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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes • May 23, 1995 Page 7 1 View Acres and Evergreen Townhomes, stop sign placed on 39th and Fordham Drive to 2 address traffic concerns,resident directly across from entrance to Mounds View Acres be 3 given consideration regarding automobile headlights, and drainage and Rice Creek 4 Watershed District requirements. 5 In response to Marks, Commissioner Horst indicated the Watershed District felt the weirs 6 needed to be redone and the developer has agreed to correct this problem. 7 Ranallo indicated rezoning meant to amend the zoning ordinance and required three 8 readings. He stated it appeared the only problem here was a traffic concern. 9 Enrooth suggested conducting a week traffic count. 10 Ranallo agreed and suggested conducting counts on other streets as well to see how they 11 compared. He suggested the City Engineer investigate to see if there was a way to deter 12 the other traffic using Fordham Drive to cut through. He indicated three readings were 13 required to change the ordinance and that would require three meetings. He proposed the 14 Council could approve the first reading and not the second and third readings if there was 15 a deviation in traffic found. He indicated the property had to be developed to increase the atax base. 17 An unidentified resident asked why this project was being done to appease the 18 Schroeders. 19 Ranallo stated this was not the reason for the development, it was to keep taxes at the 20 level they are at now or reduce them. 21 An unidentified resident indicated he thought the development should have been 22 incorporated with the original Evergreen Townhome project. He felt the land never 23 should have been landlocked in the first place. He stated he lived in the Evergreen 24 Townhomes and the resident there would have been happy to take another eight units in 25 with them. 26 Ranallo indicated the project was being done to lessen the burden on the people. He 27 didn't think the traffic was from the residential area but coming from other areas. He felt 28 it appropriate to approve the first reading and then do some investigating prior to the 29 second reading. 30 City Attorney William Soth, explained that rezoning property meant amending the zoning 31 ordinance. It requires three readings for the City Council to amend any ordinance. This item will be on the next two agendas. If it is approved at each meeting, the rezoning will q'3 pass. This process is not required but it is what the City of St. Anthony does. It is 34 possible for the readings to be waived but this is not typically what the City would do.