CC Minutes 9-23-19CHANHASSEN CITY COUNCIL
REGULAR MEETING
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
Mayor Ryan called the meeting to order at 7:05 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,
Greg Sticha, Roger Knutson, Chief Don Johnson, and Lt. Lance Pearce
PUBLIC PRESENT:
Mack Titus 2747 Century Trail
Susan Kibler 7329 Bent Bow Trail
Terri Berg 8616 Lake Susan Hills Drive South
John Jensen 1181 Homestead Lane
Mayor Ryan: Again good evening everybody. Welcome to our council meeting. I apologize
that we’re a little late. Just wrapping up our work session meeting so I apologize about that.
Thank you for those of you who are watching at home or livestreaming from the Chanhassen
website. For the record we have all of our council members present tonight and so our first
action is our agenda approval. Council members are there any modifications to the agenda as
printed? If not we will proceed with the published agenda.
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS: None.
CONSENT AGENDA: Councilwoman Coleman moved, Councilman Campion seconded
to approve the following consent agenda items pursuant to the City Manager’s
recommendations:
1. Approve City Council Minutes dated September 9, 2019
2. Receive Planning Commission Minutes dated September 3, 2019
3. Receive Park and Recreation Commission Minutes dated August 27, 2019
4. Consider Interim Use Permit for Moon Valley Gravel Pit
5. Consider a Request for a Variance to Replace and Move a Septic System to the Bottom of
the Bluff at 1181 Homestead Lane
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All voted in favor and the motion carried unanimously with a vote of 5 to 0.
VISITOR PRESENTATIONS. ANN MILLER CITIZEN ACTION REQUEST FORM.
Mayor Ryan: I know we have one scheduled visitor presentation. Ann Miller who filled out a
Citizen Action Request Form. Is Ms. Miller in the audience tonight?
Ann Miller: Yes I am.
Mayor Ryan: Yes please, come forward. Welcome.
Ann Miller: Thank you. If I’m a little disorganized it’s because I left at 6:00 o’clock this
morning for Madison, Wisconsin and I just go home.
Mayor Ryan: Wow.
Ann Miller: And traffic was terrible, but at any rate Ann Miller, 6561 Fox Path, Chanhassen,
55317 and I believe Mr. Gerhardt and Mr. Knutson and also Mr. Hoffman were all here when I
moved here in 1992 in August. And we live in a very fragile hydro geological area which is also
quite interesting. When I moved into my house the following, I moved in in August and at
Thanksgiving our decks heaved and we had to put, had them cut off the next day and had to have
helical coils put in to hold the deck down. So the reason I have all my stuff here with me is
because I’m not just whistling Dixie. This is from the ground water protection plan from 1992.
This is only probably one-third of all the material I’ve collected. I even have my grading things
here and Braun Engineering and other engineers here, all the information about our area.
Especially the street Pleasant View. Pleasant View is a pleasant view and if Mr. Cunningham
was here, he used to live in the octagonal house at I think is 865 Pleasant View, told me Ann
your house is in the big ditch and he was right. And behind my house is the little ditch and it
was developed with what, 49 houses and it’s, and now I love it. It was a pain at the beginning
because it cost us a lot of money to take care of all that water, ground water but living here now I
even had one individual in our neighborhood that moved away because Pleasant View is so
unsafe for walking. I believe we deserve to have a public boat access to Silver Lake from
Pleasant View because the City owns that land at the southern tip and in the reconstruction of
Pleasant View Road in 2020 I hope that there will be a bike path and a walking path that’s safe
on that road. It is extremely dangerous. Even the sighting as you drive down that road,
vegetation is not back far enough. There’s every driveway is blind. Every access on there is
blind from North Lotus Lake Park all the way up past Peaceful Lane. So I’m urging you to listen
to all, everybody who lives in our area. Our access in and out of our neighborhood is Pleasant
View. There’s no other way. That’s it and also I am not going to pay a franchise fee for city
streets. I paid for our street not 2 years ago and my husband and I strongly believe that’s
enough. We pay our taxes. We don’t need a franchise fee. And so I, as far as public boat access
goes to Silver Lake, I know Silver Lake is not very big. It’s 18 acres I believe. I believe the