CC Minutes 8-12-19CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
AUGUST 12, 2019
Mayor Ryan called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. The meeting was opened with the
Pledge to the Flag.
COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Mayor Ryan, Councilwoman Tjornhom, Councilman
McDonald, Councilman Campion, and Councilwoman Coleman
STAFF PRESENT: Todd Gerhardt, Jake Foster, Kate Aanenson, Jason Wedel, Todd Hoffman,
and Roger Knutson
PUBLIC PRESENT:
Larry Koch 471 Bighorn Drive
JoAnne Syverson 489 Pleasant View Road
Laura Wood Garden by the Woods
Linda Walton 141 Fox Hollow Drive
Mayor Ryan: Thank you and welcome everybody to this evening’s meeting. To those of you
that are watching at home, either on media city cable channel or those who are livestreaming
from Chanhassen’s website we are glad that you can join us. For the record we have all of our
council members present tonight so our first action on the agenda is the agenda approval.
Council members are there any modifications to the agenda as printed? If not we will proceed
with the published agenda. We have no public announcements this evening. Next consent
agenda. Tonight we have consent agenda items 1 through 8.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilman Campion moved, Councilwoman Coleman seconded
to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s
recommendations:
1. Approve City Council Minutes dated July 22, 2019
2. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated June 25. 2019
3 Resolution #2019-37: Adopting the Carver County All-Hazardous Mitigation Plan
4. Consider a Conditional Use Permit and Site Plan Review Application for an Xcel Energy
Meter Reader Pole Located at 2150 Lyman Boulevard
5. Approve Purchase of CIP Equipment – Network Storage Array
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6. Resolution #2019-38: Adopt Chanhassen Economic Development Commission Bylaws
7. Ordinance 644: Amending Chapter 9 (Fire Prevention and Protection) and Chapter 18
(Subdivisions) Concerning Adopting the Minnesota Fire Code; Revising the Fire Code
Appeals Process; Establishing Recreational Fire and Burn Permit Standards; and
Adopting Design Standards for Street and Fire Apparatus Access Roads
8. Resolution #2019-39: Authorize Entry Upon Property for Surveys and Examinations-
County Property Identification No. 25-3060010.
All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS.
Mayor Ryan: I know we have one scheduled visitor presentations so I’m going to invite the
Garden by the Woods, pollinator gardens to come forward. Welcome.
Laura Wood: Thank you so much. Well hello everyone. I know many of you from past going
on’s in Chanhassen but my name is Laura Wood. I am owner of the Garden by the Woods. I’m
right off Highway 5 and 101. Neighbors to Goodwill and we had a project that we just wanted to
present to you guys. Let you know what’ going on in the community. We’re doing a pollinator
garden very close to our facility and we’re inviting members of the community to come out and
actually help us plant and we’re hoping that this is an ongoing project that every year we have a
community event to schedule and engage the community so Linda’s going to tell you a little bit
more about what the project entails.
Linda Walton: Alright, well thank you so much for hearing what we have to share tonight and
hopefully you will embrace our vision for this project. You should have received some
information on the project in your packet for the meeting tonight. But basically in a nutshell our
vision is pretty grand but this is kind of just one of those stepping stones to the final end result
but basically the vision is for the City of Chanhassen to have the highest concentration of
pollinator gardens in Carver County and to that end as you look at the city as a whole we’re kind
of book ended by the Garden by the Woods on one end and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
on the other end and so what we’d like to do is bring those two bookends together inside creating
a lot of different pollinator spaces and I’ve been visiting some of these other pollinator spaces
that we currently have within the city of Chanhassen. I’ve gone to Camp Tanadoona and saw
what they’ve been doing. I went and looked at Lake Susan. They have a little spot there. We
would like to really get the whole community to help us to create this beautiful pollinator space
right near The Garden by the Woods and as the community sees it happening maybe residents
and businesses alike would join in and create those pollinator spaces in their private lawns and
get rid of those lawns and build those pollinator spaces or even office parks might embrace the
idea too so that’s kind of it in a nutshell as far as our vision.