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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1980-10-21 Town Council MinutesMINUTES VAIL TOWN COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING OCTOBER 21, 1980 7:30 P.M. The Vail Town Council convened for its 'regular meeting at 7:30 P.M. on Tuesday, October 21, 1980, in the Vail Town Council Chambers of the Vail Municipal Building. The following Council members and Mayor Rodney E. Slifer were present: Bill Wilto Bud Benedict Paul Johnston Ron Todd Dr. Tom Steinberg Absent: Scott Hopman Also present were: Lawrence C. Rider, Town Attorney and Richard Caplan, Town Manager. The first item on the agenda was the approval of an Honorary Resolution declaring October 24, 1980 as United Nations Day. Celia Roberts also spoke to the Council regarding programs planned in the schools in honor of this day, as well as the soccer game that would be played for the benefit of UN Day, with the proceeds being donated to UNICEF. Celia also indicated she would be willing to head up a project in support of world hunger. The second matter was the second reading of .Ordinance #33, Series of 1980, an ordinance requiring.any person, business or corporation who uses a vehicle to plow, remove or strip snow or ice from private property for a fee or charge of any kind to obtain a permit from the Town. After discussion, and agreement to amend the section regarding use of flashing yellow lights or hazard lights when plowing on public roads, a Motion was made by Paul Johnston and seconded by Ron Todd to approve the Ordinance as amended. All present voted in favor and the motion passed. The ordinance was ordered published with amendments on second reading. The third item on the agenda was the second reading of Ordinance #34, Series of 1980, an ordinance making certain corrections to numbering and wording inaccuracies in chapter 15,24 of the Municipal Code of the Town of Vail. There was no discussion. A Motion was made by Paul Johnston and seconded by Bill Wilto to approve the Ordinance. All presented voted in favor and the motion was passed and ordered published on second reading. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION Carl Oppenheim voiced his complaint of road obstruction in the Golf Course/Fallridge area by Dye Construction Co., contractors for the new sewer line being laid in that area. Debbie from Dye Construction Co. gave.a report on the progress of Dye Const. Co. and their schedule for having the road repaired, weather permitting. Mayor Slifer suggested that plans for paving the bike path be postponed and the first item of priority for Dye Construction Co.. be to get the streets repaired along the Fallridge Condominiums. Paula Palmateer announced that the Vail Business and Professional Womens Club will sponsor a "Meet the Candidates Night" at the Antlers Hotel, Thursday, October 23, at 7:30 p.m. The public is invited. 0 TOWN COUNCIL MEETING OCTOBER 21, 1980 Page 2 The fourth item on the agenda was discussion of Village Center Landscaping Agreement Revision. A presentation was made by Dick Ryan, Director of Community Development of what the original agreement was and what plans Gage Davis and Associates had made for the work. Fred Hebbard, owner of the complex stated that he planned to have the landscaping completed next year. The Council felt that a letter of credit from the bank and an agreement that the project will be completed in six months from start date of early spring or the temporary Certificate of Occupancy will not be issued. A Motion was made by Ron Todd and seconded by Ron Steinberg that al amendment to Resolution 12. of Series of 1974 to incorporate the revised Village Center proposal as approved by the Planning Commission subject to the five itemized recommendations of the Memorandum from the Community Development Department to the Planning and Environmental Dept. dated October 9, 1980 subject to a completion period of six months or from the date of the issue of the building permit or that the temporary Certificate of Occupancy will be withheld until completion of those items and that a bond or letter of credit or certificate of deposit be forwarded to the Town for completion of those items. The motion was seconded by Tom Steinberg. It was voted on unamiously by all members present. .The next item on the agenda was appeal of the zone change request for the•Garden of the Gods Club. Gordon R. Pierce, architect representing the Garden of the Gods, requested to the Council in writing that this item be tabled until the November 18, 1980 Town Council meeting. A Motion was made by Wilto and seconded by Todd that the subject be tabled. The vote was four in favor and two opposing (Benedict and Steinberg). The next item on the agenda was an appeal of the Planning and Environmental Committee's decision on the Covered Bridge Store by John Donovan. Mr. Donovan made a presentation as to why he felt this decision should be revoked and after much discussion as to the other second story units in the Vail Core, a Motion was made by Wilto and seconded by Todd to overturn the decision. A vote was taken and five voted in favor, one opposed (Slifer). The Motion was passed. Bob Mayer of VRA presented a slide presentation on Summer Vail events for 1980. Bill O'Connor also commented on what Vail Associates had done as far ar marketing Vail during the summer. The next item was to set a date for the 1981 budget hearings. November 11, 12 and 13 at 2:00 p.m. were set as official budget hearing dates. The meetings will be held in the Conference Room. TOWN MANAGER REPORTS The Council has received a letter from Scott Hopman requesting that his resignation be extended from November 1 to November 15, 1980, due to the West Vail Annexation election and consideration of a West Vail resident for the position might be possible should the annexation be approved. Applications will be accepted until Friday, November 14 for the position, with interviews being held Tuesday, November 18 by the Council. Also Ed Drager's seat on the Planning Commission expires this week. November 14 was also set as a deadline for applications for this position,as well. A Motion was made by Steinberg and seconded by Johnston to set November 14 as the cutoff date for both the Town Council position and the Planning Commission seat. The motion was voted on and passed unanimously. 11 TOWN COUNCIL MEETING OCTOBER 21, 1980 Page 3 Rich Caplan reported that he had received a second phase of information from the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census which they .have already acknowledged was in part in error. An official population of 2,080 was reported, but only 7 census tracks were reported and they are 8 census tracks in the Town's limits. So the estimate is between 2300 and 2400. The numbers are still being reviewed and we should have a final figure in early December. The updated housing units were up 10 - 40%, closer to the Town's own projections. Rich Caplan introduced Mary Alice Caster to the Council as the new Secretary to the Town Manager and Town Attorney. There was no report from the Town Attorney. A Motion was made by Wilto and seconded by Steinberg to adjourn the meeting at 9:50 p.m. All voted in favor. ATTEST: Town Clerk i Mayor DOBSON BROTHHRS P. O. BOX 70, VAIL. COLORADO 81657 • `�i VA My name is Bohn Dobson. My wffe; cathe the, and I own the balding 4t 227 Bridge Street, known as the covered 3ridge Store,'Building. On October 14, 1980 the Planning and Environmental_Commission denied our request for a conditional use permit to convert an apartment. from resi- dential use to commercial use. As provided in the existi ^'Commercial Core Area I. zoning ordinance, we . respectfully appeal that decision tar the Town Council, .and ask that our request be approved. In Its 'memorandum to the Planning and Environmental Commission dated" October 9. 19,90, the Department of Community Development recommended. approval of our. request. In its memorandum the staff responded to the. specific development factors uh ieh.are applicable under section 4 of the ordinance, 1 copy of this memorandum is included with this appeal. 'Ihe Plannlnti and Environmental Commission did not address itself, to each of the specific development factors listed in the ordinance itself, but. I believe it would be fair to state that the commission's concerns were In two areas. 1) that the proposed change of use would remove an apartment from, use. as an employee housing, unit 2) that the conversionof the unit to commercial space would seriously. harm the commercial core area by diluting the.mi^cture of egmmarc.ial, long term.residentla.1, and lodnin<,.space in that area. The ordinance. involved does not concern itself with 11emp'loyee housing". Permitted uses include either long term.or short term. housing, and .con- ditional uses include commercial use. Therefore, although a general con- cern for the employee housing ptoblem•is understandable,; I would submit that It is not germane to the issue In this ins_ance. Their other grimipml concern Is germane .to the issue and I would lfke:to address it, and the past and present conditions in the core area. At this point then, perhaps a.brief review of the .Core Area I zonidg is in order, particularly regarding the. use. of "floor above street.levol'" space. Various zoning.ordinances;have governed the cord''area in the past 1'rtor to 1975,, when the .present zoriink ordinance became effective, `it 1a$pl�ss:14 to change "floor above street le,0411* space from residential to c�onmexoial f , without a conditionaluse permits A.large amount.of'such space vvas, con verted during tiiis period , nder~j ae pXe:;e t ordinance,. perasitted ark. conditional uses for.each floor yr specifically;Iiffited Ie are cos�cerneo here only wlth�the.flo9r..above s t level. 7. Buildings in Core Area..I al6ng B�aige 5tr i C and GZfe :reek; iMrive aatae $ basically of three typ.a, f 1) : i odes and Contldtxin#vans ,suszh as . ohsI o . , dg�, Cie Mara"Gastkro _ Gr+mdsshampter eC�. , :. 2) ExcluslYeiy 600"r6ial Cat lot) wind the .��liiasr'�uiisi�ng 3 r,K�� ,� S f Y . 4`i�' �i• � Y t �.7`-:.i.�., .:.:. � �� �`��1z.u..,...,...H'u°i5.�`+ik?tr;.f ..,xtv.d�,,..k,.•� � ��h��&�� y�,,��r 2 2 �* i F .y. r •' r w;; t � f air r,; } s '..� `-...ti° � ;fv'; #; � t The fo'liowinabuildings lA- Il p 1) 'The Covered Bridge 1;u31dil 2) The hire house 3) The Clock Tower. 4) The A"E: 1) building`(liquoz- store) 5) The ^ucksack Building 6) The lied Lion Building 7) The '.'ill Building, 8) The Cyrano wilding 19) The L,az ter 'Butldi,ng - 10) The Core Creek it.nza Building 11) The :>ell Tower TUuilding ,.That are the current uses for the. '!Above the street''' levet of these buildings? Mrs.Christy Hill lives in her apartment on the secondfloor. of her buLldin-. Mrs.Joan hill occupies an.apartment.on the second and third .floor of the Plaza building. However., in the other nine buildings, all the "above .the sti•aet" level floor space has been a tablished as commercial space. Since 1976, under the current zoning ordinance, there have been two applica tions for conditional use permits .to•convert apartment space on -:the above the street level in Core -Area I to commercial space. Both of them have. been approved. . One was in the Clock Tower. Building, owned by John'"crlride of Aspen. I'he other was in the A 6. D (liquor store) buildinr. In- both cases the owners cited the increasing: noise and con.?,est`ton in the immediate area as render- ing the space unsuitable for long; term - .identtat use. This is precisely the situation we cited in our request which was denied., and it can certainly be stated that those conditions have.onty worsened since 1978. So now a survey of residential use. of "above the:street"level space Indicates that none of the space,wi't'h the exception of the Hill apart- ments,is being used as .residential housing.ln fact in all of 'the Core Area I on the above the street level there Are %only.these two apartments occupied as residences; 'Phis certainly indicates that, due to the, present nature of the core .area, residential space on the above the street level is no longer viable. The nature of the area inwhich our building is located is not only changing.-. It has chan:�ed. This area serves as the shopping, eating, drinkinr;tentertaln- ment center and business center for hundreds of.thousards of people during:. , the course of the year. It is adjacent to the parking structure; the trans- portation center and the shuttle bus stops.. In the case of our. Apartment, a very lar,,e percentage of the people who shop, eat, or drizik In -the core area pass directly under it on.their way to or from 'the, parking structure or the shuttle buses - and they do it. from early morning .to.early, morning And note too the apartments immediatly adjacent �Q several, f Va;I :most _p popular restaurants and bare. M,this tr,& C ct rlpiSit, areas must be busy to be successful,. and in.:a resort oorinmmity:they :nitot serve the.;.public not, only during; daytime hoits, bu.C:far'inta the night as well. It. seems obvioon' , however, that_ such an ''area cannot serve well as a residential area. hat has haprened; undar,'stf3ndably, fs.that people have sots t quieter.livI quarters by'moving kurther from the congested area - either vertically or horizontally. It must certainly be acknowledged too. -that economical factors ..Are:involved.. Due to the tremendous rrotath of the.VAII area, there has been great pressure to provfde'more. commercial space in the,care Iarea and of,course this space has been Limited by density regulations as well as use r®gulations. So It has inevitably resulted that space oti„finally built for long tern. housin, units in the core has decreased.due to the factors outlined above, and the value of commercial space has increased - and rents and taxes as well, But attain, there is nothing Inherent ly.:wronp: with this. "he.community. needs to provide.its citizens and visitors with the best, most diversified and most efficient commercail centers possible for manv reasons a The town govermmnet has wisely recognized the problem of increased noise and congestion in the core. area by Increisint restrictions on automotive access to lt; And this is as it should be -.hut again, it lessens the value of the area for residential tine by limiting or. denying access to residence's by automobile by occupants, guests, dglivery services etc.. In- summary, I woulc'. submit that: the. core area has changed ,41th the times and that it has adapted well to its;baslc function. -.that of an attract iv co*ts4tly,located commercial. area, cot}s_istlnr.o£ shops, restaurants, enter- tainment facilIities, service business+es,',and lodging accomodat ions. : Some .of these observations have bed})*€actual and somephilosvphfeal. I believe. both approaches are irgportaiq" 'Io moist understand hotr. the core area :has ovo 1ved, what its pra ent dt f Qnk, erne, . and,. future f_unct ions vii i I., be Sn iBard ttlur request i or &ds�onai Dse Permiitie sUiylllii th$C s ' cn�sciderasprecedent hits be ep�eistred'by actli ctt i;he €�lafuei�tig , sadnvirpz�iaienta Commis,sla;# stutt.,t`t Council,onntanoe- importanly' g titat,C�le.ppb.sed use f inT. .Otl� aged in stir' H. f^. an defCa�ki ti5ke isrea.4 both y MRJRWl 50 Vail Valley Medical Center itP.O. Box 36 Colo. 81657 (303) 476-2451 TO: Mayor Rod Slifer and' Members of the Vail Town Council FROM: Mary H. White, Administrato , SUBJECT: Ambulance Service Funding � i DATE: September 16, 1980 Thank you for providing me the opportunity to review with you the current status and funding problems of the E.M.S. Ambulance Service present- ly being provided by the Vail Valley Medical Center. As I stated, consideration and approval of the Is Town of Vail is requested as follows: 1. Support in the amount of $62,400 (65% of 96,000-00 deficit for the year ending October 31, 7.9801. 2. Support in the amount of $96,053.10'(72% of 1341340.00'deficit for the year ending October 31, 1981). This support based'upon percentage of utili- zation will be necessary annually until the appropriate county hospital district can be approved and funds received by Vail valley Medical Center. Current estimates place the availablility of funds from a county hospital district in the year 1983. . This interim support is necessitated by the severe financial problems of Vail Valley Medical Center, a significant proporation of which is directly attribu- table to the Ambulance Service. Vail Frner(Tr,,ncy Calls (preakdown) Nov. 79 - Auq. 80 &M—TH 1-79 r-'Tm!TIN CITY West Vail IN VAIL. .'"()TAT. Cr Mu'. NOV. 7q 0 4 ?.3 27 85 T)F,C. 79 0 1 114 .115 97 JAN. 80 1 4 37 42 88 FEB. 80 3 6 33 42 79 10"RCff so 3 1 27 33 87 APRIL 80 5 3 24 32 75 MAY 80 16 20 80 JUNE 80 1 2 13 1 JULY 80 3 33 36 92 OUG, 80 3 4 19 26 73 TOTAL 1.9 29 259 307 P, A °, do. EXECUTIVE C H AM BERS RICHARD D. LAMM Governer AY �J 0r--71- 44; 19$9- Ucrfa_0 r. WHEREAS, each year, October 24 is designated as "United Nations Day" by the United Nations General Assembly to commemorate the organi- zation's founding on that date in 1945; and WHEREAS, United Nations Day provides an appropriate occasion for the peoples of the world to join together in reaffirming their commitment to the principles upon which the UN was established --international peace and security, respect for human rights, and the promotion of social and economic cooperation between nations; and WHEREAS, the United Nations is a unique forum through which all nations can work together to solve common problems and international issues concerning the present and the future of the world; and WHEREAS, the United States of America has made a great contribution to the creation and continuing work of the United Nations; and WHEREAS, participation in the UN is an important part of our Country's foreign policy, providing a channel through which the United States can take productive action for world peace and prosperity; � NOW, THERE ORE, T6cye✓� . ! i �N of, - ---,ire- State of CoIorado,._do&„s hereby proclaim October 24, 1980, as UNITED NATIONS DAY TOWnOT �M r! %!S/GAS iS {�PCtlq /ff XT in the o, and urge all to -my -mr programs and activities designed to increase understanding of the problems and potentials of the UN. and to help develop ideas on how to make the United Nations more effective. it 70 AGENDA FOR TOWN COUNCIL WORK SESSION ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29st SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING; (BEFORE WORKSESSION BEGINS - probably it should be scheduled for beginning at 2:15 pm) listed ahead of the work session agenda, should be the following: AGENDA VAIL GENERAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT SPECIAL MEETING TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1980 2:00 PM 1. Public hearing for the purpose of conducting the Annual Budget Hearing for the Vail General Improvement District. Then, we need to prepare minutes of this brief meeting as per the attached sample. following the above item, the work session agenda can be typed on the same page. thanks, PS, please remind Rich Caplan that this needs to be done on this date and at this time so he is aware and doesn°t plan to postpone or not have a worksession meeting.