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Home My WebLink AboutMay 5, 2009 City Council packetCity of Lake Elmo 3800 Laverne Avenue North May S, 2009 7:00 p.m. A. CALL TO ORDER R. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE: C. ATTENDANCE: Johnston DeLapp Emmons Park Smith D. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: (The approved agenda is the order in which the City Council will do its business.) E. ORDER OF BUSINESS: (This is the way that the City Council runs its meetings so everyone attending the meeting.or watching the meeting understands how the City Council does its public business.) F. GROUND RULES: (These are the rules of behavior that the City Council adopted for doing its public business.) G. APPROVE MINUTES: 1. Consider approval of April 21, 2009 minutes H. PUBLIC COMMENTS/INQUIRIES: In order to be sure that anyone wishing to speak to the City Council is treated the same way, meeting attendees wishing to address the City Council on any items NOT on the regular agenda may speak for up to three minutes. I. CONSENT AGENDA: (Items are placed on the consent agenda by city staff and the Mayor because they are not anticipated to generate discussion. Items may be removed at City Council's request.) 2. Approve payment of disbursements and payroll 3. Continuation of Consideration of Sign Ordinance to May 19 Council meeting 4. Seasonal PW/Park Employee 5. Granting easements for Northern Natural Gas Pipeline 6. General Fund transfer to Fall Festival Fund; Resolution No. 2009-018 Proclaiming the 2nd Annual Lake Elmo Fall Festival 7. Consideration of Resolution No. 2009-021 in support of Sunfish Lake Park as a participant in the Minnesota DNR cross-country ski GIA program and Resolution No. 2009-020 in support of a Capital Improvement Project Grant application to the cross-country ski GIA program for the construction on an information kiosk 8. Authorization to purchase plats and landscape materials for the May 30th Arbor Day/MuDOT Landscape Partnership Program planting project J. REGULAR AGENDA: *Update from MPCA regarding Washington County Landfill Project 9. Purchase of equipment related to audio visual improvements for the council chambers 10. Update on activities at Regional Council of Mayors 11. Water System Financing Team for Groundwater Contamination Area 12. Request Planning Commission to develop recommendations on City activities for economic development 13. Update by Civil Attorney on house rehabilitation, 9224 315t Street N. 14. Final Adoption of AUAR, Resolution No. 2009-019 15. Approve the 2030 Comprehensive Plan updates for submittal to the Metropolitan Council a. Transportation b. Surface Water Management c. Water Supply System d. Solar Access, Historic Preservation, Aggregate Resources e. Parks and Recreation Plan 16. Resolution to participate in Joint Airport Zoning Board for Lake Elmo Airport; Consideration of appointments of two representatives to Board 17. Selection process for Metro Cities policy committee K. REPORTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS: (These are verbal updates and do not have to be formally added to the agenda.) • Mayor and City Council • Administrator • Planning Director L; Adjourn City of Lake Elmo City Council Minutes April 21, 2009 Mayor Johnston called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. Present: Mayor Johnston and Council Members DeLapp, Emmons, Park and Smith Also present: Interim City Administrator Dawson, Planning Director Klatt, Consulting Planner Gozola, City Engineer Griffin, City Attorney Filla, Finance Director Bouthilet and City Clerk Lumby. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: MOTION: Council Member Park moved to approve the presented. Mayor Johnston seconded the motion. The r, ORDER OF BUSINESS: GROUND RULES: APPROVED MINUTES: The minutes of April 7, 2009, PUBLIC CONSENT 9 agenda as 5-0. MOTION Council Member Park maned to approve the Consent Agenda as presented Council MemberTD, eL app seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-0. • Approve paymenttofdsbursements and payroll in the amount of $159,616.53 • Approve OWL Engineering and Test Labs, Inc. (Shoreview, MN) to assist with the wireless communications ordinance update project at a cost of $10,000 to be funded from the balance of the General Fund. • Approve Letter of Engagement as City Attorney for general civil legal services with Eckberg, Lammers, Briggs, Wolff & V ierling, PLLP REGULAR AGENDA: Audio visual improvements MOTION: Council Member DeLapp moved to continue the audio visual improvements agenda item until the May 5, 2009 City Council meeting. Council _Member Park seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-0. LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 21, 2009 Sion Ordinance Revisions — An ordinance repealing existing sign code regulations and adopting new regulations to govern signs in all zoning districts Ben Gozola, Consulting Planner, presented a proposed ordinance to repeal all existing sign code regulations in favor of revised sign controls. He said the proposed regulations have been drafted in response to public input, and had to remain within constitutional guidelines. The goal of the City is to balance the need for businesses to advertise themselves and to address residents' aesthetic concerns. The Planning Commission had held a public hearing and subsequently recommended approval of the proposed ordinance to update the City's sign regulations as presented. Neil Krueger, 4452 Lake Elmo Avenue N., believed the entire sign ordinance was very complicated and should be simplified. Deb Krueger noted the sizerof the lettering on neighborhood signs should be addressed because they were difficult to read. She asked the Council to address signs for residents who want to sell ea-�2s'!or hav_ Joe Heinen, who owns a building at 9242 Hudson Blvd.; believed the sign regulations were too restrictive for a multi -tenant building. Among the items considered, the Council debated whether neighborhood entrance signs attracted buyers to model homes and helped Tealtors se`lllomes or directed people to neighborhoods. The Council agreed on restrictions placed' signs in the Old Village which would have Iimited illumination and design guidelines imposed on them. There was disagreement on a provision that would'a'Ilow 12-foot signs in the Old Village. With growth and changes to the City? s comprehensive plan, Council member Emmons suggested looking at the sign criteria for,the busimess cor idor along interstate 94. MOTION: Council Member DeLapp moved to table the sign ordinance revision to the May 5, 2009 City Council Metzng. Council Member Smith seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-6. Update on house rehabilitation ` 9224 31 st Street N. Ben Gozola, Consultmg'Planrier, reported the City Council entered into an agreement with Linda and David HdW to address all issues surrounding the house rehabilitation at 9224 3 Is' Street. The agreement established a list of 25 items that needed to be completed by April 7, 2009, to allow the City to issue a temporary certificate of occupancy for the house. Staff recommended delaying action until the new City Attorney is on board in early May. The consensus of the Council was to postpone action on this matter at this time and submit information to the new civil attorney, David Snyder, for the May 5, 2009 City Council meeting. LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 21, 2009 2 Jack Griffin City Engineer reported the City Council is being asked to approve the resolution for Municipal Consent for the Inwood Avenue (CSAH 13) turn lane improvements. This is a County State Aid project and is being funded through the Minnesota Department of Transportation's Local Road Improvement Program. The project consists of the construction of a center left turn lane in both directions on Inwood Avenue (CSAH 13) at its intersection of 15'b Street North. MOTION: Council Member Park moved to approve Resolution No. 2009-015 approving County Project within Municipal Corporate limits and direct the City Engineer to sign the Washington County Construction Plans. Council Member Smith seconded the motion. MOTION: Council Member DeLapp moved to amend the motion approving the resolution conditioned upon resolution for safe passage po icycles'travelling north and south. Council Member Park seconded the motion The motion passed, 4-1 (Mayor Johnston voting against). � MOTION: Council Member Park moved to amended County Project within Municipat t Washington County allowing safe passage using the vehicle lanes and direct the City E Construction Plans. Council Smith'seconde Johnston voting against.) !ution No. 2009-0I5 approving is conditioned upon plans from ell�ing north and south without a the Washington County The motion passed 4-1 (Mayor Craig Dawson, Interim City Adminis ator, reported the Washington and Ramsey County Regional Railroad:authorities have approved the joint powers agreement to establish the I-94 Corridor Commission. The' focus of work of the Commission will be on transit. The City Council was asked to adopt a resolution to approve the JPA and to appoint its representative and alterna(each of whom must serve on the City Council) to the Board of the Commission. MOTION.- Council Member Park moved to adopt Resolution No. 2009-016 approve and authorize execution of the joint powers agreement for the I-94 Corridor Commission and appoint Mayor Johnston as the City' s representative and Council Member Nicole Park as the Alternate to the Commission for 2009. Mayor Johnston seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-0. LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 21, 2009 MAC Joint Airport Zoning Board Lake Elmo Airport Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator, reported that the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) proposes to establish a Joint Airport Zoning Boards (JABZ) to implement Airport Safety Zoning at and around the Lake Elmo Airport. The Board would consist of two representatives each from Lake Elmo, West Lakeland Township, Baytown Township, Oak Park Heights, Washington County, and the MAC. The MAC is requesting that Lake Elmo participate and appoint two representatives to the Board. MOTION. Council Member Smith moved to direct staff to prepare a resolution that will authorize the City to join the Joint Airport Zoning Board for the Lake Elmo Airport, and solicit two representatives to serve the Board Council Member DeLapp seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-0. Kyle Klatt, Planning Director, reported the City examples of pen -nits and an ordinance regarding staff direction as to whether or not the Council v ordinance for Lake Elmo. A Special Event Permit would be intend( events on a case -by -case basis and is inte traffic, sanitary facilities, utilities, public peace of residential neighborhoods AST Minnesota Boat Club's current reaue§t!, , to review nd to provide tptim a similar regulation of temporary uate provision of parking, )per insurance, and preserve would not pertain to the MOTION- Council Membei^ DeLapp moved,to direct staff to proceed with drafting an Ordinance and Permzt for Special Events held within the City. Mayor Johnston seconded the motion. The motz'on neiecad `�. !; The Council was asked to„ determine whether to develop an employment agreement with Craig Dawson for a reguIi`�i- appointment or conduct a search for a city administrator. Mr. Dawson has been serving as an interim city administrator since the beginning of January. The consensus of the Council was to go through the interview process. Mayor Johnston argued for hiring Craig Dawson to the regular administrator position, saying that he has proven himself during the past four months. MOTION: Council Member Smith moved to prepare and solicit responses to a Request for Proposal for Executive Search Consulting Services to select a city administrator for the City of Lake Elmo. Council Member Park seconded the motion. The motion passed 4-1 (Mayor Johnston voting against.) LAKE EL MO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 21, 2009 MOTION: Council Member Smith moved to continue the remainder of council agenda items until the May 5, 2009, City Council meeting. Council Member Park seconded the motion. The motion passed 5-0. The meeting was adjourned at 10:30 p.m. Respectfully submitted by Sharon Lumby, City Clerk LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 21, 2009 ITEM: Approve disbursements in the amount of S 180,569.5? SUBMITTED BY: Tom Bouthilet, Finance Director Claire # / mour6t ACH ACH S 2,941.35 ACH S 1,218.59 DD2156 - DD2169 $ 18,246.70 34131 - 34137 $ 9,628.45 34138 - 34182 S 148,534.85 Total: S 180,569.52 City Council 5/5/2009 CONSENT Item: 2 Description Payroll Taxes to Wisc. Dept. of Rev. 04/23/09 Payroll Taxes to IRS 04/23/09 Payroll Taxes to Mn Dept.of Revenue 04/23/09 Payroll Dated 04/2' 2009 (Direct Deposit) Payroll Dated 04/23/2009 (Payroll & Benefits) Accounts Payable Dated 05/05/2009 SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The Cih, Council is being asked to approve disbursements in the total amount of $180,569.52 Accounts Payable Checks for Approval User: julie Printed: 04/30/2009 - 1:07 PM Cheek Number Cheek Date 34150 34175 34175 34169 34157 34171 34168 34181 34172 34172 34172 34172 34172 34181 34158 34151 34151 34158 34160 34178 34154 34161 34177 34159 34159 34159 34170 34170 34139 34173 34173 34147 34141 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05105/2009 0.5105/2009 05/05/2009 05/0512009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2op9 05105/2009 0.5/05/20(l9 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 05/05/20p9 05/05/2009 05/05/2009 Funrl Nnrne General Fund General Fund General Fund Genera.IFund General Fund General Pond General Fund Oenctal Fund Geperal Fund Geperal Fund Gaperal Fund Geperal Itund Geperal Fund General Fund Escrow Fund General Fund General Fund Lscrow Fund Geperal Ruud 2006A G,0 Equip. Curt. ludehf. General Fund Gejtaral Fund 2001 GO bnpraventent Bond General Fund Geperal Rued General Fund Geperal .Fund General Ruud General Fund Gejreral Fund General Fund General Fond Capital Aquisitions Account Name Contract services Office Supplies Office Supplies Conferences & Training Contract Services 134111ing Permit Conferences & Training Newsletter Coble Operation fxpense Cable Operation Expense Cable Operation Expense Cable Operation Expense Use Tax Payable Newsletter/Website Deposits Payable Contract Services Contract Services Deposits Payable Dues & Subscriptions Bond Interest Assessing Services Office Supplies Fiscal Agent Fees Fuel, Oil and Fluids Fuel, Oil and Fluids Fuel, Oil and pluids Legal Services Attorney Criminal Dyes & Subscriptions Zoning Ordinance Dev - CD13G Newsletter/Website Repairs/maint Eqpt Vehicles Vendor Name City of Roseville Wr Office Product's, Inc. S&T Office Products, file. Dong Pepin Kamco Prairie Restorations, Inc. Owatonna Fire cnferencr, Fund United States Postal Service Steven Press Steven Press Steven Press Steven Press Steven Press United States Postal Servlcc Kootenia Flows Eagle Point Business Park Cagle Point Business Palk Kootenia Homes League of NW Cities State Bank of Delano FXL, fie. Leffler Companies, Inc. Standards &Pool"s Lake 1311110 Oil; Inc. Lake Elmo Oil, Inc. Lake Elmo Oil, Inc. Peterson Pram & Bergman Corp Peterson From & Bergman Corp ACS Governtueut Systems, Inc. Rogers Printing Services. Copp Rogers Printing Services, Corp Car Quest Anto Parts American Test Center, core AP - Checks for Approval ( 04/30/2009 - i:07 PM) Page I Amount. 712,50 38.58 343.88 75.00 404.70 40.00 1.50.00 500.00 62.71 47.03 62.71 62.71 -14,36 180.00 1,000.00 38.2.00 720.00 1,000.00 52.19 2,336.00 2,000.00 81.13 4,200.00 857.00 623,42 870.00 1,391.50 4,30115 74,L56 111.83 1,676,31 30.48 150.00 Cheek Number Check Dale Fund Name Account Name Vendor Name Anmttut 34153 05/05/2009 Capital Aquisitious Other Equipment fire Safety USA, Inc. 7,390.00 34149 05/05/2009 Capital Aquisitions Other Equipment Cities Digital 1,200.00 34156 05/05/2009 Geineml fund Miscellaneous International Code Council 100..00 34146 05/05/2009 General Fund I"squipmont PHI -IS Batteries Plus Woodbury, Corp 20.22 34182 05/05/2009 Water Bond Interest US Book Trust 12,382.50 34164 0.5/05/2009 Capital Aquisillons Other Equipment Metro Fire 300.00 34165 05/05/2009 Surface Water Utility Sq'eet Sweeping Mike McPhillips Inc 8,580.()0 34143 05/05/2009 General Pond Contract Services Anitmd Control Services 939.16 34174 05/05/2009 General Fund Repairs/Maint Conh•aduHl Bldg Diane Rud 340.80 34174 05/05/2009 General Fund Repairs/Maine Bldg Diane Kurt 255.60 34174 05/05/2009 General Fund Cleaning Supplies Diane Rod 20.05 34174 05/05/2009 General Fund Use Tax Payable, Diane Rind -36.40 34152 0.5/05/2009 General Fund Repairs/Maint Lqp( Emergency Apparatus Maint. INC 587.51 34148 05/05/2009 General Fund Srrall Tools & Minor Equipment Century Power Equipment 2&63 34179 05/05/2009 General Fund street Maintenance Materials T.A. Schifsky & Sons Inc 56,71 34144 0.5/05/2009 General Fund Uniforms Aramark, Inc. 36,14 34144 05105/2009 General Fund Uniforms Aramark, Inc. 36.14 34162 05/05/2009 General Fund Contract Services McCombs Frank Roos Assoc Inc,.. 202.00 34180 05/05/2009 General Fund Telephone TDS MLTROCOM - LLC 104.87 3,1180 05/05/2009 General Fund Telephone TDS MrTROCOM - LLC 153.55 34180 05/05/2009 Sewer Teleplione TDS METROCOM - LLC 103..29 34180 05/05/2009 Water Tolephone 'IDS METROCOM-LLC 41.72 34140 05/05/2009 General fund Comprehensive Planning American Legal Publishing Corp 1,944.00 34140 05/05/2009 General Fund ComprehensivpPlanping American Legal Publishing Corp 8.00 34140 05/05/2009 General Fund Comprehonsive Planping American Legal Publishing Corp 210.GQ 34140 05/05/2009 General Fund Comprehensivp Planning American Legal Publishing Cone 5.00 34155 05/05/2009 General Fund Repairs/Maim Eqpt IiISBC Business Solutions 9.80 34176 05/05/2009 General Fund Conferences & Training Soutb Central College 235.00 34138 05/05/2009 General Fund Repairs/Maint Bldg Ace Hardware, Ine 6.16 34166 0S/05/2009 General Fund Telephone Nextel Communicaticus 102.20 34160 05/05/2009 General Fetid 'Telephone Nextel Communications 102.73 34166 05/05/2009 General Fund 'Trlephopc Nextel Cmmlmnications 34.31 34166 0.5/05/2009 General Fund Talcphope Nextel Comgrunications 58.84 34166 05/05/2Q09 General Fund Telephane Nextel Communications 17.16 34142 05/05/2009 General Fund Radio ANCOM COMMUNICATIONS, INC. 105,12 34145 05/05/2009 General Fund Srpall Tools & Equipment Aspen Mills, Inc. 99.95 3,1145 05/05/2,009 Genet at Fund Uniforms Aspen Mills, Inc. 65.45 34145 05/05/2009 Capital flquisitjon6 OthevEquipment Aspen Mills, doe. 57,90 341,63 05/05/2009 General Fund Srpall Tools & Equipment Meuards - Stillwater 59.59 34145 05/05/2009 General Frind Uf iforms Aspen Mills, Inc. -195.00 34167 05/05/2Q09 Water Bond Interest Northlpncl Trust Services, Inc, 87,512.50 rotal for this Date: '148,534.83 AP - Checks for Approval ( 04/30/2009 - 1:07 1'M ) Page 2 City Council Date May 5, 2009: CONSENT Item: Motion ITEM: Continuation of Consideration of Sign Ordinance to May 19 Council Meeting SUBMITTED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The City Council spent over two hours listening to a presentation on the proposed new sign ordinance and asking for clarifications during the presentation. The Council decided that it would continue its discussion of this item to its May 5 meeting. As staff considered the number of items that must be on the agenda for the May 5 Council meeting and are also likely to result in lengthy discussion among the Council, staff believed it would be more effective for the Council to conduct its business on May 5 by postponing the proposed sign ordinance to the May 19 Council meeting. Due attention to the proposed sign ordinance should be more easily accomplished at the May 19 meeting, and a two -week delay is not significant for the sign ordinance. The Council should take the formal action necessary to continue this item to May 19, 2009. SUGGESTED MOTION FOR CONSIDERATION Move to continue discussion of the proposed sign ordinance to the May 99, 2009, meeting of the City Council. City Council Date: May 5th, 2009 Consent Agenda Item: ITEM: Seasonal PW/Park Employees REQUESTED BY: Public Works Department SUBMITTED BY: Michael Bouthilet, Public Works Superintendent REVIEWED BY: Craig Dawson, City Administrator Tom Bouthilet, Finance Director PURPOSE The city council is being asked to hire two returning and experienced summer seasonal employees. (John Eder and Logan Weir) RECOMMENDATION Suggested motion for consideration: To hire seasonal employees, John Eder and Logan Weir for the 2009 summer season. SUGGESTED ORDER OF BUSINESS: Comments City Administrator, Finance Director ATTACHMENTS: City Council Date: 5-5-09 CONSENT Item: Motion ITEM: Northern Natural Gas Multiple Line Rights and Temporary Work Space Easements SUBMITTED BY: Jack Griffin, City Engineer REVIEWED BY: Ryan Stempski, Assistant City Engineer Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator Tom Bouthilet, Finance Director SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The City Council is being asked to grant the Multiple Line Rights and Temporary Work Space Easements on the impacted City property for the construction of a 30" gas line by Northern Natural Gas. By Statute, the City Council must approve such an affect on its property. Five City -owned parcels will be impacted during the construction of an additional 30" Northern Natural Gas Line. Per the existing easement agreement between the City of Lake Elmo and Northern Natural Gas. the City must be compensated for the placement of an additional pipe within the existing easement area. Additionally, the City of Lake Elmo is owed fair compensation for temporary work space utilized during construction of the additional gas line. The City Administrator worked with the City Assessor to verify fair compensation amounts were offered per property. The compensation amounts and easement exhibits of the affected City parcels are attached. The Right -of -Way Permit will be completed administratively in accordance with City Ordinance. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: If any 'trees are required to be removed in the Temporary Workspace areas due to safe installation of the pipe, the City will receive compensation to replace the trees per the attached Tree Value Schedule, prepared by the City Forester. Trees will be marked and inspected by the City Forester prior to removal. BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The project consists of approximately 6 miles of 30" diameter steel pipe. The project extends from just north of Hudson Boulevard to the north side of T.H. 36 between Lake Elmo Avenue and Manning Avenue. Please refer to attached Northern Natural Gas drawing of the project location. RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that the Council grant the Multiple Line Rights and Temporary Work Space Easements with Northern Natural Gas. SUGGESTED MOTION FOR CONSIDERATION. - Move to grant the Multiple Line Rights and Temporary Work Space Easements for the Northern Natural Gas Pipeline Project. ATTACHMENTS: 1. Project Location Map 2, Property Calculations for compensation amounts 3. Easement Exhibits of City property 4. Tree Value Schedule dated March 10, 2009 yL9 Fn J ep 4..N x ' x.Arn M♦N - - - Yb .I.InweN - ; •� t '0 (4 ! - f! ex� z 60rN Slrwlln s, I dY 2 0 t - i _ ♦NL Stre♦I C,N N NY ys z ....m. 4r. 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City of Lake Elmo, Revised Property Calculations - Northern Natural Gas Company For The Earring on -Forth Branch C-Line Extension Project WA-016 Multiple Lane Rights —1527 Rods x $15:00 = $229.05 Temporary Work Space - .109 acres x 10% = $242.19 Total WA-036 Multiple "Line Rights —16.12 Rods x $15.00 = S241.80 Total $24I.80 WA-049 Multiple Line Rights—10'.73 Rods x $15.00 = $250.95 Tempora y Work Space - .619 acres x 10% = $842.86 Total S L'093.8I WA-050 Notification only WA-109 Multiple Line Rights — 28.24 Rods x $15.00 = $423.60 Temporary Work Space - .474 acres x 10%= $59 25 Total $482.85 WA-124 Multiple Line Rights — 51.94 Rods x $15.00 = $779.10 Temporary Work Space - .745 acres x 10%= $1,655.39 Total $2,434.49 Grand Total $a 724.t9 The figures used. in +!ese calculations arc based on 10% of the assessed value, per acre, which varies for each property. n —FOR— ;arthern d caturCri' l Gas N.W. V4RN, 0257NE (FO N.E. CORNER OF 77Y UND QLM.J / r-NOR7H. 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Nowait, Inc. �L, ?* d.EFN5UR 0 P l�l 1 n^ I :] SOU7REAST CORNER OF PARK-' � 4\I� �SOU7H LINE OF PARK—'pp91—�-4 Sd9'51'01 "W 567.89 Y (55946'45"W 561.85) INT OF SECINN1NG 0 DENOTES FOUND ,WONUNENT —G— EXIS77NG UNDERGROUND GAS PIPELINE 7 B _J DENOTES 7EUPO,RARY WORKSPACE (N00'00'00 E Y,XX.X.Y) RECORD PLAT .MEASUREMENTS EXHIBIT "A" Jarthern a MNM 86502 Natural Gas s SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 29 N, RANGE 21 W, FILE NO. 010e1567 _ WASHINGTON COUNTY, M114NESOIA I C41EET ' of 2 ILE NO. 6119 WA-049 EFN PROJECT NO. 33355 &FIE T EXHIBIT 1 .-NOPiN LINE OF FARK 0 60 120 SCALE IN FEET Bearings based on NAD 83, Washington County, MN grid system SUMMARY 20,656 sq. ft. j 0-47 2 acres I —FOR— -mlao'rt9 ern Natural Gas FOIiJT GF BfL'1P1NtNG-( ; CORNER OF i taa97137 E SSg:1T 3z�W N PARK, WE FIELDS OF SL / ✓r—NOPTHEAST CRUX 2ND A00MON ----------- 5t., i 9 I 9 ��s I o I dl 2VIy � I � 2wl W� I I J I �4 I l4 it I i � I 2� x 2 �y I W I @99 _ n`J I, a NORTH w ,11Y1 4 L FOYd.� 11 F.µER��R1N 4,41 \ S REF1 5� 2Ra2 " I hereL+.v �,e,a6ltF�tis"1e: Vey was La°'+9mD grepga"",@@ vpn-der my stI00fys:d9 and that i e�@�:,A+� ani;"a`,,`t7��w1 Licensed Larid'SdA yor under tCLe-14; of the State of fbihla. DENOTES FOUND MONUMENT —C— EXISTING UNOERCROUND GAS PIPELINE i 2f L ! �-' DENOTES TEMPORARY WORKSPACE R. Hanse`n' g license No. ?aeorES0:streief3nnNeE=, aoe8tVa5".5: r'40130 6ti14663D0 o 63=.d4y�'$n9AnTe4¢v0tpr"8�i6(2) 46 Egan. field 5 NoraaE,. Inc tantl au,ye 4n ra elrl a 1892 EFN nLE N0. 6119 WA-109 EXHIBIT "A' MNM 86502 SECTION 12, TOW14SFIIP 29 N, RANGE 21 W, WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA Natural Gas Fill NO. 01061897 SHEET 1 OF 2 EFN PROJECT NO. 33355 � r�l —N. w. CORNER / OF 774E N.E. 7/4 SEC. 1 i o c \ °n o h= 0 2 I I 1 I 1 -FOR- ort i1ern Cia 0 100 200 SCALE FEET Bearings based on NAD 83, Washington County, MN grid system / SUMMARY REA \ /- \ � j 3?_,"M173 sqSE4`. ft.--7 OJ455 acres av` \U5 t'` T \ n\1% Z 2 \ 1 9�y Ty, N u QO is �A OHO \ 1 If PQ\p \ �F 9 / VER S IV.. CORNER OF THE NE. is �'"4� \ \ J \\ OF P.4ERN. E. 7/4 .c S. W. 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WWWAFNsuaNTY-earl WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA - SHEFT I OF 2 m. -u�,. alnca arz E?T7 FILE N. 6119 WA-124 ...__ ........,.„,,.� vc......�.�.�w�. n. �.,.. ma EFN PROJECT N9. 33355 To: Ryan Stempski, TKDA Engineering City of Lake Elmo From: lathy Widin Forestry Consultant City of Lake Elmo 3/l0/€10 Free Values — Park Property and Gas Line Construction Areas As requested, I have calculated a range of tree values for different tree species in proposed gas line construction areas on city parkland. Following are the areas where work is proposed, the main tree species which might be removed or damaged in the course of construction, and a range of values, depending on trunk diameter, for the different tree mecies and sizes. Area i — Sanctuary (Outlot D — future park) northern pin oaks 12-24 in. trunk diameter condition — fair Value Range = S800-S2,700 Trees 6-11 m. = Replacement Value = S444.00 (25 in. B&B tree & planting costs) Area 2 — Fields of St. Croix (lTeritage Farms Park) American linden (approx. 6 in. diameter) : Replacement Value = S470 00 (25 in. B&B tFce & planting costs) .Area 3 — Tartan Meadows (park area) cottonwood, aspen, elm 10-24 in. trunk diameter condition — fair Value Range — S500-S2100 Tree species, size and condition at each locate on were determined by information provided by ne Dept. of Pub. Works, Lake Elmo, and photographs provided by Ryari Stempsld, T KD A City Council Date: 05/05/09 CONSENT Item: MOTION: ITEM: General Fund transfer to Fall Festival Fund SUBMITTED BY: Tom Bouthilet, Finance Director REVIEWED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The City Council is being asked to consider approving the transfer of $7,500 from the General Fund, lawful gambling proceeds, to the Fall Festival Fund. On February 17th the Lake Elmo Jaycees presented a check to the City in the total amount $7,500 from its lawful gambling proceeds. For the past few years, these funds were used to recognize the efforts of the City volunteers. Last year, volunteers and family members participated in the Spaghetti Supper at no cost, were acknowledged publicly and presented a Gift Certificate as part of the 1 s` Annual Fall Festival. Plans are currently underway for the 2"d Annual Fall Festival with similar activities and volunteer recognition programs. The Fall Festival Committee is asking that the 2009 lawful gambling proceeds be dedicated to the Fall Festival events. MOTION FOR CONSIDERATION: Move to approve transfer of $7,500. lawful gambling proceeds in the General Fund to the Fall Festival Fund. CITY OF LAKE ELMO WASHINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA RESOLUTION NO.2009-018 A RESOLUTION PROCLAIMING THE 21V° ANNUAL LAKE ELMO FALL FESTIVAL WHEREAS, the City has many volunteers who serve countless hours to make the City of Lake Elmo a better place to live and work, WHEREAS, the City acknowledges their commitment and dedication, WHEREAS, the City wishes to express appreciation for their efforts, WHEREAS, the City also celebrates "Community" by bringing families, friends and neighbors together to enjoy two days of festivities, NOW, THEREFORE, I, Dean A Johnston, Mayor of Lake Elmo, do hereby proclaim Friday and Saturday, September 11d` and 12`h, 2009 as the 2nd Annual Lake Elmo Fall Festival. Dean A. Johnston, Mayor City Council Date: 5/5/09 CONSENT Item: Resolution 1 Resolution 2 ITEM: Consideration of a resolution in support of Sunfish Lake Park as a participant in the Minnesota DNR cross --country ski GIA program and a resolution in support of a Capital Improvement Project Grant Application to the cross-country ski GIA program for the construction of an information kiosk. REQUESTED BY: Carol Kriegler, Project Assistant REVIEWED BY: Park Commission Mike Bouthiiet, Parks & Public Works Superintendent Craig Dawson, City Administrator SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The City Council is being asked to consider resolutions in support of Sunfish Lake Park as a participant in the Minnesota DNR cross --country ski GIA program and a resolution in support of a Capital Improvement Project Grant Application to the cross-country ski GIA program for the construction of an information kiosk. The GIA program provides limited funds to trails owned and operated by both private trail organizations and local units of government. Trail administration, development, and maintenance costs are divided with the GIA program paying 65 percent of these costs and the local club or sponsor providing the remaining 35 percent. Winter trail grooming costs are divided with the GIA program paying 90 and the local sponsor paying 10 percent. Record keeping by the local sponsor is required by the local sponsor. Funds to support the program are made available through the sale of Minnesota ski passes. While the city has no obligation to enforce the requirement for skiers using Sunfish Lake Park to have a ski pass, the placement of a sign and other communications are encouraged. The park is currently signed as such. Reimbursable trail maintenance costs include items such as: Trail grooming (90%) Parking lot maintenance Parking lot and driveway snow plowing Signs / trail map reproduction Portable toilet rental Trail mowing Tree and brush removal In addition, the program offers capital improvement grants that are reimbursable at 100%. The commission is being asked to consider a resolution in support of a Capital Improvement Project Application for the construction of an information kiosk to be located at the trailhead of Sunfish Lake Park. The proposed kiosk would provide a central location for the posting of general information to assist users in their ability to use the trail in a safe and enjoyable manner. Information that could be posted includes a trail map, rules and regulations, emergency and general contacts, and interpretive information. The kiosk would also be used to demonstrate the city's strong commitment it its recycling program. The use of recycled plastic lumber to construct the kiosk has the potential to reinforce the value in recycling. Cost of the kiosk is estimated at $2,000. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Sunfish Lake Park was at onetime Minnesota DNR Grant -In -Aid Ski Trail. Apparently about 10 years ago, the city stopped being an active participant. Carol Knegler has verified the city's status with the DNR and requested consideration of reinstatement. While the DNR is no longer taking on new participants, they have expressed a willingness to reinstate Sunfish Lake Park into the program. Grooming of Sunfish Park trails is contracted to Washington County. The county is an active participant in the GIA program with the Lake Elmo Park Reserve receiving a reimbursement of $8,000-10.000 annually for their trails. The county has agreed to assist in the record keeping of the trail grooming that occurs at Sunfish Lake Park. The Park Commission voted in support of the city's participation in the GIA program by unanimous vote. They also directed staff to determine where Minnesota ski passes can be purchased and asked that efforts be made to make the purchase of the ski pass convenient for Sunfish Lake Park cross country skiers. SUGGESTED MOTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION: MOTION 1: Move to approve a resolution in support Sunfish Lake Park as a participant in the Minnesota DNR cross-country ski GIA program. MOTION 2: Move to approve a resolution in support o,*' a Capital Improvement Project Grant Application to the cross-country ski GIA program for the construction of an information kiosk at Sunfish Lake Park. 2 CITY COUNCIL CITY OF LAKE ELMO RESOLUTION NO. 2009-020 A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CAPITAL. IMPROVEMENT PROSECT APPLICATION TO THE MIN=N-ESOTA CROSS COUNTRY SKI TRAIL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INFORMATION KIOSK IN SUNFISH LAKE PARK. WHEREAS, Sunfish Lake Park is a unique, natural oasis that provides the opportunity for a wonderful cross-country ski experience; WHEREAS, the City of Lake Elmo desires to maintain the cross-country ski trails and provide information at the park to ensure that the trails can be used in a safe and enjoyable mariner. WIIEREAS, the City desires to take advantage of available financial assistance and resources to cover costs associated with improvements and maintenance of the ski trails. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Lake Elmo City Council supports application to the Minnesota Cross Country Ski Trail Assistance Prograrn for the construction of an information Kiosk in Sunfish Lake Park with Carol Kriegler, Project Assistant, named as the program administrator to act on behalf of the city. Dean A. Johnston; Mayor ATTEST: Craig W. Dawson, interim City Administrator CITY COUNCIL CITY OF LADE ELMO RESOLUTION NO.2009-021 A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE PARTICIPATION IN THE MIN NTESOTA CROSS COUNTRY SKI TRAIL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR THE MAINTENANCE OF SUNFISH LADE PARK SKI TRAILS. WHEREAS, Sunfish Lake Park is a unique natural oasis that provides the opportunity for a wonderful cross-country ski experience; WHEREAS, the City of Lake Elmo desires to maintain the cross-country ski trails be used in a safe and enjoyable manner; WHEREAS, the City desires to take advantage of available financial assistance and resources to cover cost of maintaining the ski trails; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Lake Elmo City Council supports application to the Minnesota Cross Country Ski Assistance Program, for the maintenance of the Sunfish Lake Park cross country ski trails with Carol Kriegler, Project Assistant, named as the program administrator to act on behalf of the City. ADOPTED by the Lake Elmo City Council on May 5, 2009. Dean A. Johnston, Mayor ATTEST: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator City Council Date: 5!5J09 CONSENT ITEM: Authorization to purchase plants and landscape materials for the May 30th Arbor Day/MnDOT Landscape Partnership Program planting project. SUBMITTED BY: Kelll Miatzek. Planner REVIEVIED BY: Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator Kyle Klatt, Planning Director SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The City Council is being asked to authorize the purchase of plant materials for the Saturday. flay 3C'h Arbor Day/MnDOT Landscape Partnership Program planting project which will take place within the Highway 5 rignt-of-way adjacent to the Fields of St. Croix, Second Addition development (near Little Bluestem Trail N). Requests for proposals for the materials were requested from five vendors. Vendors were requested to provide pricing for material meeting MnDOT specifications, to specify pricing with and without a vvarrantee if offered, and to identify if a delivery fee is applicable as well. Four proposals were received as of the writing of this report: Abrahamson Nurseries, Bachman Wholesale, Buells Garden Center, and Grove Nursery. Both Bachman s and Buell's submission substituted an item(s) on the list of materials identified by the Landscape Architec-, from IJinDOT. Grove Nursery did not provide pricing for the compost or woodchias also being requested. Althouch the cit•, can order materials from more than one contractor in an effort to mix and match the pricing points provided, in an effort to simplify the coordination between the City Forester and Pubiic Works Superintendent with the supplier, staff would recommend ordering all the material from just one company. Grove Nursery - $ ,731.; 5 (omitted woodchips and compost in pricing) Bachrnans - .SJGU68.93 (omitted two trees and woodchips in pricing, substituted other sizes of plants) Abrahamson - $9.923.75 (provided no indication of a substitution or omission) Buelis - S10,679.00 (omitted pricing for a substitute shrub) Abrahamson Nursery was the only submission received that also provided a dollar amount for a warrantee. The total amount for the proiect would be S11,675.0G to include atwo-year warrantee on trees and shrubs: a one-year warrantee would be provided on perennials. Although a warranty has not been acquired on the projects accomplished through this grant in the last two projects, staff is recommending accepting the proposal by Abrahamson nursery with the warranty. Abrahamson nursery had a competitive and complete price provided and it was the only complete submission based on the materials and sizes identified in the project. If the warranty is also secured, the pricing still falls well below the S13.000 limit identified in the grant agreement for this project. RECOMMENDED ACTION: City staff and Todd Carroll, the Landscape Architect with MnDOT, recommend accepting the proposal from Abrahamson nursery with the warrant. Although the likelihood of plant loss is very unikely given the value of the wholesale materials and city stairs sufficient waterpng, the pricing is still within the S13,000 budgeted amount set by MnDO T . REQUESTED ACTIGN: Auu OhZaticn to purchase landscape material with a warranty in accordance with the May 30"' Arbor Day"MinDO T Landscape Partnership Program planting project from Abrahamson Nursery. The %InDOT Landscape Partnership Program agreement provides for the reimbursement of project material costs up to S131000. ATTACH MIENT: 1. A/iap of Planting Location State Hfir,,-,hwa,- , 35 / Fields 2- ' Add.rlon Planting Location City Council Date: 5/5/09 REGULAR Item: Motion 1 Motion 2 ITEM: Purchase of equipment related to audio visual improvements for the council chambers SUBMITTED BY: Carol Kriegler, Project Assistant REVIEWED BY: Ted Arbeiter, Director of Facilities and Technical Support, RWCC Ginny Holder, Lake Elmo Cable Commissioner Tom Bouthilet, Finance Director Carole Luczak, Program Support Assistant Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED The City Council is being asked to authorize 1) the purchase of production -related audio visual equipment, an interactive lectern, and incidental materials and supplies related to the installation of the equipment by the Ramsey Washington Cable Commission technical staff and 2) the purchase of presentation -related audio visual equipment to include 3 monitors. The City is eligible to receive a one-time grant from the Ramsey Washington Cable Commission in an amount not to exceed $50,000 for the purchase and installation of production -related audio visual improvements for the council chambers. The purchase of 3 monitors is also recommended, though these items are classified as presentation -related equipment and not eligible for reimbursement by the grant program. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Audio Visual Equipment The current council chambers audio visual equipment is over :30 years old and in need of replacement. The overall goal of the equipment purchases and installation is intended to improve overall production and presentation quality and reliability. Goals of the improvement program include the reduction / elimination of technical difficulties, improved audio and picture quality, improved presentation capabilities, and the elimination of visible wiring / cables and related trip hazards. The proposed equipment inventory and associated specifications were developed by the RWCC technical staff in consultation with reputable audio visual vendors, cable commissioner Ginny Holder, and city staff members including the part-time cable operator. It is recommended that the installation of the equipment be conducted by the RWCC technical staff. There is no charge for this service. The proposed equipment inventory includes the following: cameras, microphones, desktop visual presenter, switcher, monitor panels, speakers, amplifier, audio switch, DVD / RAM / digital recorders, and monitors. The inventory also includes various brackets and hardware for mounting the equipment. All equipment will be fully transferrable in the event city hall is relocated. A "Request for Proposal' for the purchase of this equipment package was requested from five audio visual vendors. Five proposals were received with three of the proposals being for the complete equipment package. The equipment package RFP included the specified equipment manufacturer, description, model number and quantity. Vendors were permitted to propose comparable / equivalent substitutions with a written explanation supporting the substitution. The three complete proposals were received from: AVI $44,178.00 Alpha Video $41,348.00 EPA $40,130.00 The Alpha Video proposal is recommended for acceptance as the EPA proposal, while lower it price, included substitutions for the specified monitors. EPA's proposed substitution was for a consumer quality monitor while a commercial quality monitor was specified. RWCC and Alpha Video have a positive project history. Interactive Lectern The Interactive lectern is a grant -eligible piece of production -related equipment that will be available to those presenting to the council. The lectern will be different than the current lectern in that it will be large enough for the placement of a digital presenter and laptop on the top surface, and the internal placement of a monitor viewable on the front side by the council. This piece of equipment was not included on the equipment inventory due to the unique desired features and the inability of all vendors to have access to such a piece of equipment for resale. Instead, a budget of $4,000 is recommended for the purchase or fabrication of a lectern that meets the city's unique needs. The limited space within the chambers presents a challenge as most "standard" interactive lecterns are larger than what can be accommodated in our current space. The capacity to hold a monitor internally is another feature that is not common to "standard" lecterns. More information related to the placement of the interactive lectern and monitors within the chambers will be made available in a presentation at the council meeting. Proiect Cost Summary Production -related Alpha Video equipment purchase $38,361.00, plus tax Presentation -related Alpha Video equipment purchase $5,606.00, plus tax Production related Interactive lectern allowance $4,000.00, plus tax Production -related installation contingency (To be used for materials and supplies related to re- wiring/cabling and installation of equipment by RWCC, or additional equipment determined to be in need of replacement by RWCC at the time of installation. $4,000.00, plus tax SUGGESTED MOTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION: MOTION 1: Move to authorize the purchase of g, ant- eligible, production -related audio visual equipment from Alpha Video, an interactive lectern, and necessary installation- related materials, supplies and equipment as deemed necessary by the RWCC technical staff at a total cost not to exceed $49, 375.00. MOTION 2: Move to authorize the purchase of non -grant eligible, presentation -related audio visual equipment from Alpha Video in an amount not to exceed $5, 970.39 with the funds coming from the city's capital equipment fund. ORDER OF BUSINESS: - Introduction.................................................................. Carol Kriegler, Project Assistant - Discussion/Questions.................................................................. City Council Members - Call for a motion.................................................................................. Mayor Facilitates - Discussion of Council on the motion ................................................... Mayor Facilitates - Action by the City Council .................................................... Mayor & Council Members 3 City Council Date: April 7, 200£ REGULAR Item: Informational Item — No Motion ITEM: Update on Activities at the Regional Council of Mayors SUBMITTED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: Mayor Johnston has been active in the Regional Council of Mayors, and wishes to provide an update on the activities of that group. As this is an informational item, no action is requested of the Council, although the Council may wish to offer comments and identify any follow-up for staff. ATTACHMENTS: • "Economic Development Thoughts", slides from PowerPoint presentation made at March 31, 2009, meeting of the Regional Council of Mayors • Article by Richard Florida published in the March 2009 issue of The Atlantic. ORDER OF BUSINESS: • Introduction Mayor Johnston • Report by presenter Mayor Johnston • Questions from City Council members to the presenter Mayor facilitates • Questions/comments from the public to the City Council Mayor facilitates • Action (if any) City Council .� • �- - r� • o Develop Long -Term strategy for growth i Gross State Product • •specifically Enhanceemphasize Metro Region) relationships/collaborations within Regional Identify9 Develop momentum in Science and Technology Regional Economic Segmen ShortmTerm I • Long -Term Identify and measure appropriate "dashboard" or "scorecard" benchmarks Card)Other Statistics (2007 Development Report — MN ranks 48th in New Company Formation rIR grants —23rd in Manufacturing . YJf Investment —22nd in VC Investments — 19th in PhD scientists and engineers Regional Statistics U.S. Metro Economies U.S. Metro Economies; Gross Metropolitan Product with Housing Update, January 2007 • A key success behind the economic development of metro areas is the proximity of businesses and skilled labor. The synergy provided by - labor, - extensive business networks, - cutting edge research at institutes of higher learning, that - attracts both capital and entrepreneurs to metro areas. • Metro areas are at the center of the development of new technologies, such as nanotechnology or biotechnology, and play a major role in shaping the future economic development. 6 6.6 6 1 ood I Oal Fars J Ilt 16iUNIng ilia Elecirldsif ECIL111.11Tlerlt' Heavy P40111 lery !. __ rlsirkllfle Fg ropc $ I M I s PubIl IIh al ti rh llg� 4 Qgy waor Fir orlor W. g� and CIA V SilelhIS ie BuAsIl fttal; ervio-s Region _ phap e of Nat'l Errip: �.07 I Eduo6tiol Ind 1w I rigd Creation ft1TISP-11I1,iitIori and I-prjIst! os I BLISI, He, !t I ye e=hof d N-1-515- �Ip_ ft gr VI P� I S I'Llrillb -ire lobacja pal el Oil and iGas Prod%ptgjggl:� t and Der'llise, Aer pa Frigill- -L7 -1.6 -1.3 -1. 1 -(),q -0.7 -0.5 .03 .0.1 0.1 0.3 OR 0.7 0.9 Source: Lee W. Munnich, Jr. University of MN 14 0-19,399 211 20000-39999 * dO000-79999 � 80000+ Competitiveness and Composition of Minnesota Economy I enknna 4z At-rnc-q Traded Clusters. 2006 V 6ishing & Fishing Products ., 17 Distribution Services 13 Financial Services 13 Business Services ® 19 Entertainment 12 Tobacco 20 Enclosures 18 nt Power Generation 28 Minnesota overall rank = 18 Note: Clusters with overlapping borders or identical shading have at least 20% overlap (by number of industries) in both directions. Textiles 27 Materials 17 Heavy Services '1% 25 (Forest oducts 4 Source: Lee W Food 9 Jr. University of MN ` . . •IM 1.1 .` w: tFA4�t.'�3'df�"hI'It74d ?sLI ri PIT II, ChONN4 NIA-11aMlTY Pie Send9'und9 $n14rtI,ViECV .... Vc tl1sipk PU4lsi�au I��i luGni7srn�ra�r Pfio��nius ��`�� 6r i V� nka,l6a m U, U nWjwb 311uhI ol) §4ON � M1 k � t yy j ear gin, dnOtttlmni_Pnna( j3. NEW EMPLOYERS: Oregon's national rank for new Employer Identification Numbers per 1,000 workers (1stoth = best) I � q. 3 loth el s ME 9 loth JrSU y,- loth ti ti ti ti ti L 'L 'L 'L L ,yp0 ryoti 5, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES: On egon's concentration In professional services relative to the US concentration (US 100%) 80% YrAE-AIV1} 1 413 60% .;�L 0�1 000 �00 000 00� OOry . 00� OOp OOy 000 O h 'r ti ti ti ti ti L 'L 'L ti �Oti �01 HMHRM�MMMO 8. VENTURE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS: Oregon's national rank In venture capital investments per $1.,000 of GDP by state Olh (1st = highest rate of investment) f , I i 20th� Z� era 30[h � r ra a -r t s yl 0�0 g°j� p00 00'Y OOL 00 � OOp 00� 000 00� O �� ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ,�o'� ,yoti 16, EXPORT STABILITY: Percent of total exports traded with non -primary partners 10o% .. r _. —_ ... 80% 20oo data pdiht revised fail )bob i r� 2001. O�W �m0 000 00,' 001' 00� 00�` 00� 000 001 O h ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti ti `LOti 'L01 Setting up a Meeting of Participating Mayor's in Bloomington Applying • • support from•• •'• r foundations NetworkingwithWorkforce ► y Nano, BioBusiness Alliance, Large Corporations, U of Encouraging meetings between city community development groups (common borders and/or common industries) Identifying appropriate "dashboard" or "scorecard" benchmarks Support proposed legislationThursday) Senate to establish a North• Commissi ; EDCorp with emphasis on . and Technology • •I.IiNt IW 0 infrastructureGeographic concentrations of competing, complementary, or interdependent firms Common needs for -talent, technology, and changing as the industries themselves or external conditions change Centered on firms that sell outside the local, state, national market Driving forces in a national, regional, state or metropolitan economy "-�low to create a portfolio of clusters? As with "financial portfolio theory" the benefit of a portfolio of clusters are the spread of risk .and ability to maintain regional momentum when clusters behave "out -of - phase". However, strategic management of a portfolio of economic clusters will also benefit from: Inter -cluster economic transactions (sustainable energy as both an exporter and productivity improver) An educational culture that does not depend on the content of education • Technology spillovers • Intellectual revolutions spend their reputations through actions as well ideasof • . • to and careers in spreading ideas as i For i " and technology initiative should be developed to focus i the three key areas including: • Human Capital — training and development • Science and Technology :•••' Infrastructure research labs (public and private) • CommercializationAssistance capital for start• company growth; from seed grants to support innovation •'investmentcapital formation (Angel Tax Credits, funding) • . • a sort lei col EXISTING HIGH-TECH PRESENCE is CRITICAL Traditional High -Tech Business Factors Specific Factors • Tax Structure • Proximity to Excellent • Compensation Costs Research Institutions • Space Costs • Access to Venture Capital • Capital Costs Educated Workforce • Business Climate Network of Suppliers • Technology Spillovers • Climate and Quality of Life Source: Milken Institute, America's High -Tech Economy, 1999 Source: Atlanta Foruin - Mary Jo Waits luster? • Scientific personal interaction (Watering boles) are required with minimal "empire building„ • Significant data handling technology and informatics will be a cluster backbone "Re -tooling" of the informatics system to open -source 1 •pen -access will increase contentand revise access algorithms performOpportunity to o f the intuitively conceived technologies • First Class scientific characterization facilities and laboratories for prototype design and assessment • Seamless interaction between industry businesses, especially between large and small businesses From The Atlantic March 2009 The crash of ZOOS continues to reverberate loudly nationwide —destroying jobs, bankrupting businesses, and displacing homeowners. But already, it has damaged some places much more severely than others. On the other side of the crisis, America's economic landscape will look very different than it does today. What fate will the coming years hold for New York, Charlotte, Detroit, Las Vegas? Will the suburbs be ineffably changed? Which cities and regions can come back strong?And which will never come back at all? by Richard Florida How the Crash Will This article has been corze tad since it was published in the pant magazine. Y FATHER WAS a child of the Great Depression. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1921 to Italian immigrant parents, he experienced the economic crisis head-on. He took a job working in an eyeglass factory in the cit3's ironbound section in 1934, at age 13, combining his wages with those of his father, mother, and six siblings to make a single-family income. When I was growing up, he spoke often of his memories of breadlines, tent cities, and government -issued clothing. At Christmas, he would tell my brother and me how his parents, unable to afford new toys, had wrapped the same toy steam shovel, year after year, and placed it for him under the tree. In my extended family, my uncles occupied a pecking order based on who had grown up in the roughest economic circumstances. My Uncle Walter, who went on to earn a master's degree in chemical engineering and eventually became a senior executive at Colgate-Palmolive, came out on top —not because of his academic or career achievements, but because he grew up with the hardest lot. My father's experiences were broadly shared throughout the country. Although times were perhaps worst in the declining rural areas of the Dust Bowl, everyregionsuffered, and the residents of small towns and big cities alike breathed in the same uncertainty and distress. The Great Depression was a national crisis —and in many ways a nationalizing event. The entire country-, it seemed, tuned in to President Roosevelfs fireside chats. The current economic crisis is unlikely to result in the same kind of shared experience. To be sure, the economic contraction is causing pain just about everywhere. In October, less than a month after the financial markets began to melt down, Moody's Economy.com` published an assessment of recent economic activity within 381 U.S. metropolitan areas. Three hundred and two were already in deep recession, and 64 more were at risk. Only 15 areas were still expanding. Notable among them were the oil- and natural -resource -rich regions of Texas and Oklahoma, buoyed by energy prices that have since fallen; and the Greater Washington, D.C., region, where government bailouts, the nationalization of financial companies, and fiscal expansion are creating work for lawyers, lobbyists, political scientists, and government contractors. No place in the United States is likely to escape a long and deep recession. Nonetheless, as the crisis continues to spread outward from New York, through industrial centers like Detroit, and into the Sun Belt, it will undoubtedly settle much more heavily on some places than on others. Some cities and regions will eventually spring back stronger than before. Others may never come back at all. As the crisis deepens, it will permanently and profoundly alter the countrys economic landscape. I believe it marks the end of a chapter in American economic histoy, and indeed, the end of a whole way of life. GLOBAL CRISES AND ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION "One thing seems probable to me," said Peer Steinbriick, the German fmance minister, in September 2008. As a result of the crisis, "the United States will lose its status as the superpower of the global financial system." You don't have to strain too hard to see the financial crisis as the death knell for a debt -ridden, overconsuming, and underproducing American empire —the fall long prophesied by Paul Kennedy and others. Big international economic crises —the crash of 1873, the Great Depression —have a way of upending the geopolitical order, and hastening the fall of old powers and the rise of new ones. In The Post American World (published some months before the Wall Street meltdown), Fareed Zakaria argued that modern history s third great power shut was already 2 upon us —the rise of the West in the i5th century and the rise of America in the tgth century being the two previous sea changes. But Zakaria added that this transition is defined less by American decline than by "the rise of the rest." We're to look forward to a world economy, he wrote, "defined and directed from many places and by many peoples." That's surely true. Yet the course of events since Stembriick's remarks should give pause to those who believe the mantle of global leadership will soon be passed. The crisis has exposed deep structural problems, not just in the U.S. but worldwide. Europe's model of banking has proved no more resilient than America's, and China has shown that it remains every bit the codependent partner of the United States. The Dow, down more than a third last year, was actually among the world's better -performing stock -market indices. Foreign capital has flooded into the U.S., which apparently remains a safe haven, at least for now, in uncertain times. It is possible that the United States will enter a period of accelerating relative decline in the coming years, though that's hardly a foregone conclusion —a subject I'll return to later. What's more certain is that the recession, particularly if it turns out to be as long and deep as many now fear, will accelerate the rise and fall of specific places urithin the U.S.—and reverse the fortunes of other cities and regions. By what they destroy, what they leave standing, what responses they catalyze, and what space they clear for new growth, most big economic shocks ultimately leave the economic landscape transformed. Some of these transformations occur faster and more violently than others. The period after the Great Depression saw the slow but inexorable rise of the suburbs. The economic malaise of the ig7os, on the other hand, found its embodiment in the vertiginous fall of older industrial cities of the Rust Belt, followed by an explosion of growth in the Sun Belt. The historian Scott Reynolds Nelson has noted that in some respects, today's crisis most closely resembles the `Long Depression," which stretched, by one definition, from 1873 to t896. Itbegan as a banking crisis brought on by insolvent mortgages and complex financial instruments, and quickly spread to the real economy, leading to mass unemployment that reached 25 percent in New York. During that crisis, rising industries like railroads, petroleum, and steel were consolidated, old ones failed, and the way was paved for a period of remarkable innovation and industrial growth. In 1870, New England mill towns like Lowell, Lawrence, Manchester, and 3 Springfield were among the country's most productive industrial cities, and America's population overwhelmingly lived in the countryside. By r9oo, the economic geography had been transformed from a patchwork of farm plots and small mercantile towns to a landscape increasingly dominated by giant factory- cities like Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Buffalo. How might various cities and regions fare as the crash of 2oo8 reverberates into 2009, 2010, and beyond? Which places will be spared the worst pain, and which left permanently scarred? Let's consider how the crash and its aftermath might affect the economic landscape in the long run, from coast to coast —beginning with the epicenter of the crisis and the nation's largest city, New York. WHrrHER NEw YORK? At first glance, few American cities would seem to be more obviously threatened by the crash than New York. The city shed almost 17,000 jobs in the financial industuy alone from October 2007 to October 2008, and Wall Street as we've known it has ceased to exist. `Farewell Wall Street, hello Pudong?' begins a recent article by Marcus Gee in the Toronto Globe and Mail, outlining the possibility that New York's central role in global finance may soon be usurped by Shanghai, Hong Kong, and other Asian and Middle Eastern financial capitals. This concern seems overheated. In his sweeping history-, Capitals of, Capital, the economic historian Youssef Cassis chronicles the rise and decline of global financial centers through recent centuries. Though the history is long, it contains little drama: major shifts in capitalist power centers occur at an almost geological pace. Amsterdam stood at the center of the world's financial system in the i7th century; its place was taken by London in the early 19th century, then New York in the loth. Across more than three centuries, no other city has topped the list of global financial centers. Financial capitals have `remarkable longevity," Cassis writes, "in spite of the phases of boom and bust in the course of their existence." The transition from one financial center to another typically lags behind broader shifts in the economic balance of power, Cassis suggests. Although the U.S. displaced England as the world's largest economy well before igoo, it was not until after World War Ii that New York eclipsed London as the world's preeminent financial_ center (and even then, the eclipse was not complete; in recent years, London has, by some measures, edged out New York). As Asia 4 has risen, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore have become major financial centers —yet in size and scope, they still trail New York and London by large margins. In finance, "there is a huge network and agglomeration effect," former assistant U.S. Treasury secretary Edwin Truman told The Chrisrian Science Monitor in October —an advantage that comes from having a large critical mass of financial professionals, covering many different specialties, along with lawyers, accountants, and others to support them, all in close physical proximity. It is extremely difficult to build these dense networks anew, and very hard for up-and-coming cities to take a position at the height of global finance without them. "Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, and Tokyo are more important than they were 20 years ago," Truman said. "But will they reach London and New York's dominance in another 20 years? I suspect not." Hong Kong, for instance, has a highly developed IPO market, but lacks many of the other capabilities —such as bond, foreign-exchange, and commodities trading —that make New York and London global financial powerhouses. "A crucial contributory factor in the financial centres' development over the last two centuries, and even longer," writes Cassis, "is the arrival of new talent to replenish their energy and their capacity to innovate." All in all, most places in Asia and the Middle East are still not as inviting to foreign professionals as New York or London. Tokyo is a wonderful city, but Japan remains among the least open of the advanced economies, and admits fewer immigrants than any other member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a group of 3o market -oriented democracies. Singapore remains for the time being a top -down, socially engineered society. Dubai placed 44th in a recent ranking of global financial centers, near Edinburgh, Bangkok, Lisbon, and Prague. New York's openness to talent and its critical mass of it —in and outside of finance and banking —will ensure that it remains a global financial center. N THE SHORT RUN, the most troubling question for New York is not how much of its finance industry will move to other places, but bow much will simply vanish altogether. At the height of the recent bubble, Greater New York depended on the financial sector for roughly 22 percent of local wages. But most economists agree that by then the financial economy had become bloated and overdeveloped. Thomas Philippon, a finance professor at New York University, reckons that nationally, the share of GDP coming from finance will probably be reduced from its recent peak of 8.3 percent to perhaps 7 percent —I suspect it may fall farther, to perhaps as little as 5 percent, roughly its contribution a generation ago_ in either case, it will be a big reduction, and a sizable portion of it will come out of Manhattan. Lean times undoubtedly lie ahead for New York. But perhaps not as lean as you'd think —and certainly not as lean as those that many lesser financial outposts are likely to experience. Financial positions account for only about 8 percent of the New York area's jobs, not too far off the national average of 5.5 percent. By contrast, they make up 28 percent of alljobs in Bloomington -Normal, Illinois; t8 percent in Des Moines; 13 percent in Hartford; io percent in both Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Charlotte, North Carolina. Omaha, Nebraska; Macon, Georgia; and Columbus, Ohio, all have a greater percentage of population working in the financial sector than New York does. New York is much, much more than a financial center. It has been the nation's largest city for roughly two centuries, and today sits in America's largest metropolitan area, as the hub of the country's largest mega -region. It is home to a diverse and innovative economy built around a broad range of creative industries, from media to design to arcs and entertainment. It is home to high-tech companies like Bloomberg, and boasts a thriving Google outpost in its Chelsea neighborhood. Elizabeth Currid's book, The ihlarhol Economy, provides detailed evidence of New York's diversity. Currid measured the concentration of different types of jobs in New York relative to their incidence in the U.S. economy as a whole. By this measure, New York is more of a mecca for fashion designers, musicians, film directors, artists, and — yes —psychiatrists than for financial professionals. The great urbanist lane Jacobs was among the first to identify cities' diverse economic and social structures as the true engines of growth. Although the specialization identified by Adam Smith creates powerful efficiency gains, Jacobs argued that the jostling of many different professions and different types of people, all in a dense environment, is an essential spur to innovation —to the creation of things that are truly new. And innovation, in the long ran, is what keeps cities vital and relevant. In this sense, the financial crisis may ultimately help New York by reenergizing its creative economy. The extraordinary income gains of investment bankers, traders, and hedge -fund managers over the past two decades skewed the city s economy in some unhealthy ways. In 2005, 1 asked a top-ranidng official at a major investment bank whether the city's rising real- estate prices were affecting his company's ability to attract global talent. He responded simply. "We are the cause, not the effect, of the real-estate bubble." (-As it turns out, he was only half right.) Stratospheric real-estate prices have made New York less diverse over time, and arguably less stimulating. When I asked Jacobs some years ago about the effects of escalating real-estate prices on creativity, she told me, "When a place gets boring, even the rich people leave." With the hegemony of the investment bankers over, New York now stands a better chance of avoiding that sterile fate. AhmmcA'S "FAsr" CnaEs: CRisis AND REDnTT N c)N In his zoos book, The Yt'ortd Is Fiat, Thomas Friedman argues, essentially, that the global economic playing field has been leveled, and that anyone, anywhere, can now innovate, produce, and compete on a par with, say, workers in Seattle or entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. But this argument isn't quite right, and doesn't accurately describe the evolution of the global economy in recent years. In fact, as I described in an earlier article for this magazine ("The World is Spilcy,' October 2005 [link opens PDF]), place still matters in the modern economy —and the competitive advantage of the world's most successful city -regions seems to be growing, not shrinking. To understand how the current crisis is likely to affect different places in the United States, it's important to understand the forces that have been slowly remaking our economic landscape for a generation or more. Worldwide, people are crowding into a discrete number of mega -regions, systems of multiple cities and their surrounding suburban rings like the Boston -New York -Washington Corridor. In North America, these mega -regions include SunBelt centers like the Char-Lanta Corridor, Northern and Southern California, the Texas Triangle of Houston -San Antonio - Dallas, and Southern Florida's Tampa -Orlando -Miami area; the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia, stretching from Portland through Seattle to Vancouver; and both Greater Chicago and Tor -Buff -Chester in the old Rust Belt Internationally, these mega -regions include Greater London, Greater Tokyo, Europe's Am -Bros -Twerp, China's Shanghai -Beijing Corridor, and India's Bangalore-Mumbai area. Economic output is ever -more concentrated in these places as well. The world's 40 largest mega -regions, which are home to some 18 percent of the world's population, produce two-thirds of global economic output and nearly 9 in ro new patented innovations. Some (though not all) of these mega -regions have a clear hub, and these hubs are likely to be better buffered from the crash than most cities, because of their size, diversity, and regional role. Chicago has emerged as a center for industrial management and has rolled up many of the functions, such as finance and law, once performed in smaller midwestern centers. Los Angeles has a broad, diverse economy with global strength in media and entertainment. 7 Miami, which is being hit hard by the collapse of the real-estate bubble, nonetheless remains the commercial center for the large South Florida mega -region, and a major financial center for Latin America. Each of these places is the financial and commercial core of a large mega - region with tens of millions of people and hundreds of billions of dollars in output. That's not going to change as a result of the crisis. Along with the rise of mega -regions, a second phenomenon is also reshaping the economic geography of the United States and the world. The ability of different cities and regions to attract highly educated people —or human capital —has diverged, according to research by the Harvard economists Edward Glaeser and Christopher Berry, among others. Thirty years ago, educational attainment was spread relatively uniformly throughout the county, but that's no longer the case. Cities like Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, Raleigh, and Boston now have two or three times the concentration of college graduates of Akron or Buffalo. Among people with postgraduate degrees, the disparities are wider still. The geographic sorting of people by ability and educational attainment, on this scale, is unprecedented. The University of Chicago economist and Nobel laureate Robert Lucas declared that the spillovers in knowledge that result from talent -clustering are the main cause of economic growth. Well-educated professionals and creative workers who live together in dense ecosystems, interacting directly, generate ideas and turn them into products and services faster than talented people in other places can. There is no evidence that globalization or the Internet has changed that. Indeed, as globalization has increased the financial return on innovation by vridening the consumer market, the pull of innovative places, already dense with highly talented workers, has only grown stronger, creating a snowball effect. Talent -rich ecosystems are not easy to replicate, and to realize their full economic value, talented and ambitious people increasingly need to live within them. Big, talent -attracting places benefit from accelerated rates of "urban metabolism," according to a pioneering theory of urban evolution developed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers affiliated with the SantaFe Institute. The rate at which living things convert food into energy —their metabolic rate —tends to slow as organisms increase in size. But when the Santa Fe team examined trends in 'innovation, patent activity, wages, and GDP, they found that successful cities, unlike biological organisms, actually get faster as they grow. In order to grow bigger and overcome diseconomies of scale Like congestion and rising housing and business costs, cities must become more efficient, innovative, and productive. The researchers dubbed the extraordinarily rapid metabolic rate that successful cities are able to achieve "super -linear" scaling. "By almost any measure," they wrote, "the larger a city s population, the greater the innovation and wealth creation per person." Places like New York with finance and media, Los Angeles with film and music, and Silicon Valley with hightech are all examples of high -metabolism places. Metabolism and talent -clustering are important to the fortunes of U.S. city -regions in good times, but they're even more so when times get tough. It's not that "fast" cities are immune to the failure of businesses, large or small. (One of the great lessons of the 1873 crisis —and of this one so far —is that when credit freezes up and a long slump follows, companies can fail unpredictably, no matter where they are.) It's that unlike many other places, they can overcome business failures with relative ease, reabsorbing their talented workers, growing nascent businesses, founding new ones. Economic crises tend to reinforce and accelerate the underlying, long-term trends within an economy. Our economy is in the midst of a fundamental long-term transformation —similar to that of the late 19th century, when people streamed off farms and into new and rising industrial cities. In this case, the economy is shifting away from manufacturing and toward idea -driven creative industries —and that, too, favors America's talent -rich, fast -metabolizing places. THE LAST CRISIS OF THE FAcroRYTo ATNs Sadly and unjustly, the places likely to suffer most from the crash —especially in the long run —are the ones least associated with high finance. While the crisis may have begun in New York, it will likely find its fullest bloom in the interior of the country —in older, manufacturing regions whose heydays are long past and in newer, shallow -rooted Sun Belt communities whose recent booms have been fueled in part by real-estate speculation, overdevelopment, and fictitious housing wealth. These typically less affluent places are likely to become less wealthy still in the coming years, and will continue to struggle long after the mega -regional hubs and creative cities have put the crisis behind them. The Rust Belt in particular looks likely to shed vast numbers of j obs, and some of its cities and towns, from Cleveland to St. Louis to Buffalo to Detroit, will have a hard time recovering. Since 1950, the manufacturing sector has shrunk from 32 percent of nonfarm employment to just Io percent. This decline is the result of long-term trends —increasing foreign competition and; especially, the relentless replacement of people with machines —that look unlikely to abate. But the job losses themselves have proceeded not steadily, but rather in sharp bursts, as recessions have killed off older plants and resulted in mass layoffs that are never fully reversed during subsequent upswings. E In November, nationwide unemployment in manufacturing and production occupations was already 9.4 percent. Compare that with the professional occupations, where it was just a little over 3 percent. According to an anaiysn done by Michael Mandel, the chief economist at BusinessWeek, jobs in the "tangible" sector —that is, production, construction, extraction, and transport —declined by nearly 1.8 million between December 2007 and November 2008, while those in the intangible sector —what I call the "creative class" of scientists, engineers, managers, and professionals —increased by more than doo,000. Both sorts of jobs are regionally concentrated. Paul Krugman has noted that the worst of the crisis, so far at least, can be seen in a "Slump Belt," heavy with manufacturing centers, running from the industrial Midwest down into the Carolinas. Large swaths of the Northeast, with its professional and creative centers, have been better insulated. Perhaps no major city in the U.S. today looks more beleaguered than Detroit, where in October the average home price was $18,313, and some 45,000 properties were in some form of foreclosure. A recent listing of tax foreclosures in Wayne County, which encompasses Detroit, ran to agi pages in the Detroit Free Press. The city's public school system, facing a budget deficit of S4o8 million; was taken over by the state in December; dozens of schools have been closed since 2005 because of declining enrollment. Just ao percent of Detroit's adult residents are college graduates, and in December the city's jobless rate was 2a percent. To say the least, Detroit is not well positioned to absorb fresh blows. The city has of course been declining for a Iong time. But if the area's auto headquarters, parts manufacturers, and remaining auto -manufacturing jobs should vanish, it's hard to imagine anything replacing them. When work disappears, city populations don't always decline as fast as you might expect. Detroit, astonishingly, is still the lath -largest city in the U.S. "If you no longer can sell your property, how can you move elsewhere?" said Robin Boyle, an urban -planning professor at Wayne State University. in a December Associated Press article. But then he answered his own question: "Some people just switch out the lights and leave —property values have gone so low, walking away is no longer such a difficult option." Perhaps Detroit has reached a tipping point, and will become a ghost town. I'd certainly expect it to shrink faster in the neat few, years than it has in the past few. But more than likely, many people will stay —those with no means and few obvious prospects elsewhere, those with close family ties nearby, some number of young professionals and creative types looking to take advantage of the city's low housing prices. Still, as its population density dips 10 further, the city's struggle to provide services and prevent blight across an ever -emptier landscape will only intensify. That's the challenge that many Rust Belt cities share: managing population decline without becoming blighted. The task is doubly difficult because as the manufacturing industry has shrunk, the local high -end services —finance, law, consulting —that it once supported have diminished as well, absorbed bybigger regional hubs and globally connected cities. In Chicago, for instance, the country's 5o biggest law firms grew by 2,130lawyers from 1984 to 2006, according to William Henderson andArthur Alderson of Indiana University. Throughout the rest of the Midwest, these firms added a total of just 169 attorneys. Jones Day, founded in 1893 and today one of the country's largest law firms, no longer considers its Cleveland office "headquarters" —that's in Washington, D.C.—but rather its "founding office.' Many second -tier midwestern cities have tried to reinvent themselves in different ways, with varying degrees of success. Pittsburgh, for instance, has sought to reimagine itself as a high- tech center, and has met with more success than just about anywhere else. Still, its population has declined from a high of almost 700,000 in the mid -loth century- to roughly 300,000 today. There will be fewer manufacturing jobs on the other side of the crisis, and the U.S. economic landscape will be more uneven —"spikier" —as a result. Many of the old industrial centers will be further diminished, perhaps permanently so. THAT'S NOT TO SAY that every- factory town is locked into decline. You need only look at the geographic pattern of December's Senate vote on the auto bailout to realize that some places, mostly in the South, would benefit directly from the bankruptcy of GM or Chrysler and the closure of auto plants in the Rust Belt. Georgetown, Kentucky; Smyrna, Tennessee; Canton, Mississippi: these are a few of the many small cities, stretching from South Carolina and Georgia all the way to Texas, that have benefited from the establishment, over the years, of plants that manufacture foreign cars. Those benefits could grow if the Big Three were to become, say, the Big Two. This phenomenon, a sort of lottery whereby some places win merely by outlasting others, will not be limited to towns built around automobiles, or even around manufacturing. As the recession continues and large companies in a variety of industries fail, their remaining competitors may grow stronger, along with the places where those competitors are situated. 11 Charlotte, North Carolina, offers an interesting case study. The financial crisis left one of the city's two big banks, Wachovia, ailing; this fall, Wachovia was acquired by San Francisco — based Wells Fargo, in a deal that will cost the city many thousands of jobs. But things could have been much worse; the deal also preserved manyjobs. What's more, at roughly the same time, Bank of America, Charlotte's other large bank (and the biggest bank in the U.S.) bought Merrill Lynch for pennies on the dollar. A business truism holds that when your competitors are retrenching, it's a great time to grow your market share. Deborah Strumsky, an economist at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, told me she believes that in the end, both Charlotte's banking industry and Charlotte itself will emerge from the crisis all the stronger: "The Wells Fargo deal has saved thousands of jobs by keeping Wachovia afloat. More importantly, Bank of America has taken to the banking crisis like a shopaholic with a new credit card; it has been bargain -hunting and cutting some astonishing deals. Bank of America will come out the other side far better than in any fantasy it might have entertained previously." In recent years, Charlotte's leaders have made some smart decisions about how to attract businesses and professionals, enabling the city to grow into the nation's second-largest traditional banking center; in the lottery of business failure and consolidation, it was well positioned to win. But it was also Iucky, and last fall, it escaped losing, big-time, by no more than a hair's breadth. Overall, the roster of places that benefit from the failure of their champions' rivals will probably be pretty short, and the names on the roster somewhat unpredictable. Especially among cities built around declining industries, more places will be weakened than strengthened; as with all lotteries, most players will lose. Crrlus LN THE SAND: THE END of EksF EXPANsioN For a generation or more, no swath of the United States has grown more madly than the Sun Belt. Of course, the area we call the "Sun Belt" is vast, and the term is something of a catch- all: the cities and metropolitan areas within it have grown for disparate reasons. Los Angeles is a mecca for media and entertainment; San dose and Austin developed significant, innovative high-tech industries; Houston became a hub for energy production; Nashville developed a unique niche in low-cost music recording and production; Charlotte emerged as a center for cost-effective banking and low -end finance. But in the heady days of the housing bubble, some Sun Belt cities —Phoenix and Las Vegas are the best examples —developed economies centered largely on real estate and construction. With sunny weather and plenty of flat, empty land, they got caught in a classic 12 boom cycle. Although these places drew tourists, retirees, and some industry —firms seeking bigger footprints at lower costs —much of the cities' development came from, well, development itself. At a minimum, these places will take a long, long time to regain the ground they've recently lost in local wealth and housing values. It's not unthinkable that some of them could be in for an extended period of further decline. To an uncommon degree, the economic boom in these cities was propelled by housing appreciation: as prices rose, more people moved in, seeking inexpensive lifestyles and the opportunity to get in on the real-estate market where it was rising, but still affordable. Local homeowners pumped more and more capital out of their houses as well, taking out home - equity loans and injecting money into the local economy in the form of home improvements and demand for retail goods and low-level services. Cities grew, tax coffers filled, spending continued, more people arrived. Yet the boom itself neither followed nor resulted in the development of sustainable, scalable, highly productive industries or services. It was fueled and funded by housing, and housing was its primary product. Whole cities and metro regions became giant Ponzi schemes. Phoenix, for instance, grew from 983,403 people in 19go to 1,552,259 in 2007. One of its suburbs, Mesa, now has nearly half a million residents, more than Pittsburgh, Cleveland, or Miami As housing starts and housing prices rose, so did tax revenues, and a major capital - spending boom occurred throughout the Greater Phoenix area. Arizona State University built a new downtown Phoenix campus, and the city expanded its convention center and constructed a 20-mile light -rail system connecting Phoenix, Mesa, and Tempe. And then the bubble burst. From October 2007 through October 2008, the Phoenix area registered the largest decline in housing values in the country: 32.7 percent. (Las Vegas was just a whisker behind, at 31.7 percent. Housing in the New York region, by contrast, fell by just 7.5 percent over the same period.) Overstretched and overbuilt, the region is now experiencing a fiscal double whammy, as its many retirees —some 21 percent of its residents are older than 55—have seen their retirement savings decimated. Mortgages Limited, the state's largest private commercial lender, filed for bankruptcy last summer. The city is running a $too million budget deficit, which is only expected to grow. Last fall, the city government petitioned for federal funds to help it deal with the financial crisis. "We had a big bubble here, and it burst," Anthony Sanders, a professor of economics and finance at ASU, told USA Today in December. "We've taken Kevin Costner's Field of Dreams and now it's Field of Screams. If you build it, nobody comes." i3 Will people wash out of these places as fast as they washed in, leaving empty sprawl and all the ills that accompany it? Will these cities gradually attract more businesses and industries, allowing them to build more -diverse and more -resilient economies? Or will they subsist on tourism —which may be meager for quite some time —and on the Social Security checks of their retirees? No matter what, their character and atmosphere are likely to change radically. 1'iIE lAmr s of .SUBURBAN GROWTH Every phase or epoch of capitalism has its own distinct geography, or what economic geographers tali the "spatial fix" for the era. The physical character of the economy —the way land is used, the location of homes and businesses, the physical infrastructure that ties everything together —shapes consumption, production, and innovation. As the economy grows and evolves, so too must the landscape. To a surprising degree, the causes of this crash are geographic in nature, and they point out a whole system of economic organization and growth that has reached its limit. Positioning the economy to grow strongly in the coming decades will require not just fiscal stimulus or industrial reform; it will require a new kind of geography as well, a new spatial fix for the next chapter of American economic history-. Suburbanization was the spatial fix for the industrial age —the geographic expression of mass production and the early credit economy. Henry Ford's automobiles had been rolling off assembly lines since 1913, but "Fordism," the combination of mass production and mass consumption to create national prosperity, didn't emerge as a full-blown economic and social model until the r93os and the advent of Roosevelt's New Deal programs. Before the Great Depression, only a minority of Americans owned a home. But in the 1930s and'40s, government policies brought about Ionger-term mortgages, which lowered payments and enabled more people to buy a house. Fannie Mae was created to purchase those mortgages and lubricate the system. And of course the tax deduction on mortgage - interest payments (which had existed since 1913, when the federal income-tax system was created) privileged house purchases over other types of spending. Between 1940 and r96o, the homeownership rate rose from a4 percent to 62 percent. Demand for houses was symbiotic with demand for cars, and both were helped along by federal highway construction, among other infrastructure projects that subsidized a new suburban lifestyle and in turn fueled demand for all manner of household goods. More recently, innovations in finance like adjustable -rate mortgages and securitized subprime 14 loans expanded homeownership further and kept demand high. By 2004, a record 69.2 percent of American families owned their home. For the generation that grew up during the Depression and was inclined to pinch pennies, policies that encouraged freer spending were sensible enough —they allowed the economy to grow faster_ But as younger generations, weaned on credit, followed, and credit availability increased, the system got out of hand. Housing, meanwhile, became an ever -more -central part of the American Dream: for many people, as the recent housing bubble grew, owning a home came to represent not just an end in itself, but a means to financial independence. On one level, the crisis has demonstrated what everyone has known for a long time: Americans have been living beyond their means, using illusory housing wealth and huge slugs of foreign capital to consume far more than we've produced. The crash surely signals the end to that; the adjustment, while painful, is necessary. But another crucial aspect of the crisis has been largely overlooked, and it Wright ultimately prove more important. Because America's tendency to overconsume and under -save has been intimately intertwined with our postwar spatial fix —that is, with housing and suburbanization—the shape of the economy has been badly distorted, from where people live, to where investment flows, to what's produced. Unless we make fundamental policy changes to eliminate these distortions, the economy is likely to face worsening handicaps in the years ahead. Suburbanization—and the sprawling growth it propelled —made sense for a time. The cities of the early and mid -loth century were dirty, sooty, smelly, and crowded, and commuting from the first, close -in suburbs was fast and easy. And as manufacturing became more technologically stable and product lines matured during the postwar boom, suburban growth dovetailed nicely with the pattern of industrial growth. Businesses began opening new plants in green -field locations that featured cheaper land and labor; management saw no reason to continue making now -standardized products in the expensive urban locations where they'd first been developed and sold. Work was outsourced to then -new suburbs and the emerging areas of the Sun Belt, whose connections to bigger cities by the highway system afforded rapid, low-cost distribution. This process brought the Sun Belt economies (which had lagged since the Civil War) into modern times, and sustained a long boom for the United States as a whole. 15 But that was then; the economy is different now. It no longer revolves around simply making and moving things. Instead, it depends on generating and transporting ideas. The places that thrive today are those with the highest velocity of ideas, the highest density of talented and creative people, the highest rate of metabolism. Velocity and density are not words that many people use when describing the suburbs. The economy is driven by key urban areas; a different geography is required. THE NEXT ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE The housing bubble was the ultimate expression, and perhaps the last gasp, of an economic system some So years in the making, and now well past its "sell -by' date. The bubble encouraged massive, unsustainable growth in places where land was cheap and the real- estate economy dominant. It encouraged low -density sprawl, which is ill -fitted to a creative, postindustrial economy. And not least, it created a workforce too often stuck in place, anchored by houses that cannot be profitably sold, at a time when flexibility and mobility are of great importance. So how do we move past the bubble, the crash, and an aging, obsolescent model of economic life? What's the right spatial fix for the economy today, and how do we achieve it? The solution begins with the removal of homeownership from its long -privileged place at the center of the U.S. economy. Substantial incentives for homeownership (from tax breaks to artificially low mortgage -interest rates} distort demand, encouraging people to buy bigger houses than they otherwise would. That means less spending on medical technology; or software, or alternative energy —the sectors and products that could drive U.S. growth and exports in the coming years. Artificial demand for bigger houses also skews residential patterns, leading to excessive low -density suburban growth. The measures that prop up this demand should be eliminated. If anything, our government policies should encourage renting, not buying. Homeownership occupies a central place in the American Dream primarily because decades of policy have put it there. A recent study by Grace Wong, an economist at the Wharton School of Business, shows that, controlling for income and demographics, homeowners are no happier than renters, nor do they report lower levels of stress or higher levels of self-esteem. And while homeownership has some social benefits —a higher level of civic engagement is one —it is costly to the economy. The economist Andrew Oswald has demonstrated that in both the United States and Europe, those places with higher homeownership rates also suffer 16 from higher unemployment Homeownership, Oswald found, is a more important predictor of unemployment than rates of unionization or the generosity of welfare benefits. Too often, it ties people to declining or blighted locations, and forces them into work —if they can find it —that is a poor match for their interests and abilities. As homeownership rates have risen, our society has become less nimble: in the tg5os and r96os, Americans were nearly twice as likely to move in a given year as they are today. Last year fewer Americans moved, as a percentage of the population, than in any year since the Census Bureau started tracking address changes, in the late 1940s. This sort of creeping rigidity in the labor market is a bad sign for the economy, particularly in a time when businesses, industries, and regions are rising and falling quickly. The foreclosure crisis creates a real opportunity here. Instead of resisting foreclosures, the government should seek to facilitate them in ways that can minimize pain and disruption. Banks that take back homes, for instance, could be required to offer to rent each home to the previous homeowner, at market rates —which are typically lower than mortgage payments — for some number of years. (At the end of that period, the former homeowner could be given the option to repurchase the home at the prevailing market price.) A bigger, healthier rental market, with more choices, would make renting a more attractive option for many people; it would also make the economy as a whole more flexible and responsive. Next, we need to encourage growth in the regions and cities that are best positioned to compete in the coming decades: the great mega -regions that already power the economy, and the smaller, talent -attracting innovation centers inside them —places like Silicon Valley, Boulder, Austin, and the North Carolina Research Triangle. Whatever our government policies, the coming decades will likely see a further clustering of output, jobs, and innovation in a smaller number of bigger cities and city -regions. But properly shaping that growth will be one of the government's biggest challenges. In part, we need to ensure that key cities and regions continue to circulate people, goods, and ideas quickly and efficiently. This in itself will be no small task; increasing congestion threatens to slowly sap some of these city -regions of their vitality. Just as important, though, we need to make elite cities and key mega -regions more attractive and affordable for all of America's classes, not just the upper crust. High housing costs in these cities and in the more convenient suburbs around them, along with congested sprawl 17 farther afield, have conspired to drive lower -income Americans away from these places over the past 3o years. This is profoundly unhealthy for our society. In his forthcoming book, The Wealth of Cities, my University of Toronto colleague "Iris Kennedy shows that only wholesale structural changes, from major upgrades in infrastructure to new housing patterns to big shifts in consumption, allow places to recover from severe economic crises and to resume rapid expansion. London laid the groundwork for its later commercial dominance by changing its building code and widening its streets after the catastrophic fire of 1666. The United States rose to economic preeminence by periodically developing entirely new systems of infrastructure —from canals and railroads to modern water -and -sewer systems to federal highways. Each played a major role in shaping and enabling whole eras of growth. The Obama administration has declared its intention to open the federal government's pocketbook wide to help us get through this recession, and infrastructure spending seems poised to play a key role. Done right, such spending could position the United States for the next round of growth. But that will entail more than patching up roads and bridges. If there is one constant in the history of capitalist development, it is the ever -more -intensive use of space. Today, we need to begin making smarter use of both our urban spaces and the suburban rings that surround them —packing in more people, more affordably, while at the same time improving their quality of life. That means liberal zoning and building codes within cities to allow more residential development, more mixed -use development in suburbs and cities alike, the in -filling of suburban cores near rail links, new investment in rail, and congestion pricing for travel on our roads. Not everyone wants to live in city centers, and the suburbs are not about to disappear. But we can do a much better job of connecting suburbs to cities and to each other, and allowing regions to grow bigger and denser without losing their velocity. Finally, we need to be clear that ultimately, we can't stop the decline of some places, and that we would be foolish to try. Places like Pitts burgh have shown that a city can stay vibrant as it shrinks, by redeveloping its core to attract young professionals and creative types, and by cultivating high -growth services and industries. And in limited ways, we can help faltering cities to manage their decline better, and to sustain better lives for the people who stay in them. WI But different eras favor different places, along with the industries and lifestyles those places embody. Band-Aids and bailouts cannot change that. Neither auto -company rescue packages nor policies designed to artificially prop up housing prices will position the country- for renewed growth, at least not of the sustainable variety. We need to let demand for the key products and lifestyles of the old order fall, and begin building a new economy, based on a new geography. What will this geography look like? It will likely be sparser in the Midwest and also, ultimately, in those parts of the Southeast that are dependent on manufacturing. Its suburbs will be thinner and its houses, perhaps, smaller. Some of its southwestern cities will grow less quickly. Its great mega -regions will rise farther upward and extend farther outward. it will feature a lower rate of homeownership, and a more mobile population of renters. In short, it will be a more concentrated geography, one that allows more people to mix more freely and interact more efficiently in a discrete number of dense, innovative mega -regions and creative cities. Serendipitously, it will be a landscape suited to a world in which petroleum is no longer cheap by any measure. But most of all, it will be a landscape that can accommodate and accelerate invention, innovation, and creation —the activities in which the U.S. still holds a big competitive advantage. The Stanford economist Paul Romer famously said, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." The United States, whatever its flaws, has seldom wasted its crises in the past. On the contrary, it has used them, time and again, to reinvent itself, clearing away the old and making way for the new. Throughout U.S. history, adaptability has been perhaps the best and most quintessential of American attributes. Over the course of the lath century's Long Depression, the country remade itself from an agricultural power into an industrial one. Ater the Great Depression, it discovered a new way of living, working, and producing, which contributed to an unprecedented period of mass prosperity. At critical moments, Americans have always looked forward, not back, and surprised the world with our resilience. Can we do it again? Correction: The print version of this piece incoacctly cited anassessment published by Moody's Investor Services. The assessment was actually nubiished by Moody's Economy.com The URL for this page is http;iiw lheatianfic comfdoct200903imeltdown-geography 19 City Council Date: April21, 2009 REGULAR Item: Motion ITEM: Water System Financing Team for Groundwater Contamination Area SUBMITTED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator REVIEWED BY: David Snyder, incoming City Attorney Jack Griffin, City Engineer SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: Groundwater has been contaminated in the west -central and southwestern parts of Lake Elmo. Properties having private wells have been negatively affected, and residents are having their wells treated with individual granular activated carbon (GAC) systems, being provided bottled water, or have been connected to a public water supply. The best long-term solution, in terms of economic feasibility and reliable quality of water supply, is to expand the City's water system in order to supply water to this area. Given the high cost to most effectively provide City water, the City needs to find partners and sources for significant funds to make the needed improvements. The Council should consider designating a core team to lead this effort, with the understanding that other key persons will be involved as needed and the Council will be kept up-to-date and involved throughout. BACKGROUND: The public costs for the water system improvements are estimated to be in the area of $6 million, and the private costs to access the system are estimated to be in the range of $2 million to $3+ million. Through a consent decree by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA), 3M has provided funding for the measures taken to date; however, these measures have not addressed the long-term need for a water supply from the City. The City has had meetings with the MPCA and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) as recently as last fall, and began some exploratory discussions about possible funding sources. It is apparent that the needed funding will have to come from a variety of sources, and any reasonable opportunity should be pursued. Since then, staff has submitted application to be on the Project Priority List for the State's Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund for three water system improvements, including approximately $6 million for the Southwest Area Watermain Extension Project. This is, however, a loan program, rather than a grant, and would carry long-term costs. Federal stimulus funds may reduce the loan obligation. Staff has also submitted a federal appropriations request through Senator Klobuchar's office for approximately $3.4 million for this project in the 2010 fiscal year. As recommended during the review of the Water System chapter for the Comprehensive Plan during the April 14 City Council work session, a "team" should be assembled for the necessary financial assistance resulting from the groundwater contamination. The Council indicated its concurrence with this approach. Suggested Team: As the City has had discussions with State agencies and 3M in the past, the mayor and city administrator have participated on behalf of the City. Staff suggests that the persons in these two positions continue to head up the City's team going forward. By their nature, these positions represent the Council and the staff, and they carry weight in representing the City with others. As the mayor has been involved in past meetings, there would be a continuity in the he has developed relationships with other parties. For increased effectiveness, it is also important to the number of persons involved be small and have flexible schedules in order to concentrate on this project. Additionally, if Council were to name two of its members to the team, it would constitute a committee and need to notice anytime it would meet (per the Open Meeting Law), and affect the flexibility of meeting with other parties. Anything the City's team might do that could be characterized as negotiating would need to be done within parameters agreed upon by the Council. With this approach, the leads on the City team would call upon key people (e.g., city attorney, city engineer, perhaps other specialists) when appropriate to provide assistance. The Council would be kept up-to-date and involved in decision -making throughout the process. Water System Financing Team for Groundwater Contamination Area April 21, 2009, City Council Meeting Page Two RECOMMENDATION: It is recommended that the City Council designate the Mayor and City Administrator to head the City's team to identify and gain commitments for funding for improvements to the City's water system due to the need to address groundwater contamination in southwestern Lake Elmo, SUGGESTED MOTION FOR CONSIDERATION. Move to designate the Mayor and City Administrator as the team to lead the City's efforts to work with other governmental agencies and private corporations forfunding to improve the City's watersystem in order to serve those areas of Lake Elmo affected by groundwater contamination. ORDER OF BUSINESS: • Introduction Craig Dawson • Report by staff Craig Dawson • Questions from City Council members to the presenter Mayor facilitates • Questions/comments from the public to the City Council Mayor facilitates • Action on motion City Council City Council Date: REGULAR Item: Motion April 21, 2009 ITEM: Request Planning Commission To Develop Recommendations on City Activities for Economic Development SUBMITTED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: At its April 14 work session, the City Council had some discussion about what activities the City might begin to undertake in terms of economic development. At the end of the discussion, the Council decided that it should formally request the Planning Commission to identify what the City needs to be doing at present, and to begin to identify what commercial uses and development standards should be permitted in the City. The Council is requested to provide that formal direction to the Planning Commission. BACKGROUND: As a matter of general information, the Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Metropolitan Council calls for 1,400 employment residential equivalent connections (RECs) to the sewer system by 2030; in 2000, the estimated number of these employment RECs was 100. For employment RECs in the urban (sewered ) areas south of 10`h Street, non-residential development will meet or exceed an average of 40 employees per acre. The City has the discretion to determine what types of businesses will be developed. The proposed review of economic development by the Planning Commission would include the entire City, not just the area south of 101h Street. SUGGESTED MOTION FOR CONSIDERATION: Move to direct the Planning Commission to identify what activities the City should undertake in terms of economic development, and to identify what commercial uses and standards for commercial development should be permitted in the City. ORDER OF BUSINESS: • Introduction Craig Dawson • Report by staff Craig Dawson, Kyle Klatt • Questions from City Council members to the presenter Mayor facilitates • Questions/comments from the public to the City Council Mayor facilitates • Action on motion City Council City Council Date: May 5, 2009 REGULAR Item: Motion ITEM: Options regarding Action on 9224 315` Street North SUBMITTED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator David Snyder, City Attorney SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: At its April 21 meeting, Council requested that the City Attorney address options available to the Council since the time for the property owner's performance on the agreement had lapsed. The City Attorney's correspondence to the Council is confidential under the attorney -client privilege (and thus is not public data), and is being provided to Council in a sealed envelope. The City Attorney will lead the Council through the discussion of his analysis, and guide the Council on how it should reference the information during its discussion of this matter. The Council should identify which of the options it wants the attorney and staff to pursue. SUGGESTED MOTION FOR CONSIDERATION: Move to direct the City Attorney and staff to pursue Option _. ATTACHMENTS: Confidential memorandum from City Attorney (under attorney -client privilege) ORDER OF BUSINESS: • Introduction Craig Dawson • Report by staff Dave Snyder • Questions from City Council members to the presenter Mayor facilitates • Questions/comments from the public to the City Council Mayor facilitates • Action on motion City Council City Council Date: 5/5/09 Regular Item: ITEM: Adopt Lake Elmo Village Area Final AUAR REQUESTED BY: Planning Department SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Klatt, Planning Director REVIEWED BY: Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator Ciara Schlichting, Bonestroo SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED The City Council is being asked to adopt the Lake Elmo Village Area Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review and Mitigation Plan. This action would signify the conclusion of the lengthy environmental review process related to proposed development alternatives in the City's village planning area, and would allow the City to proceed with the next steps in the overall planning process to implement the Village Master Plan. Should the City Council decide to move forward with implementation of one of the four scenarios studied as part of the AUAR (which includes the current Comprehensive Plan), future development will need to be consistent with this document. The final Mitigation Plan is a key part of the document that clearly states the City's commitment to address the environmental issues identified throughout this process. The City received five comments related to the Final AUAR and did not receive any objections to the final document. The City's planning consultant has provided the Council with a summary of the comments received, along with a response when warranted. In cases were modifications to the Final AUAR would be beneficial based on the stated concerns, minor revisions to the document have been proposed. Please note that an AUAR is intentioned to assess the environmental impacts of a proposed development, and the scope of the current study does not take into account other factors that will also be important to address during the implementation of the Village Master Plan. For instance, the AUAR does not make any specific judgments concerning the design standards that might be necessary to ensure future development in the Village Area is consistent with the character of Lake Elmo. The completion of the AUAR process is one of the many steps that are necessary before development will occur in the Village. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The exact language from the Minnesota Environmental Review Program Rules for adoption of an AUAR (Section 4410.3610 Subp. 5,E) reads as follows: E. Unless an objection is filed in accordance with item D, the RGU shall adopt the revised environmental analysis document, including and the plan for mitigation, at its first regularly scheduled meeting held 15 or more days after the distribution of the revised document. The RGU shall submit evidence of the adoption of the document and plan for mitigation to the EQB staff and all agencies that have stated that they wish to be informed of any future projects within the area as part of their comments on the draft environmental analysis document. The EQB shall publish a notice of the adoption of the documents and the completion of the review process in the EQB Monitor. Upon adoption of the environmental analysis document, including and the plan for mitigation, residential, commercial, warehousing, and light industrial projects and associated infrastructure within the area that are consistent with the assumptions of the document and that comply with the plan for mitigation are exempt from review under parts 4410.1100 to 4410.1700 and 44102100 to 4410.2800. This language indirectly specifies that development could occur that is inconsistent with the AUAR, but would not be exempt from the environmental review process (and would need to conduct a separate EAW or EIS). One of the benefits of conducting an AUAR is that it allowed the City to examine the cumulative impacts of the proposed Village Master Plan (and existing Comprehensive Plan) rather than dealing with individual development projects as they were brought forward. Any future development in the AUAR will need to comply with the Mitigation Plan, which again provides a more holistic analysis of the mitigation strategies that will be necessary to implement the Village plan. From a planning perspective, the document provides a thorough overview of the environmental issues within the Village planning area and will be a useful tool for making decisions in the future. The Final AUAR establishes that future development in the Village Area will need to meet a very high threshold for environmental protection, especially as it relates to storm water management and the protection of key natural areas that were identified in the study area. These standards need to be implemented by the City in part through amendments to existing ordinances, and will be considered during the review of individual projects. With this framework in place, the City can begin to work on the next steps of the Village planning process. The City Council has not been provided with a complete copy of the final draft; instead the attached memorandum from the City's planning consult highlights the minor revisions proposed to address the final comments to the document. The full version of the Final AUAR is available on the City's web site, and previous versions have been distributed to the Council in electronic format. A final copy will be printed once final action is taken by the Council to adopt the AUAR. NEXT STEPS: Once the Final AUAR document is adopted by the City, the Council may then begin the process of identifying a preferred development scenario to implement. As part of this process, the Council intends to study all or some of the development scenarios for financial feasibility. Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan will be necessary to move forward with any scenario that differs from the City's existing land use plan. Some of the City's ongoing work related to the 2030 Comprehensive Plan project addresses a few of the issues identified in the AUAR. Fully implementing any of the scenarios studied under the AUAR will require additional Comprehensive Plan Amendments, zoning ordinance revisions, and other steps that may be necessary to comply with the Mitigation Plan. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the City Council adopt Resolution No. 2009-019 adopting the Lake Elmo Village Area Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review. ORDER OF BUSINESS: - Introduction................................................... Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator Report............................................................... Questions from the Council .............................. Questions/Comments from the public ............... Call for a Motion (required for further discussion, does not imply approval of the motion ............................. Discussion....................................................... Action on motion ............................................... ATTACHMENTS: Ciara Schlichting, Bonestroo .. Mayor & Council Members ................... Mayor facilitates ................................ Mayor facilitates ................................ Mayor facilitates .............................................. Council 1. Resolution No. 2009-019 2. Memo from Ciara Schlichting to Kyle Klatt regarding Final AUAR comments and proposed revisions 3. Comment Letters: • Andrew Nath, Premier Bank • Ronald Wieland, Minnesota DNR • Phyllis Hanson, Metropolitan Council • John Hanson, Valley Branch Watershed District • Ann Bucheck, Lake Elmo Resident 3 CITY OF LAKE ELMO RESOLUTION NO.2009-019 RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE LAKE ELMO VILAGE AREA FINAL ALTERNATIVE URBAN AREAWIDE REVIEW WHEREAS, the City Council, as the Responsible Governmental Unit, authorized the preparation of the Lake Elmo Village Area Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) on April 1, 2008 with Resolution 2008-018; and WHEREAS, the City prepared the Draft AUAR and Mitigation Plan document and the City Council authorized distribution of it for public comment on November 18, 2008; and, WHEREAS, the City received comments, prepared responses to comments and prepared the Final AUAR and Mitigation Plan; and WHEREAS, the City Council authorized distribution of the Final AUAR for public comment on March 17, 2009; and WHEREAS, no objections were filed by State agencies or the Metropolitan Council; and WHEREAS, the entire process has been conducted in accordance with Minnesota Rules Chapter 4410. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council adopts the Lake Elmo Village Area Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review and Mitigation Plan. Passed and duly adopted this 5th day of May 2009 by the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo, Minnesota. Dean A. Johnston, Mayor ATTEST: Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator Memorandum it # 2335 Highway 36 W To: Kyle Klatt Project: Lake Elmo AUAR Date: 4/29/09 St. Paul, MN 55113 Tel 651-636-4600 From:Ciara Schlichting Client: City of Lake Elmo Fax651-636-1311 Re: Final AUAR Comments & Proposed Revisions File No: 38-06001 www.bofl struo.mm The purpose of this memo is to transmit proposed revisions to the Lake Elmo Village Area Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) to address comments received from individuals and organizations during the Final AUAR comment period. The Final AUAR comment period expired on April 13, 2009. The city did not receive any formal objections to the Final AUAR; therefore, the Lake Elmo City Council can adopt the Final AUAR and Mitigation Plan. In accordance with Minnesota Rules, after the City Council adopts the Final AUAR and Mitigation Plan, future residential and commercial projects and associated infrastructure within the AUAR area that are consistent with the assumptions of the Final AUAR and that comply with the Mitigation Plan are exempt from further environmental review (i.e., EAW, EIS, AUAR). Although no objections were filed, the city received five comment letters. The city is not required to formally respond to non -objecting comments, but can chose to address such comments. The city received comments from the following organizations and individuals: • Andrew Nath, Premier Bank • Ronald Wieland, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources • Phyllis Hanson, Metropolitan Council • John Hanson, Valley Branch Watershed District • Ann Bucheck, Lake Elmo Resident A summary of the comments received and suggested revisions to the final document follow. Andrew Nath, Premier Bank Comment Summary: Requested that the Village Area accommodate 1,600 units and that the 100-acre Heritage Development site accommodate 160 single family units. Response: The AUAR does not make any direct assumptions concerning the specific location or distribution of units within the Village Area. Upon the final adoption of the AUAR, the city could move forward with amendments to the Comprehensive Plan to identify a preferred development option. In this case, the city may choose to move forward with the exiting Comprehensive Plan or adopt the Village Land Use Plan with 600, 1,000, or 1,600 housing units. There will be additional opportunities for comments during the review process for any future Comprehensive Plan Amendments for the Village. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Comment Summary: The city has a Water Appropriation Permit for 60 mg/yr (Permit #1961-1031). It should be noted that increases in usage beyond the 60 mg/yr would require DNR approval. This approval item should be included in Table 8-1. Response: Table 8-1 will be revised to list the Water Appropriation Permit as follows: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Water Appropriation Permit for new municipal well, if needed Temporary Water Appropriation Permit for construction dewatering Public Waters Work Permit (for work within a DNR Public Water) Water Appropriation Permit f# 1961-1031) Modification. to increase usage beyond the mmutted amount (60 ms/vr. ) Metropolitan Council Comment Summary: The AUAR is complete and accurate. The Council does not object to the Final AUAR. Response: Comment noted Valley Branch Watershed District Comment Summary: The VBWD may update its rules and regulations to require the volume controls proposed in the AUAR within the Downs Lake watershed. Permit applicants will need to prove that they can meet the controls. The Executive Summary states "maintain" existing volume vs. "not increase" volume from existing. Response: The Mitigation Plan discussion of involvement by other agencies will be updated as follows: Involvement by Other Agencies, if applicable Proposed development projects within the AUAR area will need to submit development plans for approval by the City of Lake Elmo, the VBWD and for projects greater than 1 acre, and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA). The VBWD has rules relating to stormwater management plans, erosion control plans, floodplain alteration, drainage systems, and other development activities. VB W D will require Dermit applicants to provide proof than 1) the runoff volume difference between proposed and existingconditions is camured 2) the proposed infiltration facility can infiltrate at the designed rate and 3) the runoff volume can be infiltrated within 48 hours. Response: The executive summary will be updated as follows: The city will work with developers to provide runoff volume facilities adequate to maintain not increase existing runoff volume for the 100-year rainfall event by implementing volume control best management practices (BM -Ps) on their sites. Ann Bucheck Comment Summary: The Final AUAR fails to require that developers not increase stormwater runoff volumes for the 100-year rainfall event. The AUAR should suggest ordinances that could require this. The City of Lake Elmo should be the leader in enforcing the rules for development in regards to potential water problems and Face of? developing ordinances and methods to assure current landowners that development will not be harmful. The city is looking to VBWD to protect Lake Elmo citizens rather than doing the job themselves. Response: Mitigation Strategy 17.5 specifically requires that developers provide runoff volume facilities adequate to not increase runoff volume from existing conditions. The Mitigation Plan Implementation Summary specifically requires the city to incorporate the findings from the AUAR in future updates to its official controls, which includes design standards for stormwater management facilities. To clarify this, the following language will be added to the Mitigation Plan Implementation Summary table under "update official controls": Use the information contained in the AUAR during future considerations of updates or amendments to the zoning and subdivision ordinances, including: design requirements for stormwater management facilities. Any future consideration of amendments or updates to ordinances would follow the city's set procedures and guidelines for such amendments Page 3 013 Kyle Klatt From: Andrew Nath [anath@premierbanks.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:57 AM To: Kelli Matzek Cc: Craig Dawson; Kyle Klatt Subject: RE: AUAR update, 10 day comment period On behalf of Premier Bank, I would request that the OVP accommodate 1,600 units. I would also request that the 100 acre Heritage Development site accommodate 160 s.f. units Andrew Nath Executive Vice President Premier Bank 2866 White Bear Avenue Maplewood, MN 55109 Ph: 651-855-1114 Fax: 651-777-3761 anath(@premierbanks.com -----Original Message ----- From: Kelli Matzek[mailto:kelli.matzek@lakeelmo.org] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 12:21 PM To: Kelli Matzek Cc: Craig Dawson; Kyle Klatt Subject: AUAR update; 10 day comment period Good afternoon, At last night's meeting, the City Council approved distributing the Final Village Area AUAR for the 10-day official comment period. An update will be sent in the near future to notify you that the Final AUAR is posted on the city's website and available for review. This update will also provide the deadline for receiving comments. A CD copy of the Final AUAR will be sent to those who have provided comments on the document in the past. —Kelli Matzek City of Lake Elmo Planner 1 Minnesota Department of Natural Resources 500 Lafayette Road St. Paul, Minnesota 55155-4025 April 2, 2009 Kyle Klatt, Planning Director City of Lake Elmo 3800 LaVeme Avenue North Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Re: Lake Elmo Village Area Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR) Dear Mr. Klatt: DF The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has reviewed Lake Elmo Village Area Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR). The DNR offers the following comments for your consideration. Regarding public water concerns, the AUAR contained a figure identifying public waters and Table 8-1 contained a list of major permits and approvals, including the three items listed below. 1. Water Appropriation for new Municipal needs, if needed 2. Temporary Water Appropriation Permit for construction dewatering. 3. Public Waters Work Permit The City of Lake Elmo has an Appropriation Permit for 60 MG/Y (Pemut #1961-1031). It should be noted that increases in usage beyond the 60 MG/YR would require DNR Approval. This approval item should probably be included in Table 8-1. Thank you for the opportunity to review the Final AUAR and thank you for your consideration. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments. Sincerely, Ronald Wieland, Senior Planner (651) 259-5157 Environmental Review Unit Division of Ecological Resources cc: Wayne Barstad, Craig Wills, Steve Colvin, Lisa Joyal, Randall Doneen ERDB# 20070720-0004 D:\DNR-Comments\Iake_Elmo_Village_Area_FAUARdocx RECEEVED • r jl-1. r httro://www.dnrstate.mn.us/ 0*1 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER WPRINTED ON RECYCLED PAPER CONTAINING A MINIMUM OF 10 % POST -CONSUMER WASTE u Metropolitan Council April 8, 2009 Kyle Klatt, Planning Director City of Lake Elmo Lu"t�4K EL?�90 3800 LaVerne Avenue North Lake Elmo, MN 55042 RE: Lake Elmo Village Area Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review (FAUAR) Metropolitan Council District 12 Metropolitan Council Review File No. 20393-2 Dear Mr. ;u'a t: Metropolitan Council staff completed its review of the Final Lake Elmo Village Area Alternative Urban Areawide Review (FAUAR) to determine its accuracy and completeness in addressing regional concerns. Council staff comments on the draft AUAR in its December 29, 2008 letter. The staff review has concluded that the FAUAR addresses previously identified issues, and is complete and accurate with respect to regional concerns. The Council does not object to the FAUAR. Council staff would like to reiterate that the City should be aware that choosing to implement Scenario A, B, or C will require that the City submit a comprehensive plan amendment regarding such to the Metropolitan Council for review. This letter concludes the Council's review of the FAUAR on which the Council will not take formal action. If you have any questions or need further information, please contact Lisa Barajas, Principal Reviewer, at 651-602-1895. Sincerely, Phyllis Manson, Manager LocaFlPlanning Assistance CC: Crystal Carlson, MHFA Tod Sherman, Development Reviews Coordinator, MnDOT - Metro Division Sherry Broecker, Metropolitan Council District 12 Keith Buttleman, Environmental Services Lisa Barajas, Sector Representative / Principal Reviewer Cheryl Olsen, Reviews Coordinator K.,ICommDevILPAICommu ittesJake Elmo lLetters Lake Elmo 2009FAUAR Village 20393-2.doc w .metroeouncff.org 390 Robert Street North ^ St. Paul, MN 55101-1805 ^ (651) 602-1000 • Fax (651) 602-1550 • TTY (651) 291-0904 An Equal Opportunity Employer April 10, 2009 Mr. Kyle Klatt Planning Director City of Lake Elmo 3800 Laverne Avenue North Lake Elmo, MN 55042 Re: Lake Elmo Village Area Final AUAR Dear Mr. Klatt: Thank you for sending the Valley Branch Watershed District (VBWD) a copy of the Lake Elmo Village Area Final Alternative Urban Areawide Review (AUAR). The VBWD Board of Managers approved the attached comments at its April 9, 2009 meeting. The VBWD Managers' greatest concern is the effect the proposed development will have on the water resources of the area, especially Downs Lake, Horseshoe Lake, and the St. Croix River. The VBWD may update its Rules and Regulations to require the volume controls proposed in the AUAR. When the area is developed, the VBWD will enforce its rules and regulations to protect water resources. Please contact meat 952-832-2622 or ihanson@barr.com if you'd like to schedule a meeting or have questions on the attached comments. Sincerely, �--- 7o1,� P. Hanson, P.E. BARR ENGINEERING COMPANY Engineers for the District c: VBWD Managers Dale Homuth, MnDNR Regional Hydrologist Craig Wills, MnDNR Area Hydrologist Molly Shodeen, MnDNR Area Hydrologist Amanda Strommer, Washington County Public Health and Environment John Freitag, Washington County Public Health and Environment Dan Kyllo, West Lakeland Township Board Chairman Dale Thompson, MPCA — MS4 Stormwater Program Supervisor Howard Markus, MPCA — Impaired Waters Assessments and 303(d) List Craig Affeldt, MPCA — St. Croix Basin Water Resources Planning Team Chair Jim Larson, Metropolitan Council Ciara Schlichting, Bonestroo Ryan Stempski, TKDA — Lake Elmo Assistant City Engineer Environmental Quality Board LINCOLN FETCHER ^ DAVIDBUCHECK • DONALDSCHEEL • DALEBORASH • RAYLUCKSINGER VALLEY BRANCH WATERSHED DISTRICT • P.O. BOX 838 • LAKE ELMO, MINNESOTA55042-0538 w+ .vbwdorg Mr. Kyle Klatt April 10, 2009 Page 2 Comments on Final AUAR The following paragraphs list the VBWD's comments and the corresponding AUAR question number and page number. Executive Summary, Stormwater Volume Control, Page x This section states, "The city will work with developers to provide runoff volume facilities adequate to maintain existing runoff volume or the 100-year rainfall event...." As summarized in other sections of the AUAR, the City needs to require that developers not increase the stormwater runoff volumes for the 100-year rainfall event. Question 17, Water Quality— Surface Water Runoff, Pages 67-79 While the VBWD does not agree with all of the assumptions (including curve numbers for existing conditions) of the various runoff volume analysis scenarios, the response to this question concludes on page 78 that the runoff volume control facilities will be constructed to not increase runoff volumes from existing conditions for the 100-year event, as calculated by the VBWD simple calculation for landlocked basins. (This basically means that a volume equal to six inches times the new impervious surface must be infiltrated.) Following the City's proposal, permit applicants will need to provide proof that • the runoff volume difference between proposed and conditions (as calculated by the VBWD simplified method) is captured, • the proposed infiltration facility can infiltrate at the designed rate, and • the runoff volume can be infiltrated within 48 hours. The VBWD is currently updating its Rules and Regulations and may include this requirement for projects within the Downs Lake watershed. Kyle Klaft From: djbucheck@comcast.net Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 2:27 PM To: AUAR Draft Comments Subject: comments on final version of AUAR To Whom it May Concern, The following are my comments on the final version of the AUAR: The final version of the AUAR fails to require that developers not increase the stormwater runoff volumes for the 100 year rainfall event. The city is to protect Downs Lake subwatershed land and homeowners and to not require the developers to keep the runoff at the required levels could be disastrous to this area. The runoff volume should be infiltrated within 48 hours of the storm. The AUAR should suggest ordinances that could require this. The city needs to make sure the development follows code and does not increase the volume and rate more than 1 percent of what occurred prior to development. The City of Lake Elmo should be the leader in enforcing the rules for development in regards to potential water problems. They should be developing ordinances and suggesting new methods which would assure current landowners that future development will not be harmful. It appears they are looking toward Valley Branch Watershed to protect Lake Elmo citizens rather than doing the job themselves. Ann Bucheck. 2301 Legion Avenue Lake Elmo, Mn 55042 ph 651-770-1730 1 City Council Date: May 5, 2009 Item No. MOTION ITEM: Approve the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Updates for submittal to the Metropolitan Council SUBMITTED BY: Kyle Klatt, Planning Director REVIEWED BY: Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator Jack Griffin, City Engineer Ryan Stempski, Assistant City Engineer Kelli Matzek, City Planner SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The City Council is being asked to approve distribution of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update to the Metropolitan Council and adjacent communities for review in advance of the May 29, 2009 deadline for submitting a final version of the City's decennial update to the Met Council. All comments received from City staff, other agencies, the Planning Commission, and the City Council have been incorporated into the attached plan sections. Memoranda from the City Engineer detailing the updates to the final plans are attached. BACKGROUND: The Metropolitan Land Planning Act requires every municipality and county within the seven -county metropolitan area to prepare and to submit a comprehensive plan to the Metropolitan Council. These plan updates must be submitted to the Met Council every ten years, with the exact timing based on the completion of a "systems statement" for each community. Updated comprehensive plans for the current review cycle were due in December of 2008; however, the City of Lake Elmo was among a group of communities that received a six-month extension to complete its update. The new deadline for Lake Elmo to submit an updated Comprehensive Plan is May 29, 2009. There are four primary elements that must be addressed in a community's comprehensive plan. These elements and a description of each from the Met Council's Local Planning Handbook are as follows. - Background The background section of the plan delineates the community's vision and expectations. It includes the objectives, policies and forecasts that serve as the basis of the community's plans. Land Use Plan In the land use section the local comprehensive plan explains how the community has allocated and will allocate land use, how it will accommodate population growth, and how it protects special resources. • Besides an inventory of existing land use, the land use section includes a description of the community's development plans, staging them in five- year increments. • In the housing plan the community discusses plans for needed housing as these relate to housing needs throughout the region. • In the special resources section the comprehensive plan identifies certain resources within the boundaries of the jurisdiction and outlines plans to ensure their protection. Public Facilities Plans This section describes plans relating to transportation, water resources and parks. The expected population growth in the region places extraordinary pressures on these systems. For this reason, local plans relating to these systems must be thorough and appropriate. The transportation section must address the legal requirements for maintaining and developing roads, highways, transit, non -motor transportation and aviation. The waterresources section addresses wastewater, water supply and surface water management. Maintaining an adequate and safe water supply is critical as population grows. This means assessing resources and attending to safe and thorough treatment methods. The parks and open space section must identify and describe parks and trails facilities within the jurisdiction. Implementation In the implementation section, the jurisdiction shows how local official controls will ensure the continued viability of plans outlined in other sections of the comprehensive plan. This section also outlines the community's capital improvement program. Lake Elmo last updated its Comprehensive Plan in 2006 after a lengthy negotiation process with the Metropolitan Council. Because this update was submitted outside of the normal time frame applied to all other communities in the metropolitan area, Lake Elmo is in a unique situation with regards to its 2030 Comprehensive Plan. The Met Council has determined that Lake Elmo must only update certain sections of its plan in order to comply with the systems statement that was issued on September 12, 2005. Three of the specific sections that need to be addressed with the update fall under the heading of "Public Facilities Plans", including sections pertaining to transportation, water resources (including water supply and surface water management, and) and parks and open space. The other components that must be updated include "Protection of Special Areas" (solar access and aggregate deposits protection) under Land Use and Implementation. The Parks and Open Space Plan was submitted to the Met Council last year, and is therefore being re -submitted at this time with revisions to address the comments that were received. The only section that the City Council has not reviewed to date is the "Protection of Special Areas", which has been drafted by the Planning Department and reviewed by'the Planning Commission. As noted above, the Background Information and Land Use Plan are not required to be updated at this time, and have therefore not been revised as a part of the 2030 update submission to the Met Council. All land use forecasts for the updated sections, including population projections, will be based on the current land use section. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: In December of last year, the Metropolitan Council granted the City of Lake Elmo's request for an extension until May 29, 2009, to update its Comprehensive Plan and submit the document for review. The initial request to the Metropolitan Council was for a two-year extension that would have given the City until December 31, 2010, to complete the required updates. The later deadline was sought to provide additional time to incorporate information from the Village AUAR planning process into the overall update and to complete a more extensive review of the transportation plan. With the decision by the Met Council to grant a shorter extension, the scope of the proposed work has been scaled back by removing any Village area updates (which can be processed, if needed, at a later date) and reducing the amount of time that would be spent on the transportation plan. Other relevant information: • Since the Council has spent time during several workshops over the past several months reviewing each of the separate plan elements, a written summary and description of each section is not being provided with this memorandum. The City Engineer has instead prepared a brief report for the Transportation, Surface Water Management, and Water Supply sections that summarizes the changes to the documents that have been made during the review of the plan amendments. • The Planning Commission has conducted the required public hearing for each of the revised sections, and the City Engineer or Planning Department has incorporated comments from the Commission into the final documents. • The goal of proposed updates is to complete the minimal requirements of the Metropolitan Council's System Statements (and watershed districts for the water resources plans) to comply with the given deadlines. All plans will be completed on the basis of the current land use plan adopted in 2006. • The City is required to submit its Comprehensive Plan amendment to adjacent communities for review. Each community is given six months to review the document, which means these reviews must be completed by November 2009. • Once any comments from the Metropolitan Council and adjacent communities are addressed, the City must take separate action to formally revise and adopt the plan. The overall process must be completed by the end of December 2009. • Once authorized for distribution, staff will combine the separate sections into one document with a cover page and common section title pages for each chapter. The Parks and Open Space Plan and Special Protection Areas sections need updated title pages. COMP PLAN DOCUMENT: In order to minimize the amount of copying required to present the completed plan to the City Council, staff has provided an electronic version of the entire Comprehensive Plan update to the Council on a CD- ROM. All updated sections will be combined into one document in the final version that will be submitted to the Metropolitan Council. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the City Council approve distribution of the 2030 Comprehensive Plan Update to the Metropolitan Council and adjacent communities for review. ATTACHMENTS: 1. Comprehensive Plan Amendments (CD-ROM) o Transportation Plan o Water Supply Plan o Surface Water Management Plan o Parks and Open Space Plan o Protection of Special Areas Plan 2. Memoranda summarizing updated text from the City Engineer: o Transportation Plan o Surface Water Management Plan o Water Supply Plan ORDER OF BUSINESS: - Introduction ....................................................Craig Dawson, Interim City Administrator - Report ............................................................................ Kyle Klatt, Director of Planning Jack Griffin, City Engineer Ryan Stempski, Assistant City Engineer - Questions from the Council ................................................. Mayor & Council Members - Questions/Comments from the public ..................................................Mayor facilitates - Call for a Motion (required for further discussion; does not imply approval of the motion................................................................. Mayor facilitates Discussion............................................................................................ Mayor facilitates z Action on motion.................................................................................................Council ENGINEERS - ARCHITECTS•PLANNERS MEMORAND CJAI To: Lake Elmo City Council Copies To: Craig Dawson, City Administrator Jack Griffin, TKDA Ryan Stempsla, TKDA From: Bryant Ficek, TKDA Date: April 24, 2009 e44 Geda:Street Su le 1500 Saint Paul. NIN 55101 -2140 N51 j 292-4400 (651; 292-0083 Fax www.tkda.cum Reference: Lake Elmo Transportation Plan City Council Comments Incorporated Proj. No.: Routing: 14288.000 The draft Transportation Plan was presented and discussed at the April 13, 2009 Planning Commission meeting and at the April 14, 2009 Council Workshop meeting. At each meeting, the presentation was followed by discussion and comments. These discussions ultimately resulted in the need for some revisions and updates to the draft. Having completed these changes, the draft Plan is ready for Council approval to distribute. This memorandum discusses the changes that have occurred. ® Two policy statements have been added reflecting our discussion of Trunk Highway 36 grade -separation and parkway standards on Trunk Highway 36 and Manning Avenue (CSAH 15). The City will support grade -separation of Trunk Highway 36 from the current at - grade intersections in pursuit of the City goals to provide safe and adequate service to Trunk Highway 36 for residents and businesses while minimizing back tracking to gain access and while minimizing pass through traffic on local roadways. Parkway standards will be encouraged and supported on four -Ian-, corridors in the City, such as Trunk Highway 36 and the potential expansion of Manning Avenue (CSAH 15). The discussion of a new east -west roadway between 1 Oth Street (CSAH 10) and Hudson Boulevard (I-94 frontage road) includes limiting development access to I Oth Street (CSAH 10) to reduce "cut -through" traffic. The Access Management section has been completely revised. The section's new name is Safety Improvements. This section discusses four major focus areas of safety: Education, Enforcement, Engineering, and Emergency Medical Services. The engineering sub- section includes the access management information and specific discussion of roundabouts. Providing paved shoulders on the roads is now mentioned. A greater emphasis on school safety is also included. • The Transit section emphasizes increased transit opportunity for the Village area. k Employee owned Compan.v Promocag AYirmaw6 AcYon and Egaal OpporuNry Memo Page 2 April 24, 2009 Lake Elmo Transportation Plan City Council Comments Incorporated • The Trail section has been revised to include discussion of destinations and an emphasis on school safety. • An implementation statement has been added insupport of the four major focus areas: Education, Enforcement, Engineering, and Emergency Medical Services. Safety around schools is specifically mentioned. The City is supportive of the €our major focus areas in pursuit of safety improvements: Education, Enforcement, Engineering, and Emergency Medical Services. Combination of these focus areas result in better solutions to targeted or general safety issues. Of particular concern are the areas around schools and keeping students safe. Applying these major foe -as areas towards the school areas is encouraged and expected. ENGINEERS-ARCNITECTS•PEANNERS `�01, `1 To: Lake Elmo Copies To- 444 Cedar Street, Suite 1500 Saint Pau._ MN 55101-2140 (651) 292-4400 (651) 292-0083 Fax wwm,.tkda.coin Council Reference: Local Surface Water Management Plan City of Lake Elmo, Minnesota From: Sherri Buss, R.L.A. Proj. No.: Date: April 29, 2009 Routing: 14287.000 TKDA staff presented the Draft Local Surface Water Management Plan (LSWMP) to the City Council at a Workshop on March 10, 2009 and to the Planning Commission on April 22. We completed the changes to maps and text requested by both groups. City staff are currently clarifying the City's volume control rule (Chapter 153.07 Subpart l I of the City Code) to update the City Ordinances by June 30, 2009 (the due date of the City's MS4 Permit Annual Report). This will allow comments from the completed AUAR to be addressed in analyzing the City's volume control requirements. The intent is to have a clear, measurable volume control standard defined in addition to the current rate control standard. Comments from Metropolitan Council and Local Watershed Districts The City provided the Draft LSWMP to the Local Watershed Districts and the Metropolitan Council for review. The Metropolitan Council indicated that the plan "is consistent with the council's beater Resource Management Po licy Plan " and requires no changes from the Council's perspective. The Valley Branch Watershed District reviewed the plan and provided comments requesting some relatively minor additions and clarifications to the plan. Staff has updated the plan to include the additional information required by the District. The Brown's Creek Watershed District and South Washington Watershed District Boards will review their staffs' comments on the plan at Board meetings in early May. T"ney will then send any comments to the City. Next Stews The Final LSW1\4P approved by the Council will be sent to the Metropolitan Council as part of the Comprehensive Plan submittal in May. City staff will complete any additions or clarifications to the LSWMP based on comments from, the Districts. If policy changes or other substantial changes are requested, we will discuss these with the Council. The Final LSWMP will be distributed to the Watershed Districts for approval. An Empleyse O;elned Company Promorinp A6rrrrovve Acilon add Equal QdpoauxPy ENGINEERS - ARCHITECTS - PLANNERS To: Copies To: From: Date: Lake Elmo City Council Jack Griffin, City Engineer April 29, 2009 444 Ceda- Street Suite 1500 Saint Paul_ MN 55101-2140 (651) 292-4400 (651) 292-0083 fax t kd a. com Reference: Comprehensive Water Plan City of Lake Elmo, Minnesota Pro}. No.: 12782.001 Routing: TKDA staff presented the Draft Comprehensive Water Plan to the City Council at a Workshop on April 147 2009 and to the Planning Commission on April 22, 2009. Changes to the plan maps and text have been incorporated based upon the input received at these meetings, including direction on the desired performance criteria used in the plan for future infrastructure facilities. 1. The Capital Improvement Plan was updated and finalized based on the council direction to meet only basic water system performance criteria. 2. The fire flow performance criterion was reduced from a 3,500 GPM, 3-hour duration down to a 2,500 GPM, 2-hour duration fire event. This resulted in smaller storage tanks and a deferred construction schedule for storage tanks and wells. Due to growth anticipated in multiple geographic regions and multiple pressure zones, an additional recommendation (now Recomrnendation No. 7) has been added to address water service south of 10a' Street in the SE quadrant. The overall water infrastructure has been updated to be more flexible and capable of responding to the growth south of 10"' Street and the potential growth in the Village Area. More specifically: a. Well No. 5 has been updated as the primary recommendation in the SE quadrant, with 5A located in the northern part of the City as an alternate location. b. Replacement Tank IA has been added in the Village Area in the event development requires added storage prior to development elsewhere in the City. c. This tank together with Well No. 5 in the SE quadrant may serve to minimize or eliminate the 16-inch trunk watermain line along Lake Elmo Avenue between 10"' Street and the Old Village. The City Engineer will detail the changes and key points of the Comprehensive Water Plan at the May 5, 2009 City Council Meeting. Next Steps The Final Comprehensive Water Plan approved by the Council will be sent to the Metropolitan Council as part of the Comprehensive Plan submittal in May. An Employee Oaoed Company Prsmoiirp A6rnma ve Action and equal OppornuniN City Council Date: May 5, 2009 REGULAR Item: Motion ITEM: Resolution To Participate in Joint Airport Zoning Board for Lake Elmo Airport; Consideration of Appointments of Two Representatives to Board SUBMITTED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) is establishing a Joint Airport Zoning Board (JABZ) for the Lake Elmo Airport, and has invited the City of Lake Elmo to participate on the Board. As the Council reviewed this matter at its April 21 meeting, it concurred with the staff recommendation to prepare a resolution that would formalize the Council's action to participate on the JABZ. The City will have two representatives on the Board, and the appointees need not be members of the City Council or residents of the City. The Council should adopt the resolution stating that it will participate on the JABZ for the Lake Elmo Airport, and consider appointments to the Board. BACKGROUND: The staff memorandum for the April 7 & 21 Council meetings summarizes the JABZ matter. The JABZ will implement Airport Safety Zoning at the Lake Elmo Airport, and will deal with both land use and height restrictions in the vicinity of the airport, particularly off the ends of the runway. While participation on the JABZ is optional for the City, it will be affected by the JABZ's actions. Regarding the appointment of representatives, a notice for applicants has been placed on the City's Website. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the Council adopt the resolution stating that the City will participate on the JABZ for the Lake Elmo Airport. Staff also recommends that the Council appoint two persons to serve as the City's representatives on the JABZ as soon as it is able to do so. SUGGESTED MOTIONS FOR CONSIDERATION: 1) Move to adopt Resolution No. 2009- to participate on the Joint Airport Zoning Board for the Lake Elmo Airport; and 2) Appoint and to serve as the City's representatives on th the Joint Airport Zoning Board for the Lake Elmo Airport. ATTACHMENTS: Proposed Resolution No. 2009 - Staff memorandum for April 7 & 21 Council meetings ORDER OF BUSINESS: • Introduction Craig Dawson • Report by staff Craig Dawson • Questions from City Council members to the presenter Mayor facilitates • Questions/comments from the public to the City Council Mayor facilitates • Action on motion City Council CITY OF LAKE ELMO WASHINGTON COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA RESOLUTION NO.2009 - A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PARTICIPATION OF THE CITY OF LAKE ELMO ON THE JOINT AIRPORT ZONING BOARD FOR THE LAKE ELMO AIRPORT WHEREAS, the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) has proposed the establishment of a Joint Airport Zoning Board (JABZ) for the Lake Elmo Airport; and WHEREAS, the MAC has invited the City of Lake Elmo to participate on the JABZ; and WHEREAS, Section 360.063 of Minnesota Statutes addresses joint airport zoning boards and indicates, among other things, that while a city's participation on such a board is optional, the city will be subject to the actions of the board; and WHEREAS, the City Council prefers to participate in organizations that may affect its land use authority; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo that it hereby authorizes the City's participation on the Joint Airport Zoning Board for the Lake Elmo Airport; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that in participating on the JABZ, the City Council expects that the MAC will provide indemnification to the City from claims based upon the City's adoption of more restrictive zoning standards which could have an adverse impact on property values within hazard zone areas; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, subsequent to the adoption of this Resolution, the City Council will endeavor as quickly as it is able to appoint two representatives to serve on the JABZ. ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Lake Elmo on May 5th, 2009 ATTEST: Dean A. Johnston, Mayor Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator City Council Date: April 7, 2009 REGULAR Item: Motion ITEM: MAC Joint Airport Zoning Board, Lake Elmo Airport SUBMITTED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator REVIEWED BY: Kyle Klatt, Planning Director Jerry Filla, City Attorney SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED: In a letter received March 4, 2009, the Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) proposes to establish a Joint Airport Zoning Board (JABZ) to implement Airport Safety Zoning at and around the Lake Elmo Airport. The Board would consist of two representatives each from Lake Elmo, West Lakeland Township, Baytown Township, Oak Park Heights, Washington County, and the MAC. The MAC would like the Board to begin meeting in late April. The MAC is requesting that Lake Elmo participate and appoint two representatives to the Board. BACKGROUND: State statute provides for the establishment of JABZs in order to regulate land use for the safety of aircraft operations around airports (usually referred to as "safety zones"). The statute provides that "[t]he Metropolitan Airports Commission shall request creation of one joint airport zoning board for each airport operated under its authority." According to MSA § 360.063, Subd. 3(c), if a city, within 60 days of receiving a request from the MAC, fails to join in creating the JABZ, the MAC or the JABZ that is formed with other parties will have zoning jurisdiction within the airport zone in that city. In short, the City of Lake Elmo will be subject to the MAC's/JABZ's airport zone regulations whether the City joins in the JABZ or not. The MAC adopted the Long -Term Capital Plan for the Lake Elmo Airport late in 2008. In the Plan, "Shortly following the finalization of the proposed future development plans for Lake Elmo Airport, the MAC will convene a Joint Airport Zoning Board (JABZ) that will include the respective Responsible Governmental Units (RGUs) that control land use development around the Lake Elmo Airport. This effort will address land uses around Lake Elmo Airport in the context of the preferred alternative runway zones." The JABZ will draft, adopt, and enforce a zoning ordinance specific to the Lake Elmo Airport. Zoning matters generally deal with height restrictions for buildings and vegetation. The JABZ will not be a planning body regarding the future use or expansion of the airport. In a conversation with MAC staff, the MAC will not push the 60-day schedule in the statute, but rather wants to be deliberative in getting the parties together and in agreement with the JABZ for Lake Elmo Airport. The final draft of the AUAR for Lake Elmo Village, which has been distributed for final comment by agencies, states that the City intends to participate in the JABZ. Other JABZs: Few of the metropolitan airports have JABZs. According to MAC staff, the only one currently active is for Saint Paul/Holman Field. The MAC is currently working on establishing one for Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie. A JABZ exists for Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Airport. The Crystal Airport has a joint airport zoning ordinance that was established in 1984, and the MAC is in the process of re-establishing the JABZ and updating that ordinance. One of the issues arising with recent formation of JABZs is indemnification of the cities who appoint members of the JABZ. The MAC has provided indemnification for participants in the Saint Paul/Holman Field and MSP JABZs, and its staff has related that it would be the MAC's intention to provide indemnification as other JABZs are established. Should the City Council elect to join the JABZ for Lake Elmo Airport, it state its expectation that the MAC will provide indemnification to the City from claims based upon the City's adoption of more restrictive zoning standards which could have an adverse impact on property values within hazard zone areas. Joint Airport Zoning Board (JABZ) for Lake Elmo Airport April 7, 2009, City Council Meeting Page 2 Participation/Membership on the JABZ: As the JABZ is not organized under the joint powers organization statute, there is no requirement that the City's members on the Board be City councilmembers. The Council may appoint anyone to be its representatives on the Board. The Council may wish to consider a member of the Planning Commission, a resident or owner of business property near the airport, a member of the City Council, or a Lake Elmo resident for appointment to the Board. While only an action (i.e., a motion) of the Council to appoint members to the Board is necessary to join the JABZ, staff suggests that if the Council take action to join by a resolution authorizing the City to join the JABZ, requiring that the MAC indemnify the City for its participation on the JABZ, and appointing the two members to the Board. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends that the City Council direct the preparation of a resolution for the City to join the Joint Airport Zoning Board for Lake Elmo Airport, and that this resolution be placed on the agenda for the Council's April 21, 2009, meting. This timing will provide the Council with two weeks to identify persons who may be appointed the Board. SUGGESTED MOTION FOR CONSIDERATION Move that staff prepare a resolution that will authorize the City to join the Joint Airport Zoning Board for the Lake Elmo Airport, and place this item on the agenda for the April 21, 2009, City Council meeting. ATTACHMENTS: • March 3, 2009, Letter from the MAC proposing creation of the Lake Elmo Airport JABZ ORDER OF BUSINESS: • Introduction Craig Dawson • Report by staff or other presenter Craig Dawson & others • Questions from City Council members to the presenter Mayor facilitates • Questions/comments from the public to the City Council Mayor facilitates • Action on motion City Council City Council Date: May 5, 2009 REGULAR Item: Motion: ITEM: Selection process for Metro Cities policy Committees SUBMITTED BY: Dean A. Johnston, Mayor REVIEWED BY: Craig W. Dawson, Interim City Administrator Summary and Action Requested: Metro Cities has published its schedule for the 2009 policy committees. These four groups review and modify the 2008 policy and make recommendations to change policy for the next legislative session. The four policy committees are: 1. Metropolitan Agencies (Met Council) 2. Municipal Revenues 3. Housing and Economic Development 4. Transportation and General Government Each member city has the ability to designate two people to represent the city on each committee. The practice in the past is that staff and city council members have volunteered for the committees according to personal preferences and the city has never filled all eight committee positions. There have been inquiries from commissioners and former commissioners who are interested in participating in the Metro Cities policy committees. Metro Cities has confirmed that they interpret the elgibility requirment of city official in a very broad manner to include anyone designated by the member city. Recommendation: The council should discuss how the city wishes to fill the committee assignments. Assignments could be filled by vote or simply according to a priority list, for example, 1. City Council members choose, 2. staff members choose, 3. PZ commissioners choose, 4. Other commission members choose 5. former commission members choose 6. Lake Elmo residents may also volunteer. If the council chooses to fill all committee assignments, then staff should solicit and accept applications from the public and report back on the results. Attachments: Metro Cities list of committees Metro cities application form ETRO CITIES Association of Metropolitan Municipalities Metro Cities Legislative Policy Committees The following committees annually develop policy based on input from member city representatives. The committees submit their policy recommendations to the Board for review, modification and distribution to the general membership. The membership meets in November before each legislative session to debate and adopt the Metro Cities' policies. Sign-up on back. Metropolitan Agencies Considers legislative issues and other policies related to the Met Council and metro agencies and monitors the structure and relationship between the regional and local units of government. It has developed policy in the areas of land use planning, solid waste management, the Met Council selection process, livable communities, water supply and inflow and infiltration. It also reviews the council's yearly budget. Municipal Revenues Considers any matter concerning city revenues, property taxes and city expenditures, including state aid formulas and dollars, levy limits, property tax relief programs, property tax assessments and fiscal disparities. Housing & Economic Development Considers all issues related to economic development and housing, including affordable housing and activities of the metro HRA (Housing and Redevelopment Authority). It also develops policy dealing with economic development issues, HRAs, TIF (Tax Increment Financing), and development authorities. Recently, policies have been developed in the areas of eminent domain, mortgage foreclosures, and Met Council housing targets. Transportation & General Government Considers all issues related to transportation, including funding sources at all government levels, and issues which have impact on metropolitan area cities outside the scope of other Metro Cities committees. Metro Cities' members of the Transportation Advisory Board (TAB) and Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) are encouraged to join, along with other city officials. This committee has developed policy on the metro sales tax, photo enforcement of traffic laws, municipal consolidation, pensions, PELRA, comparable worth, data privacy, contractor Iicensing and local control/authority. 145 University Ave W'., Si. Paul, MN 551C-2044 (651) 215-4000 Fax: (651) 281-1299 www.MetroCitiesMN.or2 4/16/09 METRO CITIES AssxiaGon of Metrv�offan Munidpalitiss Tale: City: (Street Address or P.O. Box) (ZIP code) (➢avtimePhone, please list type ofphone e.g. city, home, cell) Nm) (E-mail) Committee Choices: Transportation ce General Govt. (Mondays) July 13th 11:30-1:30 pm July 27th 11:30-1:30 pm Aug. 17th 11:30-1:30 pm Sept 14th 11:30-1:30 pm Municipal Revenue and Taxation (Tuesdays) July 14th 11:30-1:30 pm Juiy28th 11:30-1:30pm Aug. 18th 11:30-1:30 pm Sept. 15th 11:30-1:30 pm Issues which should be studied: Metropolitan Agencies (U✓ednesdays) July 15th 11:30-1:30 pm July29th 11:30-1:30pm Aug. 19th 11:30-1:30 pm Sept. 16th 11:30-1:30 pm Housing & Economic Develop. (Frida),$) July 17th 11:00-1:00 pm July 3lst 11:00-1:00 pm Aug. 21st 11:00-1:00 pm Sept. 18th 11:00-1:00 pm Please mail, fax or email' completed form to: ATTN. Laurie Jennings, Metro Cities 14.5 Jnn ers4); Avenue i✓est, St. Paul, MV 551703-2044 Laurie@MetroCitiesMhCorg d Fax: 6.51-281-1299 I Phone: 651-21.5-4000 S:\Po i i cyCommittees2009\S i gi Up F orm-2009