1n. Minutes CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
II SPECIAL MEETING
OCTOBER 2, 1989
I Mayor Chmiel called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m. . The meeting was opened
with the Pledge to the Flag.
I COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Chmiel, Councilman Boyt, Councilman Workman,
Councilwoman Dimler and Councilman Johnson
II STAFF PRESENT: Don Ashworth, Paul Krauss, Dave Hempel, Todd Gerhardt and Jim
Chaffee
I LAND SALE AGREEMENT, SOUTHWEST CORNER OF HIGHWAY 41 AND WEST 82ND STREET, GLEN
PAULS.
I Mayor Chmiel: We were to have some additional discussions this past week. Have
those taken place?
IICouncilwoman Dimler: Yes.
Mayor Chmiel: Who'd like to update me?
IDon Ashworth: Tom or Todd or Ursula?
Councilwoman Dimler: I guess I can. I'm surprised. I guess I don't know, ths
II was just handed to me. I don't know what the new proposal is that we met was, I
believe it was Wednesday or was it Thursday in Chaska. Chaska City Hall with
Jake Pokorney and at that point Mr. Glen Pauls was there and he indicated to
Todd, myself and Tom that the offer had been withdrawn.
IMayor Chmiel: The offer has been withdrawn?
1 Councilwoman Dimler : At that point it was, yes. So whatever is here before us
this evening is new information to us.
t Councilman Workman: The offer had been withdrawn on Monday night he stated at
the Council meeting.
Don Ashworth: He came in late today. Handed me what I gave you. The purchase
I agreement and said, the Council asked that we submit this as a final offer.
So I don't know what that means. That's all he had said to me.
II Councilwoman Dimler: After our last meeting it was my understanding that the
offer was withdrawn and there was nothing coming forth and we did not ask for
another offer that I recall.
Councilman Boyt: Can't we clear this up? Mr. Pauls is standing right here.
Glen Pauls: Glen Pauls, Nordic Track. I guess they asked me at Chaska to put
II one more offer. I don't know, I forget if we talked about that when you were
there or after you guys left but they wanted me to basically try to get. I
guess Chaska wants it resolved. They would like it resolved I should say and
II they wanted us to put in one offer being that we are interested. Obviously
we're interested in getting the land but we just weren't interested at that
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price so just to get something done tonight we thought we'd put in one more
offer just to see where it goes.
' Councilman Boyt: What is the offer?
Glen Pauls: I think you have copies.
' Councilman Boyt: Maybe you could explain it.
Glen Pauls: It's $60,000.00 offer I guess.
Councilman Boyt: Why the difference?
Glen Pauls: Fran the $100,000.00?
Councilman Boyt: Yes.
Glen Pauls: Like I explained to the 3 that were, I guess you weren't there, at
the meeting. We went over it. We decided the $100,000.00 was way more than we
really wanted to pay. I guess I should clarify, the way the $100,000.00 worked
' out was we never actually offered the full $100,000.00. Chaska was offering
$15,000.00. We were offering $85,000.00 and they were offering $15,000.00 to
make it up so the highest we ever went personally, NordicTrack ever went was
' $85,000.00. Where we're at now is we thought that was way too much. We decided
not to. I should say we decided to withdraw the offer last Friday. We had to
give you a chance obviously to take it because we had offered it but after that
we just decided it wasn't worth that. We are willing to go the $60,000.00 just
because of the convenience of the whole operation. It would be kind of a mess
in front of there but we've had sane discussions about roads and the whole thing
but basically this is just kind of a last attempt type deal. Chaska really
' wanted us to try and resolve it.
Councilman Boyt: How much of this $65,000.00 or whatever is money from Chaska?
' Glen Pauls: The $60,000.00 offer is money, that's completely from us now.
That's just what we would offer. I don't know, did Don Ashworth call you Todd
today?
Todd Gerhardt: I talked to Dave Pokorney today and there still would be an
additional $15,000.00 added to the $60,000.00 offer. If I could clarify what
the $15,000.00 would be for would be for roadway easements for the upgrading of
82nd Street is what Chaska's interest in this property would be.
Councilman Boyt: Before on Monday it seemed to me that you mentioned or a week
ago, that this was going to be in a tax increment district? Is that correct?
Todd Gerhardt: It's in an economic development district in the Chaska city
boundaries.
Councilman Boyt: How is that different?
Todd Gerhardt: Economic development? It is a tax increment district.
Councilman Johnson: This acreage isn't?
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Todd Gerhardt: Not ours, no.
Glen Pauls: The piece behind it was. '
Councilman Johnson: The acreage behind is?
Councilman Boyt: So if I understand it correctly, then of course our piece
can't be in their tax increment district but because it's not in the tax
increment district, then it's really a different kind of financial commitment
than the development you're making on your own property. Is that right? If
your current property is in a tax increment district, then the money you are
spending to improve that is, I assume you have a Housing and Redevelopment
Authority that's really handling that expenditure. Isn't that correct?
Todd Gerhardt: The roadway improvements, the monies to pay for those roadway
improvements would be assessed back against the benefitting properties but those
dollars can't be expended outside the district so somehow they would have to put
a boundary outside that roadway so they could spend those monies on that
roadway.boundary haven't seen their maps to show where their district boundaries are
Bill so I can't...
Councilman Boyt: Well wasn't there discussion a week ago that basically Chaska
would be looking to annex this piece of property once the City had sold it?
Todd Gerhardt: That is a possibility.
Councilman Boyt: It would create a bit of a difficulty to have part of a
building in Chaska and another part of the building in Chanhassen wouldn't it?
Or maybe not. '
Glen Pauls: The parking lot is the only thing that would be affected by this.
It's just a corner of the parking lot that it affects. The only problem would
be for us is we would have to pay taxes to two different cities.
Todd Gerhardt: This would have it's own Parcel Identification Number.
Glen Pauls: I guess from what I heard from Chaska, they didn't really mind that
much if you left it in Chanhassen. It didn't really bother than either way. Is
that what you got out of it? I guess they never said definitely. '
Todd Gerhardt: Bill brings up a good concern is that can an economic
development district boundary encompass another municipality go into another
municipality?
Don Ashworth: I think that Chaska would look to trying to annex the property.
One of the things I did on this, cost benefit sheet in the back.
Councilman Johnson: Oh that's yours?
Don Ashworth: That's mine. The Mayor shared this document with me that they
use at NSP. But I'm gone through some of the property tax implications and I've
made the assumption in here that the parcel would go over to Chaska. In either
case, whether it stayed in Chanhassen or Chaska, the yearly taxes would be ,
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$288.00 and that was from the Assessor's Office. The benefits, whether Chaska
or Chanhassen, to the County would be an additional $90.00 per year. From the
' school, $264.00 so we'd see net property tax savings for Chanhassen people of
$354.00 but I think the biggest costs are the costs associated with maintaining
82nd Street. If that roadway or if the parcel is in Chaska, Chaska would become
responsible for maintenance of that entire roadway. I'm estimating right now
' that our cost to maintain that half mile is $3,500.00 per year. So all of the
items you see on that right hand side or under annual benefits are all reduced
costs or gain to the City of Chanhassen through this potential transaction.
' Councilman Boyt: What does a 3 to 4 something or other?
' Don Ashworth: That represents reduced costs. What I'm saying there is right
now that facility is used for off season storage and according to Mike and
Jerry, we would send 3 to 4 men for 3 days, twice a year, and during that time
frame we have 9 trucks so they take sanders off and stored. Plows off and
' stored. 5 pick-ups. Plows off, stored. Grader V-plow removed and stored.
That work takes about 3 to 4 days. We do that twice a year.
Councilman Johnson: You still do that in a different place.
Don Ashworth: That's correct but this calculation only takes into account the
additional hour that's taking place out there.
' Councilman Johnson: The additional hour to drive out there?
Don Ashworth: The additional time required to go out there.
Mayor Chmiel: Drive there and drive back?
Don Ashworth: Right.
Councilman Boyt: If we take 4 people and we send them down there for 6 days, it
costs us $3,000.00?
Councilman Johnson: For 24 man hours?
Don Ashworth: Twice a year.
' Councilman Johnson: 3 days and you're saying it's only 1 hour extra per man.
Mayor Chmiel: 3 or 4 men. What do they make per hour?
Don Ashworth: Okay.
Councilman Johnson: I would like a job. If for 24 man hours you spend
' $3,000.00, I'd put my application in. That's a little over $6,000.00 a week.
Councilwoman Dialer: Don, I'll do it.
' Mayor Chmiel: I think what you did was take the, taking them off the equipment
and putting than back on which probably should not have been in there.
Don Ashworth: But this was from.
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Mayor Chmiel: Whether they would be there or would have it done at public
works.
Councilman Johnson: If it's 24 man days.
Don Ashworth: Actually what I did was I multiplied 4 x 3 x 2 x 16 which would '
be roughly $12.00 to $14.00 per hour and with overhead, you would have an
average of $16.00 per hour. But you're right. That's the total cost regardless
of where you do it. '
Councilman Johnson: I think you want 8 in there also for 8 hours?
Don Ashworth: Oh, you've got an 8 in there for 8 hours a day. So you take 4 x
3 x 2 x 8 x 16.
Councilman Johnson: That works out to about $384.00. Instead of $3,000.00 it's
$384.00.
Councilman Workman: I don't know if that's the issue here.
Councilman Johnson: When we got to the bottom, $9,000.00 isn't that much of
a
savings. Still trying to figure it out huh?
Councilman Boyt: Well the advantage of that is if your costs of the move are
$8,500.00-$8,600.00 and your benefits are $9,000.00, well then that would tell
you to make the move. But in fact our benefits are not $9,000.00 apparently so
maybe out costs do exceed the benfits. Although same of the benefits might be a
little hard to measure. It might be an interesting discussion as to how we
got...
Councilman Johnson: What's this $2,000.00 down here? Regular maintenance.
Maintenance on the building?
Don Ashworth: No. Regular maintenance involves, Mike tells me we have a light
boom truck out there we use to replace the lights. Anytime you have like one of
the signals is out. He estimates that that's 5 times per month. This one here
really should be just the 1 additional hour instead of going from the
maintenance building to have to go out to TH 41 and TH 5 so let's try that. 5 x
10 is 50 x 40 is $2,000.00. That number is correct. I still think that other
one is higher. I'm still trying to figure out how to do it because you can't
take 3 to 4 men, if they're on the same site and doing that work it's a lot
different than 3 to 4 men for 3 days where they have to take and go out to a
remote site to do that same work. I will admit that there is something wrong
with my calculations.
Councilman Johnson: You see one thing you could do at this garage is have
somebody else be doing. You could drop the truck off so people could go
someplace else. All the mechanic, in his spare time does it or something.
Mayor Chmiel: 96 hours and 96 hours would make that 192 hours is what you're '
saying per year.
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11 Don Ashworth: On that one there? Like I said, I got that from Mike and as
we're going through it, I will admit that that should represent the full cost
but on the other side, it should be higher because you are doing it at one site
so maybe's it, instead of having the 8 hour days, maybe they should be you know,
1 or 2 instead of multiplying them by 8.
11 Mayor Chmiel: You come out pretty close. $3,072.00 is what you cane up with.
Don Ashworth: Yeah, I think it is and this is at the reduced number of hours.
Councilman Boyt: What we're back to is, so you are saying that it costs
$3,000.00 to go out and take the plows off and put the plows back on those
' trucks? That's $3,000.00 above and beyond what it would cost us to do it if
they were in one central location.
Don Ashworth: That still seems high but the Mayor just verified it.
Mayor Chmiel: I just came up with the same total number that he has here.
Councilman Johnson: But did you say 3 men 8 hours a day?
Mayor Chmiel: 3 men 8 hours a day.
Councilwoman Dimler: Each one of us probably has an opinion on whether that
number is ridiculous or right.
' Councilman Boyt: It's kind of important. If the benefits outweight the costs,
this deal looks attractive in spite of the lower offer. If the benefits don't
outweigh the costs...
Councilman Johnson: The costs go up with the lower offer though.
Councilwoman Dimler: It takes 4 men to go out there and clean that road?
ICouncilman Boyt: This is a cost of $130,000.00 over 15 years. That's an
$8,600.00 cost.
Don Ashworth: Another factor there is I've used 15 years. You put a cinder
building up like that, it's going to last longer. At a minimum you'd have a
mortgage for 30 years.
Councilman Boyt: Can you produce at sane point the information to substantiate
that this is still in the City's best financial interest to accept the existing
offer that's, what is it, $25,000.00 less than the first offer? Are you saying
that economically it's in the City's best interest to accept this offer?
' Don Ashworth: I'm not sure as to the motivation in the withdrawal of the offer.
I think that we as a group should, if we're going to consider this, that
potentially myself, the Mayor be authorized to at least get the offer that was
on the table from before back.
IICouncilman Boyt: How are you going to do that? I mean I don't expect you to
reveal all your negotiating strategy if you have one but I mean the gentleman
IIwas here. He said very clearly this is my offer a week ago. He's now cane back
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and said, now this is m_v offer and it doesn't look the same to me. You can have 1
my vote if you can get it at $100,000.00. As I said a week ago, this is a deal
we ought to make. At $75,000.00 I'm not so sure that that still holds true.
Councilwoman Dimler: Do you want sane discussion on it?
Mayor Chmiel: Yes, I'd like to open it up for discussion. One of the things I
keep coming back to is looking at these cost benefits comparisons to what we're
costing per square foot. Talking with different contractors, we're looking at
about a 5,000 square foot building at $23.00 per square foot and that would
provide us with a cinder block building, openers on the door, insulation in that
building, foundations with grid on slab.
Councilman Johnson: Floor drainage. I
Mayor Chmiel: And floor drainage and a few lights. Cost on that would just be
alone anywhere from $115,000.00 on up. If you take 5,000 square feet times
$23.00 you'll come up with $115,000.00.
Councilwoman Dimler: I have a few comments too.
Mayor Qiniel: Not yet. Just a second. What I see it is this is still going to
cost the City extra dollars. It's going to cost the entirety of the city some
more money. My concerns are, what we have there presently is servicing us I
properly. It would be nice to consolidate to bring it back down to the public
works area but I don't think we should have to have the City's people pay for
those additional costs. It's just my feelings as I look at it right now. 1
Councilwoman Dimler: I guess I would like to add to that, on this agreement
here that's dated 10-2-89 that the buyer wants to have the sale from the Council
by 10-6-89 and the equipment has to be, around the building must be removed by
10-10-89. I just think that's really too soon. We don't have anywhere to go
with it and again the additional costs in getting a facility. Also, the buyer
had indicated at an earlier meeting that if there's any soil contamination, that
Chanhassen would be responsible to clean it up and I'd just hate to see us spend
the whole $60,000.00 on cleaning it up possibly.
Councilman Johnson: Of course if there is any, we're responsible to clean it up
anyway.
Councilwoman Dimler: That's true but then you've got to, you don't want to 1
spend the whole $60,000.00.
Councilman Johnson: Don? Do we have an underground tank or anything at that
place? Fuel?
Don Ashworth: It was removed several years ago.
Councilman Johnson: Was it underground or above ground?
Don Ashworth: I know we had an above ground but did we also have an
underground?
Mayor Qvtiel: Was that one diked with the above ground at the time?
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Todd Gerhardt: I think that was before. I know there was an underground that
was taken out or is still existing. I just know there was one out there.
' Councilman Johnson: One or the other.
Don Ashworth: I'm sure that it was removed. The overhead was the gasoline and
the underground I think was for heating. Like kerosene fuel oil.
Todd Gerhardt: I'd like to, if I could, make one comment that Mr. Pokorney had
' also informed me that Mr. Pauls is intending to access onto West 82nd Street.
Their facility with an estimated 100 employees and that would stay a gravel base
as the existing West 82nd is right now. If they were to came in and make the
improvetients on that road, M$Dot would require that the buildings be taken out
of there.
Councilman Johnson: Just for right-of-way access?
Todd Gerhardt: Easements, right-of-way and just the amount of grading and
cutting in that area makes that site almost unaccessible.
Councilman Workman: They can't really improve that road unless we decide. Do
we own both sides of that road?
Don Ashworth: Yes. We own both sides of that section. That's why are
maintenance costs are higher.
' Glen Pauls: Could I add something here?
Mayor Chmiel: Yes.
' Glen Pauls: With that fuel contamination, Dave Pokorney was saying that it's
possible from what experience he's had that if we cut out the 14 feet we have to
cut there, if we get the lot, that we could possibly take care of all that on
' site without having to have any additional expenses so you might be able to
avoid hauling away contaminated ground. I guess what they do with this ground,
from what he was saying, is just spread it on the surface. We're doing enough
' dirt work there that we could do that right on site.
Councilwoman Dimler: Well that sounds real good but we'd have to have assurance
of that.
Glen Pauls: Yeah, possibly.
Councilman Johnson: Is there any reason to believe there's contamination at
that site?
' Don Ashworth: In fact, I would say just the opposite. If there would have been
anything when they dug up the tanks and what not, we would have had it reported
at that point in time.
' Councilman Johnson: You don't just spread it out and put grass seed on it.
You've got to go in and plow it a couple times a year for a while until all the
fuels go out of it. It's not like you just...
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Glen Pauls: It's got to be turned? 1
Councilman Johnson: Yeah, it's got to be turned a couple times. You don't just
lay it out.
Councilwoman Dimler: See and I think they want to have their parking lot there.
Councilman Johnson: They could put it in the back. '
Glen Pauls: We could put it in the back part. It would have to be looked into.
Councilman Boyt: As I understand it, the building we have there is 30 years '
old? At least. I thought I read 30 years somewhere.
Don Ashworth: 30 years is the number I used for amortizing the new building.
I'm sure those buildings were there at the time the merger, township and city.
Councilman Boyt: I guess the better question is, what's the life expectancy of
those buildings for what we're using than for? When are we going to have to
start putting sane money in maintaining those buildings? Seriously.
Don Ashworth: That should have been one of the numbers that should have gone in
this form. Unfortunately I was unable to get. I passed along to Mike and he
was going to try to get it from Jerry and Jerry didn't get back. I'm sure that
each year we have a certain amount of vandalism that occurs out on that site
just because people think there's something in there and it's not well secured.
On the other side, I'm sure in repairing that vandalism, we put very little
money into it. Go back out, they put a lock back on and hinges and a door and
that type of thing.
Councilman Boyt: In our other public works building, is there roan there to
build a 5,000 square foot expansion? 1
Don Ashworth: Yes.
Councilman Boyt: So we don't have to buy land? What we have to do is provide a
building.
Mayor Chmiel: And we already discussed that last time. '
Councilman Boyt: Yeah. I guess I'm just getting clear on these. Has anybody
investigated whether or not Chaska would store our equipment for us? '
Councilman Workman: Yes.
Councilman Boyt: What was their answer? '
Councilman Workman: Possibly down in Chaska.
Councilman Boyt: So they could very easily, I mean it's possible that they
would agree to store that equipment for us?
Todd Gerhardt: FOr temporary. i
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Councilman Boyt: Right. Until we get our building built.
Mayor Chmiel: Open storage?
Todd Gerhardt: Closed.
' Councilman Boyt: There seems to be some possibility that maybe the offer could
be expanded. I'd eventually like to see a motion that this be approved
contingent upon whoever the negotiating party is representing the City reaching
' a better financial agreement with Mr. Pauls and the City of Chaska. However
they can work that out between them.
' Don Ashworth: Ideally from a City standapoint, since they're going to be doing
major grading associated with TH 41 and 82nd Street, to have the site graded
which means buildings removed at that point in time and the grading done by the
City in 1990 allowing us to keep materials on the site through the end of this
' year and into 1990 would be the best alternative. As I understand it, that was
not a very warmly received suggestion. Correct?
Glen Pawls: We wanted to have the lot graded by, well they are grading now...
The idea was to get it graded in the fall so we could get a good compaction...
because we've got bad floors in our building right now. We just don't want to
' get into that again. It's not worth it.
Don Ashworth: But I mean this would be a parking area right?
Glen Pauls: That part there yeah. The trouble is, we're...so what's caning off
of there is planning to fill other areas. We have to decide now what the
grade's going to be. Do we let it go? We have to leave it a little bit lower
' if we don't your lot, you know grade around it. We'd have to go maybe another 6
inches the entire lot higher. We have to kind of come up with a final grade.
Either that or leave a big pit somewhere. Then if we don't ever get your lot,
we're stuck with a big pit. So that's why we have to decide now. They were
supposed to be grading last week. I don't know they had some problems.
Councilman Johnson: They're doing something out there. I drove by this
II evening.
Mayor Chmiel: Any other discussion?
ICouncilman Workman: I don't know. I'm a little nervous about this. We met
last week for really no reason. Only to find out that, I don't know. I suspect
that from the meeting we had last week that even if we had approved what we
II approved last week, we probably wouldn't have had $100,000.00 either. This
purchase agreement here says something about $60,000.00. It doesn't say
anything about Chaska's $15,000.00. If I was nervous about selling it at
$100,000.00, I sure an now at $60,000.00. I think I was looking at some of
these costs of driving out there. Those are some hidden costs that I don't know
that we're going to be able to recognize too well. I don't know. Mr. Pauls
' stated at his meeting that he wouldn't mind this thing sitting in front of his 4
million dollar project and I think it's going to be pretty close to the front
door of it and he didn't mind if his couple hundred employees were using a
gravel road and then proceeded to reduce his offer by $25,000.00. I don't know.
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I think we're going to have a building that's going to be expensive no matter
which way you look at it and we're going to have to came up with an awful lot of 11 money to put one up. I know in these frugal times what the people of Chanhassen
are telling me. Possibly increased taxes with school referendums, etc. and
everything else holding the line and everything else, I do not feel comfortable.
Mayor Chmiel: Jay?
Councilman Johnson: Can I just say ditto? ,
Councilman Boyt: So what you're saying is, if the offer was at $100,000.00, if
it was back to that, that for $15,000.00 you wouldn't want to build a brand new
public works building next to our existing one? '
Councilman Workman: If it was back at $100,000.00?
Councilman Boyt: I would propose that we make a motion that we accept this '
offer if it can be negotiated at that rate.
Councilwoman Dimler: Then he'd have to came with another offer and I think he'd
have to initiate that.
Councilman Boyt: Let me just make the motion that we would accept it if he or
he and Chaska cane up with that offer?
Councilman Johnson: In other words, you're counter-offering? '
Councilwoman Dimler: We would look at it.
Councilman Johnson: So you're saying we would accept a counter-offer? i
Councilwoman Dimler: But we've already been through that Bill.
Mayor Chmiel: The counter-offer of $100,000.00 is what he's basically saying.
Councilwoman D mler: We've already been through that. '
Mayor Chmiel: Okay, but if that motion were to go through, the decision would
not have to be made at this particular time either. A counter-offer...
Councilwoman Dimler: But to make it real clear, we must reject the one that
be's giving us.
Mayor Chmiel: Well that's true. I agree. '
Councilwoman Dimler: And then encourage him to put another offer on the table
at $100,000.00.
Councilman Boyt: Everybody's fighting, well Mr. Pauls anyway and our deal, are
fighting time. ,
Mayor Chmiel: We realize that Bill.
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Councilman Boyt: I think if you like an offer of $100,000.00 total, then it
would sure saije everybody a lot of time if we went ahead and accepted that offer
contingent upon the storage of the equipment until we can get our building built
but the basic dollar thing is really a chance to turn that piece of property
into an opportunity for the City to come up with a better situation overall.
But to miss that opportunity.
' Councilman Johnson: Basically what you're saying is to reject the $60,000.00
offer, authorize Don to accept an offer at the rate of $100,000.00?
' Councilman Boyt: That's right.
Don Ashworth: If that were to be considered, I would suggest a couple of adds
to that. Those would be, that it would also be contingent on us negotiating
with Chaska temporary storage at no cost to the City for 1989 or late 1990.
Additionally, if there would bean eventual annexation, that the property could
not be in a tax increment district therefore assuring the taxes off of the site
would go to the County and school.
Councilman Johnson: Could they improve the road without that being in a tax
' increment district?
Don Ashworth: Yes.
Councilman Boyt: But Don, if we're talking, I don't know exactly how the
assessment on this property would work but if it's a parking lot, it's not going
' to be assessed at that tremendous amount of money.
Don Ashworth: $30,000.00.
' Councilman Boyt: If it would allow the City of Chaska to increase their off or
their ability to underwrite this to same extent, it seams like to me that it
would be money well spent so I would like to not put other conditions on them if
' we can avoid it other than the one, we certainly have to have someplace inside
to store our trucks and plows and such.
Mayor Chmiel: What we should do then is look for a motion to reject the
II $60,000.00.
Councilman Workman: So moved.
ICouncilwoman Dialer: Second.
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Mayor Chmiel: It's been moved and seconded to reject the $60,000.00 offer for
purchase agreement from Nordic Track Incorporation to the City of Chanhassen.
Then if we could put it back on the table to make a recommendation or...
ICouncilwoman Dialer: Can we vote on that first and then make a recommendation?
Mayor Chmiel: Yes but before we get into that, I just want to make sure we have
' it all covered. Zb then request the initial $100,000.00 offer for that
property. Okay, does everyone understand that?
Councilwoman Dialer: With the understanding that we can find some more...
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Mayor Chniel: Yes, we have to get final approval on this and we have a motion
and a second now.
Councilman Boyt: So really we're doing this in two pa rts. The second part is
going to be accepting $100,000.00 offer with?
Mayor CYrtiel: Correct.
Councilman Workman moved, Councilwoman Dimler seconded to reject the offer of '
$60,000.00 fran Nordic Track for the property located at the southwest corner of
TH 41 and 82nd Street. All voted in favor and the motion carried.
Councilman Johnson: I move that we authorize Don to negotiate and accept on the
behalf of the Council an offer of $100,000.00 for the timing purpose of this
rather than wait a week.
Councilman Boyt: And storage. ,
Councilman Johnson: And the condition that Chaska, at no cost to the City of
Chanhassen, provide storage until our building is completed in 1990. What
other? '
Don Ashworth: That's it.
Mayor ( iniel: Without any additional contingencies? ,
Councilman Johnson: Yeah.
Councilman Workman: Second.
Councilman Johnson moved, Councilman Workman seconded to authorize the City
Manager to accept an offer of $100,000.00 for the property located in the
southwest corner of TH 41 and 82nd Street contingent on the City of Chaska, at
no cost to the City of Chanhassen, provide storage until the new public works
building is completed in 1990. All voted in favor and the motion carried.
AUTHORIZE EXTENSION OF AMENDED CURBSIDE RECYCLING CONTRACT.
Paul Krauss: On August 14th the Council approved an increase in the household
charge for the recycling contract. Approval was granted through October with a
30 day cancellation period incorporated. We're recamnending that the City
Council act either to extend or cancel the contract as soon as possible so we
can attempt to arrange for service until the end of the year if you so wish. We
are reccinending that the Council extend the contract until the end of December.
The Recycling Commission is preparing a draft requesting proposals on the
contract that's going to be sent out in the very near future that gives sane
options for the caning year. With that again we are recommending that the
contract be extended to the end of the year.
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Mawr Chmiel: Through December? More specifically, what the legislation that
has just been passed.
Don Ashworth: I don't know if it's signed yet.
' Mayor Chmiel: Well it's there. All recycling is to be done and that will be
mandatory.
' Councilman Boyt: What part of it's mandatory?
Mayor Chmiel: The recycling.
' Councilman Johnson: Curbside collection.
Mayor Chmiel: Curbside recycling.
Councilman Johnson: In what 1992 for this city, it will be mandatory?
Mayor Chmiel: No, 1991.
Councilman Boyt: That's controlled by the County or the City?
Mayor Chmiel: That is controlled by the State mandating those requirements to
the County for the County to deal with them or to make sure that the cities do
that.
' Councilman Johnson: Any town in excess of 5,000 people in the metropolitan area
has to have curbside recycling by 1991.
' Councilman Boyt: Handled by the County right?
Councilman Johnson: No. Any town must have it. The money goes to the County.
IIPaul Krauss: If I could add something too. That the bill also includes a
funding source for part of that which is a 6% tax on trash hauling. We called
I the County today to see if they had any idea about what kind of revenues that
might generate and if so, what we might expect to have out of that. They really
didn't have any information to give us but I...that just on household trash
alone it probably generates $40,000.00 in Chanhassen.
ICouncilman Boyt: That's not enough.
ICouncilman Workman: Where's that $40,000.00 going to really come from though?
Mayor Chmiel: Everybody that's paying their.
Paul Krauss: It's a 6% tax on trash hauling fee.
Councilman Workman: But where are the trash haulers going to get that?
IIMayor Chmiel: The trash haulers will be charging their clients. You bet.
You're the guy. Everybody sitting in this roan that has garbage.
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Councilman Boyt: I would really have liked to have seen the legislation to
understand who has the responsibility. I'll take for granted that it's the City
for a minute. It's going to cost of $30,000.00 to extend this contract to the
end of the year. That's ridiculous. We're hauling newspaper for $30,000.00.
The County is irresponsible in saying that the City should keep curbside
recycling. They're not doing it and they won't be doing it in 1991 either.
There's no way they can afford it. '
Councilman Johnson: Chaska will be.
Councilman Boyt: Maybe the City will be but the County won't be and if the City
of Chanhassen does this next year, it's $100,000.00.
Don Ashworth: But you've got to give your committee a chance to make a '
recommendation.
Councilman Boyt: It's not worth, I'll tell you right now, it's not worth
$30,000.00 to me to have those people sit around for 3 months and try to come up
with a plan. I said it 2 months ago and I'll say it again. It's irresponsible
on our part I think.
Mayor Chmiel: To sit around?
Councilman Boyt: To cane up with a plan that says we're going to continue our ,
current program is financially irresponsible. We don't have anything else
outside of public safety where we're spending anything like that amount of money
and to haul basically newspaper. '
Mayor Chmiel: Bill, in public safety you don't have state laws that are
dictating what you're going to do, what you're not going to do.
Councilman Boyt: They do. They require us to have a certain number of hours of
coverage right?
Mayor C oriel: Yes, that's true but on the same token, this is something that
you and I have taken for granted for so many years. You take your garbage and
you put it out on the a curb and let it sit there. Not even thinking where it's
going or what's going to happen with it. Well it's gotten to that point now
where by going into the ground it's causing the ground water contamination.
It's causing and could cause given problems for our drinking water. What other
recourses do we have with much of the waste that is generated? They're
mandating, the MPCA is mandating that the operators of those facilities are
required to have 3 foot of clay plus the 60 mil poly liner, which is supposedly
the state of the art kind of facility. It's just going to cost us more money
whichever way we turn. There's no way we can try to eliminate it. It's just an
automatic.
Don Ashworth: We've gone through same mathematics tonight in each of the issues ,
but I don't think it'd be that much money Bill. We're talking about giving our
committee an opportunity to come back with a recommendation to us. We're
talking about trying to insure that we don't have curbside and then we pick it
back up within less than a 30 or 60 day period. The numbers were from 90 cents
per household per month to $1.40 which is a 50 cent increase. 3,000 households
should be $1,500.00 per month. 3 months. $4,500.00. ,
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Councilman Boyt: That's not per month. every '
pe That's ever_ other week isn't it? Wait
a minute. You have 3,800 households. You're talking $1.40 per household every
other week.
Councilman Johnson: This isn't a $1.40 increase.
' Councilman Boyt: No, no. I'm talking about how much money we're spending to
pick up newspapers.
Don Ashworth: I said $.90 to $1.40 so it's about the same difference.
Councilman Boyt: That's a monthly charge? Okay. So a $1.40 a month times
3,800. How much is that? That's not $30,000.00 so I was wrong there.
Don Ashworth: But I mean it's the increase isn't it?
Councilman Boyt: No, I'm talking about the, I'm saying that certainly we've got
to recycle. There's no question that we have to recycle. I'm saying curbside
recycling is a cadillac service that this city cannot afford. If the County can
' cone up with same way to fix that bill but Tam Chaffee put in the budget for
next year $100,000.00 just for curbside pick-up and I'll keep saying it, we're
basically picking up newspaper.
Mayor Qriiel: Well that's one of the things I think the committee is working on
this trying to get a better participation by the residents within the city. One
out of every 4 is recycling. They have to shoot for 4 out of 4 to recycle.
' Councilwoman Dimler: Am I understanding here that you think that if we '
n9 don't go
with this here that the recycling committee will no longer meet?
Mayor Qmiel: Not necessarily.
' Councilwoman Dimler: They can still go ahead. They can work out.
Councilman Johnson: We're still required to have recycling. But the recycling
committee will have to come up with a different idea rather than curbside. We
' ought to start a collection center. We don't have a building for a collection
center. There's one down on 82nd Street.
Mayor Qmiel: We did do it at Public Works.
Councilwoman Dimler: Good idea. They'll sell that property, I mean they'll
' want it real bad once we start that.
Councilman Johnson: Do the leaf composting out back.
' Councilman Workman: We can play that game too.
Councilwoman Dimler: Let me ask you something Don. That bill that just passed.
II When is that going to go into effect? That doesn't go into effect right away
that they require us to recycle right away?
Don Ashworth: I think it's 1991 right?
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Mayor Chmiel: In the 7 county metro area, outstate 1992.
Councilwoman Dimler: By wham? The State?
Councilman Johnson: Yes. '
Councilwoman Dimler: I thought this bill just passed.
Councilman Johnson: No, older bills prior to this. There's other recycling '
bills that have required. Now this is by County. Our County was supposed to be
at what, 15% recycling this year and every year the goal goes up. Now the
goal's going to go up to 31% recycling with this new bill. I think it's 31%.
Mayor Chmiel: 30.
Councilman Johnson: 30. Close. So Carver County's going to have to hit a goal
of 30% recycling.
Councilwoman Dimler: Is some money going to be available from the County once ,
this gets instituted?
Mayor Chmiel: Yes. 1
Councilman Johnson: Don and I are on the County Solid Waste Committee. Each
year it's about $100,000.00 and same thousand dollars should be brought to the
County from the first year. Of that, I don't think the City's going to see that
much. $20,000.00-$30,000.00 at the most if that. I mean Chanhassen/Chaska is
where most the money's coning from. That's where most the money should go but
they also have to get programs going in all these little towns and they all run
a cost.
Councilman Workman: We're the only ones with curbside in Carver County aren't
we?
Councilman Johnson: That's right. '
Councilman Workman: And how much are we getting now?
Councilman Boyt: We're not getting anything. I
Councilman Johnson: The County hasn't done real good at getting grants and
stuff from the state. Same of the outstate counties seem to do a lot better.
Councilwoman Dimler: Don, did you get us the cost of what it would actually be
if it's not $30,000.00. Did you figure out what it would be?
Don Ashworth: Just to extend it?
Councilwoman Dimler: Yes.
Councilman Johnson: Hopefully there's going to be more competition in the
recycling so sane of these costs for the future may be coming down for curbside
as it gets mandatory. There's a lot of people looking at different ways to get
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rid of a lot of their recycleables as we increase the markets. Right now
there's no markets.
' Don Ashworth: I'd say $5,400.00 is the additional cost over and above what we
had approved before at basically $.90 and going up to $1.40.
' Councilman Boyt: Yeah, but give us the cost of what it actually costs to pick
up newspapers on the curb. Not the increased cost. I thought we should have
cancelled this thing 2 months ago and so what we're really talking about is do
we want to continue curbside recycling until the County comes up with same money
for us and I would say no.
Don Ashworth: The cost per month is basically $5,200.00 per month for having
' curbside recycling. Over and above what we had approved before, it's going to
cost us $5,400.00 more than what we had set aside as of May, June of last year.
Councilwoman Dimler: And how much was that?
Don Ashworth: That was at $.90 per household per month so basically let's just
say $1.00 would be. When we started this it was $3,500.00 per month.
' Councilwoman Dimler: And now you're increasing it?
Don Ashworth: It increased now to $5,200.00. $5,300.00 per month.
Councilwoman Dimler: Okay.
Councilman Boyt: So you're talking $15,000.00.
Councilwoman Dimler: Okay, and the future. Come December, what do we do?
Mayor Cfimiel: That's 3 additional months.
Don Ashworth: Correct. Three additional months would be basically $16,000.00.
$15,900.00. Somewhere in there.
' Councilwoman Dirtier: Okay, and in December we go through this process again?
Don Ashworth: Let me finish on Bill's if I may. We're really talking about one
month because we have to get 30 day notice for cancellation.
' Councilman Boyt: So that's October?
' Don Ashworth: Well we're into October.
Councilman Boyt: 30 days is the end of October then.
Councilman Johnson: So we've got 2 months. November-December.
In Ashworth: If you give notice right now, you basically are carrying out a
' contract through November.
Councilman Boyt: We extended the contract until the end of October. That was
it.
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Don Ashworth: But the item was on the agenda but the Council didn't act on it
so we did not take and send a notice at the end of September which would have
said we're cancelling this in September and after October there will be no
service. If you send a notice today, they would say alright. You've given us
notice. We'll carry out through the end of November.
Councilwanan Dimler: By the fact that we only extended until October 31st,
doesn't that tell them?
Paul Krauss: I had some conversations about that before the meeting started. I
We believe that the contract could be amended so that it was 30 days from the
date of notice that it could be cancelled. Whenever that notice was given. So
at this point we'd be obligated to November 2nd.
Don Ashworth: But that's a modification. I mean that's being a more liberal
position than what it literally says.
Mayor Chmiel: Can we hear from Waste Mangement? Did you want to say something?
Lynn Morgan: ...it'd be best if I just read this short paragraph. Either party '
may cancel this agreement at any time upon 30 day written notice to the other
party. In such event of termination, the contractor shall be entitled to
reimbursement for those expenses incurred up to the termination date provided
the expenses have been incurred by providing the services in Section 3. I'm no
lawyer but I would interpret that to mean that either party could give a 30 day
notice at any time and that the service would discontinue and payment for the
service would discontinue 30 days after that written notice.
Councilman Johnson: So it'd be November 1 if we do it tonight.
Mayor Chmiel: If we so choose.
Councilman Johnson: What are you looking for in January for your cost? I
Councilman Hoyt: $2.02. $2.05. That's the cost I was given.
Lynn Morgan: I don't know what the costs would be. I think, you know the 1
proposed increase is $1.35. To go from $.87 per household per month to $1.35.
The marketplace price for the service that Chanhassen is receiving is actually
higher than that. However, we have a very strong interest in staying in this
community and continuing to serve it and I don't know that in the bidding
process where exactly we would be. There may be an attempt to actually go for
an increase beyond the $1.35.
Councilman Johnson: What if we went to once a month? What's the market for
once a month? I
Lynn Morgan: Once a month? We only have a couple of programs that are once a
month and the only one that canes to mind and I'd want to confirm it but I
believe that Greenwood or Deephaven or perhaps both are once a month at $1.00
per household. But that participation is lower than the kind of program that
you have.
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Paul Krauss: The R and P that's going to go out is going to list a series of
options and prices coming back for alternative services. Once a month I think
was one of the ones that we discussed. Erery week was discussed.
Lynn Morgan: I believe every week and every other week.
' Paul Krauss: And if it wasn't in there, if you'd like to see what monthly
services is, we can certainly add that.
Lynn Morgan: We're meeting tomorrow night so anything that the Council would
like to communicate to the committee.
Councilman Boyt: Didn't you say last time you were here that a good program had
about a 30% participation rate?
Lynn Morgan: For a program like yours, that's correct. We would look at a 30%
to 35% participation rate as being the norm. And I'd like to clarify for
everyone as well. I think one of the things that's happened here is that you've
taken your stop counts, which is the number of counts. The number of households
' the driver actually serves. He has a stroke counter in his cab. It's something
we started recently and everytime he gets out of his truck to pick up a
container of recycleables, when he hits the brake, he hits that counter. That
information is now being included on your monthly recycling reports. We do know
however that in communities that have low population density in the housing.
That is, they have a small number of people per dwelling, that there are
households out there that are not going to put their recycleables out every
1 week. They're not going to put then out every other week. They're going to put
them out once a month. Only when they're full. Your stop counts don't actually
reflect that so I would have to say that your participation is actually higher
than 25% because we know that there are a few households out there that are
doing that. Putting out their materials once a month.
Councilman Boyt: Okay, but you mentioned last time that for a community like
us, 30% participation would be a good target.
Lynn Morgan: 30% to 35% participation would be a good number.
Councilman Boyt: Then do you know where Ti a Chaffee got his number of $2.05 per
household per month because that's what he quoted me when I asked him why we'd
' have $100,000.00.
Lynn Morgan: I didn't talk to him. He may have surveyed some communities.
There are communities out there at $2.05.
Councilman Boyt: But he didn't talk to you or your company?
Lynn Morgan: Not to me personally. If he talked to someone else in my company,
I'm not aware of it.
Councilman Johnson: I think that number was here last time too back in August
when we were discussing this. I thought at that time they said it was going to
go up in January to around $2.00 a household.
Lynn Morgan: For an every other week program?
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Councilman Johnson: Right. ,
Lynn Morgan: I don't have a lot of authority but I can definitely say that that
would be very high in pricing and I can definitely promise you that it would not
be $2.05.
Councilman Johnson: Would that be more like a weekly service then?
Lynn Morgan: I don't know because I haven't worked on a proforma for this City
but for $2.05 I would say that yes, absolutely. You'd have to be looking at
least a weekly service.
Councilman Boyt: Well that's a relief.
Lynn Morgan: In fact, I would suspect that a number like that would probably
reflect not only weekly service but perhaps provision of containers for
recycleables.
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Councilman Workman: I use the monthly myself. I don't put it all out there
every week.
Mayor Cxmiel: Every other.
Councilman Workman: I put it out once a month because I can't win anyway. Even
though I am a winner and I have a house full of winners.
Mayor Qmiel: Don say yes you can. I
Don Ashworth: You can win.
Councilman Workman: Can I? 1
Don Ashworth: Sure. I mean that's the reason we do the thing with Dave to
insure that... 1
Councilman Workman: Oh we can win now?
Councilman Johnson: I thought ours had been removed out of there. 1
Councilman Workman: Geez, this is getting depressing. In these times of we
should be neighborly so we should give away our shed. We're always got the
guilt. We should not be throwing this stuff in the hole so we should spend the
macho dollars to do it. I think Bill's absolutely correct. I go on record as
saying that. You know there's a film out right now. It was done by McDonald
Corporation who's a large corporation and they've had their own problems but
this stuff does not biodegrade. Nothing biodegrades in a hole down there.
They're finding 30 year old sirloin steaks that they know are medium rare in
these landfills. Nothing's biodegrades unless it has water, air, elements and
so we're getting all excited about biodegradeables and it's not going to
biodegrade anyway. If we decide to go with this, we need to get something a
little bit from you folks. A little bit. We need timeliness I think on the
pick-ups. I myself have a problem with every other Wednesday or whenever. I'd
like it if it were, the only reason I show up at these Council meetings on time
is because I know it's the second and the fourth Monday but if it was every
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other Monday, I'd have serious problems because I know what the second and the
fourth are.
rCouncilwoman Dirtier: How cane you're here today then?
' Councilman Workman: I'm leaving myself wide open. One day you'll cane in the
morning very early. I'll help the guy throw it in the truck. The next day I'll
cane hate, it will still be out. I'll get home at 6:30 or sanething. It will
still be out. My neighbors, who's the first person they see coming up the walk
and they ask me, what the heck's going on. Is this the day? Is this another
false alarm? Did the guy on the corner put his stuff out? Then everybody else
followed and it's all sitting out but it's littering. The second thing I think
11 we need, if we're going to go with something, we're going to need to go with
sane sort of approved container because cans, no less than a thousand cans on my
little street this past time. I don't think that's your fault but I think it's
poeple their cans are blowing all over town. After the guys leave, then the
kids go through with their wagon and they're hauling than somewhere to get cash.
Mayor Chmiel: Maybe Paul can address that. Paul, how are we doing with that
' application to the Met Council?
Paul Krauss: We're in the process of preparation and we've been in contact with
their staff and have been putting it together. Last we heard is they weren't
incredibly receptive to using that grant for containers but we're still trying.
Councilman Workman: Number three and finally. We need smiles from these guys
I that are hauling. Tell you what. A dirty, greasy job. Not fun. If you don't
do sanething right I've noticed, they get kind of, this guy was cussing under
his breath and he didn't look happy. Somebody put magazines in with their
newspapers. He yanked them out and they're all over my yard. So we do in fact
need this recycling committee because we need a lot more education on this so I
ended up taking the magazines, picked then all up and put than in my garbage and
hauled than out the next day. So again, I again have no solutions. I have same
strong suggestions. I guess we need to keep doing this at least through
December but I think there's all sorts of ways we can run this thing more
efficiently and leaner and everything else.
Lynn Morgan: I appreciate your comments and I'm sorry that you've had these
concerns and I will take than back to the company. To be very honest, this is
the second comment I've heard about an employee attitude so we'll get on that
tomorrow. Anything you can bring to us about what's happening out there on the
street is appreciated because we do have supervisors out there and we do have
' excellent employees but that public feedback is taken very seriously.
Cbuncilman Workman: What you need to do is you need to get a couple of UPS
employees. Lure than away and get those guys working them.
Lynn Morgan: We do have better trucks so that shouldn't be hard. On the
subject of coming by, the time of day though. I'd like to clarify on that.
I know that it's convenient for the public when they can predict the time of day
when the driver will cane down the street. However, the reason that we promote
to people that they need to have their recycleables out on the street by 6:30 or
7:00 a.m. is because things can happen during the day that change the schedule
of when the guy canes through. We may reroute for efficiency. A truck may
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break down and delay the route into the afternoon. That's why we really try to
get people to put them out in the morning and we try to be as predictable as we
can when we came by but we don't like to have the public depending on that time
frame. They should be able to count on us coming that day. Does that make
sense?
Councilman Workman: I guess my neighbor was frustrated. I begged her please ,
don't throw it in the trash because Wednesday's recycling day. Thursday's trash
day so they get frustrated. I'll just put it in the trash. The next day. They
don't have to look at it. I said I'll take it. I'll take it out of your garage
but I'll let you guess which neighbor that is. So I understand all that. It's
just same of the things I've noticed that we need to...
Lynn Morgan: I appreciate that. '
Councilman Workman: I think this program has created a lot of new trash and
it's blowing around. Newspapers and magazines and cans. ,
Lynn Morgan: From not having containers?
Councilman Workman: Right. ,
Mayor Chmiel: Any further discussion? '
Councilman Boyt: Using the new figures Don, it's still $72,000.00 a year. I
cna't imagine that we're going to end up, if we go over 12 months without
charging an average of $1.50 a household a month. If we're at $1.30 something
now.
Councilman Johnson: $1.35. If somebody invents a real worthwhile use for
newspapers and starts paying big bucks for newspapers.
Councilman Boyt: This is a technology or process that would be very helpful to
let a few other groups lead and figure out how to do it right. It's a very
expensive process for us to be leading on. We've got to recycle. I'm glad the
recycling committee is out there but this isn't the way Chanhassen should be
recycling. It's too expensive. So I would make a motion that we give them 30
days notice.
Mayor Chmiel: Is there a second? I
Councilwoman Dimler: I'll second it.
Councilman Workman: Maybe just a little bit of discussion. Maybe Ursula you '
can tell us...
Councilwoman Dimler: I guess I agree with what Bill's been saying. I do want
to see the committee continue. I think it's a really important project and I
think we're going to have to do more and more and more of it but I think until
we can do it cost effectively, I don't think we've got the participation. i
think the committee needs to educate people first. Increase participation and I
don't think we have our ducks in order to go ahead with spending the amount of
money that we've been spending.
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11 Mayor Chmiel: I think we've been, the committee's been meeting now for the past
month every Tuesday of the month and I think they are getting their ducks in
order. Hopefully they will be able to give proper directions to the citizens
within Chan to participate in this. If the participation is there, then of
course the cost could, as we discussed before, could very possibly decrease sage
because of the additional aluminum and your tin and glass that you maybe
' getting. I know the newspapers aren't really there yet. Some dollars for that.
In fact, I don't know if you've done any discussions with Carver County at all
with your newspapers that I believe that you have. That you still do have a
source for your newspapers.
Lynn Morgan: I haven't personally talked to Carver County. Someone else from
our company may have. We're not using them for newspaper currently and they
' haven't extended that offer. If the participation were to increase
significantly and if the other factors were to hold steady, we could revisit the
cost issue. I honestly don't know exactly what the impact would be. I do know
that if we can get better participation here, what that will mean is that you're
recycling dollars will yeild a better value for you. Right now you recycle
about 30 tons per month. At your current pricing, that's well over $100.00 per
' ton. However, if we look at the cost of picking up and disposing of a ton of
garbage, the ton of recycleables is really in the range of figures for managing
a ton of garbage but if we could get the participation higher, that would mean
that your cost per ton and the value of your service would be greater for you.
Councilwoman Dimler: I guess I'd like to clarify something too. I didn't mean
to say that the committee didn't have their ducks in order. I'm saying that the
II City and the County and the State really don't have their ducks in order yet and
one of the things that Chanhassen has got going for it is that one of the ducks
we have in order is that we have the committee. I think with their results and
their findings, that we'll be going with them but at this time I just can't see
II justifying the cost to continue this and especially if we don't know what we're
going to do and ccme December you'll probably be before us again and we'll have
this same dilemma again.
IILynn Morgan: As I understand it, probably in December you'll have the results
back from the bid that the committee is sending out.
1 Councilwoman Dimler: Perhaps they'll have a cheaper way of doing it.
Lynn Morgan: Or they could have an alternative. If I could, no one would be
II surprised to hear me fight for the 2 month extensive I think so I'll go ahead
and do it. I think that there's another reason to go ahead and grant this 2
month extension. If you want to communicate to this committee, which is an
excellent committee by the way, that they need to look at discontinuing curbside
because of the pricing. Tell them what the budget is or what range of numbers
is acceptable, I think you still need to really get the word out to the people
II that curbside recycling is being discontinued and you need to do that in such a
fashion that everybody that recycles right now is well aware of it because you
really wouldn't want to disappoint them by turning off the curbside and then try
to fire them up again for something else in a couple of months. It'd be better
II to make sure they know that curbside is discontinuing and here's what's going to
be put in place. That's just a suggestion.
IICouncilwoman Dimler: Yes, I think that's a good one.
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Mayor Chmiel: Just a little more discussion. Jay. We talked with the County.
What was their guesstimate that they thought they may come up with from the
State?
Councilman Johnson: I think in the range of $120,000.00-$150,000.00 if
I renaiber right.
Mayor Chmiel: And they were saying something of Chanhassen would get what?
They threw out a figure there too. Was it between $30,000.00 and $40,000.00? I
Councilman Johnson: Yeah, I think so. This city has really helped. Carver
County was the only county in the metropolitan area to make it's goal and
largely that was based on the businesses in this city and the successful
recycling center in Chaska going. Now with our curbside recycling, they're
going to make their goal again this year it looks like based a lot on our
participation. We are helping the County make the goals that they have to make.
I think we have to make a point to the County that we are committed to recycling
and that we realize that we are helping the County make it's goals. That we are
a major factor in this county making it's goals and therefore we expect the
County to look to us. If they want to continue curbside recycling in 1990, we
can't do it on our own. There is no way in the world. If they want to make
their goal, this curbside recycling's one of the important because if we stop
curbside, we've got to put something else in. That's going to be expensive too.
Because what we did, that little temporary thing out at the public works, we
need something more like what, if we're not going to do curbside, we need
something more like Chaska's doing with the actual manned center and that costs 1
a lot of money to run too. Chaska runs a very nice.
Councilman Workman: The hours are terrible. 1
Councilman Johnson: Well, they're very effective in comparison to a lot of
centers.
Councilman Hoyt: I think Shoreview is running it through their churches. At
least the one that I go by has got a big dumpster out there with aluminum cans
on the outside of it and I don't know what the other thing is that they're
collecting in the other dumpster. Hopefully the recycling committee will
identify these options but are we going to spend what looks like about
$10,000.00 plus dollars to run this out through the rest of the year that we
don't have budgeted? That we're pulling out of who knows where to buy that
extra 2 months. I don't think we should. I've taken enough time.
Councilman Johnson: I think that's about $1.00 per citizen and I think that's a
reasonable cost.
Mayor Chmiel: Yeah, we have roughly about $30,000.00 as was indicated in here
that has been levied for this and I keep looking at what we have coming and what
we're able to get back from the State through the County. If we're able to get
anywhere between another $30,000.00-$40,000.00, that would give us either
$60,000.00 or $70,000.00. You mentioned a figure before Bill of $72,000.00 per
year. We're still pretty close.
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Councilman Johnson: I think also next year's contract on this, we've got to do
some negotiating. We're got to set same market indicators to where if the
price of aluminum goes back up to $.60 a pound rather than the $.29 a pound it
is now. When it was at $.65 a pound at $.87, Waste Management was making good
money but when it dropped from $.65 a pound down to $.29 a pound, that really
hurt their contract. That's why they had to renegotiate with us. I think the
same thing should be in there. If that price of aluminum goes up, that should
reflect in our contract. I'm looking at kind of a cost plus contract to where
we can take their cost to provide the service and give them adminstrative fees
and profit over that but if they start bringing in extra money because of market
conditions, we should see that money directly back to the city and the citizens.
Not Waste Management see it. That's just talking about next year's contract and
' my theory on the contract.
Councilman Boyt: May I ask Don a question?
Mayor Chmiel: Sure.
Councilman Boyt: Your comments on the maio of the 20th Don says that we're
going to apparently take in $30,000.00 in 1990 that's earmarked for this sort of
operation. Is that correct?
Don Ashworth: 1989.
Councilman Boyt: Well it says 1989 is going to close with a deficit. 1990 will
take in approximately the same amount of which we'll have to pull our deficit
' out of. Is that correct?
Don Ashworth: That's correct.
' Councilman Johnson: If you levy at the rate, yes.
Councilman Boyt: Well if we don't increase taxes right?
rDon Ashworth: Right.
Councilman Boyt: And we're going to use $10,000.00 additional dollars for the
next 2 months for that November-December time period. Does that mean in reality
in 1990 we're going to have only $15,000.00?
' Don Ashworth: December was, we had sufficient monies to get us through November
even with the higher $1.38. We did not have enough money for the December
timeframe so we potentially will close the books for $8,953.00 in the hole. The
cost for the month of December which I'm saying would be $5,300.00.
Councilman Boyt: Okay. We can afford, if I hear the Mayor and Jay correctly.
II If the City gets $30,000.00, we have no assurance that we will from the County
but if we do and we collect a levy amount of $30,000.00 than then we're
$60,000.00 into this $72,000.00. And we actually want to spend all that money
to pick up newspapers? Granted aluminum plays a key part in funding it but in
II terms of what we're taking out of our landfills, we're taking basically
newspapers out of there.
IICouncilman Johnson: Tonage wise, yeah.
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Mayor Chniel: Presently that's what you're doing but yeah. The thing that
you're trying to do is extend the life of the landfills basically and recycle
these items.
Councilman Boyt: But these recycleables aren't contributing at all to ground
water contamination except maybe leeching lead out of the funnies or something.
Mayor Chmiel: The newspaper. Former newspapers.
Councilman Workman: Doesn't newspaper take up about 15% of what's in the
landfill or sanething?
Lynn Morgan: It's a large percentage of what's in a landfill. I don't believe '
it's quite as high as 60.
Councilman Boyt: Disposable diapers are the... I
Councilman Johnson: There's also some legislation which will be coning up which
may force this county to build it's own landfill at a site to be selected by the '
State. It could be in Chanhassen. It could be anywhere without any local
control over where it is. The world of solid waste is getting real confusing
and very costly. The next 3 years everybody should expect their garbage bills
to double. Very easily. ...also is the tax that you'll be getting on it. The
recycling money.
Mayor Chniel: I'd like to keep this going. We do have a motion on the floor to
terminate our agreement within 30 days. It's been seconded.
Councilman Boyt moved, Councilwoman Dimler seconded to give 30 day cancellation
notice to Waste Management Inc. for curbside recycling in Chanhassen.
Councilman Boyt, Councilwoman Dimler and Councilman Workman voted in favor.
Councilman Johnson and Mayor Chniel voted in opposition and the motion carried
with a vote of 3 to 2.
FINANCIAL ADVISOR DESIGNATION.
Don Ashworth: The Council had tabled this item to allow staff to meet with
Springstead and try to clarify their proposal. They had sent a letter to the
Council regarding hourly service fees. We did that and in fact Councilman
Workman and Councilwoman Dimler and I met with Springstead and through that
process there was an agreement reached that they would look at the contractual
fees section of the proposal in terms of a retainer and they would guarantee to
us 50 hours of service from their firm at no cost to the City and they would
maintain an accounting of that. In light of the fact that many of our projects,
as I see it will probably be reducing, the 200 hours that had been used for
canparison purposes for 1988, probably was high. I don't see where we would be
to that level again. I don't see that many supermarkets, Rosemounts, whatever
around the corner and in all likelihood, 50 hours would probably be a more
reasonable number. I redid the cost and basically, and I don't have than right
in front of me but if I remember right, it was about $59,000.00 for Springstead
and $56,000.00 for Andy and I think PSS was far under that. In addition,
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Councilmanber Johnson had asked for a tabulation of the bids from the last time
around. I did not have that information at the time we had met with Springstead
and so I did include that in the Council packets.
Councilman Johnson: There's something that's hard to read. Can you shed some
light on that?
Don Ashworth: At the time that we had met, and I'm talking about with
Councilman Workman, Councilwoman Dimler and myself and Springstead, I had made a
' statement that it's very difficult to make an apples to apples comparison on
bids. From that listing, it typically would be. The difference in days. How
an issue is weighted. Comparable ratings. Insured. Not insured. There's a
lot of factors that will go into a particular bid. Ironically two of
1 Springstead's cities did bid at almost the same time that we had taken bids in
September and November of last year and I tried to highlight those two. I must
say that the City did receive a better quote in that September-November
timeframe.
Councilman Workman: Which other cities were those?
Don Ashworth: Eagan and Coon Rapids.
Councilman Johnson: Eagan's on the first page, the very first one.
' Don Ashworth: I tried to highlight then. Maybe I didn't do a very good job of
it.
Councilman Johnson: What's really interesting in there is Eagan, the first one
on the list, is an A-1 and the third one is a comparable or GO bonds where we're
A-AA which is a lesser rating. However when you go down to what the coupons
' went for, overall we're even if not ahead of what we're paying for those coupons
over the 14 years. Both financing the same amount of years. We just started
paying than earlier.
' Don Ashworth: One of the reasons I made the recommendation and if we do go with
Springstead, I think it's clear that we want to insure that they make sure that
' we have at least 3 or 4 bidders to insure each sale and that we receive at least
3 to 4 bids from buyers. I went through a group of other conditions with people
from Springstead. They did not object to any of those. Were willing to do
then. For example, bidding the paying agent fee. There's two in there but
IIanyway, they didn't have a problem in doing that.
Councilman Workman: I guess same of those, in July of 1986, Chanhassen only
Ireceived one bid on our 44.6 million dollar GO.
Councilman Johnson: '86?
IICouncilman Workman: July of '86.
Councilman Johnson: That was before I was on the Council.
1 Don Ashworth: The condition on like the 3 to 4 bids, what I'm making the
assumption there is that that represents the current market. If you look in
that timeframe, I'm willing to bet that Sprinstead was receiving one bids.
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Councilman Workman: Well in June of 1987 we received 3. Springstead's received
10. ,
Councilman Boyt: Where did you get this information?
Councilman Workman: From Springstead. Comparison bond sellers off our last '
four.
Councilman Boyt: You got the information from Springstead? i
Councilman Workman: Yes. This is all public information. Likewise in Jay's
comments as far as where ours were in relation to others. The bond buyer index
previous five years to present show that our rates were right with where the
national market average was anyway. Our market position was pretty much in flow
with what the national trends were. I guess I'm ready to make a bit of a change
with this. I have a lot of confidence in Springstead. I did before we even
thought about making a switch with they have same sort of a newsletter that they
send out and that I read.
Councilman Johnson: They've done a good job of marketing. They appear to have 1
done everything right. They have the marketers telling me what I'm supposed to
be doing. Getting this information out to you. I don't know, they haven't
given me any of this information.
Councilman Workman: Well this information that I requested.
Councilman Boyt: There's an interesting thing here about this information
because it says we're, right in the request of information, that these people
are to have no contact with the City Council. ,
Councilman Workman: I initiated the contact.
Councilman Boyt: Well it would seem to me that the logical response for them '
would have been to point out to you that they were to have no contact directly
with you. It said that right in the request from the city for information.
Councilman Workman: I initiated it and any kind of decision, any kind of ,
questions that came up were being used against this firm I thikn have been
satisfactorily answered. I would move to approve Springstead. I
Councilwoman Dimler: I second that.
Mayor Q niel: Just to reiterate a little bit of what Tom has said and the
questions that you're raising Bill. I guess if a Council person feels he wants
to delve into something a little more...and acquire that information, I think
it's initiative on his part to do that. ,
Councilman Johnson: Then he should do it with both bidders.
Mayor Ctmiel: That may be very well. - 1
Councilman Johnson: Because Andy could probably came up with the same
information that shows he's done a very good job. I
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Councilwoman Dimler: No Jay. I think what we did was, the information that was
presented to us that was negative towards Springstead, that's the questions we
wanted answered and had nothing to do because there was no negative on Mericor.
Councilman Workman: And I have nothing against Mericor or Andy Merry in that
regards but when it looks so lopsided as it did in our auditors, I went after to
find out if in fact that could be possible. With Springstead, and they are
doing a booming business and if you're saying that they're fooling an awful lot
of communities in the Metro, you can go ahead and say that but they're doing
II something right somewhere and it appeared to me that it was again, like in the
auditor's situation. I wanted to find out some of the particulars of why it
looked like Springstead cost double what Andy Merry could do it for. I think I
did that and I'm very happy that if I, I think it's my right to go ahead and
research the issue. They've given me what Chanhassen has done in the ratings
and the bonds and everything else like that. I don't think this stuff is
disputable. Primarily I'd like to see it changed. I'm not going to be
embarrassed for that.
Councilman Johnson: I like to see change in things too and I'm sure you're
going to be supporting change all night tonight.
Councilman Workman: Am I?
Councilwoman Dinaer: Not necessarily. I seconded it because I think it's time
for a change as well. I like Springstead's rates. I think they would do an
II excellent job for us and I'm also concerned about a one man show. I prefer to
see other people involved. There's a better check and balance when there's more
than one man involved.
IIMayor Chmiel: Any discussion?
Councilman Johnson: I like small businesses. I like big businesses. I do
both. Andy's done a good job and what he specializes in, you don't have to be a
big. Same of the best financial consultants in the country are one man shows.
That's what they do because they've got the brains and the talent to do it. It
doesn't take a whole bunch of junior partners whipping around. I think this is
IIone of the cases where when it ain't fixed we ought to leave it alone.
Councilwoman Dimler: That's good Jay. Let's leave it broken.
Councilman Boyt: I can certainly sense that this is a done deal so I won't take
long. I think it is significant when people who are responding to a bid in an
II area as technical as this wouldn't call to Tan's attention that he was asking
than to step outside of that bid. Now I don't care if that would be Andy or if
that would anybody else. That bothers me. The other part is that I'd be real
interested in getting to the bottom of these comparisons because going strictly
II through the City Manager, which is how I understood is how we were supposed to
be doing this, the figures that we were given were on our 2 most recent bidded
bond issues which just happened as he mentioned, to fall amazingly close in time
and size to Coon Rapids and Eagan and there was a $50,000.00 difference between
whether you happen to be Chanhassen or whether you were Coon Rapids and Eagan.
As I understand that figure, that $50,000.00 is very conservative. It depends a
lot on how you interpret what's going on in the payback procedure and clauses of
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the bond that at minimum Chanhassen saved $50,000.00. Springstead in proposing
their bid, dramatically underestimated or at least presented, given the City's
past history, a proposal that required much less consulting hours and they even
said they'd throw than in for free which was an interesting approach given that '
the apartment complex agreement was 3 years of work by Andy in this case but
whoever our bonding person was. Rosemount was 50 hours of work. Consulting
hours of work which is as much as they're proposing for a whole year and maybe
we'll find that that's true. Mericor has given us very good service. I am
quite willing to, I understand that the 3 of you can choose any person you want.
But it's going to be more expensive if we go on the last two. '
Councilman Johnson: Yeah. Personally if there was a reason to make a change,
I'd go with PFS and save $20,000.00. The third bidder there is a $39,000.00
versus $59,000.00. I
Councilwoman Dimler: I guess Jay what we're saying is, I'm not buying the
negatives on Springstead. I think they will do as good a job and as cheap as or
at the same rate of Mericor would do. We've heard Don address the fact that we
don't have any Rosemounts and those kinds of things where we're going to be
using 218 hours. 50 sounds reasonable and I think that again, I'd like to
reiterate the point that I think for accountability and for checks and balances,
I prefer to see more people on the job.
Mayor Qrtiel: I did a little checking on my own too Bill with respective cities '
and counties and asking then, who have engaged Springstead and what they thought
of Springstead. They thought they were a very reputable company. They had a
lot of confidence in them. They didn't think their costs were any different
than anybody elses. They thought they did an exceptional job for them,
specifically Ramsey County. I guess that was one of the things that I had
looked at. I too au for changes within but I wanted to find out too what other
people thought of then. They should know. So if there's no more
discussion, I'll call a question.
Councilman Workman: I guess just in defense of myself. When we were discussing
auditors and maybe I showed same inclination towards Panell-Kerr versus DeLoitt.
DeLoitt was made out to be this Big 8 firm that was the Cadillac firm. In fact
the word was used, that my support for Panell-Kerr was indefensible. How could
I do that? I think Springstead's a Cadillac firm and I think not to go with
them is indefensible.
Councilman Workman moved, Councilwoman Dimler seconded to appoint Springstead
the City's Financial Consultant. Councilman Workman, Councilwoman Dimler and
Mayor Qmiel voted in favor. Councilman Hoyt and Councilman Johnson voted in
opposition and the motion carried with a vote of 3 to 2.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS: I
HOW TO SHORTEN AGENDAS, MAYOR CHMIEL.
Mayor Qmiel: Let's just look, hopefully everybody had an opportunity to take a
look at the item 12 which we had last Monday. How to shorten agendas and we
went to midnight again. What we'll do is just hold that. Shorten agendas '
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because Ursula mentioned the fact that I didn't see Jim came in here. Although
there are same other people here. I guess there isn't. On the committee on the
school district.
Councilman Workman: Are we under council presentations now?
Mayor Chmiel: Yes, right now. But we have same additional items here where Jim
is here which is on item 14. Is that going to be a discussionary item this
evening?
Don Ashworth: I was hoping that we would have an opportunity to discuss that
but as noted, this item is in court and I would propose that the Council move
into an executive session when we get into that portion. We would continue to
record that part of the meeting but until the court process is over with, Roger
was concerned that you might have information out in the newspaper or potential
television at the same time that it's being tried.
' Mayor Chmiel: So I think we best leave that until item 14 until we come to the
end.
Councilwoman Dimler: Okay. That's fine.
Jim Burdick: Unfortunately for us, this matter's not in court. It was in court
week after week for 6 months. It's not the court. It's not going to be in
court for quite same period of time. We're arguing should be days. ...is
saying it should be months. That fella claims he's sick is the latest thing.
It's not in court and isn't going to be...
Mayor Chmiel: It's not in court.
Don Ashworth: It had gone in today and Jim is correct. This past week Mr.
Farrell did have a setback. We do not know how major that will be. It does not
change the fact that the item is before the Court. Hopefully we can settle out.
II I'd like to see it settled out but I don't think that the settling out of that
court case should occur through the newspapers. It should occur through a
presentation to the Council. Potential instructions from the Council as to what
we might pursue in terms of a settlement and if that fails, then we will
continue with the court portion. But again, I don't think that the thing should
be tried in this type of a forum. At least that's Roger's recommendation and it
I was anticipated that all parties were in agreement with that. Mr. Krass would
not be present tonight representing Mx. Burdick. Roger would not be present
tonight representing the City. Mr. Burdick would be given an opportunity to
make a presentation but it would be in an executive session format.
IICouncilman Johnson: ...nice presentation would be in an executive also?
IDon Ashworth: His presentation would be yes.
Councilman Boyt: I don't know exactly how the Sunshine Law works but if this is
in court, I don't think we should be holding executive sessions.
ICouncilman Johnson: If it is before the courts.
IIMayor Chmiel: Yeah, it's not in the court.
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Councilman Workman: If it's simply a presentation?
Councilman Johnson: I saw a subpoena today so I mean the courts are working on
this one. One of my fellow managers at work got subpoenaed on this case.
Don Ashworth: Again, I can only repeat what Roger stated to me and that was
that Don I would highly recommend that you close the session. He does not want
to see again the item, you might say tried, in this type of a forum. '
Councilwoman Dimler: Is the presentation then would be not, we wouldn't be able
to act upon it tonight anyway?
Mayor Chmiel: No, we couldn't.
Don Ashworth: Well, what I mentioned to Jim before was he would be given an
opportunity to make his presentation. We would record that so the press could
take a look at it when this issue is settled out. We would then ask Mr. Burdick
to leave the roan after his presentation which would give the Council an
opportunity to instruct staff as to how you'd like us to proceed. What portions
of the presentation you would like additional information on or whatever other.
Not knowing what might come out of this form of a presentation, it's hard for me
to second guess how you night be instructing us but that's what we had '
anticipated anyway.
Councilman Boyt: I could see if the Council was meeting with it's attorney but
personally I guess I'm not very comfortable going into an executive session. We
ought to be real careful when we do that I think.
Councilman Johnson: Why can't Roger be here tonight? He couldn't make it? ,
Don Ashworth: Well two reasons. One is that he had met with Mr. Krass today
and Mr. Krass is in a meeting over in North St. Paul and there was an issue as
to whether or not Mr. Krass could be here and a question as to whether or not,
if we had an attorney here should not Jim have one and vice versa and they came
to the conclusion that allow Mr. Burdick to simply make a presentation as to his
areas of concern. I said that the Council could hear those but do that as a
part of an executive session. I guess I don't know how otherwise to respond to
Councilman Boyt's question.
Councilwoman Dimler: I'm going to make a motion that we go back to item 12(a) ,
how to shorten agendas because this is getting to be a long discussion.
Mayor Q niel: Okay. Bringing it back to item 12 which is 12(a) . How to I
shorten the agendas. An issue I'm sure all have had an opportunity to read.
Rather than going through each one of these specific items, hopefully this is
sanething that we can all follow. More specifically with the consent agendas. ,
Reviewing those with staff and doing the opportunity to go by there on Friday or
Monday to determine whether or not it should be a discussionary item or it
should be pulled and to take that additional time. The reason for the consent '
agenda is as such to they're non-controversial kinds of items and they should be
approved with clarifications that anyone may have or questions from staff
regarding that specific item. I think what we want to do is to try to handle
our meetings most expeditiously and in the best way we know how in having a
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guidelines as to what to go by and I think much of these are here. If you've
had the streamlining meetings and going through same of this information, it's
rather informative. They specifically spell out what sane of the cities do
themselves and how they try to resolve given problems so if you have an
opportunity to look at it, let's try to practice it and go from there.
Cbuncilman Johnson: I think one thing everybody has to keep in mind. When the
horse is dead, we should quit beating it for the next hour.
Mayor Chniel: You've got it.
Councilman Johnson: A dead horse around here doesn't have a chance.
' Councilwoman Dimler: I have two suggestions. One would be that, I think that
the adminstration needs to organize a complaint system so that complains from
the public and from staff can all be handled through that complaint system and
only those that can't be satisfied there should came before the Council. So if
there's a neighbor to neighbor dispute, I don't see why it needs to come to
Council.
' Councilman Johnson: We don't get many of those.
Councilwoman Dimler: Well the dog barking one is the one that I remember.
Councilman Johnson: That's one that's been before us for 3 years. That's one
that staff couldn't handle.
1 Councilwoman Dinner: Well okay but that's just a suggestion. Also then,
another one would be that all the council members keep their comments to 2
minutes per issue and can talk on one issue only twice. Then we go to the vote.
Councilman Boyt: I thought we were trying to work out quality decisions?
Councilwoman Dinner: Well absolutely but this forces you to have same fore-
thought and then you work that out at have and you cane with your comments
prepared and then we don't waste time talking about unnecessary things or things
we've hashed over in the past over and over and over and over and over again.
Mayor Chmiel: I think we should have limitations. 2 minutes is pretty hard to
stress. That's a little short I think.
11 Councilwoman Dinner: You think so? 2 minutes per person. 2 times per issue.
That's 4 minutes per issue really.
Mayor Cimiel: Yeah, I think you could limit it to 3.
Cbuncilwanan Dimler: Also I have a comment on the first one. As Don very well
knows, I came in every Monday morning that there's a council meeting and we
spend 2 to 3 hours talking over the consent agenda so it isn't that it hasn't
been done. It's just that a lot of things get stuck on the consent agenda that
II really shouldn't be there and I think that adminstration has to be a little bit
more careful as to what they stick on there and then there won't be that many
things to pull.
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Councilman Boyt: If you look back at the meetings before Jay and I got on the
Council, before we started having 300 new hones a year being built. They spent
a lot of time, I mean a good bit of time going through the Minutes correcting
commas, words here and there. Their consent agenda was pretty short. The
chapter that was included here by Don. I think we do almost every one of these
items but if you take and we deal with a fair amount of controversy. You take
the TH 101/Dakota Avenue relocation item. I agree with all of you that
sometimes it's hard to get off a dead horse. I would much rather have the
discussion here than in the newspaper but we're all quite willing to go to the
newspaper to hold our discussions. I'd just as soon not have to do that. '
Councilwoman Dimler: Not me. I'd rather not do it too.
Councilman Boyt: I think that one of the reasons that I'm on the council and I
suspect it's true for the others of you, is because you want to voice an opinion
about critical issues to the City. Some of these things take time. If you're
going to have 30 items on an agenda and some of those items, maybe all of them,
are going to affect people for years if not the rest of the time they live in
Chanhassen, it takes time and they deserve time and I think that's just the
nature of the beast.
Councilman Workman: I think one of the things we have to do is get staff to get
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that stuff off the agenda. About half and then just make provisions or put in
our rules that we meet the next night or we meet next Monday night or whatever
and that's an incentive. I agree in talking shorter. I bet if you go through
and add up all the words, I'd cane up with the least. Sure they're quality.
Councilwoman Dimler: That's what I was saying. Quality, not quantity. 1
Councilman Workman: And that's the incentive. My incentive tonight is to go
relax with my family. Like I told Dave over there. I left Alf and a warm fire
in the fireplace to came here tonight. My incentive would be to get home and
enjoy same of that yet tonight.
Mayor Ctmiel: Alright, let's go to 12 (b) then.
Councilman Workman: Okay. I'm bring this up is in regards to our past
disagreement with the Contract. What I'm going to propose hopefully this
evening is to have staff rescind instructions to in fact search out neighboring
communities to look into supplying us with a contract. That portion of my
motion was a friendly amendment by Bill. I no longer see it as friendly and so
I would like to withdraw that portion of it since it was in face my motion and
let me back that up with a few points. That the public safety commission
members, the sheriff's department and Officer Chaffee all agree that it is
redundant to do so. In fact to paraphrase Jim, he would perhaps be embarrassed
to go back and ask because they simply are not in that business to provide us
with those services. So I would like to save staff sane time on what was
perhaps a bad idea by me since it was my motion to do so and since we have
statistics from years past, which I was not completely aware of, to withdraw
that portion. It may perhaps have to be on the next Council meeting. If we
want to take action on that. If that's in fact what we have to do.
Councilman Johnson: Wye can move for reconsideration. That's the procedure.
And then it will go onto the next Council meeting. I think a whole lot more has
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been made of this than was ever intended to be made of it. Public Safety
Commission got upset. I got the impression they thought they were being pushed
to the side on this. There's no way I want than involved all the way through. I
think part of it is this extremely weak contract we have. My objective is to
get that contract renegotiated to where it's a good two part contract.
Councilman Workman: This is a Council presentation. It's not discussion. I
just presented it. That's all.
Councilman Johnson: Are you going to move for reconsideration?
Councilman Workman: Yes. I will move to reconsider.
Councilwoman Dimler: Do I have to withdraw my second from that portion?
Councilman Workman: No. Just second my move to reconsider.
' Councilwoman Dirtier: Okay. I will second the move to reconsider.
11 Councilman Johnson: Now it's open for discussion.
Councilman Workman: Refer to 12(a) .
' Councilwoman Dimler: It's a dead horse. We've beat it enough.
Councilman Hoyt: I'll save my 2 minutes.
Councilman Johnson: Is what you're asking is to reconsider only to look at
other areas? Are we still going to be instructing that they look at. I mean
' for 2 years we've been asking to have this contract looked at and it hasn't been
done. That we go in and we start negotiating this contract.
Councilman Workman: I think it has and I think it's favorable if not comparable
to most others.
Councilman Johnson: When you say it's favorable and comparable to somebody who
gets 2 to 3 hours of service, it's not the same contract. I won't write the
same contract to buy a lollipop at the grocery store or buy a Cadillac. I mean
it's two different contracts.
' Mayor Chmiel: Jim, do you have anything to just throw a little light on this so
everybody...
Jim Chaffee: How much time do I have?
Mayor Chmiel: About 2 minutes.
Jim Chaffee: I guess I really- don't have anything to say. We'll follow
whatever Council's wishes are. Al Wallin and I were directed last year, or the
beginning of this year, to look at a long range plan for police services for the
' City of Chanhassen. We will do that. I think we've bought same time with the
signing of the 1980 contract. I feel comfortable doing it. I think Sheriff
Wallin feels comfortable doing it and we'll just abide by the wishes of the
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Councilman Johnson: What's your progress on that?
Jim Chaffee: We've got a time frame that Al Wallin shot out when we first met
and we're working on that right now but we're still in the preliminary stages of
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Councilman Johnson: 10 months and still in the preliminary stages. What about
the issue of, have you ever talked to the County Attorney on this contract?
Jim Chaffee: Yes I have.
Councilman Johnson: And the County Attorney says that they will not, that this
is the one, the only possible contract?
Jim Chaffee: Well he didn't say it in such strong terms but because of the
lawsuit with Chaska, I'm under the understanding or I'm of the understanding
that we are locked into that because of the language in the settlement and
changes made to that contract can be made by letter agreement with the City of
Chanhassen and the Sheriff's Department through the County Attorney but yeah, I
have talked to Mike Fahey on that.
Councilman Workman: Jim, what kind of response would you or have you gotten from
Eden Prairie or Shoreview or whoever?
Jim Chaffee: Just off the record, they won't consider it. I've talked to Chief
Keith Wall. I talked to Chief Dick Setter. Certainly I've talked to Chief
Richard Young from South Lake Minnetonka and they just, it's too much of an
endeavor for them to come out of County and service Carver County.
Councilman Workman: So it's kind of a cooky idea? ,
Councilman Johnson: No, it's not a cooky idea but you've done some preliminary
work on it and it does not look feasible as your preliminary work has shown.
Jim Chaffee: That is correct.
Councilwoman Dimler: Didn't you study this in 1987?
Jim Chaffee: I have not studied it no. I've just done the preliminary
research.
Councilwoman Dimler: I was under the impression that Dick Wing said that it was
studied two years ago.
Councilman Johnson: Yeah, he said that but who did the study?
Councilwoman Dimler: The Commission.
Jim Chaffee: I'm not aware of any study that was done in 1987 anyway. ,
Councilman Boyt: The document that he presented and maybe this can be put in
the staff packet so you can read it for the reconsideration, talked about the
study that was done in 1981 and that Dick had done same updating on that over I
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the years. I think it would be helpful if you had that information before we
discussed it.
' Councilman Johnson: ...so you've almost completed what you need to do.
Councilman Workman: No Jay. I think this part of it is just simply who might
else. What I'm attempting to take out of my motion is who else would want to
supply us with a police contract. I say nobody and I think Jim is leaning
towards that. I think the study that we directed the earlier with Al and Jim
and everybody after the so called breathalyzer fiasco, was to give us maybe a
date or what is our long range plan going to be? When are we going to do it? I
think that takes, if this Council could arrive at possibly because I don't think
anybody on this council believes that having our own police department is
' adverse to the County Contract. I think everybody's in agreement on that but if
we could take and figure out a date. Systematically, financially and everything
else, we'd take the air out of this thing. The newspapers wouldn't have a darn
' thing to write about.
Councilman Johnson: No, what I'm saying is what we directed them last week or 2
weeks ago, or whenever this was. That part of it. It appears he's pretty much
through with what you're asking him to reconsider. It still has to go and look
at that 5 year or whatever plan. I'd like than to increase the speed on that.
What I'm saying is by the time we work the reconsideration, he's going to be
through because he's going to came back to us and give us a quick little report
saying nobody wants to do it. It's infeasible. As far as looking at
neighboring cities. It sounds like he's almost finished. He's looked around
and he's...
Councilman Workman: No. I don't think we've started that process did you? It
had already been done.
Jim Chaffee: That had already been done. The only thing I haven't done is
formally request these cities to provide us with a bid for the services.
Councilman Johnson: How long ago did you talk to all these chiefs?
Jim Chaffee: A year and a half ago.
Councilman Johnson: So you were aware of that when we made that motion the
other day?
' Mayor Chmiel: Okay, thanks Jim. We had a motion and a second to have
reconsideration of the police contract by Councilman Workman. There's a second.
Councilman Workman moved, Councilwoman Dueler seconded to reconsider the police
' contract on a future agenda. All voted in favor and the motion carried.
Mayor Chmiel: Next item on the agenda is Statement of Values, School District
#112. Don?
' Don Ashworth: This it appeared and not appeared and published and not
published and I think it's finally back onto your agenda and can be taken care
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Councilman Johnson: I move approval.
Councilwoman Dimler: Second. 1
Resolution #89-108: Councilman Johnson moved, Councilwoman Dimler seconded to
adopt the Statement of Values from School District #112 as presented. All voted
in favor and the motion carried.
Mayor Qriiel: Item 13(b) , City Council asks that city goals be included so we
could discuss if and how much should be pursued.
Don Ashworth: I really think this should be part of same type of special
session. Work session. Future. I thought I would put those back out again and
start the thought process. I don't know when we'll get to it since our next
efforts are really going to be budget. At least for the next month. If you
want to hold onto those and be looking at them. It's something we should do.
Councilman Johnson: I'd like to see next time an update as to how many of these I
have had anything done to them.
Don Ashworth: In fact I was looking back through my own and I told Karen, I I
don't even know if I want to put those on there. We're getting into September.
The year's almost done.
Mayor Chmiel: The one thing about TH 101 relocation. Tell the good word. ,
Don Ashworth: We got it. The State has included it in the bill. That's about
4 to 5 million dollars state funding that will wime to Chanhassen to assure the
realignment of TH 101 becomes a reality. The suit with Abby Bongard can be
dismissed which Roger has pursued or I mean has notified the Court of so
condemnation can be started there. I'm very, very happy that we were able to '
get that through the legislature.
Mayor Chmiel: Me too. A lot of time. I
Don Ashworth: The mayor has spent a lot of time and it required getting votes
from Hennepin County which was very difficult. If you recall, Mr. Johnson had
been quoted as saying I bet Chanhassen must be laughing all the way to the bank
about 2 to 3 years ago and through the work of the Mayor, we were able to
change. Not change but obtain his vote in getting Darius and Jude were also
very important and of course then the legislature itself. '
Mayor Qmiel: That was most important. If they didn't approve it, we wouldn't
have gotten it. Okay. Let's move onto item 14. '
Councilwoman Dimler: Are we going to go into executive session now?
Mayor Qmiel: No. You know what I'm thinking really? Maybe I'm wrong but tell '
me, at least it's my feeling. Maybe what there should be is sort of a committee
of Jim, someone from the city and even myself or someone on Council if they'd
like to sit on it, to just sit down and cane up with same of the conclusions. I
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guess my major concern is or was at the time that this not go into the court
systems that we could save a few dollars by coming up with a resolution of what
the cost differences are between what Jim is selling for and his appraisal as
' opposed to what the City. I know that we've already spent about x number of
dollars and I'm sure Jim has too and as I look at it, it's still more money for
the City, for our Attorney to spend and what I'd like to see done is that we try
' to reach a solution if we can. If we can't, well then we can't and it has to go
to the courts but at least to sit down and try to work something out. Come up
with same conclusions as to where we're at.
iCouncilman Workman: We have in our midst also another gentleman who is also in
a situation, threatened condemnation and I don't know that we've seen any
movement there either. He's kind of hanging. There's a lot of threaten
' development coming up around him. He's going to be forced to move pretty soon
and doesn't really have an idea about what's going on there. Does that figure
into any of this?
' Don Ashworth: So you'd like to have the committee potentially- meeting with both
Mr. Burdick and Bernie?
Councilman Workman: I think the sooner the City gets out of the courts and we
get the carcases of our long lost businesses in this town buried, given proper
burials, we get on with a more positive tone in our development in our city that
we're all going to be a little happier. I don't myself appreciate these court
situations. I don't know. There's more than 10 sides to each of these issues
and the way I hear it, I would just as soon get this, what I kind of call a dark
' period of our city here and what we had to do to redevelop. I know there's some
positive aspects of all this and downtown's starting to look a little better but
there are same people that have been lost in the cracks I think and I just wish
we could get this over with. If we could find someway as a committee to help
resolve this cheaper and quicker and more friendly, than by all means.
Don Ashworth: Staff would really appreciate having one or more council members
in meetings let's say with Jim or even with Bernie. I'm hoping that the
meetings with Bernie aren't going to take that much. I hope there's nothing
that has came up here recently that, in other words, I thought we were pretty
' close to home Bernie but your being present maybe I'm wrong. But anyway, I
think that the Mayor's suggestion is a good one.
Mayor Chmiel: I'd be willing to sit in and try to came up with some
' resolvetient. Does anyone else wish to?
Councilman Boyt: if you'd hold than in the evening, I'd be real interested but
I can't time out of the work day to came.
Mayor Chmiel: Do like I do. Take a day of vacation.
' Councilman Johnson: How many days of vacation do you get a year Don?
Mayor Qiniel: Just 32.
Don Ashworth: I don't think Bernie or Mr. Burdick would mind a meeting in an
evening. I don't want to speak from either of those two.
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Councilman Workman: Would meeting at Pauly's be appropos?
Mayor Ch iel: No, I don't think so. Not if we want a successful completion.
Whichever. We'11 get a feeling from you either now or you can get back to Don
and tell than when you'd like to sit down and give us a couple dates on each
side so we can sit down and come up with those conclusions. But I'd be willing
either during the day or in the evening. '
Councilman Johnson: I'd like to then move that we assign Don and Bill to get
together some evening because I do believe this is not in the courts but before
the courts, that we really shouldn't give onto details outside of an executive
session tonight.
Mayor Chmiel: I don't think we should even go into it. Just get going with the
cainittee meetings and go from there.
Councilman Johnson: I think that's a good idea. Do we need a motion to do '
that? To make a cotmtittee?
Don Ashworth: I think it'd be appropriate. i
Mayor CIviiel: Okay, we have a motion on the floor.
Councilman Johnson: Should the committee also include somebody from HRA since
this is all HRA stuff?
Mayor Cmiel: I think we should, yes. Have somebody from HRA and staff. '
Councilman Johnson: We can't put you on there because that would make 3 from
the Council and we can't have 3 from the council on the committee. '
Mayor Chmiel: Okay, we have a motion on the floor.
Councilman Workman: What is the motion? I
Councilman Johnson: The motion is to assign Don and Bill and somebody from the
HRA to be a committee. 1
Councilman Workman: Well I'd like to know Bill's position on...
Councilwoman Dimler: Do you have to assign members or can you leave it open? '
Don Ashworth: From HRA you mean?
Councilwoman Dimler: From anybody...
Councilman Johnson: We don't want a 12 person committee. I'm thinking of the
two Don's, Bill and somebody from the HRA. Maybe 5 people at the most on this.
I don't have a second on this anyway do I?
Councilman Workman: Second. '
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1 Councilman Johnson moved, Councilman Workman seconded to appoint Mayor Chmiel,
Councilman Hoyt, a member from HRA and the City Manager to form a corunittee to
meet with Jim Burdick and Bernie Hanson. All voted in favor and the motion
' carried.
1 Councilwoman Dimmer moved, Councilman Workman seconded to adjourn the meeting.
All voted in favor and the motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at 9:45
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CHANHASSEN PLANNING COMMISSION
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LINIERITIED
REGULAR MEETING
OCTOBER 4, 1989
' Chairman Conrad called the meeting to order at 7 : 35 p.m. .
' MEMBERS PRESENT: Tim Erhart, Steve Emmings, Annette Ellson, Ladd Conrad ,
Brian Batzli and David Headla
MEMBERS ABSENT: Jim Wildermuth
STAFF PRESENT: Paul Krauss , Director of Planning and Jo Ann Olsen, Senior
Planner
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Conrad: I'm going to start out with just an item of interest . Did
everybody receive a copy of Dave Headla' s note of resigning. He has sent
that to the City Council and myself. He said it was effective October
15th. I always feel there' s a loss when somebody resigns Dave because when
you've been around and you have some experience, I think it is a loss to
the community but you' ve talked to me about reasons and I sure know why
you're doing it. I thank you for the time. I don ' t know what ' s the right
date for your resignation. As you said, there is some flexibility. I ' ll
' talk to you about that . Thanks for your time. You always seem to bring up
different perspectives and I don' t know what Jo Ann' s going to do without
you around here.
SITE PLAN REVIEW FOR AN INDUSTRIAL/OFFICE/WAREHOUSE FACILITY ON 3. 95 ACRES
OF PROPERTY ZONED IOP AND LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF PARK ROAD AND
PARK COURT, ROME CORPORATION.
Paul Krauss presented the staff report .
Conrad : Roman, do you want to present your proposal or react to the staff
report? It was pretty clean. We haven ' t heard one this clean for a long
time.
Roman Roos : Well a little history basically. The site , as Paul eluded to,
is a 4 acre site. Originally was two lots but when they put in Park Place,
' which is a cul-de-sac to the north. . .they reconfigured that general area
and made that into one. . . What I 'm proposing to do is much like I did on
the last building in Chanhassen that I did in 1985 . The lot is large
' enough to sustain two buildings. The second building about 17,500 and the
reason I 'm leading you into this is having to do with that curb cut. My
option would be downstream to build a second building on that site. At
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that point in time I could have put a curb cut in just for that building so
' instead I shifted it to make it a common easement for both lots at such
time as I might split that property into two. The building is a multi-
tenanted building. Therefore the amount of parking on the eastern side as
' you see. . . The distance from the corner to here is approximately 65 foot.
I did want to say in terms of the industrial park, there are quite a few
curb cuts. . .
(Roman Roos stepped away from the microphone and was not picked up on the
tape.)
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Roman Roos : . . I 'm not aware of any situation in the park now that has
that type of situation that has created a hazard. The other thing in
' consideration would be a cul-de-sac. . .The building will bring probably
about 40 new employees into Chanhassen. . . .As far as the staff report, the
picture that I have, the landscaping . We went a little heavy on the
landscaping with intent also and I guess I 'm pretty open for questions that
you people might have regarding the overall site plan.
Conrad: Good. Thanks Roman. Anybody else have comments?
' Batzli : Do we have to close the public hearing?
' Conrad: It' s not a public hearing. We' ll start Dave down at your end.
Headla : Any particular reason you chose those kind of apple trees? Crab
apple trees .
Roman Roos ' answer was not picked up on tape.
' Headla: The reason I , and I 'm going to dwell on it a little bit, some crab
apple trees will keep their apples over the winter and the birds will feed
on them.
' Emmings: These do.
Headla : And I should have been able to tell you the name of those trees
' but I can't but I 'd like to see if you can do that. I think that would
help. . . Then the other one, you have junipers and red cedar . When one' s
next to the other, I was hoping to get some information on this today but I
wasn' t able to but whenever you see apple trees , you never see red cedar by
them because you've got. . . from the tree and that becomes quite
objectionable. If you go to the crab apple tree, I think you need some
expert advice on it. If you can look at it to see if the Junipers could
' affect those apple trees . The other comment is , Jo Ann did you talk to the
fire department again?
Olsen: Yes .
Headla : How do they feel about that coming down on the eastern side of the
building?
' Olsen: They had no objection to that. They had reviewed it and they were
comfortable with it. They felt that they had the access points on both
streets and that ' s what they needed and the circulation.
Headla: Okay. That' s all I had .
rConrad: What' s your comment on the access? That' s the bone of contention
that staff has. The 3 curb cuts versus 2. Any comments?
Headla : I think I ' ve got a 51% preference to see the access there. I
could be swayed awful easy. I think the staff has got some good arguments
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but the other party has some good arguments too and I think it' s real
close.
Batzli : Curb cuts first . I actually think I like the plan better with till
2 curb cuts. I'm not a traffic engineer though but it makes sense to me t�
have them there.
Conrad: To have two? '
Batzli : To have the two. Well the two on the south. Those two.
Ellson: Leave it as it?
Batzli : It makes sense with the future expansion and everything else to
have that access in there so you don' t need another one for the future
expansion. Otherwise we' re going to get into a situation where we just put
it in on West 78th where they have to redo it so they can get the internal
flow. Or else you're leaving yourself open because you' re going to end up
with another one in the future expanded lot. I would rather have it
planned at this point than down the stream having to force one in there. A
couple of questions of Paul I think. I think just for clarity sake, don' t
we normally include in the motion the plans dated stamped received
whatever?normally whoever makes the motion may want to include that as part of
the motion. Something that I 'd like to see in I guess I brought up before
Whenever we see a future expansion on a site plan, potential future
expansion, I would actually like to see it become a condition that we' re
not approving the future expansion and I don't know how the other
commissioners feel about that but I 'd like to see it. I think the City
from time to time has maybe regretted that they were somehow tacitedly
approving future expansion when in fact nobody' s really looking at it that
hard but I think the applicant gets a false sense of security that the
future expansion is, since nobody said anything bad about it, it' s a go at '
a later date. I 'd like to hear some comments on that. The only other
thing I had was the drainage to the north I think. Is that currently into
a wetland or where is that going to? •
Roman Roos: There' s a storm sewer along the property line.
Batzli : But what was the holding pond or something? '
Krauss: It was an area that was created or utilized with our industrial '
park and was designed to receive all the water. Now it does have some
wetland characteristics which may have occurred over the recent years. It ' s
located entirely off site.
Batzli : So they' re not within 75 feet or whatever the heck? They' re not II
going to need that type of approval? There's not going to be any kind of
requirement for a skimmer or anything else draining off of the blacktop or "
anything like that?
Krauss : We didn't include that. It certainly could be and the other poin
is they have to get Watershed District approval as well .
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Batzli : You know I don' t know. There was no discussion of that in here
but it appeared that they weren't going to initially drain into the storm
sewer system. It looked like it was going to be draining into a holding
' retention pond or something.
Krauss: No , it does go into the system. What' s temporary though is the
improvement on Park Place right now are only there temporarily. There's no
storm sewer in Park Place. When you rebuild the street next spring , it
will have curb and gutter and storm sewer and we' re asking that the system
be designed so when we put in the final line, that they all hook together
' and run into that retention area.
Batzli : I guess I 'd like engineering or whoever to look at just to make
' sure that they' re engineering it properly. That' s the only questions
I have.
Roman Roos ' comments were not picked up on tape.
' Batzli : So it' s really not even being subdivided as an outlot?
Roman Roos : No. Absolutely not. . .
Conrad : I kind of like seeing the thought of the direction and to me it' s
more persuasive in terms of allowing the 2 curb cuts on Park Road. Now I
' think if Roman conies back in and when he subdivides and wants an additional
curb cut, I think it depends what we do here tonight, how many we allow but
I think on my part , if we allow 3 now, there'd be a terrific amount of
resistance to add an additional one when he subdivides later on so I really
like seeing an overall plan like this .
' Batzli : I agree . My only point was that we' re not approving this building
or that particular location or configuration. I mean the setbacks .
Whatever hasn' t really been studied by staff or us.
Ellson: Right. There's an assumption that might go along with it that you
just want to protect yourself against . I like the plan. I like the rear
loading and I like the landscaping. It was so refreshing to see a lot of
' landscaping for a change versus always asking to add a little more and
things like that. I think it's a good use of that area and like Ladd
said, I like the idea of seeing the idea of the expansion. One of my pet
peeves is just seeing the word outlot and you have no idea what the whole,
you know here we are planners . We like to see the whole plan even though
it's not an approval like that. I don' t really have a problem with the
extra curb cuts now that I 've heard the explanation and again the plan of
' what he's seeing in the future. I think then it's natural that people from
that building would go in that way and the people in this one would go in
that way. In that context it makes sense so I don't think I would have a
problem with allowing that there. It sounded like there would be about 40
additional people that would be in this case now splitting up these two
which would pretty much stagger how busy it would be. I can' t imagine it'd
be too busy. But I like it. Do you have tenants? You said this one's
going to be a multiple tenant.
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Roman Roos : We have one tenant and we're working on the other . '
Ellson: What kind of company? I 'm just kind of interested.
Roman Roos' answer could not be heard on tape. '
Emmings: I 'd like to ask on page 5. In that little table you've got unde
lot coverage. Just the line that says lot coverage ordinance 70%, propose
75%. I know there' s that note under there. I wasn' t clear about what that
line was telling me.
Krauss: What that was telling you is we took a look or I asked the
developer' s architect to take a look at what the total site coverage would
be with both buildings that they' re showing on the concept and it exceeded "
the requirement. Then we discussed how you could bring that into
compliance and it' s a relatively simple task since the site is so over
parked. There is no variance now since that entire concept future phase i
going to be a vacant lot.
Emmings: But the actual lot coverage with what is being proposed.
Krauss: Is considerably less.
Emmings: Do we know what that number is?
Krauss: No, I have not worked that out .
Emmings: But it' s certainly well within? '
Krauss: It's probably 40%.
Emmings: Alright. As far as the curb cuts are concerned . This looks like"
a real reasonable and natural way to have the curb cuts and I guess I like
it there. You' re not getting too much support from us tonight on this
but I tell you one thing I 'm concerned about is when we talked about last II
week, the last time we met, about that infamous Lot A and the PUD for the
supermarket. I think I or somebody asked what the regulations are in terms
of how close you can have a driveway to a corner and the number 3001 feet
stuck in my mind. Didn' t I hear that?
Olsen: That was on West 78th Street that we used with Charlie James'
property.
Emmings: So that doesn' t apply to this situation?
Olsen: That was a busier intersection.
Emmings: Now is there a standard in this area for how close a driveway call
be to a frontage?
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' Conrad: Why don' t you just talk to us about this. I 'm going to ask the
same questions so I ' ll jump in here. It sounds like so far we're pretty
receptive to the 3 curb cuts so Paul tell us the other side of the coin.
Give us some negatives.
Krauss : The negatives fall into a couple categories . Basically you have,
everytime you introduce a new curb cut, you introduce turning movements
because obviously people are going to stop their cars and turn out . The
more turning movements you have, the more places you have to look for
oncoming cars as you're driving down the street. More places there are for
potential interaction between cars going in different directions. There' s
no firm rule about how many there should be or how far they should be apart
from one another typically except that the general rule of thumb is you
want to minimize them and I can ' t argue that there aren' t a lot of curb
' cuts on that road right now. There are and there's probably, is my
opinion, more than are warranted given the levels of traffic . Having 40
employees or how ever many employees sounds innocuous enough, except you
have to realize it ' s an industrial park and they all tend to arrive and
leave at the same time. I 'm not going to tell you that there's definitely
a traffic accident in the making here with the proposal the way it sits
' right now. It' s really a matter of normally accepted practices and rules
of thumb.
' Emmings: The Red Splendor Crab is the one that holds it' s apples . The Red
Splender Crab is the one that holds it' s apples all winter . That happens
to be the one that holds it longer I think than any other one.
Ellson: Did you just look that up or you knew that? Well good for you.
Ernmings: And I like it. I agree with Brian ' s notion and I agree it' s good
' to see what people are planning to do in the future on the balance of the
lot but I think it is important that we have some kind of a statement in
there that we' re not giving any consideration to that even though it
' appears here and that there ' s to be no approval , implied or otherwise for
approving a plan that' s in front of. I think it' s nice to make that real
clear . Those are all the comments I have. Otherwise I think it' s a real
nice plan. I keep thinking this Lot 2, if it didn' t have Park Place over
' here, you'd certainly have an access on each side of your building and I
wouldn't see any reason to treat it differently just because he has that
other access opportunity way up Park Street. I think it' s an advantage to
having the corner and I 'd leave the accesses the way they are.
Erhart: I think it' s a real nice plan . I think the additional landscaping
overcomes my concern for the reputation of the developer .
Roman Roos : I love you too Tim.
1 Erhart: It' s a good plan. Regarding the curb cuts . I understand the
issue of the curb cuts close to the intersection. We' re obviously, our
business is right across the street and down a bit . Yeah, you do get some
people running into each other. We had one the other day. Some guy
' scraped a car a little bit. We' re right in the middle of the street so I
don't know how these things happen. Essentially it' s a four lane road. I
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mean it's wide enough so if someone makes a left turn, you can pass on the
right. If someone's slowing down to make a right turn, they can pass on
the left. I guess my feeling is the nuisance factor of not having a curb
cut outweighs the potential danger of it so I guess I would tend to lean 1
allow the curb cuts . I also agree with Brian' s idea of adding a 10th
recommendation so that' s it.
Conrad: I 'm persuaded to allow that curb cut only because I see the future"
expansion. Property only having one and I would be real critical if the
next subdivision came in and had 2 so I would only grant the 3 this time
if I felt real comfortable that the future expansion was only going to use"
the one curb cut. Other than that it looks like a good one. Good project
I like it. Anything else? Is there a motion?
Erhart: I ' ll move that the Planning Commission recommend approval to the II
City Council of Site Plan Review #89-8 dated 9-6-89.
Ellson: 9-8 . '
Emmings: Received 9-8.
Erhart: Received 9-8-89 with all the staff recommendations except for '
number 3. We delete the first sentence and change the second sentence to
start, redesign curb cuts as required as it remains. Add item 10. Site
plan approval does not include approval of the building designated on the
plans as future expansion.
Ellson: I ' ll second that. '
Conrad : Discussion.
Batzli : Do you want to talk about the rust on the trees? '
Conrad: My concern hasn' t been incorporated .
Emmings: Oh , the future expansion.
Erhart: You wanted. . .
Conrad : The only reason I 'd vote for the 3 right now is if I 'm convinced
that that' s all we' re going to have on this 4 acre property.
Krauss : Mr . Chairman, one of the reasons why we encouraged Roman to
include that development concept was for this very reason. So we could
assess those sorts of impacts . At such time, it isn' t one parcel right noll
and through the subdivision process, if it' s ever subdivided off in the
future, we can always whip this concept out and say this is what we
intended to do. '
Ellson: Would that be typical to remember to do that or is that just
automatic to do that?
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' Krauss : It's automatic to look at background and to actions associated
with the property and that would be one of them.
Conrad : See we' re kind of over-riding your staff report which I don' t like
doing typically on technical issues but I feel we' re getting something or I
think in the future.
' Krauss : No, I 'm saying it' s fine. I 'm not disputing that point but your
concern I think was to ensure that there isn' t another access in the future
and I think we can do that adequately through the subdivision process and
by having this concept and your hearing on this item tonight .
' Conrad : So Roman can come back and say I want to subdivide this 1. 5 acres
off without a site plan. He could do that couldn' t he?
Krauss : He could subdivide it off. At that time we would recommend that a
cross access easement to serve both properties be recorded against it.
' Conrad : But wouldn' t he have the right to come back in and have a second
access to that?
' Krauss : Theoretically.
Roman Roos : Ladd , can I address that a little bit?
' Conrad: Go ahead .
' Roman Roos : From the day I conceived the project , the intent was I wanted
the truck traffic behind both buildings. That' s the reason for this curb
cut here in order to service this building and this building . Now the
purpose of the second curb cut is exactly what you' re eluding to. I wanted
' to not have a lot of curb cuts in the front of the property on the building
so with this servicing the truck traffic, hoping the truck traffic can go
back out that way. . .this should be car traffic and it was my intent , as I
' already told you, to eventually probably split that property line. I have
no problem with the green space. I have no problem with. . .
' Conrad: I hear what you' re saying .
Roman Roos : So I did have intent from day one. I don' t have a crystal
ball and I can' t tell you what's going to happen 5 years downstream or 2
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years downstream but my intent at this point in time is to do that such
that this would be a cross over easement. That' s all I can say about it.
' Conrad : But you're also telling me, you would have a tough time getting a
second access in on the subdivided. . .
Roman Roos : I guess if at that point I needed a second access, it would
hurt me on this building , the width of the building. Okay, that' s number
one. Number two, if I needed a second access, I would probably have to
sell my soul to get both Council and Planning Commission to agree to that
but I think if that did, there would be some logical reasons behind it and
probably would not, should not be denied based on every other type of. . .
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and office in the industrial park. My intent at this point in time is not '
to do that.
Conrad: I think I 'm persuaded he can' t do it so I don' t need the language"
Erhart moved, Ellson seconded that the Planning Commission recommend
approval of Site Plan Review #89-8 dated "Received 9-8-89" for the Rome
Office Building without variances subject to the following stipulations :
1. Provide trash storage enclosure built with materials compatible with I
the building or store all trash internally.
2. Roof mounted HVAC equipment should be provided with a screen
constructed of materials compatible with the building exterior .
Details should be prepared for staff approval prior to City Council
review.
3. Redesign the remaining curb cuts as required to facilitate truck
turning movements. Reduce the grade on the remaining Park Road and
curb cut from 10+% to less than 5% .
4. Revise the landscaping plan to illustrate seeding or sodding of the
Phase II building area . This area is to be kept in a maintained
condition until construction occurs .
5. Project approval by the Riley Purgatory Bluff Creek Watershed District"
6. Utilize concrete curb and gutter and design it to connect to
improvements in Park Place that will be installed by the City. Add an
additional catch basin at the Park place curb cut. All storm sewer I
located in public easement or ROW shall be reinforced concrete pipe.
7. Erosion controls are to be in place prior to start of work on the site
and maintained until site restoration is completed . Additional erosion'
control may be required along the south property line by staff to
prevent erosion into Park Road. '
8. Add a fire hydrant on the parking lot island located off the northwest
corner of the building .
9. Providing lighting and signage details for staff review. 1
10. Site plan approval does not include approval of the building designate
on the plans as future expansion.
All voted in favor and the motion carried.
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SITE PLAN REVIEW FOR A BANK AND OFFICE BUILDING ON PROPERTY ZONED BH,
HIGHWAY BUSINESS AND LOCATED AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF MARKET BOULEVARD
AND WEST 79TH STREET, CROSSROADS NATIONAL BANK.
Jo Ann Olsen presented the staff report.
' Tom Mork: Thank you. My name is Tom Mork. I 'm the President and CEO of
Crossroads National Bank which perhaps you've heard is a national bank
charter currently in organization. We have our charter approved. It was
' approved in March actually and we' re currently in the final stages of
getting the bank actually organized. This is a project that' s been near
and dear to my heart for about the last year, give or take a week or so.
Although I 've been in this chamber on numerous occasions dealing with the
HRA, I can't tell you how pleased we are to be here to present our plan for
our building to the Planning Commission. I 'd be more than happy to answer
any of your questions about the bank and the development of it but I know
1 that' s not really why you' re here tonight . I will answer any questions you
might have afterwards but right now I 'd like to turn it over to David Shea ,
the principle of Shea Architects who has been doing our development work on
the building.
David Shea : Thank you. I' ll give just a brief overview of the building
and the location and a little graphic. . . .temporary location. We' re
planning the entire facility. Obviously the main building is from here ,
some sort of a. . .as well and trying to locate a temporary facility so that
we can easily construct a building without creating problems on the site to
the traffic flow around this. Provide parking and minimum disruption in
the future so the temporary facility, all the curb cuts would be in place.
Most of the paving . . .curb cuts , landscaping for that so we' ll be able to
' establish a presence. Signage idenity early and then discuss as staff has
suggested that we have it taken down within a week after we get certificate
of occupancy on the building itself. There' s no problem with that. The
' items that were discussed as far as landscaping and we agree with all of
those and I think as part of the development process, with this additional
curbing here, we maintain the. . .trees. We have a special condition along
the railroad area there. We obviously want to have the public , customers
focusing on the building so that we felt that a strong screening approach,
a framing approach of the site on that side. The building itself, we've
done a number of financial institutions and this is an excellent site for
' this kind of an institution. We have a strong parking area to the side to
accommodate the customers to the back and we have expansion areas within
the building itself that will be used for office space. Rental office
' space that will provide a future expansion area within the building itself
for the growth of the bank and then as staff points out , the additional
opportunity to add onto the building in a like manner out into this area
with similar architectural treatment so we can maintain the integrity of
' the building and really complete the visual aspect of the mass of the
building and we can accommodate the bank' s future growth. The site plan,
as I mentioned, works out very well in that we separate the driving flow on
this side from the main pedestrian and from the parking area. They' re
different customers. A lot of people never go inside a bank. Maybe once
at a bank once and then after that they use the drive in completely so a
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very simple easy approach to that . I think the staff' s recommendation of II
deceleration lane is important and I think it can be accommodated within
the flexibility of the plan itself and I think we can work with staff too
to be able to accommodate that. The materials on the building would be, II
and it' s hard to tell from the model but it' s an all brick building . . .at
the base of the front column in these areas here. We have a long roof that
again picks up some of the gabled roof in making the building, it
accomplishes a couple of things . It accommodates a high ceiling inside. III
picks up some of the elements that are in town itself. The coloration of
it. Browns. The bronze colors. Those are, as we've gone through the town
and looked at a number of different structures in the town, this is a
building of permanence and we have a limited maintenance building. I can'
say maintenance free but. . .a limited maintenance building that will be here
for a number of years. It' s a solid building. Insulated glass and metal
frames and all the type of things that are necessary for a permanent
building. The signage area to the side, we really extended the canopy out
which is part of the building . We've tried very hard not to make a canopy
and a lot of times you see this in a drive in bank that are really '
appendages to the building . Stuck onto the building . We felt very
strongly that the architecture of the building has to be maintained from
the end of the last drive-in unit , potentially a ATM unit on the outside. I
Going in and becoming part of the same architecture for the building
carrying from one side to the other . Than when the future addition comes
on, you can see it outlined here, it's a relatively simply job of carrying '
that progression of the architecture down. The brick, the metal and the
stone faces and all of those. Generally we believe we've worked with the
bank's needs as far as internal layout. The orientation of the entrance.
The orientation of the drive in area. Trash enclosures are screened off .
With staff' s recommendations on landscaping . We' re going to look into the
cedar rust question. There are a couple of crab trees and if there are
spruce trees azound them, I ' ll have to look into that but we've spent a II
great deal of time working from the inside of the building out and from the
overall property so we get a good traffic flow and we feel that we've
accomplished that. There are a number of items though on the staff report "
that are beyond the architectural area that Tom would like to talk to.
They expressed some concern about cross easements and future areas so Tom,
if you'd like to do that and I ' ll be available for questions.
Toni Mork: The questions or comments we have concerning staff' s '
recommendations have to do with some of the conditions and some of them are
really comments but the first one relates to number 3. We have absolutely "
no objection to a deceleration lane into our drive-up. In fact it' s my
sense that as we are attempting to be as user friendly as possible, that a
deceleration lane would actually work to our advantage and so the impact o
that, in sliding the building over 13 to 20 feet is really an insignifican
issue to us. Furthermore, the pedestrian sidewalk in place I think is als
user friendly and we' re very supportive of the notion. My one question is,
who pays for it and perhaps we can just get a clarification in terms of
paying for it and also maintenance of it and so on.
Conrad: Why don't we just talk about that.
Tom Mork: Sure, okay.
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' Olsen: We believe that the City would be paying for those improvements in
Market Blvd. in the sidewalk.
Tom Mork: Okay. That'd be part of the entire improvement process? Okay.
Good. The next item of comment is number 4, regarding the cross easement
issue. When David tells you that we've spent a great deal of time in
financial resources to develop the plan that we do have, he' s not kidding .
I 'm a banker and I 've never gone through the development of a building
before and frankly I 'm appalled at how quickly you can spend money on
developing a plan but we also are very jealous of our image and we covet
' the kind of image that we are attempting to create in putting up a very
professional building and in building our own staff and our own corporate
identify if you will . Our concern about kind of a carte blanche cross
' easement has to do with our limited knowledge of what will be developed on
the site to the east of us. We would prefer that that cross easement be
linked to a specific use of that property. Inasmuch as our sense is that
if we are unable to control that cross easement and access to both
properties , the presence of a tenant on that site that we find
objectionable gives us some cause for concern. For example, if it' s a
' restaurant or some other kind of business that tends to create a problem of
litter , it's our sense that we would like to segregate ourselves from that
and so we would ask that that cross easement be linked more to a specific
use of that piece of property than it is currently worded. Finally and
also I think also in connection with the site to the east has to do with
number 12 and that is, asking us to illustrate how the easterly parking lot
will be modified . We have absolutely no problem in working with staff to
try to clarify that as much as we can as soon as we can find out exactly
' what will be developed on that easterly site. We have a little bit of
problem predicting what it' s going to look like and how exactly our parking
will be treated . We have looked at it from an overall standpoint and we've
I looked at some potential parking configurations but until a definitive plan
is in place, we have a little bit of a problem giving more of a
clarification or a commitment on that respect so those are the only
' comments that I had . You've already addressed one of them so.
Conrad: Thanks Toni. Anything else from your group?
Tom Mork: Not in terms of a presentation. I guess we'd welcome questions .
Conrad: Okay, we' ll go around our group here and see what our comments
are. Tim, we' ll start at your end.
Erhart: On this slow down lane, I 'm a little curious on our desire to have
a slow down lane. That means that actually this lane is going to be an
additional lane to the east of the right-of-way. Is there something
different about that that you wouldn't want a slow down lane then on the
intersection of West 79th Street and Market Blvd. or is it because that
' street's wider?
Olsen: Market is going to be a main entrance into and out of the city so
' that's why we felt it was necessary on Market because that's where you' re
going to have the cars.
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Erhart: Yeah okay but then why isn' t the same thought process require us II
to have a slow down lane. If we want a slow down lane here, I 'm not
objecting to that at all . I 'm just questioning , then don' t we need a slow'
down lane for the same argument over here?
Krauss : There is one. The way it's designed is that you have two lanes
coming northbound from TH 5. One of those lanes drops out at the
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intersection. It' s basically a turn lane.
Olsen: Then there's a median here. That' s why one of the lanes is lost ull
there. There are two.
Erhart: Oh so it' s more than a single lane up there where down here it' s I
two lane?
Krauss : Right.
Erhart: Okay. Just testing you. Secondly, it appears to me the cross I
easement is a requirement due to the fact that you don' t own, the developer
doesn' t own the property where the drive is isn' t it or do I misunderstand 11
Olsen: The drive is on top. It's over a property line.
Erhart: So I mean a cross easement is not a function of you not
controlling your property. It's because you have your driveway on somebod_
else' s property so I don' t understand why you feel , why you' re making this
request.
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David Shea : We very easily could maintain this line right here and have
our entrance right over here. This had come up at an earlier discussion
about trying to do this and where we feel we can contain and have a
landscape barrier coming right down through here. Have a full intersectio
entrance in off of here and maintain our space entirely separate from this
over here. I guess we' re showing this because we' re talking aobut it
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tonight and we do feel that we can maintain. . .
Erhart: Who' s asking you to put that double wide entrance in there? I
David Shea: Is it traffic engineering in the City or is it anyone else?
Tom Mork: It's HRA.
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David Shea : That talked about it before.
Tom Mork: Part of the HRA's concern was that we develop a common entrance "
to both sides of the site . I mean our preference would be that we could
control our own access but it really does not make a lot of sense if we ca
control our image. I guess that' s really what our concern is. We would
prefer to have our own but this particular configuration I think is an
accomodation to the HRA's concern initially.
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' David Shea : They don' t even know if this entrance would be the right
entrance for whatever facility they have here. I mean they may want it
over here. They may want it right here so we' re sort of guessing . This
' building could be over here. We don't know that and we put it on that. We
feel that we could very easily separate ourselves out that way as we have
over here and here and maintain this as an entity.
' Erhart: Yeah, and I don' t even know how we should respond to that.
Batzli : Who owns the land to the east there?
Olsen: HRA also owns that and as Paul and I were just discussing , it' s
fine with us if they just have the one entrance right on their property.
Then that removes the cross easement .
' Krauss: When we first reviewed this, we looked at the P ossibility of
eliminating one of those entrance points and coming up with a central
access. We had always assumed from the start that we would have a shared
access point there.always
in fact that was going to be a segregated access ,
we wouldn't want it on the property line because then you wind up with the
' same situation you get when you drive into City Hall where there' s 3
driveways coming together and you' re never sure which is the street and
which one you turn down.
Erhart : Well it seems to me it' s , if you go in there and turn right or
left, it seems to me it's going to be confusing traffic rather than the
traffic intersection being on the street , it' s going to be right in there.
David Shea: Frankly we feel very comfortable with doing that and then
somebody else if they, I mean they want it here. They may want it over
here.
Batzli : What is the driveway setback? How far over would they have to
move their driveway?
Olsen: There is no setback for the driveway. If it' s going to be shared ,
which it might be in the future. Again, we don' t know, then there's no
setback like for the parking area.
Batzli : But if they were to move it to the west , how far would they have
to go?
Ellson: From each other you're saying?
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' Olsen: For a driveway, 10 at the most. If they' re going to separate them,
they have to have a strip for the landscaping .
David Shea: I think from the center to this we' re about 5 feet which
provides you with a 5 foot barrier on the side and I guess when this
property comes to staff and then we could go through the question about
cross easements and that at that point and decide whether or not you want
to combine this entrance but if we move this entrance down here, then it
gets close to this separate turning areas and the set of things from here.
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This one feels like it should be separated out and when and if this gets 1
developed in some fashion, then we could, these people come back and talk
to staff and then come back to the bank and discuss a shared entrance at
that point or maybe the entrance is here and we don' t have to concern
ourselves with it at all . Maybe they only need one entrance onto this
space. It's premature but we don't want to preclude. The bank does need
that and does need that kind of a traffic flow inside here that can be
separated out.
Conrad: Yet on the other hand it restricts . If we allow a third access .
Erhart: What's going to happen is there will be too many curb cuts .
Conrad: Yeah. We' re restricting what' s happening to the property to the
east because we' re not going to allow two curb cuts within 20 feet. We
won't go over Paul ' s head again. Now twice in the same evening .
Krauss: Whether you do or you don' t go over my head, that' s up to you but 1
this kind of a movement internally can be handled very easily with
extension of the traffic islands down there to divert it. This is a fairly
common design. I guess we feel sort of strongly that preserving that
multiple use of that curb cut's an important factor . If that cross access 1
easement isn' t taken at the time the subdivision goes through, there is no
leverage to get it in the future. If it' s not used in the future, it' s no
used but this site over here is not that large and we've seen a few
different proposals but there's nothing firm for what might happen here bu
it may well be that this site needs two access points . The same as the
bank. One over here, one over here. You've got a real problem with
turning movements there. Both this site and if there' s retail use on the
other site, generate fairly high volumes of traffic coming in and out. If
you have traffic slowing down and turning and accelerating and leaving
within close proximity to one another , you've really got a hazardous
situation.
Conrad : A problem I have though is you' ve got some cross traffic and the I
scenario that I see, if you've got access coming from the property to the
east trying to get to an exit, you've got some cross traffic there based on
this particular design which is not good at all . 1
Krauss: But you've got to realize though that this is about 40 or 50 feet
back in here before that turn occurs. There's quite a few entrances that
are designed that way. 1
Batzli : The one that I can think of that' s poor is the one at 7 Hi
Shopping Center coming across from the Cub. Straight across where you hall
that type of a. . .
Krauss: Yeah, that one did do it but the one I was thinking that was
better is on the other side of the street going into where Cub 'is and
Westwinds.
Batzli : Yeah, that' s a good one. That' s designed much better . Okay,
we' ll do one like that.
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Conrad : Why do you need 3 curb cuts in this?
' David Shea: Let me explain. In a situation like this where you have very,
very different types of traffic here you don' t want to mix the traffic
flow. This is the drive in traffic. It comes in off of Market Blvd . .
' Separate use . Comes in here. Does their business and exits back out.
There' s no need to blend that traffic and there' s no need to eliminate a
great quantity of landscaping that does form the front of the building in
this area here by having another roadway that comes across and then you end
up with serious cross traffic on the street in the parking lot with cars
come in, park, backing out and with these people are actually looking for
more of an express approach. They' re in the drive in slot for a few minute
' and back out on the street and their business is done in a very short area .
If you start bringing them through the parking lot, you' re starting to
create more congestion in the parking lot. More potential difficulties for
turning . This is a relatively narrow parking area here. If you further
restrict it with a driveway that runs through it, it really damages the
retail nature of the bank and the convenience nature of the bank and the
customer parking right at the front. That's why when we do these types of
' facilities, it' s almost like two separate buildings. This is one flow.
This is another flow and we try to keep those things separate.
Conrad : You could separate those flows internally though however but I
won' t belabor that point. I hear what you' re doing.
Batzli : Is the road to the north of the bank, is that a one way a certain
way there? That driveway.
David Shea : This is 24 feet. This is two way back here. That gives
essentially an escape hatch. . . .and back out to Market Blvd. here.
Enmiings: You can' t.
Krauss: That's a right-in.
David Shea : Okay, I apologize. You can go into the drive-in and go around
that way.
Erhart : In listening to it, I think your perception of the problem is
probably compounded by the fact that you' re showing a curb that turns to
the left and that this double driveway appears to serve your whole space. I
think if you redraw it and take that curb out there, then your entrance
really becomes slightly to the north of that and I 'm not sure you' re
concerned about people perceiving that you' re part of a McDonalds or
something quite as much as you might think. But the other hand, I think
staff has a legitimate concern that that business next door, whatever it
might be, needs more than one access point. There' s no way you can get 4
access points.
' Tom Mork: We have allowed for whatever is developed here in the future is
going to be part of an overall development. We understand how jealous the
City is of this particular plan that it' s going to develop favorably.
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However , over time needs change. . .and you may be right. We may be do over I
react but we just tend to be real protective of our image.
Erhart: The last thing is that you have the enter only and I don' t quite I
understand why that would be. It seems to me that someone coming in and
wanting to exit out onto Market Blvd. and go north , it just seems logical
to me, you have 24 feet on the drive up to the north, that they would want '
to drive along the north boundary and turn right out that exit and go.
What' s the purpose of the enter only there? It seems like a nuisance.
Tom Mork: I think the initial concern was with the median being right
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here, that having both in and out traffic it was going to confuse this
particular intersection. Staff put a more technical term.
Krauss: Market Blvd. over there, this goes back to one lane in each I
direction. Southbound is actually sort of a lane and a half and there ' s
actually going to be a turn lane built into the median to allow them to
turn into this site . You' re very close to the railway tracks and we' re
concerned with introducing a lot of turning movements and encouraging
people to go out and sort of square out to the north through there. We'd
rather they went through the legitimate intersection and got into the flow I
of traffic before they head across the railroad tracks . We initially were
concerned with having any access up there and basically worked this out as
a best possible compromise and there' s been some design effort in going
back and worth with BRW who's working on the roadway improvement project .
Erhart : Is there going to be cross bars at that intersection? Your
concern was that someone would go out of there and just accelerating where I
they wouldn' t be watching?
Krauss: There's just a lot going on there. I
Batzli : So you said there will be a cross arm at the railroad track there?
Olsen: There is going to be a crossing. 1
Tom Mork: I guess I 'd like to say that I think that staff has been very I
sensitive to our needs and we fully expect that when the building is
operational , 75% of our transactional volume comes through the drive up so
it is a high traffic area and I think they were very supportive of our
concern in that respect. I
David Shea : And the best way of doing that is keeping the turning motions
as simple as possible by leading people through a drive in. I think that
we agreed that that' s the best way, the best compromise for that particular,
area.
Erhart: Your landscaping there, is that the same as the landscaping shown I
here or is there a difference?
David Shea : This is a little more schematic but we do have a landscaping II
plan. It should be the same.
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Erhart : I guess it' s the same.
Tom Mork: The landscaping in the model , the model was done initially when
' the HRA was doing architectural approval and we had to put the model
together and then we did the actual landscaping .
David Shea: That does not relate to this but I think this should relate to
your packets .
Erhart: I see that. I was looking at the first page. That' s all my
' questions.
Emmings: I guess on the cross easements , I think we should preserve that
at this time. Number 6 talks about the pylon sign and I guess there will
be no pylon sign. Is that right?
Olsen : Yeah, they've now submitted a plan just for the monument right .
Emmings: So when we say, have they provided detail on the pylon sign so
can we essentially delete number 6? With respect to number 12, I guess I
agree with the comments of the applicant. Is there any reason we have to
review their plans for the parking lot now or couldn' t that be done as part
of reviewing the expansion?
Olsen : Right .
Emmings: It really seems to make more sense so I 'd go with them on that.
' Then I have one more. On number 7, this is going to sound awfully cynical
and I don' t mean it to sound that way. I know you've put a lot of time and
effort into planning this and it' s very nice. Anytime I see anything
' that' s temporary, it scares the pants off me. I went to the University of
Minnesota and went to temporary. . .for follow-ups for classes. Buildings
that were supposed to last about 4 years and we' re still. there 25 years
later . I guess what I would say is just put a cap on this temporary
facility and say something like, add on the end , or 2 years from the date
of approval of the site plan, whichever comes first.
Tom Mork: I guess if you' re going to do that, what I would ask is you
would go back and look at the purchase agreement that we have negotiated
with the Housing and Redevelopment Authority. . . I think it is 2 years from
' the date of closing on the property that we commence construction and we
have done that because we are under some potential constraints from a
regulatory standpoint as to when we can actually put up the building. As
of today we can do it right away. .We just aren' t in a position to do that
as of right now. We'd like to but this is our best attempt to compromise.
We share your sentiment 100% and we think spent a great deal of time
convincing the HRA that it's not our intent to be in a modular building .
Enmtings: I'm sure of that .
' Tom Mork: Our primary competition recently built a 2 million dollar
building and we' re real sensitive to a competitive image as well so I guess
if you're going to put a sunset on it, I would ask that it be done in sync
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with the. I would prefer that you not do it but if that' s the sense . I
Emmings: Now I know I want to do it.
Tort Mork: Then I would ask that you coordinate it with the purchase '
agreement.
Emmings: Well this purchase agreement though, it sounds like it sets out
time by which you must start construction of the permanent facility and I
guess what I'm saying is, well I guess we could go. How long does
construction take once it's started? ,
David Shea: 6 to 7 months .
Emmings: Maybe we could go a year from. . . '
Batzli : Approval of the construction. What does the City enter into
before they start the contract? The development contract?
Olsen: This one wouldn' t have a development contract. They'd have to get
a building permit. '
Emmings: I think what we should do is say that the temporary facility
could be there for a maximum of one year after whatever the date is when
they've got to start construction.
Erhart: Why don't you just make it a maximum limit of how long a temporary
facility can be there period? I
Ellson: Right.
Headla: Steve, I agree with your comments . I had 24 months maximum. '
Emmings: What?
Headla: I had the same concerns and what do you think about just saying
from the time the temporary building goes up, you've got x number of months
and then it's got to go? I
Erhart: Right.
Headla : Because I was looking for the wording they had in here and that II
was the key that said hey you've got to have a limit on it.
Emmings: But my understanding is they're going to put the temporary ,
building is going to go up right away.
Tom Mork: That's correct. A temporary building will be there in all
likelihood 30 to 60 days before we even have an opportunity to open the
bank for business .
Emmings: And then they're saying they have 2 years to commence '
construction so it seems to me we've got to go.
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' Ellson: That ' s if you want it tied in with that . How long do you want a
temporary thing here?
Conrad : How long do you want a temporary building?
Elison: Do we want a mobile home kind of set up there? I mean it'd be
nice if. . . I 'm not sure if I want to wait 20 years.
Emmings: Well I don' t know.
Tom Mork: I think there ' s probably some real strong misconception that
we' re talking about in terms of a modular building. This is not a
corregated metal side mobile home with a hitch on the front and wheels .
It' s a permanent building. It' s really no different than a modular home. . .
' Emmings : I ' ll tell you, to be very honest with you since you raised the
point. When I looked at the, I thumbed through the staff report at home
' and I saw this as the temporary building and I thought, what the hell are
they doing? I thought that was your building . I hadn't opened the plans
yet. That is grotestque . It may not be grotestque. It may not be bad and
I don't mean to insult you but if you had come in with this as the plan for
your bank, I don' t think we would have approved it.
Tom Mork: We understand that entirely. With all due respect to your
concerns, we have the same ones . I guess the one thing that I would like
to emphasize is that we are not dealing in an environment where we are
always totally afraid to do exactly what we'd like to do. We are severely
governed by the control of the current state of the Department of Treasurey
' that may or may not have objections on when we actually start our building .
As of now, there's nothing there but in light of the current turmoil in the
financial institutional industry, with all the problems going on with the
Savings and Loan Industry and the bailouts, frankly we have some concerns
that the environment might change and I guess I do have a little bit of a
problem in saying a 2 year sunset. I would much rather ask that you give
us 9 months from the date of commencement of construction because it is our
' intent, and we don' t have any option, but to start construction on this
building and I believe. . .and I guess I would just ask you to give us the. . .
Emmings: I would think that assuming that what happens if they don't start
construction in 2 years under the contract with HRA?
Tom Mork: We forfeit the property.
Emmings : Okay. Well that' s pretty strong. I guess if they have 9 months
from the date they have to commence construction under their agreement with
the HRA to get rid of this temporary building, that would be fine by me.
Tom Mork: . . .is a 9 month time frame long enough?
' Emmings : Well 6 months is what they said when I asked the question before.
' David Shea: Sometimes you have landscaping and a few things like that that
if we get the season wrong, you have to wait until May and June to do the
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landscaping.
Emmings: Is that going to keep you from moving in the building there?
Batzli : That' s not going to affect the Certificate of Occupancy though? II
David Shea : No, but I think building completion sometimes, no that' s true.
Emmings: What'd you say? You've got to take down the temporary building I
within 9 months after you start construction of your permanent facility.
Tom Mork: Aren't we accomplishing the same thing by doing this as saying I
we' ll have the building on the site within one week of the Certificate of
Occupancy? The thing I guess I 'm concern about is, a 9 month time frame
may be realistic but what' s happen if weather conditions should extend thall
or there are material shortages or something like that?
Emmings: I think it's long enough. I think it' s too long for a temporary '
building but I 'm willing to go that long.
Ellson: My biggest concern with the whole thing was the temporary. Why I
are we allowing this? We don' t usually let people come in. I 've never
seen, if someone wants to do a dry cleaner but they' ll set up a smaller
facility. Why are we even doing a temporary thing? Is this typical? I 've
never seen it in the couple years I 've been here and it makes me uneasy
that normally we don' t let something in unless they' re ready. They've god'
the money. They' re ready to develop. What have you and I 'm a little
uneasy that we' re tied to the financial conditions and everything like
that.
Olsen: In just looking at the circumstances , I guess we really didn' t hay
any great concerns with it I guess . We just had faith that they would be
moving ahead with it. They have supplied the details of the facility. Th
temporary facility to have the building department look at to see whether
or not this was a halfway decent. Would it be safe. Things like that and '
everyone felt confident that it would be okay.
Tom Mork: Maybe if I could add to this. We have from the date of our II project approval , 1 year to put together our capitalization so that takes
us to next March 10th. From that point on we get another 6 months to get
the bank actually up and running. I have never started a new bank and it' s
something that isn' t done very often but I can assure you that there are a
awful lot of details that I never imagined involved in starting a bank fro"
scratch and frankly, what's most important to us is that we start
getting. . .This is not an ideal approach to it. We recognize that but undell
the timing constraints that we' re living under in terms of getting our
charter operational . . .this is the best alternative. I hope that maybe that
timing constraint that you' re not aware of. . .
Krauss : I just want to add that in my experience, it' s not an uncommon
practice for banks to do this. Health clubs will put a trailer out at the
site as they build it to get membership rolls. Apartment projects will pull
model homes on a site. It's a fairly common practice around the Twin
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' Cities. As long as it' s under control with a sunset, I haven' t had much
problem with it.
Olsen: And they are making all the necessary improvements to the site
which is usually where staff doesn' t budget you know when it's just going
to be gravel but they are going to be paving everything and putting all the
utilities in and landscaping .
Ellson: Well I guess I don' t have as much experience as many of the others
but I 'm just uncomfortable I guess with that and the precedence that it
might be setting for everybody who wants to go out and get going but
they' re not quite ready yet but boy when I get up and moving, then I ' ll do
it exactly what you want . We' re blessing it. I don' t know and I don' t
like a time frame of like 3 years existing like that either . I guess I 'm
' trying to picture the whole city growing and that just doesn' t seem like a
nice way to start it off and it' s so different than most the people coming
through here. Like we got to get started and can we get moving . We want
' to break ground right away and this one is, is it okay if we don' t do the
main stuff for 2 years, 9 months and that sounds like an awful long wait I
guess to me. You can tell I 'm on the other side of the coin.
' Tom Mork: I guess I 'm concerned that we' re creating an image that we ' re
not anxious to get in a more permanent building which is not at all the
case . If things go the way that we would like them to, we hope to start
I construction next year. Next summer . But by the same token, in dealing
with the HRA, we asked them to consider some of the regulatory requirements
that a dry cleaner doesn' t have for example. We are dealing with a
national bank charter and federal regulator and it does sometimes impede
progress as you deal with bureaucracy so I don't want to leave here tonight
with the impression that we aren' t as anxious as you to be in a permanent
home.
IEfliflhingS If I can interrupt Annette. When you say that, what I hear
anyway is that there is the possibility that things will not go the way yor
plans are structured . That it will not allow you to start building the
bank maybe when you want to start building the bank and I guess that's the
possibility we' re trying to address by putting on a cap on the length of
time you can be existing in a temporary building.
' Tom Mork: And I think that' s what the HRA was concerned about too and
that' s why they put the forfeiture clause in there for a period of time .
1 Emmings: Now it' s our turn.
' Tom Mork: And I understand your concerns and I really don' t have any
problem with them as long as it doesn't impose a time table that is
contrary to what the HRA has asked us .
' Emmings: Well we don't want to do that. I don' t.
Ellson: The only other comment I had was that we've got 2 of these next to
our company also and I still wouldn' t like it as a bank but one other
things is about the people next door . I don' t think that we really can do
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much to allow you to pick the type of tenant or approve the people next II door. I think that if you want to buy the land, that's probably as close
as you come to being able to give it away to whoever you want but I don' t
think we can put anything in there about the cross easements and who the
neighbors would be. What are the hours going to be? A lot of times when II
businesses will tell us their working hours, sometimes we' ll . . .
Tom Mork: Well yeah. I'm looking around because I 'm not certain if our II
competition is here.
Batzli : They'll be watching the TV.
Ellson: It's on television and I 'm sure they' re all tuned in.
Tom Mork: Frankly right now we would expect the drive in to be open at
least from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and we' ll be open for full service
banking at 7: 00 in the morning as well . The lobby, we haven' t established
the closing time but it will be 5:00 or 6:00. Somewhere in there. Those I
are some organizational details we haven' t quite worked out .
Batzli: It was funny because when I first saw the temporary building, I
thought of a little trailer that they had in the Bank Excelsior ' s parking
lot there while they were remodeling. That's all I could think of was thi
little, anyway. You had to be there to see it. I don' t have a problem
with the two year starting period. I guess whether it' s 9 months or a
year , whatever , I guess I 'd like to see some sort of sunset but I also
think that they' re going to have a lot of red tape to go through to do a
lot of things and I don' t know that us imposing some sort of time table
that they' re going to have to be in here asking us for changes later . I
don' t know what the point is of making it too compressed is. I don' t know
what the difference is between 9 months and a year for instance. They say
6 months. We say 9 months . I mean what are we really trying to do? Are
we trying to let them build a bank or are we trying to put a prod in their I
back?
Conrad: Well let's ask Jo Ann or Paul that same question. When we approv1
a site plan for any other company in town, are there limitations on that?
Ellson: The approval lasts for x length of time? 1
Conrad: How long have we approved it for before they. . .
Olsen: I believe it's unlimited. The building permit I know that that '
runs out in a year .
Emmings: But this is not the same. They don' t have to start building . ,
Ellson: But we're talking about this precedent kind of thing.
Conrad: So anybody who comes in here and gives us a site plan, Jo Ann, as "
long as they own that land, that site plan lasts forever and we don' t say
it runs out? If you don' t develop it the way we've agreed to. I
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Ellson: I remember that David Stockdale. Didn' t he run out . . .
' Olsen: Well conditional uses have that limitation and variances have a
limitation. I just can' t remember if site plans do.
Conrad: What about in the downtown district? What zone are we?
' Olsen: Site plans don' t .
Conrad : We' re in the general business district. We' re not in the CBD.
' Olsen: No.
Conrad : If we were in the CBD, what would the restrictions be? Any?
' Olsen: Time limit?
' Conrad: Yeah.
Olsen: It would all still be a site plan and that one doesn' t have a
limitation.
Emmings : No limit on what Ladd?
' Conrad: How long our approval lasts before something occurs? Before there
is construction.
Emmings: That' s a different question though. I don' t want to limit that.
I don' t care about that.
Batzli : That ' s already limited by the HRA. They have to start within 2
years of closing or such and such date.
Emmings : I don' t care.
' Conrad : You don' t care? Because that really dictates how long your
temporary facility stays . really
Emmings: What I care about is how long, on this major entrance, this major
new entrance to Chanhassen, how long these two temporary buildings sit out
in the parking lot. That's what I care about .
' Conrad: Sure. I agree. Does that anything to do with the building?
Emmings: Well yeah sure. I suppose they' re going to disappear when the
' building gets built.
Conrad: They' ll take them down for sure. They don' t want them there for
guarantee. They don' t want that building there so the question, in my
mind, the question is how long do you want those there period regardless of
when they built the building.
Emmings: I don' t want them there at all but I think they've got needs.
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Conrad: And I 'm trying to dissect whether we have any standards for
related type, not absolutely the same issue but I 'm concerned that we may
have something up for 2 years and it doesn' t come back for review and I 'm
not sure I want to review it but I do have concerns. Brian?
Batzli : But really, what you said is true. They will be there in essence '
a minimum or a maximum of 2 years from closing. Temporary buildings
because by that time. Well 2 years plus 6 months approximately. Or 9
months if they slip a little but I don' t know when that period begins
either. When that 2 year period starts .
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Emmings: When they sign their agreement with the HRA it sounds like.
Batzli: When does that happen? '
Tom Mork: The 2 year period starts in May.
Batzli: Last May or next May?
Tom Mork: This coming May. 1
Conrad: So 2 years from May plus 9 months.
Batzli : You' re into about what , 1994 there or something . 1993.
Conrad: It's a long time.
Tom Mork: In the worse case scenario, it would be 1993.
Batzli : Well to get onto something else for a minute. I don't quite II understand this easterly parking lot and what the City is looking for in
terms of the applicant illustrating proposed modifications. Would that
parking lot have to be modified if the adjacent parcel is developed? Woul
they share a parking lot? Is that what we' re envisioning?
Olsen: Every plan that we have seen has shown that all of it acting as one
site. We were just pointing that out that is that is going to be proposed
that we would like to see exactly how that was going to work to see how th�
circulation would work.
Batzli : If they in fact shared a parking lot and the single entrance? '
Olsen: Yeah, so it might be premature to ask for that now.
Batzli : But if we don' t ask for it now, in essence the bank controls
whether or not they want to share parking or not so it would be up to the
developer of the adjacent parcel unless that' s in their agreement with HRA II
that that' s going to happen.
Olsen: That it's going to be shared?
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Batzli : Unless it' s in the agreement with HRA, it' s totally at the
discretion of the bank whether they want to share the parking lot. It
sounds to me like the bank doesn' t want to.
Tom Mork: I wouldn' t say that. I really wouldn' t.
Batzli : The bank' s strong inclination is to potentially not want to share
a parking lot with their next door neighbor from the sounds of it.
Conrad: Why is it up to the HRA?
Batzli : I 'm just saying if that' s part of their development agreement but
it doesn' t sound like it is.
' Olsen: I don' t know if it is .
Conrad: But they don' t have anything to do with site planning .
' Olsen: And the new site plan on the easterly lot, if that showed that they
would be sharing the parking , then they could show how that' s going to
impact. . .
Batzli : Right. I'm just trying to tie in why are we asking them for this?
Conrad: Only for flexibility in the future so we wouldn' t have to give the
next property to the east 2 additional sites and curb cuts . This may save
a curb cut. If they share parking.
' Batzli : Well that' s what we ' re asking for . To the entrance. I 'm just
talking about this parking lot. Why are we asking for shared parking was
my question.
Olsen: I don' t think we ' re asking for shared parking . It' s just that
everything we've seen has shown.
' Batzli : That it' s developed as, okay. It doesn' t. It says in 12, the
easterly parking lot shall be modified when the adjacent parcel is
developed . I 'm assuming the adjacent parcel is to the east. In any event
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I guess I would rather go on and delete that particular paragraph 12. I 'd
add a new paragraph 13 that the future addition designated on the plans
isn't a part of this approval . The question, did public safety ever review
' the canopy and the height of the canopy?
Olsen: Yes. They got all the plans.
' Batzli : Because on their checklist they just said something like we' ll
monitor or I don't know what they said. They're supposed to have 14 feet.
They say we' ll review building plans so that' s going to be reviewed at a
later time?
Olsen: When the details come in. Brian, I'm sorry to interrupt but 13,
future addition, is not included in this?
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Batzli: Yeah . Then I was going to ask about the railroad track and this
enter only. The distance from the railroad track but it sounds to me like
you guys have reviewed that and thought about that pretty carefully. Those
were my questions. Wait a minute. I wanted to bug Tim because he didn' t
even say anything about deceleration and he' s an engineer and I just wanted
to bug him about that. It should have been negative acceleration. Okay.
Erhart: Duly noted. I
Headla: I like their express lane. The way they handled the traffic. I
don' t have any problem with the curb cuts there. When I look at Excelsior '
and the two banks together , I think those curb cuts make people make
decisions before they get into a problem and then try to make a quick
decision. I like the curb cuts for the express lane and I 'd support the
curb cuts for your own property there. On your recommendations, there' s 3 11
memos there as attachments . That' s the question 4. Do those attachments
go with the recommendations? In those memos are not included in your
recommendations . '
Olsen: The building official , that all has to be, when they come through
with the building permit, that' s when they meet all of those conditions . II
Headla: Pardon?
Olsen: The building official , from Ron Julkowski , that memo. What he
points out, that is all verified and has to be met when they get the
building permit. Same with the fire inspector . A lot of the things they
can't address until they do get the detailed plans of the building. ,
Headla : How about the one from Julkowski where it said also plans must
have Minnesota seal from State Inspection Department? Now is that part of !'
the recommendations? Are you saying that the attachments are not part of
the recommendations?
Olsen: They have to submit that for the building permit. That' s part of II
the submittal requirement.
Headla: Oh, it's not part of the recommendation? It' s part of another
process?
Olsen: Right.
Batzli : I think part of the confusion is that it seems to me that we used
to have kind of a blanket statement that the things from a such and such
memo dated a certain date are included as part of this approval process ani
we're not really seeing those anymore.
Olsen: Okay. 1
Batzli : Did something happen?
Ellson: Different people come in and you want different. . . 1
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Olsen: Right . Then you didn' t want those general conditions .
Batzli : Did we say that?
Olsen : I 've heard that.
Batzli : Who said that here?
Conrad : Everybody said that . Everybody.
11 Batzli : Well we've said we didn' t want as many conditions I thought .
I don't recall saying we didn't want a general condition.
Conrad : Anything that' s standard. If there are standard conditions we' ve
always, the Planning Commission said don' t include them because they have
to include them only if they really had to be highlighted .
' Batzli : Okay, I see what you' re saying.
Conrad : I think Dave harped on this and now that he' s resigned , it doesn' t
matter .
Headla: You' re going to revert huh?
Olsen: I ' ll give each person a different set of conditions .
Batzli : So the conditions that are in these attached reports that aren' t
' in here are general conditions . They apply to everything that everybody
comes through here does and that' s why they' re not in here.
11 Olsen: Right. And the specific things , when they come in with the
building permit, that' s part of the building permit application and that ' s
where the fire inspection.
' Conrad : You see you don' t know that . Only Jo Ann and Paul know that those
are general conditions. We the lay folks don't know if they' re general and
typical or if they' re special for this particular deal . That' s why
sometimes it' s good to have 33 conditions out there because then we know
they were incorporated from other memos . This way it' s saying to staff, we
trust you. You know what you' re doing.
1 Olsen: We usually just point out ones that apply to the site plan.
Conrad: But we are the ones who are harping on keeping the number of those
' things minimal .
Batzli : Paul looks like he really wants to say something.
' Krauss: Well I don' t really. The stuff from Ron Julkowski for example is
more informational than conditional as to something that you would view.
' It's an informational resource for these people that when they prepare the
plans , he' s going to be looking for those items so it' s just a useful thing
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for them. It' s not really consideration for the Planning Commission
specifically.
Headla: That ' s a good explanation on that one. I was going to come back II
with plans must have Minnesota seal but you' re giving them information thall
this is what you' re going to expect. Fine. I don' t have a problem with
that then. Then let's go to the September 12th memo to Jo Ann. At the
bottom on the page. Those time tables may be further affected by site
preparation difficulty, the bank's growth, weather conditions, or factors
beyond the control of the bank. In any event, it appears to us that the
bank will occupy it' s modular facilities and so on. When I read those
words it says you've got to put a time limit on it. There's no reason whyll
we shouldn't put a time limit on it. Give them 24 months or whatever but
put a time limit for that facility to be gone. The modular one. I 've got '
no problem with keeping the feet to the fire. Also, if you really ru0n
into like severe weather conditions . Something totally out of your
control . I don' t believe that Council 's going to be unreasonable but
they've got to do something to keep your feet to the fire to get the job 1
done otherwise what' s your incentive. You could leave it up there a lot
longer .
Tom Mork: Well we do have incentive. We' ll forfeit the land if we don' t II
build the building within the time frame.
Headla : You've got to get that building removed. I really thing we shoull
have a time limit on it. You've covered everything else.
Batzli : What do you think about the easement? The cross easement. Do yo
think they need it?
Headla : My point was that I don ' t object to the curb cuts in that
location. I referenced Excelsior and I think those curb cuts are good
because it forces people to make a decision before they get in there and
they can put in a curb cut that will serve their purpose.
Conrad : Tom, did you have you had the charter?
Tom Mork: Yes. The charter's been approved. I
Conrad : So really it' s a financing deal right now? Just going to make
some comments as I go through here sequentially in the staff report. I do
like the cross easement that the staff has recommended. Not that I agree
that we' re going to do it. I like the flexibility to be able to do it if
necessary. It makes sense to me on the eastern property line. Question o
staff. The time and temperature sign are permitted without a permit. How
come?
Olsen: It' s in our ordinance.
Conrad : So it says anybody can put a time and temperature sign up and
there' s no permit required where all other signs require a permit?
Olsen: Yeah, it' s under the signs without a permit. Garage sale signs .
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Conrad : That' s real interesting because I think that type of a signage can
be more objectional than others so I find that, I don' t know if we care
right now. We' ve got enough stuff to look at .
Olsen: It's always more than time and temperature.
' Ellson: That' s right .
Conrad : They're really consumer oriented . I like them but I just find
that we control every nit and nat and we' re really restrictive except for
something that' s really, it can be very obtrusive and it just seems like it
should be under the same guidelines as any other signs that we have. In
terms of the temporary facility, I didn' t see anything about lighting in
your recommendations.
Olsen: Parking lighting?
Conrad : Parking lighting yeah . The word temporary says well they' re not
going to do much yet so we don't have to worry about it yet I feel real
uncomfortable. We are granting occupancy to that site yet in the plans, in
the presentation there' s nothing on lighting and I 'm worried we' re treating
temporary as if it' s, ah, maybe something will happen and then we' ll really
review them when they put up the real building so what have we seen about
' lighting in there?
Olsen: They have to supply all the parking lights that are going to be
required for the permanent structure.
Conrad : Don' t you normally report to us on lighting htin or do you wait until
it gets to City Council?
Olsen: Whether or not they' re shielded?
' Conrad: Yeah, shielded types .
Olsen: We' ve looked at that but anything that doesn' t meet it, then I
usually point it out.
Conrad : Okay. Have they presented the lighting to you?
Olsen: It's on the plan. The actual detail of the lighting, no. Do you
have that on?
David Shea : We can supply that to staff . A shielded lighting fixture.
Conrad: I 'm not worried about it. I guess my deal is, there's a mentality
we' re working on a temporary structure here but really it' s a permanent
' occupant. You' re in business. You've got traffic there. So if you can
make a note that City Council should be reviewing that or making sure. Or
at least review the reviews by the time it gets to City Council . I don' t
want to see it because I know you've got it under control .
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Olsen: As far as that sign, I had read that wrong . It ' s under prohibited"
signs. It' s excepted. It says motion signs or flashing signs except time
and temperature signs and barber poles.
Emmings: What section are you reading from? '
Olsen: That's Section 20-1259.
Conrad: So this is not a motion sign? '
Olsen: Well it's a motion sign but it' s an exception to it. '
Krauss: It's an exception to the motion sign and would require a permit .
Olsen: I think we put that in the ordinance with the first bank. With
Chanhassen Bank.
Conrad : Under temporary facility. Temporary facility. Has anybody from 1
Public Safety, we have a check list in here that they've gone through and
it deals with fire and hydrants and stuff like that but it really didn' t
talk about security. When a bank moves into town. Do we care? What is
public safety care about threats of situational deals with the bank? I II
see anything in any report saying we' re concerned with a temporary
facility so staff says we' re not concerned and it's governed by the
governing forces that govern financial institutions and we don' t have any
specific cares about a temporary facility as a bank for security for theft
and robbery? Nothing?
Olsen: They do review it at their public safety meeting . They always holl
one on every Friday and they didn' t point that out.
Conrad : But it's a standard checklist that's associated in here. '
Olsen: That's specifically more with fire, that checklist but they do, the
whole public safety department. Public Safety Director also reviews the II
plans.
Tom Mork: Excuse me. Are you specifically concerned about the impact tha
burglary calls might have on local law enforcement agencies or our own
security devices within the building itself?
Conrad: Again, I 'm working with this word temporary. You know, have we II
really thought out, are we applying the standards that, I don' t think we
have any standards because nobody's told me about them for a bank moving
into town, that are different than a grocery store moving into town. I 'm I
just raising the question just to make sure that the staff is not treating
this as a temporary facility. That it' s a real bank moving into town and
has the Public Safety Department given us their feedback on it and I didn'
see it here so I don' t know that I have a concern with what you' re doing
that's more. . .
Tom Mork: I can assure you that we' re under some pretty stringent
requirements in terms of security and we wouldn' t get a bond in compliancell
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Conrad: I guess my only other comment is the time frame. I think
everything else I 'm comfortable with. There's some adminstrative stuff but
the time frame and I ' ll let somebody make a motion and I 'm not going to
steer that motion but it seems like the applicant has 3 1/2 years to build
this and I don' t know. It seems kind of loose . I think it' s good to have
another bank in town. Sometimes when you hear us talk it seems real
' critical and anti new stuff but that' s certainly not the point . I think
Chanhassen's growing and consumers will benefit by that but I do have a
problem with the time frame for building . I don' t have a solution for
that. I think it should be in sync with what the HRA said yet my personal
' opinion is saying that I 'd really like to see that bank up in 2 years.
Emmings: From?
Conrad : Now. But I 'm looking for the negatives and I don' t know that we
set a precedent. Who else is going to come in and ask for a temporary site
and use this as, if you put a modular home or a mobile home in a
neighborhood, the neighbors would be in here immediately. They wouldn' t
allow it for a day. Well , in the business community, it may be a little
bit different and this is more permanent in nature. That' s not a typical
' mobile home with wheels on it but, I 'm looking for negatives to say we
should put a definite 2 year limitation or something on it and I 'm not sure
we set a precedent because I can' t think of another business that ' s going
to come in and ask for that.
Batzli : You can' t do it that way because you can' t judge in the future
what' s going to come through the door . The question is, what would happen
if another one did regardless of who it is that comes in and asks for it.
We give it to them.
Conrad : And based on tonight we'd have to give them 3 1/2 years to build
the structure .
Emmings : No you don' t .
Conrad: Why not?
1 Emmings: Because . Just because 3 1/2 years seems appropriate for this
applicant, you always get to consider the facts. You don' t have to
automatically do this time what you did lats time if the facts are
' different. The next one isn' t a bank. The next one doesn' t have problems
with satisfying federal regulations. The next one, you know you can,
believe me, be able to distinguish. The point to me here Ladd is this .
' We've dealt with this same issue on temporary conditional use permits .
Anytime anybody says temporary, I want to know what the end is. Temporary
means forever unless there' s a cap and I think we ought to, I think they
should be accommodated because I think there should be a second bank in
' town too and I don' t want to discourage them but there' s got to be some
reasonable limit out there beyond which they' re just got to take that
temporary building off that property.
Conrad: Do you see any other negatives?
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Emmings: No. I
Conrad : Having this less than attractive building . Were those your words
Emmings: A little stronger than that .
Conrad : Is that a negative to the downtown community at all? I
Emmings: I don't know.
Conrad : Is it a negative? I
Headla: I think their temporary building looks very reasonable. If you
look at the way it' s constructed, it' s appearance. They try to fit it in. '
Conrad : Any other negatives with letting it be out there for 3 1/2 years?
Enunings: At the longest.
Conrad : At the longest .
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Ellson: I see a precedence. The one next door will start putting up his
while he' s building his. 11 Batzli : This is going to be, I mean you don' t just put these up. I mean
there' s a cost involved.
Ellson: I know but you could actually be, starting to make a lot of money
with very little expense because you' re in a really small building. You've
saving up to do what you really want and Chanhassen is literally giving yo
that option to help you finance the building you always wanted in the firs
place. We would never the let site plan come in with that modular building
and so you' re basically saying we will take second rate for how long?
Because it would never have been approved to be a building on it' s own as
it is so we' re automatically taking a major concession for the city for th
applicant's benefit.
Conrad : Is it going to detract from neighboring property values right now"
Probably not. I don' t know. I like a cap but I 'm looking for some real
negatives that would say there' s a reason to put a different time frame onil
it and to be honest, I just can't. As much as I don' t like temporary
facilities, I don' t know a good way to set a time frame and probably the
best is to tie into the HRA which I 'm not really convinced of but I don' t
have a better . 1
Tom Mork: I guess I 'd like to add one thing and that is, I don' t know what
you have in your minds as to what the economics of a modular building are i
but I can assure you that to acquire this building is about $120,000.00
building. We're looking at putting a minimum of $80,000.00 of improvements
into the site just to get it, or at least that' s our preliminary estimates
just to get the temporary site prepared so we' re talking about a couple
hundred thousand dollar outlay of capital so.
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Ellson: Versus a 2 million dollar bank or something like that . I don' t
know.
Emmings: I 'd like to add something on another issue here.
Batzli : Do we need a motion here?
' Conrad: Not yet.
Emmings: I wanted to address the sign. I do not agree that you can have a
time and temperature sign without a permit.
Headla : They agree with you.
' Emmings: Oh, I 'm sorry. Did I hear wrong? I thought you said that they
didn' t need to have a permit.
' Olsen: Right . That ' s where it had come out wrong . It was under the
prohibited signs as an exception and I meant that, to put it in that it
didn' t need a permit but it does still need a permit.
11 Emmings: Okay, fine.
' Conrad: Any other discussion on the length that we' re talking about? If
not, I ' ll ask for a motion. Are you going to make a motion?
Tom Mork: On the approval of the addition to the building . We' re talking
about a 4,000, potential 4,000 square foot addition here that would be in
snyc architecturally with the rest of the building . Do you view that in
the same light as you do with the previous applicant? That it' s something
' you wanted to look at into the future? I guess I 'd just like
clarification.
Ellson: That we ' re not approving that right now. Is that what you mean?
Batzli : We would want to see it again because it may have an affect on
impervious surface coverage and some other things.
Conrad: What would trigger that Jo Ann? Just automatically on the
building extension or addition, anything triggering that to come back to us
' other than the fact that we said we would want it to come back?
Olsen: If they hadn' t shown the addition at all , even to us and then had
come in and wanted to do it, we would make them go through the site plan
review.
Conrad : But now they have said that there might be one and basically,
because they did, it would be kind of up to your discretion as to whether .
If it met all the ordinances, you really don' t need to bring it back to us .
Olsen: In the calculations I thought they had included, they did include
the addition so that' s why we were saying that we would feel comfortable
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with allowing the addition without coming back for the site plan. '
Conrad: I don't know that we want to see it but I think Brian' s point is,
we have not approved it and therefore it' s going to be a staff decision on'
whether to bring it back to us in the future.
David Shea: That's fine. We' re working on the idea that the hard surface
coverage and work with staff to make sure we get a master plan for this
site and it'd be up to staff' s discretion to bring it back.
Conrad: Is there a motion?
Batzli : I move that the Planning Commission recommend approval of Site
Plan Review #89-6 for Crossroads National Bank as shown on the plan dated
September 22, 1989 subject to the following conditions . Conditions 1 thru
5. Delete 6. Condition 7 with the following added at the end ,
notwithstanding the foregoing , such temporary facility shall be removed
within 9 months of the issuance of the building permit for the permanent I
bank facility. Conditions 8, 9, 10, 11 as written in the staff report.
Delete 12 and a new 13. Future addition designated on the plans are not
part of the site plan approval . '
Emmings: Second.
Batzli moved, Enimings seconded that the Planning Commission recommend
approval of Site Plan Review #89-6 for Crossroads National Bank as shown on
the plan dated September 22, 1989 and subject to the following conditions : 1
1. The property shall be platted and recorded with Carver County.
2. The City shall process a rezoning of the property as part of the
platting procedure.
3. The site plan shall be revised to include a right turn deceleration
lane on Market Boulevard and a 6 foot wide concrete sidewalk on the
east side of Market Boulevard. The site plan shall be revised to
reflect additional right-of-way necessary for the deceleration lane anli
sidewalk and to maintain required setbacks .
4. The applicant shall provide cross easements for the joint access on
West 79th Street .
5. The applicant shall provide revised landscaping plan providing
necessary landscpaing on the berm between the parking area and West
79th Street.
6. The temporary facility will have to be removed within one week of the
permanent bank facility receiving a certificate of occupancy,
notwithstanding the foregoing , such temporary facility shall be remove
within 9 months of the issuance of the building permit for the
permanent bank facility. '
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' 7. The applicant shall comply with any and all Watershed District
requirements .
8. The City will monitor the site for erosion control problems and if
' deemed necessary, additional erosion control may be required in the
future.
' 9. Exact storm sewer connections and design shall be verified in the field
and approved by the City's Engineering Department prior to
construction .
' 10. The exit on West 79th Street shall be moved a minimum of 100 feet from
the West 79th Street/Market Boulevard intersection.
11. Future addition designated on the plans are not part of the site plan
approval .
' All voted in favor except Annette Ellson who opposed and the motion carried
with a vote of 5 to 1.
Conrad : And your reason?
Ellson : I guess I 'd like to see if they can begin building in May, I 'd
' like to see it start in May to be built. I don't think we' re getting that
sort of guarantee .
Conrad : Okay, that goes to City Council October 23rd.
Krauss : Mr . Chairman, we had indicated with the applicant that we would
attempt to work with them on getting that facility. If you approved it
' tonight, getting that facility up yet this year . Consequently we were
going to try and take it to the City Council next Monday.
Conrad: Ah. Next Monday? Okay. Paul , just a quick point. When they put
that temporary facility up, the site has been approved. The landscaping is
in. The curb cuts are in. Obviously sewer , water , everything is there.
The only difference is, we don' t have the building but everything else is
in. You will not let them go in until . . .
Krauss : What we would have is we would have the modular building up.
There would be pavement around that modular building. There'd be
landscaping around that but the rest of the site would be graded ,
presumably graded flat and seeded and just left undisturbed. The rest of
the site is where they' re going to be building so there' s really no way to
be planting around there.
Olsen : Or put the curb and gutter in.
Conrad: So we have a temporary landscaping plan?
' Krauss : Well actually, the way they have it situated , it' s a permanent
landscaping plan. The building fit in there so they could put in the
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permanent landscaping and curbing around it.
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Conrad: Don, why don't you tackle that when you, you've heard what we' re
talked about tonight.
Olsen : They can also do some of the perimeter landscaping too. 111
They P p 9
Mayor Chmiel: Did you say it' s going to be on the 9th? ,
Krauss : We talked to Karen about it yesterday.
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APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Batzli moved, Emmings seconded to approve the Minutes
of the Planning Commission meeting dated September 20, 1989 up to page 40.
All voted in favor and the motion carried.
CITY COUNCIL UPDATE:
Conrad : Paul , do you want to lead us through on that? Do you want to go
through your particular minutes or notes to us? 1
Krauss: Yes Mr . Chairman . I don' t know if there' s anything specifically
that warrants any discussion except for possibly the Vineland Forest '
status . As I indicated , the Vineland Forest plat went to the Council
several times for consideration since you saw it. We tried to clarify the
road access issue . After reviewing the alternatives, the Council
ultimately settled on an alternative option for access that was developed
by staff that ran from the southeast Nez Perce, Lake Lucy Road to the
northwest over to Peaceful Lane up to Pleasant View as the optimum way.
It's not an ideal way but the optimum way that' s remaining to us to serve 11
the entire area. The applicant was then directed to prepare a plat in
consideration of that alignment . That was brought to the Council and there
were some other issues that cropped up resulting from engineering details
with how that access is going to be made. We think that their resolveable l
Their engineer is getting some more topographic data and we' re talking to
different property owners that would be impacted so we expect to go back to
the Council with that. One thing though that warrants pointing out though "
is in reviewing this I came up with a couple of potential problems or at
least issues of concern with the way the ordinance is structured. There
were two factors that probably warrant some consideration on your part and "
some work on my part to see if we can resolve them. One is that the
ordinance allows for reduction of front yard lot width or lot width at
right-of-way on cul-de-sacs and it's not specific as to where on
cul-de-sacs and how you apply that. In working with Jo Ann, it' s apparent '
that the City in the past has allowed reductions of lot width on outside
curves as well whether or not they're on cul-de-sacs. I think it 's a
worthy thing to do. If you have the straight 90 foot frontage everyplace, "
you wind up with a grid system and that' s just not how the City' s
developed. I think what we need to look at though is some flexibility in
the lot width standard to account for that so we clear up the anomaly in
the ordinance and don't have a variance situation. Related to that is
there was another variance that was created for a lack of frontage at
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' right-of-way for a neck lot . The lot had 30 foot of frontage on Pleasant
View. Because of how we aligned the road , there was a sufficient area
stranded between the new street being proposed in Van Eeckhout' s division
and Pleasant View. There was sufficient area for 3 lots but it didn't have
frontage. They were proposing to use a neck lot configuration that only
had 30 feet of right-of-way on Pleasant View. The subdivision ordinance
says that' s fine . The subdivision ordinance says you can have up to 4
homes on a private driveway. The RSF district doesn't say you can have
any. It says you need 90 foot of frontage for every lot. You can' t have
it both ways and what I 'd like to bring back to you is a proposal to look
' at some sort of proposal for some sort of neck lot configuration or some
standards that we might use if we' re going to use private drives to access
properties that couldn' t otherwise be accessed by a public street. Those
are the two issues that I think evolved out of the Van Eeckhout decision
that really warrants some further investigation on your part.
Conrad: Sounds reasonable. My only reaction is sometimes when we, and I
' think we should and we should put it onto this list that we have of all the
projects that are out there so we can make sure it' s someplace. The only
comment I have quickly on that is sometimes when we do these things it' s,
we're assisting a developer to squeeze out the maximum amount of lots out
of a piece of property. In general I think I support some of what you' re
talking about but my only concern would be, I 'm really not too interested
' in letting the developer really manipulate that land to the point where
he's just squeezed every possible square inch into a building so that would
be my only comment but let' s add it to the list and address it. That' s
another thing we should do Paul , as we build up that list and I don't know
' where it is right now or I ' ve got a copy of an older one. We should sort
of prioritize those for you so we've got you working on the things we
really care about or you should persuade us that it' s a significant issue
that you should work on before other items. Is staff satisfied with Van
Eeckhout because we had problems with it . It seemed like a simple deal
when it first came in. Are you satisfied that it's being solved
adequately?
Krauss : Pending resolution of the techincal aspects of making the
connection, I think we are satisfied. We looked at all the options for
' serving that property. I mean we really expanded the study area and did an
overall access concept plan and there's about 6 ways of serving it. Some
of them are really. . .
' Olsen: Two cul-de-sacs .
Krauss : Well , yeah the one with two cul-de-sacs. There' s the one to the
' east that runs into a 20 foot retaining wall at the bottom of a 70 foot
bluff and obviously that had some problems but we really tried to develop a
plan that served all the remaining vacant land there in a reasonable way
and then provided some cross access through the neighborhood for public
safety reasons. Like I say, it' s not the ideal way. If all the property
was vacant right now you'd probably do it a little differently but given
the remaining options, it's the best.
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OPEN DISCUSSION: DISCUSSION OF AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF THE HIGHWAY 5 AND 10111
CORRIDORS, FRED HOISINGTON.
Hoisington: Mr . Chairman and members of the Planning Commission. We are
getting very near the end of a study of the TH 101/TH 5 corridor. The
study really had three purposes . We' ve already satisfied some of the
purpose for the first one and the one that really percipitated the study t
begin with, had to do with the official mapping of the right-of-way of TH
101. As you know, we took that through a series of alternatives, four
different alternatives. We were here. You recommended an alternative and
we went to the City Council and they have selected the alternative that yoll
see here and I believe it' s in the process now of being officially
described and recorded, I hope, at the County Courthouse because that's the
ultimate final step for official mapping . The second purpose , that one
already having been accomplished, was land use and we have been here .
We've been talked a little bit about land use with you but that ' s to be
considered as part of your comprehensive planning program and all we' re
doing in this case is recommending certain land uses and the idea being
that you can change them and incorporate them in any manner you feel is
appropriate when you do the comprehensive plan. The third purpose though
is one that was really begun by the Planning Commission and that had to doll
with the aesthetics of especially the TH 101 corridors and the entry into
downtown Chanhassen. What we did was develop a corridor aesthetic concept
really for TH 101 and TH 5 and the two are very different. I 'm not going
to spend a lot of time on TH 5 but I think it' s important that you
understand the differences between the two. I have sections here. You can
also see them. Maybe we can lay them out. I won't put them up there this
evening . The concept for TH 5 is one where we have a rather polished II appearance. One where the theme is already sort of begun in Eden Prairie
or it will when that stretch of roadway is completed and we see that as
sort of the transition area from the entry to Chanhassen into downtown
Chanhassen and we expect that to be planted with trees on both sides that
will essentially define the roadway. Define the views that people have.
In some cases screen the uses that are there but to kind of create
openings. Openings and closures as you go along the highway. We' re
talking about some berming along TH 5 and there' s a plan that' s more
detailed than this and by the way, this extends all the way out to 184th.
In the median in TH 5 is, for the most part, depressed . The only places
will not be depressed will be at intersections and at the intersections we
will have curb and those are all required pretty much by MnDot because some
of those areas are very small so it will be curbed. Have turn lanes and s
forth for TH 5. Now. One of the most important parts of TH 5 I guess is
also that the legislature did with the tax bill, pass the City' s funding
request which is for the extension of the tax increment district which als
will provide the funding for construction of this intersection of TH 101
and TH 5. A very critical part of the whole plan and one we were very
concerned would not be approved but it has been so things are going quite
well in that respect. Do you have any questions on TH 5? I know you don' ll
want to spend a lot of time.
Ellson: When you're saying depressed , you' re just saying. . .
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Hoisington: We' re trying to drop it out of sight. That' s really what
MnDot is doing on the remainder of the stretch. One of the things we are
doing however on TH 5, MnDot had not recommended, was we' re suggesting that
it be an urban section with curb and gutter on the outside. Not on the
' inside. The idea is that if we do it on the inside, we end up with sort of
a flat surface. We talked about this before. Really what you end up with
is grass in there and then you have a maintenance problem. One that
requires mowing. One that normally will result in weeds at some point in
time. It doesn' t mean we' re going to escape that. There will be some
grass. It will be grass medians but it will be depressed. We' re trying to
drop it out of sight in that case.
Erhart: Are you saying the edges are going to be ditch or curbs?
' Hoisington : No. What we' re proposing is essentially it will be curbs on
the outside, ditch in the median. The median I think is 24 feet. Now TH
101 which is really another reason why this whole plan was begun, we ' re
talking about two concepts. Two different alternatives. The primary
' alternative was one that had a median, a 24 foot median throughout the
entire stretch from TH 5 down to TH 212 or the alternative to that is to
have no median but have turn lanes of course at all the intersections .
' There hopefully will be a very limited number of intersections along this
roadway. They will be limited on the points that we' re showing on this
plan. In other words, there will be no others than that. One of the
' advantages of having no median at all is that you will not have a
maintenance problem. There will have to be no extraordinary costs
associated with that and you will also be able to have a variable width
right-of-way where you can move in and out as you need right-of-way to
' accomodate the roadway and you will save some space. What we' re suggesting
to you is that even what you' ll save isn't space or right-of-way so much as
you will save the landforms to a greater extent, along the roadway than you
can if you would have a median in the center. Now if you do, you still
have turn lanes of course at each one of the intersections but you have
those choices and you' ll have those choices throughout the period of time
' it takes to get this built and of course we know that ' s not going to be
built for another perhaps, there's more funding coming along for TH 212 so
maybe this will be built sooner than I think but I still think it will not
be built until the timeframe 1995 to the year 2000. So you've got a lot of
' time to make that decision.
Erhart : If it' s 24 feet , what is it? Concrete? Grass?
Hoisington: No. Tim, think of this as polished for the most part. Think
of this as rural . It is today. It will not have commercial along it or at
least a very limited amount of commercial and our thinking is that
everything that' s done through here ought to represent a more prairie or
open, non-landscaped type of environment.
Erhart: Why? I mean that' s going to be all developed by the time the
road. . .
' Hoisington: It will be residential . Almost all residential . Everything
from here, with the exception of the open space, to here will be
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residential and of course commercial and office up near the highway itselfil
Now it doesn't mean we're not going to have landscaping. We have fill
sections and berming and in the areas where, let me just explain to you
what happens. The road comes down a hill , drops down into this area where
the creeks goes through, comes back up and then comes up and flattens out II
here at the top and then begins to go back down again. The area where we
have a significant fill is here and a fairly good cut is in here. Actually
right here at A and B it's just about flat. Just about where the brown is
at that point. Because of it going up and down and because of, it require
more right-of-way to accommodate the roadway so we end up with 200 feet.
Erhart: And the scenario with the 24 foot median, what does that mean?
Hoisington: Okay, what we' re doing in the case of that median as well is
trying to drop it out of view. It ' s going to be prairie grasses and
flowers and things of that nature both in the median and on the side
slopes. The median will be depressed again . Now again, the edges , one of
the things we tried to struggle away from in this case, because we wanted
to look more rural , we wanted curb and gutter but we can' t do that because '
we add at least another 50 feet to the right-of-way if we have a rural
section. If we have ditch sections in other words. We have to accommodate
not only the inside slopes but the back slopes as well . '
Erhart: And what' s the disadvantage of having curb and gutter on the
outside?
Hoisington: No disadvantage except that we' ll not, it isn ' t as much in
keeping with the rural kind of environment that we would expect to carry
out with the rest of the development. It ' s much more than urban city kind '
of street. There's nothing wrong with it. It's just not entirely
consistent .
Erhart : If that' s all going to be residential , what' s driving you to make I
it look rural if it' s residential?
Hoisington: Well , I 'm not sure that maybe rural isn' t exactly the best
term to use. It is not to be polished. It will have berming in the areas
where we can accommodate berming . It will include plant materials on the
berms and in areas where there are residential homes and because of that,
there will be stretches through here that will be landscaped and bermed an
it will look rather urban. Again, I don't see that the curb and gutter is
a significant department but I guess if you were a purist and you were
trying to achieve things with prairie grasses and flowers and so forth, yoll
would do so in it' s entirity and not have curb and gutter because really
that's not the type of thing you'd see there. I don't have a serious
problem because we' re saving a lot of space. We' re saving a lot of trees
and we're saving a lot of cuts and ditches and so forth by putting it in
so I can. . .
Headla: Before you go on, let me ask a question. You talked about a lot I
of fill and a lot of heavy cut in there. Why did you, what's the rationale
for doing that?
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Hoisington: The rationale is the grade itself. The present road , as you
know, PH 101 it went where it went because it was easy to go there. It
didn't have to go up and down so what it did was it went this way instead .
Cars don' t drive very well in those kinds of streets anymore and the only
way we could avoid cuts and fills would be to use the old alignment where
' it was relatively flat. When you do across some of the contours, for
example the hill comes down here which requires in order to keep the slopes
from being too steep, or the grade from being too steep, you have to fill
' to balance it out so you have this coming down to a low point which is in
here and then coming back up again so you have a certain amount of fill in
this area in order to accommodate. . .
Headla: What kind of grade are you talking about? Is it 7%?
Hoisington : What we' re doing here now? I think the maximum is 4%.
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Headla: No. You want to change it to 4%. What is it now? If you were to
put that road in without the cut and fill .
Hoisington: Oh, if you were to put no cut and fill in, you'd end up
probably with some 10% or more on a major roadway which would be
' unacceptable.
Headla: I didn' t realize it was going to be that steep. Alright .
' Hoisington: So some of the things we' re trying to represent here. Again,
berming with some plantings on the berms and we've had some people in here
who live in some of these areas who have been very concerned about that and
that we show some concern for them in light of the road going where it
goes. In addition to that, we have a number of things that are happening
along the alignment in the way of natural features that we' re trying to
11 incorporate and preserve wherever we can. All of them don' t relate to the
roadway itself but as you know there is a wetland that' s right out on TH 5
which is a Type 7 wetland. A wooded wetland . Not the highest quality but
nonetheless a wooded wetland and a certain percentage of that will need to
' be preserved . No matter that it' s not of the highest quality. One that we
already had some questions about happens to be the one that would be in the
southeast quadrant of Lake Drive and TH 101 where we actually move Lake
Drive to the north to avoid it and that is a very high quality Type 7
wetland. Most all of that will be preserved and you don' t replace Type 7
wetlands, at least not good quality ones because you don' t grow trees.
Again, a wooded wetland once gone is gone. Of course we have the wetland
that is located here which is a substantial open space and the Wards and
the people that are working with them in terms of developing the property
are agreeable to having a large area of that land set aside for open space
and that is a Type 3. All of this is and of course the creek corridor
comes through here as well . Then we have wetlands down here on 86th. A
very good Type 3 that perhaps was created , according to Al Klingelhutz,
' because of the blockage of drainage but it looks like a very good Type 3
wetland and of course then we have the big Type 2 wetland which is located
down here at the freeway interchange will go through and another Type 3 is
located further to the south and we' re treating all of those , the idea
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protecting and incorporating them with the development rather than to 11 destroy them. One of the goods things about dealing with it upfront and
early, I think all the people who own land along here know and understand
what the program is and all of them basically agree that that' s the way
those wetlands are going to have to be treated in the future.
Erhart: On the berms that you' re putting on there. What are you putting
on top of the berms? Are you just going to leave them grass or are you
going to put evergreens up?
Hoisington: No, there will be evergreens in those cases . We can' t get th
berms high enough to do the entire job of screening.
Erhart: I don' t think we should try to do that.
Hoisington: I don't either so in all the cases where we' re berming , we' ll
have landscaping on top.
Erhart: Yeah. I think that's really required because I think there' s '
nothing worse than an empty berm.
Emmings: I can think of things worse. How about your clothes being on
fire for example?
Erhart: So even though you're not showing it here, you' re going to have II
some evergreens and hardwood trees like on TH 5.
Hoisington: Sections . ,
Erhart: Sections so it will be an in and out kind of thing depending on
where houses are located to screen them exactly.
Hoisington: And we also want to support that with. . . All of that we' ll II
address. Caring for those properties that are affected by this roadway and
that was one of the commitments we made when we put it there. Selected
that alignment was those kinds of things. One of the things of course that'
Tim had really percipitated was this discussion of even a wider median. We
really struggled with that and there are a number of things and we've gone "
through this before. One of the determining factors is the road to the
north. Market Blvd. that's under construction right now which has a very
limited. Really what it has is nothing there in the way of a median
because of the turn lanes and so forth. I think there's a very narrow one
proposed which means we have to transition into that on this side. The
only place that we could probably go slow enough or control speed well
enough so we could do something in the median and perhaps in the way of J- I1
barriers or something like that built up with plant materials in them,
would be in this first stretch because most of the rest of this roadway
will be designed for 50-55 mph speed limit and at a later date, probably
will operate at about 45 mph. I think we should expect that it' s going to
when development is fully completed here, operate at about that speed whic
means you really can' t do much in the median. You can' t build a median
wide enough to accommodate trees or fixed objects but what we proposed to
do is not to build anything in this median, this 24 foot median. If that'
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what you elect to do, that in fact represents an impediment or a danger to
' drivers should they happen to go into the median in the course of not
driving . So everything in there will be plant materials of a more native
variety. Wetter materials in wet lowlands and drier high ground plants and
' flowers and grasses in areas that are very high built and don' t require
very much moisture. Very low maintenance. The idea is to have a minimum
amount of maintenance on this roadway and MnDot now is very much on a kick
of using the kind of treatment that we' re proposing here and while I have
' in the past had some misgivings about it, if MnDot is willing to make a
commitment to it, to control it and do what needs to be done to manage it,
then that can be a very appropriate treatment we think for this stretch of
' roadway into Chanhassen.
Erhart: What are we doing where you have long large sidecuts?
' Hoisington: . . .This is natural ground right now and these are the cut
slopes . Curb and gutter on the outside. Dropping the median as much as we
can out of sight and then at the tops of the slopes we do have plant
materials .
Erhart : So you are showing a curb there?
Hoisington: On the outsides , curbs .
Erhart : Is that what you have here is the outside curbs? Oh I
misunderstood you. I thought you were having ditches.
Hoisington : No , no ditches . We can' t. What we' re saying is if we have
' ditches, then you have to come down, ditch and then back out here.
Erhart: Okay. That ' s what I was trying to get to earlier .
Hoisington: No ditches .
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Erhart : Again, I guess what I don' t like to see is a big long open sidecut
which is grass. I think you ought to break them up with trees. Some are
sidecuts with grass , some trees . I still think if you take 35 going from,
or 494 where they've mixed in clumps of trees and stuff. It really, really
looks nice .
Hoisington: There are some things that can be done in some of these areas
' here in the way of sumac and all of those things have turned gold in the
fall . That' s red in the fall . The gold plants that also turn in the fall
and are just beautiful and some of those are at 494. We can do any of that
in there . The closest we must stay away from with these trees are these
' clear zones. They have to be maintained open but other than that, yes ,
something could be done in there with that respect. Bikeway, we' re going
to let you decide where it goes. It will go on either side but we couldn' t
' conclude which side.
Conrad : I like the wildflowers. I think that' s neat.
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Ellson: I 've never seen that. Is it someplace right now? I know I was all
a place. . .wildflowers, I didn't see a wildflower in there.
Hoisington : Sometimes you don' t even recognize what you' re looking at.
Emmings: I drive by a place regularly where they just don' t cut where
there are wildflowers .
Ellson: Like what? The daisy looking kind of things?
Emmings: Sure.
Ellson: That's what I picture as wildflowers but I was by this golf course
and the little things that are wildflowers . . . '
Headla : Fred , can I make a suggestion? You mentioned sumac to accentuate
the fall colors. Why don't you accentuate some winter colors like dogwood
which has a beautiful red bark all winter long . '
Emmings: And yellow. The yellow dogwood too.
Headla: Yeah. If you put some of that in because we have so much '
beautiful fall color here and if you'd kind of help winter along.
Hoisington : I think we would probably tend to use the dogwood , the red
assure down in the fill slope area and the seed. One of the places I 'm
most concerned about. I'm not quite so concerned about the cuts as I am
about the fill because you literally can't put anything of woody nature in '
the fill slopes but you could put dogwood , and it' s an appropriate species
for that particular location as well . We' ll give some consideration of
that. I think maybe we should. . .
Conrad : If we didn' t have the ditch there, was that a choice that we had?
We did have a choice?
Hoisington : You could either have a ditch or you could build it up with all
curb and simply just have it flat.
Conrad : And that would be a grass?
Hoisington: A grass . You could do the same thing that we' re doing here
but it would call more attention I think to the flatness of. . .
Conrad : But we couldn' t do anything on that. There would be no plantings
basically because of the speed? '
Hoisington: No. The only thing you could put in there would be things
that would tend to be higher maintenance in nature. Evergreen type of
materials would not grow large enough. . . 1
Conrad: So Tim, is this the vision you have for the new entrance to
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Erhart: Well yeah , I like this . The landscaping where you' re breaking it
up with a series of varying clumps of grass and then evergreens and maybe a
few hardwoods and varying . Yeah, I like it.
Batzli: You say that you' re talking about putting some prairie grasses in
there. Are you talking about the type of grass that' s in front of the old
CPT plant where most people look at it and they just think it' s not mowed .
Hoisington : I don' t know what CPT has .
Batzli : The natural prairie grass . They spent millions of dollars to
plant it and then everybody thought they just didn' t mow their lawn .
Conrad: As much as I like prairie grass, that really does look.
' Hoisington : We worked on and we' re still working on a project in Vandais
Heights for H.B. Fuller . We' re doing their master plan for the corporate
' headquarters. We did not do the master plan the first time around but the
architects decided that there would be priairie grasses in the parking lot.
Prairie grasses aren' t there today. They were planted . They died . They
do not work very well in those kinds of corporate settings. You have to
' manange them carefully. They' re going to have to mow this material
periodically to keep it down. Ideally it should be burned but it' s going
to be very difficult for them to burn it adjacent to the roadway and they
' wouldn't want to spend the time for the City to control it in that manner
but they do have to commit to mow. They or the county, whoever ends up the
owner of this roadway in the future.
Erhart : What the difference here Fred is that on TH 5 they' re just going
to plant standard grasses along the side?
' Hoisington : What we' re suggesting to them here but what they are proposing
is some application of wildflowers and so forth here but we' re suggesting
that they not do much of that. Another plant material of course that is
becoming very popular are these ornamental grasses. These sort of hybrid
grasses and if you go out to the Arboretum you see some of those . They' re
really neat stuff.
Conrad : The tall grass?
Hoisington: Just beautiful things. The flags on them. Wonderful things
' and what we like to see are some of those perhaps along here but not so
much wildflowers and not so much the tall grasses where we don' t think
those are necessarily appropriate on TH 5. We think they' re going to use
more of the main priaire than we expect or hope. We expect to see a
' change. When they get to Chanhassen, we expect to see a change.
Conrad : Does this become drainage down here?
Hoisington: Yes .
Conrad: Is it appropriate, and I think you' re trying to create, I think
we're telling you to put different trees in there which may sort of tamper
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with a vision of a priarie or with wildflowers but would cattails work int '
here? Is that just something that would not be visually pleasing?
Hoisington: If you can get down low enough so cattails can live, yes .
Cattails would be compatible with this. In most cases you won' t have any II
places that are quite low enough Ladd to keep, cattails like a little
water. What you' ll end up with are, there are different kinds of grasses
that grow down low than grow high on the contour but cattails are lower ye
what these grasses will be and so I don't think you' ll see any but I
have seen them growing right next to those where the water ' s available in
the median to do it. The only place we can think of would be right down
this, the lowest part of the site but even then I don' t think the median
will be that low. I think it 's going to still be suspended because of the
fill . '
Emmings: You know that spot where there are cattails. . .TH 7 and then you
turn to go into Excelsior? There are cattails there in the median on TH 7
But when you stop there, you can not see the oncoming traffic . They get
tall enough so they can' t be close to the intersection. You cannot see.
They took them out of there.
Hoisington: They aren't unusual to have in median settings. In fact there'll
are some on TH 5 along the ditch section on TH 5 and as long as they' re not
on the curb or in an intersection condition, they' re just fine. They' re
wonderful to have.
Conrad : They can be pretty.
Hoisington: We' ll give some consideration to what we can do to supplement '
this in the fall and winter with materials .
Conrad : In the creek area, Jo Ann, you know the creek area that we've got '
down here. Is that a resource that we' re, how does the Park and Rec treat
that area? It' s really pretty. We don' t have access to it and to my
knowledge Park and Rec doesn' t have any plans to use it as a trailway.
Anything.
Olsen : Is that the one that goes into Rice Marsh Lake? '
Conrad: Right.
Olsen: Because they do have a trail around Rice Marsh Lake as part of
Hidden Valley POD but whether or not they have a trail planned to go along
there, I'm not sure.
Ed Hasek: Jo Ann, it's supposed to extend from the top of the lake. . . it' s I
supposed to follow that creek.
Conrad : So does that impact this design in any way? '
Olsen: But that would be going through the open space.
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' Conrad: You' ve got to get there . Do you want parking there? Do you want
to be able to get people to this as a trail head that' s leading you
in? That' s the only thing I 'm thinking of.
Hoisington: I don' t think we would want to have it as a trail head .
Ed Hasek: It' s between two other points . Probably Marsh Lark and . . .
' Conrad: So where do you park to get on the trail?
' Ed Hasek: Either of those two areas . . .this would just be a crossing .
Conrad: It would start from the park.
Ed Hasek: I can' t imagine that you wouldn' t to interrupt the travel . We'd
certainly like to take a look at it.
Hoisington : There might be some grade separation opportunities there to
get that all the way through so that really should be looked at and we do
have some fill there and I 'm not sure just what the total will be . It' s
' going to be a long pipe if we ever did that with an actual trail but.
Ed Hasek: It may not be necessary. It may be able to be accommodated in
that grade if there' s a means for doing it. If it' s not on a curve or
' anything . If you' ve got the appropriate sight lines and all those things.
Certainly cross country skiing, snowmobiling is still considered to be
something that we' re looking at. Horse trails. Whatever else. I don' t
' recall exactly. . .
Conrad : How much of this was guided by financial concerns?
Hoisington: I don' t think we really. I think the only thing that really
gave us any concern at all was the additional right-of-way cost and I 'm
still concerned about that, associated with trying to get a sufficient
' median more than what we' re proposing to do. I don' t think it was done
because it's cheap. I think it was done because we thought it made sense
to do this . You still have landscaping . What you do is you enhance the
edges. You really are doing things along the edges rather than in the
' median in this case and we' re using the median efficiently. It' s
reasonably low maintenance and we think it has the potential to look more
attractive than a typical roadway looks . If you look at freeways and look
' at the medians in freeways, what do you see? I mean you see open spaces .
You see a lot of weeds. You see some low areas where water ponds. More
than they'd like them to. It' s not a very attractive environment at all .
Batzli : St. Paul ' s not bad .
Hoisington : There are some areas and people have used that as an example a
number of times. It is a very attractive roadway. There are others. It
isn' t that all of them. . .
Batzli : It had to have cost a fortune.
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Hoisington: I don' t think cost really was the thing that determined it. 11
think we were working on the basis, what makes sense on this. What
represents a reasonably attractive entrance to the city and we think this
does that pretty well .
Conrad: So what you presented was one lane in each direction with turn
lanes?
Hoisington: One lane in each direction? '
Conrad: Two lanes?
Hoisington: This is a four lane road . Two lanes north, two lanes south.
Conrad: And are there turn lanes in addition? I
Hoisington: Turn lanes , that' s correct . Whether or not you have a median,
you have to have turn lanes . '
Conrad : Okay. Anything else?
Hoisington: Thank you much for your time. The only thing I 'm having
concern about now is until such time as the legal descriptions are filed
with the County Clerk, you don' t have that authority to withhold building
permits. You're on kind of shaky grounds so that has to be done. If it I
hasn ' t been done, it has to be done.
Erhart: Has Council approved it?
Krauss : The official mapping has been approved but it has not been filed
with the County.
Hoisington: Well do it tomorrow. It does take formal legal descriptions , '
meets and bounds or whatever . . .
POTENTIAL ORDINANCE MODIFICATIONS TO REQUIRE FINANCIAL GUARANTEES FOR
LANDSCAPING AND OTHER SITE IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED AS A CONDITION OF SITE
PLAN APPROVAL.
Krauss: I can do that real briefly. It falls into the context of another
amendment to the City Zoning Ordinance that I see as being something to
consider . Basically in the short time I 've been here it' s become apparent '
that the city has something of a problem insuring that landscaping is
installed as we anticipated when the thing was improved and in a timely I
manner. Landscaping is generally the last site improvement to go in and
you know, the architects that were here earlier indicated the usual problem
in that oftentimes you' re pushing a building season to finish up a buildin
and you're into October-November . You reasonably can' t install the
landscaping. What I 'd like to propose and what is normally done in most
suburban areas that I 'm familiar with, is requiring a landscaping ,
financial guarantee independent of anything else. Either a bond or letter '
of credit. The existing development contracts that we have don' t cover
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' landscaping very well . In fact they really don' t cover it at all .
Development contracts are only done with subdivisions and they basically
cover public improvements and landscaping is a private improvement . Now,
there's no question that when you approve a site plan, you have every
expectation that exactly what you approve is going to be installed and we
can use the court system if need be, if it goes that far , to insure that
but it ' s a rather clumsy process . What we'd like to have is a financial
' guarantee that we have their money in the bank and if they don' t install it
in a timely manner , we' ll use their bond or letter of credit and install it
ourselves. As I say, this is not an unusual requirement. It's not a real
stretch for Chanhassen. It' s something that most developers expect that
' develop elsewhere and what we'd propose is something on the order of a
financial guarantee that' s 120% of the estimated cost of the landscaping
and that we'd want to withhold that for one full growing season past the
' date of installation because if anything ' s going to die, it dies in the
first year . If we get the go ahead from you to investigate it further ,
we'd come back with a drafted ordinance for you to look at.
iConrad : Any discussion? It makes sense to me.
' Batzli : I like it. The only question is, who determines the estimated
value?
Krauss : There' s a couple ways of doing that . At various times I ' ve had
Bachman' s catalogues and you figure it yourself. The easier thing to do is
to have a reputable landscape architect give you an actual cost estimate .
You know they can go out for a contract and they give you a bid sheet.
' Conrad : Do it.
Krauss : We' ll add it to the list .
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LAND USE MAP DISCUSSION - COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
Krauss : The notice is a little misleading because in the memo that I
handed out, we indicated that we'd be working on the land use plan but
we' re not prepared to give that to you yet so what we' ve done in the
interim is try to refine the policy statements or goal statements that we
looked at a few weeks ago. Most of them, well , the first four of them I
guess are either revised or new based on direction that you gave us. Item
1 or policy 1 was changed. I forget the exact wording we had before but we
talked about natural amenities and we were asked to use the terminology
natural assets . The original policy also I think focused on preserving
' them in residential areas. The direction that we got from you was that it
doesn' t necessarily have to be preserved in a residential area as long as
it's preserved and incorporated reasonably into their development, it could
be anywhere. We tried to make that change. Item 2 or policy 2, we were
given some direction that seemed to imply that the, you were wondering
about the career?
Conrad : They're just making fun over there.
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Krauss: Oh yeah, that ws, I don' t know if that was a Freudian slip or
what. Jo Ann and I saw that.
Conrad : I kept thinking , what could they have meant. I kept substituting
different letters.
Olsen: We think creeks .
Krauss : We think creeks . It's a stretch I grant you. Item 2, you
indicated that you could accept a lot of intermixing of development as lon
as the development controls were stiff enough to guarantee that you had
high quality development. We' re not proposing changes to the ordinance
here but we tried to focus in on development controls that promote, review
the development controls basically to make sure they either promote high II
standards or that they' re changed to make sure that we have those high
standards and can achieve them. I think that will become critical because
you' re going to have some, what you formerly considered incompatible land
uses. Possibly industrial office against residential interfacing and your'
going to want to make sure that they become compatible or that they' re
forced to become compatible. Policy 3, we got at some of the existing
make-up of the town in the original set of policies and I don't know if I
this responds to it exactly but what we did is Mark Koegler and I came up
with the existing development breakdown. A little bit is a devil 's
advocate but basically it says if you' re content with the feel or the imagil
or how you react to the town now, if we perpetuate that percentage
breakdown of land uses as the rest of the City's developed, then we have a
reasonable shot at making that you know what the community' s going to
become because that' s what it is now. In essence it would just be larger . "
Batzli : Did you include agricultural?
Krauss : No. We only included the developed property and the recreational
property and wetland weren't included either.
Batzli : What happened to that then?
Krauss : It was just factored out . These are just the land that has been
developed. '
Batzli : But my point I guess is that when I looked at this I was just kind
of amazed. You know I was kind of shocked that if you developed it by thill
you would change the entire feel of this community because of the fact tha
so much of it is agricultural. This would become a bedroom community based
on this kind of a mix eventually. If this is your long range plan.
Erhart: Why not just insert the word developed? I hear what you' re
saying . Just correct this item 3, solve that problem by adding ,
Chanhassen' s current developed land use mix consists of the following. Sell
so you' re narrowing it down to that.
Conrad: But this is a direction. We' re not talking about a historic .
This is setting a goal and what Paul is saying is this is a mix that makes,
I think part of this was from things that I was talking about whenever we
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were talking about it. I want a mix that is economically sound and that
potentially pays for itself so we' re not over extended in multi-family
because that might be a drain and that we have enough industrial commercial
to compensate for that.
' Ellson : And I thought we had decided we didn' t have enough. I mean
I thought we had discussed that we didn' t feel there was enough?
Conrad : I took it that Paul changed . If this is historic, then I don' t
agree with the numbers. But if it' s the future, you know, is this
historic?
' Krauss : This is what it is today.
Ellson: If you like what it is now, let' s try to keep it and I thought we
all somewhat discussed that if we kept it, the numbers showed that it' s
going to be a burden .
Emmings : Plus you need flexibility because now in the legislature that
screws around with property taxes, you' re going to want to change your mix
from time to time as they change what revenue you can get from those uses .
' So I don't think, you sure don' t want to cast it in percentages. I don' t
know. It seems like a big mistake.
Conrad: What would you do?
Emmings : The goal is to have a community, a healthy community where
driving adequate revenue from it's property tax base to support itself .
Now what that means from year to year , who knows .
Batzli : But you can' t change it once it' s developed. You have to have
some sort of plan , you' re right . That' s a good goal but the question is,
as you're developing, you' re not going to be able to develop at RSF and
then the legislature' s going to change and say oops , we want industrial ,
let' s change it.
' Emmings : No , but this year we may be promoting commercial and we may be
busy setting aside commercial because commercial is paying for itself or
' industrial and we may want to change that later .
Batzli : I guess I keep on looking at this as . . .
' Conrad : But we can.
Ellson: If the intent right now to change it to commercial is because of
that and we see that that has changed, that would be good logic to change
it. I don' t know.
Emmings: I don' t really see any reason to put numbers down.
Erhart: I agree with Steve .
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Emmings: We're going to determine it. We can encourage it but the
developers are going to decide how it' s going to develop.
Batzli : But we can influence it greatly by how we zone the city too.
Ellson: I think we can decide how we want it developed .
Conrad : My biggest concern, you know we have a concern that we have enougil
land zoned for conme rcial . Zoned for industrial and you' re just saying
Steve, well the builders will figure that out .
Emmings: No, we do have to have a map of the zoning . ,
Conrad : But what' s going to guide that other, than . . .
Emmings: It's arbitrary except to the extent it seems to me that you have.
You know you have to have some land set aside for industrial for example
and that's an important issue now because our property' s going up and so 1
we' ve got to figure out , if we need more industrial land , where is it.
Let's zone some but you do it according to some mix of numbers whether
they' re these or any others is absolutely arbitrary. You have no idea but '
you still have to do it. But when you talk about it being guided by what
exists, that doesn' t make any particular sense to me.
Conrad: Paul is saying it' s sort of worked. 1
Emmings: No.
Krauss : No. We put these numbers in here. A little bit is a devil ' s
advocate and also a little bit to give you information of where we' re at
and now so you can compare it relative to what you presented within a few
weeks in the form of a map.
Emmings : This Ladd is what developers have done to us so far .
Krauss: But you know, this is also the natural development of the city. I
This is what's happened to date. We've influenced this . Developers have
influenced this. Natural factors influenced it but that' s what you've got "
There's a risk I think in regulating land use based on revenues that you
might generate or what you' re expectations might be. I can recall in the
late 70 's when the land planning act was first out that a lot of towns sal
well, gee we have no industry now. We need some tax base so they make 35%
of their town industrial . They never really thought much further than
that. They just assumed it was on a map. Sooner or later it would fill u
and it just didn' t work that way. You know 15%-20% industrial , that' s not
an unreasonable number but again, we basically threw this in here more so
that you know what you've got now and can compare it.
Enunings: This is real hard. I don't know how. . . 1
Conrad : .. . I know Steve what you' re saying as far as percentages but on
the other hand, you've got to set some guidelines. The multi-family
residential , we have found that they may not pay for themselves and we hay
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another obligation is to make sure we have enough commercial industrial
land from now until the year whatever so how do you guide that? What is
it? Do we just sort of draw stuff on the map and say let it go that way?
Emmings: It seems to me it goes that way. Look at the map Fred put up
here tonight. It would be nice if he were here now so we could ask him.
What guided you in making, I guess maybe it had to do with what' s around
it. There ' s a road here so there are some of the land you designate for
' uses because it had access to an arterial or whatever but as far as the mix
goes, boy I have no idea . I don' t know. You've done this more often than
I have. What's guided it in the past?
Conrad : Not a thing . We' re trying to take, and maybe it doesn' t work and
maybe the numbers are not there.
Elison: I don' t think it' s possible to make it into a pie and necessarily
hold to it but I think you should have a goal in mind or a guidelines of
some kind . That' s why I like the idea .
Headla: How do you specify the goal or guideline?
' Elison : That ' s why I 'm saying , the numbers don' t, it' s like oh, we' re at
75%, stop. I don't know if we'd necessarily do that but it might throw up
a flag to tell yourself, remember what you wanted. Now, do we really want
to do this now that someone wants to rezone it and it makes us go back and
' think again and maybe then we find out the property values aren' t there and
then we think back and say okay, back when we decided we didn't want to go
more than 75 single family was detrimental . Now it' s not but it' s just a
' mechanism for the flag to go up is what I 'm thinking so you can bring it
back to their attention as you' re looking at things.
' Conrad: I think some key, single family is what' s left over after you look
at the other things. You can do a lot of stuff . We can look at it in
different ways. One issue. How much multi-family residential do you want?
Seriously. That' s an issue . Do you want to just let it happen and
' everytime we let it happen, there are problems with letting it happen .
Enm►ings: If it doesn' t pay for itself, do you want it in here?
Conrad: Absolutely. I think that' s a big question because and I don' t
have a whole lot of answers and I 'm not trying to zone people out of the
community but on the other hand, I 'm not trying to subsidize them either .
' I have no reason to subsidize anybody else to move out here. I personally
don't have that need.
' Enmings: Could we have a policy to provide a good mix of housing
opportunities for people that might want to work and live in Chanhassen.
Conrad : That 's fine as long as I don' t have to pay for their street
improvements. Seriously.
Ellson: And that' s a mix but we can decide how much of a mix.
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Conrad : I don' t have to make that sacrifice. I can find that mix in
Excelsior. I ' ll just move over there and talk to. . .
Erhart: Get rid of the multi-family completely then in that case. '
Conrad: In that case, yeah which I don't think is right but on the other
hand, I'm not crusading for a 80% multi-family.
Batzli: You're conservative but not that conservative. Is that what
you' re telling us?
Conrad: I think there are sound reasons to have multi-family, especially 1
around the downtown area. Especially for certain segments of our
population . I have no reason to go out and try to lure that. I think I I
want that to take care of a market need. In other words, if there is
demand internally, I think that' s just fine to satisfy that need . I don' t
need to go out and create, bring in multi-family developers because they
can make money on it. ,
Erhart: . . .when I first got on the Planning Commission I thought yeah, we
can make plans and by golly that' s just the way this city' s going to
develop but in reality what happens is you set plans and then all of a
sudden the market then goes it's way and a few years later you've looked at
your plan compared to what the market did and you realize that well , it
went fairly close but now we need to adjust it because that market is
telling us we' re getting more industrial or the tax base requires . What
you do is you sort of set a plan and then you monitor it and you compare i
and you adjust. You don' t really dictate what the City' s doing. It works
hand in hand with the marketplace. I think you can set out and say hey
this is what the land use mix is to date and then go on with another
paragraph that says this has worked for the City today but we' ll attempt 1
kind of follow this but maintain flexibility depending on what revenue.
Depending on what happens to revenue, taxes and the market for land and
kind of keep it a little bit nebulous but I agree with Steve and I really '
don't believe anymore that we dictate 100% what happens in this city. I
just don' t believe it.
Conrad: I don' t think we ever have. ,
Erhart: But when you set these numbers and these hard percents and say
we're going to maintain this mix of use, you' re fooling yourself into
thinking that we do dictate this mix . I don' t think we do.
Batzli : We could dictate this mix tomorrow if we wanted to by rezoning th
entire city industrial .
Erhart: It won't stick.
Batzli : No. I agree with you. We' re not going to do it but the point is1
if we go out and try and rezone everything that' s going to be along TH 212 .
Everything that' s going to be along TH 101. Everything on TH 5 industrial
office, whatever we want to do, you can definitely influence this. I 'm no
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come up with an exact number but I want to come up with some kind of, it' s
not even a percentage so much. It' s kind of where Ladd' s coming from where
it's a mix and make sure we've got enough that we' re bring in.
Conrad: It's more philosophy than numbers .
Emmings: I have no trouble with that at all . I agree with that.
' Erhart: I agree with that. If we can somehow state this in philosophy
terms.
' Conrad : We want enough light industrial that does this , that and the other
thing but I don' t know what the numbers are but I think, I 'm comfortable
with that and not numbers .
Emmings: The influencing comes when you have a developer or a business is
looking for a place to locate and they come to your community and they say
what have you got that you' ve put on your map as office/industrial? Then
' they go look in those areas. That' s how you get to influence what happens
I think.
' Ellson: Or else people go to a corner that ' s not that and come back and
ask you to make it whatever they want .
Erhart: Change it.
Ellson: Right . Like TH 7 and TH 41.
' Emmings: That' s okay. This is supposed to be a. . .process . I guess I can
live with that. I 'm real uncomfortable with, when I saw these numbers on
here and then I saw it said we should attempt to maintain this mix , then I
really disagree with that.
Conrad : But by staff putting that down to stimulate or whatever , what I
' want to be assured of. By taking the numbers out I want to be assured by
somebody that we have the right mix. That we have enough land to guide us
to the future for the things that are going to offset maybe some drains. I
don' t want to just say philosophically well I want to do it. I want to put
' somebody on the line to say we think that there's a real good chance that
if we maintain this kind of balance, your taxes aren' t going to go up.
Batzli : Yeah, but we asked for that.
Conrad : And that' s probably impossible.
' Batzli : We asked for a study of economic impact of various uses and we got
something but you' re not going to get something that' s better than that are
you? Do you think you' re going to get something better than what that
study was?
Conrad : No. But are you convinced that we have the right, if our city.
Brian like you said, if our city continued to develop with this mix , is
that good or bad? Is that economically a good direction or bad
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direction? Does it keep the industrials secondary to the single family or "
do we become an industrial community?
Batzli : If you tell whether Chanhassen is going to get their own school
system or continue to be split. If you tell me what the state and nationa
economies are going to do and the legislatures are going to do. If you
tell me how quickly they move the MUSA line, then I ' ll let you know.
Emmings: I know.
Batzli : There' s a lot of factors that you can' t control so you don' t know'
what the optimum mix is going to be.
Conrad : I think Ladd ' s got the best idea though. What he started out and '
he said residential is everything else because I think, the central
business district, we know where that is . If you add in where you want a
little commercial. Maybe taking into consideration TH 212. If you say,
where are we going to go for more industrial stuff? Plot all that out on II
map and probably what's left is residential . I think that' s true .
Emmings: And that may be the way to do it . Go after the small ones first"
to make sure that you've got those so you don' t wind up being totally one
thing which is residential and that could happen . It' s possible. It
wouldn't be a good result.
Conrad: Well , I don't agree with that statement. There' s nothing wrong II
with a residential community. Nothing wrong with it. You get the mix of
people. All the things that you like in a residential town. And a lot
less headaches.
Enmiings: No . Without the mix of commercial and industrial in there, that.
would really add to your tax base and you' re in a lot of trouble.
Conrad : Right.
Batzli : I think you just waffled on that one . '
Conrad: Okay. Let's go onto 4.
Krauss : 4 we also modified a little bit. There was a more direct
statement that industrial development should only occur, well basically it
says that now, that should only occur on collector or arterial streets I II
believe it was the first time around. And there was an implied cap on how
much development we should allow based on highway capacity. This changes
the focus of that a little bit based on the discussions that we heard.
Still saying that higher intensity development should occur where you havell
an adequate transportation system but also it tends to shift the
responsibility a little bit with the developer that if they want to develo
in an area that has an inadequate system, that they should work with the
City to correct that. That it' s not entirely our obligation. That we' ll
work with them but that' s it a cost of development and should be resolved.
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Batzli : What does the words higher intensity add to this as a goal?
Krauss: The persumption is that a single family development being lower
density scattered over a larger area doesn ' t focus on traffic problems.
Doesn' t create traffic problems to the magnitude that an office park or a
series of apartment buildings or commercial development will .
Batzli: Even though collectively they will have the impact on it?
Krauss : Collectively they will .
Erhart: That number 4 there is almost so vague it ' s, you almost have to
wonder what it says. Should we get more specific? Are we talking about 2
things? One, truck traffic and two, traffic associated with like a high
density condos where you' re talking about just a lot of cars and maybe make
a statement in that paragraph about each.
Batzli : But you' re getting back to our original discussion on this is I
' would prefer that this is even made broader and then if you want to
implement it with various procedures to get specific about truck traffic
here. This there. The general goal should be, development should occur
' only in areas having adequate transportation support system period. That' s
the ultimate goal . Then you want to implement it by talking about truck
traffic and improving impacted roads as a condition to approval and that
type of thing . I thought that' s where we were kind of going to go with
this whole thing.
Headla : Why did you say that' s the ultimate goal? If someone has an area
and they want to pay for their road development, what do you care?
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Erhart : Yeah but individuals don' t pay for road development.
Headla: Well look at the bakery down here. Didn' t they help pay for that
road improvement?
' Olsen: Audubon?
Emmings : Didn' t that come out of the tax increment?
Conrad: My impression was that they got money to do that.
Emmings: I think we did that.
Olsen: We did part of it but I think they were also assessed some of it.
Headla: But anyway, if a corporation puts in money to improve the road, I
don't see anything wrong with that.
Batzli : No, I don' t either . If they want to improve the road . If the
goal is that having an adequate transportation support system, if they make
it adequate, then it would be right for development.
Headla: True.
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Batzli : If they want to put it in and it ' s inadequate and they' re not
going to improve it, then it shouldn't go in.
Headla: That' s right. '
Erhart: That' s fine if it really works that way. I wasn' t aware that we
actually asked people to pay for improvements to public roads . '
Olsen: We don' t ask them to pay. It' s just through assessments is all .
Headla: We should ask them to pay for fire trucks too when they have big II
buildings.
Conrad: Tim, I think you've seen Steve' s format for working that. I 'm II
sort of holding Steve back here because he's got some ideas on how he woulll
reformat some of these goals. So why don' t we wait in terms of how you see
number 4 because I think when Steve talks about what he'd like to have us I
do, I think it will solve your concern.
Emmings: I ' ll tell you what I did on transportation. This is really half
baked and I ' ll try and get a little more work done on it and get some
copies out for review but my notion was for each area we' re interested in,
to state the subject. Have a real short statement of the goal . Have a
very short description of what exists now so you know what you' re talking II
about. Have an intent statement and then have, list a few examples of
things we think are important at the time so it kind of gives, flushes out
what you' re talking about. I' ll tell you what I did on transportation, '
since we' re talking about that right now. I stated the goal there as
provide a variety of systems for safe and efficient movement of people and
vehicles. It seems to me that' s what we' re trying to do. We want to move
people around . We want to move vehicles around. We want that to be
efficient and we want it to be safe. And for a description, I put down
Chanhassen ' s transportation system consists of State and County roads, city
streets, sidewalks, trails, mass transit with potential for light rail and "
parking facilities . I arbitrarily described that as a transportation
system. I had trouble with the intent. Now Tim's given me some ideas
here. For examples I just put down, pedestrians should have safe access
via sidewalks and trails to schools, parks and other areas of the city.
Commercial traffic should have access to industrial and commercial areas
from arterials without having to use residential streets. Local and thru
traffic systems should not obstruct each other . Just enough, I don' t know "
how many other examples you'd want to have but that way, the thing I want
to do is have real big broad statements of intent and then a few examples
to flush it out so we don't get cornered. I don't ever want anybody to
think that it' s exclusive. Then the other thing you have to say of course "
is all your policies have to be considered together . You can' t talk about
transportation without talking about natural environment or natural assets
because everytime you build a road you' re taking them away. You've got to
balance them all together too. That was another thing but I don' t think w
have to write them in that many areas. I 've written one for the natural
environment . I 've written one for transportation and I was starting to
work on one for land use and I don't know how many other areas there reall
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are. The land use one is going to be hard and it ' s oin to be kind of
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Conrad : There' s a lot of merit to what I saw that you wrote. Paul , I
think what I 'd like you to do is take a look. Steve' s going to type this up
and if you could take a look at it and then just sort of react to it. Does
that work for what we' re trying to do? There's a lot of good logic. It
may break down and be a mish mash. I 'm not sure if we can pull it through
all the different areas that we've got. It does work for a couple. I know
that but I 'm not sure what kind of exercise it ' s going to be to work it
through all of our goal statements. But anyway Steve, if you could type
that up and especially the first page. I think the first page I felt
' pretty comfortable with.
Erhart : I might add , I think one of the problems you've got in trying to
figure what intent is, I think intent and goal is the same thing .
Emmings: Well it is .
' Erhart : Therefore , trying to make it two separate is words. I like the
format . I would just eliminate one or the other .
' Emmings: Really when I worked out intent on this one, it sounds the same
and so maybe that' s just unnecessary.
' Headla: In theory, that' s excellent but if it' s so good, why hasn' t
another city taken it up?
Batzli : We' re just naturally good .
' Ellson: Because he works for us , that ' s why.
' Headla: Is there anyway you can search out to see if somebody else has
followed this philosophy?
I 'm sorry. Which one specifically now?
Erhart: The format here.
Headla: The format he' s suggesting.
Krauss: Oh, that format frankly is what they taught us in Planning School .
' Emmings: Another successful effort at reinventing the wheel .
Headla : I 'd like to see if the city has used it.
Krauss: Sure. I think some of the existing goals and policies are set up
in that format. They may not be as specific .
' Emmings: That' s the problem with them I think.
Headla : I 'd like to see if the City' s used it and how successful it is.
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Conrad: Dave, if you lay out a goal that gets demonstrated , it seems like II
it would be workable doesn' t it?
Headla: But if it' s so good , then other people should have used it alreadll
right?
Conrad : Not necessarily. No, I don' t buy that. What would be the
negatives of laying out goals? You like goals and objectives and standard il
of performance and that' s what he' s doing .
Headla: Absolutely and I said, I think it's an excellent idea. However , '
if it' s so darn good, why hasn' t someone else done it?
Erhart: I'm sure they have.
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Headla : Okay. Let' s see what success they' ve had with it. Let' s identify
one or two and see what success they've had.
Emmings: You know Dave, success . Whenever you've got a goal or a policy I
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or a contract or anything else, it' s only as good as the people that are
working on it to implement it. The words mean nothing .
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Ellson: You' re basically saying how did you write the goal . Not how well
they get implemented.
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Headla : I'm not going to disagree with a statement like that Steve.
Ernmings: Words don' t mean a thing. It' s the people who are doing it .
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Headla : So what we've got is adequate because we've got excellent people
here.
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Emmings: Yeah. You could go right on with what we' ve got. There' s no
reason to change it if you look at it that way. Or you could have nothing '
at all . The problem is that the people change and I guess it ' s a way to
try and transmit what you are doing to the new people that come.
Headla : If you think about restructuring , I think you can learn an awful
lot by looking at what someone has done and see the success and maybe lean
from that.
Erhart: You'd like to get through some of these tonight? I
Conrad: I guess I 'd like to go through the balance of these real briefly
to see if we have a reaction to them. I 'd like Steve to type up what he' s
got. Give it to Paul and Jo Ann and then I think rather than having them
come up with this magic stuff, trying to read our minds, I think we have to
come back and spend an hour and a half or something really putting those I
philosophies, those goal statements down. That' s us . I just can' t say
it's city staff doing it. I think it' s us. I could see Paul and Jo Ann
actually taking it once we get past that original statement. That origina11
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goal but I don' t know that I want them trying to outguess us on what we' re
thinking.
Erhart: Have we decided on a format?
Conrad: We're having them review what Steve is suggesting .
Batzli : Can we have that distributed to us right away after he, I 'd like
to see it and think about it a little too.
Emmings: I think the more creative part might be in thinking of good
examples to illustrate the goal because I don't think it matters that much
what you say for the goal but if we can think of good examples of things
that have happened in the past that we liked and illustrate the goal with
those examples, those specific examples, then we' ll really be giving it
' some life.
Conrad : But did anybody come up with any new goals other than what Paul
and Jo Ann listed here?
' Batzli : Yeah .
1 Conrad : Did you? What is it?
Batzli : They don' t say anything about preserving open spaces . I still
' don't like the natural assets . They didn' t include my open spaces.
Conrad : Okay, he ruined by point. I think it' s real critical thinking
' about what are those 6 or 8 goals for the City. I think we could go along
with this. Again, they' re trying to read our minds. I just want to make
sure that we. I didn't see anything about people movement in here and
maybe we don' t have that as a goal . It ' s something that we've got to talk
1 out. In terms of park space and park, even though it' s Park and Rec, do we
have a philosophy for recreation for the community? I see those two .
' Batzli : That' s open spaces too.
Conrad : Yeah. So I see those two things but I guess I really want to
challenge us to think. I 'm not, a lot of these are more technical . Where
' you develop first . That seems, I don' t know what I think about those . I 'm
not sure. You service obviously the gravity, the places that can be served
by gravity first. Is that a goal statement?
Enmiings: No, that' s an example of an implementation of the goals to me.
Erhart: It' s a policy.
Krauss : Wherever it fits in though, it' s a real important directive for
how the plan gets structured because that's one of the critical factors.
' Conrad : Right but when you say okay, I 'm moving out to, or somebody comes
into Chanhassen and wants to see where we' re going, that seems more
adminstrative to me. Yet I can understand why you' re saying that that ' s
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really going to guide where we put that site.
Elison: But if you did it like Steve had said , you'd be tying it in to a
broader goal .
Erhart: To make my point clear . I like Steve' s format but for us to get
something done here, we ultimately got to get a list of policies that say
specific things like we' re going to develop gravity flow areas before
non-gravity flow. We've got to get there. We've been struggling with
format now for two meetings and I like format starting out with goals so
when you get to policies, policies are consistent with each other and when
staff and City regulate the city to those policies , you achieve your goals ,
but you cannot avoid getting done having policies by the time we get done
here. If we' re going to be so generic that all we' re going to put down is
goals, we're not going to get anything accomplished . '
Batzli : We' re going to put down examples and some of those examples may
well be written in a policy format.
Emmings: But this zoning ordinance, that ' s loaded with policies.
Batzli : But to develop a gravity flow area certainly isn' t within the I
zoning regulations as they currently exist . I mean that is a grand large
scale philosophy of how do you want to develop the city in what order and
you' re talking about developing that portion of the city first . That' s
certainly not regulated by the Code.
Emmings: Why do you want to develop those areas first?
Erhart: What?
Emmings: Which one are you talking about? Gravity flow? '
Erhart: I 'm talking about gravity flow.
Errmiings: Okay, let's talk about that one. Why do you want to do that?
Erhart: Because it is a minimum impact on cost to the city so your goal i
to maintain, or reduce taxes while allowing people to move into your city.
The goal is, to get the highest economic value out of the land at the
minimal cost to the city. That' s the goal .
Emmings: Develop the land in such a way that the cost of the improvements ,
to the City, the necessary improvements to the city is. . .
Erhart: Is minimized so the policy is, you develop it. So as we go
through this and I think we' re going to spend 3 or 4 hours doing this but
for every policy that you come up with, we can come up with a goal and whe
you get all done, all the policies, you' ll have 5 or 6 or 7 goals and all
the policy statements you've got, you' ll be able to insert then in those
goals. And that' s Steve' s format that he' s working on.
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Emmings: I'm just calling them examples I guess . I didn' t want to put
them down as examples because I don't want anybody to take this and say,
okay here are all of the policies in the city of Chanhassen and if I follow
those I 'm in because our policies will change over time. I want to give
' them examples of what we mean because their specific case may or may not be
in there or we may want to change our policies and I don' t want to be
cornered . My fear is being cornered.
' Erhart : I would suggest in addition to Steve typing his format up, I would
suggest that we have staff develop a list of goals. Not policies but the
next time we discuss this so we' ve got something on the table to work on so
we can make some progress . Try to come up with a list of pure goals.
Emmings: I disagree with you. I agree with Ladd . I think we' re starting
over and asking them. They' re sitting there wondering what the hell we
want and I think we ought to do it ourselves .
Batzli : Well , it might be the kind of thing where everybody goes home and
' thinks of like what are the 10 goals you want to see.
Ellson: General , general terms .
Emmings: I don' t think there' s even that many.
Batzli : I know but if that' s what it takes. Because some people will have
different goals obviously.
Conrad : Are we going to have time at our next Planning Commission meeting
to have a work session for us?
Krauss : I don ' t know.
' Olsen: You have Oak View Heights .
Krauss : What we were hoping to do was have a special meeting in about 3
' weeks to actually, hopefully show you the first draft, the first cut at the
plan .
Olsen : I think we need to do this first .
Krauss: I think we can do it in tandem a little bit. Maybe keep getting
more and more guidance as to what should be in there and maybe that will
help to gel the conversation.
Conrad : That might be real tough. Then we' ll water it down and it won' t
be any different. Here's what I 'd like us to do. Let's see if we can get
some time in the next meeting for a work session. Even if it' s an hour .
Try to keep the agenda down if we can.
Olsen: Well it' s just those two items.
Conrad: So Oak View Heights will be a piece of cake.
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Erhart: If we can limit it to just say, on the next meeting let' s try to II all agree on just goals so when we get out of that meeting, we've got our
goals.
Ellson: We' re all bringing in like 6 so get your highlight . '
Conrad: Go through the comprehensive plan that we have, that you should
have at home and take a look at the goals that were laid out there and II think about what your neighbors would like to have as goals and Dave, I 'd
sure like you to come back to represent, well no, Steve represents the
western fringe. You should come back anyway. And then we' ll crank through
that and Steve will get your . You' re going to type that up and give it toll
staff. Staff should really show it to, you' ll get it out in our packet fo
the next meeting so everybody can see what the format is and then even you
can see what he' s talking about . '
Krauss: Is a special meeting , if it occurs in about 3 weeks , going to be
acceptable?
Conrad: Probably. In terms of interviewing , what direction did City
Council give you in terms of interviewing? Any direction? I noticed they
received Dave' s letter of resignation.
Krauss: I haven't had any opportunity to speak to the mayor about that.
Conrad : Have we listed the vacancy? Have we published the vacancy? Let' I
do it as quickly as we can but I would like you to talk to the mayor and
see what he'd like because over the past time, we' ve had difference . Just
talk to Don. See if he wants us interviewing. Treating candidates up as I
normal .
Krauss : Is that the normal process?
Conrad: Yeah, but they've also had some other ideas. I don' t want to
wait . In fact the next meeting we should have, if we could get it
published, we should be interviewing candidates real quickly.
Batzli moved, Ellson seconded to adjourn the meeting . All voted in favor I
and the motion carried. The meeting adjourned at 11: 10 p.m. .
Submitted by Paul Krauss '
Director of Planning
Prepared by Nann Opheim
( 4/FD/TW
CHANHASSEN PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION
REGULAR MEETING
OCTOBER 10, 1989
Vice Chairman Boyt called the meeting to order .
MEMBERS PRESENT: Dawne Erhart, Jan Lash, Sue Boyt, Curt Robinson, and Ed
' Hasek
MEMBERS ABSENT: Jim Mady and Larry Schroers
' STAFF PRESENT: Lori Sietsema, Park and Rec Coordinator and Todd Hoffman,
Recreation Supervisor .
APPROVAL OF MINUTES: Robinson moved, Lash seconded to approve the Minutes
of the Park and Recreation Commission meeting dated September 12, 1989 as
submitted . All voted in favor except Sue Boyt who abstained and the motion
carried.
' REVIEW APPRAISAL FOR CARRICO PROPERTY.
Public Present:
Carl Carrico
Frank Cardarelle
Sietsema : Basically you have the information in your packet of the three
appraisals that were done. At this point what we need to decide is whether
we' re going to make a recommendation to City Council to proceed with
condemnation proceedings or not to. One way or the other. We need to make
recommendation. Carl Carrico is in the audience. Do you have any comments
that you want to make?
Carl Carrico : I haven' t seen all the appraisals.
' Sietsema: Well you saw the first one for $58,000.00.
Carl Carrico: Yeah but he agreed that wasn' t an appraisal . I haven' t seen
' the one.
Sietsema: The second one came in at $85,000.00.
Carl Carrico: Okay.
Sietsema: Jim isn' t going to be here tonight. He asked me to make a
couple comments. Basically he feels we should go for it. There's not
other property really available that's going to serve this purpose. It's
the luck of the draw as far as what your condemnation commission is going
to consist of but he feels that it's a worthwhile piece to pursue.
Erhart: Do we have to, at the time of condemnation then, have the money to
purchase it?
11 Sietsema: Yes.
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Boyt : Will the money be available?
Sietsema: It depends on, we may have to ask the Council to kick in out of
the general budget if it were more than what our fund could afford .
Robinson: My opinion is, I started reading this 85 page document and I got
to where it was talking about the price and I quit. My opinion is that
it' s too expensive and I think we should drop it now.
' Lash: I 'm not real familiar with this whole thing and the whole process
but I tried to come up with what I thought would be, I don' t know how this
court or whatever it is operates, but if they came up with a mid-price
between the City' s appraisal and the owner ' s appraisal , you'd come up with
' about $195,000. 00 which is like way more than I guess I 'm comfortable
paying so I would agree with Curt to drop it although I 'm wondering if
there' s the posibility of just acquiring a portion of it and not getting
the whole 11 acres . Getting as much as we think we could afford or
otherwise back in the packet there' s somewhere they have a real estate
picture of another piece. Maybe you guys looked at this . I don' t know but
it had Lot 11, Block 1 in Lake Luch Highlands. 2.5 acres. Of course it' s
a lot smaller than what we' re looking at but that' s $47 , 500. 00. That would
be something for the neighborhood. . . In all good conscience, I don' t think
I could go for that one.
' Boyt : Are we discussing the Carrico property and whether or not we want to
recommend condemnation?
' Hasek: . . . I think we need a park but I don' t think we need it that bad
though. I think just looking over the prices and talking about it with
Mark a little bit , first of all the appraisal that they got. . .they' re all
in Eden Prairie. We' re in Chanhassen. The simple fact is that currently
it is outside the MUSA line and . . .but I don' t see the point in going
through the hassle. . .and I don' t think we need to let this particular
' landowner . . .
Erhart: I would go along with that. I don' t feel comfortable with the
' property. I 'd like to earmark something. I realize we don' t have anything
in the area but I 'd like to find another piece of property or a few
different pieces of property and where they join in the middle, I 'd like to
earmark that and at the time of development, ask for those land dedications
and we won' t have to pay for something. Get it through dedication at the
time of development.
Hasek: I think we can do exactly that if we go across CR 117. Between
there and CR 42. Spot a park in there, a decent size park, I think we can
cover the radius for a neighborhood park in that area. Have a trail down
the side of CR 117 , if it' s not taken away. A trail on Lake Lucy Blvd . . .so
we should have a way to get in there if that doesn' t disappear.
Boyt : I 'm not thrilled with the piece of property. I don' t think it' s a
wonderful piece of property for a park so I 'm not going to recommend
condemnation.
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rSietsema : I need a recommendation one way or the other . It' s ultimately
up to the City Council . They authorized the appraisals to be done.
' Robinson: Based on the opinion of the Commissioners , I would recommend
that we drop pursuing the Carrico property.
Hasek: Why don' t we extend that just a little bit if we can to. . .we spot
another park in another location and have staff investigate that. Make
that a part of this so it doesn' t look as though, it doesn' t seem as though
we' re just dropping the issue because I don't think we are. We' re still
looking . Is that alright?
Robinson: Sure. I think we' ve got to do that anyway. I don' t think we' re
going to drop it because we don't want a park there.
Sietsema : So the motion was made by Curt to drop pursual of the Carrico
property and to continue to look for a neighborhood park property in the
area of Lake Lucy Highlands and Pheasant Hills.
Hasek: Second .
Robinson moved , Hasek seconded that the Park and Recreation Commission
recommend to drop pursuing the Carrico property and to continue to look for
a neighborhood park property in the area of Lake Lucy Highlands and
Pheasant Hills. All voted in favor and the motion carried.
Carl Carrico: Thank you for making a decision. I 've been fooling with
g g
this piece of property since 1971 and I 'm tired of fooling with it. I know
the price seems high to everybody but it' s something that I have offers
from people that will buy the property for that so I 'm not trying to, I
don' t have a mask on or a gun but I appreciate you at least giving, let ' s
get rid of it. Thank you.
PLACEMENT OF ARCHERY RANGE.
Hoffman: Two weeks ago I said this was more near and dear to my heart but
I have to let you know, Lori did most of the footwork but was nice enough
to let me bring the report back to you just to make us look like we' re
working together here. We sat down with Scott Harri of Van Doren, Hazard
and Stallings and Lori asked him to look into a site in both Lake Ann and
Lake Susan to see which would be the best potential site. The map was not
included in your packet but there's one at your desk there now this
evening . The original site we talked about for the most part was behind
' the barn at Lake Ann. This large of archery range just wouldn't fit in
that area and it seemed to be more appropriate in Lake Susan. Larry did
stop by today and we drove out there to take a look at the area. That
temporary access road does go right through there at the present so you
' can't see exactly what the lay of the land is but you can get a good idea
of how it would look and it does allow for open visibility. There' s
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' parking fairly close by but it does put the archery range off on it' s own
away from the major areas of activity in the park allowing for that safety
factor . As I indicated there, the time frame for development would be
sometime early summer to mid-summer next year and be finished by that time
when most of the bow hunters want to get out and practice.
Robinson: Will Dale put that berm in there when they' re landscaping or
doing the grading?
Hoffman : Correct . Yeah. If we make a decision to go ahead with it, we
' can have them put that in. It would be a minor adjustment.
Hasek: The question I have is, I know that when you' re hunting deer the
' object is to get within, you'd like them right off the end of the bow.
Hoffman: We do not need a 100 yard range. It will be 50 yards allowing
for 40 yard shots would be about the maximum that we would build for .
' Hasek: Would you want to leave it against the wetland then and away from
the lake as far as possible? In other words, leave the berm in place and
take 50 yards?
Hoffman : Yeah , we'd take a look at it. Have Scott take a look at it to
see what would be the best position in there for a range half that length.
' Hasek: The other question I have is, is there any ball activity on this
field that might conflict with somebody wanting to be out here?
Because I 've shot bow before and I know that it doesn' t take a whole lot to
deflect that arrow and the new bows they' ve got now have a heck of a lot
more punch than the old ones that I used to shoot and that arrow may go a
ways. It' s a 100 yards here and that' s probably unlikely but it looks like
it' s a little closer than maybe it could be or should be.
Hoffman: Sure . That may be one reason to take the archery range and pull
it back towards the lake as far as possible because there would be many
times when both that ballfield and the archery range would be used
simultaneously.
' Lash: You should you put some signage up so people know what' s going on?
Hoffman: Yes. The design for it would be to sign the area there. On the
' top of the hill and if you walk to the edge of the hill and look down,
there's still considerable distance that allows for open viewing and then
you can sign the area and also put up a, not a chainlink fence but a
' bollard with a swing chain in the middle of it just to designate that area .
I also believe there ' s the memo from Jim Chaffee attached . One of his
first concerns would be city ordinance not allowing this without being
amended . It ends up that there' s somewhat just a minor loophole in our
park ordinance that does not specifically list weapons. It lists firearms,
bb guns, explosives, anything of that nature but it does not list a weapon
which a bow is defined as so we don' t have to go through the process.
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Sietsema: Staff has recommended that this go to the Public Safety
Commission though just for their review and to make sure that they don' t
have a problem with it too as long as it is public safety involved .
' Hasek: Does that mean that I could discharge a bow in downtown Chanhassen?
Hoffman: In a park. This is under a park.
' Sietsema: If it would have been at Lake Ann, it would have been north of
TH 5 and then there would have been a problem. But it' s south of TH 5 and
' so the rules are more loosely defined.
Hasek: Do you have to get a permit to hunt with a bow in the city of
Chanhassen?
' Sietsema: I think so .
Hasek : Even if it' s south of TH 5 because it' s not a firearm? I mean it' s
a good idea to get a permit from the owner but I know that in some areas of
the city you need a permit period . You have to go to the City to get a
' permit.
Erhart : They do whenever they come over to us with their permits .
Hoffman: Have you sign it.
Sietsema : I believe that you do but I wouldn' t swear by it.
1 Hasek: That's just a question that came up after reading through this
stuff .
Lash : So we don' t have to do anything about the ordinance then right
because it doesn' t say. . .
' Hoffman: Correct .
Sietsema: Right.
Boyt: Do we have a motion?
' Robinson: I make a motion that we go for the archery range as proposed in
the map. Do we make it 50 yards? I don't know a thing about this. Do you
want that part of the motion? Should that be part of the motion?
' Boyt: Maybe staff can recommend .
Sietsema : I think that the design standards of it can be left open and
' before anything is formally done, we' ll come back with a final design plan
for it so you don' t have to include that. You may want to include that you
want to send it to Public Safety.
Robinson: Yes . So moved.
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' Lash: Second.
' Robinson moved, Lash seconded that the Park and Recreation Commission
recommend to place an archery range at Lake Susan Park and to refer the
issue to the Public Safety Commission for their input . All voted in favor
and the motion carried.
DISCUSSION OF LAKE ANN PARK SHELTER.
ISietsema: The next item is the Lake Ann Park shelter and as you recall , we
had recommended that $100,000.00 be set aside in the reserve fund for a
park shelter at Lake Ann Park. Although that hasn' t been formally approved
by the City Council , I wanted to bring it up to your attention. If we want
to have that done and be able to start that next year , we need to make the
design plans and get going on the process now. As soon as the budget is
' approved , if that' s in there. Todd is in charge of handling all the group
reservations and he' s had a number of calls wanting a facility like that.
Hoffman: Every call .
Sietsema: Every call wants a facility like that and we feel that that may
be revenue generating as well . When you get something that nice in there,
' you should be able to charge something and bring some money in for it too
so if this is something we want to do, we've been talking about it since
I 've started here which is about 6 years ago and I think that it' s probably
due if we want to do it.
Hasek : I 'd like to see us go ahead with it because it' s the one thing I
think that' s really lacking out there is a. . . facility. . .it'd be nice to
have a building to go along with that . . .Arboretum are magnificant .
Boyt: Oh Lake Lucy is much nicer .
Sietsema: Lake Susan .
' Boyt: Oh yeah, Lake Susan.
Sietsema: What this one was originally planned when we were submitting it
for the LAWCON grant application, it was a two leveled walkout type
facility that would have concession and restrooms or bath house in the
basement with like boat rental if we were to choose to get paddleboats or
canoes and have that kind of rental out of the bottom and the upper portion
would have an overlook of the lake screened in and then walk out the back
and have a fireplace. You could use it in the winter for snowmobiling . A
snowmobile stop off place or cross country skiing area. It would make this
' park more multi-seasonal as well as having a lot of use in the summer .
Hasek: How much would you rent that thing out? By the table or by the
group?
Hoffman: By the group.
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' Hasek: If a group came in and wanted only a quarter of that, they'd pay
the whole price and you'd give it all to them?
Hoffman: It would be the top picnic area portion, yeah. You'd just rent
it by the group per time.
1 Boyt: Or it'd be one thing if it was just you and your family went there
and it was open and you just use it?
Hasek: Yeah but if somebody did rent it for a Saturday afternoon or
whatever then they'd have the full use of it?
Hoffman : Correct .
1 Hasek: I 'm wondering if there isn' t a way it can be designed so it can be
broken into two parts in case you have small groups so there' s no conflict.
Boyt : You could talk to the designer .
1 Sietsema: The architect, yeah. I 'm sure something like that could be
designed into that . That might make it more useable too.
Boyt: Any questions?
Robinson: Are we talking placement of it yet? Have we determined where it
would go?
Sietsema: The way the plan was, that we came up with before that we
submitted would be built into the hill just to the west of the turn around
area . There' s almost a little opening in the trees right there and it
would be built in there. That way it' s away from the beach but still close
enough to it so that you' re close enough to all of the main activities of
the park and then you could put the boat rental right out in front there.
' Robinson: But away from the ballfields?
Sietsema : Right. It'd be definitely down by the beach. Down by that turn
around area.
Robinson: So it would be built into the hill so it would be facing north
building it into there.
Hoffman : Yes. It'd be a lower level that would come out to the bottom for
the concession area, bathrooms, lifeguard station and that would be an
upper area that would come out . You'd want out the top part of the hill so
it'd be a walkout .
Lash: So what are we talking? Like $100, 000.00 in the budget or
something?
' Sietsema: Right . We have $30,000. 00.
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Lash: That sounds like a lot.
Sietsema: The revenue potential is really there and you know, with the
decrease in the entrance fee to Lake Ann Park and not charging the ball
players anymore , we' re not making any money. We haven' t got it all tallied
up for the 1989 season but.
' Hoffman : Less than half of last year .
Sietsema: It' s really minimal. Last year it was astronomical because it
' was so hot , everybody wanted to be by the water . This year it was a more
moderate season and.
Hoffman : The fee was cut . Softball players didn' t pay.
' Sietsema : And that had an effect on, we get our donations for the 4th of
July from the businesses and with the fee only $2. 00, they didn' t need as
' many tickets or we didn' t as much money so that whole thing is questionable
whether that ' s going to be even worth paying a person at the gate to have a
fee to go into the park anyway. And a fee for a structure like this could
bring in the revenue that we' re missing there to help offset the cost of
the beach program.
Lash : So how much of this do you think you could from. . .
' Sietsema: About $100,000. 00 is what the estimated cost 2 years was for
this facility so it just depends on how many other things. If we want to
make any additions, we just need to update the cost estimate and look at a
' more detailed plan . That' s what with this motion to proceed with this ,
that' s what I will be doing. Bringing back a more details in not only the
design of it but in the cost of it as well and the location.
Hoyt: Okay. We need a motion to proceed .
' Sietsema: After the budget is approved.
Robinson: You said that earlier . We submitted something in August?
Sietsema: Right.
Robinson: Was it early?
' Sietsema: The legislation has been really weird this year on how the
budget is to be prepared and to be adopted. I really don't understand all
of the details of it but we were supposed to have had it done early only
they didn' t give us enough of the details to know how we were supposed to
have prepared it so the budget preparation meetings for the City Council
that they' re going to be cutting and adding and amending to what staff and
the commissions have recommended, is going to happen I think on Monday
night. So it's a month or two down the road before it will actually be
amended but I wanted to get this to you before it got lost in the shuffle
because as soon as that budget is approved, if the $100,000.00 in the
reserve stays in there, then we can be ready to just go and with this it
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1 also makes the Council realize that this is a priority for us as they are
preparing the budget.
Hasek: What kind of a motion do you need?
' Sietsema : Just a motion to proceed with detailed plans for the park
shelter at Lake Ann Park as soon as the budget is formally adopted .
Hasek: So moved.
Robinson : Second .
Lash: Are you looking at electricity in there?
' Sietsema : Yes .
Lash : And running water?
' Sietsema: Yes .
' Boyt : . . .drinking fountain along the way.
Erhart: I like the idea of. . . so we can rent it out to more than one party
because not everybody' s going to be big groups .
Lash: Do you have some kind of idea of the size? I mean capacity.
Sietsema: I can give you a guys a copy of that plan . I 've got some
upstairs and we will look at those again before we go any further with it
to make sure that' s what you want . I should have had it included in this .
Hasek: Wasn' t it like 20 x 40? Like a double garage.
Sietsema: No, it was bigger than that.
tHoffman: Larger than this room.
' Hasek: Wider than this room is the question.
Hoffman: Larger than this room yeah. Capacity of a couple hundred people
probably. We have large company picnics anywhere from 100 to 400 people
out there each summer .
Sietsema: Each weekend.
Hasek moved , Robinson seconded to direct staff to proceed with detailed
' plans for the park shelter at Lake Ann Park as soon as the budget is
formally adopted . All voted in favor and the motion carried .
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1 ACCEPT CHASKA LIONS CLUB DONATION AND IDENTIFY POTENTIAL PROJECTS.
Sietsema: The next item is the Chaska Lion' s Club donation and I was going
' to just send this onto the City Council for their approval to accept the
donation and I got to thinking that perhaps this should do something
significant with, we' ve got a significant amount of money from the Lion' s
and we've put it into the reserve fund to match LAWCON grant funded
' projects . But there isn' t anything that' s identifiable that we can say,
yeah Lions this is what you guys have contributed to. We can say that
we' ve put it toward the huge project at Lake Susan Park which was very
' beneficial and we did get points for their contribution but there' s nothing
that specifically they can point to that they can say that they've done. I
was going to try and add up how much we've gotten from them and it' s a lot.
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Hoffman: $61,000. 00.
Hasek: How about some. . .out at the park. Dugouts out at the ballpark?
The Legion ballfield. Can we get them to hang a sign on some of those? Do
' those for us . I mean that' s the kind of things they like to do. Put a
little sign that says, this is built by the Lion's club.
Sietsema: I put some ideas in there just to start , get some thought
processes going. Running water up to the ballfield park shelter and we
could put a plaque up there. We also need to put a plaque and do some kind
of dedication ceremony for the Legion shelter up there. We have never done
that and I think that we. . .
Hasek made a comment that wasn' t audible on the tape.
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' Boyt: I see the need this year that, our kids are playing soccer in
Chaska . Even though we tried to share fields in Chanhassen , we don' t have
any lighted soccer fields. I 'd like to see lights on the soccer field in
' Chanhassen sometime. I know they' re real expensive. Maybe at Lake Ann.
Hoffman: The soccer field at Lake Ann would be the best one to go at
there. The new soccer field .
Boyt : Curt wanted lights for some tennis courts that haven' t gone in yet.
Robinson: I 'd just be satisfied with tennis courts .
Hasek: Maybe they could do some grading for a single court over there for
' him. A flat area where. . .
Robinson: There' s no water in that ballpark shelter you' re saying?
Hoffman: No water or electricity.
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' Sietsema: I would think that we'd be able to get water out there pretty
easily for that amount of money.
Hoffman : Water , electricity and a pay phone would be wonderful .
Lash: What amount are you talking about?
' Sietsema: $15,000. 00 with the donation that we got this time. We could do
it a couple of different ways. We could put it in a fund. . .probably not a
pay phone . I was thinking at the shelter by the ballfields for $15,000 . 00
I think we'd be able to do that.
' Lash : Are you talking about Lake Susan?
' Sietsema: Lake Ann.
Hasek: The only problem I see with that is identifying the difference
between the Legion struction and the Lion' s improvements. If I were to
want a project from either the Legion Club or the Lion' s Club or any other
group, I would want something that would really kind of stand out.
Something like the dugouts would be one thing that would work. Bleachers
' would obviously be another thing you could do or the boards for a hockey
rink or something really obvious like that .
' Boyt: That you can stick a plaque on.
Hasek: Yeah. If you do the improvements to Lake Ann, I think they' re
absolutely needed out there but I think it's kind of unfair to spend their
' money to improve a building that really somebody else put up.
Boyt: They did have a picnic shelter down in the park on the marsh.
' Wasn' t that a Lion' s?
Sietsema: That was a Chanhassen Lion' s that there used to be here in town
but that doesn' t exist anymore. There' s a new Chanhassen Lion' s .
Boyt : We always looked at warming houses .
Hasek: A warming house would be another nice, a quality warming house.
Robinson : Maybe you could ask them because I know they like specific
things.
Hasek: I think the trick is to give them a list of things.
' Sietsema: Or if you wanted to continue to save that money. Start a fund
to build a concession shelter at the new facility down at Bandimere. On
the Bandimere farm site on the youth complex . By the time 4 years goes by,
if we get these donations twice a year .
Hasek: That could do it.
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Sietsema: They've been donating money for 2 or 3 years and we've had
$60,000. 00. By the time that happens, we could have a significant amount
of money built up in a fund to do something significant down there.
Boyt: We had a facility I belonged to down in Florida. Their concession
.stand was two story with one story for storage and Little League equipment
and a meeting space and downstairs was the full concession with a kitchen.
' Hasek: They also use it for , like to announce the games and stuff. I 've
seen that. Especially when they put in a 4 or 5 ball complex.
' Sietsema: Or we could purchase the furniture or equipment we need for the
park shelter that was planned to be built next year . We could put in the
fireplace or buy the tables or do something to equip that facility with the
money that they' ve donated and that would be something that would be
quicker . Get the project done sooner .
' Boyt: I 'd rather use some of it now. Something we can see and starting a
fund to work towards. . .
' Lash : Maybe a fireplace and that' s something that would look nice with a
plaque on it.
Sietsema: At the park shelter?
Lash: Yes . . .
Sietsema: Because whatever we decide, any of these things probably won' t
get done until next year anyway. It won' t be constructed until the 1990
season so now that we've decided that we want to build the Lake Ann shelter
t in the 1990 season, we could easily incorporate the furnishing of a nice
fireplace or something with that and again, a plaque on the wall done
nicely could be incorporated.
Hasek: What ' s the best way to orchestrate that for us to pick a project
and them make them aware of what is our intention with the money and then
get their approval and consent?
' Sietsema: Well what I would need is a recommendation to accept the money.
To identify a project that we wanted to go towards and send that
' recommendation to City Council and also to direct staff and to contact the
Lion's Club and let them know what our plans are for the money. They've
never asked us to do anything specific with the money. The only thing they
asked us is not to spend it on maintenance or adminstrative costs. They
want us to put it toward projects . That' s the only stipulation that
they've put on the money and they haven' t really watched us to see how
we' re using it but we have been putting it toward LAWCON grant projects.
Robinson: When you write them a thank you note, do you typically tell them
what we' re going to use it for then?
' Sietsema: I usually put it that we put it in the LAWCON grant fund to be a
contribute to the local share of the LAWCON grant and on the last one I let
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' them know that we received the Lake Susan grant project. We received the
grant for the Lake Susan project and those monies were spent for that
project.
Lash : Maybe there should be some sort of plaque put up there anyway saying
some. . .
' Sietsema: That' s true too . We could hang something on the backstop of the
Babe Ruth field or something. That donations from the Lion' s Club helped
to contribute to this.
' Robinson: I would like something to do with this new shelter . If we could
really make that a heck of a nice place with a big fireplace or whatever
with this extra money. I think that'd be neat .
Boyt: Do you want to make a motion? I 'd like included in the motion that
we start affund for soccer lights .
' Robinson: Maybe we set aside a percentage. If it' s going to go on and
keep growing like it has, I think this last year , the year before was
$10, 000. 00.
' Hasek: Soccer lights . That ' s like 30 or 40 good sized flashlights . . .
Erhart: How much are soccer lights for one field?
Hoffman: $60,000. 00.
Sietsema: The ballfield lights that you see on Field 1 out at Lake Ann
were $60,000.00 2 years ago and it would be similar to that.
' Hasek: They'd probably cost us $65, 000. 00. . .
Boyt: So we'd have money left over . $60,000. 00. . .available money coming
' in.
Lash : Wait, I 'm not following what you' re saying.
Boyt: If we recommend spending the $15,000. 00 for the fireplace and
putting $60,000.00 towards lights .
Lash: What $60,000. 00.
Boyt : Don' t we have $60, 000. 00?
' Sietsema: No.
' Boyt : You spent it on Lake Susan?
Sietsema: We've been spending money right along on LAWCON grant projects .
' Boyt: We don' t always spend it so I didn't know.
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' Sietsema: It' s gone into the reserve. That ' s part of the reserve chunk.
There's already some.
' Boyt : It has to be. . .
Sietsema: Right. So what we've done in the past is put it into the
reserve fund and it' s gone toward LAWCON grant projects.
Boyt : And we. . .
' Sietsema: Right. So now we have $15,000.00 that' s not allocated for
anything. $15,850. 00.
Robinson: So if we gave a percentage, all I 'm saying is let' s take a
' percentage of that and put it towards certain projects and leave a percent
in a kitty to build up for the big project.
Lash: So say we spend. . .
Sietsema: $10,000.00 on the park shelter and $5 , 000. 00 put in the south.
Lash: And then took the remainder . . .percentage like 50-50 and start to
build up the funds or something?
' Hasek : I think rather than setting them up, or giving it to the shelter ,
I think what we ought to do is earmark a project and whatever it takes to
get that project done. Then whatever is left over . . .otherwise you' re going
' to try and spend $10,000. 00 on a fireplace that may only cost $6, 000. 00.
We might as well just set it up that way to start with. Earmarking
whatever the cost to build the fireplace or whatever it is we decide to do.
Lash : I think you were just throwing that out as an example.
Boyt: Does someone want to make a motion for that?
' Hasek: I make a motion that we earmark a portion of the Lion' s Club
contribution from pulltabs to a fireplace facility at Lake Ann for the
facility we' re proposing out there and to set aside the rest in a fund to
be earmarked for soccer lights at Lake Ann.
Lash : So like 50% in soccer lights and 50% for some other future. . .
Hasek: Oh, is that what you want to do? You want to split what' s left
over into two things? Not just stick it into one?
Boyt: Yeah, we were talking about future funding that comes in.
Hasek: Do you want to start with future funding that comes or do you want
to just start?
Boyt : Okay. We' re dealing with money we have right now.
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Robinson: But then are you saying next year_ we also put 50% into the
soccer lights and 50% to another project?
Boyt : That ' s what we' ll discuss next year .
Robinson: What the percentage is going to be or . . .
Hasek: I didn' t put it all in percentages. I just said let's build a
fireplace and stick the rest into a fund for soccer lights . When the next
one comes through, we' ll decide whether we want to put it all in a fund for
' soccer lights or think of another project.
Boyt: Is there a second? I ' ll second it.
' Sietsema: Do you want me to read the motion?
Boyt: No .
Sietsema: Okay, the motion was to recommend that the money be accepted and
that a portion of the funds be set aside for the fireplace at the Lake
' Ann Park shelter and set up a fund for soccer lights at Lake Ann with the
intention that a portion of future donations goes into the soccer light
fund .
Hasek moved , Boyt seconded that the Park and Recreation Commission
recommend that the money be accepted from the Chaska Lion's Club and that a
' portion of the funds be set aside for the fireplace at the Lake Ann Park
shelter and set up a fund for soccer lights at Lake Ann with the intention
that a portion of future donations goes into the soccer light fund . All
voted in favor and the motion carried.
Lash : So you' re sending them a nice letter right?
Sietsema: I will be sending this onto City Council upon their approval .
I ' ll send a letter with what we' re doing .
SITE PLAN REVIEW, OAKVIEW HEIGHTS.
Public Present :
Dean Johnson
Mary McCawley
Sietsema: I think that we' re all aware of most of the history of this
item. This item' s come before us on at least 2 or 3 other occasions. The
changes in the proposal basically are that they are increasing the size of
the development to 27. 10 acres and are proposing to develop 11 high density
townhouses which amount to 200 total units. As can be seen on the site
plan, 5.4 acres is to be dedicated for park. They' re proposing that 5.4 be
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dedicated for parkland in the northeast corner of the site.
Robinson: 5. 04 instead correct?
Sietsema: 5.04. Yeah . 200 units creates the need for 5 to 7 acres of
parkland and the reason that's such a wide range is because there isn' t a
people per unit figure standard that we have for multi-family so that' s
based on either between 2 to 2. 8 people per unit in the multi-family
dwelling . The 5 acres the developer is proposing to dedicate currently
contains some severe topography including a ravine. He' s proposing that
with the amount of grading that needs to be done on this site, that that
' ravine could be filled in to bring the useable parkland or developable
parkland to roughly 3 acres. Dean, do you want to make any of your
comments now?
Dean Johnson: Yeah . We' ve got a transparency presentation.
' Sietsema: He' s got some designs on how that can work on the site.
Mary McCawley: This is the site . The original site was this rectangular
shape that was the original 18.9 acres. Mr. Johnson has acquired this
' property in addition, 5 acres of which will be dedicated to park. The
balance will be added onto this part of the project which will go for
density for the apartment units that will be in the future. So these are
' the 8 acres that Lori was speaking with that are the additional purchase
that was different than the last proposal . The ravine that Lori was
speaking with is this area in here and our proposal is to take grading that
will need to be done in this area and fill this ravine and part of this
bermed area that you see along Kerber as you drive here. This would yeild
about 2 1/2 contiguous acres . 2. 7 contiguous acres of relatively flat land
and this has been graded for the uses that would be proposed for this area .
This is a possible design for the parks . There'd be a ballfield in this
area and there' s adequate space. There' s a tennis court in this area that
would be from off the cul-de-sac of the proposed townhome development .
' This area for totlot, parking and half court basketball court and there'd
be additional space there. There'd be open skating area in this pond area
and the slopes would yeild sledding hills and because of the contiguous
' area with the wetlands and open space here, there could be other winter
sports such as cross country skiing and so on. There's presently as you
know there' s public land across the street that could be used as a
compliment to the other public school property on the other side of Kerber .
So that' s what we' re proposing for the park area . With that there' s three-
fifths of the area that could be developed.
Boyt : I have a question. Does staff feel that filling in the ravine would
be allowed? Are you going to kill every tree?
' Mary McCawley: No. If you go along Kerber and look up here, the trees
down in this lower part, this is really pretty open. It looks like it was
probably being filled at one time but this area here. The trees, there' s a
few right along here and then down by the wetlands which is actually, this
' is the whole site . There' s more trees here along Powers Blvd . , if you look
from this way, along this wetlands here but if you go down Kerber , this
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area is really quite open . It looks like it' s been. . .
Boyt: Who on staff would recommend that this be, is that Gary' s job or Jo
Ann' s job?
' Sietsema: I think both Jo Ann and Gary would look at it to see . Jo Ann
has and I haven' t heard from her that that would be a problem one way or
the other .
Mary McCawley: This was a proposal done by a consultant to the City for
looking at equipment on Dean' s original proposal and in our proposal we
used the same types of use to show that they could fit on this new plan.
' Sietsema: Show them where this is located though on the overall site.
Mary McCawley: Okay. I think you can tell by the topography that this
area here. This is their original . This area that Lori is pointing out is
the area that was really the only natural flat area of the property.
Sietsema: When the Planning Commission looked at this, they had the
' recommendation from the Park and Recreation Commission to acquire 4 acres
of parkland and they asked Mark to come up with a concept of how 4 acres
could work. This is the flatter area up in the north, the original
northeast corner . It does not include what they' re proposing now.
Mary McCawley: But it does speak for the additional 4 acres . This area
took 3 of the townhouse units, the larger units .
Hasek: So this site is 4 acres? The outline of this site is how many
acres?
' Mary McCawley: It' s a little more isn' t it?
Sietsema: 4.08 acres. These boundaries here.
' Hasek: So what you' re proposing is to take 4 acres of facilities and put
it into something under 3 acres?
Boyt: 2. 7.
' Hasek: No . Because that says 4 acres of site that' s fairly flat and the
flat part of this site is now 2.7 acres .
Dean Johnson: 3.
Sietsema: What they' re saying is, if this represents 4 acres being used in
this area. . .
Mary McCawley: This is a different configuration.
Hasek: Between this area right and this area which is now going to be
skating . There ' s 3. 1 acres .
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' Mary McCawley: This is 2. 7 and there' s an area down here where the pond
area.
' Hasek: So you've got 3. 1 instead of 4 basically with the same facilities .
Sietsema: There' s a conservation easement in that lower area on those
wetlands so .
Dean Johnson: That conservation easement is 75 feet. . .
Sietsema: Pardon me?
Dean Johnson: I read that in your report about the conservation easement .
That conservation easement is farther to the west. It' s not even, that
easement, even 75 feet from that easement would not be within any of this .
Sietsema: But those are considered wetlands and there' s a 75 foot setback.
Dean Johnson : The wetlands are. . .
Sietsema: These aren' t considered wetlands? These ponds?
Dean Johnson : No .
' Mary McCawley: Those are retention ponds. They' re man-made.
Sietsema: I understand that but they, it was my understanding that they
became wetlands and therefore protectable and there was a 75 foot setback
on those.
' Mary McCawley: No. It wouldn' t be wetlands with vegetation. It' s for
retention purposes. This is the natural wetlands and it' s all on the
parking side .
' Erhart : Lori , can you explain the setbacks from the wetland . That big
area that is wetlands. What kind of a setback do we need there?
' Sietsema: There would be a 75 foot setback that nothing could be
constructed or developed or altered within 75 feet of a wetlands area.
They' re telling me I 'm wrong but it was my understanding that these other
ponding areas were now considered wetlands and they also had a 75 foot
setback.
Hasek: There is an easement line drawn across the plan. What is that?
Sietsema: That' s an utility easement.
Hasek: Utility? Okay.
Dean Johnson: Could I state one more thing about the wetland? These
wetlands are Class B wetlands and consequently they can be altered to any
shape . They' re not considered to be crucial in form. In fact, in the
initial site, the plan for that wetland has already been looked at by staff
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and recommended for approval although it hasn' t been approved yet, is that
we take it and we remake part of that wetland into a retention pond with
water coming off of the 18. 9 acres that' s going to come off of the hard
' surfaces and drain down into that. They wanted that part of the site
altered into a retention pond and then dumped into the wetlands after that
so that is all going to be altered and work be done on a Class B alteration
permit by the DNR. Staff has no problem with that. It' s not. . .or has been
done or looked at by your staff and they reconunend. . . so these are not
things that cannot be worked with . This is not a type of a wetland that
cannot be touched. I have worked around those types of wetlands . . .but this
is not that case.
Lash: So when we start filling in this ravine, what kind of a grade are
you talking about. . .? What the grade is going to be ultimately? . . .they
start filling in, it obviously would make a much steeper grade wouldn' t it?
Mary McCawley: No. This is 4: 1 slope which is really more gradual than
' the 3 : 1 slope that is generally, the ultimate . You can see the grades
there. These are 10 foot contours. Existing grades are extended and
they' re not anymore severe than they are now but there' s nothing proposed
' greater than 4: 1 which is very acceptable as far as erosion and you know
those concerns .
Dean Johnson : I don' t know what ' s allowed or Chanhassen' s minimum grade
but I know Plymouth is 3: 1. 3: 1 is Plymouth's .
Mary McCawley: But these are even gentler than what would be the maximum.
Hasek: I think what has a lot to do with those slopes though is where
they' re located and what their function is going to be. If you leave a 3: 1
slope alone and grass it in and mowing it, it's fine but if you' re going to
' put it some sort of an active use , we' ll have to look at something other
than that.
Dean Johnson : If Plymouth they allow you to take what will allow you an
area where you mow frequently. In the townhouses. . . I have such a bank.
But this isn ' t that. This is 4: 1. This is a good sliding hill .
Hasek: Just a general question. Where do we stand with the tree
ordinance? Has anything been done about that at all?
Sietsema: I don' t believe so.
Hasek: Nothing has been talked about at Council?
Sietsema: I think that the ordinance is being worked on but I don' t
believe that it' s in place yet .
Hasek: Do we have it within the ordinance, the requirement that we are
showing where existing vegetation is. . . For example, when they bring the
topo in, do they have to show some of the general tree masses and stuff?
Sietsema: I don't know. I think they usually do.
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Hasek: Do we have an aerial photograph section map?
Sietsema: Yes. I can go up and get it .
Boyt : Dawne and I have some questions of other staff . . .that you don' t have
expertise to answer . I think Dawne has questions about the wetland. I
have questions about whether or not this would be allowed . . .and I think
we'd like to have some of the questions answered before we spend a lot of
time.
' Sietsema : Why don' t you give me a list of your questions.
' Boyt: Well my question was, if the filling won' t be allowed, then we' re
not even dealing with this as parkland because to me it ' s not useable. I
guess what it comes down to for me is it still is not a useable piece of
property to meet the needs of those people.
Erhart: We upped it from 182 units to 200 units .
Boyt : And less useable space.
Mary McCawley: If you took these 4 acres , there wouldn' t be 130 units . If
you took these 3 units away for this amount of parkland, it would. . .the
project unuseable and then there would a lot less units .
Boyt: . . .4 acres but if we took 4 acres and reduced the number of people
in the development . . . is the minimum amount for this site. The amount of
' people.
Mary McCawley: . . .this project but you can see there' s a big corner here
of grading that' s well above the, well a lot steeper than the 5% so we
would actually do the grading to make this workable. You wouldn' t get 4
acres of flat land in this proposal either.
' Lash : . . .we wanted a minimum of 4.
Boyt: Developable acres .
Lash : We didn' t pick the location. We just said what we wanted so.
Robinson: So what you' re saying is this has nothing to do with the park?
' Boyt: Developable acres?
Dean Johnson : Why isn' t slope developable acres?
Boyt: I guess I 'm not interested in the ravine.
Dean Johnson : But a sliding hill? Oak View Heights isn ' t a park?
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' Lash : If we take in the sliding hill and stuff, what do we have?
Dean Johnson: 5.
' Lash: But we've also increased the number of units?
Dean Johnson: If you would take your 4 acres that you wanted and divide
that into the 182 in the 4 acres , because that' s the original amount of
units and then you take and you use that number , that differential , then
multiply it by the 200 units that are now there, you come up with that 4.4
acres is what you want for park. In other words, I 'm over what y
already required . Do you understand what I 'm saying? you've
Hasek: I guess my concern was lies really with two areas. One, if the
' facilities that are being shown are adequate . My question is, is 185
football field adequate? I don' t know that it is . I think it' s drawn on
there simply because that' s what fit . I 'd like to see one that ' s a little
' larger than that if possible. Perhaps we don' t need all the facilities
that are on there but we've got a real sketchy plan before us . I 'd like to
see something a little bit more typed up than that. I don't have any
concern about , I mean a sliding hill is fine with me. We've got active and
passive uses. That doesn' t bother me so much but if we' re being shown some
facilities , I 'd like to know that they' re going to work and I can' t believe
that a 195 foot ballfield, even though it is for kids, we' re still going to
' get some high school kids out there playing ball with a totlot dead center
field so I 'd like to see things I guess tighten up. Show us a plan that
makes some real good logical sense. Show us a ballfield that can be used
' by all the potential users out there. I 've got a kid in 6th grade and he
can hit the ball 185 feet so if you get older kids, it' s going to travel
farther than that.
Mary McCawley: It' s 230 foot .
Hasek: 230 is probably reasonable but you've also got it backed up against
' the property line here about 10 feet on the south side here, and it' s about
182 feet to this one line so some things need to be cleaned up.
' Mary McCawley: Is it the developer ' s responsibility to design the park?
Hasek: No , but you' re showing us something and if you want us to believe
it, I would say that it's probably your responsibility to make us believe
it and I just don' t believe it right now so that' s my opinion. I don' t
believe this one either . This number right here I don' t believe and what
I 'm telling you is that I think this was drawn this way because it' s
' something that worked on the plan. Not necessarily that it would work in
reality.
' Mary McCawley: . . .
Hasek: Who did that plan?
Mary McCawley: Mark.
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' Hasek: He ' s not the developer so. I do this for a living and I personally
wouldn' t bring a plan in this sketchy form and expect somebody to believe
it. I 'd go in and put the grades in. I 'd put the planting plan on it. I'd
do everything just ' to make sure that it got passed. I 'd take the
responsibility upon ourself as the designer to make sure the plan is ready
to go. What the heck? For a few extra dollars , it just takes a little
time and effort to try and convince us , the commission, that is really what
you want to do with this.
Mary McCawley: Are you giving an outline of equipment you do want to see?
Is that the types that you want to see?
Hasek: I think that' s probably 'w to you to work with staff to figure out
if we have some specific for sizes that we'd typically like to see and
that ' s up to you to work out with them. It' s not our job I don' t think to
tell you what sizes . . . I 'm just reacting to 185 foot on the ballfield.
That ' s a pretty big lot for very young kids. If you get a high school kid
out there on that softball field, he' s going to hit it 250-280-300 feet
that ' s worth his weight in gold and I don' t know that that ' s necessarily
what we design all of our parks but it's something you can anticipate
that' s going to happen so the point that I 'm making is that, the totlot at
the end doesn' t make any sense. . .rearrange things. That's what I 'm saying.
Sietsema: 200 foot baseline is typical in a neighborhood park.
' Dean Johnson: We did get that from staff. . .because we did work with staff.
I guess you know, the thought that I have at this point is , you know we
didn' t expect to design this for you. In our talkings with everybody at
the city here , not only Lori but others, we didn' t expect to. We were
expecting to show you that things could go on here and that' s why this is
as it is . If we had known that we were supposed to bring in more design,
' we would have. I guess though we' re going in front of Planning Commission
and the public here. If the ravine can be filled and if we can work with
that. . .is it something that'$ feasible. Is that something that' s . . . We
need a little, I mean, I appreciate your comments back. That we need a
little bit more direction than what we' ve got here just by virtue of the
process .
Sietsema : In all fairness to Dean, I think that if this is something that
there' s no way in God's green earth that this commission is ever going to
put their stamp of approval on and you know that now, it'd be nice for him
' to know that now going into it. Or if he can revise it and do some work on
it and bring back a better plan and there' s a chance that you' re going to
approve it, then he needs to know that.
Boyt: The only thing I need to know is, I love that ravine and I 'd like to
see it used as parkland, is he can fill part of the ravine. I 'd like to
see it, rather than a totlot when the development happens, have the
playground equipment going down the hill . There's a lot of near things
that can be done out there and I would. . . if we can find out from staff .
Dean Johnson: Again, getting back to, you know I mean we' re donating the
land and you guys are going to be putting the equipment on it. We don' t
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mind help designing you know but you' ve got to give us direction which way.
I would have never thought of putting park on the slope because I would
have never thought that you guys would have watned that .
Boyt: I think we just work with Dean on the grading. Isn' t that
it? Isn' t that what it comes down to?
Sietsema: Right.
Dean Johnson: So I guess the question is, I've got extra dirt. I mean
' I 've got quite a bit of extra dirt. I can fill the ravine. I can do that.
If the ravine can be filled , is this something that you guys see as
feasible? I mean I ' ll work with you beyond the fact of putting the dirt
in, I' ll work with you trying to get, you know the thing designed to
something you know that you guys want. I don' t mind as long as I 've got
room for the dirt, where did you want the dirt but is this something you
can live with because obviously I 've got to take it from here and go before
Planning and tell them that basic concepts you know if something that looks
like it' s going to be workable but we do have to iron out the details or
design the park or do whatever you want us to do.
Boyt : There are some nice parks built on hills like Starry Lake Park and
I saw a few in Japan that are beautiful that are built on the hillside and
that' s what I have imagined as I ' ve passed through the ravine. What it
would be and I 'd love to see it parkland and if you could fill part of the
ravine so we have 3. 1 acres , that would satisfy me.
' Dean Johnson: Let' s take it one step farther here too. I 'm going to be
putting up this apartment building sometime. It won' t be until after the
townhouses are pretty much up and going but I plan on using the ravine as
an amenity for the apartment building . What I mean by that is some kind of
a walking trail , that type of thing. I would not mind at that point in
saying I ' ll give you an easement so that this trail could go from Powers
Blvd. say up and through this park. I have no problem with doing something
like that either so I wouldn' t mind if you guys want to go with that
direction.
Hasek: You' re talking about the easement down by the slope?
Dean Johnson: Well see the majority of the trees aren't on this site. In
fact there are very few trees in this site until you get on the slopes
where it says cross country skiing. Once you get into that area and start
going into the original park of my ground of 18.9 acres, that' s where you
really hit the trees and trees are between the 980 and the 940 contour .
That' s why the City planning staff wants us to put the easement in at 980
because then at that point they can protect those trees. Since I 'm not
building down into the 980 contour , that' s fine with me. So that' s where
the trees are. What I was planning on doing is putting a path in amongst,
just above or just below the trees and that would be I think walking
through the parkland .
' Lash : I have another question. I don' t know what your , the apartments
that are going in, is that included in there too? The total units?
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Dean Johnson : Yep.
' Lash : So without the apartment what is it?
Dean Johnson: 110.
' Hasek: I 'm sorry, what were those number? 110 and 200 even?
Dean Johnson: Yes. There' s 90 apartments. But we need to design for the
' whole site now.
Hasek : Did you talk about trails at all?
Sietsema: We talked about that at earlier meetings and that recommendation
would still hold true with the trail going along Powers Blvd. and a
sidewalk along Jenny Lane.
Dean Johnson : But that' s already been discussed and accepted so what I 'm
talking about is an extra walking path through the trees .
Hasek: And that would be a trail separate from the road? Separated from
the road surface?
Sietsema : Which?
Hasek: The trail on Jenny Lane?
Sietsema : Yes . Sidewalk.
' Hasek: And that would be installed at the time the road went in?
Sietsema: Yes .
Hasek: Which is something we' re going to start doing?
Sietsema: Right .
Dean Johnson : Are you guys having trouble with things not being done?
11 Sietsema: That piece of property that they just acquired and included in
this proposal , the comprehensive trail plan does call for a trail
connection to go there that would connect Chanhassen Pond Park over to
Powers so you could go from Chan Pond Park over to Lake Ann Park so that
' easement. . .
Boyt : Isn' t that where there used to be a cow path?
' Sietsema: Yes. In that area somewhere yeah.
Boyt : That' s not there anymore?
' Sietsema: That's not there anymore.
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' Erhart : So in other words what it boils down to is if we can make this
workable, is the commission satisfied with 5 acres for the 200 units?
Dean Johnson : I 'd say 5 acres plus the easement.
Erhart: What's what it boils down to?
Hasek: Staff is telling us 5 acres is a minimum and 7 acres is kind of a
maximum based on their estimates so 5 acres , 5. 01 acres is there, it' s
' there. I think the lines can be changed a little bit to accommodate maybe
even a little bit more. . . The question in my mind is useable acreage. If
we can accommodate facilities that we think will provide for the residents
' of this particular project within that 3. 1 or 2.7 acres of high ground
above and include some of the recreational activities on that side slope
plus the trail , I don't see any problem with it. I 'm not comfortable with
what we see yet is my problem. I need somebody to tell me, yeah I think
' this will work and I guess I 'm looking to staff a little bit more to give
us that direction.
' Hoyt : Same here. Do we need Mark to look at the 2. 7?
Sietsema: We could have him look at it.
' Hasek: Part of my situation is , we don' t have a really good definitive
grading plan with this thing. There certainly is nothing wrong with
putting some of the uses on the side of the hill . I think that' s a
fantastic idea. I just spent my first weekend out at Chutes and Ladders
last weekend . I think it' s a dangerous spot. Kind of built in a. . .but I
think it's exciting for the kids and I think it' s going to. . . I think that
the potential is there.
Sietsema : Really the only problem that I have with this whole thing is
including a ballfield on this site. I think that it can be used. If the
' original recommendation was that there should be 4 acres that would
accommodate a ballfield and I want to get a reiteration from the Commission
that that ' s really what they want. I don' t think that a ballfield' s going
' to work on this site. And I think the only way it' s going to work is if
you cut into the more developable, the area that the townhouses are sitting
in. The ballfield with the other facilities that you want in there, I
don' t think is going to work. I think that if you go into a facility or a
park design that' s going to be more of your Chutes and Ladders and more
using the slope and some original ideas and that kind of thing, I think you
can have a very nice park on this site but I 'm just not really, I 'm not
sold on the fact that a ballfield ' s going to work on it.
Boyt: I think we wanted a large open space.
Sietsema : I think that the large open space is fine for whatever pick-up
games but to actually put a backstop with bases and a skinned infield, is
just . . .
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' Boyt : Originally we were just seeing pieces of playgrounds in different
areas in the development and we wanted a larger space for kids .
Sietsema: Right . But this makes me real uncomfortable to see a ballfield
with the totlot there. I 'm(iOComfortable with a totlot that close to a
ballfield even if it' s on the sideline.
' Lash: But this area is flat .
Sietsema: Right and I think there' s other ways to, I just question whether
we need a ballfield within this area or if the grassy open space is going
' to be used for your frisbee, your pick-up games or your baseball , football
or whatever kids happen to be doing just in open space to work on but it' s
not going to be a place that you can do anything organized on.
' Boyt: There' s some neighborhood parks, they put up just a mesh backstop
and that' s it. Nothing else . That' s it. And it just provides kind of a
' feeling of baseball but that's good for pick-up games .
Dean Johnson : Usually a little over 2. Not quite as high. Nothing as
' massive as . . .
Sietsema: Yeah, the typical .
' Dean Johnson: Can I make one more point that I asked earlier? I wanted to
try and get Mark Koegler to work with this site. I called Lori and I don' t
know how that, did you ever talk to Don on that?
Sietsema: No, I never got to talk to Don until today and I didn' t talk to
him about this .
Dean Johnson : Okay. I guess what I 'm thinking here is , if the site looks
like it has some promise, I would be. I have talked to Mark. He will not
work for me because he is under retainer for you guys , which you know I can
' understand I guess. Maybe can we get him to take a look at this too and
have this thoughts to this thing?
' Hasek: That was the question I was just going to ask.
Dean Johnson : I was willing to have him do a quick sketch of the thing. I
guess I wouldn' t like sharing in the cost if we' re getting into some great
detailed plans .
Hasek: You typically do a conceptual plan too but it' s my understanding
that when Mark does a conceptual plan, he has a real good feeling of
whether the grading ' s going to work when he puts that together . Now. . .has
a grading plan or not, I don' t. . . When I do this type of thing ,
' I intuitively know that it' s going to work and I don' t have to do all the
grading to accommodate it but I don't know what our arrangement is with
Mark.
' Dean Johnson: We would have no problem. My engineer , Mary, is a landscape
architect. I guess what I 'm saying here is, we can work with Mark to make
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sure that the grading plan works like he' s proposing or it doesn' t work,
that he can rearrange that type of thing . I have no problem. . .assistance
for doing this .
' Hasek: Do we have some kind of consensus here? Do we have to make a
motion?
Boyt : I don' t know. Do you have anymore questions?
Erhart: Well I 'd be interetsed to see if it can work. Then the way I look
' at it, if you accommodated us , what we asked for before.
Lash: I 'm not comfortable with it. I don't know exactly why. I can' t
quite put my finger on it but I 'm not .
Boyt: It doesn' t feel right .
' Hoffman: Another thing to consider as we talk about the possibility of a
potential sliding hill . That is a facility that is often requested and we
do not have at this time to provide and if this would indeed become that
' community sliding hill .
Sietsema: We have one across the street from Chan Pond .
Boyt: . . .across the street as soon as they take down the erosion control
barriers .
' Hoffman : But are they going to park on street for that?
Sietsema: No, they' re putting in parking. Parking' s included in the plan
for Chan Pond .
' Erhart: I couldn' t take a vote on this now.
' Boyt: They need more information.
Robinson: I know I 'd feel more comfortable if Mark looked at it. . .
' Sietsema: I don' t think that Mark will have a problem with it if you tell
him what you want to see in it. This is the piece of property. It ' s 5.04
acres and you want to include what facilities and he' ll come back with
' something the best and he' ll make a recommendation if something won' t work.
You know just can' t but he needs some guidelines set up before he can go to
work at it. He needs to know what we want.
Hasek: I guess I personally think that the guidelines are going to be
based upon the fact that this is really supposed to be providing for a
' multi-family use. That' s got to be targeted for a market of some sort.
Some age group and the facilities that should go in there should be most
appropriate for that age group. That range or whatever the breakdown of
that might be. I have to believe that there' s going to be elderly people
' living in there so there should be some very passive uses of some sort.
Perhaps picnic areas or I don' t know what else it could be. I think an
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open field space is appropriate . I think a large totlot is appropriate .
Tennis never seems to want to die so I can see where that would be and. . .
for appropriate parking spaces . I think that perhaps a little different
' design of the parking areas is necessary. Can you just show me. . .parking .
Sietsema : And half court basketball .
' Dean Johnson: That was in the original request when we were looking at it.
Can I make one other point that maybe should be thought of. This isn' t my
ground . I don' t even know who owns it but there is that little triangle
' that it comes up and it hits Kerber Blvd. . The townhouse, rental
townhouses that line that same behind the diamond there, that goes straight
out to Kerber Blvd. so that leaves a triangular piece there. That maybe
should be looked at to see who actually owns that because it' s really
undevelopable for any building. It's too small to do anything with.
There' s no type of building that can be done and I guess the reason I bring
it up is that we. . .parking spot there.
' Boyt : Do we need to direct staff to contact Mark?
Sietsema: Yes .
Boyt : With our ideas now?
Sietsema: Yes .
Boyt : So Ed ' s given you quite a few.
Hasek: Do we want to give him a . . .of some sort so he' s got some level of
comfortability or is that something we don' t do?
' Sietsema: Dean you mean?
Hasek: Yeah.
1 Boyt : If this motion passes to go to Mark. . .
Sietsema: That should be an indication that you' re looking at accepting
this based on what Mark finds the useability of the piece of property.
Robinson: I also like you idea of taking that official looking ballfield
out of there and make it an open area or just a backstop or a green area or
something.
' Hasek: I think that will discourage that type of a use for sure.
Mary McCawley: Are there facilities on the school grounds for organized
baseball?
Boyt: Yes.
Mary McCawley: So is there a real need for . . .
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Sietsema: That's saturated.
Boyt: There still is a need .
Dean Johnson : There' s a need . You just need a bigger area .
Hasek: This is just not an appropriate spot for it.
Sietsema: See my point is that I don' t think that the balifield works with
the topography on this site. Anywhere on this site. No matter where you
' put it really.
Robinson : It takes up a lot of space that may or may not be used .
' Lash: I 'm having a flashback here in my mind to previous meetings and
there was something in there about monetary amount for totlot equipment. Is
that still a part of this? What happened to that?
' Sietsema: No . Because now you're asking for land and before we were
asking for recreational facilities on their property and a dedication of
park dedication fees . Now we' re talking about land and no fees .
Lash: This is not a PUD?
' Sietsema: No .
Boyt : Are you ready for a motion?
Erhart: Have we bought Banidmere' s property yet?
Sietsema: No. Not yet.
' Erhart : That' s going to have a little bit to do with ballfields.
' Sietsema: Well the type of use that Bandimere is going to get and that
would be a community park and this would be considered a neighborhood park
so you don' t plan for the same types of intensive uses in a neighborhood
' park.
Hasek: I think we' ve had the overflow of some of those planned activities
into the neighborhood parks just simply because of we were. . .
Boyt : But Dawne was talking about, originally we asked for a balifield
because we needed more ballfields.
' Erhart: . . . I was just wondering what the status was on the Bandimere' s
property.
Sietsema: Well the status of it is that there' s some problems with, there
were some things that the attorney had problems with the title and clearing
the title and he was not comfortable with this closing on the property
' until those things were cleared up so he's presently working on that and we
should be closing as soon as that takes place. As soon as he gets those
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' things cleaned up.
Boyt : Does anybody want to make a motion? Ed?
Hasek: If nobody else wants to. I guess what I would like to do is to
send this particular piece of property into our consultant, Mark Koegler
and have him give us his expertise and input into what kinds of programs
' perhaps would be appropriate for a development of this nature and if they
can in fact be accommodated on the piece of property that' s proposed. Does
that make sense?
' (There was a tape change at this point in the meeting .)
' Hasek moved, Boyt seconded that the Park and Recreation Commission direct
staff to prepare a conceptual plan for the proposed park plan with
facilities including open play field, large totlot, tennis , basketball
' court, parking and area for senior citizens or to render a recommendation
if such cannot be accommodated . All voted in favor and the motion carried .
' Dean Johnson: . . .the reason is I 've got to make a decision now whether we
should hold off for another meeting with Planning before continuing on.
Sietsema: The way I would interpret this is that if it can be comfortably
be, if the facilities they want to see on the site can be comfortably
accommodated on that 5 acre site, they' re going to be okay with it.
' Dean Johnson: I guess my thing is, do I bring it . The decision I make is
do I bring it to Planning like that or do I just bring it 2 more weeks . . .
Mary McCawley: When do you meet? Every 2 weeks?
Sietsema: We' ll meet on the 24th. If Mark can work on it within that time
' frame and get it back to us by the 24th, it will be on the next agenda . As
far as whether you should go to Planning, I really can' t tell you that.
Maybe you talk to Jo Ann . you
' Dean Johnson: I ' ll see what she says about that too. Maybe if you can
talk to her too you can put your heads together .
' Sietsema: I will and I ' ll clear up some of the questions that we had about
the wetlands and the ravine.
DISCUSSION OF PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSION MISSION STATEMENT.
Hasek: My comment is, I asked around about mission statements and the
' feedback that I got was there isn' t a mission statement. There' s a primary
goal for various parts of the comprehensive plan and that serves along with
the zoning ordinance and our obligations as kind of direction. I wasn ' t
' discouraged from putting together a mission statement but I was encouraged
at the same time to keep it to one paragraph . If you can' t say it in a
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' paragraph, then you might as well let the comprehensive plan stand still .
There was some comment in here about a page or less and I think if we can' t
keep it to a paragraph or less .
' Lash : Mine is short . The page that they had, was just a couple of
sentences and then they had . . . It wasn' t like it was a whole page of
typed .
Boyt : Mine is to provide quality facilities and recreational programs for
all ages that will encourage a wholesome and fun leisure time experience.
Lash : I had underlined under the Brooklyn Park. . .
Boyt: I have problems with some of our activities that aren't wholesome.
Robinson : Yeah, South St. Paul also has wholesome and maybe that means we
don' t need to provide a beer drinking facility for the ball players. I
' mean that' s not a wholesome thing .
Boyt : After being involved in youth sports where I guess it' s the parents
that aren' t acting very wholesome, it' s something that I would like to
' encourage. It is a strange word . It sounds like bread .
Hasek: The thing I liked about both of them is they talked about providing
facilities for all of their residents as opposed to some of their
residents.
' Hoffman: Baseball players .
Hasek: Softball players . . .and I liked that.
Sietsema: I think there are some age groups that get left out.
Hoffman: And activities. Archery.
' Lash : I 've got the basic goal of the Chanhassen Park and Recreation
Commission is to provide a high quality and large variety of recreational
facilities taking into concerns the needs, wants and concerns of all our
' citizens now and in the future. Our aim is to provide the services in a
safe and financially responsible manner while keeping an . . .of preservation
and protection of our natural amenities. That' s a little bit longer but I
' wrote small .
Robinson: The purpose of this , the mission statement; is really to keep us
focused is that right?
Sietsema: Right.
Hoffman : And to provide something for the people to read out there that
we' re serving .
Lash : Kind of a purist .
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Robinson: I guess I 'd like something like Sue' s which is comparable to the
South St. Paul . I thought that was. . . I thought Brooklyn Park' s was much
too long .
' Hoffman : They won a lot of awards with that one however .
Boyt: It sounds fine.
Lash : It is short but it doesn' t really sound like it covers everything
that, you know if you look at our notes, the brainstorming we did. When I
' looked through that, you could just go through and pick out which ones were
Larry' s and which ones were Dawne's and which ones were mine so I tried to
include something that I knew was an important thing to each person. That
they had contributed . I guess that' s why I had the preservation and
protection and the future. That was Jim' s.
Hasek: I think that the. . .primary goals is in here. I tell you I went
through this goals and policies again. That ' s a job in itself.
Boyt: Maybe we could, I don't think we have to have this finished. Maybe
we could have yours printed , and mine printed and we can try and send it
home with each of us next time and see what we can do with it.
Lash : Curt, you said you had one too didn' t you?
Robinson: No, I just said cross out South St. Paul and put Chanhassen in
there.
Hoffman: No reason to reinvent the wheel right Curt?
Boyt: Do you want to print up Jan's and mine?
Hasek: The one thing that I did was to take just the goal statement out of
the recreational part of the comprehensive plan and just rewrite it and
1 just use it. The City of Chanhassen will provide recreational
opportunities which will reasonably meet the recreational needs of the
community' s present and future residents .
Boyt: Do you want to print up all of those? Just put them in the Minutes
so we can look at them and try and work on it one more time.
Sietsema: It' s in there.
Boyt : Do we need to do anything more then?
Sietsema: No.
Hasek: I did happen to notice though that the first , it' s something I 've
asked Lori to look at and I assume she' s still working on it.
Sietsema : Accessibility.
' Hasek: The first policy, provide parks and open space facilities and
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' emphasize accessibility and use by Chanhassen residents .
Sietsema: You know I was looking at that again because I got all this
' handicap information and then I got to thinking , is it handicap
accessibility that you' re talking about or just accessibility to the parks?
Hasek: Good question. What does this mean to you? It means something
entirely different to me. This means not only the handicap.
Sietsema: Do you want me to put that on the agenda so we can hash it out?
' I don't know what kind of background information to get.
Hasek: Maybe we should .
Sietsema: Then I can get direction from the Commission.
Hasek: It might be interesting to even throw it at Council to see what
' they think about it .
Erhart : Also make a copy of the original one we wrote.
Sietsema: Wasn' t that in there?
Erhart : Yes it is but when you put them all together . . .because this is
still my favorite. Because I wrote it.
COMMISSION PRESENTATIONS :
Hasek : I mentioned something to Lori that really I think I brought up
' before but I 'd really like to start seeing it. When we see these projects ,
can we please get a topography. A copy of the aerial photograph to look at
and maybe what we should start doing as part of the zoning ordinance is to
ask the application to provide a reduction of all of their graphics so we
' get the full development with the topography on it. The full development.
The development shown on it. The full development so we know what' s around
what the zoning is . . . This is one of the few cities that we work in that
' doesn ' t ask for that. Almost every city that we go to, they want an 8 1/2
x 11 reduction of every graphic that we turn in so they can make copies and
have in the packet for everybody that they give it to . Not everybody likes
to look at those huge drawings .
Sietsema: I believe that is a requirement. We just don' t always get them.
So it just needs to be enforced more. Demanded more strongly.
' Hasek: I see. The other thing is, pretty soon we' re going to have
topography for most of the city correct?
Sietsema: Yes.
Hasek: It would be nice to be able to get , if it' s not available, at least
see what the section topography looks like and that's another tool that' s
really going to be helpful I think when we start looking at parkland . I
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don' t know what , I have to assume it' s the north part of town that they' re
doing first because that' s where development is tending to occur .
Sietsema : They should have some of it in already.
Hasek: The end of October is what I was told.
Sietsema: Yeah, I 'm waiting for them to get Bandimere done.
Hasek: I think the aerials and topos will be an invaluable tool to us.
' Sietsema: We have better aertial photos now. We have new ones that are
better now too.
Boyt : I have one thing I forgot I wanted to bring up. We need to have
some of inspection of our conservation easements in town on maybe a yearly
basis but they' re being abused right now.
Lash: Did I hear you didn' t get your packet last night? Ed , and you
didn' t get one, a packet a couple times before that and Dawne didn' t get
one one time. I 'm trying to figure out if there' s a problem in the
distribution system for those things or what.
Hasek: Part of the reason why I didn' t get mine is because it was put in
my front door and I don't use my front door . It was delivered by a
policeman .
Sietsema: And you don' t get your mail as fast either .
Hasek: That' s because I live in Victoria. On the other side of
Minnewashta .
Sietsema: He gets them in Todd delivers them. And on Dawne' s, it was the
CSO didn' t deliver it on time. I got a note on my desk. That was the time
' that I was going to have them all delivered so you'd get them early and the
CSO left me a note and said, with them, and said I forgot to deliver these.
' Lash : That kind of puts us in a bind you know. Even getting it, for me,
on Saturday. I mean if you go out of town for the weekend, you get back
late Sunday night and here you've got 100 pages of stuff to read because
Monday night and that's it to read. I guess I kind of expected last week
since it had been a month since our other meeting, that we would get them
by Thursday or something and then it still didn' t come until Saturday.
' Sietsema: Well my packet has to go out after the City Council packet so I
can' t run anything on Thursday because City Council 's going out so that
means all my stuff gets run and put together on Friday and it goes out in
the mail on Friday.
Boyt : Maybe we could stop and pick it up on Friday.
Sietsema: Yeah. They are here.
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' Erhart: Are they available on Friday?
Sietsema: Yes. Usually by 3: 00.
' Hasek: The problem with that. . .
Boyt: For those that it' s convenient for . Like if Jan ' s going to drive by
' on her way home, maybe it'd be easier . If Bill ' s up here, he can pick mine
up.
Hasek: Does Planning Commission have the same problem do you think?
' Sietsema: Planning gets their delivered by CSO.
' Hasek: The same deal so there' s is right at the last minute too .
Erhart: No it isn' t.
' Sietsema: No, they get theirs on Friday because the CSO delivers them on
Friday but ours go out in the mail . What I could do is ask that the CSO' s
deliver ours on a regular basis .
Boyt : I 'd rather see, rather than CSO, I 'd rather you hire someone like a
newspaper carrier . Just some person that you pay $4. 00 an hour to deliver
these rather than taking up the CSO' s time. They just do it a couple times
a week.
Hasek: Is that possible?
Lash: Except if they' re driving around anyway.
' Sietsema: Well they have other things to do.
Boyt: Lots of other things to do.
' Hoffman : I don' t know that you can secure somebody dependable for $4 . 00 an
hour to do this twice a week.
Boyt: I don ' t know how much you pay them but I think you can pay less than
you pay a CSO to drive around.
Hasek: Could they all go out the same time Planning Commission' s go out?
Sietsema: No, because they' re on the off week and I can't run stuff before
City Council because their packets are four times thicker than yours and
they have priority on the copying machine. Now when we get another copying
machine, I may be able to get it out on Thursday. But they are available.
I usually have your packets done by 2:00 on Friday afternoon so if you want
to pick them up.
Erhart : That in itself Lori is a big help because if you do go out of town
for the weekend, I 'd like to know that I can drive up here and pick it up.
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' Sietsema: If you' re going to, let me know in the morning and I can make
sure that I have it done but there' s very few times that I don' t have that
done by 2: 00 or 3 : 00 in the afternoon on Friday.
' Robinson: So let's leave it at that. That we continue the way it is
except if you want to pick it up, you call Lori and tell her you' re going
to stop and pick it up. Otherwise she mails them all. The burden should
' be on us , not her to wonder who ' s going to stop and who' s not.
Sietsema: Yeah, the mail goes out at quarter after 4: 00. It gets taken
' over to the Post Office.
Lash : It' s goes at quarter after 4 :00 and we get them on Saturday?
Sietsema: Yes. Except Ed.
Lash : What time do you guys close here?
Sietsema: 4: 30.
Hasek: I supposed mine has to go through another post office.
Sietsema: If you haven't picked it up by quarter after 4:00, I ' ll stick it
in the mail .
' Lash : Because otherwise we won' t be here in time to get it anyway.
' Sietsema: Right . Unless you call me and tell you' re going to be later
than that.
Lash : But we only have an extra 15 minutes .
Sietsema: In the case of Sue's, it was a wild, wild Friday because the
City Council didn' t get out on Thursday so we were both running packets at
' the same time and I had at least 1 zillion mailings between the Council
packet and the Park and Rec because that was the night that the packet that
Curry Farms was on so they all had to be notified.
' Boyt: I had no idea you guys were meeting . I hadn' t been to the meetin
before that so I had no idea.
Sietsema : Well it was the second or fourth Tuesday.
Boyt: I know but I spaced out Lori .
' Hasek: That' s what happened to me with the one. My packet was there and
we had started not meeting regular and I thought well maybe if there' s not
a packet there' s not a meeting .
Boyt: Okay, do you need anyone for this?
' Sietsema: Yes . Everyone.
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Boyt: In costume?
Hoffman: Yes . Big set-up this year .
' Sietsema: We need to know if you' re going to be a mean, dangerous spooky
costume or a nice, good nature costume.
Boyt : When should we tell you?
' Hoffman: Tonight' s the night. When's our next meeting .
Boyt : Well they can call you. They all have phones.
' Hoffman: Okay.
Lash : I ' ll donate a costume but I can ' t be here. I have a scarey costume
' so if somebody wants to be a scarey, and they don' t have a costume.
Sietsema : Ed , will you be there?
Hasek: I want you to know that the last month I 've had least 2 night
meetings a week. Usually they fall on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Lash: This is my third one .
Robinson moved , Lash seconded to adjourn the meeting . All voted in favor
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and the motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at 9: 58 p.m.
Submitted by Lori Sietsema
Park and Rec Coordinator
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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