I motion to adjourn this meeting. My bad. That would be Miss Van Hook. Seconded. All those in favor? I. Motion carries. 5-0. Have a good night, everybody. And congratulations to the class of 2025. Oh, yeah. Look at you. All the vice president and stuff. Yes, indeed. Graduation's coming up everybody. Good luck.
First and second. Joe, you want to give that just a quick I Oh, Anna, sorry. Anna, yes. Do we have to approve this? I mean, this is a law or Yes. Yeah. If you don't approve it, we don't you know, the only the only thing I had non-school organizations had out that Snapchat some crazy stuff I was going to ask about there's criteria around that because that's an event. It's not one half an hour drive school. So, it does meet the criteria cuz the crazy donuts I ate during the fall were just ridiculous. All right. I have a first and a second. Uh, we'll take the vote. All those in favor? I 80. Thanks. Thank you. I'll ask for a motion to move that the camp board of education or governing authority will allow the sale of two students of food and items that do not meet the Connecticut nutrition standards and beverages not listed in section 1021Q of the general uh of the general statutes provided following conditions are met.
Either one. uh when you when you get into the other neighborhoods and you end up on West Stadium, West Stadium stops being residential and then becomes more of what's going to be a TC1 district. I don't think that the blanket treatments are beneficial to most neighborhoods and I personally have been at my in my house for 50 years and I've seen all the changes that have occurred including the fact that the five lanes plus two bike lanes are below standard in in terms of their width and safety concerns. So this is a really complicated thing in most areas. In my area, I feel pretty much the way this woman felt because any more um burden on our neighborhood which is the whole length from Washington and stadium and stadium to Pauline. I mean to we go we have to go past the the uh the stadium uh that we are named for.
This that was part of the settlement agreement with that particular developer because it was a builder's remedy lawsuit. So when I said one out of every five, I really talked about generally inclusionary zoning um and thinking about total number of units. The requirement typically is 15% set aside for rental units and 20% set aside for um for sale units. That's the normal set aside. Some developers give more. The Mumford project is at 36% set aside. Okay. So the M andD then is the 15% those are rental they're rental correct. Okay, Mrs. Sweeney Serenium. Serenium. Um my question for you is you mentioned before Governor Murphy signed this into law and then the gentleman over there when he came up he said you have to push your legislature legislators. I said that as well. Okay. No, no, I know you said that. So, when Murphy leaves office, can a new governor undo his law?
One, the sales in connection with an event. Oh, here we go. The sales in connection with an event occurring after the end of the regular school day or on the weekend. Two, the sales at a location or event. And three, the food and beverage items are not sold from a vending machine or school store. Period. An event is an occurrence that involves more than just regularly scheduled practice meetings or extracurricular extracurricular activities. For example, soccer school plays in inter school debates or events, but soccer practices, play rehearsals, and debate team meetings are not. The regular school day is the period from midnight before to 30 minutes after the end of the the official school day. Location means where the event is being held and must be at the same as the food sales. Same place as the food sales. I have a motion. Thank you, Jordan.
Um any more pressure will not be good. We would I would like to see the the standards obeyed first to make sure we're not building on problems. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hello. Um I'm Alex Hull. I've lived here for a while as well. I just want to speak for another group of people who weren't included in the planning process. Um the people who didn't know about the plan and then looked at it and said it's okay. I I didn't know this was happening. Um I'm here cuz I got added to an email list and found out there's a planning commission meeting today. But I've read the plan and you know I wasn't consulted. I wasn't I didn't participate, but it represents my interest fairly well. Um, so I think there are a lot of people in Ann Arbor who feel that way and because they're not angry, didn't bother to come out here and defend it.
I've been doing this for 40 years. The pendulum swings. Uh, I think we've reached an ex an extreme point. I think the pendulum will swing again. I think there will be retribution for this law because it's so grossly excessive. But we don't have that luxury right here. No, we don't. We have a June 30th deadline and we can't drag our feet. No, I understand that. I I understand that fully from the last and from this. Um but because uh the our town as citizens, voters, and when was when were plans put in? Three, four years ago, you said um that's for the third round. So the third round they're, you know, it's been going on for a long time. So for the prior 40 years as as voters, as council members from 1980 to n to 2000, we just ignored this and now we're left with this is what you're saying because there's always a requirement that you had to comply.
Second. Thank you, Felicia. Anna, anything to discuss on this? You pretty much I think hit. All those in favor? I opposed. Thank you very much. All right. Um, we are going to go into executive session. For executive session, I'm going to invite the superintendent. Uh, we're going in for the purposes of secretarial negoti negotiations for purposes of superintendent school evaluation will come out and we'll be voting uh after that. So, with that, we have a motion to go to executive session inviting superintendent schools. Thank you, Felicia. First, second, Erica. Thank you very much. All those in favor? I. We are moving to executive session. We'll go across the hallway so stays came into my class and and then when I I told him to leave, I tried to close the door with his foot and then Okay. Uh the f the first thing is uh I I'd like a motion that we are going to table the um the vote on the um get the take we're out of the executive session.
Um, just want to put that out there. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. Hello. Good evening, Commission. Uh, thanks for welcoming all these comments. Um, I'd like to make just a few quick suggestions up front and then respond to a couple things I've heard tonight. Uh, first, I'd just urge you to uh consider allowance of highrises in transition when it's far away from low-rise residential. Uh, number two, please ensure that nothing is inadvertently downzoned. Um, thanks for getting to the weeds about the map tonight. Um, just want to reiterate my hope that all existing multif family and especially private golf courses will be included in transition. Um, how that district relates to low-rise can be managed in the future with the zoning. If a property gets mapped as low-rise, it will nearly be impossible for that to be denser in the future and might even become non-conforming.
Um I think well let me let me just couch it this way. I think a lot of towns on the Jersey coast um over the last 25 years had not thought that they would be ripe for redevelopment built. There was plenty of land in suburbs. You know, there was plenty of land on the inland side as that has been gobbled up. Your town, these these coastal towns, these smaller vacant land towns, redevelopment is where it's h it's where it's at for developers. And so you we are seeing the pressure now. and that's where they're going to make their money. I understand that. Yeah. Um but the obligation's always been there and it's been there, but we're we're trying to deal with an obligation from 1987, too. So, the round three numbers of 150 or 40 or 60 units, those are still going to go in to place.
Yeah. Out of executive session you moved out. Oh yeah. Okay. So we're out of exe just for the record. We are out of executive session. We are going to table the uh the approval of the contract between camp board of education the local 1303 status 304 council 4. asked me and Lel CIO the secretaries union we will table that we have a motion thank you first second uh Erica appreciate that all those in favor okay uh now I'll take a motion the board of education extend superintendent contract by one year to June 30th 2028 as well as authorize the chair to finalize and execute the terms and conditions of superintendent contract motion thank you Joe second thank you Cindy Cindy one year it's it's so he has a three-year contract one year's up so this is the additional one right good question any other questions all those in favor I opposed watch out of here now it passes congratulations you get to stand another three another three okay um any any other business come before the board of education if Not.
Uh, last quick point up front, I echo the sentiments of speakers who asked that transition not be compartmentalized. Um, everyone should be a good neighbor and we need to allow housing where property owners are open to redevelopment. Uh, just responding to a couple things I heard. Uh, one is a very cut and dried issue. There's no real academic debate about housing uh, obeying the laws of supply and demand. Uh, yes, of course, new housing costs more than old housing, but today's so-called luxury housing is tomorrow's middle class or affordable housing. There's ads in the old Ann Arbor News that show luxury apartments being built on Packard. Uh, and today they're some of the more affordable student apartments. If we don't allow new housing to get built, when people who have money want to move here, they will just displace people out who are of lesser means from a fixed amount of housing stock.
They're still standing unless something happens. Uh those are those are existing numbers that will not there's nothing happening with those obligations in place. I know after whatever is done there really is no room in this town unless somebody buys a house and knocks it down and they say, "Oh, we'll put up 20 units." It's legitimate to know that the next round you may not have vacant land to do a vacant land analysis and everything will be an unmet need that you and you may not have any other place to zone for at that point. There is a section in the Fair Housing Act that basically says if you have you have exhausted all efforts for overlay zoning in in your towns where you think develop redevelopment is going to occur, you can say why you wouldn't be doing another redu overlay zone. Um, so that's but it's not here now.
I move that we uh I we just adjourn until we just slide out of here. Thank you, Cara. Thank you, Russell. Thank you, Board of Education. See you on the third.
This is an academic community. If you want to see studies on this topic, please Google supply skepticism revisited by the Ferman Center. Um, I'll spoil it and say that more h more homes means lower rents. Uh, on the topic of infrastructure, it's not overt taxed. Water consumption is 15% lower than its peak usage around 12 years ago, despite a slight population increase. We have plenty of water and sewer. Finally, um I just want to express a little bit of sadness about the fear that's been generated by a misleading flyer that's being circulated. Uh some of you may have seen it. It prominently featured a a photograph from another city of a five-story apartment building built right up to the lot line of a single family home next door. Um which to my knowledge was not even uh in the realm of consideration uh on this body.
Right now I would say 10 years from now maybe you're in that situation. So but wait till Murphy leaves exhaustion of land at some point. If you could just wrap it up you there really is an it's it's already exhausted. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Are we finished with questions? All right. We are. So then now we will hear comments from the public with respect to the plan that has been presented. All right, I'll take you one at a time. We're going to come on up. Mr. Burke, I'll take you first. Hold on one second. You'll come on up. You'll say your name, your address, and you can give comments. If you're going to provide testimony, we're going to need you to be sworn in. Okay? And um that will be uh until everyone has had a chance.
But um because that was shared handed out at elementary schools along with some misleading statements um the damage was done and uh it's just it saddens me that um that's possible in this community. I would just urge people to um just look at what's being considered. Um clearly the uh restrictions on low-rise residential have erased that fear. Uh thank you for your time tonight. Thank you. Hello. Yeah, you as well. Oh, can you hear me? Uh, if you want to pull it towards CIF, pull it towards Yeah, kind of short. Is that good? That's perfect. Thank you. U, my name is Donna Babcock. I'm at 1890 Upland Drive. And um the lady before Alice, I've forgotten her name, made a reference to um the mass study. And I want to reference two meetings that I've been at. Lisa was at both of them. Uh yesterday's meeting at the downtown library and out at Trevorwood was a very interesting um gathering.
We're still sticking with three minutes. and then we'll hear comments from the board and then we will hear the application. All right, Mr. Burke, come on up. Good evening. Dan Burke, Cedar Lane, page four, second uh table. It's titled, the table is titled affordable gross rents per region 4, but the the uh paragraph above it which describes it says it's sample rents and sale prices. I would suggest you might want to take the sale price comment out of it. Page four. Page four, sir. Second second table. Table two. Table two. The second table. Right. It's titled in the table affordable gross rents region four. I'm sorry. in the in the paragraph above it which describes it, it says sales and sample rent. You might want to take out the words sale. That's all. Okay. Well, sales are down below. I I it's it's but it doesn't it doesn't reference that.
And those mentioned uh migration and I think that Mr. Westfall just used the same theory. So, I was speaking with two other people who were at both of those and I'll give you their comments. Um, when we mentioned this last night, uh, Lisa said when she was giving, she mentioned scientific studies, several scientific studies that supported how this provided affordable housing and uh, but she didn't cite them. Well, that's proof by intimidation. However, she did site one and that is this study and this is the effect of new market rate housing construction on low income housing market and if this is what you consider a way a path to build affordable housing something that takes three decades. So here was the discussion. Um the uh this is the famous migration paper only done in very large cities like Chicago where there are actually lowcost neighborhoods some within reach.
I mean, again, I'll leave it to you. You make make your you know, on uh page 11 regarding the M andD property first paragraph consistent with surrounding neighborhood character. I'd say that's that's a reach. I don't think anything about the M andd um proposal is consistent with uh with anything in the in the surrounding neighborhood. So um again, I'll leave that as a comment. You can do it with with what you will. On the uh Mumford property, uh in addition, the developer is providing 36% set aside. It's a 25 unit. Four units are being set aside. uh the way your characterization is is each bedroom of the of the two units that uh uh make up that 36%. I'd suggest that that statement is um a mischaracterization, but I'll leave it as you will. Um the Borie Avenue property development of the uh on page 15, development of two family home shall comply with existing R3 zoning.