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HomeMy WebLinkAbout09/14/2000 CDC MINUTES THE COLONY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION REGULAR SESSION SEPTEMBER 14"n, 2000 Present: Susan King - President Vicki Briggs - Treasurer Sue Walden - Secretary Bunker Hill - Member John Sanders - Member Absent: Richard Boyer - Vice President Guests: Lucy Billingsley Lanny Lambert Staff: Pam Nelson Sam Fitzgerald Kathy Neal 1. STAFF REPORTS - $190,000 has been transferred into the TX Pool account from the checking account. REPORT BY 4A BOARD EX-OFFICIO - The 4A Board held a special meeting. They are recommending the City Council give $250,000 to Crow-Billingsley for the infrastructure costs for Pizza Inn. 2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF AUGUST 10TH, 2000. Vicki made a motion to approve the minutes of August 10t', 2000. John seconded the motion. The motion carried. 3. RECEIVE UPDATE FROM LUCY BILLINGSLEY ON AUSTIN RANCH DEVELOPMENT. Windhaven is landscaped and the bridge is completed. There are trees in the medians on Plano Parkway. Utilities are still coming in. There are plans to use different types of grasses throughout the development. Lucy showed the board examples of the multi-family development. In the multi-family development, 25%-27% of the first development is green space and parkland. There are 32 buildings in the first development. All the buildings front onto a park. There will be pocket parks and green space on every block. We want to build parks that will make people have a reason to come to them. We would like to have a hike/bike system that comes through Austin Ranch and connects to other systems in this area and any other borders it might touch. There is also a nature reserve. There is about 200 acres in the Indian Creek area and it is also designed with a hike/bike path through it. Pizza Inn will have their corporate headquarters in Austin Ranch. Freddie Mack will have a regional office and The Leather Center will also have an office in Austin Ranch. The next thing you will see from us includes any other corporations we can bring in and the next phase of our multi-family development. There will be 85 town homes for rent; 3 of the buildings will be garden buildings. The house that is currently on the property has been converted into a meeting center. It can seat up to 60 people in the main room. Lucy informed the board that they are the only developers doing the multi-family development in Austin Ranch and this is also the largest multi-family development being done by a single developer in the country. 4. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF CDC LOGO. Sue made a motion`to approve sample A of the CDC logo. Bunker seconded the motion. The motion carried. 5. CONSIDERATION AND APPROVAL OF HIRING DUNKIN, SIMS & STOFFELS AS THE CONSULTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY COMPLEX PROJECT. Pam informed the board that we have not yet received a formal contract from Dennis. John made a motion to table this item until the board receives the formal contract. Sue seconded the motion. The motion carried. 6. DISCUSSION OF NAME AND THEME FOR COMMUNITY COMPLEX. Pam would like members of the board, along with the Park Board and staff, to come up with ideas for the name and theme for the new complex and how they would implement their ideas throughout the complex. If anyone has any ideas, they are to bring them to the next meeting in October. 7. CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF FUNDING FOR MEDIAN LANDSCAPING MASTER PLAN. Lanny informed the board that he intends to ask 4B and City Council for funding yearly, to landscape at least 1-2 blocks of the medians on 423, Plano Parkway, North Colony and South Colony, but before anything can be done, a Master Plan needs to be in place. We have gone out for proposals and have received 4 back. We have chosen Carter & Burgess; they have a long history with our city, and they were chosen based on their qualifications, and not the lowest bid. A cost of $28,100 was negotiated for a Master Plan. Pam added that there would also be a developmental concept plan. They will present us with a couple of options, then from that they will detail and finalize it into a Master Plan. This will not include construction documents, which will be an additional cost. Pam said a lot of the reimbursables will be based on what we request from them. Vicki made a motion to agree to fund a Master Plan for median landscaping not to exceed $28,100. Sue seconded the motion. The motion carried. Pam said there would have to be a public hearing before we take it to City Council. When we inform City Council that we are helping to fund the project, we will express the boards concern that Council also find funding to put toward this project. 8. DISCUSSION OF REQUESTING FUNDING ASSISTANCE FROM 4A FOR MEMORIAL DR. AND RELATED INFRASTRUCTURE. Pam informed the board we are currently putting together the development plans for Memorial Dr. The 4A Board has expressed an interest in assisting with the development of the complex. There is a meeting scheduled with JNC, their planning consultant, the Mayor, Dennis Sims, and some others to discuss the drainage improvements and Memorial Dr. She will invite Tom Terrell if the board thinks he should be included. The mayor wants us to move forward on these projects as soon as possible so we can have things in place and ready to go when the grant approval comes in August. The board gave Pam their consensus to pursue 4A for funding assistance. 9. DIRECTOR / ASST. DIRECTOR UPDATE - FRIENDSHIP PARK - The sidewalk will be on the perimeter of the park. It will go to the pavilion and between the playground and basketball court. RIDGEPOINTE PARK - The bid opening is September 22. Dirt should move in mid October and it will take 3 '/z months to complete. BLUE SKY - The foundation for the 330,000 sq. foot building has been laid. The water well has been drilled and there are 2 5,000-gallon tanks that have been set. The 3 soccer fields have been leveled and do have irrigation. Sod should be there the first of October. Pam said the state will be widening 423, but the issue of a turn lane from the north and south on 423 has come up. The preliminary cost estimate for additional turn lanes is $20,000, and Peter may be asking for some assistance with this. We're also asking the county to assist with the funding. SIGN FOR COMMUNITY COMPLEX - The signs have been ordered. There are 4 4x8 signs - 2 will go on Blair Oaks within the next few weeks and the other 2 will go on Paige Rd., but not until the gas line construction is completed in January. PROJECT PRIORITY LIST - City Council wants to have a map of all the projects 413 will be doing and an estimate on when they will be completed so they can have one public hearing to cover all of them. A list of the projects and the estimated cost is in the Master Plan, but not the estimated time of completion. Sam is working on a spreadsheet to show all projects, 4B projects and Parks & Rec. projects. The spreadsheet will show an estimated completion date, the funding source, it will show updates and the status of each project and much more. COPPELL REC. CENTER TRIP - There was no discussion on this item. 10. OTHER BUSINESS. None. The meeting was adjourned at 8:30 p.m. ,F JA~ 114 R Katy Neal, ~Recording Secretary Susan King, Presid nt