Moscow City Council saw the gifting of the key to the city, awards for officers who responded to a shooting in Pullman and rezoning measures for the Southgate neighborhood in Monday’s eventful meeting.
Key to the city
Moscow Mayor Bill Lambert awarded the key to the city to Damon Burton. Burton wasn’t present to receive the key as he recently moved to Michigan.
“It’s my pleasure to recognize Dr. Damon for his 30 years of remarkable service and Parks and Recreation Commission,” Greg Morrison, recreation manager.
This is the second time that Lambert has given a key to the city, the first being to Bruce Pitman, former dean of students at the University of Idaho. Lambert stated that it is very rare to give a key, but a very distinct honor.
Life Saving Award
Moscow Chief of Police James Fry commended officers Mitch Nunes and Jay Waters for their actions during the fatal shooting that occurred in Pullman last month.
“They found one of the victims who had been shot and officer Waters provided security during that time,” Fry said. “While officer Nunes played an instrumental role in working on the shooting victim Raymond Gray.”
Both Nunes and Waters were awarded with the Life Saving Award for their actions.
“Both officers played a vital role in that individual still being alive today,” Fry said. “We want to commend the officers for that commend them for everything they did that night and helped our fellow city across the way.”
Southgate
The proposed rezoning of the Southgate neighborhood was approved at the meeting. The neighborhood consists of residential homes of differing designations based on their density.
The goal of the rezoning is to have one unified designation.
“It’s been kind of a goal of the zoning commission to clean up some of these areas that have multiple zones,” Scott Becker, project manager, said. “Make them more conducive to one zone.”
Councilors also approved the replat of Southgate, dividing up t4.59 acres of its original 7.56 acres. The new subdivision would be named the Park Valley division, using the land to create 12 lots within the addition. Additional land will be sold, according to applicant Mike Salisbury.
“What I’d like to do is sell that piece to finance some of these streets,” Salisbury said. “Whoever I sell it to, they put a home there or come back to replat it.”
The last agenda dealing with the Southgate third edition is concerning the Sierra Vista PUD and preliminary plat.
An additional 8 plots will allow a private street under the new subdivision. Planning Manager Mike Ray was able to elaborate on the use of the private street.
“Typically, they’re located in areas where it could be challenging topography, like this property we’re looking at tonight,” Ray said.
Police station sale
The closing date for the sale of the Fourth Street police station to UI has been pushed back.
“We have been unable to obtain the furnishings that have been ordered for that new police department,” City Supervisor Gary Riedner said. “We’ve been told it was an extension of almost four months.”
The amendment pushed the closing date of the sale to Jan. 21, 2022. Riedner said that UI was approached with this issue and agreed to the new date.
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