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City Council Meeting Minutes September 6,2016 He spoke about meetings between Mike Montagne, Melanie Howard and Dr. Hardy that had taken place prior to anything being brought before the Parks Department or City Council, and the timeliness of the offer from US Fish to remove the dam. He provided several other documents in support of his position to keep Cape's Dam. Lisa Marie Coppoletta, addressed the Council about potentially giving the Ethics Review Commission the oversight of consultants. She said that the recent downtown parking event was around $85,000. She provided a shout out to the Police patrolling the Historic District. She stated that we won't have the finalized FEMA flood maps until summer of 2017. She encouraged the use of more permeable materials on things like sidewalks and parking lots and provided her reasons for wishing to see these materials utilized. Joan Byrd, provided the Council with comments regarding the master plan that was recently approved and the amount of time and work that it took to put it in place. She asked the Council to not vote against the master plan. Charles Soechting, stated that he was present representing the Lara family on the HEB deal. He spoke about the Lara Family and HEB meeting on several occasions and that the Lara Family is supportive of this project. He stated that HEB is the only grocery store ever to be given a Green Award for their green building models. He welcomes the time to speak more about this and spoke about how HEB has addressed every possible concern. Rob Roark, referenced the law suit that the City is involved in with the Lara Family. He referenced the Land Use Plan in 2002 and spoke about the wonder world extension and the limited access off of the extension regarding the curb cuts that were promised wouldn't happen. He stated that the Lara's are going to be taken care of, but he asked the Council to follow the plan. He stated that once we start making those changes off of Wonder World that more requests will come in. Robert Moore, representing the Cemetery Commission spoke about their planned clean ups in the fall and asked citizens to clean their plots prior to the cleanup. He stated that anything collected during the cleanup will be taken to the caretaker's office for retrieval. Ivan Friedman, addressed the Council and asked that the Council send the HEB item back to P&Z. He stated that we already have two HEB stores on the west side and that the east side of town only has Wal-Mart. He stated that City of San Marcos Page 3