CompletedLakeville City Council Meeting 2-18-25

Lakeville City Council Meeting 2-18-25

Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 5:22 AMActual: Wednesday, February 19, 2025 at 5:22 AM

00:00 Start 03:33 5a. Minnesota Energy and the Friends of the Lakeville Area Arts Center 14:21 5b. Minnesota School Bus Driver Appreciation Day Proclamation 16:25 5c. Fire Department Annual Report 33:08 7a. Consider a Preliminary Plat for Airlake DEA 36:40 7b. North Creek Manufactured Home Park Conditional Use Permit

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Published Wednesday, February 19, 2025

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"e good evening ladies and gentlemen I'm going to call this meeting to order I'm Michelle vul I'm just uh I'm the acting mayor right now our mayor is on his way in so he'll be taking over but in the meantime we'll get going with the meeting it is 6:00 on February 18th and so I would like to call this meeting to order and ask you if you could please join us in a moment of silence and a Pledge of Allegiance please i al to the of the United States of America and to the repu stands one nation under God indivisible for thank you and now we'll have a roll call please John burmel here Dan Walter here Joshua Lee here Michelle V here um the next item on our agenda is citizen comments and usually this is typically things on that are um comments that are for things that are not on our agenda and I I can see from our crowd here that a lot of you probably are here for the North Creek um uh item on our agenda and when we get to that we'll be grateful to take your comments at that point but if any of you can't stay for all probably about 20 25 minutes and we'll get to the North Creek item um you're welcome to um offer your comments now and we would limit them to 3 minutes and ask ask you if you could please um give your name and address for the record and if there's anybody here that would like to comment on something that's not on the agenda now would be the time to do so all right do we have anybody online okay okay all right and do we have any uh additional agenda information no nightmare thank you all right then we will start with our first presentation the Minnesota Energy and the friends of the Lakeville art center and our park and rec director uh Joe Massi aren will um start us off thank you and welcome thank you uh acting mayor councel um excited to be here this evening we'll actually be doing a check presentation this evening uh and I'll be welcoming up here uh the board president for the friends of the lake valary Arts Center uh so we'll welcome up uh Mr Bob Ericson good evening members of the city council uh and the city administrator it's my pleasure to be here tonight and I appreciate the opportunity to uh recognize the lake Art Center the success of the of the center and and this evening uh recognizing uh a process that we've been pursuing for several years in establishing a gas kill at the new Fine Arts Building uh the gas kill would be the first of its kind in uh Dakota County of any public art center and uh we're looking forward to that and uh we have a presentation of the check this evening from Minnesota energy resources and to lead that off will be the vice president of the friends Jeff Larson thank you Bob good evening everybody um it's quite an honor to uh present the presenter of the check uh she's Nicole McCarthy from Minnesota energy resources uh she's agreed uh through their Foundation to contribute $10,000 to the cost of the Skil um it's pretty good thing for us it's uh something that our large uh community of Potters that's at the Ar…

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Arts and Culture Investment

School Bus Driver Appreciation Day

Fire Department Annual Report

Economic Development - Air Lake DEA Preliminary Plat

Housing Development - North Creek Manufactured Home Park Expansion

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Approved Unanimously
Approved (5-0)
Approved (5-0)

it's uh something that our large uh community of Potters that's at the Art Center has been requesting for a long time and it turns out that because of this gener generous donation we're going to have the only gas Kil in Dakota County so we're really appreciative of this

Jeff Larson [00:03:19]Minnesota Energy and Friends of the Lakeville Art Center Check Presentation

the art center has because of this investment has really experienced some unprecedented growth over the last couple of years uh the additional space has allowed us to offer more performing arts classes more visual arts classes provide more rehearsal space for our in-house theater company as well as rental companies that come in or partner companies that come in

Nicole Pretzel [00:06:05]Minnesota Energy and Friends of the Lakeville Art Center Check Presentation

whereas the city of Lakeville school bus drivers are responsible for the safety of children across our city often navigating challenging weather and schedules to ensure students arrive to their destinations and whereas school bus drivers ensure students have access to education that will open doors for them for the rest of their lives playing a crucial role in our local school system and serving an important as important figures in the lives of children

Dan Walter [00:11:40]Minnesota School Bus Driver Appreciation Day Proclamation

the Lakeville fire department is dedicated to serving the community Through the protection of lives and property by providing public safety education and professional emergency response

Chief Meyer [00:14:14]Fire Department Annual Report

one thing I always like to note in inspections is when we're out in a business our first job is to educate uh the business owner or the occupant of why they're 's a violation and how to correct that

Chief Meyer [00:23:44]Fire Department Annual Report

I'll just say I'm very excited about um The Economic Opportunity that this will bring to our city so de dakot electric thank you I've expressed that to your leadership and uh hatrick and Regin thank you for putting this together so this will be an excellent addition to air Lake

Michelle Vul [00:40:02]Consider a Preliminary Plat for Air Lake DEA

to invest heavily in the existing Community as well well and we're open to having that be uh a condition of the certificate of occupancy

Jay Van Tassel [00:44:03]North Creek Manufactured Home Park Conditional Use Permit

I have seen deer I have seen flocks of eagles we have many many Eagles in that area geese ducks and an occasional Co coyote that's their home their home is going to get dis Disturbed residents along Country View fence line where they saying that the fence has to go in are going to be required to move property such as sheds at the owner's expense why those buildings were there first

Dyann Mallory [00:58:39]North Creek Manufactured Home Park Conditional Use Permit

We are committed to affordability Country View offers a lot for the community but we are still the most affordable community in Dakota County and uh one final thing I've heard it represented at the October meeting a year and a half ago that all these houses were going to be rental we do not allow rentals because we've had some back bad experiences with rentals

Dan Gusson [01:09:21]North Creek Manufactured Home Park Conditional Use Permit

The tough part about all of this is that when we go through this process of um uh of approving disapproving or whatever of this um cup is that it's not that we didn't listen to you but legally a lot of things are our hands are tied to in the fact that um they has to be a really super good reason why we would ever um say no that would hold up legally in a court of law

Michelle Vul [01:32:20]North Creek Manufactured Home Park Conditional Use Permit

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