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CC 2014 05 12 CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING MAY 12, 2014 Mayor Furlong called the meeting to order at 7:05 p.m. The meeting was opened with the Pledge to the Flag. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Furlong, Councilman McDonald, Councilwoman Tjornhom, and Councilwoman Ernst COUNCIL MEMBERS ABSENT: Councilman Laufenburger STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Laurie Hokkanen, Paul Oehme, Kate Aanenson, Todd Hoffman, and Roger Knutson Mayor Furlong: Thank you and welcome. For those of you here in the council chambers we’re glad you joined us as well as those of you at home. At this time I would ask members of the council if there are any changes or modifications to the agenda. If not, without objection we’ll proceed with the agenda as published. Let’s start with the consent agenda items. CONSENT AGENDA:Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations: 1. Approval of City Council Minutes dated April 28, 2014 2. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated April 22, 2014 3. 2014 Street Reconstruction Project 14-01: Approve Encroachment Agreement with Magellan Pipeline for Work in Pipeline Easement. 4. Boulder Cove: Approve Development Contract for Grading. 5. Arbor Cove: Approve Development Contract for Grading. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: PRESENTATION ON TOUR DE TONKA, TIM LITFIN, MINNETONKA COMMUNITY EDUCATION. Mayor Furlong: Tim Litfin with Minnetonka Community Education is here this evening but I don’t, I know he was here. Did he just step out for a minute? Okay. Why don’t we defer the rest of the visitor presentations. We’ll come back to that after. Kate Aanenson: Oh, here he is. Mayor Furlong: Oh, good evening. Mr. Litfin are you ready? Tim Litfin: I am. Good evening. Mayor Furlong: Good evening. Tim Litfin with Minnetonka Community Education. Good evening. Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Tim Litfin: Thank you Mr. Mayor, council members and city staff. Good evening and thank you for having me here tonight. I’ll talk a little bit about the exciting 2014 Tour de Tonka that’s coming your nd way real soon in the city of Chanhassen. The first Saturday of August, August 2 this year and I’ll show you a little bit of a video here first as we recap last year with a video and then I’ll walk you through a power point. There should be some sound with that. Mayor Furlong: Laurie do you know how to get sound? Todd Gerhardt: She’s working on it. Mayor Furlong: Is she looking? Why don’t we pause it here. Tim Litfin: Why don’t we come back to that. The Tour de Tonka is an event that started back in 2006 and it comes through Minnetonka with 4 of the distances this year. There we go. Here’s a video. Mayor Furlong: Can you go back to the beginning? Tim Litfin: Sure. (A video of last year’s Tour de Tonka event was shown at this point in the meeting.) Mark Litfin: Thank you. I apologize for the technical blitz. We’ve got a power point I’ll show you as well. Walk you through some slides. We’ve got something really cool happening this year at the event that hasn’t happened in the past. Last year lining up and it wasn’t the two you saw in the video but we had a man and a woman just randomly lining up next to each other at the start of the 100 mile bike ride. They started chatting with each other. That carried on through a few more conversations and they got engaged and they want to get married this year at Tour de Tonka so we’re going to do a quick I do, I do ceremony before the event starts and they’re going to get married right there in the bike cross so they’re excited about it. This was their idea and it’ll be a lot of fun to see that happen so come on out and you can see a marriage and get some exercise in at the same time. So here’s a little bit of information from last year’s event. There were almost 3,000 bike riders and it’s grown quite a bit as you can see from the initial year back in 2006 and the trajectory is up but it’s at a manageable pace. We believe we can stay on top of it. We’re not growing by leaps and bounds which is a very good thing as well. The history of the ride is in front of you right now and again you can see where we started and where we’re at and 861 to last year almost 3,000. It’s grown very well and hopefully it will continue to grow but again at a nice acceptable pace. The demographics are right in this room. All of you are right where we get most of our riders from I would say. Men dominant the field at about 60% plus clip and in the 50’s and the 40’s is where we seem to be the strongest at for demographics. Last year riders came from all over the state of Minnesota and really all over almost the country. 24 states were represented and it amazes me every year they are coming out for the event and in the beginning they were coming because they were staying at grandma’s and now they’re coming for the event. Coming across the country so good news as you know here in Chanhassen. You’ve got a great community and good news travels. People find that out and they want to be part of what you have here in Chanhassen and that’s what we’re finding with this event as well. We celebrate people that have ridden the event every year since year one and these are called legacy riders and there are 77 of them and we give them a special gift every year which is kind of fun. It keeps them coming back as well and those are some of our biggest marketing assets that we have riding around out there or biking around out there. Chanhassen is moving up. Again you’ve moved up from number three last year or two years ago to number two so Chanhassen is very well represented with participation in this event and 4 rides go through Chanhassen so that’s kind of fun to see. There’s a challenge, and I’m sure it’s a little challenge for some of you but I know it is in a fun way to see how you do year to year and you guys are always represented very well and I thank you for that. That’s the top 10. 2 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Here’s your top 40 and you can see a little bigger swath of where they’re coming from and now the reach is a little bit more east. Eagan is on the list and a few other most eastern suburbs and we’re trending that way. Stillwater made the top 10. Top 40 last year for the first time and so I believe that will continue to pick up as do the communities right around us. Distances and participation last year. We offered 6 distances for riders. And again it’s a ride. Not a race. It’s Tour de Tonka. We support and raise money for the food shelf and there is one of the great organizers of the area, Mr. Ron Kemps with, not his brother but Manny. His brother Manny. We have a youth ride and the youth ride is a fun thing to do in advance of the event every year. It’s little girls and boys out there on training wheels and they try riding 2 or 4 miles on training wheels. I would challenge anyone in this room to ride 2 or 4 miles on training wheels. I don’t think I could do it. Again support, support, support and here in Chanhassen you’re blessed with Carver County Sheriff’s Department and they are fantastic to work with. You know that. I know that. I’m also a Carver County resident and this event knows that as well because they’re just fantastic, as well as all the other agencies listed there. They’re just great people. This coming year, right now coming up in just a few months we have the distances in front of you and they’ve changed a little bit. They change. They ebb. They flow every year because of really our wishes. The riders wishes for new scenery but in many cases it’s because of road construction and that happens throughout our area as well every year, as it should and so the distances look the same on book ends. 16-100 but in the middle they’ve all changed around a little bit and that’s okay as well. The communities involved this year are in front of you. There are 24 communities that we ride through and be are part of this year and all of your neighboring communities are part of it which is kind of fun. There’s the big map if you will. It was kind of fun in the video it was obviously a gentleman from the metro area talked about going way out western Minnesota. That was kind of cute but you know if you think about it, it is western Minnesota. When you’re on a bike, that’s a long ways out to where they’re going which is Mayer, New Germany, Norwood-Young America on the western frontier and those communities out there, they just love Tour de Tonka and I thank you Chanhassen because I know you fully embrace the event. We had City Manager Todd Gerhardt at a Tour de Tonka committee meeting here just about a month ago and the committee certainly enjoyed having some interaction with the city manager and he did a great job representing all of you at that meeting so thanks again Todd for coming. But anyway there’s all of the rides represented there and you can see where they all go and most of them are right around Minnetonka and Chanhassen area as you can see. Rest stops are very popular and they should be because it’s fun. It’s a ride. It’s not a race and there is ample opportunity to stop and enjoy and celebrate what you’re doing that day as you saw in the video and there’s a couple of new ones on the list there this year. Here in Chanhassen there isn’t a rest stop but they’re right around you as you can see. Our sponsorship is important to us and they are listed there. Any good event happens with many good people. Many volunteers but also good sponsorship. The t-shirt is new every year with artwork and that’s kind of fun and there it is waiting for all of you should you wish to ride or volunteer. Volunteers get a nice t-shirt as well. One of the legacy riders took this picture last year and sent it to me and so he’s very proud of his collection so I thought I’d show that to you this evening. Here’s just a few more event photos. We had a Navy pilot sing the National Anthem at the start last year. That was a lot of fun. Bike shops down in the bottom right. You can see there’s 8 of them and they touch hundreds of bikes every year because some people bring their bikes in perfect tip top shape and some do not and then also we have many flats that can occur and do occur out there on a bike ride. The bottom picture is in Carver County. I took that and it’s just the speed isn’t really shown there but those riders were going very fast around that corner. It was just kind of a cool shot so I took it and of course the rest stops are just a lot of fun. We have 17 motorcycle safety riders that support the event every year. They book end it. They guide. They guard as well as many of the volunteers that are out there so they’re important to this event. Last year KARE 11 had us down to help promote it so that was kind of nice. That gave us a good opportunity to give some more outreach about what we’re doing and then there’s musical entertainment everywhere. Every rest stop has a band and there’s plenty of day long music at the Minnetonka High School where this rides starts and stops. Volunteers are critical to the event. Last year over 500 were involved and we need every one of them because it doesn’t happen without them and that’s what really makes Tour de Tonka a different event. It’s volunteer heavy and it’s 3 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 fun family focused and it’s for just to have a good time. People 4 years ago in 2010 it was a rain out. Wash out and it didn’t matter because the riders that stayed and went through it, they were smiling all the way and they were getting pounded on but it didn’t matter. We are not going to have that this year. It’ll be nice and sunny like it was last year so if you’re out there and you want to volunteer or if you want to ride it’s Tourdetonka.org and let us know if you have any questions or comments. Council members, Mr. Mayor, thank you for your time tonight. Mayor Furlong: Well thank you Mr. Litfin. Any questions for Mr. Litfin this evening? Great event and a lot of participation in and around the area. It’s nice to see how many residents of Chanhassen are participating in the event and obviously it’s well visible. You’re very visible in our city when it’s going on so. Tim Litfin: Well that’s good. I hope we’re good neighbors. Mayor Furlong: Absolutely. Absolutely. I think everything’s fine. Mr. Gerhardt? Todd Gerhardt: No. Mayor Furlong: No issues that came or problems? Todd Gerhardt: No and the great thing is this is such an organized event. You know some of the events that we work with other people…so Tim does a great job and it’s a huge economic benefit to our community too. The hotels and the restaurants benefit from those people coming from farther west of Minnesota to Chanhassen and staying at our hotels and using our restaurants so that’s a huge benefit back to our businesses. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Tim Litfin: One thing we wanted to focus on this year is a little bit more life at the, even though we have plenty of music we wanted to give you a little bit more noise when we send them and we bring them back and so therefore you have some noisemakers at your desks and those are horns believe it or not. I was at the Army Navy game last year and they gave all the midshipmen one of those horns so I thought we’ve got to have that for Tour de Tonka this year. Those are like a ship in the ocean. Waaaaaa. It’s very loud so have fun with that when you go home tonight or the rattle. Your choice and thank you and you’ll see more of those at the event this year. Thanks again. Mayor Furlong: Sounds good. Thanks so much. Todd Gerhardt: Take place of your gavel. Mayor Furlong: Could replace the gavel, yes. If anybody gets out of line I’ll use the horn. Thank you. Tim Litfin: Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Anyone else for visitor presentations? Seeing none let’s go ahead and move on with the next items on our agenda and these will be the first items under new business. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF AMENDMENTS TO CITY CODE CHAPTER 18, SUBDIVISIONS (SECTION 18-61); CHAPTER 20, ZONING (ARTICLE VIII PUD DISTRICT AND ARTICLE XXIII GENERAL SUPPLEMENTAL); AND CHAPTER 1, GENERAL PROVISIONS; APPROVE SUMMARY ORDINANCE FOR PUBLICATION PURPOSES. 4 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Kate Aanenson: Thank you Mayor, members of the City Council. These code amendments went to the Planning Commission in a work session last year and then you actually got them in your work session on th January 13 of this year. We went through those. I think everything that you had seen, except for we just decided to leave the horse acreage thing alone. We’re not going to touch that but those same amendments th then are now coming before you. The Planning Commission did hold a public hearing on April 15, 2014 to review those ordinances and did recommend approval as so noted. I’ll just kind of briefly go through those unless you have questions. So the first one, there’s two chapters that we’re looking at here. That were the jurisdiction of the Planning Commission. Chapters 18 and 20 but there’s some other code amendments that would just fall under the City Council. So the first one is landscaping. So we made some changes there regarding species of trees. Again the species of trees would then be for boulevard plantings or project plantings. That doesn’t prohibit anybody from putting one of these species in their yard. I just want to clarify that. That’s what we look at for when we have to do replacement trees so we clarified that. And again trying to get variety of species in town and so that was the goal with that. So there’s ordinances that would, the different section of the code that would address that. The second is just clarification of, on Chapter 20, Article XXIII regarding accessory structures. Again accessory structure had the word except a dock. That’s dock and how they’re operated as a separate section of the code so we wanted to eliminate that so it’s really correcting that. Section 20-908. Again talking about the principal structure. If attached to the principal structure. We want to clarify that. That the principal structure. Not detached structures applies and this comes into place when somebody sometimes we’ve had people get variances. You can, the ordinance does allow for some encroachment into side yard setbacks, roof overhangs and the like. Also want to make sure that’s only for the principal structure and not for an accessory structure. Sometimes people have been creative in doing that and they overhang their accessory structure onto the neighboring property so I wanted to clarify that. That was not the intent. Then Chapter 20-960. Changing the watershed management to the most recently adopted because there has been amendments to that. We had a reference for a certain date that that was adopted and we just want to have that be timeless and say what ever is the current adopted ordinance. Then we added definitions. Again there’s no definition of expansion of a non-conforming use so we talked about this at the work session kind of mimicking a couple other cities. Defining what an expansion would be. And then finally we clarified a flag lot. Adding it to another section of the code and doing a better drawing of what a flag lot looks like. So those are our recommendations and the Planning Commission did concur with those so I’d be happy to answer any questions that you have. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Questions for staff. Just a couple. Ms. Aanenson with regard to the Surface Water Management Plan. What’s the most recently adopted plan currently? Was it 2006? Kate Aanenson: Something like that, yeah. Yes. Mayor Furlong: Okay. So. Kate Aanenson: 1994. Mayor Furlong: As there might be amendments to that, then this would just keep everybody current. Kate Aanenson: Right. Exactly. What’s most recently adopted so whatever’s in effect, yeah. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Kate Aanenson: At that time. 5 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Mayor Furlong: But this doesn’t change any of the elements with that plan at this point, that would be a separate action? Kate Aanenson: That’s correct. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Kate Aanenson: Any changes to the plan would have to be adopted by this body. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. And then the question back to the trees. In here I’m looking on page 4 of the staff report. Item number e(3) talks about changing it from no more than one-third of the trees may be from a single tree species to 10 percent may be from a single species and no more than twenty may be from one, is it genus? Kate Aanenson: (Yes). Genus species, yes. Mayor Furlong: What is a genus and species? How does that, would that be pine trees? Would that be a group of pine trees but you could have multiple types of pine trees? Kate Aanenson: Right. Mayor Furlong: What falls into the 20% versus the 10%? Kate Aanenson: The 10% would be the specific like a specific type of tree and then you have like you could have. Mayor Furlong: So a sugar maple would be. Kate Aanenson: Right. Right then you could be, the genus would be maples. Mayor Furlong: Maples. Kate Aanenson: Right. Mayor Furlong: So you could have, okay. Okay. Kate Aanenson: Yeah. Mayor Furlong: Okay, multiple types of maples but up to 20% instead of one-third which was allowed before. Kate Aanenson: Correct. Mayor Furlong: We actually allowed before was from the same tree species. Kate Aanenson: Correct. Mayor Furlong: Is there any expectation or did staff consider if this would change the cost for the developers, and specifically increase the cost for the developers by not allowing them to have as many of the same type of tree? 6 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Kate Aanenson: No. The City Forester did look at that and I think we’ve tried encouraging diversity and we haven’t seen any problems with that to date. Again this would just be on the replacement trees in a subdivision and not anybody else that wants to replace trees. Often. Mayor Furlong: So homeowners can put in whatever they want on their property? Kate Aanenson: That’s correct. And sometimes, in some developments the developer allows the homeowner to pick their own tree for their front yard so that would give them a little bit more latitude on that too. So these would mostly be street. Mayor Furlong: And so would that, in that situation would that fall under this ordinance? What would be allowed for the front yards? Kate Aanenson: Depending on the project. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Kate Aanenson: I mean I think then, then we give some direction on types so we don’t end up with again with everybody picking an ash. Certain type of ash tree so the goal is to try to give them a range of choices. Mayor Furlong: And do you have any sense of the cost of different types of trees by, in the past as the ordinance currently says you could have 3 different types of trees as long as they’re not the same tree species. You could have 3 different tree species in a development and now we’re saying you need at least 10 different types of trees and so I guess I just want to make sure that we’re not. Kate Aanenson: I don’t believe so. Mayor Furlong: Affecting the cost to the developers in a substantial way of materials. Kate Aanenson: I think there’s still enough variety in there that it should. Mayor Furlong: A variety of costs? Kate Aanenson: A variety of tree types. Mayor Furlong: Tree types and that the costs, are the costs similar enough? Kate Aanenson: Yes, because we’re going by smaller caliper on most of those too so. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Kate Aanenson: It shouldn’t be more burdensome. Mayor Furlong: Okay. If we do start hearing any comments or feedback can you let us know. Kate Aanenson: We will report that back, correct. Mayor Furlong: Sure. Thank you. Any other questions on either of these two chapters or the proposed changes? With the flag lot is that, was that some areas of problems or misunderstandings? 7 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Kate Aanenson: Yeah well the subdivision design standards are in Chapter 18 and then the driveway location, some of that stuff is in Chapter 20 so we just wanted to reference both and so the two go together. Mayor Furlong: So we’re not changing the definition, we’re just referencing 18 and 20? Kate Aanenson: Correct. Mayor Furlong: In the references, thank you. Kate Aanenson: Correct. Mayor Furlong: Okay. If there are no other questions, any comments or concerns? Discussions. If not would somebody like to make a motion? Councilwoman Ernst: Sure I will Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Thank you Councilwoman Ernst is recognized. Councilwoman Ernst: I make a motion that City Council approve the ordinance amending Chapters 1, 18 and 20 of the Chanhassen City Code and approval of the attached summary ordinance for publication purposes. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any, is there a second? Councilman McDonald: Second. Mayor Furlong: Second. Is there any discussion? Councilwoman Ernst moved, Councilman McDonald seconded that the Chanhassen City Council approves the ordinance amending Chapters 1, 18 and 20 of the Chanhassen City Code; and approval of the attached summary ordinance for publication purposes. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF PURCHASE AGREEMENT FOR CITY PROPERTY, HALIFAX DEVELOPMENT, LLC. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Ernst is recognized quickly. Councilwoman Ernst: Yes Mr. Mayor I’d like to recuse myself. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. The rest of the council will go ahead and hear this item. Let’s start with a staff report please. Kate Aanenson: Sure, thank you Mayor, members of the City Council. As you indicated this is a purchase agreement between the City of Chanhassen and Halifax Development. Hans Kuhlman is representing Halifax Development out of Denver, Colorado. We’re been working on this purchase agreement or just discussing with the developer for almost 9 months at least so currently the City has nd retail, Chanhassen Retail 2 Addition. There’s 1.46 acres surrounding that excess right-of-way so the developer would like to put a restaurant pad on a portion of that which is right kind of behind the Perkins 8 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 site and adjacent to the Target so in order to accomplish this, because of the kind of the circuitous entrance into this property as shown on your site plan, the developer will be working also with Target. The reason for the purchase agreement now, there’s some things that need to be executed. We want to review the exiting of the property so that’s one of the conditions of the purchase agreement but the developer wanted to have control of the property first before he expended a lot of money on that. He has secured, was working for the purchase agreement and has terms with that with Target Corporation which makes it a nicer entrance into the site and actually works better than the original proposal so he will do that. Also will pay the City for, we’re doing a survey but then he’ll have to plat it too so for this project to go forward he will do kind of the monitor the traffic. Do a plat and then a site plan review so we are recommending approval with the $8.00 a square foot. Right now we believe the acreage that he needs is accommodated with a 30,000 square feet but it might fluctuate slightly but no matter what it would be we left it at the $8 a square foot so if it moves a little bit, but right now we’re estimating that, the price of that be about $240,000. Excuse me, yeah $240,000 so he is putting money down on that. Again we’ve shown you kind of the layout of that site plan in one of your attachments but again that’s kind of for illustrative purposes. Kind of showing you how that would lay out, the pad itself and this would be a kind of fast casual dining sit down. Would not be a drive thru. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Kate Aanenson: So with that I’d be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Mayor Furlong: Any questions for staff on this proposal? I think this is a, one of the issues that we’ve talked about over the years is trying to intensify available sites within the downtown area and use those sites that may be under utilized from before and I think this is one of those areas. And I know we’re just talking about the contract tonight but I assume as part of the development approval process there would be recognition of access. Cross access agreements likely as part of it and mutual parking arrangements and those types of things and yet still sufficient parking for the given uses within the. Kate Aanenson: Yeah, I think that’s what took some of the time to get this agreement put together. Actually working with Target Corporation and we had to go back and research to make sure that they had adequate parking, which they did. They had some excess so they were able to, and I think it makes a much better design for both parties so it is a public street coming in which is a little bit unique on the other end of Target. Their entrance but at this side it is a public street serving the 3 properties but once it, but it will cross into private but you’re right, we want to make sure there’s cross access agreements and proceeding through site plan and platting so we have reviewed all the fees with the developer so he understands our process and what the fees would be so I think we have a pretty clear expectation of what’s to happen next. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Good. Mr. Gerhardt with regard to the price and terms, were you involved in the negotiations of those? Todd Gerhardt: Yes. Mayor Furlong: And any concerns about them in terms of fairness to the City or the taxpayers? Todd Gerhardt: No. It’s market value and if you kind of look at the comparable, we put the proposed 2014 property tax statement for Taco Bell. Roughly about the same square footage. Same building square footage and so the price that they’re going to pay, subtracted out the building comes right in line. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Thank you. And Mr. Knutson, any concerns or issues with the terms of the purchase agreement from a legal standpoint? 9 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Roger Knutson: None Mayor. Our office drafted the agreement. Mayor Furlong: Okay, so it must be right. Roger Knutson: I hope so. Yes, it is right. Mayor Furlong: I hope so? Roger Knutson: I stand corrected. It is absolutely perfect. Mayor Furlong: It is absolutely perfect, okay. Alright. More confidence with that. Thank you. Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, just one thing that this council and the public should know is that it’s contingent upon receiving site plan approval from the City Council and going through the typical planning process in front of the Planning Commission and then to you. Mayor Furlong: And public hearings as well will be part of that process. Kate Aanenson: Yes. Todd Gerhardt: So for any reason you know as we work into the details of the site plan and it doesn’t seem to fit on the site, you can still get out of the purchase agreement. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Todd Gerhardt: So there’s no obligation on this board to approve the purchase agreement and the site plan. Mayor Furlong: By approving the purchase agreement tonight that, as Ms. Aanenson said, that gives the developer confidence that they have control of the property but it’s still dependent upon the site plan approval for which the Planning Commission and the council will be involved in with the existing levels of discretion that are available there. Todd Gerhardt: That’s correct. Mayor Furlong: Yep. Todd Gerhardt: He’s going to spend a substantial amount of money in bringing it through the site plan approval process and for him to do that he wanted to insure that he could tie up the site. You know as Kate mentioned we had been working with him for 9 months and once he was able to secure some agreements with Target then we took it a little more seriously and worked on our side of the purchase agreement. Mayor Furlong: I know concepts have a specific term in the planning process and so I don’t want to get into that at all but as an idea or as a vision I think if the council had some hesitations going forward with this, now would be a time to bring them up but to me I think it makes a lot of sense. It’s a, you know again I’m not going to pre-judge and say that we’re approving any sort of site plan but I think in fairness to the developer I think it’s worthwhile to go through the process and it could be a nice addition to the city. Any other questions for staff or general comments about the? Mr. McDonald. 10 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Councilman McDonald: I have a question. Mayor Furlong: Please. Councilman McDonald: I just want to clarify. Okay on the one drawing which is the property card I guess that shows all the property that the City owns kind of around the site and then we’ve got the site plan so what we’re going to do is subdivide our property and they’re only going to take over what they need for the property use and then the rest of it still is retained by the City? Kate Aanenson: That’s correct. Councilman McDonald: Okay. Kate Aanenson: So they would buy kind of from that southern part of the Perkins parking lot. That 30,000 square feet and combining it with the Target because really it pinches down there. Councilman McDonald: Yeah. Kate Aanenson: And so to get access from the road, that’s really kind of what the negotiation which let us, let the developer kind of start working with Target to really get a better design so. Councilman McDonald: Okay. Kate Aanenson: And they’re paying those survey costs so, we’re being reimbursed. Councilman McDonald: I’m fine, thank you. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Tjornhom, any thoughts or comments? Councilwoman Tjornhom: No I think you know as you stated mayor we’re still not quite sure what the whole concept is going to be or what will be there but I think it’s important that as a council we stay consistent with our planning and that we’d like to intensify our downtown area as much as we can and we certainly do know that restaurants is something that is always recommended by our residents. That they’re, not that we don’t have wonderful ones right now but always welcome new ones also so because I think it’s important that we support anybody that would like to come in and invest in our downtown. Mayor Furlong: Agreed. Good. Any other comments or questions? If not would somebody like to make a motion? Councilwoman Tjornhom: I’ll make a motion. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Tjornhom. Councilwoman Tjornhom: I make a motion that the City Council approves the Vacant Land Purchase Agreement between the City of Chanhassen and Halifax Development, LLC in the amount of approximately $240,000 or $8.00 per square foot for purchase of excess right-of-way associated with the Chanhassen Retail Second Addition. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second? Councilman McDonald: Second. 11 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 Mayor Furlong: Motion’s been made and seconded. Any discussion on the motion? Hearing none we’ll proceed with the vote. Councilwoman Tjornhom moved, Councilman McDonald seconded that the City Council approves the Vacant Land Purchase Agreement between the City of Chanhassen and Halifax Development, LLC in the amount of approximately $240,000 or $8.00 per square foot for purchase of excess right-of-way associated with the Chanhassen Retail Second Addition.All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 3 to 0. (Councilwoman Ernst rejoined the council for the remainder of the meeting.) COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. Mayor Furlong: Any comments or presentations from members of the council? Mr. McDonald, would you like to make some comments about the Beyond the Yellow Ribbon breakfast this last weekend? Councilman McDonald: Yeah. We had our annual breakfast and again what we try to do is provide a send off to all of those high school students that are now going into the military. We invite their families. We try to get them acquainted with Beyond the Yellow Ribbon. The services that we could possibly provide and basically just an open invitation that if anything comes up, any kind of question, any kind of concern whatsoever, not to hesitate to contact us. We also pass out a few tokens of appreciation one of which is the Blue Star flag to the families to signify that they now have a son or daughter providing servicing to our country and other than that it’s just a good time to kind of meet people and ask questions and it’s something that we’ve been associated with in the city since the inception of Beyond the Yellow Ribbon and we’ll continue to do it so it was a good time. Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Absolutely. Just want to extend thanks and appreciation to the Beyond the Yellow Ribbon members committees that were actively involved with it and also the American Legion which donated the food. Provided the food. This year was a joint event between both Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Chanhassen and Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Eden Prairie group which Eden Prairie just received their designation last fall so a little bit broader reach and an event that I think is destined to grow every year so it was a good event. Thank you. Also wanted to just make a public comment for the record. It rd was in the Villager last week I think but at the Rotary Gala back on May 3 Michael Brindisi with the Chanhassen Dinner Theaters was recognized and received the Rotary Club’s Distinguished Service Award so congratulations to Mike for that honor as well. And then tomorrow afternoon at Camp Tanadoona they will be having a ribbon cutting for their capital improvements that they’re planning there. They’re doing a multi-million dollar improvements to their camp. That’s from 4:00 to 6:00 out at the Camp Tanadoona so I know everybody is welcomed to join if they’re interested in doing so. It’s nice to see the excitement and level of investment that the Campfire is putting into Camp Tanadoona here in Chanhassen so, that will be a fun event. Mr. Gerhardt, administrative presentations. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS. Todd Gerhardt: Just one item. We’re starting our fifth season of road construction season so anybody that is confused regarding the detour signs please go to our website and we have updates on there where closures are going to occur and how long they’re going to occur so everybody has the opportunity to go there to get clarification and if that’s not clear enough, don’t hesitate to call City Hall and myself or Paul Oehme would be more than happy to explain the closure process. Mayor Furlong: Very good, thank you. Any questions for Mr. Gerhardt or his staff? No? Okay. 12 Chanhassen City Council – May 12, 2014 CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. None. Mayor Furlong: It seems a little early to be done but if there is nothing else to come before the council this evening, is there a motion to adjourn? Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to 0. The City Council meeting was adjourned at 7:45 p.m. Submitted by Todd Gerhardt City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim 13