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CITIZEN MINUTES
Littleton City Council Meeting – WalMart Rezone
January 23, 2007
Approximately 176 people were in attendance.
Most of the speakers were the same speakers that addressed the Planning Commission. If you want a rehash of the City Council meeting – just read the minutes from the Planning Commission hearings on the WalMart rezone that I emailed at that time.
What I have included are comments made that provided what was new information to me and a few comments from speakers that addressed concerns not mentioned at the Planning Commission hearings.
The last speaker that I have included is Debbie Brinkman. She has done an outstanding job representing her community of Wolhurst Landing in front of the Planning Commission and the City Council. I believe her comments go directly to the heart of the matter. With her permission I am including her entire presentation to the council.
If you don’t read anything else please take the time to read her comments.
As a reminder, I try to use as many of the same words as the speaker used in an effort to be accurate.
Kevin Wrede, city staff, gave a report to council on the rezoning application. He mentioned “alcohol sales too.” (This is the first mention of alcohol sales and I really didn’t think I heard him correctly so I asked the person next to me and he heard the same thing!) He commented on the Planning Commission’s 4/3 vote on the application. He delivered 292 new pieces of correspondence on WalMart to council noting 265 were in support of the rezone and 32 against. In total there were 1314 in favor and 151 opposed.
Carolynne White, attorney for WalMart, gave the WalMart presentation. She said the 2004 BIAAC Report noted the sales tax leakage as a problem for Littleton and their recommendation to council to recruit a large format retailer. As a result the city council recommended the Santa Fe site for a large format retailer. When the “brokers” showed them the “package” WalMart agreed. (This is the first time I have heard that Littleton actively recruited WalMart.)
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