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MEETING OF THE AMES CITY COUNCIL
The Ames City Council meeting is at 6 p.m. at City Hall. The regular council meeting agenda includes the following. Note that you can generally click on individual agenda items below to get the full staff report or other explanation.
- 21. Zoning Text Amendment to amend the Exception Standards for the Downtown Service Center "DSC" Zoning District.
This item is a zoning text amendment that was drafted in response to a request from Ames Silversmithing to demolish their building at 218 Main St. (purple awning pictured below) and expand the existing building at 220 Main St. (their current storefront). The change would allow the property owners to expand their existing building without having to construct a 2-story building, since 218 Main St. exists as a 1-story building already.
(©2024 Google's Street View)
- 23. Resolution Approving $79,456.96 from the Park Development Fund to the Ames Community School District (ACSD) for the Sharing of the Cost to Demolish the Municipal Pool.
The cost to demolish the old municipal/high school pool (including monitoring and abatement) was $158,913.93, so the City is being asked to pay half of that. While the City isn't legally obligated, staff are supportive of paying the $79+k, and affirm that paying half would be in keeping with the spirit of cost-sharing between the City and School as was done with the pool. (There are many other examples of partnership between City and the School District, such as the City's use of some ACSD gym facilities for a nominal fee.) - 24. Resolution approving purchase agreement with Realty Gift Fund for 133.04 +/- acres of agricultural ground adjacent to the Water Pollution Control Facility in the amount of $1,197,000.
This purchase of approximately 133 acres of farm ground would allow the City more land upon which to apply the biosolids produced by the Water Pollution Control (WPC) Facility. Because of the (very expensive) nutrient reduction modifications (required by the EPA to combat farm runoff to the Gulf of Mexico), the WPC will be expanding soon and will need more land to spread recovered biosolids on.
Communications to Council: The following items are requests and communications to Council that aren't published on the agenda, so we won't deliberate them substantially. This includes staff reports and communications or requests from constituents and developers. Typically, Council will ask city staff for more information, put the item on a future agenda for deliberation and possible action, or just accept the communication, taking no further action.
Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1
