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40 <br /> Approved 5/4/2016 <br /> 105 Tony Blake: If you can.A lot of people live within walking distance; the least we could do is provide a good, raised <br /> 106 platform sort of transit. <br /> 107 <br /> 108 Lisa Stuckey: What is raised platform? <br /> 109 <br /> 110 Tony Blake: The big slam against buses versus light rail is light rail you board and you walk directly from the platform <br /> 111 onto the platform without steps. But BRT actually has the ability to pull a bus in at a raised platform and where you <br /> 112 are walking directly onto the bus, the same way you would walk onto a light rail train.And it's being deployed and it's <br /> 113 a lot cheaper than light rail and more flexible.And the travel lane down Martin Luther King will actually be able to be <br /> 114 used for emergency vehicles as well. <br /> 115 <br /> 116 Ashely Moncado continued with the presentation <br /> 117 <br /> 118 James Lea: What would that do to the property owners?Would that raise their taxes? <br /> 119 <br /> 120 Craig Benedict: No. The property taxes are based on the properties of a similar zoning category sell over time. So, <br /> 121 putting even sewer on a piece of property eventually would raise the value of it but changing the uses would not <br /> 122 automatically, until somebody determines that this new use list is better and therefore more valuable but,we're a <br /> 123 couple years from where that would ever matriculate into higher values. <br /> 124 <br /> 125 Lisa Stuckey: It leads to the potential of higher value, so higher taxes. <br /> 126 <br /> 127 Paul Guthrie: It could potentially. Property is less and less areas available for residential,for example, outside of that <br /> 128 district if someone wanted to sell their house in that they would have, potentially, a sale of their house that would <br /> 129 raise as assess valuation in the next re-evaluation. <br /> 130 <br /> 131 Craig Benedict: We have examined which districts have residential. If they sell their residential property for office <br /> 132 research manufacturing and they get more money for it at some point in the future, they'd love that. <br /> 133 <br /> 134 Paul Guthrie: But you can't keep them from selling it for another residential person. <br /> 135 <br /> 136 Craig Benedict: Probably not. <br /> 137 <br /> 138 Paul Guthrie: This is a far out thing, but we're still in the area. I spent a good part of the afternoon reading about this <br /> 139 other thing, the Supreme Court case,and these are the kinds of things you start getting trouble with down the road. <br /> 140 <br /> 141 Craig Benedict: One last thing about that,we addressed this in the Buckhorn EBB area. We asked the people if they <br /> 142 would like the zoning rollback to residential one that would allow the house to be reconstructed and burned down or <br /> 143 would you like it to remain Buckhorn District 2 that has higher value if you ever sell it, it was resounding to leave it <br /> 144 EDB-2. <br /> 145 <br /> 146 Michael Harvey: One more thought in question when I read this. There's a demand right now. There's a lack of wet <br /> 147 lab space in the area and this talks about laboratories, not limited laboratories, prototype production, general facilities <br /> 148 but,wet labs sometimes have some pretty onerous stuff going on in them. Is there something that you would put in <br /> 149 here to protect that or restrict that or change that? Basically, this is something I can see where somebody would want <br /> 150 to come in and put in a wet lab and this thing they're dealing with some kind of biological agent or something like that <br /> 151 and people go crazy, but it's permitted by right and so I'm just trying to air on the side of caution here. <br /> 152 <br /> 153 Craig Benedict: Two answers in there. There might be room to add something here. One is we tried not to legislate <br /> 154 water consumption, even though there are some provisions in some of our economic development zones that talk <br /> 155 about it, but it doesn't say that if you use over one galloon per square foot we're not going to allow you. So that's one <br /> 156 element we try not to legislate uses by the water they use but, admittedly in all of our economic development zones <br /> 157 we have limitations on water use because there's just not a lot of water. In Hillsborough there's some water limitation, <br /> 3 <br />