This is not considered a formal application. They haven't submitted a preliminary flat or any type of actual formal application um yet.

The applicant has revised that plan after hearing um really what the council was looking towards and the direction at that time was preserving as much commercial as feasible understanding there are site constraints and then also looking for retail uses that would support um that park.

So preliminary feedback we got was most of you were opposed to the high density residential the apartment building because of the hype um four stories u right next to park and some of the the single family residential um we did hear a lot of your feedback the public's feedback specifically being more experiential retail um one of you actually mentioned the pickle ball court concept brewery um ancillary are uses that are supportive of the antlers park and so we took that to parked and basically eliminated entire apartment building.

My opinion on the amount of units here has not changed since we emailed back in July. So this is I mean to me this part of the city can't support 165 units.

I'm not convinced that that residential should go here. Um I had persistent concerns about taking commercial u commercial land and and putting housing there, which is what we've done. And I think we're going to have a long-term problem of have the services to support the population uh here.

I think we should use this as a commercial avenue. It's close. It's right across the street from Ames. It's close enough to HI from a hockey parent that you could put something there for teams to go to. We have no place in town for tournament for tournament... bring in money from Woodbury. Bring in money from Eden Prairie and Edina. Let's take their money instead of just milking the residents for it.

East Community Park is the last park project tied to the 2021 park bond referendum. Uh so this park is in design currently this year. Uh will be completed here uh or is scheduled for construction in 2026.

reviewing some of the important components and this is where I would say we took really the best components from concept A and concept B and blended them together into this design. So that includes uh overlook in the park. there was a lot of importance placed on trails and connectivity. Um the four season restroom building um was an important concept as well and that is tied to the part of the development that we're doing with county.

Lakeville's first community gardens. Uh which we're excited about. We designed this in a way in which uh we're trying to minimize maintenance while maximizing access to for the public to be able to have garden plots. The proposal is for 30 plots at this point. It's designed so that it could be doubled.

the big pitfall right now is that there's no requirement for those contractors to do annual inspection to submit their reports to us. They're only required to submit them by code to the building owner.

The huge benefit for us is it directly integrates that ITM reporting, deficiency reporting, contact updates, everything directly into our pre-plans. So um we're getting that live feed of information.

And we're not necessarily looking for guidance on a specific vendor tonight. Um, we're more just looking at is this a concept that you're okay with because it would be a cost to the businesses. It would be an additional level on on their end.

we uh completed the uh Lake Pole fire department facility study uh acting two years ago this month... from that that study we uh had and evaluated all the the the school department all the stations and process and where you know where you are we going what the conditions are and from that we kind of identified some best practice for modern fire station goals... focus on physical and mental health... humidity reduction, toxins and removal... on-site training... designing the future.

So with those seven bays that accounts uh for allows the department to fit all the apparatus including decon space um specifically allotted for that and room for um future ambulance.

I think our initial plans at three were a little wideeyed because that is a constraint site... So maybe that does make sense is to to follow through this plan and really take a hard look at what three is.

if we go over here we are going to have a lot of challenges on those future sites and I know you and that's the more kind of TBD part of this whole process.

I don't think we need the most attractive best department in the fire uh station in the metro. I think we need something that's functional for our taxpayers and when our house is burning, we can get a fire department.