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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2012-12-17 MinutesCITY OF FAYETTEVILLE TOWN AND GOWN ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES OF DECEMBER 17, 2012, MEETING The meeting of the City of Fayetteville Town and Gown Advisory Committee was called to order by Chair Tommy Deweese at 3:02 p.m. on December 17, 2012, at the Genesis Technology Incubator of the Arkansas Research and Technology Park in the AT&T Conference Room at 700 Research Center Boulevard in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Members present were Don Marr, Jeremy Pate, Yolanda Fields, Casey Jones (proxy), David Dayringer, David Jurgens (proxy), Terry Gulley, Danny Pugh, Richard Hudson, Melissa Harwood -Rom, Gary Smith, Bev Lewis, Mike Johnson, Tori Pohlner, Barry Herzog, Diane Warren, Tommy Deweese, Ryan Miller, and Will Hansen. Absent were Mark Kinion and Steve Clark. Chair Deweese introduced the newest member of the Town and Gown Advisory Committee Will Hansen, who was recently appointed by the Fayetteville City Council to the position previously held by Joseph Kieklak, which is a position of a University of Arkansas student living off - campus in the City. A Motion by Don Marr was made, with second, to accept the Minutes of the meeting of November 19, 2012, which was unanimously approved. As Unfinished Business, Master Plan presentations were made to the Committee, first by City of Fayetteville Director of Development Services Jeremy Pate and then by University of Arkansas Director of Planning and Capital Programs Jay Huneycutt. Pate reviewed the City of Fayetteville City Plan 2030, and some of the guiding policies the Fayetteville City Council and Mayor look at when making land use decisions, but also to plan the City's transportation infrastructure investment, water and sewer infrastructure investment, and other infrastructure investments and how well the City can best make those decisions in a comprehensive manner, looking back at these City Plan 2030 overarching guiding principles. The City previously engaged the community in the process of developing City Plan 2025, and in developing City Plan 2030, the City kept guiding principles of 2025 and updated it for the 2030 Plan to determine where the City wanted to go with the principles more specifically as a City. Pate stated that Fayetteville is projected to grow by 37, 000 people by 2030 for a total population of 110,725. Pate reviewed six goals that came out of the citizen engagement six years ago, which are goals that were tweaked last year for City Plan 2030: 1) make appropriate infill and revitalization our highest priorities, 2) discourage suburban sprawl, 3) make traditional town form the standard, 4) grow a livable transportation network, 5) assemble an enduring green network, and 6) create opportunities for attainable housing. Pate discussed the community of Fayetteville, types of Ordinances that incorporate these goals, common occupancy issues such as over -occupancy and parking, ancillary changes such as noise and traffic that create unnecessary tensions in neighborhoods, the transportation bond program, Fayetteville Alternative Transportation and Trails Master Plan, Overlay and how Fayetteville transitions with University growth, and the City's Town Gown Best Practices white paper. Chair Deweese recognized Don Marr, who remarked about the success of the University of Arkansas and for City strength it takes the largest employer to be successful. Mike Johnson introduced Jay Huneycutt for a presentation about the University of Arkansas Master Plan. Huneycutt provided the Committee with background of the Planning Office at the University of Arkansas, Facilities Management, history about the University campus and how and why it has grown, and a follow-up of all of the different layers that have become part of the UA Campus Master Plan. These are the key elements that allow the University to make good decisions as it grows. Hunneycutt began with a discussion of the UA Master Plan 1925 and infrastructure and building on campus to 1995; the north grounds, central grounds, and south grounds of campus; the various layers of the Master Plan over the past seven to eight years; green/sustainable initiatives and achievements; 2005 Housing Master Plan and the recent addition of that Plan; Greek Life Master Plan; Transportation Study and upcoming update; work with the City on the trail system; Signage and Wayfinding Plan and implementation; and current additions and renovations on campus and other University infrastructure projects. After member inquiries and discussion stemming from the presentations, Chair Tommy Deweese stated that the Committee needed to move to the next item on the agenda, brainstorming a list of future items for Committee review. Mike Johnson presented the Committee with a list of topics from the University for addition to the Committee's previous list of items proposed by the Committee for review, noting some crossover of items on the Committee's existing list. Johnson proposed, due to time left in the meeting, the committee members individually prioritize their top ten items from the proposed topics and then a ranking of the committee's top items from their responses. Upon a call from the Chair for a motion on acceptance of the University's list, Don Marr made a motion for the list of topics from the University to be accepted in full and added to the existing list of possible topics for future Committee review, which was seconded by Jeremy Pate and unanimously approved by the Committee. Pate was recognized and recommended that the Committee rank the items and get their top -ten rankings to the Committee Staff Lindsley Smith for tabulation and the results provided to the Committee at least a week prior to the next meeting for the members to review it prior to their discussion in the January meeting and prioritization at that time. Chair Deweese asked the Committee about recommendations on the January meeting date. Johnson noted that the currently -scheduled meeting of the Committee is set for a holiday, and Marr made a motion that the Committee move the January 21 meeting date to January 28 meeting date, which was approved by the Committee without objection. Ryan Miller stated that he arrived late, but he wished to add three items to the list of topics for Committee review from his Ward, Ward Four, and made the motion, which was seconded by Don Marr and approved by the Committee to be combined into the larger list of possible topics for Committee review. Ryan Miller asked about the item on the agenda as New Business for the next meeting out of the topics proposed, and Don Marr moved to have whatever turned out to be the top item from the survey of Committee members in their ranking of their top ten be the item for New Business at the January 28, 2013, meeting, seconded by Johnson, and unanimously approved by the Committee. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 5:00 p.m. Respectively submitted, Lindsley Smith, Town and Gown Advisory Committee Staff For additional details of the December 17, 2012, Town and Gown Advisory Committee, it is provided online, in full, at: http://accessfayettevilie.granicus.com/MediaPla)/er.phhp?view_id=2&clip_id=2192