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Votes at a glance: council approves ordinances, plats, permits and easements
Summary
Council Bluffs City Council approved a set of ordinances, resolutions, permits and the MidAmerican eminent-domain resolution during the meeting. Action items included rezoning, planned-division amendments, public-works plans and permits.
The Council Bluffs City Council took action on several routine and substantive items during the meeting. Below are the measures the council voted to approve in the session and the recorded outcomes in the meeting transcript.
Votes at a glance
- Ordinance 66-21: Amend zoning map / vacated section of Hillside Drive adjacent to 1441 McPherson Avenue — Approved.
- Resolution 25-05: Approve plans, specifications, form of contract and cost estimates for Union Pacific Museum windows and doors — Approved.
- Resolution 25-06: Final plat approval for a 6-lot minor subdivision known as Black Squirrel Business Park (northwest corner of 305th Street and 14th Avenue) — Approved.
- Ordinance 66-19: Amend street naming/numbering code to re-designate Cedar Lane — Approved.
- Resolution 20-4354: Authorize MidAmerican Energy to acquire property interests by eminent domain (power-line easements) — Approved (see separate story for discussion and public comment).
- Resolution 25-07: Authorize access agreement with Cellco Partnerships (Verizon Wireless) for fiber across city right of way — Approved.
- Resolution 20-508: Amend PR planned-residential development plan for Lots 1–8, Josie Subdivision — Approved.
- Liquor license applications (items 1–10) — Approved.
- Device-retailer permit (new state requirement for vape/tobacco-device sellers) — Approved (fee collection by state; city to receive permit notification).
Several motions were moved and seconded as recorded in open session. On one roll call vote for item 3C, Council Member Steve Gorman recorded an abstention; other roll call votes recorded ayes in the transcript. Council took a strategy-session break later in the agenda for contract discussions (described in open session as a strategy session exempt from open-meetings requirements for union contract strategy). The council also established a search committee to begin work on a city-attorney replacement process with members and HR staff identified during the meeting.
