we will uh call to order our Eda meeting here this morning it's a Friday which is a little unusual for us but uh we're here Friday fe uh February 14th 2025 um Tony would you please call the role beer grula here Johnson here kersch
here oday here Sandy here jger yes all right we have everyone here looks like this morning so first item here is an approval of our agenda we just have one item this morning this is some consideration of some new business do we have an approval of the agenda I was just wondering if we could add just an
update item after before we adjourn absolutely um do uh what what would you like what is what is it just a update on the 210 construction and uh they the chamber just sent out the meeting dates okay and are you looking that for that
from staff or is that something you're going to report on I can report and then maybe I don't know if James has any other info at but perfect uh so I'm just going to make that uh item number uh I guess 4B I guess and we'll just call that an update on the 210 here how about to
approve with the change we got a motion to approve the agenda with the change and a second is there any discussion all right uh hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose same sign very good we're off and rolling okay Mr kvic uh please tell us why we're here this morning yes thank
you Mr President uh so block metrics has proposed a uh slight redesign as part of the final uh design and and bid package for for the uh project at 1911 TC drive laori if you want to pull up the site plan explain what those changes are so I
included the previous design as well in the packet um you can see in this one the building was essentially kind of flipped uh horizontally uh from east to west so now kind of the main offices are on that West Side um also because of impervious surface and some of the Turning radiuses uh they had decided to
go with kind of just that one lane on the east side of the property there uh fire Department did review that they have no issues uh they are placing fire hydrants appropriately per fire code um there were also some slight redesigns to the building facade they meet uh the
design standards of the industrial zoning District uh you'll notice the the one other change I think the building is slightly larger to accommodate a potential um ninth cooler as well as a kind of a a ninth data center um or the
individual um data piece that in the in the building uh so that is not uh proposed immediately but I suppose if there's enough power that would be something that could be added to the project uh I did do some calculations on what that would look like to the sound um if a ninth one were added it would
add 375 DB um to it so a pretty um un not a major change to what the deciel readings would be to the surrounding Community um so with that I can answer any questions that the Eda may have we also have represent representatives from Hightech here um as as well as block metrics is online very good thank you Mr
cranic does anyone have any questions for James I yeah please I guess I just had a question about the um portion of it asking to add an additional unit to it so that's changing the minimum uh requirements or whatever so
is that something where they're asking just for the space to potentially add it or is that getting written in now to the use of it to have that would written into the use at this point because it's in the plans sorry say that again it it would
get written into essentially what they could do in the future so they'd be able to add that on without uh um without approval okay do you um if you don't mind I can explain I represent iack from the project management perspective as a
consultant uh Mike dor with NCD the building size actually did not change um the layout out of the equipment did once we got actual sizes and we showed that we had the ability to be flexible and pick up an additional um Mining and
cooler in the future if our standards ever changeed down there and they were able to deliver more than 25 megaw but the current design with the eight that met the previous Eda is utilizing the available power as it sits today so the
only reason that ninth was shown was to show within the footprint under the current layout we could accommodate additional if it were ever available in the future so just want to clarify that the building did not get uh bigger it
was more of a layout issue square footage wise acting it actually got slightly smaller but still stayed at the 25,000 foot minimum for um tax abatement purposes hope that hopefully that clarifies understood thank you I guess
I'm just trying to clarify so ear like writing into the minimum use that we're stipulating that it would have to have this much capacity whether BL metrics develops it or if it reverts back to us it would have to have that amount of
capacity so it wouldn't have to um it would allow them for the expansion in the future tring to get at is like if are we writing us into an agreement where whether black metric develops it or if it reverts back to us are we expanding
the amount that we're required to have whoever develops it do so I I don't believe so and and really once uh once the this is constructed uh the purchase and development agreement uh does end at
that point so uh they're able to now we are working on a data center ordinance through Planning Commission so if they were to add this and city council approve that uh ordinance they would have to come for a potential conditional use permit to add that one but once this is constructed with the eight um data
center coolers as well as the miners um the purchase agreement then would essentially end so you don't continue to have a purchase agreement in perpetuity once things are built to the standards that are approved here um that part's done so then they they just have to follow essentially our our zoning laws
within INB brainer okay yeah I guess my con yeah my concern is just just the issues that have been raised around the the sound issues um I understand um the calculations are showing that it'd be pretty pretty minimal but there if I'm understanding
correctly there's no like conditional use stipulated on this now so if it does exceed any sound uh minimums like what are our what's like what's our recourse for getting the developer to get get it
within the like reasonable limit I guess so you know kind of just like before we don't have a data center ordinance at this time but they still have to abide by um mpca noise standards so you know if there were concerns from this the
ordinance is not in place at this point um then we you know the city may have to do some type of measurement or ask the developer to do some type of sound measurement to to make sure that they are within those standards um if not fines could potentially be um levied upon the the property um or uh po
potentially legal action okay CU I guess I'm fine with approving the plans to like have the potential to add more units but I just want to make sure we're not approving this additional whatever unit in there and then we're kind of we keep
adding to what is going to be producing sound without having any kind of recourse to correct that so I guess if we approve this today are we just approving it to have the potential to add it and they'll have to come back again and get approval to actually put
the unit in the space that's being allocated for it so the way it's set up is for that future 9th one it's part of the construction plans um so without the data center ordinance in my opinion they'd be probably able to add that
ninth one it's part of the plans here so it' be approving that ninth one um but if the data center ordinance is in place they would have to come back to city council they if they first constructed with eight then um the data center ordinance is in place and they want to add that ninth one they would have to
then come back for the conditional use permit as the ordinance is proposed okay not not to the Eda though it' be to the Planning Commission and city council okay and it sounded like the n9th sener needed they needed to go through need to get approve that approved through Public
Utilities step correct okay yeah Mr Sandy please um do you have like a timeline on when the Planning Commission is like going going to have this data center ordinance in place and are there Provisions that are going to cover this type of issue it would so this would be
an uh an expansion of use uh so this building permit would be issued as um proposed timeline by the developer would be issued before the ordinance would be in effect um once it's built though and they're looking to potentially expand that ninth one that's when they'd have
to um come back to the Planning Commission and city council and that or the ordinance we're looking not we have a meeting tomorrow uh we're not doing we're going to be reviewing the ordinance again uh and then probably at the next meeting holding the public hearing so we're probably about a month and a half away from the ordinance being
in effect so the ordinance will likely be in effect before any potential for this ninth unit to get added yes likely and then um Lor if you want to pull up the calculations on the main memo sheet so see every time essentially you
double the number of units that's when you add three dcib it's a point source um sound they're kind of all together and radiating out um if you want to go a little bit further down so right there um so the previous one was that the eight coolers were um were in the
previous design at 77 DB that's where all the calculations come from to actually add another three DB you'd have to go up to 16 of the coolers next to each other um so adding potentially that one cooler would only add the 375 DB to it so um I you know the calculation is
pretty sound it's a a fairly easy calculation to do um within the mpca guidelines there so um I don't think adding that one would be any type of a significant increase from what's already proposed understood any other questions okay um and just for just uh
to clarify this has already gone before the Planning Commission or this goes from us to the Planning Commission then onto the city council no this is again this is just this is just the Eda so it's a a a revision of the purchase and development agreement um because as of right now data centers are permitted in
the industrial zoning District uh understood so it doesn't even need to go in front of the Planning Commission because the changes to the entrance egress that's all there's no variances there's no no no deviations from our building code from that aspect correct correct okay okay and James just kind of walk us
through what exactly you're looking for for possible action today so action there's an attached resolution that would uh essentially approve the uh change of scope to the minimum improvements which are the construction documents stood thank you move to approve the attach
resolution yeah we have a motion to approve the resolution and a second by Johnson is there any further discussion all right hearing none Tony please call the role eer oh sorry grula yes Johnson yes kers yes oday yes Sandy
yes Jagger yes all right uh we have the resolution passes and with that we will move on to our 210 update would you like to kick us off yeah just a quick update I just saw that the chamber sent out a meeting notice for March 6th for the
Highway 210 reconstruction looks like another meeting with mot there's like a morning session and an afternoon one unfortunately the morning one I think is at the same time as our regularly or as our scheduled uh Eda meeting but I just it would be great to have somebody from
Eda there and I don't know James if you were planning to attend either of those sessions um but just I think that's going to be a good opportunity to give feedback on detour routes and um just in anticipation of the eda's workshop coming up the following month it just
would be good to stay informed on what those updates are but yeah I'm going to try to make the afternoon one is just during my regularly scheduled work hours so I can't guarantee you be there but I think as long as somebody for media can be there I plan to be there on the 3:30 session but we should probably make sure
we don't have more than more than we should have at that session so maybe if you are planning on attending uh either the morning or the afternoon session maybe let uh James know so we can uh or Tony know so sorry Tony know so we can make sure we don't have too many people there but or also if you have any
specific questions that you'd like for me or somebody else who's attending to ask or be uh be answered you know send it in to Tony yeah please just have a quick question right now because Gabe and I have sat on the subcommittee for the 210
project what what is there that could still potentially change I thought everything was already approved and done I think they're getting input on like the dour routes okay more construction related from what I understand okay signage that kind of thing did we talk
about having some firm come in and help with that I thought we talked with has Camp about something we're going to I think that's what we're going to try to talk to talk about at the April meeting is figuring out how yeah that project there was some somebody that helped in
Alexandria or something with a a project they had that was similar but I don't remember if signage in that kind of thing yeah signage events uhso strategic mitigation plan and just having better Communications out to businesses that's kind of part of it too
but yeah do we have an April date set for the workshop or is that something we're still going to be scheduling so um then I know you emailed me about uh potential upcoming dates here so the Eda will have two meetings coming up the regularly scheduled meeting will be
again the first Thursday of next month um at 7:30 and then uh kind of same time for April we have that Workshop which will be that first Thursday in April as well at 7:30 so kind of normal meeting times next meeting will be the regular one we'll do the election of officers um
and then uh and then conduct a regular business and then the April one will be the workshop where we could certainly discuss that part that first Thursday in April Jam okay and then are we inviting like blade to that and any other I don't know if we want to invite any other stakeholders to give input on we could
210 stuff or I can chat with you more about it too but yeah okay any other 210 update from your side James okay thank you and with that we are uh to the end of our agenda so move to adjourn got a motion to adjourn
and a second any discussion hearing none all those in favor signify by saying I I oppose same sign thank you everyone