My parents are on vacation, so we planned to take the boys to the drop-in daycare during our meeting. Turns out that the daycare didn't open until 8:30AM - the exact time our meeting with the city was supposed to start. We decided to bring the boys with us and hope they behave. We had plenty of paper and pens that they could play with during our meeting, so hopefully they will have enough attention span to hang with us.
Our meeting started out great - no real hurdles for comments yet. Susan Joy attended from Engineering (instead of Randy Maizland) and started off with very good news. They had been working internally and decided that they would not require us to do the design and escrow of the money for the Kechter Road improvements. Yea! Save us a lot of money (~$24k) and headache of designing something that may not happen for awhile. It would also save us time as they were going to push through to public meeting without another review with the city!
Miles had to leave to entertain the boys while I attended the rest of the meeting.
Justin Fields from Light & Power attended instead of Janet McTague. Justin had some concerns with the power coming from the church property. Janet explained to us that we could ask for easements from Helen and Judy, but that it wouldn't be required because they could just pull it from the current Kechter ROW. Turns out that Justin wasn't so keen on that. We discussed possibly using the REA easement down the middle. But, I knew that both our neighbors were amenable to putting easements across their property. Then discussion went to the ditch easement and the private laterals that run through all of our properties. They don't know if the ditch and the utility easements can be in the same piece of ground, so something that Steve Olt said he'd research for us. In addition, we know that Helen is concerned about the big tree that will likely fall right in the easement. We didn't come to a resolution on this, so Susan started getting concerned.
As the comments started coming forth, Susan had second thoughts about not going through another round of review - darn! So, we'll have to resubmit in a few weeks after we resolve all the issues. She also mentioned that after thinking about it a little more, traffic operations may require us to install the sidewalk along Kechter as part of this project. Ugh.
Drainage was also a concern at the meeting, but we indicated that no changes to the historical flows will be made as part of the subdivision. We are going to pull all the drainage lines back onto our property and deal with the detailed lot grading plan for lot 2 with the building permit.
None of the other comments were really that big. A few typos and wording changes, but other than that looks pretty straight forward.
Next steps are to attend a utility coordination meeting (because of the ditch, power and easement discussion) and plan to resubmit for another round of staff review.
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