HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - MGG - 09-12-2012MILTON GROWS GREEN COMMITTEE
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012 MINUTES [ApPROVED]
D ORIGINAL
Date: September 12, 2012, Noon to 1:30 PM
Place: Executive Conference Room, Milton City Hall, 13000 Deerfield Parkway, Milton, GA 30004
Attendees: Cindy Eade, Jack Lindon, Francia Lindon, Kathy Johnson, Teresa Sticlels, Lily Pavo, Kathy Field
and Michele Macintosh-Ross. Jason Wright and Jim Cregge came about midway through.
I. Agenda: It was posted on the City's web site.
II. Approval ofMinutes: No minutes were approved.
III. Announcements & Updates:
• Community Development Update, Kathy Field -Form Based Code overlay for the Crabapple area was
passed by City Council June 18th with a Transfer Development Rights (TDR) ordinance in place so we can
"save the farms" and increase density in certain areas such Crabapple and LCI. She explained "Form
Based Code" as a way for the city to control the zoning by form, architecture style, height, etc. of the
building as opposed to the use. The new code doesn't differentiate on the basis of use. It gets the City
planners out of the business of playing "market expert." The market place will determine the use with
some restrictions. Nine projects are currently going on in Crabapple. A City Architect has been hired to
help. "We are building a village lot by lot." Required parking has become a limiting factor. Developers are
now combining parcels and sharing parking area. It's an educational issue.
This model, From Based Code, is being replicated in the Deerfield/Rt. 9 area. The City has developed and
approved a master plan. These are cutting-edge tools for planning. This area will be much more intensely
developed as vertical mixed use. First "stake holder" meeting was just held. Expect to be finished by next
March.
City Council has put into the budget funding for hazardous waste collection thanks to MGG do-chair Jack
Lindon who contacted each City Council member. Estimated cost has come down by about 50% since it
was first proposed due to some new vendors who have entered the market.
The ARC Green Communities certification deadline is October 5th • Two new policies related to purchasing
recyclable materials have been proposed. Recyclable material cannot cost more then 10% over regular.
The second is related to green building. Any construction costing more then $25,000 to be "LEED certified
must be approved by City Council. This is going before the Council October 1 st.
• Michele Macintosh-Ross. A Tree Management plan was developed and just needs to be adopted by City
Council. It includes an inventory and overall tree canopy study and represents 5 points towards Milton's
Green Communities certification and it also has a maintenance plan.
• Milton Roundup October 20 th, noon to 6:00 PM, Jason Wright-Not a volunteer run event. City has hired
JRM. Management Co. to run it. Event has been pared down to its most popular elements, rides, games,
music and food. Also it's not going to be as commercial. MGG will host the Kids Green Activities tent
which will be 20x30 ft. Will also have 1 big City tent, information, resource guides, etc. Milton Herald is
the sponsor Kids Activities and will have an activity in our tent. It's one of the most popular aspects of the
event. The Milton Neighbor by the stage location will handle newspaper hats. Have 21 sponsors so far
and 3 food vendors -pizza, BBQ and hamburgers and hotdogs through the church. Food must be
prepared on a non-pervious surface so food trucks are a good solution. Jason plans to ask the ones that go
to the Crabapple festival this year.
Milton Grows Green Committee Meeting Minutes, September 12, 2012 [APPROVED]
ALL MILTON GROWS GREEN DOCUMENTS ARE PRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER WITH AT LEAST 35% POST -CONSUMER CONTENT.
Cindy passed out a layout for the Kids Activity Area. It's going to be green -Jack has birdhouses from
HomeDepot. Young Men's Service League has been asked to volunteer for the interactive green activities
tent for kids. Cindy will also ask Verizon group and Hopewell M.s. Ken Hughes will set up worm
composting. Will also have Halloween crafts, Clean Air balloon, rain barrels and "Choices" poster. We
can use banner from Earth Day but Jason is going to have something made that mentions the Milton
Herald. Planning on having 6 hours of varied entertainment on a single stage.
• Jim Cregge -New Parks and Recreation Director -Was introduced. Has been involved with community
for about 17 years. Was on the recreation commission in Alpharetta. He wanted to learn more about
MGG. Strategy for parks right now getting programming from outside source providers. Focus is on
development of facilities. Bell Memorial Park recycling didn't work well and is now defunct. Recycling
bins used indiscriminately for trash. The dumpster was being used by community because it was
available for free. Contamination was way over the top. Advanced Disposal stopped collecting. So
recycling bins are gone now. Dumpster is in a new location and being used by Optech. MGG needs to
revisit program and start over. Trash container needs to be side by side with recycling bin and both
clearly labeled. Waste at Bell Memorial is fairly specific. Don't get a whole lot of trash. Do get drink and
food containers. City is paying for hauling, as is part of Optech's contract so there's some economy of
means. It would probably cost more to hire an outside company dedicated to hauling trash from park. Jim
wants to restart the recycling program.
Jim is looking at some initial designs for newly acquired park land and is interested in having it be
"green," such as in incorporating a NWF Wildlife Habitat. Deerfield Park is of particular interest. He's
interested in getting people working together.
There was some discussion on use planning for Birmingham Park although it's not an area of current
focus. A group of citizens approached Jim with a proposal for limited development at Birmingham Park,
a "temporary" rodeo rink, lights, sewer and stands to accommodate about 9,000 people. He said the
chances of something like that being put in place were slim to none.
MGG Meeting adjourned at 1:30 PM.
Jon B. McPhail, Co-chair Francia Lindon, Secretary
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