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METRO DIGEST 300 Metro Square Building, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 A monthly digest of the activities of the Metropolitan Council prepared for government officials and community leaders. For more information, call the Community Services Department at 291-6512. January 31, 1988 ■ RECENT COUNCIL ACTIONS■■M■■■MMMMM■■MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM■ The Metropolitan Council took the following bank protection rules consistent with statewide marketing and recycling drop-off center); and actions In January: . shoreland regulations,and establishing a policy Compost Concepts (large scale yard waste for the protection and future use of St.Anthony composting—EWnger Sanitation). The grants Transportation—The Council adopted the Falls. total $166,300. Report to the Legislature on the Coordination of LRT(Light Rail Transit)Planning for the Twin Cities The Council approved an amendment to the The Council renewed a certificate of need for the Area. The report, developed by the Council's White Bear Township Comprehensive Plan to Anoka Sanitary Landfill. The renewal provides Transportation Advisory Board, affirms that a change 19 acres of land planned for light in- Waste Management of Minnesota, Inc. a nine- regional LRT system can be effectively coor- dustrial use to allow for single family and month extension to begin an approximately one dinated under the existing mechanisms created townhouse development. million cubic and c by state law. The report calls for each regional Y apacity expansion at the land- fill. The firm requested the extension for three railroad authority planning to build LRT to The Council approved a MUSA land trade of 8.7 reasons:the process for an environmental review prepare a comprehensive LRT plan.When the acres in the City of Blaine. and remedial investigation/feasibility study is tak plan is completed the affected county should ing longer than anticipated;the present IandfiU amend its local comprehensive plan to ensure The Council approved FHA or VA subdivision ap- capacity was not exhausted late in 1987 as pro- coordination under the Land Planning Act.The plications from several cities to quality residen- jected; additional capacity is still needed, Council will review comprehensive plan amend- tial development sites for federal mortgage in- however,until Anoka County can complete a new ments or,in their absence,any plan prepared or surance.The developments include Lake Grace generation landfill and fully operate its refuse- any action taken by counties or regional rail View Second Addition in Chaska.Ridgewood Se- derived fuel plant. authorities regarding LRT, for consistency with cond Addition in Cottage Grove;Lakeridge Wood the Council's Transportation Policy Plan. During Estates in Maple Grove; Island View Park in The Council approved local recycling develop- thQ review,the Council will consult with affected Brooklyn Park; Hazeltine Shores in Chaska; ment grant requests,totalling$616,664,made by local units of government,the Regional Transit Sullivan Shores in Columbia Heights; and all the region's seven counties.The grants and Board(RTB)and the Metropolitan Transit Com- Highwood Estates in Maplewood. required matching funds can be used to pay for mission(MTC)to ensure coordination.The Coun- planning,developing and operating yard waste cil also recommended to the legislature that if Parks—The Council approved the master plan composting and recycling programs for commer- a public agency in the metropolitan area receives for Lake Byllesby Regional Park in the City of cial and residential generators of mixed regional,state,or federal funds for final engineer- Randolph and Randolph Township in southern municipal solid waste,and to award sub-grants ing,construction,or operation of an LRT facili- Dakota County.The park boundaries include 520 or contracts to municipalities and nonprof4 ty, the Council should be empowered by the acres of Ind and 1,490 acres of water.About 390 organizations for recycling and composting legislature to review and approve the county LRT acres of land are owned by the county,with ap- activities. proposals to ensure the funds are spent in ac- proximately 130 remaining to be acquired. cordance with regional policies, plans and Development costs are estimated at $4.04 The'Council said Dayton Development Company priorities. million; remaining acquisition costs, $500,000. is the eligible owner of 22.7 acres of property The Council concurred with the Transportation The Council authorized a$500,000 development d datlandfill site inoLa a Elmo,and authorized Advisory Board's concern over the lack of open grant to Ramsey County to reimburse the cost the execution of a contract for possible purchase public involvement in the environmental review of constructing a system-wide parks maintenance of the Dayton property. process for Runway 4/22 at Minneapolis/St.Paul facility in Maplewood. International Airport,and forwarded that concern The Council approved the Washington County to the Metropolitan Airports Commission. The Council accepted a draft report on a propos- landfill scoping environmental assessment ed boat launch parking lot in Mound. Locating worksheet for Site G in the Lake Elmo Park . Local Planning—The Council approved a com- 20 car-trailer parking spaces at the site is possi- Reserve.The Council said the draft environmen- prehensive plan amendment for the Shamrock ble, according to the report. The report will be tal impact statement should address the impact Development in Coon Rapids,allowing a net in- forwarded to several agencies and Mound for of the landfill on regional financial investments crease of 72,000 square feet of commercial/of- comments.The final report will incorporate the made to date in the park reserve,and it should five and a net reduction of 300 dwelling units. comments of the agencies, the Minnesota evaluate the possibility that the facility accept on- The amendment was requested to enable Legislature, and other interested parties. ly waste processing ash, not raw garbage .development of peripheral support areas to the proposed regional shopping center area adjacent Solid Waste•—The Council approved continued An environmental impact statement is no need- to Main Street. funding for a number of demonstration grant pro- ed before Reuter,Inc.can go ahead with plans jects in the Seven-County Metro Area.The pro- to double the processing capacity at its Eden The Council consented to Hennepin County's jects are experiments in solid waste reduction. Prairie waste processing plant, the Council variance request from the Environmental Quali- They include the St.Paul Neighborhood Energy decided.The Council asked, however, that the ty Board(EQB)rules to clear homes off the site Consortium(recycling in multi-unit housing);Col- Environmental Quality Board order a generic EIS of the South Minneapolis Transfer Station. umbia Heights(recycling in multi-unit housing); or comparable study to determine the long-term two projects by Super Cycle of St.Paul(recovery environmental effects of combustion of refuse. The Council recommended to the EQB several of corrugated cardboard from retail complexes derived fuel product and disposal of the resulting amendments to the Minneapolis Critical Area and an intermediate processing and marketing ash. Plan and Regulations, including making river- facility); Goodwill/Easter Seal (cooperative