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EDC Minutes 2000 02-15-00 Economic Development Committee Minutes -February 15, 2000 THE UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES OF FEBRUARY 15, 2000 Meeting called to order at 7:00 pm Attendees: Jim Nanninga Pat Stanley - Yorkvivlle Business Park, Lot #1 Art Prochaska Carol Uttsch - Windham Homes/Fox River Estates Richard Sticka Tom Grant - Windham Homes/Fox River Estates Tom Sowinski Mike Knierim - Windham Homes/Fox River Estates Mike Anderson Kevin Ochwat - Windham Homes/Fox River Estates Valerie Burd PC 99 -13 Yorkville Business Park - Final Plat/Hand Real Estate Pat Stanley on behalf of Inland stated there were no issues, the plan shows overall site. They want the water main to cross route #47 at a place north of the detention area at a future roadway site. The City Ordinance states this should be at the front of the property that is being developed whether it be a full development or just a piece of the parcel. Wywrot stated the watermain comes along Wheaton Drive east to access drive and then south into the site. There is an added valve at the west end of driveway which wouldn't be needed if they run the watermain to the north. Mayor Prochaska stated the problem is that if property on the east side of route #47 is sold and developed, they would have to go into the Business Park to hook into the water. Sticka asked if this is the only issue. Stanley stated they would revise plans per Wywrot's comments with this one exception. Nanninga agreed the watermain should go along route #47. Mayor Prochaska stated the way Inland proposes to run the watermain would hinder development. Sticka stated that this plan doesn't suit the City needs. Inland has indicated they would continue north along route #47 at a later time when developing their north piece if the City needs this for the east side of route #47. They prefer to wait for the development of that area. Mayor Prochaska asked about watermain sizes. It will be 10" internally and 8" going into lot #1. Mayor Prochaska stated if they left it at 12" to the south of the 1 i Economic Development Committee Minutes - February 15, 2000 pond it would work for across route #47. Stanley stated the terrain is a handicap with the route #47 underpass conditions. Sticka stated we should pursue a compromise method here. Mayor Prochaska stated that Inland is never going to want to tear out landscaping for the watermain, but perhaps they could do it at the north end of the detention pond. Sticka asked if they would then have to come back south to Wheaton Drive? Stanley stated the two detention ponds connect by equalizer an basin. Sowinski stated that would preserve the landscaping. They could run along the top of the detention area to route #47. Mayor Prochaska stated they would need an agreement that when the City needs the line brought to route 47 it would be done. How do we guarantee that will get done? A bond or Letter of Credit? Anderson asked about a time period. Both parties agreed to do an agreement supported by a bond that when the east side of route #47 begins development or when the City requests the watermain be done Inland would run the watermain along the detention pond to route #47 and then south to the intersection. All agreed. PC 99 -10 Windham Homes - Fox River Estates Attorney Tom Grant on behalf of the petitioner stated they have 167 lot on the plat with some changes. They have resolved a couple of issues and some lots are ok now for 3 car garages with no variations. The road for River access has been moved, and the biggest issue is Railnet. They have indicated they will not allow more than 1 railroad crossing. With this in mind the Scout camp has a crossing that can serve as a second emergency access across the tracks from the river. The traffic study report said no turn lanes are required from Fox Road. They have no further problems that cannot be overcome. Nanninga asked about their plan at the river. Grant stated all of that area will be dedicated to the parks. There is good land outside of the flood plain. They will provide 6 parking spaces in the park area. No parking at the River but there will be a turn a round. The location of the lift station (they will only have one) is moved to south of the railroad so it will not be delayed for Phase I. Phase II will include a stub to the west to the scout camp south of the railroad and provide a 30' temporary access to the west. They will get formal approval from the Boy Scouts. They have had a good indication of an OK. They will discourage everyday access and make it a workable for emergencies access at the same time. Mayor Prochaska stated that perhaps they should allow enough room for a 66 foot right of way rather than a 30 foot emergency only access for the scout camp for 2 Economic Development Committee Minutes - February 15, 2000 development to the west, since this will probably be sold for development just like the polish camp on the north side of the river. Nanninga asked about Land cash along the river. Grant stated they didn't ask and we didn't offer. Nanninga stated that flood plain doesn't count as land cash, but we would be willing to maintain it for the park, and asked if there was also some cash. Grant stated there was. Sticka asked for questions. Mayor Prochaska asked about overflow for detention... south of the tracks it goes east. They need to resolve the emergency road access. Sticka stated the City would accept that if they work out an agreement with the scouts. Mayor Prochaska stated that by rotating lots 22, 23, and 24 they could gain a 66 foot right of way without loosing anything. This can go to next COW. Budget 2000 -2001 Mayor Prochaska asked about page 17, the EDC -Coop for budget purposes. The City gave $45,000. for this , but have paid $35,000. next year we have to pay $45,000 plus $10,000. to make up the shortage. Also, there is no money for a home page to be developed. Will we have development costs or maintenance? Nanninga stated his understanding was that Molly Batterson will do all of this. He also questioned the $6000. for plan consultant. Nanninga stated these were paid primarily from Developer fees. The comp plan took two years last time, he couldn't see it being done in 1 year this time. There should have been a report on this by now. We have a new boca and new maps as well. EDC has $1125. for mailings etc., we don't want to stop Bobbi cold due to relationships with other businesses. Future assistant person or Jim will have to deal with this. We will have Bobbi for a while. Anderson asked when the Director will be coming on. One person who was being considered has already taken another position. They are now ready to hire the second person ASAP. Bobbi's contract expires April 30, 2000, we will continue her till then and then will not renew her contract. She could continue on an hourly basis as needed. The Chamber is also interested in Bobbi doing some work for them. Burd stated the new dress shop is closing. Anderson stated this is not necessarily due to lack of business. Commercial Building Standards 3 i Economic Development Committee Minutes - February 15, 2000 Do we want commercial building standards. The office building on Game Farm Road and Shell wanting to do pre -cast, which is basically painted concrete raises the question. Nanninga is meeting with Shell on Friday to work it out. Perhaps we want building standards in some areas. We need something in place. Nanninga stated we may need a review board. Sticka stated these buildings are an example of why we need standards. Anderson stated we may want Chamber input, we don't want to be dictating., but there is a need. We could see what other municipalities are doing. Mayor Prochaska stated the Yorkville Business Park has covenants. Sticka added they are concentrating on getting the park developed. We could see what those covenants are. Nanninga stated that Dettmer had said Jane can get information on this from other communities. Mayor Prochaska stated we also need business community input. Additional Business Incentive Program of Develot)ers Mayor Prochaska stated an incentive program for developers might be a good idea. Based on a typical 100 acres, a program for R -1, R -2 & R -3 with exchanges for saving trees, etc. Burd has talked about this after a meeting and developers liked it because they would know exactly what to expect based on an overall parcel size. There are options to choose from, but limited in the number of options they could choose, say for instance 3 out of 9. They liked being able to choose the options they wanted most. Sticka stated this is what was done with Heartland and we have less density due to the developer wanting more open space. Some lots are 10,000 square feet to compensate. And, the green space is open to the whole community. Mayor Prochaska stated the options would include City preferences. Kendall County offers more density, but I prefer we don't offer anything less than 10,000 square feet, and we maintain our setback standards. We expect a step above. Sticka stated with more open space he doesn't object to smaller lots, open space gives a feeling of larger lots. With other areas coming for annexations we should try to offer larger more expensive homes on smaller lots. By not doing so we are saying you can make more money in another town with smaller lots and setbacks. We want big expensive homes on smaller lots. Mayor Prochaska stated that we can work this in with green space in an annexation agreement. Incentives should be a reward for building. There has to be a minimum of footage tied to things like green space. Burd stated this should also interface with the comprehensive plan. Kendall County 4 Economic Development Committee Minutes - February 15, 2000 has come up with a plan for a zoning buffer, and they are doing this with 2 other townships. Additional Business Sugar Grove Boundary Agreement Draft Sticka asked about protection of wells. Nanninga stated he would check on this. Mayor Prochaska stated he would like to see a situation where if one town puts in a well, the other community would write an ordinance protecting that area for each well and ground water. Nanninga stated this should be applicable to municipal wells only without ground water. Mayor Prochaska stated the only area that is an issue is Baseline Road west of route #47. That is a township road. Wording would be similar to that used for Eldamain Road. The proposed divide is at Route #30 to the east of route #47 and Baseline Road to the west. Mayor Prochaska stated this is not readv for COW vet, this was on this agenda for informational item only. They are seeking feedback from Sugar Grove and will put together an ad Hoc Committee once they have a chance to review. Additional Business Sanitary Sewer Improvements Nanninga stated that they are looking at a new sanitary sewer from the Blackberry Creek Interceptor east along Countryside Parkway to Route #47. They are also looking to go north with this line to the Holdiman property which may be less expensive. This line would service the Hammon property serving Kennedy Road and Route #34 all the way to Bristol Ridge Road. This line could pay back many times it's cost with the route #34 commercial sales tax. Nanninga also stated that they are looking at water and sewer improvements north along route #47 to the County line at By Pass 30. There could be a shallow well and a water tower near Galena Road and Route #47. Nanninga also showed a plan to extend watermain in a loop from Wheaton Drive north and east along Galena working it's way back to Route #47 tying back into the Countryside Subdivision watermain. Much of this money may come from the Radium Solution Improvements being looked at currently by Engineering Enterprises of Sugar Grove. 5 Economic Development Committee Minutes - February 15, 2000 The City could issue up to a $6,000,000. bond according to Speer Financial by paying interest only for the first 3 years. The Fox Metra Water Reclamation District has stated that their plans do not come west to Route #47 in this area. Nanninga asked if we could start putting a plan together for these actions. We would need to start easement acquisition and engineering. We need to be ready; we don't want to loose some commercial development because we're not ready. This needs to go to Public Works Committee. Adjourned 9:35 PM Minutes by: Sandy Marker 6 I I - I UNITED CITY OF YORKVILLE SIGN IN SHEET Economic Development Committee February 15, 2000 7:00 P.M. PROJECT NAME (PLEASE PRINT!) REPRESENTING PHONE # gw- SD A - �t�1�s �C � LaT I ovv� C31 U H V� K 'A l b Phi v✓\, 4' 1- i I 7i ��, ti �z, r z i �cSZ 7q °7