2021-11 Ordinance Vacating Public Right-of-Way North Mercer Street located North of West Eldorado Street

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City Plan Commission February 4,2021 Page 2 Discussion amongst the Plan Commission members and City Staff followed Mr. Crowe's presentation including traffic onto Eldorado Street during shift changes of Mueller Company, maintenance of the right-of-way and parking availability for the adjacent property owner. Mr. Jonas Ozier,representative for the petitioner, was sworn in by Mrs. Poland. Mr. Ozier stated the project had to get an IDOT permit for approval of the project and IDOT is requiring a change in the curb cut adjacent to the East property. The proposed Ingres/Egress easement will allow customers of the adjacent property access across Mercer Street and the proposed parking lot and parking spaces along the property. The Monroe Street entrance and exit accesses were added to the Plan to help alleviate traffic onto Eldorado Street during Mueller's shift changes. Ms. Nichole Bateman, President of the Economic and Development Corporation, was sworn in by Mrs. Poland. Ms. Bateman stated she has spoken with the tenant of The Secret Garden, the building east of the proposed right-of-way vacation,over the concerns of their employee parking. They have been issued three(3)parking spaces for the employees to park. Ms. Bateman said the petitioner plans to be good neighbors. Mr. William McNutt,representative for Eldorado Investments the adjacent property owner, was sworn in by Mrs. Poland. Mr. McNutt stated Eldorado Investments is not objecting to the vacation of the street itself,they are only asking to be treated fairly. They also have concerns regarding the changes in the curb cut required by IDOT. They would like a written agreement for the use of the parking spaces and ingress/egress easement to be recorded in the chain of title or to divide the vacated ROW half to CIDC and half to Eldorado Investments. They were provided a license to use agreement by the Petitioner at the end of the day prior to this meeting. Plan Commission members asked if there is additional parking available for the adjacent property owner. Mr. Crowe indicated that there is parking available for the property to the South and East of the Building with access off Eldorado Street and the alleyway to the East. Mr. Crowe also provided responses to the adjacent property owners concerns including that the change in curb cut would be required by IDOT if the property remains in City ownership as part of the improvement project. Also,the change in parking adjacent to the building from perpendicular to parallel would be required if the City owns the property as part of the improvement project. Upon call of the roll, Commission members Steve Kline,Kent Newton, Bill Clevenger,Jason Drake, Bruce Frantz,Rick Johnson and Susie Peck voted aye. Motion carried. IV. Appearance of Citizens No citizen expressed comments. V. Comments and Information from Commission Members No comments.