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CITY OF LAKEVILLE
PLANNING COMMISSION WORK SESSION MINUTES
September 5, 2019
Chair Kaluza called the work session to order at 6:40 p.m.
Members Present: Chair Pat Kaluza, Karl Drotning, Brooks Lillehei, Jenna
Majorowicz, Jason Swenson, and Jeff Witte
Members Absent: Scott Einck and Ex-Officio Mike Lamm
Staff Present: Planning Director Daryl Morey and Daniel Licht, TPC
Others Present: City Councilmember Joshua Lee
Corridor Mixed Use (CMU) Bus Tour Discussion
Mr. Licht outlined his August 19, 2019 memorandum summarizing the July 23, 2019
CMU bus tour that included staff, the Planning Commission, and the City Council. The
bus tour included stops at Town Center in Eden Prairie, the Gravel Mining Area/Arbor
Lakes in Maple Grove, and Park Commons in St. Louis Park. The Planning
Commission made the following comments:
Liked the centrally located City park, which included recreational activities for all
seasons, in Maple Grove’s Gravel Mining Area/Arbor Lakes development.
Town Center in Eden Prairie seemed somewhat disconnected, more car centric,
and less pedestrian friendly. Additional pedestrian connections between uses is
needed.
The Park Commons area in St. Louis Park was too high density and the buildings
were too tall for Lakeville’s vision; however, the community park facilities
including the pool, ice arena, and adjacent park were nice features.
Noted that major cooperate office projects providing significant employment
opportunities anchored each of the three cities visited on the bus tour.
Commercial development along the Cedar Avenue corridor is likely to be less
regional in nature as the area is not adjacent to interstate freeways like in Eden
Prairie and Maple Grove.
All three cities on the bus tour have transit facilities already in place. Concern
was raised over adding additional traffic in the Cedar Avenue corridor with
increased residential density and land use intensity without additional transit
facilities.
The Planning Commission liked the variation in residential dwelling types within
the Gravel Mining Area/Arbor Lakes area of Maple Grove.
Pedestrian, bike and vehicle connections will be important for Lakeville’s CMU
District. The ability to live, work and play in the same area is also important.
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The CMU districts need to be connected to the larger Lakeville community in
terms of site design and architectural character.
A public open space requirement should be considered for incorporation into the
CMU District with the next update to the Parks, Trails, and Open Space Plan
and/or provision made to include minimum usable open space requirements with
each development.
CMU land uses developed outside of the Cedar Avenue corridor require a
separate set of development standards that will address consistency with
adjacent existing and planned residential and commercial development.
The Planning Commission would like to be provided with the City’s Council’s comments
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on the CMU bus tour after the September 23 work session.
The work session adjourned at 7:25 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Daryl Morey, Planning Director