10-01-2018 Council Work Session Minutes

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CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION October 1, 2018 APPROVED 1 CITY OF LINO LAKES 2 MINUTES 3 4 DATE : October 1, 2018 5 TIME STARTED : 6:00 p.m. 6 TIME ENDED : 9:50 p.m. 7 MEMBERS PRESENT Council Member Rafferty, Maher, 8 Manthey, Stoesz and Mayor Reinert 9 MEMBERS ABSENT None 10 11 Staff members present: City Administrator Jeff Karlson; Public Safety Director John 12 Swenson; Community Development Director Michael Grochala; Finance Director Sarah 13 Cotton; Public Services Director Rick DeGardner; City Engineer Diane Hankee. 14 L Watermark 15 a. First Addition Final Plat —City Planner Larsen first corrected the figures in her 16 staff report to indicated 692 single family and 172 townhome units. 17 She reviewed a PowerPoint Presentation including information on: 18 - Proposed project schedule; 19 - Preliminary layout overall and first phase. 20 21 Mayor Reinert asked about the size of the single family lots. Ms. Larsen pointed out the 22 lot sizes on the map. The mayor said he is also interested in what is planned past the first 23 phase. Is there a commitment from Lennar on anything past the first phase? Ms. Larsen 24 pointed out the land that is owned by Lennar; that is a part of the development agreement 25 discussion. She added that staff understands it is important to keep Watermark as one 26 development as it was originally master planned. She noted that grading is underway on 27 the site and for the first and second addition. 28 29 b. Master Development Agreement —Community Development Director Grochala 30 reviewed the information in the council packet. Staff, including the city attorney, are 31 proposing a master development agreement encompassing the entire site with individual 32 development agreements coming in the future for each phase. 33 34 City Attorney Squires noted that his involvement has not been from the beginning. He 35 explained that for the reasons noted, it is important to lock in a master agreement to lock 36 in the vision as a whole. The master development agreement is intended to define the 37 entire puzzle with the pieces of a puzzle coming in with the development phases in the 38 future; the master agreement maintains most of the main details. He indicated that the 39 document is still being structured but he'd like to review the larger concepts of the 40 agreement with the council. First pointed out was the storm water connection to Peltier 41 Lake, seen as a necessary element by both the developer and the City. Secondly, funding 42 of storm water management will be a large number and that would include funding for 43 certain storm water improvements to connect Peltier Lake. The third detail being worked 44 on is open space, identifying requirements to establish such and assurances for future 1