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what you good morning we hope today is August 1 in 9 2019 is listen they is school this is whe news a man and I mean today for lunch there will be eat this pizza carrot pick up up fresh milk and milk tomorrow for breakfast there will be breakfast bagel yogurt fresh grapes fruit most and oh you don't have anyone celebrating birthday today if we mentors have your birthday please go to the office to pick out your birthday book yesterday's fun that question was in what it what is the main ingredient and the answer is X one of us just a three Mertz come to the office to pick out your prize today's one buck question is how many books are running here remember to write your rent or neatly and include your name your class and now we will observe brief period of silence to reflect on the anticipated an activity something it please dance for the foot I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all have a trusting Thursday and remember kinda sucks every day everywhere
good morning bacala today is August 30th 2018 is the 8th day school this is WBA 2 News I'm Lea and I'm tiga today for lunch there will be meatball sub 8 attack speed means oranges oranges hats and no tomorrow for breakfast there will be muffins dried cherries apple juice and milk we have some friends celebrating birthdays Amelia K sound emerges this weekend William a Anna and Kaitlyn battle indeed Michael eat miss viola Oh God yesterday's talkback awesome no you see they asked us to pick out your birthday book yesterday smells like my skin was how many weeks every year the answer is 52 sadly there is not a winner but it well next time today's ones that question is in what way in what Disney movie did you first hear the phrase supercalifragilistic and honey yeah the dog shits please remember to write your answer neatly and include your name in class we have a special announcement please go please go down please send down your Starbucks if you want to be chosen to eat lunch with with your friends were me the friend could be someone from another class as long as they eat lunch at the same time as you if you have a different friend each day if you would like bonus you get this it usually actually private evenings here with a rapper there Apple is going is going on so you don't win this week you might win next week the more you under the better your chances of land and now we all deserve a brief period of thighs your breakfast dissipated activities on the day please camera the place all right pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all have a friendly Friday
good morning New Holland today September 30 2019 is the ninth day of school this is Debbie begin to use I'm Lea and I'm Pam today for lunch there will be cheese cheeseburger onion rings baked baked beans means oranges Manila tomorrow for breakfast there'll be many donuts grow crackers fresh apples oranges and milk um we don't have any anyone celebrating birthdays today if you if we miss Joyce happy birthday please go to office you got your birthday book yesterday's pump that question one and what does new movie do we for the bird please supercalifragilistic expialidocious the answer is Mary puppet the winner is one Wendell Andrew Davichi con job is to figure out your prize today's question is what color on the track but tell the driver to use color innately and we have a special announcement the winners of the picnic table drawing our Angelucci Sammy to egg at the Anna to out Kate III take Jake after camp Bella 3 I'm Carson poor W amazed Jeff for CS and and now he owns them a great period of silence reflect on you get suspended activities of the day we can't replace I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all have a terrific Tuesday and remember Tiny's Council oh and remember kindest pads every day and everything thanks for watching
good morning week holidays September 4th 2019 with the tenth day of school this is wbg news I'm Tegan and I'm you today from on sale be pancakes often fights cucumber hash burn or Keith and tomorrow for breakfast they will be filled for you graham crackers orange tabs orange juice and milk yes we're spreading some remember things aspirin are Cheyenne Elle and destiny P please do an office pick up yesterday's funk that question was what color on the traffic like tell the driver to use auction the answer is yellow the winner is brick c3 Detweiler please going off to make out your prize today's fun fact question is adios is a Spanish word to say watch remember to write your answer need me include your name in class and now we will observe a brief period of silence to reflect on me and abated activities of the day please everyone I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all have a wonderful ones too and remember try this couch every day everywhere thanks for watching bye
the September 4th 2019 City Planning Commission meeting will begin the meeting with a roll call would hear Briggs Commissioner Mills here commissioner Mills time here give Randall here Commissioner Ackerman here commissioners over here commissioner a-bombs here sorry Commissioner hammerschmidt yeah yeah ok we have a quorum excellent thank you do we have any introductions this evening no approval agenda do have a commissioner I'll move approval move by Commissioner Mills seconded by Commissioner woods any discussion all those in favor please say aye aye opposed it's approved minutes of the previous meeting before is this evening we have the August 20th 2019 meeting minutes do have a commissioner who will move move out Commissioner good Randall seconded by Commissioner Mills any discussion or changes all those in favor please say aye aye opposed those are approved we move on to reports from city administration City Council Planning Manager Planning Commission officers and committees and written communications and petitions we'll begin with our city council representative Commissioner Ackerman Thank You mr.
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[Music] good evening good evening everyone today is Wednesday September 4th 2019 I'll call the regular meeting of the Brookfield Board of Education to order if we could all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance we have our full board present tonight and we also have a new addition to the table I would like to welcome and introduce Muncie barn wall who is our student representative for this year all right and first we have the introduction of certified staff members dr. booth thank you mrs. serve so as you can see in the audience we have lots of new teachers and staff members and one administrator here tonight that are new to the to the Brookfield public schools and we're excited to have them they're still smiling they came back for a second week after a long weekend so we're glad you came back everybody what we're actually as part of this mr.
chair a handful of updates for you City Council met last night and get out early this morning on property specific updates the city executed its right to first refusal at the property of 1146 South maple folks will remember this as adjacent to an Avalon development that we reviewed and passed on to City Council hopefully over a year ago at this point but the city's purchase of this would allow what enable Avalon to expand the opportunity of affordable housing on those two parcels now 28:57 Packard also known as the Weber property passed at first reading and a this body also reviewed plans for an and a parking structure build-out that proposal was voted down at City Council that was actually there were some active and productive debate about the specifics and staffs requests it was voted down and bring something fresh just cuz it required a lot more number country on zoning related matters to amendments to the chapter 55 past that second reading first was allowing restaurant bar and food service uses in our office district the second were fixing some clerical errors in updating our UDC to reflect our former checker fifty-five updates on the treeline trail we were able to secure an easement at the kingsley condominium property which will allow for a potential stretch of the treeline trail to run through the near downtown area and additionally we are applying for a grant to the county to study the possible connections between 721 North Main a city-owned property and Argo pond transportation updates of relevance to this body City Council will be looking at the Lowertown mobility study which would look at the the region around the intersection of Plymouth Traver in Pontiac trail to Road reconfigurations which were proposed Road diets that would provide added amenities for cyclists and pedestrians on Traver would drive on the northeast side of town one proposal has been kind of cycling between versions and we're soliciting more input from institutional stakeholders like the Islamic Center and a couple University of Michigan facilities in the area the second on Green Road also on the northeast side of town failed at City Council and finally I will be leaving this body I was not able to secure enough votes for reappointment it's been an honor and a pleasure to serve with you I'm not sure exactly what the mayor's timeline is for nominating a replacement City Council representative but know this has been a distinct honor of my tenure on city council so thank you thank you um I'm sure we'll have more thoughts on that later in the meeting moving on to planning manager mr.
storm we not only have our new teachers here the principals are actually going to be coming up on the next piece on the agenda in talking a little bit about first day first week and at that point I think it'd be great if they could just introduce and each new teacher can get a little way if I think that might be something nice we can do perfect okay so that we would roll into the opening day report okay very good so maybe we'll start with Mary Rosa from Center School mrs.
Walski do you have any report where I do not have a report tonight okay Planning Commission officers and committees Commissioner brakes just an update that the master plan consultants that have been hit put in proposals those interviews are gonna be happening within the next couple of weeks so that process is moving forward great any other all right written communications and petitions I believe we received two letters that are in our packet so please take a look at that and now moving on to audience participation if there's anyone in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission in regards to an item that is not on our agenda this is your opportunity to address the Planning Commission so if you are here in regards to hideaway Lane or vacant Ilic south we'll have an opportunity for that in a little bit but is there anyone in the audience who currently wishes to address the Planning Commission regarding item that is not on our agenda this evening if so please step up to the podium seeing no one I will move on to public hearing scheduled for next business meeting which we have known we do not have any so I'm not sure what will happen at that meeting but we will most likely have a meeting yes we will keep you posted on the details so now moving on to regular business the first item is hideaway lane planned project site plan for City Council approval and we will begin with the petitioners presentation the petitioner will have up to ten minutes to address the Planning Commission which time we will then head over to a staff to get an staff report and then we'll open it up for public hearing before our discussion so please Thank You mr.
diamond good evening everyone okay all right hi Mary Rose diamond very proud principal of Center elementary school and happy to be here this evening it's been a little bit of a whirlwind as it always is start off the school year but as a result of the dedication and commitment of ours people who are the people who call center school their home we're off to a great start I'm very happy that I'm gonna actually talk about enrollment birth okay I think you had a little bit of my report and then introduced after so we kind of have a rolling start at center school our first graders come and then our kindergartners come and then our preschoolers come so by the time we got to this Tuesday we welcomed 396 students we 53 preschoolers 179 kindergarteners and 164 fourth graders or nap fourth graders first graders something look like they are big so class sizes in kindergarten are at about 20 per class and in 1st grade were at 20 or 21 in a class made 12 new students first grade with lunch is starting today so we were full complement of students I just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge the incredible amount of time and energy takes a register almost 200 students we can think about that it is a huge task and Lisa Ruggles and Claire Denis average are experts I just can't say enough wonderful things about that our secretaries at center they meet with each one of those 200 parents and families and individually they walk through the paperwork to answer their questions and they listen to their concerns that everyone's sending their babies to kindergarten so it's a lot them so for families who speak a language other than English they seek our resources for students who have plans special plans they connect with other agencies and for families sort of unique living arrangements and circumstances they're helping to navigate the paperwork to establish present so it's just it's a lot of work and they are they are master that it's actually to acknowledge them so kind of along that idea of having great people at centre school our new staff here this evening with us we have Dan vecino who is our new art teacher we have Amy Cody who is our new music teacher Danny Cavanaugh who is our new pre-k teacher Catarina Prada who is our kindergarten teacher and Fran Weingart guys our new speech language pathologist who cannot be here today so we have a fantastic group of teachers really excited to have them here hiring is one of the most important things that we do and we really hired well so we're extremely excited in terms of our okay sure so we had a really great start to the year in terms of professional development a couple of teachers mentioned they felt like it was the best one we've had in a long time and I think again it's because we were we excellent PD for st math that presenter was just really fantastic everyone is so excited I was just saying to Eric where we're working on getting a lot of devices in place to start on Wednesday and the level excitement for the teachers is really high and I know it's going to be for our students we also took time to kind of reestablish our our PJs plans and how we're doing so locations and how that's connected with our ruler approach so it was a really nice way to start and make sure that we are all on the same page make sure make a consistent start for our students and give them a good foundation I'm looking ahead to the new school year we I'm going to again return to the idea of valuing people and connecting with on another our curriculum team is really diligently preparing all the resources we need to support the rollout of the standards online report card and we're making plans for embedding all of the tools within our regular practices so it's not something else that we're doing this is how we're going to roll at center school this is what it's going to look like and it's really the relationship that our colleagues habits our teachers have with each other that's supporting that work and sharing that process we're sharing strategies and experiences I mentioned with St math so we half of our staff rolled out st mat last year everyone else rolling out this year so a lot of connections and collaboration in that sense as well we're looking at the depth of knowledge of skill within our staff and our own team to share resources and ideas and expertise to resolve some of those challenges that come up they're going to be doing some walkthroughs with each other and really using our data see process to share the expertise that's in the room and explore that furthers as opposed to maybe looking for outside resources as well so it's a kind of a balance of both and we're also drawing on the strength and support of our school family to delve further into the ruler ink or tools laying the groundwork for students to begin to access the tools and families to understand the importance of students develop these strategies within themselves at this young age really starting with our pre-k students so we're really excited about it being a great year so you know again you're thinking about connections you know family that I said freaking I think everybody comes in with their families so every although 396 students that brought their families to school in the last week as well so we you know they're coming through the office and kind of going through the building so one of the students came into the office and you can see that they're there trying to you know build connections for themselves or because everything is new the new places new people it's a new mode of transportation or other but I mean there's old everything's new for them so new backpack you know so they all come in on this one student comes and he's talking with his family and he looks at clarity and savage and rows of you know Claire I think of Sinclair and says you remind me of my grandma so that was a little bit so then so we're choosing to say that it hurt mannerisms remind her move her grandma not necessarily her appearance and the other little quarter lender that they own dimension is that we had a parent of a kindergartner who typically has trouble getting up in the morning and she was just dreading like what it was gonna look like each day say to her like I just I want it's so much fun I just well I want to see mrs. Somerville like I just want to go to school to see as a Summerville so those connections are so important for our kids and really starts with us so again thank you to a central obvious leadership thank you to all of our family thank you to this custodians our school is gleaming it is absolutely amazing Dan Caldwell and his dad for all their help in preparing the buildings Deb Jones buses every you know all of our typical thank yous are really there as well it's really takes a team to make sure that this will open then again particularly when I think about 200 new families it was it was it's it's a whole team effort so thank you very much for a great start thanks thank you welcome to our Center teachers as well we're happy to have you all and now mrs.
chairman my name is Michael Powell I'm the design engineer for this particular project and my address is 4700 cornerstone Drive in White Lake and if you don't hold it against me I'm U of M grad as well so it's nice to be back in my hometown here this project unless you're much older than I am it's been around a long time this particular project started in 1965 in which it was part of a planned development that far back nine of the original units were constructed and still exist on the site approximately 15 years ago that was modified to a site condo status consisting of 18 single-family home sites the construction started approximately three years ago in which three of the basements were dug as part of that original approval and as you can well imagine the economy delayed it many many years during the middle 2000s this particular project as you can see before you has started out as a single-family home site and as the developer started construction on it he soon found that the construction cost and the sales prices for these homes would be much larger than what the area can really afford so as part of an economical efficient home sales and for for rentals he decided to approach the Planning Commission and staff to make these duplexes instead of single family home sites much more for affordable home sites in the area so part of that we've been working with staff for a couple three years now to try to get this site to accommodate duplexes versus single-family home sites so the proposal but for you right now is 417 individual buildings in the virtually the same location of the original single-family home sites and one single-family home site that's already finished on site and to change those buildings into duplexes instead of single-family home sites and as you can see it's it's virtually a single-family home look with two doors in it instead of one door in the front of the structure and each unit is going to have a two-car garage and enclosed two-car garage so all of the all of the individual home sites will have their automobiles inside the structures and then we'll have individual drives leading up to each of the home sites so there are two driveways leading up to each of the home sites themselves we have as I said we've worked very hard with staff and I want to personally thank and tell you that mr.
lab Shana from huckleberry good evening everyone well huckleberry got off to a fantastic start we started off with our PTO back-to-school picnic where we invited 531 families and I want to say we had a good turnout of probably close to 300 to 400 people attend every year we included DJ and food trucks and ice cream truck and it's a really great time for everyone to kind of get back together prior to starting the school year this year we have 160 ones two new students coming from second-grade 184 and third and 186 and fourth we had really great professional development a lot of our teachers had opportunities for thoughtful planning at the beginning of the school year 2nd grade also took part in the esteem math training second-grade teams are really excited just as Center school half of our second-grade teachers piloted last year so they were also a wealth of knowledge to kind of support their colleagues or that process we did some really great fantastic curriculum work and that will continue throughout the upcoming school year also our work with ruler and we would like to continue our pure walk throughs in the same way that Center is I often say that teachers are the best professional development we have because we get to go into each other's classrooms and we learn something new every time so we also were very busy hiring this summer some of our new teachers are Lindsay such a fourth grade teacher and a hair also fourth-grade dan Douglas special education Aaron power schakal special education and kristen Panozzo who's back they are also at special education as well I have very similar thank yous a center school we would not I almost say every year is like the start of the school year last year being my first there was so much nerves and excitement because I didn't really know what to expect and this year I felt the same way even though I knew it was to expect but it's not possible without our secretarial staff sandy Flom and Deb helming all the great work for the custodians getting the school ready well Deb Jones at the bus company dr.
Jeff Kahn and Amy are professionals in every sense of the word they they see problems with sites they let us know about them ahead of time and they work very carefully making sure that we've dotted our eyes and crossed our teas crazy that they hold us accountable to actually present a nice project to you planning commissioners so the request now is to allow for a little more dense development in that the number of units are changing but the number of structures are staying exactly the same there are a couple items that I'd like to let the Planning Commission know because in doing this kind of work around the state not much changes in the canoe of the neighboring community and the binding Commission's not the least of which and apologizes well and that I'm a crazy board member in White Lake Township so I I get to hear the concerns of development in my own community so traffic is a is a major issue and I have a revised traffic study and I'm not exactly sure that that the revised traffic study is before you I know one was submitted but as a the single-family home site with the 18 units that are proposed ended up with 215 traffic incidences or traffic I'm sorry I'm trying to get there the the actual traffic count for single-family homes when it was really a today our professional traffic engineer the difference between the traffic count in single-family home sites and multiple family units the increase only raised by 16 traffic counts of going from the single-family home site to the multiple-family the charge in Ashdod and the other traffic analysis show that that is because of the different in difference in the use of those homes you don't have a family of four five and six in the home site you don't have a number of trips back and forth to school typically they're occupied by one in two member families and not larger families in the multiple so a total of 16 additional trips only by changing from single family to multiple and only four additional trips during peak times morning and evening so only for additional trips so the the concern from the neighbors are somewhat Olivia alleviated because the different type of occupant that will be in the multiple family development we have sanitary sewers already extended into the site from the previous project water main has already installed in the development and the sanitary I mean the storm sewer system will be upgraded to accommodate to all the roadways as they currently are and they had to be modified meeting the fire department's requirements stormwater flows from the north side to the south side and a parallel storm sewer system picking up the storm water coming out of the site from the surrounding area as well as down the streets it goes into a four Bay and a detention basin and outlets in a controlled way into the creeks that follows along the westerly side of the development Jeff is there and you change the keyboard there if you hit the return up the return --all should advance return or they enter yes it's policy oh look at that hey all right so this shows the location it's along the southerly side of traver Drive this is a strictly a residential type roadway this whole area is currently zoned multiple and there's a great deal of multiple already existing in this area the picture along the the bottom portion of that screen is the it's really from the railroad tracks the outlet underneath the railroad tracks and the owner has stepped in and cleaned up all those gabion baskets and created a very nice and a very efficient manner to carry the water from underneath railroad tracks down to the stream or Creek to the to the west so the current proposal as I said is to change the single-family homes to a duplexes we had to lose one of the duplex units because in working with the fire department they needed to have a turnaround at the end for their fire trucks and so we've accommodated a turnaround for the fire department as well as in fighting the fires if something were to happen back there the southern half of the project will be sprinklered all the all the homes in the southern portion of the development will be sprinklers fire suppressed so the fire department has their hope is the fire will be out before they even arrive on site so all of that was done to accommodate the fire department's concerns we we also had an interesting chore because believe it or not and I know you didn't have any hand in this at all your ordinance have changed over the years and so to allow this site to accommodate the balance of or to the new to new ordinances we've had to accommodate it by widening the drives from the original site and so we've widened the driveways of fire hydrants we've as I said we've sprinkler the buildings we've modified how each building was going to be served with sanitary and water and so we've worked very carefully with staff to modify even the the dumpster area and reconfigured that and we going to rebuild those walls around that we have added bicycle racks on site most of the individual bicycle racks will be in the building in the buildings but they we have a class a bicycle rack out in front to where anybody can keep their bikes there as well so I'll be available at answer any other questions you have and just one other very quick note the your notes say that the owner has requested that it this be postponed they didn't believe that they could have anyone here to represent them so I'm here representing them and if the Planning Commission so desires and I've answered all your questions and this goes properly we would appreciate a recommendation to City Council tonight if it's your pleasure so thank you mr.
pitrowski didn't make anyone cry the start of this year but he always brings such levity and laughter every single day so without all of those individuals its it wouldn't be possible there's something really magical about how it all just kind of falls into place at the start of the year so we're really excited for the 1920's school year and it's gonna be a great year thank you thank you welcome to our very teachers the one and only mr. Dean Randa shooting sorry about that good evening I'm Dean ran of the principal at whiskey near Middle School I first would like to start off for over today I'd like to thank all of our secretaries for all the scheduling registering the new students all the paperwork technology changes ordering etc over the summer our custodians working around summer school programs to clean wax the floors paint clean windows etc stuff that I really am excited about especially the painting part my my custodian every time they finish certain spots he would send me a text of a summer if he even if I was at home at night or when I was on vacation to show me because you know he knows I'm big on the paint and he made the portable doors it was very exciting to me but that was one thing the Parks Department outside the front of the building around looking great with the hedges the mulch they put in the back for our students with our Gaga pit and our swings to Dan and in his staff our scheduling all the necessary checkups they need to do of the summer and getting all the necessary work done Debbie Jones as always an accrued all-star for always help us we always have a couple of students those for a few days and we really really try not to but we always have a couple that missed their bus and they make sure that we're able to figure that out so we get the kids home and all the staff that helped with our interviews with miss Gordon and mr.
chairman thank you well now head to mr. Cohn for a staff report thank you just a little bit of history first in the mid 60s a nine unit townhome project was constructed on the site which still exists today in 2003 another developer received approval to construct the single-family homes on the site but only one of those homes was constructed another home remains unfinished on the site and two basements were constructed without any other improvements the current development team acquired the property fairly recently and came up with this new concept of proposing duplexes where previously single-family home sites were were shown so that's a little bit of the history I also want to point out that at that time in the in the mid 2000s when the initial development team was attempting to construct the homes a number of natural features were removed at the site and are in the process of being replaced there were two mitigated wetlands that were constructed at that time that are not in great shape so we've asked the current developers to improve them which they've agreed to do there are two other wetlands on the site for a total of four the staff port does include a discussion tree replacement and the petitioner has agreed to provide all of the necessary replacement trees petitioners also agreed to dedicate funds for park improvements nearby and at this point because the petitioner had requested postponement staff is recommending the plan project site plan be postponed if the Planning Commission has all of its questions answered and feel that this petition could move forward to City Council then they can then the Commission can move that thank you at this time I'd like to open up up all the public hearing on this item if there's anybody in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission please step up to the podium state your name and address for the record you'll have up to three minutes to address the Planning Commission and I'd like to leave to read the comments of my neighbor at 2000 River Road and he says I am opposed to this project for several reasons the developers have not demonstrated themselves to be responsible nor respectful neighbors currently there is one house health constructed on the lot and to open foundations these foundations have been opened without any safety precautions such as a fence or a rail for over three years I've expressed my concern regarding the safety of these open foundations in our neighborhood with children and pets but have received no response the developers turned to our once beautiful backyard with trees and a picnic area into an uncontrolled that they refused to maintain when I expressed concern regarding this area specifically the amount of standing water and subsequent mosquitoes they told me I should get used to it as that is how the land will remain three our association of nine condos in one house is already experienced problems with parking increasing the total number of dwellings for 29 to 45 would put undue stress on our already stretch parking the developers have stayed they plan to echo ages to units but as the partially constructed house demonstrates only one unit within these proposed duplex developments would have access to a garage and finally an increase in that in the number of total dwellings would lead to traffic problems something I'm also concerned about as there is currently only one driveway from Craven Road with access to the development as stated by a member of the previous Planning Commission with these developers an increase in construction equipment poses a safety risk to the children in the neighborhood the developers stated they share this concern and would meet with parents to ensure safety such a meeting never took place and no measures to ensure the safety of the neighborhood children were taken what will be the difference this time thank you for your time consideration Zachary Hutton jur thank you thank you my name is David favor I live at 1791 hideaway Lane and uh regarding the existing structure of the personally built house it is as far as we can tell only framed out there's no drywall inside it's not ready to move in the windows are periodically open to the elements for weeks at a time during rain and snow and the to open foundations a couple of months ago were modified to presumably accommodate the proposed duplexes they had wall cinder block walls inserted and in the process of this the foundations and cells were damaged so we have concerns about the quality of the buildings that are going to be going in on the existing pieces thank you seems like we have a good representation from height way late I am correct Wagner at 1793 highway lane thank you for the opportunity to speak with you and I appreciate this this forum for you to listen to us man I've urge you not to approve the new proposal three primary reasons too specific to the site and one larger from a development perspective in Ann Arbor we've talked a little bit about traffic that is number one with 16 new dwellings on the site that will double the number of cars on that site and if we're assuming that there will be between one and two cars for each of the dwellings that 16 to 32 cars additionally they can and whereas 16 to 32 cars in Ann Arbor you know that's a drop in the bucket obviously you have many decisions on expanded development but certainly in that area where there's only one paved road out to Greater Ann Arbor we're gonna certainly see greater traffic there one of the things I was interested in seeing was the new site proposal and this goes to my point number two and that is green space as I expected to keep the number of dwellings and double the number of or keep the number of built buildings but double the number dwellings that dwellings happen to be bigger and certainly comparing the two before and after the dwellings are much larger and you can I think take a look you know me eyeballing it from 50 feet that looks like 30-40 percent greater square footage on the buildings and also less green space I'm guessing it looks like if you you know if you look at all the green space on that four acres I'm guessing it's about cut in half but you know you certainly can make that calculation from from the site plan and lastly I'd like to speak to this in the larger Ann Arbor perspective because I know you have an interest in modern in managing the new development that comes into this city and it's hard to argue with the fact that you know more more housing brings in more tax revenues brings more people in to our fair city which is wonderful but there's also a lot of hidden costs that we often don't going to consider that is in terms of increased traffic greater stress on the city infrastructure reduction in green space greater noise and light pollution and more crowding on our streets and these all contribute in a minor way to degrading the character of the city we love and this is especially true given that we're in the unique position of having a wonderful University that also was putting significant pressure on it so so I urge you not thank you put this here okay so I'm gonna read up my iPhone just to keep my promise efficient my name is Joseph Pratt I live part time at 1790 hideaway a plane and another part of the time at 30 9200 Vereen drive over in colonial square I want to comment on what I observe as a responsibility or irresponsibility of their developers you've heard comments about the open foundations this derelict house it's been they've been working on off and on for four years that is trashed by the weather it's good it's sometimes left open there's all kinds of people living in there and and in animals too sometimes so it's it kind of concerns me that this have kind of irresponsibility is going on and now they're proposing this development and my biggest question is a direct drainage ok the city spent millions of dollars developing the drainage on Leslie golf course a few years ago and it seems to me that you'd want to preserve that investment well this area that at the proposed highway lane development is going in on its soggy all the time it's good clearly good has drainage problems when we have one of these hard rainstorms the ground can be soggy for several days my question is build this thing and where's all that water going to go so you've heard about the empty foundations the derelict house this Desmond's spent millions of dollars on the watershed developing watershed for Leslie Park Golf Course why do you want to screw that up I'm concerned that this hideaway lane development is potentially alter the water dynamics of the area it is not fair to the taxpayers and especially those who own structures in the area that could be potentially negatively affected by the water bath house currently the water does not drain easily after a heavy rain the area is often soggy for several days with a bill that in the development I fear that there will be not will not be a good way for the water to drain the site has considerable marshland area who will be fair will get be fair to build houses on an area will cause problems the buyers of those units additionally those of us who live nearby could also encounter drainage problems that is not fair if a problem occurs and you don't know if a problem is mr.
Bernard for all the help that they gave for me for scheduling and everything around the summer but also with a that we had is is very excited we have five new staff members that was Kinnear we had nineteen last year yeah five is and we have two new hires last week fifty new hires so at first I'd like Amanda Hayes to stand up to be working a special education or um Caitlyn priest is literacy in 5th grade she's not here she had an appointment she couldn't make it tonight we have doreen Fontana she's double duty was skinnier and also for high school she's our six to twelve special that supervisor and then we also have a list of Telus that came out from huckleberry and also uh oh my gosh a bookmark for lambda I meant to say Mike Smith for BHS we have 828 total students at this point and we have two that are actually in process of registering our cohorts I like to always kind of see from year to year for 5th grade even though that the incoming class was not as large as the outgoing class there's ones in high school as you can see by the numbers but our fifth grade was up seven from last year so from fourth to fifth up seven sixth grade went up for seventh grade went up six students and eighth grade was the only one that ended up going down by two we are so ultimately at 45 new students 15 and fifth fifteen and six ten and seventh grade and five and eighth grade so that's obviously with the withdrawals and you know the counterbalance there the area schools they uh they came from we had four students come in from they came come over from the magnet school from AAS st.
Powell is saying all yeah we better figure out but he told me just a few minutes ago well this is a tough area so you know I'm kind of guessing they're not sure what's going to happen so my concern is there is a problem it it's gonna be seeing like too little too late as you had coming down and gonna come in oh yeah we'll fix this gonna tweak that and I think it's just a wet area so anyway that's my statement thing thank you is there anyone else in the audience who wishes to address the Planning Commission and regards to this petition seeing no one I will read the motion the Ann Arbor City Planning Commission hereby recommends that the mayor and city council approved the hideaway Lane plan project site plan and development agreement commissioner and they'll move move a commissioner Mills seconded by Commissioner Ackerman and we are in discussion before I hand it off to somebody there so for as long as we've had the packet which was since last week there's been a staff recommendation for postponement in the developers or petitioners request for a postponement so my fear in having a deep discussion this evening is that we aren't actually getting the full public comment on this item so I'm I will of course I'll listen to what everybody has to say but I would do encourage this body to vote for a postponement so that we could gather additional feedback and I will hand it off to Commissioner Ackerman Thank You mr.
Joseph it's seven students ela three also had from New Milford New Fairfield Danbury Massachusetts New York New Jersey Florida and as far as India and Brazil for some runs new students I'm exciting for us for to start the year for our PD that we had we're continuing our work our Alice Rubicon curriculum work and also in our fifth our fifth grade literacy teachers special ed teachers remedial reading teachers we had open core training for that for those staff members who were very excited and think it's going to be a great addition for us continue our work with ruler on social emotional intelligence I know one thing we're very excited about it does the training we had for trauma-sensitive school training that we're going to if you want to say infused along with the ruler before we're going to train with our staff but again just kind of that feeling in the school of being me being there for kids and being there for each other also very excited about utilizing our new world language on mobile app so my first day the first day it's always so much fun I love seeing the big smiles of the fifth graders and they come in even the eighth graders sometimes have their eyes like this because they don't always know where they're going so that's always very exciting but I always have to come up with a cup I have a couple new quotes from this year a new 7th grade student who said in saves me someone teach I don't know if everyone can say this but I had a really great first day and one of the kids kind of looked at him and said don't worry about it the second that I wasn't it was there was some other teachers but I had a 58 students say to me this is gonna be a great year especially because I can eat ice cream every day I sent in so to all those little things that County kids but really the first week of school always is a blast I think for staff and for students thank you very much no I have one thing to share with you and I'm on something that John it's so dr.