Alright. We'll go ahead and call a meeting to order, and welcome to our guests today. We'll do a quick roll call. We'll start on our right. Mark Sloan. Steve Astro. Lisa Kildy. Ryan Weinzierl. Cassie Baird. Mike Raider. Chad Olsen. And from staff side, Peyton Masera. Thank you. And next item on the agenda is the agenda approval. Motion to approve. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. Go ahead to the next item on the agenda, which is our approval of the minutes from the 05/07/2025 planning commission hearing.
Any questions or changes? Otherwise, I will hear a motion on the floor. So moved. I have a motion. Is there a second? Second. And a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. Go ahead and go to 5 A, which is our final plat, Eastview Eleventh Edition. Replat of Lot 3 Block 1 Of Eastview 6 Eastview 6 Edition, parcel ID 50 2 Dot 1 1 1 Dot 0 0 3 0, applicant OZ Development LLC, property owner Mike Optrow.
And so we'll go ahead and open the public meeting at 05:32. And do we have a staff presentation? We do. Thank you, madam chair, members of the planning commission. So last month, the planning commission reviewed the preliminary plat of Eastview Eleventh edition, also known as the most simple, replat of our entire career. So we're really excited to have you back here for the final plat approval. The intent of this, as you can see out there in where the rail district is off of Fourteenth Street in between Fourteenth And Fifteenth Street, there's a new commercial structure that's going in sort of on the southern portion of
this indicated lot right here. The intent is to buy this into, I guess, not into half, but, to a a lower portion so that this can be sold off appropriately. And here's, what the plat looks like. So from the original meeting give me just one second here so I can zoom in. There you go. So, from the original meeting, there were some minor adjustments that we made. Most notably, we were sure we made sure we got a 10 foot utility easement. We usually do that around the entire perimeter of a lot.
It was just shown on a couple of the sides. We kept that included. Cleared up this little more language regarding the utility easement and some other minor language related to the plat itself. This was reviewed by our city attorney and the and the engineers that were putting together this plat, and they all came to consistent consensus that everything looks good on it. So from here, the next step in the process is to take this before the city council for final plat approval,
and the property owners will be good to go. As you can see in this access easement right here, it does stop just short of Fourteenth Street because we're not gonna have a road cutting all the way across. But this will be utilization for utilities and also for access purposes so they can enter for enter a parking lot for this new for this phase right here, as well as a future phase on the north portion of for Eastview Eleventh edition here. So, with that said, yeah, again, pretty clear cut. Developers here to answer any questions the planning commission may have.
Thank you, Peyton. Does the applicant want to do a presentation? I think Peyton covered it well. K. We'll let you know if we have any questions. Alright. Thanks, Lance. Okay. We'll go ahead and move to if there's anyone that wants to speak in favor of the application today. And if there's anyone that wants to speak in opposition of the application? Okay. We'll go hearing none, we'll go ahead and close the public meeting at 05:35, and we can open it for planning commission discussion. Any questions, discussion? If no further discussion, we can always, entertain a motion for approval. There's a suggested action on page six of our agenda.
Madam Chair, I'd make a motion to forward a recommendation to the Dilworth City Council to approve the Eastview eleventh edition final plat as presented. This plat approval is upon it meeting all city regulations and shared utility access agreement is recorded for the newly created lots one and two. Alright. We have a motion. Is there a second? Second. And a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. Thanks, Lance. Okay. We'll go ahead onto the next item on the agenda, which is the, 06/2025 comprehensive plan update and discussion.
Peyton. Yeah. So MetroCobb is gonna be taking the lead for most of this, but the goal of today's meeting is obviously to get a progress report of where we stand in the comprehensive planning process and really start to get to the meat of what I feel the most important part of our comp plan is, which is adjusting our future land use maps and make sure it aligns with the goals and objectives of what the planning commission and city council would like to see for future development purposes. So with that said, I'll turn it over to our metro car folks.
Thank you for, for having us. I don't think I've met all of you yet. My name is Aden Young. I'm an assistant transportation planner with MetroCOG. Chris of Havoc is also here with us. Adam Moultenberg, who is the project manager for this, he had a little family emergency today. So, he is unable to present today, but, Chris and I are gonna try our best to, to get through it. Alright. So, tonight we're going to review and discuss some of the survey results that we got from our online input, kinda discuss some key issues and themes that arose from that,
and like Peyton said, look at the current and future land use, and then kind of just get some next steps for what will be next, for the Dilworth comp plan. So, going into the survey results, we had 86 responses this time around. And some of the takeaways were people really just love that this is a small town. It has good character, community pride. It's super friendly, safe, family oriented atmosphere. People love the proximity to Fargo Moorhead and all of the amenities that come with that. Reliable city services was something that came up,
a lot. And then the school district, is a reason that a lot of people move here and stay here. That was, in a lot of the comments that we received. So as far as the key issues and themes, there were really eight reoccurring themes from the survey answers. But this time around, the most important, or or the one that came up the most was really roadways, safety, and accessibility. I think we should go to the next slide here. And then, so for roadway safety and and accessibility, I here's some, some comments that we that we took directly from the survey. You know, things like needing to address some poor quality of the streets.
This was mostly in kind of the older Dilworth side, kind of towards Highway 10 and around there. A lot of, questions about development of Eighth Avenue and Fifteenth Avenue, and what that you know, what those transportation corridors look like. Overpass by the railroad tracks, you know, getting to, over Fourteenth Street, getting to the rail district. And then there were a couple comments as well about, you know, safe passage across Highway 10, and it not being super super safe as it, is right now. The next, area that that we heard a lot of comments from was parks and community assets
or community amenities. And the community center is something that the residents seem to be really excited about. A lot of comments about, swimming and basketball courts, pickleball, you know, these are things that, the residents would really like to see, larger parks, maintaining the parks that you already have, were all were all things that that came up, quite a bit. The next section here is growth and development. Generally speaking, a lot of people like the the growth that they're seeing in Dilworth. A lot of steady residential and commercial growth. Some of the comments were to put to bring more services,
North Of Dilworth. Some people are saying, well, there's not enough businesses and attractions. Some people, or a lot of people noted that the Rail District has been really, really great for the city. Some people even saying, you know, growing the Rail District and taking focus off of businesses along Highway 10. And then there's some people that are saying making things available for the whole city and not just the Rail District. So I think, generally, people just are are pretty happy with the amount of growth that's been happening recently. But, yeah, other things like, attracting, you know, larger big box stores, an outlet mall was something that came up,
in the growth and development section. These are kind of just some miscellaneous comments, that didn't necessarily fit into a category. Some people were noted, noting, revisiting some, some setback rules. A lot of people, noted that keeping the crime rate under control and low property taxes is is, an important thing on their minds. And a lot of really good, or a lot of comments about the strong community leadership that you have here in Dilworth. Yeah. The next section here is housing. And, the housing, generally speaking, people are still pretty supportive of expanding,
the single family homes in in in Dilworth. That still seems to be the primary area that people wanna see. But still a lot of comments about kind of that missing middle housing that we talk about. So duplexes, threeplexes, row homes, that type of stuff. That came up quite a few times among among residents. So, and as well in our, open house, there were quite a few, votes for that kind of missing middle type type of housing. So, yeah. And then some other, comments also included, additional senior living options as well, and then, more consideration for affordable housing as well.
Next year, the next section is revitalizing downtown. A lot of people you know, it seems like some people really wanna focus attention towards the rail district, but we still had a lot of comments that were, on revitalizing that kind of Highway 10 corridor. You know, some people even saying that, this would be a great option for infill with city incentives for mixed and low moderate income housing, beautifying that area, cleaning up some of those buildings and houses along Highway 10. Then the next thing that seemed to be on the mind of the residents was competition with neighboring jurisdictions.
People really just want Dilworth to continue to remain competitive with steady residential and commercial growth. There were a lot of comments about not wanting to get swallowed up by by Moorhead and and having, you know, still Dilworth still having its own identity as a city. A lot of comments about competing with North Dakota side for businesses, as well as residents. And then lastly here, is walkability, sidewalks, and bikeability. People are generally pretty supportive of, you know, biking and walking trails, kind of that shared use path, you know, eight to 10 foot wide trails.
People really like to see those things in communities. But I think more specifically for Dilworth, One of the a lot of the comments were on the missing sidewalks in the older part of town. And so kind of having that pedestrian connectivity in that older part of town, seemed to be a a really important topic among residents. They were there was a lot of infrastructure, things where, you know, they were saying that sometimes there are sidewalks, but sometimes those sidewalks aren't in the best condition. So, and I know that, the city is addressing that, you know, through, safe routes to school grant,
I believe. So, things are moving in the right direction, but, but those, some of the comments we received for that. And then this is kind of an interesting, comparison between the 2017 comp plan responses and, the responses this time. And what's super interesting is in 2017, schools were actually, it was it was the most important issue and theme, among residents, you know, throughout all the responses. And this time, schools barely even, it, you know, it didn't even make its own category. There was only a couple comments, so I would see this is probably a good thing,
you know, that there aren't really any many concerns about the school. Now the main concern seems to be with the that roadway's, safety and accessibility, which is just kind of an interesting, comparison to last time. And then next, I just have a couple, I just took a couple snapshots of, the of some questions directly from the survey. These ones are all kinda related to that walkability and, you know, sidewalks and pedestrian mobility. So this one is just, do you have any pavement concerns, with the current roadways in in Dilworth? You know, just just over 80% of people are saying yes.
And then when you looked at the actual comments, you know, and they're specifying where, most of those comments are all in that older part of Dilworth, right, you know, north and south of, Highway 10. This one, how important do you think developing Dilworth's bicycle facilities are? So wider trails, bike lanes. You know, nearly 70% are saying that's, you know, either an important thing or a very important thing. Some, of course, saying that that they're indifferent, but very few people saying that it's not important at all. Just something to keep in mind. How would you rate the current pedestrian fill facilities and sidewalks in Dilworth?
It's kind of all over the board. Some are saying they're really good. Some are saying they're poor. I think this is probably dependent on where you live. If you live in the newer part of town, you're probably more likely to to report that those are in better condition, whereas if you're in the older part of town, little bit worse condition. And then the last question here is, how important do you think developing and maintaining divorce, sidewalks are for the community? And and nearly 90% of people are saying that this is a very important, or or important thing for them. So, again, just another, thing to keep in mind as as we move forward.
So with that, that's all I have. So are there any questions? If I may, you know, a lot a lot of these conversations related to sidewalks. I'm just curious. What what is how do how do we define a fair sidewalk or an excellent sidewalk or a good sidewalk? That's a good thing. Well, to start, to meet ADA standards, I would say, is is one of the biggest ones, so making sure that, you know, it's not heaving in areas. I would say that that's probably the the best place to start. In terms of, you know, fair condition, I I guess that's probably I'm I'm not entirely sure how you would how you
would, quantify that. But I would say as long as there's not too many cracks or or or bumps where it's kind of impeding the flow of of people or, you know, if an older person is is struggling to to get across that sidewalk, I would say that's probably in fairly poor condition. Were you able to go back to the 2017 survey and see why school was number one in it Or what what how it's gone now? A lot of people were worried about the school district getting too big. That's where a lot of the comments were actually focused on,
and they really appreciated that the school district was fairly small. And I believe there was, at that time, plans for a school, and I'm not sure exactly where, but that sense, I don't believe there's gonna be there's plans for school anymore. And so I think that could maybe explain, partly why there why there was a lot less. I'm trying to remember when the referendums were closed. It wasn't the mess of all that going on at the time. And at before even referendum, there was a thought process that maybe the school would become the high school or
whatever, sort of on the Northeast Part of the community, like, north of where Keystone is located right now. Okay. And, yes, shown on the future land use map. So there was no clarity at the time with it, and the referendum maybe was approved that winter or that November after this was completed. So I think that recalibrated everyone's thinking on it all now that the renovations are complete. So at the time, the school was at everyone's front of mind and now the Highway 10 corridor was
at front of mind, which is why roadways is Yeah. There was a lot of going back and forth through that before the well, I guess there was two referendum votes. So, this is you know, to kinda go back in time there, there was a lot of, yeah, dissension, I guess you could say, between, you know, the Dilworth facility, the Glendon facility, and, you know, some arm wrestling to what it was gonna look like, and I'm not sure the school knew at the time either. And so I think that was in everyone's psyche as they were filling out this survey. But then for now this one,
we've done the Highway 10 corridor, we've done the Eighth Avenue corridor Yep. We've done the Fifteenth Avenue corridor, and that's what's on the front of mind for everybody, which is why it's Potentially number one. Number potentially number one in your area. So the 86 responses, does that include is that just the online survey, or is that also kinda bringing in this stuff from the open house as well? That is not bringing anything in from the open house. That's the online survey as well as comments from the interactive map online. Okay. Yep. Any further questions? Maybe maybe one further. When you when you see some of these comments related
to deal worth maintaining its identity, I would imagine that the other communities that you held, that's probably a prevailing theme among those communities. And so when you're commenting to other communities, and us included, what is it that you're sharing in the form of your expertise as to how a community goes about doing that? And where would I mean, among the places that you that you surveyed? I mean, where where is the place to really focus a lot of that energy? Because there's a lot of Yeah. That's a really good question. Full full transparency, I'm fairly I'm actually fairly new to to planning.
I I graduated not too long ago. And so I'm I I started here in in January, and so I don't have a a super long, history of how how we've or or what we've seen, you know, other communities other communities do, you know, to kinda sort of maintain their identity. I I would think that a lot of that would come from just community amenities and community wide events. I think that that's one of those things that that could that builds community and kinda builds that that social network.
And so I would say that that's probably one thing that you know, things like loco days, are are things that can really help help a city maintain its identity and not feel like it's being swallowed up by a by a different city. So I don't know if that answers your question, but I appreciate the response. Yeah. Thanks. Well, thank you very much for your time today. I appreciate it. Anything further on that, Peyton? Well, I know we're gonna dive into the lane use Okay. Component now. Yeah. Sure. Okay. Crystal will come up and and help me with this. But, so yeah. We,
this first one here is is the the current land use, kinda as it as it stands today. And so the first three maps, of the future land use, I think it'll be easiest if we focus on the southern, part of that. So I think that everything south of the tracks is really the stuff that that is going to be, changing. That makes sense? So, if you wanna go to the next slide there. So we kinda have three, three different scenarios that that we were looking at, when we were looking at land use. And we were looking at kind of that mixed use center area south of the
tracks. So again, mixing those uses, commercial as well as residential, also having some, you know, medium and high density residential, some commercial nodes, and then also low density housing. But focusing most of that medium, high, and and, commercial, all of that along those larger roads and arterial arterials, and then kind of buffering it out where that low density or it gets it gets lower as you get farther away from those major roads. So, yeah, the mixed use center is kind of that first scenario that we came up with.
The second scenario that we were looking at is creating kind of more of a commercial center in that in the southern part of town. So all sorts of different kind of commercial uses and along that Twelfth Avenue corridor, developing that as as also more of a commercial corridor as opposed to residential. May I interject real quick? I can just to and I'm sure most are aware of here. They're putting these together with the backdrop of the potential of a casino going right here at this location and this developing across here as well,
Twelfth Avenue being sort of a major corridor that would be running east to west across through here. So keep that in the back of your mind, this being a major commercial player in the game. Do we go down to Twelfth Avenue? We do. Okay. Can you give just a direction as to what Twelfth Avenue is in Morehead when I'm driving down 30 Fourth? What's the corner there? Is that Casey's? Okay. That's correct. Yep. Okay. I just wanted to make sure I was thinking of it correctly. Thank you. Yep. Yeah. So this is kind of that more commercial center,
you know, land land use scenario. And lastly, we looked at what a potential residential, land use scenario could look like. And, again, kind of focusing that medium and higher density residential along, the the larger arterial roadways and then buffering it in lower density, as you get farther away from them. So do you have anything else you'd like to add add about those. But yeah. So I guess if there's any discussion about this area south, we have some other slides about, kind of what the land use north of what will be Eighth Avenue.
But as far as the southern part. Yes, Joe. Madam chair, my question is, are we because what we've done in the past is really kinda mirrored what Moorehead was thinking they would do. That's our neighbor to the south of Twelfth Avenue. Are we taking that into consideration as this is being constructed? I'm not sure if they've updated theirs. Yeah. That that that I guess that's ultimately my question. Presumably no. Right. We're probably gonna be the first one to jump into this. And, I mean, they have their their growth area plan somewhat already laid out, which I'm sure,
MetroCog has reviewed. But, yeah, I'm sure that will obviously adjust now given the circumstance. Well, of of course. And the nice thing about paper is it's relatively cheap to to redo things. But I know we took both cities took great care. You kind of spearheaded this conversation too, Payton, when we were doing this to make sure that our future land use plan, first and foremost, worked for the city of Dilworth in in our growth, but also, at the same time, complemented what the city of Moorhead is doing because they are our neighbor,
and they are also our partner in utilities with water. And so we're not plays a significant role in in how we play this out in the future. That's my only question at this time, madam chair. Thank you. Thank you. Awesome. Well, if there's no other questions, we can move on to the corridor. And, so this is many of you guys may have seen this already. These are concepts that came from our Eighth Avenue corridor study. And there's three three different alignments, that, that they came up with and with that three different land use scenarios. And so I won't run through each one of these, you know,
in in-depth. You know, all of them focus on on, you know, just north of the school having that large community park, lots of low density residential and medium and high density residential close to the park. Aside from that, closer to 30 Fourth. Obviously, that's going to be a commercial area on all of the concepts. But, yeah, if there's any, if there's any questions, I'll consolidate. I think the big thing for the planning commission to consider as we work through this here is what type of road design Eighth Avenue Road design are we ultimately
looking at. That will help drive the conversation. And just, you know, the three different concepts that you that we did as part of Eighth Avenue, they don't have to look identical to this. If you say you go with this option right here, we can say we're doing this, we'd like to see the road go like this. But we want to re adjust where medium density versus low density and all that is. So that's where and similar to on the South Side of town. That's what Metro COG is seeking here is to get some direction from the planning
commission. How do we see this area between C R 9 and Seventh Street Northeast developing? What do we want that roadway to look like? And then from there, build what those land uses are going to be around it. So I don't know if anyone how to drive the conversation, but, I don't know if anyone has any thoughts on that. Well, just looking between the three, and I know we've discussed this before, I mean, they all cover basically the same low density, middle, high and some commercial.
So I don't know that there's really any difference between the three other than the alignment of Eighth Street or Eighth Avenue. Sorry. Because to me I mean, maybe I miss maybe I'm not seeing it. But to me, it looks like the the percentages of those, are the same between them all for the most part. Yeah. They're they're very similar. The breakdown of uses is very similar among all the concepts. It's just kind of where those, you know, high density nodes are, where the commercial nodes are, just the placement along those.
And what was what I'll get you what was there's no mixed use on this, but I know we've talked about it in this area. You're referring to, like, a two to nine unit? I'm referring to, like, mixed use rail district. Cool. What's residential about? Yeah. Because I thought we were talking about doing that, you know, little pockets just like the rail district up in this northern section such as next to the community park or, you know, I thought there were we were talking about adding some of that in here as well.
I know that was one of you know, they put up multiple different concepts when we were doing that. Mhmm. And even when during the open house, I know that was one of the different options, you know, you can put your sticker on Right. You potentially like to see. So I I think that's on the table. It's at the end of the day, it's what this body feels is the most appropriate land use for the area. And I don't know if a commercial node is
needed or not or would fit in nicely up there or or would fit in poorly. Mike? Thank you, Madam Chair. Just looking between concept one, two and three, and going from west to east, there's each concept has many different incarnations of high density, medium density, and low density. What I mean, the road moving, obviously, southernmost, central, and northernmost, kind of a big not really that big a move. Why is there such a distinct difference in how everything is puzzled out with each concept? What is the what is the thinking behind that without because,
like, on number three, you've got basically, commercial is always gonna be by '30 fourth, and then you've got high density next to that, a big plot of low density community park with some medium density next to it. If you go back to three or concept two, you've got an entirely different puzzle piece for the road not moving very much farther off the track than it is on concept two. Do you follow what I'm kind of asking about? I'm just wondering how that affects the medium, low, and high density so drastically by moving that road not that far. Yeah. One thing to clarify.
This these concepts were not put together by Metro COG. This was done as part of our Eighth Avenue study. And when they were putting these together, I don't think it was this is definitely what you have to do if the roadway goes like this. It was just trying to find a mix and a variety of different types of land use concepts that we may see along the way. And from there, I think it's the determination, what you would like to see where you would like to see these puzzle pieces go. So I don't think anything's like defined in the sense that they met Chicago or
whoever thinks this is more appropriate at one place or another. We just gave them the instructions to, provide a various mixture of uses through there, which is what they did. But I don't think they had to define I don't think they had, oh, you have to do this if you curve the road like this or anything of that nature. Thank you. Go ahead. So process wise, it is this commission's job to come up with one answer for this and present it to the city council for their approval. Yeah. At the end of the day our job to do. Yeah. At the end of the day,
this body is gonna forward a recommendation to adopt a future land use map, and we, from a staff level perspective, have to use utilize this tool when developers come in and want to put in a different type or a certain type of residential or commercial, what whatever type use there. If it's not in conformance with our future land use map, it gets rejected or we have to come and get a you know, change our comp plan, which we should not be doing, we should be trying to think,
you know, futuristically, think in the sense of what we would like to see in these areas and how it's gonna continue to grow. But, yes, to answer your question, that's ultimately the goal here is to come up with a preferred future land use map that we can have as a utilization tool, when we're speaking with developers. And part of that is to decide which one of these concepts or a variation of it. That's correct. Yep. The road concept plus that And we haven't discussed that. We haven't discussed, like, where everybody sits on each one.
Mhmm. We've discussed, yes. That would this is why we do this one. This is why we do that one. And okay. Great. Those are the three recommendations. We haven't gotten deeper into that. That's correct. Steve? Can you can you remind me on Fifteenth Avenue, what is what is the thought or the future thinking as to is that gonna be a a may a a more of a major thorough way? And, I mean, that that's my understanding. That's kind of the intent? That's correct. Yeah. Somewhat of a we'll call it, like, a bypass route, for Dilworth to direct maybe some commercial or heavy truck traffic activity off of Highway
10 that would because that roadway goes directly into North Dakota. And, as far as, like, a timeline goes, just as an FYI for everyone, we're slated in 2029, I believe. I think we have $1,100,000 already allocated for County Road 9 over to Seventh Street. So that'll be a future project that the city will be partnering with to get completed. And so given the understanding that that might be, you know, that that might be the intent for that road, does it was were there conversations looking at that,
you know, in either one of these concepts that northern so just to the south of 15? I'm looking at the you know, and specifically right now with three, that's just the representative example. Right? Like, the low density housing And what was that excuse me. Low density residential that moves all the way up to 15. Was there discussion about possibly putting in a, you know, South Of Fifteenth, a commercial commercial corridor. Just just given the Yeah. Future use of the Fifteenth. Yeah. And a and a lot of it was the timing of it. Those those were being done concurrently,
and there was some coordination with it. But the Fifteenth Avenue was strictly about the roadway and Heartland Trail going through there. They weren't really investigating the land use as much as the Eighth Avenue folks were. Now with that said, they knew Fifteenth Avenue was going on. They know what it's representative of. And these were the determined concepts that came back through any of it. Lance, with h k g whatever acronym, you know, that he never came back with any type of a concept addressing any type of
a commercial corridor along Fifteenth Avenue. You know what I mean? And and in the spirit of I think in the spirit of, you know, some of the comments and some of the discussion that has happened just, you know, you know, by Ryan, you know, if the intent is to draw, you know, businesses, whether it be a big box store or something a little bit. I'm not, I'm not in favor against that, but if the intent is to bring more businesses, you know, it it would seem to me that given potentially the future use of that, that that might be we might be more welcoming to those that wanna bring commercial
in here. But as it as opposed to us putting forth a lot of low density residential, and we did we've done a great job with Summerwood, and we've done a great job with with with Keystone. But it's it's taken Dilworth its entire history Mhmm. To grow that in. So, I mean, it's gonna it it just feels to me that to to get below that city residential all the way to Fifteenth is gonna be a fifty to a hundred year type deal. Whereas, if we can put a commercial corridor, that might spur a little bit more growth like we saw with Keystone, the rail district.
Not a question, just more of an observation comment. So an observation on 50 Thabit North, the issue they have with that is that ditch, there's a large drainage ditch along the south side, which would limit the access to whatever's on the South side. You know, we see that's why we see that summer would develop like it is. So my question on Fifteenth Avenue is, our our map ends there. Are we considering anything past that to the north, like the north side of Fifteenth Avenue? Right. So if we go back so what they reflect so so kind of.
Yes. What you see right here on this map right here is showing what our future annexation boundaries are. So currently, we have orderly annexation agreements with the city of Moorhead, Oakport, Moorhead, and Glendon Townships. This is what currently is reflected in future City Of Dilworth corporate limits. And that's what we're building our future land use map off of. I'm not sure if I'm fully answering your question, but,
for purposes of sort of the discussion today, this is getting back to Fifteenth Avenue. Here's our Summerwood portion. So we are going a little beyond that over to Sixtieth Street. Well, you know, I was supposed to comment on the, on the ditch. Understandably, that's there. But that was a, that was a reaction to the ninety seven floods and with the diversion coming online that, you know I just think that that that ditch might not be as beneficial as it was when it was initially put in. Madam Chair, I mean and Mr. Ashraf, to your point, like, there is that commercial corridor in all of these plans,
right? It's just on the it's on the West side of town, right? I mean, so there is an opportunity. And that that's substantial when you look at our existing commercial corridor, which in that same area, I mean, it's it's one Walmart, Aldi, and then Opportunity to the north. I don't know. Like, I see it in there. And my question, Madam Chair, about the commercial is and when we're looking at our plan here and whether or not it changes, my understanding is this isn't labeled, so this is the one that I'm referencing. Must be our existing Correct. Land use map. Yep. I'm just noting some changes then,
along Seventh Street. And I don't I'm gonna the the commercial red and the high density residential red orange seem to be fairly similar, but I don't know what that box is on Seventh Street, and what would be the the new development north of what would be Seventh Avenue, I'm guessing? Everybody's kind of see what I'm saying. There's a there's that red box. Is that commercial? Yeah. I can't I can't see, but I know what you're talking about right there. When we were putting that together at the time, there was just a thought there might be a need to have a neighborhood commercial
type business there at that location. And I don't know if it necessarily should. But Well right. And and so when we look at this and and we talk about the the philosophies behind our plan, obviously, it's changing our existing plan. And within, what, seven or eight years, ten is that seven or eight years? So our our comprehensive plan can and will change. And that's evident by what's put forward. Because I still kinda like the concept of, okay. Is there gonna be an opportunity for people walking out of that our centralized park,
and and stopping and grabbing the coffee? Or, you know, the the residence in in Summerwood there, is it is it an opportunity, like, oh, I need to run and grab, you know, milk and eggs or whatever, you know, kinda like the old delicatessen style New York City type stuff, small, commercial, or whatever. How how's that fit? So when when we're sitting there talking about our future land use map, I like the ideas that we have set forward, but it it's it's fantastic. But my number one concern looking at this is the transportation issue. What does Fifteenth look like,
and what's its purpose? Is it to get the residents of Summerwood off of Highway 10 so they don't use Seventh Street? Can they use Fifteenth Avenue and go to Highway 75? If we're gonna have a three lane road and a Highway 10, does that north and south corridor on Eighth Avenue become more important to move traffic? And we really need to make sure that there's limited access to Eighth Avenue. Because I think at the same time, when we're working with our developers, that's gonna determine a lot of what's gonna happen. Who knew that, you know, our rail district was ever gonna develop?
But there was interest in people that said, hey. Can we do this? How do we make this work? And I would think that we'd you know, as we set our plan that we do so with enough flexibility to be consistent, to have that long range plan so there is some method to the madness. But I'm I wanna know what the roads are gonna look like. We weren't even talking about Fifteenth Avenue until MnDOT and MetroCog came in and said, oh, why don't we look at this when we're doing the Highway 10 reconstruct? Like, hey. That's a really great idea coming, you know, from the people who know. So for me,
Eighth Avenue, we've had it done. Studies done. Fifteenth Avenue, like, how do we use that and then work with the developers to make sure we fill it in appropriately? I'll piggyback on that with the casino and Twelfth Avenue extending for Morehead. I know it's preliminary timeline on studies for that. What does that look like? Yeah. And I can pull back the curtain to the extent I can right now. Collectively, the so right now, where that all stands, the tribe is seeking a letter of support from us,
City Of Moorhead, and Clay County so that the tribe can put the land in trust. Now this is a long it's like a two year process once they file an application, but they're trying to secure those first. Goes into trust. At that point, that would allow for a casino on the property, then you have engineering design. I'm gonna be shocked if there's anything actually moving out there within five years because these things just take time. It's a multiple year process just to get the land into trust, and they've not procured yet these documents from the local agencies.
They are in they've they wanna move this along, though, pretty fast. There's environmental concerns. The aquifer, as the planning commission is aware, is out there. Transportation concerns, multiple different things, multiple different considerations that will go into the development of that property. When that all comes about, it's gonna be a multi year process, but it's something that they're actively pursuing. They spend a lot of money, on the land, and they wanna see it develop sooner rather than later. So by the time we do this again? Potentially. It could be,
completed before then. It may trigger us, coming in and reevaluating our land uses. The way I look at that southern portion, it looks a lot like what our Highway 10 corridor look like, and it doesn't look like that now. Right? Like, we just put red big blocks out there thinking that's Highway 10. That that'll be commercial. I mean, that just me is so there's so many ifs attached to that twelfth. It's a buy it's an overpass of BNSF land for one, for Dilworth to really have access to it. It's, you know,
the casino. It's Twelfth Avenue. It's so many ifs where I could see us allowing that to be a little bit more generalized. Where I would like to see us focus is the Eighth Avenue because I feel like that's a closer development. That's a closer, area. Yes, Peyton. Thank you, madam chair. I was gonna make a recommendation. We can sit here and go back and forth as far as, like, putting together all these puzzle pieces with, you know, the Eighth Avenue section roadway and everything. Recommendation, I would have, or just suggestion, I guess. Maybe we take two or three planning commissioners and do,
like, a subcommittee group that we can sit down with Metro COG staff, and we actually sit at a table, look at these things, and come back and provide a recommendation back to the larger body at a later time, maybe in a month or two, something like that. But maybe in between then, have a meeting or two, take an hour, hour and a half, whatever it is, to somewhat lay out these puzzle pieces as they referenced earlier so that we can come back with a more because because I think we get caught up on what it looks like right now. Like, well, yeah. I don't know if I want that exactly. And that's gonna be hard to move around all these pieces without us actually sitting
down and formulating a more defined plan, I would say. I like that recommendation, Peyton. As you can tell, we, have a lot of thought that we put into this. So I think we take the recommendation of the professionals. Obviously, that is what we should do, but we also live in this community and feel like we should, you know, have pride in what we put out as well. So I would yeah. So I would recommend maybe getting three planning commissioners if three would like to volunteer, and we can coordinate with Metro COG in getting together and hammering this out.
Well, I will volunteer to sit on that. I also will. I was on the Eighth Avenue, but I'll volunteer for the house. There you go. K. We have our three. Does that work with y'all? Do something like that? Absolutely. Yes. Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Alright. Thank you. Thank you so much. Awesome. That is fantastic. Can I say one sec? Yes. Okay. Yep. So yeah. So it's And that makes and and that makes sense from their future when we were working on that several years ago. Right. And I don't know if they would like to even if Robin or Christy or whoever would like to sit in even when we're
discussing that part or if y'all would like to meet with them beforehand just to let them know, what is their because I assume that's something rolling through their heads as well. They're gonna have to start reevaluating that entire corridor through there. Awesome. Thank you. Alright. Onto the next item of the agenda is to receive and file building permits for April 2025. So moved. And we have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. And a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Alright. Motion passes. And project updates. Clayton, do you have any? Not a ton to update the Groupon.
On July, I believe it is. I hope I got the date right. It's either tenth or eleventh, somewhere in there. That's when the next open house will be for the community center project. So I've been working with the architects, you know, progressing along with that. So we're really excited, how that is all unfolding, starting to see different concepts come together. So that's really you know? It's just a fun process to see. So, but beyond that, I don't think I have anything else to really report to the group unless you
have any questions for me. Okay. With that, we'll adjourn today's meeting. Thanks, everyone.