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5a. Carver Beach Park Neighborhood Meeting CITY OF CHANlIASSEN 7700 Market Boulevard PO Box 147 Chanhassen, MN 55317 Administration Phone: 952.2271100 Fax: 952.227 1110 Building Inspections Phone: 952.227 1180 Fax 952.2271190 Engineering Phone: 952.227 1160 Fax: 952.2271170 Finance Phone 952.227 1140 Fax: 952.227 1110 Park & Recreation Phone: 952.2271120 Fax: 952.227 1110 Recreation Center 2310 Coulter Boulevard Phone 952.227 1400 Fax 952.227 1404 Planning & Natural Resources Phone 952.227 1130 Fax 952.227 1110 Public Works 1591 Park Road Phone 952.227 1300 Fax: 952.2271310 Senior Center Phone 952.227 1125 Fax 952.227 1110 Web Site www.ci.chanhassen.mn.us .5tL - MEMORANDUM TO: Park and Recreation Commission 1/ FROM: Todd Hoffman, Park and Recreation DIrector DA TE: July 14, 2006 SUBJ: Carver Beach Park Neighborhood Meeting On July 6, Commission Chair Glenn Stolar and I met with approximately 15 residents from the Carver Beach Neighborhood. This get together was in response to a visitor presentation by one of the neIghbors at the June Ith City Council meeting. We met neighbors at the park at 6:00 p.m., wrappmg things up around 8:00 p.m. The group genuinely appreciated the opportumty to meet WIth representatives from the City. During the first half of the meeting we utilized a round robin approach to hearing everybody's ideas and concerns. The second hour was invested in taking a walking tour of the park and trails. A couple dozen issues, mostly related to maintenance duties, were identified at the meeting (see attached lIst). I will work with the appropriate parties in resolving these items. The group also expressed some concern over the presence of the private buoys blocking access to the lake located across from Carver Beach. They wondered if these were permitted and what the lake would look like if everybody started to border off their own "private" section of water. They would like to see the buoys removed. Concern over the heavy infestation of milfoil on the lake was also voiced. The majority of the group did not favor planting of the boulevard trees staked for installation earlier this spring. I informed them that the City would no longer be pursuing the planting of these trees. ATTACHMENTS 1. 2. Work List Memo dated June 9, 2006 to Todd Gerhardt Describing Proposed Tree Plantings June 12,2006 City Council Minutes - Gunderson Visitor Presentation Copy of Neighborhood Meeting Notification Card 3. 4. The City of Chanhassen . A growing community with clean lakes, quality schools, a charming downtown, thriving businesses, winding trails, and beautiful parks A great place to live, work, and play. G'\park\th\carver beach commission report.doc CARVER BEACH PARK WORK LIST - JULY 2006 Main Beach . Install signage for a handicapped stall in parking lot - Dale . Construct new enclosure for portable restroom - Dale . Restore turf areas throughout park - Dale . Provide additional refuse container or service more frequently - Dale . Place wood chips or aggregate on the first 75-feet of trail leading north from main beach - Dale . Provide general sprucing up - Dale Trail between Beaches . Complete trash and litter clean up of entire hillside and into the water - three tIres are floating in one location - Dale . Investigate fort constructed by young adults for possible drug activity - Todd with Ross G. . Clean out sediment at the outlet of street culvert - Paul . Send neighborhood notice reminding people not to dispose of yard waste by throwing it over the hill onto City property - Todd . Mow street boulevard of Lotus Trail (some areas have tall weeds) - Dale . Clean up traIl alIgnment, erosion, downed trees, etc. - Dale Small Beach Area . Remove "leaning" willow located in front of memorial bench next to the mini- beach. Install boulders to avoid erosIon after removal - Dale . Restore turf areas - install larger boulders to block off road vehicles - Dale . Deliver addItional beach sand - Dale . Clear back "green creep" on south side of beach - Dale . Re-work parking signage to allow for two cars and one additional handicap stall - Dale . Install additional street curbing to direct water away from beach - Paul . Clean out sedIment catch basin at end of Napa Drive - Paul . Install "permanent" picnic table - Todd/Paul . Investigate hillside trail - Todd CITY OF CHANHASSEN 7700 Market Boulevard PO Box 147 Chanhassen, MN 55317 Administration Phone: 952.227 1100 Fax 952.227 1110 Building Inspections Phone: 952.2271180 Fax 952.2271190 Engineering Phone 952.2271160 Fax 952.227 1170 Finance Phone 952.2271140 Fax 952.2271110 Park & Recreation Phone 952.2271120 Fax 952.2271110 Recreation Center 2310 Coulter Boulevard Phone 952.2271400 Fax 952.2271404 Planning & Natura I Resources Phone 952.2271130 Fax 952.227 1110 Public Works 1591 Park Road Phone 952.227 1300 Fax 952.2271310 Senior Center Phone 952.227 1125 Fax 952.2271110 Web Site www.ci.chanhassen.mn.us MEMORANDUM p':/ TO: FROM: DATE: June 9, 2006 ~ h:;;i[, A few weeks ago Jill Sinclair, Environmental Resources Specialist, Dale Gregory, ~ Park Superintendent, and I visited two locations in Chanhassen to stake locations for new trees to be planted. One of the locations was the north end of Carver Beach Park. At this location we staked locations for five new trees, three to the south of Napa Drive and two north of Napa Drive. This area of the park is characterized by a narrow strip of parkland on the shore of Lotus Lake with residential homes being situated across the street. The parkland at this location also serves as the boulevard for Lotus TraIl. This boulevard is maintained with a vegetation buffer along the lake and mowed turf grasses along the street. SUBJ: Boulevard Tree Planting, Carver Beach Park The section of city boulevard south of Napa Drive is uncharacteristically VOId of trees. There is 175 feet of space between two existing trees on the park property at thIS location, a mature ash tree to the south and a mature willow tree to the north. As a means of beautifying this park boulevard and to provide additional stabilization for the soils on the shore of Lotus Lake, three boulevard trees will be planted at thIS location. The spacing between the new trees is 30 feet and 36 feet. The recommended spacing between new boulevard trees is 30 feet. The two end trees WIll be located 43 feet and 66 feet from the two existing trees at this location. The locations for the new trees were selected based on existing site conditions and the need to avoid an existing storm water sediment basin. The City has contracted with Hartman Nursery to plant the trees and we anticipate that they will be planted in the next few weeks. On the day we staked the tree locations we spoke with Mr. Keith Gunderson, one of the residents that lives across from the park. Mr. Gunderson did not voice any objections to the trees at that time, but later came to my office to inform me that his neighbors were not in favor of the trees being planted. Subsequently, Ms. Martha Nygren, Mr. Gunderson's neighbor, visited City Hall to voice her objection to the trees being planted. This week Ms. Cindy Anderson called to voice her objection to the trees being flanted and informed me that she would be joining Mr. Gunderson at the June 12 City Council Meeting. Ms. Anderson is also a neighbor to the Gunderson home. Mr. Gunderson informed Jill Sinclair that he is planning on making a presentation to the City Council about the trees at that meetmg. The City 01 Chanhassen . A growing community with clean lakes, quality schools, a charming downtown, thriving businesses, winding trails, and beautiful parks. A great place to live, work, and play. Todd Gerhardt Boulevard Tree Planting, Carver Beach Park June 9, 2006 Page 2 of 2 I have also spoken with two neighbors that reside north of Napa Drive about the two trees proposed to be located in that area. Ms. Marie Schroeder wanted to ensure that an access route to a garage located at the front of her property would be maintained. 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Lake Minnewashta Homeowners Association: Approval of a Fireworks Permit for July 4, 2006. h. Resolution #2006-39: Approval of 2005 Year End Closings and Transfers. 1. Resolution #2006-40: Adoption of Resolution Removing Properties from the Rural Service District. J. Expansion of Licensed Premises for Serving Beer & Wine, crs Coffee & Wine Bar, 600 Market Street, Suite 170. k. Approval of Quote: Tennis Court Resurfacing Project. 1. Resolution #2006-41: Longacres Drive Storm Pond Outlet Improvement and Lyman Boulevard Sewer Repair, City Project Nos. 06-08, 06-09: Approve Plans and SpeCIfications and Authorize Advertisement for Bids. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 4 to O. VISITOR PRESENT A TIONS: Keith Gunderson: This IS new business? Mayor Furlong: No sir. This is visitor presentations. Is there a particular item that you wanted to dISCUSS? Keith Gunderson: Yes. It's about the trees that Todd Hoffman has made a decision to plant on the north end of Lotus Lake. Mayor Furlong: Okay, this would be the time to do It. KeIth Gunderson: My name's Keith Gunderson. I live at 6661 Mohawk Dnve. I'm here tonight to talk about people affected by the decision that Todd Hoffman just made to plant trees in the parkland known as Carver Beach Park. Todd has 5 trees scheduled for planting on the north end of the park that runs parallel with this trail. Six homes are affected by this decision, and this is what I want to talk about tonight. The homes affected by this decision from north to south are Maureen Schroeder, Glen Grainer, Richard and Joan Wright, Martha Nygren, myself, Keith and Patricia Gunderson, Chris and Cindy Anderson. Here tonight we have a couple of the homeowners with us tonight. The Wright's and the Anderson's, along with myself. Martha's 93 and she doesn't get out much anymore. All these people have felt that, have told him that they 2 City Council Meeting - June 12,2006 don't want these trees for various reasons. One being that it will block some of the view of the lake. Conversations with Todd to these people started out with they had extra trees and in further conversations went to erosion problem. And then finally to just start beautifying the boulevard. As far as extra trees there is a need for these extra trees in other parts of the park and it would be wasted if they are planted where they're staked out now. There are places that need extra trees. I've got some pictures. I've got the writing on the back, if you want to take a look at them. It's got various erosion problems and placements on the large beach, which is at the south end of Lotus Trail right now. Carver Beach Park, and a small beach which is located on the north end of the park. As far as the erosion on the south end of the park is a large area that A TV's and the snowmobiles run up and down in the winter time. In fact several times about trying to contain that problem because they dig up the park and there's some serious erosion going on there, and these trees could be helpful in a couple of reasons here. One being.. . erosion and they would possibly block off some of the traffic that's going up and down the parkland area. As far as erosion goes, where Todd has got these trees staked out, they are boulders at the water's edge. Right now there's a 20 foot long grass buffer zone that's gOIng to be extended to 20 feet, and the road in front of us, Lotus Trail is paved with gutter work and catch basins WhICh 3 of them are located in front of my home. The grade in the road to the lake is only about 2%, so the erOSIOn and the runoff is not an issue. And the trees planted in this location would just be wasted. The last reason I will talk about is to beautify the area. How do you fight that? Everybody wants to look at a beautiful park. We just got this in the mail the other day and I'm sure everybody saw this. Well this is Carver Beach Park. If the trees get planted where they're staked out this time, it's going to block some of that view. Let's talk about the view. Bottom line is the view of the lake. That's what's beautiful. People driving by on the north end of Lotus Trail actually slow down and look at the lake. If you start planting more trees here, some of that view is going to be blocked off. Back to beautifying the park, my wife and I walk the path from the small beach to the big beach twice daily. We clean up after our dogs, even if they defecate in the woods, you know because nobody wants to step in the stuff. Two weeks ago we pulled out 3 tIres that were in the lake and rolled them up to the garbage can at the small beach. And they're stIll there by the way Todd. We also, along wIth other homeowners, pick up the garbage up and down the path on a dally basis. As far as condition of the park, I have driven through some of the other parks in the city and if I had to rate Carver Beach Park, I guess on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd have to give it a 4. You're going to have to send out some people on the council here to take a look of this because there's erosion problems going on, and It could be solved very easily with planting some of the trees... On a personal note, when I built my house 10 years ago the CIty told me that I can only build my house so high because it would block the view of the houses behind me. Now the City's coming in and putting trees in front of me to block the VIew. It's, when the house was bUIlt, the assessor came in and went to the windows and wow, look at this view. And I said no, no. I said the house is what we're taxing here. And he says no. This IS your home. Part of the.. .to figure out the taxes that you pay, and the view is part of that formula. The homeowners that are affected by this decision to plant the trees that will block this view are being taxed for this view. It's a fact. That's how they come up with some ofthe formula. It's not fair and most of all it's just not right. So again the homeowners affected from north to south are Maureen Schroeder, 6600 Lotus Trail. Homeowner and taxpayer of 18 years. Glen Grainer, 6630 Lotus Trail. Homeowners and taxpayer 25 years. Richard and Joan Wright, 6650 Lotus Trail. Homeowners and taxpayer In this house, the land has been in the family for over 60 years. Martha Nygren, 6650 Lotus Trail. Homeowner, taxpayer, 23 years. Keith and Patricia 3 City Council Meeting - June 12,2006 Gunderson, 6661 Mohawk Drive. Homeowner, taxpayer of 21 years. Chris and Cindy Anderson, 6680 Lotus Trail. Homeowner, taxpayer, 10 years. These people have enjoyed this view for many years and it would be a crime to take it away. All these people agree that the parks belong to everybody but we also think with this many years we should have something to say as far as what's planted in front of our homes. We live on the northwest end of Lotus Lake and we see approximately 65 plus percent of this lake. These are the best views on this lake, and Todd wants to take that away from us. We have shown that there's better placements for these extra trees and the erosion is not a problem. As far as beautification, how can you improve on what we already have so. Mayor Furlong: Okay. Mr. Gunderson, I appreciate the comments. I'd like to try to keep moving along here. Keith Gunderson: Okay, that's all I've got. Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. KeIth Gunderson: Appreciate the time. Mayor Furlong: Nope, and thank you for coming. As is typical of visitor presentations, we're not going to make any decisions up here but I would like to at least this evening, would like to hear from Mr. Hoffman on his thoughts and maybe how we can address Mr. Gunderson's concerns. Todd Hoffman: Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of the council. I do have a diagram that, at least on the south side of the natural boulevard. This is Keith and Pat's home right in the center here. The Gunderson property. And then the natural boulevard is here so the 3 trees that we're taking a look at are located at this location, this location and this location. What you have is a boulevard parkway at this area, separated from the homes by Lotus Trail. There are 2 trees existing that have a distance about 175 feet between the 2 trees. They're mature ash at this location and then a mature willow at this location. So we're looking at putting 3 trees. One at 43 feet and 36 feet between those. 30 feet between these 2 trees and then a 66 foot distance. So we have an area that's uncharacteristically void of trees. We're simply putting 3 trees to beautify the area. Not intentionally taking anybody's view away and this would be typical of boulevard tree plantings anywhere in the city. In fact the typical spacing is about 30 feet between boulevard trees. Mayor Furlong: Where are the locations of those trees Mr. Hoffman? I'm sorry, could you put that schematic back up again? Todd Hoffman: Where are the locations? Mayor Furlong: I'm just trying to envision. One of the things that Mr. Gunderson talked about was his view, looking out over the lake and I guess not knowing the nature of the trees or the height of those trees, there may be a period of time when they do obscure or is there a way to achIeve what you're looking for without obstructing the views. Or minimize that obstruction. 4 City Council Meeting - June 12,2006 Todd Hoffman: Yeah, you're planting 3 trees on 175 foot opening. We have a storm water little retention pond here to avoid at this location. So they're just evenly spaced. They're about as evenly spaced as you can get in that area. It's really, we're not covering the area. Three trees in that location are going to grow up. They're going to be mature trees and yeah, you can't look through a tree in the summer. You look through it and see the tree in the winter, and we can certainly have views around those trees, underneath those trees throughout the other times of the year. Councilwoman Tjomhom: Todd, how come it's all empty there now? Why is it so open? As opposed to everywhere else. Keith Gunderson: It's always been that way. Todd Hoffman: Yeah, it's been maintained that way for a number of years. In 1996 we initiated an area of natural shoreline buffer to protect the water, Lotus Lake, protect the waters of Lotus Lake and protect that shoreline. That area after, well it's 1996 so 10 years should be actually volunteering trees but there's not a lot of trees coming up in that area but it's just, it's been maintained that way for over time. Audience: It's also the old boat ramp. Councilwoman Tjornhom: It was mowed? Todd Hoffman: Yeah, about half of the area is mowed. The boulevard's probably 30 feet wide. About approximately half of it's mowed and half is not. Councilwoman Tjornhom: Okay. Mayor Furlong: Any thoughts or comments? I guess my, from the council. Councilwoman Tjornhom: Well this is the first time I've ever heard people not wanting trees. This is a new one for me. Usually people are wanting to have trees planted and saved so this is a unique situation I think. It's a new situation for me so I think I'd like some more time to think about it and figure it out. Todd Gerhardt: Mayor, our past practIce in visitor presentations like this is for staff to meet with Mr. Gunderson. Sit down. Talk about alternatives of where we might be able to place these trees in that area. Work with him. Typically if we can't come to conclusion on that, we bring It back to council for another presentation so, in the next couple weeks staff will sit down with Mr. Gunderson and see what we can work out and appreciate his comments and coming in and giving us his thoughts on this. Mayor Furlong: I think that makes a lot of sense. So I do appreciate you raising it to the council's attention. 5 City Council Meeting - June 12,2006 Keith Gunderson: Thank you for your time. Mayor Furlong: Certainly. You're very welcome. We're still in visitor presentations, If anybody else would like to address the council. Don Sinniger: Good evening Mr. Mayor, City Council. My name is Don Sinniger and I live at 600 Lyman Boulevard and I'm here this evening to listen to a healthy discussion about the regional trail that's proposed to go through my front yard. Or the right-of-way into my front yard, and that's what I'm here for. Mayor Furlong: Okay. And I know you sent an e-mail out and I know the city staff has met with you as well. When you talk about a discussion, it's not on our agenda this evening. That's part of the 212 project so if there's, I mean Mr. Gerhardt you can just kind of give the rest of the council and other watching a little bit of background to where we are on that. I think there's still some open questions that they're working on to try to address some of your concerns. And even though from a proximity standpomt, it's near Southwest Village which we will be talking about, that it's not part of that discussion item. So Mr. Gerhardt. Todd Gerhardt: Yeah, the trail that we're talking about runs on the north side of Lyman Boulevard. There's an existing trail that runs on the south side of Lyman from the intersectIOn of 101 and Lyman Boulevard. The proposed trail that would be constructed in this area is a part of the 212 improvements. So the plans that you'll see tonight with the Southwest Village is that those improvements that would be done with the 312 improvements. We've met wIth the residents in that area. Todd Hoffman, Paul Oehme and myself to talk about several options that might be out there to try to accommodate the construction of the trail through this area. Paul Oehme, our City Engineer in the past probably 2 weeks since we've met has been having discussions with MnDot to see what other methods could we build in this area. Maybe shorten up the turn lane and doing that we potentially could save all the oak trees in that area. Paul, do you want to talk a little bit more about that? Paul Oehme: Sure. Todd Gerhardt: Tell us about your discussions with MnDot. Paul Oehme: Sure. Yeah, I've been talking with the project manager of the 212 project and our conversations have been very constructive, I would characterize it as. We have talked about narrowing the turn lane down approximately, or shortemng the turn lane down for the Southwest Metro park and ride facility approximately 80 feet. That would allow us to move the turn lane and some of the taper off of Mr., Don's property and also another improvement that we had talked about internally was the park director and with MnDot was to narrow the trail down from the proposed 12 foot wide trail down to a 10 foot wide trail and push the trail onto the back of the curb of Lyman Boulevard so that there would not be any grass area between the trail and the roadway. That would allow us to decrease the amount of disruption in the right-of-way in front of their properties, which would help, and we think we can save those trees at that point in time so. So that's where we're at today. MnDot is currently reviewing that, those options but 6 City Council Meeting - June 12,2006 everything that we've discussed and they've looked at that to date, are very positive. It seems like we should be able to address some of the residents concerns there. Todd Gerhardt: Paul, do you think we can get a concept of that and draw it up for him and propose that to him and see what, you know you always have to see it on paper and sit down with you again and show you how it would layout. How we would save those oak trees and see what the ultimate plan would be for you then. Don Sinniger: Yeah, and I don't know if you're aware of this but the trees have been marked for removal right now and so we're concerned because we're coming up on the July start day and so. Todd Gerhardt: Yeah, it'd probably be good when we meet is that we bring in a MnDot representative to gIve you that assurance that those trees will be saved. Don Sinniger: Okay. Todd Gerhardt: And show you the alignment. Don Sinniger: Okay, that'd be great. Thank you. Councilman Lundquist: Mr. Mayor? Mayor Furlong: Sir. Councilman Lundquist. Councilman Lundquist: On that particular issue on the trail, some questions I think as Mr. Sinniger and his wife brought up and things, and being that we have a start date of 3 weeks away from now, proposed date, I think, it's an issue that I'd like to have some discussion on. If you prefer not to do it tonight on that, but as we can do that 2 weeks from now. Agenda item or something like that. Want to, have some questions and concerns about that trail and whether or not it's premature or timely or will it really service a need that we have there or understand that it's there for future development and things like that but, I think that there's some discussion that we should have. Or that I'd like to have on that so leave it up to your dIscretion as to whether we do that tonight or in 2 weeks. Mayor Furlong: Yeah, I guess given that staff has had conversations with MnDot and they don't have the answers back, it would be prudent here this evening, we might we wasting time when we might have some answers relatively soon so. Understand you've got some, you know based on what you just said, there might be some questions but I'd encourage them to keep working with it and maybe you can. Todd Gerhardt: Well, let us continue to meet with the homeowners in that area and see you know how things progress from there and if we're still at an impasse, we'll bring it back for council's consideration of what maybe next steps might be. Councilman Lundquist: Before we start cutting sod and trees? 7 City Council Meeting - June 12, 2006 Todd Gerhardt: Yep. No, we'll try to get it done this week and we'd have to put it right back on for our next meetmg by June is my guess. Councilman Lundquist: Yeah. Todd, you and I have had discussions so. Todd Gerhardt: Yep. Mayor Furlong: Hopefully they're aware of it and they can be incorporating that in their discussions too so that's probably the most efficient way to get something done within a timeframe. Don Sinniger: Well we would appreciate that and obviously our first choice is not to have the trail but we're certamly trymg to change somethmg here so. Mayor Furlong: And let's see what we can work out and that's the whole goal and these are the people that are going to be doing that so. Good. Thank you. Don Sinmger: Alright. Mayor Furlong: Anybody else on visitor presentations this evening? Very good. PUBLIC HEARING: 2006 STREET & PARK IMPROVEMENT PROJECT 06-01: A. HOLD ASSESSMENT HEARING AND ADOPT ASSESSMENT ROLL. B. AWARD OF CONTRACT. Paul Oehme: Thank you Mayor, City Council members. Staff is requesting that the CIty Council hold a public hearing tonight and consider the resolution adopting the 2005 street improvements assessment roll for the Chan Hills improvements. As council may recall on September 26th of last year the council authorized preparation of the feasibilIty study, and then on April 10th of this year council adopted resolution removing the Koehnen and Yosemite street improvement project area from this project. We hope to bring that back to the council in the future. Staff has held two neighborhood meetings. A public hearing and has opened bids on the project now and the second neighborhood meetmg that we had was just recently held on May 24th. The assessment amounts that are in your packet were based upon the bids that have been received. For the assessment hearing tonight, prior to the completion of the hearing, any property owners WIshing to object to the assessment must file a written objection or they waive their rights to the appeal. Objections after the public hearing are invalid. The CIty Council should approve of the resolution that's on, adopting assessment rolls either as submitted or as revised. Staff has not received any written objections for the assessments for this project to date. 170 notices were sent out for this public hearing. Now the project, If I can just run through that real quick here is, the Chanhassen Hills resurfacing, which is mainly a mill and overlay and intermediate improvements to the area. The project area includes Lake Susan Drive, Mary Jane Circle, Lake Susan Court, Lyman Court, Chanhassen Hills Drive North, Barbara Court, Chanhassen Hills Drive South. Proposed assessments proposed for improvements include repairing several damaged pavement areas. Milling and overlay the streets. These streets are recommended for rehabilitation by the pavement management program. Several street segments 8 CARVER BEACH PARK (LAKESIDE) NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING Thursday, July 6, 2006 at 6:00 p.m. Meet at the smaller of the two beach locations On Thursday evening, July 6th Park and Recreation Commission Chair Glenn Stolar and Park and Recreation Director Todd Hoffman will meet with interested residents to discuss a proposed tree planting project and any other issues regarding the operation of Carver Beach Park. You can contact Mr. Stolar at 952-474-7671 and Mr. Hoffman at 952-227-1129 prior to the meeting.