SW Art Corridor Moratorium BldgMEMORANDUM
April 17, 2003
TO:The Honorable Mayor and City Council Members
FROM:Michael C. Van Milligen, City Manager
SUBJECT:New Map for Southwest Artedal Development Moratorium
The Iowa Department of Transportation has submitted a revised map for the Southwest
Arterial Development Moratorium. Planning Services Manager Laura Carstens is
recommending adoption of the moratorium for this revised area. Corporation Counsel
Barry Lindahl concurs with this approach.
I concur with the recommendation and respectfully request Mayor and City Council
approval.
Michael C. Van Milligen
MCVM/jh
Attachment
cc: Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel
Cindy Steinhauser, Assistant City Manager
Laura Carstens, Planning Services Manager
MEMORANDUM
April 17, 2003
TO: Michael Van Milligen, City Manager
FROM: Laura Carstens, Planning Services Manager
SUBJECT: New Map for Southwest Arterial Development Moratorium
At their April 21st meeting, the City Council will hold a public hearing on the joint request
of the City staff and IDOT to extend the Southwest Arterial development moratorium for
the U.S. 20 study area.
The moratorium extension involves text amendments of the Zoning Ordinance and the
Subdivision Ordinance. The Zoning Advisory Commission held a public hearing on the
moratorium and recommended its extension. The map provided to the Zoning Advisory
Commission and the affected property owners for this hearing was included in the City
Council's packets.
Today, the IDOT consultant for the Southwest Arterial and U.S. 20 projects provided the
attached map. This new map reduces the limits from the original area. This original
area has been changed for the Menard's property. IDOT coordinated with Menard's
and purchased the ROW required for the future highway improvements before their new
store was built. This property has been removed from the moratorium area.
The limits also have been reduced from the previous map to more accurately reflect the
area needed for the access roads west of the proposed interchange. The changes
include removal of the Neztrop, LLC property from the development moratorium area,
and a reduction in the moratorium area for the Landfill property.
Corporation Counsel Barry Lindahl has determined that the City Council can adopt the
moratorium extension with the revised map as the exhibit because it is a reduction in
area. (If it had been an expansion, this would not have been possible.)
The requested action is for the City Council to use the attached map in their
consideration of the extension of the Southwest Arterial development moratorium for the
U.S. 20 study area.
Attachment
CC Michael Koch, Public Works Director, w/att.
Barry Lindahl, Corporation Counsel, w/att.