HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-17-06 City of Lakeville
Community and Economic Development
Memorandum
Ta: Economic Development Commission
From: David L. Cdson
Copy: Steve Mielke, City Administrator
Adam Kienberger, Economic Development Specialist
Dam: March 17, 2U06
Subj~ectq March EDC Meeting
~'tte~q of tho EDC meet~lL9 been cancelled since there_~re
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matters ready to be considerro~l ter the Eft $t t~f~ tlme.
As the attached Directors Report indicates, there may be the need to`have a special
meeting of the EDC the Week of April 10~'. More information on the scheduling of
this meeting will. be provided within the next week, I will be out of the office from
Mar+ctt 27"' through April 7~'. If EDC members need to corrtad City staff during this
period, please contact Adam Kienberger at 985-4425.
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City of Lakeville
Community and Economic Development
Memorandum
To: Economic Development Commission
From: David L. Olson, Community and Economic Development Director ,
Copy: Steve Mielke, City Administrator
Adam Kienberger, Economic Development Specialist
Date: March 17, 2006
Subject: March Director's Report
The following is the Director's Report for March of 2006.
Lifetime Fitness Project
City staff and the City Attorney are working with representatives of Lifetime Fitness
to work out the details of the contract for the sale of City-owned property at 185'
Street and Dodd Blvd. The terms of the land conveyance which has Lifetime paying
50% of the land sale price in three years and the remaining 50% in six years will
constitute a Business Subsidy under Minnesota Statutes. It may be necessary to
schedule a special meeting of the EDC the second week of April to allow the EDC to
make a recommendation on this issue prior to the April 17th City Council meeting. I
hope to provide more information on the scheduling of this meeting by March 24"'
after which I will be out of the office for two weeks.
February Building Permit Reuort
The City issued building permits through February with a total valuation of
$18,591,633. This compares to permits totaling $21,738,864 during the same
period in 2005. Included in this valuation were commercial and industrial permits
with a total valuation of $276,000 compared to $721,000 in January of 2005. The
City also issued permits for 38 single family homes and 29 townhome and condo
units through February. This compares to 41 single family and 53 townhome and
condo unit permits during the same period in 2005.
Dakota Electric Partners in Progress Event
EDC Members Matasosky and Schubert along with City staff and Council members
Wulff and Rieb attended the March 8°i Annual Partners in Progress Event sponsored
by Dakota Electric that was held at the Royal Cliff in Eagan. Attached are copies of
the booklet that was distributed at the event that high lights the economic
development achievements of the cities in Dakota County that are served by Dakota
Electric Association. It is always interesting to compare the development activities
of other cities in Dakota County with the activities in our city and in my opinion
Lakeville fares well in this comparison.
Duke Realtv Purchase of Industrial Land in Lakeville
Attached is an article from the Mpls. St. Paul Business Journal regarding the
purchase at the SE corner of Dodd Blvd. and 215"' Street (Co.Rd. 70) . Duke plans
to develop 1.5 - 2 million square feet of industrial building development on 137
acres. This land is part of the Ruddle family farm and the majority of the land is in
the current MUSH. Staff will be meeting with representatives of Duke Realty the
week of March 20~'.
Downtown Plan Public Forum
A public forum was held on Tuesday, March 14~' that was attended by over 100
residents and property owners interested in the Downtown Planning process. City
Administrator Steve Mielke gave a brief overview of the planning process that has
been completed to date and stated that no land use decisions have been made at
this point of the process. Attached are articles from the Sun Current and Life and
Times reporting on this meeting. Additional public forum type meetings will be held
in the coming months as more analysis of the various ideas contained in the current
concepts are evaluated further.
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6 and supplements. History: FroundedAveda Corp. m moved to Rome threeyears later. Like who:worked as director of quality at
Wearing all black (except for a pur- 1979; sold d to EstAe Lauder Cos. many teenagers, Rechelhacher said Pillsbury before joining Rechelbach-
ple scarf, purple socks and orange Inc m 1997 #a $300m11'wn he remembers thinking that his er's team about a year ago.
and black Adidas) Rechelbacher Newvedture: Make and sell arganw mother had "old-fashioned" ideas. Body-caze products are not yet cer-
shudders while talking about toxic cosmetics and body-caieproducts But these days, he's heading back Ufied as "organic" because federal
chemicals that he says are packed to Austria, and elsewhere, in search guidelines dotit exist to set such stan-
into shampoo, lipstick and other things;' he said. "I'm reinventing of the perfect foods to make his new lords, said Ronnie Cummins, director
things people pile on their bodies.. myself, f dont need to work. Aut I cosmetics. Last week he attended an of the Organic Consumers Associa-
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organ, it needs proper nutrition, too. a difference." Crosse, Wis. (He got lost, and had to might slap a "natural" or "organic"
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metics could become evenlazger than products started early. His mother, only ordered a water, though) n't mean they are free of synthetics.
the Aveda empire he started in 1978. Maria, was an herbalist in Austria,. He's also got major brains toiling '
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Index ~ ~ ~ Duke Realty plans to build a large served by city sewers and is guided ~ ~ lot of those areas out Phis wag."
r industrial park in Lakeville on a 137- on land-use maps for industrial Far Duke, this project is justthe lat-
Calendar 23.25 acre pazcel it has under contract. development, Olson said. ~ a ` ~ est of its Twin Cities developments:
Special Repsd section 13-18 Duke- based in Indianapolis with The land is immediately west of ~ • It recently completed the 1.1 mU-
In Private column 9 a4D-person office in St. Louis Park- the largest industrial park in a lion-square-foot Crosstown North
expects to build between 1.5 million Lakeville, the 600-acre Airlake Business Center in Brooklyn Park.
Marketlntelligence 26-33 and 2 million square feet of bulk IndustrialPazkthatvvasstartedinthe x« ~ .i ~ Duke plans to build a 12-acre
Opinion 36 industrial warehouse space, accord- 1960s.ItisprivatelyownedbyAirlake ""l""` industrialpaikinOtsego.
People 10-R ing to Pat Mascia, senior vice presi- Development and has about 135 ~ Ifagreed to buy 37 acres in Afton,
Staff listing 32 dent of Minneapolis operations. businesses and more than 4,000 fazmed it for many yeazs. where it may build about 300,000
Tsp 25 Lists 16, le David Olson, community and eco- employed there, Olson said. Demand for industrial land in square feet of industrial property.
yenturessecTion 19-22 nomic development director for. Mark Kolsmd and Chns PerYdroy, Lakeville has been fairlysteadyandis •DhkebeginsconstructioninApril
Week in Review - 12 Lakeville, sazd I)ukkes pmject8ts inwell brokers at," COBiers `Tdrley Martin expected to increase as more services on its 322,000-square-foot
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:...with Iakeville's plans For the area rteaz : Ttrckeriu Minneapolis, assisted Duke and homes are built in the southern Pointe B office parkin Bloomington.
County Road 70 and I~dd Botileviatd.'" with the land transacdon.The land is suburbs, Olson said.
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Single family residents fear losing their homes to
downtown redevelopment plans.
io Lakeville City Administrator Steve Mielke assured
more than 200 residents at a community meeting
s a, March 14 that no decisions or recommendations for
,A„". potential ].and use changes had been made and ~;o
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« downtown were in the works.
During the meeting many dmvntown Lakecdle resr
I dents echoed resident Drew Schoude]'s sentiments:
"There's been poor communication in this process and
an appearance of a hidden agenda by the town of
Lakeville."
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PNBLIC NOTICE The Downtown Lakeville '
PUBLIC HEARING Redevelopment Task Force told those - A
long wal be hold on Moron z~, zoos. al zoo attending the meeting that the task force '~7E
,nn thereaner as possible by the Burnsville hoped to clear up rumors and give the
mmisson. 100 Civic Genler Parkway, in the
nbers on me appllr--anon of Todd Severson for community the opportunity to Share
I use Perms In allow me oats and owdoor their preferences about the shape the
uldiny matenols in Ihe GIH (Gateway Indus- `.r 9
nalnm located at :izos west Hignway , s. redevelopment will take. , ,t.` -
mrllbeschetlNedforlhene#appropriale Cily At a community meeting Jan. 9, the q..
zting lonowiny the Planning Commission COriSlilting flI'm HOlSingten ROeg12r ~':N ~
Group Inc., hired by the city for the ~ ~ ~ _ t
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esu:og to sn<~at. on uns item ere encouraged process, presented two concept maps to _ `t f"' v`~ n~"a~'~~
~r more mla motion concerning this request, ~ ~ ' ~ _
cl Ihe City ul Burnsville at (952) 895-4451. meeting partlClpant5: - sly-- ~ `
aicnara Dustea,on, cnalr •'Phe "Main Street Lakeville" concept ~ ANNA CRONN • = ~
Burnsville Planning Commission focused on a linear business district A capacity crowd attended Tuesday night's meeting.
ar is a zs, zooslesiTndd severson along Holyoke Avenue from '110th Street
through 202nd Street.
1rOSVllle The "Downtown Park" concept Nearly 20 residents came forward at said resident Ronnie Clark. "They're
organized the area with many small the meeting, and with few exceptions, our homes. It's not planning', it's a
(OBicial Pnbficanon) green spaces and would keep commer- they voiced their fears ranging from scheme to take our property and give it
oocuMENr oooao clot development between 210th Street to decreased property values to the per- to someone else."
ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS 206th Street, but would spread further ceived threat of eminent domain. "It's not my responsibility to have io
rent' ywen mat ,soled bids wfll be recemed, east and west between those blocks. Resident Gary Turpening presented give up my home or have it devalued to
,ed. and,ea,f ak,na by rep.eaemarvea a tna Concerns were raised that in both his own research assuming the resides- benefit business owners," said resident
svill2. Minnesota, at the Cty Hall, 100 Civic
Hay. uornsvnle. Mmneaola ssaa~, m said sly concepts the residential area along tial properties were converted to other Lisa Midtvedt. "I have no duty to sacri-
1, on Friday. Apni 7. 2006, for lurnishing all Holyoke between 207th and ZO`lnd streets uses. Tice to them and the city has no right to
aterials tar Ihe construction of Raw Weter-
ruction, consisGny of Ihe following approxi- terlned "North Holyoke" was not desig- "If the idea is to improve the proper- force me."
1e5 sated as low density residential, as St ty value by going commercial, you're "There is no plan to take your home.
/atermain ~ Directional gill ..1,100 LF exists now mistaken," Turpening said. - Those are things that people are saying
ermaln -Through Casing 80 LF
~siny -Jacked 55 LF The area was labeled medium density He said right now the average resi- that just aren't true," said Wufff. "You
ma, cnmmcl docamems, arawmgs and apse- residential in the Downtown Park con- dential property in the North Holyoke can have an opinion but you can't have
prepared by TKDA, are on file for inspection cept and residential-to-commercial con- area is valued at $206,000. Those equiva- your own facts. No one is planning
on
of the City Clerk and in the office of [ha Engi- VeCSlOn in the Main Street Lakeville lent lots occupied by businesses would taking anyone's home."
se address is 1500 Piper Jallray Plaza, 444
d, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101-2140. COriCept. be worth $126,600. Turpening said he Toward the end of the meeting, Wulff
. desiring specifications and reieted door Wendy Wulff, Lakeville City Council had his calculations verified by a county assured the audience that the Task
purpose of submittingabitl may secure them member and Task Force chair, said she appraiser. Force was clear that the public was
gineers upon deposit of Fitly Dollars ($50.00)
me deposit ror one set o1 drawfnga and spec- wanted to clarify that the concepts were "It would be a financial disaster for opposed to a zoning change in the North
I be relunded to each Planholder woo returns produced to stimulate discussion and the citizens and the tax rolls if the value Holyoke Avenue area, which clarified
~tl specifications in good contlitton within 15
,e data tnr Ina opening o+ bids. that any combination of the elements, goes down," he said. some things for the Task Force and the
e considereA unless iI is securely seated in an or other elements not in the plans, or no Resident Tammy Jo Ruter said she direction they would take.
,d mad won me City Clerk prior to the lime redevelopment at all were also options, was concerned about the effects that dis- Mielke said that based on the
for Ihe closing of bids. 'A concern we've heard is that for cussions of development may already research of downtown's history, it is
Ist be accompanied by a bid bond or cashiers Cit Hall, it's a done deal and we ust have on her home's worth, due to disclo- likely that there will be change.
ale to Ihe City of eurnsviue in an amount not Y J
e percent (5°ml of the total biJ as a guarantee need to call in the bulldozers," said sure laws should she or her neighbors "We need help answering the
yues-
ter, i7 successful, will enter into a contract with Mielke. "That's not true." decide to sell. tion, `If the area is going to change, how
>r Ihe work described in the proposal. This de-
aubiea to mAaitare as provided uy law. Tne "There is not a concept here that says "It's already influenced our property should it change?"' said Mielke. "To me,
Ise three lowest OitlAers will be retained by the you are going to leave [single family values," she said. that's guiding the future rather than let-
Ihe convam has been awarded and executed
tar than sixty (60) days. Ne bid may be wim- housing) alone," said resident Daniel "Discussing colors on a map does not ting it happen."
er~otlntsixty(so)Aavstouowmgmebltlopem Laun. constitute a need for disclosure," said For more information on the
reser+es the right to reject any or all bids. to Mielke presented an overview of the Wulff. "We're throwing out ideas. Downtown Lakevil[e Redevelopment
nalibes or to award the comracl to Ihe lowest process and addressed concerns city There's no guarantee that there will planning, go to
bidder, in me besumeresl Dune owner. Staff' and Task Force members had even be a downtown plan." http://www.ci.lakeuil[e.mn.us/down-
~unea will consider award nl comracts at a reg heard through a-mails and phone calls. "They're not just colors on a map," townplanning.htm.
g to be neltl on Monday. April 17, 2006. '
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Confusion over downtown redevelopment fuels tempers at forum
Posted: 3/1/06
by John Sucansky
Thisweek Newspapers
A crowd of angry residents spoke for an hour and a half at a Downtown Redevelopment Task Force meeting
Tuesday telling members everything they didn't want to see happen in downtown before one resident offered
an idea of what to include.
Holding public input meetings since October, the task force has been charged with working with the cit}~s
consultant, Hoisington Koegler Group, to form concepts of how downtown could be guided for future
redevelopment.
Previous meetings averaged 4o people in attendance, but the March t4 public forum drew approximately t26
residents who were organized by a petition campaign to protect their homes from a plan they were told would
use eminent domain to take their property away from them.
Downtown Redevelopment Task Force Chair and City Council Member Wendy Wulff said repeatedly during
the meeting, "I'm not taking anybody's home."
Communication with the public has been the purpose of the task force since the process began last fall, but a
breakdown in the process led to the confusion at the March tq meeting.
After a lengthy introduction by City Administrator Steve Mielke explaining drawings depicting downtown
concepts that resulted from previous discussion and in need of further discussion, residents spoke about
concerns at the podium about redeveloping Holyoke Avenue between 207th and 2oznd streets from
residential to commercial.
One of the conceptual drawings demonstrates a possibility for allowing residential homes to run businesses
out of them along Holyoke Avenue with the decision to do so in the hands of the property owner.
Residents like Lisa Midtvedt told the task force that she doesn't have any duty to sacrifice to the businesses in
order to keep them profitable. "This is not land planning, it's pure thievery," she said.
When told by Wulff that there was never any intention of using eminent domain and that was never something
the task force or city council would support, Midtvedt said, "This whole conversation is about eminent
domain."
Downtown resident Bonnie Clark told the task force that, "It's not planning, it's a scheme to take our property
from us and give it to somebody else." '
Wulff cautioned residents that, "You can have an opinion, but you can't have your own facts."
Glenn Nord, a resident and business owner in downtown, has spoken at previous meetings, raising his concern
with the process and met with residents between the Jan. g public meeting and the March iq forum.
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He later said there was never a concern of the city using eminent domain to take property away from
homeowners, but instead the concern was for proper land planning and the revision of the city's
Comprehensive Plan and zoning ordinance.
The city is required to update its Comprehensive Plan every ro years and will be starting the process again
soon, which is why Mielke said the city wanted to begin a downtown redevelopment process.
He said by determining the needs for the downtown in advance, there might not be a reason to alter the
downtown area on the Comprehensive Plan, or there might be reason to change it to match what the task force
develops forthe area.
In either event, he said the purpose of planning for the downtown's future is to create something that residents
and business owners both want and by taking public input, the process will better reflect the majority's
opinion.
The two concepts developed by the Hoisington Koegler Group reflect input from the city's task force, which
was chosen as a sampling of the community in order to represent multiple perspectives.
"This is a community idea we're exploring right now," Mielke said. "Do I have my opinions? Yes. But I'm not
going to drive the process."
Mielke said he isn't particularly invested in either concept and has been looking to the public for direMion.
Nord faulted the city's process for generating feedback from the community saying, "When something is this
important, send out a direct mailing to anybody impacted."
To date, the city has been advertising the process on its Messages page in Thisweek Newspapers, as well as on
the city's Web site.
Regarding why some residents at the meeting were worried about eminent domain, Nord said there are people
in every group that misunderstand or aren't aware of what the real issue is.
Downtown resident Drew Schoudel said at the meeting the process involved poor communication channels
and an "apparent hidden agenda" on the part of the city.
Some people within the group protesting argued the process was a done deal and that plans were in place,
some argued the city intended to use eminent domain to take their property and others argued what Nord said
was the key issue, the revision of the Comprehensive Plan and zoning ordinance.
Despite being against eminent domain [o fuel private enterprise, Nord said he would support the city using
what he referred to as the "Richfield Plan" in which [he city buys older homes, tears them down and rebuilds
bigger single family homes to sell to residents in the downtown.
Wulff said because of the miscommunication with the public, the original timeline to have concepts completed
by May with recommendations to the city's Economic Development and Planning commissions will be
delayed.
Mielke said the original contract with Hoisington Koegler may have to be re-examined because additional time
could require additional funding. The city spent unused Community Development Block Grant funding from
2005 to hire the consultant at a cost of $~o,ooo. Mielke said the Hoisington Koegler group has never stopped
working on the project and continues to examine the information and concepts at this time.
The task force is also continuing to meet with the consultant and its next meeting is planned April q at 5 p.m.
• at the Iakeville Water Treatment facility. For future public meetings or to sign up for information about the
project, visit the city's Web site at www.ci.lakeville.mn.us.
John Sucansky is at lakeville.thisweek@ecm-inc.com.
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Downtown plan: The uninformed naysayer enters
Column: John Sucansky
Posted: 3/17/06
All citizens have a right and should participate in community development projects. All Lakeville residents
were invited to participate in the redevelopment process for downtown. Residents and business owners have
had several opportunities since October to give their input about the process and help the city guide
development in a direction that pleases the majority.
At previous meetings I attended as a reporter for this newspaper, I saw no more than 4o people at each. It's
disappointing when residents don't take time to participate until they believe the process affects them
negatively, and even more disappointing when because they didn't participate or stay informed by reading
local newspapers or visiting the city's Web site, they choose to enter city hall as an angry mob of more than 100
people and impede the process.
I feel great pity for the volunteer task farce that is heading the public input process because they have chosen
to give their time to hear input to help advance [he plan, but the process has now been damaged by the crowd
of downtown residents that argued based on ill-conceived notions about the concepts developed by the cit}~s
consultant, Hoisington Koegler Group.
It's shameful that people can remove themselves from the process so much that even when confronted with the
truth, they still continue to believe exactly what they thought before they attended the meeting. Many residents
left city hall after the March i4 public input meeting muttering the same thoughts under their breath that they
voiced repeatedly through the meeting.
Despite being told by city staff and task force members that there is no plan yet, only concepts, and the process
is still in need of comments to direct future redevelopment, residents continued to argue the same points for
an hour and a half. (For comments
see story Page u1.] At a meeting that began at 6:3o p.m., it wasn't until 8 p.m. that task force members heard
the first suggestion of development a resident would like to see occur downtown.
Now it's a sure bet that these same people that didn't stay in touch with the process will soon recede into the
woodwork and ignore this column and associated news story. Sadder still, they will probably be back one day
to interfere with the process again as an uninformed angry mob because that's how these projects go. I've seen
it before covering other issues and cities. People don't get involved until it's too late and then they protest that
the city has a hidden agenda and bolster themselves by believing they are the righteous little man fighting city
hall.
Well, there's no reason to fight city hall when you've been invited to participate in the process from the
beginning. It takes a lot less energy and would greatly reduce the blood pressure of so many people to
participate in a constructive process instead of stepping into the game half-way through and screaming victory
after nothing gets accomplished. But participating in a long process is only for the few, the noble and the
selfless. We71 see you at the next fictitious, divisive issue.
John Sucansky is editor of Thisweek Lakeville. He is at lakeville.thisweek@ecm-inc.com. Columns reflect the
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