CompletedLakeville City Council Meeting 1-21-25

Lakeville City Council Meeting 1-21-25

Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 1:01 AMActual: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM

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"[Music] good even and welcome to the Tuesday January 21st uh city council meeting if you join me for a moment of silence in the Pledge of Allegiance stes America the one nation okay movi roll call please Michelle wul here Luke helier here Dan Walter here Joshua Lee here okay we move on to item number three this is Citizens comments opportunity for anybody to address the council for up to three minutes if you have an issue that is not on the agenda typically if there's an agenda item we'll have public comment yeah you can come up and state your name name for the record and apologize okay my name name is Steve Burke and I uh came this evening to raise some questions or concerns around the cedar DOD fire station proposal okay yeah it's not on the agenda so go ahead yep if it's better to go to Planning Commission meeting Thursday it's okay okay yeah all right well thank you um try to get through this uh so uh I've been a neighbor across on the north side of Cherry View Park for uh nearly 30 years now and so of course when we moved in there there's been a lot of changes since then and uh especially in the last few years with the realignment of DOD and 179th and so forth um but uh part of me wonders if this uh you know effort to save money by not having to purchase land will end up being something we might regret later on perhaps um later on down the road um so I'm just going to go through a few of my questions um you know when I when I listened to the audio because I wasn't um at the session on back in December 9th I did listen to the audio and um I wasn't able to make the January 7th U meeting um when they had a neighborhood meeting but uh in listening to that it seems like this has been planned for quite a while um when I hear first questions around Landscaping it's like okay this is kind of secondary stuff so it's like this is pretty far down the road I just feel like with all the changes that have gone on in that neighborhood with the maintenance facility sometime in the last 15 years and Housing Development to the South there should have been an opportunity for reserving land to the South or near that maintenance facility where this fire station might be better located and better next to Major intersections one of my main concerns is around 179th Street in grandby um I do not like the sidelines when I come out of there from the north uh if I look to the right to the West um curve speeds of traffic there's going to be an issue there I do feel like you'll end up losing more lives there's already been one youth in our neighborhood that lost his life last summer last June uh more risk of that kind of thing happening as calls to the South are made for for fire um so that's that'd be one concern I do have that I think should be looked at a little more seriously um secondly um the uh so I think anticipate antici at that you guys are going to want a signal light there at some point or a roundabout or something to basically keep traffic at so it's not to…

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Topics Discussed (6)

Cedar DOD Fire Station Proposal

International Holocaust Remembrance Day Proclamation

2024 Liquor Department Annual Operations Report

2024 Economic Development Annual Report

Kenrick Corner Second Edition Preliminary Plat and Easement Vacation

Title 11 Zoning Code Amendments (2024 Phase 2)

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No vote taken; item was public comment only. Mayor requested Burke leave contact information for follow-up.
Proclamation read and adopted by Mayor; no formal vote recorded.
Report presented and accepted; no formal vote required.
Report presented and accepted; no formal vote required.
5-0 Approved (Wul-I, Hellier-I, Walter-I, Lee-I, [Mayor]-I)
4-0 Approved (Walter-I, Lee-I, Wul-I, Hellier-I; Mayor did not vote per ordinance requirement)

I've been a neighbor across on the north side of Cherry View Park for nearly 30 years now... I just feel like with all the changes that have gone on in that neighborhood with the maintenance facility sometime in the last 15 years and Housing Development to the South there should have been an opportunity for reserving land to the South or near that maintenance facility where this fire station might be better located.

Steve Burke [Citizen Comment]Cedar DOD Fire Station Proposal - Public Comment

One of my main concerns is around 179th Street and grandby... I do not like the sidelines when I come out of there from the north... there's going to be an issue there. I do feel like you'll end up losing more lives. There's already been one youth in our neighborhood that lost his life last summer last June.

Steve Burke [Citizen Comment]Cedar DOD Fire Station Proposal - Public Comment

If you could publish out essentially a three to five year history about what the calls are for both fire stations two and four which are going to be closed so we can understand what kind of call rates we're looking at over a month's time or something like that I think that's owed to the neighborhood.

Steve Burke [Citizen Comment]Cedar DOD Fire Station Proposal - Public Comment

Whereas the city of Lakeville reaffirms its commitment to promoting tolerance understanding and human dignity while standing against all forms of hatred and discrimination and whereas it is our duty to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust remain a Cornerstone of our Collective memory and to honor the resilience and courage of those who survived and rebuilt their lives.

Mayor Luke Kier [Proclamation Reading]International Holocaust Remembrance Day Proclamation

Our Perpetual inventory shrink was an amazing 7 1,000th of a percent Point... average retail is around 2% so this was amazing. This is a testament to our staff for being diligent and really paying attention.

Michelle Wul, Liquor Director [Report]2024 Liquor Department Annual Operations Report

I think you know I speak on behalf of all of us we're continue to be so proud of the work that you guys do especially partnering in the community with groups and the ability to raise money that's really important so thank you.

Mayor Luke Kier [Council Comment]2024 Liquor Department Annual Operations Report

We've experienced a lot of development activity this year with almost 260 well almost $258 Million worth of building permit activity... we receive a lot of continued private sector investment over 75.1 million in different commercial projects as well as Industrial Park projects.

Community Development Director [Report]2024 Economic Development Annual Report

I am personally looking forward to the business retention program I think we're going to find a lot of success there so thank you for both of you guys putting that together.

Council Member [Comment]2024 Economic Development Annual Report

We're looking at essentially a replat of an existing outlot that was done many many years ago... we are proposing to put some significant Landscaping in and also preserving and protecting the existing Landscaping that was actually required as part of that initial plat process.

Jennifer Hascamp, Developer [Presentation]Kenrick Corner Second Edition Preliminary Plat and Easement Vacation

I appreciate the preservation of the existing screening and the lack of disturbance to the other properties around it... I think that's a nice feature of this new plat.

Council Member Joshua Lee [Question]Kenrick Corner Second Edition Preliminary Plat and Easement Vacation

We're really trying to reduce the amount of parking for some of our larger uses manufacturing warehousing where a lot of automation can be handled and where we just don't have the need for these large parking areas.

Community Development Director [Report]Title 11 City Code Amendment - 2024 Phase 2 Zoning Updates

The M2U mixed use Corridor... the current ordinance allows for multifamily within this ordinance and has a per square foot unit of 1,675 which matches the low end of the density range but doesn't match the high end of the density range that was missed and so we have to match the zoning with the comp plan.

Community Development Director [Report]Title 11 City Code Amendment - 2024 Phase 2 Zoning Updates