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going to be a request to approve the environmental assessment workship distribution it's going to include few subcategories here who is taking the ball so tonight's I'll give you a a brief overview of the purpose of tonight's meeting then I'd like to
introduce you to a few of the development team members that are here with us tonight um so ped and Jared from Ryan Companies here and Aon with Stant who the environmental consultant for ran companies is here to give us AEF presentation so she'll go more into
depth and what what I'm explaining here uh but the purpose is to have you understand a little bit more about the environmental document sking document that is um that we're looking to distribute for public review and comments this is the initial phase or
the first step in the environmental review and kind of outlines uh what environmental factors are going to be studied as part of this environmental document so um once Aon gives a presentation and we answer your questions here tonight we're looking for
approval of resolution 2513 uh which will then authorize City staff to go ahead and publish this um scoping document for review and with that I will like to introduce Peter
[Music] mayor M members Peter Fitzgerald Ryan Companies I'm joined here by Jared olon um just explained in that the room that Jared is my rightand man um Jared handles all the complexities of development related to grading site
preparation size of buildings configurations of buildings uh Jared and I are on the heels of uh just completing this process a very similar process in Egan Minnesota where Jared and I um pursued the Thompson reuter
Redevelopment um and along with Stan as well as a consultant who helped us study um really the impacts of different sorts of developments and that's where we're at at this stage um it's no secret we're looking at a large piece of land about
400 Acres along 52 in your community um we don't take that lightly Ryan Companies is a Minnesota based company our Rooks are hiting Minnesota um our headquarters are in Minneapolis so Jared and I will be um driving back through
some snow and rain today but Jared and I have been down here quite a bit over the last year um doing our homework meeting with Craig meeting with Elizabeth trying to understand more about the community what's important to you and now we are beginning the stages of exploring ing at
least a couple different scenarios related to development um as Stant will go into you're going to hear about a light industrial type concept and you're also going to hear about a technology buk um as we start this long journey um
it's really uh kind of devoting the calendar year of 2025 this year to seeking support for land use approvals from you and this is just the very beginning stages of what will be many many more meetings hopefully um unless
you kick Jared out of the room um Jared would you anything about Ryan or who we are yeah from a very high level uh family own business we do a lot of community work one of our values is uh stewardship and we do um quite a bit of
charal work up the 5% of our time we go to charity and Char work so we do uh get back to the community that's the strong value of ours other than that yeah looking for thank you for scheduling the special session we do appreciate that for our
timeline yeah over Theon and for here to answer any questions good evening mayor and I'm here Stant environmental planner and um I helping leave the environmental review state environment process the project
Skyway um so you can go with the next slide here tonight I want to provide a brief overview of the state environment review process the a process in particular um the projects scoping aw and then I'll summarize the A and
studies that are covered um and then the next step in terms of the scoping aw distribution and um time um so the State Environmental process is established for the Minnesota loal Policy Act in Nea um the environment of
quality board is the state agency that develops the aw form they issue the template and requirement that form and they also issue guidance for the various um processes the responsible governmental unit is the rgu they're responsible for doing the documents
complete and overseeing the process um and there's two types of do mandatory is when um the project suceeding so mandatory special it's per Ino statute 4 10 4300 and 4400 and then there's also discretionary review and those sitution actually it's
like a voluntary review process um there's three types of State environment of process the environmental assessment worksheet um the environmental impact statement that signicant impacts are anticipated and then the alternative Urban era review I get into or on the following SL
that may be used or the a may be used in L of an aw for El products typically those products are development Ty prods so what is an alternative an areawide review AAR um this process is
ideally suited for projects that are happening in phase development and geographical areas with specific timing um and specific uses are not entirely known um it's allow a lot of flexibility it evaluates concept level development sceners so rather than looking at one um
specifically defined project looks at at least two scenarios um the a is not meant to approve or deny a specific project it's meant to inform future approvals and pering decisions um that graphic there is just kind of comparing
the ew Aur and the Aur uses the E form as a basis for the document um but it's not the level of d as an e um the a is used as can use as a planning tool for rgus it allows a lot of flexibility by starting Alternatives
um it drives opportunties for public engagement for large projects there's two periods of um comment periods and it allows um rgus to evalu development over time something unique about the AR process that it's updated every five years so it's kind of like a video
document and then at that 5e reassess what has happened in terms of development what has changed in terms of regulations and what is participa in the future so the a is continuously up updated until it's fully built out um so the a process for large
projects includes three documents the first one is where we're at right now project scoping it's really intend to kind of outline the next steps for what's going to start for the draft a I'll get into a little more detail on the following side the draft a includes some more detailed
um analysis and identifies whatl impacts are the mitigation plan and then the final Aur is basically a revised version of the draft Aur so that the commentary happen after the scoping and after the draft a there final AR is
updated for those comments and then following that there's a 10day agency um objection period um this graphic just shows kind of where we are in the process in the grade there the scoping aw um once that is published there'll be a mandatory
30day common period and then there'll be a second opport for comments fund the draft um and then as I already it's repeated every five years until it's fully built out so the scoping is we right now um it provides information to agencies and the
public on the propos scope for the draft a it does not include detailed analysis As Time summarizing existing conditions readily available desktop data and then summarizing what's going to happen next in terms of analysis as part of the dra
and it provides an opportunity for agencies in public to comment on your scope um those comments might influence how that scope changes in the draft a or additional data sources that may need might be worth considering once the scoping need of your process and come is
complete the draft prar um this just that shows you the boundary for this project Skyway a generally it's approximately 482 Acres generally air on side of being conservative and being able to fully capture what the potentially development
might be um since it's longterm phase development that n so scenario a is considering mix light General industrial and Technology centered uses um the sare assumes that
it may include up to 2.2 million Square F feet a light industrial building space and 620,000 sare ft of technolog Center uses approximately 31,000 square feet of office space would also be considered north of driver and C there assumed that
that would not be developed the green the next scenario scenario B is assuming the majority would be Technology Center up to 3 million s feet and also off space as well and again north
of dry paper so this lays out that the graphic shows the 22 items that are considered in the um draft a document the two in green just indicate two that are relatively new they are adopted by new form released in
2022 and that includes climate adaptation green g greenhouse gas emissions so as part of this we will be looking at those um for each of those topics there are specific questions that need to be answered and then depending on what the intiate potential impact
might be um additional analysis and studies might be included with the document um so the next slide here goes over as part of the draft your scope and Technical studies it's anticipated that the following um studies anales will be
completed including the W delation which has already been um initiated um thre species reviews aous gas analysis traffic impact study phase one enironmental St assessment cultural resources desktop in the fense
and then quantitative noise analysis so the next steps here um the purpose of tonight's meeting is to improve the distribution of the projects that sping W and draft a order um if that is approved then it would be submitted to the ETB the following
Tuesday um and then published the next Tuesday March 18th um at that point that initiates a 30-day clment per which would conclude on April 17th um following this The Next Step would be to adopt the final a r order as part of
that um responses to the comments receiv would be prepared and included in that final order um and then the draft Aur is prepared at that point so there are additional steps in the process is is just focusing solely on the scoping a and getting to that draft
Aur then of that I Happ to take any questions as as needed so your map GRE say the center [Music]
greenology areas and then that kind of like orangish color would be potential to C Center so the draft um it can be started kind of concurrently with the cont period process but the dra the final a order um would not be adopted until the end of
the comment period and then the draft a would follow that so it would think later early Su so um and then I would a second period typically in your com period what
are you expecting during that time I are you expecting public input questions um it's distributed to agencies on the E distribution list so some of the agencies like the DNR and M might comment on certain um concerns
they might have additional data that they wen't considered they comment on the need for additional analysis um and then usually there are some comments from residents in the public on any particular concern that they
may time some of comments ask for um typically it's included as I think the final AO order needs to be adopted 15 business days from the end of period for like the rules um and usually it's
included um had situation that been delayed before it might you know factor into the preparation of the draft a something comes up that one's additional analysis consideration another question Council well I would assume that the for
line we a get a regional PL set up that will be there like consider so um for the regional treatment plant you have a separate e or environmental assessment worksheet that
we're working on to cover that for for yeah but this would include the extension uh the a would include the extension of the utilities out to Ser future otherwise this will be a resolution to anything from you want to
[Music] add EnV assment second motion on a second any other discussion anything from your table well I think um you know staff is
really t on this compiling the information as you know um there over 130 pages and so um it's a it's a lot of information I know that you had to digest and um just score or five days so
if you have questions um two prior to the draft order just please reach out the staff be nicely no other disc counc [Music] Del which is
alternative which includes through anything else add that yeah the resolution approve that so you don't need to do a Sear anything else
um two I do want to mention two things um so we have created a website link uh it's under environmental reviews on our website and so we will be posting all public information on that just so the public can check in we'll be posting um
anything that we have for review will be on over the course of the next few months and so um any data that the public would like to review will be there and then in addition to that we are looking at hosting um with bran companies in open house and that will be
on ail 9th from 4 to 7 and that will be here in uh Council chamber so that would be uh an opportunity that area residents can come and seek more information um just about the project just kind of looks and feels and things like that um there'll be more
conversation so that people can actually come and ask questions and have um those intimate conversations about what what their concerns arecent if there is nothing else Council we can take a motion to
adjourn very quick meeting people are here before snow comes I'll motion a second Council thank you for taking the time to come up next get taken care of and keep things rolling hi thank you everybody safe