• Scott Drake reported that he had attended a homeowners meeting at the Renaissance condo building about “problems they’re going to be having with some construction issues….very similar to what happened at the Artisan where they had to scaffold the whole building and slowly make some repairs.
• Mayor Baskett spoke to the fact that at his request he and the City Manager had a meeting with Superintendent Phyllis Edwards and Board Chair Marc Wisniewski to discuss the upcoming Beacon Hill renovation and the planned apartment developments downtown.  Then the mayor added, “No where in that discussion did they mention that they were going to be voting on a bond issue tomorrow night or do those large construction plans at the high school and middle school, but maybe I guess we still have work to do on your communications.”
• “We need to think about our decision from last December…Yes, there’s a sense that there wasn’t enough public engagement for this project.  It was our thought that there had been plenty of public engagement for the project, because in addition to all that, we had a task force working on a number of issues including that for more than a year.  And they had had several public input sessions in which those very issues were raised.  All of that, we had tight enough guidelines that we could proceed doing that permit.  Having said all of that, there is not a person sitting up here who doesn’t have some kind of concern about the way this worked and we’ll be having discussions about that. I can tell you that that’s going to happen.  Whether it’ll lead beyond that or not, I can’t say. But there will be discussions.” – Mayor Jim Baskett responding to a 335 resident who spoke about the 315 West Ponce approval process during the “Requests and Other Business” portion to a meeting

I’m not sure whether the “temporary” part of the sign below is true or not, but the reopen track record of businesses that put up this vague sort of sign is pretty low.

Thanks to Billy for the report and the pic!

Scott sends in this photo of scaffolding on the backside of the Renaissance condos and wonders if the building is already replacing its EIFS within just a few years of construction.

Can anyone fill us in?  Maybe we should try out the new construction inquiry form on the city’s website!