CC Minutes 08-13-2012Chanhassen City Council – August 13, 2012
Mayor Furlong: Anyone else for visitor presentations this evening? Okay, let’s move on with the next
agenda item.
PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ON-SALE BEER & WINE LICENSE, KAI’S SUSHI &
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GRILL, 586 WEST 78 STREET.
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Laurie Hokkanen: Thank you. This proposal is for a new restaurant to be located on West 78 Street
with a menu featuring sushi, teriyaki and hibachi. Staff has conducted the required background checks
and there are no outstanding issues or negative comments. We did publish notice of the public hearing to
be held tonight and do recommend approval of the on-sale beer and wine license pending the receipt of
liquor liability insurance and the $410 fee.
Mayor Furlong: Okay, thank you. Any questions for staff? Any comments or questions from the
applicant? None necessarily, okay. Let me open up the public hearing then and invite all interested
parties to come forth and address the council with any comments. Alright, seeing none then we’ll close
the public hearing without objection and bring it to council for staff and comments. Thoughts and
comments. I will make a comment. I think it’s great another restaurant’s coming to town. Yeah, yeah.
This is, that’s wonderful. Congratulations to the owners and people that are going to be involved so wish
you every success. Would somebody like to make a motion?
Councilwoman Ernst: I will.
Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Ernst.
Councilwoman Ernst: I make a motion that we approve the request for an on-sale beer and wine license
for Kai’s Sushi Incorporated dba Kai’s Sushi & Grill contingent upon receipt of liquor liability insurance
and the license fee of $410.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second?
Councilman McDonald: I’ll second.
Mayor Furlong: Motion’s been made and seconded. Any discussion on the motion?
Councilman Laufenburger: I’m wondering when Kai’s open for business. Do we have any indication?
Mayor Furlong: When are you going to be open for business?
Laurie Hokkanen: October.
Mayor Furlong: Alright. Just in time for Octoberfest. Any other comments? Very good. Motion’s been
made and seconded.
Councilwoman Ernst moved, Councilman Laufenburger seconded that the City Council approves
the request for an on-sale beer and wine license from Kai’s Sushi, Inc. dba Kai’s Sushi & Grill
contingent upon receipt of liquor liability insurance and the license fee of $410. All voted in favor
and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
REQUEST TO AMEND THE FOLLOWING RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT
DEVELOPMENTS: CHANHASSEN HILLS, HIDDEN VALLEY (INCLUDING SUMMARY
ORDINANCE FOR PUBLICATION PURPOSES), NORTH BAY, SPRINGFIELD ADDITION,
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AUTUMN RIDGE, LYNMORE ADDITION, THE PRESERVE, TOWNHOMES AT CREEKSIDE
AND TROTTERS RIDGE.
Kate Aanenson: Thank you Mayor and members of City Council. We’ve abbreviated the presentation so
try to have a little bit less of the information, the detailed information on the lot sizes and the like. This
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neighborhood meeting was held on June 21 and we had approximately 30 people that attended. Again
notices for the website were available as well as information to help residents that were at the meeting
find the website through the computer access at the Rec Center. Again just to clarify some houses might
not meet the standards. Not our intent to bring everybody into compliance but clarifying what those
standards might be. Also in this process, not our intent to up-zone. In this rezoning tonight you will
actually see a commercial or institutional use in there. So again the Planning Commission held a public
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hearing on July 17 and it was unanimous to recommend these amendments so this is the northern area of
the town that we did so I’ll start with the first one which is Autumn Ridge. So the underlying zoning for
this will be R-8. So it’s mixed medium density and residential districts. Actually got the privilege of
going to a neighborhood National Night Out in the southern area of the city and to my surprise over half
the people in that area have been the original owners in that southern part and love it back there. So
there’s 14 twinhomes for 28 units, two 3-unit 6 units, seven fourplexes and a 6 unit and then nine 8 units
and those are all the ones beyond the twinhomes are towards the north of Coulter so again the R-8
accommodates all those different lot sizes within that development so recommending that as the
underlying zoning district. Chanhassen Hills is, we’re recommending the residential single family is
actually three different phases within that district, or subdivision. Again the minimum lot sizes there, the
minimum would be 11,000. Obviously there’s larger lots within there so again the 172 single family
detached and recommending that zoning district. Hidden Valley. There’s a disconnect here between
what’s on the ordinance. The ordinance actually says RSF and these lot sizes are a little bit smaller and
I’m not positive on whether it should be the R-4 or the RS because the ordinance is different than the
presentation and one of these was corrected today and I’m not sure which is the correct one so we do have
some coming forward and this might be one that we might want to just not act on. We’ll put it on the
next. I just want to make sure we get it right instead of amending it so I think we’d want to move this one
to your next, the final, if we can take that off. The Hidden Valley.
Mayor Furlong: Okay.
Kate Aanenson: And then this one also did include, because it is smaller lot size. It should be the R-4,
which is what’s on the slide but the ordinance refers to the RSF and I just want to make sure they are
reconciled. This one also has a church. Formerly the Lutheran church, now Methodist church there and
this one also is an office institutional so we did amend or recommending that one but again we’ll just hold
off on all of the Hidden Valley until we come back. The Lynmore Addition, Residential Single Family
would be the underlying zoning district for that PUD. Again there’s just 6 single family homes there and
they’re just under the 12,000. They’re larger lots so that’s what we’re recommending on that one. North
Bay, we have a couple different home sizes within that. Again we’re recommending the Residential Low
and Medium Density because there’s two different home sizes in there. So there’s 76 detached homes
and a beachlot with that. Again we’ve referenced the beachlot on there so anybody that’s doing a
transaction would know where to find that information on their recreational beachlot. The Preserve at
Bluff Creek. Again this is Residential Low and Medium density. Three different phases within that one
and there’s 93 single family detached. The minimum lot size in there is the 8,000. Again we spread that
hard surface over the common area which would be the bluff area. So again we’re recommending
Residential Low and Medium on that one. In the Springfield, a number of different additions there.
Again the underlying zoning district there would be RSF so there’s 135 single family detached units and
there are some lots that were limited to 2 car garage. The smaller lots maybe in the corners so the
minimum lot size there was 11,000. Again recommendation for that one. Townhomes at Creekside. R-8
which is smaller lot size. 25 townhomes. The smallest lot size is just under 2,000 square feet. And then
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Trotter’s Ridge. The underlying zoning district here would be Residential Single Family. There’s 49
single family homes in there. 11,000 and these are probably the most traditional. Some of the ones that
we’re showing you tonight the most traditional ones we’ve done in recent years under the PUD ordinance.
Minimum 11, average 15. So with that except for the Hidden Valley one we are recommending approval
on those. Also approving the Findings of Fact and Summary Ordinances for, the Hidden Valley one
we’re not going to move forward with so that was the only one that had a more elaborate summary
ordinance so with that I’d be happy to answer any questions that you have.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Any questions for staff?
Councilwoman Tjornhom: I just have one.
Mayor Furlong: Councilwoman Tjornhom.
Councilwoman Tjornhom: Kate, since we started this process have there been any problems or
complications with anything?
Kate Aanenson: No. Actually it’s, we’ve found it very helpful when we’re meeting with residents that
want to do additions or decks that we’ve got all the information right there and actually at some of the
neighborhood meetings we’ve been able to answer questions for people right there with the information
so I think it’s, no we haven’t had anybody that’s said they’ve been, we did have one other concern on the
Hidden Valley that a resident pointed out that we actually made an error before we went to the Planning
Commission as part of the open house so I think that’s all been a very positive process. Thank you.
Mayor Furlong: Any other questions for staff? Any comments or concerns or would somebody like to
make a motion?
Councilman Laufenburger: I’ll make a motion.
Mayor Furlong: Councilman Laufenburger.
Councilman Laufenburger: I move that the Chanhassen City Council approve the ordinances amending
the following Planned Unit Developments: Autumn Ridge, Chanhassen Hills, Lynmore Addition, North
Bay, The Preserve at Bluff Creek, Springfield and Summerfield 2nd, Townhomes at Creekside, Trotter’s
Ridge and adopts the Planning Commission Findings of Fact.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Is there a second?
Councilwoman Ernst: Second.
Mayor Furlong: Motion’s been made and seconded. Is there any reason to specifically table Hidden
Valley or just not acting on it we can bring it back?
Todd Gerhardt: Just not act on it.
Kate Aanenson: Yep. We’ll put it on with the next.
Mayor Furlong: That’s fine. That’s fine. Motion has been made and seconded. Any discussion on the
motion? Seeing none we’ll proceed with the vote.
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Councilman Laufenburger moved, Councilwoman Ernst seconded that the Chanhassen City
Council approve the ordinances amending the following Planned Unit Developments: Autumn
Ridge, Chanhassen Hills, Lynmore Addition, North Bay, The Preserve at Bluff Creek, Springfield
and Summerfield 2nd, Townhomes at Creekside, Trotter’s Ridge and adopts the Planning
Commission Findings of Fact. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of
5 to 0.
Mayor Furlong: Thank you. Again we appreciate you getting these, there’s a lot of work behind the
scenes even though this might go fast here, I know there’s a lot of staff time that’s been involved. A lot
of communication with residents. The Planning Commission’s been involved so we appreciate all the
efforts.
COUNCIL PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Furlong: Any staff presentations? National Night Out I think was last week.
Todd Gerhardt: Yes.
Mayor Furlong: Was it not? I think we had some people attend there. I was out of town but any
comments or thoughts on National Night Out from those that attended.
Councilman McDonald: It went very well from our standpoint except I think next year you need to plan
the fire department with kids. They were quite disappointed to pull up with all their fire trucks and
everything and no kids to climb all over it but.
Mayor Furlong: Neighborhoods with many children, yes.
Councilman McDonald: Yes, neighborhoods with many children would be great. We traveled mainly the
senior route and they didn’t want to be climbing on trucks so but no, it went very well. But no it went
very well. Everybody was very happy to see us. We got a lot of positive comments about what’s going
on in the city. A lot of questions about development and those kind of things as to what’s going to be
happening so everyone was very aware, at least on our trip and I think it went very well and I want to
thank the fire department for again donating their engine and taking it around. You know turning on the
siren and all that kind of stuff. It was fun.
Todd Gerhardt: Well we need to get them down in The Preserve and the Bluff Creek area because every
house had 2.4 kids. You should have seen those .4 kids but you know a lot of kids down there. We had a
great time. We were down in The Preserve. They really wanted to see Bluff Creek Boulevard extended
all the way over to Powers. Probably heard that 5 or 6 times and from a variety of different neighbors and
also a trail issue that went through their neighborhood that was a common area where grass hasn’t been
mowed in probably 2 years and going up to their manicured lawns was kind of interesting to see. Just
great neighborhoods. They all get along with their neighbors it seemed like and, at least that’s what they
told us and you know just a great way to have neighbors meet neighbors and to watch out for each other
so we had Sergeant Anderley with us and he did a great job of communicating with the neighborhoods
and some of the residents.
Mayor Furlong: Anything else?
Councilman Laufenburger: Yeah I had the pleasure of, my granddaughter and I had the pleasure of riding
with Lieutenant Jeff Enevold in his squad car and I was relegated to the back seat, you know the plastic
seat that they hose out at the end of the night. I don’t think they had to hose it out for me but, it was
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