CC 2004 01 26CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
JANUARY 26, 2004
Mayor Furlong called the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. The meeting was opened
with the Pledge to the Flag.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor
Councilman Ayotte, and Councilman Peterson.
meeting following the public hearing on 212.
Furlong, Councilman Lundquist,
Councilman Labatt arrived at the
STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Justin Miller, Kate Aanenson, Matt Saam, Todd
Hoffman, Bruce DeJong, Paul Oehme, Roger Knutson, and Kelley Janes
Public Present:
Name Address
Brett Troyer
Jack Broz
Lisa Freese
Larry Roybal
Meg & Bob Nichols
Dave Happe
Curt Bardal
Melissa Gilman
Jon Chiglo
Peter Wasko
Doug Koch
Jon Horn
Patty & Craig Mullen
Ken Wencl
A1 Klingelhutz
Rick Dorsey
Vernelle Clayton
Steve Lillehaug
Kari Nettesheim
Jim Sulerud
Cory Nordmeyer
Kent Exner
JeffMallon
Gary Devaan
Bob & Suzanne Janssen
Bob Quam
Krista Flemming
Terry Matula
MnDot Metro District
HNTB
MnDot Metro District
HNTB
MnDot Metro District
607 Summerfield
10301 Heidi Lane
Chanhassen Villager
MnDot Metro District
MnDot Metro District
9136 Springfield Drive
Kimley-Horn
611 Summerfield Drive
8412 Great Plains Boulevard
8600 Great Plains Boulevard
1551 Lyman Boulevard
422 Santa Fe Circle
Planning Commission
9151 & 9201 Great Plains Boulevard
720 Vogelsberg Trail
8707 North Bay Drive
8701 North Bay Drive
8743 North Bay Drive
8773 North Bay Drive
162 Lakeview Road
5120 West Street, Excelsior
Town & Country Homes
Town & Country Homes
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Jim Wilson
Sarah Lynn
Bob Smithburg
Carol Morimitsu
Tim Erhart
Richard Chadwick
Kevin McShane
James Haugen
Cheryl Niebeling
Debbie Lloyd
Jerry & Janet Paulsen
9150
1050
8657
8769
9611
Great Plains Boulevard
Lake Susan Drive
Chan Hills Drive North
North Bay Drive
Meadowlark Lane
9530 Foxford Road
180 South Shore Court
7800 Bavaria Road
10360 Heidi Lane
7302 Laredo Drive
7305 Laredo Drive
PUBLIC HEARING ON MUNICIPAL CONSENT FOR NEW HIGHWAY 212~
PROJECT 03-09.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you and good evening to everybody that's here with us this
evening and those watching at home. This is the beginning of our regular meeting this
evening. We are starting early so we can focus on the first item of our agenda, which is a
public hearing with regard to the municipal consent process for new Highway 212. At
this point what we're going to do, just from a format standpoint, we're going to hear
some staff reports from the city as well as from MnDot. And there may be some
questions from the council members but then we'll open up for the public hearing and
people are welcome to come up, make their comments and to the extent that it's a
question that we can respond to tonight, whether it's from staff or MnDot, we hope to
answer as many questions as we can. So with that, Mr. Saam why don't you go ahead
and start.
Matt Saam: Thank you Mr. Mayor, council members. Tonight's meeting is to hold a
public hearing for the municipal consent phase of the trunk highway 212 project. It is
required by state statute. The one thing ! want to point out is really the point of tonight's
meeting is to get the public input on this process. There is no action required by the
council tonight. It's to flush out the issues that the public may have. Staff will bring up
some remaining issues that we have and MnDot will also give a short presentation. ! do
just want to touch on the process for tonight's meeting for those watching at home and
here. Following my brief introduction here MnDot will get up and give a short overview.
City staff and our consultant will then touch on remaining issues that we have with the
plan layout. We'll be open to take any council questions whenever you feel you want to
ask them, and then after that we'll go ahead and open the public hearing and take public
input on it. With that, I'll introduce the MnDot folks. Jon Chiglo is the project manager
for the Trunk Highway 212 project. He's here tonight along with Lisa Freese, the area
manager for Chanhassen and surrounding communities, and it looks like a host of others
so with that I'll turn it over to Jon.
Jon Chiglo: Thank you Mr. Mayor, council members. ! want to thank you up front for
the opportunity to come and speak to you tonight regarding the Highway 212 design
build project. Highway 212 is a project that's approximately 12 miles long. It has an
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estimated cost of $245 million dollars, with an anticipated schedule of construction
beginning in the spring of 2005 and a completion date no later than the fall of 2007. We
are currently in the process, as you are aware and as Matt pointed out, for receiving
municipal consent from Chanhassen, Chaska, Eden Prairie and the City of Carver and so
as soon as, if consent is given we would proceed with the proposal development of this
project that would occur between March and next February where the project would be
let February 4, 2005. I'm going to briefly go through the project limits within the city of
Chanhassen. If you have questions as I'm going through an area, feel free to ask.
Otherwise I'd also be open to answer any questions you or the audience may have. The
first portion of the layout begins along the city limits of Chanhassen and Chaska, or
Chanhassen and Eden Prairie. Sorry. It is relatively straight forward. There is a trail that
is planned in the city of Eden Prairie, as you can see in this location. That is an
underpass trail that would be connected with the regional trail that would run along the
Carver/Hennepin County line. As we move to the west, we come up to the Highway 101
interchange and as you can see, 101 has been realigned somewhat. The existing
alignment runs along in this area, and the new alignment as you can see is the colored
area. The interchange will consist of a folded diamond interchange to the west, with
ramps and loops. There's also delineation of areas where noise walls and berming will
exist along the corridor, and then in the south and east quadrant, 101 in this area is the
location of the park and ride or proposed park and ride by Southwest Metro Transit. One
thing that we have worked through with city staff, as an issue that was brought to our
attention regarding access to that site was a right-in/right-out onto 101 directly from the
park and ride, approximately in this location. That has been approved by MnDot and so a
right-in/right-out would be added to this layout, or will be added to this layout in addition
to the access off of Lyman, which will stay in place. Again as we move farther to the
west towards Lyman, you can, there are for people that, it's kind of difficult to see now
but there are delineated areas for noise walls and retaining walls along the corridor for
noise mitigation measures. The one thing that we will be doing as part of this project is
extending. The next interchange is located about a mile away from Highway 101, and
it's located at the extension of Powers Boulevard, where Powers Boulevard will intersect
with new 212. Again it's a folded diamond interchanged with ramps and loops, folded to
the east side of the intersection. The blue areas that you see delineated on this map
identify sedimentation ponds that will be construction also as part of this project. Powers
Boulevard will be extended under this project from Lyman and intersect at Pioneer Trail
which is shown on the next map. In addition, there will be an arch structure constructed
under this project that will contain a pedestrian walk that the city has also requested. And
the final section within the city limits consist of a portion of Pioneer Trail. The
intersection of Powers Boulevard and Pioneer Trail. A realignment of Bluff Creek Road.
Bluff Creek Road was realigned for a number of reasons. One would be for the
minimizing of impacts associated with the drainage area associated with Bluff Creek and
the tributary. Instead of running the alignment as it is today, paralleling Bluff Creek,
we've cut across. Created a bridge. Each of these bridges that will be constructed over
Bluff Creek, there will be no center pier. They've been designed to minimize impacts to
the Bluff Creek channel and minimize environmental impacts associated with those
bridges. By constructing the roadway as we have, we've been able to minimize impacts
to the drainage area of BC, in addition to preserving right-of-way or available right-of-
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way for a potential 41 river crossing in this area. And so as we move west we intersect
with the City of Chaska city limits and we complete the construction of Pioneer Trail. So
this is the extent of the project within your city limits.
Matt Saam: Mr. Mayor, at this point Kate Aanenson, our planning director was going to
give a brief update on the park and ride parcel.
Kate Aanenson: Thank you. As we held the neighborhood meetings, one of the things
that was discovered is that there's quite a bit of concern regarding the intersection of
Lyman and 101, which is this property right in here. The concern was that there's a
proposed park and ride and access to that site. As Mr. Chiglo just indicated, one of the
things that we were concerned about is access to that site, strictly being off Lyman
adjacent to a neighborhood and it seems like we've resolved that issue. But there's some
other ongoing kind of bigger issues that the planning staff is working to resolve and ! just
want to give you an update because we just met with the consultants on Friday. Because
there is a park and ride going there, and we want to include the neighborhoods in that
area, and we've indicated in conversations with some of the neighbors that we're
proceeding in that. What we want to do with this neighborhood is educate them on
MnDot's relationship with the park and ride. How that works. How that's spun into
Southwest Metro and how those roles overlap, so what we've done is we've hired a
planning facilitator, Barry Warner with SRF who's going to act as a facilitator, so some
of the players in that group will be not only the neighbors in the area will be invited to the
meeting. City staff, Southwest Metro and their consultants who they use LFA, and then
members from the Planning Commission, City Council also acting as liaisons as this
moves forward. So what the purpose of this neighborhood meeting is, ! think some of the
concerns that came out is this is all designed already. It's not. What we want to do is
work with the neighborhood and would not only be the Springfield neighborhood but also
those on Lake Susan that have concerns about what are the uses going to be. How's this
going to be designed? Just to be clear, Southwest Metro Transit does not have a design
yet. There isn't anything to look at. We want to work with the neighbors first. So we
know what some of the concerns are. Noise, buffering, transitions, architectural design, a
list of uses, and that's what we're going to be facilitating. We will be putting the dates
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for those meetings on the web, but our first date is set for February 18 . We have all
three meetings but the first one will be February 18th. Again the purpose is to come up
with some zoning and hear from the neighbors and work through a design so ! just want
you to know that we're tracking that issue separately and that will be coming back to a
public process once we get a PUD ordinance put together. It will be a public hearing
before the Planning Commission and ultimately approval by the City Council. So if you
had any questions on that I'd be happy to answer them.
Mayor Furlong: Quick question. Do you have a location for the February 8th meeting?
Kate Aanenson: It should be in this building. If not we're going to get the library but
we'll put that in the notice as soon as we get that clarified, we'll put that. We just met on
Friday so we'll get that posted.
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Mayor Furlong: Very good. Okay, Councilman Ayotte.
Councilman Ayotte: Could we get an idea, a time line, not tonight but of all the
significant milestones so that folks can go to the web site and know as an example when
a design is in fact locked in, and when the residents have their time line for input.
Kate Aanenson: Actually ! have all those. We've locked in all those meeting dates
already and ! don't want to go through them all right now but we've got the three core
ones and we've left some slippage if we have to have some other meetings inbetween
because we actually are going to do designs and get comments on those designs. Design
alternatives so those will be posted and available. And we'll be sharing those with you.
Councilman Ayotte: Okay, thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other questions at this time? Okay, no? Thank you.
Matt Saam: Mr. Mayor, at this point I'll be turning it over to the city's consultant, Jon
Horn of Kimley-Horn and Associates. City staff and Mr. Horn have been reviewing the
plans really since they've been submitted. We identified a number of issues early on.
We feel we have a lot of those issues worked out with MnDot. There are a couple
remaining issues that Jon's going to touch on now.
Jon Horn: Mayor and council. As Matt mentioned, my name is Jon Horn. I'm with
Kimley-Horn and Associates. We've been working with city staff to review the MnDot
Municipal Consent package that was submitted for the 212 project. Generally that really
included two key components. One was a preliminary layout, and we spent some time
with staff going through that preliminary layout. The second item was a MnDot cost
participation policy in terms of what Chanhassen share of the project was, and I'd like to
touch briefly on both of those. ! know in the council packets you guys have been
provided a summary of the various comments and issues that staff had identified for the
212 project. We've been working with MnDot and ! guess I'd like to thank MnDot staff
for working through all those issues with us. ! think initially we had about 15 issues. A
bulk of those issues have either been resolved or MnDot's agreed to roll those into the
212 project. There's a couple issues that ! wanted to touch on tonight, just to get council
up to date. One of the issues is associated with what happens with existing Trunk
Highway 101 after the realignment. In this area, existing 101 runs through this location.
101's proposed to be realigned to this alignment as a part of the 212 project, and we've
asked MnDot to consider the reconstruction of the piece of existing 101 between Lake
Susan and 86th Street as a part of the 212 project, which is basically this piece of
roadway. That currently is not included as a part of the 212 project. MnDot has stated
that they would be willing to consider including that into the project if a design and
financing mechanism could be established for that, and they've kind of said if we could
do that by May 1st, that's something that they certainly would be willing to roll into the
project. We talked a little bit here before the beginning of the meeting and that's
something that we're going to proceed ahead on in terms of pulling together a package
for the financing and reconstruction of that piece of roadway. We also raised the issue
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with MnDot in terms of what happens with the existing piece of 101 between 86th Street
and Lake Drive. It's really going to be the remaining two lane piece of roadway, really
north of this area. That has historically not been included as a part of the 212 project.
MnDot actually has developed some preliminary designs for that project, but it's really
pending of funding, the money necessary to allow that to happen. ! think MnDot has
stated they have an initial phase of that project which the creek realignment that's been
established for 2005 but the remaining reconstruction is really dependent upon funding
for that, and ! think it's just imperative and important that the city and MnDot continue to
try to work to develop a financing plan for that remaining piece of roadway. The other
remaining issue is also along 101 and it is with response to an access to an existing
property at this location which is the Klingelhutz property between Lake Susan and 86th
Street. As a part of our review we had asked for a right-in/right-out access to that piece
of property. MnDot to date has denied that request, primarily just because of the fact
there's some unknowns in terms of exactly what the development is on that parcel. They
have said though that if, once a development plan is near, then we can certainly go
through a re-request process to ask for a right-in/right-out at that location. Without that
right-in/right-out, access would be limited to 86th Street, which could be a concern
depending upon what happens to that piece of property in terms of future development.
So those are really the layout related issues. In terms of the cost related issues, the initial
cost participation amount for Chanhassen is about $3.4 million dollars and the most
recent response from MnDot has been $2.1 million dollars so the Chanhassen
contribution has gone down quite a bit. Primarily due to a couple of issues. They've
eliminated right-of-way acquisition for both trails and roadway right-of-way, which is a
significant cost. And some of the estimated costs for some of the trail improvements
have gone down as well. So the current amount is $2.1 million dollars. There's also
some issues associated with some bridge widening at Powers Boulevard and MnDot has
said that they would be willing to consider MnDot participation in that as well so that
$2.1 million dollar number actually may go down. In terms of how Chanhassen would
pay for those $2.1 million dollars in costs. We worked through some potential financing
sources. One potential financing source would be assessment to benefiting properties.
We anticipate that may be as much as $800,000 in those costs that could actually be
passed on to benefiting properties for things like turn lanes, traffic signals, and other
items like that. There's about $370,000 in park and trail costs that would have to be
funded and then there's about $930,000 of remaining funds that the City would have to
come up with if the contribution stays at the $2.1 million. Potential funding sources for
that could be state aid funds for example. That's something the city could certainly
consider using state aid funds to pay for. ! think it's important too to note that those costs
do not include utility costs. As a part of future MUSA expansion in the area the city
would consider extending water and sewer to this area. That has not been addressed at
this time, however ! know staff is planning a future feasibility report that would address
those issues. So that's really kind of a summary. Maybe just to touch base on a couple
of other things that ! know that have been brought up. One is noise mitigation and
landscaping along the corridor. It's important to note that this is a preliminary plan
submittal. MnDot actually has another level of design that needs to happen above and
beyond this. It's a 30 percent design and then actually when it's turned over to the design
build contractor, the design will be further evaluated and we just ask for the ability to
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continue to review and oversee the noise mitigation and landscaping as the project
continues. ! guess with that, unless there's any questions.
Mayor Furlong: Any questions at this time? No? Very good, thank you. Is that it then
from presentations?
Matt Saam: Yes.
Mayor Furlong: Very good. Any follow-up questions at this point from the council? If
not, I'll proceed and open up the public hearing. Anybody, residents and guests are
welcome to come up and address the council on the matter. To the extent that we can, if
there's a specific question that we can get an answer for you tonight, we'll try to do that.
At least the staff will. Again to reiterate what Mr. Saam said, the council is not going to
be considering the question of municipal consent this evening. At this point if things go
as we expect, it will probably be continuing to consider this late February-March
timeframe, I would think, but that depends on how, if we continue moving along at the
pace we have in terms of getting things settled. So with that I will open up the public
hearing and invite people to come forward. State your name and address and please.
A1 Klingelhutz: Mayor and councilmen, I'm A1 Klingelhutz. I live on 8600 Great Plains
Boulevard and I'm kind of hoping this will be one of the last meetings on Highway 212
that I'll have to attend. ! think I've been attending Highway 212 meetings for about 42
years. When ! was on the township board, when they put the stretch in from Glencoe to
Norwood, there was a proposal where it was going to go and it was kind of a dispute
between the City of Chaska and a businessman and some other people and the
businessman wanted it to stay down where it was and some others wanted it to go on top
of the hill and that dispute was never resolved so. Then the state run out of money and of
course the four lane highway stopped at the City of Norwood, except for the by-pass
around Cologne. One of the questions ! have tonight is looking at the present map, and
I'm sure it's a concern of the city to continue the new portion of 101, to realign that so
that there will be a service road along the homes along Lake Susan. Originally, I'm sure
! was involved in some of this. That would be turned into a service road and a cul-de-sac
put on the end of it. So people would turn around and go up 86th Street and get on the
new 101. Another thing I'm concerned about is the aesthetics of the proposed highway.
Are they going to plant any trees or shrubs along that 200 foot right-of-way that they're
claiming when the actual road will not nearly take all of that. We're supposed to be the
city of the maple tree. It'd be kind of nice to see a few maple trees along that road and
maybe some evergreens. Just to break the monotony of a 200 foot strip of land through
the heart of Chanhassen. ! think it'd be something that should be looked at. Another
thing with the short piece of the old 101, gets turned over to the city. ! would like to have
some action taken on the fact that before that is accepted by the City of Chanhassen, that
it should be updated to a little more complete road instead of located on a bunch of black
dirt. That's the way it was started. The first time it was laid out, my dad used to grade
that road with a team of horses. The gravel was laid right over black dirt and if we get a
real wet fall and winter, the road freezes hard. The moisture from the outside of the road
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comes in underneath the road and I've seen some mighty good frost hills on that road, so
! think those things should be taken care of before the City accepts the road. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Very good, thank you. Is there any response at this point? Excuse me,
just stay right there. On any of those items. Or address.
Jon Chiglo: ! just got a, hopefully ! capture them all. As part of the turn back process for
old 101 and the section between 86th and Lake Susan Drive, there would be some
discussions between the City and MnDot as far as the scope of the work to occur, and
that's what ! was referring to in my response to your issue is, including and as part of the
212 project, so if we can capture a scope and a cost as a part of the turn back, then we
would reconsider adding it to the design build job. So there would be a discussion
between the city staff and us as far as what is actually needed to upgrade that section of
roadway. Aesthetics, there will definitely be, there will be an aesthetic landscaping
portion but it will not be included as part of the design build project. It will become a
separate project that will be programmed about, ! believe it's 2 years after the completion
of this job. However, we will also try to salvage saplings that are existing within the
corridor. Spade them and locate them in an area until we're done with construction to
kind of supplement the project and provide some plantings as soon as possible versus
having to wait those additional years to get the implementation of the aesthetics. And !
believe.
Matt Saam: Service road along 101.
Jon Chiglo: I'm not sure where he was referring to with that.
Matt Saam: On the west side here of 101. Service road.
A1 Klingelhutz: Yeah, this would be a service road after the new 101 is in. Actually
what I'm thinking is, you should eliminate attaching on the new 101. That'd probably
come up around this way and connect up to where the 4 lanes goes up to Market
Boulevard.
Jon Chiglo: Okay. Yes, this is the portion that would be added if we can come to an
agreement between the City and the State as part of this design build job so it would be
upgraded and become, it would be a cul-de-sac at the end on the north side, with access
to homes. What we've done in this area, between here and here is temporarily, we'll be
temporarily building a section to connect with existing 101 and you can see this light
brown area, in this area here, shows where the future 101 would be constructed. So this
portion here is only a temporary roadway that would be constructed until we construct the
remaining gap project. And it would be realigned and connected with the reconstructed
portion of 212.
A1 Klingelhutz: The other question ! was going to ask is, is this going to be cut off here
or a cul-de-sac here or what?
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Jon Chiglo: This roadway will come from Lake Susan Drive and extend up to this point
where a cul-de-sac would be constructed.
A1 Klingelhutz: That will eliminate about 3 or 4 homes down here though.
Jon Chiglo: Well the homes will still have access, it looks like there will be 3, possibly 4
homes that will have access but there will be a cul-de-sac off of the old portion of
Highway 101 and it will be cul-de-saced at this point. So all of this will be turned back to
the city and we'll have a cul-de-sac constructed under the 212 project at that point.
A1 Klingelhutz: This is the portion that has had the most protest from the citizens living
on this old right-of-way of 101. It's down on that end there's about 4 homes that are very
close to the road and some of them have to back out onto the highway to get out of their
driveways.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. If you could pull the microphone in front of you. Thank
you. And just state your name and address for the record please.
Marsha Eelling: Marsha Eelling, 8657 Chanhassen Hills Drive North. Mr. Mayor,
council members. Thank you for this opportunity to express our opinions on Highway
212. I attended a Transportation Advisory Board September 17th of this year when they
were talking about the bonding fund projects and I wanted to present the information to
you as I presented it to them. I don't think I impressed them but I'll try again with you.
Highway 212 will increase traffic congestion and sprawl rather than relieve it. Vehicle
miles traveled is going faster than the population projected over the next 25 years.
There's a 38 percent increase in vehicle miles traveled compared to only 28 percent
increase in population. Highway 212 will not take much traffic off existing roads
because it's not a parallel route but rather a converging route, and it will add an
additional 58,000 vehicle miles traveled to the Highway 5/494 bottleneck, one of the
worst in the metro area. We're still in the process of widening 494 to accommodate
existing traffic. With the addition of new Highway 212, this fix will be short lived and
expensive. Most of Carver County is permanent agriculture according to regional growth
strategy policy areas. The original purpose of Highway 212 was farm to market but the
market moved out of downtown Minneapolis to Savage in the 1960's, so this road that is
being expedited because it has been planned for decades will no longer meet the needs of
what it was planned for. Instead of farm to market, it will be farm to congestion as it
routes the farm north to 494 bottleneck instead of south to the market. Since new
Highway 212 will no longer fulfill it's original purpose, the new purpose is to accelerate
development along the corridor. Highway 212 will stimulate sprawl rather than smart
growth by encouraging people to move further out and commute longer distances.
Urbanization increasing at 61 percent is taking place faster than our population growth.
Once again 25 to 28 percent. Highway 212 is not consistent with the regional smart
growth strategy. It does not promote more efficient integrated public investment in
transportation, housing, schools and utilities to make the best use of existing resources
and investments. It does not encourage wise stewardship of natural resources and
conservation of agricultural land and open space. It does not accommodate growth in
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ways that maintain or enhance community livability or quality of life. It does not balance
the diverse interest and objectives of the region's various communities. Has not engaged
citizens in decisions affecting the future of their community and region. Chanhassen
does not have the infrastructure or the resources to support the accelerated demand for
services. Much of the land in Chanhassen is undeveloped along the corridor. Expediting
212 will put undue pressure on Chanhassen. Our schools are already over crowded. Our
property owners are among the highest taxed in the state and our city and counties are
facing deficits. Where do we find the tax dollars to build new schools and to build
supporting and arterial roads? Is there a plan for that? Without additional supporting
roads, internal traffic in Chanhassen could become a nightmare. Because we are not
developed, new 212 will cut us off with an unnatural barrier unless we go the additional
expense of building new bridges over 212. A new 212 will damage, destroy, contaminate
or infringe on lakes, watersheds and wetlands. Bluff Creek Watershed District, Seminary
Fen, Lake Riley, Rice Marsh Lake, as well as destroy rare plants, birds and wildlife
populations. It will destroy hardwood forests in Bearpath, significantly reduce air quality
along new 212 corridor. Noise abatement along the corridor will not be consistent,
comprehensive, aesthetic and fair to all residents existing and future. Design build with
mistakes in it's calculations. 10 miles is a long project to have not planned ahead. The
selection of Highway 212 did not go through the proper channels of open public hearings.
Who made the decision to expedite it? Disproportionate amounts, 34 percent of the
greater Minnesota road money, plus 8.5 of the metro bonding money is being spent on
only one highway, Highway 212. Other bonding fund projects are being expedited by
zero to 7 years with the average under 3. While 212 is being expedited 8 years, more
than double the average of the other projects. I'll leave the last bullet point for you to
read yourselves. So in conclusion ! would like to say that the need for Highway 212 has
not been established, nor has the benefits to Chanhassen so ! hope that you seriously
consider the impact that this will have on us. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Vernelle Clayton: Mr. Mayor, members of the council, my name is Vernelle Clayton. !
live at 422 Santa Fe Circle here in Chan.! thought that James Haugen was going to come
and speak on behalf of the Chamber and since I've been an active member of the
Chamber and he's not here, I'll do that. As well as speak from the point of view of the
project that is just south of Highway 5 called Village on the Ponds. Oh, there he is. !
won't say anything that you can say. So I'll go back to being a representative of the
Village on the Ponds. Although we work with, and ! have worked with a lot of folks, the
businesses in this community so I'd like to think that all of them would benefit from your
expediting the timeline for the new portion of 101. ! say that because it would not only
help the people that are here now, it would help the people that are planning to come
here. Help them with their decisions to come here if there is just that much added
advantage for easy access for people to get to our businesses. Just one other point.
Habits are hard to change. People move here and still go to their same old dry cleaners
back in wherever they came from because it's easy and they drive roads because they get
in the habit of doing it, so we'd like to have them get in the habit right away when they
start driving down the new highway and be able to know that they can conveniently and
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safely get to our business community. So with that, if there's anything I can do or that
the Chamber can do to work with you to speed that, we'd be more than happy. Thank
you.
Mayor Furlong: Good, thank you.
Ken Wencl: My name is Ken Wencl. ! don't know how you get this thing on board but
whoever's got it, thank you. Thank you. ! live in Chanhassen. I'm not really sure what
was said about this area here. From here down into here. If that's already funded or in
the package or what the situation was.
Matt Saam: No. As of this point it's outside of the project. However MnDot has said
they'd be willing to negotiate with city staff to find a funding mechanism for it.
Ken Wencl: Thank you. May ! recommend or at least to be considered that if this part
here is asked to be thrown into this package, ! would think it would be time to take care
of the little piece from here up to Highway 5, which is simply ! would say less than 4
blocks. Something like that. Now if we're going to do that, instead of having this double
piece up here. The City has already bought one piece of property out here about 6 or 7
years ago. Taken it out of tax rolls and there's another one standing right alongside of it,
so there's no problem buying the other piece of property because ! know the people are
waiting for you to come and approach them on that deal. But on this, from here up to
Highway 5, ! don't know what you call it. Death alley or something like that. The first
snow storm we had here this fall on a Saturday night, we came from the 5:15 mass
coming home and there were 4 vehicles in the ditch. From the little bridge up to the top
of the hill by Al's farm. So it's, and ! guess the records, Mr. Olson's, Jim Olson's
records will indicate there are accidents on that little area night after night because it's a
farm road which we simply paved over some blacktop. Nothing had been done. It's up
and down and around as a snake. So if it's possible that that section could be considered
at the same time that you're considering this section here. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Do you want to respond quickly? This seems to be an
issue.
Jon Chiglo: We'll just refer to it as the 101 gap. There's about a half mile stretch
approximately that is not part of this design build project and as was mentioned in Mr.
Horn's presentation, the State has, in order to construct that it's a two phase project and
there are environmental issues that need to be addressed before the construction can
begin, so that is why it is not added to this project at this time because of some
environmental issues that have not been addressed. One thing we are doing however is
realigning the creek and as part of that realignment it will be completed over the summer
of 2005, and that's the Stage 1 of that project. The second stage would be reconstructing
that road. So we are working to find a funding source in order to construct that portion of
the road, and we will be working with your city staff and state aid to try to find a funding
source, but there's really those two issues. It's the environmental issues that need to be
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addressed. MnDot is proceeding with design, but there's also a funding source issue that
needs to be addressed also.
Ken Wencl: Can you address the environmental problems, what they are? Do you know,
can you tell us, or detail of that. What those things are so.
Lisa Freese: For the record I'm Lisa Freese. I'm the Area Manager for MnDot for the
south metro area. And the environmental problems, it's not really an environmental
project. It's really an environmental procedure that we need to follow through. For this
project we need to go through and get environmental clearance in order to have the
project move forward, and at this point we're still in the preliminary design phase. We
have a design that ! think we're pretty much in agreement with the city on. We'll be
moving through the environmental review on that design, and getting it cleared so that we
can move forward with construction. We're working to develop a partnership on the
funding with our state aid office, the metro district budget and hopefully with some
assistance from the City of Chanhassen, we'll be able to move forward and program that
project probably in fiscal year 2006, but we have some logistics to work out so at this
time ! can't really say that we have the project all ready to package up and go out for
letting, but we're close.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
A1 Klingelhutz: Will 101 in the future be turned over to Carver County?
Jon Chiglo: ! think the department expects to turn back 101 eventually to Carver County,
yes.
Mayor Furlong: Mr. Gerhardt, you've had meetings with Carver County. Can you
update a little bit on that.
Todd Gerhardt: Carver County is considering taking back 101 once it's upgraded.
However they would like to see efforts to look at the entire corridor and taking the entire
roadway of 101 basically from old 212 up to Highway 5, or south of Highway 5 before
they take any segment back, until all of it's improved has been their city engineer's
comments.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Anybody else? Please.
Bob Smithburg: My name is Bob Smithburg, 8657 Chanhassen Hills Drive North. Mr.
Mayor, council members. Appreciate this hearing tonight. First of all ! want to
compliment Kate for showing concern tonight and doing the right thing. Thank you very
much. The council members and mayor, you were not in office during the 1996 212 toll
road debate. Many concerns were brought forth but many to deaf ears by concerned
citizens. Not only being unfairly targeted to pay for the privilege on driving on a
highway, but concerns about the environmental impact Highway 212 would have. The
splitting of Chanhassen, zoning, the affect on the fen and future traffic patterns. Over
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time we were able to dispel the old argument that new 212 was to serve the farm to
market. The market is located itself across the river. Warehouses and river terminals for
barges, etc. Unfortunately 212 tunnel vision kept this new road on it's present course.
And now ! am concerned about where we are headed with new 212. ! feel it is the
ultimate road to sprawl and this will increase traffic in the future for Chanhassen. Our
downtown will undoubtedly lose business because 212 will create a Chanhassen bypass
from Eden Prairie to Chaska. And the design build concept does create a lot of flexibility
in design as the road construction moves forward. Potentially negating citizen's
concerns. Design build is like quick sand. You need to be on the ball as do the citizens.
Who can best judge what is best for Chanhassen? A sitting council, it's citizens or
MnDot. Please have the courage to stand up for our community. Hear the concerns of
Chanhassen citizens, and don't cave in to pressure from special interests but do the right
thing for the people who live here. Thank you.
Jon Chiglo: I wanted to comment on the design build process because it is a new process.
It hasn't probably been talked a whole lot about. Before I worked on 212 I was part of a
management team in Rochester for the Highway 52 design build project and I think the
concerns that the gentleman just stated as it being comparable to quick sand are
something that I think you could find would be incorrect. Based on my experience on
Highway 52, it's a similar size project. It's $232 million dollar job. The citizens are I
would say very happy with how the project's progressed. They're very happy with how
their concerns have been addressed by the design builder. We write specific criteria into
the constraints or the scope of work to place responsibilities on the design builder to
ensure that they're responsive to the needs or concerns that are expressed by citizens that
are impacted or just general citizen concerns about the project. So I think as far as citizen
concerns and input from the citizenry of Chanhassen, or any other city or county citizen, I
think they would be, I would suspect and I would expect that they would be handled
expeditiously and I think thoroughly and I think in the end I think people would be happy
with the responsiveness of the contractor and MnDot.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Cory Nordmeyer: I have a handout. Do I just hand it to you or to somebody?
Mayor Furlong: That'd be great.
Cory Nordmeyer: Mr. Mayor and City Council members. Thank you for your
consideration this evening. My name is Cory Nordmeyer and ! live at 8707 North Bay
Drive. ! am the President of the North Bay Townhouse Association. We are a
development of 75 single family dwellings in Chanhassen. Highway 212, the biggest
concern that we have at this time is that Highway 212 does run as close as 60 yards from
the road to homes in our development. We're very concerned that we're not getting
proper noise protection due to cost cutting efforts on behalf of MnDot. When talks began
to begin Highway 212 five years ahead of schedule, the original plan was to be built, the
highway was going to be below ground or below grade. Digging down for the road.
That has changed with the new proposal. In October ! did attend two meetings with
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Minnesota Department of Transportation. At those meetings we were told that the berm
behind our development would be 25 feet high and it would be topped by a 6 foot wall. !
do sincerely hope that this isn't an example of the quick sand that the man mentioned
earlier that just spoke, but it does appear that the plan has changed considerably from
what we were originally told it would be. We did learn that on Friday of January 23rd
that we would now be getting a 10 foot berm instead of the 25 foot berm and we would
have a 20 foot wall instead of the 6 foot wall. The current proposal does not meet noise
standards that are set by MnDot. The estimated noise levels are 56 decibels instead of the
55 decibels that are allowed by MnDot, and ! guess they'll be requesting a variance from
the City Council. But due to the 1 to 3 decibel margin of error with the information that
MnDot has put together, the noise levels could be higher than what has been proposed by
MnDot. If the noise standards are met, 75 homes in our development will get the
adequate protection that was originally planned in the original plan by MnDot. We do
understand that you are not making a decision tonight, but we do ask that the approval for
212 be conditional on noise standards being met for all of our homes within our
development and we're not going to complain tonight without providing suggestions so
we do have a few of those. One is to explore lowering the road using wall or berm
abatement. Also, explore expanding the right-of-way to allow for taller berms. And
again that is what we were told at one point, that the new design actually was further
from our homes which allowed for larger berms to be built which apparently is not the
case. ! know we'll get a chance for MnDot to respond to that shortly. In addition to that
we would ask that noise barriers be built first if the construction is to be done at night.
And that is all that ! have. We do thank you for your consideration.
Mayor Furlong: Very good, thank you. Response?
Jon Chiglo: I'll start with the last one first. I do not anticipate any construction occurring
at night, so it would be daytime hour construction. I'll just kind of touch on the request
and we have been working with this townhome association trying to address their
concerns since, as he mentioned, early October when we met with them, and there's been
a number of communications back and forth trying to respond to their questions. One of
the questions was if we could lower the roadway to increase or enhance the design, or the
mitigation of noise or the reduction of noise levels and we did look at lowering the
roadway some and we were unable to reduce the noise levels from a 56 decibel to a 55
decibel by lowering it upwards of 2 feet right now. Through our recent, ! should say
recent being in the last 6 months we have done a design enhancement. Enhanced the
design of 212 and in that design modification we have done a number of things to
improve, among others, mitigation and noise and one would be a modification of the
roadway profile. In some areas we have raised the profile of the roadway. In other areas
or in additional areas we've created a curb and gutter section adjacent to the outside
ditch. And both of these design changes have allowed us to have more room between the
edge of the roadway and the right-of-way to build larger berms. However in some
instances right-of-way is restricting and it limits us to the size of the berm. We obviously
in those areas then we need to use walls and this is one example of the area where walls
would be constructed in order to enhance or to improve the noise reduction levels
adjacent to this community. On average ! would say that this is above average or it is
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above average I mean it is a better reduction in noise than a majority of the communities
in the metro area because of the design that we are providing. We are using berms and
noise and there have been some miscommunication between me and them based on
having a 20 foot tall berm and a 6 foot tall wall, but in essence what you look at is the top
elevation of that wall and improving, maintaining that top elevation of the ultimate
structure is the important thing. And the combination of a 20 foot wall and a 10 foot
berm is still 30 feet versus 31, and even if we were to add a foot or two to that wall, we
would not be able to gain that extra decibel or two to reduce it below the standard that's
required by the PCA. The PCA is the governmental agency that establishes noise
standards for us to meet, and you know there's been some comments here about fairness
of implementation of noise mitigation measures. There are really two objective measures
that we use for determining when noise abatement is constructed along or adjacent to a
highway. One is a reduction of 5 decibels or more and the other is the cost effectiveness.
And unfortunately it comes down to a cost effectiveness in some instances but those are
the two criteria and there's a process for us to use to determine what that cost
effectiveness is. And if they have to meet both of those criteria in order for a wall to be
constructed. It cannot meet one and not the other. Both criteria need to be established.
It's an objective process based on modeling that's been established by the Federal
Highway Administration and so it's not a subjective process and the objectivity is used to
create a fairness along the entire corridor. To eliminate any subjective decisions on
anybody's part on deciding when and where a wall would be placed. So based on those
criteria we've established where walls will be placed along the corridor. Where we
cannot build berms using the material that we're excavating out of the roadway, or where
right-of-way constrains us in height of those berms. We're using walls. We will not
construct over a 20 foot tall wall, and if we can meet the standards with a lower wall, we
will. So along the corridor you're going to see a number of different combinations of
berms, walls, berms and walls or just walls, so there's numerous walls and berms.
There's 250,000 square foot of noise walls that are being constructed. We're also, based
on some conversation with your city staff, going to be building screening berms so there
is a difference. Screening berms have been placed and are delineated on the map in areas
that your city staff has identified for us that's separate from noise berms, but there are a
number of different things that we are addressing with berming and noise walls or noise
berms so.
Mayor Furlong: Yes, Councilman Ayotte.
Councilman Ayotte: Have the design enhancements that you and the staff have looked
towards, have those recent design enhancements been discussed in any detail with North
Bay?
Jon Chiglo: Yes. They've been, through this process we've had two public meetings
within the city of Chanhassen at the library, and at both of those public meetings
residents of North Bay have been present and I've discussed that in my presentation in
addition to, before and after any questions regarding that. And I've also met privately
with North Bay residents prior to one of the public meetings in a separate meeting just for
them to discuss issues regarding North Bay and the design enhancement was discussed at
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that time. Now that's the meeting where the miscommunication occurred between me
and them.
Councilman Ayotte: So if there was some measure of miscommunication, I'll address
this to Matt. Do you think there may be a need to have a follow on discussion to make
sure that there is complete understanding as to what is currently proposed or no?
Matt Saam: Yeah, ! agree. And ! think MnDot would be more than happy to have a
meeting with city staff and invite the residents of North Bay so we get all the design
issues correct and on the table.
Cory Nordmeyer: That would be greatly appreciated.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Councilman Ayotte: Thank you.
Rick Dorsey: My name is Rick Dorsey. Have property with my father at 1551 Lyman
Boulevard. Mr. Mayor, council members. I'd like to have you take a closer look at the
location and need for the interchanges accessing 212. Between 101 and Lyman
Boulevard as an example, there's about 9/10 of a mile. There will be zero ! think
development between those two points as it's primarily marshland. The need for having
those two interchanges to me doesn't make a whole lot of sense, as well there's another
interchange that will be supposedly someday coming up from the south at Audubon so in
a less than 2 mile area you're going to have 3 interchanges, plus you have one in Dell
Road and Eden Prairie. If you picture this, it's just going to be bumper to bumper
stopped up traffic as you well know happens on any kind of freeway where there are
interchanges. The need for them, you know whether somebody's going to go to one or
the other, be it Lyman or 101 as an example. You know there's not a whole lot of
difference driving wise as far as Chanhassen community is concerned. Primarily most of
the traffic that ! see though would hit the Lyman Boulevard, or excuse me, 17/Lyman
Boulevard interchange is going to be from the west as there's no other planned
interchanges until you get out ! believe to 41, which means all the traffic from Chaska
will be flowing through to come through Chanhassen, which means that Chanhassen as a
community has a lot of infrastructure, roads that they'll be supporting for the traffic that's
not even within their own community. A suggestion ! threw out quite some time ago is to
look at these intersections and having two so close together with nothing inbetween them
doesn't make any sense. They should be spread out. Perhaps it should be 101 and
Audubon. ! don't know. I'm just throwing the idea out. The cost to Chanhassen !
believe is very immense. In looking at the future right now there's a lot of land there
that's got development potential down the road. From the standpoint of Chanhassen that
means that's where the money comes from. That's the tax base and while it's open land
and easy to just say let's put another intersection in there, there's probably about 40 acres
tied up in an intersection. You put it at the densities that's being talked about in the area
and it's very significant dollars that are lost by having too many, number one. From the
standpoint of economics and development. As well Chanhassen will be supporting the
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arterial roads that are going to be coming through the area, like I said. It appears to me
the general direction and flow of traffic is going to be towards 494 in the morning, away
in the evening but primarily going towards which means that the access points are going
to be drawing everybody from the west through to get to these two points, which are you
know less than a mile apart. Chanhassen will have to pay ! believe for the interchanges
getting on and off these roads. Stop signs, that kind of thing. It was mentioned that
there's a cost to Chanhassen of several million dollars. I, for one, owning property in the
area don't like the idea of hearing them say that the property owners in the area maybe
should foot some of the bill for these access points. ! would just as soon not have as
many access points and reduce the cost. The other things quick, just you know from the
standpoint of the development of 212, ! mean if you go on any other major road, 169,
Highway 100, you have bigger spreads between all these access points and even still they
get bogged down heavily at those points. If you can just picture 3 right in a row so close
together, it's going to be just a problem from the start. I'd like to add some of those
addressed by Jon. Why it was designed that way. ! know there's talk of a lot of
development in that area. There's 600 acres. The reality is after all the roadways are
taken out, planned parks, there's about 200 and some odd acres available for
development, which does not project to these enormous numbers of people where we
need this many entrances and exits right in that area. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Comments?
Jon Chiglo: One thing about a project like 212 is, as you're aware, it's got a long history
and ! believe it was mentioned that it was 40 something years ago that this was being
planned and if in the early 90's the final environmental impact statement was completed
and so, you know traditionally on a job like this, on a new alignment, the alignment for
212 would be constructed and then interchanges would be placed as the local system
developed. Well because of the delay in the construction of 212, the local system's
already developed. So interchange locations have been placed based on where local
systems are planned and being developed currently. Through many years of coordination
with the city, the county and MnDot staff, there's been mutual agreements on where these
locations would be, on these interchange locations and that's primarily the history behind
it. Some of the sections, the width of the road that are being constructed. We will
accommodate for traffic forecasts that we are projecting out 20 years so the bridge widths
are accommodating a 20 year forecast. Roadways are accommodating.., forecasts. So we
are accommodating for growth in the future and what we're using are working with city,
the city staff, the Met Council model and forecasts that we do for project specific reasons.
So those are really why interchange locations have been chosen and ultimately the
sections of the roadway have been developed for this plan.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Rick Dorsey: I'd like to make another comment too as far as the projections, the growth
for the area again. Looking to the north of Lyman Boulevard it's predominantly
developed. What we're looking at is south of Lyman Boulevard, which goes to about
Pioneer Trail and then you hit basically the river bluff, or the golf course. Lower density
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development that's already been in place there. I'm not sure where all the growth is
going to come from other than much further west than Chanhassen, and again if there's
that development going out there, why do we need to have 2 interchanges right so close
together, number one again. And if in fact these plans were developed as they were over
so many years, that's why we're here. We should be re-addressing them and looking at
them now. Things have changed since those were originally put there. The type of
development. Amount of development. The need are all things that ! think need to be re-
looked at before dollars are spent. Not just the state dollars but also Chanhassen's dollars
to support their arterial roads, etc. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you.
David Happe: David Happe, 604 Summerfield Drive. Thank you for the job you guys
are doing. It's much better to be out here than sitting in one of those chairs tonight but.
A couple things. One, I'm not a resident of North Bay, but just in agreement with my
fellow residents. ! assume if you're looking at, or if we're looking at putting a 20 foot
wall adjacent to these people's houses, the least that we could do for them would be to
ensure that the sound levels meet or exceed the expectations of either state or federal
standards. Cost effectiveness in my opinion should not be the predominant deciding
point as to whether or not we meet acceptable sound standards for those houses. For the
gentleman who made the generous offer for several hundred dollars worth of
assessments, ! don't remember who that was but I'd invite you to come to one of the
resident meetings that Kate is putting together and make that same proposal to the
residents and see how that goes over. Kate, for the resident meetings, thank you for
putting those together. As much advance notice as you could give to those, and Mr.
Mayor, if you could direct city staff, there should be every focused effort made to make
sure that that's an exceptionally visible meeting. It's very important for the residents that
are in the corridor, up to and including a mailer if possible and surely contacting the
homeowner associations, such as the Springfield Homeowners, the North Bay
Townhouse Association and any other developments that would have a recognizable
contact point that we could get in touch with. And lastly what I'd like, and ! guess my
main point to our City Council is please take a look at the park and ride. Specifically
take a look at the existing park and ride that's part of the Chan Bowl property. As that
project is redeveloped, the opportunity exists to do some additional things with that
particular park and ride. I'd encourage you to take a look at the usage numbers for that
park and ride to determine if usage is maximized for that location. Come to the
conclusion as to whether or not Chan really does need two comparable park and rides
within that tight of a vicinity and make your decision after you're able to review the
numbers of the existing usage of that existing park and ride facility. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Jon Chiglo: For addressing the comment associated with the North Bay Townhome
Association, and the noise mitigation. You know if, as ! mentioned there's two criteria
that we use. One is cost effectiveness, and both of them have been met in that area. So
the wall is being constructed and the wall is being constructed as high as we go anywhere
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in the metro area or in the state. As a guideline we do not construct walls over 20 feet
tall, and they're getting a 20 foot tall wall. In addition, if we were to lower the roadway
in that area we would start reducing the height of the berm because of available right-of-
way to construct the berm. So by raising the profile in those areas we've been able to
maximize the height of the berm, and ultimately the top elevation of the wall. So we're
getting to a level where we've maximized the mitigation efforts without acquiring
additional right-of-way adjacent to those properties, so.
Mayor Furlong: Just a clarification Jon. When you say you lower the road and that
limits the height of the berm, is that because of the footprint of the berm itself or the
width of the berm relative to the...
Jon Chiglo: If you lower the roadway your slopes have to start at a lower point and they
carry out farther. The higher, if your roadway is higher, you can maximize the length of
your slope because it moves, the toe of that slope moves closer to the roadway. By
lowering the roadway you start maximizing the length, or minimizing the length of that
slope and minimizing the height of the berm.
Mayor Furlong: Good, thank you.
Jon Horn: Mayor and council, maybe just a clarification on the assessment question that
was raised. The assessments would be proposed to be to undeveloped properties where
there are specific improvements included as a part of the 212 project to accommodate
development of those projects so they would not be assessments proposed to existing
properties that are developed in the area.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Jon Chiglo: There's two different noise standards. There's a federal noise standard,
which is 70 decibels day and night and so we're 14 decibels lower than the federal
guidelines. It's the state standard that is, we're 1 decibel away from and there's a
nighttime standard of 55 decibels and a daytime standard of 65 decibels. We satisfy the
daytime standard and we're 1 decibel away from satisfying the nighttime decibel.
Kari Nettesheim: Kari Nettesheim, 9151 Great Plains Boulevard and 9201 Great Plains
Boulevard. First of all on the park and ride. ! agree. ! don't think we need two park and
rides in Chanhassen, and ! also agree that that's a lot of interchanges for that short of a
distance but my main point is, on the map. I'm right here. These two properties and
there's a holding pond in my back yard which is also my septic leach bed so somebody's
going to have to replace my septic or put in sewer or water if you keep that holding pond
there so you might want to re-think that. Thanks.
Mayor Furlong: Sounds like a meeting to me.
Jon Chiglo: Any impacts to your property would be addressed. Ultimately if that's the
chosen location for that pond, and at this point we're proceeding as if it is the location to
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acquire right-of-way, impacts of that property, septic systems or whatever else would be
paid for through our right-of-way process and compensated for replacement or upgrade
so that would be something that would be addressed through our right-of-way process.
James Haugen: Mr. Mayor, council members. My name is James Haugen and !
represent the Chanhassen Chamber of Commerce. I'm the 2004 Chair of the Chamber.
As far as the business community goes, there is an opportunity that exists for the city of
Chanhassen and the 2 or the 312 corridor and we ! think want to continue to look at those
opportunities that are there and expand the commercial and business tax base that can be
available for us up there. We have worked and continue to work with our capable city
planner and so those are opportunities that we'll continue to look at there. The issue that
! think we wanted to address specifically tonight though is the connection point between
the 312 corridor and the downtown core business area. There's some question about
funding and some sort of a connector that gets people from the corridor to the central
downtown area of the city, and we'd like to make sure that funding is obtained and that
comes along with the implementation of the road so that the downtown area can stay
connected to all of the traffic going through. So generally change is something we all
deal with. We want to make sure that we stay connected to the change that's happening
in the southern part of the city and remain committed to working with the city to expand
the commercial tax base in the southern half of Chanhassen. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Richard Simmons: Hello. My name is Richard Simmons. ! live at 530 Summerfield
Drive. Mr. Mayor, City Council. ! have concerns about the proposed park and ride.
One, the wisdom but two, assuming that it does go forward, and ! had specific questions
about the layout of the plan as it's comprised now. And on this document the line is
expanded to at least 52 feet in this area to the east of the park and ride, and based on my
commute currently there's, and there's a right turn lane going into this park and ride.
And based on my commute or the traffic levels and just living in this general area, the
traffic doesn't seem to sustain or call for that kind of additional, those kind of additional
lanes and ! was wondering if there were additional traffic projections pulling in traffic
from Eden Prairie or expanding Lyman further to the east that justified that. The second
concern that ! had is that the only entrance into any proposed park and ride, and my
understanding is that it's potentially off a 400 car park and ride with retail and some other
building in that area. Is that the only entrance is on Lyman as close to the residential area
as is possible and there's no alternate entrance that would mitigate the impact on
residential areas from Highway 101 rather than Lyman to these neighborhoods and !
would hope that as planning for what goes into that area, assuming that there is a park
and ride goes forward, that thoughts on mitigating the impact to this area, you know for
example it looks like all the trees in that area are being wiped out, can be taken into
account. What the impact is on the neighborhood as things go forward.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, good. Thank you. Just as a point of clarification. ! thought !
heard earlier tonight something about the access to that park and ride. Is that something
that we can clarify?
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Jon Chiglo: Yes, working with city staff we've added, which is not shown on this map
but it will be, a right-in/right-out access off of 101 for access, an additional access to the
park and ride. And the reason for these turn lanes, it's, we just felt it was the appropriate
time to construct them. There is a left turn and a right turn into that. Into the intersection
off of Lyman so we just felt it was the appropriate time. We're not seeing anything in
our traffic forecast but it would just facilitate movements into that intersection and
increase, or enhance safety aspects of the intersection.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Tim Erhart: Good evening. Tim Erhart, 9611 Meadowlark Lane. I'm here with a couple
positive notes, and one concern. I'm a very committed Chanhassen resident. Not quite
as committed as A1 here but years go on it's getting there. I've been here 24 years. Not
only have I lived here that long, but I also have a business in the industrial park so I know
what, I know and I've seen as the years go by what's happened on traffic here past my
place and Pioneer Trail. In the morning the back up going in, at night the back up's
going out. I also know what the industrial business do in Chan for the tax base to try to
make this an affordable place and year after year I hear complaints about residential taxes
here. So I know what the industrial businesses do with regard to that. I share many
people's concerns about the fact that our federal and state governments do little or
nothing to discourage driving and long commutes and thus the sprawl that is mentioned.
I don't like it and I wish we would do more but I really don't think that we're going to
see a change in our policies. Therefore I think it's necessary that this road proceed to
maintain the value of life that we have come to share here as people in Chanhassen. So
I'm very excited about it. We need to have the road to prevent additional congestion
because we're going to have people fill in western Carver County, whether or not we
build the road. We're going to see ever more people from Pioneer Trail, 5 and 212.
Today I don't drive on Eden Prairie roads because I have 312 to get on to go to the
airport or to downtown or someplace in the city. Likewise all those people are going to
be building out here and they're going to be driving on our roads if we don't provide a
way to get through the city. Secondly as a businessman here, if we don't provide some
method to get from our industrial parks to the airport, to downtown and other businesses
in the community, we're not going to see the growth of the industrial base necessary to
maintain what everybody considers reasonable tax rates for residential people here. We
will become a bedroom community with ever increasing tax rates. So those are the two
issues that I have regarding my excitement about the project and I think it's time to move
on with it because this expansion, I see it every morning on Pioneer Trail. I'm very
concerned however, and have expressed it to Jon before, about the landscaping and the
finishing of this project. As people drive through our communities they're going to see,
what they're going to see is 212 and it's going to reflect on what kind of a community we
are. We're a community not of grass and prairie. We're a community of trees and lakes.
As A1 mentioned you know our famous maple tree. And there are some nice highways
through the community here. 494 north where you don't feel like you're a part of an
unfinished construction part. You feel you're part of the surrounding community. When
people come to our community to build something they're required by our ordinances to
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complete and commit to a landscaping plan. When ! was on the Planning Commission,
we ran Target through back and forth on making sure their landscaping plan was an
integral part of their program and financial commitment. Likewise today ! couldn't build
an addition or something new in our industrial park without making landscaping part of
the project, so ! asked the city to make conditional upon approval here that the
landscaping and finishing of this 212 off is an integral part of the project so that when it's
all done, it says something good about our community. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Jon. We'll get you a seat at the table next time.
Jon Chiglo: The landscaping plan, you know as Tim mentioned, we had talked about it a
number of times and we are committing to doing a landscaping project for this project, or
for this section of 212. It's just not going to be tied to the design build project itself. It is
yet to be programmed but when it's within a 3 year window, it will be programmed and
that design, that landscaping plan will primarily address the landscaping around
interchanges within each city. And one that, when that project is planned ! guess ! would
suggest to the city to appoint a few citizens to a committee to work with the Department
to address issues related directly to the city, and each city then would have representation
from a citizen or two or three or however many you would choose, but we would then
work with those communities in developing that plan. Jon Chiglo suggest that the city
appoint a committee comprised of citizens to work with the MnDot to address issues
related directly to the city in developing that plan.
Mayor Furlong: Very good thank you.
Councilman Ayotte: Just for point of clarification.
Mayor Furlong: Certainly, Councilman Ayotte.
Councilman Ayotte: Point of clarification. The 3 year window, if and when, we're not
going to get the 43 years I'm sure Mr. Klingelhutz but how much time could it be where
the aesthetics, the design and execution would occur? You said there's a 3 year window
and ! didn't quite catch that so how long can we be barren if you will?
Jon Chiglo: We traditionally do not, on any job that MnDot builds within the metro, we
wait 2 years after the construction is complete before we would implement any aesthetics
so, 08-09 would be probably the earliest that an aesthetic plan would be implemented, but
the construction would not be completed until 07. The fall of 07. So does that answer?
Councilman Ayotte: Yeah, thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Is there anybody else that would like to speak on this issue this evening
as part of the public hearing? That would like to come forward now. If not, what !
would do. We're approaching our 7:00 start time, which is our normal start time for a
meeting. What we had planned on doing is continuing the public hearing until sometime
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during our regular meeting just to...so if there's nobody wishing to speak, is there a
motion for the council to continue the public hearing until later in our regular meeting.
Councilman Ayotte moved, Councilman Lundquist seconded to table the public
hearing to later in the regular agenda. All voted in favor and the motion carried
unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0.
Mayor Furlong: I'd like to thank everyone for coming this evening. Certainly the
residents to come and to help us understand your issues and concerns. Our staff, city
staff, Mr. Horn has been working with us, but also MnDot. They have, my sense is that
they've been working very well with our city and very responsive to the questions that
have been raised thus far. ! know that there were some other issues that have been talked
about before this evening but clearly this gives the council and the staff, both in MnDot
and the city to re-look at and put particular emphasis on those issues that were raised this
evening. So with that I'd like to thank everybody. I'm just going to call a 10 minute
recess. We'll start our regular council meeting at 7:10.
There was a short recess prior to the beginning of the regular agenda. Councilman
Labatt arrived at this point in the meeting. Mayor Furlong reconvened the City
Council meeting at 7:15 p.m.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mayor Furlong: I'd like to start out with a public announcement, an invitation to
February Festival. Annually the City of Chanhassen in cooperation with local businesses
sponsors a series of special recreational events. Our winter special event is February
Festival which will be held a week from this coming Saturday on February 7th at Lake
Ann Park. Tonight I'd like to invite all residents, their families, friends to come and join
my family and me and other members of the council and staff for this fun winter event.
The activities begin at noon with sledding, skating, bonfire. Boy Scout Troop #330 will
be selling kits for s'mores. The Chanhassen Lions will offer food and hot concessions
again this year. Fishing contest will run from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Get there early this time
Mr. Gerhardt if you would please so you can start on time. There's over $3,500 in door
prizes. $2,000 in fishing contest prizes that will be awarded that day. In addition
everyone is welcomed to join those people playing bingo on the ice searching for the
Friends of the Library medallion that's buried somewhere in the city. Finding the
medallion is worth a $1,400 prize so it's going to be a lot of fun. Tickets are available at
City Hall and other places. It's $5.00 for adults and children. ! would encourage
everybody to come. It's a good way to spend our cold winter days together having fun.
Are there any additions or changes to the agenda at this point? If not, we'll proceed as
published.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman Labatt moved, Councilman Lundquist
seconded to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City
Manager's recommendation:
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a. Approval of Minutes:
-City Council Work Session Minutes dated January 12, 2004
-City Council Verbatim and Summary Minutes dated January 12, 2004
Receive Commission Minutes:
-Planning Commission Minutes dated January 6, 2004
e. Approval of Pay Invoice for 2003 Boulevard Tree Pruning.
f. Approval of 2003 Environmental Excellence Award Recipients.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
B. APPROVAL OF CONSULTANT CONTRACT FOR DESIGN OF WELL
#9~ PROJECT 03-02.
Councilman Lundquist: Matt, maybe this is a question for you. As I was reading through
the packet, the numbers, we approved the $19,000 first and then there was a change order
for $11,483 in addition to that, right?
Matt Saam: I'll just clarify Councilman Lundquist. The $19,000 was for the design, so
that was a contract with an engineering firm. The change order that you refer to is
actually money to a contractor. Initially you approved a work order with the contractor
for $22,685. Then we had the problems at the Well #3 site. We had to move to
Sugarbush. That is what prompted change order number 1 for $11,483. So just to clarify
both the 22 and the 11,000 were paid to a contractor. This item is going to a consultant
engineer.
Councilman Lundquist: Okay. Then the additional 909, which is estimated, $909,000
and change on this, is, that's the part that's in the CIP plan for actually building the well,
correct?
Matt Saam: Correct. That also does include the engineering on that and other associated
costs.
Councilman Lundquist: Okay. Did we go out to anyone other than Bolton and Menk to
look for the engineering piece of that, or did we award them that contract because they
had done the preliminary?
Matt Saam: Yes, you're correct in the former response. I'll just go back. When we
initially did the well, the siting of the test well, we went out for RFP to I believe 3 firms.
The RFP's that came back gave us prices for all three phases of design. Test well, design
of the well and then construction administration. So Bolton and Menk got what I'll call
the overall package. However, you only approved Phase I of it initially so the thinking
was we were going to stay with them through the whole process and just have them
revise as necessary.
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Councilman Lundquist: Okay. Fair enough. That's all the questions I had, thank you.
Todd Gerhardt: Matt, before you leave. Could you just highlight a cost savings measure
in combining well house #3 with well house #9.
Matt Saam: Sure. It's what ! talk about in the staff report. There were really two options
for this well 9 for the siting of it. Could either build a well house and well at the
Sugarbush Park site, with chlorine feed and other fluoride, those sorts of chemicals at that
site, or we could do what we're proposing to do. Basically pump underground with a
submersible pump from Sugarbush Park to the well #3 site where we have an existing
well house. Utilize those facilities so basically we're not doubling up on the well house
and the chemical feeds. The proposed estimated cost savings is about $150,000.
Councilman Ayotte: It's a cost avoidance?
Matt Saam: Yes.
Councilman Lundquist: Okay.
Councilman Labatt: Matt can you, what will we see visible at the park?
Matt Saam: Maybe Kelly can speak to this too, but as ! see it, it's only going to be a
small kiosk above ground. Or Paul, if you have anything to add, but it's going to be a
submersible pump so it will be underground for the most part.
Kelly Janes: There will be some associated electrical control panels and probably a
sizeable transformer near that site too because it will take a large amount of power. But
the control panel would probably be very similar to some of the lift station sites you've
seen for controls, but most of the master control type units would be down at the well #3
site. There would be some specific controls that will be next to that transformer, and then
all you'll see is typically a flanged pipe that comes up out of the ground for the ability to
remove and place back in the submersible pump. And that can, the one we have currently
terminates about 6 inches above the ground.
Councilman Labatt: So as the park and rec considers, any thought as, if you're going to
have this, I'll call it a structure with a generator and the power supply, as far as building
some sort of structure similar to what's at Rice Marsh. Just a shelter top with supporting
poles. Are you going to try to incorporate some sort of park shelter in connection.
Todd Hoffman: The Park Commission did not talk about that. It's not on the park plan
and I've not had any conversations with staff about that.
Matt Saam: We were really trying to go very minimal here Councilman Labatt with not a
lot of above ground structure type things.
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Todd Hoffman: The location of the well is off towards the parking lot. Just outside of
the parking lot. I'm not sure if it would be an appropriate location for a shelter, or if we
would put that more towards the interior of the park.
Councilman Labatt: Okay.
Mayor Furlong: Any other questions? Any other questions, I'll turn my mic on. If not,
is there a motion?
Councilman Lundquist: Motion to approve the consultant work order for the design of
well number 9, Project 03-02.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second?
Councilman Ayotte: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Is there any further discussion?
Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Ayotte seconded that the City Council
approve the consultant contract for the design of Well #9, Project 03-02. All voted
in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
C. APPROVE PUMP PURCHASE FOR LIFT STATION NO. 10-PW055J.
Councilman Lundquist: l(c), all ! need Matt is funding source. Is this a capital item or is
this just general fund dollars?
Matt Saam: I'll defer to Bruce on this.
Todd Gerhardt: It would come out of our utility budget. As a part of the maintenance of
our utility system.
Councilman Lundquist: Okay, fair enough. That's all ! needed. Thanks Todd.
Todd Gerhardt: Yep.
Mayor Furlong: Motion to approve?
Councilman Lundquist: Motion to approve.
Mayor Furlong: Is there a second?
Councilman Peterson: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Any discussion?
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Councilman Lundquist moved, Councilman Peterson
purchase of the pump for Lift Station No. 10, PW055J.
motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
seconded to approve the
All voted in favor and the
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS:
Debbie Lloyd: Good evening. Debbie Lloyd, 7302 Laredo Drive. ! sent the council and
mayor an e-mail on Saturday regarding proposed 2nd Addition Burlwood. And I'm only
speaking because there isn't an opportunity to address the council during the discussion.
! missed out a couple of points and ! want to make this a point of record. The Kerbers are
really good people. ! love their sweet corn and their tomatoes. We purchased them
routinely. This is nothing personal, but I've been following city action for nearly 3 years
and as you sit in a planning meeting and at city council you see the whole story being
woven. ! know that this has been a difficult issue that you're going to be going over
tonight because the staff and a prior city council made some assumptions, or made some !
should say approved some aspects of this subdivision. But ! do not believe, and !
strongly do not believe that's a reason to grant three variances tonight. The property can
be subdivided into two lots, or you could grant a variance for a private street to serve
those 2 lots, or you could create by code, there isn't code, a half street option with certain
time limitations ! believe. ! don't believe that for financial reasons, even though the
developer is willing to put in a full street, that is not a reason to create three sub-standard
lots. These lots, two of them would have double frontage and one would have triple
frontage. The landowner has known that these lots have been along Powers Boulevard
ever since they owned the property. That's a fact. If you require a public street it's a fact
that the developer needs to pay for that. In the report it said the applicant is requesting a
variance to help pay for the expenses associated with these improvements. ! believe
you're setting a really dangerous precedent by really down sizing lots, not meeting code,
in this case. Someone else can come to you and say you did it for them, why don't you
do it for me. And ! believe there are other situations in the city that will present
themselves in time like this. I'm asking you not to grant variances on the lot size and to
come up with another alternative. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Jerry Paulsen: Jerry Paulsen, 7305 Laredo Drive. If I'm permitted to make a comment
on the same issue is what I'd like to do.
Mayor Furlong: Certainly.
Jerry Paulsen: Okay. The Planning Commission did approve this before it sent it to you
but it was not a unanimous approval. There was dissention and to the point to take point
with what Debbie Lloyd just said also here, I'd like to suggest that the council not
approve these variances because you're setting a possible precedent by going with under
sized lots. As much as 12 percent and greater under code and this may come back to
haunt you in the future. Obviously the applicant would like to get 3 lots because it's
more profitable, but ! don't think he's going to lose money by any means if he has the
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two lots so I'd like to suggest that you don't approve the three variances on lot size.
Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. We are in visitor presentation portion of our meeting
so if anybody would like to address the council on this or any other matter, this would be
the time. If not, seeing no one I'll go ahead and close visitor presentations and move on
with our agenda.
LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Good evening on this snowy and slippery evening. I apologize, I
intended to have one of our deputies here this evening to introduce but I didn't want to
pull somebody off the road. It's been a busy day and also a busy night so we will have
somebody here for next month. Included in your council packet I put down the sheriff' s
office area report and that will be the year end for 2003 that is attached with that. Also
the citation list for the month of December. Copy of crime alerts that were put out by
Crime Prevention Officer Beth Hoiseth. Community Service Officer report, and then I'll
talk about a couple other things that I think are of interest to the council. Total calls for
service for the month of December, 2003 were up by 134 from the previous year and last
year the total calls for service for the year were 12,030 and that's up by 2,091 for the
year, so quite a bit. I would attribute a lot of that to increased traffic and increased traffic
details as well. The medical and fire calls for the month of December compared to the
previous year were both up quite a bit for December, 2003. Property damage accidents
were up quite a bit from 37 to 76, and we have some slippery days there that I would
attribute that to. Injury accidents were up from 8 to 13. We had quite a few more
snowmobile calls up this year. Last year I don't remember us having any snow which
would attribute to that I think. They were up from 2 to 18 for the month of December.
Both theft and damage to property were down for the month compared to last year and
those are both good things. Our alarms were up from 72 to 95 and our suspicious activity
calls were up from 71 to 100 for the month. I also had mentioned to the council that I
was going to try to get felony updates and normal complaint updates to the City Council
that are put out from the county attorney's office. We had 5 felony formal complaints
that were done for the month of December. 2 felony assaults, 2 felony thefts, and 1
felony DWI from the City of Chanhassen. We also had 7 gross misdemeanors that were
not mentioned in the packet, and also 17 misdemeanors that would not have been
mentioned in the packet. Any questions at all on the calls for service monthly service
update that were received for the month.
Mayor Furlong: Questions?
Councilman Lundquist: Sergeant, as I was looking through your area report for the year,
a couple of things that concern me. The criminal activity just the straight were showing,
you guys know how much I like numbers, a 2 lA percent increase year over year and even
if you take out all the traffic details and those big increases on the non-criminal, we're
still up, we're showing about an 8 percent increase year over year. And as you read all
the papers and on all the news, I guess I would have expected those numbers going down
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kind of with the national trends. Do you attribute, is that a population growth thing for us
that those are going or is there some, ! mean ! didn't see really one category that jumped
out other than the traffic that you address, but that's a conscious effort on your part, or is
that just a general explanation for what your thoughts are on that.
Sgt. Jim Olson: 2002 ! think was a bit of an anomaly where numbers were down quite a
bit throughout the system, or throughout the categories that we have. ! pulled numbers
up for the past 10 years, including those when ! do my update, power point presentation
that I'll be doing, but if you go out over the previous 10 years, ! don't think you'd see an
increase that much number wise. It's somewhat up and down. Some of our accident
calls, medicals and alarms and so on have been going up but our crimes themselves have
not been going up appreciably. We did have an increase this year, or excuse me in 2003
over 2002 specifically ! think in thefts, damage to property calls were probably our two
biggest, also burglaries were our three biggest ones that we had. If you look at the
previous 10 years, ! don't think you're appreciably up, if at all. We have had other years
that have been higher than those but I'll be going over that more when we get, when ! do
the power point presentation. ! think 2002 was a bit of an anomaly overall for the city.
Both fire calls and that sorts of, so.
Councilman Lundquist: Good, thank you.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Sure.
Mayor Furlong: Other questions?
Councilman Ayotte: You were going to have some look see at conviction rates. And
without getting too specific, more towards whether or not things were going well or not
well, a ratio between, especially with felony activities. If we felt good about the
conviction rate. Can you talk towards that without?
Sgt. Jim Olson: I have not gotten a year end or the latest quarterly report as of yet from
the County Attorney's office. They put that out quarterly and ! am still waiting for that.
Councilman Ayotte: Okay. Will there be a roll-up for an end of year look see for those
data points?
Sgt. Jim Olson: I am hoping for that, yes.
Councilman Ayotte: Okay.
Sgt. Jim Olson: And I'll talk to the county attorney's office to make sure ! get a final
year end also councilman.
Mayor Furlong: Questions? Mr. Gerhardt.
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Todd Gerhardt: Sergeant Olson, can you explain our snow bird policy? This being one
of the snowiest days of the year. The public would like to know what our policy is.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Yes, and that was one of the things I was actually going to go over,
along with winter driving. Winter parking. On street parking is prohibited in the city of
Chanhassen between November 1st and April 1st, and that's between the hours of 1 zOO in
the morning and 7:00 in the morning. And this is regardless of whether there is snow or
not on the ground. The deputies will go through neighborhoods and will ticket vehicles
that they find are parked on the street. On street parking is also prohibited in the city
when there is 2 inches or more of snow on the ground, or excuse me, on the street, until it
is plowed curb to curb. So even during the day, if we've had 2 or more inches of snow
and the street has not been plowed, you need to park your cars on the street. Or excuse
me, on the driveway. I'm sorry. Or they can be ticketed and/or possibly towed if it is...
Winter driving, ! wanted to talk about for a minute also. I'd just like to remind people to
slow down this time of year. You know a lot of accidents that we get is because people
are going too fast or excessive speed. Excessive speed does not necessarily mean that
you're going over the speed limit, but you're going too fast for the conditions. When
roads are snow covered and icy you cannot stop the way you normally can on dry roads
and ! know everybody says, ! know that but every snowfall, every snowfall we have we
have people sliding in the ditches and going into, sliding under their cars and ! just ask
for people to slow down a bit. That's real important. You know we've had a number of
accidents today, not only in the city but county wide and also state wide, and quite a bit
of that can be attributed to people just going too fast. Just slow down and think about
that. ! also want to talk a little bit about the speed trailer. The speed trailer is in and
thank you. We've been making use of it, and the feedback that ! have gotten from
citizens have been positive with that. ! don't know if any of the council people have seen
it out. We have had it out and about. It will not be out during inclement weather, days
like this. ! don't want people to see it and slam on their brakes because they're going
excessive speed, and head off into the ditch so, but on other days ! intend to have that out
every day somewhere in the city so, and it has been working well. ! also want to talk a
little bit about, did you have any other questions Councilman Ayotte?
Councilman Ayotte: Oh probably.
Sgt. Jim Olson: And ! know you've given me a call by phone and ! don't know if you
still had some questions reference to that, but.
Councilman Ayotte: I guess my question is, every once in a while I'll call Sergeant
Olson or Mr. Gerhardt and ask questions with respect to state of the art events that are
going on in public safety and I approached Sergeant Olson on one this past week. But in
general terms do we have a mechanism to, in the world of engineering. You know you
always have an R&D function. Do we have anything formal to, for information sharing
so that when one police force is using a technique or a product that we can know what
that's all about and whether or not it's something that we should investigate? Another
example, we've got this CrimNet and I understand that there has been some, because of
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fiscal constraints, a revisiting of some of those sharing of information systems. So how
are we going to stay on top of things with the R&D activities in public safety?
Sgt. Jim Olson: There is sharing and ! think you're referring to the...Preparedness
Network is one thing that you've been talking about. And the County's been looking at
that apparently for about 3 years and it has been cut from the budget so far. They still
hope to get it in at some point. City staff and myself are taking a look at that, and then
getting some information to reference that but yes, there is sharing of data. You know
there are different conferences that we go to and share information and new things that
are going on technology wise you know in the world of law enforcement and public
safety.
Councilman Ayotte: Who is the prime POC for technology search on our staff?.
Todd Gerhardt: Rick Rice probably.
Councilman Ayotte: Who?
Todd Gerhardt: Rick Rice.
Councilman Ayotte: In terms of public safety. Who is the staff person responsible to
periodically search for advancement in public safety, product or technique? Do we have
somebody that's tagged with that?
Todd Gerhardt: Justin has done some for research. Benchmarks. Sergeant Olson has
done a variety of things regarding the speed trailer. Our traffic calming research.
Councilman Ayotte: But we don't have the system to process then, is that safe to say that
or?
Todd Gerhardt: Just when issues come up, we research things.
Councilman Ayotte: Thanks.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Any other questions at all or anything that ! can help with?
Mayor Furlong: Is there anybody else? Question or comment. If ! understood you
correctly, you said that the gross misdemeanor/misdemeanor numbers were not included
in our report. Does that come out with the attorney's report?
Sgt. Jim Olson: That is a report that I am now getting from the attorneys, correct. There
are some misdemeanor citations that are included in the citation report that you get.
There are others that come from the county attorney's office that are issued from, you
know we might maybe send up a case could be reviewed by the county attorney's office.
And that would not be included in our citation report that our office sends out but I'm
getting a special little report now, so. And that's what ! share with you.
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Mayor Furlong: And we get, as part of our prosecution arrangement we're going to be
getting a regular report. Is that going to be monthly or is that still going to be quarterly?
Todd Gerhardt: ! believe in your admin section you had the county's last quarterly
update. You will receive the same updates from the city attorney's office.
Mayor Furlong: Very good. The other thing was a comment in our packet today was a
report, a year to year comparison and then the monthly reports for the CSO program.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Yes.
Mayor Furlong: And that was interesting. ! thought if that's a report that we can
review...
Sgt. Jim Olson: ! have included that every other month.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Every 2 months ! do put a report that ! include in the packet from the
CSO's.
Mayor Furlong: And that's fine.
Sgt. Jim Olson: And this one had the year end.
Mayor Furlong: This one had the year end information so it was nice to see the
comparison there. Thank you.
Sgt. Jim Olson: And ! can have them do that every other month if you'd like, as far as
compared to last year. ! don't think that that has been included in the past but ! can
certainly do that.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. ! think that'd be good. Any other questions? No?
Sgt. Jim Olson: Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Anything else? Thank you.
Sgt. Jim Olson: Drive carefully tonight.
Mayor Furlong: Slowly and carefully. We also have our new fire chief. Chief Geske
here this evening. Good evening.
Gregg Geske: Good evening. I'd like to just introduce myself ! guess to all of you. !
haven't met all of you but, myself ! was elected in December and we also elected a new
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Assistant Chief to replace Mark Littfin who has stepped down as Assistant Chief. Greg
Hayes is still on as our other Assistant Chief so basically makes up our fire board that we
have. Little bit about myself. 12 year resident of Chanhassen, and have been on the
Chanhassen Fire Department during that 12 years holding different positions such as
Chief Engineer, Secretary and also Lieutenant. ! was on the Victoria Fire Department for
5 years before coming to Chanhassen so I've got about 17 years experience. In my full
time employment I'm a sales manager for Wateress Company. They manufacture fire
pumps, fire hydrants and underground gate valves, and I'm the sales manager for the fire
pump division, so ! work with fire apparatus builders and fire departments and dealers in
that regard so I'm quite involved in the fire department. My main responsibilities again
we're working with fire apparatus manufacturers there. Married and have four children,
so a little bit about myself for you guys. Let's see, since the fire department addressed
the council last time, we've added 8 new probationary fire fighters. We had ! believe
originally 12 applicants or 13 applicants. We scaled those back and had a hiring process
that we went through so we offered that to 8 people, and of the 8 we were lucky enough
to add a couple of daytime responders and a couple of people to respond to our west
station, which we've been lean at. All the fire departments have problems during the day
of course filling the trucks all the time so we're lucky enough to add a couple that we can
have during the day and a couple to respond to our west station where we were somewhat
lean. We are also happy to have half the probationary members already trained as fire
fighters and having some fire fighter classes and medical classes so that's some, little less
in the financial requirements of the city to train those people so we're lucky in that
regard. Been working with the fire board has been working with the city staff to, in
replacing Greg Hayes' position at the city here. Recently we had some news I'd like to
pass on. We've recently had two cardiac saves. One of the calls that we had, 3 of our
members started CPR. We tried the defibulator, which did not work in this case. The
paramedics were there. They pushed all the drugs they had. We did CPR on the way to
the hospital and they were able to revive the patient at the hospital so we had that one.
The 3 members that were recognized and presented CPR save pins at our last business
meeting so something we're real proud of. We also had another scene where we had a
patient that went into cardiac arrest and was revived with the defibulator so, ! don't know
if you're aware but usually cardiac arrest is, it's not a high percentage of people that we
do save from cardiac arrest so ! guess we're real proud to have, you know since the last
update here we had a couple saves there so wanted to pass that on. Call numbers !
presented ! guess from last year in the council packet. We were up from 2002. Of course
a lot of that is attributed to growth and everything else and ! don't have a whole lot of
restrain on that but we did, we are working with the county revising our priority dispatch
a little bit more to fine tune it, and that will help with some of the calls that we really
don't need to be called out on so. We have not had any residential fires lately. Hopefully
that's attributed to our fire education. Everything working, or ! guess we're just lucky so.
That' s all.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for the Chiet?
Councilman Ayotte: Thank you for serving, appreciate it.
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Mayor Furlong: Absolutely. Welcome aboard. Thanks.
Gregg Geske: Thanks.
PUBLIC HEARING:
CONTINUATION OF PUBLIC HEARING ON MUNICIPAL CONSENT FOR
NEW TH 212~ PROJECT 03-09.
Mayor Furlong: At this time I'd like to continue the public hearing on the municipal
consent for the Highway 212 project. We began this public hearing this evening at 5:30
with presentation from staff and receive public comment up til about 7:00. So at this
time is an opportunity for anybody else that would like to speak on this matter, if they
could come forward now. Please state your name and address.
Jim Sulerud: My name, Mr. Mayor and members of the council, my name is Jim
Sulerud, 730 Vogelsberg Trail. I've been a resident for more than 30 years. My concerns
are directed at MnDot and it's obligations for safety on it's highways. Staff, who are here
previously have heard my comments and actually over the years, but ! also want to raise
these concerns to you as City Council members. My concerns primarily relate to
properties off of 101 south of Pioneer Trail. The dramatic tones of my comments result
from more than 30 years of conversations with all jurisdictions and the projection that
there's no solution in sight proposed or otherwise for the next 20 years or anywhere on
the horizon. I'll give you a copy of my comments here. I'm going to start with the very
last line in my comments to set the tone a little bit. This is not a MnDot staff or local
staff problem. This is an issue of political short sightedness and it's solution is one of
political will. The second to the last paragraph. ! applaud all the years of thoughtful
work and cooperation on the part of all good staff and political leaders who have brought
new Highway 312 to the forefront. However ! want you to appreciate but ! find the
above egregious oversights to be such an eminent threat to public health and safety to a
large number of Chanhassen residents, property owners and patrons, that in the absence
of your speedy attention and trustworthy word of resolution within the new Highway 312
project timeframe, ! expect to seek means to prevent these unnecessary consequences for
my personal property, health and safety are threaten. And in the interest of my neighbors
well being ! will support them and encourage that they do the same. And this is
addressed as an e-mail that went out today to Carol Molnau and also you'll see it's been
copied to Lisa and also to you Mr. Mayor as well as other folks I've been in touch with
over the years. ! request that you immediately halt all pre-construction activities related
to this project within Chanhassen. ! request that all such activities be suspended until the
following safety issues are resolved by all necessary mitigations that are planned,
approved, calendared and funded, and constructed within the current new Highway 312
project plans and construction timelines. The opening of a new Highway 312 according
to the currently drawn and funded plans will directly result in serious safety dangers and
service failures that will be life threatening to hundreds of Chanhassen residents and
hundreds of patrons and several Chanhassen businesses. Specifically this negligence is
MnDot's failure to undertake planning, failure to enter into approval processes and
resulting agreements, failure to fund and construct improvements to mitigate known new
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hazardous consequences directly resulting from the opening of new 312. These activities
all being within MnDot's jurisdiction and powers. And then my focus is on this area.
One identified area of serious hazards includes all those properties who's only access and
egress is to north/south Highway 101 between Pioneer Trail to the north and old Highway
212 to the south. There are no shoulders in this area that might permit emergency
vehicles to by-pass standing traffic. Approximately 50 Chanhassen households and
hundreds of patrons of Halla Nursery, Bluff Creek Golf Course and other businesses will
be imperiled. During times of traffic back-up, of backed up traffic, emergency life safety
vehicles will only gain access after extended periods of traffic intervention. A golfer
having a heart attack, a homeowner accident on Creekwood or fire on Lakota will be
unattended because of MnDot's negligence. Other areas negatively affected will include
those of Homestead Lane, West 96th Street, Hesse Farms, Bluff Creek Drive, Pioneer
Trail and Foxford Road. At present there are recurring times of the day when cars on 101
block access or egress to properties for either north or south travel. This will admittedly
worsen with the current road system. However, as a direct result of traffic invited to and
from the new Powers Boulevard and Highway 101 interchanges with the new Highway
312, this situation will soon result in multiple but otherwise avoidable tragic occurrences.
The multi-jurisdictional plan to extend Powers Boulevard to Lyman Boulevard, from
Lyman Boulevard to Pioneer Trail and alter Highway 101 north of new Highway 312
shows that there is a recognition of need to safely move more traffic north/south.
Tragically there is no north/south plan south of Pioneer Trail. The current plan dumps
cars from those two new 312 interchanges who want to get south to old 212 onto Pioneer
Trail about a half mile apart. These vehicles will then try to compete with Pioneer Trail
traffic seeking primarily east/west movement, which is increasingly and frequently
clogged. Most Highway 101 and Powers Boulevard traffic, together with some Pioneer
Trail vehicles will seek Highway 101 south. Certainly many more cars than present will
find their way to old 212 by way of Bluff Creek Drive through local streets, though local
streets are not supposed to be a part of MnDot design solutions. The plan stop lights and
turn lanes at 101 and Pioneer Trail will not solve the problem when both directions of the
travel lanes are full. For city, county and state to suggest that Highway 101 issues will be
dealt with within the turn back negotiations suggests a solution that is too narrow and too
late. And to say that a new Highway 41 river crossing is planned to address this need
will not make a contribution for the next 20 years. Over 20 years ago ! raised these same
concerns to Evan Greene, the MnDot project manager at the time. I've consistently been
told over the years that although all jurisdictions agreed with the problems ! raised, the
new Highway 312 project did not include this problem or it's funded solutions and it's
scope. As long as the new Highway 312 construction was always 10 to 20 years away,
my level of frustration continued to be muted. More than one project manager, more than
one county highway engineer and more than one Chanhassen city engineer have courtesy
listened to me and agreed that something will have to be done. But with the moving
forward of the construction of new 312, lack of political priority or shortage of funding is
no longer an acceptable excuse. ! expect that you will not open Highway 312 until such
time as it's opening does not create these obvious and hazardous situations. And then the
following two paragraphs that ! read to you before. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Any comments or response?
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Lisa Freese: The 101 issue is a difficult one for us to respond to. In our system plan it is
considered a preservation corridor and as such we pretty much keep the pavement in
good condition and fix bridges when needed. But the level of investment to improve
some of the safety and geometric issues doesn't exist in our current plan. There are a
couple of avenues in which we can try to address that and I've had conversations with
Mr. Sulerud on a couple of different occasions. Actually ! do find that the turn back
process may be our best opportunity without a substantial change in direction in how our
funding is allocated, not only at MnDot but regionally at the Met Council it will be
difficult for us to find resources to adequately improve 101 with MnDot dollars. If we
can work out over the next few months an agreement with the county to work on
improvements to the road, identify the needs that need to be done and then develop a turn
back agreement, we can probably make resources available to fix some of the issues on
Trunk Highway 101 to the south of the new Highway much sooner than we could in any
other mechanism. So ! do believe that the turn back process holds the most hope for us to
be able to address those serious concerns on 101.
Mayor Furlong: Very good, thank you. Is there anybody else that would like to address
the council during the public hearing on the municipal consent process? If no one else
would like to address it, ! will go ahead and close the public hearing. It will be closed.
I'll bring it back to council at this time for any comments. Councilman Ayotte.
Councilman Ayotte: I'd like to make a couple of comments. First off, ! really appreciate
the fact that so many people came out this evening to address the issue. And then
secondly I'd like to say that ! wish that so many people who came out to address this
issue this evening would sign up for other considerations for other activities that occur in
this city. We often times have peak and valley interest so ! don't know about these other
councilmen and our mayor but most Monday evenings I'm lonely. So it'd be very, very
positive thing to see more attendance. Secondly the other thing I'd like to mention is that
there are other agents and agencies instead of throwing all the efforts and focus and
blame and maudation towards MnDot. ! heard a lot about the environmental concerns.
There's also the EPA. ! heard a lot about public safety and when ! saw your notes to
which ! appreciate your stick-to-itiveness, ! haven't met too many people besides you Mr.
Klingelhutz that stick to it as long as you, but there are a few other people that could
possibly be copied on this piece of correspondence that could make a difference at
another level of government. ! do believe our staff have done due diligence, especially
with 101 turn back. ! think there is some interest and heavy lifting with respect to the
environmental concerns, especially with noise abatement that has been looked at and I'm
certain that they will continue to try to work those issues out. MnDot has been really
working friendly in a positive way. This is going to happen so those people who ask for
it not to happen are not being realistic in their interests, but there is opportunity to
improve any product and ! really believe that the issue of environmental investigation is a
good one and can continue. ! really do believe that the right folks are working on the 101
effort and ! hope that the interest that has been touched upon tonight by some segment of
our residents would (a), continue and (b), increase. Thank you mayor.
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Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Other comments? None? No. Very good. As ! said
earlier, ! do appreciate as well as Councilman Ayotte said. The interest and the number
of people that came out this evening to share their comments with the council. A number
of the issues, the major issues like in all processes tend to rise to the top and we heard
them again this evening. The park and ride, the 101 gap project, funding for that, the
interchanges, traffic, congestion, those types of things so as ! said earlier, staff, !
commend our staff and MnDot staff for working so well together. And ! really do
believe, as Councilman Ayotte said, they are, MnDot is being very responsive to requests
and needs and timeliness here and so from our standpoint it makes our job a lot easier.
And ! know that they were listening tonight as they always have been. Again from a
timing standpoint, the council is not going to consider the question of municipal consent
this evening. We will be continuing to get updates from staff during the month of
February and at this point it would probably be some time on the agenda in March for our
consideration of that question. Anybody that is interested in, please make sure you get
your name on the list this evening. Anybody that spoke at the public hearing, if they're
not already on the list will be so that staff can be sure to let them know when the council
considers this going forward. So with that again, thank you. It's an important issue to
our city clearly, as evidenced by those that came out this evening and spoke so well.
We'll move on now with our agenda.
AWARD OF BIDS~ CITY HALL REMODELING PROJECT.
Todd Hoffman: Mayor Furlong, members of the City Council. I'm pleased to report that
on January 7th, 15 bids were received. Opened and read aloud in the City Council
chambers for our lower level remodel project, which is an addition or expansion of our
Senior Center and some meeting room space. The based bids ranged from a high of
$260,500 to a low of $194,900. The low bid was submitted by GenCon Construction of
Jordan, Minnesota. Fairly local company. The architect estimate for this portion of the
project was $203,710. GenCon's bid was the last bid opened and so we were pleased
with those results. A secondary bidding estimated at $50,390 for furnishings will be
forthcoming back to the City Council. There is a complete bid tabulation in your packet.
It is not recommended that alternates 1, 2 and 3 be accepted. All of those products are
included in the base bid and they're value far exceeds the potential $4,300 in savings.
However it is recommended that the council accept a voluntary deduct of $600 for a
change in presentation casework that the contractor offered. In the interest of the council
! have conducted three reference interviews with organizations that have worked with
GenCon Construction in the past. No particular concerns beyond normal complications
generally associated with construction projects were identified. Better Business Bureau,
they check out there. The Minnesota Chapter. So pending City Council approval, it is
anticipated that the contract will begin work in early February. Again pending your
approval we have a pre-construction meeting scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Therefore it's recommended that the City Council award the City Hall lower level
remodel project to GenCon Construction in the amount of $194,300.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Questions for staff.
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Councilman Ayotte: What's time your meeting tomorrow morning?
ToddHoffman: 10:00 a.m.
Councilman Ayotte: ! was thinking if it was at 7:00, he's probably being pretty
confident.
Mayor Furlong: Any other questions?
Councilman Lundquist: Is that your only question?
Councilman Ayotte: That's it.
Councilman Lundquist: Bruce, refresh my memory again. Part of this we were going to,
it was on the CIP we were going to bond for or what was the payment funding source?
Bruce DeJong: Yes, we were going to bond for both parts of that. The construction part
would be a separate bond issue under authority that we can use for modifications to city
halls. And the furnishings part would be under our capital equipment note that we
anticipate along with other equipment vehicles.
Councilman Lundquist: Okay, thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Any other questions?
Councilman Labatt: Nothing Mayor.
Mayor Furlong: Nope? If not, we'll bring it back to council for discussion. Any
discussion on the matter? Seeing none, this is an item that's come before us from a plan
standpoint a few times so the numbers are now coming in clearly, but with that, as far as
the CIP ! think this will be a nice addition and an improvement to our city hall.
Expansion of the senior center and expand meeting facilities as well. Multiple use
facilities so, if there is any other discussion. If not, is there a motion?
Councilman Peterson: Motion to approve.
Councilman Lundquist: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Made and seconded. Is there any discussion?
Resolution #2004-06: Councilman Peterson moved, Councilman Lundquist
seconded that the City Council award the City Hall Lower Level Remodel Project to
GenCon Construction in the amount of $194,300. All voted in favor and the motion
carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
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APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 4 OF CITY CODE~ ENTITLED
FEES:
1)
2)
INCREASING UTILITY RATES.
INCREASING LATERAL UTILITY CONNECTION & TRUNK UTILITY
HOOKUP CHARGES.
Bruce DeJong: Mayor Furlong, City Council members. Tonight we're kind of at the end
of, if you want to call it process that's been a long time in coming. As far as changing
utility rates. The last time the City of Chanhassen actually made a change to it's utility
rates was 1997. Where we raised the water fees. The last time that the sewer rates have
been raised is 1992. In doing this we put together a fairly comprehensive model with
some assistance from Ehlers and Associates. Tried to actually cost out all of the
operations of both the water and the sewer utility funds, and the capital needs that are
necessary and that would be potentially desirable down the line. So ! guess what I'm
going to do right now is just run through a quick slide show and then I'll be open for
questions after that. The basic objectives were to cover operating expenses. Our
enterprise fund lost money for the last several years so we have to bring ourselves back
so that we're not going in the red. Then we have to raise sufficient funds to cover
potential water treatment plant, both from a capital and an operation standpoint. And we
need to map out the cost of developing our system fully as we open up new areas of the
city to be served and make sure that we're covering those with appropriate development
fees. Then we also wanted to make sure that we try to balance our debt versus how much
we're paying for with cash out of this and maintain sufficient cash balance in the process.
What you have on the screen in front of you is the same thing that you saw at the work
session 2 weeks ago showing two different average residential bills. One for a low water
user, which is about 21,000 gallons of water and one for a higher water user, assuming
about 30,000 gallons per quarter. The combined fee increase on a quarterly basis is about
7 lA percent, which is the combination of a 9 percent increase on the water side and a 5
percent increase on the sewer side. You can also see down at the bottom there that we're
looking at the hookup fees that are charged when someone connects up to our system.
That's to cover the cost of existing infrastructure and new infrastructure, such as wells,
lift stations, water towers and the associated equipment with those. What we're
proposing there is an increase in the water hookup fee of 50 percent approximately.
Raising that up, and that's based on the cost of developing out our system out through our
2020 comprehensive plan. We are not proposing to raise the sewer hookup fees and that
once again is based on the cost of developing out the system that we will have sufficient
funds based on these charges at this point. A breakdown of that increase for the average
user on the high user actually is $6.93 total increase. The largest portion of that is for
water operations and for water treatment. They also include a fairly substantial portion
for sewer disposal fees, which is governed by the Met Council for the most part. We
annually pay them in excess of a million dollars for them treating the sewage that comes
out of our city. And the last part is sewer system replacement costs of 53 cents. Putting
those into...the water schedule to go from $1.30 up to $1.42 and the sewer is scheduled
to go from $2.60 to $2.73. The water connection charge and the sewer connection charge
as we previously discussed. This is just a quick graph that shows potential expense out of
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the water trunk fund. With our phased treatment plan that we've based this model on, we
have an operating fund and a trunk fund. The trunk fund is scheduled to pay for the
second water treatment plant, if that's necessary, and that is out in 2008 in our schedule
right now. When you look at those rates for the sewer hookup fees, you can see that in
2008 there is a substantial increase in those fees. The reason for that is because we intend
to have the hookup fees pay for that additional treatment service. It seems as if a
development, new development would be generating the demand for that treated water
and so that's why it's scheduled to be paid for out of there. If we don't develop a second
treatment plant, then we can obviously address that fee schedule downward from what
we've proposed and we may not need to increase it at all from the rate in 2007. We are
showing here though that the water trunk fund cash balance, which is made up from the
existing cash balance of just over $5 million dollars and the new revenues coming in as
developments come on line and people hook up to the system, and then our expenditures
out of there, so you can see that at the end of our study we've got that down almost to
zero, which is exactly what you want it to be. You want the development fees to pay for
the cost of the development and when the development's over, you want to be able to
recover the cost of your system through your current fees on the operating side. Here we
show the capital improvement plan from the operating side, and the large
2004 is for the water treatment plant that we've been discussing for some
beyond that there's just basically minor repair type of things that are being
this fund. Showing the cash balance though in that fund that we intend to raise that over
the course of this study, kind of offsetting the decline in the funds that are there for the
capital expenses. And that's the end of that. There is another portion that is in the fee
section actually, talking about the actual hookup fees or excuse me, the connection fees
that Mr. Saam sent out to you. That has always been in the ordinance code already. This
is just codifying that. We'll actually put that in Section 4 of the city code, along with the
other fees so that when someone goes to look up the expenses of connecting to the
system, they can see all the potential fees per unit in one place. Then while the increase
in rates seems like it might be a little much at one time, ! think that based on not
increasing the rates over the past several years that it's certainly justified. We've looked
at all of the potential expenses and are trying to meet those and the increase does not put
us outside of ! guess what ! would call an acceptable range based on other comparable
cities rates, so with that said ! recommend that the City Council adopt the ordinance
amendment to Chapter 4 with the utility rates.
expenditure in
time now, and
paid for out of
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Questions for staff?.
Councilman Ayotte: Yes.
Mayor Furlong: Councilman Ayotte.
Councilman Ayotte: A couple. So the average family would experience approximately
how much of an increase per year?
Councilman Lundquist: 28 bucks.
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Councilman Ayotte: About 28 bucks? Okay. And then if we did not do it, we could
anticipate that select families would realize significant assessments for certain items, is
that true?
Todd Gerhardt: Portion of it.
Councilman Ayotte: Okay. And the fact that we haven't addressed it in previous years,
we could say possibly, especially if it was other councils that possibly were remiss in not
addressing the utility rates from time to time.
Todd Gerhardt: Periodically, every 3 to 5 years you want to take a look at your enterprise
funds to see how they're operating.
Councilman Ayotte: And one last point is that we probably would threaten our ability to
have water treatment if we did not do this, is that correct?
Todd Gerhardt: That is correct.
Councilman Ayotte: Okay. The only reasons ! bring these points out is because ! want to
pull out the fine point that you made so that common folk like me can understand some
of the implications of not addressing this. Thank you Mayor.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Other questions?
Councilman Lundquist: Clarification. Bruce, your memo talks about the cover page, 9
percent on the water, 5 percent on the sewer. Are those, but they don't match when !
look at the chart that you had up there with the 30,000 gallon increases. I'm getting a
different, ! mean they're percentage wise they're not all that different but which is the
one that's, I'm guessing that the one, the 9 percent increase you've got is the $1.42 and
that it just doesn't, the numbers don't come out on the average. If ! do the average on
that one from 40 to 4428 is 10.7 percent, not 9. And ! guess, which is the number that
people should be more concerned with? I'm guess the $1.42 is the number that really
matters to people?
Bruce DeJong: ! think what's happening on that higher residential is that some of it is at
the secondary rate and that's where the difference comes in.
Councilman Lundquist: Okay. But the important one for people to, and your 693 now a
quarter was based on that chart right there or the?
Bruce DeJong: That was based on this chart.
Councilman Lundquist: Okay. So that would incorporate some of those higher spikes
for the summer and the peak usage and things like that.
Bruce DeJong: Yes, exactly.
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Councilman Lundquist: Okay, thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Questions? I guess from clarification, in terms of review, one of the
things that's mentioned in your cover memo Mr. DeJong is to look at this on an annual
basis, and as we proceed forward. Is that our expectation that we'll at least be reviewing
this in summary form, perhaps not in this level of detail ! wouldn't suspect on an annual
basis but at least review how we're tracking against these sets of projections from the
consultants and what staff' s put together.
Bruce DeJong: Yes. As we've discussed in previous meetings, there are a lot of
estimates that are included in these projections and as we start coming up with some
actual dollars and plug those in, ! think it's important to review the rates on an annual
basis and see how we're tracking with this study and make sure that we're not either
getting ahead of ourselves or falling behind.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. And ! guess the other thing I'd like to clarify, just for my
understanding and others, is that the percent increases that we're discussing this evening
from 2003 to 2004 are not going to be the same level of increases right now based on our
plan, but those, the percentage increases, they're still, we're expecting some increases but
they're at lower rates. But these are the highest percentage increases in this plan for both
the water use as well as the hookup' s. If you could just clarify, you talked about the 2004
change but ! think if somebody sees that and expects that's going to be annually at those
rates, maybe we can address that.
Bruce DeJong: No. Mayor Furlong, the rates of increase that we're anticipating in our
future charges are approximately 5, well this covers a long period of time and so the rate
increases range from 5 percent on an annual basis down to about 3 percent, roughly
tracking inflation by the time we get out past 2008.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Thank you. Any other questions for staff at this time?
Councilman Labatt: No.
Mayor Furlong: If not, I'll bring it back to council for discussion. Any discussion?
Councilman Labatt: ! think Mr. Ayotte hit it on the head there. If we would have done
this years ago, when we had the funds for that water treatment earlier, so.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. And ! think, you know as we all know we can't go back and !
don't want this council to be criticizing prior councils in any way. ! guess what ! do like
about the progress that's been made here is this is really a comprehensive model that's
been put together. It's pulled together, not only the policy changes that the council has
talked about in terms of water treatment. It's pulled together the capacity issues we have
in terms of the additional wells we're going to need to put in place. It pulls in our CIP
plan, and working with long term projections as ! do, ! can tell everybody that we're not
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going to do what these numbers say. It's going to be different somehow and that's why I
think we might do better. We might do worst, but it's going to be different so I think
staying on top of it on an annual basis is not anywhere too frequently in my opinion, and
every 3 to 5 years a full re-look at it would be very appropriate so that we can stay on
track and avoid some larger one time increases so.
Councilman Ayotte: May I make a point of clarification? I was not throwing stones at
previous council.
Mayor Furlong: Excuse me if you took it that way because.
Councilman Ayotte: I took it that way.
Mayor Furlong: No.
Councilman Labatt: You were the previous council.
Mayor Furlong: Previous staff, absolutely.
Councilman Ayotte: Now it's Gerhardt all along, we all know that.
Mayor Furlong: That's right. That's right.
Todd Gerhardt: That's what we're here for.
Mayor Furlong: The other thing, is to expand upon something else that Councilman
Ayotte said and referred to is the other thing that's been built in here is the ability to fund
replacement of our sewer and water utilities as we're going through our street
reconstruction projects that are planned out over the next, right now we have a 5 year
plan for those neighborhoods. ! know when we had a public hearing on the street
assessments for the 2004 projects, that was an issue that was raised. Until tonight. Until
tonight, but that's one of the things that we wanted to do as a council. Staff has worked it
in here so ! commend them for doing that and ! think that will make that, when we
reconsider those assessments, that discussion a little bit easier at least so ! think job well
done to all. Any other discussion? Comments? If not, is there a motion?
Councilman Ayotte: So moved.
Mayor Furlong: Is there a second?
Councilman Lundquist: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Motion's been made and seconded. Any discussion on the motion?
Councilman Ayotte moved, Councilman Lundquist seconded that the City Council
adopt amendments to Chapter 4 of the City Code, entitled Fees, increasing sewer
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and water rates and increasing lateral utility connection and trunk utility hookup
charges as proposed by staff. All voted in favor and the motion carried
unanimously with a vote of 5 to O.
i(o).
APPROVE REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT TO REPLAT ONE
40~355 SQ. FT. LOT INTO 3 SINGLE FAMILY LOTS WITH
VARIANCES~ 6700 POWERS BOULEVARD~ BURLWOOD 2Nv
ADDITION~ EPIC DEVELOPMENT.
Kate Aanenson: This is the subject site, Burlwood 2nd Addition. Recently, last year the
City Council approved Burlwood 1st Addition. This property was left off in order to
resolve access to the subject site as it's shown. The Planning Commission did hold a
public hearing on this item on January 6th. They did on a 6 to 1 vote recommend
approval. Staff has put conditions in the report. ! guess I'll take some time to respond to
the comments that were presented to the City Council. Kind of frame up this site a little
bit more. There was a couple of driving issues you recall with the first addition. One is
that the city a number of years ago with the Ravis subdivision envisioned a private street
in that area and had recommended for dedication of the right-of-way. While that's not
improved, listing the vacation or the construction of that and a public street. The other
issue driving this was one of the connection and a possible T intersection of that street,
Shenandoah. One of the questions that was raised was regarding the possibility of a PUD
zone. When Mr. Ragatz, the applicant came in, since I've been Planning Director I've
been very reluctant to use the PUD because it has been mis-used and as this project
evolved, in hind sight it might have been the right application but we were quite a ways
down the road. Typically a subdivision, you're doing in-fill development like this tends
to be much more difficult. The design of the property itself on the two collector streets
and the narrowness of it make it very difficult. Originally when this property we looked
at Mr. Kerber and when it was assessed with extension of, it was anticipated that would
have direct access onto Powers Boulevard, which is certainly not allowed currently by
city ordinance. We don't allow direct access onto a collector street. Because of the
narrowness of these lots, the only way to service that would have been the private drive
which you approved. And then also we looked at the application of further subdivision of
properties surrounding this project, so if you look at where the cul-de-sac sits, excluding
the right-of-way which is typically what happens to a street, to my knowledge and ! did
check with Matt. We haven't done half streets. We've done streets to be extended in the
future but to my knowledge we haven't built a half street. So in order to do this, typically
the developer works to split the cost of a street. Most developers are obligated to provide
that. Full street. Most developers are pretty reluctant to build a street when there's no
payback on the other side. In this situation there was numerous, numerous negotiations
between adjoining property owners to buy additional land. It was a very fluid discussion
on all parties and ! compliment Sharmeen and the applicant, Mr. Ragatz because there
was a lot of hours put into this project. If we did billable on it, it wouldn't pencil out. It
was just, it was very complex negotiations with the property owners. And to their
deference, things moved along and again I'll just give a little bit more history on how we
got to where we are today... Just to be clear, the lots that are shown blue hollow are
possible future subdivisions. Again this is our subject site in the black. Our goal was to
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ride, this was the right-of-way I showed you before, to actually provide this is a cul-de-
sac. When that happens this private drive will go away and only serve this property. Our
goal again was to limit the access points on Powers. So then this street becomes the
public street. T'ing at Shenandoah. Again when this would be subdivided, whether it
have access via a public street, and we do have double fronted lots and that previous slide
! showed you on both sides of Powers where there's out frontage on Powers and then
internal street, public street. Certainly the goal was to either buy additional property
here. There were discussions that fell through and there was a lot of background which
I'm not going to go through all the heavy negotiations and then the fact that the two
property owners here were reluctant, and again that was very fluid discussions. One day
it was in. One day it was out. So ultimately Mr. Ragatz wanted to pursue his subdivision
that he felt he could get, and actually what he did come through with, and ! know this
gets even more complex. It's hard to see, the temporary cul-de-sac. If he had stopped
here and put a temporary cul-de-sac, these two lots could get access. The reason being
why it couldn't be a full cul-de-sac going all the way down is there's 3 homes that come
off of a private easement. A public street cannot encumber a private easement unless
there's approval. They were unwilling to give it so the cul-de-sac would have to stop at
this point. Now we would have a private street, 3 homes accessing Powers off of a
private drive. The Planning Commission said that's unacceptable so now we're back to
the completion of this. When this came before the Planning Commission, this lot was
left. These lots were left off because ! again wasn't sure exactly what was going to
happen. Mr. Ragatz, the applicant when he appeared before the Planning Commission
did discuss the possibility of a variance. ! advised the Planning Commission it wasn't on
the application. Do not discuss it at this point. We'll evaluate if he comes back with that
in the future and thus he did come back with the 3 lots. To do a PUD we'd have to
rezone it. We were 6, 9 months down the road as far as that goes. It does meet the
requirements of a PUD if you average all the lots in his development, it's just over 16,000
square feet so it would have met that criteria so the end would look the exact same if we
were to do that. Again, the driving force that we had was eliminating the access points
on Powers Boulevard and this...to this public street and one we put before the 4 lots
getting access via Lake Lucy. Could it be served with 2? Yes. Two lots can work.
Again, if we were to pick up the road and put it where it was supposed to be, it would
have picked up the exact square footage to make it work. Unfortunately, when we look at
these kind of projects as assessable projects when a lot of these comes in, when there's
property owners that don't work, the City Council evaluates those and decides if that's a
project they want to do an assessment on. We had two unwilling property owners against
one. We advised Mr. Ragatz that the council probably wouldn't approve it when it was 2
to 1. It would be in his best interest, as did the Planning Commission advise him, to work
to his best ability, again which ! give him credit for, to work with the property owners to
see if he could make it work. Well to make it work made putting it all on his property.
And that was never his intent to try to maximize, to undermine something like that. It's
the only way he could make it work and ! guess in evaluating that was the criteria that the
staff used. That we were solving a problem out there that a previous council had set in
motion, but the staff originally proposed, so we'll take some of the blame on that, to try
to solve a problem with a very narrow piece. And there will be further subdivisions onto
this so it does provide a public street for further subdivision, and again we think that's the
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best way to look and resolve that, and it's a very narrow piece of property. Are there
going to be a few more of these? Yes, but again we evaluate each one separately, and
that's how we came up with the rationale for recommendation of approval. ! think that's
where the Planning Commission went too. Any questions on that?
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Probably. Questions for staff.
Councilman Peterson: Kate, is it fair to say that right now, as this is presented, we don't
have any of the neighbors that are against the variance?
Kate Aanenson: The immediate neighbors, no. They worked very hard, very hard but
the immediate neighbors are very pleased with the outcome. ! mean there was, like ! say,
a lot of different iterations and this is what the neighbors all had agreed to.
Councilman Peterson: So the immediate neighbors, does that infer that there are
neighbors in the area that don't like it or?
Kate Aanenson: ! think there's maybe one person that still has concerns but it's down in
this end and didn't want the connection, but as far as the people that are impacted by it,
Mr. Christensen and Martinka and this woman. ! can't remember her name off the top of
my head.
Rich Ragatz: Egyhazi.
Kate Aanenson: There you go.
Councilman Peterson: Okay.
Councilman Labatt: Kate, can you just point to the Martinka house real quick. Okay.
Okay.
Kate Aanenson: And both of these have future subdivision possibilities, so again what
we're doing is providing a way for that to happen too.
Councilman Peterson: Historically Kate, my memory is waning over the years but how
often have we granted lot size variances of this magnitude? ! don't think we do it very
often but have, and ! may be speaking out of turn.
Kate Aanenson: No, again in hindsight, I think as this first approached, when Mr. Ragatz
met with Sharmeen was to do a PUD. We originally had a lot of people that wanted to do
townhouse projects on that and we tried very hard to stay with a traditional subdivision
based on that little piece to the back and trying to make it appear like a regular
neighborhood so we worked really hard with that. Because we did have a lot of requests
to rezone it and we worked hard over the last couple years to steer from that. To say it's
never going to happen. Again, could we have done a PUD? Yeah, but ! think still we
might not have solved the issues to the back side.
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Councilman Peterson: Okay. That's it.
Mayor Furlong: Other questions for staff?. You had mentioned a little bit the half street
option. Could you explain that? That was raised earlier this evening. What it is?
Debbie Lloyd: It's in your code where you have half a street...
Mayor Furlong: Do we know what that is?
Kate Aanenson: To the best of my knowledge we've never built a half street. We've
done a stub street.
Debbie Lloyd: Minnewashta. 3 years ago ! think Minnewashta ! remember something.
...with a time, ! don't know...
Mayor Furlong: At this point, what is a half street?
Councilman Peterson: I've never heard it before either.
Kate Aanenson: I've never done one, ! don't know.
Councilman Peterson: So you must have called it something different than a half street
because that's a new word for me today.
Kate Aanenson: It wouldn't meet standards, I'm not sure.
Mayor Furlong: Is it just half as wide?
Matt Saam: I'm not sure either.
Debbie Lloyd: No one has the code book here?
Todd Gerhardt: Roger's reading it.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Let's move on. The PUD you mentioned. Essentially that could
have been an option. That's an option for the applicant to pursue.
Kate Aanenson: Correct.
Mayor Furlong: So we might have ended up at the same place anyway?
Kate Aanenson: Yeah, and again the applicant looks for the staff to steer him. We were
down the road 6-9 months and you'd have to go back. Re-notice the rezoning request. !
think there might have been some concern with the other property owners adjacent to, but
we could have taken that approach. Again, we were quite a ways down the road on that.
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And we would have ended up with the same. Minimum lot size, you can go as small as
11,000 square feet in a PUD. These lots are in excess of that. 13 something but it would
still average out over the 15,000 square foot minimum in a PUD.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. And the completion of that Golden Glow Court, down to the
existing right-of-way and the properties to the south of there, that was a condition of the
first addition, correct? Do we make that, the completion of that was a condition of the
site plan for the first addition?
Kate Aanenson: Correct. Correct.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. Sure.
Steve Lillehaug: Mr. Mayor, council. Steve Lillehaug with the Planning Commission. If
! could touch on a few points. First off, the Planning Commission did approve these
variances and recommended to the council. What I'd like to indicate that we really didn't
touch on discussing the possibility of a PUD, and what advantage that would have toward
the city. ! don't think a PUD would have had a good impact to the city to actually
warrant a PUD in that area, so I'm not too sure. Maybe staff could indicate why a PUD
would be acceptable here.
Kate Aanenson: Sure. Normally when we look at a PUD, typically we use them if
there's a natural feature, if you look at the intent statement, to do, where we're preserving
natural features. If you recall the original, it's a pretty flat site. There's not a lot of trees.
There's no slope. Typically where we do a PUD is where we're trying to preserve some
of those natural features, and that's why you allow the flexibility in the lot sizes to
accomplish that. ! mean ! guess it didn't occur to us as we got, the original negotiation
was that it was still going to split the property line. It wasn't until the very end that
things finally fell apart and so ! guess, you know there wasn't any really natural features
to save in that area.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Steve Lillehaug: So it might be a stretch to actually be able to apply a PUD in this area.
Mayor Furlong: Fair enough.
Steve Lillehaug: In my mind. Then ! would like to further indicate that again the
Planning Commission did approve this. The majority of them did. ! was the lone
Planning Commissioner that didn't recommend it, and ! would like to indicate why. You
have 3 lots, and I'm reiterating what Debbie indicated. You have 3 lots here. The county
road on the east side is a 50 miles an hour road. The one lot, the northerly lot is
surrounded by a road on 3 sides. You're minimizing that lot size. ! wouldn't want to
own that lot and put a house there, and ! don't think we would really subject future
residents to do that also. That is a small lot with surrounded by 3 roads on one side, so !
would have particular concerns with those lots. Thank you.
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Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Roger Knutson: Mayor, I found the half street provision that was earlier referred to.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you.
Roger Knutson: A provision in the subdivision ordinance that says, generally half streets
are prohibited. But what this says in mine is, if you have a situation where another piece
of property is coming in to develop, if you require dedication of a half street now, if you
know that in the near future the property next door will come in and you can get the other
dedication. But you don't build a half street. That would serve no one so if you need that
road for access now to serve these lots, the half street thing would not work.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other questions for staff?. If not, I'll bring it to council
for discussion. Any discussion on this one?
Councilman Lundquist: My thoughts are, ! know that the applicant and staff have
worked really hard. I'm still hung up on the 2 lots versus 3. ! feel like my personal
opinion is that the 3 lots is more of a financial burden...the applicant, the developer to
bear a financial burden. There's always reasons why the ordinances are there and clearly
it states that the hardship and not being a financial burden so ! still am hesitant to go
ahead for 3. I'd like to, I'd be more comfortable seeing 2 lots there instead of 3, at which
point we wouldn't ! don't believe need the variance either. So those are my comments.
Mayor Furlong: Alright, thank you. Other comments?
Councilman Peterson: Mr. Mayor ! think that ! went from one end of the spectrum 3 or 4
times today, and I'm not quite sure still where I'm at so I'd be more interested to hear
what others are saying in addition to what I'll say now but the primary rationale for me to
make a decision on a variance is whether or not the neighbors in the area are for or
against that. I'm weighing that against you know what's best for the city. And the
people that are affected are the ones that have basically said that they're comfortable with
it. And so now it's a matter of whether or not we should have 2 lots in there or 3, and
boy, it's close to having the 15,000 foot. And if we would have had a PUD, if it would
have been some more interesting geographical stuff in there, we would have had a PUD.
We would have had a real small lots. So it seems like we went far enough down this path
where it seems reasonable to grant them the 3 lots. To Mr. Lillehaug's comment about
the third lot being too small. ! think that's really up for the potential buyer of that lot. If
they want a lot that's potentially cheaper to buy and purchase and build a house on, then
and there aren't any issues outside of the ones mentioned, then ! think he should be
granted that opportunity. So ! think based upon the fact that there are no neighbors
against it, that it's not going to be a noticeable difference between the 15,000 square foot
and the 13 that's currently being asked for, ! think it's reasonable to grant them this
request in this case.
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Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Other comments?
Councilman Labatt: My only comment, ! would agree with Mr. Peterson. I've always
been one to go on the side of the property owner, as long as their request is reasonable.
And here ! see that this is a reasonable request. You're looking at less than 1,400
difference in one lot. 18 on another and another 1,354 on the third lot. I just, ! don't see
that as asking for the Golden Gate here, and no pun on the road. Golden Glow but ! just,
! think it's a reasonable request. Reasonable subdivision and not very often do we find
that the adjoining neighbors are supportive of it, and in the case where they are
supportive of it, and we have a Planning Commission that's voted 6-1 to approve it, !
think that we should approve it also.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Comments Councilman Ayotte.
Councilman Ayotte: I've got nothing to say.
Mayor Furlong: Today is January 26th. Thank you. This.
Councilman Ayotte: On the other hand.
Mayor Furlong: Okay. We've got til 11:00, go ahead. This is a tough one and I think
part of, at the same time fun in terms of being involved in these. We've got on the
surface, if they're too small you can fit 2 in. That seems to be the clean one, and ! guess
that's where ! was initially when this issue came up. You know what I'm trying to figure
out is what's fair, just for all concerned and in what we're doing here and what I'm
hearing is, it's the location of the road. Not the cost of the road but the location of the
road that's causing the challenge. In most developments, in nearly all developments the
developer pays for the road, so it's not the cost of the road that I'm seeing, hearing. It's
the location of that road. By going forward now and by working with the plan that's been
presented to us, we improve safety along Powers Boulevard and we create a long term
solution for improved safety along Powers Boulevard by locating the road there, and !
guess ultimately that's where I'm coming down. ! think if the road were along the
property line we wouldn't be discussing this. It's that location of the road that it's all on
the property so ultimately that's where I'm seeing the public benefit here. I'm very
concerned about setting a precedent and so you know ! think with each of these we have
to look at the specific facts and circumstances. ! fully appreciate the, tell my wife I'll be
home soon. ! fully appreciate the comments made, both at the public hearing, tonight
from Commissioner Lillehaug. You know very valid points and that's what makes it so
difficult because they are very valid points but from my standpoint ! guess I'm trying to
look again as Councilman Labatt and Peterson mentioned, it's working out for the
neighborhood and it's always difficult to get property owners to come together on
anything. Here we've got a good, long term solution and so ! think ! can bend a little bit
here because of the public safety and long term solution as well to try to get this done, so
! can feel comfortable doing it for those reasons. Other comments or discussion on this?
If there's no further discussion from the council, is there a motion?
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Councilman Labatt: ! recommend we approve Subdivision #03-12 for Burlwood 2nd
Addition for 3 lots with lot area variances as shown on plans dated October 17, 2003,
subject to the following conditions, 1 through 23 in the staff report. And Roger, do we
have to mention the Findings of Fact?
Roger Knutson: Yes, that'd be included. ! believe adoption of the Findings of Fact.
Councilman Labatt: Adoption of the Findings of Fact in the staff report 1 through 6.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second?
Councilman Peterson: Second.
Mayor Furlong: It's been made and seconded. Is there any discussion?
Councilman Labatt moved, Councilman Peterson seconded that the City Council
approve Subdivision #03-12 for Burlwood 2na Addition for 3 lots with lot area
variances as shown on plans dated October 17, 2003, based upon adoption of the
Findings of Facts in the staff report, and subject to the following conditions:
1. Applicant shall revise the landscape plan to show a minimum of 43 trees to be
planted.
2. A minimum of two deciduous, overstory trees shall be required in the front yard
of each lot.
3. No more than one-third of the required trees may be from any one species.
4. Tree preservation fence shall be installed at the edge of the grading limits around
all trees proposed to be preserved prior to any grading.
5. All transplanted evergreens must have a warranty for two growing seasons.
6. A revised landscape plan must be submitted to the city before final approval.
7. Any trees proposed for preservation that are lost due to grading and construction
activities will be replaced at a rate of2:1 diameter inches.
8. Applicant shall plant a minimum of 16 overstory, 24 understory, and 40 shrubs
along Powers Boulevard and 4 overstory, 6 understory and 11 shrubs along Lake
Lucy Road.
9. Fire Marshal conditions:
a. One fire hydrant will be required. Contact Chanhassen Fire Marshal and
City Engineer for exact location of required fire hydrant.
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10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
The new proposed street will be required to have a street name. Submit
proposed name to Chanhassen Building Official and Fire Marshal for
review and approval.
A 10 foot clear space must be maintained around fire hydrants, i.e. street
lamps, trees, shrubs, bushes, Qwest, Xcel Energy, cable TV and
transformer boxes. This is to ensure that fire hydrants can be quickly
located and operated by firefighters (pursuant to Chanhassen City
Ordinance #9-1).
No burning permits will be issued for tree/shrub disposal. Any trees
removed must be removed or chipped on site.
Show City Detail Plat Nos. 5300 and 5301.
On the grading plan:
Add a 75 foot minimum rock construct entrance.
Revise the grading between Lot 1 and Lot 2 to avoid draining stormwater
toward the Lot 1 house pad.
Extend the silt fence around the proposed berm along the east side of Lot 1
and Lot 2.
Add a benchmark to the plan.
Show all existing and proposed easements.
Show the proposed contours for the berm along Powers Boulevard.
All disturbed areas shall be resodded or reseeded within two weeks of grading
completion.
If fill is imported or exported, the applicant will need to supply the city with a
haul route plan for approval.
The property is subject to sanitary sewer and water hookup charges. The 2003
trunk utility hookup charges are $1,440 per unit for sanitary sewer and $1,876 per
unit for water. The 2003 SAC charge is $1,275 per unit. These fees will increase
in 2004 and will be collected prior to building permit issuance and are based on
the numbers of SAC units for the new building addition.
Relocate the existing storm sewer on the property to within a 20 foot easement
along the shared property line between Lot 1 and Lot 2.
Show all existing and proposed easements on the preliminary plat.
Installation of the private utilities for the site will require permits and inspections
through the City' s Building Department.
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18.
Permits from the appropriate regulatory agencies must be obtained, including but
not limited to the MPCA, Department of Health, Watershed District, Carver
County, etc.
19.
Prior to final platting, site drainage map and calculations will need to be
submitted for staff review. The site drainage has to be designed for a 10 year, 24
hour storm event.
20. Building Official conditions:
Final grading plans and soil reports must be submitted to the Inspections
Division before building permits will be issued.
Each lot must be provided with a separate sewer and water service.
Demolition permits must be obtained before demolishing any structures.
21.
The applicant will be required to remove the single family home and the detached
two car garage prior to recording the final plat.
22.
The applicant shall pay park fees in lieu of land dedication or trail construction on
two lots based on the fees in effect at the time of final plat approval.
23.
Final plat approval of Burlwood 2nd Addition shall be contingent upon the
recording of Burlwood Addition.
All voted in favor, except Councilman Lundquist who opposed, and the motion
carried with a vote of 4 to 1.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS: None.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS:
Todd Gerhardt: Just a reminder, strategic planning session next Monday, 5:30 in the
courtyard conference room.
Mayor Furlong: Monday or Tuesday?
Todd Gerhardt: Tuesday, sorry.
Mayor Furlong: And what time does that start?
Todd Gerhardt: 5:30.
Mayor Furlong: 5:30.
Todd Gerhardt: So you'll get a packet this week, probably Thursday or Friday.
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Mayor Furlong: Alright, very good.
Councilman Peterson: Quickly, where are we at, ! noticed that we have a larger number
of commission openings than ! thought we had. We had some on every commission. Did
you have some resignations?
Kate Aanenson: Yep.
Todd Gerhardt:
Kate Aanenson:
Todd Gerhardt:
Mayor Furlong:
Kate Aanenson:
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Todd Gerhardt:
terms are up.
Yes. Kate, how many resignations on the Planning Commission?
There's three vacancies.
Three vacancies.
Three seats up or three vacancies?
Three vacancies. One person has reapplied. I'm not sure on the other...
And the other ones ! believe are on the senior commission. It's just their
Kate Aanenson: ! think also 2 to 3 in there. And same with Environmental.
staggered them all so there's usually 2 or 3 every year.
Justin Miller: And one for Southwest Transit Commission as well.
We've
Mayor Furlong: And we have one opening ! think on Park and Rec and two other
commissioners, correct? But Councilman Peterson, you raise a good point and here's an
opportunity for residents, if they're interested in getting involved and being part of the
process, to apply for a position on the commissions. The deadline for those ! believe is
Friday the 13th of February.
Todd Gerhardt: Correct.
Mayor Furlong: Regardless of that you may still be lucky with your application. If you
get it in on the last day, so we would encourage anybody, and they can call City Hall if
they have questions.
Todd Gerhardt: Call City Hall. Access our web site. Application you can download
there.
Mayor Furlong: Very good. Thank you. Any other items for administrative
presentations?
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Todd Gerhardt: Just like to introduce Paul Oehme, our new City Engineer/Public Works
Director. Paul comes from the City of Burnsville. Their Assistant City Engineer there
for approximately 4 years and has spent some time working in the private sector. A
couple of consulting engineering firms. Paul started last Tuesday and glad to have him
on staff.
Mayor Furlong: Thanks, welcome.
Paul Oehme: Thank you Mayor and City Council members. It's a pleasure and honor to
be here tonight. Just want to take a minute and thank staff for giving me this opportunity
to serve as the Public Works Director and City Engineer for the City of Chanhassen. ! do
look forward to working with you, the elected officials and the community here in
addressing the infrastructure needs of your city. And again ! look forward to my service
here with the city.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you and welcome. Any other issues?
CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION.
Mayor Furlong: Discussion of the correspondence packet. Any questions? Discussion?
Councilman Labatt: Yeah just, Kate as long as you're here. ! was just curious with all
the reports from Carver Soil and Water.
Kate Aanenson: Yeah. Actually that came up as a planning discussion item. As we
were moving through the code, one of the things we talked about is monitoring, how we
monitor erosion and actually Lori's worked with the Soil Conservation District, brought
another set of eyes and those are billed back to the project so the city's not paying that.
But the Planning Commission just kind of wanted to see exactly what the level of service
was so we actually just put those reports in for their edification to see kind of what sort of
work, and it's been very successful. We've had good results with that.
Councilman Labatt: One of my pet peeves is the long duration of silt fences that don't
get removed.
Kate Aanenson: Yes, actually someone on the Planning Commission brought that up too
and if there are some that you are aware of, that if you want to just e-mail those to me,
we'll follow up on those.
Councilman Labatt: ! realize it's a little hard to get them out when the ground's frozen
but.
Kate Aanenson: No, but you know it's good to know if somebody sees them now.
Sometimes when the grass is up, we don't always see them but if somebody sees them,
then we'll put them on the.
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Todd Gerhardt: Get them on the check list.
Kate Aanenson: Put them on the checklist so, that'd be great.
Councilman Labatt: Good, thanks. That's it.
Mayor Furlong: Good, thank you. Any other questions or discussion for correspondence?
If not, if there's nothing else to come before the council this evening, we will be meeting
as a EDA immediately after our meeting, but if there's nothing else to come before us, is
there a motion to adjourn?
Councilman Peterson moved, Councilman Lundquist seconded to adjourn the
meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried. The City Council was
adjourned at 8:55 p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt
City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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