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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC MINUTES 11261974 Meeting Sheet IIIIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIIIVIII IIIIIIII 105784 Box: 35 Folder. CC MINUTES AND AGENDAS 1974 Document: CC MINUTES 11261974 CITY OF ST. ANTHONY • COUNCIL MINUTES November 2.6, 1974 The meeting was called to order by Mayor Miedtke at 7:36 P.M. The following were present for roll call: Sauer, Sundland, Miedtke, Stauffer. Absent: Haik Also present: Jerry Dulgar, City Manager Larry Vickrey, City Attorney Jim Fornell, Adm. Asst. Harry Lekson Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to approve the minutes of the November 12, 1974 Council meeting. Councilman Haik arrived at 7:37 P.M. and voted on the motion. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt Resolution #74-036. RESOLUTION 74-036 A RFSOLUTION MODIFYING THE 1974 BUDGFT Motion carried. ,Daring the discussion of updating the resolution regarding parking regulations, Mr. Dulgar explained that all previous resolutions dealing with these regulat- ions would be incorporated into a new resolution. He also gave the Police Department recommendations for restricting parking on Foss Road and Macalaster Drive in front of apartment buildings. Councilman Sauer expressed his concern that there might not be parking afforded to visitors to the area. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Haik that parking not be allowed on the Fast side of Macalaster Drive between the railroad tracks and 39th Avenue N.E. but that two 15 minute loading stalls be provided in front of each apartment building on these streets. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Stauffer that the present parking restrictions on Fdwards S',:. froiu 34 to 33rd Avenue N.F. be eliminated because the greenhouse operation at that location no longer required such signage. Motion carried. • There followed a discussion of how the parking on Stinson Boulevard interferred with the traffic flow near the Apache Medical Center as well as the request from Columbia Heights that the City of St. Anthony restrict parking on its side of the boulevard. -2- Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Haik to restrict all parking on the East side of Stinson Boulevard from 37th Avenue N.F. to Silver Lane. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Stauffer, seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt Resolution 74-037 which incorporates the above motions regarding the parking restrictions on Foss Road, Macalaster Drive-j Edwards Street and Stinson Boulevard and which would replace resolutions 71-641,72-048, 73-051 and 71-014. RESOLUTION 74-037 A RESOLUTION RELATING TO PARKING RESTRICTIONS Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Haik to adopt Resolution 74-038 allowing the State Highway Department to install a pathway from the frontage road along TH8 to St. Anthony Boulevard. RESOLUTION 74-038 RESOLUTION REGARDING WALKWAY ADJACENT TO NEW FRONTAGE ROAD NO. 2 AND MAINTENANCE OF SAME. Motion carried. • The architect's study of Parkview School which had been tabled at the November 12 meeting was again discussed. Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Sauer to retain Constructive Design to investigate the potential cost of using Parkview School as a city hall and to update their previous estimates of the cost of renovating the present City Hall with the cost of such a study to be made on an hourly basis not to exceed the $2,200. quoted by Mr. Schuck. Voting on the motion: Aye: Sauer, Miedtke, Stauffer Nay: Haik and Sundland Motion carried. Public Hearing on Resolution 74-035 opened at 8:05 P.M. and closed at 8:06 P.M. with no testimony for or against. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to adopt Resolution 74-035 which makes the corrections, additions, deletions, necessary to correct the original assessment rolls for the Storm Sewer Project 1972-1. RESOLUTION 74-035 A RESOLUTION ADOPTING A S UPPLFMFNTARY ASSESSMENT • ROLL ON STORM SEWER IMPROVEMENT PROJECT 1972-1 Motion carried. -3- Mr. Dulgar reported on the negotiations he and the City Fngineer had with the Irving Lamppa Company on the completion of work on the Water Improvement Project 74-1. The following motion was made regarding Mr. Lamppa's request for partial payment for the work completed: Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve payment of stimate #3 for $17,o8g.74 to the Lamppa Construction Company. Motion carried. The meeting was recessed at 8:10 and reconvened at 8:18 P.M. for a discussion of the recommendations of the Planning Board as presented by Mr. Wil Johnson from the minutes of the November 19th meeting of the Planning Board. Board members, Grace McGinn and George Marks also participated in the presentation. Dick Le�ourneau arrived at 8:30 P.M. Mr. Johnson told the Council that the Planning Board had recommended granting a sign variance to allow a free standing sign to be erected in front of the Midwest Professional Building which was under construction in the St. Anthony Office Park by the Bernu Construction Company. A colored sketch of the sign was shown by Mr. Rod Bernu and the Mayor read the conditions under which variances to the sign ordinance might be granted. Mr. Johnson said the Planning Board had felt the sign was especially unique to the parcel on which it was to be built and enhanced the building it identified in a more satisfactory manner than a sign on the building. • Mr. Dulgar repeated his recommendations that consideration be given to elimin- ating the restriction against some types of free standing signs contained in the City sign ordinance. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to grant a variance to the sign ordinance to allow the Bernu Construction Company to erect the sign presented by Mr. Bernu as identification of the Midwest Professional Bldg. Mr. Johnson then reported on the discussion the Board had with Mr. Gordon Hedlund at the November 19th meeting and gave a resume of the Board's feelings regarding Mr. Hedlund's proposal for development of the land he owns across Silver Lake Road from Apache Plaza Shopping Center. Mr. Hedlund presented the same plans he had shown at the Planning Board meeting including two service office buildings and a Country Kitchen Restaurant as well as single family residential lots on that portion of the land along Penrod Lane. He then showed the revised proposal in which he said he had incorporated the suggestions made by the Board. I Mr. Johnson said that in the new plans he felt the buffer transition between the commercial and residential area on Penrod Lane was not what the Board was seeking. Mr. Letourneau said he had opposed consideration of the proposal until it was revised. • Yrs. McGinn said she objected to the usage of the land and felt that "you can't abut a residential area with a C-2 usage". Mayor Miedtke read the formal request from Mr. Hedlund which included a request for a public hearing on a conditional use permit for a Country Kitchen restaur- ant to be built on 43,000 sq. ft. of the Hedlund property, Lots 10 through 16, 4 -4- Block 4-Block 6, Moundsview Acres, 2nd Addition. The Mayor indicated to those present that the proceedings of that evening did not involve a public hearing but that he would open the meeting to a 15 minute discussion on the request by members of the Planning Board, Council members and residents of the area neighboring the Hedlund property who were present. The City Manager advised that the request for a Country Kitchen would require a rezoning to a Commercial use rather than a conditional use permit and it appeared that a new platting of the tract would have to be approved to allow a lot split to accomodate the restaurant. Comments from the residents were all unfavorable to the proposal and included their objections to commercial use of the land. Councilman Sundland felt a C-2 use of the land was too intensive a transitional from residential. Councilman Haik expressed her objections to giving any consideration to changing the zoning until the new City zoning ordinance had been passed and said she felt there should be the same objections to Mr. Hedlund's proposal as those which had resulted in the Council's refusal to .grant a change of zoning to the owners of lots at the corner of Silver Lake Road and 37th Avenue N.E. She also said she felt the Council should be consistent in its determinations. Councilman Stauffer told of the difficulty she had in accepting the 80 foot lots when they were part of the agreement reached to grant a conditional use permit to Rembrandt for a retirement complex and was opposed to a C-2 usage adjacent to a residential development. Councilman Sauer wondered if Mr. Hedlund wanted to undertake the expense of filing fees, etc. necessary to requesting a public hearing on his proposal in view of the opposition expressed that evening and asked the City Attorney if the Council could refuse the request for a public hearing. Mr. Vickrey replied that the Council would probably not want to refuse a request for a public hearing for rezoning the property for a specific use such as the Country Kitchen but was not required to hold a hearing on a request for a conditional use permit for a non-specific proposal for office buildings. When the Manager pointed out that the Council did not even have the exact location for the Country Kitchen nor a request for a specific use for the rest of the tract the following motion was made: Motion by Councilman Stauffer and seconded by Councilman Haik to table action on the request from Mr. Gordon Hedlund for a public hearing until such a time when a proper and complete application is made and the necessary administration procedures are followed. Motion carried. Mrs. Carol Brown presented the revised parking and landscaping plans for the . Herfurth Real Estate Office at 3901 Silver Lake Road. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to approve the parking layout and landscaping plans for the Herfurth Real Estate Office with stipulation of 12 parking spaces; 25 ft. curb cut; 17 feet of greenery on the -5- Fast, including 3 feet of redwood fence interspersed with a like amount of berm .i • and a screening planting of evergreen and provided that a ten foot easement along the west edge of the property be given to the City for possible use as a bike and pedestrian walkway. Motion carried. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Haik to authorize the Manager to contact the State of Minnesota Highway Dept. about installing a temporary traffic signal and street lighting at the interesection of Highway 8 and St. Anthony Blvd. until such time as permanent installation can be made and also to request from Hennepin County the installation of lighting and additional traffic control devices at the intersections of Kenzie Terrace with St. Anthony Blvd. and Silver Lake Road. Motion carried. The Mayor reported that he had received the survey on library services compiled by Sharon Barich and that the results indicated a majority of thooe responding to the questionnaire would like to see the library facilities at 33rd and Silver Lake Road as an alternative to the present shopping center location. He will refer the survey to the Hennepin County Library Board. Councilman Sundland gave his reasons for favoring a discontinuance of member- ship in the Suburban Rate +uthority whose duties will be taken over by the Public Service Commission in January. Mr. Dulgar also said he could see no • reason for the services of the Authority. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Mayor Miedtke to discontinue the City of St. Anthony's membership in the Suburban Rate Authority effective January 1, 1975. Motion carried. The November 12th Ramsey County League Newsletter was filed as informational. Information from the Association of Metro Municipalities was filed after a discussion of the Association's December 12th meeting by the Mayor. Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Sundland to approve payment of $2,608.59 to the City of St. Paul for the City of St. Anthony's final payment to St. Paul for sewer service. Motion carried. The Police and Fire Reports for October 1974 were filed. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to approve payments of $197.11 and $882.53 to Comstock and Davis. Motion carried. . Motion by Councilman Sauer, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to approve payment of $35,727.30 to Henning Nelson for their work on the municipal liquor lounge and to direct the Manager to convey to the construction company the appreciation of the Council for the fine work they performed on the remodelling job. Motion carried. -6- Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Stauffer to approve payment of all Verified Claims listed in the November 26th agenda. Motion carried. P,Lr. Dulgar discussed his recommendations for an assessment policy for the City and asked for any guidelines the Council might want to give him for the report he plans to have ready by December 10th. He also reported on his lack of progress in salary negotiations with the unions representing the city employees. Mr. Vickrey suggested that the City Shade Tree Ordinance should be revised to fit the Dept. of Agriculture regulations. It was agreed that the regular Council meeting scheduled for Christmas Fve should be cancelled and an organizational meeting of the Council be scheduled to replace it on January 7, 1975 with the regular meetings to be held in January as scheduled. Motion by Councilman Sundland, seconded by Councilman Sauer to adjourn the meeting at 10:15 P.M. Motion carried. Mayor ATTFST: opt/ Clerk C'ty 14ana r