Hayden council to livestream planning, zoning meetings
Hayden City Council members, from left, Roger Saterfiel, Sandra White, Mayor Scott Forsell, Council President Matt Roetter and member Ed DePriest pose together Tuesday during a council meeting.
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The Hayden City Council approved a contract Tuesday for TBD Marketing and Media to livestream planning and zoning meetings and make them available for playback on YouTube.
“It’s super nice,” said Josh Miller, co-owner of TBD.
Currently, the Planning and Zoning meetings are only available in-person at 5 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of the month at Hayden City Hall.
The cost of the new contract will be $300 per stream if no city technical staff is present or $150 if the city can provide staff.
The resulting streams would be viewable on the City of Hayden’s YouTube page, like city council meetings that are already available at youtube.com/@cityofhayden.
The Planning and Zoning Commission makes recommendations to the City Council on land use decisions, which can influence the council’s decision to approve or deny projects or zone changes and other requests to the city by landowners.
The Hayden Urban Renewal Agency is also considering streaming meetings on YouTube.
“The consensus seemed to be that whatever is done at Planning and Zoning that HURA would agree to the same firm,” said Council President Matt Roetter, who serves on the HURA board.
HURA meetings are on the second Monday of the month at 3 p.m. at Hayden City Hall.
During Tuesday's meeting, the City Council also approved a right-of-way purchase for a property in the Ramsey Road Extension project, leaving just two properties for the city to acquire before construction likely starts in the summer of 2024.
The Ramsey Road Extension project would extend Ramsey to connect W. Lancaster Road to Dakota Avenue.
The council also approved a plan for a Ramsey Road corridor.
“The intent of that is to provide alignment,” said Public Works Director Alan Soderling. “This is not a project that’s going to be built today or tomorrow. But it’s to lay out a future alignment so that as we build utilities down this corridor, improvements and other things, we get them in there with the least impact to the adjacent properties.”
The new plan was adopted Tuesday and if funded, would incorporate a new gravity sewer line under Ramsey Road, from Wyoming to Dakota avenues. It outlines in detail where developers can place curbs, swales, utilities or sidewalks in a way that doesn’t interfere with the future sewer line or other planned utilities.
The plan also provides some traffic calming around Lacey, where the road narrows around existing residential properties.
“This is all to avoid major impacts to the existing properties,” Soderling said. “This is not going to be constructed, this is to plan. It’s not funded at this moment.”
The Ramsey Corridor will be designed for the future, but the project construction won’t start for two to five years.
There will be a sewer line installed from Wyoming to Lancaster this summer, that the corridor plan will eventually align to, once the capacity is needed and the budget is available.