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Work Session
Discussion Items
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Agenda Review:
This is the
opportunity to discuss any changes to the
Regular Agenda, which follows tonight, or to remove items from the Consent
Agenda for discussion.
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Review of the Village of Spring
Lake/City of Ferrysburg Police Department Annual Report
Copies of the Report
were reviewed by the Joint Police Commission at their last meeting. Copies were previously made available to
Council. Chief DeYoung will cover the
highlights and answer any questions.
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TIF Projects and Status Reports
1. Review
of the Harbor Steel Redevelopment Streetscape Process, Changes to Rotary
Drive, and Access to Central Park
Out to bid. For award on March 7, 2005. An access agreement is on the regular
agenda that follows.
2. Graflex
Building and West End Redevelopment
There is quite a bit
of activity planned for the West End by the private sector. The Marina continues their renovation and
expansion; the former Tim’s is slated for a deli and a seasonal ice cream
shop; and the former Graflex is being readied for 32 condominiums and a
restaurant.
The new potential
owners of the Graflex property approached the Village to see if they could
long-term lease the former Police Station and pay to have it demolished and
turned into public parking. I am
agreeable to this use and will be recommending it as a satisfactory solution
to help with redevelopment of the area, as per the grant requirements.
At some point, it
will be necessary to re-invest in the street and to provide for angle parking
on the north side. This parking would
better serve the businesses and would create a better shopping and pedestrian
environment.
If the Village
Council concurs, we will include this project into the long-term Local Street
construction plans to be done once the neighborhoods are caught up and
resources permit.
3. The
Future of the Tax Increment Financing District
I researched the
possibility of keeping the TIF district around should it be useful in the
future after we are caught up on Local Streets. The attorneys advised me that Allendale did this exact same
thing.
I asked for more
information and received the attached opinion letter. This idea would give the Council future
flexibility to use TIF for projects for long-term brownfield redevelopment
purposes. See the letter attached for
more detail.
4. Completion
of Pending Projects
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Dumpsters and Landscaping
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Lakeside Trail: Reapply for grant on March 31st?
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Wayfinding signs
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Discussion of NOWS Contract Amendments
See my suggestions
attached. The common theme is that
growth should pay for any new capital costs required.
Miscellaneous
Announcements or Status Reports
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NOWS intake fix and potential $90,000
cost (See bond information attached.)
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Applications to Planning Commission
(None to date)
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Applications to Historic Conservation
District (Need one more)
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Mural from Bank One for Barber School
Upcoming Agenda Items (Tentative)
March 7, 2005
Annual Budget
adjustments
Planning Commission
Appointments
Public hearing on
extension of the groundwater use restriction zone in the South Park Street
neighborhood.
Groundwater ordinance
revisions
March 21
Lakeside Trail Gap Go/No
Go
April 4
Cancellation?
April 18
Review the Six Year
Public Improvement Plan and Request Planning Commission Review
West End
Redevelopment PUD
Set the Budget public
hearings
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