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Part 1 (Video ID: vSPCLAaYjxs):
- 00:00:04: Meeting Call to Order and Pledge of Allegiance
- 00:01:09: Public Comment: Coburn's Contractor Update
- 00:01:47: Approval of Agenda and Consent Agenda
- 00:03:15: Wright County Sheriff's Office Annual Activity Report
- 00:12:54: Sheriff's Report: City Comparison and Crime Types
- 00:14:56: Meridian Fields Summergate Development Preliminary Plat Approval
- 00:22:49: Meridian Fields Motion, Discussion, and Approval
- 00:23:40: Canvas Craft Expansion and Zoning Map Amendment
- 00:30:28: Canvas Craft Motion, Discussion, and Approval
- 00:31:08: Advisory Commission Appointment and Council Reports
- 00:33:50: Staff Reports: Fire Chief Hiring Recommendation Update
- 00:37:15: Staff Reports: Road Closures and E-bike Regulations
- 00:45:52: Staff Reports: 137 Closure Detour Plan Discussion


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Good evening everyone. >> All right. Sorry. Okay. Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the ATGO city council meeting. Tonight is Monday, April 13th. Audrey, can you have the record show that our city attorney, city planner, city engineer, along with all council

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members and our assistant city administrator, and our city administrator are present. At this time, I'll ask you all to join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Our first item of business this evening is our open forum. This is the portion of the meeting where you can come to the podium, state your name and address, and limit comments to 5 minutes or less. Would anyone like to speak at

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this time? Kathy Kohl's 15613th Street Northeast. There's my monthly picture. >> Dan, any updates? Mayor uh Rice Companies, who was the contractor that Coburn's used to build the store, reached out uh for information about

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what they needed to do to address this. We provided that. So, uh we've sent them an email asking for a schedule with the expectation that it would be done by the end of the month given that winter is clearly over at this point. So, >> that's fingers crossed. We'll see if I

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see you next month. >> Thank you. All right. Any other comments? All right, we will close the open forum and move on to uh consider our agenda for approval. Does anyone have anything that they would like to add or delete?

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>> Madam Mayor, >> yes, Ryan. >> I would like to add an item to the agenda uh for the appointment of a commissioner to the advisory commission. We can make that item 6.1. Great. >> And with that, I would move to approve

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the agenda as amended. >> Second. >> Motion by Ryan, seconded by Michelle. Is there any discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Moving on to item three, our

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consent agenda. A motion would be in order. >> Madame Mayor. >> Yes. Right. I move to approve the consent agenda as written. >> Second. >> Motion by Ryan, seconded by Tina. Is there any discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I.

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>> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. Moving on to our law enforcement. Item 4.1, the Wright County Sheriff's Office annual activity report. >> Good evening. >> Good evening. May there council

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Lieutenant Jeff McMackens the right county sheriff's office just have a quick update or kind of overview on our 2025 annual report as it relates to Sego pretty informal. So if at any point anybody has any questions just jot them

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out or chuck a pencil at my head or something. We're not going to do that. >> Otherwise, uh, Lieutenant Russ Herkins and I spent some time earlier this year um, going through it and updating it. It had been quite a

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number of years since this annual report had been changed or updated at all. So, we are a little late to the game uh, getting it out here, but uh, so we were making some changes. So, if you have any thoughts or suggestions for feedback,

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uh, we'd love to hear them. We it'll probably be continue to be kind of a little bit of an evolution every year. We weren't able to get everything done that we were hoping to get done this year, but uh if as you're paging through notice any information that maybe you want that's not there or something's not

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clear, then provide some feedback to me or Sergeant Olman's and we can certainly make some improvements for next year. The one of the main things that was changed is we added a bunch of historical information. um our prior

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year's reports were basically a list of all the different types of calls and then you know how many of that call we had every year but it was hard to know was that more than last year less than last year is that a a high amount low amount or what. So u for all that information we included five years worth

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of of data there so you can kind of see is it trending up trending down anything that we need to be concerned about or anything out of the norm. Um, so hopefully uh it's a bit more useful, but uh I would absolutely love some

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feedback. So kind of the 10,000 foot overview here. Um our total calls for service was up about 5% from last year. That and our reports was up about 8%. Um that CGCFS, so that's citizen

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generated calls for service that was up a little over 8%. My next slide here goes into what that is. That's probably something we haven't talked about, but they're citizen generated calls for service. So that is when somebody picks up the phone, flags us down on the side

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of the road, or somehow gets a hold of the sheriff's office and initiates some sort of service. That excludes all deputy initiated stuff. There's no traffic stops in there. If we're just on patrol, locate a suspicious vehicle, that's not included in there. Um this is

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the number that we track and use kind of just shows overall growth and the need of service. Um and then it's a good indicator for us on um staffing levels. So we do have a uh staffing formula that

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plays into the citizen generated calls for service. There are a lot of other factors that we consider in our recommendations for staffing but uh this is kind of a good baseline. gets us in the ballpark. And then, you know, geography

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um you know, any particular unique features of that city may also play into our recommendation. But, uh um no surprise has been growing. So, consequently, we have have some more calls for service. Um as far as staffing goes today, we're setting pretty good. I

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don't foresee any any changes in the in the super near-term future here. we're still sitting. Okay. But um as as we build more houses, those those calls will still go up. So So what has caused or increased or what

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are we responding more to? Um this is certainly not a comprehensive list. Uh but uh gets us a good majority of what that 8% increase comprises of. Certainly mental health, check welfare, we've been seeing that on the rise for a number of

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years. it continues to rise. Um, back in 2023, we did add a co-responder unit. That is a deputy with some extra mental health training as well as a social worker paired together. They ride out ride around in the squad car all day every day and respond to these types of

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calls and try to get people connected to resources. That has been a very uh impactful position so far. Certainly one we plan to continue and uh plan to expand when when we're able to do that.

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Civil complaints broads broads have been up I certainly countywide probably state and nationwide. Uh we we've seen that trend. Uh juvenile activity was up. We had a lot of issues in in and around parks this year with just kind of

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juvenile mischief. uh school no park was a common common location for us. Shopliftings are up as well as burglaries. Uh in one of the next slides here you'll see burglaries went from 7 to 13 almost doubling. Um that is almost

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entirely attributed to a number of uh storage locker thefts or burglaries. Um that was again not unique to go. it's been kind of this north metro area. There's seemingly been a group going

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around and targeting those storage lockers. So, um if I exclude those from the report, then I think we set right back at seven uh burglaries for the year. That is still an active investigation. I just talked with the detective today. They actually just in

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the last couple weeks executed a couple search warrants related to that. Um making progress, but uh don't don't have anything solved quite yet. Uh, a lot of traffic related calls were up, crashes, stop arm violations, parking complaints were up, as well as

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medicals. Here's just a summary of some of the more common types of crime. And you'll see the the burglaries go jump from 7 to 13, but pretty consistently, we're in that seven to nine range. 2023, we had 17. That was the year we had a group of

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kids breaking into all the new construction homes and damaging those homes. Um, and that was the reason that was so high that year. Otherwise, pretty consistently sit right in that 7 to nine range. Court order violations, crim criminal

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damage to properties were down and uh you can see thefts were up. No homicides, no robberies. So, that's always good news. um overall crime at the bottom there. Um we're up from the last two years, but still kind of average as a five-year

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average kind of sitting right there, right around average. So no, uh no huge trends there. Traffic incidents, um our parking plant only 92, but that's about a 50% jump from prior years.

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Crashes were up about 12%. Traffic stops uh 15. UIs were up 37%. Um 37% is probably more than the average, but we have seen just generally

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a pretty significant increase in the number of DUIs. Um, specifically not at Sego, we have a couple of deputies working here that are pretty apt uh for that that enforcement and have a knack for picking those out.

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The citation number here, that's just total citations. It's not limited to traffic citations. So, um, they include like trespassing or theft citations in there, but uh, overall citations were up about 28% year-over-year.

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I have a question back to parking complaints. So that would be like neighbors calling this in or is this >> deputies out patrolling and there's parking violations? >> It can be both. >> Okay. >> Um most of them are probably going to be

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called in. Um but could be both. >> Okay. So is this winter parking violation? Okay. This is >> I specifically excluded the winter parking stuff. Okay. So, this is um I know we had for a little bit there last year on the west side of the city, we

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had a resident that was calling in neighbors like parking in front of fire hydrants and things like that, mailboxes. Um I know uh in particular they generated at least a few of those, but that's the type of stuff we're looking at. >> Okay, thank you.

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>> Yep. And then just an overview of the number of cases that our criminal investigations division handled in Atgo here. Our detective unit handled 114. Our special investigations unit uh handled eight. That is our plane closed

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detectives primarily focused on narcotics but uh to kind of help out where we're a plane close detective would be needed. our major crimes investigation unit. That is a fancy name for our crime scene unit. Uh they did 16 cases. Digital

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forensics did 19 and our school resource officers handled 61. The one in the middle school and now at Kaleidoscope as well. And that's all I got. Happy to answer any questions you have. Madam Mayor,

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>> yes. >> I just had a quick question. It's kind of on the city comparison. >> Yeah. um where I noticed like under theft under like it compares to Monaceel and St. Michael.

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Um, and they're significantly less population I guess those two cities compared to us. Is the like the theft for Monaceel is that kind of attributed to their business structure like they have bigger

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stores and correct. Yep. We and Monaceel that you know they had 244 the vast majority that's going to be retail theft. >> Okay. Yep. Interesting, >> Madamir. >> Yes. Right. >> I kind of have a question along those

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lines, too. If you could what what differentiates a burglary from a theft? Um, basically unauthorized entry. Uh, a little bit more nuanced than that in certain cases. But, uh, so if I walked

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into Target, I'm generally allowed to be in Target. Um, and but if I walk out with an item, that's just theft. But if I wait till Target closes at 3:00 in the morning where I can steal something, that becomes a burglary now. >> Okay. And does the um owner of the

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property have to be not there for it to be a burglary? Does it become something else at that point? No. So that can change the like degree of burglary. So like a first degree versus third degree or second degree burglary whether or not somebody's present. >> Okay. But uh there's there's no

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overarching somebody has to be present or not for burglary. >> Gotcha. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Appreciate you. >> Moving on to item 5.1. Meridian Fields

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Summergate Companies LLC. I will turn this over to our city planner. >> Thank you, mayor, council members. We have Brian Tucker of Summergate Development here tonight uh representing this application. Uh it's located northwest of Odin Avenue and 70th

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Street, County Road 38. Uh there's four parcels included in the proposed development totaling about 62 acres. Uh this is just south of the fire department site across Odin from Wildflower or Meadows of Atgo. Uh there's some rural single family homes

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in Lindbar Estates also on that side. Uh the area to the west is largely cultivated fields. There's a few homes in that direction. Uh but this is essentially the west boundary of the east sewer district. So uh we're at a line in the in the sand basically. Uh

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the applications include a zoning map amendment to reszone to allow for the proposed subdivision, a preliminary plat of 141 single family lots, and a conditional use permit regarding averaging of minimum lot requirements. The comprehensive plan guides the site

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for lowdensity residential development which is to be single family neighborhoods. Uh we also encourage through the comprehensive plan a mix of lot area and widths to provide a variety of homes within individual neighborhoods as well as the city's overall housing supply. As I said 140 single 141 single

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family lots. Uh the mean and median lot areas are over 9,000 square feet as encouraged by the comprehensive plan. They're doing 65 foot and 60 foot wide uh lots. Uh again encouraging somewhat a variety in house sizes. Uh all the

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setbacks for the R5 district are complied with with the preliminary plat to provide a building envelope. And along both uh Odin Avenue and 70th Street, there is a 65 ft setback that allows space for landscaping to be planted in those rear yards to mitigate

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traffic impacts from those areas. Uh the city engineers office reviewed the utility plans as well as storm water management and all of those comply with the requirements of the zoning ordinance and subdivision ordinance as well as the engineering manual. Uh there's five outlots that would all be deed to the

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city and with park dedication. Uh this area is approximately about a half mile south of uh Amber Meadows Park or Friedrich Park, excuse me. Um looking to the future to the west of the site there would be additional parks developed in

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that direction when that area occurs uh more centered between Odin Avenue and N future Nashua Avenue uh to provide maximum service area. Um so this development would pay a cash fee in lie of lot or in lie of land dedication.

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There is an exception parcel that's approximately 4 acres in size at the northeast corner of the property. That's one of the property owners farmsteads that was originally part of the uh overall development. Um they do have a number of farm animals on the property and we discussed with them after the

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planning commission uh their interest in keeping those farm animals at least through this season as part of the 4 program. Uh those being the pigs that are currently on the property. um given that they're keeping the barn and everything, it's not going to be disruptive for them to have chickens or

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goats or things like that at scale on the property going forward. So, we've revised the conditions of approval since the planning commission to allow for that. Uh the developer did discuss that with them prior to tonight's meeting and my understanding is that everyone's in agreement with the language that's being

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presented to the council tonight. Uh so city staff is recommending approval of the application based on compliance or consistency with the comprehensive plan and compliance with the city's development regulations. Planning commission held a public hearing last week on April 6th. Uh there were no public comments and the hearing was

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closed. Uh they did recommend the city council approved the applications subject to the conditions recommended by city staff. Uh so for your action tonight we have ordinance 20265 amending the zoning map and resolution 20 2026-32

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approving the conditional use permit and preliminary plat which includes the aforementioned 17 conditions. >> Does the applicant wish to comment? >> Good evening mayor, council members. Brian Tucker with Summergate Development. Uh, one thing I would point

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out is that the 141 lots that was referenced does include the Homestead lot and then there's one lot that will um be removed to allow that access point going north. So, the total new lots moving forward would be 139. Uh, otherwise, appreciate your

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consideration. Happy to answer any questions if you have. >> Dan, can you highlight which one is being removed? >> There's this outlot E right off of this street. Um it was initially shown as a trail connection and when we were discussing with the developer because we

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didn't know certainty as to what the city's use of the property in the north should be. We said we'll add a condition stating that it needs to be widened to street connection so that um if the city sells that property for development there is connectivity between the

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neighborhoods. Uh otherwise, if the city elects to um not to sell it for development, use it for some other public purpose, that potentially could just be changed to a trail quarter and a lot put back in that location. So, >> okay,

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>> it basically the way we have the preliminary plat presented plus the condition, it allows some flexibility going forward on that area. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Questions, >> madame mayor. Yes. Sorry. >> Dan, do you think you could bring it up

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on the map? Just I I think I know where it is, but just want to make sure the property. Yeah, it's kind of right adjacent to the fire station. Right behind it. This is the fire station. Okay. >> Okay. I see.

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Um my comments were going to be I appreciate um you working with Mr. Tucker and the land owners with the animals because that was a concern. Um and obviously um they've farmed it for many years and they've had these animals and so that

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was a big concern for the family about keeping them for 4. So I supported that. So I appreciate that you rewarded that that that's an option for them and that other animals can be there in the parks. It obviously works because, you know, if this is approved and goes forward, there

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aren't going to be any homes occupied there this year anyway. So, it's no harm, no follower to allow the pigs to stay. >> There was one other question um and I'm sure you can. It talked about what side

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would development start. >> Um Mr. We've looked at a phasing plan and initially we'd probably look on that east side where we'd have the connection from Odin through the site and out to the county road. >> Okay. >> Yeah, >> perfect. It just was not addressed or if

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it was it was I mean here at the planning commission. So, thank you. >> Yeah, Madame Mayor. >> Yes, Corey. >> Um Dan and Ron, >> I know I read both of these, but is this the one where there was an existing tree line that was going to be

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preserved um so there is a tree line that's along Odin Avenue >> and the planning commission did ask about that it's going to depend on the grading for the site >> whether those trees remain or not obviously it's in the developer's

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interest to keep the trees if they can because otherwise they're going to plant new ones so >> okay >> people like mature trees Any other questions, comments? Otherwise, a motion would be in order. >> Madam Mayor,

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>> yes, Ryan. I move to adopt ordinance 2026-05 amending the zoning map and adopt a resolution 2026-32 adopting findings of fact and approving a planned unit development conditional use permit and preliminary plat of

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Meridian Fields subject conditions as presented. >> Motion by Ryan seconded by Tina. Are there any discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. All those opposed, same sign. Motion

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passes. >> Thank you. >> All right, moving on to item 5.2 is 5650 Queens Avenue Industrial, which is known as Canvascraft. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh Canvas Craft owns this property. Uh their main property is

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to the west across Queens Avenue. Uh but this site was originally built in 1969. It was annexed to Atago in 1994. It was in Frankfurt Township. Uh so you have Canvas Crafts main building to the west. To the south you have two warehouse buildings. Uh and to the north and east

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southeast you have two uh subdivisions that were originally approved in Frankfurt Township and developed in the uh 80s initially. The application is a zoning map amendment. Uh when the property was annexed to Adiggo, it was put in the R3 residential zoning

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district. Even though the existing use of the property was industrial, uh we've just never corrected that. Um with this coming forward in expansion, it's appropriate to make that correction. And then the uh expansion of the existing building basically requires site and building plan review to make sure it

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complies with the zoning orders. The comprehensive plan guides the property for industrial uses reflecting its historic use. Uh it basically also is to continue the character of this area. that was looked at as part of the 98 comprehensive plan as an opportunity to

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introduce lowerc cost uh building opportunities into the city for smaller businesses and uh employment generators. Uh and again we're going to change the zoning map to the I3 special industrial district which is uh the area or the

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district established for that area of the city. The existing building is approximately 6700 square ft. They're going to make a 12,900 ft² addition. Uh, it's basically all used for uh processing or warehouse purposes as part of Canvas Craft's

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building or business. Um, the exterior finish matches the existing structure. This area allows for metal-sided buildings consistent with those that have been built under Frankfurt Township jurisdiction. Uh, the height of the building is 22 feet which is within the

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35 ft allowance. uh the setback or the site plan provides uh for setbacks as required by the zoning ordinance. Uh in fact, they're more than double in all locations, especially to the north and to the uh southeast. The nice thing

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about the way this existing building sets up and the expansion is the building itself becomes the screening for any activity on the site uh from the homes to the north. Um they do have adequate parking on site. There's also the ability if there's a change in use in the future with the size of the

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property to add parking if needed in the future. Um there wasn't a landscaping plan initially. Um looking at the aerial photograph, you can see all the homes surrounding this have existing mature trees. Um there was a comment at the public hearing about the need for some

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additional landscaping or concerns about potential lighting. Uh and that would in the area that city staff recommended some additional plantings be made. uh the property owner agreeable to that is working on a landscape plan to be submitted with building permit. All the other uh requirements of the

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site complied with the zoning ordinance including uh storm water management utilities for the site are handled by septic system and onsite wells. So no connections uh to public facilities. Uh again with this application, city staff recommends approval based on consistency

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with the comprehensive plan and compliance with the zoning ordinance. Uh the planning commission held their public hearing last week, April 6th. There was the one person that spoke regarding u the concerns regarding landscaping and uh exterior lighting. Otherwise, uh the planning commission closed that hearing and voted

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unanimously to recommend approval subject to 10 conditions. And so for city council action this evening, we have ordinance 2026 amending the zoning map and resolution 2026-33 approving site and building plans. >> Thank you. Does the applicant wish to

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comment? >> Um, I don't have a whole lot of comments. Thank you very much. Uh, smooth process. Our business is growing. Um, kind of the same same but just more of it. So, appreciate the the opportunity to do that and we're working with been talking to the neighbors around us too to address their concerns

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about screening and lighting and so I think we're in good shape. >> It's great to hear that your business is growing. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Thank you. All right. Council questions for staff or the applicant. >> Corey, >> madame mayor. Um, thank you.

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>> Um, Dan, apologize. I was going to get a hold of you earlier and ask you, so bro, um, I was reading about the off streetet parking. What exactly is that ordinance? It said it it will comp comply, but does

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that mean they could park on Queens in the event for unloading and stuff? >> Mayor, um, so there is site there is space on site to circulate trucks through the property. Okay. And they have enough parking on site based on the requirements of the zoning ordinance for

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uh the 14 spaces that are required. They're showing 20 plus there's space we basically calculated only on a warehouse or manufacturing standard. So if you switch to offices, that requires about four times the parking as a warehouse

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does. So there would be obviously a need for more parking spaces on site, but there is space to add that if there is a change in use. So >> okay. >> Um the concern here is that they're adding so significantly to the building, you don't want to end up boxing the site

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into something that can't be reused for something in the future. Obviously, from an economic development standpoint, having canvas craft expand in places uh beneficial to the community, it's beneficial to uh Canvas Craft, but we always look to ensure that there's

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flexibility going forward. >> Sure. >> Well, I think it's great you guys were proactively reaching out to neighbors and stuff. I know over there it's uh you know, it's so close. >> Turn the lights on. >> Yeah, there you go. Um Dan, just kind of one related

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question since this was uh you know the property that we got through Frankfurt as part of that annex. Do we have any other businesses that fall under that? I was just curious. >> Um everything basically south of 65th Street. So um or 60th Street, excuse me.

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Uh that was that former Frankfurt Township area. The only businesses that have developed were uh the two south of this um focal point carpet and NCS. >> Um and there's been some additions to the other structures and the conversion of the one to the exterior extra space

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storage but otherwise that entire area developed under Frankfurt Township. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? >> Madame Mayor. >> Yes. Right. I move to adopt ordinance 2026-06 amending the zoning map and adopt

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resolution 2026-33 adopting findings of fact and approving site and building plans subject to conditions as presented for P118-802-021300 0 second >> motion by Ryan seconded by Tina is there any discussion >> all those in favor signify by saying I

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I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. >> Thank you. >> All right. Moving on to item 6.1 is our advisory commission appointment. The motion would be in order.

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>> Cory. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor. Um, I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution 2026-34 appointing commissioners to the advisory commission. Second >> motion by Cory, seconded by Tina. Is

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there any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. Motion passes. And Audrey, you'll make sure you reach out to her. >> I will. >> Okay. >> Audre, could you guys let no um the

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chairperson know to do that? >> Thank you. >> All right. We are under city council reports and updates. Does anyone have anything? Corey? Madame Mayor, thank you. I got a couple updates. Uh our HPC meeting with our new uh commissioner

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will be tomorrow night, 7 p.m. City Hall. Um we're going to be working on the time capsule cemetery tour um finishing up the 1914 bar um discussion we're having and the fire station display that the

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commission's working on. I also uh attended a couple of ground break or not groundbreings but ribbon cutings. Um April 3rd um council member Dunlab,

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myself and administrator Flity um attended the ribbon cutting for Le Schwab. Um we thought it was a great uh a great little tour there and walk through. And then um this past Wednesday on the 8th, I attended the grand opening

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for Everbrook Academy um and city staff was there for the ribbon cutting earlier. So I want to welcome them to our community. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. Anyone else have any other updates? >> Madam Mayor, >> that's right. >> Uh the planning commission uh met last week and they recommended approval for

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Meridian Fields, Canvas Craft, and the Wellhouse 3 plans that were all considered tonight. Um they also recommended uh swim school uh PUB which will come to the council at a later time. The next planning commission meeting is going to be held or is

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scheduled to be held on May 18th. Dan, is that true? >> I was looking for him to >> um and tomorrow night we have public safety. So that'll be here at 6:30 in the front.

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Um, if no one else has anything, then we'll move on to staff reports and updates. Sabrina. >> Thank you, Mayor. Uh, just a one of quick updates that I'm sure council was waiting for was we were intending to have the fire chief uh hiring recommendation on tonight. Uh, we are

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pending just uh one more pre-employment screening. Uh, so we have waited to bring that back. So, uh, likely on the 27th, uh, or possibly, uh, if council's interested in at that, uh, was it the

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22nd council meeting, uh, for approval of hire. Um, so just an update on there. Uh, we should be moving forward with that. Um, candidates excited. Uh, we're excited as well. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Adam.

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>> Uh, mayor, council, thank you. Uh, reminder, we have a meeting next Wednesday. uh local board of appeal is scheduled at 6 pm. Uh staff would potentially propose addition of fire chief hiring to that pending the results of pre-employment screening. Uh and we may also add the wrapup to the goal

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setting session um as well to that meeting if if council's agreeable to adding those on to that special meeting. >> Sure. >> Um and then county road 137 project. Uh there's some minor work starting this week. Uh per the county uh the full closure date is to be determined but is

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expected before the end of this month. >> I don't have any other updates. >> Do you want to Is everyone at free on the 22nd? >> Oh, >> okay. >> Okay. >> We'll just keep that local board of appeal. >> Okay. >> Okay.

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>> Thank you, >> Audra. >> Thank you, Mayor. I have no updates. >> All right, Dave, welcome. Thank you. Spring break was nice and I have no other episode. >> You look tan. >> Thank you. It's already wearing off, but

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I'll take the comments. >> All right, Dan. >> Mayor, no update. >> Okay, Ron. We were kind of retiring but not retiring. >> What if we say no? >> Just kidding. We've got a few more months.

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use the word warning. >> Warning. >> That's a weird word. >> The true >> the planning had. Yeah, >> that's a true engineer. They have to look at the negative side of things.

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Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Ro. >> All right, Sergeant Alman's, you need to bring some uplift. That just >> Yeah. Don't tell us you're leaving either.

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>> I bought my doom and gloom computer. Here we go. >> It's still not dead yet. >> Okay. Um kind of bring up to the point >> that said your computer's still not dead yet. >> Works great.

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Um couple things with the road closures. I think at least fortunately with the road closure, especially with like County Road 137, um we kind of know what to expect because it got closed last year. So, we're kind of preparing for that and kind of expecting uh the different types of issues, uh kind of

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where to set the enforcement. Um again, we've tried to have the right conversations with the right people on how that enforcement looks. Um it really gets difficult, you know, trying to find the gray area like, well, this person's allowed to drive through, but this person's not. So, you know, different

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signage and how we're going to work that. So, we're going to try to get ahead of it, but um we anticipate there's going to be issues. We know we're going to get phone calls on it, so we're just going to prepare for it. Um I know Corey brought it up the last meeting, ebikes. Um, I mean, you can go

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to any law enforcement Facebook page and everybody's blasting out the different rules and regulations across the across the metro area because literally I think every single uh uh agency is dealing with it in some capacity. So, I mean, the right county sheriff's office isn't

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trying to, you know, be the be the first to figure it out necessarily. I don't know who's going to be able to figure it out. Again, my big thing is when I'm speaking with residents about it is I really don't want our department uh to, you know, be in the habit of like just blanketly pulling over our 13-year-olds

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on bikes. So, we're really trying to take it as a case by case basis. I know one of the deputies took a call today, you know, specifically it's these two people. This is where they came from. Okay, we can address that. I can send a deputy to a house to go have a chat with some kids that like, hey, you can't be driving through people's yards or

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whatever the case is. Um, if it's just blanket, uh, hey, there's just a lot of people out on bikes. Again, I'm I don't want to a perfect example, I think there was a St. Michael Facebook pown uh by a resident because

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a deputy was trying to be proactive and pulled over somebody on a ebike and, you know, one, you know, half and half, right? You got half like while they're doing the enforcement, the other half is what are we doing? We're pulling over kids for being outside. So, it's tough, right? Really difficult position for us to be in. uh we're trying to find that balance.

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But like I said, we're taking the calls and if we have to go specifically speak with individual uh juveniles or specific people, then we can certainly do that and hopefully we can pass the word on. Um I did meet with uh Windham Gardens and their water park. I met with all

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their lifeguards yesterday, kind of got them on board with a couple different things as far as their emergency response. And so I got a couple um it was interesting I guess hear from their their side of things on how what they perceive to be their correct thing. So I'll making some notes for my future meetings with all the other businesses

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that are popping up you know whether it be you know FOS FOS would be a perfect example when they come to town eventually um have conversation with how they're going to do things and as it relates to water emergencies etc. So, um, did tell them it's like, well, here's here's how things work right now,

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but that'll be flipped in, you know, January of 2027 because we're going to have something a little bit different. So, pulled out the map for them and showed them kind of what to expect. So, all right. The sheriff's office is taking enough of your time tonight. So, >> I have a question. Yes. So, as you said,

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last year when 137 was closed, it we had the issue um >> like Mark's Avenue and then the dirt road 63rd. So, >> so what is going to be the plan? >> Well, so Dan or Ron, you may have to help me out with exactly because there's

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terms staging. I don't know what that that word means, but I think of where some some of where the signage is going to be placed. I think is seems to be it's going to shift a little bit and we're going to change that up. Sounds like the county is going to have signage in a different location previously. Um,

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come on guys, you gota help me. Ron, what do you got? Damn. I got nothing. He's just left. So that will be open then for res. Quickly. discuss. >> Well, and I think one of the other

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pieces is my understanding that Mindot got either between MDOT or the contractor for the uh I94 project that we have an assurance that they're not going to be closing 19 at the bridge uh like they did last year. that right turned into something completely different for us that we didn't expect,

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>> right? >> So that became a major issue when all of a sudden we had random closures that we weren't even aware of. So it sounds like we've that communication has been early that they're going to >> really work on make sure that doesn't happen again. So >> good. >> Yep.

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Yeah, >> sure. >> Question. This would probably be for Ron. I mean, Jason, you >> Ron's solving my problems for me. >> I mean, this might be a silly question, but I just want to pass there today. Um, right by Emma, it almost looks they're digging stuff up there. I mean, they

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took away the grass or anything. I know there's some lots there for sale, but I was like, are they like adding a temporary road or and is that what they're doing on the Albertville side, too? Because they they granted all of that down. >> Okay.

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Can you pull up a map, Dan? >> Okay. >> You would just get an 94. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Okay. >> So, because 37 I37 be closed, they're going to have that plate just like you

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said, that slip will go right into Emma's gas station. That's how they'll get in there from that dance studio. Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay. Dan's the planner, not the engineer. >> Oh, well son, you can go on there. Oh,

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>> yes. Back. Mayor Council, once we know the closure date, we have the staging plan being referenced and we'll post that on the website for residents and social media alerts as well. So, >> are you going to use Dan's drawings? >> No.

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You can have the actual staging. >> Staging. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. That's helpful. >> It's going to be a little bit of a mess for you guys. Honestly, from an emergency vehicle standpoint, it actually isn't

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too much of a challenge because fortunately it's the very southwest part of Otiggo. So these cars are going to be coming west on 137 or they'll be coming down 38 to Sure. >> Mccyver. That typically isn't a problem. The fire department figured it out pretty quick last year when they had to go through. They could take 63rd and

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they had the uh sign set up in the way. So that worked out. A line that didn't seem to have too much of a challenge either. They would just typically just take the the formal detour. So, it actually wasn't too bad. I was kind of expecting maybe worse with taking different routes to get the emergency vehicles around, but we figured it out

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pretty quick. >> There was the issue with school buses last year. >> School buses was a challenge with trying to get stuff. >> Okay. So, they've been updated, I assume, in all these meetings also. Do we know? >> We can make sure they will.

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>> Okay. I mean, obviously, yeah, >> to everybody's point, I think we're all kind of waiting for that first. >> Sure. >> See what it all looks like before we send out because that'll be Murphy's law. We'll send it out. Here's what the plan is and then we got to make a slight change.

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>> Any other topics I can bring up that's going to be >> No, I mean, that's just a major one. So, >> yeah. >> Cy, what do you got? >> Uh, I was just gonna say, do you get to drive the old Crown Vic with your old computer?

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Yes. >> Sweet. >> At some point, I'm going to do it. >> Come tomorrow night. >> That'd be cool. >> Oh, you should bring it to touch a truck. >> Last time I was in a Crown Vic, the uh engine didn't uh last very long.

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>> Oh, I didn't know. >> Crown Vic. >> All right. >> I'm gonna walk away before I get more glares. >> All right. Thank you. Thank