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Mounds View City Council November 27, 2006 Regular Meeting Page 14 you walk out of the Groveland building residents would be able to view children on the play 1 structure and putting the tower building in that location would obstruct that view. 2 3 Ms. Palm indicated that she feels that park fees benefits all residents but she is concerned about 4 location and impact for the parks. She then said that the proposal does meet some conditions but 5 there are outstanding issues and she is not in favor of the proposal and does not think that it 6 belongs in a City park. 7 8 Council Member Flaherty said that if Park and Recreation said that they would like Council to 9 look at this he would consider it but the opinion he is getting is that this does not need to go 10 further at this time. 11 12 Council Member Stigney said that because of the questions and issues not resolved he could not 13 support going forward with it. 14 15 City Administrator Ulrich asked whether there was a vote or an informal recommendation from 16 the Park Commission. 17 18 Ms. Palm indicated that several were supportive under a variety of conditions including that the 19 building not interfere with future funding, future use of the park, and that the fees go into the 20 park fund. She then said that other conditions were that it would benefit the park by use of 21 lighting or something but not detract from park use now or in the future and the current proposal 22 does not do that. 23 24 Ms. Palm indicated that five of the Commissioners were supportive under the listed conditions 25 and she voted no that she did not want this use in the parks. 26 27 City Administrator Ulrich said that Council should consider the recommendation at the next 28 meeting and address it at that time. 29 30 Staff was directed to have the request come to Council for final consideration. 31 32 Director Ericson indicated that there was an article in the Star Tribune regarding the City of 33 Rogers and their practice of providing business subsidies to lure business to the City. He then 34 explained that there was a table as part of the article showing Rogers was number one for TIF 35 usage in the state and Mounds View was listed as number three. 36 37 Director Ericson indicated that Staff was concerned to see Mounds View listed as number three 38 and did some research into the data used for the article. He then said that the data was 39 cumulative data from the Citizen’s League and was not current data. He further explained that 40 Mounds View has reduced its percentage of TIF down to 16.18% making Mounds View number 41 28 in the state for TIF usage. 42 43 Director Ericson indicated that he spoke to the reporter noting that the way the information was 44 presented could confuse the residents but the reporter stated that the information was to highlight 45