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keep traffic congestion in mind and ensure the rear of the Home Depot be aesthetically <br />pleasing. <br /> <br />Sherrell Michelotti said she agrees that this quadrant of town deserves a gateway and <br />services the center will provided. She noted that the Chamber of Commerce and the <br />Economic Vitality Committee both recommended approval. She urged the Council to <br />approve the project. <br /> <br />Mayor Hosterman closed the public hearing. <br /> <br />Councilmember Cook-Kallio said there has been discussion relating to the Commerce <br />clause where trucks can use the closest route to get to a commercial site, and asked if this <br />could be pre-empted by a conditional use permit. She also questioned if the citation would <br />be a moving violation. Mr. Iserson said it would not be a moving violation; it would be a <br />violation of the PUD condition which would be enforced through an administrative citation <br />with penalty. Staff feels the condition can be enforced, it may be somewhat problematic <br />and that there will be an educational process. Staff must depend on the property owner’s <br />representatives working to educate truck drivers. It will not be absolutely perfect, but over <br />time it will be largely observed. Staff feels it is a workable condition. She said trucks carry <br />identifiable information and she asked if this would be photo enforced. Mr. Iserson felt it <br />could be, but said staff was envisioning an educational process first. She disclosed that <br />she had met with Pete Knoedler and has since had a phone call conversation with him and <br />has also discussed the project with Nancy Allen. <br /> <br />Councilmember McGovern said she thought Home Depot indicated they contract their <br />truck services out to a company and that the company trucks have a name on the door <br />that the city could track. Ms. Metz said this was correct. She also confirmed with Ms. Metz <br />that when the Regency Center has their person monitoring the truck traffic, if there are <br />trucks violating the CUP Home Depot would contact them and ask them to take the <br />appropriate routes and provide route maps to vendors. Ms. Metz said they take this <br />condition seriously. She said there was a condition of monitoring noise on the actual <br />premises of the shopping center and asked how this was to be done. Mr. Knoedler said <br />this would be new to any of the centers. There might be a device they can install on site <br />which can measure noise at certain hours of the day and felt there were ways of doing <br />this. She confirmed with Mr. Knoedler it would be kept to the 60 decibel level which was <br />per City ordinance. She felt the City needs to be a partner in ways to make sure that the <br />dollars it has collected for impact fees go toward helping the infrastructure it currently has <br />in the community as well as helping support the new infrastructure. She knows the City will <br />be resurfacing Valley Avenue and that Regency is supposed to pay the difference of noise <br />attenuating asphalt. She asked why couldn’t the City also look at what other needs are on <br />Valley Avenue from Busch or from Stanley and try to make sure all work is done at one <br />time such as sound wall repair or landscaping improvements. <br /> <br />Mr. Iserson said this could be done subject to Council authorization so that it is more than <br />just a resurfacing project. The project will come before the Council much like the Vineyard <br />Avenue project. The Council talked about sound attenuating asphalt and they added <br />aspects into that project which originally were not envisioned. Councilmember McGovern <br />felt this should be done. <br /> <br />Councilmember McGovern referred to the El Charro Road and felt it was pivotal in making <br />sure that instead of taking Airway, truck traffic could take El Charro directly. She asked if <br /> <br />City Council Minutes 12 May 15, 2007 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />