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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-10-05 WS~~te '~1 AIL (.:DT~~~ '~~'.b> ~2~~ In attendance: Mayor Bob Johnson, Council Members Wendy Wulff, Laurie Reib, and Mark Bellows. Also in attendance: City Administrator Steve Mielke, Assistant to City Administrator Brian Anderson, Finance Director Dennis Feller, Planning Director Daryl Morey, Community & Economic Director Dave Olson, Assistant City Engineer Jay Rubash, Parks and Rec. Director Steve Michaud, PC Chair Lowell Miller-Stolte, PC Vice-Chair Karl Drotning, Tradition Development Representatives Jake Enebak, Rob Wachholz, and Mark Putman. i) Transit Update Mr. Mielke informed the City Council that Minnesota Valley Transit Authority's (MVTA) Apple Valley transit station, along with various parking agreements, is currently at parking capacity totaling approximately 60o parking stalls.. In addition, the parking agreement MVTA had with Watsons Company will expire at the end of January, reducing the total parking stalls to approximately 50o stalls. Upon receiving this information, members of the Apple Valley City Council invited MVTA Executive Director Beverly Miller and the Lakeville mayor and administrator to attend a meeting in early January to discuss the issue and possible solutions. Although much of the time was spend on finding another park-and-ride lot located in Lakeville, the Apple Valley City Council stated that they are looking into the option of issuing parking permits, specifically for Apple Valley residents. Since that meeting, Lakeville has been in contact with MVTA and the Met Council to explore the various options and park-and-ride lots. However, the MVTA estimated that the cost of extending services to Cedar & Dodd would cost between $20,000-$30,000 per month. In addition, a recent meeting with Natalio Diaz of the Met Council indicated that due to the current financing mechanism for operations, the Met Council is facing significant shortfalls in funding for its current operations. He stated that Lakeville joining the District at this time could be difficult since the resources are not available to extend services to Lakeville without taking services from some other location. Mr. Diaz confirmed that if the transit levy were applied across Lakeville, it would generate roughly $750,000 which would go toward existing debt incurred by the Met Council. Since the property tax levy does not pay for operations, it would not provide additional resources to operate buses within the system. Those funds come from MVST and General Fund resources, which he stated were inadequate and not likely to be fixed in this session, due to the State's budget problems. ~a~e 2 of ~4 Mr. Diaz then indicated that if special legislation were drafted and approved, it would allow communities like Lakeville to come into the District and be funded in an alternative fashion so that part of the property tax levy would actually go to pay for the operations of new .services. However, this concept would need additional discussion and is not yet available by law. Mayor Johnson stated that Lakeville is dealing with ashort-term and along-term problem. In the short-term, Lakeville has just approved their 2005 budget which. doesn't allow for estimated $350,000 needed to extend transit service to Lakeville in 2005. In addition, MVTA didn't recommend ashort-term solution to a long- term problem. Therefore, the Mayor agreed with Mr. Mielke in letting the riders find an alternate transit station in which to receive their transit services. He felt the long-term solution required more study and encouraged staff to continue researching Lakeville's transit options. The City Council agreed with the Mayor and directed staff to draft a letter informing Apple Valley City Council of Lakeville's decision and directed staff to continue researching Lakeville's transit options. 2) 2005 Park Dedication Fees Mr. Michaud informed the City Council that starting in 2003, the City Council established a base land value per acre for the purpose of establishing per dwelling unit fees for single family and multi family developments. The 2003 land base value per acre was $50,000 per acre and $56,250 per acre in 2004. Unfortunately, the base land value has fallen behind due to rapidly increasing land values. Therefore, additional research determined the average value per acre for single- family land sales was determined to be $91,630 while multi-family resulted in a land value of $100,793 per acre. In addition, it is also being recommended by staff and the Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Committee to increase commercial and industrial park dedication fees to $5,940 and $3,520 respectively. Council Member Wulff stated she felt the multi-family residential park dedication fee should be higher in order to reflect the demographic change of larger families occupying those units and using the park system, similar to that of the single-family units. In addition, she stated that Lakeville wasn't working with firm multi-family land values and felt staff should research recent sales of multi-family land sales in order to work from an established land value. The rest of the City Council agreed and Mr. Michaud stated he would follow up with that research. Mr. Michaud then proposed to reinstate the policy that developers are required to install bituminous trails along major collector roads and major arterial roads where identified in the comprehensive trails plan and the City's approved transportation plan. The developer will be responsible for initial trail base grading and for a share cost equal to the value of a 5-foot bituminous trail. The City would be responsible for the balance of the trail which would be either an 8-foot or io-foot bituminous trail. City Council then directed staff to proceed with the process of raising the 2005 Park Dedication Fees. 3'age 3 cif 4 3) Fire Relief Association Bylaws Amendment Mr. Feller addressed the City Council by stating the Lakeville Fire Relief seeks to provide a financial plan which accomplish the following objectives: i) City contribution increases based on the CPI with taxes payable 2005 being the base year; 2) Establish the 2005 Fire Relief pension benefit of $5~55o which is a 2.78% increase compared to the 2004 benefit level; 3) Establish future Fire Relief pension benefit levels, which attract and retain firefighters. The goal would be to increase the benefit annually based on the CPI. Details of each objective along with a draft Memorandum of Understanding Between the City of Lakeville and the Lakeville Fire Relief Association are outlined in Mr. Feller's memo to the City Council. City Council directed Mr. Feller to bring forth the Memorandum of Understanding at an upcoming City Council meeting after the Fire Relief Association has approved it. 4) Brandtjen Farms Update Mr. Rob Wachholz presented to the City Council a power point presentation of the Brandtjen Farms Developments and provided a detailed description of every sector of the development including street, house, park, and common space designs. Most of the presentation information is outlined in the Brandtjen Farm booklet located in the work session packet. Mayor, Council and Planning Commission members raised questions and discussed issues regarding densities, alleyways, and association owned property versus public property. Mr. Wachholz then showed athree-minute introduction video of Brandtjen Farms, which showed the history of the property along with the proposed future and stated the name of the development will be Spirit of Brandtjen Farms. The City Council felt the development was moving along without concerns and encouraged Tradition Development and City staff to continue the planning of Spirit of Brandtjen Farms. 5) Airlake Industrial Park Discussion Mr. Olson informed the City Council that the City has had discussions with representatives from the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) regarding the extension of City water and sewer services to the southern airport area to facilitate additional hanger development in 2006. The MAC has programmed $2.'] million in 2006 for the extension of such services, which was recently approved in their 2005-2011 Capital Improvement Program. However, Lakeville does not extend water and sewer services beyond their boundaries and the majority of emergency services to the airport are Lakeville paid services. Therefore, preliminary discussions between MAC and Eureka Township have taken place to annex approximately 34o acres of Eureka Township in order to provide services to the airport. In addition, the City has received another request from Hat Trick Investments, LLC (the Regan Family) to annex 96.1 acres of land located east of Cedar Avenue and south of CSAH ~o, adjacent to the undeveloped industrial land they own in the City. Page 4 of 4 This annexation would allow them to develop the property, which currently could not be developed while located n Eureka Township. Mr. Olson stated that with Council's approval, it would be most efficient to proceed with an orderly annexation acquiring both properties totaling approximately 437 acres. City Council agreed with Mr. Olson's recommendation and directed staff to proceed by initiating discussions with Eureka Township for an orderly annexation. 6) 2005 Committee Appointments City Council and staff discussed the 2005 Committee Appointments and outlined the following changes: BoardjCommitteefCommision Council Members Staff Members 7,,,~~ ~ AiT;.,l~,.,,,.7 l.,l+ 1 Lakeville Arenas (JPA) Rieb, Mielke .Wulff (alt. Arena Advisory Committee HRA Appointee Feller Michaud (alt. City Appointee Wulff Michaud (alt.) Personnel Luick ~ Bellows Council directed staff to bring forth the discussed changes in a resolution at an upcoming Council Meeting. ~) Other Business Adjourn Meeting adjourned at 8:53 p.m. Respectively Submitted _.~_.._ Brian derson Assistant to City Administrator