Good afternoon. It is 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. We will call the city council meeting of the city of New to order. At this time, the first item is a consent agenda. Councilors, what are your wishes? I'll move it. Second. Thank you. We do have a motion and a second. Any
additional discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. I. That motion does carry. Item number 2.1 is a public hearing for noise variance for New Chamber of Commerce Crazy Days. At this time, we will open um the public
hearing. If you would like to be heard, please state your name and address for the record at the microphone. I I don't believe there's anybody here going to come up and speak on it. Uh, subsequent to the public hearing, offer the resolution close the public hearing and authorizing the request from the new
Chamber of Commerce for a noise variance to permit amplified sounded music during crazy days on Minnesota Street between First North and Center Streets on Friday on Friday and 3rd North and Center Street on Saturday for the following Friday, July 25th, 2025 from 2:00 p.m.
to 11:00 p.m. and Saturday, July 26th, 2025 from 8:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Second. We do have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Wormka, yes. Councelor
Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. And President Becker, yes. That motion does carry. Item number 2.2 is also a public hearing for noise variance for New Chamber of Commerce Spiken in the street. At this time, we will open the public hearing. Again, if you'd like to be
heard, please state your name and address for the record at the microphone. Well, I'm not seeing anybody that wants to speak on the public hearing aspect. So, subject of the public hearing offering the resolution closing the public hearing and authorizing the request from New Chamber of Commerce for
a noise variance to permit amplified sound music during spiking in the street on Minnesota Street between Second North and Center Streets for the following. Friday, August 1, 2025 from 3 pm to 11 p.m. and Saturday, August 2nd, 2025 from
8:00 am to 11 p.m. Second. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Warma, yes. Councelor Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker, yes. That motion carries. Item
2.3 is another public hearing on the final plot of Sarah Hills fourth edition. At this time, this public hearing will be open. All right. John Nisley, planner with City of New. I'll give a very abbreviated staff report. Um, this is
the final plat for Sarah Hills 4th edition located at 1827 Ryan Road and 1900 Allison Avenue. Planning Commission at its May 29th, 2025 meeting unanimously approved uh the final plat. Um, I would note that there have been no
changes from the preliminary plat to the final plat. Um, platting fee of two $260 has been paid. There's a parkland dedication fee of $750 for the two undeveloped lots. That's also been paid. Notice has been provided to land
surveyor uh to provide an electronic file of the plat in AutoCAD 2016 or newer format. And the requested easement area has been provided on the plat. I would just note that the planning of these two lots is for single family homes to be uh sold privately on the lots. That concludes the staff report.
Thank you, Mr. Nisley. Okay, one one question, John. I know you got the four conditions. Do you want the the primary issues or you want to go down to the legal part of it? They're just a hair different or doesn't it make any difference with your four conditions? base, electronic file, the
easements, five foot rear alley. Yeah. Go with uh go with the conditions um with the conditions that have been provided uh in the in the staff report. Um just so we can have those for the record, I would. Gotcha.
Motion uh mean there's nobody going to step up to the mic. Uh, close the public hearing, offer a resolution approving the final plan of Sarah Hills, fourth edition located at 1827 Ryan Road and 1900 Allison Avenue with the stated conditions in the staff report. Second.
Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Warmka, yes. Councelor Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker, yes. That motion carries. Item 3.1, tree license service renewal
for 2025 and 2026. I'll make a motion to approve the issuance of a tree service license renewal for construction and tree services LLC for the period beginning July 2nd, 2025 ending June 30th, 2026, subject to compliance with all city and state requirements. Second.
Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. I. I. That motion does carry. Item 3.2 Two is a temporary on sale intoxicating liquor license for Brown County Agricultural Society. President and counselors, I'd
like to make a motion to approve the issuance of a temporary on sale intoxicating liquor license to the Brown County Agricultural Society to sell alcohol at the Brown County Free Fair 1201 North State Street for the period beginning August 6, 2025 and ending
August 10, 2025, subject to compliance with all city and state requirements. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. I. I. That motion does carry. Item 3.3 is a temporary on
sale liquor license for Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. I'll up for a motion to approve the issuance of the temporary on sale liquor license for Cathedral of Holy Trinity DBA Holy Cross AFC to sell alcohol at Church Festival located at Brown County Fairgrounds 121 North State
Street on Sunday, August 17th, 2025 subject to compliance with all city and state requirements. Second and a second. Any additional discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. I. I. That motion does carry. We will be skipping
item 3.4 and moving down to item 3.5, the Franklin liquor license extension for 2025 downtown events. I'll offer the resolution authorizing the Franklin to extend their liquor license for the following chamber sponsored 2025 summer events to allow alcohol to be consumed served subject to
conditions. Crazy days. Minnesota Street from Third North to First North from 12:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 26th, and First North Street from Minnesota to Alley from 12:00 p.m. to 4 p.m. Car and Bike Rollins, Minnesota Street from Third North to 1st South
from 3:30 to 8:00 p.m. Saturdays, July 12th, August 16th, September 13th. spiking in the street. Minnesota Street from Second North to Center from Friday, August 1st from at 400 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. and Saturday, August 2nd at 8:00
a.m. to 11:00 p.m. and First North from Minnesota to Alley. Lastly, Parade of Lights, Minnesota Street from First South to 4th North from 400 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on November 28th. Second. We do have a motion and a second. Any additional discussion?
Director Jorgensson, please call the role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Warmka, yes. Councelor Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker, yes. That motion carries. Item 4.1 is a variance request for 413 South Highland Avenue.
Mr. Nisley. All right. Thank you. This is a variance request by Tyler Zner to construct a 14 1/2x 26 ft garage addition to an existing uh detached garage 16 ft from
the front yard property line on property legally described as the front half of lot D of outlot uh 313. So the planning commission at it June 26 2025 meeting unanimously recommended approval of the variance request with two conditions. I'm just going to give a real brief
background on why this request is being uh considered. So, the property requesting the variance is located in the front half of outlot D uh outlot D of outlot 313. The property was platted in 1954. staff has consulted with the city
attorney regarding uh provisions in the city zoning ordinance and its allowance of a res residential detached accessory structure of up to 1,000 square ft when the lot is directly abuing a separate lot and under the same ownership. So what I mean by that is let's say you own
lot D and you own lot E. If uh you have a house and a shed entirely on outlot D, you could have 1,000 square feet there. And if you own the adjacent property, you could have another th00and square feet right there as long as it's owned by the same property owner and they meet
all the setbacks. Um uh so the city attorney has concluded that the zoning ordinance allows for this activity provided the detached accessory structure meets all applicable setbacks of the zoning district. Um they also uh city attorney also reviewed the lot and topographical map of the site
and concurred with staff that uh a var this uh proposal would meet a variance request. Um the existing garage was constructed in 1965 and was approximately 22 feet from the front yard property line. So that's south uh property line ab budding South Highland
Avenue at its closest point. Um the existing garage is 24x 26 or 620 ft in size. And with uh the addition it would bring the total size to of the garage to actually 1,1 ft. So I talked with the property owner about this and we allow a
maximum of 1,000 square ft. he's going to make an adjustment to lower that 14 1.5 down ever so slightly to get to 1,000 square ft. Um the R1 zoning uh standards specify that the front yard setback uh is 30 ft
uh in this area. So within approximately 10 ft of the southeast corner of the existing garage, the ravine steeply drops off uh 10 vertical 10 vertical distance over 25 foot horizontal distance. So there's a 25 ft slope right
behind uh this garage making it hard to add to the back side of the garage and then on the um north side of the garage between the house and this existing garage that slope is actually 17% so it's very steep on that side as well. So
he's proposing this variance uh or this location and the only flat spot on that outlaw. Um, the addition extending to the south would meet the five yards uh side five foot sideyard setback requirement of the zoning district. The applicant will use the existing uh curb cut on South
Highland Avenue 10 to the garage zone. No new curb cut will be necessary. The two recommended conditions were one that the applicant shall pay the cost to record the variance with the Brown County Recorders Office and then two that the applicant shall contact the city to verify the location of the building once it is staked. And that
concludes the staff report. If there's no questions on I'm going to offer the resolution approving with conditions the variance request by Tyler Alu to construct a you want to go 14 ft. Read it right in instead of 14 1/2. I think 14 and 1/4 ft will get you to that
uh 14.25* 26 garage addition to an existing detached garage at 16 ft from the front yard property line on the property legally described as front half of lot D of outlot 313. Second. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further
discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Warmka, yes. Councelor Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker, yes. Motion carries. Item 4.2 is a planned unit development general development plan for project spark.
Okay. Um, so this is uh a PUD or plan unit development application uh with a general development plan by Steve Brown on behalf of project spark on property uh legally described as lots 1 through 8 block one that's the integer edition. Um
the planning commission at their June 2020 20 June 26 meeting unanimously recommended approval of the request with conditions and that's based on the findings of fact that's uh in your packets uh for the council meeting uh tonight. Um so for the purpose of
evaluating this project staff use the standards assigned to the R3 medium density residence district. So the subject property is a total area of um 757 acres. The property has been vacant and was previously mined for gravel. Uh
the property was formerly lots one uh lots 11 12 13 and 14 block 52 south of center street and again is now been platted as lots 1 through eight block one integer edition. So the purpose of that replplatting uh of the property in
2018 was to accommodate twin homes um on three of the lots and then two single family homes on the lot that abuts uh uh 13th South Street. Um the proposed project would involve the construction of 15 tiny homes, one
common building, a parking lot along the alley with storm water being treated through the permeable parking lot along the alley. And each tiny home will be constructed at 20 ft wide uh by 20 foot um in depth or 400 square ft and have a
total height of 20 ft at the peak. Um the project is being proposed uh to be constructed in two phases. Phase one uh would include the construction of two model homes on lots one and two block one integer edition. That's fronting
13th South Street. Um this first phase would allow the developer to prove the viability of the development uh to the community and would also help secure funding for phase two. Uh if approved uh phase one is proposed to be finished by the winter of 2025.
um fave phase two, you know, subject to the acceptance here, um could start as early as spring of 2026. So phase two would be the remaining 13 uh tiny homes on the on the property. I would note too that in discussions with the developer,
um phase one is not only just to see if it's financially viable, but also to see and get feedback from the rest of the community on how well they like the project or if they like the project. The developer is intending to continue to own the property and homes and the
homes that generate revenue for the new home business retail and innovation center, also known as new brick. Um, I want to give a little background though on the zoning history uh of this property because it's this area has changed or gone back and forth with
different zoning districts uh sometimes. Uh so in September of 1963, this property was zoned commercial. Then in August of ' 64, it was reszoned to industrial. Uh in October of ' 68, it was then again reszoned to R3, multiple
family residence district. And then March of 22, it was reszoned to medium density residence district, the R3. So, I would note the the R3 in our old zoning ordinance, the 19 uh the one that was uh in 1968, that R3 was our
highdensity residence district. So, that under that uh zoning district, you could do anything from single family all the way up to multifamily apartments in that zoning district. Um and that is why you see such a mix of different housing and
residential densities down on that block. It includes single family homes, uh, twins, row homes, apartments. Um, it's all within that that little area. Um, so the development history down there is in 1979 there was four to uh
town homes built. In ' 83, there was two duplexes. In 1987, there was a group home. 2012 there was a single family home. And then in 2018 and 2019, uh, there was two twin homes. So, that's all within the same block that we're
considering here today. Um, we did uh receive a letter in opposition uh to this project uh concerned about density uh concerned that this would look um odd within the rest of the neighborhood. And
that is all included in your agenda packet uh here tonight. There was also folks that did show up to the planning commission meeting um but did not speak at the microphone um or voice concerns uh regarding the project uh to the planning commission.
Planning commission uh did recommend one uh one change or potential condition be added to this project or this PUD general development plan and that is because they're only providing 15 parking spots. So that'd be one per
home. Uh there is likely going to be some on street parking by residents if they have guests over if it's more than one person that lives in that home. And one of the parking areas where they could park is up on Minnesota Street or on 13th. But to get down from Minnesota
um down into the development uh currently um you would actually have to walk in the street and then down through the alley. So, the planning commission recommended that we work with the developer to provide some sort of pedestrian access from Minnesota down into the development so they don't have
to walk all the way down to the alley if they're parking up on Minnesota. The developer was um okay with a condition of that nature. Um there's two recommended conditions. one that the applicant or owner pay the cost to record the necessary documents
with the Brown County Recorders Office and two that the establishment of the PUD project will require the approval of A the resoning of the property by ordinance and B development agreement. Um we have three attachments that's the staff report to the planning commission resolution and then findings of facts
that was approved by the planning commission. That concludes the staff report. Mr. Nicely, if there's any comments because this is a different a couple of questions, comments, whatnot. I I mean, I'm all for the project and tiny homes. I think it's
a great idea, but when I looked at it, the reasonzoning we did on this, you wouldn't even be in here if we hadn't reszoneed it in 2022. What time of home are you going to put up? When I looked at it, I thought of it looks like barracks to me. Military
barracks. That's the first thing that popped into my head. It look like look like small military barracks. So, if I could just elaborate on that a little bit. So, they're 20x 20 by 20 foot peak, right? Um, so they are
it's a full uh first floor and then it's also you can stand in the second floor as well. Um, so it's and actually the the developer brought to the planning commission um and should be in your packets a number of homes that are of
similar size that we already have in in new wall. I know where there's a few old ones like that. Yeah. So um yeah, that was that was the information provided to us from the from the developer. There was green space that are that's in between uh the buildings.
If you look on the site plan, it looks like there's an outline of 25 by 20. And that 25 actually signifies the um extension of the concrete. So there's a little front porch landing area of concrete in front of each one of these homes. The actual footprint of the home
would be 20 by 20. Yeah. And the only other one comment I want to bring up, I do understand. I mean, we all have the letter in our packet, the neighbor and the twin home there, like thinking there would be twin homes or whatnot next to it. I I assume
that the developer, he's set on 15. Yeah, I had that discussion with the developer and at this point in time, um, to make the project financially feasible, they need to go with 15. Now, that being said, they're doing this in multiple in two phases. Um, so it might
not even be a phase two, but uh, phase one, um, they want to make sure they can make this work financially and and get true cost of what this development is going to be. And phase one will be on which end or which phase one will be on the very north end. This north end. It's
lot uh, it's the lot that abuts 13th South and that's actually uh, a lot that's been split by a simple lot division. It's a 50x 165 lot. there'd be one of those uh tiny home models on each one of those lots. And uh I would note
that we had had a discussion about that because if the project were not to be feasible, financially feasible, and they quit there, that each one of those homes would be on their own separate utility service so that they could be sold individually if needed.
Again, I'm for the project. It just we have changed this one word medium to high density when we resounded it or we wouldn't be here. All right, that thank you president counselor. I'd like to offer
resolution to approve the application for a planned unit development uh with a general development plan by Steve Brown on behalf of Project Spark for the property currently legally described as lots 1 through eight. Lock
one, iter second. Oh, I it's not all read into the record. Oh, I'm sorry. It's okay. And general Oh, I'm sorry. I b I bumped ahead. No, that is correct. Motion in a second. Any additional discussion? Yes,
President and counselors. Um little uh comment um especially with the pedestrian access um topic. Um my understanding is there's sidewalks along Minnesota Street and 14th South Street. Um
is there a sidewalk on 13th? Yeah. So I would like to see that. So I would like to just uh interject a little bit on that. I had had a discussion with the city engineer. 13th was resurfaced not too long ago. So, uh if or when that pro
when that street is repaired again, they would order in sidewalks on both sides of the street because at this time there's no sidewalk on either the north side or the south side of 13 South. Okay. Thank you. I'm a little rusty at it, but city engineer, the building official, but I believe that alley
entrance it they're all fully ADA accessible. Correct. Um I don't want that president city councilors um if you look at it from a grade perspective. So um 88 percentages are you know um we have
to have like a less than 2% each direction for a landing and things of that nature. Um the slope of 13 self is not conducive to but I mean the alley would qualify the alley does. Yes. But when we get out to the street, that's
where there there is um exceptions to that because of the street grade and and things of that nature. But the alley itself is um I would say under that 5%. Thank you. If I had to guess what I mean, we don't have uh survey data on that, but just looking at it, I would
think it should be a accessible route into the development from the alley. Thank you. I'd just I'd just like to make a couple comments. You know, I'm in favor of the project. I'm glad we're getting, you know, more housing options, very diverse within our community. A couple concerns I have just like with
deliveries and things of that nature. I mean, did staff have any discussions with like emergency personnel? You know, if there's a how you handle an ambulance, you know, you're going to plug it up, you know, an alleyway of someone that it's just it just seems tight possibly. But just concerns and
you know, this is probably a learning process for them too with starting with the corner. But Sure. So, um, alley access for an ambulance would there's more than enough with there for an alley access uh to the am, uh, for the ambulance. Now, um, fire truck, um,
maybe the city engineer will be able to help me on on this one, but, uh, this isn't very different than how you would access a any other lot in the or any other home in the grid section where you could access both on, um, South Minnesota um, and drag hose or you could
access off of 13th. I don't know if they can make the turn into the alley, Joe. Uh, is it city? Is it still 250 ft or 250 ft from a the road? Yeah, we we can Yeah, I I I think as far as coverage uh
with our fire apparatus, um you know, I I obviously don't want to speak for the fire chief as he's not here, but um you know, as uh member of the fire department, the looking at the aerial apparatus, we'd be able to reach everything from most likely Minnesota
Street. Um and then as well with the holes lays that are packed on the truck, they should be able to um access the site by pulling hydrants from either German Street or Minnesota Street into the site. Thanks, Mayor. Any comments?
I'm sounding like a broken record. I just uh am in favor of this project as I was of the other uh housing projects that we're looking at. I think anything we can do to provide a variety of options to the residents of NewM is a
win-win. Uh this is just another piece of the puzzle that we are so fortunate is coming our way within this last year. When we look at the apartment buildings, we're looking at the choouses or barn ands and now tiny houses. So, I'm very
supportive of the project. Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Wormka, yes. Councelor Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker,
yes. That motion carries. Item number 4.3 is comprehensive plan amendment change land use designation from low density residential to high density residential. Okay. Um so this is for the exact same
property that we were just discussing um for the general development plan. So I'm not going to give a background information on the location and everything if if the council's okay with that. Um the planning commission at their June 26th, 2025 meeting, the uh unanimously recommended approval of the
request and uh the reasoning for that request is based on the findings of facts that's attached uh with your packets. So similar to the zoning designation on that property, the comprehensive land use designation on this property has flipped back and forth
as well. So um in let me get back to my notes here. Um, in the 1963 comprehensive plan, this was designated as industrial property. In the 1996 comprehensive plan, this was designated as highdensity residential. And then in
2024, the comp plan changed it uh to low density residential. So, it's only been lowdensity residential for about 10 months. I would note uh that part of the reason for that change from low dens from highdensity residential to low density residential is kind of two reasons. Number one, the existing
property owner um Mr. Sabatino had proposed twin homes um and a single family home on that lot. And then secondly, he also came back in 2023 and requested a variance to reduce the sideyard setbacks to install single family homes uh on those lots. So the
most recent information that we had of what was going to be proposed on that property was single family development and that's why we had made that change in the comprehensive plan from high density to low density. Um uh so um other other than that uh the uh
the surrounding uh surrounding uh land uses include low density uh to the east, low density to the north. Uh and then we have commercial um which would be Riverbend School District in that area. And then we also have more
commercial and industrial further to the south. Um the uh the planning commission felt that this designation for this property uh met met the similar land uses that already exist in that neighborhood and
they were uh in full support of changing uh the comprehensive plan to highdensity residential for this area. Um there were two proposed conditions. One that the applicant/owner will pay the cost to record the necessary documents at the Brown County Recorder Office. Um and
that the uh number two that the amendment of the land use c uh categories are subject to the approval of the plan development zoning designation for the subject property. And that concludes the staff report. Thank you. It really is a perfect property for this for this project. I
mean you look at the whole plot of the city. So, I'll offer a resolution to approve the petition of Steve Brown to amend the city's comprehensive plan to allow highdensity residential land uses in the place of low density residential land uses for the property legally described as lots 1 through8 block 1 in
edition and generally located at 418 and 424 13th South Street and 1305 to 1315 South Minnesota Street. Second. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the
role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Warmka, yes. Councelor Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker, yes. That motion carries. Thank you. Item number 4.4 is ordinance number 2025-TBD, first consideration zoning for project
spark. Okay, this is another part to um any plan unit development project in that when we when we go through the plan unit development uh process, it means changing the zoning designation from its current designation to PUD- whatever
number it is. Um so this is the first consideration of ordinance 2025 amending chapter uh 3.2 two of appendix A of the city code um of the city of Newm relative uh to zoning in said city. Uh the property described in the ordinance
uh will be reszoned from medium density residence district R3 to plane unit development district number four. Um currently the properties legally described as lots 1 through 8 integer edition. Um and the street addresses are um generally 418 uh and 42413 South
Street and 1305 to 1315 South Minnesota Street. This is the first consideration. We would bring back the second consideration at the July 15th meeting. At that point in time, the following probably um Saturday or Tuesday, it would be published in the New ARM journal and then it would go into effect
30 days after publication. And that concludes the staff report. Yep. Motion to conduct the first consideration of ordinance number 2025 amending chapter 3.2 of appendix A of the city code of the city of New relative with zoning in said city. Second. We have a motion and a second.
Any additional discussion. Those in favor signal by saying I. I. I. Motion does carry. Item 4.5 is a planned unit development general development plan for Riverhaven housing. Well, you guys are stuck with me for two
more items. Um so this is the uh plan unit development general development plan for River Haven Housing. um an application by Dean Madigan on behalf of River Haz Haven Housing um and the city
of Newm who's the owner of the property for a general development plan that's associated with the PUD zoning district that's intended to accommodate 118 unit mixeduse residential housing project um at that location. The planning commission at their June 2026 meeting
unanimously recommended approval of this request with conditions and based on the findings of fact forms uh that were completed by the commission and included in your packet. I would note that this item was tabled at their May 29th planning commission meeting and the
reason they wanted to table that is they wanted the developer to come back with a landscape plan and to come back with a grading plan for the property lands uh sorry the developer did provide that with staff and it was presented to the planning commission at their uh June
26th meeting. So for the purposes of evaluating this project, uh staff used the development standards assigned to the R4 highdensity residential zoning district. Um the property subject property has a total area of 7.6 acres. Um approximately six
of the acres of the site are being farmed and 1.61 um was formally mined and not in active use. The project area consists of 17 building lots in the River Haven edition. Lots 1 through 10 would be developed as twin home lots. So you could put five twin homes on those
lots. Lots 11 through 16 would be developed as single family homes. Um and lots 17 would be developed with two apartment uh buildings and six town homes. Um the developer is proposing to construct the two 48 unit apartments as the first
phase of the project um and the town homes or row homes as phase two of the project. Um, both of the apartments and town homes will be owned and operated by the developer. And the developer is estimating grading work would be done on the site in the summer or fall of 2025
with potential start to construction in the fall or winter of 2025. They're also proposing to sell the twin home and single family home lots uh to area private developers or individuals. Uh the development schedule for these homes is unknown and will be subject to
market demand. So there'll be four types of housing uh units on this property. Apartments, town homes, single family homes, and twin homes. And each housing uh housing type will have its own architectural style. Um I would note that this was brought to
the plan uh sorry the city council uh back in 2022. At that point in time, uh the developer was proposing to maintain ownership of all the properties. So including the apartments, twin homes and um and single family homes and then rent
those. They made a change um to that and wanted to now sell uh the single family homes and twin home lots. Um and in addition, there was a period of two years uh that had gone past. So we wanted to bring it back to the planning commission and also give uh the surrounding neighborhood a chance to
voice any concerns or issues that um weren't addressed. Um, as you all know and as is included in this packet, there has been opposition uh to this project both verbally at the planning commission um and in writing and those written comments are provided in your packets.
Um, I would note that um, if you look through your packets, and I'm not going to go through this all in in great detail, but staff uh, our GIS person in the engineering office did a great job uh, comparing elevations of both ground
level elevations of using the grading plan that's proposed by the developer versus the elevations of the existing twin homes. We did a comparison of elevations that way. We also took a look at elevations. If you were standing at um the front step of those existing twin
homes on the north side of Maplewood um Avenue and looking up towards the apartments, how high would you be looking up in the air above you uh to the peak of those apartments? We also took took a look at scale. So we compared the elevations of the peaks of the existing twin homes to the
elevations of the apartments. And then lastly, we also compared if the single family homes and if the twin homes were to be were to be constructed at a height, same height as the twin homes that are already existing on the north side of Maplewood Avenue. If you're standing at the front porch of your
existing twin home, looking over towards the apartment, how much of that apartment would you see above the twin home? um and using the um height of 26 feet for the proposed or could be twin home on the south side of Maplewood Avenue. Generally speaking, you'd see 26
to 28 ft of the apartment standing above that twin home. So, we tried to offer the clearest picture to the planning commission of what's being proposed up here. Um and and the scale of this type of project. Um, the apartments are
proposed to be 179 ft long, 70 ft in width, and then 43 1/2 ft in height. Uh, there were three recommended conditions by the planning commission. One, that the applicant owner pay the cost to record the necessary documents with the Brown County Recorders Office. Two, that
the establishment of the PUD project will require the approval of resoning of the property by ordinance and development agreement with the city. Planning Commission also recommended a third condition. uh that the developer shall work with the city to provide enhanced landscaping on the property.
And what I think they were looking for um is what their landscaping plan shows is the minimum. They've met the minimum um but what can we do with the developer to provide enhanced landscaping for instance? Could we put in larger trees from the very beginning of this project
to help try to screen it? Could we try to work on saving more trees that are existing on that parcel to let's call it the um north and east? Um what can we do to to try to provide the most amount of screening early on in the project stages
rather than um working on it toward uh working on it at the end or just providing small trees that might take 20 30 years to get much larger. So, um, the the developer is aware of that additional condition and that's why we wanted to include it here with the staff
report tonight. That concludes the staff report. Thank you, Mr. Nicely. One more question. John, did you did I hear you say that this fall they were planning on some site work and grading work? Correct. And no other timeline in concrete? No other timeline in concrete.
they want to um they want to potentially start construction in the winter. Um but we at this time we don't have any building plans. Um and I I don't know if we're 100% sure if they sent anything up to Dolly for plumbing review yet, but we
all know that that has additional timelines that are tacked on to the construction schedule. So they may be waiting for the approval by the city council before they invest any more money in that type of thing. I understand that. attitude. We've been at this since for two years. Lot of staff time.
All right. Thank you. Thank you. comments. All are for the resolution to approve the application of Dean Madigan applicant on behalf of Riverh Haven Housing LLC and the city of New Walm for the general development plan and the uh
that is associated with the PUD zoning district intended to accommodate a 118 unit 118 unit mixeduse residential housing project on property generally located in part of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of uh section
24 township. Chip 110 North Range 31 West and Out Lot B, Maplewood Drive, First Edition. The street address is 1800 North Highland Avenue and uh 1425 to 1625 Maplewood Drive. Second. Thank
you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Warma, yes. Councelor Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker, yes. That motion carries. Under new business, item 5.1 is a
purchase agreement for River Haz Haven Housing LLC. Okay. So, um this is for the project we had just discussed um in your packets. You have the real estate or sorry, the purchase agreement for real property uh
that was developed uh or or put together um by the city attorney that's also been shared with the proposed develop developer, Mr. Madigan and they have already signed uh the purchase agreement. I would note two things um on on this purchase agreement. Um one that
the real estate taxes and special assessments shall be payable within one year of the closing date. Um and that the purchase of the property shall be for $1 and to be paid on the date of closing because this is a project uh or a piece of property that the city is
sending selling for housing. um it's not considered a business subsidy um and therefore we can sell it for less uh less than um the market value or taxable value. Uh the taxable value that Brown County has in this property in total is
uh 1 and4 $14,200. That concludes the staff report. Thank you, Mr. Nisley. I'll offer a motion offer resolution to authorize city manager and finance director to sign a real property
purchase agreement with River Haven Housing LLC for the property legally described as exhibit A and exhibit B in the attached purchase agreement. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the
role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Warmka, yes. Councelor Schmidz, yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker, yes. That motion carries. Thank you. Item 5.2, early retirement of general obligation debt issued in 2017. Councilors, this is the first set of
bonds that we've had available for early retirement over the last few years. So, I would like to call the last two years of these bond payments in December. Um, it will save us about $16,000 in interest. and it will allow us to keep the debt um debt levy in check for next
year and future years. President and counselors, I'd like to offer the resolution authorizing the early retirement of the December 1st, 2026 through 2027 payments of the general obligation permanent improvement
revolving fund bonds series 2017B on December 1st, 2025. Yeah. Or second. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Director Jorgensson, please call the role. Councelor Christian, yes. Councelor Wka, yes. Councelor Schmidtz,
yes. Councelor Mack, yes. President Becker, yes. That motion carries. Item number 5.3 is to set a public hearing date for noise variance for music for a mission. I'll make a motion to schedule a public hearing for Tuesday, July 15th, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. uh for request from
Music for a Mission Terry Zinnel for noise variance to permit amplified sound at Zinnel utility contracting for Samson Street to host Party by the Pond event on Saturday, August 23rd, 2025 from 3:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. on Sunday, August
24th, 2025. Second. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. I. That motion does carry. Last item of business today is report of claims paid. President counselors, I'd like to make a motion to
accept the list of claims paid in the amount of 3,124,121.35. Second. Second. Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Those in favor signal by saying I. I. I. I. That motion carry. And with no additional business, today's meeting is
adjourned. Thank you.