Okay. We'll call this meeting to order, and welcome to our guest today. We'll do a roll call starting with Mark. Mark Sloan here. Lisa Kildy. Ryan Weinserl. Mike Grader. Mhmm. Here comes Bruce. Chad Olson. Hi. Bruce, if you just wanna give us your roll call. Okay. Bruce is here. Perfect. And for the city? Yeah. Peyton Mastero's here. Don Lorsung is here. Thank you, Todd. Okay, perfect. Thank you. And we'll go to the item approve or item agenda approval. Is there any changes or is there a motion to approve?
Motion to approve. I have a motion to approve. Is there a second and a second? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. Next item on the agenda is the, approval of the minutes from the 01/07/2026 planning commission meeting. Any questions, changes? Otherwise, I will entertain a motion. I'll move for approval. And I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. And a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Next item on the agenda is, public hearing five a, setting the zone of parcel IDs 23Dot046Dot0010 and 23 Dot 046 Dot 0020 to
I one industrial, light industrial. K. We will, open up the public hearing at 05:33. And do we have a staff presentation? You wanna take this one down? We do. Yes. Madam Chair and Planning Commission had discussed at the last meeting zoning must be established for the RESCO and then future Red River Valley co op site, both of which are being annexed as part of the large annexation into the city. When properties initially come in the city, they're zone transitional zone until zoning is ascribed to them. Given the near term development of Resco starting this year,
we feel it's it behooves the city to get zoning established on there. And the proposed zone, because of the use and looking at the use for River Valley Co op, is I-one industrial, light industrial. So the remaining will stay transitional? At this at this point in time in bold. Yeah. We're we are working on another zoning for that. And whoever gets on the committee gets to look at it. I have a plug for the committee. Shameless plug. But yeah. And, so we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. K. Peyton. Thank you, madam chair.
I did wanna provide just a quick update on the status of the Resco and Red River Valley co op land and annexation. All of the annexation got approved last city council meeting or the one before, and so resolutions have you have to have some concurrent resolution support. It's not it's just not even really a support. It's a concurrent resolution from the two townships involved as well as the the City Of Moorhead. So those signatures are being collected. They'll be sent off to the state.
We'll be golden there. And the waterline project that was that's going in as part of this, annexation project is being authorized for bid at our next city council meeting. So that's moving along nicely as well. Thanks for the update, Peyton. Okay. Anything else to consider on this? I mean, really just the zoning change on it. Yes, ma'am. Sure. It's fairly straightforward. Yeah. Okay. Do we have to go through the applicant the applicants or anything like that? We don't have an applicant for this.
Yeah. Yeah. You can just ask if there's anyone here to speak in favor of opposition and But there's no applicant. So Oh, oh, no. I have to do the presentation. We are. Yeah. Okay. So we'll just, open the floor now to ask if there's anyone here in favor of the application who wants to speak to it. K. Hearing none, if there's anyone in opposition to the application? K. Hearing none, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing at 05:36 and, let's have planning commission discussion on it. Any questions, comments? I think this looks pretty rubber stamped, straightforward. And with that said,
I'd like to make a motion to forward a recommendation that is over city council to draft an order setting the zoning of parcel IDs 23Dot046Dot0010, property owner, rural electric supply cooperative, and 23Dot046Dot0020, property owner, Red River Valley Cooperative Association, to I one industrial, light industrial. The designation of I one is in conformance with Dilworth comprehensive plan's future land use map. Okay. We have a motion on the floor. Is there a second? I'll second. And a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed?
Alright. Motion passes. Okay. On to the next item for public hearing. We have the preliminary and final plat community center addition, Lots 1 And 2, Block 1 to the city of Dilworth in the Southeast Corner Of Section 1, Township 149, Range 48, Clay County, Minnesota. Parcel ID 52Dot900Dot0001. Property owner, Eastview Land Development LLC. And we'll go ahead and open this meeting at 05:37. And do we have staff presentation? Sure thing. Thank you, madam chair. So, another relatively straightforward plat that's before you this evening.
And this evening, we're actually gonna be doing the preliminary and final plat approvals concurrently given that it's been, reviewed and approved internally in house. So the plat itself is for the community center addition, the community center project that's gonna be ongoing here pretty soon. So the Eastview Land Development's actually here represented at tonight's meeting, ironically enough. And, they're at our last city council meeting as well because the Lot 2 that you see up there was part of a donated piece that they made to the city
of Dilworth. So very appreciative of, Rick and Eastview and everyone involved in that transaction. So we're finalizing all those details right now. But, with that said, in order for us to bring that transaction whole, we do have to plat the land out there, plat the property, and that's what's before you this evening. So we have two tracts of land, the three acre tract that I just referenced as well as the 1.58, to the on the north side there that you see on the screen. And so this is mainly reserved for future
expansion purposes. There'll be a little bit of that land that we'll be utilizing for an access road, maybe our parking lot as well if bids come in, how we would like for them to. In addition, there's a dedication here of a future 3rd Avenue Northeast. That road is not going through at this time, but the landowners are gracious enough to go on and get that put on as part of this approval process. And, for this to be approved, it would go on to the city council at the next meetings. That's what's being sought this tonight.
And just a quick update as far as where we are with the community center project itself, It has it it's designing the design of the project is coming near a completion right now. Architects are putting the final touches on, put the final touches on everything. And I think we have our bid opening schedule for February 27, I believe, or sometime, 2627, somewhere in there, towards the end of the month. So we're crossing our fingers that we're gonna get in good bids for this with construction getting underway here probably in late April,
early May. And we're looking at up to an eighteen month construction window, give or take, some days and months in there. But, yeah, still just working on some of the fine you know, finalizing some details with it all. But, yeah, going out to bid here soon enough, and we're really excited about the future of the community and the future of the community center, what it will hold. Thanks, Peyton. Okay. Anything else from the staff presentation? K. Is there anyone here that wants to speak, in favor of the application? I'll open up the
floor. Okay. Hearing none, in opposition of the application? K. Hearing none, we'll go and move to close the public hearing at 05:41, and we'll go into planning commission discussion. Peyton, I just have one question since I remember vaguely our kind of overall idea of this section of Keystone or, not Keystone, the rail district. This is fitting within that, like, that 3rd Avenue going south of that parcel and continuing on? Yes.
We no. In fairness, we don't know exactly how it's going to unfold, but to go and have the dedicated right of way on there, that allows flexibility if there is ever need to if we have to bend the roadway or anything like that. But we did feel it's appropriate to go and get something dedicated on there for the time being. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions or discussions on this? Madam chair, I would make a motion to forward a recommendation to the Dilworth City Council to approve the preliminary and final plat of community Center addition, Lots 1 And 2, Block 1 to the city of Dilworth in the Southeast Corner of Section 1 Dash
449 Dash 48, Clay County, Minnesota. Parcel ID 52Dot900Dot0001. Property owner, Eastview Land Development LLC. Okay. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. And a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. K. Madam chair? Yes. If I may know that all the necessities are done, I just wanted to say this, as a matter of course. I had the opportunity to say it during our, regular council meeting. But on the information can you go back to the map there?
Or that one right there. Thank you. The total, lot size is almost five acres. And as, again, all of the necessary elements are done, I think it's important to note that three of those acres were donated. I think it's important to note that, the generosity of, the landowners and the citizens of Dilworth, or to the citizens of Dilworth, like, it's a generational donation. It's substantial. And we're fortunate to have that level of commitment, to the growth of our city. And as we continue to move this project forward, keeping that element in mind is very I think it's important,
and it's the right thing to do. And, again, just as a matter of course, I think making sure that it is recognized is important. That's all I have. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Okay. We'll go into the setting the zoning of property located in the Southeast Corner Of Section 114948, Clay County, Minnesota, parcel ID 52 Dot 900 Dot 0001, Lots 1 And 2, Block 1, Community Center addition to MU 2 Rail mixed use. Thank you, madam chair. And this is kind of a formality type thing.
Really, we we so now we have to set the zoning of this land and the nearest investee used for what we have in our zoning ordinances, that m u two designation. This is talked about when we were doing our future land use map and the like. So, this is just keeping in line with that. So, yeah, the next step so at our March meeting, we will officially do a public hearing to set the zoning that'll get approved on March 9, city council meeting. Okay. Any questions, discussion on this?
If not, there is a suggestion action motion in our packet. I will make a motion to call for a public hearing to set the zoning of property located in the Southeast Corner of Section 1 Dash 149 Dash 48, Clay County, Minnesota, parcel ID 52 Dot 900 Dot 0001, Lots 1 And 2, Block 1, Community Center addition to MU Dash 2 Rail mixed use. Alright. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. And a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes.
K. We'll go to the next item on the agenda, setting the zoning of parcel ID 52.3250.001, Block 4, House 6 Addition To R 3 Residential Limited Multifamily. Peyton? Thank you, madam chair. And Don and I will both take this one as well as solicit some input and participation from our guests this evening. So the parcel at hand that we're talking about give me one second here. Is located off 7th Street. So here's Highway 10, obviously. You can go up 7th Street.
Right when you go beyond Ditch 50 on the left, there's the community garden that you'll see out there. Well, this is owned by, Rick and Steve, and they have a proposal that they wanted to bring before the planning commission. And just to take a step back real quick, the this particular parcel came up as part of our subcommittee when we were looking at the setting of zoning of the future land use map, And this is one of the, parcels of land that we changed to the mixed use,
the MU three designation. Again, trying to provide more dense housing on a lot. This lot, as you can see, is goofy, to say the least, as far as, like, how it's set up and laid out. It's about point nine acres, I believe. And, so, Lance and Rick both brought to us a proposal, and that's what we're going to be sharing with you this evening. So, the proposal itself is going to go through the PUD process. Again, the lot itself is, and the surrounding nature of it make it a unique type of application here.
So and I put up here so we're thinking about setbacks, lot shape, and so forth. So So on a traditional lot, you have a lot that has road frontage facing 7th Street, a home would face 7th Street. You know, you can see where that wouldn't be the most ideal situation there. So we're trying to maximize that lot to the best of its ability there. And so, and and that was one thing that we talked about, briefly during the comp plan process, which is why we had, set the zoning or the future land use map to meet that r three limited multifamily designation.
So at the next meeting, presuming that we move forward with this, we'll do it'll be a kind of a dual public hearing, we'll say, for the PUD as well as to set the zoning of this land. And I can always pull up the PDF here if this doesn't come through. Well, it's a little challenging to see, I know. So you can see the Twin Home Development here on the top side of the page. So it'd be a, you know, drive coming off, probably, I guess, the side of the hydrant here. And so this is facing to the north, so homes will be facing back this direction,
back to the north. The lots the homes themselves would back up to ditch 50, similar to what we have right here. And if you look at the parcel lines, which you faintly see there, they come up to the back side of all the, to the mobile homes, there, just to the south. So it'll be a similar type design in that respect. However, these do have patios on them on the back, so a little bit of green space to play with there. I can't fully see the measurements right there, but I believe how this was all,
put together, and Lance and Rick can talk about it a little bit. We would be meeting all the setback requirements, from a and so when I'm saying a front yard setback, traditionally, you think of something off of 7th Street, but they'd be meeting the the front or side yard setbacks, you know, facing to the properties to the north of them as well. Again, getting back to the whole unique nature of the development that's going on. So kind of in a traditional sense, it's meeting the setback requirements with the exception of the back here, adjoining Ditch 50. But, again,
it has that 50 foot right of way in between there as well. And so even though the lot lines would or the setback would be less than your traditional 25 feet, they do have that pretty sizable buffer there at that location. And we were talking about different, alternatives and things that may be considered as part of this process. I did explain to them that the Planning Commission does reserve the right to place conditions on here. So when we were talking about potentially having to put up a screening fence or something along those lines, that can be a condition of approval that the Planning Commission has the right to
set as part of this, project there. So utilities are available there to this, site. Also been in discussion with the city engineer on, how drainage would work. So we feel like that can be accommodated here on-site, through different mechanisms. It is less than an acre in size, so it's not subject to the full on MS4 requirements that we typically have. So think about, like, having to put in a retention pond or anything like that. You don't have to go through the that rigmarole, but they do have to provide mechanisms to ensure that water is flowing back to
the ditch or shutting off accordingly. So, with that said, we wanted to bring this to you tonight, obviously, to present it to you, but also to show you the site plan. And, Again, I can pull up the PDF when you get zoomed in on it a little better. And the the, you know, Donna and I would like to get the planning commission's input on if there's anything else you'd like to see about the site plan or any questions that you have before we bring it to the public hearing, hopefully, in March. So, Don, I don't know if you have anything to add. Yeah. Just a thank you.
Just, just a few things. You know, this is a great project when you look at the spirit of an infill project, you know, a way to put housing into somewhere where it where it makes sense. And it looks dense. Right? But it's not. And the r three zoning, single and two family building density is 33% of the lot. This is 28%. So it meets that standpoint. It meets the front yard setback. There's, you know, quite a bit of separation between that and the single family to the north. And, actually, it it's a great it's a great
density, I guess, drop down in my mind because you're basically going from from the r five, mobile home park to an r three to an r one. So it really provides just a great flow of density, you know, up to the r one, and and, it's a great opportunity to get some needed housing for the community and, you know, a quality project, you know, in light of a very difficult lot to work with. Thanks, Peyton. Thanks, Don. Appreciate that. Any initial questions, I guess, from planning commission?
Madam chair, would this be developed for, private ownership or rentals? Can I Yeah? Go ahead, Lance. Yeah. So, the plan will be to, sell these these units, but we'd have to keep it open for rentals in at least in the short term until they do sell out. So we can't just we're gonna do them all at once. So we have six units there. Ideally, they would they would all be we could presale some and get them sold fairly quickly. But, in the event we don't, we're gonna have to get some income off of them until they can move. So That's a total of six units? Yes. Yep.
Three duplexes. What was the size of them again, Lance? They're about, where where do we end up falling on? 1,400. 1,400 square feet for the floor plan. We went through several renditions. So and they have a two stall garage, on them there. They're pretty similar to what are the ones up north? Scott Anderson. Scott Anderson. The sun. Yep. So they're, you know, they're a lower cost, price point, so it should be easy easy to somebody find their way into those. Yeah. Chad. Slab on grade. Yes. Single story rambler type?
Yep. Exactly. So I had a question on the private drive. I feel like this question always comes up whenever we have private drives. Who who maintains the private drive? So there will be an HOA Okay. Perfect. That will handle the snow removal and the maintenance of the private drive and likely the the lawn care too. Okay. Kind of anticipating that this might end up being, you know, a 55 and older crowd, but really not sure. You know, they they're a nice affordable option for somebody that's downsizing. Could easily be, you know, starter homes as well, but, yeah,
they're they're in that lower price point. K. So nice infill project with with, you know, the lot size and the driveway going in there. We need six units in there to make it work financially. So, we with the we would also propose that there'd be a fence along the north side of the property there to, address any concerns of screening for the other residential lots to the north. Yeah. So the access then from the north side of our vehicles and the garage opening will be to the north side?
They will. Okay. So that's between the back, it'll be a patio Yep. Green space kind of thing. Yep. Right to the right to the lot line. Be one story. Yep. Yeah. How far back from the house to the lot line, the backyard? Eight feet. Eight feet? Yep. Just the size of the patio. I believe there's not a setback requirement. Okay. So Yeah. It's kind of a weird deal. It's and then that's why it's going through the PUD process. So a traditional r one zone or whatever it is or r three zone, you know, we would typically have a was it eight foot setback,
Becky? Is that right? Mhmm. You know, so there is a setback requirement that given the unique nature of it, I think the PD, I won't say, takes it out the window, but at least, it gives the planning commission ability to be flexible in that regard. Some flexibility. Yeah. On on that same vein, I'm Peyton. I apologize, madam chair. No. You're fine. Go ahead, John. So I'm operating under the assumption that it has to be x one feet away from the ditch. Correct? It does not. As long as it's not on the right of way. We Okay. So that's set up right of way.
So we did a call with, Clay County Ditch with with the Watershed District already. We had a phone call with them about it. Yeah. Talk about that already. Into the ditch if necessary and all that. Does the act so the access road coming from the east going west, is there gonna be, like, a turnaround point or it's just their driveway is just their driveway at the end. Okay. Yep. And then as and that's a 20 foot wide ax 25. 25 feet. 25. And then is there any concern for fire on that to get in and out?
I mean, they'd have to back out, I'm assuming. But Right. This will some be something that we'll have to share with our car department. Yeah. And we share we any stop plan, we always take the public safety to make sure it's meeting all the requirements as well as the sanitation because they all wanna ensure that they can get their vehicles. Because that'll be their first question is how are we gonna get our trucks back there to, you know, remove garbage. Yeah. And then, I guess, yeah, if there's gonna be street parking or anything like that would be the next question, I guess. But not for me to decide, but for them. But, anything else?
Further questions? Madam chair Yes. Excuse me. You talked that there would be a a fence on the north side. Would there be a fence on the south side between the the homes and the ditch? No. There would not. No. It would just be open green space. And then one other question. The motion here I see is to call for a public hearing to set the zoning. Would that be at the time where the seven property owners to the north of that would have their time to come and speak? Yes. We have to notify everyone within 350 feet. Okay. Oh, that was my question. It kind of you kinda talked about it a little bit like this community garden.
Yeah. What is there a story behind that at all? Like, does the community actually utilize that garden? Rick can maybe answer that better. He can probably answer that better in the hallway. A few people wanted to have a garden there years ago. So I let them garden there, but I said you're totally on your own. I don't want no money for it. No nothing. And, basically, kind of takes care of itself. There is one contact person that, I have contact with and stuff, And I haven't told them about this yet because I wanted to make sure it's
gonna go before I stir up any hornet's nest. So, that's kind of the scoop on there. I think it's getting to be less and less gardeners, though. For a while, there was like eight or 10 of them. Bill Bergquist, people like that, you know, over the years. And some of them have passed away since then, so it just kind of dwindles down. K. I don't believe I don't believe any of the residents along there are guarding in that area at all. Okay. Don Deal was it Don Deal that used to live there years ago? He used to plant a big garden there all the time,
and he hasn't been there for many years now. K. Thanks, Rick. Yes, Bruce? I would say that would change the complexion of the neighborhood some, you know, but just because the garden is there. It's been there for a while. It's just a kind of a a thing, you know, you know, but I can see we have to move on from that. But, it is a nice it was a nice thing to have right there. I think it's a for that too. I can understand the needing to fill in these spaces too. Just general comment that, appreciate you allowing people to do that. You know, that was a nice gesture.
I think you brought a lot of joy and to the people that Yeah. Were involved. So thank you for that. Alright. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you, Lenz. Thanks you. Thank you, Rick. Yeah. Any further questions, discussion? I think that this would be an interesting, the I mean, their twin homes are not in much different than what we have in Dilworth already. You know, I think it would be interesting to see how fast they fill. I think we're always surprised how how fast the apartments have filled. And so I think this is something that's needed within our community. And, if they feel fast, then we know that that's something that we need more of.
So if no further discussion, there's a suggested motion on page 16 of our packet. Well, I will make a motion to call for a public hearing to set zoning of parcel ID 52.3250.001 Block 4, Hughes, 6th Addition to R 3, residential limited multiple family. Alright. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. And a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Alright. We have item six c, establishment of a subcommittee for the Dilworth Zoning Ordinance update. Well, madam chair, I'm planning commission. Now that the comp plan has been updated, the next step is to go and review our zoning ordinance to look at changes. Staff has been working actually on the rewrite of the zoning code, inserting stuff. You know, and, obviously, you've had a number of different ordinances come to you ahead of time. Mhmm. And that's part of the rewrite of the code. The rest of the stuff we felt could wait and do it all kind of in one swoop. But it's been going on probably twenty four to thirty six months off and on
as staff has had time to work on it. So what I'm thinking is this, a working group, you know, it could be, I I think we we can have three for sure. It's gotta be a non quorum group. Probably meet three to four times. What I would do is ship out the zoning code as we have it. It's a zoning code word doc to edit. One thing you'll have to know when you look at it, you know, you're you're gonna look at it and say, well, the cannabis isn't in it. This isn't it. That isn't it. Because you have to remember, we started with the base ordinance thirty six months ago.
It didn't include a lot of that stuff. That will all be included, obviously, when the final product gets here or final draft, I should say, to this to this table for your full consideration. So, my thought would be to get a have the working group help give us direction, redo it, give us direction of any other changes we need to make to try and get something semifinal, before we bring it here to everybody. Thanks, Don. I guess I will I will volunteer to sit on that, red line of the zoning ordinance. If there's anyone else?
I would also volunteer. Mike? I know we have Steve and Crystal and, Cassandra. You have that haven't aren't here. I don't know if they had read the packet ahead of time. I don't know too. But I was gonna say Nobody's called us for has anybody come to me? And down. Just a point for someone. K. Wrong. I can volunteer. Need one more? K. Ryan? That's probably enough. K. Very good. Great. I appreciate it. I'll second that motion. K. So who's the first motion by? That was you when you said I'll make a motion that I'm gonna do it. So Okay. I'll make I'll make the motion to appoint myself,
Ryan, and Mike to the subcommittee to work with the staff on updating towards the zoning and Chad second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. That was easy. Easy peasy. When is a good time to meet? When did we do the comp plan meetings? This seemed to work well. I was trying to remember. I don't remember. I have to look at my calendar. It was a random Thursday at noon or something. Yeah. An afternoon Thursday afternoon time. I work from home can come whenever. So home actually can be a lot. Yep. Okay. So I think I'm sure I can get you done with this Zoom meeting. Yeah.
Make it a little bit easier for everyone. Right. Maybe. Right. That's your decision, though. Yeah. I didn't pardon me, Mike. I didn't. I said the only thing I'm strapped by is meetings from time to time. But if I'm if there's enough advance notice, I can clear my schedule. So Okay. Probably what we'll do for the first one. We'll just send out a doodle poll and Yeah. Get everyone there and then just kinda set it as you go along from there. Yeah. Perfect. That works. Thank you. Thanks again. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Next item on the agenda is to receive and file building permits from 2025, December 25. So moved. Second. And a motion and a second.
All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. Do we have any project updates? I gave you an update earlier about the community center projects, and I don't think there's any other projects. Can you think of anything, Don, that we need to make note of? Not really. Nothing that's really solid or worth talking about, I think. Commonwealth contacted me about giving them an estimate for the building costs on 3rd Avenue Flats and, he said potentially that they would be getting back to me about April to get
the, final permit and so forth. So The workforce housing on the South Side Of 3rd Avenue? Yes. Is that a step further than what we've done before? Yes. Okay. Good. It is. Yeah. It's they received funding, didn't they? Yeah. It's off it's been authorized. Is there a Okay. Okay. File has been authorized. Yes. Then okay. So then it it should I can make numbers go from there. And I'm not sure what's going on in Saint Paul, whatever Yeah. Impacted. But, yeah, it should be gonna talk to you. Do a phased return. Ago. And with the second phase of the rail 10 apartments going in,
which I think people should be moving in maybe as early as this month out there with it. And then I know that'll get us over the 5,000 mark with the demographer. Oh, yeah. So that's always exciting. Wow. We get a sticker? No. But we get increased transportation from him. I'm actually we go. Today. It gets something. It gets it gets us something. It's as a sticker. Yeah. It's not a maybe we'll change the welcome to door sign or something, but it yeah. While it does give us more funding, we'll say it, comes there's some restrictions with it.
It can only be used on getting too into the weeds here, but it can only be used on roads that are part of the functionally class network. So we can't just go do a local street in town and utilize the funds. It can it has to be on our major roadways, which we've been slowly building up our own road budget to hopefully accommodate some local roadway stuff, but that's a thing that we've always, you know, not kept up with very well. But we're getting there. Yeah. Any update on the project North Of The 3rd Avenue, the ones that have stalled out?
No. Okay. I mean, there's nothing the city, I mean, can do at this point, I imagine. They're just stalled out. K. K. Any other project updates? I saw excuse me. Madam chair. I saw a couple of drawings of the community center. Is that do you have a full kind of layout and plan of that? No. Give me just one second here. I can't say for certain I have an updated floor plan, but let me show I can show you go through all the renderings that I have that we did not too long ago. While you're looking that up, can you remind me the timeline for Resco? They're gonna be on a similar timeline,
so they're hoping to get started with construction this summer. And I think it'll probably be a year long project, I would guess, if not more. Because they're the level of investment they're looking to do is up to $18,000,000, 15 to 18,000,000. So then that's a Wow. That's a big old building Yeah. That they're gonna be putting in out there. So what you see up here on the screen I'm gonna do something on the other end here. One second. So what you see up here on the in the screen is the, activity room. We'll say that has a capacity for about 400 people.
So if you ever were to have a larger scale event, it would accommodate that. Around the perimeter of it and going throughout the building is gonna be kind of like a so they call it like a mall walking style. It's not an indoor track per se, but it does give you an opportunity to make, you know, make loops around the facility and this would also accommodate three pickleball courts inside And you can see right here, this room opens up, so it'll have a doorway right here into an indoor playground space that will be,
you know, open. But we don't know exactly on the programming hours and things like that, but, presumably, it's gonna be open to the public, obviously. But for renting out for private birthday parties and events for maybe you open up this room and you just have, like, this further third of the space out here that can be opened up for that. It's just showing it closed off there and it would also allow for one volleyball court inside. So, yeah, here's a rendering looking back towards, the west. This is not this other building right here.
This is just something that's been, sketched in for the time being. It's something that we've been working with in Eastview Development on another private development that could be going in along there at some point. This is the main entryway pre function area, so we'll have a greeting desk there. Again, we're not exactly sure on staffing how all this is going to work. Another cool thing that we are doing that we're in the talks with is with the, arts partnership and having a contract with them where we would have a rotating gallery
over there. The local artist local artists, have four to six prints over there that would rotate out every quarter or so they would handle it all. We pay on a certain fee to maintain that but, we've been making some design enhancements to support that as part of this whole project that draw. We're thinking about we're just trying to think ways to bring individuals here you know to this facility because we want to make it a more robust facility than just a rental space. So in the middle of the building itself we're gonna have
two meeting rooms that will hold about 50 people each or you can open them up sort of how this you'll see right here that can support up to a 100 people inside. Again here's the aforementioned playground. Looking down the hallway, the pre function area, and these are showing the doors to the activity room. Then further on down the hall would be the, you know, playground space and meeting rooms. And bathrooms with you. Bathrooms. Yep. Some transparent people walking through there at all times. Think there's a ghost. Come haunted.
Not Then maybe ghosts. Those things will be We just moved the headstones. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. Bathrooms. Then we have yeah. Here's where the aerial look. I think we were taking a look at that. So this part over here, the we'll call them, like, the plaza area, and this is that 3rd Avenue area of the space that we were just talking about that got dedicated as part of this project there. We don't know if this is gonna take place, this phase of the project. It's gonna be bid out as an alternate. So if you know any donors or anyone like that that would love to sponsor
something like this, we would love to have it as part of this project. Long term, I personally foresee this space out here being more this the central one of the more central focused areas of the community where people come to congregate, where events will be held, little amphitheater style as you can see out there. And, so we just hope to build on that, momentum as we work through all this. So kind of the design features of it all, we went with the you know,
because we're in the with everything has to be train related, but we didn't go overboard with it either. We made sure that there were some subtleties about it so you can see sort of the arch, you know, you know the arched windows that you'll see here like maybe that you'd seen a traditional depot style building. And, in addition to that, like, along the perimeter of it, it's it's supposed to give off the characteristics of, like, a platform, that you have, again, without just drawing a building and making it look like a caboose, you know, we wanted to, you know,
draw back to the heritage of the community a little bit, but not go overboard with it. You're not gonna have a train sitting there, an old train sitting there like we do at the park. Not yet. With the wheel Working on that one. Not yet. You leave you just leave local days space so we can have the activities outside. Yeah. And so this is supposed to be like a roundhouse type Mhmm. Theme here where the outdoor space is. You can see the tracks going through the middle of it. A cool design feature. And, no, this is not going in as part as part of this. He just set something there just to think,
like, some sort of cool features, something that could be out there long term. But we don't we don't really publicize that much because people will think we're adding a water tank all of a sudden. It'd be kinda cool on it. We could actually use that to do underground watering of all the green space there. The trees are in there so they don't die. Yeah. We'll put on time. Yeah. Let me see. I think this floor plan The problem money can't solve. The problem is money. Yeah. This this this floor plan here is outdated, so I hate for you to even really take much from it here. I mean, it somewhat gives you an idea of the layout of what it's gonna be,
but this isn't how it's set up. Because these meeting rooms are right here now. These are like from this past summer. We moved over the bathrooms and so but this kind of gives you a general feel of what it's gonna be shaped and appear. Well, in the in the back hallway and the main hallway. So, like, all your table transportation is all in the back hallway. All your food will go in the back hallway. Yep. It's kind not a service corridor, but kind of a service corridor back there. So So is it all your kitchen area there? Yeah. Right next right next to the main Oh,
there it is. Room. And then also has doors that can open to the other rooms as well. The kitchen itself, we we get that question a lot, what it's going to entail and look like. It's actually gonna be relatively similar in in size and scope to what we had at the previous community center, which of you know, our prior facility had its warts, but, actually, the kitchen itself was a highlight of the facility even though the equipment was outdated. Mhmm. So we're gonna have brand new equipment in there and all that.
But we looked at pretty much replicating some variety of what we had there previously. So, yeah, we'll see. Now we're just gonna be everyone needs to be crossing their fingers that we get back some good numbers with this. You know, it's being funded in part by our sales tax that is being collected in town, which is doing really well. You know, it's collecting well ahead of schedule. So that's good. But there's still a gap there and, you know, the facility use itself was obviously going to be bringing in some funds,
but we don't know what that's gonna be. I don't think until we actually get out there and get moving on it. So the there we have a subcommittee right now that just got started yesterday, you know, starting to talk about some of those things with programming, hours of operation, all those other finer details that come with actually running a building. And there's a lot to work through especially when you're starting this from the, you know, Ground Floor, so to speak. We're, you know, I'm cautious cautiously optimistic it's gonna go well and everything, but, we know there's gonna have to be some level of staffing with it,
you know. It's a full on building and space off-site that has to be monitored in some variety or if you have rooms being switched out, you have a, you know, net that has to be put up, whatever it is, somebody's gotta do it. You know, we can't just say, hey. You're responsible for all this and let them in certain rooms to do all these things. While it is a community facility, we also understand there's a responsibility that goes along with that. We wanna make sure it's kept up nicely and in fine condition. If we're gonna have a facility that's open,
you know, seven days a week or on the weekends, some or after hours, You know, our maintenance crew currently, like, when they were doing the previous community center, there's not an event in there. They it's not like they had to be there at, you know, five in the morning or six in the morning to clear it off for people walking through the building, but that will not be the case this go around. Mhmm. You know, you're gonna have to have someone out there that's monitoring, cleaning those things. So, yeah, a lot of questions to work through and we'll, you know, taking our time with it. You're gonna do it right. You know, it's gonna be our little jewel out there,
and so we're really excited about how this is going to unfold. We wanted more than a box like our old one was and Yep. Takes a little bit more care than just a box. And it's gonna set us up for future additions Yeah. To it. You know? We're not get we're not getting way ahead of ourselves in building. We would love to have two or three basketball courts onto swimming pools or whatever you wanna add, other type of amenity library and all those things, but we're also very realistic in what we have. And, we're not gonna get ahead of ourselves, because it's still a matter of money too.
Mhmm. But we hope it'll be supported well. We hope the community utilizes it to, its greatest extent possible and that we have other, you know, community ed and other regional partners that will participate. And maybe those future additions will come about sooner rather than later. That was my next question if there was room to expand. Oh, yeah. That's why it's built intentionally like that. And that's why on the plat that you're moving forward, it's that additional 1.58 acres that's gonna allow for some of the expansion and then other parts of it may go to the east of there.
Yeah. There isn't a lot of they moved the location of the restrooms as well. Mhmm. Then it would facilitate Yes. The next phase of development if, you know, if it's built to the north or there's an addition to the north side, then it works that way. Thanks, Peyton. Thank you, Peyton. Don, thanks, Becky, for all your updates. Appreciate it. And then we can adjourn.