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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,June 03,2013 Page 29 By consensus of the City Council, Mr. Trudgeon was directed to included proper- ty owners in Areas 1, 2 and 3 in the invitation. At the request of Councilmember McGehee, Mr. Trudgeon confirmed that there were several developers considering the area and potential projects; but in most cases they had no specific ideas yet, and some had ideas,but nothing concrete yet. Mayor Roe suggested that staff provide the City Council with a list of some of the types of applications being considered or discussed; however, he suggested cau- tion that the City Council didn't steer its own vision and plan to those proposals or it may end up with an entirely different development than that preferred Mr. Paschke advised that, just because there was a developer and land owner showing interest, they may never come to an agreement; and as property values continued to increase, some of those agreements may become more difficult to achieve. If the City zones the property to allow for certain uses, while it may seem like a great idea and a preferred development idea, Mr. Paschke cautioned that it didn't guarantee them completing a project, especially without some public incentives. Mayor Roe questioned if the City Council's desire was to start with a zoning dis- cussion first, or take it one step further conceptually about what the City Council thought to provide property owners/developers more to which they could respond. Councilmember McGehee opined that the planned out Twin Lakes Parkway, orig- inally intended to protect Langton Lake Park, no longer made sense, since those interior parcels had already been developed. Before proceeding any further than it currently did to Arthur Street, Councilmember McGehee opined that housing and traffic implications needed more review. Based on her past discussions with Mr. Lamb, Councilmember McGehee stated that he had been told not to remove the proposed parkway from the regulating map, as it was a given. Councilmem- ber McGehee opined that, if the City paid a consultant to do something, staff should not take things out of the picture. Councilmember McGehee opined that she found that roadway problematic at Terrace Drive, as it would be running traf- fic into a residential neighborhood, and needed to be rethought. Mayor Roe stated that the City Council majority would need to make that deci- sion in the future; to which Councilmember McGehee responded that it was a City Council decision, not hers or his. At the request of Councilmember Willmus as to which blocks should be removed, Mr. Trudgeon suggested guidance from the property owners for that discussion.