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City of Centerville November 12, 2003 Council Meeting Minutes reserves the right to ~hange her mind based on input from residents or further information obtained but, at this time, she sees no reason why she would change her mind.-. Mayor Sweeney indicated that, if residents understand that there is not a tax advantage to having commercial, they would be in favor of the project as it would provide the tax base to lower taxes in the future. He then said there may be a surprise from the residents but he feels that taxes drive their opinions and the ability to lower taxes should be well received. - - Council Member Paar indicated that he did not hear that taxes were too high when he was running what he got was that residents do not inind the high taxes as long as this is a decent place to live and the other comment he got is that houses are going up way too quickly. Council Member Broussard Vickers commented that it is amazing that all those people are living in houses that somebody else did not want built and it seems that they all want the door closed behind them. Council Member Paar indicated he was not looking at no more houses at all but since he has been on Council the City has approved homes to come in quicker than planned which he did vote to approve but he does not think: that 13 5 townhomes in the area is a good idea. He then said that the comments he has received are that people do not want - townhomes. Council Member Paar commented that he did not appreciate the way this sort of slid in the back door as it started off as a commercial townhome project with Sedona Homes and evolved to a TIF proposal for a lot of townhomes. He then said he felt as if the Mayor and Council Member Lee were privy to the information and he and Council Member Capra were not. He further commented that he is not going to change his mind. Mr. Kellier indicated that he would like to add language to the developer's agreement to indicate that Phase I is Lots 1 through 10 of Block 1. City Attorney Hoeft indicated he had no issue with that change. Mr. Kellier indicated that they have an issue with the flood plain and being able to meet the requirement for flood storage on site. He then asked for the leeway of Council to work with the City's Engineer and Rice Creek Watershed District to come to an agreement on how to handle the flood storage as it may mean changing some existing flood plain designations. Council asked that this matter be placed on the December 1, 2003 agenda for further discussion on the flood storage issue. Page 11 of15