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would be more effective than condemning the Council Staff and confronting the Council on each area of dispute. He said that there isn't any question that the current Council has a strong regard to local prerogative. That would bring conflict to some other values. He suggested that the City could try to get on Council Chair Ted Mondale's schedule to allow the City Staff to discuss the 22 points of contention. Examples: I-94 is going to be improved in front of 3M in a few years and there is an opportunity to expand the WONE interceptor capacity for 10 million dollars. If Lake Elmo doesn't support this infrastructure improvement concurrently with the highway construction, the future cost to bring in this urban service would probably be double. The policy question is if Lake Elmo is willing to pick tip that extra 10 million in the future. Or does that mean that the opportunity for bringing urban density to Lake Elmo is eliminated? This question needs discussion. The other issue is traffic calming on Highway 5. The Council will not allow this to take place. Mary Kueffner, City Administrator: I believe what the Met Council is looking for is an explanation as to why Lake Elmo apparently changed its mind on the proposed downstream upgrade to the WONE Interceptor that would have given the City enough capacity to serve the 440 acre Business Park proposed in our original comprehensive plan amendment (which was denied), and later resubmitted for 120 acres and approved. At City Council direction, staff negotiated with Met Council for this change to prevent the new Cottage Grove Interceptor from being "driven" under I-94 to Lake Elmo's border, which would have opened up the City to uncontrolled urban development. Both the 440 and 120 comprehensive plan amendments submitted to the Met. Council were for Business Park uses only. Neither amendment include any provision for housing as several audit reports received from Tautges & Redpath urged the City to better balance the ratio of housing to commercial tax base. Mr. Hugunin responded that it's not so much the why that is critical, but what are the implications of making such a change. Wyn John: If the WONE Interceptor was increasing capacity, then it would allow us to continue control development going eastward along I-94 rather than go in the middle and in an uncontrollable way. In that stem going N-S, there should be some long term capacity in that route should the timing be appropriate that Lake Elmo would like to tie into in the future. Chuck Dillerud, Citv Planner: He has been hesitant to negotiate the sanitary sewer issue and traffic calming issue. He cannot make a commitment for the City Council. Staff could come back to City Council with what I think their position would like to be. Their position might be move MUSA out to the WONE expansion. The Met Council may say that if we give you that sewer, then you will take affordable housing over part of that land. Mayor Lee Hunt: LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING JUNE 11, 2002 4