City Council Meeting

William Fournierpublic commentof development for any site within an activity center. You recently rejected the courthouse plaza redevelopment design, which used the small area plan as justification. You won't be able to deny it in the future. The small building artistic renditions in the plans are misleading in how they portray the results of the development. Nine-story buildings are not in keeping with the city since the Massey building was demolished. The small area plans do not necessarily make economic sense. In the Fairfax Circle small area plan, the Home Depot will be gone in 10 years. Home Depot is the single highest sales tax revenue to the city. During the planning commission meeting, Dr. Rice said that Home Depot, like it is now,

Wendy Sanfordstaffis what we're talking about adding that new black box on the left so now we're going to focus on the five projects that are proposed for the two-year program that starts the upcoming two-year program. The first project, Fairfax Circle intersection evaluation. As you know, we've done some very high-level concept planning for Fairfax Circle. We had a TLC grant to do this. We looked at it again through the Fairfax Circle small area plan, but it's been very high level. So what is proposed now is to take that next step to develop an actual concept that we would want to pursue. And so what the small area plan stated was that the final design will be determined later. Well, now we're saying that time is now.