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WATERLOO — A new parking ramp and additional housing could be coming to downtown.
The City Council on Monday will consider approving a purchase rights agreement to buy and redevelop the parking lot near the SportsPlex, adding a parking ramp and residential development. The meeting takes place at 5:30 p.m. in the council chambers of City Hall.
The ramp would service the SportsPlex, Young Arena, the Waterloo Center for the Arts, Singlespeed and surrounding businesses. Developers are also looking at building apartments above the parking garage.
An agreement allows the developer to look for funding. The developer’s proposed project would be an investment of more than $40 million.
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Four public hearings will be held during the meeting. Among them are:
- A site plan amendment for five single-family homes at Williston Field to be built by Hawkeye Community College students. The field has been sitting empty for years after previous developers didn’t follow through with projects. After the hearing, city documents suggest the council may adopt the ordinance Monday by suspending rules that require approval at three separate meetings before it goes into effect.
- The replacement of two Sergeant Road Trail bridges. The city received three bids for the project, which the council will vote on. Peterson Contractors Inc. of Reinbeck submitted the lowest proposal at $323,403.
- A five-year agreement for a property lease and conveyance of land in the South Waterloo Business Park. Multiple data containers/centers would be established at a cost of $1,000 a month with an option to purchase the property for $1. Documents say the city is working with a development group to look at blockchain development.
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Other scheduled business coming before the council includes:
- An amendment to the Animal Control Services agreement with the Cedar Bend Humane Society increasing fees 3% to hold an animal per day. Currently, it costs animal control $54 to hold an animal without identification for three days, which would rise to $55.62. Another increase of the same amount wouldn’t happen until July 2025. Sandie Greco, traffic operations director, said in city documents that growing costs at the humane society are driving the increase.
- An amendment to the lease agreement with the Cedar Valley Youth Soccer Association for a 10-year extension and addition of land at the Cedar Valley Soccer Complex.
Designating $4.5 million in city matching funds for the transformation of Gates and Byrnes parks project. Leisure Services submitted an application to the state’s Economic Development Authority for a $1 million grant. The agency requires the city to commit $4.5 million. The expense would be funded through the capital improvement plan program over the next two years.
2021 Black Hawk County 4-H Fair PHOTOS
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Victoria Ulrich and her horse, Razzle, trot through the trail horse obstacle course during the performance class horse show at the 2021 Black Hawk County 4H and FFA Fair in Waterloo. Ulrich placed first in the event and was crowned the Fair Queen earlier in the week.
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Competitors in the trail horse class wait in the warm up ring during a horse show at the 2021 Black Hawk County 4H and FFA Fair in Waterloo.
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Sutton Paulsen smiles and she and her horse, Buck The Trend, clear the bridge on the trail horse obstacle course on Friday during performance class horse show at the Black Hawk County 4H and FFA Fair in Waterloo.
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Ansli Cox of Cedar Falls tries to match live specimens of prairie plants and flowers with names on a chart at the University of Northern Iowa’s Tallgrass Prairie Outreach Center exhibit during the STEM Fair at the 2021 Black Hawk County 4-H and FFA Fair in Waterloo.
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Breh Murch, 8, of the Bennington Boosters 4-H Club in Denver smiles as she launches her paper rocket into the air at the 2021 Black Hawk County 4-H and FFA Fair in Waterloo.
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Aubrey Wulf and her pony, Snow Flame, jump over logs in the clover kid in-hand trail obstacle course on Friday during performance class horse show at the Black Hawk County 4H and FFA Fair in Waterloo.
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Sutton Paulsen’s horse, Buck The Trend, in the warm up ring between events on Friday during performance class horse show at the Black Hawk County 4H and FFA Fair in Waterloo.
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Elsie McIntosh of Dunkerton, 13, wears virtual reality goggles to watch a NASA rocket launch simulation at the Iowa State University Extension and Outreach exhibit at the 2021 Black Hawk County 4-H and FFA Fair in Waterloo.
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