good afternoon welcome to the formal meeting of December 7th 2022. we'll begin with an invocation from police chaplain Robert fesmeyer you're invited to join me in prayer almighty God loving Creator provider and protector we acknowledge and we respect the offices of authority represented in this room may we prove worthy of this sacred responsibility and Trust courageous to act on Truth humble to listen to opposing views wisdom to seek right over wrong and to live by a standard that exemplifies the very best in who we are and who you made us to be protect our protectors bless and affirm the Faithful Servants that are the nameless backbone of the day-to-day operations granting us a heart of gratitude for all you provide and your mercies that are new every morning we pray this in your holy name amen please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance councilwoman O'Brien will you lead us we'll Now call to order the meeting will the clerk called the roll councilwoman Ansari here councilman decisio here council member Garcia councilwoman guardado here councilwoman O'Brien here here councilwoman Stark here councilman Waring here vice mayor pastor here Mary Gallego here Mario Barajas is with us to provide interpretation Mario would you introduce yourself yes thank you mayor hello my name is Mario Barajas and I'll be serving as today's Spanish interpreter I'll now take a moment to introduce myself to our Spanish-speaking audience municipal Mario yesterday [Music] thank you mayor thank you Mario will the city clerk please read the 24-hour paragraph the titles of the following ordinance and resolution numbers on the agenda were available to the public at least 24 hours prior to this council meeting and therefore may be read by title or agenda item only ordinances number g6964 and 7053-7063 S 48689 and 49194-49239 and resolution 22087 thank you I'll turn to our City attorney to explain public comment thank you mayor members of the public may speak for up to two minutes to comment on agenda items for public comment comments must be related to the agenda item and the action being considered by the council General comments that go beyond the scope of the agenda item must be made in the citizen comment session at the end of the agenda the city council and staff cannot discuss or comment on matters relating to pending the investigations claims or litigation city code requires speakers to present their comments in a respectful and courteous manner profane language threats or personal attacks on members of the public council members or staff are not allowed person who violates these rules will lose the opportunity to continue to speak thank you I'll turn we'll go to item one boards and commissions vice mayor motion to approve mayor and City councils boards and commission nominations second second leave a motion in a second any discussion all those in favor please say aye aye aye aye will now swear in our boards and commission member thank you so much for your service thank you please raise your right hand I state your name do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the State of Arizona and then I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and defend them against all enemies foreign and domestic and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office of State your office according to the best of my ability so help me God congratulations you are sworn in the council members would love the opportunity to thank you personally and we are so appreciative of your service congratulations thank you so much to our board and commission members we so appreciate your advice and have made better policy decisions and had a stronger City thanks to our boards and commission members we provide an advisory role to the State of Arizona on liquor license applications I'll turn to the vice mayor for a motion on that portion of our agenda motion to approve items 2 through 12 are recommended for approval second leave a motion a second any questions or comments all those in favor please say aye aye aye any opposed nay passes unanimously of note uh item seven is related to the Arizona Super Bowl city clerk are we ready for ordinances resolutions new business planning and zoning yes mayor vice mayor do we have a motion motion to approve items 13 through 84 except the following items 20 21 31 37 39 47 57 64 73 74 80 81 82 83 84 and 85. noting that items 20 and 84 are as revised item 78 is continued to February 15 2023 items 52 and 79 are withdrawn item 85 is an add-on and can the clerk confirm that there are any other items that should be excluded for in-person public comment vice mayor no other items need to be added thank you thank you that's the motion I need a second we have a second any corrections roll call I'm sorry yes decision yes cordado yeah O'Brien Stark yes wearing yes Pastor yes Gallego yes passes eight zero item 20 is Union comments on the proposed changes to the memorandum of understanding do we have any Union representatives in the audience who would like to speak we want to note that on December 14th the public will have the opportunity to comment on the proposals from labor organizations to roll call I'm sorry yes deceasio yes Garcia okay oh I apologize mayor there's no roll call for that one okay that we the directions I got said we were tasked for roll call we don't the City attorney says we need to just move on okay we will continue I'm so and the vice mayor had Mo noted I did a motion what are we doing yes I think right now we do need a motion too thank you sorry I apologize good job vice mayor thank you so wait a minute we're moving too fast uh I have a motion item number 20. second roll call I'm sorry yes deceasio yes Garcia guardado O'Brien Stark yes Waring yes Pastor yes Gallego yes passes eight zero item 21 is the proposed 35th Avenue and Carter Road annexation open the public hearing we have anyone to comment we will close the public hearing we'll not have a vote today it's a public hearing only we'll move to item 31 which is related to Optical scan ballots do we have a motion I move item 31 second second comments roll call I'm sorry yes to cecio yes yes O'Brien yes Stark yes Waring no Pastor yes Gallego yes passes seven one item 37 is the request to amend the contract with Community Bridges for covid-19 related Outreach around people experiencing homelessness do we have a motion I move item 37 second Motion in a second comments roll call I'm sorry yes deceasia nope guardado O'Brien yes dark yes wearing yes Pastor yes Gallego yes passes seven one 39 request to enter into agreements to provide Refugee and immigrant services do we have a motion I move item 39. second motion a second councilman Ansari thank you mayor I'm very very proud to support this item today we worked very closely and directly with the International Rescue committee and several of the other organizations that will be beneficiaries of this agreement which is an allocation of up to 5.3 million dollars in emergency funding to prevent homelessness better integrate new and existing Phoenicians to our city and continue to provide critical services like legal aid and medical case management for all we have a large population of refugees in Phoenix and many refugees who have arrived over the past year and a half especially most recently from Afghanistan and these services are more important than ever and I hope that they will show our newest residents and some of our most at-risk residents that Phoenix truly is a welcoming and inclusive City for everyone I think about how my parents came to the U.S around 43 years ago and were able to build a Wonderful Life very much because of organizations like this and Partnerships like this so I hope this will help many families moving forward immigrants have helped to build Phoenix and will continue to Drive Phoenix into the future so I am very excited proud and proud to support this item and I hope that it can be an ongoing partnership thank you thank you any additional comments we have in we do have individuals one speaker online all right roll call I'm sorry yes deceitio O'Brien yes dark yes wearing yes Pastor woohoo yeah yes passes eight zero item 47 is the Arizona office of Economic Opportunity partnership do we have a motion I moved to approve items 47 second we have a motion and a second noting that Council or vice mayor Pastor will not be participating any comments roll call I'm sorry yes to cease you yes O'Brien yes Stark yes wearing yes yeses 7-0 we next move to item 57 which is adding sworn positions in fire department for Staffing relief do we have a motion I move item 57 and woohoo here we go we motion a second councilwoman O'Brien thank you mayor I cannot express how important this vote is today the current state that our city finds itself in regarding the massive influx of population over the last 10 years and the lack of keeping up with Demand by building new fire stations ensuring our staffing model adequately reflects the growth and demand as a critical conversation and chair of the public safety and Justice subcommittee the conversations we've had the last two meetings have pointed out the dire situation that should be eye-opening for all Phoenicians about a year ago I started speaking about this problem with the city manager you in my office we discussed the current Staffing equations that were being used and how we needed to update those I stress the need to revisit the model and how we could impact our future budgets by doing that I met directly with leadership from the fire department and their respective associations to start discussions how we can best advocate in the Geo Bond effort and how we can work to ensure the continued funds needed for Staffing will be available not just in this next year's budget but in budgets in the future I'm proud to say the Geo bond package that we have on the agenda next week has over 83 million dollars earmarked specifically for the fire department to build new stations we've committed more to the fire department in the proposed Geo Bond than any other department or group and this shows our dedication to our firefighters and our residents who rely on these emergency services and I'm thankful to staff and our committee members on for the Geo bond for listening to the fire department to our residents and to city council as a daughter of a retired Phoenix firefighter I know the value and importance these men and women bring to our city and it's why I am proud to support additional funds to hire 58 new full-time positions within our fire department that will be ready to go at the beginning of the new fiscal year as the city grows we need to ensure our Public Safety Services are adequately growing and I think between today's vote and the future bond package we're getting much closer to putting out the fire crisis thank you mayor thank you councilmanuel this has been a priority for you since your campaign days councilwoman Ansari thank you mayor I also could not be more supportive of this item we many of us have said it again and again but we need to continue to reimagine how our city designs and funds Public Safety we know that when it comes to the fire department minutes matters seconds matter and where we spend our dollars matter and we need to get back to National standards very quickly I have very much enjoyed the several in-depth conversations that we've had in the public safety and Justice subcommittee I want to thank the chairwoman for her leadership there that have gotten us to this point and to the fire department for providing excellent data to really show us how minutes do matter how seconds matter and and many of you and the public may have seen the Phoenix fire crisis Campaign which I also think provided really helpful data points to show why it's so imperative that we do get back to National standards when it comes to our response times for the fire department so very excited to support this 7.8 million dollar investment it which will include 58 new positions included in this are 24 positions for fire station number 62 which will break ground very soon it's in district 7 and will service the Estrella region I also know we're making incredible progress on our Telehealth program which will divert medical related calls which are not as urgent to Medical Professional to medical professionals instead of using up our fire resources so we're headed in a great Direction I'm looking forward to continuing this work in the public safety and Justice subcommittee and with the full Council and I will be voting yesterday thank you thank you councilwoman Ansari thank you for your work to make sure we are moving forward in the right direction this certainly is an important vote for our city it's been a top priority for our city leadership so Jeff and Lori thank you for your work on this area it's unusual for us to be adding positions particularly this many at this point in the budget year but you saw a need and stepped up to address it this is also a win for the United Phoenix firefighters Association which has been collecting data and trying to talk about how we can get to where we are today with the vote and making sure that we again make important decisions about coverage for our entire city so looking forward to supporting this one as well roll call I'm sorry yes to seat you guardado O'Brien yes Stark and just like the vice mayor would say woohoo yes wearing yes a store woohoo we got this one there yes eight zero passes thank you item 64. I will ask the city clerk to read the title item 64 is for ordinance g7062 an ordinance amending chapter 36 vehicles and traffic article 12 section 36-158 schedule 1 of the Phoenix city code relating to local speed limits and 27 at 27 locations thank you do we have a motion I move item 64. second second motion and a second and we'll turn to our transportation chairwoman for comments councilman thank you mayor um I know this is a rather routine um uh title or amending of the code that comes to us but I wanted to take the time to thank keaney and his staff for all the good work they do and in particular this time around just a month ago we had a very large meeting with residents north of Thunderbird Road after two tragic accidents and this portion of Thunderbird Road is between 7th Street and Cave Creek and in today's Amendment you will see a reduction in speed along Thunderbird and I really do want to thank keaney for listening to the neighborhood and taking their concerns um into consideration so I am very pleased to support this thank you mayor thank you roll call I'm sorry yes deceasio guardado O'Brien yeah Stark yes wearing no Pastor yes Gallego yes passes seven one we now move to the Planning and Zoning a portion of our agenda items 73 and 74 are related items in Council district one I will turn to councilman O'Brien councilwoman O'Brien thank you mayor I moved to deny item 73 and 74. can't thank you we have a motioned and a second we do have one virtual speaker Dave Reichert the floor is yours thank you mayor and members of council I'm a little bit distraught with the fact that you're recommending denial when every recommending body coming up through the process will each planning committee and city council or Planning Commission all and as you said earlier mayor the dedicated recommendations to make better land use in the area we followed the council district office in terms of putting together uh other alternatives to this site we checked three different times emailed three different times nobody ever came forward to do multi-family on the site and I think that's where councilman O'Brien is and what she'd like to have done however that's not a very uh receptive idea in the neighborhood and to the merits of this case you have commercial property on it today the property owner has owned it for over 10 years it's been commercially zoned for over 20. no one has come forward since the daycare that was built on it to put any kind of development on it what we're offering here is a special permit that ties it down to the specific use of single level self storage facilities the uh access on Paradise Lane will be only for emergency use only today it is wide open to the public we are fulfilling the trail system along this property and doing substantial amount of construction and again I relate back to the Village planning committee and to the city council or Planning Commission votes there were only one person on each who really had anything to say and it seemed to be more of a we are if you will sick and tired of of uh self-storage facilities but um from our perspective we have not any opposition from the neighborhood and one more Point um we believe that this will be a good neighbor and a very quiet low-key neighbor thank you thank you any comments there thank you very much um this is the neighborhood I grew up in and in a time and where we are in a housing crisis um I expect that we could have opportunities for some housing here and um my office was willing to work with the applicant so for those reasons that is why I um requested denial thank you councilman thank you for being so intentional about land use and for our staff do we need two separate votes or can we take them together mayor must Council you can take them together there's not a public hearing requirement for them then this will be a vote on item 73 and 74 roll call I'm sorry yes the CCO Brian no I mean yes sorry Stark yes wearing yes pastor there you go yes the denial pass was eight zero we next moved to item 80 which is in the vice mayor's District do we have a motion I moved to approve item 80. with a stipulation but Alan do you want me to do it here or we wait mayor vice mayor you can read it now as part of your motion I'm just going to move this dip and then I'll explain it uh later I moved to approve item 80 pho-1-22-z-26-15-4 as approved by the Planning Commission and Adoption of the related ordinance with the addition a stipulation number nine as follows the ground floor area of the development shall include a minimum of 14 300 square feet of non-residential uses non-residential uses shall not include Lobby exercise reception areas or other similar uses intended for exclusive use by residents all non-residential uses shell front shall front perimeter rights right away I think it's right away yeah not rights away right away either way second we have a motion a second any additional comments um vice mayor yeah the reason this this zoning case has this was one of my first zoning cases when I entered office and it was probably at that time I knew a little bit about zoning but it was one of my most difficult cases at the time because it was my first case and so I really worked with the developer and the neighborhood trying to make sure there was some compatibility on what uh what that whole area needed and I worked really hard and one of the pieces was the ground level area and um and so I put a PUD over it added some stips added a timeline and now they're asking for an extension which I'm approving today for that extension but with still the ground floor being activated and the way it needs to be activated so that's why I propose stipulation number nine roll call I'm sorry yes deceasio cordado O'Brien yes Stark yes wearing yes a store yes Gallego yes passes eight zero we next move to 81 northwest corner of North Valley Parkway and Dove Valley Road I understand we do not need a presentation open the public hearing we have Larry Lazarus here to speak would you uh only one speaker would you like to speak only if necessary perfect close the public hearing and I'll turn to councilman Waring thank you mayor I appreciate it a lot of work was put in on this by staff and the applicant I appreciate it very much they're doing some public good with some of the things that they're doing in this and we appreciate it so I'd like to make a motion to approve per the December 6th Memo from the planning department assistant director again we have a motion and a second roll call I'm sorry yes O'Brien yes Stark yes wearing yes pastor yes Gallego yes passes eight zero 82 is the southwest corner of 35th 31st Avenue and dynamite Boulevard it is in District One understand we do not need a staff report we do need a staff report foreign ERS Council Mr benarex going to give the staff presentation mayor members of the council item 82 is z16-22-1 a request to rezone a 5.04 Acre Site located approximately 300 feet south of the southwest corner of 31st Avenue and dynamite Boulevard from S1 to r110 to allow single family residential in Council District 1. Jump Ahead to here's the subject site again about a little over five acres the proposed zoning is r110 here's the surrounding zoning on the site S1 in the immediate area R16 immediately to the East and then r18 and R16 to the north the site plane here represents a significant reduction to the plan it's it's tilted the wrong way but ultimately there was more homes proposed originally as part of this in response to concern the developer reduced the size of the development and you see what it is here today there are stipulations in place that limit the height of the homes this is a general elevation that was approved by the commission the request as it originally was presented was was denied by The Village planning committee seven to four again that request is modified and reduced to the subdivision uh in the updated proposal that was ultimately approved by the Planning Commission and indentum a staff report by a vote of eight to one staff recommends approval for the Planning Commission recommendation and Adoption of the related ordinance mayor happy to answer any questions thank you unless anyone has any comments I'll open the public hearing we have two uh individuals to testify we'll begin with Julie green opposed followed by Jerry Hughes good afternoon my name is Julie green I live directly um touching the proposed development what has happened over the past few months has been nothing short of a nightmare most of us out there have well everyone that owns S1 has an acre lot with one house when this came to us and he wanted to put in 19 houses and two new streets on six acres we couldn't believe what we were seeing and I am grateful to the Deer Valley planning committee trilis Aussie and all the rest of them that agreed and some stated uh to quote this is odd and improper and James stated that this is a misfit for the area what Mr schmeli has asked for is is a change in his original zoning but he does not regard the people that are surrounding this this property is in the middle of S1 it's not at the end of a dead end Street it doesn't back up to open space there's not a mountain behind it all the other developments around there that were previously approved have one of those factors and they have less density they're all restricted to one story but this for some reason is okay to put in two-story homes right behind several properties I don't know if we're going to compromise all I'm asking you is to consider if you're going to allow 14 homes in five acres please make them all one story I don't think that's too much to ask there should be only five homes I'm just asking you consider the people around you none of us have two-story homes these are homes that are now going to block property views some people have been there 23 years with nobody behind them and just because Phoenix needs housing doesn't mean they need it on every little parcel of land out there we have infrastructure problems out there jomax is not completed dixieleta has on and off-ramp problems and you're just adding more problems to that area that's not even set to build and there's more property for sale and we can't just constantly say Phoenix needs more housing and we have to give it to him let let's be thoughtful in what you're you're agreeing to before we just Mass approve any building anywhere equal land should be treated equally and our land around this is not being treated equally thank you for your testimony Jerry Hughes hi my name is Jerry Hughes I want to thank you guys for your time I am directly affected by the building because it's right across the street the egress and Ingress is right in front of my house and I asked I've been working with the builders I've been working with my neighbors because I don't own a one acre home so I've been trying to come up with a solution for everybody and the only thing that I'm asking is that you guys make them put in a gated community so at least it will slow down the traffic we already have speed bumps we already have way too much traffic on 31st and there's kids and school buses on each end of the block which is Eight houses long so it's twice a day and I'm asking that you guys have a gated community where at least it slows down the traffic flow and it will be safer for the kids and for everybody else and it's in front of my house so I'm just trying to do what's best for everybody thank you thank you Ed bull thank you mayor and Consul Ed bull 1850 North Central Avenue I'm here on behalf of Randy and Betty schmeli the property owners and small business people who are single family home builders they've been in business for a long time they want to build 14 single-family homes on this property I have a PowerPoint that was turned in I don't know if that can be queued up or not and I'll run through it quickly because I think part of what's important is that we are here in compliance with the city's General plan which would allow about double the density we're requesting we're here with R16 r18 and r110 to the east and north of us and Northwest of us and we're requesting r110 for 14 single-family homes we've already agreed that 10 or 11 of them would be one story we can talk about that more if you want importantly though in with respect to this site in addition to it being in compliance with the general plan and consistent with other modern era development in the area at higher densities we're under three units per acre we are uh We Shrunk The acreage per request of neighbors and others in a neighborhood meeting in a village planning committee meeting this is this is where we are now with respect to the site plan uh every lot outlined in blue we agreed would be one story going into the Planning Commission the red one the commission asked us to make one story as well the site is not a farm it's just vacant land that's not farmable this is the general plan it allowed two to five were substantially under that at 2.78 this is the surrounding zoning map that Josh already talked about uh this is where we started out more acreage in particular you can see the what I refer to as the thumb that goes up north to toward Dynamite I don't know how I got all the way back there but I did uh per requests from the Green family and suggestions at the Village planning committee we eliminated that thumb and we eliminated the north-south street that went up to Dynamite uh that I understand was not good enough but here's where we eliminated the acreage and eliminated the street that took us down to 14 Lots this is what we went to the commission with this is what we came out of the commission with with respect to addressing concerns as you've trained me to do over the last four decades we do everything we can to try to find Solutions but still have viable developments again for single family detached homes which I believe is important that we provide we reduce acreage we change the consideration many times we agreed to more landscaping and buffering and agreed to one-story homes on most of the Lots we appreciate staff and the commission's recommendation at least from our perspective we did more than probably anybody else other Builder would have done to address concerns voiced by some of the members of The Village committee we also as was mentioned thank you questions we'll turn to the councilman for questions miss Mr Bull can you go back to the original plan that the Builder had submitted the original plan um yes so after the village planning committee voted for denial and provided feedback to the developer please those four three lots were removed yeah before after a neighborhood meeting before Village planning committee we eliminated one of the Lots on the east side that North South Street this is what we went to the Village committee with after the village committee we eliminated the north-south street and the three lots can you please put up a diagram of what it would look like today that went to Planning Commission okay yes thank you this is the plan that went to the uh that we started the the Planning Commission hearing with okay oh cute sorry you got to be distracted by the cute little baby I've been up upstairs we'll go on can you so you added the blue the Lots um highlighted in blue are limited one story yes and the commission because Mrs Mrs Green or Mr Green one of the other in who live immediately north of the lot that outlined in red they have solar panels on ground mounted solar panels uh on the south edge of their lot we were asked if we would make that lock one story uh the smellies agreed to do so that's this is what we came out of the planning this was approved by Planning Commission and so on October 31st I had an hour-long meeting with Jerry Hughes and and Julie green as well as the community members and as a result we we postponed this case it was to be on the November 2nd um schedule and you and I have been talking uh would the schmelis be amenable to making all the Lots one story homes all 14 of them one story 14. yes sir yes okay thank you for that um I will say that Mr Bull did um contact me earlier today regarding making this a a gated and private Street and we spoke to streets about that and there would be too much lot lossage given the fact that the Builder has already given up four houses so I think that um because you're willing to agree to he's willing to agree to have all one's story I'm ready to make my motion thank you Mr Wonderful close the public hearing yeah um you who does they turn it into if um thank you if you could turn them in thank you okay all right thank you all right I moved to approve item 82 z-16-22-1 per the Planning Commission recommendation and Adoption of the related ordinance with a modification to stipulation number three to replace all of the stipulation language and have the updated stipulation read as follow follows all Lots within the development shall be limited to one story and 20 feet in height as approved by the Planning and Development Department second motion a second any comments roll call I'm sorry yes deceasio O'Brien yes Stark yes wearing yes Pastor yes Gallego yes passes eight zero thank you we next go to 83 the northwest corner of 19th Avenue and Latonya Lane I think we have a brief staff report on this one do we mayor members of the council item 83 is pho-2-22-z-47-17-8 a request to modify approved stipulations for a planning caring officer decision the Planning Commission approved this request on October 6 2022 the subject properties of 5.2 Acre Site located approximately 130 feet north of the northwest corner of 19th Avenue and Latona and Council District 8. staff recommends your approval of item 83 per the December 7th 2022 Memo from the PDD assistant director and Adoption of the related ordinance thank you open the public hearing dual the floor is yours can you hear me we can okay wonderful thank you for your time today my name is Joel Clark and I live across the street from the proposed development on the night on the 20th Avenue side um our community is still one of open space with many homes on S1 property horse riders and active Agriculture and to preserve that we've organized uh to advocate for the lowest density development possible for any new projects in our area now while the density of 3.5 houses per acre for this development is higher than anyone wants for this particular project the Practical result is an additional to houses so heat and heat mitigation is in serious concern for us as it should be for the entire Valley and with the additional stipulations addressing that and as I understand it it's going to be more robust shade along the 19th Avenue and 20th Avenue streets Fuller pavement and higher energy standards the two extra houses from my perspective is a good compromise and I appreciate you voting for all of those stipulations in addition we are grateful that elements of the Rio Montana plan have been added to the design including at least 50 percent of homes with porches and staggered front setbacks and are very happy in general that the developer for all of us living around it for sure um has agreed to all single story homes um that said as a community with our historic Agricultural and equestrian history we are always going to oppose this level of density in principle and respectfully request that this application's density not be considered a precedent for future applications I sincerely want to thank the developers council member Garcia and his staff and planning for working to find a middle ground that will provide benefits to both sides and thank you again for your time thank you for your testimony believe that's all the speakers we have for the public hearing I will close the public hearing and I believe councilman guardato has a motion thank you mayor well first I first would like to thank um the applicant and the neighbors for coming together and we being able to reach an agreement um very um thankful to council member Garcia for all of his hard work on this case as well and working with everyone together on this and with that I would like to move to approve item 83 ph0-2-22-z-47-1817-8 for the December 7th Memo from the PPD assistant director with an additional stipulation to read as follows the developers shall pursue an alternative payment for the street within the subdivision for the purpose of providing heat mitigation and be privately maintained by the homeowner association subject to approval by the street transportation department okay and our city clerk has shared with me that Kevin zenk did register to speak Kevin hearing the motion are you comfortable moving forward all right and for those who are watching online Kevin gave a thumbs up so roll call I'm sorry yes to cicisio cordado yes O'Brien yes Stark yes wearing yes Pastor yes this is eight zero and with that we have now had votes today at formal that would enable construction of 908 units of housing so another busy day for the Phoenix City Council also notable on housing the vice mayor and I are working together to schedule an open meeting of the council related to mobile homes and housing policy around that so more to come on that and then we go to item 84 Mayo Boulevard between 40th Street and the Loop 101 Freeway I believe we do not have a staff report on this one so we'll just um go to the public hearing we have three individuals registered to speak if necessary all in support we have Mark Mike and Caroline does anyone need to speak in support all right so we will open the public hearing we will close the public hearing and we will turn to councilman Waring please uh motion to approve the IGA per the memo from staff with the following direction to staff the median reduction in Tatum Boulevard should ensure excuse me average 24-foot landscape continues to exist within the future Street cross section CED to fund the construction of a traffic signal and Associated stream I'm sorry this is Alan um I think you're we're on item 84 which is the general plan Amendment uh did I jump ahead yes yes you jumped ahead to they both are tandem I was so excited you're watching item 85 implements the the GPA but we need to act on I'm 84 first I'll try that to fail you so miserably again I apologize uh motion to approve for the plan commission recommendation and adopt the related resolution second I like it no must no fuss any comments roll call I'm sorry decisio yeah yes O'Brien yes Stark yes wearing yes a store yes there you go yes that says eight zero I'll turn to councilman Waring for a motion and comments on 85. thank you um I was just trying to move us along mayor I apologize um I have motion to approve the IGA per the memo from staff with the following direction to staff the median reduction in Tatum Boulevard should ensure that an average 24-foot landscape continues to exist within the future Street cross section this is so much easier the second time CED to fund the construction of a traffic signal at Associated Street improvements at 56th Street and Pinnacle Peak Road to being reimbursed at the time of the auction of parcel sb4l prior to Annie Tatum Boulevard improvements from Deer Valley Drive to State Route State Route 101 loop it's not easy to say streets department shall undertake a study with a public process before making modifications and this motion addresses traffic mitigation measures resulting from the removal of the Mayo flyover from the Loop 101 freeway at the request of asld and concerns that were heard at the Desert View Village planning committee second we have a motion in a second any comments I'm looking forward to supporting this item we have good Partnerships with the state department state land department and from Mayo medical to USAA we've had really exciting opportunities on state trust land so the working together really benefits our community and this is an important step forward for this parcel I want to thank Joshua nerick Eric broberg Chris Mackey and everyone who's been working on this important move and councilman Waring you have been spending a lot of time on this so thank you roll call I'm sorry yes deceasio yes O'Brien yes Stark yes wearing yes pastor let me think about it yes Gallego yes that says eight zero congratulations that concludes the agendized portion of the council meeting and we will now go to Citizen comment I will turn back to our City attorney thank you mayor during citizen comment members of the public May address the city council for up to three minutes on issues of Interest or concern to them the Arizona open meeting law permits the city council to listen to the comments but prohibits council members from discussing or acting on the matters presented the citizen comment session is limited to 30 minutes wonderful thank you we will begin with Marcia Clark Campbell followed by Ray Flores thank you mayor council members I have addressed this council with regard to homelessness um at least two occasions and I'm very pleased to say that I'm happy with all of the things that you guys have done especially in the north with a c CBI location I have a friend who unfortunately is deceased last week but uh the person was actually in that CBI uh location before they found a very nice apartment um but what I'm here to talk about is having a place to stay is nice yes that's step one but what I'm discovering because I have to deal with my friends personal effects and so on I'm discovering he did not have um connectivity internet connectivity and I'm I'm here to speak about that especially I have not come to this meeting for a while and I noticed that we have to register outside for comments and people who do not have access like not only um homeless people but I'm talking about people in general older citizens who may not be um internet Savvy and who would like to make comments I believe that the connectivity is is what's missing um for them to to operate even you know with a phone you know if you don't have a smartphone a lot of people say well hey you have a smartphone but you know you don't have a computer but some people don't even have a smartphone so what I'm talking about today is internet connectivity four seniors especially seniors as I said unfortunately my friend passed away he was 78. and I had no idea until now that I'm dealing with the personal effects that he had no internet connectivity so that's what I came to talk about and uh just want you guys to be aware um because as you know as we we go forward everything's going to be paperless and everybody's going to be you know connected by computers so that's that's what I came to talk about today thank you thank you Ray is next followed by Martha Gutierrez Ronaldo Martha is next followed by Carmen Prieto perimos basically we ask Ed agenda sonas de Casas Estados they are trying to create a prohibited Zone approximately gracias and there's currently approximately 45 families that are being affected by this and we thank you very much and we have Carmen followed by Priscilla Salazar okay Priscilla is Priscilla here they're all outside all right we're sending the vice mayor in do we have Gonzalo Garcia Gonzalo buenos is a is good afternoon foreign I come from Las Casitas and we're here to file a petition so that you turn down the petition as far as mobile homes and prohibiting and making that no Mobile Home Zone is and what we're asking for basically is that well we're currently we pretty much we've been kicked out or vacated and so we're just requesting this for future families that this won't happen to them and we ask as a favor that you don't ignore our petition thank you Carmen hi my name is Carmen sorry I had to step out these are my grandchildren there were one that was born at the trailer park at my bedroom in my bed and he's only a month old and obviously y'all know that those are our homes we know like he said you know don't ignore our petition I mean we're not asking we know we get it we got to move on but we need time we need our lawyers to really work for us we then need to buy us out where are we going to live with a thousand eight hundred dollars I have me and my two grandchildren I have guardianship of them mother stepped out and Laura you met her so I have my two grandbabies now with me and I need a place we need a place we just don't want to be left out we want them to hear us out I know that every month we come it's the same thing but it's more stress it's getting worse like the pressure just hitting me and I don't know we just need we need each other here is that we need the lawyers to work with us we have other people that are working Jesus in so we allowed they're the human the legal aid uh we just haven't met them so we feel with a lot of anxiety just like everybody in our trailer park we have all these children we got take care of we can't just we can't afford to be living babysitters my daughter-in-law she helped me with them because she got off of work and she thought I'll go help you Mom thanks to her it's hard these were our home for many years it was okay no it's not and we're scared if we move to another trailer fight same thing's gonna happen that's what they should really consider it make these trailer parks and zones maybe ours is too late maybe it's not I don't know we're scared I don't know I told my daughter to move in with us all together get a five bedroom house it's not that easy with the Perfect Score it's not that perfect but I do what I think and I hope you guys will be considering read look in our agenda again and consider his own not a private property I thank you a lot [Music] Salvador isn't it still here Sal Andra Ruiz um good afternoon Alana Ruiz here from Periwinkle mobile home parks um I'm here to request that you reconsider the denial that um was emailed to Carmen about our citizens petition to have us be heard on the City of Phoenix City Council agenda we are asking you to please reconsider um I think we were asked to reapply but we already made that request so we're basically here to ask to reconsider because we're we don't know what's going to happen we are asking you know that we get more legal advice more legal legal opinions from other people basically because even myself from Grand Canyon University um taking over our land or their land and um us you know having our mobile home there that we owned it's it's really um confusing how the laws work because we don't even have a contract or a lease or any rental agreement from Grand University so I don't know if this is even legal what they're doing so we are just asking for more legal advice and the only way I feel that this can happen better is if we are put on the City of Phoenix agenda and that's what we're here to request that you reconsider the citizens petition that we put um I made a uh I did the math of how many families are being affected between the three mobile home parks Weldon Park and um Las Casitas and Periwinkle mobile home park it's 140 families all together that will be home less in less than six months thank you thank you and just a note from earlier the vice mayor and I are working to put together a meeting related to this and uh very strong support from the council to do so Ken waters are you still oh and I guess why don't we if um we could translate that I think but Mario yes mayor The Interpreter did interpret that oh perfect okay thank you it does could you repeat in Spanish what we just said in English about the meeting coming up on mobile home mayor May The Interpreter request if you can repeat that again your last statement we're calling in councilwoman guardato thank you see yes gracias thank you councilwoman thank you thank you for your patience I was supposed to speak on item number 80 I didn't get called and now I'm reading for this for the very first time the stipulation that the vice mayor just did it was Josh has handed this to me it says um vice mayor in that stipulation that you added which I'm grateful for it says intended for exclusive use by the residents how the developers were getting away with the loophole is there where they were going to add memberships to the community at large and put maybe the gym and fitness space into that commercial retail space but you know I'm the appellant I'm the plaintiff on why this was even put on the agenda the item for Omni net at uh Pearson and Central the bigger issue is I found out about that through dumb luck the second sentence in their PUD was they were going to build a mixed-use 14 990 square foot mixed use project great and the second sentence was clear clear as day they were going to put it in through sheer dumb luck uh I found out that the after they got the entitlement um they were going to do away with all the retail there uh because the parking was so onerous and they didn't want to do the underground garage but um I thought well I guess that we have no recourse but then when they went to the extension on this thing I said ah okay we've got a moment of Leverage here so I um so I bought this thing that you go back to the second sense in their PUD and what's what I found out is I took an inventory all up and down Central Avenue I just went all the way down Central Avenue the city is ruining Central Avenue by doing these 100 exclusive residential projects on our Main Street USA our city leadership our staff our planning commissions our planning committees they should be viewing Central Avenue you know the ground floor as sacred territory that's where the mixed-use commercial retail goes but the developers are just wanting to put a project there and put hey it's like next to light rail it's a great marketing um amenity for them to tout but it's not serving our Main Street USA the way we should and all these products there are 11 projects from McDowell up the Camelback and only two of them are mixed use the Muse at McDowell and Central and then uh Tapestry on Central at um Estrella Parkway no not Australia Parkway uh right there at the herd Museum everything north of that nine for nine are just residential projects with no mixed music now I'm glad the mayor vice mayor gotten involved and saved the day on keeping that uh commercial aspect to it but there is a bigger issue at play here in the city of Phoenix really needs to wake up on what we're doing we're ruining Central Avenue with all these 100 residential projects and not making a mixed use vice mayor I thank you for for saving the day on this and I thank the north central news for getting involved in the story as well so it's a wake-up call and we save the day on this one project but the rest of them are you know they're just doing 100 residential and they're going to be doing it at Central and Camelback the South West Corner they're gonna do an eight story and they're going to put 2 000 square feet of mixed of commercial in there 2 000 square feet I mean come on the whole bottom floor they're going to basically be residential projects there I mean space and that's the heart of Uptown Phoenix I mean really are we gonna just do these cookie cutter soulless projects of residential in the heart of our commercial areas I mean they're going to be there for 70 years so we can't go back so I just wanted to come back and give the City of Phoenix a heads up that we need to treat Central Avenue as sacred ground for dynamic mixed use projects and not these 100 residential projects so I thank you for your time so all I have to say is in end of January February we will be having a central Phoenix meeting regarding all the projects going up Joel Castro well Castro hello India hello good day to all members of the city council is we want you to please take into account the petition that we presented previously previously everything is golden Court Waldo and I'm a resident of welding Court is true I think that it might be insignificant but for it for us that's our home is foreign where we've invested so much and and we'd be losing out and something that we're calling our home our trailer thank you thank you thank you John Forsyth John Dominic pesh how's it going good afternoon city council my name is Dominic perch hopefully you guys don't cut off my mic this time um I'm here today to sing a song about the biggest problems facing Phoenix Right Now spoiler alert hits the mega Republicans first I want to give a shout out to Maricopa for having the best for having the best elections in the world all right guys let's get it this is for democracy is Michael good let's go I hopped off the plane at Phoenix democracy on my mind welcome to the land of Maricopa County it's the best of all time jumped in the booth about to vote for the first time looking right machines worked just fine this is also amazing Maricopa County we praising by time he's turning and I'm feeling kind of anxious Carrie Lake she's so dangerous I'm the vaccine man and we got Katie Hops and white supremacy is lost white supremacy is lost and white supremacy has lost so I put my hands up playing that song the butterflies fly away yeah and please stick to City of Phoenix topics thank you uh Phoenix topics topics related to the City of Phoenix this is Phoenix Maricopa County Phoenix Municipal government oh okay well another problem here is that we are refusing to get vaccinated okay so you guys are putting my grandmother at risk okay so we need to mandate vaccines City of Phoenix I I'm having trouble sleeping at night knowing that these people are science deniers they refuse to get their fifth injection why can't we have more strict laws I mean look at the CCP right now look at the Communist Party of China we should be having those types of restrictions in Phoenix to save lives okay this is going to help everyone save lives okay please obey the science let's go I like us better when we're vaccinated it it makes it easier to feel safe the only time we ever talk is when the boosters in our arms I like us better when we're vaccinated it makes it easier to feel safe if you're in fact stay in bed you're the reason Grandma's dead I like us better when we're vaccinated go insane for for for Ukraine hit me up on IG your boy Dom underscore let's save lives go get your booster shot protest Joe Rogan on that note we are adjourned each person must wear a safety vest at all times safety vests along with trash bags will be supplied to you by ADOT remember