I don't have a question. I just want to city staff for the work that you've done on this and definitely my concerns particularly related to kind of what happens for expansion of existing developments if a single family homeowner wanted to add on to their house um you know addressing that by uh kind of bumping it up to one acre. I think that is great and um I think it's very well crafted um ordinance and our job as the planning commission isn't you know we don't we're not the deciders we don't have election certificates that's a city council but our job is to send to them the very best possible ordinances and I think that um we've done that and city staff's done a great job on this so I appreciate all the work

Yeah, we thought it was a an area or a size that would um address some of the the concerns we have about woodlands, right? So, we're trying to preserve woodlands. Um those lots can have significant, you know, trees on them, a sign significant amount of of woodland on them. Um also, they allow for replanting uh more so than other properties. And so, it's easier to get those trees back in um and and actually accomplish the goals of the ordinance. Um, we also looked at some other communities to see what they were doing. And a lot of communities that do this kind of thing also look at area size as one of the basis of uh how they how they define a property that's requires a tree preservation plan.

We definitely are supportive of the city tree preservation ordinance... because of this property having a lot of stands of existing trees and woodlands. It's something definitely that will be a great case in terms of how this might apply to that development. I would expect that we probably exceed the 40% threshold as far as removal is concerned.

I'm here to oppose changing or amending the 24 comprehensive plan at and zoning... In due respect, the proposal of the development and the adjacent parcels is premature. There are several reasons I'd like to point out to the committee for your consideration on a serious decision decision. This is not just to benefit our family, our neighbors that are here, or it's for also the community of Lakeville.

And our concern is that for future... to we're not included in the Musa plan at this point, but the proposed road, if if I'm correctly reading it, goes right over the top of our house. And at what point during this uh project or phase is the expansion come to where we possibly could be imminent domain because you need access to that development...

What I feel is lacking and what is desperately needed. First and foremost, I was surprised that the this item didn't appear on this week's parks and recreation natural resources agenda. I would have expected that to appear considering the significant natural resource natural environment natural resource impact of of any future urban development...

growth is the best problem for Lakeville area schools to have. It's also logistics, logistics, logistics. And the challenge I have with this is the level of detail at this point in time for us to do our predictive analysis to address the logistical challenges... We have a density problem or a concentration problem. We have over a thousand 106 kids as of today going into Century Middle School.

we're kind of approaching the end of the current comprehensive plan and things have changed. The city's grown, I think, faster than, um, any of us thought... We've added tens of thousands of people and we develop in response to more people wanting to move here because of the schools and because of the great quality of life we provide. I look at this property and I look at what is around it. Um, especially looking north of it. The gravel pit um is now being developed. uh we've added uh the authentics building and uh other commercial development just north of this. It is in my mind kind of logically makes sense that this is kind of one of the next things that is moving forward.

What we're proposing here is with Dakota Waste Solutions is moving the current wood chip processing facility on the north side of 215 thing you really see from County Road 70 uh to the south side of the road along with other operations to take organic waste mainly it's expired food product that's been packaged depackage it and compost it and recycle it pretty much and bring it back into uh composting that citizens can use for gardens, potting plants or different things.

In reality it's not a major change. Um, the OP zoning district is very similar in uses to the I1 district. So, it's not a radical change. We're not going to have weird uses because of that change. The other change is three of the properties are in expansion area B and need to be moved into current. And again, because we are doing this improvement along 215th Street, utilities will be provided. So they need to be identified as in the current MUSE.