DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY BOARD MINUTES

November 17, 2005

Members Present Rus Brock Gary Corcoran Bernie Deutsch Carlo Gegen Herb Hacker John Hart Pete Hemingway Barbara Koffron Scott Mardian Herman Orcutt Ken Roth Paul Scott Patricia Thornham Members Absent Ben Barcon Jake Jacobsen Michael McHale Danny Ortega Greg Russel Darrell Wilson

Staff Karen Beckley, DSD Carole Borrego,DSD Deborah Larkins BCSC Joanne Owens, DSD Anne Sobczak, DSD John Watson, Fire Tauny Woo, EAS Ex-Officio's Present Jim Baughman, Planning Michael Hamblin, Law Chaun Hill, Streets Patrick Ravenstein, NSD Derek Horn, DSD Aaron LaRoque, Water Services Ex-Officio's Absent None Others in Attendance Susanne Gilstrap, Arizona Multihousing

CALL TO ORDER
Barbara Koffron, DAB Chairperson, convened the meeting at 3:18 p.m.

Approval of September 15, 2005 Minutes:
Motion was made by Scott Mardian, seconded by John Hart, to approve the meeting minutes of September 15, 2005.
Motion carried unanimously.

Call to the Public (No Board Discussion):
None

Introduction of Debra Stark, City of Phoenix, Planning Director:
Jim Baughman, Planning Department, introduced Debra Stark, City of Phoenix new Planning Director. Ms. Stark stated that she was glad to be working for the City of Phoenix and offered her assistance to the DAB with any questions or problems that may arise.

Discussion and Possible Action on the Recommendation for the Adoption of the 2005 Phoenix Building construction Code:
Derek Horn stated that the amendments that the DAB is reviewing at today’s meeting are considered “clean-up amendments”. When the code was adopted earlier this year, staff began to use them and discovered that there were items that were not included, along with changes that needed to be made. An amendment package was prepared and the DAB Technical Subcommittee met to review these changes. Pete Hemingway stated that the DAB Technical Subcommittee has reviewed the updated the codes and revisions. The changes have been made and the subcommittee would like to ask the Development Advisory Board to move them forward for final approval from City Council.

Public Hearing on the proposed Phoenix Amendments and Editorial Changes to the 2005 Phoenix Bulding Construction Code:
Ms Koffron commended the DAB Technical Subcommittee and staff for meeting and doing such an excellent job with the amendments.

SUBCOMMITTEE REPORTS:
Process & Procedures
Subcommittee did not meet due to lack of a quorum.

Fiscal & Performance
Scott Mardian stated that the DSD Fee Definitions would be available for review, along with the Fee and Fund Balance contractor presenting their report. They would like to make their presentation at the December 2005 DAB meeting.

Water Services Subcommittee
Carlo Gegan stated that the subcommittee did not meet.

Residential Fire Sprinklers
Ken Roth stated that this has been presented to the Fire Safety Subcommittee and they are working on obtaining costs from the Water Department to find out what savings there are to the Master Plan Builders to make them cost effective.

Technical
Mr. Hemingway stated that they are working on pool enclosure systems. They are still working on this issue and will inform the DAB at a future meeting.

Mr. Wandrie stated that he has been in contact with the proponent of this amendment change. This change consists of a pool barrier made out of mesh and aluminum posts. Some of the concerns are weathering; we want to be sure that the mesh will hold up to the weather conditions on Phoenix. Another concern is the posts that are supporting the mesh and the base connections of the posts. Mr. Wandrie stated that when these posts are anchored into the pool decking, they could be easily removed with a tool. The concern was to be able to remove it, then forgetting to replace the fence.

Mr. Hemingway stated that the subcommittee has been working on the Phoenix Supplements to the MAG in regards to the Street Transportation Department. The subcommittee was invited to a demonstration, set up by Joe McElvaney, in regards to the turning radius on fire trucks. This is still being worked on and will be forthcoming to the DAB.

Presentation on the Development Services Department Staff Report:
Derek Horn gave a brief power point presentation showing recent performance measures within the department

Discussion and Information on the City of Phoenix Bond Program:
Cecile Pettle, Budget and Research Director, spoke about the City of Phoenix Bond Program. Ms. Pettle briefly explained the 2006 Bond Program and went over a fact sheet. She stated that there are 187 projects that the Bond Committee choose to forward on to the Phoenix voters.

Ms. Pettle explained that about 760 Phoenix residents have been organized in the 2006 Bond Committee process. Former Mayor Paul Johnson chaired this Bond Committee. She stated that the Bond Committees took $3.2 billion dollars in request, plus another couple of hundred projects proposed by the village planning committees, which came down to the $878 million dollar program that they recommended to the City Council.

Ms. Pettle stated that Bonds generates funding to build fire stations, libraries, senior centers, and museums. In the last couple of months, the programs have been used for blight eliminations in neighborhoods, commercial revitalization’s to bring back strip malls, etc. Ms. Pettle mentioned that there is a great deal of money in this bond programs that is committed to the west side revitalization program, as well as the ASU Downtown Campus.

Update, Information, and possible action on the City of Phoenix Fire Code Amendments:
John Watson, Fire Prevention Manager, gave a brief presentation on the City of Phoenix Fire Code Amendments. The final approval of the amendments was done by the Fire Safety Advisory Board (FSAB) on November 3, 2005. The public hearings will be held on Monday, November 21, 2005. These codes will be going to City Council in December 2005. Mr. Watson stated that FSAB reviewed the policies and standards and added them to the body of the code.

Update and Information on the ICC Code Council Annual Conference:
Tom Wandrie, Building Official, stated that the City of Phoenix had good representation at the ICC Code Council Annual Conference. The Development Services Department and the Fire Department were present at this conference. During this conference many code change proposals were voted on to go into the 2006 I-Codes.

Update, Information, and Possible Action on the Draft Process of the Traffic Calming Design
Patricia Thornham requested that this item be tabled until December 2005.

Discussion and Information Regarding the DAB Strategic Planning Retreat that was held on Thursday, October 20, 2005.
Ms. Koffron thanked all DAB members who attended and participated in this retreat. She stated that excellent suggested were submitted and would like to get started on some of goals the retreat created.

Rus Brock suggested a realignment of subcommittees or create a new subcommittee to work on some of the retreat goals. Bernie Deutch suggested that a subcommittee be created to simplification of projects. Ms. Koffron stated this was an excellent idea and appointed Mr. Deutch as chairperson. Mr. Hemingway suggested that each chair of the current subcommittee’s be present at the meeting to go through the retreat goals and possibly divide the retreat goals between subcommittees.

The first meeting will be in January of 2006.

Discussion Regarding Future DAB Agenda Items: