive plan do to a certain extent support it but I I just wanted to articulate the hesitation of saying you know now we got all of this again r2a r4c bam C1 AR you know that's that's way up there um so so I'm just looking at it from so I just wanted to articulate you know maybe that hesitancy is why that might be there um and the the counter I suppose that I would have is in accordance with the 2009 Land Use plan is it currently is ratified um South multi-family would some it would fit uh with our current comprehensive plan so I just wanted to articulate that point but by also I hear you loud and clear it does feel like one blood Zone you know Island and the sea but also I completely hear the we can't keep moving you know it feels like we're moving goal posts because this is more than we could ask of any petitioner right this is an excellent project that's kind of what I prefaced it with so um so a bit of a I'm somewhat torn I don't have uh I don't know which way I lean right now so but just wanted to articulate that thanks Clerk um I just want to say thanks to commissioner Lee for kind of articulating what I'm finding difficult with this far better than I could have um while a project is absolutely fantastic I'm not sure that um the community benefits of it are a factor with the rezoning aspect and that's just kind of a big question and again uh commission religious articulated it far better than I could and I just wanted to kind of thank you for that comment can I say something really quick um so I think we're kind of talking about this as spot zoning and our approach as a team was not spot zoning and I thought that I that's what I heard you were saying commissioner Lee in the sense that it is adjacent to campus program the comprehensive plan is asking for increased residential and it's a mixed use site kind of what um commissioner Abrams was saying so we didn't do tc1 for several reasons the the building massing would have been taller it would have cast a larger Shadow on our neighbors and we thought it wasn't right for this area and we also didn't do a PUD because we wanted to use a buy right zoning to fit into our comprehensive plan so we did look at other Zone types um but it does seem a little bit like we're kind of talking about these conditions onto a buy right zoning that don't necessarily apply to the UDC so I did just want to say we did look at other zoning types we thought this was the best and it actually fits into what potentially could be rezoned in this neighborhood um not spot zoning that was our approach any other comments yeah I guess I just want to reiterate that I'd really like this to be real housing and that we're talking about housing as we're going along here and that by doing this we are essentially making it possible for them to have no long-term in here so just realize that we as as it as we have it right now there is no guarantee that there's long-term housing as part of this which would not be addressing our housing needs so for me I would like to have some sort of assurance in some way shape or form obviously that's has to come from you can't come from us but that's um I I believe in our housing need and I really want this I want this project and I really want it to address it in a genuine way so I just wanna leave you with that did you I don't know that it will be supported but I would like to move to postpone this to uh uh whatever date certain if that makes sense um I think we're mostly talking about language of conditions and hopefully wrapping up some staff comments so I would I would suggest June 21st it's a month um to give us some so yes I would recommend a date specific and that would be my initial recommendation of a time frame the net the first June meeting is not a possibility um we will do whatever is desired but you already have a pretty full agenda on the fifth okay um and I think that would be kind of tight just to have any sort of meaningful back and forth with the project Team all right so are you proposing that second or that second public Hearing in June uh postpone until then okay okay I will second it discussion of the proposed oh commissioner dish then commissioner White uh just a question of Staff um this is not the last vote on this project so if this body were to choose not to postpone informed by the discussion that has happened this evening could staff continue these conversations with the developer so that it would come to city council reflecting some of what has been learned this evening and what is Steph's what might staff's preference be um I may not address the preference part but yes the project is already going toward to the zoning board of appeals on next week and um whether I guess whether or not it's postponed I think in about a month say four weeks time we will have wrapped up all the outstanding departmental comments and so we would move to schedule it then um for city council action and it's the normal course of business in our cover letter if you will to the city council what were the what was discussed at what were the the concerns or what was the discussion summarized of the City Planning Commission and then if if any were addressed how were they addressed did that's sort of their normal process for giving a quick update to city council what were the Planning Commission concerns and how they were addressed and as you know there are often city council members who follow along projects and that they can provide their own background for those things if it's postponed this is more formalized but if it's not postponed if the emotions on the floor are um are approved tonight it was it's a little less formal but that is still the normal course of business Mr Abrams oh I'm sorry I we actually commissioner white was that's okay um I think I wanted to just say one I don't support the postponement um I don't support it because this is not the end point of this conversation it does go on to the legislative body and we don't do spot zoning at this table we only make recommendations because city council is the person or the body that actually does the zoning in our community so I just don't think I take all those things and this will be the one time I'm not Midwestern nice they're Straw Men commissioner Abrams I wanted a clarification on the last question that commissioner dish asked but if we approve the motion on the table and don't postpone we are approving a specific set of conditions in a conditional zoning statement of conditions and are you suggesting that new conditions could be added to that in between now and city council that is enabled that that is that can be accommodated that's interesting because it's like written into our motion but then that can be changed I but I want to be the city council gets their own motion yeah that could happen but I just I just I would urge the Planning Commission to take the action that you feel if you feel that those are necessary those should be in the body that you are the city council is asking for your advice if if they're not necessary pass it as it is if you feel strongly that those should be in there I I wouldn't recommend that you leave it to me to be the Arbiter of this is what I think the Planning Commission manner Mentor this is what I don't think they meant problem commissioner Clerk so forgive me if this is kind of like a silly basic question but I'm curious just on like a hypothetical if we were to approve and let's say go City through Council I'm not saying this is a likely scenario or could happen or whatnot but just theoretically if the developer were to get approval of the rezoning and then sell it did we land on the environmental requirements are tied to the zoning change so like or they could sell the property in theory and somebody could buy it they'd have the buy right zoning without the requirements correct yeah there would be no requirements for sustainability there'd be no requirements for Energy Efficiency there'd be no requirements for Mass Timber or solar and that's if Council were to approve um the rezoning as presented yeah so and then it's really a PUD is what's required to tie those Community benefits to the rezoning is that correct or unless they offer unless they offer okay thank you that's I just wanted to make sure that was like kind of spoken out in plain language yeah just another effect just another factor I think I've heard a lot of Commissioners say recognize that the Pud is not necessarily what you're looking for just as a reminder that also has the requirement of affordable housing that's going to add a pretty significant cost to this development I don't know what that is um but I'm going to guess it would be in the two and a half to four million dollar range I wasn't necessarily suggesting PD was I was just curious about distinction yeah no I and I've heard that but I just I just want to add that that's another reason why this petitioner might not want to see PUD that you specifically heard by right that has a real cost factor for development any more discussion on the motion or commissioner Abrams I'm still undecided over here so one thing that would help me would be to hear from my fellow Commissioners who are in favor of postponement what it is they're hoping will happen in the time between now and June 21st thanks Mr Mills I am from zba about whether that stipulation on the site plan is possible because this then factors into how staff or whether that variance is um is granted because that factors into in some parts staff's recommendation um overall the other thing is that I would imagine that the developer May well I'm hoping that a lot of the concerns of other staff in this building who were reviewing this are tidied up because I think that there's some outstanding staff elements that we didn't actually talk very much about tonight but like knowing that that's all done that's my lesser concern um if there are any changes that the proposer would like to make to the rezoning petition um I think that's um that's what I'm interested in seeing that too so number one and number three of what I gave are the key things that I think would happen in that time yep and for me the number three which is um you know that up sorry then the number three is important in that there's some sort of quantification some sort of something or that this is going to be actually long-term housing um and um and maybe this is really kind of a larger issue in some ways about like how we allow this District to be okay for short-term rentals maybe that's something else to add to our work plan to discuss I don't know but it it is an issue for um for for how we experience housing in this city um so that's what I would be looking for in that time commissioner dish I'm also going to support postponement um because I would like to hear back from the zba because if the variance isn't granted they're going to be significant changes to the site plan either the Park's going to have to go or the cars are going to have to be swimming or you know I know that's catastrophic and I I would like there to be space for the petitioner and staff to consider what further offers the petitioner might make and I did hear the developer of The Architects before the developers say that the sustainability features improve the financial viability of the project and so I am fairly confident that they're willing to offer those um but I would it's a it's a lot easier on Council if what comes from the Planning Commission is what the Planning Commission intends to approve and also what happens on Council two is people imagine the best case scenario but you all are very experienced and you've seen things not happen right and so you remind us no you haven't approved X you've approved the possibility of X but it's also the possibility of a really messy building that doesn't have any sustainability features and that's your job is to provide that foresight and thoughtfulness and I can try to say that on Council but it doesn't always get heard and the meetings are you know full of stuff and so I think here is a good place for us to to send a clear message of what we're trying to support and I don't think that a month is a catastrophic delay and I um so I don't I don't think that we're trying to Scuttle this at all and and I think I'm I think that we are not taking the advice of Staff in that we are stipulating to the zba variants and I'd like to hear staff when they advise that we offer them time to discuss further for the for the things that the petitioner might like to include in the thing so I guess it's it's complicated for me I'm trying to hear all the voices at the table did you want to say something thank you for reading my eyes from so far away since I'm masked it's like um yeah I'm just I I really am having a problem with our procedure tonight uh is what I'm realizing because um if I don't think it should have come to the table yet I think I think this um an extra month doesn't cost you anything but I imagine it costs you quite a bit um and and so I I wish we would have approached this differently I wish we would have delayed it if if zba is going to be the linchpin then we should have delayed it pending the zba but we often approve Things based on zba so it's we're just I just don't like what this feels like it's it's just like we finally have a petitioner who's doing what we're asking without us using the tool of the Pud to extract it and uh this process is it seems fraught with so many moving parts that it can be hard to figure out what to expect and to plan at the here especially on something we want like I don't mind it on things we don't want to because it you know it's like oh we don't want that so you'll have to start all over in your process but um yeah yeah I wish I would I wish this would have come if if the zba is going to be this conditional piece because that hits the issue of the far since the two things were the 19 feet setback in the far we got the 19 feet set back again thank you but the far we can't get because they have to go through this process because of the water table and so it just feels like an unnecessary delay uh to postpone it and then bring it back and then send it Forward were you all planning to break ground this year if the um approvals were in place it would not be this year no okay so because how many other steps we have to go through and we've already been going through months of delays so every month is another yeah like you actually three months it's not really a month here it's more like great three-month delay it that pushes everything else back because you got to get to the next schedule the next schedule so uh it does impact everything um quite considerably especially if we're planning to do things like geothermal which need to happen earlier we need to get into the ground earlier uh then the building foundations do stuff like that can I ask for a clarification too from Brett and Alexis so would it if if we were to get tabled at this meeting would it be the intent that we would actually go before zba before then we meet back before plan Commission because my understanding was it typically we like to do that we first go to Planning Commission receive a conditional approval and then go to zba um your the public hearing has been advertised you are going to the zba on May 24th um okay the the order of operations is not um established or required by code the norm is Planning Commission zba City Council but the only required order of operations is city council last just wanted clarification so are we ready for a vote on postponement commissioner Lee I just did want to point out that it is it is a fact that there's a tremendous carrying cost to holding land um and you know paying for Consultants civil architecture so um and and I certainly want to make sure that petitioners feel that we're like we're in this together right we're all trying to effectuate this together and so again I do feel torn because I think the core issue I hear commissioner weish loud and clear and I think we need to with the urgency of the climate that we have we should be trying to effectuate this quickly and that we should be working together towards this um and I think the challenge is just simply that once a rezoning occurs once you move forward that we have to make sure that that is the correct Zone and there's a little bit of hesitation and that hesitation almost merits and that's the trade-off in the balance that I'm struggling to make right now because I don't want you to feel like it's this table against the petitioners right because again I want people to recognize I mean I was just doing some back in the nap now it can cost I mean it's easily going into twenty thirty thousand dollars in additional costs just in mortgage interest alone right so um when you're looking at the holding costs it's significant and so I I would like for us to also act with urgency the fact that zba is May 24th that it could hopefully align I mean that makes me want to say I don't care if we have a a long agenda June 6th I'd like to hear it June 6th I I'd like to um try and balance to the certain be respectful of the fact that there are tremendous hearing loss and they have come to the table with really an excellent project and that's what I led with I also feel that there are valid concerns about the um the longevity and the the permanence of this rezoning while we have a Antiquated 2009 Land Use plan uh and and for us to assume what the the new comprehensive plan will impute and that's not to say you know actually as I'm looking at the context there are kind of a lot of just dots when you kind of go up you know South Industrial you know it's throughout so is this the right Zone that's ultimately what we're tasked here with is the nature of short-term rentals appropriate for this area that is the question that we're trying to Grapple with and I think that and if we aren't you know if we're not 100 sure I I also want to make sure and recognize that we are trying to do this together with you um if this gets postponed then I absolutely 100 want to make sure this gets on as soon as possible and not have to continue to wait um and so just just trying to voice that you know level of urgency and we should be tackling this with our petitioners not saying yeah we you know maybe in a little bit so moisture Mills this is a question for staff and then I actually I want to ask petitioners probably something um how many votes does it take for a the amendment to pass to amend a motion to amend the motion uh be the majority of votes but it would take so the majority could have modified emotion but it takes six votes to affirmatively pass on a recommendation to the city council so another way to say that you could with five votes you could modify the motion to strike the requirement that it requires 19 feet or that it be conditioned upon zba status but you would need six votes if that five votes was the final vote on that motion as modified that would be a denial a technical denial even though they denial it would be a denial it would be a diet no got it okay so this is it's really important that some of that I'm not comfortable with the zoning as is right now the rezoning as is so if this is not postponed right like I'm gonna be at least one no vote on the whole thing and so I know that there's a cost associated with this and I want this to happen and so my question to you is and I don't I don't we don't count votes ahead of time I don't know what other people are thinking you can try to read that um what do you prefer do you prefer us to postpone it or do I'm just curious not that we will but we're right now deciding about postponement so do you prefer that we postpone it or do you prefer that we have a vote tonight I so I would prefer that we vote to approve it with a condition that the zba also uh has their say on it as well with with that one with that one variance so the conditions you know that you're also asking for assist for sustainability on that site plan or on the rezoning I think it's important to note that having right having more housing on that site already does contribute to a better sustainable environment because less people are traveling further distances more people live in a denser area so one any building of any type that already checks the the one sustainability box I want clarification I guess on conditions to adjust it where I heard that it's the conditions are to reduce something and not to add so we've already um I mean we've come to the table with a lot of ads on the project that we're aiming to do and we've we've tied deep into the project so that they don't go away um and then we've reduced you know we don't have gas going to the site we have none of that um and so other factors I guess could you clarify what you mean by conditions to reduce yeah so and that's the requirement I think for for what kind of conditions can be added from my perspective I I um I'll let staff explain that more clearly if what is built here if what ultimately gets built on the site is what we're seeing in the site plan I'm happy as a clam awesome and so but if but because there are two different actions there's three different actions but the really the two actions and that they they appear to be tied together but they're not actually tied together right now that's the concern that I have and so something that ties them together solves that concern in my mind but but what I have to vote on tonight does not tie them together and so that's why I can't vote tonight to support the rezoning component of this because like at least that one of the three emotions I can't vote to support that one tonight um because because the second action which I am comfortable voting on which is contingent on zba action like I'm cool with the site plan so long as zba is um and I'm fine with the with the vacation so it's it's that it's that first one that's associated with the rezoning because it's not actually coupled together that I'm uncomfortable with it so um I think in terms of what I think staff was saying before about the conditions that you can offer you can't say um CA see what you can say better than I can but like you can't say we we're giving ourselves more far but you can say right like more development potential but instead you can say Works we're constraining this site for the future to to something not being more expansive but but more restrictive or like tying their hands more is that you guys can probably say it better no I said it okay yeah that's exactly right the a conditional a statement on a condition a conditional offer a condition offered could take a district that has a maximum of far and further restrict it to a lower far a proposed condition cannot take a district that provides a 400 far and affect a 450 far so commissioner Mills would it would it what appease you then if we actually then tied in the site plan approval with the conditional rezoning because we are comfortable with doing that so all the sustainable initiatives that we were proposing through the project would then be tied in with the conditional rezone from my perspective I am comfortable with that but I also want to make sure that From staff's perspective that makes sense if and I mean I'm happy to get to something else and I also heard some other folks that were uncomfortable with other elements of this site so the plan or the rezoning potentially so that's speaking for me but staff is that a feasible thing yes it's feasible um I that would be a more specific direction that I think staff could work with the petitioner as this advances um but I I want to be clear that that is most likely going to have the effect of locking in this site so that only this project can be built in any change to it is going to require a rezoning or any time you will change to a site plan that would otherwise be administratively approved so I I don't know what like typically that's exactly the language that we would we would reference we would say that any administrative adjustments can be made yeah um you recently had a petition come back to your table that had that language they wanted to modify something that didn't meet that test so it requires a rezoning so absolutely we could do that that is a more specific Direction I would go so far as to say that we a staff would be comfortable working with them after this meeting before this progresses to city council to do that but I I just want to name that that is that's a pretty significant locking down of this site and you have to come back no matter what if if things don't happen the way you want with zba because if you do that then no matter what you're coming back maybe even more than a month right like that requires a whole lot more yeah instead of it being I think instead of all it's something as simple as saying it ties to electrification this site can only have electrification no gas connections can come to this site if is that's a condition because then that leads people to use you would have to use different you could use different elements in different mechanical systems that are more efficient that are not burning fossil fuels but it's a simple move that um adds that that condition so no so it would reduce it would limit so you couldn't bring natural gas to the site all right go ahead sorry Mr Abrams just as procedurally if I understand correctly you need six affirmative votes in order for this to move to city council there are seven of us sitting up here you can only afford one no vote I have a I'm just this is maybe totally inappropriate I just feel like it's going to be hard to get there and I think instead of having it voted down a postponement is probably preferable what happens if it goes up for a vote it gets voted down then it goes on to city council with a recommendation with denial right okay but it still goes to the city council but it does still go to City Council in any case um I'm just looking at the numbers actually though I am curious to hear what commissioner dish would say how city council would View discussing or passing something that has been denied by Planning Commission can I have her okay thanks yeah we had this recently and it was because of a recusal right you know just very recently we had not enough people here and one uh commissioner Lee was recused and so we had a technical denial that went forward right that there's no actual such animal as a technical denial but to use it to describe when all of the votes are are positive but it didn't meet the threshold right so it was it it is recorded as a denial but um we feel or a lot of people feel that it it's a different message when all of the people voted in favor of it but it didn't pass versus when there was the opportunity for a unanimous positivity but some people voted um voted no so it's just more of a it's a Vibe than a actual procedural aspect thank you for clarifying um yeah commissioner Lee uh yeah for what it's worth uh let me just be perfectly clear I would be against postponement and I would vote in favor of this project we are talking you know the more I'm I feel that we have given it due diligence I think we have had very thoughtful discussions I would love to see this project happen the carrying costs are very difficult the more I think about it would we be comfortable would I be comfortable with the city would it be in the best interest of the city to see greater intensity of use in this particular site I think the answer is yes um short-term rentals again complex question uh would we have we have long said I think we want affordability and sustainability those are two Hallmarks of what we ask for we have engaged citizens here and I thank you all by the way for for sitting here and listening to again us to liberate and it's because we do care we want to make sure that we're making the best decision possible in the best interest of the city um so I just out of transparency and like commissioner white said saying Midwestern nice no longer kind of thing let me just be perfectly clear about you know the way I'm going to vote which is I would be against postponement and I would be in favor of recommending this for approval so let me just make that unequivocal oh sorry commissioner white I just have a question for Mr Leonard so uh does a postponement require six affirmative votes or a majority of the members voting this moment would be the majority of members voting because it's not okay it's a simple majority so if for um planning Commissioners vote in favor of postpone met if you were whipping the votes uh the postponement will happen and uh and then we will see them on the 21st of June four or five simple majority yeah commissioner dish sorry to be talking so much so um I I do agree that it is delightful to see sustainability and residential development you brought up uh adu's commissioner Lee and we did have a discussion a number of council members had a discussion this body probably had a discussion because you guys discussed it when I was yet here um and the market pushes for strs because you can make a lot more money with them and I I completely understand the idea that um some portion of this project might be used as strs uh as it gets itself on its feet and those transition away completely understand that but again let's take the scenario where this project doesn't survive and we do attach the sustainability we do receive a sustainability offer from from you which is wonderful my understanding is that the funding is not fully secured for this project yet and let's just say it doesn't happen and so it moves on and that means we have just approved something that could have 218 strs in it forever because that's what this zoning allows and our decision on why we wouldn't allow it with the adus is because council's policy intent in permitting adus was to create more opportunities for people to live in Ann Arbor not to stay for a month or a weekend but to live in Ann Arbor and so I just want to be really clear that I don't see the c1ar zoning as preferable to what is there if it's not a sustainable project and if I'm not opening the door wide for a whole huge building full of of single-term rentals and I'm not talking about you right now talking about another thing and that is what we are doing and so I have been reminded in the past that the reason why strs aren't appropriate for adus is that it conflicts with council's policy goal and I feel like I don't think that we're all thinking entirely clearly about our policy goal right now with respect to what residential means so I I am going to support postponement and I I am I'm sorry about the cost to you I am sorry about that but I would have to believe that the zoning would be better no matter what and I can't say that are we ready for a vote then on postponement so the motion is still to postpone to June 21st uh commissioner Gib Randall yes commissioner Abrams no commissioner dish yes commissioner Lee no commissioner Clark yes commissioner Mills yes commissioner White no uh four votes in the affirmative the item is postponed to the June 21st meeting thank you I think I think we all really want this to happen people so we're going to see how we can get there why don't we take a short break so that we we've been sitting here for a long time so let's just uh let's just say five minutes so that we don't get home too late already we are on um item nine we are on item 9B which is the annexations for Ann Arbor Township um this is uh hang on a second here city of Ann Arbor petition state of Michigan to approve the annexation of a number of Township Islands Parcels in Ann Arbor Township the director of the state of Michigan's Licensing and Regulatory Affairs Lara Department recently approved the annexation of the following 11 Parcels 2775 Newport Road 2737 Newport Road 2466 Newport Road 2318 Newport Road 2354 Newport Road 2108 Newport Newport Road 1375 Berg Road 1429 Bird Road 2114 Victoria Circle 2118 Victoria Circle 2126 Victoria Circle uh the city of Ann Arbor has now initiated the rezoning of these partials to our 1A single-family detached after the Planning Commission public hearing this rezoning petition will be sent to city council for final approval staff recommendation is approval do we uh have any kind of we have a very brief uh staff report city council passed a resolution in 2011 directing staff to begin a process of annexing Township Islands within the city's ultimate service boundary consistent with boundary agreements reached with Anna versile and Pittsfield townships approximately 500 Township Island parcel still exist between the three townships within the city's ultimate service area recently Laura approved the annexation of 26 vacant Parcels in South Township but denied the city's petitions to Annex Parcels in Ann Arbor and Episcopal townships that was around two of our city initiated annexations um um the um that decision was contested by our attorney's office and on January 11 2023 the director of Laura approved the annexation of the 11 Ann Arbor Township Parcels before you this evening but denied the annexation of the remaining Parcels now that the 11 Parcels have been annexed a City Zoning designation must be established staff recommends r1a for all of the parcels since they are surrounded by irony zoning and single-family zoning is consistent with the recommendations of the land use element of the comprehensive plan staff recommends that the petition be approved because the parcels are within the city's ultimate service boundary and are consistent with the uses and intent of the r1a Zony district and R1 a and the r1a zoning district is compatible with surrounding zoning districts that's my staff report okay we will move on to the public hearing so this is an opportunity for people to pick up it is getting late people sorry for persons to speak up to three minutes we'll first call on folks here and then move remotely for those listening remotely pressed R9 if on your phone or raise hand through the web link for phone access call 877-853-5247 and enter meeting ID 977-6634-1226 to unmute press star six City staff will select callers I think you all know the rest of this so let's see if anybody here would like to speak on this petition if so please state your name and address come on up uh yes my name is Robert marins I'm 2466 one of the seven properties that is to be annexed into the city uh I just found out about it within the past few weeks I think it's effective as of the beginning of the year and uh I was initially objecting to the annexation part of a large group that petitioned the boundary commission and you may know the history there was a back and forth between the boundary commission and the city and it was brought before a judge and uh the decision was made to exempt most of the properties except for the seven Parcels of which I was one one of my points that I made when I spoke before the boundary commission was the environmental impact of the not the annexation per se but the Damage Done to the environment with the removal of trees vegetation uh because of the insulation the forced insulation of utility line sewers water and so forth that's going to be particularly impactful on my property and several large trees are going to be have to be removed to provide the water access as well as the sewer actress so I just wanted to mention to the Planning Commission as well as to city council that this is a factor that should be considered in the future the environmental impacts of annexation and the forced hookups of sewer and water I think the the number of trees that are going to be have to be removed from my property and other properties needs to be considered When taking into account future annexations so that was the main thing I wanted to mention thank you thank you for your comments um anybody in line virtually we do call her with the phone number ending with three four one you can press star six to unmute your phone and address the commission for three minutes go ahead um I'd like to address the public hearing about zoning mixed-use plan uh this is George so isn't that the same type of thing you know excuse me ma'am this we have another time in the agenda where you can speak on what you're you're covering but right now this public hearing is for the annexation and if you can be patient enough to Wade through this okay yeah so if you can just uh let us get through this next agenda item um then we just have a couple more before you'd have a chance to be able to say something thank you very much anybody else Alex Lowe you have three minutes to address the Planning Commission um once again I want to complain about the default zoning that seems to be offered on all of these uh contracts at annexations these the zoning that's provided is is basically whether to add its first and make and make it the least useful people at a piece of land in the city it should default to D1 or T4 tc1 and it can get negotiated down from there please thank you anybody else no there's any person okay I will read the motion which is the anniversary Planning Commission hereby recommends that the Marion city council approved two 775 Newport Road to 737 Newport Road 2466 Newport Road 2354 Newport Road 2318 Newport Road 2108 Newport Road 1429 Bird Road 1375 Burt Road 2116 Victoria Circle 2118 Victoria Circle in 2114 Victoria Circle for rezoning to r1a single-family dwelling they have a motion commissioner Lee seconded by commissioner sovay discussion commissioner White all right um so while I appreciate the careful analysis that has been conducted to bring these Township Islands into the city I find myself in opposition of this proposal for this area to be rezoned r1a our city is currently facing a pressing housing crisis and it's crucial that we utilize every opportunity to create more housing particularly denser housing that can accommodate more residents as such I want to ask staff whether there would be another zoning designation that could work here I was thinking r4c but we don't love r4c for a lot of reasons but something that would allow for the construction of multi-family dwellings I recognize that the parcels in question including the land that's near the Steiner School present a unique opportunity to present or to meet this pressing need by zoning these areas with a higher housing density we can increase housing capacity while still allowing single-family homes therefore making a very valuable contribution to the alleviation of our housing shortage so are there any other options because r1a has a minimum lot size of 20 000 square feet that is a very large footprint 000.
and the rest of it would stay so the state was really being specific that you have to have a declaration of the right so we think this would satisfy that the reason I wanted to bring it to the policy committee tonight is just to let you know that we will have to add this as a policy recommendation for consideration um and what I'd like to be able to do is in the audit response that we have to provide to the state by May 29 is just to be able to say that the policy committee is aware that this will be taken up for possible adoption and adjustment future meetings because I know what kind of tight we may not does it have to be adopted no like do we have to fast track it or anything like that you know I don't think we need to because I know there's another two more policy committee meetings possibly by June 30th so if we're at the second reading and then we adopt in August I think we're fine but I just wanted to let the policy committee know that this is coming I think it's just kind of dotting the eye and crossing the t as far as the State Department of Ed Food Service program requirements are concerned um so first of all this policy no parents ever going to see it does this get communicated to parents in any way or is it something you you just normally communicated on an ongoing annual basis anyway so this is just making the got it okay okay so from your perspective this probably has no budgetary impact oh zero yeah it doesn't yeah it's not going to change anything but the the charging is a major issue on a budget perspective so what do you mean the charging the the amount of money owed by families particularly during that window where remember our meals were free and then like Jan went to March one or something yeah [Music] was ten thousand dollars which we never had that much outstanding for any one year as we did in that you know and that's a day period so that's a standalone budget right if uncollected balances from parents have to be repaid to food service programs by the board of education's operating budget okay so we're trying to collect the funds all right now we're being pretty aggressive about it I'm not sending it to a collection agency so we are trying to collect those funds but of that ten thousand dollars just off the top of your head I mean are most of the families able to pay it I mean so many families will not be able to pay some of them able to pay it none of them able to pay it the ones that were eligible for free and reduced but would not be included in that pool because they were free and reduced eligible okay I got that so I think I'm probably not understanding this fully I'm thinking that you had a window it was probably like a month and a half or so is it fair to say that you know most of the people who didn't pay during that window work snap families yeah the free and reduced you you were charging you're free yeah so of the 10 so the wait so you're saying of the ten thousand dollars basically all of it's collectible or most of it most of it what I'm saying is most of it is not free and produced in the family should pay it yeah got it is that is that a situation where if um the uh balance remains let's say at the beginning of next year what do we have the option of of uh cutting them off from using our system or anything like that that's what you no longer do under right on the state law discharging but you would have you'd force them like during that money instead of there you can't tell them you can't go to gym class that you can't go on the school trip that no no I'm in like the uh the payment system you know how you could use um uh what is it called my school box to charge up your account you can't cut them off from that and say well you know you have a balance that's way overdue so until it's paid you can't use that yeah so what can you get to get a meal you never wanted to put the student in the center of an adult problem yes but that's one way of looking at that yeah it's not to shame the student I don't even want to suddenly we go back to the parent but we could not have any ramification that would negatively affect the student on the lunch line or participation in any other programs or anything that we provide to the student so in theory and I certainly hope this doesn't happen but I mean people kids could just kids and parents could just stop right they could just refuse to pay anything and the kids will keep eating and they could push it and it could become a much bigger issue that I don't know where it ends up but in theory that could happen based on state law yes and ultimately you could end up in collections issue okay which for them which nobody really wants good on that road but you know you could abuse it so tonight we'll just say that we have an understanding that this will be on the agenda for our next meeting right for first for appreciating right yes so if so I'm just curious on June 30th if you've got ten thousand dollars or any amount does do we end up voting on that in some way when because we're normally doing like one vote I think to move it around the six buckets yeah we go this Falls outside the six buckets right no no when I present the closing transfers will include whatever outstanding balance we have to write a check back to the Food Service program within so that the budget so all we would all we'd be voting on is train making a payment and then do we have what's do we vote on any sort of do we have any budgetary authority over the food server the Food Service yeah okay interesting when I present it's like this dude when I say Yeah final transfers yeah there's a balance out to the food service department we'll include that within those transfers and I'll explain it you know no no I understand I understand it we're just making a payment out everything else is a payment made and a receipt basically just an accounting entry this is balancing the books you've got to transfer between two accounts two bank accounts I'm assuming the rest of them are all in one big bank account basically yeah and we're like balancing the books versus exactly thank you uh yeah that's interesting to me that if we so we don't have any authority over the The Authority we have is establishing the price remember we've done votes on that I know I know we I know we do that it just seems odd to be like so what always goes through my mind is if something blows up kid gets food poisoning they pointed they point the bigger when I say you don't have a car you don't have the Awards operating budget and the food service budget are separate so so they're not an Enterprise account that's not like it's not an end it's it is an Enterprise account but it's separate from the operating project definitely capital budget yeah I know it's more along the lines of Tech Student Activity yeah I'm not worried but I will be curious to understand it better at some point for my own peace of mind what is the process of collection because I would hope at some point we don't go to the extreme of what Tim is saying that we step in and kind of find out if there's con you know sensitivity to numerous times and encourage them if there's an issue to contact Food Services and you know unfortunately on occasion somebody will say you know it's not within my means or whatever we try to work something out most you know often it just is I don't want to assume that it's ignored but it's not responded to and then we send the a letter that's uh you know more strongly worded about like you need to pay this debt we're not you know like any other agency the energy we put into a 17 debt looks different than the energy we put in the 1700 down so at some point it's not worth the postage for a 17 now that you write it off yes but 17 adds up to ten thousand exactly right yeah okay so we try to try yeah it's a couple of hundred families plus that make up that 10 000 that is a lot yeah and and so yeah it's been constant emails you know parents getting fairly regular reminders and then yeah we'll just up with just a more strongly worded you know email or a letter so that's the process that we follow but this is so outside of what we've seen I mean in some years we've closed the books with a few hundred dollars that's uncollected balance that you know boards writing a check to the Food Service program ten thousand dollars I've been here 13 years we've never had I mean we've had a couple years where we're like three thousand but that was over the course of the whole year or not over a course of 30 days and you know it's just it's an anomaly I can't explain why parents wouldn't pay it but following up and doing what we can to collect it and bring that balance down I imagine some of them it's just a matter of making a priority rather than being willing to rather than being willing to pay it's a matter of willing to make the time there's a survey a reminder after the third or fourth one please yeah yeah yeah I think the point was made earlier there's so much communication that comes out from the school and the parents might just be yeah they just don't read it I don't even know I don't want us to generalize you know if parents lose a job and they're insecure about responding that's how are we those you know we would fix those pretty easily yeah if they respond to you right exactly we need to know yeah there are programs out there yeah absolutely right maybe some additional paperwork right yeah maybe you know maybe not depends on the situation but responding is what you need to do in general right and I know that can be tough the other thing we do is we do phone calls so I have somebody that's pretty good at it we don't think it's money way nicer than [Laughter] that all right uh any other questions thank you most children all favorite all right we are adjourned thank you thanks folks
so this year as I stand as I stand before you excuse me making my final graduation speech I think we may share some of the same feelings over the past weeks I've experienced a host of emotions I've been excited anxious a bit eager nervous and exhausted and ready to turn off the alarm clock and sleep in maybe you have experienced one or two of these same feelings but when I'm not thinking about how great it will feel to sleep in I find myself doing a lot of reflecting reflecting on the past year and on the past 33 years graduation day is certainly a day of Celebration but I also think it is a natural day of reflection for us all including those friends and family members sitting in the audience when I reflect on the past 33 years of working in education I realized that in that time I've learned a lot and I've experienced a lot and have been impacted by thousands of people you too in your 13 years of school have learned a lot experienced a lot and been impacted by many people our experiences could fill books while reflecting on these experiences I find myself most thinking about gratitude and making sure those who have helped me know how thankful I am for their belief in me their trusts their support and their encouragement I also find myself thinking about what is most important in our lives throughout my life and career I've been fortunate to be around some very very special people they have helped me in so many ways but I was often so wrapped up in the moment or consumed with how busy I was or thinking about what was coming next I didn't take the time to acknowledge the impactful people in my lives and simply say thank you if I could go back I would say thank you more often to more people but specifically today since I have the microphone I'm going to say thank you to a person that I never did this person is Miss Flory Miss Flory was one of my High School Math teachers she not only made math interesting and fun she made me a very very average high school math student feel confident in my knowledge and my abilities in the classroom she was passionate about math but delivered her instruction with compassion and care for students she taught me that math was important but it was not most important little to cheer I know at the time that I would go on to pursue math as an undergraduate and finish with a degree in mathematics so today I say thank you to miss Flory Miss Flory is one person I wish I had thanked years ago I have so many more people to thank for their impact on me but I will spare you you get the idea take time before 40 years has passed to show gratitude to the special people in your lives so today I encourage you to move forward with gratitude thank all those who support you encourage you and lift you up not only will it make them feel great it will also make you feel great in fact research shows gratitude has several benefits living with gratitude improves your overall health grateful people experience fewer fewer aches and pains and Report feeling much healthier than others grateful people sleep better and feel more rested and maybe most importantly those who spread thanks and share gratitude report lower levels of stress higher levels of self-esteem and make and keep friends easier it's hard to argue with these benefits cultivating gratitude or what we might call developing an attitude of gratitude is one of the most overlooked Tools in our toolboxes the simple Act of saying thank you is mutually beneficial and will lead you to a happier and more successful life my Reflections these past weeks also reminded me to keep the most important things in life at the Forefront and not let the little things dominate time or treasure so I will close with a short story adapted from a college classroom that best summarizes this concept so a teacher stood before her class had some items in front of her she silently picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar she also picked up a box of golf balls she took the golf balls and filled proceeded to fill the mayonnaise jar with balls she then asked the students if the jar was full they agreed that it was the teacher then picked up a ball a box of small Pebbles and poured those Pebbles into the same jar she shook the jar lightly as you can imagine the smaller Pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls she then asked the students again if the jar was full again they agreed that it was the teacher next picked up a box of sand poured the sand into the jar gave the jar a gentle shake and the sand filled up the remaining voids she then asks the students one more time if the jar was full it's time worth a little bit more Vigor and frustration the students said yes the jar is full now said the teacher I want you to imagine that this jar represents your life the golf balls are the most important things your family your faith your health your friends your passions and if everything else was lost and only the golf balls remained your life would still be full the Pebbles are the other things that matter like School your home your job your career the sand is everything else the very small stuff now think about what would happen if you fill the jar with sand first there would be no room for the Pebbles or the golf balls same goes for life if you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you'll have never have room for the things that are most important pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness and your well-being spend time with your siblings your parents your faith visit with friends take your grandparents out to dinner play another 18.
students wearing the white cord please stand these students have been active participants in and completed the requirements for Avid advancement via individual determination students wearing a white IB stole please stand students wearing the white stole have participated in and fulfilled the requirements of the international Baccalaureate diploma program in both grades 11 and 12. students wearing gold collars please stand students wearing the gold collar students wearing the goat collar are honor graduates having achieved an overall grade point average of 3.8 or above over the course of seven semesters it is next my pleasure to present this year as valedictorians and salutatorians the international Baccalaureate valedictorian is acute number a chute is joined today by his mother Savita father prasanth cholera brother keship nambiar Uncle Madu karup Aunt Vidya Kumar cousins nydia karup Priya karup and family and friends watching from India during his time at Rampart a chute was involved in Rampart boys soccer FBLA Scouts Colorado student leaders leaders Institute and an internship at Air Academy Credit Union a chute will double major in finance and management at the University of Tulsa where he earned a full ride scholarship with room and board as National Merit semifinalists at chute nambiar the college prep valedictorian is R.A Wong here to celebrate with Ari are his parents Lisa Wong and Ray Wong grandmother and I do shin and grandfather jinxing Wang and in his time here at Rampart Ari participated in National Honor Society Science Olympiad piano Colorado Mass Circle and served as a tutor for math counts and Mathnasium Ari will attend Brown University majoring in Applied Mathematics Ari Wong the international Baccalaureate salutatorian is Canyon craft Collins Canyon celebrates his graduation with his parents Brandy Kraft and Joe Kraft grandparents Leela and Jim Norris and siblings Casey and Chloe craft in his four years at Rampart Kenya has been part of soccer future Business Leaders of America National Honor Society youngbin service league and piano Canyon will attend the University of Colorado at Boulder and major in commuter Computer Engineering Canyon is the recipient of the Horus M Hale award Canyon craft the college prep salutatorium is Aaron Tran [Applause] [Music] Aaron is joined by his mother and father Trenta and Sam Tran sisters Sarah and Brianna Tran ants Chow Wilson Ben Nguyen boycai odai uncles Antoine Wilson Jackie Nguyen Kung win Tai Teo tuadai and his cousins Andy and Cindy Wilson and Andrew Nguyen over the course of his high school career Aaron participated in tennis K-pop Club student council National Honor Society Mac tutoring Deca sac and Rocky Mountain Quiz kids Aaron will attend CU Denver and will major in Biochemistry and pre-medicine Aaron is the recipient of a reserve spot at the CU Anschutz Medical School through the bsmd program Aaron Tran [Music] [Applause] [Music] I would now like to welcome to the podium our valedictorians we will first hear from the international Baccalaureate valedictorian attitude nambr and then valedictorian Ari Wong good evening I'd like to thank by beginning to by thanking the people involved in getting us to this point the teachers and faculty the coaches and mentors who worked long hours in and out of school accommodating to all the students adapting to so many different circumstances and writing Rec letters and giving extra help everything you do we thoroughly appreciate so thank you I'd also like to thank our families I know my family has done a tremendous amount for me more than I could ever possibly articulate and for that I'm eternally grateful so our families thank you and finally ourselves because we would not be here without four years of tenacity and dedication put in and out of school so for that Pat yourselves on the back that all right now for the meat and potatoes um in April of 2021 one of the most significant moments of my life happened Trevor Lawrence was drafted into the NFL number one overall by the Jags as a personal hero to me he exemplifies many characteristics that I aspire to emulate in my own life and I think that they are some that we can take forward with us as we move on as well um as he started his rookie season he was in one of the worst systems the league has ever seen and as much as it could be blamed on the system he also struggled himself with one of the highest interception rates and the worst record in the league but one thing he didn't do was lose his confidence he kept doing his job he kept inspiring his teammates and a year later he came back won the division and won a playoff game and what we can remember from this is regardless of the circumstances regardless of where we are right now to remember your value because you're so much more than what you see right in front of you and that's something I think we should take take with us as we move on so as we start our our new chapter of Our Lives we have to remember that no matter what we do whether it's becoming a doctor a lawyer an engineer a scientist an artist to to strive to be the best at what you do and so do that all right um I'd like to end with a quote from one of the greatest to ever play the game of basketball after winning game two of the 2009 NBA Finals Kobe Bryant is quoted as saying in regards to the expression on his face job's not finished as as hard as we've worked and as important as this moment is right now we are not done this is not the peak and the the potential of the individuals in this room is infinite and I cannot wait to see what we all will do um I'm really going to miss you guys thank you and congratulations foreign good evening Rampart it's May 16th I know you've all had to stay marked in your calendars for months now because I certainly have today's the day we step out into the big wide unknown world no longer as kids but as individuals but before that I'd like to ask all you a question how many of you would believe me if I told you I once failed a math test hmm here's a brief story on Tuesday February 8 2022 I bombed the American Invitational math exam with a whopping 2 out of 15.
[Applause] next I would like to introduce Aurora Farrell who will be performing as cello solo composed by Johann Sebastian Bach [Music] thank you foreign [Music] foreign [Music] um [Applause] thank you awesome job Aurora I told her if she ended up sick I'd pinch hit for I'm really glad she wasn't sick all right and then our next speaker will be Mr Grayson Crawford good morning everyone I want to start off by saying thank you to the village for being an amazing place to the teachers the staff and my fellow classmates you are truly special people and the principal Nathan thank you for creating such a unique place and having the vision to continue to tweak it into what it is today I also thank you for deciding to put your trust in me to give a speech at graduation did we really think that was a good idea before I say what I have to say I want to make sure that you all understand how much of an honor I feel this is it's probably important for me to mention before I start I unfortunately didn't manage to have the time to prepare a speech for you all today but before you start freaking out thinking that I'm just going to win it and end up taking 30 minutes to say what I have to say I actually want to invite you to all help me write this speech right now what do you guys think is that okay with you awesome right so here's how it's going to work I did manage to jot down a few notes as we were talking or while walking in so I'm going to list off a few sets of two ideas and I'll let you all vote on which of the two ideas I should talk about so I'll say the two ideas then ask for a pause and then we'll see which idea prevails at the end I hope to have three good topics that will make up my speech finally I promised that from the time I started speaking I'll be walking away from this podium in no more than five minutes how's that for creative writing better than chat GPT okay the first topic you're going going to vote for me to talk about is number one how the village is a special place that is getting National recognition for its unique structure or number two talk about why soccer is clearly the best sport in the world okay so option number one or option number two okay yikes that's close but I think I have a winner next should I talk about by one Keynes is better than Chick-fil-A or two I could talk about why the people at the Village helped shape me to be the person I am today so option number one option number two okay okay interesting but I think there's a winner there finally I could talk about how one our school really should be a model for how high school is done everywhere or two I could talk about the next pair of shoes I hope to be buying which should be dropping on Nike sneakers app soon option one and option two okay okay definitely a nail biter but I think we have it now I really appreciate you guys helping me with my homework today and I just want to assure all my now former Village teachers and parents that this is the only time I have ever asked anyone or any program to help do my homework for me actually that's not true at all when there's a will there's a way when there's a Quizlet there's an a but it seems like something I should probably say that being said thank you all for helping me write this and now I'd like to give my official exclusive graduation ceremony speech The Village's unique place that is getting National recognition thanks to all of Nathan and the staff's hard work the people at the Village have helped shape me into the person I am today and I am very grateful for them The Village should be an example to the rest of the country on what high school should really be like and I hope our school inspires many thank you all for your time no no no in all seriousness the opportunities that this school has given me for my future are endless and I'm beyond grateful for the experiences I've had here for example tricking out the school with LED lights for prom yes they are still up if you look hard enough takes a Keen Eye and getting dunked in the dunk tank junior year because why not I had a swimsuit in my car no one knows why or finally going fishing and ziplining as a freshman with Mr colgate's Outdoor fishing sorry Fitness class speaking of which since my freshman year the village has grown me from what being what most of my teachers would call a ball of annoying chaos to a student who knows how to manage his time well and run his own life as an adult that's truly the most special thing about this school not only are you learning your normal content from classes but you are also learning to become a successful adult I don't think most school students would say that without this school I would struggle to have a mindset to go to college and I would feel pretty burnt out at this point in time the relationships I've made here I will cherish the rest of my life as the two loudest people at the Village I hope me and my cousin King Joe let's all take a moment and just give some Applause for King Joe I hope we've helped leave a good Legacy behind for those looking to make the village like a second family thank you all for your time and congratulations to my fellow classmates some of which I am seeing for the first time today nice to meet you thanks Grayson I used to joke when we were having to track during covid and exposures and things like that I used to say if Grayson ended up with covid we'd have to shut the whole school down because I think you talk to everybody every day when I think of each graduating class I try to come up with a few words that capture the class and when I thought about the class of 2023 I just kept coming back to the same word you guys are gritty I thought of this word because of the challenges you've overcome in your personal lives and at school yet despite these challenges you all continue to show up you bounce back and you take on the next thing that life throws your way when I looked up the definition of gritty in the Oxford dictionary it simply States gritting means showing courage and resolve I think those words really sum up the group of students that sit in front of me today but as we talk about gritty I'd like to take us in a totally different direction and talk about sports mascots as some of you may already know the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team in the NHL have a mascot named gritty if you haven't seen him he's not very good looking in fact you can see a picture of him on the screen right now recently I saw a news story about Dave Raymond who helped create gritty Dave got his start in the mascot world when he was an intern for the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team and one night he was forced into action portraying the Philly fanatic well that one night turned into a series of appearances as The Fanatic until it turned into his full-time job later Dave actually started his own company called Raymond entertainment which has been involved in the creation of hundreds of other mascots for colleges corporations and professional sports teams well we could spend a lot of our time today unpacking Dave's story and how life sends you in directions that you've never imagined there was a part of the news story that really got my attention did you know that as part of the process for creating a mascot they actually write a back story for each mascot that gives it its character for example the story behind gritty is that he used to live alone in a secret hideout until they started to build the Flyers Arena which Disturbed his otherwise peaceful life he is loyal but mischievous and he has an affinity for hot dogs true story he often gets into trouble because of his lack of social skills since he lived by himself underground and he has a very snarky Twitter account if you're like me you had absolutely no idea that a mascot had a backstory but if you think about it it kind of makes sense in order for the person wearing the costume to understand how to behave and how to react there has to be a story behind the character what in the world does this have to do with graduation because each of you also have a backstory that leads you to act in certain ways and the more you understand yourself the better you were able to use that for positive purposes while you may not have an affinity for hot dogs you certainly have experiences that have shaped you into the person you are today each of you have overcome loneliness the socially awkward experiences and the tendency to be snarky on social media some of you are still working through these things and we give you the time and space to do so but no matter where you are please remember Village High School is proud to be a part of your backstory and each person that you come into contact with the rest of your life also has a back story sometimes they're acting out of love sometimes they're acting out of pain and each person's story shapes them and I encourage each of you to get to know the backstory before you rush to judgment or to action ask great questions seek to understand be curious be vulnerable with others so they can understand you and they can understand your story listen more than you speak dig deep show up and stay gritty and to close I'd like to leave you with a quote from the great John Wayne who by the way is from my home state of Iowa as most heroes are he summed it up this way True Grit is making a decision and standing by it doing what must be done no moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done so as you leave today I hope you go into the world I hope you make it a better place I hope you do the things that must be done and I hope you go with grit because you will be a gritty Village graduate and now miss Cloninger it's with the greatest of Pride that we present to you the members of the class of 2023.
square feet and we're bringing in 11 Parcels at 20 000 square feet so you mentioned this in your interview with MLive about how we constricted ourselves to Too Much single family housing and that as you were looking back over your 30-year career you had some thoughts about that so I was surprised to see this come in as r1a right Council has the ability to Zone these partials whatever whatever they would like to Zone these Parcels I believe that the most appropriate process to rethinking all single-family zoning districts and all single family neighborhoods is the upcoming comprehensive plan process I I think um choosing 11 Parcels along the Newport Road Corridor which has long had a history of r1a zoning and rezoning them to a multi-family would be inconsistent with the current comprehensive plan and so I believe um that there is likely going to be discussions throughout the course of the upcoming comprehensive plan um review that will include what to do with single family zoning including zoning that is our ir1a I'm going to see if Mr Leonard wants to add anything to that nope you should stick around longer Jeff are you any other I mean I I don't we can't do a lot of politicking at the table so I don't know if I make a motion if I would find a second and then a discussion about a better so let me ask you this question if if you could make another recommendation what recommendation would you make that would allow for multi-family dwelling I I would I would recommend that Planning Commission in city council rethink a lot of the elements of single family zoning districts and that um that would result in a more consistent application of um of of of those changes I I think choosing 11 Parcels um wouldn't be consistent with our our current comprehensive plan sure I mean I appreciate all of that but we don't get a lot of opportunity for inbound uh zoning changes like this and so just accepting them to be in their existing ones I think just cements what is in place and we're already 14 years overdue uh with how we want to use the land and now we have 11 Parcels coming in and we're going to say oh well they're just going to come in at 20 000 square feet so I mean maybe if someone makes emotion I will second it and then we can have a discussion and then that way like in playing Spades you find out who your partner is yeah uh commissioner watch I would add one thing is that some you were interested in exploring um particularly going to r4c that would require different utility recommendations under the city's specifications so um I I totally agree with with um um Jeff's articulation I think the comprehensive plan is the place to have that I think that it would be um I just think it would be sort of um arbitrary to pick these Parcels in the context of a larger land use pattern I think it would be more fruitful to have that conversation over a broader land use pattern but if that were something interested we of course we are happy just like the last magician we're happy to do the work of the commission um specifically with r4c that would be one thing that I'd want to explore this was reviewed by staff from an R1 perspective I presume that that would be similar findings for r1a through most of our art districts but once you go to r4c we do require for example larger levels of water service it might bring in fire suppression different it might be different fire hydrant requirements so that might be a different sort of layer of the infrastructure in that neighborhood and whether or not it could accommodate that zoning without some other more significant Capital Investments but I'm speculating at that so that would be something that I would sort of explore if if the commission wanted us to do so commissioner dish would there be a similar issue and similar objections to just a of an R1 designation with a with a smaller lot size like r1b you're you're welcome to recommend um whatever whatever you you'd like to recommend but we we are we are recommending approval of the r1a for consistency commissioner sobey I'll open up this conversation um a land use pattern actually adjacent to my home property is that we uh I'm zoned um R1 so you actually know it r1c um but uh all there's four Parcels because we're on like a horseshoe that front Pauline which are all zoned R2 so anything that fronts a major Corridor is zoned R2 well any interior residential Parcels are zoned R1 so similarly we have several Parcels here along bird and Newport that would match a very similar pattern next to my adjacency that's actually R2 that allows duplexes uh rather than like an Adu relative to the scale and simultaneously reduces the minimum Lop size so there is a pattern uh within the city for R2 adjacent to R1 relative to the scale of the corridor and that seems appropriate at the parcels on Newport and bird so I do kind of lift that maybe to the table as a pattern I've recognized for rezoning that it wouldn't be out of character with how our Landers patterns actually look commissioner White staff what would be the impact to R2 instead of r1a would it have the same utility load I don't know that answer we if if uh if that was the Reclamation Planning Commission made um we would probably pause that recommendation before progressing to city council so that when it went to city council we could advise city council whether or not that from a staff perspective we thought that the infrastructure was in place to support that or not um so um if that was a desired Planning Commission that's that's my that's how I would look at it I I would presume that R2 is more similar to R1 but I again I don't want to speak for a lot of technical expertise across the organization that has vetted this from an R1 perspective yeah so I think my concern is this is the time to do it I mean kicking things to the comp plan uh we're not we haven't even started that that doesn't start till June and then it's going to run for 18 months and then there's going to be a set of recommendations that are going to go on for X many years and who knows if we'll get back to this and so I just think that this makes sense to Zone it for something denser than a 20 000 square foot lot so if I would try to make an amendment to this uh what would staff prefer would you prefer that I make a amendment to have you go back and look at it at R2 or would you prefer for me to make an amendment at the table for it to go from r1a to R2 um it's really it's really discretion I mean We believe We believe our one is appropriate if you disagree with that I would suggest you just make them the motion we can augment the planning commission's statement on that to the city council with any technical detail and present that to the city council in totality so I don't feel like you need to direct us to go back and do that we can answer that if that's your desire um I did want to clarify Jeff what is the comprehensive plan say about this neighborhood sing Single family so it's a single family so I just wanna I just want to highlight to go to R2 is a distinction from our comp plan map however there are other recommendations starter comp plan that talks about housing um the development of Housing typology and and along corridors and seeking multimodal uh you know opportunities so um the map is not the only uh criteria so um but in that case that map does support staff's recommendation and just take that just take that in your consideration I mean the how that plan is regardless of its age has been affirmed as your comprehensive plan and it is your policy document today um so uh I would never suggest you abandon it um until you have a new policy document in place okay so oh sorry commissioner Mills if you were keeping on going on that thought keep on going uh one of the one of the things that strikes me in this conversation is based on some of the comments that we heard I mean I don't know this this is true of all of these Township island or all of these Annex Parcels but many of them are not currently served by the public utilities and so I I don't know what this decision distinction like what the plan is there but they don't have any line right now right so planning for expansion for different densities is different right like extending utilities based on kind of what we're anticipating and I'm just curious from a planning perspective how the relationship between the utility like how that conversation happens between you know what is Envision for water and sewer going across these places um and how that intersects with zoning what a question um and this this is something that we're going to have to wrestle with so right now our public services division is starting to do some analysis of some of our systems I think the first one that they're doing is sanitary our sanitary sewer system and one of the things that we're gonna have to reconcile as a community is do we want to constrain our land use decisions around the capacity that we have with our sanitary sewer system or do we want to identify policy positions about how we want our land and these patterns to evolve and invest the significant capital to upsize our sanitary sewer system to achieve that we could do it either way I think that the comprehensive plan will wrestle with those issues I don't have the answer now as it relates to Newport about what infrastructure there is there now and what infrastructure is not there what the city's Capital Improvement is all I can tell tell you is that r4c is a a bright line in our engineering standards that say when you are our 4C it requires a higher water main size and so um again I don't think the same applies to R2 I think R2 is more of a as I raise that's sort of more of a deviation from one aspect of our comprehensive plan um but it's it's certainly uh as a job site it's it's at your this is your your decision we're happy to write any additional information that would be helpful for you to do so um we've vetted R1 because that is consistent with the patterns there and one final that's that's sort of related to this um the big parcel in the northwest corner of all of this that is the Steiner property yes because when you look that's that's a good chunk of real estate right um and maybe it's not redeveloped now but like what is I don't and I don't know what the one plans are but as I was looking at this I thought like that's a big that's a big property so I don't know I don't know where I fall and it's late and so my brain stopped working commissioner watch I'm happy to compromise to r1d because then we would be able to get four single-family homes in a subdivided r1a and it would still stay in the R1 but it would at least create a little bit more density as opposed to having a 000 square foot lot so so that motion would be to uh thank you mend the motion to substitute r1d for r1a so moved all right discussion of the motion Mr survey um this is this is kind of longer term things too but it does kind of raise some of our conditions relative to key Lots right where we might have like a narrow front that slips with a larger one behind and how our land use kind of allows for different types of parcel splits um or private drives to access on them so it's just kind of more considerations as we're moving into some of these parcel split ideas um because we want to create density and it might not always be adus so I just kind of raise that too just for kind of a a lens to look at some of these larger lots that how these might split we I I don't think we enable a lot of innovation yet for that we have kind of very singular ways to do lot split um but I look forward to seeing Innovation so maybe something could come about and Inspire us to help our ordinances along as well so I I support it I seconded it but I just want to kind of offer that discussion and visibility I see quizzical looks on lots of faces without necessarily raising hands anybody with a quizzical look want to say something yes commissioner Mills I was just curious from Steph's perspective are there unintended consequences of such a move that I'm not thinking of other than the possibility to develop more housing units on the same the same amount of land not that I can think of not that I can think of at this time the uses are the same I mean we have the same uses as different setbacks yeah um okay I I I would say that I think it's safe to say that staff looks forward to a community discussion about what to do with 22 percent of the city's land mass um it may be even more than that um I I think um the the point that commissioner White made was was uh a good one 20 20 000 square foot minimum lot sizes are awfully large um and um I I do think that um um no nobody at staff wants to defend that but we're we're just we're looking at this more so more from a process standpoint and and maybe um a standpoint of of um of um applying our comprehensive plan uh commissioner dish then commissioner watch unless I'm mistaken that most of these Parcels have homes on them most do yeah all about all but one so if I'm weighing the commitment to having a community conversation around what to do actually we've already asked for the comprehensive plan to come back with how do we achieve greater density we actually haven't left it wide open and said Drew let us know what you think about single family zoning we've actually asked for suggestions for how to achieve greater density so I don't know these Parcels have things on them have homes on them now uh they have 21 months to make the transition to City sanitary and up to 10 years to connect to city water I don't know how many of them are going to jump right in to get under that 21 months but you know the the we're going to have time to have the the comprehensive plan address the questions that would attend achieving greater density city-wide on single-family zoning and so I'm not sure how much is gained by our enabling denser zoning on 11.
thank a special person for being special there will always be time for the small stuff take care of the golf balls first the things that really matter the things you will always be grateful for such your priorities because the rest is just sand congratulations graduates I thank you for allowing me to share in your celebration go forth and make your mark on this world keep what is most important the priority and live life with an attitude of gratitude be well and be safe thank you very much [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] good afternoon my name is Matthew Sisson I'm the principal at Liberty High School [Music] Mr Gregory members of The Academy District 20 School Board it is an honor to present to you the class of 20 20 20 23. and to certify to you that every graduate who crosses the stage today and is presented a diploma has met the graduation requirements established by The Academy School District 20 Board of Education class of 23 through 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do the math that's at 13 percent for those of you who don't really know me I'm quite passionate about math and I never flunked a math test before well I'm that badly that 13 felt like a slap in the face from the math Gods telling me Ari you should never do math again and you know for a few days I just felt defeated it took me a while to get back up on my feet and realize that I had I had two choices I could either give up and throw everything away and just end in failure or I could just move on now I thought not just about what I'd accomplished before but more importantly what I could accomplish in the future and that day I realized that life is like a piano performance you're likely going to play wrong notes but the best thing you do is keep playing and not think too much about them in my experience if you give your performance everything you've got and everything you prepared for nobody notices a few minor mistakes but what you don't want to do is emphasize that mistake or even worse stop playing and that day I realized that 13 is just a brief dissonance and long snotted as my life now to the 2023 Rampart graduate graduating class congratulations to all of you I'm sure all of us have made countless memories that will cherish for the rest of our lives while today marks the end of our high school journey and marks the beginning of so much more whether you're going to college work or whatever I want to remind all of you that it's okay to play wrong notes regardless of the path you choose life is a long and oftentimes challenging composition so don't focus on the minor mistakes you might make on the way because everyone makes mistakes instead a focus on making music thank you all right now Mr Lavalley it is with the greatest honor that I present to you the members of the class of 2023.
as principal I hereby certify that these young men and women have met the requirements for graduation from village high school and Academy School District 20 and I recommend them for their diplomas on behalf of the Board of Education of Academy School District 20 I accept with pride and pleasure the 2023 graduating class of Village High School Mr gorsh thank you your faculty and your staff for an outstanding job [Applause] staff please prepare to present our seniors at this time one unique Village tradition is that each graduating senior has the opportunity to choose one of our staff members to present them this morning this is a staff member that made an impact on them during their time as a student in our school this is a very high honor for our staff and they will do their best to hold it together as they read each note front row please stand up and line up in order to receive your diplomas and it is with great pride that I now present to each of you the graduating class of 2023.
properties that have homes on them already I mean in the next two years do you think somebody's going to raise their house and put three on it if they wanted to they could right they could come to us and say please rezone this so I can subdivide right so I don't know I feel like it's more symbolic what we're talking about right now and so maybe that doesn't I mean if I felt like it made a material difference I might care more but maybe for the maybe for the symbolism I'll opt for the symbolism of community discussion over Planning Commission yeah okay commissioner Mills did I see that you had a hand up no okay commissary oh I'm sorry yes no no you go no no it's I mean you you were I could be I can be quick I I don't think there's that much hanging on this decision but I'll say that um while there may not be that much gained I think there's also maybe not that much lost I I can kind of go I can kind of see both sides um and I think just all of us up here understand intimately how long it takes and so if we were I would say that the city if if the city is poised to take on a transformation around R1 zoning the day when that's actually going to get passed at city council is three to six years away so I I and I think in that time it's perfectly possible that somebody could uh divide and and build twice as many or three times as many homes on some of these Lots so um I also it's it's only a few Lots so um but I think I would be in favor of a amendment to R2 thanks R2 or r1d sorry sorry and not r4c which is in the middle of the town do you want D1 so first of all thank you Mr Khan for uh saying that staff would not defend r1a I really do appreciate that I think I think that's a helpful uh signal um at least for me to understand that that you were just using a process approach not a editorial approach for this which means we have the opportunity to make this modest symbolic change to not Zone something at twenty thousand square feet it doesn't mean like you have noted there are already dwellings there they will probably conform to the r1a because that's what you recommended so they'll come in already bigfooted and now they're we can make an opportunity for there to be more density if someone wants to and then I just wanted to um share this just two things from the resolve Clause that city council adopted when they initiated our city planning comprehensive plan review it's the second resolve clause in context of largely in the context of a largely developed City they are expecting the comprehensive plan to make recommendations of adding new homes and desification and single-family zoned areas and other areas and Zoning districts and so for me this is just consistent with what city council has already said and we just do it at the table and send it along to them they can always change it as Mr Khan said they get to decide what the zoning is but this says let's at least put a little bit more on these Lots so thanks for your consideration have a process question with people that live here any obligation with that or is it um is it just like they they have from now told city council and that's their chance I'm just curious how yeah I mean it's still a resulting in their Parcels anybody who's interested in this was made aware of it it is possible that somebody was presuming it was going to be consistent with the surrounding area but it will be re-noticed um to uh this with the city council with the updated modifications you can make adjustments just like the city council can make adjustments okay all right thank you okay are we ready then for a vote on the motion to so the motion is to modify the recommendation from the planning mission to rezone the 11 Parcels to r1d instead of r1a commissioner give Randall yes yes commissioner Abrams yes commissioner dish no commissioner Lee no commissioner Clark yes Mr Mills yes commissioner wage yes motion carries uh Now we move on to the actual vote correct that's correct so now the motion is recommending a rezoning of the 11 Annex commercials to r1d do I have to read them again no good okay should we call the unless there's any further discussion yeah sorry any other it seems like we've discussed this but yes you're right correct any any other further discussion okay all right Randall yes commissioner Subway yes yes commissioner dish yes commissioner Lee yes commissioner Clark yes commissioner Mills yes commissioner white yes motion carries all right uh we are on other business of which we have none we have one more opportunity for public comment so whomever was on the line uh this would probably be the time to speak on um I I guess I do I have to read this again just just curious so if there are um that is communicating to anybody's Watching You on YouTube or CTN if they would like instruction on how to provide some public comment so I would recommend yes okay this is an opportunity for persons to speak up to three minutes about any issue that is uh on this or any any issue that is that is on the agenda uh or first calling individuals who are present uh to address the commission and then remote participants to speak during this public hearing remotely press star nine if listening by phone or the raise the hand feature or viewing to the web link for phone access call 877-853-5247 and enter meeting ID 977-6634-1226 to unmute press star six uh City staff will select callers that have raised their hand using the last three digits to your phone number or by name if available through the for those accessing through the web link you'll hear an audit an automated announcement that the host is allowing you to speak please move to a quiet area for either method police state your name and address at the beginning of your comments is there anybody present who would like to speak hello again so I just want to go back to the South Town discussion for a moment I sort of began in my earlier comment by saying I was a little bit disappointed with with the process that we were making it too hard to get to get this through and now the discussion tonight was even even worse than I feared um it seems like we are so afraid of getting an imperfect result that we're going to risk making it impossible to get a good one and you know I've I've come to this Podium and said this before but really I I wish if there were one message that would sink in here it would be don't make the perfect the enemy of the good for my part um I do in fact think that just about any c1a slash R development in the proposed South Town location would be better than than the current r4c and you know I didn't say this before but I guess if I did have one concern about the development it would be that it's too perfect it might give us the idea that developments with similar features could succeed everywhere in Ann Arbor and that we should demand them anywhere and everywhere and deny everything that falls short I don't I don't think that would be a good result because you know we will learn many good things from this development assuming it moves forward we will have a better idea about feasibility but it is one anecdote in different sites different conditions different things might happen so I I really just think we need to be more permissive in our zoning and our deliberations to make it possible for developers to give us the things that we do want instead of spending so much time on the things we don't want that we get nothing thank you anybody else present that would like to speak anybody remotely yes call her the phone number ending with three star six to address the final question for three minutes uh go ahead but try to speak up a little bit all right can you hear me yes we can hear you please go ahead and speak up I live at 1440 Kohler Road I'm in the proximity of the new proposed rezoning of the misuse development uh I just wanted does anybody take in consideration a past success the failures of other mixed use developments in our area I do believe that George was considered a mixed-use development or proposed to and it was okay and rezoned and it was developed as such but I don't see much success then that makes use of development so far so why are should we should we consider rezoning another personal land from an excuse that might wind up the same way shouldn't it be more peaceful more useful to rezone it or have it some kind of plan to resume for affordable housing instead of office space and so forth which in my experience from where I live that has not been too successful thank you anybody else in the queue Scott Trudeau you can unmute and address the Planning Commission for three minutes good evening finally commission I'm Scott Trudeau 526 North Main um I'd also like to address some of the concerns that were raised in discussion of the South Town development this evening regarding short-term rental concerns I I share the concern that Bertram potentials speak into the supply of housing we need a lot more housing and that's a problem however when we're talking about newly constructed purpose-built Str units um the those units compete in the same way that new housing competes when we add new supply to the housing market which makes less suitable properties that are currently converted as Str is more likely to convert back into housing so even if we're getting a new scr that doesn't mean we're not also getting more housing units break up somewhere else um so I think that's like and I also think we don't have an infinite demand for sdrs um and so it's not like this is good news this is a large building at the odds of this being successful as a entirely necessary building I think because it's an overblown concern um and so like I think it's just not a good reason to let a great product but stop this great project by the way it's going forward um and then also a council member district reference council's policies regarding short-term rentals and council's policies written in the zoning ordinance and says they're inappropriate use in the C1 AR zone so that isn't council's policy they should change the policy um speaking of policy I I agree Adam Goodman said it better than I will but I think c1a are on this site even if it just meets the current standards of the ca1 AR Zone which is the policy that is on the books would be far better than what's there now we have an urgent housing crisis and more housing sooner is going to be better than later also it is to ensure we outline um it meets the purpose of rezoning like we can re-zone this for the purposes that are in the ordinance and for the definition of c1a are in the zoning coordinates itself its purpose is for near-campus mixed use with a significant amount of residential like that's what it's for um so even with all of you know even without all the great stuff we all want to see happen it's a perfectly 30 more seconds the zoning District or the site um and I just want to say share the exasperation of commissioner weish um I agree with Mr Abrams that this is a case of moving to both those um I think we're sending a very clear message um cmdish I think we're sending a message that it's business as usual in Ann Arbor and that we're going to continue to like have a broken Zone code that doesn't achieve goals that we want to achieve and um we're going to drag developers through the process a few people are going to win the ones with the deepest pockets and the greatest love and they're going to make a whole lot of money and we're not going to get we're not going to be able to achieve the ambitious and Urgent goals that we desperately need to achieve so please have some urgency thank you thank you Alex Lowe you have three minutes to address the plan Commission this was a really frustrating uh meeting to watch really really frustrating we're talking about a block of housing and I pulled up arcgis and started looking at at the wet at Wendy's houses were worked out 1920.
I hereby certify that these students have met the requirements for graduation from Rampart High School and Academy School District 20 and we recommend and are recommended to receive their diplomas [Applause] on behalf of the Board of Education of Academy District 20 I accept with pride and pleasure the 2023 graduating class of Rampart High School Mrs Sanders thank you and your staff for an outstanding job please allow us just a moment to prepare the stage to graduate the class of 2023. perfect Elijah Elijah James Acosta Marina Leanne akery [Music] Olivia Andrea Alaska Enrique Alvarez Michael Ethan Ammons Brandon Ray Anderson Matthew Taylor Anderson Adon Alfredo Andrade Hussein Omar Anwar Nina Elizabeth anzalone Liliana Juliet Ariana Ava Marie armor Jennifer hope Armstrong Chase Allen Arnold Jade Lynn Hikari Babb Quentin Charles Avenger Harley Ray Banda Logan Musashi Baird Trevor Charles Barr Ava Noel Baptist Kyra Hillary Bass Dylan Patrick Barrett Taylor Marie Beatty Pamela Joseph Kian 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follow you out shortly guess in the stands it is important that once the class is dismissed that you remain in your seats while the class recesses as a safety precaution we ask that you do not interrupt the flow of students as they move out of the Arena once graduates pick up their diploma you may reunite with them class of 2023.
Cody Ackerman I'd love to start with thanking myself if it wasn't for the courage and hard work I put into these four years I wouldn't be the person I've become however the real credit goes to my family mom dad Sarah lonan Lucas and CR you are the true heroes I'll never be able to thank you enough oh thank you Josiah oliphat I would like to thank Above All Else my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for shaping me into the man I am today I would also like to thank my mother and father siblings and good friends I plan to go to GCU to study mechanical engineering Trevin Alessio I want to thank my parents mentors coach Neal Steve biggery for helping me for giving me the opportunity to succeed and follow my dreams I plan on attending Hastings College in Nebraska studying exercise science and playing football I've had an amazing senior year at the village and I think every teacher and administrator that has helped me this year Tyler Allen I would like to thank my parents grandparents and siblings for always being there to support me and for helping me reach success in my life so far and my friends for helping me enjoy every day and a big thank you to dlg Kate margrave at Pine Creek and all of the village staff for helping me to grow and become who I am today in the fall I will be going to Colorado State University to study mechanical engineering and we'll be participating in band and Air Force ROTC Chase and Buell firstly I want to express my gratitude towards my parents and family who I completely credit for helping me reach where I am today from the countless nights of out-of-state traveling for baseball or the early mornings bringing me to tournaments I am beyond grateful I would also like to recognize the influence of my friends and teammates who have played a crucial role in shaping my character and help me become the person I am today although it feels like the end of a long ride for me it is only the beginning of an exciting New Journey in my life where I get to play division two baseball at Newman University Maxwell amrein thank you mother for taking care of me throughout my childhood thanks father for leaving leading me in the right direction I plan on going to UCCS and majoring in accounting Bryson Anderson I just want to thank my mom my dad Kaden Kylie and Grace for helping me through high school also a big thanks to miss fewer and Mr Colgate for always trusting I'll get my work done even when it looks impossible for the next four years I'll be attending UCCS majoring in computer science Brett Bailey I would like to thank my parents for everything they've done for me they have helped and supported me throughout my life and have turned me into who I am today I plan to serve a missionary for my church before heading off to college I'm excited to see where life takes me Kelly bamsberger I would like to thank everyone who supported me throughout high school special shout out to my mom sister grandma and Ty for all their support I will be continuing my education to pursue a master's degree in psychology Gavin Barr I would like to thank my parents for being the most helpful and caring people I could ask for thank you to all my friends and teammates that helped me along the years while in high school I'd like to thank my girlfriend Cadence and my best friend Cole for always being there for me no matter what I will be playing Junior Hockey to pursue my hockey career in hopes of playing division one NCAA hockey in the next couple of years Emma Bass I would like to thank my closest friends and family Alex mom dad and Hudson you have always been some of my biggest supporters for as long as I can remember thank you to Jenna Rachel Ezra Zack and many others whenever I was worried or stressed you guys helped me so much again thank you from the bottom of my heart lastly thank you to all the teachers at the Village you guys are truly amazing thank you for making the last two years of high school amazing Kate Bennett I would love to thank my parents and my sister for giving me such a wonderful life supporting me unconditionally I'd also like to thank all my friends here today for making my high school experience so memorable in the fall I plan to attend CSU Fort Collins to study business administration Matthew figurine first I'd like to thank my parents Steve and Brenda biggery you both have been my biggest supporters since day one you've pushed me to be the best version of myself I'd also like to thank my friends Trevin and all my old football teammates for mentoring me and pushing me through everything I plan on starting a business with my brother and my dad Noah bird I would like to thank my mother for always supporting me and my sister for helping me through the years I would also like to thank my teachers throughout the years for pushing me to be better not only as a scholar but as a person and my teammates and coaches for helping me become a better person I will be playing tier one juniors in Canada in aghl then when I decide to go to college I will pursue construction management as a major Donovan Bradford I would like to thank Matt and CR for their constant belief and reassurance to me over my four years at the village as they take the next step in my life playing Junior Hockey I will always remember your guidance and encouragement Sarah Bryant to my biggest inspiration and the person who taught me to chase after my goals and never give up you helped to make me who I am and have taught me that hard work is required to chase your dreams you are the biggest reason why I am heading to Tarleton to achieve my dreams thank you Dad Michael Carden it's safe to say High School would would have been a lot more difficult if it hadn't been for a lot of people but unfortunately I don't have time to thank them all some of the most key people were and it's not a surprise my parents who drove me to do things greater than I thought I was capable of the next group of people I would like to thank are all the wonderful teachers of the village and maybe most importantly my mentor CR who is not only an amazing teacher but also a great friend throughout my high school years thank you Mackenzie Carrington I'd like to thank my parents for everything my brothers for always making me laugh and protecting me for my friends and family for their support and for my teachers I'd like to thank the Lord for the path he has created I will be continuing my education at the Masters University in pre-nursing with a goal of becoming a nurse practitioner and specializing in Pediatrics Eli considine I would like to thank my mentor Norris and all the other teachers who influenced my high school career having such amazing understanding and helpful teachers has allowed me to grow and succeed here next year I am planning on attending UCCS to study mechanical engineering Emma considine I would like to thank Mrs redinger and all the other teachers who have done so much for me especially reddinger sorry for adding classes all the time I really appreciate all the support and friendship I plan to attend college next year in state and thanks to parents for all you've done love ya Andrew Converse I would like to thank my parents for supporting me throughout my high school careers highs and lows and my siblings for keeping me humble I would also like to thank both mentors I had Linda trumbauer and Susan Nolan my future plans include going to Colorado School of Mines to graduate with a degree in computer science Grayson Crawford living overseas for much of my life meant living far from families so it's great having so many of them here today thanks Mr Stewart for being my mentor teacher and also a life mentor coach Marcus for developing my soccer skills and molding my character Bradley Joe and Ellis for helping me survive the village finally my parents Brad and Alicia for always supporting me I will study business management and play soccer at laterno University in Longview Texas next year awesome Isabel cutter I would like to thank my parents who have supported and encouraged me throughout my entire life I couldn't have gotten to this point without them I plan to attend Delaware State University in the fall and study psychology Chloe dance I want to thank my parents siblings teachers and mentors for helping me get to graduation thank you for all the encouragement and support you have given me to get to this point I so appreciate you all post-graduation I'm planning to go to North Central University in Minneapolis Minnesota to major in ASL interpreting Jordan Davis thank you to my family friends and teachers especially my mom for believing in me and helping me get to where I am today thank you jaina fland Carly Erica Jake and Kimmy for always being there for me I will be attending Grand Canyon University to pursue a dual degree in elementary education and special education Lopes of Willow Davis I would like to thank all of my teachers here at the Village who have helped me I also have a great family who have been incredibly supportive and loving after leaving the village I'm planning on taking a gap year to travel and explore my interests in culinary arts Amy Dominguez thank you to my mentor CR for being with me throughout my whole High School career also thank you to all my family who have always been supportive of me my future plans are to study biology at Baylor University Sarah Dunn I would like to thank my parents for helping pave the way for me to get where I am today I certainly would not be here if it wasn't for their support I would like to thank my sisters Becca and Anna for being my forever friends and always being there for me I'd like to thank Maria de la Garza for advising and supporting me over the past two years I truly appreciate it I'm heading to Colorado Mesa University in the fall to major in business and play soccer Max EK Vlad I would like to thank my parents for helping me step out of my comfort zone I also thank my friends for giving me an amazing experience at the village that has been unlike any other in my future I hope to meet others like me in the study of biology Alicia Elliott I want to thank all my friends and family that have supported and pushed me toward my goals I also want to thank my school and dance teachers that have also been there for me next year I plan to take a gap year and look into different fields of work Aurora Farrell Mom Dad Kimmy Stacy CR Susan Miss redinger and My Cello teacher Megan thank you for all your support and encouragement I'm so excited to begin my education in music therapy and I am thrilled to have the opportunity to heal people through music Sebastian Figueroa I am so grateful to have been accepted to the Village it was a wonderful change from my previous school I really couldn't have done it without Susan and all the love and attention she's given me I am so happy I chose this school and so grateful for the opportunity Dylan Frederick first of all I want to thank God for guiding and helping me throughout High School I also want to thank my dad mom sister and everyone who has impacted my life I wouldn't be the person I am today without their guidance prayers love and support I plan on majoring in computer science with a concentration in cyber security adrick Garcia I would like to thank my parents friends teachers and Mentor for getting me this far I couldn't do it without you all I want to become an X-ray tech as my career in life I'm looking forward to a new chapter in my life Parker gavitt I would like to thank my mom and dad for supporting me throughout my high school career even when I didn't make it easy on them I would also like to thank Ms Sherry for guiding me through this whole journey last I want to thank all my friends that stood by my side and helped me out when I needed it Sophia Goodall I want to thank not only my parents but my second mom the one who helped me tackle my hard days and was there to share my best days Carolyn Mullins was my biggest blessing throughout my education journey and through navigating life I will miss her being with me every step of the way in her warm hugs I will be attending University of Northern Colorado to pursue my education further in becoming a teacher for special needs children [Music] Ellis Goodwin I would like to thank the whole village staff for believing in me I needed it more specifically thank you to Mr Colgate and Miss fear for making sure I graduated and for putting up with my constant procrastination last but not least thank you Mom Dad Grayson and Cooper for keeping me sane Kimora Gordon I want to thank my friends the Lily sage and Kelly for making my transition to Colorado 10 times easier I also want to thank my parents for supporting me through every decision I've made lastly I want to thank Jake without him I wouldn't have made it through the year literally this fall I plan on attending Biola University in California to further my academic and athletic career majoring in kinesiology thank you to everyone for everything Gabe Groth thank you to my friends Josiah Brett Max and Kimmy thank you to my parents as well as Mr Savage Miss Kimmy and even my brothers as for me and what's next I want to travel the world and read lots of books I will never forget this magical school though I wish I could forget freshman health class Audrey Griswold I want to thank God my dad my mom my dear friends and teachers who helped me throughout High School I don't know how I could have graduated without them I also want to thank my priests and God Parents my plans for next year are to go to college and become the best writer I can be no matter what happens I will never forget the wonderful memories of village high school glory to God and bless America foreign I'd like to thank my parents teachers and my friends for making my high school experience the best it could have been coming to the Village was the best decision of my teen years and my mentor has made things infinitely better my future plans are to go to college and I couldn't have achieved that without all the Fantastic teachers here Tyler gunler Dad thank you for always pushing me to do my best you have done so much for me and I don't think I could ever repay you I probably wouldn't have graduated if it wasn't for my mom thank you for always being there for me especially when times were stressful thanks to all my family and friends love you all Gracie gutsman I want to share my deepest gratitude to my parents for their constant support without them I would not be where I am today I also want to thank my teachers for their dedication to their work as well as their continual kindness in the fall I will be attending Pikes Peak State College to pursue a career as a dental hygienist Malia Harrelson Miss Katie and Miss Krista thank you so much for being there for me without your help I don't know where I would be I appreciate that you would go the extra mile to be there for me to make my days better even when I stressed out about some of the assignments your hard work dedication and encouragement to help me be more outgoing and reach my goals made a big difference in my life Mom and Dad thank you for letting me come to the Village I can't imagine having been anywhere else and I wouldn't be reaching my goals without this school next year I will be finishing my vet tech assistant program at Pikes Peak and can't wait to be working with animals in the future Brooke hillstrom I would like to thank my family friends teachers and coaches for helping me reach this point in my life all of you have made me the person I am today I'm thankful for every single one of you I will be majoring in Zoology at Colorado State University Nolan Hollis I would like to thank my parents and sisters for so much support through both my academic and baseball journey I would also like to recognize my teachers and friends for helping create such a positive High School experience without these people I'd be nowhere near where I am today and I know they will be by my side the whole way through this next chapter I am beyond excited to further my academic career studying economics and playing baseball at Miami of Ohio University I'd like to thank my mom and dad for all the support throughout life I would also like to thank my mentor Mr Colgate for helping me stay on track my plan for next year is to attend college at UCCS to study business finance Zach Johnson I would personally like to thank my family especially my mom and dad for always being there for me throughout all my years in school I would like to thank my friends for always being there for me I would finally like to thank the outstandingly amazing staff here at the Village special thanks to Sean Reed and Kevin for Baton for always being great teachers and Mentor figures I will be going to UCCS I don't know what I will study but I know it'll be profitable my goal is to live life to the fullest and amazing along the way Madison Jones I'd like to express my appreciation to all my teachers and counselors especially Mr Erickson for inspiring my interest in computer science Jake for never being too busy for all my questions and Sherry for always caring and encouraging me thank you to my parents for pushing me to do the hard things and the rest of my family for their constant support I'm looking forward to studying computer science in the fall Ellie cam I would like to thank my parents my mentor Ms Maria and everyone who has helped me and supported me to get to this Milestone this diploma means so much to me it is a symbol of my hard work and the love and support I have received from amazing people in my life thank you I couldn't have done it without you I plan to continue my education at UCCS in the fall and continue training for my goal of the 2026 Winter Olympics mccaden Carlin to my friends family and coaches this is an occasion that I will cherish for the rest of my life and I am so grateful to have you all here to celebrate with me throughout my academic and Diving career I have been blessed with your unwavering support encouragement and love your belief in me has been a constant source of inspiration and motivation and I could not have made it to this point without you I'm excited to for the next four years to represent UNC as a division one diver Heather Canon kenning not sure how to begin to thank everyone for getting me to this point in my life where I can really start to make my life my own firstly I would like to thank my parents for always encouraging me to pursue my dreams thank you to my grandparents for letting me catch frogs in your creek thank you to my brothers and best friends for always sticking by my side and finally a thank you to my teachers and all the staff at the village for helping to prepare me for life you each have played a part in my going to Colorado Christian University to pursue a career in Psychology I love you all Catherine kleinhexel I would like to thank my family for supporting me throughout all my years of school and putting up with needing to take me to about a million different places I also wish to thank my friends for providing me with smiles and a shoulder to lean on when things got hard I plan to go to Pikes Peak State College to study nursing Jimmy condert I would like to thank my parents grandparents mentors teachers coaches and everyone else who's helped me through these past 12 years of school high school has not been easy but thanks to the people who helped me I made it I'm going to Colorado Mesa University to study mechanical engineering go Mavs super lark I would like to thank my parents my sister my grandparents and girlfriend for helping keep me on the right path to reach graduation I would also like to thank my mentor who is reading this she has done everything to help me reach this point my plans are to continue playing soccer and start my own business Alyssa Lewis I I'd like to thank the teachers at the village for their seemingly never-ending compassion especially my mentor dlg who talked to people when I didn't want to I'm grateful to my mom for always encouraging me my dad who drove me to several school buildings a day all freshmen and sophomore years and my grandparents who always want to come support me I want to thank all the friends I made along the way even though many of them are not in this Arena my future plan as of now includes making mistakes while I still can as well as working and traveling for a year before College Garrett Lindsey I would like to begin by thanking my parents for always supporting me thank you for always being there for me thank you for all the coaches to all the coaches I have had throughout the years for pushing me to always be the best best athlete team player in human being I'd like to thank CR and Jake for always checking in on me and keeping me focused and doing my best as I graduate today my goal with the help of my parents and coaches is to pursue my dreams of playing hockey at the highest level while earning a college degree Christian Lopez Riviera I would like to give all glory to God I wouldn't be anywhere without him I would also like to give thanks to my mom dad and sister for being there for me when I was alone and for my school mentors Sierra and Stewart for teaching me so much not only about school but about life lastly I would like to pursue a career in acting at ppcc or UCCS Tori Lewis I would like to thank my family friends and teachers for all of their support and encouragement I appreciate all the growth and progress that I've made throughout my journey with the school I plan to attend college to earn a business degree while pursuing my passion for martial arts as a teacher and director Sam Lyon I would like to thank the many teachers students advisors and family that have supported me through my high school career while difficult at times pandemic and all I am thankful for the care shown for for perseverance and what the future holds starting this summer I will be pursuing outdoor mountaineering and possibly a career in welding next year Arielle McDowell I would like to thank my brilliant Mom and Dad Sydney Autumn Diane and my teachers for seeing me through this transformative season I can't stop thanking the lord for you guys I wouldn't have made it without your constant love and wisdom I love you so much Meyer thank you to my friends and family for coming along this wild Journey with me a special thank you to all the staff and teachers for pushing me and giving me such amazing experiences I will be attending Colorado Christian University this fall majoring in psychology Kayla Moore I would like to thank my family friends teachers and coaches for pushing me to become the person I am today next year I plan to attend Grand Canyon University in Phoenix Arizona well I would where I will be studying business management and marketing I have overflowing gratitude for the people and opportunities that have gotten me to where I am and I can't wait to see what my future holds Naomi Moore some people who really helped me reach graduation and made an impact on my education are Mr Oman and Mrs Colgate I will always remember them I plan to go to University of Nebraska to master an interior design Chloe Morales the journey that leads me to where I stand today has been all but smooth I have faced several obstacles and yet here I stand I cannot express how thankful I am for my loving family especially my parents and brother my loyal friends and the kind-hearted teachers who have helped and guided me through this journey and who are without a doubt the reason I stand here today in the following years I plan to graduate from college and then live life to the fullest Leo Morales throughout my time in high school and in my life generally I've been to many places and met many people since I've had such experiences it is impossible for me to thank one individual or one group of individuals so to those who can hear it I want to thank you for being part of my life for guiding me to the place and person I am today I'm not exactly sure what my future holds but I want to graduate with my associate's degree while finding my passion once I've done that and I will work towards that passion whether it means getting my bachelors or taking other steps until I've succeeded in reaching it Joseph King Joe Morrow I would like to thank the team of teachers who helped me in many meetings in the study hall and a special thank you to Katie fuhrer for going above and beyond to help me get here Bradley and Grayson all miss going to school with you guys I want to thank my parents my siblings grandparents Aunt uncle and cousins for being there for loving me for always helping me achieve my goals and for showing up for my games next year I hope to be working in District 20 as a paraprofessional working with Elementary aged kids thank you I love you guys and go Ducks Emma Nordstrom I would like to thank all of my wonderful family for all of your love and support throughout my school journey I would especially like to thank my aunts and my grandparents for all their encouragement and advice to my mom I can't thank you enough for all you have poured into me to bring me to this point in my life My Success is because of all the millions of little things reading to me helping me with homework and for providing encouragement when the path forward wasn't easy it is because of you your love and constantly being there that I am ready to take my next big steps in life in the fall I plan to attend UCCS to pursue a bachelor's degree in nursing Abby O'Dell most importantly I want to thank my parents for their endless support and love throughout the last four years I'm also incredibly grateful for my family who has provided me with encouragement and perseverance last but certainly not least thank you to all of the wonderful teachers I've had without whom I couldn't have done this I plan to attend college for creative writing Lane Olmstead I want to start off by thanking my family for always helping me when I need it I also want to thank Mrs redinger for always pushing me to be better in my classes and getting me to this point in life I will be attending IEC to become an electrician Brandon pakaya it's only right to thank my mom she was the one that pushed me to make it this far then I would like to thank the nice teachers at the village for making this school feel One of a Kind lastly I have to thank my mentor Mr Savage for never giving up on me when I was struggling Alyssa piano first I want to thank God for being a solid foundation to lean on in times when I needed strength next I want to thank my parents my friends my sisters and my brother for being uplifting and encouraging lastly I want to thank every Mentor in my life for listening and guiding me to be the best and most successful version of myself I can be I am excited to play NAIA D1 volleyball and study Elementary education at opsu in the fall Cole peepenberg I would like to thank my mom dad brother and sister for helping me grow and for supporting me in everything I have done I would also like to thank my best friends Gavin Barr and Cooper Conway for being by my side throughout my journey you all mean more to me than you will ever know I would be lying if I said I wasn't super excited about being done with school for a bit but I'm also excited to be able to concentrate solely on hockey and see where that can take me Sage Pierce I would like to thank my family who has supported me non-stop over these last 12 years and for always being by my side even when it was difficult I would also like to thank the teachers who have pushed me when they knew I could do more and have been both mentors to me and friends to me I plan on attending Colorado Mesa University and studying Kinesiology to pursue a career in physical therapy Aiden raddick I would like to first thank my mom and dad for all their support thank you to all my teachers coaches teammates and to miss Sherry who have all made me a better person I plan to go to college down the road and I plan on doing another two years of hockey before College Chandler Rollins I would like to thank my parents and teachers for helping me along this journey my future plans will be to attend college at UCCS after college I plan to pursue a career in criminal justice Corinne redinger I would like to thank Stuart who has been my mentor since eighth grade readinger who has been my mom since birth my friends both old and new my family and my dog next year I will be studying criminal psychology at Colorado Mesa University Jonathan rice thank you to my parents and family for helping me out along the way I could not have done it without you guys thank you to my teachers for all the support and help over the past four years I will be attending Auburn University in the fall for Aviation War Eagle Sienna Rivera thank you Mom and Dad for always being there to support me thank you Mrs Colgate and Mrs dlg for being the best mentors I could have ever ever asked for and last but not least thank you Officer Jeff for always being a friendly face and keeping us safe Aeneas Rodriguez Sanchez I would like to thank my parents for always being there helping me when needed and pushing me to accomplish my dreams I would also like to thank Ms Sherry for welcoming me with open arms standing with me through ups and downs and teaching me to be myself my goal after graduation is to attend UCCS and get my degree in Psychology and criminology I appreciate everyone who has helped me accomplish what I have already Luke rusco I would like to thank my parents coaches mentors and my friends my mom and dad have constantly pushed me to be the absolute best version of myself I would like to thank my coaches and friends for training and working out with me to get me to to college for football coach farmer also has been a great coach and has done countless walkthroughs with me I intend to go to Hastings College to play football and major in construction management Davin Sanders I would like to thank my mom dad grandparents and all my family and friends who supported me through school my future plans are to finish auto collision and paint cars for a living Cody Cypress my mom friends mentors teachers and extensions have all helped me graduate I'm happy they put up with my procrastination all four years and I can't wait to continue procrastinating in college as for college I'm not sure where I'm going to go as as I'm writing this but I plan on studying some science degree and swimming division one if possible Lance Scott to start off I would like to thank my mom and dad for making me do my work even though I didn't want to I would also like to thank the fellows for being there and making School more enjoyable my future plans are to start a business and bless as many people as I can thank you Kaya schatzer I would like to say thank you to everyone in my life you've all helped me become who I am today and I'm so grateful for it thank you to my teachers for pushing me to do my best to my golf people for standing by me through the bad and the good my grandparents for making life fun to my dogs for loving me unconditionally and my family for always being there I'm excited to start this next part of my life where I will be double made double majoring in Psychology and education and playing golf for Hastings College Cara Simmons as this chapter of my life closes and a new one begins I want to start off by saying I will never be able to sum up my gratitude for my family and friends in these four sentences I gave everything to my education and I'm proud to be walking on this stage today I have a lot of people to thank for helping me get here and I hope you know who you are when I say thank you for everything the biggest thank you of all has to go out to my mom who pushed me supported me cried and cheered with me throughout this journey thank you all Addison Smith I would like to thank my parents family and friends for their unwavering support and love I am also grateful to all the teachers at the Village who have helped and supported me throughout my journey it is such a blessing to be surrounded by these wonderful people as of next year I will be attending Regis University and pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree Gabriella Snyder my biggest Thanks goes out to my family friends and the incredible teachers I had throughout my life who got me to this point I'm excited to further my education at Colorado State University studying nutritional sciences and political science I'm thankful to have attended a school where I can look back with the fondest of memories Preston spaith as I graduate I would like to thank my family for supporting me and helping me Reach This goal in my life I would especially like to thank my mom for always being there uplifting and encouraging me my future plans are to travel and further my education Lily Stowell I want to thank first and foremost my family who has supported me and always helped me strive for what's best I am also grateful for my strong faith in God that has guided me in my high school years I also couldn't have done it without my amazing friends and teachers who have taught me so much I will be attending Biola University in California in the fall to major in communication sciences and disorders as I hope to be a speech therapist in the future Elena stutzman I want to thank my family who's always been my support system and my friends new and old you all mean so much to me and are always there for me I want to thank also thank my wonderful teachers who have checked in on me and made my last few years of high school worth it I plan on attending Paul Mitchell Beauty School this year to start my journey of being an esthetician Abigail I just want to say thank you to my Mom Dad Grandma and all my teachers who have helped me get to this point thank you for all the support and guidance I have learned a lot about myself through the course of my high school experience which has steered me towards the health field Health Care field thank you everyone I am looking forward to what the future holds Tanner Volante I would like to say a huge thank you to my parents and my sister for always being supportive and for guiding me along this journey every step has been a valuable experience I'm planning on getting a degree in the visual arts and will pursue a future involving art and business Marley Vols high school has been a long journey for me a year and a half ago I never thought I would be walking on a stage receiving my high school diploma I know I never could have made it here without my supportive parents and the teachers that I have been so lucky to meet over the last few years at the Village I will be attending University of South Dakota in the fall Elizabeth Galen Wade I would like to thank my family and teachers for being so supportive of me and my path I plan to continue what I've spent so long working on in life ballet it's been my dream since I was little and I'm so thankful for Carolyn Mullins and Susan Nolan for showing so much love and compassion towards me since I first entered the village Kevin White first I'd like to thank my amazing friends and family my mom and dad for always being there for me and all my siblings for teaching me valuable lessons I'd like to thank the amazing staff at the Village more specifically Mr Norris Mr Stewart Dale CR and plan I'll be attending Oregon state in the fall to study political science thank you Village go beaves Keegan William I would like first to thank the Lord for constantly giving me peace strength and joy throughout these four years I would also like to thank my family teachers and youth leaders for constantly being there for me supporting me and calling me higher I plan to attend Grand Canyon University in the fall in studying Elementary education Anna Winslow I'll never forget my four years here at the village and especially CR for being my favorite person at school because of her wisdom and counsel and her help with everything from computers and Life to encouragement when I was down I would like to thank my parents for raising me to be just as proud of myself as they are I also want to thank my brother and best friend for hyping me up to be myself and work hard I will keep living as an artist an adventurer and a free spirit Brandon Wu I would like to thank my mother for sacrificing so much to allow me to reach this goal and to help me push forward on this journey I would also like to thank my father for being an inspiration to me and giving me ideas and knowledge to help me through life lastly I would like to thank my mentor Katie Flanagan for being such a health mental health-wise and timing-wise to help me finish my high school experience on a strong note my plans for the future are to get a doctorate at the Colorado School of Mines Joe Ezra Wyman thank you to everyone in my support system you are you all have put up with my Antics and encouraged me to grow my family for sticking by me through the hard times and my friends both new and old my teachers who I may or may not have had before high school who aren't just teachers but friends Jack yamakowski I would like to thank my family and friends for all the help and support thank you to the teachers and staff that never gave up on me I am open to all possibilities and dreams that lie ahead of me while I am not sure what I am doing yet I know my path will lead to great things foreign twenty three please stand please move your tassel from the left side and place it on the right that's it good job all right staff at this time please prepare to receive our graduates all right seniors don't forget to pick up your diploma for Miss Stacy who has a table set up in the hockey arena thank you again to the Board of Education Miss Cloninger and Mr Gregory class of 2023 you will now begin the recessional as high school graduates thank you [Music] I close my eyes and I can see a world that's waiting up for me that I call my own Through The Dark Through the Door through where no one's been far but it feels like home they can say they can say it all sounds crazy [Music] I don't care I don't care so call me crazy we can live in a world that we desire cause every night [Music] [Applause] for the world we're gonna make [Music] there's a house we can build every room inside is filled with things from far away special things I compile each one there to make you smile on a rainy day [Music] say they can say it all sounds crazy [Music] they can say they can say we've lost our minds I don't care I don't care if they call us crazy [Music] the colors fill my head a Million Dreams [Music] what the world could be a vision of the one I see a Million Dreams is all it's gonna turn thank you for being here you are dismissed as you exit today we would ask that you would please leave on the side opposite of where most of you came in so the 13 12 14 side if you had anything that was taken from you that was prohibited it will be on that side as you exit again if we could head out to the other side that will be helpful for the next uh high school that will be coming in to take the seats to the world I close my eyes [Music] a Million Dreams A Million Dreams [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we're gonna [Applause] for the world we're gonna make [Music] foreign
1920 1901 uh 1954. these are buildings that are over 70 years old they have terrible uh terrible insulation they have terrible energy utilization something amazing on a golden platter here and now and now we're complaining because it has it's toughed with the wrong kind of caveat really really this is that this is the the best thing that uh that I've seen come to Planning Commission in a long time with the only exception be that amazing Avalon development so come on let's let's not argue about tiny little things because uh makers were worried that uh that uh that if we don't get this development we might get something worse that is still a thousand times better than what's there already don't compare to the perfect compared to what's there or already there is nothing that can be built in SeaWorld c1a slash r that isn't a huge Improvement that there are what exists on this block Jesus no more tweakers commission proposed business commissioner Mills Mr Leonard could you please add into our s our work plan uh an annotation where we have r4c non-conformities to the the table from the site plan from today or from the staff report from the South Town uh proposal or uh it's like a staff report that we saw today can you clarify what you want I want to be able to reference back when we as an example all of the non-conformance CTS so I just want to sort of file when we come back to r4c this example remind us of this example sorry that's the yes remind us of this example and so and specifically that table and this is not super high priority but it I I feel like um having short-term rental be available to that zoning designation in its entirety is something that I'm uncomfortable with and um this is kind of bringing it to light in a way that I wasn't aware of before so I know we have about 85 things on our work plan but just as a reminder one of the ways that we allocate short term rentals is it's a lot in the same places that hotels are so a hotel could go into the c1ar just as a reminder that's not a residential district that could be all office it could be all commercial it could be a grocery store there's no requirement of residential in the c1ar so um I I get I get what you're talking about but I I just wonder if you are really concerned about this E1 AR you're what I'm hearing is you're worried about commercial zoning at that site because I don't think we would differentiate between hotels or short-term rentals and so um I guess I would I can take the note but I caution I don't know that you're necessarily saying that circum rentals is inappropriate to see when they are what I was hearing a lot of discussion at this table is you don't know this unar is appropriate for that location I guess that's what I'm saying then yeah so thanks for clarifying that anybody else I hear Whispering over here anybody else no okay uh okay we are on to adjournment then motion to adjourn commissioner Mills seconded by commissioner weitz all this in favor we are adjourned