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Talk Line with Glen Hughes on Dixon's comprehensive plan · WIXN AM 1460 - Shaw Local Radio

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Sock Valley. You've joined the Waking crew here
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Speaker 1: on FM ninety five one fourteen sixty WIXN. It's sixty
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Speaker 1: eight sixteen excuse me on your January twenty sixth morning,
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Speaker 1: and it's time for talk line and I'm joined in
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Speaker 1: the booth once again by our good friend, the Mayor
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Speaker 1: of Dixon, Glen Hughes. Glenn, how are you, sir?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing well. How are you this morning?
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm doing well. Other than the unsightly site of
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Speaker 1: my my left eye. It's feeling much better today. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a it's a thing, all right. How's the weather
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Speaker 1: out there? We're bracing for the cold? How are you
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Speaker 1: preparing for that?
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Speaker 2: I'm just letting it happen too many years in the Midwest.
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Speaker 2: It is what it is. Yeah, got to stay in
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Speaker 2: a little bit more. And you know, I'm I'm sure
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Speaker 2: the guys with the city, the street Department, water, those
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Speaker 2: guys are probably checking things out and being a little
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Speaker 2: bit more cautious on than that we have. In the
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Speaker 2: last week or so, we had a couple of water
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Speaker 2: lines break and that's not very fun in the cold
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Speaker 2: weather that we had.
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Speaker 1: No, no, I'll be letting my faucets slow drip throughout
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Speaker 1: the night tonight and into the afternoon. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So, I'm sure they're not really thrilled about the about
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Speaker 2: the cold weather, but they do a pretty good job
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Speaker 2: of planning for issues, so they'll they'll handle it pretty well. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, My hat's off to anybody who's got to be
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Speaker 1: outside working in any of this and making sure those
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Speaker 1: things stay operational. It's not my forte. We are Midwesterners,
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Speaker 1: you're right, but that doesn't mean I gotta like it.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's that's true, you know, hope for April or
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Speaker 2: May sooner.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely and honestly can't complain too much with all of
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Speaker 1: the yo yo weather we had. It was almost fifty
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Speaker 1: on Christmas. Yeah, so that's okay. We wanted to start
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Speaker 1: off today talking just kind of retouching on the recent
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Speaker 1: comprehensive plan that had been approved.
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Speaker 2: Right, Yes, yes, we finally got the updated comprehensive plan.
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Speaker 2: For those who haven't heard me talk about it before,
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Speaker 2: that plan is well over twenty years old. The current
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Speaker 2: the one we had been using, really falls back to
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Speaker 2: around two thousand. I don't remember the exact year, two thousand,
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Speaker 2: two thousand and one, and it was kind of linked
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Speaker 2: into a couple other plans, including the Riverfront plan. It
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Speaker 2: was all kind of packaged together, but we went beyond
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Speaker 2: that plan. You know, a lot of the things that
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Speaker 2: were in that plan, the riverfront area, the area between
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Speaker 2: the railroad tracks and the interstate, you know out there
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Speaker 2: in the Walmart area, those were all key parts. You know,
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Speaker 2: that entrance coming into town and development of the downtown
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Speaker 2: and the riverfront area. All that stuff is now happening.
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Speaker 2: You know. I've had somebody asked me, well, you know,
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Speaker 2: why do we have to spend that type of money on,
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Speaker 2: you know, on a new comprehensive plan. Why don't we
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Speaker 2: just update the existing And the fact is the existing
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Speaker 2: is beyond updating because most everything in that The other
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Speaker 2: thing is this plan really takes a look at the
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Speaker 2: city as a total. I was very adamant when we
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Speaker 2: went into this and then talking with the company Household
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Speaker 2: Avine and also with fair Graham the engineering, because they
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Speaker 2: had some aancial knowledge of our infrastructure system, so they
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Speaker 2: worked on that with house Levine. But I was very
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Speaker 2: adamant about looking at all quadrants of the city, not
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Speaker 2: just specific areas that we wanted to get developed within
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Speaker 2: a certain period of time or wanted to put our
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Speaker 2: emphasis in. We needed to look at the opportunities and
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Speaker 2: the options with all areas of the community. So that
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Speaker 2: was that's what a significant difference with this plan versus
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Speaker 2: the other one. The other thing is this plan had
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Speaker 2: a lot of community input. We provided a lot of
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Speaker 2: opportunity both online and within focus group and public hearing
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Speaker 2: sessions to get feedback from the public. We got a
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Speaker 2: fair amount individual kind tax I think there was over
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Speaker 2: I should have that with me, but there was. There
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Speaker 2: was substantially I think it was over seven or eight
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Speaker 2: hundred individual contacts when you looked at the online and
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Speaker 2: the in person type of things. So it's not as
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Speaker 2: much as I wanted from the public, but I'm extremely
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Speaker 2: grateful for those who were vested in the community and
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Speaker 2: willing to give their feedback. So a lot of the
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Speaker 2: public feedback was taken into consideration in working on that
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Speaker 2: comprehensive plan. The city staff was also substantially involved their input.
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Speaker 2: Department heads were included in some of our focus group meetings.
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Speaker 2: We reached out to, you know, particular segments some times
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Speaker 2: looking we had a group from the business community that
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Speaker 2: we really wanted to get some feedback on so there
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Speaker 2: was a whole variety of input for the community, and
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Speaker 2: both in person and online available. We've had the some
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Speaker 2: of that information. We put that online as we were
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Speaker 2: developing and looking for feedback, so there was an ongoing
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Speaker 2: opportunity as well. And so we finally got that approved
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Speaker 2: Tuesday night for our council meeting, and I'm really looking
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Speaker 2: forward to that because that'll be a working document. There's
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Speaker 2: already I've already had conversations with members of the Plan
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Speaker 2: Commission about, you know, continuing their input because zoning, regular
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Speaker 2: relations and some of the recommendations in this plan is
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Speaker 2: going to be their concern. Just because the plan says
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Speaker 2: it's going to you know that that's a recommendation, we
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Speaker 2: still as a community have to decide how we're going
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Speaker 2: to do that or if we're going to do that.
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Speaker 2: The other thing is that this plan potentially looks as
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Speaker 2: much as twenty years out, so we need to set
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Speaker 2: priorities in this and we had a a city retreat,
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Speaker 2: a city council and the department heads had a retreat
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Speaker 2: in early December. One of the key points was issues
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Speaker 2: that the or priorities and goals that the Comprehensive Plan
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Speaker 2: brought up, and so we had everybody looking at that
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Speaker 2: and taking that into consider, iteration and providing input there.
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Speaker 2: So the Plan Commission and the city staff will have
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Speaker 2: an ongoing interest, vested interest in the priorities and the
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Speaker 2: goals that we're going to set going forward. Some things
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Speaker 2: may never happen sure, or may happen after we go
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Speaker 2: to a new plan, you know, the process keeps going on.
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Speaker 2: Other things may change in priorities, something that based on
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Speaker 2: current perspective, is maybe a five to ten year expectation.
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Speaker 2: The opportunity comes forward and we could be making we
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Speaker 2: could be making that type of improvement much sooner. So
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Speaker 2: it's we're hoping to make it a living, working document,
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Speaker 2: getting the input, taking a look at the opportunities that
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Speaker 2: come come along in utilizing it. In that manner, we
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Speaker 2: really don't want it to be something that, Okay, we
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Speaker 2: did it, We've got a goal. We stick it on
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Speaker 2: the shelf, and once every couple of years we go
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Speaker 2: back and say, yeah, I think we were looking at,
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Speaker 2: you know, doing this, and maybe we will do that,
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Speaker 2: and yeah that fits with a comprehensive plan, don't I
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Speaker 2: don't think that's the direction we want to go, at
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Speaker 2: least from my perspective, that's not the direction I'm wanting
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Speaker 2: to go in. Using this comprehensive plan. You know, after
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Speaker 2: I'm out of office, you know, the leadership can take
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Speaker 2: it another approach. But I think we've done a really
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Speaker 2: good job of putting together something that is a usable
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Speaker 2: and workable document for the long term. That doesn't mean
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Speaker 2: five or ten years from now, don't sit down and,
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Speaker 2: you know, seriously look at is this practical or is
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Speaker 2: you know, should we scratch this or do we need
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Speaker 2: to move up the priority on that? But some of
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Speaker 2: that I think we'll find if it's a working document,
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Speaker 2: we'll we'll we'll be working with that all the way along.
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Speaker 2: But it could stand, you know, maybe ten years from
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Speaker 2: now actually having an outside party take an objective look
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Speaker 2: at it and see where we've come and where we're
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Speaker 2: where we've been going with the existing plan. So but
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Speaker 2: the key there is we've laid some we've laid some groundwork.
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Speaker 2: We're not necessarily looking at one to three years to
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Speaker 2: get something done. We're looking at things that potentially could
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Speaker 2: happen five, ten, twenty years out. And I think it's
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Speaker 2: a it's a good basis to leave, you know, it's
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Speaker 2: it's a good piece of working material for the city
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Speaker 2: to have for the long term. And I really want
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Speaker 2: to thank all those in the community who provided input
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Speaker 2: it was taken into consideration and then again provide you know,
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Speaker 2: thank the city staff for their assistance and help, and
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Speaker 2: the council and their involvement and getting on board with
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Speaker 2: this new comprehensive plan. So thank you to all of them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely, thank you to everybody who works on that,
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Speaker 1: who put their input on that. And I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: during my time reporting, seeing how many folks will sometimes
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Speaker 1: you know, attend or not attend a city council meeting,
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Speaker 1: that's honestly, in that kind of a respected almost feels
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Speaker 1: like you guys actually really did have a good amount
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Speaker 1: of input from the public. And I think you really
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Speaker 1: need that kind of foresight and flexibility because I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's always elements that you can't control and you don't see,
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Speaker 1: right the price of wood, or you may skyrocket from
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Speaker 1: some unforeseen event. A new grant becomes available, a new
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Speaker 1: developer comes in and says, I want to do this,
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Speaker 1: and I've got the cash to do it, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to bring it in and it's like whoa, Okay,
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Speaker 1: how do we make it happen? And being flexible like
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Speaker 1: that allows you to capitalize on those kind of opportunities
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Speaker 1: or pivot rather around some of the unforeseen challenges that
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Speaker 1: arise in these things.
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Speaker 2: Exactly the point. And actually that brings up, actually, what's
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Speaker 2: how much time we got in this first half?
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Speaker 1: Well, we're we got about thirty seconds in this, but
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Speaker 1: we do have our second half, and I won't get it.
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Speaker 2: Then I won't get it addressing the next point.
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Speaker 1: That's okay, I'll tell you what we're we'll cut out
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Speaker 1: about thirty second short. Stay tuned with me in just
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Speaker 1: a few minutes, Glenn and I'll be back to continue
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Speaker 1: the conversation right here on FM ninety five one and
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Speaker 1: A fourteen sixty wixcent. Welcome back, folks. You're here with
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Speaker 1: the Waking crew on FM ninety five one and AM
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Speaker 1: fourteen sixty wi XN, and we were back with Mayor Glenn
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Speaker 1: Hughes and we were talking about the recently approved Comprehensive Plan,
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Speaker 1: the development that's happened across the city, and you and
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Speaker 1: I were talking off air, and that actually kind of
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Speaker 1: brought up a question while we were talking, is we
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Speaker 1: were talking a little bit to Mintown, the music fest
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Speaker 1: and the way the river has really become a hub
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Speaker 1: of live entertainment for the city, especially as the weather
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Speaker 1: gets better. When when did that really first become part
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Speaker 1: of the plan. I've always been curious and did you
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Speaker 1: ever really envision that that was going to be Dixon's
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Speaker 1: kind of future. Is it's really picked up and it's
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Speaker 1: done well well.
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Speaker 2: Actually, the river Front Commission, I believe was established somewhere
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Speaker 2: between I should know the date, but between nineteen ninety
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Speaker 2: nine and two thousand and one, there was a committee
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Speaker 2: that came together. Earlier, I know, in the late nineties,
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Speaker 2: ninety eight ninety nine, there was a committee that came
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Speaker 2: together that was making recommendations, that was doing certain stuff,
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Speaker 2: and then then the Riverfront Commission officially got established. So
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Speaker 2: there was an interest, like I said, going back to
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Speaker 2: when this when the last comprehensive plan was put together,
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Speaker 2: that the Riverfront Plan and Riverfront Commission kind of fed
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Speaker 2: into that. It was more of a separate document, but
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Speaker 2: it still fed into that into that process. So in
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Speaker 2: terms of the foresight to see the development of the
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Speaker 2: Riverfront as a key venue for the community, a key
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Speaker 2: amenity maybe that's the better word. The key amenity goes back,
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Speaker 2: you know, probably pre nineteen nineties, you know, the desire
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Speaker 2: of people too, because it you know, it takes multiple
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Speaker 2: people to kind of get that energy and that cohesiveness
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Speaker 2: going to you know, even bring these community you know,
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Speaker 2: a committee together. So but formally late nineteen nineties with
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Speaker 2: the you know, Riverfront Committee and then Riverfront Commission coming
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Speaker 2: into play, and obviously the Riverfront I think it was
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Speaker 2: and I hope I don't have this wrong two thousand
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Speaker 2: and nine when it was formally opened, and I know
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Speaker 2: since then, that's just you know a lot of the
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Speaker 2: vision that people had for that riverfront and that Riverfront
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Speaker 2: area has has really come to fruition, maybe even exceeded
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Speaker 2: what some of them thought. There's still some minor things
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Speaker 2: to be done. I shouldn't say minor, because the development
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Speaker 2: of what we call Viaduct Point doing going to the
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Speaker 2: west side of Pure Avenue. It's nice now, but there's
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Speaker 2: a lot of plans going forward for that area. There's
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Speaker 2: some other things along the existing We've got the additional
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Speaker 2: work to do on the bike path going out toward
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Speaker 2: the Rainers property. You know, there's there's a variety of
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Speaker 2: things that we're in that plan that's still they're in process,
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Speaker 2: but they still have to come to fruition, but they're
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Speaker 2: they're well along the way. So back in answer to
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Speaker 2: your question, you know, did we foresee this coming, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there was a there was a group of a pretty
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Speaker 2: good group of people. Larry Reid has been mentioned many
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Speaker 2: times because he ended up being the chair of the
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Speaker 2: river Front Commission for years, most of the time that
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Speaker 2: that Riverfront Commission was in place, I believe, and you know,
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Speaker 2: he was one of those many who had a lot
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Speaker 2: of had a lot of that foresight was looking at
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Speaker 2: that former Mayor Jim Burke was all on board with,
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Speaker 2: you know, with that riverfront development. So yeah, it's it's
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Speaker 2: it is something that people saw, you know, and that's
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Speaker 2: kind of why now we're looking you know, potentially the
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Speaker 2: next twenty years out. I've said this before on this show,
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Speaker 2: is that a lot of these things that are happening
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Speaker 2: now took twenty or twenty five years to get where
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Speaker 2: they're at now. They didn't just it wasn't something that
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Speaker 2: was just decided last year. And then happens this year.
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Speaker 1: You mean one council meeting doesn't make something happen next month.
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Speaker 2: No, not quite. But we were talking about we were
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Speaker 2: talking about the opportunities on the comprehensive plan, and you
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Speaker 2: were mentioning things about, you know, if if a grant
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Speaker 2: here or a developer here, and actually that addresses a
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Speaker 2: point that I wanted to note. We were approved or
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Speaker 2: actually reapproved for a federal grant for about two million
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Speaker 2: dollars for development of the retention pond in what will
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Speaker 2: be Bloody Gulch Park. That retention pond is meant to
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Speaker 2: be part of the flood control for the south Wet
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Speaker 2: squadront of the city, and so that's that's pretty important.
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Speaker 2: So when we talk about, you know, Bloody Gulch Park,
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Speaker 2: it's not just a park. There's a there's a facet
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Speaker 2: of that that's pretty instrumental in the flood control and
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Speaker 2: the retention pod is one of those. So, you know,
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Speaker 2: getting this two million dollars grant is very important. Peace.
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Speaker 2: But on top of that, again one of your comments
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Speaker 2: about developers coming up, we have a developer interested in
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Speaker 2: the land. It's about three and a half acres of
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Speaker 2: what's now the current detention pond in Gateway that if
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Speaker 2: we can utilize the funding from the federal government and
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Speaker 2: bring this retention pond in in phases, we should be
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Speaker 2: able to move the detention pond into a retention situation
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Speaker 2: down below in the park and then make that three
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Speaker 2: and a half acres available for additional development. And as
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Speaker 2: I said, there is a developer very interested in that property.
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Speaker 2: Whether it happens, these things take time. But the sooner
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Speaker 2: we can make that property available, the sooner we can
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Speaker 2: move forward with looking at taking that retention pond in phases,
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Speaker 2: the higher the probability is that we may be able
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Speaker 2: to take advantage of the current developer's vision.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so that makes sense, and you know that leads
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Speaker 1: me to a question I've always wanted to ask and
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Speaker 1: not thinking of it before, and so now I'm glad
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Speaker 1: it brings up. During my time reporting with Show, I
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Speaker 1: was primarily Sterling reporter, so I didn't get to see
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Speaker 1: the Dix inside of this, but was very curious Sterling
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Speaker 1: had got the River's Edge Redevelopment Zone designation and I
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Speaker 1: was always curious if there was anyway Dixon could benefit
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Speaker 1: from that, or if the possibility of riverfront. You know,
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Speaker 1: development persuadeant to that kind of a designation, you know
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Speaker 1: whether or not it could be a possible fit or
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Speaker 1: didn't apply. Again, I wasn't the reporter that got to
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Speaker 1: know so much of that, so I've always been curious.
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Speaker 2: I've thought about that river River's Edge development is designation
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Speaker 2: as well. I'm not sure the specifics on that, and
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Speaker 2: that may have some potential as we look at via
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Speaker 2: the point, but we're also we're already utilizing the tiff
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Speaker 2: to good advantage. I don't think are other than other
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Speaker 2: than the former Dimco site, which the FEDS have already
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Speaker 2: helped us with and got cleaned up. I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: we have a lot of the same issues along the
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Speaker 2: riverfront that that Sterling has, but that designation may be
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Speaker 2: worth looking into to assist in development. But I also
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Speaker 2: am not well enough versed in that designation to know
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Speaker 2: whether it's appropriate for us to utilize that.
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Speaker 1: Sure, And it's not as simple yes, yes or no
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Speaker 1: question for those of listening it sounds like it should be.
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Speaker 1: It's I'm telling you it's it's really not. There's there's
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Speaker 1: lots of conditions. Sometimes some things can mix and some
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Speaker 1: things are not allowed to mix. And then of course
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Speaker 1: Stirling's big crux is there, you know, the Lawrence Brothers
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Speaker 1: and National Stanley sites, which is really what they were
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Speaker 1: hoping to draw people in for. They kind of already
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Speaker 1: had that bit placed for and I'm not sure it
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Speaker 1: really would have been such a a major look had
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Speaker 1: had they not had that in the beginning. So it
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Speaker 1: was just again one of those things I was always
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Speaker 1: curious about. We're talking about riverfront.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, totally totally agree with you on that. It's
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Speaker 2: it's it's not cut and dried, and you know, they've
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Speaker 2: got a different type of issue along there downtown riverfront
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Speaker 2: than we do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: So no, absolutely, well, and good chunk of our issue
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Speaker 2: is you know, already already been addressed and hopefully we
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Speaker 2: can continue to develop that Viaduct point area.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So you also wanted to talk about you
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Speaker 1: guys were working with Salt Valley College on the sanitary
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Speaker 1: sewer system, right.
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Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, we just got an approval to enter into
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Speaker 2: loan documentation on that. That's for the there's about seventeen
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Speaker 2: five hundred feet of sanatory terry Force main Sauk has
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Speaker 2: looked at the options and it doesn't. It apparently is
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Speaker 2: not cost efficient for them to replace their existing It's
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Speaker 2: kind of getting to the end of its term their
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Speaker 2: existing facility and the and the requirements of the EPA
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Speaker 2: on wastewater is pretty substantial these days on wastewater treatment plants.
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Speaker 2: So we've we're partner with them to run the force
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Speaker 2: main to connect with the cities so that SoC is
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Speaker 2: able to take advantage of that. SOCK will have the
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Speaker 2: SOCK will have the responsibility for the cost of that development,
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Speaker 2: but it has to go through the city as as
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Speaker 2: the entity to enter into the agreement. So but that's
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Speaker 2: that's been done and that process for SOCK will be
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Speaker 2: moving forward. I see you just got a note. Do
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Speaker 2: I have a question?
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Speaker 1: You do have a question. I don't know if this
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Speaker 1: is your sixth sense or if you just got a
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Speaker 1: lot of them during your time with Steve. We do
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Speaker 1: have a listener question. They're curious about if there's any
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Speaker 1: kind of timeline or thoughts about tearing down the Walter
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Speaker 1: Knack building. I love a good sign.
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Speaker 2: Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we've been trying to to address that,
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Speaker 2: but there's some complications. There have been some complications with
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Speaker 2: our tiff requirements, and we need to do some amendments
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Speaker 2: to the to the river Front tiff, including probably restructure
25:19
Speaker 2: the existing tiff that's covering that area is about to expire,
25:25
Speaker 2: so we have to re establish a new tiff, and
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Speaker 2: the there's a variety of conditions that go into establishing
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Speaker 2: a tiff, and one of them is distress of an area.
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Speaker 2: So that Nack building is distressed. We've wanted to get
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Speaker 2: rid of it, but right now we're trying to clarify
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Speaker 2: whether we can take that down or we need that
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Speaker 2: in place to to clarify that distress. Sure, so, yes,
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Speaker 2: I wish that building had come down before I actually
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Speaker 2: even came into office, and I've been asking that question
26:22
Speaker 2: about when it's coming down periodically ever since I've been
26:26
Speaker 2: in office, and it just it's one of those things
26:29
Speaker 2: that we have we're trying to deal with. That building
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Speaker 2: is engineering engineineering determined to be unsound. I had some
26:41
Speaker 2: people say, well, why don't you just you know, improve it,
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Speaker 2: get somebody in there to develop it. Now the building
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Speaker 2: itself is structurally unsound. That's not going to happen. And
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Speaker 2: it wasn't a decision by our building department that was
26:53
Speaker 2: engineer's structural engineers coming in and saying, uh huh, so
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Speaker 2: we need to we need to get it done. I'm
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Speaker 2: hoping it gets done and this next year. I'd love
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Speaker 2: to see it happen this spring, but I'm not making
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Speaker 2: any promises because there's other factors that come into play.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, as as stated before, it's it's never as simple
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Speaker 1: as let's just do it and they start swinging the
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Speaker 1: wreck and ball there there. There's always hoops to go through.
27:23
Speaker 1: You guys have to to do things the right way,
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Speaker 1: the legal way, you know, and you certainly don't want
27:28
Speaker 1: to mess with a you know, a tiff district. Those
27:31
Speaker 1: are providing benefits that that people I think often don't
27:36
Speaker 1: see but are but are in place. And and again,
27:38
Speaker 1: you guys are just trying to do things the right way.
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Speaker 2: And the fortunate thing is we already have the money
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Speaker 2: set aside for actually doing that demolition. So it's not
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Speaker 2: something that once once we get the okay that we're
27:54
Speaker 2: in a position to take it down, we can get
27:56
Speaker 2: it down. And you know, we're not going to have
27:58
Speaker 2: to sit around and face you're out where the funding's
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Speaker 2: coming from. We've already set that aside. Well, I hope,
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Speaker 2: I hope that. I hope that answers that. I hope
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Speaker 2: that answers the listeners question.
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Speaker 1: I hope so too. You heard it here live if
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Speaker 1: you missed the conversation. We always record these episodes, so
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Speaker 1: that answer is there frozen in time on the M
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Speaker 1: fourteen sixty WXM website. Glenn wants to get this down.
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Speaker 1: They got the money, they've just got to do it
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Speaker 1: the right way. They're aware of it, and it's you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's in your guys' sites and it'll get done.
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Speaker 1: It'll just steps have to be done. So we're out
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Speaker 1: of time, but sir, thank you so much for coming
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Speaker 1: in and giving us all this information for answering your
28:39
Speaker 1: what seems to be in your top five favorite questions possible.
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Speaker 2: And I appreciate I appreciate the listeners asking questions that
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Speaker 2: really that really helps my input to the back to
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Speaker 2: the community.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Glenn, thank you so much. We look forward to
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Speaker 1: your future updates.
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Speaker 2: Thank you,