CC Minutes 11-23-2015Chanhassen City Council – November 23, 2015
Chief Don Johnson: On a serious note, I’m the type, I like to cook my turkey in an oven and I
know there’s people in the audience and in our community that really enjoy deep frying a turkey.
Please, if you’re going to deep fry a turkey do it in your driveway. I can’t tell you the number of
years, every year in our metro area somebody has a fire with these turkey fryers so if you’re
going to do that I encourage you to do that. Please read the directions thoroughly. Understand
what you’re doing and don’t do it on our deck, in your garage or in your house so enjoy your
season but please do it responsibly so my guys can enjoy their dinner at home with their families
so with that I stand for questions.
Mayor Laufenburger: Alright, thank you Chief. Any questions of Chief Johnson? Well extend
to your entire team, as well as Lieutenant Kittelson extend to your team a happy Thanksgiving
and hopefully a safe Thanksgiving for our community. Thank you very much Chief.
Chief Don Johnson: Thank you.
PUBLIC HEARING: CONSIDER RESOLUTION VACATING DRAINAGE AND
UTILITY EASEMENTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LOT LINE ADJUSTMENT, 6270
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AND 6280 CHASKA ROAD, LOT 1, BLOCK 1 AND LOT 2, BLOCK 2 FRETHAM 15
ADDITION, APPLICANT: DAVID WEEKLEY HOMES.
Mayor Laufenburger: Is there a staff report?
Paul Oehme: Yes, Mayor and City.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Oehme.
Paul Oehme: Yep, good evening Mayor and City Council members. Give you a brief
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background on this item. The property owner at Lot 1 and Lot 2 of Fretham 15 Addition is
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requesting a drainage and utility easement to be vacated on the adjacent line. Fretham 15
Addition was actually platted this year. I think it was approved by the City Council on 2013 I
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believe. Fretham 15 Addition is just off of Highway 41. Trunk Highway 41 off of Carver or
Chaska Road. Pulling up over here so this is Lot 1 and Lot 2. The property owner will be
requesting administrative property line adjustment which is basically this red line here so this is,
the blue line is the existing line. Property line and the red line is the line, the new property line
that the property owners would like to move it to. The existing property line is shown here
again. The green area is the drainage utility easement that currently exists that the property
owner would like to vacate and in conjunction with the new property line adjustment, new
property, drainage utility easement would be dedicated in conjunction with the property line
adjustments and again with the vacation of the drainage and utility easement. The existing
drainage utility easement does not have any existing public or private utilities that would have to
be moved. There’s no utilities in that easement at this time so it is clean and free from that.
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With that I’d like to stand for questions and I’d request that a public hearing be opened on the
vacation of this easement.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay. Before I open the public hearing is there any questions from staff?
Mr. Oehme can you just educate us a little bit, why would somebody want to move a property
line?
Paul Oehme: I believe there, I believe Lot 1 and Lot 2 there’s no houses on these lots and I think
with the builder who’s requesting to build on this lot, he would like I think Lot 1 to be readjusted
to accommodate the lot, or the building as it situates on that lot so I think he wants a little bit
bigger lot for one of the, for Lot 1.
Kate Aanenson: Yeah I would just say that when the subdivision came through the builder
wasn’t chosen yet so the builder that’s going forward on this subdivision has a little bit larger
home footprint and so because that one lot is compromised by a wetland to accommodate that,
shifting the lot line.
Mayor Laufenburger: And this is not uncommon, is that correct?
Kate Aanenson: Absolutely.
Mayor Laufenburger: Okay, alright. At this time then I will, any other questions of staff? At
this time I will open a public hearing. If there’s anybody who would like to speak either in favor
of or in opposition to this action by the council please step up to the podium. Give us your name
and address and address the council. There being none I will close the public hearing and bring
this back to council for comment or motion. Anybody?
Councilman McDonald: Mr. Mayor.
Mayor Laufenburger: Yes sir, Councilman McDonald.
Councilman McDonald: I would make the motion that the City Council adopts a resolution
approving the vacation of public drainage and utility easement described in the attached legal
description.
Mayor Laufenburger: Thank you. Is there a second?
Councilwoman Tjornhom: Second.
Mayor Laufenburger: Councilwoman Tjornhom thank you. Any further discussion?
Resolution #2015-74: Councilman McDonald moved, Councilwoman Tjornhom seconded
that the Chanhassen City Council adopts a resolution approving the vacation of all the
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drainage and utility easements on the property line between Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, Fretham
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15 Addition. All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
PUBLIC HEARING: CONSIDER APPROVAL OF EAW AND OFFICIAL MAP, TH 101
(PIONEER TRAIL TO CR 61).
Mayor Laufenburger: Do we have a staff report?
Paul Oehme: Yes Mayor.
Mayor Laufenburger: Mr. Oehme, you’re busy tonight.
Paul Oehme: Yes, thank you again Mayor, City Council members. Tonight staff would like to
review the preferred alignment and the environmental document that we’ve drafted for the
Highway 101 improvements from Pioneer Trail down to Flying Cloud Drive. Staff has been
working with partners on this project including Carver County, MnDOT for over a year now. As
you know the section of 101 from Pioneer Trail up to Highway 5 has been improved over the last
7 years and just tomorrow the river, the 101 river crossing of the Minnesota River will be open
so this section of 101 is the last section of 101 that needs to be improved basically south of
Highway 5. This section of highway, this section of 101 has twice the amount of accidents as
compared to highways of similar traffic volumes within the metro area. Traffic is also expected
to grown in the region as the region develops. Also Chanhassen is anticipated, this area of
Chanhassen is anticipated to grow in the near future as well so this document helps us plan for
that growth and plan for that critical infrastructure that is needed. Staff again has had 2 open
houses for this project and we’ve had numerous individual neighborhood, or individual meetings
to talk about you know the impacts and try to improve you know our design as best as we can in
conjunction and with the comments that we received from the neighborhood. For tonight’s
public hearing we’ve invited 52 property owners that live in the area and along the corridor and
in the neighborhoods adjacent to Highway 101 so with that Jon Horn from Kimley-Horn and
Associates is with us tonight. He has helped the City with the environmental documentation and
the preliminary design and also Pat Lambert who is the right-of-way agent for Carver County is
also here if you have any questions for him so with that.
Jon Horn: Good evening Mayor, members of the City Council.
Mayor Laufenburger: Welcome Jon. Nice to see you tonight.
Jon Horn: As Mr. Oehme mentioned I’ve been working directly with city staff as well as
representatives of Carver County and MnDOT on the preliminary design activities for this
section of Trunk Highway 101 between Pioneer Trail and Flying Cloud Drive so it’s about a
year’s worth of work and I’m going to try to condense it down into about 15 minutes tonight so.
There we go. So basically I guess what we’d like to try to cover is provide some background
history on the project. We’ll talk a little bit about the preliminary design process and the
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