Petition of North Block Spring Street Development LLC, for the vacation of the alley in Block 52, A.A. Denny’s Extension to Terry’s 1st Addition.
Show assignment. Please read agenda item number 17. Agenda Item 17 Count Clerk File 314364. Petition of North BLOCK Spring Street Development, LLC for the vacation of the Alley and BLOCK 52 Eya Dennis extension to Terry's First Extension. First Edition The committee recommends the petition be granted as conditioned. Because member Brian. Thank you. So this alley vacation is on the block. We talked about this a little bit, but the block where town hall is on first hill, the project would vacate the alley to allow for construction of a single underground parking structure that will serve two new towers that are going in on the I guess that would be the southeastern half of the block. And then the alley will be restored. It will no longer be public right away, but there will be passage through there. The public benefit includes a number of benefits, the most prominent of which is public plaza, which will be on the immediately to the southwest of town hall. And I've been a skeptic in the past of public causes as public benefit for street only vacations. But I really want to applaud the applicants on this for what I consider to be really excellent work with the community, including with Town Hall as an entity to design a public plaza that really enhances the public benefits for accessing the town hall. And even for folks that aren't using town halls, it fronts on two adjacent streets. I think this is a good example of a strong set of public benefits worthy of our support for this alley vacation. Thank you very much. Any further comments, Councilman Johnson? Just briefly want to reserve the same thing that I said in the first discussion on this one councilmember run. I agree with you about the public benefit here, but I, I strongly encourage our friends at town hall to consider limiting access. You know, we've set up this wonderful public plaza that's going to be separated from an access point to the town hall, which which will have some bollards to keep folks from the plaza walking into what is going to be a very lightly used space for kind of pick up and drop off. And I would love for us to think about what some street treatments would look like to allow for that to be more of a public space during the times when people won't be at events, the town hall and more of a drop off from times when there are events. I know that's not something we can really condition, but I'm hopeful that our friends at Town Hall and the friends of Lennar will consider that as an alternative so that we can keep more of the space for people more times of the day. Thanks. Very good. Okay, this is a clerk file. So those in favor of granting the petition petition as conditions, please vote. I i those opposed vote no. The motion carries the petition is granted as condition and the chair was signed the conditions of the City Council please read items 18 and 19.