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Home My WebLink About12-01-11 North Seventh Urban Renewal Board Minutes In APPROVED minutes from December 1, 2011 board meeting Voted on and approved during January 5, 2012 board meeting URBAN RENEWAL BOARD held at the Stiff Building, upper conference room TO DO List: Everyone attend January 5 board meeting; Think of recruits to fill Susan R position Dustin present Midnight Blue lightpole color to city commission for approval Carl contact prop owners, Confluence building, easement needed Keri continue work on SILD; invite Tim McHarg to January meeting Mike visit with Dennis Cattin Attendance: Susan Fraser, Michelle Wolfe, Dustin Johnson, Scott Hedglin, Carl Solvie, Mike Hope, Keri Thorpe, Susan Riggs Call to Order - Michelle called to order at 4:35pm. Public Comment - none. Meeting Minutes Scott made the motion to approve November 3 meeting minutes; Michelle seconded the motion. All in favor. N7Rehab applications and presentations Keith Redfern presented the Quonset but property- N 7th at Villard, Westside - TAG work with Buzz Nelson in the audience. Keith showed graphics of his proposed improvements (see Attachment A). Discussion. Brett Potter reported UHaul project all done, putting together the last cost document for Keri. Discussion. Brett also reported working on Cats Paw TAG and needing the board's approval for using easement document done by Morrison-Maierle. Kevin told Brett to ask NSURB for this. Keri said no voted needed on this use as all documents are public record. Discussion. Brett reported on G.V. Furniture proposed project. MDT does not like the bus pullout design option for onstreet parking. Keri pointed to lighting installation requiring space there that board does not have. Brett said he needed to look at the design again to make room for lighting. He went on to say the property owners says lots of water ponds up at their curb so wants a friendly parking environment. Discussion. Brett will go back to owner with edge improvement only idea, leaving logo and signage improvements for a later date. More discussion included rehashing NSURB will pay for sidewalks. Lightpole/Luminaire details/ Lighting project update Michelle noted concern of candy cane look of 35' lightpoles. Dustin confirmed all pedestrian lights will be 25' tall. Pulled lighting graphics from November meeting for visual. Keri said MDT will allow 25'poles from Oak north, requiring 10 poles instead of Page 1 of 6 6o rpass. She continued by reminding the board that NSURB will buy the and MDT will install and maintain on the overpass. URBAN RENEWAL BOARD Discussion. Signal lights are 35' currently. Board OK with originally suggested 35' lights north of Oak. Chad arrived later and handed out monthly report (see Attachment B), noting all lightpoles have been changed to 25'. He also reported they had met with MDT about the overpass project. Michelle told Chad about the board's previous discussion above and Chad confirmed Morrison-Maierle had already changed the lightpoles to 25' and had submitted the documents to MDT. Discussion. Scott suggested a possible way to soften the impact on property owners of the addition of 35' poles, i.e. offer stone wall etc similar to last summer's installations. Chad went on to report the actual cost of each light, pole and everything, is around $3800. A total of 89 are needed for the entire district. Discussion included adding banner arms and holes punched for later installation of planter arm so future baskets can be watered from the street. Lightpole/Luminaire color discussion, black vs. blue. More discussion. A dark navy blue, akin to Philips Lumec BE2TX Midnight Blue was voted on at November meeting and board decided to accept November's vote as the official board decision. Text from November 3, 2011 board minutes: Andrew said to go with blue color. Scott said he could argue black to match downtown, green to match, 19th, etc. Keri pointed to the district plan stating "setting personality". Scott noted black would bring no comments as blue would. Susan Riggs said black, Kevin said blue, Susan Fraser voted blue,Andrew voted blue: Scott voted black. Midnight Blue is the color choice. Dustin will present to the commission for approval. SILD update Keri said cost estimates and NorthWestern Energy box locations needed. She went on to report Debbie Arkell working with Mel Kotur and Staff. She also noted MDT will handle maintenance unless uninsured motorist hits pole, then repair cost split 50/50 between NSURB and MDT. Such pole replacement costs are built into special lighting district charges. Right now the assessments are looking to be $0.85-$1 per linear foot, possibly 20%more than property owners are currently paying. Keri went on to say Anna Rosenberry would prefer to roll out the lighting district in sections. Outreach Carl will dig into Confluence building property owners and easement needed. Keri said Svaboda is the listed owners, i.e. Doug Graves and Eileen Wallin with Belgrade address. FYI Mike would like to discuss at January meeting the expectation for new construction along N7. Discussion. Keri suggested district-specific guidelines - she will invite Tim McHarg to join January meeting. Page 2 of 6 In URBAN RENEWAL BOARD Susan Riggs announced this was her last meeting as she can't reapply due to time constraints. Everyone sad to hear this - thanked Susan for her donations to N7. Michelle asked board to think of recruits for filling Susan R's position. Michelle asked Mike to visit with Dennis Cattin. Adjournment Michelle adjourned the meeting at 6:45pm. Page 3 of 6 InAttachment A URBAN RENEWAL BOARD VF 40 Ab . 4 — S v iO[ • L € EXISTINS STREET 6C'Row EE BETBme.K r �- Cl II r = o v m iZ 1J u60 C - - <v m- 460 7 IL 11 �_ CENTER LINE '� ,P < I v no q F U1 G1 1 m Ax c m� Page 4 of 6 ]a Attachment B URBAN �}�� } ENGINEERS MORRISON SCIENTISTS Lin SURVEYORS AW1 MAIERLE tr�c. PLANNERS 288QTEGHNGLGGYBLVG.UJFST BOZEMAN.MT 59718 • d06-587-0721 FAX 406-587 4 176 ,In Employee-Owned Company PROGRESS REPORT#5 PERIOD FROM 11/1/2011 TO 11/30/2011 CITY OF BOZEMAN N.7TH LIGHTING DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION To; North 7`h.Urban Renewal Board Prom: Kevin Jacobsen,P.E.,Project Manager;Morrison-Maierle,Inc. k7 MMI#: 0417.063 Date: December 1,2011 I. GENERAL PROJECT STATUS Lighting calculations have been submitted to MDT for review. The calculations submitted are based on 25 foot poles throughout the corridor except for the intersections where the poles are 35 feet in height. The poles north of Oak Street were changed to 25 feet from the 35 feet shown on the renderings based on comments received from city staff and NSURB members. Several meetings occurred over the past month with MDT,the first focusing on the Special Improvement Lighting District and the second on the I-90 interchange lighting and how it relates to the North Seventh lighting project. Both meetings were very successful. We will continue to provide the city with estimated costs for poles,fixtures,etc.,as well as maintenance costs for insertion into the SILD. It appears MDT will be maintaining the lights although the city will be providing the poles,fixtures,etc.and a portion of the replacement installation costs since they are not MDT standard lights. The city is working on an agreement with MDT at this time. The 1-90 intersection design is being completed by MDT and they expect construction to begin in 2013. The city/NSURB will need to provide MDT with the selected pole and fixture types so they can use these poles in their design,if the board decides they would like the same poles installed over the bridge. The 25 foot poles being designed throughout the North Seventh corridor are shorter in height and arm length thus meaning there would be additional lights required over what MDT would typically use. These decorative poles/fixtures,it appears,would need to be purchased by the city which is an added cost to be considered. Following a discussion on this topic during the meeting,it would be beneficial to have a decision made as to which lights the city/NSURB would like to see over the bridge. The architectural renderings presented during mast months meeting brought about some thoughtful questions that have been discussed over the past month. Some changes,based on these comments,have already been made. The 35 foot poles north of Oak Street were changed to 25 foot poles,resulting in a few additional poles in order to meet illumination standards. There were also some questions in regards to the color,banners,and poles/arms. We would like to see a productive discussion during the December meeting and ideally a final decision made so we can proceed with final design. We will be providing some Page 5 of 6 In URBAN RENEWAL BOARD spec. sheets in regards to this to aid in the discussion. Please note that we highly recommend that the city/NSURB be 100%comfortable with the lighting selection before we go to into final design. It is much easier to make changes at this point in time. II. ITEMS FOR UPCOMING PERIOD The NSURB members shall continue the process of meeting with property owners along the corridor where easements are required. Continue coordination with the Cat's Paw owner(s)and representative in regards to site improvements and easement execution. Potentially provide additional renderings based on decisions made at the December NSURB meeting. Lighting design, MDT review coordination and SILD assistance will continue throughout the next period. Begin preparing final construction documents pending lighting changes. III. OTHER ITEMS We will continue to keep you informed throughout this project on a monthly basis,or more frequently as necessary. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to call me at 406.922.6823. cc: Dustin Johnson, City of Bozeman Engineering Keri Thorpe,City of Bozeman Planning Design Team Page 6 of 6