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CC 2012 08 13 CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING AUGUST 13, 2012 Mayor Furlong called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. The meeting was opened with the Pledge to the Flag. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Furlong, Councilman McDonald, Councilwoman Tjornhom, Councilwoman Ernst, and Councilman Laufenburger STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Laurie Hokkanen, Paul Oehme, Kate Aanenson, and Roger Knutson PUBLIC PRESENT: J.R. Relick 425 Chan View Mayor Furlong: Thank you and good evening and welcome to everybody here in the council chambers and those watching at home. We’re glad that you joined us this evening. At this time I’d like to, with regard to our agenda this evening one change. A couple changes. Modification. First of all item number th 3, at the request of the applicant this item will be deferred until our September 10 meeting so no discussion, action or consideration will be taken on item number 3 this evening. That will come on our th September 10 meeting agenda. And also I’ll have a couple public announcements that I will insert as well at the appropriate place. Other than that are there any other changes or modifications to the agenda? If not, without objection we’ll proceed with the agenda as I discussed. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mayor Furlong: I’d like to start with a couple public announcements. First of all we heard today the sad news that Al Klingelhutz, a lifelong Chanhassen resident who helped shaped this community died this morning at the age of 91. Funeral services are planned at St. Hubert’s Church in Chanhassen at 10:30 this coming Friday and a wake will also be at St. Hubert’s Church this coming Thursday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. Al Klingelhutz was a farmer, city council members, township board member, mayor, county commissioner, realtor who literally helped Chanhassen turn into the city that it is today. Al worked with others in the early stages of the 1960’s to merge Chanhassen township with the Village of Chanhassen. Al lived in the township which in 1961 was the largest piece of unincorporated land in Carver County and the target of competing local governments of Chaska, Victoria and Excelsior all trying to get a piece of that township. But it was because of Al’s leadership that the township was annexed into the Village of nd Chanhassen and the merger was approved on May 2 in 1967 by a 2 to 1 margin. Subsequently Al was elected to the Chanhassen City Council in 1967 to 72. He served as a council member and he served as Mayor, elected as Mayor in 1972 to 1977. As Mayor Al was instrumental in acquiring land that is now known as Lake Ann Park. The City paid $300 per acre and was able to get State and Federal grants to assist with the purchase and development of the park. Al was quoted as saying it was a heck of a deal for the City and he was proud of the way that it turned out. It’s unfortunate that we lost Al. He lived a long and very fruitful life and to Mary and their entire family our thoughts and prayers go out to them and we ask that others keep their family, the Klingelhutz family in their thoughts and prayers this week and beyond as we mourn the loss of a great man and a visionary leader for our own City of Chanhassen. Al was a good man. We’re all going to miss him. On a lighter note, the Chanhassen Red Birds are going to the Minnesota State Class C baseball tournament for the first time in 63 years. This is the first time that Chanhassen amateur ball team has qualified for the State Class C tournament which will be held in St. th Cloud. The first game is this Saturday, August 18 at 11:30 a.m. to be played on Favor Field against the Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 Blue Earth Pirates. Everyone is encouraged to attend the game and cheer the Red Birds onto victory. It’s interesting that in just the third season that the Red Birds were re-established here as town ball team for the City of Chanhassen the players, parents and fans have enjoyed great season of victories, with some disappointments. The eighth inning of the game against the Vic’s comes to mind personally, but now they get to play in the big show at the state tournament. The Red Birds had a record this year of 21 and 13. General manager Terre Kemble gets the credit for recruiting first year manager Derek Nelson who has done a masterful job of keeping the young men engaged, excited and playing well throughout the season. All of us congratulate the Chanhassen Red Birds for reaching the state tournament and wish them every success in each of their games so congratulations to the Red Birds. Todd Gerhardt: Where’s the Mayor’s hat? Mayor Furlong: That was just for one meeting that I had to wear a hat and I fulfilled that obligation. Todd Gerhardt: We have no idea where that hat went. Mayor Furlong: I’m trying to move on at this point. We’ll move onto our council consent agenda items. CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman Laufenburger moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations: a. Approval of Minutes: -City Council Work Session Minutes dated July 23, 2012 -City Council Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated July 23, 2012 Receive Commission Minutes: -Planning Commission Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated July 17, 2012 b. Approval of Data Privacy Policy. Resolution #2012-43; c. Improvements to TH 101 and Pleasant View Road Intersection and Trail Project 11-05: Approve Cooperative Agreement with MnDOT. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS. Rick Dorsey: Mayor, council members, my name is Rick Dorsey regarding 1551 Lyman Boulevard. I had an item on the agenda tonight that I did pull off the agenda til a future date and within the packet there is some information that I felt was not relevant to the subdivision that’s in the packet itself and I’ve just put forth a letter to make public that I request that that piece of information be removed. If there’s any questions I’d be happy to answer them. Mayor Furlong: Any questions? Ms. Aanenson. Kate Aanenson: No, we can review that but again we believe that the maps are kind of looking long term. What we’ve talked about in the comprehensive plan and we think there’s appropriate part of the discussion. Certainly the immediate action isn’t going to take place but as we pointed out in the staff report we believe that you have to be thinking ahead and planning what the implications of the subdivision may be so we think it’s just good background information for that. 2 Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 Mayor Furlong: Okay, but we’ll certainly consider the. Rick Dorsey: I think I want to make one further statement then. The piece that I’m referring to is labeled Chanhassen Area Wide Urban, excuse me. City of Chanhassen Alternative Urban Area Wide Review dated April 19, 2012. It’s a misleading caption on the graphic in that there is no AUAR that was done that this is a part of and so to incorporate information that’s not part of anything that’s been through a public process would be wrong, number one. Number two, that the subdivision that I’m looking at and will be bringing forth deals with the existing land use. Has nothing to do with future land use so within the guidance of existing land use it’s an inrelevant piece of information that could be misled by, misin, excuse me, misinterpreted by others who may read it and assume that this means something when in fact the picture that’s there is not anything that myself or the other property owners included and have even considered. So we want to make sure that it’s clear in the public record that we are not considering what’s being showed there. It is not part of the AUAR. There has not been an updated AUAR done at this point and that we are working on different ideas for the property and talking to different people and when misinformation goes out such as this it undermines our ability to present information to third parties and have our credibility remain intake. As well from the standpoint of the City in putting a document out that suggests that it is part of an AUAR is false information. So I’d like to have it be taken out. Kate Aanenson: I don’t want to get into a big elaborate discussion. I just want to, for the record the position the staff took is any development on this property is going to require an update to the AUAR because we did rezone this, re-guided this property to either regional commercial or an office. The current subdivision is falling underneath the existing agricultural zone. That’s why they’re able to do the metes and bounds and do the administrative subdivision. Our concern was just to put the property owner on notice that an AUAR needs to be amended. We’ve looked at some things and the AUAR proposed is consistent. We’re not saying that’s the ultimate plan but we’re just putting that forward as an indicator. Mayor Furlong: And I think you just agree… Rick Dorsey: I just would like it to say that this is not an AUAR that’s been done. It could be anything yet. This is not what’s showing here anything that the City has approved and that’s all I want. I’m not disagreeing that an AUAR has to be done. This graphic is not correct. Kate Aanenson: It says draft but we can. Rick Dorsey: That’s all I said. Mayor Furlong: Here’s my thought on this, unless the council has any objection, I think it was at your th request that we took this item off our agenda tonight. We’re going to pick it up on September 10. You know show us the information and that’s a time certainly too that you can give us any information that you believe is false or misleading in the packet and we can evaluate that at that time. Rick Dorsey: That’s what I’ve done. I’ve provided a letter for the public record. Mayor Furlong: So now we’ll see that letter as a part of the staff report or as part of the item. Rick Dorsey: Yep, exactly. Mayor Furlong: That we’ll see next time and then we can talk about it and consider it. Thank you. Rick Dorsey: Okay. 3 Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 Mayor Furlong: Anyone else for visitor presentations this evening? Okay, let’s move on with the next agenda item. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ON-SALE BEER & WINE LICENSE, KAI’S SUSHI & TH GRILL, 586 WEST 78 STREET. th Laurie Hokkanen: Thank you. This proposal is for a new restaurant to be located on West 78 Street with a menu featuring sushi, teriyaki and hibachi. Staff has conducted the required background checks and there are no outstanding issues or negative comments. We did publish notice of the public hearing to be held tonight and do recommend approval of the on-sale beer and wine license pending the receipt of liquor liability insurance and the $410 fee. Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Any questions for staff? Any comments or questions from the applicant? None necessarily, okay. Let me open up the public hearing then and invite all interested parties to come forth and address the council with any comments. Alright, seeing none then we’ll close the public hearing without objection and bring it to council for staff and comments. Thoughts and comments. I will make a comment. I think it’s great another restaurant’s coming to town. Yeah, yeah. This is, that’s wonderful. Congratulations to the owners and people that are going to be involved so wish you every success. Would somebody like to make a motion? Councilwoman Ernst: I will. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Ernst. Councilwoman Ernst: I make a motion that we approve the request for an on-sale beer and wine license for Kai’s Sushi Incorporated dba Kai’s Sushi & Grill contingent upon receipt of liquor liability insurance and the license fee of $410. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second? Councilman McDonald: I’ll second. Mayor Furlong: Motion’s been made and seconded. Any discussion on the motion? Councilman Laufenburger: I’m wondering when Kai’s open for business. Do we have any indication? Mayor Furlong: When are you going to be open for business? Laurie Hokkanen: October. Mayor Furlong: Alright. Just in time for Octoberfest. Any other comments? Very good. Motion’s been made and seconded. Councilwoman Ernst moved, Councilman Laufenburger seconded that the City Council approves the request for an on-sale beer and wine license from Kai’s Sushi, Inc. dba Kai’s Sushi & Grill contingent upon receipt of liquor liability insurance and the license fee of $410. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. REQUEST TO AMEND THE FOLLOWING RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENTS: CHANHASSEN HILLS, HIDDEN VALLEY (INCLUDING SUMMARY ORDINANCE FOR PUBLICATION PURPOSES), NORTH BAY, SPRINGFIELD ADDITION, 4 Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 AUTUMN RIDGE, LYNMORE ADDITION, THE PRESERVE, TOWNHOMES AT CREEKSIDE AND TROTTERS RIDGE. Kate Aanenson: Thank you Mayor and members of City Council. We’ve abbreviated the presentation so try to have a little bit less of the information, the detailed information on the lot sizes and the like. This st neighborhood meeting was held on June 21 and we had approximately 30 people that attended. Again notices for the website were available as well as information to help residents that were at the meeting find the website through the computer access at the Rec Center. Again just to clarify some houses might not meet the standards. Not our intent to bring everybody into compliance but clarifying what those standards might be. Also in this process, not our intent to up-zone. In this rezoning tonight you will actually see a commercial or institutional use in there. So again the Planning Commission held a public th hearing on July 17 and it was unanimous to recommend these amendments so this is the northern area of the town that we did so I’ll start with the first one which is Autumn Ridge. So the underlying zoning for this will be R-8. So it’s mixed medium density and residential districts. Actually got the privilege of going to a neighborhood National Night Out in the southern area of the city and to my surprise over half the people in that area have been the original owners in that southern part and love it back there. So there’s 14 twinhomes for 28 units, two 3-unit 6 units, seven fourplexes and a 6 unit and then nine 8 units and those are all the ones beyond the twinhomes are towards the north of Coulter so again the R-8 accommodates all those different lot sizes within that development so recommending that as the underlying zoning district. Chanhassen Hills is, we’re recommending the residential single family is actually three different phases within that district, or subdivision. Again the minimum lot sizes there, the minimum would be 11,000. Obviously there’s larger lots within there so again the 172 single family detached and recommending that zoning district. Hidden Valley. There’s a disconnect here between what’s on the ordinance. The ordinance actually says RSF and these lot sizes are a little bit smaller and I’m not positive on whether it should be the R-4 or the RS because the ordinance is different than the presentation and one of these was corrected today and I’m not sure which is the correct one so we do have some coming forward and this might be one that we might want to just not act on. We’ll put it on the next. I just want to make sure we get it right instead of amending it so I think we’d want to move this one to your next, the final, if we can take that off. The Hidden Valley. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Kate Aanenson: And then this one also did include, because it is smaller lot size. It should be the R-4, which is what’s on the slide but the ordinance refers to the RSF and I just want to make sure they are reconciled. This one also has a church. Formerly the Lutheran church, now Methodist church there and this one also is an office institutional so we did amend or recommending that one but again we’ll just hold off on all of the Hidden Valley until we come back. The Lynmore Addition, Residential Single Family would be the underlying zoning district for that PUD. Again there’s just 6 single family homes there and they’re just under the 12,000. They’re larger lots so that’s what we’re recommending on that one. North Bay, we have a couple different home sizes within that. Again we’re recommending the Residential Low and Medium Density because there’s two different home sizes in there. So there’s 76 detached homes and a beachlot with that. Again we’ve referenced the beachlot on there so anybody that’s doing a transaction would know where to find that information on their recreational beachlot. The Preserve at Bluff Creek. Again this is Residential Low and Medium density. Three different phases within that one and there’s 93 single family detached. The minimum lot size in there is the 8,000. Again we spread that hard surface over the common area which would be the bluff area. So again we’re recommending Residential Low and Medium on that one. In the Springfield, a number of different additions there. Again the underlying zoning district there would be RSF so there’s 135 single family detached units and there are some lots that were limited to 2 car garage. The smaller lots maybe in the corners so the minimum lot size there was 11,000. Again recommendation for that one. Townhomes at Creekside. R-8 which is smaller lot size. 25 townhomes. The smallest lot size is just under 2,000 square feet. And then 5 Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 Trotter’s Ridge. The underlying zoning district here would be Residential Single Family. There’s 49 single family homes in there. 11,000 and these are probably the most traditional. Some of the ones that we’re showing you tonight the most traditional ones we’ve done in recent years under the PUD ordinance. Minimum 11, average 15. So with that except for the Hidden Valley one we are recommending approval on those. Also approving the Findings of Fact and Summary Ordinances for, the Hidden Valley one we’re not going to move forward with so that was the only one that had a more elaborate summary ordinance so with that I’d be happy to answer any questions that you have. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for staff? Councilwoman Tjornhom: I just have one. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Tjornhom. Councilwoman Tjornhom: Kate, since we started this process have there been any problems or complications with anything? Kate Aanenson: No. Actually it’s, we’ve found it very helpful when we’re meeting with residents that want to do additions or decks that we’ve got all the information right there and actually at some of the neighborhood meetings we’ve been able to answer questions for people right there with the information so I think it’s, no we haven’t had anybody that’s said they’ve been, we did have one other concern on the Hidden Valley that a resident pointed out that we actually made an error before we went to the Planning Commission as part of the open house so I think that’s all been a very positive process. Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Any other questions for staff? Any comments or concerns or would somebody like to make a motion? Councilman Laufenburger: I’ll make a motion. Mayor Furlong: Councilman Laufenburger. Councilman Laufenburger: I move that the Chanhassen City Council approve the ordinances amending the following Planned Unit Developments: Autumn Ridge, Chanhassen Hills, Lynmore Addition, North Bay, The Preserve at Bluff Creek, Springfield and Summerfield 2nd, Townhomes at Creekside, Trotter’s Ridge and adopts the Planning Commission Findings of Fact. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second? Councilwoman Ernst: Second. Mayor Furlong: Motion’s been made and seconded. Is there any reason to specifically table Hidden Valley or just not acting on it we can bring it back? Todd Gerhardt: Just not act on it. Kate Aanenson: Yep. We’ll put it on with the next. Mayor Furlong: That’s fine. That’s fine. Motion has been made and seconded. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none we’ll proceed with the vote. 6 Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 Councilman Laufenburger moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded that the Chanhassen City Council approve the ordinances amending the following Planned Unit Developments: Autumn Ridge, Chanhassen Hills, Lynmore Addition, North Bay, The Preserve at Bluff Creek, Springfield and Summerfield 2nd, Townhomes at Creekside, Trotter’s Ridge and adopts the Planning Commission Findings of Fact. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Again we appreciate you getting these, there’s a lot of work behind the scenes even though this might go fast here, I know there’s a lot of staff time that’s been involved. A lot of communication with residents. The Planning Commission’s been involved so we appreciate all the efforts. COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. Mayor Furlong: Any staff presentations? National Night Out I think was last week. Todd Gerhardt: Yes. Mayor Furlong: Was it not? I think we had some people attend there. I was out of town but any comments or thoughts on National Night Out from those that attended. Councilman McDonald: It went very well from our standpoint except I think next year you need to plan the fire department with kids. They were quite disappointed to pull up with all their fire trucks and everything and no kids to climb all over it but. Mayor Furlong: Neighborhoods with many children, yes. Councilman McDonald: Yes, neighborhoods with many children would be great. We traveled mainly the senior route and they didn’t want to be climbing on trucks so but no, it went very well. But no it went very well. Everybody was very happy to see us. We got a lot of positive comments about what’s going on in the city. A lot of questions about development and those kind of things as to what’s going to be happening so everyone was very aware, at least on our trip and I think it went very well and I want to thank the fire department for again donating their engine and taking it around. You know turning on the siren and all that kind of stuff. It was fun. Todd Gerhardt: Well we need to get them down in The Preserve and the Bluff Creek area because every house had 2.4 kids. You should have seen those .4 kids but you know a lot of kids down there. We had a great time. We were down in The Preserve. They really wanted to see Bluff Creek Boulevard extended all the way over to Powers. Probably heard that 5 or 6 times and from a variety of different neighbors and also a trail issue that went through their neighborhood that was a common area where grass hasn’t been mowed in probably 2 years and going up to their manicured lawns was kind of interesting to see. Just great neighborhoods. They all get along with their neighbors it seemed like and, at least that’s what they told us and you know just a great way to have neighbors meet neighbors and to watch out for each other so we had Sergeant Anderley with us and he did a great job of communicating with the neighborhoods and some of the residents. Mayor Furlong: Anything else? Councilman Laufenburger: Yeah I had the pleasure of, my granddaughter and I had the pleasure of riding with Lieutenant Jeff Enevold in his squad car and I was relegated to the back seat, you know the plastic seat that they hose out at the end of the night. I don’t think they had to hose it out for me but, it was 7 Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 wonderful. I first want to say that the folks at North Bay, I think his name is Tom Hasmet had a personal note from you Tom. He was disappointed that you weren’t able to be there but he was gracious and considered my presence perhaps 50% but he invited me back for next year Tom so I think might have stepped above you in status. Exactly. I also visited Chesterfield which is a new street in the Reflections of Lake Riley and the wonderful thing about National Night Out on that night was that the organizer, Lana and J.J. and their two children, they saw about a dozen people come at least 8 of whom they had not met before. These are people who were new in the area, or even one lady brought her 2 daughters and they were planning to move into a house within the next 2 months so this really was a neighborhood organizational event for them. And I also saw the .4 kids. They were showing up in ladies stomachs but it was just, it was a wonderful, clear evidence that here’s a neighborhood that really wants to be a neighborhood in Chanhassen so. And lastly just congratulations to Beth Hoiseth. She does a wonderful job of managing and organizing this and I think the kids like the horses as much as they like the fire ladder trucks. The posse, it was great so thanks Tom. Mayor Furlong: Good, thank you. Councilwoman Ernst. Councilwoman Ernst: Mayor we had our’s and again Ruth and Andy Borash did a great job. They’ve been hosting our National Night Out for 8 years and they turned over their responsibility to some new neighbors in the neighborhood so congratulations to the new responsibility holders and thank you Ruth and Andy for all you’ve done for the last 8 years. The root beer floats have been great for the last 8 years. Hopefully we’ll continue that tradition. And also we had some, actually our neighborhood obviously is a very old neighborhood in terms of not really age but people that have been there for a long time. We had many that have been there for 30 years. Ruth and Andy have been there for 40 some years so seeing new neighbors and 30 year olds and 40 year olds so it was a great time. And we had our first singing quartet so it was awesome, yeah. Mayor Furlong: Well wonderful. Good to hear and I know Mr. Gerhardt and other members of city staff were out at neighborhoods as well so I hope you had good receptions and enjoyed yourself. Laurie Hokkanen: We did. Mayor Furlong: Maybe a root beer float or two. Laurie Hokkanen: We were definitely offered it. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Laurie Hokkanen: I think if I can chime in one thing. We kept hearing in neighborhoods, you know I’ve always wondered but nobody calls City Hall so if you have questions about what’s going on at the City, check out our website. Call us. Post it on our Facebook page because a lot of them are really easy questions to answer that we’d be happy to answer so if there are things on people’s minds they don’t have to wait until next National Night Out to catch one of us. They can just call and we’re happy to help. Mayor Furlong: Great. Good suggestion. Councilman Laufenburger: And Mayor I’d like to repeat somebody that Lieutenant Enevold said at the sites that we were at and that is, he encouraged the residents, if they were thinking do I call 911 or do I call the non-emergency number, his words were call 911 because the same people answer the phone and let them determine if it’s an emergency. Like if you see somebody walking through the neighborhood that shouldn’t be there or you see some suspicious activity or an open garage door or something, he really 8 Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 encouraged people to call 911. That we are staffed for that and that, all of that contributes to the incredible performance that our very efficient police force takes care of in Chanhassen so. Councilwoman Ernst: If I could have, I have one suggestion and I’m wondering if this is possible Laurie, and maybe Beth actually gets all the locations of the National Night Out, right? Can she put those on the website for those locations or is there a disadvantage to doing that? Laurie Hokkanen: A number of years ago that was considered private information and there was some legislation change in the past year or two that now makes that public information. That’s something that we might have to debate. We got some feedback from neighborhoods that they don’t appreciate, it’s not that they don’t feel like it’s open to the public and they don’t appreciate people that aren’t invited coming to their parties. So it is something that’s been debated. Different cities handle it differently and we can definitely talk about it again. Do you think that would be helpful? Councilwoman Ernst: I was just wondering for like new neighbors in the neighborhood, if there’s a way they could you know because if we don’t have their email addresses it’s hard to get the word out. Laurie Hokkanen: Yeah, maybe we could post like a name and a contact number so you could say okay, I’m new in Reflections at Lake Riley. I call. Oh it’s Vicki, here’s your number. Maybe that could be a good call to make. I’ll take that feedback back to her and we can talk about it. Councilwoman Ernst: Great, thank you. Laurie Hokkanen: Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Other council presentations? I do want to say a week ago last Friday, I rd think it was the 3 of August the Chanhassen, or the Minnesota Arboretum opened it’s doors to Chanhassen residents and Carver County residents for free admittance for one day and it was a great turnout. The weather was perfect. The turnout was wonderful. Dr. Schneider was there representing the Arboretum of course and Commissioner Gayle Degler was there with the County and just a great time. I want to thank Jill Sinclair and Kate Aanenson for being there and from the staff coordinating that and helping that but I received a lot of great comments and that is, you know the Arboretum really is a great asset that we have in this city. It’s right in our back yard and so we appreciate the Arboretum opening it’s doors to invite all it’s neighbors into our back yard once a year because it is a great asset and they do a lot of good things out there. They are, in my conversation with Dr. Schneider, we talked about having him come to a future council meeting and make a presentation. Update the council and others watching on all the things that are going on out there so we can expect that coming up for a future council meeting. I know Mr. Gerhardt has already made contact with them and they’ll get something scheduled for a visitor presentation. They’re going through a major capital campaign and developed a new master plan in terms of some improvements out there. We talked about the, with some of the residents about the underpass that’s coming in as a part of the Highway 5 construction and how well that will be received and really create the first opportunity for people to safely bike or walk to the Arboretum across State Highway 5 so that’s a great asset and they are committed to making that access more available in the future as well to vehicles so it was a great day. Great opportunity for people to come out and see the Arboretum so thank you to everyone involved in doing that. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS. Todd Gerhardt: Just one item Mayor and council. We were talking about the Arboretum and it’s I would call good news is that we’re going to open up that segment of Highway 5 between 41 and Minnewashta 9 Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012 Parkway. As a matter of fact it will take you just past Rolling Acres Road in Victoria until you get to the frontage road. I forget the street in Victoria. Mayor Furlong: Steger Lake. th Todd Gerhardt: Steger, yeah. And that should occur sometime this coming Wednesday, August 15 and so nice to see the progress going on over there and we took a peak at that intersection at Minnewashta and 5 when we were over there for National Night Out last week and just getting ready to pave and curb was down and looks like the pedestrian underpass has been completed and that looks really nice and a great asset to that area. And again to provide that barrier free access to the Arboretum for those residents that live in and around that area so great. So Highway 5 will be open this coming Wednesday. Mayor Furlong: Sounds great. And that, there’s still going to be some construction taking place in downtown Victoria but it will be back so you will have access all the way through with local routes through Victoria be able to get all the way through to the west side of Victoria to County 11 is it? Todd Gerhardt: Yeah. Still working on the viaduct, the bridge over the railroad tracks in Victoria and also on the surcharging that’s occurring on that part of the Highway 5 that’s been settling over the years. That’s still being worked on so the bypass that takes you along Steger Lake there will be open this coming Wednesday. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Alright. Todd Gerhardt: That’s all I have. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Gerhardt? No, okay. CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None. Councilwoman Tjornhom moved, Councilman McDonald seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. The City Council meeting was adjourned at 7:40 p.m. Submitted by Todd Gerhardt City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim 10