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City of Centerville Council Meeting Minutes March 11, 2020 geous to vote now when there is so many people who came here. Not a good reason not to vote. She also stated the goal was to bring businesses to the downtown. There is room for 1 store in this apartment building where are these new businesses going to go downtown without them to bring people to the Main Street area which is where she thinks not the downtown. When we are trying to develop the downtown, where do they go other the plan? Mayor Paar referred back to the Comp Plan and how it lay out the downtown area. this is the right place for the apartment building and if she knew this was going in she would have never moved where she did. She is very opposed to the apartment and to the TIF. Mr. Steve King, 1724 Sorel Street, stated that he agrees with everyone else. He stated that he will be running again in November. He stated 2 weeks ago when he came to the council meeting, they were talking about a new irrigation system. Mr. King stated he remembers when they were doing the road project and spend roughly $340,000 for storm water drainage and that was supposed to solve our problems for drainage in the downtown area. Now we are going to expand that and spend roughly $168,000 on the Church property, he feels very uncomfortable with that. What if the Church decides to sells the property. Would we lose our credits? Does the City have a backup plan? Administrator Statz explained the pond by the park is where we pull water out of the water the ballfields. We earned storm water credit for that that offset the need for ponds; for instance, the Centerville Road project, we did not build any ponds for that project, that because we had this system in place. We also use this to offset other street projects. The 2009 street project that project they added rain gardens. We are expanding this because we want to redevelop the downtown area and this bring in more credits. He stated they have not signed an agreement yet as the Church property and there will be clauses in the agreement that give us time. Mr. King stated this is a hidden cost to the project to add a pond. A lengthy discussion ensued. Ms. Julie Lindsay, 1687 Sorel Street, when the City of Centerville roughly $200,000 she thought the reasoning for that was where the pond was supposed to go s no pond there and now there is going to be a parking lot. Administrator Statz stated that there was a pond design for that piece of property. Ms. Marybeth Wasiloski, 1688 Heritage Street, directly across the street where the proposed apartment building is going in. She grew up there and has a lot fond memories of the ice staking rink and the fire station, etc. She stated that she thinks downtown is Main Street. see space for retail anywhere. Unless you take all the way back to the Beard Group and you want space for downtown right there. There is space on Main Street, however, if you take the 2 buildings across the street and restructure them, remodeling them something. She stated that because of the rent, people are having a hard time staying there when times get tough. She feels Main Street should be the focus of the downtown. She commending all the people that came out to the meeting. She received an email that only 3 people were interest and she was one of them. She stated she does not want the apartment building going in. It sounds like 10% of the people showed up to say they did not want this and that means something. It the Page 11 of 18