09-09-24 - City Council Agenda Packet

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Council Minutes -15- June 24, 2024 Luke Walter, Love Lino Lakes Group Representative, 7800 Maryland Drive, Lino Lakes stated that he is here to speak in favor of the moratorium, for many reasons, not which the complexity of the site development is significant. The fact it is a gateway corridor to the city. The fact that citizens are deeply concerned and want their voices heard. Mr. Walter said that 1,000 residents of Lino Lakes signed a petition, as authorized under our City Charter rights to reduce growth in this city. He said the City Council is going to be presented with 1,000 signatures to put that on the ballot. He said the citizens deserve to be heard. Growth in this city needs to be considered, well managed, environmentally sound, with quality developers and well-thought-out plans. He said that 1,000s of residents are petitioning the City Council to listen and they want the moratorium. He said if the developers feel they should have a voice at the table, then the citizens represented by him tonight should also have a voice at the table as wekk. Randy Kaufman, 2750 Alamo Lane, Lino Lakes, said that he and his wife moved to Lino Lakes five years ago. He said that he is a physician and that the analogy he would like to use tonight is that both the City Council and he take a pledge. He takes a pledge as a physician to take care of the people in his charge, and the City Council takes a pledge to look after the people of our community. He said when he prepares to do a procedure, he does it with all the information he can possibly have. By the same token, this moratorium will allow the City Council to gain more information to make a wise decision. Chris Grimes 7906 Henry Lane, Lino Lakes, provided a comparison of growth and development in a quadrant of Lino Lakes and Blaine. He reviewed the school expansions over the years. He discussed infrastructure planning and water demand. He asked that the Lino Lakes City Council learn from the past mistakes made in Blaine and create a solid plan moving forward that works. Ali Say, 10973 Fillmore Street, Blaine, stated that he has been attending city meetings for the past two months. He questioned why he would waste his time if the Council has already made its decision on the moratorium. He said the moratorium is a “slow the growth” proposal. He said it is against business development. He said the City will lose its best employees to other cities if it does not grow as other cities will be able to pay more. It is socialist if the City does not allow the property owner to sell their property. Resident at 234 White Pine Road, Lino Lakes, stated that he has been a Lino Lakes resident since 1983 and has lived on the northern corner and now at Pine Road. He said that he lived by the sod farm and that he supports the moratorium as he doesn’t want to see any more high- density development. James Baker, 7810 Lois Lane, Lino Lakes, said that part of what he thinks has been glossed over is that we're looking at a very small subset of the developmental acres. If we extrapolate that to the entire area that's under consideration. We're looking at 2,800 potential units based on what the currently proposed density is. Previous people have mentioned there has been prior environmental and traffic studies. Those are all perfectly applicable to the smaller and very focused developments, but they don't take into consideration the entire scope. He stated that he believes that knowing what the traffic impacts are on even something as far back as Lake Street or Pine Street. He said that he could see this exact same conversation being had 10 years