start our study meeting. And Jennifer is going to talk stationary. Go ahead, Jennifer. Thank you. Did you make any changes? I don't know. I didn't open that one. Oh, sorry, it was there. Sorry. October, November to go over stationery and plan and what properties we wanted to include. We talked about hiring a consultant to create rendering so you can help visualize what this may look like. So we've gone back and made a few changes to the is the commercial areas adjacent calls for redevelopment of the industrial area adjacent and looks at the rest of the town center zoning district to remain town center has infill redevelopment as has been already happening. We have on the UTA property we have mixed use commercial residential above along 123rd residential behind that, as well as a trail corridor along the canal. The city's actually budget from 13th back behind Parkstow. That will actually, talking to Brad today, that will kind of be our whole ending, finding out what happens with UTA properties, because we'll need to actually continue it through UTA properties. And then we'll connect at the existing crossing where people can connect on the Port of Rockwell Trail. The canal trail then picks up next to Diamond Ridge Town Hall and goes up into Sandy. And then on the south end it would connect on 13th Street where they can hop back onto Port of Rockwell Trail. And then the city center, we've got a community center here, mixed-use retail. community center to residential to the south and then some large plaza trail areas connecting city hall the event center the new plaza areas and then into the park and the library so the renderings looking at those we wanted to get a sense of what this could look like given the heights and So we've kind of looked at three different areas. Two spots on the UTA property and then one spot looking at the city property. So we'll start with the city property. We'll be on the east side of the city property. So this is kind of what it looks like now. And then we've got this would be the entrance going into the library on the And then the city property on the right. We've got plaza space. We've got really a three-story building, four-story retail commercial space, and two-story apartment condo area above. And again, extensive plaza space where you can have outdoor dining. You can have seating spaces. You can have events, music, things like that. And again, that's kind of moving into the park and into city hall, kind of connecting all of that. what could be buildings along 123rd. Again, mixed use, retail, commercial, restaurant, along the first story. This is a five-story building. We've really tried to look at stepping it back so it doesn't have the feel of a five-story building. You've got your first story. It steps back. You've got two stories of residential buildings. Fifth story is actually underground parking that is entered from the south. So that is your fifth story. So you don't even see that from the road. Buildings moving down the slope of UTA property will kind of be similar to that where you'll have structured parking with the buildings as they step down. And that's another view of that structure you can see there. for the residences, but also, you know, outdoor spaces for patrons as a commercial farm. And then the last section is a long kind of open space corridor on the UTA property. It's designed to be a buffer with Parkstone, the Parkstone neighborhood and the UTA property, but also as a connection from that trailway, the town trail down to the station And then this is obviously an aerial of existing conditions. We've got is showing just UTA property and the city property. On the city property, you can see that extensive plaza areas, potential community center. Again, extensive plaza areas, the buffers of town homes, as well as open space networks connecting everything, the park, the library, senior center. private park spaces for residents, both structured private park area and open space. Looking broader, what may happen is additional property infills. We know eventually city property will develop. We know UK is going to come in and develop What if other properties come in? What potentially you may have? The industrial here, canine lifeline, those types of properties that just redeveloped. that's going to stay primarily commercial. But it gives them a little of the boundaries you will look at? I'm significantly more concerned about Pioneer. And more significantly concerned about density there. And so I would rather focus on putting housing on the UTA side, where it's going to be closer to 123rd, and trying to alleviate traffic on Pioneer. and trying to make planning more of the gathering place. I'm not so sure this plan does that. I want to meet the state's requirements and the state's intent. But simultaneously, I'd much rather have the gathering in connection with our infrastructure, the city hall, the park, the library, the senior citizen focus there, and not so much residential. Yeah, we could look at it. does have to have some residential on their property. It's important for the city to be part of that. Now, last meeting you guys approved workforce housing with Ivory. This is a big opportunity for the city to do something like that with those units specifically. But we could look at maybe reducing some of the units themselves to incorporate more public open space. And I don't want the height to be, I don't want the height to be, community's not used to anything higher than two stories along there. And I think if we bring anything higher than two stories on our property, the community's not going to be supportive of that. On the UTA side, I don't have any concerns. The old IFA stuff is pretty tall, but I think height-wise, I want to really focus on 20 to 25 feet rather than four stories. So I think that that's reasonable on the south side of Pioneer. I'm a little concerned about these big, huge block apartments, especially that one in the middle. But even looking at it from 123, it's going to be a shock. That one? Yeah. Yeah, can you go back to the one that shows the viewpoint from 123 looking We want to avoid what we have on 123 and the freeway. Yeah. We really do want to avoid that. We can look with the coded option. We can look at requirements that require buildings to be broken up a bit more. Yeah. Things like that. Or the variance and some of that height, maybe. Yeah. So it's going to look like a huge block. Yeah. So I will say throughout the whole process, UTA has indicated five stories is minimum for them. So I don't think we can... they'll have their meeting and they will have they can have the public show up to their meeting and they can make a decision based on what the public says but I support council member Lowry in the fact that maybe breaking it up so it's not as large that there's breaks in between buildings Is there green space in the middle of it? Yes. So this would be an Albert Plaza area. So I think it would be better if there was some view into that. Because all you're going to see from the outside is going to be a gigantic box building. Why do that? It's nice that there's a little secret garden but I think it would be better for the people around it to be like, oh, there is green space, accessible green space. Can you do that? I think Chinese looks so much better. Like night and day, it's just so much better. I like the townhomes in the background. I think that's a nice step back between our property and the really larger lots that I agree with. I kind of like those towns. What kind of size is that? I don't know if we have a square footage. How many towns? And there's towns above the retail, right? Yeah, so they're trying to have the current concept here have two stories of residential above. So whether that's apartments, condos, how do we, you know, ultimately have that designed to be up to us? Condos. That would be amazing. No short-term rentals. So she fixes a few of these things. You guys are good with this concept going forward? Yeah. Break up that one. Kind of just breaking up the big building. Yeah, there and then staggering the heights on some of the buildings. And then if you look at the . More staggered looking buildings. What do you mean? So it doesn't look blocky, like different heights, moving it around and break it up. Like a view in a secret garden. Like those three in front that you can see through. Do you want to get rid of the U-shaped house? Like the U-shaped house? In the back? Well, they're going to get access from, I don't know, I'm concerned about access to the townhomes. So the townhomes, can we have another access so they're not all on Pioneer? How's that sound? From the housing behind? From the housing behind? So this is, I mean, in the area of the existing road that serves the farm, but there is, road. So there is, Ivory has put in a sub-road there. So when the city comes in to develop, we can put a road that will connect and it will take it down. And you can take it down to Fort or 126. I think we're going to have to probably come up with some infrastructure investment to take care of Pioneer from probably 7th East. We've got all those, we've got that planter box in the middle. I didn't bring it up. Right. We're going to have to. Yeah. But we're going to have to. That will be an additional cost we need to find a budget for to take care of it. It actually feels concentric. Yeah. There's a little shops and retail and stuff. Is that if they plan to move it? That's what we're looking for. Right. Well, the idea with the rendering is that's kind of the historic part of the structure. And that I have not found. So we'll be with him in the next week or two. It'll be pretty cool. Can we make as part of the plan the top floor of all those buildings at home? So if there's at least one layer of the home, that would be great. Yeah, so I think that would probably be more appropriate for the actual code. I mean, I think we should, if they're going to rent them, we ought to have the top floor of the home. So if that mall works up in Concord Heights, we'll sell every one of them. I'd give you another couple hundred dollars. a good point is the implementation of the plan is in the code that we adopt. So things like having site access to open space, that type of thing, that's something that we would codify because the buildings materials, etc., etc., these are renders of what things could look like. That will be the details when or whoever develops on their property comes in, looks at our code and says, this is what I'm going to give you. We want to make sure our code is tight. Can we do development agreements inside the stationary plant? Is there any reason why you can't? Is there any reason why you know? I don't see why not, but we'd have to double check. We'll take, you know, we'll take the renderings, we'll take the actual document itself, and then create our code off that so that we're getting what we want. You know, recreation is right in there. Climbing walls, ice skating rinks. Yeah, and there would definitely be, you know, the ability to take one of these, you know, we're kind of showing surface parking lots that you could be structured and then have amenities. You know what? They're cool. West Valley has a very similar setup. They just finished their last summer where it's got a five-story and they have the parking underneath. And then they have a line of townhomes where the Maverick Center is. And it's right close to where you get off of the stop. That's a good one. I saw that the other day. So what are the next steps? So next steps would be to kind of tweak the drawings, finalize those, meet with our stakeholder committee, and then hold an open house for the public. And then in March, take a client question and counsel for adoption. That meets our timeline? Yep. Then we move on to the next one quickly. Yeah. Then we move on. So we'll take those comments back. Council Manager? What's next? You look like you have some. I do have some. Just because your team upset the Lions. We did. For years, we waited And I want to point out the Lions are in the same place as the Cowboys right now. They're getting Deion. When they do, they're going to be good. That's my word. I'll tell you why. After. That's what my son said after all the playoff games. Oh, they're in the same spot as the Cowboys. Yeah, don't worry. You got some? Yeah. So the engagement committee wanted to invite anyone who wanted to join them in passing out something encouraging to residents the weekend of February 15th to 17th for... It's a... Kind. Be kind day. Be kind day. Something like that. One kind day. What's the phrase? What's the phrase for it? A random act of kindness day. One day of kindness. Random act of kindness day. But it's nice on one. So if anybody wants to participate in that, . What do you want us to do? They're going to have stations around Draper and pass out something. They haven't decided what they're passing out yet, I don't think. Like a flower, a little note that we don't have much in the budget. So if anybody wants to participate in that. Hi, my name is Troy. Anything else? Did you think of anything on your cruise? I didn't think of anything. I'm a charter ship. Would you like to introduce? Yes. So this is Nicole Smithley. She will be replacing me in a month. I love her a little bit less. But yeah, so we're excited to have her join our group. Where's she coming from? Pending your boat. I can never remember the name of the organization you're coming from. So I'll let Nicole to answer that question. We're very glad to have Nicole, so thank you for coming. I actually remember two things. Okay, so E.D. Goodrich, who has a little farm stand in Draper, has a out to ask if there's some way to put that into our city code. I guess other cities allow farm stands and farm houses. And we have a couple local farmers that do sell produce in front of their houses. They just want it to be legal. I think. Hasn't it come to DRC or planning or something like that? Not yet. I don't think so. I think Jen had a conversation with me last week to get an idea of the scope. Yeah. We'll be working on that. What else, Tasha? There is a guy up in South Mountain who has apparently a rowdy, what is it? It's like a short-term rental. He's asked if there's any way for the city to regulate short-term rentals. And that is something that comes up with surprising regularity. So I don't know if we want to look at that or what requiring you to do a short-term rental to come get a permit. And if you do something that violates that, then your permit is removed. Like a conditional release? Not a conditional release, but like a short-term rental permit. I think we should do whatever we can. I agree. I don't want to outlaw them. You talked about it. No, but whatever we can to control the party. We've talked about it a bunch of times. I don't think we've actually done anything. We keep waiting for the state to do something. And there was a bill, actually. I saw that today. And it was actually favorable probably to the neighbors. And so I don't know how much traction there one bill out there, but we've got a lot of leeway to regulate. And so if that's something you'd like us to do, then we can start working on . of sending notice to the companies that advertise these that if somebody's not in compliance, we need to take them down. Well, we've had some of these Airbnbs get out of hand. Yeah, one was shooting. Well, one of my clients was Airbnb-ing his place and turned into a whole... Anyway. I would like to do something else. Why don't we bring back maybe a rough outline to see if we're going in the right direction? So now I'll give you a quick, anybody want anything else? So today, the beginning of the 45 days of wonder are upon us. We now have 44 days left. So tomorrow it all kind of kicks off with respect to what I'm doing with the league. We start at 7 in the morning at the Capitol. We're having breakfast in Colmore. A few other folks talking about some of the more impactful bills that are afoot. I don't know if you saw the article in the paper about a bill to split the county. I don't know if you saw that. There is rumors of a state land authority bill, which there's a big movement afoot to do away with. vote by mail. They can show up at the polls and not be able to vote by mail anymore. There's where some of the big battle lines will probably be are going to be, there are some cities, Provo, I think Provo and Layton, and I can't think, is Orem doing it? I don't know if Orem's doing it. The transit tax. So the legislature allowed the city to enact a transit fee or a transportation impact fee, or essentially a transportation fee. I guess it's not called an impact fee, but some cities, Provo primarily is charging it. Oh, a transportation fee. We haven't done it, but we most certainly could. But one of the battles afoot is the church. When I say the church, there's only one I'm talking about in this particular state. It's not the Catholic Church. They don't want to pay their user fee. They've been paying it. they don't feel like they should have to pay it. They view it as a tax and not as a fee. Interestingly enough, the city that's pushing it the hardest is Provo, which probably has the most of the church's property in any one given city. So as a league, our position is we think everyone should pay. And so that's probably going to be the premier battle of this year because they've thrown down the gauntlet of we're going to own the world. That's one thing we're kind of geared up for. I don't know where it's going to go. But Provo makes a really good argument that there are so much untaxed property that they still use every road, every firefighter, all those things. So that's one thing that's . Amendment D might raise its head again in the concept of a bill to start it all over again. We're trying right now to figure out a few of these items. But there's a land use bill of some sort that's a magnitude higher than any we've yet seen. I don't know the details of it yet. I'm hoping to find out tomorrow morning about it. But creating a state land use authority that can bypass cities completely. Developers be able to go right to this land use authority and just go to the state level ones. So obviously, the league of cities and towns is going to have issues with that. were, I don't know what the session necessarily turns out to be when we met with Speaker Schultz at the beginning. Me and Cameron and Justin met with him. He thought we were doing pretty good on housing. He didn't seem to be wanting to do a whole bunch of housing things other than let what's going on. You know, take take root more so that we can see how it shakes out all the quizzes and did some pins and lids and all that. All of it. His focus At least the speaker's focus was primarily on ownership, so anything that we do as cities to promote starter home type land use is gonna win huge favor with everybody from the speaker to the governor to everybody else. Lehigh's working on a zoning plan that gives density based upon if you come in with a specific starter home, they're creating a zone. that I think it's a pretty interesting, they've been working on it for a while, but I think we as a league would rather have something we came up with and get adopted. So the concept would be a developer could have a, this won't fit in Draper's, we don't have any land left, but you could find a five acre piece in Lehigh, and if you came in and said, I'll build, I get 30 units to the acre, but it's all owned, then I can build this, and it moves. Because that's what everyone's talking about, at least at the state level. The governor specifically, His ownership initiative, he wants 30,000 new homes that are ownable in the next couple of years. So there's been some talk, too, about perhaps they're looking hard at state-owned land for ownership opportunities. So the point, of course, falls into the state-owned land. We had some discussion about some of the point being sold off for single-family or townhome-type ownership. I don't think it's fair for the state to tell all the cities that we have to do density for ownership and then not have ownership on one of the biggest parcels. But there's a development agreement that's been executed that may not be conducive to it. But outside of phase one. Outside of phase one, yeah. Phase one's kind of locked in. Talk around the starter home thing, but what comes in are more of these apartment townhomes density. It'd be nice if this is more. Yeah, what they're hoping for is small starter homes that are single family, but they're on small lots. But I had somebody take me to lunch the other day with the concept where they phase them. So you start out with a house with the lots long and skinny, and then they put all the plumbing in and everything for expansion in the future. But when you buy it, you originally have like a 1,200 square foot house. Then you can prepackage, put a garage on it or another level. And it was an interesting concept that It's taken root in a few places. They're doing it in Hawaii. I'm going to get some more information to show you, but I haven't talked to Mark in Lehi yet, but I think that's kind of the concept. This was like you could go to Home Depot and say, I'm ready for my garage, and they would deliver the lumber, the whole thing, right to it. But sort of not prefab, but in a way, making it really affordable. You can get into these for $300,000, and then if you want to make them, you can make it whatever you want going forward. Again, there's not very many spots in Draper where, I don't know if there's any, but other cities. I went up to Weber County for a meeting with all the mayors up there. Their county is interesting because, unfortunately, the legislature does a lot of anecdotal legislation, in my humble opinion. Sorry, legislature. But something will happen, and somebody will call their representative and say, hey, they're doing this. And then the next thing you know, there's a bill filed. I mean, I don't think that's a surprise anymore. That happens all the time. But you know, one of the cities that particularly lived, the speaker himself was in, took a position of no multifamily. I mean, that doesn't help all the rest of us. That gets them all fired up. So Cam and I went out and had a meeting and part of my job was to push a little bit back on the members. So I did for a while and then we talked about, you know, what, because ultimately, and you all know this, we're in a we're in a much better position negotiating with them. I think we have, I think the speaker would say, the president would say, and the governor's office definitely would say that we've been a partner as a league more than we've been anything else. And that's not what happens around the country. Most leagues of cities and towns and their legislatures are oil and water. They don't get along at all. And, you know, Speaker Schultz thinks we're partnering with them on a lot of good stuff. So I think the housing front, we're probably not going to see a lot of different things other than I don't know what this bill that's not yet been put into words. So I'm hoping that we are making some progress in some of our other issues that we have concerns. One of our big concerns we have, we were making pretty good progress on a solution for that. We met with our federal delegation to talk about, or our federal lobbyists to talk about different grants and things we could do to improve all our systems. I think we've got a lot of good stuff, potential good opportunities for solutions. I'm real happy with what our lobbying team, Jeff Hartley's doing right now. They're doing a good job for us. Greg Curtis as well, and then Brian Cunningham in DC. The league conference is in March after the session, so we're going back there to the conference and we're gonna have some meetings with our folks there. But it could be interesting, tomorrow we start at 7, breakfast, then we're going to the Salt Palace where we're having our day with the Youth Council, and I'm in charge of that meeting. And then back tomorrow night here for State of the City. Sorry I didn't plan a musical number. Anybody want one? I didn't think of it, so anyway. Any questions about the legislative session? What we can expect? We haven't decided, you know, legalize how much pushback we want to do on some of it. Horse trading our capital, as Cam likes to say. We're still figuring it out. They're doing it. They're actually doing it. They charge everybody. Yeah, like $20 a month or... $25 a month or something. You have to cost justify it. Right. So it would be a fee that we'd have to do some studies on and do some cost justifications as far as what it is. Yeah, they did an analysis, and they come with a business pays this much, a house pays this much, and that's how they're funding a ton of their road maintenance. Pleasant Grove is the one that did it, and they actually dedicated it all the way up to our Supreme Court. Pleasant Grove, for years, really didn't maintain the roads very well. I think as soon as they saw it, they jumped on it. They did it. They started doing it because it covers road maintenance. It's slick to do. I think it's fair, too. Because everybody pays the same that's similarly situated. You have to do this analysis. But I know Provo's doing it. I know Layton's doing it. I know. Island City's doing it. What's that? Island City. Island City doing it as well. Salt Lake City had looked at it, but their council was against it. I think that was a couple years ago. Yeah, there's another interesting thing that you bring up when you said Salt Lake City made me think of. At the Wasatch Front meeting last week, Mayor Mendenhall did a little presentation. She shared with us a letter that she got from the Speaker and the Senate President and Governor that told her, you need to come up with a public safety plan. And if we like it, we'll partner with you. And if we don't, we're gonna do something over the top of you. So they came up with a pretty comprehensive public safety plan. I haven't read through it yet, but she presented the highlights of it to us at the Wasatch Front meeting. And I have to say, I think Salt Lake City stepped right up to it. I mean, it's pretty amazing what they're gonna try to do. Now homelessness is the next topic that I think that we're moving in homelessness towards a campus, a homeless campus style situation, more than like fracturing it around. I think they're looking at a parcel to build a big homeless services center on. They're trying to model it after Miami-Dade County. I didn't go on this trip, but apparently they've got something similar that works really well there. So I think you might see in conjunction with Salt Lake City's redevelopment and the state public safety plan, we're probably heading into more of a campus style homeless situation. So that's all yet to come forward. The point is moving along and we're negotiating with them and we're gonna have a meeting with you guys soon to talk about how it looks going forward as they start to build stuff. But they've got some really big plans and some big concepts, retail concepts. We think they're going to get out of the ground soon. So we'll keep you informed on that. I'm trying to think what else. Rich, anything? No, sir. OK. Go ahead. I just distributed an updated conflict of interest form. Remember that's due by the end of the month. Yes, I was going to say, Melania thought this one through and brought paper copies. But you have one we can fill out on the online space. Right, so you've got to go online. It's a different form. It's a totally different form. Yeah. So they passed a bill that requires elected officials between January 1st and January 1st to come online. I have a question on this. Because a bunch of us serve on boards, and you're going to have to do one of these for every What I want to know, can we do the one for Draper City and link it to everybody else's? Not to fill it out every time? It's the same stuff, right? It should be. How many of you are on other boards? Are you on any outside city boards? I'm being compelled to speak right now. Who's on the Jordan Valley Water Commission? Yeah, you're going to have to . This is after I was elected. Oh, OK. And I'm not up for the election. I'm subject to being charged with a class B misdemeanor. You're saying it's another form you filled out? No, the PTA has one for me. The Point has one for me. Wasatch Front has one for me. Post has one for me. I'm up to four now, plus ours is five. We'll make five. I just want to fill it out here, so I don't have a lot of money. So our disclosure of income is our CRC salary? No, that's a deal. We send you a copy of it, and then you send it to us. That's what I'm going to do. They're going to accept that. It's the same as statutory information. I don't see why they don't. Because I don't want to miss something I want to do. I'm being propelled by the media. No, but I think there will be adverse influences made from it that it could be drawn in. If you're comfortable with that, it's up to you. All right, you guys, we have like 15 minutes if you want to have a break. Thanks. Are you all coming up tomorrow to the Capitol? Or I mean to the South House? No. I don't. 3DR. That would be this. All right. What time is the State of the City? Fred, can you hear us? Fred, can you hear us? Yes, I can hear you. Okay, thank you. All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our city council meeting this evening. I'd like to call our meeting to order. We're going to start off with the pledge. I'm not exactly sure who's doing it. All right, thank you. Our next item is the oath of office for some of our brand-new master police officers. And for this ceremony, I will turn the time over to our police chief, Mr. Rich Ferguson. Go ahead, sir. Thank you, Mary. Do you mind if I move this over to the side so they can present a little easier for them and family can still see? It's a pleasure to be with you council and mayor tonight to introduce some of our, one of our brand new officers and some of our master officers who were recently promoted. As you remember, the master officer program was instituted as a career series in the department recently with the help of our citizens who supported that. I'm going to start tonight with the introduction of Brighton McCubbins who is Brighton is a brand-new police officer with the city of Draper. He became a police officer in May of 2024. Brighton has lived the majority of his life in Draper, and he graduated from Corner Canyon High School. After high school, Brighton served in the United States Navy. Brighton is engaged to Marin, and they recently welcomed their son Murphy into the world, who is now two months old, and he's here. I saw him just a minute ago, and yep, there he is. Beautiful little guy. Brighton is currently serving in the patrol division, and I can report that he is doing an exceptional job, and he's already earned the respect of the officers he serves with. In Brighton's words, I joined the law enforcement community last May, and it has truly been a dream come true, something I've always wanted to do deep down. I am privileged to serve as a patrol officer here in Draper where I have lived most of my life. I love this city and I'm excited to contribute to the safety and well-being. We welcome Brighton to the department and he has a very budding career ahead of him. I will now go to my master officers who are being promoted today. Officer Bryce Oakland. Really quick as a recap, in order to become a master officer within the Draper Police Department, They have to have served at least six years in law enforcement, two of which have to have been with Draper City. They've been put through extensive testing for their knowledge, skills, and abilities. And most of all, they have the capacity now, and you can recognize a master officer by their stripe and star. They have the capacity now to serve as a supervisor in the field in lieu of one. Master Officer Bryce Oakland is married to McKinley and they have two children, Brexton and Vaden. Is that correct? Vaden. Bryce has been a dedicated law enforcement for the past 13 years. He served his first eight years with the UTA Police Department and the past five years with the Draper Police Department. For the past two years, Bryce has served in the Special Victims Unit as a detective and he has recently been appointed to the South Valley Crisis Negotiation Unit. Master Officer Clancy Morley. Out of high school, Clancy Morley served eight years in the United States Marine Corps as a tow gunner and a recon scout. As a Marine, he held leadership positions that included fire team leader, crew leader, and section leader. After leaving the Marine Corps, he went on to work for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department where he spent four years. That is where he met his wife, Karen, who's seated here in uniform. And they have two children, Alyssa and Andrew. Clancy has been a Draper police officer for the past six years. His current assignment includes, he's in the patrol division, he's a SWAT team member, a defensive tactics instructor. He also teaches women's tactics and he teaches as a tactics instructor for the police academy. He's a field training officer and he is currently Serving as a shift supervisor on our graveyard shift. Master Officer Andy Klett. Andy and his wife Kristen have been married for two years. He's been a police officer the past 11 years. Six and a half with Milwaukee PD. Two and a half with Wauwatza PD. Is that right? I get it right? Wauwatza? In the past two years with the Draper Police Department, much easier to pronounce. Before joining the Draper Police Department, his specialties included investigations, sensitive crimes against persons, and crowd control unit. And he is currently assigned to the community-oriented policing team, which we just recently started a year and a half ago. He is a member of our peer support team. He's on the Honor Guard. And in the fall, he will begin... His new assignment as our school resource officer at Corner Canyon High School. Master Officer Christopher Bort. Chris and his wife Morgan have three children, Berkley, Grayson, and Jackson. I have given them my candy and I will give them the fire department's candy when I'm done, if that's okay. Chris has been in law enforcement for the past 11 years, eight and a half with the Draper Police Department. Chris is currently assigned to the Detective Division, where he handles property cases and crimes of violence. He is also a member of the Officer Involved Critical Incident Team in the Valley, and he serves as a less lethal instructor for our police department. Until recently, Chris also conducted most of our new hire background investigations. In conclusion, I'm very proud of these officers for their dedication to our department, to our city. They represent themselves well on a daily basis as true professionals and with integrity. So very proud of all of them. And I'll have them take the oath of office. the master officers? Thank you. Thank you, Chief. And most importantly, thank you, officers, for all your service and good work. And welcome to our newest police officer. We have a truly amazing police department, and we're fortunate to have such good officers. And a lot of officers that have been with us for a long time, which I think denotes a lot of good, you know, it's a good place to be and a good place to work. All right, our next item is an opportunity for our newly minted member of the House of Representatives, former member of our council, Mr. Calvin Roberts, to come and tell us how the legislature is going to protect the interests of cities, land use authority, and all things American. Come on up, Mr. Roberts. Representative Roberts. Well, it's weird being on this side of the microphone. I miss being on that side. But I'm grateful to serve you guys in this new capacity. I just wanted to come and extend my hand. Please reach out anytime. You've got my phone number. You can come up, meet me in my office. I'm happy to coordinate meetings with legislators on key issues that you care about. I think this session you're going to see a lot of three things. One, you're going to see a lot on... higher education and aligning higher education with workforce development. That's been a big priority of the Speaker of the House. Two, you've heard our governor wants to double energy production, so you're going to be a lot of talk on energy, nuclear development, geothermal. So that'll be interesting. And then three, of course, our good speaker today actually in his speech talked about housing affordability. But I will note, he did say that we need to work partner hand-in-hand with our cities and the league. So he mentioned that in the in his speech. And of course, Draper, we're really well positioned with Mayor Walker in his position on the Utah League of Cities and Towns. So he will be at the seat of a lot of really important discussions. I think you're going to see some interesting bills around overlay zones. Some of what I've seen and heard probably won't have a huge impact on Draper. They would be more impactful to communities like Eagle Mountain or Vineyard, who've got a lot more open space for really large subdivision development. Right now you're just not seeing a lot of housing bills that have been numbered and are available to the public. I've talked to a lot of folks up there and tried to, as a freshman as best I can, get involved in the housing policy discussion. I think it's important that we find ways to develop more housing supply in this state, of course. We've got to have affordable housing, but at the same time we've got to protect the important role that local government plays and your role in local control. So I hope I can be helpful for you there. And please just text me. We're not going to agree probably on every policy, but I love you guys. I'm grateful for your service. You know where to find me. You know where to get me. I have a question about this county realignment bill. What have you heard about this? I've only heard high level. What's your concern? I haven't heard any of the details. I know it's surfaced before. You mean the Salt Lake County split? Yeah. I mean, I know probably as much as you've known. I've not had discussions with the sponsor of the bill. Okay. I don't know. Would that impact? How would that impact, Draper? Would it have impact on us? Well, I think it would. I mean, I'd be able to prosecute our own felonies down here. Yeah. That would be interesting. You haven't heard any talk about that there. That's not been a big topic. No. I mean, the priorities of leadership certainly is higher education. That's the big focus for him. and the other members of leadership. You're going to see there's some members of leadership who really want to focus on criminal justice and some of the immigration question. So you've seen a slate of bills come out on that. You know, I would be open to your thoughts because I think there's been a real emphasis on making sure that we have penalties and enforcing penalties. But I think we know that one of the challenges is we just don't have enough jail space and beds. So that's a challenge. Yeah, higher education, energy production, you'll see a lot of that. That's really technical space. There's a few members of the House who are former CEOs of the electric co-ops who have a lot of sway in the body on that issue. And then you're going to see a lot of housing stuff. I will say there is a pretty large contingent of legislators up there who are really weary of the state overstepping its bounds into local control. And so there really is, more so than I thought there would be. And so, you know, there's some allies there on that issue, I think. And I think you're going to see a tremendous pressure from the governor and leadership and others to try to find a solution to generate more supply. But there's always going to be trying to strike the right balance to maintain local land control. Thank you. Anybody else have any questions for Representative Roberts? I'm going to be there. My first, yeah, my first event. I told all my freshman legislators, I'm like, that's what you got to go to that one. Your mayor and council are going to be there. You got to go to that one. So I'll see you guys there. Thanks. Thank you. All right. Next is an opportunity for general public comment. We don't have any public comment items on our agenda. So other than one public hearing for local consent for a single permit, if you're here for the item 7A, which is the public hearing for local consent, you want to comment, I just ask that you wait until then so we can keep our comments all tied to the issues. Other than that, general public comment, we'll let anyone that would like to make a comment. I see I have two cards. I'm assuming both of you want to speak. It looks like you do. So I'll just give you the brief rules. I got Ron and Christopher. Ron, which one's Ron? Where's Christopher? You guys right there? You can duel out whichever one now. Our rules are simple. If you haven't been here before, clock to my right, three minutes. Everybody gets three. You really don't have to use all three, but you can if you want to. But you don't get more than three, so once that happens, it buzzes. Just give us your name and your address, and if you have questions for the council, make them rhetorical. They're not going to answer you, but they're here to listen. But I'll call Christopher up first. Come on up, sir. Your Honor, council members, my name is Christopher Dye. I live at 1062 East Schuyler Drive, so three doors down from the amphitheater. And I've come to notice our neighborhood, that little section along Vestry Road, has a large population of dog owners. There's a lot of dogs up there. We don't have a walkable play area for the dogs where it's legal for them to be off-leash. This generates a lot of problems because people are going to take their dogs and play with them and be off-leash in places, as clearly you're aware because we've gotten to meet our local animal services officers who are super nice and we appreciate what they do. But they're spending all their time up there chasing people off-leash. We're looking for a place where we can play with our dogs. Galena Hill is 3.3 miles by car. Dayland is 3.2 miles by car. And Oak Vista Trailhead is 5.5 miles by car from our location. And we're not looking for anything huge like one of those parks that's real built up and has all kinds of special things. Just an area where our dogs can play off leash together. We would really appreciate that if it was walkable and we could just reach out to our friends and say, hey, my dog wants to play. Do you guys want to play? That would be awesome. And we're building a little community up in there. We all know each other. We see each other on the street. We visit with each other and help each other out. So we're just looking for your support in helping us to find a location where our dogs can play. We'd really appreciate it. Thanks. I'll turn back the rest of the time. All right. Now we've got Ron. Go ahead, sir. a few notes uh good evening council members and mayor uh thank you for giving me the opportunities to speak today give us your name and address from i'm sorry uh ron steed 987 east senior band road i want to speak today about an exciting opportunity to enhance our community's quality of life i'd like to propose reallocating some of the unused city land even temporarily to create a dog park This would be a low cost, high reward project that benefits not just dog owners, but the entire Draper community. First, a dog park fosters a sense of community. Dogs naturally bring people together, creating a friendly and welcoming space where neighbors can connect. A dedicated dog park would serve as a gathering place, for people of all ages and backgrounds, promoting inclusivity and a stronger sense of belonging in Draper. It also exists, it helps address an existing need. Many Draper residents, as was said earlier, own dogs and currently have limited safe off-leash areas to exercise and socialize their pets. These temporary parks using Unusable bits of land would give owners a safe and controlled environment while also reducing conflicts in shared public spaces like playgrounds and hiking trails. The upsides are these temporary dog parks might, and I'm calling it a dog park, it doesn't have to be anything super exciting, just a fenced-in area, is also an economical use of underutilized lands that might have even 50 feet square or an unusually shaped 50-foot area, such as the area behind the amphitheater, between the amphitheater and the golf course. It's an irregularly shaped space. It doesn't have much use outside of just being an open green space. These temporary dog parks can act as a trial for land use. If successful, it could be adapted permanently. If not, it could be reallocated and remains available for future development. I know I'm running out of time. A lot of the things I wanted to say Chris has already said, but finally, dog parks improve the overall quality of life in a city. Research shows that green spaces opportunities for physical activity like those provided in dog parks reduce stress and enhance well-being by reallocating unused land for this purpose Draper can send a clear message we value the health and happiness of our residents and their pets thank you so anyone else would like to make a general public comment all right seeing no ANYBODY ELSE INTERESTED IN PUBLIC COMMENT, WE'LL CLOSE GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, BRING IT, BRING OURSELVES BACK TO OUR CONSENT ITEMS. ITEM 6A IS APPROVAL OF THE JANUARY 7, 2025 CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. ITEM 6B IS APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION 2503. IT'S A RESOLUTION REAPPOINTING WALT ROSEMAN TO THE DRAPER STATE TREE COMMITTEE. ITEM 6C IS APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION 2504. IT'S A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF DRAPER TO APPOINT NICOLE SMEDLEY AS A CITY RECORDER FOR THE CITY OF DRAPER. Council members, Mr. Mayor, go ahead, Mr. Green. Just one thing. Both of you guys that spoke, just shoot me an email. Let's open up a dialogue. There's probably Council Member Johnson and I just talked. There's probably something we can look at maybe on a short-term basis, but just shoot me an email. But, Mr. Mayor, I'd move to approve the consent items. Consent items? Motion by Mr. Green to approve the consent. Second? Yes. Ms. Lowry? Any further discussion? All right, Mr. Green, how do you vote? Yes. Ms. Lowry? Yes. Ms. Johnson? Yes. Mr. Lowry? Ms. Vaudrey? Yes. Well, we got four. Is he on still? we got we got four so it's I'm sure Fred's not voting no but I'll rule it passes four to zero all right welcome Nicole you're now approved you're in you're on you're on the clock now thank you we're glad to have yes all right item seven item seven a we have one item it's public hearing providing local consent and for a single event permit for a Kraft Culinary Concepts LLC DBA Vermilion Hospitality Group. Travis, come on up, sir. Concepts LLC, DBA Vermilion Hospitality Group are seeking a single event permit. Here's some of the details. Single event permits allow the storage, sale, and consumption of alcohol for a limited duration up to 120 hours. And this event's at the aquarium. It's going to be called Kisses and Fishes. It's going to take place on Valentine's Day, February 14th, next month from 5 to 11 p.m. Here's just kind of a floor layout. We have the bars here that will serve beer, wine, and liquor storage area, and people will be allowed to walk all around the aquarium and sip their alcohol. So that's floor one, and here is floor two. So one bar on floor two, and they can walk all the way around with their alcohol. Okay qualifications so this LLC has only applied for one special event permit this year. They're allowed up to 12 depending on how long the events are so they're good with the qualification. The actions provide local consent or deny and there is no restrictions on the Are there no restrictions on the number of single event permits that the city can grant according to code? Any questions for Travis? Thanks, Travis. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone that would like to address the council on item 7A? All right. Seeing no public comment, close the public comment period and bring it back to the council. Mr. Mayor, I'd like to move to approve 7A, consent for the single event permit for culinary concepts. I wish to invite Ms. Lowry to approve the single event permit. Is there a second? I'll second. Second by Ms. Johnson. Any further discussion? Ms. Lowry, how do you vote? Yes. Ms. Johnson? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Ms. Faudry? Yes. Mr. Lowry? Yes. All right. Items approved unanimously, five to zero. That takes us to item number eight. Mr. Mayor, I move we adjourn.