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UNAPPROVED Page 4 May 11, 1998 Mounds View City Council 1 D. Public Hearing and Second Reading of Municipal Code Changes Allowing a Festival in the Park 2 Beer Garden: 3 4 Ms. Can Schmidt explained that the Festival Committee has expressed an interest in having a beer garden 5 as part of the Festival in the Park Celebration. In order to allow for this, changes will need to be made to 6 the city code. Ms. Schmidt briefly discussed the two changes. 7 8 Mayor McCarty opened the Public Hearing at 7:10 p.m. There were no questions or comments in regard 9 to this item,and Mayor McCarty closed the Public Hearing at 7:11 p.m. 10 11 MOTION/SECOND: Koopmeiners/Gunn to approve the second reading and the adoption Municipal Code 12 Section 503.03, Subd.4,and the changes to the Municipal Code Section 909.07, Subd. 11,and to waive 13 the readings. 14 15 ROLL CALL VOTE: 16 17 Council member Koopmeiners aye 18 Council member Gunn aye 19 Council member Quick aye 20 Council member Stigney aye 21 Mayor McCarty aye 22 23 Motion Carried(5-0) 24 25 E. Update on discussing MnDOT concerning access to the proposed Theater Site. 26 27 Mayor McCarty explained that he was directed by the City Council at the last meeting to work with city 28 staff in trying to clarify the city's position with MnDOT and what they will require in terms of access to the 29 theater site. Applications previous to April 21st included no outlets onto County Road H-2 or Long Lake 30 Road. A clarification from MnDOT informed the city that this was not what they intended to state. They 31 would require an opening on secondary roads in the City of Mounds View. 32 33 Mayor McCarty presented a schematic of the collection streets in the City of Mounds View. MnDOT 34 informed him that former county roads are arterial collector roads from Highway 10. It is their rules that 35 a local rule of government compliments their state system with a local system as well. They have indicated 36 that,regardless of any other misunderstandings,the city will be required to give at least one cut on these 37 roads. At a work session on May 5th, the Council decided that if this were the requirements,they would 38 seek an equal distribution to both County Road H-2 and Long Lake Road. After much discussion 39 however,it was felt that the connection to Long Lake Road should be discounted,as there were concerns 40 about congestion at that intersection and the unknowns about crossing wetland properties. 41 42 The offer to the City of Mounds View at this time to further and complete this project,is a full-movement 43 intersection on Highway 10 with a median break,a break on County Road H-2 about mid-way between 44 Long Lake Road and Highway 10 that would bring the driveway out facing two homes that are owned by 45 the property owner at this time. There will be no loss of buildings under this plan, and there is the 46 possibility in the future that we may be able to further enhance access to the property by opening right-