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Mounds View City Council February 14, 2005 Regular Meeting Page 14 added would be to the subdivision regarding building height. He stated that the Council had held 1 a public hearing on January 24th, and Staff is recommending approval of this ordinance. 2 MOTION/SECOND. Marty/Gunn. To waive the reading and approve Ordinance 755, an 3 Ordinance Amending Chapter 1120 of the Mounds View Zoning Code Pertaining to Building 4 Heights in a Planned Unit Development (PUD) District. 5 6 ROLL CALL: Marty/Stigney/Gunn/Flaherty/Thomas. 7 8 Ayes-5 Nays-0 Motion carried. 9 10 I. Resolution 6457 in support of I35W Coalition Request for Funding to Study the 11 I -694 to CRJ Segment of I -35W and Other Area Transportation Improvements. 12 13 Bob Benkey from the I35 Coalition stated that while the City of Mounds View is working with 14 the Medtronic for a new campus at the golf course site, the City of New Brighton is working on 15 redevelopment of the northwest quadrant of 35 and 694, and the City of Arden Hills is on the 16 verge of reclaiming land for redevelopment on the army ammunition plant. He stated that the 17 plans of each of these projects raises issues that intermingle and are interdependent on decisions 18 in the individual cities. He stated that they need to find a way to resolve the design questions to 19 meet everybody’s needs as best as possible. He stated that MnDOT noted that there is $38.1 20 billion worth of need, and they forecast only $14.5 billion in revenues coming in. He stated that 21 in the North Metro Mayors Association, they’ve identified $5.2 billion on projects on 35W 22 alone. He stated that the resolution before the Council requests the legislature to direct funding 23 to the Commissioner of Transportation to conduct the appropriate concept development work 24 and analysis of those costs so they can move the next step closer to figure out what it is that 25 needs to be built so that they can get into the programs and go on with the construction. 26 27 Council Member Thomas stated that she thinks that the transportation infrastructure is going to 28 be the number one obstacle to accomplishing good development, both in Mounds View, and to 29 the north and south. She asked, in looking at the primary study area, if there had been any 30 consideration to including the Snelling bottleneck at 694 because that was a bit higher on 31 MnDOT’s priority list. 32 33 Mr. Benkey stated that they had identified on the map the primary study area for the purposes of 34 the funding that they were requesting, and in reality, the MnDOT work to date, with the 35 consultants and the design work and the traffic modeling, already has accomplished that work for 36 the Snelling and 694 area. 37 38 Mayor Marty asked if the approvals as listed in the report were all pending. 39 40 Mr. Benkey stated that New Brighton had adopted a resolution of support on February 8th, and 41 they are scheduled for Blaine on the 17th, Circle Pines on the 22nd, and Lexington on March 3rd. 42 He stated they are in discussions with Arden Hills, Shoreview, Lino Lakes, and the two County 43 Boards. 44 45