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[0:30] I call to order the January 9th 2025

[0:32] Planning Commission meeting please join

[0:34] me in the flag

[0:53] pledge Miss Erikson will you please do a

[0:57] um roll call of members

[1:06] here

[1:09] here here draus here M here all right

[1:14] agenda item number three approval of

[1:16] minutes so November 7th 2024 Planning

[1:19] Commission meeting minutes and December

[1:21] 5th 2024 Planning Commission work

[1:23] session minutes fellow Commissioners any

[1:27] changes all right then the minutes will

[1:29] stand

[1:31] um Miss Jensen any

[1:35] announcements uh only that if these

[1:37] aren't if these items are not table they

[1:39] will move forward to the January 21st

[1:42] city council meeting right thank you all

[1:45] right agenda item number five the

[1:47] Kenrick Corner second edition this is a

[1:50] public hearing to consider the

[1:51] application of mezen brink construction

[1:54] and Engineering for the preliminary plot

[1:57] of one commercial lot to be known as

[1:59] Kenrick corner second edition and the

[2:01] vacation of public drainage and utility

[2:03] easement located north of 205th Street

[2:06] and East of Kenrick

[2:10] Avenue sorry I'm taking a look to see

[2:13] who I

[2:21] have is there anyone here to for that

[2:24] project I don't have oh I do I'm so

[2:26] sorry

[2:28] Jennifer e

[3:06] hi hi good evening um members of the

[3:09] commission it's very nice to be with you

[3:11] this evening I have no idea what was

[3:12] said before I walked in anything very

[3:15] short okay uh so my name is Jennifer has

[3:18] Camp uh I am the owner of Camp real

[3:20] estate and development I work with mess

[3:22] and Brink construction and Engineering

[3:24] who is the applicant this evening uh

[3:26] they are proposing to essentially plat

[3:30] and Outlaw for purposes of building and

[3:33] developing a uh multi-tenant commercial

[3:36] retail space so the property is about

[3:40] 1.6 acres uh the land use and the and

[3:43] the zoning are both commercial so from

[3:45] that perspective what they are proposing

[3:47] to do is consistent uh with what the

[3:50] current guiding and Zoning is for the

[3:51] property uh it was an outlaw that was

[3:54] the subject of a uh development

[3:57] agreement uh and a master planned area

[3:59] prior it never got built on never was

[4:02] constructed uh there were some

[4:04] improvements that were made uh primarily

[4:06] landscape buffering that was required as

[4:09] part of that initial uh

[4:12] process those trees are actually mature

[4:14] at this point which is great uh we

[4:16] intend to keep the majority of those and

[4:17] then add to it so uh the project itself

[4:22] is about a 9600 square foot building uh

[4:25] we are proposing at this time that there

[4:26] would be two users so they would

[4:28] essentially be on either end of the

[4:30] project uh each of them would have their

[4:33] own um parking lot associated with them

[4:35] as well although obviously overflow uh

[4:38] could go in either you can tell uh the

[4:41] parking lot on what would be the East is

[4:45] a slightly larger parking lot uh because

[4:48] that tenant space is proposed to be

[4:49] slightly larger um so with that um let's

[4:53] see

[4:55] here we skipped really quickly

[5:00] uh from a a construction building

[5:02] perspective I think that it fits uh the

[5:05] character that is uh in the city of

[5:08] Lakeville today uh especially with some

[5:10] of your newer uh retail commercial

[5:12] spaces uh the majority of it is pro

[5:14] proposed to be a black brick uh

[5:17] construction material consistent with

[5:18] your material requirements um and so uh

[5:22] M and Brink uh does quite a bit of

[5:25] development in this area uh and so

[5:28] obviously we've designed some something

[5:30] that hopefully fits within what you were

[5:32] hoping would be here so um for

[5:35] that very short and sweet um and I'm

[5:40] just glad I kind of made it was close so

[5:43] close thank you so anyway with that I

[5:46] will turn it back over thank you thank

[5:52] you good evening

[5:57] Commissioners Jack can I get my

[5:59] PowerPoint

[6:03] no not that

[6:14] one oh you're fine

[6:33] thank

[6:34] you all right so this is the Kenrick

[6:37] Corner second edition it's a preliminary

[6:39] pla in easement

[6:42] vacation uh it is located north of 205th

[6:45] Street uh east of Kenrick Avenue if

[6:48] you're familiar with the Porter House

[6:49] Restaurant it is just North of that

[6:54] location uh here's the Zoning for the

[6:56] area it's pretty much just uh C3

[6:59] commercial the town homes to the north

[7:01] are the

[7:03] rm2 uh medium density Town Homes

[7:07] there uh this is the preliminary plant

[7:10] it's a very simple it's currently an

[7:12] outlaw it's being replatted just as a

[7:15] single lot so not a lot of change on

[7:18] that

[7:19] one uh they are doing an easement

[7:21] vacation the when the original uh

[7:24] Kenrick Corner plat was recorded it

[7:27] included drainage and utility easement

[7:28] on the outlet lot uh in order to keep

[7:31] the title clean as we record the new

[7:34] plat we're having them vacate this

[7:36] easement and they will be rededicated

[7:38] with the final plat so there's no change

[7:40] in easement

[7:43] there uh site plan Miss has Camp kind of

[7:46] reviewed that um dual uh multi-tenant

[7:52] commercial building parking lot on

[7:53] either side uh buffering Landscaping to

[7:57] the north fairly straightforward access

[7:59] off of the private Drive um and there

[8:01] will not be access from Kenrick

[8:04] Avenue uh grading plan uh as you can see

[8:08] there's they are not getting into the

[8:11] existing uh burm and buffer to the north

[8:14] um which helps buffer the view to those

[8:16] Town Homes to the

[8:17] north uh this is the landscape plan they

[8:20] do have plantings along the parking lot

[8:23] uh the foundation of the building on the

[8:25] side additional plantings here and then

[8:27] here are some of the additional trees

[8:30] that they are adding just to help fill

[8:31] in some of those gaps uh for

[8:35] those um as has Camp showed the building

[8:37] elevations talked about the materials um

[8:40] they do meet the exterior material cor

[8:42] requirements with 65% brick and windows

[8:46] on the site which is the grade A

[8:49] materials uh and then this is just the

[8:51] floor plan for retail and then the

[8:55] wellness clinic

[8:56] there um I did have one other item I

[8:59] wanted to mention the site does not show

[9:03] um a trash enclosure at this point if

[9:06] they are going to have an exterior one

[9:07] they need to update the plans to include

[9:10] that information otherwise if it's being

[9:12] handled interior then no additional

[9:13] changes are needed um if the Planning

[9:16] Commission chooses to recommend approval

[9:19] of the preliminary plat for Kenrick

[9:21] Corner second edition and the easan

[9:23] vacation staff does recommend it be

[9:25] subject to the six stipulations listed

[9:27] in the December 13th report and I will

[9:29] stand for any questions you may have

[9:32] thank

[9:33] you and this is a public hearing so

[9:35] anyone wishing to speak on the public

[9:38] hearing can please come

[9:43] forward Madam chair yes motion to close

[9:46] the public hearing second all right I

[9:48] have a motion and a second to close the

[9:50] public hearing all those in favor of

[9:51] closing the hearing signify by saying I

[9:55] I I all opposed all right the public

[9:57] hearing is now closed uh fellow

[10:00] Commissioners any

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[10:03] questions Madam chair yes um are there

[10:06] uh are there tenants identified yet of

[10:09] of either of these two

[10:14] spaces Madam chair members of the

[10:16] commission so I don't believe that uh

[10:19] the actual leases have been signed but

[10:21] there are two tenants that they are in

[10:23] discussion with um and so hopefully it

[10:25] will be fully occupied once constructed

[10:29] great thank

[10:33] you any

[10:35] additional

[10:40] comments Madam chair yes uh I motion to

[10:44] recommend approval of the Kenrick Corner

[10:46] second edition preliminary PL and

[10:48] easement vacation subject to the six

[10:50] stipulations listed on the December 13

[10:52] 2024 planning

[10:55] report second I have a motion and a

[10:58] second Miss Ericson we please take a

[10:59] roll call

[11:02] vote

[11:03] i

[11:05] i

[11:07] i i

[11:10] i all right thank you um good luck on

[11:14] your project and it looks like this one

[11:16] would go to City Council on January 21st

[11:19] that is correct thank

[11:21] you all right agenda item number six

[11:25] this is the city of Lakeville this is a

[11:26] public hearing to consider amendments to

[11:28] Title 11 zoning of the city

[11:31] code and we have Tina good evening um so

[11:36] during the summer we've did quite a few

[11:39] zoning updates and then we discovered a

[11:41] few more and then we also had a work

[11:42] session and talked um primarily about

[11:45] parking ordinance and some changes that

[11:46] we wanted to make that would better

[11:48] align market conditions or Market needs

[11:51] for parking for different uses so I'm

[11:53] just going to go quickly through the

[11:55] staff memo um you received that um the

[11:58] ordinances and in front of you um in

[12:00] your packet or on your device um again

[12:03] anything that is underlined is proposed

[12:05] as new text anything that is stricken

[12:07] out is proposed to be removed sometimes

[12:10] you'll see sections stried and then

[12:13] moved um for just realignment um so it's

[12:16] not always just new text um so just a

[12:19] quick summary um in the definition

[12:21] section we're proposing adding a

[12:23] definition for commercial recreation

[12:25] facilities as one does not exist and

[12:27] this is a use that specifically ly

[12:29] allowed um in certain industrial

[12:31] districts we're proposing adding it to

[12:33] another one and it is defin definitely

[12:36] definitely different than what you would

[12:37] think of as a commercial um Athletic

[12:39] Club like a lifetime so we wanted to

[12:41] make sure that definition was created

[12:44] then within the parking section which is

[12:45] the bulk of this update um we went

[12:47] through and identified certain uses and

[12:49] adjusted the parking accordingly um

[12:51] based on our own research um input from

[12:54] our um planning um consultant Dan lick

[12:58] um as well as just understanding what

[13:00] we're seeing in the market um what the

[13:03] demand has been um and trying to adjust

[13:05] to that coordinately so that's the bulk

[13:07] of the

[13:07] changes and then um we had some

[13:10] amendments to the sign code um we have

[13:13] some major Parks um and wonder

[13:15] facilities being created in the city of

[13:17] Lakeville and they have a need for

[13:18] additional signage both from just a

[13:21] standpoint of helping people get to and

[13:24] understand where these facilities are

[13:25] located but also for sponsorship reasons

[13:28] so we need a little bit bit more signage

[13:29] allowed um so specifically um we want to

[13:33] add freestanding signage um in the Grand

[13:36] Prairie Park as well as additional wall

[13:38] signage for the permanent Pavilion at

[13:41] the new uh the new permanent Pavilion at

[13:43] the H Arena as well as in the Grand

[13:46] Prairie um um Park so the Grand Prairie

[13:50] is looking for a second Monument sign

[13:53] there's one that will be located on

[13:55] Cedar Avenue and they are looking for a

[13:57] second one to be positioned on Hamburg

[13:58] Avenue

[13:59] um that one doesn't meet the letter of

[14:02] the law because it's not on a major

[14:05] collector or arterial street so we want

[14:07] to create an exception because it's a

[14:09] community park um we feel that kind of

[14:12] Park is deemed um is warranted really

[14:14] for having that additional signage and

[14:17] then additional wall signage is proposed

[14:19] again on um the new Pavilion and then on

[14:22] the Grand Prairie um grand stand so that

[14:26] new baseball grand stand so hopefully

[14:28] you've all seen I was looking for one

[14:30] today to throw up on the screen I didn't

[14:31] find one late this afternoon but

[14:33] hopefully you've all visualized that

[14:35] Park and there's a um major grand stand

[14:38] and on the South Wall of that they want

[14:39] to have the sign for that as well as the

[14:42] sponsorship so we believe all of that is

[14:44] reasonable and we made these exceptions

[14:47] specifically to community parks and the

[14:49] special use

[14:50] Parks then within the M2 mixed juice um

[14:54] Cedar Corridor District um we found a

[14:57] discrepancy um this ordinance allows for

[15:00] multif family with a conditional use and

[15:02] then it has certain standards one of

[15:03] which is a standard for um area the area

[15:08] requirement and so right now it reads at

[15:11] 1,675 Square ft um per unit which meets

[15:15] the low density for that range but the

[15:18] comp plan for this um zoning area or the

[15:22] land use that this zoning area falls

[15:24] under um stipulates between 26 and 40

[15:27] units so we need to address

[15:29] that range so we're proposing changing

[15:31] that 1675 to 1100 to meet the

[15:34] comprehensive

[15:36] plan um within the i1 light industrial

[15:39] conditional uses um we received a couple

[15:41] of inquiries to allow um limited outdoor

[15:45] storage for auto repair uses right now

[15:48] that use is allowed as a conditional use

[15:50] but all the vehicles have to be stored

[15:52] inside so the amendment includes quite a

[15:54] few conditions to really limit this but

[15:56] to allow some outdoor storage provided

[15:59] it's not visible from a principal

[16:02] arterial provided that it's not more

[16:04] than 20% or 10,000 square ft of the lot

[16:07] area screened and so forth so we think

[16:10] those are enough um conditions to allow

[16:14] that but on a very restricted basis in

[16:16] the i1 again as a conditional use and

[16:20] then in the I2 section for conditional

[16:22] uses we're proposing adding that

[16:24] commercial recreation facilities this is

[16:26] something that we allow as a conditional

[16:28] use in the i1 District we've received

[16:30] some inquiries in the I2 we've kind of

[16:33] held off but we do have some older

[16:35] buildings that could benefit from this

[16:36] change and so we're at asking to add

[16:39] that with the same standards that are in

[16:41] the i1 so both those districts have that

[16:44] flexibility and then finally in the

[16:46] administr in the I3 under administrative

[16:49] uses um the Mac has submitted building

[16:51] permit plans for a remodel for their

[16:55] Maintenance building so if you've not

[16:56] been to the airport um where the flight

[17:00] school is located there's a maintenance

[17:01] building the remodeling that and they

[17:03] need to create a sleeping quarter so we

[17:05] have snow events um the max staff is

[17:08] able to stay overnight and so that's

[17:10] technically not allowed currently in the

[17:12] ordinance so we need to add that

[17:14] provision to the ordinance so that about

[17:17] sums up what is included in this um

[17:20] again this kind of ends the 20204 zoning

[17:23] updates staff apologizes that it took so

[17:26] long but we've been quite busy in our

[17:28] office um we're need to get ready for

[17:30] the 2025 update um but if you have any

[17:33] questions I would be happy to answer

[17:35] them thank

[17:37] you and this is a public hearing so

[17:40] anyone wishing to speak on this agenda

[17:42] item can please come

[17:51] forward mam chair yes motion to close

[17:54] the public

[17:56] hearing second all right I have a motion

[17:58] in a second to close the public hearing

[18:00] all those in favor please say I I all

[18:03] opposed all right the public hearing is

[18:05] now

[18:07] closed H

[18:09] commissioner um good road uh just for

[18:12] the public can you kind of like outline

[18:15] what some examples of the commercial

[18:17] recreation facilities might be yes so

[18:20] some of the um we've received some um

[18:24] proposals for indoor playgrounds um

[18:26] indoor pickle ball courts um there could

[18:29] be an indoor any kind of indoor um

[18:32] training facility for um Sports so youth

[18:35] or adult um there's facilities across

[18:38] the cities that are geared solely to

[18:40] baseball or solely to hockey um so it's

[18:43] really focused around those kinds of

[18:46] uses and

[18:47] amenities great thank

[18:49] you just oh you continue well yeah um

[18:53] just I think that all these changes are

[18:56] great I'm supportive of them all um I am

[18:59] especially kind of excited about that

[19:00] one I hope that we do get more uh uh

[19:05] people wanting to come in and uh develop

[19:07] that stuff I know there's definitely a

[19:10] um desire amongst members of the

[19:12] community that I've talked to for more

[19:15] indoor options during the winter

[19:16] especially for for young children so

[19:19] thanks to the staff for all their work

[19:21] on

[19:24] this any additional questions comments

[19:28] that looks like we're ready for a

[19:31] motion make a motion to recommend

[19:34] approval of the amendments to Title 11

[19:36] of the zoning ordinance of the city

[19:40] code second I have a motion on a second

[19:43] Miss ericon we please take a roll call

[19:46] vote

[19:48] i

[19:49] i i i

[19:54] i and this goes to city council too

[19:57] right January 21st all right awesome all

[20:01] right agenda item number seven we have

[20:04] some very special guests with us tonight

[20:07] um we were not able to have the Planning

[20:09] Commission have an opportunity to

[20:11] celebrate the retirement of Frank

[20:12] Dempsey so he is here come on up Frank

[20:16] and we have

[20:19] um here um and we've asked Daryl to make

[20:23] some comments um on behalf of Staff in

[20:26] the city and then um welcome any of you

[20:29] to to make any comments that you would

[20:30] wish and then on your screen is a map

[20:34] that Chris um prepared along with our

[20:37] GIS team to represent all of the

[20:41] projects across the city that Frank

[20:44] touched um it's overwhelming the amount

[20:47] of impact that he's had on this city

[20:49] that we all love um I think Daryl can

[20:52] probably jump into this and explain this

[20:53] map a little bit more but um we are

[20:56] thrilled with um all the contributions

[20:59] that Frank um provided over his 35 plus

[21:02] years thank

[21:10] you

[21:13] oversight good evening uh it's good to

[21:16] be back not as a staff person but as a

[21:19] former staff person for the new uh

[21:22] Planning Commission member and I use the

[21:23] term new Loosely new to me uh I'm Daryl

[21:27] Mur I am the former planning director

[21:29] and I worked for the city for 35 years

[21:33] 30 of which were with Frank and so I

[21:36] just wanted to say a couple things I'm

[21:37] going to keep it short I'm sure all

[21:39] these folks over here will be glad to

[21:40] hear that but uh it was a pleasure

[21:44] working with Frank for all those years

[21:46] uh I thought of three words that

[21:49] described Frank during his tenure here

[21:52] uh on my way in and they are dedicated

[21:56] hardworking and patient especially

[21:59] patient Frank dealt with so many people

[22:03] that had problems or complaints or

[22:06] issues or didn't agree with the

[22:08] ordinance or didn't agree with staff and

[22:11] he was immensely patient with those

[22:13] folks and as his supervisor for all

[22:16] those years I am forever grateful for

[22:19] that he did a great job city is losing a

[22:22] lot of institutional knowledge with

[22:24] Frank uh retirement I know these guys

[22:27] can to ATT test attest to that as well

[22:30] so uh we worked together really hard I

[22:34] think what we did here I'm very proud of

[22:36] the work we did together and I'm sure

[22:38] Frank is as well uh we had a lot of

[22:41] hundreds of Planning Commission meetings

[22:43] public hearings the time when there was

[22:47] five or six public hearings on an agenda

[22:49] and it was basically just he and I

[22:51] making the staff reports and

[22:53] presentations and we survived it and I

[22:55] think the city has turned out really

[22:57] well so I'm very proud of the work we

[22:59] did I was very happy to work with Frank

[23:02] and even though I'm not his boss or a

[23:04] coworker anymore I'm still Frank's

[23:06] friend and I'm very happy for his

[23:08] retirement welld deserved thank you

[23:10] Frank

[23:14] [Applause]

[23:30] got it getting out of bed I'm serious

[23:32] and it happened yesterday but it goes

[23:35] away rather quick any I didn't expect

[23:37] this it's nice to see it you know this

[23:39] chance to to see everybody again and I

[23:43] really didn't maybe it's good that I

[23:44] didn't have any prep preparation to

[23:46] share my thoughts but Daryl kind of

[23:49] mentioned a little bit what My

[23:51] Philosophy was and I I do I always

[23:54] enjoyed and I guess I do take pride

[23:56] in working with in difficult situations

[24:00] with people that are difficult in terms

[24:03] of um have expectations or trying to

[24:06] understand how things are planned and

[24:08] this is a growing city it has been the

[24:10] whole time I've been here and I I always

[24:13] went out of my way to uh you educate

[24:16] people on what we do the purpose of the

[24:18] of planning and in today's you know

[24:21] epidemic world we live in with

[24:22] misinformation and how things are done

[24:25] and very strong opinions I always try to

[24:27] get people people to understand the role

[24:30] of things and I do take some pride in in

[24:33] um bringing people along um different

[24:36] parts of the city neighborhoods people

[24:37] that were willing to learn be involved

[24:40] and understand um and so that as darl

[24:44] always said we work for good outcomes

[24:45] and involving people not ignoring them

[24:48] not returning calls not returning emails

[24:50] was something that we never

[24:52] did um and I got to tell you when I've

[24:55] had dealings with other with other

[24:57] cities that's not all always the case

[24:59] you know sure we're always busy and

[25:00] they're busy too but we always made an

[25:02] effort to make sure people are heard

[25:04] your calls are returned and so that's I

[25:07] hope that's sort of the Legacy I left

[25:09] with the Department is um is is is

[25:13] making sure the public understood that

[25:15] we're working on their behalf and it's

[25:16] important that they're involved so

[25:20] anyway thank you it's been really nice

[25:22] working with everybody every one of you

[25:24] and I

[25:24] know planning Commissioners over the

[25:27] years through neighborhood interest

[25:30] situations land use questions projects

[25:33] building additions all that kind of

[25:34] thing that goes from the neighbor the

[25:36] the mayor on down you know the um

[25:39] different project they've worked on and

[25:41] I was like that never know what's going

[25:42] to happen when you walk in one day and

[25:44] what your job's

[25:45] gonna be dealing with thank you

[25:48] everybody

[25:52] [Applause]

[25:58] anyone

[26:07] else well I do um agree with the patient

[26:11] part I feel like you're always very

[26:12] patient with all of my questions and I

[26:14] really appreciate that

[26:16] so um sad that you're

[26:19] leaving sad that you left it's all

[26:23] changing I guess that happens um but I

[26:26] think that's it unless anyone has

[26:28] anything else they'd like to add no all

[26:31] right then the meeting is adjourned

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