 The mayor will be joining us more materially so at this time. I would now like to call the October 20th 2020 Longmont City Council study session to order At this time motions to direct the city manager and add agenda items to future agendas seeing none I guess let's move on to public invited to be heard All right. My name is Mary Lynn and I've lived in Longmont for going on seven years seven forty four outlets I Ability board where I see the city's struggle to balance stages environmental goals with the funding available for example for funding a hardwired smart meters in lieu of the microwave emitting ones which are more costly as Marsha Martin has mentioned in a recent meeting All right, my name is Scott Cunningham. My address is 37 71 South Narcissus way in Denver and I practice integrative internal medicine I'm calling to provide a contrasting opinion to dr. Bruce Cooper's statement from 2011 that was included in your study packet stating his assessment of the then current scientific literature on potential adverse health effects of The radio frequency fields emitted by wireless smart meters such as the AMI smart meter under consideration in this study session This is Joe Kelly of Barbary Drive in Longmont I first wish to thank you for being responsive to the voices of the citizenry by holding this wireless smart meter study session So thank you. I have a couple of questions for you I read in the meeting packet and also in yesterday's Longmont leader article about this meeting That the equipment the city was going to use only puts out radio frequency aka Microwaves in bursts in data packets approximately 15 minutes apart Can you tell me and the public what specific type of meters you're planning to use and will they be utilizing a mesh network or a point-to-point system Tune in next week. And again, thank you for your time and service Thank you. Hi, my name is David Goldberg My address is 200 East 23rd Street in Loveland. I Don't live in Longmont obviously, but I am definitely concerned about EMF everywhere all over the planet I'm Laurie Stanley, and I live at 1015 Longs Peak Avenue Thank you, Mayor Bagley and the Longmont City Council for the opportunity to speak I would like to talk regarding accessory dwelling units or The ADU and more specifically the permitting process and five foot side yard setback I think most of you are aware of the ADU at 630 Gay Street This particular ADU sits five feet from our back fence and directly is adjacent to five yards and kitty corner to two other properties This ADU was built without neighbor input in the permit process. It has pushed every limit of size and height If any city council people are not aware of the situation, please contact me And I'm happy to show you through our backyard at this time We'll move on to special reports and presentations, which would be the update on COVID-19 by Harold Mayor counsel good evening I'm going to present some slides that we received from Boulder County. I'll start off with this slide if you remember when Rachel presented this information in terms of you know, this is the base data in terms of what goes into the COVID dial So on the COVID dial, we are still in safer level two when you then go in the two week testing positivity rate The current Boulder County rate is 3.1 percent, which you can see is up And finally the hospitalization status. I think this is the first time I've seen one in red in terms of what's going into the dial So as we start getting in the numbers, the reason I wanted to use this is because they actually have 10 19 On on this versus what's on the website? And so you can obviously see Again much better than we were but you can start seeing the movement up and down You when you get to that number of 48 Most of those cases are actually not but we're Boulder County residents not necessarily see you students You only see one there and you can see the five-day average of the number of new cases. So you saw the peak we dropped And a spike and it's still a slight trend upward again to the point of what we heard from Jeff in terms of how we Move forward So this is when you normalize on a hundred thousand population again, this graph still looks consistent with what we saw last year or last week again still seeing a lot of cases in the 10 to 19 and 20 to 29 And this was a slide that I thought was really interesting when you look at Cases among children zero to 17 years, you know, they're looking at it on a hundred per hundred thousand So this isn't actual cases, but you can see the movement in the different age groups when they're normalizing We're a five-day average percent of tests that were positives 3.7 on September 1st. It was 2.4. So we're seeing that go up Which is really matching what you heard the governor say and you can see how many tests they're performing in the county versus how many are positive Finally, here's what the the five-day rolling average on the percent positive looks like in terms of where the hospital set and the resources If you remember last time they were they were in a different spot. So the hospital resources are continuing to remain stable. I Guess we'll move on to study session items 6a CIP ELE 099 advanced metering infrastructure discussion. Well, good evening, Mayor Bagley, Mayor Pro Tem Rondriguez and members of city council I'm Dave Hornbacher the executive director for Longland power and communications during tonight's work session council hear perspectives from three different speakers So AMI is is really it's one of the seven integrated electric resources that will work together to help achieve the city's goal of 100% renewable by 2030. This is tonight's agenda. We will have a health discussion We've invited Bill Hayes with Boulder County Public Health Department it'll be followed up by a discussion on intelligent energy from Dr. Shockley and Then we will finish off the presentations with AMI State of the Industry with Rick Schmidt. Oh everyone Great. So Bill is the air quality coordinator for Boulder County Public Health Where he has worked for the past 17 years He has a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's in environmental engineering and is a licensed professional engineer Let's get into a discussion of radio frequency engineer Radio frequency radiation and so this graphic shows The frequency of radiation which as I said you can kind of think of as the energy potential of the radiation I really like this graphic because it shows the Relative amount of radio frequency radiation that we receive from these various devices Our next speaker is Dr. Tim Shockley The title of my presentation is intelligent energy a long months energy future What I like to talk about is getting long month to a hundred percent the goal is getting to renewable sustainable and resilient energy Meeting the challenge of climate change the items that were identified in the your excellent climate action task force report in June Identified on page 18 and 19 certain key Technologies the what is a home and building energy management system? It's it is in this case described in in the paper as a key platform for distributed solar plus storage next is a Little laundry list here of what I consider the risks of investment in conventional EMI meters The club I think the climate action task force did a great job. They got the goals right And and now the technology to do it is on the horizon our third and final speaker for tonight is Rick Schmidt Ricky is the general manager versus Smith utility advisors I'm asked to talk today a little bit about where where is the industry at now? What is the real state of the industry? Just in this short ten minute overview There's really three common Primarily two common types of AMI technology that's being deployed in mass today Just wanted to very quickly show the the architecture of mesh technology Some of this is probably reviewed to you, but meters talk to meters Just a quick snapshot on the Tuller based AMI. It's not uncommon to have 50 to 100 percent overlap Everyone loves fiber optics. I absolutely You can't compare it really anything wireless from performance standpoint Just a little bit with home automation Seeing nothing else at this time. I guess I'll turn it over the meeting over to you, Mayor Bagley. All right, great. Thank you Thank you, Mayor Brotam. Thank you very much for those Reports and just keep us posted Good evening Mayor Bagley members of council. I'm Erin Fodstick principal planner with the planning division and I'm joined by Eva Pajewski also a principal planner and tonight We'd like to walk through some slides to give you an overview on accessory dwelling units So we'll start out with a definition We included a lot of information in your council communication, but we'll walk through some of that tonight to make sure everyone's on the same page So we included a map in your packet and this is a Screenshot of the map you can see where accessory dwelling units have been permitted in Longman over the past 20 years or so With that I'm going to turn it over to Eva She's going to cover some of the code requirements as well as the development review process the ADUs go through Mayor and council So what I'll do with this slide is I'll walk you through what our current code standards are so you get a sense of You know what the average homeowner needs to comply with if they and so next I'll walk you through the development review process The ADU standards currently in the land development code say the ADUs will go through a site plan waiver process So what we wanted to kind of end with is some of the things that we've heard and that we know council has heard from the community and One of the big items that we've heard From a few residents is that and I know council has gotten feedback as well is with regard to compatibility or potentially lack of compatibility within neighborhoods as Eva mentioned the height requirements for ADUs are really related to the height of the principal structure I think Eva did a pretty good job of walking through the setback standards and those are here for your information One of the other issues that we've noted concerns with and that I think council has also received Comments on relate to that ownership and residency standard that Eva talked about and finally the other Thing that we'll discuss in terms of comments that we've gotten really relate to the cost of permitting an ADU and building an ADU and The development process itself. This is the ADU that I mentioned was recently constructed on 9th and Alta So you can see this one here on the corner and then there's actually an accessory dwelling unit just to the north of this So you can see that off the alley as well This is an example of an ADU that's attached to the main house So you can see the main home there and then this gated area is where the accessory dwelling unit is located Not super easy to see but it is attached and it looks like people access it through that gate right there And that's that's the pictures that we have so that concludes the presentation We'd be happy to take questions and the motion being That that staff should bring back The basics of a plan I'll amend it that far Um To see what the city could do with rental licensing a rent all in favor of the motion to say aye Aye Opposed say nay May All right, the motion passes five to two with myself and dr. Waters in the minority We're gonna go ahead and start with six c land development code amendments To let the council know that we would be sending this to our outside legal counsel For land use to make sure that we're being That we are considering the same legal issues that we were looking at with the sES system That might be our solution just to move that we proceed with the ordinance And make sure that before the ordinance comes back legal gets the opportunity to review those issues second Yeah, that's a motion So all right, there's a motion on the floor directing staff to proceed with the The drafting of the first ordinance with the caveat that they should run it by legal first before bringing it back It's been seconded if there's no further discussion or debate all in favor say aye Aye Opposed say nay All right, the motion carries unanimously All right, and then last but not least let's go to the 2021 budget We put this item on your agenda so that we could try to get any final direction On the budget before we present ordinances What I would suggest this late hour In given what we're trying to do anticipation of putting an ordinance together for next week Is that maybe you might direct the staff to take the 95 701 dollars and add it to the council contingency for the 2021 budget so that you can give us direction Uh at a later date when you who have heard about all the needs so moved second Second it's been moved and seconded all in favor say aye All right Opposed say nay All right the motion carries there you go jim. Let's go on to the mayor and council comments councilmember peck um This message goes out to our public safety department and I want to thank them for uh working tirelessly to keep longmont safe I think they're doing an incredible job And I believe I express the sentiments of all of council when I say that we support you Uh, please feel free to let us know how we can better serve you As you serve our community Thank you for everything you do All right eyes have it. We are adjourned