District 2 Advisory Board

Page |1 District 2 Advisory Board Minutes January 14, 2019 www.wichita.gov The District 2 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 Mike Heldstab Battalion Chief Dave Hersh, Wichita Fire Dept. Nick Howell Deputy Chief Stu Bevis, Wichita Fire Dept. Sam Lindeman Officer Dustin Meier, Wichita Police Department Nazir Jesri Officer Ryan Snyder, Wichita Police Department Keith Lane Jon Sidwell, Park and Recreation Dee Nighswonger Savannah Ball, Wichita Public Library Joe Goetz Gary Janzen, Public Works & Utilities Council Member Becky Tuttle Kathy Morgan, MAPD Cory Buchta, Community Services Representative Members Absent Junetta Everett Guests Alicia Sanchez Carolyn Lindsey David Babich Phil Meyer Tracee Adams ORDER OF BUSINESS Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by Becky Tuttle Approval of January 14, 2020 Agenda: Motion PASSED 7-0-0 Approval of Minutes from December 9, 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 None. STAFF REPORTS 4. Fire Department Report Battalion Chief Dave Hersh, Wichita Fire Department reported: 1  Page |2  Boarded up houses catching on fire. Vagrants and homeless people staying in there to keep warn. If you think this is happening, let PD or FD know.  Big grass fires happened. Rain and wet weather helps, but more coming in the next month or so I’m sure. Mind your cigarettes and chimeneas. 5. Community Police Report Officer Dustin Meier reported:  Stats: o Aggravated assault with a firearm: 5 o Robbery from person: 5  1 from commercial house – Zips car wash o 11 auto thefts o Burglary non residence  2 in Zips car wash  U haul storage units  Alley Indoor Entertainment o Burglary from residence: 13 o Criminal discharge of a firearm: 5  1 on new year’s day o Larceny to auto 69  Doesn’t include larceny to auto accessories – tags and a battery 18  Look into tag locks Officer Ryan Snyder  Robbery at Zips 37th and Rock o Not 1st Zips that have been hit. Happens at closing when other 1 employee there. Forced to open change machine. Maybe ex-employees.  Shooting at 4600 N Ironwood. o Man in duplex. Late night party. Disagreement and shots fired outside.  Shooting at Inwood Crossings Jan 6 o Juvenile fight right before, possibly related o Drive by shooting. Looking at suspects.  Increase in catalytic converter thefts. Q (DAB): I’ve seen on Facebook marketplace people asking for catalytic converters. Is that legitimate 6. Park & Recreation Department Report Jon Sidwell reported:  In the last month, transferring information to new system, Rectrack. Tied with Library and City Arts now. Helps with combined activity guide. Set to go live Feb 1.  Had night with Santa in December. Had about 2,000 people. Looking at possibly having it at another venue. Maybe Intrust Bank Arena.  During December, we had camps for kids. Junior Chef, Wonka Chocolate Factory, Nerf Wars, Messy Science.  9 – noon Monday through Thursday, come walk for exercise at Boston!  Snow Glow event at Indian Center on the Saturday the 18th. 6:30 to 9:30  Boston playground update. Packed and resurfaced. Starting to get the equipment in.  Senior New Year’s Eve dance at Boston. Had about 140 seniors. 9pm to midnight. 7. Wichita Public Library Report Savannah Ball reported:  All Wichita Library Locations on Monday January 20th. Customer with Library card in good standing can still access eBooks. 2  Page |3  Log 2 or more books in January for competition. $50,000 in prizes for top performing schools in libraries. Use Beanstack to log and monitor.  2020 Read ICT Reading Challenge categories were announced on December 29th. 12 books from 12 different categories.  Hosting Academy Awards short films documentaries here at Rockwell. o Feb 5th showing docs 4-7:45 pm o All day screening at ALL Feb 1st and Feb 8th C (DAB): We’ve been using beanstack for 1,000 books before Kindergarten. We love it. 8. Public Works & Utilities Department Report Gary Janzen reported:  East Kellogg freeway now open. Dedication ceremony a month ago. Still a lot of work to do. 40 mph still a challenge. Still work going on the shoulder. Hope to have to 60 mph by summer. Will begin landscaping in spring by Webb Rd. Purchases 50x50 right of way for retaining wall and cool landscaping work. Still a lot to come.  Frontage road at Zelta you can make that connection to 127th street. East bound only right now but expect wets bound to open by summer.  U-turn onto bridge at Greenwich westbound to go back east bound open by spring.  Connection to KTA at east end expect to open by end of 2020. Well over a year ahead of time.  Programmed LED lights on Kellogg and Webb Bridge. Showed example on projector. 4 different seasons. Each season a 9 color palette. Changes every 90 seconds. Additional palettes for holidays. Same thing will be done at Greenwich and Zelta also in the next couple of months. Cut steel will be lit behind that. We’ve heard a lot from public already. This is relatively cost effective and adds a lot.  Stryker. Building new parking lot to add additional parking. Should be done within a month. Planning a dedication ceremony. Would like to have secretary of commerce there. Recommend going out there. 1000 square feet indoor facility. For soccer, softball eventually, other sports. KSHSAA moving state soccer tournaments to facility. Getting a lot of attention. KC and OK folks want to meet there in the middle.  Pawnee and Harry expanding to 3 lanes. Finally got 2 lanes open. Hope to finish by summer. o Cut through traffic in neighborhoods. Since opening Greenwich it’s not happening as much.  Redbud path under constructions. Started last week. Had some concerns about how we’d clear trees, wanted natural look. Trying to find a way to meet in the middle. Andover cut out a bunch of their trees on their side, but trying to limit that. Will connect to K96 path and Andover path. o Neighborhood didn’t want just concrete. 14 foot wide path with 9 feet concrete and 5 foot improved gravel good for running.  Have been working for some time on Aquatics Master Plan. Phase 1 was 3 pools and 3 splash pads. After bids, cost was significantly higher than we were hoping. Wanted to open by May but wasn’t practical with bidding and not as much competition. Taking a step back. Trying to look at changes that don’t sacrifice too much. Having more time would help. Moving forward with City Manager and Council Members to get to consensus on a revised plan to open bids and get contractors on board.  Talked about improvements SE HS Pawnee and 127th St East. CIP includes improvements. Talked about roundabout. We have decided to sit on that for now. I still believe roundabout is ideal for intersection and would help with traffic right now. But concern about future growth in that area. We are sitting on it now and will reevaluate at end of school year. Developers concerned it will deter growth.  Improve Pawnee and Webb to Greenwich. Getting federal funding for 2022. 3  Page |4  Sewer improvements Central and Webb. Finally have easements in hand. Ready to go to construction in next month. CM Tuttle – Residents are super happy.  Capital Improvement Plan – 10 million to residential streets. Gradually increasing. By end of current 10 year CIP almost 14 million.  We have a 40 year pavement maintenance model. We keep it up to date. 5100 lane miles in city. Model helps maximize ROI.  In 2011 primarily focused on arterial streets and major modifications. Work looked good and worked well. But in 2011 under that model we only got to 80 miles of roadway. Director of Public Works, Alan King, brought with him some great ideas. In 2013, looked at pilot programs. Now we do a lot of different types of pavement treatments. WE look at taking that annual funding and not just going to worst streets. Best way is to split up funding – 40-50% on better streets, 40-50% on streets with no remaining service life. Struck a great balance.  Seal cracks is one of the things we do now, but didn’t do it in the past. Doesn’t look great but very effective for extending life of a street. Very inexpensive and get a lot of return. Not aesthetically pleasing. But still best investment.  2020. City wide map. A lot of crack seal and preservative seal. We have rehabilitated some arterial streets in the last year and soon we will be putting preservative seal. Helps keep roads at that higher level for longer.  We used to divide the funding by 6 and spend the same amount of money in each district. But now we divide it based on percentage of road network in each district. For example, District 2 has 18% of road network and 18% of funding.  All of these maps are on city website. Interactive map. Won’t go into detail of every surface and street.  Micro surfacing is purple blobs on map.  Under new model, btw we can get to 800 miles. We are gaining 10 fold easily by doing what we’re doing now.  Some crack sealing on major streets. Greenwich and Webb Rd for example.  Blue line. Will go and patch first then go and put on new surface. Gave you list of streets. For that.  Still finishing work from 2019 program. Residential streets micro surfacing will start in March. Patching work on Webb done. Doesn’t look ideal but asphalt overlay coming in quarter 2. 13th street Rock to K96 patching now. Central from Webb to Beech. Starting work in Feb. Central from Greenwich to 127th work coming soon. Q (DAB): Redbud Trail east of 96, are they taking that bridge out? A: There are 8 bridges and almost everyone is getting replaced. Served railway. They are narrow. Trying to get path and handrail in there. They are getting old. Haven’t carried trains for a long time. We did a cost analysis and it was cheaper to replace them. Will help to get equipment in there as well. C (DAB): Spot between harry and Pawnee on Greenwich where was one way. Temporary lines on pavement at night time, hard to tell if you’re in the right lane. Something to look at. A: I appreciate that. Sometimes temporary striping will become reflective even when not there. C (DAB): Coming in east from Kellogg to 145th from south and I accidentally turned into the wrong lane and I couldn’t tell. Don’t know if it was lighting or what. Could be just me. A: Even with reflective striping that can be hard to see. Will check that out. Q (DAB): Do you have anything to do with traffic signs? A: My staff approves and replaces or moves them. 4  Page |5 C (DAB): I live on rock. You know where I live. Called in and talked to Brian Coon. Mentioned right lane must turn right at Douglas helped a lot. Even past 21st street it’s a race to get in front of traffic. Might be a good sign to have there, right lane must turn right. A: I appreciate that. I don’t drive out there but we’ll look at that. Action Taken: Motion made by Tracee Adams to receive and file all Staff Reports. Seconded by Nick Howell. Motion PASSED 7-0-0. NEW BUSINESS 9. Fireworks 2019 Review and Summary Deputy Chief Bevis, Wichita Fire Department, reported. In 2019, 18 fireworks calls. $64,000 in loss. 51 injuries reported in medical facilities. Over 1100 complaints called in non-emergency line. Wrote 59 citations. Most fire structure loss due to inappropriate disposal of fireworks. Both legal and illegal fireworks cause this. Showed chart numbers of fire incidents. Q (Public): What happened in 2016? A: We had a lot of blessed rain. Injury report. Same number in 19 as 18 in range. Men injured more than women. Consistently mortars or artillery shells. Sparklers in top 3. Complaint calls dropped but in 2019 dispatch was able to separate Sedgwick County from City of Wichita calls. Big jump from 17 to 18 was when we changed the ordinance and publicized it a lot more. On enforcement. Still working with buddies in PD. Identified 7 hotspots and had 7 teams in those areas. 2 PD officers with 1 firefighter. Was being very responsive to complaints. But times they would drive several miles from hot spots to make citizen contact, but not writing citations. PD had a Sergeant out there. Helped a lot. Showed heat map of call density from 2018. Used that decide the areas to patrol. Showed map of where 2018 citations were written. Showed combined map for 2019. Financial considerations. Sales tent fee generated $45,000 and spent $26,000 so $19,000 into general fund. To prepare getting this into the council, put survey out there in November. Over 5,000 responses. 11 questions on the survey. 1, do you think council should make changes 72% said yes. Asked what kind should be legal, over 57% said consistent with state. 19% said none. Asked how many days should they be allowed. 37% said current number of 9. 4 days had 27%. 14% said zero days. Time frame. Normally 10am to midnight. 37% said no change. 28% said change to 10pm. Asked ordinance impact personal use? 39% said don’t use them. 32% said only use legal. 21% said ordinance doesn’t affect illegal usage. 59% felt use of illegal fireworks stayed about the same year over year. People have been saying it seems a lot better, but still pretty bad on the 4th. Some people might not even realize they are buying illegal fireworks in places like Maize and shooting them off in Wichita. Q (DAB): How many days can they shoot fireworks? A: 9 days. C (DAB): I think that’s too long. A: It’s mirrored by other areas. State allows this as the maximum. 5  Page |6 Q (DAB): Single anecdote. My neighborhood may have been that 2017 with bottle rocket that landed on house. If you change the time to 10pm, more people likely to be awake. A: Most of the problem is with people being inconsiderate. Huge majority of complaint calls would go away if people were considerate neighbors. If it is 10pm, it makes it easier to write tickets for it. Any comments or questions can be sent to us at wichitafire@wichita.gov. Will bring this to workshop and Council. 10. CON2019-00047 Kathy Morgan, Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, presented on an application to build a neighborhood swimming pool. Requires conditional use approval. 37th street south side just east of Greenwich Recommendation is to approve request based on approval of vacation of language in platters text. Can’t adjust administratively platted setbacks, have to be vacated. Covenant will be placed with HOA binding lot 1 and black A where swimming pool will be in Brookfield. Submitted cite plan and development of swimming pool has to be in conformance of cite plan. Have to operate with all federal state and local rules. Typical thing neighborhoods do to provide activities. Will be heard at January 23rd planning commission. Q (DAB): Anyone griping about this? A: No. Q (DAB): Will there be parking there? A: There will be some. Some of the parking requirements aren’t as many as you would think. In the neighborhood so it’s walkable. A (Phil Meyer): With Baughman Company, agent for applicant, we are supplying parking stalls on Winston that meet requirements for swimming pool. Action Taken: Motion to APPROVE the application with conditions as presented made by Nick Howell. Seconded by Mike Heldstab. MOTION PASSED 7-0-0 11. ZON2019-00048 CUP-00040 Kathy Morgan, Metropolitan Area Planning Commission, presented on a request to rezone approximately 6.56 acres zoned SF-5 Single-Family Residential located south of East 21st Street North and west of North 127th Street East. The subject property is part of the larger Trinity Academy property at this location, mostly located west and south of the subject property. The application concerns the rezoning of the property from SF-5 Single-Family Residential (SF-5) to LC Limited Commercial (LC) and the establishment of a Community Unit Plan (CUP) DP-352 for the Trinity Academy CUP. Heard by Planning Commission in December. Staff report shows prohibited uses. Application was on consent agenda. No one in the audience to comment on request. Pretty common planning tool in City. Provides specific signage regulations and use types that are allowed. Pretty routine. It has been approved by Planning Commission. Might be seen by City Council next week. Not sure. The protest period has expired and we received nothing. No calls or emails. Q (DAB): This will be commercial property? A: It will be a mix. They are going to have businesses in the first floors of the buildings that will provide opportunity for HS students to learn business practices, but will be used by activities of the school. Q (DAB): How will this work with school being non-profit? Would not like to see businesses sneaking in for tax purposes. A: Not our focus with zoning change. Action Taken: Motion to APPROVE the application with conditions as presented made by Nazir Jesri. 6  Page |7 Seconded by Nick Howell. MOTION PASSED 7-0-0 Meeting was adjourned at 7:45 p.m. The next DAB 2 meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday, February 10, 2020, at Rockwell Branch Library, 5939 E 9th St N, Wichita, KS 67208. 7