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Eric C Jensen/COA To "Chuck Winkleblack"<Chuck.Winkleblack@hunziker.com>
02/02/2005 09:01 AM cc schainker@city.ames.ia.us,Ted Tedesco/COA@COA, Diane
R Voss/COA@COA
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Subject Re:tax abatement for Somerset[`]
Chuck, 1,000 apologies. There is no need for you to submit a new letter. I had the City Clerk's office check
the City Council referrals for the past year. Sure enough, you submitted a letter requesting an extension of
the commercial tax abatement in Somerset to the City Council. The Council referred that item to staff at
their meeting on April 27, 2004. However, staff never responded to the request. We will put together a
report and try to have it on the City Council's agenda for February 22, 2005. Again Chuck, I apologize for
the delay. This somehow fell through the cracks and should have been back to the City Council many
months ago.
With regard to your request to amend the approval process for townhouses in the FS Zoning District
(Major vs. Minor Site Plan), that item will be on the Planning and Zoning Commission agenda for February
16, 2005 and on first reading before City Council on February 22, 2005. As this is relatively a minor
amendment, staff is supportive of the change. It is a text amendment to the Zoning Ordinance, and will
require three readings before City Council. You could request waiver of the three readings from the City
Council if needed. It will ultimately be up to the City Council whether or not they want to waive the future
readings.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments,
ecj
Eric C. Jensen, AICP
Planner
Department of Planning and Housing
City of Ames
515 Clark Avenue
Ames, Iowa 50010
Phone: (515) 239-5400
Fax: (515) 239-5404
Email: ejensen@city.ames.ia.us
Eric C Jensen/COA
Eric C Jensen/COA
02/01/2005 04:28 PM To "Chuck Winkleblack"<Chuck.Winkleblack@hunziker.com>
* cc schainker@city.ames.ia.us,Ted Tedesco/COA@COA
Subject Re:tax abatement for Somerset
Chuck, I assume that you are talking about the amendment to the urban revite plan for Somerset that
allowed tax abatement for all retail commercial uses instead of just for sit-down restaurants, grocery
stores, and commercial buildings with residential uses on the upper floors, as was originally approved.
You are correct, that amendment expired this past spring/summer. The appropriate procedure to request
an extension would be for you to submit a letter to the Mayor and City Council requesting the extension.
The Mayor and Council will refer the request to staff. Staff would then analyze the request and prepare a
report for the City Council to review and they could either approve or deny the request.
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I am sorry if you have been inconvenienced waiting for a response from our office. Once you have
submitted your request to the Mayor and City Council, and they refer it to staff, we will get it back to City
Council as soon as we can.
Let me know if you need anything further.
Thanks Chuck,
ecj
Eric C. Jensen, AICP
Planner
Department of Planning and Housing
City of Ames
515 Clark Avenue
Ames, Iowa 50010
Phone: (515) 239-5400
Fax: (515) 239-5404
Email: ejensen@city.ames.ia.us
"Chuck Winkleblack" <Chuck.Winkleblack@hunziker.com>
"Chuck Winkleblack"
<Chuck.Winkleblack@hunzik To <EJensen@city.ames.ia.us>
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02/01/2005 04:09 PM cc
Subject tax abatement for Somerset
Eric,
I have asked Matt a couple of times for a response to our earlier
request for continued tax abatement in Somerset. I asked prior to last
May when it was set expire and have yet to get a response. As you know
I currently have a request in front of the City Council to change the
master plan to accommodate more commercial area but would like to know
where we stand on the request that was made several months ago.
Thanks,
Chuck Winkleblack
Broker Associate
License #232796000
Hunziker & Associates
105 S. 16th Street
Ames, IA 50010
515-233-4450