Okay. Okay, good evening. Welcome to our city council meeting. If you join me for a moment of silence in the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisibley
and justice for Okay, Mr. Snyder, roll call, please. >> Vult >> here. >> Elliot >> here. >> Burmal >> here. >> Walter >> here. >> Lee >> here. [clears throat] Moving on to item three, citizens comments. Opportunity for anybody to address the council for
up to three minutes. Typically, it's for items that are not on the agenda later on. Okay. Seeing none. Well, uh, additional agenda information, Mr. Miller. >> Nothing tonight, M. >> Nothing tonight. Okay. We'll now uh go to 5A our Paniprague presentation. Mr.
Paul Jacobus. Kick this off. Welcome. Good evening. >> Good evening. >> Good to see you again, >> council. Mayor, >> uh as the mayor said, my name is Paul Jacobus. I'm the president of Paniprog for the years 26 and 27. So, I'm in my
first year. Standing beside me is our marketing director, but also our uh first vice president, Christa Czech. She's brought up some bags of goodies and we'll be uh handing those out shortly. Um excited about Panaprog this year. Um we have some of the members in
our audience from our board. It's a pretty small team that actually brings Panrog together, organizes it year round and uh and leads it for the city. We involve a lot of volunteer groups, organizations, and businesses in what we do. And it's uh it's it's pretty cool to
see it all come together. uh this July 4th through the 12th it'll be going on. We have over 80 plus activities that will be taking place. Uh great food, live music, uh sporting contests, a lot of them ran by the city, plenty of kids events and things for adults alike. So,
we're pretty excited about everything there. Um we're very thankful for the sponsorship that we get from the community-based businesses that help us out. Um this year we have over 90 plus sponsors at various levels. Um our support of uh the sponsors continues to
grow. So we lose a few each year, but we gain a few uh back and we're pretty excited about that. Um food's very important during the festival. We're excited to say that we have five sponsoring restaurants that are local businesses year round here in Lakeville along with 34 other food vendors that
primarily will be downtown. So plenty of food and fair helping us out down there. Um real quickly, I kind of wanted to touch on the new events that'll be happening this year at Panaprog. We're always excited that there's new events. We're even more excited that the board doesn't have to put on those events. Um,
we accept new events based on organizations andor businesses that want to uh I would I'll call it own, produce, and actually execute the events. That's why Panrog continues to grow because more organizations are getting involved with their activities. Um, running down
in kind of an order through the week. Um, the Applewood Orchard is going to do something on Sunday after the flying breakfast. So, people can go out there with they they'll have their maze open, open play, and they'll have cider making demonstrations. Sounds pretty exciting. The city park and Rex is putting on our first ever paniprog botchi ball
tournament out at Spyglass Park. Um, reading in the park by uh which is being um supported by the Dakota County Heritage Library over at Arnison Park. We think that's going to be cool. So, we're always trying to add different unique activities. Um, the pet expo, which used to be the pet show, um,
followed by the K9 demonstration, has turned into a much bigger event, is now a pet expo, which we have several different, uh, organizations coming in to make that a day of hanging out with your favorite, uh, pet. Um, the youth tennis tournament is new this year. That'll be on Saturday, July 11th. The
North girls tennis team is putting that on on the North tennis courts. Uh, the non-denominational worship on Sunday, July 12th. that'll be h down at the art center on the south lawn. We're looking forward to that. 1500 people's anticipated attendance of that for the
first time out. Uh punt, pass, and kick competition. I know we well those guys at least were all in that back in the day. I got last place a lot of times every year's. Um the girls north flag football team is putting that on at Lakeville North at Panther Stadium. So
great way to get involved with another event. And last but not least, we will finish up Paniprog this year and it I believe it's going to become an annual tradition where our new town team, the Lakeville Lunatics, will play a baseball game to close out every Panrog moving forward if all goes well. We hope to
have and I think we've locked in that the newly crowned Miss Lakeville will be throwing out the first pitch at that event as well. >> Very nice. >> Yes. Um the um you know all of these things were just excited because we as a as a board can't run every event and the
fact that the community through the organizations the city with all the the park and wreck events uh comes together and helps put this festival on I believe is what makes it great. It's what separates Lakeville from every other festival that I've seen or been involved with and it's definitely a a
differencemaker. Um, a couple updates on some events that were their first year was last year. The Boho Marketplace. We moved from downtown out to the ice arena. Uh, this year we have over 90 vendors signed up into 106 spots. We
expanded it to three days Friday through Saturday. And to support that, we increased our shuttles from downtown by the art center out to the arena and back. And we'll be taking care of that. So, we're more focused on great quality vendors. We wanted to make Lakeville a destination for this event to get people
coming in from out of town to shop and then hopefully shuttle down to the downtown to see what's happening down there. Um I I'll bring up Panaprog Tribute Night which is a live at the lake where we we partnered with Park [clears throat] and Rex to kind of up the game on that night. It's Church of
Cash this year which is nationally known act that we'll be playing and we're anticipating bigger crowds. So, we started bus shuttle service for that event, too. From South Cities Church is partnering with us right down by the Holiday Inn. We'll be running two school buses back and forth to get people in
and out and help with traffic and parking. We'll also be doing that on Tuesday night during the family funfest. And uh we're not sure if we quite need the buses this year, but we're going to run them so people can understand what we're trying to do. We definitely anticipate both events continuing to
grow into 27. And so this is a way for us to um talk to people uh about that. [snorts] Um other event updates, uh the uh business showcase, which is once we moved the craft piece out from downtown, we wanted to make sure we were taking
right care of businesses that wanted to um have a booth and be able to talk about their businesses, uh which is now down in the u the curling lot or by Toppers Pizza post office. And we're excited. We have 20 different vendors that have wanted to come in there. I think if we would have had 30 spots, we
could have we could have sold out 30 spots in that. So, that's great that we have businesses wanting to participate and interact with the community during that. Uh, race car alley, I'm excited. We moved that onto Holio last year and uh the touch of truck will be happening
right before that. We we filled the street last year. We anticipate more trucks will be able to fit them in there and then the uh race car alley group will start their engines and lead the crews out of downtown. And this year the what I believe is to be 25 30 cars will be dawning American flags sticking out
of them as they zip down Holio to kind of kick off the cruise. So I think it'll be a nice site to to see. Uh couple more things. The Budweiser Clyde deals. I mentioned this when I was speaking a few weeks ago. Uh they're bringing those in to celebrate the 150th birthday of
Anheiser Bush. Just so happens to be the 60th of Panrog and the 250th of the United States. Uh so we uh it was a great get as they say in the business that they're there. They'll be setting up their hitch right in front of the art center um right bound by the Lions area
and uh we think that's going to be pretty cool when uh they set that up controlled chaos. So we're partnering with the fire and PD to make sure that everything is under control. And that leads us into the grand parade which is now at a uh a small 130 entries. So it's
one of the biggest parades we've had in quite a while. There are still people to get in there, but as of today, the boho, the availability for food truck spaces, sponsorships, the business showcase, and the parade are all sold out
>> on on the on the day that we're at here in June. So, we think that's a testament to the quality of the festival that we're putting on and the excitement that people have. So, um marketing, this is where my assistant now will hand out our swag bag. [laughter] Um, the first thing I want to talk about
is the new Panaprog app that is out there. So, please, if you get a chance, >> go download the app. It's got great information. We believe that's the future. In your bag, you'll find our new festival magazine. Uh, that is how many pages, Christa? >> Uh, 52
>> 52 56 pages. >> Uh, there's a pocket schedule in there. Uh, the festival magazine gets sent out to 8,500 different residents. Every year we pick a different block of residents in Lakeville to make sure they understand what Panrog is all about. We
keep moving it around. Pocket schedules are dispersed throughout town. Uh our social media, we have 17,500 followers, but each week we are getting 25,000 people to go on and see our social media, what we're posting about, and that will grow exponentially the closer
we get to uh Panaprog. uh the website uh we've have uh 6,000 unique visitors monthto date uh going to our website to see what's going on that will start to be 6,000 people a day right on the first uh the five days that heads up into Panrog. So as far as a festival goes um
and people wanting to know what's going on the the hits on the sites and the social media are definitely there and our only goal as a board was to put on one of the best safest festivals in uh in the state of Minnesota. So, this is one of our last stops on the tour. Your
responsibility now is to keep telling all the good people of Lakeville the great things that are happening in Paniprog. We appreciate that. And I'll end with an acknowledgement of the city support that this organization gets from the city, you know, and that would be uh from obviously from the the council and
and working with the folks at streets and parks and fire and police, all the different areas where we come together and the logistics that happen with the exciting stuff like uh bathrooms and trash removal and barricades and uh
street closure approvals. We appreciate your support in doing that. We try to get better and faster and quicker so we can be better communicators of the impact that some of these things will have on the community and the businesses downtown. And we see ourselves improving in that every year. So, thank you for
support and everything that you do for that. And with that, I'll be done unless there's any questions. >> Awesome question. Dan, >> more more a comment. Um, I I know this is u, you know, a year of work planning for each year's banana. So, thank you
for all the work you do. I think the red shirts and red, white, and blue shirts now this year are very well earned by the by the members of the committee. And just a shout out on your on the app and the website, the marketing stuff is just superb. It's really um got a great feel to it. >> I thank our director of marketing for
that. Uh we come up with crazy ideas and Christa was able to make that come to life and I think that's pretty cool. So, it's definitely a team effort. Like I said, it's a it's a small but fierce team that's uh behind me making the city look good and that's what we do. So, we'll continue to do it. All right.
>> Amazing. >> Thanks for the opportunity. We're off and we have our last uh team panrog meeting tonight. So, we have sponsors, the event managers, other people that support us in at that down at the uh John Hennon Pavilion. So, we'll be we'll be out of your hair and off to that next.
>> Well, we're we are certainly looking forward to it. It's something that, you know, when people ask, how do you get to keep a small town community feel when you have 80,000 people living here? And this Panrog is certainly the reason why. So, I want to thank you guys for all your hard work. Looking a great thing. And I think little Miss Lakeville snuck
in. Nice to see you. How are you? >> Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. We'll now move on to uh our Lakeville Arenas report and our arenas manager, Joe Burrquist, will give us the download.
>> Thank you for having me. Um it's been another successful year at Lakeville Arenas. As he said, I'm Joe Burkquist, the Lake Arena's manager. Um, I always like to start out with obviously who we are for the audience um, who may watch
this on video or be watching it live now is most people do not know that we are a joint powers agreement in a separate entity from the city and school district, but we're a joint powers agreement between them. And I think what the council probably is very proud of as well as school district is we've never
used uh public funds to operate. All our operating costs are paid for by the revenue we take in. And as of the last several years, we've expanded our revenues. Um we've been able to do a lot of improvements to the facilities as well without major investment outside of
the big investments like the pavilion rink and the new ice plants and so forth that we can't afford. But um I always like to start with that just be for the benefit of the general public. So uh 2025 was another successful year. Hockey Day Lakeville again hit another high as
far as participation and and revenue or however they track it. They assured me it was their biggest year yet. Um they don't always share their revenue with me. [laughter] Um, we had a district, we haven't had any regional tournaments for a while.
And this year, last year we had our first regional tournament in youth hockey. We're picking up a state tournament. This year in 2026, we had a state tournament and a regional. And we have another regional next last next year. So, um, from youth hockey standpoint, we're the district, we we're
getting some pretty important events our way. Um, we s we had our first sanctioned figure skating competition which was brand new. Um, Tanya did an amazing job pulling that off like she does with the rest of Lakeville Skating Academy. We also launched our inaugural
camps last year for MIT which um is kind of the start of our programming, internal programming. We hired a programming manager and that has taken off. I'll touch on that a little bit later on what we've done. um US Hockey Hall of Fame was at the January 1st of
2025 which uh had the golfers and the women's Biji team um playing at Hi Arena and that was quite an event we were proud to host. Obvious the annual figure skating show takes place every year. Maggie Flity uh two-time winner of the
Walter Cup with the Minnesota Frost was in town in 2025 with her trophy. um had a fun skate for all the kids, all the girls to come um idolize her and hopefully put the skates on and play some hockey for us in the future or
figure skating. Um and then we had our annual holidays at Hassie as well as a kickoff for the pavilion rink. So, um, again, record ice sales. We were up to 6635. And just to give you a reference, when I
started 6 years ago, I believe our total high was 30 3,800 or 4,000 under 4,000 hours per year. So, we are continuing to grow. Most of that is on other ice new programs. LHA with the outdoor rink did purchase a bunch more hours and will be
purchasing even more this year because I believe they're growing by five teams just at the squirt level. So their might is continuing to grow and they're just so they're actually getting to a point where they're talking about not having enough hours again. So it's kind of where we wanted to get to and hopefully
they'll come up with the money to close my outdoor rink. [laughter] Um so adult hockey we're up 132 hours. that has been expanding regularly at night with the group that runs that. Um, but overall we continue to grow. Um, our
figure skating, again, Tanya does an amazing job with that. She hit another record year. We continually, since I've been here, are in the top five in the state, uh, competing against Edina and Maple Grove and I believe Egan are our three big competitors that we're always
trying to fight for the top spot with. And our other programs are doing just as well. Arena programming I mentioned is our biggest. For instance, our might program brought in our might camp brought in $30,000 last year. We brought in $130,000 this year. So, um that was a
huge jump and that's the future's as we expand more is going to we have a lot more growth in programming area. Update on the pavilion rink. As you know, our first year was a challenging year with no, we learned that the sun got inside and made it difficult to make ice and
the wind was um folks weren't happy. So, the novelty roll wore off in a hurry. But last year, we're able to get the wind screens up. We didn't get them stretched as why you see the um light coming in. We'll stretch them out this year, but we got them up for the year.
and a lot of good comments from LHA on how much more enjoyable it was out there along with the warming houses were completed and heated and um next year we'll actually have the overhead heat. Um so that's coming along quite well. We just continue to work on it as we can
but as we grow we don't work on it as fast as we want but it's continues to move in the right direction. Financial results for 2025 your reports were all included in your packet. We had another successful year actually.
We probably since I started we've doubled revenue now since 2018 was the high and then we had I didn't or 2019 I didn't include COVID year um because that would have put us at triple probably compared to that year but we're about double in revenue um which is
allowing us to make a lot of improvements to the facilities add full-time staff so we have quality staff there taking care of the buildings um but the most important thing I'd like to point out is as we diversify that provides all this extra revenue and 72%
of our ice sales used to our revenue used to come from ice sales um and now only 72%. So, I used to be in the 90 low 90s for ice sales. And I think that's one of our strategies is to diversify. So, we we do have more revenues and
we're not 100% relying on just ice rentals, which um we used to be in the past. And even this year, we took a big hit on electric, but we're able to absorb it because we are diversified and bringing in revenues in other areas. So, um looking ahead to 2026, we expect
another big jump. We've been growing about 14 to 16% per year. We anticipate that again next year. We will hopefully be working on our pavilion rink, some of the other additions, the concession
stand, the Zamboni shed. That'll be added on this this summer, provided we have the time. Uh we're expanding our programming, like I said, for next year. It's going to have uh we're going to go into the tournament business. We're going to get into some
more programming for the Lakeville youth, which I'll mention a little bit later with our ice club memberships that we're kicking up that is much more affordable for youth hockey players. Rather than spending the thousands and thousands of dollars they do per year, we're trying to make something affordable for our local kids. rather
than them having to spend a lot of money on the for-profit groups that catch them throughout the summer and the offseason everybody feels obligated to partake in. Um, this is my new ice club membership I wanted to just mention. So, for $350 a
year, uh, our public ice that gets you open skating all year, all our stick and puck sessions all year, and our figure skating practice ice all year. So you can go for any of them or we have a family membership for 700. Um we also
have a hockey develop membership 750 per year going to be 1,500. We're launching all this this fall. And just for reference $750 a year. If they were to purchase all these separately from private prop private groups, it'd be
about $3,000 a year or more. So >> again, we're not only trying to generate revenue, but we're also at that stage where we're trying to get back to the youth and make things affordable as well for the Lakeville youth. >> Um, and with that, that's kind of my
end. Does anybody have any I think I got through it a little faster than I normally do, and I didn't drag on about the budget that I like so [laughter] much. >> I I just had a question about the expansion. Uh, it says 2.0. Is there a 3.0? What I mean what what is the
ultimate goal with the expansion or the pavilion I should say and what other improvements are you looking to? >> So once we get the the winter uh improvements like the windscreen stretch the Zamboni shed out there all the wind kind of block for the most
part. Then we want to launch our community side of it which is summer events which is kinsonas and you know family graduations, family reunions, festivals that sort of thing. Um, we want to make it an all-inclusive to all Lakeville residents rather than just the
hockey community and skating community. And I think that's the big benefit of moving forward of what the pavilion rank is going to be able to do for us is launches of make it a value product for everybody or asset for everybody rather than just hockey and so forth. Is that a
programmatic change or are there improvements to the actual structure, electrical, lighting, those kind of things that go into getting into that uh summertime use? >> Most of it will be, you know, patios like some of it will be electrical
lighting like the concession stand we're building using containers so that someday we can move them out of the way easily and put the walls up. Um, but there'll be two concession two containers turned into a a concession stand similar to antlers. And then the other one will be a catering kitchen
just like a pavilion rink. And then that's going to connect the two buildings with a space for people to go in and warm up and still go out back out to the cold part. Um, but that is some of the things that will be is really being that like that right there is really for the summer programming that
addition. Um, and then there'll be other amenities like the patios and actually Joe from parks was gracious enough to let me remove one of the playgrounds he was replacing and we're going to put a playground out front and that sort of thing. So >> questions.
>> I'll just say, you know, I continue [clears throat] to hear stories about communities either losing privately held or publicly sheets of ice and places are scrambling. So it's feels great that we're having so much success. So, thank you for all your work and you can definitely see the trajectory of increase since you came several years
ago. So, thanks Joe. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. Testament by staff. >> Good. All right. We'll now move on to uh the consent agenda. Mr. Miller, anything you wanted to highlight? >> Thank you, mayor. A couple items tonight. Item 6C is approval of
supplemental agreements for the 2050 comprehensive plan system plan updates. As you know, this is a very technical piece of work and it does require hiring of consultants and so that is what you're asked to authorize tonight. Item 6L is a resolution appointing election judges for the upcoming August 11th,
2026 primary election. And we are thankful for everybody who has agreed or volunteered and to be on that. And then item 6P is an approval of a joint powers agreement with Dakota County for preliminary and final engineering and traffic signal construction for the
county road 50 and Interstate 35 interchange. And so just continued progress toward that. >> Great. Um council, any comments? >> I hate to do this again, but I need to pull item L um so I can abstain. >> Okie do. Council, any other items?
Otherwise, I'll take a motion to approve the consent agenda except for item. >> I move that we pass the consent agenda except for item A. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor say I. >> I.
>> Opposed. Okay. Passes. We'll now take up item L. If someone would make her um motion on accepting the or appointing the judges for the primary election. move to approve a resolution appointing election judges for the August 11th,
2026 primary election. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? >> I'm just pointing out that I need to abstain because I'm on the list. >> Oh, isn't that so nice of you? >> And they're paid so can't. >> Okay. >> Uh, roll call, please.
>> Lee, >> hi. >> Burmal. >> Hi. >> Helier. >> Hi. V >> I >> Walter abstain. >> Okay, very good. Thank you for that. Uh we'll now move on to item 7A EB first
edition cup and right away vacation and I'll turn it over to is it will from Bader or is it okay? Welcome. Good evening, mayor and council. uh Will O'Keefe as you mentioned with uh EB Lakeville Development on behalf of Bader
Development and our co-development partner Elage Development Group. Uh I believe there's two agenda items tonight for our project. This uh first item is an update to the previously approved plan for EB First Edition. As we engaged
in this project, uh the concept began to shift a little bit and we refined the layout from two apartment buildings to a single 142 unit building along with 20 sorry 24 town homes. We believe this creates a more cohesive and efficient
site plan as a whole. Um the request also includes CU amendment and a small right ofway vacation to better align with that layout. Um, and we appreciate the work that we've done with city staff up to this point and uh request and uh respect your approval. Thank you.
>> Okay. >> Thank you. Good evening. >> Good evening, mayor, members of the council. Um, so yeah, the property is located um for this application with EB Lakeville Development LLC is located just north of 210th Street and west of
Kia Cookook. The property is zoned RH2, multifamily residential district and as um will u mentioned um this project was originally approved under the crown apartments um back in October 2024.
Plary plat um as well as the conditional use permits that you see listed on the screen. Um plary plat conditional use permit is good for a year. They can then an applicant can request an extension. that extension can be granted by our zoning administrator which was done which will get us the extension through
this October and so that's why we're able to continue to proceed with this application with these changes outside of that moratorum period um so as um will described the initial approval was for two um larger apartment buildings with 182 units the new
proposal is for one apartment building and then the four town home buildings with six units so we're going from 182 2 to 166 units total. The multif family building will contain two levels of underground parking as well as surface parking and then a pool amenity area was
included. There was some rightaway that was originally under the county um the rightway um was under the county jurisdiction. It has been conveyed to the city earlier this year and so now we are able to vacate that right away. It is no longer needed. So that is the
reason why that's coming to us now versus being um vacated by the county. This is the landscaping plan. Not a lot of the overall site layouts change this configuration of going from one apartment building to the town homes. And then this is the building materials.
It's a mixture of light and dark brick stone um meeting all of the requirements as well as hardy sighting which is the tougher more durable sighting and lap sighting um on some of the non-visible areas. Planning Commission did hold their public hearing on June 4th and
unanimously recommended approval and I would stand for any questions. >> Okay. Council, any questions? Council member Lee, >> just a quick question about access to the site and is this access essentially exclusive for this residential uh neighborhood or will
there be through access to potential future sites after this? >> No. To the west? No. Um there would not be an extension. Um the access here um you can see it a little bit better on this aerial um it extends through this service drive
um but um the access that's through the site is not intended to extend further west. >> Thank you. >> And will it connect to the current the authentics project or >> um it connects to um >> not through the back of the
neighborhood? No, no. It connects um through the site that we're going to talk about in a second. And if you prefer to just roll right into that one, we can if it makes more sense. We just have to vote on each individual item. But then it's the service row that ties around um sweet living.
>> Got it. >> Facility. >> Okay. Council, questions, comments? I appreciate the update about the mortorium. I think that was a question people had just because it's >> certainly >> been on the on the books for a while, but that's just
>> the exemption that we wrote. So without that, council, I'll take a motion. >> Council Burmel. >> Uh I move to approve one, an amendment to a conditional use permit number 2409 to allow more than one principal
residential building on one lot and two, the vacation of public rightway for 207th Street. And three, adopt the findings of fact. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Any further discussion? See none. And roll call, please. >> Elliier >> I. >> Burmal.
>> I. >> Walter. >> I. Lee. >> Hi. [clears throat] >> I. >> Okay. Very good. And then Miss Goodro, are you going to talk about the vacation part or sorry, the preliminary plan of the next one? >> I certainly can. Um, so this next item,
while they're pulling up the plat, EB Lakeville Development has requested a preliminary plat out lots that will then support the development that you just approved through the conditional use permit amendment. So again, same location. This property is zone C3, general commercial district. So here's
the plat and it creates three outlots. Outlot um, let's go in order. Outlot A is this larger piece. Um the only developable areas is really outside of this wetland area. Outlot B is what's being proposed by the applicant to
create um above ground or ground level storm water and then outlot C will be deed to the city that's all in wetlands. And so the what they're proposing is when the original project for Crown Apartments was proposed that developer
tried to purchase this property to provide for the storm water. So, think of it as other developments that have kind of that regional storm water where it might be adjacent to versus on the same site. Um, and they weren't able to work out a deal. And so, it was proposed and approved with underground storm
water management, which is very, very deep because it's under two levels of underground parking and difficult to maintain. This particular applicant, EB Lakeville, was able to work out a purchase agreement for this outlaw to create and provide the stormwater
ponding that will be utilized by the apartment building and town home project. Um, so you can see um the layout um or the configuration of the pond. This is that wetland line. There is that property line. It's, you know,
the sheet doesn't have an exact match. And then it carries over and extends into this wetland, the buffer area, um the grading and then the adjacent apartment building. So you can see how these two tie together. Um the wetland itself or the storm water pond um is
going the create very creation of that the grading and so forth is going to result in tree removal. They will have to with the new ordinance comply with that on this site because it's new and it does require 32 and.7 inches of replacement and they are providing 35 in
of replacement. Um and then here is the landscaping plan um that's been approved by our forester. Definitely want plants that are going to be water friendly um within these slopes. And so while it is commercial zone C3, these sites are not
very welldevelopable for commercial. That's why they've been vacant for so long. Um so staff felt um this was a reasonable um solution for managing the storm water for the apartment project um
while still allowing portion of outlot A that's outside the wetland. It's it's about 1.8 8 um acres that could still be developed for commercial. But again, it's still got its challenges. Um we'll have to take some creativity for that commercial development, but it is
possible. And um it also will have the same access um as um the apartment building. So that is in a nutshell why this preliminary plat is before you in creation of these outlots to support the project you just approved the amendment for. Hopefully that makes sense. It's a
little weird. Council Lee. >> Well, and and I think [snorts] that's what I had to kind of think through when I was evaluating the the packet because when I typically think of a preliminary plat, I'm thinking of development of some sort. The development here is the storm water pond that's supporting the
project next to it. >> You're absolutely correct. And so the result of this action essentially supports the wetland with this uh storm water pond but is reducing the commercial commercial developable land in the C3.
However, knowing and because I we've had this conversation several times about how challenging this particular site is to develop anything. Um, so I just I'm talking it through out loud uh to make sure that I understand but also in support of where staff found themselves
with this uh recommendation because like you've said this has been around for a while and it was challenging when the first phase of the authentics uh project came in and we went round and round about how to how to zone this or or support commercial but you know so uh I
support the the move here and it just took me a moment to kind of understand what we were >> [laughter] >> frozen. >> Any other comments? Council Burma? >> Yeah, I had uh many of the same thoughts as I looked at this, but you know, when you listen to the reasoning and you see
what's going on here, it's just land that isn't really going to be developable for anything but this storm pond. And, you know, it's surrounded by the wetlands. Uh, and I'm pleased to see that there's still some level of of
commercial development that's possible, but it is a tough tough challenging uh piece of land. >> Yep. >> And so I I'm supportive of it. >> Um, simply because I just don't think there was ever going to be a commercial built on that once once the storm water
had to get to the surface versus doing underground. >> Yep. Yep. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? If not, I'll take a motion. I move to approve the prelim preliminary plat of Authentics Lakeville second edition. >> Okay. Is there a second?
>> Second. Any further discussion? Okay. See none. Roll call, please. >> Walter. >> I >> Lee. >> I >> Okay, very good. Congratulations. Um, we'll now move on to unfinished and new business. So, we're going to take a
quick twominut break um before we have our legislative folks kind of jump in so that those who don't need to be here can head out. I do apologize to you guys. This is a new format for us for a work session. Traditionally, it's a little bit more informal. We can sit around a round table and we just haven't found a
good solution for you. So, sorry that we have to put you here, but we thank you for the three of you being here. >> We'll still be informal, though. >> Yeah. [laughter] >> [clears throat] >> Hey. Hey. Hey. >> [music] >> Am
I getting >> [music] >> You guys all kind of want to talk. Oh, I thought they would at least be up here with me. I see how it is, guys. >> You want us here for? That's question. >> Oh, yes. Five minutes.
>> About an hour and a half. >> You did a lot of work in a long period of time. >> Yeah, you did a lot. >> Um, well, we will be relatively short and sweet. Thank you as always for the invite. I apologize for uh being dressed a little more casually. Uh I have to get across the street in time for training
uh this evening with a different um organization here in Lakeville. So uh but nevertheless appreciate the invitation to be here. Um I know I speak for all of us when I say it's an absolute honor and privilege to represent uh our our district, our respective districts and the state legislature, specifically the city of
Lakeville, which we all have the uh the great pleasure to work with and on behalf of. So, um, we're here to talk a little bit about the most recent legislative session that wrapped up in May, uh, and then maybe even answer any questions if you have any. But I'll just start off by saying um in working with
these two gentlemen now for a few years um one of the the biggest priorities that we're always having conversations about throughout the course of an entire year, not just a session um and at all hours of the day and oftent times including you all and folks at the
school district is how do we continue to best serve the people of our district and the people of Lakeville. Uh whether that be making sure that we're taking care of our public safety folks, that we are providing for high quality and up-to-date infrastructure, making sure that we got great schools and phenomenal educational opportunities, and that
we're helping you all um and our residents here uh in terms of property tax relief and helping folks be able to provide for their families and uh and find the cost of living to be manageable, which I think everybody is struggling with. and sometimes the state doesn't always make it easy for our
local units of government to do that, but we're here to help you as much as we possibly can. So, with that being said, I'll turn it over to Representative Cosnik. >> Well, uh thank you so much for your service. I know it's July or middle of summer and uh an evening, beautiful
evening and uh you guys are working. Uh we had a little flavor of that when we had a special session and uh it wasn't fun to be cooped up in the capital during the middle of the summer. So, [laughter] uh, thank you for the work that you you all do and it's, uh, great to be invited. So, thank you for that and to be in in your work, uh, area and I
appreciated when, uh, many of you came to the capital, uh, to visit to talk about some of the priorities. Um, you know, and as Senator Duckworth had said, you know, we're working together uh, in partnership uh, but really just to make sure that all levels of government work better. uh it's kind of an overarching
goal that um I have that you know we just uh provide the basics uh better uh than what uh in a lot of cases than we are currently especially uh as we talk about some of the fraud and government programs you know locally I hope you're having that discussion too um as the
chair of the transportation committee um a lot more responsibility that comes with that but I welcome it and it's been uh you know an honor to do that extra work because I think we've uh seen seen some wonderful uh results across the state. Um but then also locally I've had
an ability to have a little extra impact um wi with that. I also serve on the capital investment or the bonding committee and uh a lot of that o overlaps a lot of transportation projects uh come through capital investment especially local projects.
And so this year um I was asked to help negotiate. I guess I did last year too, but I really um negotiate a lot more on the capital investment bill. And uh in addition, you know, one of the main projects that we have here in Lakeville is the county road 50 and five and the
I35 interchange. Last year through the transportation bill, we were able to get $40 million on the I35 portion of the that overpass. Um and this year uh we were able to secure uh six million and then also helped uh get a grant
previously in the interim of seven million. So um that project is pretty much fully funded. Uh I on your consent agenda was one of the uh joint powers agreements to continue to make that work. So incredibly uh gratified to be able to uh have had a a strong um impact
on getting that project done. uh more lo uh a little bit south of us uh County Road 2 and Elco New Market uh they have County Road Two and I35 with the growth that they're seeing the growth that we've seen in our industrial park that interchange there is has become backed
up unsafe and uh over capacity. So they were received some construction money in the interim uh but they needed some additional uh planning money to or and design money and so we got that in in the bonding bill this year and so the
corridor is um you know we've got the pain of the construction up in Burnsville. Um pretty soon that's going to be into Lakeville. Um but we're strengthening that corridor to manage the growth that we've seen. You know we'll talk about housing in a second. Um but so we're responding to the needs of
constituents and the needs of the area. So it's super exciting to have that on there. Uh earlier this year um this spring uh through the previous bonding bill that we had, we had a ribbon cutting or groundbreaking for the recycling recycling zone plus uh that's
a joint powers with Scott and Dakota County just south of uh Lakeville South High School. Um that is a result of the work that we did in the bonding bill. And then a couple years back, uh, you know, I know we're getting close to the deadline, but we're also getting close
to the ribbon cutings on both the first, uh, center, the public safety center. I remember one of my first terms, I got a call from somebody in the police department, and it was a welcome call, >> um, to come take a tour of the maintenance facility uh, there. And that
was the genesis of uh, you know, somebody in the department um, having that idea. and uh the police chief at the time didn't think it was quite ready, but uh took the tour down there and uh we'll be later in August doing the ribbon cutting on that. So, that's super exciting. Uh with the help of these two gentlemen, uh we were able to
get 7 million bucks uh to get that project rolling. Uh the scope of the project uh had a little creep in it a little bit, but uh we got there. Uh and so it's going to be uh great when when that opens. And then also uh one of the the rail storage facility in the industrial park. I'm excited to see that
get started uh and meet the needs. Uh I used to live in in that neighborhood that is affected and so I know a lot of the neighbors are have been very very patient uh generally patient and uh we'll be uh working uh on getting that that'll be exciting to get that started
too. Um you guys do a little work with the with the school districts like we do. Uh I was able to pass a law uh for that when they have special elections and consolidate the local polling places. Uh
if there's another county involved, in this case Scott County, uh they will now it's more clear in law and my uh interpretation. Uh it was kind of inferred in law already, but now it's a little bit more clear. there will have to have a polling location in Scott
County um because there's over 5,000 residents uh registered voters uh in that part of the school district and um I think it's just better election integrity and um to not disenfranchise and make it harder for those folks uh to vote. So I thought that was very important. Senator Duckworth carried
that in the Senate for me um and we were able to get that added into that. um more uh direct on the transportation. We passed the budget bill in the first year of the bianium $10 billion uh transportation bills, a lot of money and a lot of different programs. We don't need to go into that, but um it was fun
to be on uh at the table and working on that. Uh this year uh we fixed uh temporarily um and how would I put it that when there was one party control uh there was a lot$10 billion in taxes added and part
of that was uh the increase in license autotab fees that we've heard a lot from constituents across the state and um certainly in our district here in Lakeville and elsewhere. Um, but we were able to uh tried to repeal it back to the original. Um, but we were able to
settle and negotiate on a one-year uh 2027 will revert back a one-year $254 million reduction uh cost savings to um taxpayers uh with the autotap fees. So, that was super exciting to be able to get that done. Uh but uh hopefully after
the election with the Republican majority uh if I'm still able to chair the committee, we'll continue to work to make that permanent reductions. >> And you say collectors >> and collector cars. Yes. For Panda Prague. Thank you, mayor, for calling us on that. [laughter] That uh yeah, that one didn't even get a
bill hearing after the number of phone calls that we got. So, and I did not put that on the agenda. That was uh my co-chair from the other side of the aisle. it. Um, lot of other important stuff uh that we did. I'll save some of the fun uh for Representative Witty, but
of course I remain available to you uh as council members in the city anytime that you need something. Um, and then to constituents that are watching, uh, we try to keep up on our emails, uh, taking a little break after session, but getting back into it and, uh, we'll we'll continue. We appreciate the comments that we hear and the concerns.
Um, that's how we address your your needs. And uh so we're very pleased to have a very successful 2026 uh session. >> Uh thank you. Um you know I I'm I'm very fortunate uh to work with Senator
Duckworth and uh Representative Cosnik. Um we always call it team Lakeville and then working with the council and uh city staff. Um the many times you guys have come up to tell us what your priorities are or to help out on certain things is always a welcome. and uh we
always try to deliver for um the residents of Lakeville. Um I get the pleasure of being vice chair of public safety uh and I also serve on taxes. Um first of all, when I talk about working together, one of the pieces that came
forward and we heard loud and clear from you were some of the priorities on the housing bill. There were some things that took away local control and that was a piece that we all kind of looked at. Um, and as we were having these discussions, I really want to thank uh, city staff um, for getting us the
information. Um, so we had numbers to talk about and when we talked about it with our colleagues, um, not just on our side, but also across the aisle, I think it made a lot of sense on why we were pushing back on some of these things. And I want to pre uh, say thank you to
uh, you mayor. Um towards the end there was a disconnect in communication and I asked if you take a phone call and I think that really helped as we move things along and um certain parts of the bill are going to be um good. It it wasn't as big as everyone would thought.
Um, but the local control piece is still a big part of this and I think that's important because you guys do an excellent job on the temperature of the city and we felt that was important and one of your priorities. Um, from a public safety standpoint, Philando Castile dollars we got up the full
amount. Um, that is mandatory training that does go into your city budget uh for your training uh throughout the year. Um there's also a bill for uh survivors of public safety that die of cancer um for their family members um
which I think is really good and also um kudos to you guys as you're building this new fire station looking at how firefighting and Senator Duckworth can probably talk a lot more than I can how important it is to have these um different areas and putting that
investment into it. Um and then uh the other area that we looked at were um on the pension side. Um we're going to do a pension um where we're helping our law enforcement and uh first responders with their time. It used to be a when you and
I went through was a three-year. Now it's down to automatic, but we're also um looking at a um work disability piece and having a workg group. And I think that's very important because there's been agreements with the city where there's money put into it, but we're
looking at what can we do for our first responders in the long haul. So those are uh some areas that um we're excited about. Um from a tax standpoint, um obviously there's um a little push back on some of the any new taxes and I think we're very happy to say that there are
no new taxes going out to any new residents or any residents. Um but the one area that we really strengthened was on fraud. The office of inspector general now has teeth and it is independent and will able to do the investigations and hold people
accountable and have subpoena power which I think most motans because unfortunately motans are very very um >> generous people and they are willing to give their money but when the money doesn't get to the people it's supposed to and it's like you open up the bag of
chips and where did all the chips go? I didn't get my full money worth. I think that is what Minnesota's been experienced with the fraud. So the other piece that we passed that I think is really good, it's um fraud isn't free and 100% of um the fraud money that you
take you have to pay back to the state and it goes back to the um citizens of Minnesota. So I think these MA pieces are going to help and um those are a few things that we did. But thank you guys for all that you do and uh we appreciate it.
Thank you, council. Any questions, comments? Council mayor Lee. >> Well, first of all, thanks for your service. Um, a tough legislative session. Um, and, uh, one thing I I know I think I can speak for all of us is
that you're very accessible. Um, and so have being able to come up to the capitol or have a conversation, it's always something regardless of if we agree on the topic we're talking about, it's always been a great relationship city to uh state. So appreciate your
your willingness to do that. Um I think the only you know there's a few things that are in the ether for the next session you know whether that's the starter home act NDAs uh there's transportation consolidation uh things that didn't quite get to the finish line
that I think are going to come back up next session and I know we we have our annual conversation uh usually around December that we put our priorities up but particularly around the starter homes act. I mean, what it felt like it
really that conversation went too far too fast without city input. Um, and so what can we do this coming session to not let it get that far and maybe have more of a voice at the table before we're trying to fight our way into it,
you know? >> Well, I appreciate that question and I can give you a couple of suggestions u because we'll quite frankly we could use all the help we can get. Um it's a very alarming position to be in when a piece of legislation kind of comes out of nowhere and is so far gone in the
process without significant input from stakeholders in your example local city units of government. Um that has to happen on the front end much sooner. And so uh whatever organizations, associations that you all belong to, making sure that you're reigning them in and they know truly where where you
stand as a city and what your thoughts are is important. uh sometimes they just kind of do what they do, however well intended it may be, and it may not accurately reflect you what you all would like to see or have them be saying. Uh and then also um when bills get dropped um sometimes you don't know
how serious to take them. Uh if any housing bill um is written and gets dropped, we should all take it 110% seriously. That's what we've learned from the last couple of sessions. reach out, start the dialogue, and make sure that if we've got input, we've got curt concerns, uh, constructive criticism,
suggestions, that we get them out there. We get them out there as soon as possible, and that we work behind the scenes and in committee meetings to build the relationships necessary to make sure that if legislation passes, it's the best form it can be in and it's going to be successful. Um, and you
know, I don't want anybody to think that any particular city has a certain reputation or a certain um, you know, preconceived notion regarding any law. The fact of the matter is specifically when you look at the great city of Lakeville. I don't think there's any other place in the state of Minnesota that's done a better job of creating more housing units for the state of
Minnesota. I'm sure there's a couple that would like to say they have, but I'm very biased. Lakeville has done a prepoundonderance of that work. No question. And so I think continuing to learn from from you all and from the staff here and what has been successful would probably be a better step for the state to do than for telling cities like
Lakeville what they should and should not do. Um, and I think that we're going to continue to advocate on your behalf and behalf of the residents of the city to make sure that's understood up at the capital to say, "Hey, how can we do this collaboratively working together because we all want to achieve affordable
housing period?" And oftent times you can achieve affordable housing when the government uh takes one or two steps back. Uh sometimes when the government decides to take three or steps forward and get into that mix with regulations or what have you, the unintended effect or consequence is we drive prices up or
we negatively impact inventory. I'll give you one example. Rent control in St. Paul, right? Uh and so that would be the one thing I would suggest. Let's start those conversations as soon as possible and uh let folks know where we stand and and try to focus on solutions that will actually bring about the
intended um effect that we're all trying to work toward. Yeah, I was going to say um the data that we received uh knowing that you had 700 um single family units ready to go, 700 multi- family, that's over 1,400.
And the number of permits that you were going through when I gave those numbers, they were eyepopping. And being a former member of the public or uh the planning commission and being a chair of it, I understood it. I understood our process and I think that helped. but also having
the mayor have that direct contact with the chair to explain some of that where can we find that happy spot and I think that was where the discussions because I think actually um the mayor actually brought better ideas back to them that
they were considering. So I think having those conversations early having your guys' input and uh the great staff that you guys have behind you >> I got to sneak out. Sorry guys. Thank you very much. Exactly. >> He's the actual realtor. I'm the former realtor. [laughter]
Um I I I think it's a great question and it is a a topic that is continually addressed at the capital. Um maybe we'll have uh Representative Whittier or myself make sure that we're um appointed to that uh committee next year. Uh but leading up to it, I think uh I would be
open to sitting down uh with you and I know you got your open meeting laws or whatever and so in some format that we can uh little informally um go over what was proposed um what was troublesome and some suggestions that that we can bring
forward. Um you know, everybody wants affordable housing. Um, but I've been here long enough to also understand that people invest in their in their communities and their neighborhoods and their home. Um, and expecting a certain amount of uh quality of housing um that
sometimes isn't affordable uh under the certain uh intent of of what they're trying to do. Um, and we have to respect that and and recognize that. And so I think there's a a balance there that um was missed uh originally. And uh you know, just to be fair to my my friend
and colleague from Grand Rapids, um I don't need him telling uh Lakeville how to do their housing. >> And so I had a pretty straightforward conversation with him about that. Um but I I think if we uh got together a little bit uh we would be able to um more
proactively address the needs of housing and in Lakeville and and you know and not to um overlook the the housing partners that we have in this community, the builders and developers and that that you know obviously have an important um role in this and uh puts us
sometimes in a we're kind of in the middle between uh helping um represent your viewpoints but also the developers but to come together to to a better understanding. I think that's some work that we should do other than just the December meeting. So, I'm open to that sometime after pan frog.
>> Appreciate it. Thank you. Council, other questions or comments? >> Thank you for all the your hard work. I can't tell you how much we appreciate that um that you represent the citizens of Lakeville as well as you do. So, thank you. Appreciate it.
>> Thank you. I'll just say um and this is also true for Senator Duckworth. I am so grateful of the relationship that you have with the city. I I think I've shared this in the past. I talked to a lot of other mayors who have very fraught relationships with their legislators,
even of the same party, you know, even though we're we're nonpartisan, but obviously um and so I'm so grateful that we have this great open line of communication and that you both have really taken um our priorities and made them the state's priorities when it comes to transportation, public safety.
Those are the top two things that we always talk about and the fact that you guys were able to deliver for us is just so important. So, I I thank you for your work and I will take you up on that. we will connect before December so that we can have conversations. >> Absolutely. >> Um, you know, leading into 27 because I'm I'm guessing
>> the housing stuff will not go away. >> I do appreciate that and I also appreciate you guys coming here on a nice summer evening. So, thank you for that. >> Thank you. >> Thank you for the invitation. All right, we will [laughter] >> uh we will turn over to our parks
director, Joe Macy Archin, to talk a little bit about the snowmobile map and a potential update. Uh good evening uh mayor and council. Uh I know since we had the paniprog presentation today, the next logical thing to discuss is snowmmoiling.
>> So uh with that uh here's a little bit of information about um how we manage our snowmobile trails here in Lakeville. Uh and we'll be talking a little bit about the map as well as our existing ordinance. Um but the uh the city of Lakeville has a great partnership with Lakeville Snow Trackers and we have now
going on uh 23 years. Uh it's a uh nonprofit group that we work with um and they maintain and groom all of our cross-country ski trails as well as all of our snowmobile trails. So if you use those trails at Riverfront Park, that's all because of the partnership that we have with uh snow trackers. Uh the club
uh and we say 60 hours approximately a year that they do grooming those trails. Uh but they do a lot of additional work in preparation for it between putting up uh directional signage and um and helping with maps and all kinds of other different things. So really active group and uh appreciate all of their uh their
efforts. Um they do also uh do quite a bit of ongoing education and training uh through their club and the club leadership uh works very collaboratively with uh parks and racks uh with our staff uh making sure that trail alignments and other changes are
identified seasonally or annually I should say. Uh the club also works well with us uh for other events like Ritterfest. So, if you've done uh some of the snowmobile rides or those types of things that we do during those events, uh that's all through the same organization. Uh the city's ordinance though on uh
snowmobile use uh within the the city uh was originally adopted in the '90s. It was updated in 2010. Uh but it updates or outlines, I should say, the permissible use of snowmobiles within the city limits and that includes operation on streets and highways. Uh general operation, it includes the age
restrictions and licensing and all of those fun things. We don't talk much about that ordinance. Um I would say there was a period in Lakeville's history where snowmoiling um caused more issues within the system. So something that came up a little bit more regularly. Um but with the management that we have now and the partnerships
that we have, we see less issues. So something we probably talk a little bit less about, but it is something I at least want to highlight. This is the full ordinance. Uh so it covers all of the fun details about the the no snowmobile zones. Uh covers the dates of use. Uh so permissible from
December 1st through uh March 31st. It covers uh the speed limits and how people access our trail system. Uh it covers the permissible hours, so you cannot ride uh from 11:00 p.m. through 7 a.m. Covers speed limits when you're off
of trails and all of those things. So don't go through this in too much detail. Again, we can always uh skip back to it if there are questions, but generally um the the ordinance has been working well, I think, from our perspective. And uh the existing map was last adopted
in uh 2023. Um annually again there might be small tweaks to this based on development. Um but the trail routes do connect to other portions of the area. So uh into Farmington Alco New Market um and there are some key spots that we
always try to hit for the snowmobile club. One of them being uh for example the holiday station by Antlers Park. it's an important stop for them along the route, easy access. Um but uh generally the way that the trail system is designed is to provide inlets or in
routes both uh if you're going to trailer your um your sled in or if you're going to use a city street to access uh one of those trail routes. Uh there have been some changes recently. Most notably would have been the elimination of the trail connection on
185th Street. uh that did create some challenges for the club, but I think people are starting to understand uh some of those uh changes and and um for example, this year there were residents that were in that area that thought that they could still ride within certain areas and the club very proactively reached out and met with people to to
clarify that. And that just goes back to reiterate the good partnership we have. >> As far as the existing or the the proposed changes that we have, again, they're relatively minimal at this point. Uh we're proposing a new trailer location at Antlers Park. Now that that is a fourseason restroom facility and we
maintain those parking lots, Antler makes a lot of sense to add as an additional uh location. Um there are also some additional route changes that would happen uh due to development off of 215th Street. Uh you can see those in dashed areas there. There's also a
realignment in Antlers Park um based off of the reconstruction of the park itself. And then in Ritter Farm Park, that's the other uh potential proposed change. But at this point, um, it's really just an opportunity to talk a little bit about the policies, the process, and and see if there are any
questions or comments from you, if it all. Yep. Council questions, comments, >> for the added um trailer parking at Antlers, how many trailers, how much space is needed and how much of
that parking lot is needed and is there a way to restrict it to one side of that parking lot versus allowing the whole thing? >> Yeah, so it's a very valid question. Right now, we only maintain about a quarter of the lot at Antlers. So 3/4 of
that lot is uh closed in winter. We don't plow it. Um and we have the ability and have cleared larger areas based on events. So uh we kind of scale accordingly. There was a uh a sauna event, a private event that was held out there that required additional space. We
cleared some additional space for that. Um so we have a lot of ability to adjust um accordingly. I don't anticipate that antlers would be necessarily an incredibly heavy location unless we lose over time some of these trail segments. Uh if we lose some of the connectivity,
it's maybe going to become more more important. So, >> and is it also then assumed that the lake is frozen? So, there that's also a connection between the two parks, right? >> Correct. Yep. Uh you can see it kind of identified very loosely, but the lake is used in three different areas. uh coming
out of Caspersonson Park to Antlers. That would be one and two. And then actually heading north uh through the backwaters going to 185th Street. Uh they cross there. You can see where it says to Prior Lake. Um that would be the other connection through uh through Lake Marian.
A a followup to the parking lot um question is the wear and tear of snowmobiles on concrete and trails. Are are there uh restrictions on what kind of tread can be used on that? There are
um within the city limits, there are restrictions on the types of treads that can be used and there's a section along uh Dodd Boulevard as we look at doing those improvements where we may need to overlay the snowmobile trail over one of the new um pathways in which case then
yes, restrictions will continue to be enforced. Um and this is again where I would say the the club does a really good job of helping us make sure that that happens. I imagine the preference is that they're in ditches and and grass, you know, covered with snow as opposed to a trail,
right? >> So, ditches work great for uh for the grooming as long as we have the clearance that they need. Uh they need essentially a 10x10 box to get the groomer through. So, we need 10 foot of elevation and width. Uh they prefer the ditch because of the way that it uh
collects the snow. Um but the way that the ordinance is set is that's um on identified trails we use primarily ditches. In areas where it's not identified, it is street access. [clears throat]
>> I don't have any other questions. I would just I'm want to just say I'm continue to be grateful the snow trackers and the partnership we have because not every community has that and it's it's a great thing and I think if you haven't been to Ritterfest, there's my little plug. It's an awesome way to get kids out and and trying all that
kind of stuff out. So, um I would just say if if the club is comfortable with this map, then I'm comfortable with this map. >> I can move forward from there. >> Excellent. >> Okay. >> Thank you so much. >> Thanks, Joe. >> Thank you. >> Uh okay. Council or committee updates.
>> I just say the only one we had regional council mayors last week. Um couple different presentations, but the one that was interesting is the state demographer spoke uh she said that we continue to kind of be as a state not having a ton of growth. She said there
are plenty of cities um that are having growth but as a state in general we're not growing. They they do have data by county um that they will share with us on where people are coming from if they're from instate or other parts of the state and how they're ending up in Dakota County. I'm very curious just personally about
you know where where is everybody coming from? you know, if you had almost 10,000 people over seven years ago, I'd be coming from somewhere. Um, so I'll be curious to get the report from her on that. And I I did ask her take on um if we lose a congressional seat and she
said all depends on how well we count. So, this is how we were, you know, in the last census and, you know, guessing that'll be up again this year, too. So if if we're bucking the trend and growing and as a state we're declining,
where's the decline? I mean, is there are there hot spots currently in >> um there are there's out migration to Wisconsin and then the sunb belt of states. I don't know how you define that, but there's people just moving to the
southern part of the country for weather and tax purposes and opportunity. >> You see kind of where the growth is. If you think about North Carolina and this kind of like >> loop, that's where they kind of said where the the growth is is kind of happening. But she said just as a
country as well, we're just not we don't have the birth rate uh replacement because we're averaging >> yeah 1.7 kids, which is a household of like 2.6, which you need to be into the
two on average to do it. and she just said there's no policies that exist even really good child care that will turn that tide and so interesting to see kind of where we' go and
long term but it's the trend that we all know and that is greater Minnesota shrinking and people are moving into just oh and the other she said the other big growth area and I I'm guessing it's it's really driven by land cost right county has had tremendous growth along
with us so the two two big kind of growth areas are cities in Wright County and cities in Dakota >> both ends of the metro. >> Yeah, exactly. Y [clears throat] uh okay and with that I will take a
motion to well our next meeting is in July. >> I don't know the date off the top of my head. And just a reminder, we do have our um annual appreciation event for our advisory commissions on Wednesday at Antlers Park and or not Antlers at Grant Prairie Park in association with Lake
Lunatics game. And if it rains, uh we have uh we'll cancel the event. We'll send notice out and we will get a rain checked for everybody to attend a future game. >> Okay. Actually, I do have an announcement. Um on Sunday, July 5th at
Caspersonson, there is a Lakeville Community Band concert, patriotic evening, and that's the night that we'll dedicate [clears throat] um the band shell is the Doug and Deb Anderson amphitheater. So we'll have that at the beginning of the band concert. So if you're able to join us, that'll be on July 5th and then we'll have a meeting
on July 6th here at city hall. With that, now I'll take a motion to adjourn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. post. We're adjourned. [music] >> [music] [music]
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