did it really I love it looks like we
made it yeah
all right everyone did it really love it
welcome to the uh yeah
yeah their mics are very important all
right everyone did it really love it
welcome to the yeah
that was like layers yeah
well I just I was going to harmonize
with myself right back there it's gonna
be great okay in all seriousness welcome
and um thank you to the rain gods for
timing that rain just so we were all
inside before that started happening
um Welcome to our fall strategic plan
meeting as we have discussed over the
last
um
well several uh Council meetings that we
have an updated strategic plan for from
the mayor and we are gathered here today
to uh to discuss it so we thought we
would kind of divide this meeting into
three sections and um once we get
through this part oh wait a minute do we
have to do a roll call
okay now
okay
City auditor McPeak would you do us the
honors
I would be honored thank you uh Mossad
yes Miss Robinson here Mr Markham here
Mr Marcelino here Mr Klingler here Mr
slamke and miss fiebel here
okay wonderful and that is really loud
range so
um we thought we would divide the
meeting kind of into three sections
which will give us an opportunity to all
provide feedback if we uh if we have
some to give I had heard from a couple
of you and I want to make sure that we
give everybody a chance to add in
whatever they may need so we're gonna
I'm gonna hand it over to the mayor in
just a second he's going to do just kind
of a top-down overview then we're going
to talk about all of our thoughts
globally what's missing what is in it
that we think might need to be uh
deleted and then lastly we'll talk about
um future and past strategies you know
is there anything we need to revisit and
kind of tweak and look at maybe in a
different way of course after this
meeting we will receive a revised uh
draft and then we will be scheduling our
community workshops for uh workshop with
additional opportunities for the
community to have feedback so at this
point I would like to throw this over to
Mayor Kessler to give us kind of the
top-down over View
definitely
right
um
I do see improved storm water regulation
and um capacity in the infrastructure
goals which is Timely
okay
um I know I did hear from a couple
people
um does anybody have anything that they
would like to add now or anything that
they'd specifically when reviewing the
document wanted to talk
yeah
um
mayor one thing that I wanted to discuss
and make sure I was encapsulated this
and it might be encapsulated in the
Jeffrey Park uh action plan there but
there is a playground there that is a
little bit outdated
um by I think in comparison to our other
playgrounds uh it's uh I know there's
been a an interest from the community
itself uh from members of the community
to see an update to that I believe
there's even been some fundraising
towards it or at least commitments to it
um and so if we could potentially get
make sure that's encapsulated in that in
that portion of it yeah it's a good call
out um it is already something we are
talking about as part of our master plan
and it's also on our budget goals for
next year so I think it's encapsulated
by that okay
I could always maybe add a little
verbiage that sort of points to that as
well though and then
I had mentioned um getting updates under
infrastructure goals with increased
sewer capacity and repair broken sewer
lines to just um increase our
relationship and awareness of what the
city of Columbus is doing what their
programming and funding is yep I have
this note yep it's here integrate
and in with Columbus's efforts and
encourage them and increase capacity yep
right so uh
I don't know I had it
super helpful or whatever but I pulled
this out again this week and I just I
feel like when I was little I used to
get that Sears catalog of takeaways in
it and stuff like that there's like a
lot of really good stuff in here and I
really love it in uh
when we get to page 33 we get to The
Pedestrian cyclist infrastructure yep
and I guess like I've just learned a lot
about
bicycle friendly infrastructure and what
it works doesn't work so it's you know a
balanced city council can you kind of
like like reset I know we we did that
big workshop with uh Catherine and I
know we've talked about this can you
sort of say like maybe what we're
employees to do or yeah do or just give
us a little refresher idea of where we
are with that that's a great yeah it's
great call out uh sorry so the
the bike planning and bike
infrastructure as you know we've been
doing some like open workshops over the
past six nine months Maybe
a lot of that's been focused on
the bike Boulevard Concepts so like
posting and marking bike Boulevard
routes through the city and that's been
coming along really well
the other Focus that has come forward is
this com corridors concept where casting
ham Remington becomes a designated bike
slash pedestrian Focus for
infrastructure development
and then also uh as part of that like we
identified the between Fair and Main is
a really ideal opportunity for bike
Lanes we've spoken with residents on
Roosevelt about same concept Fair domain
bike Lanes we're looking at North
Cassidy for bike lanes and we're looking
at Drexel for bike sorry College Avenue
for bike Lanes right now
um uh so the uh there are a couple
things happening one is in the next two
months and that was actually going to be
part of my update is that we are
going to be gathering the residents from
casting ham Roosevelt on College in
those impacted areas and socializing the
idea of these bike lanes and talking
through that with them and the reason
those areas have been chosen is some
initial spots is hey they they host a
large amount of bike traffic with school
zones especially B they don't have
the same parking demands as other
streets because every house that fronts
onto those sections of streets has
alternate parking on the east west side
streets with the exception of college
which just doesn't have parking so it's
not a parking
um impact
um and then they also tie in really well
with our bike Boulevard system so the
bike Boulevard for example that was
designated by our safe
our bike friendly vaccine plan that goes
on the west side of the city talked
about like going from Parkview and then
jetting over to Sheridan but there are
some issues with Sheridan doesn't really
tie into anything like it's sort of
stops that Livingston is done whereas
College connects right into obviously
The JCC and there's a light there and
there's some protection and so it seems
like college is a more sensible leg of
that Western
route but on its own without any sort of
intervention is not that safe it's not
goodbye Boulevard so
all of that in mind I think we wanted to
first talk to Residents to
further socialize the idea we spoke with
residents adjacent to Roosevelt who had
brought up some of these concerns they
have a heads up but we committed to
going back to talking to the residents
on Roosevelt and then once those
conversations have occurred
probably like late October have a large
community meaning for anyone who wants
an update on our bike plan where we sort
of unveil the signage for the bike
boulevards talk about what the way
finding looks like which you guys have
seen some progress pictures of that I
think talk about these bike lanes and
where this is all headed with the with
the intent to get those installed in the
spring
that's exciting yeah I don't like
on the bandwagon
wagons like so much and eventually this
last year so like now kind of being able
to give a little Hands-On or right feed
on or whatever to some of these routes
and stuff so I think it's kind of
exciting is there uh is there like an
interest or focus in tying baxley's bike
routes I know technically we tie into
that that route that goes all the way
down 33 to 30 previously right so it
goes over in near Kroger yep
so I think um we do tie into it but the
main street interface isn't amazing and
you know the bike
yeah the bike Bridge bike pad bridge at
Schneider is in part to address that to
try to give like a better route
um and then also when able those black
boulevards are hope you know they're
they're aiming to tie into Columbus bike
infrastructure so for example the East
West bike Boulevard North of Broad
Street ties in at Clifton into what then
becomes a bike uh bullet not it's not a
bipolar but there's bike infrastructure
in Columbus that continues to the west
of Nelson
um and there are not currently a whole
lot of
bike infrastructure points to the east
of us to tie into with Columbus but the
anticipation is that we're trying to
integrate with those so that there's
more continuity thank you for paying so
much extension to this I think it's
probably something a bit more and more
yeah I would like to take credit but I
can't because I think
um our uh our bike Community while it is
something that's important to me and all
of us has been really
um vocal about wanting to make sure that
we're moving forward and so they've
helped keep that at the Forefront when
you know other things have
might have otherwise sort of taken its
place in our imagination so credit to
them because there's been a lot of great
advocacy around it and participation
because what we basically said was with
this with this open we've done this like
sort of like 2.0 version of planning
where it's an open it's an open Workshop
every two weeks and the challenge is if
you care about this and you have the
time join us and help us craft this
keeps us accountable also draws from the
Native intelligence of you know other
residents on the on the topics yeah
that's cool yeah
suggests and then lorianne
um has there been consideration of
Francis and connectivity to The JCC
um like as a bike Boulevard specifically
or identifying that as like a safe route
over to the J versus College
um not consideration per se there's not
a
signalized Crossing there and I think
um
it's I mean it's not that no one could
do that it's and I'm also not Francis
has uh
Francis has some challenges because
it actually
um it's not I've
we have struggled with speed at Francis
we've had to put speed devices in
Francis to try to slow so it's not like
a naturally as calm of a street as some
of the other ones that I think are part
of the boulevard I'm not saying
I mean college has gotten calmer but the
ability of getting Lanes on College I
think will also help comment a little
bit
I was just thinking when you and I know
that there's not connectivity right
there but
honestly when I biked to The JCC and I
don't bike through that College
um intersection there so I was just
wondering if that if we were looking at
and I know that group needs and they
have a lot of great feedback but I just
was wondering on that one maybe a little
bit more to explore
yeah I think
the the feedback of the cyclists was
that
the streets that don't have a signal at
College are not where they want to get
tied into they want to get tied into a
street where there's a signal so they
can continue with traffic and they have
the protection of the signal and
for example Sheridan would have
otherwise been good
um because of the fact that it connects
nicely to Parkview Francis would be as
good as well but there's that challenge
that just sort of leaves you in
Livingston and there's nowhere to like
safely cross
Livingston to go further south yes
lorian and then
um
because I don't know that it was ever
put in our strategic expanding where I
don't know that it wasn't but I don't
know that it ever has been that supports
and encourages affordable housing
opportunities
um so I I applaud that while at the same
time I would prefer that it's a support
and encourage housing opportunities for
people of every economic or all economic
um situations because I think the word
affordable is
is
on who it is that we're talking about
um where are you seeing that
okay sorry page 37.
it also so what's interesting is if you
go to page 29
under development I think that language
tracks with some of what you're talking
about
so it says attainable housing
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it is appropriate and I don't know that
it is
um to some harming part of our strategic
goal to
have zoning that is very clear
that suggests that this
um bowl that we have is something we're
willing to change our zoning to make
sure that everyone is very clear that
the intent
of what our documents say
um
that the spirit is actually the legal
uh it's very clear
yeah I get it but I hope
I think we can incorporate mention of
our zoning language on page 29 on that
diplomatic thing that housing of all
kinds is going to be really really
important uh in central Ohio and um
and I applaud you for putting it putting
it in here so thank you for that but
those are just yeah not not die hard you
know suggestions but thank you we
um we use the term affordable housing in
our just a sec equity and diversity plan
um
from before and I we tried for a long
time never to use that term with some of
the developments occurred but honestly
there's a part of me that's like
let's reclaim this term as it's not a
dirty word like Bexley has historically
offered affordable housing to
middle-income families and Below
throughout the entire history of our
city uh we actually less we offer less
affordable housing than we ever had in
our history today and that's something
we're losing and so we're losing a core
Community characteristic and whatever we
want to call it I I guess I'm less
inclined anymore to shine away from the
term affordable it's not a dirty word
it's a it's a virtue and I think that we
shouldn't be scared of it I know you're
not saying that but it's a little bit
where my head is when I use that word I
don't have a problem with it myself I
just know in I spent a lot of time in
this Arena and I and I hear more often
than not that that is indeed we try to
avoid this others believe that that is a
term that we should avoid but
you know down and dirty that's what it
means and we want people to be able to
afford Bexley and I say
all the time when I first decided that I
would run
for Council I did it because I wanted my
children someday to not only be able you
know not only to what to come to Bexley
because it was an exciting flourishing
you know uh
aggressive area to live in but also I
wanted them to be able to afford it
I'm going to piggyback on what you just
said really quickly and then Matt McPeak
I'll throw it over to you I wrote zoning
code and much like lorianne I had the
same
um same thought but I I it would it be
an important thing to have somewhere in
the document that we will be looking at
that zoning code just kind of with a new
set of eyes to make sure that everything
that we're doing everything that the
code says that we're doing in our city
is aligned with what we're actually
doing and clearly the the people who sit
on the zoning committee know way more
than I but I just want to make sure that
we don't find ourselves in a situation
where we understood the intent but
others who are reading it don't
um and uh so we don't end up back back
here again so I just wanted to piggyback
on that because I do think it's really
important and Matt you uh had your hand
up thank you I'm back to the
cyclist-focused infrastructure and
this may have been discussed in the past
but for my own Clarity
um I mean I do recognize that the trail
is essentially west of Bexley
um on Maine
but
correct the the green the multi-use path
the yeah it's it's some of it's in
Bexley some of it's west of us because
our border jogs a little bit okay have
there been discussions around how to
improve Crossing on Main because they
that that is as I yep that's actually
that is in our so that's Incorporated in
the bike friendly vaccine plan which is
incorporated by this document yeah okay
and we have made some progress on it in
terms of the conversations so the the
Franklin County engineer personally met
me on site okay into the past 12 months
to talk about both Maine and Livingston
which um
Maine is they control Columbus controls
the Livingston Bridge
the desire is to get that path to go
underneath the bridge so that there's
continuous uh access but
but
it's not in their short-term Horizon for
replacing the bridge it's still in good
shape so we're talking to them is you
know can we white in the sidewalk like
so it's the dialogue we've been having
the dialogue on and off ever since I've
been mayor but we've we've had more
explicit specific hierarchical dialogue
about it okay
um it just falls into like the overall
life of the bridge
um Livingston though that's a component
of the
um
a component of the joint Livingston
Avenue attribute funds project
which were
I should say we are about to launch the
engineering piece of that is looking at
the bridge and if it's still in service
can we expand That Sidewalk can we
protect it is it multi-use and that's
being discussed and that's just I from a
safety standpoint as I hit that trail
with my son now yeah um that you know
connection between Bexley and getting on
that trail on Maine is always concerning
to me
um so glad to hear it's
conversations are occurring
um Sam had and then Monique
uh you just mentioned the Livingston
plan so that was kind of what I was
thinking about next year uh it looks as
though it's a pretty a pretty General
description as to what the plan is as a
whole and I understand it's supposed to
be for the future but it does seem like
something that we can put some type of
timeline on and if not potentially if we
can put an explanation to the public in
terms of
working with Columbus on that because I
know there are some things that are
outside of our control with the timeline
itself but it just seems like it says
2022 in progress
I was looking at the part one timeline
there
um
oh within the Livingston Planet yeah
Livingston plants so page 23 yeah
um
people are unable to do so perhaps just
because it looks like we have a lot of
space to just make sure we're noting
that part of the inability to plan or
something along those lines is that it's
dependent upon cooperation from Columbus
where do you see 2022 I'm trying to uh
that's back on in the part one timeline
where you're going over all everything
that's underneath part one itself it
says 2022. that's the date of the plan
correct right got you just
I think it's a lot of people ask you
know a lot of people saw the changes uh
and then there's excited for the next
changes
um and so if there is a way to give a
better understanding of what that plan
looks like or even
there's a way to organize those
numerically so that way we see what's
next Etc that might be beneficial but
just a thought okay
uh yes I'll put some thought into how to
do that I think yeah again I was trying
I
I was trying to balance like not overly
repeating what was in other adopted
plans but
I get what you're saying I think sorry
to go I I don't know that people are
gonna take the time to go back
too too far into other plans and if this
is going what's going to be going out to
all
uh parties it might be nice to have it
sort of in one place perhaps yeah
although I can assure you I will go back
over all of them I can find there's
gonna be a test for you Sam
I'm just saying it
Monique
yeah I think I think one of our banks
down like
perhaps that should be in our strategies
to update our microphones
oh yeah okay thanks Matt for hearing
that uh mayor and looking at page 13 you
was cite the results of a community
survey from July of 2021
are we reasonably certain that
that data is still as relevant today as
it was when the answers were given to us
back then I know obviously this document
took a lot of time but we recently
sure that what our residents wanted when
they were doing this is still pretty
applicable today
um
I think that
the
you know July of 21 is it the same as
today uh
within the categories that we're talking
about you know major infrastructure
crime Economic Development pedestrian
bike safety
I think that what I focused on with the
surveys it was a heavily narrative based
survey there was there was
prioritization here but then there's a
lot of narrative there's 236 responses
that we read through
like word for word
um as part of the crafting of this
I don't think that the community has
moved substantially in the past couple
years but one of the things that we're
doing with this is once this plan is
gets through this conversation and gets
uh draft number two put on it is going
back to the community and saying you
know what's missing and then how do you
feel differently
um I think the key I think what pops out
about this
is
um you know some of the real core stuff
is incredibly important to Residents and
not surprisingly sewer and water
infrastructure
crime reduction Economic Development
pedestrian bike safety infrastructure
again so those are like you know really
core principles
um and I don't sense that those have
changed in our community I think
you know likely those top five are
always in the top five but uh
I do think that an additional Community
process is important and is going to be
part of the
pre-finalization of the plan
I think it's great that maybe we're
gonna
revisit that or at least give the
communities some additional time to have
some input my only other comment there
would have been if this was summer of
2021 when code was still pretty
prevalent I think the need for the
outdoor space has become even more
important and that obviously ties into
our year of the parts but I think you're
right the other stuff is probably going
to come up on just about every survey
whether it's done
Yep this fall or every couple years
Matt
overall I love it um I don't have too
many comments on
the details of it I would just say
um
I think we've done a lot I think the
mayor's done a lot I think Williams
Council has has done a lot I think we
have ambitious goals here
and I think and I don't know where this
falls into this but developing
a strategy for marketing and Outreach to
the community so they know what we've
done what we plan on doing what you know
a lot of the great things we've done
um
I think that would be and I don't like I
said I don't know where it falls in but
developing some sort of marketing
strategy community outreach so that
people know all of the programs and all
the services and all the stuff that we
have as a community
um
would be would be helpful
I don't know if that goes into
development or or what bucket that falls
into
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um
like I said everything on here is
I think it's great I don't see
uh maybe like the infrastructure goals
expand the program we have for residents
for flooding in their basement I know
that also helps the city uh with the
infiltration from groundwater into our
storm sewers and sanitary so
that's all I that's all I have is is
Market ourselves
okay
good points
I'm going to agree with Matt on that
um and I think and something that we can
kind of reflect upon is when our intern
Nick Robinson um helped us put this
together this summer or went out you
know and um it is year of the parks but
it also talks a lot about like our
Police Department talks about our
Community Foundation and what they've
done our electrical you know
um
um improvements we've made in Code
Enforcement it's just giving you an
education in here and I know I referred
to this and I have the privilege of
giving out getting a lot of information
already as a city council member
um you know so I think something like
this talking about the best you know the
one vexley project
um updating you know that we're here
tonight updating our strategic plan uh
we got to hear from our president of
Council in here
um so I think I really liked this and I
think that what Matt's saying um putting
it all out there so you have a resource
to kind of rely on
um would be great a snapshot of what
he's
entailing yeah I guess it just came to
me just to follow up like when we wanted
to um do the one Bexley thing uh thing
that I heard was we get the same people
coming to the same meetings all the time
so we have the residents that pay
attention to what's going on in the city
and then we have the residents that
don't pay attention
um and that's okay but what I would like
us to figure out a way to get to more
people so that they know
you know the great things that we have
that we're aspiring to do and the great
things that we've done
I think we should start paying them to
read their newsletters
a giant billboard we're just constantly
Rita will send you a friendly letter
that you'd like to get if you read your
newsletter
so
you know so as we're looking at the
strata strategic plan and then we've got
budget season coming up right upon us
um you know what I always kind of
reflect on is I go back to kind of
things that were identified in Prior
years and there's a lot in progress some
of it is
you know to your point with
um the access on Maine and all those
things no matter how hard we try we're
we're going to be in progress until
um our stakeholder chooses to to make
some movement
um but
when it comes to 2023 or I'm sorry 2020
for a budget
will we see very specific like like for
me I always think about if these are
really important if we hired no more
people how long would it take to to
accomplish our goals if we hired two
more people what would that do and then
so forth so to me it's like
it's hard for me to understand
how the strategy is time-bound and are
there things that we should be doing or
could be doing to help you and the rest
of the city accelerate those plans so
does that how
how do you envision tying
these strategies into our 2024 budget
I mean I don't I don't mean to make I
don't mean to send to like banal or
generic in my response to that but I
think that
the strategies that are Incorporated in
here that exist already yeah and the
previous strategic plan those are all
like laying out a road map that we take
into account whenever we're doing
crafting any budget yep
um and I don't feel like I I don't I'm
not trying to like take a pass on the
question but I'll say that this the
intent of this for the charters for me
to communicate my priorities and for
Council to sign off on them so as we
work forward we have those priorities in
play and in mind
um and I you know we have done that
collectively in the past I'll continue
to do that and I'll do that in the view
of like what is realistic in terms of
how much do we how much do we have in in
terms of money to work with from a
budgetary perspective
how much bandwidth do we have a lot of
these are not really Financial they're
like you know they're
um their policies or their practices
that will require staff bandwidth and
um Mr Wilson and I were just talking
today about like there are lots of wants
that we have in terms of for example I
just mentioned Main Street design
guidelines earlier that's targeted to
come forward you know I would love to
have the uh Jeffrey Park plan already
done but it takes time to develop that
so there's a there's part of it is is
Staff capacity bandwidth and Community
bandwidth I mean like we're hitting our
community with four three or four
different strategic processes this fall
the Strategic plan the Jeffrey plan the
um uh the the land use strategy and then
the bike infrastructure piece so like
we're asking you know we we there's
actually I would say we're exceeding our
limit on community capacity right now
with some of the stuff so it's it's more
than just Financial it's just more than
just personnel and it's and it's
something that I keep in mind it as I
work on it and I know that Council does
as we talk through it as well which I
just know is a very non-specific answer
but yeah and I get I mean I guess that's
just where I mean I I trust that
as we go through the budget process if
there's areas of opportunity where the
bandwidth doesn't exist and the
you know dependencies is within the four
walls of City Hall that you'll say hey I
need these resources I need this help to
to accomplish this you'll see some of
that good it's already good it's already
on my list so you'll see some of that
yeah so your trust is well placed okay
okay like it or not
we've got about 12 oh do you have some
more yeah just please
yeah
you're good go ahead
all right um I had mentioned uh on page
36 under continue to it's monitor hiring
and appointments processes to ensure
Equitable and diverse outcomes just to
continue to support educational
programming and Partnerships with the
city of Columbus they have some great
resources when the mayor and I attended
that two point govern 2.0 last year and
there was just a lot of connections
being made so just continuing that
um and we're right here we're so close
to Columbus and using their resources so
nice
thanks
jurisdictional trainings thank you
does anybody have any anything else
they'd like to comment on any any
thoughts before we move on we do have a
good uh 11 minutes before the next
meeting begins
so that's a
yeah into that I think almost
inadvertently a little bit we did
um so I think I think it would be good
to
get some guidance from you guys as to
how you'd like to further develop those
um
maybe that's a part of our public
workshopping is we're sort of trying to
pull out some of that that language from
the from residents and then maybe
regrouping I believe I have some of the
talking points that we discussed at that
training um that I can do if I can lay
my hands on those I'll kind of just put
a just a working document together and
share with everybody so that we can all
be reminded of what we discussed in that
room and see if maybe anybody has some
inspiration and we can begin to kind of
put stuff together but I really do like
the idea of getting Community input as
well
um so I I'm happy to do that maybe what
we can do is we can get that Community
input and use that and and get a
facilitator and come spend a morning or
something regrouping we still do have 30
minutes in our contract
okay for a follow-up yeah so I was
thinking so she was so we we the three
of us can talk about
how you want to use that I was had a
couple ideas but um and I have a rough
draft too I think we're all taking notes
everywhere yeah yeah incorporating some
of the comments we're making but I'm
happy let's all follow up together and
then figure out how we want to use that
30 minutes
there's
sometimes I wonder if when there's I
mean it's wonderful when you have lots
of heads in the room but when you're
trying to Wordsmith things I'm wondering
if you all don't
do some
workshopping with the community and then
maybe
the three of you work with the woman for
a half an hour and then bring it to us
it's just a suggestion I just think
we've had lots of Minds in the room
we've thrown lots of ideas your way and
then perhaps
not that I'm not interested in being
with that woman I think she was just
amazing and I would love to learn from
her more but I just wonder yes I just
wonder if the three of you might get
something
get us somewhere before we I can still
put you across the Finish Line 100 I can
still put the the kind of the comments
together so everyone can have a
refresher if anybody has some things
that we could dump even more ideas to
you that's rubbish this one it's better
for small groups when your word is
nothing yeah agreed
any other thoughts comments
phrases how many how many workshops do
you think are we thinking one time here
or are you thinking kind of spread out
around the city yeah uh Janet asked me
the same question she's like you have
workshops plural on here so I was
thinking one that's like a proper
well-advertised public Workshop as a
public Workshop here at City Hall
um but then also having a online survey
Piece of It kind of refresh that and
then
um maybe some you know maybe a coffee
where people can come just small group
conversation just a couple different
touch points so that people who want to
interact in different ways have that
opportunity some people don't love
public workshops but they love
picking up litter on the side of the
street on the corridor that we're
talking about yeah they do so
everybody's different
um so that's why that was a plural and
real quickly before I lose everybody can
we turn Natalie to page 15 and 16 which
is just that overview one of the things
I wanted you guys to consider uh is with
this road map of future plans that you
know we're not tied to that like
there could be other different future
plans that should be incorporated that
we work on are there things missing here
that you're like you know I'm 15 and 16.
we um
uh is that 14 15. 14 15. are there
things missing that we could that we
should be having on our Horizon more
explicitly
um
so I don't if if nothing is hitting you
right now if you think about it
um something just hit me
um we we have a The Joint Livingston
Avenue and and Southwest Bexley do we
want to put something specific in the
Strategic plan about Ferndale Mayfield
specifically I know there's a lot kind
of a lot of moving pieces right now but
would that be worth
um at least getting some information to
the public out about what's happening
there
of 100
it's it is in our it isn't on page 28
but I think in terms of
planned it separately I think so that
people it is as important as as these
things that are listed here
um so to have it listed along with the
information I think is great okay
um yeah I see it
it was called the Holtzman landfill
which threw me I know that's what it is
but well I've only started calling that
because that's what it was so I think
it's an interesting and important like
call you know as opposed to the Ferndale
Michigan landfill I think that kind of
um is a different I think that's just a
more accurate historical reference but
Jess
um one last thing on page 52 when it um
talks about improved storm water
regulation I've had a lot of
conversations with residents about
um asking if we could craft when we're
talking about and it's in here craft
stronger protections and existing Green
Space to just like look at underwater
retention to replace what is taken away
mm-hmm
that concept yeah that is 100 what this
is talk about
um
caveat under retention the best is
treatment so retention would be like if
you can't do on-site treatment so if you
had
if you're installing a big addition to
your house and you have space in your
yard for the water to get taken up by
plant life that's more favorable than
Storage storage would be if you can't do
that but those are that's that is the
I'll try to be more explicit that is
what it means by treatment
100 percent
so that's duplicative there are two of
those
so that's both an infrastructure and in
sustainability so I think it's gonna
end up in infrastructure and we take it
as sustainability but it's still in here
just so yeah
all right I want to keep my eye on the
time we've got four minutes before our
next meeting final thoughts of anybody
have anything that they like to add
before we uh adjourn this
section of our evening
great guys thank you so much for taking
the time uh I know even just an extra
hour can be a lot sometimes so I
appreciate everybody getting here today
I appreciate your time and
thoughtfulness and looking at this and
um it's a working document so
until this thing is printed and stamped
as finished uh please feel free to add
your thoughts and and reach out to
either the mayor or myself or Troy and
let us know what you're thinking thanks
so much this portion adjourned oh waving
mistake