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Newspaper Clipping - Newspaper Clipping Scan - Eagan Planning Department Activities - 1/1/1996
Patch T/ Transfer Patch %NO SEPTEMBER 13, 2003 VOLUME 24, NO. 28 'Wildcats stay undefeated With a 3-0 win over Lakeville, Eagan stayed undefeated on the season and in a tie for first in the Lake Conference. See Sports, 25A Expressing a desire to no longer take a piecemeal approach to redevelopment in Eagan's Cedar Grove area, new Community Development Director John Hohenstein pre- sented a plan Tuesday night to consider a redevelopment strat- egy for the diminished retail location. It won't be an easy task con- sidering the number of property owners with buildings of differ- ent shapes, sizes and physical Th' 9A� Revitalizing Cedar Grove Council aims to establish goals for redevelopment area by Tad Jobnson (Meg Tilley and Peggy Carlson THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS were unable to attend) earned several nods of consent, but few comments, that a vision for the estimated 300-acre area needs to be developed. "I think the gateway area is very important," Hohenstein said of the area east of Cedar Avenue along Highway 13. "This is one of the first and the most dramatic entrances to the city," he said. "We have not been able to capture that with Photo by Tad Johnson Cedar Grove Redevelopment is viewed as a critical project because it serves as a gateway to the city of Eagan. conditions. Hohenstein's nearly two- hour presentation, to three 'Eagan City Council members See Cedar, 7A 4- hale Ulre S..r a. et a Photo by Tad John,on The recently completed improvements to the intersection at Silver Bell Road near Highway 13 have provided better traffic flow in the Cedar Grove Redevelopment area. While Hohenstein isn't expecting the council to devel- op a vision for the entire area at this time, he wants them in the near future to describe the direction of the Cedar Grove Redevelopment project in 50 words or less. "We don't want piecemeal development," said Hohenstein, who included the Village Plaza redevelopment concept com- pleted in 1999 for Cedar/Highway 13 area in the presentation materials. The cityhas used the 1999 concept, which was included in the Comprehensive Guide, for request for proposals for the Nicols Ridge townhomes and Keystone senior housing devel- opments. The guide aims to direct property owners toward creat- ing a commercial area with an overall vision. If the city can plan for the area as a whole, Hohenstein said it will benefit both the immediate neighborhoods and the entire community through increased services and a stabi- lization of the tax base. It's not as if the area has been dormant. There are about 12 different projects in the area that have been completed or are under construction. Most notable among the current projects are Nicols Ridge's proposed 230 Cedar/from 1A the current configuration of the property." In addition to the challenges of bringing different properties into one vision, a depressed national and local economy is not working in the city's favor, according to Mary Bujold, of Maxfield Research Inc. The city hired Maxfield to complete an updated market analysis for Cedar Grove rede- velopment options, which was presented Tuesday night. Bujold identified both short - and long-term development potential and presented a sum- mary of what the market could demand through 2010 (see box). Mayor Pat Geagan said he appreciated the entire presenta- tion, and was especially impressed with a detailed status report on each property in the Cedar grove area. "This is a major undertak- ing," he said. "This is the first I've seen something other than boxes if you will. ... They attached names and specifics to these particular areas. That was a im nm rtant to " P Lonq- and short-term potential Maxfield Research Inc. identified the short- and long-term potential of the Cedar Grove Redevelopment area in the city of Eagan. Following are the findings. Within two to three years: • New townhomes and senior housing are expected to absorb rapid- ly. • Could consider additional housing separate from or as part of a redevelopment of the shopping center. • Transit should continue to be part of the redevelopment. • New housing, transit combined with new retail would increase the potential land and real estate values to the city in the short- and long- term. Within five to 10 years: • Class A office building, combination of office/medical. • Full -service hotel or hybrid toward 2010 or beyond. • New retail development should occur sooner not later. townhomes and Keystone's proposed senior apartments. Geagan says once people see the rooftops as a result of those two projects more momentum will be gained for the area. The most significant of the recently completed projects is a realignment of Silver Bell Road and new intersection. While the overall vision statement is not critical imme- diately, Hohenstein is seeking direction regarding the few property owners in the area who have said they are willing to sell to the city. He said none of the owners have given him a dead- line for a decision. Among the next steps to be accomplished, he included identifying target redevelop- ment sites such as these, prepar- ing a request for proposals for the target sites, and marketing them to developers. The council will discuss the matter again at its Sept. 16 meeting. Tad Johnson is at tadjohnson@ecm-inc.com s • t'D k 0`C O N a' • ° `� c 0 co l=n a a A)as p ko ,<0aa 0 �f-4 p� otoo gr • �D [ . c . -. = ." t (9 �j (gyp ��yy p y A R y + C. C p tD cb OQ a i 6' 00 >4 a Iv �C Local lobbying efforts begin to organize Apple Valley, Burnsville and Eagan in league with the MLC by Brett Andersen THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS The Municipal Legislative Commission's (MLC) member cities have essentially dodged the state's budget cutting knife for the current year. Next biennium will likely be a different story. MLC is the lobbying group for Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Bloomington, Eden Prairie, Edina, Maplewood, Minnetonka, Plymouth, Shoreview and Woodbury. Lobbyists are associ- ated with Messerli and Kramer. Messerli and Kramer held it's annual breakfast for local legisla- tors and officials Jan. 16. Not sur- prisingly, the bulk of the discus- sion centered around the state's $4.56 billion deficit, $356 million of which must be dealt with by June 30, 2003. The deficit is roughly the size of North Dakota's budget. Lobbyist Thomas J. Poul said Governor Tim Pawlenty wants quick action on the immediate budget deficit. "(Pawlenty) said if it isn't LGA is roughly 10 percent of the budget said Poul. MLC cities receive relatively little LGA; Maplewood receives the most in the group at $717,295. Apple Valley receives $404,000, Burnsville $397,000, and Eagan $71,000. Edina receives $0 in LGA. By way of comparison, Duluth receives nearly $30 million, Minneapolis $112 million, St. Paul $73 million and St. Cloud $13 million. "What we're looking for is a fair and equitable solution that is needs based;" said Poul. MLC is fighting for a simpler, easier understood formula that reflects city need and ability to pay criteria. As it stands, the LGA formula is two and half pages of nearly indecipherable twists, according to Poul. "Even people who deal with this stuff and know it have a tough time with the formula," said Poul. Poul said they will lobby for the ability to levy back any aid they lose. In keeping with their cities' philosophy of local control, MLC wants "to stay off the state" Tom Goodwin, Apple Valley City Council member, said if all of their, LGA was lost, "the prob- lem is our citizens are still send - General Fund Expenditures By Function FY 2004-05 General Fund = $31.1 Billion Based and November 2002 Forrest Higher Education 9.4% Education Finance 41.1% Health Care 19 1% Health & Human Services 7.0% Environmental Resources 17% Economic & Workforce Development 1.2% Pudic Satoh/ & Corrections 3.2% TFansportatlon — 0.5% General Government as% Debt Service 1'1- 2.2% Other 0.5% Intergovernmental Aids --Reserves 0.4% 9.9% A more than $4.2 billion deficit must be dealt with for the 2004- 05 budget out of the above general categories. ing a hell of a lot of money to Duluth, Coon Rapids, Moorehead and Minneapolis." Lobbyist Bill Schreiber said MLC has been making the point "for years" that there are differ- ences in ability to raise money across the state, "but it's not unreasonable that a legislator should be able to go home, or a city council person should be able to describe to their constituents, as to why some of your income taxes or sales taxes are going to help out Duluth." He said legislators over the years have "backed -in'' to politi- cal decisions concerning LGA. `"They have made the formula so incredibly complicated that no one can understand it and no one can justify it," he said. MVC, which was new in 2001, is homeowner property tax relief. The credit is equal to .04 percent of the market value of each homestead up to $304 per homestead. The credit is phased out for home values over $76,000 and disappears entirely at $415,777. The credit is provided to homeowners as a deduction from the levies certified by local units of government. Apple Valley receives $1.3 million, Burnsville $1.4 million and Eagan $1.3 mil- lion in MVC funds. The commission's position is that any changes should be made to the MVC itself and not to the disbursement mechanism. They also would like to see the credit go directly to homeowners instead of passing through cities. City budget reserves have been a consistent topic in recent years. "It was touched off by a report the state auditor did," said Minnetonka City Manager John See Lobby, 14A Autio` Jpeff letters Money, energy will be wasted in developing new master plan To the editor: Concerning the Dakota County parks' reported inten- tion to update the Master De- velopment Plan for Lebanon Hills Regional Park: I must question the wisdom of such a decision when the present plan has been ignored by Dakota County parks staff, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, Dakota County commissioners, and the Metro- politan Council. Regarding the expansion of the campground at Lebanon Hills, a few quotes from the existing master plan might be enlightening: • "It is necessary to obtain background information for de- termining the ... needs and de- sires of the residents in_the ad- joining areas of the —park." (Page 9) • ,"There must be an en- deavor to protect the unique area, to develop, and manage the recreational facilities so that the area -is preserved for generations to come." (Page 9) • "It is imperative that the utilization of these natural re- sources be placed in proper perspective and that each be protected, . troying • Dakota County officials as they have chosen to do with the current master develop- ment plan? ROBERT J. GOLD Eagan something that could never be I restored to its original state." (Page 40) • "With the information gained from the public input meetings, it was determined that this park area should be developed basically as a pas- sive recreation area utilizing the natural features, such as plant and wildlife study, cross- country skiing and hiking, etc., rather than an active type area." (Page 53) • "Topographic features of the area should be maintained and protected to preserve the natural environment that now exists." (Page. 53) • "It is felt, therefore, that the natural beauty of the area must be protected." (Page 53) • "Extra effort should be made to design all manmade facilities in the park to be as unobtrusive as possible to avoid adulteration of the natu- ral beauty of the area. The de- sign theme to be adopted is therefore `Maintain the Natu- ral.' " (Page 53) • "Recreational vehicle camping ... on the east side of Johnny Cake Ridge Road. It is proposed to be limited in size and will accommodate recrea- tion vehicles which desire short-term camping of normally one to three days." (Page 78) When the campground- expansion project and current operating practices of the ex- isting campground are exam- ined in the light, of the master development plan, why should we as a community expend time and money to update a plan only to have it ignored by o . , ` o. 44 Water quality Planning honored Eagan presented with national award By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer As a city with more than 360 wetlands in a state with more than 10,000 lakes, Eagan has emerged as a model for managing water quali- ty. Officials from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) were on hand Oct. 15 at the City Rich Brasch Council meeting to present Eagan with the 1996 national award for water quality man- agement from the U.S. Envi- ronmental Protection Agency. "Eagan set the pace that we are listening to and trying to catch up to," said Gene Soder- bech of the MPCA. "Eagan is heads and shoulders above other agencies." In 1990, the council adopted a comprehensive water quality management plan for the com- munity. As the city developed, the plan was implemented and applied to all new development and ongoing maintenance ac- tivities. Rich Brasch, the city's water resource coordinator, was rec- ognized for his contributions to water quality in Eagan. "Rich Brasch is indeed a champion, leading the way to show other agencies how it can be done," Soderbech said. Educating the public about protecting water resources is part of the city's plan. Brasch has trained teachers in Dako- ta County how to show stu- dents about the importance of water quality. He also empha- sizes the need to be careful with the amount and type of fertilizer used on lawns be- cause it could end up in the water stream. What makes water quality important in Eagan are the large number of parks and open water areas used for recreation and enjoyment, said Dan Sullivan, an MPCA engi- neer. q � ��u�„/"l+ y-, -)— 03 www.mnSun.com Eagan wants city code to flow with state regulations BY JOSHUA NICHOLS Sun Newspapers To make local law flow better with state law, the Eagan City Council hopes to give property owners along two creeks the full use of their land again. That was the issue before the Eagan City Council when it discussed the buffer requirements in its shoreland zoning ordinance during its April 8 spe- cial meeting. The city's requirement for the creeks in question, which are considered "trib- utaries" by city and state standards, pro- hibits development within 300 feet from the "shoreland." That requirement affects several resi- dents whose property falls within that distance of Harnack and Kennealy creeks between the Minnesota River and Highway 13. Senior Planner Mike Ridley said that while the city prohibits all development within that buffer, the Minnesota De- partment of Natural Resources allows conditional developments within that buffer, but requires a 50-foot setback from the edge of the water body. "We are prohibiting all uses within there and that's more restrictive," Ridley told the council. "The DNR allows some uses within that area." By state regulations, agricultural uses, parks and single family residential are all allowable uses within that 300 feet buffer. Commercial, industrial and multi -family housing are all conditional uses within those areas by state regula- tions. While some residents complained that at least part of Kennealy has no water in it, both creeks have been de- clared "trout streams" by the state. That designation means that at one point in their past, the creeks did support trout. "Are they actual trout streams?" Councilmember Meg Tilley asked. "I ask only because I didn't know for more than 20 years that we had trout streams in Eagan." Water Resources Manager Eric Mac- beth also said that although there may appear to be no water in parts of the creek, the area is a calcareous fen that al- lows water to flow underground at vari- ous places of the creek and then come back up to the surface. Macbeth said the presence of the fen, a rare occurrence in Minnesota and the country as a whole, makes the issue even more complicated. "There are entirely different rules for fens," Macbeth said. "This area gets very confusing for even the best of us with all the overlapping conditions." The issue came up while the city was reviewing the guide plan amendment for the Cedarvale area earlier this year. While reviewing environmental issues in the area, questions regarding the city's buffer for the creeks came up and were scheduled for discussion at a later special workshop session. Before the creeks were officially branded "tributaries" and "trout streams" over the past few years, the re- strictions weren't in place. Once those designations were made, the more re- strictive requirements applied under city zoning laws. Eagan residents Roger and Diane Pe- terson invited the council to come out to their land in the area and walk the creeks to see what condition they are in. They also complained that the changes to the area are unfair to those who had their land purchased before they went into effect. "The horse has been let out of the barn here," Roger Peterson said. "The lots have been developed and everything has been plotted and now you are telling us what we can't do with our land?" Councilmember Mike Maguire said he wanted to see the city's requirements changed so they matched up with the DNR requirements. "If the state has declared those trout streams, it suggests that there is either water in them or that they are able to be restored," Maguire said. "I would be will- ing to uplift the restrictions while allow- ing the landowners to use their land." The council agreed to have Ridley continue to research the requirements and what changes the city could make to its policies in the area and bring the issue back for another special workshop session. Budget cuts? Some suburbs just feel a nick In fast-growing areas, money from development softens the blow of reduced state aid. By Mike Kaszuba Star Tribune Staff Writer The ribbon -cutting ceremo- ny in Woodbury seemed strangely out of place. In contrast to library cut- backs and other budget reduc- tions in Minneapolis and else- where, City Council Member Cheryl Hurst was scooting down a slide last week at the opening of Woodbury's half - million -dollar indoor play- ground. The playground is the final piece of the burgeoning city's • $7 million indoor park, which features waterfalls, sofas ar- SUBURBS continues on B3: ranged in front of a fireplace —Eagan provides one example. and a coffee shop selling lattes. "There's many negatives from growth," Hurst said. "This is one of the positives." In some of the Twin Cities area's fastest -growing and more upscale suburbs, the pain of dealing with reductions in state aid remains relatively minor. Many of those suburbs do not need to rely on state aid because their budgets are fu- eled by money from develop- ment. And they also do not have to cope with a large array of often -costly urban issues. Like Woodbury, some booming suburbs are celebrat- ing major construction pro- jects. Victoria opened a $6.1 million ice center and field house last week. The facility was partly funded by the $2,100 each new home in the city pays in park improvement fees. Duane Braley/Star Tribune Julia Ek, 4, of Lakeland, shot through a chute at Woodbury's new half -million -dollar indoor play- ground. It's one of many suburbs making minor budget cuts while celebrating projects. Eagan's new community center to open "This is a small community, and they provide a lot," said Scott Brault, a city -employed fitness instructor, as he walked among the rows of exercise equipment in a fitness center that is part of the field house. The mood is similar in Ea- gan, the home of Gov. Tim Pawlenty. Eagan's new $11.5 million community center will begin opening in phases in May. The project will suffer only a shall impact from the city's $1:3 million in anticipat- ed state -aid reductions this year. Instead of the planned 12 employees, the center will open with a staff of six. At his state of the city ad- dress last Thursday, Eagan Mayor; Pat Geagan said the city's position was "very sound," but he forecast a "few storm clouds on the horizon." The city, he said, has post- poned plans to build a series of "Welcome to Eagan" monu- ments.; City, officials also plan to shift an ;estimated $1 million from die. city's $9.1 million re- serve fond to address the cuts. An out{loor bandshell near the community center, a joint pro- ject with the Eagan Rotary Club, bull proceed unaffected. "Finning where to make $1 million' in cuts is not without pain," said Tom Garrison, a city spcesman. Still, he added, the cit}trs budget problems are "not oilthe scale that Minne- apolis and St. Paul" are facing. Eagan receives just $126,000 in Loal Government Aid, a state program that helps many neediel cities make ends meet and may see large cuts under Pawleniy. Wayzata, Edina adjust Wayzata's new city hall and library building, which also will open ill May, is being finished as city:officials express confi- dence'they can absorb a $46,500 cut in market value homestead credits, a form of state aid. The anticipated re- duction, according to the city, amounts to just 1.5 percent of Wayzata's general fund budget. In a`memo last week, Way- zata's 1}uance director, David Frischmon, said the "bad news" is that a possible 2003 MOM Lava Nand Compared with Nfinneepoas tied ether cities, ma's budget cuts appear mkdnal. 2003 general fund: $21.4mion. Increase over 2002: 4 percent 2003 state -old reduce $1.3 million, or 5.6 percent Likely trims Delay "Welcome to Eagan" monuments. Cut $129,000 from ma jor:street construction and repair, city equipment replacement fund and general city facilities mainte- nance. Eliminate nonessential travel and training. Shift approximately $1 mean from city's $9.1 million reserve fund. Source: City of Eagan pay increase for city employees may be delayed until Septem- ber. But Frischmon added: "This will likely be a much smaller sacrifice than what will be required from many other government employees across the state of Minnesota." The budget -cutting is also relatively minimal in Edina, a city that is largely developed but which still has the financial horsepower to go without sig- nificant amounts of state aid. Though Edina is facing a $625,000 loss in market value homestead credits, the city was able to adopt a 2003 budget that is 2.5 percent higher than last year's. And a $13.4 million new city hall should open in November as planned. For the most part, Edina's budget dilemma is one of mak- ing adjustments. While a $280,000 renovation of soccer fields at Lewis Park has been pushed back a year, construc- tion of a new $200,000 indoor playground at Edinborough Park will proceed. "My feeling is one of regret for them," Gordon Hughes, Edina's city manager, said of other cities facing large budget cuts. "Not one of smugness [by] any means." A look at Victoria In some ways, comparing the plight of Minneapolis with Victoria's situation is like look- ing into two different worlds. In Victoria, where the new ice arena overlooks the Lazy J horse ranch, the city has just 5,000 residents and a 2003 gen- eral fund budget that totals $2.4 million. Significantly, the city receives just $4,000 annu- ally in Local Government Aid. It also gets only $60,000 in homestead credits. "We don't believe that this is going to significantly overbur- den us," Stephen Sarvi, Victor- ia's city administrator, said of the state -aid cuts. Indeed, the grand opening of the ice arena and field house was festive. Two dozen spon- sors who had contributed at least $500 each to the ceremo- ny, many of them representa- tives of local real-estate com- panies, sat at tables set up on the ice. The event's four biggest sponsors, including Rottlund Homes and Kraus -Anderson Construction Co., contributed $2,000 apiece. "The media projects it that the suburbs somehow have skated by without having any budget impacts," said Mary Meuwissen, the city's former mayor who helped organize the grand opening and has a sign advertising her real-estate business in the new arena. "[But] we haven't been taking money from the government, from the state," she said. Bells and whistles Woodbury's loss of $1.098 million in state aid in each of the next two years likewise did not slow the opening of the in- door park. Still, at least two city positions will not be filled, said City Manager Barry Johnson, and some trail and park areas may not be mowed this sum- mer. The city's aid payment from the state, which this year totaled $113,721, will likely be eliminated. But the cuts in state aid amount to just 5 percent of the .x@1` Vregiit j� y'ai ...trf1 A >6t 1 +�; stir',, .Air 1Eastlepti- Mew +i:' ''-; i !* .— ►- duane Braley/Star Tribune There are plenty of structures for children to climb on at Woodbury's indoor playground, which com- pletes the city's $7 million indoor park. Former City Council Member Nancy Remakel said planning for the park began in the 1990s, when the overall economy was better. city's $21.5 million general fund budget that grew by $2.5 million in the past year. In fact, city officials moved last year to increase the bells - and -whistles aspect of the in- door playground — nearly doubling the project's budget and adding $28,600 for sound effects. Children crawling through the playground's maze can hear the sound of a gur- gling brook, owls and frogs. Woodbury residents have responded to both the park and playground with enthusi- asm. As of early March, 50 birthday parties and 31 group rentals had been booked for the new playground. "I know [we're] booked solid on birth- day parties until the third week of April," said Jodi Sauro, the city's recreation supervisor. Nancy Remakel, a former Woodbury City Council mem- ber, said the new indoor city park is the result of planning that took place during the 1990s when the overall econo- my was better. The park ad- joins a new $8.3 million Wash- ington County library that fea- tures its own fireplace. "We wouldn't have built it in today's climate," Remakel, who also sits on the county library board, said of the park. "Of course, you know, it's also an affluent suburb. It has a lot of that upscale housing which helps the tax base. Mike Kaszuba is at mkaszuba@st*rtribune.com. 1144 f ifftt, Meetings may limit, not create participation To the editor: I endorse Michael Vincent's account of our phone conversa- tion as published here recently. Michael is a dedicated worker for his cause. We do agree on several basic issues. We continue to disagree on tactics and semantics. I con- tinue to maintain that the Ad- visory Park Commission is, by definition, a special interest group. If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck — it's a duck. I challenge his closing com- ment. An exchange of com- ments in public print media is not shouting from the sidelines. I firmly believe that the print media is a far better forum for citizen participation in gov- ernment than the limited audi- ence in a political commission meeting. ROBERT BARBOUR Eagan Eagan recognized for oak wilt program By Deb Schewe Staff Writer It starts off innocently enough — a few brown leaves to- ward the top of an oak tree. Soon, all the leaves on the tree are brown. At this point, the tree is dead, but the worries aren't over. The disease has probably spread to neighboring trees. The disease — oak wilt — is one that Apple Valley forestry technical specialist Jo Colleran said can cause more damage than losing one tree. It can destroy all the oak trees in the area. When a tree is infected, it shuts off its water and nutrient supply be- tween the roots and the top of tree, which is why the leaves become discolored and wilt. Typically, fall- en leaves are mostly brown but are green at the base of the leaf. Because of the devastating im- pact the disease can have on sub- urban woodlands, cities have be- come involved in stopping the spread of oak wilt. A federal as- sistance program — the Coopera- tive Suppression Program — helps fund such efforts. In the five years Apple Valley has worked with residents to fight the disease, the city has seen a 66 percent decrease in the number of cases, Colleran said. When she came to the city seven years ago, she marked 1,000 trees in the city that had the dis- ease. Last year, she marked slightly more than 300 trees. Because of the improvement Sun 'U.rr$pe 9/4 /940 WILT: To Page 12A Wilt: Tree disease on decline throughout suburban areas From Page lA the city has made in stopping the disease, it was named as one of 11 communities recognized at an Aug. 20 celebration com- memorating the plowing of the 1 mil- lionth foot of oak wilt control line. Eagan also made the honor roll. Since 1993, the community has treated more than 225 oak wilt sites and has reduced the incident rate from 9.3 infection cen- ters per square mile to 2.5 infection cen- ters per square mile. The cities help fight the disease using a vibratory plow — a machine Colleran said has a blade attached to it that looks like a 5 foot long hand saw. The machine vibrates as it cuts through the root sys- tem of trees near the infected tree. Coller- an said the roots of the nearby trees are cut because 90 percent of the time the disease travels through the root system. Although a tree may look healthy, she said, it could still have oak wilt. The disease can only be given to trees of like species. For example, a white oak can only give the disease to another white oak. How the disease spreads also depends on the type of soil the trees are planted in. If it's sandy soil, she said the disease radiates out to other trees. In clay soil, the disease acts more like "connect the dots," jumping from tree to tree. The type of oak also makes a difference in how serious the oak wilt is. White oaks can take several years after infection to die, or they can recover. Red oaks are the most likely to die from the disease. Once symp- toms are present, the tree will die within a few weeks. When symptoms are visible, the disease has spread into the roots and has probably already spread to nearby trees. To help prevent the disease, Colleran said oak trees should not be pruned be- tween April 15 and July 1, a time in which the trees are more susceptible to being in- fected by the oak wilt fungus. The disease is spread by picnic beetles, which can cre- ate a new pocket of oak wilt by infecting a fresh wound on a tree. After July 1, the tree has grown "summer wood vessels," which are more difficult to penetrate. If a person suspects a tree has oak wilt, they are encouraged to contact the city forester. Do not remove the tree because it will release the water pressure which is helping suppress the spread of the disease. guest column The City of Eagan is hosting an open house on draft of Comprehensive Guide Plan Tom Hedges Eagan city administrator The city of Eagan is currently updating its Comprehensive Guide Plan and has been work- ing to involve the public throughout this project. A se- ries of open houses were held earlier this year to review the land -use portion of the plan. The entire draft plan is now complete and city staff would like to hear comment from the public again. A community open house has been scheduled July 13 to in- vite public comment and dis- cussion on the city's draft Comprehensive Guide Plan and its proposed changes. The plan is a tool used to guide the city's vision for development over the next 10 to 20 years. The last thorough update of the plan occurred in 1983 when Eagan was mostly a develop- ing community. Now Eagan is a community of nearly 62,000 residents and is about 90 per- cent developed. The plan is being updated to reflect the changes that have, for the most part, already occurred. The city is not proposing to make broad, sweeping changes with this update. Instead, the new plan will reflect existing develop- ment patterns. The plan includes sub- sections that address land use, transportation issues, housing, utilities, parks, trails, natural resources, airports, housing, economic development and public facilities such as schools, libraries and fire sta- tions. Updating the Comprehensive Guide Plan can impact zoning, development standards and long-range development goals. The relatively few landowners whose property is expected to undergo change with this up- date have already been con- tacted directly and, in most cases, are working with city staff to determine the impacts. We hope the open house will give residents and area busi- ness representatives an oppor- tunity to become more aware of the types and intensity of development that may occur in their neighborhoods, to under- stand their own property classi- fications and to express ideas regarding the development vi- sion proposed for the commu- nity. The open house is scheduled for July 13 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Eagan Fire Administra- tion building's second -floor meeting room. The building is located at 3795 Pilot Knob Road. The open house will be informal in nature. At the open house, city staff and public officials will be on hand to answer questions and hear concerns. Maps illustrat- ing future land use, zoning, roadways, utilities, parks, etc. will be on display for public review. Copies of the draft plan are also available for review at the Wescott Library and Eagan City Hall in the Community Development Department. The public hearing of the draft Comprehensive Guide Plan update will most likely be scheduled for early August be- fore the Advisory Planning Commission, with formal adop- tion of the plan by the City Council later this fall. If you would like more infor- mation or to review the Eagan Comprehensive Guide Plan, or the plans of bordering commu- nities, contact Planner Julie Farnham at 651-681-4698. Ex -Viking sentenced Former Minnesota Viking football player Walker Lee Ashley was sentenced in Da- kota County District Court Sept. 12 in connection with the theft of funds from the city of Eagan, according to Dakota County Attorney James Back- strom. Ashley pleaded guilty July 8 to one count of theft of public funds for taking money from the city of Eagan and from youth involved in a city ath- letic program, Backstrom said. Judge Thomas Murphy placed Ashley on probation for one year and required him to do 50 hours of community work service. Restitution must be paid in an amount determined by Community Corrections. Murphy stayed 30 days in jail on the condition that Ashley complete all the requirements of the sente ce,Backstro said. 41,A,t 7S Because the news never stops gan www.thisweek-online.com Planning Commission OKs housing developrnent in Ea an Core Greenwayg Property sits between Caponi Art Park, Lexington Diffley Athletic Fields by Erin Johnson THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS In a 4-1 vote Tuesday, the Eagan Planning Commission rec- ommended approval of a housing development that would sit with- in the Eagan Core Greenway. Ray Miller of Millerville Inc. is proposing a 16-unit townhome development, called Lexington Ridge, that would "mimic the experience you would imagine of a Boston urban street?' But opponents of the develop- ment say the six -acre property, which abuts both the Caponi Art Park and the Lexington Diffley Athletic Fields, is a pivotal piece of the Eagan Core Greenway and should be protected. "It would be the equivalent of permitting Starbucks to open up a shop right in the middle of the new 9-11 memorial," said Jack Conrad, board member of Friends of the Eagan Core Greenway. "It would be a major blemish to the vision of the geenway" The property, a mix of wood- ed areas and grasslands, is cur - The yellow box development. rently zoned single family resi- dential. Miller's proposal would require a zoning change to a I \ington Ulttle lthletic 1field. Submitted graphic outlines the site of the proposed housing planned unit development. The proposal will go before the City Council for a final vote Feb. 3. Miller bought the property from Remo Caponi, son of Art Park founder Tony Caponi. But the elder Caponi spoke out against the development, say- ing it was always his intention to have that land become part of the Art Park. Caponi has been working with the city of Eagan and Macalester College to make sure his land is protected in the future. "The best scenario would have been , if we could have included the six acres in question right now," said Caponi's wife, Cheryl. "It's a really important piece of property to not have taken up by houses" The land's steep topography is also not development -friendly, she said. "They're trying to force some- thing in there that the land does- n't want" Remo sold the land to Miller because he couldn't afford to wait for a deal with the city, she said. Caponi said the property was See Housing, 8A Housing/from IA "We know this is a tough piece of property sold without his knowledge. because of the slopes and the access, but we Miller acknowledged- con- cerns about the proximity of also know the city of Eagan hasn't bought it, the development to the park Dakota County ha bght _Carla Heyl and athletic fields and said he made some changes to address CHAIR, EAGAN PLANNING COMMISSION them. The development's private road will now have a "signifi- cant" retaining wall to shield cerns that people will try to Dakota County hasn't bought it from the park, he said, and make a left turn out of the it," she said. "From a planning "we effectively moved all of development against traffic. perspective, I'm in favor of the residences as far toward Police are also concerned this." votingin favor of the the east as possible, away that people will attempt U- ro Also was rof t from the Caponi Art Park." turns around the end of the pCommission Member PlanningGreg He said he tried contacting median. Tony Caponi about the sale The median presents access Steininger, who said it's not but his phone calls were never problems for the fire depart -to wart to for tamake ci y the to buy develoPer r returned. ment, which is also opposed s about the devel- the Diffley entrance because it landi would suggest that groups that are interested in (the greenway) start finding some funding and make some serious proposals," he said. Planning Commission Member Gary Hansen said the representatives of the Eagan Core Greenway made some valid points that he could identify with. "I think there are still too many unanswered questions, too many problems with it and some major safety issues that I don't think are overcome yet," he said. "I'm still not comfort- able with it" The proposal was recom- mended for approval 4-1, with Hansen dissenting. The City Council will make a decision on the proposal at its Feb. 3 meeting. opment go beyond environ- will slow emergency response mental issues. time. This is the third proposal According to the fire mar - Miller has submitted to the shal, fire trucks would not be city for the property. He with- able to make a U-turn around drew the first proposal the median to access the because the City Council was development. Instead, they going to deny it over access would have to travel farther through the athletic fields, and west and make a U-turn on he withdrew the second pro- Blueberry Lane. 1 because of prohibitive Despite these concerns, posa costs. Planning Commission Chair It is the Diffley Road Carla Heyl said that this is a access of his current proposal better proposal than the others that concerns the Eagan police she has seen, and it meets the and fire departments. city's requirements and stan- The development's private dards. out that road would have right -turn Heyl pointed in/right-turn out only access Miller has been willing to sell via Diffley. An existing medi- the land to anyone interested an sits on Diffley across from in protecting it, and the city the private road entrance, and county have had ample which will prevent left turns opportunity to buy it. into the development. "We know this is a tough However the median comes piece of property because of to an end several feet beyond the slopes and the access, but Erin Johnson is at the development's entrance we also know the city of e a g a n. t h i s w e e k@ e c m- point, prompting police con- Eagan hasn't bought it, inc.com. Gridlock is a part of life in the city and suburbs The first warning was the freeway meter lights were on and cars were lined up down the 31st Street ramp on to southbound I-35W. The second warning was as I pulled up to the 36th Street exit was there were no cars waiting at the meter lights. So I cruised over the hill and down the ramp, past the point of no return. There as far as the eye can see was I-35W in total gridlock. The time, 8:30 a.m. The day, Saturday. This can't be hap- pening. Or should I say it's happening again. All it took to ruin the best weather of any summer on rec- ord was to rip up every main road from Anoka to Farmington Chances are if you have driven a car in the Twin Cities this summer you have been caught in some sort of road construction. Have the words "detour," "work zone," "construction ahead," or even "road closed" been a consistent part of your windshield vision? Do flag -people seem more familiar to you than your own family? Do your palms get sweaty and a huge pounding headache overcome you when you see the color orange in tandem with rectangular shapes or plastic barrels? Go on just name a major road. I can tell you instantly what is being ripped up, how much damage it did to my car's suspension and wind- shield, and how late I was to my next appointment. I have applied for my Grand Rick Orndorf Prix permit after successfully maneuvering many a field of orange barrels and racing to the "finish line" at the end of a sudden lane change or merge. OK, I'll cut MnDOT and Da- kota County some slack in that some roads did need repairs. But why do we need decora- tive freeway overpass fencing and taller Jersey barriers? Shock talk radio's Howard Stern ran for governor of New York a few years ago. One of his two platform planks was all road construction projects were to be done at night or, at the very least, during non -rush hour. He just might have had my vote if that election was held today. As Dakota County's rapid growth rate continues, you can expect the road construction season to make an appearance every year from now on. The two-lane cow paths that trans- ported people from township to township will become the di- vided four -lane county road of your future. As for my future, until I move out of south Minneapolis, I have met the enemy and it is I- 35 W. Ck 7h1s wEf >) f 9 /2 Council ", Cur/,76, considers ,/ a, fertilizer restriction Too much phosphorus damages water quality By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Commercial lawn care com- panies will have to buy an annu- al $50 license before they can apply fertilizer to Eagan lawns, if an ordinance amendment scheduled before the City Coun- cil April 1 passed. The amendment is an at- tempt to reduce the amount of phosphorus applied to lawns, which can drain into area ponds and lakes, damaging water qual- ity. Commercial applicators maintain roughly one-third of the single-family yards and most of the commercial, industrial FERTILIZER: To Page 14A 4.2-97 Fertilizer From Page 1A and multi -family housing property in Eagan, said Rich Brasch, Eagan water resources coordinator. Residents who care for their own lawns are not required to buy a license. Eagan is not the first to draft such an amendment. Forest Lake Watershed Management and the communities of Shorewood and Plymouth also restrict the amount of phosphorus that can be ap- plied and charge a city licensing fee. "It's an effort to get at the phosphorus used in large urban environments," Brasch said. "That's what contributed to the water quality problem that led us to plan in the first place." Phosphorus creates nutrient rich con- ditions that the city has been trying to re- verse in its lakes and ponds. Dave Hope, field manager for Barefoot Grass in Burnsville said the $50 license fee is "pretty average." "I understand their concern," Hope said. "The state Agriculture Depart- ment has a lot of restrictions already. All of our technicians are already li- censed." According to the amendment dis- cussed April 1, which was after this newspaper went to press, fertilizer ap- plied in Eagan cannot contain more than 3 percent phosphorus. Last year, Barefoot Grass used a mix of fertilizer containing 3 percent phos- phorus. However, the company is merg- ing with Truegreen Chemlawn, which uses a 32-0-10 mix containing 32 percent nitrogen, no phosphorus, and 10 percent potassium, Hope said. Barefoot Grass plans on adopting the Truegreen Chem - lawn fertilizer formula containing no phosphorus, he added. Efforts also should be made not to let fertilizer fall onto concrete or black - topped areas or to run down stormwater drains. Eagan plans to restrict when fertiliz- er can be applied, as well. Application cannot begin until the ground thaws or until April 1 and must stop after Nov. 15. Failure to comply with any of the city's conditions could result in license non -re- newal. City staff will look for licenses to be displayed on lawn care vehicles and will take random samples of their product for inspection. Licenses should be ready for issue after April 10, Brasch said. The city plans to mail applications to 15 identified commercial lawn care companies known to do business in Eagan. Hope said he doesn't want the new li- censing procedure to delay work in Eagan this spring. "Hopefully we'll turn those around pronto," Brasch said. )TA THURSDAY, AUG. 9, 1962 tMik 41�;• pr Townships Testify ... Muncipal Commission Hears Testimony On Incorporation The Minnesota municipal Asked to state whether serv- commission heard testimony ing a larger or smaller area from township engineers of Ea- is more economical, Rosene re- gan, Burnsville and Inver Grov plied that although generally and future estimates from a a larger area is, details such member of the Twin Cities met- as rate of growth complicate ropolitan plannnig commission any prediction. at an incorporation hearing at Rosene also said that if his - the Hasting county courthouse torical boundaries are chang- August 1. ed no new engineering prob- No definite action was taken, lems ase but other new prob- but the commission set another lems, relating to roads and corn - hearing for 10 a.m. August 30 munications, do arise. at the courthouse. Robert Johnson, engineer No new incorporation plans for Inver Grove, asserted that were presented by the town- a town could be better served, ships. Their letter of July 12, from an engineering stand - telling the MMC that they point, if it incorporated into could present no ne wproposals a village and hired ful ltime until a decision on the Bloom- engineers. ington petition to annex Burns- Charles E. Woodward, plan- ville is reached, was read into ning consultant to Sunfish the record. Lake. said he did not believe Commission chairman Joseph the three communities petion- Robbie said that "the commis- ing for annexation to Sunfish sion is in no position to bar- lake would form a good boun- gain one petition against dary. His firm was asked to another." send a copy of their planning Robbie added that the Bloom- report to all parties of record ington petition is being "held within 30 days. in abeyance" while additional The MMC called Robert E. information is asked for on the Sonthworth of the twin city separate incorporaion peti- MPC who gave the following tions. Robert Rosene, engineer figures: for Burnsville and Eagan, tes- tified for both townships. He 60 Pop. '62 Est. Gain '62 Est. 200 told the commission that if the EaganBurnsv'iie 2,716 4 090 3 708 21,800 townships were to incorporate Inver Grove 5,753 7,735 1,9821 6,400 separatAy along their histori- Lakeville 2,123 2,503 380 2,800 cal boundaries separate sari- Southworth said the 1980 tary sewer systems would be estimates were "conservative," "feasible" so long as there was The commission also placed "joint cooperation" with ad- review of the governmental jacent townships. Rosene said that while storm boundaries of the township un- sewer system could be handled der Section 5 of the MMC act, within the township of Burns -an action, privately described by as a ville, "regional" planning was doesobbi not change the statuthat s of necessary for sanitary sewers. the townships or the MMC's He added that addition or dele- authority. Although it gives tion of land from a township priority to section 5 before would not affect plannig, so subsequent 200 acre decisions. long as the townships had a p An opportunity will be giy- "reasonably close idea" of their en the townships August 30 to boundaries. refute, or add to past testi- The "ideal ultimate solu- tion," said Rosene, would be m G annis and Grannis, lawy- for the townships to integrate ers representing Eagan ar.d with the metropolitan sanitary Burnsville, reserved the right sewer system. to make objection through He added however, that it- Au 30 to the commission's would be at least 10 years be invoking section 5. fore such integration could Robbie placed all the testi- take place. Challenged by the monyn the senara'e record commission to name an in of each of the four townships. stance in which such joint co- operation had taken place, Ro- sene said he could think .of none "to date." However, Roger C. Miller, representing South St. Paul, pointed out that a contractual arrangement, whereby one township builds and another services a sewer system, is being negotiated by South and Wsest St. Paul. Rosene reiterated his belief that all problems could be solved if the townships built. individual systems and cooper- ated, but, pressed by the com- mission, admitted that it would be "better" to plan a system together. F. Robert Edman of the com- mission pointed out that al- though a part of Eagan imme- diately adjacent to Burnsville has its own sewage plant, it cannot take much expansion. Weer Canto! Unit Will Take ric1uests The state water pollution control commission has ann- ounced that it will receive ap- plications for federal funds to aid communities in financing the construction of sewage treatment facilities up to Sep- tember 17. Last year Savage was one of 17 communities who receiv- ed and accepted a grant offer before funds were exhausted. Forty-seven annlications for federal aid totaling $3,208,293 were received by the commis- sion. Since Savage's grant was ac- cepted, it cannot apply for another one. RV storage amendment stalls with City Council by Dan Gearino Staff Writer The proposed recreational vehicle (RV) storage amend- ment that has been the subject of several packed public hear- ings and much citizen uproar, finally made its way to the City Council agenda July 18, only to suffer an ambiguous fate. Only a handful of residents showed up to speak on the amendment, all against its restrictions on parking RVs in back yards and the requirement that RVs in side yards and back yards be screened with a fence or plantings. Because of the light turnout, Mayor Pat Awada suggested that the council continue the discussion of the amendment at a later meeting, but the vote to continue was deadlocked 2-2, with Awada and Council Member Peggy Carlson voting in favor and council members Bea Blomquist and Sandy Masin voting against. Council Member Paul Bakken was absent from the meeting at a Soo RY, 10A 8 as C 1 Wescott Library holding programs The Wescott Library in magic and theatrics with a twist Eagan will have an open story- of comedy. This free program time for all ages Monday, July will last 30 to 40 minutes and is 24 at 10:30 a.m. Registration is open to all ages. not required. The Wescott Library is locat- Magician Dave Wigen will ed at 1340 Wescott Road in perform "Absolute Magic with Eagan. For more information Nick Sharpe" at the Wescott about these or any other pro - Library Wednesday, July 26 at 2 grams, call 651-688-1500. p.m. Sharpe performs age-old Mary's Shelter holding car wash On Saturday, Aug. 5, Mary's A $5 donation per car is request - Shelter will be holding a car ed. wash fund-raiser at two Holiday Mary's Shelter is the only stations in Eagan, located near transitional housing shelter for Pilot Knob and I-35E and near women and children in Dakota Cliff Road and Cedar Avenue. County. All funds raised will go Friends of Mary's Shelter toward services for those shel- will be washing cars from 10 tered at the facility. a.m. to 3 p.m. at both locations. RV/Continued military commitment. The vote to continue would have meant scheduling further discussi,on for a future date. Since the vote failed, the amendment is now in limbo. The council can choose to dis- cuss it at a future meeting, but judging from members' com- ments, nobody is particularly enthused about the amendment. Blomquist and Masin voted against the continuance because they see so many problems with the amendment that they don't think it warrants further consid- eration unless major changes are made. Blomquist said that a blanket storage rule would not work because there are so many dif- ferent lot shapes. "There is no equitable way to apply this across the board," she said. Awada. and Carlson also voiced concerns about the amendment, which they said would have to be addressed before they would vote to approve. Carlson criticized the requirement that fencing or plantings be used to block an RV from sight, saying that a fence is uglier than an RV. Royce Tyre, a resident who spoke against the amendment, was pleased with the council's decision not to act on the amendment. "I think logic prevailed," he said. "I think the council real- ized that this isn't workable." Apple Valley/Rosemount, Eagan Sun•Current/Wednesday, Feb 26, 1997 A Eagan considers new ordinance after U.S. West wins appeal By Sue Hegarty and Lauri Winters Staff Writers Despite a recent court ruling, the city of Eagan is considering whether to draft a new ordinance regulating the use of rights of way. "We're interested in managing, but not creating barriers," said Assistant City Administrator Jon Hohenstein. The issue was scheduled for discus- sion during a Feb. 25 special City Coun- cil meeting. Apple Valley's City Council is expect- ed to review the issue in March, said City Administrator John Gretz. Last month, the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in favor of U.S. West Com- munications in a lawsuit regarding a city's authority to regulate the public rights of way. The Court of Appeals decision means the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission retains the authority to establish terms and conditions upon which telecommunications construc- tion is done in public rights of way. Minnesota law gives limited authority to cities to regulate the location of tele- phone lines. The Appeals Court decision reverses the District Court's dismissal last May of U.S. West's complaint against a Redwood Falls ordinance. The 1990 ordinance placed certain restrictions on the use of the rights of way by communications companies. The restrictions included paying an annual franchise fee for installing tele- phone lines in the city's right of way, pay- ing an annual easement fee for each lo- cation of telephone line construction and encasing fiber optic lines in concrete ducts to protect them and limit municipal liability. "The city lacks the authority to re- quire U.S. West to obtain a franchise or encase its fiber optic lines in concrete duct," stated the court's decision, accord- ing to U.S. West officials. U.S. West's attorney viewed the court's decision as a victory for business- es and customers. "We are pleased the Minnesota Court of Appeals recognized the validity of our position," said attorney Victoria Aguilar. "This decision provides for statewide uni- formity which will benefit the telecom- munications industry at large and Min- nesota consumers." Cities, on the other hand, are con- cerned about ensuring that property damaged by utility installation gets re- stored to the same condition or better without any expense to the city, busi- nesses or residents, said Hohenstein. Aguilar said U.S. West continues to recognize a city's authority over when and where streets can be dug up for cable installation. "We have been willing in the past and will continue in the future to pay permit fees and to pay the expense of restoring city streets and infrastructure to an equal or better condition," she said. The recent court decision does not end the rights of way saga. According to its Jan. 29 bulletin, the League of Minnesota Cities (LMC) is re- viewing the decision to determine if the case should be appealed to the Minneso- ta Supreme Court. "We're obviously disappointed and we certainly disagree with the Appeals Court ruling," said Jim Miller, LMC ex- ecutive director, in the organization's Jan. 29 bulletin. "It's clear, now more than ever, that the Legislature needs to address critical issues of local control of right of way management, cost recovery and fair and equitable treatment of rights of way users including telecommu- nications providers." Last August, the Eagan City Council approved a $2,350 financial contribution to the LMC Rights -of -way task force. The League formed the task force in an effort to keep control of rights of way in local hands. Eagan's support was paid through franchise fees paid to the city. The Burnsville/Eagan Cable Commission rec- ommended participation in the process, saying that if it didn't, the city's rights may be limited. As the spring construction season nears, Hohenstein said the need for coor- dinating and scheduling construction projects increases. Gretz agreed. "We feel very strongly that control should remain with cities as to where and under what conditions (installation takes place)," Gretz said. Apple Valley also contributed finan- cially to the LMC's fight for control. The city is not attempting to draft its own ordinance and has "gotten along very well" with utilities, including Marcus Cable and Dakota Electric, Gretz said. C To the editor: What is the "big picture" sur- rounding the sale of Carriage Hills Golf Course? As a taxpayer in Dakota County, I'm concerned about the rapid rate of development I see going on around me. I wonder if it isn't time to take Tom Egan and the city plan- ners and sit down at an open forum so that people's views can be heard before another development gets underway. The frustration, mistrust, miscommunication and per- haps lying by omission that I've seen these past few days has me questioning what the "big picture" is for Eagan's future. How old is our 20-year plan? When was the last time it was reviewed? Our elementary schools are Iletters toK;s 0)frs'. . City of Eagan needs to review its 20-year plan C- i.cN1KCr already stressed. Our federal funds are in question and a new development of this scope may well mean that once again we will be asked to build new schools. What's the 20- year plan for the current high school? Will it be adequate to meet our current projected needs? How about our municipal wa- ter system? What about police, fire and government services — are they adequate to handle continued rapid population growth? Carriage Hills is currently zoned as municipal land. Maybe a new fire hall should go there or a library or a park. I think the time has come to review our 20-year plan to make sure it balances today's needs versus tomorrow's leg- acy. Failure to review our plan means a failure of the govern- ment to be responsible to its constituency. I, as a taxpayer, parent and resident of Eagan have begun to question if our elected officials have gotten so captured by the allure of growth that they have forgotten that it was the quality of life that brought most of us to Ea- gan in the first place. What are the facts about this proposed sale and develop- ment? What is the city's posi- tion? Where do the council- men line up? And, more impor- tantly, what kind of a legacy will this administration leave for the next generation? Anyone in City Hall care to answer? JEFFREY C. ANDERSON Eagan City seeks agreement withH1GH on utilities ■ Proposed developments such as Southern Lakes rely upon a joint powers agreement between Eagan and Inver Grove Heights for city sewer and water hookups. The two cities are nearing the adoption of a Global Joint Powers Agreement that will supersede one adopted in 1995. By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer As Inver Grove Heights (IGH) listens to the presentations of developers eager to build on the western border, the city of Eagan is increasingly being called upop to supply water and sewer hookups. The western edge of IGH is not within the Metropolitan Urban Service Area (MUSA). Since 1972 Eagan has had a Joint Powers Agreement (JPA) with IGH to provide sanitary sewer and water ser- vice to residents in the Emerald Hills Trailer Court. Later, service was extend- ed to Coventry Pass and Boulder Crest neighborhoods. Eagan saw a pattern developing and asked that a new "Global JPA" be written and signed. At its Feb. 18 meeting, the Eagan City Council agreed in concept to the Global JPA with Inver Grove Heights. Accord- ing to the agreement, Eagan will contin- ue to provide sewer and water line ex- tensions into IGH. In exchange, IGH agrees to provide one acre of land for the construction of a AGREEMENT: To Page 10A r beuct�aGj /9r77 .Iurrearc"r7 Agreement AY R.n t, an vr€r>t l.e From Page 1A hydropillar water tower. Financing will be provided by the city of Eagan whose funds will come from connection fees. A decision was made not to put either city's name on the tower because it will be owned by Eagan, yet be on IGH land. Assuming that a communications com- pany may want to lease space on the tower for an antenna, Eagan City Coun- cil members have asked that Eagan re- ceive any lease revenues. IGH residents served by Eagan water and sewer services would be subject to the same ordinances for water conserva- tion as Eagan residents. Watermain op- eration and maintenance would become the responsibility of the respective city. Developers who have gained prelimi- nary approval for housing projects in IGH are counting on the approval of the global JPA. Plans include construction of 242 single family homes in IGH along Highway 3 north of Cliff Road known as Southern Lakes, to be linked with Eagan water and sewer lines. South of Cliff Road, a developer wants to build 53 homes in Eagan abutting Inver Grove Heights. Last week, council members suggested that the developer be required to extend oversized water mains to the IGH border, assuming it's only a matter of time before someone proposes development across the border. When IGH's border is completely de- veloped, city officials estimate up to 780 acres will be served by Eagan utilities. One issue that remains unresolved is the extension of Yankee Doodle Road from Eagan into IGH. The extension is considered important to Eagan's long- range transportation plan, especially to the trucking industry. Councilmembers Bea Blomquist and Ted Wachter wanted the joint powers agreement to address the issue, but the other three council members, Pat Awada, Mayor Tom Egan and Sandra Masin, voted not to include references to the proposed extension. This new "global joint powers agree- ment" will replace two previous agree- ments reached in 1972 and 1995. Neither of those agreements referenced Road Unit Charges (RUCs), which are fees col- lected from developers with building per- mit applications. RUCs fund road im- provements needed due to increased traf- fic generated by the new development. 44) Cr Cliff Road ____\ INVER GROVE HEIGHTS Proposed Southern Lakes Neighborhood Cliff Road Last week, the Eagan City Council voted 3-2 to collect RUC fees from devel- opers who build IGH subdivisions served by Eagan utilities. Awada and Blomquist objected. The legality of whether cities can charge such a fee was challenged in court by several developers, with Joe Miller named as the lead plaintiff. A Minnesota Appeals Court has over- turned the District Court decision, say- ing the city may not collect RUC fees. The city of Eagan has taken the suit to the State Supreme Court, which has not yet ruled. Current and former Eagan City Coun- cil members have asked if these new IGH subdivisions may depend upon on Eagan for fire and police protection. The new agreement stipulates that fire and police protection will remain IGH's responsibil- ity. A mutual aid agreement exists for emergency back-up support. Sharing of parks also was addressed by Eagan. According to the proposed JPA, each development proposal will be evalu- ated for park needs. If existing Eagan parks can meet the need of IGH resi- dents, Eagan will be able to collect a cash donation from the developer. If a park is not nearby, the developer must construct or dedicate park land containing a youth ball field and soccer field. These fields will be available for scheduling by the Eagan Athletic Association with empha- sis given to teams comprised of people within the elementary school attendance boundary. The global JPA decisions made by the Eagan City Council will be reviewed by the IGH City Council. Formal adoption is expected at future council meetings. letters 1/1/ ' /eMa 23, i�97 Intersection needs more than a four-way stop To the editor: This morning I was preparing to go to work; it was rush hour outside on our busy corner of Rahn Road and Diffley Road (County Road 30) in Eagan. As I was in the kitchen in the back of our house, I heard the crash of yet another accident where someone had run the four-way stop sign or just rolled around the corner without stop- ping, which has become so commonplace at that intersec- tion. I ran to look out the window and then called 911 on my cordless phone. Two cars were stopped; neither driver got out of their car. The police arrived and must have called the paramedics. In the meantime, rush hour tries to go on around these two cars, police cars, a woman who has stopped to of- fer a blanket to one of the in- jured motorists, and other on- lookers. The paramedics arrive and soon pull the seriously in- jured motorist out of his car and onto a stretcher to carry him away. We have had too many acci- dents at this intersection. Our daughter came home from school one day and saw a van that had rolled onto its roof. Just this winter, my husband was turning into our service road, and was rear -ended by a woman who ran the stop sign. She readily admitted that she had run it, and luckily there was no one hurt. When will a semaphore be installed? Four-way stop signs just don't cut it — too many rolling stops or people just roaring through the intersec- tion. A couple of years ago we called the city of Eagan, and they said the summer of 1996. Well, it must have been de- layed because "the powers that be way down in Hastings don't get up this way very often, so they really couldn't need a stoplight." When will we fi- nally get one? This has to end. BILL and ALISON FULLER Eagan Council struggles with proposed joint powers agreement with IGH By BRENDA HAUGEN The extension of Eagan city services into a development in Inver Grove Heights has been an issue the Eagan City Coun- cil has struggled with in recent years. A joint powers agree- ment between the two cities designed to address the issue sparked a lengthy debate, and tittle unanimity, at Eagan's Feb. 18 meeting. Eagan city staff asked the council whether it wished to continue with preparation of a global joint powers agreement with Inver Grove Heights. Staff also wanted direction in regard to unresolved conditions of the agreement. Inver Grove Heights' interest in the joint powers agreement stems from its preliminary plat approval of Southern Lakes Addition, a 146-acre plot along the Eagan border near Highway 3 and Cliff Road that is pro- posed to become 243 single- family lots, said Tom Hedges, Eagan city administrator. Inver Grove Heights would like the city of Eagan to provide utility service for the area. In order for the Southern Lakes Addition to proceed, iZeS h.Uek, /" ibvciarc-e/ /97 Eagan would have to agree to provide utility service to the area because Inver Grove Heights' comprehensive guide plan doesn't provide for devel- opment of this area, according to Eagan Public Works Direc- tor Tom Colbert. A 1996 update of Eagan's comprehensive water supply and distribution plan deter- mined its water utility system can accommodate the ultimate development of about 750 acres in Inver Grove Heights with the installation of an ele- vated water reservoir near the proposed Southern Lakes de- velopment, Colbert said. "We do have the capacity to do so," he said. Among the issues to be re - (See IGH, p.17A) IGH (Continued from front page) solved at the Feb. 18 meeting were: • Retroactivity of previous joint powers agreements. The latest proposed agree- ment wouldn't be the first time the two cities have entered into such an arrangement. Ac- cording to Colbert, the cities presently have two active joint . powers agreements. Under a June 1972 agree- ment, Eagan provides sanitary sewer and water service to the Emerald Hills Trailer Court in Inver Grove Heights. An August 1995 agreement has Eagan providing these services to the Coventry Pass and Boulder Crest developments, Colbert said. • An optional service area. Inver Grove Heights has ap- proximately 120 acres north of the Emerald Hills Trailer Park and adjacent to the Bur Oak Hills Addition that could be serviced by Inver Grove Heights, Colbert said. But In- ver Grove Heights has asked that this area be incorporated in the global joint powers agreement to allow potential service by the city of Eagan if timing and/or efficiencies fa- cilitate it. partment of Transportation, In- ver Grove Heights and Eagan are jointly studying the impact building this road — or not building it — will have. In- cluded in the study is the po- tential impact on highways 149 and 55 in Eagan if Yankee Doodle Road isn't extended. According to Colbert, the study is expected to be com- pleted by mid -summer and will be followed by neighborhood meetings on the findings. Mayor Tom Egan said it isn't logical to include the possible Yankee Doodle Road exten- sion in the proposed joint pow- ers agreement with Inver Grove Heights because it's premature and isn't tied to the issue at hand. "I don't know what the city of Eagan's position is on this," Egan said, adding that the pub- lic needs a chance to discuss the road study when it's com- pleted. Council Member Pat Awada agreed. "I don't think it belongs in this plan," she said. Saying both cities need to be honest with one another and say what they want in the agreement, Council Member Bea Blomquist said the Yan- kee Doodle Road extension should be part of the proposed joint powers agreement. "I think we have to be up front with Inver Grove," she the extension and perhaps Ea- gan will not be, Egan said. After a great deal of discus- sion, the council voted 3-2 to drop the Yankee Doodle Road extension from the agreement. Council Member Ted Wachter and Blomquist cast the dissent- ing votes. "I can't see going ahead with anything if we don't know we're going to get the Yankee Doodle Road extension," Wachter said. All agreed on the antenna - lease revenue, saying the money should go to Eagan. Wachter questioned why the new water reservoir couldn't be put on Eagan property, perhaps at an existing site. Colbert said differences in elevation were the key. If the reservoir were put on the land where Eagan's Cliff Road reservoir is being dismantled, the tower would have to be 150 feet taller to serve the area in need, Colbert said. Because the site is about three miles from the proposed development, booster pumps also would be necessary to en- sure adequate pressure, he added. On the Inver Grove Heights site, the reservoir would he a total of 145 feet tall, Colbert said. • Antenna lease revenue. While Eagan will own the water tower that would serve the proposed development in Inver Grove Heights, the site for the tower will be acquired by Inver Grove Heights. If per- sonal communication system companies lease the site for antennas, there is a question as to who should receive the revenue, Colbert said. • Road -unit charge. According to Colbert, Eagan has implemented a road -unit charge collected with each building permit to finance transportation improvements necessitated by the growth in traffic generated from devel- opment. Inver Grove Heights doesn't have this fee. The pre- vious joint powers agreements don't address this issue and no fees have been collected in areas currently served by Ea- gan utilities, Colbert said. • The extension of Yankee Doodle Road into and through Inver Grove Heights. According to Colbert, Dakota County the Minnesota De - said. Council Member Sandra Masin also raised concerns about taking the Yankee Doo- dle Road extension out of the agreement. "You will not have a second chance," she said. According to Masin, the agreement covers everything Inver Grove Heights needs from Eagan. What leverage does Eagan have without the extension of Yankee Doodle Road in the agreement? she asked. Egan said his concern is that neither city has taken a posi- tion on the Yankee Doodle Road extension yet. He said he doesn't want to ask Inver Grove Heights to make up its mind when the Eagan City Council hasn't yet made a de- cision. For all that is known right now, Inver Grove Heights could turn out to be in favor of r),-,.ram A3 r7 "Why don't we buy the land?" Awada asked about the Inver Grove Heights site. According to Hedges, Eagan will construct and own the res- ervoir, while Inver Grove Heights will purchase the land for the tower, but give Eagan the land under the agreement. In a 4-1 vote, with Blomquist casting the lone "no," the council agreed to the optional service area. With a 3-2 vote, the council agreed to the road - unit charge for new subdivi- sions only. As for the retroactivity issue, again the council agreed that rules Eagan residents must fol- low — such as the watering ban — should be followed by Inver Grove Heights residents in new developments served by Eagan. Egan said the joint powers agreement will help ease his concerns about the looks of Eagan's border with Inver Grove Heights. "This is an opportunity to control the appearance of that development," he said. Affirmative Action Plan no longer required for those working with city of Eagan Recent RFP first to reflect change By HEATHER HENDERSON The city of Eagan has issued requests for proposals (RFPs) before, but the most recently issued RFP is somewhat dif- ferent than those in the past. It has no Affirmative Action stipulation for the firms that may respond to the request. The RFP is for the potential construction of a new fire ad- ministration building in Eagan, a project that has capital im- provement budget allocations in 1997 but has not yet gained formal City Council approval, City Administrator Tom Hedges said. By issuing an RFP and de- scribing the parameters of the project, however, the city (See Plan, p.11A) Plan (Continued from front page) opens up the opportunity to ar- chitectural firms or combina- tions of firms to submit pre- liminary plans for the construc- tion of the building. The approval of the fire ad- ministration building RFP was originally on the Jan. 21 Eagan City Council agenda, but was removed at the request of Council Member Pat Awada, who questioned the necessity of including an Affirmative Ac- tion clause in the Disclosures and Assurances portion of the RFP. The portion in question stated that, in keeping with the city of Eagan's policy of non- discrimination in employment practices based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, public assistance status, veteran status, handicap or disability, the city would not conduct business with vendors or con- tractors who did not have simi- lar policies. Awada wondered why this clause was necessary and city staff was directed to investi- gate whether, legally, the city was required to include such a statement in the RFP. At a work session Jan. 28, Hedges and Assistant to the City Administrator Holly Duffy presented the council with findings regarding the question. According to state legislation issued in 1989, cities are not required to have state -certified Affirmative Action Plans, as was the case in 1988, when both cities and businesses of more than 20 employees con- ducting business with the city valued at more than $50,000 had to have state approved Af- firmative Action Plans. However, despite this change, the city of Eagan had retained its state -certified plan and has continued to resubmit and recertify it every two years. And, since 1992, the city has had an Equal Opportu- nity/Affirmative Action Plan in its Personnel Policy. This in- clusion in the policy does not include employment quotas, but has as its main purpose the attraction of a wide range of applicants for positions, includ- ing minorities and women. Based on this information, the memo compiled by Duffy concluded, there were three options open to the council. One, it could repeal the Af- firmative Action Plan entirely and amend the statement in the Eagan Personnel Policy which is used in hiring em- ployees for the city of Eagan. Two, the council could decide to eliminate the section in the Affirmative Action Plan which refers to contractors and ven- dors supplying evidence that they have an Affirmative Ac- tion Plan (as listed above). Three, the council could de- cide to leave the plan as it ex- isted. Awada was unable to be pre- sent at the work session, but the other council members and Mayor Tom Egan carried out a discussion on the issue and de- a'r) 1s GUebk Fk b rcctrj. ! 1997 cided to follow option two, eliminating the reference to vendors and contractors in the RFP and in all future docu- ments of a similar nature. Council members Bea Blomquist and Ted Wachter said they had no problem with removing the clause from the RFP, but Council Member Sandy Masin expressed the desire to keep it as it was. On a 3-1 vote, however, it was decided that the Affirma- tive Action statement regard- ing city business with vendors and contractors would be re- moved. Hedges explained that this issue will not impact the city's Personnel Policy. There will still be Affirmative Action statements in the policy used by the city in its hiring prac- tices, just not in regard to ven- dors and contractors. And, Duffy also explained, most other companies (vendors and contractors) are required by law to have Affirmative Action policies anyway, so this will not dramatically change the practices currently in place. The RFP, as amended, will be out until Feb. 17, after which interviews will be set up with selected proposers and further council action on the possibility of constructing a fire administration building will be sought. co*--- f lys rzAte2 ��0 /5;97 Eagan city employes awarded Peterson, Vraa commended for service to city, state parks and recreation programs By HEATHER HENDERSON Several Eagan city em- ployees were recognized for their outstanding service to the community during an awards presentation at the regular Eagan City Council meeting Jan. 21. Parks and Recreation Di- rector Ken Vraa and Super- intendent of Recreation Do- rothy Peterson received awards from the Minnesota Recreation and Parks Asso- ciation during its annual awards banquet Dec. 6. The awards were re -presented by MRPA Executive Director Jon Gurban during the coun- cil meeting. The MRPA, a non-profit association, presents three awards every year. This year, Gurban said, was the first year he knew of that two employees from the same city received awards. "I can't tell you the impor- tance of quality staff.... Without a staff that is re- sponsive to the needs of the community all the parks and trails don't matter," he said. Gurban listed Peterson's accomplishments as he pre - (See Awards, p.20A) Awards (Continued from front page) sented her with the Do- rothea Nelson Award, an award presented to a female member of the MRPA with 15 or less years of profes- sional experience and out- standing service to the field and to MRPA. Peterson, who has been the superintendent of recrea- tion for Eagan for the last seven years, began as a part-time employee with the city 15 years ago. She was a full-time recreation supervi- sor and has directed adult softball leagues, summer playground programs and many other programs. Most recently, Peterson has played a key role in park development issues in Eagan with the initiation of the "Youth at Risk" pro- gram. Her volunteer involvement with MRPA has included working on two NRPA con- ferences and chairing sev- eral committees. "And there must be some- thing in the water in Eagan because the second award goes to an Eagan employee too," Gurban said, moving on to the presentation for Vraa. Vraa received the Clifton E. French Distinguished Service Award, the most prestigious award given by the MRPA, one which rec- ognizes long and outstand- ing service to the park, rec- reation and leisure service field and the MRPA. Vraa has been with the Eagan Parks and Recreation Department for 16 years, having come to the city af- ter working for the city of St. Louis Park and the Fargo Park District. As Parks and Recreation director for Eagan, Vraa has developed a park system that is considered a model for other communities; worked to establishing parks maintenance standards and a water quality management program model, providing facilities for all ages and interests, and more. He has been a leader with MRPA for 25 years, serving at different times as presi- dent, East Metro Board member, and on numerous committees. When Vraa was MRPA president, law- ful gambling was estab- lished to benefit youth pro- grams, a salary schedule was developed for MRPA staff and initiatives to mar- ket the "Benefits of Parks and Recreation" program were established. When wrapping up his presentation, Gurban also presented a framed print of "Minnesota Parks and Rec- reation — Your Best In- vestment" to Eagan Mayor Tom Egan, commending him and the city for its de- velopment and emphasis on parks and recreation. "Regarding earlier com- ments about Livable Com- munities, what makes it `livable' are parks.... The park and recreation area is where you get to know your -neighbors, trust your neigh- bors," Gurban said. "The best crime prevention is a good park and recreation program for kids ... so they lead the league in hitting, not stolen hubcaps. Eagan has an exemplary system. Keep it up." J'uiai,t,t4 /997 Advisory commission members and acting mayor are appointed DCT/Thisweek Newspapers named official publication By HEATHER HENDERSON In what Mayor Tom Egan re- ferred to several times as a most tedious and most impor- tant hour of a council meeting, the Eagan City Council con- ducted its annual organiza- tional business at its regular meeting Jan. 21. The business included the appointment of an acting mayor, an official legal news- paper, and council standing committees as well as ap- pointments of citizen members to advisory commissions and approval of City Council meet- ing dates and procedures. Commission appointments According to Eagan City Administrator Tom Hedges, 32 individuals applied for vacan- cies on advisory commissions and 26 were interviewed before the City Council Jan. 14. Based on these interviews, council members voted by bal- lot to fill the vacancies Jan. 22. Hedges tallied the votes and presented results as follows: Solid Waste Abatement Commission — A commission that reviews waste manage- ment issues and policies which include the Eagan recycling program, and members of which include business and hauling community representa- tives and residents. Appointed to three-year terms were present members Floyd Hiar and Rick Patraw. New applicant Susan Bast was ap- pointed to a one-year alternate position, and Jim Orcutt was appointed to complete a one- year unexpired term vacated by present member Terry Davis, who was appointed to the Advisory Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Com- mission. One opening is still available on the commission, to be filled by a business representative. Economic Development Commission — A commission that promotes the city's com- mercial -industrial climate, recommends general policy direction and advises the City Council on matters regarding industry and commerce. Appointed to three-year terms were present members Cathy Clark Matuszak, Gary Morgan and Karl Oestreich and new applicant John Young. New applicants Calvin Clark and Bruce Goff were appointed to one-year terms and Mark Re- imer to a two-year term. Advisory Planning Com- mission — A commission that reviews development plans and makes recommendations to the City Council. Present member Larry Frank and new applicant Paul Bak- ken were appointed to three- year terms. New applicant (See Meeting, p.8A) Meeting i 1 hk, 4 J tip= cL.94 /07 (Continued) Peggy Carlson was appointed to a two-year term and new applicant Shawn Hunter to a one-year alternate term. Advisory Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Commission — A commission that advises the City Council regarding park dedication by developers, purchase of addi- tional park land, city recrea- tion programs and natural re- sources issues. Present members Guy Kohlnhofer and Lee Markell and new applicant Terry Davis were named to three-year terms. New applicant Jerry Far - lee was appointed to a one- yepr alternate term and new applicant Barbara Johnson was appointed to a one-year term. Airport Relations Commis- sion — A commission that re- views airport issues within the city and recommends airport - related policy to the council. Present member Ted Gladhill was appointed to a three-year term, as was new applicant Eric Drenckhahn. New appli- cant Michael Steenberg was appointed to a one-year alter- nate term. Joint Burnsville/Eagan Telecommunications Com- mission — A commission that oversees the administration of the Joint Burnsville/Eagan Ca- ble Television system. The only two applicants for the commission were present members Maggie Jensen and [Honey -doers Home Maintenance Service o you have a "Honey -Do" List? Now one call e it all! We provide any service from Electrical Repair to Yo" `rVcrl � Pu 're. No job is too big or too small. So take down that list and put us to the test! Contact the limey -doers at: 383 Jeff May, both of whom were unanimously approved by City Council members for three- year terms. A one-year alternate term remains to be filled on the commission and council mem- bers will seek applicants from those who were not appointed to other commissions. An orientation session for all commission appointees will be held at 5 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Municipal Center. Council appointments The council also voted on the city's official legal newspaper, keeping the Dakota County Tribune and Thisweek News- papers as its official newspaper for publication of items re- quired by law and in the public interest. In City Council appoint- ments, Sandy Masin was ap- pointed acting mayor in the absence of Egan from meetings and other city activities. The City Council meeting schedule will remain as it has been in the past, with meetings taking place on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The exception will be the third Tuesday of May — May 20 — when a school board election has been scheduled. At that time, the City Council meeting will be held May 19. Council members also voted unani- mously to continue to follow current meeting proceedings. Egan made council member appointments to standing committees and representative positions for various organiza- tions. Masin will chair and Pat Awada participate in the Fi- nance Committee; Ted Wachter will chair and Bea Blomquist participate in the Public Works Committee; and Awada will chair and Egan participate in the Personnel Committee. Masin will continue to serve as a liaison to the Minnesota Valley Transit Authority Board and School District 191; Blomquist will serve as liaison to District 196 and Egan to District 197. Awada will serve as liaison to the Dakota County League of Govern- ments; Wachter to the History Committee; Egan to the Min- nesota Legislative Committee Board; and Blomquist to the Dakota County Economic De- velopment Partnership. Egan will continue to serve as a representative to the Met- ropolitan Aircraft Sound Abatement Council, with Jon Hohenstein and Lance Staricha serving as alternates, and Hedges will continue to act as city representative to the Ea- gan Convention and Visitor's Bureau Board of Directors until a Community Development director for the city is hired. Additional council -formed advisory committees have been discussed and will be fur- ther deliberated upon at a council work session Jan. 28. The work session will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Municipal Center Community Room. r January 19, 1997 7 s /iJ66( Egan gives `State of the City' address Citizen, city communication will be key to Eagan's future By HEATHER HENDERSON The people who braved sub- zero temperatures and danger- ous wind chills to attend a 7:30 a.m. "State of the City" pres- entation by Eagan Mayor Tom Egan epitomized the citizen involvement in city govern- ment that has helped to make the city what it is today. Egan commented on this as he opened his address, given to members of the community and Chamber of Commerce and broadcast live on cable television Jan. 16. The presen- tation, sponsored by Opus Cor- poration, was held as the first in a series of 10 Chamber -of Commerce presentations and meetings scheduled for 1997. "I am very pleased with the audience here today, with the dedication and interest people have in their city government," Egan said. "Once again, I am awestruck by what can be ac- complished as we all work to- gether ... to make our city suc- cessful and a great place to `The active involve- ment of residents ... helps us understand what people want the Eagan of the fu- ture to be....' —Tom Egan Mayor of Eagan live and Egan work." cited the continued (See Egan, p.10A) i Egan (Continued from front page) growth of Eagan, having sur- passed the 60,000 population mark, and economic develop- ment as the highlights of the last year and looked forward to issues to be addressed in the coming year. One example of the strength of business in Eagan was the opening Byerly's, the corner- stone tenant of the Eagan Promenade development, in November. "(The opening) was a high- light of the year, with 1,000 people turning out to see the new store and support Commu- nity Action Council.... It was an evening I won't soon forget," Egan said. "When combined with the existing (businesses), our central business district is sure to be a south suburban shopping and entertainment mecca." Aside from business issues, however, Egan emphasized, a primary concern for city offi- cials has been, and will con- tinue to be, the preservation of the quality of life many people appreciate in Eagan. Citing a resident survey con- ducted by The Wallace Group last year, he explained that a substantial majority of Eagan residents are pleased with the services they are provided through the city and find Eagan a desirable place to live and work. Part of what makes this so, he said, is the fact past city procedures have focused on careful development and pres- ervation of the original envi- ronment of the Eagan area. As a result of these efforts, Eagan was recently announced the first -place winner of a na- tional Environmental Protec- tion Agency water manage- ment competition, and the of its meaning for residents if costs get out of hand," Egan said. "I am pleased to be able to say that for the second year in a row the property tax ca- pacity is going down from the previous year. I am proud of that; we work hard on it." Looking to the future, Egan said the city will be faced with issues of housing, transporta- tion, school district growth and `While Eagan grows, the city will maintain a sense of community and continue to lis- ten to the views of citizens, planning for the future as partners.' —Eagan Mayor Tom Egan Metropolitan Council recently commended Eagan's water re- source management programs, citing them as a model for other cities to follow. "Residents (surveyed) indi- cated that they place a high emphasis on protecting the en- vironment," Egan said. "This (recognition) is only possible because of the support re- ceived from Eagan residents." He also mentioned resident utilization of the many parks in the city and of the civic arena area as those things that make Eagan a good place for people to live. "Our community's quality of life, however, will lose much communication, and working with the citizens and listening to their concerns will be an important factor in meeting the needs these issues create. "While Eagan grows, the city will maintain a sense of com- munity and continue to listen to the views of citizens, plan- ning for the future as partners. The active involvement of residents ... help us understand what people want the Eagan of the future to be. We have al- ways placed a premium on communications.... While our city grows and becomes more complex, our communications (Continued on next page) Egan (Continued) efforts must evolve as well. "Last fall the voters turned down a parks referendum.... I want to assure you we received the message. The city intends to keep listening to all mem- bers of the Eagan community." In 1997, Egan said, the city will be seeking community in- put regarding the state - mandated update of the city's comprehensive guide plan. There will also be an oppor- tunity for citizens to express their opinions regarding trans- portation, Egan and City Ad- ministrator Tom Hedges said, in response to audience ques- tions and comments. Hedges explained that there are several studies either tak- ing place or being planned re- garding truck traffic in the city, land use, and the potential widening and improvements of Highway 149 and Highway 13. "The City Council and Advi- sory Planning Commission are looking at these things. We are distant from solutions, but I am excited about the collaboration of community, business, and City Council on this issue," Hedges said. "It (transportation) really is a complex issue." Another complex future issue is that of which new industries may come into the Eagan area. Egan said he had been ap- proached by an individual with the Minnesota in Favor of a Debt -free Tax-free Stadium organization regarding the pos- sibility of locating in Eagan, but he didn't think it was a se- rious consideration at this time. "We met several times with this individual, but to be per- fectly honest, I don't think it is serious. I think Eagan is being used as leverage right now and is really not a viable candidate for it (a new stadium)," Egan said. What Eagan may be viable for is a $35 million motion pic- ture production studio. The same individual who broached the stadium issue is interested in developing such a facility in Minnesota, and has been dis- cussing options with city offi- cials, although nothing has been decided at this point. If this development does oc- cur, Egan, Hedges and audi- ence members agreed, it will raise the same issues of con- cern mentioned earlier: trans- portation, housing, employ- ment. With the continual work of city staff and council members and the input of community members though, Egan said, these issues will be addressed in ways that will most benefit the city as a whole. "I look forward to working with all of you in meeting the challenges the future will bring," Egan said as he closed his presentation. The next Chamber of Com- merce meeting and presenta- tion will be Feb. 20 at 7:30 a.m. at the Lone Spur Country Club. Vote brings Municipal Center project to a close Blomquist objects to use of housing fund for civic arena By BRENDA HAUGEN A 4-1 vote brought Eagan's $8 million Municipal Center construction project to a close Feb. 4. The major portions of the pro- ject are obvious to those famil- iar with how the southeast cor- ner of Pilot Knob and Wescott roads used to look. Today, found there are a new civic arena and wading pool, a re- modeled City Hall and new Police Department facility and a ring road throughout. "There was approximately $8 million in public improvement projects," said City Adminis- trator Tom Hedges, adding that most of the money came from the community investment fund. "There were no bonds sold or bonds issued. It is a debt -free -to -the -community improvement project." But Council Member Bea Blomquist, the lone dissenting vote against closing out the project, objected to where some of the money came from. She said she couldn't agree with taking more than $135,000 from the single fam- ily housing bond fund to help pay for the civic arena. "I disapprove of that because that was not what that money was earmarked for," she said. Mayor Tom Egan disagreed, saying all the money ear- marked for the fund was used as it was intended. "What we are dealing with (tonight) is residuals," he said, explaining that the $135,463 was money made over time. Blomquist said, regardless, she feels that money should still go toward single-family housing. Council Member Pat Awada also raised questions about $75,000 allocated toward land- scaping requirements. The council passed the staff rec- ommendations regarding clos- ing out the project, excluding authorization of the $75,000 for landscaping and directed staff to come back with more infor- mation on this issue. Another open issue regarding the Municipal Center campus is the locker room constructed at the civic arena for use by the former Minnesota Moose hockey team. The team was to pay for the locker room through fund-raising efforts. The cost of the locker room came to $72,763. The one fund-raising effort brought in $1,929. With the Moose leav- ing town, the city was left to cover the remaining $70,834. The issue is currently in litiga- tion. According to Finance Di- rector Gene VanOverbeke, money recovered from the Moose will be deposited in the community investment fund. 54 .9iV 7"-/'S C'166X 02/%/%- SuNCwrbi.t Mayor announces committee appointments Newly re-elected Eagan Council member Sandra Masin was appointed acting mayor by Mayor Tom Egan during the council's Jan. 21 organizational meeting. Besides attending regular council meet- ings, members are appointed to various com- mittees. The following is a list of appoint- ments: Finance Committee, Masin and Pat Awada; Public Works Committee, Ted Wachter and Bea Blomquist; Personnel Committee, Awada and Egan; Minnesota Valley Transit Authority Board, Masin; Dakota County League of Governments, Awada; History Committee, Wachter; Min- nesota Legislative Committee, Egan; Dako- ta County Economic Development Partner- ship, Blomquist; School District 191, Masin; School District 196, Blomquist; and School District 197, Egan. In other business, the council voted to continue to schedule council meetings be - Apple Valley/Rosemount, ginning at 6:30 p.m. on the first and third Tuesday each month, with the exception of May 20, the date of school board elections. Instead, the council will meet May 19. The Dakota County Tribune was voted the city's official legal newspaper. Court sends wrong message To the editor: When former Viking and for- mer city of Eagan employee Walker Lee Ashley walked out of his restitution hearing in a Dakota County courtroom on Nov. 22, we saw the smile on his face. I was there with five teenage victims Ashley had stolen money from while he worked as a youth development coordina- tor for the city. Ashley was charged with two felonies and one gross misde- meanor. He entered a guilty plea to one of them as a plea bargain. The Dakota County District Court reduced Ashley's guilty plea on the felony theft to a mis- demeanor with no jail time, and then reduced the amount of restitution to a fraction of what he had stolen because he had spent it all and now had no money. The court said the Eagan taxpayer will have to foot the bill. But even worse, the court sent a message to these at -risk youths — and it was a clear message, because I heard the kids say it to me as they watched the man who was hired to be their role model walk away: "Crime pays." If only the judges could hear their own message, too. Tom Pepper Edina City seeks applicants to fill advisory posts Residents are encouraged to apply for positions on the city's advisory commis- sions. Appointments will be made in Jan- uary. The following is a list of volunteer op- portunities: • Advisory Planning Commission — Meets the fourth Tuesday each month to review development plans, zoning appli- cations, comprehensive guide plan amendments, permits and to make rec- ommendations to the City Council. • Advisory Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources Commission — Meets the first Thursday each month to advise the City Council regarding park dedica- tion by developers, purchase of addition- al park land, development of existing park land, recreation programs and pro- tection and enhancement of Eagan's nat- ural resources. • Burnsville/Eagan Telecommunica- tions Commission — Meets the second Thursday each month to oversee the ad- ministration of the joint Burnsville/Eagan cable television sys- tem. w • Airport Relations Commission — Meets the second Tuesday each month to review airport issues within the city and to recommend airport related policy to the City Council. Residents from airport noise affected neighborhoods and repre- sentatives from the business community are especially encouraged to apply to this committee. • Economic Development Commission — Meets the fourth Thursday each month to review policies and issues per- taining to economic development and re- development in the city. Members repre- sent different categories of business in- terests. Applicants must either reside in or do business in the city of Eagan. • Solid Waste Abatement Commission — Meets the third Thursday each month to review waste management issues/poli- cies which include the Eagan recycling program. Members include business and hauling community representatives and residents. Current appointees may apply for reappointment and will be given con- sideration along with all other appli- cants. To apply, submit a commission application. Forms are available by calling the Eagan Municipal Center at 681-4600. Deadline for applying is Dec. 31. Interviews are tentatively sched- uled the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 14. The council will appoint at the Jan. 21 meeting. Eagan seeks applicants for commission openings The city of Eagan is accept- ing applications for two re- maining alternate commission seats. The Advisory Parks, Recrea- tion and Natural Resources Commission is seeking a resi- dent representative to fill a one-year alternate term. The Eagan Solid Waste Abatement Commission is seeking a busi- ness or resident representative interested in issues related to fil eirdi 3 I �y 7 recycling, hazardous -materials disposal and other solid -waste abatement issues, to fill a one- year alternate position. Interested individuals should contact the city of Eagan at 681-4600 to receive a commis- sion application. Applications must be returned no later than April 7. All commission ap- pointments are made by the Eagan City Council. '114111- 1V�e-L Residents need to use caution near aeration systems on area lakes Area residents are warned to be extra careful on several local lakes this winter. The city of Eagan's Water Quality Division will be installing aeration systems in several Eagan lakes in the coming months. The aeration systems will create open water and thin ice con- ditions. Residents are warned to watch for markers and stay clear of the areas affected by the aeration systems. The systems will be installed at Schwanz Lake, Fish Lake, Blackhawk Lake, Heine Pond, Thomas Lake and Carlson Lake. Some systems may be operating as soon as Dec. 15. For more information about the aeration systems, call the Eagan Water Quality Division at 681-4300. .Dec_ Council debates benefits of joint powers agreement with IGI=I IGH requests Eagan extend utilities to 800-acre development By BRENDA HAUGEN Concern about the planning efforts of Inver Grove Heights, the benefits to Eagan citizens, and differing feelings about cooperation between the two cities kept the Eagan City Council from reaching a deci- sion on a joint -powers agree- ment with Inver Grove Heights. The agreement, requested by the city of Inver Grove Heights, asks Eagan to provide water and sewer service to a total of 800 acres in Inver Grove Heights near the Eagan border, according to Eagan City Administrator Tom Hedges. Already, Eagan has allowed utilities from Eagan into Inver Grove Heights for two subdivisions, he said. Inver Grove Heights City Administrator James Willis said Inver Grove Heights has appreciated the past coopera- tion Eagan has showed, and would appreciate its continua- tion. According to Willis, Lundgren Bros. Construction has indicated an interest in de- veloping a portion of the area at issue. A representative from Lundgren Bros. said utilities from the Eagan side of the bor- der are needed to make this development a reality. Inver Grove Heights does not yet have utilities available in that area of its community. The Lundgren representative added that his company would be willing to contribute $5,000 for legal expenses incurred by the two cities in dispensing this matter. Council Member (See Utilities, p.26A) A FENCE separates Captain Dodd Park in Eagan from Inver Grove Heights. Photo by Rick Orndorf Utilities A .. TO: FROM: DATE: - MEMORANDUM - Mayor and City Council - CITY OF EAGAN John S. Voss - Planning Consultant February 14, 1975 At the February 18th Council meeting, we will review the Advisory Planning Committee's recommendations related to: Land Use Guide Plan Zoning Ordinance Zoning Map Zoning Ordinance Attached are "pink" pages illustrating the revisions to the proposed Zoning Ordinance recommended by the Planning Commission from that presented at the Public Hearing. Zoning Map' Also attached is a copy of the proposed Zoning Map recommended by. the Planning Committee. The Advisory Planning Committee has recommended that the City undertake a rezoning of the Cedarvale Area to CSC, and the Barton & McGray Area to Commercial. Land Use Guide Plan The proposed Land Use Plan map in the Land Use Development Guide book (blue book) has also been revised by the Advisory Planning Committee and that will be presented at the Council meeting. Attached are excerpts from the Planning Committee Minutes of November 26, 1974 and January 28, 1975 which detail Planning Committee actions and comments re- lated to the Guide Plan Map. QQQ• Structure. That which is built or constructed, an edifice or building of any kind, or any piece of work artifically built up or composed of parts joined together in some definite manner. RRR. Thoroughfare. Shall be those streets as shown on the City of Eagan's Thoroughfare Plan at the rights -of -way width indi- cated. SSS. Townhouse. Siggie family building having freri one (1) or more walls in common with another single family building oriented so all exits open directly to the outside. TTT. Use. The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is designated, arranged or intended or for which it is occupied. UUU, Use For Accessory, Special or Conditional. See definitions contained herein. VVV. Use - Permitted, A use which may be lawfully established in a particular district or districts, provided it conforms with all requirements, regulations, and performance standrads (if any) of such districts. 'iIWW. Use •- Principals. The main use of land or buildings as dis- tinguished from subordinate or accessory uses. A "principal use" may be either permitted or conditional. XXX. Yard. A required open space on a lot which is unoccupied and unobstructed by a building from its lowest ground level to the sky except as expressly permitted by this Ordinance. A yard shall extend along a lot line and at sight angles to such a lot line to a depth or width specified in the yard regulations for the district in which such lot is located. YYY. Zoning District. An area or areas within the limits of the City of Eagan for which the regulations and requirements governing use, lot and size of building and premises are uni- form. -10- SUBDIVISION 3. NON -CONFORMING USES A. Any lawful use of any structure o'c land existing at the time of adoption of this Ordinance or any amendments thereof which does not conform to the provisions of this ordinance shall -be subject to the following: 1. The adoption and provisions of this Ordinance shall not prohibit the continued use or expansion or rebuilding of any use or building existing upon the date of ad -option of this Ordinance which would Tiave conformed10 the provisions of Sections 6.01 through and including 6.0&-which was repea1e-T by this Ordinance (See—S-ection 52.02). Said expansion shall not be interpreted to permit an initial development in accor- dance with said repealed ordinance. Said expansion or rebuild- ing shall only relate to existing -Buildings or uses. 2. Where any non -conforming use otherwise permitted by the pro- visions of this Subdivision 3 is discontinuaor more than one (1) year for any reason, said discontinued non -conforming use shall not be permitted unless specifically permitted by the City Council. 3. Any non --conforming use that is not subject to the provisions of Subdivision 3A-1. shall not Fe —altered or expanded unless specifically approve- by the City Council. 4. None of the foregoing provisions of this Subdivision 3 shall in any manner prohibit the reconstruction of an existing dwelling or accessory buildings destroyed to any degree by wind, fire or other natural cause which is classified as a non -conforming use because it exists on an undersizedllot. • 'mfe ing residc�' e-rm- e-+-444e- -n=-t s n o r subdivision 4. LOT PROVISIONS A duly created lot of record shall be deemed a buildable lot provided all of the following are met: A. The lot shall have a minimum of sixty (60) feet of frontage on a public street or the lot shall have been approved in platting a condominium project or an attached dwelling pro- riect wherein a contigious lot, owned in common, provides said frontage. B. There shall be no more than one (1) principal building on one (1) lot except when approved as a part of a Planned Devel opment. C. The lot shall be capable of supporting a huilding(s), D. The lot shall be of sufficient size to accommodate a building(s)* within the minimum required building setbacks for the parti- cular zoning district in which it 'is located. iub,ivision 5. ACCESSORY BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES A. B. Accessory buildings and structures related to a farming oper- ation and on a farm may be located anywhere on the lot except that a building for housing more than two (2) animal units shall be not less than fifty (50) feet from lot line and all buildings shall conform to yard regulations. No accessory building or structure other than a fence or a temporary construction office shall be permitted on any lot in an "R" district prior to the time of construction of the principal building to which it is accessory except a resides' tial garage, which prior to contruction of the residence can be used only for storage purposes pertaining to and until the completion of, the main structure. No accessory buildings shall be less than the minimum re- quired setback for the principal building along a public street, five (5) feet from the side lot line, five feet from the rear lot line in any "R" district. D. Unless otherwise herein specified, no accessory building shall exceed the height of theprincipal building except when on a farm and related to a farming operation. -13- B. Two -Family Dwel l i ng . At least one (1) parking space for each dwelling unit. C. .D. Multiple Dwelling (including townhouse ). At least one and one-half (1-1/2) parking spaces and on (1) garage space per unit. Motel. At least one (1) space for each ::welling unit or lodging room,. Plus one (1) additional !ace for each eight (8) units. Additional spaces shall be required for liquor or restaurant farA l i ti es. Church, Clubs. At least one (1) parkir;r space for each three and one-half (3-1/2) seats based on th. design capacity of the main assembly hall. F. Hospital. At least one and one-half (';-1/2) parking spaces for each patient bed. G. Sanitarium, Convalescent Home, Rest Home, Nursing Home or Institution. At least one (1) parking space for each six (6) beds for which accommodations are offered, plus one (1) addi- tional parking space for each fifteen (15) beds. H. Medical or Dental Clinic. At least three (3) parking spaces for each staff doctor practicing on the remises at any one time or one (1)_space_for each one -hundred -fifty 156) square feet of gross floor area, whichever is_greater. I. Theater. At least one (1) parking space for each three (3) seats. J. Drive -In Food Establishment. Said parking space requirement Shall be determined by the City Council when reviewing the site plan, and be based upon prior experience. K. Bowling Alley. At least five (5) parking spaces for each alley, plus additional spaces as may be required herein for related uses such as a restaurant. L. Motor Fuel Station. At least four (4) off-street parking spaces plus two (2) off-street parking spaces for each ser- vice Stall. M. N. Retail Store. At least one (1) off-street parking space for each one -hundred -fifty" (150) square feet of -floor area up to a total floor area of twenty -thou and (20,000) square feet. Thereafter, one (1) space shall be required for each two - hundred (200) square feet of floor area. Restaurants, Cafes, Bars, Taverns, Nightclubs. At least one (1) parking space for each three (3) seats based on capacity design. 0. Banks, Savings F= Loan. At least one (1) parking space for each two -hundred and fift; (250) square feet of gross floor area plus five (5) stacking spaces for eachdrive.-in window. -17- p Offices. At least one (1) parking space for each one -hundred -fifty (150) square feet of net leasable floor area. Q• Furniture store, appliance store,wholesale and warehouse up to 6,000 square feet. At least one (1) space for each 400 square feet of gross floor area. R. Manufacturing, fabricating or processing of a product. Said parking requirements shall be determined by the City Council when reviewing the site plan, and be based upon prior experience. S. Warehousing, storm e, handling of bulk goods in structures over 6,000 square feet. Said parking requirement shall be determined by the Ciy Council when reviewing the site plan, and be based upon jrior experience. Subdivision 14 OFF-STREET LOADING AREAS A. All loading areas, including maneuvering area, shall be off- street and shall be located on the same lot as the building or use to be served. B. Loading areas shall not be permitted along the front side of a building.. C. Where a loading area faces a public street, a minimum forty (4C: foot wide landscaped yard, including berms, and vegetation shall be provided and maintained along said public street, D. Where a loading area is proposed within three -hundred (300) feet of any residential district, a conditional use permit shall be required. In issuing said permit, the City Council shall find that said loading area shall be developed in a manner so as not to have a detrimental effect upon the ad- joining residential area. Subdivision 15 LANDSCAPING A. B. An approved landscape plan shall be required for all new commercial, industrial and multiple residential developments. Said landscape plan shall include the size, location, quan- tity and species of all plant materials. The City Council may require a landscape bond to insure that all plant materials are planted and maintained for at least one (1) year. Subdivision 16 PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEMS Public address systems shall not be permitted in any district which can be heard on adjoining property unless specifically approved by the City Council: -18- ubdivision 17 OPEN SALES LOTS Open sales lots shall be subject to the following standards: A. The minimum twenty (20) foot wide yard abutting the public right-of-way shall be landscaped and said landscaping shall be separated from the usable portion of the lot by a curb. Said twenty (20) foot landscaped yard shall also be pro- vided where such lot abuts a residential lot. B. All of the lot other than the portion occupied by a buildingor landscape treatment shall be surfaced to con- trol dust and drainage-.— C. Lot shall be constructed according to a grading plan ap- proved by the City Engineer. D. When such a lot is adjacent to a lot located in the "R" dis- trict., a fence of acceptable design shall be erected along the property line. E. The outdoor lighting system for a sales Tht shall be so de- signed that no direct source of light is visible from the public right-of-way or adjacent land. F. A site plan for the lot,showing ingress and egress, storage, parking, fencing and other necessary features, required to understand the operation shall be filed for approval by the City Council. Subdivision 18 HOURS OF OPERATION Hours of operation of any retail busienss, any restaurant or any motor fuel station, shall be confined to the period between 7 AM and 1 AM, except for those located two -hundred (200) feet or more from any residential use and fronting on a major thoroughfare. or commercial service road unless other- wise specifically approved by the City Council. Subdivision 19 ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS, EXCEPTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS The requirements and standards specified theretofor in this Ordinance shall be subject to the following: A. Height Limitations. Height limitations as set forth in the "R" District elsewhere in this Ordinance may be increased by fifty percent (50%) when applied to the following: Antenna - Radio or TV Flag Poles -19- Subdivision 8. LB - LIMITED BUSINESS DISTRICT A. Description Limited Business Districts: These are areas that are particularly exposed to residential neighborhoods and are thus suitable to those businesses compatible with nearby residential use (offices, clinics and the like.) B. P,ermi tted Uses Within any "LB" District, -no structure or land shall be used except for one or more of the following uses, or uses deemed similar by the City Council: 1. Municipal buildings where the use conducted is customarily considered to be an office use. 2. Professional offices, banks and savings and loan. 3. Offices of a general nature where the operations do not inc;ude retail sales or warehousing from the site. 4. Clinics for human care. 5. Institutional Uses: Library, swinyning pool , church, public schools, religious centers, health centers, and community building. 6. Funeral homes and mortuaries. C. Conditional Uses Within any "LB" District, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council except by conditional use permit: 1. Nursing homes, rest homes, retirement homes or hospitals for human care, day care centers, private schools. 2. Art, interior decorating, photographic or music studio provided no retail sales are made of products not manufactured onthe site. 3. Radio and television studios. 4. Private clubs and 1 odges urrt=apefatetd-ftxr=a=1;:=" 5. Historical buildings, museums, art institutions, galleries and play- houses. -35- 6. Off-street parking when the principal site of the off-street parking abuts on a lot which is in another zoning district. ;. On -sale liquor in conjunction with a restaurant facility. 8. Restaurants Class 1 only. D. Permitted Accessory Uses Within any "LB" District, the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council shall be permi ed accessory uses: 1. Private garages, off-street parking and loading spaces, as regulated by this Ordinance. 2. Buildings temporarily located for purposes of construction on the premises for a period of not to exceed time necessary to complete said construction, 3. Public telephone booths provided all yard requirements are met. Subdivision 9. NB - NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS DISTRICT A. Description Neighborhood Business District: These are small business areas 'located in the center of a residential neighborhood to serve the daily retail needs of adjoining residents. B. Permitted Uses Within any "NB" District, no structure or land shall be used except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council: 1. Retail Shopping Center developed under the following conditions: (a) An overall plan shall be submitted and approved by the City including architecture, parking, driveways; land- scaping and screening before construction is commenced. (Vr--fir i. construction shall include a mi cietzum--9-f--k ertri square feet-Cf Ro��--te"i-rrsT re that the center will Scribed in par re i9-3-J 2. Retail Shopping Center uses shall be limited to the following unless similar uses are specifically approved by the City Council; Stores and shops selling the personal services or goods over a counter. These include: dairy store or quick -stop food store; bakeries; barber shop; beauty parlor; Christmas tree sales" (in., eluding outdoor sales) ; drugs; florists; gifts; hardware; hobby shops; laundry and dry cleaning; laundromat; phonograph records photography studios; shoes; sporting goods; variety stores; off - sale liquor store; restaurants with sit-down facilities only; clubs; lodges; sports & health clubs; indoor theater; offices & quick -print. -36- 3. Offices for doctors, dentists, lawyers, real estate and similar uses to serve the adjoining residential area. 4. Offices of a general nature where the operations do not include retail sales or warehousing from the site. 5. Banks and savings and loan office. C. Conditional Uses Within any "NB" District, no structure or land shall be used for the fol- lowing uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council except through the granting of a Conditional Use Permit: 1. Outdoor storage or sales and then only conducted by an occupant of the shopping center. 2. Ond-sale liquor. 3. Automobile service stations which may be permitted under the following conditions: (a) The size, location, design and number of stations shall be approved by the City as a part of the approval of the over- all design required under paragraph 3.2(1). (b) The opening of any service station shall follow and not precede the construction and occupancy of a minimum of 10,000 square feet of retail shopping center floor space. (c) The service station shall provide service bays for minor repairs and service only and shall be designed to serve adjoining residents and not transients. (d) Access shall be approved as a part of the approval of the overall plan. �L ne l r ar 1 1445is not nriaat.e to tnc e-leiT--c rvl%e shall nOL ,permitted_ (e) Rental of trailers or similar vehicles shall not be permitted. 4. Banks and savings and loan offices with drive -up tellers. 5. Animal clinic when contained within a building. D. Permitted Accessory Uses Within any "NB" District, the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council shall be permitted accessory uses: Uf1-sLreeL par my, rerase slDrage and loarrg aromas- t uP a permitted use. c.. LJJcIILIaI NUUIIL JelvllC IUl 1IILIC�3��J „ 1. Accessory Uses as permitted in any other Business District. 2. Essential service facilities such as p rinting shoes and cafeterias which are accessory & customarily associated with the principal use. 14 . Motor vehicle sales when conducted enti rely within a building (outdoor sales and/or storage subject to condi- tional use). 15. Small engine appliance or repair conducted entirely within a building. 16. Research testing laboratories conducted within a bui l di rig, 17. Garden store when conducted within a building (outdoor sales subject to conditional use). 18. Bicycles boat, motorcycle, snowmobile sales and service (outdoor display or storage subject to conditional use). 19. Printing Business. C. Conditional Uses Within any "GB" District, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council except through the granting of a conditional use permit: 1. Motor fuel sales either as a principal use or accessory use. 2. Outdoor sales or storage of motorized vehicles. 3. Motor vehicle repair or service facilities. 4. Outdoor research or testing facilities. 5. Outdoor sales as principal use or as accessory to principal use of property, 6. Outdoor display/or rental shop. 7. Retail sales of liquor as part of any facility. 8. Restaurant facilities or food sales. 9. Animal kennels. 10. Truck stops. D. Accessory Uses Within any "GB" District the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council shall be permitted accessory uses: .}---- -f .-s t re --p- r* ' a_g i=e.a - c o n d u c-t-e-d• a s a—p a--r;-t o f a p e i-4--t-t-e-fl—w . 2. E s s e n ti a 1-lrtrb-l-i-e--s-e•r`v-i-E-e--f-a-G-i- i t i_e_s_ s ur ia._a s p_ub_l.4. c_ _ t e l e p h o n-e--b-o o-t-h-s- 1. Accessory Uses as permitted in any other Business District. - 3 - Subdivision 11 - CSC COMMUNITY SNGPPING CENTER DISTRICT • A. Description Community Shopping Center District: These are areas located in the center of several residential neighborhoods to serve the weekly needs of adjoining residents and a population from 10,000 to 40 ,0r!0 persons, B. Permitted Uses Within any "CSC" .District, no structure or land shall be used except for one_or_ more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council: 1. Retail Shopping Center developed under the following conditions: (a) An overall plan shall be submitted and approved by the City including architecture, parking, drive- ways, landscaping and screening before construction is commenced. (b) Initial construction shall include a- minimum of 20,000 square feet of floor area to insure that the center will function as described in paragraph A above. 2. Retail shopping center uses shall be limited to the following uses unless similar uses are specifically approved by the City Counci I . Stores and shops selling the personal services or goods over a counter. These include: antiques; art and school supplies; bakeries;. barber shop; beauty parlor; bicycles; carpets and rugs; catering establishments; china and glassware;clothes pressing; wearing apparel; clothing and costume rental; custom dress- making; department stores and junior department stores; drugs, dry goods; electrical and household appliances; florists; food; furniture; furrier shops; garden supplies; gifts; hardware; hats; hobby shops; interior decorating; jewelry; watch repair; laundry and dry cleaning pick-up; laundromat; leather goods and luggage; locksmith shops; musical instruments; office supplies; paint and wall- paper; phonograph records; photography studios; shoes; sporting goods; tailoring; theater, except open-air drive-ins; tobacco; toys; variety stor-es;grocery store off -sale liquor• sports and health clubs; private clubs and lodes: & any use permitted under Sut TL, para. k32 for he principal nopping 3. Offices for doctors, dentists, lawyers, real estate and similar Center uses to serve the adjoining residential area. only. 4, Restaurants - Class I only. 5. Offices of a general nature when the operations do not include retail sales or warehousing from the site. 6. Banks and savings and loan office. -40- C. Conditional Uses Within any "CSC" District, no structure or land shall be used for the following use or uses deemed similar by the City Council except through the granting of a conditional use permit: 1. Outdoor display or sales and then only conducted by an occupant of the shopping center. 2. On -sale liquor. 3. Restaurants - Class II. 4. Multiple Dwelling Complexes. 5. Transit station. 6. Car wash. 7. Automobile service stations under the following conditions: (a) The size, location, design and number of stations shall be approved by the City as a part of the approval of the overall design of the shopping center. (b) The opening of any service station shall follow and not precede the construction and occupancy of a minimum 20,000 square feet of retail shopping center floor space. (c) The service station shall provide service bays for minor repairs and service only and shall be designed to serve adjoining residents. (d) Direct access shall orient toward the interior of the shopping center and not directly from peri - pheral streets. (e) Rental of trailers and similar vehicles where adequate parking space is provided & as specifically approved with fhe granting of a conditi nal use permit. D. Banks a► d savings and loan offices with drive -up tellers. 9. Bowling alley, skating, archery or similar commercial recreation when con- ducted entirely within a buildinr`. 10. Uutside storage and sales of garcen supplies. 11. Motel or Hotel of a minimum fifty (50) rooms. D. Permitted Accessory Uses Within any "CSC" District, the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council shall be permitted accessory uses: 1. -91refuse- st-o-racge-and- -1 oath ng--area-s—co-nducted as a 1. Accessory Uses permitted in any other Business District. 2. Essential public service facilities such as public telephone booths. Subdivision 12 RSC - REGIONAL SHOPPING CENTER DISTRICT A. Description Regional Shopping Center District: This is an area designed to serve the monthly shopping needs of a population up to about 200,000 persons or a geographical area which extends beyond the corporate limits of the City of Eagan. B. Permitted Uses Within any "RSC" District, no structure or land shall be used except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council: 1, Retail Shopping Center District developed under the following conditions: (a) Development shall only be under a Planned Development as provided by City Ordinance. (b) An overall plan shall be submitted and approved including architecture, parking, driveways, landscaping and screening. This shall include a preliminary plat of all lots, including those for perip, 7eral de- velopments. (c) Initial construction of the shopping center shall include a minimum of 100,000 square feet of floor area to insure that the center will function as described in paragraph A above. 2. Retail Shopping Center uses shall be limited to the following unless similar uses are specifically approved by the City Council: Stores and shops selling the personal services or goods- over a counter. These include: antiques; art and school supplies; banks; auto accessories; bakeries; barber shop; coin shops; beauty parlor; bicycles; books and stationery; ice cream stores; candy; hobby shops; cameras and photo sup- plies; carpets and rugs; f grist; catering establishments; china and glass- ware; garden store; gift shops; finance and savings & loan; clothes pres- sing; clothing and costume rental; custom dressmaking; department stores and junior department stores; drugs; dry goods; hardware; locksmiths; electrical and household applicances; interior decorating; jewelry; watch repair; shoe repair; paint and wallpaper; printing shops; phonograph records; photography studios; shoes; leather goods; sporting goods; tailoring; theater, except open-air drive-in; small vehicle or boat sales; tobacco; toys; variety stores; wearing apparel; grocery store; off -sale liquor store; professional offices; medical & dental clinics; government services; amusement rooms; health and sports clubs; pet shops; schools; ticket agencies; travel bureaus. 3. Restaurants - Class I; Class II when access thereto is from the in- terior of the major Shopping Center building. -42- 4. Peripheral commercial uses, not a part of the shopping center building shall be permitted as follows: (a) Any use permitted under Subdivision 12, paragraph B2 except those that are only permitted by conditional use permit. (b) Garden store when outside storage is completely screened from view. (c) Laboratories; medical, dental or research. (d) Motel or hotel. (e) Mass transit terminal or pick-up station. 5. Multiple dwelling complexes approved as a part of the Planned Development and subject to the requirements of the R-4 District. C. Conditional Uses Within any "RSC" District, no structure or land shall be used for the fol- lowing uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council except through the granting of a conditional use permit: 1. Outdoor display or sales and then only when conducted by an occupant of the shopping center. 2. Automobile agencies, boat or marine sales as a peripheral commercial use. 3. Motor fuel sales, service station, auto storage or repair facilities, car wash and automobile accessories s es or service as a peripheral use. 4. Fast food or restaurant ''iith carry -out facilities or drive-in restaurant when developed separate from major shopping center building. 5. Bowling alley or similar commercial recreational facility when developed separate from the major shopping center building. 6. Heliport 7. On -sale liquor establishments. 8. Lumber yards, home repair or remodeling shops. 9. Multiple dwellings when integrated into a multi -use structure and ap- proved as a part of the Planned Development. D Permitted Accessory Uses Within any "RSC" District, accessory uses permitted in any other commercial district shall be permitted. Subdivision 13. RB ROADSIDE BUSINESS DISTRICT A. Description Roadside Business District: These are areas with good access located .and devel.oped.primarily to serve. the transient population attracted by Interstate 35E, the Minnesota Zoological Garden or similar facilities. B. Permitted Uses Within any "RB" District, no structure or land shall be used except for one or more of the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council: 1. Motel or hotel 2. Restaurant - Class I only of a minimum of 4,000 square feet. 3. Service station under the following conditions: (a) The service station shall follow and not precede development of either a motel or restaurant and shall have a minimum of two (2) service bays. (b) The design, location, public street access, architecture, landscaping and development shall be compatible with the motel and/or restaurant as approved by the City Council, 4. On -sale liquor with a motel, hotel or restaurant. 5. Mass transit terminal or pick-up station, 6. Commercial Recreational Facilities such as bowling_ alleys, tennis clubs, skating facilities and theaters, when conducted entirely %/ithin a building. C. Conditional Use Within any "RB" District, no structure or land shall be used for the following uses or uses deemed similar by the City Council except through the granting of a conditional use permit and only after a motel or restaurant has been constructed in the same general area; 1. Car wash of compatible architectural design. 2. Restaurant Class II. 3. Truck stops. -44- Subdivision 14 A. Area Standards and Requirements The following "Area Standards and Requirements" for Commercial Districts shall be met and no improvements shall be placed on such lands unless the lands to be so used or improved shall meet the following minimum area and dimensional requirements, unless otherwise approved under a "planned devel- opment". — LB NB GB - CSC RSC RB MINIMUM BUILDING SETBACKS: SEE SECTION 30 feet 10 feet - - 30 feet 52.06 Subd,ivi•ion 30 feet 10 feet 20 feet 30 feet 6C. 30 ft. 10 ft. - - 50 ft. for all 30 ft. 10 ft. - - 50 ft. Commercial 30 ft. 10 ft. - - 50 ft. Distric 30 'Ft. 10 ft, 50 ft. Along major, minor, arterial, State or Interstate Hwy. Along public streets: Side lot line: Rear lot line: Adj. to residential or Agricultural Dist. MINIMUM PARKING SETBACKS: 20 feet 5 feet 20 feet 20 feet 5 feet 20 feet 20 ft. 5 ft. 20 fee 20 ft. 5 ft. 20 ft, 20 ft. 5 ft. 20 ft. 20 ft. 5 ft. 20 ft. Along public street: Side or rear lot line: Adj. to Res. or Ag.Dist. MAXIMUM BUILDING COVERAGE: 20% 20% 35% 30% 30% 30% Coverage of Lot: MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT: 30 feet 20 feet 35 fit. 35 ft. - - 35 ft. Maximum height: MINIMUM RETAIL FLOOR AREA: - - 4, 0 - - 20,000 sq.ft. 100,000 sq.ft - - Minimum area (Initial bldg.) -46- Subdivision 15 I-1 LIMITED INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT A. Permitted Uses Within any "I-1" District, no structure or land shall be used except for one (1) or more of the following use or uses deemed similar by the City Council: l`Conducting a,process, fabrication, storage or manufacturing light materials or wholesaling operation or providing a service including any of the following or similar uses meeting the performance stan- dards applicable to the "I-1"-District: 2.. Automobile painting, upholstering, tire recapping, and major repair when conducted completely in an enclosed building. 3. Ice, cold storage plants, bottling works 4. Offices 5. Machine and welding shops 6. Paper products 7: Tennis club, skating, theater, bowling alley or similar indoor commercial recreation 8. Radio and television 9. Restaurants - Class I only. 10. Research laboratories 11. Trade school 12. Warehousing and wholesaling and related sales or showrooms. 13. Storage yards for building materials provided they are suitably screened. 14. Armories or convention hall 15. Animal hospital or clinic (with no outside kennels) B. Performance Standards Applicants for building permits in the "I-1" district shall submit such evidences as may be required by the Building Inspector to assure compliance with the performance standards and the intent and purpose of the Limited Industrial District ("I-1".) Should the Building Inspector have any doubt as to the ability of any proposed use to meet the required standards, the matter shall be referred to the Planning Commission which shall make a recommendation to the City Council to grant or deny the application. -48- C. Action by the City Council D. The City Council may grant a conditional use permit . as the use permit was applied for if in modified form, if it deter- mines that the proposed location of the conditional use is in accord with the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan, and the purposes of the district in which the site is located and that it would not be materially injurious to properties or improve- ments in the vicinity. The Council may grant a conditional use permit only by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Council consisting of a quorum. Lapse of Conditional Use Permit A conditional use permit shall become void one (•i) year after it was granted -Unless made use of within the year or such longer period as the City Councilsithir the year, may provide.. E. Revocation A violation of any condition set forth in a conditional use permit shall be a violation of this Ordinance and also automatically terminate the conditional use permit. Subdivision 5 AMENDMENTS (INCLUDING ZONING) A. Purpose The purpose of this Ordinance may be amended by the majority vote of the Council except that amendments changing the bound- aries of any district or changing the regulations of any existing district may only be made by an affirmative vote of 4-5 of the City Coucnil. 8. Initiation Proceedings for amendment of the Ordinance shall be initiated by: (1) a petition of the owner or owners of the property which is proposed to be rezoned; (2) a recommendation of the Planning Commission; or (3) by -action of the Council. C. Petitions All petitions for amendments which are initiated by the owner or owners of the property shall be filed with the City Clerk and if the application involves the changing of zoning dis- tricts and boundary thereof, the application shall be accompa- nied by an abstractor's certified property certificate showing the property owners within three -hundred and fifty (350) feet of the outer boundaries of the property in question. The petition. shall be forwarded to the Planning Commission by the City Clerk. -61- D. Public Hearing - Notice and Procedure The Planning Commission shall hold at least one (1) public hearing affording the parties interested the opportunity to be heard and shall give not less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days notice of the time and place of such hearing, published in the designated legal newspaper for the City. Such notice shall also.include the description of the land and the proposed.changes in. zoning. At least ten (10) days before the hearing, the City Clerk shall mail an identical notice to the owners of the property and to each of the property owners within three -hundred -fifty (350) feet of the outside boundaries_of the land proposed to be rezoned. Failure to give mail no- tice to individual property owners, or defects in.the no- tice shall not invalidate the proceeding, provided a -bona fide attempt to comply with this subdivision has.been made... The City Council may waive the above.mailed.notice.require- ment in connection with -a City-wide zoning or amendment to the text of this Ordinance, initiated by the. Planning Commission or City Council. L. Referral to Planning Commission The City Council shall not.rezone any land or area in any zoning district or make any other proposed.amendment to . this Ordinance without first having.referr.ed.it.to the Planning Commission for their consideration and.re.commen- dation. F. Petitions for rezoning .shall _include .a .detai 1 ed _snap .showing the number of acres in each separate_zoning district. G. If the Planning.Commissian fails to make a report.within sixty (60) days after receipt of the application, the. City Council may act without the recommendation. The Council may grant the petition in whole or in part or it may continue the petition from time to time, for_further investigation and hearing. The Council .may also request. further information and report from the Planning Commis- sion. l EXCERPT FROM MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF ADVISORY PLANNING COMMITTEE - EAGAN, MN. • NOVEMBER 26, 1974 'LAND U3R PLO,. 'gr. John Voss of Urban Planning and Design reviewed. racommev.xei: by s e.c..:';itc property o?cne.rs to the pagan Land Use Plan that w3C., the Ai?C aa21y in. 1974. 1. T, otrzers o SWk of Section 22. Toro Sommers r c amended a hig .e% C ':a3:.::t : r Z,' r_ r.ecomended that no higher density be ra:ttcd. DIY C•"' motion 'by iil::COY;r`Lari, ila.tl'k!i:a all )1Timyti2ru voting in favor, it was L "uco'`a,"'.C.eiY.:Ci kA +...i•?'s: ..�"..: ti: the density of the property with the understanding that in a PiTrt apt cation is submitted that Limited Business 1A3 portions of t..be property, I ".•ls R.'.,. I _La IMpiy reviewed a r�coLm,rd�tfio�, that c :r,•��.0 ut ::::�_:. a.._.. pr: drily freeways, be aa(7, ::ts:si: ze.si:ianti:sj. a .4uu3o b kept' One to t:.o blocks away fro the f;tieel ay 7:1; ts—of'way0 iI further re;:: yrr-n ed. r'lt!:.re. cttdy of the land use in S ";:i.:,= 21 and 2? ir_ the area of the Eagan Civic Center. and art additional study along 35E South o... Blackna''k La ::e to County Road j#3O. Upon motion by Harrison., seconded by De.'nbroski, it aOLV'ED to recommend that the Council stt d.y the proposed Land Use in Sections 2'. and 22 within a 1 rai1e radius of the proposed Civic Center during 1975. 3. KLY.A .'s Wood Audition. Mr. 3.9.1L?o Horne appeared regarding the King? s t';ooti Sd::.a t rn aria aad recommended general business and a high ainitipl e. density fo ia? o lend 7a Ili Yjb ay 7t31. 4.. xF' ,::pw moved aid Harrison seconded the -raotion that a land ease study t.aK.� iz oTiving ithe use of lard in Section ,11 in the area of 35E from B+.ackh:awtw Lak3 to County Road #30 P was read where he requested that the c; ili rc'ia1 zoning at the Nol:. east col%Ar of ? 9 & ri 5 South of the Dayton property, be provided rather than the R-3 cate TIAe Planner reco .:ended no change because there :vas no certainty of the Daytcw:, iis-v 1•opslejit, tkon motion by Harrison, seconded Helinken., it was )', , %L,TED to r:7co&i*e':_3 that ai.'. R-3 category be retains4 for tLat areaa 6, VC.rivm Cole o Southwest corner of Y.aak e Doodle Roar: end ,13 , The rcequa:C•. !•i Cole w 3 reviewed covering 35 acres objecting to the R-3 catewxy 51 R rsevested diversified cc.mnercia3. iricluding Limited Business in tha9;. a]rea. T7p•o_•i1 tic',_ by ParrisoD, seco ed Denbroski, all mambers votiz:g, In favor, it was A dD.' CD to .xecommand that the area be designated as Limttaci Buell cc9 with tf'\e un G?aning that it does not automatically include a shopping center in th.:i 7, iti'-r:-1 Az,tyt:.for'=i Fiord •lest quarter of Section 32, J 7:epresenta. ti?e O f' T.Ilef .r...3 appeared and requested that the entif:e 83 core ;; e1 ha (1f:81.71a;1 Business 't�1 . a land ,x. ;• a p' +: i now rles t ;alte 3 R-3 8nd R-2, �,l Upon notioa Mrnby, seccrded Fe_'•.rfJen it was RESOLVED that the parcel be :Iasig,al:ed ^ci Liii Ltsd Business, There were 3 oyes, 2 ms ;5:3:1 1 a'ast,3ntion, ry TRO;?•:r.ITAN COUNCIL - LAND USE GUIDE RECC MiiarBAT'ON. The C:. ty Fi,an^er r:e re'v?evad the recuii erxdaticn of the N.atropo1itan Council relating fio r, 's Land Use Plan,Upon motion by Murphy, seconded Ii-e'mken, it was RE SOL\rrli that the rcc.a endai:ions froi the Metropolitan Council be received and acknoi sedg:x5. 4ri?,a t !e r.inderstonding thzt the piny and park guide be certified to the City Cz,w.,2i.1 with ne is entio'n that the .A?C review the Metropolitan Count `3.s s recc�....A dation> in Lhe Clear future for continued updating of the Land 1730 Flan, EXCERPT FROM MINUTES OF REGULAR MEETING OF ADVISORY PLANNING COMMITTEE - EAGAN, MN. JANUARY 28, 1975 • C!tDIN?NCE NO. 52. Er. John Voss appeared and discussed the recommended ch3nges from the last APC meeting and also the implementation of r_ecc*rmendat'._acs of Dayton-1 dson Corp. A revised draft of these changes eras submitted to thy, APC members. Upon motion by Harrison, seconded Rlomquist, all me- Hers except 1urphy voting in favor, it was RESOLVED that the APC red the adoption of Ordinance 042 to the City Council. Z,rIND USE GUIDE AND ZONING TAP. The ApC again discussed certain changea ti,at have been reviewed and recommended at earlier meetings and each change vas covered by Mr, Voss. Upon motion by Harrison, seconded E1onquist, it was IlESOLV?D that the Land Use Guide and Zoning clap be recencled for approval pursuant to to revisions covered by Er. Voss. N,urpi Toted no & all other members voted yes. -3- ••• it - 2 44 f. 4 LB • 7 11•••••••••••" / 4.....tk "..:,,,,,•',..0. V , . B • P •• VALLEY ; ; t • • • 4 '• , -1 • , R 3 R ir ;i MENDOTA ,HTS 1-1 —..•••••••m• .4 it ";40.01.'-' 4 R B R-1 NP R D .•••••••••••••••••8001.00, 3 R S C B CSC R-4 ••• • -•••*, • PROPOSED ZONING MAP City of EAGAN • 4 ••••••••••• ••••••••••••• R-1 • -16••••••••••••41erri•••• iltes•-••••,,•••••• FT E MCUN I The mascot of the Minnesota Moose skated with children during the opening of the Eagan Ice Arena. (File Photo) Eagan to sue Minnesota Moose . L /q5,6 By Sue Hegarty in construction costs. Staff Writer According to the four-year agreement, the Moose were to work cooperatively with the city When the former Minnesota Moose hockey to raise funds to cover construction costs for the team migrated to more northern territories, they locker room. As a fund raiser, the Moose team left behind some unfinished business, according was expected to play an exhibition game at the to Eagan city officials. arena. Proceeds would have been used to offset Namely, a $61,900 bill for an uncompleted the cost of the locker room, reserved ice time and team locker room at the Eagan Civic Arena, facility upgrades. Additional fund raisers and where the professional sports team practiced. door prizes were expected if the exhibition game After attempts to collect on the debt failed, did not raise all the funds. staff recommended that the City Council pursue The Moose were to have the final say in how legal action against the Moose, now based in the locker room was designed. However, part Winnipeg, Canada. way through the building process, the Moose an - On Sept. 17, the council voted unanimously to nounced plans to move to Winnipeg and con - file a civil suit for breach of contract. struction stopped. Each party alleges fault on the Jerry Shacon, a San Jose, Calif., attorney at other for non -completion. The Moose claim the the law firm representing the Moose, declined to city did not perform its obligations because the comment regarding the lawsuit. The attorney in locker room was never finished and never avail - charge of the case was on vacation and could not able for use b esghat be reached for comment. ystthe team representatives to disOn Aug. 1, 1995, the city and the Moose en- continue construction. tered into a joint powers agreement in which the Another $30,000 to $40,000 is needed to com- Moose contracted for practice ice time at the plete construction. City officials had been willing Civic Arena. In return, the city agreed to con- to discuss an out -of -court settlement, but said struct a team locker room, not to exceed $100,000 the Moose have refused to cooperate. amends solid waste management ordinance 0.is c C jeo f Qb By BRENDA HAUGEN examin d. Though the president of a soil-remediation company said proposed amendments to the county's solid -waste manage- ment ordinance don't go far enough, the Dakota County Board unanimously approved the amendments with the un- derstanding that suggestions offered at a Sept. 24 public hearing would continue to be The board directed staff in July 1995 to prepare amend- ments relating to requirements for disposal of non -hazardous industrial waste, incineration and landspreading. In Novem- ber 1995, county staff reported that additional amendments would be proposed to address recyclables-material reporting, (See County, p.6A) County (Continued) multiyear licenses for solid - waste facilities, clarification of reporting requirements, incor- poration of statutory changes and restoration of inadvertent deletions. The Physical Development Committee of the Whole (PDC) was updated on the proposed amendments related to industrial -waste manage- ment last summer. According to Barry Schade, environmental management director, the amendments relat- ing to disposal of industrial waste in the county's four land- fills are among the most impor- tant changes. Most of these amendments already have been implemented by the land- fills, he said, adding that he believes the changes are re- sponsive to the concerns of the county and of residents. But James Poucher, president of CleanSoils Minnesota, Inc. of Vadnais Heights, said he still has concerns. Petroleum -contaminated soil is his company's business, Poucher said. Among his con- cerns is that, under the ordi- nance, the levels of petroleum allowed far exceed what satu- rated soils contain. While he has limits that wouldn't allow his company to process satu- rated soils, landfills, under the ordinance, could take the ma- terial, which would put him out of business, he said. "I think there's a few other paramaters that should be in- cluded (in the ordinance)," Poucher said. County staff said they are aware that soil saturation oc- curs at various levels depend- ing on the substance involved. Schade said the standards called for under the ordinance only set the parameters, and more than one standard is ex- amined in each case before materials are OK'd to landfill. The ordinance needs to be broadly written to include a wide variety of materials, Schade said. "It really is a case -by -case analysis," he said. "Some of it is going to be an issue of pro- fessional judgment." Commissioner Joe Harris said the standards should be set, and that's what they should be. "I don't like moving targets," he said. "If you're able to meet (the standards), they meet them." Commissioner Patrice Bata- glia said she feels the stan- dards are a good compromise, allowing flexibility while set- ting a ceiling. "I think this is the best of both worlds," she said. While Schade said the amendments presented do "an adequate job" of environ- mental protection, he added that county staff will talk with Poucher about his concerns. Schade said staff needs to find out what Poucher's suggestions mean in practice before going forward with them. County budget met with few complaints By BRENDA HAUGEN It only took residents a little more than half an hour to tell the Dakota County Board what they thought about the county's portion of their tax bills. And most of it was good. About 20 people showed up in Hastings for the board's an- nual truth -in -taxation public hearing Dec. 10. Among them were folks concerned about double-digit increases in the market values of their proper- ties, and they were referred to the county assessor's office. But for the most part, people appeared to be comfortable with the county budget and levy. The county's final budget will be voted on by the board Dec. 17. The public hearing included an overview of the $211 mil- lion budget and the property tax levy by County Administra- tor Brandt Richardson. Of that budget, Richardson said, about 40 percent is paid for through property taxes. In Dakota County, residents should see a 3.7 percent de- cline in the county's portion of their tax bills if the market value of their properties re- mained stable, Richardson said. In the last two years, the county has had a 9 percent de- crease in its tax rate, he said. (See Budget, p.7A) Budget.. r44.65. AtEC,.' .+114Q4. (Continued from front page) That doesn't necessarily mean residents are seeing their taxes go down. Richardson said that property values continue to rise in the county. The me- dian increase in value this year is around 5 percent, he said. On a $100,000 home with the same valuation as last year, the taxpayer should see a $12 decrease in the county's por- tion of taxes for 1997. If that same home saw an increase in value of 5 percent, the tax bill would rise $13 from the previ- ous year, Richardson ex- plained. Apple Valley resident Wilton Anderson said many Dakota County residents get "a double hit" year after year with a raise in the levy as well as increas- ing property values. People are being taxed out of their homes, he said. "We need major property tax reform," Anderson said. But, Anderson added, he's comfortable with the county's budget if the commissioners can honestly say they've pre- sented a bare -bones budget that covers necessary services, but doesn't include wasteful spending. Board Chair Mike Turner said the board has studied the budget extensively, and is con- tinually trying to keep spend- ing in check. "I think we're working toward that," Turner said. "That's my money, too." According to Richardson, Dakota County adds between 8,000 and 9,000 new residents every year. People may as- sume the county can keep taxes lower because of this growth, but the growth in popu- lation is outpaced by the need for services, he said. "We're serving a lot more clients ... and resources are growing very modestly," he said. While more federal and state programs are being shifted to the county's domain, the county also is seeing growing caseloads in everything from juvenile crime to child support, Richardson said. For example, the county dealt with 6,000 child -support cases in 1992. The projections for 1997 put that figure at 13,000 cases, Richardson said. The county also is continuing work to redesign services asso- ciated with welfare reform, he said. Even with increased need for services, the employee num- bers for county staff remain low — 4.5 employees per 1,000 residents, Richardson said. Dakota County also has the lowest tax rate of any of the metro -area counties, he added. "I thank you that we're still on the bottom," said John McDermott of Inver Grove Heights. But, he added, he shares the county's concerns regarding welfare reform and the shift of responsibility more toward counties and cities. "There's going to be a large number of children that need to be protected," he said. 6.(47.r.&k (-)--eZ 3, /9"6, - ---- ..v auLLLCLing !1. W those wanting to make sure their son or. daughter was safe. But one Minnesota family's worries couldn't be eased. Upon hearing that Brent Marthaler of Cambridge was among the ca- sualties, Minor called his fiance, later de- termined to be his wife, Katie Barthel, to offer her support. "We didn't say anything, we cried," said Minor, who had talked to Barthel earlier when she was trying to gather information on Marthaler. "We did the things that you uu winning to fulfill them. "'.'s just emotional, whether you know them or not, especially when it's a senseless death,' Minor said. When her tasks regarding the bombing have subsided, Minor will go back to ob- taining addresses and gift packages for mil- itary from throughout the country. She urges those with loved ones overseas to con- tact her with their address so she can offer BA.C.M's support. B.A.C.M. can be reached by calling 894- 2657 or faxing 890-5131. MVTA fares increase under Met Council Staff Report The Metropolitan Council raised bus fares for Minnesota Valley 1Yansit Authori- ty (MVTA) service July 1. The 25-cent increase affects those using public transportation serving Apple Valley, Burnsville, Eagan, Prior Lake, Rosemount and Savage. Express fares increased from $1.75 to $2 per ride, while local fares increased from $1.25 to $1.50 per ride. MVTA Executive Director Beverly Miller said the increase was made to meet budget shortfalls experienced by the Metro- politan Council Transit Operations, the re- gional public transportation system. MVTA does not need the fare increase, but must stay in line with fares set by the Met Coun- cil, she said. In addition to the fare increase, the Met Council required that all buses be outfitted with electronic fare boxes by July 1. The boxes are supplied by the Met Coun- cil; however some do not fit the small buses used by MVTA. The boxes also require pro- gramming and drivers need to be trained in using them, resulting in significant time consumption, Miller said. "No one's really blaming the Met Council. They are feeling the pinch as much as us, and we've had a lot of emer- gency meetings. We just want to keep the system user friendly and avoid mass con- fusion," Miller said. "We are asking our passengers to work with us on this and want to thank them in advance for their patience." The MVTA requests that those riding routes 77Z, 42B, 72S and 77G pay the cash fare or use the 10-ride punch cards along with cash to make up for the new fares. All routes and fare boxes are expected to be up and running by July 10. Eagan workshop to discuss IGH utility expansion By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Inver Grove Heights officials have asked the city of Eagun to work with them to prepare an extensive joint powers agree- ment related to the extension of utilities in southwest Inver Grove Heights. Since 1972, Eagan has pro- vided sanitary sewer and water service to the Emerald Hills Trailer Court in IGH. In 1994 and 1995, IGH requested amendments to the joint powers agreement to expand service to several housing developments. On Aug. 15, 1995, the IGH City Council approved a morato- rium on all future development applications until a more exten- sive joint powers agreement is reached. Now Lundgren Broth- ers Construction has indicated an interest in developing 220 acres on the north side of Cliff Road and east of Highway 3 for single-family houses. Eagan's City Council has scheduled a workshop July 31 to discuss a new agreement. Overall, there are 800 acres in IGH that would eventually be served by Eagan utilities. This would require construction of additional wells, reservoirs and main extensions. Connection fees and assessments are ex- pected to offset those costs. The added reservoir would increase service to residents in southeast Eagan, as well. Council members from Eagan said they want to see an overall development plan for Inver Grove Heights before they're willing to expand utility ser- vices. Included in the plan should be parks, schools and emergency services, said Coun- cilmember Shawn Hunter. "Inver Grove Heights doesn't have a plan or refuses to make a plan to provide their own utili- ties," said Hunter. "All (we) do is incur risk and take staff time away from other projects." Mike Foertsch, Eagan's assis- tant city engineer, said Eagan charges Inver Grove Heights residents only enough to cover the city's costs of providing ser- vice. Mayor Tom Egan said Eagan has been able to build treatment plants from revenue generated by utility payments. Egan added that by approv- ing extended service to IGH, Eagan would be better equipped to ensure quality development along the Inver Grove Heights/Eagan border. Hunter said without seeing a comprehensive development plan, "I don't see how we can do it." He suggested that Eagan annex the 800 acres. "They go to Eagan schools. They use Eagan parks and Eagan road access," said Hunter. Councilmember Pat Awada called for the .July workshop, saying a joint powers agreement is one way to ensure quality de- velopment on the border of the two cities. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1996 SAINT PAUL PU REG Good news for Eagan costs $5,000 • Professional poll says residents are happy with home DON AHERN STAFF WRITER The city of Eagan recently spent $5,000 for a professional survey of its citizens that essen- tially determined that, for the most part, folks like it out there. So, was it worth $5,000 for city officials to get what amounted to a pat on the back? "I definitely think it was worth it," said Mayor Tom Egan, "not because it was complimentary, but because it gave us good, solid, scientifically credible information that the city can use to great ad- vantage. As the result of this sur- vey, when we make more in- formed, intelligent decisions, we will save many times $5,000." In the survey, 85 percent of re- spondents said they think Eagan is heading in the right direction, 95 percent feel safe in their neighbor- hoods and 60 percent feel safe anywhere in Eagan. Services rang- ing from public safety to snow plowing received generally good marks. Location, parks and nature ar- eas, schools, low noise level and convenient access to shopping were most frequently mentioned as what people most like about their city, according to The Wal- lace Group, which conducted the survey. In physical development, parks and nature areas were tied with shopping centers as the most ac- cepted trend. They were followed by restaurants and the ice arena. Least favorable, and in some cases listed as negatives, were townhouse and apartment develop- ments, strip malls and more hous- ing. But the largest single response to what people like least about living in Eagan was "nothing," with 27 percent. Ten percent of respondents mentioned high taxes, and 9 percent complained about airplane noise. Egan pointed out that the 70 percent of respondents who fa- vored keeping land for parks and open space will have a chance to "put their money where their mouths are" in Tuesday's $3.8 mil- lion parks bond issue. The city proposes to buy about 20 scattered parcels of land for open space and future parks. "It goes to show that the city was on track when it made the decision to at least give voters an opportunity to acquire more land," he said. Egan added that city officials also have anticipated the will of the citizens in several other areas. Noting that a relatively high mi- nority of the respondents felt the city is not adequately informing its citizens, the mayor said that "the city already has implemented some new notice procedures and posting procedures announcing de- velopment proposals." He also noted that some people want a more defined downtown area, and that is being addressed with development of Eagan Prom- enade. The first store in that de- velopment, a Byerly's supermar- ket, is scheduled to have its grand opening there Nov. 3, he said. And while some people cited high taxes as a negative, Egan pointed out that the city ranks 95th among the metrq area's 108 communities on city property tax- es assessed against a $100,000 house. While the negative comments were very much in the minority, City Administrator Tom Hedges said they won't be ignored. "You do a survey for a lot of reasons. You want to find out if you are moving in the right direc- tion and if there are corrections that need being done," he said. "You don't want those 10 percents (of negative comments) to grow to 20 or 30 percent.... Had the re- sult come back differently and said the police or fire departments are ineffective, then we would have had to ask ourselves the tough questions and find out why." Sample questions ■ What do you like most about living In Eagan? 21%, good location/close to work. 612%, parks/nature areas. 8%, convenient access to the Twin Cities. 8%, schools/education. 7%, quiet. 6%, suburban location. 4%, convenient access to shopping. 3% each, convenient to freeways, the neighborhood, the people, feel safe, lot size. 2% each, convenient access to airport, clean, family oriented, proximity to other family. 10%, other. • What do you like least about living In Eagan? 22%, nothing. 10%, high taxes. 9%, airplane noise. 4%, growing too fast. 3% each, too crowded, distance from Twin Cities, too many townhomes and apartments, lack of downtown. 2% each, too many strip malls, poor public transportation, too spread out, rising crime, overdevelopment. 1%, too many trees cut down. PIONEER PRESS Eagan hunting for Moose money By CHRIS BALDUS Unsportsmanlike conduct? Icing? Off -sides? The city of Eagan was look- ing for the right call regarding the Minnesota Moose Hockey Club's flight from Minnesota to Winnipeg that left Eagan hold- ing the bill for an unnecessary locker room at Eagan Civic Arena. The penalty it came up with — breach of contract. The City Council unani- mously voted Sept. 17 to direct the city attorney to start legal action against the Moose. The city will try to get reimbursed the $68,900 it spent on the locker room, which was built so the Moose could practice at the arena. The Moose and the city made the agreement Aug. 1, 1995. The Moose contracted for ice time for practices at the arena and the city agreed to build the team a locker room, the cost of which the Moose would help reimburse through fund-raising, according to City Administrator Tom Hedges. Hedges added that the city has attempted to collect by sending the Moose a bill for $68,900. Since then, the city and the hockey club have been exchanging letters differing over who should pay for the locker room. "We haven't received any cooperation," said Hedges. "They are now reneging or at- tempting to renege on the agreement they had with the city." Eagan's city bell returns to council chamber By CHRIS BALDUS Like children surprised after acting on a dare, Eagan Mayor Tom Egan and Council Mem- ber Shawn Hunter scampered From the old bell after ringing it in the remodeled Eagan Mu- iicipal Center council cham- )ers. Chuckles popped from )ther council members already ,eated for the Sept. 17 regular neeting. Such marked the return of he city's bell after being ouched up and mounted on a lecorative cart by the city's 'arks Department. "We will try to ring the old yell before every meeting to ontinue tradition," said Egan. The bell originally was in lie Wescott School, one of the ne-room country schools that otted the area and which closed in 1953. Del and Ella Sachwitz, who converted the school into a home, gave the bell to the city and it was mounted in the belfry above the City Council chambers. However, when the Eagan Mu- nicipal Center was remodeled in 1995, the chamber was moved away from the belfry. The City Council, at the prodding of Council Member Ted Wachter, directed the Parks Department to build the cart for the bell so it could be brought into the new chamber. The bell's return fell within the week leading up to the city's first Lone Oak Days, Sept. 21-22, which will have a decided nostalgic feeling. One of the events planned for the weekend is an old-style town meeting in the Historic Eagan Town Hall, so today's children - - - -.__ _.mil ... _. and adults can see how city government worked in the early days of the community, announced Wachter later in the meeting. Lone Oak Days owes its name to Eagan's history, when a lone oak used to serve as a meeting spot for the commu- nity. The lone oak developed into the city's symbol, and its use the council is actively promot- ing. Wachter asked the devel- opers of the Eagan Promenade shopping center if the tree was going to be prominently dis- played in the development. Eagan Senior Planner Lisa Freese told him that the lone oak is included in the design of a clock tower in the develop- ment. -ALA violk qipPln Aso Eagan hunting for Moose money By CHRIS BALDUS Unsportsmanlike conduct? Icing? Off -sides? The city of Eagan was look- ing for the right call regarding the Minnesota Moose Hockey Club's flight from Minnesota to Winnipeg that left Eagan hold- ing the bill for an unnecessary locker room at Eagan Civic Arena. The penalty it came up with — breach of contract. The City Council unani- mously voted Sept. 17 to direct the city attorney to start legal action against the Moose. The city will try to get reimbursed the $68,900 it spent on the locker room, which was built so the Moose could practice at the arena. The Moose and the city made the agreement Aug. 1, 1995. The Moose contracted for ice time for practices at the arena and the city agreed to build the team a locker room, the cost of which the Moose would help reimburse through fund-raising, according to City Administrator Tom Hedges. Hedges added that the city has attempted to collect by sending the Moose a bill for $68,900. Since then, the city and the hockey club have been exchanging letters differing over who should pay for the locker room. "We haven't received any cooperation," said Hedges. "They are now reneging or at- tempting to renege on the agreement they had with the city." E Wc, Jua/4,/494 g uest column Proposed sale of cable TV system brings complications By Mike Reardon Cable coordinator, cities of Eagan and Burnsville On Thursday, July 25 the Burnsville -Eagan Cable Com- mission will hold a public hearing regarding the an- nounced sale of Meredith Ca- ble to Continental Cablevision and then subsequently to U.S. West. Meredith Cable, the franchised cable operator in Burnsville and Eagan, an- nounced this spring that it in- tends to transfer its cable fran- chise to Continental Cablevi- sion. The announcement came as no surprise, as the sale had been expected since last fall. However, what appeared to be a straightforward transfer be- came complicated when the commission received a request from Meredith and Continental to also consider the transfer of the cable system from Conti- nental to U.S. West. U.S. West announced in Feb- ruary that it intended to merge all Continental cable systems nationwide into its U.S. West Media Operations. This almost $11 billion agreement would merge the country's third - largest cable operator with one of the nation's largest regional telephone operators. The merger is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 1996. Conti- nental currently owns several cable systems in the Twin Cit- ies metro area, including those in northern Dakota County and St. Paul. The two pending transfers provide several serious issues that the commission and its member cities of Burnsville and Eagan will need to ad- dress. Federal law does not al- low for a regional telephone system to purchase and operate cable systems within their telephone operating territory. As a result, U.S. West would first have to receive a waiver from the Federal Communica- tions Commission to even al- low the initial purchase, and then U.S. West would have to divest itself of its Minnesota holdings within 18 months of the purchase. This would mean that all of the Continental sys- tems in Minnesota, including Burnsville and Eagan, would face another new and currently unknown owner by no later than 1998. As Burnsville and Eagan's 15-year cable fran- chise expires in 1998, this is more disconcerting, since the cities would also be involved with the cable franchise re- newal at the same time. Fi- nally, and perhaps most impor- tantly, to what extent will U.S. West manage and operate the cable system during this 18- month interim period, when knowing they will eventually have to sell the system to a potential competitor? The Cable Commission has been carefully reviewing the two pending transfers, within the legally mandated review criteria of legal, financial, technical and managerial qualifications, and will make final recommendations to the cities of Burnsville and Eagan by no later than its Aug. 22 meeting. The member cities will then have to consider the (See Column, p.24A) Eagan's city bell returns to council chamber By CHRIS BALDUS Like children surprised after 'acting on a dare, Eagan Mayor Tom Egan and Council Mem- ber Shawn Hunter scampered from the old bell after ringing it in the remodeled Eagan Mu- ' nicipal Center council cham- bers. Chuckles popped from other council members already seated for the Sept. 17 regular meeting. Such marked the return of the city's bell after being touched up and mounted on a decorative cart by the city's Parks Department. "We will try to ring the old bell before every meeting to continue tradition," said Egan. The bell originally was in the Wescott School, one of the one -room country schools that dotted the area and which closed in 1953. Del and Ella Sachwitz, who converted the school into a home, gave the bell to the city and it was mounted in the belfry above the City Council chambers. However, when the Eagan Mu- nicipal Center was remodeled in 1995, the chamber was moved away from the belfry. The City Council, at the prodding of Council Member Ted Wachter, directed the Parks Department to build the cart for the bell so it could be brought into the new chamber. The bell's return fell within the week leading up to the city's first Lone Oak Days, Sept. 21-22, which will have a decided nostalgic feeling. One of the events planned for the weekend is an old-style town meeting in the Historic Eagan Town Hall, so today's children �••�-,,,.1. -1 and adults can see how city government worked in the early days of the community, announced Wachter later in the meeting. Lone Oak Days owes its name to Eagan's history, when a lone oak used to serve as a meeting spot for the commu- nity. The lone oak developed into the city's symbol, and its use the council is actively promot- ing. Wachter asked the devel- opers of the Eagan Promenade shopping center if the tree was going to be prominently dis- played in the development. Eagan Senior Planner Lisa Freese told him that the lone oak is included in the design of a clock tower in the develop- ment. 6t)z2k 9 ���� Eagan focuses on `healthy community' Proactive, community -based programs that provide positive role models, a greater sense of morality and an understanding of a citizen's role in his or her community were identified as the solutions to the rise in ju- venile crime. This conclusion was drawn as part of a collaborative meeting hosted by Eagan City Council Member Sandra Masin and at- tended by representatives from 13 area agencies who recently met to share information among officials who interact within Eagan. The purpose of the collabora- tive meeting was to improve the services provided and to enrich the quality of life that sustains Eagan as a "healthy community." The involved agencies have found that juvenile crime im- pacts a broad segment of the community, resulting in fam- ily, school and peer disruption and endangerment. Programs that focus on positive modeling provide a beneficial framework to build toward more construc- tive behavior and a healthier society. The collaborative meeting included presentations regard- ing cooperative programming between schools and the com- munity, Dakota County's Healthy Communities cam- paign, youth -at -risk program- ming, gangs in suburbia and finding resources to help peo- ple in need. Participants included state Sen. Deanna Wiener, state Rep. Tim Pawlenty, represen- tation from Congressman Bill Luther's office, county com- missioners Patrice Bataglia and James Mueller, Dakota County Sheriff Don Gudmund- son, Dakota County Attorney James Backstrom, Dakota County Community Services Director David Rooney, Tim Staley of the Southwest YMCA, Judy Lindsay and Bruce Endler of School District 196, Shari Prest of School Dis- trict 191, Mayor Tom Egan, City Council Member Pat Awada, City Administrator Tom Hedges, Police Chief Pat Geagan and Parks and Recrea- tion Director Ken Vraa. 010 1— ff e .s g d�- JI- 4y OCr 0d W s Ca Jrt 3a a • 1r t a g Zd E_ t Q] I' f0 M3 I� lLl Wt (0 wnaz na wrote as an eighth - grader at St. Paul Academy — a gory mystery story that was printed in a school publica- tion — check the PioneerPlare et on the World Wide Web. Go to tittp://www.plo- neerplanet.com studied the- Fitzgerald= atones lad year. "It gives you a certain amount of self- confidence to know that even a very sue- cesshil writer starts out like you do." The class also reads a loth -grade story, The Room with Green Blinds," in which Fitzgerald offers a fictional expla- nation of what happened to John Wilkes Booth after the aeeeteinatian of Abra- ham Lincoln. The story shows little sign of the elegant style for which Fitzgerald became known, but the narrative is smooth and well -paced. 'We see the progress between eighth and l0th grade,' said eighth -grade -English teacher Lucy Polk. "it is remarkable. It's tightly woven and everything falls together." Fitzgerald, the subject of a centennial birthday celebration in St. Paul this classroom, -he was a poor student, and his name was not on the school's honor rolls far writing. In an effort to improve Fitzgerald grades, his parents sent him to finish high school at Newman School. a boarding prep school in New Jersey_ Hethen attended Princeton University. In his early stories. Fitzgerald stray far from North Date and Summit Avenue, where he lived. His first mys- tery, for example. is set in New York and involves multiple gory deaths. Shun- ning what `they actually know about in favor of what seems exotic is typical of teen-age writing, Polk said: "Their world is so familiar that they feel it's familiar to 100 percent of the world's popula. lion." WAITER mvrrururo oh 3B ) sneer /t,-55 cot frp Cf-k C%Z 5 4c Man-made creek prettier, cheaper than sewer pipe • Ravine waterway awaits heavy rains to test engineering Alittle innovative engineering has cre- ated a rustic, stone -studded creek to Hogg fund chief helps towns with goals AMY GAGE STAFFWRUUER Entrepreneurs are risk -takers by nature, people who chart their own ftnanciai course. - As a self -described "social entrepreneur," Warren Hanson tries to take a step beyond that. His goal is to help neighborhoods and communities become economically viable, building a stronger social fabric in the process. As the newly named president of the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund, a new Among the businesses he helped found in Minneapolis during the 1970s were the Mill City food co-op. the alternative radio station KFAI-FM and the Riverside Cafe, a cnlleetively owned restaurant on the West Bank near the University of Minnesota So, why move into subsidized housing? "I've worked in a broad spectrum of community revitalization, from housing to food co-ops to industrial and economic development to cultural development and social services," Hann said. "To me they ail kind of fit together for a whole carry surface runoff through a wooded Eagan neighborhood — an attractive alternative to burying a sewer pipe and filing the stream bed with dirt. And it was a lot cheaper. an unexpect- ed side benefit that made the project even more satisfying to city engineers. The low bid on the project was $108,000, "well below the conventional pipe solution" that would have cost about $177,000, said Rich Brasch, the city's water maintenance coordinator. The ravine starts at Highview Terrace between Highview Avenue and Skyline Road and goes downhill through brushy back yards toward Minnesota 13 and Gun Club Lake in the Minnesota River Valley - In that 1.700 feet. the ravine drops 70 feet. "That's very steep for the metro area." Braseh observed. STREAM .s.-rra.JED oN 33 ► Miracles Charles Raasch, 11-monthhold son of Don and Elisabeth of St. Paul. celebrates a "medical mira- cle" baby birth- day party Sun- day at Sheraton Park Plaza hotel in Minneapolis. Sponsored by Midwest Cen- ter, the event drew 2O0 peer- SEP-23_-9 lid. a truly just legal hat refler.ts the histo- of this state, there iter public participa- justice system," she le noon ceremony. n is one of only six supreme court chief e country, according la' Center for State Iiumsburg, Va. ne Court Chief .fus- Rehnqutst, a Shore- , administered the E. NON 9= 0 1 W A L L A C E G R O U P P- 0 3 Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, left, Is greeted by retiring Chief Justice Roland B. Day after Abrahamson was sworn In Sunday In the rotunda of the State Capitol In Madison, Wis. At right Is the bench of tha Supreme Court. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Wllllarn Rehnquist administered the oath of office for Abrahamson. oath of office for Abrahamson. Rehnquist, who became chief jus- tice in 1986, said he knows Abra- hamson will "faithfully and ably" perform her duties, The rotunda was packed for the ceremony, and ran out of the 1,200 programs that were on hand. Abrahamson's son Dan, a lawyer, ITER OM IB came a mature writ - Fitzgerald returned lin to his school expe- ng over the emotions wanted desperately • but was often eritr- brashness. personals" column in I Then," a wag noted: can poison Scotty or th in some way, the ;e and myself will be ference to this is in a tory, "The Freshest SPA eighth -graders .tzgerald writes of a e, who has just trans - in unnamed Midwest- Fitxgeraid returned again and again to his school experiences. ern country day school to a prep boarding school out East. Ile was not popular at his old school be- cause 'He had boasted, he had been considered yellow at football, he had pointed out people's mis- takes to them, he had shown off his rather extraordinary fund of general information in class," One reason for leaving was the humiliation the protagonist en- dured after his school newspaper published the following: "If some- one will please poison young Basil, or find some other means to stop his mouth, the school at large and myself will be much obliged." and her husband, ,Seymour, a Uni- versity of Wisconsin -Madison pro- fessor of Zoology and genetics, were there to watch her get sworn in. Abrahamson became chief jus- tice on Aug. 1, bttt Sunday's cere- mony was the official event in her honor. She intends to run for re- election again in 1999, She became the first woman to sit on the Wisconsin Supreme Court when she was appointed by Gov, Patrick Lucey to fill a vacan- cy in 1976. She was elected to a 10-year term in 1979 and reelect- ed in 1069. STREAM 1' CONTINUED FROM IB The ravine was scoured of fallen trees and muck frorn the natural stream bed, and the steep, eroded sides were sloped back and will be seeded with deep-rooted vegeta- tion to hold it in place. The length of the stream bed was laid with pebbles and baseball -size rocks about 10 feet wide to stabilize the bottom and help retard the swift- ness of running water. In addition, 26 "drop structures," or piles of larger rock that act as small dams, were installed to slow down the rushing water. The official name for the pro - feet was the "Hayes/DeLosh Ra• vine Restoration," a name that probably will be superseded by something more descriptive such as pebble creek, rocky river, stony brook, or more creative from the minds of nearby neighbors. "We're trying to take a little different and cost-effective ap- proach," Brasch said. "This bio-en- ginecred method was cheap and environmentally friendly." So far it's worked well, he said, Autbecause of the dry summer there hasn't been much water run- ning down the rebuilt waterway to give it a good test. "High flows will be when you find out if your, engineering is OK," Brasch acknowledged with a slightly nervous grin. R-96% 6123413703 09-23-96 10:16AM P003 #47 Eagan residents organize to block development - a community park By.lim Adams Jim Adams Staff Writer Eagan residents south of Blackhawk Lake want to stop an 82-acre devel- opment planned near their expensive homes. But the object of their ire isn't an outdoor amphitheater, apartment complex or a landfill. It's a park. And it's not a park filled with screaming children playing soccer or folks enjoying late -evening softball games. The plans instead call for soft walking trails, playground equip- ment, a tubing hill and a large picnic pavilion. "We've asked them to be sensitive to habitat and (traffic) so we don't have this huge parade," said Tim Lano, leader of a group of residents oppos- ing the plan. He said the proposed 225-seat pavilion is too large and would make Blackhawk a "corporate park" attracting large company groups that would intimidate neigh- bors and wildlife and bring "traffic and beer cans and what have you." The proposal, including 165 parking spaces in two lots, was approved by the advisory park commission in April and will go to the City Council Tuesday. The park would be bound- ed by Blackhawk Lake, Deerwood Dr., Riverton Av. and Interstate Hwy. 35E. Parks Director Ken Vraa said the park design has been endorsed by the Minnesota Valley chapter of the Au- dubon Society. The plan, developed over a decade, will preserve wood- land and prairie areas and develop about 20 acres for recreation and parking, he said. Eagan has five other communitywide parks and 34 neigh- borhood parks, he said. Mayor Tom Egan said it's been hard- er in recent years to develop even small parks without meeting opposi- tion. Objections last summer from neighbors near Carlson Lake led the city to drop a volleyball court and picnic area from a small park devel- opment. Egan said the city has many Around the Twin Cities corporations, with employees who are residents, that use the parks and pay park dedication fees, which are used to buy and develop park land. "It is not unfair or unreasonable to expect Eagan to provide them with park services," he said. Lano said two resident groups east and west of the park would rather see three or four smaller pavilions, seat- ing 50 people each, and only 100 parking spaces. He said residents are worried about the safety of children playing in the streets leading to the park, which lack sidewalks and lights. iV rf H MAY 24-30,1996 VotuME 13. tt u Atka 51 LITIGATION AL295 :.3c°Ai: F`iA-'i: ^ 04174,E o/fib/3.147 3HEpiE «ALL6Cc rIAL ACt b:'.Ji.p 513F F Ai U. :1=-7 LiE•kGAri e'1i 551L1-iY?} 11141QP The Business Journal Ruling opens door for class action slits in suburbs an builders' f tossed out on ap By Peter Kafka Sufi reporter In a ruling that could have far-reaching for suburbs across the v impli- cations e Minnesota Court of Appeals this week tossed otx a fee the city of Eagan has been charging private builders to help fiord the city s mad system. Tie state court's decision, which dismisses an ill -year -old charge Eagan officials levied against anyone receiving a building permit, opens the door fora class action suit that eventu- ally could co the city millions of dollars- And the plaintiffs' lawyers say the ruling will prompt them to file similar suits in suburbs across the metro area. COMPUTERS Expands HQ 5� VTCplansr EJj of v Minneapolis attorney Gerald Duffy said his firm has already filed a nearly identical -suit against the city of Apple Valley over a similar fee system. His firm is preparing complaints against at least nine other .a suburbs, all of which charge developers special fees to fund various projects from sewer systems to park improvements. he said. Developers don't have a problem with fees that pay for specific project needs, such as mad improvements for their developments and utility extensions- What they object to is paying addi- tional fees that go into citywide improvements. "There's a lot of that going on," he said. DECISION to page 34 St. Paul -k Tar 1°.:Jr.:po? v q'S'^-• 14 -i ; _.:• Wit__=>=z y9 '� _..ram. _` b�''''P° 4r.- i t3;r.L."l'i.0t�:ni�_,r�' `t-'7;;47:.''. .- _7 5Some people: nu ht-ase-in'tliedexlinc�r `!;` " - obablo,clorda :� .ai�d=F1"o gvfTdiiLnthcian=. ;.'''"Church 'ol"tbe-AVlisterife . i- .'3uUsings i1ieaatio11's£1oss gia}ilatg 1f'the •popu1atiom !zi'iesimoung:eise:" --... ''`.-`"'- 8�r F. O f 1= '=3at tagtri5,.. . Cc;' P aased" vv is b. alyeSoati i-41 iir�tgrha sicec o gsti i �:. -,T : yeai old: ooa on z r � i of io':iitc'_r 6-its memiieisbip x. aging anti slilciri;-pd-aoii�...ort la idiii itgry. ieYa1 . • Executive EXPRESS Area hanker eyes California bank By Torn Fredrickson A St. Paul -based banker whorlairnt to have a knack for turnarounds is leading the drive to acquire a Riverside, bask hard hit by the recession during the early 1990s. Duke Financial Group Inc.. a bank holding company headed by David Hyduke of St. Paul, has applied to acquire a control- ling interest of Inland Empire National Bank. according to a docament filed with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis_ BANK to page 33 LATE NEWS R BROKERAGES Piper ;affray clients will soon be able tole their pro- prietary funds in a portable version. page 2 DEYELOPM ENT Would-be developers are :. Armstrong said, the addition should be com- plete by spring 1997_ The current building is 123,000 square feet_ VTC needs the new space to accommodate Ong growth in its cone business — making "read/write preamplifier chips" for hard disk Wives — as well as its newer business. "PRML channel chips." Both kinds of chips play critical roles in transferring data between hard disks and a computer's train processor_ The read/write preamplifier amplifies the data signal coming off the hard disk; the chan- nel chip then routes the data into the rest of the computer_ VTC claims about 65 percent of the market for read/write. preamplifiers. Its customers include Seagate Technology Inc. of Scotts Valley, Calif.. Quantum Corp. of Milpitas, Calif_ Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., and other major disk drive manufactur- ers. VTC hopes those same customers will bay its PR1 L channel chips. mass scale. The new chips sell for about $10 apiece, she said, compared with the $3 price of the read/write preamplifiers. Market analyst James Porter agreed that the move into PRML channel chips makes sense. Porter. president of Mountain View, Calif. -based Diskffrend lnce said that for the past year or two, drive makers have been mak- ing the transition from an older technology on PRML., but that so far, most of them have bees using their own designs. For makers of mass -quantity, standardized clops. Porter said, "the gantc is still open. The final alignment of suppliers hasn't been set yet, and it will remain unsettled for some time to come-" VTC has benefited from the explosion of demand for hard drives with greater arid greater storage capacity. From a low point of S18.5 mullion in revenues in 1991. the compa- ny took in S75 million in 1993, S108 million in 1994 and $167 million last year. It is pro- jecting 1996 sales will reach S225 million. The company has about 580 employees now, but Armstrong said that figure is expect- ed to reach 600 by July l and 650 by the end of the year. ed expansion in Bloomington in the past 18 months. Seagate is building a $150 million. 225,000-squale-foot plant at its current site off Highway 100, and Cypress Semiconductor Inc. is in the second phase of a S240 trillion expansion of its 86th Street facility. In addition, Minnetonka -based Advantek Inc., which makes shipping equipment for semiconductor makers. is planning to build a new headquarters and manufacturing plant in Blooittisigton. Although VTC will face stiff competition in its new business. Disk/Trend's Porter said. its success in readhvrite preamplifiers bodes well. "So far, VTC seems to have done a pretty good job," he said_ "But their ability to keep up the good work — to maintain early avail- ability of appropriate chip sets — that's what will be critical." w DECISION front page 1 "Developers are being hit with impact fees, whether or not you call them impact fees or not, for all kinds of development" Duffy wouldn't disclose the other suburbs his firm plans to sue_ - -Ram officials say they intend to appeal the ruling to the Minnesota Supreme Coln. The cast, filed in 1994 against the city by a small group of home builders. centers specifically around whether Eagan has the power to impose taxes that aren't specifically described by state law_ Since 1978. the city has charged anyone applying for a building permit an additional fee, used to pay for the rapidly growing sub- urbs' road system. Builders currently pay $430 for each sin- gle-family home pertait they request, while commercial developers pay S1.295 per acre. From 1978 through 1995, the fees raised S5.8 million for city streets. The city argued that state law gives them the ability to build roads and the responsibili- ty to help pay for them and that the road fee was similar to other sewer and water taxes they already levy. "Builders and contractors in our city have really enjoyed a lot of development in our city over the last 20 years, and the only way they've been able to accomplish that has been this system. said Torn Hedges, Eagan's city admnru—strator. "If we didn't have the money to pay for these roads. there'd be no way of ling" Even as the city's tax base continues to grow, Hedges said there remains a gap between the city's funds and the cost of need- ed new roads. But Duffy said the foes unfairly penalize builders and residents new to a city. Since the road improvements benefit the entire city, he said, the entire city should pay for theta. "They absolutely have the way to pay for the roads they need. It's called property takes," be said. "What they're saying is not they that they didn't have the authority to get die money that they needed, but that they did- n't want to go back to the voters and raise their property taxes_" Duffy said he believes the appeals court's ruling will allow his first to certify the case as a class action suit, enabling anyone who has paid the road surcharge since 1988 to seek refunds for the fees, plus interest. In most cases, any refunds would go to the builders — the people who usually apply for building per- mits — but it could include the handful of homeowners who buy the lots and apply for the permits themselves. Beyond Eagan's road system itself, the ease raises the issue of whether cities can ask developers to help pay for projects not direct- ly connected to their development, Duffy said. "Cities need to be very careful when they attach fees to development," said Karen Christofferson, public policy director for the Builders Association of the Twin Cities. "Developers generally agree that they have to pay fees attached to development, and we'll pay our fair share. But at what point do those costs become something everyone could share? It goes to the heart of the larger ques- tion of who pays and how touch" Other developers agreed. "[The ruling] poses some interesting issues and questions," said John Allen, a Mlinneapolu developer. Alien, who builds both residential and commercial property and has done several Eagan projects, said if the decision is eventu- ally applied to other Twin City suburbs, he could stand to receive several hundred thou- sand dollars in reimbursement "it could change the way a lot of caries do business." ■ A 0 (0 N MAY 24-3©, 1996 Votuvr 13, Plummet 51 LITIGATION r• 9417ftJ S6/0o/1 —17 3H Ric «:•LL4`c .GALL AUL _513' F4F-All., Dz. j 7 C .� G li r i "'r:Y 5 5 1-1 21 1141kW The Business Journal Ruling opens door for class action suits in suburbs 3 I3uikJers' fee tossed out on ap By Peter Kafka Staff reporrae In a ruling that could have far-reaching impli- cations for suburbs across the Twin Cities, the Minnesota Court of Appeals this week tossed out a fee the city of Eagan has been charging private builders to help hind the city: s road system. The state court's decision, which dismisses an I8-year-old charge Eagan officials levied against anyone receiving a building permit, opens the door for a class action suit that eventu- ally could cost the city millions of dollars- And the plaintiffs' lawyers say the riling will prompt them to file similar suits in suburbs across the metro Area. COMPUTERS Expands HQ VTC plans `.,nbite 116 � , Minneapolis attorney Gerald Duffy said his firm has already filed a nearly identical -suit against the city of Apple Valley over a similar fee system. His firm is preparing complaints against at least nine other memo -arum suburbs, all of which charge developers special fees to fund various projects from server systems to park improvements. he said. Developers don't have a problem with fees that pay for specific project needs such as mad improvements for their developments and utility extensions_ What they object to is paying addi- tional fees that go into citywide ice. "There's a lot of that going on," he said. DECISION to page 34 BANKING St. Paul • e •`��>'Some"PboPlo=mig��`�ce`u�s�e�,declint�:; :;aitdtprobable=closing:t alina,I,irtheran: Church •of-tire^Master eitg i .-3iiUsings;':i�e' thT ''. _,i►atioa`s3Joss �f.. tli:i�' ;_,'gray i r tote -population rtDevelo `.. - e v. identified :Irog ..{ ; The 37yyear y a�'�unscatatn:'fatiite'��iti�iiaiemiteislip` - _-.aging aa?i liia>alcirig ad nov ,bovei '-atul�d 90I1 t i 'f aeslal C. • rgal state exetiupfe,`whu Yobe �old� o6agcegaiioa ''.�� ! la ti tp?I$rY<.d; '?I pets cltiiu�e foI AI[t g. 3`'w `r' Y•5= .:. -3'`' .. rz A-%CHIURCld to• ••ie.i: r. ts! Executive EXPRESS Area banker eyes Californiabank By Tom Fredrickson A St. Paul -based hanker who claims to have a knack for turnarounds is leading the drive to acquire a Riverside. Calif.. bank hand hit by the recession during the early 1990s. LATE NEWS Duke Financial Group Inc., a hank holding company headed by David Ilyduke of St. Paul, has applied to acquire a control- ling interest of Inland Empire National Bank. according to a document filed with the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis_ BANK to page 33 ■ BROKERAGES Piper I -affray clients will soon be able to have their pro- prietary funds in a portable version. page 2 E DEVELOPMENT Would-be developers } Armstrong said, the addition should be com- plete by spring 1997. The current building is M 123,000 square feet_ VTC needs the new space to accommodate surging growth in its core business — making d "read/write preamplifier chips" for hard disk drives — as well as its newer business, "PRMI_ channel chips" Both kinds of chips play critical roles in transferring data between hard disks and a computer's main processor_ The read/write preamplifier amplifies the data signal coming off the hard disk; the chan- nel chip then sorties the data into the rest of the computer. VTC claims about 65 percent of the market for readlwrite preamplifiers. Its customers include Seagate Technology Inc. of Scotts Valley, Calif., Quantum Corp. of Milpitas, Calif_, Hewlett-Packard Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., and ether major disk drive manufactur- ers. VTC hopes those same customers will buy its PRML channel chips. mass scale. The new chips sell for about SIO apiece, she said, compared with the S3 price of the readlwrite preamplifiers_ Market analyst James Porter agreed that the trove into PRML channel chips makes sense. Porter, president of Mountain View, Calif. -based DislJfrend Inc_. said that for the past year or two, drive makers have been mak- ing the transition from an older technology to PRML, but that so far, most of them have been using their own designs. For makers of mass -quantity, standardized chips, Potter said, "the game is still open. The final alignment of suppliers hasn't been set yet, and it will remain unsettled for mine time to come-" VTC has benefited from the explosion of dernand for hard drives with greater and greater storage capacity. From a low point of S18.5 million in revenues in 1991. the compa- ny took in S75 million in 1993, S108 million in 1994 and S167 million last year. It is pro- jecting t996 sales will reach S225 million. The company has about 580 employees now, but Armstrong said that figure is expect- ed to reach 600 by July 1 and 650 by the end of the year. ed expansion in Bloomington in the post 18 months. Seagate is building a $150 million, 225,000-square-foot plant at its current site off Highway 100, and C'ypress Semiconductor Inc. is in the secend phase of a 5240 million expansion of its 86th Street Facility_ in addition, Minnetonka -based Advantck Inc., which stakes shipping equipment fui semiconductor makers, is planning to build a new headquarters and manufacturing plant in Bloomington. Although VTC will face stiff competition in its new business. Disk/Trend's Porto said. its success in read/write preamplifiers bodes well. "So far, VTC seems to have done a pretty good job." he said 'But their ability to keep up the good work — to maintain early avail- ability of appropriate chip sets — that's what will be critical." DECISION from page I "Developers are being hit with impact fees, whether or not you call them impact fees or not, for all kinds of development" Duffy wouldn't disclose the ochez suburbs his ftmt plans to sue Fagan officials say they intend to appeal the ruling to the Minnesota Supreme Court. The case, filed in 1994 against the city by a small group of home hnilders. centers specifically around whether Eagan has the power to impose taxes that aren't specifically described by state law. Since 1978, the city has charged anyone applying for a building permit an additional fee, used to pay for the rapidly growing sub- urbs' road system. Builders currently pay $430 for each sin- gle-family home permit they request, while commercial developers pay $1.295 per acre. From 1978 through 1995, the fees raisod S5.8 million for city streets. The city argued that state law gives them the ability to build roads and the ttapunsibili- ty to help pay for then. and that the road fen- was similar to other sewer and water taxes .they already levy. "Builders and contractors in our city have really enjoyed a lot of development in our city over the last 20 years.. and the only way they've been able to accotnplish that has been this system," said Tom Hedges. Eagan's city administrator. "If we didn't have the money to pay for these roads. there'd be no way of growing:' Even as the city's tax base continues to grow, Hedges said there remains a gap between the city's funds and the cost of need- ed new roads. But Duffy said the fees unfairly penalize builders and residents new to a city_ Since the road improvements benefit the entire city, he said, the entire city should pay for them. "They absolutely have the way to pay for the roads they need. It's called property taxes,' he said. "What they're saying is not they that they didn't have the authority to get Ole money that they needed, but that they did- n't want to go back to the voters and raise their property taxes." Duffy said he believes the appeals court's ruling will allow his firm to certify the case as a class action suit, enabling anyone who has paid the road surcharge since 1988 to seek refunds for the foes, plus interest. In most cam, any refunds would go to the builders — the people who usually apply for building per- mits — but it could include the handful of homeowners who buy the lots and apply for the permits themselves. Beyond Eagan's road system itself, the case raises the issue of whether cities can ask developers to help pay for projects not direct- ly connected to their development, Duffy said "Cities need to be very careful when they attach fees to development," said Karen Christofferson, public policy director for the Builders Association of the Twin Cities. "Developers generally agree that they have to pay fees attached to development, and we'll pay our fair share. But at what point do those costs become something everyone could share? It goes to the heart of the larger ques- tion of who pays and how much." Ddea developers agreed. "[The ruling] poses some interesting issues and questions," said John Allen, a Minneapolis developer. Allen, who builds both residential and commercial property and has done several Eagan projects, said if the decision is eventu- ally applied to other Twin City suburbs, he could stand to receive several hundred thou- sand sand dollars in reimbursements change the way a lot of cities do business" ■ i 0 0 a ti 0 CT( CV 0 r M N Council rejects project Plan sought 490 homes in Eagan By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer About 120 Eagan residents packed into City Hall Nov. 19 to send a clear message to council members — no more townhome de- velopments. Following two hours of testimony by Pulte Home representatives and the public, the City Council unani- mously denied Pulte's plan to build 490 homes on 116 acres. The plan in- cluded 78 single family homes and several styles of townhomes. The property boundaries are Deerwood to the north, Diflley on the south, Deerwood and Black - hawk schools to the east and Inter- state 35E on the west. Pulte officials said even though this proposal was rejected, they are not ready to walk away from the site. "We would still like to bring our homes into Eagan," Standke said. "We'd like some specific information from you to tell us what it would take to make this a site that will work for all of us," he added. More than 600 signatures were collected in opposition to the devel- opment and hours of public testimo- ny were given in meetings leading up to last week's City Council meet- ing. "In these times of perceived apa- thy, we have over 10 neighborhoods that have banded together, exercis- ing our democratic rights. Are City Council members going to listen?" asked Paul Schmidt who lives on Kingswood Road. No one objected to the single fam- ily home lots, but they were opposed PULTE: To Page 13A From Page 1A to the clusters of townhomes, containing from eight to 12 units. Residents quoted results of a city survey that indicated Eagan already consists of 46 percent multiple housing stock. "This is not in opposition to the Pulte Home Co.," said Bill Cottrell, a neighborhood spokesperson. "What we're trying to protect is the residential feel of this city." Besides objecting to townhome construc- tion, residents also said the proposed devel- opment was too dense and would cause traf- fic flow problems on Deerwood Drive. "Knock 50 of them out and we're all going to say, `Thank you Pulte, you're the best,"' said a resident on Rocky Lane. Tom Standke of Pulte Homes said the townhomes would have been broken into 17 communities and vary in size and amenities. They would have been owner occupied and covenants enforced by a homeowner's associ- ation. Prior to voting down the project, council members explained their rationale. "Our numbers say we need to encourage more single family development," said Coun- cilmember Pat Awada. Pulte's proposal averaged 4.28 housing units per acre in an area that allows 0-6 units. Councilmember Shawn Hunter said it's pos- sible that a subsequent developer could pro- pose an even bigger project. "What comes in next may be higher densi- ty, but I'm willing to take that chance if you are," he told the crowded council chambers. Other council members and the mayor agreed that the plan was contrary to the city's need for more single family housing. Coun- cilmember Sandra Masin noted one exception — one-story housing that Pulte said would at- tract the "empty nester" who might be look- ing to move into a smaller home. dzwazi,e; m3/7 New HRA senior housing financed with help from city By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Construction of 65 senior housing apartments near Town Centre in Eagan is one step closer to ground -breaking. The proposed complex will have 43 one -bedroom units and 22 two -bedroom units, with rents averaging $425 and $525 per month, said Mark Ulfers, direc- tor of Dakota County Housing and Rede- velopment Authority (HRA). Financing for the project was arranged last week through a partner- ship between the city of Eagan and the HRA. The package includes the issuance of up to $2.5 million in housing develop- ment bonds. Eagan aisc is contributing about $2 million toward the $4.5 million project from federal grants it has re- ceived and from fee income generated on multi -family housing construction, said Ulfers. Principal and interest is to be paid from the rents and other operating rev- enues of the Common Bond Fund. The location, across from Mann The- atre on Town Centre Drive, was acquired by the HRA through tax forfeiture. Seniors will be within walking dis- tance to a bank, pharmacy, medical cen- ter, grocery store, restaurants and enter- tainment. In addition, the rear side of the com- plex will back up to O'Leary Lake Park. This will be the second HRA senior hous- ing complex built in Eagan. Oak Woods, at Cliff and Rahn roads, was built in 1991. HRA senior housing units are avail- able to persons age 55 and older with an- nual incomes less than $34,800 for cou- ples and $30,450 for individuals. Ulfers said the average annual income of Dakota County HRA senior housing residents is $13,500 and the average age is 75. Apartments are for persons able to live independently, Ulfers said. If the project successfully is bid this summer, construction could begin this fall with opening in the fall of 1998, he said. Pls for fire administration 2 ans ��s n. building will move ahead yi/� F inancing plan to be approved IP By ERIN HEMME FROSLIE $400,000 more, City Adminis- trator Toni Hedges said. Plans for a new fire admini- Determined to keep the stration building will be mov- building's costs w thinhe the ing forward, after City Council budget, in April y lic directed staffeeto use ca to offset over- Works llasked tcomm►t committee to h revisit the franchise fee budget costs for the new build- Fire Department's entire pro- ing. posed two level structure was Initially, the cost of the proj- suggestions ect, which includes a full necessary. Among gg basement, centralized ambu- for lowering the cost were to lance facility, Fire Department reduce he pproge posed building's omit space needs and a training square room, was budgeted for $1.5 the second -floor training cen- million. A more recent feasibil- ter. ity study estimated that re- But the fact finding by the building on the present site would cost approximately (SQe Building, p.8A) Building ideek (Continued from front page) Public Works committee veri- fied the space and training room were necessary. According to Eagan Fire Chief Craig Jensen, training is the primary reason for the new building. "We're a 100 percent volun- teer department," Jensen said in a later interview. "We need to stay current on training. There's no place in the city for that." According to Jensen, fire- fighters participate in various types of training, including CPR, first aid, Hasmat train- ing, plus weekly evening and day training sessions. While current training sessions are held at neighborhood stations, the city's Public Works center and the fire administration building, Jensen said the Fire Department needs a larger meeting area to efficiently use training devices such as video- tapes and related equipment. In addition to the city's own training, Jensen said there is also a need for a centralized training center for Dakota County cities. According to Jensen, instructors are expen- sive and if there's enough room, neighboring fire depart- ments can be invited to share the expense of the training. "We went in with the idea that maybe we didn't need that training space," said Council Member Bea Blomquist, who also serves on the Public Works committee, "but impe- tus for the firefighters is the training center. This isn't about offices. It's about training." To justify the use of cable franchise fees to offset the cost, the Fire Department was asked to prepare a list of edu- cation and training possibilities that could be broadcast over the city's cable channel. Ac- cording to Hedges, there are no restrictions on how the city's cable franchise fees can be used, but the council has des- ignated those fees be used to benefit those watching cable. Among the ideas brain- stormed by the Fire Depart- ment were broadcasting infor- mation on carbon monoxide home detectors, smoke detec- tors, fire extinguisher use, a baby-sitting clinic and youth safety camps. "Yes, broadcasting by the Fire Department will be educa- tional," said Council Member Ted Wachter, another member of the Public Works commit- tee. "We're breaking new ground here, and I think it will prove successful." The Eagan City Council is expected to authorize the preparation of plans and speci- fications, and approve the pro- ject's construction financing plan at its July 1 meeting. Assisted -'2� living offers new options By ERIN HEMME FROSLIE A privately -owned resi- dence to be constructed on Crestridge Lane near Pilot Knob Road will soon pro- vide assisted living services for elderly persons with memory impairment. A pre- liminary and final planned development was approved by the City Council earlier this month. The free-standing home, owned and managed by Al- ternative Living Services in (See Assisted, p.9A) Assisted T khl. - a..64 i F7 (Continued from front page Brookfield, Wis., will commodate 52 reside According to Eagan c staff, nine skilled care e ployees and three supp staff will be on site dur each shift. A registe nurse will be available the residence 40 hours p week. According to Alternate Living Services, many pe ple with memory impa ments are otherwise phy cally healthy and don't ne to live in a skilled nursi environment, the tradition step after an individual ca no longer live at hom alone. What they need help with the everyday ac tivities of living. Assiste living homes, like its Clar Bridge, can offer an alterna tive for these memory impaired elderly and thei families. Clare Bridge is a single story residence with interio home -like neighborhoods, a circular floor plan that cre- ates an indoor wandering path and secure outdoor garden spaces. Clare Bridge also uses visual cueing sys- tems such as color -coded neighborhoods, prominent signage and memory boxes full of personal memorabilia ac- located outside the door of nts. each resident's private liv- ity ing space. m- According to company ort representative Jon Anne ing Berard, one important ele- red ment of Clare Bridge is the at offering of Life Enrichment er Programming. "Our residents do receive ve supportive services," she o- said. "Whatever their inter- ir- ests, we will modify those si- tasks to their physical capa- ed bilities." ng Berard said Clare Bridge al staff will incorporate these n interests into daily pro- e gramming. is The Eagan Clare Bridge is the first one to be built by d Alternative Living Services e in Minnesota. The company, - however, is opening two - WovenHearts in Blaine and r Inver Grove Heights in July. WovenHearts is an assisted living home for the physi- r cally frail. According to Berard, con- struction of Clare Bridge is slated to begin in Septem- ber and the building is scheduled to be finished June 30, 1998. She said cost for home residents will be competitive with the local market. Building proposals in Eagan may mean more options for area seniors Affordable housing planned By ERIN HEMME FROSLIE Affordable housing options for seniors in Dakota County may increase with the con- struction of an independent liv- ing facility in Eagan. According to Mark Ulfers of the Dakota County Housing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA), Eagan has the third highest need in the county for affordable senior housing. More than 300 households are on the waiting list for Oak Woods, the county -managed senior housing complex on Cliff Road. "Based on this we know there's significant need for more housing," Ulfers said. And that need is only going to grow. A 1996 study initiated by the Dakota County HRA pre- dicts the senior population in the county will triple in the next 15 years. To address this issue locally, the Eagan City Council set aside land on Town Centre Drive to begin a second afford- able senior housing project. "The average age of Eagan is low now," City Administrator Tom Hedges said, "but it will continue to go up." Both Hedges and Ulfers say the housing need isn't only for aging Dakota County residents, but for parents who want to move closer to their adult chil- dren who reside in the county. The first phase of the project, which is a collaboration be - (See Affordable, p.8A) 6 7 5 WEEK JGG�� a� / 977 Affordable (Continued from front page) tween Eagan and the Dakota County HRA, will be similar to Oak Woods, said Ulfers. It's independent, congregate senior housing that offers underground parking and some services. Many of these services, such as a full commercial kitchen and housekeeping, may not be utilized at first, but will be available as the residents age. According to Ulfers, con- struction on the facility will begin this fall, pending ap- proval by the City Council. At that time, the HRA will begin accepting applications for the 65 one -bedroom and two -bed- room rental units. Criteria for applicants is that one applicant in the household is over 55, renters have good credit ratings and have annual incomes of less than $34,800. Although, Ulfers said, if the new facility is similar to Oak Woods, residents' annual in- comes will average between $13,000 and $15,000 per year. Hedges said the facility is in a prime location. Shopping, restaurants, entertainment and bus service are within walking distance of the proposed build- ing. "It's on the fringe of things happening," he said. Future plans for the site in- clude constructing a second independent living building and possibly an assisted living facility, if it is needed, Ulfers said. But some with experience in the senior housing field say the need for assisted living facili- ties is there now. "I've been working here for five years and I've seen it just boom," said Bonnie Clark, ex- ecutive director of Senior Housing, Inc., a non-profit or- ganization that helps individu- als find appropriate and afford- able senior housing in the met- ropolitan area. "People don't want to go to nursing homes, so they're demanding assisted living." According to Clark, assisted living has a broad definition. It can range from having some- one come into a home to clean to living in a building where 24 hour care and services are pro- vided. Regardless of the defini- tion, Clark says assisted living brings about the same end: "independence through inter- dependence." Jessica Cook of the HRA agreed there is a need for an affordable assisted living build- ing in Dakota County, but said it isn't as great as the need for subsidized independent living housing. In addition, she said the HRA is limited in how it can make assisted living more affordable. Average costs for privately owned assisted living facilities range from $2,000 to $3,000 per month, depending on services offered. Typically, Cook said, the HRA creates affordable hous- ing by reducing the cost of real estate and construction debt. This, in turn, lowers rent. In assisted living facilities, how- ever, the bulk of expense is not the rent, but in the operating costs and services provided. "We continue to work with developers to make it more affordable," Cook said, "but assisted living is a service in- dustry and we can't lower those costs." �'�� s W'a4 a 1g97 Motel owners research its re -opening • Neighbors want vacant Airliner Motel on Highway 55 torn down. By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Owners of the closed Airliner Motel on Highway 55 in Eagan have dreams of re- opening the motel, possibly as a franchised business. City officials said if the former motel were to reopen, owners would have to ad- here to newer building codes and would need a setback variance approval. Neighbors of the motel at 2788 High- way 55 are asking city officials to find a way to tear the building down. Eagan residents Philip and Ann Kor purchased the motel in 1979. They paid $500,000 for it, said Ann Kor. "The first few years, the truck business was good. Then business was OK," Kor said. But the closing for repairs of the Men- dota Bridge in 1992 drove what little busi- ness was left away. By the time the bridge reopened in October 1994, the Kors had closed the motel. They continue to pay taxes on the property, but without deriving income from it, the motel has become a fi- nancial burden, Kor said. They have had corporate executives from a national motel chain look at the property to see if it could be a franchise site and the Kors have had talks with a banker, she said. Preliminary reports from an ar- chitect and contractor indicate the founda- tion is still good, she added. A fire occurred at the motel in October 1993, after which the state fire marshal cited various code violations. Among the problems were non -working smoke detec- tors, missing fire extinguishers and im- proper storage of combustible materials, according to city records. On Nov. 22,1993, the city removed the meters and shut off the water. At the city's request, the Kors boarded up the windows and doors about two years ago, said Dale Wegleitner, city fire mar- shal. Residents who live near the motel want to know when it will be demolished, said Jon Hohenstein, assistant city administra- tor. In a letter addressed to the City Coun- MOTEL: To Page 8A L fi" J al1 CA,-) l r V' l L At Ai '/ 1 f1 (C Motel From Page lA cil in May, Lawrence Avenue resident Merle Duff referred to the motel as the "Eagan Eye Sore." Neighbors Lynn and Dennis Klingel said they have seen people living out of the rooms and have called it to the Police Department's attention. Eagan Police re- ceived reports of trespassers at the site on Nov. 20, 28 and 30 last year. On April 16, there was a report of open doors and in June there were reports of suspicious activity and damage to the property. "I'm concerned about the health haz- ard," said Lynn Klingel. "For two years va- grants have used it as one giant toilet." The previous fire was contained to one room. Klingel said she doubts whether the neighbors would bother to call the Fire Department in the future. The Kors' plan to reopen the motel came as a surprise to some. "The neighbors would rather have it torn down even though we'd lose our buffer between us and the highway," Klin- gel said. Council members also appeared sur- prised by the news. "Nobody anticipated reuse of an obso- lescent motel," said Mayor Tom Egan dur- ing a City Council work session July 30. Councilmember Ted Wachter said, "I can't see anything wrong with it. It's a The Airliner boarded up. tographer) Motel in Eagan stands (Jan Abbott/Staff Pho- compatible use." The motel falls within the boundaries of a new Tax Increment Finance (TIF) re- development district. TIF financing will be a funding mechanism used by Eagan to do public improvements, correct substan- dard conditions, remove substandard structures and to assemble land for pri- vate redevelopment in the highways 55 and 149 area. Pulte, city at odds over Oakbrooke project By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer A legal dispute has ensued between the city of Eagan and Pulte Homes over one of the city's last large tracts of land. On March 19, Pulte Homes filed an ap- plication asking the city to rezone 112 acres north of Diffley Road, south of Deer - wood and east of Interstate 35E. If ap- proved, the R-2 zoning would allow Pulte to build twinhomes in a new subdivision to be called Oakbrooke. However, neighbors objected to the project's density, so Pulte revised its plans to include 70 single-family houses in the center of the subdivision. That re- quires an R-1 zoning request, which Pulte has not applied for. During a public hearing on the R-2 application April 22, Pulte asked the Planning Commission to approve the R-2 zoning for the outer ring of the development and said they'd be back to apply for the R-1 zoning later. Commissioners said they supported the revised plan but weren't comfortable ap- Ca6AYv` ��•J C,cavt' , v— 1 proving a partial zoning request. They asked Pulte to withdraw the request and follow up with a comprehensive Rl/R2 re- quest in May. Their fear was that the R- 2 request would never follow. "It's a question of who trusts whom the most. It's easier to trust the Planning Commission because we have no finan- cial gain," said Commissioner Mark Miller. "I've seen so many times when the city and residents have been burned," said Miller, who has served on the com- mis sion. for more than ,nine�ears. The commission postponed action on the plan in April, assuming that Pulte would submit a new application for both the R-1 and R-2 zoning. But at last week's public hearing, Pulte said the city failed to act on its R-2 request within the statu- tory time frame of 60 days, which ran out in mid -May. In a letter hand delivered to Planning Commission members May 27, Attorney Josiah Brill stated that his clients hold PULTE: To Page 13A Apple Valley/Rosemount, Eagan Sun•CurrentlWednesday, June 4, 1997 13A Pulte: Developer claims zoning approved by default From Page 1A the position that rezoning has occurred by default, pursuant to State Statute 15.99. Brill told commissioners that failure to provide Pulte written notice of a 60- day extension is the same as approving the request according to "operation of law." But, Eagan Senior Planner Mike Rid- ley argues that the rezoning proposal presented by Pulte at the April 22 com- mission meeting was different from the application, filed March 19. "It was our understanding that with your amended request and presence at the meeting, that there was a new appli- cation and that the old application was withdrawn or extended," wrote Ridley in a letter dated May 23. Brill said an application for the R-2 zoning would be forthcoming. He sug- gested that the commission pass the issue on to the City Council without a rec- ommendation. But the commission continued with the public hearing anyway. "You have your position and the city has theirs," said Commission Chair Carla Heyl. The commission approved the R-2 zoning request by a 4-3 vote. Commissioner Larry Frank was the only member to say that the site is not ap- propriate for single-family homes. The issue presumably moves forward to the City Council meeting scheduled for June 17. Because the site is one of the last large tracts of land in Eagan to be de- veloped, proposals have been scruti- nized by the commission and City Coun- cil. In the past, builders have proposed designs for a regional shopping center, gas convenience store and mixed resi- dential. Last September, Pulte wanted to build 502 units using five different housing styles ranging from townhomes to single family. Neighbors objected to the density of the project. The City Council agreed and denied the request. Situated next to the new water tower, the land is clearly visible by those who travel along I-35E. It's a stone's thrdw to Deerwood Elementary and Blackhawk Middle School. Residents from adjacent neighbor- hoods raised concerns during the May 27 public hearing about traffic flow to and from the schools. Assuming the city and Pulte can work out the legal tangles of this project, city engineers have recommended that the Cashell Glen cul-de-sac be extended into the new development to provide another access to the school. Neighbors and the developer have asked that the cul-de-sac be left alone. Commissioners supported keeping the cul-de-sac unless the city can show that doing so would be a public safe- ty issue. "If nobody wants it, why are we ram- ming it down their throats?" asked Com- missioner Mark Miller. Instead, commissioners are recom- mending to the City Council that the two neighborhoods be joined by a bike path beginning at the Cashell Glen cul- de-sac. 1 FLOOD: To rage art Latest Pulte plan seeks 300 homes By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Pulte Homes will have to make one more application be- fore coming into City Hall with building plans. On April 22, the city's Adviso- ry Planning Commission post- poned action on Pulte's request to build twin homes in Eagan. The site is on what's commonly known as the "Bieter property" between Diffley Road and Deer - wood Drive, just east of Inter- state 35E. The vacant land is one of the last large parcels in . Eagan, clearly visible by all who travel along Interstate 35E. PULTE: To Page 14A Pulte: Neighbors 'can live with' plan From Page lA In the past decade, builders have pro- posed designs for the site, including a re- gional shopping center, gas convenience store and mixed residential. The City Council denied all requests primarily be- cause they were too intense for the neigh- borhood. Last September Pulte wanted to build 502 units using five different housing styles ranging from townhomes to single family. Residents calling themselves the Eagan Citizens for Responsible Devel- opment formed a coalition opposing the plan. The council denied the pro- ject. A scaled -down plan showing 300 homes was brought before the Planning Commission last week. It would com- prise 230 twin homes and 70 single fam- ily homes. The single family homes would be built in the center of the de- velopment, with the twin homes cir- cling the perimeter. The plan requires the council to rezone the property to Rl (single family) and R2 (multiple dwelling). The neighborhood coalition has given this concept approval, said Bill Cottrell, an Eagan attorney and coalition spokesperson. "We reached an accommodation we feel we can support. This proposal, as amended, is something we can support as being in the best interest of the neigh- borhood and something we can live with," Cottrell said. Planning commissioners also sup- ported the plan but postponed its ap- proval because Pulte's application re- quested only the R2 zoning designation. Pulte asked the commission to approve the R2 portion and said they'd come back next month with another applica- tion requesting the RI. zoning. But com- missioners said they prefer to wait for a comprehensive plan before sending their recommendation forward to the City Council. "I'd rather see all of it come back next month. It scares me that we would want to approve of the outer ring and have this hole in the center," said Commissioner Mark Miller. "If they come back and the numbers didn't work as RI, I'd have a hard time telling someone the center is not appro- priate for R2 if it's surrounded by R2," Miller said. "I've seen so many times when the city and residents have been burned." Dennis Griswold of Pulte Homes pushed for approval, saying the company would not waive its right for a 60-day rul- ing by the council. According to law, the council is required to take action on a de- velopment proposal within 60 days after a developer files an application. City At- torney Mike Doherty said the city can ex- ercise its right for an extension of the 60- day rule. Without the extension, the council would have to act on the propos- al by May 6. Commissioner Paul Bakken agreed with Miller, saying the property should not be approved by "piece -meal." Commission Chair Carla Heyl said, "It's been a property of much concern. I'd just as soon err on the side of cau- tion." Griswold said he would have to re- turn to the property owner to re -negoti- ate a purchase price based on a mix of single family and twin homes. It's possi- ble that Pulte could submit a new appli- cation in time to schedule a public hear- ing before the Planning Commission on May 27. ■TT Citi-Cargo to expand semi -trailer storage Council OKs permit, reaches settlement By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Citi-Cargo and Storage Co. may now store up to 145 semi- trailers on a 12-acre lot next to its four -acre property at 3575 Highway 13 in Eagan. A conditional use permit (CUP) was granted by the City Council last week, but not until the city had signed an agree- ment with the transport compa- ny following a battle in court. In September 1996, the coun- cil denied Citi-Cargo's CUP re- quest to store trailers outdoors on eight of the 12-acre lot. At the time, Eagan's city ordinance pro- hibited storage on parcels larger than the main business site. Nearby businesses and residents had raised concerns and objected to the storage expansion. Citi-Cargo filed suit against the city in March. A Dakota County District Court judge or- dered the city to issue the CUP. When attempts by the city of Eagan to appeal the judge's de- cision failed, terms for the CUP were written to include: • The permit remains valid as long as the conditional use remains the same, regardless of who owns or operates the storage business. • Citi-Cargo must replat the parcel by combining it with the main site within 60 days of coun- cil approval. • No further development may occur prior to completing the revised plat. • Citi-Cargo must landscape and screen the lot. • Direct access to the storage lot from Yankee Doodle Road is prohibited. • Storage of trailers is limit- ed to four of the 12 acres. Attorneys for both parties drafted a settlement agreement that was approved at the June 3 council meeting. Conditions include: • Citi-Cargo fully releases the city of Eagan of all costs aris- ing from the lawsuit. • Both parties agree to a Stip- ulation of Dismissal which means that neither can file a subsequent claim in the future, including a damage claim. • The agreement is viewed as a compromise of disputed claims and shall not be regarded as an admission of liability or merit by either party. In tandem with last week's CUP approval, the council also amended a city ordinance regu- lating off-street parking. When the code was approved in 1995; it was with the intention of assist- ing successful Eagan businesses that needed room to expand. The dispute which led to the lawsuit between Citi-Cargo and the city was over the definition of what is a "servient" parcel. Fur- ther clarification and definition was written into the ordinance and approved June 3. Revisions now state that the servient, or sec- ondary parcel, shall have fewer spaces, less area and less outdoor storage than the dominant parcel. A Ea f G�t Y c��/Ay� an doses lawsuit by Citi-Cargo Company By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer The city of Eagan lost two court cases within two weeks last month. On March 6, the Minnesota Supreme Court deter- mined that the city's road unit connection charge was an illegal fee. A District Court will determine penalties, if any, how much and to whom. One week later, on March 12, Citi- Cargo Company won the right to obtain a conditional use permit from the city to store semi -trailers on a 12-acre lot next to its four -acre property. City officials have not determined whether they'll appeal the district court ruling. Permit would allow storage of semi -trailers Citi-Cargo leases and rents semi -trail- ers for storage to merchants and whole- salers. In the fall of 1996, the company wanted to expand its business at 3575 Highway 13. To move the trailers to clients throughout the Twin Cities, they use 15 tractors. Their expansion was dependent upon obtaining a conditional use permit re- quired by Eagan. The city's Advisory Planning Commis- sion (APC) and City Council denied the request after adjacent businesses and residents raised concerns during a public hearing Aug. 27, 1996. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota and R.L. Johnson Co., owners of adjacent office space, objected to the expansion, saying the storage of trailers would be an eyesore. Other neighbors predicted prob- lems with dust and requested more land- scaping to screen visibility. On a 3-2 vote, the Planning Commis- sion recommended denying the permit. The City Council agreed on Sept. 3 and voted 4-0 not to grant the permit. Mayor Tom Egan stepped down during the vote to avoid a conflict of interest. An attorney, Egan said Citi-Cargo was an ex- isting client of his, but he was not repre- senting them in the application for a con- ditional use permit. In court documents filed on March 12, Citi-Cargo claims that in discussions with the mayor, they were led to believe that the 12-acre lot next to their building would be "perfect for its needs and that the coun- cil would be taking action in that regard." "I didn't say anything like that," Egan said last week. Egan called those words a "rough paraphrase" of a discussion he had with his client following the Planning Com- mission meeting. The City Council met in two executive sessions to discuss the lawsuit. Egan said LAWSUIT: To Page 12A Lawsuit: Judge rules against city From Page lA he attended the first session but excused himself from the second session, al- though he was not legally bound to. The other issue raised in the lawsuit regards perceived traffic problems if the business was allowed to expand to up to 145 trailers. In his findings, Judge Harvey Holtan said the city misapplied a city code per- taining to outdoor storage and off-street parking. Holtan also said the city "insuffi- ciently concluded" that the use of the larg- er lot would increase traffic congestion and interfere with traffic on Highway 13 and Blackhawk Road. No traffic study was or- dered in conjunction with this application. However, the city has been studying the ef- fects of the trucking industry upon the Highway 13 corridor. Results of that study are expected later this year. The property on three sides of Citi-Cargo is zoned for in- dustrial uses. Across the street, residential housing is being constructed. Citi-Cargo is one of several trucking industry companies requesting permits to store trucks outdoors. At its April 1 meeting, the council granted Penske Truck and Leasing Company a condition- al use permit to store 96 trucks and trail- ers in the Eagandale Corporate Center at Aldrin Drive and Lexington Avenue. In a similar request by Dart Transit, the council approved a continuation of the request indefinitely, until Dart can submit additional information requested by the council and Planning Commission. 4,r;/2. j?7 4 Cur to Redevelopment to use tax -increment financing Roseville Properties, in conjunction with R.J. Ryan Construction, is building Eagan Business Commons, a multi -ten- ant complex of industrial offices and warehouses along the Highway 55 and Lone Oak corridor. It's the first major redevelopment pro- ject within Eagan's only Tax Increment Financing (TIF) redevelopment district. The City Council approved the project April 14. Beginning May 1, the first phase of the project begins with construction of a 200,000 square foot warehouse and a 69,000 square foot office/warehouse. A second office/warehouse will be built in 1998. An estimated 300 to 400 new jobs would be created in the industrial job market. The developer may use TIF funds for the acquisition of homes in the 800 block of Lone Oak. The construction of Com- mers Drive and related utility infra- structure is included in the list of public improvements. Apple Valley/Rosemount, Eagan Sun•Current/Wednesday, May 14, 1997 15/ Farm: Kyllo plans to call the new neighborhood Murphy Farm From Page 1A Kyllo plans to call the new neighbor- hood Murphy Farm, but he isn't in total agreement with Murphy about what to name the streets. "I suggested Murphy Farm, A Piece of the Emerald Isle, because it's so much like Ireland." Murphy said. His grandparents came to America during the potato famine and settled into farming in Iowa. His par- ents moved across the border to farm in southern Minnesota. Murphy wants Kyllo to consider naming the streets after Irish towns such as Dublin, Killarney, Shamrock and Galway. "I thought it would be a selling point. It conjures up something of beauty," Murphy said. Kyllo is recommending the streets be named Donegal Way and Galway Lane. The farm site was originally owned by Henry Sibley, the first governor of Min- nesota. Blackhawk Lake was named for one of Sibley's "roust-abouts," a man named John Conklin who lived in a shack near the east end of the lake. Conklin got the name Blackhawk because of his sto- ries of having captured Chief Blackhawk, an Indian leader of the 1820s. "Sibley hired him to look after this area. The Sioux Indians would camp out near the lake at Devil's Hollow." The farm was owned by others before Murphy bought it in 1948. Prior to farming, Murphy taught school on the Iron Range and worked as a field engineer for IBM. Ardelle grew up in St. Paul and at first, she wasn't thrilled about becoming a farmer's wife in the 1940s, he said. She adjusted and became a 4-H leader in the community. "We both realized it was an ideal place to raise kids," Murphy said. He and his sons, Larry, John, Kevin and Dennis, herded 100 head of cattle over the rolling pastures. The boys would work until 9 p.m. every day. "There was no time to join gangs and get into mischief," he said. The farm will become a small hobby farm now, conducive to growing fruits and vegetables, Murphy said. "Kevin would have liked to continue, but we have to have money for taxes, health care and a nursing home," Murphy said. Though he's sad about the passing of an era, Murphy said he's confident that Kyllo will build a housing area his family and Eagan can be proud of. "They are nice big lots, some overlook the lake. It's one of the most beautiful places in Eagan," said Murphy, a former city mayor and county commissioner. Access to the development will be from Murphy Parkway and off Riverton at Dav- enport. Kyllo is proposing to rename Dav- enport as Galway Lane. The Eagan City Council will view the plan on May 19. Murphy Farm Development Plan BLACKHAWK PARK Proposed Housing Development Kevin Murphy Property Dennis Murphy Property M Q Areapa CRY of___ Eagan Leona wiesnan ana hone aria �r^ Paul's plan must be ready this week, perhaps as early as Wednes- day or Thursday. "They say the government sleeps on holidays," Thune said. "But civil servants have been working overtime. We've been tossing options around for fiscal workability and also political fea- sibility. The mayor's been spear- heading it and he's doing a good job. But we are all in it." For weeks, the plan has been for private investors, led by Bob Nae- gele, to contribute $35 million, the city to contribute $30 million and the state of Minnesota to contrib- ute $65 million to the new arena. However, through most of the first four months of the session, the Legislature was unable to agree upon a way to disburse that $65 million. During the last week of the ses- sion, a proposal was made to offer St. Paul an interest -free loan that the city would repay, beginning in 2023, with money from its sales tax. However, state Sen. Sandy Pappas, a St. Paul DFLer, said the proposal raised too many ques- tions and was coming too late in the session and she led the fight to kill it. Coleman and Thune said they and other arena supporters were depressed last Tuesday, but fairly quickly "took stock" Coleman said, and began holding meetings to see if something could be sal- • vaged. Thune said the special legisla- ive session, which will be called oon, will not deal with the hock- y-arena financing. However, oleman said Gov. Arne Carlson upports the arena because of the 70 million in new business they project it will bring to downtown St. Paul. Coleman and some St. Paul City Council members will meet today with Carlson to discuss their plans, the mayor said. t s e C s $ BRIEFING ASSOCIATED PRESS Robbed of his eyesight by the AIDS virus, the Cuban man could not read his mother's letters, nor could others in the assisted -care home where he lived understand him when he spoke in his native tongue. "It was frustrating for him, and it was frustrating for his caregiv- ers," said Linda Ernst, associate director of the Agape Home, a Minneapolis refuge for people with AIDS. "We realized then that we needed to better serve the La - early next year In Minneapolis. Ernst said Agape Dos, which will cost about $500,000, will ex- clude no one. But the home will have a Hispanic flavor, from the pictures on the walls to the news- papers and the food. In Minnesota, the number of AIDS cases among Latinos, blacks and other minorities has grown steadily over the years, said Jessie Saavedra, a disease investigator with the Minnesota Department of Health. Yet health-care providers aren't doing a good job of reaching Lati- nos, said Dr. Keith Henry, director guage barrier is a big gap," he said. "Some community -oriented targeted efforts, such as the new home, could be helpful." Hispanics aren't the only ethnic group being targeted for such cul- turally sensitive services. A Min- neapolis housing development tai- lored to American Indians with AIDS or HIV, the virus that causes the disease, Is in the works. "We have seen a need for this kind of service for several years," Saavedra said. "Not just for Lati- nos, but for other cultures who are overrepresented in the AIDS popu- lation. I'm hoping more of these t o s Wi ‘qq7 nua av1111 a L:VVIJC1aLIVC, J41U al144' on Day, executive director. Thy` development, with a cost of about $2 million, is expected to open in about six months. The development, with its eight - sided dwellings clustered around a central ceremonial area, will re- flect a traditional Indian village. Critics say targeting specific ethnic groups takes away resourc- es from the general population. Day disagrees. "If we can create stabilization for people living with AIDS, they can focus on other areas of their lives and be healthier, happier and productive," she said. Eagan planning more apartments for seniors • Long waiting list stirs official action DON AHERN STAFF WRITER Infrequent vacancies and 300 names on a waiting list for Oak Woods of Eagan have prompted city and county officials to start planning for a second senior apartment building for indepen- dent people over age 55. Eagan is expected to finance the estimated $4.5 million, 65-unit fa- cility near the city's commercial center with revenue bonds to be paid off by rents. And the Dakota County Housing and Redevelop- ment Authority would build it and manage it. That was the same ar- rangement that sponsored Oak Woods. "We're trying to figure out how to put together another financial package so there will be no gener- al fund appropriation and so it will stand on its own," said City Administrator Tom Hedges. However, final details still must be worked out. The City Council will probably act on the unnamed new project in June or July. The council and HRA officials worked out some of the tentative details in a planning session last week. But the HRA already owns the land a short distance south of the Mann movie theaters in Eagan on Town Centre Drive near Yankee Doodle Road. It is vacant tax -for- feited land that HRA Director Mark Ulfers called an ideal loca- tion for senior housing: "It's a short walk to the theater, a block and a half from Rainbow Foods and Walgreen Drug Store, right in the heart of Eagan's commercial district." He added that there is room for Proposed low -Income townhouses Diffley Rd. \� tAtAI3 Johnny ■oak Ridge Eiementsry School Cliff Rd. • 32 PIONEER PRESS more housing near Oak Woods, at Cliff and Nicols roads, but "the thinking is that we will need sev- eral senior housing facilities so it's a good thing to have this one somewhere else so they aren't all in one place." If the council approves the pro- ject as expected, construction will probably begin this fall, with occu- pancy scheduled for early fall of 1998. The design of the structure will probably be similar to Oak Woods and other places for independent seniors in the county, Ulfers said. They typically feature somewhat smaller than normal living quar- ters, but with large community rooms "to get people out of their units and together into a commu- nity setting," he added. Rents will likely be about $425 for single bedroom units and $525 for two bedrooms. "That's about 50 or 60 percent of the market rate for comparable senior facilities," Ulfers said. Inquiries may be made by call- ing the HRA at 423-4800 and ask- ing for Shannon in property man- agement. An interest list will be kept, but applications are not be- ing accepted yet. "We will contact these people when we are further along,' Ulfers said. Lawmaker who's blind BRIEFING in shooting ST. PAUL 19, was charged ckless discharge allegedly shooting 21e early Friday Lafayette Bridge I Minnesota Compulsive Gembtu,g Not Lim:. (800) 437-3641. ■ For lottery results 24 hours a day, call 7THE LINE at 222.1000 and enter category7 CORRECTIONS The time of the Tina Turner concert June 1 at Northrop Audi- torium was listed incorrectly in Sunday's Showtime section. The show begins at 8 p.m. The wrong map was inadver- tently run with an article in Tues- day's Pioneer Press about Eagan's plans to build a new senior citi- zens' apartment building. The lo- cation of the proposed project was correct in the article, on Town Centre Drive about two blocks south of Yankee Doodle Road. Here is the correct map: CRAM *Cfl/PIONEER PRESS able rates starting at 5.25 percent, as well as below -market fixed rates. Those eligible include house- holds with income up to $100,275, for homes with a purchase price - ceiling of $252,120. Friesen will leave MPR tted firing shots at Minnesota Public Radi Radio sst ling next to his on cal -music host/producer It 1 a.m. Friday, ac- Friesen announced Tuesday he has criminal complaint accepted a position with the Cana- y County District dian Broadcasting Corp. in Toron- was injured, but the to, Ontario. lad bullet holes. Friesen, who will continue his -bier reported the afternoon drive -time "From the State Patrol and Music Room" broadcasts on the a license -plate num- MPR network, including KSJN- iption of the vehicle FM (99.5) in the Twin Cities, ;. 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MEEDLES,NREAD & SCISSORS A LMR%ER WH%P JIM ING.fNMIEROFF1b r INEQTJTTY vcrumcnt Target, Mervyn's, Dayton's, iudson's and Marshall ununitof Field's has apparel vendors in the thousands, accord- tontenon: ing to Susan Eich, director of public relations. hope the Multiply that list by all of the subcontractors the vcn- pointirtg dors work with, and you get a quick picture of the cove this vast web that puts clothing on the retail shelves. Not incidentally, Dayton Hudson was one of the Mon that companies accused of carrying clothing made in the ,t, Earlier El Monte shop, something the cotnpany denies. ervescent Whether that link is proved — a civil case stemming ;tiees of u froin the situation is now in the discovery phase after tdc some a judge denial Dayton Hudson's request for summa- ording to ry judgment — a larger question remains: Just how J 20-hour much responsibility must retailers assume in making l 31 cents sure that goods aren't made in sweatshops? An official with the Department of Lnhor, speak- ;,, federal ing on background, suggested this week that a much Calif., a greater onus should full on retailers. They're al the undocu- top of the chain of command in these relationships, ;like con- they're relatively few in number, and they dictate the azor wire, ' terms of contracts. They can do spot checks at the k—ggg , _,....,.... Forum Development warrants the increased scrunity By Thomas Egan Not too lung ago, well -consid- ered development proposals were unveiled with much fanfare and generally greeted with enthusiasm by the general public, the business community and government offi- cials, Such proposed projects, be they business parks or major resi- dential developments, were viewed as symbols of growth, and growth was an affinnatiun of yuc- ccss. Today. fur a multi- tude of reasons, public reaction is not nearly a:r predictable. Though tnost find growth to be a positive sign, growth per se dots not begin to answer the range of questions that arise. Developers today arc forced to address issues such as enuiron• mental impacts. financ- ing pressures, advance sale or tenant commit- ments, effects on neigh- boring businesses and residential neighbor- hoods, and the costs of needed public improve- ments. More than ever, citizens try to assess the overall benefits aid dis- advantages of a proposed project to determine whether it will be an asset to the community and the extent to which it will affect than favorably. Kcy aspects of the equation applied to development proposals by local governments are the costs, both direct and indirect, that may be borne by the public. Public offl- cials increasingly recognize that residents arc skeptical about the claims and promises made fre- quently on behalf of costly devel- opments. The use of tax increment financing (TIF) has been reduced in Minnesota in recent years, largely as a result of this shifting perspective. The city of Eagan has been blessed with a strategically favor- able location in the Thin Cities, easily accessible to downtown Minneapolis and St. Paul, the airport and a network of arterial highways that places must metro communities within easy reach. Since "location, location, location" continues to he the key reality in com- mercial real estate, Eagan has been able to avoid major financial commit- ments to develop- ment proposals, using TIF only sparingly. For example, with Opus Corp.'s new Promenade retail center, now under construc- tion on Yankee Doodle Road, by Interstate 35-E, the developer con- tributed much of the cost of need- ed roadway improvements with the city financing the portion attributed to normal traffic increas- es. FORUM to page 9 • Volume 14. Number 6 CI Business July 12, 1996 The Busioess Journal Stcttrt A. Clurnt,lln III 288.2I 35 EDITORIAL Editor: Kevin Meier 288-2102 61234137b3- A D V E R T I S I N G Advertising Director: David lost 288-2123 SentorAccaunt Erecudva Maureen Tubbf Aco>unt Eszcalves: Hcadwr H5VM le lohnev.. Mn, :23AM Pti05 #21 t0 O. FORUM from page 8 The concept of having new development pay its own way is not new to Eagan. but a philosophy Eagan has sought to maintain since it shifted from township to city stance in 1974. This policy. based on fairness and applied in a consistent manner. gives resi- dents assurance that their tax dollars will be used to support needed city services and advance public interests, not promote pri- vate projects. This approach has served residents and businesses well. since Eagan has one of the Iowest tax rates in the'Iwin Cities area One pivotal element of this "pay your own way" approach to municipal finance is presently being challenged by a gi0up of developers who have been active builders in Eagan. Eagan's road connection fee was established the '70s. to help provide funding for new roadway improvements necessitated by pri- vate development in the city. There would be a fair one-time charge applied for new construction or developments so that they would stand on their own two feet and not burden other residents. New residents would pay for the road improvements once and only once Ironically, this fee system replaced an earlier financing program that some builders had found to be inequitable- The builder's suit, which seeks to invalidate the charge and obtain refunds of payments made in the preceding six years, was rejected in District Court but that decision was ovestnnned by the Court of Appeals. Some residents have voiced concern about the possibility that the city alight have to make payments to a group of developers and that is understand- able_ After all, experienced business people make certain that their costs are built into the sales price of a product, in this case pri- marily single family homes. Home buyers, not the builders, actually bore the cost of the road connection charge. It is expected that the Minnesota Supreme Court will snake the final judgment. since the city has filed an appeal• As a city that has seen its population grow from 14,000 in 1974 to about 58.000 today. Eagan can Nattily be called anti - development. The major corporate head- quarters and numerous businesses that have located in Eagan attest to that The city does, however. work to ensure that its infrastruc- ture can accommodate the needs of residents now and in the future. Fs Bn's community development staff works with developers to help guide projects through the approval process and eeptain the city's policies. New proposals are subjected to much greater public scrutiny than in the past, for a num- ber of reasons. One key factor is that the majority of Eagan's land has been devel- oped, so that most projects are now in -fill development New construction has a greater impact on neighboring businesses and residences and both groups want, and need, an opportunity to express their opin- ions and c oacems. We now use signagge to indicate sites that are the subject of develop- ment proposals, giving those in the area an opportunity to obtain detailed infnrmalion on what is planned. Eagan's rolling hills and wooded areas are among its .major attractions and the city's development policies, reflecting the wishes of residents, seek to ensure that qual- ity of life features are maintained. Our tree prw=rration policy, among the fast to be adopted in the metro area, calls for the replacement of trees, above certain levels. that are removed to accommodate new con- struction. Developers have come to know that the public is prepared to pay more for wooded lots, More than offsetting any addi- tional construction costs. While the Metropolitan Council contin- ues to work on regional blueprints, the appropriate rate of growth and adjustments to the Metropolitan Urban Service Area to guide overall development. the changing face of development can be seen mast graphically in individual communities, neighborhoods if you will. That is where the CityBusiness Ialy 12, 1996 9 theoretical approaches of the professional planners meet the wishes of the people. The public increasingly wants a greater voice m the decisions that affect them. Successful communities will recognize this and bring Mote and more concerned citizens into the planning process. The result will be a greater sense of community and more informed development decisions. Thomas Egon hos been mayor of Eagan since 1990 and is a partner with the law fmmi of Egg Stewart & Louer,App a Volley. He served on the Eagan Gry Council from 1978 to 1989. Letters General fund should bear MCHA deficit costs To the editor. (This letter is in response to Lynn Gruber's letter in the June 7 issue.) If you were a legislator and could create a program available to all Minnesotans without having to pay for it out of the state budget, it would be an appealing proposi- tion, right? Furthermore, if you were a benefactor of this program, it would be great to ring up bills all year and tben have a neat payment mechanism that miraculously ously balanced the budget, right? The Minnesota Comprehensive Health Association was created by state law to be available to any Minnesotans denied private health insurance_ The deficit ran close to $50 million Last year It was paid, after the fact, ihtough assessments on insurers who pass it on to all their premium holders. Employers making insurance plans avail- able to employees then pay for the deficit. as well as all individuals paying all or part of their premium. This is a classic example of public policy gone awry. The Minnesota Chamber recog- nizes the need for and supports the continu- ation of MCHA, but burying its costs in pre- miums and penalizing those purchasing insurance is wrong. We will work to correct this problem next session by proposing that the MCHA deficit be funded through the state's general ftmcL 'Load's the most responsible way to fend this vitally important program. Pot Popen fuss Papgrow director, Result Radio Group Member, Minnesota Chamber of Commerce Health Poky Committee Sleedweck USA s one of the worlds lead- N O V— 2 S— 9 6 M O N • 1 6 : 1 6 W A L L A C E G R O U P P_ 0 2 16A w •! Pi -rot h. RIIMW,M Nalmi nrVG,9vnt N.w•'I.KL.11 i-IINI Y EUNor'Si Vet rMtIOpM ro) m.1) D. ('lskI EvIcsial ¢D Evna .Kr,r. DIK-mR MonoAmi Edisnr 11.1 0:'n0141 I'.111 hf.•1Oe ttv EutOrid Eolm' 1.11.111,akn 14. Rn,lite, aUi t7ltrmn11..04+4 sMxr PA I, rlt)VI'.FJ 1'IL14 II'k11AV, 1411LVULk :‘. Iwr. 111. 1•411 riwo 1I, 1111 I.C11LYt 1V IKt 1.1,11,r' AZ. Cmr K >C1YI 1 u t o la n1 s, 111 nit PJll t.4 M,*%•I.+•rr,IfM to N..M Y+... NM, 1•r. rr•'• 4'V'4y. 'Wk. Wel.11 M,pulp,„ f, mun.*-Ir dMT•n r... k.kflKr pop .111.1 WOW Pit • em .• •M,. r- .•,ryr .M.♦♦ w.r.,Y r en. • Shaping the Future Exurban growth must be weighed When Eagan developed its Comprehensive Guide Plan during the early '8os in accordance with Minnesota law, city officials chart- ed a course for a quality community in the greater metropolitans area. Eagan has steadfastly stuck to its comprehensive plan, unless there has been clear demonstration that an amendment to that plan would benefit the community more than the original document. Sound economic development allows Eagan to maintain a high level of ser- vim at one of the lowest property tax rates in the metropolitan arca. This adds stability. Residents moving to Eagan can depend upon predictability in develop- ment surrounding them and greater sta- bility in their property tax rates. Businesses seeking to locate or expand in Eagan can count on quality infrastruc- ture and services at a reasonable price. School districts can, forecast school and student population needs and count on a healthy tax base to pay for the neces- sary capital costs, Quality in the development of A com- munity and a metropolitan area depends upon public trust. All participants must operate on a level playing field. For example, it is most disconcerting to think that employees of Eagan's corpo- rate employers alight find It economical- ly beneficial to operate their PC modems from homes or smaller offices in wostern Wisconsin or traditionally exurban Minnesota counties. THOMAS EGAN SUBURBAN ' MAYI lk etro polis What happens to the stability of bust- ness plans in communities such as Eagan? What happens to the value of housing if the market is diluted by artifi- cially subsidized cheap housing in exur- ban areas? What happens to the attrac- tive tax base that brought those businesses into communities like Eagan In the first place? What happens to the sound planning by school districts? flow is the cost of transportation, utility ser- vices and schools needed by these new exurban residents to be paid for? Are we in the existing metropolitan area to be asked to subsidize this cost? With the Metro Council's forecast of population growth, these questions beg sound answers. I agree with the council that long-term growth boundaries must be established and that we need stronger land -use planning. The tools are avail- able to us in the metropolitan area to redevelop those areas In need to encour- age and bring back jobs. There is the need for involvement in metropolitan planning from those outside of the confines of the traditional seven - county metropolitan area. Transportation improvements outside the region need to be coordinated and integrated with the capacity of We region to handle addition- al traffic. The real cost of fringe or exurban development should be borne by that development, and not by the region. In the fringe or exurban areas, there needs to be more attention to transporta- tion as a growth management tool. Egan is mayor of Eagan. R-96% 6123413703 11-25-96 05:33PM P002 #49 N O V— 5— 9 6 M O N 1 6: 1 5 W A L L C E G R O U P P - 0 1 FAX LLITER W THE WALLACE GROUP PUBLIC RELATIONS - MARKETING COMMUNICATIONS P.0, Box 36066 - Miononpotif, Woronoff 55435 - 612 341-2100 3138 ,B Fa17wm Driva -Eagan, Minncsoln 55121- (fax) 612 452.3504 November 25, 1996 TO: JOANNA FOOTE PHONE: FAX: 681-4612 FROM: Aaron Hustedde PHONE: 612-341-2100 The Wallace Group FAX: 612-452-3504 RE: Pioneer Press piece Dear Joanna: Press. Here is a copy of Tom Egan's opinion piece that appeared in Saturday's Pioneer Please call if you have any questions. Sincerely, rtata„ Aaron R=96 6123413703 11-25-96 05:33PM P001 #49 New complex, age restriction debated Eagan could pay $1.7 million for Town Centre plan By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Plans to build a new 65-unit senior housing complex near Eagan's Town Centre are being explored by city officials and the Dakota County Housing and Re- development Authority. During a work session last month, HRA officials asked the City Council to give direction toward adding more senior housing in Eagan. Thought was given as to whether a second building should be added to Oak Woods on Cliff Road or to building elsewhere in the city. The HRA recently acquired land through tax forfeiture across from the Mann Theater and vehicle emissions center on Town Centre Drive. "The council pointed us to- ward that site," said Mark Ulfers, Dakota County HRA di- rector. "The location is outstand- ing from a service point of view." HRA: To Page 10A AV) /&A r SuA C te.-'-.en t , ,'lay-4k 5� / 997 HRA: l Oth complex set to be built From Page lA The site is within walking distance of a bank, pharmacy, restaurants, grocery store and new medical center. "It's everything you look for in terms of amenities for seniors," Ulfers said. The bonus is that the site backs up to O'Leary Lake Park. If built, some of the apartments would provide views of the lake, he said. Oak Woods, built in 1991, was planned so that a second building would fit on the site. "The Oak Woods site isn't going any- where. We'll be back to that location," Ulfers said. For now, the county is waiting for the re- sults of soil samples and other environ- mental testing performed on the Town Cen- tre site and for title to the property. The HRA will break ground this spring in Rosemount for its loth senior housing complex. When completed, it will conclude a capital improvement plan to provide more affordable senior housing in Dakota County. • The proposed second Eagan facility would cost about $4.5 million. Financing would be provided by the HRA, the sale of housing bonds and from a major city con- tribution. Eagan has dedicated $800,000 in Community Development Block Grant money for affordable senior housing, as well as $900,000 from its housing Revenue Bond Fund that was collected from build- ing fees in the 1980s, said Gene VanOver- beke, city finance director. "Nobody else is doing that. This is a sev- eral year commitment. That level of com- mitment is unique," Ulfers said. Rents at the new facility may have to be slightly higher than Oak Woods, he said. A one -bedroom apartment there costs $350 and for two bedrooms it's $475. Increases are necessary due to increased construction costs. "We still think this will be an affordable project, but it will be higher," Ulfers said. When Oak Woods was built, the con- struction cost per apartment was $43,000. Six years later, it's costing the HRA about $59,000 per apartment to build the Rose- mount facility. There is less start-up money, as well. "We just don't have the same amount of money," Ulfers said. HRA senior housing units are available to persons age 55 and older with annual in- comes less than $34,800 for couples and $30,450 for individuals. However, Ulfers said the average age of Eagan HRA senior housing residents is 73, compared to the county average of 75. The average annual income of Dakota County HRA senior hous- ing residents is $13,500. Apartments are for non -assisted living but as the age of res- idents increases, Ulfers said the HRA may consider adding services. AV A c g Jul 6‘a -cietC, P 7 Timberwood wants age limit dropped By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Five months after a senior housing project was approved at Pilot Knob and Lone Oak roads in Eagan, the developer is ask- ing to be allowed to remove the age restriction which prohibits buyers younger than 55. Jim Palmer, marketing di- rector for Timberwood Village, said only five units have been sold since he began marketing the project last September. Plans include construction of 63 condominiums and a clubhouse. Currently there are two build - DEVELOPER: To Page 10A rrentlWednesday, March 5, 1997 Developer: Buyers don't like label of `senior housing' From Page lA ings constructed, one model and one for a buyer. When the City Council approved Tim- berwood Village as a planned senior housing development last September, it was because the concept filled a per- ceived need for retirement housing in Dakota County. But Palmer said his prospective buy- ers age 55 to 65 don't want to be labeled as seniors living in a "senior housing" development. He asked the city's Advi- sory Planning Commission (APC) Feb. 25 to amend the development agree- ment by removing the age restriction. The five buyers who intend to live in Timberwood Village have agreed_ that the age restriction should be removed, Palmer said. "By removing the age restriction, you remove the stigma," Palmer said. Marketing would continue to be di- rected toward that age segment of the population, he said. The developer, Cottage Homes owned by Roger Der- rick, is building nine projects. Of those nine, they are requesting age restric- tion amendments for projects in Albert Lea, Austin, Elk River, Rochester and possibly Duluth and Fargo, Palmer said. AV, gm Su.,-) &armt, During the public hearing, neighbors Bruce and Tami Konold objected to drop- ping the age restriction. Bruce Konold said because of the number of similar re- quests, the developer has been "less than straight forward" with the city and the neighbors. Konold also said Palmer hasn't given the project enough time to sell. "The model on site has been open for only a few months," he said. Palmer said his company spent money to have marketing studies done to see why the units weren't selling. The recommendation that came back was to remove the age restriction, he said. /faycl.. ;/997 "There was no intent to mislead this city or the council," Palmer said. Units with a basement sell for about $161,000, he said. A similar product is being sold by the company in Inver Grove Heights for between $110,000 and $160,000. Five units remain available in Inver Grove Heights. After closing the public hearing, APC members agreed with the neighbors that not enough time has elapsed to warrant dropping the age restriction. "Let's face it. Minnesota is pretty ugly in the winter. Could it be that you haven't given it enough time," said Com- missioner Peggy Carlson. Chairperson Carla Heyl said six months ago the developer demonstrated the need for senior housing. In fact, in some Dakota County senior housing complexes, there are waiting lists to get in. "I don't think that need has gone away in our community," Heyl said. Commissioner Steve Burdorf said it's too soon to tell if there really isn't a mar- ket for the Timberwood Village product. Burdorf recommended denial of the de- veloper's request to drop the age restric- tion, and the commission unanimously agreed. The City Council was scheduled to hear the request March 4, after the Sun -Current press deadline. Homestead Village may be Eagan's eighth hotel Preliminary plan for 133-room hotel OK'd By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer A new three-story, 133-room hotel would push Eagan over the 900 mark for the total number of rooms among eight hotels in the city. "That's a lot," said Ann Car- lon, executive director of the Eagan Convention and Visitors Bureau. A preliminary development plan for Homestead Village was approved, subject to conditions, Feb. 25 by the Eagan Advisory Planning Commission (APC). The hotel would be built on the southeast corner of Interstate 35E and Lone Oak Road The City Council was sched- uled to review the proposal March 4. Homestead Village of Eagan would be the first of three such hotels built in the Twin Cities area, said developer Paul Crab- tree of Dallas, Texas. The hotel is intended for the corporate guest who expects to stay longer than the typical two or three night stay. Rates will be between $249 and $289 per week, said Brad Brakhage, project manager. The chain has national ac- counts with corporate guests, who stay in other Homestead Vil- lage hotels in Houston, Phoenix, Santa Fe and Kansas City. 4V Rn; euerene /111ir44 TEL: To Page 9A 19 f' 4v Brut, Su.? Curry Arck 5;J. ?7 Hotel: City could have 900 rooms From Page lA • Installation of 149 9-foot parking stalls. • On -site ponding of water runoff. No restaurant or swimming pool is A 6-foot walking trail will be built ad - planned with the Eagan hotel. Rooms jacent to Denmark Avenue. consist of sleeping and living quarters, When the Fairfield Inn at Interstate bathroom and a kitchenette with a mi- 35E and Duckwood Drive opens in crowave, range top and refrigerator. March, Eagan will have a total of 779 Prior to approving the project, APC hotel rooms. member Steve Burdorf said, "It's a plea- Carlon said the bureau plans to con - sure to look at your proposal." duct a survey this spring to see what ef- Some conditions the APC placed on its fect newer hotels have on the existing approval include: hospitality industry. • A five-year completion date. "Competition is getting fierce," Carlon • Submission of a Planned Develop- said. ment Agreement that includes the sig- Neighboring cities, including Inver nage, landscaping, grading, utility and Grove Heights and Bloomington, also lighting plans. have proposals for new hotels. Av mot,69S cuz- ,lt1 at e017 Design work begins for Lone Oak widening A $3 million project to widen Lone Oak Road between Neil Armstrong Boulevard and Highway 55 in Eagan was approved by the Dakota County Board and Eagan City Council. Dakota County and the city will share almost equally in the cost, with the coun- ty's portion being slightly higher. The project includes a bike trail, right of way acquisition, grading, aggregate base, storm sewer, watermains, curb and gutter and bituminous surfacing. Design options will be presented at a public in- formational meeting that has been scheduled from 3 to 6 p.m. April 10 at the Eagan Municipal Center. A public hear- ing will be scheduled later in the year. The bulk of the construction process is expected to occur in 1998, said Tom Col- bert, Ea an Public Works director. Agency outgrows facility in Eagan Sc1,v1 Curde e- r���1�L Owobopte, a United Way agency for persons with special needs in Dakota County, serves about 230 individuals each year. Programs include job place- ments, vocational training, day training and habilitation, and on - and off -site employment opportu- nities. The licensed and accredited center off Highway 13 in Eagan is almost at capacity, said TerryJohn- ston, the development specialist. Staff Report OWOBOPTE: To Page 15A Apple Valley/Rosemount, Eagan Sun•Current/Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1996 15A Owobopte: 230 served each year From Page 1A Plans are in the works to move to a larg- er facility, hopefully by the end of 1997, Johnston said. Several sites throughout Dakota County are being considered. However the staff's first preference is to stay in Eagan, she said, perhaps in the Eagandale Industrial Park. One method of keeping costs down is to provide central accessibility for trans- portation. In 1996, 12 vans logged more than 250,000 miles while transporting 153 clients. Administrators anticipate growth in the number of clients they serve and hope to add programs currently not offered at Owobopte. "Programs are developed to meet the needs of the individuals we are currently serving," said Carolyn Dobis, program di- rector. For example, the agency would like to add specialized programming to meet the needs of persons with Alzheimer dis- ease. Next year will mark the 25th anniver- sary of Owobopte, "hopefully celebrated in a new building," Johnston said. A cap- ital campaign is underway. Cedarvale townhome proposal for rezoning rejected by council By Sue Hegarty Staff Report For now, commercial property along Beau -De -Rue Drive in Eagan will stay commercial. A proposal to change the land use to permit a 204 townhome development was rejected by the City Council Dec. 16. AMS Properties requested an amend- ment to the city's Comprehensive Guide Plan, which would have changed the land use from commercial shopping to high -den- sity housing, 12 units per acre in some areas. Located just southeast of Cedarvale Mall, buildings on the site currently are used for retail, commercial and manufac- turing purposes, including a photogra- phy studio and gymnastics school. Mike Mogol, son of the property owner, contends that attempts to market the site as commercial property have failed. The former farmland is partially landlocked, next to single family homes. Jars 94, to 7 The area also is within designated air traffic noise contours if and when a north/south runway is built at the Min- neapolis/St. Paul Airport. Residents in the Cedar Grove neigh- borhood to the east opposed the plan, say- ing they'd rather have a shopping center than townhomes. They gathered more than 300 petitions opposing the housing plan and built a World Wide Web home page with information for the public. The council's decision concurs with the Advisory Planning Commission (APC), which also recommended denial of the proposed land use. Commissioner Carla Heyl said if the city changed the com- . mercial land use designation, some might construe that Eagan has given up on the Cedarvale business area. The APC recommendation was unanimous to deny the developer's request. The City Council directed Attorney James Sheldon to prepare findings of fact in support of denial. Cl 1 i C atif,121--1 9I plans Develo er for 204 townhomes p By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer A developer who wants to build 204 townhomes in Eagan has hit a few roadblocks, includ- ing some along the information superhighway. Residents in the Cedar Grove neighborhood built a World Wide Web home page to raise aware- ness about Mike Mogol's plan to build townhomes along Beau - De -Rue Drive. The Web site in- cludes a list of more than 290 pe- titioners who oppose the pro- posed townhouse project. The Web page contains links to more detailed information and a map of the proposed development. The coalition of neighbors call What's next What: Mogol development proposal appears before Eagan City Council. When: 7 p.m. Dec. 16. Where: Eagan Municipal Center, 3830 Pilot Knob Road. Information: 681-4600. themselves Eagan Citizens for Responsible Development. An- drew Hogan, a member, said the main reason they oppose the pro- ject is because it involves high density townhouses. "We like what the city has guided the land toward. We've got townhouses all over the place," Hogan said. The area in question is zoned for agricultural use, single fami- ly homes and commercial shop- ping center development. The city's long range vision for the site is for a mix of commercial shopping and D1 residential de- velopment (0-3 units per acre). Mogol appeared before the city's Advisory Planning Commission (APC) last week to request an amendment to the city's long range plan (Comprehensive Guide Plan). The APC recommended denial of the land use changes and will for- ward their recommendation to the City Council which may approve or deny Mogol's request. The APC INTERNET: To Page 16A Internet From Page lA vote was 5-0 to deny the project. If his request is approved by the council, Mogol would be allowed to build six to 12 units per acre. A vote by the City Council is expected at its Dec. 16 meeting. Last week's APC meeting was a public hearing, attended by Eagan Citizens for Responsible Development. Spokesper- sons for the neighborhood say a city survey performed by The Wallace Group indicates that Eagan has enough multiple housing. The City Council should encourage single family home development, they said. According to city planners, 46 percent of Eagan's housing stock is multiple housing units. Mogol must demonstrate that a rational basis exists for changing the long-term use of this property. lb the north is the Cedarvale shopping center. Apartments and commercial property lie to the east; Cedar Grove single family homes are to the south. Commercial businesses are to the west, some of them operating in converted single family homes. The former farmland is partially landlocked, next to the single family homes. Bluestone Drive, Carnelian Lane and Jade Point currently do not provide access to the site. Ac- cess would likely be from Beau De Rue Drive, according to city planners. Traffic volume does not appear to be a prob- lem. About 5,000 trips per day were made along Beau De Rue Drive in 1995, according to a staff report. The street is capable of handling up to 10,000 trips per day. A single family home on the site is leased for residential use. Other buildings are used for retail, commercial and manufacturing uses, including a photography studio, gym- nastics school and manufacturing. Mogol expects to build in three phases during the next three years. Phase 1 would include the eastern portion; Phase 2 includes the area abutting the Cedar Grove neighbors; and Phase 3 would involve the remainder of the site. Tbwnhomes would sell from $80,000 to $100,000 and be built in clusters of four, six or eight units. Staff raised concern about placing residential develop- ment here because of potential airport noise when the north - south runway is constructed next to Cedar Avenue. The noise contour for the future runway would place the property with- in 3.5 miles of the runway. Homes within this noise contour are considered conditional uses. The Eagan Citizens for Responsible Development's home page can be found at: Http://www.cs.umn.edu/ diedtric/flyer.htrnl. eirloollitskotek 7/I /94 Construction begins at highways 55 and 149 Utilities relocation work began July 8 on Highway 149 and Highway 55 in Eagan. Motorists will not encounter any lane restriction during the work. The week of July 15, crews will begin widening the west side of Highway 149 to begin building a new turn lane to carry northbound Highway 149 traffic to westbound Highway 55. Weather permitting, the project will be completed by mid - August. Fuel sales approved for Silver Bell Center McG's Inc. received City Council ap- proval July 2 to install three fuel pumps east of McDonald's restaurant in the Sil- ver Bell Center at Highway 13 and Silver Bell Road. Mayor Tom Egan and Councilmember Shawn Hunter said the project should enhance the shopping center's viability. Traffic reports indicate the center has been operating below desired levels. The new gas station is expected to draw 200 more trips per day into the center, ac- cording to project developers. crrat/ Curre cA-4,10 Public hearing continued on Yankee Doodle issue A public hearing regarding road im- provements to Yankee Doodle Road, west of Highway 13, has been continued to the Aug. 6 Eagan City Council meeting. Blue Cross and Blue Shield had called for a feasibility report to make public road improvements, including a cul-de- sac, at the dead end of Yankee Doodle Road. The project would provide a second major access to BCBS buildings. Mike Gresser, an adjacent property owner, objected to the cul-de-sac even though he will not be assessed for the im- provements. His attorney told the coun- cil that a cul-de-sac will be of no benefit to his client or his client's neighbor, Transport America. Several years ago, Gresser com- plained about trucks turning around on his property at the dead end, so he con- structed a concrete median, narrowing the dead end access, according to city records. He entered an agreement with the city to maintain the road in front of his building that became restricted by the median. If the project is approved as proposed, the median would have to be removed, al- lowing full access to the public road. Cw1 fth » / �I %� Sw Curn«t, Housing project proposed Neighbors form watchdog coalition By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Pulte Homes Construction is back in City Hall. This time the developer is seeking approval to build up to 500 homes on vacant land northeast of Diffley Road and Interstate 35E, known as the Rolling Oaks subdivision. In March, the Eagan City Council denied Pulte's plan to build a 525-home development that would have replaced Car - What's next What: Discussion on Rolling Oaks development proposal. When: 6:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Advisory Planning Commission meeting. Where: Eagan Municipal Center, 3830 Pilot Knob Road. Information: 681-4600. riage Hills Golf Course. Residents near the golf course formed a non- profit coalition to fight against the housing development. And like the Carriage Hills coalition, a group calling them- selves the "Eagan Citizens for Re- sponsible Development" has vowed to fight against the Rolling Oaks proposal, saying the homes would be too dense, according to Frank (Bud) Weingart of Eagan. Coalition members said the in- PULTE: To Page 13A Pulte: Developer seeking approval to build 500 homes From Page lA flux of families would crowd nearby streets and schools and that Blackhawk Lake won't handle the additional storm drainage from the 116-acre site. They have submitted a petition with 600 signatures to the city from people op- posed to the Rolling Oaks development. The proposal was heard before the city's Advisory Planning Commission (APC) Sept. 24 and was continued until the Oct. 22 APC meeting. The APC will forward a' recommendation to the City Council, which is expected to consider the proposal in November. Pulte met with con- cerned neighbors on Oct. 3. The property currently is zoned for roadside business and agricultural use. The site is guided for mixed residential from 0-6 units per acre. Pulte is request- ing approval of a preliminary planned de- velopment to allow a mix of several "life cycle" housing styles from the first-time buyer to the empty nester. Density would be about four units per acre, lower than the neighboring developments, said Gary Grant, vice president for Pulte. The plan includes: • 78 single-family home lots with homes prices starting from $180,000 and 220,000 • 156 Village Homes that offer two- story living above an attached single car garage with two bedrooms and a single bathroom • 164 Court Homes that are similar but larger than Village Homes. Most would offer a two -car garage, two baths and two or three bedrooms • 104 Club Homes would provide sin- gle -level living with walk -out basements, two bedrooms, two -car garages, and op- tions for additional rooms and storage. Grant said the development is expect- ed to draw 150 children. All houses will be owner occupied. Pulte has had about 100 inquiries on the proposal, many from po- tential home buyers within Eagan, Grant said. The housing mix was designed so that the multi -family units are nearest the in- terstate and the single-family homes set to the center and southern edge of the de- velopment. As proposed, Johnny Cake Ridge Road would be extended to Deer - wood Drive, running north and south through the center of the development. Pulte is proposing to dedicate 16 acres for park land within Rolling Oaks. The city's Advisory Parks, Recreation and Nat- ural Resource Commission has recom- mended a cash dedication instead. The de- veloper must also meet the city's require- ments for preserving as many mature trees as possible. Wetlands will remain and a man-made pond will be built off Deerwood Drive. The site is adjacent to the new Eagan water tower. Developer reduces density proposal 1,:t4;r:re for Rolling Oaks /06 Neighbors remain opposed to project By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer A plan to build a 490-unit hous- ing development in Eagan will be brought before the City Council by Pulte Homes on Nov. 19. Pulte, who was shot down by the city's Advisory Planning Commis- sion in September, revised its plans to build the 125 acre 'Rolling Oaks" subdivision. The development would be in the southeast corner of Deerwood Drive and Interstate 35E. Before construction can begin, Pulte needs approval from the council to rezone the area from its agriculture designation to a planned development/subdivision. The city's Advisory Planning Commission (APC) recommend- ed approval of the revised plan Oct. 22, subject to more than 50 conditions. The motion included keeping a cul de sac on Cashell Glen that staff said should be joined to a street in the proposed develop- ment. Neither the developer nor Cashell Glen residents were in What's next What: Pulte's Rolling Oaks development proposal presented to Eagan City Council. When: 6:30 p.m. Nov. 19. Where: Eagan City Coun- cil Chambers, 3830 Pilot Knob Road. Information: 681-4600. favor of the street extension. APC commissioners also voted to require on -site ponding and treatment of water runoff. Blackhawk Ponds residents were concerned about the envi- ronmental hazards associated with runoff farther down the line near or in Blackhawk Lake. The Oct. 22 APC vote was 3-2 for approval. Commissioner Larry Frank abstained from voting, say- ing he did not want to create an ar- gument for conflict of interest. His PULTE: To Page 13A Pulte: Concerns From Page lA employer has sold land to Pulte in the past, he said. Commissioners Mark Miller and Don Schindle voted against the proposal for reasons that matched some of the residents, who packed City Hall for the public hearing. Residents say the housing mix, which equates to 4.28 units per acre, is too dense and will create traffic and environ- mental problems in the area. According to the proposed zoning, the maximum density allowed could go as high as six units per acre. Chairman Miller opposed the plan be- cause the southwest corner of the site "looks awfully tight," he said. In September, Pulte had proposed a mix of 502 homes, but the APC sent Pulte back to the drawing board. The new plan reduces the overall number of units by 12. Density was further reduced by re- placing some townhome units with fewer single family lots. Pulte said they can't afford to drop the density any further without raising the price of the homes. "Club Home buyers are on fixed in- comes. These would be the most expen- sive we've built," said Gary Grant, a Pulte vice president. Pulte wants to build four different styles of homes — single family, court and club one - level homes and village townhomes. They call this concept "life cycle" housing. One 26-year resident spoke in favor of the Pulte proposal. "Nobody objected to us moving here and we didn't object to people moving after us. But now I want to leave my large home and I want a one -level home," said Ann Pahos of Eagan. "We have roots here. This is home and I don't want to leave." APC Commissioner Carla Heyl agreed with Pahos that Eagan needs smaller, lower -priced housing. Pahos and Heyl were outnumbered by focus on density those opposing the plan, who live in The Arbors, Blackhawk Ponds, Cashell Glenn, Chatterton, Cutters, Deerwood, Hidden Valley, Hilltop, Kings Wood, Sherwood and Woodland neighborhoods. Bill Cottrell, who lives in the Deer - wood neighborhood, said the neighbor- hood remains opposed to the plan, de- spite the revisions made by Pulte. Cot- trell said residents' comments in a recent city survey conducted by The Wallace Group confirms residents' desire to re- duce the density of new development. "We're not opposed to reasonable de- velopment," Cottrell said. He defined "reasonable" as a plan that meets the comprehensive guide plan, is suitable to the topography of the land, is not likely to cause environmental damage, whose design won't cause health problems and one that won't conflict with ease- ments, such as the Williams pipeline. Prior to the Oct. 22 APC meeting, Pulte met with interested neighbors to address their concerns. "The meeting did not go well. Nothing was resolved," Cottrell said. Although the average density of homes would be lower than many surrounding neighborhoods, the manner in which the homes are spread out on the 125-acre par- cel was questioned by residents. The southwest area, flat and treeless, is more densely planned than the rest of the site. To maintain open space, and to pre- serve mature trees and green space, homes are built in clusters. The city also decides whether a builder should dedi- cate land for a park or pay a calculated fee which goes into the general park fund. The city's Advisory Parks, Recre- ation and Natural Resources Commis- sion has recommended that Pulte make a $478,000 cash donation in lieu of land. The council is expected to examine both the APC and parks commission rec- ommendations at its Nov. 19 meeting. Eagan must re-examine density issue, refuse Pulte proposal To the editor: agree that human cohesion and As a 13-year Eagan resident, a strong spirit of identity in our I have observed the growth of community would only help in much of Eagan's existing de- solving our social ills, this type velopment. of development creates just the In its fast-growing years, Ea- opposite response. gan's leaders seemed to be in I have attended the last two a "learn -as -you -go" mode, Eagan Advisory Planning making some mistakes along Commission meetings (which the way. It appears our leaders voted to approve this planned have gradually gained maturity development on a 3-to-2 vote) in making our community's and have personally met with difficult decisions and have representatives from Pulte attempted to learn from its Homes. One of the arguments past. Eagan's residents have put forth by the Eagan APC thus benefited from this level and Pulte is that this land has of maturity to the point where, been designated mixed resi- according to the Wallace dential (0-6 units per acre) by Group Survey commissioned the Comprehensive Guide Plan by the city, a large majority of issued in 1975 and since this its residents feel Eagan is a proposal falls within this des - quality community in which to ignation, then it is a good live and raise its children. This planned development. It has same survey, however, con- even been pointed out that cluded that the residents feel Pulte has done Eagan a favor that Eagan has enough high by not proposing the maximum density, multifamily housing density. I question how perti- and certainly is not in need of nent or appropriate a 20-year- more. old study relates to the devel- A proposal has been put forth opment needs of Eagan's re - by Pulte Homes for a planned maining 20 percent of unde- development consisting of ap- veloped land. proximately 490 units on 116 Pulte's proposal will be on acres of land (4.22 units per the agenda of the Nov. 19 Ea - acre) located east of I-35E be- gan City Council meeting. I tween Deerwood and Diffley urge all concerned Eagan resi- roads. Of the 490 units, 84 per- dents to please attend this cent are proposed to be various meeting and show our city of - styles of multifamily homes. ficials that they can do better I and many other concerned than this proposal to provide residents vehemently oppose aesthetic, affordable housing in this proposal on the basis that a reasonable, well -planned high density, monotonous de- way. A large-scale, dense sign developments such as this population of cookie -cutter are not in the best interests of units piled one upon another the city and its residents. There devalues everyone's environ- are a large number of unre- ment and devalues everyone's solved traffic, water quality quality of life. and aesthetic issues identified I urge our city leaders to se - in the city of Eagan planning riously consider the density report (dated Sept. 11, 1996) issue and reflect on the impact which negatively affect the this development will have on health and safety of Eagan our community not only in the citizens. The planned density next three to five years but 25 of this project will also un- years in the future. Does the doubtedly have a significant development proposed by Pulte impact on District 196 schools. express the character and spirit From a sociological viewpoint, of Eagan, or could we do bet - high density development en- ter? courages isolationism. In a SUSAN KNIGHT time where most of us would Eagan ? l4kA.K litZ 17, /?? Eagan council approves dirt pulverization despite protest <!i 1 O '//r5l94 By CHRIS BALDUS On the heels of a dry sum- mer that coated nearby neigh- borhoods, the Eagan City Council granted the Timber - wood Village developer a permit to pulverize black dirt. It's a move that the devel- oper sought so he can sell the hill of excess black dirt left after grading of the site. On the other hand, it's a move neigh- boring residents sought to bury because they think it will mean more dust after a sum- mer full of it because of the construction. The construction site is 14 acres bounded by Lone Oak Road, Pilot Knob Road, Tow- erview Road and Pilot Knob Elementary. Derrick Invest- ment is building a 63-unit townhouse development and is just finishing the site grading. Kathleen Murphy, speaking for the homeowners' associa- tion for LeMay Lake Town - homes, voiced objections to the permit before the Planning Commission Aug. 26. After suf- fering through a summer of in- convenience, approval of the permit would certainly cause more harm to residents, she said. However, she added that if the permit was passed, the as- sociation wanted the hours of operation be restricted to Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. The Planning Com- mission recommended ap- proval the permit with this condition. Rosemarie Schnieder, a resident of the Townview de- velopment, also opposed the permit that night, adding that dirt pulverizing isn't a com- patible use with the neighbor- ing school and tennis courts. The City Council later re- ceived a letter from residents against the pulverizing opera- tion. At the Sept. 3 council meet- ing, Council Member Ted Wachter cast the lone vote against the permit. "There's going to be dust," he said, adding that he would rather that Derrick have the dirt moved elsewhere to be pulverized and sold. "I feel for the people across the street," he said. Wachter also brought up worries about noise and that dust could coat Pilot Knob Road and become a slippery hazard if it rained. Council Member Shawn Hunter supported the permit saying the action gives the city more control over the situation by establishing re- strictions. "This is not meant to be an ongoing mining operation at all," said developer Roger Derrick, who added that he al- ready has a buyer for the dirt and dust control measures have already been taken. The buyer of the dirt will collect it as needed and will wet it down to cut down dust. In the meantime, the hill of dirt has been seeded so grass can keep it from blowing away. "There isn't a cloud of dust every time they do it," Derrick said. The machinery to break up the dirt before hauling will not be noisy, he added, contending that a snowmobile or a lawn- mower make more noise. Professional Plastics, Inc. proposal is debated by Eagan City Council Residents concerned about a lack of buffer By BRENDA HAUGEN While the business may be compatible with the neighbor- hood it borders, the proposed Professional Plastics facility parking lot is closer to some neighbors than is palatable for residents and some Eagan City Council members. Professional Plastics, Inc., has proposed constructing a 38,715 square -foot building and a 96-stall parking lot on prop- erty in Eagandale Center In- dustrial Park #4, found at the northeast intersection of Mike Collins Drive and Yankee Doodle Road. Included in the proposal is a request for a 64.5-foot variance to allow parking within the re- quired 100-foot setback buffer. According to city staff, the variance would leave the southern edge of the parking lot 35.5 feet from the south property line abutting Yankee Doodle Road. Neighbors to the property previously addressed the coun- (See Council, p.3A) Council (Continued from front page) cil when a trucking firm was interested in locating on the site. B.J. Larson, president of the Wescott Square Home- owners Association, said Pro- fessional Plastics is a better option as a neighbor, but resi- dents want an appropriate buffer between their homes and this business. Larson presented the council with a petition signed by neighbors opposed to the pro- posed variance. She presented a second petition calling for more landscaping on the north and south sides of Yankee Doodle Road. "We've , taken a proactive stance in that regard," she said, adding that residents would work with the city in approving appropriate tree cover for the area. Larson added that this loca- tion is important not just to immediate residents, but to the community as a whole, be- cause it is the "eastern gate- way" to Eagan's central area development, Eagan Prome- nade. Council Member Shawn Hunter agreed, saying the pro- posal includes "too much building for this use." He said he would vote against the de- velopment because it means a big building close to the road, and no hardship was shown in regard to the need for the vari- ance. Mayor Tom Egan said the lack of hardship, the opposition of neighbors, the significance of the variance and the devas- tation of trees on the site would lead him to vote against the project. Connected with the concern of appropriate tree cover for the area is the issue of tree removal. According to Mike Ridley, senior planner with the city of Eagan, Professional Plastics' development would mean the removal of about 94 percent of the significant woodlands on the site. Ridley said the city is proposed to re- ceive a cash dedication of about $30,000 to meet the tree mitigation requirements. Ju jI,,4gb' 5/4)u.4, Council members Pat Awada and Ted Wachter said they, too, have concerns, but they believe this use for the prop- erty would prove to be a good neighbor to area residents. "I don't think you can get a better use across the street," Awada said. "I feel it's very appropriate," Wachter said, adding that the landscaping plan could be beefed up. Egan reiterated his points on hardship, the loss of trees and neighbors' objections. "I think you're setting a real significant precedent," he said to Awada and Wachter. Awada suggested the appli- cant work with neighbors and city staff to come up with a proposal everyone feels more comfortable with, and asked the proposal be continued for two weeks. Hunter cast the only dissenting vote. 1.ss wok, 6S4e. At /994 Eagan tangles with outdoor storage By CHRIS BALDUS The strictest restrictions ever put on an Eagan business re- garding outdoor storage were in the conditional use permit, ac- cording to Council Member Pat Awada, but Shaw - Lundquist Inc. managed to get it approved Sept. 17. Two weeks earlier, Citi-Cargo Stor- age Corporation's plans were squelched by the City Council. The similarity of the two situations was the focus of Mayor Tom Egan's opposition of Shaw-Lundquist's plan. He abstained from voting on the Citi-Cargo Storage request be- cause of his business ties to the company. Both permits were opposed by corporate neighbors con- cerned about aesthetics and potential loss in property value. In the case of Citi-Cargo Stor- age, which leases trucks and trailers, it was Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota fielding the objections. Shawn -Lundquist faced Ma- terials Processing Corporation. Other neighbors raised con- cerns, but didn't voice them before the council. "I think we should give equal cognizance to the president of Materials Processing Corpora- tion, who is also a corporate resident of the city of Eagan," said Egan. "They object to this because of the potential (damage) this might have on their land as well." Council Member Ted Wachter said the difference between the cases lies in the elevation of the land. Citi- Cargo Storage's project was impossible to screen because it was lower than Highway 13, he said. Shaw-Lundquist's project on West Service Road is above Highway 13 and people won't be able to see through the screening. Citi-Cargo Storage asked for a conditional use permit for new outdoor storage of up to 145 semi -trailers. Expansion of the existing parking at the fa- cility northwest of the intersec- tion of Blackhawk Road and Highway 13 was to be the opening step in a larger plan that included possibly building two warehouses. Citi-Cargo Storage neighbor Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota objected to the thought of more trailers being stored at the facility. "Our position remains that such use is inappropriate given the existing office complexes to the north and west," Sharon Zauhar stated in a letter to the Planning Commission. "Another aesthetic concern includes the less -than -new physical condition of the trail- ers to be parked on the site as viewed from Highway 13." Blue Cross and Blue Shield preferred indoor storage of the trailers, she added. The council voted 4-0 Sept. 3 to deny the permit, despite Citi-Cargo Storage's hiring of BRW Engineering to find solu- tions to neighbors' objections. The possibility of traffic con- gestion and that the parking would become the dominant use at the site, which conflicts with city code, were cited as reasons for denying the permit, according to the findings of fact adopted 4-0 by the City Council Sept. 17. Egan ab- stained from this vote. Egan tapped the dominant use issue used against Citi- Cargo to oppose Shaw - Lundquist. The construction company proposed building an office, warehouse and storage yard for construction materials and equipment. The storage area took up the most space at 34,000 square feet. "The outdoor storage, regard- less of the wall we're talking about or the other cover-up is too significant," he said. "It has become the dominant fea- ture of this parcel of land." Mary Olson of MPC also contended Shaw-Lundquist's plans were at odds with city code, which emphasizes com- patibility and the possibility of falling property values be con- sidered in conditional use per- mit deliberations. "They're compatible if they're over by Opus," said Olson. "They are not compati- ble in the area they want to go into." The City Council required that Shaw -Lundquist erect an eight -foot screening fence around its outdoor storage area except where a 12-foot walled facility is going between it and MPC. 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Though it was obvious the council was very interested in the project, the sticking point for some appeared to be the height of the hotels. Each hotel would be five stories high. Neighbors said their views would consist of the hotels' brick walls and no amount of landscaping would alleviate that. "This to me is overbearing," a resident of Scott Trail said. He added he likes the pond and wildlife in the area, and wasn't in favor of seeing a "tarred platform" created at the site. Resident Pat Soderholm agreed, saying the develop- ment is too tall, especially considering the land on which it would sit is already 15 to 20 feet higher than the residential area that would look at it. "I just think it's very, very wrong," she said. The area sees a great deal of traffic already with Rahn Park in the neighborhood, and this development would make that situation worse, Soderholm added. According to Freese, Nicols Road is designed to handle 5,000 to 10,000 trips a day, and can accommodate this de- velopment. Council members added that other development possibilities for the site would be likely to generate more traf- Eagan, Dakota County explore ways to meet rising demand for senior housing By HEATHER HENDERSON According to recent projec- tions, the demand for senior housing within Dakota County and the city of Eagan is ex- pected to triple in the next three years. This fact, coupled with the fact there is currently a senior housing waiting list in Eagan which is three times that of the units available, indicates a definite need to be planning for senior housing development in the near future, according to Eagan City Administrator Tom Hedges. "Wherever we do build, we will need more in the future," Hedges said. "We know we want to. We just don't know where or when." At a special Eagan City Council meeting Dec. 16, Hedges, City Council mem- bers, and Dakota County Hous- ing and Redevelopment Authority (HRA) Executive Director Mark Ulfers explored the options available. Over the last several years, Eagan has been banking funds for senior housing, and Dakota County has funds it can con- tribute as well. However, the total right now is not enough to begin a project, so further fund- ing options need to be ex- plored, Hedges said. There are also several sites that may be available for sen- ior housing construction. One site would be the second phase of development near the exist- ing Eagan senior housing de- velopment, Oakwoods, just off Cliff Road in Eagan. Oakwoods is a joint county/city develop- ment and land for a second ad- dition has already been pur- chased, Hedges said. The second site is a 14-acre parcel of forfeiture land has been acquired by the kota County HRA for the (See Housing, p.7A) that Da- pur- Housing (Continued from front page) pose of senior housing. This site is located near Town Cen- tre in Eagan. One decision that must be made, Hedges said, is whether to build a second addition. of assisted living units at Oak - woods, which is currently non - assisted living, and build a non -assisted living facility at Town Centre; build assisted living units at Town Centre and a non -assisted living facil- ity as the second phase of Oakwoods; or do a combina- tion of both. "The council has not zeroed in on one site, and the funding is still under consideration," Fledges said, "but (city) staff will be looking at plans for both sites and financing to bring back to the council." Apple Valley/Rosemount, Eagan Sun•Current/Wednesday, Aug. 28, 1996 7A 2 hotel projects OK'd for Cedar Avenue corridor By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer Two four-story hotels will be built side by side along the Cedar Avenue corridor — a 108-room Comfort Suites and Con- ference Center and a 104-room Sleep Inn. Both hotels will be accessible from Cliff Road via Nicols Road in Eagan, be- hind the Holiday Store and fast food restaurants. The Comfort Suites hotel will feature a walk -out basement meeting room, with a convertible 100-seat staged meeting room/theater for tele-conferencing. A liquor license will be requested by the Comfort Suite developers, Honey Tree Limited of Burnsvihe. Both hotels will have pools and overlook an existing pond. Trails, four gardens and a picnic overlook will be added around the pond area. Ray Anderson, Honey Tree vice presi- dent, said both hotels will be moderately priced and hopefully attract the business traveler or the Mall of America tourist. The Eagan City Council voted unani- mously to approve the development pro- ject, despite objections from residents, who said it would be too intense for their neighborhood. The plan falls 36 parking stalls short of what the city requires. Council mem- bers approved a parking variance be- cause Honey Tree arranged for overflow parking at neighboring businesses. When the project was first presented, the hotels were five stories tall and a Country Kitchen restaurant was includ- ed. Honey Tree planners dropped the restaurant, but added about 20 rooms onto the site. Residents said they'd prefer to see a daycare center. funeral home or auto mall occupy the site. The land is desig- nated as a commercial shopping center site. Gary Tankenhoff, owner of the proper- ty for the past 28 years, said he hasn't had purchase offers from such businesses. "This is the best thing I have come across," Tankenhoff said. He urged the council to approve the hotel proposal, as did neighboring prop- erty owners and manager. "It's a great use fm. this site," said Brad Schaefer, manager of Cliff Place Commercial Center, a nearby strip mall. "It means less traiiic, less competition and more clients." Ann Carlon, president of the Eagan Convention and Visitors Bureau, said the Comfort Suites conference center will be a nice addition to the city's hotel listings. CLASSICAL BALLET ACADEMY Official School of Ballet Minnesota CBA Children have the opportunity to perform in Ballet Minnesota's NUTCRACKER at O'Shaughnessy Auditorium Dec. 17-22 with the Kenwood Chamber Orchestra `splendid use of Children." Star Tribune Classes Begin: September 9 Open House: Aug. 27 & Sept. 7 Directors: Cheryl & Andrew Rist 249 E. 4th St., St. Paul • 290-0513 5 DAYSONLY! Des 4ug ws� ' 789' 1 pite residents concerns, council approves two -hotel plan By ANN BRUCCIANI LYON The Eagan City Council gave the preliminary go-ahead Aug. 20 for a controversial plan to construct two, four-story hotels in Eagan. Honey Tree LTD plans to construct a Comfort Suites ho- tel and conference center and the Sleep Inn west of Nicols Road and bounded on the north, west and south by Erin Drive. After listening to the con- cerns of residents of an adja- cent housing development at a previous council meeting, the City Council asked Honey Tree LTD to alter the devel- opment to make it Tess obtru- sive. Honey Tree LTD com- plied and modified its original plans. The changes included: • A reduction in the devel- opment's breadth from three lots to two lots, which resulted from the elimination of a pre- viously planned Country Kitchen restaurant • A reduction in the build- ings' height from five stories to four stories, a difference of ap- proximately 13 inches • A reduction in the size of the conference center from 4,355 square feet to 3,740 square feet Furthermore, the developer agreed to use shorter, 30-foot light standards and to shield lighting on the east side of the ievelopment so that it is de- lected onto the site to mini- mize the effect on property owners. The developer also agreed to change its signage, using one pylon sign instead of two. Despite Honey Tree LTD's alterations and savvy pro - family, pro -neighborhood pres- entation, residents pleaded with council members to op- pose the development. "We're looking for something that will serve our needs and we, feel that these hotels offer no benefit to us," said resident Cindy Childs, who also stated that she and her neighbors are not opposed to development of the site but are opposed to the type of development being proposed. Childs added her concerns that decreases in property val- ues and in safety for neighbor- hood children would occur if the development was approved. When a resident questioned the council about whether zon- ing changes were made to fa- vor the Honey Tree LTD de- velopment, Mayor Tom Egan clarified that no changes had been made. He explained that hotels were a permitted use under the community shopping center (CSC) zoning classifi- cation. - In a final appeal, resident Roxie Soderholm spoke out against the development: "We may not have corporate back- ing, it may just be our weekly paychecks, but we are quality people trying to raise families. Jr, We are concerned about this (development). As our City Council, we ask you to, at the very least, put a cap on this until some of this stuff is ironed out." In response to the residents' statements, Council Member Shawn Hunter said, "We serve 50,000 people including the businesses and the health of the entire community is what we have to take into considera- tion. Part of that health is the health of the business commu- nity and the health of the trav- eling public ... relatives who come to the community 'and want to stay in (it). The asser- tion (is) that hotels are some- how inherently evil and that guests are evil and don't care. I just don't buy that argument at all." Hunter then presented infor- mation about Eagan's hotel room rates and the decreases in room availability before stating that the development is "obviously a needed service." He also stated the economic benefits of having travelers spend their dollars at Eagan businesses. Despite the facts the council presented about the benefits of hotel industry, including an estimated traffic reduction of 6,000 daily trips to and from a hotel versus an office building and a mall, the development's neighboring residents were dis- satisfied with the 5-0 vote. z.z If you told your about Care good for you. Learn more about this dignified to nursing hom Call or write toda Please! Send me more it Carefree Living Assistel I am interested: For myself Name City • State Daytime Phone Mail to: Carefree Living of Bumsv 600 Nicollet Boulevard Bumsville, MN 55337 FAMILY PACK 3 VG. WHOLE BALL TIPS BONELESS SIRLOIN TIPS eIL MAR •RONEY •9, •PEPPERED• TUR BRE. JACK'S PIZZA $299 12.. size Despite residents' concerns, council approves two -hotel plan By ANN BRUCCIANI LYON mize the effect on property We are concerned about this owners. The developer also (development). As our City The Eagan City Council gave agreed to change its signage, Council, we ask you to, at the the preliminary go-ahead Aug. using one pylon sign instead of very Least, put a cap on this 20 for a controversial plan to two. until some of this stuff is construct two, four-story hotels Despite Honey Tree LTD's ironed out." - in Eagan. alterations and savvy pro- In response to the residents' Honey Tree LTD plans to family, pro -neighborhood pres- statements, Council Member construct a Comfort Suites ho- entation, residents pleaded Shawn Hunter said, "We serve tel and conference center and with council members to op- 50,000 people including the the Sleep Inn west of Nicols pose the development. businesses and the health of Road and bounded on the "We're looking for something the entire community is what north, west and south by Erin that will serve our needs and we have to take into considera- Drive. we, feel that these hotels offer tion. Part of that health is the After listening to the con- no benefit to us," said resident health of the business commu- cerns of residents of an adja- Cindy Childs, who also stated nity and the health of the trav- cent housing development at a that she and her neighbors are eling public ... relatives who previous council meeting, the not opposed to development of come to the community 'and City Council asked Honey the site but are opposed to the want to stay in (it). The asser- Tree LTD to alter the devel- type of development being tion (is) that hotels are some- opment to make it less obtru- proposed. how inherently evil and that sive. Honey Tree LTD com- Childs added her concerns guests are evil and don't care. I plied and modified its original that decreases in property val- just don't buy that argument at plans. The changes included: ues and in safety for neighbor- all." • A reduction in the devel- hood children would occur if Hunter then presented infor- opment's breadth from three the development was approved. mation about Eagan's hotel lots to two lots, which resulted When a resident questioned room rates and the decreases from the elimination of a pre- the council about whether zon- in room availability before viously planned Country ing changes were made to fa- stating that the development is Kitchen restaurant vor the Honey Tree LTD de- "obviously a needed service." • A reduction in the build- velopment, Mayor Tom Egan He also stated the economic ings' height from five stories to clarified that no changes had benefits of having travelers four stories, a difference of ap- been made. He explained that spend their dollars at Eagan proximately 13 inches hotels were a permitted use businesses. • A reduction in the size of under the community shopping Despite the facts the council the conference center from center (CSC) zoning classifi- presented about the benefits of 4,355 square feet to 3,740 cation. • hotel industry, including an square feet In a final appeal, resident estimated traffic reduction of Furthermore, the developer Roxie Soderholm spoke out 6,000 daily trips to and from a agreed to use shorter, 30-foot against the development: "We hotel versus an office building light standards and to shield may not have corporate back- and a mall, the development's lighting on the east side of the ing, it may just be our weekly neighboring residents were dis- development so that it is de- paychecks, but we are quality satisfied with the 5-0 vote. fleeted onto the site to mini- people trying to raise families. e • Learn more about this digni to nursing 1 Call or write toda Please! Send me me Carefree Living Ass I am interested: For m Name Address City S Daytime Phone Mail to: Carefree Living o1 600 Nicollet Boule Burnsville, MN 55 FAMILY PACK 3 LE. AVG. WHOLE BALL TIPS BONELESS SIRLOIN TIPS Funding sought 'g for senior��t housing Waiting list exceeds 300 at Oak Woods By Sue Hegarty Staff Writer If financing can be arranged, an additional 65-unit senior housing project may soon be added next to the Oak Woods se- nior housing complex on Cliff Road and Cliff Lake Road in Eagan. The city and the Dakota County HRA scheduled meet- ings this week to discuss various methods of financing the con- struction of up to 65 independent living units for senior citizens with low to moderate incomes. The 65-unit Oak Woods build- ing, completed in August 1992, has been 100 percent leased since the day it opened, said HRA Director Mark Ulfers. There are at least 300 more se- niors on a waiting list to get in. A second building was always intended for the Oak Woods pro- ject. For three years, the city of Eagan has dedicated a portion of its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds (a total of $611,000) for the purpose of adding a second building. A portion of the 1997 allocation also would be expected. SENIORS: To Page 7A /I / 996 £ 4. t— agan Sun•CurrentIWednesday, Dec. 18, 1996 7A Seniors From Page lA "To have the second addition is what we've been saving for," said Councilmem- ber Sandra Masin. "In Eagan we just don't have that many places and no as- sisted living." The HRA could achieve significant cost savings for the project if the City Council agrees to pledge its general oblig- ation authority and reduce the interest rate of the bonds. (The city has a better bond rating of AA- from Standard and Poor's compared to the HRA rating of BBB+). With backing by the city, the HRA could see more than a 1 percent sav- ings on interest rates. By reducing the in- terest rate on the bonds, the project is able to acquire more debt, requiring less in start-up costs. The ultimate goal is to come up with a financing package that will allow the HRA to provide affordable senior hous- ing. Everything is dependent upon "what it will take to make rents affordable," Ulfers said. Rents at Oak Woods average $336/month for one bedroom apart- ments and $436 for two bedrooms. Fi- nancing options for the second addition are predicated on the same rent prices as Oak Woods and at $50/month more per unit. To achieve these rents, the proposed amount of required city equity is between $1.3 million and $2.1 million. When Oak Woods first addition was built the city waived its fees, amounting to about $90,000 in savings for the HRA. The same is being requested of the city for the second addition. In 1988, the HRA had a plan to build 10 senior housing buildings in 10 years. Seven projects are finished, two are under construction in Mendota Heights and South St. Paul and one will be built in Rosemount this spring, Ulfers said. The Oak Woods second addition is not one of the 10 year/10 buildings plan. Ulfers said the need for moderate- to low-income senior housing was not sat- isfied by the 10 buildings. Subsequently, there is a• need for the Oak Woods addi- tion, he said. If a financing package is approved by the council, construction could begin as early as next summer and take about one year to complete, Ulfers said. INSIGHT: Public land In Eagan, as in other suburbs, residents want green space The fast-growing city will vote this fall on whether to spend $3.8 million to buy about 100 more acres of parkland and to improve existing parks. By Dennis Cassano Star Tribune Staff Writer When a developer propoe.d building some townhouses of a 3-acre strip of land between to apartment complex and anoter group of townhouses in Eagn, Ion Jezusko and his neighbirs rebelled. Armed with petitions signed by some 200 people urging flat the land near the intersectionof Yankee Doodle Rd. and Fedeal prbe_preseryed asopen spat, they convinced the City Coun:il this spring not only to stop tie developer, but to take owners1;p of the tax -forfeited property sc it can never be developed. A similar public outcry help d kill a proposal to build a housi;g development around the Carrib:e Hills Golf Course in Eagan_ Ken Vraa, the ciry's parks 'E- rector, said some opponents sih- ply didn't want any more hou: or residents in the neighborhocl, while others wanted to continue to enjoy the open space around the course. A third group did not object to the development pro- posal but wanted the trees to be saved. Vraa and Mayor Tom Egan said that people in the fast-grow- ing Dakota County suburb are starting to feel a need for more breathing room. This fall resi- dents will be asked whether they are willing to spend 53 8 million to buy land for more parks and 5,800,000 to improve existing parks. No date has been set for the bond referendum. Several other cities have asked their residents similar questions recently. Each time, the answer has been, "Yes": > Voters in Plymouth author- ized spending S2.2 million for new parks last year. > Maple Grove voters ap- proved S5 million in bonds in a 1993 referendum, as did Maple- wood voters in 1995. Eden Prairie voters in 1994 authorized spending almost 52 million to buy several parcels of native prairie and woodland to- taling 96 acres. Potential park sites Eagan has bought some par- cels over the years with -money that developers are required to contribute for parks. However, Parks and people The Metropolitan Council encourages cities to provide a minirnum of seven to 14 acres of parkland per 1,000 residents. A random survey of area communities shows that most meet or exceed that standard City Mapie Grove Plymouth Maplewood Woodbury Eden Prairie Eagan Stlouis Park West St. Paul 0honhassen Cottaee trove Coon Rapids Minneapolis St Paul Population est. Apr1994 43,542 57,391 32,903 28,627 44.189 54.957 43,641 19,332 14,316 26.675 58991- 366,4-80 27.1,660 Sam City Parks Departments. US. Census Acres per Acres 1,000 people 1.120 25 980 17 565 17 777 27 1.600 36 1.200 21 820 19 115 6 450 31 540 20 950 16 6.400 17 4,001 15 Egan said, the amount of money raised from developers has not kept pace with the suburb's park and recreation needs. City officials and a citizen task force have pared a list of about 50 potential park sites to 23 loca- tions, including about 500 acres. The S3.8 million bond issue would be enough to buy about 100 acres, Vraa said. If the bond issue is approved, the Eagan City Council likely would seek additional money lat- er to develop athletic fields and install playground equipment on some of the new parkland. Egan said a recent survey of residents' park preferences re- vealed "a real change in taste." He said people want soccer fields, for instance, "although baseball is still popular. But we need fewer tennis courts.' He said those feelings will be taken into consideration when the city decides which parks to develop and which to leave in a natural stare. Parks are developed not only by cities, but by counties, the state, the Metropolitan Council and the federal government as well. In addition to its own 1,200 acres of parkland, Eagan is home to the the Met Council's Lake --Byilesby Regional Park; a 420- acre facility that will soon gain another 200 acres. While there is no official gov- ernment standard for the amount of parkland a community should have, the National Recreation and Parks Association, a private, nonprofit professional organiza- tion, has seta standard of 7 to 14 acres of parks per 1,000 people in cities. The Met Council has en- couraged cities to follow that standard. • P st It sl lc ra X of re st: al de sh Pe co KF co hi trt Fri Co Va thi in: I d F • - pl 0 3 Residents, Eagan Council stop hotel project Ey Sue Hegarty Staff Writer A hotel developer said he will take the Eagan City Council's suggestion and re -design two five -story hotels planned for the city's southwest corner. "We do like Eagan. It would be a mistake to abandon the site," said Ray Anderson, vice president of Honey 'free Ltd. of Burnsville. The council voted 3-2 June 18 to deny height and setback vari- ances for Honey Tree. The appli- cation sought approval to build a 122-room Comfort Suites, in- cluding a swimming pool and conference center, a 64-room Sleep Inn with a pool, and a Country Kitchen restaurant vis- ible from Cedar Avenue. The buildings would sit be- tween Cedar Avenue and a pond at Nicols Road and Erin Drive, across from McDonald's. "The place for tall buildings is Town Centre. I'd be all in favor of this if it were shorter, maybe four (floors), definitely three (floors)," said Coun- cilmember Shawn Hunter. The entire council was in favor of a hotel on the site but each had opinions about the pro- ject's scope. Besides Hunter, Councilmember Sandra Masin and Mayor Tom Egan voted to deny the original project. Coun- cilmembers Pat Awada and Ted Wachter voted against denial. "The council had every right to do what they did," Anderson said. About a dozen residents who live east of Nicols Road behind the Cedar Cliff shopping center HOTEL: To Page 9A Hotel From Page lA attended the meeting and spoke in oppo- sition of the project. Revised plans include deleting the restaurant, skimming the top floor off the two hotels, while still adding 20 to 30 more rooms to the Sleep Inn, Anderson said. If the new plan appears profitable, it will be resubmitted for council approval. Hotel services could include complimen- tary breakfast. The Comfort Suites would have full cooking facilities and offer compli- mentary cocktails. Occupancy for the con- vention center is expected to be 250 to 270. Neighbors also were concerned about on -site parking and traffic on Nicols Road. According to the first plan, a vari- ance was required to allow fewer parking spaces than was required. Results of a traffic study showed that the additional traffic generated by the project would not exceed capacity on Nicols Road. Honey Tree continues to research other cities in which to build the hotels, Anderson said. He is not interested in building along Interstate 35E, where several other Eagan hotels are located. Rather, he is hoping to at- tract travelers on Cedar Avenue on their way to the Mall of America. Ann Carlon, ex- ecutive director of the Eagan Convention and Visitor's Bureau, said the mall is the na- tion's third largest tourist attraction. She told the council the Honey Tree project would economically benefit the city. Hotels are Eagan's newest construction boom. On May 20, the council approved plans for a three-story, 104-room Marriot Fairfield Suites hotel and restaurant east of I-35E and west of Crestridge Drive near Town Centre. Similar to the Honey Tree project, the Fairfield Suites hotel was scaled down from four to three stories. Last March, Holiday Inn Express in the Rahncliff shopping center completed construction on a 50-suite addition. w And on June 16, Americlnn opened a four-story hotel at County Road 42 and Cedar Avenue in Apple Valley. Business, �a neighbors reach truce overs issues Richfield Blacktop gets most of permits sought By Sue Hegarty Staff Report Before Richfield Blacktop moved into an abandoned gas station along Highway 13 near Letendre Street in Eagan, drug dealers used the building and a nearby phone booth as a home office. In 1994, John and Penny Johnson bought the building for their 35-year-old blacktopping/landscape business. They cleaned the place up, removing under- ground gas tanks, installing new win- dows, repairing a leaky roof and remov- ing debris. The seasonal business was not prof- itable enough so the Johnsons put Eagan Mr. Tire, an independent franchise tire store, in the front of the store. They also agreed to become a U-Haul truck rental center. Then last summer, two neighbors who live on a cliff behind the Johnsons' busi- ness complained about an outdoor dis- carded tire bin, the diesel truck fumes, and the noise of landscape rock being dumped on -site or loaded into trucks at 7 a.m. Thus began a six-month dispute be- tween the Johnsons and the Miller and Green families of Eagan. The Millers hired a private investiga- tor and told the city that the Johnsons were in violation of a 1994 conditional use permit. Ron Miller said at a City Council meeting that he had cut off the tops of trees on the Johnson property because they obstructed his view of the Minneso- ta River Valley. The Johnsons obtained a restraining order to keep Miller off their property. When the Millers asked a judge to lift the restraining order, the request was de- nied. During the past month, the Johnsons have reviewed the conditions of their permits with city staff and the Advisory Planning Commission. They discovered that they were in violation of some of the permitted uses, so they either came into compliance or asked for new conditional use permits and amendments to the 1994 permit. Following a two-hour discussion at the Dec. 4 City Council meeting, the council agreed unanimously to allow the Johnsons to: • store rental trucks (such as U-haul) on the property. • store trucks on the southeast side, near the Greens' house. • repair vehicles with a payload of up to 2 tons in an enclosed facility. • store new and used tires. The council denied a request to in- crease the number of stored vehicles DISPUTE: To Page 12A EY6 IDLE ime for idays o k®ut�IYN Nice!! Section � Low ar tee* immgried Handmade ( \on Mailable in .to,t f or aUun.. a UOR OUSE. WILLE fry R D. 42 a social encounter. Department 56 clubs - exist throughout the world and are fea- ' tried in a monthly publication. The Saintly City 56ers club that Mc- Nally belongs to will go house hopping Jan. 11 to view each other's displays. Ted Haas of Inver Grove Heights is past president of the Saintly City 56ers. When he and wife, Corrine, began col- lecting Snow Village houses in 1978, "we were going to buy one a year." They now have 130 pieces and it takes them a min- imum of three weeks to set up their dis- play, Haas said. An antique buff, he adds antique miniatures to his display. Ar: ranging the display this year is a chal- lenge because this will be the first Christ- mas in their new home. When the Haas' began collectinghous- es, they would buy them for 50 percent off after Christmas. But consumers won't tion everyyear for free," McNally said. In addition, Bachman's sponsors an annual clearing house for dealers each year that is attended by 10,000 to 20,000 people. Besides the Heritage Village Dickens style houses, Department 56 makes other collectible sets, such as its Christ- mas in the City collection, a 1910-era metropolitan scene. The New England Village set is reminiscent of a 1890s New England town. "They've tried to establish a collection for people to associate with their past," McNally said. "You can't do that with all collections." In addition, •there's the winter sil- houettes accented in gold or silver; Merry Maker monks; All through the House; and the glittery white Snowba- bies. Dispute: Noise, fumes led to feud From Page lA from 20 to 30. The landscape rock is stored in con- crete block bins outdoors. The council instructed the Johnsons to leave the bins closest to the Millers' home empty, but allowed the use of 10 remaining bins adjacent to the empty ones. The John - sons also must plant trees at the top of the hill to buffer, though they don't be- lieve that will help solve the "perceived" problem of noise and diesel fumes, John- son said. "We have compromised in so many ways. We have given a lot and he keeps asking for more and more," Penny John- son said. For example, after Miller com- plained about rocks being moved at 7 a.m., the Johnsons changed their hours of operation to 8 a.m. One morning at .m., p oyees an -s oveled dirt into a truck so that they did not start up a tractor and disturb the neighbors. They also purchased a new truck with a bedliner and put new mufflers on the old trucks. Several other neighbors of the John - sons sent letters or spoke in support of the business. • Gayle Drewry lives on the north, abutting Johnsons' Richfield Blacktop. "The noise from Johnson Blacktop is not substantial. Now if you could do something about the noise on Highway 13, that would be something," Drewry told the council. Dan Green denied that he was trying to close down the business. Rather, he wanted to resolve what he views as a problem with fumes and noise. "I love Eagan and I love our home enough to stand up for what is right," Green said. Barb Miller said when other busi- nesses tried to move next to neighbor- hoods, such as the proposed hotels at Nicols Road and Erin Drive, the council listened and responded to neighbors' concerns. cause we want the Johnsons to obey the rules of the city," Miller said. Penny Johnson said it's unfortunate that this dispute involved several thou- sands of dollars for both parties and used taxpayers' money to settle at City Hall. GIVE THE GIFT GIFT OF DANCE ,ir • Dancing opens an exciting new world of social and fitness benefits. It's the perfect gift for yourself, your special someone, relatives, friends • or business associates. HOLIDAY SPECIAL 4 SESSIONS j FOR $20.00 by yourself or as a couple. Staff Photo by Tom Sweeney City Planner Dale Runkle sat in front of under construction in Eagan. a new Comsery building Community/River South (6) Minneapolis Star and Tribune/Thur., June 10, 1982 Eagan becoming boom town as others go bust By George Monaghan Staff Writer Is Eagan becoming an island of prosperity in a deepening metro- politan ocean of economic uncer- tainty? Its city planner, Dale Runkle, thinks it is. Here are some of his reasons: ■ The Dakota County city will soon be at the junction of two interstate highways, to say nothing of major county highway improvements that will link with the interstates. • Eagan is "the last of the inner - ring suburbs" around the Twin Cit- ies urban area. It is close to both Minneapolis and St. Paul. With bet- ter roads and bridges scheduled to open within the next few years, it will be even closer. What is now a half-hour trip could become a 15- minute trip. ■ While commercial and industrial growth has been falling off or doesn't exist in many suburban ar- eas, it's going strong in Eagan and is expected to become stronger. ■ Although they have leveled off in the past couple of years, housing permits are expected to increase steadily through 1990. "Since 1977, we've processed 30 to 40 developments a year," says Runkle, "and it's still going great guns out here. In January and Feb- ruary, it slowed a little, but in the last planning commission meeting we had about 1 million square feet of commercial and office space proposed." The new Cedar Av. bridge was opened in October 1980 and the roadway connecting to it was wid- ened. But even in the years before it opened, developers could see the benefits. The result, Runkle says, was that about 2,000 lots for single-family homes, town houses and apart- ments were developed before the bridge was finished. In Eagan, Runkle says, planning commission agendas are almost always full. Eagan continued on page 11 Community River South (6) Minneapolis Star and Tribune/Thur., June 10, 1982 11 Eagan Continued from page 3 The role of highway building in Eagan's past and future is disputed. Some planners, such as Vic Ward of the Metropolitan Council, con- tend that development doesn't fol- low highways; highways follow de- velopment, and development gets started mainly because there's money in it. It doesn't matter which follows which in Eagan, because there are plenty of both —highways and de- velopment —now and in the future. Interstate Hwy. 35E, for instance, is creeping up from I-35W and has reached Eagan's southern border. There, it has hooked up with Cedar Av., an improved road with a new bridge over the Minnesota River. 1-494, the big circumferential high- way, is angling past Minneapolis -St. Paul International Airport and will cross the Minnesota River at Ea- gan's northern border on a six -lane bridge. The three I-494 bridge lanes should be done late this year. Three other lanes will hook into Hwy. 55 next year. By 1985, 1-494 and I-35E wi►l meet. That joining probably will set off more development. Acres of indus- trial parks will blossom, according to the Eagan planning scenario, and acres of houses will bloom out of that. This, says Runkle, is one reason why the population of Eagan, which doubled from 10,000 in 1970 census figures to 21,000 in 1980, is expected to reach 37,500 by 1990. It is why the number of housing units is expected to jump from 9,000 now to 14,400 by 1990. The city's records show a steep rise in residential permits from 1977, when 265 were issued, to 1980, when 997 were issued. Last year, permits slipped to 518; this year the number indicates that the leveling off is continuing. Despite that, Eagan remains among the top 10 suburbs in the area in the num- ber of residential building permits. The Metropolitan Council has set the growth rate for residences in Eagan at about 630 a year through 1990, but because the precursors for such development are in place —roads, sewers. natural gas, water —Runkle sees no reason the number won't go higher. Runkle says about 630 acres are developed in Eagan each year, about 10 percent of the land devel- oped in the metropolitan area. In industrial development alone, according to figures developed by the Metropolitan Council, the city has had from 2 percent to 7 per- cent of the valuation of deve►op- ment for the seven -county metro- politan area, and last year was among the leaders, with three ma- jor construction projects totaling almost $27 million. This year, Com- sery Corp. is building an $8.8 mil- lion office in Eagan. Eagan official throws hat �11eL6,E- into County auditor race by Amy O'Marro This fall will mark the 14th year that James Smith has held an Eagan City Council seat. It may be his last. Smith has thrown his hat into the race for Dakota County auditor. If elected, Smith may be forced to vacate his position as a member of the City Coun- cil. Smith will run against Nor- ma Marsh in the election. Marsh was appointed as Dakota County auditor in 1984 . "I'm not sure if it will affect my position on the City Coun- cil, probably yes," Smith said. "There is an attorney general opinion from the 1940s that says the office of county attorney and city council are incompati- ble. There is another opinion which says the records office and city council are. If possi- ble, I would like to serve out the term." If elected, Smith said he would ask that a new up -dated opinion be made on the issue. Smith was a member of Eagan's original city council which was formed in 1972 after the city abandoned a three - person town board. As county auditor he said he would miss the City Council position, but would add 40 more work hours a week. Councilmember Ted Wachter was also a member of the original council. Eagan settles ( 6 �g O'Neil zoning By Bruce Orwell Staff Writer Eagan's City Council chambers were transformed into a First Jud- icial District Courtroom for seven minutes Tuesday night as the city announced settlement of a contro- versial 1985 land -use case. District Court Judge Jack Mitch- ell didn't bang a gavel, but new Mayor Vic Ellison did yield the head of the dais for the unusual court hearing. Mitchell last month decided to take his court to Eagan City Hall in hopes of herding the parties in- volved in a trio of complicated cases toward settlement. The cases involve Robert and Grace O'Neil of St. Paul, who own 122 acres of land at I-35E and Yankee Doodle Road. Terms of the settlement were not released, but Gerald Duffy, at- torney for the O'Neils, said the agreement will result in the rezon- ing of the O'Neil property for com- mercial uses. Mitchell, meanwhile, was pleased with the outcome. "I'm a happy judge," Mitchell said of the strange arrangement. "Whenever we can dispose of cases efficiently, I'm happy." The O'Neils have been involved in three complicated cases con- cerning their land, including: • A zoning matter in which the O'Neils protested a 1985 city coun- cil vote that prevented the rezon- ing of their land for commercial Please see Eagan/4C Eagan Continued from Page 1C uses. ■ A closely linked case involving the condemnation of 10 adjacent acres of the O'Neils' land for storm water holding ponds that benefit the nearby Town Centre shopping complex, which is owned by the Federal Land Company of Eagan. The O'Neils won a $664,000 con- demnation award in 1985, but Fed- eral Land is protesting the pay- ment because the developer has an agreement with Eagan to pay the condemnation costs. ■ A challenge of special assess- ments the city has placed on the O'Neils for storm sewers. The city and the O'Neils have sometimes been close to a settle- ment during the past month, but the involvement of the Federal Land Company has complicated the matter. Federal Land has threatened a lawsuit of its own if the city settled the O'Neil cases. The .and use and special assess- ment cases were settled Tuesday night, but Duffy said the condem- nation issue will go to trial. The city council interrupted its regular meeting for a two-hour ex- ecutive session to deal with the cases. During that time, Mitchell paced Eagan's City Hall and chatted with local residents, wait- ing for attorneys to reach agree- ment. That put him in the same po- sition as the assemblage of developers and their attorneys who showed up to learn the outcome of the case. The attorneys, lacking the judge's chambers that would ordi- narily provide a negotiating table, instead staked a claim to a base- ment lunchroom for their talks. THREE SECTIONS News • Sports General Section Real Estate Section Classified Section 72 pages Eagan THISWEEK Your Community Newspaper Volume 8, No. 46 O'Neills, city reach partial settlement By BRENDA GUDERIAN A two -year -old lawsuit between the city of Eagan and Robert and Grace O'Neill reached a partial settlement during Tuesday's city council meeting. The lawsuit addresses differ- ences the parties have over a 100- acre parcel of land north of Yankee Doodle Road and west of Lexington Avenue owned by the O'Neills. Issues of rezoning and assessment levels on storm sewer ponds the city built on the property were the parts of the lawsuit settled. Final details and signing of the agreement are ex- pected early this week. The lawsuit had been set for court and the city had asked for a postponement. The O'Neills re- cently requested again that the case go to Dakota County District Court. Judge John Mitchell decid- ed Dec. 21 to postpone the trial in order to reach an agreement out of court. The city and the O'Neills have been meeting to work out details. It was during an execu- tive session Tuesday night and further talks between the parties that an agreement was reached. In a unique arrangement, Mit- chell then held a district court session during a short recess of the regular city council meeting. City Administrator Torn Hedges said later that it was probably the first time a city council had con- ducted a meeting in those cir- cumstances. Gerald Duffy, counsel for the O'Neills, and Chris Dietzen, at- torney representing the city's in- terests, appeared before Martin and and said an agreement had been reached. Eagan Mayor Vic Ellison commended the parties for being willing to reach a settle- ment out of court. The O'Neills would like the zon- ing changed on their land to resi- dential and commercial designa- tion. In 1985 the city council failed to do so by lack of one vote. Four of the five -member council are needed to change a zoning. At that time, two members voted against it, saying there was no proper development plan brought by the O'Neills. The two were then -Mayor Bea Blomquist and Council Member Tom Egan. The settlement on the second issue, assessment, will dismiss the appeal brought by the O'Neills. They said the assess- ment levied by the city for the storm sewer was excessive in proportion to the benefit to the property. A third issue remains to be set- tled between the O'Neills and the city. That is over the $664,000 to be awarded in compensation for the city's condemnation of the land for storm sewer holding ponds. The O'Neills say it is not enough, but the city says it is too much. Ellison said Tuesday night that the settlement met the needs and desires of the O'Neills and the city. How the property was to be de- veloped was something the city had to look at, according to Egan, whether the city won or lost the lawsuit. The building of the storm sew- ers also has led to a fourth law- suit brought against the city in March 1987. The plaintiff in this action is Federal Land Co. The developer has a 10-story office building south of Yankee Doodle Road. That construction necessi- tated the sewers on the O'Neill property. At the time of zoning for the offices, the city and Fed- eral Land entered into an agree- ment in which Federal Land would pay the condemnation costs. The city has paid two- thirds of that award so far and believes it deserves to be paid hack. The development company now says that because of changes in the conditions of the agree- ment, including rezoning of the O'Neill land, this agreement is probably no longer valid. ANL 11,1Ms AV matmen pin down Braves p.28A Board moves to fire Dist. 191 teacher p.8A First boundary hearing lists parental concerns p.11A SWEARING IN ceremonies for Eagan's new mayor Vic Ellison bers David Gustafson and Ted Wachter were observed at Tuesday night's city coun- cil meeting. City Administrator Tom Hedges recited the oath. Joining in the cere- mony were Ellison's wife Carol and their children Kimberly, Timothy and Andrea; and Wachter's wife Leone. A fifth member of the council will be sworn in at the Jan. 19 meeting. and council Reconsideration of Cliff Lake EIS quickly approved by new council By BRENDA GUDERIAN New Mayor Vic Ellison lived up to a promise at the city council meeting Jan. 5 when he made a motion to reconsider requiring an Environmental Impact State- ment for the controversial Cliff Lake Galleria shopping center project. The city council by a 3-1 vote decided Dec. 17 not to require an EIS, after completion of a second Environmental Assessment Worksheet. It was a consensus that nothing more would be learn- ed and it would be straying from city precedents concerning devel- opment. Ellison, the only council mem- ber voting in favor of an EIS at the Dec. 17 meeting, promised at that time to bring up the issue again after he became mayor. He was sworn in at Tuesday's meet- ing. The proposed $75 million Cliff Lake project has met with strong opposition by residents near the site at Rahn and Cliff roads. The residents object to the size of the project, 256,000 square feet, and they feel the location is bad, con- sidering it is across Rahn Road from an elementary school. The environmental concerns arise mostly over a lake on the land. Hoffman Development Group, owners of the land, have a Cub Foods store and a Target for an- chor tenants. Ellison and Council Member Ted Wachter have voted against the project in the past. Ellison is a supporter of the Bieter Co., which donated to Ellison's mayoral campaign and is a com- petitor of the Hoffman Group. Supporters of the project have been former Mayor Bea Blom- mem- quist and former Council Member James Smith. Council Member Tom Egan also has sup- ported the project. The motion to reconsider an EIS passed, with Ellison, Wach- ter and new Council Member David Gustafson voting in favor and Egan voting against the mo- tion. The 3-1 split was repeated three other times during the meeting as Ellison proposed other resolu- tions. All resolutions serve to slow down the developers. The council also passed a reso- lution rescinding most business of a special meeting called for Dec. 30. At that time Blomquist and Smith reported on meetings they attended at the National League of Cities convention. However, other business was ad - Resolutions (continued on p.3A) Pam McCrae appointed to open council seat By BRENDA GUDERIAN The vacant Eagan City Council seat was filled Thursday night. Jan. 7, when Pamela McCrae was appointed to the five -member governing body. McCrae will complete two years of the position opened this month when Vic Ellison became mayor. McCrae's appointment was on a 3-1 vote, with council members Ted Wachter, David Gustafson and Ellison voting for her. Coun- cil Member Tom Egan voted for Lloyd Krob. The vote was ratified unanimously. originally 12 persons applied for the post. Two dropped out for personal reasons and another, Larry Guthrie, withdrew because his law firm will be advising the city. Nine persons were inter- viewed Thursday night. Those not chosen for the council seat have been encouraged to apply for positions on advisory commis- sions. McCrae has been a member of the Advisory Planning Commis- sion since 1981, with one year as chairwoman. Since 1977 she has been a resident of Eagan, along with her husband, Mark, and their children, Ryan, 19; Kari, 12; and Melissa, 8. She is employ- ed by the state of Minnesota as a supervisor in the department of jobs and training. During a phone call after the decision, McCrae said she was very happy with the decision. "I'm so honored," she said. "I'm looking forward to serving. I've known Ted (Wachter) and Tom (Egan) for many years and feel a closeness to them. And I'm ex- cited about the ideas of Dave (Gustafson) and Vic (Ellison). I think it's going to be an excellent council, a progressive council." McCrae has been closely align- ed with Ellison, serving as his mayoral campaign manager. But council members said Thursday night that she is a qualified, strong candidate. "We all felt this was a proper and direct approach," Ellison said. "Six years on the planning commission is a good primer for the council." "I voted for the best qualified candidate," Gustafson said. 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Blomquist and Smith said the city had stepped aside and let the two parties reach an agreement. On Dec. 30, they acknowledged this was completed. Wachter and Ellison did not at- tend the special meeting and felt proper notification of business was not given. Egan said he con- sidered the action of the 30th to be consistent with past special meet- ings. Also sent back to the Advisory Planning Commission for recon- sideration was a revision on road plans for the project. Those plans were approved at the Dec. 17 meeting. Ellison voted in favor of the revision, but Tuesday said it needed more study. Ellison's fourth resolution pro- vided for the city to hire an at- torney to prepare for the Jan. 19 meeting. The four resolutions were met with disapproval by Egan and Hoffman attorney George May. "Never has an elected official used the environmental process to thwart one developer's plans in favor of another," Egan said. "The same rules should apply to all developers. I will make sure that any person on this council will equally enforce environmen- tal issues on all developers," he said, commenting that "what goes around comes around." May maintained that the EAW has been posted in the Environ- mental Quality Board "Monitor," which makes it final. That EAW found the project would have no adverse impact on the environ- ment. May said Ellison's resolutions were a breach of due process and took away finality of previous council decisions. Both May and Egan called the resolutions politically motivated. "Not only do I consider this out of line, hanky -pant and politi- cal, but I considc - it to be as hypocritical as el.erything you did this evening," Egan said. Ellison, Wachter and Gustaf- son characterized the resolutions as a way to take more time to study unanswered questions on the project. Ellison's suggestion for the law firm to be hired was Maun and Green and associates. Represen- ting the group was attorney Larry Guthrie, who had applied for the open council seat left open by Ellison's move to the mayor's seat. He had withdrawn his appli- cation before the Jan. 7 appoint- ment of a new council member. Guthrie's firm was suggested because of its desire to do business with the city and Ellison was impressed with guidance they offered him during a month of private meetings, he said later. The cost of hiring the firm is considered minimal by Ellison, who said it was for a limited time. Eagan also has full-time legal counsel with Paul Hauge. Guthrie said the company's rates range from $90-$150 an hour and are competitive. Egan called the move "incred- ulous" because Ellison ran on a position of lowering the city's legal costs, he said. One resident in attendance at Tuesday's meeting supported the actions of the mayor, saying the project has been forced on resi- dents. "There are too many ques- (continued from front) tions unanswered," said Brenda Christianson, 4230 Jasper Dr. Her husband, Ivan, said that when the parcel was zoned commercial in the late 1960s, the city leaders had a different vision in mind from the large complexes found today. Eagan residents give city services high marks By Deb Schewe QfL [ QG Staff Writer After receiving the results of a resi- dent survey, you'll have to excuse Eagan city officials if they have a hard time wip- ing the smiles off their faces. According to the survey, 85 percent of the 250 residents surveyed believe the city is headed in the right direction. Re- cent development, parks and nature areas, and shopping centers topped the list of what residents were most pleased about in the city. Restaurants and the ice arena also made the list. Residents were asked a variety of questions, ranging from what they thought about environmental issues to their opinion about city communication. The City Council commissioned the survey in July to determine the mood of residents. "Over the last two years, there have been some local businesses and residents questioning some information that came out of city hall and the methods of dis- seminating [the information]," said Councilmember Shawn Hunter. "This was a check to see if [the dissatisfaction] was a general attitude or a minority of people." The overall positive response "really was not surprising" to Mayor Tom Egan. Information garnered from the survey will be used to help chart the city's future course. For example, he said, with 95 per- cent of the people saying they feel safe in their neighborhoods the city will proba- bly look at "maintaining status quo" in terms of police and fire department ser- vice. Sixty percent of the people said there were no areas in Eagan that caused them to be concerned about their safety. Thirty-four percent of the people said there were areas of the city in which they were concerned about their safety. Top- ping the list is the Cedarvale area (20 percent), followed by the parks (18 per- cent), Wescott Square (13 percent), and Town Square (12 percent). The remaining 48 percent of those concerned about their safety named a variety of other places, the majority being areas high in apart- ment complexes and shopping areas. In response to a question about what residents liked least about the city, 22 percent said nothing. The top three com- plaints were high taxes (10 percent), air- plane noise (9 percent) and rapid city growth (4 percent). Three percent also cited other issues, such as too many strip malls, too many townhomes and apart- ments, lack of downtown/central area, poor public transportation, and rising crime. If residents could determine what to do with the remaining open land in Eagan, 70 percent said they'd like to see it as park or open space. Single family homes came in next, followed by retail EAGAN: To Page 12A +un•Current/Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1996 Eagan. Survey shows people eo le pleased with what they see . From Page IA shops, townhouse/multi-family dwellings and office buildings. Egan said he found it interesting that most of the people favored keeping the land open, but when asked to factor in that their taxes would be raised to help pay for it, interest seemed to dwindle a little. However, he is optimistic about their interest in parks. "It implies that the referendum com- ing up Sept. 10 could do quite well," he said. One result that Egan sees that the city could use for future discussion is whether to shovel snow off of city trails, making them available year round rather than for three seasons. When asked if the city should remove snow and ice from trails and sidewalks, 68 percent said yes. How- ever, when told that it would impact taxes, only 48 percent favor the snow removal. An issue that cities struggle with is finding a sense of community. Those re- sponding didn't seem to think that was a problem, as 65 percent of those said they have a sense of community. Of those who didn't think the city had a sense of com- munity, 26 percent attributed it to a lack of a downtown area, 20 percent said it's because the city is too spread out, and 13 percent said it's because there is a lack of community activities. Hunter said he would like to see the results of the survey communicated to the public through vehicles such as the city's newsletter, but would like to hold off until after the election. "I don't want to make it an election issue," he said. That won't stop him from being proud of the results, however. "It's phenomenal," he said. "I expected to see good things about the city, but I was surprised the percentage [of favor- able comments] was higher than I thought." city of cagcin 3795 PILOT KNOB ROAD, P.O. BOX 21199 EAGAN, MINNESOTA 55121 PHONE: (612) 454-8100 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BEA BLOMQUIST Mayor THOMAS EGAN JAMES A. SMITH JERRY THOMAS THEODORE WACHTER Council Members THOMAS HEDGES City Administrator EUGENE VAN OVERBEKE Interested residents are encouraged to apply for positions CityClerk on Eagan's Advisory Planning Commission and Advisory Park & Recreation Commission. The Advisory Planning Commission meets the fourth Tuesday of each month to review development plans and make recommendations to the City Council. Three appointments will be made to this commission. The three year terms of Charles Hall and Dale Turnham are expiring and the one year alternate position, currently held by Garrett Mulrooney, is also expiring as of December 31, 1983. The Advisory Park & Recreation Commission meets the first Thursday of each month to advise the City Council regarding park dedication by developers, purchase of additional park land, development of existing park land and City recreational programs. Three appointments are required to fill the expiring three year terms of Mike Fedde, Roger Martin and Sandra Masin. Residents of Eagan who wish to apply for one of the above positions should submit a letter expressing their interest to the City Administrator before December 30, 1983. Appointments will be considered at the 1984 organizational meeting of the City Council scheduled for January 17, 1984. - 30 - �1 2 - 9 - 8 3 THE LONE OAK TREE ... THE SYMBOL OF STRENGTH AND GROWTH IN OUR COMMUNITY city of Cagan 3795 PILOT KNOB ROAD, P.O. BOX 21199 EAGAN, MINNESOTA 55121 PHONE: (612) 454-8100 December 1, 1982 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: BEA BLOMQUIST Mayor THOMAS EGAN JAMES A. SMITH JERRY THOMAS THEODORE WACHTER Council Members THOMAS HEDGES City Administrator EUGENE VAN OVERBEKE City Clerk Interested residents of the City of Eagan are encouraged to apply for positions on the city's advisory planning commission and advisory park and recreation committee. The advisory planning commission meets the fourth Tuesday of each month to review development plans and make recommendations to the city council. Four appointments will be made to this commission. The three year terms of David Bohne, Doris Wilkins and Michael Wold are expiring and the one year alternate position, currently held by Garrett Mulrooney, is also expiring as of December 31, 1982. The advisory park and recreation committee meets the first Thursday of each month to advise the city council regarding park dedication by developers, purchase of additional park land, development of existing park land and city recreational programs. Four appointments are required to fill the expiring three year terms of George Kubik, Douglas McNeely, Margaret Tilley and Carolyn Thurston. Residents of Eagan who wish to apply for one of the above posi- tions should submit a letter expressing their interest and describing their background to the City Administrator, City Hall, 3795 Pilot Knob Road, Eagan, MN 55122, before January 5, 1983. Appointments will be considered at the 1983 organizational meeting of the city council on January 18, 1983. -30- THE LONE OAK TREE... THE SYMBOL AND GROWTH IN OUR COMMUNITY PHONE 454.8100 CITY OF EAGAN 3795 PILOT KNOB ROAD EAGAN. MINNESOTA 55122 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Interested residents of the City of Eagan are encouraged to apply for positions on the City's Advisory Planning Commission and Advisory Park and Recreation Committee. The Advisory Planning Commission meets the fourth Tuesday of each month to review development plans and make recommendations to the City Council. Four appointments will be made to this com- mission. The three year terms of Lloyd Krob and Thomas Gits are expiring and the one year alternate position is also expiring as of December 31, 1981. In addition, Joseph Harrison has resigned from the commission and an appointment will be made to fill the remainder of his term of office which will expire December 31, 1982. The Advisory Park and Recreation Committee meets the first Thursday of each month to advise the City Council regarding park dedication by developers, purchase of additional park land, development of existing park land and city recreational programs. Three appointments are required to fill the expiring three year terms of Michael Thomas, Richard Carroll and Donn Schumaker. Residents of Eagan who wish to apply for one of the above positions should submit a letter expressing their interest and describing their background to the City Administrator before January 6, 1982. Appointments will be considered at the 1982 organizational meeting of the City Council scheduled for January 19, 1982. -30- 12/17/81 RESOLUTION BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED, by the Board of Supervisors of the -Town of Eagan, Dakota County, linnesota, that a Planning Committee consisting of seven (7) members be appointed for a term of one (1) year from the date hereof, or until such time prior to the expiration thereof as the Beard of Supervisors al)- " points a Planning Commission pursuant to Minnesota Statutes Annotated Section 366.17, for the purpose of making a study of planning and zoning in. Fagan Township and making recommendations thereon to the board of Supervisors and the resident freeholders of said township. .. . BE IT FURTHER RESOLVEb, that the seven (fl members shall be, and hereby are, the felowing: . _ ----'2'75A-0*--- 6.----- 77 : .-C., lr' je-, Adopted this . 4,-‘4 day of).,,-26-4 , 1956. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS EApAN TO\N 1444:L4-9-2 • • CITY OF EAGAN ORDINANCE NO. 56 ESTABLISHING TEE A1YJIS0tU( PLANNING COMMISSION THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EAGAN, DAKOTA COUNTY, M.INNESOTA ORDAINS: SECTION 56,O1. - INTENT The purpose of this ordinance shall be to reestablish the Advisory Planning Commission consisting of seven (7) members and to specify the powers of the Advisory Planning Commission. SECTION 56,02 - ESTABLISHMENT A City Advisory Planning Commission for the City of Eagan is hereby established. The Commission shall be the City Planning Agency. SECTION 56.03 - MEMBERSHIP AND COMPENSATION Such C m issiorshall consist of seven (7) members to be appointed by the City Ccunci..iaras may he removed by a four -fifths (4/5) vote of the Council. Members of the Commission and their successors shall serve terms c2 three (3) years except for the initial terms which shall be specified by Council resolution. Appointees shall hold their offices until their successors are appointed and qualified. Vacancies during term sh 11 be filled by the Council for the unexpired pertiou of the ter Every apointed member shall, before entering upon the discharge of his (her duties, take an oath that he (she) will faith- fully discharge the duties of the office. All members shall serve without compensation, however, they shall be reimbursed for all expenses and costs necessarily incurred in connection with their duties. SECTION 55. 0L - ORGANIZATION MEETINGS ETC. Subd, 1 = The Commission shall elect a Chairman and a Secretary from among itc appcinted memhers for a term of one (1) year; and the Commission may create and fill such other offices as it may determine. Subd. 2 - The Commission shall hold at least one (1) regular meeting each month. It shall atiopt such rules for the transaction of business as it deems appropriate and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions and findiogr, which record shall be a public record. On or before January 1st of each year, the Commission shall submit to the City Council, a report of its work during the ✓ pseceiiing year. Expenditures of the Commission shall be within the amount appro- priated for the purpose by the City Council. AUCTION_ 56.05 - POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE CONMISSION The Commission shall be the planning agency and shall have the powers and duties given such agencies generally by the Laws of the State of M nnesata 19C5, Chapter 670, codified as M.S.A. 462.351 through 462.364 inclusive or as the same may be amended in the future. It shall also exercise the duties conferred upon it by this ordinance. -1 - isttzs / -%ect— F -)-- SECTION 546 06 - :INVALIDITY The iawalidity of any part cf this ordinance as declared by a court of competent ju::iciic;.ion shall not affect the validity of the remainder thereof. SECTTOU 55.07 - CONFLICTING ORDINANCES !:ICES it PEAT ED All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 56.O8 - EFFECTIVE DATE This ordinance shall take effect upon its adoption and publication accord3.n3 to law. ATTEST: CITY COUNCIL CITY OF EAGAN By: City Clerk Mayor Ori3inal Ordinance Adopted: Date of Publication in the Dakota County Tribune: -2- • • a ef-4 LtieZt0 %o . s6 7 , ate cz4“44 7Go S6 s6, 03 - a u } ---4/ .,. -d: 4A emu« (7J I,fri,�.. � r, ``' Kr^-4la.'_.c . c .- ^.c,•0 r 1 ,'i, , /__ :-, ,per ,� 4 cz.,c.- (9/3-) -et , ..Ge,s`c4.e 7 . 46 U .44 Dl xG4-L4.4-, e4.r►•4., V -cam c.3,,yc7J .e/ 74.4) dez, ..a._eie &44,4.4) id.4.0 ...d.Zie -Z., ..,41‘...c.e./4. __4,. .01,e-e0,-0--,-ie 62/Jetst-e- ,,toletie --4/0e eleGi, 04,(:___4.) ze_,,4_4,rer.e.eZ ,4aze.e.,wd _ 491401k dr,41..h . 4eep , 402.3)7;,Z;) 1"15% Al, k:417 A •oi ; ' ' . , enfelltine f _i; I ite W-.1 f ; 110102af 0 1 t IOW- A rat r • , iL di' G1.4 , .2.GC_ WQJ G�Lt�iC� v 2y��G4 yy' 0) cleiT ccv /-7 • CITY OF EACP,N ORDINANCE NO. 56 %cT.AB 1SHING Ter, 1D✓ISORY PLANNING COMMISSION THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EAGAN, DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA ORDAINS: SECTION 56,01 - INT-T, 1T The purpose of this ordinarce shall be to reestablish the Advisory Planning Commission coasisti.ng of seven (7) members and to specify the powers of the ESPY iisory P? an ni::g Commission. SECTION 56.02 - ESTAT IS.?i� E NT. A City Advisory Planning Commission for the City of Eagan is hereby e::*:zb1ish d. The Commissionshall be the City Planning Agency. SECTION 56.03 - METIBERSHIP AND COMPENSATION Such Commission shall consist of seven (7) members to be appointed by the City Council and may he removed by a four --fifths (4/5) vote cf the Council. Members of the Commission and their successors shall serve terms cf three (3) years except for the initial terms which shall be specified by Council resolution.. Appoin:.ees shall hold their offices until their successors are appointed anti qualified. Vaecrcies during the tern.. shall be filled by the Council for the unpired portion of the term. Every appointed member shall, before entering upon the discharge of his (her) duties, take an oath that he (she) will faith- fully discharge the duties of the office. All members shall serve without compensation, however, they shall be reimbursed for all expenses and costs necessarily incurred in connection with their duties. SE' TION 56.04 ORGANIZATION MEETINGS, ETC. Subt, 1 - The Commission shall elect a Chairman and a Secretary from among ;.i.e appointed members for a term of one (1) year; and the Commission may create zri_', fill such other offices as it may determine. Subd. 2 - The Commission shall hold at least one (1) regular meeting each month. It shall aopt such rules for the transaction of business cs it deems appropriate :and shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions and findiL'gs, which record shall. ha a public record. On or before January 1st of each year, the Commission shall sue it to the City Council, a report of its work during the v....e,g year. in Exandi.tures of the Commission shall be within the amount appro- priated pziated for the purpose by the City Council. SECTION 56 05 PO ERS ANO DUTIES OP THE COMt'ISSION The Ccrun,-ission wall be the planning agency and shall have the powers and duties given such agencies generally by the Laws of the State of Minnesota 19C5, Chapter 670, cc"if:ied as M.S.A. 462.351 through 462.364 inclusive or as the same may be amended in the future. It shall also exercise the deeies conferred upon it by this ordf.r:ance, Ala C r CTION 56 , 06 - INVALIDITY The isswalidity of alley part cf this ordinance as declared by a court of competent ju7Ic;iiction shall. not affect the validity of the remainder thereof. SECTION 55.07 - CONFLICTING OP.DINA1 CEv REPEA ED , All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 56.08 m EFFECTIVE DATE This ordinance shall take effect upon its adoption and publication according to law. ATTEST: CITY COUNCIL CITY OF EAGAN By: City Clerk Mayor Ori.zinal Ordinance Adopted: Date of Publication in the Dakota County Tribune: -2- Planning Board Appointments 2/5/60 James Klingel Herb Polzin 3 years 3 years Myron Kehne 2 years Theodore Wachter 2 years Tom Dif f ley 1 year G.J. Caldwell 1 year J.A. Adelman 1 year July 14, 1967 To: Twin Cities MPC Res (.)fficials of E nn Township Board of Supervisors: John J. Klein, Chairman, 1495 Lone Oak Rd., St. Paul, ;'inn. 55111 Arthur Rahn, Supervisor, 4100 ilaekhawk Rd., Edward Sohwans, Supervinor, Route 2, Rosemount, Minn. 55068 Herbert Pollsin, Treasurer, 940 Blue Gentian Rd., St. Paul, Minn. 55118 Alyce Bolke, Clerk, 1365 Deerwood Dr., St. Paul, Minn. 55111 Planning Committees James F. Klingel, 2633 Pilot Knob Rd., St. Paul, Minn. 55118 Theodore Wachter, 3155 Lexington Ave. So., St. Paul, Minn. 55.111. Thomas Diflley, Route 2, Rosemount, Minn. 55063 :Herbert Polzin, 940 Blue Gentian Rd., St. Paul, Minn. 55118 Gordon Beaudette, 3990 Beau d'Rue, St. Paul, Minn. 55111 Donald Chri.stendnn, 3(5f) Pilot Knob Rai., St. r^.u1, '"inn. 55111 William Rydryoh, 4314 Amber Dr., St. Paul, Minn. 55111 1979 ANNUAL REPORT Mayor Leo Murphy City Councilmember Thomas Egan City Councilmember Mark Parranto City Councilmember James Smith City Councilmember Theodore Wachter City Administrator Thomas L. Hedges City Clerk Alyce Bolke Police Chief Martin DesLauriers Fire Chief Robert Childers Finance Director Eugene VanOverbeke Public Works Director Thomas A. Colbert Park Director Barbara Schmidt Building Inspector Dale Peterson City Planner Dale Runkle City Attorney Paul Hauge Administrative Intern Elizabeth Ryan Advisory Planning Commission Joseph Harrison -- Chairperson Bea Blomquist -- Vice Chairperson Kenneth Hedke -- Secretary Neil Coates Thomas Gits Charles Hall Lloyd Krob John Roszak Roger Sperling Doris Wilkins -- Alternate Advisory Park Committee Myrel Lundsten -- Chairperson Neil Coates -- Vice Chairperson Jean Loken -- Secretary Richard Carroll Mark Dandurand Roger Martin Virginia O'Neill Sharon Radl Michael Thomas Carolyn Thurston 2 1980 ANNUAL REPORT Beatta Blomquist Mayor Thomas Egan City Councilmember Mark Parranto City Councilmember James Smith City Councilmember Theodore Wachter City Councilmember City Administrator Thomas L. Hedges Alyce Bolke City Clerk Martin DesLauriers Police Chief Robert Childers Fire Chief Eugene VanOverbeke Finance Director Thomas A. Colbert Public Works Director Ken Vraa Park Director Dale Peterson Building Inspector Dale Runkle City Planner Paul Hauge City Attorney Kurt Ulrich Administrative Interns Steve Mielke Advisory Planning Commission Joseph Harrison -- Chairperson Charles Hall -- Vice Chairperson John Roszak -- Secretary David Bohne Thomas Gits Lloyd Krob Doris Wilkins Dale Turnham -- Alternate Advisory Parks & Recreation Committee Roger Martin -- Chairperson Jean Loken -- Vice Chairperson Carolyn Thurston -- Secretary Richard Carroll Steve Johnson Douglas McNeely Richard Pettit Sharon Radl Michael Thomas Margaret Tilley 58 1981 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR BEA BLOMQUIST CITY COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS EGAN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER MARK PARRANTO CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES SMITH CITY COUNCIL MEMBER THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY CLERK/TREASURER/FINANCE DIRECTOR..E. J. VANOVERBEKE CITY ATTORNEY PAUL HAUGE CITY PLANNER DALE RUNKLE CHIEF OF POLICE MARTIN DESLAURIERS FIRE CHIEF ROBERT CHILDERS CHIEF BUILDING INSPECTOR DALE PETERSON DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KEN VRAA CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR DOUG REID ADMINISTRATIVE INTERN DAVID OSBERG ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION JOSEPH HARRISON - CHAIRPERSON CHARLES HALL - VICE CHAIRPERSON LLOYD KROB - SECRETARY DAVID BORNE DALE TURNHAM THOMAS GITS DALE VOGT ROBERT C. HAYWOOD DORIS WILKINS ADVISORY PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE ROGER MARTIN - CHAIRPERSON JEAN LOKEN - VICE CHAIRPERSON CAROLYN THURSTON - SECRETARY RICHARD CARROLL MIKE FEDDE STEVE JOHNSON DOL'GLAS MCNEELY SANDRA MASIN RICHARD PETTIT SHARON RADL DONN SCHL'MAKER MICHAEL THOMAS MARGARET TILLEY 1 1982 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR BEA BLOMQUIST CITY COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS EGAN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES SMITH CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JERRY THOMAS CITY COUNCIL MEMBER THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY CLERK/TREASURER/FINANCE DIRECTOR E J. VANOVERBEKE CITY ATTORNEY PAUL HAUGE CITY PLANNER DALE RUNKLE CHIEF OF POLICE MARTIN DESLAURIERS FIRE CHIEF ROBERT CHILDERS CHIEF BUILDING INSPECTOR DALE PETERSON DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KEN VRAA CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR DOUG REID ADMINISTRATIVE INTERN ELIZABETH WITT ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION CHARLES HALL - CHAIRPERSON LLOYD KROB - VICE CHAIRPERSON DORIS WILKINS - SECRETARY DAVID BORNE DALE TURNHAM PAMELA MCCREA MICHAEL WOLD GARRETT MULROONEY (Alternate) ADVISORY PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE ROGER MARTIN - CHAIRPERSON CAROLYN THURSTON - VICE CHAIRPERSON RICHARD CARROLL - SECRETARY MIKE FEDDE SANDRA MASIN TOM GUSTAFSON DOUGLAS MCNEELY STEVE JOHNSON DONN SCHUMAKER GEORGE KUBIK MARGARET TILLEY 1 1983 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR BEA BLOMQUIST .CITY COUNCIL MEMBER THOMAS EGAN CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JAMES SMITH CITY COUNCIL MEMBER JERRY THOMAS CITY COUNCIL MEMBER THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY CLERK/TREASURER/FINANCE DIRECTOR E CITY ATTORNEY CITY PLANNER CHIEF OF POLICE FIRE CHIEF ROBERT CHILDERS CHIEF BUILDING INSPECTOR DALE PETERSON DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KEN VRAA CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR DOUG REID ADMINISTRATIVE INTERN EDWARD MEISTER J. VANOVERBEKE PAUL HAUGE DALE RUNKLE JAY BERTHE ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION CHARLES HALL - CHAIRPERSON MICHAEL WOLD - VICE CHAIRPERSON DORIS WILKINS - SECRETARY DAVID BOHNE PAMELA MCCREA LLOYD KROB DALE TURNHAM GARRETT MULROONEY (Alternate) ADVISORY PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE ROGER MARTIN - CHAIRPERSON CAROLYN THURSTON - VICE CHAIRPERSON RICHARD CARROLL - SECRETARY JOANNE ALT GEORGE KUBIK SANDY BERTZ SANDRA MASIN MIKE FEDDE DOUGLAS MCNEELY TOM GUSTAFSON DONN SCHUMAKER WILLIAM JACKSON 1 1984 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR BEA BLOMQUIST CITY COUNCILMEMBER THOMAS EGAN CITY COUNCILMEMBER JAMES SMITH CITY COUNCILMEMBER JERRY THOMAS CITY COUNCILMEMBER CITY ADMINISTRATOR CITY CLERK/TREASURER/FINANCE CITY ATTORNEY PAUL HAUGE CITY PLANNER DALE RUNKLE CHIEF OF POLICE JAY BERTHE FIRE CHIEF ROBERT CHILDERS CHIEF BUILDING INSPECTOR DALE PETERSON DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KEN VRAA CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR DOUG REID ADMINISTRATIVE INTERN JON HOHENSTEIN DAVID BOHNE LLOYD KROB THEODORE WACHTER THOMAS L. HEDGES DIRECTOR E J. VANOVERBEKE ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION CHARLES HALL - CHAIRPERSON MICHAEL WOLD - VICE CHAIRPERSON DORIS WILKENS - SECRETARY PAMELA MCCREA GARRETT MULROONEY ROY TAYLOR, JR. (ALTERNATE) ADVISORY PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE ROGER MARTIN - CHAIRPERSON CAROLYN THURSTON - VICE CHAIRPERSON- RICHARD CARROLL - SECRETARY JOANNE ALT WILLIAM JACKSON SANDY BERTZ TOM KETCHAM MIKE FEDDE GEORGE KUBIK SANDRA MASIN 1 CITY OFFICIALS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1985 BEA BLOMQUIST MAYOR CITY COUNCILMEMBER THOMAS EGANMIAN CITY COUNCILMEMBER JERKY TAMES THOMAS SITH CITY COUNCILMEMBER THEODORE WACHTER CITY COUNCILMEMBER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY CLERK/TREASURER/FINANCE DIRECTOR CITY ATTORNEY CITY PLANNER CHIEF OF POLICE FIRE CHIEF CHIEF BUILDING INSPECTOR RT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS KEN THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION DKG VRAA CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR EID ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION CHARLES HALL - CHAIRPERSON MICHAEL WOLD - VICE CHAIRPERSON DORIS WILKENS - SECRETARY DAVID BOHNE JOE HARRISON LORI TRYGG (ALTERNATE) E J VANOVERBEKE PAUL HAUGE DALE RUNKLE JAY BERTHE ROBERT CHILDERS DALE PETERSON PAMELA MC CREA GARRETT MULROONEY ADVISORY PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE ROGER MARTIN - CHAIRPERSON CAROLYN THURSTON - VICE CHAIRPERSON RICHARD CARROLL - SECRETARY ANTHONY CAPONI JOANNE ALT TOM KETCHAM SANDY BERTZ GEORGE KUBIK MIKE FEDDIE SANDRA MASIN 1986 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR BEA BLOMQUIST CITY COUNCILMEMBER THOMAS EGAN CITY COUNCILMEMBER CITY COUNCILMEMBER CITY COUNCILMEMBER JAMES SMITH VIC ELLISON THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY CLERK/TREASURER/FINANCE DIRECTOR E J VAN OVERBEKE CITY ATTORNEY PAUL HAUGE CITY PLANNER DALE RUNKLE CHIEF OF POLICE JAY BERTHE FIRE CHIEF KEN SOUTHORN CHIEF BUILDING INSPECTOR DOUG REID DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION KEN VRAA CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR DOUG REID ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION PAMELA MC CREA - CHAIRPERSON JOSEPH HARRISON - VICE CHAIRPERSON CHARLES HALL RON VORACEK GARRETT MULROONEY LORI TRYGG DAVID BOHNE (ALTERNATE) ADVISORY PARKS 6 RECREATION COMMISSION ROGER MARTIN - CHAIRPERSON CAROLYN THURSTON - VICE CHAIRPERSON RICHARD CARROLL - SECRETARY ROBERT PORTER SANDRA MASIN SANDY BERTZ TOM KETCHAM ANTHONY CAPONI GEORGE KUBIK JOANNE ALT 1 1987 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR VIC ELLISON CITY COUNCILMEMBER THOMAS EGAN CITY COUNCILMEMBER PAM MC CREA CITY COUNCILMEMBER DAVE GUSTAFSON CITY COUNCILMEMBER THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY CLERK/TREASURER/FINANCE DIRECTOR E.J. VAN OVERBEKE CITY ATTORNEY JIM SHELDON CITY PLANNER DALE RUNKLE CHIEF OF POLICE JAY BERTHE FIRE CHIEF KEN SOUTHORN CHIEF BUILDING INSPECTOR DOUG REID DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION CIVIL DEFENSE DIRECTOR ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION TIMOTHY PAWLENTY - CHAIRPERSON RON VORACEK - VICE CHAIRPERSON DORIS WILKINS - SECRETARY DANIEL GARRY LORI TRYGG MARK MILLER (ALTERNATE) THOMAS A. COLBERT KEN VRAA DOUG REID ADVISORY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION RICHARD CARROLL - CHAIRPERSON SANDRA MASIN - VICE CHAIRPERSON GEORGE KUBICK - SECRETARY ROBERT PORTER GARRY GRAVES SCOTT MERKLEY JOANNE ALT MICHELLE SWANSON WAYNE SAMES DAVID HENNES (ALTERNATE) 1988 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR VIC ELLISON CITY COUNCILMEMBER THOMAS EGAN CITY COUNCILMEMBER PAM MC CREA CITY COUNCILMEMBER DAVE GUSTAFSON CITY COUNCILMEMBER THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY CLERK/TREASURER/FINANCE DIRECTOR E.J. VAN OVERBEKE CITY ATTORNEY JIM SHELDON DALE RUNKLE PAT GEAGAN KEN SOUTHORN DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CHIEF OF POLICE FIRE CHIEF DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION KEN VRAA ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION TIMOTHY PAWLENTY — CHAIRPERSON RON VORACEK — VICE CHAIRPERSON GARY GRAVES DORIS WILKINS (SECRETARY) DANIEL GARRY SCOTT MERKLEY LORI TRYGG MARK MILLER (ALTERNATE) ADVISORY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION BOB PORTER SANDRA MASIN MICHELLE SWANSON RICHARD CARROLL — CHAIRPERSON JOANNE ALT — VICE CHAIRPERSON GEORGE KUBIK (SECRETARY) WAYNE SAMES DAVID HENNES (ALTERNATE) l 1989 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR VIC ELLISON COUNCILMEMBERS PAM MCCREA DAVE GUSTAFSON TOM EGAN THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY ATTORNEY JIM SHELDON CITY CLERK/FINANCE DIRECTOR E J. VANOVERBEKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT/PLANNING DIRECTOR DALE RUNKLE POLICE/EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS CHIEF PAT GEAGAN FIRE CHIEF KEN SOUTHORN PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TOM COLBERT PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR KEN VRAA ,ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION TIM PAWLENTY - CHAIRPERSON RON VORACEK - VICE CHAIRPERSON LORI TRYGG GARY GRAVES (SECRETARY) MARK MILLER SCOTT MERKLEY JOHN GORMAN DONALD HOEFT (ALTERNATE) ADVISORY PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION GEORGE KUBIK - CHAIRPERSON RICHARD CARROLL - VICE CHAIRPERSON MICHELE SWANSON SANDRA MASIN (SECRETARY) JACK JOHNSON TED BILLY SHAWN HUNTER (ALTERNATE) 1990 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR THOMAS A. EGAN COUNCILMEMBERS DAVID GUSTAFSON PAMELA MCCREA TIMOTHY PAWLENTY THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY ATTORNEY JAMES F. SHELDON CITY CLERK/FINANCE DIRECTOR E. J. VANOVERBEKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DALE C. RUNKLE CHIEF OF POLICE PATRICK J. GEAGAN FIRE CHIEF KENNETH R. SOUTHORN DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KENNETH VRAA ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION GARY GRAVES, CHAIR RON VORACEK, VICE CHAIR LORI TRYGG SCOTT MERKLEY, SECRETARY MARK MILLER JOHN GORMAN DONALI) IHOEFT JOYCE STAEHELI, ALTERNATE ADVISORY PARKS, RECREATION & NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION GEORGE KUBIK, CHAIR RICHARD CARROLL, VICE -CHAIR MICHELE SWANSON SHAWN HUNTER, SECRETARY THEODORE BILLY JACK JOIINSON SANDI WENSMANN JOHN GRIGGS, ALTERNATE 1991 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR THOMAS A. EGAN COUNCILMEMBERS DAVID GUSTAFSON PAMELA MCCREA TIMOTHY PAWLENTY THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY ATTORNEY JAMES F. SHELDON CITY CLERK/FINANCE DIRECTOR E. J. VANOVERBEKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DALE C. RUNKLE CHIEF OF POLICE PATRICK J. GEAGAN FIRE CHIEF KENNETH R. SOUTHORN DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KENNETH VRAA LORI TRYGG MARK MILLER ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION RON VORACEK, CHAIR GARY GRAVES, VICE CHAIR JOYCE STAEHELI, SECRETARY SCOTT MERKLEY DONALD HOEFT JOHN GORMAN, ALTERNATE ADVISORY PARKS, RECREATION & NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION GEORGE KUBIK, CHAIR SHAWN HUNTER, VICE -CHAIR LEE MARKELL JOHN GRIGGS, SECRETARY THEODORE BILLY JACK JOHNSON DEBORAH JOHNSON, ALTERNATE RICHARD CARROLL, ADVISORY MEMBER 1992 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR THOMAS A. EGAN COUNCILMEMBERS PATRICIA AWADA SHAWN HUNTER SANDRA MASIN THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L.. HEDGES CITY ATTORNEY JAMES F. SHELDON (CIVIL) KEVIN EIDE (PROSECUTION) CITY CLERK/FINANCE DIRECTOR E. J. VANOVERBEKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR DALE C. RUNKLE CHIEF OF POLICE PATRICK J. GEAGAN FIRE CHIEF KENNETH R. SOUTHORN DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KENNETH VRAA GARY GRAVES MARK MILLER ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION RON VORACEK, CHAIR SCOTT MERKLEY JOHN GORMAN SHAWN HUNTER, ALTERNATE DONALD HOEFT JOHN GRIGGS ADVISORY PARKS, RECREATION & NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION JACK JOHNSON, CHAIR LEE MARKELL THEODORE BILLY ERIN IPSEN-BORGERSEN DAN MOORADIAN KEVIN KNIGHT, ALTERNATE JONATHAN WIDEM DEBORAH JOHNSON i i 1993/1994 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR THOMAS A. EGAN COUNCILMEMBERS PATRICIA AWADA SHAWN HUNTER SANDRA MASIN THEODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L. HEDGES CITY ATTORNEY JAMES F. SHELDON (CIVIL) KEVIN EIDE (PROSECUTION) CITY CLERK/FINANCE DIRECTOR E. J. VANOVERBEKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR PEGGY REICHERT CHIEF OF POLICE PATRICK J. GEAGAN FIRE CHIEF DALE NELSON DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KENNETH VRAA CARLA HEYL MARK MILLER ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION RON VORACEK, CHAIR SCOTT MERKLEY DANIEL SEIDEL JEROME SEGAL GUNNAR ISBERG ROY WALLACE ADVISORY PARKS, RECREATION & NATURAL RESOURCES COMM. GEORGE KUBIK THEODORE BILLY JOHN RUDOLPH KEN TYLER LEE MARKELL, CHAIR JONATHAN WIDEM KEVIN KNIGHT STEPIIEN THOMPSON JONATHAN WIDEM ERIN IPSEN-BORGERSEN' denotes members whose terms expired in 1993 MICHAEL VINCENT SHERIE WALLACE DAVID SZOTT DAN MOORADIAN` 1995 ANNUAL REPORT MAYOR THOMAS A. EAGAN COUNCIL MEMBERS PATRICIA AWADA SHAWN HUNTER SANDRA MASIN TI EODORE WACHTER CITY ADMINISTRATOR THOMAS L HEDGES CITY ATTORNEY JAMES F. SHELDON (CIVIL) KEVIN EIDE(PROSECUTION) CITY CLERK/FINANCE DIRECTOR E. J. VANOVERBEKE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR PEGGY REICHERT CHIEF OF POLICE PATRICK J. GEAGAN FIRE CHIEF DALE NELSON DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS THOMAS A. COLBERT DIRECTOR OF PARKS & RECREATION KENNETH VRAA CARLA HEYL JERRY SEGAL ADVISORY PLANNING COMMISSION MARK MILLER, CHAIR GUNNAR ISBERG STEVEN BURDOFF PEGGY CARLSON ROY WALLACE CLYDE THURSTON ADVISORY PARKS, RECREATION, & NATURAL RESOURCES COMM. GEORGE KUBIK KEN TYLER JOHN RUDOLPH LEE MARKELL, CHAIR JONATHAN WIDEM CINDY LYNCH STEPHEN THOMPSON TOM WALKINGTON MICHAEL VINCENT SHERIE WALLACE DAVID SZOTT EAGAN TOWNSHIP OFFICIALS Eagan Town Hall 3795 Pilot Knob Road Eagan, MN 55122 454-5242 & 454-4141 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS John J. Klein, Chairman 1495 Lone Oak Road Eagan, MN 55121 454-4732 Arthur F. Rahn, Supervisor 4100 Blackhawk Road Eagan, MN 55122 454-1246 Paul J. Uselmann, Jr. Supervisor 3012 Woodlark Lane Eagan, MN 55121 454-1208 TOWN CLERK Alyce Bolke 1365 Deerwood Drive Eagan, MN 55123 454-1156 or 454-5242 TOWN ENGINEER Robert Rosene Bonestroo, Rosene, Anderlik & Assoc. 2335 West Trunk Highway 36 St. Paul, MN 55113 646-4600 FISCAL CONSULTANT James E. Olsen of Juran & Moody, Inc. 114 E. Seventh Street St. Paul, MN 55101 224-9661 TOWN ATTORNEY Luther M. Stalland of Stalland & Hauge 2340 Dain Tower Minneapolis, MN 55402 336-8361 POLICE CHIEF Martin DesLauriers 4359 Lexington Avenue South Eagan, MN 55123 454-1790 March 23, 1971 ADVISORY PLANNING COMMITTEE Herbert Polzin, Chairman 940 Blue Gentian Road Eagan, MN 55121 454-1235 William Rydrych, Secretary 4314 Amber Drive Eagan, MN 55122 454-4490 Thomas J. Diffley 4355 South Robert Trail Eagan, MN 55123 454-3506 Theodore Wachter 4550 Blackhawk Road Eagan, MN 55122 454-2130 Roger Sperling 1421 Highview Avenue Eagan, MN 55121 454-3512 Jon E. Marble 4311 Jasper Drive Eagan, MN 55122 454-4770 Donald Christenson 3650 Pilot Knob Road Eagan, MN 55122 454-4426 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE Mrs. Helen Kennedy 3300 Heritage Lane Eagan, MN 55121 454-4508 Dorman W. Atwood 1355 Deerwood Drive Eagan, MN 55123 454-2879 FIRE CHIEF William E. Schultz 3928 Beryl Road Eagan, MN 55122 454-2549 TREASURER Herbert Polzin 940 Blue Gentian Road Eagan, MN 55121 454-1235 o LUTHER M. STALLAND ATTORNEY AT LAW 1745 RAND TOWER MINNEAPOLIS 2. MINN. April 10, 1y Board of Supervisors Eagan Township Route 1 St. Paul 11, Minnesota Gentlemen: You have requested my opinion on the following questions: 1. Does Eagan Township have the power to approve plats and regulate subdividing at the present time? 2. Does Eagan Township have the power to grant franchises to private parties to operate util- ities such as water, sewer and gas at the pre- sent time? 1. If Eagan Township has a population of 5,000 or over, all plats of land within the township must be .resented to the town board for approval in accordance with M. S. A. section 505.03. Otherwise the proposed plat need only be presented to the county commissioners for approval, although the policy is presently to obtain the prior approval of all town boards re- gardless of population. Since Eagan Township does not now have an ordinance regulating the subdividing of lands within the township, there is no manifest power in the board to so regu- late although the latent power exists by virtue of M.S.A sec- tion 412.221. In other words, resolutions and/or ordinances must be enacted before the board's power can be exercised without running the risk of being arbitrary. 2. Under said section 412.221 the board, again by reso- lution and/or ordinare, has the power to grant franchises under certain circumstances and conditions, some of which are not altogether clear by statute and decisions. In any event this section in part (which aaplies to Eagan Township by vir- tue of M. S. A. section 368.01) provides as follows: • • 2- Eagan Township "412.221 * * * Subd. 6. * * * to establish and maintain sewers; Subd.11 * * * The Village council shall have power to provide and by ordinance regulate the use of wells, cisterns, reservoirs, waterworks and other means of water supply. Subd.22 * * * The Village council shall have power by ordinance * * * to provide for or regu- late the disposal of sewage * * * to pro- vide for the cleaning of, and removal of ob- structions from, any waters in the village and to prevent their obstruction or pollution. * * * " Specifically, in construing the foregoing provisions, the courts and the Attorney General have said that franchises granted for pub- lic utilities should be formal and definite, e. g. by specific written agreement; that a village (or township) can grant a private party the right to construct a sewer and maintain same at his own expense; that village has the poorer to grant a franchise for gas service and upon granting the franchise, then the sale and distrib- ution becomes a matter of contract between gas company and the con- sume subject to the franchise agreement; that an agreement between private party and village for supplying village with water from private well need not be submitted to the voters for approval. But a recent Attorney General's opinion (624-D-8, April 26, 1956) holds that no power can be inferred from this section by which a village or township can grant an exclusive water franchise. Presumably this would apply to sewer and gas franchises.Exclusive, however, here I believe refers to an exclusive franchise for the entire dommunity rather than for a limited area. It would seem, as a prac- tical matter, that a non-exclusive franchise in a limited area would not be in the general welfare of a community where conceiv- ably there could be a duplication of a utility. With respect to the length of such franchises, M. S. A. section 410.09, pertaining to cities and villages, provides, in part, that no perpetual franchise shall ever be granted, and no exclusive franchise granted unless submitted to the voters, and then only for a maximum period of 25 years. Again, this seems to refer to an exclusive franchise for a single utility covering an entire govern- mental subdivision rather than of a limited area. This section, however, does not expressly apply to townships. In any event, it is my opinion that Eagan Township has the power by ordinance and contract to grant non-exclusive franchises to private parties for sewer, water and gas for not to exceed 25 years, and very likely has the power to grant an exclusive francthere- fore if limited in area. 16)10-Am-1-7 i. 'f1iif..: -: rr !:I t,l Fos. ex if 0 0 p September 1), 1962 Director of Highway Planning Minnesota Stateiiighway Department Highway Department Building St. Paul, Minnesota Re:Eagan Township Dear Sir: Please be advised, on behalf of the Advisory Planning Committee, Eagan Township, Dakota County, Minnesota, that applica- tion ny one Mr. +Jiiliam 0' Neill residing on Blue Gentian Road near highway Nu. 49 has been received and considered by the Eagan Township Planning Committee end Board of Supervisors alto rezoning certain property owned by Mr. O'Neill and to the platting thereof for residential purposes. Although it As the desire of the town- ship to cooperate with the Department to the extent possible In its future road Planning, tt:e committee and Board do feel that there is a limit to what can be expFcted of the local residents in planning their own property development. Therefore, thi:• 'will. constitute notice to you that unless some concrete proposal is made by the state for the taking or purchasing of the property in question, the Advisory Planning will recommend approval of the rezoning and platting applied for. Yours very truly, Luther M. :italland LMS : d r Copies: air. ;t,::_n K ii'.geJ Council hears amphitheater proposal By ERIN HEMME FROSLIE An offer from a community service organization has sparked continual conversa- tions about a central park in Eagan. At a special City Council meeting April 29, the Eagan Rotary Club brought to the council a proposal for an am- phitheater. It's an action that renews interest in establishing a site for a community park. For five years the Rotary Club has envisioned a commu- nity amphitheater that would be used for concerts, plays, corporate picnics and other summer activities. "We envision some place where people could listen to music and drink their root beer," said Dr. Tom Wilson, the Rotarian coordinating the project. The club has agreed to ear - (See Amphitheater, p,13A) &MThI) ti I. /4y #d 97 tca t_ 7L Lt�e /iley , / 49? Amphitheater (Continued from front page) mark funds from its annual Art Gala, which raises between $15,000 and $25,000 each year, to help construct the fa- cility. The club views the city as a valuable partner in this project, since the city would own the land and care for its maintenance and operations. Recently a committee con- sisting of Rotary Club mem- bers was formed to tour amphi- theaters around the Twin Cities area and to proceed with archi- tectural plans. According to Wilson, an am- phitheater will require eight acres of land. Total cost of the land, parking, fees, structure, equipment and furnishings will be approximately $1.8 million. "We have labor and signifi- cant amounts of money behind this offer, but we aren't able to do it alone," Wilson said. To reduce the costs of the project, the club has consid- ered sites that have access to existing parking. If an ar- rangement can be made to use this parking, it would reduce the cost by $1.2 million. The club also hopes the future site will be owned by the city or donated. This would reduce the cost by $320,000, leaving the real cost of the amphitheater just over $300,000. "We can't afford $1.8 mil- lion, but $300,000 is doable," Wilson said. "We're looking for ways to get things done and not ways to spend money." City Council members indi- cated they supported the vision of the project, but raised ques- tions about an appropriate site. "A central area community park has been part of the goal of this city for years," said Mayor Tom Egan. "We have to include discussion of an am- phitheater with that or it won't succeed." Money for central park land was included in the park bond referendum that was defeated by voters last fall. Even though the referendum didn't pass, large parcels of land for a park or an amphitheater are becom- ing rarer in the city. "We don't have forever," said Rotary President John Curley, encouraging the City Council to consider a site. "The options are becoming fewer and fewer." Council Member Ted Wachter suggested designating city property adjacent to the city hall/police station/civic arena campus as a central park that includes an amphitheater. "I think this is a natural," he said. "I love the slope." One concern was that the campus doesn't offer adequate parking. The area also isn't large enough to be used for shooting off fireworks, one quality that has been a high priority in the search for a cen- tral park site. "I know we've been talking about a place for fireworks," Wachter said, "but tell me where there's an area big enough to do it." The Rotary Club doesn't have a specific site in mind, but is currently considering seven undeveloped ones. Wil- son said the club had consid- ered the land adjacent to the city hall campus, but felt it was too small and noise from the amphitheater would affect neighbors. "But City Council has the right to decide where facilities are to go," Wilson said. "We're just offering labor, money and the leadership to see that the project is done." City Council members and Rotarians will visit several sites this summer to determine if any meet the needs of an amphitheater and/or central park. +Ai .; Un its s *0/•'� 06 reduced in housing proposal by Erin Johnson DAKOTA COUNTY TRIBUNE The Steeplechase saga con- tinues. It has been almost a year since the proposal to build housing on the former Diamond T Ranch property was submitted to the city. Several changes and two continuances later, a newly re- vised proposal for Steeplechase of Eagan is being sent back to the Planning Conunission. Toll Brothers' original plan to build 36 single family homes and 73 townhome units on the 37-acre property was met with resistance from neighbors and the Eagan City Council. Among the concerns were environmental problems, den- sity issues and a controversial cul-de-sac extension. Toll Brothers is hoping to get a more favorable reaction to its revised plan, which will go be- fore the Planning Commission on March 22. The Eagan City Council heard highlights of the revised plan at its Thursday meeting. The new proposal reduces the number of townhomes from 73 to 56 units, and reduces the total number of housing units from 109 to 93. The overall den- sity would decrease from 2.9 to 2.4 units per acre. The townhomes would no longer be two stories high but one -level "condo -style" units, making them more friendly for retirees and empty nesters. The plan also reduces the number of clustered units from as many as eight to a maximum of four. The majority of clusters See Diamond, 7A Diamond/from lA will include only three units. In addition, the streets throughout the development would be public rather than pri- vate, and a loop road would re- duce the size of cul-de-sacs by at least half. The cul-de-sac on Welling- ton Way would not be extended as part of the new plan. That pleases Wellington Way resi- dents, but could cause problems with Dakota County. The county said it would not accept the plan without the extension to allow access to and from Pilot Knob Road, which is a county road. "I'm willing to battle Dakota County;" said Council Member Cyndee Fields. "I do not want to see Wellington Way opened up." The new plan would also call for all wetland mitigation to oc- cur on -site. One of the project's biggest obstacles has been debris buried on the property that neighbors worry will pose an environmen- tal threat. Extensive environmental testing has uncovered construc- tion debris, asbestos, and PCBs, which are known carcinogens. Toll Brothers said it is com- mitted to cleaning up the mess left on the property. "Obviously this is a very controversial site," said Joey Zorn, regional manager for Toll Brothers. "Please understand we're here to do nothing else but clean it up. It was a pre-existing problem, and we're here to al- leviate the problem." Mayor Pat Geagan reassured the handful of residents who appeared at the meeting that, although it may not feel like it, "We're getting there." Erin Johnson is at eagan. thisweek@ ecm-inc. com. /IEWPOINTS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2005 7B PIONEER PRESS FILE PHOTO Carol Thomas, owner of the Diamond T Ranch on Pilot Knob Road, has sold the property for development into luxury homes and town homes. Neighbors have raised environ- mental and traffic issues with plans for the property, which abuts a regional park and residential neighborhood. KEEP THE FAITH We always believed street would remain a cul-de-sac he first residents 1 of Wellington Way in Eagan moved into their homes, in their new cul-de-sac, in September 1986, my husband and I included. We were surrounded by gor- geous trees, ponds, and a horse ranch at the end of the cul-de-sac. In those days, neighbors in Brittany would walk up Wellington Way to show their kids the horses and to feed them grass at the fence. We knew that the horse ranch to our east would also be sold some day. We did not know — and were never told — that there was a possibility that our cul-de-sac would one day be a through street. We wouldn't have built on a through street — we wanted a quiet street for rais- ing our family. Plots were still available on other cul-de-sacs, but we liked Wellington Way. In February 2004 we finally saw the plans for the Diamond T development. Two issues emerged. First, we realized that there were plans to take away our cul-de-sac and put our home of 18 years on a through street. Second, we began to realize the extent of the damage that had been done to the property — mountains of manure pushed into wetlands, parts of the old Met Center buried many feet deep on the property, runoff into the water supply flowing into Lebanon Hills Regional Park and its lakes. Destruction of a longstand- ing cul-de-sac on Wellington Way is not a necessary step to develop this land. The destruc- MA BROG RY DON tion of a close-knit neighborhood on Wellington Way, and the resulting eco- nomic consequences to current residents, is not right. We hold a public trust of our elected officials — that they will treat us fairly when they make decisions that affect our lives. A promise was made to the residents of Wellington Way when they moved into a cul-de- sac. That promise must be kept. If they take away our cul-de-sac, is yours next? Regardless of any develop- ment plans, the property must be cleaned up before further dam- age is realized. The owner must be held responsible to clean up the mess created during her ownership. The city of Eagan, Dakota County, and the state of Minnesota have a responsibility to the residents of our area to enforce cleanup of this property — as required by law. It's time we took care in our decisions for this piece of proper- ty A hasty decision now to address a longstanding problem may not be the best decision. Our elected officials must take time to develop the property properly. Town homes don't belong within 30 feet of a fragile wetland — a wetland that currently is home to the endangered Blancling's turtle and numerous sites of endan- gered plants. After more than a year of frustration, representatives of the Diamond T Neighbors Coali- tion met on Feb. 15 with Dakota County Commissioner Nancy Schouweiler. She explained the position of the county commis- sioners in their responsibility to the development of the property and its road system. This meet- ing was a great opportunity to meet face to face to discuss can- didly solutions to a common concern. We think we have a solution that would allow for the new neighborhood to enjoy the same privacy and safety cur- rently enjoyed by the neighbors on Wellington Way — without losing the cul-de-sac. If fully maintaining the cul- de-sac fails, the neighborhood coalition will suggest a connec- tion — perhaps a bike or hiking path — that can be used in extreme emergency to evacuate the new neighborhood in the event it cannot exit onto Pilot Knob Road. We don't yet have a solution for the environmental problems of the site. Careful and con- trolled cleanup of the site — with clearly identified perform- ance measures for completion — and the development of home sites with more green space, in keeping with a location adjacent to one of the biggest parks in the Twin Cities, needs to be explored. Our next step is to try to meet with the builder to have a conversation similar to the one we held with Commissioner Schouweiler. Decisions we make today will affect generations to come. Decisions made in haste — or to rid authorities of a prickly prob- lem — cannot be in the best interest of our children, our environment or our parks. The impact of development of this site will affect all of Lebanon Hills and our neighbors to the Wellington Way extension A citizens group, city council members and the developer now agree that Wellington Way should remain a cul-de-sac, but county officials are still considering extending the street to Pilot Knob Road. cc EAGAN x DiamondT Ranch Wellington Way °- Lebanon Hills Hills Regional Park QAKOTA COUNTY 120th St. W. APPLE VALLEY PIONEER PRESS IF YOU GO The Dakota County Board of Commissioners will meet to discuss the Wellington Way issue at 10:30 a.m. today in Room L139 of the county's Western Service Center, 14955 Galaxie Ave., Apple Valley. south. It will affect the continua- tion of at least one species of animal and, potentially, numer- ous plant species. Please hear us now in our call to work together — before it becomes an issue for the courts. Brogdon lives in Eagan. ,�16 //,ACC www.mnSun.com County says 'no' to Diamond T plan County Board denies plat, but removes requirement that cul-de-sac be extended BY JOSHUA NICHoLs Sun Newspapers Neighbors of a proposed housing de- velopment on the Diamond T Ranch may have gotten their way, but only if other changes are made to the plan as it goes back before the city of Eagan. Meeting as the Physical Development Committee last month, the Dakota Coun- ty Board of Commissioners rejected a plat for the development that calls for neighboring Wellington Way to remain a cul-de-sac, something neighbors favor. However, the board also removed a clause that requires a Wellington Way extension through the proposed develop- ment. Although the original proposal from Philadephia-based Toll Brothers showed that connection, it has been removed in more recent proposals, leaving the pro- posed Steeplechase of Eagan develop- ment with its own cul-de-sac across from the existing Wellington Way one. But if that is to remain that way, the developer and the city of Eagan must find another way to disburse traffic onto Pilot Knob Road. "The developer and the city of Eagan need to come up with a plan that can meet our general guidelines, period," Dakota County Commissioner Joseph Harris said. The change is needed because provid- ing only one access point for vehicles traveling into and out of the develop- ment would put too large a strain on county roads, according to the Dakota County Plat Commission's recommenda- tion. Giving a development such as Steeple- chase only one access point also could create potential safety problems in an emergency situation, county commis- sioners said. "Those kinds of emergencies do hap- pen from time to time," Commissioner Will Branning said. "If the access to Pilot Knob were cut off, what would hap- pen then?" The proposal could end up with an- other exit onto Pilot Knob Road or some- thing like an emergency access between the two cul-de-sacs could be included. A group of about 30 residents and neighbors of Wellington Way were at the meeting before the County Board to urge them to allow the cul-de-sac to remain as is. Mary Brogdon told the board that the residents have bought into a lifestyle that is provided by the street ending in a cul-de-sac. Extending the street through to the development and to Pilot Knob Road would change that lifestyle drasti- cally, she said. "Never in our wildest dreams did we think it was going to be a through street," said Brogdon. While council members have ex- pressed their support for retaining the Wellington Way cul-de-sac during meet- ings, the council has taken no formal ac- tion to support the residents. Commissioner Nancy Schouweiler, whose district includes a portion of Eagan, said she was disappointed with the way the city has handled the issue. She said she was especially upset by com- ments made by council members stating they were willing to "take on the board." "I find it very upsetting that this has been deliberately haxded off to the board," she said. "To me, it seems like they are trying to let us be the heavies on an issue that is very political in nature." DIAMOND T: To Page 13A www.mnSun.com Diamond T From Page 4A The proposal has made several ap- pearances before the city since it was in- troduced in the summer 2004. Various is- sues, including environmental, density and traffic concerns, have slowed the process. The developer is seeking a rezoning of the 38-acre parcel from agriculture to planned development. The property is on the west side of Pilot Knob Road, south of Cliff Road and across from Lebanon Hills Regional Park. The development was last before the council Feb. 1, when council members voted unanimously to send the proposal back to the city's Planning Commission to review changes. The proposal, which now calls for 56 townhouses and 37 single-family houses, is tentatively scheduled to go back before the Eagan Advisory Planning Commis- sion March 22 and then return to the Eagan City Council April 15. EDUCATION VISION Changing Demographics Case Study Demographics Drive Change in Local Government Communications Local government leaders across the country are paying close attention to the growing expectations of digital natives, those Millennials and post-Millennials who have grown up with the Internet, texting and social networking. Their increasing demands for online services and deeper levels of engagement are accelerating the drive to reassess the content, design and function of local government websites. In a recent article titled "Digital Government Only Works if Agencies Invest in Quality Websites," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) Vice President Daniel Castra wrote, "People's primary interactions with government increasingly occur online, so it is essential that government websites perform optimally. They should not just be secure, but also fast, mobile friendly and accessible for people with disabilities." While social media and mobile -friendly responsive design are increasingly being leveraged to engage citizens, nearly every post, Tweet and instant message links back to city and county websites for detailed local information and services. Four Vision clients in the U.S. shared how they've adapted to their communities' changing demographics, embraced the digital culture and positioned their municipal websites as the communications hub and go - to source for digital natives. And all agree there's no turning back. City of La Quinta, California www.laciuintaca.gov The Southern California resort city of La Quinta is one of America's leading golf destinations and has experienced an influx of young families over the last five years. Its new website, launched in April 2017, has become a one - stop visitors' guide to La Quinta. "Our demographics are changing," explained Tustin Larson, La Quinta community resources manager. "Our traditional demographic was more or less senior citizens who play golf or snowbirds. The old site serviced their needs. our new demographic, however, is young, Millennial families who are year 'round residents. This demo is 'born -digital' and has high expectations of web and social communications. They look to the city site for information on family activities. That's why we hired the videographer to showcase things to do in the city. He used stop -motion to give it that edgy effect. I should also add that our Vision designer, just "got us" so that certainly helped, too." "Our demographics are changing. Our traditional demographic was more or less senior citizens who play golf or snowbirds. The old site serviced their needs. Our new demographic, howeuer, is young, Millennial families who are year 'round residents. This demo is 'born -digital' and has high expectations of web and social communications." Tustin Larson Community Resources Manager La Quinta, California Changing Demographics Case Study La Quinta marketing communications coordinator Marcie Graham agrees but added that today's digital communications are not only geared to the younger crowd. "We cannot underestimate the digital abilities of the older demographic," she said. "Many people over 65 now FaceTime their grandkids and are increasingly digitally savvy." "Visitors, residents and businesses prefer online services and communication, and we've responded to that," said Graham. "People now can apply for permits completely online. It's faster, more convenient and environmentally friendly. We're looking to go digital and paperless for all our processes moving forward." City of Raymore, Missouri www.ravmore.com "Our community is in a reverse bell curve," said Mike Ekey, City of Raymore communications director. "On one side we have an older population more rooted in traditional media and on the opposite side we have young, tech -savvy families, which is our fastest -growing population." RAYMORE MISSOURI w WO", - C IY 1ALL RELAX ih RAYMOREL �- ••��- POP-UP ART PROJECT: RELAX IN RAYMORE ,einde and infants, Ora, Cvn«i mmw Wade r.caPwtr .r.n-n. na n..m • wettings To serve both audiences, Ekey says Raymore is getting smarter in design, publishing smaller chunks of information and infographics that translate well to the city's website and social platforms. The city's website is intuitive, allowing residents to conduct business online simply and seamlessly. "We've seen a significant uptick in online bill payments." he said. "And you need a home base where all your information can live and be linked. With any magazine or weekly newsletter, we try to push people to the website, which allows us to track interest and be more responsive. It also facilitates good rumor control, since much more information can be shared on the website." "It didn't take long to prone its worth." Mike Ekey Communications Director Raymore, Missouri City of San Marcos, California www.san-marcos.net In San Marcos, one of the fastest growing cities in San Diego County, demographics have changed substantially over the last 10 years. We've gone from cow town and chicken farms to a diverse, vibrant community of 90,000 residents with an added daytime population of nearly 50,000 college students and faculty," said San Marcos communications officer Sarah Macdonald. "It's important to know your audience and your community; it influences how you meet their needs. Our area is very tech -savvy and residents, students and businesses expect their experience with government to mirror that in the private sector." Old San Marcos Changing Demographics Case Study .41 "It's important to know your audience and your community; it influences how you meet their needs. Our area is very tech -savvy and residents, students and businesses expect their experience with government to mirror that in the private sector. Our city website is the primary window for residents to get information and form immediate impressions." Sarah Macdonald Communications Officer San Marcos, California San Marcos responded to digital expectations with an upgraded, responsive website designed to accommodate the heavy use of mobile devices. The new site offers online job applications, the ability to report concerns and an online map of major development projects that provides real-time updates on work being done throughout the area. "Our city website is the primary window for residents to get information and form immediate impressions," said Macdonald. "In the P10 world, we talk about paid content, social media and owned content. We have direct control over our website content, and residents have learned it's a trusted source of information that's not going away." City of Grand Forks, North Dakota www.grandforksgov.com While a shift in a community's demographic mix can drive local government to adopt a digital culture, internal changes in city leadership can accelerate the process. When the City of Grand Forks' new city manager and newly -elected council members agreed the city had wrung all the value from its former website, the communications department's long-standing funding request for a new website was quickly granted. VISION "They told us they didn't like the old site and asked what we needed to launch a new site by the end of the year," said John Bernstrom, Grand Forks communication specialist. "It was great! I think it was a generational change; the newly elected council members were used to searching on the Internet and had significant expectations for our new site. It's now become standard practice to track our digital efforts and deliver a report to the city council every two weeks. They find a lot of value in knowing what residents are viewing on the site." While municipalities use their websites for both citizen engagement and service delivery, Grand Forks is heavier on the service delivery side. When there's a snowstorm, Bernstrom says their web traffic "goes through the roof." "Residents want to know when a street will be salted, what roads are closed, etc., which is 100 percent service - driven. I don't know that we will ever be engagement - heavy," he said. "There's always a service component to it. We're using social media for engagement, but the backbone is always the website. If residents want to drill further into a topic, we are training them to go to the website." P 888-263-8847 W visioninternet.com June 2017 INTERIM REPORT - EAGAN TO NSHIP PLANNING COMMISSION - JANUARY 1958 THE INITIAL STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN FOR THE REGULATION OF THE FUTURE PHYSICAL GROWTH OF EAGAN TOWNSHIP APPEARS TO BE THE DRAFTING OF A SOUND ZONING ORDINANCE BASED UPON A STUDY OF LAND USE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY. SUCH AN ORDINANCE SHOULD BE SUPPLEMENTED BY THE EVENTUAL ADOPTION OF MEASURES TO REGULATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNPLATTED PROPERTIES THROUGH SUBDIVISION CONTROL, BUILDING CON- STRUCTION, PUBLIC THOROUGHFARES AND IMPROVEMENTS, UTILITY SERVICES AND RELATED MATTERS. • THE ZONING ORDINANCE SHOULD INCLUDE, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A DEFINITION OF THE VARIOUS LAND USE DISTRICTS TO BE CREATED WITHIN THE TOWNSHIP, A MAP LOCATING THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PROPOSED DISTRICTS TO BE INITIALLY CREATED, AND REGULATIONS AS TO THE SIZE, USE AND HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS AND THEIR LOCATION ON LOTS. ALTHOUGH OTHER TYPES OF LAND USE DISTRICTS MAY BE INCORPORATED IN THE ORDINANCE, IT 1S PROPOSED THAT ALL LAND WITHIN THE TOWNSHIP WILL BE CLASSIFIED IN ONE OF THE FOLLOWING DISTRICTS IN THE FIRST INSTANCE: 1) AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT - TO INCLUDE ALL LANDS WITHIN THE TOWNSHIP EXCEPT SUCH THEREOF THAT ARE OTHERWISE CLASSI- FIED. LAND USES AVAILABLE tN A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT WOULD BE AVAILABLE IN AN AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT AS WELL AS USE FOR GENERAL AGRICULTURAL AND FARMING PURSUITS. CERTAIN LIMITATIONS WOULD BE IMPOSED AS TO LOCATION OF ANIMAL AND FOWL BUILDINGS, PENS, AND CERTAIN GRAZING AREAS AS WELL AS SLAUGHTERING AND ON -LOCATION MARKETING ACTIVITIES. A DETAIL OF OUTDOOR SIGN REGULATIONS WOULD ALSO BE INCLUDED. 2) RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT - TO INCLUDE ALL LANDS LIMITED IN USE TO SINGLE-FAMILY DWELLINGS OR SPECIFIC PUBLIC PURPOSES SUCH AS PARKS, PLAYGROUNDS, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, GOLF COURSES, ETC. REGULATIONS AS TO LOT SIZES AND BUILDING LOCATIONS AND HEIGHTS WILL BE INCLUDED IN THIS SECTION. 3) MULTIPLE DUELLING DISTRICT - TO PROVIDE FOR RESIDENCES OTHER THAN SINGLE-FAMILY UNITS INCLUDING DUPLEXES, APARTMENTS, ROOMING HOUSES, COURTS OR MOTELS, CLUB OR LODGE BUILDINGS OR OTHER NON-PUBLIC FRATERNAL UNITS, LIMITED RETAIL ESTABLISHMENTS AND HOSPITALS OR CLINICS. RESTRICTIONS AS TO LOT SIZES, AREA LOCATION OF BUILDINGS, HEIGHTS, PARKING, ETC. WOULD ALSO BE INCLUDED. 4) COMMERCIAL DISTRICT - TO PROVIDE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENERAL COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS STRUCTURES IN A MANNER TO BEST SERVE THE GENERAL WELFARE AND BENEFIT OF THE COMMUNITY AND DEFINE WHAT SHALL RE CONSIDERED A PROPER BUSINESS ACTIVITY FOR A COMMERCIAL DISTRICT. 5) MANUFACTURING DISTRICT - To PROVIDE LAND FOR COMMERCIAL OR INDUSTRIAL USE NOT CONSIDERED COMPATABLE WITH THE GENERAL TRADE AND RETAIL TYPE OF BUSINESS ACCEPTABLE IN A COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, YET NOT OF THE TYPE TO BE CLASSIFIED EAGAN TOWNSHIP PLANNING COMMISSION PAGE Two AS INDUSTRIAL. 6) INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT - TO PROVIDE LAND FOR USES NOT OTHERWISE AVAILABLE UNDER OTHER CLASSIFICATIONS EXCEPT FOR PURPOSES SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITED E.G. DWELLINGS) STOCK YARDS) GARBAGE INCINERATION) LIMITATIONS ON JUNK YARDS OR DUMPS) ANY ENTERPRISE HAZARDOUS TO THE PUBLIC) ETC.). To FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF A ZONING ORDINANCE THAT WILL MEET WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE PUBLIC) IT IS PROPOSED BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION. THAT A SERIES OF THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS BE HELD TO EXPLAIN DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE AND DISCUSS THE TENTATIVE DISTRICT BOUNDA- RIES. FOR PURPOSES OF THESE HEARINGS) PERSONS OWNING PROPERTY IN THE NORTHERN THIRD OF THE TOWNSHIP) THE CENTRAL THIRD AND THE SOUTHERN THIRD WOULD ATTEND DIFFERENT HEARINGS. SUGGESTIONS OBTAINED AT THESE HEARINGS WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN PREPARING THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE ORDINANCE TO BE PRESENTED TO THE TOWN BOARD. EAGAN TNNSHI P PLANNING COMMISSION PETE ADELMANN C. G. CALDWELL TOM DiFFLEY MYRON KEHNE HERB POLZIN TED WACHTER J. E. KLINGEL (CHAIRMAN) At Planning Commission High densityhousing by Linda Hanson includes 316 units. By a vote of 4 to 3 the Advisory Parranto said, "We listened to the Planning Commission (APC) decided people who thought seven single family Feb. 24 to deny approval of Richard homes were too few; now we're asking Parranto' request to amend his South for 42. We reduced the number of Delaware Hills Planned Development quadraminiums from 324 to 68, which (PD) agreement to include more hous- is 20 percent of our original request. ing units. We increased the numberof twin Voting to deny approval were Com- homes we're asking for from 106 to missioners Doris Wilkins, Robert 206.•' Haywood, David Bohne, and Joseph Harrison. Voting not to deny approval were Lloyd Krob, Thomas Gits, and Chuck Hall. Parranto's request is scheduled to come before the city council March 17. A standing -room -only crowd packed city hall chambers during the APC meeting. About half attended to op- pose Parranto's request to build multi- ple family housing close to their ex- isting single family homes in north- eastern Eagan. The other ,half of the crowd came from southwestern Eagan and had a similar complaint with Zachman Homes Inc., a developer attempting to rezone land near their homes. Parranto's request was the first of two controversial items on the agenda. The crowd who came to discuss the Zachman rezoning, however, listened to the Parranto • issue with interest. They clapped along with the others whenever someone rose to speak against the idea of building multiple family units near existing single family homes. Parranto had been to the APC Jan. 27 requesting that the commissioners amend his PD to include 402 housing units, instead of the previously approv- ed 259. After listening to the public's negative comments last month, the commissioners had unanimously decid- ed to not recommend approval of that request. At last week's meeting, Parranto said he had listened to the residents' opinions last January and consequent- ly changed his proposal to include fewer than 402 units. His new proposal plans anger residents Parranto added, "The change in density is so minimal over the approv- ed PD—we trust we did what you ask- ed of us. We lowered our density and we hope it makes a more attractive housing development for the City of Eagan." Many of the residents at the meeting didn't agree. One resident said that at the last meeting they weren't requesting just a lower density —they were requesting that Parranto build all single family homes. The approved PD is zoned for 82 duplexes and 95 single family lots. Several residents complained that the 82 duplexes had originally been "hard APC: to p. 13A APC postpones decision APC: from p. 1 A to swallow" and that they were tired of continually coming back to the APC and the city council to oppose Parran- to's plans. According to City Planner Dale Runkle, the South Delaware Hills PD has been before the APC and coun- cil 17 times. Urban Langer, 540 Chapel Lane, said, "I like my neighbors and I like to get together with them, but I'd rather do it on a social basis —not here." Another resident said, "You give (Parranto) an inch-82 duplex units —and now he wants a mile. What next —high rise condominium's? Let's get back to the original PD." Parranto explained that 100 of the 206 duplex lots he is asking for are more than 18,000 sq. ft. in size. The city council recently asked the APC to discuss amending the current zoning ordinance to add a zoning classification for smaller single family lots. The APC is scheduled to discuss the issue in March. $700 and $900 a month. "By developing areas, such as this one, with a higher density, people can have house payments that are almost reasonable —payments of about $500 per month. If you don't increase the density, the young folks won't be able to move into Eagan." Another man responded, "He wasn't here before. We swallowed a lot before. Parranto is adding a lot more people to the area —more than the area can absorb." Commissioner Wilkins said, "I'm going to stick with the neighbors. Like I said a month ago, let's keep it the way it is." The audience applauded. Commissioner Krob said, "I feel Mr. Parranto has gone out of his way to realize what the people want. 1 echo the same concerns as (Emery.) If Mr. Parranto would change some of the duplex units to single family Tots, I don't think this is a bad plan. on Zachman Homes (Emery's) daughter is facing $900 a month in house payments..." The audience interrupted him with loud groans and mumbling. Krob continued, "I know for a fact what housing costs are these days. My son is paying $700 a month for his house and he's 20." Wilkins said, "Lloyd, you weren't here five years ago. Five years ago these people swallowed hard the idea of twin homes. Yes, I grant you there is a demand for less expensive housing. But let's look at putting it in a new development rather than cramming it down the throats of people already liv- ing nearby. Zachman The APC decided to postpone until March 24 further consideration on the Zachman Homes Inc. request to rezone 72 acres of land from R-2 and R-4 (duplexes and multiple family units) to 13A a PD. The land is bordered on the west by the City of Burnsville, on the south by Cliff Road, on the east by the Cedar Avenue Freeway, and on the north by River Hills Ninth Addition. Chairman Hall said the commis- sioner's discussion with neighbors op- posing the PD raised many issues that would need to be studied by the city staff before the APC could make a decision. Some of the issues he men- tioned included access to the develop- ment, use of park land, and the loca- tion of tot lots. The proposed PD includes 64 single family cluster homes, 66 twin homes units, 248 condominium units, and about 12 acres of commercial area to be used for office buildings. Steve Ryan, spokesman for Zachman Homes Inc., explained that APC: to p. 19A DISTRICT 191: from p. 2A at Savage Elementary School, agreed with O'Shaughnessy. "We find we can balance the student's needs as well as ours," Peterson said. They said they both had more energy teaching only half a day and were able to bring different strengths into the class. Director Dan Cybyske said he will consider proposing a policy in which no part-time teachers would be used through third grade, even if it meant slightly larger classes in higher grades. "At that age I want somebody that 1, as a parent, can talk to who knows everything that's going on with my kid," he said. Even without a policy, members of the administration said they will try to watch the situation next year. "These conversations and this workshop have certainly elevated our sensibilities to this area," Superintendent Bob Tschirki said. The part-time elementary situations this year are as follows: split classrooms (one teacher half the day, another the other half) at Savage third grade, Rahn sixth grade, and Sky Oaks sixth grade; half-time teachers (helping two teachers in the morning) at Vista View third and fourth grade, Sky Oaks third grade, Neill fifth and sixth grade, and Sioux Trail fifth grade. 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An initial court ruling sided with the city. An appeals court reversed that decision, claiming the city council limited its EDA's power of emi- nent domain by requiring a bind- ingdevelopment agreement before any property could be acquired. No such agreement was in place at the time of condemnation. Mayor Mike Maguire said in a statement that the appeals court reached that conclusion on "nar- row technical grounds." "The trial court believed that to be a distinction without a dif- ference because the city council has the right to modify its instruc- tions at any time," he said. Eagan's EDA is made up of its mayor and council members. Maguire said the city decided to appeal because there are "sub- stantial precedent -setting implica- tions" if the appeals court deci- Lar sion is left unchallenged. See Appeal, 8A red Au Rahn Road Zircon Lane Jade Lane ROAD CLOSURES Diffley Road Chipmunk Court September. ey will have two lanes to chooserom That roundabout has only one See Roundabout, 8A 'while those by Erin Johnson THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS Construction on a multi -lane roundabout at the intersection of Diffley and Rahn roads is offi- cially under way, resulting in parts of Rahn remaining closed for the next two months. Work began on the project June 15, shutting down access to Rahn on both sides of Diffley through September, according to the city. Two of four lanes on Diffley will remain open to east/west traf- fic throughout construction. The roundabout will replace the four stop signs currently at the intersection, which sees about 24,000 cars a day. When completed, it will be the city's second roundabout. The first opened at Denmark Avenue and Northwood Parkway in the Promenade shopping center last l7fo-ici- 2001 • lane, which makes for a nice tran- sition for those who aren't used to them, said City Engineer Russ Matthys. The Diffley/Rahn version is a multi -lane roundabout. Cars that enter from Diffl BIDS pp be The278 000-square occur, and (sale) DiBP PaperSupplthe ies flight training center, called would for the flight train-' 3455153rd st w. NATCO, sits on 65 acres thankfulcenter h center, m 'and pta e bids near the headquarters build-ingandhrdatacan in d read aloud. ing and contains 20' flight continuing presence on how to obtain employed Eagan;' he said. an be found at: simulators. 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Knob Road. _foot --We knew this (, we're that , to the merger, . or a new.cor ofsralcr i om- City r a new stra- ,ner Eee� sits behind the Eagan oration, is munity en a tor Tom Hedges atos sale) Erin Johnson is at eagan. thisweek@ecm-inc. com. 1W�W� IL 1Z 1 --2,oto City of Eagan triumphs in eminent domain case Three business owners sued over taking of their properties in Cedar Grove redevelopment area by Erin Johnson THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS It took three years and four court decisions, but the city of Eagan has won its battle with property owners in the Cedar Grove redevelopment area. The Minnesota Court of Appeals sided with the city in its ruling Dec. 28, which involved three prop- erty owners who objected to the use of eminent do- main to acquire their prop- erties. In its decision, the court OA December 31, 2010 THISWEEK Eminent Domainlfrom l A No such agreement was in place at the time of con- demnation. The city appealed that decision to the Supreme Court, which said the city's Economic Development Authority "did not exceed the scope of its authority when it acquired the prop - agreed the redevelopment district is blighted and that redevelopment will lead to "increased employment and improve the general state of the economy." The city said it is pleased with the ruling, and re- mains committed to appro- priately compensating the owners for their properties. "After nearly three years of litigation, we are con- erty owner's property." The appeals court was told to weigh in on the is- sue of the public purpose of using eminent domain, and the issue of the city's quick -taking of the prop- erties. It sided with the city on those issues. While the Cedar Grove area hasn't seen much progress recently, officials fident that this ruling re- moves the legal uncertainty so that the redevelopment in Cedar Grove can now move forward as the econ- omy recovers," said Eagan Mayor Mike Maguire. The ruling comes after the Minnesota Supreme Court sided with the city in August, then gave the case back to the appeals court because it failed to weigh said the project was not stalled due to the court battle; the first phase of the redevelopment project does not include the three properties in question. The Village at Cedar Grove, located east of Ce- dar Avenue along Highway 13, has long been planned as a mix of commercial re- tail space, life -cycle hous- in on a couple of key is- sues. The legal battle with the three businesses began in 2007 when Eagan initiated a quick -take condemna- tion of several properties for a planned urban village. Larson Automotive Repair Services, Competi- tion Engines and U-Haul sued the city to prevent the move. ing, office buildings, and open space. Current plans for phase one of the development include 150 units of senior housing, 250 apartment units, two four-story ho- tels, a retail building with three or four tenants, and a building for child care/ commercial use. The city purchased An initial court ruling sided with the city. An appeals court re- versed that decision, claiming the City Coun- cil limited its Economic Development Authority's power ofeminent domain by requiring a binding de- velopment agreement be- fore any property could be acquired. See Eminent Domain, 10A about 80 percent of the properties in the redevel- opment area between 2002 and 2007. When negotia- tions over the remaining properties stalled, the Eco- nomic Development Au- thority used eminent do- main. Of the 31 properties the city condemned, six own- ers objected. Three later dropped their objections and reached deals with the city. Phase one of the project will develop about 60 per- cent of the land in the area. Plans for a future phase have yet to be determined. Erin Johnson is at eagan. thisweek@ecm-inc.com. CONTINUED FROM la > Eminent domain Competition Engines and the U-Haul Co. of Minnesota objected, city officials winced. The $30 million to pay for near- ly 50 acquisitions and reloca- tions came from a special tax- ing district — tax increment financing funds that had to be spent by July 2008. "What happened here is they ran out of time," said Gary Fuchs, an attorney for Larson Auto Repair, alleging the eco- nomic development authority felt pressured to acquire the properties before the tax financing ran out. Eagan's five city council members also constitute the city's economic development authority. The economic devel- opment authority began "quick take" eminent domain proceedings in Dakota County District Court, giving the store owners 90 days to clear the premises. "We were given an eviction notice," said Gerry Larson, of Larson Auto Repair. The three holdouts fought the proceedings. Other busi- nesses — including the Mediterranean Cruise Cafe and American Accounts — fought their valuation esti- mates at first but eventually accepted the relocation pack- ages. In April 2008, Judge Michael Mayer sided with the econom- ic development authority, rejecting the argument that Eagan was trying to stockpile land and seize private proper- ty to benefit a private develop- er. Mayer found that the 70-acre "gateway district" held sub- stantial public benefit for the blighted area, including jobs, housing and improvements to traffic flow. The state appeals court, how- ever, overturned Mayer's deci- sion last May, and the city fur- ther appealed the ruling to the state Supreme Court. The three -judge panel paid special notice to an October 2001 city resolution that authorized a redevelopment plan for Cedar Grove. The res- olution included a specific restriction against seizure by eminent domain unless finan- cial guarantees were in place to recoup expenses, including a contract with a developer. The -anneals mart found that at the time of the eminent domain proceedings, there was no "binding development agreement" in place with Doran -Pratt. An attorney for the economic development authority, how- ever, has argued that the eco- nomic development authori- ty's power of condemnation is based upon state statute and the self-imposed restriction holds little meaning. He noted that nothing in the city's initial enabling resolu- tion that created the economic development authority explic- itly limits its powers of emi- nent domain and said none of the required channels to alter the enabling resolution — such as notice of a public hear- ing — were ever followed On Wednesday, City Admin- istrator Tom Hedges said the legal to -and -fro would not affect the first phase of the Cedar Grove project. Doran -Pratt is seeking financing for a hotel, senior housing and up to 300 market - rate apartments, with 29 acres set aside for future develop- ment. A nearby transit station is expected to open this year. "It was the business commu- nity that asked Eagan to do something about blight and decline. It was the business community seeing things on the wane down there, particu- larly in the old mall, saying, 'Hey, do something,' " city spokesman Tom Garrison said. "This effort was in response to that." Larson, of Larson Auto Repair, said he has shuttered his shop and found new employment in St. Paul but still hopes to reopen at the same location. U-Haul and Competition Engines continue to do business in their existing space. "We never expected this to take this long," Larson said Eagan's eminent domain imbroglio has gained statewide attention, with busi- ness and municipal groups concerned about the impact on other economic development authorities and eminent domain disputes. The Minneapolis -based chap- ter of a property rights group, the Institute for Justice, has filed a 52-page "friend of the court" brief in support of Lar- son and the other property owners. The League of Min- nesota Cities has filed a brief in support of the city's eco- nomic development authority. Frederick Melo con be reached at 651-228-2172. P00,4.42.0.X MSS 1~1 - Wo 1 n TwinCities.com ! St. Paul Pioneer Press ST. PAUL WEST ST. PAUL ed cases ar store after closing time with a 40, black box handcuffed to her n wrist, and he told her it was a ap- bomb. She opened the store and I returned with $200,000 worth of diamonds, jewelry and cash. The man then drove her bey to South St. Paul, removed the to handcuffs and black box, and dropped her off in a dark area ero before driving off with her car the and cell phone, according to pre the criminal complaint. 'he Two months later, a man ier the UNSOLVED CASES, 4B > Ind crown 2r Carnival. Thursday 1-7-2010 Eagan Court weighs eminent domain Three stores resist Cedarvale Mall property seizure By Frederick Melo finelo@pioneerpress.com When the city of Eagan offered to buy out and relocate dozens of properties around the ailing Cedarvale Mall, most store owners said yes. Most, but not all The owners of a U-haul out- fit, an auto repair shop and a high -end car engine company balked at the deal, setting the stage for a long and complicat- ed legal battle that culminated Wednesday with arguments before the Minnesota Supreme Court. At issue is whether the city's economic development authority had the power to seize the three properties by eminent domain, a controver- sial development tool that has been reined in by states across the country, especially as it relates to benefiting private developers. Through an agreement with Doran Development -Pratt Homes, the city plans to rede- velop 70 acres of the blighted Cedar Grove area south of Cedar Avenue and Minnesota 13 into a broad mix of housing, shops and office space. When the owners of Larson Brinson continues on B5 P. EAGAN Skckr t bu,Xt!= et- 0 '1— t o 1 0 B4 • METRO • STAR TRIBUNE • THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 201( Justice: Eagan took eminent domain authority too far • The Supreme Court will rule on whether the city overstepped its powers when condemning and seizing property. By JOY POWELL • jpowell@startribune.com A Minnesota Supreme Court justice was blunt on Wednesday: The city of Eagan exceed- ed its condemnation authority when it acquired more than 90 percent of the property it needed for a redevelopment project. Justice Paul Anderson made those comments as the high court heard arguments over wheth- er Eagan's Economic Development Authority (EDA) had the power to take businesses' land as part of a 70-acre redevelopment at Hwy 13 and Cedar Avenue. Two lower courts have come to different con- clusions. The high court's upcoming decision is ex- pected to clarify for all EDAs how they should operate not only in eminent domain procedures, but in other areas, including issuing bonds and contracts, according to the League of Minnesota Cities, which filed a brief on behalf of Eagan. "The interpretation and the finding here will have some significance statewide, and I think that's why the League of Minnesota Cities has shown some interest," said Tom Hedges, Eagan's city administrator. The city has long wanted to redevelop the Cedar Grove area along Hwy.13, known as the Condemn continues on B4 ► B Justice says Eagan went too far with land 1 CONDEMN FROM B1 "gateway" to Eagan. The EDA, which consists of the five city council members meeting as a separate body, condemned 31 parcels for the project, but the owners of six objected. Meanwhile, the city faced a deadline. Its eligibility for tax -increment financing was to expire on July 22, 2008, and the city's plan hinged on be- ing reimbursed with those funds. The EDA decided to use eminent domain to ac- quire the land against the owners' wishes. Daniel Scott, an attorney representing property own- ers, told justices the city should be bound to its own rules and redevelopment plan, which, Scott said, required the EDA to have a binding agree- ment with a developer before it could condemn property. But the city didn't. The city's attorney, Rob- ert Bauer, contended that the original resolution establish- ing the EDA did not require a binding agreement before condemnations, and that it didn't limit the EDAs powers. Time challenge decision InApri12008, Dakota Coun- ty Judge Michael J. Mayer ruled in favor of the EDA, agreeing that there was sub- stantial "blight" in the busi- ness district, as well as a public purpose for the project. He af- firmed the city's use of "quick - take" eminent domain. But three of the owners challenged that decision in the state Court of Appeals. On May 19, a three -judge pan- el ruled that the EDA did not have authority to take the land. The panel said the EDA acquires only the power a city possesses and transfers, and that there was no transfer. City officials disagreed, saying EDAs are given that power under state law. They asked for a high court review. Attorneys for a nonprofit group that has joined the case say it's about protecting prop- erty owners' rights when stat- utes and rules are unclear. Jason Adkins, an attorney for the public interest firm Ay the Institute of Justice, said ing w Minnesota should give prop- berie erty owners the benefit of the bery' doubt about what ambiguous Th statutes mean. And, he said, up to there must be a solid plan, don't with a binding development relate in place, for cities to use emi- Th nent domain. about "You can't take someone's branc property unless you know Road, what you're going to do with FBI sF it," Adkins said. WE "These property owners the lx. were under a cloud of doubt at a cc for years about what the city online was actually going to do with ing o their property. And then, and sl- when time was running out, handg the city ran roughshod over He ; its own rules and tried to con- tellers demn these properties." keep l The same firm also repre- hands sented a New Haven, Conn., the rot landowner in a landmark put ca; eminent domain case before Onc the U.S. Supreme Court and fled to; was instrumental in helping possibl change Minnesota's eminent Am, an domain law in 2006, said Lee The McGrath, executive director white, of the Institute's Minnesota 8 to 5 f chapter. a black Involved in the suit are a black c U-Haul store; Randy Quam, bluejea owner of an engine repair business, and Jerry Larson, who shut down his auto re- pair shop. On Wednesday, Hedg- es said no matter which side prevails, the first phase of re- A so development won't be affect- man km ed. It includes a hotel with re- ular sun tail shops, apartments and se- guilty nior housing. trict C. fraud. Joy Powell • 952-882-9017 Fred •A don' of al Wed othe By VI] vtuss( Sou 10- In the Community, With the Community For the Community www.mn5un.com -Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009 - Eminent domain process for fire campus land begins City, owners still hoping for direct purchase GRANT BOELTER • SUN NEWSPAPERS The city of Eagan has initiated emi- nent domain proceedings after months of delay to acquire land for a new fire station. The City Council unanimously approved the action, but remains open to negotiations with the landowners. "Our initiating eminent domain pro- ceedings should not be taken as indica- tion that the city does not want to nego- tiate with them," said Maguire. "This is just a procedural maneuver." In August, the City Council approved a $450,000 purchase agreement for four acres of land located in the former Carriage Hills Golf Course. Since then, the sale has been on hold as Rahn Family LLC, the owners of the land. have been dealing with issues that include possible foreclosure on the land. Richard Gabriel, attorney for the Rahn Family, asked the council not to continue with eminent domain proceed- ings. He said the family has a buyer interested in the entire 120-acre who would like to continue with the sale to the city. The council may still choose at any time to abandon the proceedings to take the land. "We're not going to authorize con- demnation until we've exhausted all negotiations with the buyer and the bank," said City Attorney Mike Dougherty. The land has long been in the public eye. The city and landowner were in a protracted legal battle over whether the land could be developed. The dispute ended when Eagan voters rejected a ref- erendum that would have allowed the city to buy the land, paving the way for future development. After the referendum failed, a devel- opment agreement the Rahn Family had in place with Wensmann Homes fell through. "This has been just a nightmare for my clients over the years," said Gabriel. "It's really been difficult." Maguire said it was the city's full intention to negotiate a sale , with the owner of the land, but a new fire station is something the city needs sooner than later. "We do need these four acres and we do need to get this resolved with whoev- er is going to be the future owner," Maguire said. "The eminent domain proceeding is just to provide another avenue with which we can gain some leverage" to close on the property, he said. 1 Li Cou Livi Tue: are am reat ood e p. Find Great Holiday vin Camcorders, LenseBinoc Digital Frames, Albu 1v Housing activists' lawsuit rejected Eagan, Met Council backed on land use BY MARA H. GOTTFRIED Pioneer Press A Ramsey County District Court judge has thrown out a lawsuit against the Metropoli- tan Council and Eagan that affordable -housing activists had hoped would force the creation of thousands of new housing units. Although affordable -housing activists who filed the lawsuit say the decision is a setback, they also say their fight for more affordable housing isn't over. The suit alleged that the Met Council failed to provide infor- mation on regional housing needs and that Eagan wasn't producing enough housing for low-income people. It demanded the Met Council, which is the regional planning agency for the seven -county metro area, determine how much affordable housing is needed in the metro area and pass the data along to cities for planning pur7 poses. The suit, Filed in August, also asked that Eagan be forbidden from developing land until the . LO ' QQT\ \' J O -2 - ! L _ _ ?_003 1 r:J-„ «- " rnvm rrws. Lawsuit rejected (continued) city stops its "exclusionary" housing practices. Eagan and the Met Council both filed motions to dismiss the suit, and Judge Paulette Flynn agreed with the motions in an order filed Monday and released Tuesday. Affordable -housing support- ers are considering an appeal. The three housing groups spent more than 18 months dis- cussing the issue with the Met Council and about four years pushing for affordable units in Eagan. When they didn't feel progress was being made, they filed the lawsuit. "It's a knockdown for us in terms of one part of our strate- gy, but it's not a knockout," said Russ Adams, executive director of the Alliance for Metropolitan Stability, whose group filed suit along with the Metropolitan Interfaith Coun- cil on Affordable Housing and the Community Stabilization Project. Eagan resident Dianne Judd, who's been involved with the interfaith council in her commu- nity, said no one wanted to file suit, "but we were trying to get people to listen. There's defi- nitely a need for housing people can afford, and still nothing is changing," she said. Housing is considered afford- able if a household spends no more than 30 percent of its gross income on it. Eagan and Met Council offi- cials welcomed the news of the court's decision. "We will be grateful that when this case finally comes to an end, the suit will no longer consume scarce public dollars and time," Eagan City Administrator Tom Hedges said in a statement. "I think we all agree those resources are better spent working for common goals in our communities." The suit's principle assertion and demand was that the Met Council and Eagan were violat- ing the state's Land Use Plan- ning Act. It asked the court to compel the Met Council to follow the law by ensuring local govern- ments produce housing plans and by directing Eagan to revise and implement its plan in accor- dance with the act. Flynn wrote that the act doesn't grant people the right to file a civil suit to enforce its pro- visions. "Essentially what she said is that, even if the Metropolitan Council and Eagan don't comply with the law, no one can chal- lenge that," said Ann Norton, president of the Housing Preservation Fund, a group that represented two of the advocacy groups. "We're left without a remedy, and these public agencies can act or not act with impunity." The 26-year-old Land Use Planning Act requires metro cities to develop guides for future growth and instructs the Met Council to review them and offer guidelines. It also addresses low- and moderate -income housing, say- ing land -use plans should pro- vide "adequate housing oppor- tunities to meet existing and projected local and regional housing needs." And it says how cities should implement hous- ing plans. When Gov. Tim Pawlenty appoints the new members of the Met Council, Chairman Peter Bell said one issue will be how to implement the Land Use Planning Act. "But to be candid, I don't see any need for major changes," Bell said. Flynn also squashed the advocates' claim that Eagan vio- lated the state's Human Rights Act by discriminating against people on public assistance and minorities because of the city's failure to provide affordable housing. "This has never been about some arcane aspect of the law but about affordable -housing concerns," Norton said. "I would characterize this as a significant setback for affordable housing, but it's not over yet." Mara H. Gottfried covers Eagdn, the Metropolitan Council and suburban growth. She can be reached at mgottfried@pioneer press.com or (651) 228-5262. - Terminal Health Special Advertising Assisti nc Physician Assis- tant ges health are s healthcare serv- ices under the supervi- sion of physicians. PAs are formally trained to provide diag- nostic, therapeutic and preventive services. Working as members of the healthcare team, they take medical histo- ries, examine and treat patients, order and interpret lab tests and X- rays, make diagnoses and prescribe media tions (in most st- PAs ma,' se - LAWSUIT REJECTED, 5B Bud R r t Ti ,--, f ck lc) 4-hs Businesses, city reach agreement on signs City Council approves ordinance amending window sign rules by Erin Johnson THISWEEK NEWSPAPERS The Eagan City Council on Tuesday approved chang- es to an ordinance regulating window signs that were cre- ated in response to protests from the business commu- nity. A task force made up of representatives from the city and local businesses helped craft the amendment, which will replace a previous amendment that many busi- nesses felt was too restric- tive. "We brainstormed, re- worked it, and came up with something that I think is win - win for the city, for the resi- dents and for the businesses," said John Curlee of Curlee Insurance Agency Inc., who served on the task force. Council Member Cyndee Fields agreed. "I think we came up with a good product here," she said. Changes include an in- crease in the percentage of sign coverage allowed on windows, from 25 percent to 60 percent, and the removal of a restriction prohibiting signs in the 4- to 6-foot area from the ground to the win- dow. See Signs, 19A Signs/from IA "We are very happy and relieved that this amendment passed," said Ruthe Batu- lis, president of the North- ern Dakota Chambers of Commerce, who also served on the task force. "The life blood of the retail business is signage. We feel this is a nice balance of window signage allowed and an aes- thetic approach to what the signage should look like." The ordinance was origi- nally amended last year be- cause the council wanted to establish consistency and avoid the cluttered look that a proliferation of business signs has created in some communities. Before 2005, window signs in Eagan were largely unregulated. Although the city said the proposed changes were well publicized, many business owners did not notice them until code officers began en- forcing them, prompting an outcry. The council agreed to place a moratorium on en- forcement and formed the task force to re-examine the ordinance. The task force wrapped up its work in July and submitted its final rec- ommendations to the city in September. Curlee said the city did the right thing by allowing the task force to revisit the issue. "It's really all about main- taining a vibrant business community, and that's the heart and soul of what we do to keep our taxes low in Eagan," he said. Erin Johnson is at eagan. thisweek@ecm-inc.com. i ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 2005 AKOTA C WWW.TWINCITIES.COM E EAGAN FARMINGTON HASTINGS INVER GROVE HEIGHTS LAKEVILLE MENDOTA HEIGHTS ROSEMOUNT SOUTH ST. PAUL WEST ST. PAUL B UNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: COMMUNITY EVENTS; CALLS TO LOCAL POLICE 2B EAGAN RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT Steeplechase project OK'd Council unanimous despite neighbors' opposition BY MEGGEN LINDSAY Pioneer Press Despite a year -long outcry from dozens of local residents, new houses and town homes will supplant the stables and pastures at the former Dia- mond T horse ranch in Eagan. The City Council unani- mously gave its preliminary approval to the controversial housing development late Tuesday night, in a decision that left some local homeown- ers in tears and others vowing to appeal the decision over environmental concerns. The council's approval was more than a year in the making and came after national builder Toll Brothers reworked parts of its proposal. The agreement included 35 caveats, including the extension of a nearby cul- de-sac into a thoroughfare and the off -site mitigation of lost wetlands. "This is a package deal," Council Member Peggy Carlson said. "There are some things I like and some I don't like, but I can't break it all apart." Residents living next to the proposed subdivision wish the council would have. They believe aspects of the develop- ment, called Steeplechase of Eagan, will destroy the neigh- borhood they've lived in for years. Raising a host of environ- mental and density concerns, dozens of vocal neighbors have spent months trying to block the proposal, which creates 37 single-family houses and 58 upscale town homes on a 37- acre site west of Pilot Knob Road and a half mile south of Cliff Road. "It's like trying to fit 20 pounds of stuff into a 10-pound bag. It keeps overflowing," resi- PROJECT APPROVED, 2B Project approved (continued) dent Brad Moir told the coun- cil. "The word `preservation' is not in this plan." Moir and his neighbors are upset about the development's encroachment on a pond, loss of wetlands and the eventual removal of nearly 600 trees at the former ranch. In addition, they oppose the extension of Wellington Way, a cul-de-sac that ends just west of Steeple- chase, to Pilot Knob. But council members have said they needed to think about all of Eagan's "stakehold- ers," including the former ranch's owner, the developer and future residents. At the request of residents, they allowed a discretionary envi- ronmental assessment work - sheet to be drafted. And they also required Toll Brothers to reduce the number of overall housing units from 109 to 95. "I appreciate and have heard the concerns of the neighbors, and quite frankly, with (35) conditions, we've tried to accommodate them," said Council Member Mike Maguire. "But I know this will change the neighborhood." The battle has raged since Toll Brothers unveiled its ini- tial blueprint in late 2003. It was revealed that the land had a history of pollution — from two separate sources. The ranch's owner — the late Jerry Thomas, a former Eagan City Council member — illegal- ly stockpiled horse manure at the site, according to city and Dakota County officials. And, in 1985, demolition debris from the former Metropolitan Stadi- um in Bloomington also was dumped illegally on at least 2 acres of the ranch. Although the extent of the pollution — and how haz- ardous it is — . remains unknown, both policy -makers and residents agree that years of contamination likely degrad- ed the ranch's wetlands and trees and now must be cleaned. Pennsylvania -based Toll Brothers will foot the bill for the site's environmental reme- diation and hopes to get it done by mid summer, with final plat approval in July. A Steeple- chase home model should be up this fall, with lots for sale by the end of the year. "But a lot of work has to happen before that. We need to prepare and clean the site cor- rectly and have the site signed off and approved by the Min- nesota Pollution Control Agency," project manager Joey Zorn said. The cleanup plan pleases city officials, but residents pri- vately say the ranch's owners should have paid for it long ago. "They are destroying beau- tiful wetlands and forest to save them from years of abuse," said neighbor Sharon Holbeck, who lives on the pond that abuts the former ranch. "I look outside now and I just cry. It just breaks my heart." "They are destroying beautiful wetlands and forest to save them from years of abuse. I look outside now and I just cry. " Sharon Holbeck, neighbor Homeowner Eric Vevea and other residents hired St. Paul attorney Brian Bates to review the proposal's impact to wet- lands. Vevea said they plan to appeal the council's Tuesday decision — which agrees with the recommendation of Eagan's Wetland Technical Evaluation Panel — to mitigate the loss of 0.4 acres by creating 0.8 acres of wetland elsewhere. The homeowners will chal- lenge the council before the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources. "After hearing from the council and watching their actions, I was disappointed that they did not give the emphasis I would have liked to have seen to the Wetland Con- servation Act and the policy established in this state that, above all else, wetlands are to L ?a Diffley Rd. Cliff Rd. o' EAGAN o McPndrews• Rd. N 1 MILE Jensen Lake 38 Site of the former Diamond T Ranch PIONEER PRESS be protected," Bates said. The Steeplechase develop- ment project now has been before the City Council, Parks Commission and Advisory Planning Commission multiple times, and went before the Dakota County Board of Com- missioners in February. At each stop, more changes were suggested. Most recently, the debate has been over the fate of Wellington Way. Many neighborhood resi- dents — and the majority of the City Council — want the road to remain a cul-de-sac, instead of a second access point into the new develop- ment. However, others in the area wanted it to become a through road to relieve traffic buildup elsewhere. And for improved safety and traffic flow, Eagan's engineering and planning employees also backed its use as a connector road, as did the county's Plat Commission. Although the County Board said there must be a second access point before commis- sioners would approve the sub- division's layout, they did not specify that the city open up Wellington Way. But there is no other road in, Council Member Cyndee Fields and her colleagues pointed out. "We're going to get into, excuse me, a p---ing match with Dakota County and we're going to lose," Fields said. "I hate the fact that Wellington Way is going to have to open. But if we don't do it now, they'll have us do it anyway." Meggen Lindsay can be reached at mlindsay@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5260. 1 Most cities require permits for any remodeling that includes structural changes, electrical or plumbing work, even replacing a toilet or building a deck, and for new construction for a home, garage or addition. Homeowners sometimes grumble about being required to get a building permit that may cost as much as the work being done. For example, Minneapolis requires a $21.50 permit to have an electrical outlet installed. The permit in Eagan would cost $12. "The whole object of getting a permit, though, is to have one of our Staff Photo by Charles Bjorgen Bill Bruestle examined a house's framing, one of at least 12 inspections that are performed as construction progresses. professional inspectors to see if you did it right to make sure you and your family and your house are safe," said D. George Olson, Minneapolis building inspections supervisor. "Our inspection is an independent verification that the minimum standards have been met." Olson acknowledged that some homeowners may not get a permit for improvements because they fear the city assessors will reevaluate their Questions and answers about permit, inspection Here are answers to some questions often asked of building inspectors: • Where do I get a building permit? At city hall. Each municipality regulates its own building, electrical, plumbing or mechanical inspections. Some may contract with independent inspectors, but permits are available in each municipality. • What does a permit cost? Each municipality sets its own permit costs. In Minneapolis, costs generally are tied to the value of the job. A permit isn't required for construction or remodeling up to a value of $500, unless it involves structural, electrical or plumbing work. Permits range, for instance, from $21.50 for up to about $1,300 worth of work, to $41 for $3,000 worth, to $83 for $10,000 worth and so on, according to D. George Olson, Minneapolis supervisor of inspections. In St. Paul, permit fees range from a $15 minimum for up to $500 worth of work, and go up based on the value of the work; the city charges $1 17 for a permit for $10,000 worth of work, according to Ed Locke, city plan examiner. Permits for new houses would range from about $650 to $1,000 in St. Paul; additional permits are needed for plumbing, electrical and heating/air conditioning work, Locke said. In Eagan, permits are priced according to the type of job, said Steve Hanson, assistant building official there. For instance, he said, a permit to add a deck to a house is $26.50, and to remodel a basement is $37. • What inspections are required — and when? The state building code requires a specific number of inspections for different projects; for instance, a minimum of 12 inspections are required on a new single-family house, but a deck requires two. Contractors or homeowners call for inspections according to their permit requirements. Some municipalities may require a one -day notice. • What do I need to submit to get a building permit? That depends on the size of the project. A verbal description on a small project may be all that's needed in some communities, while two sets of detailed drawings and plans are needed for most larger projects. You might also need a site plan or certificate of survey showing the proposed location and you'll need an estimated cost of the project. home's value, increasing property taxes. "Well, there's a good possibility that could happen, but some things don't raise taxes — such as maintenance things, like a new roof," Olson said. Besides, when it's time to sell and prospective buyers ask if the addition, or deck, or finished attic or basement had been inspected, it could affect the sale, even if the work was done properly, Berdahl said. • Builders organizations urged adoption of the minimum building code, which was taken from the national Uniform Building Code, as well as many of the subsequent changes — such as improved energy standards mandated in the late 1970s, Berdahl said. Cities and other municipalities establish their own fee schedules and certain inspection requirements. Inspectors must be certified under state guidelines, which includes passing an examination. Many inspectors also are experienced builders, carpenters, plumbers or electricians. Electrical and plumbing inspectors must also be certified as either plumbers or electricians. Building inspectors in the Twin Cities metro area are paid between $27,000 and $34,000 a year, said Steve Hanson, assistant building official for Eagan. Individual cities 1 "We'd be the first ones to initiate action on something like that," Berdahl said. "Every inspector has to get a lot of experience and training to be certified as a building official or building inspector. It's a tremendously responsible position. But in order for someone to be on the take, they'd have to have a tremendous offering for them to even consider,it because if they should lose their certification — and the way word passes among city fathers, even state to state — they'd probably never be able to work in that field again." Jeff Fazendin, president of Bradley Building Corp. in Minnetonka and 1989 president of the Minneapolis Builders Association, said he and most builders he knows hold inspectors in the highest regard. "Basically sometimes if there's a problem, it's not the inspector, it's the law being a little onerous," he said. "They're real professionals, and they keep us up to date on what's happening with the codes. Their professionalism is like night and day from 15 years ago, when we didn't have the uniform codes, and we were dealing with each individual's opinion. "Now they are better -educated and more helpful. I think most of us builders believe they play an important cooperative role, and can be really helpful when something goes wrong." 4R Saturday/March 25/1989/Star Tribune INSPECTORS: State has uniform building code Continued from page IR and made a note to contact the builder. "Most of the builders around here are pretty good," he said. "They know what to do, and sometimes they even consult with us — we're pretty much up on the new codes all the time. It just would cost them so much to redo something if it's not done right; it just wouldn't make sense to do it wrong. Sometimes, and this might surprise you, if a builder sees he's done something wrong, he'll even bring it to our attention so we can check back on it when it's fixed." New homes under construction in Eagan and most cities across Minnesota must undergo at least 12 inspections, plus a plan review by a city inspector or planner before construction begins. They inspect foundation footings and foundations, and framing, electrical, plumbing and heating and air conditioning installations. They also check fireplaces, insulation, decks, siding, roofing and basement floors. Builders in all Minnesota communities must meet a state code that the Minnesota Legislature adopted in 1972. Before that, many cities had no building codes, and there were inconsistencies among those that did have codes, said Elroy Berdahl, Minnesota's building codes supervisor. The codes, based on proven engineering tests, outline a uniform set of procedures and minimum standards for effective and safe construction practices. Building inspectors are charged with seeing that those standards are met. set their own salary schedules. Building inspection departments are among three governmental bodies charged with protecting public health and safety; the others are police and fire departments, Berdahl said. "A lot of people probably don't realize that, because everyone sees the police and fire departments with their sirens and fast vehicles," he said. Building inspectors are to be distinguished from housing inspectors, who are charged with responding to concerns in and around existing buildings. Many new cities don't have housing inspectors, but in Minneapolis and St. Paul, for example, they are the ones to call with concerns about whether neighborhood buildings are up to code, about weedy vacant lots. junked cars in yards, sagging garages and houses where garbage has piled up. Housing inspectors also became the focus of a scandal in 1980 after a WCCO-TV I -Team followed 10 Minneapolis housing inspectors and filmed several goofing off and doing personal errands when they were supposed to be working. After the I - Team report, two inspectors were fired, seven others and a supervisor were suspended for three to 40 days and one inspector was reprimanded. While there often are complaints and occasional grumblings about building inspectors, Berdahl said the professionalism of inspectors has increased significantly over the past 15 to 20 years. He said he's not aware that anyone in Minnesota has been convicted of taking bribes. By Ingrid Sundstrom Staff Writer At 8:45 one morning this week, Bill Brue;tie pulled his red City of Eagan pickup truck in front of a huge $325,000 house under construction. He grinned and waved in response to the the carpenters' cheery, "Hi, Bill." Bruestle, a city building inspector, was there to check the place out — a framing inspection, one of at least 12 required on new houses in Minnesota. He scrutinized the load - bearing walls and inspected the floor and roof trusses to see that all Staff Photos by Charles Bjorgen. Bill Bruestle, an Eagan building inspector, examined a fire break designed to prevent the spread of fire inside the walls. Bruestle and Dirk House, right, another inspector, discussed a minor lumber defect with Steve Leonard of Eckblad and Leonard Custom Homes. Inspectors ride herd on Eagan home boom Each step of construction is checked were sound, properly placed and met the code. Through a dinner -plate -sized hole cut in the floor for plumbing, he noted that a joist had been cut off a few inches from the outside wall and knelt down to feel around inside the hole. "It's okay," he said, standing up and brushing the sawdust off his knees. "There are two other joists right there and they're braced together. The floor will hold." For Bruestle, it was one of hundreds of houses and remodeling projects he'll inspect in a year. Eagan, the fastest -growing city in the metropolitan area, has issued permits for more than 22,000 homes since 1980. "It's eyeball and knowledge," said Bruestle, who was in the home- building business for 30 years before becoming one of Eagan's seven inspectors about four years ago. "We like to call it protective work. It's good to have an inspection — good for the contractor, good for the homeowner. We make sure the houses meet code, and maybe a little better. We don't deal with cosmetic things, just safety of the structure." In the first two hours of one day this week, Bruestle inspected four houses — from the framing of a $325.000 house in the southwest corm r of the city to the insulation on the poured -concrete foundation of a $75,000 house in central Eagan. In the first house where he found the shortened floor joist, he also found a gouge in another 2-by-10 floor joist. He discussed it with the construction supervisor, who amicably agreed to bolt a second joist alongside the damaged one to help support the living room floor above. At a another house, Bruestle noticed that the exterior sheathing wasn't secured in a couple of places, Inspectors continued on page 4R APPLE VALLEY LIGHT INDUSTRY PARKS J I I SHOPPING ROSEMOUNT LOW DENSITY ROUSING HIGH DENS"Y FK*JSWG L. I L Chuck Logan/Staff Artist AGANJar Fast-growing city retains country look By Steven Korris Eagan is 35 square miles of con- tradictions. It's the metropolitan area's fast- est -growing community, but most of it is open and undeveloped. It has a higher -than -average pro- portion of well-to-do young fami- lies, but it has no high school. It is close to both Minneapolis and St. Paul, and is a neighbor to the Minneapolis -St. Paul Interna- tional Airport. But until very re- cently, it was an isolated rural township. In its official motto — "City and Country ... Best of Both" — the city recognizes and promotes its dual character. The motto fits perfectly at the Municipal Building, smack in the center of the city. The building's nearest neighbor is an old farm- house, with barn and silo. A short distance to the south- west, a cornfield is about to give way to a new elementary school. Obviously, the city -country bal- ance is shifting. Eagar's popula- tion hit 10,000 in 1970, 20,000 in 1980, and 30,000 last year. City planners believe it will reach 40,000 before the 1990 census. Even at that figure, Eagan would be anything but crowded. An appropriate population might be 70,000, according to city adminis- trator Tom Hedges. He said the water and sewer systems could meet the needs of 100,000 people, if future city leaders choose to aim that high. "Eagan has been a sleeper for a long, long time," said Loren Spande, a home builder who moved there in 1969. It sounds strange to apply the term "sleeper" to a community growing as swiftly as Eagan, but prospects for the future are even brighter. Interstate 35E, which Please see Eagan/4J 1 St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch Sunday, May 4, 1986 Growth/ 5 more years of development seen Continued from Page 4J children are grown. Voels, who was District 191's informa- tion director before taking the same job in District 196, said Eagan parents have long wanted a high school. The old Burnsville School Board rejected the idea, although it did approve a name change to include Eagan and Savage in the official title. West St. Paul has the lowest tax rate of the three districts, in part because it reaps the property tax on the Sperry plant. The owner of an $80,000 house in Eagan would pay $951 in property tax in the West St. Paul district, $989 in Rosemount -Apple Valley district, or $1,084 in Burnsville - Eagan -Savage. The only private school in the city is run by Trinity "Lone Oak" Lutheran Church. Lacking a high school, the city can at least boast of a new library. A branch of the Dakota County library system is housed next to the Muncipal Building in a sort of space-age fortress. The city has 38 parks, many of them au- thorized by voters in a $4 million referen- dum two years ago. The parks are ar- ranged so no one has to cross a main road to reach one. Dakota County's 1,500-acre Lebanon Hills Regional Park fills the southern end of Eagan, four miles wide at the city line and a mile deep at its eastern end. Just across the city's southern border on the west is the Minnesota Zoological Gar- den in Apple Valley. Eagan also contains more than 1,000 acres of the Minnesota Valley Wildlife Re- fuge. Traffic congestion is a problem only around the big interchanges. Pilot Knob Road, which divides the city into eastern and western halves, was getting crowded before the opening of I-35E, Hedges said. He said the city and the county will co- operate in the widening of Pilot Knob and other collector routes from two lanes to four. In 1984 and 1985, the city experienced a flurry of apartment construction. Some of the larger complexes from this period were Forest Ridge, Lemay Lake, Royal Oak Circle and Woodridge. Hedges said there had been another apartment building flurry in the mid- 1970s. Few apartments were built between the two spurts, he said, and he predicted that few will be approved in the near fu- ture. Heges said the city's traditional empha- sis on single-family homes with spacious lots had to be suspended recently because of the weakness in the housing industry. Not only were several big apartment projects approved, he said, but the city also granted variances to its single-family lot size requirements. Eagan ordinance calls for at least 12,000 square feet for each lot. Some subdivisions have been approved, he said, with lots smaller than that. Hedges said he probably would not rec- ommend more lot size variances, although he said the areas where they were granted have worked well as neighborhoods. He said one of the effects of discourag- ing further apartment construction and sticking to the minimum lot size would be to push Eagan's average income up as the population rises. "The city of Eagan is very much aware of the need to provide a good balance in its housing stock, and is being very sensitive," Hedges said. "When interest rates soared way up, and the market was looking at lower -cost housing, we did reduce our standards by allowing smaller lots." He said developers who would like to build smaller houses argue that the mar- ket should dictate construction. He said Eagan will not let the market control its development. He said the best strategy is to keep a plan and an image in mind for the city. "You want it to be good and healthy," he said. "A good, balanced community is im- portant." Steve Korris is a Twin Cities free-lance writer. Homes on Fish Lake, foreground, are very close to the center of Eagan. In background is the 10-story Waterview Office Tower, the tallest building in Dakota County. This modern castle was built for Northwest Airlines preisdent Steven G. Rothmeier by Eagan builder Loren Spande in the city's southwestern corner. Home construction for corporate managers and executives is playing a major role in Eagan's rapid development. _. _ _ -- I Ii ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS WWW.TWINCITIES.COM EAGAN City may toughen sign rules Proposed changes seek to improve aesthetics, safety BY MEGGEN LINDSAY Pioneer Press In an attempt to spruce up the appearance of some busi- nesses and create more unifor- mity, the Eagan City Council is considering tightening its sign ordinance. Window and door signs now are unregulated, although painting on a window's exterior is prohibited. During an architectural com- parison of Eagan building fronts to those of nearby suburbs last year, council members noticed a variety among business signs they want to squelch. "From time to time, we do get complaints from people — either other businesses or the public — who feel that too much stuff is on a certain window or another," city spokesman Tom IF YOU GO The Eagan Advisory Planning Commission will hold a public meeting from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the City Council Chambers, 3830 Pilot Knob Road • For more information, call the city's planning division at 651-675-5685 or visit Eagan's Web site at www.cityofeagan.com. Garrison said. "The council is interested in having a signage policy it can enforce." The city's Planning Commis- sion is holding a public meeting Thursday evening for business owners and residents to discuss the proposed changes, which include size limitations and a new permitting process. Reducing window signs is an aesthetic issue and also one of public safety, Garrison said. 1 "It's in the public's interest to not have cluttered buildings, and the police need to be able to see through store windows," he said. "But we realize it is in the business owners' interest to attract people into their stores." The city's goal has been to balance those competing inter- ests, Garrison said. Under the proposed ordi- nance changes, businesses would need a permit for tempo- rary signs and could post them for no more than 10 days every three months. Currently, temporary signs require no permit and can be posted 10 days out of every month. The ordinance changes also would limit regular signs to 25 percent of a window's area and would ban signs from a line -of - sight region. Meggen Lindsay can be reached at mlindsay@pioneerpress.com or 651-228-5260. IJ St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch Eagan/ Plenty of wide open spaces Continued from Page 1J slices from northeastern to southwestern Eagan, recently opened after years of de- lays, providing a more accessible link be- tween the city and St. Paul. Hedges said he expects the surge of de- velopment to continue for five more years, leveling off far three years, and slow near the end of the century. It's easy to find quiet places among the rolling hills, the ponds and the oaks. But it's just as easy to discover a nearly new subdivision or another one just starting to go up. In 1985, the city issued building permits that included 2,126 new dwelling units. This was tops among the 152 cities in the metropolitan area, accounting for nearly an eighth of the total. By comparison, Burnsville counted 1,270 units, Eden Prairie 1,109, St. Paul 342, and Minneapolis 132. The city planning office counted 11,535 housing units in Eagan as of Jan. 1, 1985, with 6,295 of them single-family homes. Roughly two-thirds of the city's residents lived in single-family homes, the office said. New homes, background, are encroaching on a farm in southern Eagan. Several square miles of the city are zoned for agriculture. Photographs by Steve Korris .+ 4� ITEM COMPARISON REPORT -BUILDING PERMITS CITY OF EAGAN-3795 PILOT KNOB RD. EAGAN, MN., 55122 Jan. -Dec. 1978-& 1979 1978 1979 BLDGS UNITS BLDGS UNITS 001-One Family Houses & Semidetached row & town 226 241 $12,316,100.00 251 293 $16,502,320.00 002-Two Family Bldg. 9 18 554,000.00 16 32 1,230,000.00 004-Two or more Family Bldg. 2 206 6,000,000.00 005-Moved or relocated bldgs. 1 1 20,000.00 009-Churches & other Religious bldgs. 1 628,r40.00 010-Industrial Bldgs. 2 2,073,300.00 012-Residential Garages and Car parts 20 105,000.00 21 10 2,100.00 013-Service Stations & Repair Garages 4 350,000.00 015-Office, Bank and Professional Bldgs. 3 2,888,500.00 3 1,456,360.00 016-Public Works & Utilities 1 180,000.00 017-Schools & other Educational Bldgs. 1 2,900,000.00 018-Store & other Mercantile Bldgs. 10 1,355,000.00 9 6,767,000.00 019-Other Non -Residential Bldgs 8 43,950.00 9 51,188.00 020-Structure other than Bldg 41 257,549.00 27 81,260.00 021-Housekeeping Residential Bldg. Alteration & Add. 77 444,136.00 69 552,720.00 022-All other Bldgs. & Structure Alteration & Additions 31 2,053,273.00 33 3,600,000.00 TOTAL 432 259 $25,340,808.00 443 532 $37,171,088.00 1. ANNUAL REPORT DEPARTMENT OF PROTECTIVE INSPECTION In 1979 the Department issued 443 building permits for a total estimated evaluation of $37,171,088 and produced an income of $127,091. This increased Eagan's dwelling units by 542, and the population by an estimated 1,648, when all units are complete. The 542 dwelling units are categorized as follows: 235 Single Homes 12 Four-plexes 4 Row Houses of 5 or more units. 16 Duplexes 206 Apartment Units(Coachman Oaks) 1 Single Dwelling was relocated There were 8 new office/warehouses and 2 warehouse additions, which added 700,000 square feet or 16 acres of new storage and distribution area to the City. In addition, there were: 1 40,000 square foot Shopping Center 1 8,000 square foot two story Office Building 1 24 Lane Bowling Alley 1 Church 1 Church Addition 1 6,200 square foot 187 seat Restaurant 1 Fire Station 1 Fire Station Addition 1 Detached Bank Facility 97 Miscellaneous Alterations/Repairs/Garages The Department also issued the following permits: 300 Plumbing 294 Heating 47 Commercial Mechanical 67 Water Softeners 6 Wells 7 Private Disposal Systems 655 Electrical 29 Signs The Department made 4,790 inspections, which included 474 miscellaneous complaints, Day Care, and fire protection inspections. To keep abreast of the rapid changes in energy, handicapped, fire and building codes, 200 hours of continuing education were attended. In review the Department had 4,775 net hours available to meet minimum standards of 23 hours per permit, or 10,189 hours necessary for the volume of permits Eagan ex- perienced in 1979. The deficit of 5,414 hours or 53% was partially compensated for by hurry up inspections and plan reviews, unused vacations, and compensation (over) time. It is a credit to the Builders and the Inspection Staff for the high degree of efficiency achieved by the Department. N o. 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TOTAL UINNESOTA— LMONT A NA 1 REGION IX GREAT FALLS METRO AREA BEL T GREAT F ALL S OTHER REGION IX CUT BANK GLASGOW GLEND I VE LEwISTOWN MAL TA SIUNEY WOLF POINT REGION X BILLINGS METRO AREA BILLINGS LAUREL OTHER REGION X MILES CITY REGION XI ANACONDA BOZEMAN BUTTE HAMILTON HELENA KALISPELL L i V I NGSTON MI SSOUL A TOTAL MONT ANA !NORTH DAKOTA] REGION VI FARGO MOORHE AD METRO AREA A M E N I A CASSEL TON FARGO SOUTHWEST FARGO OTHER REGION VI GRAF TON GRAND FORKS NOR THw001) REGION VII WAHPETON REGION VI II BISMARCK BORLEIGH COUNTY ZONED C A R R I NG T ON DEVILS LAKE FESSENDEN JAMESTOWN MI NOT NAPOLEON RUGBY VALLEY CITY WARD COUNTY ZONED W ILL ISTON REGION IX DICK INSON GLEN ULLIN HEBRON MANDAN MOTT TOTAL NORTH DAKOTA UTH 1)AKOTA REGION IV BROOK INGS wATERTOWN REGION V SIOUX FALLS METRO AREA UELL RAPIDS S IOUX FALLS OTHER REGION V MADISON VERMILLION YANKTON REGION V I I ABERDEEN FREEMAN HURON LEOLA MITCHELL MOBRIDGE P IERRE SPRINGFIELD REGION X BELLE FOURCHE EDGEMONT HILL CITY LEAD PRINGLE MAY 1964 1963 385075 0 71936 42520 40500 $63370 379 608 123 105 33 $ 51 742 O 10 445490 3211 6500 75 111150 56 211600 66 1400 42 30000 52275 119 O 104 560338 72064 84590 989 52 647 207728 1882306 386 381800 15 68000 4 181415 450 70932 56 2550 5 166400 412 4536538 $ 6708 0 18000 3337775 1 5 4 2 7 3 645 700 850 706 800 764 000 260 650 815 600 350 100 700 622 694 016 850 384 700 500 881 100 300 927 449 1059170 121345 17350 76300 723885 483657 O 8000 42 700 904510 18000 78500 330617 7500 252220 561338 12 48 71 129 191 89 3 12 1 4 2 27 $ 797 5 225 491 27 58 5 67 1 2 4 152 820 200 545 300 280 550 000 0 520 500 383 640 585 500 797 600 600 250 6 200 3 787812 20000 14500 81350 31 800 435440 845000 1300 18100 99900 451300 93r00 62300 163 00 7859674 64 00 63 06 4 00 591 57 107. 00 75 00 102. 65 236316 162 15 215000 13500 611415 194850 O 2S00 1 2 6 00 4 8. 3 0 32600 22500 106650 357500 3 5 • 0 0 76970 1500 17500 5 5 5 9 5 0 33160 2250 21150 JANUARY-MAY CUMULATIVE 1964 1963 $ 1340 118 198 93 $ 208507 705 390 870 300 761 12000 2198215 34950 236200 355950 95660 132200 226275 153300 3489 135 295 210 2349 439 364 2139 236 38 1317 $ 14462 $ 504 154 895 728 686 800 000 679 962 820 167 145 18000 5409780 182773 180750 3315630 95200 $ 1926 248 253 916 $ 176010 700 700 775 632 900 019 25000 7594000 100250 164113 138100 175550 5000 337190 104700 2543844 198527 909091 43850 877614 34600 29000 1473816 269987 21500 1000942 $ 16046674 6000 2562470 169845 251000 1311727 9800 43300 33650 2455754 45000 99000 380917 15500 685957 1531118 588620 118100 809623 852100 821575 1151700 24600 258 65 19148 6 6 3 1056 270 500 767 990 350 57000 3337765 143030 393650 393100 1189226 294500 934370 13000 451530 131100 451250 78400 245 7 17 88 581 000 500 095 $ 5106053 64500 23100 30.2835 39300 1043048 1828650 1800 35500 194088 1035650 167900 389 45 43 352 3 15020 700 900 000 000 000 516 2415500 556033 52900 2182136 177760 213650 598940 1014418 81000 593784 39500 575005 175500 755000 11000 639508 16600 31450 Page 4 RAPID CITY S PE A RF I SH S TURGIS TIMBER LAKE WALL TOTAL SOUTH DAKOTA WISCONSIN REGION I DULUTH SUPERIOR METRO AREA SUPERIOR OTHER REGION I A SHL A N 0 ONE IDA COUN TY ZONED PARK FALLS RHINELANDER REGION II AUGUSTA CHIPPEWA F ALL S EAU CLAIRE HUDSON INDEPENDENCE KNAPP L A CROSSE L A CROSSE COUNTY ZONED ME OF 0 R D MEN OMONIE RICE L A K E W ASH!NGTON TOWN TOTAL WISC ONSIN Total 260 Cities STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS BILLINGS DULUTH SUPERIOR FARGO MOORHEAD GREAT FALLS MINNEAPOL IS ST PAUL SIOUX FALLS REGIONS 1 1 III I I X X X I 1/ MAY JANUARY—MAY CUMULATIVE 1964 1963 1964 1963 $ 256012 $ 354284 $ 1963499 2132400 52000 58900 182500 $ 207400 50725 16650 249375 91650 8500 33500 15250 1500 60350 59200 $ 3 5 7 3 6 0 5 $ 2 298 1 1 7 $ 1 2 4 3 566 1 $ 1 2 6 20 3 3 4 179612 296986 462407 627266 13603 33000 124964 579247 98800 108592 393846 248459 b 37 50 14 350 97500 5762 5 172225 68750 494520 3 0967 5 13000 79500 2500 60500 171560 247300 565215 883'583 2423502 1953570 2897790 76300 56650 178450 172150 1000 10000 4000 28100 0 7 1779 9 3 1 0 A 6 7 3347448 3308921 242738 144150 923817 639335 43000 95700 95150 1 37 100 44050 15000 965835 143800 37875 40300 145975 82950 52300 80150 144400 266650 $ 2 7 0 0 1 3 5 $ 3 8695 5 '7 $ 96 5 8 6 8 2 $ 10066783 $82408500 $ 73072011 $ 266267913 $ 231869326 $ 632402 $ 1042316 3624658 $ 2742371 1646772 1395111 3319999 2863463 3903123 1954460 6995058 4860815 445490 3221260 2210215 7619000 52130612 39517069 175079008 142888142 613297 595657 3394765 2235036 $ 2594728 $ 2605847 . 8826905 $ 7665706 59656185 48573357 198818222 165222517 434329 1822656 1103614 3 10779 1 1222790 512861 3219255 3638188 3541883 2661977 12503164 11202712 4799314 2785773 10997198 7852649 1407281 8 08 195 3586676 3278857 2605830 5879702 8403264 9 84242 4 1933985 3911775 4944820 9477503 1 25 104 4 2177226 6767953 6829670 2961131 1332642 7096842 3751309 " Includes permits issued for all University of Minnesota construction throughout the state. 1/ Regional Boundaries are based on Census delineations and do not designate trade areas. 2/ Minnesota totals for 1963 are not comparable to 1964 as Blue Earth County Zoned and Cambridge — Township have been added to our 1964 reporting panel. This summary includes only data received by the 17th of the month. Data represent the total dollar valuation of all building permits issued by the municipality whether for new construction or for repairs and alterations but do not include permits for mechanical installations. Compiled in cooperation with the U. S. Department of Commerce. JUNE 29, 1964 RESEARCH DEPARTMENT FEDERAL RESERVE BANK MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA 55440 FEDERAL RESERVE BANK BUILDING PERMITS OF MINNEAPOLIS FOR RELEASE: NOVEMBER 29, 1963 [MICH GAN1 REGION BARK RIVER TOWNSHIP ESCANABA GLAOSTONE HANCOCK IRON MOUNTAIN IRONWOOD ISHPEMING NEGAUNEE SAULT STE MARIE TOTAL 'MINNESOTA( REGION ( DULUTH SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN AREA BABBITT BIWABIK CHI SHOLM DULUTH DULUTH TOWNSHIP EVELCTH GILBERT HIBBING MEADOWLANDS MOUNTAIN IRON PROCTOR OTHER REGION I BEMIDJI BRAINERO CLOOUE T GRAND RAPIDS PARK RAPIDS TENSTRIKE TWO HARBORS REGION 11 MINNE APOLIS ST PAUL METROPOLITAN AREA NOKA AYTOWN TOWNSHIP LAINE 100M INC TON ROOK LYN CENTER URNS VILLE TOWNSHIP ASTLE ROCK TWP HAMPLIN TOWNSHIP IRCLE PINES OATES OLUMB I A HEIGHTS OON RAPIDS OTTAGE GROVE TOWNSHIP RY ST AL EEPHAVEN ELLW00D AG AN TOWNSHIP AST BETHEL VILLAGE DEN PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP DINA ALCON HEIGHTS OREST LAKE RIOLEY OLDEN VALLEY REY CLOUD ISLAND TWP ROW TOWNSHIP AM LAKE TOWNSHIP AMPTON VILLAGE ANOVER VILLAGE OPK INS INDEPENDENCE LAKE ELMO LAKEVILLE TOWNSHIP LEBANON TOWNSHIP LINCOLN TOWNSHIP LINO LAKES VILLAGE LITTLE CANAOA VILLAGE LONG LAKE MAHTOMED I MAPLE GROVE MAPLEWOOD MEDICINE LAKE MENDOTA HEIGHTS MINNE APOLIS MINNE TONKA va Iuation -- Oct, 1963 Oct. 1962 Jan. -Oct. 1963 Jan. -Oct. 1962 1250 41000 4400 65130 72040 2600 43000 144895 374315 2500 13000 342766 20000 2200 140425 16000 296984 55500 32180 26845 14226 1000 290860 522316 S207290 116123 1654500 37000 51664 289500 498222 341894 120395 238435 102230 3000 579374 72550 285000 779964 37850 34000 253313 543250 68000 45254 70250 479050 16500 146500 843400 4000 55000 98500 8500 46555 175500 322600 25000 2380900 3613344 494445 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11200 44900 14250 140200 4025 3950 20200 124950 a 363675 10000 31500 517357 1300 11510 15500 41400 51950 24375 22675 3470 5200 282750 56250 235275 2181848 883494 376400 6200 35800 1000 478700 3449038 706153 675500 35350 118525 21500 255000 1106688 1900 26450 682524 1401240 1800 97500 38820 416865 26500 48000 43000 1700 12000 C600 36050 51000 103500 360300 71150 6177197 721550 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 $ 34050 896200 104400 103150 493400 124425 384950 133725 502024 2776324 59000 13200 589600 5967112 20000 70200 404600 584744 870000 243000 2976100 796888 470520 358325 110541 58293 1420103 63000 4560030 19623380 2944298 14017176 77700 303694 1628900 29000 5498308 3824625 2684457 4702057 462880 48300 2252131 413575 2068000 11800464 340250 197754 5743262 7894788 2600 754300 435684 86550 16000 2836655 126500 115100 722860 5102800 113500 216000 302050 422500 185365 885000 6655360 64000 3468596 49222154 5850690 $ 75000 534450 242200 123517 575829 60760 743400 220950 874050 3450156 47500 162750 11740289 28000 9800 28000 418822 5200 137500 790391 1033870 826252 2194772 32.051 196374 2259405 283850 5228250 20379174 4588313 4446625 28000 197230 251300 1000 3902069 6049689 4419445 5157841 682903 164000 2058154 357050 1694000 8281647 280600 624772 7190411 8429155 25800 688000 399792 17300 15000 4601034 144500 27000 520450 417900 269700 365000 2840400 87650 210620 578850 8872410 20000 817016 59219175 5808880 500 PES-12-M.-Page 2 Oct. 1963 Oct, 1962 Jan. -Oct, 1963 Jan. -Oct, 1962 MINNE TONKA BEACH MINNE TRISTA MOUND NEW BRIGHTON NEW HOPE VILLAGE NEW TRIER VILLAGE N EwPORT N ININGER TOWNSHIP NORTH OAKS NORTH ST PAUL N OR THDALE TOWNSHIP ORONO PLYMOUTH VILLAGE RAMSEY TOWNSHIP RICHFIELD ROBBINSDALE ROGERS ROSEMOUNT ROSE VILLE S T FRANC IS VILLAGE ST LOU I S PARK S T PAUL S T PAUL PARK SHOREVIEW SHOREW000 SOUTH ST PAUL S TILLWATER TONKA BAY W ATERFORD TOWNSHIP WEST LAKELAND TOWNSHIP WEST ST PAUL WOODLAND VILLAGE U NIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OTHER REG ION II BELLE PLAINE BUFFALO CHASKA OELANO FARIBAULT GLENCOE HAVERHILL TOWNSHIP HUTCH INSON L ITCHFIEID MAVER NOR THFIELD OWATONNA RED WING ROCHESTER ROCHESTER TOWNSHIP S T CLOUD WATERTOWN w INONA REGION III ALEXANOR IA DETROIT LAKES FERGUS FALLS LITTLE FALLS M 1 L AC A OSAK I S WOLF LAKE REGION IV DAWSON D U M O N T MONTEVIDEO MORR I S W ILIMAR REGION V ALBERT LEA AUSTIN BREWSTER FAIRMONT MANKATO MARSHALL NEW PRAGUE NEW ULM NORTH MANKATO P IPEST ONE PRESTON ST JAMES TRACY w A SE C A W OR TH I NG TON REGION VI ARGO MOORHEAD METROPOLITAN AREA O 1LWORTH GEORGETOWN GLYNDON HITTERDAL MOORHEAD ULEN OTHER REGION VI CROOKS TON EAST GRAND FORKS THIEF RIVER FALLS TOTAL !MONTANA' REGION IX GREAT FALLS METROPOLITAN AREA GREAT FALLS OTHER REGION IX CUT BANK GLASGOW GLENOIVE HAVRE L EWISTOWN M AL TA S IDNEY WOLF POINT $ 53000 47000 96180 859080 1116800 0 36000 65000 0 161146 0 177565 395325 29400 2453805 157000 0 95000 271350 14 1360 6405 80 169 148 193 112 22 40 744 2 220 16 45 8 00 176 565 045 905 000 425 775 000 0 000 500 500 500 500 150 18000 47800 245437 0 0 100715 67800 0 2884700 241269 88550 1309588 50600 285538 0 353810 25668 611330 109740 0 0 9000 1500 4400 0 532220 - 14650 230200 218510 306246 0 47975 603000 499660 4.000 163850 61800 73400 22325 5500 800 43700 257925 4 000 0 0 0 1031950 0 136650 180050 1531000 $ 4701=002 1 47 26 417 228 4 12 244 82 342 6 552 129 829 854 2823 102 73 84 483 81 725 000 050 400 520 0 000 0 000 696 0 250 828 000 865 200 0 0 043 800 714 334 040 400 500 798 500 0 3000 15000 139675 4000 68000 22 77 3 313 5 18 110 85 15 19 253 138 2493 124 1498 22 540 15 107 252 240 24 14 20 37 75 88 466 0 600 000 500 101 200 000 200 900 050 630 054 050 461 700 908 000 340 728 295 005 335 875 0 0 800 0 950 450 200 619 100 0 55950 21.339 123150 54170 112435 31700 65338 17900 9650 2200 30800 68500 3 96 250 0 500 0 275 0 28735 156050 14800 $3869-485 76 132 887928 000 0 6.700 67600 14 620 9950 4 325 12 910 4,200 2.500 0 1 000 3.700 5 540 7 750 000 112000 441000 1450446 3454 12158 46 368 92 592 1837 95 1059 5044 562 10232 2435 42 2488 4114 58 7998 50006 2177 1935 761 3378 843 111 41 62 4709 15 6871 264 141 273 91 1659 947 43 845 1721 253 4072 1943 1442 8740 804 6308 136 030 120 900 000 000 500 492 875 440 446 400 929 730 500 500 600 600 620 641 226 160 500 602 630 800 000 000 350 30o 139 500 100 750 300 982 300 900 665 267 200 685 409 865 064 700 266 000 4717017 1652 1099 1230 1016 518 64 8 120 1 1296 437 1301 2009 3019 12 1176 7228 1024 265 370 220 500 800 550 600 800 899 195 900 860 676 228 000 175 720 170 184000 1844112 558763 1160850 133475 194500 61400 516004 1240050 778 142 13 4798 10 657 1875 2614 383782 348 000 000 125 700 920 206 500 846 11149749 195850 358273 478510 427793 423950 58200 825681 295965 $ 3 9 -725 660230 646172 3694690 6064618 500 238725 131000 858000 109.387 217480 732230 3432133 122800 4988865 1788375 35800 18700 10039824 32000 10885829 39855467 1094505 723230 510500 2744943 593550 107000 81000 53500 2226930 72000 2941693 409500 963530 301700 152200 1388511 296826 78000 1070400 741850 33550 798873 2258914 991025 11846584 962844 5523452 94600 2553907 650410 383273 1256351 543715 226550 512900 159184 517050 1393175 985600 1620219 2054405 34500 440055 3980270 826520 128170 1702759 356700 332003 231000 168100 45250 530015 963600 214146 33500 30550 5284085 19050 632745 2447457 410950 347215 355 7414532 83150 665038 2281675 552150 411300 171350 469780 73050 RES-12-M Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Building Permits Valuation* August 6, 1963 1MICH1GANJ REGION I BARK RIVER TOWNSHIP ESCANABA GLADSTONE HANCOCK IRON MOUNTA IN IRONWOOD I SHPEM ING N EGAUNEE S AULT STE MARIE TOTAL (MI NNESOTA) REGION I DULUTH SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN AREA BABBITT 81WAB1K CHI SHOLM DULUTH EVELETH GILBERT HIBBING MEADOWLANDS MOUNTA IN IRON PROCTOR OTHER REGION I AKELEY BEMIDJI BRA INERD CL0QUET GRAND RAPIDS P ARK RAPIDS TENSTRIKE TWO HARBORS REGION II MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL METROPOLITAN AREA ANOKA BLAINE BLOOM INGTON BROOKLYN CENTER BURNSVILLE TOWNSHIP CASTLE ROCK TWP CHAMPL IN TOWNSH IP CIRCLE PINES COATES COLUMB I A HEIGHTS COON RAPIDS CORCORAN CRYSTAL DEEPHAVEN DELL WOOD EAGAN TOWNSHIP EAST BETHEL VILLAGE ED1NA FALCON HEIGHTS FOREST LAKE FRIDLEY GOLDEN VALLEY GREY CLOUD ISLAND TWP GROW TOWNSHIP HAM LAKE TOWNSHIP HAMPTON VILLAGE HANOVER VILLAGE HOPK INS INDEPENDENCE LAKE ELMO LAKELAND LAKEVILLE TOWNSHIP LEBANON TOWNSHIP LEX INGTON LINCOLN TOWNSHIP LITTLE CANADA V ILLAGE MAHTOMED I MAPLE GROVE MAPLEWOOD MI NNEAPOL I S MINNETONKA MINNETONKA BEACH MINNETRISTA MOUND NEW BRIGHTON N EW HOPE V ILLAGE N EW TRIER VILLAGE NEWPORT N ININGER TOWNSHIP NORTH OAKS N ORTH ST PAUL N ORTHDALE TOWNSHIP ORONO PLYMOUTH VILLAGE RAMSEY TOWNSHIP R I CHF I ELD ROBB I NSDALE ROGERS ROSEMOUNT S T ANTHONY S T FRANCIS VILLAGE ST LOUIS PARK S T PAUL For Release: August 8, 1963 June 1963 June 1962 Jan. -June 1963 Jan. -June 1962 $ 10000 $ 21300 $ 31500 $ 47800 239100 89200 653800 293850 19850 49400 73250 169900 4000 10417 54800 63817 36400 61275 251805 252994 8485 2525 15310 15500 185100 39550 218100 665750 0 3500 55725 164600 17275 254530 219570 484735 520210 $ 531697 $ 1573860 $ 2158946 13500 $ 0 $ 13500 $ 2000 2500 6000 3500 22200 8400 63200 16300 1093064 821250 2553417 6383349 0 0 8000 12000 19000 401000 23700 13180 64114 341824 188864 870000 500 870000 500 0 0 2200 10000 22000 22000 104000 0 10000 5000 24000 11250 32200 699630 537515 176200 27930 500703 341645 40275 73889 271941 258529 253650 20475 274625 1902297 0 46000 24440 214931 0 0 1000 19950 39143 159424 78168 450975 494758 1419030 468939 1315325 2799663 3978125 2629408 2221030 11784488 9948600 265398 354874 1540266 2143132 1243900 615175 8535800 2568975 0 0 25700 6000 97430 38000 177630 81000 202500 46900 613000 106000 0 0 26000 728715 551586 2805637 2129805 123570 323000 780929 1028375 0 14500 50000 21500 617201 369216 2854170 3322778 68650 59500 297050 438278 27500 0 27500 124000 89800 47389 1105189 1199069 51750 96850 253275 210800 955925 777794 7831475 4738762 27800 16000 230900 272000 26990 15465 126615 59965 531990 864679 2536526 4434463 1283645 1740900 4862169 3688725 0 0 22000 153500 108000 442800 281500 68800 45000 226136 217388 0 1500 15500 1500 0 15000 15000 161200 542615 716390 1862698 0 12000 40500 51500 67500 0 82500 27000 8600 0 86100 76000 67500 124300 351760 292200 38700 59700 1487900 182300 0 0 153900 0 0 101300 194000 4000 60500 162450 177250 21900 56950 37200 123400 145000 77300 496500 241100 552000 837700 3638450 2281360 3041265 51i7205 35064566 35791868 609130 699400 3997880 3146500 20000 0 20500 27000 53000 181500 235000 464950 55179 71965 1089511 416414 168700 452960 1873000 2272865 2247700 727440 5065340 3612998 16000 0 30900 0 20000 124000 207835 10000 0 15000 105500 93000 167000 178000 524000 77812 16480 863320 630165 22400 66200 35800 149530 213650 76400 448050 353015 410700 431300 2870230 2359745 106200 0 279900 64100 533440 325875 5730173 2825910 1068905 168010 1387610 622785 13500 28800 28500 35800 35000 8000 175500 14000 155400 359000 1175000 1666000 0 24000 7500 31200 484720 2368630 4466714 6919062 11417212 4102838 32611694 21426420 RES-I2-M - Page 2 S T PAUL PARK SHOREVIEW S OUTH ST PAUL S TILLWATER TONKA BAY W EST ST PAUL WHITE BEAR LAKE W OODLAND VILLAGE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OTHER REGION II BELLE PLAINE BUFFALO D ELAN O FARIBAULT GLENCOE HAVERHILL TOWNSHIP HUTCH INSON LAKE FREMONT V ILLAGE LITCHFIELD MAYER N ORTHFIELD O WATONNA RED WING ROCHESTER ROCHESTER TOWNSH I P S T CLOUD W INONA REGION III ALEXANDR I A DETROIT LAKES FERGUS FALLS LITTLE FALLS MILACA O SAKIS WOLF LAKE REGION IV DAWSON DUMONT MONTEVIDEO MORRIS W ILLMAR REGION V ALPERT LEA AUSTIN FA IRMONT MANKATO MARSHALL N EW PRAGUE N EW ULM N ORTH MANKATO P IPESTONE PRESTON S T JAMES TRACY W ASECA W ORTHINGTON REGION VI FARGO MOORHEAD METROPOLITAN AREA DILWORTH GEORGETOWN GLYNDON HITTERDAL MOORHEAD U LEN OTHER REGION VI CROOKSTON EAST GRAND FORKS THIEF RI VER F ALL S TOTAL IM 0 N T A N Aj REGION IX GREAT F ALL S METROPOLITAN AREA BELT GREAT FALLS OTHER REGION IX CUT BANK GLASGOW G L E N D I VE HAVRE LEW ISTOWN MALTA S IDNEY W OLF P01 NT REGION X BILLINGS METRO AREA BILLINGS LAUREL OTHER REGION X REG ION X I ANACONDA BOZEMAN BUTTE HAMIL TON HELENA KAL 'SPELL LIVINGSTON MISSOULA TOTAL INORTH DAKOTA( REG I O N VI FARGO MOORHEAD METROPOLITAN AREA AMEN I A CASSEL TON FARGO June 1963 June 1962 Jan. -June 1963 Jan. -June 1962 $ 92750 $ 150250 $ 1748502 $ 451020 3 50 545 30950 1316005 390150 159860 203999 1666626 1649042 147050 30800 425375 261330 38000 17000 53800 107000 217200 133280 1456550 1527888 1346190 449675 3414947 2323018 0 0 12800 42000 198000 223500 4640698 778800 80000 60000 165000 205000 23050 38950 65550 232180 1000 3000 28000 102200 140300 103450 1116920 807910 25000 86800 889600 245026 0 20000 23900 60000 16300 99900 430800 732850 0 5500 2250 13650 68400 308600 178900 432750 2500 0 242000 6300 55525 1032500 293233 275353 258635 1040498 1234769 26950 235125 1044300 428825 1095748 1001155 4682364 6137727 59050 122500 461500 561600 256050 550325 1431537 2987494 92185 110242 2829429 1053369 18740 117000 1467146 262372 52400 42462 238735 192748 179370 472402 726320 737311 8000 300 909500 256590 15000 29500 30000 174000 20500 6100 28500 481900 4000 0 5600 14400 3800 15700 87300 0 0 3840 183600 379665 441100 203500 290225 305100 1198325 79045 116750 266975 609450 124134 302189 775870 1159069 1014825 263500 2293108 665356 637025 51820 753350 192730 806319 258256 4307262 3075083 72675 68565 336950 437835 26000 0 81000 56000 186480 835091 653045 1169654 120843 16000 397543 190300 830200 55695 962600 173640 900 150000 17400 152600 40250 12300 130950 89000 800 14000 9600 24200 1 0281 5 25740 332109 233865 44200 57400 383750 434000 9223 31000 92323 63571 0 0 0 0 112000 17000 0 0 366150 951860 2292850 2984360 500 0 1200 13000 66280 5 024 0 315055 270470 305445 237875 559077 1587590 23000 3700 939900 357600 $44273851 $37387485 $ 212024891 $ 182802744 0 0 25000 400 1080900 652216 8674900 3729039 52800 9000 153050 32250 4850 89000 168963 474500 70600 228200 208700 2202203 98569 56200 192359 338212 82000 103200 257550 294100 8500 0 13500 91150 122756 38900 459946 145940 3740 5000 108440 50000 773825 941977 3317669 4561963 9432 9686 207959 65146 3000 3000 46850 24500 78575 33700 956189 480762 103C0 7400 44900 523600 4500 500 33500 42500 305557 357293 1779373 1575649 2 395 0 226825 293937 347600 2120 11740 23620 158430 185223 1 0877 3 1150455 678967 $ 2921197 $ 2882610 $ 18116860 $ 15816911 0 0 1 000 21000 20000 23500 1152650 375490 3715120 2927017 Form Approved: Budget Bureau No. 41-2025.1 FORM 16-404 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (12.13.61) BUREAU OF THE CENSUS REPORT OF BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED AND LOCAL PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION Permits Issued in Month of — L lam_ - PLEASE MAIL ON OR BEFORE THE 4TH DAY OF THE MONTH (Please correct if name or address has changed) THIS IS YOUR FILE COPY PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN THE FORM WHICH SHOWS YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO: Bureau of the Census, Economic Operations Division Washington 25, D. C. If no permits were issued this month enter "X" in box FOR CENSUS USE ONLY Xerox C-40 SS and return the form. Section 1 - HOUSEKEEPING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS NEW HOUSEKEEPING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS Item No. Number Cost of construction (Omit cents) (c) Buildings (a) llousing units (b) Privately owned buildings One -family houses, including semidetached and row 01 ( /, C c'C) Two-family buildings 02 Apartment Three- and four -family 03 buildings Five- or -more -family 04 LEAVE BLANK 094 Publicly owned housing units XX 300 LEAVE BLANK Moved residential buildings 05 Section II - ALL OTHER NEW BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES TYPE OF BUILDINGS Item No. PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY OWNED Number of buildings (a) Cost of construction (Omcen it ts) (b) Number of buildings (c) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (d) Nonhousekeeping residential buildings Transient hotels, motels, tourist courts and cabins 06 Other shelter (do not include trailers) 07 Nonresidential buildings and structures Amusement and recreational buildings 08 Churches and other religious buildings 09 Industrial buildings 10 Parking garages 11 Residential garages gnd carports 12 Service stations and repair garages 13 Hospitals and other institutional buildings 14 Office, bank and professional buildings 15 Public works and utilities buildings 16 5- to,eo Schools and other educational buildings 17 Stores and other mercantile buildings 18 Other nonresidential buildings 19 Structures other than buildings 20 Section III - ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TYPE OF BUILDINGS Item No. PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY OWNED Number of permits (a) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (b) Number of permits (c) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (d) Houses and apartments 21 Other buildings 22 (PLEASE COMPLETE REVERSE SIDE BEFORE RETURNING FORM) Section IV - INDIVIDUAL MAJOR PROJECTS - $100,000 OR MORE Please list below each new structure and any addition or alteration with a construction cost of $100,000 or more reported on front of form. Also list any sizable project you could not classify and have omitted from form (with a dash entry under Line Item No.) Line Item No. (a) Kind of structure (Use or purpose) (b) Owner of structure (c) (Check it public) (d) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (e) Number of housing units (11 applicable) (f) Sect on V - REVISIONS OF EARLIER MONTHS' REPORTS If there have been any revisions of previous months' data, show original and revised entries in the spaces provided below. Month (a) Line Item No. (b) Original Revised Number of housing units (It appl cable) Number of buildings (c) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (d) Number of buildings (e) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (f) Original g (g) Revised (h) Comments Name and address of person to contact regarding this report Title Telephone number FORM 16-404 112-13-61) "*U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1961 0-623175 Form Approved: Budget Bureau No. 41-2025.1 FORM 16.404 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (12-13.e1) BUREAU OF THE CENSUS REPORT OF BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED AND LOCAL PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION Permits Issued in Month of — A JAN 63 PLEASE MAIL ON OR BEFORE THE 4TH DAY OF THE MONTH (Please correct if name or address has changed) THIS IS YOUR FILE COPY PLEASE COMPLETE AND RETURN THE FORM WHICH SHOWS YOUR NAIVIE AND ADDRESS TO: Bureau of the Census, Economic Operations Division Washington 25, D. C. If no permits wereissued this month enter "X" in box FOR CENSUS USE ONLY Xerox C-40 SS and return the form. Section 1 -HOUSEKEEPING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS NEW HOUSEKEEPING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS Item No. Number Cost of construction (Omit cents) (c) Buildings (a) Housing units (b) Privately owned buildings One -family houses, including semidetached and row 01 / /5- ��; -zt Two-family buildings 02 Apartment Three- and four -family 03 buildings Five- or -more -family 04 LEAVE BLANK 094 Publicly owned housing units XX 300 LEAVE BLANK --> Moved residential buildings 05 Section II - ALL OTHER NEW BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES TYPE OF BUILDINGS Item No. PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY OWNED Number of buildings (a) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (b) Number of buildings l.-1 Cost of construction (Omit cents) (,() Nonhousekeeping residential buildings Transient hotels, motels, tourist courts and cabins 06 1 Other shelter (do not include trailers) 07 Nonresidential buildings and structures Amusement and recreational buildings 08 Churches and other religious buildings 09 Industrial buildings 10 Parking garages 11 Residential garages and carports 12 Service stations and repair garages 13 Hospitals and other institutional buildings 14 Office, bank and professional buildings 15 Public works and utilities buildings 16 Schools and other educational buildings 17 Stores and other mercantile buildings 18 Other nonresidential buildings 19 Structures other than buildings 20 Section I11 - ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TYPE OF BUILDINGS Item No. PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY OWNED Number of permits (a) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (b) Number of permits (c) Cost of construction (Omi t cents) (d) Houses and apartments 21 / -Y` Other buildings 22 (PLEASE COMPLETE REVERSE SIDE BEFORE RETURNING FORM) /-5-/ 7»C Section IV - INDIVIDUAL MAJOR PROJECTS - $100,000 OR MORE Please list below each new structure and any addition or alteration with a construction cost of $100,000 or more reported on front of form. Also list any sizable project you could not classify and have omitted from form (with a dash entry under Line Item No.) Line Item No. (a) Kind of structure (Use or purpose) (b) Owner of structure (c) (Check if public) (d) Cost of construction (Omit cants) (e) Number of housing units (If applicable) (f) Section V - REVISIONS OF EARLIER MONTHS' REPORTS If there have been any revisions of previous months' data, show original and revised entries in the spaces provided below. Month (a) Line Item No. (b) Original Revised Number of housing units Of eppt cable) Number of buildings (c) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (d) Number of buildings (e) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (f) Original (g) Revised (h) Comments Name and address of person to contact regarding this report Title Telephone number FORM 16-404 (12-13-61) *U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1961 0-623175 e cf 1') Form Approved: Budget Bureau No. 41-2025.1 FORM C-404 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE FORMERLY 16-404 BUREAU OF THE CENSUS (7- 19-63) REPORT OF BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED AND LOCAL PUBLIC CONSTRUCTION Permits Issued in Month of — 1AN-.r)i`) 1` PLEASE MAIL ON OR BEFORE THE 4TH DAY OF THE MONTH (please correct if name or address has changed) YOUR FILE COPY TO: Bureau of the Census, Economic Operations Division Washington, D.C. 20233 If no permits were issued this month enter 'X" in box FOR CENSUS USE ONLY Xerox C-40 SS and return the form. — Section 1 -HOUSEKEEPING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS NEW HOUSEKEEPING RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS Item No. Number Cost of construction (Omit cents) (c) Buildings (a) Housing units (b) Privately owned buildings One -family houses, including semidetached and row 01 / ; Gr—JrZ! Two-family buildings 02 / —7 Cry) Apartment Three- and four -family 03 buildings Five- or -snore -family 04 LEAVE BLANK 094 Publicly owned housing units XX ► 300 LEAVE BLANK Moved residential buildings 05 Section 11 - ALL OTHER NEW BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES TYPE OF BUILDINGS Item No. PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY OWNED Number of buildings (a) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (b) Number of buildings (c) Cost of construction (Omit cents) ' (d) Nonhousekeeping residential buildings Transient hotels, motels, tourist courts and cabins 06 Other shelter (do not include trailers) 07 Nonresidential buildings and structures Amusement and recreational buildings 08 Churches and other religious buildings 09 4— Industrial buildings 10 Parking garages 11 Residential garages and carports 12 Service stations and repair garages 13 Hospitals and other institutional buildings 14 Office, bank and professional buildings 15 Public works and utilities buildings 16 Schools and other educational buildings 17 Stores and other mercantile buildings 18 Other nonresidential buildings 19 Structures other than buildings 20 Section 111 - ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS TYPE OF BUILDINGS Item No. PRIVATELY OWNED PUBLICLY OWNED Number of permits (a) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (b) Number of permits (c) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (d) }louses and apartments 21 Other buildings 22 (PLEASE COMPLETE REVERSE SIDE BEFORE RETURNING FORM) USCOMM- DC 20558 P-63 Section IV - INDIVIDUAL MAJOR PROJECTS - S100,000 OR MORE Please list below each new structure and any addition or alteration with a construction cost of $100,000 or more reported on front of form. Also list any sizable project you could not classify and have omitted from form (with a dash entry under Line Item No.) Line Item No. (a) Kind of structure (Use or purpose) (b) Owner of structure (c) (Check if public) (d) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (e) Number of housing units al applicable) (f) Section V - REVISIONS OF EARLIER MONTHS' REPORTS If there have been any revisions of previous months' data, show original and revised entries in the spaces provided below. Month (a) Line Item No. (b) Original Revised Number of housing units (Il applicable) Number of buildings (c) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (d) Number of buildings (e) Cost of construction (Omit cents) (f) Original (g) Revised (h) Comments Name and address of person to contact regarding this report Title Telephone number FORM C•404 (7-19.63) e GPO : 1963 0 - 696-761 USCOMM-DC 20558 P-63 RES-13-M Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis December 29, 1961 MICHIGAN REGION 1 TOTAL MINNESOTA REGION 1 UVLUIH-SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN AREA DULUTH HIBBING OTHER REGION 1 PARK RAPIDS 80 INTERNATIONAL FALLS TENS TRIKE REGION I 1 MI NNE APOL I S- S T PAUL METROPOLITAN AREA ANOKA BROOKLYN CENTER BROOKLYN PARK VILLAGE BURNSV ILLE TOWNSHIP COLUMBIA HEIGHTS COON RAPIDS CORCORAN COTTAGE GROVE TOWNSHIP CRYSTAL EDINA FALCON HEIGHTS FR IULE Y GOLDEN VALLEY HASTINGS HOPK INS L ITTLE CANADA VILLAGE MAPLEW00D MINNEAPOLIS MINNETONKA MINNETRISTA MOUND NEW 8RIGHTON NEW HOPE VILLAGE NORTH ST PAUL OAKDALE TOWNSH IP ORON0 PLYMOUTH VILLAGE RICHFIELD ROBBINSDALE ROSEMOUNT ROSEVILLE ST ANTHONY ST LOU IS PARK ST PAUL ST PAUL PARK SHORE`V IEVI SHOREWOOD SOUTH ST PAUL VADNAIS HEIGHTS WEST ST PAUL WOODLAND VILLAGE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA OTHER REGION II DELANO EAR IBAULT GLENCOE HAVERH ILL TOWNSHIP LAKE FREMONT VILLAGE L ITCHFIELD MAR ION TOWNSHIP NORTHF I ELD OWATONNA P INE ISLAND REO WING ROCHESTER ROCHESTER TOWNSHIP ST CLOUD W INONA REGION III FERGUS FALLS MILACA OSAK I S REGION IV DAWSON GRACEV ILLE W ILLMAR REGION V ALBERT LEA AUSTIN BREWSTER MARSHALL NEW PRAGUE NEW ULM NORTH MANKATO PRESTON TRACY WORTHINGTON REGION VI FARGO-MOORHEAO METROPOLITAN AREA MOORHEAD OTHER REGION VI CROOKSTON TOTAL 'MONTANA REGION IX GREAT FALLS METROPOLITAN AREA GREAT FALLS Number of Building Permits For Release: Jonuary 1, 1962 NUMBER OF PERMITS HOUSEKEEPING UNITS Nov. 1961 Nov. 1960 Jan. -Nov. 1961 Jan,-Nov.1960 Nov. 1961 Nov. 1960 Jan. -Nov. 1961 Jan. -Nov. 1960 45 60 827 905 83 18 242 225 6 9 146 217 1 2 19 78 5 7 32 49 1 11 17 0 0 27 41 4 8 0 0 5 3 2 1 23 25 268 249 36 23 136 97 25 42 552 636 23 38 234 330 77 20 413 261 36 8 176 120 18 23 270 176 14 20 243 160 44 41 498 548 33 23 325 287 27 8 710 553 13 3 428 511 1 1 12 6 1 1 11 5 6 9 278 293 158 178 32 48 512 559 18 32 244 364 47 41 525 600 50 24 376 410 0 0 2 30 2 4 45 57 618 646 33 42 551 407 36 25 372 428 25 34 277 338 9 10 130 144 15 7 84 90 19 12 196 176 64 68 131 158 1 5 58 45 1 2 14 19 13 24 279 365 1 8 65 120 334 324 4210 4279 163 181 2186 1467 58 45 519 605 32 20 303 334 4 5 53 46 2 2 26 24 14 11 162 97 4 1 27 19 19 13 216 240 12 7 169 165 39 23 380 307 64 41 460 279 9 8 115 201 1 3 45 93 6 31 117 242 28 27 159 7 8 92 107 1 4 29 39 38 23 281 214 26 14 195 137 54 41 701 718 6 100 283 357 11 5 183 177 3 2 59 60 4 2 20 42 7 26 32 51 508 504 23 15 249 339 12 18 146 185 5 17 79 133 46 53 623 643 23 18 592 242 347 350 4549 4971 142 103 1177 989 5 6 78 92 I 5 6 77 91 12 10 135 159 5 2 41 35 5 5 45 35 4 3 30 27 22 21 325 349 7 7 119 142 2 3 23 19 2 1 5 8 21 14 212 193 19 7 131 88 D 0 2 2 1 2 2 9 102 71 142 3 3 3 25 18 1 16 S 14 10 182 186 5 4 52 55 1 6 38 63 1 2 16 32 0 0 5 5 2 4 0 4 7 20 1 2 9 8 55 50 3 4 18 17 6 8 59 104 3 4 32 55 9 3 84 107 5 2 31 54 25 14 295 272 16 6 84 67 0 0 4 4 2 13 9 152 150 4 26 27 66 53 657 623 23 29 366 387 11 12 80 74 4 8 36 44 29 29 416 360 19 13 165 132 19 20 331 419 4 3 93 76 11 10 171 188 5 2 55 45 2 5 15 26 1 1 4 7 1 1 16 19 1 4 6 1 1 19 11 1 2 4 0 0 4 4 1 1 10 5 153 99 1 35 10 19 16 279 325 1 5 35 76 26 14 293 304 2 5 14 57 0 0 2 3 1 2 16 17 165 162 6 5 51 58 0 6 18 41 2 3 7 14 22 240 276 4 4 61 69 2 3 27 36 2 2 18 21 1 0 5 4 4 2 0 0 16 19 3 8 3 2 99 110 35 35 28 21 305 421 15 13 206 259 8 6 143 138 3 1 40 33 1929 1854 24887 26069 1124 1053 11702 10844 55 84 937 1142 20 67 574 933 RES-I3-M - Poge 2 OTHER REGION IX CUT BANK GLASGOW HAVRE LEWISTOWN MALTA S IONEY REGION X BILLINGS METRO AREA BILLINGS L A U R EL O THER REGION X MILES CITY REGION XI BOZEMAN HAM ILTON HELENA KAl1SPELL L IVINGSTON MISSOULA TOTAL NORTH DAKOTA REGION VI FARGO—MOOR HEAD METROPOLITAN AREA FARGO OTHER REGION VI GRAF TON REGION VI( WAHPE T ON REGION VIII BISMAHCK DEVILS LAKE JAMESTOWN M1NOT NAPOLEON VALLEY CITY WARD COUNTY WILLISTON REGION IX O 1CKINSON GLEN ULLIN HEBRON MANDAN MOTT TOTAL SOUTH DAKOTA REGION IV BROOK INGS WATERTOWN REGION V S IOUX FALLS M F TR OPOL 1 TAN ARE A S IOUX FALLS OTHER REGION V YANK TON REGION VII ABERDEEN HURON MILLER MITCHELL PIERRE SPRINGFIELD REGION X BELLE FOURCHE EUGEMONT PRINGLE RAPID CITY SPEARFISH STURGI S TIMBER LAKE TOTAL 'W I S C 0 N S I NI REGION I DULUTH—SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN AREA SUPERIOR OTHER REGION 1 BRUCE WASHINGTON TOWN REGION II AUGUSTA CHIPPEWA FALLS 140 C L A IRE INDEPENOENCE L A CROSSE COUNTY MEDFOR0 TOTAL Total 138 Cities NUMBER OF PERMITS HOUSEKEEPING UNITS • Nov. 1961 Nov. 1960 Jan. -Nov. 19611Jan.-Nov.1960 Nov. 1961 Nov. 1960 Jan. -Nov. 1961 Jan. -Nov. 1960 1 5 39 52 2 6 7 2 21 153 109 2 18 82 47 10 5 143 94 6 5 63 39 6 4 100 84 2 4 58 46 2 1 10 22 1 4 16 10 9 96 73 2 2 25 14 58 61 837 725 26 33 413 306 0 4 59 109 1 9 33 14 16 377 300 1 4 28 34 11 15 135 158 5 4 38 44 3 0 21 6 1 8 1 27 33 391 365 4 12 87 107 11 7 170 167 5 20 9 2 6 95 90 1 1 13 18 20 24 345 369 1 3 28 47 232 295 3908 3865 76 157 1456 1701 37 34 601 718 I 18 13 247 279 5 2 68 50 1 4 37 24 4 5 42 87 1 4 25 39 31 21 444 418 27 10 307 263 5 8 114 121 3 1 12 21 18 13 195 251 15 5 76 141 51 31 563 546 26 15 206 291 0 0 8 15 2 2 4 9 88 121 2 2 28 63 6 6 93 103 1 2 28 52 2 5 156 133 1 50 40 7 12 155 165 2 10 67 99 0 0 5 12 5 2 1 12 10 1 4 8 9 4 107 121 5 1 53 58 0 0 2 5 1 2 181 151 2653 2876 106 63 1143 1387 7 13 105 105 2 6 27 31 6 10 209 234 1 34 23 110 85 1275 1025 52 60 419 378 18 15 137 165 4 8 38 55 49 20 444 3741 15 4 98 74 12 10 183 240 9 5 56 58 1 1 31 19 i 11 7 14 16 191 183 1 4 32 37 13 14 157 1221 7 15 69 59 0 0 8 1 0 I 6 3 9 5 90 70 2 1 26 21 0 3 27 27 j 1 5 3 0 0 1 1 91 128 1653 1033 55 71 693 464 3 3 38 37 ! 2 1 25 18 7 6 71 88 i 5 5 31 47 0 0 7 4 5 2 340 329 4627 3737 154 184 1575 1280 13 37 530 356 2 12 62 89 0 2 3 9 1 2 3 1 36 30 1 1 27 17 0 1 1 3 20 5 2 5 5 113 118 2 5 29 43 35 35 444 538 8 7 140 98 0 0 14 18 . 4 11 15 14 235 224I 9 7 104 87 0 3 111 96 37 14 70 100 1549 1409 22 32 408 362 2752 2729 37624 37956 1482 1489 16284 15574 RES-13-M - Page 3 STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS BILLINGS DULUTH-SUPERIOR FARGO—M00RHEAD MINNEAPOL IS—ST PAUL REGIONS II 1 I IV V VI VI1 VIII I X X XI 1/ NUMBER OF PERMITS HOUSEKEEPING UNITS * Nov. 1961 Nov. 1960 Jan, -Nov. 1961 Jan.-Nov.196 1 1961 Nov. 1960 flan. -Nov. 1961 Jan. -Nov. 1960 58 65 896 `Nov. 834 26 34 422 339 64 106 1503 1478 86 32 323 392 65 55 906 1139 33 26 453 538 1526 1470 19490 2 02 13 912 915 9914 8856 71 118 1606 1610 87 34 367 436 1786 1707 2 286 0 23682 1019 1009 11171 10070 14 16 202 233 6 4 63 58 24 29 -490 453 3 10 99 69 209 180 2556 2470 71 91 682 768 78 63 1117 1327 40 27 5L0 595 93 66 1056 1035 33 32 297 277 117 93 1661 1708 75 35 709 873 104 146 1759 1889 40 110 937 1274 182 226 3160 2394 91 117 1235 928 74 85 1157 1155 17 20 194 226 •Number of new housekeeping units authorized. NOTE: This summary includes only data received by the 22nd of the month. Data represent all building permits issued by the municipality whether for new construction or for repairs and alterations but do not include permits for mechanical installations. 1/ Regional Boundaries are based on Census delineations and do nor designate trade areas. DEPARTMENT OE RESEARCH AND STATISTICS (in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Commerce) FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF MINNEpP01iS BUILDING PERMITS 1963 Annual Summary r-- INTRODUCTION This report presents 1963 number of permits for a panel of Ninth district permit issuing centers. issued and valuation data by month The 1963 panel consists of 284 centers for which twelve months of data are available. Of these centers 189 report directly to the Bureau of Census who in turn allow us to publish this data locally. Census statistics may be found in Housing Authorized in Individual Permit --Issuing Places, Series C40. To broaden Ninth district coverage, we have added 95 centers who report directly to us. ZONING As townships become urbanized, zoning regulations are frequently established. Each year we review these ordinances; and where significant building activity occurs, we attempt to add these centers to our panel. Most of this zoning occurs around the six Metropolitan areas. Urbanization has also promoted county -wide zoning ordinances. Where data is available for zoned areas of various counties, we add the county as well as individual centers to our panel. LIMITATIONS The Bureau of the Census publishes three limitations to their permit publica- tions. These limitations also apply to this presentation. 1. Building permit records do not reflect construction acitivity outside of areas subject to local permit requirements. During 1963 about 16 per cent of the national total of private and public housing units and about 17 per cent of the private housing units were constructed in areas not requiring permits. 2. Some new residential construction work in building permit juris- dictions escapes recording. A current measure of such imcomplete filing is not presently available. However, the available evidence (although not providing precise measures) indicates that only a small amount of housing construction takes place in building permit areas without the issuance of a permit. 3. Changes in boundaries of localities due to annexation, new incor- porations, etc., result in some problems in comparability over time, even for statistics for the same places. 2 M ICHIGANI REGION 1 BARK RIVER TWP 13) ESCANABA GLADSTONE HANCOCK IRON MOUNTAIN IRONWOOD ISHPEMING MARQUETTE NEGAUNEE SAULT STE MARIE MINNE SOTA1 VALUATION (IN THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS) JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. TOTAL o 0 1 0 12 10 1 0 0 1 0 0 34 24 37 1 138 198 239 113 28 60 41 51 18 965 o 0 14 39 20 16 3 8 4 16 0 120 O 0 1 50 4 16 12 20 0 5 0 108 O 2 4 56 117 36 48 15 114 65 9 2 504 1 2 0 3 8 4 30 3 72 0 0 123 O 0 21 12 185 93 66 3 43 0 429 O 0 2 1,021 57 53 128 30 126 126 60 1 1,632 O 0 55 1 0 0 0 35 43 134 I 0 51 154 17 70 38 52 145 778 2 1,308 REGION I DULUTH-SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN AREA BABBITT 0 0 0 0 0 14 14 BIWABIK 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 CHISHOLM 0 0 0 3 39 22 19 DULUTH 83 243 217 342 575 1,093 1,787 DULUTH TOWNSHIP 14) 0 0 0 0 1 11 1 EVELETH 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GILBER7 0 0 0 12 377 12 0 HIBBING 196 1 5 25 103 13 21 MEADOWLANDS 0 0 0 0 0 870 0 MOUNTAIN IRON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 PROCTOR 0 0 0 10 2 10 14 17 15 0 0 0 60 1 2 3 0 0 14 7 487 13 0 1 591 596 688 343 298 211 6,476 0 B 0 2 1 24 0 50 20 0 0 70 1 0 2 0 0 404 52 30 140 180 3 769 0 0 0 0 0 870 0 0 0 0 0 0 155 36 16 10 0 253 OTHER REGION .1 AKELEY 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 BAXTER 0 0 0 0 10 21 20 26 20 0 0 0 97 BEMIDJI 0 8 541 91 48 11 1,131 831 17 168 15 1 2,862 BRAINERD 2 1 83 116 122 176 21 185 34 56 72 551 1,419 CLOQUET 0 12 11 85 123 40 68 33 66 32 2 0 472 GRAND RAPIDS 0 1 1 5 15 254 9 9 40 27 197 1 559 PARK RAPIDS 0 0 2 20 3 0 11 12 49 14 0 12 123 SO INTERNATIONAL FALL 0 0 0 1 14 32 133 22 63 33 0 0 298 TENSTRIKE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 9 THOMSON TOWNSHIP (5) 8 2 4 90 55 28 26 46 6 93 17 8 383 TWO HARBORS 0 0 20 5 13 1 9 8 I 1 0 2 60 REGION 11 MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL METROPOLITAN AREA AFTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ANOKA 0 55 51 133 178 78 346 206 82 291 132 41 1,593 ARUEN HILLS 0 15 256 10 51 26 75 49 178 1,560 29 3 21252 BAYTOWN TOWNSHIP 16) 0 0 99 55 18 0 54 0 9 0 42 6 283 BLAINE 57 519 496 475 785 469 338 677 223 522 134 42 4,737 BLOOMINGTON 254 756 2,829 2,735 2,582 2,629 1,802 1,599 2,230 2,207 1,087 1,174 21,884 BROOKLYN CENTER 148 76 89 622 340 265 651 231 406 116 205 94 3,243 BROOKLYN PARK 527 264 0 446 330 363 224 518 235 631 198 264 4,000 BURNSVILLE 84 382 2,337 3,342 1,147 1,244 1,819 766 1,242 1,655 931 620 15,569 CASTLE ROCK TWP 17) 0 0 7 19 0 0 0 15 0 37 0 0 78 CHAMPLIN TOWNSHIP 181 0 0 0 29 51 97 13 26 35 52 34 0 337 CIRCLE PINES 45 0 0 0 366 203 0 440 286 290 69 476 2,175 COATES 0 0 0 15 11 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 29 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS 487 84 214 676 615 729 788 587 820 498 439 233 6,170 COON RAPIDS 4 48 107 195 303 124 1,027 1,294 380 342 3,622 1,272 8,718 CORCORAN 0 14 0 15 21 0 10 18 18 0 0 0 96 COTTEGE GROVE TWP (6) 3 0 8 35 15 232 945 1,165 161 120 452 637 3,773 CRYSTAL 237 338 725 475 460 617 979 358 273 238 304 310 5,314 DEEPHAVEN 5 48 4 53 119 69 10 14 39 102 56 34 553 OELLW00D 0 0 0 0 0 28 18 0 0 3 0 0 49 DENMARK TOWNSHIP 16) 0 0 10 0 0 1 0 20 0 13 0 0 44 EAGAN TOWNSHIP (7) 16 36 73 331 560 90 220 122 225 579 260 31 2,543 EAST BETHEL 0 3 43 74 82 52 43 16 29 73 19 0 434 EDEN PRAIRIE 64 64 240 200 120 160 300 320 315 285 175 283 21526 EDINA 299 366 1,484 3,633 1,093 956 870 1,080 1,239 780 593 540 12,933 EXCELSIOR 124 25 1 4 22 15 2 0 0 21 3 5 222 FALCON HEIGHTS 50 0 2 34 117 28 2 25 45 38 9 0 350 FOREST LAKE 0 9 56 16 19 27 2 6 29 34 50 29 277 FRIDLEY 136 313 325 774 458 532 1.108 1,127 719 252 1,683 407 7,834 GOLDEN VALLEY 138 125 277 11119 1,919 1,284 868 766 855 543 713 573 9,180 GREY CLOUD IS.TWP (6) 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 GROW TOWNSHIP 19) 0 0 59 146 84 154 40 90 114 68 97 13 865 HAM LAKE TOWNSHIP (9) 0 0 23 78 57 69 47 81 36 45 9 0 445 HAMPTON 0 0 1 15 0 0 1 0 0 70 0 0 87 HAMPTON TOWNSHIP 17) 0 0 0 15 5 8 25 0 5 5 0 0 63 HANOVER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 0 16 HASTINGS 5 39 207 270 444 2,407 75 209 119 192 283 28 4,278 HOPKINS 21 32 77 351 75 161 194 24 1,424 479 166 86 3,090 INDEPENDENCE 0 11 12 18 0 0 0 46 24 17 13 0 141 INVER GROVE TWP 17) 71 48 11 88 78 40 89 98 107 183 31 0 844 LAKE ELMO 0 0 0 15 0 68 15 18 0 0 16 0 132 LAKELAND 0 14 21 43 0 9 15 0 19 0 1 0 122 LAKEVILLE TWP 17) 30 59 90 67 39 68 67 123 35 147 77 50 852 LAUDERDALE 126 0 0 21 58 65 16 3 33 25 0 0 347 LEBANON TOWNSHIP 17) 0 15 15 42 1,378 39 2,486 146 140 843 16 0 5,120 LEXINGTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 16 3 0 0 23 LINCOLN TOWNSHIP 16) 0 1 31 19 50 0 5 0 4 4 1 0 115 LINO LAKES 0 9 24 0 0 22 0 79 28 55 0 31 248 LINW00D TOWNSHIP 19) 0 20 39 35 34 6 20 46 32 15 1 0 248 LITTLE CANADA 0 15 26 19 99 4 17 1 23 99 2 0 305 LONG LAKE 0 12 0 325 0 20 20 37 0 9 31 90 544 MAHTOMEDI 3 0 0 3 9 22 16 2 10 47 0 8 120 MAPLE GROVE 20 31 157 95 49 145 61 48 105 176 95 134 1,116 MAPLEWOOD 16 43 583 430 2,015 552 1,960 276 458 323 453 30 7,139 MEDICINE LAKE 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 0 25 25 0 0 64 MENDOTA HEIGHTS 31 41 248 130 277 26 103 111 121 21381 80 176 3,725 MINNEAPOLIS 2,406 2,637 6,977 111266 8,737 3,041 3,883 4,576 2,085 3,613 4,044 1,635 54,900 MINNETONKA 117 620 1,188 818 646 609 590 436 332 494 372 464 6,686 MINNETONKA BEACH 0 0 0 1 0 20 0 0 39 53 0 0 113 MINNETRISTA 0 43 64 75 0 53 19 42 98 47 12 19 472 MOUND 27 45 14 919 29 55 31 103 131 96 990 6 2,446 NEW BRIGHTON 109 72 91 1,036 396 169 101 387 234 859 537 86 4,077 NEW HOPE 124 274 817 648 955 2,248 588 4,422 967 1,117 792 370 13,322 NEW TRIER 0 15 0 0 0 16 16 0 0 0 0 0 47 NEWPORT 0 0 8 0 116 0 24 8 176 36 28 0 396 NININGER TOWNSHIP 17) 0 0 0 5 0 10 0 12 0 65 0 0 92 NORTH OAKS 0 42 8 0 35 93 167 51 197 0 139 130 862 NORTH ST PAUL 2 3 45 91 645 78 566 200 47 161 1,973 3 3,814 NORTHOALE TWP 16) 0 0 0 13 0 22 0 60 0 0 41 0 136 ORONO 1 36 79 48 70 214 128 131 175 178 70 1 1,131 PLYMOUTH 22 262 1,048 643 485 411 425 750 603 395 730 392 6,166 RAMSEY TOWNSHIP 19) 0 16 25 50 83 106 82 137 35 29 42 10 615 RICHFIELD 77 168 65 937 3,949 533 549 1,144 356 2,454 688 274 11,194 ROBBINSOALE 6 33 26 165 88 1,069 326 235 331 157 717 111 3,264 ROGERS 0 0 0 0 15 14 14 0 0 0 0 0 43 ROSEMOUNT 15 0 45 77 4 55 0 1,018 1,200 95 1 0 2r490 ROSEVILLE 327 137 369 496 722 370 672 248 502 271 302 482 4,898 ST ANTHONY 0 0 120 116 784 155 121 249 530 385 101 82 2,643 ST FRANCIS 0 0 0 8 0 0 10 24 2 15 0 10 69 ST LOUIS PARK 390 536 1,404 875 778 485 1,004 330 837 11360 770 651 91420 ST PAUL 921 1,132 11,644 5,264 2,234 11,411 3,908 2,638 4,444 6,182 4.082 10,875 64,741 ST PAUL PARK 26 85 518 10 1,017 93 54 178 117 80 65 55 2,298 SHOREVIEW 166 76 98 494 131 351 132 97 220 170 101 25 2,061 SHOREWOOD 16 43 196 20 112 121 19 18 69 148 75 2 839 SOUTH ST PAUL 102 250 209 165 782 160 360 512 646 193 385 51 3,815 STILLWATER 28 83 29 91 48 147 0 186 120 113 100 48 993 TONKA BAY 0 0 9 5 2 38 0 15 22 22 17 3 133 VADN4IS HEIGHTS 0 0 0 2 1 33 35 40 34 11 0 0 156 VERMILLION 0 0 0 1 1 1 16 0 0 0 2 0 21 WATERFORD TWP 17) 0 0 30 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 WEST LAKELAND TWP 16) 1 0 6 2 7 6 0 0 0 40 0 0 62 WEST ST PAUL 105 44 96 918 77 217 187 190 2.131 745 251 82 5,043 WHITE BEAR LAKE 155 386 655 423 450 11346 649 395 521 667 114 332 6,093 WOODLAND 0 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 16 U OF MINNESOTA 121 72 45 1,526 2,742 59 198 1,235 513 262 221 100 328 7,301 OTHER REGION 1I BELLE PLAINE 0 0 0 85 0 80 40 30 13 17 0 0 265 BUFFALO 0 0 0 30 13 23 0 18 13 45 90 4 236 CHASKA 0 0 0 0 216 0 0 17 23 18 110 4 388 DELANO 24 0 0 0 3 1 1 14 1 48 l 0 93 ELK RIVER TWP I10) 0 0 0 17 187 97 79 41 20 14 120 20 595 VALUATION 3 (1N THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS) MINNESOTA (CONT) OTHER REGION II (CONT) JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. TOTAL FARIBAULT 30 27 71 32 816 140 102 160 36 245 474 72 2,205 GLENCOE 0 2 0 508 355 25 27 1 30 0 52 5 1.005 HAVERHILL TWP 111) 0 0 1 0 23 0 0 20 0 0 8 0 52 HUTCHIN SON 35 28 26 132 194 16 59 221 34 101 60 18 924 LAKE FREMONT 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 15 4 0 0 21 LITCHFIELD 1 20 0 30 60 68 1,380 47 49 68 511 14 2,248 MARION TOWNSHIP 1111 0 13 40 74 66 53 38 34 82 40 33 33 506 MAYER 0 0 0 240 3 0 10 1 0 7 0 261 NORTHFIELD 948 18 23 0 38 6 36 67 52 2,885 41 38 4,152 OWATONNA 6 67 62 288 342 275 213 215 234 241 269 48 2,260 OWATONNA TWP (121 0 0 0 6 31 65 0 28 12 28 0 0 170 PINE ISLAND 0 0 0 2 0 1 7 8 74 0 0 16 108 RED WING 3 819 43 83 69 27 212 64 35 89 20 20 1,484 ROCHESTER 831 306 335 1.435 680 1,096 1,306 668 774 1.310 735 1,279 10,755 ROCHESTER TWP (11) 16 23 57 169 137 59 105 99 89 51 174 132 1,111 ST CLOUD 37 151 145 338 505 256 1,081 194 3,316 286 1,040 112 7.461 WAITE PARK 0 2 0 12 24 2 1 8 243 2 16 0 310 WATERTOWN 30 22 30 14 0 0 14 14 12 0 0 0 136 814084 765 20 96 82 1,775 92 45 111 1,378 354 44 669 5,431 YOUNG AMERICA 0 0 0 0 0 0 92 0 0 0 0 0 92 REGION III ALEXANDRIA 142 7 686 34 580 19 57 40 63 26 139 166 1,959 CAMBRIDGE TWP (131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DETROIT LAKES 7 20 48 54 56 52 36 194 19 611 1 65 1,163 FERGUS FALLS 0 4 79 50 414 179 112 177 105 110 256 115 1,601 LITTLE FALLS 0 0 2 150 750 8 1 0 107 0 0 10 1,028 611A04 0 0 0 0 15 15 12 26 451 0 1 0 520 OSAKIS 0 1 0 0 8 21 4 21 2 9 0 2 68 WOLF LAKE 2 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 REGION 1V DAWSON 0 0 1 1 0 14 0 0 101 4 2 12 135 DUMONT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 GRACEVILLE 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 MONTEVIDEO 13 7 4 38 314 4 323 51 10 532 140 75 1,511 MORRIS 4 15 10 37 36 204 76 30 12 15 16 27 482 WILLMAR 3 8 14 127 35 79 132 529 144 230 118 21 1,440 REGION V ALBERT LEA 5 14 406 102 125 124 677 199 140 219 89 11 2,111 AUSTIN 9 11 12 1,111 135 1,015 256 54 109 306 44 0 3,062 BLUE EARTH CO. ZONED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BREWSTER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 12 FAIRMONT 42 0 6 40 29 637 73 284 17 48 54 1 1,231 LUVERNE 4 1 19 120 164 118 101 288 59 73 140 0 1,087 MANKATO 41 16 310 2.243 891 806 589 1,196 533 603 2,682 19 9,929 MARSHALL 12 0 28 97 127 73 17 47 124 500 164 14 1,203 NEW PRAGUE 15 0 0 30 10 26 0 0 54 49 74 0 258 NEW ULM 2 33 126 188 118 186 208 488 331 164 114 85 2,043 NORTH MANKATO 0 18 36 157 66 121 7 16 76 62 30 118 707 PIPESTONE 7 5 15 84 23 830 35 35 55 73 28 0 1,190 PRESTON 0 0 0 0 17 1 0 93 0 22 3 0 136 ST JAMES 8 0 0 15 68 40 16 10 32 6 26 10 231 ST PETER 6 0 2 817 65 1,143 53 31 79 41 37 0 2,274 TRACY 0 0 0 2 7 1 5 45 1 1 0 0 62 WASECA 8 0 14 108 99 103 32 14 95 44 4 1 522 WORTHINGTON 0 3 90 105 142 44 418 105 75 258 249 14 1,503 REGION VI FARGO-MOORHEAD METROPOLITAN AREA DILWORTH 8 0 23 53 9 213 16 409 47 19 0 797 GEORGETOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GLYNOON 0 0 0 112 0 30 0 0 0 0 0 142 HITTEROAL 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 0 0 0 0 13 MOORHEAD 241 348 728 609 366 434 334 705 1,032 995 38 5,831 ULEN 0 0 0 1 1 1 9 0 0 0 0 12 OTHER REGION VI CROOKSTON EAST GRAND FORKS THIEF RIVER FALLS [MONT ANA[ 5 5' 18 97 124 66 71 90 45 137 4 3 665 14 25 42 68 106 305 52 45 1,038 180 181 0 2,056 0 0 857 26 34 23 17 23 104 1,531 0 0 2,615 REGION IX GREAT FALLS METROPOLITAN AREA BELT 0 0 0 15 10 0 0 GREAT FALLS 424 407 642 2,910 3.211 1,081 673 4 0 14 0 0 463 577 762 1,033 228 43 12.411 OTHER REGION IX CUT BANK 5 8 2 10 76 53 22 18 0 3 0 3 200 GLASGOW 10 2 47 48 57 5 53 37 29 70 6 82 446 GLENDIVE 0 2 30 41 67 71 20 36 67 148 12 34 528 HAVRE 11 6 39 10 28 99 105 49 36 45 31 62 521 LEWISTOWN 0 6 25 102 42 82 47 39 36 45 26 38 488 MALTA 5 0 0 0 0 9 0 10 35 0 2 0 61 SIDNEY 0 0 0 218 119 123 40 9 285 31 12 0 837 WOLF POINT 0 0 0 0 105 4 105 10 1 72 32 0 329 REGION X BILLINGS METROPOLITAN AREA BILLINGS LAUREL 630 438 486 0 990 774 506 345 762 1,148 4,263 345 10,687 14 5 98 30 53 9 22 1 69 40 27 3 371 OTHER REGION X MILES 0100 29 35 149 49 647 18 108 337 90 158 31 10 1,661 REGION XI ANACONDA 43 0 0 0 1 3 0 3 2 0 0 0 52 BOZEMAN 34 37 61 359 386 79 3,291 110 238 183 105 27 4,910 BUTTE 0 0 0 19 16 (0 4 24 68 775 165 46 1,127 HAMILTON 0 1 0 24 5 5 8 3 16 45 53 0 160 HELENA 164 172 687 0 451 306 264 413 526 607 471 49 4,110 KALISPELL 16 7 71 119 56 24 63 255 65 230 47 24 977 LIVINGSTON 0 4 5 7 5 2 3 4 10 4 3 1 48 MISSOULA 59 36 353 139 413 185 234 1,042 116 226 346 45 3,194 WORTH DAKOTAI REGION VI FARGO-MOORHEAO METROPOLITAN AREA AMENIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CASSELTON 0 0 0 6 0 14 16 0 0 0 0 0 36 FARGO 110 40 66 1,288 1,059 1.153 1,938 1,675 543 1,124 936 149 10,081 SOUTHWEST FARGO 0 0 2 47 121 27 59 48 97 108 38 0 547 OTHER REGION VI GRAFTON 0 0 15 160 76 105 54 123 44 51 44 0 672 GRAND FORKS 55 91 136 546 484 1.701 267 528 3,431 811 352 198 8,600 NORTHW000 0 0 0 2 8 44 4 1 20 7 22 38 146 REGION VI1 WAHPETON 0 0 0 27 6 10 35 70 13 97 16 41 315 REGION VIII BISMARCK 12 45 405 857 3,788 626 594 537 993 703 428 71 9,059 BURLEIGH COUNTY ZONED 0 10 21 13 20 0 8 8 21 0 0 0 101 CARRINGTON 1 1 0 7 15 93 0 7 406 49 49 261 889 0E0115 LAKE 1 0 55 165 81 3 38 10 261 108 0 0 722 FESSENDEN 0 8 0 0 32 28 21 0 12 14 0 0 115 JAMESTOWN 0 4 43 560 435 66 166 337 129 423 77 30 2,270 MINOT 129 95 271 489 845 1,406 591 515 382 782 330 301 6,136 NAPOLEON 0 0 0 1 1 126 0 0 0 0 0 2 130 P ARSHALL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 73 0 D 0 73 RUGBY 0 0 4 14 18 105 44 43 65 15 I 0 309 VALLEY CITY 0 0 26 68 100 168 321 10 84 78 36 0 891 WARD COUNTY ZONED 29 14 126 415 451 393 336 210 105 239 187 0 2,505 WILLISTON 0 3 12 60 93 110 59 190 327 102 42 12 1,010 4 NORTH DAKOTA 1CONT) REGION IX DICKINSON GLEN ULLIN HEBRON MANDAN MOTT ISOUTH DAKOTA' REGION 1V BROOKINGS WATERTOWN REGION V SIOUX FALLS METROPOLITAN AREA DELL RAPIDS SIOUX FALLS OTHER REGION V MADISON VERMILLION YANKTON VALUATION (IN 1H011 SAN DS (IF DOLLARS) JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. TOTAL 43 283 62 183 199 347 46 49 325 259 1,797 0 46 0 8 0 8 4 23 2 0 91 0 43 0 0 157 0 28 4 13 0 245 51 138 163 65 73 56 168 61 54 63 892 0 3 0 5 0 0 1 21 0 0 31 0 20 29 2,302 65 100 23 83 97 272 94 160 3,245 12 11 406 64 63 46 57 59 369 40 45 37 1,209 45 203 3 48 1 0 464 876 12 0 37 21 31 2 3 103 42 60 71 324 5941 O 0 24 125 2,217 560 759 806 33 1 IL 247 762 657 144 8,087 107 99 42 24 28 82 53 3 508 75 81 16 44 547 86 107 12 1,107 102 415 61 214 272 136 205 79 1,981 REGION VII ABERDEEN 21 114 139 578 163 192 400 488 363 2,081 419 92 5,050 FREEMAN 0 0 0 68 14 83 48 19 27 17 0 0 276 HURON 129 2 49 219 195 87 108 131 128 196 211 164 1,619 LEULA 0 0 8 30 2 0 17 4 19 1 0 2 83 MILLER 0 1 17 250 4 0 17 0 7 9 18 0 323 MITCHELL 6 12 298 210 49 394 102 109 67 168 74 27 1,516 MOBRIDGE 153 0 23 26 20 78 7 144 84 18 553 PIERRE 40 0 7 28 127 195 358 2,468 92 362 121 115 293 42 4,248 SPRINGFIELD 0 0 0 11 0 25 34 1 2 88 20 0 181 REGION X BELLE FOURCHE 22 0 378 206 33 34 69 216 24 8 15 0 1,005 EDGEMONT 3 0 1 10 2 4 25 1 0 2 215 0 263 HILL CITY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LEAD 0 2 3 5 21 13 24 171 7 8 0 14 268 PRINGLE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RAPID CITY 271 299 299 910 354 284 579 414 812 793 262 166 5,443 SPEARFISH 12 3 105 29 59 11 65 68 31 771 81 33 1,268 STURGIS 2 40 1 34 17 96 61 32 44 283 29 245 887 TIMBER LAKE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 0 18 WALL 0 2 56 1 2 27 18 17 15 13 0 0 151 !WISCONSIN' REGION 1 DULUTH-SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN AREA SUPERIOR 36 7 8 279 297 274 163 172 258 279 520 2,891 5,184 OTHER REGION I ASHLAND 0 1 7 538 33 63 32 92 163 451 149 477 2,006 BRUCE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 ONEIDA COUNTY ZONED 10 0 12 118 109 127 92 162 185 143 139 128 1,225 PARK FALLS 2 1 0 40 14 67 21 42 11 45 5 0 248 RHINELANDER 8 76 6 151 69 26 46 17 108 74 47 4 632 REGION 1I AUGUSTA 0 0 3 0 0 60 35 12 3 4 9 0 126 CHIPPEWA FALLS 0 9 15 369 172 23 25 302 1,943 73 41 1 2,973 EAU CLAIRE 9 3 52 410 2,424 1,006 435 521 549 330 398 759 6,896 HUDSON 12 1 22 81 57 107 18 60 19 139 86 0 602 INDEPENDENCE 0 0 7 12 10 7 6 3 1 4 0 0 50 KNAPP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 LA CROSSE 18 81 93 2,806 311 2,816 2,238 1,859 409 464 199 340 11,634 LA CROSSE CO. ZONED 1 80 85 330 144 114 282 208 138 248 290 119 2,039 MEDFORD 1 5 21 15 96 57 22 37 39 29 1 8 331 MENOMONIE 0 16 30 83 15 10 108 1,463 41 23 573 199 2,561 RICE LAKE 8 4 2 29 40 30 32 20 27 25 18 2 237 WASHINGTON TWP 114) 0 0 157 30 80 76 21 30 66 102 60 0 622 TOTAL 284 CITIES 14,361 15,690 50,971 79,393 74,005 71,283 62,856 57,354 62,302 69,218 56,463 36,949 650,845 STATE TOTALS MICHIGAN MINNESOTA MONTANA NORTH DAKOTA SOUTH DAKOTA WISCONSIN 26 41 88 1,358 643 573 402 249 484 501 962 32 5,359 11,591 13,246 43,749 56,964 52,594 49,767 45,894 40,836 43,664 50,702 40,467 28,321 477,795 1,444 1,166 2,694 4,100 6,736 2,939 5,567 3,210 3,027 4,605 6,664 995 43,147 339 311 1,276 5,235 7,860 6,437 4,981 4,722 7,251 4,867 2,950 1,424 47,653 856 644 2,645 6,445 2,302 6,702 2,437 3.335 3,916 6,106 2,884 19250 39,522 105 282 519 5,291 3,870 4,864 3,575 5,000 3,960 2,437 2,535 4,927 37,365 STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS BILLINGS 644 443 584 30 1,042 783 528 346 831 1,187 4,290 347 11,055 DULUTH-SUPERIOR 315 252 230 672 1,395 2,321 2,020 1,001 1,573 816 1,010 3,107 14,712 FARGO-MOORHEAD 111 289 415 2,091 1,954 1,569 2,696 2,089 1,754 2,311 1,988 186 17,453 GREAT FALLS 424 407 642 2,925 3,221 1,081 673 466 577 776 1,033 228 12,453 MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL 8,216 11,020 38,767 46,169 39,986 38,132 33,709 32,247 30,410 36,965 30,249 24,241 370,111 SIOUX FALLS 247 51 465 876 596 2,217 560 783 931 795 658 156 8,335 REGIONS 111 372 394 1,006 3,293 2,666 3,741 4,040 2,737 2,818 2,452 2,624 4,324 30,467 tI 10,993 12,733 40,181 53,669 49,108 44,825 41,767 38,850 40,179 44,255 35,730 28,152 440,442 III 151 32 815 288 1,823 298 223 458 746 757 398 358 6,347 IV 41 61 464 2,569 513 447 611 752 734 1,094 415 330 8,031 V 490 212 1,638 6,541 2,968 8,082 3,164 3,972 3,570 3,566 4,760 522 39,485 VI 184 410 1,484 2,989 2,786 3,814 39162 2,899 6,436 5,026 2,592 426 32,208 VII 203 156 790 1,589 812 3,284 873 1,262 753 2,914 1,135 385 14,156 VIII 173 179 963 2,648 5,880 3,123 2,178 1,867 2,858 2,512 1,149 676 24,206 IX 456 431 879 3,866 3,940 1,786 1,494 1,085 1,312 1,347 1,549 769 18,914 X 982 823 1,574 1,274 2,177 1,269 1,476 1,619 1,855 3,223 4,923 818 22,013 XI 316 258 1,177 668 1,333 613 3,867 1,853 1,040 2,071 1,189 191 14,576 11) REGIONAL BOUNDARIES ARE BASED ON CENSUS DELINEATIONS AND DO NOT DESIGNATE TRADE AREAS. 12) INCLUDES PERMITS ISSUED FOR ALL UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CONSTRUCTION THROUGHOUT THE STATE. 13) DELTA COUNTY 14) ST. LOUIS COUNTY (51 CARLTON COUNTY 16) WASHINGTON COUNTY 171 DAKOTA COUNTY 18) HENNEPIN COUNTY (9) ANOKA COUNTY 110) SHERBURNE COUNTY 111) OLMSTEAD COUNTY 1121 STEELE COUNTY 1131 ISANTI COUNTY 114) EAU CLAIRE COUNTY NOTE- DATA REPRESENT ALL BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE MUNICIPALITY WHETHER FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION OR FOR REPAIRS AND ALTERATIONS BUT DO NOT INCLUDE PERMITS FOR MECHANICAL INSTALLATIONS. COMPILED IN COOPERATION WITH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. VALUATION STATE, REGION, AND METRO AREA TOTALS MAY BE OFF DUE TO ROUNDING. RESEARCH DEPARTMENT FEDERAL RESERVE BANK MINNEAPOLIS,MINNESOTA 55440 JMICHIGAN3 REGIUN 1 JAN. FEB. BARK RIVER TWP (31 0 ESCANABA 2 GLADSTONE 0 HANCOCK 0 IRON MOUNTAIN 1 IRONWOOD 1 ISHPEMING O MARQUETTE NEGAUNEE SAULT STE MARIE jM INNE SOTAI 0 NUMBER OF PERMITS 5 MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. TOTAL 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 7 1 23 19 10 8 8 11 5 4 2 96 0 5 9 5 2 4 6 5 3 0 39 O 1 1 1 2 4 3 0 4 0 16 5 13 21 15 24 21 25 16 7 2 152 0 3 11 13 9 22 11 6 0 0 77 0 9 3 12 7 16 7 3 4 0 61 2 18 9 12 15 15 16 11 3 1 102 0 4 1 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 9 0 16 38 26 28 22 28 35 15 2 211 REGIUN I DULUTH-SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN AREA BABBITT 0 0 0 0 0 BIWABIK 0 0 0 2 2 CHISHOLM 0 0 0 3 B DULUTH 25 22 33 84 111 DULUTH TOWNSHIP 141 0 0 0 0 1 EVELETH 0 0 0 0 0 GILBERT 0 0 0 1 3 HIBBING 1 1 3 9 10 MEADOWLANDS 0 0 0 0 0 MOUNTAIN IRON 0 0 0 0 0 PROCTOR 0 0 0 1 2 71 2 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 4 2 1 2 2 0 0 13 11 5 7 9 0 1 52 106 123 136 108 50 31 900 1 0 2 0 1 I 8 O 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 8 14 19 22 19 10 2 121 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 16 10 3 1 0 39 OTHER REGION I AKELEY 0 0 0 1 0 C 0 0 0 0 BAXTER 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 2 0 8E141031 0 3 7 26 19 1C 27 20 13 19 BRAINERD 2 1 8 23 16 22 7 13 19 13 CLOOUET 0 3 4 16 20 11 9 7 15 6 GRAND RAPIDS 1 2 2 2 4 1' 7 6 11 7 PARK RAPIDS 0 0 1 8 1 1 1 8 9 8 SO INTERNATIONAL FALL 0 0 0 1 2 18 7 9 8 TENSTRIKE 0 0 O 0 0 C 0 0 0 0 THOM50N TOWNSHIP 151 1 3 2 9 9 6 4 7 2 12 TWO HARBORS 0 1 3 1 7 5 2 1 0 0 9 10 0 0 4 O 1 O 9 1 150 8 141 O 93 1 61 2 38 O 54 O 4 1 61 2 25 REGION II MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL METROPOLITAN AREA AFTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ANOKA 0 5 7 19 23 23 22 18 15 19 20 6 177 ARUEN HILLS 0 1 4 1 4 2 5 7 7 5 2 1 39 BAYTOWN TOWNSHIP 161 0 0 1 3 1 0 4 0 2 0 5 I 17 BLAINE 4 39 64 53 70 54 38 80 58 63 18 5 546 BLOOMINGTON 24 55 93 186 182 150 190 167 185 176 114 66 1088 BROOKLYN CENTER 12 6 8 63 79 62 61 39 77 38 35 10 490 BROOKLYN PARK 30 16 0 27 20 22 13 31 14 30 12 16 231 BURNSVILLE 4 16 52 92 66 72 50 48 68 44 46 33 591 CASTLE ROCK TWP 171 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 6 CHAMPLIN TOWNSHIP 18) 0 0 0 4 5 7 1 4 4 6 2 0 33 CIRCLE PINES 3 0 0 0 31 20 0 45 24 22 7 32 184 COATES 0 0 0 l 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 5 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS 16 12 28 71 78 70 79 94 49 73 58 18 646 COON RAPIDS 4 5 12 54 52 4C 44 137 57 50 273 14 742 CORCORAN 0 1 0 1 2 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 8 COTTEGE GROVE TWP (61 2 0 2 20 14 29 16 101 40 23 40 49 336 CRYSTAL 32 25 34 75 71 72 54 63 57 54 40 16 593 OEEPHAVEN 1 2 1 3 5 11 7 7 4 10 3 4 58 °ELLW00D 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 0 0 5 DENMARK TOWNSHIP 16) 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 2 0 0 5 EAGAN TOWNSHIP 171 2 4 5 24 49 13 23 22 15 44 18 6 225 EAST BETHEL 0 1 4 12 13 10 8 7 9 12 6 0 82 EDEN PRAIRIE 4 4 7 14 8 10 20 20 21 19 15 19 161 EDINA 18 22 45 48 63 46 46 52 53 60 36 22 511 EXCELSIOR 2 1 1 3 6 I 2 0 0 1 3 1 21 FALCON HEIGHTS 2 0 2 3 4 4 1 3 2 6 5 0 32 FOREST LAKE 0 1 3 5 1 5 2 6 6 3 4 3 39 FRIDLEY IL 17 24 62 59 61 72 69 53 40 50 15 533 GOLDEN VALLEY 8 10 18 44 58 51 41 47 52 39 46 23 437 GREY CLOUD IS.TWP 16) 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 4 GROW TOWNSHIP 19) 0 0 4 11 6 10 3 6 8 5 8 1 62 HAM LAKE TOWNSHIP 19) 0 0 3 13 8 11 6 9 7 7 1 0 65 HAMPTON 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 5 HAMPTON TOWNSHIP 17) 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 6 HANOVER 0 0 0 0 0 C. 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 HASTINGS 1 3 22 34 30 27 15 22 20 24 24 5 227 HOPKINS 5 12 11 28 19 20 13 13 21 21 16 14 193 INDEPENDENCE 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 7 2 2 7 0 21 INVER GROVE TWP 171 4 4 1 6 5 3 5 7 18 17 3 0 73 LAKE ELMO 0 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 6 LAKELAND 0 1 1 4 0 1 2 0 2 0 1 0 12 LAKEVILLE TWP 171 3 4 5 6 7 1 6 11 3 13 6 2 74 LAUDERDALE 3 0 0 3 4 5 4 2 10 5 0 0 36 LEBANON TOWNSHIP 17) 0 1 1 2 111 196 8 8 52 2 0 384 LEXINGTON 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 2 0 0 7 LINCOLN TOWNSHIP (61 0 1 3 5 5 0 1 0 3 1 1 0 20 LINO LAKES 0 1 2 0 0 0 7 3 5 0 3 23 LINW00D TOWNSHIP 19) 0 2 4 6 9 0 8 8 6 4 1 0 51 LITTLE CANADA 0 1 2 5 3 2 3 1 4 6 2 0 29 LONG LAKE 0 1 0 4 0 1 1 4 0 2 2 2 17 MAHTOM EDI L 0 0 2 2 ▪ 10 2 3 8 1 4 36 MAPLE GROVE 1 2 8 6 4 10 5 3 7 9 7 7 69 8881E8000 3 7 10 53 51 40 49 43 56 46 29 5 392 MEDICINE LAKE 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 3 MENDOTA HEIGHTS 1 2 8 14 6 17 9 11 19 10 8 110 MINNEAPOLIS 158 178 279 577 586 493 514 442 602 519 362 172 4.882 MINNETONKA 11 27 18 57 49 46 52 41 32 48 29 25 435 MINNETONKA BEACH 0 0 0 1 0 1. 0 0 2 2 0 0 6 MINNETRISTA 0 2 3 3 0 3 1 2 5 1 1 1 22 MOUND 6 9 9 19 16 16 13 12 15 23 10 3 151 NEW BRIGHTON 8 4 12 30 28 10 15 17 27 31 20 9 211 NEW HOPE 7 16 40 39 68 49 41 42 60 51 38 21 472 NEW TRIER 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 NEWPORT 0 0 1 0 2 0 4 1 2 5 5 0 20 NININGER TOWNSHIP (71 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 6 NORTH OAKS 0 1 1 0 1 4 6 3 5 0 5 3 29 NORTH 5T PAUL 2 3 8 12 26 24 20 20 18 17 19 1 170 NORTHDALE TWP 161 0 0 0 4 0 4 0 5 0 0 6 0 19 ORONO 2 4 4 7 6 16 19 15 19 21 5 1 119 PLYMOUTH 3 12 22 34 37 28 35 31 44 37 40 17 340 RAMSEY TOWNSHIP 19) 0 1 2 4 3 7 6 7 6 3 7 1 47 RICHFIELD 7 18 25 100 67 58 59 72 85 80 47 15 633 ROBBINSDALE 3 4 8 25 25 20 18 28 31 28 20 7 217 ROGERS 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 ROSEMOUNT 1 0 2 3 3 5 0 9 1 6 1 0 31 ROSEVILLE 12 15 16 39 62 40 51 46 60 45 25 18 429 ST ANTHONY 0 0 12 12 17 12 9 11 16 16 10 7 122 ST FRANCIS 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 3 2 0 1 11 ST LOUIS PARK 23 16 40 74 70 56 70 48 66 62 50 14 589 ST PAUL 216 186 307 629 572 428 474 466 645 415 314 200 4,852 5T PAUL PARK 2 7 37 10 17 11 9 20 14 17 9 4 157 SHOREVIEW 9 7 10 19 18 29 20 19 30 14 8 5 188 SHOREWOOD 1 2 2 2 6 3 1 1 6 7 4 1 36 SOUTH ST PAUL 6 11 11 43 42 32 26 48 52 32 31 7 341 STILLWATER 5 7 7 6 16 15 0 26 14 11 8 5 120 TONNA BAY 0 0 2 5 2 3 0 7 4 6 5 1 35 VADNAIS HEIGHTS 0 0 0 3 1 4 7 4 7 2 0 0 28 VERMILLION 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 WATERFORD TWP 171 0 0 1 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 WEST LAKELAND TWP (6) 1 0 1 1 I 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 WEST ST PAUL 2 7 6 18 13 21 10 18 16 19 13 5 148 WHITE BEAR LAKE 12 18 32 40 66 52 70 41 53 41 29 13 467 WOODLAND 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 U OF MINNESOTA (2) 3 3 5 8 4 7 8 5 5 5 3 4 60 OTHER REGION II BELLE PLAINE 0 0 0 5 0 4 2 2 1 1 0 0 15 BUFFALO 0 0 0 2 1 5 0 2 4 5 6 1 26 CHASKA 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 2 2 8 2 30 DELANO 3 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 0 14 ELK RIVER TWP 1101 0 0 0 3 6 5 5 3 1 1 2 1 27 6 NUMBER OF PERMITS MINNESOTA (CONTI OTHER REGION II (CONTI JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. TOTAL FARIBAULT 4 4 9 16 25 15 23 15 16 24 15 7 173 GLENCOE 0 2 0 10 9 1 6 1 2 0 5 4 40 HAVERHILL TWP (11) 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 5 HUTCHINSON 3 5 3 9 12 3 10 10 4 12 5 4 80 LAKE FREMONT 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 4 2 0 0 8 LITCHFIELD 1 1 0 6 8 5 3 8 5 8 6 2 53 MARION TOWNSHIP (111 0 1 8 12 6 5 10 11 14 13 3 4 87 MAYER 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 1 O 2 0 9 NORTHFIELD 4 5 6 0 10 2 10 11 7 18 4 5 82 OWATONNA 4 9 36 55 48 32 25 29 27 37 27 8 337 OWATONNA TWP 1121 0 0 0 2 4 2 0 2 1 2 0 0 13 PINE ISLAND 0 0 0 1 0 1 5 3 6 0 0 1 17 RED WING 4 8 8 15 12 15 14 14 13 14 9 5 131 ROCHESTER 13 13 30 77 76 67 76 98 105 125 70 40 790 ROCHESTER TWP 1111 2 1 1 6 8 7 10 8 6 7 9 6 71 55 CLOUD 8 8 21 48 37 32 46 38 46 53 33 12 382 WAITE PARK 1 1 2 1 6 2 1 2 2 2 2 0 22 WATERTOWN 2 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 10 WINONA 14 11 21 52 49 30 42 31 55 43 107 4 369 YOUNG AMERICA 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 REGION 111 ALEOANDRIA 3 3 3 13 10 16 11 17 18 16 16 8 134 CAMBRIDGE TWP 1131 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 DETROIT LAKES 3 5 17 32 23 21 14 15 8 12 3 8 161 FERGUS FALLS 0 2 4 8 22 1R 13 18 16 15 8 5 129 LITTLE FALLS 0 0 1 1 3 1 1 0 3 0 0 1 11 MILACA 0 0 0 0 1 2 I 4 7 0 2 0 17 OSAKIS 0 1 0 0 3 3 3 5 3 1 0 1 20 WOLF LAKE 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 7 REGION IV DAWSON 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 17 2 6 3 33 DUMONT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 GRACEVILLE 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 MONTEVIDEO 3 1 4 5 11 5 9 8 8 4 5 1 64 MORRIS 2 2 5 4 6 7 9 10 4 8 2 2 61 WILLMAR 2 4 4 19 17 17 24 27 20 23 14 7 178 REGION V ALBERT LEA 4 8 16 26 14 38 26 23 25 31 12 2 225 AUSTIN 4 1 5 30 21 18 21 18 26 32 9 1 186 BLUE EARTH CO. ZONED 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BREWSTER 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 FAIRMONT 2 0 4 10 14 12 8 12 7 14 12 4 99 LUVERNE 4 1 3 11 19 9 9 17 8 9 19 0 109 MANKATO 13 10 30 64 97 49 63 59 51 73 55 26 590 MARSHALL 3 0 3 18 23 14 4 16 24 19 26 2 152 NEW PRAGUE 1 0 0 5 1 2 0 0 9 7 4 0 29 NEW ULM 4 5 21 46 34 43 29 22 34 45 15 8 306 NORTH MANKATO 0 1 2 8 5 12 15 3 10 8 2 3 69 PIPESTONE 5 3 4 11 12 11 12 9 16 16 4 0 103 PRESTON 0 0 0 0 5 1 0 4 1 3 1 0 15 ST JAMES 1 0 0 7 6 6 3 6 5 2 7 2 45 ST PETER 2 0 1 21 8 6 8 8 13 6 4 0 77 TRACY 0 0 0 2 1 1 5 8 3 1 0 0 21 WASECA 1 0 1 10 17 13 8 6 14 7 7 2 86 WORTHINGTON 0 2 9 17 13 7 13 19 13 20 14 2 129 REGION VI FARGO-MOORHEAD METROPOLITAN AREA DILWORTH 0 1 0 3 3 3 4 6 7 4 2 0 33 GE ORGETOWN 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 GLYNDON 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 5 HITTERDAL 00 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 3 MOORHEAD 3 5 16 31 55 39 40 24 34 39 35 6 327 ULEN 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 OTHER REGION VI CROOKSTON EAST GRAND FORKS THIEF RIVER FALLS J MONTANA' REGION 1K GREAT FALLS METROPOLITAN AREA BELT GREAT FALLS OTHER REGION 1K CUT BANK GLASGOW GLENDIVE HAVRE LEWISTOWN MALTA SIDNEY WOLF POINT REGION K BILLINGS METROPOLITAN AREA BILLINGS LAUREL OTHER REGION K MILES CITY 4 4 9 18 26 21 22 20 16 17 4 2 163 3 4 6 13 16 11 12 12 19 17 8 0 121 0 0 4 10 10 5 4 7 15 9 0 0 64 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 3 0 0 7 35 53 92 124 74 109 58 73 71 71 64 30 854 4 1 5 7 4 3 4 0 4 0 2 35 2 10 13 7 9 7 5 13 13 3 8 94 1 3 6 5 7 3 3 12 11 2 3 56 5 4 12 11 16 14 10 10 6 4 5 100 3 5 12 15 8 8 9 9 6 4 4 83 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 0 1 0 9 0 0 12 15 9 8 5 10 9 6 3 77 0 0 0 7 4 5 1 1 8 2 0 28 48 39 55 0 2 1 12 17 5 72 58 55 44 46 88 43 30 578 12 7 8 1 5 5 2 2 74 7 31 34 29 31 23 21 27 26 5 2 241 REGION XI ANACONDA 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 U 0 0 8 BOZEMAN 3 6 7 9 14 12 21 13 18 15 10 3 131 BUTTE 0 0 0 5 9 2 4 6 8 6 I 2 43 HAMILTON 0 1 0 4 2 2 2 2 5 6 3 0 27 HELENA 22 27 48 0 63 57 46 56 69 49 39 9 485 KALISPELL 3 6 12 12 20 12 17 19 24 18 10 6 159 LIVINGSTON I 4 5 4 3 3 7 5 6 6 4 1 49 MISSOULA 5 15 25 50 48 30 38 31 27 29 24 6 328 'NORTH DAKOTA) REGION VI FARGO-MOORHEAD METROPOLITAN AREA AMENIA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CASSELTON 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 FARGO 26 11 15 59 65 48 44 56 51 68 38 10 491 SOUTHWEST FARGO 0 0 1 4 7 4 11 5 13 12 4 0 61 OTHER REGION VI GRAFTON 0 0 1 10 GRAND FORKS 24 25 39 79 NORTHN000 0 0 0 1 6 5 4 94 102 65 1 3 1 7 87 7 5 6 0 51 76 97 39 34 761 6 2 5 3 24 REGION VI1 WAHPETON 0 0 0 5 6 4 3 11 2 2 42 REGION VIII BISMARCK 3 4 31 61 42 41 38 41 47 50 28 6 392 BURLEIGH COUNTY ZONED 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 10 CARRINGTON 1 1 0 1 4 5 0 3 2 2 2 7 28 DEVILS LAKE 1 0 3 14 28 10 18 12 13 14 0 4 117 FESSENDEN 0 1 0 0 3 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 11 JAMESTOWN 0 3 6 25 46 12 17 23 26 33 10 1 202 MINOT 20 21 41 75 83 56 54 60 48 80 50 19 607 NAPOLEON 0 0 0 1 2 3 0 0 0 1 0 1 8 PARSHALL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 RUGBY 0 0 3 4 5 6 4 7 2 5 2 0 38 VALLEY CITY 1 0 5 9 14 7 16 5 13 19 5 0 94 WARD COUNTY ZONED 7 3 6 26 22 24 25 19 12 22 17 0 183 WILLISTON 0 3 8 12 23 12 15 18 29 15 9 6 150 NORTH DAKOTA (CONT1 REGION IX DICKIN50N GLEN ULLIN HEBRON MANDAN MOTT )SOUTH DAKOTA' NUMBER OF PERMITS 1 JAN. FEB. MAR. APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. TOTAL 1 0 9 20 13 17 19 18 7 6 23 13 146 O 0 0 5 0 1 2 2 1 5 1 0 17 O 0 0 3 0 0 2 0 6 2 1 0 14 O 0 4 16 11 12 15 9 11 10 13 5 106 O 1 0 1 0 3 0 0 1 2 0 0 8 REGION IV BROOKINGS 0 WATERTOWN 4 3 3 9 18 7 12 7 15 9 16 14 5 115 20 25 34 20 31 30 34 21 20 8 250 REGION V SIOUX FALLS METROPOLITAN AREA DELL RAPIDS 3 1 1 0 2 0 0 2 9 2 1 2 23 SIOUX FALLS 45 26 65 151 140 111 126 153 146 117 93 3R 1,211 OTHER REGION V MADISON 2 2 9 6 11 9 7 10 12 9 VERMILLION 3 2 5 10 4 12 6 6 10 11 12 YANKTON 4 8 9 15 18 24 13 15 17 22 15 3 5 89 82 165 REGION VII ABERDEEN 10 17 27 62 42 65 63 80 63 46 40 1(1). 526 FREEMAN 0 0 0 5 2 5 6 4 3 3 0 28 HURON 5 5 8 25 26 20 21 33 25 312 16 5 220 LEOLA 0 0 4 2 1 0 1 1 6 0 1 18 MILLER 0 1 2 8 1 0 4 1 3 1 6 0 27 MITCHELL 7 7 14 30 21 21 23 27 24 32 12 5 223 MOBRIUGE 0 0 7 0 2 2 1 5 7 15 9 1 49 PIERRE 6 6 13 18 15 11 9 14 13 11 27 6 149 SPRINGFIELD 0 0 0 2 0 4 2 1 2 3 2 0 16 REGION X BELLE FOURCHE 9 4 11 6 10 18 6 13 5 9 7 1 99 EDGEMONT 1 0 1 7 5 4 1 2 1 4 4 0 30 HILL CITY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LEAD 0 1 2 5 8 3 11 31 9 3 0 1 74 PRINGLE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 R APIU CITY 33 41 61 113 85 67 97 86 103 960 400 27 849 SPEARFISH 2 1 6 6 7 2 11 8 6 8 7 6 70 STURGIS 1 3 1 6 5 7 10 5 4 27 4 3 76 TIMBER LAKE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 WALL 0 1 4 1 1 4 2 4 2 1 0 0 20 ]WISCONSIN1 REGION I DULUTH-SUPERIOR METROPOLITAN AREA SUPERIOR 9 12 23 78 81 60 97 66 77 65 44 11 623 OTHER REGION I 4561AND 1 1 7 32 25 20 28 30 13 29 9 20 215 BRUCE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 ONEIDA COUNTY 20NED 4 0 6 38 43 37 36 46 34 29 16 9 298 PARK FALLS 3 2 0 11 8 9 7 7 9 8 5 0 69 RHINELANOER 3 2 3 26 19 16 12 9 18 23 14 3 146 REGION 1) AUGUSTA 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 1 2 3 3 0 12 CHIPPEWA FALLS 0 5 4 14 20 6 12 9 17 12 7 1 107 EAU CLAIRE 6 4 17 60 57 63 59 55 63 49 35 15 483 HUDSON 4 1 2 10 8 H 5 8 4 10 7 0 67 INUEPENOENCE 0 0 2 2 I 2 1 3 1 3 0 0 15 KNAPP 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 LA CROSSE 4 8 17 67 61 63 66 66 65 59 28 11 515 LA CROSSE CO. ZONED 1 7 14 39 28 16 35 38 18 30 21 11 258 MEUFURO 1 3 4 4 21 11 12 13 12 18 1 5 105 MENOMONIE 0 1 5 10 2 5 15 15 18 7 5 5 88 RICE LAKE 3 2 2 10 9 ( 4 7 10 11 4 1 70 WASHINGTON TMP 114) 0 0 10 5 9 6 3 3 6 9 5 0 56 TOTAL 284 CITIES 1,260 1,449 2,700 5,640 5,968 4,925 5,263 5,421 5,800 5,502 3.786 1,679 49,393 STATE TOTALS MICHIGAN 5 6 9 92 114 95 96 112 109 85 40 7 770 MINNESOTA 864 1,015 1,811 3,867 4,123 3,318 3,628 3,693 4,060 3,717 2,722 1,224 34,042 MONTANA 133 174 310 320 416 385 327 313 366 379 227 116 3,466 NORTH DAKOTA 84 74 174 434 476 376 359 383 386 462 255 111 3,574 SOUTH DAKOTA 135 132 279 521 447 421 460 544 511 493 338 129 4,410 WISCONSIN 39 48 117 406 392 330 393 376 368 366 204 92 3,131 STANDARD METROPOLITAN STATISTICAL AREAS BILLINGS 50 40 67 17 84 65 63 45 51 93 45 32 652 DULUTH-SUPER1OR 35 35 59 178 218 158 237 232 259 209 106 46 1,772 FARG0-MOORHEAD 29 17 32 98 134 96 105 93 105 123 79 16 927 GREAT FALLS 35 53 92 125 75 109 58 75 71 74 64 30 861 MINNEAPOLIS-ST PAUL 701 846 1,428 2,915 3,071 2,497 2,716 2,751 3,015 2,665 2,105 972 25,682 SIOUX FALLS 48 27 66 151 142 111 126 155 155 119 94 40 1,234 REGIONS 111 I 55 58 110 464 502 406 498 511 525 457 224 100 3,910 11 783 948 1,654 3,457 3,627 2,920 3,222 3,265 3,555 3,249 2,446 1,127 30,253 III 8 11 25 54 62 63 44 59 55 46 29 23 479 IV 12 13 43 72 75 64 BO 90 94 74 61 26 704 V 101 70 188 468 465 398 378 413 452 457 321 101 3,812 VI 60 50 91 229 267 243 213 228 244 270 141 55 2.111 911 28 36 75 157 116 129 134 174 149 155 114 31 1,298 9111 33 37 105 230 273 179 191 189 204 242 123 44 1.850 IX 43 69 128 230 166 202 144 143 156 156 124 73 1,634 X 101 98 184 195 234 201 224 216 208 267 112 72 2,112 XI 36 59 97 84 161 120 135 133 158 129 91 27 1,230 (1) REGIONAL BOUNDARIES ARE BASED UN CENSUS DELINEATIONS AND D0 NOT DESIGNATE TRADE AREAS. (2) INCLUDES PERMITS ISSUED FOR ALL UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA CONSTRUCTION THROUGHOUT THE STATE. (3) OELTA COUNTY (4) ST. LOUIS COUNTY (51 CARLTON COUNTY (6) WASHINGTON COUNTY (71 DAKOTA COUNTY 18) HENNEPIN COUNTY (9) ANOKA COUNTY (10) SHERBURNE COUNTY 111) OLMSTEAD COUNTY 112) STEELE COUNTY (131 ISANTI COUNTY 114) EAU CLAIRE COUNTY NOTE- DATA REPRESENT ALL BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED BY THE MUNICIPALITY WHETHER FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION OR FOR REPAIRS AND ALTERATIONS BUT DO NOT INCLUDE PERMITS FOR MECHANICAL INSTALLATIONS. COMPILED IN COOPERATION WITH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. RESEARCH DEPARTMENT FEDERAL RESERVE BANK MINNEAPOLIS,MINNESOTA 55440 EXISTING POLICE BUILDING POLICE GARAGE FIRST !FLOOR PLAN SCALE: 1/d si'-b' EAGAN MUNICIPAL CENTER' POLICE ADDITION MECHANICAL LUNCH ROOM LOWER LOBBY i ;o 4 4 P ii it-+- — i dimiamorit OPEN WORK AREA BUILDING INSPECTIONS • ENGINEERING • PLANNING • ADMINISTRATION SECOND FLOOR PLAN SCALE: VS...1'-0' EAGAN MUNICIPAL CENTER • RESOURCE CENTER OFFICE SERVICES FINANCE 10LJ Q• Jo !AC 16)1265 PARK & REC. 1. ••• IMMO. 1•111 11 • • •o• tr.—num:n=2m-- Hisnti11111 111 Ji 0 /. • 0 0