HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-20-18 Downtown URD Minutes
Downtown Tax Increment Finance
Board Meeting Minutes
March 20, 2018
Attending: Bob Hietala, Vonda Laird, Cory Lawrence, Tony Renslow, Chris Naumann
Absent: Bobby Bear, Bill Stoddart
Public Comments: None
Minutes
ACTION: Bob Hietala moved to approve the February minutes as presented.
Cory Lawrence seconded the motion.
All voted in favor.
Financial Report
Chris presented the current FY2018 finances. He highlighted some of the expenses incurred over the last month including $20,550 for streetlamp reimbursement at the Lark expansion and
$41,674 for Phase 1 of the Downtown floodplain analysis.
The board had no other questions regarding the finance report.
Executive Director’s Report
Technical Assistance Program Update—no changes
No grants have been awarded in FY2018. Two of the three grants left over from FY2017 were
recently completed. As a reminder, the Planning grants have a $7500 cap and the Façade
grants are capped at $3000.
Other Financial Program Updates
Streetscape Grants Lark Hotel (along South Grand) 5 new streetlamps—COMPLETE
Life-Safety Grants
Dedicated Fire Line for Lark Hotel—Pending
Hotel Incentive Grant
Etha Hotel—Pending Lark Hotel—Pending
Date Project Name Project Address Applicant Professional Type Value Completed
10/31/2016 Owenhouse 2nd Floor 26 East Main Larry Bowman Yellowstone Arch Planning 7,500$ YES
10/31/2016 Owenhouse 2nd Floor 26 East Main Larry Bowman Yellowstone Arch Façade 3,000$ YES
3/30/2017 23 East Main 23 East Main Mark Kehke Intrinsik Planning 7,500$
Total 18,000$
FY17 Budget 50,000$
remaining 32,000$
Technical Assistance Program FY2017 Report
Fiber Connectivity Grant
Lark Hotel— COMPLETE Massive Studios— COMPLETE
Building Project Updates—no changes
23 East Main (former Bozeman Angler) remodeling 1st and 2nd floor to be complete in
May 2018 223 East Main (former IOOF Building) constructing a 2-story building with first floor retail and residential on second floor to be completed October 2018
Owenhouse redeveloping 2nd floor as 8000+ square feet of office space to be completed
in September 2018
Lark Addition (corner of Grand and Main) 4 story building with 28 new Lark hotel rooms. Construction began in December 2016 to be completed Spring 2018. Etha Hotel (Armory building) Construction scheduled to resume in April 2018.
Black & Olive Apartments scheduled to begin construction Spring 2018.
“OSM” Building 5 story mixed use building proposed on southwest corner of Babcock
and Wallace—schedule unknown BG Mill Building 5 story mixed use building proposed on southwest corner of Mendenhall and Broadway—schedule unknown
One 11 Lofts (corner of North Willson and West Lamme) 50-unit apartment building with
53 parking spaces. Approved by DRB February 28, 2018. Currently in review by City
Community Development Director. New Businesses Update—no changes
• Montana Provisions—39 North Rouse—old Service Electric
• Fire—243 East Main—former Artcraft Printers—being remodeled as wood-fired pizza restaurant
• ???—19 South Willson—former Over the Tapas--???
• ???—23 East Main—former Bozeman Angler--???
• ???—23 East Main (second floor)—formerly vacant--???
• ???—223 East Main—formerly Lilly Lu at explosion site Planning Updates
In this section, I will provide update about several ongoing City planning processes.
UDC Revisions http://bozeman.net/Projects/UDCCodeupdate/Home Consultants: Makers (Seattle), Leland Group (Portland), Studio Cascade (Spokane)
Update: adopted by the City Commission on January 4, 2018. A second small set
of revision were adopted February 12, 2018. New UDC will take effect April 2018.
City Strategic Plan Consultants: HDR
Timeline: 2016- April 2018
Update: City Commission provisionally adopted the plan on March 5, 2018.
https://www.bozeman.net/Home/ShowDocument?id=5697 City is accepting public comment until April 5, 2018 and then will make any final revisions prior to final adoption later in April.
2017 Community Plan (City Growth Policy) Update
Consultants: City release RFP for consultants January 2017 Timeline: October 2017 through late 2018 Update: Preliminary land use and demographic analysis completed by EPS
Consulting. The report can be found here:
https://www.bozeman.net/home/showdocument?id=5612
City closed the submittal period on March 20, 2018 for the RFP for consultants to facilitate the update of the plan.
Downtown Strategic Parking Management Plan—no changes
Strategies 1 through 5 have been completed.
Strategies 6 (Cash-in-Lieu), 7 (UDC Parking Requirements), and 8 (SID 565) are scheduled to be addressed in 2018. I am working with City staff to develop a more specific timeline. Strategy 10, focusing on data collection and analysis, was in part completed with the release of
the 2017 Downtown Parking Study as conducted by WTI.
https://www.bozeman.net/Home/ShowDocument?id=5335
Strategies 12, 13, and 14, which focus on signage, branding and wayfinding associated with parking will be completed in 2018. Significant progress is being made on Strategy 15 to upgrade the parking technology systems at
the garage and used for on-street management. The new T2 parking management system will
be implemented in May 2018.
Discussion and Decision Items
Downtown Plan Progress Report
Chris reviewed the progress report which he had provided in advance to the board via e-mail.
He noted that there were several sections still needing final narrative, but the overall contents
and structure were complete. Bob said he liked the use of “completed”, “partially completed”,
and “not completed” in the “Next Steps” section and suggested Chris apply those qualifiers to each objective in the main body of the report.
Cory suggested that the various new and redeveloped meeting spaces downtown be mentioned
as part of the “conference center” section. Vonda said it was impressive to see how much has
happened in the last 9 years. Downtown Plan Update
Chris went over the draft scope of work and timeline from the Request for Proposals to update
the Downtown Plan the he had previously sent to the board. He reiterated that since this would
be an update of the 2009 plan that the scope of work was very similar to the current structure
and contents of the 2009 plan. Chris highlighted that the public engagement process would also be similar and based upon the Urban Land Institute’s advisory panel approach.
The board said the draft RFP looked solid. Bob suggested that Chris add more specifics
regarding the number of presentations expected to be made by the consultants. The board
asked about the project budget of $75,000 recalling the 2009 plan cost the same amount. Chris
said he figured the final project cost that he would put in the RFP would be between $70,000 and $80,000. He said that the lean budget would be one of the factors keeping the plan and the
process focused and efficient.
Chris said he would like to release the RFP in advance of the next URD board meeting if the
board would be comfortable with him proceeding according to the timeline.
ACTION: Cory Lawrence moved to approve Chris finalizing and releasing the Downtown Plan Update RFP as proposed with no need for further board consideration unless material changes occur.
Bob Hietala seconded the motion.
All voted in favor.
Draft FY2019 URD Budget Chris provided a copy of the draft budget. He said they would take a closer look at the April
meeting and would need to approve the budget at the May meeting.
Meeting was adjourned at 1:05 pm