1400 Cross Street & 1325 Railroad Boulevard 2 <br />Neighborhood Meeting Notes <br />January 24, 2020 <br /> <br />Q. Are you in league with the lawyer who is trying to strip Site Review from properties in the Whiteaker <br />Neighborhood? <br />A. No. This application is not. <br /> <br />Q. So, is the intent of this application just to make this site more attractive for redevelopment? <br />A. Yes. <br /> <br />Q. Are the goals in the Whiteaker Special Area for compatibility being addressed with this proposal? <br />A. Yes. We have to demonstrate in our application how this plan is not inherently inconsistent with the <br />policies and goals of the Whiteaker Refinement Plan. This proposal does not conflict with the <br />neighborhood plan. <br /> <br />Q. (late arriver) What would the metro plan and zone change be changed to? <br />A. The Metro Plan would be changed from light-medium industrial to mixed use and the zoning map <br />would be changed from light-medium industrial to Whiteaker Special Area. <br /> <br />Q. (to the owner) Why are you redeveloping the property now? What are your aspirations for the <br />property? <br />A. I am the owner of Coach Glass. We own the existing building, but we are no longer using the facility <br />because we moved to the Monaco facility when it came available. We chose that location because it <br />is closer to the highway for the customers we serve (recreational vehicles). We started to ask what <br />we could do to make the property nicer. So last summer we repainted the building, and a few <br />summers ago we removed a portion of the building that was in disrepair. We also noticed that the <br />Whiteaker Neighborhood has seen some redevelopment with the Ninkasi and Hop Valley brewing <br />and other businesses in the neighborhood. We were hoping other businesses would be interested in <br /> <br /> <br />Q. (to the owner) Are you open to any ideas for the property? <br />A. Yes. I just want the use to be better than it is. <br /> <br />Q. (to the owner) Are you open to a neighborhood charette? <br />A. Yes. I just want to make sure that the proposed use would be allowed in the code. <br /> <br />Q. As I understand, the Whiteaker Special Area Zone lists uses that are permitted outright and do not <br />require public input. <br />A. Yes. If you look at that section of the Code for the Whiteaker Special Area Zone, it lists permitted, <br />permitted with a conditional use permit, permitted subject to site review, etc. but you could say the <br />same thing about the current light-medium industrial zoning on the site. <br /> <br />Q. What type of metro plan amendment is this? <br />A. This metro plan amendment is a diagram amendment. It does not affect the Whiteaker Refinement <br />xt. <br /> <br />Q. (late arriver) So what are you trying to change the zoning to? <br />A. We are changing the zoning to Whiteaker Special Area which is considered a mixed-use zone. <br />roperty <br />could have a restaurant, manufacturing, or even residential. <br /> <br />Q. Why was this building not changed to mixed use when the code was updated in 1994? <br />A. I cannot <br />occupied building or the owner just did not want to change the zoning. <br /> <br />Q. The properties on Polk Street have a view of the night sky. Will this redevelopment affect that view? <br />A. That would depend on what use goes into the property; but the max height in the Whiteaker Special <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> The Satre Group -www.satregroup.com <br />th <br /> <br />