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City Council Regular Meeting Minutes June 14, 2005 Page 6 1 Mr. Morris explained in 2001, Decision Resources pointed out that one place the city may need 2 to be more aggressive is in communication. This challenge has been met, and the city has one of 3 the most effective newsletters in the metro area. People are satisfied with the information that is 4 getting out there. Residents strongly endorse what the Council has been doing. Silver Lake 5 Redevelopment has one of the strongest approval ratings of any redevelopment in the metro area 6 in the past five years. 7 8 Mayor Faust said this is flattering. He thanked the Staff for touching residents on a daily basis. 9 He noted this information will be available in City Hall and on the web site. 10 11 VI. TABLED BUSINESS FROM MAY 24, 2005. 12 City Manager Mike Morrison read the titles of each of the Resolutions and noted they are all 13 interrelated. 14 15 A. Consider Resolution 05 -044 re: Adopt Amendment to Developer Agreement with 16 Amcon Comoration. 17 Mr. Morrison reviewed the resolution with the Council and indicated that the Council did table 18 all the zoning and planning issues on May 24. The Council directed staff to negotiate and this 19 did occur on May 31. As has been established in previous Council discussions, the current 20 development agreement signed July 2003, between the parties obligated the developer to develop 21 a 6,000 square foot restaurant on the front pad site to be substantially completed by September 1, 22 2004, or totally completed by September 1, 2005. The developer requested a change to the 23 existing agreement to allow a mixed -use 4,500 square foot retail building on the pad site and the 24 restaurant in the existing building. In the negotiations with the developer on May 31, 2005, staff 25 requested the pad site be turned over to the city immediately in return for an amendment to the 26 development agreement which would allow the restaurant to not go on the pad site as originally 27 planned. The City staff, as an alternative option, requested a payment of $150,000 for an 28 amendment to the development agreement. This would allow the developer to construct the 29 4,500 square foot building in lieu of 6,000 square feet and move the restaurant to the main 30 building. 31 32 The developer was proposing a payment to the City in the amount of $100,000 to amend the 33 development agreement a week ago, which would allow them to put the 4,500 square foot 34 building on the front pad. They did come forward today with a memo agreeing to pay $150,000. 35 36 Mr. Morrison noted there is a copy of a petition included in the packet, which is presented by the 37 majority of the business owners in St. Anthony Village who feel Amcon should fulfill the 38 agreement they originally made and was approved. 39 40 Mr. Foster, of Foster & Brever, and a resident, complimented the Council on the results of the 41 survey. He took from the survey that overwhelmingly the city residents favor redevelopment. 42 That is what he is here to propose. There was less than 10% of the populace of the City that was 43 concerned about future growth. That indicates to him that those that would be opposed to 44 development in the City are about 10 %. He asked that as he explained his proposal, the Council 45 consider that statistic. 46