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CC 2014 07 28 CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING JULY 28, 2014 Mayor Furlong called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. The meeting was opened with the Pledge to the Flag. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Furlong, Councilman Laufenburger, Councilwoman Ernst, Councilwoman Tjornhom, and Councilman McDonald STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Laurie Hokkanen, Paul Oehme, Kate Aanenson, Todd Hoffman, Greg Sticha, and Roger Knutson PUBLIC PRESENT: Kathleen Aho Springsted Julie Frick Carver County Mayor Furlong: Thank you and welcome everybody here in the council chambers as well as those watching at home. We’re glad that you joined us this evening. At this time I would ask if members of the council if there are any changes or modifications proposed for the agenda. If not, without objection we’ll proceed with the agenda as published. PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: Mayor Furlong: First item tonight is I’d like to start with a public announcement relating to Chanhassen th Day at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. On Friday, August 8, which is a week from this coming Friday, the City of Chanhassen in partnership with the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Carver County cordially invites all Chanhassen residents to come enjoy a free day at the Arboretum. Arboretum admission will be waived on that day from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. for all residents. I encourage residents to come to the Arboretum and experience one of Chanhassen’s natural treasures. At 9:45 a.m. there will be a special welcome at the Arboretum Visitor’s Center with Dr. Ed Schneider, the Director of the Arboretum, Carver County commissioners and Deputy Mayor Councilman Laufenburger will be there as I will be unable to attend. That will be in the Great Hall of the Visitor Center. Variety of activities are offered throughout the day such as nature walks, guided tours and other exhibits. This year the summer exhibit at the Arboretum is Nature in Glass which showcases the iridescent fused glass sculptures created specifically for the Arboretum gardens. Many other activities are out there. Please visit the City’s website for information. Chanhassen Day at the Arboretum has been going on for probably close to 8 years now and we really are appreciative of the Arboretum of opening their doors to our residents. It really is our Statue of Liberty for New Yorkers. We all know it’s there but rarely do we go. If people are out of town they always go so please take advantage of this opportunity to get out there and see the Arboretum. CONSENT AGENDA: Councilwoman Ernst moved, Councilman McDonald seconded to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s recommendations: 1. Approval of City Council Minutes dated July 14, 2014 2. Receive Planning Commission Minutes dated July 15, 2014 3. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated June 24, 2014 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Resolution #2014-49: 4. Approve Resolution Authorizing Call and Payment of 2004 G.O. Utility Revenue Bonds 5. Award of Bid, Tennis/Pickleball Court Improvements 6. Item Deleted. Resolution #2014-50: 7. Accept Land Donation, Outlot B, Bluff Creek Corporate Center, Family of Christ Lutheran Church Resolution #2014-51: 8. Approve Application for the Metropolitan Council’s Clean Water Fund Inflow & Infiltration Grant All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. VISITOR PRESENTATIONS: None. LAW ENFORCEMENT/FIRE DEPARTMENT UPDATE. Lt. Jeff Enevold: Mr. Mayor, council, good evening. First item on the agenda it’s going to be my honor to recognize Paris Marcy for a community service that she provided and if she’d like to come up here please. Mr. Mayor. I’d like to award a Citizen Coin to her but we’ll tell her story first. On June 27, 2014 at about 2:30 in the afternoon the deputies called the CVS pharmacy on Galpin Boulevard where Paris is an employee. Paris said that an elderly female had come into the store and attempted to purchase about $3,000 worth of Green Dot cards. Paris found out that the elderly female had received a phone call from somebody claiming to be her grandson. She recognized this as a scam. She had heard about this before and the caller had told the female that her son had been involved in a car accident and needed money for attorney and legal fees and they had to be paid before she would be released. The elderly female told Paris that she received directions on what she needed to do next after she purchased these Green Dot cards. Deputy arrived. Talked with the elderly female and Paris and was able to verify that the grandson was okay and identified this as a scam but if it hadn’t been for Paris hadn’t been alerted to this scam and called the sheriff’s office, this elderly female would have lost about $3,000 in this scam so it’s my pleasure to award Paris the Citizen Coin from the Sheriff’s Office and thank her for her service to our community. Thank you. And I was also going to award one to Fred Riese, oh there you are Fred. Come on up. Terrific. Alright, this one happened on June 30, 2014 at about noon. The deputies responded to a medical at the Goddard School on Great Plains Boulevard. When they arrived they talked with the employee Fred Riese who told them the following. That the kids were eating lunch when he noticed one child was choking on a piece of chicken nugget. Fred performed the Heimlich maneuver. That was unsuccessful so he gave the child some back blows and was able to dislodge the nugget prior to the first responder’s arrival. The deputies arrived. The child was alert and conscious. Without the quick action taken by Fred this incident could have turned tragic very quickly so again it’s my pleasure to award Fred with the Citizen Coin from the Sheriff’s Office for your life saving action in a stressful situation. Great job. Thank you. Alright, thank you Mr. Mayor. Moving on I’ve got a few more slides here. That’s supposed to work. Did you take that out of there Paul? We’ve done this every year. We’ve talked about our Key Financial Strategies and we’ve compared population Part I and Part II crimes. The BCA, the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension recently released the 2014 Uniform Crime Reports so I’m bringing this to you now. This report, you can see there’s some cities in there that kind of skew the numbers so what I did on the next slide is I, I just took 4 cities out of there that are really a little bit more closely aligned with the City of Chanhassen and you can see it’s Chaska, Farmington, Lino Lakes and Rosemount. Talk about Part I and Part II and the number of sworn officers. You can see Chanhassen has 11% more Part I 2 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 crimes than the average of these 4 communities. We have 12% less Part II crimes and we’re getting the job done with 37% fewer sworn officers than the average so that’s the numbers. Any questions on any of that? Mayor Furlong: So you’re saying we have too many officers? Lt. Jeff Enevold: Well we could talk off line if you want. This isn’t the place for that. Mayor Furlong: I think what it speaks to is the efficiency with which the Carver County Sheriff’s Office provides police… Lt. Jeff Enevold: I would agree with that Mr. Mayor. The next slide, the last slide I’ve got here is just, we’re midway through the year and so I took a look at the overtime compared to last year. These are hours. You can see last year at this time we had about 623 hours and this year we have 355 so we’re doing a nice job of managing the overtime and we’re doing this without compromising officer safety or public safety and I anticipate this is going to continue throughout the year. We’re looking at the schedule and we’re filling times when the call load is heavier so kudos to my sergeants for managing this very well so that’s what I’ve got for you. Any questions for me, Mr. Mayor, council? Mayor Furlong: Any questions for the Lieutenant this evening on his presentation or any of the crime statistics? No? Very good, thank you so much. Lt. Jeff Enevold: Thank you. Chief Johnson is here with the Chanhassen Fire Department. Good evening Chief. Chief Don Johnson: Mayor, council. Thank you for having us. Right now the fire department is staffed at 48 total fire fighters. We have about 4 fire fighters on leave and we did hire 4 new fire fighters on July th 7. They will not be responding to calls as of yet. We’re due to start with the joint ops training probably sometime in September so we won’t see them on trucks probably a good 3 or 4 months. Year to date our calls are at 341. This was compared to 278 calls last year at this time. We’re at about a 22% uptick and June was 72 calls for the Chanhassen fire department. Our average is in the 50’s so for this year it’s been about 54 on average and like I said for June we were at 72. We’ve seen a little bit of a down fall for July so hopefully we kind of get back to normal so our training hours are sitting at 2,200 hours compared to 2,800 hours last year and then in your council packet I did include some graphs. I didn’t bring them with on the audio visual but we’ve got, I added some things about our monthly, our monthly counts as far as where our calls are at and this year we are, we are projected to do about 680 calls if we stay on pace compared to the 573 that we did last year and these are again, these are spread out. We don’t have anything that’s showing us anything, one call standing out over another. It’s still primarily in the medicals and a lot of our, a lot of calls that we go to are, were either cancelled in route or when we get there there’s not a problem so, which is pretty consistent across the fire fighting service. We did do hose testing. That’s a mandate. We’ve got that done for the month. Fire prevention has been pretty quiet. We’ve got a little, I like to do a little bit on grill fires. We’ve had a rash of grill fires over the last month and in June. I would like to remind people that if you do have a gas grill, you want to keep the trap underneath clean. A lot of us keep those grills close to our house and on our decks. We fire them up. We let them heat up and we walk away as they’re heating up. Well if that grease underneath it gets going, usually you get some siding or the decking that could start on fire and it escalates quickly and obviously we’re inside the house when that’s going on so make sure that if you’ve got a gas grill you clean the debris off the top of those burners and in the traps so you don’t see a fire truck in front of your house. The fire inspections for this year are starting to really wind up. We’ve got a full schedule coming over the next month and a half so we’ll be in the commercial businesses. And that’s all I have for the council update. If there’s any questions. 3 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for Chief Johnson? Councilman Laufenburger. Councilman Laufenburger: Yeah, Chief I just noticed included in your report was National Night Out which I think is next Tuesday, is that correct? Chief Don Johnson: Correct. Councilman Laufenburger: So you have a plan for deployment of a ladder truck and lots of sirens going to attract kids is that correct? Chief Don Johnson: We do. We’re working with Beth Hoiseth. She assigns us our addresses. I’m told we’ve got 12 to 13 visits to make so we will be out in force. Councilman Laufenburger: Wow. Perfect, thanks. Chief Don Johnson: Mayor if there’s no questions I would like to do some introductions today. Mayor Furlong: Please. th Chief Don Johnson: On July 7 we had 3 gentlemen actually pass from probation to off probation on the fire department. We had our Black Hat ceremony. What these folks go through in the first year is quite extensive. There’s hundreds of hours of training. There’s a lot of state certifications that we have to have before people can get on trucks. That includes Fire Fighter I, Fire Fighter II, Emergency Response, Hazmat, Operations and Fire Apparatus Operator. With these 3 we were very lucky to have some folks that got trained before they made it to Chanhassen so we’ve had, we didn’t have to do a lot of training on our own, which was good but we did have to kind of bring them along into Chanhassen’s ways of doing things. So tonight I’d like to introduce David Arion, Erik Formico and Joe LeFevere. I proudly got to th swear these gentlemen in last, on July 7. Gave them their badges. Took away their yellow probationary hat and gave them their black hat. Mayor Furlong: Excellent, congratulations. Thank you gentlemen. Congratulations. Welcome to the fire department and we appreciate your willingness to serve. That’s wonderful. Thank you. Congratulations. Thank you Chief. Move now to the next item on our agenda. PUBLIC HEARING: CONSIDER ISSUANCE OF G.O. DEBT FOR CENTENNIAL HILLS APARTMENTS AND ADOPT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING USE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION AUTHORITY. Mayor Furlong: Let’s start with a staff report please and then we will have a public hearing. Greg Sticha: Thank you Mayor and City Council members. Earlier this year staff was approached by the Carver County CDA and Centennial Hills Apartment complex in regards to a potential refunding and th improvement project at the facility. On July 14 the City Council in a work session format heard information regarding the project as well as the refunding. This evening staff is asking the City Council to open a public hearing regarding this matter to take public comment and then staff is also recommending authorizing and passing a resolution that authorizes the Carver County CDA to issue bonds in an aggregate amount not to exceed $5 million dollars using the City’s general obligation authority. That’s all I have in regards to this item unless there’s additional questions that we didn’t have from the previous meeting from council. 4 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Mayor Furlong: There might be some questions from staff, or any questions for staff from the council at this point? I guess to clarify Mr. Sticha the, there’s currently debt in place is that correct with this apartment building? Greg Sticha: That is correct. Mayor Furlong: And about how much debt is in place currently? What’s? Greg Sticha: I believe it’s $1.5 or $1.6 million. We have representatives from their financial advisory firm as well as the Centennial Hills apartment complex and they can probably give you the exact number. They’re in the audience this evening. Mayor Furlong: I had in my mind that our current obligation with debt was closer to 3. Greg Sticha: It’s $3 million. I’m sorry, $3 million, yep. Mayor Furlong: Wasn’t it? Okay. And the. Greg Sticha: I got the 1.5 from earlier in the meeting still in my head. Mayor Furlong: Okay. So currently the City has, the City has previously provided it’s backing, it’s General Obligation for previous debt and that debt outstanding currently is about $3 million, is that correct? Greg Sticha: Correct. That debt originated in 1995 I believe and was refinanced in 2004. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Greg Sticha: And the current principal outstanding is just, right around $3 million. Mayor Furlong: And in 1995 was when the facility was first constructed? Greg Sticha: That’s correct. Mayor Furlong: And the City’s obligation at that time, not only included the general obligation debt but I think there was also some additional funds, Mr. Gerhardt was there not? I feel like a light rail train just went by here so. There was also some additional obligations on the part of the City originally if I’m not mistaken. Todd Gerhardt: That is correct. Mayor Furlong: Okay, which included some real cash as well as some commitments for annual. Todd Gerhardt: Yeah we refunded the cash and however we did provide our G.O. Obligation back at that time. Mayor Furlong: At that time and so it was 2004 I think when the cash obligation went away. The fund requirements went away but there was still that obligation and so what’s being requested here is to extend it further, from where it is now with the $3 million for purposes of borrowing funds on their equity to reinvest back into the facility, is that correct? 5 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Greg Sticha: That is correct. Mayor Furlong: To do capital improvements. Okay. Alright, thank you. Well why don’t we, is there questions? Councilwoman Ernst. Councilwoman Ernst: Yeah thanks Mayor. So Greg can you tell me when we’re looking at this and looking at the I guess the annual amount that we paid to Centennial Hills. Is it $31,000 on top of the original $325,000 that we paid? Greg Sticha: That was prior to 2004 when we had that obligation. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay. Greg Sticha: That obligation, as part of the refunding no longer exists. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay so we don’t pay that annual amount any more either? Greg Sticha: No. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay, thank you. Mayor Furlong: At this time the only commitment or the only thing that we have right now is that general obligation. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay. Mayor Furlong: That exists. There’s no funding on the part of the City or reserves set aside on the part of the City is that correct? Greg Sticha: That is correct. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay, thank you. And then I know in our last meeting we, I had asked for a detailed breakdown of what the costs were going to entail. Not to say that we knew exactly what those costs were going to be but an estimate. Are we going to see that tonight? Greg Sticha: I did send it in an email to City Council. I’ll re-send it again tomorrow morning if that’s okay or. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay. I didn’t see it in the emails so. Maybe I just missed it. Greg Sticha: Okay, there were 3 attachments and one of the attachments included the breakdown of what they were planning on using their funds for. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay. Mayor Furlong: Do you have that by any chance? Greg Sticha: I do not have that with me. Their financial advisory firm is here this evening and it appears she does have it with her. Mayor Furlong: Okay, good evening. 6 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Kathy Aho: Good evening Mr. Mayor, council members. I have one copy. Mayor Furlong: You know if you want to lay it on that piece of paper. We’ll see if the overhead camera can zoom in a little bit, and at least people at home too can see, and if you’d like to introduce yourself for the record as well. Kathy Aho: Yes Mr. Mayor, I’m Kathy Aho with Springsted. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Kathy Aho: And these are the construction portion of the project. Councilwoman Ernst: So when you say that, I’m sorry Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Ernst please. Councilwoman Ernst: When you say the construction do you mean this is, this is your estimate of the total project? Kathy Aho: The estimate of the total project is a million 550 and there are some additional professional charges in addition to the raw construction costs that you see on this page. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay, and do you have an estimate of what additional amount would be? Kathy Aho: I don’t have the exact breakdown of that but the total is a million 550. Councilwoman Ernst: But you don’t know what that entails? Kathy Aho: Greg do you? There’s a project coordinator that the CDA is working with. There’s been an architectural firm involved so those are the nature of the additional charges and then some contingency. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay. Okay, thank you. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Tjornhom. Did you have a question? Councilwoman Tjornhom: No. No. Mayor Furlong: Oh I’m sorry, that’s okay. I’m sorry. Councilman Laufenburger. Councilman Laufenburger: Yes. Mr. Sticha. Essentially what Centennial Hills or CDA is asking for the, for the City of Chanhassen to support them in their efforts to make these changes. Is there any financial cash obligation that we are specifically signing up for or are we just securing the debt? Greg Sticha: We’re securing the debt. As long as the payments are made by the Centennial Hills Apartments and their management company there’s no financial obligation to the City. We’re the backers of, authorizing our general obligation for the facility. Councilman Laufenburger: Right. And then a related question to that is, when we offer our financial strength or our backing to this, does this impact in any way a rating company’s view of the City of Chanhassen for example in our financial rating? 7 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Greg Sticha: In my opinion no. It does not. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay, thank you. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Ernst. Councilwoman Ernst: So just to piggy back on Councilman Laufenburger’s question. So we have, with our AAA rating that we have today Greg what, what would impact that with, I mean what would, there has to be some risk there. Say for example, and I don’t know what that is. If they couldn’t make the payments or you know that whole financial liability thing, what would impact our AAA rating with this situation? Greg Sticha: Well this issuance if in total got issued it’d be up to $5 million dollars. $5 million dollars on the amount of debt that we have already in place probably would not impact our AAA rating. Even if they defaulted on the entire thing so it. Mayor Furlong: Not that we’re suggesting. Councilwoman Ernst: We don’t want to tell them that. Greg Sticha: Right but even a default of the entire $5 million would probably necessarily not impact our AAA rating. Todd Gerhardt: The S&P is not even going to look at the numbers based on the operation of this. What they’re looking at is our ability to pay back all our debt and do we have that capability and you know our debt ratio right now is fairly low so, and so preliminary numbers that we’ve gone through in having the sale for the bonds show us that more than likely we’ll retain our AAA bond rating based on Ehler’s analysis of what they would look at as a part of the sale of the bonds. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay. And then where we had the $1.3 or $1.5 with the construction costs, I guess my question is why are we backing up for $5 million versus what this project is going to cost, and this is over a 20 year period right? Greg Sticha: Right. They’re also refinancing $3 million of the remaining principal. Councilwoman Ernst: Oh that’s right. Greg Sticha: So the two are $4.5 together. Councilwoman Ernst: Right. Todd Gerhardt: And it was $114,000 in administrative professional service, architects and mechanical. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay, thank you. Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Tjornhom. Councilwoman Tjornhom: I do have a question. Mayor Furlong: I knew that. You just didn’t know that. 8 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Councilwoman Tjornhom: No, I was just studying it all. In the budget recap that was just placed for everyone to view, there is one category called general conditions/requirements for $128,000. What does that mean? Or what is that? Mayor Furlong: Can somebody speak to that? Kathy Aho: Mr. Mayor, council members. We’re looking at each other. The individual that is coordinating the project on behalf of the CDA was unable to make it this evening and the general conditions are most likely the prep work. The insurance. Those types of things for the contractor’s that are involved in the project. Councilwoman Tjornhom: Well I see that’s already a category. Liability insurance and builder’s risk insurance. Kathy Aho: Oh okay. We can get you the answer to that. I’m afraid I just don’t have it this evening. No, I don’t think we’re going to be able to provide that to you. Councilwoman Tjornhom: Okay, thank you. Mayor Furlong: Any other questions for staff or? Is there anything else I guess from Ms. Frick or others that you’d like to present to the council this evening or? Anyone from the CDA? Good evening. If you have an answer to that question or you can just comments on this project for the benefit of the council. Julie Frick: Mr. Mayor, members of the council. I’m sorry I don’t have the exact information that you’re asking for on the general conditions. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Any other things that you’d like to comment about the project overall or the request? Julie Frick: I would say that the project itself does very well. It’s always supported itself. The CDA does put money in every year to meet the debt ratios that are required by S&P but the project has performed since we opened. It’s full and it’s still beautiful and it just needs some work on some major water issues. Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Any questions? Okay, Mr. Gerhardt? Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, City Council members. It looks as though the general conditions is like almost 10% of the total project cost and they do not have any money allocated for contingency so my guess is that is kind of their contingency fund for you know, for some reason they have some over costs but we can get clarification for you on that. Again this is the public hearing. We are planning on having the sale th at your August 11 meeting and we can bring that information and be prepared to answer those questions then and get it out to you earlier if you’d like. Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Let’s go ahead and open the public hearing then and I would invite any interested party to come forward to the podium and state their name and address for the record. Seeing nobody, without objection we’ll close the public hearing and bring it back to council. This evening the request is for the council to approve the resolution authorizing the Carver County Community Development Agency to issue the bonds as laid out in the staff report. Any discussions? Comments on this. Councilman Laufenburger. 9 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Councilman Laufenburger: Thank you Mr. Mayor. I think that while I recognize that there may be some gaps in some of the information, I think the track record of CDA and specifically Centennial Hills speaks volumes as to number one, their ability to manage not only this property but others that they have in the county. And also they have a, they pay attention to the residents and I think they are coming forward because this is a valuable resource in the Chanhassen community and I think it’s well within our, I don’t know if I’d call it responsibility but it’s within our interest in serving the community that we support their efforts. I’m comfortable that Ms. Frick and her team of people including the on-site manager over there, they’re not doing anything in here to manipulate or to abuse their relationship with the City of Chanhassen. In fact they want to take steps to substantially improve it and put in place those things that will long term serve not only the community of Chanhassen and it’s existing residents in Centennial Hills but future residents as well so I understand some of the questions about some of the details but I’m confident that their track record has shown that they know how to manage those details so I’m prepared to support this resolution. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other thoughts or comments? I think it’s important that we get those answers to the questions posed this evening that have not been provided at this point. Just so it’s clear. Any other comments or questions? I too would support this. It is a commitment on the part of the City’s taxpayers but I think it is one that over the history, last 19-20 years has demonstrated, not only is the Centennial Hills fulfilling a need from a housing option, but it is a project and an organization and home to many people that is well run and is in need of some tender loving care here now after the years of use and enjoyment by so many people so taking part of their equity. Reinvesting it back into the project is really what I see here and I’m glad to see that they’re interested enough to keep the project renewed to make it viable for another 20 plus years. So with that, if there are other comments great. Otherwise I’d certainly entertain a motion. Mr. McDonald. Councilman McDonald: I’ll make the motion Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Councilman McDonald: The City Council approves the attached resolution authorizing the Carver County Community Development Agency to issue bonds in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5 million to refinance and improve a qualified housing development project and the pledge of a full faith and credit of the City of Chanhassen thereto and authorizing the execution and delivery of related documents. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second? Councilwoman Tjornhom: Second. Councilman Laufenburger: Second. Mayor Furlong: Second is made. I’ll let the, ladies first. There you go. Councilman Laufenburger: Shorter name. Shorter name. Mayor Furlong: Motion’s been made and seconded. Is there any discussion on the motion? Hearing none we’ll proceed with the vote. Resolution #2014-52: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded that the City Council approves the attached resolution authorizing the Carver County Community Development Agency to issue bonds in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5 million to 10 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 refinance and improve a qualified housing development project and the pledge of a full faith and credit of the City of Chanhassen thereto and authorizing the execution and delivery of related documents. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. Mayor Furlong: Thank you everyone. We’ll look forward to getting those responses and then we will see th this back at our next meeting, is that right Mr. Gerhardt? I think you mentioned August 11. Oh, Mr. Sticha. th Greg Sticha: You will not see this back at the August 11 meeting. The bonds will actually be issued by the Carver County CDA. This is giving them the authority to go ahead and use our G.O. to go ahead and do that so we won’t be awarding the bid of the bonds. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Greg Sticha: That will be done by them so, but we’ll get you that information first thing in the morning in regards to the $128,000. Mayor Furlong: Is that going to meet everybody’s expectations? Okay, thank you. Thank you for the clarification. Greg Sticha: Yep. Mayor Furlong: With that let’s move on to the next item of business. PRESERVE AT RICE LAKE, NORTH OF TH 212, SOUTHEAST INTERSECTION OF TIGUA TH LANE AND WEST 86 STREET, APPLICANT: JOHN KNOBLAUCH, J&S VENTURES 1, INC.: A. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF FINAL PLAT. B. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF DEVELOPMENT CONTRACT, DRAINAGE AND UTILITY EASEMENT, TRAIL EASEMENT, AND CONSTRUCTION PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS. Mayor Furlong: Let’s start with a staff report please. Kate Aanenson: Thank you Mayor, members of the City Council. There’s actually two items before you tonight. One is approval of the final plat and the second action item would then be approval of development contracts and drainage easements, trail easement and construction plans and specifications. Typically final plats are on consent but this has been almost a year since you’ve seen it so we thought we’d give you an update on the project. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. th Kate Aanenson: Again it’s located off of West 86. How you get access from 101 just north of 212. So for the background on this, what you saw almost a year ago when you approved, that would be August th 12 of 2013 you approved multiple applications including a rezoning, a variance. Excuse rezoning for a PUD. We actually changed that to get the lot size configuration to a medium density. A variance for the length of the cul-de-sac. We did site plan review because in the medium density we do require site plan th review. Also wetland alteration permit to provide access road coming in off of 86 Street and then the subdivision for the 16 lots and 2 outlots and all this was predicated on the Metropolitan Council approving a Land Use Amendment so we did do dual guide this one too, and that was approved back in 11 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 the fall of 2013 so what you’re seeing tonight, all these things play into this project but what you’re seeing again tonight is the final plat itself. So with that this is the layout of the plat with these 16 lots and 2 outlots. The trail access. We do have homes that we looked at that were being sited on this project and I just want to point out for example on Lot 3, there’s each of the, you have a variety of choices to pick from but Lot 3 is a little bit more constrained as far as the number, or the choices of home plans that could go on there. Under the PUD a 30% hard cover so if you look at the plans, the house models that were presented at that time, the purchaser would have to be very careful in considering, and we hope with the direction of the developer that we’re working to get the right sized homes on the lots so the homeowner has you know the expectation that they may be able to put a deck or some other things on the home that we don’t maximize it right out of the gate. Again that Lot #5 would probably be the most challenging as far as the home choice so just want to apprise you of that. One of the other issues that’s still outstanding is the noise wall. When we, the wetlands were originally put in place this area shown here on the wall, the wetland was a little bit greater so they needed additional encroachment from MnDOT. The applicant’s aware of that but that is still document that still needs to come forward before this can actually get executed so if you were to approve this tonight those things would still before the staff would release that, would have to get that put in place. So with that there are again there’s two motions. The motion for the final plat subject to the conditions in the staff report and then approval of the development contract and I’d be happy to answer any questions that you have. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for staff? Councilwoman Ernst. Councilwoman Ernst: Kate can you tell me with the 800 foot setback, what is the surface going to be there? Is that going to be impervious with that, where that bare is? Kate Aanenson: The hard cover? The street? Councilwoman Ernst: Yeah. Kate Aanenson: That’s what this is for. The length of the cul-de-sac, yes. Councilwoman Ernst: Oh okay. Kate Aanenson: It’s for the street. Councilwoman Ernst: It’s a private street, okay. Kate Aanenson: Yeah it’s just for the length of the cul-de-sac. Councilwoman Ernst: Okay. Kate Aanenson: Yes. Councilwoman Ernst: Thank you. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Councilman Laufenburger. Councilman Laufenburger: Thank you. Kate can you speak to the Findings of Fact, and let me give you specifically there are some, some of the Findings of Fact where you identify this condition no longer applies or this condition still applies. Can you talk first of all a little bit, how is that a Findings of Fact no longer applies? Does that mean something has been resolved or can you just explain that? 12 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Kate Aanenson: Sure. On this I would say we call those actually, the word we use is say findings. It’s not Findings of Fact. It would be a finding of the condition of approval. The reason we do that is we like to be able to track for you if there’s something that came up that was maybe a resident brought up or the council had a lot of interest in, we want to show you how that was modified. A lot of this is not only for the developer’s edification but for the staff. If we go back and look at it, how it changed over time. For example tree locations. We might say that the road was changed so that is no longer applicable. There’s some hydraulic issues that were addressed that we got additional information on. In this case that did happen. Some piezometers in getting additional water bounce in the area. Councilman Laufenburger: So over time as this project continues, as you continue to interact with the developer on the proposed project some of these things, based on decisions that are made, the findings are no longer important. Is that what you’re saying? Kate Aanenson: Correct. It’s like a checklist for the developer. For this project to go forward these things need to be met and a lot of them have been checked off so we show you that it’s been met. Or it’s been modified or it no longer applies. So that way we kind of streamline some of those conditions down. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. I apologize for not bringing this to your attention earlier today but could you go to page 4. Kate Aanenson: Certainly. Councilman Laufenburger: Item 4(d). And what I notice is that the (d), it says this condition still applies but the sub-items i, ii, and iii, those conditions no longer apply. So are the sub-conditions i, ii and iii, are they not rolling up to d? Do you understand what I’m saying? Kate Aanenson: Yes. Councilman Laufenburger: Now I’ll give you some time to review that. Kate Aanenson: Yes, I’ll let the City Engineer would like to comment on it too but what it’s talking about is provide calculations or model demonstrating the City’s requirements so the developer, they probably have submitted those calculations. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. Kate Aanenson: So then that would eliminate some of the need for iron infiltration or, because there’s other ways to approach stormwater management so some of those may have been. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay so it’s, what you’re saying is the items i, ii, and iii may not be, in this case may not be a summary or a roll up to item (d), is that what you’re saying? Kate Aanenson: That’s correct. They could operate independently. Councilman Laufenburger: Independently, okay. Kate Aanenson: That’s correct. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. Alright. That clarifies it, thank you very much Kate. 13 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Kate Aanenson: It’s very complex and honestly you know with 5 years we try to have a legacy. If someone went back to look at this project in 5 years, let’s say it didn’t get built out. Someone could really go through all the details here and really track what we were trying to accomplish. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay. Thank you very much Kate for taking that time to explain. Thank you Mr. Mayor. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other questions for staff? Mr. Knoblauch, the applicant’s here this evening. Anything you’d like to address the council this evening? Welcome. John Knoblauch: Good evening Mayor, council. Just one item that. Mayor Furlong: I’m sorry, if you could just introduce yourself. John Knoblauch: I’m sorry, John Knoblauch of 1450 Knob Hill Lane in Chanhassen. The, couple things. You know apologize for the kind of the delay in the project. My father, who was kind of my, I don’t know if you want to call him my partner but my backer passed away in late October last year so we’ve kind of had a shifting of the guard a little bit if you will and so we didn’t move the project along as fast as obviously we would have liked to. But now it’s a little more pertinent that we would really like to grade this project on the drier part of the year and with MnDOT’s got just a couple of t’s to cross and I’s to dot here on their noise wall, that at least I’m aware of. Other than that it’s very, very close to I think to meet all the requirements we’ve accomplished up to this point. But to get this graded in a drier part of the year I think is important just because of the wetland as is, which has been approved there by Outlot B. It’s going to be best to do that in the drier part of the year, which is September. August, September, October so we really would like to get this project underway. Get blacktop in obviously before the cold sets in, which is doable right now but if we go too much farther we’ll probably get into some tougher weather. As far as MnDOT, the only thing that’s left on their plate right now that I’m aware of is they sent two items over. One is we had to alter the wall to go out of, and make sure we didn’t go into a wetland. And so the noise wall had to be altered and all they’re waiting on now, we’ve got it basically out of their clear zone of the road but all they’re waiting now is just a small cross section drawing which I thought we’d actually have today but should have in the next few days. They actually have approved the location of the wall but the, they want to see a cross section of how the new wall, it’s got a part, it’s got a bumper rail on it because it got too close, it’s not very close to the road but because the grade tips down we had to put a bumper on it so they’re just waiting to see that cross section and then we should be good to go. Mayor Furlong: Good. John Knoblauch: Any questions? Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Knoblauch? No, very good. Thank you. John Knoblauch: Okay. Mayor Furlong: Bring it back to council for discussion then. Any thoughts? Comments? My understanding is that this has been a challenge for everybody involved and we knew that back when we dealt with this project or worked on it about a year or so ago with the location of the freeway and the wetlands and all the other issues taking place. It’s quite a challenge so I’d like to thank everybody from Mr. Knoblauch and staff for working together and finding a solution here so that what appears to be a very nice development can go forward. So with that if there are no other comments, we have a couple motions. I think we can take these as a single motion, unless there’s any objections so we have motion 14 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 1(a) and then 1(b). Or excuse me, yep. Items 1(a) and 1(b). Would anybody like to make a motion? Mr. Laufenburger. Councilman Laufenburger: Thank you Mr. Mayor. I move that the Chanhassen City Council grants approval for 1(a), final plat for Preserve at Rice Lake as shown on the plans dated Received June 13, 2014 and subject to the conditions of approval in the staff report, and that we grant approval for 1(b). Development contract, drainage utility easement, trail easement and construction plans and specifications for Preserve at Rice Lake conditioned upon the applicant supplying the City with a cash escrow or letter of credit for $1,113,979.19 and pay a cash fee of $183,479.13. Councilwoman Ernst: Second. Mayor Furlong: Nobody should accuse us of not being precise. Is there any discussion to the motion? Thank you for the second so quickly. Any discussions to the motion? Seeing none we’ll proceed with the vote. Councilman Laufenburger moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded that the Chanhassen City Council grants final plat approval of Planning Case #2013-12 for Preserve at Rice Lake to subdivide 13.22 acres into 16 lots and 2 outlots as shown in plans dated Received June 13, 2014, subject to the following conditions: Planning Department Conditions 1. All lots must comply with the following table: COMPLIANCE TABLE Maximum Area Width Depth Hardcover Notes (square feet) (feet) (feet) (square feet) 60 at PUD 10,000 building 100 30 percent setback L1 B1 10,085 129 122 3,025 Wetland L2 B1 10,001 90 108 3,000 Wetland L3 B1 11,324 152 109 3,397 Wetland L4 B1 10,281 76 143 3,084 Wetland L5 B1 10,103 70 146 3,031 L6 B1 10,301 63 134 3,090 L7 B1 10,017 62 128 3,005 L8 B1 10,000 62 128 3,000 Wetland L9 B1 10,187 62 129 3,056 Wetland L10 B1 10,024 63 123 3,007 Wetland 65 (building L11 B1 12,083 116 3,625 Wetland setback) 65 (building L12 B1 10,017 118 3,005 Wetland setback) Wetland, * area of neck 108 (building L1 B2 14,085* 132 4,225 (4,961 sq. ft.) excluded from setback) lot area calculations L2 B2 10,781 91 106 3,234 Corner lot 15 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Maximum Area Width Depth Hardcover Notes (square feet) (feet) (feet) (square feet) L3 B2 10,000 106 127 3,000 L4 B2 10,003 90 148 3,001 6.47 acres open Outlot A 282,005 space/wetlands 1.09 acres open Outlot B 47,560 space/wetlands ROW 72,332 1.66 acres TOTAL 576,299 13.23 acres Wetland setback: 20-foot buffer, 30-foot principal structure, 15-foot accessory structure. Front: 25 feet Rear: 30 feet, accessory structure 15 feet Side: 10-foot house, 5-foot garage Environmental Resources Conditions 1. All relocated trees shall be warranted for two seasons and replaced by developer if dead or dying within that time period. All overstory trees must be a minimum of 2.5” diameter and all understory trees must be a minimum of 1.5” diameter or 6’ height. Building Official Conditions 1. Provide a 1:200 “clean” plat drawing (for addressing). 2. Proposed street-name “PRESERVE COURT” is acceptable. 3. Buildings may be required to be designed by an architect and/or engineer as determined by the Building Official. 4. A final grading plan and soils report must be submitted to the Inspections Division before permits can be issued. 5. Retaining walls over four feet high require a permit and must be designed by a professional engineer. 6. Each lot must be provided with separate sewer and water services. 7. The applicant and or their agent shall meet with the Inspections Division as early as possible to discuss plan review and permit procedures. Fire Marshal Conditions 1. An additional fire hydrant will be required at the southwest corner of Lot 1. 2. A three-foot clear space must be maintained around fire hydrants. 3. Prior to combustible construction, fire apparatus access roads capable of supporting the weight of fire apparatus shall be made serviceable. 4. Temporary street signs shall be installed prior to and during time of construction. 5. Prior to combustible construction fire hydrants must be made serviceable. 16 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Engineering Department Conditions 1. Advanced warning and speed advisory signs are required where the design speed is less than 30 mph. 2. The site plan and HydroCAD model must be revised to address the following comments: a. Peak discharge rates are proposed to increase at the following locations: i. Runoff leaving the western portion of Wetland A for the 2, 10 and 100 year design events. ii. Runoff leaving the site to the north of the eastern portion of Wetland A for the snowmelt event. iii. Runoff leaving the site to the north of the western portion of Wetland A for all events. b. The applicant must provide calculations (or submit a model) demonstrating that the city’s requirements for water quality are satisfied. 3. The developer shall replace the 18” culvert north of the site with a new pipe that provides the same capacity. 4. The lowest floor elevation of Lots 1 and 2, Block 1 need to be adjusted to maintain three feet of separation from the groundwater. 5. If groundwater is encountered during site construction the lowest floor elevations must be adjusted so that there is a minimum three-foot separation. 6. The developer must acquire any necessary permits from MnDOT for grading or drainage. 7. It is difficult to discern between the proposed contours, lot lines and setback lines. The developer’s engineer is requested to change the drawing line weights. 8. Some homes may choose to install a privately-owned and maintained booster to provide a higher water pressure. 9. The owner of Lot 11, Block 1, Preserve at Rice Lake must be recorded in favor of 8591 Tigua Lane to allow for the water service installation. This easement shall be recorded with the final plat. 10. An Encroachment Agreement shall be recorded against Lot 11, Block 1, and Outlot A, Preserve at Rice Lake with the final plat to allow for the private water service to 8591 Tigua Lane. 11. Final Plat approval is contingent upon filing the drainage and utility easement on the property to the north, 8591 Tigua Lane. 12. A portion of the trunk sewer and water hookup fees (WAC and SAC, respectively) must be paid in cash with the final plat: WAC 16 units x $1,886/unit = $30,176 SAC 16 units x $664/unit = $10,624 The remainder of the WAC and SAC fees and the MCES SAC fee shall be paid with the building permit application at the rate in effect at that time. 17 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 13. The proposed location of the catch basin on the east side of the cul de sac must be shifted so that it will not conflict with the pedestrian ramp to the trail between Lots 11 and 12, Block 1. 14. The Agreement between the City and MnDOT to allow for the construction of the noise wall within MnDOT right of way must be executed before the final plat is recorded. 15. A trail easement between Lots 11 and 12, Block 1, must be filed with the final plat. 16. The applicant must apply for and receive an NPDES permit from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and provide evidence to the city prior to grading the site. 17. The following changes need to be incorporated into the SWPPP before any site grading can occur: a. The sheet labeled Appendix C-1: Erosion and Sediment Control Plan shall show erosion control blanket covering the disturbed areas adjacent to the road crossing the wetland and above the 894’ contour for the most southwesterly pond. b. All erosion control blanket except in the overland emergency overflow areas shall either be netting free or use jute netting or another biodegradable material approved by the City. c. Topsoil shall be stripped and stockpiled in a berm on the up-gradient side of the silt fence. This shall be indicated on Appendix C-1: Erosion and Sediment Control Plan. d. Sheets L-1 and L-2 shall be added to the SWPPP after Appendix C-2 as these are part of the Final Stabilization Plan for the site. Water Resources Coordinator Conditions 1. An escrow in the amount of $62,815 will be due with the final plat for erosion and sediment control. 2. There is significant evidence of gully erosion at both off-site discharge locations. Rates must be reduced below existing discharge rates or efforts must be taken to stabilize these discharge points to prevent further channel incision and head cutting. 3. Wetland buffers are required around all wetlands on site. Extend buffer around wetland E. 4. Before permits are issued for any lot adjacent to a wetland, the developer shall install wetland buffer signs as shown on sheet L1 Landscape Plan / Planting Plan. A $750.00 security will be required at time of final plat. 5. Minnesota Department of Transportation right-of-way is outside of the City of Chanhassen’s WCA jurisdiction as MnDOT is their own LGU. Chanhassen’s review of wetland boundaries ended at the property limits. The applicant must get all appropriate approvals from MnDOT for work on the sound wall. 6. The development must comply with the MN Rules Chapter 6120 and the DNR must issue their concurrence to this effect. 7. Estimated Surface Water Management Connection charges due at the time of final plat are $69,983.50. Provide area of wetland buffer and preservation/volume reduction area after development to accurately calculate credit. 8. The land owner and the selected contractor must provide a Landowner Statement and Contractor Responsibility for Work in Wetlands or Public Waters form to the City prior to working on the road crossing into the site. This form is available on the Board of Soil and Water Resources website. 18 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 9. Signs shall be placed along the preservation area to protect the area from encroachment after build out, as shown on sheet L-1, prior to any permits being issued for any lot. 10. Seeded areas within the outlots shall be established and managed according to guidelines and policies developed by the Minnesota Board of Soil and Water Resources as are available on their website. 11. The applicant shall comply with all MnDOT requirements for any work within their right-of-way, i.e. noise wall, landscaping, etc. 12. Before the final plat is recorded the DNR must approve the wetland vegetation management plan. 13. Outlots A and B shall be deeded to the city. Park and Recreation Conditions 1. Fifty-percent (50%) of park fees shall be collected in consideration for the dedication of Outlots A and B. The park fees shall be collected in full at the rate in force upon final plat submission and approval. At today’s rate these fees would total $46,400 (16 lots X $5,800 per lot/2). southeast 2. Construction of the 8-foot wide neighborhood trail connection from the public street to the corner of the property at connection point to existing trail. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. Councilman Laufenburger moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded that the Chanhassen City Council approves the development contract, drainage and utility easement, trail easement and construction plans and specifications for Preserve at Rice Lake conditioned upon the applicant supplying the City with a cash escrow or letter of credit for $1,113,979.19 and pay a cash fee of $183,479.13. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. Mayor Furlong: Thank you everybody again. Thank you for all involved for working together to get this done. That completes our items of new business this evening. COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS. Mayor Furlong: Any council presentations this evening? I’ve got a couple things coming up this coming Saturday I believe is the Tour de Tonka, if I’m not mistaken and there are signs around town, along some of the roads. You’ve probably seen them as you’re driving along. That’s a major, major event that’s put on by the Minnetonka Continuing Education organization and just hundreds of participants and so we look forward to sharing our roads with them. As was mentioned earlier tonight, National Night Out is a th week from tomorrow on August 5 and I believe in talking with Ms. Hoiseth we have close to 40 or just over 40 neighborhood parties again this year. Laurie Hokkanen: We are setting a record. Mayor Furlong: Oh. Laurie Hokkanen: As of today we have 51 parties. Mayor Furlong: 51 parties? That’s awesome. 19 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Laurie Hokkanen: And it’s not too late to sign up. Mayor Furlong: Okay and so how, if somebody’s interested in doing that Ms. Hokkanen can you give a quick update. Laurie Hokkanen: They should call Beth Hoiseth at 952-227-1610. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Laurie Hokkanen: We do have a deal where if you, if it’s your first time holding a party we’ll supply a party pack that includes hotdogs, chips, buns. Make it real easy for you and your neighbors to get together and I’m sure Beth will find a way to get a fire truck and a police car out there too. Mayor Furlong: Or a member of the posse or whomever… Laurie Hokkanen: Yes, something to make it exciting. Yeah. Mayor Furlong: Somebody will be there. Laurie Hokkanen: Yep. Yep. Mayor Furlong: Okay, that sounds wonderful. Great event. Great opportunity to meet your neighborhoods and get to know everyone and learn how to keep our cities safe. We are blessed to live in a very safe city and National Night Out is one of the reasons that we, one of the opportunities that we th have to keep it going that way. I mentioned Chanhassen Day at the Arboretum on August 8 so a lot of things coming up and the other thing I’ll just mention and as a comment and a thank you to all that were involved in the construction of the Pioneer Pass Park. There was the ribbon cutting or ribbon tearing party this last Saturday and I noticed, I saw Adam Beers here earlier but Mr. Hoffman is here as well with the Park and Rec. Luke Thunberg was involved from our Park and Rec Commission. Just a great event. I mean the average age with all the children there of the group gathered including myself included was probably about 7. I mean it was just, the number of little children was wonderful and I think the only person that I saw that had a bigger smile on their face than all the kids running around on the park was Mr. Hoffman who was watching all the kids running around on the park so it was just a great event. Mr. Laufenburger was there as well and just great to see a neighborhood come together and contribute to a park that’s going to benefit not only their families but families for years to come so thank you to everybody involved with that. We really appreciate all their efforts of the neighborhood. If there are no other council presentations, Mr. Gerhardt. Administrative presentations. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS. Todd Gerhardt: Just one item. I have a meeting this coming Wednesday with David Hughes who is the coordinator for Hennepin County and David is meeting with all the cities that have a portion of their communities in Hennepin County or all of their communities in Hennepin County and looking for ideas of collaboration and support and whatever he can do to help all our residents in Hennepin County is greatly appreciated so. Councilman Laufenburger: He represents those 3 really well. Todd Gerhardt: Yeah he does. Mayor Furlong: We have that many in Hennepin County? I don’t know. 20 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Todd Gerhardt: One of the things we kind of lean on. Mayor Furlong: We have businesses there certainly. Todd Gerhardt: Yeah and they have a great business development commission and we’ve had several conversations with them over the years so encourage him to continue to support that program and expand on it if they have the ability to so. Mayor Furlong: Good. Todd Gerhardt: And if there’s anything else that you can think of, don’t hesitate. I will also bring up future 101 expansion to the north of Highway 5. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Great, thank you for that update. Any questions for Mr. Gerhardt or his staff? CORRESPONDENCE DISCUSSION. Mayor Furlong: Mr. Oehme, since you’re here, I noticed that there was a staff report included in the packet relating to the neighborhood meeting and the update for the intersection of Dakota Avenue and Lake Drive. I know this was a work session item that we had and also some concerns brought up when we were working on the development, or the approval of the development across from McDonalds so maybe you can give the council a quick update on where that stands and what may or if anything may come forward later. th Paul Oehme: So yeah, thank you Mayor, City Council members. So on June, or yeah. July 16 staff visited with the neighbors of Dakota area. Dakota Avenue area and 19 residents, property owners showed up to that meeting and this, as the Mayor indicated, stems from the redevelopment proposal for the Sinclair gas station just to the west of McDonalds off of Dakota and Lake Drive so the property owners are concerned with the operation. How that intersection functions. There’s some, they feel there’s some people that run the red lights or the stop lights there and speeds are concerning and just some confusion at that intersection they’re concerned with. With a new development coming in there how that intersection would operate so staff did meet with these residents actually Carver County Police Department also showed up as well too so we had a general discussion on enforcement as well so I think the meeting turned out very well. We did come to some findings and implementation of a couple of things. One, we’re going to re-stripe that intersection. Actually last week we re-striped the intersection for turn lanes and stop bars and those type of things and that should be completed last week. There is earlier in the year staff did, the street department did remove some trees along the corridor, along Lake Drive and the property owners felt that was not enough so we’re looking at removing some additional trees at the intersection specifically to get some better sight distances as well. Sight lines and then third, Carver County Sheriff’s Department said they’d monitor that intersection a little bit more for violators of running the stop light in that general vicinity too so those are the three outcomes that we felt were you know positive for everybody. So those are, we’re implementing those right now. In the future we might, that road is up for improvements in the near future with a mill and overlay so at that time we’re looking at different options of pedestrian movements and crosswalks and those type of things so those are something that we’re going to be looking at in the near future when that road comes up for improvement. Mayor Furlong: Just some quick follow up questions. What’s the timing of the improvements to Dakota and Lake Drive intersection? Paul Oehme: So the striping’s already been done. 21 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Mayor Furlong: Right. Paul Oehme: And the trees, I think that’s programmed for the next week or two. We’re going to try to get out there and remove those trees. Mayor Furlong: And I think it’s already been an improvement so I think getting some more out of there would certainly help. Paul Oehme: Right. Exactly. So and then third, I think the overlay project is a year or two out. We want to make sure that the development’s in there before we redo that intersection or make some improvements to that pavement just so the construction traffic’s not beating up the new pavement so, once the development’s in there then we’ll get in there and propose an improvement project for that intersection in the next couple years like I said. Mayor Furlong: Okay. So at this point you think that, is there anything that’s going to be coming back to the council? I think the last we dealt with this was a work session. Paul Oehme: Right. Mayor Furlong: But at this point it doesn’t sound like there’s anything that requires council action. Paul Oehme: Correct. Yeah at this time there’s no capital improvements that we’re looking at. There’s no changes to the operational function of the intersection right now so I think the, we told the residents that we’re going to be monitoring these improvements and see if, how they’re working. You know if something does change or if we think that some improvement can be made that’s supportive of the council and the residents you know we’ll bring that back before the council but at this time we don’t have anything action wise to bring before the council. Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Any comments or questions on this item? Mr. Laufenburger. Councilman Laufenburger: Yeah, thank you Mr. Mayor. Paul, wasn’t there discussion about extending the existing median to the south to meet up with the intersection. Will that be done consistent with the development of that corner? Is that correct? Paul Oehme: Well it’s not in conjunction with the development. It would be proposed with our overlay project or the preservation project we’re proposing in the future. It’s not necessary for the development to move forward. Councilman Laufenburger: Okay, do no plans at this time to do that in the immediate future within this summer for example? Paul Oehme: Correct. And that really can’t go forward until the development is in place because the gas station needs that access off of Dakota to function so. Councilman Laufenburger: Gotch ya. Thanks Paul. Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any other comments on this or any other items in the correspondence packet? If there’s nothing else to come before the council, we will meet and finish up our work session items in the conference room. Our unfinished business for work session tonight but if there’s nothing else to come before the council this evening is there a motion to adjourn? 22 Chanhassen City Council – July 28, 2014 Councilwoman Ernst moved, Councilman McDonald seconded to adjourn the meeting. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0. The City Council meeting was adjourned at 7:55 p.m. Submitted by Todd Gerhardt City Manager Prepared by Nann Opheim 23