“Every line here represents multiple meetings and you know meeting with the developers and their design teams and the county multiple times and talking about every little Nuance every inch we can get uh because the goal is what we're trying to do is create as much space between the bridges as we can get essentially”

“I always worry about graffiti in spaces like this and so as you design this I hope that you think about how it can be easily cleaned how it can deter graffiti and stuff because I would hate to have something beautiful put in and then just be uh be grimy within a year or two”

“I would like to see what um an overhead view of Centennial Lakes is between those bridges because that was supposed to be the model and kind of make it feel Airy and open and I don't really have an accurate understanding you know when I see that Gap um how that compares percentage wise in terms of open space”

“I think one of the most significant things you've done though is to get the county to cooperate at some level here uh and that's that's pretty remarkable because over the years that I've been on the council have the sense that henan County engineering department is mostly interested in throughput”

“Projects like this are truly transformational to the community the current site uh is valued at about $12 million to the tax assessor it pays a tax bill every year of nearly $350,000 that's a lot of money with this type of transformational change those numbers will increase exponentially um where the future taxes to be paid increase by a factor of 10 to $3.6 million”

“I'm very concerned about this that what we have put forth as land use um terms seem to automatically trigger Tiff I'm concerned about the parking um I think if you're going to have shops you're going to need parking and to say that that's public is nice but the Public's going to be coming to go to the shops anyways”

“I don't see anything in here about the language we've talked about with complying with labor standards um I very much want to see that in in any document that we go forward with um the assessment um if we're paying taxes or if if the property's paying taxes based on a $12 million assessment but this property probably sold for close to double that why does our assessment so far below what the market value of this property is”

“I'm also trying to wrestle with the idea of blighted property the Macy's Furniture Store is an upscale furniture store and I know has repeatedly been referred to as a bunker I think it is a remarkable piece of architecture from that era when Earth reinforcement was something that people did and when you walk into that Macy's Furniture Store it certainly does not feel like like blighted property”

“I I definitely understand you're saying there's a difference between what a um What expenses a school district may need from a budgetary standpoint and what's available that's kind of how I hear you describing that um and so this project would contribute more to what's potentially available but then the district would look at well how much do we actually need to spend from a budgetary standpoint”

“What I would say in I appreciate sort of the Rhythm if you will that we've developed over time by asking you to look at a very detailed term sheet we've developed a 40-page document in order to say okay is the general direction going correctly this is not a commitment at this point in time and there are you know several looks at this again before a final decision is made”

“I do want to underscore that it was me raising a concern about the France Avenue access from the sidewalk not being ADA Compliant and for that to be something that and I did it as a city council person for that to be something that a city council person has to raise at a time when we are under doj investigation for not being ADA Compliant on the Grand View pedestrian bridge is just to me mindboggling”