District 5 Advisory Board

Page |1 District V Advisory Board Minutes February 4, 2019 www.wichita.gov The District V Advisory Board meeting was held at 6:30 p.m. at Fire Station #21, located at 2110 N. 135th St. W., Wichita, KS 67235. ATTENDANCE Members Present Staff Present Nancy Duling Scot Rigby, Assistant City Manager Jose Gutierrez Capt. Scott Downs, Wichita Fire Department JV Johnston Officer Bradley Haught, Wichita Police Trevor Kurth Department Rachel Murphy-Thomas Reggie Davidson, Recreation Superintendent, Troy Palmer Park & Recreation Department Ben Kittrell Tracie Partridge, Senior Librarian Alissa Unruh Julianne Kallman, Senior Engineer, Public Jill Kerschen Works & Utilities Angela Breer Dave Yearout, Principal Planner, MAPD Trey Rios, Youth Member Philip Zevenbergen, Associate Planner, MAPD Council Member Bryan Frye Cory Buchta, Community Services Representative Members Absent Roman Rodriguez Guests Cindy Skaffer Randy Skaffer Seth Gotchey Jenna Noel Melissa Schnieder ORDER OF BUSINESS Call to Order: The meeting was called to order by JV Johnston Approval of February 4, 2019 Agenda: Motion PASSED 10-0-0 Approval of Minutes from January 7, 2019: Motion PASSED 10-0-0 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 Any individual present that did not request to speak on the public agenda prior to the meeting may speak at this time. Recommended Action: Receive and file 1  Page |2 BOARD AGENDA 3. Updates, Issues and Reports Council Member Frye provided the following updates:  Introduced Cory Buchta – the new Community Services Representative.  Announced the open house for 13th and the plans for the project. Funding hopefully to be approved at city council February 5. He stated the timeline for the project is about 10 months.  CM Frye has been meeting with Parks to talk about where in District V to put a dog park. Identified a couple of locations. Country acres at Central and Ridge – used to have a city pool but was closed due to leaking. It has electricity and water. The tennis court and basketball courts don’t get used much. Another potential location is Westlink. It is pretty flat field, but is widely used for football and baseball. They also looked at Buffalo Park. They are looking at costs for this type of project. There is currently no funding plan for it.  Pracht Wetland is coming along quickly. They are looking at holding a ribbon cutting on May 11 on World Migratory Bird Day.  March DAB renewals are coming up in April. CM Frye is planning on submitting everyone again unless they say they don’t want to. STAFF REPORTS 4. Fire Department Report Captain Scott Downs reported:  In January there 8 fire alarms and 171total incidents.  There was a fire call in the 2200 block of N Tyler. The cause was an electrical malfunction associated with a pet vacuum.  Fire call in the 200 block that resulted in a $15k loss. Cause painters left oil soaked rags in dining room which resulted in spontaneous combustion.  Recruit class Feb 15. 15 people have been offered a position.  When weather warms up will begin inspections. Exits, extinguishers, clutter around electrical panels, hydrants tested, etc. Most hydrants are red. If the big cap is yellow that means it does not drain and it will be pumped out before it turns cold. 5. Community Police Report Officer Bradley Haught reported:  They received a ton of crime statistics today. They have statistics for 90 days back, three years back, and year-to date. Across the board, everything is down for part-1 crimes on the District 5 patrol beats.  Auto thefts continue to be a problem on cold days. More than 50% of those are vehicles being left running unattended.  There was a report of a young man out west that lives near Sunset Park driving around in an old police vehicle. The vehicle even has light bar and he’s been known to light it up on city streets.  There were a couple of home burglaries in Westlink. Someone’s spouse died and their homes was burglarized while they were attending the funeral.  Country Acres now has a Neighborhood Association and it meets in Westlink library. There are now two Neighborhood Associations leaving room to grow.  Agreed with CM Frye that Country Acres Park would be a great place for a dog park.  Mentioned the department received some new body camera equipment that will work better at night. They also have a wider angle lens and improved audio as well. 2  Page |3 6. Park & Recreation Department Report Reggie Davidson reported:  They are getting ready to start a new City Crew.  July 20 there will be a splash party at Herbage pool. It will be a pizza and pool party.  Barry’s bucks: kids can get a punch on a punch card for attending events to incentivize people coming out.  A lot of programs for Park & Rec are well-attended, and many of them are at capacity.  They are doing a lot of planning for pools. 7. Wichita Public Library Report Tracie Partridge reported:  #ReadICT reading challenge for adults. Read 12 books in the year, each book from a different category. Example books that make you laugh. Books with a face on the cover. Tracie challenged the DAB to complete the challenge as a group. Each person read a book from a different category and Tracie will bring treats for the DAB. Cory will send out the categories to the DAB and coordinate who will read a book from each category.  Starting academy award shorts at the libraries. They will be showing all the nominated shorts. For the last few years, they haven’t been able to accommodate everyone, but this year we can use the Advanced Learning Library on Feb 16 and Feb 23rd, 10:15am to 5:45pm.  The Westlink Branch will be showing the Animated and Live Action category on Feb 19 at 4pm.  There will be a smart home tech demo on Feb 6 at 4pm.  It’s the 25th anniversary of the book “Guess How Much I love you.” Children between 2 - 8 are invited Feb 11th at 6:30pm.  There is an anti-Valentine party at Rockwell library Feb 14 at 4pm for teens.  Hosting a Netflix-style “Nailed It” family cake challenge Feb 24 from 2pm - 3:30pm. Registration is required.  That’s a Crock program at Evergreen Feb 28 about healthy crock pot cooking.  Lots of other things going on, check out wichitalibrary.org. 8. Public Works & Utilities Report Julianne Kallman reported:  They are doing microsurfaceing right now in the Westlink neighborhood.  Ridge road sidewalk from 29th to K96 – and 29th to Mccloister this spring.  The Hoover bike path from 21st to 29th being discussed at DAB 6.  The 29th and Maize intersection project - Bachman hired to design. May break out to phase SE corner of that. May do that quadrant. Action Taken: Motion made to receive and file all Staff Reports. Motion PASSED 10-0-0. NEW BUSINESS 9. Paving Improvements for Wheatland Avenue Julianne Kallman, Public Works and Utilities, presented a petition for paving Wheatland streets. One neighborhood has been there since the 1980s, another since the 1950s. Bay Country was platted in 1987. Conditions of plat – extend city water and sewer, and need to petition for paving Wheatland Ave. Petitions have been submitted. Estimated cost is $428,000. The City would pay 12% and pay for the intersection since it’s a dirt street. There are lots in Rainbow Lake Estates addition with drive way access that will be assessed $75,000 per lot. Country Villa estates addition will be $30,000. $16,000 per lot (not 19 like slide says). Two landowners signed in favor of petition which made it valid. It’s a dirt road now. Developer is not here tonight. City council will hear it on Feb 19th. Recommend recommending the petition. 3  Page |4 Q (DAB): Can we know who developer is – has there been any push back? A: None Q (DAB): Will the circle still be dirt? A: Loop street neighbors were offered the option to pave. They haven’t confirmed yet. No questions from the audience. Action Taken: Motion made by Troy Palmer to Accept the recommendation. Seconded by Trevor Kurth. MOTION PASSED 10-0-0 10. Ballpark Project – Update and Discussion Matt Hamm, SJCF Architecture, presented on the design build of the ballpark. They have been getting lots of feedback from different groups. He showed a few examples of other AAA ballparks. Minor league scale is a little different. The Las Vegas stadium cost $150 million and will seat 10 thousand. Birmingham stadium is similar to our stadium. It seats 8,600 – cost $69 million. The project in Reno has 9 thousand seats and cost $58 million. It has similar elements to our stadium. Entrances to Tulsa and Albuquerque – examples of themed entrance and sun shading devices like we are trying to accomplish. Nashville – 10 thousand capacity $96 million project. The new stadium in St. Paul seats 7,200 and is $65 million urban ballpark. It is simple and modern. The Charlotte stadium seats 10,200 and was built in 2014 for $54 million. The proposed design is a multi-use venue stadium. He pointed out the river and surrounding streets for frame of reference. There are three major entrances. First facing downtown to the east. Oriented toward the river, there is a large public plaza to McLean. Another entrance south, off of maple. Then there’s a Delano entrance to circulate down from restaurants in Delano into the ballpark. The scale for the site is much larger than Lawrence Dumont Stadium (LDS). It’s designed to be a 360 degree ballpark. There are opportunities for fan activities on all sides of the ballpark. For parking, there are 250 stalls on the south side, the majority will be in the downtown area. There are more than 5,000 parking stalls within a 10 minute walk. An urban stadium will require walking. McLean will be narrowed in the area to make parking for future activities and to make it more pedestrian friendly. He showed a conceptual image of the entrance from downtown. The urban entrance shows a two-story building and will house a team store and a museum on the ground floor. The upper floor will be team offices. There is a large party deck on top to be used for baseball and for museum events. The designers wanted to make it distinctly Wichita. They started looking at Delano materials and used that as the palette of building. They included brick and stone that would match Delano. He showed an aerial view of the SE corner looking to NW. There’s a large paved area that can be used as a gathering space. There are large concourses all around the stadium. It will allow people to move around and they won’t have to sit in their seat the whole game. There’s a large overhang to provide shading over the seating area. There are 5,600 seats in the bowl. The remainder of the seating is in the concourse in the outfield. There is also berm seating. You can see the scoreboard. There are a variety of seats in the outfield. There could be tiered picnic bench seating. You have the ability to have activities all year long. Football and soccer games could take place in the stadium. Food vendors could be on the concourse. You could have inflatable activities on the concourses. Looking from NW to SE from Delano area. It is partially recessed into the earth. It will be wheelchair accessible at every entrance. The design shows red brick and black detailing. There is berm seating near the Delano entrance. You can see the whole ballpark as soon as you come in. It’s a fairly open stadium. There is the opportunity for fans to interact with the players. That was stressed in the design. 4  Page |5 They have gotten feedback. People like tying the stadium design back to the community identity – there’s a Delano tie-in with the building materials. They were asked to make the river plaza entry more modern. They are working on that, even though it’s not reflected in the current rendering. They were asked to include shading and ways to keep people cool. They were asked to make sure they don’t forget what this looks like at night. Q (DAB): Is this the final design? A: They are still in the design phase. Like a painting, this is just the first layer of paint. They are starting with the first phase and developing from there. C (Troy Palmer): I’ve been to several meetings. There have been more discussions than this. The stadium looks like Maize High School. A: Concrete is going in the ground Feb 13. We are making outfield walls then we will build and design as we go. Q (DAB): Is the shaded area (on the rendering) a football field or soccer field? A: Yes Q (DAB): Will the (semi)pro soccer team play there? A (CM Frye): There’s interest on both parties. Q (DAB): When will the final design go to council? A (Scot Rigby): End of February. There are four DABS seeing this presentation tonight and others – we’re taking all that feedback. We are figuring out how to enhance the skin. The field is set. The bowl is set. We’re working on what is the skin. We are playing with elements – striking a balance between what’s unique to Wichita and how does it work within the budget. Q (CM Frye): How much of the $75 million will be spent on expediency to get this open? How much spending is for the rush to get it down? A: We didn’t set the time – the league said we have to be ready by 2020. We looked at seeing if there’s a premium. Getting sufficient bids is a time factor. If we take two years to do it we also look at inflation. There’s some premium to try and do it at 398 days. Q (CM Frye): We’re paying $6 million for the design aspect right? A: I’d have to go back and look at the numbers. $68 to $69 of actual construction. Q (CM Frye): I’ve heard its lacking some of the wow, some of the sizzle. I understand this is the base, then we add in the sizzle. People were disappointed they didn’t get the sizzle right off. Disappointed to see all the temporary stuff. Inflatable and shades. Some of those get tired out really quick. Having some permanency to some of those would make a better fan experience. I also heard about the shade. It gets hot. Will the press box be higher or lower? A: Its lower. You will step up 6 feet to the concourse level. Q (DAB): How many feet below grade level? A: Concourse to field is 16 feet. C (Rigby): LDS was very verticle. This one you walk up a little then go down. We toured the Charlotte facility. From street level it was 15 feet from sidewalk to top of building. LDS was much more vertical. We sunk the stadium down low. Single level of skybox. St Paul is similar to what will happen. Walk up some steps to concourse level then you look down into the bowl. Major league stadiums are much more built up. Q (DAB): Maybe you should have the next rendering starting at eye level? I like how the building looks. It fits in with Delano, contemporary, and urban, but I think the angle of the rendering is throwing people off. A: I totally agree. It’s a gigantic building, but will feel much different. The rendering looks plain right now, but that will change. Q (Rigby): Do we do a mural? Wichita is big on murals. C (Rigby): Food trucks – it’s narrow down McLean, but on game day and Riverfest you could have food trucks there. You get to interact with the river, close off streets and use as sidewalk during festival times and food trucks can pull up to the edge. You can go eat inside the park during lunch when there are no games. C (Hamm): We are going to extend Texas Street on through, but mainly it will be pedestrian only. You can go all the way around stadium and have multiple ways of getting in. Q (DAB): Did you design the library? 5  Page |6 A: No. C (DAB): Ugliest building I’ve ever seen. Just my opinion. C (Hamm): There is lots of talent working on this project. We are passionate. We won’t let people down, be patient. C (CM Frye): We have passion for this. We know LDS shortcomings, and Intrust (Bank Arena), and the library. People want this one down with no mistakes. Q (DAB): Any plans for a restaurant on site? More than hot dog stands and food trucks? A: Yes – that’s not really in our scope of work, but the master plan in the area shows a piece where some future retail locations can be developed on site. It will be active all year long. The future plaza could have restaurant as well. C (DAB): I’m thinking of St. Louis ball park village. A (Hamm): The stadium will have a club area for events like, if Rotary wanted to have an event. Catering activities. Bring your company. Q (DAB): Where will the pedestrian bridge be? Is it in the site plan? A (Rigby): It’s tentative to come in line with Texas Street. Still to be determined. We have looked forward and are planning for it. There’s a question about what happens on the east side of the river because we don’t know what will happen with Century II yet on the east side of the river. C (Hamm): The point of the plaza and bridge is to see it at night all lit up. Q (DAB): Is there going to be something with the urban feel? People don’t want to walk. Will there be any education that it’s ok to walk? A (Rigby): There was an article in the paper. C (DAB): A large portion of the population doesn’t get the paper. A (CM Frye): This will be a multi-modal community – bike share, walking, scooters, etc. There will be zones like trolley stops. C (Rigby): We want the stadium to be much more beneficial to more than just the stadium. We want people to linger downtown and walk by businesses. Go to old town before the game, grab a bite, and take the Q Line. Or go to Picasso in Delano then walk down. We don’t want people to park right in front of stadium then leave to go home. C (CM Frye): If you put the Coliseum over Intrust, you obliterate so many things – you wouldn’t have a downtown. We never had problems parking at Intrust. Parking garages can be awful. Have you ever been stuck in a parking garage at a sold out event? A (Rigby): Walking to and from the event is part of the fun pre and post event. C (DAB): Like Bricktown in Oklahoma. C (CM Frye): Our job is to make the space around the stadium safe, attractive, and enjoyable so you don’t feel like you have to park right outside the event. C (DAB): I hope you do something to make me feel like this is going to be done right. All I hear is rush, rush, rush. I’m afraid it will fall apart in 10 years. We don’t want to know what we could have done if we didn’t do it right. Hopefully there will be a media blitz that will make me think it will be great in 10 years. C (Rigby): We want to make sure this will still be great in 10, 15, 20 years. C (DAB): As the youth member, I want to stay in Wichita, and I want to see this still being great. C (CM Frye): Please stay engaged. We want your feedback. C (DAB): I recently read an example of a pottery class with two different groups. One group was to take the whole semester to design just one pot. The other group designed as many as they could and keep improving. The one pot group was unimaginative, the fast track pot was way better. All this feedback and design concepts are making it better. C (DAB): I like the one from St Paul. My personal opinion. Love the over hanging outdoor area. Looks cool but also timeless. The open area is striking. I don’t really like sloped. C (DAB): I drive by it all the time. It has a presence. It looks cool. I want to go to a game there. I’m concerned there’s no presence from Kellogg. Let’s make people drive by and want to go there. Just give it some presence. C (DAB): Still give it that same look. I like having permanent shade structures that look cool and have lots of overhangs. 6  Page |7 Action Taken: Motion made to receive and file presentation and commentary. Motion PASSED 10- 0-0. 11. Aquatics Master Plan – Update and Discussion Jannea Noel, Park and Recreation, presented on the Aquatics Master Plan (AMP). She showed the map of existing pools and splash pads. A PowerPoint presentation gave the history and timeline of the project starting in 2011. It showed pools that have been closed and findings from surveys in 2012 – 2016. In 2017, the AMP was approved. Last year C (CM Frye): One thing that’s missing, we added a 4th pool for McAdams. The current master plan has a 6pm close time. The new swim hours will be until 8pm and we added a 7th day a week. We will also keep pools open through Labor Day. The presentation showed operational costs of pools and splash pads. The presentation showed the estimated basic cost breakdown. The presentation showed the enhanced cost with more features. The presentation showed the estimated cost every summer for pools and splash pads. The presentation showed common issues with pools, such as outdated filter systems, old piping, and dated perimeter gutter blocks. The current filter system is over 50 years old. There are two potential new types of filters: pressure sand filters and regenerative media filters. There are several issues with Harvest Pool. While the structure is in fair condition, it has an outdated filter system and old piping – from 1962. It does not have a zero-entry area. Potential improvements for Harvest Pool include replacing the filter system and piping, add a zero-entry with ADA ramp, add a water play structure, add a drop slide, and current channel. There’s a plan to adjust the CIP timeline. That would include updating three pools this year and updating three next year. All pools would be operational by 2021. C (CM Frye): Here’s the big takeaway – this keeps three pools open and improves them then adds a fourth pool. Then add in splash pads. That was $22 million. Then we said are those pools in such bad condition we need to close them? What if we replaced filters and added amenities. Staff went back and looked and lowered the overall cost to $16 million, we got to keep sic pools instead of just four. Instead of starting from scratch, we take what we have and get more use. Increased operating hours gets more people in the gates. Right now, they’re just big cement bath tubs. This plan means six pools all get similar treatments. Take out waiting pools and get splash pads. Makes them more attractive. Lower operating cost and make them more attractive to generate more revenue and keep two more pools. We think going from $22 million to $16.5 million is a much better plan. We can get this all done in three years as opposed to eight years. Get that return much quicker. It will reopen McAdams pool which has been a concern in the community. We think this is a good plan all the way around. It impacts more people, increasing the operating season and hours at a lower cost. We want to make sure we get this right and don’t leave out anyone. Other communities have splash pads, more than what is represented here. That’s why we’re hearing this again. I’m sure you’re tired of it, we’ve been working on it since 2011. The splash pad designer put thought into each neighborhood. Each one will be different. C (Frye): Uniqueness. Council is excited. This is going to all DABs and the Park Board will hear it again, but it saves money and builds in for the future. We want to get people using these pools again. Q (DAB): How much does it cost to get into the pool? 7  Page |8 A: $2 for kids 17 and under, $3 for adults. We want to do events at pools, like a splash in movie. Extended hours let us do more family events. We get phone calls in August all the time asking if we’re open. Q (DAB): How many of our playgrounds and pools and splash pads have handicap access? A: I think they all have lifts. College Hill has zero depth entry. Splash pads have sidewalks. This plan has zero entries and splash pads are accessible to everyone. Q (DAB): What about playgrounds? A (CM Frye): Sedgwick County Park has a playground designed for the disabled. Q (DAB): Other ones? A (Davidson): A lot of them are going Pour’n’Play so you don’t get sand on your wheelchair. Next Park and Recreation will present the plans to the remaining DABs and Board of Park Commissioners. They will incorporate feedback into the final draft plans. Action Taken: Motion made to receive and file presentation and commentary. Motion PASSED 10- 0-0. 12. CON2018-00046 Phillip Zevenbergen, Metropolitan Area Planning Department, presented an application on behalf of Jerry D. Owsley (Owner) / Daniel Adams (Applicant). The location is at 6000 West Central. It is a former windshield repair shop. They are requesting use for outdoor vehicle sales. Conditional use for vehicle sales does not permit repair, just display and sale. Most of the surrounding properties are limited commercial as well. There are several auto related businesses on the east side of the street, this would be first on west side. History of site – protected overlay means additional rules. Protected overlay is meant to protect the neighborhood. There’s the potential for increased vehicle traffic. Provides complete access control on Central. All access to the site comes from the east side on Boyd Avenue. One driveway has to remain shut during business hours except when they are moving a vehicle in and out. Recommending approval with conditions. North side - no customer parking, no vehicle display, no signs - to protect integrity of the neighborhood on that side. Staff has received no phone calls on this. Not super contentious. After staff presentation, DAB members and residents in attendance asked and shared the following questions and comments: Q (CM Frye): When does MAPC hear it? A: February 7. Q (CM Frye): How many vehicles will be allowed to be displayed for sale? A: No more than 14. Q (DAB): There are only 12 spaces – where do customers park? A: A few for costumer parking and for display parking. They count employee parking stalls inside the building. No parking is allowed on the grass. Q (DAB): Isn’t there parking on north side of building. Just on other side of building. A: That could be where they put in employee parking. Q (DAB): They are selling used vehicles? Have we not had enough of these places on this side of town? C (Resident): That’s a bad traffic area. It’s busy. A: This is the first one on the west side. There are repair shops on the west side of 235. There is a tire shop. Q (DAB): Does that back up to Arapahoe? A: Yes. Protective overlay comes in there. That’s residential. Those garage doors must stay shut. 8  Page |9 C (Resident): I say no. It’s congested there and it’s getting worse. Putting in a car lot, traffic coming in and out of QuikTrip. There’s no room for a used car lot there. Q (DAB): Are people on Boyd going to be happy about that? A (CM Frye): They haven’t been notified. Not close enough. A: The onus is on them to call the number to find out what is going on. Q (DAB): How long have the signs been on that block? A: About four weeks. C: We have not received any calls or emails about this. C (CM Frye): I haven’t either. C (DAB): I just don’t like the aesthetics of it. It’s not going to be very attractive there. C (CM Frye): A vacant building is not very attractive either. C (DAB): It would be someone paying property taxes. C (DAB): From a zoning standpoint – I don’t see an issue. Action Taken: Motion made by Trevor Kurth to ACCEPT the application with the Staff Report conditions. Seconded by DAB member. MOTION PASSED 9-1-0 CM Frye: Sedgwick county building plans – bring everything to ADA upgrades, picnic tables and grills, last phase – Sedgwick County is making the park very accessible to people with disabilities. I wanted to share that. CM Frye: The single most comments I got from the Park Board was from Sedgwick County Park. DAB: The other thing we’re concerned about is scooters. Several blind members can’t hear scooters. We’re doing research. CM Frye: We had a workshop on them - electric power scooters. Talking and negotiating with transit now. We’ve been studying these other markets. We know keeping them off sidewalks is what we keep hearing most. They can go up to 15 mph, following the rules of the road. Not obstructing private property. Just workshopping. Not known if it will go back to DAB. Will probably be next couple of months. Think it’s a fad, but are another option for transit. You might take a bus, then grab a scooter to get you that extra mile. Sidewalks downtown are not wide enough for scooters. Goes back to people using a lot of methods of transportation. Q (DAB): Will there be a scooter lane? A (CM Frye): They would use the bike lane. They’re motorized. Q (DAB): The scooters would be available for rent? A (CM Frye): Like the bike share. They will follow the rules of the road. CM Frye: Also, the neighborhood to the south of this (Zoning case). We did a traffic study. Proves traffic coming in that neighborhood is from the neighborhood. People aren’t cutting through. We’re going to recommend a couple of signs that say no through traffic. We will do another study late summer. Best thing is for on and off ramps to get put in, but until that time, we will look for little things like signage. Looking for Community Development Block Grants to help pave roads. City does not pay to pave roads. But this neighborhood is low income, which is why we’re looking for CDBG funds. You’ll hear that in April. Those folks will be invited back. Meeting was adjourned at 8:22 p.m. The next DAB V meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m., Monday, February 4, 2019, Fire Station #21, 2110 N. 135th St., Wichita, KS 67235. 9