District 2 Advisory Board

Page |1 District II Advisory Board Minutes August 12, 2019 www.wichita.gov The District II Advisory Board meeting was held at 6:30 p.m. at the Rockwell Branch Library, 5939 E 9th St N, Wichita, KS 67208. ATTENDANCE Members Present Staff Present David Babich Captain Jason Jones, Wichita Fire Department Nick Howell Officer Ryan Snyder, Wichita Police Department Sam Lindeman Officer Chad Clark Nazir Jesri Savannah Ball, Wichita Public Library Alicia Sanchez Mark Manning, City Treasurer Keith Lane James Wagner, Public Works and Utilities Junetta Everett Gary Janzen, Public Works and Utilities Joe Goetz Cory Buchta, Community Services Representative Guests Council Member Becky Tuttle Mike Spayd Kenneth Lee Members Absent Jeff Best Arlen Hamilton Tracee Adams Justin Strelow Mike Heldstab Kim Tolley Dee Nighswonger Levi Bond ORDER OF BUSINESS Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by Becky Tuttle Approval of August 12, 2019 Agenda: Motion PASSED 7-0-0 Approval of Minutes from July 10, 2019: Motion PASSED 7-0-0 PUBLIC AGENDA This portion of the agenda provides an opportunity for citizens to present issues that are not part of the regular agenda for the meeting. There is a five minute time limit for each speaker. 1. Scheduled Items None 2. Off-agenda Items None Recommended Action: Receive and file BOARD AGENDA 3. Updates, Issues and Reports This Saturday is our District Breakfast at Regency at 8:30. We’ll hear from Evan Rosell and Shelley Prichard. 1  Page |2 In November, the DAB meeting will be Tuesday instead of Monday due to Veterans Day. STAFF REPORTS 4. Fire Department Report Captain Jason Jones reported:  Several Chiefs have retired lately. I’m filling in since April.  12 fire alarms past month, 39 service alarms, 366 medical alarms.  1 major fire at Horton’s Carpet Store little over 300k fire loss. Due to electrical issues in warehouse area.  Firefighters try to stay hydrated in this weather.  School zones flashing – stay safe in school zones. 5. Community Police Report Officer Ryan Snyder reported:  Introduce Officer Clark.  Larceny to auto – 27% increase in my area  Auto thefts and residential burglaries – about ½ victim known to suspect.  Larceny to vehicle in public area, people leaving cars unlocked or breaking windows. North Rock area with commercial businesses.  Larcenies in Wichita been a big thing for a while now. Past week started a theft reduction/motel interdiction team. 2017 we were asked to focus on motel crimes. We have expanded to West Kellogg. Broadway corridor team has helped. We made 238 arrests out of motels recovered stolen vehicles, fire arms, money, drugs over the course of a year.  Some prostitution arrests. Absconders and fugitives hide out in local motels.  Thefts dropped throughout city during the time of this campaign. Started theft reduction team last week. Patrol East – not a single one has a hotspot for auto thefts or larceny to autos. Q (DAB): People that stand off Kellogg, panhandlers, is that the kind of people in hotels and is that legal? A: Sometimes they do stay at hotels. You get various people, some trying to move drugs out of there. South Broadway, North Broadway. Still have people with bad motivations A: There is an ordinance against panhandling Q (DAB): What about kids collecting on busy intersections. 5, 6, 7 years old collecting money on Rock Road. A: Recommend you call us. We’re so busy, we have to decide which calls we can take. C (DAB): It was small football teams. I couldn’t believe adults would let their kids run out there at Central and Rock. You would think you would have another number to call besides 9-1-1. People don’t feel comfortable calling. They think it would have to be an emergency. A: there’s a chance officers may not even get sent out because of other priority calls holding. You can ask to be contacted by phone if you don’t want an officer knocking on your door. 6. Park & Recreation Department Report  NONE 7. Wichita Public Library Report Savannah Ball, Branch Manager, reported:  Wednesday August 14 1:30 – 2:30 talk about Brothers Grimm and why collecting those stories is important for community value.  Rockwell holding screening of Molly of Denali. About Alaskan native girl. KPTS channel 8. 2  Page |3  Local Authors Day Saturday, August 24th at ALL. Activities throughout the day. Panel of authors. Will showcase talents of literary community between authors and their readers.  Downloading eBooks class on Tuesday, September 3rd. Teaching people how to use Libby. Registration is required. CM Tuttle: Had the chance to judge teen hackathon. Action Taken: Motion made by Joe Goetz to receive and file all Staff Reports. Seconded by Nazir Jesri. Motion PASSED 8-0-0. NEW BUSINESS 8. Public Art Funding Proposal Jeff Best and Arlen Hamilton, members of an ad hoc group for public art, presented on a request to designate a percentage of the Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for public art. Been working on an ordinance. There are 350 cities with Percent for Art programs. Two cities in Kansas, Lawrence and Hutchinson have Percent for Art programs. Often when art is added to a project usually last thing. Add a sculpture for aesthetic enhancement. Looking to add artist into design process. Art integrated into full project. Here in Wichita, Nomar project, West Douglas Park, Horizontas project as an example. I lived in Chicago. Was involved in creation of Millennium Park. Bean was expected to cost 9 million dollars. Actual cost 23 million. Cities pay handsomely for those projects. WE wanted to put this in context. OKC – 1%, other examples. Of money we are looking to raise, 20% set aside each year for maintenance. Existing and future art projects. Jeff Best – I sit on design council get to review projects as they come in. But we haven’t had a firm funding source, so we make recommendations to staff for how much we think each project should have. Then they have to try and find funding. Big part of this ordinance is to set a revenue stream and pot of money. Makes it more equitable across projects and neighborhoods. We don’t have enough money to maintain what we have now. That 20% will help ensure we have that money. Other part of ordinance is trying to streamline process of artist registry. We’ve lost a lot of artists over the years. We see same artists on a lot of projects. Want to go through artist registry. I can look at list of 25 projects and find the right one for the project instead of just the 2 we know that are out there. Hamilton – Numbers are important and the processes are important, and having a city we can be proud of in important. 1999 ordinance established design council. City Finance Dep’t went into last five years. Looked at what we’ve been spending. Many ordinances across nation. Wichita does not have a structured program. Anywhere from about .75 of CIP up to 2 which is highest we found in Austin, TX. City found we’ve already been spending between 1.2 – 1.4% of CIP. We recommend a minimum of 1 percent. Other calculation methods used other places. Percentage of funding streams. City Manager office recommending similar program for Wichita, possibly because he’s from Des Moines. Struggling because one of only cities to do it that way and it’s complex. If we took tomorrows CIP we would only be using about .34 of CIP for beautification, aesthetics, and art on Public Meetings. We think it’s low. We don’t want to go backwards, we want to be competitive. We’ve gone out to DAB. You’ve seen the slide. We want to know if you have thoughts. What do you think about the things we’ve done and do you believe we should continue to advocate for how much we’ve been spending. What do you think? 3  Page |4 The Keeper as we know it came from the program we are talking about. We have made progress and you can see if with the Keeper of the Plains. We think it needs more structure going into the future. CM Tuttle: We are just giving feedback today Q (DAB): Public art is very important. .34% is too low. 1+ realistic. What about Bean. 9 million turned into 23 million. What went wrong and could that happen here? A: Chicago has different form of government. Former mayor was project manager for that. It was his baby. They created a bridge above a parking lot and they created a park on that. A lot of structural issues. Everyone blamed mayor for that cost overrun. Different model. Half funded by philanthropy. I would love to see philanthropy grow here. Gathering place in Tulsa 200 million park funded by philanthropic park. Would be great to see a city with that level of philanthropy. We’re not there. Best: So what happens is we go back and dedicate money for these projects. Q (DAB): So we shouldn’t see anything where budget goes over. A: No. C (DAB): Need clarification for revenue stream. When I see CIP I see borrowing money. CIP has roads and bridges and now we see a water plant that probably doesn’t need a whole lot of aesthetics. But CIP is not real money at that point. I’d think you’d be more interested in ad velorem numbers and not CIP. I understand advantage of forward plan. I don’t know if we moved art work from old airport to new. Someone was hoping we’d have a statue of Eisenhower. I’d like to see bring art projects to effective board and put in a budget that’s based on true revenue stream. Q (DAB): Applaud what you’re doing. Couple of questions. Including artist in design would be a requirement. And artist registry is something we’d create or is it out there? A: We would create. Some other procedural things we need to work through as well. Q (DAB): I would add we have some wonderful buildings in old town that have company names up there I would like to see those restored. Other questions, do we have other dedicated carve outs in CIP? A (Mark Manning): Generally no other carve outs in CIP. C (DAB): I think I could say if we had this opportunity for more grants and public private partnerships would be easier. I’m usually opposed to carve outs but I can see the advantage of this. A: All the bronzes up and down Douglas those were all private donors. It does indeed spark that in Wichita and across the nation. A: It also becomes city property and responsible to maintain. Q (DAB): I applaud what you’re doing. Crazy part, I’ve never seen some of the things we already have. We don’t do a great job promoting what we have. Question about the budget. 1.19% to 1.4%, that’s a significant amount of dollars, how can we hone in on the real number? A (Manning): We reviewed all our numbers to see what percentage was in past. Was close to 1.4% Vast majority was east Kellogg. Lots of art and was very expensive. If you look at only local funding streams and take out east Kellogg we’ve only spent 1.19%. Q (DAB): But now you’re only recommending 1%? A: Manager recommending based not a clear number on this side of the equation. It’s very complicated. Bond sales tax part of gift tax. 1.5% of those numbers down the years. Only 1 city using that structure, it’s hard to say how we stack up with like cities. Not sure if that’s a way we can use to get there. From my perspective as CPA, prefer to make it as simple as possible where it’s not quite as easy for 1 side of equation to be manipulated. C (DAB): This year city to city tours from Chamber, going to San Antonio in Sept. Q (DAB): All visitor tax dollars, is that committed to that? Visitors coming to city will see all of this, seems like that would be a revenue stream. A: Part of that is dedicated in CIP. C (DAB): I’d like to recommend that number gets increased. Might help offset some of the CIP money. Have that source of revenue coming. Then once you get that then you could have other people willing to donate. 4  Page |5 C (DAB): I appreciate art and young families. When you talk about art downtown, I think of Greenville, Mice on Main Street. It’s something different. We have things like botanic and other places. But it would be nice to have something different. C (DAB): Flowers going down Douglas. A: Landscape is different. City purchases planters but that’s it. C (DAB): Years ago, Jack DeBoar had an idea about Keeper of Plains being symbol of Wichita but something you could see from airplane flying in. Instead of Century 2 something you could see from miles away. That’s Wichita. C (Public): I’m civil engineer and consultant. You’ll hear from us later. I like idea doing this. It’s great. In past it’s 5% for every project no matter what. I like this is targeted. Everything sounds good with this. Q (Public) Justin Strevo: Here representing a firm property on 127th and Pawnee: Heard people talking about public infrastructure. Curious about what major cities have on ROI for this? What are we doing when analyzing how this will spearhead growth? Are we looking at sales revenue and tourism dollars around these projects? Are we really spending dollars that will best grow economy? We’ve been seeing 1% growth. A: I think it comes down to quality of life and quality of place. Difference for me. Going to box store of local shop. Driving down Douglas vs some arterial street. Is there a matrix where we can map ROI for this? No I don’t know of one. A: There are very large cities that have done studies. They put up public art in neighborhoods and could track crime studies and new business licenses. We can do that in a city our size. A: Cargill was looking at other cities. A lot of the reason they chose Wichita is the quality of place and what we’ve already done here. A (CM Tuttle): I was at Textron, I asked them what city could do for them. They said baseball and performing arts. They look at quality of life. They didn’t ask for tax abatements. C (DAB): No stadium pays for itself in cash dollars. But that isn’t the point, it’s quality of life. 9. Pawnee Road and 127th Street East Intersection Improvements Gary Janzen, Public Works and Utilities, presented a proposal for improvements to the Pawnee Road and 127th Street Intersection. SE HS opened in 2016 SW of Pawnee and 127th. Traffic with HS alone put stresses on intersection. Some development in area has added to that also. A lot of school campuses in Wichita get a lot of traffic in AM PM peak hours. Would like to add roundabout. We have not recorded any accidents at any roundabouts in city. Three of them. One in Delano and two in Riverside Park. Roundabouts are safer. This intersection is suited well for a roundabout. This project was recommended for special consideration by design council and has funding for aesthetic improvements in budget. I believe this is the right thing to do for several reasons. Garver engineering here. Mike Spade and Ken Lee. Hired to do the concept. This is about Pawnee and 127th looking at roundabout. An idea of where we’re at. Intersection marked in blue. SE where their logo is. We started in 2010 with USD 259 platting they opened in 2016. That has impacted traffic. Was originally 2 way stop. Has gone to 4 way stop with flashing beacons. Increased traffic. We expect to see more development in that area. Will show what we expect to see in that area. We hired Garver to complete traffic study and design concept in 2018. We want to stop seeing backed up traffic in peak times. We looked at couple options. Standard signal intersection and roundabout. SE HS generating a lot of traffic. That will still continue. They are about maxed out on student capacity but expect to see more homes in that area because of the HS. Currently there’s an 80 acre lot at cedar creek. 80 homes going in that area. We did some traffic counts. We collected in 2019. 7500 vehicles inter intersection per day. 2040 projection of 17000 vehicles per day. Map we saw before was possibility of 4000 residential homes within 2 miles and 1000 sq feet of commercial properties. Not set in stone but we expect it. 5  Page |6 You see a lot of traffic backed up on the north side. Then you see people leaving. In AM peak. Showed pictured of PM peak leaving school. Traffic backed up for good long distance. Looked at existing conditions and longer queues in peak hours. We see that increasing with development. Current projections are three lane roads with a single lane each directions with two way center turn lane. We expect roundabout would tie in nicely from both streets. Intersection doesn’t meet signal warrants and probably won’t in near future. Signal is only efficient during peak times. Rest of the time signal is really inefficient. I don’t know as much about traffic signal warrants as Garver. I’ll let them talk about that. Mike Spade with Garver 15 years experience doing these types of studies. Civil engineers bound by regulatory documents. Traffic volume is big warrant here. It says do not install traffic signal unless you meet warrants. They work well when they are warranted. They can increase delay when they aren’t needed. Turns into a compliance or competence issue. Drivers more likely to run red lights. Increases cut through traffic. Signals could increase rear end collision. We are proposing roundabout. A lot to offer. Traditional roundabout singling lane going through and turn lanes. Planning for long design life with growth and development. Designed for lower moving traffic. 20mpg. Splitter island. And center island. It is designed for larger trucks. Center area often used for landscaping or aesthetic enhancement. To the right shows basic operation. 4 legged circle. Yield sign at entry. Prime benefits. Safety data across the board – tremendous reduction in collision. Prevents serious collision. 90% fewer than signal. Couple reasons crashes going down. Crash at 20mph fewer injuries than 45 or higher. 8 conflict points. 16 crossing conflict points in traditional. Same safety benefits for pedestrian flow. Slower speed and crossing locations for pedestrians. Crossing a car length back. Installation in roundabouts in communities where there weren’t any. Attitude improves when these are added. James – we looked at some other important stuff for tax payers. We looked at cost. Typical signal intersection – maintain and replace bulbs and things. Minimal labor to maintain roundabout. No electricity cost, no worries in power outages. Functions more efficiently than signal when you have this kind of traffic. We looked at large vehicles like busses and tractor trailers. Haven’t looked at large farm equipment but we can do that. Full size city transit bus can go through with no issue. Tractor trailer will go on that center apron. That’s how it’s designed to function. This is up for special consideration for aesthetics. Haven’t come up with anything yet. Maybe something in the center ring having to do with the high school. This intersection would need to close for construction. Shut down after school closes and reopen before starts. Estimated completion date summer 2022. Intersections does need improvement to handle anticipated future traffic. Doesn’t warrant signals. Future could possibly justify signal but only during peak. Roundabout meets all needs. Roundabout outlines signal for design life of intersection. They reduce accidents, specifically fatality and injury accidents. It’s a traffic calming device. Great for inexperienced and younger drivers near high school. Reduced maintenance cost. Works in power outage. Financial considerations. Showed pictures of older design, we would have newer design. Delano roundabout functions pretty well. And you can see the art piece in the center. Conway Arkansas has an intersection that has been designed. Almost identical. Right turn lanes present. Moves traffic through fairly well. Striping at street level view. See the crossing. Recommendation to approve the design concept. Questions: Q (DAB): Was last one a four lane roundabout? 6  Page |7 A: No single through lane and right turns as we’re proposing. Matches three lane roadway and dedicated rights. Q (DAB): What do you do with three lanes? A: Center lane absorbed with splitter island. Adding a 4th right turn lane 100 feet in advance. C (DAB): There’s the one on Greenwich that is very confusing it has a left turn sign. A: That is confusing. Thank you for bringing that up. We need to look at that. Q (DAB): The options right now or leave it as it is or add roundabout? A: They don’t meet warrants now. Even if we got to point where warrants are met still doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do to add lights. Predicting development is challenging. Even if we met warrants, roundabout would outlive. C (DAB): They went through this at 45th and Woodlawn, but they aren’t doing roundabouts. A: That’s Bel Aire but yeah that’s my understanding. They had some other issues with the area. Businesses in the area had restricted drives. A: This area is really the perfect place to make this work. If it doesn’t we can still go back to what we’re doing. C (DAB): I think it’s a great idea, you mentioned three lanes, I’m seeing two. A: The one going the other direction. Q (DAB): If you’re during a turnaround you stay in that center lane? A: Yes. Q (DAB): No need for two lanes? A: This could become a two lane roundabout if traffic demands got to that point. I don’t have direct experience but it’s not that it cannot work. Emporia was set up as two lane but no one could figure it out so they put it to one lane. It’s a challenge. This will accommodate challenge just fine. A: We could easily accommodate two lanes. We want it to be simple to use. We want people to get used to what it is. A: I expect I’ll be retired before that’s needed. A: A while back city started doing three lane arterials. People complained going in, but they actually work pretty well with no complaints. They work well if you give them a chance. Q (DAB): Vast majority of drivers here will be under 50, so change won’t be a big deal. Right now the option is stop signs or this. How long does it take 10 cars to get through vs roundabout? That would help. A: We have looked at that, but I don’t have those numbers now. Q (DAB): Do you have to use eminent domain or do you have enough land there? A: We haven’t talked to and land owners in the area. A: I can show animations of how the signal could look with a signal vs roundabout. C (DAB): I suppose it will take kids a little time to get used to it. A: In other countries they use primarily roundabouts. C (DAB): I live at 127th and Pawnee in Sierra Hills. We’re not in favor. There will be no pedestrians walking there because there are no sidewalks. No students walking there. We dealt with this before. Working with Pete and Jim after SE built and going, only two stop signs only north-south. Probably six or eight of us. Open forum like this. We convinced them to put up two additional stop signs that really helped. We had speed limit 55 mph. It was a race track at Pawnee. Got it slowed down. Thing that concerns me more than anything else. Enrollment at SE will increase. 500 cars driving every day. Living there, I know what backup is either direction. It’s the same way on Pawnee going west. The issue is 16-18 year old kids. I can tell you my boys were stupid 16-18 years of age. I’m sure it’s no different now. Scares me with roundabouts. I watch these kids after stop sign. Doesn’t matter if Pawnee or 127th it’s hammer down. You will slow them down but it gives them a running start. It will be a sling shot coming out of there. If you’re saying it’s good for school and community 135th and Harry is another roundabout possibility. Traffic counts are skewed. Do them again after school starts. Greenwich and Pawnee are closed. Bridges were closed. A: Those weren’t closed when we did the traffic count. I can tell you right now traffic counts could double but our recommendation wouldn’t change. I’m certain that roundabout is a traffic calming device. 7  Page |8 Q (DAB): I’m concerned they won’t be able to figure it out. Half a dozen yield signs. I don’t think they’ll be able to figure out yield signs. Does Drivers Ed teach roundabouts? A: We will have to work with students and maybe HS. Q (DAB): Has anyone contacted school about this? A: Yes I have. C (DAB): They were very upset about traffic situations. But with roundabout, there are 500 students driving. 200 vehicles with staff and support staff. 65 busses a day that go to SE. A: We know that. Q (DAB): What about other vehicles of folks that live there? A: That’s how we modeled it. But those numbers you talked about, those are minimal for a roundabout. Those could double and a roundabout will handle those just fine. A (CM Tuttle): I reached out to Mike Tann, he was not concerned about busses in Roundabout at all. A: Right now there is more traffic at that intersection than Pawnee and 127th at all. Signal we put up isn’t temporary just cheaper way to put up a signal. Q (DAB): Roundabout is much more expensive. How about Harry and 127th? A: It does warrant a signal and Pawnee and 127th doesn’t. We wouldn’t put a signal up if it didn’t warrant it. A: The biggest thing is turning left. Kids don’t know when to turn left. A: T bones are more likely to happen when you have young aggressive drivers. A: Kids will learn pretty quick how to operate this. They are meant for people with less experience. C (DAB): I noticed the safety issue with diagram. This will cut down serious accidents. A: You are talking about serious accidents. C (DAB): Roundabouts really work but you need to teach people how to use them. City can do this. It will be helpful for most of us. A: I think that’s completely within reason for us to do that. Q (Public): Justin Strelo SE Corner of 127th and Pawnee - Question for designers. Pull up slide 6. Does design consider access control of surrounding plattes? A: We looked at that today. It has 400 feet mark. It doesn’t go back to there. Q (Public): Where it bottle necks? A: Correct it doesn’t get there. Q (Public): Are we expecting raised medians? Is there 400 feet from any intersection? We expect development of store fronts in this area. A: We are following city guides for access and we will get into that further as we get along. This is just design concept. Q (Public): Current conceptual design isn’t expecting any acquisition? A: Not yet. Q (Public) Kim Tolley – 2121 s 127th street east – I know this will end up being shoved through. If it aint broke why fix it? Four way stops are working. What is accident ratio of when school opened to today? How many accidents have there been? A: No reported accidents A: This is addressing traffic back up issue. Crashes aren’t the only consideration. A: And projected more development and more traffic until then. C (Public): I was out there before any of this. I’m glad I’m in the county and don’t belong in the City of Wichita C (Public) Levi – Kaw Valley Engineering – said even if traffic doubled, you would still recommend roundabout, what is the number? A: If signal would work better we would recommend that. Roundabout still better at 19,700. Roundabout could be worse with certain patterns. 20% beyond that signal would outperform. Signal would operate poorly, just not as poor as roundabout. A: There are situations where roundabouts are just bad ideas. Heavily imbalanced traffic. Traffic from mainly one way. We don’t expect imbalance here. As long as stay balanced it still works. 8  Page |9 C (Public) Levi – appreciate Gary has reached out to HS. Training kids in Drivers Ed good idea. Culture shock when I first saw roundabout in Manhattan. Took a minute to learn, but once they do, they are great. Action Taken: Motion to APPROVE the design concept as presented made by Nick Howell. Seconded by Sam Lindeman. MOTION PASSED 7-1-0 10. CUP19-00024 Dave Yearout, Metropolitan Area Planning Department, presented an application on behalf of RE II Retail I LLC (Applicant)/ Kaw Valley Engineering – Levi Bond (Agent) to amend CUP document for CUP Parcel 19A. Essentially SW corner of 28th and rock. Property at 2949 was restaurant. Two Olives. Was vacant, large banquet area. People want to establish it with entertainment center. Want to have alcohol license and have room to use vacant facility. Under CUP they have to formally amend CUP. That’s what this is about. Planning commission has heard and unanimously recommend approval. .Unless protest it would not go to city council. No physical changes intended. Not expanding on building. Parking there. Zero calls. Q (DAB): No calls no issues? A: None. C (DAB): Short comment. Used to be olive tree 20 years ago. Not going to be sleazy. They are good people. Establishment is good. A: Make sure that goes in the minutes Action Taken: Motion to APPROVE the application with conditions as presented made by Sam Lindeman. Seconded by Junetta Everett. MOTION PASSED 8-0-0 11. ZON2019-00025 and CUP19-00019 Dave Yearout, Metropolitan Area Planning Department, presented an application on behalf of Ronald M. Watkins Living Trust (Owner/Applicant); KE Miller Engineering – Kirk Miller (Agent). The property is vacant ground with lots of trees. Request to accommodate for uses to include self-storage. Parcel is drainage easement reserve on north side of property. To get utilities down there that would demand other utilities. Not impossible, but challenging. K-96 on east side. Turnpike on south side. No plan for improvements on what there is there now. Self-storage or that area makes sense. Q (DAB): Would that be close to those apartments being built? A: Would be drainage way. C (DAB): I’m sure they need some storage. A: Modification on uses allowed on parcel and addresses addition of, sound on turnpike you’ll see old billboard advertising Baker Furniture, they want to modify to accommodate new billboard size. There is room for another billboard closer. They have right to upgrade to existing. We’ve added modification for current billboard to update to modern size and then add another close to 127th street. They want so allow some more potential uses. Had to rezone to GC to get billboards, but had to restrict back to GO. Planning Commission did approve. Cleared protests and there were none. Will go to City Council on 27th. Q (CM Tuttle): Did you have any calls? A: They didn’t want a billboard on other side of 96. Q (DAB): Only vehicular access on 127th? A: Yes. C (DAB): I assume you will move road closed sign down to other side of 127th. I drove down there and road is not great shape. But still putting additional traffic on not very good roads. A: Probably won’t be triggered by this case. But a while back, tying 127th to Zelta was part of improvements but that land owner was not willing to do anything. If and when they come forward with proposed plat who knows what will happen. A (CM Tuttle): That’s a platting issue. 9  P a g e | 10 Q (DAB): West side of 127th right north of turnpike is zoned commercial? A: I think it’s zoned residential right now. There have been some zoning changes going north but nothing south. Q (DAB): Why aren’t we connecting 127th to Kellogg? A: 127th going north has never been connected. That has always been KDOT maintenance yard. No room to build interchange and no traffic volumes to justify it. Q (DAB): I thought 127th went by Party City and Lowes? A: That’s Zelta. A: Right now nothing is happening on that. DAB: This is a dead end now? A: Yeah, you end up in KDOT yard. DAB: So if this piece was to develop this would be best use not apartments or something. A: Only reason you would go down there would be self-storage. Action Taken: Motion to APPROVE the application with conditions as presented made by Nazir Jesri. Seconded by Sam Lindeman. MOTION PASSED 7-0-1 Meeting was adjourned at 8:43 p.m. The next DAB II meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday, September 9, 2019, at Rockwell Branch Library, 5939 E 9th St N, Wichita, KS 67208. 10