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DRAFT 3 Tony Blake: If you can. A lot of people live within walking distance, the least we could do is provide a good, raised 105 platform sort of transit. 106 107 Lisa Stuckey: What is raised platform? 108 109 Tony Blake: The big slam against buses versus light rail is light rail you board and you walk directly from the platform 110 onto the… without steps. But BRT actually has the ability to pull a bus in at a raised platform and where you are 111 walking directly onto the bus, the same way you would walk onto a light rail train. And it’s being deployed and it’s a lot 112 cheaper than light rail and more flexible. And the travel lane down Martin Luther King will actually be able to be used 113 for emergency vehicles as well. 114 115 Ashely Moncado continued with the presentation 116 117 James Lea: What would that do to the property owners? Would that raise their taxes? 118 119 Craig Benedict: No. The property taxes are based on the properties of a similar zoning category sell over time. So, 120 putting even sewer on a piece of property eventually would raise the value of it but changing the uses would not 121 automatically, until somebody determines that this new use list is better and therefore more valuable but, we’re a 122 couple years from where that would ever matriculate into higher values. 123 124 Lisa Stuckey: It leads to the potential of higher value, so higher taxes. 125 126 Paul Guthrie: It potentially… property is less and less areas available for residential, for example, outside of that 127 district if someone wanted to sell their house in that they would have, potentially, a sale of their house that would 128 raise as assess valuation in the next re-evaluation. 129 130 Craig Benedict: We have examined which districts have residential and then they can remain… If they sell their 131 residential property for office research manufacturing and they get more money for it at some point in the future, 132 they’d love that. 133 134 Paul Guthrie: But you can’t keep them from selling it for another residential person. 135 136 Craig Benedict: Probably not. 137 138 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 139 other thing, the Supreme Court case, and these are the kinds of things you start getting trouble with down the road. 140 141 Craig Benedict: One last thing about that, we addressed this in the Buckhorn EBB area. We asked the people if they 142 would like the zoning rollback to residential one that would allow the house to be reconstructed and burned down or 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 144 EBB 2. 145 146 Michael Harvey: One more thought in question when I read this. There’s a demand right now. There’s a lack of wet 147 lab space in the area and this talks about laboratories, not limited laboratories, prototype production, general facilities 148 but, wet labs sometimes have some pretty onerous stuff going on in them. Is there something that you would put in 149 here to protect that or restrict that or change that? Basically, this is something I can see where somebody would want 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 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 and define what 152 we’re really… 153 154 Craig Benedict: Two answers in there. There might be room to add something here. One is we tried not to legislate 155 water consumption, even though there are some provisions in some of our economic development zones that talk 156 about it, but it doesn’t say that if you use over 1 galloon per square foot we’re not going to allow you. So that’s one 157 47