Steven L. Schainker Plaza Update

Bronwyn's Council Preview

 

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or watch the meeting live on Mediacom Channel 12

 

Usually some of the agenda items will have a period where members of the public may briefly speak to Council.
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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.

• 1. Motion setting December 10, 2024, as date of public hearing for amendment to the FFY 2025-2028 Transportation Improvement Program.
  This AAMPO item is for a small amendment to the 2025 TIP (Transportation Improvement Program) in order to leverage federal Surface Transportation Block Grant funding.
  
  
• 7. Motion accepting the Fitch Family Indoor Aquatic Center Monthly Update
  Next step in construction is putting up the precast concrete panels, which is (always tentatively) scheduled to begin in early December. Staff will also bring back a proposed budget and fee schedule at the December 10th meeting, along with survey results from public input efforts. 
  
  
• 21. Zoning Text Amendment for Social Service Provider Use within the Single-Family Conservation Overlay District.
  Council visited this topic most recently on October 8th, and it is back on our agenda, with modified options. Input from a public meeting was included in the staff report, and Council has gotten many emails on this topic. The original request came from the Romero House, who would like to be able to offer day services (laundry, showers, shared meals, fellowship (both religious and otherwise) for those in need at their new property at 702 Clark Ave.
  After feedback received at the public meeting, the options presented by staff have changed slightly, with a limit that could allow the Romero house to continue in its present location but not allow for any further spread of social service providers. 
  
  
• 22. Request to Initiate a Text Amendment to Allow for a Temporary Events in the Agricultural Zoning District for a Renaissance Fair located at 1400 South Fourth Street.
  This item follows a request from the property owner of the old Haunted Forest location on S 4th St. This site was home to a renaissance festival in April, and they'd like to come back. The site is currently zoned agricultural, and no development is allowed because of its location in the floodplain. Staff present a few options if Council is interested in allowing special events through a review process in Ag Zoning. 
  
  
• 23. Preliminary Plat for 525 & 901 SE 16th Street.
  
  
• 24. Staff Report on Climate Action Plan Initial Implementation Steps to Incentivize Net-Zero-Ready New Construction.
  
  
• 25. Staff report on all-way stop study for Ada Hayden Road and McFarland Avenue Intersection.
  
  
• 27. Steven L. Schainker Plaza Update.
  
  
• 28. Hearing on preapproval of Industrial Tax Abatement for Wyffels Site Plan at 220 S. Teller Avenue.
  
  
• 29. Hearing on Ames Plan 2040 Future Land Use Map Designation Amendment from Employment to Residential Neighborhood-3 for 3200 and 3300 University Boulevard.
  
  
• 30. Hearing on Rezoning of 3200 and 3300 University Boulevard from "RI" (Research Park Innovation District) to "FS-RM" (Floating Suburban - Residential Medium Density) with a "PUD" Planned Unit Development Overlay and Master Plan / Major Site Development Plan.
  

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.

•  Additional police patrol.
• LEED certified buildings insurance rates.
• Scenic Valley Neighborhood pedestrian light.
• Emails regarding zoning amendment O-SFC.
• Stonebrook Church traffic congestion.
• Extension request at 4008 Cochrane Pkwy.
• Crime in Ames.
• Kent Avenue.
• Recent traffic studies on Hyde Avenue.
• Speed concerns on Dotson Drive.
• Roosevelt Ave paving project concerns.
• Intersection alternative for 13th St And Grand Ave.
  

Thanks for reading,
Bronwyn Beatty-Hansen
Ames City Council, Ward 1