 I think that you might have learned recently such one of us. Sing a line. Answer those questions. Thank you for this evening. Thank you for those who play over there. Thank you. Any questions, changes, polls, please? Hearing none, so do I. I have a partner to report. This is Brown. This is Herbert. This is Raymond. That's the city council. Thank you Mayor. And now any public input? This is Thomas. The motion is there a second? Second. Moving into a period of presentations. Item number 2. The City of Columbia Toiletry Thrive. Your sister Keira. The Honorable Candy Terry. The Mayor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And suddenly we have the month of September where the city is home to public relations. We are the various fundraisers. Fundraisers include the sister Keira Toiletry Thrive. To sister Keira. Sorry about that. I do see you going to figure it out. I'll learn again. I was the only one. We had several folks who are other folks who had been in the parties. They're from the county to the county parks. In order to see what the city departments are, in relation to the government, locations throughout the entire month of September, businesses include the city departments, the city department, All the books, the level-hacky shop has general schools, DTs, the crew that have been suffering from the same child's badges, all the portable auctions, and any of those auctions. Juniorly, with a lot of the other stuff, out of the cabinet, I would support any corporate who may have any kind of opinion in the chapter. And then they did a kind of a lot of the chapter, which was, well, from the force of the art of the day, to the very bottom of the audience, to the persisted care. And we're so excited that it's all this play here, that it's actually been a great cause. And really, I just do want to thank you for the hard work that you've done. The art of the shop, the aesthetic of the fortune, and the art of the community, of the person. We saw the church, however, are the message. My thoughts and prayers are for all of us. And I know it's obvious we won't be disdaining, and so excited that we're listening to the testimony and the needs of the pancreas, but also we can kind of hope that all of us are working together, so with that, I want to thank you for all of the work that you did here. Well, thank you so much. We, Sister Care, are so thankful for the partnership we've had with the City of Columbia for years. And I know that I'm very proud to be a resident of the City of Columbia. And so thank you so much for helping to bring awareness to domestic violence in our community. And so many wonderful donors, so many amazing things. I know it looks like so much, but we serve nearly 4,000 domestic violence survivors and children every year. So we go through this stuff very quickly. And it's so empowering to be able to provide these items for the survivors and children that we serve. That's one less thing to worry about when trying to find safety and trying to heal from the process. So we are so grateful. And thank you so much for all that you do to support Sister Care and other nonprofits in our community. It takes a village. Thank you. I think it's Executive Director. Yes, sir. Questions throughout the march can transcend boundaries, build bridges, connect peace, artisans, creators, and cultural institutions play a vital role in our community across the planet. Opportunities for learning, collaboration, cultural exchange, and arts and humanities sectors are a vital source of economic growth, creative jobs, stimulating tourism, and enhancing overall welfare of our local creators. The nation's arts and humanities sector is not a problem. Commercial education is a lack of a billion of industries to build. About $125,000 in South Carolina generates a high set of billion in salaries and wages. And non-profit-educated learning generation generates 27.5 billion government revenue and 166 billion of the electronic activity. And you go to organizations, audiences, who can spend 10 years for arts events, per minute, and this is not a reality, but it's not a reality. So we have to believe that beyond the cost of additional items such as food and arts and humanities, thank you to the arts for that vital income source for local business. So therefore, I'm able to share with you the commitment of mayor of Columbia, South Carolina, along with fellow members of the Columbia City Council to do that. I think of our proclaiming October of 2023 as national arts and humanities on Columbia, South Carolina. We'll present this to you. But also, thank you very much for the community conversations, your support, and some new energy that you're bringing into the arts and the positivity we've got in your business with the backers. We're gonna try some new things for arts in different ways. As we start building up some of these new spaces with some different studios and coming up with tricks that we need to get involved together, it would be really fantastic. I'm really excited to have you here from the branch program. Thank you so much for coming across the country to be a chief here at the office and of course, I'm really, really close to you. To all of that, I'm really looking forward to you. Yeah, I'll just say thank you to mayor and to council for your support and for all the organizations that came to be your part because they don't come, I appreciate it. The arts are a tremendous asset and should be available everywhere to everyone. National Arts and Humanities Months is an opportunity for everyone to celebrate the crucial role of the arts and humanities and promoting individual well-being, addressing trauma, connecting cultures, highlighting inequities and making our communities healthy and stronger. It's just really an honor that you guys are supporting us and like I said, it's been a pleasure to last too much for me being in this position to have your support, so thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. And to ensure that you're here, you're almost living and visiting the fire as a serious public. I'm the legal artist of the Social Protection Association. Turn to the number of un-fired residents that have ended up in the U.S. that reached a 14-year-old, 21-year-old woman. And those fires resorted to 3,000 submitted to us, representing the newly set of states all of the civilian fire deaths. Only a 10-fired apartment was bought into the cloud and the city wanted to push the spotters of death in order to reduce the impacts on fires. Fired interest was mentioned in protection. Education, when we celebrate our fires, we get a weekly hit for a year and lots of families and children are taken to that. Our fire development provincial office was one of those 5,700 fires sessions and I'm covered with 6,400 fire odor violations. Fire Department's Education Office presented 350,000 set of fire education demonstrations in the 2015 United States Survey installed 5,667 large citizens in need over the course of 20,000 education ministers and are able to take personal steps to increase their safety of the fire, especially in the United States. Between 23 fire prevention theme months, cooking safety starts when you pay attention to fire prevention. Effectively so, it's a lot of people about work, it's about remaining in the set of it. I encourage you to think about the ability of the candles out there, briefly, and other fires and fireplaces that should have been painted that were easy to have when necessary to test them. But therefore, I've been with the mayor of the city of Long Beach, government, Long Beach City Council, I do hear about the plan I took in 1 from the first 2020 through the fire prevention market and the break city of Long Beach, South Carolina. And I ask you to take a look at our fire on the page to the fire department to pick up the set of hands. Remind yourself when you're cooking or do the plan to the fire department. We spark today's time to ask for that, Chief. Thank you, Mayor or Council. City manager into all the citizens of this great city and that we live in called Columbia. You took my thunder, Mayor, because you gave all the steps that I was gonna give, but that's okay. I'm glad you, I know. But it does mean good to know that we're educating ourself on fire safety because probably right around 64% of all fires starting in residential. I'd rather be high rise homes or whatever. And probably around 54% of those stars in kitchen. So you see why we put a big emphasis on kitchen fire this year, but it actually does start with you. So we're asking all the citizens to be mindful. And I'm glad you brought up candles and all the other good stuff because we are entering into the winter months where people use space heaters, candles, if the lights go out or whatever, what have you. But also keep in mind because of the preventions that we do in fire prevention, that's how we were designated as a fire safe community. So we do appreciate this. And George, I don't know if anything to add. Thank you, Mayor, Council, City Manager. I echo the same sentiments as Chief Jenkins. Fire prevention is a, excuse me, I need some water. Fire prevention is not easy. A lot of times most people don't pay attention to fire prevention. So it is our job to make sure that we educate the public on fire safety, not only cooking fires, but smoking, electrical fires, heating fires and things of that nature. And I have to get kudos to my staff. I think they do an outstanding job educating the public, outstanding job, doing inspections and outstanding job, working in the community. So again, we thank you for this opportunity and look forward to continuing to work with Citizens in the Columbia. Thank you. Hello, my name is Christine Haid and I'm here with other members of the League of Women Voters of Columbia. I may be familiar to you because I attend council meetings regularly. I'm a member of the League of Women Voters Observer Corps which is a group of members who attend city council meetings, school board meetings, county council meetings and then write up summaries of the key decisions and key issues raised at those meetings and then share that with our members. So as the member assigned to regularly attend in your meetings, I wanna thank you for your commitment to the city and to your service and for all of your service. I'm here today to introduce you though to the president of the League of Women Voters of Columbia, our president, Kerry Elliott, who is going to share a few words with you about vote411.org. Good evening, mayor and council members and city manager Wilson. So glad to be here. Again, my name is Kerry Elliott and I wanna talk to you about an excellent resource for voters in the state of South Carolina and across the nation. It is called Vote411. It was established by the League of Women Voters in 2006. It is a one-stop shop for election and voter information where voters can go and find out about their ballot, their polling location, whether or not they're registered and it helps them to correct any misinformation if they need to. And a special aspect of Vote411 is our voter guide, which what we do is during an election season, we will interview those candidates who are running for office and they'll answer some questions that the voters can then go and read those responses. It is a very good way for voters to learn more about who it is that they're entrusting with their voice when they vote. And it's also a way for the candidates to engage and have greater contact with voters. In 2022, we had 83,000 unique visitors to our Vote411 website. In Richland County, we had Richland and Lexington counties, we had 17,000. And so it's important to recognize elected officials that voters wanna hear from you. And by engaging with us and helping us to spread the word, we have a more informed electorate because knowledge is power and it empowered democracy is the lifeblood of a democratic society. So thank you all and we look forward to working with all of you. Thank you, Ms. Wilson. Yes, this is a request to annex the property, assign a land use classification of community activity corridor and a zoning of residential mixed use. I do wanna point to something unusual with this case. You will see the staff recommendation of denial. The Planning Commission recommendation is approval. However, that's based on the South Carolina law that provides them 30 days to provide a recommendation. If not, it's considered approved. We had two months during which this case could not get a quorum. So after two meetings, we decided to invoke that and proceed in conjunction with the applicant so that it could come to council and you could act. So that approval is by default because that's what state law provides. If you have any questions, happy to answer them. Good evening. My name is John Rowe. I represent Haven Communities, the applicant. Most of what I'm gonna speak about is in your packet that's been given to you by staff. So the subject site is three parcels that consist of 12.13 undeveloped acres. We are requesting that this be annexed into the city of Columbia with a zoning of residential mixed district. The plan for this site is to develop it into a residential site for 83 townhomes for free simple sale. The site's located near the intersection of Farrah Road and Park Lane Road. It is only accessible road frontage is on Legrand Road which terminates into interstate right of way. So it's a dead end road. The only other parcels on Legrand are two residential properties that have single family residences on them. An all south bank is being constructed at the front of or on the joining part or the parcel in front of the site. It does front Park Lane Road. The neighboring site is the Brook which is a worship center. And just on the other side of that is another unincorporated Richland County parcel that is currently zoned for high density residential. In your packet, there's some information about the Richland County Comprehensive Plan. This parcel does lie within the neighborhood medium density area. The Comprehensive Plan states that the primary use within this area is medium density residential neighborhoods. The primary land use for this area is single family detached duplexes and townhomes. A portion of this also lies in a proximity investment area. Those areas are to encourage development of traditional neighborhood designs and affordable housing in priority investment areas. In today's current housing market, we need affordable housing. The Midlands is in a housing shortage and with growing interest rates, affordable housing is more important than in recent years. Townhomes provide a good entry point for affordable housing. They provide a starting point for first-time buyers, young professionals. And in this area, you have Providence Health Northeast, you have Webster University and Midlands Technical College. This site would provide a great location for townhomes so that those young professionals working in these places have a place to live that's close by their work and obviously has all the amenities that the City of Columbia can provide. Thank you. Yes, sir, there were two meeting opportunities that the Planning Commission had and they would not have had quorum. So that's why we brought it forward to you. This property is in what's considered a long range annexation area, which are generally not recommended unless you devise that the costs and the benefits weigh out. This is two and a half miles away from the nearest service point for our public works for solid waste and it would extend an already somewhat stretched system to here as well as tax the police services. Yes, sir. It is not that we do not support housing. We absolutely do. It is in the county. It does not mean that it cannot be developed necessarily. However, for city services at this point in time, we do not recommend annexation. I'm sure he'll let us know as soon as... The brook, that is correct. It is, it is... Yes, sir. Yes, sir. The railroad track is across the ground from the site. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. That's correct. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Yeah, it's time to go. My name is Makaesha Moore. Hi, I just wanted to know if this is on Park Lane by the Waffle House and the Shell gas station. I don't think that's a good place to put anything. That entire area is dangerous. You put townhouses right there. No one's gonna rent them. It's gonna be like low income housing or housing vouchers within two or three years. Nobody's gonna wanna live right there. Like that's not, I don't know whose district that is, but that whole area needs to be fixed before you add new stuff. Cause everything's already there is falling apart. Thank you. Yes. And that was a vote to defer the vote. Sir, thank you. That helps significantly. Your next case is an annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 3214 Bluff Road. It's a request to annex the property, assign the land use classification of Urban Edge Community Activity Center in a zoning of Community Activity Center Corridor. Yeah. Thank you. All right, thank you. Is there anybody here to speak more against this item? No, I don't know. Let's speak from the bottom. I should agree, right? I have a motion and a second of any concerns. One more to this development. It's about kind of possible on out there. It looks out there in a very simple way. Sir, thank you. Yes, sir. Any doubt? Yes. Right on. And annexation future land use map amendment and zoning map amendment for 3650 Bluff Road right down the road. A request to annex the property, assign a land use classification of Urban Edge Community Activity Center in a zoning of Community Activity Center Corridor. Numbers 19 and 20 are confirmations and if it pleases council can be taken together. The first is a future land use map amendment for 118, 126, 32 and 38 Bluff Road and a zoning map amendment confirmation for the same parcels. It will request to confirm the future land use classification of Urban Core Mixed Residential and it requests to confirm the zoning of Residential Two Family Mill Village, a portion of which is in the floodplain. The final item on your agenda is a zoning text amendment for 1531 Taylor Street request to amend the unified development ordinance to add the property as a city of Columbia landmark. And similarly, we were unable to achieve quorum after two meetings with planning commission. So the planning commission recommendation of approval is based on that state law. There was a staff recommendation of approval. I wanna do something really cool with this location something fun for historic Columbia for Columbia something that can turn the block. I've had some offers already but things that aren't exciting. I wanna do something fun. We've got some interest as you said we've gotten some price estimates. I've gotten a drawing finalized from an architect and we're kind of crunching the numbers right now but this would certainly go a long way from being able to make this happen. So again, thank you for all of your service and for your consideration but I think this is very worthwhile and could be something exciting for Taylor Street. That's right. I'm familiar with district two. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you all so much. Thank you. And that concludes your public hearing. Thank you. Finally. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Ah. Yes. The two are listed first being a three arts for a presentation by committee. In terms of the arts and logic, the restructure of it might need to be done on each one. Based off of our advantage, it will take you as a support for the community. Okay. Okay. Yes. Yes. Presentation of the public hearing. You go ahead and set that to place a favor to be seated for a second. Okay. I'm just going to set that up for you. Yes. To see the algorithm. Yes. To see if I have any referrals or reports that might need to be shared this time. And sir, do you all have a tip of a word on the full street commission taking this back? And we'll have a very good day on the first act of the Chief of Second Park. And they are ahead of the sentence from the Supreme Court now. And in the next few days, they will pass the two million sentence record for Chief of Second Park, not only for the baseball game, but for the chief of the defense. They've got lots of new events that happen, the public specifically about the likes of Christmas that were, when we get back here, they're the bigger mental issue here. They were like, hey, let's not be doing it for lots of people. Yes. And they're going to be part of this group. He's one of the reason. I'm glad we're going to talk about it. And I think it's great for us to be able to take what we've talked about, program it, or if you should be able to mark out a total of five. Really, I think we're all going to talk about it. This thing brings a lot of power. Now, thanks to John Whitehead, a representative gave us a rundown where we all are going to be came from. We've got three artists, artists as opposed. So I've got to check the boxes for a lot of information on how to create parts of us. So the way he's really growing our parts of me in regards to this is that we were born to do that. It's the place of approval by the House for approval across the community. It is a great step to the show. Here, I'm not going to do my national law. Anyone else? Ms. Wilder, I'll do what I'll have to say. Good afternoon, everybody. I want to thank you, the mayor, city council, city manager, and all the staff that work with me. My husband told me to make sure I tell you all. He's happy to be back home. He don't want to go nowhere now. He just want to look out the window. But I want to thank you, especially you, Mr. McDowell. Leon is not here. I'm going to have to call him personally. We're back in our home. I'm enjoying it. I really don't want to put no furniture in there. But I want to let you know it's been a long, almost eight years. And I know I've aggravated you all. I don't mind doing that when I... Yes, uh-huh. But I just want to thank you. God is good. You know, it made my heart feel, you know, when I could go in there. I don't want to cry. These are happy tears because of the struggle that he had. I can get him in the shower with no problem. And he said, I didn't think we were going to see this house again inside. But I want to thank you. I want to thank you. It was hard on me, you know. And I know I gave you all a hard time, especially you, Mr. McDowell. I call this man every day. We fuss. I had to call him and apologize. I'm calm, but I'm still be here. I'm still fighting for my neighborhood. I want to thank everybody. I was trying to wait till everybody be here. I know it took a long time, but, you know... Yes. Yeah. I'm still going to be kind of quiet, though, you know. But every now and then I got to get out a little bit, you know, because I want to shout. I mean, I'm back in my church. My pastor be pulling me out all the time. Hello again. I forgot what I wrote in the paper. You have the paper? I forgot what I wrote in the paper. Basically, I wanted to ask y'all about what you... Oh, sorry. I was wondering if y'all could look into what's going on with our water. I know y'all are, like, looking into it worried about it. The water, like, all of it. Like, Broad River, like the water in the city and the public school. Because I heard, like, public school water on Garnes Ferry is turning yellow. I just didn't know what that was about and where it's coming from. So if y'all knew anything about that. And I keep reading weird news articles that says something's wrong with our water in, like, Broad River and Lake Murray. So I just wanted to know if y'all knew anything about that and if y'all were doing anything about that. Well, I actually met someone at the... at a festival who told me she saw it. And then the News 19 articles talking about the Carlisle textile plant having poison in the water for the past five years. It keeps popping up on my phone. So I didn't know if that was something that was fake news or something y'all knew about. Like, okay, and only one more... Okay, and one more thing. I also had a question, because I read your, like... I don't know what it's called when you ran. You were talking about how the things you wanted to fix. I appreciate everything you said. It was great. And I read about Finlay Park for tourism or something. And it was, like, 21 million y'all signed for. I just wanted to know why we don't have a water park in Columbia when they cost 38 million. And we have 21 million for Finlay Park, but not a water park. No, I've seen it. It's great, yeah. I just saw, like, on the highway it says, oh, Neptune's Island, go to Heartsville. I'm like, wait a second, they're leaving us. Go to Heartsville. I don't like that. Thank you. Thank you.