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Ames Urban Fringe Plan, which exempts the City from review. This site presents a number of
anomalies, which, according to Mr. Osguthorpe, will not occur often, if ever again.
Moved by Davis, seconded by Goodman, to adopt RESOLUTION NO. 11-388 approving a
waiver of design and infrastructure standards and the Preliminary Plat requirement for
Matthew's Summit Subdivision located at Stagecoach Road and East Riverside Road subject
to submittal of the standard signed covenants for Lots 1 and 2; said waiver to take effect if,
within six months following the date of the Resolution,signed covenants and an application for
the Final Plat are submitted to the City.
Roll Call Vote: 6-0. Resolution declared adopted unanimously, signed by the Mayor, and
hereby made a portion of these minutes.
The meeting recessed at 7:12 p.m. and reconvened at 7:17 p.m.
DEVELOPER'S AGREEMENT FOR GRAND ASPEN SUBDIVISION,4TH ADDITION:City
Manager Steve Schainker referenced a letter received by the City Council on August 4, 2011,
from Scott Renaud, representing the Randall Corporation and Campus Crest Ames, L.L.C.,
requesting modifications to Paragraph #3 of the Developer's Agreement for Grand Aspen
Subdivision,4'Addition. Mr. Schainker reminded the Council that it had previously approved
a request from the Randall Corporation to facilitate the development of the Campus Crest
Apartments by accelerating the construction of the Grand Avenue Extension project from South
16`h Street north to serve as the entry road to the new apartment complex. In return for the
accelerated commitment to construct that segment of public street,the City required the property
owner(Randall Corporation)to commit to constructing a second lane on the south side of South
16' Street to complete the widening of the street adjacent to non-University property. Rather
than require a bond or Letter of Credit to secure the owner's commitment, the Developer's
Agreement provided that the City not issue any occupancy permits for the site until the
construction of the fourth lane was completed to the satisfaction of the City's Engineer.
Mr. Schainker advised that the new owner,Campus Crest Ames L.L.C.,has indicated to the City
Inspections Division that it intends to be ready for occupancy of the first building by August 15,
2011, which is prior to the Council's next meeting. Since the second lane on the south side of
South 16' Street has not been completed, if the Developer's Agreement is not amended, the
Inspections Division would be required to deny occupancy on August 15,even if all other Code
requirements had been met. In order to avoid that situation, Randall Corporation and Campus
Crest are requesting that the last line of Paragraph 3 be stricken.
Scott Renaud, Fox Engineering,Ames,who was present on behalf of the Randall Corporation,
explained that there had been issues with weather and the contractor's (Con-Struct) schedule.
He also noted that South 16`' Street was used as a detour by the Iowa DOT for the Highway 30
project for a 30-day period;therefore,Con-Struct could not have begun the project at that time.
According to Mr.Renaud, a Change Order had been executed by the Randall Corporation with
Con-Struct to extend the paving project through September. It is the owners' position that no
security is needed since the required fourth lane is under contract to Con-Struct to be completed
by November/December 2011. The owner's portion of the work would be completed by Con-
Struct in conjunction with their contracted work with the City's project.Mr. Schainker reported
that the City's portion of the project needs to begin, contractually, by Con-Struct no later than
August 29, 2011.
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