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CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
Mayor Laufenburger called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. The meeting was opened
with the Pledge to the Flag.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT:
Mayor Laufenburger, Councilman McDonald,
Councilwoman Tjornhom, Councilwoman Ryan, and Councilman Campion
STAFF PRESENT:
Todd Gerhardt, Chelsea Petersen, Paul Oehme, Kate Aanenson, Todd
Hoffman, and Roger Knutson
Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you and welcome to this council meeting. Those of you that are
present here in the chambers as well as those of you that are watching on either Mediacom cable
at home or live streaming through our City website. We’re delighted to have you all with us
tonight and also I’m pleased to report that we have a full compliment of council members.
Everybody is present tonight and I would like to say first of all is there any council members, are
there any modifications to the agenda? If not we will proceed with the agenda as it is printed.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mayor Laufenburger: I’m going to begin with recognition of a couple citizens so I’m going to
step out in front for this. I’m going to ask that David Boorsma and his wife Marilyn, is that
right? And Jim Bledsaw and his wife Lynn come here and just join me right on both sides if you
don’t mind. David right here. And Jim right here. Tonight’s recognition is about Chanhassen’s
Farmers Market. On behalf of the City Council and the entire community I would like to
recognize Jim Bledsaw and David Boorsma and of course their strong supporters Marilyn and
Lynn for their years of service coordinating the Chanhassen Farmers Market. Mr. Bledsaw and
Mr. Boorsma opened the market in 2004 after receiving unanimous support from the Park and
Recreation Commission and the City Council. And through the course of the next 12 years Jim
and David grew the market every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. from early June through
the end of October. The market features fresh produce, fruits, breads, honey, flowers, canned
goods and much, much more. Jim and Dave we want to recognize you both and your families
for your extraordinary service to this community and I saw on behalf of the entire community
thank you but before you clap I just want to present you both with a certificate. Make sure I get
this right. Jim this is your’s. Certificate of Recognition. Congratulations.
Jim Bledsaw: Thank you very much.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright. And David, this is your’s. I wish you congratulations as well.
Now we can clap for David and Jim. …for your support of your husband and Lynn the same
with you as well and I’m pleased to announce that this market will continue. The seed which
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was planted by David and Jim and has grown and grown and now that seed will be cultivated by
Jackie Coulter. She will take over. Jackie will…so the people at home can see you. Jackie has
been a faithful participant in the Farmers Market for many years and she’s agreed to take over
the responsibility of coordinating and I just hope that as it has grown for the last 12 years, I know
it will continue to grow so from the community David, Marilyn, Jim and Lynn and now you
Jackie, let’s keep it going. Keep it growing as they said. Alright, congratulations. The next item
on our agenda is an invitation to an Act on Alzheimer’s community meeting. Chanhassen has
been designated an Act on Alzheimer’s city and Alzheimer’s and dementia are increasingly
impacting more and more people in our population, as our population ages. The number of
Carver County residents over 65 is expected to quadruple to 25,000 by 2030. Fortunately we as
a community are working together with Carver County to make Chanhassen a welcoming and a
safe place for those with Alzheimer’s or dementia. I want to encourage members of this
community and surrounding community as well who are interested in Alzheimer’s and dementia
or who have been personally touched by the diseases to attend our community meeting on March
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2. That’s Thursday evening March 2, 2017 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 at the Chanhassen
Recreation Center. We will be sharing community assessment findings and unveiling the steps
that we will take as a community to make Chanhassen’s Alzheimer’s and dementia friendly.
Whether you are concerned about the ability of our aging population to continue to live and
socialize in our community or if you are the care giver of a parent with dementia the meeting will
certainly be beneficial to you. I’ll have an opportunity to speak at that meeting as well and I
think that I certainly applaud the Act on Alzheimer's committee that is made up of community
citizens as well as county citizens so I would encourage all of you that would have an interest to
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attend, that’s this Thursday evening, March 2 from 6:00 to 7:30 at the Chanhassen Recreation
Center.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilman Campion seconded to
approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s
recommendations:
1. Approve City Council Minutes dated January 23, 2017
2. Approve City Council Work Session Minutes dated February 13, 2017
3. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated January 24, 2017
4. Receive Planning Commission Minutes dated February 7, 2017
5. Approve 2017/2018 Lake Ann Beach Lifeguard Contract
Resolution #2017-13:
6. Lake Susan Hills Rehabilitation Project 17-01: Call Assessment
Hearing
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Resolution #2017-14:
7. Park Road/Park Place Street Rehabilitation Project 16-04:
Authorize Preparation of Addendum to the Feasibility Study
8. Approval of Massage License for Spalon Montage
9. Approve City Code Amendments for Publication of Summary Ordinance:
a. Chemical Toilets at Special Events
b. Limits on Maximum Cul-de-Sac Length
c. Hardcover on Flag Lots
d. Multiple Buildings as a Conditional Use
e. Reclassification of Streets
f. Update Sections Referencing Temporary Events
g. New Regulations for Special Events
10. Approve ESRI Software Agreement with Carver County
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS.
None.
FIRE DEPARTMENT/LAW ENFORCEMENT UPDATE.
Mayor Laufenburger: Chief Johnson, you ready for your update here tonight?
Chief Don Johnson: Good evening Mayor and council. This will be the report for January of
2017. Staffing is at 39 of 45 firefighters. We have 2 firefighters on medical leave. We have set
the dates for our hiring for this year. We are actively recruiting and you’ll see signs all over. We
are using social media and this month I’ve sent out a letter actually to do some west end
recruiting for that west station in the utility building so we’re hoping to garner quite a bit of
applications out of that. We are needing some help so. We’re going to close applications on
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April 7 and have an informative meeting night with those applicants and their families on April
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11 so that’s moving forward now. In January we responded to 55 calls for service. 6 of those
were responded to on duty crew nights when crews were scheduled. We had one structure fire
on Saddlebrook Trail. 26 EMS calls with 7 of those being motor vehicle accidents with injuries.
Training consisted of EMS training. All of our OSHA requirement training, hazardous materials
mandated training and SCBA training. I am happy to say that we are fully using target solution
so one of the things that we’ve done with software this go around is a lot of that training was
online learning and blended learning so firefighters got to spend a lot more time at home doing
what they had to do on the computer and getting through our training topics without having to
actually be at the station. Probably 3 of those nights that we would have actually been at the
station. County wide we had other activities. We had a county wide action, after action review
of the Lake Waconia water rescue which was pretty helpful for the sheriff’s office to meet with
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all of us and we all garnered a lot of information back and forth about how that worked out and
one of the reasons that was significant is there were several public safety agencies involved in
that with both police, fire, dive teams, the fire services from around the areas so kind of getting
together and understanding how those services were used and supporting a duration of an
operational period that lasted more than you know an hour of what we’re normally used to doing
so we learned a lot of valuable information from that after action review.
Mayor Laufenburger: Chief just a reminder. That was the individual who was on a paddleboard
is that correct?
Chief Don Johnson: Correct.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay.
Chief Don Johnson: Correct. The Assistant City Manager, Chelsea Petersen, Paul Oehme and
myself attended an Emergency Action Plan training hosted by Carver County Emergency
Management and conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers so we’re going to start getting
together and put an action plan for flooding. It was pretty helpful to get a workbook and work
through some of that so we can put an annex plan together if we ever need that. We know in
June of ’14 we had some issues with that here so we hopefully we won’t need it this year but
we’re working hard on a plan for the City. And then several fire department where we’re
actively working with dispatching to do some modifications to our Computer Aided Dispatch
which will add a lot of flexibility to how the fire departments are paged out from city to city so
we’ve been pretty interactive with a lot of meetings here at the county level for us this past
month. And then there’s a list of projects there as well for what we’re working on for building
inspections with some of the new projects so that’s my report. I can stand for questions.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright thank you Chief. Any questions for Chief Johnson? Comments.
Thank you Chief.
Chief Don Johnson: Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Lieutenant Kittelson, good evening.
Lt. Eric Kittelson: Good evening Mr. Mayor, council members. I have the monthly law
enforcement update for you. Monthly calls for service summary. We had 30 Group A crimes. 9
Group B crimes. 398 miscellaneous non-criminal crimes, or non-criminal calls. 623 traffic
stops. 57 administrative tasks for a total of 1,117 calls for service. Just a reminder as we
continue to learn and pilot this NIBRS project, just go over some of the highlighted Group A
offenses are arson, assault, burglary, drug violations, fraud, homicide, human trafficking, motor
vehicle theft, larceny theft and Group B offenses are bad checks, curfew, disorderly conduct,
DUI, liquor law violations, trespassing and other non-violent family offenses. So for arrest
citations and verbal warning summary we had 20 incidents resulting in 21 arrests and 38 criminal
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charges for those arrested. Citations we had 358 citations. The majority of those were 219
winter parking violations, 46 speed violations and 16 driving after suspension violations. We
also issued 310 verbal warnings. Training update, all of our staff currently received their annual
training on AIP which is our aerosol irritate projector or chemical irritant that we carry. Our
ASP which is our expandable baton and Taser which is our conducted energy weapon as well as
search warrants. Community relations update. I presented to the senior center Details with
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Deputies on January 9 and rather than a theme I just opened it up to general questions which
actually went the entire hour. I thought it would be shorter but they really enjoyed just kind of
talking about what was on their mind at the time and finding out what’s going on in the city so
we tried something different there. Sergeant Bruenig and I are on the Act on Alzheimer's
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committee and we met on January 10. Attended the Senior Commission on January 20.
Presented to Excelsior Elementary our presentation on the Truth About Drugs to the entire fifth
grade class there. We had 6 deputies and reserves as well as our on duty staff that attended
February Fest and then we recently attended the Heroes Mass for First Responders on February
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15 at St. Hubert’s. From the administrative update Sergeant Bruenig and I went to Campbell-
Knutson and met with the lead criminal prosecutor and legal assistant to review and train on
evidence storage and documentation in our records management system to streamline some of
the processes. And then Sergeant Puphal and I met with the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
folks and discussed some security procedures and after hours access for law enforcement and
first responders so that concludes my report and I’ll stand for questions.
Mayor Laufenburger: Quiet month huh.
Lt. Eric Kittelson: Yeah. Well we didn’t even talk about last week but it was pretty busy.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay.
Lt. Eric Kittelson: And it was some of those Group A crimes.
Mayor Laufenburger: I understand. Any questions or comments for Mr. Kittelson? Lieutenant.
Councilwoman Ryan: Mayor I have a comment. First I’d like to again thank you for coming to
Excelsior Elementary and speaking to the fifth grade class. They are still talking about it and
they are all promising never to do drugs.
Lt. Eric Kittelson: Good.
Councilwoman Ryan: So you had a very positive impact so thank you for doing that again. I
really appreciate it. And then I’d also like to, I’m glad Chief, Chief is still here because I wanted
to acknowledge both of you as well as St. Hubert’s. About a week and a half ago I had the honor
to represent council at St. Hubert’s Catholic School where they put together a week long local
heroes week and spent a week learning about the different local heroes that we have here in our
community and on Wednesday at their student mass they invited our police, our fire, local
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EMT’s and to come to mass and the Father gave a nice blessing. Called them all up to the alter
and gave them a nice blessing followed by a wonderful reception afterwards so I thought it was
just a wonderful event that St. Hubert’s did and I really appreciate you being there and you had a
lot of representation and I thought it was really important to recognize the incredible work that
you all do so I commend St. Hubert’s for putting the program together but I would like to second
their thanks and appreciation for the hard work that you as our local heroes do and I know Chief
I believe you’re going to St. Hubert’s tomorrow with a truck and the big rig and then they’re
going to be delivering notes of appreciation to City Hall to be distributed to the different fire
houses as well as to Carver County so again thank you for your service and all that you do for
our community. We really appreciate it.
Lt. Eric Kittelson: Thank you.
Councilwoman Ryan: Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Thank you Lieutenant.
Lt. Eric Kittelson: Thank you sir.
TWEET DENTAL, 7845 CENTURY BOULEVARD: APPROVE SITE PLAN TO
CONSTRUCT A 5,700 SQUARE FOOT DENTAL CLINIC ON APPROXIMATELY
TWO ACRES OF PROPERTY ZONED PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT (PUD).
APPLICANT: ROBERT CONRAD, RGR HOLDINGS, LLC.
Mayor Laufenburger: I bet we have a staff report. Is that you Ms. Aanenson?
Kate Aanenson: Yes we do, thank you Mayor, members of the City Council. This item
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appeared before the Planning Commission on their February 7 meeting and they voted 5-0 to
approve it. So this case is for a dental clinic and it’s located at 7845 Century Boulevard. The
applicant is RGR Holdings and Steve Slowey. This site has a little bit of a lengthy history.
There’s been a lot of uses been applied here. This is part of a PUD that we put in place under
underlying industrial zoning district and the purpose of the PUD was to allow some support
commercial such as a bank at the very southern end. We have the gas station there and where the
Holiday Inn was it was envisioned that there could potentially be a restaurant. As it turned out
there was a lot of interest in drive thru’s. Fast food or coffee shop but the turning movements
really didn’t work there very well so we’re really pleased to have this project come forward
which fits really well and is a good compliment to the site and that is a dental clinic. So this site
is about 2 acres in size and it’s the building itself is 5,700 square feet and it does have the
potential for adding on. So the architectural views here, it’s a very nice building. It meets all of
the city ordinances regarding architectural detail. Regarding the 50 percent façade or excuse me,
transparency on the façade and then maximum height of 21 feet on the top of the barrel. The one
thing that they’ve indicated to us, which we would consider a minor change depending on how
the bids come back, it might be more of a shed roof which we’re certainly comfortable with.
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Again just the single story. Again a nice presentation along Highway 5 and potential for the
expansion. You can see on here where the potential expansion area would be and the orientation.
This site was previously graded when the Holiday Inn went in and access to the Holiday Inn
would be a shared access. Just go back a slide here so this is a shared access for the Holiday Inn
would also be used by Tweet Dental and this would be the turning movement coming in and
that’s what we talked about before that would be a little bit tight. They’re coming off Highway 5
or some of the other uses that were anticipated there so they meet all the requirements for
parking and landscaping and the like. There’s some minor changes that had to be made but those
can all be accommodated with the site plan agreement. Again it was previously graded. They’re
managing their storm water pond and drainage. One of the things that they also are
contemplating is a continuation of the sidewalk that allows you to get from Life Time over to the
trail. That one foot trail that goes around this park. So again the landscaping plan. Just a couple
of minor changes that need to be made on that and with that we are recommending approval for
the site plan of the 5,700 square feet subject to the conditions of the staff report and I’d be happy
to answer any questions that you may have.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright thank you Ms. Aanenson. In just a moment I’m going to ask the
applicant to come forward but before I do that does the staff have any questions of, excuse me.
Does council have any questions of staff? Just one Kate. The parking which is currently
present, is the applicant using that parking in addition to their own parking to satisfy.
Kate Aanenson: They can. Yeah there’s cross access between this one so they can.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay so the parking is satisfactory.
Kate Aanenson: Correct.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright. Okay. Any other? Would the applicant like to come forward,
either representatives from RGR or Mr. Slowey? I just ask that you introduce yourself and your
address for the record.
Carl Robertson: Good morning Mayor, council. My name’s Carl Robertson, President of
Sjoquist Architects for the 2800 University Avenue in Minneapolis.
Mayor Laufenburger: Carl is that right?
Carl Robertson: Carl. I’ve been working with the Conrad’s on the design for this. I say there’s
still some tweaks to work out but we’re just you know moving on that you’ve seen pretty much
where we’re going with it. I think the presentation pretty much said it all. I’m here to just
answer any questions you might have.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Council any questions of the Conrads or Mr. Sjoquist?
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Kate Aanenson: I was just going to add they have an existing business in town so we’re excited
that they’re expanding and I think they shared with the Planning Commission so maybe they
might want to tell you a little bit about their business.
Mayor Laufenburger: Yeah that was noted in the Planning Commission. Mrs. Conrad if you
would like to address this.
Tori Conrad: Sure.
Mayor Laufenburger: It was noted that you’re actually in a business setting just on the north side
in that, whatever that’s called on the north side of 5 and you’ve kind of outgrown that space, is
that correct?
Tori Conrad: Correct, yes. Yes good evening. Thanks for having us. I’m Tori Conrad. I’m a
pediatric dentist for Tweet Pediatrics and we opened the practice 5 years ago. You’re right it is
part of the Century Plaza and so it’s right across the street behind the gas station. We have
currently 1,900 square feet and we are outgrowing it so we look forward to being a long term
part of the community and we serve a lot of the surrounding areas as well so we thank you for
your time and consideration and we’re excited to be a big part of the community.
Mayor Laufenburger: And you will be the west gateway to the dental community of Chanhassen
is that correct? I think so. Well we’re pleased that you’ve not only chose to bring your business
here. Did you say 5 years ago, is that correct?
Tori Conrad: Yes correct, from South Carolina.
Mayor Laufenburger: Wow. And you love the weather here is that right Tori?
Tori Conrad: Yes.
Mayor Laufenburger: Anyway we’re glad that you’ve decided to make your business home here
in Chanhassen. Do you have any other comments you’d like to make? Mr. Conrad.
Robert Conrad: No.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Alright. Alrighty. Well thank you very much.
Tori Conrad: Thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright let’s bring it back to council. Any questions or comments or
motion.
Councilwoman Ryan: Mayor I have a question.
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Mayor Laufenburger: Certainly.
Councilwoman Ryan: So are there two phases of the building? Is that my understanding or you
said for when you talked about expansion.
Carl Robertson: At the moment just one phase is planned. Just the clinic but there is enough
parking and the area is there so that if the practice continues to grow there’s talk about possibly
adding an orthodontic component to it and they’ll be expanding it to the south.
Councilwoman Ryan: Okay so the building or the drawings that we see here that’s.
Carl Robertson: That’s all that’s on the board for now.
Councilwoman Ryan: That’s okay.
Todd Gerhardt: Kate could you show the expansion area on the previous slide?
Kate Aanenson: Yep, so as planners and as a good architect always provides that opportunity
that they have a place to expand so this would be the area to expand right in here correct.
Carl Robertson: Correct.
Councilwoman Ryan: I got you okay.
Kate Aanenson: So that’s we’re hoping it grows well, yeah.
Mayor Laufenburger: Well the building looks quite attractive so I think it will fit in very well
there.
Councilwoman Ryan: And one last question Mayor.
Mayor Laufenburger: Go ahead.
Councilwoman Ryan: And so now with this structure in terms of runoff, I know that there’s that
big.
Kate Aanenson: They’re…capacity here.
Councilwoman Ryan: Okay so that’s where all the runoff will go there, okay. Okay nothing
further, thank you.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright. Any other questions, comments or motion?
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Councilman McDonald: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. McDonald.
Councilman McDonald: I would like to make the motion that the Chanhassen City Council
approves the site plan for a 5,700 foot, 5,700 square foot one story office building subject to the
conditions of approval and adopts the Findings of Fact.
Mayor Laufenburger: Very well. Is there a second?
Councilwoman Ryan: Second.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright we have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion?
Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Ryan seconded that the Chanhassen City
Council approve the site plan for a 5,700 square foot, one-story buildings, plans prepared
by Schultz Engineering and Site Design and Sjoquist Architects, Inc., dated 01/05/17,
subject to the following conditions and adoption of the Findings of Fact:
Building:
1. The building is required to have an automatic fire extinguishing system.
2. Building plans must be prepared and signed by design professionals licensed in the State
of Minnesota.
3. Any retaining walls over four feet high must be designed by a professional engineer and a
permit must be obtained prior to construction.
4. Drainage water collected from (any portion of) the building, or mechanical equipment
may not flow across a public walking surface (sidewalk).
5. Detailed occupancy related requirements will be addressed when complete building plans
are submitted.
6. The owner and/or their representative shall meet with the Inspections Division as soon as
possible to discuss plan review and permit procedures.
Environmental Resources:
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1. The applicant will need to maintain a prairie mix of native plants in order to meet the
landscaping requirements. If a transition to non-native, weedy plants occurs on the site,
the owner will need to restore the prairie.
2. Incorporate one additional reliable tree species as a substitute for some of the red maple.
3. A total of 3 overstory trees will be required to be planted along the south property line
along the existing parking spaces.
Engineering:
1. An access agreement with the adjacent property is required for the shared driveway on
the east side of the subject property.
2. A hydrant is required. The location of the fire hydrant must be approved by the Fire
Chief.
3. The existing 18” reinforced concrete storm sewer in the southwest corner of the property
must be removed or abandoned.
Planning:
1. The applicant shall enter into a site plan agreement prior to receiving a building permit.
2. A separate sign permit application, review and approval shall be required prior to site
sign installation.
Water Resources:
1. The applicant shall apply for and receive a General Permit Authorization to Discharge
Stormwater Associated with Construction Activity Under the National Pollution
Discharge Elimination/Site Disposal System (NPDES Construction Permit) prior to the
issuance of a building permit or any earth disturbing activities.
2. The plan submittal must also include a detail of the infiltration basin consistent with the
Minnesota Stormwater Manual prior to issuance of a building permit. This detail must
include any soils corrections, basin protections and planting plans and schedules in
addition to other necessary design elements.
3. After construction, the infiltration basin shall be tested by a third party for permeability to
ensure that it is functioning per the stormwater modeling submitted by the applicant. The
infiltration basin must pass the permeability testing prior to an issuance of a permanent
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certificate of occupancy. Or if agreed to by both parties, the City may confirm rates in-
house with their Modified Phillip-Dunn infiltrometer.
4. The applicant shall prepare an operations and maintenance manual specific to the
infiltration feature including anticipated inspection schedule, routine maintenance and
frequency of said maintenance and supply a copy to the City prior to issuance of a
building permit.
5. All erosion control shall be installed and inspected prior to initiation of site grading
activities.
6. The site plan must comply with Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek Watershed District,
RPBCWD, rules for erosion prevention and sediment control and storm water
management.
7. The applicant shall obtain permits from all appropriate regulatory agencies (e.g.,
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (for
dewatering), Riley-Purgatory-Bluff Creek watershed district, and comply with their
conditions of approval.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
Mayor Laufenburger: Congratulations Conrads, Mr. Sjoquist. Build it and they will come
because they’re coming right now. Alright thank you very kindly. Thank you Ms. Aanenson.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS.
None.
ADMINISTRATIVE PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Gerhardt, administrative presentations.
Todd Gerhardt: I just want to thank the Mayor, Paul Oehme for their efforts here in lobbying on
our 101 highway turn back project. Last week we met with Representative Torkelson to express
our views on the need for the 101 to be turned back to Carver County and today we met with
Senator Newman and expressed our concerns on the need for the turn back and both were very
receptive and Mr. Newman, Senator Newman was even going to travel down 101 on his home
today so I just want to thank them for their time and effort that they put forth on this project so
we’re moving ahead. We met with several people and our bills have been introduced.
Mayor Laufenburger: Good, thank you. Let me just make one comment before I ask for
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adjournment. Next Monday on March 6 I will be addressing the City of Chanhassen in what I
call the State of the City. Now in the past the mayor, not only me but even a previous mayor
addressed the city at various venues, whether it was Rotary or Buy Chanhassen. I decided that it
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was important to conduct the State of the City Address in cooperation with some business people
in the community and to do it at a time that is unencumbered by a noon time meal or an early
morning breakfast so if you’re interested in hearing my version of the State of the City and the
future of the City I certainly would welcome all Chanhassen residents, business owners, to join
me and you can get, learn more information about this at our City of Chanhassen website and/or
call the City Office, 952-227-1100. Tickets are free but space is limited so we ask that you
would simply reserve your spot. I look forward to seeing many of you there and we will also be
videotaping it and placing it on the City website for anybody who would like to see it in the
future. We have some exciting things that are happening inside Chanhassen and they impact the
future of this community and I think it’s important for the community to hear about that so State
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of the City next Monday night, March 6 beginning at 7:00. And with that I would say do we
have a motion to adjourn?
Councilwoman Ryan: So moved,
Mayor Laufenburger: Do I have a second?
Councilwoman Tjornhom: Second.
Mayor Laufenburger: Before I call for that vote, the City Council will be meeting in the
Fountain Conference Room following the City Council meeting to discuss the AUAR which was
asked for by the council earlier this year. Or last year for the new project at Lyman and Powers
so we’ll adjourn to the Fountain Conference Room.
Councilwoman Ryan moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom 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 7:35 p.m.
Submitted by Todd Gerhardt
City Manager
Prepared by Nann Opheim
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