Laserfiche WebLink
METROPOLITAN o <br />LUAC-MAWSAC Joint Workshop: November 6, 2017 <br />QUESTION 2: What are your interests or concerns for land use and water supply? Density, sprawl, and how and where we develop <br />Do you see areas of overlap? <br />Pricing and who pays <br />• How pricing increases viability of region. <br />o Intersection with affordable housing (fees) 4 Don't see how tie together <br />• Water pricing structure <br />o Is important for development <br />o SAC and WAC access fees <br />o How vary <br />o Also ability to have safe drinking water <br />o Pay for real cost <br />o Does new growth pay? <br />o Fair to keep rates down and have businesses pay for that? <br />• SAC and WAC versus drinking water prices — impact of development <br />• Reasonable cost story to get buy in — efficiency <br />• Negotiations between communities — who will pay? <br />Interconnectivity and water sources <br />• Interconnectivity regarding if can get water from another community <br />• Interconnectivity between nearby communities; plan for failure <br />o Burnsville -Savage example about money versus environment — will keep more opportunities across <br />boundaries for water infrastructure <br />• How can we use surface water instead of groundwater? <br />• Consider where we get water from. Know that and constraints <br />o Plan and look at river as option <br />o Be part of discussion <br />• Growth — s/b using/figuring out how to use surface water instead of groundwater <br />• Lack of interconnectivity, then get well interference <br />o Working with Farmington and county <br />o School districts <br />o All affects water <br />• Mississippi River, Jordan aquifer <br />o Land use annexation <br />o Politics/messaging <br />Development and natural resource protection <br />• Land use in MUSA: farm irrigation versus supplying homes <br />o Shallow wells depleted by farm wells <br />• Some soils better for recharge but areas don't want development <br />• Development/growth versus natural resources like fens <br />• Lawns and impact — more impacts where new development <br />• Impacts of land use development and water supply <br />• Natural resource impact <br />• Drinking water source protection that shares boundaries <br />o Negative land use impact <br />o Storm water management <br />• Land use and soils/recharge rates — LUAC topic <br />• Water retention ponds (wetland replacement) <br />• Densities regarding imperviousness, runoff <br />• Focus density/growth within MUSA <br />• Sprawl <br />o If have necessary water supply <br />o Priority to increase density <br />• Look at both how and where development is happening — use of land for increased recharge <br />• Should talk about how develop: recharge in Anoka sandy soil and if can develop there versus recharge <br />Lot sizes and changes <br />• 10 -acre lots: stuck with that instead of better practices (common open space and varied density) — can <br />change those designations <br />• Are we setting selves up for sustainable development? Can we shift viewpoints? <br />• Big versus small lots and conservation <br />• Large lots going by the wayside <br />o Millennials don't want to do yard work or snow removal and want short commute <br />• How to create Uptown suburbs — walkable and transit <br />• New Brighton redevelopment <br />o Big houses on small lots <br />o Reuse of Superfund sites <br />o See more of that with millennials and empty nesters <br />• See more complying with natural impacts; big lots will go away; will see division with more walk, bike <br />• How to now: redevelopment large (10- 25 acre) lots — to accomplish efficient use of infrastructure <br />Community engagement and education <br />• Engagement with collar counties? Water doesn't follow boundaries <br />• MAWSA = 11 counties; LUAC = 7 counties: mismatch <br />• Benefit of 4 non -metro counties — upstream issues <br />• Educate, inform, engage <br />o Youth, businesses - need partnerships <br />o How to work together through local example <br />■ Blaine built up; now those north can learn from it before changes <br />Collaboration, coordination, and best practices <br />• County and adjacent communities and school districts working together on land use — and water supply and <br />transportation <br />• Jobs -transportation; land use -water: all tied together <br />• Are we coordinating with watershed districts? <br />• Business, research, policy: Collaboration/partnerships <br />• Met Council should be forefront as facilitator <br />o Legislature <br />o Best practices <br />• Grants for water conservation. Water think tank, collaborate with selves <br />• Regional best practices — land use, water treatment <br />o Developing areas versus other types of communities are different <br />• Get water into forecasting models <br />o Cottage Grove and Woodbury growth will take 25-30 wells. We need to talk. <br />31 Page <br />